skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that old chestnut, yes.

The day you can hold a corporation accountable for breaking their own terms of service is the day I will come around to this argument.

As things stand, they can have an obligation to keep your data secure, have system with massive security holes, loose your data resulting in you being a victim of fraud, and the company will not pay a penny.
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Ask HN: Alternative funding options other than debt and equity
Looking through the various funding options for a startup between late seed and series b, your main options are taking on some debt to your balance sheet or dilute yourself.

I just read that Stripe Capital now allows you to receive a "cash advance" based upon sales (they can see this if you are a stripe customer). Does anyone have any views on taking a "cash advance" as a bridge between rounds or even an alternative funding option?

Thanks in advance.
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Two years ago I did something similar. Plotting the surviving lines of code in the OpenBSD code base across commits:

https://twitter.com/mulander/status/809120593606049792
It's not "leaving the planet". It's spreading out our foothold (as a species), so if something catastrophic happens we don't become extinct as easily.

eg increasing the resilience of our species
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Sure, 'should the tax rate be 25%' seems like an unimportant discussion for companies to debate internally. Do you think all political questions carry similar weights of debate importance or that some questions might be different?
> For comparison, switching your number to Verizon only requires information that you know (account numbers, a SSN)[0], so it's just extra steps around a less secure password that you can't change or set yourself.

Don't know in the USA but here in Europe you have to confirm/prove that you own the number being moved from one operator to another.
> Artificial Intelligences are almost certainly going to run into the same limitations that prevent natural intelligences from becoming godlike

Artificial movers are almost certainly going to run into the same limitations that prevent natural movers (i.e. animals) from becoming very fast.

Since the fastest animals can travel at about 70 mph on the surface of the earth, and 100 mph in level flight, it follows that we will never be able to make artificial movers travel faster, no matter how hard movement engineers try.
I was more thinking about some of the fires that got international attention and as I understood it was because lines often short out causing fires. I don't live in America so I wasn't trying to make a connection between homeless people if that's what you thought, if anything I blamed the modern city person because they use and consume the electricity so it counts as their co2 impact.
Overwatch's Mei is becoming a symbol of the Hong Kong protests & should lead to a total ban on Blizzard/OverWatch itself.
I wish more non-technical people understood the fundamental point that many security measures are binary. Either they are secure and no-one has a back door that can compromise them, or they are not and anyone could have a back door that can compromise them, but there is no middle ground where only a politician's preferred government agents have a back door.

When I see comments like former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull's "Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", I despair. Such profound ignorance should be kept well away from any sort of power. Regrettably, we haven't yet found a modern King Canute who can demonstrate the principle to our politicians and leave them without any doubt.
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Wealthy people are also lazy and have a much higher tendency to politicise their environments (just like they do with their parents when they need their money).

Compared to a poor qualified-enough candidate, they would not have an option of going back to the sh*thole they came from, so they would definitely not be as motivated.
He said reinstall, not upgrade.

For example, Xcode 11, which has 10.15 SDK target, can be installed on Mojave. This has been the case for years, the new Xcode can run on the n-1 OS release. So why reinstall it, after the system is updated?
Dull and boring in a far-off land can also be quite interesting. Much of human experience is relative.
How do you define small business such that it excludes a one-person renting a house/apartment operation?
>quickly and glibly

and here i hoped it was short and to the point - contrasted the 2 behaviors and pointed to the context which historically shown the critical importance of that difference and its consequences. Seems to be another case when we'd perceive ourselves in one way, and the world would do it in a completely different way. Among many things on HN i find extremely valuable is that exposure to completely different, including critical, opinions/views/etc. I see your point and appreciate your detailed explanations in this case and the effort you put into your role here on HN in general.
It's apparently possible[0] to retrieve fingerprints from a mobile phone photo of someone's hand, which might wind up being a problem for Asians making the ubiquitous peace-sign[1]. I guess they could always just turn it around, though ;)

And of course copying keys from cellphone photos is old hat to the point that it's actually an app, and people have been getting doxxed through the EXIF data on images they upload for years.

[0]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/lifting_a_fin...

[1]https://www.asiaone.com/digital/chinas-peace-sign-selfie-tak...
I always say to them: I can not identify myself to you because I cannot authentic who you are.

And explain to them that we, as a society, need to come up a way of authenticating inbound and outbound calls to ensure we are connect with who the other party claims to be because when you do this it conditions society in to responding and that’s how phishing attacks occur.
You're set, then. But the reason a law would be beneficial is it would condition everyone's parents and people who aren't as awesome as you to stop trusting callers and start calling a known-good number.
I was wondering why something like this did not come up sooner. Although the way I have imagined this would be a CLI tool, this looks very polished.
> (or Meson)

C++ in a nutshell :D
Mobipocket has been dead for the last couple of years and I can’t find a spec anyway. The Library of Congress describe it as a “proprietary, partially documented, binary format for ebooks”[1] which doesn’t really meet “open” by my definition. As for KFX, that’s 100% proprietary, yes.

Amazon in the US at least has sewn up the ebook market such that they have no interest at least in implementing open standards. The best thing to do in these situations is to vote with your wallet.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0004...
Though a lot of wealth is tied up in property, I see property taxes as more of a consumption tax. I see it as you are consuming the right to exclude others from that property for a year.

A fully paid house and a 97% mortgaged house pay the same property tax in most locales.

(I also think that tenants rather than landlords are paying “going rate” property taxes, even though landlords are the ones writing the check based on actual rates.)
> If it is possible to break encryption, it will be broken by someone. It better be by us...

The option isn't encryption broken by them or broken by us. It's secure encryption or encryption that can be broken by everybody with sufficient resources.

> Remains the risk that some bad guys could get their hands on the golden keys. Yes, design to handle that?

Yes, because secure systems are so secure that we should be trusting them to base all of the world's encryption on. It takes a single bug or intrusion to undermine everything. There's no way to design for a key that needs to be usable/accessible for when you need to access encrypted anything, while keeping it secure from bad actors.

That's even before considering how the US government and US institutions have, over the course of the past decades, pissed away any and all good will and trust that the public may have had in them. Why would anybody want to give the FBI or NSA free access to all of their data? After seeing enough stories of employees looking at naked pictures, stalking ex-girlfriends, dragnet surveillance or other gross abuses of power, there's no way these people can be trusted.
The “Volvo effect” refers to standardized testing mostly reflecting the income and education level of one’s parents. I can’t find any research showing that Volvo owners drive more recklessly, but I’d believe it. Do you have any more info?
Camouflage for cows?
My experience is that a dog requires a minimum of 45 minutes walking a day, day in, day out, for years on end.

They are also indefatigable life coaches who simply will not take no for an answer. (Your human life coach probably won’t jump up on the bed where you are trying to ignore them and start licking your face, or bark “Out! Out! Out!” at you hundreds of times in a row.)

And if you still manage to blow off your dog, your reward is a nice pile of crap and puddles of pee in your house.

Meanwhile, the walks are enjoyable.

So you are pretty much going to be a regular walker if you take care of a dog. (Well, there are workarounds for some situations and some dogs, but why swim upstream on something like this?)
My bank doesn't even allow password resets like that.
If you forget, you can request a new one, but that goes just like the initial setup: you get 2 separate documents per post, one with a new password, and one with a new activation code.
> you can immediately have 100 computer Einsteins (given the hardware), and let them work on different projects (or even let some of them collaborate)

You might even get >100 times speedup, since there are probably problems where 10 copies of of the same mind can collaborate better than 10 different minds, e.g. I bet 10 copies of me could collaborate writing a program better than 10 random programmers. (I base this on I can read my own code from long ago a lot easier than most other people's code).
There's a lot of things that strip the info now before it goes to server. Photo apps themselves, image boards etc.

Far bigger leaker is MS Office or pdf metadata. Heck, they even catches that famous serial killer who took creepy pictures of himself in women underwear because eventually he started sending files, not regular letters, to police taunting them.

Edit: BTK was this sick man's nickname. Busted by having his church's computer metadata in files to police https://www.bizarrepedia.com/btk/
Is a time-based model possible for the monetization of online content?
Homeless people I see (or people that appear to be that way) always seem to have the nicest looking dogs here in Europe.
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The USSR was a full blown socialist state. They managed capital in the practice, they also traded with other countries and let farmers do commerce due the war with them. but that was their strategy (on Russia) but in the rest of the socialist states they didn't. There's so much books written about this topic you can never end to find contradictions in their rules. Of course the elite lived like the best capitalists.
> I read about a landline attack that would keep the line open when you put the receiver down

I experienced this once, but not as a scam, I think there must have been some kind of fault at the exchange... the other end was a mobile phone and they didn't end the call, just putting the phone back in their pocket - the landline wouldn't disconnect, whatever signal was send, even disconnecting the phone entirely and plunging it back in. I didn't understand how exactly, but it made it pretty clear the (landline) telephone is not in control of the connection.
The title is very uninformative, so:

This year it was won by John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work on the chemistry which enables the Lithium-Ion battery.
You're equating Americans with all Westerners, claim nobody criticized the US wars of aggression, and so on. In the end, you claim being pushed closer towards the CCP by what random people say on the interwebs, really?

Do you have the faintest idea how many European countries talk shit about Germany and Germans 24/7? Only German Neo-Nazis pay close attention to any of that, nobody else would use it as excuse to vote for the extreme right-wing. Reason is not suffering from an inferiority complex, other than said right-wingers.

And trust me, as a German there's a lot to feel shit about, and not much to be proud of. But I still can laugh when people trash talk Germany, and nothing a foreigner says about Germany could make me angry, so I don't have to invent things about them, either. If you want to see me angry, have a German deny the Holocaust, or say that might is right, I'll be teetering on the edge of what is legal to say in no time, certainly on the edge of what the rules of any online forum would allow.

> I know some of you fantasize that if more and more Chinese come to the West or see online discussions like this one, they will accept Western value and the CCP will collapse in no time

With those cherry picked straw men about all Westerner you haven't even scratched the surface. As has been written decades ago, totalitarian revisionism requires control of the whole planet. The CCP is demonstrating it really wants to try going for that. It doesn't want just to bullshit you and leave us alone, it wants to silence us, as well, so we'd rather fight back.

We care about our own freedom, from that follows solidarity of all people who want to be free, too, but our own is the bedrock driving force here, and I don't think you fully grasp it, it's not merely buzz words because you've seen a bunch of hypocrites or people paying mere lip service. And the main question isn't so much how the CCP treats obedient or harmless citizens, anyway, but rather how it treats dissidents. One innocent person who gets tortured outweighs even a thousand billion people who look the other way. Until that is clear to you as well, you have understood little about the lessons of the 20th century from the perspective of serious Westerners. No words can change anything. Not even military force could. You can kill us, but not change this.

If you don't want solidarity, that's fine, but you can't give it back on behalf of others. Those dissidents still have it, and we will speak freely.

> blame the CCP for brain-washing us into disagreeing with you (as you have always did)

What precisely are you even disagreeing with? You agree the CCP treats you like shit, but you haven't said whether you agree with supporting resistance against being treated like shit. Being offended so deeply seems to override everything else, but that is essentially blackmail, not an argument.
I can't imagine anyone being hyped for it. What will always stick out in my mind is the immediate reaction to the games announcement, by Valves own core fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4jPtrDCLo
> As far as designing in weaknesses and/or golded keys. Well, it does not add to security, but assuming that the other nation states are already able to break encryption and read what they want, it does not weaken it either for national security reasons.

You are correct in exactly the same way that, if one assumes that the Earth is flat then it is impossible to fly around it in an airplane.

There exist cryptographic security measures that have flaws and can be broken by nation states. But there are also plenty of encryption techniques that will easily resist the efforts of even the most effective nation states (at least for the present day). The question is not whether such codes exist but whether we will pass laws preventing any law-abiding person or company from using them.

If you were right and the NSA could break these codes then they wouldn't be advocating for back doors, they would be encouraging everyone to encrypt their communications (to protect against everyone ELSE), then using their abilities to stop terrorists, pedis and drug dealers.
...you can organize and likely prevent him from getting reelected if you don't have to deal with gerrymandering, can get votes enough to overcome the vote weighting of the electoral college, and if there's no foreign sabotage of the election.

I agree China and the US are in radically different places, but there are serious problems of some degree in many places right now.
The way you say that makes me think you underestimated having a dog, or somehow think that your dog in particular was hard work..
Irrelevant but I wanted to thank you for the Old Reddit extension for Safari. That makes Reddit somewhat bearable again, although it still seems to lag while it loads their stupid new UI before doing the redirect (not sure if there's any way to avoid that).
zero margin banking – can we get consumer banking back on track?
> And not just that, but typical property taxes provide a disincentive to even improve your own property, since you'll pay more tax. They encourage blight.

A land value tax still does this, albeit indirectly. If you improve your property, the area gets marginally more desirable and land value rises.

The solution for this in UK is to remove capital gains tax for the main home of owner-occupiers, and a transaction tax (stamp duty) paid by the purchaser.
Yes, I actually am in EU land myself, and I forgot about that
We did actually get to use it at work, to real performance benefit.

We have a leaderboard with a list of users, which is normally a list of users totalling between 2 to 50,0000, but in rare circumstances can be several million. The scores users can achieve are in a rather small range, perhaps only 450k valid different scores, and we were doing this sort on average once every 30 seconds.

What we ended up doing was switching to a radix sort when the list of users got to be very long, as it was substantially faster in those cases, making the user experience much better, as the leaderboard was much more up to date for the very large cases.
Does this level of resolution make undetectable deep fakes less likely?
So you claim that saying "there is no evidence for this, but I believe most Muslim charities fund terrorism" is just a simple logical error?
Cowmouhflage?
Thinking of this I would have continued like:

Me: are you confirming that if I start a scam you will not investigate it?

Police:...?

Me: Ok , then thanks a lot, I know now.

Police: umm, wait maybe..
This isn’t about hash collisions, it’s about unnecessarily recalculating the hash value
IMO Lithium-Ion batteries enabled a whole lot of computer devices: smartphones, watches, laptops. The world would not be the same without those batteries.
That's because of the influx of papers written by the Chinese who can't write proper English.
Friendly tip if you are uploading any photo made by you to some untrusted site (works on linux and macos):

exiftool -all="" filename.jpg

Because oftentimes you don't need to look at the picture to figure out the location.
Since we also discussing personal strategies:

- when you answer the call, stay completely silent: some systems will automatically hang up after a few seconds

- I never say the word "Yes" if I don't know the caller, so that they can't record it and use it in some scam contracts. Yes, vocal consent is a thing in some countries.
I agree there should be more pieces explaining the background and history of the PRC and ROC, and how Chiang Kai-shek ended up in Taiwan, that it was the ROC had the UN seat until the 1970s, or that both claimed to be the rightful government etc. But that should be linked to rather than fleshed out in every story, as it gets pretty involved.

"China claims that Taiwan is part of its territory" is correct - as far as it goes, it just doesn't go nearly far enough.

Yet I'd be inclined to want this for most media stories in all parts of the world. To talk of companies without mention of their darker history or former name, e.g. "BP" (British Petroleum, formerly British-Persian Oil), "Academi" (Xe, before that Blackwater). At some point no one will remember Emerdata succeeded Cambridge Analytica, etc, etc.

There is a lot of nuance (and inconvenient history) lost all over. So where does, or should, it stop?
Isn't this a general problem for large cities? A quick glance at Google gave me [1], indicating that this isn't a problem limited to London.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/top-10-smoggiest-cities-in-...
That's odd. When you scroll past the article the URL is rewritten to just https://www.asiaone.com. I wonder what would be the benefit of that.
> Either they are secure and no-one has a back door that can compromise them, or they are not and anyone could have a back door that can compromise them, but there is no middle ground where only a politician's preferred government agents have a back door

Can you clarify? Wouldn't just having a second key which the government keeps in escrow in case they need to decrypt a message achieve exactly what you are saying is impossible?

(Note: I don't agree with the laws being created to undermine encryption ... but I think it undermines the argument against it to overstate the case.)
Never, never, never trust inbound phone calls.
Yes they should employ stronger vetting processes new engineering hires.
Could be. I see very similar images when I google for both terms.
I see that list of 4 (Switzerland, Spain, France, and Norway), yet I know that the Netherlands is in OECD and also has a wealth tax: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#...
Cow-moo-flage!