skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only did they have a warrant, but illegally tracking you (e.g. without said warrant) does not forfeit ownership of the device.

You could have cause to sue them while also breaking the law for stealing their device; no one should trust your interpretation of the law, because it is wrong in every jurisdiction I’ve heard of it being tried.
“As the Web grew, the average level of sophistication of users dropped. It was hard to explain the importance of privacy to them”

Chaum certainly was ahead of his time, and what he said will deeply resonate with any privacy advocate.

Now, more than two decades later, I believe his idea has much more potential.

Firstly people are a lot more educated, about how the web works in general, how valuable privacy is and about the strength of cryptography.

Secondly, it is no secret anymore that Visa et al. blatantly sell any data they have on their customers.

And lastly, any entity that wants to do business online or via card transactions has to pay high fees to Card/payment providers.

An open standard of electronic cash could solve these issues perfectly, undermining the existance of companies that only exist because they have a license.

Maybe the time has come for Chaum's legacy.
The book you cite doesn't seem to support your argument.

Firstly, you say they nationalized many industries but the book talks about individual companies. Nationalizing an industry means nationalizing every company within that industry.

Secondly, this does not appear to have been motivated by the failure of capitalism but rather the opposite. It was done in response to union strikes. Unions are usually understood as being against capitalism and free markets; they want to replace individuals "voting with their wallet" by collectively taking control from management via committees of (frequently communist leaning or outright communist) representatives of the workers.

Thirdly, it says quite clearly that as late as 1943 the War Department had done so few of these seizures that it amounted to "barely a dozen". By the end of the war they had seized around 60. That's a drop in the ocean of the US economy, which is why it's not well known.

So this example doesn't really seem to argue against the notion that the US won because of free market capitalism. The only places where they had to step in and become authoritarian (very briefly) were places where capitalism was breaking down thanks to communist agitation.
> LGTM ensures that, for example, a single individual can't push a code change that drops the database.

Personally, I've seen LGTM let slip complex bugs in accounting code (admittedly, not great code) that went on to irreversibly corrupt hundreds of millions of accounting records.

Yes, it will catch "DROP DATABASE", but when it's still letting through major bugs that similarly require a full restore from backup... It seems functionally equivalent?

Given:

> There are lots of places where we require that no single person can break the system at least in a certain way.

I don't think code reviews are a solution. I mean, they're one of the better solutions I can think of, but they're not actually a solution.
>> which you can easily brute-force

It will results in a very high number of 404s. These can be monitored and the origin IPs can be banned.
I read it years ago in a medical journal talking about the insanity of websites that post cutting edge research when it is only the early result.

Sorry not sure where it is located, but you could Google it.

You have locations like this:
https://theconversation.com/of-mice-and-men-why-animal-trial...

It showed that of the most-cited animal studies in prestigious scientific journals, such as Nature and Cell, only 37% were replicated in subsequent human randomised trials and 18% were contradicted in human trials. It is safe to assume that less-cited animal studies in lesser journals would have an even lower strike rate.

Not sure why that is higher, but it is phrased weird.
This rising is due to China turning away from communism and towards economic freedom.

Communism utterly failed at making China affluent. Free markets succeeded.
The article is not about the copyright lawsuit but about some issues related to using this for emergency services.

But if you take a look at the ripped off algorithm (google what free words, take a look at the html and the script block inside it), you'll see it includes an array of words with a specific order.

That list and the order the words are in are copyright protected. Copyright is about protecting the particular form of something. This a very specific word list in a very specific order (the indices matter). It's a clear cut case of those specific words in that specific order being protected under copyright. If you want to be compatible with w3w, you have to use that specific list.

If you write a book, poem, or article that's clearly a copyrightable work even if all of the words are commonly used ones. This not different in any meaningful way from the point of view of the law. The fact that the words in that order spell out nonsense is not relevant. Copying and using it in its entirety is not fair use and a clear infringement.

You could use the same algorithm with a different word list and then you'd merely be facing patent infringement here. I would not recommend building a business around such a thing until the patent expires.
For the leads https://youtu.be/xY3J4CYamUg
And there you have it ; risks. No one on the planet has been able to ever, and I mean ever, lock down data when connected to the internet, from hacking.

Ever.

If you have not been hacked when specifically targeted, it only means your data is not worth the cost/profit. Pre-zero days abound, firewalls will be bypassed, and worst?

People will be bribed, coerced, scammed, tricked.

There are only two options:

1.. Absolutely zero Internet access for anyone working on said computers. No mobile phones allowed in the building, no machine with internet access in the building, faraday cage around the entire building, etc...

Yes, no email.

Nothing.

2. Paper

And of course, the above with physical access controls, and scans / searches.

The real fix for all identity theft, is to make it a crime, and a serious one, including mandatory jail time for all CxO level execs (on the premise of gross negligence) for obtaining any data on individuals via illicit means.

And that has to be world wide.
Ask HN: What's a good personal development plan for junior software engineers?
I'm in a company that relies strongly on outsourcing IT, which is strongly reflected in the available personal development plan. In essence, if you follow the plan, after 1 year you're ok at writing specifications for other people to implement. I'm looking for good quality development plans for software engineers that involve both implementation skills and personal leadership skills.

Are there good resources out there? What should I pay attention to?
Absolutely, right now it's often incredibly difficult to establish residence in another EU country. If you move to Sweden, for example, it can take over half a year [1] before you can access government services, banking, healthcare, or even much of online shopping.

[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20210510/my-first-visit-to-the-swedi...
It was reasonable, because she never actually thought it was a bomb.

Given that there was an active investigation against her, and that they had gotten a warrant, And that she knew to reach out to the NAACP, it’s pretty likely she was aware ahead of time that the cops might want to track her.

Sometimes when you’re reading statements by the “victim” in a one-sided article like this, you have to read between the lines. As you say, if she thought this was a car bomb, she probably would not have gone straight to the NAACP to ask them if it was a tracking device.
Google on this one, as I read it years ago in a medical journal.

8% seems good to me, as that is the point of testing... but the point of the article was to avoid the hype of these early tests.
MS Office 2011 comes to mind. There are also many macOS games that are 32-bit and were never updated.
I expected Oxford undergraduates to be the best from all over the world, intensely passionate about their subjects. What I found were kids more passionate about drinking and clubbing and gossiping than studying. There seemed to be some weird hierarchy about who sits where in the dining hall that was completely bizarre. 'Default' social activities organized by the various committees all involved brain-dead clubbing and irresponsible drinking - at Oxford! Or sometimes 'posh' versions of those, where you wear black tie and aimlessly wander around some area holding a glass of sparking wine until you are bored out of your skull, a.k.a. a ball. The more ambitious kids were more busy padding their CV to land a good job than doing what interests them. It was not like the world of Turing or Feynman at all.

The academic part of life was good. The tutorial system is great, lectures were OK, practicals were good. The selection of courses was great. But doing CS, there were few opportunities to socialize with people in your degree - you see them in the lectures, then you go back to your college. And that isn't great - perhaps it's good for people that are doing humanities and need to 'network', but for anyone doing anything interesting, you are not going to find too much in common with an undergrad studying English literature and more interested in drinking and pointless gossip/small talk.

And even many in the CS degree did not seem to have that 'hacker' mentality - that was mostly seen in international students.

What I found shocking is that so many students were doing poorly academically. The coursework and the exams were not super challenging, especially given that you chose so many of the courses, so you were mostly studying the actual things you wanted to study. Given that Oxford was supposed to have the very best students, passionate about their subjects, it was really odd how little so many cared.

Again, very strangely, few undergrad students from England seemed to go on to do Master's or PhDs, but many international students did. The graduate-level environment seemed much better, too.
Yes: Sailfish OS.
As somebody who never had any issue with paypal, why is there so much hate about it? Are problems on the merchant side?
Google, not sure how that is vague :), it is a specific number I read in a medical journal years ago.
> bugfixes/security updates (...) should be applied all the time without asking

I'd agree in most cases, but I'd still leave some grace period for updates that require rebooting the app or the OS. Nag and cajole the user all you want, but don't ever lose their data, or interrupt them during a meeting.

> SaaS term was born from the Cloud, but its tenets still apply to desktop applications

There are two main facets of SaaS - a nice one, and a nasty one. The nice one is that it outsources ops/maintenance. You're just using the software, someone else is keeping it running and up to date - and it's more efficient this way. The nasty one is, the party controlling the software is in position of power - they can make you pay rent, lock you in and hold your data ransom, and exploit your data in ways you don't want - and you can't do anything to stop it.

Desktop apps relinquish most of the benefits of SaaS, but the drawbacks were backported to local software by means of normalizing subscriptions and automatic updates.
Here in South Texas the lawns were getting real loud when we bought our first home in December, so I think I was more willing to enter a social contract that was mostly hands off and had some limits on signage. We looked at many communities without HOAs and ultimately the location of our home was a big draw.
ya that is what I thought too, although I think news organizations should stop reporting on any "medical breakthroughs" involving animals.
Given that they had a warrant, a judge already signed off on this and would likely have no problem ordering you to return the device.
> continent-wide natural resources

The USSR and China also had this access, and it didn't seem to do the trick for them. The US supplied the USSR.

Airplanes, tanks, food, etc. were not nationalized.
One aspect of smoking that I don’t see talked about much is how it screws with your blood’s ability to transport oxygen effectively. This can drastically increase your risk of complications if you have to have surgery.

My friend is a plastic surgeon and refuses to operate on smokers unless they quit for six weeks to give their body enough time to generate functional blood cells. A few patients have lied to him, though. One had a breast augmentation and her nipples died and had to be removed due to insufficient oxygen supply to the area.

If you have to have surgery, it is best to stop smoking for at least a month and a half.
Nice avatar generator for React
The twitter thread is a bit lackluster on this part specifically:

> ..did wonders for me

was it the attention? networking? potential for monetization or ..... ?
Perhaps - but they're doing it with free markets, not communism.
They're trying to create a single country out of the EU and this is a step in that direction.
fastmail's limit is "600, plus 15 for every user in the account".

And what's wrong with catch-all if you're the only the user? It works pretty much like infinite aliases, they even let me reply from <anything>@
It has been edited away.
The need is pretty clear in these covid times: do you want 27 different green/vaccine certificates? They would be super easy to fake.
> But what to upgrade to?

I have have NO idea. I don't want the first generation M1, so I might just wait a year.
Perhaps she reasonably assumed that if someone pays to put your face on a billboard while wearing your product, then they are paying to put your face on a billboard while wearing your product. Transaction complete.

The expectation that they should accept further exploitation (paparazzi, forced interviews, etc) is a societal disease; these people are human as well.
The problem is that lots of scammers, gurus, faith healers, etc. tend to believe their own bullshit. While I do believe that acknowledging this is worthwhile, in practice it doesn't matter to those that were scammed, hoodwinked, brainwashed, etc.

Over time I've come to believe that our desire to understand and sympathize with the perpetrators of scams and the like is not a good thing in the end.

Sure, we 'understand' why Walter White became what he was in Breaking Bad, but in the end he was a despicable person that destroyed many lives. as much as the show /does/ try to make that clear, we still sorta empathize. We like Walter and hate his wife. Same thing for Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey (The Shield).

But that 'understanding' shouldn't preclude us from coming down hard on these people, however 'well intentioned' they might be. This project is obviously a scam, or alternatively delusional. In either case YC's involvement is not a good look.
It's already proven to work[0], now we just have to cross our fingers that no big corp makes it super expensive for the masses.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUgHxxVZcU
Why does the jet stream rule our weather? [audio]
Lubricating-cooling liquid (coolant): classification
pretty much any northern european state
your whole argument is a straw-man.

i don't think that anyone would disagree that you can get caught up in writing too many tests too early, consequently loosing sight out of your objective and ending up with a bad implementation.

My point was that just writing super easy and happy-path tests at the start is a valid strategy for TDD as well, and does not cause any of your imaginary issues.
Renewables also run out.
> I don't expect my government to spend time and money to support all fringe cases like smartphones that don't run iOS or Android.

I expect my government to create solutions that work for everyone. Including "fringe cases". Including people in poverty. The marginalised. The contrarians. The smartphoneless. Everyone.

Edit: and I especially expect them not to further the de-facto duopoly of Google & Apple.
Lots of people like guns because they win wars, too. All else being equal, I'd prefer to be on the side with the self-guided bombs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27349361
The point is not just what is there today, but what we want for tomorrow.

In the US, it's normal for people to move to a different state to attend university, and then from there often to a different state again. Something like 1% to 2% move each year to a different state [0], which means in 10 years more than 10% of people will have done that. Some cross state borders multiple times in their lives. This is what we want to achieve, because it fuels economic growth and removes obstacles to happiness. (It's also, in a way, a restoration of what we had pre-Nation-State, when people were basically free to settle anywhere they wanted; but that's beside the point). Making the process of moving across the continent as smooth as possible is a Good Thing.

I would also move a point on terminology:

> working in a different EU country than their own

People don't own countries, they are born into them. (This is not just a pedantic remark - I think it's important that we move on from XIX-century nationalistic terminology if we want to achieve progress.)

[0] https://www.mymovingreviews.com/move/how-often-and-why-ameri...
I always enjoy reading the GT newspaper about the great Chinese achievements when boarding a China mainland flight. ;-)
This could be a fantastic thing unless the EU apparatus manages to botch this, if only because some governments otherwise wouldn't make any progress in this regard in the foreseeable future, and that's painful not just for highly mobile people, but for local residents as well. I'd wager a guess that this is largely aimed at countries like Germany, large parts of which still rely 100% on lots and lots of paper-pushing for everything, and where, especially for non-citizens in rural areas, even the most basic services can be a tremendous hassle.
A possible link between childhood trauma and Alzheimer disease
Reading this, I'm happy it was different for me.

After smoking for years I became a weekend smoker; in weekends I'd go out and after some beers the urge to smoke because so much stronger. It took me a few years to give up smoking in weekends, what helped me the most is all my friends trying to give up smoking so no cigarettes were around anymore when we'd go to a bar.

Eventually most of my friends started smoking again, but I stayed off of them. Now I've not smoked for at least 7 years; and I never feel like there is a lightswitch in my mind. Even after some beers the smell of cigarettes disgust me.
A filesystem would be like an index on the table.
> Why would you need an unified solution?

To facilitate freedom of movement within the bloc.
Why is fusion better than traditional nuclear reactors?
And Wireguard in the mainstream Linux kernel will enable more S2S connections.
The very fact that WinDev doesn't get it why using COM and dealing with IDL files without any kind of tooling support is a problem shows how they don't even make an effort to understand what Windows developers want.

It is not like something like C++ Builder and Delphi don't exist for 25 years now.
Point taken. What I will say though is that a national SSO solution is a great enabled for digital government. Having to go through a multi-day authentication phase just to access a particular service is such a barrier for adoption.
Why do you have to start somewhere? Why is it a requirement to have eID?

Because we can is not a reason. This is the same reason we have global warming. We can build gas burning cars, so we should, without thinking of the consequences.

Of what use is eID, when no one can secure anything network connected? When all eID will be subverted, stolen, misused, making the same useless? And meanwhile, causing endless misery for those experiencing the loss of privacy, the consequences of identity theft, abuse by foreign powers, and more.

On top of this, I absolutely don't need it easier for a state to track me. Now every time I show my eID, the state gets pinged to validate it?

No thanks!
The underlying standards are already international. And their production is spanned across the world.
I've been you, but moved on when I got an iPhone XS from work. PC is still the main device and I don't use the phone for video. Mostly reddit, music, podcast and the occasional picture. Things I do when on the move.

The missing headphone jack turned out be basically a non-issue, even though that kept me back from upgrading - the converter stays on the headphone jack at all times (I think the force to pull it out is higher than standard headphones jacks as well). It's very rare that I'm in a situation where I want to charge the phone while being connected to a headphone jack. Not sure I've experienced it yet.

It sounds like something like the iPhone 12 mini would work for you if you gave it a shot. It's a bit larger (5.4") than something like the iPhone 4 (5") but it doesn't feel like a huge phone. I'm intending to replace my iPhone XS with a device of that size when its time for me to get a new phone.
Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time
Sure, that's probably an important reason. But free markets can exist in an unfree and unfair society.
Do you really want life to be more fair, though?

I think, across the board, people actually want mercy and grace. They’re not interested in fairness, they’re interested in help.

When they make mistakes, they want to be lifted up and forgiven. When they fall on hardship, even if their own making, they hope for help to recover.
Happiness is a Greased Pig Chase (2020)
The Chinese people that are afraid to talk about politics if any phone is even just close to them? They probably would confirm opinions shared by state outlets, if they'd even bother with you.
Rancilio Silvia also warms up very quickly - faster than boiling a kettle. I've had one for > 20 years, it's had a few repairs but still going strong.
http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
JSON numbers are arbitrary precision, because the spec doesn't limit the precision in any way.
Supermicro sells single-CPU servers with 24 NVMe bays. Not a big problem if your CPU has 128 PCIe lanes.

You could get 12 quite easily even on consumer hardware. AMD Threadripper gives you 64 PCIe 4.0 lanes (so up to 72 with the TRX40 chipset), so you just use three PCIe x16 expansion cards each providing four NVMe 4x slots.
It will be super easy to fake regardless. Based on how I've seen their system just a scan from the screen of another friend will do the job. There is no biometric crosscheck and I think we should never get to that. We don't need such complicated solutions with massive privacy risks for relatively small problems.
Captain the best
Running on iOS?
For me, Macromedia Fireworks CS4. It does everything I need, so I don't feel like upgrading to Adobe's new cloud subscription plans.
1. The USSR had (and has) much more resources per population. Japan achieved great wealth with insignificant natural resources.

2. Middle class and rich people rarely immigrate. It's the poor that do. Did you know that the reason the Titanic was built was to en-masse ship poor people to the US? The first class bit was mostly window dressing. The money was to be made by cramming poor people in below decks. In colonial times, America was populated mostly by people escaping prosecution, indentured servants, sons who weren't first born and were not going to inherit anything, teens whose parents could not support them, etc. The Chinese and Japanese people came to escape poverty.

Furthermore, South America was and is rich in resources, but it remains poor. Nothing like the US happened there.
I never really got the point of (digital) self destructing messages, since the reader can easily just copy the text/data, i.e. destruct only means not available anymore after future point in time. So you're just relying on the receiver of the message to follow protocol -- as always.
To which extent does the brain not repair neurons already?