skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve thought about writing an extension to hide the top comment on every article because it’s often a pedantic disagreement with whatever the article is about, but not always (like in this case).

I do totally agree that the best writing comes not when you’re trying to build the ultimate defense against takedowns, but when you can express yourself more creatively.
Maybe is some school districts this is just what they are looking for? Like San Francisco or Los Angeles school districts. She may be promoting “freedom of alternative and creative occupations“.
The symbol of Christianity is a literal torture execution device.
Okay, follow up question then: Does it easily support streaming/downloading torrents?
> You can sideload on an iphone for a mere $8.33 a month

What a take. Pay us every month to be able to own your device. We’ll take it back if you stop paying. At not even a small payment, that’s over twice what I pay for my, admittedly very cheap, contract.
Because it’s the same hypocritical behavior from all rich people who push socialism (for thee but not for me).

They will all whine about billionaires not paying their share and how we need to tax carbon to fix the planet.

But given the chance to make a 700m donation to the government of course he used a structure to avoid making that donation.
Ownership is just equity. Sure they won’t be able to sell shares for themselves but if they have control then it means they can divert profits to themselves in a way of salaries. Which is fine I guess.
Smartphone screen exposure may lead to earlier onset of puberty
> Unfortunately that is undoubtedly a deal breaker for the vast majority of women.

Certainly in a speed dating or o stranger dating (e. g., online dating) environment, but maybe that's not your best game if that's what you are working with.
Haha, this is a great story. For quick reference, it has nothing to do with MLK.
I sure hope WebAuthn is easier to implement than that site is making it look like. I know nothing about how it works, but the sample code (Under "Example: Parsing the authenticator data") that requires parsing slices of bytes out of the response and then constructing some object with magic numbers looks really hacky. Maybe it is supposed to be exposed at a low level like that so wrappers can be made around it, but if there is any hope of migrating sites over to it, it's going to need to be dead simple to implement without screwing up.
At Dropbox we had an explicit fallback on the DFIR team for the situation where our normal communication methods were considered compromised (not going to give details, obviously). I would hope that most security teams at a company of similar size have discussed this situation, it's not at all uncommon for attackers to sit in on calls, read messages between security people, or even access the SIEM to see what alerts are going off.
What about an ioctl that lets you query what formats are accepted by the file descriptor? We already sort of have a precedent for it with giving different output based on isatty().
Wow, a no context Wesley Willis quote is the last thing I expected to read in this comments section.

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago!
Did you have problems caching between BFF and backend apis?

We are trying to be able to have our FEEs write apis quickly while still having low operational load.

Also curious how you convinced leadership about your BFF idea? How did you convince them that its better than modifying the existing backend apis.
People are only willing to "pay" for worthless NFT garbage due to the bigger fool theory. The grifters who created scams like CryptoPunks are already running out of fools.
They’re kind of stuck where they are. The old McDonalds corporate HQ campus has already been sold off and redeveloped. Oak Brook wasted no time, and are probably really glad they did - it’s a mixed use thing with plenty of housing.
U.K. Health Ministry wants no Oxford commas. Period
Back in 2002 I used to hang out in Yahoo pool rooms. I was in a league even.

At the time a lot of people in there were cracking Yahoo rares. Names that you can't make as username anymore.

Most coveted were ones with capitals, special characters, underscores at the beginning. People bought and sold those for thousands of dollars.

That made more sense to me than these crypto games. Those were at least something scarce and not manufactured. They had intrinsic value, especially for the cracker because they had to come up with name lists, and brute force the passwords, and use potentially trojan ridden hacking tools from shady phpnuke sites.

The usernames were pretty cool in contrast with the new username rules Yahoo had. Card trading just seems boring AF.
People that are fans of NFTs and crypto gaming imagine a world where someone has a token contract with the hash of a public key that corresponds to a private key that only they have somewhere in it registering their ownership of a hash of a file with art in it cryptographically signed by an artist, and that system proving that they alone own the original version of the art. But these are fictions, just as copyright is fiction, a legal fiction but fiction all the same, and all any of this does is demonstrate it, make it more plain. And I'm happy about that, art is useless if it isn't on a wall, and art on a wall looks just as pretty printed. Who owns a picture doesn't matter to me, or to anyone really, if I find it pleasant I'll hang it up, and if it's digital art then mine will look just as nice as the print hanging on the wall of the person who paid 36 ether for the privilege of doing so.
Yeah,and most SEO spam blogs are WP powered.
Why are people talking about MFA on this thread. Look, as someone whose day job is responding to such incidents, someone targeting Uber and is persistent will get in, MFA or not. Infostealers for Mac are a thing (Uber is a mac heavy shop I hear) and that's all it takes to steal cookies and tokens post-mfa, or why even bother with that, if you're running code just make it a reverse shell.

The big screw up here is powershell script on a network share. A cheap pentest would have uncovered something like that.

Modern security is not perimeter focused where you try to keep the bad guys out. Yes, you should do MFA,firewalls,vpns the whole schtick but(!!) your presumption should always be that threat actors already have a foot-hold in your network. This is very important because it helps you focus on basic things like scripts and gpos with creds in them but also you treat internal devices the same as internet exposed devices. It's sort of what the whole "zero trust" thing is about as well. In other words, host/user compromise is a given but lateral movement should be at least as difficult as breaching the perimeter.

But my prediction is, just like top commenters here, they will slap MFA on it and of course cleanup scripts with creds and call it fixed until the next compromise. Oh and FYI, MFA on VPNs is a PITA, that's rarely done for good reason, instead you use device certificates in addition to passwords which is what the recommendation should be not yubikeys or webauthn (vpn!=web??) because VPNs need to reconnect and you can't have people insert a yubi each time their connection drops. Ideal setup would have 7 day valid (or however long is reasonable for users to disconnect their PC and remain out of office) mutual-auth certs+ocsp getting conditionally reissued new certs to remain connected (compliance stuff like patching, unapporoved software,security alerts for the device). If you think about it, you typically issue users two yubikeys not just one so if the backup gets stolen you have a problem depending on how easy it is to social engineer users or reset their password with a good yubikey but a stolen laptop means certs+password revoked immediately.
The GP is right about the problem, but wrong about the solution.

Part of the reason healthy foods are more expensive is indirectly due to the junk foods industry, which has caused our supply chains to be tightly optimized around provision of unhealthy foods.

It also likely causes crime. Metabolic syndrome -> psychiatric conditions && debt to pay for insulin && lost productivity --> crime.

What the GP is wrong about is the solution. We're trapped in a bad local optima here. Just immediately shutting down fast food isn't an exhaustive solution, because you suck jobs out of the local areas and it takes time for the supply chains to reoptimize around healthy food. Some kind of gradual systemic change over multiple decades is needed.
Imo, as long as you organize your writing elegantly, it doesn't matter how long the final product is.

As a reader, I really appreciate the table of contents.

Maybe what your friends meant was that your piece was too long without a table of contents, from which they could jump to a place for reference, or skip it because they were already familiar with the material.
Ya the last big case was Microsoft. Antitrust is being revived after being mostly dormant for 40 years but Congress has never changed the laws executives and the judiciary have just chosen not to enforce them
You do fractional reserve banking with BTC the same way you do it with any other currency: You only keep enough BTC on hand to cover the projected worst-case withdrawals, and take the risk of needing to shut down or possibly declare bankruptcy in the event of a bank run. There is no "lender of last resort" to bail you out, but banks were doing fractional reserve banking long before the creation of the FDIC. It wasn't quite so extreme in the Free Banking era, of course, compared to the state today where no bank holds much more than the legally-mandated bare minimum of reserves.

Of course you also have the option of running an honest bank, one which simply holds its customers money (for a fee) without lending it out, and perhaps offering separate investment products for those who are interested with full disclosure of the risk involved should the investments fail.
Rock on Chicago
Somehow I think being compared to PG is exactly the sort HN-specific thing Tom wouldn’t be too keen on. (Not saying it’s bad, just made me chuckle).
Moxie's gone though, so there's still hope.
I’m not much of an Apple fan… but… Apple’s move to make the M series chips and the recent generation (13) of iPhones have been fantastic.
This reads more like a list of America’s social problems than something specific to Chicago. It’s ironic that a big corporation complains about it, reminds me of tech companies criticising SF govt about the consequences of inequality in SF.
Currently to make things a little smaller I am putting many ip's in with cidr notation..

whichever format you would offer I could likely find ways to convert if needed.

I am still researching what is the fastest / lightest on server resources for blocking ips (mainly from data centers lately been the main problems) -

ip-block-file that is ready via cpanel's WHM is what I am using on one system, and iptables/uffirewall / fail2ban on another server..

I'm using wordpress firewall plugin to block some on another site - but I think it's lighter on server resources to block before the requests hit wordpress.. I wonder if it'd be lighter to pull the file from a separate server and return yay or nay - or if it's fine loading up 250 million ips via one of the firewall options already in place.

How large of a file it 250 mill ips? (non-compressed) - I suppose available RAM could also play into these things.
It’s pretty funny and wholly unsurprising that this is such an unpopular opinion on this website.

HN users often tend to see themselves reflected in the ultra-rich, so any criticism of the decisions of a billionaire tend to be treated as personal attacks.

I think it is very likely that this move was not entirely an altruistic act that just happened to have saved over a half a billion dollars in a tax break and generated a boatload of good will for the brand as some sort of unforeseen side effect.
As he mentioned first, McDonald's has 400 locations in Chicago, which I'm sure see much more crime than the HQ. For the HQ workers it's probably not only their workplace and home they would like to be safe but also the nightlife and tourist locations.
What to read to become a better writer
This cleared up something that's puzzled me for a while. Now I understand the talk over these blue and green bubbles in iMessage, it's a U.S.A. thing.

Meanwhile over in Europe, we're trying to get people away from WhatsApp and on to things like Signal. Nobody gives two hoots about iMessage :D
We need to get past this idea that IP holders have any say over their work once it is in the hands of the public. Information wants to be free!
Long before electricity, wind catchers of Persia kept residents cool
https://archive.ph/qUNSJ
Looking at the screen shots that could be just to help support it, but sole of those look like the security techs screen shots by looking at the names on the logins but that too can be viewed as questionable evidence given the context and using this theory as the pov when analyzing the "evidence"
If misperceptions of Chicago are making it harder for McDonalds to recruit, he's not helping the situation by amplifying them.

Certainly, violent crime is happening in McDonalds restaurants. There are McDonalds all over the place in the south and west sides of Chicago. I'm sure homelessness is a problem in all their restaurants. Note that he brought that up, because it's a tell: Chicago's crime problem has zero to do with homelessness (that might not be the case in other cities, but it isn't here.)

If you don't have an actual solution for the impacts of redlining in Chicago, you don't have a crime solution. Chicago has tried everything short of that. It's broken up the major gangs; we got a nightmare of tiny little idiot gangs. It's flooded the zone in Englewood and Austin; you can suppress crime for a time, but it just squeezes into other neighborhoods.
Logic and moral right are incongruent concepts.
See also: A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Lament
Sick dude. The commentary on this website is often kind of lame and I've found that lots of people who frequent it make the mistake of trying to pre-empt middle-brow comments. Don't do that. Write for those who get you.

Overly pedantic intentional misunderstandings pervade comments here and if you react to those by trying to defend against them you weaken yourself. Love it!
Sure, but that also applies to "the more USD a bank has, the less incentive it has to want to crash the economy", with all the same flaws of logic.
Fat isn't necessarily bad. It depends on the type of fat and the individuals caloric macro nutrient profile. The notion that fat is outright bad was conjured up decades ago and has since been shown to be false.

Some fats are healthy. However, I would not be surprised if the fats found in McDonald's are predominantly unhealthy.
With 2D, rather than 3D: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sizigi.wco...
The biggest problem is that it is very unfriendly to uninitiated newcomers and makes insufficient effort to draw people in. You end up with a culture that is unfortunately insular and has trouble engaging with even engineers and scientists, much less the general public. It’s also not very friendly to people who approach problems in different ways: symbol pushing has been elevated and anyone who has difficulty with symbol pushing (for whatever reason) ends up at least partly excluded.

Students who have a lot of practice/experience by the time they get to be teenagers (often via extra-curricular help and support) are much better prepared than those without that practice. Which is of course not a problem per se, you see the same in any field and it’s great if kids want to learn ahead of their peers. But then the content, curricular design, and pedagogy of mathematics courses leave students with the impression that those differences in preparation are due to innate differences in aptitude (“I suck at math”; “she’s just a math person”; ...), toss less well prepared students into the deep end to sink without enough support, and ultimately chase a huge number of people away who might otherwise find the subject beautiful and interesting, and could meaningfully contribute.
The nightlife and tourist locations in Chicago are safe.
Who is everyone else? Google locks you in just as much as Microsoft.
That and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, Westernized diet already high in sugars and preprocessed foods, and, most recently, plastics (re: the top article for the other day [0]) Seems reasonable to assume it applies to domestic animals as it does to people.

Of these, I’d bet that nutrient collapse, so far, plays a significantly smaller role.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bpa-plastic-containers-bad-h...
I'm grateful it's not traumatizing like Jamie Zawinski's HN redirect.
Yes, you're correct. They don't. And it's pervasive - it's not just Uber, it's the developers of the software Uber writes. Shake out the tree of any Uber service and you'll find that maybe 0.1% of the code is written by someone who cares about security, and maybe 10% of that code was written by someone who knows about security.

Developers do not give a shit. Security is not something they're trained in, interested in, or competent in (though they often think they are).

Security is a couple of people trying to bucket out the water as fast as they can from every sinking ship while developers are taking a piss on the floor and poking holes in the hull.

I think the bar for devs is extraordinarily low and we'll keep seeing this sort of thing until it we collectively raise it. Thankfully it seems like, very recently, this is starting to maybe happen. Packages requiring 2FA is the first thing I've seen that seems to indicate that developers are going to have to do the bare minimum for security in order to participate.
Signal doesn't support multiple mobile devices
Researchers piece together the story of a Roman city, one artifact at a time
If you open it incognito, you can read the actual post.

try {
if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href = 'https://google.com/';
}
}
} catch (e) { }
It’s not the atmosphere.

Glyphosate exerts its effects by preventing plants from synthesizing certain amino acids, which happen to be crucial for human cognition, attention and motivation.
Why didn't Frodo just hop on the back of one of the eagles and fly to Mt. Doom?
Could a bomb disposal bot double as a delivery bot? Those things sit unused most of the time while it could be getting the coffee and donuts or making revenue for the city!
> If you are opposed to all taxation then we have a fundamental disagreement on the function of society.

If you think that the government should have the power to monitor every transaction, communication and movement of everyone, all the time, so that they can make sure people aren't cheating on their taxes, then we have a fundamental disagreement on the function of government and society. If the government can't figure out how to raise revenue without violating the privacy and human dignity of every American then that government should not exist.

> The government is working as intended and bad ideas are usually stopped in their tracts.

We clearly live in two different realities. In my reality, people have had their ability to send and receive funds to a wide variety of locales and causes blocked by the government. In my reality, the credit card companies blocked the ability of individuals to send donations to Wikileaks just after they were publicly threatened by Senator Joe Lieberman (but before the founder of Wikileaks was thrown in a dungeon at the behest of the US government).

>The difference is that if money is the be-all-end-all of power, then any rich person can just make their own laws

Money isn't the be-all-end-all, but centralized control of money comes very close. It is very different to be a rich person with a lot of money and to be a government entity that decides, at the point of a gun, who is allowed to have and/or spend money and what they are allowed to spend it on. The right to privacy, the right to human dignity, the right to autonomy, and the right to send your hard-earned money to whoever you want to send it to is all part of the same struggle for human rights and freedom. The push to eliminate privacy, to eliminate cash, to consolidate the power of government to control every facet of your personal, medical and financial life are all inextricably linked, and are all leading to an incredibly dystopian future that in many respects has already arrived.
Mostly... there are plenty of people getting robbed in the loop and Lincoln Park. I had an associate get carjacked and cops refused to follow the stolen car to avoid a chase.
hah! I have, and I did like my time with it, but ultimately, Eclipse does roughly the same things... and I have all of the keyboard shortcuts burnt into memory. I'll switch, someday!
I think there's no question it's subjective! But the quote was

'if you walk into any Big Tech company and want to figure out who the manager is, just look for the tallest, best-dressed man and you'll be right 90% of the time.'

whereas 'the managers' of some of the most successful big tech companies are short relative to people of similar backgrounds, let alone the tallest.
* fly the ring to Mt. Doom, you know what I mean
Yes. As does iMessage. To my knowledge neither proprietary backend is open, but I would love to be proven wrong :)

From a cursory search the best reference I could find was google’s whitepaper[1]:

> In order to store and exchange user public keys like identity keys and prekeys, we need to have a central key server. Unlike the RCS messaging servers, the key server is currently only hosted by Google

[1]: https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
[2]: https://www.xda-developers.com/google-messages-rcs-api-third...
I love the HN crowd for the intelligent discourse. It reminds me of reddit in its heyday. But goddamn, I've never met a crowd as critical and prone to buzzkill. Everyone's so damn serious here.
How is intersection with the ball detected?
I think almost everyone would trade away their 10-minute breaks for an assurance of never getting robbed or shot, so it's more like a house with a few glass windows. Also, the law and punishment around wage theft seems to be pretty stable, as seen in all these convictions. If wage theft started increasing like violent crime, we might start paying more attention to it.
Fantastic thanks. Care to take a go at explaining at a similar level PoW vs PoS?