skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most terrifying book I have read recently is "Men Who Stare at Goats", by Jon Ronson. He keeps it light, on the surface. If you read what it is really telling you, all these programs like MK-ULTRA were not disbanded, and are still being used against the American public.

The "staring at goats" tale is an example of PSY-OPs tested on the public, wholly successfully. Ever wonder how we got fired up to invade Iraq when the UN inspector was perfectly clear that there were no WMDs there, and we knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11?

The Pentagon has never been able to begin to account for the trillions of dollars it gets. Is there any possibility much of it is not piped through black programs into convenient pockets?
Yeah I didn’t think that it is worse or better, only different!
By the time you could source that many S9is, the hash rate would be higher, requiring you to source more, at which point maybe newer and better chips have come out, raising the hash rate yet again, making your investment worthless.
Even without legal protection for industrial action, the whole point of striking is that the employer can't handle it in the normal way because there are too many of them. Do they all get a written warning and then fired next day they do it? How does the company operate with an important part of its workforce suddenly gone? That's why strikes are a thing, they overwhelm the protections that exist against isolated absences.

I'm not sure 941 Amazon workers globally are that powerful though.
I think I made a similar statement in regards to one of the Google walkouts. It's incredibly weak and childish. Quit and prove that money isn't your true god if you actually believe it matters.
This is great, addressing a common and real criticism of gitlab that it seems has been in recent history much more focused on adding features than maintaining quality. The maturity schedule as I see it seems quite slow though, it shouldn't take years for a new feature to have high quality.
This (unfortunately paywalled) article from the Economist raises a lot of points discussed in this thread: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/22/what-companies-...
IceWeasel FTW.

Security through obscurity, baby...
YubiKey with smartcard set up. Set it up if smartcard gets removed, computer gets locked. Works on macOS.
We have solved it - I can't think of an alternative system that would be any more optimized, towards the benefit of medical schools[1], doctors[2], hospitals[3], pharma firms[4], and insurance companies[5].

Oh, you meant solving it for actual people? That was never the goal of the self-serving architects of this rotten mess.

I don't expect the farmer to grow me food out of the goodness of his heart, but to quote Adam Smith, this is a conspiracy to the detriment of the public.

[1] Who charge absolutely ludicrous, jaw-dropping, nowhere-else-in-the-world-comes-close tuition.

[2] Who, after paying off the debts on their ludicrous tuition, are absolutely rolling in money.

[3] Who don't let their patients comparison-shop (Just try getting a straight answer on how much a routine procedure is going to cost), and in effect, can charge whatever prices they want.

[4] Who are happy to make billions of dollars off inefficiencies created by them, in the generic space.

[5] Who have created a captive market where not getting your healthcare through them is financially ruinous.
The one that will actually get them in trouble is running ads on top of navigational queries to a trademarked brand.

Here is Jason Fried of Basecamp openly accusing Google of a shakedown racket:
https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016

Of the 100,000 or so people that actually give $2,700 to political candidates, I'd think this is their biggest gripe with Google, and likely the issue that is going to cause Google the most problems.

The more interesting thing to me is how quickly goodwill just expires. Google search is among mankind's greatest achievements in the past century, along with the free gifts of quality email, youtube, android, etc. It is an interesting thought experiment of how to keep a brand burnished in the eyes of the public given goodwill decays so rapidly.
This happens a lot in political commentary videos. Almost none of them receive ads anymore.
Too many people with connections profit off of the current situation, the poorest people pay the price.

This is why there is no demand for real change and why all previous efforts got essentially stonewalled.
Creator here. We built this using Wappalyzer to detect the software given a URL and match it against our database of CVEs and thought it might be a fun little tool.
There's something really interesting going on with the flagging in this post. There are several on topic, polite discussions that have been flagged to death. (Along with some replies which, rightly, have been flagged to death.)

Maybe it's just folks expressing political views with the flag button, but it's interesting to see it used so dramatically here.

Edit: Either someone did something or a bunch of vouching happened, because a lot of comments have come back.
Yeap, And that's what business visa is for - exchanging some information.
I wonder how much overhead you can lose when you don't have to have a cashier in a grocery store. I've thought about a grocery store that essentially doesn't have a warehouse section but instead is just a combined warehouse/store. I'm sure this already exists and I wonder how you handle the large pieces of machinery that you need to move the goods among regular shoppers?
Look to Europe, we solved this decades ago.
More Robots Mean 120M Workers Need to Be Retrained
What do you use spaced repetition to learn, and what have the benefits been?
In this thread multiple answers say Anki/spaced repetition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20920635

Spaced repetition users, what are you using it to learn and what have the benefits been?

Especially interested in people using it for things other than school/studying/grades.
This is a very cynical take - even if the employees that will be going on strike aren't following best practices for reducing their environmental impact, at least they're doing something (never mind that many are likely taking other action to reduce their environmental footprint).
If I recall Microsoft's client was blocked because it refused to serve ads.
Why? if your data is publicly accessible what is the difference between using scripts and someone hiring a ton of people on a third world country to copy&paste your content?
What if hiQ were to then go and sell the information that's been scraped from public profiles? Would this be considered illegal?
> serializable consistency in distributed applications.

Kakfa supports transactions not sure about serializable though.
And optional type specifiers. This was the key for me.
Yes, but there was always a human at MTV deciding which videos to play!
The $1000 guys can afford humongous risks if they're 20 year olds saving for retirement. In fact, if they have a job to live off of, their risk tolerance is going to be far greater than a rich person living off their wealth.
I"m dum dum and do drugs all day long
Sorry I ate too many drugs at once and space time continuum hit me to hard. Sorry to all those participating in the conversation.
I disagree. If everybody held the opinion that their actions wouldn't amount to anything, nothing would ever change. Climate change is the single largest event that will occur in our lifetimes, and we all need to help pitch in to stop the raise in global temperatures.
It's not even that. There's no obscurity here. This is security by pretending.
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel” - Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Because Rails and Django are two competing web frameworks which are majorly directly comparable, and it's good to know the pros and cons between each one.

Not everybody is an expert on both, so it's nice to see concrete lists like the one posted above.
If you take a step back and look it from the context that the data is somewhat being served by untrusted distributed devices in a verifiable way; it’s pretty freaking amazing it works at all!

Sure a raspberry pie could replace this in heartbeat but it’s not about current throughput being good, it’s about making it work as intended, ensuring the design is theoretically scalable, and marching toward a fully distributed network.

I realize the author is talking mostly about performance but the think that is exciting about ipfs is it’s not some monolithic project trying to take over the world but rather a modular set of standards (IPLD, MULTICODE, libp2p) that generally do a very good job of integrating with legacy and have reasonable future proofed design.

Ipfs is just one application bring all these thing together is in a particular confirmation but many more interoperable variations are likely soon to come.
.net core works fine with postgres. Though I tend to use Dapper rather than Entity framework. I just use .net core as a REST backend / host for a vue front end.

There's always a bunch of pros and cons to comparing languages and frameworks, I'll just say neither are really going to hold you back from doing anything.
I was about to say the same thing. I was in mid-reply to someone as I saw their post was flagged and has since been taken away. I am not really sure what is going on.
Wink
Anyone got any ideas on this one?
I know that the cost of development is not only materials, but the code is already Open Source on github, so a company could use it and sell the devices for $15. I don't know anything about the platform the device is sold on, but
if you want to support the dev you could donate as much as you want, no need to pay for an overpriced product. I assume it is the premium you pay for a "handmade" product.
> Elixir/Phoenix, Rust/Actix, Clojure/Luminus

These provide like a tenth of the functionality of a bog-standard Rails app, and have a hundredth of the ecosystem built up around them.
He means anonymous from bank actors and state actors obviously. When you transfer money with a bank or wire service they know who you are and who you are transferring money to. Nobody afaik, knows who either of these wallets are held by.
But at-will states can word it so they were not fired for it. There would be many ways these employees can be dismissed and it would never be labelled for 'striking'.
It's limited to public pages. They can still discriminate whom they serve, with logins or something, but they can't limit your ability to access their page in a way that you prefer.
Because if your application bundle is a fixed asset — like a JS SPA that fetches it’s data from an API then you can distribute your entire application via an inexpensive CDN.

As soon as your application bundle is rendered on your servers dynamically then only part of your site can be delivered via CDN.

Basically going all-JS gives you an app model where your sever side code doesn’t even know or care about HTML or the web or whatever. It just pushes JSON or whatever around and it largely client independent.

Great model when you need to support iOS, Android, web, desktop.
Ring
I like this one a lot
To take the case at issue, when your immediate reaction to discovering an unprotected URL is to scrape it, discuss on an IRC channel how you're going to monetize it, and then go to the media to announce your security vulnerability discovery, you are going to find it difficult to make the argument that you believed you had authorized access.
Are you sure that's not this RCA CED thing they're talking about?
It's extremely wasteful to produce them: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/12/17337602/plastic-tote-bag...
Maybe these people should file a class action lawsuit against the state for not accepting the medicaid expansion.
A top university education isn't essential to becoming wealthy. Saving habits likely have more influence. You can go to Harvard, and then secure a well-paying job, but if you're going to spend your income on a penthouse in Manhattan, you're not going to be saving anything. Is it a leg up? Sure. I hate to use anecdotal evidence, but I went to a virtually no-name CS school, and ended up in the top ~5% of the income distribution 4 years after graduating.
If I wanted the machine to never go to sleep I'd just change the config.

USB jiggler seems to be for winning an argument with your IT team that they think they've already won.
I don't think this is the right forum for such questions.
Probably you're just not giving yourself enough credit. Your employer probably prefers for you to work for them instead of quitting. A strike is basically a negotiation tactic and the company can make a counter-offer. You can negotiate all kinds of things as conditions of your employment, especially together with your co-workers.
Leaving Comments Online
>Is this a Silicon Valley thing? People becoming far too attached with what their company is doing.

Given the severity and near-certainty of climate change, it makes sense to try and drive multinational enterprises to do better. Should they just instead give up and go, "Eh, fuck the planet up, whatever"? Do you have a better alternative for driving large entities to make a positive change?
No idea about CGI hosting, but I do allow perl 4 (and 3 and 2 and 1) scripts to run on my pastebin, https://perl.bot/ . In this case it's not incompetence but insanity.
There are lots of tools that give you "infrastructure as code". Why is Kubernetes special?
I'm not very familiar with neither LinkedIn nor HiQ, but what would be the problem with logging in before scraping?
I'm curious, what do you feel is the difference? Are you saying that you frequently lie to people you work with and that you feel that is acceptable? Or are you talking about having extra free time where you don't actually have any additional work?
Trump has basically nuked the farmers... so watch them all vote him out.
Getting ready for the big crash
On behalf of Hims’ patients, thank you for copying Ro
Good call, wasn't aware of that so I'll keep an eye out.
I covered that. If I'm not hearing what everyone is working on what's the point of trying to use that meeting as the source of that information?

It's especially jarring when systems that claim to be self-aware are so unaware.
> Custom built auth isn't as scary as you make it to be

> You just have to be cognizant of what you're doing

These two ideas are incompatible with each other.
Maybe it's just folks expressing political views with the flag button

I would hope said individuals would lose their flagging privileges if they demonstrate a pattern of inappropriate flagging. The purpose of flagging is to report posts in violation of the site guidelines, not to express disagreement; that's what down-votes are for.
And you think those items on the shelf at the store were delivered by trucks one at a time?
Ask HN: How to retain more from thee books and articles you read?
I love reading a lot of books and articles, especially ones that help me grow as a person. I find it really hard to retain the key points and lessons I learn/come across from books and articles. I have tried different methods from writing things down to using note taking apps but these weren't sustainable (it slowed me down from progressing or was too much to keep noting down things) I was wondering how you guys deal with this issue and would love to hear solutions that have worked out for you.
It's always a possibility but this tool doesn't look for version numbers so it's then more time consuming to narrow down if it's vulnerable to something.
If you believe that climate change poses an existential risk then it isn't just a view that you may hold. The actions of your company along this front would represent a threat to your health and safety. You would be suicidal in a sense to not try to use your leverage (striking) to change the policy of the company. Maybe they can replace one person but replacing 900 people would be a huge disadvantage.
Do you know about “toxic founder image” that stops founders from seeking help?
True enough, but bitmaps are very easy to use portably, with just &, |, ~, ^, and ++ operations. The only exotic needed very frequently is popcount, but you get that portably from std::bitset (except, evidently, in MSVC).

The compilers are perfectly happy to keep an unsigned and a bitset variable in the same register, so that assigning from one to the other is a no-op.
Bypassing Safari's “Stop Media with Sound” Feature for HTML5 Canvas WebAssembly
Sorry - I misread as opposite.
Thanks for proving my point.

The incompatible areas that you explain amount to bug fixes and obscure areas of the language. They aren't anything like Python 2 vs 3.
Sounds like they upgraded directly from a custom fork of 3.2 to 6.0, but if you read the article, they upgraded from 5.2 to 6.0. Not as insane as 3->6, but 3->5 is still pretty insane.
Using a CDN like their talking about likely means your html is static and only served from the CDN.

For many SPA's the only actual html is a header, container div, and a call to the app's js. Ignoring the header there might only be say half a dozen lines total.
I'm not entirely sure why, but here on HN especially I've seen a lot of the use of FANG with one A [Apple] used to mean Bay Area super-powers, as opposed to GAFAM for general tech majors, because some believe the Bay Area to matter more than the rest of the industry and Seattle-focused Amazon and Microsoft somehow "outsiders"/"foreigners" to the Bay Area.

It's also fascinating to me from an anthropological/sociological view point because Microsoft has had some sort of Bay Area campus (almost continuously) for longer than several other members of GAFAM have even existed (with PowerPoint headquartered there from its acquihire in the 1980s until a reorg shuffle in the mid-90s and HoTMaiL/Hotmail/Live Mail/Outlook.com and other "web properties" carrying the torch up until a lot of recent acquihires expanded that campus again to more Office-relevant tools beyond just "web stuff").
I once read about a simple AI strategy for multiple games that has stuck with me. The strategy at any point was to make moves which increase the number of moves available to the AI.

When making decisions now, I often step back and think about what types of decisions will give me more opportunities to make more choices. This often involves increasing the funds available to me.

Funds without encumbrance are better than a debt of any kind though... and venture capital is just a different kind of debt.
Or Canada or pretty much every developed country in the world.
Thermite!
Wait, doesn't Linkedin have pretty strong authentication safeuguards to view user profiles. if you google someone and click their linkedin without being logged in to LinkedIn, you're always directed to sign up or log in to it.

Twitter is the only example I can think of among the large social media sites that doesn't require you to be logged in to see profiles
Oh sorry didn't think it would offend anyone.
This occurs in medicine too. One of the primary problems we're trying to help solve for our customers is that they introduce medical devices (for orthopedic surgery) which in theory have many benefits over older devices but which have a learning curve for surgeons. Surgeons often don't feel they have the time to invest in learning the new device when they already have experience with an older device and are confident in their use of it, even if they are sold on the potential benefits of the newer device once they get past the learning curve.
Looks like it's overloaded - HTTP/502 on the API here.
Private Instagram Posts Aren’t Private
Grab your free XLM worth $25 while it still lasts. Also means to register your identity
The study is saying that too much MIGHT be bad for you. 400IUs was the control (not 0). Some vitamins have adverse effects in high doses. Vitamin D might be one of them, but the study just posed the question, it didn't conclude that that was the case. It would take more studies to confirm that.
This violates our long-held arrangement-- that they can keep charging these ridiculous prices because we have no intention of paying them.
Thank you, I'm a new iPhone user and did not know that. (Not exactly discoverable)
Flying Probe Testers in a Nutshell
Looks like @HuobiGlobal UTXO consolidation (not an individual user).
https://twitter.com/thetokenanalyst/status/11699297386071244...
Most `rm` impls default to `--preserve-root` now, so you need to `rm --no-preserve-root`.
This is amazing, and clearly takes a tremendous amount of work, and judging by the comments here provides an invaluable service to many many people. Which makes it somewhat discouraging that when you look at the Patreon link https://www.patreon.com/jc5, people support him to the tune of only $27/month. Makes me wonder if my ideas for small scale SAAS could ever possibly be financially viable.
Yes, but how does the European model benefit the real stakeholders - medical schools, doctors, hospitals, pharma, and insurers?

Those groups are going to hold any progress on this matter hostage. (Imagine the job losses! Imagine the loss in innovation! Imagine not being able to provide the best treatment money can buy! Imagine not being able to charge a million dollars for a medical education! Or being able to pay off my million dollar debt, accrued to finance my medical education!)
A prosthetic leg that can sense touch makes it easier for amputees to walk
Being in an extension means you can't count on it being there.
>We probably, at this stage, need to approach this issue with a certainly level of moderated-panic, and attempt to address it on al lines across all levels.

What does this mean? I have been hearing the terms "global warming" and "crisis" for almost 20 years now, yet it is almost always followed up with talk -- talk about how others could change their lifestyle choices, talk about how organizations can change how they function, talk about how we can talk even more to the right people. Very rarely have I ever seen a plan -- a formulated, step-by-step guide on what people or organizations must sacrifice in order to bring about a better future, and even less so people who actually act on that plan instead of simply reiterating it to anyone within earshot.

I would absolutely not be surprised if this event, which some consider to be "necessary" on any level, does nothing to impact Amazon to change anything to improve the climate situation -- as far as they can see from my perspective, they see 900+ employees, some of whom are probably part-time and not getting paid anyways, with no actual plan of how global warming should be solved with respect to Amazon, but want to feel good for a time, feel as though they are making some level of actionable change on the world, until their time is over and they go back to work while they patiently wait for

>one of the most innovative companies[0]

to come up with a plan themselves. I've seen it time and time again, it solves nothing, achieves nothing. And I'd bet it all on black that this earns them nothing but contempt from their supervisors/managers.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1joUIg5O5pRS_R2OqXoJzbuCX...
Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate faces in the wild
I'm not really sure how you reached that conclusion from this:

> they believed my story but only after I forwarded them an email receipt from BEP to prove I actually bought it from them