skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that Boeing is in deep, deep trouble Airbus has stayed very quiet and deliberately so. Their only major competitor collapsing can't be good for the strategically. Just imagine Boeing going bankrupt and being split up with China buying some parts...
I bet you could ask 100 people what the "main city" in the US was and none of them would say D.C.

In general the U.S. seems varied enough that a single score isn't really meaningful... There's a pretty big difference between Seattle and rural Mississippi.
Milton Friedman on Freedom
Travel Risk Map Ranking
These are the kinds of posts I live for on HN. Stellar inside look.
While cubic zirconia has a lower refractive index than diamond (making it less "brilliant"), moissanite actually has a higher refractive index than diamond.
You wouldn't carry large sums of cash on your person, so why are people considering large piles of cryptocurrency?
>If accomplishing a task takes more than a single step, it means there's insufficient automation or programmability, and that's the problem you should fix, not teaching devs how to be better writers of prose.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

In practice your automation will not be good enough due to either tooling issues or script issues or time to manage automation for rare use cases. Worse, automation can also become stale and if it's for rare events then it's likely that it won't work when needed. After all, we all know that documentation is always out of date, why do you think the script won't be be? Run books solve that by involving a human and explaining to a human how to think about the problem and allow them to work around misinformation.
> If I meet a person face to face who says 'Bush did x', I might also notice the tone of voice, that the have a Southern drawl, that they're wearing camo and a red hat with MAGA on it. In this situation I'm not likely to conclude that they're pro-Obama despite their critical statement wrt Bush.

Stereotypes are convenient when you need to make decision in a pinch, but they are horribly ignorant and misguided when talking to people. You can easily dispel your ignorant bias by asking a single pointed question.

As far as politically loaded hyperbole and labeled stereotype buckets I find Bush and Obama far more in common than Trump and that Trump and Clinton have far more in common. When I look at these people I don’t care what their politics are or how charming they are. I am trying to examine their motivations and how they interact with people. I am not sure which labeled bucket that would put me in and I don’t really care because I despise political labels.
I come from one of those families. My grandfather came back to Portugal from Angola soon after the war started. Unfortunately, he never got to trade his possessions for diamonds, so they had essentially their clothes.
A 'what we know' map
Here you go! https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

As an aside, the author's "Technical Deep Dive" is worth a read: https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret...
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How often would you like to get paid?
> "The alleged terrorist was communicating with somebody else" is nothing, whereas "The alleged terrorist was communicating with JeremyNT's Private Node"

P2P does not imply direct communication between the private nodes of communicating parties.

We could have extremely strong anonymity today with a huge p2p (semi-dark-) net.
Looks like this is the takedown request: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/01/2020-01-2...

The core allegation is:

> Mgp25’s Instagram-API repository (and its forks) offers a tool expressly designed to circumvent the Company’s effective access controls and protection measures by avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or impairing the Company’s technological measures without the authority of the copyright owners or the Company. Mgp25’s Instagram-API is designed to emulate the official Instagram mobile app when communicating with Instagram’s servers, which allows users of mgp25’s Instagram-API to send and receive data (including receiving legitimate, copyrighted posts by Instagram’s users) through Instagram’s private API. Mgp25’s Instagram-API also permits other types of access to, and collection of, Instagram’s users’ copyrighted works in manners that exceed the scope of access and functionality that would be permitted by a user with a legitimate, authorized Instagram account.
I'd argue 100% automation is a space pen while run books are a pencil.
Tomato Effect
I’m really not at all sure about what your point is supposed to be. The reason the profession is dying has nothing to do with training. It is entirely down to the fact that people stopped buying these products.

> We have the idea that it’s up to employees to train themselves before getting the job

Regardless of who does the training, it is most certainly up to the individual to acquire their own marketable skills if they wish to go out and market them. As long as there’s demand for those skills, there’ll be people willing to train in them. Employers may wish to initiate their own training programs, but they’ll only ever do that if they have a demand for labor that’s met with a shortage of supply. This is already commonplace in industries commonly that have apprenticeships or internships. But what are you expecting? Museums to start hiring apprentice botanical illustrators, so that when they’re properly trained they can look forward to having to transition into a different field because nobody has any demand for their newly learnt skills?
That has more to do with the people involved than that they were microkernels.
why management cultures appear so reluctant to eject malignant managers?

A typical engineer will gladly stab another in the back for something so trivial as what nearly-identical-anyway programming language or framework or IDE to use. Meanwhile managers, like lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers and every other profession, prioritise solidarity within the profession. We can debate whether that’s good or bad but there’s no doubt why they prosper while engineers are the first to be outsourced or exploited.
Excellent before & after Gifs of major cities.
Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
It could be a tool that you have created, a process that you have started or anything else which created a big and lasting impact on your workplace.

For me, it was probably starting holding regular tech book review sessions.

Over time the discussion around both architecture and implementation details got way more structured, quicker and more satisfying to all parties.
Seems obvious, but building up mental model of software development through a structured approach is better than just letting it happen naturally during work hours.
K-9 mail. But having switched from BB10 OS end of last year I'm still looking for an app that's not a disappointment in comparison.
I’m almost certain the check is against what the number is behind. Also the opposite situation - Google Voice to carrier would result in issues if carrier to GV was fine. Not the case however.

The number needs to be non-VoIP. Off the top of my head, Uber, Lyft, Craigslist all require non-voip which means no Google Voice.
Lobbyist help politicians accomplish what they already wanted to do. Whenever politicians enact policy some interests inevitably benefit from it, and other interest's goals are frustrated by it. So of course there are going to be lobbyists (or activists) who want to argue their case on both sides, and good lobbyists are very well prepared and very persuasive. It's soft influence, and no quid pro quo is necessary for lobbyists to have a big impact on policy.
> Hugged to death.

It's a static site FFS! Erols and ServInt were serving 3k requests per second on a Pentium in the nineties using Apache and SCSI disks with no acceleration, no http cache, no memcache because that 2KB page fits into OS disk cache!
> Italy

>Italy has a LGBT+ travel rank of 40 with a total gay travel score of 60. Italy is part of Europe with main city at Rome. Its Developed country with a population of 61M people. The main currency is undefined. The languages spoken are Italian. the Republic of Italy is the formal name of undefined

The currency is Euro, pretty much defined.

Republic of Italy is the formal name of Italy.

And the overall rating at first sight seem way off.

Most probably it is brought down by the 0% in "adoption allowed" which I cannot see the relevance of in the case of a travel.
They should standardise on a fused version of type C/E plug.
That would be fine, if not for the fact that the committees rules can be completely overridden as desired, essentially making the committee nothing more than a public appeasement piece.
I think with how DMCA works, Github doesn't have to (or need to) rule one way or another. Someone sends a notice and it is taken down swiftly. If the owner thinks this was in bad faith or a mistake, they can challenge it but if you are not absolutely sure that you can win such a claim you better talk to a lawyer first.
Considering that LittleSnitch is a TM, I don’t expect this project to last long with the current name...
> everyone thinks it’s a diamond and we haven’t yet felt the need to correct them

It also avoids conversations that have few good outcomes. Tell someone who spent $$$$ on a diamond that you think diamonds are a waste of money or a humanitarian disaster, and it's not a great way to start a conversation. There are also other colored stones that I think are nicer looking than diamonds, but moissanite provides a nice way to stay within cultural norms without necessarily[1] contributing to the problem.

[1] Obviously actively fighting against the whole diamond industry is better, but we all have to pick our battles.
Wuhan Coronavirus Memes Are Going Viral in China
Ask HN: eBook about Developers’ (tech) Path
I’m trying to find a book I remember seeing a post/comment about. It was for an ebook about the path of developers or technologists within companies. I also remember someone commenting about how the author was advocating for those who seek a technical path to possibly establish their own.
I also think the title included an unusual word.
If the score range were -3 to 3:

-3 0%
-2 17%
-1 33%
0 50%
1 67%
2 83%
3 100%

But I suspect the real range is 0, -1, -2 and would make more sense inverted. Canada 0%, France 50%, Saudi 100%.

"The strength of the religious influence and general homophobia in society will be assessed with up to -2 points, since the quality of life you can massively restrict homosexual."

https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/gaytravelindex_2017.pdf
I struggle with the same thing, and I don't appear to have Aspergers. Where are my superpowers?
Or github pages...
Typescript is certainly newer than C#. So are Scala and Rust. Modernity and novelty are two different things, though.
Yes, he does. It is on the RHS on the "LGBT+ Travel Rankings of the world" page (linked in OP).

"This ranking is based on 14 different paramters like civil rights, discrimation and persecution by Spartacus LGBT+ Travel."
Huawei Won’t Use Google in Its Upcoming Smartphones Even If U.S. Lifts Trade Ban
Running close to TMax values for extended periods of time is not a big problem.

Servers in our HPC cluster runs with similar temperatures even with enough cooling and we change CPUs very very rarely.
Yeah, move fast and break things works great with novelty pens, not so much with smoke detectors.

OP, if you're not going to take the quality of information very seriously, you should probably pivot to something a bit less hazardous.
"In the end, like almost all other arguments about The Right Thing To Do, this is an argument about resource (re)distribution"

Like many things there are two separate issues:

1) If everyone did it, there would be a cost to society in that fewer products would be made, given the higher overhead, skills, etc. required.

2) If you (some particular person) did it, it would make you uncompetitive.

People suggest regulation because it fixes (2) without requiring any individual to unilaterally decide to sacrifice for the common good. Issue (1) is a finite cost that may or may not be considered worthwhile.

It's really weird for people to continually take the position that they can't do anything altruistic and be against society forcing everybody to. Shouldn't it be one or the other?
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The attack doesn't work if you are using a passphrase. I'm not sure why they let people use a PIN in the first place, but you should never be using PIN instead of a passphrase.
This is a good lesson for me in a very different context.

I could relate to what you said about it’s a mental-process with maybe 99% trash, but there’s still 1% not trash in there and I can only know it isn’t trash by not getting carried away without verifying the hypothesis in first place.

Lesson learned: sure, go ahead with hypothesis hunting, but also spend time to verify them first.

Edit: more simply, be careful about confirmation bias.
Opposite position here - American Express was the one card I could not use anywhere in my first European trips 20 years ago (don't know it that's changed) - ditched it forever then. MC and Visa works for me. Never looked back.
Owner needs to send a counter-notice. Github will have to restore it. FB will be forced to take owner to court but the repo will stay up until court decides
I used to run a startup in Singapore, and 0% corporate tax for the first 3 years, 0% capital gains tax, and 0% income tax on local dividends was a pretty sweet deal. (I'm not sure what the current corp tax rates are, but AFAIK the latter two are unchanged.)
IMO there's a huge difference between invasive and non-invasive attacks. I would expect something that bills itself as "The safe place for your coins" to require a bit more effort, know-how, and tools to read out my keys than "a couple hundred dollars of equipment" and a python program.

> if anyone has physical access it's game over

It's actually not when you use a series of common defenses that wipe the chip when tampering is detected. Of course it's still possible to determine the private keys via perfectly executed microprobing...but there's a huge difference here. Invasive attacks require significant time in very expensive laboratories per attack, which very well may fail.

Let's say managed to steal my wallet which leverages a secure element with tampering protection. If you're unaware that voltage/clock glitching will wipe the device, you may try and then you've lost. But let's say you're aware so you want to go the microprobing route. Do you have the necessary lasers and acids to get directly to the circuitry you want to read out without accidentally compromising the integrity of the top-layer sensor meshes? Do you possess a focused ion beam station (only costs ~500k USD)? By using this mesh I've made the extraction significantly more tedious and requiring far higher levels of precision for you. You've got my smart card, but I wouldn't call it "Game Over" by any means. Maybe in this amount of time I figured out that my wallet is missing.

This attack here on the Tresor, though, requires physical access but can be automated. Here, physical access really is game over. I would rate this issue as "Trezor shows themselves to be an inferior solution, will not use to store my keys"

Read here if you want to see more on techniques for readout and known countermeasures. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/sc99-tamper.pdf
Counter-notice fixes it, making github restore it and giving Github immunity.
I am fine with Heroin as well, no one even government has the ethical authority to tell people what they can or can not ingest. If someone wants to consume heroin the only ethical action I can take is educating them as to why its bad, I can not prohibit them from consuming it, nor can I prohibit someone from selling it to them

There has also been a ton of unintended consequences from the pursuit of prohibition on the "hard drugs" including people with debilitating pain being made to suffer due to arbitrary drug limitations put on the medical field by people with no medical training

As to the common retort of "well do you support people having nuclear weapons" that is very easy, and my principle would apply to all manner of weapons. If we as a society believe that nuclear weapons are too dangerous then we as a society should ban them, completely. Meaning not even government should have them. This would also apply to machine guns. If we as a society believe machine guns are too dangerous for people to own then all people even people in government should be barred from owning them, for if the government does not trust me with a machine gun or nuclear weapon then I sure as shit do not trust government with it either

The biggest problem I have with Weapons control is Law Enforcement, and Military are always exempted from the law. If we believe in government for the people, by the people and that The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense, the the government of the people can not and should not have powers that exceed that of the individuals that make up that government. The collective should not, and can not be more powerful than the individual.

Equality under the law demands that if Joe Police officer has a M16, than I also can have a M16, if you ban me from having that M16, than Joe Police officer should also be banned from having an M16.

For the record, I do believe in the prohibition of Nuclear weapons, and all other Weapons of Mass Destruction, I believe in the complete prohibition of them including prohibiting governments
Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines
This is just a question of semantics. In mainstream programming language jargon it’s ”dynamically typed”, while in (applied) type theory it’s ”untyped” or, perhaps more accurately ”monotyped” or ”unityped”, because types are fundamentally invariants of a program that can be verified without executing it.
I tried cloudron recently and the experience was pretty smooth. However the 30$/month price tag put me off. Yunohost offers the same (please correct me, if cloudron has features yunohost doesn't have) for free, and it's hard to compete with free.
02/02/2020 20:20:20
The data seems pretty out of date for Taiwan. LGBT couples can be married, and stepchildren can be adopted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Taiwan
Ask reddit admins, who decide to quarantine it from the rest of reddit.
When I started my training brand (The Cloud Coach) I wanted to share my knowledge with the world through video training. What I've actually come to understand is I have a deeper desire: I want a community of people I can have a pleasant, on-point discourse with.

I believe others want this too.

To combat my desire for this I'm developing two things: a Discord community for all but with a private section for paying customers. I believe when people pay for access to a community that expects a certain behavour from them they run with it.

Secondly I'm also developing a localised Meetup called Brisbane CloudOps. I want to enable physical meetings and discussions too.

I think the answer, to be honest, is smaller, niche, private communities and not vast open arenas.
What makes you think the Ledger secure element provides any meaningful security?
I keep switching off Wifi before putting my MacBook into a bag for longer time. Seems otherwise, it might try to run some updates during the night, which it shouldn't do when being in the bag. Switching off Wifi seems to prevent that.
Maybe replace it with something that also consumes energy and produces nothing of real value. Maybe call it cryptocurrency.
Synthetic diamond will eventually become so easy the industry won't be able to supress it anymore. The collapse will be interesting, in the bloddy sense of the term I suspect.
It depends on the instrument. 128 positions is well enough for piano. From other instruments, drums is the one I know best, and there single parameter is just not enough: the result depends on velocity, the position where the stick hits drum head, for non round tip sticks the stick angle. For cymbals, in addition to hitting different parts of the cymbal, stick tip, shaft and shoulder give different sounds. And so on... There's a good reason why loops sampled from acoustic drums are used even though drum synths exist.
I also went with moissanite. My wife (then girlfriend) was in the "2-3 months salary for a diamond" camp which I find incredibly crass. Saved $15k on the diamond by going with moissanite and spent a fraction of that on getting a nice custom ring + wedding band made by an independent local jeweler instead. I was happy to support a local craftsman rather than DeBeers & co.
Facebook still are tracking us all though because they’ve just dark-patterned their way around the regulation. So we have the same data sharing, and now I’m annoyed every time I get to a website.

I’m not arguing for a return to what we had. Just pointing out that what we have does not work yet.

Plus lots of companies are clearly in breach - like when they say ‘by continuing to use this site you agree to the terms and conditions’ this is not active consent. But nothing is done.
Having to pay Apple does not mean that Apple wishes to use proprietary cables in its devices in order to make money from third parties. Apple has several products/services which one could reasonably assume operate at break even or negative margin (e.g. Apple Developer accounts).

To illustrate (accept you may be too busy to do the research, but I'm trying to show you why a company which does $250bn a year in revenue doesn't give a shit about the max $4 & probably more like 2% licensing fee it takes per cable sold):

1. Why do you believe that this is a profitable endeavour for Apple?
2. Can you think of other reasons they might do this, beyond "making money"?
3. Can you point to the line in Apple's quarterly reporting which includes these cables? Did it spike in the quarters following the introduction of Lightning?
Benefits of the push to "trusted computing" right here and there!
GNU Binutils 2.34 Released
Trezor Hardware Wallet Hacked in 15 Min and $75
For inspiration, have a look at the plan 9 syscall table:

http://aiju.de/plan_9/plan9-syscalls

This is how you make a simple yet flexible OS. Use an rpc protocol to do all the talking to objects within the system which are exposed as files. It's very REST like and allows any programming language to interact with those objects by reading/writing them as files. So you have a very uniform interface that eliminates a lot of binaries as now simple scripts can handle the work of reading and writing those files. Then realize that you can easily export those files to other machines on a lan or the internet. So the tcp stack of an internet facing machine can be exported and mounted on multiple machines who now all talk to the internet via that one machines tcp stack. And that can even be done across the net to bypass "great firewalls". Bye bye nat.
I don't know the details of the code, so I'm left with questions.

Is the only difference between using this library and using Instagram's mobile app the fact that the library is not the "right" web browser?

Isn't the library simply a different web client accessing a publicly available API? And requests from the library are properly authenticated / authorized by Instagram's servers through normal means (the library isn't bypassing some mechanism, it's just not the official app)?

If it's true that it's just a different API client, then there may be some TOS violation, but isn't DMCA an overreach? Is there any validity to the claim?