skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I phrase it is "the fear of the thing is usually worse than the thing itself."

In his Personal Memoirs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_Ulysses_S....), Ulysses S. Grant wrote of how he learned this lesson one of the first times he led troops into battle in the Civil War:

I received orders to move against Colonel Thomas Harris, who was said to be encamped at the little town of Florida[, Missouri], some twenty-five miles south of where we then were...

Harris had been encamped in a creek bottom for the sake of being near water. The hills on either side of the creek extend to a considerable height, possibly more than a hundred feet. As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp,and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.
This is not completely ridiculous, but it’s exactly the sort of silliness you’d expect from bureaucrats (and zdnet!)

Firefox isn’t the most secure browser, it just checks the most boxes on this particular compliance checklist which doesn’t really assess the security of the browser.
That's a shame, what was their explanation? Did they say it's OK for Chase employees to lie to customers, or did they dispute the authenticity of your recording?

There's probably something in the fine print of your contract with them that lets them get away with whatever happened, but always escalate matters as it's pretty effective. Press them on social media, if there's arbitration try it or small claims court, and involve any local media or politicians that you can get on your side.

Basically, just be a huge pain in the ass and do not give up or go away until they back down. This can take a while and you must document everything, every interaction.
Im curious to know what cheap wearable monitor you used. I will be having a boy 1st of the year and would like something like this.
> You really think everyone is using Touch ID and Face ID only because of the novelty factor, and not because it's significantly more convenient (and, at least in many cases, more secure)? That if it wasn't "fun", everyone would be completely okay going back to entering 6-digit passcodes?

I meant compared to using a fingerprint reader, but even then yes. I returned an iPhone because I can't unlock my phone in the dark enough that I just got sick of it. My partner complains of the same thing, and vows to buy a cheaper phone next time because of it.

> I think you should read up a bit more on the technical implementation of Face ID. The data never leaves the phone and, even if an attacker had physical access to the phone, they could not get the information. Apple is getting no training data from it.

Thank you for this, it's useful. It still doesn't assuage me that it's impenetrable though, just that it would be incredibly difficult to obtain.
Total time? Very little. Critical time when I just need to be able to use a website. 50%.
to "the Farm," a secret CIA facility in Virginia where their grueling training included all the obligatory skills of what Fox refers to as "the Bond business": how to flip or crash a car; how to use a Glock; how to parachute; how to use a speedboat; how to withstand torture; how to use a grocery bag and duct tape to bandage a punctured chest; and how to commit suicide

This is over-egging the pudding a bit.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/women-leade...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/21/2018s-fortune-500-companies-...

https://fortune.com/2017/06/09/white-men-senior-executives-f...
Yes, when sorting by date it's currently configured to disable typo-tolerance. This is to avoid having an old (but approximative, like with typos) result BEFORE the correct ones.
When any surface you look at or touch will interact with you. There will be no need to put anything in pockets.
The best large-scale buffet option I've seen is how they do it at AWS re:Invent (at least last time I was there a few years ago). They have a large number of identical buffet stations, with catering employees directing attendees on which line to join. As soon as one buffet line is full (maximum length is still pretty short), they start directing new arrivals to the next line, and so on. It's not perfect, but it's quite an impressive operation and I have never had a significant wait for food there (though sometimes it's a bit of a walk because the dining hall is MASSIVE and you might end up getting sent to a buffet line at the far end).
The cost of complying with such regulations would effectively fall on companies as a regressive tax. Which companies benefit in relative terms from a regressive tax? The already-large ones.
Lol dude, I've built terabit DWDM systems and I'm a licensed RF engineer...
>>>

- The right to be informed as to what data will be collected, and how it will be used

- The right to opt out of data collection or sharing

- The right to be told if a website has data on you, and what that data is

- The right to be forgotten; to have all data related to you deleted upon request

- The right to be informed if ownership of your data changes hands

- The right to be informed of any data breaches including your information in a timely manner

- The right to download all data in a standardized format to port to another platform

>>>

The vast majority of these rights only work when applied to commercial entities. They don't protect you from government invasion, and they don't protect you from individual/social invasion. When applied on the individual level, many of them are flat-out unconsitutional (the right to be forgotten is a particularly obvious example).

Does this matter? Is it a problem if we specifically target corporations first? I think it does matter.

Even though corporations are currently some of the worst privacy offenders, I think there's real harm in orienting the privacy debate around Capitalist terms, and I think it sets a really bad precedent for future conversations. I strongly suspect that a pivot to talking about privacy as a property right being violated will make it easier for the government to dismiss future criticism, and easier for malicious groups to claim that data from public sources should be fair game.

My right to privacy is not based on the idea that I am being economically harmed. It's based on the idea that I have a fundamental right to hide my identity, and a fundamental right to choose what I disclose to the people around me. Money has nothing to do with it.

This proposal also goes against years of collective advocacy from activists for both an Open web and a private web that no one can own a fact. I firmly believe that the expansion of IP laws are counterproductive, even when expanded ostensibly for the sake of privacy.

Andrew Yang may speak for some members of the privacy community, but he doesn't speak for all of them. I really wish the politicians who are just now jumping on the privacy train would spend more time looking at the history behind these debates and the history of the activists that were working before them.
Correct, and the source code is here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search
Plays well to everyone because most people hate representatives but like their representative.
The power of closed source...
This is "the andy grove fallacy": it's not clear that you actually can, because code and computational hardware was designed by humans and biology emphatically was not.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/and...
Dapp Perpetual
On my S9 they seem to have hit the sweet spot -- there's little to complain about.
Checkout the 9-min announcement at JAMstack conf if you want to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDCmbaEF0Y
BrickOS

At least, that's what SE calls them for their site bricks.stackexchange.com.
California returning to Mexico seems fairly unlikely to me as well (it brings in a lot federal income tax, for one thing), but I’m sort of curious what exactly you say to your family. After all, republicans might like to be rid of that electoral college base.
HN mostly. The quality of discussion is much higher than reddit. Also, there seems to be less group think here.

I have yet to find an online gaming community that I enjoy. I tried different discord servers but it is nothing like good old clan forums back in the day, where you got to know people.
That is bizarre. From the comments:

"The side effects reported were mild nausea and a "stretching and yawning complex" that correlated with spontaneous penile erections."

It's great that there's some folks out there experimenting, but I think I'll wait a generation or two before joining in.
The only reason USPS has financial trouble is Congress mandated huge advance on payments for benefits many years into the future.

It runs excellently otherwise.

Congress did that. It's political. It can be undone.

Free market people want the USPS gone. Trouble is the Post Office is in the Constitution, must exist barring some Amendment, and must be run by the Federal Government.

None of those are bad things. The Post Office has been exemplary.

The trouble began during the Bush administration. Two things were done:

1. Rate changes that turn big bulk mailings for companies into a subsidy. Deep discounted rates. That was coupled with significant increases for ordinary people and smaller publishers. None of that made much sense.

2. Forced advanced payments on benefits. At the time it was done, there were people not even born yet, who would end up working for the Post, whose benefits were being paid now, basically.

It's crazy.
Some things are worse than suicide.
What I kept bouncing off of was all the stupid as shit "sally sends a BUY message to Tommy's bagel shop" crap. I just needed about two to four pages worth of text & diagrams demonstrating how objects and structs are pretty much the same thing, and what the OO sugar inheritance and keywords and dynamic dispatch and such do under the hood, which ain't that complicated. Every single book I picked up (back in the '90s, when if you didn't know someone to personally recommend a book it was much harder to figure out which ones were decent and which sucked) wanted to use those awful, cutesy analogies to introduce OO and they just confused the hell out of me, and convinced me something dead-simple was hard.
Ha, oops. I know that, I must be undercaffeinated today. I edited, thanks.
You'd think the "commit suicide" lesson would just be "perform any of the prior taught skills not well enough."
It's not necessarily the spending that is a problem. Its the fact California relies on a very small percentage of high earners to carry the majority of the tax burden.

At some point people will decide its too much as the state continues to increase taxes to pay for its overzealous spending and leave, creating an even bigger problem.
Sales Assembly Line: Breeding Competition
Bitcoin is good for the economy because it encourages spending. It's better than having a electricity as a resource and not using it. Miners buy equipment which is income to the producer. Also increases employment in the power plant and the factory producing the equipment.
My favorite part of my IoT loving friends' party tricks is that they only even seem to work about 40% of the time. Most of the gimmicks might be worth having if they worked 99.9% of the time and I didn't have to sell my soul to get them, but as is they're a half-baked solution to problems that I don't actually have.
Scientific study: The better you are in “League of Legends”, smarter you are
They supposedly couldn't play the audio file.

Looking back I probably should have transcribed it and highlighted the relevant parts to show the issue more clearly.
With JavaScript as the most popular language out there I would say that this low level core stuff is now the fringe.
AR Ad Tracker: Miller Lite Brings in the Green
How did you infer how they were raising their kids or how much time they spend with their kids from that comment? To me, it sounds more like you just want to attack them.

I'm an adult, I know I forget to turn things off sometimes and it is really nice to be able to remotely check on things like if a light is on or off or something similarly as trivial.
What do you regret about software engineering?
What is the oldest continuously operating electronic computer, and where is it?
What I'm saying is they're talking out of their behinds, which will ultimately hurt us all.
I love everything except the docs. The docs rarely show practical usage. Most functions are just type definitions. This is a MAJOR blocker to anyone that might not have a mathematical background. I find this issue quite a bit with the FP world though. The old joke, "as soon as you understand monads, you instantly become unable to explain them" sort of holds true here. How would I know what I should use? You just have to know.

Just this morning, I had to resort to Stack Overflow for using an Either... a concept I thought I well understood. Turns out, the way I've done it in Scala might not be the norm.

Many programmers coming to this library are coming from JavaScript, so expecting them to understand some (or many) of these things, might not be the right approach. The author has gone to some great lengths to blog about the foundations of FP... so this might help a bit. I just wish the docs were fleshed out with more examples. (the repo is open sources.... I could put up or shut up here)
Implicit None and Carry On
Airbnb's quarterly loss reportedly doubled in Q1
The MO of SV startups seems to be to slap together something that has product market fit while ignoring performance and scaling concerns, at first. Once you have enough customers and market, you then raise funding and use that to hire more experienced system folks who can make your system performant, efficient and scalable.
This greatly reminds me of my experience with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager). Web-based IDE, version control via OSGI bundles, content repository via Jackrabbit.

I did not enjoy my time working with it but it had some neat ideas and did do some things well.
Indeed. The whole "One Gene, One Protein [One Phenotype]" [1] dogma went out quite some time ago.

... But people and genetic testing companies seem to want to keep it going.

[1] - https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/george-w-beadles-one-gene-one-e...
Except that my devices don't have 5G or fiber ports. I have WIFI and Ethernet ports.
You have an incredible number of confounding variables here. Most of Europe was rebuilt by the Marshall Plan and had time to settle under the Pax Americana. There was also the dawn of digital technology and the information, unification against the communist threat, a massive increase in standard of living, significant economic pivots, a removal of monarchs and a reduction of the powers of those who remained, etc. I can't say there was no effect, but I sincerely doubt it was the sole driver of peace in Europe. Also recall that the EU wasn't formed until the early 90's, but Europe has been largely at peace since WWII.
I'm in the entertainment industry in that city. It's the most dystopian place in the state in my opinion. It pays worse and burns people out faster than tech from what I've seen. Some people get lucky and have a stable job with decent income. There are far more scraping by on the odd PA gig trying to make something happen.

And the city itself is a dump outside a few outrageously priced neighborhoods.
Yes, not discussing it doesn't mean you can't accommodate them. Just because you don't discuss religion in the office doesn't prevent you from having halal/kosher meal options. Not discussing transgender issues doesn't prevent you from having a gender neutral bathroom.
I highly doubt the 'wake word' is embedded in devices on a hardware level rather than software. That sounds like a terrible idea on multiple levels.

You are using 'Google' in a vague way which may be why you are confused about what my comment meant. The Google device gets 100% of audio it hears, because it can't magically hear a 'wake word' without listening to all audio. It only sends audio to a Google server after the wake word.
Dangerous Kubernetes Bugs Allow Authentication Bypass, DoS
Warning: I tried to read it - but after half of it I found no content.
Of course we are already used to things being that way.

But a priori, order is what needs explanation, not orderlessness.

The interesting thing is that there is movement. That there is temporal structure. It's not like one instant is totally different from the previous. And that there are simple laws governing how the previous snapshot relates to the next snapshot.

Why isn't the universe simply white noise, like when you tune on a non-existent channel on old TV's and you get totally independent, random images at each instant.
> in my (limited) experience, Haskell projects (and to a slightly lesser extent, functional programming projects) work best when thoroughly planned out in thorough whiteboard/spec sessions

I think you need more experience then! I'd rather prototype in Haskell than the other language that I use day-to-day, that people say is great for "exploratory coding" (Python).
That reminds me of the create-a-card machine that was in Hallmark stores in the 90's!

I had forgotten about that. I remember watching in awe as it drew a Simpsons-themed card.
Crack the Bitcoin. You will save TWhs of electricity, mostly coal-fueled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21276544
> I guess I value my privacy more than others and don't like the idea of entities compiling a record of my data that they can sell and market.

I think a lot of people don't understand how much their data is worth. It is something I frequently hear, that "my data is useless, so why hide it?" or "what are they going to do, see that I like cat photos? HA!". I think these kinds of comments are slowly diminishing as the average person is seeing 1) these tech companies are worth $1+ trillion 2) people get scared and think Facebook is always listening because they every so often hit the mark too well. But I don't think most even know the extend of the data that these companies have (e.g. they think that Google only has their email data and knows nothing about financial), let alone how that data can be used.
>Through all the conversations I had with developers and founders in fact, one line kept coming back to me. System76 founder Carl Richell said it most explicitly: "If generosity isn't built into open source, it isn't going to work."

I think some would like to see more targeted generosity so that the richest and biggest companies on the planet are not also the biggest beneficiaries of that generosity - especially if they are competitors.

But that sort of targeting is difficult, because many of those who are not the biggest and richest sure want to be exactly that, and it's what they are telling their investors.

I wonder if an OSI compliant open source license can be granted on a conditional basis. If your revenue is less than X you get to use the OSI liecense. Otherwise you have to buy a commercial license.
You should give it a try; Algolia has a FREE tier you can play with. You can also watch this 45sec video to get a grasp of it: https://youtu.be/IYY5RM1sBC0
Docker Containers Riddled with Graboid Crypto-Worm
Not from Mexico, so it might be different for them, but one way how this works in some places is that the tax office gets all the electronic receipts from all the cash register/POS systems anyway, since that's how they monitor sales/vat/excise/etc taxes paid by the merchant and reduce the risks of "under the counter" sales where fake receipts are issued but taxes not paid on the sale.

So if the doctor's office punches in my legal ID number with the receipt (or if the ID gets added automatically from the billing system that a large hospital would have), then when the office sends all their receipt files to the tax office, the tax office will automatically add that electronic receipt to my tax deduction.
I don't know why you tech/software startups fight so hard to get funding. Just self-fund it and keep your equity for yourself. If your idea has potential, you should be fighting to keep as much equity as possible, not selling it off to the lowest bidder - VC firms. Only go to VC firms as last option as in literally the startup will die if it doesn't get funding.

The bigger value proposition I see from Y Combinator is simply the networking and community. A lot of the advice I see given during startup school is spot on from my experience.
Fortunately, it’s highly unlikely you’d be the target of a suit right off the bat. A cease-and-desist is just a warning that, should you continue what the sender considers to be infringing, they intend to file a suit.
Fraud isn't something you can worry about after the fact. There are strict regulations around anti–money laundering and counter-terrorism that are less about de-frauding an SMB then spinning up fake businesses and using payroll as a conduit. The challenge with blockchain payments in payroll is anonymity and irreversibility (two of its significant differentiators.)

At that point, what are the benefits? Transaction speed is one, but you only really get that if the business pays in crypto (otherwise you still need to wait for the ACH payment from them or float the money (don't float the money.))
>6-20 yrs is not enough prison time.

It's plenty of time. This idea that just increasing sentences indefinitely will improve things is wrong. The endless ratcheting of sentencing is wrong. 20 years seems low only because we've become so desensitized to absurdly long sentences that comparatively this seems low. Americans need to change their relationship with justice and punishment.
> But people willingly bringing always on listening devices in to their homes (beyond what smartphones are already capable of) I just can't comprehend it.

I don't get this position: my (Android) phone can already record my voice, so how does having a Google Home materially increase the privacy risk?

The GH does have access to mains power and a wifi connection, so that makes it easier to record all the time and upload a lot of data vs. a phone, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to me to think that Google would be doing something nefarious with GH and then absolutely nothing on Android. I've also noticed that when I call out to my GH, my phone will usually respond too, so it's not like my phone can't understand me, even when it's in my pocket, so the capability is definitely there.

So if you do trust Google enough to have an Android phone, then you should probably trust them just as much to have a GH. Beyond that, then it just comes down to bugs: what if GH is too sensitive and thinks you've uttered the wake word often when you haven't? Ok, then some conversations may get recorded that you didn't intend. That's certainly a concern, but "I just can't comprehend it" would seem a bit hyperbolic in that case.

> ... includes transcripts or even audio of all your household conversations/activities over the past three years

This seems to indicate to me that you believe that GH etc. are always recording and uploading every sound it hears, all day long, without regard for the wake word. If you believe this, I guess that is your prerogative, but I guess we're probably not going to have a productive discussion here.
Yes, when sorting by date it's currently configured to disable typo-tolerance. This is to avoid having an old (but approximative, with typos) result BEFORE the correct ones.