skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do the criminals handle the banking aspect? It's one thing to sit somewhere and cyber-phish/attack someone through email. But they need a bank account. In Canada. They then need to move 800k out quickly to another account somewhere. At least some aspects of this had to be done in person, using some kind of id?
SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)[1] has solved all of these problems except the encryption of data using the same key forever.

The apps all currently use one identity per device but it's not actually hard to use the same identity on two devices and multiple apps share the same identity commonly.

Old versions could of software could be a concern but really that's what Versioned APIs are for. It's a solved problem.

The only notable problem with local first dev that I'm aware of currently is storage requirements being confounded by the limited size of SSDs on most people's computers.

[1]: https://scuttlebutt.nz/
This has largely not been my experience. Most people I interact with don't care about under the hood and just want it to work. If you have managed to find a place in life where most people enjoy understanding how the things they depend upon work (IT tech or not), then count it as a blessing.
Or in other words, rights only exist when both parties have a similar level of power.
Jefferson refused to recognize Haiti as an independent republic.
What is the difference between luminiferous aether and the electro-magnetic field?

Edit: Context
Ideally the city would have to have the courage to assign permits to individual blocks and create permit-only zones that fit the entire number of permits granted, with temporary parking only allowed in a small number of parking spots remaining outside those zones. And it should be hundreds of dollars a year at a minimum -- or even better, auctioned off, which would almost certainly be a thousand or more a year in many neighborhoods.

But nevertheless, increasing city revenue is nothing to sneeze at -- since it will presumably either lower taxes for the rest of us or delay otherwise inevitable increases.

Because the majority of non-car-owning New Yorkers shouldn't be subsidizing residential car owners, which is what happens right now. Car owners should be paying market rate for their parking space, just like I pay market rate for my apartment space.
I've been building apps that meet this criteria for several years now. It's nice to see the concept getting some attention here.

The only thing I'll point out is that CouchDB getting rated "partially meets the idea" seems pretty weak to me. They reference v2.1 but the latest version is 2.3.1 and here's link to the docs on how conflict resolution is dealt with:

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/replication/conflicts.htm...

If finer grained control is needed it would be up to the developer to implement it, and it really shouldn't be difficult to do that.

In my case, I use PouchDB to perform a "live sync" with all connected users so they all get the latest updates to a document. If a conflict arises it's easy for any one of the users to fix and push it to everyone connected.
Interesting to note that on my current Linux system, both CTRL-3 (ESC) and CTRL-8 (backspace) work as well.
through scaling the cost to the provider should be much lower, which means either the cost to the consumer will either be less, or there will be a great opportunity for competition.
HN readers obviously have a mix of opinions, from software pirate to corporate shill. But certainly many work for FAANGs and the thousands of other companies in tech and have some ideas how companies work. Their pay and employment and products they work on all depend on both 1) them not revealing inside information and 2) their co-workers not revealing inside information.

So the GP's "rip away his work and livelihood because he’s clever enough to find clues in their betas" is totally off base. The reason he had access to those betas was because of his developer agreement.

Clearly, the public is served when inside information about illegal or immoral behavior is revealed, but the OP seems to all about commercial information, so no whistleblower status.
The tests were run 10 times, and I used the median value. There wasn't much variance between runs, so I don't think disk caching played much of a role here.

Being a garbage collected language with a runtime, Go certainly cannot match the performance of C, and it was never my point to prove otherwise - obviously, for the same algorithm, the C implementation would be faster. Instead, I was exploring Go to highlight how simple it is to write safe, concurrent code in it.
Parsing in Fexl
How rich will this make Honey employees? Especially the early ones?
How much would it cost and how long would it take to build an exact replica of the original today, including all the tunnels, chambers, etc?
neither of the co-founders are American
I bet you can still enumerate them though through a different method.
Importantly however, Venmo doesn't make money on peer to peer transactions that use bank accounts, which I'd imagine is what most people do as that's free.

Consequently, Venmo is not profitable.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/venmo-has-40-million-users-p....
The difference is rarely do people wake from a dream and feel they ought to change their life in major ways as a result.

Curious what "high" doses of "plain old psychedelics" might be? I've never gone further than 200ug LSD.
Hey HN. I created Fast.io as a workflow tool for file hosting. Instead of pushing files to S3, and configuring CloudFront, I wanted more of a "syncing" experience, like Dropbox. The other problem I wanted to solve was log parsing; in other words, I didn't want to log parse. So Fast.io parses the logs for me and sends them right to Google Analytics.

It works as you would expect, and supports files up to 1GB at a price lower than S3/CloudFront.

It's been a long time in the making, I hope you like it!
If I buy the 1% of Amazon (the company) I get the 1% of the anual dividends, and the 1% of the voting rights. It's not possible to go, pick up a 1% of the buildings, but there are a lot of regulations to ensure that I get approximately my share and I get enough information. If I buy the other 99% then I own the it and I can do whatever I want with it, like selling all the assets.

If I buy the 1% of Amazon (the river or the rainforest) I don't get anything, and my opinion is not special. It's not possible to go, pick up a 1% of the trees. Even if I buy the other 99% I don't have anything.
This is excellent for showing how to do X in Y language. But like most benchmarks - it's a bit silly.
If speed was the priority, you could parse only 1% of the file, then multiply the values by 100, assuming the rest of the file looks alike. Do you really care to know the file has 1337 words rather then ca 1300 words?

What about power consumption?
Ubuntu 19.04 in a VM running on top of macOS.
Actually, linen armor was hugely influential [1] [2].

The focus on battles and war in history instead of how civilizations change seems short-sighted, especially as it limits the amount of time a history class can help students understand other cultures. Which, given globalization and the internet, might be a better use of time.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34810209/ns/technology_and_science...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Reconstructing-Ancient-Linen-Body-Arm...
Is there any way to use firefox with chrome dev tools? I can't bother using a different browser for personal use and work use and can't imagine using anything else for work.
I've not changed the settings at all - and that's the sort of screenshots that the simulator generates for me (for e.g. the iPhone X).
Im not going to lie
Anyone else start thinking of Rust's mutable/immutable borrow system when reading the MESI algorithm? It's not quite the same - with Rust, mutable borrows are never shared, and you can never mutate a shared read-only borrow - but the principle seems like a simplification of the full MESI protocol.

It seems like this would be generally applicable for a wide variety of distributed & concurrent applications.
Lying is bad
Not for certain, but we do know that it is a strong possibility which he disingenuously leaves out of his account.
Pyramids and burial tombs (i.e. Valley of the Kings) had religious and cultural significance for the ancient Egyptians. There is a detailed process of entering the after-life, whereby you are mummified, some of organs placed in jars, and you even get your favorite possessions and live servants buried with you. The Pharaohs had these elaborate death monuments commissioned decades in advance of their death...can you imagine being 10 years old and breaking ground on your own pyramid?

If you're like the pharaohs, you need a massive protector for your body, so your ka or "soul" can live on in eternity with your favorite items and servants.
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/how-to-report-a-ddos-attack

From that page: "you should contact law enforcement if your organization received a threat prior to the attack, or received a demand for money in return for not being attacked"
I agree with your assessment of the article (in terms of what it was trying to express), and I agree that what you have described does occur on the Internet.

But I disagree that this phenomenon that you (and the article writer) have described, is known as "cringe". When people talk about "cringeposting" or saying "that was so cringe", they mean the vicarious embarrassment, the feeling you get when you feel so bad for somebody that it's almost funny, when you realise that somebody is being a try-hard, and doesn't know how badly they're failing, etc.

What you have described is just commonly known as "stereotyping". People do it all the time in real life, and all the time online. Person x spouts an opinion that people in group y think everybody in group x has. That isn't cringe. Everybody has biases and stereotypes. If I see somebody from x political group saying something I've heard 1000x before, my first thought would probably be "here goes x grouper again". I would't think they are cringeposting or that they are a cringey, just that they are another classic example of some stereotype that I have developed over many years of reading articles, posts and comments by people like that.
How does Honey make money, aside from the obvious data collection?

I know a few people who use it, and I've cautioned them in the past that I can't think of any savory business model that would make this profitable.

Is there one? Is it just tracking purchases for advertisers, or is there some other monetization strategy I'm missing? Their main site says they make commissions, but I don't know how to square that with the way consumers use it -- which is to find coupons from other sites.

Honey isn't like a credit card, is it? If I'm a retailer, I don't know why I'd pay a company money for them to scrape coupons from other sites -- and it's not like Honey is going to stop scraping coupons for my products if I don't pay them money, right?
Great feedback, thank you!
Which OS do you use? Are most of those 500 emails promotional, or do you communicate via email a lot?

Thanks in advance!
Absolutely agreed. My current job is far and away the least technically challenging/complex/interesting work I've done in my 15 year career but it's the most monetarily successful because of stellar sales and marketing and support teams.

Unless you're audience is as technical as you are, the layperson on the street will not know the difference between 2 products given numerous similarities. They NEED to be told that one product is better and just want to talk to a real person to explain how the damned thing works.

Good UX is primary. Good code is secondary. When good UX and good code fail, good human interaction is what is the kicker.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of native UIs, so fine by me.
100% this.

You can have the best castle, but if no-one visits, what use is it?

I've met too many programmers with great ideas and execution, but have failed with marketing/sales because they think it's all fluff. Communication is key.
AWS exceeded 50% renewable energy usage for 2018. My house is powered by gas.

"I didn't have any quantitative estimates then, and still don't now. However, it's likely that a world in which there is one server per household or per street would be more electrically efficient than the current world of billionaire cloud servers."

My neighbors are powered by gas too. The only way this would work is if we all also bought solar as the author suggests, however encouraging your average homeowner to not only run a home server but also invest in solar for it is a non-starter.
How are you even going to know what problems need to be solved if you have no connections to industry X?
> That, in turn, contributed to the company’s extraordinary decision to move its headquarters to Chicago, where it strangely remains—in the historical capital of printing, Pullman cars, and meatpacking—to this day.

Yes, yery "strange" for an airplane manufacture to remain headquartered the same place as the HQ and/or major hub of its largest customer airlines.
No, I mean something more practical, not based in religious reasoning. If you think about it, if God does not exist, then death has no threat, since once you are dead you cease to exist and no longer care about anything. I believe this was pointed out by Epicurus.
$4 billion acquisition price / 17 million monthly active users [0] = $235.29 per active monthly user

[0]: https://investor.paypal-corp.com/node/10556/pdf
Also A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter Salus, https://wiki.tuhs.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=publications:q...
I thought honey was a pure scam, it's not?
SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident
That’s a shame, I go browsing on Britannica.com for random interesting articles all the time...
Sure but HOW does it make money?
I believe I say the exact same thing in the second half of my comment.
I worked on Redstone Arsenal, and although the most danger I was in was having an emacs fall on me, the monthly safety bulletins were usually about proper tagout/lockout procedure. Particularly with equipment that people have to crawl into for maintenance.
And every year PG&E set a budget that failed to properly maintain their systems and instead funneled the money to executives, shareholders, and political donations they did so in a collaborative process with the California Public Utilities Comission.

If any California governer ever wanted PG&E to invest in maintenance, they just had to say the word.
Really? because the article called the singers blameless.
Venmo transactions' data and the social network inferences you can make from them are probably pretty valuable on their own.
I love cooking and try to only buy foods that I can't make as you say (whether for convenience or lack of skill).

It always surprises me when programmers can't cook. You're just following an algorithm! Sure, the technique takes a little time, but most people can manage. I also think baking suits a logical mind more since it's often more precise with measurements and conditions.

One trick I do is rewrite recipes then print them out. Most start out as wordy fluff. You'll get halfway through a cake recipe and it lists half a dozen things to add to a bowl. I will just rewrite this like: Bowl 1: flour, sugar, baking powder, combine. Bowl 2: oil, egg, whisk. And so on.

Rewriting like this is great for learning and retention and it makes it easier at a glance to not miss anything.
Obviously. Indigenous people who have been working with plant medicines for thousands of years (medicine people) understand all of reality to be a dream, and the physical dreaming state to be nothing less but the travel of one's spirit away from one's body, which results in the expansion of one's awareness.

Good to see progress in connecting what has been understood forever through experience with physical analysis, one must however not be fooled into thinking that one will understand anything about plant medicines by analyzing their physical effects -- what happens here starts on a much deeper level.
What is that point? What is the moral difference between hundreds and thousands, or dozens and hundreds.
It’s absurd that modern “democracy” has monarchy, no freedom of speech and no constitution, on top of that there is a state religion. Both UK and Spain are not examples of how it should be done, for a simple reason - we say to less democratic country, “do democracy or else”, they go - “UK has Queen and no freedom of speech too”!

Anyway, monarchy in UK is partially tolerated because most of the income from their properties goes to the state, otherwise, I suspect, they would be done for long ago.
I think honey by itself probably doesn't make much if anything. Integrated with PayPal however has the potential to become a big earner in terms of fees and new customers.
They simply hit one of our url's, and we could put url's on that but they could just hit one of many.

Our system is scalable but we also don't want to scale indefinitely because of the attacks.
And despite this, I've encountered lots of race conditions in JavaScript, thanks to the magic of async programming. Harder to debug than multi-threaded ones, too.
This makes a lot of sense, thanks!
Just to not leave a misimpression: Emacs (and TECO) never ran on the Stanford Sail machine (which ran the Waits OS); The "E" editor that was native to Sail/Waits used combinations of the Meta and Control keys for commands, which perhaps helped inspire their use in Emacs (written originally ITS at MIT).

It's worth noting that at Sail, the Meta and Control keys simply sent extra "bucky" bits on top of the 7-bit character code, resulting in a 9-bit input. And the actual ESC key was intercepted by the Waits for special commands from the user, and was never delivered to user-land programs (ESC-H tells the OS to hide your screen from others; ESC-I asks the OS to send an interrupt signal to your program; etc). The octal location 033, where ESC lives in Ascii, was instead used for the character "not-equals" on Sail; similarly, most of the other locations in the range 001-037 were used for other special characters that aren't in Ascii, and all were typically generated with a Top key-combination press. The whole notion of Control automatically stripping off the high-order bits of a character was foreign.
Curious what you think intelligence agencies actually do.

Do you think the US/Israel respected Iranian law when they infiltrated nuclear facilities ? How about all of the Russian poisoning in the UK ? And I don't believe all of the various drones are qualified to operate in their respective airspaces.
This is appeal to accomplishment fallacy. Because large companies have a lot of money, whatever they do must be great. But this is false - they do what they do because they are large companies, not because it is a good idea.

At scale, managing complexity can require either a lot of coordination, or a lot of careful planning. Large companies (especially tech companies) don't do either well, so they pick architectures that remove choices, and iterate on them until they are workable. And they have the money and workforce to do it.
It's so odd, because Venmo is both newer than PayPal, yet limited in the same stupid ways PayPal is (multi-stage xfers), which Square Cash avoids entirely.

It's perplexing to me that Venmo ever caught on.
The declaration says there's a right to "Life" and every one of the founders fought a bloody revolutionary war.

I don't think it makes any sense to read the Declaration as a pacifist document.
> But given that a home server can run on 10W of electrical power, and potentially off of a solar panel I found this unpersuasive. I didn't have any quantitative estimates then, and still don't now. However, it's likely that a world in which there is one server per household or per street would be more electrically efficient than the current world of billionaire cloud servers.

Sorry, but I don't buy it. DCs are frequently powered by solar (https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/, https://sustainability.fb.com/innovation-for-our-world/susta...), and this article gives no actual evidence other than home server being able to run on 10W. Solar and Wind projects are successful in part because of economies of scale. While local-scale grids may be great, using them to power services that run on cloud infrastructure today don't seem like a wonderful application.

I have no doubt that the aggregate sum of my all of my cloud usage across Google, FB, Amazon, etc. amounts to larger than 10W, but if you summed up all of the different pieces of those services that I use, I doubt you'd ever be able to scale them all down to something that could run at home, forget doing it on 10W. There may be a small sliver of that which is possible (e.g. EMail), but the fact of the matter is that it's almost irrelevant.

Coincidentally, the author of this post maintains a project that develops a home server system, which means there's plenty of vested interest in pushing this non-analysis.
A minified JavaScript bundle is just slightly less obscure than a WebAssembly binary though.
Doesn't really help if the path to the brain is leaking like a sieve. Also one of the goals with blood substitutes was to make them physically smaller than red blood cells to get past the second issue which is swelling that can restrict blood supplies. The idea was a smaller O2 carrying molecule could squeeze through where a red blood cell couldn't.
Google quietly ditched that motto years ago.
Nintendo is in complete control of the programs you can install on your Switch. Sony is in complete control of the programs you can install on your PS4. Using your logic every platform is a monopoly.
The fact that cloudflare was defeated shows it was a ddos and not a reboot. Most likely a bot net rented with BTC and nothing more than a fishing expedition. Unless they are being targeted for some other reason than money the problem will go away.
This is neat. What's the actual database behind this? What kind of data model/consistency/isolation does it offer?
Devices with integrated cryptography are uncommon? There are AVR parts with integrated AES.
$100mil+ in revenue. 60-70% probably goes to 300 people payroll. I guess projected numbers are amazing.
Generally these coupon sites all make money the exact same way - through affiliate programs that pay them some % of the purchase price for referring a customer to their site.

Honey shares the savings with the customer.
Supposedly they make money from referrals, so if you buy something from Amazon, they load in their referral link.

From what I've heard they don't actually sell purchase data. I don't know for sure though.

I don't understand how referrals are worth 4b though.
But with firefox, you intend to use HTML and JS in the first place.
I doubt that the cost to also render the firefox UI is significantly higher that having it native.
Can’t wait for this. Shirts and tees in a bag for after the gym
The argument is a little shaky, but I can see it. In a datacenter, heat is just wasted energy that requires more energy to cool. Running a server is not the most efficient way to heat a home, but at least the heat isn't just waste.

Also I suspect that a home server could just sleep the CPU a fair % of the time. On top of that, you don't need to run a billing system that charges different users for various things.
Did you mean which public commission signed off on all of that? The answer: The California Public Utilities Comission.

Did CPUC directly tell them to break the law? No, but CPUC approved every budget that criminally neglected maintenance. And when the San Bruno explosion happened as a predictable result, CPUC worked with PG&E to pick a judge they liked.

https://m.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officials-demand-criminal...

So yes, our state government shares responsibility for all of it.