skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be more precise to say that reproducible builds rely on asynchronous trust: individual users trust the pre-built packages on the expectation that some users are building from source and comparing against the package results.

It’s worth noting here that it’s not sufficient for some users to build from source for their own usage: they have to additionally compare their build results against the version served by the repository, and then they have to publicize if there’s a mismatch.

As somebody who builds many things from source, but has never attempted to validate a packaged repo using my results, I’m curious: does anybody here perform this validation?
One of the best reads in a long time.
The website itself is up https://potatofrom.space/ so looks like the author decided to take it down, odd. Maybe he got a cease and desist from Viasat.
Then again, we all know that a lawyer's function is essentially to synthesize plausibility. But as with any job, there are of course people who are bad at it.
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How do you handle support and fraud issues for less than 2%?
Worth thinking about, but the people arguing for social change consume tiny resources compared the wars of the last 20 years, the war on drugs (and the social devastation it caused), and generally more rapacious corporate and political behaviour.

EDIT> Which, I guess, was the point of the original post.
Would like some feedback on my website (link submitted)
A cap of 7% plus inflation will prevent price gouging but not really put any limitation on rents from keeping pace with market rents.
Cyborgs: Elon Musk and the new era of neuroscience
Thank you for this list! I found a great price on Downpour (without subscription) for an audiobook for which I've been hunting forever (Ansary's "Destiny disrupted").
There is a user interface pattern that predominates these days, where a view/page will be loading/changing, and it will reflow between when you click/tap and when that is processed, causing an incorrect response. Sometimes I get caught in a loop, where I try to select something repeatedly and every time it jumps just as I choose it.

I always thought that was incompetence and not malice, but maybe apparent interface glitches are a significant profit center.
When your county is devastated by opioids and your pharmacy sells more opioids than your entire state should be reasonably consuming [0] maybe alarms bells should ring.

[0] happened in WV
I can definitely see it might have quite a few problems. Forest [0] and others even attempt to abstract on syntax, which I generally disagree with as it becomes a problem to learn the language or get help / discuss some things with other people, especially online.

I'm not dismissing the default formatter, it's obvious you still need one canonical representation of the code, but I don't think you should view it as "hiding" the formatting. In my view, it's more like opening a web page with one browser or another, or with one device or another. It always looks a bit different. Or maybe I have a theme configured on my main browser or whatever. I like to have my preferences, but if I have to look at the page from another browser, it's not a big deal either. The extra configuration might not be worth it or slightly inconvenient in some cases, but I doubt it's counter productive. The same way as I might prefer to read/write with a certain font or use this or that color palette.

Maybe the takeaway is that code is more personal for some people than we like to generally admit. You are talking in a language and you want to be able to express yourself as comfortably as possible. I mean, we have had turing-complete and even "productive/decently ergonomic" languages for a while, and yet a lot of people keeps coming up with new languages, because they are much more than just a tool to get things working. We want to express ourselves as we "think", and formatting may be a small part of that, but it's still a part of it.

[0] https://github.com/forest-lang/forest-compiler
Firefox Focus
1) That depends highly on specifics to your product, but before having a proper version, do you have tried users? and tried customers on your very prototype?

Before going to Shenzhen, you might find around you (geographically is best, online is good) prototyping engineers or consultancies for research/low volumes that might help you answer your 3) more precisely.

2) Yes. Always, wherever you are. If you depend only on your idea not being copied, you're toast.
What matters is knowing where you want to go with that idea, and how you walk there, in the long run (finding customers that pay, providing a product that works, building on that).

3) See 1)

4) Why Macedonia? Why 5 persons? or 1 or 2 person (I mean, what for specifically)? Your goal is not to burn your financial investment but to spend it where it matters.
I'd like every single tab to be stateless which I believe Firefox has an end goal of with containers
I guess the collected readership of HN wished you didn't do your job so well then...
> DNS tunneling

I've done it a bit (using iodine[1]) and while it obviously depends a lot on the DNS server they're using, it can be surprisingly fast. I think I got over 300kbps regularly, which while not great for video streaming, is more than enough for HN and such.

iodine in particular tries to use some less common DNS record types like NULL, which might support up to 65kb/reply, falling back to more common if those are not supported, so you can get decent download speeds.

[1] https://code.kryo.se/iodine
I agree on the competency assessment, butI think the issue was plugging the service using his gmail IIRC. (Not just that he posted about Tor).

IIRC they were able to track down the first mention of the site and it was from an account tied to Ross.

Plenty of noncriminals are Tor users and post about Tor - myself included.
if you're on T-Mobile , then it's possible you got connected via their plan that allows for free GoGo inflight wifi.
Try this:

The lobby is not locked. Neither are any of the doors leading out from it. There is a cashier in the lobby and a sign with ticket prices for the different doors.
Cached view: http://web.archive.org/web/20190720131624/https://potatofrom...
Why do they need anything more than HTTPS? Just open https://nsa.gov/ and send your data.
He logged in in public a lot. They were able to correlate him opening laptop/joining wifi with their suspect account signing into Silk Road.
It's not for product development, AFAICT. It's a quick scripting / prototyping / scratch-your-itch environment. And for that purpose it looks quite good, resembling the most productive Lisp and Smalltalk environments, but with more easily separable single-file "projects".

It also looks like a great environment to teach programming past toy-level environments like MIT Scratch.
I was also eager to hear out the author after that first paragraph, and was surprised to find there was no second...
How about people get guaranteed certain rights and services by the government so we don’t have to worry about whether someone’s an employee or contractor?
Which is why the fix must be economic, not moral. LED light bulbs and wind power in the Midwest aren't successes because everyone decided to pitch in, take their place on the line and give it all for Captain Planet, they're successes because they fulfill the fundamental promise of efficiency: do more with less. They save people money.

And if you doubt the efficacy of said approach, just look at Texas renewable numbers. Texas is arguably the capital of the American oil industry and is a solidly red state. And yet it's gone from 6% Wind to 19% Wind in 10 years, with Dallas likely to be 100% renewable by 2030:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-snapshot-of-t...
https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/...

It's a concept most environmentalists I encounter look upon as the dark side of the force, like if they used economics and human selfishness towards a positive end it would somehow take away their environmentalist virtue. Guess it's hard to be a martyr when you take away the sacrifice. Doesn't help that they usually look down on the individuals in question, and can't seem to understand why "pay more and do less so you can make a negligible personal impact on the problem, because it's the right thing to do." is a hollow argument for many people. Maybe that person in the concentration camp who gave his last piece of bread died, and maybe you don't want to be that person.
82% of the people in Singapore live in public housing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore

Public housing is only 'temporary' if we as a society choose to believe so. There is nothing that makes public housing inherently 'temporary' or undesirable.
“How is a pharmacist supposed to know if an opioid is legitimate or not? ”

Any single prescription, there is no way.

But if your selling enough pain pills to give everyone in your county 10 daily doses, perhaps you should call the state attorney general.
I think it’s the video. I watched it, it had a nice message. Completely different then what parent comment is saying.
China’s AI Giants Can’t Say No to the Party (2018)
another way is to use DNS. Most captive portals allow UDP/DNS. You can craft a proxy to do proxy via 53/udp.
The technology is also useful down here on Earth when one astronaut wants to drive 950 miles without stopping to confront the lover of another.

https://www.denverpost.com/2007/02/05/diaper-wearing-astrona...
"screwing your rights/privacy": do they? Where's the million of victims? Where's the class action?

Politicians and the media are screwing us and stirring up the air.

Facebook can do its thing and show me ads for apartments in the neighbourhood I've visited (and published photos of) this afternoon, it's always more relevant than trying to sell me Viagra. I'm also gluten intolerant, so I'd rather not see ads for pizzas. I DO want more clever ads, who doesn't?
Few things are as important as consistently getting quality sleep. Not doing so slowly, slowly ruins your life. So slowly that you’ll think it’s other things, or that the side effects of your sleep deprivation are the causes themselves.

Don’t trade sleep for anything. Just don’t.
>although selling WiFi for 12$ per hour isn’t either

Care to elaborate on this? WiFi on a plane isn’t any kind of thing people are dependent on to survive and satellites are pretty expensive. Airplane WiFi is entirely a luxury good.

Do you feel that charging $12 to watch a movie in a theatre is unethical as well? How about $150k for a Porsche?
>In a landlord situation, their cost of goods is so small that they can afford to sit on an empty apartment while prospective renters need to put a roof over their family or business.

I'm not a landlord, but I did consider getting into it once, and studied how the system works. And a number of my friends are landlords (including one who quit his job because the passive income is enough).

No - probably over 95% of landlords do no have a small cost. Almost everyone is paying a mortgage/loan on that property. The exceptions are old people whose house was paid off and they just want free money. Those people almost always charge low rent, BTW - they just want some extra cash. The standard tactic is to buy properties on a loan, and try to get $100-200/month profit per house/unit. So if the apartment costs $1500/month in rent, assume their monthly cost to the bank (principle + interest) is about $700-800. Then add in the insurance and real estate fees. The remaining money goes to long term costs (repairs, vacancy, etc). Then they keep about $100-200.

If the apartment sits empty, they're still on the hook for close to $1000/month in taxes, insurance and loan payments.

Over time, if the property appreciates significantly, the plan is to sell the property, and use the gain in appreciation to buy a larger apartment complex, where they are down to $100-200/month again, but because the place has, say, double the number of apartments, their overall gain is double. Lather, rinse, and repeat. They only stop once they are making enough to live on in the lifestyle they want - which could be anywhere from 30-60 units.

They are almost always in debt, and vacancies are almost always very expensive.

A lot of the anti-landlord comments are similar to anti-employer comments, where it's always a given that employers have large piles of money and they can afford X, whether X is higher wages, better equipment, etc. Once you step into the "other" role, you'll find your assumptions were wrong.

Of course, if the state/city needs to pass laws to help with housing, so be it. Let's not just blindly assume that most landlords can absorb it.
I personally share the concerns in the article about minority focused funds creating a narrative that it's no longer important to take diversity into account at traditional funds because somebody else is taking care of it- is this a genuine concern to have or am I missing something about the state of the field and the dynamics of VC?
Yep, people compare app stores with the wild west of old windows applications and ask how could we possibly go back.

The biggest improvement on the smartphones in this regard is not the app stores themself, it's the very tight sandboxing of apps that is the real enabler of the ecosystem. With such a good sandbox we could be installing apps from anywhere on the web as we did on windows before but at the same time not risk our whole system in the process as we did before.
This greatly depends on the number of units. If you’re managing 1,000 units renting them all is a sign you have left money on the table. The safest approach to maximize profit is to increase prices as your vacancy rates drop. The ideal situation is to effectively always have 1 vacancy of each size not 0.
How about a plausible interpretation of the law?
I think it's just another variant of Less is More
Even if Amazon were to be brought in line, the situation won't get much better, it would simply move to smaller no-name contractor companies that would do the same, the only difference being that there will be too many and too small to ever get the focal point attention that Amazon is getting.

The fundamental problem here is there are too many low skilled people for the number of low skill jobs available. Considering the birthrates in this country are already low, this looks like that that problem is solving itself and yet apparently we need to increase the immigration numbers for low skilled immigrants, to keep exacerbating the situation?
>If you’re managing 1,000 units renting them all is a sign you have left money on the table.

That is the very definition of an outlier. Most landlords (easily over 90%) don't even have a 100 units. In fact, most landlords have a target number of units they need to "retire", and that number is usually less than 100.
While Nix's concepts are awesome, the implementation doesn't look so nice. Their "language" for writing Nix files [1] doesn't look attractive. Doesn't make me want to write a package description.

Of course, it is better than languages with lots of brackets, but still not good enough.

[1] https://github.com/edolstra/nixpkgs/blob/release-19.03/flake...
Unreasonable work expectations and deluded devs: Skipr
I don't feel that pain - it takes seconds to make a new branch, seconds to push it up, maybe 30 seconds to turn into a pr, add a description and some comments, and after it is review, merge and let CI/CD take over.

Now, without CI/CD, I could see it as far more painful. But I'm not sure that has anything to do with PRs. Even taking PRs out of the mix, you're still having to get it to production.
Publishers are pissed about Amazon’s upcoming Audible Captions feature
What I've been wondering is, do people actually set up fine-grained firewall rules for ICMP traffic or not? If they do, what are the rules specifically?

Generally speaking, just allowing all of ICMP does not seem like a major issue. Denial of service via ICMP is possible but then again, that's always possible no matter what.
I was wondering why the design is so shit. Turns out that the link is from old.reddit. Can someone change the link?
That’s not the same system or company.
Is your argument that all demographics commit crime at the same rate? For example the vast majority of those incarcerated are in for violent crime, and a significant number of those involve killing.
I kinda see the point of defining "passion" as "a self-centered crap".

We recently hired a guy that claims to be "passionate" about the tech we use. Indeed he is, but he shows basically zero interest in anything outside his "passion" and we're having a hard time getting him up to speed with regards to things that maybe he's not passionate about, that maybe are a bit boring, but that are still a very important part of the job.

I don't see this "passionate" guy going very far.
Even if every possible event had a particular root cause it could be reduced to (and I think that assumption itself is oversimplifying things vastly), the relationship would not mean any given event is predetermined. You are ignoring the effects of randomness and aggregation of randomness. Your view is equivalent to assuming that if a coin was flipped and has landed tails, it has always been so predetermined, but we know that the chance of that has always been 50%. It seems to me that if we take your view to it’s logical extreme, there would be no motion in the universe, no change even on subatomic level, no evolution or growth - it would be an inert static thing, as there would be no initial root cause to trigger any change that would cause further reactions.

(on a personal level, if you seriously feel this way and want to talk, feel free to email me, aeontech at gmail).
> What does it mean for Wittgenstein's philosophy to be true in light of his analysis of philosophy...

I think you have to pull your question apart in to two implications of "truth". There is a "ground truth" question (from plato's shadows on through today) which is not addressed in this essay.

But there's an epistemological enquiry that is at least as important, which is into the validity of our internal states and reasoning/justifications. Search down to the discussion starting with "We are, when philosophizing about experience and its objects, mesmerized by the analogy between having a chattel and having an experience." The author is referring to the deep analogies we quickly use to reason about things and how they can immediately lead us astray, often irrecoverably.

This problem is made worse by the internal private languages we each develop: I generate my utterances in the desire to induce some mental state within you; you respond similarly. What model and process do I use to convince myself that I have adequately induced that state in you? That's also an important sense of "truth"
OK, so my initial response to the title was anger; the video which is the substance of this post, however, has a much less contentious message. Your "passion" is the intersection of what you love and are great at. The concept of "Ikigai" is that it is also important to consider what others need and are willing to pay for, a self-evident idea wrapped in provocativeness, condemning people for being concerned for their own wellbeing and fulfilment.

The final sentence of the article is somewhat nonsensical: "feelings are exactly the things that distract us from our wantings". "Wantings" are feelings!
Competition made us to go to the Moon. Competition prevent us to cooperate for preventing climate change.
“No one is going to go to jail. ”

Normally I’d agree w/ you, but the folk in WV are super pissed
In one episode of Parks and Rec, the lead character, councilwoman Leslie Knope, is trying to pass a bill that adds fluoride to the town’s water source, while being opposed by a councilman/dentist who wants to continue making money off of the many cavities that occur in the town. As she discusses the debate, she realizes, “On my side, I have facts, science, and reason. All he has is fear-mongering. Oh my god, he’s gonna win.”

Best series ever.
That’s not a Tinder tax.
I love reading long stories in a twitter format /s

that's why twitter came to be. 160 characters in 30 blocks
>In that case should they not at least project an aura of being in touch with reality.

Voters in democracies around the world have made it overwhelmingly clear that they don't want that.
>> dead nut jobs iPhone

I think the principle here is that the same dead nut will simply cease using iPhones the moment they become insecure.
Bulma Themes: Templates for Your Next Bulma CSS Project
As AMAs go, this was pretty poor.
Running Tor exit node is dangerous. Very few people would dare to do so. Most of hosters will forbid that.

Now running ordinary Tor node is not dangerous. It does not consume a lot of resources (I'm running node on 256 MB OpenBSD VPS) and hosters don't care at all. It takes few minutes to install and set it up.

So there's absolutely no reason for people not to run Tor node on every server they have access to. And I'm sure that many people do. So I doubt that government control majority of Tor nodes.

If you operate a server, consider installing Tor node. It does no harm, it consumes as much of bandwidth as you will configure and you probably have a lot of unused resources anyway.
Older buildings should sell for less, to compensate for this risk. If the mortgage payments eat up too much of the rental income then the owner overpaid, and should sell at a price that's more appropriate for the risk associated with the building.
That is a separate issue from the original claim that Apple forces you to use their in app payment system for subscription fees and pay them a cut.

Neither Google or Apple do that.
Absolutely, you are right about that. My point was more to argue against the idea that in eastern europe, kids can run free on the streets because its a mostly white society. More likely is that the kids run free because the parents are not infected with american-style parenting and media-induced fear of everything. Literally nothing to do with race at all.
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Some diseases can be worse for the young because their immune system is more active. As for the rich, affluenza.
> Whoever fucks their workers hardest gets competitive advantage.

This is true, but companies that don’t fuck their employees also have a competitive advantage.

So it’s kind of not true. It really depends on the details which advantage is bigger.
Following the law may not be a moral imperative, but let's not pretend like the author did anything moral here. He knowingly and with intent stole services from the airline. It not only was illegal, it's blatantly immoral.
No, GoGo is based on HughesNet, whereas OP was using Viasat
I don't blame the publishers for this; reproducing an author's text without permission is a copyright violation.
Angadiya ( havala ) or cash transfer has been done like this since ages, and most of them are from not so educated background, but very rich doing this. Interesting thing is when Bitcoin was at its pick, they adopted Bitcoin as a currency transaction quite quickly.
Hothi’s defense team has their perspective of this action here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/skabooshka-defense-fund

Sounds like they were willing to strike any of the conversations that could be considered private or confidential but Tesla refused. Given the internal audio recordings would be a good indicator of how threatened the vehicle’s occupants felt, it’s strange that Tesla dropped the case rather than produce them.

Looks like Hothi may be preparing a counter suit alleging malicious legal action.
Whatever country's airspace you're in and whatever country the plane is registered in. (Probably an oversimplification, but IANAL and I definitely ANYL.)