skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that will cause cities to build up public transport is if people start living in more dense quarters. And the only thing that will make people start living in more dense quarters is if the cost of moving people and all the mass associated with their lives increases drastically. Therefore, the only solution is to cause the price of fuel to rise dramatically, or wait for the consequences of fuel use to raise the cost for us.

And then once people are living in smaller homes in higher density environments, a city government will be able to propose public transportation that is actually feasible.
If you want to see the details: https://simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com/referrers/ne... (Amsterdam time zone)
Starling business accounts do allow cash deposits through the Post Office network but they're chargeable, like cash deposits on any business account I've seen.

Domestic ATM withdrawals are a cost for Starling as they have no network of their own; they're not even part of Link.

I'm not sure that the paltry interest they can gain from business deposits will be enough to make those accounts profitable (they just announced another £60m of funding this week).

I'm a relatively happy personal customer of Starling, so I'm not against them, but I do think it's a bit optimistic to say Starling's business accounts are profitable based on no evidence.
For those wondering about random codings, see Fountain Codes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code

The military implementation is called Raptor Code (rapid tornado codings): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_code
People with jobs and families like these neighborhoods because they provide a walkable downtown main street with access to jobs. Strongtowns is becoming Jacobin like in its militancy against compromises that serve real people in the real world.
the high-end restaurants on/near the strip are ridiculously overpriced for the quality of food. even the dining experience at most retaurants feels cheap and fake.

you can find much better food at better prices in other cities and even off-strip in vegas. for instance, i'd generally choose louisville (kentucky) over vegas for dining experience (for affordable ethnic food of all sorts, take a road-trip to LA).
Show HN: Reddit but for Audiobooks
France has had good online banks for years now, with free accounts/cards/transfers and everything managed online.

You just have to choose your bank carefully. Boursorama or Fortuneo are typical decent examples.
> Managers are so deeply prejudiced against the idea that their job requires predicting something which is intrinsically unpredictable, that they will refuse to believe this regardless of how much evidence is presented

Good quote. The tool I linked to is in part built to provide evidence of the difficulty of prediction.

> The real lesson is that knowing the estimate, doesn't really tell you much about how long it will take

Yes and no. My guess is that most teams can improve their accuracy to some degree if they track their accuracy over time. I agree in your greater point of inherent unpredictability though.
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Its almost as if we built a building... then put all the stores inside of it. People could walk around without concern for the weather or cars. Hell we could surround it with parking even!

-Pre-2000's Mall designers

Screw the building lets just cram the stores up close to each other in an outdoor square with trees and surround it with, parking.

-Post 2010 Mall designers
Will Facebook M&a Accelerate AR?
"Typical American companies aren't controlled by the CIA or other government agencies."

True but that doesn't mean there aren't national interests in play when it comes to information security companies deploying crypto products. Think RSA e.g. who took bribes and implemented Dual EC DRBG -- a backdoored random number generator for a number of their cryptographic systems.

There are most likely others, thus transparency via open source (and verifiability via reproducible builds to split hairs) is necessary to avoid this ever happening again.
Going "underground" in Florida is typically prohibitively expensive, but it's possible if you're willing to fudge things a bit. Disney's Utilidoor System is a tunnel system that sits above the water table by itself being mostly at ground level, and then having the parks built a story above it. The Lagoon around Disney comes from the dirt dug up to create the effect.

I believe the concept for a underground transportation/roadway layer in the original Epcot city worked on the same idea but massively expanded, somewhat similar to a modernized/expanded Chicago Tunnel Company lines.

A photo of the Epcot "Transportation Layer" concept art can be seen here.

https://www.yesterland.com/domedcity.html
There's also a screenshot indicating that borrowers are incentivised (offered a small reward) if they push these high-interest loans on others as well. Multi-level marketing meets loan sharking.
Totally. American cities we're built with cars in mind, and it's really crippled their potential. Densely packed cities with subways and a lot of vertical freedom are the best way to build. They prevent deforestation because you don't need to expand outward, and they help with pollution because you can have maybe a couple hundred metro cars instead of millions of individual cars. I'm not sure how this would be implemented now though, because like I said, American cities have been crippled by their car infrastructure.
small portions of it, sometimes an hour or two, sometimes a day, or a week.
most of the times there are 5-6 other conditions.
pandas will have to full scan entire dataframe for any query to filter, while SQL uses index seek
The biggest reason IMO not to use ReSharper is actually Rider (so I don't use VS anymore either).
You get all the ReSharper goodies, but inside an editor that's more nimble than vanilla VS.
> Nobody’s holding a gun to their heads. This is a voluntary transaction.

By this logic would should allow heroin to be sold at 7-11's
Even if that is ever the case, US interests will still be way more aligned with Finland and Sweden than China.
What's wrong with blockchain? Honest question since I've never used them.
For me, whiteboard plus phone camera equals flow. Idea -> snap -> iterate -> snap -> ...
You expect politicians to learn from previous mistakes? LOL. Mars will eventually have its move for independence, when it's too late to stop that. Total Recall and The Expanse are on the nose.
I swear SC is the only place I can find even a couple of Ethan Johns songs to stream while I'm at work.

It's got its niche for sure.
From the article you linked to. It is new story because there are new details.

> Many details of the arrangements between Crypto and NSA are not known, including when the rigging began, whether it has ended and which machines were involved. The whole story will be told only when secret U.S. documents are declassified, probably well into the next century.

> Crypto rejects the rigging allegations as an invention by disgruntled former employees and denies that its machines were ever designed or altered according to the suggestions of American spies.
> We just need to know that, even armed with all that knowledge, he still made the decision he did, and that we should not expect others with less knowledge of how software works to be any less human.

This is maybe one of the most important lessons of the 20th and 21st centuries (at least thus far): knowledge does not automatically prevent us from errors in judgments nor does it necessarily protect us from misfortune.
It's almost as if Europe is not a country.

Just like the US, every country in has its own emergency numbers that you should probably know if you're in that country, but for Europe as a whole, 112 is the universal emergency number.

And while 911 might be known to many outside the US, as a number that requires actually navigating the dialing pad, it's not all that great. The UK's 999 or Europe's 112 are far better at being something you can dial while under duress (with 999, as a repeated number, being by far the superior choice here).
The article discusses that.
Agreed. When I worked from home I did everything I would do to prepare for a day in a regular office except the clothing selection was fully casual. My one biggest rule was that I had to wear regular street shoes. If I was wearing slippers or just socks, my mindset was that I wasn't "at work."
I seem to be missing what to anyone who's ever had to deal with youth services is the obvious alternative:

Schizophrenia, like almost all diagnosed psychological disorders, is called a diagnosis, but is effectively a punishment. Psychiatrists feel sorry for blind patients and refuse to apply this punishment to them, for the same reason they wouldn't punish them for performing a little worse at basketball.
This sort of development is crying out for a big parking garage near the highway, and an automated train to shuttle people between the parking structure and the walkable/bicyclable city core.

That, along with commercial-under and residential-over vertical zoning, is the bridge we need between traditional suburban sprawl and walkable cities. You can't walk around if you can't get there, and you won't want to stay if you can't leave.
The US, I suppose.... The thing with back doors is that others might also find them so it is quite unsafe in any case. Also, the future is unpredictable so who says the US is going to continue to be more-or-less an ally and China is going to continue to not be one?
They cancelled Linux on Dex but that's not what I'm using. Dex works fine on Android 10.
> Telecom-equipment makers who sell products to carriers "are required by law to build into their hardware ways for authorities to access the networks for lawful purposes," but they "are also required to build equipment in such a way that the manufacturer can't get access without the consent of the network operator," the Journal wrote.

I love this quote. The US is essentially complaining that Huawei has access to the backdoor channels that only the US government was supposed to have.
It really doesn't sound like they're better off based on the interest rates.

Usury Laws and such came about because it is straight up bad to have people fall into these debt cycles.
Back in the day calea compliance meant you had to provide network connectivity and a signaling mechanism to specify what you wanted to be replicated to you. That meant voice calls and in some cases defining a network acl for packets (I knew folks who had to implement at router manufacturers - it was a hack that reused some of their multicast code base). The key part was an operator couldn't login to a device to see a calea intercept in progress or who was targeted. However due to the nature of how the replication/intercept was implemented you could see the results of it. High cpu, traffic leaving the box that didn't make sense, etc. I know one vendor who actually provided the trigger to the govt in the form of a snmpv3 query (and the communtiy string was hard coded in the os/binary...).
I think he's trying to say that even in the developed world there are people taking out loans with ridiculous interest rates, so that this phenomenon of taking out loans you can't pay isn't exclusively a "developing world" thing. Money Mart and the like come to mind, and I'm sure there are many other loan shark companies out there that do similar things.
Abseil: A set of OSS C++ libraries extracted from Google’s internal codebase
It's not that "I knew it all along", it's that this was a well-covered story that was already news in the '90s, based on documents as well, e.g. from the Baltimore Sun:

> For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents.

See also the 1992 news stories about the arrest of Hans Buehler [1], further elaborated in a 1998 article in Covert Action Quarterly [2]:

> The cover shielding the NSA-Crypto AG relationship was torn in March 1992, when the Iranian military counterintelligence service arrested Hans Buehler, Crypto AG's marketing representative in Teheran.

[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/03/30/Iran-arrests-Swiss-m...

[2] http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/
If they wanna spy on us without warrants, they should amend the constitution about it; until then, it's treason.
The article states that exactly this is not the case.
In California every building has a sign affixed that warns of carcinogens within, does that mean you never go indoors? No, it means you learn to ignore safety warnings.
"Over 90% of all road fatalities occur in low and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world’s vehicles."
Not really relevant statistical baseline here. Self driving cars aren't going to help in areas where people can't afford them.
How can Tesla be liable for this? You should not trust software to drive your car without human intervention.
I don't understand the US culture where everyone is entitled to sue everyone.
I am willing to bet nearly half of their Mac Sales relies on Xcode. There are over 20M iOS Developers, likely more assuming not everyone publish on App Store.

Which is one reason why Mac's user number are growing ( slowly), developers have no choice but to buy a Mac if they want a pieces of the App Store revenue.

And one reason why Apple completely neglect the Mac, because it will continue to sell even if they have crappy keyboard and Touch Bar. I could only wish they do something about the keyboard after Oscar winning Director Taika Waititi blast about their keyboard.
I'm flying Southwest later this month. Being in the UK, I'm geoblocked from this article. Should I be worried?
It was interesting to watch the fall of Blackberry. My take was that they released a product that in a lot of people's eyes was inferior to the iPhone, so they had to come up with a differentiator. There wasn't really any area that mattered that they were really better in, so they made something up, a lie; "Business people need real keyboards". This got them some mileage, but I don't think was ever really true. Sure, some people prefer the physical keyboard, but the huge screen with graphical OS was massively versatile. I remember hearing stories about "business" people who had their corporate blackberry, but had personally bought an iPhone aswell because they greatly preferred it.

I don't know if Blackberry bought their own lie, or if they thought it would get them a bit further than it did, but as far as I can tell they never really came up with something that really was better than the iPhone. The lie was a debt they never paid back.

Anyway, that was my take, looking in from the outside.
> But hey, if they were stupid enough to leave the EU then they're capable of doing anything.

Why do you believe they are stupid to leave the EU?
You could also replace % with 10⁻² and use scientific notation:

0.72% ⋅ 0.03%
= 0.72 ⋅ 10⁻² ⋅ 0.03 ⋅ 10⁻²
= 7.2 ⋅ 10⁻³ ⋅ 3 ⋅ 10⁻⁴
= 7.2 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 10⁻³ ⋅ 10⁻⁴
= 21.6 ⋅ 10⁻⁷
= 2.16 ⋅ 10⁻⁶
≈ 2 in 1 million
I don't have an answer for this question but just to play devil's advocate, is this universally true or just sometimes true for governments and certain corporations? For example, as a citizen, is my data really better off with an ally, who can use it to exploit me instantly and personally? E.g. searches for medical information increasing insurance costs.
Have you looked at integration with microg, yet? https://microg.org/ It seems like a natural candidate wanting a replacement of GCM/FCM.
So it's automation testing as a platform?
>Why did the Washington Post rehash this story recently

[tinfoil alert] Word going around in Germany is that Tagesschau waited for the CIA to sell their shares (which happened in 2018) [0]

[0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a0bc69cb
I agree. Also cities and municipalities should charge for road usage.
>Crypto doesn't discriminate on whether you have a warrant or not.

Okay, let's say the telecom equipment doesn't have a backdoor for lawful intercept. What happens if the telecom is served with a warrant? Are you expecting that the telecoms will refuse to cooperate with the authorities?
> and Subject Alternative Names stuff is not needed.

Somebody already chimed in about name constraints, but I'm going to emphasise again that SANs are not an "alias" mechanism. SANs are how to use the Internet's names for things with the X.509 standard. The X.509 certificate is intended as part of the X.500 global directory system. Have you used the global directory system? No, because it was never built. And so X.509's names aren't appropriate for the Internet, which actually was built.

PKIX (RFC2459 and successors) documents how to use X.509 for the Internet, and it defines Subject Alternative Name for writing three popular names things have in the Internet, DNS names†, IP addresses‡ and email addresses.

Historically when Netscape invented SSL in the mid-1990s they abused the X.509 Common Name field to put a DNS name as text, having nowhere else to put it and billions of other more important problems to solve. But CN is arbitrary human readable text, not a great way to write DNS names. There have been way too many bugs as a result, and that's before IDNs existed. For a SAN dnsName there's deliberately exactly one correct way to write an IDN, but if you're abusing Common Name it's unclear what you should do.

So, after PKIX was standardised it was required to write SANs in all certificates. The old Common Name was grandfathered in, but all certificates in the Web PKI should use either SAN dnsName or ipAddress or both as appropriate.

Modern web browsers don't look anywhere else. Your Chrome or Firefox isn't trying to parse mysterious text elsewhere in the Subject to see if it might be an FQDN, it just reads the SANs and parses those, the rest is for humans only.

† Yes both kinds (PKIX uses A-labels here)
‡ Yes both kinds (IPv4 and IPv6)
Maybe they should give their developers a 3rd MacBook. One MacBook for the office, one MacBook for home office and one MacBook for installing Chrome and testing the site there. Just throwing ideas around...
Guesstimate – A spreadsheet for things that aren’t certain
Working from home is my natural mode for the last 20 years. I use basement so privacy/distraction is not a concern. So far works just fine for me. I own/co-own couple of companies but no other employment. I mainly develop and maintain/sell/lease my own products and do the same thing as a consulting gigs for other companies.
This is still a thing... working in the field for 20 years and really is 15 years ago LOC as KPI went away... Why is it back?
It was PR
The models described in this article run on the powerful GPU of a modern computer or a smartphone. Yet, let’s speculate about what a “more physical” implementation of such a system could look like. We can imagine it as a grid of tiny independent computers, simulating individual cells. Each of those computers would require approximately 10Kb of ROM to store the “cell genome”: neural network weights and the control code, and about 256 bytes of RAM for the cell state and intermediate activations. The cells must be able to communicate their 16-value state vectors to neighbors. Each cell would also require an RGB-diode to display the color of the pixel it represents. A single cell update would require about 10k multiply-add operations and does not have to be synchronised across the grid. We propose that cells might wait for random time intervals between updates. The system described above is uniform and decentralised. Yet, our method provides a way to program it to reach the predefined global state, and recover this state in case of multi-element failures and restarts. We therefore conjecture this kind of modeling may be used for designing reliable, self-organising agents. On the more theoretical machine learning front, we show an instance of a decentralized model able to accomplish remarkably complex tasks. We believe this direction to be opposite to the more traditional global modeling used in the majority of contemporary work in the deep learning field, and we hope this work to be an inspiration to explore more decentralized learning modeling.

I've been hoping that someone would build the above computer for over 20 years. I used to just get laughed at, or people would mock me for not knowing what I'm talking about (even though I have a computer engineering degree). That transitioned to at least speculating on what I was saying, and will soon transition to being old hat. Oh well.

But I look at computers today with a billion transistors, running at the same 3 GHz as they did 20 years ago, and it breaks my heart. I imagine what might have been, if we had arrays of hundreds/thousands of z80 or x86 or 68000 or DEC Alpha or MIPS chips to do whatever we wanted with. Imagine the emergent behavior that might have happened. Instead we're locked into this proprietary/narrow way of working with shaders and specialized neural computers doing SIMD and I just find it all so uninspiring. But I'm hopeful that some of the recent work with getting these older processors running on FPGAs will bear fruit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17833829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19329083

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10089807

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19885901

https://www.google.com/search?q=processor+on+FPGA+site:news....
https://outline.com/7h4Wfg
Still don’t tell you what is inside of a chip. This is a known big area of concern, and is one of the reasons why the US military requires chips be made domestically for sensitive equipment.
Ah, okay. Thank you.

I guess I don't recall taking the position that predatory loans was an exclusively developing world thing, but if something I said gave that impression, it's on me to be more precise with how things are phrased next time.

Comparatively speaking, more people in comparatively more developed economies tend to have more resources available to them to make informed financial decisions as individuals. I call this financial literacy.

The comment previously made was not intended to suggest these more developed economies are uniquely affected or affected somehow differently than say, for example, African nations (like the one in the article) are from predatory lending programmes.
Like Facebook taking money from CIA In-Q-Tel?
Why Airbnb is suddenly struggling to make money
It sounds like someone on your provider's network got the subnet blacklisted.

I've been running mail servers on OVH (which is known to be a cheap host) for years and I successfully deliver to GMail and other providers without any issues. I'm pretty sure delivering over IPv6 also helps a lot since spammers will never bother setting that up.
Ancient history is very interesting in these matters: back in the Bronze Age, kings such as Pharaoh and the Hittite, Assyrian, Minoan kings actually did international trade through "gifts".

For instance the Pharaoh was in need of cedar wood, so he would write to the King of the Assyrians in Sumerian (the lingua franca of the time) "Dear cousin, I would like to send you some gifts but I'm out of boats. Cheers, Ramses".

To which his "dear cousin" would reply "Dear cousin, I'm sending you these cedar logs so that you can build these boats you need. Did I tell you that drought has hit Niniveh and the corn is scarce? Yours, Sennahcherib". Then Pharaoh would send back boats full of grain, and so on.
people get 'simple' and 'easy' mixed up.

If a OS is actively sabotaging you, then yes, the only real solution is to replace it with something else. That's the simple and obvious solution.

The simplest way to do this is to not buy a phone with shitty OS in the first place. As in "Don't buy a phone from Xiaomi".

And when users complain about it you tell them that the problem is their phone manufacturer. If you can, of course, give them a work around so the app will work. But eventually they'll plug all the holes that allow for a functional phone. So it may not always be a option.