skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many of the reactions seem to be "I don't believe it, they don't care, they're evil", but that doesn't strike me as being particularly useful or realistic, because it misunderstands one very important fundamental human dynamic: the vast majority of villains think that they are the hero. Much harm is caused by those that don't understand that they are harming others. Many that knowingly do harm think that their doing harm serves a higher, more important purpose that, in fact, demands they continue that pattern of harm. Leaders of all stripes do things that are harmful, believing that the ends justify the means and that they are in fact doing good by doing harm.

This statement helps empower employees to say to illustrate to their corporate leadership that they are not, in fact, doing such a great job of being good guys. I have personally gone to managers that I work for and said "I think we need to invest in our employees more" and been told "we're not in the business of growing our employees". I've had managers that state that have demonstrated wanting the things that I want but refusing to act on those wants because they believe that those wants are selfish and immature, and that acting counter to their actual desires is a form of discipline that serves a higher purpose. Many believe this is good management like making your kid eat their vegetables in spite of their protest is good parenting.

For example, I have been in positions where I wanted to move on from old technologies and reported to engineering managers who also wanted to move on from old technology. I've even seen them demonstrate this by learning the newer tools and building side projects with them. Those same managers still could not be convinced to go to bat for the newer tools because they do not believe that they have a mandate to help their employees grow. I've personally seen leadership and especially middle managers make decisions based solely on the statement of shareholder value and ask how, for example, modernizing tooling helps shareholders.

This document strikes me as incredibly helpful to workers in the position that want to advocate for their own career growth. If you agree with these principles, do not look on it with skepticism. Instead, view it as a tool in your own arsenal that you can use to advocate for positive change in your own org.
Interestingly, at least in my neighborhood fiber has similar problems to cable, according to the guy who installed fiber at my house. They are perfectly willing to oversell what the connection into the neighborhood is able to support. And the people who get limited first when it's too busy, according to him, are those with Gigabit connections.
[Why is this article important?]:

Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus is a gram negative bacteria that causes a serious disease of oranges, lemons and other citrics. The disease has no cure and reduces the harvest until eventually killing the tree.

Its impact on economy of places like Florida (largest Citrus producer in US) has been estimated in loses > 4.5 billions of dollars and -8000 jobs in the last two decades
Adult Recess
I imagine you need to train them, just like you have to train any other skill. Yet in most companies it seems to come down to, “Fred seems like he’d be a good manager, let’s promote him.”
Good point. Not necessarily. But persuasion of something you do not yourself believe is dishonest, and persuasion masquerading as neutral information is dishonest.

Really the question is - whose interest are you purporting to serve by communicating with me? Yours, or mine? And whose interest are you actually serving?
Following the same thinking we can say that browsers are malware as well due the DRM. The user has no idea what data is shared with the DRM vendor nor any control to filter it out.
There was a bug with "Edit this game with easylang.online". This is fixed.
That seems unlikely. The ideal customer for Comcast, et al is one who pays for the top tier, world class speeds and then checks their email. The margins on that customer are fantastic and any outage is unlikely to be detected.

A paid placement from Comcast is more likely to talk about how much better Netflix is without the occasional freeze or how better movies movies are in HD.
Isn't WeWork mostly used by small companies? Changing the address of a company's "headquarters" is a PITA when you have a million other things to do that actually progress you towards the goal of making customers happy.
Would you really say just a blunt "no", or would you provide some context as to why?

The manager has made a request for a task that needs completing in a gentle, nuanced way, and expects a gentle, nuanced response back. Even "Ehh. That's not the kind of thing I really enjoy doing".
It really depends on the person making the request. I've absolutely worked with people for whom asking if you'd like to do something effectively meant they expected you to do it. This depends a lot on societal context too. Imagine in a deferential society like Japan, if your boss asks if you'd like to do something, the answer is yes. You don't say no to your boss. Plenty of people with those kinds of expectations are managers in American tech companies too.
I've got 600/600 fiber here in Northern Spain and it's its just awesome for things like digital game downloads on the PS4 or PC. The cost is 39 eur a month. The funny thing is that most people with this kind of setup are using a wifi hotspot that can only deliver a small percentage of the available bandwidth.
SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds
To all HNers. Help set up a live near real-time Internet-wide early warning system for spoofed/fake news feeds. More details to come.

What to do now...

1. Set up video cams in front of live TV's and record the live news streams of the different news channels from different regions on different satellite/cable providers.

2. Trust but verify. We'll verify the content from the different streams later. The more eyes on this and the more independent stream signal detectors the better.

3. Set some up now and spread the word...
> Meanwhile, I assume most audiophiles with traditional hifi setups would prefer downloads or physical media over streaming.

I find that unlikely. Sure, it's preferred but that's because of the quality. Not because audiophiles enjoy fumbling with one disc at a time.
I feel like this is a prime example of survivorship bias. We're in an era where things have to be transcoded to utilize a smaller amount of bandwidth, so the stuff delivered to us it pre-optimized for our connection. If YouTube or Netflix suddenly made their encodes not crap, we might actually saturate the network.

Having asymmetric connections in most homes I feel severely limits how we utilize the internet. I'm definitely a power user and would choose to run multiple game servers and web servers along with some video streaming if my connection was symmetric instead of the 400/25 that Spectrum offers in my area. However, I feel like there's a ton of missed potential for home-based consumer server appliances. Maybe companies like Apple would be more inclined to take platforms like Synology and create something that's even more user friendly.
Do not store your 2FA codes in 1Password. It turns your second factor into the same one as your password.

I was storing backup codes in 1P before I realized that I was putting all my eggs in one proverbial basket.
My point somewhat still stands though. You've got Tumblr which has a social layer through likes, reblogging, and even "Ask'ing" and messaging other users.

Then you've got projects like Mastodon, and specs like ActivityStreams that have not been adopted by Ghost or WordPress yet, but there's no reason plugins can't be made, these would add a social element to these blogging platforms and turn them into federated blogging platforms. This is just a side thought, but it's not impossible for WordPress and Ghost to get there. WordPress is used more than most realize.
> Intelligence is most likely immaterial, i.e. abstract concepts, free will, mathematics, consciousness, etc. In which case, it's beyond anything in this physical universe.

For the purposes of my argument, intelligence is a set of behaviors that would be described as "intelligent" by our contemporaries. I have no use for an inscrutable philosophical definition of intelligence, consciousness, free will, or any of that stuff.

I'm convinced that these behaviors arose as a result of natural physical processes and that if we were to reproduce them, we would "most likely" receive similar results. We can already observe this process by simulating simpler life forms[1].

Of course that's speculation, but it has better foundations than "it's beyond anything in this physical universe". That's the scientific equivalent of "giving up".

[1] http://openworm.org/
> Take on all issues and then drop them.

Seems like a quick route to the unemployment line...no thanks!
Show HN: Is Yield Curve Inverted?
This is not what BeyondCorp means. It doesn't mean everything is publicly accessible. It means you don't make trust decisions based on "approved networks", but instead at the device level. It DOES NOT mean that you don't segment services, restrict access to systems that don't need public access, or follow any of the other appropriate security guidelines.

> You shouldn't be assuming that just because your instance isn't publicly accessible that it is secure

No one thinks this, and no one said anything of the sort. But likewise, making everything public because Google has a site called BeyondCorp, doesn't make it secure. There is a lot of effort to adopt a BeyondCorp model. None of which includes "make everything publicly routable".
As the article says, with OpEx, your costs scale with your revenues. So when you have $0 revenues, you have $0 costs. You only pay for what you use.

Instead, with CapEx, you go and spend $10 million on a data center buildout (raising a lot of money from investors which is work too) with $0 revenues coming in at the time, that's real money with no guarantee of any return.
Fallacy #4: The network is secure
Gun Sellers Are Sneaking onto Facebook’s Booming Secondhand Marketplace
Apple's contactless student IDs come to 12 more schools
>Some claim that Lyme disease was introduced into the northeastern region of the U.S. by a man-made strain of Borrelia burgdorferi that escaped from a high containment biological warfare laboratory on Plum Island. However, there is ample evidence to indicate that both Ixodes ticks and B. burgdorferi were present in the U.S. well before the Plum Island facility was ever established.

What a lazy "debunking". Of course creating a strain of bacteria would require the original bacteria to already exist.
I believe that you should set your expectations clearly.

1. Do you want this tool to have advanced analytics features which give you to analyze the user behavior?

2. Who is going to use this tool, marketing or product people? Do you need a tool which also has marketing automation capabilities?

3. How technical your team is? Do you have data analysts & engineers who would be running SQL & Python on top of this data in order to do some advanced analysis or does this tool need to be plug&play for non-technical people?
I'm sure the people undergoing therapy there appreciate your grit to complete the project :)
> The Wall Street Journal studied the internet use of 53 of our journalists across the country, over a period of months, in coordination with researchers at Princeton University and the University of Chicago.

From the first paragraph, which says it all right there. If journalists aren't making use of all available resources, then more mustn't be worth it. Nor do I see the price comparisons of related internet service globally.
https://archive.org/details/tv ?
The internet is a form of free speech. The more bandwidth, the more free content available. For example, DOCSIS 4.0 can deliver symmetrical 10Gbps to the house.[1] YouTube would be obsolete if a P2P video platform was available with users pushing 10Gbps each.

Faster internet is worth it. Nobody uses what they have because they don't have much. Everything has been designated to the cloud.

[1] https://www.cablelabs.com/technologies/docsis-4-0-technology
There is a tough spot especially in light suburban where it is very very hard to walk. Nothing is setup for it. So you'd have to be kinda crazy to walk (sidewalks nonexistent, road crossings not really available etc). Once you get really rural - you can go hiking more easily unless its hunting etc season
You are a minority 1% user who doesn't really show up in the statistics. Most likely your upload is classified as file sharing and you are probably seen as abusing your connection. There is a reason why uploads are so limited for consumers. You should get a business connection if you really need it for conduction serious business.

If you do online backups you better get the backup plan that will be coming soon from a range of supported backup providers. /s
This is something I'm trying to simplify with my product. The foundational security features of U2F (you can't interrogate the device to find out what other services are set up) make it basically impossible to migrate them to new devices, but all the other capabilities of the Yubikeys can be moved across.

This is really why U2F falls over in the Enterprise, at least from what I've seen. Customers want centralised management, but the U2F protocol just can't support that.
Well, this is the same kind of people who just drop stupid jokes and stuff on the floor during meeting, don't care about what happens in the meeting and are generally poor coworkers.

The only problem with remote is that incompetence is much more visible.
'The off-Facebook activity setting isn't currently available to you right now.'

Smart, announcing it without it being usable, so when it's silently rolled out later people will have forgotten about it. Never change, FB.
Back when I had gigabit, it seemed like Xbox servers were by far the limiting factor in Xbox One downloads (either that or the peering between Verizon and MS servers). I'd rarely get over 100mbps, though I could saturate a usenet server connection pretty close to 1000mbps.

When I moved, I downgraded to 300mbps down, and I haven't notice any practical difference. Hell, for 3 months my download was artificially limited to 30mbps down (don't ask me why) and I really only noticed the issue when uptaking Xbox games. Everything else felt fine.
How quickly people forget.

Before AWS, companies did IN FACT time share servers. The whole mainframe model was that IBM owned the server and you only rented a couple of hours on it.

But before WeWork, people also rented office space. WeWork is not the first company to offer rentable office space to workers. They're not breaking new ground here.
$100T is an ambitious number. Whe World GDP is about $80T.
I bet they mean Wall-E
For vim users, there is a plugin called arpeggio: https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2425
TL;DR basically any software not from the GNU project is malware, in case you haven't heard already.
No it's located in a mountain near Konjic, between Mostar and Sarajevo. It now serves as a modern art gallery and a museum to the cold war. The place is very well preserved, as the bunker's HVAC unit has been running since the 60's.
Yes, I agree.

But you probably expect more than a blunt "no" to the latter, right?
We had someone go completely mental at a manager on Slack the other day with the whole team on the same channel. Respect to the manager he simply kept say the equivalent of “I understand where your coming from and it wasn’t my intention to upset you” even though the guy kept saying terrible things about the manager. I will aim to be that calm if aggressively accused in future, especially as you end up coming out of it looking better and feeling more relaxed that the alternative.
Im looking forward to your new book, Machiavelli.
I mean, the question is a poor one regardless of who you are talking to. It's phrasing a command as a question.
Good job showing your stupidity WSJ, utter garbage.
That might be a great product, but I don't see how it is a substitute for todo.txt - it appears to be a regular closed web app with a freemium business model.
Ask HN: What software can I build you for free?
I've built multiple products over the past few years and none have ever solved a problem. Mostly because I was building solutions and looking for problems.

I love building software but like it much more when I'm building something that someone needs and will use.

So, I'd like to build something that someone would use. I'm not interested in being paid for building anything. If I build it, you can use it free forever. It may be nice to monetize it with other users at some point but not the short term goal.

So, what would you like me to build you?
It is a strange moment in time we are in when government is no longer seen as a viable solution to problems. The consensus to act in the common good is being diverted into niche outlets. Is it a result of technological advance in communication? And how do we solve this problem? With more technology?
Apparently the WSJ has discovered the Law of Diminishing Returns.

I'd love to double my 20Mb/5Mb connection, and I would get real benefit from doing so. Doubling a 1Gb/1Gb connection doesn't have the same effect nor benefit.
There is probably a moral to this story: We are too much dependent on centralized systems because of perceived efficiency, but how true is that anymore? How hard is it to be i.e. energetically autonomous though? In sunny places, a house could probably be affordably autonomous, however these solutions have not been explored at scale and are not cheap yet. (I already know it's possible to have food-autarky, a garden and a few chicken will do).
Sure, I’d explain. But I have a vague sense of social skills.

We can fault this employee for not knowing how to communicate, and that’s fair. But it’s a much bigger fault with the manager for not knowing how to deal with it. After all, of the two people involved in this exchange, one of them has “deal with other people” as their entire job description, while the other one has “deal with your manager” as one job requirement among many.

Is it so hard to ask “why not?” if a simple “no” isn’t enough?
An overworked doctor will prescribe them for "acne" or a "UTI" without too much fuss.
From what I've heard from Yubico the next version of iOS is going to make it far easier to communicate with the device. Integrations will probably still need to be added by the app developers though to take full advantage.
Malicious users would just change their code slightly to get past it. Use a different service than pastebin, or just obfuscating it more.
> Everything has been designated to the cloud.

Because that's where the money and power lies.
You're never gonna get rated port rates in a speed test, there is overhead to contend with, and so thats reasonable considering overhead for the speed test. This is even more so when consider that on a 1gbps the fastest the interface you're handing off with is 1gbps
Reminds me of Tasmanian devil with the transmissible face cancer
The AWS analogy is flawed because there is a “lock in” to the ecosystem of AWS services outside EC2 once you start using those services. Terraform aside, it is not easy to divest of AWS once you invest in it for your infrastructure.

WeWork, on the other hand, has very little “lock in”. Not much to stop your business from moving out.
When you're talking about 3GB, sure. If you look at video games, a lot of your AAA games are coming in at 12-70GB or even 100GB. Certain games (I'm looking at you PUBG) also don't optimize their updates, so some updates can be upwards of 10-15GB. Once you get into that realm time really does become a factor.

I'm on 400/25 and I always dread installing Battlefield 4 after a fresh install. I think it's around 60-70GB right now and takes around 45 minutes to get everything downloaded.
> Java programming language isn't Java platform.

Java was originally developed by SUN together with its platform. SUN did not develop Java and then later looked how to implement it. Java was specifically developed with its implementation for a few specific projects - originally set top boxes and mobile devices.

SUN didn't develop Java for Microsoft or Google - Microsoft and Google just copied parts of it years later. If it were legal, they would have copied all of it. Microsoft then mostly abandoned Java and is no longer relevant in the Java world. Same for Google, Kotlin is now their favorite language for Android development. Incompatible platforms for Java are on the way out.

> GC isn't part of Lisp. Never was. Never will.

It's like saying flying is not something birds usually do, just because there are a few birds which don't fly.

95% of all Lisp installations (including Lisp 1) use some form of automatic memory management, usually a form of GC and the language is designed to be used that way. Lisp implementations which don't use GC need extra facilities for manual memory management.

> was exxagerating to emphasize my point.

Well, it's too easy to see, that you have no idea about actual data and it kind makes your arguments exposed to be on shaky grounds.
I really take for granted how great electricity is. I didn't have power for a week during the big Sandy storm and it's funny how I instinctly turn the lights on every time I go into a room. It's scary to think what it would be like if we didn't perpetually have electricity.
I think the trouble is key loss. Even more than falling back to SMS is the fact that if you lose a key and don't have a recovery key file, you can basically beat the whole thing with social engineering.

In a corporate environment, it can be a bit different since if someone breaks their phone or Yubikey and needs me to disable MFA, you can make them call you, tell you the last board game you played together or the last project you helped them with, and verify their identity. But that only works in companies of ~100 developers. You get larger than that, and you can't even do that anymore, and need to fall back to pre-set security questions.

Services like Google, Github, etc. don't have huge support staffs for their free projects, so it makes sense (for them) to have these fallbacks.

Honestly, having security and unique passwords for everything (especially e-mail accounts that get password resets) is probably more important than MFA for these big services.
If you travel internationally you can generally get a scrip overseas for first line antibiotics
I'd actually like to see it even slacker than this.

Do what you want, but if you kill someone, you're gonna have to pay a big fine to the government, and you're going to have to have insurance to pay that fine if you go bankrupt.

Then the only question is how big should the fine be - and the FAA should set that to trade off safety vs progress.

Let's start at $250M per life lost. Insurance for that would probably work out to ~10 million per launch, given current accident rates.
I have a UPS for my router and modem; what I've learned is that while a UPS can last for hours powering those things, the upstream battery at the cable company only lasts an hour.
How much extra weight are roofs typically built to hold?
Is it safe to load them like this considering the extra weight of soil and water that soil can capture, and say a layer of snow over all of that in winter?
Go go go go go!!!!!
So how will this work if I don’t use a Facebook account?
I'm not sure about the 15 minute meetings that could have been emails, however, I will say that pair programming and XP are useful tools. I'm not sure how easy that is to replicate in a fully remote office.
The FSF really needs better marketing and prioritization. Imagine how much time and attention they spent just fighting the Linux vs GNU/Linux debate, something that essentially no one cares about.