skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've never understood why there's so much rage about crappy games on steam.

It's because there are so many crappy games on Steam that it makes it all but impossible for indie developers with decent games to be discovered. The perception that Steam is a cesspool of con-artists and incompetents depresses the perceived value of any game on the platform not released by a known publisher, meaning any independent game is more likely to fail merely by being associated with Steam to begin with. Also because the last time the video game market was drowning in mediocrity, it crashed.

I mean... when I was in high school I used to doodle Mario levels on my schoolbook jackets because I was just that kind of nerd, and now I live in the glorious future of Unity and Godot and Game Maker and C++ and SDL2 if I want to be a masochist. It's fantastic that anyone can more or less make something that can at least theoretically be called a "game." But that doesn't mean all of it deserves to be on the open market.

>If we want to go back to publishers controlling access, who in their right mind would approve Schenzen IO?

You're right, if it were up to publishers no one would be making anything but MOBAs and first person shooters and maybe Candy Crush clones. Independent game development allows niche and non-profitable genres to thrive. However, again, it's still a problem that the sheer bulk of garbage on these platforms makes it difficult to find that good content without some kind of gatekeeping.
> names, birth dates, policy numbers, diagnosis codes and billing information

In other words, identity information.
> probably much worse than Tesla engineers?

I doubt it. Such people take the job knowing that the products of their endeavours will be used as weapons. Those who dislike this will either not apply for the job or will leave it relatively soon. On the other hand engineers going into the car business go into it with the knowledge that their products kill and injure fewer and fewer people per kilometre travelled every year so each actual death looms larger.
I asked a 'space lawyer' questions on this topic and we came to the conclusion that perhaps Sealaunch should team-up with Sealand to offer a 'pirate satellite' operations service.
The problem with BPG is that you have all the patent licensing headaches of HEVC.

A better bet for a future image format is AVIF, which is AV1 in a HEIF container. Still just a proposal at this stage but I think it will get adopted:

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/
Equity crowdfunding, and all other things fintech.
You do see that I didn't start any flame war, but a responder did? It's not a generic tangent because it refers directly to the content of the article. The intention is to illuminate the similarities, and hopefully bring about some empathy for others who don't want to be on lists for exercising their rights...

I notice you didn't warn the anti rights person who did start the flamewar, because that person refuses to acknowledge similarities between the two situations.

I notice you have a tendency to attack me because you clearly disagree with my opinions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16578470

I'm obviously not welcome here. I'll go. You won't need to worry about any more wrongthink from me. Enjoy enforcing your opinions on everyone. Your board, your rules.
> Can a Tesla?

My 2015 S 70D can't but then again the problem only arises if I ignore the road works signs and continue driving on autosteer in circumstances where the UI has clearly told you not to.
Wow, I didn't believe you, and had to try it myself. You are totally right. Checking the "Request desktop site" checkbox, reddit loads a lot faster on my phone. That is really sad.

I never downloaded the reddit mobile app, and have always just stuck with mobile web whenever I wanted to browse it. But now I'll be sure to just request desktop site.
> Your scientists would prefer you keep all measurements, even the bad ones. Sometimes those "bad" data actually have information.

A constraint can allow "bad" data if the "bad" data is still semantically valid for that column.

A freeform text column where the scientist writes notes might not need any constraints. But a column used to send measurements to a robot to manufacture something, must have some protections around what type of data it can store. And no, the scientist doesn't get to input "bad" data that makes the robot lose its mind.

Sometimes yes, you drop data on the floor.
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I always wonder why nobody asks why this sort is happening. There's a kind of willful ignorance at work here. Are the highly educated and the knowledge economy moving to cities because they like the beach? Or is there something else attracting them?

What's even stranger is the blame. Somehow it's the tech company's fault. Somehow it's the fault of the rich. I've even heard illegal immigrants blamed. Nobody ever seems to think there might be something going on in the south that is driving away the best and the brightest.
It would bother me less if the banners were accurate. Any app ad that says it offers a better experience than can be had browsing in Chrome on Android is an obvious lie. Reddit's Android app that promises faster speeds is inferior in every way to simply navigating to Reddit.com in Chrome or Chromium on Android.
I don't see why not. Plenty of other organizations work that way. Why can't Apple?
Search engines only show what's posted by other people, so while they're a convenient target, they aren't the actual bad actor.

Our legal system tends to attack actual bad actors, not convenient targets. Unless the Internet is involved. The way RTBF and DMCA work, search engines bear 100% of the cost, and people don't ever go after the actual bad actors.

By the way, in the US, if Tabloid X publishes Eric's photo, that's 100% legal thanks to the First Amendment, as long as the photographer agrees. Eric has no part. Attacking search engines on behalf of Eric, in the US, not so cool. Europe doesn't have free speech, so, no problem.
They only owe tax on what they earn through price speculation (e.g. if I send my buddy $1k in Eth, and he sells Eth for $1.2k, he pays tax on $200 only. If he sells for $0.8k, it's a loss, and he can do the tax writeoff on the $200)
Extensive discussion of this 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742889
>Facebook is not equipped to respond to hate speech in international markets since it relied entirely on information from the ground, where Facebook does not have an office, in order to learn of the issue.

It seems to me that rather than hire a bunch of people in California to try and understand local feuds all over the planet they should have a gamified system a bit more like stackoverflow where if you get enough karma you can restrict posts, promote peaceful messages and so on.

In fact someone could offer the anti-hate thing as a service. There's a hackathon/startup project for someone.
I’ll put in a vote for Chris Gammel’s Contextual Electronics course. Well worth the money. The emphasis on learning to make your own PCB’s early on definitely added to the sense of reward which boosted my motivation. Something about making a permanent circuit on a PCB is Michael more satisfying than temporarily making something on a breadboard.
Ok, I think that does actually make things a bit more clear. Thanks for writing these up, by the way!
> and makes it all available

Well not 'all'; naturally the published elements omit objects related to 'national security' and objects which weren't announced as space vehicles e.g. debris.

They are also published under a very restrictive license; I can't forward the elements to you, nor publish anything derived from them, such as predictions for a pass. End-user eyes only.
If my 2015 S 70D can't see enough to tell that there is a lane then it won't allow you to turn on autosteer. Generally if the road is covered in snow then it won't turn on, also it will turn off if the lane markings disappear.
If we have a support network, we can recover from grief - it sounds like he's waiting to die, because he out-lived his support network.
One of the most common things I’ve seen over and over is under powered hardware. It’s so cheap in comparison but since it’s easy for an accountant to total compared to lost time it’s very frequently done. It’s not a solve all but in so many cases it would make a significant difference ignoring all else.
The old and the young have this in common.

When you're young, no one cares about what you think, or what you have to say, when you're old, no one is paying attention anymore.
> Where's the upside? Why on Earth would I want to use such a product?

I use it because it makes my driving less stressful. The car and I work together which means I don't have to work so hard to keep to the speed limit, to keep a sensible distance from the car in front and stay in lane.
I just posted the final version of the Google/DoubleClick essay:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz...
In what world would you not want your car to brake for a cardboard box? You don’t know what is inside. It could be empty, or could be full of nails. Or a cat.

Regardless, it should be trivial have a different behavior for a moving object that enters the road versus a rigid object that has not been observed moving.
That's the option to pay for it.

Fundamentally you should have the right to do what you want with your body.
No, because the monitoring system doesn't interact with an environment, so its job is much simpler. This is actually the reason that cognizant failure works.
Maybe the FidoNet model was on the right track. With modern speeds and encryption, no terminal nodes (deliver fully-encrypted to next node, erase) a zillion possible pathways (route as randomly zig-zaggy as needed) to take between source and sink.

Not perfect, but gotta beat one S.O.B. grunting and rubbing his hands gother.
Involuntary circumcision of nonconsenting children, for one.

It should fall under “I can’t believe people were this barbaric” along with virgin sacrifices and other practices that seem inconceivable now, but were sanctioned by pseudoscience and public approval just as this is.
You can actually block in-app advertising on Android with apps that block DNS servers. These apps aren't on Google Play because they violate the TOS, so you'll find them with all of the wonderful open source Android apps that violate Google Play's TOS in the F-droid repository. DNS66 (Block ads/hosts via DNS) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.jak_linux.dns66
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> I like that term.

Thanks!
Why is everyone so busy? (2014)
shameless plug! haha just kidding and WOW! Autonomous driving so early on, JPL, Google..

Im going to go hide in the corner as well.
Until prostitution is legal, a nation will not be able to combat trafficking.
Pink Sweet & Low sweetener (saccharine) packets are in almost every coffee or brunch place I've ever been to.
Having been through this experience about 3 or 4 times in the past 4 decades, I will say "Yes", it is indeed a failure, because as I did (and probably TweetBot did), I built a whole business around the assumption that creating an 'add on' app was a solid, viable, long term business.

When those other vendors decided to either (a) close down or (b) stop sharing APIs and critical integration details or (c) change their architecture considerably at short notice or (d) build exactly what you have developed internally themselves, then you will be stuck with pretty much nothing. (Yep, I have pretty much had all of the above happen to me).

The taps will be turned off with little notice. You will have to go and tell your staff that they are out of a job and don't need to come in Monday or ever again because you haven't got the cashflow to pay them any more. You will have to go and try and break the lease on your office space with your landlord. You will have to tell the bank that you are suddenly unable to service any business lines of credit or your cards. That is NOT my definition of success.

I would far rather plod along with an app that I have built in relative obscurity, knowing that I can put strategies in place to deal with the regular ups and down of the market. Writing a remora app just means that there IS a definite finite shelf life for your product, only you won't ever know when that is.
Anyone finds design patterns useful. If so how you have used it
I haven't looked at IPFS in depth but could this be because both the nodes are behind a nat and they need a relay node?
"Want to ensure tweets aren’t longer than 140 characters, make sure you set your tweet column to varchar(140) and not to text."

This is fine if all your users are content with ASCII. As soon as double-width characters from Chinese or emoji start interfering, the database will limit some users to 70 characters. It's ok to make restrictions, but be sure to fully understand how they'll affect your users.
This was intended as a question of motives, not the value of the discussion.
Are you flat out lying when you say "most"?
Not quite true, they had a fair argument that it was legal to begin with, but significant international pressure put an end to that in relatively short order.
If you go to a nsfw subreddit first, you can switch to desktop without the popup (on the 18+ page) and then browse the rest at leisure.
Now I'm not one to go quoting ESR, but it's essentially because FOSS crypto software is widely used and has had a lot of eyeballs on it. Clearly that doesn't grant it immunity from bugs, but given my recent experiences, I'm a lot less trusting of hardware manufacturers to get crypto right.
Most of this stuff is not subsidy in the sense of the govt/taxpayers writing a cheque to the company. They are tax breaks where the company writes a cheque to government but a smaller one than they might of otherwise. As to why have tax breaks - why not? Rather than have every company pay 35% of profits why not have deductions for this and that? Pretty much all countries do it to some extent. Admittedly its a problem if the system gets corrupted and you get things like hedge funders only paying 15% mostly because the donate to the right politicians/lobbyists.
Having been researching process VMs for a few years now, most tutorial miss a crucial piece: the garbage collector.
Obviously they wouldn't. But the terms are risque so they get censored.
Shit happens. One day you’ll be dead. Your grandparents will die if they haven’t yet, your parents too. Maybe you will love to see your siblings die, almost certainly your friends. If you don’t see your love die, they’ll see it happen to you, or you’ll never have one. Even if humanity beats aging before old age gets us and we have beautiful young healthy bodies some day there’ll be a freak accident and a car will drop on you and you’ll be dead because your brain will be all over the place. One day the last star will go out. Entropy wins in the end.

Deyr fé,
deyja frændur,
deyr sjálfur ið sama;
en orðstír
deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getur."

Cattle die,
kinsmen die
you yourself die;
One thing now
that never dies
the fame of a dead man’s deeds.
Except there is data to support the fact that even where prostitution is legal, trafficking is still a problem...

In fact, some studies suggest that legal prostitution actually enables trafficking to go unnoticed. If prostitution is illegal the police can crack down on any form of it they encounter, so if the prostitute in question is a victim of trafficking they're now in contact with law enforcement and might be given a way out.

With legal prostitution, the situation can go on much longer before law enforcement can step in and reach these victims.
pretty much everywhere in europe.
Here in Norway insuring a Tesla is no more expensive, in fact probably cheaper, than insuring a petrol car in a similar class. I'm pretty sure that the insurance companies wouldn't do it if it meant losing money.
DanBC is a long time HN poster, I don't seriously believe anyone is paying him and he's almost the only person here offering more information and not just opinions.

HN guidelines say to assume good faith. I'll leave it up to @dang and the rest to decide if your comment does that or not.
Anyone who's ever bought an Android app has also given Google their credit card number and home address.

Also, Facebook and Google can both determine your home address by where your phone (and it's location tracking) idles for several hours a day.

Google buys access to credit card providers so they can link the ads displayed to you with purchases you make, to report how effective the ads are to the advertisers.
Interesting writeup. What's the reason you disabled commenting?
"You are a product of your environment" --Clement Stone

You'll be depressed/unhappy when your environment doesn't foster creativity/self-actualization in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
ASK: Did Ecmascript 2017 screw up Object.entries()?
// keys

Object.keys(key => {})

// values

Object.values(value => {})

// * * entries * *

Object.entries(weirdArray => {
key = weirdArray[0];
value = weirdArray[1];
})

Why not:

Object.entries(entry => {
key = entry.key;
value = entry.value;
})

Or:

Object.entries((key, value) => {})
The most impressive thing in retrospect is that all that work was done on 32-bit processors with ~16 MHz clocks and ~8MB of RAM. And those machines cost $5000 each in 1991 dollars. Today I can buy a machine with 100 times faster clock and 1000 times as much RAM for about 1% of the price. That's seven orders of magnitude price-performance increase in <30 years. It's truly mind-boggling.
What are those ties? The article above only mentions "adult services" and sex work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776932
bahnhof.se is an example of this. (swedish isp).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777237
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Great post and pictures. Thank you!
Small anecdote from history:

Back in the days, the conservative Swiss looked down on those vowel shift hipsters in Germany and thought that the simple vowels where good enough as they were. So the Swiss-German spoken today is basically a pre-vowel-shift German, "Haus" [pron: house] vs "Huus" [pron: Hoose]. Mid/northern Germans find it super hard to understand Swiss-German (or mistake it with German spoken with a Swiss accent).

Perhaps we start to see a similar shift happening in France where yougsters start to mix up vowels in everyday words.
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This seems like a young persons fallacy. Why would consumerism be the only reason to drop ambitions? How about acceptance and finding peace? Growing into yourself and seeing your role differently?

I study a lot and perform well at work, but nowadays I would absolutely say it's not from ambition. Instead, it's from me enjoying to play that character in the game of life.

If modern society taught us a fallacy, it is to consider being content as something bad when, in fact, I can think of no better goal to die, and live, happy. Taking the road via accomplishments to get there is not necessarily the most likely way to get there.
> Involuntary circucumsion of nonconsenting children, for one.

Where do you live that that is considered common? Sounds utterly barbaric to me.
> I don’t believe there are actual penalties prescribed by that law.

There are, in fact, actual penalties.

A summary: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/hipaa-violation...

And there have been civil and criminal enforcement actions: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enfor...

> Note: I have had hipaa training for prior jobs and no penalties were ever discussed

I've had HIPAA training for several jobs stretching back to 2001, and civil and criminal penalties, and the fact that the latter especially were available against individual employees as well as covered entities, were stressed every time.
We got a hiking club in local university. One of it's founders, a dude in his 80s (I think..) is still coming to easier hikes. Not only coming, he frequently leads those hikes. People frequently ask him how long will he do this. His response is "I don't know. What I know is, once I stop hanging out with young people, I'll get old and die".
I don't the equality of all humans is something that many humans strive for. I don't think it is natural.
It's hard to be sure in every case because most 'news' stories and most HN comments don't specify even the model of car involved. But the incident in which the driver was killed running into the divider was a model X so that means hardware version 2 and Tesla's own software rather than Mobileye that is in, for instance my 2015 S 70D.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Hardware_2
Unless you tie that with company size, such regulation would kill startups.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776347
The charges were was dropped because authorities lacked evidence of trafficking. A money laundering charge remains.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776347
I’ve been reading a modern english translation of the Canterbury Tales, and once upon a time had to memorize the first part of the prologue in middle english. It’s nice to see some of the linguistic theory describing how the latter became the former.

PS give a ME translation of Canterbury Tales a try, it is super impressive.
I moved away from the south because:

1. Few job prospects

2. Terrible transit

3. Disagreeable politics

4. Hot

In that order. I moved to Seattle (which didn't really fix #2) and much preferred it. Born and raised in Atlanta but no desire to stay. Off to NYC in a few months to see what I think!
If you hire a team to get the job done:

1. Make sure you do a bit of research: talk to past clients, meet with the team...
2. Trust your gut feeling when it comes to the team lead. Ultimately, the team will only be as good as their leaders.

More importantly, if you're an early stage startup you should probably NOT hire an external team (and that's coming from a consultant).

Find a technical co-founder and go through the grind of building it on your own.
Have you seen the signed model releases for those recordings? Do you know they were uploaded by themselves plural, not just one party? And with consent?
It's not that most anti-prostitution crusaders are lying, it's that those that aren't lying are relying on information from those who are.
Are you kidding? It was a great article.
In India, most metro have 2-3 broadband providers, and most of country have 4-6 mobile internet provider.
Nanagram?
How does Backpage "vet"?
I think Facebook is getting beat on because it's in the middle of a media maelstrom and under a lot of scrutiny as a result. I also think it deserves every bit of it and many of its social media peers do too (LinkedIn is basically Facebook with even more "dark patterns").

Regarding some of the specific comments you're seeing repeated - yes "you are the product" gets trotted out a lot - but it's basically correct, isn't it? You haven't offered any counter-argument here. Pointing out that Facebook's material incentives are absolutely not aligned with those of their users is always going to be relevant when discussing how Facebook handles user data.

Facebook could minimize the data they gather instead of maximizing it, they could give users fine-grained control over what data "partners" get to use/target, they could make the defaults for many options private. There's no incentive to do any of this though - so in many cases they do the opposite [1].

[1] http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/