skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately it's the court system that backs up identity. Ideally you never end up there, but its existence is what holds society together. That's where identity matters: where you're held to account for previous actions, such as contracts you've agreed to. Your identity in front of the judge has to be the same as the identity that entered into a contract. This is crucial for enforcement. If both parties to a contract cannot trust that this will happen, then a contract isn't useful to them, and business cannot take place.

For this to work, your digital identity needs to be something that the courts will directly accept as your personal identity. The fact that it is currently indirect is what causes all the problems. For example, nobody knows if some digital identity (eg. SMS verification proving ownership of a phone number) is tied 1-1 with a natural person. When companies assume it is, that's where the crack can get opened by fraudsters.

The only way to fix is this for the courts to be able to _directly_ trust an authority that issues digital identities. The only such issuer I can see working is the government.

In the US I suppose that could be a state government or the federal government, since courts (whether state or federal) will generally be able to trust digital identities issued by the other. But I don't see how this can be fixed by anyone _other_ than governments.

Having said that, I suppose it might be possible for credit agencies to issue digital identities. I haven't thought this possibility through.
> This is funny to me, because git config is one of the few bastions of sane configuration.

Just give it a few years, and we'll have statements like "IncludeIfFileExistsAndSatfisfiesConditionXandY" and you'll be begging for a Turing complete language ;)

Also, what happens if your configuration file contains a typo, say "eemail" instead of "email"? My guess is that Git will simply ignore it, whereas in a programming language, you would call "set_email(...)" and you would get an error if the function didn't exist. Now that's what I call sanity.
That's super useful for some known bad sites that I use. Thanks!
> If we fail a product, the company may fail, then we are all out of a job.

My view remains that if you're going above and beyond then that shouldn't be just to avoid the downside - you should also be getting a proportionate piece of the upside. For a small software company skilled workers are often bringing most of the value to the table, so you should have a corresponding ownership stake (I don't mean that purely rhetorically - from a friend who works at a consultancy that's structured as a cooperative it sounds like it's very much a "normal job" in practice).

Of course in a more capital-intensive business, or if you're blitzscaling, then maybe the owners are bringing something else to the table that you couldn't replicate with just a gang of programmers. But in that case capital is almost always a part of what they're bringing, and that means the company should be in a position to be paying what things cost.
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> propaganda

???

How is stating facts about labour abuse in china or qatar a propaganda?

Just because it happens in your country too doesn't change the facts or make both acceptable.
MVPs aren't a bad idea but you have to make sure you're doing then right. Have a target customer segment, have a clear objective, build the smallest version of your end goal that actually provides value but won't break the bank when you realize how much of it was actually wrong. Then listen to the complaints and feedback, cut out the parts that don't solve for a customer need and deliver another one. Rinse and repeat a few times and then put real effort into the things that you've identified as providing customer value. Don't feel bad about getting wrong, as long as you weren't excessively wasteful along the way.
Hi folks. Been learning from this site for years, so I had to show you the project I've been working on for the last year. Here's a breakdown of the site, and if you have any questions, please reach out.

Overview page: The best way to get introduced to an artist. See their top collaborators and producers, a breakdown of their skills, and chop up their music -- see all their guest features, production credits. Even sort their songs by how much they rhyme.

Collabs page: A breakdown of all the artist's features. See every single time two artists have been on a song.

Radar: Some important skills and behaviors that define rappers - measured using data we've gathered ourselves. See all the metrics that go into the scores as well.

We really appreciate you taking a look and if you'd like to support us, the best way right now would be to let us know what you want to see next and to stay in touch through our newsletter and social media - it makes a huge difference.
God forbid we hold users responsible for exercising due diligence. No, we must assume everyone is too incompetent to distinguish between shady and legit software.
I think this might be to have some leverage against Google with Chromecast, Amazon with Fire stick, etc.

If they can make connecting to those devices a pain for developers, it will tip the balance in favour of apple TV and devices apple chooses to whitelist.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world?
One of the defining qualities of Starlink for me is the relatively fast iteration rate for the satellites.

Satellites on low orbits are expected to last for a few years only. Unlike Iridium etc., they are not designed for a decade of service. Thus the customers can expect their service to improve over years, probably significantly so.

The beta bandwidth is 100 Mbps downlink, but I would expect 1 Gbps within a decade.
Interesting line of thought; another POV that emerged during a late-night discussion a while ago, was to look at the percentage of people that work in public service in each country.

We assumed that, the closer the percentage was to the median, the more risk-averse people would be (assuming the median represents some optimal size for the government).

We never validated the idea though; I'm quite curious to see how that would hold up after verification.
This is really the biggest problem with Excel portability: feature fragmentation.

While these new features seem exciting, I don't expect to use them anytime soon if I'm planning on sharing my work with others because it's not that easy tracking down which features are tied to specific Excel releases.
They should change the name from "Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery" to "Biblical Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery" because there is nothing Christian about what they are doing. Not an expert on Jesus but from what I've read he was a pretty forgiving guy. I did read the old testament and most of the stories are about cruelty, punishment and obedience.
If someone loses their passport while traveling they are often locked out of access to their home country, let alone their digital life.

It is not permissible to use digital backup copies of paper identity documents in most countries but with digital identity you can make all the backups you want and store them places hard to lose. Travelers would be wise to do so. It is free and reasonably easy. There is just a training gap, the tech is here.

Personally I keep an AES encrypted backup needed for emergency recovery of my digital life implanted in my body. Others I know use NFC rings.
EA has made five of its accessibility patents free for any studio to use
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> People memorize leetcode and think they're gods of CS
how fast you go from 'all levels below gold' to this
while probably such people do exist (never actually met someone who tried to memorize concrete solutions), they have nothing to do with competitive programming. Because you won't go far with bunch of memorized (and not understood) solutions of previous competitions. Even learning basic algorithm's implementations won't get you too high in competitions. Because you actually have to understand different approaches to actually be able to solve new problems.

> A guy who is generally good at CS or math can't show up and do wel

this is also not true. While you won't get like first places without practice, you still will be able to solve basic problems (if your cs degree has any substance behind it). And during interview it certainly shows. Nobody will give you hard problems which you can solve only by having some very specific knowledge of this particular problem. If you don't know some algorithm by hard but still can work out some approach using you background knowledge, you will pass almost any interview.
It's a gulag system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
Yeah, no.

* If I click on the web site, there is no privacy policy given. It just links back to the front page (Chrome)

* Anything with a subscription has got to send some data somewhere.

* All the language about "privacy-centric" with on actual background looks really sketchy.

Would you trust a small, unknown company to have access to your web cam? My experience is that few enough companies follow their own privacy policies.
Suggestion for a potential marketing tool when you get to that point: have someone create your blimp in Microsoft Flight Simulator. While blimps already exist in the simulator, your design sounds unique and this would be a way to raise awareness of your company, even if sim players aren't your target customers.
Your comment nicely addresses the local network restriction, but the article already expresses understanding of this. Why the extra-stringent multicast thing?
Security, privacy, reliability and “it just works” was always a major selling point of the iPhone. The various software restrictions were a major part of delivering that assurance that some third party software wouldn’t mess with your device. It might not have been a motivating factor for you, but it certainly was for a lot of consumers.

And regardless, Apple has never hidden the nature of iOS. These consumers have clearly decided that the tradeoffs of the walled garden were acceptable, despite there being plenty of more open alternatives on the market in the early days of the iPhone.
It's astonishing to me that people give other people who do not have their interests at heart full reign over their mind, body, and spirit. Conflict of interest seems to have no merit or consideration in society today.

How can you not see that these corporations are just extensions of the banking industry? America doesn't even control it's own money supply, yet you trust strangers who are extensions of them to inject your children with unknown substances and deliver you from poor health, when they profit from your being ill.
Maybe I am looking in the wrong places, but precisely zero of my local retailers have anything that looks like a Shopify storefront. And it's about the tools (Shopify is a great one), but also about the attitude. Amazon has the attitude of “get the thing to the customer, immediately”. Most of the other places have an attitude of “we want to build a long-lasting relationship with you, the consumer”. Hence they ignore fast deliveries and push coupons and loyalty programs and crowded stores.

Ironically, this leads to a place where the only long-lasting relationship the customer ends up having is with Amazon, which is a pretty shitty company.

> somehow it's moral to ignore all externalities in the name of pure market efficiency

I am not saying that, or I don't think I am anyway. I think the retailers are not taking the externality of reduced attention span in a serious way like Google or Amazon. The technology totally exists for a local retailer to get my location, and deliver a product to me with 3 clicks in under an hour.

And yet, apart from food delivery startups (that are not local, and simulate such an experience via a layer), few actual goods retailers (say, my local hardware store) have invested in building such an experience. I can't recall any of them having the courage to at least test out a pilot program with such an experience.

Either way, I do try to support my local retailers as much as I can; and my usage of Amazon has seen a slow but steady drop-off over the last 3 years. But that's mainly due to the fact that Amazon makes
Well the question that might be cynical is: do they actually mean it?

Like saying, "oh at least you tried!"/"good for you!"/"you learning something right!"?, this is something I get.

No one ever asked, "What went wrong, what went right?" / "What did you learn, what would you do differently?" / "Next time you'll try something hit me up!" / "I have something I'm working on, check this out, are you interested?" / "We should talk more about this"

You may say, those are different types of persons, one shows support the other shows curiosity and drive - but in the case of the latter they actually care and are "invested" in your failure as well to the point they'll give up some of their time and attention to ask about it, so they can learn something from your experience as well.

What we lack in Europe aren't patting on the back, it's actually to value the experience of failure.

It's "easy" to say nice words.
They are 100% unrelated.

One is a twitter thread about a Roccat Mouse driver.

This one is about a security vulnerability in Razer software.
> It's somewhat incredible (in a bad way) how far capitalism can go in terms of monetizing everything in people's lives when left unchecked.

Slavery/indentured servitude/prison labor predates capitalism by forever, that really has nothing to do with it. Similar (but much worse) labor camps existed in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
If the headline had been "only 1% of Y Combinator startups are European", there would have also been a comment on how this was a failure of the European startup ecosystem ;)
And who "likes" CCP gulags? Does Xiaomi like them? I'd like to know!

Sorry to break it to you, but this doesn't come even close.
At most these criminals should get better working conditions and some pay (after reasonable cost of food, boarding and medical care are deducted). Some of them are lucky that the justice system doesn't work, so they don't have to compensate their victims.
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This is one of the most horrific articles I've read in recent times. This is absolutely disgraceful.

We have to be better than this, there has got to be more tools for people to liberate themselves away from this.

I want to know why these folks won't LEAVE shitty redneck states and head to places with more opportunity. I went through a residential treatment program in Nashville, and there were jobs galore back then, so I went right to work and I've been sober for 22 years, and actually my 22nd year started just a few days ago.

This guy didn't even have an addiction problem, I'm almost certain the judge is getting some sort of incentive to punish these people with this program. I honestly think private rehabs are just destined for abuse, it doesn't make sense to treat a public health problem as a private industry product.

Ugh.
My mother just unplug the keyboard and take it away. She underestimated my ability to navigate Windows 98 and play AoE I using only mouse...
Good to mention, but the UK prison release programme is paid, albeit often at minimum wage and subject to a 40% additional tax. As far as I understand it, it is optional for prisoners to engage with though.
> How is it superior?

First, you have to compare EU today with US of the 00s when there were actual new ideas in the market and profitable companies. The current US startup market may have been taken over by grubby marketers who market themselves as entrepreneurs, they may be buying their way to user growth, and may fail, but it doesnt matter. Because the big guys have cornered and monopolized every fundamental infrastructure , are already bringing in tons and tons of cash, and basically guarantee the cash flow towards that ecosystem ... forever. Whatever money is burnt in AWS ends up back in the same SV ecosystem. That's sustainable.

Now, take for example the EU's H2020 system that funds partnerships between academia and industry. There are a lot of fancy proposals in there, with fancy names and fancy-sounding tech. And most of them deliver exactly what they describe in the proposal. If you look closely, most of the projects are minimum and viable, but they are not products. And when the project ends, there isn't a push to continue the project if the partners don't want to, even the bureaucrat in charge of it may be a different person at that time. While on the other hand , a VC acts as a permanent point of reference who has long-term-interest and investment in seeing the idea bear fruit.
> Please note: the views I express are mine alone and they do not necessarily reflect the views of Amazon.com.

Why would they? Because of a little diagram of using AWS IoT, Lambda, and S3? Weird disclaimer.

Cool project though - I particularly like graphing the cat's weight too, seems like it doesn't really overeat just because it's available. I've never had cats, but I think dogs would basically just wolf it all down every time you filled it up. Though that could be an interesting experiment, assuming that was the starting point, teaching them that the food is plentiful, and they can just use the feeder when hungry.
Not sure if sqlite can have RCEs, it's an embedded sql engine, not a remotely accessible sql server, so presumably those RCEs are vulnerabilities in programs that expose sqlite to remote access.
If we’re talking Zurich specifically, the difference would probably only be 2-3X less than FANMAG/ETC. London salaries are high too (not Zurich levels from what I’ve seen), but that market is now separate from the EU.

But most places in Europe with tech scenes and outsized VC investment, eg. helsinki, stockholm, berlin, amsterdam, etc you’re talking 5X less salary than in Silicon Valley.

Given the tech talent in those cities, there must be some arbitrage opportunity there.
I placed my order quite some time ago and before several of my friends. My friends have received theirs but I have not heard anything about my order.

I am disappointed they lied about order fulfillment taking place in the order received.

Edit to add: we ordered within a month of each other and two of us live 20-30 miles apart so "our area" (central NC) should be active.
"None of these are applicable to vehicles that are only driven in cities."

Unless you're a contractor/handyman that needs to haul things like drywall, lumber, water heaters, etc. So there are some professions in the city that may require larger vehicles. Also, sometimes those farmer still have to drive into the city for things anyways, like for medical care.
People fear what they do not understand.

I know this is pure conjecture with regards to this particular situation, but I already had couple of clashes with operations people over use of multicast in my applications. They basically trying to tell me there is never valid case for multicast so they just outright filter it out everywhere with no possibility of enabling it.
In that case it depends on what you consider a "warlord". Kilij Arslan, the son of Alp Arslan (their second name means "lion"), commanded the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia and was the first muslim ruler of the Middle East to confront the Crusaders. The Sultanate took up quite a large area of Asia Minor and included many major cities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Rum#/media/File:S...

The muslim world was certainly fragmented into small kingdoms, more like city states, that constantly fought each other and that for a long time could not find common cause enough to present a united front against the Crusaders - and sometimes even sided with them to fight each other. But I think of them as kingdoms rather than tribes, so I don't think of their rulers as "warlords" but as, well, kings. And sultans, emirs, caliphs, etc. Then of course there was Egypt, that was generally a centralised state (and that also fought the Crusaders with a little more focus than the rulers of Syria and Anatolia).

My source for all this is "Les Croisades Vues par les Arabes" by Amin Maalouf (French title: The Crusades through Arab eyes). So I may well be missing a wider context.
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It would be amazing to have an open sourced replacement for the Logitech TrackMan Wheel wired trackball. The price they command shows the interest in trackball controlled with your thumb. It had a better feel than the current model. I kept two running for years but they finally gave up the ghost.
> They mostly seem to be sour grapes. "I want to buy X product with P, Q, R features and nobody is making one, we should force them to by law". No, that's not how that works.

I think it’s closer to: I bought a 10% black box (90% open) widget in the 1990s, and now in 2020 that same widget (with a few more functions) is 80% closed. And: why can I no longer use a generic computer for what I want to use it for? We’ve forgotten that an open distributed learning web is possible, and how instead computer literacy (programming) is very low because most of us can no longer follow our curiosity and look inside technological systems; only ‘experts' are allowed to do that (someone wrote about that recently, that whenever he talked to older/earlier computer hobbyists, how most of them mention that they are pretty disappointed by today‘s black box world/web).

And no they’re not ‘sour grapes‘, they’re just sensing the painful ways in which the commons has been plundered, and feeling frustrated by the way people such as yourself pretend that there are still many benefits to be found in locked down/black box platforms and devices, which there aren't.

The completely ludicrous part is how normalized all this is today. How much our tools are now over-engineered, non-modular and non-repairable; how much black box shit we produce. Literal shit. Single use shit. Biological systems have no waste, yet our current production systems produce the most toxic, anti-life sludge the world has seen (see Baotou -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_UdqZdFr-w). Today we produce coffee machines that have iPads sitting in a dock with virtual buttons to choose options. An iPad. What the fuck. What is that? Infinitely less complex technology was used to send people to the moon. What a complete and total waste of valuable resources and laborers' time!

I'm talking about how we could have so many more open standards and decide to produce only high quality stuff. But no, our culture teaches us to discredit those who came before and to commoditize tiny incremental updates, slapping our own names on them (‘branding’) to please our neglected and alienated souls. I’m so tired of this false story of the need for competition. Humans are copying machine. It’s ok to copy! It’s how we learn and grow.

Anyways, to get closer to a 'universal basic inheritance' - a commons that respects actual scarcity, and thus also the abundance of digital resources (scientific knowledge and technological blueprints), we need a new system for accounting. I believe http://valueflo.ws can offer us a very possible way forward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymAHXGSM14: they are radically distributed supply chain systems using the Resource-Event-Agent ontology, built on fully distributed tech, e.g. holochain and activitypub.

To see an exciting future that has been buried yet not forgotten (it's a new Cybersyn documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0
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Dude, I was complaining about Windows in this thread, offhandedly mention I didn't like MacOS or Linux either, and some fucking childish evangelist crawls out of the woodwork to liken me to a domestic abuse victim.
The 1 year parenting leave makes me think Norway? Or anything Scandinavian at least… here in the Netherlands it’s something like 16 weeks for women and 7 days for men? It was 2 days last year but it recently changed.