skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of having a website like reddit, similar functionality without the bloat.

The new reddit design is horrible.

The design on the site could be a little closer to this site perhaps.
and yet, by having a profile of the user, it is quite possible to "easily" find proxies for the above traits, and target those proxies instead, and thus dodge the legality issue. For example, using income.
I think Germany is one of the few countries which bothers to wire up three phase power to ordinary houses, not sure why.
THERE IS NO BACKDOOR HERE. Neither the especially scary kind suggested by the title (everyone assumes encryption breaking!), nor the coerced attestation kind suggested in the text.

I agree with this. It is very sensational & I was expecting something totally different when I clicked on it then what I found.

I think a moderator should change this title.

This is done without any user interaction or consent, violating the fundamental principle of Keybase’s product until now: the user controls their keys.

I am confussed by this. Pre- stellar accounts have to opt in to a wallet... and after you get one you can easily find the private key in the settings.
I'm surprised you've been having trouble with Raspberry Pi. I have a RPi2 running OpenHAB for some home automation stuff (with a Z-Wave USB stick), and a few other things on it, and it's been running rock-solid for a good two years so far with no issues. I keep meaning to install Pi-Hole on it, but haven't gotten around to it.

I have a RPi3 with WiFi connected to my very-old-school door buzzer so I can let people into my building without going to the door, and it also have it set up so it can be opened remotely via SMS code for guests.

I have another RPi3 up in my bedroom, connected to an old set of powered speakers, running Shairport (an Airplay server) and Roc (an efficient network audio streamer with PulseAudio support), and Bluetooth so I can play music from my laptop or phone, as well as have better audio if I'm in bed watching a movie or TV on my laptop.

I also have an old ReadyNAS NV+ for storage, that I'll occasionally run some lightweight things on (like a torrent or USENET NZB client), but it's mainly just for storage (4x 4TB in RAID5).

I've been debating building my own NAS[0], which might let me reduce my footprint to just one machine, but haven't really been able to justify the effort since the current setup works really well.

[0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/19/4x-sata-hat-nanopi-n...
“Officer, you’re just using the legal definition of speeding!”
Apparently you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110473
You can't use the Windows Store if you don't use a Microsoft Account, last I saw anyway.
Have you thought about making the data distributed and p2p? that way it's more resilient. Reddit at one stage was also minimalist and open source
For now, AWS Cloud9. It’s pretty good for Python and JavaScript. Go support is subpar, but usable. Besides that, you have access to terminals, so you can use Vim and Emacs in text mode as well.

However, I’m evaluating using that new IDE from Eclipse (I think it’s called Dirigible), because it seems to have more mature Go support.
why is dropping 32-bit support even a consideration?
Thats more of a higher level objective and sometimes to achieve that objective, killing people is required.

Yes Indiscriminate killing is a problem but that is a different problem. The article is in regards of actual pushing the button, I'm assuming the killing is already decided after careful judgement .
> I just want to point out that SpaceX has not yet successfully put a human in LEO.

Does this preclude them from doing so in the future? They certainly will within the next year or so (crew dragon).

The moon has been out of reach of humans for 47-ish years mostly because we haven't had the orbital capacity to get there. Humanity has not had a super-heavy-lift launcher since the Saturn V (excluding the Shuttle and Energia, as they're mostly launching inert structural mass, rather than the fuel necessary to get elsewhere and back).

Certainly it's challenging, and their timelines are incredibly optimistic, but I've been watching SpaceX for about a decade, and they generally do the things they claim they will (on delayed timelines).
> ... if a UAV campaign is part of a war that has a justified cause, the use of force is necessary and proportionate to the threat posed by the enemy, the UAV pilot's actions can be seen as potentially justified.

Maybe part of the problem is that the drone killings are occurring in a nontraditional conflict with no formal declaration of war and remote or conjectural threats to the territory of the United States....
Would be nice to have it written in Go, to be truly minimalist and for easy local deployment.
Now you’re just arguing seminantics.
> Nothing good can come from sticking my neck out on this

ah! allow me to borrow this from time to time in the future :)
Very few AC-powered devices even use traditional transformers anymore. Mostly they have some kind of switch-mode power supply which immediately rectifies the AC to DC. (Better and higher-power supplies have complicated active power factor correction circuits to do this.) Then they convert that high-voltage DC to low-voltage DC.
The article that this article links to says that the FBI has shared thousands of photos with Swiss Police.
This is clickbait. The author is using a version of the term backdoor, as in an action in a cryptographic system is undertaken on behalf of a user but without that users consent, but is clearly just irate at being associated with a cryptocurrency. This is an idempotent single action, less scary, even in a secure context.

The author clearly was just momentarily angry, used some exaggerated language knowing how it would read and is now trying to stand their ground.

Closest thing to a point I see them making is that generated wallets should include an option to be removed from the attestation list, or be deleted if not wanted to begin with.

Valid (if not slightly petty) user feedback maybe, "BACKDOOR IN SECURE APP ALERT ALERT" definitely not...
This appears to be legit. I got the email about free Lumens, but I don't have a Stellar key signed by my private key. Granted, I haven't signed into my account from any of Keybase's mobile apps, but it seems unlikely that they would backdoor _only_ the mobile apps.
Some percentage of people-who-can-write-code probably have that listed as their occupation on Facebook, so target them.
Those are really shitty illustrations.
"Moderators: please add [paywalled] or [$] to paywalled content"

That is asking.
They have to make money somehow. With a free to play game there aren't that many working monetization strategies to choose from.
I love you guys.
A Mac Mini that I picked up used for super cheap. My use case is different from yours though since I'm using mine primarily as a media server.
I haven't because I haven't had the opportunity presented. Does a lamb count ? Yes it die squeak and bleed, then die in convulsions. A lot of people like a farmer do this a lot on daily basis, its not that a big a deal.
Every time I see this article linked in a context similar to this one, I question whether the linker has read the third sentence within:

"Popper took pains to make clear that he did not mean the expression of intolerant words and ideas, but in fact the opposite: They who must not be tolerated are those who wish to silence discussion and debate."
I worked for a car insurance company for ten years and the management would answer, “Because loss history shows that we pay more in claims for insured men.”

So that’s ok but for some reason if it were a particular race they wouldn’t think to charge people
More by race so honestly I don’t know how to answer your question in a logically consistent manner.
That is how it works legally, yes.
Does Apple have to sign games distributed through Steam? I thought that only applied to their own app store.
So the major points are dropping 32bit support and Apple forcing you to sign your executable?
The author claims that you need to pay Apple for the signing. as far as I know this is not true. You just need to pay for being on the application stores ...
Your intuition is correct. The Merkle root (hash of the root node) is only useful as a summary of the whole hash tree structure. The clever idea here is not that the tree itself is encoded in the Merkle root but rather that the root is a unique id of a whole unique tree and all the data. Having the hash tree available (which is much smaller than the data itself), you can validate any leaf node's (1) integrity and (2) membership in the set much quicker than a full scan by calculating the tree.

Merkle trees are also used in Bitcoin and similar protocols to find if a transaction is present in a block. This may be a another useful link to help understand the concepts: https://hackernoon.com/merkle-trees-181cb4bc30b4
I am _extremely_ disappointed by this news.

I would have been _much much_ happier to hear "we are not charging $5 (or $30 or $60 or whatever) per year for keybase users" than "we're going to make claims that you've signed or agreed to attestations which you do not know about and would never have consented to".

I've just update my keybase bio to say:

I'M NOT SURE I TRUST KEYBASE ANY MORE - THEY ARE REPORTEDLY SIGNING ATTESTATIONS FROM ME WITHOUT NOTIFICATION OR CONSENT. TAKE APPROPRIATE CARE WITH ANYTHING THEY"VE CLAIMED I'VE SIGNED
Blockly (or similar methods like Blueprints in Unreal & Simulink) is how most people will program in the future.

You’re going to get negativity from “developers” about using Blockly, but unless they’re your target audience don’t let it get to you.

Lots of EE’s use graphical tools to layout the circuit boards anyway... so text is really just an unnecessary abstraction over schematics & you’re bringing programming back to its roots :-)
I related to his memo mention! Almost certainly some employees were writing some of these on occasion in their sigs in emails to clients:

D.E. Shaw & Co.

D.E.Shaw&Co.

DE Shaw & Co

D. E. Shaw.

It's a branding consistency issue. The space and what it conveys (attention to detail) is incredibly important in retaining the trust of some clients who are likewise particular.

Some years ago I sent out a memo about the use of an apostrophe in a company name that was perhaps received similarly. Some think it doesn't matter. It matters to some. That's who it is done for.
If you're using DC to transmit the same amount of power, you'll probably be using similar voltages (otherwise you're going to need thicker cables). I suspect DC is probably a greater fire risk in this case due to arcing. An arc is less likely to persist on AC since the potential keeps passing through 0 V (hence DC switches are designed to have a bigger air gap).

If it's just a matter of providing alternative circuitry for low-power devices, presumably you can already improve safety by just using lower-current circuit breakers.
Does that really dodge the legal issue?

I thought it had been shown that using proxies to discriminate is still illegal if the intention was to discriminate against a protected class.
Your ROI calculation probably becomes different after you settle a massive EEOC lawsuit.
> and given how long it took to turn the Shuttle around one could argue it doesn't really count as "reusable" in sense SpaceX is aiming for.

Not just the time but the cost, if you take the figure of how much the space shuttle program cost, and divide it by total number of flights (including the two lethal ones), it cost somewhere between $900 million to $1.1bn every time the thing launched. It was very far from the early 1970s dream of an economically reusable spacecraft.
Ask HN: Will Software Developers ever be respected in the industry itself?
This is something I've been grappling with for a while as I have started considering looking for a new job.

I've been working at one of the big 5 (do we still call them that?) for the past 5 years and it seems that every company in the industry, large or small, has not only escalated the whiteboard hazing rituals, but entered in to a full-on arms race where the difficulty of problems one can expect has spiraled out of control and become a game of "we both know you memorized this solution but let's pretend you're coming up with it from first principles wink".

At the time, I also had copious amounts of free time with which to spend hours each day grinding leetcode problems online.

Not only do I not have that time any more, I don't have the inclination to do so. Spending 20 (or more!) additional hours each week doing nothing but solving algorithm problems sounds like an egregious waste of time.

And grind problems I would otherwise have to - my day-to-day is focused on delivering quality software and leading a team, I haven't had to write an algorithm to invert a binary tree, or find triplets in an array that satisfy a geometric sequence once.

Even recruiters seem to be getting in on the action themselves. I recently spoke with a recruiter at another of the big 5, and, during the initial conversation, they started asking basic questions such as "which of these algorithms is O(nlogn)". After answering a few of them I politely told them I was no longer interested and ended the conversation.

At this point I think I've come to terms that my only real options are remain where I'm at until the end of my career (and if I ever get fired or laid off I don't know what I'll do), or go back to school and pursue a different career in a field that respects people and trusts them.

I just don't see the industry changing for the better here. If anything, it has gotten significantly, noticeably, horrifically worse since I was last engaged in this process.
What are the specs of your PC? I think we need RAM, CPU cores, freq, and architecture.
No actually you can’t use such things legally. Discrimination is discrimination no matter how you bury it with indirection.
I meant to say He would be granted a paid leave.
I’m glad Apple is locking down binaries. It’s terrifying what malicious binaries are capable of.

For games in particular there should be better sand boxing options.
You're mixing up anonymity and pseudonymity.
> I think the military was looking at a similar material to replace depleted uranium with something non-radioactive

I thought the point of depleted uranium projectiles was simply the density of uranium, giving them large impact energy for a given volume. If that's the case, titanium (4.5 g/cm^3) will not even be as good as steel (8 g/cm^3), let alone uranium (19 g/cm^3).
You have to pay the $99/yr to be in the developer program, to access to the notarization service.
Why would I outsource this to you as opposed to rolling my own, or using an existing open source library?
Maybe Cogmind depends on libraries which don’t support 64 bit? I agree though, it’s a bit weird. Maybe it’s harder for game-related libraries to switch, compared to the ones I’m used to using in my apps.
If it's anything like iOS dev, you need Apple hardware to access the tools to sign your builds. You can't just run osx in a VM.
Great question...my response wasn’t super clear on that. I’d say 80th percentile of people who do a given activity. That’s, of course, pretty vague but this is just a guiding principle for me.
Not sure why this is downvoted... but good for her.
You have to pay for the signing. You also have to wait several minutes for the notarization process to finish, and submit every program to Apple.
...Actually, it is. Survival when using the same treatments is much higher in earlier stage patents is much better than in later stage. Full stop. Of course not everyone will be cured, but this will make a big dent.
Can someone tell me, does Cosmopolitan magazine run job ads?
Mojave and Catalina added more restrictions around non-App Store programs where you need to sign and notarize.

I know I’ll probably catch downvotes for it but I think this is a good thing for the average user as someone in security. I know it makes it more of a walled garden but I also know that the harder it is to run untrusted code, the better for the average user.

The “terrible burden” is a couple of extra button clicks if working in Xcode or you could automate it with a script. I did the latter for the project I work on and it’s been fine.

That probably drives a lot of folks to Linux and that’s okay. I’m for diversity in platforms but I’m also for strong protections for the users.
I've heard it's best to avoid or reduce citrus intake while taking drugs.

I don't know why, but this could be why.
The 99.4% specificity is presence of cancer, not by organ. Nice try though.
I consider press super-ignorant, rather than malevolent, but I sympathise with your frustration.
Go only has the use that it does because of Google marketing, which the only examples given are talks at Google IO? Google has the most efficient marketing team in the world, to have done that much with that little effort...
Also I heard that you need fairly new Mac hardware to actually use the notarization service.

Now try to integrate it with your CI, because the feedback that the notarization is complete is sent via email.

(FWIW: I don’t have first-hand experience, though I still have an Apple developer license. Probably won’t renew.)
> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin.

The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia.

> The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp.

OK, so what is "the algorithm?" Where can it be tested and audited?

And how do authorities acquire content send in a WhatsApp message? We just went over this yesterday, didn't we? wcathcart, any response to this?
Learning syntax and convention is something.

I’ve been programming for 15+ years, everything from assembly to the latest JS. I don’t need a $50 book for, say, C# that is targeted at everyone and so spends time explaining basic programming concepts. I need a 10,000 foot view and then I can drill down into the things that are unique or otherwise unclear.
64-bit support first arrived in Leopard in 2007. Everyone has had plenty of time.
I see music festival and rave applications for this.
You could potentially outsource the signing to a CI service that has the requisite Apple hardware though.
I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat).

I'll definitely be following this website with interest; I'm a huge fan of sites that allow anonymous posting as well as how Reddit can create active communities around very niche topics (which is a lot harder on e.g. 4chan).

EDIT: I do have some problems with this rule: "Nothing that violates US law, or anything that would be considered 'gray area'." What is a 'gray area' is, itself, a gray area. I don't think the rule itself needs changing, but it would be good if it was supported by some examples of things that people might want to do but you won't allow.

EDIT2: Another issue: in a lot of fonts, Ieddit (with capital i) looks very similar to leddit (with lowercase L), which is a derogatory term for Reddit on 4chan (and possibly elsewhere) (owing to the shitty rageface memes which use the word "le")
Back in feudal times wars did stop because army was not motivated. This is a legitimate problem. That why we demonize 'the enemy'.

Take it to the extreme, and you have nazi atrocities and 'just following orders'.
Oddly enough, cassette might be a better business model. For second-tier and small time musicians, monetizing recorded music via digital distribution is nearly a bust. This is one reason why, even in this day and age, a traveling band will still lug a suitcase full of CDs around with them. There is still something about having a physical deliverable that makes people willing to pay for it.
Currently.
People will mention new libraries requiring 64-bit or to reduce the installed size of macOS but I think both of those explanations are (mostly) BS.

Microsoft has an unhealthy obsession with backwards-compatibility due to their enterprise market base. Apple has the opposite problem, where they consistently remove legacy features (in many cases, features that are not even "legacy" in nature but required for normal usage scenarios) without giving users a chance to catch-up. Sometimes this is warranted, as it is with removing optical drives, other times, it is not -- such as dropping 32-bit support when neither Windows nor Linux have any intention of doing so in the near future.

This philosophy been accelerating in absurd fashion lately, whether it's dropping the headphone jack from the iPad Pro, the "butterfly keyboard," or leaving the MacBook Pro with no USB-A ports or SD card slot -- two extremely well-adopted technologies that are still ubiquitous nearly half a decade from the release of the all USB-C MacBook Pro.
working on it outside definitely gives the pictures a "bunch of guys with some metal and a lot of free time" feel haha.
All malware checkers must read the app binary to be effective. Apple forces the app to be scanned once, not one million times on one million desktops.
Saudi Attack Makes Electric Vehicles Even More Important
~240V fully rectified to DC is 340V. Since AC varies it's safe to say virtually any PSU that's not exclusively Japan or North America will take 350V DC.
I assume this refers to having an Apple Developer account, which is USD99 a year. Some of the points may be valid - support costs versus expected revenue, etc, but mostly these points seem really weak.

The headlines feels like it should be “Sorry macOS users, it doesn’t make sense for me to support macOS”. The rest seems like a bit of clickbaity hyperbole and throwing in a bunch of semi-related arguments.
Government sponsored automatic car is also public transport.
Why limit yourself to the "big 5" if you don't like the games they play?
I don't think that's how drug pricing works. According to this report's appendix G[1], manufacturing costs are 25% of price and they count after-release R&D as part of that (and don't count pharmacy margins).

Most generic drugs probably don't cost more than a few cents a pill to manufacture, assuming the pharmacy and manufacturer make a profit on it.

In other words, it's all in the R&D and compliance costs, which grapefruit couldn't help with.

And re: doctors prescribing a combination of active ingredients that hadn't had a pharma company spend a few billion dollars studying... well, just read this[2], about how some company is making big bucks selling $300 fish oil pill bottles that had a bit of FDA compliance work (and related studies) done about them because doctors would never prescribe the $30 pill bottles that weren't filed with the FDA.

[1] http://bvssp.icict.fiocruz.br/pdf/Pharmaceutical.pdf

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescripti...