skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I like what PDS projects like this are aiming to achieve the two big problems with the approach that I see are:

1) Traction. There's no reason for third parties to give up what they view as lucrative personal data on you to have it stored elsewhere. The status quo is profitable for them, and this is an unproven system with no market share - so they have a handy excuse not to cater for it.

2) PDS solutions don't only aggregate your data, but congregate it - centrally - for a bad actor to later exploit should the software ever be compromised.

I think the ideal solution here is something along the lines of what Blur and Apple Private Relay are doing.

As a side note, I'd really like to see Apple expand the private relay service beyond Sign in With Apple so that I can use private relay addresses with third party services that haven't already moved to support SIWA. Given the private relay e-mail is bound to the user by Apple, they should be able to make this slick enough to allow you to sign-in to the same account later if that service moves to support SIWA down the road.

Beyond that, I'd love them to expand to anonymization services. I would be quite happy to have packages or mail from third parties arrive addressed to "FAO: RELAY-AMAZON:GX43UJXKL56ASFHU" rather than to my actual name such that I don't need to give that information out.

With Apple's (or even Google's) clout, I could ultimately see either of them (if they wanted to do so) win over a lot of goodwill by pushing the private relay to a person's full identity rather than just their e-mail. They've shown before they can make moonshot disruptions work if they're so motivated (e.g. Apple Pay). Google is already doing this for phones with Google Voice. I'd pay for that service. I'd pay a lot for that, actually.
"Sometimes a difference in scale makes a difference in kind" (heard in a CGPGrey video, but I'm sure the quote predates it)
We are using JavaScript for our SaaS-Backend
For our SaaS-product Botium Box - a full functional and non-functional testing infrastructure for chatbot - we decided to go for Node.js in the backend. ... The one single argument why we decided for Node.js was that in our small developer team (4 people) everyone is a full-stack-developer, and it will ultimately safe time to develop client and server in the same programming language.
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I once wrote a backend for what I think of as "the SysV print spooler" (hpux7/8, d-nix, and maybe AIX, but IIRC there were some subtle differences with AIX) to run rayshade on the files fed in and drop the resulting image back somewhere (this was ~30 years ago, I don't exactly recall the details).

I recall consider doing it for the SunOS box we had, but lpd/lpr (what I think of as "the BSD print spooler") was sufficiently different that while it would have been possible, it wasn't worth the extra hassle to get one more machine to be able to render on.

I don't think we ever set it up to shuffle render spool jobs from one host to another, though. And, no, "doing raytracing" was not at ALL what the machines were supposed to do, they just weren't very loaded from their normal workloads, so some of the staff played around with it for fun.
https://dev.to/codeforequityat/we-are-using-javascript-for-o...
Graham Hancock is brilliant at muddying the waters (saying this as someone who used to read everything he put out - i was enthralled at the mystery of an ancient civilisation that gave birth to all the rest, but nothing over the last 30 years has been substantiated and he loves working the underdog/anti-consensus angle so in my opinion that’s his entire bent, he revels in casting aspersions on well established archeological convention) so I’m not too sure about that, this post suggests it’s still being excavated [0]

Interestingly, there have been some recent excavations that suggest there are some sites that may be even older [1]

[0] https://www.thetravel.com/gobekli-tepe-still-being-excavated...
[1] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/ancient-site-older-than-gob...
So when does censorship of or manipulating user ratings make an app store responsible to its users for failing to prevent harm to them (or wasted time) from bad apps, mismanaged services, scams and frauds? Ppl see the 4 stars, download the app, wire RH a part of their nest egg, RH predictably fails to honor commitments in ways explained by the deleted app reviews, and RH damages app users. At what point is Google responsible for that mess? Never?
I set up a revolut account for currency exchange in 2018 and finally moved to use them as my primary bank in 2020. Never had any significant issues. Recently I was setting up a Revolut Business account and I didn't get a notification email requesting additional evidence. Me not getting an email is something they could improve, but the need for a thorough identity verification is understandable given their global ambitions.

Edit: I'd like to add that revolut was very helpful after most of my valuables were stolen in 2019. While my other bank took three weeks to deliver a new debit card, a virtual card issued by revolut worked immediately via NFC.
Ask HN: Which technology for creating internal desktop application?
I'm working in a company whose business is not software development but still highly technology based. We need to create/revamp some small internal tools used by our engineers. What technology would you recommend in 2021? One constraint is that it shall be working without network connection. Another is the easiness of the framework such that occasional dev. can contribute. OS is windows.

I was thinking primarily about python/qt. Any advices?
Cool tech guys from the comfort of their SV office downvoting a negative comment about their beloved Stalin loving surveillance while having a sip from their Starbucks "coffee".

HN gives me a pretty clear view of why big tech are trying to control every aspect of our lives. Most of the people here think they hold the higher moral ground so they have the authority to tell others what to do or what to think.

Typical modern leftist ideology. Very disappointed with HN lately.
Relevant to yesterday’s Robinhood actions in $GME? That they were not being blocked from entry at ETrade, contrary to what RH and WeBull were doing and contrary to some reports lumping ETrade into “the conspiracy”.

I wasn’t in GME, but I want to know how my broker is handling unusual market conditions.
RH are closing out some margin calls to decrease the risk of this happening afaik.
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Tethering into My Router via Laptop?
My wife's small office has a Mikrotik router that connects to our DSL ISP. Unfortunately, the ISP has rare, but long, outages whenever a car hits a pole or they screw something else up. Out model of router does not support USB.

The office runs an EHR Windows app that uses several local servers and everyone has a slim-ish client. When the ISP is down, tethering to one of the servers doesn't work, and tethering individual clients doesn't either, I believe because the app makes internet based checks in addition to the servers doing similar things.

Given that we have lots of spare laptops around, could I tether my Android to a laptop, then use ICS on the laptop to connect the ethernet port to the router WAN port? Mikrotik supports multiple WANs, but I'm generally not available to mess with configurations when the failures occur. Simply unplugging the DSL modem and plugging in the laptop would be something the staff could handle.
I'm reminded of the story of the new Nike CEO who called up Steve Jobs asking for advice. Jobs told him "Get rid of the crappy stuff".
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I just installed it via pip. Cool! I already put it in my .bashrc as a welcome screen!
He’s a great populariser of bullshit. Interesting theories but nothing over 30 years of building unsubstantiated theories out of thin threads of evidence that aren’t connected
> Look at Square or Patreon - in both platforms you are truly the customer, and their UX is incredible.

You're kidding, right?

They're both disasters. Patreon's UX feels like it was designed by someone deliberately trying to tank the company.
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This is not a pump and dump. In PnD, there is an element of subterfuge - the people you are selling to are unaware of what is going on. In this play, all actors are fully informed of what is going on. I mean, maybe some people don't really understand the details, but the majority of people here aren't buying GME because they think it'll keep going up; they all know it's overvalued, but they don't care, because the goal is only partially to make a profit. 'Pump and dump' isn't illegal per se, what is illegal is lying about fundamentals or circumstances to influence stock price. That is not what is happening here.

Furthermore, if you're arguing that it's illegal because it's done in group, then I don't understand what legal basis you are using for that. I also don't understand why you'd say it's "very different" from doing it on your own. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that legal to do on your own, but illegal in group (some things are more illegal in a group, but that's not what we're talking about)
Good one. They also call themselves Autists and Retards.

I read a suggestion that it’s not the price of the stock that scared the hedge fund. But the borrowing costs, where the interest rates might have gone as high as 80%!

That’s quite an expensive credit card there to be shorting stocks with.
Commissions have the same impact, increasing your effective spread.
U.S. intelligence officials say Chinese government is collecting Americans' DNA
I helped with this release a tiny bit but Tim Hutton (who's around here I reckon) deserves the bulk of the credit for some really great advances that I think will create huge possibilities for exploration! (support for loading patterns using the new 'keywords' feature in Houdini coming soon)
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF): Reflection and Future
Yeah, you totally got the snark in that.

Despite the end result of the cycle, in the long term of making better software through embarrassing disclosure, it really does leave a negative impression on "why should this be made open source?".

The act of making something open source really can result in pain without any measurable gain or positive. Measuring things this way really isn't a good equation for open source.
Well designers, now you know what it's like for users who have had to suffer with you sticking bigger fonts and more whitespace padding in every design for the last ten years despite users wanting the opposite.
Because everyone is overblowing the safety net thing. It's not so much a safety net, it's handouts for parents to seed companies (pay kid's employee salaries) or investments at an early age. Or a free place to live so that a lot of th income can go towards startups.
Such things don't make logical sense to me. So assuming Facebook is a "natural monopoly", it is only so because of millions of people (the voters) choose to use it. Instead of voting for legislation, those people could simply vote with their feet and choose a different social network. There is no need for regulation. (If the people already WANT it, they could simply do it, without government intervention).
> If you "like" them using a 3rd party client (I think NewPipe can do this) then that information is saved locally.

Exactly. When you export your NewPipe data it creates a db file with all your searches, stream history, subscriptions and more. All of this happens without you having a YouTube account and this data doesn't leave the device until you decide.
Did you use the app?
There are data brokers -- legally operating companies -- which already collect personal data of entire populations in a central place.
"I'm all for free speech, but you can't let that guy say those things."
Compare that to this beauty: http://ftp.scsh.net/pub/scsh/0.6/scsh-manual.ps.gz pp. 10 onward. It's such a pity scsh is dead ...
fortnight is pretty close
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I think it doesn't matter, as they can't use the client's cash on it until the stock is delivered at the end of the T+2 settlement period.
You might like http://unsongbook.com/, a novel based on this premise.
Well, I wouldn't go that far. Last time I tried OpenBSD I ran into several bugs.

One reproducible freeze, one sloppy coding (ksh), and some leftover cruft in the kernel.

Previous times I've used OpenBSD I've encountered bugs in what feels like any place I've looked. MPLS, time parsing in libc, …

But it's definitely more "if it exists, it works" than the Lennartware that's been taking over Linux for the last several years.

Some thoughts from 2019:
https://blog.habets.se/2019/10/OpenBSD-in-2019.html
It is, as far as I know, an unprecedented event with potentially far reaching consequences, not matter how it ends up. A huge market manipulation by a massive amount of retail traders, enabled by Robinhood and similar brokers, that has the potential to cause a lot of established players billions in losses.

How can and will the SEC react to this market manipulation; it seems unlikely they can pursue the millions of retail traders individually, so can we expect some new regulations instead? Can companies like RH exist in the same form in the future? The fact they stopped people from buying stocks may or may not have been legal, but it certainly distorted the action price. Again, I think this is pretty unprecedented, at least on this scale, so the financial landscape after all of this settle down might be significantly altered. Finally, if the short squeeze happens, what will be the consequences? Are we in for another huge financial crisis?
> There's no reason for third parties to give up what they view as lucrative personal data on you to have it stored elsewhere. The status quo is profitable for them, and this is an unproven system with no market share - so they have a handy excuse not to cater for it.

There are a lot of third parties, and for many of them, keeping your data is not their expertise nor business model, and neither is the protection of it. There's plenty of personal data sloshing around in badly protected databases of companies that need to use it for their primary competence, and for whom new legislation is increasingly turning it into a liability. Being able to use it without needing to be responsible for it can still be an attractive proposition.

(Disclosure: I work on what is presumably a competitor to this project, though opinions are my own.)
It's a problem, but the accusation of criminal market manipulation appears unwarranted.
Absolutely not. He's not Von Daniken crazy, but potentially more insidious. He's extremely careful to caveat and disguise his crazy under a legitimate looking veneer. His books are extensively annotated and referenced, he talks like a legitimate archaeologist and makes sure that the more outlandish and conspiracy theory ideas are there by implication rather than overt claims. He works very hard to make it difficult to dismiss him out of hand and to keep a seat at the legitimate debate table.

However he does make sure that the more out there crazy does get referenced and carefully avoids saying anything, or referencing any counter-evidence that would discredit them. So he avoids being categorised with the more extreme crazies, while assiduously making it clear he is their friend. After all, he needs to sell his books.

Having said that, his stuff as with Von Daniken really is a lot of fun. I occasionally check it out just to keep current on state of the art crazy. Just bear in mind there's a lot of flim-flam in there and he will avoid referencing any evidence that debunks his claims, no matter how much of it there is. You will not get the whole story from him. For example he will write a book on a topic from the point of view of say 20 years before the book's development and publication, and ignore any inconvenient research later than that, and probably also ignore some relevant research and counter-arguments from before that as well.
Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've seen this comment before when it comes to turbolinks and it is a pain but if that is what I'm giving up to avoid doubling my state with an SPA, writing a ton more code to create an api and then writing more to hook it up to speak to the backend, double error checking, losing access to my whole database when creating a page and having to create a ton of endpoints to get the data I need, etc... Then I'll take that trade.

I do think SPA's still have their usecase for when it comes to complex screens but I would like to see that screen only have the incremental complexity on it. Svelte would be my goto for that page at the moment.

It's a bit like what HEY done with their mobile app, most of the app is SSR HTML but the main inbox screen calls out to the JSON API with a native screen.

I say all this but I do love the component nature of frontend frameworks, it is nice to put things in boxes like that and have pulled in data change the view in reaction. But this new hotwire turbo frame idea sounds again much simpler where say we have a chart we want to update over time and display, in SPA world we would speak to some API change some context/store/component prop etc and let the rerender happen. With a turboframe we just make a call out to get the new updated HTML from an endpoint.

I would love some examples of people comparing and contrasting the exact same webpages + functionality with SSR + Hotwire vs SPA. Take this page for example https://nomadlist.com/ its just PHP SSR but on my initial viewing I would think this warrants a SPA.
Then, the said UX designer is not a true UX designer.

User experience involves stuffs other than visual appearances. They must also take care of interaction, information architecture, usability. Decreased usability is a symptom of failure of misdesign.
How do I automatically extract data from a website?
I understand this, and there's an argument to be made about ethics here.. but, these companies do have a non-trivial amount of work to do to collate the data into profiles. There are also ways of making the attribution of this data to an individual more difficult for these companies.
Their sales tell us that they don’t have to do that, apparently!
There is a reason why stocks get straight up halted from trading due to extreme volatility. Robinhood had to the same on this extreme event to keep their company solvent. Just because folks don't understand how the market works doesn't mean it is a nefarious plot against the little guy.
At home that's a good solution, but when on the go, lugging a keyboard around does seem like too much discomfort too.
That's a false dichotomy. Some of the people might want greater regulation, some might want less regulation.

RH is still very weird thing and it being able to basically hold your stocks hostage and sell them on their own terms, should be regulated.

Imagine if you bank basically freezes your assets and sells them off, without your input. You'd want your bank regulated, no?
Does Google make much money from those?
Do they have a policy like apple where they take a cut of the subscription fees?
margin calls
> So they probably settle trades in real-time.

They do not. They settle trades in 2 business days like everyone else. Think about it: if you sell a share to a HFT, how could the HFT receive it immediately when you don't need to deliver it for two days?

However there is a process called CNS (Continuous Net Settlement) which means you generally only have to settle the net of your trades each day.
My point is that regulation of web standards and browser features isn't possible - regulation of data collected is. If you try to regulate the technology (supercookie, java Script, etc.) it isn't the collectee that gets in trouble with the law but the developers of the browsers, libraries and websites like Mozilla, jQuery and "me". Regulating browser features is like regulating the maximum speed of cars. The ones punished for a "too fast Lamborghini" would then be the factory, not the owner driving 40 miles an hour. In other words if the US says a Lamborghini must have a maximum speed below 50mph, the EU says 80mph and a tiny island somewhere says 300mph, where do you think Lamborghini will incorporate the part of their factory that gets their cars certified? Then we have a run to the bottom like with tax evasion and the small developer gets strangled. Regulation doesn't belong on things like supercookies but on what you collect with them.
Just saw someone mentioned Göbekli Tepe on Reddit in the same hour, lol. What a coincidence.
I have been also using Revolut as my primary bank since 2017 and no issues at all. On the contrary, great customer service (I was a Metal customer and now Premium customer). Now I even do my trading through them.
Because the anti short-seller movement is so dumb. Shorting overvalued stocks is a good thing.
You're saying that the end result will certainly be the same, that "the patsies" will end up giving their money to someone else. But at the same time you say that this scenario has to become regulated.

Why? If the end result is the same, what's the argument for regulating it?

Also, there's a hilarious near-unanimous political backlash against the brokers that interfered or halted with their customers' ability to trade GME these past couple of days.

> If nothing else, this incident has shown that maverick investment could be dangerous to our financial systems.

In the 2008 financial crisis, the actors who caused it suffered absolutely zero consequences, while the losses were socialized, and regular people suffered consequences in the form of recession and unemployment.

The hypocrisy is staggering, if anything, the large actors in the financial systems are dangerous to ordinary people!

> Their actions could hurt a lot of innocent people as well

"Won't somebody please think of the children!!!"

Yeah, no. The explicit target of this action are the shorting hedge funds that were betting on Gamestop's slow demise. There are no innocents being hurt here.
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Absolutely. I think generationally we're sick of old rich people owning everything and dictating how things should work, electing backwards idiots, doing things like brexit, and forcing us to rent every god damn part of our lives from them. Democracy is at present failing us hugely, and if something like this can start to hit the ownership class where it hurts, I'm all for it.

I chucked in £30 on Free Trade.

I don't care if I get that money back. I just want to see the rich people suffer a bit, know that they don't have all the power.
I thought we are discussing app reviews.