skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're talking about something that is worth paying US$ 1M in ransom, then paying someone a few (tens of) thousands in cost centre chargebacks upfront, and probably an ongoing annual fee, is cheap insurance if you want to go with the 'enterprise software'.

And if you want 'consumer software' that offers cloud / offsite encrypted back, then Backblaze offers it in a very clicky-clicky fashion that most folks can handle with a bit of hand-holding:

* https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664688-Can-y...

As does Arq, with a documented file format:

* https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt

Every cloud-capable backup system (for consumers and enterprises) does encryption nowadays, so talking about 'data access' in the cloud is a straw man.
I've been really put off with the number of messages I've seen in the last couple of weeks of the form "Just used X for 2 hours and I'm switching now! Life is so much better!" and "My new email address is bob@X.com. Amazing!" (wait until they find out you can buy a custom domain). Are these for real?

Surely it requires you to have received and sent some number of emails over several days first? I don't see how you can evaluate a new workflow that quick unless the workflow is obviously transformational.

I don't have a lot of issues with gmail to be honest. I use archive and snooze to keep at inbox zero most days, get minimal spam, and only get a handful of emails each week I need to reply to. Maybe I don't get enough emails but I do what I can to avoid getting emails too.
That license looks like a minefield. Any lawyers able to chime in on the reality of becoming tainted? Given their recent history, this is one codebase you really wouldn't want to risk becoming tainted by.
The actual orders.[1] These are all in India.

Most of these are over copyright issues. It's like reading DMCA takedown notices.

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XtWN1FGTnalCIOiEdCLt...
On a contrary, been using LM19 cinnamon for a year and I found it rock solid.
I have been using this as my daily minimalist phone for over 4 months. I love it, with some caveats.

I bought it for a few reasons:

* Tired of lugging around a monsterous phone.

* Not allowing my Internet/web addiction to follow me everywhere.

* Wanted something small and waterproof for outdoor water sports emergencies.

I bought mine (an original Verizon edition) on ebay for 60 dollars. After that you will want to run it through some debloat scripts which improves battery and declutters the phone. Root it if you like, although I did not as I am satisfied with the mods you can make without root.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/release...

I have purposefully crippled the phone and removed Google Chrome, Youtube, as well as the Play Store.

Basically adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.____

I personally ripped out the Play Store so that I couldn't be tempted to download Chrome/YouTube again. I downloaded every app I thought I would want and now I sideload new apps with adb if I find other use cases.

I have considered the alternative use case of sideloading the store, downloading the new app, updating my existing apps, and then removing the store. However given the continuous obsolescence that occurs with phones, my plan is to only update things as they break rather than constantly pushing myself to the newest versions until eventually my phone becomes clunky and unusable.

The phone does everything I want (Uber, Maps, phone, text, whatever!) and I have 0 access to the web. I love it. You can't do this on an iPhone, I tried many times and the closest is with parental locking but it doesn't work how you'd like.

The downside is that the battery life kind of sucks, however I get a full day of use out of it. I plug it in every night, I plug it in my car when I'm driving and use Android Auto, and without the Web to distract me I only use it for calls, texts, note taking, and to briefly look up maps, kitesurfing forecasts, or to call an uber.

I can't wait for the exact same form factor with a 2x bigger battery. I'll never go back to a mega phone for daily use.

Happy to answer more questions.
Thanks for sharing the Light phone! Cool to see there are other people that just want basics.
> Many if not most people believe payday loans are predatory practices that prey on people without access to capital and/or financial literacy.

Sure.

And I think the same logic also clearly applies to microfinance.
Putting aside the important issues of diversity and inclusiveness, there's some really strong criticism of the business ethics and financial soundness of the VC model.

As I said, I’ve been really disillusioned with Silicon Valley investing for a long time. It reminds me of Wall Street going up to 2008. The idea was, ‘As long as someone wants to buy this [collateralized debt obligation], we’re good.’ Nobody is thinking about: Is this a good product?

So many things that VCs have created are really financial instruments like those CDOs. They aren’t really thinking about whether this is a company that could survive on revenue from its customers. Deals are designed entirely around an exit. As long as you can get some sucker to take them, [you’re good]. So many acquisitions fail, for example, but the VCs are happy because — guess what? — they got their exit.
What is their recent history?
The two titles frame the actual issue in completely different ways. People get paid to do just that.
Generally, things that are not open source are rarely not well written, since there are less programmers who will read your code, and all questions on the code can be done internally, so developers only write code so it works.

Open source generally leads to better quality code, since it's the best way to attract other developers to contribute to it.

So I'm rarely interested by any accomplished project that opens its code.

For example, if microsoft opened its OS, I doubt developers would really try to do things with it. The windows kernel would obviously be high quality code, but a lot of the rest is probably short lived garbage.
My physics teacher at school told us many times how lucky we were not to have to work in imperial. I'll take his word over yours.

There's a midpoint between science and day-to-day (engineering). Anyway, if you want the US to continue its decline, such a can't-be-bothered attitude will help.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

"However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-force seconds (lbf·s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N·s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed."

Some people don't learn.
The original comment was about comparing fuel efficiencies.

But to your point: mpg makes it easier to know how far you can travel on a given volume of fuel, L/100 makes it easier to compare fuel efficiencies, and to know how much fuel you would need for a given distance to travel.

To me the latter seems generally much more useful than the former. The former provides an easier answer to "how far can I go burning this tank", which feels like a much rarer use-case than "how often will I need to refuel to my destination" (and "can I reach my destination on a single tank") for the general population.
There is also Jupyterbook https://jupyterbook.org/intro.html which has a slightly different focus, but seems pretty great.
A related problem is the compounding nature of wealth. Let's say there are 100 investors with a million dollars each. 90% of the investors pursue socially beneficial projects and make a respectable 10% average annual return. The remaining 10% of investors pursue profit maximizing ventures and make 20% per year. Within about 25 years the profit maximizing investors have more wealth. Within about 50 years the profit maximizing group has 90% of the wealth. Chastising the profit maximizing group doesn't really change anything. Not because they don't deserve to be chastised, but because even if the vast majority of them defect to the social good group it only delays the outcome where the profit maximizers own everything. I think the solution is to incentivize socially valuable businesses and de-incentivize less socially valuable businesses. One example of this would be a carbon tax. Another example would be for Medicare to only pay hospitals that charged the same price to both insurance companies and individuals. There are major concerns about companies gaming these incentives, but companies are taking advantage of the lack of disincentives right now anyways, so I don't think the outcome would be any worse.
And most of the internet protocols use CRLF, not Unix LF.
you can still find some good investigative journalism at nytimes here and there, but most of the daily news pieces are full of opinion and partisanship. the editorializing over corona/covid, blm, and the election provide the most obvious examples, but you can see it across world news, cultural pieces, and everything in-between.

the cotton piece was published exactly to generate outrage and partisanship, not to be informative, and it backfired--a lack of editorial integrity, not an issue with the offensive content itself.
That's a pretty bad example tbh. Gifting the cash equivalent to what the goat would be worth is a way better deal than gifting a goat, because then the recipient can buy some other asset instead.
I originally submitted it a while ago and it failed to attract attention. I received a note from HN inviting me to resubmit so I did. I love it. I learned to program the VIC-20 before I could properly speak English. The experience is so embedded in my psyche that I couldn't NOT re/post this.
I agree with the author that under-regulated microfinance is prone to failure.

But the conclusion that I draw from that is not "microfinance is prone to failure" but that all under-regulated finance is prone to failure.
I disagree with this line of reasoning. I have seen good/bad examples on either side. I think it actually comes down to someone on the developer team having a high set of standards that they push everyone to subscribe to.
My thought was "wow, well that's certainly a dark comedic way to illustrate the author's point"

No clue it was on animals
MiniBoss – Pixel Art Tutorials for Video Games
Thank you for the kind words! Hope you enjoy using it :)
Study: Urban density doesn’t increase Covid-19 rates, promotes lower death rates
TikTok apologizes after being accused of censoring BlackLivesMatter posts
Except you can't call an uber or listen to spotify with this.
The money pooling scheme that you’re describing sounds very similar to a chit fund in India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund
Does anybody know where I might find a copy of these resources that are readable without zooming to 300%? It's like trying to read a pdf on a phone.
Facebook’s community standards censorship has far-reaching consequences
>> There are a number of reasons why I haven't pursued a faculty position. Among them is that I love working closely with graduate students, but am not fired up about teaching large classes of undergraduates.

Isnt that what I said? People like you (nothing wrong with that, we need you too) are in the wrong place if the go into teaching.
Remember the CEO of Mozilla who was forced out for opposing gay marriage?[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mozilla-ceo-resignation-i...
Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years
I just don’t see how it is controversial to say that VC does harm. Of course it does harm.
"- Like most (all?) Android phones, you cannot uninstall a bunch of the useless shovelware it comes with, like Google Play Movies."

I thought this as well, but you are wrong.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 $PACKAGE_NAME
Damn, if this were out now, I'd buy today.
And when I don't ask questions, but assume the other parties already knows what I know, I get problems. So... I have to find a way to ascertain that other parties know what I know (more or less) - without sounding like I'm asking a question to show what I know.
We were warned what to expect in the pandemic, shows health-care league table
I still have an old Sun SPARCstation IPC somewhere at home. I haven't turned it on for over 15 years so I have no idea if it's still works. Good times.
My biggest problem with owning an Android phone is losing security updates after a few months/years. Has happened to me before, even on a Google branded phone (made by HTC).

Are you still getting security updates on this device? Do you think you're likely to lose them in the near future?

Edit: I'm asking because I'm really tempted to buy. Sold on everything else.
Don't be, you run it through a debloat script and it kills 99% of all that junk. I posted in a top level comment.
Financial instruments are always created to benefit one side more than the other. That in itself is fine.

The problem becomes when the side that disproportionately benefits also has an imbalance of power to pull the rug out from the other side. They are incentivized to be less than transparent.

It's almost always due to a misrepresentation of risk, which people seem to be keen on if they can pass that risk downstream, and the least informed end up holding the bag.
Will one of the moderators please change this title to its original "New US Bill would require makers of encrypted devices to leave a backdoor"? The current title ("Senators propose lawful access to encrypted data") is much less clear.
There must be some information content left in stock price time series data, as evidenced e.g. by the price Momentum factor [1], which was been replicated in a number of studies (e.g. [2]), observable over the last couple of decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_investing

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2961979
Many of the filed issues are "X not work" and not very interesting, but this one...this one is a real gem. https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/issues/763
Looking at some prominent examples in the last 1-2 years (Uber, WeWork, Lyft) and the recent batch of S-1 filings, I indeed see a lot of companies still operating at a loss. The analogy to CDOs and finding a bigger sucker starts ringing true. So far, the bigger suckers were Softbank and public markets. It would be interesting to see what happens going forward.
In my opinion, both introverts and extroverts go to movies. The difference is if they are comfortable going alone to a movie (introvert).
That's certainly true in American cities, where they are made to desperate people devoid of options for a whole host of reasons (systemic racism, regulatory capture, supply-side economic, etc.) Those conditions don't necessarily apply to impoverished countries where microfinance organizations target. They've got other problems, so microfinance may or may not work, but they're really not comparable to payday loans in the US.

Payday loans are also much shorter term. They're not intended as investments, even when they're not actively fraudulent. They're supposed to stave off literal starvation for people with unreliable income. Presenting them any other way is fraudulent, and people are often trapped in them by people who knew that they could not be paid back in time (and the compounding interest would claim everything they own).

The US was working on regulation to limit fraud in payday lending while still trying to keep the aspect of trying to even out inconsistent income. That was in 2016, and I think the new administration killed that.
This is human nature. We need social movements like metoo and BLM because they are vehicles of change for the better. But eventually the outragers and virtue signalers will get into the game, and innocents will be taken down since they make easy targets for people looking to do some damage or boost their prestige. Your best bet when the tornado comes is to keep a low profile and guard your privacy like it was latinum.
That's a completely nonsensical test. I grew up in a small mountain town. Are you telling me that all those people who would flood in during winter weekends and holidays to drink, party and go to the packed ski resorts were introverts?
Ask HN: How much of web does Search Engines indexed?
Considering only the accessible web pages, how much % of pages does Search Engines could have indexed so far? I don't think it will be 100% but it will quite interesting to figure out the number?
Thanks! I wish they’d say ‘will not’ rather than ‘may not’.
Good to know they’ve thought about it though!
In particular, the “multi-threaded using volatile” example is technically incorrect because the compiler is allowed to move non-volatile accesses across volatile ones. [1] To make it correct (but still only on x86), you’d have to use std::sync::atomic::compiler_barrier.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Volatiles.html
The point is that the money can be used only once, so your money gets 88% of its value. A lender uses the money more than once, so they can provide more value from a donation.
I think that one doesn't fit with these examples because it wasn't a misinterpretation. There are the two separate questions of:

* Was person X bigoted?

* Was the 'punishment' befitting what they did?

Well, donating against gay marriage is some big-government bigoted shit, not gonna lie. You can still ask the second question, though.
I unfollowed everyone on Facebook which means that my news feed is entirely free of content (conveniently, this includes ads). I now spend exactly zero hours per week scrolling mindlessly through Facebook, but I can still use social login, events, and check in on people if I want to (though TBH nobody in my age group still uses FB).

Edit: script to help unfollow: https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28

Similarly: no FB or Twitter app on my phone, and a time limit of 15 mins set on Twitter and other "mindless" apps.

Related: turning off email notifications was the best thing I ever did for my sanity.
Elected judges? Juries that have the same biases as the general population? (See how many cops are/were acquitted of assault.)

I'm not saying FB and it's completely opaque outsourced subcontracted byzantine soulless lowest-bidder sweatshop moderation system is better (or somehow will be better), but it's not like the US criminal/justice system is flawless.
I highly recommend the documentary “To Inform and Delight” which tells the story of Glaser’s life and work. A really marvelous individual.
I don't think I'm getting security updates but frankly I haven't checked. I'm not able to open web pages with my version so I think my risk is pretty minimal aside from some exploitable silent SMS or Gmail bug.

The phone works for me, and I did a HUGE amount of research into my options before buying. The Jelly 2 which I was previously unaware of looks to be pretty slick, but for 60 bucks off ebay I don't think you can go wrong. YMMV
> I didn't (and still don't) want to go into it.

And yet you just did.
See how the functions are all unsafe? The primitives given by the Rust standard library actually do handle this; the author is simply going off the beaten path to illustrate one of the aspects those primitives need to paper over for you.
This is on the front page again. Please take some time to read this wonderful function: https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/blob/release/Code/CryEng...

EDIT: That whole function is a minefield. Just taking a quick look:

* 814 lines of code

* goto inside 3 nested for-loops

* macros

* commented out code

* new/delete, with no RAII

* thread specific variables and locks (?)
What a garbage press release for 6 month old news. MIT's reputation continues to decline.
Yes and Microsoft/Intel defined these standards over 25 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play
You should probably just try out a foss oauth server to get a feel for it.

Just start a keycloak server with docker and write a small Webservice in your language of choice which only let authenticated users open the website, which just prints the user name for example.

After you did that, you could write a second service which accesses that api using a client (not user) and prints which users have accessed it since it was started.

That should be doable within a few hours at most and give you a feel for the technology.

If you're fluent in python, I'd personally suggest just starting a hello world flask project, connect it to a keycloak and write a second cli script which simulates the non-user access.
(If you use Java, keep in mind that springboot2 uses Springsecurity5, which was incompatible with the official keycloak Java sdk the last time I checked. Either use springboot1 or expect to have a slightly harder time figuring out what to write in the application.properties)

Reimplementing advanced authentication systems like jwt on your own is extremely error prone and frankly unnecessary if you're not in the business of authenticating users. I'd suggest to either use whatever your framework prefers (which is usually just a static and very long, manually rotated token) or try to externalize it by using readily available foss solutions
The marketing says they are good, but the point of the article is that the marketing is often untrustworthy. What are Kiva's local partners hiding from them and does Kiva watch over them closely enough to find out when something is going wrong? It seems like we aren't in a position to know?
Yes, it's being spread by climate alarmists, big government and other misguided or malicious people.
I meant Library of Congress, an anachronistic visual metaphor related to data storage from the 1990s, perhaps earlier? In 2012, 1 LoC was roughly equivalent to ~3 PB (petabytes).

I remember first seeing it on Slashdot way back in the day, before they had user moderation or user meta-moderation.

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/04/a-library-of-congres...

If you save the source document, the code needed to parse your recipe archive is likely to be pretty short. Then you have a corpus to do A/B testing of your recipe parsing code against.

Side note: I feel that moderation and later meta-moderation system on Slashdot was the most transparent, fun, positive moderation system I’ve ever been part of. I wish HN had more than just up and downvotes, for instance. User meta-moderation would help reduce flamewars immensely IMO.

https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml

https://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml
"micro fiancé"

Sorry, hate to be reddit-esque here, but this auto correct was too funny.
The only solution seems to be equally organized mobs outraged at cancel culture. I think we will get there.
We've banned this account for propagating race war and other flamewar on HN. You can't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem with micro finance is that it’s not scalable.

It takes effort and energy to setup in a certain location, and then will take the same effort and energy to setup in another location (minus some minuscule efficiencies), because what’s key in micro finance is understanding the needs of each individual community and catering to that.

If micro finance was scaleable, that would imply the same strategies would be broadly profitable across a range of communities. But at that point there is no need for micro finance. Regular banking entities could, and would, have stepped in and made money.
That was him -- there was an interview at the time about, in part, being part of the period for which the show was a period piece...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/arts/design/mad-men-enlis...