skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was surprised to learn maxcdn was bought up when i remembered they existed. had a good experience with them previously, and they were fast. it's sad that there are still companies that don't have a way to try a service out WITHOUT having to call someone or email someone. just give me a way to login and poke around. how hard is that?
Searching your phone is a humans rights violation? I mean, I get the hyperbole, but I'd say more like a privacy issue.

But hey, just add the US to the long list of countries like Canada, UK, Australia, etc, etc, etc.

Maybe we can come up with a positive list of countries that won't search your phone at the border?
Growing up with one of these, I really thought that a career in computer programming was going to be more or less like getting stuff to work on a C64. Shame it isn't.
Things like that were popular in the Amiga era with bridgeboards to run x86 code on a 68000 machine, but not much of a market now with modern CPU speed and hypervisor support.
White House Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Framework for Digital Assets
Couldn‘t agree more with the author and in fact, I started to code on the C64 with my son around three years ago, for exactly that reason.

There are educational coding environments, but you will never understand the underlying computer model, just by playing with them.

And no setup whatsoever. Python was supposed to be that simple, but we’re past that, obviously.
It’s bs to you and I couldn’t care less. I have absolutely 0 care for the alt right having “the right” to spew whatever hateful bs. If they got banned from the net, I’d be just fine. So again this “freedom of speech” bs is exhausting
I wrote SupaScript[0] before joining Supabase.

[0] - https://github.com/burggraf/SupaScript
https://www.youtube.com/c/AntonBabenkoLive
I heard few song lines from a new artist I've discovered. It has me thinking on a problem I want solved. Although, I'm not actively working on it.

Why aren't there more employee-owned companies? And I don't mean solely shareholder programs, I mean actually owned by every employee and they are paid dividends of profit after all planned R&D costs. Similar to the Alaska oil pipeline bonus. Even interns.

All studies show that the companies structured this way that do exist (they seem few) have much higher output, quality, and happiness among staff.

After more research I found that this exists: https://esca.us/ - Wawa is a member, pretty cool.

Talking more to others about the idea I've heard interesting stories. Some machine tooling shops have an actual employee-owned setup. All employees are incentivized to make every product output great and keep profits high, because they all share the profits.

Anyway, I'm not actively working on this. But wanting to shape this idea more in the future. It feels like it could help the current state of America. But perhaps I'm too hopeful and naive :-)

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Hobo Johnson - My Therapist:

"The idea's about equity, it's about wealth

Most think that it's dumb, you should think for yourself

If I buy a pizza place that makes a definite profit

Yeah, let's say yearly, the owners make $100,000 off it

And if I buy this pizza place for, let's say, $300k

And when the workers recoup in three years, I'll sign it over that day

And wouldn't everybody not see

They should buy their pies from me?

You'd rather have a boss

When you can work democratically?"

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"Incentives are the strongest force in the world. They explain why good people do awful things, why smart people do stupid things, and why ordinary people do amazing things."

- Quote I have pinned from @morganhousel
A little while ago, a patent for high throughput DNA synthesis using silicon chips went off-patent, so I have been learning analog IC chip design to build an open source high-throughput DNA synthesis chip. If it works, and I sold them at cost, it would reduce the cost of oligo pool synthesis by ~100x and possibly gene synthesis by 10x.

For about 8-9 years now my goal has been to build a cell from scratch for less than $1000 and enable anyone to be able to do so. While I’m handling the other bits elsewhere, DNA synthesis is a key technology primed for open source disruption.
I've never heard of them but they seem to host a solid set of features, and being around since is 2012 is impressive. I think part of a products success is its availability on different platforms, I wonder how long they have hosted this page for? https://www.antetype.com/antetype-for-windows-web/
CAR-T cell therapy is so freaking cool. My friend received it as a treatment for multiple myeloma at Dana Farber last year and was fully cured. I remember being wow'd by it when was at the National Cancer Institute doing research back in the day and to see its progress (in real human life terms) in the last 10 years is just awesome.
Terrifying for only 2 reasons:

1. Any malicious person savvy enough to pull off a crime of interest to the Feds is smart enough to provide a wiped or burner phone to DHS/ICE, and they have to know this. So, what is the point in doing this if not to target law abiding citizens.

2. USGOV has a spotty track record of keeping this information secure. A foreign actor is likely to access this info eventually. As one former government official once joked many years ago - concerning Chinese hacking - "Well, its probably more secure in the CCP's data center, so I wouldn't worry."

This is the problem when a non-technical generation makes the rules and regs. Luddites ought not be permitted to ascend the GS ranks.
> Yudhishtira, known for never straying from the dharmic path, refuses to leave a dog behind (that has been with them on their long journey) and get entrance to heaven - with the connotation that he refuses to leave the path of righteousness even for heaven.

He also pretty explicitly analogizes the obligation a man has towards his dog as that which the Devas ought to have towards men. The well-being of the dog becomes his duty because it is utterly devoted to him and this obliges him to repay its devotion. In a way you can also read this as Yudhistira is also calling out the Devas, and Indra in particular, for being callous and falling down on holding up their end of the reciprocal bargain.
It’s mostly independent designers that feel they can’t afford Adobe level subscriptions.
We do have Dropbox support, but it’s currently disabled while we sort out some theoretical security concerns.

Specifically, we let you load Milkdrop visualizer plugins via a query param, but that involves arbitrary js execution. We have a solution that we've built and shipped, we just haven't yet disabled the old system.

More info on the Wasm compiler we built as part of that solution can be found at my blog: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
>The ACLU is wrong. The border does it all the time. Here is the one that sticks out in my mind as the most popular case:

The ACLU is not wrong, if you actually read their actual words. Your case doesn't say what you think it does. From your own article:

>Bikkannavar insisted that he wasn’t allowed to do that because the phone belonged to NASA’s JPL and he’s required to protect access. Agents insisted and he finally relented.

As far as the law is concerned, he voluntarily let them look at it. It doesn't matter if they "insisted", he could have told them to pound sand. They could have kept the phone, but in its locked state it presumably wouldn't be that useful, and particularly since it wasn't merely a personal device JPL's legal department then could have easily gone right after them for it and won. Just because we have the legal right to something doesn't mean there is some magic barrier preventing LEOs from attempting to violating them, or implying the right doesn't exist. They have to be defended by people exercising them and potentially going to court. The very next paragraph states:

>Hassan Shibly, chief executive director of CAIR Florida, tells The Verge that most people who are shown the form giving CBP authority to search their device believe that they have an obligation to help the agents. “They’re not obligated to unlock the phone,” she says.

Right, same as a police officer who asks if they can "look around" or "ask a few questions". They may certainly ask that. You may choose to cooperate. But in general you'd be a fool to do so, and you also may say "no". If they arrest you they were almost certainly going to do so anyway but now they have less to go on and with more avenues to challenge it, and if they arrest you over exercising your rights you have a strong cause of action right there. CBP agents may well ask people this sort of thing all the time, but that doesn't mean citizens must comply.
Also, I'm sure the US isn't the only country that does this. So if you travel internationally at all, you're essentially boned when it comes to personal privacy.
The constitution can be almost arbitrarily amended, or even replaced almost entirely, if 3/4 of voters agree, or 3/4 of their representatives in a constitutional convention agrees... you do realize a specific portion of the U.S. constitution explicitly enumerates that possibility?
Can you provide a source re:19th century dog breeding with wolf genes? Very curious!
This is like suggesting a biological cell not have a cell wall.

One of the fundamental functions of a country is to regulate input/outputs at the border.

There are so many disastrous problems that arise from the elimination of a border, that I question whether such a suggestion is ever even made seriously or made by sane people.
Quite a bit actually ( for me at least ) seeing as there’s progressive taxation. I’d reckon at least 30k per year. Probably more.

I take out only 11k or so per year from the company as personal income. That’s the tax free bracket. The rest I use is just expenses. And I pay myself minimum wage as well. Also tax free, but qualifies me for national insurance :D

I love the tax system!
They will get a $5 wrench and beat you until you give it up yourself, per XKCD https://xkcd.com/538/

In other words: this isn't a technical challenge, either you comply and give them your private stuff, or you're not going anywhere. Maybe you can con them into giving a 'public' part of the phone and pretending that's all there is, but again, that's social engineering and not a technical challenge.
This course looks interesting. My only concern is that I don't have real experience with NLP. Anybody can recommend resources to get to speed on this pre-requisite? My NLP knowledge is very basic.
This happened to me in 2016 crossing into Canada. Borders agents took my phone for no reason, demand I give them the password to unlock it (otherwise they would seize the phone), took it in the back for 45 min before returning it and letting me enter. I think it’s obvious they took all my data.

So now when I travel I just bring my “travel” phone with no sensitive data on it.
I think you are, to some extent, making the cost look smaller than it is. Lets assume that someone gets enough of your info to take a loan out in your name. You can _probably_ (but not definitely) get that loan invalidated. However, to get back where you started, you may need to

- Convince the loaner that it was not you, which could cost many hours on the phone

- Get the credit impacts removed from your credit report, which could take many hours on the phone and web sites

- Retain a lawyer for dealing with the loaner

- Pay for any externalities in the process (mailing things registered, etc)

The above things can add up to days or even weeks of real, physical time; time which should be valued at no less than whatever you actually earn per hour. Plus the money for the lawyer.

And then, on top of that, it's widely considered that going through that process, where nearly everyone involved is incentivized to treat you as a lying thief and/or ignore you, can be fairly traumatic.

The cost is tremendous, and the emotional impacts can last for a long time.
Letter with Hand-Drawn Map Instead of Address Arrives at Destination in Iceland
Which is weird because Microsoft is usually distributing the money hats, not receiving them.
Apps with Code
High magnification is not the best for most interesting experiences. The best is to have low magnification stereo with large Field Of View. A range btw 10x and 20x is great to observe fine biological structures in 3D.
Team’s Metrics: A Human-Centric Approach
"A lightbulb. Surrounding: some plants."

https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E18/562995.jpg
I believe for many companies that do business in China this is already standard procedure, also for laptops
Hey! Author of the project here (not op). Happy to answer any questions. The code, and instructions for using it on your own site, can be found here on GitHub: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
It was neccesary because the complete foreigner was the most proximate heir that was Protestant.
Does it matter that you're weaker? Perhaps if you felt dizzy or tired enough that you might injure yourself.

I found myself feeling a little weaker before I got into the habit of fasting until late afternoon, but once I got used to it - and corrected my water and salt intake - I felt normal, and then better than before, when I used to eat breakfast and lunch.
That's why I think long-term, ransomeware attacks could actually be a good thing for online security.

Companies have to pay an attacker real money to get their operations back up, instead of just having to send some bs "mea culpa" email to their customers.
Sketch user since day 1, love it. Affinity Designer is great too but feels bloated and less intuitive, esp. when you only create for the Web.
Right, so federal agents receive absolute immunity by default, and this is guaranteed to continue for every new issue, unless Congress magically becomes un-gridlocked in the meanwhile AND chooses to solve this issue AND chooses to do so every time a new unprecedent issue occurs involving a federal agent.
He also says in the video (0:35) that it's sponsored by Waymo.
People who don’t pay (or watch ads) are no different from the greedy dickheads who offer to pay artists and developers in “exposure”.

Ether pay, or don’t use.

Fuck You, Pay Me: https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U
Adobe has a long, well documented history of screwing their users, e.g. with their switch to this stupid Creative Cloud bullshit.

It's just natural and common sense to look for alternatives if you rely on Figma and don't trust them to be a viable product in the hands of Adobe.
You overestimate the ease of evaporating something and umderestimate the effectiveness of a little bit of thrust.
If by plausible, you mean intentionally false — then in many countries, if caught, that might result in being: blacklisted, deported, imprisoned, detained, lose of citizenship, etc.
Privacy is a human right.

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, Article 12: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”

https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/56/what-privacy
iPhone 14 Pro Models Feature Qualcomm's X65 Modem
Also relevant/interesting is this "exception" the US government claims to the Constitution: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

I've heard of "border" being applied to anywhere 100 miles from an _airport_, but can't find the reference, which would cover like 99% of the country.
I use an set of iphone 4 headphones combined with a separate boom mic.

They have atrocious sound quality for music, but are fine for speech and I can wear them all day without discomfort.
we need to end this useless security theater. only a matter of time until a bad actor gets ahold of this massive database and sells it off to the highest bidder
Would love to contribute, please contact me at variofab(at)icloud(dot)com
California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party sellers being cheaper elsewhere
original title: California sues Amazon for preventing third-party sellers offering cheaper prices elsewhere
Indeed, I had heard of that fascinating experiment. But I assume they were working from the prior example of domesticating wolves - I was wondering how you would get the idea of doing it with no prior example. From my research (*cough* YouTube *cough*) I can see that even a wild wolf pup can be tamed to a fair degree, and one person trying this experiment - maybe he killed the mother and raised the pup for amusement say - this singular experiment could have kickstarted the whole domestication arc.

Seems more likely to me than someone having a long term plan to domesticate, or wolves accidentally slowly domesticating themselves by scavenging food from human settlements. I am no expert in this matter though.
Thanks! The missing part is the WAF… unfortunately I couldn’t find anything for on premises installation at a pro cf account price level or open source.
> In the same study selectivity of MH6 antibodies to bind to AMP, METH, 4-methyl-N-methylcathinone (4-MMC), or methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) were evaluated by equilibrium dialysis.

I'm glad that 4-MMC meets some studies. I believe this is a next-gen drug with cocaine-like effects and little or no contraindications.
I hope that it is a big dump truck. Because I only use their OS because work makes me, and I used to work at Microsoft along with MSFT stock contributing mightily to our financial security. Now when I see this shit pop up on my screen, it just makes me sad. And furthers my resolve to not use their stuff, even if my wife does still work there.

Thing is, despite some particularly bad UI decisions of late, the base OS seems pretty solid these days. But then they slap this annoying UI on the top of it, and now with malware. It's like the company, as an individual, just can't help itself. Scorpions, frogs, and a river crossing, or summat.
> Isn't security pretty cheap if you want to have it from the start

Without trying to sound condescending (because it really is a complicated topic), this seems like a viewpoint that could _only_ be held by someone who has never had to actually deal with it.

> Albeit you cannot include other companies code and APIs

That, alone, is a huge commitment.
> but if you ask them why something works (or why a variation may not work)

Interesting. Do you have an example? Is it common for people to practice ML problem-solving à la LeetCode nowadays?
This is how I first learned programming, but on the C128. It came with wonderful manuals which included a Commodore BASIC manual. I also was subscribed to Commodore magazine which had pages of PEEKS/POKES I'd blindly type in. Didn't learn a single thing from that, but the toy games they ran were cool. :)
Typical HN — Anything that goes under the umbrella of big corp gets thrown under the bus, while everyone dreams of selling out one day.
Tox is distributed but your IP is visible. You can use Tox inside Whonix which forces Tox to go through Tor.

Briar is distributed but runs over Tor so your IP is hidden. You can't use Briar over Tor because it already uses Tor so it doesn't work in Whonix.
Oh hey look its the "America backwards" trope again. How tiring.

Sure. The IRS could change things. But you're also able to do a lot more in America that they can't track. Other countries (e.g. Sweden, etc) are far "simpler", and homogeneous. For example, the depth at which one can trade various instruments, produce companies, etc is far far greater in America than almost anywhere else. This necessitates a somewhat (perhaps not as much as today) complicated tax code.

I would say this is very productive. The tax code isn't actually the problem. It's corporate interests like intuit who, through regulatory capture, make it impossible to truly solve the problem. Honestly, it cannot get easier than a 1040EZ which is what mostly everyone uses. In fact the 1040EZ is so easy you basically fill in the things to confirm the number the IRS already has is correct. OP, like myself, need more complicated solutions. I have a fairly vast portfolio of different investment types and OP has a business. In both cases, investing time into making the IRS's life difficult pays a return on par with bonds.
It is a bit extreme. However they have a history of jacking up prices, bundling things that independent users don’t want bundled, and slowing improvements.

That said, changing doesn’t really make much sense at the moment, it does make sense to think through the point you will change.
Fortunately since 2015 it has been legal to circumvent DRM for games that have had their single-player mode rendered inoperable by the decommissioning of an activation server:

https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/fedreg-publicinspectionFR.pd...

Yes, it still sucks when publishers make their customers jump through hoops like this, potentially exposing them to malware if the necessary DRM circumvention software comes from a dubious source.
They're saying perfect shouldn't be the enemy of good enough. Completely valid.
>> With the danger of hurting HN Rust hipsters... Language does not matter (sorry guys).

There are also a lot of Rust haters, and people unwilling to change.

From the Cloudflare blog:

>> We chose Rust as the language of the project because it can do what C can do in a memory safe way without compromising performance.

So in their opinion language choice matters. I'm not a Rust hipster, but I do believe in the promises the language makes. Assuming they didn't write any unsafe Rust it's pretty much assured that the new proxy contains ZERO bugs of certain types. See what I did there? I made a (contingent) assertion about the non-existence for entire classes of bugs in a code-base I have not seen, based on the language it is written in. So from that point of view Language does matter.
And classic skins! Just drag them in.
Indeed. By US standards I'm somewhere left of Bernie but I keep getting recommended Jordan Peterson reels on Instagram. Not sure what's going on.
> Nginx is an excellent general-purpose proxy that does a lot of things very well and tries to be as resource mindful as possible.

Yeah, this is always the big takeaway in this sort of story — Really good general purpose solutions can often be outperformed by much simpler special-purpose implementations.
I’m working on the expert elicitation of priors. We’re making web UIs to better capture human judgement, especially for forecasting. I work at a data driven company, sometimes I think a bit too data driven. I want to capture more intuition for our systems in a rigorous way.

It’s incredibly interesting and very niche. There are a handful of academic papers out there. I think it will be a big deal in the next 10 years.
It might have started as a symbiosis between wolves and a species of particulary greedy and dumb monkeys which thought it would be a good idea to fleece the wolves for fur parasites.

Still humans love to pet dogs, and dogs enjoy it. ;)
You probably don't realize it, most don't, but your statement is contradictory.

It's the same line with the housing market doomers "Prices will crash and I will be able to buy a nice home".

If something is crashing, it means no one can or will buy it. If people can buy something or want to buy it, it will no crash.
This is absolutely fascinating, but I'd say the title isn't fully accurate. These vaccines seem to be entirely neutralizing methamphetamine in all it's functions. Using alcohol as a metaphor, it'd be like you could drink as much as could fit in your stomach and just never get drunk.

So while yes, I can imagine it'd be useful in preventing addiction, does it really mean the same if you're physically/mentally incapable of feeling the effects of the substance to begin with?