skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article actually reverse engineers the javascript and has a lot more information about what they are tracking and how they are doing it.
Old license: No reversing “Modules” - in particular “bit streams”.

New license: No reversing “Modules”.

They didn’t fix anything. They removed the clause which explicitly defines “bit streams” as “Modules” but kept the clause which prohibits reversing “Modules”. I’ll assume this is a clerical error in an effort to get legal to move on a fix in a day but as it stands the updated license still prohibits reversing bitstreams.
The Death of Gary Hoy
My understanding is it allows them to check for things listening on loopback, given they appear to be checking for SSH tunnels.
This is great! Anyone know of anything like this for Python or R?
I dread opening up older swift projects because I know they aren't going to compile. Go is a breath of fresh air.
I completely agree with you on almost all points (I don't have a social media account either for the exact reasons you mentioned; dropped all of them like a hot potato when I read some of those social media experiment papers) except for this:

> I’m gonna stop reading the news, it’s too much stress for me.

This I feel is actively dangerous. You _need_ to know what is going on out there. While I agree that most of the news counts as opinion (and is marked as such sometimes), you need to develop a skill which parses through the fluff and take just the facts into account. This might not be easy, but it is worth it.
I'm a little surprised the author recommended "The Shallow" but didn't mention "Deep Work" by Cal Newport.
>> a Colorado State University chemist who orders a 60-liter dewar every 8–13 weeks to fill his 8-tesla superconducting magnet.

So... absolutely no recapture of this used helium? I wouldn't be throwing stones at party balloons. Seriously, the concept of helium as a disposable gas is the root of the entire price problem. Hopefully the price will rise to the point that capture and recycling become more cost effective.

>>A new, $110 000 liquefier at the University of Idaho is expected to recycle most of the helium needed for three NMR magnets, an electron paramagnetic resonance magnet, and a Mössbauer spectrometer, says Blumenfeld. As an added benefit, the new machine will enable the university to purchase its helium in gaseous form instead of liquid, for a substantial cost savings, he says.

110K? That is dirt cheap for nearly any industrial process. Industrial baking ovens can cost more. Why are such things not standard with every device needing substantial amounts of helium.
Counter point: as I get older, I find it harder and harder to put up with annoying little nags in the software I use (iow, I have less patience for crap). And boy does software today have a ton of that. I think I'm just about to cross the point where I'll dump the default gnome setup on my work laptop (ubuntu) and install dwm or cwm or whatever. Even with all the tweaking and customization, it doesn't take that long, but it makes work more comfortable every hour, every day, for years to come.

It's like ergonomics. When you're a kid, you sit on what you have and you've got more interesting things to worry about than the height of your desk? At some point in life you might just want a nice chair and roomy adjustable desk with a sizeable external monitor on a proper adjustable stand to make work comfortable. That's why you hack your window manager or shell or whatever. The defaults are always terrible and not tailored for you.
Note that encrypted db stuff generally tries to use weaker notions of security in exchange for performance. Generally research revealed that it was even weaker than the authors thought. FHE is generally something different.

>Does a system like cingulata offers encryption as strong or better than aes256gcm?

One of the security garuntees of aes-gcm is non malleablity. Any attempt to modify the ciphertext is detected. This is the key reason why GCM is popular over older methods like CBC. In homomorphic encryption, the entire point is to be able to able to do arbiteary computations on ciphertexts without decrypting. So even theoretically it would be impossible for homomorphic encryption to give same/better security properties as aes-gcm.
Seriously, take your strawman and take it to twitter or reddit.
I took the reduced color depth into consideration. However on second glance it seems like Imagemagick does not compress PNG very efficiently with default settings. After recompressing with zopflipng PNG was easily able to beat bzip2 packed sixels. Results for 256 color 512x512 Lenna:

Sixel + bzip2: 245K

PNG Imagemagick: 467K

PNG Zopfli 10 Iterations: 188K
Sooo a pyramid scheme
Wouldn't this mean the networking interface is now Layer 7? It has to understand how QUIC works. Sounds like Smart NIC, though that seems mainly enterprise focused.
Seller A is selling an item he bought for $5 dollars. He's trying to sell it for $10, for a 100% profit. The current bid is $7 dollars. He logs in to a remote desktop and bids on his own item to bump the price with a different MAC and IP. It sells for $12 and he's happy.

Seller B is having a hard time making sales. She thinks he needs better ratings. So she logs into the site using a remote client and 'buys' 10 of her items on different accounts and leaves 10 glowing reviews.

Ebay is scanning ports to detect the tools used to do this.
Which is appropriate:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+fake+news+cambridge+analy...
i recently upgraded ubuntu and had to start dealing with snaps.. of the two i tried to install they were both out of date and i ended up using apt to great success. what was the point of this thing?
Oh? How quickly we forget.

The 2010 G20 summit in Toronto must have been a walk in the park. One can see the police hand in hand with protesters singing kumbaya. Noted that this event had police officers from all over the country participating. Many conveniently forgot to wear badges and nametags, some conveniently had masks on:

https://www.google.com/search?q=g20+toronto+police+brutality...

And Vancouver, lovely city! Until they lose the Stanley Cup of course:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vancouver+stanley+cup+riots&...
Ask HN: How to Disrupt Booking.com / Expedia?
Hi HN,

We are 2 engineers working full-time on a hotel booking solution with no commission, instead of 18% practiced by sites such as Booking.com / Expedia. Hotels hate this commission, but they keep paying since Booking / Expedia bring customers.

Tourists know about these brands and go there to book hotels, even though there are hundreds of other booking & meta-search solutions. Note that they won't find better prices, since hotels aren't allowed by Booking/Expedia to post better prices online. So a site with a smaller commission can't post cheaper prices. Booking/Expedia also 'price match', just in case a tourist manages to find a better price. There's an exception with https://bidroom.com/ , which shows better prices after registration, so not 'publicly'.

Tourists also prefer Booking / Expedia since their booking is guaranteed and payment is safe with these known brands.

Would you have any out-of-the-box ideas on how one could disrupt these booking sites? Obviously, if there would be any straightforward steps, you'd do it yourself. However, if you don't have the time to work on it, but have interesting suggestions, would you please share for others to consider?

Thanks!
Nope, stupid patent. People were rendering SQL results in HTML for at least two years when that patent was filed.

When I say people, I mean me. On publicly available websites. :)
FHE encryption is bleeding edge crypto. You probably shouldn't use it in real systems with hard security requirements at all without input from experts.
Funny seeing this on HN. I worked at PolySat until 2010 (a year before that article was published), so I know most of those names.

When I worked there, our avionics was embedded C on bare metal. We had several problems we were trying to solve when we realized that switching to embedded Linux makes solving them easier. We wanted to abstract away from the hardware to be able to make more use of automated testing. Switching to Linux meant we didn't have to build our own HAL. For the algorithms I was working on, I wanted to do more of my development on a Linux system. And we saw it as a way to make on-orbit patches easier. I wasn't involved in making the transition to Linux though. That effort started around the time that my focus shifted to my master's thesis.
yeah definitely not what the eu means when they discuss technical sovereignty lol
Startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score”
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke? 0.5 KLOC. Seven files. That's not over-engineered?
A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)
It would be interesiting to see this "cost side" of police reform. How was police rendered toothless? What did happen as a result?
A window manager may be only 2000 lines of source code but it implements a host of formal and informal standards and interacts with hundreds of other programs on my computer.

You may need only a day or two to orient yourself to the source code, but that’s on top of months or years of experience with X11R6 and ICCCMv2 and EWMH and such. How much debugging did you first need to do to discover your current issue was even in dwm?

EDIT: I especially love the phrasing in Wikipedia's ICCCM article: dwm "can be configured for compliance". If 'configuration' can include editing source code, I'm sure that's true!
I was just reading a statarb paper this morning.

We really should have came up with a different word and left arbitrage alone back in the day.

I can't remember the last time I read about an arbitrage that was actually an arbitrage.

Now everything is basically "garage sale arbitrage".
I bought a piece of junk at a garage sale and sold it on ebay for a profit. "Risk free profit", cha ching. Just a total corruption of the actual concept.

I get it though,it is a great word.
Have you ever used software with bugs?
In both companies I've been using that, it was a very simple RT/JIRA-SD-style system: "open a subject/text ticket, clock starts ticking, on call engineer gets a non-wake-up memo and will reply with high priority during work hours" and ticket will get closed ASAP and we do achieve inbox 0 regularly.

Yes, there are obvious issues and it requires two things to work:

1) If you actually have no clue about the product, you are respectfully told to fuck off to normal user support channel
2) If you keep misusing this for user support / slack channel, you get your access revoked.

...which are hard sells in large companies, of course—on the other hand, in BigCo I got success in getting an engineering headcount to accommodate that.
That's quite contrary to the whole CCC philosophy though of freely sharing knowledge. But indeed he linked to it himself.

One thing I don't like about Signal though, is that he forbids third-party clients. It's a bit contrary to owning your information, which is one of the points he makes in the talk. One of the reasons I want this is to integrate all my chats into one single app - there's too many apps right now screaming for attention. That's why I'm more a fan of Matrix, which is truly open.
> Seller A is selling an item he bought for $5 dollars. He's trying to sell it for $10, for a 100% profit. The current bid is $7 dollars. He logs in to a remote desktop and bids on his own item to bump the price with a different MAC and IP. It sells for $12 and he's happy.

So why don't you set the starting price at $10? Does ebay not let you set the base price?
How do you "tune something to your liking" if every change makes you recompile the whole thing?
> "HTML on a computer with foo and bar"

But here it's where the patent system is broken. Doing conceptually trivial combinations of on itself non patentable thinks should _never_ be patentable, at lest for software but probably for anything. Sure patenting a specific complex mechanism for combining two thinks might be patentable but in case of software this is hardly ever the case, most times its more or less trivial glue code.

So e.g. Face recognition + smartphone + unlock screen might all be patentable by itself. Especially a faceregocnition algorithm which works especially good for smartphone usecase might be patentable. Bu using existing face recognition on a smartphone to unlock the screen shouldn't be patentable. They are all existing components and combining them is conceptually trivial. In the end patents where meant to protect research investments, not random ideas.
In my experience, French bank cards are debit cards not credit ones.
Ask HN: Does it make sense to keep working at my currency devaluated job?
I'm Software Engineer with a focus on AI from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been working locally for many years earning something like $3k or $4k usd per month but since last year our currency (Argentine pesos) has devaluated a lot against us dollar.

I'm now earning something like 1k usd per month. That money is enough to live comfortably (I don't rent) but lately I've been thinking that's not worth it to keep working for that amount anymore. I've enough savings to live without income for at least ten years (120k USD).

My idea is to resign and start focusing on three points: investing my savings, look for jobs/contracting/freelancing overseas and have a try at the startup game.

My biggest doubts are the current world crisis like situation and that I'm going to be a dad next month, so it's scary to be without a secure salary.

How does that sound? What would you do?
Sounds doable, suspiciously so. When I get rich and have a lot of time, I'll go through it just to figure out why ‘handwritten’ fonts don't ever include a dozen alternate sets of the same characters so the shapes actually vary—like when written by hand. Instead, I type out something like ‘na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Batman’ and observe the same ‘n’ and the same ‘a’ over and over.
They’re bypassing your local network firewall, and local machine firewall, then attempting to connect to blocked ports. People have been jailed for less.
Someone looked up from his workstation, put a finger in the air and said: Containers are Cool, Windows 10 is cool, what if we made Containers like Windows 10 and then mounted them like Mac mounts installation files!
Yikes, that's horrible.
I'm not that good at articulating why I think a lot of what's news these days seems mostly irrelevant to me, but I was very influenced by Aaron Swartz's blog post [0] about how reading the news is a waste of time very often.

[0]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
At what point does this become self-defeating? The government already knows who's who, no redacted footage will cover anyones tracks, this just erases history. Or does this imply it is strictly for illegl activity? If your face is public, its public.

Faces are what make you emphathise. Do you see any dramatic anonymized photos in the news changing hearts?
I use this with my Pi-Hole. Works very well. Along with a few other lists the Pi-Hole blocks about 30% of requests with almost no changes on the user end.
Certainly fits the qualifications of the post. Judgement aside.
If you mean how to prevent them, well, no bugs so no way to create them.

If you mean how they handle them, there is an incident procedure for that. If it's not really an incident but, well, I need this next week for Gartner Magic Quadrant...I have phone numbers of managers in my reporting chain.
Somewhere someone’s CI/CD pipeline is kicking off a test that completes an order.
I mean, you did ask for projects people would usually rather not talk about.
The best article on HN in ages.
No, that's a basic affiliate program. I don't think you need to buy or trade anything yourself for example on Binance, just getting people to sign up and trade through your referral.
Sixels will be added to libvte (gnome-terminal): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/254
> But your eyes would perceive the color IRL and on the monitor with equivalence

So, consider this image: https://hips.hearstapps.com/cos.h-cdn.co/assets/15/09/480x37...

Squares A and B are actually the exact same color. I know, it's actually hard to believe—feel free to download the image and sample the colors. :)

What "color" does the app copy?
Didn’t know about them, that actually looks really really nice. Not for the use case I was talking about but SVC seem great
Oh wow this is looking great!

I'd certainly be a customer if I lived in the US.
That's also very simple: it's the transliteration of the phonetic symbol 'tʃ which represents the soft C sound as in cheese.

That's what happens when a language steals a foreign word (Latin in this case) and changes its pronunciation

In Latin the way groups of letters are pronounced it's (almost) unambigous, it's a phonetic alphabet itself

If you change the pronunciation, that part is lost and you have to rely on recollection instead of recognition

It also means that if you don't already know a word you can't be sure on how it is pronounced
As somebody who grew up during the semi-graphic era, it makes me sad that we still use a 30 year old standard for terminals and cannot do direct plot in the main terminal (as opposed to the Tektronix separate window).
Does Shodan have a map of public ip -> natted local network ip:port pairs?

I thought it was only public ip ports.
because you have to pay at the door. so nobody is paying
One of the reasons I am delaying design is getting deeper into accessibility and readability research. And I have decided to write some content first ;)
Remote Work’s Time Has Come
> This attitude is simply shocking

This comes up every time from people who don't understand the regulatory landscape, as if it's the bank's fault that AML regulations and the legal offence of "tipping-off" exist.

All banks in the UK will do this to varying degrees. See https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/hsbc-suddenly-blocked-bank-ac...

Inevitably it always ends up with people complaining to the press, at which point the bank is blamed.

The whole system is broken: https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsx...

> From regularly advising professionals and others in this sector, we are in no doubt that the high volume of lower-value reports is due to the imposition of personal criminal liability for failure to make a report where one is due combined with the low threshold for reporting. Reports must be made (absent special circumstances) if there is a possibility, which is more than fanciful, that funds are criminally derived even if the reporter believes them to be legitimate. The courts will back a reporter and absolve them of liability to their customer even if there were no reasonable grounds to make a report, provided the reporter held a genuine suspicion

Is it at all surprising that SARs are being filed when there's this real threat of personal liability if suspicious activity was not reported?
C followed by i and e is soft (as in english ch) in ecclesiatical latin and modern Italian, but my understanding is that romans actually pronounced C as hard C everywhere. I.e. Cicero called himself Kikero.
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Strangely not because of the content, rather because there are lots of inconsistencies/imperfections in the design and it doesn't make enough to justify fixing them.
Thanks so much! Hopefully one day we'll go international :)
http://askjud.com — I made it when I was 15. It’s pretty terrible, but has made $30k+ over its lifetime.
Just because a patent had been granted doesn't mean you can enforce it. But you might be able to pressure companies into paying anyway because a law suite would be more expensive even if they win.

The US (and other countries) law are missing IMHO two parts:

- really serve penalties for abusing the patent systems

- serve penalties for abusing the copyright systems
> of the two i tried to install

Which two? I mean, a package is only as good as its curator. That sounds more like a complaint about Ubuntu's Snap update policy or the community support for whatever you were trying to install than anything about Snap.

I don't understand the fuss here. People who want control over the open source software they install still have it, it still works like it always has. People who don't care can't even tell the difference.

And in a handful of situations, like large apps with extensive dependencies, or externally managed builds, or needs for cross-distro binary compatibility, Snap has real and tangible advantages.
> and I had a blog…

Why not start one just right now?[0]

[0] https://sachachua.com/blog/no-excuses-blogging
OP, I don't really think a lack of discussion on the topic is surprising. There are so many issues of global, national or regional importance that one can't discuss everything. This is also an issue that will never be resolved.

Humans will hate each other till our extinction. You can look like the most average person of your area and someone will find a reason to dislike you. There are endless reasons: your hair, nose, clothes, gadgets, voice, smell, affiliation, whatever. Genetic looks are just the easiest things to pick.

That said:

1 - Incidents

Many. Too many to list. Verbal, physical as well as harassment in both forms. Really used to dislike people from my country and moved away, not expecting better experiences, but things did get better. I also met people from my country there and had good experiences with them too.

In the last 10 or so years since leaving I have only seen, heard or experienced it about 5 times. Mostly that's because I enjoy being inside and don't see many people, and living in multi-cultural places is better too.

2&3 - Main issues and solutions

- lack of education: better education
- lack of contact with different people: more exchange programs, more international work, more globalism
- inability to think critically and form own opinions: more and better education

The last one is image&portrayal.
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We need a better community of discriminated people that doesn't do unto others in their group as has been done unto them. How can we be expect better treatment if we don't treat members of our own community right?

As for the rest I'll quote Ron White: "You can't fix stupid". People can be educated, but still really dumb about certain things and there's nothing you can do about that.
This is great! We have a chihuahua though and I don't think he could eat these. Looks like all you would need to do to support smaller dog breeds is include a smaller silicone tray. If you end up exploring that, hit me up at my e-mail in my profile and I may order a set!
An auction for an item with a history of an apparent bidding war up to $10 appears much more desirable than an auction for an item that just sits there for a week at its opening bid of $10.
I presume it's about making the income appear to be plausible to a tax inspector.

If you actually sell illegal drugs as a business, but claim to have a pizza place on your tax returns, the government might inspect you someday. If they find that you don't have any big pizza ovens, routine large orders for ingredients, staff of delivery drivers, piles of receipts from customers, etc, then they'll probably get suspicious very fast.

If you do make and deliver at least some pizzas on a appropriate scale, then things get a lot harder. They'd have to run down all of your customers and ask them if they ordered and received pizza, check if the dough order receipts are real and match the expected volume, are the delivery drivers real and how much work do they do, etc. Much more work to run down, and who has time for that? You could probably get away with it, for a while at least, as long as you didn't screw something else up.
No it is not. It is a primitive, this difference is well defined in the ECMAScript spec. Same for strings. An instanceof String is strictly not the same as a string primitive (and there are runtime consequences).