skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMHO, crypto is like a new car with the revolutionary new feature of not having seat belt technology.

Crypto is like that new car that can have a seat belt but you don't need to. The fact that it still doesn't have that seat belt doesn't means much, just that you need to be aware of it.

For sure any new paradigms will takes time to solve every indirect issues that comes with it, Rome wasn't build in one day.

> Of course, when that happens someone in that community will call it a seat-strap and claim its a revolutionary new invention.

Oh seems like you acknowledge that... but twist it like a bad thing? For sure it will be a great thing to add to cryptos, you just said it yourself that it's something lacking in cryptos...

What's amazing about crypto is the flexibility, the openness, the accessibility. Anyone can join theses networks, thus it can be done anywhere too, and because of the financial incentive, it's gonna happen anywhere. You'll probably say, but there's Western Union, Paypal, Visa, banks, etc... for all that... but check the Chikaordery story from Pleasant Green (as a Canadian I often laugh when the list include Venmo, or any US exclusive service, that just show how so many forget that the US isn't the world).

So yeah, some people will makes mistakes from time to time in their smart contract, it will happens, but we will get better each time to avoid that, when it's needed, just like we did with the previous ways of doing things. We will accept the risk when it can't be done, and that will be it (never heard of fraud using credit card, or bouncing checks? We are just used to them and accept the risks.)
If you don't have twitter on your phone, you can go to twitter.com and the new font is active.
This is substantially misleading. Due to the 2011 outage, the Texan regulations are stronger and more strictly enforced than the federal regulations. Additionally, the primary issue with natural gas was due to suppliers not being able to get gas to the generators. The natural gas suppliers are federally regulated.
I thought that why 1Password still popular (or say why they can charge more $ from Apple users) is because they optimized for Apple. It's weird choice. Don't forget that they can stick to UIKit.
When Correlation is Better than Causation
> I'm projecting on how the terms and conditions of this client-side behavior can and almost certainly will change

The same gloom and doom imaginary projections can be made about what Google might do to Android in the future, and are just as accurate.

For instance, discovery from one of the antitrust suits shows that Google pressured device makers to hide Android privacy settings.

From this, I can project that Google will be completely removing privacy options in their entire ecosystem.
> that exist on all major cloud storage systems

Except for those cloud storage systems that have offered client-side encryption from day 1.

Pretending that server-side scanning is something naturally given and should be accepted as baseline biases the arguments that follow.
>there are no material life improvements

I don't know about you, but having cheap access to climate control and refrigeration is a pretty big deal. Even animals appreciate a warm place to sleep and fresh food.

Your reasoning seems ascetic. If a fellow says he's happier with the mega-titties than the ankles, who are you to tell him otherwise? Every human experience can be categorized into a dopamine or cortisol trigger. Who vested the authority in you to decide which of them constitute "meaningful spiritual fullfilment" and which do not?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks for sharing!
If you are using a locked down browser at a kiosk, you cannot change your IP either.
No, they want to move to flourishing red states, but they don't want to change their own politics.
There are screenshots and an archive on archive.org that shows it's not different to how I'm describing it.
As far as colonialism and imperialism goes, you're right that the Dutch has closer values to the US.
Moving Beyond Personal Productivity
A DDG search for "any studies of arsonism" and "specialist in psychology of arson" found many sources.

A quick skim indicates that arsons all share the common property that they are generally AFU'ed:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AFU
Probably a good point. I think I am making the tesla valve more than it is. I am prone to this. Thanks.
> For those complaining that it’s more expensive than cobbling together USB hubs and multi-port readers from Amazon: You’re definitely not the target market.

Then again, if I was wanting to burn 1000s of cards a day, I would probably do what everybody else does and create/contract an actual manufacturing process. This seems to fall in the niche between somebody that just happens to flash a lot of images and businesses at scale that do 1000s and it seems like it's a bit of a perilous position.
After spending the last day watching my two comments here bounce between positive and negative karma, without a single reply, I have to ask the people that silently downvoted:

Do you have information I don't? Have you seen the email?

It seems my statement was rather divisive: plenty of people disagreed or disliked it enough to downvote, yet enough people agreed to balance it out again. But nobody replied. Nobody corrected my logic or gave a counter argument.

Just to be clear: I'm not saying that the guy is innocent, I'm saying I don't know if he's innocent or guilty and that the information we have isn't enough to know. I don't care either way, I don't know any of the people involved, I have no skin in the game.

But I despise lynch mobs where people try to ruin someones life based purely on an allegation, without any evidence. The burden of proof is on the accuser to prove that their allegations are true. This post didn't do that, it only showed that further investigation is required, it did not prove guilt. The email does not prove guilt or wrongdoing, just lack of judgement, which pretty much everyone is guilty of at one point or another. But these lynch mobs are dangerous, people have had and do have their lives ruined over an outrage mob, based on completely false, misinterpreted or blown out of proportion accusations. Until we know with absolute certainty that this isn't the case, we shouldn't try to destroy others' lives.
Ask HN: How to Switch from Business Software?
I have been a full stack SWE doing business oriented web software for 5 years. I like programming, but I want to move into a field I find more inline with my personal values. I have a STEM degree, but not sure how I can adjust my skill set from building webpages to something more applicable to renewables or related engineering efforts. I want to be able to self study, but need some goals to work towards.
I have two responses to this.

First, I am very crypto skeptical, but I don't have any problem with "research continuing". However, that's not what I am experiencing. If crypto enthusiasts were off in a lab trying to figure out how to make it solve a real problem then great! Instead, I am the "tech expert" for many of my friends and family, and frequently have them reach out to me as they are on the verge of putting a non trivial amount of money into crypto that they can't afford to lose. Most of these people can barely keep their passwords safe, so I have to spend a lot of time talking them out of it because I care about them. A similar thing happens at work. Some random business exec has a great idea to "use blockchain" for some thing that frankly would be better solved with a regular database. I've had to spend a lot of time convincing business people to not use crypto or NFTs yet.

Second, what you're doing, and many crypto people do this, is identify real problems that would be great if we could solve them. And then you go, "and isn't crypto great because it hasn't solved these problems, but maybe it could". Yeah, maybe, but it hasn't yet. Crypto reminds me of the semantic web people in a lot of ways. They said, "wouldn't it be great if semantic information were embeded in data and APIs could be machine understandable". Sounds a lot like smart contracts doesn't it? Yes, it would be great if we solved that problem, but we never did. The most we got from the semantic web was the semi-useful json-ld you seen in HTML headers for SEO optimization. Here's the thing, the vast vast majority of new ideas don't pan out. It's a lot easier to identify legit problems than it is to solve them. Crypto people get super excited because it would be amazing to solve those problems, BUT there's no good reason to believe it's likely that it will. I say this as someone who spent years trying to get teh semantic web to work. It never did.
I don't have access to this article so I'm not 100% sure, but at a guess they mean "many nations have made public claims that they plan to target reaching net-zero by around <some date>"

To my knowledge, carbon emissions are still increasing every year, and increasing in their rate of increase every year. I would love to be wrong.

This site doesn't include pandemic data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
“The fact that even in this day and age, we still hold major online videogame tournaments in person shows you how important meatspace is.”

This is likely because the prize money is significantly funded by the tickets sold to the “meatspace”.
No, the core issue is the London Metropolitan Police being incompetent (and slow).
> What I'm getting at is that the things Google and Microsoft are doing are entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

It is not. Industry practices are entirely relevant.
Sure! After I click on valorant on the main page, this notification pops up in firefox on Windows with an Oculus Rift connected. https://imgur.com/sfcjaP3
Also, used Boox tablets of previous models. You can get ones upto 13 inches, which Kindle doesn't have. They run Android, so you can just write a standard Android app and run it, no hacking needed.
Your boat comparision is nonsensical.

To build a boat on your own the way you described is crazy resource intensive. You need land to store the boat, you need materials, you need tools, you need free time to work on it. This is basically a wealthy persons pet project. Depending on the size of the boat and your abilities you will be pumping a crazy amount of resources into this for years.

The second type is a job. You need a car to get to the factory, and an able body. Within a week to a month you would be expecting your first paycheck.

You are basically asking if a wealthy person can feel higher amount of satisfaction than a worker class. It’s cliche that money doesn’t bring happyness, but if you are investing that much resources into a project it better be making you happy or what are you doing with your life?

The other problem with the comparision is that people who have a boat project are a self-selected bunch for those who would enjoy building a boat. If i would have the resources to build a boat I wouldn’t. It is a risky, hard, and back breaking work. The reward at the end is that you have a boat, which I don’t want. If you give me resources and force me to build my own boat I will be misserable.

Is it a surprise then that this wealthy self-selected bunch has a higher statisfaction with their pet project than a factory worker? How could this ever be a fair comparision?
This one http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

It goes much deeper then the videos. Also it is free.
I'm so astonished that we are so careful not to overthink, to the point we accept "you're overthinking it" as a valid excuse to disregard rare risks.

But we don't have the same cultural concern against underthinking. I have never heard someone telling their employee or friend "you're underthinking this". Surely overthinking is bad, but when underthinking can be severely dangerous, it's easy to see why some people overthink.

I overthink everything all the time and there are still many things I miss and do wrong. I can't imagine trying to limit my thinking just for the sake of not overthinking.

I'm not necessarily concerned about this blog post, but I'm curious if our frequent warns against overthinking can be a net loss?
China's GDP per capita has grown by 120% in the past 11 years. India's grew by 54%. China also started the decade at a much higher baseline than India.

India is not the fastest growing market, either in relative, or absolute terms. The number of globally-middle class people in China far eclipses the number of their counterparts in India. The rate at which people enter the global-middle class is much faster in China. It's possible that one day, India will become the fastest growing market, but that day isn't today, or tomorrow, or next year.

> Capable manufacturing doesn’t matter when automation can be reshored, when there are shipping delays and pricing spike, when labor costs are rising fast.

You simply can't re-shore the ecosystem that arose in Shenzhen. Not without two decades of hemorrhaging money, depending on government handouts, and having a much slower time to market. The labour cost isn't even the problem, there's just no supporting industry in the US that can match the turnaround times/SLAs that vendors in China offer.

It's possible for say, the US to close down its economy, build a wall of tariffs, and only buy local (And thus, eventually, at great cost, rebuild its industry. It's not a bad idea, but the electorate won't stand for it), but those factories in Shenzhen will keep operating, and will pivot towards selling to the middle class of the domestic market, and of the developing world, instead.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58165478. Thanks!
“They’re just consequences for abusing your right to privacy,” they’ll eventually explain.
I would add that this is one of the few good books by Packt.
Bayesian Analysis with Python is also pretty good.

Still, most of the time Packt is a reliable signal for low quality
Is he entitled to any compensation?
Global Consulting Firms Project They Will Save $1B Through Travel Cuts
You're a dumbass for buying Apple, the writing was on the wall for ages. Don't buy Apple, buy and use devices that are under your control. How the fuck is that so hard to understand, we've been telling you people for literal decades.
If you just got hired and feel this way about your new employer, then just leave. You're not going to last long anyway.
Here's hoping that D'Andrea was the biggest part of the leadership problem. He certainly represented himself as having too much power.
If 1991 why not 1919? You'd want the world transition from the horse age to the space age. It might be a good while yet beforw we see any new changes as profound as that one.

Okay I guess I'd rank crispr as highly. But the list of changes that profound is short.
He confirms that he wrote an inadvised email. We still do not know the actual content or context around the email, so we don't know if it was malicious, abuse or simply somewhat inappropriate but otherwise malign.

We know she felt uncomfortable over it, but we do not know if he wrote it innocently-but-stupidly or if there is more to it.
This won't actually work.

Because the document at that link can change.
What can work is if there is a hash of the data, and you hope that the data is still there at the link. Better if you have the actual data that was signed. Which means, we're back to actual documents.

What we SHOULD have, however, is a github for lawyers.
If you understand DeFi loans, you are 99% there, since that comprises much of the enthusiasm. Lots of good writeups about the collapse of Iron have been mentioned here.
In theory, sure. But most "real world IoT" devices are appliance-like and seldom designed for the real world nor for non-technical owners. I'd estimate the number of IoT devices with "good and wise security in the design" at being far smaller than 0.1%.

Most people designing IoT are NOT CompSci people who remember Therac-200 in class. Most are EEs who often have never had more than one or two programming classes and often often have had no formal training at all. Never mind "security theory" courses. Never mind case studies around that.

It's like expecting the average man on the street to be able to perform brain surgery.

Worse: no employer is willing to pay for the talent to do the job right. They want it to "work well enough" and "on the cheap" at the same time. Once it's sold, any security issue is someone else's problem (even if it's someone in the same company).

And I'm saying this as a degreed EE (I just happened to get into software long before I went to engineering school so I know what I don't know).
Stopped reading when it imagined for a southern India heat wave in 2041 a temperature lower than has already been hit this year for three consecutive days in Canada.
I find that overthinking is a byproduct of overly complex expectations.

These expectations are often externally imposed either by industry or by our own experiences.

This dissonance is exacerbated by tools which require as much complex skills or lack the expected complexity in their output.

"Hello world" town reminds a hopelessly overpopulated slums detached from glitzy shine of a megapolis that one can experience but not truly become one.
How Turkey became a star of European tech
This addresses key usability issues with most data initiatives. Don’t be dismayed that people who haven’t tried to share reports with teams don’t get it… I get it and I presume end users will love it. There is a particular need for metadata support in Google data studio that would be great if you could help solve: there are no folders or any real way to curate data outside of report sharing and leaving text boxes on the reports themselves. It’s kind of a nightmare for an otherwise powerful and popular tool.

I’d also like to see comment threads over data discoveries. Like a snapshot of a report with in-context exploration would be super helpful. In my experience the default behavior is a report screenshot dropped into a slack thread, and I know there can be better. QlikView does a decent job at this but it has the trappings of enterprise software. I think that would unlock a lot of value out of reports and give a place for teams to understand opportunities and celebrate wins. Congrats on the launch!
If they checked, who did access the files, don't the police should have seen, there was no password protection? Very strange. And the police nedded al his devices for 4 weeks to check that ..
I stopped reading after this

"If you are writing a web app today, you’ll probably choose IndexedDB to store data. It’s the only option for something database-like that works across all browsers."

RDBMS all the way baby
That was announced as part of the post that we're discussing.

Not sure where the signup link is, sorry.
And that is why having an open web is important.

Not being locked-in into apps is critical nowadays.
> Presumably it's a slow boil: they'll make it run on all photos in a year or so, once the press from this one has blown over.

What is the basis for this assumption?
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I was not making a generalized argument that everything should be touch screens. I was making the point that a Machine denizen if written in modern times would be using a touchscreen or voice interface. Or perhaps a keyboard, though that starts to get a bit more open ended than I think the idea is here.

Evidence, if not outright proof, is that is exactly what we have today in the prototype Machine we're living in. We do not interact with our Machine environments via an array of bespoke, single-purpose buttons.

You can also step up the sci-fi a bit and assert a brain-reading device.

However, as I was saying, it definitely dates the work to write as if a big array of buttons is how one would interact with the Machine. But I reiterate, all things considered, only a little. It still holds up brilliantly.
Yeah, I'm aware it's not a perfect analogy, but it's still the best you're going to get for communicating the idea succinctly (just with the name, even) to a lay-person. Alternatives like "vault password" or "locker password" (or something along those lines), provided it's made very clear to the user, repeatedly and persistently, that their passwords are in something you're calling a vault or a locker, can be about as good. "Primary", or anything similar, is worse.
1991 still feels modern enough to have a decent chance at participating in that transition I suppose.
So that is why a website I work on has complaints of Apple users who keep getting nagged by cookie banners - they store their settings in LocalStorage since cookies tend to have issues when the content is too long. Thank you so very much.
Yea, you can move goalposts all you want, but the bottom line is companies that permit remote work are going to get the best talent, from all over the world, and those companies are going to blow the ones that does not allow remote work, right out of the water...

All this romantic "oh I have to look you in the eyes" sentiment will disappear when push comes to shove, that it when you see your best people leave for competitors that allow remote work...
This article on HN today

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/

"Politicians regularly claim that they need to ban encryption to protect the children. But who is actually being monitored?"

Apparently by orders of magnitude over any child related issue, it's drugs.

That seems to imply that it is a "moral panic". If they said they were doing for drugs, or drugs + other stuff then that might be more convincing.

Moreover if the article is to be believed - such mechanisms are used at hugely higher rates for things they are not pitched as being for. So that breaks the narrative of 'we'll only use it for X'.
Food has gotten much better, and Wikipedia exists. Those are my favorites.
Wait if this is really true, why are people freaking out? Wasn't Apple already scanning photos uploaded to iCloud? And now it just happens on-device?
Does anyone know any other way that is fast and easy to implement?
Yes, Apple's defense is literally the "If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about" line that is universally recognized as laughable.
Sorry to be that guy, but there have been anti improvements as well.
All this came with a financial cost, things seem much more expensive than back then.
Society as a whole is much more sedatery and physically lazy and this is reflected in overweight numbers, contributing factor to increased health care cost.
And ever since corona struck, life quality rapidly decreased for those who like to get out and do things.
But how did they lose uber eats business?

I don't get that at all. You have the restaurants, the drivers, the math gets better the more of all this you have (shorter drives, more stops per trip etc). Something happened there. Covid should have freed up drivers initially for more eats stuff.

Did they change leadership somehow around Eats? Because 2017 ish it felt like eats was the main player. Then a few years later a ghost.

There has to be some behind the scenes story! Crappy quality in terms of service? What happened?

Or did doordash just outspend them somewhere in the mix? Taking a quick look at DASH financials DASH is burning cash on something.

Hard to believe Uber didn't have the capital to fight the fight.

Not this is bay area annecdata - maybe eats is big in Boston or somewhere, but around here it's def not feeling #1 anymore.
What you suggest sounds analogous to a flywheel. You’re using the mass of the vehicle to stabilise your speed and drive the propellor when the energy stored in your momentum > the energy you get from the wind. However, this does not account for the full experience they are describing where you can attain speeds far greater than wind speed. If that’s the case there must be a different “angle” to it, pun intended. He’s not just harnessing the purely linear “push” from the wind. There must be other vectors superimposing. Could well be the lift provided by the Bernoulli effect on the propellor blades. As I mentioned elsewhere once you get to that level it’s all very domain specific.