skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also completely not dangerous, yet it received the banhammer
Alternative reading: "Mark and Co. don't think twice about breaking laws or contracts, as long as any fines end up being less than the money they stand to make."
> Can I choose to sync just...

at the moment no, but it's likely we'll move content off-chain (%QJEpN8LN1t3BrIkUQ3WoOMWRsMArbVUZCpTeBYcuqfw=.sha256) so you would only need to sync the signature chain metadata, then could choose what content you want to download or delete.

> But now I think Manyverse might just be a "pub" on SSB

Manyverse is a mobile app on SSB, much like Patchwork is a desktop app. it uses all the same peer-to-peer network, including the existing pubs (as in there are no pubs specific to Manyverse).

> shall I have do everything all over again if I ever to go for a desktop app or any other app on any device

if you want to use both Manyverse and Patchwork, yes they will be separate keys each with their own feed, to be merged as the same conceptual identity, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067100.
I sat in on this course last Fall. Excellent.
I think part of this is the often dual use nature of these machines. Gaming consoles have updates every couple of months, which might be more often, but the systems are also left on or left in a low-power mode where they will still check for and download (and possibly apply?) updates, depending on how the power settings are set.

If you used a gaming console the same way you are using your main computer (booting it into a separate OS for most the time, until you all of a sudden wanted to play a game) you might also find that there's updates waiting to apply, and some games require the OS update before they'll play, etc.
I'm an experienced HW guy pondering this, My wife and I have kids out of college, so I'd be coming at this from the other end of the family pipeline.
I wonder if their focus on data center build out (rather than differentiation of their offering and customers, yes admittedly debatable) will be deemed a success or misstep in the long run
Oculus is owned by Facebook and will never change that. It's a completely useless hardware platform, IMO. Even buying one requires monetarily supporting Facebook, which is unethical in my view.
> The point will come when not regularly wearing one of these devices is considered hazardous to one's health

I 100% agree. I think we are on the cusp of the "cyborg" era, like it or not. Humans will wear health tracking devices at all times. Already 10M+ do, from basically 0 a decade ago.

Personally the sleep tracking and heart rate data from wearing my bands since 2014 led me to a diagnosis and fix for a number of health issues.

But the real promise lies ahead, as new and better sensors are engineered. In addition to helping with traditional health issues, devices will increasingly allow the conscious part of your mind to have real-time self-awareness of the biological factors going on that influence your thoughts and decisions and answer questions like these:

- Did you say "no" to that thing because it was the right decision or because your blood glucose level was so low?
- Was your high productivity level today a fluke or influenced by the high caffeine level in your system?
- How "tired" are you really?

Some people might not like it, but I don't know if they'll have a choice. Not taking advantage of these technologies would put them at a disadvantage in school, work, sports, and perhaps all other areas in life.

I think that moment is more like 10-20 years out, but otherwise agree with you.
Not my app, just a huge fan.
“One resident said he feared low-income, high-density housing would bring in “uneducated” people. “A lot of other residents and I are concerned that this would make the current residents of Cupertino uncomfortable, and would split our city in half,” he said.”

..it was far worse that you could imagine. It was something like a 9 hour meeting

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/19/differences-of-opinio...
Your web site doesn't have a page about hiring, and I could not determine where your offices are located.
As a counterpoint, we run Ubiquiti gear at large conferences (NAB in Vegas, IBC in Amsterdam). Thousands of people, hundreds of WiFi networks - pretty much a nightmare.

At NAB we're often the only booth with functional WiFi. Not using anything special really, just well configured UniFi mesh APs.
We're about to move ~800 people into a new office and we're going Wi-Fi only when we do. Several reasons:

- Cost avoidance. Hard wiring a new fitout is expensive, and in our case costs $200k for the structured cabling alone (ignoring the switch port cost, and the fact that we'd be deploying Wi-Fi anyway for roaming)

- Better roaming experience. USB3 docking made the desk experience better for staff but USBC has made it worse again, to the point that we get all kinds of random crap happening when roving from wired to wireless. This could (and will eventually be) fixed with some attention, but when we were considering Wi-Fi only for the office, mitigating this issue was a nice bonus.

- Reduced end-user network requirements. With most end-user applications being moved behind a web interface, the trend is for far lower fat-client throughput requirements. I don't see that changing any time soon despite the additional bloat being introduced to a lot of web front-ends. There are still special cases that do have high throughput requirements (raw media work, mostly) but it's a fraction of the user base.

- ROI on existing wireless infrastructure. We have significant investment in a proven enterprise wireless infrastructure (Aruba) that we can extract far more value out of by bumping up access point density and attaching all clients onto.

- Competing nonsense avoidance. In my sector, fibre to the desk is the current load of bollocks that we're being railroaded into adopting. I've side-stepped that whole debacle by shifting us entirely across to something we had to deploy anyway - Wireless.

- It fits a theme. We're doing wireless stuff in a ton of other places at the same time: Wireless bluetooth headsets for telephony. Wireless screen casting (Miracast, Airplay and Chromecast) for meeting presentation. Wireless bluetooth conference phones for audio conferencing. If I could nail some kind of bluetooth webcam for vid conferencing, I probably would push for that that too.

- We have the underlying capabilities to effectively support wireless-only, such as dedicated network staff with appropriate skills (Wi-Fi is it's own specialist subject aside from conventional networking) and the right investigative/monitoring tools (in our case, Spectrum analysis, heatmapping, air monitoring and such all come out of the Aruba mobility controller/Airwave systems we already operate.

There are risks to doing this, and you want to run a solid proof-of-concept ahead of committing your organisation to it. But that's achievable, and there's no reasons a sufficiently mature organisation that's trying to work more flexibly can't treat wireless as a first-class connectivity option.
I think the are two kinds of regulations. There is the kind that is written down clearly. I can read it; understand what I'm supposed to do and not do and act accordingly and be done with it. There is also the other kind where I need to hire an expert to interpret the regulation and then file an application with the government and if it gets rejected after a long time I have no recourse but to go back to the same agency again. Obviously the first kind of good and the second kind should be avoided. This seems more like the second kind. Maybe we could make it the first somehow?
Show HN: Card Camera – SDK for scanning credit cards into your mobile app
You don't have to run it on a Rasberry Pi!
I have a little server under our stairs, with the Proxmox Hypervisor (KVM + LXC with a lovely GUI) on it.
It's free and you can figure up VMs etc. PiHole is a LXC container.
Seems silly to "waste" a bit of hardware when most people here will have access to some form of virtualisation.
I've given it 256Mb of RAM and it runs fine.
Operating for 19 hours straight

Nobody was operating for that length of time. The captain had been awake for 19 hours, the first officer had been awake for 12 hours.

Granted, most people can't function anywhere near their peak performance after being awake for 19 hours. Also there's not enough information in the summary to know the captain's recent history; how much rest time did he have before that flight?
> Note that nearly all of Ubiquiti's offerings are running modified OpenWRT, with a handful running a fork of VyOS which happens to be Debian plus some packages.

EdgeOS is a Vyatta fork. Has Ubnt abandoned EdgeOS? It's been a few months since I've looked, but the version of Debian that's being used was end-of-lifed on MIPSLE hardware a while back so security updates are entirely incumbent upon Ubnt. There is no upstream support.

Which offerings are on OpenWRT?
Would you say you got out? What are you doing nowadays?

I'd love to ask you a couple of questions about your story!
Against Kubernetes? Nothing, it's a beautiful architecture. I just want to use the code and architecture in different ways and specifically with lower resource constraints.
Clear Up This Stem-Cell Mess
Nice - so are there any actual blogs built on this that I can take a look at?
AND all their current customers (and customer pipeline) AND their roadmap.
twins. I was born in 82 and the borland pascal and c++ compilers were my first "real" languages after some qbasic.

that feeling when you'd stay up all night long stuck on a problem with nowhere to turn for help, then finally, eureka.

oh also, mode 13h.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

This is a parody but actually has some great product ideas :)
Pijul: Distributed Version Control System
Collectively all these ordinances increased housing prices by limiting density. It meant that PoC couldn't pool their resources and build more on a lot, or just buy a smaller home on a small lot in the first place. Combined with the fact that PoC couldn't get loans approved due to redlining, it was very effective.
> If you want to compare nifty scripting languages than you can compare Perl with Ruby or Python.

Perhaps even compare with Perl 6 :-)
Post-acquisition morality is tiring.
Well, except maybe for actual system performance. No need for a computer is great, but shoehorning in enough CPU and GPU power for this in a $400 budget that also includes all the hardware, combined with the promo videos all being third person views and the items held all being shown as wire frame and single color means there's quite a bit unknown about what it will actually be like (unless there is more info I'm missing).

It kind of reminds me of Virtual Boy...
It would be easier to take this article seriously if:

1) The author didn’t misspell the names of the people he’s talking about. It’s George Filer. (“Filir”? Really?) Also, Ed Snowden, not “Snowdon.”

2) The author didn’t denigrate witnesses of significant stature who would be trusted as impeccable sources if they offered opinions on something other than UFOs (multiple NASA astronauts, highly placed intelligence officials, former heads of state, NATO commanders…you know, people who just might possibly know a tad more about the subject than the author)

3) The author knew the full history Carl Sagan, who concluded in his seminal book with the Russian scientist Shklovskii that Earth is likely to have been visited by space faring civilizations at least “every 10,000 years.” And this was decades before we knew earthlike planets pervade the universe.

Then again, nobody would come to skeptic.com expecting anything but blind skepticism toward subjects that are already ruled off-limits by professional pseudoskeptics like Michael Shermer.
Dial down the transmit power on your more distant AP so your laptop won’t think it’s the closest one.
Ok. So, it's about equal IP protection and not investment. Thank you for the clarification.

Based on what you're saying, it sounds like the EU and other countries could impose a wide range of conditions or restrictions onto Chinese investments or purchases without running afoul of WTO rules. Interesting stuff.

Looks like I stand both corrected and downvoted. Gotta luv HN!
AnyLand: Social VR with Prim-Based Building, PC Client, 10K User-Created Areas
My definition will always be "The most recent one that supports coreboot".
Show HN: VisualMIPS – A cross-platform teaching tool for MIPS Assembly
The moral pangs suffered by the filthy rich, concerning the means by which they became wealthy is as old as time. Sadly it works. How many people remember Alfred Nobel as the “merchant of death” and how many remember him for the Nobel Prizes? If they were more than trivially bothered they’re always free to divest themselves of their fortunes.
Ads on Reddit used to be alright, but since the advent of their dumpster fire of a redesign, their ads have turned into block worthy material.
Skip has a concept of a "intern heap" that contains all the values that are going to be used for memoization. By default everything is allocated on the stack/heap.

When you want to memoize a function, then we move all the arguments to the intern heap which makes structurally equal values have the same pointer. Then we can figure out quickly if two immutable values are equal.

We have an intern() function that lets you move a value to the intern heap manually. We are also thinking about adding a field for objects such that once it is interned somewhere, if you intern it again, it's a no-op and we use the pointer in the object. This would avoid accidentally increasing the complexity of an algorithm by repeatedly interning the same value.
> Which network vendor has better security updates?

I'd imagine pretty much any network vendor doing business in the enterprise sector (e.g. HP, Cisco, Juniper, Dell, etc, etc)

> Can you point to a specific example of them not fixing a security issue that was addresssd by others?

I haven't looked recently, but when I last updated my ER-X I noticed that the latest available packages included a large number that were not up-to-date with the latest available security fixes.

One of the problems is that the version of Debian that the hardware (MIPS) Ubnt uses is end-of-lifed on the old version of Debian that EdgeOS is based on. Where most vendors could simply track the official Debian repositories, Ubnt is stuck rolling their own packages. If Ubnt has finally moved on to an officially supported version of Debian then this is less of an issue.

This is one of those I wish I had a better solution moments. For the home user this may not pose a challenge, but in a business environment I'd say that it's probably worth spending the big bucks on a vendor with a better track record. That's not to say there aren't other bad vendors, but it is to say that Ubnt gear does not belong outside of a home lab.

I haven't evaluated Mikrotek because the Ubnt stuff works well enough (but certainly not great) for me in the two locations I've got it deployed.
did you use the 'default' lists that come with the installation or did you add new ones? would you mind sharing your feed list?
They are a great example of how an API is all that really matters. Anyone could have done their biz, but they made a good API.
I'm not using boxes, I'm putting them under the eaves, mounted to the plywood. I drilled a hole just big enough to fit the keystone through (1"? 1.25"? I forget), then I put the keystone on it, put a grounded patch in that, and pushed it up inside the hole. Then I mount the ring and plug the camera in, and mount the camera. The cable runs are in the attic.

This is all the G3 Dome, they didn't have anything else when I bought the cameras. I thought about putting a G3AF mounted from the upper eaves to get another view, but haven't done that yet. That'll be a bit more of a project.

I'm fairly happy with the setup, but it's kind of a bit flaky. The motion detection fires all the time, with wind blowing trees or the like. Then it'll sometimes cut off in the middle of a recording when it seems like it should be detecting motion. I've been wanting to put an SSD in their little appliance, or just migrate that appliance to a Ubuntu host of my own, but haven't done that yet. The hardware seems solid, but the software seems flaky.

A coworker has the Nest cams and those seem to be a bit less flaky. I may need to reevaluate this before I go further in, and it's been a year, maybe there's something else I should look at.
Which state?
I had an interview for a place in SF and was 5 minutes late and had a similar situation. I hardly ever ding people for coming a few mins. late to interviews. People love to latch on to that. It's kind of pointless.
What's being suggested here isn't even kind of similar to a bill of attainder, not even if you really squint. This is like saying, "You can't prosecute me for theft before you prosecute this other thief, because that's a bill of attainder." No court would entertain that argument.
Under 6DoF I would have expected some sort of suspension system so you can play things like Descent or skydiving in VR
I once wrote an OLE control from Authorize.net that used XML in Powerbuilder to communicate with a Lisp server to do my payments. Stripe is better :)
repl.it was one of the first platforms I used as I began my journey into the tech world. I very much appreciate the hard work and hours Amjad, Haya, and the rest of the team have put into their product.

With that in mind, I take a little issue with a YC partner saying the repl.it is a "YC Story." On the contrary, I think YC is a part of the "repl.it" story, and they were mistaken to take so long to see the value in the company.
"Wrong" as defined by the hivemind pitchmob.
I don't mean they've heard of it, indeed what most of these platforms support isn't Markdown but a similar simplified ruleset. I mean that more people than one might think are using the general concepts of Markdown on a daily basis.
Oh, I was merely making light of the name "kubes" which I figure is what you meant with the numeronym. Apologies that my dog couldn't hunt.
With an "IBM hosted MySQL store" you would need every party to have write privileges on the database, and make realtime connections to exactly this one database instance.

This can be somewhat hidden by remote APIs, multi-datacenter protocols and the like. But probably you are quickly going to some form of custom, signed data packets with an eventually consistent system.
I've found that the threshold depends not so much on number of APs but on number of simultaneously active users/devices (arguably the ratio of those per AP, rather than total).

An office of 30 people sharing 3 APs will encounter problems even if those same APs would have worked just fine for a family of 4 living in the same space.

I've even found this to be true in a residential setting with consumer APs, where reducing the number of devices (by plugging into wired ethernet things that don't often move, such as media players and printers) tends to improve range and throughput for others, without adding more APs.
Ask HN: 20s COBOL Dev with an itch to scratch
So I got a job as a COBOL dev that I accepted for financial reasons just before actually getting into the software development part of my engineering studies. I am very happy staring at green on black all day but I really miss having the know-how to build something useful for myself in my spare time.

I grew up with C64s and C128s harvested from local flea markets and bought a Windows desktop in high school. While looking at what to dive into I feel like I should learn a ton of C (used at work) or Java (migration work in the future?) but I would really like to learn something that I can build my own windows programs in (windows managers, file handlers, automating tasks come to mind), nicely packaged and maybe to put some of the good stuff on git for others to try.

I really feel a bit lost looking at modern languages and the pros and cons of them, so what should I do? Is C++ the way? Java reminds me of the hoards of sluggish EVE-Online repackaged spreadsheets and .jar files but maybe I just don't know what desktop apps are made in. I would really love some input from the hacker news-readers.
Bills of attainder (laws that target a specific person or group of people) have always been unconstitutional. The are explicitly prohibited federally in Article 1, Section 9:

No Bill of Attainder ... shall be passed.

States are explicitly prohibited in Section 10:

No State shall ... pass any Bill of Attainder ...

Any legislation that specifically targets Google would be quickly overturned by the court.
No., they invest on the merit of the idea and any Venture Capitalist's funding is validation of the idea in and of itself!

SYKE
Building your own PC for AI is 10x cheaper than renting out GPUs on cloud
I wonder what the impact of the collapse of the twin towers would have been if the concrete used had contained a significant fraction of aesbestos?
i would like to note, that the conclusion was drawn not only based on visual resemblance, but on the facts of bio of Chepiga - dob, places of birth, education, passport issuance
Home Equity Lending Documents from Oak Tree Business Systems, Inc
No, this is where they really shine. Ubiquiti is often referred to as “enterprise lite”, where if you really need scale usually other options are better. But at a small scale, they are excellent.
I posit this hypothesis that does away with both dark matter and also dark energy. I posit that at a distance of approximately 1.5 million light-years gravity becomes slightly repulsive, gradually increasing with distance to achieve a peak repulsion, and then decreasing with distance to zero.

Thus, cosmological expansion is caused by galaxies pushing against each other, and galactic rotation can be explained by the fact that each galaxy is surrounded by a "womb" of dust, gas, and other galaxies, and this "womb" pushes with repulsive gravity upon the outer stars of a galaxy to keep them in orbit at a higher speed than expected.

I give a cosmological / mathematical justification for this behavior in my Reddit article:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyTheoryIs/comments/87pcgq/what_dar...

At the bottom, in the responses, I explain how General Relativity can be adjusted so as to retain time dilation while rejecting curved space and retaining flat, 3D, Euclidean space.
IIRC, there were quite a few economic/technical reasons why PS/2 has gone largely extinct. RS232 and PS/2 are hardware interrupt driven instead of using polling like USB so they have always had a relatively high opportunity cost. Nowadays you'll only see PS/2 ports on workstation motherboards with higher end chipsets (which have more lanes on memory/PCIe buses, more hardware interrupts available before they need to be coalesced into software interrupts, etc).

Also, PS/2 wasn't (generally) hot-swappable back then. That annoyance and some extreme pricing competition in the 2000s drove everyone towards USB.
I installed Ubiquiti at home and it was a terrible experience. I really wanted it to work, but my wife teased me long enough about my "professional grade" installation that I gave up. She was right.

The biggest issue was range, which was much worse than what I got with I had with a traditional consumer access point (I had a TP-Link Archer C7.) It was not even close.

The handover didn't work very well either. Much older UniFi products used Qualcomm wifi chipset which had excellent hand-over, the later versions used Broadcom which didn't have that yet.

I replaced everything with Eero, which just worked.

The AmpliFi product line of Ubiquiti supposedly offers similar features as Eero, but that didn't exist yet when I made the switch.