skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the program is stored seems pretty irrelevant, really... Sure there's a category "stored-program computer", but why was it created?

IMO Zuse's machines were the big deal, but they were buried under a number of other firsts that weren't that revolutionary, after the war when the Allies were writing history alone for a few years.
There's been plenty of research that suggests that at a substantial proportion of procrastination is due to discomforts and anxieties, so I wouldn't dismiss it that quickly.
Thanks for the links, I am a big Burroughs fan.
^ this; people for some reason still assume all cookies are banned. If that was so, it'd be a feature removed from browsers already.
The current era of peace between world powers is unprecedented in human history and is only possible because the power of the US military makes it pointless for anyone to start a war.

The US military also makes your welfare state in Sweden possible, we've spent 10s of trillions over the last 70 years protecting Europe for free, the least you could do is show some appreciation. I look forward to the day America Shrugs and Europe learns what it's like to live in the real world.

The US could do what's in it's own best interest and cut military spending and return to it's own shores where it's completely safe from invasion, but millions of people in Europe and Asia would die as a result when countries take the opportunity to seize power in the vacuum, an opportunity the US has never truly take advantage of for itself.

I also find it odd nobody cares that Google opened an AI lab in China, where every bit of research is going to end up in the hands of the Chinese government.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/google-opening-an-office-f...
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With Android app/widget, encrypting, etc
That’s generally true, the question is, do you warn in 2015 or 2018?

That being said, this particular fix is 100% automatable, and rustfix can already do it, so the time to update is “a few seconds”.
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> still don't really see anything wrong with supporting the government or military

As a non-American(but citizen of an allied nation), the fact that the US is currently involved in something like 12 regional conflicts(that we know of), some of which could be considered illegal wars of aggression if the US wasn't on the UN security council, in places who's combined wealth is a fraction of just one US state is very worrying to me, and the fact that few, if any Americans share that concern is certainly very disappointing. I had thought Americans better than that in my younger years, apparently not.
Ah, I see. Yes, I should probably have been more clear there. Thanks for pointing that out.
They're just correlated: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
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Here's another example in Croatia: http://zaklada-brac.hr/zanimljivosti/prica-o-kuci-u-kuci/
I had a friend who worked as a concierge for an ultra-rich family, and didn't like the toll it took on his personality. He said "The attitude is contagious, but sadly the money isn't."
This is not my area of experience, but is it feasible to capture all raw tracking data from the client devices and then just pass it on to the API?
Not the last one but I have been on a sinking ship. It's not a good experience. Definitely plan ahead and look for new options but talk to the founders.
"Incompetent engineers from other parts of the world" seems to be HN's version of Godwin's law
I can afford a car but choose not buy one because riding a bike and taking public transport is a more convenient and often faster than taking the car. I don't have to look for parking spots, I don't have to refuel the car, I save a lot of money, I don't have to do maintenance on the car... owning a car just doesn't make much sense here in Berlin if you don't have to transport children around.
Yes. Most of ISIS didn't deserve drone attacks. It was a state-like big organization comprised of many diffrent kinds of people who opportunistically, or out of ideology, or by being misled, or under a threat of force, or taken young and brainwashed, joined and helped said organization, which seemed or was in some important cases objectively better than the possible alternatives. Being highly sectarian it was also very horrible to groups of people deemed an underclass.

I certainly wouldn't want to live under (in?) ISIS, but that's because I had a luck of being born in a stable country where the government doesn't hate me and doesn't treat me as an underclass, where the police doesn't rob me or beat me,...

Many other people had no such luck, and I will not simply say that they deserve to die, just because someone slaps some label on them without any obvious nuance.
Can you catch germs from a public toilet seat?
This is one of things I always wonder about. Libertarians and other free-market enthusiasts should actually be for collective bargaining and unions. Because in an actual free market it's legal to form unions, just like it's legal to form a corporation.

Collective bargaining is a feature of a free market. If you don't like the idea of unions and collective bargaining, you don't like free markets.
I am glad that yours seem to be effective, but having a price of $2.50 seems to be an awfully small factor in deciding which CO alarm to buy.
I think it's okay. Just a small quip thrown in from the side that's still relevant to the topic of discussion. It would not be okay (IMO) if you tried to derail the discussion to focus on your link instead; in this case, a regular submission should be made.
This is why I don‘t really like SaaS for important parts of infrastructure. It‘s not under your control.
I don't think anyone is disputing that it's possible, but rather how cost-effective and time-efficient it is [1].

I also have the experience of managing many of these services, and I therefore know just how much more productive you can be when you don't need to do it yourself.

Of course there are trade-offs; business is nothing if not a game of tradeoffs. We're just talking about what is optimal.

[1] Not to mention how much more stable and secure; Self-hosting can involve huge security and reliability risks.
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The Bridge trilogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_trilogy) has always struck me as being closer to reality than i care to think about.
Cheap smoke detectors are pretty much all optical these days, and even the unbranded £2 Chinese ones have pretty sophisticated self-tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzKAZCKjpU8

To be honest, I'm not sure whether there's even any point having expiration dates on modern photoelectric detectors, except as a way to sell more smoke alarms.
Unfortunately, it is not in Amazon's short-term interest to do anything about it.
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This is a good thing, it means the defense is working.
Not only the US. I've see that in many other places. Is there a place where financial literacy is part of school?
It's much harder to mitigate this kind of risk in the world of services as against purchased software.

The problem has always been present especially when larger slower moving companies buy from smaller, riskier, companies.

In the days of software, code escrow was possible to mitigate some of this kind of risk. That's still got it's costs but can be an effective hedge against a supplier going bust.
If the service is free, then your are the product.
My impression is this is part of his persona and intentional. I don't find him annoying but I can see why people might.

On the other hand, he has a bunch of people researching the topics so that at least he knows what he's talking about.
Site's that block users for not allowing cookies and tracking are essentially paywalled. Communities like HN should do their part to penalise sites that pull these kinds of tricks. If not us, then who?

So, anyone got a non-paywalled version of this?
>They provide one of the best support I've seen for G Suite.

Of course. With G Suite, you are the customer.

On YouTube, you are not the customer. You are the product, whether you're a viewer or a creator. Advertisers are the customer.
How many children are you willing to cage to provide free college education for every American?

Because that's literally what you're arguing here.
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This depends on how insulated they are. You could make gloves that allowed you to stick your hand in -200C all day long. It's the same reason winter coats work, slow heat loss below the body's heat protection and you get unlimited duration.

The problem is most gloves are designed for vastly warmer temperatures and you don't notice frostbite if your hand cools down slowly.
As if there is some sort of moral equivalence between a communist regime and the US. Was that regime interested in keeping the people safe, or just keeping itself in power? Give me a break.

Hegemony is essentially a zero sum game. If your goal is to displace the US from that position, then who do you think you'll be left with?
> I still stand by my earlier suggestion - break away from Alphabet

With internet video now just a <video>-tag and a CDN away, I really don't understand why people have such a hard time doing this.
Most people appalled at what's going on aren't arguing for open borders. They do want borders, and some degree of border security. What they're saying is that at some point, the amount of suffering you have to cause to reach that level of security is simply morally unacceptable.
Usually that just translates to more and better Potemkin villages. Ultimately, knowledge and skills are a limited resource, and money is not a replacement for it.
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I will admit I was being a bit facetious.

I work in a company that sells B2B software for developers, and as developers we do sometimes talk directly to our customers, it's a lot faster having a person on each side debugging the problem.

But our software does cost upwards of $5000 per year, so they certainly pay for that level of support.

I do understand why Apple bans people from helping outside of official support channels. Imagine how annoying it would be if you were in support and talking to a customer who is now telling you that an Apple developer somewhere on the internet suggested you try some solution that didn't work or even made things worse.
Unfortunately, I agree.
I'm not denying that what they've done is really bad, but who puts a 3rd party API in a critical path without having any fallback (alternative service, reasonable timeouts, etc.) for when it goes down (as almost any service will eventually do)?
If you're doing something wrong, or using power over them to make life miserable for somebody else, then yes. Usurping power by forming a mob is very much okay. If it weren't, the revolutionary war would never have taken place.
>The party paying the tax votes on representation.

Technically the business is "the party paying the tax", in the sense that they are the party sending money to the government. If I drop ten dollars on the counter and sprint out of a store carrying an item that costs ten dollars plus tax, the store is still responsible for paying tax on that item to the government.
A topic so close to my heart I can barely engage with it.

I credit my resilience to a sense of absolute worthlessness.

If you have seen the film Gattaca and the bit at the end how the non-modified person can beat the modified person... it comes down to not being afraid of the consequences, of literally being willing to die trying because what do you have to lose? That you would accept that, to die trying, stems from the worthlessness that one feels totally, and the worthlessness that the world and everyone around you communicates when you are so low.

Resilience, taking risks, fighting harder than anyone else, needing to always drive forwards or else fall backwards... for me it has an underlying secret: the profound sense of worthlessness as a human. From never really accepting you are valid and valuable even when you have "made it" by some definition. This is why I've made some decisions the way I have, I have nothing at all to lose... not even the value of life itself.

Which loops back to another recent theme on Twitter and HN and elsewhere... those dark thoughts of suicide if once thought, they never ever really leave.

NB: I'm fine, just being honest, feeling OK, in a good place... but this is what a hard life creates and such lives aren't lived for the purpose of being a lesson to others, and I'm not sure anyone should learn this lesson.
> Since I now continued to test tridactyl I found that this newtab overwriting function gets pretty annoying from a usability perspective. When I start a new Tab with [Ctrl]+[t] and immediately type my desired address part of it will be overwritten when 'about:blank' is inserted. I guess you want people to use just a binding to :tabopen, but I do like my options. Also since :tabopen do not contain my bookmarks I prefer using the address line.

Huh, that is annoying. I hadn't noticed that. There's not much we can do about it though, short of just disabling the new tab page.

The lack of bookmarks in tabopen is annoying, I agree. We rushed to get the completions out with Tridactyl, and did it shoddily and haven't bothered to rewrite it yet.

There is bmarks which just completes from bookmarks, but that opens things in the current tab.
“The reason he bled to death is because they didn’t get him medical attention.”

“But you shot him!”
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mystride is a vertical social network and e-commerce platfrom for equestrian products and services.

Culture fit is everything for us. You can get a feel for mystride and our culture here. https://trello.com/b/gI6HDkY0/mystride-recruitment

Experience is very important, but adaptability and the ability to quickly learn new concepts is king.

Our backend is built on AWS Cognito, Lambda, and S3. Those SDK's are critical to know.

We would ask you to do a test sprint and share the user story with you via Zeplin and backend calls with our internal docs. We would be evaluating how quickly you digest the SDK's. How you are able to use and request backend services based off the user story and UI designs. How accurately you are able to code UI. And how clean and well notatated your code looks.
What I mean by "its debts already exceeded any value it had" is that it's quite plausible that any money paid for the assets immediately goes to the company's current debtors (including some investors, if convertible debt was used instead of equity) to partially cover their existing debts (which would be a fully legal and correct action by the directors), and there's nothing left to be sued for future liabilities.

There are startup acquisitions which result in lots of money being paid to investors, and there are acqui-hires which amount to a pre-bankruptcy firesale to get part of the money back, but resulting in unpaid debt and bankruptcy anyway. I don't know about Smyte's financials, but it may well be that their situation is like the latter case.

I don't see any reason to suppose that there some big bag of money (even post-acquisition) that's somehow illegally taken out of the company. It may well also be that the money paid to the company itself for acquisition is insignificant, and the rest is in form of some "hiring bonus" to make the transfer of employees work, so not something that the debtors can claim.
Intelligent Design, being a religious theory, usually carries the implication that the designer was infallible and made no mistakes, unless they were deliberate mistakes.
I’m not sure how I’ve done that. I was asking a question; I’m trying to understand a position that many seem to have (being in favor of illegal immigration) that seems unfathomable to me.
Not true about either GE or Maersk.

They have businesses in very broad areas, including areas of high growth and innovation. Lack of imagination, poor management, poor judgement, poor execution... That's what is happening. Both are run by greedy people with a dinosaur mentality.
Ask HN: What constitutes an “Indie Hacker”?
Seeing the "indie" label take over lots of fun industries, so I'm curious about a purely anthropological question - What constitutes an Indie Hacker?

From over on Indie Hackers (Stripe), "you're an indie hacker if you've set out to make money independently. That means you're generating revenue directly from your customers, not indirectly through an employer. Other than that, there are no requirements!"

Yet, some folks considered indie hackers are funded, others have growing companies with teams and have become "employers", and I'm sure there's a multitude of other variations.

I guess the answer doesn't matter, but the question more stems from probably my own of if I can be considered "indie" anymore. We're customer funded, but passing the 50 person mark, so just trying to navigate the imposter syndrome here. :)

What do you think?
If you read the source provided you would see the net loss is still 113 billion to the US government.

As for myself I got a full ride scholarship based on test scores and makes 200k in my early 20s, I just don't like seeing my taxes pay for people who cheat the system.
that was bitcoin dead :)
Sorry to rain on your parade Google is a "US" company - just because its sets up in Europe to get access to cheap labour and as a lobbying tool "look we employ x people in your country" - doesn't make any difference.

Eu companies do the same German pro union at home hire dodgy American union busters in the UK for example
I think before the dust settles a lot of people will be on gitlab instead of github. I've copied all my history/distros over there and have been using it more recently. I'm finding I like it a lot better anyways I especially like the 'groups' feature.
> I am more worried about big companies which are accountable to small set of shareholders more than big govt accountable to najority.

Well then, how do you feel when the two cooperate, one enabling the other to screw us more efficiently?
Google is CNI so playing nice is part of the political game they have to play.
Whales and, dolphins also, are muscular animals that can kick really hard. The whale probably just wanted to dive, lowered the body, and put the head vertical. The tail follows and raises quickly in the air in this case before the dive.

> "The tail struck Howlett with roughly a tonne of force"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/campobello-whal...
> The Tempe police report said the crash was "entirely avoidable" if the Uber operator, Rafaela Vasquez, had been watching the road while the car was operating autonomously.

And thus should end the bewildering “but you couldn’t see her to the last minute and I don’t understand how bad cameras are in low light”
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Are you a troll? How is it even related to the comment? I don't understand.
> We're just talking about what is optimal.

I don't believe what is optimal can be generalised like that. "Optimal" is going to be specific to the business in question. Which is why I'm a firm believer of leaving all the options on the table.

> Self-hosting can involve huge security and reliability risks.

In fairness so can the cloud. I personally don't see difference as 'risk' but more 'responsibility'. Some of the places I've worked have been PCI DSS and Gambling Commission audited so we had that responsibility already. Self hosting a few other resources didn't really add much extra in terms of our security responsibilities. But the case would be very different of lots of other different types of businesses.
I always thought is was for AdCouncil ads and non-profits.

Not flash ads that hijack the browser, or acai berry that bills me monthly (how do I cancel), or simply tracking me across the internet.
Peace is because everybody agrees that war is despicable, borders shouldn't move, prosperity is achieved through technology not conquest.

150 years ago the British was the dominant military power. That didn't stop European countries from starting an avg. of 2 wars per year.

US military dominance is not without positive effect, but the main driver of change is public opinion.
Great read. For those who want to start at Part 1:

https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-transis...

Related: a modern day teen who makes low transistor count ICs in his garage: https://interestingengineering.com/this-teen-is-building-diy...

AmpHour Podcast episode on the teen: https://theamphour.com/390-an-interview-with-sam-zeloof/
One thing that doesn't make sense is surely a service like this greatly benefits from the network effects of being able to see activity across multiple sites, so if Twitter wanted to continue using the technology, wouldn't they have been better off leaving it running?
Not only that, the Don't Buy page actively asks people to pay up in order to find out which carbon monoxide detectors are deadly:

"Compared with Best Buy carbon monoxide detectors, the Don't Buy alarms that we've named and shamed on this page just can’t be relied upon to detect the gas and sound the alarm. In our tests, the Don’t Buys failed to detect carbon monoxide in more than one-in-three of our tests. This adds up to 26 failures out of 72 tests. By contrast, the Best Buys passed all 312 of our carbon monoxide gas tests.

The potentially deadly CO alarms all claim to have passed the relevant EU safety standard, EN 50291. But repeated failures in our lab tests – which mirror those of the safety standard – lead us to doubt that they actually did. And we’re as concerned about several lookalike models as we are about the three models that failed our tests.

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MDMA was not a prescription, it just wasn’t a scheduled compound. It was originally used by therapists however before it spread into the mainstream and then it was scheduled despite the recommendation that it be scheduled to allow for medical use.

There was a study cited where they accidentally used Meth vs MDMA as evidence to schedule it and then after it came out the study made a mistake, the legislation still stood.

But keep in mind that most other drugs were used medicinally before they were scheduled.

Cocaine, Pot, LSD, Mushrooms, etc were all legal before they were illegal.

The war on drugs is a relatively new obsession.
I did this for a very long time and would recommend. But now I have only one account as it lowers my mortgage payments by having all my savings in the one account and that account being my home loan. So now I use hledger. But your way is still way easier. It can get a little hard to track the number of things I do. At present I have 20 something jars.
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Isn't it the case that the only nation getting an F35 comparable to the US version is the UK? It's unclear if even that version is the same. Everyone else seems to be getting some sort of F35 lite export version, including Australia, Italy and possibly others.

Is that trusting one's friends or are they too unstable to trust?
> "Geneticists tend to pay attention when LINE1 inserts itself in a bad place, causing cancer or genetic disorders like hemophilia."

But it's not always doing bad, correct? The point being, these random insertions are not only part of the process, they are key. Without deviation these is no evolving.
Am I the only who finds working on military projects fun and rewarding?!