skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this tool does not guarantee that you've not modified the export before you stamp it. The main protection is the timestamp and the fact that the hash is calculated by the extension itself. This proof just guarantee that this particular file existed at this date. I personnally believe that even if it's not a siver bullet, the certain date is the main protection it provides. If you want to make some fraud with a bitcoin timestamp, you need a proper timing and preparation. In conclusion it just makes things harder
Socialism for the rich, "the (not so) free market" for the peasantry.
> You never want a spinlock in userspace

What if you've already used them in code that runs in N other architectures, the game works fine in those architectures, and Linux is architecture N+1, which you're trying to decide to support or not?

The less the code has to be changed, the easier it is to support architecture N+1.
Airbnb analyses social media to root out people with 'narcissism or psychopathy'
RE Honor - the home care industry actually has fairly tight margins.
Hacker News without cynicism would be like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse :)
As it happens, my neighbors are of varying opinions on the matter. The ones I hear from, love it. I'm sure there are those who hate it, but I don't hear from them. But this is how you make change. You need the pathfinders to show how it can be done and start the discussion.
Wasserklo made me chuckle.
> You can call virtually any Schul/temple in the Eruv to know its immediate status from a rabbi.

> ...devout jews dont so much as pick up a house key without knowing the Eruv status

Well, except, the only time you need to know the status of the eruv is on shabbat (the sabbath), and if you are someone who needs to know the status of the eruv on shabbat, you are also not going to use a phone or computer on shabbat, so.

Perhaps you might check the status just before shabbat. But surely you are exagerating at least somewhat. (I personally was aware of eruvim but was not aware there was a way to check it's status based on monitors, and personally have no idea how popular it is to do so. I just know nobody's making a phone call to check eruv status before picking up their keys on a Saturday morning!).

The NYC eruv status web page (http://eruv.nyc/) currently says "Last Checked: 1/2/2020", so I believe you were exagerating somewhat to say "immediate" status as well. It does say "It features an announcement each Friday about the status of the eruv" -- so it sounds like, yup, check it Friday afternoon before the sabbath starts, and that's the only time it's updated too cause nobody has any reason to check it any other time, okeydoke.
Interesting perspective that them simply reading something you wrote is demanding something of them - I suppose it could be taken that way if they take everything they read as wanting it to be their gospel. HN's downvote mechanism certainly reenforces you having to adjust vs. creating a better system for tolerance in discussion if you don't want your voice to be suppressed - which we all naturally do, perhaps unless we're depressed or don't believe our voice is worth being heard.
Anarchy might work. But only after the authoritarian jerks (maybe 10-20%) had been killed. Burroughs did go on about that, but maybe he was joking.

I was just rereading Abercrombie's A Little Hatred, and came across this, said by Sand dan Glokta (a notorious torturer) to a young associate:

> The goal of government, you see, is to load the unhappiness on to those least able to make you suffer for it.
"CFO: What happens if we train them and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t and they stay?"
Saying "I don't want to take away the lawn from my kids" is saying "Don't care, want my lawn."
Fun facts:

- Europe destroyed the USSR without war.

- Putin gets more resistance protests in Russia because of common sanctions

- Gazprom can't sell with profit within Russia, they need Europe

- Russia invests a lot of percentage of their GDP on military. But it's still nothing compared to Europe ( russia vs europe military spend: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=russia+vs+europe+milit... ). Remember, Europe isn't even spending 2%

- Without Ukraine, Russia can't even use their naval fleet. That's why they are being aggressive. The sanctions of being aggressive are hurting them, but cutting off oil to Europe would hurt them a lot more.

- Europe has never been so close to Moscow. They are more scared than you imagine

- Russia has way more borders to defend than any other country. That's why they are willing to get run over by China. Their relationship will fail sooner or later. China doesn't invest in Russia despite longtime promises. Their relationship will hold untill Putin realizes there is not much to gain or till China doesn't need them anymore.

Russia needs China more ( because of borders ) than the other way around. China also wants more security at it's borders, but it's less of a requirement.

- Russia's and Turkeys relationship is also not that stable. It was because of one man that they talked again, by the use of a special Turkish expression that said: sorry, but not that sorry. Their relationship could hold untill one of both actually tries to improve relations with Europe, not happening soon though.

If Europe would want to hurt Russia, they only need to heavily subsidize renewable resources, that would hurt max. 5% of Russia's GDP. No war required and don't bite the hand that feeds you ;)
I would love to see what your yard is like if you're willing to share a picture.
My bad, meant Seismic - corrected.
A hose is not very elegant and should be removed. It would look much cleaner to have the gasoline just squirt into the car's open gas tank. Possibly with some LEDs around the gas pump's flush-mounted nozzle to create sparkles in the gasoline stream as it arcs through the air into the gas tank fill hole. Finally, clean hands!
Judging off Glassdoor reviews, most of their devs are embedded ('forward-deployed' in their militaristic lingo).

From that and my own short interview experience a few years ago, a lot of their revenue comes from bespoke ETL for clients into an on-prem software deployment and there's no concrete push to move to something more off-the-shelf.
Ask HN: Do you know of any HN-like community for designers?
I love HN for the great moderation, thoughtful comments and interesting articles. Is there something similar for web/UI designers, some place they would show off their work, post interesting articles from the field and make deep comments based on their experience?
Already happened last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703909
Does this mean you would pay a premium and possibly promote a software developer that doesn't contribute to the product by writing code, but remembers people's birthdays and plans team lunches?
people just don't understand how big brazil is. the area is only a half million sq mi smaller than the continental us or china.

1 Russia 6.6 million square miles
2 United States 3.8 million square miles
3 Canada 3.8 million square miles
4 China 3.7 million square miles
5 Brazil 3.3 million square miles
6 Australia 2.9 million square miles
They are certainly at the cutting edge of semiconductor manufacturing. Given this bliss screen in a 2015 promo video and the general approach to security in the hardware sector, I doubt they are at the cutting edge of securing their own computers: https://youtu.be/ttbaaI5xUcg?t=254
The privacy violation that infuriates me the most is that Visa and Mastercard sell your purchase data, and I don't believe CCPA applies to them. Like cell phone companies selling tower-based location data, the credit card's sale of data is unavoidable and completely hidden from consumers.
Why has antitrust died completely in America? Any hope of it coming back? I don’t want one movie studio, one airplane manufacturer...
Here is a talk I gave that directly addresses this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g

(the title & abstract in the youtube description is the one I gave for the RFP; I ended up going in a slightly different direction than it once I actually made the talk)
Sharing observations seems to hurt the egos of many on HN.
AI shows promise for breast cancer screening
I get it, and no, nothing proves you didn't modify it. Maybe a solution is to create some king of "witness community" stamping the same page at the same time. It will have diferent hashes each time and the evidence could be stronger in the end
Actually, I also cannot find any information how this is actually achieved by your service. As OP mentioned, if "just" a browser extension is used to create a hash of the html page, one could use dev tools to modify the dom inside the browser and then create the hash...
I am interested in this topic, can you give me more of a cite or direction for the Rabbis ~1700 years ago implying God as fictional entity?

I'm not doubting it, the contrary, it seems quite plausible to me and exciting enough that I'd like the source! Rather than "some guy on HN said that some rabbis said something like" heh. And for more study.
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I agree. And it just keeps getting better and better.

Or worse and worse, if we're considering the impacts.
It's one of the gaps/ downsides to tech development. We see anything not yet in existence in as an "underserved market", design a product and assume everyone thinks like we do.

The whole time I was reading that section all I heard was, "Let's move from individual neighbor racism tools to group chat!"
Neither, really, is NFS.

The point isn't whether or not these are protocols that are utilised on the naked Internet, but that they offer access to network services via filesystem semantics.

That is, rather than use a specific client or API to access remote content, or copying it locally as a separate step, you simply open a file in an existing application, or, within a program, using fopen() or equivalent operators. The networking is ... translucently ... handled in the background by the filesystem interface and/or driver(s).

The reasons SMB is not generally used or advised over the Internet are worth looking at, as this touches on many of the security / privacy concerns of any such service.
I mean, that's not really a fair comparison. EQC is more like the GLC, perhaps GLE at a stretch, and in Germany you'd usually get it with a 220d diesel, those get 40-50mpg easily.
eBay scammers turn Nespresso lovers into money mules
It's non-sensical to use climate change as an explanation when it comes to cost for reasons I have already pointed out.

There are multiple obvious reasons for why the cost is going up since the is more to get destroyed before we even get to "climate change".

But there is not a single piece of evidence anywhere that it has anything to do with "climate change" which itself is a completely meaningless and sloppy expression that really lumps all sorts of things together that should be separated.

I am willing to bet that you can't actually find a single concrete piece of evidence that the rising cost have anything to do with climate change.

And using your logic, Holland shouldn't exist at all.

We are becoming better and better at living places that used to be inhabitable for humans. That has a cost because it's more exposed, but over time this will be countered by improved mitigation processes.

I would love to see any concrete demonstrated evidence that climate is an issue here. There is a reason why they call it weather and climate disasters. Highly manipulative.
I fail to see how TikTok is a "good reminder for the generational turnover of social products". Has an entire generation passed since Vine or Snapchat? If anything it's proof that securing an early lead in a new form of media (short form video in the aforementioned cases) doesn't guarantee success even for a generation. My takeaway is that young people are increasingly mercurial and disloyal. Chasing their attention seems like a recipe for disappointment.
We use layer 2 technology, the main idea of woleet is to stamp many hashes (possibly millions of hashes in one bitcoin transaction) our service is running for years and we produce thousands of proofs daily.
> And the FB algorithm already takes in 1000s of black box factors that are going to work better than some unproven personality score hogwash.

1. My understanding is that CA wasn't just executing FB ads. Is your assumption that this was their only technique?

2. Are you aware of the specific techniques CA used?

3. What would be the purpose of CA obtaining the data then?
As does Azure
Encourage possums to move in. Indiana has its share of ticks, but we also have plenty of possums.

Chickens are another option.

This is about learning how to fit ourselves comfortably in to nature - because pretending we can be above, outside, or removed from it is sending us careening towards disaster.
>You want to sell my purchase/demographics data? No problem. Just let me know how much or what i'll get for it and i'll decide if it worth to opt-in.

It should be allowed to be the cost of admission to the site. If you don't like that the advertising and your own metadata allows you to view the site for free, you could just not visit (or when you click no to consent, they would block you).

Websites shouldn't be required to provide you content for free.
If they are using Merkle trees to aggregate pages, they can have many page proofs in one transaction.
Antiwar Protests in New York City
I can confidently state that I have never sighted a lone heeby-jeeby in the wild.

Heebie-jeebies are best thought of as an affliction, like hives or bedbugs, characterized by shuddering and head-ducking.

My guess is it started as a euphemism for hebephrenia, an obsolete affliction associated with youthful anxiety.
Show HN: Easily Setup a Windows Virtual Machine for Remote Compilation over SSH
At least for myself, I have no objection to having my donation history public: https://www.jefftk.com/donations
The yearly performance review system at most places I worked seemed to be largely formalized process laid out by HR to determine raises .. or paths to firing someone.

That's it... the fact that it involved me seemed entirely unnecessary as mostly it was between HR and my boss and/or his boss as to what if any actions came of it. Sometimes not even my boss...

Whatever work I did day to day if my manager had an issue I sure hope he would come to me and we'd work it out right then and there.

At smaller companies things like raises and moving on were just determined largely as needed. I changed careers recently and managed 5 or 6 raises in salary in about a year's time (this was largely because I had no past career experience programming so I came in pretty low).

In the meantime a coworker was politely invited to look elsewhere (more of a situation where everyone knew this wasn't the environment for him and not so much anything he did 'wrong' and they let him work while job hunting) after about 3 months of work.
> only if government implements it

I suspect that if a non-government implementation becomes widespread the authorities will require access. A bit like grabbing the feeds from Facebook etc.
Major numbers don't always match actual number of major releases. For example Java skipped from 1.4.x to 5.0.0 and React from 0.14.x to 15.0.0.
Good to see Zed Shaw back.

Wonder what’s he’s doing these days....
Iranian hackers hacked US government agency website
I often think these efforts will just continue to empower the larger players and frustrate the user. No one is going to go to all these companies/websites/apps and ask them to delete their data and then do it again tomorrow, next week, next month, next year...when they collect more data. We need a mechanism that just creates so much data both legitimate and artificial that these systems prove worthless.

Edit: Curious the effectiveness of browser extensions like Ad-Nauseum. I've used it on & off and became amused with how much I 'cost' the ad-companies but for all I know it just proves another data point that my machine clicks every add that comes across it.
I only half-joke about cultivating crab grass; it's green, grows flat so never needs mowing and is drought-resistent. I never walk on the lawn in our front yard and could really care less about what the neighbours think. Resists inconsiderate dog-walkers as well...
Yeah, my Next-door has a lot of that. They aren't that obvious though. I like to call them out.

"I saw a suspicious man walking down the street!"

"What made him suspicious?"

"He just doesn't look like he belongs here."

"Why?"

"He's black"

"Being black isn't suspicious"

I then I get an email from Next-door about my comments being reported!
There's good odds that the HOA won't home-grow this - I'm sure that if this product did exist, it'd either come from or end up being scooped up by one of the usual suspects of the information gathering and advertising age. I don't think that corporations helpfully defining what sort of crime was committed for the local HOA is any less dystopian, it just makes it potentially more subtle.
Term sheet isn’t a deal. Same way an “accepted offer” on a house isn’t a purchase contract until you have an actual contract.

Clearly SoftBanks is having its challenges but this just sounds like normal deals falling apart during pre-closing due diligence. You don’t have a deal till you have a deal.
HN will delete them too, I think. Both are now gone
To "not repeatedly exclude the Russians" is premature. The Russians have invaded a European ally of the US. There is a path to Russia becoming a welcomed part of Europe and that path leads out of Ukraine.
I'm not sure if you're arguing in bad faith or you misunderstand how either the Obama app or how Cambridge Analytical got their data.

Obama's app was advertised as an app for the Obama campaign. People who used the app consented that the Obama campaign would get access to data about them and their friends. For better or worse (better for marketers, worse for the friends of these app users), this was all within how Facebook was expected to work.

Cambridge Analytica obtained similar data, but in a different way by breaking Facebook's TOS. A developer made an app, advertised as some kind of quiz, never saying that the data would be handed over to CA. Not only was the app developer not being up front about what the data would be used for, but they also broke FB's TOS [0] with its usage.

Plainly, there are key differences here beyond how it was heralded at the time (and it should be noted that even the article your provided shows Obama's data collection in both a positive and negative light).

0 - https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-an...
I would say reddit is a forum, and you can have good discourse on there, but can also have straight comfort internet trash. Basically I think its more nuanced than just having a forum...
Creative output as well as revenue stream. A saturated 11m market of Europeans (that have a birthrate lower than 2) is nothing to a thirsty 207m that is mostly young people. Especially with games that are cheap to play (pen, paper, book) instead of a CPC6128.
Ask that to one of the ~6 million victims of burglaries per year (2.5 mil burglaries/year). How are those black swan events? How are they low impact?
I want to take a ride in a Model 3 just because of the reported road noise. I bet it's half as loud as my Mini Cooper S. Whenever I get into another car it seems like it's completely dead in comparison.

Also I wonder if road noise could be combated by active noise canceling.
Plenty of other derivative works (under Oracle's theory of copyright) don't contain the apache 2 license, for example the site with the documentation

https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/api/
>"We do X because Google does X"

My standard response was "The most distinguishing property of Microsoft (Google) is they have a monopoly, copy that part first".
> The ammount of unsafe blocks is pretty small compared to the rest of the code. Which means those parts can be reviewed more extensively. If anything your argument is pretty goofy.

I've talked about this at length before, but just because you have 'less' `unsafe` code does not mean you code is any better off. Very few operations are actually `unsafe`, and you're still not allowed to break any of the (poorly or not documented) constraints that Rust requires even in `unsafe` code.

Point being, unless you can make "safe" abstractions around your `unsafe` code that cannot be broken (Which is largely what you do in any language anyway, when you can...), the distinction between "safe" and "unsafe" is thin, because the parts of the code you declare `unsafe` are not the parts that are actually going to have the bugs. And because of the fact that the constraints you are required to fulfill in `unsafe` code is unclear, there's little way to guarantee your code is broken in some subtle way the optimizer might jump on (either now, or in a later release).

And to be clear, I like Rust, but `unsafe` is poorly thought-out IMO.
I know you're referring to the original meaning of the term, but a 10% decrease in global oil consumption in the transportation sector would be a great accomplishment. Not nearly enough of course, but so far we haven't even been able to flatline.
For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
Facebook Releases Revamped Privacy Checkup Tool
I wholeheartedly disagree with downvote mechanism - it's a terrible mechanism for guiding toward civil conversation, and the fact that even talking about that is artificially frowned upon is absurd. If people have an issue with something - if it's well thought out enough reason by a person who would otherwise downvote, then if they're not willing to even spend the effort to articulate it into words - which would 1) help them think through their logic, develop their own critical thinking, perhaps catch incongruence, and 2) offer an opportunity of a different perspective to the person they're responding to. The ease of someone downvoting, the laziness of it, doesn't match real world conversations.
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> I'd be curious how productive you felt at each position

I definitely felt "more productive" at startups since my work felt like it had a bigger impact to the company.

> and if you think the FAANG job is more difficult and stressful.

So far, it feels no more difficult and is stressful in a different way. With a startup, there's the stress of worrying about the company going under. At the FAANG, there's the stress of performing at a high enough level to justify the compensation.