skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this isn't particularly news worthy. It's some small unit in the Army doing some minor collaboration with a questionable group of people on a pseudosceintific subject. The US military and government have a very long history of doing things like this, with zero results.
Adding telemetry is the worst decision they made in years, and it was really sneaky (without previous notice).
However if they reconsider and don't do this, it shows they care about customers. Would be nice.
South SF is far less accessible than Stripe's current location in Townsend St (Soma, SF).

I'm curious to see how many people leave because of this move. Tech workers in SF tend to live in Soma or the surrounding neighborhoods (FiDi, Mission, Dogpatch), which means for a worker without a car, their commute was previously a short bike, Muni, or Uber Pool, whereas to get to SSF they'll be looking at this (to get to a BART station), a BART ride, and probably a shuttle at the far end, because Oyster Point isn't near transit.

I worked for a company that moved its HQ (due to an acquisition) to Brisbane -- slightly closer than South SF -- and ended up buying a car to commute, because the walk + BART + shuttle combination took so long.
Yes, the story is not that notepad is in some weird place in windows 10 - it is still where most HN readers know to find it.

The story is about how regular people deal with computers, as can be read in the comments.

It's like that story about how one day the google search 'facebook login' took people to a forum page that let people comment using their facebook credentials, and we got to find out how many users just type 'facebook login' to whatever text field they run across, type their username and password in, and then get really confused when it's a random forum page and they can't see their normal feed.
In many applications (JIRA, Vim) typing without being in a text input field can cause all kinds of trouble. Heck, in browsers if you type 'backspace' you can end up going back and page and blowing away all of your precious form input. Not to mention the very real possibility that their work, the text they've typed, will be dropped on the floor. We have been trained by these dangers to avoid typing without a text prompt.
I know a computer programmer, well former web developer, who still tries to dabble in programming who "clicks the magnifying glass" to search the start menu. Same with the chrome search bar on a new tab.

He also refuses to learn shortcut keys because he never learned to touch type, and refuses to type even 1 character more than he has to, so he has a lot of common things he would type stored on a virtual clipboard that he recalls with ctrl+`, and will paste from that to avoid typing.
What about those, that, as in TFA, say that they do it by choice, it's a job, and that the government/"concerned citizens" should leave them the duck alone?
I think it's a lot more simple than that and has everything to do with the privacy environment today. People in tech really, really, really dislike it when the products/services they use attempt to track them (generally speaking). There is very little trust these days on such matters, the default setting for tech people is to not trust companies that go anywhere near privacy violations, surveillance, tracking, et al. rather than giving the benefit of the doubt. Gitlab should have seen this coming a million kilometers away.
Apparentl I like Kayn West... and I don´t even know who that is.

I hated the delivery method. It looked like these day´s cartoons, made for millenials or Zs with ultra low attention spans (smileies bouncing around, a lot of flashing graphics, etc).
> Go to Start menu

You should probably say to go to click on the windows icon. Somebody new to Windows would have no idea that used to be labelled "Start".
legal question here for someone who knows what they're doing, if you run a node and illegal activity is performed, are you complicit to the illegal activity?
Healthy food takes time to prepare and make as well, which is hard when you work 60 hour weeks to make rent before any other expenses.
Astronomers just discovered an invisible galaxy from the dawn of the universe
An app used by young people to post silly videos definitely poses a severe national security risk[1][2].

[1]https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/340216

[2]https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/10/24/tiktok-most-popul...
Net income isn't normalized across businesses.

Most businesses aim for net income. Most startups don't even try, even if they've raised hundreds of millions of dollars and occupy fancy offices. (It's also very easy for IP-based businesses to shift where income is generated.)

And that's the basic reasoning behind SF's gross proceeds tax. It's a uniquely SV tax that only works because so many unicorns built their house of cards out of claiming revenue for things no other business would claim as revenue.
Women have smaller brains and should avoid talking to men face-to-face, EY said
I bought Prelude to Mathematics when I was 12, it was the first maths book I bought. That was a very long time ago! I thought it was very good, I don't know of another book quite like it. He produced some other good books as well.
Have you considered that often the reason why we don't complain about the worse alternatives are that we already are avoiding them/mitigating them?

Not always, but often.
Their job title according to their profile is "Senior Community Advocate", so I would say that it's part of their job to post here.
Living in the US, I've wondered that as well. I would not consider the question stupid, and it's an unnecessary start to an answer.
Interesting, I figured since they claimed that wasn't possible that they didn't keep records. I'll have to go bug them again to see if they can investigate it further. I'm not sure if this was an instance of targeted social engineering or an employee, though I would assume the former is more likely.
Do you really think anyone is naive enough to believe this sort of thing won't become the norm? It's pretty clear GitLab has drank from the poisoned well.

Your CFO is making these sorts of decisions, not developers. Good luck with the business, but I'm out.
US government bodies do not face the same lack of accountability, transparency, and governance faced by South African governments.

> I don't think your claim that the government would be a better manager is tenable.

I'm unsure how one can make that claim. I'm unaware of any other parts of the US or other developed nations that are experiencing rolling blackouts due to utility mismanagement.
Ask HN: My boss is quitting. Any advice for an intern?
This is my first software engineering internship, which I found through my school. I've been here for 6 months. I'm suppose to be here for a year.

The company is sub 100 people, with a engineering team of around 30 people based in Toronto. During that time 2 Senior Engineers and an Engineering manager have left (other people on other teams have left as well I just didn't keep track). Today, my boss told me he was resigning and switching jobs as well. From what I've read on HN and else where this turn-over rate is the norm for the industry, but I can't help but feel uneasy. I don't think the company is in any financial risk (it's been in-business for 10+ years) but then again I'm just an intern. Recently, the CEO announced that we wouldn't be getting an highly anticipated contract. These all seem like red-flags to me.

I don't know what to do. Should I start looking for a job or tough it out for another 6 months? I just feel lost in general.
How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X over Amazon RDS at the Same Cost
What are some such tools that you know about/recommend?

I've also considered this for Passbox but needed to start simply.
> And Drew DeVault is kind of an asshole

This sentence was totally uncalled for.
Redux Starter Kit 1.0
> And while the Bay is tricky from a commuting standpoint no matter what the location,

As someone who lives in the area, I like the fact that both BART & Caltrain cross-over right around the airport (I commute to Palo Alto and SF downtown). The addition of a Milbrae to South SF shuttle would cover both options with a single pickup (& even the folks who drive there to take BART to SF).

The Oyster pt marina is connected out of only Alameda & Oakland, but that does beat trying to get to either bridges in general particularly the 8:10 AM ferry out of Oakland / 5:10 out of Oyster pt.

And it is not just 101 northbound for this, taking 280 through 380 isn't too bad either - the traffic jam pretty much starts northbound at Sneath lane.

I'd say that this puts Stripe in a better location for commutes, though far away from all the other offices.
Can you provide a source for point D2? Admittedly, I don’t understand chemistry at all, but that seems strange to me, and I’d like to read more
SiFive unveils Shield security architecture
I feel like a bank's safe deposit box system coupled with an estate planning service is the traditional approach to this.
What if a delivery drone falls on your head? And more questions
DHS warns of Russian interference plans in 2020 elections
I don't think so.

Personally, I did flag the post you mentioned, because that same thing (discussing introducing telemetry) was on the front page yesterday (Yesterday), for most of the day (or, at least, for most of the US/Pacific day).

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a policy where if an "item" (a topic, a post, whatever) hits the front page, then it should not appear again immediately after (unless there's some new development).
It's also really annoying on a tablet. I can't get an onscreen keyboard without some sort of target.
Engineers tried to resist, CFO insisted...

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/14182#no...
> That number is a myth

The article [1] posits reasonable hypotheses for why the number might be lower, but doesn’t attempt to calculate it, ending with “math...always making things confusing.”

San Francisco spends a lot on its homeless problem. (Using the article’s numbers, stripping out eviction prevention, about $200 million a year.) It has little to show for it.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Myths-like-homel...
Rudin
It is, I live in the Red Light District for 34 years and have seen it all.
This plan to get rid of the girls is a setup of the civil cervants and the church since around 2000.
When I came living there in 1985 the neighborhood was rough, relative unsave because of dealers and junkies and there was a lot of crappy state housing.
Round 2000 most of these problems were gone and the land/housing slowly started to become more valueable.
A lot of parties with interest to gain a lot from that neighbourhood, with all their own reasons, started to plan for the removal of coffeeshops and the girls.
The tourists coming for these coffeeshops were low key and hardly a problem for the authorities.
The interested parties started 1012 project to buy out all the owners of the window bordellos, this failed due to finance problems caused by the expensive north/south metroline and the downfall of the economy in 2008.
Then the parties had another plan, "Let's invite lower class uncivil drinking tourists through the tourist buro", then they can trash the neibourhood and make life difficult for the ladies behind the windows.
Then the parties started to talk how little respect and danger these girls are getting from those tourists, now we have a reason to relocate these girls and make the money from those now high valued buildings and land.
There are billions involved with this, don't let people fool you into thinking that there is a milligram of altruism.
Yes. It won't allow the number take over, but you will end up with 1+ new iPhones in hand for the attacker. You can swap the number at any point afterward easier than just setting up a new phone at the store with a suspecting employee.
Show HN: Geoparsing
Well, when you're transparent about adding features that users don't want, I don't think it comes as a surprise that users express they don't want those features.

Granted, Gitlab wants telemetry in order to understand how Gitlab is being used. I'm sympathetic to their goal. But I'm also sympathetic to a sort of "NIMBY" response from users even if overall telemetry might improve the ecosystem for everyone. It's a sort of "tragedy of the commons" situation.
I would not at all be surprised if the Cortana-powered (or whatever it is) start menu search failed to find Notepad if you started typing. I don't know how they can screw something like that up so badly, but it's almost unusuable without installing Classic Shell to override the normal behavior.
I think OP was referring to this specifically:

> If my competitors keep making stupid decisions then making SourceHut successful will be pretty easy

He could have posted the same thing with the same effect without being outright rude.
curious in what way the city is 'cooperative'
Sorry, this article is propaganda for BigAg and BigChem.

They looked at one meta study and one study that was ESTIMATING the effectiveness of organic based on land usage.

Organic farming is needed to increase top soil depth which results in increased carbon sequestration and water absorption.

Organic farming isn't specific enough. It's permanent agriculture which is needed, usually in the form of organic agriculture.
This is weird to be because I would share in most cases. I'm for pretty massive reforms in policing in the US but there are also burglaries, missing persons, and other investigations where I would definitely help when I could.
The statement is overly harsh, but essentially correct.

QML simply lacks a lot of features, and C++ hooks are often required to make it work well.

Oddly, you need to launch a QML app using at least a little bit of C++ no matter what. That's not a problem for mot pro devs who can hack a little bit of C++, but it's actually problematic for most others. Even 10 lines of C++ is too much for most devs who don't know it. It's like having to speak 10 lines of Russian. The docs are often tricky and ambiguous about how to start and launch apps as well.
Putting aside the attribution of blame for a moment, consider he and McElvey created
from scratch an enterprise that created those jobs and their concomitant
health care plans. Employees without significant voting equity get paid an agreed upon
package until as such time the employer can or does not wish to continue the
relationship. Fairness has nothing to do with it.
Drew's comment there explains the fundamental issue.

> Drew DeVault @ddevault · 1 hour ago

> Obligatory disclaimer: I work for a GitLab competitor.

>Thank you for pumping the brakes, but this is still not great news. This language is the classic "defuse, wait, and try again later" approach to shoeing in unpopular changes. You're still hedging their bets with this language, rather than renouncing the original ideas. A similar tactic we've already seen is apologising for "bad communication" instead of the real problem: bad changes. Until a real apology is issued and the changes renounced, this isn't very meaningful.

"Reconsidering the approach" is CYA talk. What you're doing right now is an attempt at damage limitation instead of fixing the actual problem.

Third party telemetry is a cancer that no-one wants.

You, personally, don't even want it. You know you don't want it, but you're adopting the 'corporate mask'.

Just stop, please. For your own good, as well as that of the wider ecosystem.
Unless things changed over the summer, Square is not profitable, so this is just an additional major expense that makes profitability harder to achieve.
But is it funky, dirty native? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mXe9nRiPHI
Memes got weaponized: A short history
Thanks for this. In my opinion that's not ideal because:

1. They'd have access right then and there

2. You could use a traditional password manager for that

3. Data changes could become more of a hassle to keep up-to-date
In Scorsese and Coppola, Marvel Meets Formidable Foes
This was absolutely fascinating... and underscores the fact that the world has little patience for the technically uninitiated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740038
The example the author uses reminds me of some wackadoodle numerology BS proving that the ancient Egyptians predicted the Federal Reserve. "...which gives us 675, which is close enough to 640, and therefore there had to be a second shooter". Hey, wait, what? And the comments! "Yeah, that makes sense." Umm, might I posit that it most certainly does not make a fucking lick of sense? Yeesh, round off enough numbers, and I've got yer String Theory proof right here.
Notepad2 is good notepad replacement. A few options checked and it even looks the same. It feels somewhere between notepad and notepad++.
+1 for using jsonnet. An adequate language for this kind of task! (Here "adequate" is meant as high praise... too often the choice of config langauge isn't.)
I do this. Most of my life is just copy-pasting from stack overflow, so speed isn't a problem.
Discord Turned into an Info-Stealing Backdoor by New Malware
I've been really happy using glogg[0] for that scenario.

[0]: https://glogg.bonnefon.org/
Ah, I missed it yesterday. Number 22. (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23)
While the vice article is fairly descriptive I found the referenced original article to be a far better explanation of the research.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v12/105
If you want to develop to responsive cross-platform application, it's the best choice. It's basically industry standard in embedded platforms at this point.

It's not expensive is you have a business that makes any money. It's free if you don't modify qt source itself and follow LGPL.
Every Qt application I've ever used has been ... off.

Granted, it's closer than Swing. That's a pretty low bar. We need to either start qualifying this ("it's a good GUI toolkit for a cross-platform one"), or accepting that this is a scale (10 is "actually native", 0 is "just looks like Motif everywhere"). I'd give Qt 8/10 -- it's pretty good, and the screenshots look great but after a moment using it I'll say "wait, I think I know why everything feels just a little bit off".
ACA is alive and chugging. An attempt to dismantle it has failed despite of a republican president with a republican congress.

Which means most people agree that ACA does more good than bad.

It may feel very good to fight for a noble goal without a compromise and half measures, but while you are fighting, the people you are fighting for are no better.

But that's not your fault, right?
>or get a job where men stick their penises in you a dozen times a day.

How is that different from lifting boxes in some factory job, or whatever menial work?

I mean, I know the e.g. Christian answer.

What would the distinction be, however, without giving some special negative spiritual quality to having sex?
Please don't post illegal streams to HM
In my decrepit corner of the third world we call it "loadshedding" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout)

It's been a fact of life here as long as I've been alive and there is no indication that it'll improve in my lifetime either.

Even now as I type this there has been no electricity for 1 hour and won't be until another hour. There are about four 2-3 hour blackouts every day throughout the year.

We have always had to schedule every technology-related activity around it. When I was a kid, if there was a blackout during our favorite TV show, we had to go to someone else's house that had electricity or a generator.

We scramble to finish chores that rely on electricity when there's a blackout imminent. Of course there are always random unscheduled blackouts too so you can't really predict them.

Even now in almost 2020, almost every person here has a smartphone and quite a few have Macs etc but we still don't have 24/7 electricity. Almost every middle class house has their own generator and solar/UPS system.

I've never been able to participate in online groups or activities like gaming, collaboration or freelancing for long because of this (on top of unreliable internet too), because I can't expect people in better countries to re-accommodate their schedules around my periods of forced downtime.
According to the post below they exist now. I'm hoping for recommendations!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21345210
Google and Facebook have both contracted ferries (water taxis, technically) in the past.
I pointed out the dupe when there was only a single comment on this story. I thought I was being helpful, giving a link to a bunch of great discussion. Now I regret it.
> As discussed in the podcast, not even a few of the people at NSA believed anything of the sort.

Snowden's documents themselves showed the legal justification for the phone metadata program. It nakes sense that Snowden would claim otherwise in the podcast because he is barely literate and hasn't actually read most of the documents he leaked.

> As detailed there, it took 18 months of lobbying and browbeating the secret court

You don't "lobby" a court. You have lawyers justify a position.

> Also I have to say I'm just loving the concerted effort ITT to redefine the term "whistleblower".

You're the one making a bizarre definition of "whistleblower." Is it whistleblowing to leak all of your company's documents if you don't know they are doing anything illegal so long as somebody can later find one thing that is illegal? Obviously not.
I forgot all about that.
Tesla has made a profit. Repeat, Tesla has made a profit – $143m in fact
Backpedaling due to bad PR does not reestablish trust. Gitlab has demonstrated that they're willing to breach trust if they can get away with it. They're dead to me.
trauma is not an event or sequence of events, trauma is the physiological response to an event or sequence of events that were highly stressful.

trauma is a collection of symptoms, biomarkers, and behavioral adaptations.
There's also elements of selection bias as well. If you're highly transparent it's likely that people who value that will be drawn to your product, so when you subsequently take steps to reduce that transparency somewhat (such as roping in a third party from an industry known to engage in shady things), and make it mandatory for users in the most intrusive way possible, it's likely to garner a bigger backlash than for a less transparent product because your user base cares about that sort of thing more.
wow, me working on FEMA's backups was no where near this secure.(no blinkfolds and guarded all the time inside)

But yea, same thing with them being well aware of your arrival before you show up.

It was their underground bunk backup site near DC, think it was Baltimore area. Drove up to a guard in front of chain link fence.
It was marked as a duplicate because it was a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344575, which spent over 14 hours on HN's front page and got over 200 upvotes.

Now there are three threads; those two and this one, which is currently on the front page. I'm happy to merge them, but am not sure which submission should win.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 has the most substantive discussion of the fresh threads, so I guess we'll undupe that one and merge. Give me a few minutes because it's a bit tricky when there are more than two.

Edit 2: Ok, I've merged all the comments into the thread except for the ones which were explicitly about this post in a way that wouldn't make sense over there.