skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government only has the powers granted to it by the constitution. If the power for the executive to unilaterally conduct searches was not given to it, then it doesn't have it. Just because it doesn't say the government can't surveil foreigners doesn't mean they can - it has to specifically say the government is granted the right to surveil foreigners. And there's really very little reason to think that a power never granted to the government in the first place in the case of Americans was actually, somehow in secret, granted in the cases of non-Americans.
How does when you happen to download something affect how secure it is?

By default -- presumably the most common case by far -- "npx serve" will download the most recent stable build. But why should that be less secure than some previous version?

New vulnerabilities could have been introduced. But, of course, old ones could have been resolved.

If you generally trust the source to be working in good faith and have an adequate level of competence, I would expect a given package/tool tends to become more secure over time, so taking the latest is a generally good strategy (not perfect of course) compared to running a version that is out-of-date to an arbitrary degree.

Of course, if you don't generally trust the source to be working in good faith or have an adequate level of competence, then you should not use the package/tool no matter when it was built or when you downloaded it.

I'm not seeing the logic here.
> Authorize.net

Arrreghhjh!!

Brings back horrible memories from the .com bubble for me.

F authorize.net.
"oh shit looks like we're going to miss our connecting flight? Alright let me just jump out the door and land on the next airplane"
It is better to have AI weapons fighting each other, then to have 19-24 years old fighting each other.
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Right now the primary question is about the comprehension, or lack of same, on the part of anti-vaxers. The actual truth about infections is almost completely irrelevant here. The question is, what tactic will keep us all safest when the primary threat comes from people who are clinically stupid?

That's purely a psychology question, and I honestly don't know what the answer is. But it's worth noting that it's pretty much all about strawmen, and which strawmen the anti-vax crowd can be manipulated into believing.
Skyflow could have helped me build features at Google
What do you wish to imply?
It's kinda both. If you're familiar with Airtable, the feature sets are almost carbon copies of each other.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143076.
They should do this to encourage weight loss.
Mark Shannon's involvement is more interesting. There is no evidence Guido will be especially good at optimizing CPython performance (and arguably lots of evidence to the opposite). And as he's no longer BDFL it's not clear what power he really has to get his changes in if the Steering Council still shares his previous aesthetic preferences and not his current ones.
If the 3.9 or 4.0 was used to beat out another applicant to medical school with a 3.6 who was actually learning skills that would help them as a doctor, then yes, we should care.

And that's why I mentioned a relevant class and not underwater basket weaving in the example.

I'd also argue the specific outcome we should aim for is people who know what they are doing, and whose credentials accurately reflect their knowledge (not their ability to game the system or cheat).
Exactly, what a ridiculous statement from GP. Now it seems like the web might end up in webgl canvases anyways
The Sun luminosity increases, preservation will only work short term.
Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem.

Curious what you'd be willing to pay for this, as it's exclusively an enterprise feature. My guess is an absolute minimum of $50k/year contract value, or 250-350 users at an enterprise per-seat price (just guessing).

Aside from going fully on prem, the idea of strictly dedicated storage is interesting -- like "bring your own S3 bucket" simplicity. I don't see that often outside of $10 desktop apps.
Recent threads:

Preparing for Pre-Orders! (Framework modular laptop) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052468 - May 2021 (79 comments)

The Framework Laptop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263508 - Feb 2021 (991 comments)

There's also
Framework’s repairable laptop is up for preorder, starting at $999 - https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/13/frameworks-repairable-lapt...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142913, but we merged that thread hither)
>Trump was never going to act against these interests even if he’d wanted to given all the other aspects he was embroiled in.

Yet another person completely unaware that Trump let the Patriot Act expire: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/politics/house-vote-fisa/inde...

Can't say I'm surprised, the left didn't want to make huge news about it because it made Trump look good (and the establishment left supports the Patriot Act), and the right establishment/military supports the Patriot Act as well so they didn't want to raise a hubbub about it.
I imagine in a number of cases it will be more like AI weapons fighting 19-24 year olds.
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This is a lot of real effort - one per workday for a year. I just am trying to imagine what I could do similarly:

- a code review from an OSS project per day?

- a bug fix per day?

- document something every day

- add a line of code to an OSS project per day?

Any ideas?
In my opinion: Not even slightly. I have to make the assumption you've not seen either great desperation nor great stupidity.
I had this come up today in a Zoom conversation with a locked-down colleague in India. So embarrassing.
> So then what's the point?

It's useful to keep track of ownership of digital goods. And if you did it in a centralized way there are issues with that. We have seen with Amazon and Apple that there can be issues with ownership getting revoked, or services being discontinued as with Google music. It may also not be transferrable. And if you instead make the Government keep track of who owns what there can be some privacy concerns.
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I read it in 2011 when it came out, and I still have a vague memory of the memory palace he teaches you to build. I used my childhood home to remember:

- Garlic in the driveway

- Six bottles of wine playing catch with three pairs of socks

- A scuba diver in the kitchen sink

- A smoke machine in the living room

I have no idea what it was that I was supposed to be remembering or whether those are even the right things, but memory palaces are apparently a powerful tool.
No one suggest they have. As long as they have less than an device that does the same task but uses gas then it reduces emissions.

Rockets as well, they pollute but making them reusable pollutes less. Also depending on fuel type its perfectly possible to produce it form solar energy.

But DOGE just burns energy it does nothing with it that could not be done without.
Its significantly less then Buttcoin but it explodes with popularity as well. And every energy wasted is too much in the end.
I don't think a counterexample (an ill-advised one at that) makes "Often, ..." false.
Should be titled "Three things you can't build yourself" as Apple mandates that you us theirs.
New Google Cloud Run Security Features: Secret Manager, Binary Authorization
This also impacts the climate and has to be solved.
Are you thinking battles happen in open fields with no one around other than rows of opposing forces? Do you think no bad actors are going to have access to such weapons? The world is a lot more complex than what you describe.
If a turbocharger is configured to act as a heat recovery turbine it is significantly more complicated including again a generator. Therefore it can not be simpler than an electric motor, this should be obvious. This is referred to as turbo compounding not turbo charging [1].

Turbochargers allow more efficiency through engine downsizing and that they can be bypassed under light/cruising loads. That is you can have smaller engine that acts like a bigger engine under heavy loads but has the efficiency of a smaller engine at normal loads [2].

The turbo charger on the Frieghtliner is not part of the heat recovery system, it is compressing intake air in order to allow an increase of power by also injecting more fuel. If you attach a generator to the turbo to make it recover heat as output power it will no longer be able to use that work to compress intake air. Then it becomes a turbo-compounded engine. They use a steam turbine as it recovers more heat while adding almost no back pressure to the system.

As shown to get a modest increase in thermal efficiency something much larger and more complicated must be used on a semi in addition to the turbocharger.

Show me a fuel cell using a turbo charger to attain any significant heat recovery. Show me one that doesn't use a generator and is therefore simpler than an electric motor. You will not attain 60%+ thermal efficiency with a just a turbo charger and you know it. Fuel cells look to need a secondary combustion system in order drive the turbine properly due to them having no compression of their own so now you have a full gas turbine with generator on top of the fuel cell.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-compound_engine
2. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/veltman1/
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Well the Russians used to do this when they had Salyut and Mir space stations.

As an example multi-space station mission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-15
What is more coercive? The taxpayers subsidizing your ER hospital stay or the state offering an incentive for something that you're free to reject.
ok here's one you wont have heard of:

The Worlds Fastest Indian (2005) with Anthony Hopkins

(The Indian in the title refers to a 1920 Indian Scout motorbike)

Its a NZ film about a quiet guy from a small town trying to set a land speed record, and as such there's quite a lot of physics in it
> As a software hack, there's always Shift Parentheses

On any PC keyboard, just swap parentheses with square or curly brackets. That is way more useful even if you never program in Lisp. One of several things the Lisp Machine keyboard layouts did well.
> I work on a B2B app with a lot of local govt users. We dropped support officially for IE11 last summer and I was surprised by the little to no pushback.

I think the big part is that Microsoft wasn't just aggressive in pushing Edge but _especially_ emphasizing that IE11 was nowhere near as secure. Large bureaucratic organizations have a lot of inertia but they're getting a lot of pressure, especially at the federal level, to step up security and that overrides a lot of the familiar stalling tactics.
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. Asking a vendor how you can get this sensitive data out before you commit to them is a great idea.
We can try living in both, see which one's better.
> I don't have a link

It's probably this: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
They are hundreds of times easier to settle than Mars, and probably richer in resources, so settling them would seem like a good first step before thinking of cities on Mars.
Are the expansion cards based on USB, or is it more like Thunderbolt, built on top of PCIe?

The lack of Thunderbolt makes it a complete no-go right now.
>>> I've never worked at a company where auth or storing user sessions was a bottleneck.

I can tell you from my experience working at JP Morgan (the largest US bank) that authentication checks was the #1 root cause of major outages.

That is, except when it was #2. It was a close tie with network related issues depending on the season.

It's easy enough to understand that when sessions can't be checked, every application and service that need to check sessions are effectively 100% down.

Another hard learned fact is that (very) critical services or (very) high traffic services will simply never support remote sessions, because it's too slow and unreliable. (There are potential alternatives like JWT tokens or TLS authentication).
Sad but true. I'm not making any demands, just telling why it'd be a reluctant sell in some cases
What? That's not at all why CGI exists. It's to save money and increase flexibility, and sometimes to do shots that would otherwise be impossible.

Modern CGI in films is already basically indistinguishability from reality. You only notice it these days when it has to be CGI (e.g. space ships) or is badly done (which leads to the impression that CGI is still bad like it was in the 90s).
I've been using this approach for my blog and I've been loving it :) Seems like Google Docs for blogs is a bit of a golden ticket to the front page on hackernews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134101).

I'm a bit hesitant about using an external service for something like this however. I just have a cronjob running on the server I use for my website and that's worked out pretty well.
Two obvious dimensions are:

- agency: the machine makes decisions on its own.

- defensive vs offensive action
I mean, if you squint just right, so was India.
Why Athletes Love to Suffer: the effort paradox
Just because most programming languages are terrible at concurrency doesn’t mean it’s a hard concept. Surprisingly, most people have little trouble with email or snail mail processes. It’s just that a lot of programming languages, like Python, never respected concurrency in the first place.
Why build a train line that only takes you where a bus could, when you could build an airport that connects you to the entire globe?
>I hate visibility.
>I'm still a shitty midlevel dev that's only seen a 30% (22% inflation adjusted) pay increase over 9 years and doesn't even make $100k.

My advice:
1. Buy cheapest black or dark blue suit, buy few cheapest white shirts, buy cheapest leather shoes. You can do it under 120$ - and it will be best investment in your life.

2.
BRAG when you do amazing stuff.

Managers WILL notice if you CC them in email or talk about it in public.
No need to "steal" success from anyone from your team - honestly brag about stuff that you personally made!

You can for example send email at 9 PM to your team, boss and HIS boss such us:

HI! I'm glad to announce that FEATURE XYZ IS WORKING, I will further test it in night, but it seems that its ready for production. WE MADE IT :)

Otherwise your BOSS and HIS BOSS will never know that you are amazing!
You need to show them that you are doing fantastic work - otherwise, they might be too busy to notice.
> You already see this with eg Google Docs. Far inferior to Word, but preferred by many because of the free and highly functional live-multi-collaborator-editing feature.

Only for those in (roughly) the same time zone, which appears to be less often the case today.

I've seen a lot of different VCS, all the way back to RCS. I don't want to go back to the awful scheme of versioned virtual filesystem like the one of ClearCase. You can pry git from my cold, dead fingers.
registered return receipt signature required - maybe you can prove who received it.

Just sending something registered won't help your jurisprudence :p
I think U.S. based developers need to create something akin to the CCC in Germany to combat the clear abuse of privacy that many developers are now engaging in on a daily basis.

https://www.ccc.de/en/club

I know... the CCC has been the target of infiltration and compromise in various ways throughout history, but that's a reality of standing up to abusive power.
Lol, some people will go from avoiding the vaccine to getting as many as they can (is each shot a ticket)?
You didn’t :)
> See it as backup/fallback for the "single point of failure" that Earth currently is (not just for humanity but) for all of life in the universe that we know of.

What could happen to the Earth that would make it even close to as inhospitable as Mars?
Craft Docs is a good Notion alternative I personally like, and they're avoiding the data moat angle:

https://museapp.com/podcast/26-no-data-moat/
> currently pristine

I don't understand this line of thinking. Mars isn't pristine, it's sterile. Dead. It's the perfect testing ground because it can't be made worse.
> Auth providers cant help you because the passwords are hashed... You need the same algo or you cant authenticate using the data they have.

You absolutely can migrate away from Auth providers. Auth0 (disclaimer: former employer) hashes passwords with Bcrypt, which is most likely the same exact algorithm you would choose. Bcrypt stores salts & rounds as part of the hash making those hashes fairly portable.

Even if you wanted to change algorithms, there are ways to do this so that it is transparent to the user, such as running the plaintext password through a new algorithm after a successful authentication and storing it in a new column.
Gonna plug The Expanse here. It's not a movie but it's depiction of space fights is pretty good
I don't know I thought it was kind of dumb. People discover an honest to God time travel cave but instead of getting world leaders and scientists involved they're all using it to get back at their exes and stuff.
Hi!

I've got two questions about input:

1. Will there be an ISO option for the keyboard layout? (To support non-US layouts, and for those who aren't familiar, just changing the key mapping isn't sufficient, ISO has an extra key and a different shape on the enter key)

2. Any plans to support Sensel touchpads? The tech is really amazing (I've heard the latest described as better than a macbook)
The US should start exporting vaccines and this news should be made very public. Not only is this a good thing to do, but it will help drive higher vaccination rates if people feel that they're about to lose access to a scarce resource.
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I remember reading that Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth's to protect it from solar wind, therefore the atmosphere mostly gets swept away. Is that not the more difficult problem here?
This debate seems to center on generating enough CO2, but that seems a bit irrelevant if it would just blow away. How would you even go about fixing the magnetic field of a planet?
Honestly it could also be it's just hard to fathom the breadth and scale. Easier to imagine someone opening your mail or tapping your phone or otherwise physically interacting with things you own over the government intercepting a request to post a picture to facebook, for instance.

I think a fair number of people intuitively understand just how massive the internet is and it's hard to conceptualize someone or something sifting through the sand to find your few little grains.
That cynic would be wrong since chemical weapons are extremely effective in combat. When the scales aren't even (i.e. something like the vietnam war) the stronger side can afford equipment that allows their soldiers to operate effectively while the other side is unable to respond to aggression greatly lowering expected casualties. With powers on par you still have the factor of well coordinated chemical attacks allowing breakthroughs to be executed much easier.

Chemical weapons being banned is an example of a mostly inexplicably altruistic action on the part of major powers. Well, inexplicable if you're a cynic.
He has a track record of using all of his assets to save one. It worked before, so he will try it again, until it doesn't.
What % chance of nuclear holocaust per year are you wiling to take over the "non reliable peace"?

We're talking about potential existential risk - a wiping out of all of humanity (through severe ecological poisoning after a barrage of cross-globe nuclear strikes).
I was surprised how much I liked that film.
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No, you're talking about transcending globalism by moving off or globe!
On Digital Disobedience
It’s one of the reasons I abandoned a v2 of my app that was doing low-key quite well in the store. A handful of daily paid app downloads for 0 marketing. I eventually hit a bug in core data in the v2 that drove me to insanity as the docs just didn’t cover what I needed and nothing online helped. I’ve come back as I can see I will eventually burn out in the JS world and SwiftUI is legitimately great (so far for simple stuff) but I know one day I’m going to be in the same spot again - I just take HackingWithSwift as the docs at this point
...good point. If I’m famous one day, the cards could be significantly more valuable.

I’m not strapped for cash (knock on wood) right now so I plan to hold on to them indefinitely, until an obvious reason to sell or give them away appears.
The explanation given in the 1st movie is quite the interpretation of the humans and far from the truth. In the 3rd movie the Architect explains why the humans are bred and why Zion exists.
I agree with you that the only interesting aspect of blockchain is decentralized trust. But decentralized trust is a big thing. It is actually such a massive thing and people will sooner or later realize that. The magnitude of this thing is actually on a level of invention of democracy in social systems. It will change everything. And the application of decentralized trust (read - institution-less systems) goes far beyond decentralized finance.

If we look at the tendency of every single centralized system or organization to end up being either sub-optimal or evil or screwing individual we really have to ask whether there isn't a better way. Consider evolution of centralized political powers, dictatorships etc., consider evolution of big tech companies like google or facebook, consider evolution of big products.

If blockchain provides decentralized trust this can be used for almost evertyhing. And it doesn't really mean that you will run your trustless version of AWS directly on blockchain. For many applications the blockchain is there for trust and system of economy incentives for the actors in the systems (as these two things go hand by hand). The blockchain is not there to do the "business logic"
I think this was in reference to someone managing compliance of your notifications.
Ask HN: Ways to start freelancing with a weak network?
I have experience, however I haven’t developed much a network, in a few years I’d like to start freelancing. Ideally I’d like to pick up short contracts I can work on to make some side money while I do other things.

I know sites like fiverr and upworkvexist, but they seem like a race to the bottom where you are competing with people in low income countries that can work for pennies.

What can I do to be able to start picking up freelance contracts within a few years?
Just in case anyone sees that and thinks it was due to any sort of principles or concerns about mass surveillance, a quote from the article: "Thank you to our GREAT Republican Congressmen & Congresswomen on your incredibly important blockage last night of a FISA Bill that would just perpetuate the abuse that produced the Greatest Political Crime In the History of the U.S., the Russian Witch-Hunt. Fantastic Job!"
Total war will not leave the planet radioactive and uninhabitable. Absolute worst case is something analogous to damage of WWII. (Note: we survived WWII.)

Armageddon is lights out for humanity.