skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you dig deeper, you can easily find that the consensus among IT security experts is Signal for privacy / security.

Matrix is interesting and I hope it will catch up eventually, but currently it is not E2EE by default and it leaks way more metadata than Signal. These point make it strictly worse than Signal for 1:1 IM.

The advantage of Matrix is in federation, but regarding privacy / security, it is still behind (much to my regret).

Other apps that could provide similar guarantees in theory are less used and have received less scrutiny, so more not yet exposed bugs and design flaws should be expected. Other apps have been relatively well studied, but have well-known design flaws that also make them worse than Signal (WhatsApp and Wire leak way more metadata).
Const Correctness, C++ FAQ
Without them in aggregate, yes.

Unfortunately, at an individual level, this is not true. This is an important point, because we are talking about individual income disparity here. AMZN spends a large bulk of their income on that last mile delivery, they're not really skimping. The issue is that delivery of this portion of the service is provided by lots and lots of unskilled people.

Without one burger flipper, McDs is not going to fall apart. In fact, it's doubtful a single restaurant would be hurt much at all by the loss of a single burger flipper. Without Jeff Bezos, AMZN very well could fall apart (or more accurately, probably wouldn't have made it this far in the first place).

Jeff Bezos is worth way, way, way, way more to AMZN than a single warehouse worker. Is he worth more than every warehouse put together? Maybe not. But you need to remember that AMZN has AWS and various other things which don't require warehouse workers at all, but are all still under Bezos. This makes the arithmetic a bit harder, but Jeff Bezos in many ways is arguably literally irreplaceable to AMZN, making his hypothetical value to the company infinite.
What institution can credibly provide a sense of the size of phenomena?
Curious if anyone knows how with a range of 1000 miles it got to Europe? I presume several of aerial refuels in a single flight, which sounds mentally taxing.
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal projects?
Hello all,

I've been trying to find some sort of solution to manage various personal projects that I've been working on - creating todo list and goals, creating a list for future projects, that sort of thing. I've tried Trello for a bit, as well as learning Org mode and traditional todo software, but nothing really caught my eye. I'm curious to see what people here use for management.
1. Yes, one note per contact.

2. Yes, if I don't remember something about someone, I'll look them up by name and read the notes.

It's not tedious for me as I have less than 100 contacts that I manage this way.

To give you a description of how it's layed out, top level is the Notebook, which is titled "people". This is the file in which I store all data. Then I have the tree structure with H1 groups, aka Family, Friends, Workplaces, Enemies ;), etc. Under that I have my H2, which are their names, or in the case of Workplaces I have the company names I used to work at, then the H3 with names. Under each name I have a free text filed where I type everything, this would be my "note" for that person. But if I wanted to I could nest even more headers and add more structure, it's just that I don't feel the need to. The app lets me add tags and arbitrary key value metadata, but it seems overkill for me.

I also use this app to manage other things, like workout schedule, a backlog of FOSS ideas, shopping, interviewing, investing, and others, both high level and low level. It's quite flexible.
Minneapolis residents commandeered a hotel for homeless
Just because sports stories are omitted doesn't mean HN is taking a stance for/against sports, its just stating that isn't a topic for discussion here. Same for political discussions or crime.

Technology has become more pervasive in a lot of industries. I'd like to see less "news" articles posted here that really have nothing to do the creation of or new insights on technology and just tangentially are related to "tech".
I've had previous employers contacted more than once, but it was always by a third party background check agency. I doubt "we fired him for cause" would have mattered.
Looks like netlify requires a github account? I have an issue with that, as I'm against monopolies. As far as small private web sites are concerned, there are a lot of totally free options, and Hetzner offers web sites for 2 euro a month - 10GB space and unlimited traffic included, and it's a very solid company.
this looks interesting!

could you share what are the AI tools based on? thinking to get into AI, would be nice to read on how the actual working product is made
Automation is a big part though, having to do it manually on 5 faces is tedious, pressing a button is not.
Sweet I just applied!
The editor of The Lancet is allowed to have political opinions, and to express them.

Most of the opinions (with the exception of the tweet from two days ago) are about health policy. It makes sense that the editor of The Lancet is upset about Trump's attempt to wreck the WHO, for example. If the editor of The Lancet can't speak up about that, what can they speak up about?
We Can Still Listen to “What's Going on” 50 Years Later
Most of them don't have the power to actually order people to shoot.
"How could I possibly have known he had coronavirus and had trouble breathing-- all he was doing was saying 'i can't breathe' and calling out for his mother. It's not like we're in a global pandemic and everyone is walking around with masks because so many people have a deadly respiratory disease."
At some point he have to assume this is about defending people that are committing crimes. Nice to see that the radicalisation caused by left wing social media is finally getting to its final conclusion.
Everything that comes out of Revolut internally sounds horrific. I applied and was offered an interview, upon further research into how they work I pulled out of the process immediately.

They push their employees to breaking point (and with this, seemingly beyond). I'm so glad I didn't pursue that avenue, and feel so sorry for those caught up in this.
We only do it for the lulz.
FCC extends deadline for ISPs to quit charging customers who use own equipment
What does that actually mean in practice? Government subsidized compute doesn't seem like something I'd trust all that much in practice (seems like it'd be ripe for censorship). So it'd have to be decentralized. If only IPFS was ready for prime time....
Maybe a GPS and pay-per-km-driven scheme would be more tamper proof. You can spoof a GPS as well, but it can be double-checked automatically by state traffic cams.
Where can I find the pictures?
Born in 63, so yeah many years prior to those devices becoming a part of daily life. Interestingly was just having a conversation with my son's about the first time I used an ATM.

Anyway, in the 90's I took a year off and did volunteer work while teaching mediation and other spiritual pursuits. I recall being asked to sign in a date and looked at the person at the person at the desk and telling them I didn't even know what day of the week it was.

In the last decade I've done a number of trips with my son's boy scout troop. Multiple weeks in Canada on canoe trips, or hiking in NM. No contact with the outside world, best healing time ever.
No, this isn't going to change anything. Not every piece of news has to affect current events and their trajectories.
I have seen no evidence of any positive outcome from companies policing themselves, only negative results and coverups.

I'm sure there have been a few instances, somewhere, there must be, right? I just don't recall reading or hearing about them in my entire life, ever.
Every IMAP client I've tried so far works with office365, though I haven't tried offlineIMAP with it.

Ones I've tried:

fetchmail

sylpheed-claws

evolution

mutt
That sounds more like a defense if anything. Clearly some retraining is due!
In this case, they could be copying
Java which allows an implicit cast from number to string.
You make a good point to not use automated testing fully. I would highly recommend using some level of automated testing in every classroom.

Without automated testing, a lot of energy is spent on making sure the program runs and does what it's supposed to. Since students use all different kinds of environments (especially in beginner courses), just getting the program to run is a big challenge. Lint reports are great and I recommend adding them as part of the automated testing stack.

One huge advantage of automated testing is that students know before submitting that they understood the problem correctly, their program does what it's supposed to, and they are submitting it in the format that the instructor is expecting it in. A realtime feedback loop will always result in better submissions and grades.

Of course, once the basics are out of the way, instructors must look into the code to make an evaluation of whether the problem was solved the "right way" - whatever that means in the context of the course.

Source - I maintain a tool that automatically grades CS assignments and have collected a lot of data points over the last few years.
Not sure why the downvites, but do cities really want to invest in software engineers with enough background to analyze software patches, compile and deploy them vs regular IT technicians who can do the same job at fraction of the effort/salary and be replaced far more easily ?

I am genuinely curious why would someone think that's an advantage. Please give some explanation atleast after the downvote.
Agreed. Carrying out a DDos attack is illegal, so these services are protecting sites against illegal activity. If we want to uphold the rule of law, protecting against illegal activity should be acceptable regardless of the contents of a website.

A physical comparison would be a security system for a business's property. The security company shouldn't be able to disable the system for a company simply because they don't like the politics of the people operating it. Doing that would essentially be facilitating a crime.
not really: in five months we (humans) have gathered ideas on how to treat the disease; we've ramped up the production of masks, ventilators, tests, an so on; we've educated the population on how to be safer; we've set up special paths to manage infected people in hospitals so we can avoid contamination; we've increased IC beds; we've learned how to identify the disease earlier rather than just consider it a flu; and many other things.

Everyone is still at risk but the risk today is lower than 5 months ago.
Isn't more important and effective to shut down harassers than give the harassers free roam but try to lock down the whole world to prevent harassment?
Any time I hear “AI powered”, I can’t help it but the image of a curtain pulling back to reveal a bunch of hamsters turning a wheel comes to mind.
Google Analytics never uses browser fingerprints. The default tracking scripts only use first-party cookies. If you call the GA API directly, you don't even need cookies or local storage. This will make some of the reports meaningless, of course. The user's IP address is obviously sent, but it can be truncated by setting an option.
I'm not agreeing with OP, but I don't find the "but there's iphones now" argument all that convincing. Having a gadget when you can barely afford rent or medical care is a small comfort.
Ask HN: At what point do you flee the country?
This past week it's been feeling like the U.S. takes another step towards full-blown fascism each day. With the president becoming impatient and desperate, even for him, and threatening to impose military force even against governors' wishes, is it time to begin thinking about an escape plan? Am I overblowing things due to anxiety, or are we really at a turning point where doors may be closing?
I thing sgt is alluding to the fact that if Tesla hits an internal economic crisis, its stock price could fall far enough that one of the established automakers could acquire it or merge. And that this would be in their best interest, as Tesla now obviously has a significant lead in EV development and deployment.

But this is contingent on Tesla losing its current trajectory. There would be no incentive for Tesla shareholders to do such a merger the way things look today.
Hm, as a vi user i have escape there. so if i want to delete something without stretching too much, it's left thumb stretch back one left index stretch down out one (i'm on dvorak too). But since i'm also a kinesis user, i have backspace under my (right) thumb.
I had some very interesting conversations here. I don't remember the exact questions and dailogue but I'll note some here for users to know what they can expect. It was addictive. I got to a couple participants that covered their camera and decided to disconnect after seeing me (Internet strangers do that).

#1 What is the social and economics structure (theoritical or fictious) that you tend to agree with.
We spent a minute or so discussing how we are new to the platform and it is our first session. The participant was from Europe and immediately opted for Capitalism. I sort of agreed and waved good bye at end of 2 mins.

#2 Do you believe in after life?
The participant was a cheerful African women. I disclosed that would prefer not to have a after life and belong the void. That is the only way to achieve peace for me. She immediately exclaimed that she prefers to have an after life as she believes that there is more to experience than the chaos we experience in life.

#3 What is it that you would change in your past?
It was a North American man. We shared some personal experiences. We ended up extending the time multiple times and it was fun talking. I think we both took something away from the chat.

#4 You use a public toilet and notice there is no toilet paper. You are inside the stall. What do you do?
An Indian origin participant from Africa shared some witty advice here. We ended up in small talk, and realized he has visited places in my city in India. We had an interesting conversation about how intellectuals can study spirituality and ignore the illogical and derive value.

I had some very interesting conversations here. And I might use this platform again. Good job!
Only in that it uses a markup language that can link to other files/pages in the wiki.

Org-mode: "Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system." via https://orgmode.org/

See also: https://orgmode.org/features.html
Other labels which may be useful are "ha ha only serious" (ironic racism is in and of itself still racism), and "stochastic terrorism", the circulation and planting of propaganda, ideology, and conspiracy theories that leads to mass shootings.

The NZ mass shooter and Anders Breivik manifestoes are examples of this. There's an entire nutcase ecosystem out there who cite each other in their murders.
> That sort of communication leads to confusion, as the difference between a strategy that aims for herd immunity and one that will lead to herd immunity, at best is purely semantic.

I think it's a bit more than semantic at least. "use mitigations that are as effective as possible while still being sustainable in the long term". So long as healthcare isn't overwhelmed and R is kept under 1, these mitigations aren't leading to herd immunity because the outbreak is going to disappear before that, most likely.

If you accept an R on or over 1 then you are using a strategy that will lead to herd immunity.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/stress-testing-the-boote...

This article is 5 years old now, but may give a rough idea.

Like other booter services, Asylum, Lizard Stresser and VDO rely on a subscription model, where customers or subscribers can launch an unlimited number of attacks that have a duration typically ranging from 30 seconds to 1-3 hours and are limited to 1-4 concurrent attacks depending on the tier of subscription purchased. The price for a subscription normally ranges from $10-$300 USD per a month depending on the duration and number of concurrent attacks provided.
This looks really promising. Thank you!
Yep, for a while Shakti was k7, but then Arthur started over & it became k9. Not sure what happened with k8

k5 was also known as "kOS" and was to be a version of k as a full OS that could run directly on hardware - I believe that got abandoned due to the pain of writing drivers

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320 - article about kOS before it was abandoned
Can Facebook fuck off with closing the current tab I am in whenever I click one of their links? Sometimes undoing the closed tab doesn't work and there is no way to recover my previous tabs history.

This has gotten so annoying and used to be things we only expected from spam sites
Why was it flagged?
If you resign from Facebook and don't tell anyone, have you really resigned?
That's not removing blur, that's making a face (out of millions) that matches the same pixellization. There's no telling what the original face was, and it's disingenuous that they don't show you the original photo.
Technically, life itself is a series of gamble, every choice has its risk and benefit.
He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.
Oh god, I’ve worked with bootcamp grads hired through a “diversity” program at ex-employer. The hiring process was basically what you describe. Would not recommend.
Presidents have all kinds of privileges that others don’t. Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished? To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with.

What I don't understand is how you can be Facebook employee and also think the platform is the problem - lots of these especially in the React community [1].

If you believe Facebook is the problem, and you're quite vocal about it, and you continue working for Facebook, then that seems as close to paradoxical as you can possibly get.

If that's the case you are by definition working for a company which values you disagree with. That's similar to working for an oil company while being a climate change activist on social media.

1. https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1267544361929256966
How to start matching your employees' donations in 10 minutes or less
It is overwhelming to see folks in the tech community come forward to support a cause like this. Protesting and speaking up is one thing, leaving a job is another. Kudos.
.. or police provocateurs?
Today I opened facebook to reply to a message from my mum, I got autoplaying videos of Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro "destroying" liberals and trying to discredit George Floyd. I hope we come out of this period with a better understanding of the responsibility we have of the effect of the technology we build, pretending the things we build are neutral and hiding behind "free speech" is not working
I think this is an example of exceptions looming large in our mind, precisely because they are exceptions, and taking an outsized proportion of our attention. Before you go crazy remapping your keyboard to make symbols easy, take a scan of your real code. I fired a script to count the incidence of all symbols across a couple codebases large enough to be fairly representative here:

Perl Java Go
1 . spc - %26.40 spc - %17.98 spc - %10.43
2 . e - %6.15 e - %7.93 e - %8.92
3 . a - %4.41 t - %6.76 r - %6.83
4 . t - %4.34 r - %5.68 t - %6.72
5 . r - %3.85 s - %5.34 s - %4.99
6 . s - %3.84 a - %5.19 i - %4.83
7 . i - %3.34 i - %4.96 n - %4.67
8 . o - %3.03 o - %3.95 o - %4.57
9 . \n - %2.99 n - %3.79 a - %4.41
10. n - %2.97 p - %3.37 \t - %3.60
11. l - %2.67 u - %2.91 \n - %3.44
12. d - %2.32 c - %2.79 c - %3.05
13. c - %2.25 d - %2.55 l - %2.73
14. u - %2.07 l - %2.50 u - %2.55
15. _ - %2.02 \n - %2.44 d - %2.32
16. $ - %1.70 . - %1.99 p - %2.08
17. m - %1.70 m - %1.94 g - %1.98
18. p - %1.55 g - %1.62 . - %1.81
19. f - %1.41 ) - %1.29 m - %1.65
20. h - %1.31 ( - %1.28 b - %1.62

scp is space. Even Perl, a notoriously symbol-heavy language, has its first "symbol" show up only slot 15. This codebase prefers separation_by_underscores, so if you have camelCase you might not even get that. Java's first shows up as the period in 16, go's slots in at 18. (Go programmers typically aren't using the TAB key that much, it's autoformatted into existence with gofmt.)

I'm not saying there's no room for a bit of optimization, but I suspect a lot of programmers would mentally place symbols way higher than they actually belong in the precedence scale.

The other problem that emerges if you get too serious with this is that the languages are different enough that if you do swap out some symbols for some more privileged spaces on your keyboard, they aren't the same ones across languages. In Perl, $ shows up in slot 16 at 1.7%. In Java, it's slot 66 at .01%. Java favors the period first in slot 16 at 2%, in Perl that's slot 40 at .37%. I once did a reasonable attempt at a multi-language survey with roughly equal amounts of each language and what I found was if you're multilingual you have only marginal improvements available with the symbols.

Whether it's worth it is up to you, but the fruit here is much less low-hanging than you might think.

(I don't have a J/K codebase here to check.)
Execute Python code at compile time to generate Rust code
Django and Vue.js – Let's have fun together
For better or worse, Cryo-EM doesn't settle this. The results are inherently statistical no matter what, and probably can't distinguish between one microscopic model of the atom and another. I haven't seen the equations, but both the amount of data, and the amount of processing, are profound. I work in a peripherally related area, and just one anecdotal note is that the people doing this work think nothing of a single measurement filling up a terabyte hard drive with data.

There are naturally a lot of views about this topic, but one that resonated with me (perhaps recently discussed in HN) is that science can't necessarily make things intuitive, because it has this nasty habit of telling us when our intuition is wrong.
Thanks, this was what I was looking for. So I guess this pathway is not very predictable, hence the variations in subsequent measurements of the same subject.
“Primarily, it starts with their CEO Nikolay [Storonsky] being very vocal about their mentality, that if you do a 9-5 [workday] it won't work out...everything he has said is a recipe for burnout” says Stevie Buckley, co-founder of Honest Work and HR advisor to dozens of startups.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/18248826/revolut-workplace...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...
iOS: BackIndicatorImage vs BackIndicatorTransitionMaskImage
It is outright silly to discount either neo-nazi or antifa involvement. The only worthwhile discussion to be had would be to figure how much of the police provocation dumped onto them (or in case of neo-nazis collaborated with). Don't ignore all the Neiman Marxists out for activism tourism.
> On their first deployment, with the aid of aerial refueling, pilots flew non-stop from Holloman to Kuwait, a flight of approximately 18.5 hours—a record for single-seat fighters that stands today

OK now I'm interested in what drugs they gave the pilot for this endurance feat!
I think the community is always going to be a little skeptical of website building tools "powered by AI" after thegrid.io[0]

Hopefully Zyro proves the wary wrong :)

[0] - https://reclaimthenet.org/thegrid-io-not-responding/