skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some new cards are moving this model:

When possible some more complex key/token is passed, maybe via nfc, or some other mechanism.

When not possible, a 4x4 number is generated and challenge/response is required to confirm intent before approving the spend.
> people don’t want to send web bundles to each other. They want to share a link. They don’t want alternate transports in general, really, or the complexities that come with that.

Arguably "people" don't even want HTTP, either. They don't want any technical feature, they want the things they can do with that technical feature. You're right that they want simplicity, but Web Bundles done right should be very simple to the end user.

Just a random example that comes to mind: I want to share a number of photos with someone. A web bundle could very easily group those photos together along with a quick webpage showing thumbnails, selection etc. without ever having to involve uploading photos to a remote server. That seems like a really interesting possibility to me.
as an engineer, i typically face complaints i have the power to fix. it would be a lot more stressful to spend all day fielding complaints i had no power to fix.
A vacuum will always be filled. You need to prioritize the habits you want and become so busy that you don’t have time for all the noise.
The numbers add up when you add in healthcare, which has captured an increasing portion of workers compensation.
Oprah Winfrey is not married to Stedman Graham
So is this basically a charge based version of a RTG (hence the diamond semiconductor)?

Edit: apparently these devices are called betavoltaics
Most developers just get that app removed (unless they egregiously operated in bad faith). If they then sued Apple, you bet they would get their account suspended in the mean-time too.
Covid-19 plasma treatments may be safe, but we don’t know if they work
Char-ism-a?
Mural Closes $118M for Visual Collaboration Tool
I can't stand it. Amex have implemented Express List to deal with this, and you can automatically add any new sites that you use your card in to the list. It doesn't even automatically trigger 2FA.
"The ISPs now will have a series of PR articles about how Google wants to own the internet, track all your web DNS, monopolize the access, and evil blah blah."

They'd be right, but that's neither here nor there in this contrived strawman.

And yes, a lot of people would have a serious problem if Google baked in their own DNS. That would break a lot of stuff. And it would make the notion of checking invalid DNS entries rather unnecessary, wouldn't it?
It only works if you have a chip inside, like Yubikey and other HSMs do.

You can't do crypto with dumb block storage.

But if you have a chip you should absolutely do _something_ smarter than storing and reciting the number verbatim.
Sure, but they still consult with the CIA and other 3 letter agencies to tailor their tools for them. It doesn't matter what else they do, they are already tainted.

No one and everyone decides what is socially useful. But it's fairly uncontroversial that invasion of privacy is not socially useful.
I don't need to remember anything. You simply don't understand the engineering reality here.
The phrase "used for religious rituals" is an archaeology euphemism

meaning "we have absolutely no idea what these were used for".
> I don't care about choice of App Stores and I prefer the consistency of a single, consistent, secure source of Apps.

And you can have that. By not installing other app stores.

> reduces fragmentation

You don't have to fragment anything. Just only use the Apple App store.

> If I wanted choice in App Stores

You are not forced into choosing anything. All you have to do is not install other app stores, and you don't have to worry about choice.

> improves the overall user experience of the product.

You can have this improvement! If the Apple app store provides this value, then just only use the Apple app store.
Employee Motivation Tips for Your Remote Workers
Probably before the rest of you.
What technological investments do you think the government could be making today that would have the impact that satellites and the internet could have?

* Vaccines for addiction. A vaccine against cocaine addiction was developed in 2009 but was not effective enough.[1]

* Preventing aging. Aging is mostly a timeout, not a wear-out.

* Average US East Asian IQ 105. Average white IQ 99. Average black IQ 85-90. Why? Fixable?

* Automated education which actually works.

* Wireless power transmission that works. Not much power, but enough to eliminate the need for small batteries in everything.

* Ways to force a decision in a guerilla war.

* A way to make building roofs that last a century.

* A way to make roads that last a century.

That's a start.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cocaine...
Mozilla is acting like Microsoft right now -

Step 1: Replace a working app with a shinier UI with less features than the original

Step 2: Promise to add missing features in the future

Step 3: Put off adding missing features existing users want. While adding features "prospective users" say they want.

Step 4 - Repeat steps 1-3 a few times (rewrite, remove features users use, add features non-users want)

Step 5: Retire the product citing low usage
Tesla Is Cracking Down on Performance-Enhancing Hacks for the Model 3
Food is pretty abundant in the US. I've eaten lots of fine (as in tasty and unspoiled) food from grocery trash. If you're close to civilization there's food banks, soup kitchens as well.
> All this pining for Flash is just revisionist history inside the HN bubble from people who have forgotten how much Flash was hated by the general public.

At least in my social circle that's incredibly far from the truth. My friends and I loved Flash videos and games. Downloading the Flash runtime was a very small price to pay for the functionality it unlocked. And these people are definitely not HN users.
AFAIK, actual O_DIRECT support is now in progress but performence is not expected to great due to impossibility of CoW optimizing. Anyway lack of O_DIRECT is not important for some use cases.

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10018

For defrag, ZFS developers avoid to implement "block pointer rewrite" feature that's needed for defrag due to complexity. I hope BPR project start to improve features.
Elm Optimize Level 2
McKinsey is profitable though
Megadrought may explain civilization’s ‘missing millennia’ in Southeast Asia
illumos concern trolling, this has nothing to do with engineering leadership and is just lashing out a bad faith personal attack because you are friends with joyent people. Being unable to acknowledge that he served his sentence and is reformed indicates you are just hung up on a failed project that is as useful as spilled milk.
There is something magical about train travel for me. I find boarding and riding trains extremely soothing.

Flying has the exact opposite effect.

It's not entirely rational but that's how it is for me.
At that point why even show the number? It would be useless without the encryption. And if you have some way to enter the numbers so online transactions still work, then what is the point of the encryption?

I don't believe the majority of fraud is stolen physical credit cards
I think there is a reason the part you quoted was written in the past tense. The situation has changed. But these things have momentum and people might have adopted FreeBSD years ago because of the former status quo, where FreeBSD had it integrated in the default install and Linux distros did not.
I would say most likely that is one of the goals since server-side is highly encouraged to run the container under the owner's subdomain...

and Google being prepared for smart devices like toasters that have enough resources to run GTM code with an ad blocker.
Not unless you extirpated the cats first.

At which point, why ban the humans?
The print controls are really lacking, there are some good ideas that just kind of never got adopted or implemented. I was/am mildly hopeful that maybe EPUBs will force the web to up its game in those areas.

While we're on the subject of print, I am very jealous of the typographic controls that other platforms have. I get that more expensive text-justification algorithms wouldn't work for most apps, but especially for print, there are times that I don't really care about performance, and I would love to have an expensive text-justification algorithm and tools that rivaled something like LaTex.

As it stands, the prevailing advice about how to justify text on the web is, "don't".
> Might have been a breakthrough around 2000 but it's time for something new.

Agree with it but other stable filesystems (XFS, ext4) are 1990s tech. ZFS is only available stable 2000s filesystem. Possibly Bcachefs is the future.
Elected governments decide what is socially useful. And for better or for worse, the polity has decided that the government ought to engage in the invasion of privacy of foreign adversaries.

The majority of Americans appear to approve of the CIA/FBI -> https://news.gallup.com/poll/224804/republicans-push-governm...

“Socially useful” is well and good, right up until you disagree with the masses what constitutes “socially useful”. Silicon Valley engineers have input into that decision, but don’t get the final say.
If you're into "service over self" I encourage you to join your local Rotary club. Here are our "four way test" of the things we think, say and do:
* Is it the truth?
* Is it fair to all concerned?
* Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
* Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

Finding Nash equilibria for #4 isn't easy but it's a good set of guiding principles and if you believe them, you should think about surrounding yourself with others who do too.
I seem to remember dir /p doing some pagination?
Great question, and you hit it squarely: Hsieh and company did not invest the $350 million (!) as originally announced https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/07/17/15645/zappos-ceo...
The problem isn’t the tools. It’s that there is no such thing as an operable PKI. The best PKI (by far) is the CA system, and the CA system is not a good PKI. It has so many holes, and the PKI evangelists don’t like it anyway, because it uses trusted authorities. The only other examples of remotely useful PKIs in existence are things like Signal/WhatsApp... and those are even worse PKIs, because TOFU PKIs are in practice authenticationless PKIs.
I agree - I packed an air mattress to sleep on during camping when it was cold on the ground. The air didn't insulate as well as I expected so I was freezing from below.

There are so many things around us that are such incredible achievements in comfort over not having them. It is a good experience living without some of them for a while to get appreciation for it:

- electricity
- heating
- beds
- running water
- showers
- drains (sewer? I mean being able to pour out water in the kitchen, not having to carry it out)
- washing machine
- (etc)
Russian arrested for trying to recruit an insider and hack a Nevada company
Their mandate changed. They are not the centre for disease control and prevention and they act in accordance with their mandate as a public health agency
State, federal, it's still the government.
This looks awesome. I really like Tonyg's actor library for Squeak so this is great to see and will be definitely following this closely.

Neilv's old DrRacket on pmOS also looks very interesting.

Ok - Time to take another look at pmOS.
Reddit shuts down NSA whistleblower AMA for “disinformation” about Russiagate
"But, the surveillance state and hostility towards Canada (i.e. two Cdns are currently being detained with very little of the customary consular accommodations) - makes it just too risky/unpredictable. Ditto for Russia."

This is silly.
I am certified with Sitecore 6.5, However I haven't worked with it regularly in over 4 yeras so things have probably have changed (I've heard Sitecore 9 is very different than 6-8).

One of the problems with the WYSIWYG editor was that the developer effort typically added and extra 50% effort onto any task and like anything with Sitecore you ended up having to dig through PDFs on their development portal.

A slight aside though. One of the best things about Sitecore was its OOP approach to content. Every piece of content was an instance of a template. If you knew what you were doing with it you could build things very cleanly. I haven't seen anyone else implement anything similar in their CMS.
Interesting presentation
So you follow every post everywhere to stalk, dox and bully.

Stay classy.
VC’s are real life superheroes – proof
"Correlation does not mean causation" has nothing to do with the amount that correlation is the result of causation. It means that the former does not directly imply the latter, you need to add more to your argument than just the correlation argument. There could be other factors at play that were the actual cause of the change. These factors could be the underlying causes for both events, or the events may be completely separate.

The only thing you said was "because X and Y happened at the same time, they seem to be connected". You did not make any other arguments about how X could cause Y. Within the past hour, I went to the bathroom, and also at least one person on earth died. As you can see, to say my bathroom trip caused that persons death is illogical without any other facts or evidence to back it up.

This is a really funny site btw: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Don't forget that most Unix-like operating systems and Linux distributions use package managers, typically one installs the package then configures some number of config files to get the thing up and running. Some are working right after the install. The problem with packaging web applications is that most don't take into consideration things like File System Hierarchies and are very difficult to package. If you have any sort of application and want it to be easy to install, make it easy to package (even closed source apps can benefit.) or package it yourself.

Anytime I have to install some software (AWS' agents such as inspector and cloudwatch are particularly bad about this) and I have to extract some tarball or curl into `sh` I cringe. RPM/Apt/etc is right there, ready for you to use! Signature verification, config file handling, etc!
> It's most certainly not a fluke that the mega rich are solving problem governments can't or won't.

There is no "can't or won't" on a global scale: some countries have, others haven't as a function of their means. The fact that ultra wealthy individuals have better means than entire countries is an indictment of the state of affairs, not praise.

Edit: To elaborate on the above: eradicating polio isn't something that democratic, liberal countries are uniquely good at. Autocratic and despotic governments have also historically been good at it and have aggressively pursued it, because paralyzed citizens just aren't very useful. Countries that don't pursue eradication are historically ones that just lack the means (whether that's money, or infrastructure, or whatever), not ones with specific political structures.
The table at the end including the $2.27 to get between stations within Paris is cute.
Safari has displayed PDFs forever and yet Apple still ships Preview. It’s quite good in fact.
Not in America, it’s a republic, not a democracy.
This is just one small step in that direction. Once everyone is on the same page about Infrastucture-as-Data and behaves in a consistent and expected manner, we can move forward with wrapping these interface. Crossplane is a one such project.
IC is secure by anti-tampering so it's secure at least now.
That site looks great.
The development of electricity generation from nuclear has deep roots in europe: USSR in 1954, Uk in 1957.

AGR design got deployed at Torness. (I protested FWIW, a position I might vary on now with hindsight)

The chinese work on pebble-bed interests me hugely. small modular reactor stuff is fascinating.

The UK and France (aside from Russia) operate their own submarine reactors. I think its odd they didn't move this up the foodchain to surface ships the way the Americans did.

Both the UK and USSR had significant accidents, which informed choices around future reactor design.

The role of Klaus Fuchs in the emergence of the east german nuclear power industry would be worth a write up all of its own.

The extent of French dependency on nuclear power is amazing. And the German retreat from nuclear power, likewise the scandi experience. China and India, I think will be making a huge move off coal but its less clear this will be to nuclear. Japan is obviously in a complicated situation, perhaps not unlike France's dependencies.
Yes, the polio induced by the vaccine is actually the the more prevalent one today. They call it by fancy name: 'paralysis-something-something' so that the vaccine is not blamed for the polio.
ISBN also uses last digit as a check digit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_...
Yes, they could have had a chance too expand the platform and evolve. The sidekick also ran NetBSD, they weren’t crippled with crappy embedded OS like other devices of the time.
You probably mean Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, and not Andre Carnegie, steel magnate.
First job I had after leaving the Air Force was at an office supply store as a technician. I learned how to clean this typewriter with carb cleaner and lube it back up with Teflon oil. They last forever if cleaned yearly.

My mother could type over 100 wpm on one back when she was a young woman.
Silicon of the 2010s: A Retrospective
Awesome stuff. I'm actually more excited to see what all the autonomous vehicle compute and sensor stuff will be used for in different domains. Just like cheap SoCs and MEMS from smartphones ended up being integral to the drone industry taking off.
AMEX isn't major in Japan so possibly some Visa/Master only systems causes a problem.
‘Thankyou’ stops producing bottled water, citing environmental damage
This is what I wondered as well.

Given that there are things like:

Contentful, Ghost, Strapi, etc., which either have a REST API for content, and/or other API for customizing the interface for non-devs, or are developer-oriented.

I'm surprised something like this received funding... makes me think, "Snap, I guess I can get funded too?"
> EPUB requires readers to support the HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, SVG formats, making EPUB readers use the same technology as web browsers.

I wish people would develop cleaner FB3 (Fiction Book) rather than messy and overcomplicated ePub.
I enjoy the irony of getting to be the one to point out and the poetry of “Andre Carnegie” immensely. I’m sorry this came at the expense of your typo.
People work hard their whole lived and put that money into the market. If the market is rigged for insiders then those people are being robbed of their life’s work in a way that they could not have adjusted to or anticipated because the news that trades were based on was not available. It is grabbing money out of the pocket of people in a way that is deeply unfair. I know those types of folks aren’t the only investors, but they’re the ones who screwing them in this way is unethical.
Can you Support our bootstrap side project?
WebBundles don't "blackbox" web sites at all. Where's this claim coming from?
A mysterious radio burst that keeps repeating
You forgot the state income tax.
Indeed. Andrew Carnegie's missives were less noble, and more fitting of a steel magnate:

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
Great video on checksum was done by Ben Eater:

https://youtu.be/ppU41c15Xho
Would you make the same claim about Internet Explorer?

Imagine if Microsoft required a 30 percent cut for any transaction that is done on a windows PC.

The same exact arguments you are using could justify this. But, obviously, this is illegal, and similar behavior was proven as such, by the courts.
That's because that list isn't complete. Doesn't have prion diseases, pseudomonas aeruginosa, balamuthia, macacine alphaherpesvirus 1, raccoon worm, orthohantavirus, and a million unknown bacteria and thousands of rare parasites and viruses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion#Diseases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balamuthia_mandrillaris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas_aeruginosa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macacine_alphaherpesvirus_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris_procyonis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthohantavirus

Some of them we have no idea how to treat. Prions are 100% deadly.
oh my god, the entire point of my post is that bringing up communism is a red herring that totally derails the conversation and has no relevance.

We should be discussing the economic system we currently have and various ways it is / was / can be structured. Even the justice system, the cornerstone of civilised society, has been corrupted.

For example why is it that we have publicly funded police but not publicly funded lawyers that can actually hold firms to account for contract violations? Why do companies that pay no taxes enjoy priority when it comes to public prosecution over regular Joe. Why is it, that if I owe the state a few grand, I will be hauled before a court within a day, but if BigCorpX owes the state a few billion they get to negotiate a special tax deal with massive 'discounts'? The list is truly endless.
Why on earth would we want this?

Right now all of the burden is on the credit card companies. Any fraud is their liability.

If we switch things up, and implement something like passwords or pins, WE get the liability. That’s worse than our current situation. And given how badly people get hacked or phished, all it means is that consumers lose.

Right now, those “magic little numbers” work great, and in the case of fraud, we are protected. I don’t want the situation to reverse itself and have us the first to suffer from fraud.
Calculating transfer rates based on time-stamps is ridiculous. At any point from source to destination, the individual files making up the emails could have been aggregated, transferred, and then disaggregated, potentially multiple times. Preserving time meta-data during these sorts of operations can go wrong even when one is trying to preserve it. The delta file times could simply reflect the transfer rate of the final disaggregation step in the chain. This could have been a from a directly connected storage device over a less than full-disk-speed interface, or from such a device accessed over a network.
Okay, how large % of your total expenditure is iPhones? do you buy them weekly?
The community as a whole, basically. In practice this will be whoever shows up to the ensuing discussions at "meta wikimedia" and the scots wiki. The results of these discussions will be implemented by the editors tasked with overseeing every Wikipedia (and other projects, like Wiktionary) of every language, such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards.
> What are they paying you for, then?

To abide by labor laws, I'd imagine
You’ll probably enjoy “First Overland” [1], it’s a great travel story. There was an expedition in 2019 sort of recreating it[2] with one of the original vehicles and characters.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336877.First_Overland?fr...
[2] https://www.lastoverland.com/
Ask HN: What did you spend your first real job paycheck on?
Almost all of the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by an American teenager
I called it over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392546

> This marks the last Android release with extensions/add-on support.

A lot people called it FUD, but we can see they took an extra 9 months or so, supported just a few extensions, then replaced what worked with a low feature version.

And users are angry. Yep.

Can't say I'm surprised.
What does the NSA have to do with Canadian law? Last I checked we weren't the 51st state...
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