skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company has monopolies within a monopoly at this point. The DOJ is an embarrassment with no power. Theres never been such a concentration of economic activity in corporate America in general. Even the phone companies are about one merger away from being back to their former structure.
> There's no security benefit in having Signal on F-Droid instead of

I don't know about Signal specifically but there is absolutely security benefits to hosting apks on F-Droid instead of your own home page.

F-Droid supports reproducible builds, so you can actively check that their build infrastructure is not compromised.

Signal seems to support some kind of reproducible builds on their own. Why that has not been integrated into the F-Droid build process I don't know. It seems like a large enough application to warrant the work.

But I suspect no one has stepped up to do the work, and given that Moxie has been quite clear that Signal is not to be distributed on F-Droid, that seems not likely to change.
As far as I understand it, retrofits were only forced on commercial landlords, co-ops, and condominium buildings. Private home owners weren't forced, but there's incentives and tax relief for improving the energy efficiency of your house instead.

New construction, apartment buildings and single-family homes alike, all have to abide by the same updated rules.
Weren't Ethereum and Cardano supposed to solve some of those problems?
> Until it stopped working. And it failed spectacularly. For everyone.

The outage wasn't global and didn't impact everyone ? It kept working for me and others in my contact list but some couldn't send messages.

Also, if @matrix.org fails or @something fails then it impact users who wants to interact with both those addresses. So in the end it's not that much different for users.

I think you comment about the will of the people is a bit off the rails. If anything the whatsapp exodus shows it's not true since we are seeing people moving from whatsapp to signal.

When I run my own matrix instance I am still dependent on the matrix guys and what they want to do with the protocol and the de facto only matrix server's code. I can't fix anything with my instance but basic proxy/ssl/dns errors. I can't get the ship to stir in any directions. There are no matrix board where I could voice my concerns about stickers or the default colourscheme. Just like Signal.
Appreciate you looking for it! Will give that episode a listen.
> I don’t know why this makes a difference, but my wife says it does.

Presumably because the joy of giving is the coin in which the transaction is paid, and the delay and interaction extend and amplify the joy.
The difference is that you can “afford” to buy the whole launch and get to your desired orbit instead of doing a ride share and ending up wherever the main payload was headed.
Emacs is a typewriter that comes with a one thousand-page user manual and can also serve as a piano and a chainsaw.
They remind me of Dr Dirty
http://johnvalby.com/
Jails are nice but it has always seemed like a system where you don’t need another copy of userland would be better (eg sandboxing). It’s wasteful and you might forget to apply security patches.
They’re separate entities with very different missions.
The good thing is that renewable is the cheapest source of energy, which means that Bitcoin is that coin. However, it depends on location, and currently hydropower is the most lucrative if you can find an already built, but underutilized plant. Bitcoin gives away $250,000 to miners every 10 minutes, which is a good incentive for new energy developments.
> Not if you don't know that the better mouse trap was even possible. You are not going to search for "breathable, waterproof shoes" if you don't know GoreTex is a thing.

Sure I am, if I care about shoes being breathable and waterproof. Why would I not do that, and instead hope a magic box will read my mind and guess what I need?
Show HN: A 28 day rolling forecast of Covid-19 projections by state
I did that a bit. Some people do that more .. some do it daily.
I received an invite and didn't bother to sign up for a while until a friend asked me for an invite. So my first impressions are:

- available only on iOS

- I had to upload all my contacts. I saw how many friends of my friends are on the platform which was questionable.

- there are a few profiles with 500k+ followers that almost every user follows.

- currently for me at least it's founders and VCs echo chamber but I think it could be quite interesting if it becomes more diverse in terms of topics.
That helps, thanks. We searched a lot but couldn't find it a few months ago, is it new? Or maybe it didn't exist on the web app?
Reminds me of Solaris Stop A sequence.
Counterpoint: game publishers are more than happy to sit on an IP without releasing a game for years. For example Dune (the board game). Dungeon Keeper. Hexen 3 (Hecatomb). Rune 2. Prey 2.

Duke Nukem Forever... actually happened.
Of course they are related! A knot is a knot. It's just that mathematicians are obsessed with proving things rigorously [1], whereas the sailor just wants his sails to hang right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perko_pair
jQuery is written in JS, but if your code is using jQuery functions you are not writing "vanilla JS" anymore. Otherwise we wouldn't need the term "vanilla JS".

What I meant was inlining the jQuery calls to their equivalent JS snippets, removing the need for including a 80K library if you are not overly dependent on jQuery. It was also a tongue-in-cheek comment.
The PGP thing is wildly different than the other applications in that it is a complete airgapped system on a key. The decryption and signing is actually done on key so the private key isn't exposed. PGP is pretty much the only thing that does this and as a result can be held up as an example of where we do in fact have a unique standard.
And how is that supposed to help us in this case? It doesn't have to be a "replacement", but at least some suggestions for improvement; just rejecting without any suggestions is not constructive.
I mean, I guess, but it just seems bizarre and unnecessary to force a racial angle on this story. I would be pretty unhappy if I were in this guy's place and reporters insisted on calling me a "Mexican employee".
What is it? I don't get it
> What is wrong with having the possibility to use your own server to communicate with friends? I have the server, they pay me for electricity and hosting.

Why would you believe I think it's wrong ?
>However, if instead of using this pigment in a few valuable paintings, it would be used in a high number of ephemeral sketches done for practice, that would be a waste.

Just like a high number of ephemeral smartphone screens would be a waste?
I have the same need. I have some stuff I keep because it has value to my eyes.. I'd give it to someone who would take care of it.
I’m extremely curious about
Rule number two, so I have to ask if you would be willing to get the feedback on why there important and share it with us? I feel like there is a genuine insight with this rule that isn’t obvious to me and likely others
But one of the events must be the least likely. And why would it not be significantly less likely than the next least likely event, given that they are uncorrelated?
Isn't this all a bit rich from a behavioural advertising company?
Yeah I think the implied name is:

But Nothing (because you have too much already and anything you do need you can probably get from someone else who has too much)
If your laptop get stolen (with Yubikey in it) you only loose one of your TWO factors. So the thief does not have access to your account since they don't know your passwords.

Also, if a user can't learn how to operate a Yubikey after 10 minutes I don't think there is anything that can keep them safe online.
It's just DRM. Cut the bullshit!
> or people tout the high number of stars and forks on project pages.

to me that's also always a jarring (and negative) signal. Especially since plenty people use stars as bookmarks. (And don't even get me started on the ones that believe someone starring a repo is a reason to send them emails about the project! Luckily that's rare)
> People can't imagine that criminals might have had some understandable train of thought prior to committing a crime; or worse that they may have done exactly the same thing in their shoes.

People can imagine this. They understand it. They just implicitly recognize that humans are rationalization machines, that their reasons don't matter. Every single person in human history, no matter how abhorrent, had their reasons, had a whole litany of reasons that they could recite. Plenty of them were able to convince other people they were right, too. That's how you get everything from mass surveillance to genocides.

Now, it's part of being human that we recognize that in extraordinary circumstances, maybe those exigencies can justify or ameliorate your wrongs. But every single person in human history is going to be able to explain to you why that applies to their case, that they had to do it.

But the fact remains nearly all of them didn't.
But BTC is only dominant in market cap, ETH is the most widely used blockchain. Sidechains on BTC have been a topic of discussion for awhile now, and frankly none have gotten a huge amount of traction. At some point the network effects that ETH has are too big to ignore.

But whether the most used blockchain should be the highest in market cap is a totally different discussion. It's possible ETH goes mainstream, but BTC is still valued higher as "digital gold." I have no idea what will be the outcome.
interesting, entertaining the stuff around USO lore though, wouldn't the energy required to navigate around the bottom of the ocean be immense though (more than whatever you calculated)?
DARPA to use nucleic acid sequences to stop pandemics in
Even if I wished to pay an entity that I was banned from paying by my government or my bank, the very fact that it was banned would make me worry about being defrauded.
The easiest way to see this is a tool like procmon - you can see every file that anyone tries to access or open. By taking a log of procmon while plugging in a USB device, I'm sure you can find a few things that shouldn't be being accessed...

Even when microsoft fixes all their issues, I can bet a bunch of 3rd party apps touch files on external media, and to exploit a locked computer, any third party app running on a users desktop is sufficient too!
Time for everyone in adtech to start advertising Firefox then. Google has made it clear they want to be the only platform where users can watch ads. OSes, Browser, websites.
Sorry but a two sentence idea is not Show HN material. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I did a few similar scenes using a software renderer I wrote - not a ray tracer, though - for a Computer Graphics class in the early 2000s. Except I used a painting by Jim Todd as background, named "What Price Victory":

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fmfAOCgGNJU/SQuCxkXJiRI/AAAAAAAAGE...
A new FAQ page will be linked from this spot on Jan 18th.
Check back to be enlightened!

Or watch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
22 years ago, I had a 8mbps DSL connection, and a significant part of urban Japan already had 100mbps.

On other hand, America had more fibre than any other nation, but its hyperregulated telecom industry only managed to cross 10mbps averages 10-8 years ago.
Real-time air quality map – PurpleAir
The purpose of this is to help people meet their neighbors, do nice things for each other, and build local community more than it is to reduce consumerism (though that can be a nice side effect).
I think their implication is that you'd simply make use of peer review without treating it as infallible.
Not sure what parts specifically. There are FAANG software engineers making $200k entry level. Making the same salary in security requires far more work and skill than doing entry level software development for FAANG.
These companies didn't make money on patent licenses, they made money on selling the stuff. More money than they should, because they used patents to limit competition.

Patents can be useful as an incentive, but their length need to correspond with the pace of progress in a given field. Otherwise, they end up slowing down everyone.
Your comment is puzzling to me.

Is it sarcasm or how you really think?

You seen to have solid logic centres and a steady income. You’ve also put thought in to your impact on the planet as a whole. But the part that confuses me is that it seems you’ve not questioned the “work for money, spend money” script.

Billions of people alive today continue to work for things besides money, and optimize for all sorts of goals that are rewarding to them: positive impacts on the world that are magnitudes larger than they could do alone, the happiness of loved ones, refinement of technologies that people can use to help themselves, self-knowledge, and so-on.

There are so many different ways to live that I can fill my brain with them and still have no view of the end of the list.
You may be right. But you are also extrapolating from a single data point.
This nazi psychosis nowadays really reminds me of the communist psychosis during the Cold War. Nazis, nazis everywhere!
A monitored circulating market of unused objects, and a renovation fablab would be seriously nice.
It is a valid point. I would normally argue that foundation of the law and its implementation are two different issues. Not to mention, over time, previous norms can be eroded.
> The Person has the right to refuse that his bag be checked by company employees and ask to involve the police.

Why would the employee ask to involve the police? You can just refuse, period.

If your employer has evidence of a crime they're free to try to convince the police to get involved.
Great idea, but seems basically to be a collection of facebook groups? Am quite despondent that so many community groups are reliant on facebook.
Probably helps items go to people who really need them instead of scalpers, vultures, and hoarders who make a business of being ready to pounce on free items.
Fun fact, in China, conservatism tend to be related to old-school, Mao-era communism, which is probably considered far-far-left extremists in the free world.
You would have to equalize for speed and transfer fees (because people consume a quite a bit of energy doing things faster and obtaining money) and then somehow come up with some way to calculate all the necessary energy for a wire transfer.
I've seen a similar group without the second rule. It's a mess because the instant anyone posts anything there are many users who reflexively post "Q" (as in queue for item). Then when you reply to give them the item, they say they decided they don't want it. This can all happen within minutes.

Time delay is more fair and less anxiety inducing.
"whataboutism" is exactly an accusatory gotcha.
I have said it before, I will say it again: Own your infrastructure.
Cross site scripting can exfiltrate an auth token stored in local storage. An HttpOnly cookie cannot be stolen this way, and with SameSite=strict, CSRF is not an issue.
Which APIs that were part of the ECMA standard were removed? As far as I know the only APIs that get removed are the ones that get implemented outside of the standard, and are later deprecated. That's fault of the developer, not of the technology.
I have done projects on all except Azure (mostly due to a Microsoft aversion). I hate their special names for everything. Reminds me of Starbucks.

Here is my take: GCP tools are better PubSub, CloudSQL. However they don't support email and their docs are not as up to date and helpful as AWS.

I think the main reason to select the big three is a) security (network, instance, user management) b) you don't get fired for selecting the big guys c) some specialized tools (SES, s3, CDNs, github)

I always feel that the time you invest to learn all the details of AWS you could have invested into Ansible, Docker, Wireguard, Iptables, zfs and linux, and deploy a much more cost effective solution on Heztner, (which I prefer over upcloud, do, vultr). But you need to know what you are doing. Many companies prefer to trust a vendor instead of their employees.
Friends of mine working from home (already before covid) adopted dogs just to be forced to leave the house at least twice a day.
>> I personally have never read the full text of a CA prop, and I'm guessing most others haven't either

Do you believe that most politicians have read the full text of the bills they vote on?
Hisense A7 First Look – An E INK phone with a giant screen
First of all, this needs a (2016) tag.

Would an exact duplicate of the existing working drive, maybe done with dd, help with this? Maybe some Metadata from the drive layout would have to be changed, too.

Other than this workaround, it seems that ZFS could be changed to allow an import again. Has this been changed in recent years?
There are plenty of other options, the one I'll focus on is already is in widespread use: science seems to progress fine using only preprints. It is the norm in physics and becoming the norm for biology to read the preprint of a paper long before it is published in a journal. Official peer review adds very little value over this system.
I wonder if the bigger hurdle here is that you have to spend money to get into the developer program (unless this is waived for these kinds of apps, I couldn’t tell when trying to dig up an answer)

I don’t know that effectively slapping an app shell around an extension is a big hurdle, but no other web extension store charges for entry, so that very well could be the real barrier here.
I haven't seen anyone recommend net/http yet, but that is the library that was recommended to me to read to get a sense for modern, idiomatic go.
So what is the problem? People can host those libraries and they don't because it's not a problem yet. If/when it does become one, they will.
Oh, it seemed like that was what this site was saying:

https://www.yubico.com/solutions/passwordless/
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users
We're talking about literal Nazis here. It's not 'forcing' a racial angle when they want to round up people like the employee in question and put them in death camps based on their race.

If you were warning about the presence of a group calling for a Mexican genocide to your Mexican colleagues and were fired for it, it would make sense for that to be noted in the news stories.
My particular city / state has been under lockdown for the last year and has been pleading people to avoid meeting anybody outside of their household for about as long.

In 2020 and beyond, at least until vaccinations are fully rolled out, you don't go to bars, clubs or any kind of social gatherings with strangers. Online dating is about the last option people have to meet someone new until things return to normal. Especially if you're working a lot and find yourself in a new city with no existing connections.
https://searchads.apple.com/ I'm not sure if they have anything else going but they have this at least.
Well, the threat of nuclear annihilation has helped all the nuclear powers in the world from actually using their weapons, even their low-yield tactical weapons. It might not be logical to bomb them to smithereens after they launched against you but you better hope they assume you will do so in retaliation. As long as everyone thinks you will make good on your promise to launch if attacked, the incentive to attack you is close to zero.

And yes, I know the nuclear powers have fought proxy wars outside of their own territory, That is not what this discussion is about, this is about keeping conflicts from going nuclear. The Soviets first and the Russians after were and are rational countries, unlikely to invite their own destruction by launching against any other the other nuclear powers. The same goes for nearly all other nuclear powers with the possible exception of the North Koreans. The real danger with nuclear weapons is the possibility of them ending up in the hands of irrational actors, pick and choose from religiously motivated terrorist groups to ecofascist organisations and anything in between. It is somewhat surprising that there has not yet been a nuclear bombing by such a group given the supposedly sizeable number of nuclear munitions which have gone missing over time. I can only assume that this means that it is harder than thought to make this actually work.
Ooh I only disagree about bitcoin having imaginary value. I believe a bitcoin has real value, because we have chosen it to have real value, much like we collectively chose the USD to mean something.

I don't have any real opinion on the environmental effect of bitcoin, if we do that then maybe we should start thinking about the environmental effects of javascript.
… where "create a bad work environment" involves warning people there's a Nazi coup attempt in progress.
The Republican ex-mayor of NYC couldn't win the Democratic primary with money alone, I wouldn't put too much stock into that incident.
how can you not have random bag checks? It could be as simple as every nth bag, or everyone one day a year, or rolling a die for each person and a 2 means you get searched. This is not the same problem as police using racial profiling. Mexican customs does something similar and I'm pretty sure they're not picking out the whitest tourists.
> Not all 2nd Factor solutions allow stealing the 2nd factor.

The second half of the article goes into detail about the shortcomings of U2F (using "Yubikeys" as it's terminology)
Treating something or someone as infallible contradicts the basic principles of science.
Does no one else see the bitter irony in this coming from a developer with a startup who presumable contributes to the same electricity usage via datacenters and user load?
I think it is pretty clear that part of the story here is missing. No company fires someone just for saying the word Nazi. there was a complaint made against them perhaps a misunderstanding.
The quote saying that “Nazis have no place at github” is particularly confusing.

My guess is that someone interpreted this as Trump supporters are Nazis and as an accusation of their coworkers
And besides the vultures sniping everything, not everyone has enough free time to continuously monitor the group. Some people can spend their whole day with a Facebook tab open, others have one hour a day to catch up.
Wait, is this a joke? This sounds like the worst built infrastructure I've ever heard of where they had more money than engineering sense.

Also, Gbpm.
Wait, so if you think you are helping people you are a smug asshole and if you’re not doing it to help people you’re a self-centered asshole?
> Only antitrust won't do what they think it does. I'm not even sure people know what they want at this point..

Though I loathe concern trolling, on this aspect, I am very guilty.

None of the proposed measures I've read even acknowledge my concerns, much less offer remedies.

I'll share mine if you'll share yours.

I want to foster fairness and competition. The most modest, minimal measures are:

- prohibit self dealing, conflicts of interest

- impose rule of law over de facto marketplaces

- ban competing with one's own clients and partners

That's the very least we can do to oxygenate our economies. I also support far more assertive measures,

- repeated radical cashectomies

- fixed royalty schedule for all
patents (taxes by another name)

- restore Eisenhower era corporate tax rates, with generous breaks for R&D and employee profit sharing

-limit comparable compensation (of all kinda) between CEO and janitors to 40:1.

- reassert shareholder rights by banning minority control (eg voting super shares for founders)

That's just my casual list, from the hip. I should probably draft a more comprehensive compilation of all the remedies I've heard proposed.