skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> workers deliberately lying to employers to earn more

I don't see it. Is your contract about labor done, or about time given away?

In the first case, i don't see it, unless you lie about the labour done (which is pretty hard to do unless your employer don't understand one lick of what you're doing). If its time spent, well, i'm pretty sure that you then have to take into account commute time, time spent thinking about your work, mistake you've done, explaining what you're doing to people, bounding with coworker. In this case, i'm pretty sure most devs, arch or ops are owed a lot of money :)
Yeah, I rewrote a system for a company that did this. If it makes you feel any safer, the original codebase was an error-prone mess written by an intern.

It’s not any more, but all it did was ping for MAC addresses at both ends of the stretch. I suppose the data could prove your presence, but it’s the presence of your car really. At least with Apple the MAC gets cycled now.
Author is talking about data errors vs type errors.

Data errors will always pass through regardless if it's invalid. Eg. an application bug that overflowed the int will still be happily accepted into an integer typed column even with a check contraint value > 0.

In the ANYTHING case you would have something like -205 in there instead.

For what it's worth I don't really agree with this post at all though.
Nice project :)

I think this relies on you following conventions for commit messages. There could be be an interesting usecase for something like GTP-3 here: I'd love to not have to think too hard about carefully writing parsable commit messages but still be able have something scan my commit log, understand context and create a summarized changelog from it
Looks like another great example of disinformation.

When, if, they print a retraction, it is always in smaller print and never on the front page.
Starve the Beast: Monopoly Power and Political Corruption
I've studiously avoided Factorio because I don't need to get hooked on any more video games, but yes it's about thinking of your organization's workflow in terms like a critical path (Goldblatt would describe 'critical chain' in a later book), and then discovering where your bottlenecks are.

To be honest I would recommend a separate book for software practitioners, Reinertsen's Principles of Product Development Flow, because it gives you methods to look at which are more applicable to creative work where you can't easily turn your work into "production lines" to then use Lean manufacturing/JIT principles on.

Either way none of this works if you let every local work center just produce produce produce up to its peak output or most efficient point. At that point it becomes impossible to find the bottleneck because there are so many bottlenecks (including bottlenecks not on the critical path). That's a key reason why all the methods (Goldblatt, Reinertsen) focus on reducing the amount of work-in-progress and reducing batch sizes of each individual work package or work item.
Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon on a bike pulling Kip on online skates ... https://youtu.be/eprEOkxJ2Eo
According to IUCN report nearly 30% of 138,000 assessed species face extinction
Is this why dogs and cats are generally tolerant of babies pulling at their ears and whatnot?
Usually mortgages are a fixed rate for the life of the loan (usually 30 years) -- at least here in the USA. Variable rate (eg "ARM") mortgages are also available but are less common and mostly used for short term flipping and the like, for the very reason you say -- nobody wants to risk a rising payment due to rising rates.

Is the situation very different in the UK? Do Britishers actually prefer variable rate mortgages for some bizarre reason?

Edit: I did my own research and was shocked to find that in the UK it sounds like variable is indeed more or at least as common as fixed and that even fixed tends to be fixed only for the first 5-10 years!This is the opposite of the US, where I know someone on a normal middle class circumstance who just secured a 3.25% 30 year fixed mortgage, and this is extremely common right now if you have good credit. Even the "scary and risky" variable mortgages in America are things like a 5/1 ARM which is fixed for the first 5 years, which sound like they'd be relatively low risk for the UK!

I am baffled. Is the great advantage for the American homeowner simply due to the wages of empire, ie dollar supremacy? Federal policy favoring homeowners? Or what? I did always wonder how banks could afford to provide such a good deal.

This is a vast difference really worth wondering about; I hope someone has some insight.

Source: https://www.money.co.uk/mortgages/should-you-get-a-fixed-tra...
I'm in Wales and house prices in Amsterdam look incredibly low for better build quality and higher living standard.
The problems I'm thinking of are general ones like:

- Transaction cost and/or speed
- Security
- Anonymous/private payments
- Avoiding censorship

Whether or not crypto/blockchain solves these is entirely dependant on the cryptocurrency we're talking about, but I will say no currency comes close to solving all of these at once.
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The NSA doesn't really do a full coverage of Kubernetes security hardening, but does touch on a lot of the same ground as the CIS benchmark.

It also covers some areas that aren't in-scope of the CIS benchmark, at a high level.
Also small-scale fragility makes for large-scale anti-fragility if the broken things are allowed to break.
Fantastic stuff for mould suppression. Make a paste and rub it on the wall, you'll have nothing to worry about for months.
He's storing private data that can geolocate people (mac address + exact geolocation + timestamp)
Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man.
Been around for awhile they are called viruses.
This article is from 2012:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2023286/foxconn-samsung-face...

But Samsung has facilities in China too:

https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/about-us/location/manu...

Another 2012 article about labor practices at Samsung factories:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/these...

The point is everyone uses cheap labor for manufacturing if possible, whether it's China or elsewhere. If they did not, then their mass market products would probably be priced too high and customers would reward competitors and they would go out of business. No one is paying higher paid people in South Korea or Japan to assemble phones if it can be done drastically cheaper elsewhere.

Another article about Sony using Foxconn and other ODMs:

http://www.xperiablog.net/2012/06/19/sony-mobile-partners-wi...

I assume LG and Samsung are big enough to have their own facilities and be ODMs themselves, but I would guess the smaller players like Sony have to outsource to them.
I agree that podman isn’t more secure but the project seems to be more open to contributions than moby.

You can still use podman rootful and use it like
Docker. Then there should
be not security issues.
The governments are to blame. If conventional mortgages were capped to 1 per person. And a minimum of 80% ltv was required. Then houses would be cheaper.

Instead the government is letting people put low money down, low interest rates, and buy up many houses at once. That of course inflated housing costs.
> If you paid 30 bucks you paid for a stolen or otherwise illegally sold license.

Citation needed.

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/get-windows-10-free-...

> Now, let's address the elephant in the room. While we can't vouch for all of them, websites selling lower-priced Windows keys are likely selling legitimate codes. One popular site, Kinguin, has 37 merchants worldwide selling Windows keys. Mark Jordan, Kinguin’s VP of communications, told Tom's Hardware in 2019 that Kinguin's merchants acquire the codes from wholesalers who have surplus copies of Windows they don't need.

> "It's not a gray market. It would be like buying Adidas or Puma or Nike from a discounter, from TJ Maxx," Jordan said. "There are no legal issues with buying it from us. It's just another marketplace."

> According to Jordan, Kinguin's merchants have sold “several hundred thousand” keys and are not one-time sellers posting listings for codes they don’t want. As part of its fraud protection, a Kinguin employee randomly buys a key “every now and then” to make sure they’re legitimate, he said. Jordan added that it’s rare for a customer to get a key that’s been resold, but if they did, customer support would help them get a new one for free.
Is There a Startup for That?
Using cosign/sigstore to sign release artifacts https://github.com/sigstore/cosign and instructions for validating signature on download could be a good option here.
€2900 is very high, higher than the Royal Society's open access plan. Which journal is it?
Another theory is that the scene was included to support the impression that this is a "true story":

https://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/fargo-ufo-meaning-explanat...

> the movie says, ‘This is a true story.’ They put it in there because it ‘happened.’
It’s certainly not fine on iphone. The font renders but is very hard to read and the aspect ratio is awful.
Also, think about what a waste of talented peoples' time this represents. Probably many person-hours are spent implementing these increasingly sophisticated DRM systems, and then many more trying to crack them, rendering all of it completely pointless.
> If you're smart enough to realize that there might be something to worry about, you should be smart enough to be able to figure out how to

This is gatekeeping 101.
Some people are just starting out in security/software engineering and things like this might not be obvious to them. It's good that you have suggested what to do but there are different ways to "suggest" things.
And the PIIGS countries also.
We need to come up with a way to disrupt this extortion and put these jokers out of the money.

Note that I deliberately avoid calling the publishing racket a business, because these criminals-in-spirit and their empires produce nothing of value: they are lining their pockets by exploiting other people’s work, while those being exploited have no choice but to play into the publishers’ hand; enabling the publishers’ power brokerage further their encroachment on public information by gifting them the most precious fruits of their labor.
EDIT: Admittedly there is a type of judge that calls themselves Originalist, but in practice is not. They drive me nuts.
> its really bad in all London

I don't disagree with you there.

Aside from the Chelsea and Knightsbridge style stories, overall London suffers from a problem of (a) too much buy-to-let nonsense going on (b) off-plan new-build developments which are sold off-plan predominantly to offshore buyers (mostly Chinese using it as a way to get chunks of money out of China, but also other nationalities too). All those new-builds South of the River for example, almost exclusively off-plan jobs.

The present government is not helping either. They are unashamedly on the side of the property developers out there to make a quick buck, not Londoners.

I absolutely do feel for those on low / minimum wage in London who are pushed out of the market and having to face horrible commutes to be able to live somewhere remotely affordable.
Doctors came to mind. They depend on scientific evidence for their practice but most do not publish scientific articles.
I’m at about 50N and the Sun definitely rises and sets North of the east-west grid roads here in the summer. Unless it’s some crazy optical illusion, but I don’t think so.

Edit: playing with the mbostock Solar Path visualization linked by a sibling comment confirms that it starts rising and setting north between March 21 and Sept 21.
Governments shouldn’t be paying significant amounts of tax payer money in page fees or open access fees. There should be a small cap on what will be paid, a requirement work is open access and deposited in public databases, and that’s it. It’s outrageous that tax payers are spending $5000 so someone can publish in a Nature type journal, and a waste compared to the additional postdoc and researcher salaries all these page charges could instead go to pay for. Unfortunately, the incentives in academia are such that as long as grants will provide such funds researchers will publish in these journals, so I think this can really only be fixed by funding bodies reducing the money they provide for publications. At the end of the day, I don’t think any journal should be getting more than ~$200-$300 for publishing an article. They simply don’t add much value at this point beyond the prestige of their name.
Unfortunately, large buffers lead to more spiky behaviour than well-kempt ones.

One of the reasons is they hide feedback about downstream capacity problems. (See "bufferbloat" for this in internet terms, Principles of Product Development Flow for it in terms of creative work, and any book on lean manufacturing for it in terms of repetitive work.
We use it in our pool to raise and buffer the pH without affecting the alkalinity. It is much cheaper than the equivalent "pH up" pool chemicals and we order it from Amazon in bulk. I do wonder what the UPS person thinks when they deliver the huge heavy carton labeled "BORAX" - meth lab?
That's essentially my point. A house in the city center which consumes the same amount of land as an apartment block would face the same tax bill.

Who would want that house with that tax bill?
I have a pair of 5-wheel skates which clip to a (special) pair of boots. Those boots looked a bit like motorcycle boots, the skates have a hard shell which is strapped over the boots. This is a practical solution to the shoe problem unless you're looking for something more fashionable.
> You don't need permission to use cash

Really? The one dollar bill you can go anywhere and spend has this ability due to legislation, or as you maye describe, permission from the government. It has the Seal of the Federal Reserve and The Treasury Department on it. In turn these institutions can withdraw at any point in time these dollar bills from circulation rendering them worthless.

With crypto, you need permission from the blockchain.
There's probably slightly more to this. When I was 10 years old my family moved from Chicago to a small town in Wisconsin. My dad commuted to the city four days a week and we still maintained many connections to Chicago. This town was about 90 minutes from Chicago (in the Midwest we don't measure travel in distance units, we use time). To this day I have friends in this town that literally haven't (ever) removed their keys from their car and leave it unlocked. People also leave the doors to their homes unlocked for extended periods of time. I imagine Brainerd was/is very much the same.

Growing up I had many, many interactions with people who were amazed that not only did my dad travel to Chicago 4x a week, my entire family visited Chicago at least once a month. The reaction in this small town was something like "Wow, you went to CHICAGO last weekend!?!"

Many of these people had never been to the world-class city that was 90 minutes away and easily accessible. Especially now, with the various high profile news stories coming out of Chicago (two police officers shot in the head in the last month[0], lots of gun violence, etc) the fear of "the big city" is pervasive (and somewhat understandably so). Many people view "the big city" as inherently vicious, wicked, evil, etc and again, somewhat understandably so (from their perspective) especially considering other random acts of violence [1]. That said, having never been there Chicago seems so distant and otherwordly that it might as well be Kabul. Many people (quite literally) view Chicago as a war zone. Needless to say, violence and crime to this level are (essentially) complete unheard of in small town life.

I think the trip to Minneapolis to visit an old classmate reminded Marge of the "wickedness" and "evil" that exists in the world and caused her to reframe her thinking and approach to people and what they are capable of even though she had just seen the bodies of multiple people who had been murdered. Especially considering that even as a police officer Mike was able to successfully hide the darker portions of his life from Marge in their brief interaction even though most people would know immediately that something wasn't right with him. Marge likely had a realization that her "small town" perspective (and resulting approach to interviews, investigation, etc) needed to be re-framed. This can be seen in her subsequent interview with Jerry where she is much more aggressive and skeptical.

[0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-2-officers-s...

[1] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chase-bank-teller-stab...
Rental rates should always be set at the highest that the renters can afford according to the supply/demand curve. If you raise taxes and rental rates go up, that means they were leaving money on the table previously.

If the rental rates were set correctly, none of the extra taxes can be passed on. The most likely result is the price of the buildings will go down and new renters will be able to buy in more cheaply but get less per rental.

Once again the Land Value Tax shows its brilliance.
Goodreads is owned by Amazon, and a lot of the data in various digital sources (both real and correct and random or mistaken) seem to come from people listing physical books for sale through Amazon. (Library catalogues are another common source)

The ISBN codes seems to be in some weird legal gray area.

The codes can be broken down so you can tell (to some degree) which language, geographic region and publisher was involved and whether the ISBN is valid (as in meets a checksum constraint) and has been "issued" (a continually updating list) managed in a decentralised manner but since it's an older system, it wasn't ever really designed for this kind of usage.

It also hits the problem, that these days you care a little less about the actual physical object, which ISBN was designed around, but certainly a trove of data hidden there.
“It’s to avoid data loss of people who forget their passwords.”

That’s the explanation HNers gave to me last time I pointed this out regarding some iCloud features.

How about companies stop adding backdoors to security features with the excuse of “data safety”?
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I use to rollerblade in the 90s. I never heard of this at the time I couldn't have possibly cared less if I had.

IMO the problem is I rollerbladed for 3 years and I never learned to stop properly. I basically had to fall on grass or cruise. IMO it died because it wasn't a good hobby for the average person. A skateboard doesn't have a speed problem like rollerblades. A bike has nice easy breaking system.

It was a giant 90s fad that was not a good idea for the average person. I loved them and wouldn't even consider getting a pair now based on the almost certainty of taking a massive spill.
Another NewsBlur user and fan here. Here are only a few of the reasons I like it:
1. Extracts full text of RSS articles.
2. Is also a Twitter client
3. Ability to read email newsletters
4. Open source and works well with other services
5. Sophisticated iOS app (believes there’s something for android too)
6. Comment on and share articles through its (quasi)network of BlurBlogs. See for example its founder’s blog: https://samuel.newsblur.com/
7. Easily import, export, add RSS/Atom feeds, jsonfeed and OPML.
8. A helpful community: https://forum.newsblur.com/

And many more:
Not sure why the amen is applicable to Dutch cities. I'll take the local perspective from Amsterdam as an example, but it applies more broadly to the other cities as well here.

Regarding point 1:

There's no real issues with long-term vacancies (the municipality already has laws in-place which fine owners of vacant homes), typically sits between 1 and 2%. That should obviously go down to 0 as much as possible, but it's clear that (1) the problem has an extremely minor effect on the market, (2) it's not exclusively caused by investors, a lot of them are pied-a-terres or homes owned by temporary migrants working abroad and (3) the problem of vacant homes that can be attributed to investors, can be addressed in many other ways than a total ban.

In other words, not an effective or suitable policy on this point.

Regarding point 2:

The price increases aren't caused by investors in Amsterdam, studies have shown this over and over again. If buy-to-let is banned, rental supply drops, rental prices go in overdrive, and there'll be more pressure to buy under any circumstance. The have-nots who're unable to buy will be even worse off. There's no magical panacea to a lack of sufficient supply.

You mention a couple points around 2nd homes, which are fair. I think in a world where there isn't enough housing for everyone, we should at minimum disincentivize owning second homes that go unused most of the time. But apart from the fact that Amsterdam is the capital, a working town, not a place where people have second homes that they enjoy on the weekend, this policy doesn't address 2nd homes at all. You're not banned from buying and owning a 2nd home in Amsterdam after this policy goes into effect.

In other words, an entirely ineffective policy regarding point 2.
I've never seen The Room so my opinion may change if I ever do, but there is another movie that I have seen (though only by proxy of MST3K) called Manos: The Hands of Fate that also has been referred to as the worst movie ever made, and I wholeheartedly agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manos:_The_Hands_of_Fate
Nope ... there are a ton of 30-somethings writing "easy" advice like this and bemoaning the ignorance of their twenties. I'm a few decades older yet and can tell you that I'm still learning and integrating new ideas into my framework of how business (and the world in general) work. Creating a simple idea is easy but think about how many counter-examples there are to just this one rule (and you can find 100k more simple rules that together have complex interactions).

My simple rule ... it never hurts you to help another human. Sometimes it also benefits you but at a minimum your reputation in your sphere of influence is positive.
I can understand using the pencil, my wife has an iPad with a pencil and it’s fun to play with sometimes.

Thanks for explaining. I come down on the other side of all your points, but I can see why you would consider an iPad over an Air.
So, if I run this on a server and fill my cache, can I then monitor other people browsing arc.io-enabled websites?

I feel the privacy implications of such a technology haven’t been evaluated.
That’s exactly what often troubles students of special relativity - why should a physical quantity be defined by the way you are trying to measure it. (The mass is the mass, for example, no matter what device you construct to measure it. In special relativity, on the other hand, the very notion of time interval seems to be tied to observing how light travels between mirrors.)
They are in a separate category called Serverbörse [1]. The cheapest currently available is for 28€ a i7-3770 with 16GB RAM and 2x3TB spinning rust.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/sb
Does anyone know the best place that explains the algorithm to a less educated person? This article treats it as a black box.
I don’t buy that. That’s only true if the author is the only person to ever discover this. Instead, he had brought to light what others may know and probably do, to judge by his prior article. This means we are now aware and the Chromium devs may implement changes.
Not to be confused with "Room", which I recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_(2015_film)