skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A widely distributed Bluetooth monitoring network noting tims and places ... might ... be able to correlate secrets with other data (facial recognition, MAC, UUID, etc.,) to correlate individual with probable SARS-COV-2 exposure status.

An in-location tracking system, such as numerous proposed retail monitoring systems, among othe.

Given time and location, a low number of hits would likely be sufficient.

This would be expensive, but likely within reason for a motivated entity. Possibly by utilising (with or without cooperation) existing infrastructure and systems.
I agree with this article. There are many developers who think of the database schema first especially in ORM heavy frameworks like rails. Also because of this a lot of people confuse data modeling with the database schema.
Not sure of Bloomberg's objective writing this article. Are they saying Narendra modi is a great leader?
+1, no one has any idea what they're really doing. This lets people suggest random projects, if you keep prodding them. As your username suggests: "it's a trap!"
Agreed.

But also, the way raise money for Earnest is very similar to Trailhead: https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1260972763285774337?...

Build a relationship and have a discussion over time is so much better for all parties vs "pitch me right now and I'll decide instantly"
Are there any schemes where it costs some tiny amount of eth/gas/whateverCoin to post content?

Theoretically that should decrease spam and increase high effort posts, but I could see it also reducing open source style contribution and increasing advertising masquerading as content. This is a hard problem to solve.
Proposed title:

From August, Chrome blocks ads using 4MB data, 15s CPU in any 30s, 60s CPU total
Nice to see a comment like this, I feel the same way. Google is the exception to all these other comments. The tools available to Google engineers make working outside Google feel painful and inefficient by comparison even with their unfettered access to all the third-party tooling.

It’s so good that it would actually be a factor if I were ever considering working somewhere else. Getting to work with Google’s in-house dev tooling is probably worth 15-20k to me. A lot more than 20k if the other company has a reputation for horrible tooling.
I once was walking in my neighborhood in Brooklyn when a couple doors down from my apartment I saw some beige boxes in the trash in front of a brownstone. Just laying there in the trash was a Macintosh SE, a Macintosh Plus, and a Macintosh (512k). No keyboards, but I still couldn't believe it. I totally forgot about what I was going to do and immediately grabbed them and brought them up to my apartment. They all booted fine. I ended up giving the Plus and SE away to friends, but I still have the 512k in my office and play around with it from time to time. What a great machine!
I think it's a wonderful idea, it's probably not something I'm able to spend the resources towards right now.
Point is that take two sufficiently large monorepos & they'll have enough differences between them to require custom work

That Google had to come up with Bazel for themselves only supports that point. It isn't obvious whether it'd then be applicable to other existing cases without customization

Lots of knobs that vary here tho, such as where one draws the line between configuration & customization
If you believe that Facebook is something more than a toy, then it seems reasonable that they'd have freedom of expression, press, speech, so on. As such, if people choose to get their news from Facebook, it's no different than them getting their news from Reuters, FOX, the New York Times, or Bloomberg. Surely you wouldn't imply any of them wouldn't have editorial control.

Comment sections on news outlets can remove whatever they want, I don't see why it'd be any different for Facebook, if you genuinely consider them a news outlet.
Tons of places don't accept that as a valid email though.
Why does this read like a JIRA comment left by a PM
Not exactly so, dot in address is just ignored by gmail, so “myemail.youtube“ is equivalent to “myemailyoutube“, not to “myemail“. Plus sign works as you described.
Venafi acquires Jetstack, the startup behind cert-manager
Video Chat Game Night: https://vcgamenight.com

As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games (Cards Against Humanity, Taboo, Poker, etc.) over Video Chat.
It seems perfectly clear to me: Google doesn't want what pushbullet provides.
They are pulling an "Apple" on this one.
I don't believe they've financed these by printing money so far, though please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Well what's interesting is that in the end he did become a prof, so perhaps it should be updated
I think you’re mistaken about how the dot works with gmail.

Last I remember, dots aren’t a separator like plus is, they just don’t count as part of the name.

So Gmail treats my.email@ and m.y.e.m.a.i.l@ as aliases of myemail@
I've been working on a way to find Android apps that don't have ads or in app purchases. There are quite a few high quality apps. For example, just replaced Dark Sky weather app with Geometric Weather. I would never have found Geometric Weather without a tool like this. Would love feedback from the community: https://reallyfreeapps.appspot.com
The Open Source Contributor Funnel
I do this on G Suite with a single license.
I don't think so. If I remember correctly, this documentary was more focused on the police unit that was in charge of this bridge (could be the Golden Gate, can't remember even if it was in CA now that I'm thinking), and so one of their task was to intervene in case someone seemed they could want to jump.

That particular police officer they were interviewing was a pretty old guy, who spent many decades working on that bridge and so have seen it all.

It was a good 5 years ago, maybe even more, so my memory is a bit hazy.
I use fast mail with a custom domain.
Yeap, started as a small project, then grew and added proper front end with user signup/login flows. user roles admin/non-admin. Built progressive web app. And planning to add more elements. Camera for live streaming etc.

Do you have a repo to share?
The Court does not deny or rewrite that. It simply asserts that 227.24 also applies. Seems reasonable to me, since "227.24 does exist".

> We conclude that Emergency Order 28 is a rule under the controlling precedent of this court, Citizens for Sensible Zoning, Inc. v. DNR, 90 Wis.2d 804, 280 N.W.2d 702 (1979), and therefore is subject to statutory emergency rulemaking procedures established by the Legislature. Emergency Order 28 is a general order of general application within the meaning of Wis. Stat. §227.01(13), which defines "Rule." Accordingly, the rulemaking procedures of Wis. Stat. §227.24 were required to be followed during the promulgation of Order 28.
Show HN: I built a service to help companies save 35%+ on their AWS bills
Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project over quarantine called Usage.ai and I finally feel comfortable enough to launch it. We're a service that plugs directly into AWS, automatically finds savings, and applies those savings at the press of a confirmation button all without ever needing to go to an AWS console.

I'd love to get HN's thoughts on it!

Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2a6f1c8e4c214914a1cdd88c6fdec4ac

Link: https://www.usage.ai/
Why the stars. We're all grownups here... I believe.
Zooms competitive advantage will disappear when this is over. It’s a service that’s been around for what seems like ever but no one wanted to use it when there were better alternatives. Suddenly have 30 people in a tiled interface was an advantage, but not something anyone ever wanted.
When I read these I feel its way to early to start making determinations on whether "Working for Home" is here to stay.

It's going to work for some and not for others, but a few exceptional months with no clear forecasts on what happens next makes long term decisions terribly difficult. I'll be fascinated to see how this workout for Google and Microsoft coming into Q1 of 2021 compared to how things worked out for Yahoo! when they banned working from home a few years ago.

I may be more of a bear on this than most on here but I don't think working from home is going to be quite as successful as many think.
Same here. I had to clear this situation up with my boss, my stress levels are going through the roof and I just can't get things done (and every time I get "in the zone", I hear a thud and my baby has hurt herself again).

Thankfully it turns out the bosses understand this situation and expect a massive productivity decline. I feel I've taken a load off my chest by bringing it up.

Still feeling stressed, and of course, my company may tank, making the whole issue moot. I'm not sure I'm up for interviewing with the current situation, either...
It doesn't. Adobe doesn't care about their end-user's security and never has.
I'm helping educators so they can offer home based camp experiences to kids. Ages 4-9 right now. https://www.kidshomecamp.com/

Additional plans include:

- home work help, maybe even proper homeschooling classes;

- setups for public school teachers to run their classes (I hear the current experience leaves a lot to be desired).

If someone has public school teacher contacts interested in experimenting with delivery, I'd love to talk to them.
Oh, that is false of course. If you want GPS data you need access to the phone's GPS, as you are pointing out.

I think the original point about triangulation was just that even if you are as careful as possible, then people can still track you via cell towers.
Ex-Googler Turned Whistleblower and QAnon Fan Made 'Plandemic' Go Viral
> This same debate is happening in every country in the world, including ones that don't have an election in six months.

They get CNN in more than 200 countries.

> It's a very clear consequence of what the two parties value.

So it's normal for the Democrats to be the conservative party banging the "save American lives at all costs" drum and the Republicans to be the ones worried about blue collar workers and people living paycheck to paycheck, is that it?
Politicians continue to be technologically-illiterate. More news at ten.
You can't save people from their own stupidity. I'd rather have stupid thoughts said out loud so they can be analyzed and detected rather than repressed inside ones own mind. I think that the non-sense that a lot of people are preaching online shows how much our education system is failing us. If this was covered up I might be able to delude myself into thinking differently about that.

In modern times it's easy to only notice the loons and crazy people that use their freedom of speech to push bullshit. But a lot of cultural and scientific progress throughout history has been made by individuals that choose to go against the norms of their time. IMO you need allow the crazy to get the crazy genius.
The difficulties I have with this are everyone says to do that, but the provider does not accept calls. Every single time i've tried to call, they leave us waiting with the typical "we're busy with calls" but sends us to thew website (which doesn't let us have that conversation). After about an hour or two the call hangs up saying we will be called back. Never do get that call back. I've repeated these results many times.

I figure that reality versus the "theory" is that everyone is calling for this option right now, and if the mortgage companies could work on delaying payments for everyone they would be out of business eventually. Some people probably can't be helped, some can. I feel like it's more akin to a lottery.
On mine (Windows) it is:

Menu -> Library -> History -> View History

Which is four clicks by my count. In either case it is too many and the UI you get at the end is like a 1990s reject.

They should just make it a full tab like Chrome has.
This is essentially an "individual responsibility" argument.

Do I think people "should" be individually responsible? Yes. Do I believe that's going to happen? No.

Forty years ago we got our news from a handful of networks that stuck to "the middle". It was no doubt imperfect, but if they would post crazy conspiracy on the nightly news, they would quickly vanish as a network. On the other hand, convince a few million individuals to share a far left or far right story full of misinformation, and it works. The individuals are not "shamed" into avoiding that mistake again.
You can as long the person hasn't encrypted the PDF or built it to do online submissions.
I tried an episode earlier this week - absolutely not my kind of thing (same as most US talk shows) but it is an absolute genius idea and extremely well done. More power to them.
The problem is your alternator is going to be pissed off if it's running at idle speeds all day, and still trying to keep the battery charged while you're pulling an 80 amp load on it. Most alternators are designed to operate above idle speeds. Sure they can work at idle, and it might get you by in a short emergency... but it's probably not a great idea.
A job lost adds options, a job landed removes them.
Epic Store Down
At least for me. Software is showing a 500 error even after repeated relaunches. US/East Coast.
Why there's that much exploit in this PDF software?

Where does this complexity comes from?
The version of Bazel we (Google) uses internally has a lot of features that are not out of the box in open source Bazel. Mostly around distributed compilation or object caching.
AI only perf vs general perf.
I have been looking at Nim, Go, and D lately, as a follow-on to Python. Good SQLite support is something I need for HashBackup (author).

Nim has a direct interface to SQLite's C API and a higher-level db_sqlite interface. The higher-level interface doesn't support prepared queries so Nim's SQLite performance on a small test is slower than Python using the sqlite3 API which automatically compiles and caches queries.

The Nim binding replaces all parameters, specified with ?, with quoted values. That means:

- you can't have a null-valued parameter

- numbers get inserted as text (I think)

- blobs are string quoted and get changed to text instead of using SQLite's X'(hex)' blob notation

All returned values from db_sqlite are strings. If you want integers, you have to parseInt() the column.

I do like that Nim's db_sqlite interface is very simple so that you can still use the lower-level sqlite interface with the same db connection. So at least I could cache prepared queries if I wanted, but I have to do the work.

Checking out Go's SQLite interface, there are some issues posted on the repo (mattn/go-sqlite3) about performance problems because Go uses cgo for SQLite. Haven't test that yet.

Since the SQLite module was listed on the front page of Janet's site, I decided to check it out. It, like all the other C code I looked at in the project, is rather beautiful, and that's not a compliment you see very often about C code, my own included.

The SQLite interface handles multiple types, including nulls, blobs, and numbers (everything is a float, I'm guessing because that's how Janet implements all numbers).

It appears to not cache prepared statements (that would probably be a big performance boost), but does allow parameter substitution by name.

If you want to see some really nice C code, check out this project!
It doesn't look like anything with actual value is being traded? All I got from the story was that "political" means reddit admins can't take away someone's tokens.
This is so absurd. We struggle to hire even remote work around the country. There just aren't enough qualified people for some of these more senior positions.

"Never lose your edge."

How about, enjoy your free time. Enjoy your friends and family. Work hard at your job, but maintain the division.

This hyper-productivity porn is a net negative. There is competition in this industry, but nowhere near enough to leave talented engineers fearing for anything. Not on a near time-horizon, at least.
Christy Lake, chief people officer at Twilio:

> “It’s probably not great business practice to pay Bay Area comps in Michigan,” Lake says. And when it comes time to promote, would those employees have the same opportunity to advance as everybody else? “We need to think proactively,” she says.

So, in case anyone is applying to Twilio, heads up, I guess.
The elasticity of talent of the average engineer is so much higher than that of Peter Norvig it doesn't really make sense to discuss it. For an individual person it doesn't matter where they work if theres no replacement, but for any engineer, it matters.
Fastmail supports "subdomain addressing" out of the box. So if the email address is ... user@domain.com ... then you can use ... <anything>@user.domain.com ... without setting up any extra aliases, Fastmail will just handle it as if it's for user@domain.com.

And you can also reply from such addresses without extra configuration. On the desktop I use MailMate as my email client, which works great with dynamic aliases. The win is that you don't have to configure anything extra when signing up for some online service.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html

You can do this in Google Suite btw, as you can configure a forwarding rule. The problem with Google Suite, last time I tried, is that they no longer want to sign emails with DKIM for such dynamic aliases, so you can receive emails just fine, but sending emails from such addresses is a problem if you have SPF/DKIM domain rules.
Using PIDs to lookup the calling process doesn't seem like a great idea given the small PID space on macOS, I wonder if there could be a race there too.
Mac OS X is not decades old so neither is this platform specific upgrade mechanism.
I think each area can and should take the local situation into account. My understanding (as an American living in the UK) was that they are doing so, to a large extent. From what I can tell from friends and relatives on FB, restrictions in Michigan came on hard and strong after being probably one of the worst hit early on; restrictions in Ohio started earlier and never got as tough. The anti-lockdown side of my FB feed seems to think that South Dakota never had much of a lockdown to speak of at all.

I don't claim to know better than local governments what the best decision is -- we're all just making this up as we go along, and I'm glad I don't personally have to make the decision between massive death or economic damage for millions of people.
In general a trademark is registered for a specific class (~industry). As long as the trademarks are for different classes and there is no risk of confusion, multiple companies/products can have the same name. For example Delta is the name of an airline, a computer company, a faucet company and a family of orbital rockets. There's little risk anybody would confuse these four, and they don't belong to the same class, so they can coexist just fine.

The US is quite generous in what you can trademark. In the EU for example you can't (as easily) trademark common words. But a quick search shows about 50 active EU trademarks on the word Tesla.
Yep, my todo lists are all trees. Even when I'm writing a document, I first put the table of contents as a tree and then fill in the different sections :)

I have one exception, though. Mind-mapping.

I will use mind mapping tools for todos and notes. But for real mind mapping I use full blown graphs.
Most of the time they don't specify why an app is rejected. My app update rejected before I had no idea why. I disputed the rejection which I didn't know what it was and update approved later.
Google play store app review is the opposite of Apple's review process.
I still don't understand why social media has to censor things when it can just as well label it as inaccurate / spam according to experts or something.

Now flat earth's think they are right like Galelio.
I don't buy into these second layer solutions. They are still limited in terms of scalability (they just push the limit back a bit) and operational complexity tends to get out of control and that makes them much more vulnerable to exploits (especially DoS attacks which attempt to prevent or delay state changes and attacks which try to roll-back state changes).
What is a "top mod"? Why does that matter?
AWS DeepRacer – Fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car for developers
This is entirely due to a weird filter bubble you've created for yourself.

You're focused on the 0.01% of people lurking on 4chan and not the mainstream news media which always come from a worldview assuming the wealthy are evil, men are evil and white people are evil and that all inequalities in the world are due to these evil people getting something at the expense of others and calling for more and more policies to harm this group to give more power and wealth to others.
Agreed.

> 1) ignore the kids a lot

This is likely not the right answer. A lot of those "famous people" are horrible parents. Makes you wonder why they chose to have kids to begin with...
Working on a unity game inspired by cookie clicker to destroy all onions in the universe.

If you want a preview build my email is in my profile, but dont expect much so far :)
Ah yes, you can use an IP address instead of a domain! I'd completely forgotten about that because nowadays it's so very unlikely to work with anything.
Can you talk about what sort of things you're doing, in general terms? Does the new generation DGX look like a worthwhile upgrade for you?
Sure, it's a safe way to explore one's sexuality.
Make a Hidden Tor Website in 5 Minutes (Debian 10)
Why don't we have a version of Windows without as much legacy support? Like a security hardened (or really just modern-only) version of Windows?

I suspect most people would be fine using that version of Windows, and it would have less security problems.
>> Just like I can drive to my local mall without even thinking about it.

I have seen plenty of software that appears to have been written by someone who was 'not even thinking about it' and it is invariably problematic and expensive-to-maintain.

Do you really believe there are senior devs that are productive without even thinking about it?

That just strikes me as odd -- maybe they are working on stuff should be given to Juniors?
8 repetitions of the same submission with the same boilerplate text that you’re now forcing into unrelated threads.

“Spammer” is perhaps the most polite term I’d use.
I asked this casually with /polly in slack the other day and was surprised that our engineering department was split 50/50. 50% thinking we should go fully remote and 50% being very adamant that they needed an office to work in the majority of the time.
I believe this is discrimination and shame for your resource, however, this was to be expected
Greetings from Russia, do not be sick
Tesla’s readying a ‘million mile’ battery that could greatly lower cost of EVs
> Groups that use terrorism to get their way almost always fail.

Totally untrue. When the US used atomic bombs to level cities in Japan, that was terrorism. The goal was to strike fear into the regime and the people for an unconditional surrender. It was not an attack against the military or government, it was an act of terrorism.

When the US uses drone strikes to blow up weddings, that's terrorism. They are not actively engaged in a military conflict, even if there is allegedly some 'terrorist' they are trying to kill.

The communist revolutions in various places heavily employed terrorism.
Installing decades-old C++ programs on your computer is an invitation for hackers to take over your computer. That includes Acrobat and Microsoft Office.

Getting you to open PDFs and Office files is one of the primary ways in which your computer is taken over by hackers. They may send you an attachment or a link by email.
Can worktigers.com keep your employees joyful during Covid-19?
> young, no kids, etc

There is your major reason for that survey result. Companies with median-older workforces will see more enthusiasm for remote work.