skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s how Google Fi will work with iPhones
Any idea if this can support handwriting even with a reduced confidence? Support for non-English languages?
Where do you think the pollution from all those added cars is going to go?
It's the perfect capstone to the story.
You probably mean Continental Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese is really much better for learning. They don't eat syllables and they take their time to pronounce and emphasize words. You still need to know a few rules but they are sufficiently regular to eventually start guessing words (e.g., "ue" within a word -> "o", ending "dad" -> "dade", ending "ion" -> "ão").

Source: I've had at least half a decade of frequent contact with both dialects and I still have way more difficulties with the continental version.
A stylelint plugin that reveals values defined with postcss-custom-properties
Same thought here. I spent two-plus years debugging Lustre issues for a very small set of customers. It was an absolute beast. Build process was a compatibility-killing license-violating nightmare. Fell over at the slightest provocation, with little info to help figure out why. Provided no metrics to speak of, and the thicket of inter-related settings (especially timeouts) made effective tuning almost impossible. I'd guess that Amazon spent many engineer-years removing or rewriting significant pieces, and even more establishing the safe configuration envelope for what remained. Even then, it's probably a nightmare for the SREs (or whatever Amazon calls them) who have to keep it running.
We already asked you to stop posting generic ideological rants. Could you please do that?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553560 and marked it off-topic.
How are you wrapping your Rust code? Lambda doesn't support it yet, does it?
Does this actually work now? A name-constrained CA (or even its CSR) used to break things in absolutely hilarious ways.
Anti-missile defense provided by strong gusts of wind.
It's boring to do UI when the tooling is outdated and poorly documented, and when the potential audience for one's creations/improvements is miniscule.

Not that long ago I read a blog where the author had either created or leveraged an HTML5 canvas-based implementation of X11 to explain and give inline demos for how X11 works under the hood. It was a blast to read and inspect, and I bet it was fun to write and implement!

Now-- re-implement that blog in the toolkit of your choice without leveraging that toolkit's webkit widget. Then make sure to release binaries for all the common systems someone would have used to read the original blog.

You're going to have a very, very boring time doing that. But that boredom isn't inherent to doing UI as the original blogs shows. Instead it's due non-optimal tools that end up eating all your concentration, and the fact that nearly no one will be there to cheer you when you reach the finish line.

Possible exception for Qt. But even there you've got to do extra work to compile binaries to ship for each platform. Or you somehow run it in the browser which is experimental and not nearly as well-documented as just using existing web frameworks.
>As a white male you haven't experienced any of that, which is fine!

You know absolutely nothing about this person and yet feel completely at liberty to issue blanket statements about their life and what they have experienced and how they 'should' feel.

White privilege is obviously real. However, that doesn't mean that a white male hasn't ever been nervous around the police or felt queer thoughts.

This is why people resent contemporary 'identity politics' and 'diversity' initiatives. Not because of the end goals themselves (that is, to mitigate racism and prejudice) but because the rhetorical methods currently employed are cloying, tone-deaf, and frankly just plain condescending. The overall point you are making is a noble and important one - to self-reflect and put yourself in other people's perspective - but I don't think this is the most effective way to convey it.
Google Fi simple phone service expands to Apple iPhone more Androids
Particularly the bit about "Don’t reinvent the steel hammer” is a little ridiculous in this analogy. A medieval blacksmith had to build almost all of their own tools, that was the reality of the thing, because almost nothing was pre-manufactured.

Similarly, if you look into the toolbox of almost any mechanic, or carpenter, or millwright, or any tradesperson, really, you are going to see some modded or homebrew tools, that they have put together specifically for some particular job that they do. Jigs, cut down wrenches for tight places, weird welded up gobs of metal that aren't immediately obvious but are super useful for x, y or z. A good software developer should have a whole arsenal of little shell scripts and tweaks and customizations to their editor or IDE that make their work easier.
That's not what is says in the release:

"With Timestream, you can easily store and analyze log data for DevOps, sensor data for IoT applications, and industrial telemetry data for equipment maintenance."
iPhone on fi worked internationally ~2 years ago or whatever. So, probably better now?
I see, it appears to come down to how each db interprets "partitions".

If we're referring specifically to shards then "DynamoDB is the only non-relational database that supports transactions across multiple partitions and tables." no longer sounds like hyperbole.
This is one of the major problems with the healthcare industry in the US. There's zero transparency and it's a dark art to figure out how much money anything costs. It's a back and forth war between multiple different parties that all want to extract value out of the system.

Just because you don't pay as much as the sticker price is missing the point a bit, I'd say.
I've used a lot of registrars over the years, and overall Namecheap has been the best experience. I wish they supported U2F, but other than that, no complaints.
I see we must be overdue for our monthly Amazon takeover of the front page of HN.
People like to believe bad PR kills companies because that makes them think they have control over their lives. Poor bastards...
> Does US anti-discrimination law really operate like "you have to serve the protected class whatever the consequences for unprotected ones?"

“Protected class” is something of a misleading piece of legal jargon; “class”, in it, means something closer to “axis of differentiation” than “group”. [0]

So, “black” is not a “protected class”, “race” is.

(This gets confusing because there is a related concept in Constitutional anti-discrimination jurisprudence of a suspect class, in which “class” does mean “group"; blacks are a suspect class—a group historically subject to discrimination, such that government actions which discriminate against them are subject to strict scrutiny—and whites are not, but both blacks and whites are protected by employment anti-discrimination law because race is a protected class.)

[0] There's a wrinkle in that “age over 40” is an asymetric “protected class” in employment anti-discrimination law.
Which interestingly is a problem IPFS would solve, right? But IPFS potentially introduces other drawbacks.

It would be cool to able to build dual-distribution applications, where publicly available assets and content blobs (e.g. app.js) could be distributed in an immutable, cache-able manner, and server interactions and private assets could still be handled in a more traditional client/server way.

Perhaps then we might even be able to realize the original intent of including dependencies from a CDN, being able to share a cached version of React across websites.

(I'm not and IPFS advocate or detractor)
C. S. Lewis writes along similar lines in The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters, two very different books, but both of which of I'd credit as changing my life. The common theme in both is that to be damned is not to sin greatly, but to become comfortable with the abandonment of good.
I've never seen anything like that, nor have my dev and DevOps buddies, ever seen anything like what you just suggested.

Dismantle infra eng and make devs do everything? I support that, for one reason: a year from now I can charge consulting dollars when I come to fix these unstable, poorly documented, environments with minimal automation and HA.
Thanks for the link - well written and thoughtful and full of truth. And I agree with the conclusions quite a bit.
A repo containing the /etc/os-release file from various Linux distros
Houses depreciate quickly and I don't know that land appreciates at a very high rate, so there isn't much to abuse in the first place. And because japan's zoning is not completely stupid, redevelopment can be done piecemeal. So if you buy to flip, either you flip very quickly for little to no gain or you don't and the neighbourhood gets redeveloped around and without caring about your property, which will likely be too small for anyone to be much bothered. The exceptions could likely be significant plot of lands like old temple grounds and the like which could sustain an entire development on its own.
I thought this was the point of EV certs.
"Not full" is not identical to empty. Busy, but not totally full, is the best of all worlds to the proprietor.
Eva's Cafe is one of the quietest cafes in Chicago. People talk in whispers there.

There are also a bunch of new cafes that are books oriented like Kibbitznest and Bibliophile (near the University of Chicago).
Maybe they're willing to hire in depth for those particular positions?
All of that loading time to show a site that has an index page and a single item page, poorly designed/styled. lolz.
I remember growing up not wanting to go out to eat with my parents. They liked this certain cafeteria style restaurant where you'd grab a tray and slide it along picking out your dishes and paying at the end. I hated that place not because of the food, I could always find something to eat, but because it was so quiet I could hear the people around me eating. It was so disgusting.
Link to discussion on Bruce Schneier's blog: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/propaganda_an...
Not a Security Boundary: Breaking Forest Trusts
When I first started using Linux, I was annoyed that I couldn't customize my Corsair keyboard lights and layout, so I swapped it for a Poker II that lets you do everything directly on the board through keypresses and store settings onboard. So much better.
So wait, there are places where there are houses being given away (e.g. US, Japan and Italy as far as I know) and I'm a person that has the ability to work remotely.

Am I missing something? Is this my ticket to cheap housing and a more stress free life? At what point am I going to be scammed and/or disappointed?
What if the key leaked before you have thrown it away?
Yes. I think that's what I'm saying and I also think that it is great that coffee shops are popping up to solve the job to be done of providing me with an affordable space to work at the cost of a few cups of coffee.

One thing I've noticed about a lot of coffee shops is that they have a big morning rush and a big lull during the day. Even Starbucks has a bunch of offers incentivizing you to come back for 'happy hour'. I imagine they are trying to spread out traffic throughout the day. It seems like offering a nice place to work during the day, might actually be more optimal than discouraging longer stays. Maybe Starbucks could just turn down their music between 10-4 and offer promotions to co-workers.
New Report Explores Science of Interventions to Save Coral Reefs
Math and Analogies
Linking to a user's previous comment on this very website is "bringing in extraneous personal details"? I don't see how the fact that someone works at Amazon, when talking about Amazon products, is extraneous. It is very relevant to the discussion.

Prior to my edit, the user posted a comment claiming that they didn't work there, which was a lie, and yet they were deceptively still promoting Amazon products. That fits the very definition of astroturfing.

Believe me, I don't want to discourage good, informative comments either, and I tried to be polite when calling the user out, but this was a pretty clear cut case of astroturfing. Even if not having nefarious intent, it's still contributing to HN being a big billboard ad for AWS.
DynamoDB has a simpler key/value data model like BigTable. Cloud Datastore is a document-store with a richer data model (built on top of BigTable, or at least it was until the latest version with Firestore).
Even if AWS goes the cynical route of making Textract be an upsell to MTurk -- e.g. the Textract output is not reliable enough on its own, but structured for easy piping to a MTurk job -- that's got to be useful for the many folks who send entire pages to MTurk when they just need a couple boxes proofread.

As an example of a more scripted/structured job, ProPublica built out a crowdsourcing framework in Rails to extract data from FCC filings. But even that was quite difficult, because every state/TV station has its own kind of form: https://projects.propublica.org/free-the-files/
In short no.

a.com does not match b.a.com

Only if the certificate is *.a.com does it match b.a.com

b.a.com can have its own certificate.
I still love my Dreamcast despite the fact that it's almost old enough to drink. Phantasy Star Online is still one of my most favorite games ever made, and the amount of oddball games such as Toy Commander are second to none. Sadly, the disc reader seems to be going, as it makes distressing noises when loading.
The typical differences between one implementation and another is:

Both implementations might work for the original use-case in the happy-path case. However as soon as the first unexpected error occurs, the bad implementation might break down. It might be a lot bigger in size than the better one and contain a lot of duplication. And it might not be extensible or maintainable, and have not (regression) tests. And of course the time it took to produce the codebases might have been very different.

Those are typical differences one sees between code that had been written at more professional software shops, and code that had been written elsewhere (e.g. by electrical engineers, students, non-engineers, etc.). However I have no idea how things look like at Google or Infosys, so I can't speak for those.
Interim support guarantee for FreeBSD 12
Pwning eBay – How I Dumped eBay Japan's Website Source Code
"you should know that iPhones won’t be able to make calls or text over Wi-Fi, use visual voicemail, or be used as data hotspots outside the US at all"

That's worse than a standard T-Mobile plan, which I'm currently on. I don't see any reason to switch.

Unrelatedly, The Verge's link to the iOS app goes through something called "go.redirectingat.com", which fails because it's on my tracking server blacklist. Seems pretty sketch.
Why wouldn't you put it all in one spot? The technical requirement of needing an audit table is ubiquitous and I bet almost every SQL database in history eventually ends up having a history table of some sort. This technical requirement is unrelated to any regulatory requirements about (not) storing data in the cloud, and certainly shouldn't be coupled to it.
Where are houses being given away in the US?

I imagine that you need to be a Japanese citizen to get a free house.
As someone who's had used iTunes on Windows, many, many years ago (And MacOS9 before that), Apple software 'quality' is a special circle of hell.
QLDB = Quantum Ledger Database

Seeing 'quantum' in that acronym is so cringeworthy. I'd prefer Immutable Ledger Database, or a word that shares more with the technology than media hyperbole.
I think that is changing as standards have improved and houses are more able to cope with earthquakes.
Yes, you're missing that foreigners are not the target of these deals. Also it's not terribly complicated to get a visa to come here: you basically need at least a bachelor degree and to find a job. Given how the job market is starving for employees, it is not really hard. I know a half-dozen people of my country and my age that did it.
Where can I find the full list of products being released during AWS re:Invent? I haven't been able to find it, if there is such thing.
Those are pretty weak examples. There are some legitimate gripes you could have brought up, IMO. Things like the way a man can get treated (ostracized or worse) when he shows up at a playground with his young daughter. Or the way many women react in a situation when it's just the two of you that implies she is really afraid of you. It makes me pretty uncomfortable to be in those situations but nobody really cares. That's a legit gripe. At the same time, men do basically run the world at this point, even if individually many of us are not in any kind of powerful role.
I think they released a bunch of new stuff at their conference today or recently.
> I had heard that older Japanese were very 'allergic' to anything used or old

That seems to be an exception pertaining to houses and especially single-family units. Objects/items seem to be restored as much as elsewhere if not more (see e.g. kintsugi).

Although transience/impermanence is also part of japanese tradition / aesthetics.
I figured microdosing
How One Technology Professor Traded the Campus for the C-Suite
Is there a linter that can scan ECMAScript regex constants and disallow any that go beyond what is allowed in a regular language?
There are activists that think that more resources given to the police will be used by the police (a mechanism of oppression) to oppress minorities and underprivileged groups even more. This is not a fringe belief. Many people with these beliefs vote, are very active in social movements, organize protests, and steer the conversations around viral events. If people with these beliefs are leading a movement and having an impact, it is entirely reasonable to confront these beliefs and take them seriously.
Currently, designing and building blockchains.
While it is correct that this one particular comment of mine was inappropriately posted in anger at (perceived) dishonesty, please substantiate your statement that I have posted personal attacks "here and elsewhere".
Not immediately seeing any information on whether foreigners can acquire these houses, or if it's limited to citizens or permanent residents etc.
I’m curious how this performs on stock prices out of the box.
How does this compare to the other similar AI cloud services? I think Google and a few others have something similar.
Language Server Protocol (LSP) support for vim and neovim, featured as VSCode
Probably your best bet:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
The way scams are useful to the scammer.
This, this, this, this

Every business bureaucracy should be evaluated under this metric. "Are we making it harder for people to pay us? Are we making it harder for people to pay us more money?"

And no, never make it harder for customers to pay you less or to stop paying you. It's short term thinking; a customer who has a painful experience when they want to stopping paying you is a customer who will think twice about paying you again.
Hearing has evolved at least 20 times in insects
The rate at which the aws team is executing new ideas is phenomenal.
When's your ICO?
> Adjective - quantum

> Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum#Adjective

It makes perfect sense if you know what the word means.
>On an unrelated note, when people call Apple a monopoly because the only way that you can reach IOS users is via the App Store, I always say how is that different than the console makers[1]

It's not really different at all as business models go. In both cases, the value addition of the "shopkeeper" (i.e. Apple or the console maker) is to certify that the product meets certain quality and security standards. Functionally, they're staking their reputation on the apps you buy through them not bricking your device, exfiltrating your data, exposing you to content that is different from what was advertised, or helping you commit crimes. In the app store's case they're also doing some payment processing, customer service, subscription management, etc.

Where it becomes different is a matter of scale and use value. Game consoles are basically toys, so pernicious economic effects on the Playstation store doesn't impact peoples' ability to participate in society the same way those dynamics would on your phone.

>How are any of the other platform providers any different?

This is just the first lawsuit because it has the most direct parallels to existing caselaw. As this gets fleshed out people are going to come for the other digital services too.

Honestly we need to update our anti-trust laws to account for this sort of thing. Many of these functions should be regulated like public utilities rather than as services they way they are now. Vendor lock-in and prohibitive switching costs create lots of room for fleecing customers and consumer protection laws should take that into account.
Great in my experience (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, UK, Canada, Thailand, South Korea). I found it to always be fast with no obvious throttling, and coverage is often better overseas than at home.
Yes, that really is bringing in extraneous personal details and it is a step into harassment. Most people's personal info is scattered over the internet, including on HN. If you go looking, you can dig things up on almost anyone. Bringing those back into a different context to get the upper hand in an argument is a breach of HN's rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I wouldn't call that comment astroturfing, either. HN has lots of employees who work for tech companies, and if they know about something, it's good for HN if they share the knowledge. The commenter was merely expressing a personal preference for one technology over another.
The first time I clicked on the link I got a 404. The second time it worked. I guess it's this indeterminacy which makes it quantum. /s
I wonder why they need soundproof rooms. I think that being able to concentrate and pay attention makes you immune to all other distractions (most of the time) being so into the game.
HR just leaves the same position open because it's not really a position, it's a category and they are too lazy to remove and add the same ad over and over.
I'm not sure if it would have been better on a supported phone, but in the past year I've had good coverage with an iPhone SE on Fi in New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
Amazon “Inferentia” ML inference chip
>Whites officially commit suicide more than blacks because blacks who are even slightly inclined to self-destruction find it all to easy to get into situations that produce death by means that won't officially be viewed as suicide.

We all know what you're implying but you're making that statistic up.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum#Adjective
I had few problems in Argentina and Uruguay (only countries I've been to since I got it, but been to several times). In the norhern part of Argentina (Iguazu) I had poor coverage where my girlfriend had (Argentinian service provider) great coverage. I think Fi was trying to decide if I was in Brazil or Argentina and that was messing me up. In Buenos Aires (where I spent most of my time), reception was good except for around some buildings (assuming line-of-sight issues). In Uruguay I never had any problems.

The only other issues were a lag between landing and service beginning. Took over half an hour on one trip, and over an hour on another. But this year I didn't have that lag, took maybe 5 minutes from when I turned on the phone after landing to it working.

Service speed was always good.

NB: I have a Nexus 5X. Some of the reception issues may have just been reception issues with that device compared to others, I don't know.
Generating classical music with LSTM neural networks
Amazon Wants You to Code the AI Brain for This Little Car