skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you, as a player, only care about the couple of indie games that are great and don't care what's going on behind the scenes with the thousand of indie developers that are struggling, that's fine

Can't this be said of any art form, really? If you look at people who tried to make indie comics in the '90's or 'zines I guess... whatever the title you wanted to give them. Painters, failed and prominent, from the 1200's to the present who had to trudge along and get jobs in coffee shops. Art is hard and people line up to take advantage of them (I say this as an art school graduate who now sits at a computer desk because, quite frankly, it's easier to make a living with code than art and I have a family who I love more than art). To be quite blunt, the gaming industry is a multiBILLION (with a B) dollar industry built on passion and artistry (and yes, coders can be artists, as well) which is being fed upon like any art industry gets fed upon.
Redgate Acquired Flyway
I routinely insert org-mode tables into emails I send at work (now that I think about it, that's a little funny, given that I'm consistently pro-HTML-email in these threads).
Quaternionic representation of the genetic code (2015)
Maybe It’s Lyme
Isn't that just elitism/gatekeeping?

Other than that "Hackerwahn" ("hacker mania") sounds like a nice term for this as mostly low-level hackers seem to show this kind of behavior. (Note: This is not meant as an insult or a generalization.)
Note that a lot can be learned from "metadata" (keeping track of who is talking to who) and it's also hard to prevent without adding a lot of inefficiency via something like onion routing. So that would be the logical place for some kind of law enforcement compromise while still encrypting the messages themselves.
Your reply should be at the top. LOL
Are there any papers that make concrete proposals how such a thing could work?
Given the toxic nature of Youtube comments, I can't blame them
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ. Pretty awesome book on Catholic/Jesuit spirituality, though the actual writer is pretty liberal in real-life.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius if you are into Stoicism.

I wouldn't directly dive into the Bible cause its rather thick, and confusing especially the Old Testament, except maybe the Gospels for a start -
Wikipedia Doesn’t Know What to Do with Almost-Famous People
What the hell? I get downvoted for linking an authoritative answer to the question I was asked? I'm so god damn sick of participating here in good faith and getting wordlessly crapped on for it. The answer supports exactly what I said, and I provided a link.

Pretty obvious someone didn't like one of my other comments and then proceeded to downvote the others they could since I commented in multiple threads at the same time. Why is this nonsense allowed? It would be easy to detect.
As already mentioned it's a complex subject that I personally was "forced" to go through in an econ 201 level course back in university.

It involves understanding the money supply levels( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moneysupply.asp ), fractional reserve banking ( https://www.learningmarkets.com/understanding-the-fractional... ), and how the velocity of money (eg how often money changes hands in spending/loans) affects prices.

(I'm going to simplify some things here to keep this high level).

In modern banking, a central bank creates money. Let's say it's $1000. That's monetary growth in the base monetary supply (usually known as M0 or M1 in economic cirlces depending on the country). That $1000 gets deposited into a bank at a set core interest rate. The bank then keeps a fraction as a reserve and lends the rest out, lets say half of it. Now you get $1000 in the original bank and $500 in another bank. So now we have $1500 total. the 2nd bank takes the $500, keeps a reserve, and loans out more and so on until eventually a "stable" supply of money exists. Sustained hyperinflation happens when the central bank just pumps out the base cash. Since there'd be so much money sloshing around, prices across the board rise.

If the growth of the base of money is relatively stable (and how much it should increase is a long topic with tons of minutia), interest rates affect the growth of the later levels of money (known as M2/M3). Lower interest rates mean more borrowing and therefor more spending. But if it's too low for too long, prices will rise and you'll drown out productive growth. This happened in the "stagflation" of the 1970s where you had high inflation coupled with low economic growth. If interest rates are too high, you risk making it difficult for productive use of money to be used.

So that's the dilemma of central banks. The temping thing is that keeping interest rates low can look good in the short term, as inflation tends to take awhile to work its way through the economy. Milton Friedman loved to say that artificially low rates are let getting drunk. The party is now, but there's a hangover you have to deal with later.

The hard part is that inflation isn't necessarily something people want. You want it if you have too much debt or assets that are inflation "protected" (gold, housing), but if you're on a fixed income, you get screwed.

The hard part is that while we've had low inflation over the past few decades, we've had several asset bubbles that have driving up housing, commodities, etc all over the place.

If you're explaining it to somebody else in laymans terms, it helps to explain that money is subject to the same supply and demand curves as anything else (even when it was backed by gold, new gold discoveries in the late 1800s drove inflation). Too much money makes it less valuable and vise versa. Higher interest rates make the money "rarer" and thus increase it's worth to everything else.
A "viscous kidnapping force" is an especially sticky problem. ^__^;
> I'd like to see formatting for email that doesn't have the security and privacy vulnerabilities and complexity of HTML email. Markdown would be fine

Markdown supports arbitrary HTML, and so has exactly the privacy and security implications of HTML (though there extensions available which limit this, and are standard in some markdown processors and expected by default in some markdown variants.)
Tech Giants Pitch Low Power 6 GHz Wi-Fi to the FCC
>what are you going to do to someone who simply forgot their PIN code?

Put them in jail indefinitely, apparently.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/man-jailed-indef...
I greatly prefer top posting because it emphasizes what I'm looking for in a email reply which is new information. Moreover, modern email clients automatically hide the quoted text so only the reply, with the new information, is visible but context is available if necessary.

For example:

---

Let's meet at 8 pm.

(Show more from person A).

---

Typically, the context will be clear from reading the reply and the sender. If not, I can establish context by clicking on the link:

---

Let's meet at 8 pm.

> Agreed, when should we meet?

>> I think we should meet face-to-face to discuss this.

>>> This is a super-important discussion.

>>>> I propose to implement HTML mails.

>>>>> Plaintext mails suck. I missed important information because the mail used asterisks instead of bold text.

---

With top posting, I can stop reading the previous mails as soon as I understand what's going on. Consider the opposite with bottom posting: Here I would have to read the entire context from the beginning or am at the mercy of how other people edited the context.

EDIT: Put --- on individual lines. Fixed asterisks formatting.
As far as I know Nigel Farage wants out of the economic, political, etc European Union, not out of the geographical continent. By the way, parts of Turkey and Russia are also in Europe.
I think footer text might interest you:

> "But if plaintext is so good, why is this page written in HTML?"
>This is a reference document, not an email, you twit.
fighting games are basically cartels: you have a couple strong sets of IP, outside of which it's insanely hard to get traction - uber small community to start with and new titles often need bootstrapping and refining [no tournaments/scenes/bad or no online experience, etc.])

it also works backwards: since everyone moves to the latest and greatest, the community evaporates when a new version comes out: nobody still plays street fighter (version - 1) basically as soon as the latest comes out, as tournaments pick it up (=> you need to learn it)

the one dark horse was smash, which had insane longevity but nintendo didn't want that IP associated with the fighting game community/streams for a long while - not sure what current state is
Given it's HR, could a case not be made for accessibility which an embedded image doesn't allow.. they might be responsive if talking in HR terms and priorities.
Flyboard inventor poised for record Channel crossing
For what it’s worth I feel like the parent comment was fairly substantive, and in my experience having lived in both Hong Kong and China it’s a fairly levelheaded analysis of the current situation. I know hacker news is not really a place for political discussion, but a well thought out comment like this in an ongoing discussion about something that is clearly of interest to the community doesn’t feel like something that should result in the threat of a ban. Obviously the community standards are what they are, but that’s my two cents anyway.
Both of which are bad in their own right. He really is an awful AG.
Ha, yeah, you're probably right.
Related link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511902 ("Tofurky takes Arkansas to court over the word 'meat')
All Hail The Algorithm: five-part interactive series from Aljazeera
That's an interesting argument, but only the most extreme interpretation of the 2nd Amendment argues that it covers _all_ munitions. And I'm having trouble finding a contemporary example of someone making this claim.

On top of that, we now have years of SCOTUS jurisprudence that "arms" are absolutely subject to _some_ regulations, with the debate focusing on what "some" actually means.
Kotaku's content is so heavily editorialized that it's hard to take seriously. Every time I read an article it seems that I'm being told how to feel about something rather than being informed about it.
Helpful comment. I have an overactive immune system and I'm always on the lookout for ways to get it to relax.

I've done elimination diets and had blood tests to determine foods I react to. I've also met with nutritionists to create meal plans. But over the long term I tend to gravitate back to foods that my family and friends tend to eat which includes stuff that jacks up my immune system (kid didn't finish her mac and cheese? I'm on it!...visit my Italian mom? pasta time!)

So how do you keep to what you know you should do when other people in your life are doing things to the contrary?
I know about that, I was more interested in the political point of being beholden to a proprietary platform. I think that is especially important for one of the most widely installed open source apps (on non-geeks computers).
A stable genius.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out, I was indeed taking the example from German (where "sehen" works with a genuine ACI like Dutch) and put it in English without much thought, particularly without realising that other examples do work in English.
I would put people mislead by the "nut milk" label in the same box as the people putting their dog in the micro-wave to dry it.

We should not thrive to protect those people from their own stupidity. We are short in resources, I'd rather see those invested in schools to provide education to their children.
I'm not sure how much of a possibility this is because i do not know exactly how GNOME extensions work - the linked malware is not a real GNOME extension, it just pretends to be one by placing itself in the directory where GNOME extensions are placed, but it really is a shell script. But assuming that this is the case, as i said above the issue would be with Firefox and/or the Firefox extension, not with GNOME being extensible or the user being able to download and run shell scripts (the two things that enable this to work) in their computer (and really the "GNOME being extensible" part is minor, the only reason the malware uses that is to hide itself, it isn't even a real GNOME extension).

The main reason i am dismissive is because if you think this is a real threat then you'd have to also think anything you can run on your computer to be a real threat - which, IMO, is absurd and at that point you might as well turn off and throw your computer out of the window.
Seems like most Zachtronics games are like this too. I'll be deep into a puzzle and then I'll stop and realize I just basically spent an hour optimizing the critical path of a virtual program
Ask HN: Do podcast ads depend on my IP address?
I've noticed some particularly well-targeted ads for some relatively local services in podcasts I listen to.

I've also had podcasts that go to commercial break, only to come right back to the program without actually advertising anything. That'd be a weird editorial choice, if there's no actual ads. I assume they just didn't sell the spot for whatever audience segment I fall into?

I don't consume podcasts through any app where I log in to anything, so it seems like it would be hard to build a reliable profile on me based on anything except things servers get when requests for the files are made.

So? Could it be that the podcasts I listen to serve episodes that differ from listener to listener?
Microsoft reveals new Windows 10 Start menu in accidental internal leak
I was mostly responding to the part about how "The distribution model has the advantage of single click install". What's the difference in how "single click" installation can be between rolling and LTS?
Don't push for happiness - JP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPETcaQ3Z2o
>> Netflix autoplay trailers annoys me to no end

THIS.. i had to rant about this with 100 words :) https://medium.com/@totaldude87/netflix-please-stop-autoplay...
True, takes me 15 minutes from door to (train) door and I don't have to endure the usual airport security shit and calculate a buffer time of a minimum of 60 minutes, which can be significantly longer, depending on the airport.

Sure, not every country (notably the US) offers such privileged amenities, but where a good train network is available trips up to six hours are definitely doable, if not preferable.
"Be aware that the Reichstag could burn at any time."
Visited one of these vegan restaurants. Took me a little while to realize everything on the menu was misspelled. They didn't have cheese they had "cheeze", they had "porc" instead of pork, etc. Immediately it felt quite dishonest, but I admit it would be obnoxious to have to qualify everything in a vegan restaurant.
Then now comes another provider called Gust (gust.com) that offer different products that are equally attractive.

This has a product called Gust Launch (https://gust.com/launch/start) which has features like Clerky including a financial board of the company so it sounds interesting but the cost is $300 dollars annually (there is includes the incorporation, post, etc), Clerky is a single payment of $800 dollars and Stripe Atlas $500.
The Rise of Corporate Nations
Feared Huawei US Layoffs Commence
I recall this plaguing the Secure Scuttlebutt project -- they were signing JSON objects that were encoded however Node saw fit to encode them, which meant that in order to write an alternative implementation of the protocol, you had to encode all the various objects exactly how Node encodes them, which is (unsurprisingly) non-trivial. I wonder if they addressed this in a later version.
Can you fill out this survey for me?

https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/be4f2eee45046e069a4bb175d9d539...
Depends on the MDM and phone really but, No. Triangulating a cellphone on the network via cell towers is a tried and true feature of wireless infrastructure. Even your phones GPS capabilities are most likely "A-GPS" meaning Cellular Assisted; It'll use cell location data when GPS satilites are slow/unavailable.

GPS toggle isn't doing much of anything besides application permissions enforcement.
Your comment prompted me to check my LinkedIn 2FA and it turns out that they now support TOTP apps (they list Authenticator App as the option). I believe it is very new though.
To the US treasury, for general use.

Most (all?) federal fines are this way, although if they specified that some of the total were to be used for direct compensation to victims, then that could be included in the total as reported by the media but obviously wouldn't be spendable by Congress.

I can't point to a case where that's ever happened, though, so the answer in practice is "the US treasury".
They built a SaaS company to make gmail better. I wish people would stop conflating gmail with email.

Gmail is large but, even so, I don't understand why would a company throw out a massive potential user base, by limiting itself to gmail.
How do you "borrow" spoken words into sign language? You can't, really -- which is why he has to invent hand gestures.
I mean, "my card information being stolen" is literally only an issue because credit card companies won't force US retailers to accept proper chip and pin. It just is not an issue everywhere I've been in Europe because it is categorically impossible for them to steal my card information with contactless payments.

As for the magnitude of privacy invasion regarding financial transactions, I feel very safe in saying the data Google has about/from me is far more revealing than relatively opaque transaction logs.
What if you're being reimbursed for your phone? I assume they can only see activity on my logged in GSuite account. Can't imagine that they have access to anything beyond that.
Un-un-popular opinion: Top-posting is fine. Interleaved posting is great, too. Bottom posting is idiotic.
You can do similar things by writing tests as you go, plus then you can keep the tests if they seem useful.
I have read the City of God and it's massive. Are you talking about a particular section?
I'm no fan of Bill Barr, but I don't read this that way, no. It reads to me more like he's saying that from a planning perspective it's better to figure the worst thing that could happen and have a plan already developed that could handle that, rather than being caught by surprise and then having law and policy made in a mad, panicked rush.

(In other words, let's not do with cybersecurity policy what we did with counter-terrorism policy in the weeks after 9/11.)
This is something I have wondered myself.

Would love if someone would chime in on the reality here.
Effective de-identification is much harder than people think.
I only have my work Slack, not email, on my phone because of this.

Something I've wondered: why do they only do this for native email? Why can I use Slack without it? In college even our student email accounts had MDM (which was pretty silly), but I worked around it by just viewing my email in the web browser. Are locally-stored emails somehow more vulnerable than my browser cache and the messages stored in the Slack app, or are those just loopholes?
> embed the kernel headers within the kernel image itself and make it available through the sysfs virtual filesystem (usually mounted at /sys) as a compressed archive file (/sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz)

eeww
Actual link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545057
DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar
My response is suggesting that if McDonalds can call highly processed food a "burger", your claim that it's the level of processing that matters is clearly not the case.
Yesterday I went to set up 2FA for MongoDB and entered my phone number in the form but then realized I could use Authy so I never hit save/submit. I’ve already gotten two text messages from them even though my account shows my phone number as “Not Set.”

It really made me wonder what other shady stuff they might be doing with my and my customer’s data.
When a company builds its product to tightly integrate with another company's product, I always feel like asking:

- What will you do if the other company decides to change the way it looks/acts/feels without consulting you?

- What will you do if the other company decides to take active measures to stop you hijacking their product?

- What will you do if the other company decides that you've got some great ideas and they will implement those features themselves?

It doesn't actually matter what the answers are to those questions, because they all boil down to the same result for the customer: someday this is going to stop working, so I had better not rely on it even if it does seem to be shiny and useful right now.
> perform better

If by "perform better" you mean "generate traffic" then I agree with you. Facebook ads really do result in a lot of clicks.

And if you're running a political or awareness campaign, maybe that's what you want. But it's hard to measure ROI for this kind of campaign except by comparison with other traffic sources.

On the other hand, if you're selling a product or service, and you track narrow cohorts from prospect through conversion, repeat buy, defection and churn, you can compare total acquisition cost of the cohort with LTV of the cohort.

Regardless of the product or service, I usually see CAC >> LTV at the cohort level.

Within a cohort, usually < 10% of customers have CAC <= LTV, but it's nearly impossible to target this subset in advance, so negative ROI dominates the cohort.
>They're already safer than human drivers, with fewer accidents per mile than humans.

There's no way you have enough good data to make this claim.

But yes if we exclude Tesla, ignore non-pax deaths, and vaguely extrapolate from the data released by current players they must be safer!
There are various ways. One would be to use standard imap and decrypt the message on the client. Their bridge sort of does that but with proprietary protocol.

Either way, that has absolutely nothing to do with the security issues of html email. Eg phishing and tracking still works when you decrypt the message and open it.
Doctors are very quick to find some reason it’s not their ‘fault’, meaning they can’t help. Anyone with a serious illness or who has spent a lot of time with doctors will be well aware of this.

That’s pretty common in software too where we want to blame the users endpoint computer or browser cache or something. We never want it to be an actual bug in our software.

But those are local problems, when you have multiple eyes (and variety of experts) looking at it and a major geopolitical implication, simple dismissal is less of a problem.

But agreed this is something that all professionals should be aware of, fighting our natural instincts, and try not to be so lazy or dismissive, and ask the harder questions.
German car companies have absolutely recognized their problem with software several years ago (from what I can see 5-10 years ago), but they are still varying levels of bad at implementing the solution. One of the things they are doing is starting daughter companies that only do software... but still get infected by the awful development and management culture of the parent.
> as AG Barr is the soft drinks company which manufactures Irn Bru in Scotland, and I was surprised to see they had an opinion.

An irreverent marketer could generate a ton of earned media out of this.
People keep saying "indistinguishable from beef" but oh boy... I literally don't know what burgers these people have been trying.

I've tried them all, including the newest versions, and they're still not even close. They're fine, but still completely different... kind of like how soy milk is fine but certainly doesn't taste anything like cow milk. And I'm certainly not a supertaster or anything...

I'm personally of the opinion we'll have self-driving cars long before we come up with a non-meat burger that is actually as satisfying, in the same ways, as a beef one.