skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key feature has always been that the data cannot be retroactively changed, eg log entries removed, inserted (between existing records) or modified. That's what enables cryptocurrencies: nobody can go back and alter account balances without leaving a trace, edits have to go through new transactions or protocol change.

In case of a video, blockchain could be used to tamper-proof security footage. You can always manipulate the incoming data (cover the cameras etc), but once data has been recorded (whatever it may be), there's no going back and overwriting it.

I'm surprised how oblivious the HN crowd is to how huge this is for the enterprise and government sector where data like land registry or citizenship records (see Obama's birth certificate, GWB's military record) have to be kept provably untampered for up to a century.
You're on the right track, but I think you're taking a more cynical view of it (just to be frank).

Whether you're a business, volunteer organization, sports team or anything else you want the people working with you to be motivated. No matter what. Motivation is the goal.

If you get into motivational psychology, especially for people in the software field, studies consistently show that motivation for us boils down to 3 things: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

In many cases, feeling good about the place that you work will feed into that purpose motive. Having
"esprit de corps" with your team feeds it because you want to both help your team to succeed and you don't want to let them down.

That's also why a bad manager, leader, owner, coach, etc will torpedo it fast because you're going to be a lot less motivated for somebody like that.

I know HN isn't big on YouTube links, but this is one of the better short talks on motivational psychology out there (about 10 minutes long).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
I've just been using conda environments lately. How much am I missing by not using virtualenv instead?
In the US in the 90s, we were taught that Ausgangsschtift one. I don't even recognize the "American" one as a thing anyone uses here.
Care isn't a high priority in today's environment, both political and economic. It's about whether the equation all checks out.

Ironically, as someone who's always been the type of personality to make sure that the equation checks out, I've come to see that it doesn't make the world a better place.

C'est la vie.
> This is about the same as a browser asking you to make it default when you open it.

No, it's one thing (OS) pushing another (browser). The equivalent would be opening chrome and it popping up a message, "Still using Windows? Click here to upgrade to ChromeOS!"
No, it wasn't. Pcc is just kencc ran through a special mode and with special APE libraries. It has nothing to do with S. C. Johnson's pcc.

> The pcc command acts as a front end to the Plan 9 C compilers and loaders.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/pcc

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ape

https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/master/sys/src/cmd/pcc....
>I genuinely did not understand that was a weird/socially unacceptable thing to do.

If it makes you feel any better, I found this line/story absolutely hilarious.
just keep in mind that most of the comments against the charges are probably made by chinese trolls
I don't?
EgotisticalGiraffe was the JS embedded in Freedom Hosting's web pages, which is mentioned by the article. Are you saying they hacked the site and inserted the JS? I assumed that was inserted after de-anonymizing the server and seizing it.

A Wired article on it:

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

Slides:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140413004837/http://cryptome.o...

A breakdown of the malware:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140417081750/http://ghowen.me/...
The killer feature of the iPhone, for me, was the ability to use desktop webpages on the device, instead of getting "mobile-friendly" pages (which meant something pretty different back then).

I still think I'd rather zoom into a desktop page than deal with responsive designs, personally.
The article explicitly does mention "EgotisticalGiraffe" (the Firefox TBB exploit). But the point is that the exploit was dropped on all websites that Freedom Hosting was running, which raises the question that the article is really about, "how did they know where the hidden services were?"
In 1000 weeks, you can raise your offspring. That's obviously a long time if you remember about your youth.

There are many efforts to bring life long work into a compact number. https://80000hours.org/ is quite a famous one.
I can't believe you think glib "people prefer" explanations somehow answer or explain away his critique. And "dildo shaped joystick"? Really? "Crossover" is a form factor (smallish SUV), by the way.
Whenever I see someone post on Facebook or LinkedIn the meme that "People don't remember what you do for them, they remember how you make them FEEL", I'm always like: hell no, doesn't happen with me. Really get annoyed by that meme.
Kintaba cofounder here-- thanks for the feedback!

We really wanted the interface to feel comfortable for non-technical folks who needed to stay up to date on incidents so we focused on bringing as much of a human element as possible into the dashboard. Hopefully we can find the right balance of friendliness and informativeness, we certainly don't intend to become a social network (but we would love it if we were as easy to use as something like Slack or Discord)...

We experienced the same pain you're describing with keeping others updated and the politics (and subpolitices and subsubpolitics) that come out of major incidents over our careers. Luckily we also saw companies that did it right, usually with custom built tooling. Our biggest discovery was the more open you make the whole incident process the better everyone understands the work being done and also the less of those insidious little subpolitical conversations happen where facts are skewed and people are blamed for process challenges.

It's definitely a big hill to climb.
> 2) the amyloid plaques themselves are actually being broken up by the drug

This is actually what several studies have shown--the amyloid plaques were being removed by the drugs, but the progression of Alzheimer's was not slowed or halted.
> The touchbar is still 100% useless

Most people seem to feel this way. I'm guessing Apple wants to get rid of its TB parts in stock before making it optional or entirely removing it from the next models.

Personally even if it was somewhat useful I'd rather not have it. How much is Apple charging for it to the end user? $200-300? No thanks. I also feel it's a ticking bomb.

I just want a 2015 model with updated specs.
I did not say printing though. Copying could as well be taking a picture of them.

If you want to print them though, I am pretty sure that it is legal as long as you include a clear disclaimer that they are fake.
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Nope.

Anything less than rapturous enthusiasm will get you branded as a pariah and spike your tenure at that company.

I've never been able to convince anyone to not blow their own foot off. And when things do go south, as they always do, the truth sayer becomes the scape goat.

Advice I got from Luke Hohmann in the 90s: You have to let people fail on their own. Meanwhile, prepare plan B, if you want to pick up the pieces afterwards.

My advice: Take notes, play amateur ethnographer, anthropologist, socialist. Learn how these fads, cults, groupthinks play out.
Ah, I didn't really explain that well. The three half hour periods are selected based on the system wide demand. You are then charged for your demand during those periods. So you pay a lot for using capacity when the network is strained. Also, for distribution charging (rather than transmission) there is a half hourly congestion charging mechanism. Every HH period gets put into a red, yellow, or green band and you pay more distribution charge during the red and yellow periods.
This quote without context might give impression that Chomsky is critical of Mondragon. A bit of context around it helps to understand his point. From [1]:

“LF: So it sounds as if you might support something like the Cleveland model where the ownership of the company is actually held by members of the community as well as the workers…

NC: That’s a step forward but you also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at least large parts of market systems. <<here this quote about Mondragon>>

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you’re only after your own good, not the good of others and that’s extremely harmful.

LF: Have you ever had a taste of a non market system — had a flash of optimism –– oh this is how we could live?

NC: A functioning family for example, and there are bigger groups, cooperatives are a case in point. It certainly can be done. The biggest I know is Mondragon but there are many in between and a lot more could be done.”

1 - https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/30/talking-with-chomsky...
Still – it’s a misleading title (border-line click bait). Anti-Firefox ad implies that they say something negative about Firefox, which clearly isn't the case.
> Good. If you get caught committing a crime you should be charged with it.

Presumably you’re fine with trying all of the US soldiers who killed other soldiers in war with murder?
First thought... <chuckles>... https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=happy%20trai...
Same. Spotify or Google Play Music to do discovery, then Bandcamp or direct-from-artist for the artists you like.
> We were spending a lot more on AIDS research 20 years ago than on Alzheimer’s today:

I still remember in the early aughts when my professor was part of a research group in 1995 that found a genetic link in Germans from Russia with Alzheimer’s. At the time it was heralded as a huge break through. 25 years later and The needle has barely moved on their research and accomplishments.

In reports published today in the journal Science, researchers say they have isolated a defective Alzheimer’s gene culled from an 8-year-long investigation of several Volga German families, including two from Eastern Washington. Discovery of the gene, and a protein it produces, could speed development of drugs to combat the brain-destroying disorder.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/18/pioneer-famili...

Seeing your loved ones suffer through Alzheimer’s is one of the most agonizing and depressing things I've had to experience.
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It's not necessarily pathogens only but it can also be commensal dysbiosis. See the discussion linked by the parent comment or my other comment here.

We should start thinking about all diseases that involve the HLA gene and dysfunctional immune responses as autoimmunity. Not just the obvious ones. Hence the question is simply why is the immune system misclassifying our own tissues? It's a CS / information theory problem.
I’ve been fascinated by the 'napkin math' topic recently, but felt a need for a way to routinely practise. It’s an acquired skill once it’s effortless to do the order of magnitude calculations in a meeting, or zipping through possible solutions on a whiteboard (what I imagine Jeff Dean does). Will it be fast enough? How much will it cost? Does the benchmarked performance match the order of magnitude we’d expect?

To practise, I created a newsletter last year with a monthly problem that may be of interest to others wanting to sharpen their napkin math: https://sirupsen.com/napkin/
Edison posted a response[0] with this amazing sentence:

> to protect your privacy by rejecting an advertising-based business model, our company Edison Software, measures e-commerce through a technology that automatically recognizes commercial emails and extracts anonymous purchase information from them

[0]: https://medium.com/changing-communications/a-reminder-of-how... (non-Medium: https://outline.com/7K3TAL)
MSFT replaced every API from what they've said, including Safe Browsing (it uses SmartScreen now):

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/09/microsoft-edge-google-feat...
Interesting. When I found out gel pens exist, I just couldn't go back to ballpoint - the scraping gives the same sensation as a pencil, preventing runaway strokes due to being too slippery.
In the clickbait era, I've also noticed everything amped to 11. One no longer "disagrees", one "slams". One no longer "loses", one "gets destroyed", etc.

Not a fan.
>How do I rent a cheap apartment and buy a used car >without a job?...

You answered your question with the second paragraph...?

>In my case, my first job (at 14) required getting a ride to from a coworker with a car...

You chose to go to university in lieu of financial stability. That is how savings is not acquired. Save the money, then go to school. Buy things you can afford, including school.

>Money doesn't come out of thin air. Not everyone starts their working life with access to enough money to just buy a car (even used!) and rent an apartment.

Babies are born without jobs or means to clothe and shelter themselves, but we have what are called families, communities, and society. Each melds together to form a fabric of civilization that provides in one way or another the necessities of life. Start working as young as possible, save up, spend thrift.
I think that too but I suspect that apparent was meant in a show don't tell or speaks for itself sense. It shouldn't need any self-promotion if it exists and is real instead of a facade.

For a trivial example imagine a three piece suit environment which insists it is a casual working environment while having twelve pages of dress code vs one where they can tell who is there to interview because they are wearing business casual instead of teeshirts and jeans.
Is volume defined for a higher dimension object? I mean, is it like the surface area of a sphere is to the are of a circle? Or as the surface area of a sphere is to the circumference of a circle?
what are the alternative? Escalate military tensions with them?
Slap sanctions on whole populations (who actually don’t have a say in this since they live under dictatorship)? Start a war?
Is there a chance it's not just "about the feels" but also about team building that may pay dividends later when it comes to "normal work"?

I'm not saying the method used was effective in that regard, but it's possible the aim went beyond what was immediately in front of you. Strongly bonded teams (whether built socially or through adversity) tend to be better teams.

I know HN probably skews towards an industrious/utilitarian/pragmatist point of view, but many of us probably work in teams where not everyone holds the same perspective. Understanding how those people work and are motivated is important.
The problem with being a political "hack" and repeatedly lying is that it creates doubt when you might be telling the truth. With William Barr's name on this, it is weaker.
Yeah, I like that better too. Especially the second sentence.
It's only lightly modified, so was curious to get a general sense from the community before consulting a lawyer. Yes 2.1 is in there (on reverse engineering?).
Drawing Reddit mascots using nothing but equations and inequalities
The military and intelligence needs use of Tor to be functioning and anonymous more than they need hidden services to be functioning and anonymous. The unknown "investigation" technique in this article is about deanonymizing hidden services, not individual Tor users (at least not directly, they used the discovery of the hidden services to send an exploit which has been publicly identified to individual users).
> Keeping point A and point B truly anonymous

Read and write encrypted packets to alt.anon ?
The idea of "species" is only a good simplification that work 99.99% of the time.

Just to add some confusion, the border of species is fuzzy in time, but in some strange cases it is fuzzy in space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
Palm's WebOS was decent

I still get to see the webOS logo occasionally when my television reboots. A bit of nostalgia every few months.

Too bad LG had to ruin the user experience with the stupid magic wand remote control. If you think voice control of TVs is bad, imagine a remote that you can't leave next to you on the couch because every time you move, a giant pink cursor pops up on the screen and a menu overlay slides in from the side over what you're watching.
Unpopular opinion... you can make almost anything sound awful with the right tone of cynicism, and the intended substance of this article is just a cynical tone. Looking at the observations presented I'm inclined to side with the university president.

1. The university staff were mostly sullen at a culture workshop, enthusiasm was low.

2. Disney is an entertainment world leader.

3. Disney attributes its leadership position to its corporate culture, evidenced at Disney sites which are in a world of their own compared to other entertainment sites - if you've ever been to a Six Flags (USA) or Alton Towers (UK) you'll know that they don't compare to the all around experience at Disneyland.

4. Disney is selling a consulting service to other enterprises to improve cultural coherence, it costs millions.

5. The author objects to the suggested focus of culture. In their words:

> We were introduced at the beginning of the workshop to the university’s brand new slogan: “Only at GW, we change the world, one life at a time.” Hold on. We change the world only at GW? And we achieve this absurd ambition how? The answer, it turns out, is pretty vacuous—by being nice. “Care,” we were told, is one of our three “Service Priorities.”

The author shows no evidence of understanding the purpose of a mission statement, which is a guiding principle that cuts across all aspects of an organization's basic deliverables, to help guide all staff on what service delivery would look like if more than the bare minimum service were to be offered. "Only at GW, we change the world, one life at a time". How is this not vacuous? i) it helps you understand you are looking to create change that is remarkable and identifiable to GW, not just any old university, ii) it reminds you the changes being made are to change a young student's life, it's not just to teach them factoids, iii) it reminds you that the goal of GW is to change the world through it's teaching, not train people to pass exams and get certificates.

6. The author is combating the university's efforts to get a common aspirational purpose, instead they are trying to create a common rebellion against leadership, so they must want something else that leadership is offering. Because no alternative aspirational purpose was offered, the author is de facto trying to rally people behind ... nothing, inaction, rebellion for rebellion's sake.
Off topic: weird HN bug?

I see this item on front page as item #12 and on the second page as item #39. The latter was posted 14hrs ago and former 7hrs ago (10:35am PST) — both have the same item id.
To be fair, this describes the majority of companies in today's environment. I'm still getting first contacts from companies that I applied to in October 2019, and I've had a handful that have asked for two weeks' of my calendar to schedule an interview and then never got back with me.
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”Company culture and values training is useful to inform people of what the culture and values are.”

The only way to be informed about culture and values is to work there for a while. Trainings are at best aspirational (this is where we want to go) or just plain delusional (this is how we want to look like)
Maybe the root cause of this is related to manufacturing bases moving overseas from consumer bases, reducing the ability of manufacturers to be flexible and agile? It really is perplexing. At least sedans aren't as extinct as keyboard phones.
Wrong subthread, small apartment isn't regular travel ;)

But I don't think there's need to argue this further, I think the point that there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution has been made exhaustively, by everyone.
They mention themes. Maybe there's a way to attach a material design theme?
Bioware commits to longer-term redesign of Anthem
You use a global db atom in re-frame for global state, but there's nothing stopping you from using a reagent atom local to a component, is there?

I never thought of the existence of the global db as the thing that ALL state should go in., or is that a community best practice?

Edit: after digging through the re-frame docs themselves, you can see here that local reagent atoms are used for local state even with the global app db: https://github.com/day8/re-frame/blob/69a3fcd411369fff65404e...
I'm not saying the authorities would not have to describe its investigative methods to a judge. What I'm saying is making them available to the general public.
Nothing but bad news.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here: I'd appreciate if could you explain your reasoning, comparison for me?
For most users this is great. Instead of having to find where to download python and install it, Microsoft will do it for you from the store. How is this different than ubuntu suggesting the apt command when you type a command?
Same in git commit message, we need to put as much information as possible in the fewest number of bytes to make it useful. I am looking forward to an article name "committese"
> Apple has convinced artists that Mac's just work, and everything else is hard.

At least macOS doesn't phone home (as much?) and doesn't show you ads like Windows does. Microsoft isn't helping themselves doing such silly things.

Many PC vendors also install a lot of crapware.
Well, the OP's full line was "very bad but with a good user interface", which IMO is an important caveat.

In every category except user interface the first iPhone was behind the times. Devices like the Nokia N95 could do everything the iPhone could do, plus a lot more, with great (for the time!) performance.

But it's also a demonstration of why UI matters so much. I was using a Symbian smartphone and loved it but none of my friends did because it wasn't as intuitive as the dumb phones of the time. iPhones were as intuitive as a dumb phone and had a whole raft of new features... but only when compared to those dumb phones.
So is there a place to download the trained model? I don't see anything but the dataset available.
The concern seems to be more of a legal one than a technical one. Law enforcement in theory should always disclose how they collect evidence.
Are you guys using xState entirely as your data store, or using something else in conjunction like MobX or Redux?
If you are in a position that you feel your time is being wasted on work or projects, the question is not whether you want to do it for another 1000 weeks - it is whether you want to do it at all.

You could get hit by a bus any day. You have to find a balance in your life where you are happy having lived it, even if it ends tomorrow, while also doing what you need to do to provide for yourself and your family, and enjoy life if you live to 100+ years old.
”where often enough Emails are kind of legal documents, which need to be preserved”

Nowadays, e-mails also often are legal documents that need to be destroyed in due time. For example, you can’t legally keep an application letter around forever, irrespective of whether it got delivered by snail mail or e-mail.

At work, I throw away a year of e-mails at the start of each year, keeping one year, growing to two years during the year.