skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase’s Transparency Report Is a Welcome First Step
You can think of a private key like a really long, complicated password. Like, thousands of characters. But you don't have to type it in every time, you just let your phone store it for you and fill it in for you in apps (and now, websites).

To log into a website, your iPhone checks to see if your face is your face, and if it is then unlocks your private key to send it to the website. If it can't identify your face, then it won't enter your password.

Sending your actual facial data to a website would be bad because you can't change your face, so if you give your face to one site, then that site could use it to log in as you to other sites. But by just using it to unlock a private key, you (or apple on your behalf) can still change or de-authorize your private key, and use a unique one for each sites. Basically all the good practices you're supposed to follow when you use a password, and they aren't giving any site any special data that they could use anywhere other than their own site.
> I suspect this is an anti-fragile position, i.e. exposed to varying stressors on a company's purpose, companies that follow this principle will simply sharpen their purpose and objectives and get better at it.

We might be inclined to ask ourselves what it would have looked like for lunch counters in 1958 to have done the same, and why that doesn't fly now.
>cryptocirrencies don't make any sense without mixing

And this is a problem for government how? They’d probably be delighted if they could kill crypto
Very fair. We should just bite the bullet of Covid. The goal at the beginning was just to prevent overwhelming medical capacity. No one ever signed up to save everyone at the expense of everyone else!
The WI legislature was also committed to stopping the governor from having any oversight.
Interesting article about privacy on a site that contains 41 trackers.
California ballot propositions have the possibility of amending the state constitution (see Prop 13 [1] as one of the historic examples), and once you're allowing that, anything is possible.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
Both Signal and OTR provide deniability in a narrow cryptographic sense with no real practical benefit. Cool idea though...
Reminds me of when internet provider Charter / Spectrum discontinued their home security service earlier this year, they didn't even offer any refunds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025365
> The GitHub repo description:

> > A fullscreen minimalistic r/InterdimensionalCable player.

All I get is static with a domain name overlay.

What am I missing?
Without anyone performing the necessary pattern transformations to make it "work" this will be very static and boring...

With computer in GOL you have GOL which will do the pattern transformations.
See also some rougelikes, such as Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead or (IIRC?) Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, which are often strong examples of open-source development, though perhaps as many are one-man teams.
> Mission focus is the operational principle that your project’s social responsibility is the effective and focused execution of its mission. ...

This brings to mind what Snowden revealed to the world. Few inside the CIA new about domestic warrantless surveillance.

Had Snowden followed the "Mission Protocol," we might still not be aware of the laws being broken routinely in the name of security.

Following the Mission Protocol seems like a thinly-disguised attempt to get workers to subject themselves to someone else's agenda.

I mean, isn't this just a fancy way of saying that the ends justify the means? Every mission is political in one way or another.
> there is an abundance of immanent ethical theories that define the Good (or Right) in terms of basic things in our grasp

The problem with all those theories, is they can be attacked as simply efforts to define "good" – with the ensuing problem that other people will define "good" in contrary ways, and if "good" is just a definition, then how can a mere definition be, in an objective sense, superior to a competing proposed definition?

That's basically G. E. Moore's argument against naturalistic objective ethics. If one agrees with it, then the only options available are to reject objective ethics, or to reject naturalism.
My first thought is some form of compelled speech, but I'm not sure there's actually any statute prohibiting someone from compelling someone else to make political statements, even in an employer-employee setting.

There's also a (very weak) argument to be made for defamation, as Uber's way of gathering this information might be reckless disregard of the truth. However, even if it is defamation, showing any damages is going to be extremely tricky, and even meeting the defamation bar seems like the kind of convoluted legal reasoning that tends to lose at court.
X266/VVC Open-Source Encoder from MulticoreWare (Update and Plans)
Politics have been destroying Silicon Valley. This restores my faith in tech. I believe that the spirit of innovation and diversity of thought still has a chance to prevail if people embrace the philosophy behind Mission Protocol. If employees want to be activists, then they should either pursue activism in their free-time, change their career to further the cause full-time, or create a company with a mission that furthers their agenda. There's no judgement. However, hijacking the mission of large, powerful companies to serve near-sighted political agendas is socially destructive and morally reprehensible.
Exactly. If this is something you care about, don't use restricted productivity platforms that prevent you from general computing.
> First, a mission statement to define and guide the project, and second, a contact email to ensure violations can be reported.

Having been an employee where partisan politics are brought up in the workplace, I applaud that it seeks to provide actual teeth.
Sorry, I still don't see the improvement here, doesn't that already happen using chrome for example, or Touch ID with 1password? (I think IOS has that too)
A key feature that I never see discord having is nested subchannels with whisper/shout. I play a game where we will have thousands of players in the same shard and need people to be able to communicate with each other in subchannels while still being able to hear and speak up to the entire channel. We did switch from Jabber to Discord for paging purposes though.

Personally I hate running Discord because my computer already has trouble running 8 game clients, but I see the value in its appeal to the mass market. Personally I prefer the days when every friend group had a ventrilo server, and if not you'd use Skype (before it got ruined) for those adhoc meetups.
Slow Lorises Are Adorable but They Bite with Flesh-Rotting Venom
Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?
It’s fun to imagine that this is something written by Raytheon or Lockheed Martin
Well at least they used to. Who knows these days.
There is a huge demand for gig work and not a great demand for gig workers, exploring more ways to create demand for gig workers is a good thing. Lots of people don't want a stable job and I don't see why we should force them to get one just to feed themselves.
I have one of these. I got it because I figured Google's security team would put out something with better security than some random IoT company.

Recently I wanted to install more door sensors but haven't been able to find any in stock for months.

I'm done with Google anything at this point. As a brand they are so unfocused and have no ability to support things that customers actually pay for.
Please never do this in Slack though. Unless all of your statements carry a different topic, that should be one message.
Your post has a lot of misinformation I'd like to correct. What you're stating about the current situation is factually incorrect.

1. Prop 22 gives app-based workers healthcare, minimum wage, and other protections and benefits. From the text: "For an average of 25 hours or more per week of engaged time in the calendar quarter, a payment greater than or equal to 100 percent of the average ACA contribution for the applicable average monthly Covered California premium for each month in the quarter." 15-25 hours would require a 50% payment.

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/22/

2. The companies are exploring other options to stay in California, which is actually required as part of the appeal which happened recently. The current publicly proposed model is franchising out to local businesses: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/technology/uber-lyft-fran...

Disclaimer: I work @ Uber but I do not work on driver-related stuff
What does Foxconn get out of it? From the article they seem to have lost lots of money.
> then "famous" is a bit of a stretch.

That's a bit rude. I did the same cursory search and realized my friends and I are big fans. Just because you don't recognize the name doesn't mean others don't.
Any place that advertises pay to pitch events
I don't agree with you that good is purely subjective.

But, in practice, what is good is highly contested, and open to philosophical and political debate. In some ways, something which is objective but very difficult to know with certainty is difficult to practically distinguish from the subjective.

If I am running an open source project, I would like to welcome contributions from people who have widely differing ideas of what the "good" is. Participation in the project should not require a general agreement on what is good, or even a general agreement on what the good is (in philosophical terms), simply an agreement on the bare minimum of shared ethics necessary for the project to successfully function.
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have a chance to offer a more nuanced solution, too.
Wire: open source (AGPL server/clients), can self-host, available as a public cloud service (free for user-to-user comms, paid for orga comms).

Disclosure: worked for them.
And sign in with X is good for X users. Doesn't really add anything.
A Sad Story about C++ STL's get_temporary_buffer
Apple isn't perfect, and yeah, you might run into a situation where you have to sue. Them taking away the ability for half your users two sign in to your app while your dispute makes its way through the courts is seriously problematic.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832495.
I've worked on storage-constrained embedded systems where adding bash and its dependencies expanded my root filesystem by 50%. busybox ash is a much smaller alternative.
I think the cutting off that you experience is also caused by the audio lag in Zoom meetings.

What somewhat works is to start your sentence with a "So... " (or something similar). That way you can easily pull back if the other one was not finished and on the other hand you gently signal your desire to say something to others.
Europe is quite diverse, where I'm from, kids are expected to be able to read at least a bit when starting the first grade of school at 7. Of course they practice and improve reading in first grade, and not every child can read on day 1, but the expectation is that for almost everyone the basics of reading should be taught already in preschool or at home before that.
This protocol is meant for non-government agencies, i.e. tech companies. Don't obfuscate the intended purpose of this protocol. There are well-defined, existing whistleblower protocols in government for situations that Snowden encountered.
In the future it will be, but for now it’s a redistributable (that will keep itself updated and is separate from Edgium)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/con...
Looks like there's going to be an open-source version and a closed-source version that will be available only for consortium members. Hope the patent/royalty wars don't sink VVC as well.
My BA’s often respond to messages with: ok..

And I’m left wondering if they just typed an extra period or whether they’re trailing off...
Centralized solutions vs federated solutions is like monarchy vs republic.

Under monarchy, the power of the monarch is greatly amplifed. A great monarch can accomplish beneficial reforms at scope and speed not achievable by any republic. A bad monarch can inflict damage at scope and speed unprecedented in any republic.

Equally, a centralized network can achieve colossal heights of UX, security, speed, architectural cleanliness, etc; moxie wrote a lot about that. Or it can fall into bottomless chasms of poor UX, poor functioning, and insecurity (examples are many, take maybe ICQ by the early 2000s). By construction, three's no way for a part of the network to avoid the common fate, try and find a recourse, etc.

A republic (and a democracy) severely limits the power of officials it elects, more, it intentionally pitches different branches against each other in a system of checks and balances. This prevents it from achieving grandiose visions in short time, most of the time, even when the best officials are elected. It also prevents it from turning into hell, most of the time, even if some egregiously bad officials are elected to the highest offices.

Same with federated networks: they offer a much less coherent UX, are more complex, less powerful, more slow, harder to upgrade — but they are also resilient against a bad actor that grabs power, for they lack a SPOF, and have a healthy nonzero amount of distrust between parts. If one part rots, others remain, and new can be made.

So yes, bet on the centralized system, a brilliant benevolent dictator if you think the dictator outlives your need to use a system. Bet on moxie, Steve Jobs, or king Arthur to live effectively forever.

Or bet on an open standard with a half-dozen implementations of varying quality if you think that things will inevitably go sour in some of them during your lifetime, or whatever is the time scope for your use of the system.

There is no single right answer, no Goldilocks solution. Choose your poison.
So does my phone has a different private key for every website?
Plan First, Then Code
These initiatives amend the state constitution, so they can set any requirements they want. Prop 13 famously added a requirement for 2/3 vote to change it, and this was sustained by the US Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
While being a non-native speaker I still consider myself to have a high grade of English knowledge and I knew about neither of these. Thank you!
IIRC Hangouts chats are searchable from Gmail. It works well like Gmail.
Worth pointing out that this is not mutually exclusive with the article. You can use both, the article (when combined with this pager) will affect what appears inside the chunk header.
The Black Hole of Guyana – The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre
> I wouldn't be surprised if "allow example.com to use TouchID"

This is already a very common pattern on ios devices - every app that wants to allow touch or face ID based login uses such prompts, so users are used to it.
Maybe, but if I put a period at the end of a single short message you better believe it’s malicious or I want you to shut up.
B Capital on Why They Invested in Armory (YC W17)
>an username

Oozername
I'm curious why you take such a hard line. People only take protein powder when they want to be big, and really it only saves you from having to eat such massive amounts of food. If you're skinny and not used to overeating, eating the reccomended gram of protein per pound of lean body mass for muscle growth can really be quite sickening.
Prop 22 is a state amendment, but not all propositions are. Some are referendums from the legislature that just pass/enact/repeal normal laws, and others are just new laws without being amendments to the state constitution.
You can maybe keep a small family alive on an acre, but not really feed long term. With such little space you need to dedicate nearly the entire plot to high caloric crops such as corn.
Faux con?
The ability to direct traffic in this manner seems pretty dangerous. Far more than a couple of dodgy political ads
A third world country with rampant hunger problems and malnutrition among its children and suffering the brunt of colonization has to pay $335 million for something its previous dictator did? Shouldn't it be off the list when it over threw the dictator?
I mean, purely signal processing wise. Like how GPS works.
It could be cute to acronymize “To whom it may concern” to Twimc (hard c) and introduce it into normal speech. “Hey, twimks, want to get some pizza...”
> No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How

You mean, no more misunderstandings by parroting the when, why and how?
There are far too many threads to read them all but we still have to moderate.

I did miss that parent comment, but I don't see how this makes much difference. What you wrote was still a swipe.
I believe their point is that we should all call out political campaigning by corporations even if it is for a cause we agree with. Because it is a grave threat to democracy to have trillion dollar entities running campaigns of any sort.
I'd love to agree with you but the Wisconsin election results are going to prove otherwise.
> A Chinese colleague told me a joke a few years ago. "An American asked a Chinese, 'how does it feel to not be able to publicly criticize your President?' And the Chinese replied, 'How does it feel to not be able to publicly support yours?'"

Gonna put on my pedantic buzzkill hat for a second. I do actually find that joke to be funny, but it hides potential discussion of real differences behind a pithy comment.

Being jailed for criticizing your president is much much worse than suffering social backlash for supporting a president that your chosen community has judged to be bad.

Depriving someone of their freedom through legal force is not the same thing as people getting mad at you on the internet (even if that anger causes you to get fired).

> The modern USA culture of contempt for leadership

Give me leaders who aren't contemptuous and then we'll talk. They do exist, on both sides of the aisle, even though they sometimes seem to be in short supply these days.
Fair enough! I wasn't expecting to have Moore's naturalistic fallacy pulled on me :-)

Neither intersubjective nor Kantian ethics have this problem: intersubjective ethics doesn't admit of an objective Good, and Kantian ethics don't admit of an is-ought distinction (all "ought"s are in fact "is"es that are bound in actions).
Rob Fry on Why You're Doing Cloud Wrong
Drivers providing services via Uber can do all three now in California. Drivers can choose a rate multiplier to advertise their services at, decline as many trips as they want, and can directly connect with riders for scheduled rides.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/06/ubers-s...

Disclaimer: I work @ Uber but I do not work on driver-related stuff
The magic valley in Idaho (named after its transformation) is a great example of this. Modern irrigation has turned what is naturally a high dessert climate into a food producing powerhouse.
Did you mean to also exclude tech companies that work with the government (i.e. Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.)?

> Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (informally Booz Allen) is the parent of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., an American management and information technology consulting firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
So Google invested 450 million in ADT?

Pocket change for Google, but still a significant amount of money. Perhaps that is a bit too far fetched, but imagine if Google could use location tracking to know who came to your house when you weren't there. Say you got robbed on a Friday night a 10pm.

They got footage of the guy, but it's dark outside and he's waring a hoodie, but their software knows WHO was there at that time. Some device (from ADT or Google Nest) could also have BLE trackers as well.

Mixed with camera footage and something like Nest Aware applying machine learning to the footage, this deal starts to make sense.
Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM4Lite Compute Modules Launched
My experience is that commercial software has teams of programmers rewarded for velocity. Velocity doesn't encourage good architectural decisions. It rewards building stuff quickly. Most commercial systems I see become rats nests very quickly.

With free software, if I waste a year tweaking something to figure out how to Do Things Right, that's okay. If I'm a downright a-hole about accepting commits (Hi Linus!), that's okay too.

It's different incentive structures.

From my perspective, Linux circa 1995 was just fine. If anything, Linux 2020 is a modest step backwards. I'd rather have long timelines and high reliability. That's not something commercial teams can sustain. People need to keep externally signalling productivity.

Ubuntu and Red Hat are a bit of a wildcard, since they take a hybrid model which seems to be dragging Linux down the path to look a lot like Windows 95, with layers of hairballs upon layers of hairballs. I'm not thrilled about that.
> Urban Dictionary is more popular

I think this is exactly the point of contention: why is Urban Dictionary more popular? The author never says it outright, but appears to believe that it's because of the cumulative effect of this penalty over the last 8 years. This assumption is bolstered by the choice to include a photograph of the ex-googler and owner of Urban Dictionary posing with the person who ran the team instituting the penalties.
Big fan of your work. Yet, some more commentary on the content of the podcast: You are talking about the "Future of Computing" and you are just discussing llvm, c, c++, java, python and swift?

No Haskell, Erlang, Julia, Go ...

A bit disappointing regarding the title of the podcast, don't you think so?
There is still competition to consider though. If a SaaS product has competitors that are more reliable, or more feature rich, they should win & retain more customers over time.
It was a real con, I think.
They still have to attract new customers, and investors really want to see growth not just a stable number of subscribers.
All those still depend on the idea that humans and life itself are more than just a long running, self-replicating electrochemical reaction which again pushes the burden of proof on to you.
A proper use of the rhetorical device of an “appeal to authority.” Thanks.
Wouldn’t the optimal solution be both?

Though, being able to refactor code, and assert that it is logically and functionally equivalent as the previous checkin would be super useful, even if there’s some gaps (sting value or comparison changes could not be asserted, for example)
Corporate Welfare Queens of Wisconsin
> In 2014, when the article was written

The original version was written in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19980126190044/http://www.gnu.or...

Pages like these should still be kept up to date, of course.
Apparently it's taken us ~30 years to come close[1] to this number of users on the current internet. Seems like not an issue for a very long time, and if it becomes one, it can be amended.

That said, anyone can get on Urbit for free as a comet. The only real limitations on comets are social in nature—not technological.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Dune Universe Inspires Titan’s Nomenclature
I agree. Using "when learning" doesn't sounds appropriate. Maybe "when receving advice" would be more accurate?
For that to have any hope of working, you need easily available tools that can fake a chat database. Currently, I'm not aware of any such tools, and I'm not even sure that you can import a faked chat log into Signal on Apple iOS.

In court none of that is likely to hold up anyway, as evidence like chat databases is pretty much assumed to be true until proven otherwise.