skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why do we need a Security Director? Our security is fine, there's no problem, so why spend the money?"

There's this weird dynamic in Information technology where professionals doing their jobs really well result in there being no problems. When there is no problems there's not much attention and the lack of problems is devalued by management.

Management value teams and managers who heroically solve big problems and issues.

This is why companies can sometimes decide that their best people are not needed cause "all is so quiet" and fire them.
Off topic but — anybody know a good/recommendable vpn service that supports MacOS without requiring third party software and which allows inbound access to the external ip associated with the service ...?

I need to ssh back to my laptop frequently because of some annoying restrictions with a service provider I use (heroku). I _can_ do shenanigans with ssh tunneling on a publicly accessible server I control - but it’s actually pretty annoying to work that way in my scenarios.

I’ve tried a few vpn services that offer “static ips” but the services I’ve tried filter inbound connections to that ip ... does anyone know a good vpn service that can effectively gives me a public IP address so I can make inbound connections to my developer machine while I’m random shitty coffee shop WiFi ...?
In the 'Quality of Windows' graph over Time, there is a double hump in the curve. The first smaller hump is Windows XP, the second slightly higher hump is Windows 7.

Both before Win-XP and after Win-7, the curve falls away to the depths of inefficiency and mediocrity. The trough between the two was the short-lived, well-forgotten disaster that was Vista.
When they own/lease a shit ton of physical assets
His name is Patsy, as stated by Graham Chapman with "[...] and this is my trusty servant, Patsy."

noun: patsy; plural noun: patsies
a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

So, there's that as well.
there are also a lot of stories of early wework employees who were essentially told "we will give you options soon in the future, but sign your employment contracts now and trust that we'll get it done" and then didn't get it done. Really shady all around.
Lesson: If you're rich and mess up, you'll become yet more rich.
Lots of mob and machine politics and run of the mill crime good for pulpy novels.
Late stage capitalism. What a wanker.
I am concerned most about one thing: When can the VPN defeat China's Firewall?
For someone paying $10/mo? No. For the trust of my thousands of customers paying $10/mo and to keep my public reputation afloat? Hell yes. A VPN service that hands over customer information constantly will very quickly go out of business.
As Matt Levine said, if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 100 million dollars, the bank has a problem.
Hand Write EventEmitter
Is this description really accurate? Some random person can wind up owing $30,000 because some bureaucrat decides that they do? Without a court proceeding? That seems... almost certainly unconstitutional, and absolutely certainly a terrible idea.

Then there's the little matter of malicious misuse or harassment. I mean, forget swatting someone, you could cause serious havoc by "mistakenly" dropping a few of these accusations on someone.

What's the best way to persuade senators that this is a terrible idea (or at least a politically toxic one)?
The best part of buying a house out of town was that I never have to look out my bedroom window at night and see that ever-present hellish orange haze from the street lights ever again.
Indoctrinated fool. Go read some past and present economic theory.
If there is something offensive in here, it's the use of electricity when there is a free light source around.
Just please avoid flamebait and flamewars on HN and especially ideological battle

Yes understood.
Unless you're a teenager or actually writing about kpop that directory full of those girl's images looks ridiculous and screams creep.
Because in this case, the "victims" were voluntarily involved. Also, the peanut gallery is free to throw peanuts at the stage.
Hmm, the time on the Twitter post says 1:07PM. The earnings call was 2PM. But I've noticed the Snap investor site always has the presentation put up a bit before the call, like an hour or so. I've read the presentation before the call started plenty of times. Maybe TC just had a prewritten article ready to go, waiting for the presentation, and plugged in the numbers?
> And yeah, it's funny

Part of the reason it's funny is the resolute failure of King Arthur to understand that he's not actually riding a horse. Or maybe I shouldn't try to analyze what funny is.
Oh yeah, I would always mandate that be a $ value in the contract.

Edit: to clarify I mean “$x of shares”
I don't want to sound naive, but... I wonder how much of this might be innocent bugs because developers just don't test the site on this browser configuration?
Currently CTO of Goodly. Busy a bit but always love to help people. Happy to chat if you are in SF.
It all boils down to the fact that it just doesn't matter. Any hangups exist mostly in our heads, and everyone has different hangups so there's no winning the battle. Some people think consistency is important, I find it causes me to get confused more often, like driving around a cookie-cutter neighborhood where you're never quite sure you're pulling into the right driveway, even though you've lived there for 5 years. Corporations have salaried design teams that need to constantly prove their value, when really they could have stopped working in 1995 and we all would have been just fine.
More sane backronyms are Universal Time Coordination (which seems to be used by various metrology people) and Universal Time - Coordinated, which makes sense given the UT0 and UT1 timescales.
Google Chrome 78 is out: Forced dark mode, DoH trials, no more XSS Auditor
Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection with Batch Normalization
Widevine support is enabled in Firefox on 32 and 64-bit x86 platforms.

binfmt_misc can enable Flash support.
> But dunno if it had widespace Latin or other Western letters.

Yes, U+FF01–U+FF5E is a ‘full width’ copy of printable ASCII (U+0021–U+007E).

Ｙｅｓ， Ｕ＋ＦＦ０１－Ｕ＋ＦＦ５Ｅ ｉｓ ａ ｀ｆｕｌｌ ｗｉｄｔｈ＇ ｃｏｐｙ ｏｆ ｐｒｉｎｔａｂｌｅ ＡＳＣＩＩ （Ｕ＋００２１－Ｕ＋００７Ｅ）．

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_...
8 Companies That Buy Patents and Intellectual Property
That's really the goal of modern business, isn't it? Pump a business full of cash and grow at massively unsustainable rates. If your company collapses then you take down a bunch of other businesses and industries which relies on the investor-subsidized stuff you bring to the market, making your company too big to fail.

With the sheer amount of venture capital at your beck and call, you can also force out challengers trying to enter the market easily by dropping prices even further (and who cares, you're already non-profitable!) or just straight up buying them out.

Profitability doesn't even matter as long as your business is considered valuable! Even better if you can get tax payers on the hook for saving your asses.
I have to ask when are the investors in softbank or the vision fund going to question this bail out? I’d be furious if it were my money being flushed down the toilet this way.
Obviously that is not the issue that people have with this. It would not be newsworthy if he was accepting a chairmanship at a UK University. But he is accepting a chairmanship in a country with a modern day human rights record that is frankly deplorable.
On principle I am not impressed with what happened and I think it's very sloppy. After the Lavabit fiasco we have to be extra scrutinuous about the leadership in privacy-oriented companies. That said, I still have a few accounts with Protonmail and I think the service itself is pretty good.
Would you describe it as creepy if these were a bunch of images containing popular anime characters instead of kpop band members?
Right, they’re working to bring the old non-Chromium Edge’s efficiency to Chromium for the new Edge.
Sending could be initiated or in response. Plenty of predators on tik tok right now trying to talk to young girls.

Good luck with your kids.
Building Instant group chat for nearby loosely affiliated people (does the world need yet another chat app?, surprisingly it does!)

What I am building unlocks value and solves problems of current options. Maintains privacy, keeps out randos.

No, isn’t one of those been done million times, who is around you, just based on GPS, apps).

The magic happens in the backend, looking for someone who will focus on development of all server-side logic, You can make mobile apps that can handle lots of concurrent chats/chatrooms, thousands of users. It starts out simple but gets complex, lots of interesting problems to solve. More concerned about it works than how it looks, so basic frontend skills would be nice, but again back matters more

Basic MVP already built with React Native. You would not be building from scratch, but adding features (some very basic like social login and images) then followed by more complex things. Later we can do swift/kotlin apps for iOS/Android if needed.

You being based in the Bay Area would be nice but not a requirement. Built other chat apps before or something like that? Say hi. email in profile.

Looking forward to working with someone who likes to move fast and make something pretty cool. Its a big market we would be targeting.
There's a third, highest hump drawn with invisible partner-network ink representing Windows 10 LTSB.

They really should just sell that distribution. It's almost perfect.
A high profile CISO doesn’t want some pretender to the throne making noise in another org.

This definitely sounds like office power politics dragged into the public square. One more reason to hate Twitter.
I can see the SEC investigating this . . .
I don't know who said that first but it certainly wasn't Matt Levine.
Mimicking Local News, a Network of Michigan Websites Pushes Politics
Well for a website about a permissively-licensed operating system, the author clearly has no problems violating copyright licenses by using these girl's photos in branding.
I've been working on a hardware data logger device and web software platform that monitors soil moisture and other environmental metrics that produce-growers care about – soil temperature and conductivity (which indicates salinity or fertiliser penetration), air/canopy temperature, rainfall, irrigation, humidity, solar radiation, etc.

We've been working on the product for about 4-5 years (as a side project while working on other things to pay the bills). Initially it was a smartphone-connected device using Bluetooth and manual data retrieval, but we've just reached production-ready stage of a newer version that uses the new LTE Cat-M1 cellular data protocol (which uses existing 4G cellular infrastructure but is optimised for lower power and longer range).

So we now have a whole lot of these devices sitting in crops (E.g., grapevines, wheat, fruit/vegetables, nuts, sugar cane), some of them over 20km from their nearest cell tower (you can extend the range further with high-gain antennas but we haven't had to do that yet), automatically uploading all this data and generating various data views (time series graphs and dashboards) to help growers make decisions about when/how much to irrigate etc.

It can also do reactive/proactive stuff like detect when temperature close to the surface drops to near 2°C overnight and send out frost warning alerts, and over time we intend to make the data platform powerful enough that it can do things like automate the switching on/off of irrigation pumps in response to soil moisture level trends.

I don't have a website to point to yet. I'm working on a demo site now.

But I'd be interested to hear from anyone who is working on tech like this or is interested to work on it or partner in some way (email address is in my profile).

Despite having worked in the space for nearly 5 years, I'm still not sure why this tech isn't more commonplace – i.e., why every professional grower isn't already using something like this. This kind of tech has been around for a long time, so we're not doing anything completely new, just doing it more affordably and hopefully making better use of modern tech.

From what I've been able to learn about the market, it seems that the big industrial-scale producers use this type of tech, though what they use is costly and sophisticated to install/maintain. But for many smaller growers, it's considered not important enough to make the investment, and they're happy doing things the way they and the previous generations have always done it.

But with water scarcity becoming an issue in many parts of the world it will become increasingly important for growers of all scales to use this kind of tech to avoid water wastage.

We've also had the opportunity to trial the equipment with growers in Far-North Queensland, inland from the Great Barrier Reef. The government and industry bodies in that region are interested to see how this kind of tech could be used to minimise over-watering leading to fertiliser run-off into the sea, which is a contributor to coral bleaching.

So, yeah, that's what I'm doing. Happy to hear from anyone interested to know more or work together.
> Arrow's IIA is nonsense - intensity matters!

Independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) says that adding another option shouldn't change a voter's (or the election result's) relative preferences among all other options.

"The table's waiter comes by and says their desert options are blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream. You order the pie. Then the waiter comes back and says, we also have chocolate cake. 'In that case, I'll have the ice cream!'"

I don't see what this has to do with intensity?

Arrow's theorem does assume that intensity doesn't matter, but this isn't IIA but is rather the unnamed predicate that voters express their preferences by ranking candidates with no ties allowed, rather than an approval voting scheme, or a "on a scale of 1-10" scheme.
GCN comes from the part number prefix that was used by the ODM (almost certainly BroadOn) in development and “Game Cube (for) Nintendo” makes sense in that context. In similar vein, Wii is REV, as in “REVolution”.
Could Selenium be used for this? It checks most of the boxes you mention.
Secondhand clothing predicted to overtake fast fashion within a decade
I have no insight here, but given the NYT isn’t completely ignorant about technology, conspiratorially I might think it could be a way to push someone they didn’t want anymore out —we eliminated the position! (And we just created a new chief of “cyber” position, it’s totally different).
It's funny to see someone sell all the way down from $14 to $12 regardless of the volume. Whoever had that bid in at $12 must be laughing their ass off.
What are your interests and skills?

I'm also looking for someone to build a side project with.

I've got a few things I'm working on but they aren't necessarily huge money makers.
A better system would be to require that it is very clear the user is being monitored. Some kind of persistent notification and popup on every boot notifying the user of the software. This way it still works fine for corporate setups but is useless for stalkers
VPN companies are explicitly built on reputation for not doing that. ISPs don't give a damn about reputation and are usually a monopoly, or the other options are just as bad.
Son is losing money on every individual investment, but he will make it up in volume, like he did in the 2000

oh, wait
Slight clarification: at that time, there was no ITU, but CCITT, which is decidedly french acronym ;)
As I understand it, algae growth is generally limited by iron, so just removing the limiting factor can increase growth and pull more CO2 out of the air. There has been at least one rogue geoengineering project along those lines - https://csi.asu.edu/ideas/the-first-of-the-geohackers/

Maybe we don't actually need genetic engineering - maybe we can just build big algae ponds and feed them iron supplements. Basically build algae heaven, open source it and random groups across the globe can start doing it.
Agile cryptography is bad. Wireguard uses just solid, single, unconfigurable crypto.
> he only went into that embassy in the first place to avoid going to Sweden.

His attempt to avoid that was basically 10 years of self-imposed jail in Ecuador's embassy and his health gave out.

His decisions make sense if he thought he was at risk of being black-holed in America. They don't make sense if he thought he was only up for what Sweden is accusing him of. The Swedes are going to be charging with relatively minor non-violent crimes like otherwise-consensual sex without a condom.
Zuckerberg admits Facebook in a poor position to promote Libra
If you search for agtech you can find things like this: https://agfundernews.com/2019-06-04-agtech-landscape-2019-16...
I think you're missing a key ingredient--your network of colleagues. I don't think companies care that much about technical skills after a certain level. The way you get work is by having associates who know you and can get you in.
Google Cloud Network Outage
Have you heard of Theodore Roosevelt? The Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgans are just one side of a coin. And if you read enough history, society is constantly flipping the coin.
Well, actually I stopped smoking pot after this, so in that sense at least the answer would be yes.
I love how you say you're working on fission because it's at <1% of its potential. That's a really wise perspective.

> If all goes well, I'll be needing people in just about every specialization there.

How far along are you in the Oak Ridge guys' elaborately detailed Molten Salt Reactor development program plan from 1974 [1], as far as it's relevant? If parts of it are irrelevant, how significant are the things you have to do that they didn't?

[1] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4227904
Hey treelovinhippie. Show me some sources so I can enlighten myself.
That are a whole lot of todos in my eyes. Also I'd be happier with an (additional?) standalone desktop app. Let's hope Mozilla will improve it over time, maybe I can migrate sometime in the future.

I don't like how everyone builds their own fenced off ecosystem but I guess that's how things are nowadays.
> I would get asked "will you stake your career on it never happening?" Of course not.

"Let's make a bet over whether a customer reports an authenticator app gets hacked before a customer's account without an authenticator is broken into. If the authenticator app is hacked first, I'll resign. If an account with no 2FA is compromised, you resign."
"This is a synopsis from the NTSB’s report" about the FIU collapse from March 15, 2018, and not a new collapse, which is what I feared.
You've identified 9 good reasons there.

There probably weren't any CIA plants involved and the US is unlikely to execute him.
Comcast is a local monopoly in my area. As such, users have little recourse when Comcast abuses their power. I think given what we know about Comcast it is fair to assume that they would misuse all traffic on their network if it makes them more profitable. Their incentives are not aligned with their users. Why not save all your customer's web traffic and sell it to advertisers... Why spend any money securing all that data? what are our customers going to do? Go back to dial up?

VPN services have to compete with each other. Consumers can't really be sure their provider is doing the things they say they are, but at least their incentives are somewhat more in line with doing the right thing. I hope so anyway. Hopefully, VPN customers are a little more informed than the article suggests. I guess we will see how much NordVPN was punished in the market over the next few months.

That said, don't trust anyone on the internet - to the extent that you can - especially Comcast.
Ah yes. Quite familiar with Baudot for several reasons. I didn't make the connection.
I don't think the existence of bootcamps is a good measure.

Which key features is Haskell missing?
> even some Google applications have those relaxed restrictions, i.e. Google Play

Google doesn't allow those apps on Google Play (clarifying because it's confusing i.e. you can't get an alternative to google play from google play).

While DeX isn't downloaded from Google Play, so that restriction doesn't directly apply; I can well imagine google cracking down on it. Perhaps also on other Play alternatives.

But just my imagination - IDK.
It's more likely that every generation is all of the above - or more precisely, every generation goes through phases where one or more of those might apply. Every generation will believe that the older generations are stupid and short-sighted, then as that generation gets older it will believe that the younger generations are stupid and short-sighted. Every generation will think the older generations are backwards and the newer generations naïve.

If there's any sort of cycle between generations, it seems like cynicism v. optimism is more likely. I like to think of it as a sort of "day" v. "night":

1920's: evening / night
1930's: night / early morning hangover
1940's: (cycle temporarily pauses while the world blows itself up)
1950's: morning
1960's: afternoon
1970's: evening
1980's: night
1990's: morning hangover
2000's: afternoon
2010's: evening / night
2020's: night / morning (predicted)

It's something I can hear in the music from those time periods, though I can't quite quantify it.

Re: "hippies", they seem to be a feature of the Boomer, Gen-X, and Millennial/Gen-Y generations alike; all three have had very similar movements (which makes it all the more poignant that now the Millennial hippies are scolding the very generation from which hippies originated in the first place).

Also, I don't know if I'd characterize Gen-X as "conservative".
That Hamming quote reflects on something I've felt in my gut to be important for a long time: there is nothing more intuitive than a cohesive internal world model, where all conclusions are "trivial" because these hooks which you reference carry us through the logical deductions automatically. Everything makes sense because there's a basal (axiomatic) set of rules with which to interpret the things we encounter, and a helpful set of heuristic functions which help us quickly decide further actions. Learning is the process of turning a datum sans context into another node in the great graph database in our head, and learning rules over which to operate on this graph.
This is somewhat good idea of how standardization works, but in this case it is not entirely correct. The argument there was essentially that ATM with E1-like framing (and thus somewhat different and longer header) could be used across whole france for voice beare channels without echo cancelation. The 5+48 byte with HEC framing variant at least in theory also satisfies this (somewhat nonsencial) requirement.
Those big companies may not have gotten there first but they moved the quickest to buy the companies that did. That's how many not-so-big companies became "those big companies."
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I thought HN banned blatantly editorialized headlines.

EFF Deep Links is reliably extremist in its interpretation of news.

Here's a more neutral report:

https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8531531/case...

And a pro-CASE opinion from the President of the American Bar Association: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/466742-the-...
I'm actually not sure if this is a native Chrome feature, but I can instantly send tabs to my other devices with right click > "send to your devices" > list of devices with a Google account signed in (Which is my phone and laptop for me on my desktop).