skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AD is a directory of EVERYTHING. From users to groups, departments, divisions, printers, to remote access, device management, email, file shares... Many third party apps use it for either or both of authN and authR. You can use it to federate identities. It is vast in its scope and its reign is without equal.
The same.

Edit: So, rights have to be enumerated by a country's founding documents, and then protected by that country's government. Ultimately, though, the people are responsible to establish their own freedom when no freedom exists.

Black people don't have the exclusive claim of persecution by police in the US. In fact, they suffer far fewer death by cop than white people. [1] Why do they feel they are singled out? Could it be a victim-stance mentality?

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
a lot of people who haven't done fully remote work are extroverts who are currently cheering the move to fully distributed work throughout the developed world are gonna start begging to go back to an office in about 3-12 months when the crushing loneliness kicks in. (tho I'd love to be proven wrong and see alternatives like affordable coworking spaces pop up - but an office is like a free coworking space).
Bureaucracies don't like working with a bunch of small companies; they want to work with a few large companies with specialized departments that make it easy to get what they want. The rules and regulations are all written for large corporations with inside counsel and compliance departments, not small independent companies.

source: I work at a small company, and have dealt with such bureaucrats
Saying that "Google Analytics is NOT the website I visit" is the same as saying "React is NOT the UI I'm using" or "Stripe is NOT the store I'm buying from".

Modern day websites use readily available modules to build out functionality. Just because those modules were originally built by someone else doesn't mean that it's not part of the website you visit.

Full disclosure: I work at Google.
optional restriction, not limitation.
4degre.es | digital senior advertising manager (pick your title) | Remote, Denver, DC

we are a political firm working for Democrats across the country. We've expanded a good amount this cycle and need help with ad trafficking and creative as the election ramps up. Lots of FB ads, basic google/youtube/xandr etc IOs, and programmatic.

Someone with DSP / programmatic experience would be great.

If you also have creative skills - specifically video that would be very valuable to us.

Also if you're on HN probably a great fit. we're a pretty data and tech first firm. I've built a lot of tools that sit on top of SaaS/adtech products and there isn't a lot of crossover with engineering and politics.

dillon at 4degre.es
It's the lifeblood of enterprise IT. The AD manages everything that is concerned with authentication and authorization, not only of actual employees but often also of service accounts (servers).

If it's not managed through the AD, it's often not allowed to exist. It's also (legitimate or not) often the reason to go for a microsoft tool or (azure) service, because it 'integrates more easily' with the access management stuff that is in place.
I'd respond that dismissing free speech is also dangerous, as it has preceded multiple genocides. IMO, right now we live in a society where we neither have free speech nor the ability to have healthy, open debates needed to defuse dangerous ideas. In the guise of protecting the weak, we're advancing increasingly authoritarian measures. Coming from both the left and the right. See airport security, state surveillance, anti child trafficking laws used to shut down legit websites... And possibly soon anti hate speech laws which will most definitely, inevitably be abused. This isn't a just left wing vs right wing issue. Your rights are being eroded before your eyes.
I'm doing something similar but less ephemeral. I have many web profiles, but they are dedicated, for example I have a Google profile where I open Gmail, drive, photos, etc. I have an FB one, a reddit one, an HN one, etc. About 15. Then Firefox for my regular browsing.
I think the theories of it being an artificial alien probe were definitely more sci-fi fodder.

I'd always imagined that an alien intelligence might have seeded every solar system in the galaxy with a probe to monitor for evolving intelligence - but after Oumuamua, I realized it would be far more efficient and reliable to have swarms of them coasting through systems periodically to check on them. ...or maybe both.
He believes it
Sounds like a new weapon for the next Star Trek or James Bond movie.
I'm not a historian or anything, but I've seen it ebb and flow over the years. There have definitely been periods where the best opportunities were at small, innovative businesses.

I think we've reached a point in the industry where innovation has slowed enough to allow the biggest companies to catch up. Combined with the natural advantages that big companies have (monopoly, regulatory capture, etc.), it's just really hard to go toe-to-toe with them these days.
Again, the problem is that localities with systemic police problems almost by definition lack the will to investigate and fix those problems.
I hate seeing the faces of my coworkers on my screen all day. This will make a huge difference.
On Profiling Bots in Social Media
What surface were you using your laptop on? IMO Apple made the design choice to be hot as hell on some surfaces as a trade off for other advantages, so maybe some of the fault is not on this software.
Never heard of that technique before! Found some videos from Ben Horne about it, that explain it well to a non medium format shooter. Quite a cool way of adjusting the DOF on a scene.
Should social security and medicare taxes apply to capital gains? Should these taxes apply beyond the current caps, which are a bit over $100k? If not, there would be very little impact since most investment income is earned by people who also have six figures of wage income. And if so, then we'd have to levy these 'taxes' (they're not quite taxes, to the extent that these are paid in exchange for later services/payments that the taxpayer receive) on all wage income.
I can think of a number of reasons:

1. The firm has enough growth to cover it up (downturns can finally bring about layoffs here)

2. Measurement is difficult or not practiced at certain firms vs others

3. Subsidies or contracts from the government specifically cancel out negative productivity and so make it worth it

etc
> Proposing a complete solution that takes in the needs of the various stakeholders and doesn't just move the problem and does so in a way that makes the whole situation easier

There's a fine line between being thorough, and doing the job of several other people for them. The latter isn't what you're being paid for, and in some companies isn't appreciated if it risks some of them losing face.
awesome! I think I'll try using Esprit instead of C in my next ESP project
I left about 6 years ago. I became increasingly frustrated that nobody was talking about real issues, namely politics, and that celebrities weren’t using their vast reach to amplify messages. Twitter was for tweeting what one had for lunch.

Well, look at Twitter now. I got what I wanted, and I hate it. I was wrong. I’d happily go back to early Twitter.
It is for me. Tor runs as a daemon, then I have my Firefox proxy settings to always hit Tor.

Onion addresses work, and Firefox refuses to connect if the Tor daemon isn't running.

Paired with Firefox actually honoring my requests to purge all information upon exit (instead of chrome only "kind of" doing it), it certainly works out quite well for me.
> Hire outside investigators, appoint/deputize independent lawyers to be special prosecutors, etc.

And if it's a systemic problem in the local government, both the choices of the “independent” investigators and the shopping of their remit, and the decision of whether to do it at all will be affected by the systemic problem.

> Most states of cities with police problems have very strong civil rights laws (often stronger than federal protections.

Which helps not at all when the people and institutions responsible for enforcing the law are part of the problem.
The simple answer is you are not as smart as you think you are. If you were you would already have worked out the answer to this question.

Most people overestimate their own intelligence. The majority of people think they are smarter than average.
Worse, Google Classrooms for most of the kids I know.
> The consensus regarding automobiles and touch interfaces is starting to form that they are just a bad idea.

> The benchmarking shows nearly every company is moving to screens.

The fact that everyone is moving to screens because they're flashy and cheap ($/feature) doesn't automatically make them a good idea.

GP is correct. The consensus from a safety and usability perspective is that touchscreens in cars are a bad idea. Fuck the bean counters.
It's not so much that I object to the marketing (if there is any). It's that they refuse to use any alternative to Instagram which sends my kids pics to be harvested by FB. There's a reason I have quit FB and never gotten on Insta.

I mean, they do also take pictures for the yearbook which I'm ok with.
Another word for negative productivity is overhead.

Many administrative, HR and IT workers are overhead, but still needed.
It's too late for that. Have you ever looked at the web page you are on?
That is my opinion which is why I kept on saying "I". I see nothing wrong at all with 'old-school'. There are too many self proclaimed UI/UX "experts" who keep screwing things up for people (edit: I'll restate that: fucking over their users). I only want what works.

> The vast majority of customers do not want something that basic.

And you accuse me of 'opinion'. Well, provide evidence of this claim.
Summary: By project, alphabetically, flat within reason, with an Archive subfolder for old projects. Different locations for code vs documents.

Details, starting with documents:

I usually know what the thing I'm looking for is called, so hierarchy gets in the way more than it helps.

My documents live in[1] ~/nextcloud/, organized in a flat structure by project, with 3 exceptions, where I add one more level of hierarchy:

1. There is also a folder called `Archive` (the only capitalized folder, to avoid accidental autocompletion), where I move old, inactive projects — this keeps the flat list from getting too large to navigate (the Archive folder becomes harder to navigate, but I seldom open it so that doesn't matter).

2. When a large number of projects (significant % of total folders) fall under the same umbrella. So far this has only applied to school. Inside my `school` folder, the classes themselves were still organized in a flat structure by course dept-number (eg, comp115, ec6), rather than by semester. Another separate folder with the same structure for high school; both are currently archived.

3. When it makes sense to use a different organizational method. Again, just one case where this applies: job applications, which are organized flatly by year-quarter-company (all in the file name).

[1] synced between my computers using nextcloud, as you may have guessed. Nextcloud doesn't mandate this and previously I used ~/Documents, but I prefer lowercase folder names — caps are more work to type in the terminal.

---

My code uses a very similar system but with fewer exceptions:

Repos that I contribute code to (mine or I forked them) live in ~/dev/

Repos that I am using as-is (I wanted to build and use a tool, wanted to be able to `git grep` instead of using github/gitlab search, etc) or that I touch very infrequently (eg, fdroiddata) live in ~/repos/. This is kind of equivalent to my archive folder.
In a nice, high end DSLR 6400 IS0 is perfectly acceptable.

I'm no hardware person, but I believe there are serious constraints on how quickly you can take images with larger sensors. The D6 can do 14 frames a second, and the D850 can do about half that.
Depends on how much energy you need. If you are talking about turning it into an interstellar spacecraft by hooking up some kind of fusion powered thruster (probably using H2 as the reaction mass) to the back you may need all of its mass.

This is of course well beyond our current capabilities, but it's not something that's impossible to consider in the medium-distant future. Plus, even if you expend a colossal amount of energy accelerating you're still talking about thousands of years for the journey where you'll need to keep those reactors running for the entire trip (there is no useful solar collection in deep space) having a literal mountain of fuel to start with is important.
Jensen VX4024: https://www.crutchfield.com/S-ygHtVbHJ59g/p_110VX4024/Jensen...

See that big honkin' knob on the left? Volume and on/off. It's glorious, especially when driving a 5400Kg vehicle. Bought it last year, or year before, so there might be an updated model.

EDIT: check out Crutchfield's other radios, too. There's a brand they sell call "Boss" (never heard of them, either), and every model of theirs has a big knob for 1/0/Volume.
you made the parent's point, your picture looks good, but still not as a good as a professional one, taken with a good camera

I have a mirrorless cameras, and time to time I use it... and the pictures I get with it are still much better than my iphonex
This does indeed happen and the biggest example is probably China. Wechat with its super-app concept has done something that didn't really have a Western analog. Didi replaced Uber in China, Alipay and TikTok and a lot of other apps constitute an entirely different, domestic ecosystem.

It's also starting to happen with banking / finance apps. Nubank is growing very fast in Latin America, Africa is starting to have a domestic ecommerce sector, and so on. The internet is new and many countries, particular developing ones that have a sufficiently distinct culture to not just adopt Anglophone products are only now starting to have the talent and infrastructure in place.

It's also happening in messaging. Telegram is overwhelmingly more popular in Europe/Russia than it is in the US. LINE is the most popular app in Japan and Thailand, Facebook Messenger and SMS still dominate in the US.
Think of it this way, if you are sitting in the office then anyone can come talk to you in your cube. I think it can be great app if you keep it running during fix hours like 3 hrs in the afternoon when anyone can come and ping. Rest of the time you dont have to keep it on.
If one person dies in an ambulance (which has never to my knowledge happened in the current protests), you think that is a more important problem to address than 1000 people getting extrajudicially executed by police in 2019?

Concern trolling?
They all still compile to the same stack, so no problem. I don’t have to throw away my working jquery/angularjs/scriptaculos/dojo/react/ code just because angular.io is pretty cool.

In time vanilla js will eat them anyways.
AD can be very roughly described as LDAP with a better interface, a consistent implementation and some proprietary extensions. You don’t need to fight with incompatible clients and have a decent UI. For the rest it is conceptually quite similar.
The thing is, doing this is actually quite trivial. Graph databases are used in large part for this very usecase.
We Can Fight Injustice Without Endless Videos of Black People Being Killed
By Melanye Price

Dr. Price is a political scientist who specializes in contemporary black politics, public opinion and political rhetoric.
Thank you! That's a very good question and that is actually something that we are exploring during these tests. Currently, we do a mix: there are some 3D files that we can process without manual intervention and there are some where we do need to do some manual work. If you would like to see how it works with your files, don't hesitate to sign up!
But I would say a more powerful part of the tool is that once you have your product in 3D you can choose materials from the material library or place other items (for a lifestyle image) from the product library. So once you have your own product in the system you don't have to worry about finding realistic materials or other products to populate your scene.
Did a little bit of IT before dev, AD handles management of all the resources on the network. Authentication, backups, policies, Exchange for your email server is plugged into AD.
Cool is what cool people does.
How is this any different from a local Mumble server?
The question is interesting, but any answer is more projection of one's beliefs than any actual grounding in reliable fact.

In the context of the 18th century, the forces that a government could bring to bear would either be a centralized army (that would take months to get anywhere in what is now the US, due to its large size), or the very localized militia forces, which would be responsible for local defense until the regular army could arrive. In the specific context of the US, the main threats would have been Indian raids and slave revolts, where immediate action from local militia would have been essential for response. One of the pivotal events of the American Revolution was the British attempt to disarm the Massachusetts local militias, and it's my belief that this is why the Second Amendment is worded the way it is.

At the same time, we must recognize that our modern world is alien to those who lived 200 years ago. Services once provided by a collective civic obligation (such as the militias of that period) are now institutions provided by the government or by private individuals under contract of the government. And the realistic threats we face are vastly different. I imagine that given these circumstances, they would take a much narrower view of Second Amendment, casting it more as a right to personal self-defense rather than a right to private military rebellion against the government acting unlawfully.
> We shouldn't over-punish honest mistakes when we value speed over accuracy...

But we should still make sure these behaviors are not rewarded. Science was right when they called against "Pandemic Research Exceptionalism". I think at this point in time, where available knowledge has increased a little, we can afford to be stricter than before.
Unless I'm missing something, that's at the heart of all of these cases.

In Ford v. Dodge, Ford was sitting on $60M, from which it had been paying dividends. These were stopped to reinvest the money in new factories. The Dodge brothers, who owned about 10% of Ford, sued because, per Ford's own comment, his decisions were driven by charitable interests rather than business judgement.

In Shlensky v. Wrigley, Shlensky was a stockholder who believed that the Cubs were leaving money on the table by not holding night games. He sued--and lost--because the Court found that to be a plausible business decision.

In Davis v. Louisville Gas Electric Co., Davis (or actually, his estate) held one type of share in the company, and opposed a reorganization plan that would have converted them to another, to his potential detriment.

In re Walt Disney was a derivative suit by shareholders over the hiring and firing of Michael Orvitz, and whether his (lucrative) compensation was in the company's interests.

The common theme is that the board of directors (and the CEO they appoint, etc) have wide latitude to run the company, even in ways that don't immediately benefit some (Davis) or even all (Shlensky) shareholders. They can certainly go too far (Ford) or fail to exercise much judgement at all (Caremark, where the director sold the company for a value plucked out of thin air), but as Mercantile Trading says "generally [...] courts will not upset the decisions of either directors or stockholders as to questions of policy and business management. An abundance of authority in other jurisdictions might be cited to the same effect"
The bigger problem with estate taxes (and btw estate taxes often imply death taxes in US law) that you may not see is how they effect smaller players. One of the things fueling corporate consolidation is asset liquidation upon death. If I start and own a small company that’s worth $10million, when I die, there is likely a strong desire to liquidate that company in order to allow for some inheritance to multiple people. This likely means selling the business to another player. If there’s an estate tax, then you must sell. My understanding is this has been a very real problem for farmers for many generations, and they have been the largest opponents for estate taxes.

I suspect the bigger problem isn’t the Bezos’s of the world consolidating money and power generationally, it’s the big corporations getting bigger, with corporate taxation disproportionately hurting the smaller players rather than the bigger players. We would have a much healthier economy if the incentive structures hurt companies more the bigger they get to discourage things like vertical integration. A company doesn’t have to pay taxes on the intermediary steps of production but might have to (sales or B&O tax) if they were to purchase the same goods from a third party. This tends to distort markets away from lots of smaller players to a few big players.
Which professional published best case death estimate did we not beat? I am not aware of one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23028036

Typical flu seasons: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn...

Covid-19 death counts as of ~2 weeks ago: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
With AD Domain services, you get a centralized resources administration, with stuff like group policies, easy way to share stuff like printers and files access. Single sign-on for all your users.

When IT administer thousands of Windows PC on domain, thats the kind of stuff they appreciate as it make their lives easier.
The universe kindly requests that you do not divide by zero.
Apps can no longer run services without initial user interaction. No broadcasts are delivered until that happens.
One party is doing everything in its power to undermine democratic institutions and erect barriers to participating in democracy. The two parties are not the same because only one party is doing that.

And parties change, and are made up of individuals. Go watch some of last years Democratic presidential debates to see where things are now, not 4-12 years ago.
HOAs too. As if municipal codes and such aren’t enough for people.
You mean an assertion? I'm not sure how that would help. The code is still going to crash, and unless you tested for that specific case, it's not going to show up in testing either.
Iran Nearly Poisoned All of Israel’s Drinking Water
That's a bit like saying "Here we are in 1650 under an absolute monarchy. The people are the majority, they could topple our illegitimate hereditary government and make it a democracy, but they haven't done it yet because they certainly prefer things this way".
If HN keeps recommending all these amazing podcasts that I've never heard of, I'm not going to have enough time in day to get through them... Thanks for the recommendation!
There is also Turkish government funded Pardus project [0] and has been going on since 2005. Numerous government institutions started to use it but still not enough to ditch Windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_(operating_system)
Video of Landslide in Norway
Just curious, what "history" are you talking about? Do you have some reference links?
...on a frictionless plane that goes to infinity.
Why HTTPS Matters for Busy Folks – and Is More Than You Think
Show HN: Study in Scarlet: A simple plagiarism detection toolkit
I work at Signal on calling.

Non-group desktop calls are coming soon (hopefully hitting beta in a few weeks).

We're working on desktop group calls as well. That will take a bit longer, though. I don't have a good estimate of when it will be available
Hetzner is pretty cool, but its a far cry from the vast amount of services offered by the big 3.