skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably there was something else going on. The current U.S. President has used bankruptcy for some of his companies, and this came up during the Republican primary season in 2016 when he and Carly Fiorina, one of the other Republican candidates, were both called failed businesspeople because they had both used bankruptcy.

So I wouldn't say that the U.S. culture is particularly one of bankruptcy being an extreme embarrassment; we elected a President who has used bankruptcy. Now granted, occasionally HE says something that is an extreme embarrassment, but that's a whole different issue.

I do wonder how suicide rates have been trending during the pandemic lockdown with social isolation and such. No idea if it was a factor here, but I wonder.
Microsoft is not controlled by a force that leaves sales personal with no responsibility to take action.

Of course someone is trying to sell this, they are hired to sell it
Why on Earth would you trust Zoom, a company which has repeatedly done extremely sketchy things, to implement their closed-source proprietary platform in this specific way?

It would be easier to just lie about the encryption being end-to-end.

Personally, I will never use Zoom for anything, a decision I came to when my OS vendor (Apple) pushed a security update for my OS to get rid of Zoom.
Why not both? If I'm on linux, with no interest in changing and perfectly happy with my display, and 4k doesn't work easily on my system, why would I be interested in a 4k screen?
Them, Google or advertisers?

Advertisers are afraid of being mentioned in some viral tweet like: "Coca-cola is advertising on the website next to a comment suggesting to kill all black people. They are racist! Let's boycott Coca-cola!"

And Google has a reputation to maintain: they protect advertisers from situations like described above.

Maybe it is not a real problem for advertisers, to be advertised on the wrong website, I don't know. But I understand they don't want to have that risk for virtually no profit.
Opps... a superfluous parenthesis sneaked into Erlang code there!!

csv_data_to_maps([Head | Lines]) ->
lists:map(fun(L) -> maps:from_list(lists:zip(Head, L)) end, Lines).
Yes — I notice this a lot while doing anything where I have an app and debugger / log windows open simultaneously. The extra width is an enormous win.
Great point. There are 'No Soliciting' signs and laws.

https://banneradviser.com/no-soliciting-signs

> In a nutshell, no, door to door solicitation isn’t illegal. But if you have a no soliciting sign posted on your property, and the salesperson is refusing to vacate the property, they can be assessed trespassing fines and possible legal charges.
There are more than one example of successful companies working remote-first style for quite a while. Gitlab, shopify, I probably can find more.
One thing that has changed is that their userbase broadened.

They were mostly focused on workplace meetings. If that's your focus, then most of your users are employees of some company whose contact information you have. Users with unverified identities are a corner case that you may not feel is worth trying to get right.

Thanks to the pandemic, they have millions of new users who use Zoom for personal purposes (meeting with friends and family, etc.). What once was a corner case isn't anymore. It might even be their most common type of user.

I'm not arguing that Zoom can necessarily be trusted, but I can see a plausible reason how they could have gotten to where they are on this issue.
It is not like no one ever came up with video chatting before and they are the only ones around so the moat is moot.
The only reasons they exist in any meaningful way starts the "just works" thing and ends with the "vhs v.s betamax" thing.

For the business model, it is the same as other OS,
there are companies that want a tech insurance policy.
Is that saying ~92k hashes per second? What's the MS Office 2010 hash type?
Honestly, Meet has had huge updates in the past month or so that make it much better than Zoom. The image quality no longer looks like crap with more than 2 people in the room.
I remember the gate-keeping options questionnaire (SEC mandated?) from RH, comparing to E-Trade:

* RH feels like accepting a TOS or a EULA;
* E-Trade makes it that you are reporting net-worth and are willing to risk it.

Can RH be held liable for misrepresenting the regulations? This might have been settled without any loss of life.
I've got a Planar IX2790 and it's great. Article is spot-on re. scaling -- it's much nicer to look at all day (native 2x scaling) vs. 4k at 1.5x scaling.
It is good for chess economy as a whole. By that I mean people who make income by playing tournaments, authoring chess books, making lessons etc. More eyeballs means more money.
Isn't that illegal? Or at least, makes them subject to a bunch of gambling regulations they wouldn't otherwise be subject to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
Same here. After I read K&R C's memory model seemed pretty simple and straightforward. Whenever I have trouble figuring out something I usually draw a little diagram with the memory space, where things are allocated and how handles and pointers relate to the memory space.
The problem is Zelle should work for commercial accounts as well. For some reason a business is forced to be charged 2.7% when they accept a payment but a normal zelle or other online transaction can be done for free. I think the future of e-payments is going to be free just like what happened with stocks. At some point a bank will figure out how to make enough money just by holding the cash and requiring minimum balances, like most banks already do and not have any fees for receiving payments. Credit cards are a different story as a lot of the fee charged just goes to the "cash back" or other promotional program and they also offer payment protection.
Most yogurts here contain various additives for firmness, which usually means some kind of processed sugar, which I prefer to avoid. There is also the quality and the price aspect.

Also, it's fun.
If they really wanted to fit 100TB in a box that size, they could probably do it with flash. It would just be ludicrously expensive.
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>Terms of Service usually have a clause with language that states that the provider of the service may change the terms of the contract at any time without prior notice. If the user doesn't like the new terms, they can quit using the service

This is the issue I speak of. Part of contract law makes this illegal.

https://gowlingwlg.com/en/insights-resources/articles/2018/h...

>The parties must usually mutually agree to alter or modify the contract. In some circumstances the underlying contract might give one party a unilateral right to make certain limited changes, but agreement is normally necessary.

>The parties must intend the alteration/modification permanently to affect their rights. If there is no such intention, then the change is likely to amount only to a temporary forbearance or concession, rather than a permanent variation of the contract.

>The parties must comply with any requirements as to the form of the variation. These could be specified by legislation, or set out in the original contract which is being varied.

>The agreement to vary a contract will need to be supported by consideration - something of value must be given in exchange for the alteration. If there is no such consideration, then the variation will need to be effected by deed.
Recently saw my main checking account show a negative balance, with lots of red all over the calendar for the coming week, after logging in some time before 7am. It created a major sense of "OH SHIT", and took up a half hour of working and re-working out the ledger to come to my own conclusion that the web app was having some kind of problem. Logged in two hours later to confirm my math that everything was alright. So fucked up.
That Dell would be the screen I would buy right now for coding. I am currently using a 5k iMac at home and a 30" Dell (2560x1600) at work. I really loved the resolution of the iMac, but for my work, I need screen estate. The font rendering on the 30" at 1x scaling is good enough, and having a lot of screen estate is essential for me. Having 50% more horizontal space would of course be great :).

The new 32" Apple display would be great of course, but the price is just off. For coding, I don't care how much reference quality the color setup is. My only hope is, that Dell soon offers an affordable display based on that panel.
I have never seen a Republican or conservative political ad on Facebook. This hypothetical bubble already exists.
TidyTweets – Tidy up your Twitter profile
As I was looking for ways to stay busy during a recent furlough period I decided to tidy up my Twitter profile only to find out that there isn't an easy built-in way to do so using the default Twitter UI. So...

TidyTweets analyses your Following list on Twitter telling you which accounts haven't been active in a specific time frame (one week, two weeks, one month, three months, six months and a year). You can then unfollow individual accounts, selected accounts or all at once.

Definitely still rough around the edges (particularly the UI) but it does what it says on the label.

Upcoming features area a more polished UI as well as a way to manage Lists (create/delete/assign accts).

TidyTweets is FOSS, if you'd like to contribute with code, bug reports or feature suggestions (or just take a look around) stop by Github: https://github.com/rlueder/tidytweets

Thanks!

Happy (tidy) tweeting! :)
Sure, to a point. But the step-up in question here (1080p to 4K, at sizes like 15–27″) has clearly visible benefits.

And sure, resolution isn’t free, but at these levels that was an argument for the hardware of eight years ago, not the hardware of today. All modern hardware can cope with at least one 4K display with perfect equanimity. Excluding games (which you can continue to run at the lower resolutions if necessary), almost no software will be measurably affected in latency or frame rate by being bumped from 1080p to 4K. Graphics memory requirements will be increased to as much as 4×, but that’s typically not a problem.
You do have to answer some questions and wait for approval before Robinhood will let you trade options. It's not available by default.
Seems like something I have been looking for. I am currently using a combination of Daylio and a random counting app I found on iOS to track myself on some habits, but this looks like a better solution.

Any plans for native mobile apps, or web only?
> There will be an optional founder equity exchange with other companies in the program, which will somewhat reduce the risk for founders and hopefully encourage a lot of collaboration.

This is super cool. I wonder where this idea came from.
Didn't they also announce they wouldn't implement E2EE so they could cooperate with the police better?
The 21st century's pneumatic tube!
Zoom will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the other options.
This is a great article. Even if you disagree with the conclusion and recommendation, it shows what you need to look out for when buying a monitor.

I had to go through a similar exercise recently. The DisplayPort / USB-C / Thunderbolt story is just insane. I was looking for a monitor to use with both MacOS and Windows. HDMI can't do 4k @ 60Hz, DisplayPort cables never tell you which version they support.

I ended up with LG UHD 4K 27UL650, which I'm very happy with, but switching between Mac and Windows is still difficult, because this monitor only has 1 DisplayPort input. I've settled to using HDMI for Mac and 30Hz instead of switching cables all the time.

Improvement in experience is very subjective but I agree with the author on everything except maybe the 120Hz.
That's my dead project and someone's copyright violated me by stealing my content and rehosting it with bad edits!

Thanks for pointing that out, that is definitely not the site we put up for that project (~2011-2015)
I didn’t actually know you could turn it off before today! I’ve never had a Mac, I’m used to FreeType and Windows font rendering.

I have a vague feeling that Macs also have somewhat different gamma treatment from other platforms, which would be likely to contribute to thickness perception.
This isn't even especially fast. I remember Hikaru getting past 50 before.
The AWS Snow Family and It's Newest Member, AWS Snowcone
Ask HN: Idea Validation Thread
Was working on a landing page with a few friends. Wanted to get feedback on the idea and the landing page. Thought we could have a thread where people post their landing pages and get feedback from others on HN.

Our landing page,
https://getfetch.io/
If the young startup is a threat, then it has real value no?
Indeed, E2EE will enable criminals to go undetected. And this is a real problem. However, it’s an arms race that will end with criminals having proper, strong E2EE anyways. Trying to reverse this is like trying to reverse entropy, the toothpaste does not go back into the tube. It may seem like it is still doable now, but I’d be willing to place bets that feeling will evaporate shortly.

Of course, criminals are ordinary people too. They care about convenience and network effects as much as anyone. Which is why I think it’s insane that governments want to jeopardize the trust people have in proprietary, huge E2EE platforms that actually have the means to aid them in investigations. Yes, breaking the crypto may not be an option, but at least collecting useful metadata for use in investigating, and potentially ethical hacking, is an option.

I fear the day when the trust is gone because there is a very real possibility that some day many will be using decentralized E2EE chats, maybe even P2P. It’s not just conjecture of course, Matrix exists today and is already very impressive (in my opinion) in terms of usability.

The internet is opening up the concept of having nearly private communication with pretty much any individual in the world. It isn’t free of implications, but also, as more of our lives move online I feel its absolutely crucial that every day people can feel confident they’re not being monitored. The problem of CSA and other criminal behavior existed before the internet and it will certainly exist after. It’s absolutely past time to re-evaluate laws surrounding child protection, which seem to me to mostly be reactionary at this point (in that many of them are spawned as a result of a specific incident.)
I'm all for supporting moonshot ventures!

I did find it amusing though that "affordable housing" is listed as an example of a moonshot venture, considering the core reason behind high housing costs (in the US at least) is overly restrictive zoning.

Though I guess one could say it would take a venture of that scale to defeat the entrenched and gatekeeping NIMBYs and enable much more housing to be built.
BlueJeans and RingCentral might as well be clones of Zoom. Amazon Chime and Microsoft Teams are fine for me too, but I'm not picky.
Wow just followed the steps for my retina Macbook and I love it, my thanks to the author.
> The goal shouldn't be "does a human fully understand the whole thing" but "is it proven to be true?"

> [...]

> But no one needs to "understand everything".

Coming from a pure math background, I have to respectfully disagree.

There is a serious debate in the philosophy of mathematics about what, precisely, is a proof. My own, and many others' view is roughly this:

> Proofs are stories that convince suitably qualified others that a certain statement is true.

> If I present you with a proof, and you have the appropriate background knowledge and ability, you can – usually with some time and effort – as a result of reading my story, become convinced that what I claim is true.

> But if you take that as your working definition of proof, you have to acknowledge it is fundamentally about communication, not truth. In particular, whether an argument classifies as a proof depends as much on the intended reader as on its creator. [0]

Many mathematicians do not consider a theorem to be "proved" until they understand why it is true. The four color theorem is a prime example of this. By now, literally every graph theorist considers the statement to be logically correct, but there are quite a few who would say that the computer verifications that are out there don't quite constitute "proof" for them.

The problem is that these computer-based verifications are simply not conceptually accessible to the majority of working graph theorists who might want to know how the proof works. I haven't personally looked at any of them, but, I, as both a working SWE and someone with several graduate courses in graph theory, including topological graph theory, cannot honestly can't say that they would be accessible to me. The "story," to reference the Keith Devlin quote above, is written in a language that mathematicians simply do not understand.

There are other issues, but this is the most fundamental. For instance, mathematicians highly value proofs that themselves offer insight into why the theorem should be true. They value proofs that offer new techniques to solve other problems (i.e. abstraction). While one can get this from a computer proof, it is far, far more difficult to extract these things from code than it is from traditional proofs one would see in a journal.

The bottom line is that no, that is not "where we need to go," because that is simply not how mathematics functions.

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[0]: https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/what-is-a-mathematical...
I believe that sort of attack can't be achieved repeatedly. These attacks leave traces and clues behind them, and investigators are able to better pinpoint and protect for the next one. I heard they also can't be sustained for a long time.

I believe they are more like an attempt to discover limits in the network or some targeted systems. Some systems are also vulnerable while they reboot, so attackers only need a one-time reboot.
This is amazing! I used to flash custom roms on phones back in college 5+ years ago, which was awesome. Would even charge friends for it. I think there's something here & makes me want to buy the Fairphone 3 even more now.
It looks great to you but a lot of people think it looks blocky or blurry or both, and are willing to pay more to have what they prefer.
I tend to agree more with McMansion hell because McMansions lend themselves to stylistic choices that serve no purpose, or actually serve an anti-purpose and make life harder.

My favorite example being random columns. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWGPsS0dh5k)

Windows of random styles is another irritation of mine, doing so serves no purpose, and it makes the house look worse.

Ditto with random mixings of different types of siding material. Done right, changes in texture can look good, but many McMansions don't do it right, they just put a stone facade somewhere because the house needs stone on the outside somewhere as a checklist item.

And checklist describes McMansions perfectly. They are designed to have features, not to be livable spaces. I've seen 1600sqft houses with 4 bedrooms that are spacious and bright, and I've seen 2200+ sqft McMansions that are tight and narrow, with lots of wastes space on hallways.

Then again I have a near moral opposition to houses that have both formal and informal dining rooms. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen formal dining rooms actually used for something.

I feel much the same way about family rooms and living rooms. The coastal cities have a bloody shortage of affordable housing and developers are burning square footage on 2 dining rooms and 2 living rooms per house.

Honestly I think most people look for large square footage houses because they have never seen a house under 2000sqft that is properly laid out.

Now if she wants to write an article about irritated she is with houses advertised as minimalist that have a formal dining room, a breakfast nook, an informal dining area, a family room, and a living room, and a 3 car garage, well then, I'll be out in the comments showing my full support. :)
Thanks! I would really have liked to see this sort of explaining text immediately on clicking to the page (as I often do ok HN before looking at comments)
One article said they key was left in clear on a laptop, so maybe a HSM migration was involved.
End the War on Drugs. Invest in harm reduction and rehabilitation centers. Decriminalize individual possession of small quantities of (most) drugs. Unrestrict researchers from performing research on psychedelic compounds.
My immediate thought was that they'll introduce encryption that happens on the client, and decryption that happens on the other client, but will have a way to know what the key is on the server, too. Honestly any near-ubiquitous communication medium is going to have enormous pressure to be insecure by design, if not from the Chinese government then from the US.
As far as I can tell, they never had support for finding usages across packages, never had support for finding implementations of an interface, never had support for finding what interfaces a certain type matches/implements. These are basic features in any IDE for a language that has packages and interfaces.

Really good IDE support would include refactoring (more than renaming a local variable/struct field, e.g. Extract Function, extract parameter), advanced navigation/analysis (analyze data flow to/from variable, find call stack etc).

Go is somewhat decent in the tooling area, and you can get your job done with it, but it really doesn't have anything I would call good support in any area of tooling except the compiler (not code analysis, not debugging, not monitoring, not profiling, not package management).
> I know this argument is often quickly dismissed on HN since people see child abuse or 'going dark' as an easy excuse for the government to leverage to get more control (and it has been used for this), but that doesn't mean the problem isn't serious or doesn't exist.

When a company says they want your phone number in order to use their resources, so they can take steps to avoid having their resources used for (certain) crimes, that's well within the bounds of reasonable.

The problem most people have is when the government tkes away the use of _super important feature_ from the populace as a whole (even using their own resources), because it _can_ be used for crimes.

Those are two VERY different things.
> I noticed that having multiple monitors resulted in me having a dedicated screen for email (usually the smallest, my laptop screen)

I'm currently using two external monitors, with my laptop docked and closed. I find the "dedicated screen for <distraction>" was a problem for me when I had my laptop screen open, because it's a different size/resolution/position than my actual monitors. On the other hand, I never have that problem with my dedicated monitors - in my mind they're a part of the same "workspace" because they're the same size, resolution, and positioned together - so I could see myself going to 3 desktop monitors one day.
Loads for me without issue
> some web pages zoom text by viewport size, which I hate, and a bigger monitor would then just make it worse.

Not that it excuses bad UX, but you might consider keeping your browser window at something below full width. I find this more comfortable anyway.

Total aside: I've noticed Windows and Linux users tend to keep their windows fully maximized, whereas Mac users don't. Doesn't apply to everyone of course, but enough to be noticed. This was true even before Apple changed the behavior of the green Zoom button, and I've always wondered why.
Sounds like a use-case for efficient homomorphic encryption.
It looks a lot like a manifestation of incommensurability as observed by Kuhn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift#Incommensurabil...

This is exactly what we see. People adhering to different computing paradigms use some of the same words (e.g. "type"), but they have different meanings and basically they talk past each other as a result.