skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't how their S-1 reads at all...

Of course they don’t admit they misclassifying the drivers, but Under the S-1 risk factors:

The independent contractor status of Drivers is currently being challenged in courts and by government agencies in the United States and abroad. We are involved in numerous legal proceedings globally, including putative class and collective class action lawsuits, demands for arbitration, charges and claims before administrative agencies, and investigations or audits by labor, social security, and tax authorities that claim that Drivers should be treated as our employees (or as workers or quasi-employees where those statuses exist), rather than as independent contractors... Nevertheless, we may not be successful in defending the independent contractor status of Drivers in some or all jurisdictions... any such reclassification would require us to fundamentally change our business model, and consequently have an adverse effect on our business and financial condition.

In fact the IPO includes citations to multiple lawsuits including one they settled for $20M for improper classification.
These models are stupid, many people cannot say what they want for fear of reprisals.

The only question is which way does the majority lean, while the edges pull further apart.
https://arnholm.github.io/angelcad-docs/

> AngelCAD is a powerful open source 3D solid modeller based on the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) modelling technique, expressed in the AngelScript language. The software creates 3D models in STL or other file formats.

However - I can't see if there's anything out of the ordinary about the app. I'd like to have seen some info on what makes this exceptional.
kind of? They have a special category for mobile subscriptions, and the sub system on mobile uses a token system. So while they all do the same thing, they are actually very diverse in how they are operated. A sub on a phone still gives you the benefits on any platform though, but it will continue to use the payment gateway for the life of the subscription
When it comes to security you best learn from an actor's history and consider all actions, weighted properly, and not simply get stuck in indecision of what if's.

In the U.S. the current leaders and those making decisions rotate, adjust over time, so there's less certainty and a foreign nation will have to do their best to know and read the political climate. With China's CCP there isn't so much change and so their actions are much more determinant of their future actions.

Of course no situation is black-and-white, however all things considered what I described is their strategy, that is my conclusion for their strategy; I hope you see the pattern of Putin's Russia every 5 years or so killing off the main opposition leader, like recently happened - Alexei Navalny in a coma currently. Do we ignore that and believe that we'll trust Putin will change if he claims he will? He'd never agree to a treaty though that hurts his position of power/control though, just like this "no space weapons" doesn't hurt Putin's or CCP's position of power - because they don't wield that power or capability, and so of course they want a treaty against it.

Let's hope the free, democratic world rallies in creating multi-lateral trade agreements to syphon off buying from CCP controlled China and this is enough wake them up economically, unfortunately it's possible that it will only to cause the CCP to be able to tighten their grip on the Chinese people (control, censorship, security systems of the hierarchal tyranny) - creating more internal pressure that CCP can continue to make the narrative that it's the U.S. and other democratic nations that are the cause, rallying hate and anger which then they will direct where they see fit.
On "Germans wear lederhosen", it is true that of all people who wear lederhosen, it's going to be mostly Germans. "Lederhosen are worn by Germans"
I spent a month earlier this year writing up the history of nuclear power development in the USA [1]. If you like this it might be right up your alley. Things that actually were built include a truck-mounted nuclear reactor (ML-1), nuclear reactors in space (SNAP-10A), a nuclear-powered merchant ship (NS Savannah), an ice-base powered by a nuclear reactor under Greenland (Camp Century), dozens of highly exotic power reactor prototypes, and (of course) the modern nuclear power plants.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

I didn't cover tanks but did touch on nuclear-powered aircraft, which we spent about $1B (1950s) dollars on before ICBM progress obsoleted the concept (for urgent military needs at least). The work led to the molten salt reactor concept, which is much loved today in the internet nuclear circles with civilian power production in mind.
What is the point of your comment?
Why face masks became political in the US
Minimum-wage employees tend not to be people that can be easily eliminated or offshored. You really haven't thought any of this through, have you?
You just need the right heatsink: http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg

This one is sold out and out of production now though and I had to trim it because it was made for the 3+
Looks very similar to OpenSCAD to me, only with a slightly more procedural language.
The economics of this are curious actually. Element has had investments from Automattic, VCs and Status.im (no governments, ftr). However, the only reason people invest is in the expectation that Element can be a sustainable healthy business - which it does so by providing Matrix SaaS hosting, and support/consulting for big on premise deployments.

In other words, it’s critical that folks use the managed hosting in order to be sustainable, otherwise we’re just burning fossil fuel, as it were.
> As Google removes user control, they can make Firefox go along, since they're Mozilla's biggest revenue source.

So far, the only manners in which Google has influenced Firefox are:

- the influence of Google in standards;

- the need for Mozilla to keep improving its products to remain competitive.

So, if Google removes user control, that's actually good news for Firefox.
The problem with that is that making a function safe means that you guarantee that these invariants are enforced. If you tag a function as safe erroneously you basically throw Rust's safety out of the window.

Given that C++ has no explicit concept of safety it seems like it would be hard to do that automatically as soon as pointers or references are involved.

As a quick example: if you have the following signature in C++:

int *foo(int &a);

How you automatically generate safe FFI for it?

As a human doing the same task I'd have to ask myself at the very least:

- Can the return value be NULL?

- Can the return value alias a?

- What's the lifetime of the returned value and who owns it?
think franchising (or commission based sales or performance based bonuses) taken to an extreme. I understand there are inefficiencies in implementing. And you may lose the govt. tax free intra organization transactions. Just a not really serious thought.
Glad to see someone made this to save me the time! I've wondered if a TUI could replace some desktops for low end or embedded systems, or something to use on remoting into a datacenter etc.
No, you can’t stop “an agency” but you can make their job harder and slow them down. Using a hardened O/S is part of the mix but not connecting to the net if you can avoid it is another. A good overview of how to configure you computer for privacy can also be found on episode 177 of Michael Bazzel’s “Privacy, Security, and OSINT Podcast”:

https://overcast.fm/+Hbyfl32i0
Looks like OpenSCAD. Any known relation there?
> listing video games as hobby for a males is a negative signal to the opposite sex

Maybe those girls make own observations on the behavioral difference between a guy who takes gaming as an identity and lists it as important vs guy who sometimes plays games.

People look for matches.
> This is apparent especially in dating circles, where more often than not, listing video games as hobby for a males is a negative signal to the opposite sex.

This is almost certainly because of the small portion of men who see "video games" as a personality rather than a hobby and are probably quite strongly responsible for society's view on "gamers" too.

One loud and toxic apple spoils the batch etc
Yep. Has to be ancient: ext3, xfs and btrfs are compared below. The benchmarking machine is a Dell desktop machine (2.4ghz, dual core) on top of a single SATA drive running v2.6.21
It's not a benefit to them both ways, it's only useful to them if there's a substantial amount of those 5%s in which case they're probably right that everyone else is underestimating uncertainty.
> How is this supposed to work? (I use Arch BTW) supposed I'm in a country X, does Cloudflare basically caching the request to server that are in country X? But I'm already close to that server and I'm always cautious with mirrors that are in country X, often they were out of date :(

According to what I read in their main page https://cloudflaremirrors.com/archlinux, they seem to be caching the packages from mirrors and serving it via their anycast network.
We Got Our First 200 Beta Testers (Key Takeaways)
At least as recently as 2009, ahem.
If one candidate won 1000 consecutive polls would it also tell you nothing about your estimate? This is obviously absurd: of course it would.

How about 100 times? 10 times? 2 times?

At what point does evidence cease to 'say anything about the quality of our analysis'? The answer is never. Every datapoint can be used to update your priors according to bayesian statistics.
Ailing scientist is trying to save his life by becoming a full-fledged cyborg
At 2 Gflops/watt these are better for server duty, specially with battery backup, if you care about that sort of stuff.
I love how this is offered fully in Chinese, and that reminds me of something. Every operating system like macOS has its place, no matter what one's threat model is. Don't just say 'move to Linux if you're really worried about security or privacy'.

Maybe someone in China or another authoritarian regime needs to look less suspicious on the outside by using macOS instead of Linux. For those people, this information is gold.

BTW, this is indeed the famous Github guide many of us have known for years, just now renamed and updated.

2016 HN discussion of it with the old title, 'A practical guide to securing macOS': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13023823
A program has been created to link Nintendo switch controllers to sex toys
This article has a horrible title, and some highly misleading content. It represents "efficiency" as things like "not buying insurance" in a dangerous fashion. There are VERY few serious people who think that.

"All things being equal" efficiency is always good. (e.g. if an identical task can be done for 1/2 the energy - good)
"All things being equal" slowing down does not necessarily make life better. (Cleaning up after an oil spill is something we probably want fast.)

All things are not equal, and you have to make a series of tradeoffs.

How much risk are you willing to take?
How much enjoyment do you get out of a task?

The author is of course correct that optimizing efficiency at the sake of all else is typically a problem. But to misrepresent efficiency (the key to our modern age) is not quite fair to the term.
Not a lot of people buy iPhones for security reasons
How many orders larger, and larger than what? The 32kb? A megabyte is two orders larger than that, a gigabyte five orders larger. We got quite a bit of leeway here..
Here is one video on crud apps using asp.net and angular js: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2xDrtylBw
I’ve never seen syntax highlighting in “less”.
Try Portal and Portal 2. The series is really friendly for begginers, and it has one of the best stories and writing in video games. If you never played a first person game, it might take some time to get used to the controls, but Portal is perfect for it - you can play as slow as you want.
Ironic you mentioned that game is being the Pinnacle of motion controls, I'm fond of Wii sports resort instead, that zelda game made me wish they had GameCube controller support because it was so inaccurate.
The issue is that very often video games are addicitive and you are very likely to neglect everyone including yourself to feed that addiction. It's pretty much like a gambling addiction. Now I wonder why it's a negative on dating circles...
That post was nothing to do with the security incident in question here (which happened April 11th 2019; that post is from March). The details in that post are sadly true (as others confirm on that thread).

However, we have no reason to believe there was a link to the April incident.
Rolling your own crypto gone wrong: A look at a .NET Branca implementation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243749
But there's no concept of safety, lifetime and borrows in C++ (there's aliasing, but the rules are different). There's a lot of code that one could write that's perfectly kosher in C++ but a no-no in Rust.

A function like memmove would be completely unsafe in Rust for instance but C++ could expose such an interface without having to do anything special.
This is my issue with it as well - it's basically their geo-sniffing magic routing you towards the closest officially listed mirrors for that country (glorified proxy); it makes the mistake of presuming that all those mirrors listed in the Arch country-mirrorlist are created equal in terms of reliability and performance, but they're not (we have a whole web page just to track out of date mirrors).
I think a graph is how we perceive code, I just think the human brain has a very unique way of comprehending graphs. It seems to me like the graph is “indexed” in multiple different ways, so that multiple paths exist between nodes. The brain is also better at categorizing nodes - e.g. “fetch everything that I know about colors in general.”

I definitely think of code in graphs, but it’s definitely beyond just a static graph diagram.
What Toshiba SD cards do you use? I bought 256GB ones and they all had too much latency to be usable.
I was looking at Yabai [1] as a window manager and it requires SIP[2] to be disabled for advanced features... Is SIP really needed ? I see that it didn't even exist since "since OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".".

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki

[2] https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide#sy...
Homesteading the Twittersphere
Saying Republicans responded to so sonething by having John Roberts vote a certain way in the Supreme Court shows an ignorance of how the court works.
You're correct, both Android and iOS have improved. Both have the features you described today, neither had them several years ago.
Is this running on top of Windows and just replaces the GUI?
FrOSCon 2020 – Cloud Edition
Dropshipping: Hustlers making millions from goods they never handle
Given the very narrow focus of those limits I would consider the presidents power under the IEEPA extremely broad.
The steps you list above are not particularly difficult, but if everyone followed them, the decentralization features might as well be redundant because we would all be on one Central set of servers.
"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run
The Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!"
Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done
The Linux OS SUCKS
(I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)

https://genius.com/Three-dead-trolls-in-a-baggie-every-os-su...
> He uses the analogy of 'too clever by half' to exemplify his idea that 'financial innovation is always wrong'.

I don't really have a horse in this race, but I think you're misreading the article.

He says: "Every truly disruptive discovery or innovation in history is the work of coyotes. It’s always the non-domesticated schemers who come up with the Idea That Changes Things. We all know the type. Many of the readers of this note ARE the type."

That's not a criticism, that's a point of praise.

He then follows it up immediately by saying: "Financial innovation is no exception. And this is Reason #1 why financial innovation ALWAYS ends in tears, because coyotes are too clever by half. They figure out a brilliant way to win at the mini-game that they’re immersed in, and they ignore the meta-game. Eventually the meta-game blows up on them, and they’re toast."

That isn't saying it's a bad thing, it's saying that the people who come up with the new ideas lose sight of the broader picture and get taken out by "the thieving raccoons" and the State.

He's saying "the coyotes" lose sight of the broader picture, just like in the famed XKCD [1] where the "too-clever-by-half" computer person encrypts all their data, and forgets that the thug who is going to come looking for it will just beat the piss out of them with a wrench until they turn over the key.

The core nugget of the article, in my opinion, is exactly the "meta-game is what always gets you" aspect.

It's the same thing that NN Taleb refers to as "2nd order effects."

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
You have to deal with the world as it is, not as you wish it was.

(Unless you have a realistic plan to change it.)
I'm not sure what you mean, that is where they started. The full story is as follows: Their DNS registrar stores the following A records for `thepiratebay.org`:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 162.159.136.6
thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 162.159.137.6

Those IPs are owned by Cloudflare. The Rights Alliance then asked Cloudflare what IP address those IPs redirect cache-misses to. Cloudflare then gave them an IP address that belongs to a Swedish ISP. In turn, that ISP pointed to the VPN provider `OVPN.se` as the user of that IP address.

This article then updates on a lawsuit between the Rights Alliance and the VPN provider, since they're refusing to give out the VPN user of that IP address (because they can't).
FrOSCon (free and open source software conference) decided to go fully online this year. A lot of talks are in german, but many are in english. See the schedule here: https://programm.froscon.de/2020/
There are many things that WebExtensions could do, if only we found the time to add the necessary APIs.

Sadly, Firefox has to race against Chromium with about 1/4 of the developers (I don't remember where I got that estimate from), so we have to focus our efforts. As you can imagine, Mozilla's comparative lack of resources (hence the recent layoffs) won't improve that.
The source might not be there, yet, but the MIT License is in the repo.
It is probably not ready yet.
Note that despite the shared polygraph angle, this is a different spy and a different national adversary.
I perceived the product incorrectly, just like GP did.

The people I know who don't use Slack yet are mostly older and mostly use Outlook. I think they'd be confused and irritating if we sent them emails with the frequency of chat.

Especially phone email notifications are not tuned to correctly handle instant messages.

I have often dreamed of a similar concept, but have never been able to work the UX out in my mind. Hopefully you have. Best of luck!
Yeah, I know. I couldn't resist. I'll try to contain myself henceforth.
Chinese EV maker Nio launches battery leasing service, eyes global market
Drawing text is the most expensive in a GUI.
ts looks like it's a subset of https://github.com/ThomasHabets/ind

sponge can be replaced with dd

Other than that, yeah nice ideas. And very much in the unix spirit of one tool to do one thing.
Ha! Here’s how to have syntax highlighting while using less: https://superuser.com/questions/71588/how-to-syntax-highligh...
Can't read it but there are many like it online.[1]

I love the two political candidacy inscriptions they found.

1. https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/new-finds-from-po...
IODD is a korean manufacturer of special harddrive enclosures.
They have an LCD and controls to navigate through the files/folders stored on NTFS/FAT.
By selecting an ISO file, the drive announces itself to the computer as a CD/DVD/BD drive containing the ISO. It can also do this to emulate a floppy disk drive, and up to 4 non-/removable USB drives.
No need to hope for GRUB magic to maybe work.

Their website and documentation sucks, but the product makes you giggle at the idea of using yumi/rufus/easy2boot/looking for empty/erasable thumbdrives.
The latest iteration is the IODD-MINI. Though it looks like the crowdfunding campaign botched, i just bought myself the 512 GB version off Amazon Germany this week.
pdf at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301879177_Calling_D...
"geo-sniffing magic routing", Also known as BGP + CloudFlare Argo (https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/performance/routing-vs-s...)
As I said in my other comment that you chose to ignore, the probability of winning national popular vote does not indicate the probability of who will be President.
The difference between SimCity like lego-blocks built by the lowest bidder/contractor according to current standards, or something with "character"?
Depends on the implementation. Not sure exactly how OVPN works, but with Mullvad it works by top-up the account, so no need to keep track of CC <> Account number. When the account runs out, the VPN simply stops working until you refill.
perhaps it's "wasting time" that is considered "juvenile" and just because more people have enough time to waste some of it doesn't make playing games any more "adult".

I have nothing against games, it's no better or worse than any other hobby or time-killing activity. It's just stunning that so many people are so busy and yet have so much free time.
> The author basically says "XUL was too vulnerable to security problems and crashes" but why couldn't it be left in?

There's an entire section called "The problems with XUL" that attempts to respond to this question (and another one called "The problems with XPCOM"). Do you feel anything is missing in either section?
That is an interesting idea, and not one we have yet thought about. I would be interested to talk more about it with you.
These are weak excuses

>confirm information accuracy, no mis-entered information,

There are a ton of better ways to do this...

>or unauthorised access attempt.

making me retype the same info in the same session is in no way a security enhancement..

Though given the state of infosec at most of these companies I would not be shocked if they think it was
That being a human being that adds value to society does not require everyone to like you.
Upgrading the OS X Dock
Try

sed s/foo/bar/ -i file

to edit file.
Re: posts with false information.

The cynic in me thinks that HN is not immune to astroturfing by foreign or domestic actors anymore than Reddit or Facebook are.
Not entirely sure what I'm talking about now, but couldn't you in theory implement this in Intel SGX and therefore be unable to read it unless from code running inside the enclave itself?
The bindings are safe, not the C++ they bind to
Tesla shows path to next-gen battery cell with breakthrough energy density
Hilariously Stupid Science Questions
I played and enjoyed Witcher 1, but it's long and grindy. I wouldn't recommend it now unless you have a lot of time to kill.
> on record as saying that their own successful efforts in voter suppression last election won them the rust belt and as a result the presidency

Do you have a link to the record where that party says this?
In my experience, automating JavaScript analysis is a pipe dream. Maybe this could work if Mozilla forced add-ons to use TypeScript, but I feel that add-on developers wouldn't enjoy being asked to switch.
luckily?

yeah it would be the worst if everyone got what they deserved.
Tell me, what is the value of Java, Python, Javascript, or HTML?

When you start looking at cryptocurrencies as code, valuation becomes meaninglessness.
When using my reader, sometimes mutations require a full screen invert. Sometimes stuff just seems to change trivially. What governs that? Is that done by the display or driver or higher level code?