skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...anyone can create a great looking website...

The last time I tried to design and code a landing page myself it took me way more time than expected and the website ended up looking like shit. It is not easy as people think. (Or I am a noob, that is also an option.)
Literally nobody mentioned it to me except on HN. Nobody I know uses it.
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No, but they're not social networks.
What was that transition like for you? I'd like to get away from web development because I'm bored out of my mind with the front end aspect.
Genuinely asking, what are some companies that would be a good choice for this sort of thing?
I hope you quit after that. Working for a company so draconian and anti-society would drive me mad.
> There are many uses for blockchain other than as a cryptocurrency.

Well, yes, but most of them (my pet peeve being voting) are as bullshit as
cryptocurrency. Do you have an example that is not a bullshit?
Morels are essentially foolproof. There are things called "false morels", but they really don't look that much alike (certainly not to anyone who's ever seen the two in real life, or even seen good photographs).
How much more crap until Apple think enough is enough. They will make an Apple TV Set purely for themselves.

Why in 2018, we have "Smart TV" that requires so much settings and are not really anyway Smarter for most consumers. We then gives in so much privacy and information before we are allow to use it?
Interestingly having routing problems to China for 1.1.1.1 (but not 1.0.0.1): http://ping.pe/1.1.1.1
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> I'm not sure how that changes the fact that everything he says is either completely untrue or irrelevant.

I don't see how you have enough information to make that determination. It's a presentation deck. Those are just bullet points, not the arguments you would (presumably) hear in the full presentation.
For me it’s not eating meat that’s bad (although I don’t do it), it’s the current state of things with the meat industry (The fact that there is a meat industry at all is like a dark mirror episode). The animals are treated as a product, always optimizing efficiency over ethics. It negatively impacts the quality of the meat as well (from the antibiotics and stress).
Just wanted to say so much this. It's why I avoid web programming if can I.
That's what people keep saying, but I'm yet to see one that is actually a blockchain (specifically, "private blockchains" are a nonsense concept, they're just merkel trees, like git uses), or isn't better solved by some other mechanism.
A perfectly curated Instagram feed isn’t real life
Comcast in Northern NJ USA about 45 MI from NYC

$ ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=10.8 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=11.3 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=10.7 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=10.9 ms

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=10.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=11.3 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=11.1 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=10.5 ms
I've paid for streaming for a number of years, while more than half worrying I was just making myself a sucker.

And, sure enough, the libraries have gone downhill while the prices have gone up, and my money seems to just be going to lawyers and technology to ever-more lock things down, while content is balkanized to maximize what I've come to consider rent-seeking.

I'm not interested in a "smart TV". I want good hardware with a lot of hardware connectivity -- preferably open connectivity, but that ship has already sailed in good part. Nonetheless, connectivity I set up and control.

If I'm going to stream, it's going to be out of a separate box, that I can segregate and replace when it's warranted.

If I can get off my duff and do it, it's time for me to stop paying for streaming content and put the money instead towards purchases where I end up with a physical copy, more or less in perpetuity. If, because the media degrade or the playback devices abandon functionality or get more locked down, the lifespan of what I've purchased is limited, I no longer have any qualms -- other than "lead pipe" law enforcement -- about breaking protections and making a sustainable copy.

I feel like a sucker for having put my money into a system that perpetuates these schemes, for too long.

Time to hit eBay for those boxes of DVD's I've heard about, before everyone else catches on and they dry up.

My parents have a somewhat older "smart TV" -- Samsung. Recently, it received an OS update. The UI responsiveness did pick up -- it was halfway abysmal, before. But the picture quality took a major hit. (I'll let Dad fuss with that, as is his wont, if he gets around to it. He doesn't use that TV much.)

This just reinforced for me, that you can't trust these updates nor the software on these things. If it works well as a display device, keep it unconnected and so "dumb" and just pipe stuff in over HDMI.

By the way, it was on a separate "friends" subnet that their wireless router provides. But performance seemed marginal, at times, so it ended up on an Ethernet cable. The router only has physical ports on the main subnet; there went that protection. Ironically, after the OS update, it defaulted to the wireless connection and seemed to perform significantly better with it. It got switched back to the Ethernet connection, but maybe they should undo that, now.

Really with all this stuff, it's coming down to the very basic... "truism", it's proving to be: If they can, they will.

It's up to us, individual users and consumers, to stop them. No one else is.
> the bank recently committed fraud on a massive scale by creating more than a million fake deposit accounts and 560,000 credit card applications for customers without their knowledge or approval.

Suppose you were a Wells Fargo depositor and a Wells Fargo teller opened a fake account in your name without consulting you. What harm did you suffer?

How massive is this fraud if you measure it in a more useful way than "number of accounts"?
Hyper-targeting? The author says specifically that he avoided any such thing; instead he

> decided to target everyone in each of the three states between the ages of 28 and 44. No political affiliation sliders, no audiences, no Facebook machine learning wizardry. Every person within the age range, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise.
I believe OVH uses openstack and not ceph.
Thanks! Yes, that kind of "wrap an API call in 5 minutes" thing is a great way to get started with Anvil :)

> The number of tools that try to do something like this keeps growing (Bubble comes to mind, or Appian in a slightly more enterprise space)...

This is an interesting comparison. Those tools focus on building apps without code. That's great for simple things, but once you get more complicated, you end up writing something that's kinda-sorta a program, in a language not really built for the purpose.

I think there's room for both. But as far as we're concerned, when you're telling a computer what to do, there is nothing better than writing actual code. And so Anvil is unapologetically built around a real, industrial-strength programming language, with a solid ecosystem of libraries and tools. We've had startups scale into the millions of dollars of revenue with products built on Anvil, with serious technical heft on the back end. We work quite hard at the architecture so it can grow with even the most demanding applications.
1Password is a proprietary walled garden.
PeeringDB seems to indicate as much.
There are two aspects to consider. One is that we view our self as unchanging even though we are changing all the time. The other is that we view our self as separate from other selves or from the world around us even though we are inherently connected to everything around us. That's the short version at least.
Thanks for that!

I've talked to a lot of large-ish commercial Ceph customers and they seem to spend a lot of time building kludge-arounds for support. And tend to live terrified that the whole clumsy edifice will come crashing down at the cost of their jobs.

Also too, Ceph is block, object and file. Block is ok up to a point, object is dubious and file is utterly untrustworthy. At least at any kind of real scale - 3 servers in a rack aren't "scale".

Why must someone who isn't a Ceph fan (and I fail to see why storage systems are a "fan" activity) live in the evil pockets of EMC? I know people who've smoked for years and don't have any sign of lung cancer either.
Here's a decent writeup on the blockchain: https://infogalactic.com/info/Blockchain
Some web-apps, like youtube, do the casting for video in a more complicated manner.
Rather than actually doing the 'remote desktop in reverse' they essentially instruct the Smart-TV to go to the same video end-point and start streaming. Thus, none of the rendering, decoding or even downloading will be done on your laptop.

This is slightly worse from a control perspective, but quality wise it is great.
Bubble seems cool for non programmers, but I'm not convinced it will be faster for people who can code. Have you had a chance to play with it?

Appian looks really nice and has $90 and $180 plans, which is great. It's so weird though, you can't just give them money. They make you wait 3+ days for a human to say "ok fine, we'll take your money", if you ever get a response. So far, I've tried twice and they still have never responded / activated an account. I get it with the mendix/outsystems/salesforce super enterprise stuff in terms of lead qualification but at the low appian price points, I do not get it. Have you had a chance to try appian? It looks very promising albeit perhaps a bit over complicated.
>In countries like Germany, tuition is free, i.e., the whole society pays for your degree.

The missing part of the equation is that Germany also has high-quality, well-regarded vocational education. In the US, university is widely regarded as the only reasonable route to a secure middle-class lifestyle. In Germany, about half of school-leavers go into the Duale Ausbildung system, spending part of their time working as a paid apprentice and part of their time studying at college. The role of universities in society is completely different when there's a good alternative.
Apple is not the solution here.
Saks, Lord & Taylor breach: Data stolen on 5 million cards
>S3's pricing is absolutely ridiculous by comparison, but they have the reliability argument on their side...

Well, unless your S3 buckets are in us-east-1. For some reason Amazon keeps having issues with S3 in that region.

Since the storage costs appear to be the same between Spaces and S3 ($0.02/GB/month) and neither charge for inbound transfer, I'm assuming your problem is with the outbound transfer pricing (S3 charges 9x what DO charges) and/or the per-request pricing. GCP's Regional Cloud Storage has the same storage pricing, even higher outbound transfer pricing, and the same request pricing. I haven't looked at any other providers, but if you want reliability, you're going to have to pay for it.
At the college level, they pay exorbitant tuition, so there’s no reasonable case that they’re getting taxpayer support. More like the other way around: international students paying enormous tuition subsidize other students.

I know a lot of Chinese people in the US, in wealthy neighborhoods with excellent schools, and I’ve never even heard of high school students living alone in a house like you describe. I’m sure it’s been done, but I’m more than a little skeptical that it happens in any significant number.
I think this is akin to the lament of the buggy whip industry from a century ago.

Automobile manufacturers destroyed the market for buggy whips, yet the very same customers that previously utilized buggy whips as a critical piece of the infrastructure of their transportation, were confronted with the undeniable increase in utility provided by the Automobile. There was no grand conspiracy to ruin the buggy whip industry, it was simply the natural result of competition.
Of everything on the page, this was particularly clever.
It's been a while since I've checked so I may be wrong on this, but deleting your reddit account will remove the username while preserving the content. Deleting your comment without deleting your account will preserve both.

Reddit internally saves post deletions but not post edits, so if you really want to delete something you should edit it to some nonsense before you delete it.

Of course, the best way to protect yourself is to never post anything compromising in the first place because there are already a lot of services out there that cache everything, but I think it's a good practice to follow if you're going to delete anyway.
Nice application, will test drive. Who are your competitors (apart from Sharepoint)?
> Sorry for the wall of text, but this has been bugging me a lot lately.

Then why not write a blog post or publish somewhere it’ll likely be discovered rather than as a comment?
In response to your edit: Yes, exactly. That is the chaotic aspect. You can't really define anything but you can define everything. It's paradoxical. Whatever. We still need the illusory aspects. Without such discussion we would never have had the industrial revolution, artificial intelligence, medication, etc. All of these things were based off of discussions of inexplicable ideas like morals, idealism, health, utilitarianism and, yes, MIND. Define all of those things for me, in an objective way. You can't. Sorry.

None of these are really based off of reality. They work in reality, but that doesn't mean anything.
Don't you mean freebsd?
Yes.

People running these tools are so common that "automated reports" are routinely excluded from public bug bounty programs. The ratio of false findings to true findings is very high.
The bandwidth charges are hefty if you're moving a lot of bits, but I wouldn't use anything other than S3 or GCS probably -- the other guys just don't have a track record of reliability yet.

But, you can build a poor-man's CDN -- varnish caches on DO/Linode/whatever where you get multiple terabytes of bandwidth for a small VM. So, you use the best object storage provider, but move most of the bits cheaply using Varnish + Route53 geo-dns.
I got a Smart LG TV with my LG G5 years ago (for 'free' with the purchase of my phone) and I don't give it Wi-Fi credentials. I bought a Mi Box Android TV from WalMart instead and hook that up to the internet. I rather my TV be as dumb as possible so I can replace the device I use to access Netflix without having to throw out my whole TV. It doesn't have Android TV it has some LG thing but regardless I rather keep my TV dumb altogether.

I have no guarantee my TV wont spy on me through my wireless network tomorrow (if not today). I have no true guarantee that my TV wont become exploitable to some botnet either. I rather be able to take my Android TV device and unplug it and still be able to use my TV with a DVD player if it came down to my device being exploited somehow.
What makes you think most have a desire to raise their kids with future-proof values? What makes you think that most have a desire to raise their kids? These are absurd and (I hate to use this word) privileged assumptions.

And I attest that the Simpson/Huxtable thing is valid. Huxtable (and Ward Cleaver and etc) were a fiction that our culture accepted as truth. Homer is an obvious fiction whose message is "that thing we accepted as truth was a lie." In that respect, Homer Simpson is much more real than Dr. Huxtable or Ward Cleaver or any myth that parents are simply by virtue of having functional reproductive organs competent.
Still preferable to governments printing fiat to finance war and capital crimes, while devaluing you and your generation's labor with institutionalized pro-inflation economics
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> In a browser, 1.1.1.1 comes back as connection refused. 1.0.0.1 loads.

Yep, exactly. Using 1.0.0.1, everything works. Using 1.1.1.1, nothing (ping, DNS, HTTPS) does.

EDIT: See earlier comment; looks like an issue w/ the AT&T-provided CPE (5268AC).
They state why they picked April 1, aka 4/1:

From the article: The only question that remained was when to launch the new service? This is the first consumer product Cloudflare has ever launched, so we wanted to reach a wider audience. At the same time, we're geeks at heart. 1.1.1.1 has 4 1s. So it seemed clear that 4/1 (April 1st) was the date we needed to launch it.
It is external egress pricing, yeah. And CloudFront doesn't really help (it's still pricey).

As this is mostly a side project, I think I can live with being a little adventurous.
That's definitely on the table. Time-consuming, though.
I believe that that idea is about that in our consciousness there's an idea about who we are, an idea of self, and we believe that we are that idea, and that that idea has agency or free will. But the idea of self is like any other idea, it arises in the impersonal functioning of the mind. There's no homunculus, no little man in the control center of our brains, no ghost in the shell. As the stomach digests, the brain thinks, there's no thinker, thoughts 'happen' without a self that controls it. Thoughts happen not at random but as reactions to previous memories and experiences.

"...men believe that themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby these actions are determined." Spinoza, Ethics

In spite of this I wrote, I'm not sure if I understand very well the 'self is an illusion' argument, I may be misunderstanding something.
> we need to exercise collective wisdom on what social media does to children

You seem to be suggesting some sort of regulation. Since you weren't concrete and specific, I can't respond to that directly, but I urge you to keep in mind:

* Many things that are valuable to adults may be dangerous to children. Consider a kitchen knife, power tools or cleaning chemicals.

* With all the privacy concerns that are in the public eye lately, age verification, which is probably difficult to separate from identity verification, seems fairly unappealing.
Did you read through it? I don't think any amount of explanation is going to take arguments that have been thoroughly debunked for year and suddenly make them a reality. If you want to be specific about anything he or I said, feel free.
Ethereum smart contracts are million dollar bug bounties? That sounds about right to me, and seems historically accurate.
In my travels across the country, one angle of cryptocurrencies I take solace in is its relative confinement to younger urban coastals (note: I'm one of these). Its proponents can, for the most part, afford to lose their investment. In a decade's time we'll have a generation of investors with a healthy sense of wariness.
I want to run an open source operating system such as Debian/Ubuntu on my next TV. By using open source software I know what the TV does and other can verify what it does. There is a lot of usable streaming apps(Netflix through Chrome, Amazon Prime, Spotify). Also mention that there is Kodi.

Please put open boot loader so one can load Open source software in TVs.

Another great feature is that the TV will continue to get security updates and longer from a software perspective. Longer lasting TV will be better for the environment.
Yes.

IDE support, debugging, instrumentation, profiling, portability, community libraries.
If you call it a block chain, you're almost certainly referring to cryptocurrency or some kind of monetary policy.

If you want to talk about something useful you were probably calling it something like a signed/verifiable log.
> Through the project we protect groups like LGBTQ organizations targeted in the Middle East, journalists covering political corruption in Africa, human rights workers in Asia, and bloggers on the ground covering the conflict in Crimea.

And in occident? Do they protect MRAs and Christians?

I love how their view of political targeting is limited to what the West wants to impose to all countries. Yet, the organization “A Voice For Men” was flagged as hate speech for funding the movie The Red Pill (2016), the most censored movie of 2017 in occident. If they haven’t identified them as political oppression victims, they don’t know much about Free Speech.
A blockchain is just 1 of the innovations that went into the bitcoin protocol.

Finally people are seeing that a blockchain without POW or censorship resistance is bullshit.

This is why bitcoin (cash) is more important than ever.
You're most welcome. I found this too late to edit the comment, but here's the full interview and a transcript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTu0qJG0NfU

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...
From someone that takes DNS for granted every day, can someone shed some light on why the current state of DNS has been called archaic and needs to be replaced with something better?
Objects re-entering generally hit the ground at around terminal velocity, which is only a few hundred kph usually. The reactor core is surrounded by a very sturdy reinforced concrete containment structure which should be able to survive an impact of orbital debris.

Additionally, the chance of orbital debris striking any particular location on Earth is nearly zero, so it's a bit foolish to over prepare for something that is less likely than winning the lottery several times in a row.
We are actually very happy with database performance over block storage.

As for the architecture, in DigitalOcean the external block storage is the only way to separate function from state. We need this to be able to rebuild VPS-es regularly. This is to avoid configuration drift and to prove/enforce reproducibility.
Your best bet would be to configure your own DNS server (on your router, for example, assuming support) to use DNS-over-(HTTPS|TLS) and then have all of your other devices use your router as their DNS server.
While the relationship isn't very close, fungi are actually more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
A few benefits:

1. For DSP / image processing, 64-bit SIMD allows you to operate on twice as many elements as 32-bit SIMD

2. For normal computing, you get 31 64-bit registers instead of 15 32-bit registers (essentially 4x register memory)

3. 128-bit floating point
This is an organizational alignment issue. your application SLOs can be at but not above your dependent components. if that db has 90% uptime than your application cannot be better. add an outage message that makes the cause loud & clear
> arguments that have been thoroughly debunked

Could you give one example of an argument made in the deck which has been "thoroughly debunked"?
I think you are simply presenting another theory of mind that doesn't really answer the user's question. We don't know that there isn't a real self, but we do know that the way we perceive ourselves is illusive.
You've intentionally confused several things.

1. You don't need to use Android Device Manager. Unlike iOS, Android gives you a choice of device finders.

2. Location services is different from location history. Location services is an AGPS service that does not track anything tied to your account. iOS does the same thing, and worse, used to send your location to a third party AGPS provider (Skyhook).

3. Google Maps is separate from location history. Google Maps on iOS will tell you to see reviews as well, and it is a setting in both. Unlike on iOS, on Android, you have a choice not to use the default maps application at all and instead use an entirely offline map.

The above three points when support my initial claim that Android is a better privacy-focused system than iOS.