skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! I like it when you can plug such programs in a pipeline.

Recently found out that you can use png:- as source or destination in any imagemagick command, to pipe images around! I find it really useful in combination with xclip, with -t to set the mime type. You can paste the result almost anywhere!
> Do they still want to make a skeleton key for the internet

No, this bill never did that and the updates make it explicit that it will not do this. Read the bill.
Nothing IMO, just mentioned that some people have challenged the idea that his vocal range is 6.5 octaves because of it. I didn't say I agree with them.
I agree with this guy.

You feel the bar is being set very low. The hard part of your job is working within the established environment (the technical debt?). You're choosing to put the effort in 1 day a week because you're comparing your contributions to your coworkers.

If you're unhappy in this dev environment that's one thing, and if you're unhappy with your contributions that's another.

I would try setting expectations for yourself if it's easy to impress the company. You could be a huge asset even assisting your team. It's concerning that you aren't aware of why their progress is slower and that no one has spotted your complacency. Perhaps you have something to offer as a mentor and maybe that will give your work more meaning/value (something to consider).

As the guy above me said, a lot of people are facing crisis right now. I honestly don't blame you for having an easier time of it if most of the week you're just collecting money.

PS: I learn best by teaching others. I think you should get more involved with your team to help them :-)

PPS: I have grown SO MUCH as a developer by forcing myself to "do as the Roman's do". Watch your mental health. If you feel like you're losing your identity you should walk, but otherwise try immersing yourself in understanding your companys' stack and design decisions. Make your contributions indistinguishable from all that code that together makes something amazing. It's bad to measure progress by SLOC. You can always switch to Sprite if you don't like the Koolaid.

PPPS: You may be able to be honest with your supervisor and ask for time at work to work on passion projects. They care about your meaningful contributions and would likely do whatever you need to keep those rolling in. A FAANG company would accomodate this.
A New Era for Deep Space Exploration and Development [pdf]
Why the Best Software Engineers Aren’t Applying to Your Job Postings
Yeah good post here. Even within each of these organizations, there's always people starting to work on the "cool" project. You could get yourself to work on it, but if you're not spearheading it you'll prob end up as one of the guys who does 80% of the work to make the last 20% of the design work.

Essentially my job right now. Learning a lot, but man is it frustrating.
Ah, the realization of this Al Pacino classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAjeuKXX7c
Twitter still has right wing folks on there.
I really enjoyed reading about your design process! I'm also a big fan of sign-painting aesthetics.

Can you elaborate more on the technical side? Once you have your designs and sketches, how do you go about digitizing those and creating the actual font?
It's not wrong to be skeptical. I do think there's a sort of boiling frog effect, though. Internal company culture never matches public perception, and you're always able to tell yourself a story that the public misunderstands what drives the company. After all, you hang out with your colleagues and you know they aren't bad people. But then some big controversy snaps you out of it and you realize that the company's internal collective fiction is no more accurate than the public perception, and perhaps you are the baddies after all.
Evergreen demo days meet climate tech
While I'm pretty sure China is up to some seriously shady stuff with regards to academic/corporate espionage and such. (What country isn't? Although China seem especially good at it.) This seems kind of normal to destroy documents before vacating an office to prevent breaches of privacy. Our office had a big bin with a lock on it for securely shredding documents.
I've been struggling with this recently. I'm traveling through New York state in a bit, and my in-laws warned me not to go to New York City because it's being looted and burned to the ground. I wasn't planning to visit anyway, but I was really puzzled by what they said because last I heard the protests and looting fizzled out over a month ago, but apparently on Fox News they keep playing the same clips from months ago (or sometimes even from other countries) while claiming that this is happening right now all over America. Pretty scary times we live in when such a large proportion of the population is completely disconnected from reality in such a basic way. I'm used to having political disagreements, but this is something else.
This post screams poor little millionaire. You should really take a look out how the vast majority of the world is getting by right now before sharing such an out of touch viewpoint. If you've gotten a job at a FANG you've shown you have immense personal resources and capacity to affect the change you desire. Who do you blame for your current situation?

Not much sympathy from these quarters for the exploited top 5%.
Regulating Technology
Wild hypothesis derived from personal experience: I love cities, but I love my friends more. American cities have experienced regulatory capture from local homeowners. But local homeowners eventually die and their kids usually can't buy in before they die. So their kids move out and when they die, the home becomes remote-owned. This leads to a gradual sparsification of the long-term residents of the place and a conversion to renter neighbourhoods.

I guess a way to test this hypothesis would be to see if the measure of social bonding is the same in cities without restrictive housing policy.

Interesting note in the article, too: In the city, we usually hang out at common city areas (pubs, bars, restaurants). In the suburbs, you usually hang out at someone's home.
Zebrain – a 4kb demoscene production in Matlab
If you think about it, it is truly crazy. You're using HTTP over TCP/IP to send JSON to do RPC. Some form of RPC has effectively been around forever. But despite the layered complexity there is something to doing RPC this way that just works. Maybe it's that you can leverage several decades of work on load balancing and firewalling HTTP connections. Maybe it's that binary RPC protocols are too brittle and change is too difficult. I don't know.
Agreed, Sidekiq is great and I don't imagine anyone switching away from it for existing projects.

But I can see GoodJob being better for spinning up new projects, as there are fewer moving parts to worry about, and it's easy to upgrade to Sidekiq, etc. when you need to (thanks to ActiveJob's standard abstraction).
I'd be willing to ascribe them nonzero influence of the sort that you have described, but compared to the pandemic influences, it seems almost trivial. Like the authors of this article, I think the crux of the matter is that city-dwellers now have to deal with a lot more stringent antivirus measures affecting them much more often on a much more regular basis, relative to suburbanites.

As a city dweller who has done a reasonably good job of adapting (replacing my use of NYC's public transit with a bicycle, for instance) I sympathize. I am paying lots of money in rent, and I am no longer realizing the benefits of living close to the office, or the benefits of living near interesting and unique shops and restaurants. Even the benefits of living near nice parks is a little bit muted. Instead, I find the space I have committed to as part of my lease is not quite big enough, now that I'm expected to make an office in it every day as well, and I find that I could really use some more outdoor space that I could enjoy by myself.
Increasing in Share of Developers, Apple and Amazon Could Topple Intel's x86
This post reads like someone who has achieved (or perhaps inherited) financial freedom and now does whatever they want and doesn't understand why others don't do the same thing. Your first third of your comment argues against trying to obtain financial freedom, but then tries to nudge the reader to do things that likely require financial freedom to achieve.

> Or not. Maybe they fire you. But if they do, it's not the end of the world.

For the majority of people, if they lose their job and don't get something new within two weeks, they don't pay their rent and lose their home.
Seriously... I lived in the bay for 10 years dealing with that. Now i've moved up tot Redding and everyone is sure the homeless here are everywhere and causing all sorts of crime even though it's the furthest thing from the trutth. The homeless here just want some where to camp they won't be assaulted by police and bothered by all the nosy rednecks.
>Do you have any evidence that those murders occur _within_ their communities by people raised like this?

No, do you have any evidence that they are NOT raised like this?
To add to this, when reporting bugs (security or otherwise) I regularly feel like it's not worth my time to fix them because it takes me 2 hours to try to get the code to compile in the first place, sometimes you need to sign legalese to be allowed to help them, then I still need to figure out what the project's structure is and decide on how to best fix it (perhaps discuss it with the maintainer(s)), and then I haven't even started writing code yet. Meanwhile, I know that when maintaining my own software, it takes me 30 seconds to open up the project and I'll be literally 5 times faster working on a fix with all the context that is in my head and usually don't need to consult with others.

It's like if you kept trying to fix other people's cars when you know only the principles of a combustion engine, own an electric motorcycle yourself, and those cars would be very different from each other: I'd much rather someone does it who actually knows what they're doing, it would save all parties a lot of trouble. Diagnosing problems very specifically should already help them a lot of the time they would otherwise have to put in.
thanks. i didn't realize it would be that bad.

at least it's a solveable problem, because it's in the customers sphere of influence, whereas getting all websites i am interested in onto IPv6 is not.
very true. my six year old is way more into her tablet and the games there in than normal controller video games. she does enjoy a bit of sonic 2 but that's because she can race me on the screen and it doesn't involve much more than "go forward and jump over stuff."

as for the activity, i think much older than 6. my daughter would get very frustrated wiring the controller and all of the computer stuff would be way over her head. but i remember being 12-13 and installing Linux in the mid 90s so somehwere between 6 and 12 i guess kids get the patience to sit down and tinker!
History repeats itself. This is straight out of Microsoft's playbook from back in the day.
They did, last time I RTFB. I do not consider your summaries to be made in good faith.

This might just make me angry enough to burn another perfectly good evening on it. We'll see.
Do people who work at facebook proudly tell people they just met at bar that they work at facebook? cause it wouldn't play well in my circles.
Also, I just can't miss an opportunity to plug https://artpacks.org
there is also rosebud.ai which creates images of clothing on (deepfake) models for businesses. It's supposed to save time and possibly money on photographers/models. Really excited for this to become viable for small businesses <3
The screenshot is there further down the article.
Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas
There's no disagreement in here.
Salary comparison base on $ seems non sense.
How about making comparison with local usefull goods: kg of rice, litter of potable water, number of m2 you can mensualy rent...
>managing your initial anger response

And whats with long term anger response?
I love the new tab... Most of my best finds are in New.

For whatever reason, the home page tends to focus on "News" from Washpost/ NYtimes/etc ... FAANG/ Big Co stuff (releases, interviewing, blah) and a bunch of other stuff that is generally not interesting to me.

To find really good personal blog posts, interesting new companies, or up and coming technology its almost always on "new", "show", or "ask"
It takes almost no time to scan down the page. If I see something that looks interesting then I'll click.

So many interesting items fall off the "Newest" page without ever being seen or voted on, it's worth a quick scan. I often see something there that's worth a second look ... my interests aren't totally aligned with the core HN community, so much of what I would like never hits the Front Page.

Or, you know, just FOMO.
Yeah I'm fairly well aware how pentests are billed (I've been in testing for ~15 years as a buyer, seller and tester :) )

My point was, that there was a gap between how the blog appeared to be billing the test "thorough security assessment and penetration test" and the report's statements around scope.

Obviously companies can't always afford all the testing that they need to get as much coverage as they could, but when your major selling product is a downloadable application, a comprehensive review would usually at least touch on it as part of the work performed, for it to be called thorough.
Can someone tell me why models are so in demand? Can’t people remix existing photos and so on? There are tons of stock photos now too. It’s not like they need a new model for every time they show a watch.
See also:

https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/23andme-paper-on-t...
It seems to me HN rewards views that are "interesting" but the most highly rated comments seem to be pretty mainstream nerd stuff. Do you see evidence to the contrary?
Trump reportedly clashes with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile over spam texts
Cynics are out of the woodwork, but as a co-founder I personally see the value in recreating that in-the-same-room feel you're chasing. After all, there is only so much slack.com, zoom.us, or tandem.chat can do.

I'm pretty sure as you continue to explore this space, the offering would veer into all kinds of interesting tangents involving AR and VR, or even Minority Report esque ubiquitous computing.

I can't wait to see the evolution for one. All the best!
Yup. Here's something that was written in the 1990s.

http://www.microbizz.nl/foodforwindows.htm
Please don't cross into personal attack. Especially on parenting, which is the most intensely personal topic of all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're building a competing product and using a monopoly in order to price gouge - nothing is throwaway.
You aren't kidding!

Road trips are long-distance, by definition, or else the term is meaningless. 48 miles? Less than an hour? I know people who drive more than that each way from home to work! I can make that trip in my Fiat 500e, with its super-limited range.

Wikipedia has a few choice quotes: "While there is no consensus as to what distance or time must be traveled/spent in order for the event to qualify as a road trip, it is a commonly held belief that commuting by means of automotive transportation should not qualify as a road trip, regardless of the distance. Some argue that travel may not require a set distance to qualify as a road trip."

"In the United States, a road trip typically implies leaving the state, or in extreme cases, leaving the country for places such as Canada or Mexico. However, in larger states, travel within the state may also be considered a road trip."

For me, a drive from Dallas to Waco (100 miles) is a day trip, aka a kolache run. It's also longer than I can round-trip in my Fiat. A drive from Dallas to Austin (200 miles) is starting to verge on something approaching a road trip. Dallas to Houston (250 miles), still approaching a road trip. Dallas to San Antonio (300 miles), I have called this a road trip, even though I'm second-guessing that now.

Oakland to Sonoma? Ha!
I haven't read this, but I know quite a few people who recommend this book by John Duckett
http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/

These are resources I used to learn grid and flexbox.
http://cssgridgarden.com/
http://flexboxfroggy.com/

The site I inevitably have open looking some how to do something with css
https://css-tricks.com/
Read the goddamn bill, it’s pretty short.
And that's why existing businesses joining the cloud pick azure.
I can confidently tell you that Amazon's employees cannot see customers data inside S3 buckets or EC2 instances. They are extremely serious about that stuff since they know that will erode their customer's confidence.

But there's probably other superficial business data that's helpful to evaluate that.
Not my google experience. They do say not worrying about patents, but that's because searching for patents could indeed make you liable as you were influenced by prior art.

Nobody at google even remotely mentioned "we will drown them in legal fees".

If anything, I have a huge respect for google legal.

Disclaimer: former googler.
While you can used the premium features without paying, I would strongly urge you to pay for a license anyway. It doesn't cost much and the Bitwarden folks are a small team doing a great product. I really like bitwarden_rs and wish the official server would adopt it or something similar. The official server is pretty darn heavy.
To deceive someone is to tell them an untruth for personal gain. There are cases where an untruth is told for the greater good, or for the good of the listener. In those cases, there is a divergence between lie and deception.
This is led some credence by the fact that the Tails website links to riseup.net, which hosts Rose City Antifa.
Congratulations team! I remember watching the Nubank infoq talk, and sensing that they have a serious hacker culture.

This could be great for the clojure community. One idea, if done, could step function the community: open source datomic... Oh ma gad if that happens!
Both of these vulnerabilities are bogus.

1. "using JavaScript, you can identify the scrollbar width [...] so an attacker can identify the underlying operating system"

Using JavaScript, you can simply ask Tor Browser what platform it's on using navigator.userAgent, and it will tell you the truth because lying breaks e.g. websites' custom key combinations. Tor Browser will however attempt to anonymize the platform in passive indicators, i.e. HTTP User-Agent: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-801 (search for "User Agent")

(EDIT) This was too dismissive, because scrollbar width differences are more fine-grained than platform differences: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397996#c5

2. Blocking entry node connections:

"Checking every network connection against every possible Tor node takes time. This is fine if you have a slow network or low traffic volume, but it doesn't scale well for high-volume networks."

If you can muck around in TLS cert fields in real time, you can look up an IP address in a hash table...

"Second, the list of nodes changes often. This creates a race condition, where there may be a new Tor node that is seen by Tor users but isn't in your block list yet."

Oh no! (clutches pearls)

Not to say that it isn't worthwhile to tidy up the TLS fields some more, but hyping this as a zeroday is absurd.
Show HN: BuildBubbles X AppSumo
One feeds into the other strongly, though. The odds of an adversary de-anonymizing you go up the more activity the adversary can see. Also, we should look at your anonymity on a per-site/session basis, and if de-anonymization on one site breaks your anonymity on other sites, that is bad.
except it was just a factual description of history, condensed, but taut and clarifying of possible misconceptions, and nothing about recipes or flavors or any other organileptic properties.
That's a really great and simple idea, actually. I might give this a try.
The Briggs book referenced in the article is a really interesting read. I tracked down a copy after several articles like this one appeared shortly after her death. I assumed that the book primarily focused on child-rearing, but while that aspect of their culture is certainly an aspect of the book, her study of the concept of "ihuma" and how it applies to interactions between her host family and other adults in the same band were even more interesting to me, and her general observations about day to day life both on and off the ice were very enjoyable. It's not a tale of adventure unless you're really excited by cleaning fish, but as a voracious reader of native american culture it provides a great glimpse into a way of life which tragically would not last much longer.
Would Amazon be more, less, or equally liable if you used a cloud provider that then relied upon AWS for its hosting.

How would a startup that was concerned of Amazon copying it be certain to avoid such surveillance other than running its own data center?
> You are assuming that FAANG companies are offering "fair" compensation for the output of their engineers. How would anyone ever make a profit doing that?

Are you saying companies should have no profits in order to be fair? Profitability doesn't really reflect ethical pay, just look at Amazon, they had no profits for years.
> If you're doing the equivalent of 1 day of work over 5 days, and it's OK to your manager

As developers, we want our managers to trust us. We don't want managers to micro- us and question our time estimates. If I say doing some task will take X weeks, I don't want management to say "do it faster". The manager doesn't know the technical details and complications like the developer does.

Here, OP is explicitly abusing that trust, taking most of the week off but pretending to be working. He/she is meeting expectations by misrepresenting the complexity and difficulty of the work.
By congressional standards, and at a given point of time.

It's not short when measured by the time required to keep up with it.
I wish I could reveal team and product name... but that would be a career suicide. I'm not asking you to believe what I'm saying... but I truly am sharing my experience. I'd encourage you to talk to folks you know from AWS who were there for last 8-10 years.
It's pretty on par with anything that resembles a "game". Freemium iPhone games rake in most of their money from a few whales that spend thousands on coins in the games while 98% of players will never spend more than $20.
There is a large portion of the US that thinks all our cities look like Gotham from Tim Burton's 1989 version of Batman. Non-city dwellers don't understand that cities have gotten continually safer and are generally nice places to live.

A small anecdote: I know someone from Norfolk, VA who was visiting Massachusetts. He was very concerned that he would be shot if he walked around Charlestown (the Boston neighborhood) which is insane. There's a lot wrong with Charlestown (gentrification, Sullivan Square, New Rutherford) but Irish gang wars don't make the list and probably haven't for 20-30 years.
Wasn’t this whole behavior spoofed in Silicon Valley?
Where your argument fails is assuming that the average
citizen isn't a capable judge of information.

Edit: Furthermore, your argument also denies the average citizen their right to life by denying their capacity to decide their own quality of life.

You assign the average citizen a capacity of a child.
You had a good run
I seem to recall my iWatch syncing fine without cell service. I've got a Forerunner 945 right now, it's always stunned me that the app caches nothing. You cannot so much as see how many steps you had or how many hours of sleep you got without data service to your own. And Garmin software is... not exactly first-rate, let's put it that way.