skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but the answer to encryption backdoors can't be "we don't think you'll make good enough backdoors". Even if the backdoor can't be opened by anything other than acquiring the government key, it's still not acceptable.
The Future of Invention (1879)
After reading that article, I'm happy for the polish to live in a better state now, and I immediately started to think where people are now oppressed by their government whenever they are deemed 'harmful to the nation', and China came to my mind, and not just for the Chinese state cooperating with the organized crimes triads to attack protesters in Hong Kong. The situation there is different for now, because China is economically developing, so that may stabilize the government, but eventually China will get rid of its oppressive regime. I wonder when and how.
Since tips are "expected", your average server doesn't think they have to work for them. Service quality is basically random, just like most jobs
If you send me an email (dan@kaggle.com) I'd love to set up a time to show you some mockups that may be the solution you are looking for.
You can wear your shoes in the Gusto office. A good number of us do; in fact I'm doing so right now. I think it's more that you have the option and encouragement to walk around freely without shoes, whereas other offices would probably frown on you for going into a meeting with just socks.
I’m surprised by the cynicism here. Working in software we know that high complexity projects are _really_ hard to estimate.

Hofstadter's Law says it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Too many unknown unknowns. If the projects were broken down into smaller chunks, the incremental costs would be better understood as the project progressed.
90F = 32C.

I'm in Toronto, and we get that kind of heat somewhat regularly, and the green bins haven't been a problem. It's the reason why they're picked up every week (garbage and recycling alternates).
This is so annoying! It's like an automatic thing now when paying in a trendy store using an iPad. It's like, I just ordered, but before I've even gotten my goods, I'm presented with a dialogue on whether I want to pay 5%, 10%, 15% tip (or "no tip" as a small button at the bottom).

I'm sure these businesses have found that merely including the dialogue = free money, so why wouldn't they?
>One way to think about it is that each employees costs $100k or $200k a year.

Those are some expensive employees, me and my friends don't cost anywhere remotely near that. I make 34k a year after 13 years on the job. A company doesn't have to hire in one of the highest COL cities in the country.
When I came in to my current company last year, the only way to get work email was by enrolling your phone in our "company portal" which was based on MS's Intune, part of their 365 offering, which by the way is horrible. There was no IT director and the lawyer and CFO who drove the plan had draconian rules, so bad that only a few people ever enrolled, and those who did regretted it, as their phones would be wiped several times as unqualified people "poked around" in the system. Exchange and outlook alone can handle email data safely with remote wipe of company data without total MDM and device 0wnership. I changed to that immediately, and in the past year we've needed to wipe only two people's phones, and it went without a hitch. MD is a tool that frequently is more than required for the situation.
Off topic, but...

I've used VLC on all supported platforms for almost as long as it's been in existence: THANK YOU.
>you refuse to speak I'm guessing they'll be taking your phone anyway and/or arresting you

If you refuse to speak without a lawyer there, they'll either a) move on because they're out fishing and you're not biting, or b) arrest you because they already have evidence but were looking for an easy confession to make it a slam dunk case for the prosecution. Once arrested, you can hire/be assigned a criminal defense attorney who will figure out if you have a good chance of being found innocent or can minimize prison time through a plea deal.

>Winning an argument about your personal device's admissibility in court six months later isn't really winning is it?

Not taking their bait and running your mouth will minimize the chances of the FBI being able to get a warrant for your device to begin with. It's not just about the phone, it's about your freedom, financial stability (you will lose your job and you can't pay your bills from prison, so say goodbye to your credit score), and employment opportunities (federal convictions don't bode well for job hunting).

Look up "don't talk to the police" on YouTube if you want more reasons why letting the FBI look at your phone is a bad idea.
In Seattle, there was a push a few years ago to eliminate tipping in many restaurants. A 20% service charge was automatically added to the bill instead, on the theory that it would result in fairer and higher compensation for restaurant workers. Several of the places I frequent made this change at around the same time. Only a few years later, most restaurants seem to have reverted to the old policy of tipping.

I've been told by several waiters and bartenders that worked in these restaurants that there was an employee revolt. People earned noticeably less money under the mandatory 20% service charge than with tipping. Consequently, no one wanted to work for restaurants that didn't have tipping. It was seen as a socially conscious move but it backfired for the people it was supposed to help.

The behavioral and economic dynamics with tipping in the US seem to be more complex than people account for.
Charging for uploads and downloads? isn't that making the whole service inconvenient

It says 2000 monthly downloads. I will consume that in a single day with my automated CI pipeline. Is hard to take this into consideration.

Uploads and downloads makes sense to be unlimited. At least having bandwidth limits like any basic hosting service.
Deplatforming is just bad. If you can't win your argument without getting rid of anyone who disagrees with you, what does that say?

Evicting professors and others from universities. Blocking access to social media. Closing down newspapers and other new outlets.

And it doesn't matter who's doing it. Erdogan. Carlos Maza. Antifa. None of them are doing anything constructive.
That's only relevant because you're including your whole thread (or part of it, if there's forks) in your email. As far as I know, there's no real reason for people to do this anymore. Email clients should be able to handle email threads themselves, and then the recipient can decide how they want to sort it.

If you're only replying to things that are specifically relevant to the section (what quoting was traditionally used for), then bottom-posting doesn't make sense.
(Tbh, if you're talking about Google Docs, it's not even that cumbersome. Still, I prefer Office 365 and would probably plump to spend my own cash on that. This is not the point of what I was going to post though.)

I think what you say is totally valid but an additional observation is that once a SaaS gains some traction, or perhaps because they need the cashflow, sometimes the free tier can disappear or be significantly reduced.

The canonical example here for me is UserVoice: it used to have a free tier, no longer does and, in fact, whilst I was writing this post I was searching for current pricing... but it turns out they're not even transparently priced any more (please feel free to correct me if I missed something).

Anyway: beware.
Just saying that you don't need 6400 to effectively obliterate large country or even few countries. Unless you plan a war against all.
yes. But if I didn't feel comfortable, or felt like I was not being adequately compensated, I would change my job. I didnt get into my line of work because it was glamorous and rewarding, I got into it because the pay was good.
The cost-benefit analysis is interesting:

> If one already has an effective level of security — say, by way of illustration, one that protects against 99 percent of foreseeable threats — is it reasonable to incur massive further costs to move slightly closer to optimality and attain a 99.5 percent level of protection even where the risk addressed is extremely remote?

> if the choice is between a world where we can achieve a 99 percent assurance against cyber threats to consumers, while still providing law enforcement 80 percent of the access it might seek; or a world, where we have boosted our cybersecurity to 99.5 percent but at a cost reducing law enforcements access to zero percent — the choice for society is clear.

One issue with all proposals around this, is risk = probability X impact. While the above speaks to the risk, the impact of malicious actors having their hands on masterkeys would be insta-access to any & all gov-mandated communication channels, to the exact same access level as warrants would afford.

While the attorney is right, that so far most corp master certificates have not been compromised, none of those had this pricetag attached to it. And the impact of this would be retroactively applicable -ie for any present-day communication, we'll be taking on faith that no future masterkeys will be leaked, ever.

I would not take that bet; and so far, neither did insurance companies.
You've got to think of what a Turing Test conversation would actually look like. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518623
GDP is not a north star metric. GDP in the US is high and we have more suicides than ever.

Many authoritarian (or especially populist) governments KNOW they will lower the GDP because by limiting low-wage labor immigration or focusing on nurturing a native culture or preserving the environment and not buying into a soulless consumerism/globalization they are creating a GDP cap.

"growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" --edward abbey

(I don't know anything about what's happening in Turkey, I just don't believe in GDP as a metric to chase)
This seems like a significant release, so it's a shame that there's nothing in the changelog or on the interwebs at large that tells me why it matters. Does anyone know?
im saying 9/11 is an example of writing the policy ahead of time, and waiting for when you need it NOT throwing a proposal together after a stimulus.

9/11 is an example of what hes proposing, not a counter example.
Police say Tesla in fatal SF crash was not on 'Autopilot' – SFGate
I'm still waiting, 5+ years later...
And getting it working on some of the “enterprise”-class Linux distributions like CentOS requires some hoop-jumping, as PHP isn’t being kept up to date on those. That’s really the fault of the distribution, but the brunt of it falls on the admins to fix by installing PHP from other sources, some of which are questionable or require a lot of explanations to suit-wearing compliance-types. Having it written in something easier to wrangle would be nice, especially if that also passes through to Nextcloud.
Yes, you're absolutely right. The article gives the impression that algebraic effects give a new ability to decouple the code that uses some effects from the implementation of those effects. But that's absolutely not so: Simply passing down the implementation as an argument provides all the functionality that was described in the article.

So, in imperative/OOP languages, it's best to treat algebraic effects as inspiration for passing down objects to provide implementations; that gives you most of the same power, while using existing features of your language.

Some effect systems allow resuming multiple times, allowing more fancy features, but those features are niche, and even of questionable theoretical value because of their incompatibility with linearity.
There are plenty of philosophers in this area that disagree with Chalmers
Can you explain how this actually solves the main problems? I can see this form of encryption catching unsophisticated "bad hombres". Unsophisticated here meaning, either ignorant of weaknesses in the technology they use, or aware, but unable to improve upon it. The most motivated adversaries will make use of other schemes.

Worse, for secrets we actually care about (nuclear codes?) we must still research proper encryption schemes since backdoors are admissions of weakness in a security protocol fundamentally as far as I've come to understand.

> We are confident that there are technical solutions that will allow lawful access to encrypted data and communications by law enforcement without materially weakening the security provided by encryption. Such encryption regimes already exist. For example, providers design their products to allow access for software updates using centrally managed security keys. We know of no instance where encryption has been defeated by compromise of those provider-maintained keys. Providers have been able to protect them.

This quote from the article seems to contradict itself. First it claims "... without materially weakening the security provided by encryption" then goes on to state "We know of no instance where encryption has been defeated by compromise of those provider-maintained keys" implying that there is a possibility of this kind of breach.

This whole thing seems like an oligarch's attempt to spy on it's people pretty plainly to me. Where is the liberty and freedom in this?
Dunno, I’m just an armchair lawyer who watches too many Leonard French videos. Like I said in my original comment, I haven’t read the case record in detail, nor am I familiar enough with the Federal Rules or Criminal Procedure to know if there’s some evidentiary requirement they cannot meet without the contents of the drive or whatever.

I’m guessing it’s because they are operating off testimony of a witness (defendants sister) claiming she was shown the alleged images, and since they weren’t on the unencrypted internal drive they MUST be on the encrypted external drives. That combined with the knowledge that these files were in fact purportedly known to be downloaded via his internet connection is enough for something, but all they have without the drives is hearsay, hence the compulsion to decrypt then?

Personally I think in this instance with recent rulings that an individual cannot be identified by an IP address and a single witness that there isn’t enough to KNOW anything, otherwise I could wardrive around, download a bunch of CP on somebodies connection and say I saw them looking at it through a window or something.

All I know is that we do have precedent for this in the physical world, so it’s not a logical leap to require disclosure of cryptographic keys when we KNOW what they unlock.
The empty seats cost the airlines many thousands of dollars and most of the time he didn't even intend to use them.

I know airlines and cable companies are arguably the most vicious, anti-customer monopolists in America and it's hard to have sympathy for them, but was what this guy did against the rules? How can you argue creating fake identities and reserving seats for non-existing passengers is not?

As I mention in another comment, a contract is not a suicide pact. If you want your business partner to honor the terms of your agreement don't cost them tens of thousands of dollars unnecessarily.

99% of the time I am disgusted by airlines' behavior but in this case...passenger was at fault, IMO.
Not a downvoter, but I'm guessing it's the "never gonna happen."

Kind of ridiculous to believe otherwise.
It depends rather I think on how you go about pursuing happiness. Some things like gratitude journals or making friends seem to work in the research.
Totally agreed, definitely out of scope. Just removed the script from the manifests. Thanks again!
I am not a lawyer, and your scenario is getting into the gray zone where you really ought to consult a lawyer to get an even remotely reliable opinion. That said, my understanding is that: You shouldn't get convicted(no crime was committed if you do it right). You might still get arrested(have fun convincing officer donut that you remotely disabled some business's website without hacking). You might get sued in civil court for damages. You may or may not win the civil case depending on the wording of your contract, implementation details of your sabotage, the mood of the judge, and the alignment of the stars. I would still argue that a few hundred bucks to hire a lawyer to send a form letter is safer, easier, and more reliable, assuming of course that the client resides in a country with reasonably strong rule of law. You're trying to use a hacker solution to a lawyer problem, which is both unprofessional and generally frowned on by the legal system.
I will say that during my short stint as a delivery driver for a small non-chain pizza shop, I got a flat rate (less than the delivery charge, mind you) for each delivery I took.

Not sure if that happens in all cases, but I can see the case for charging a delivery fee. Baking it in to the cost of a pizza in general would unfairly charge people eating in or picking up. With delivery, you are paying for the pizza, and then an additional service.

I still think tips should be eliminated from the equation, though.
One of the "what ifs" I often have when looking back at this period is that if CGA/EGA had fully supported user-defined palettes(the actual support for it is "in some modes, kinda", with the original CGA monitor design being a major factor in why it isn't available), and the PCjr/Tandy sound became standard in the mid-80s, the audiovisual capabilities would have been almost exactly on par with the Atari ST, which was viewed as the direct competitor to the Amiga when it launched. And in that case, would the market have settled on the PC even earlier? The games being made in the late 80's were generally not memory-intensive enough to support assets over 4-bit color; it was the fixed palette and reliance on beeper sound that made PC games look and sound ugly compared to other platforms, with the raw horsepower being a secondary consideration, though the rapid advancement of x86 made it appealing on that front too.
The solution to that problem in many places is currently to have lists of approved suppliers.
Yes. The only risk is the potential bankruptcy or revoking of life time privileges. Otherwise it’s often a good deal.
The Gell-Man amnesia effect is quite strong.
Are you genuinely unfamiliar with the weaponization of online mob activity, organized bullying, shaming, doxing, revenge porn, outrage culture, review spamming, mass harassment of peoples employers/schools, etc? I thought this stuff was all well known in the tech community.
Ah, I see your point. I suspect that Swahili's "asidi deoxyribonucleic" is probably an English loan-word, but you're right that I don't know, since I haven't done any real research.
I don't understand how you saw his message as attacking the person he was replying to, honestly. He was attacking the trend.

And I wasn't attacking you, either.
>> I think Netflix will become the next Apple in India. They gotta think like an Indian company and not as an American company!

Whats the difference between thinking like an Indian company vs an American company? You got me curious.

>> Hotstar has been killing it. They have the massive advantage of streaming live sports, especially IPL and other cricket matches.

I take it they are funding it with ads? Do you think they will fund everything with ads long term or are they just buying time to build market share before converting to a subscription model?
I remember Windows 95 on my Pentium 4 being lightning fast. Like, I've barely finished clicking the icon and the program is already up and running.

With Windows 10 and my i7, I usually expect a loading screen or two before I can use what I just clicked on (esp. Microsoft Office).
That's true, but it depends on the income rate, I guess. If I need to work a soul-sucking job for 15 years to be able to spend the rest of my life with mostly full autonomy, I think that trade-off isn't worth it. If it were working a soul-sucking job for 1 or 2 years to get enough to be autonomous for life, then it's probably worth it.
>Everyone loves to cite the number of politicians that get prosecuted or go to jail for corruption. To me that says the corruption doesn't run very deep.

Meh, it could also simply be deep local corruption and shallow Federal corruption. If the FBI is coming, that doesn't mean that your State government isn't corrupt, just that it doesn't have enough power to influence federal.
> "it's not unreasonable to believe that, given long enough timeframes, similar constructs may have spontaneously self-replicated, even if inefficiently.".

It is unreasonable.
I'm afraid your long enough timeframes (3.8 billion years) are not even remotely close to long enough if you consider any serious actual statistical measure of how long it would need for something as complex as just a single cell to "spontaneously" exist, the numbers just don't workout.

Any hypothesis that just guesses how life started with no substantial evidence whatsoever, is just a desperate try to blind yourself form the elephant in the room, that this insane complexity can't just make itself.

No matter how long time passes, a watch can't just come to existence without a watchmaker.
Really? The point michael gove was making, if you're not aware, was to try and shun any attempt at "expert"-ing.

Within the context of Brexit, the leavers had their own group of "experts" i.e. the ERG but any attempt at economic prediction was clearly shunned on the grounds of it being "Project Fear" despite no specific biases being demonstrated. Because that's the only way, along with blatant lies, to get people believe that leaving the largest trading block - possibly even with no replacement deal with anyone - could possibly be a good thing (At all costs being the current mantra i.e. No Deal)

It's not the lack of listening to certain experts that bothers me, it's them clearing playing the card. Gove, and most of the others on the leave side, is very well educated and damn well knows that careful thought ("expert"ism) is important.
Reviewing numbers is not something you need an engineering expert for..
People who love beautiful resolution in India will be about same percentage point of people who love flying in chartered plane in US. So Netflix plan will likely work fine for target customer base.
To be clear, no shoes in the office thing was started because the streets of SF are super dirty.

I hear you on the empower language. It’s always sounded a bit forced to me but I see what they’re going for. Managers should focus on helping their reports be successful rather than getting into management because they want power or status or whatever. Which isn’t to say that renaming titles with fix that, but it is one small communication of what’s important to leadership.
> And this is not just a cost issue. Its estimated that failure to adhere to known safer pavement designs is resulting in 10,000 - 15,000 unnecessary deaths a year.

That seems unlikely, if this was in a single state, considering only about 35k people die each year on the roads in the entire country.