skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet we're not going to see a big raise because we switch over to a single payer system. It's not unreasonable for people to be skeptical of such a massive change when their current situation works fine (for them.) A change like this would be far more beneficial to the under/uninsured than those of us with existing, comprehensive plans.

I'm not making an argument either way. Personally I'm for single payer, but that's largely due to the issues my mother had when she became ill.
Twitter is one of the largest social media networks on the market. It's not a bumbling startup, it's a mature tech company in the center of the tech space.

> Twitter said on Wednesday that it would stop allowing some users to post updates via text message, which made Twitter access particularly easy for SIM swappers. But that will not stop hackers who use the SIM swap to log in to a victim’s Twitter account. (Twitter said it was working to improve this.)

At the risk of jumping onto hot-takes, at what point is it reasonable to say that Twitter as a company just isn't taking security seriously? The first response from Twitter should have been, "we turned off SMS password resets immediately", not, "we're working on it." This is the kind of mistake I expect a technologically naive company to make. It's a mistake I would expect a bank to make, or a startup with 7 engineers total.

I don't understand how a company can brush aside an attack where attackers took over their CEO's account. I understand everybody does dumb things occasionally, but how big is Twitter's security team? Nobody thought this was a problem?

There must be some aspect to this I'm missing; how does doing password resets over SMS pass any security audit? This isn't new, even mainstream sources have been talking about SIM-swapping for years.
No, the trade off is being employed vs being unemployed. You can demand people pay you more for a service but you can't force them to hire you in the first place.
Long story short: Chrome will do DoH DNS, but only if your current DNS provider already supports DoH, and, for now, only as an experimental feature.

People are upset about Firefox's new default of routing DoH to Cloud Flare, and I understand why. But it's useful to keep the issues distinct: DoH is a good thing (your ISP should not be able to see your DNS queries), even if routing them to Cloud Flare isn't.
In CA you can be a professional engineer which gives you the power to sign off on a bridge design or other similarly high-stakes projects. There's designations for all kinds of engineers (Civil, Mech, Electrical, etc).

You get a nice little salary bump or something usually, but you also get the risk associated with the bridge falling down. You sign off on the design and can be liable for negligence and malpractice.

You have to take a little test when you graduate college, then work under another professional engineer for 5 years, then take another test.

CA basically has no professional software engineering license yet.
This is absolutely hilarious, a really funny little grift.

Having said that, the resolution to this is obvious - the professor is going to get quietly asked to leave the university, the patent could never be used since there's very clear prior art - not that it ever would, since it's only valid in China, the student doesn't seem like they're actually pursuing the idea, and if it were ever applied I suspect it'd only be a pretext which would screw you in China anyway.

Obviously the idea of pursuing the professor for stealing the work seems likely to be a dead end. Of course getting a guilt payment out of the university may be one avenue, although UK universities are pretty tight and perfectly willing to throw their staff under the bus.

I've got to say, I can't imagine this is the only time this has happened. Maybe we're about to find a whole slew of these incidents.
What is a scary fact about our universe?
>When I personally worked as a contractor, the other contractors I worked with mostly bounced from short gig to short gig. That would probably meet (B). (A) was a bit more subjective.

I'm confused. You seem to be applying (B) to the contractor somehow, where my reading is that it applies to the company doing the contracting. It doesn't matter what the contractor is doing; if a company makes widgets, they can't hire a contractor to make widgets. It doesn't matter if the widgets are a different color or if the contractor only ever makes widgets for any given company for a few months at a time.
I can see more mundane reasons for SMS second factor.

In some places, SMS is simply what people are accustomed to, and the idea of using an app feels like a weird intrusion. Couple this with a PM saying "What if someone changes phones? SMS is more convenient and everyone already uses it anyway". Add a couple of years of SMS-factor, and it can quickly become considered good enough and no more work on MFA is required.

It doesn't take nefarious motives.
> And while it is the most memorable instance, it is not the first serious leak.

This is a key bit. Snowden was able to basically walk immensely sensitive data out the front door, and we may only know about that because he told us.

How much stuff makes the same journey into the hands of intelligence agencies instead of journalists?
NTs don't know social rules
This is the awkward truth: democracy can't be created democratically. It has to be imposed by a dictator.
>what do you think happens to that business?

Generally nothing, the hospitals don't actually expect you to pay the bill they just want the tax write off they get when they send it to collections. Jeff Bezos might have to pay but if you are just some guy with a business that doesn't even generate enough money to pay for your own health insurance you will most likely be fine.
Very good article. Good detail information about web application
Even just navigating to an album or browsing songs saved on your device are awful. Everything I want to do in their app requires far too many clicks or endless scrolling through a list that's only sorted alphabetically, and the pages are stuffed with features that push their algorithmic promotions. You're not gonna have a good time unless you're the most mindless, passive consumer and you don't want to bother with managing your library or making any choices of your own.

Saving songs is spotty too, some of the "saved" songs on my phone don't actually have the data and won't play when I'm offline. I can't figure out how to force them to redownload short of maybe uninstalling the app, so sucks to be me I guess.
Spotify's mobile app is so bad that I'm constantly reconsidering my subscription. I'd go so far as to say that being able to explore new artists and save their discography for later when I'm commuting is a meaningful improvement to my quality of life, but Spotify has managed to make the experience so shitty that I usually just turn on the radio instead.
How will the Syscoin-Ethereum bridge help Ethereum; how will it help Syscoin?
Is any developer planning on using it? I'm talking about this:

> The Syscoin <=> Ethereum bridge is a system that allows Sys and Sys assets to be moved from the Syscoin blockchain to the Ethereum blockchain and back.

Docs here, but I'm in over my head with them: https://github.com/syscoin/sysethereum-docs
With the former favouring OOP and looping over recursion

Not my experience at all, fwiw.
Stanford psychology expert: Making kids indistractable
Oh of course it didn't start with Trump, or Obama, or GWB, and so on, but my point is that while those on the left consider themselves more righteous than those on the right (a reasonable belief), at the same time most seem utterly incapable of seeing that their leaders are also playing a game largely based on deceit. It's not unreasonable at all to say you have to fight fire with fire, but that so many find it uninteresting and unimportant that our entire (both sides) political process essentially consists of lies and misrepresentations just seems very odd to me.
I vary my reading speed based on the material I'm reading: it's important to understand that not everything you read is worth 100% of your attention, and it's not a big deal if you can't recall every detail of the last article that ended up on Hacker News. As such, I "skim" most of the things I read–what's important to me is 1. knowing when to slow down (the thing I'm reading is interesting/complex/the details matter) and 2. keeping enough "metadata" to be able to find the actual content later if I need it.
I currently use the Oneplus One, ie the first phone they brought out, 5 years ago. It still has lineageOS support.
I appreciate it - I think I would like the boring details as those tend to be the things that I find super important. Similar to the "the yada yada" episode from Seinfeld.

My story isn't far different from you. It just lacks the happier parts. Just want to show how similar we are and how much those happier parts matter. Which some could perceive as luck. I attended a "top college" (by program at least). I worked through college on top of having a full ride (government). After college, I slept on an air mattress to save $$$ (don't do it) and then a 25 year old one because I got it for free. I chose the cheapest possible everything forever. Drove my $4000 car into the ground until it was crashed into. Never paid more than $50 for a piece of furniture. I spent maybe $100/month on food. I lived very cheaply for 8+ years with minor splurges on things. (I still live in a 400sqft in-law unit that used to be a workshop ffs - I definitely don't live lavishly) But - in the end, I can't save enough because my income isn't high enough. I gave up on penny pinching because I realized it was futile for this area. No one is buying the <=$1m homes that I could afford with years of penny pinching and saving and then living in them. (It's all investment property) Therefore, the neighborhoods never gentrify and are crap. My SO says even if I buy one - she won't move into it because we'll get stabbed, robbed, or, worse, have to live there without it gentrifying. So, homes that are actually gentrifying or nice are closer to $1.5m+. Therefore - I'd have to save about $700k+ in order to be able to qualify for the mortgage (decade+ of penny pinching saving then). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that's a terrible move financially. (Putting basically all of your money into a house - not a very diversified portfolio...)

But ya know what - I see my peers who are living lavishly (buying brand new Porsches - living in luxury 2-bedroom apartments by themselves - buying all the new things - going on ski trips and whatever vacations)... It doesn't affect them. They're still buying the damn house! It's cause they're at $400-500-600k+ and not the <$200k I'm making.

Gotta join FAANG or some startup that's about to go public. The income disparity is just massive.
> I have never seen a signing bonus.

I have had multiple throughout my career and so have my peers. This is actually quite common for engineers and talent on the higher end of the skill bell curve.
>Which side of an imaginary line you were born on should not determine your rights.

That is what I am talking about as a "perfectly acceptable political opinion", but it is not an opinion that is based off any laws. Almost no mainstream political figure would share that opinion and therefore if that is the basis of Snowden's arguments, it isn't a wonder why he was treated harshly by the mainstream political system. Foreign spying is an accepted aspect of modern life. I totally understand if you think that spying in unethical. But Snowden would have been received much more favorable if he simply focused on the domestic spying operations which are largely unpopular rather than also revealing the foreign operations which are mostly accepted as necessary by the general population.
I had no idea FAANG offered paid overtime.
My sister who works as a waitress in a restaurant routinely checks in with her boss to leave for brief periods related to child care, usually around pickup/dropoff from the bus at the end of the school day. This type of arrangement is very common, even in chain stores or big retailers.
I'm not in the industry, but I wonder: did people have the same kind of reverence for Madoff?
It was & is far, far more than that.
"Where do you draw the line?"

That's the ting, there is no exact science here. It's an interpretation by the relevant state agency (like most taxes really).

For example, CA has been cracking down hard lately, dunno about NYS. Obviously enforcement is selective - better for the state to go after someone big like Lyft/Uber rather than you. Does not mean that you're in the right just because you didn't get your election scrutinized.

And FWIW - your accountants are right in that it's beneficial and probably totally fine to 1099. But ask them to guarantee that the state won't go after you for it and watch them squirm :D
Huh? The sorts of company-to-company contracts where the individual "contractors" are W2 employees of a contracted company are totally unaffected by this legislation. If anything, this legislation is likely to introduce that relationship where it didn't exist before (e.g. Uber might contract with local companies formed solely to employ Uber drivers in that locality, so that Uber doesn't have to deal with all of the complexity of treating all of its drivers as employees.)
>I have a couple friends that do day trading on "technical analysis".

As someone that trades on fundamentals I like to think of that as reading tea leaves. Literally non sensical. Oh yeah sure that pattern is the upside down elephant so we should go short...

No smoke without fire though so I assume some are making money with it. Just doesn't seem like a sound idea to me.
Ask HN: C/C++ AST generation tools?
Anybody know of any tools that will generate AST class definitions for you, from a grammar, or another spec? For example, if I'm writing a parser using flex/bison (which in itself is often frustrating), I have to write the AST classes by hand. So all in all, if you're trying to make a compiler or simple analyzer, you can easily pour hours into a step that has long been a solved problem.

I'm aware of ANTLR, and have used it a lot, but am not a fan of v4's C++ generation.

Thanks in advance... If none exists, I might end up writing one.
Question, as someone working in that field, do you think an app that's less of a company more of a collective would work?

Say you pay $29.99/month to use the app + 5% per transaction + any fees for payout from stripe/etc(usually 2.9 + .30).

The app itself would rank drivers AND customers. Drivers app could see customer ratings, customer app could see drivers ratings.

I think for pricing maybe make it bid related and all transparent.
That would be a perfectly accurate statement. If none except world champions got paid, it would be an atrocious career choice
Why don't you just hire people part time? That still exists and it exists for a reason.
Good article about the web application.
I've worked at startups in Michigan my whole career and have not seen a signing bonus either. Are these typically exclusive to FAANG companies?
On the other hand, there is plenty of competition in the ad industry and prices are low in general. It's quite hard for publishers to make money unless they have vast scale. So if you are looking at the cost to advertisers, it's hard to argue for monopoly status there.
Well, then I suppose it was indeed a PR stunt for the Russians to accept South African farmers, and they are according to your logic indeed Russian Agents! That is assuming a PR campaign pushes an agenda, and I would argue it does.
"Interpretations of quantum mechanics, unlike Gods, are not jealous, and thus it is safe to believe in more than one at the same time. So if the many-worlds interpretation makes it easier to think about the research you’re doing in April, and the Copenhagen interpretation makes it easier to think about the research you’re doing in June, the Copenhagen interpretation is not going to smite you for praying to the many-worlds interpretation. At least I hope it won’t, because otherwise I’m in big trouble."

- Peter Shor (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=218#comment-5753)
> There are people who spew up conspiracy theories on the spot when they have not heard anything, from pure ignorance, yet they speak ill of mainstream media.

It's much easier than knowing what you're talking about.
"Quite a bit of the Amazon region is used to grow soybeans."

Not that much. Most soy in Brasil come from the Cerrado region, a Savanah-like biome roughly the size of german and france, more or less south of the amazon rain forest. Second to that, the region of the states of mato-grosso, sao paulo and parana.

Soy is not much of a driver for amazon deforestation. The main problems there are illegal loggers, illegal cattle ranching and gold mining.
... only for users in the US. Are you aware of other plans?
This is amazing and exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you!
In one way, but the comparably aged Nexus 5X at least got updated to Android 8.1 while the Fairphone 2 is still on 7.1
SaaS Growth Hacking Strategies: Guest Posting for Traffic and Links
Interview Questions for Program Manager?
Hey All,

My team is hiring a new program manager. We have a combination of systems admins and developers. If you were hiring your own boss what questions would you ask him in an interview?

Thanks!
Principles of Software Emulation (a visual intro to the theory and practice)
U.S. Will Move to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes, Trump Official Says
I'm skeptical of the comparison to Capacitor. Best I can tell from the paper they're using about the same techniques from the seminal Abadi et al's compressed columnar storage paper. As a result I'm having a hard time believing that Artus is several times faster than Capacitor on similar analytical workloads, unless we're seeing the hand picked queries here, where it does really well, or unless the performance difference is attributable to better metadata caching and/or the ability to use inverted indexes on those particular queries (such indexes are usually not much help unless you're running a point query), rather than the lower-level format and runtime itself.

TBH Artus sounds like Capacitor with indexes and a different header format to me. Probably something mmap-able like FlatBuffer if I were to guess, I don't have any direct info
What's unreasonable about that? The charging standard is a lot more likely to affect day to day use. Being unable to charge quickly using a standard USB-C PD charger is much likely to affect me than some ethical argument about the proprietary baseband and SoC, especially when there are literally no alternatives to proprietary basebands.
To badly paraphrase Willian Gibson: the richness is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
They can make it sound like Obama, yes, but can the make it sound like Obama reading the material with inflective justice, or just a monotone with Obama speech tics mixed in?
People seem to think this is going to hurt workers, but it was gig economy workers who pushed for this law. Workers know their own conditions better than you do.
Large, irregular payouts can also constitute a living. In extreme cases, it might even be just one payout.
Small bit of anecdata - the times when I've been most poor has been when I've eaten the most whole foods (and plant based, as I'm vegan). At those times I would nearly every day put rice and a type of bean (or variety of lentil) into the pressure cooker as my staple throughout the day. Alongside that I would have fresh fruits and steam some frozen or fresh vegetables. The biggest upfront investment was a B12 supplement, but spread over time it's cheaper than most foods.

Since I didn't have the budget for highly processed things, I inadvertently ate super clean.

So this has me thinking, there are already complex distribution channels for medicine for places in need; to that could be added a few key supplements like B12. As long as they are getting otherwise the main macronutrients met, it becomes easier for more people to eat WFPB, which in fact like me in times of poverty many people already do.
> One of the biggest problems in physics right now is that there are no experiments (except possibly this one) whose results are at odds with the Standard Model.

If we say that new physics comes from inconsistencies (either between theory and experiment, or simply within a theory), then there is plenty of new physics to be done, for example the pretense that an electron is a fundamental particle results in the inconsistency with predicted infinite mass. (I claim to have a solution, but I am sitting on it because I believe with a bunch more effort it can explain the dimensionless number that relates planck charge with electron charge, essentially explaining planck's constant and QM in quasiclassical terms...)
I'm not sure I would go that far - 1FA means you require either one or the other or both. But if you have neither you're out of luck.

If you had parts of either, or a hint, maybe a previously used password works for "verifying your ID" then I'd call that 1/2FA
Even if they're not a bot, do we really want a power user dynamic like Reddit and Digg? Why do we want users to spam articles without any interest in the discourse that follows?
how about guns while we're at it?
> The environmental consequences of such high-intensity farming is another issue, of course.

It's not another issue, it's the same issue. We're in this mess in the first place because nobody cares to price in the costs of the equation over time. We all want to eat for like a century, right? So why make price estimates that only work for ~10-20 years of unsustainable-climate-change-driving industry and then collapse when the climate changes and farming has to change too?

Pricing the costs into the equation from the start makes your "very simple" point become still, "quite complex".

The environment changing is a key fact in the pricing of things, and ignore-the-environment-in-first-estimates trope is a major flaw in how we think about problems.