skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is soft to the extent that you need an expert to define precisely the bounds of your problem and the AI solution. However, consider the following situation today: you have millions of images that are fairly related (perhaps on a real estate listing site) and tags. You can now straightforwardly build a product for predicting hashtags and describing the photos without knowing hardly anything about AI. There are plenty of products to help engineers do this already, one of which is Google cloud's ML products.

Now imagine that at some point a lot of the AI problems get to a point where they can figure out the correct training procedures automatically. People are working on this with varying amounts of progress but I think the future looks like we'll be able to do enough of this to sell/open source something as well-defined as a SQL database.
> Considering bugs are a fact of life for developers; how long will it be until there is a big hole?

Cloudflare already had one (cloudbleed).
EC2 is actually a really good name, as it has the important part of cloud right in the name: elastic. Generally, if your load is elastic, and you can design your solution to take advantage of the elasticity of EC2, you will do well in the cloud. If you just lift-and-shift your virtual machines into EC2, with no elasticity or scaling, you're going to hurt, in either performance, cost, or both.
Will other scientific or technological advances (like gene therapy drugs for more common disorders) cause the price of this drug to come down in the future?

Say, if gene therapy became common, there wouldn't be as much red tape for approving this particular one, and there might be machines or research that could be shared with other drugs to amortize the cost?
I know for sure without looking that there's less C than could have been and no Snigl [0] in there, since I recently packed up my stuff and moved to GitLab. For my needs, the platform is fine; and they embrace remote workers, which I think is great; the only thing it's missing is users. As it stands, 1 star on GitLab is worth a thousand on the hub.

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl

Edit: Down voting without commenting obviously makes this a worse place for discussions. May I suggest stopping for a second and reflecting on your motivations?
have you tried partnering with simulator so your posts are displayed there too? I imagine they would get more exposure and therefore better feedback
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Does the text-to-speech feature not work on desktops? I'm using Chromium on Linux, and I don't hear anything when I click on sentences. TTS works on Android though.
Vista, whose look Mint (in the screenshot) is trying to emulate, was a monstrosity.
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> Another way of looking at it is that it is an attempt to get something into existence, rather than waiting years for perfection and ending up with nothing.

Much as I liked Multics, this is what happened to it.
Then the mission statement should just be "Our goal is to make as much money as possible." That's what the goal always ends up being, at least once a company becomes public.
What's going over the tunnel can still be encrypted.
Yeah, I know. I believed it until I read it further.
It's amazing they are able to use local browser technology(via the popup login) to allow for using a public network as though it were private, virtually of course.
I would rather have some CSS to make the basic HTML Gmail look like the classic Gmail. Adding CSS to the new Gmail doesn't make it any faster, which is my biggest problem with it. The basic HTML version runs really fast, but it could use a bit of CSS to make it look a bit nicer and add a little more whitespace (at least on my 4k monitor it's somewhat cramped).
Two negatives here. The first is that people rarely pay cash for a car, so unless you are levying a huge tax, it just rolls up into another $20/month. Significant over the long term, but not really an inducement to change behavior.

The second is that this turns into a form of environmental redlining. Poor folks who need a car get priced out of the new car market. They then get stuck in older, less efficient, and less safe vehicles. Mass transit may eventually fix this, but in most parts of the US you’d have to raze entire cities to get a working mass transit system.
Not only having code stolen without attribution, but stolen by the company running AdBlock, who appears to have just co-opted the uBlock brand. This is GPL'ed code being stolen with clearly deceptive and rent-seeking behavior. I wonder if the Software Freedom Conservancy would be interested in taking a look? https://sfconservancy.org/
Before you read the article: Nvidia stock fell approximately 20% yesterday.
C-g? Does that also work, or did you mix up G/S-g?
Why not authenticate via ssh keys using the ssh client (such as the openssh -J flag)
So what? Dollars are still proxies for finite resources, and there are only three possible ways to procure them: their owners can give them voluntarily, they can be forcibly seized by the government through taxation, or the government can print them, which produces inflation and effectively seizes a little bit from everyone who holds dollars (essentially a tax on savings). If you can't get someone to voluntarily spend $1M to save a life, which of the other two processes do you propose to use?
The value of wrong and right guesses
AmazonVS should be pretty unique.
Thank you for the insight. Websites like Glassdoor already do a good job of giving you an overview of potential employers but the same doesn't exist for recruiters.

Normally you might be in contact with 10-20 recruiters for a few months and end up working only for one company for the next few years so the impact recruiters have is a superset of the employer's.

Maybe recruiters could stop selling the company to death and openly admit what is wrong with the current state of things (e.g. poor Joel score). People appreciate honesty and I would definitely work for a company that admits their problems but is willing to fix them.

Also getting rid of recruiters altogether is not a viable option.
Rust -> JavaScript

Kotlin -> Java

Which is still somewhat weird and they were probably thinking about TypeScript, not Rust
If all websites would react within a second to user actions, this would be heaven. But the reality is different:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476247

While 30s is off the chart, I see bloat that needs multiple seconds everywhere. The new Reddit, AirBnB, the various Google tools etc etc.
sshd already has a reasonable authentication protocol (several in fact, including public keys of various kinds) that is already tunneled through an encrypted channel. What additional value does cloudflared provide?

It's a bit like saying HTTPS isn't good enough, so let's tunnel HTTPS inside HTTPS -- unless I misunderstand its purpose.
Many site owners don’t like you blocking the ads that fund the site, but still incurring costs by using the service.

They might see this as poetic justice.
Ask HN: What tools would you use to build in-app analytics?
I am working on an open source project, which I hope would be useful down the road. But, now I’m trying to dig into landscape what tools currently exist and used for building customer-facing analytics into an app.

Say, you are building a B2B SaaS app, which would have some reporting and dashboarding. What would you use? What fronted libraries, backend framework/libraries, database, etc.?

Thanks!
Tesla mistakenly gives user forum admin access
How extreme weather is shrinking the planet
The Paradise Fire might have been an entirely different beast than the survivable events that are primarily discussed in this article. (I still think this is a great article; bookmarking for reference.)

But the Paradise fire moved so fast, and so tall, I don’t think anything stood a chance. Look at, for instance, the Safeway in the town — completely demolished.

Flew over the area the other day — got a first hand look at the smoke from above which we’ve all been breathing in down in the South Bay all week; tragic, devastating event.

Edit: primarily talking about the stuff related to landscape and building design. I’m in favor of controlled burns, but it’s not trivial to start doing it given just how much fuel is built up in California.
How can you be sure that "all of your regular coffee cups are exactly 250ml"? And what about teaspoon? And everything else?

Everyone here is obviously biased toward his/her own measurement system based on our experience, but the fact that "3 cups and a half of milk" is more precise than "875mL of milk" is clearly false.
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> On most Internal Pentests, I generally get Domain Admin within a day or two. Enterprise Admin shortly thereafter.

Sounds realistic, from how most Windows shops are run.

Would it help to stop using AD to manage the IT infra, or have tiny domains (say, max 10 computers) without centralised control, and no company-internal workstation networks? Maybe throw in a rule that devices are recycled (to be wiped) frequently, say every 6 months.
Peter Thiel likes to say that monopolies in general try to portray themselves as non-monopolies, as players in a broader field than just their lucrative specialty. This portrayal is supposed to reduce regulatory scrutiny.

Applying this to Google means that funding a broad swath of technology projects makes the company look like much more than the dominant online search ad company. It's a general technology company.
3 seconds to load interface, almost instant transitions to mail and reply. Windows, Google Chrome.
Arabs yes, but Russia? They have at least some manufacturing. My house has some insulation from Russia (although tbh, only where the quality wasn't important). Until SpaceX they manufactured (most of the?) rocket engines for the US. They're still the only ones that make rockets that can send people to the ISS.

That said, they'll still be in a lot of trouble if oil/gas collapses.
One of the fundamental truths or the move to the cloud has been large organizations which can focus on security tend to do it better than each of us doing our best alone. It just takes too many people to keep a modern system secure, that's unfortunate, but it seems true. All of the security failures we hear about tend to be in bespoke systems, not GCP or AWS.
Altavista had enough issues with trying to become a portal versus being a good search engine (plus being sold multiple times), which probably hobbled them more than anything else.
Any plan to include Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew? That would be great.
>The murder of a journalist should always be big news. They're directly fighting oppression and abuses of power.

It's almost never big news. This is far from the first journalist Saudi Arabia has killed for opposing the Royal Family, plus who knows how many Yemeni journalists have been killed over the past few years.

>Also the investigation was not a show. It highlighted extreme abuse of power.

The event itself highlights this, the investigation was barely necessary. The Saudis changing their story was a naked delay tactic that was likely coordinated with the "investigators."

I'd love to be proven wrong, but years of watching the media only care when there's some strong US connection has left me too cynical.
The quote is, of course, originally from Richard P. Gabriel's 1991 essay (linked from this blog post). It's the first characteristic of "worse-is-better".
Sure. I’m still amazed by the effort they put down.
It's because the IdPs most organizations use don't have the type of SSH flow you're talking about. For Cloudflare to authenticate you, you first have to go through your Okta, Google Apps, etc login flow which is browser-centric.
FAANG: An acronym for the market's five most popular and best-performing tech stocks, namely Facebook, Apple , Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet's Google.
If a patent holder is not producing the patented thing, and not licensing it to someone else who is, the patent should expire. Kind of like a trademark that is not defended. Seems that would fix the problem?
If the drug is patented, then by definition the best known mode of implementation has been disclosed. That's what a patent is.

The problem with alipogene tiparvovec probably isn't the IPR†. Rather, it's that the treatment is extraordinarily expensive to administer (ironically, because it's something close to a total cure with a long-term impact, the drug seller is required to provide long-term monitoring to patients), has a microscopic market (that's why it's so expensive), and is of questionable effectiveness --- it improves quality-of-life metrics but not necessarily clinical ones like blood fat levels. Many (all?) national health systems in Europe, where it is approved, refuse to pay for it.

If the drug had a clear market, even if the current owner no longer wanted to provide it, it could license to some other drug company. But it's likely that no other viable concern wants to shoulder the costs and uncertainty of this particular drug. That's not the fault of the patent system.

† In fact, it's possible that the patent here has expired; I'm still trying to confirm that, but it would explain why the treatment had "orphan drug" status in Europe.
>If it's not commercially viable to produce a certain therapy, unfortunately, in our Western society, it does not happen.

Are there new and innovative drugs for rare conditions coming from non-Western societies?
Couple of advise for the original uBlock origin author (gorhill)

- Please get the extension together under one platform instead of forks and stuff (MacOS, Edge). This problem will keep the fake uBlock alive otherwise.

- "uBlock" name is already involved too much with unpleasing issues. Would you consider renaming your product? I think renaming would solve more problems than you would think.

Thanks for the extension btw :)
"v-model" isn't two-way binding like in AngularJS where both parent and child can modify the same data. It's just shorthand for defining a property and an event handler. Like in React, properties flow down and events flow up. See https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/forms.html
I don’t think so. It’s not hard to distinguish the dramatization.
Oh, man, I want this for Firefox.
Oh it absolutely is, and the most humbling thing was realising that I would probably do exactly the same thing in their situation ;-)

However as a developer and business owner myself (as opposed to a security person), I genuinely thought more people would be more concerned about the security of their website. I had one person explain to me their XSS injection vuln was intentional because patching it would break some JS plugin....

You see not knowing is one thing, but knowing and being complacent is quite another. But we see that in more areas in life I guess :)
> whereas people do not have any idea how much '300ml' is.

No, you get a sense of this if you live somewhere that uses ml for things.

One can of soda is 330 ml.
Don't worry. It eventually gets sold to less fortunate people second hand.
My understanding is that the optimization steps of neural networks (typically gradient descent + backpropagation) act a bit like Lloyd's algorithm. Neuron weights will push each other into place. Often, what matters is how they compare to each other, such that the error is minimized; reaching the theoretically-perfect weight is less important.
Especially for lifesaving medical patents. If the drug isn’t being produced, or the price is too high (I don’t know how this would be defined), governments should be empowered to seize the IP and solicit bids to produce the invention. We move heaven and earth to save lives in natural disasters, why do we move so slowly with certain medical conditions?
Especially if you're using things like flour where you get different quantities which if you sift it, or spoon it into the cup, or scoop it from the bag.

Cups are fine for rough and ready, but terrible for baking.
Machine learning, meet quantum computing
>"You need to maintain the factory, you need to do the paperwork, you need to test the product, you need to make new product batches all the time because product expires," he said.

I'm pretty confident LPLD sufferers around the world would be prepared to move to the LPLD hot spot in Quebec, and work part time in the factory under proper supervision?
This is a hilariously bad take...
a) Have you heard of Waymo? There could not be a better example of a company with the future in their hands, due to a decade of investment and research in autonomous driving, about to launch a product many years ahead of its closest competitors.
b) You say this is what you dislike about google, but is this not true for any of the big 4? Does Facebook or Amazon have anything that compares to their main cash cows?
That’s insane! We should really come up with some kind of sarcasm marker /s
Don't think there's anything in the world that compares to Notepad++.
A mob is made of individuals as well, yet it has a life (and destructive power) beyond the will of its individual human components. A human is made up of cells, which benefit or suffer individually, yet that doesn't negate the independent existence of a human being. Don't let the language of capitalism distract you from the underlying reality that we are creating super-entities that we are increasingly subservient to.
FWIW I didn't downvote. People aren't not downvoting it because it's positive, but (1) because it is just a random claim that contains no argumentation or useful details, and (2) because it sounds like implausible pseudoscience.

People on this site are quite skeptical of anything that sounds like "alternative medicine" (probably for good reason).
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> Maybe throw in a rule that devices are recycled (to be wiped) frequently, say every 6 months.

That would be doable if setting up devtools at most places didn't take an entire day.
Or as I like to say, Skyrim with infinite content.
Wine is at least a valid way to get sweet sweet video games for Linux like KOTOR, Half-Life 2, IL-2 Sturmovik and Call of Duty (examples from my low-end Intel graphics 4000 laptop).
Federal agencies are not absolute monarchs in their domains. They can issue regulations only that comply with their mandates from law and that were produced according to procedures as stated in law. In this case, they have to go through a fact finding procedure, get public comment, and show evidence for their decisions.
If you want to learn it, here's the main book people are using:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...
Was just implementing some email features on our application and we noticed that what we call "Friendly Reply To" doesn't work in desktop gmail. Setting the Reply-to field to "John Doe <john.doe@gmail.com>" won't show "John Doe" in the to section when you click reply. It will show "john.doe@gmail.com". What's odd is that google inbox, and gmail for android and iOS both will show "John Doe".

Bug? Or opinion by Google?
the only reason it feels like this on HN is because cloudflare is much more focused on "retail" level marketing than the competitors. fastly is roughly the same size, akamai and edgecast are bigger than both. all of them are gnats compared to the big three cloud providers.

(not counting the verizon factor w/EC)
I suspect this has more to do with network speed than platform or browser time spent parsing / executing js.
I have a time believing that figure... Where did you get it from?
I think the ancient Romans' concept of otium is close to what you are looking for. It is often translated as "leisure" as in Seneca's essay On Leisure (De Otio). Actually the word is hard to translate into a single English word because we don't really have a parallel concept. It meant something more like "freedom from business concerns" or "freedom to think productively." [1]

Latin writers from Cicero to Augustine understood the word in a very similar way. For example the poet Ovid once referred to his poetry as otia nostra (creations of our leisure). [2] In his case the leisure time was due to being banished from Rome to the little town of Tomi on the Black Sea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Otio

[2] https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-tristia/1924/pb_LCL15...
I'm a big fan of Notepad++. I wish the UDL interface was a little more flexible, but at least I don't have to learn a new language to create one like I would with the otherwise similar Notepadqq.
Hooray for Mozilla for joining this cause. They’re definitely one of the better companies around protecting the original ideals of the internet.
Sad that the collective intelligence of our species appears more limited however. We seem unable to act on the imminent threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, etc.
> intelligence [is] the ability to tell what is true from what is false.

This is a poor definition. There are very intelligent Christians and very intelligent atheists. They can't both be right. Isaac Newton, one of the most intelligent people in history, believed in all sorts of weird astrological stuff. Etc.

My view is that intelligence is a number that's correlated with a wide variety of different measures of cognitive performance. So it's not really possible to give a glib, one-sentence description of it.
I believe development on SubredditSimulator is stalled now that the dev is no longer working at Reddit / is building a Reddit competitor.
Really? A Twitter thread? This could have been a blog post.
It’s dramatized, probably to make something most would see as mundane palatable.

There are a lot of specifics for something that’s fictional.
It's interesting how back when programs actually ran on your machine, you could just use an older version. I knew people who never upgraded Winamp. Today we do know this is problematic (due to security updates mostly) but when it comes to web applications we don't have a choice. Don't like the new look, well tough.

If the application has an API (like Reddit) you could write your own or use a better client. I could say that about Gmail/IMAP but their IMAP implementation is shitty and broken.

I moved entirely off gmail to self hosted in 2012 and I'm glad I did so I don't have to deal with their interface. When I need webmail, I've got roundcube and it's still nice and fast.
My favorite is the original page from 2015:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910211935/https://www.exped...

Don't forget to see the DirectConnect description.
GitHub also embraces remote work. About 2/3 of GitHub is remote.

I'm not saying move back to GitHub because of that, but it's one of the many things that GitHub and GitLab share in common.
It may just work. The differences in extensions are pretty minor: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
What if the survey respondents value earlier discoveries more because they understand them better? I remember my mathematics professors saying, once they chose a specialty within a field, there wee only a dozen or so people in the world who could discuss it on the same level. So concurrent appreciation is rare within a single field, let alone across fields.

But, as a high schooler, I was taught the basics of Einstein's general theory of relativity. I couldn't do the math, but I appreciated its value. Maybe the respondents undervalue recent discoveries in different fields.
The problem is with a house / car / TV / phone you can always reposes it.
Maybe people who want to get into systems programming and choosing rust rather than C. Many JS devs do seem to prefer new glittering things.
Sure. But you have heard of Snaps and Flatpack, right?
And that seems like a feature of Swift, not Python.