skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hired by a decently well know consumer tech company in 2018 to investigate automated cloud security platforms. They handled a good deal of financial data so I was told (and this is the only time I've been told this in my career) cost wasn't an issue.

The first day at my work my manager handed my a 49 point spreadsheet with each row as a security functionality he wanted to see. Thee were a dozen columns for a dozen vendors.

Thus began an incredibly tedious of reading through literally every marketing word and documentation reference on each vendors site. Also my god the countless demos and follow up questions with the reps.

By the end of it I was convinced of one thing. All anyone did was "monitor" and "alert" on "stuff". Nothing took any action. Just alerts and monitoring and reporting and dashboards and metrics.

If an application would arrive that would actually "do security stuff" instead of just "Business Intelligence for Network Engineers"...I would really be motivated to use, recommend, and evangelize that application.
By that logic, car dealerships in America are a positive because they keep profits locally. In reality, they just increase prices to consumers and limit competition through lobbying.

The cost advantage from Walmart is not just in logistics, it is specialization of labor, superior negotiating power against suppliers, and diversification of geographic risk. A small business will be less efficient and give up more profits to suppliers.
> The ... host guarantees...

This is a really hard problem with "solutions" that usually run counter to privacy and, you know, controlling the machine consuming your electricity. Remote Attestation has come a long way, but (at least on Linux) still in its infancy.
A widget goes in the bottom of a can, and IIRC, releases nitrogen when you open the can forming lots of microbubbles in the beer, creating a smooth head on pouring.

A sparkler is like the aerator on a hand washing tap, it screws on to the beer dispensing tap (the one fixed to the bar, not a keg tap). It aerates, or they used to. Beer technology has moved on a lot in the more-than-a-decade since I was the wrong side of the bar.
Excerpt from the end of the letter:

Reflect on this from Theodor Seuss Geisel:

“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let itdestroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”

I am very optimistic about which of these civilization is going to choose.

Even in these circumstances, it remains Day 1.
Yes I can. People still have the ability to make choices for themselves. Facebook Ads aren’t mind control, people still have free will.
Not literally everyone, I would think, but the previous statement could, in theory, still be true. It would just require some people to want something else, conflicting with that desire, even more.

I know, this is pedantic, I suppose. Mea culpa.
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I'm really hoping apple puts these AMD mobile chips in their next MacBook Pro. At the moment I'm not seeing much reason to upgrade from my 2015 model, but if I could have 8 cores, that would a different matter...
It seems to me there's room in the market for one or two high-end compact Android phones. It's not a big enough segment for every company to sell one profitably, but if someone really nailed that niche....

Lower-priced sports cars don't sell well lately either, but Mazda continues to do well with the MX-5. There's a lot of value in finding an underserved niche and making a product that fills it perfectly.
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Something tells me that one has to wait for those now already mythologised Apple VR glasses.
It was right 10-15 years ago, but less so now. There's been a huge pushback on off-shore development in the past decade for a variety of reasons, mainly poor results, issues with time zone differences, and the negligible cost savings. Most of the big consulting firms we associate with off-shore contracting (like TATA) are supplying mostly on-shore (engineering) consultants to domestic companies (but maintaining services like help desk offshore).

Middle management got tired of having daily meetings at midnight or 6 AM, and it got too expensive to bring people over who were fine with doing so. The India job market got pretty tight around '14 or so, to the point where engineers were leaving jobs every 4-6 months for greener pastures. And even though the consulting companies are supposed to be in charge of KT, so that transitions don't impact the clients, the rate of change was just too high to maintain good quality.
There's an addon called Enigmail that does exactly this.
yes, I have the original spark. the follow-me works surprisingly well, but not to the point where I would be comfortable not paying close attention to the drone.

IANAL either, but the rules are quite clear that the operator must maintain line-of-sight at all times. I don't think this is satisfied by having the drone in your peripheral vision (or behind you) while you pay attention to something else. lots of consumer drones have capabilities that could not be legally used by a hobbyist in most jurisdictions. even a spark can be controlled over greater distances than you could conceivably maintain LOS over.

to be clear, I mean legal for the operator. I don't think it is (yet) illegal to sell drones that hobbyists can do illegal things with. I suspect that a lot of the demand for hobbyist-level drones comes from people who don't intend to follow the rules. I've stopped flying mine because I can't think of anything fun to do that doesn't break the rules.
I don’t recognise the name DONKEY.BAS, but I spent plenty of time in my youth with GORILLAS.BAS and have heard it mentioned from time to time since then.
Might as well have an animation, as opposed to "black light"?
How many were lifted out of poverty through capitalism, despite massive, bloody revolutions that resulted in genocidal regimes that killed untold millions of their own citizens?
How common are those? I've looked at a lot of properties and am yet to run across a 3D scan, but it may be very location dependent/value of property.
Makes a bit more sense.
I knew I recognized that name! Sebastiaan de With, who famously (in my mind) traveled from SF to the north shore of Alaska. I looked that post up the other day, from 2014, because I have a nice camera and a KLR - and I dream. [1]

When I read the iPad Pro announcement, the trifecta of Real Keyboard/iPadOS improvement/LiDAR got my attention. With the pandemic, I have found myself working with laptop actually in my lap, so I don't know how stable an iPad+keyboard would be. Otherwise, I would get it today to be my next personal workbook.

The opportunities for AR are incredible - that demo of walking around a scan is amazing. Interior design certainly looks like one of the first places that could benefit.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/J7kZJ
Yes. I could have listed all the good points, but didn't apart from stability. The negatives are only such if they're important to you.

If you don't have more than 50 cards visible, no problem. If you don't need a good Gantt chart, no problem. If you don't need fancy report exporting, no problem. If you don't need a mobile client, no problem. If you can write a little CSS to make it look prettier, no problem.

If you want a nice, solid standalone kanban tool with a bunch of other nice features, this could be your best solution. I've tried many of these - Wekan, Restya etc and so far, as a standalone board, Kanboard fits my requirements best.
I already have a fast computer
My top issues running my business on Stripe:

1) Many countries still only allow depositing a single currency (i.e. Aus/AUD), doubling the cost of transaction due to the currency conversion, even tripling when we have to convert it back to pay our bills. I always get told either "soon", or "not possible due to the law", despite competitors doing it.

2) If we were an EU company, we'd get charged 1.4%+25c on transactions in the EU, where most of our customers are. Instead, because we're selling from Australia, we get charged 2.9% for some arbitrary reason. This coupled with 1) puts our all-in transaction fees at 5%+ :(

3) I think billing the vendor for refund fees is a really retrograde step - it increases friction in the decision for us when a customer asks for a refund, and industry wide is going to cause less happy customers and less card users online. It's already hard enough convincing Dutch/German customers to use a credit card online.

If any non-EU companies know a cheaper way to process transactions in the EU, I'm all ears...
Folly is more like an addition to the standard library. For that sort of library, you want parts to be deprecated over time as the language's standard library grows. React has no place in a standard library; it's more of a framework.
Hey, if you're not dropping your dual sport every once in a while, you're not having enough fun on the trail! :)
It is OK if you want to try to help me with any of my software projects, which are hosted as Fossil repositories (you can access it with Fossil or using the web interface), whether by logos, feature requests, documentation, bug reports, etc. I have set up a NNTP server for discussion of them, too.
Is this country-specific perhaps? I'm in Canada and it's no problem for me to withdraw USD to a Canadian-based USD account.
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Good luck! Seems like previous discussions with the mailing list could have gone better, but PASETO seems like promising work!
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It depends on the image. Very high contrast areas (like text) on high quality coated stock can resolve up to 1200dpi (where higher resolution don't hold up even under a loupe).

Photographic continuous tone images never have that sharp of contrast, though, and, again, depending on the image, you might not see jaggies even at 100dpi.

300dpi is sufficiently overkill to be an easy "set it and forget" resolution to recommend. (Source: I paid for college doing typesetting, graphic design, and digital prepress work).
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I’m really not trying to avoid it. I can see your point and it’s a worthwhile thread to pull on, I’m just a bit skeptical. Elections are inherently fractious issues. Yes there is some random input into the outcome, which makes the process contentious, but I don’t think the solution to that is more randomness.
It appears you are the creator of this? You might want to consider reposting as a Show HN as they are typically received differently by the community.
Can you elaborate on the theory?

I tried reading the article but can't make too much sense of it.
I set this up the other day for fun. This basically a CDN plus http proxy (for doing rewrites, combining multiple services into one, etc). What they neglect to be upfront about is that you pay the bandwidth cost of the health checks. I watched my bill go from €4 a month to €40 in one day. Not cool.

I tuned the health checks and even turned some of them off and it’s back to mostly normal, but I’m glad I paid attention.

I really like the power of Front Door, but it’s sneaky.
Does this process allows the use of custom domains?

For a long time now custom domains on GCS with SSL has been a networking "mission impossible" and just an absurd amount of work really.

I remember giving up 12 months ago, I can't remember why, and just deploying to Firebase finally. That worked out well...but much more work than it should have been. Particularly compared to just hosting on S3.
Without scrolling, I can't tell if this is for email or snail mail.
Maybe you should have spent some more time living around the world before making such an outrageous statement.
What is this from. Love the general idea.
My list:

1. How about an option to Maps to stop suggesting unprotected left turns at busy intersections?

2. Also, a Maps option to stop routing me through residential neighborhoods to save ten seconds.

3. Find existing, dormant Google accounts that obviously belong to the same human as another active Google account, and offer to restore access.
plus we'll have to register simply to see a few examples of mislabeling...that was disappointing
It's the same with almost every creative endeavour. Painting as well as poetry and programming. Practice makes you better, even if the result is sometimes poor in isolation.
Sometimes he pretends like he is taking photos or making videos. He also chases our dog as if he is recording him. He probably learned that from us as that's how we use it. Sometimes, he may use camera as a toy car or a block.

The button is too hard for him to push but that's where voice commands come in. I can say "GoPro take a photo" while he is holding it. We have captured some fun shots like this.
I'm not at Stripe but would be keen to work on this as a side-project. Would you be willing to be user #1? If so, please ping me (email in profile). Thanks!
The laboratory in Wuhan posted a job before the outbreak for a person who will study "pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses". [1]

If NBA players can be forced to not speak out about Hong Kong, how far of a stretch do you think it is that China told US media companies to not cover the lab connection story?

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-tra...
Can you give an example of a use case where this is needed?
good point, I was confusing the F-suffix with the KF-suffix parts, which usually perform identically to K-suffix parts.
The comment I replied to mentioned a MBP, not a linux machine.
Some cryptographers? It seems to me that this article gives all the latest and greatest a free pass and nitpicks on PGP.

If PGP is criticized because a user could cc someone, how about taking a screenshot from your messenger conversation?

People do this reflexively and upload almost anything.

Why would I trust a phone (tracking device) in the first place?
Nice.

I'm a homebrewer myself. Used to use home-made fly-sparging kit but have moved to BIAB because it's so much less cleanup and still gives great results.

I have a Saison coming towards the end of its fermentation at the moment, to be kegged soon. I know it's not 'real ale' that way ... I've had some good results bottling stouts in the past but the preparation and cleanup is so much more than kegging, and my attempts at emulating a cask have been poor.
Was the corrected datasets larger or smaller than the originals?

Would also be interesting to see these improved datasets run thru simulation of crashes with existing datasets and see how they handle? Though not sure how you would go about that beyond approaching current providers of such cars for data to work thru and suspect they may be less open to admitting flaws and with that, may be a stumbling block.

Certainly makes you wonder how far we can optimise such datasets to get better results. I know some ML datasets are a case of humans fine tuning and going thru examples and classifying them, and wonder how much that skews or effects error rates as we all know humans error.
Rust has a package manager, and yet I predict that the same thing is going to happen as the standard library is pretty thin and lacking. The reason is trust, you can't trust random third party dependencies if you're writing sensitive code, it's easier to trust a std lib OR something that pretends to replace/add to it from serious people.
Not sure if it was available when you tried, but this is useful when configuring, it is processed from nixpkgs and indexes all options that are available: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html
War of Art. Solid book; picked it up after seeing this passage on HN hehe
> I doubt the owner would have much recourse if someone just stole it.

well, just let everybody know who broken the deliveries and thus made the whole neighborhood gone dry :)
I don't have strong feelings either way on having consumers pay CC processing fees, but encouraging them to use debit cards online seems irresponsible given the non-existent fraud protections on debit cards. Of course it's technically consumers' responsibility to know and trade off that risk versus the savings, but at least in the US the sad reality is that personal finance education is woefully lacking or non-existent for most people and they don't know the difference.
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This guy invests.

More seriously, you emphasize a most important point. The delta of information is precisely where it's at.

I wonder if this is exactly the same thing as what we call "bias" in trading / investing. (as a function of some objective knowledge + subjective experience)

I mean, we all have the same information but if my bias happens to be correct, I will be able to outperform others (however much depends on how much risk I'm willing to take, how much hedging I conversely do). That's the delta I create with taking a stance, when I press that button, which conditions I choose to enter/increase/reduce/exit a given asset.

Curious how you see it.
Too reductive on your last comment. I want to agree with you, but the world is complex. Money doesn't grow on trees, and there's only so much that even a well run business can do. Particularly in the early stages of a company.
Hi HN,

I’ve spent a good portion of my life dealing with getting my software installed into other people’s environments and it is never easy.

As an ISV, you don't have control over the environments your software is going to be installed in, and have to deal with extreme variations in setups.

Plus, there is always an vague answer to the "who's problem is it when the system goes down?" which makes it difficult to handle downtime effectively.

Kubernetes solves a lot of the problems I'd face through containerization, health checks, standard configuration systems, monitoring, logging, network isolation, etc. but it is very centered around datacenter management.

The goal of Ruckstack is to be the glue + best-practices it takes to refocus Kubernetes tools around a single application running on a small set of machines.
For me this fits the narrative. Encryption needs to be transparent to the user in order to become ubiquitous. I assume most people are actually reluctant to read the documentation. If the tool is not self explanatory or fully embedded in the tools people use they will not see any broader adoption.

It too managed to use the tooling. But I knew what public-key cryptography is and was aware of its general concept. I do not expect anyone in my family to be able to set this up. Not without putting some time into it. And putting time into it they will only do if I pressure them to do so.

So I would say: Yes you are correct that he could have read the documentation. But from a UX perspective I do not see the failure on the part of the user.
First time I hear about "Remote Attestation", got any trusted sources/resources for someone to read up on it more? (besides Wikipedia and it's sources)
You have great many lidars around, TOF sensors are the entry class category, usually with short range.

Serious sensors usually use continuous wave operation, and some modulation scheme
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With all those websites preventing you to use tor, you can use tor to connect to this, and this to connect to whatever you need.
If you’d like to see how this is setup or how it’s used, Posteo (posteo.de) has detailed instructions to use this extension with its web interface. [1]

[1]: https://posteo.de/en/help/how-do-i-set-up-end-to-end-encrypt...
Oh, you're preaching to the choir here, pal. It's incredibly frustrating. I have reason to hope, though... when I first started programming in the 90's, I would fight with my co-workers about using version control (I insisted on it, they said it was a waste of time). Now, people who oppose version control are off selling life insurance or whatever happens to people who probably shouldn't be writing computer programs.
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I also heard that McKinsey adheres to that strategy when investing in training for their employees.
Though that is only hearsay and it doesn't mean anything, they could also be wrong. But I think you are right when saying that the opposite approach also has a lot of followers right now.
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Indeed I am. I've just created my HN account in order to post this. I'll do as you suggest. Thank you for the heads-up. Cheers!
Very common in my area. When we just put our previous home up for rent, the agent had somebody come in, scan and photo the house and it was up the next day with virtual 3d walkthroughs and everything. We kinda couldn't believe they would do that just for a rental.
> batch them (as you say, though that makes refunds and statement descriptors tricky)

Maybe batch them per user per website, that will solve statement descriptors a bit
this part isn't quite as hard for me to believe. intel cores are less efficient than amd cores, so they have to downclock more when more cores are loaded.
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Agreed, can't say I've seen them in use, though not deep into the housing market.

However in the current climate and social adjustment afterwards - such services and uses will certainly see an increase in usage and virtual viewings may well be more the norm.
The Area 51 of China is known as "Lop Nur". It is a desert site in the far northwest of China in the province of Xinjiang.

Xinjiang is the site of many concerning human rights violations, particularly near arbitrary executions to meet organ transplant quotas. An international tribunal convened in London last year to finally rule on this matter that has been rumored for years [1].

Also interestingly China is known to do nuclear tests when frustrated in foreign policy goals. They also detonated, several actually, nuclear devices in Lop Nur during the 1996 Taiwan Straits crisis.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
"Might as well recommend acupuncture and getting your chakras aligned, couldn't hurt!"

Indeed, it might help and it couldn't hurt.

"(Probably less of a chance it hurting than taking a wild dose of unregulated herbal supplements.)"

Or possibly a known drug with no real evidence of efficacy and a long list of known side effects?

Oh, and by the way, "That's a puff piece by people who have a strong, strong self-interest in promoting TCM, because they want to keep their department chairs," is both an hominem and describes all academic publications.
Would you mind sharing your percentage of fraud with the two services? (I assume you are using Braintree.)

Honestly, you are the first person to make a good case on using PayPal over Stripe. Especially with the arbitrary horror stories I hear about PayPal all the time.

> It's a shame Stripe doesn't offer the Radar service (helps detect and prevent fraud) with custom rules as part of their normal service. You can only get it if you pay insurance fees, which are added fees on top of the normal amount.

I agree. This should be standard.

> Combine that with the new Stripe SCA compatible APIs and sketchy docs

Would you please describe what is sketchy? Their docs seem pretty good... but I am now just hearing about SCA.

https://stripe.com/guides/strong-customer-authentication
>> Yes I used it. I actually know it really well. I also did performance comparisons with mongodb and mongodbs change stream and cursors.

Can you share the link for the code and data in Database against which you are querying to prove your claim ?
Are the demos impressive in a way I'm failing to spot? It still seems about on par with others and still has plenty of noise in the pop art chair and kitchen. I was hoping this would put the magic leap to shame but it doesn't seem much better.
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