skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed the question is not if, but when the Netherlands will flood due too sea level rise. Unlike many other nations the Netherlands is managed in a way that it can potentially handle quite significant (I would say 1-3 meters) in the next couple of decades if necessary at high but bearable costs.

The cost of retreating to higher parts of the country would easily go into trillions of euro's, which compared to the +/- 1 billion euro spent on sea defense according to the latest "Deltaplan".

Until now most climate models put catastrophic (say 3m+) sea level rise at hundreds to thousands of years of now so we (I'm Dutch) should be alright.

However, I personally feel that there is a non negligible possibility that all the current models are wrong because they are more or less extrapolating current changes and conditions. There are several mechanisms that could cause runaway sea level rise in shorter timescales, think melting permafrost with methane, regime change of jet stream, regime change/stop of ocean currents.

And more importantly that sea level rise is IMHO the possibility of extreme storms hitting the North Sea. Last year we say a few of those cyclone/hurricanes that usually stay on the other side of the atlantic come our way. That was highly unusual, and even though Ireland and Portugal are still a long way from the Netnerlands, if if all of a sudden a super storm with 300 km/h winds hits us (highest record gust unitl now is only 173 km/h), then we are sure doomed.

I can't predict the future, but living in the potentially vulnerable west of the country, I'm glad my parents in law have nice bit of property in the east at 17m+ sea level. I intend to live another 50 years, a lot can happen in my lifetime
I never question the downvotes because HN frowns on it. But in this instance in genuinely curious why?

Above comment points to Pakistan's most reputed English newspaper, not a FUD site. Or do the plight of Hindus don't matter??
>Obviously, no one believes for one minute that any 'normal' citizen will be granted access to most things. It's just an artefact of idealism you hear in law classes and political activism circles I suppose (and it's grey-ish-ly somewhat applicable at the lowest, local level).

What are these "most things" that you're talking about? At least in the US, FOIA requests are incredibly powerful and quite easy to make. You can absolutely get access to most non-classified documents, with well defined exceptions (ie, privacy of others).
Exactly. If I can watch your doorstep and the doorstep across the street from you, I know when you received a large package. I also know when nobody is home. I know when latch-key kids are home alone. I know when a single woman is home alone. I could be any sort of deviant.
I think the big concern is the presumption of a non-techie that a medical company would take good care of their information, because of regulations, etc.

I would not be surprised if a LOT of Lifelabs customers used the same password on their Lifelabs accounts that they use for their email. FWIW, Lifelabs has two sub-sites that use different credentials - one for test results, and one for booking appointments.
The history of Designer News is quite interesting to see how a community dies after a few successful years, many threads in DN got posted trying to understand why it happened these past years. You could check that out.
I always ask that this specific clause be removed, and if they refuse I don't go work for them.

I don't really understand how people don't get offended at the idea of a company owning any work that you do. At that point you've lost your autonomy as a human being.
I'm also for a common vocabulary, but I wonder why you're getting downvoated for having another opinion.
Very few countries jail children for simple truancy. Most will let you opt out of the system if you can prove you're maintaining standards in the process and not homeschooling for abusive purposes.
> If you are using DoH ...

assuming you means the user-space applications, I agree.

I am not against DoH itself. But the assumption being made here by mozilla is that all users trust the US or US based corporations by default. This might be the case for some people (including myself: in some cases, but not as the default case).

This could have (imo) solved with a couple UI tweaks that educate the user about the implications. Having been protected by my browser extension ad-blockers from most sites it still rendered my second layer of defense (/etc/hosts[1]) useless with this new default. The worst thing is I was unaware of /etc/hosts being useless for several months.

I wish mozilla would make it a core policy that anytime a change makes a trust assumption on behalf of the user in all countries[1] that this is communicated not just in the changelog or blogs but as part of a guided tour, or other visual aids which really spell that trust assumption out.

> Maybe he best way to handle this would be to change the system level resolver to use DoH?

agree, but I also see the difficulty on making the FOSS world agree very quickly on how this is supposed to be implemented as some kind of default (could take a decade or longer, while just pushing it under the radar gives immediate results - that they need to form agreements with various providers, e.g. cloudflare)

[1] they seem to be rolling out different features anyway depending on which jurisdiction you are, as shown in the case of "Mozilla: No plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in the UK" (which purpose isn't to give freedom[TM] but to comply with the UK nanny-law to ban free speech (and porn, but mostly free-speech)). https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-no-plans-to-enable-dns...
It would be nice if such standard supported Publisher-Subscriber style of messaging. For example alarm could subscribe to events from motion sensors and security cams (a camera in addition to providing a stream could push events like motion detection) or heating controller could subscribe to temperature change events. To make security of that realistic this would need some form of ACL, probably centrally[0] controlled.

[0] central as in "home router" not as "somewhere in the cloud"
Remember Anthony Levandowski?
>All marketplaces have these problems

No this is a problem unique to Amazon because it has both a marketplace filled with third party sellers and an official brand both operating on the same site without highlighting that the marketplace is less trustworthy. If you want to buy an Asus mainboard then you won't be brought to a seller specific page. Instead there is a product specific page that bundles first party and third party sellers onto a single page and both will appear in the search results. The conflict of interest is pretty obvious. Only Amazon sells the "AmazonBasics" brand and by making all non Amazon brands look untrustworthy through third party sellers they steer people toward buying the Amazon products.
When your cloud costs reach the high hundreds of millions to billions of dollars per year, it is worth it. At that point you probably want to run your infrastructure across cloud providers anyway.
>>> artificial wombs would eliminate a crucial condition that currently ensures women’s oppression by neutralising the heavily gendered process of reproduction

Beyond the speculation regarding liberational aspects, or even the foetus-gestator divide, there are other compelling arguments why a host of "reproductive tech" should be considered

Formost is the idea that we may require at some point, a rapid re-population of the human species. Due to unforseen catastrophe. Or expansion into space colonies.

But the most urgent is that this sort of thing is still decades away from becoming viable. So if it comes to pass that we do require it. We will have the capacity at the appropriate time.
That's the purpose of the blanket ownership claim.
You can do the same in the US with FOIA
I am planning on wiring my house with ZWave and OpenHAB. Anyone have any experience doing this? Does it work well?
A few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21074907
Can you talk more about workgroup?
He's not exactly Google PR, he's a high-ranking Linux maintainer. But, as OP responded in a sibling comment, it's in Google's interest to make him able to keep doing that work - that's essentially why they hired him. He's okay with Google owning the copyright to the OSS he works on, as long as it gets contributed, and that's aligned with Google's interests. He's also been at Google for almost a decade, and if Google is in any way competent, he has no incentive to be looking for other jobs (and reading their employment agreements).

I agree with you that in fact most other tech companies make it pretty easy to own the copyright on work you do on your own time.
Yes, the United States has a problem and it is well documented. But that does not at all begin to tell the whole story about why people are locked up.

In the United States it is large numbers of people that got caught up in the so-called war-on-drugs, in Turkey it is because Erdogan has used the failed coup (if there even was one) as a pretext to lock up just about everybody who he felt might be a threat to his regime.
This is how ZigBee and Zwave work. The devices form their own network for inter-device communication (it can be setup so a switch talks directly to a bulb, so even if the network is unreachable it still works) and then you use a hub to orchestrate that and provide functionality such as phone control via an app. That can be something simple like a Philips Hue hub, or something more complex like SmartThings, or you can roll your own using Home Assistant and a dongle.

The problem with these protocols is although they are more or less open, device manufacturers need to pay to be certified.
No, don’t control what people do!

Remember that before Unix file system used to enforce what’s in the file instead of allowing storing whatever in whatever? That specific suffix/file validation that are carried in part on early Windows? People were sufficiently pissed to create Unix, which had none such bs.

Less rule is better than more rules, You can always put whatever you want into best practice but not expect people to follow hidden rules like this one.
Nonetheless I do think that music theory jargon is too dense and could do with some reform in terminology and notation. A lot of obscure terms could possibly be replaced (longer) plainspeak terms that expresses their function and meaning. At the moment, though a good concrete example eludes me, perhaps be something in lines of 'scale' -> 'basis', 'tonic' -> primary, etc..
Seriously. I know HN is all about capitalism but it doesn’t have to reach these levels of disregard for human life!

Besides, what would be the net result of stricter regulations on these trades? Prices go up and the profits of tech companies decrease ever-so slightly. And then what? The board and the CEO pocket a little less but tens of thousands of children will live better lives.
Nothing wrong in protecting and giving sheltor to the oppressed from the oppressors.

If that makes me a bigot, not sure how, but I'll take it.
No. Anything they can see from the street, they can watch. The gray area AFAIK is what a drone can see from the street, but at higher elevations. That said, you and all your neighbors can file a complaint.
That there even was a coup is subject to debate.
Given the inevitable slow and steady loss of such credentials to adversaries, it seems like they need more than a single factor. Like, a backup password (on paper) that can be used to reset the account password, or similarly a TOTP seed (2D barcode). Otherwise rolling passwords becomes incredibly expensive.

I'm almost surprised they haven't gone the same route as Estonia, but there are lots of federated systems so it might just be inertia.
Seems fair indeed. I did a quick search and HomeKit seems to work without an internet connection (on lan at least, not remote), what's your experience with that?
Plus managers who define their worth by easily measurable values like how many 0s on their p+l statement, and lines to them on the org-chart. Success of the project is much more subjective.
You might trust Apple, but do you trust your carrier?
Well this is exactly like a test I went through at one time. It even used the same reasoning pretty much.

The job was fullstack node and react, I went in and they said we want you to look at this game written in Python which is really slow and tell us what is wrong with it (I hadn't done python in years and back then wasn't very good at it). We will sit with you. I said I was game, they said lots of people weren't - one guy evidently got offended and said he didn't do that language (I can definitely think of one friend of mine who is totally competent who would get offended at being asked to work in a language that did not have anything to do with the job he was applying for)

The game was using a big dictionary in an array and you had to look up words from it and it was slow (about 7 minutes to do searches). So I thought to myself, damn I cannot remember the name of that algorithm for this (binary search), ok let's stall a bit maybe I will remember the algorithm name.

So what's the first thing you would do?

Uhm how about checking a profiler.
So we checked and found some simple things we could optimize.
And then I looked through the code and I saw there were parts I could cache etc.

So after all those things were done the time to do a search was a little bit more than halved and I still couldn't remember "binary search", so I stared dumbfounded at the screen for I think about a 3-4 seconds and I started to say "uhm" and then the guy sitting with me I guess ran out of the time he wanted to spend and said "ok well there is an algorithm for this blah blah blah" showed how to do it in python. Thanks for your time.

I actually didn't want the job but still felt somewhat let down that I couldn't remember.
Raise public awareness? I think they are seeking remedy.

Sad that the courts are so slanted in the favor of corporate interests. Why do these cases get dismissed?
A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic
I'm with you. As much as I find most remakes terrible, to say others should not enjoy them is a form of gatekeeping.

If people who would otherwise not enjoy any of the insights to be gained from SICP do get into it through this version, great.
You are correct, you'd need to provide the key to each device.

To sign in on a new device you need:

1. Your email
2. Master Password
3. Secret Key
4. The URL for the server your data resides on

When signing in on a new device we offer a variety of ways to help you do this.

1. Your Emergency Kit, a PDF document, has a QR code that can be scanned on most clients.
2. There's also ways to show the same QR code, or a setup code, within the apps to scan on screen
3. For Apple products we do have a method that saves the Secret Key to the Keychain and can sync via iCloud to help facilitate adding the account to new devices
4. You can always do it manually as well

Hope that helps get a better idea of what has to be done there.

Kyle

1Password Security Team
Do we not remember the famous story where Steve Jobs and Wozniak almost had to give up Apple computers to Xerox? Some say that Xerox couldn't see the use of a personal computer and how big that could be so their own stupidity let it slide if they would have claimed wozniak's work apples computer never would have existed.
this is funny because we installed a ring in the office for its Google home integration. but now that it's owned by Amazon that no longer works :/
rather than give them the application, just show them the file (location, name, and extension) and ask them to make some useful revision to it
What is your avoidance mechanism if you don't mind me asking?
That's highly unusual. I believe you, but it's definitely a weird breakdown in the process.

It'd have been easier, given you were working on it before you joined the company, to claim it on the carve-out document that described the blanket copyright policy. That's what I did for my projects and it was never contested.

(And to be clear, I find the experience you had completely unacceptable. If I'd had the experience you had when I was working there, it would have made me significantly reevaluate whether I wanted to keep working there).
I assume the first script isn't the benchmarked program, but that it just generates it. The pure parsing of the second script would be the benchmark.

Having said that, the fact it takes 5 seconds is pretty arbitrary—we can't really say it's good or bad unless there is some basis for comparison.
Lets extend this analogy to books: all books are just letters and words writen on a page. And some pictures too. It doesn’t matter how a book is written as long as it produces letters, words and paragraphs and pictures. It doesn’t sound right, does it?
One would be quite enough.
The Disgusting New Campus Novel
> original PG essay

Which essay is that? I'd be interested in reading it.
I don't care about Teslas. I down voted because the proposal wouldn't be an effective solution.

Instead of trying to impose additional requirements on buyers, a better approach would be to work at the national governmental level through a combination of carrots (foreign aid and advice) and sticks (sanctions and tariffs for countries that don't meet labor standards).
The university website mentions student ID cards with chip. Is that not sufficient to provide strong authentication towards a self-service portal for password reset?
I like the "surface area" metaphor. Every where I've worked took a divide & conquer approach.

Some day, I'd love to participate in the NASA / JPL style. Everyone reviews the entire code base together. Bugs are assumed a failure of process. I guess the thinking is all bugs are shallow given enough eyeballs.

Realizing now that I'm a hypocrite (again). I hate pair programming. But do kind of enjoy code reviews. Now I don't know what I believe.
How to NER
cause Our courts never really rule for justice when muslims are in the receiving end. Time and time again. Gujarat riots, babar masjid and many more. This is a non issue for fascists but it is for the victims.
Thanks for your feedback!

Unfortunately, the iOS side is difficult. We've done the best we can there given the limitations and our imagination at this time. It's possible we drum up a better solution in the future but we haven't had any major breakthroughs in how best to present the UI for this.

We have filed feature requests with Apple to try to get better mechanisms for making this whole process better though. Hopefully we'll see improvements down the road that help us make a better user experience.

Kyle

1Password Security Team
Isn't satellite radio a receive-only system?
That's the one! Amazing, thanks very much, I'm impressed you got that from my description haha
At their size, Google get to dictate the rules of the game. And it's very convenient for them if employees can't have portfolios that make them easier to poach, and can't start side businesses and so on.

Don't expect the public to support IP protection if their only experience is having it used against them.
They're doing it wrong. There are many successful, profitable companies making open source products with a subset of the features that their commercial offerings have. These guys are intentionally crippling the open source offering. It's practically a bait and switch.

The right way is to release an open source product that is full-featured and robust, and upsell things like support, managed hosting, and the kind of plugins and addons that primarily appeal to enterprise customers (although increasingly the latter are indistinguishable from advanced small users).
If you're okay with learning on a guitar Ben Levin's* "Music Theory from the Ground Up is an excellent series. He breaks down everything into really small pieces and its a lot of fun to learn from him.

Heres a link to the YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3yqUeiMn_g&list=PLJTWoPGfHx...

*I am in no way affiliated with this guy, and to my knowledge he does not charge for any of his lessons anyways.
Can confirm. My alexa went in the drawer after she was offering to call the crisis line for me during a spirited session of gaming.

I genuinely think the Amazon team (at least in that particular regard) want to do some good. But until they can teach their machines how to understand context, I just don't want my unfiltered conversations going around potentially to medical institutions or law enforcement.
Absolutism doesn't really help in crafting good policy. The threat that bad things could possibly, maybe happen isn't a good reason to stop chasing disease cures.

If we knew the ways vaccination programs would be abused, should we have refrained from inoculating so much of the world against polio?
DNSSEC is superior to both PKI and WOT. It's basically free. It makes chains of accountability transparent (hint: it's the dots in the URL). It provides the benefits of hierarchical trust except with democratic control, and is operated on film in public ceremonies.

We don't have a robust understanding of who exactly operates PKI, but we do know that it's de facto governed by a company on Charleston Road, since CAs only have their root keys listed in things like web browsers at their pleasure. We also know that Charleston Road rewards CAs for their loyalty by red-zoning and down-ranking the folks who don't buy their products. Products which should ideally be deprecated, since SSL with PKI is much less secure.

Can anyone guess who's stymied progress in Internet security, by knuckle-dragging on DNSSEC interoperation? It reminds me of the days of Microsoft refusing to implement W3C standards. Shame on you, folks who work on Charleston Road and don't speak up. You can dominate the Internet all you like, but at least let it be free at its foundation.
Comcast and Verizon will dual stack you, sure. As the largest two ISPs, they're out of addresses. But a lot of other ISPs won't, my ISP doesn't support IPv6 at all.
My central heater is a simple on/off model. Nest will work offline with it but afaik you can't write target temperatures to it then.
That's a lot of ifs! Yes, if the sky falls we'll all wear blue hats. But for now the indications are that change will be gradual rather than sudden and we are actively working on this rather than sitting back and waiting to see how bad things will get (which is the standard in the rest of the developed world). NL is one of the few places where there is substantial funding today to deal with this.

Level of upheaval that could happen is of course orders of magnitude worse than what you can reasonably plan for but if such a thing were to come to pass it will have much larger effects than that NL would end up being a part of the ocean again. By that time you're looking at 100's of millions of people that will be displaced and catastrophic events pretty much all over the globe. NL will be a footnote in that story.
Hey, I had nothing to do with Content ID. I was more worried with making sure that all those times Google says it will let you delete your personal data and/or anonymize it long-term, that they did and that whole system was working properly. People love to say Google gobbles user data forever, but when something was supposed to be deleted and wasn't, it was me and my team who got woken up at 7AM.

People like to demonize large corporations, and Google has been going downhill, but the vast, vast majority of people working for Google are trying to do good work. Big corporations have this uncanny ability to behave worse and worse even when they're full of good people.
A nice book is
Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design (The MIT Press) (English Edition)
ASIN: B007RPF10U
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-successful-online-co...

Once I found its content in a series of PDFs in the authors page, but didn't manage to find it now.