skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need to stop seeing open-source development as a form of free-as-in-beer labor, and start seeing it as a form of professional empowerment.

Nothing -- nothing! -- stops you from forking my code and making the changes yourself. You don't need to ask me to make the changes for you; you are not helpless. I've already solved 99% of one of your problems, and now I am empowering you to solve yours with 1% of the effort.

Just because I release my code under an OSS license doesn't mean you're entitled to my time and attention. My labor is not free-as-in-beer, and I take a very dim view on wage theft. If you want me to care about your issues, you will pay me my consulting rate. If you harass me about it, I'll block you.

Framing OSS development as empowering developers I think would remove a lot of the toxicity from OSS. Being involved in OSS should be about improving your effectiveness, not working for free for entitled Internet strangers. You owe it to yourself and the OSS development community to demand that you be paid for your time.
Huh? Am I weird to assume that "buy with cash" is a metaphor and of course anyone buying a car from a dealer would write a check or whip out their phone and do online transaction?

Do people actually show up with a briefcase of $100 bills like in movies?
Big companies made interviews hard, and because they pay more and the brand name they get the applicant to fill up the position.

Smaller companies followed without being able to compete on TC. Now although some percentage of people go through interview torture every year a really big percentage of my peers and friends don't do that because it is a pain.

Big companies won in keeping the talent for less. Smaller companies lost because they blindly followed.
Sounds like they busted down an established provider of secure comm devices and then took over it's distribution network to push their own devices.
That is great, but can google change their algo to some point where it works differently? Their ad business is there in the web.
> When some site doesn't work for any reason

When done site doesn’t work for some reason I go and use some other site. I’ve yet to encounter an essential chrome-only site.
It feels like this is the point in the thread where you just got frustrated and started casting aspersions instead of making arguments. That happens to me a bunch too, and the strategy I've developed for it is to look at how many question marks I've managed to put in my comments, and try to fit more of them in. The person you're arguing with has some apparent domain knowledge; try extracting it?
I thought the title was quoting Shakespeare.
Thank you, really appreciate the detailed feedback! It seems like it is likely the no-script, will look into this soon.

The exam we provided is just a free sample for folks to play with - contact information is collected for paying customers (in a slightly different flow).
'Overestimates' because at the start of the time series people were using cheaper alternatives to the very-expensive li-ion batteries.
That's some weird logic. Let's say the market is broken for textbooks. What does it have to do with what I wrote?
> Information security is not just about sex.

Apologies, this line was straight out of The Simpsons and I thought you were in on the joke XD
MLP-Mixer: How can pure MLP be useful?
An explanatory article on how can MLP is still useful comparing to modern machine learning architectures without convolutions, nor attention.
This is probably a reminder to throw some money at EFF to at least pay for their coffee if not their larger work. This is the kind of silly but serious case they've dealt with in the past.
I don’t understand why people want to replace PGP. Of course we can improve the technology but the fact is that security is hard and requires interplay between the humans, processes and technology to work. It’s not enough to rely on just one of those pillars.

There is an illusion in the world of IT that we can solve everything with technology.

Maybe the reason why people don’t want or like PGP is because it needs strong human processes to work properly and keep its integrity, and that breaks the illusion that you can easily solve everything with tech.

Happy birthday PGP!
I suspect that the M1 GPU performs so well that it invalidates the need for GPUs for anyone who doesn’t really need a future Mac Pro with M1 blades. More power efficient, compact, etc. I imagine they pointedly don’t care to enable the crypto mining market, so cutting off eGPU is a great way to invalidate their platform as a cost-efficient target for miners, while also ending their silicon driver/support contracts cleanly for non-Apple silicon.
One can understand scepticism, but Duo isn't going anywhere. If you need a FaceTime replacement, just use Duo and put all the rest of that mess out of your mind.
I would imagine its more of a computer expert who then becomes a criminal because of the money.
I've done similar extraction with pdfminer[1]. It lets you walk through a PDF document with various callbacks for different objects. I found that with tables that were all from a consistent source it was pretty easy to come up with a pattern that would match the tables.

1: https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/
It's funny that you could make literally the same argument about C, especially since so much of the PGP ecosystem relies directly and entirely on software built in C.
I personally know Amjad from Mutual circles around, i disagree with u.
What's nonsensical and what is not is subjective. Different people assume different things about everything that's not explicit. That's why we are having this "this" vs "next" discussion in the first place.

Connecting "next" with a German translation of "nähest" ("closest") is just as nonsensical.
An (obvious) injected link, as described in the article, is at the bottom of the Sabbath lesson I posted.
I have used 15x7 bitmap fonts for so long evolving over progressively higher resolution screens that I can comfortably read what others perceive as impossible being tiny. The amount of screen realestate this gives is awesome, a 1080p laptop screen is enough for two side by side vim windows 119 characters wide.
FDA’s Decision to Approve New Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
That's certainly true of Duo in experience.
Preflight: Verify scripts and executables to mitigate chain of supply attacks
toxic in the sense of appropriateness. your response isn't crazy, but as a response to some one graciously accepting critical feedback it doesn't make much sense. frankly a top level post would have been more appropriate.
I think the specific idea at play here is that people should be able to apologize, or at least acknowledge some one criticizing them, without that becoming an avenue for attack.
I mean, do you want to participate in a scenario where the only rational response is to simply not engage?
Many people would say it's ethically wrong to copy an idea. In fact, it is common to see people up in arms on HN about it, when the power dynamic is reversed.
That's very effective for the top results. But if legit sites cannot rank in the first spots they'll get orders of magnitude fewer visits than the scam sites that employ SEO hacks to get the first places.
Pre-trained byte-to-byte transformer language models
I was expecting a breakthrough in chewing gum technology that made it offgas as you chew it and fizzle in your mouth.

I am slightly disappointed.
JavaScript Is Weird: a JavaScript quiz with 25 quirky expressions
Also "smart". I cringed so much when I saw a power cable (without any electonics) is said to have "smart transmission" on its product page. It's worded to be technically correct (the cable enables it) but...
Kids born after that article are nearly finished with high school. I’m pretty sure the dynamic has changed a little since then. Interesting to at least see how it used to be though.
Python Parameters Primer
Not funny. Pretty much worse fucking case scenario.

Imagine Signal, Telegram, or any other app that touts themselves as a secure app is really just the creation of the FBI, NSA, CIA, and NRO.

Remember, yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s reality.
Indeed. And Win32 even gives you a way to bypass the legacy behaviour. You can use `\\?\` paths, which get automatically translated to `\??\` NT paths but are otherwise left untouched.
If you love building stuff in Rails…

Check out Bridgetown, "a Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era". It's come a long way since it forked from Jekyll a year ago [1].

[1]: https://www.bridgetownrb.com
Fibery vs. ClickUp. Complex or Complicated?
Universal formats?
I did mean "cash" in the abstract sense, in case anybody was in fact confused by that
Please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without stooping to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Microsoft is hiring for Go compiler engineers
Hello World Issue 16
Interesting article.

Having been a Heroku user who then switched to my own Dokku-VPS, I have a few thoughts:

- Back then you HAD to use postgres. Didn't bother me, but might bother others.
- Things get expensive quick. I recently beefed up my VPS which is now as expensive as Heroku's cheapest paid tier, but what I get for it is miles beyond Heroku.

Of course I now have to deal with upgrading and looking after my VPS, without any kind of support. Though, whether I end up learning how to use Dokku or Heroku made no difference to me, really.
Some people will say that even that amount of management is unacceptably involved, which, for a SaaS that's got really good growth right off the bat, is probably true? You'd want to really maximise productivity and not worry about infra.

Last point: the article mentions that Heroku is well placed to compete with Netlify, Vercel and the like. Why would they though? I feel their offering is way beyond static pages? And considering how cheap the competition is, you'd then need to create a new / separate pricing tier that operates according to completely different rules from the others. I am not sure that would work.

I feel Vercel and Netlify are in more trouble thanks to Cloudflare Pages and Workers Sites. They offer next to no advantages and are really ridiculously expensive in comparison.

The article also refers to something as the Jamstack-lie. Is that just because 'serverless' is a ridiculous misnomer or the fact that Netlify are marketing the term Jamstack so hard, even though everyone could just say 'static pages'? Or does the article's author think we are going back to databases for all our sites à la WordPress?
* laughs in home made racecar *
LiteIDE maintain their own fork: https://github.com/visualfc/gocode
how long before crony governments like India demand
backdoor" into this network in the name of "national security" and "fighting heinous crimes of piracy" because now laws like DMCA don't really matter. a user watches a pirated movie on abc website. the lawyers of big movie company demand list of users who they want to go against for copyright strikes but the company now has no records a la lavabit.

same for india who has gone against cartoonists now because the ruling government is scared of its "image" being tarnished by cartoonists and they want to punish them wild west style.
good luck sicking this against governments
You hire people you can burn is what you do.

Shipping coordinators got busted? How sad.

Over my life Ive met people who while they seem competent and can tie their shoe laces appear to make bad decisions because they have trouble with judging likely outcomes. Those are the people getting hired to do this sort of work.
Buy used and pay cash. Usually loans are expensive in terms of interest and additional charges. Also, people tend to buy a more expensive car than they need since the payments seem affordable. Lastly, your time has value. The time used to make the monthly payments is time best used on something else. I argue that even a minute of Netflix is a better use of your time.
You're broadly correct though they are saying this app ended up being used by criminal organisations all over the world. Arrests took place across 18 countries including NZ, Australia, the UK, Germany, and the US.
Police raids around world after investigators crack An0m cryptophone app
A subscription is very valid for continuous usage, but everyone who's just taking a look into go from time to time is effectively excluded.
Why not just count the usages and then ask for a subscription?
I really hate the "all or nothing" mentality.
AFP-led Operation Ironside smashes organised crime
What is a "context"? I don't want to manage a ton of key files on my desktop computer.
Much of the Colonial Pipeline ransom has been returned
In east Asia; China uses WeChat, South Korea uses KakaoTalk, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand uses LINE
You may want to rethink the safe deposit box: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... - they’re not very safe and the banks aren’t interested in the service.
Europol:
https://www.europol.europa.eu/
It’s not trivial, but somehow most western countries manage to do way better than US.
Nice quote but does Argentina have their head in a dragons mouth? Its not even a negotiation.

China wont strongly protest seizure of illegal fishing boats if they are fishing in another countries waters. They would if you start gunning citizens down, because in what civilized world is the death penalty an appropriate punishment for theft, not least having no due process
etc.

As for cat an mouse, you dont have to catch them all, a few seizures will 1) Scare vessels so they look for lower risk waters and 2) They may well keep fishing the fringes, but are less likely to go blatantly deep into territorial waters.

And if they sweep in for the largest modern boats it might even be a profitable exercise.
> IPs are encrypted/anonymized/grouped together before sending to Apple.

According to the article, The "private relay" feature first sends web traffic to a server maintained by Apple ...

Where is it aggregated with other people's traffic? Doesn't Apple have access to sender and destination addresses at that point?
Perhaps the developer of this project does not have much experience outside of Windows?
I don't want to use the same key in multiple contexts, but I think some norms around how keys are stored would help build best practices around them.

It would also potentially mean easier to use with hardware tokens, if you could just expect to be able to use something like gpg-agent or ssh-agent or something in between to work with various things.
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Yes, it's unfortunate that people have latched onto that xkcd comic as their preferred way to dismiss new things out of hand without expending any energy on critical thought.

We should start calling them the "927 club".
If anyone's curious, that's Century Supra, from the creator of Practical Typography.

https://mbtype.com/a

https://practicaltypography.com/
I’ve been considering jumping down this rabbit hole and getting a Planck 40% keyboard, but there are pretty much zero sub-60% Bluetooth keyboards (or even PCBs) available. Anyone got any pointers regarding that? Has to be BT and not just “wireless”.
In theory yes. In practice, the mach e handles very nicely compared to the mach 1. You'd not buy the latter in favor of the former for it's raw performance as the mach e is simply faster. Brake pads last longer because of regenerative breaking (i.e. you hardly use your brakes at all). Tire wear on a mustang is something to be mindful of. But then doing donuts seems to be a thing with these cars. Ridiculous torque has a price. You see the same pattern with other EVs and increasingly high performance electrical sports cars breaking all sorts of records.

Energy per kg is relevant when weight matters. For example in electrical planes. In cars, $ per mile is the one to focus on. Of course that continues to improve as energy density improves so they are somewhat linked.
Eric Garland is a massive blowhard/self-promoter (and I say this despite sharing his dislike of Trump). Even when his claims are accurate he's so obnoxious and annoying that I can't be bothered to evaluate his other claims. I save a lot of time and mental agitation by ignoring e-personalities and assuming that if something is important I'll hear about it from a quality source before very long.
So there is a an OS level interface to change between multiple users, each with a separate profile isolated from the others?

Where?
Split Up Microsoft and Managing the Verdict
Web Based Vulkan GLSL Ray Tracing Emulator
As to how the FBI got access to the messages, Vice says[1] after Vincent Ramos of Phantom Secure was arrested in 2018, a confidential human source offered Anom, which the source was developing, to the FBI (probably in exchange for immunity or a reduced sentence, in my opinion). The source then seeded Anom phones to his existing distributors as a replacement for Phantom Secure phones, and from their they made their way into criminal organisations.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shie...
Yeah, it's tiresome and unfunny.

Yes, things have bugs and design flaws. No, your painfully unoriginal caterwauling about how much you're pretend it vexes you does not make you interesting or intelligent.
I like to think you got to live as long as one of the Mesopotamian kings before you're really an adult, i.e. 10,000+ years.
Show HN: Targeted distraction blocking on big social platforms
Google changes their algo frequently. It's a cat and mouse game. Sometimes Google have the lead, and sometimes the Blackhat SEOs do.
Will Cars Finally Drive Themselves This Year?
With the latest developments, there is a high chance that we will suddenly see cars without drivers in the near future with a tide of small to large companies involved in the game.
Huh (not a native speaker). This seemed obviously wrong to me: it is clearly a single negative pronoun syntactically, not the determiner no modifying the animate(!) pronoun one—for example, you can’t add adjuncts: *no great one, like *every great one, *any great one, or even just *a great one, sounds like it’s about Lovecraftian Great Ones or inanimate used cars instead of the faceless but animate pronominal “one”.

Then I looked it up, and it turns out that both “no one” and “no-one” are accepted spellings for this linguistic gadget while “noone” is rejected by prescriptivists as a confusing spelling because of the double “o”, even if it would be in line with “everyone” etc. “Noöne” is admittedly funky and nonstandard, but if the no-diaeresis concatenated version is rejected because it’s confusing (though come on English, your whole spelling is nuts, why are you so stubborn on this one), then the diaeresis version should be completely acceptable.
Hack*Match for the NES
I suspect that people don't fall into such neat categories. You could pose a similar question re: lawyers whose bread and butter is protecting and representing people associated with organised crime (the kind of individuals represented by Maury from The Wire or Neil Mink from The Sopranos). Are they lawyers who developed a slippery version of ethics & morality, or people with loose ethical standards who entered law?

I'd bet good money that the truth is usually quite banal: these individuals make a series of small and highly contingent decisions over time that gradually push them in the direction of criminality or culpability, reinforced over time by social & financial reward for doing so.
Hack*Match for the NES by Zachtronics
Hardware cryptographic storage comes to mind, or simply key management and storage is complex with multiple keys in a lot of different forms.
Any number is usable though, it can be a landline and use automated call rather than sms.

Point is to limit false account (and I guess also having some clues about real identity in case of abuse).
was slightly excited about this, but the whole apple thing just ruined that
The Europol logo.
> Now that explicit racism is no longer the norm

It remains the norm in many places IME, including on the Internet and in many private conversations with white people.

Which returns us to the problem: What do we do about the other civil rights of minorities? People keep focusing on free speech for the majority and never address the far more serious problem.
Things like "not sure" and "I think" and "even if I'm wrong" suggests that it is not very clear what is covered and what isn't. A lawyer would probably have to sort that out.

The practical problem is that some organizations simply discourage or don't allow the use of GPLv3 or AGPL software. I don't want to learn one tool for personal projects and another for potential work projects, in case the opportunity comes up.

The easiest way to deal with that is to just switch to a tool that has a license that is more widely accepted.
If you Google stuff like "opening hours of ..." in Turkish(probably in other languages too), since many years the search results are only news websites spamming google, including the Turkish franchise of CNN, the CNN Turk.

The format goes like this: Lately people are searching for XYZ but is it safe to search for XYZ? What experts say for XYZ? To find out continue to read our article.

Then it's followed by wall of text made of keywords(in sentences that don't make sense), if you are lucky there would be the opening hours(which are often not accurate) somewhere down the text.

But that doesn't stop there. Even actual news articles are written for the consumption of the Google bot, the sentences often don't make sence, they are repeated multiple times with the synonyms of one of the words, making it into a lengthy article that doesn't have any meat beyond the title.

I argue that the problem is not SEO experts with low ethics, the problem is the way the business is structured. SEO experts don't do it for the sake of the art but because they are paid to do it. They are paid to do it because it has a positive ROI on bringing eyeballs and people pay Google for eyeballs, then Google pays those who generate the eyeballs.

Isn't it better for Google and everyone involved if you can't find what you are looking for, continuing your search brings more eyeballs? It's not like you are going to switch to Bing? You are also not going to abandon the internet and go to a library.
Goa’s last typewriter repair shop defied the digital age
> I'm not even a rounding error. I'm sure that all is fine there.

I'm already here :-)

If 5 or so devs read it and change too and they start mentioning it then we have a fast chain reaction.

Just look at WhatsApp or even Microsoft or IBM: they seemed unstoppable but are very nuch just another alternative today.
Yes, I know. My argument is that they don't want to use it that way, not that they can't.
What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
I just found saying "GaN transistor" or "IGBT" instead can make it significantly more believable today, at least for me. ;-)
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That's how you bump into the ceiling and make the chocolatier with shady labor practices upset.
Given that e-mail is not going anywhere in the next few decades, having a way to encrypt it to at least some extent is valuable.
It is a risky move to mess with people's browser experience. It does look good though, I use Chrome and won't be changing for that but it does show thoughtful changes, perhaps even practical!
Yugobyte is slightly altered PG "Frontend" with custom storage backend
Random nitpick, but I think it's à la. Do correct me if I'm wrong though.
It was involved in SolarWind attack.