skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If after 350 years they couldn't manage to turn enough profit to buy real estate then I guess they had it coming

They own plenty of real estate:

* https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2020/10/hudson...

It's just that a lot of retail is now done at malls, and so they have to rent from the mall's owner as there are fewer and fewer 'stand-alone' locations that shoppers would be willing to make a separate trip to, especially in more suburban areas.

There are pros and cons to each approach:

> The big valuation gap is due to disagreements over how much of Hudson’s Bay’s prime real estate can be divested while keeping it operational. Selling off property raises cash but also makes it more financially burdensome for the company to rent the space for the stores it operates. As a result, it would likely close stores, and its retail footprint would begin to shrink.

[…]

> Sale lease-back arrangements in which retailers sell their properties and become tenants have become increasingly popular in the past few years as the downturn in brick-and-mortar retail brought about by the rise of internet shopping has put pressure on retailers to raise cash.

> However, some retailers resist them because they view the rent obligation as burdensome, a stance that often attracts investor criticism. Another department store operator, Macy’s Inc., for example, was pressured by hedge fund Starboard Value LP three years ago to do more to cash out on its real estate.

* https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/hudsons-bay-...
Nice website and service. I hope you do very well!
I gotta say that seems like a bad reason to remove the feature. If someone intentionally set a hard spend limit - hit it - and their service went down because of it that's not Google's fault. The simple solution for that customer is to just turn off or increase the limit.
> It’s not like anyone will be forced to use another AppStore if he wants to stay on the apple one for security!

That’s exactly what is happening on PC gaming right now. Every game comes with it’s own AppStore (or similar bunch of extra software).

I’m torn on this. I do agree with users having more choice, but I also see the huge value of Apple being able to protect user’s privacy and security by having a tight control of the AppStore.
What would you do if you didn't have money for food and couldn't get food stamps or some form of charity or welfare?

Starve to death?

I've been there, decades ago, and that's not how it went down for me.
Retina is about pixel density.
>Alphabet spooks use their puppet to squash a competitor

Great priority, FTC. Be sure to also do absolutely nothing about marketers astroturfing and selling our dox.
A library in any other language is saved local and built with your project.

My understanding is these are loaded from URLs if they are not in the cache. If a domain changes hands, you could be served anything.
Ask HN: A GUI Password-Less Encryption Assistant
I recently put together a tool to make key-based encrypted file sharing more usable for my company and decided to start working on a version for public consumption since I got some interests from friends and customers around me. There is already a substantial list of improvements and changes down the pipeline derived from our own testing and they are being actively added over time. Would love to gather some thoughts from the community here.

The idea is that everything happens locally via a GUI app within 3 clicks and the "cloud service" only stores contact names, respective public keys, and other non-sensitive information so that the app can seamlessly handle key management for the users. It's also designed to be transport and storage agnostic so the users can keep using whatever they are already using for file sharing and chat rather than having to be forced to migrate to yet another "secure chat app". Here's the blog post with more background on it:

https://hkdb.medium.com/password-less-encryption-assistant-142e31fc16e9

Looking forward to hear your thoughts! Thanks!
Except that all your photos are in iCloud, all your messages in iMessage, all your music in iTunes... and all those apps you've bought. "Just buy another phone" is fine if you have no problem throwing away all your data and purchases and start over.

It's not just a phone, it's a whole ecosystem.
100%. While the story certainly is embellished and deserves some critique, it is still a very inspirational piece for the current and next generation of entrepreneurs.

It certainly inspired me. Huge congrats.
> Windows/IE literally wasted hundreds of millions of person hours by being leaky, insecure, virus-prone crap

How do you explain that I've been using mac os for decades, I am able to install third party software, and I have not run into any of the issues you are describing?
Say what you want as you squabble about title but Shotwell runs the company.
Data needs to be built, but who can say no to a supplement that's relatively cheaply available, in ample supply and doesn't hurt to take reasonable doses over a few weeks?
Hudson Bay actually had some foresight in buying some other brands (Saks, Gilt) and investing in ecomm but it hasn't really turned them around.
Coca-Cola named world’s worst plastic polluter for third straight year
LL Bean no longer sells their blankets. They sell higher quality look-alikes made by a small mill in Minnesota.
Well, the Bay's been around since God who knows...maybe it's time to move on.
No comment on their tech, but in my opinion they have a few fantastic products. Specifically their mittens and blankets.
Hard to sympathize with businesses that have been around forever and could have, but haven't seen fit to, own their stores.
I expect that this will be solved by restructuring, bailouts and tax credits. The US govt buys most mortgages anyway. I think we will see massive government intervention hopefully we learnt the lessons of 2008.
> you must be pretty upset that Pelosi has now agreed [...]

Nancy Pelosi is surely also upset that we can’t do something more aggressive, but anything at all would be better than nothing (and we might still be stuck with nothing this year). We’re in an extraordinarily severe crisis, and people, small businesses, and state/local governments have been in urgent need of relief for months.

Even jaded political veterans expected some action from the Senate these past 7 months, under the circumstances. But what we have seen again and again in recent years is that even when we lower the bar down to the floor, they still manage to trip over it.
Probably because no one here goes outside.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

This was a critical part of my pitch of my fintech startup that utilized Bitcoin, my co-founder had 10k+ taken from her using Paypal and other various payment processors when we met. The thing is the scope is (intentionally?) so wide that even legitimate, legal and sanctioned businesses were caught up in this with little to no recourse. It goes even further because even those that eventually complied but were deemed 'difficult to deal with' had their business licenses delayed, had audits, and had insurance premiums skyrocket as a result of having gone through the process.

We won our battle in the Industrial hemp side through the farm bill in 2018 that made it 50 state legal, so I exited my startup as that was my only goal all along; but if people only knew how hard it is to conduct a business in the US the State doesn't deem 'worthy' of financial services and payment processing they'd soon realize the 'pro-business' narrative that so pervasive in American Culture is actually BS.

They're pro-big business/bank, as seen with the CARES act and the dragging of a new relief/stimulus: the plight of restaurants and small businesses that had to shutdown due to COVID, again, its clear to see that they couldn't give less of a damn about them and their situation and the suffering to their communities.

This is one of the main reasons currency is too important issue to be left in the hands of ANY nation-state and bureaucrats. You can point to better examples all throughout Human History but its still plagued by the same fact that Humans cannot help but succumb to corruption when left to their own devices.

> That already happened to political groups. Money is life and death these days.

Sadly, it always is... and the closer you are to its creation the more machinations you can create to benefit you or your organization. It's the major pitfall of all Civilizations, and is a massive hindrance to the progress our Species could achieve of we had solved this matter already.
Churches are in decline, there's no demand for more of them.

http://readytoharvest.com/2019/05/18/the-decline-of-mainline...

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christ...

https://www.christianpost.com/news/1-in-5-churches-face-clos...
https://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-a...
Why not link to it? Why? Because it doesn't draw the exact same conclusions.
> how it differs from other (primarily object oriented languages

That includes every major Lisp dialect.
Looking for feedback for the beta version of our app (US users only)
Hey all, I'm the founder of Bolli. I built a budgeting bot of sorts. I wanted my budget plan to re-adjust on its own if I had an impulse purchase for example. Like a self re-adjusting budget spreadsheet.
Things to NOTE: we use plaid.com to connect to your bank account and the app is free!
Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios
The carrot of eventual EU membership is being dangled, yes. But "eventual" could be 50 years away. I don't think the EU wants to have to deal with Ukraine's recent problems, such as Crimea, the Donbass War, relations with Russia. But maybe, given a few decades, those problems will reach some kind of resolution.

A lot of EU states never really wanted Cyprus in until the dispute with the North and with Turkey was resolved. But Greece insisted on Cyprus being allowed in before that, and threatened to block enlargement to other member states if it was not, so the rest of the EU didn't have a choice. There is no equivalent country demanding Ukrainian admission. Even if some EU countries might like Ukraine to join, nobody is going to say "Unless you let Ukraine in, we will veto Montenegro/North Macedonia/Serbia/Albania/Kosovo/etc's admission"

And Russia will quite possibly take the idea of Ukrainian EU membership badly – although exactly how Russia reacts depends on what is the state of EU-Russia relations at that point of time. Given that Ukrainian EU membership is decades away, if it ever happens at all, who knows what state EU-Russia relations may be in by then.
taco-bell?
The Dark Side of Big Tech's AI Research
I love NixOS but does it not update too often? Or is it the ability to pin to specific package versions in isolation that would make it a selling point to CentOS (for Reasons) users?
That sounds extremely unlikely to me - do you have any references? Looking through gNews for 'shoplifiting' I see things like [1] which average around $100 or less and those were arrests.

1: https://www.cleveland.com/community/2020/12/lorain-woman-wit...
That is not correct

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage

> They with a singular antecedent goes back to the Middle English of the 14th century... and has remained in common use for centuries...
If I were in this situation I would probably offer 10% of the bill to the employee as a reward for their help.
I think those checks are primarily for security-related private APIs, not the ones that you would normally get when submitting to the iOS and macOS App Stores.
>Now one could come up with schemes to change this value regularly, but fact is: making users stand out isn’t the right way.

I don't know that I understand the reasoning behind this. The idea behind it is that it isn't the unique fingerprint that is valuable, it is correlation between different captures of the same unique fingerprint that is valuable. So a randomized fingerprint would he unique, but only for one session, and so the data has no value. If anyone understands the reasoning and could explain how I'm wrong I'd appreciate it.
Ha!? Paris is attractive only for a handful of ultra-rich or if you are a two days tourist (and even then). On the other hand, I found Frankfurt to be quite affordable and calm.

What daily attractions does Paris have? Sure there is the Louvre but I didn't visit that as a tourist (no way I'm standing on these lines); so I don't think I'll be seeing it everyday to work.
Managers aren't for bookkeeping or commanding; they're for leadership.
Doesn't a business have the right to decide who they get to do business with? If a business sees a customer doing something they're not comfortable with, don't they have a right to refuse service?
Because it's good for you? Even if it does absolutely nothing to help you defend against COVID-19.
I think that's only true for small events. Big ones destroy everything, like a global EMP. Plus there's the fires from exploding transformers and other stuff on the grid. But big ones are more rare. Maybe this 2012 near miss killshot drained our quota for the next century. Here's hoping.

Still the sun is just now entering solar cycle 25, so the period of solar quiet is coming to an end.
Hey look, three companies who don't matter as much as they think they do having an argument about porn. It's like a microcosm for the millennial generation.
> Passing a bill you know is dead on arrival is pointless.

Actually, its often a significant part of the political process of building popular and, thereby, legislative support for a solution (which will ultimately often be a compromise from the DOA proposal.)

And, in a bicameral legislature, taking up a measure on an issue that is unacceptable in the form the other house passed it in, and amending it to the form that you think is better and sending it back (or to conference to resolve the issues) is a way of moving forward that is generally more effective than sending an alternative bill to die in committee and then ignoring the issue.
Here's the past year, by date:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Something about it is on the front page every month or two.

Honestly, I'm fine with it. I think more people need to know they should be supplementing with vitamin D. It's possible it doesn't help with COVID-19, but the evidence is enough and the risk of harm low enough that it's clearly a rational decision to supplement at this point.
The Trump campaign has stated a belief that this was organized from the top down. I am not in agreement with that. I do not think there was some conspiracy from the top to commit fraud. I think the fraud happened at an individual level.

As an example, the woman's testimony below that starts at 1:34:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw&list=UU8Ioh4atND...

This kind of fraud doesn't require any kind of "conspiracy". Her story involved only a couple of individuals, and I don't think they at any point gathered together to conspire to commit fraud. It just happened to occur that way.
Oh I agree with you. This all started in the 1970s with union busting etc... the average American earnings should be 50% higher today than they are.
> they don't have the negotiating power to make the GOP budge.

A reminder that Nancy Pelosi turned down a $1 trillion+ stimulus offer from the White House.

Trump makes $1.8 trillion economic relief offer, but deal with Pelosi remains elusive (Oct 09 2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/09/trump-ec...

Nancy Pelosi blasts the White House's $1.6 trillion stimulus plan, saying it's not even 'half a loaf' (Oct 01 2020)

https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-blasts-white-ho...
Not just their privacy, but also their financial details.
I really don't know a single thing about vaccines or biology really. That being said, I am curious - are there are trade offs to be made with this mRNA technique? It sounds like mostly upsides, but perhaps there are considerations for this approach over a traditional one?
I run an ecommerce business selling board games accessories. It's been way more successful than I thought it was going to end up being.

https://www.burgertokens.com
So, I just signed up! There was no OPML import and it made me think for a second and then I realised that I want to offload the SPAM folder to the algorithm (no real spam, just in case). I hope Findka will make catching up on sources that post a lot a bit easier. Let's see how 7 links every 5 days would work :) And thank you for putting the effort into the development!
>But I don’t think the goal should be to attack 230, but a desired goal would be stop platforms like Twitter and Facebook and YouTube to stop acting like a publisher. They are simply abusing 230 privileges while still acting like a publisher with editorial muscle.

The term "publisher" has no legal meaning in the context of section 230.

I (and at least a half-dozen other folks) have explained this repeatedly in this discussion.

I won't do so again, but in the interest of expanding knowledge, I'll point you over here[0] so you can understand the deal as it stands.

If you (or anyone else) would like to see changes to Section 230, that's perfectly fine with me. I suggest you write your congressperson/senators and demand the changes for which you advocate.

That said, what you are describing is not the law as it is now. Whether you (or I for that matter) agree or disagree, that's irrelevant to current jurisprudence.

But we have ways to change our laws and we should take advantage of them where we feel it appropriate.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
You must be talking about CentOS post, because no one will switch to Rocky before it, y'know, exists.
Someone in Big G is making mashup between Instagram Stories and Google Amp. Nice effort but it will sink as a rock to the bottom if left alone. Sadly they will try to integrate this in Android, if is not already integrated.
"Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform." - It's tied kid, to Google search with "a story protocol" as you sad it.
I consult, and when clients ask why my rate is higher I tell them they're not paying me for my time, they're paying for theirs.

Your time is worth however much time you save for the organization paying for it.
> If you think HEALS was milquetoast at $1.1T, you must be pretty upset that Pelosi has now agreed to pass a bill at $0.9T...

It was milquetoast, but not primarily because of the dollar amount (which is, though, inadequate as anything other than a partial stopgap and bridge), but because of substantive provisions.
Miss a turn. GPS turn right in 3 miles.

Umm, I’ll do a u turn.

Used to happen all the time.
How do I know if I’m really trying the repl/editor cycle?

I mess with Clojure with some regularity and each time ultimately back away in a combination of frustration and nerd sniping self awareness as the ratio of editor setup blog reading meta work to actual work hits infinity.

Either I am terrible at finding good setup guides or it’s pearls before swine and I just don’t get the aha moment. I’m starting to think it’s the latter.
This is why you create a shell company to use cloud services with while your real company leases the servers from that company. As soon as you run up a bill you can’t pay you shut down the whole shell company and reopen a new one.
These iovisor guys write some cool stuff that uses bpf, like: https://github.com/iovisor/kubectl-trace
>It is unbelievable to me how little challenge Amazon has faced as all their competitors just quietly lie down and die.

The company best positioned to handle Amazon, Sears, was parted out and gutted by its chairman and CEO Eddie Lampert. Toys "R" Us had a working business model and were gutted by VC's. So I wouldn't say they were quietly laying down, they were actively raided for their accumulated wealth and this left them unable to compete.

Best Buy is probably best example of a company that figured out how to pivot and survive. They basically turned into consumer electronics consultants that tell people what to buy to solve their problem (at a gigantic markup). Amazon.com can't compete with that model as it's not built for the consumer that doesn't know what they want/need to solve a problem (or are afraid of knockoffs).
Greece is close to the equator and during November we have had the highest rate of deaths among all EU countries. So I doubt this is the only factor in play.
You can hear Balan's testimony/interview here: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tslaq-podcast/episode-41-inte...

Whether she is telling the truth is for you to judge. The details and tone of voice sound genuine.
Big transformers can take years to replace. And if most of the world is knocked out at once, it seems unlikely we'd be able to replace them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24319585

After the attack on the Metcalf station in SV, a report was released about grid vulnerability to attacks. A solar storm would be able to do even more damage than targeted attacks on a few transformers.

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2012/11/electric-powe...

Maybe we can have a starlink type grid of satellites to soak up some of this load, i have no idea.

Hopefully the advance warning (not possible for flares tho) protocol mentioned in the sibling comment will reduce alot of damage but i have no idea how effective that is for big storms.
Two problems with that:

1. Everybody uses js. If you have it turned off, you are in a very tiny group, and now you’re easier to track. Remember that js is not the only mechanism to fingerprint a user.

2. Much of the web does not work with js turned off.
You might want to take another look at your paragraph:

> Having been a Googler for ~6.5 years and written dozens of project documents, incident reports, and what not, I knew how to put the case for Google team when they would come back to work in 2 days.

That certainly reads as an advantage that most non-Googlers would not have.
Congratulations to YC, PG and the staff of Airbnb.
It wasn't "Mr. Karenina" (I've never seen anyone use that form) he took issue with; he believed that the name should be translated as Anna Karenin rather than the usual Karenina, since English does not inflect surnames.
The actual link for anyone not wanting to visit such a site.

https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://d3n8a8pr...
Adding to parent, the premise of your game is very hard to change after you've started. You will think of new ideas that you will have to axe as you progress, so get a non-digital prototype you know has appeal. It will keep you on track.
It's extremely quick to do it there as well. Originally, bpf was created to replace tcpdump with a quicker less impactful alternative. People saw that it was a pretty neat alternative so they started extending it (the e in eBPF). Think they might have finally come round again and just call it BPF now again.
It does have a monopoly on third-party software running on Apple devices.
As an aspiring bootstrapper, may I ask how you started? What was your background? What were the features needed for your first customers?
Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: Coronavirus’ spread indoors
Those game discs are still signed by Microsoft/Sony. You’re can’t burn your own copies of your indie game. The difference is that game discs are generally digitally licensed differently to allow reselling the disc (the disc itself acts as a DRM key).
If you're on App Engine, we did an article about that

https://retailingplatform.com/blog/how-to-control-costs-on-a...
I'm working very hard on that, thank you so much for the kind feedback. Hearing stuff like this is really what encourages me to keep moving forward. Thank you!!