skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If I showed up to a hotel and they didn't have a room available, they would rebook me at a different hotel. "

Don't be so sure about that. I had a Marriott reservation but apparently they overbooked a whole bunch of us and tried to rebook us at Motel 8 without refunding any of our money. Luckily I had booked through Priceline.com and called their support and they rebooked us at the nearest hotel that's comparable to or better than Marriott, which ended up being a five start boutique hotel. I've been pretty loyal to Priceline every since.
That's easy to say in general.

However, in the case of mitigation of a Denial of Service attack, using IP blocking is an effective temporary measure.

From my experience in dealing with HTTP DDoS-style attacks there's usually a pretty consistent block of IP addresses where the attack originates from, i.e. an AWS or Hetzner IP range. When the choices are to block IPs temporarily or have the entire service go down due to resource exhaustion, the choice is pretty clear cut.

We'd implement the block to keep our service up then report attacker IPs to AWS or whoever maintained the range in question. As the attack waned, we'd re-enable the range.

Of course, IP blocks usually did not work as well with udp-based reflection style DDoS mitigation, but we'd still see certain IP ranges responsible for significant portion of the attack.

We ran our own hardware though, so resources like CPU and inbound bandwidth weren't elastic enough to outpace an escalating DDoS past 120-140 Gbps. We also eventually moved to adding DDoS mitigation through third parties like CloudFlare.
Roku reneges on offering Alex Jones' InfoWars channel, removes it amid backlash
Possibly! We didn't consider databases because this logic is implemented in agents injected in our users' applications. On top of limiting what we had access to, it also put a lot of pressure on us to minimise our CPU & memory overhead.

Because of that, we believed using a database (even in-memory) would have resulted in an unacceptable overhead.
Thanks for the explanations, that makes a lot of sense. Is the memory footprint a concern for individual customers, or is this more about reducing the overall footprint across your combined customers?
thats because teles are too easy to mod
Dstl Satellite Imagery Feature Detection – Kaggle
Doesn't Red Hat have a huge financial stake in MongoDB? Seems weird to do this if that's the case.
Well, proper news sources should be something like regulated public "utilities" (assuming sane democratic/journalistic standards).

It's the same for me with tagesschau.de and Deutschlandfunk.
How does that follow? Why would there be?
This is understandable, however there are many projects you can join that got to the point where they can afford paying you by taking a few shortcuts. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants and these giants have been standing there for a while - they are anything but clean but they are standing tall.
What a dumb response. Airbnb isn't going to do something it's not required to. Suggesting that they have a moral responsibility to enforce the law on hosts is silly. If you want them to build a system that assists law enforcement, pass legislation that requires they do.
It's a filtering mechanism and also 2+ founders working for a company below market wages is more valuable than 1 founder working for below market wages.
Concerns:

1) People will realize they can work less and still get paid the same. This results in less work than we require getting done.

2) We will still need welfare because some people will spend all of their UBI on non-food items. They will also spend their children's allocation OR trick their children into spending their allocation on non-food items. The option will be to either let children go hungry or create a welfare system that provides only food.

3) It turns out that some people will get bored without jobs and decide that the meaning to their lives is to cause trouble for society at large. Without the need to get up for work they can now stay up until 4am every day finding ways to make life miserable for people who actually do the work that the rest of us rely on. At this point society gets schismed into those who do work and those that don't.

4) In the long term people decide that they don't need education, the ability to socialize with anyone, or the need to participate on any level in a positive fashion towards civilization. We'll have generations of people who only know how to go to the food silos.

5) Maybe there's some problems with actually paying for everything.
I meant basic GUI apps written in the last few years.
I read it as "she will become attracted to him because of this signaling".
A really good article! The telecoms world is fascinating, it's a whole separate parallel stack that doesn't get talked about anything like as much as the web world.

One section caught my eye, and I wanted to add some detail:

>In order to efficiently send and receive signals, antennas should be no smaller than half the size of the radio waves they’re dealing with. If cell waves are 6 to 14 inches, their antennas need to be 3-7 inches. Now stop and think about the average height of a mobile phone, and why they never seem to get much smaller.

A common neat trick is to take advantage of the fact that this is only true in air, and the wavelength depends on the material around the antenna. Some modern antennas (especially common in GPS and Bluetooth) are built as a metal foil around a ceramic element, which has a much shorter wavelength and allows them to be shrunk[1].

You can also "fold" the antenna a bit, and hence get away with a quarter wavelength in return for reduced performance in other areas. A common example in phones is the Inverted F antenna [2].

Finally, a large "invisible" component of many antennas is the size of the ground plane attached. Shrinking this can affect antenna performance a lot. Generally, this is an internal copper layer of the PCB that is used by other components too, but it's important to realise its an important part of the RF performance. Therefore, you can't judge how good an antenna is from the visible size of it alone, the form of the whole device matters.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/245245

[2]
http://www.antenna-theory.com/antennas/aperture/ifa.php
Dyson users probably disproportionally have second homes, holiday homes, etc.. You're more likely to recommend to a friend of you see a deal "hey, I bought this awesome vacuum, you should get one, I saw a deal" ...

It's not as silly as it seems.

I buy repeat items as gifts (I like this, X will like this), or for my parents (home stuff), or when I bought something for one child I know and it turned out to be well made and now another child needs/wants one; or tech stuff that turned out well when someone else needs the same repair (eg new HDD).
> I’ve heard bad things about dell quality.

The thing I'd say about Dell is that they're like Ikea in that they produce a wide variety of products at a wide variety of price points. High end Dells (XPS, Precision) IME have good to excellent quality. Lower end dells (inspiron) have mediocre quality as pretty good prices. If you're paying very little for a dell, don't expect it to last. If you're paying a lot for your Dell, it _will_ last. I'm still using a 10yo precision tower and everything about it is great.

13" dell xps w/ Ubuntu would be on the list of Dells that I would trust to be of high quality.
This is nice, but I'd like a 201-level handholding on git. I've been using it for 5 years and I'm still just a clone/commit/merge/(bang head)/push user yet I know there is tons more it can do that would probably make me more effective. (I'd also like to switch my team of SVN. Someday....)
The whole thing was prone to overheating IIRC, which shortened its life. Being completely encased in resin probably didn't help the heat dissipation.
Why would I want the access tokens to be revoked if I change my password, unless I revoke the token it should be valid.
Richard Feynman. You could pretend to ask him questions and play sound bites of his interviews/lectures :)
Mine? From exposure (to TV).
Do you have a case where Airbnb is being charged with doing that?
I would have thought https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh would be the most famous issue in many people's memories of poor (read: absent) PRNG use. ;)
Kevin Adler of Miracle Messages. They reunite long lost homeless people with their families. I'm sure Kevin would be happy to do your podcast.

https://miraclemessages.org/
yeah, I know what VSAN is. It's you who does not if you think you run VSAN on top of a SAN-connected cluster. Yes, the disk is internal to the array. A server can see a hundred arrays on the same HBAs. It doesn't care what array the storage comes from. I am positive at this point you know nothing about what a SAN is.

What "box" - the 42U Rack? I don't think so. The rack is always free. You then have DAs connected to the disk, and FAs connected to the SAN, which are on a pair of directors. You literally cannot get those w/o disk.

You don't know what a SAN is, you've never seen an itemized quote for an array. Thanks for your link. It's like sending a hooked on phonics link to an English professor. Cute. Keep it cute! People like you are the reason people like me get paid a lot.
Maybe, but there are plenty of people in terrible financial situations that would be seeking for anyway out of it. Maxed credit cards and nothing to fall back on, etc..

Considering there are at least a million people in this situation any one of them could have accepted a remote interview.
I assume the IPs are only blocked after a known attack and not indefinitely, not based on blocklists from third parties or indefinitely (think spamhaus, which is rather beneficial to a few big players). Of course banning users without JS and using Google's CAPTCHAs is a big pain in the ass, but if someone requests my /phpmyadmin/setup.php out of the blue (never saw the IP before, not a known person who is just curious about my site), I think it's fair game to block the IP. I don't because I'd much rather know what other attacks they are using, but I do not think it's unethical to do so, given of course temporarily and locality.
It's also bad news because the government is going to see long term problems borrowing money, costing the tax payers more to pay back interest on loans for worthwhile projects.

I'm glad fewer people are falling for this since it tends to be lower income individuals who would be better served holding onto their money, but this feels like a net Bad to me.
It's not necessarily Google but the advertisers using the platform and how the ad is configured. Google itself addresses these kinds of ambiguities all the time but if the user puts coarse configuration on it, then it will do what the user told it to do like show French ads to non-French speakers who just visited the country.
This is a 'brave' answer...
When you write software at any level on top of the OS the number of possible causes for bugs starts out at unmanageable. If you allow for unreliable hardware, the possible cause count rises to unthinkable. As a result, I prefer to pretend that hardware doesn't exist when at all possible.

I used to work in firmware, and spending hours chasing down a software bug only to find that it was a hardware issue, and vice versa is a maddening process.
How is this relevant to Purdue Pharma's fraud?
And yet many services rely on SSN for identity verification in the US (e.g. banks, telecoms, etc.)
Astranis (YC W16) lands anchor customer for its first small GEO satellite
What risk is Airbnb taking on? It seems like almost all of the risk is on the tenants and landlords.
Airbnb isn't doing anything illegal, the hosts are. If New York wants to put forward legislation that obligates Airbnb to develop a system for tracking that, great. But they aren't going to do it unless they have to.
My wife and I have done a lot of traveling over the last 5 years and usually stayed at an AirBnB. We used to have nothing but good experiences but the quality has become so inconsistent that we switched back to hotels. AirBnb is now no longer cheaper than a mid-budget hotel, and if anything goes wrong at a hotel, you can dial the front desk and get the problem resolved immediately. Plus check-in is easy and comfortable and you can often get other perks like breakfast or a gym.

The last straw was a bug infested cottage in Key West. The owner wasn't responsive for hours, and finally "dealt" with the issue by giving us a vacuum and telling us that's what he uses to get rid of them.
Why is that hard to believe? When I first started my tech career I was in a similar boat trying to go to interviews with no money in my pocket.
I've been following this rather closely as a company who provides backend services (so we're classified as a 3rd party service)to studios in the industry, many of whom use Unity. I'm rather surprised by this about-face, especially considering Unity had the upper hand in negotiations with Improbable. Pleasant surprise, and a much needed one in the games industry where locked-down tech is often the norm.
Quick feedback: I got a little confused on the Github readme because the gif shows a video record of the phone. The physical reflections on the glass of the phone seem to be masking the virtual reflections on the credit card image!

Once I went to demo website on my mobile phone everything made perfect sense!

Maybe the gif should be an actual screenvideo?
But objects in OCaml are structurally typed (well, row typed).
My high school physics teacher. She taught me the importance of being a good human being. And that being kind and empathetic to others is the best thing a person can do. That honesty and integrity are more important than winning. And she also taught me elementary physics.
Delightful article! Thank you!
Does the MondoDB license run afoul of that?

My limited understanding is that the problematic part of the new MondoDB license is a clause that says that if you offer MongoDB as a service, you have to make source for it and all software involved in that offering (such as control panels, management interfaces, and so on) available for download.

That doesn't sound like it would be incompatible with section 9 of the OSD, as section 9 covers software whose distribution imposes restrictions on other software. MondoDB's license is imposing a condition based on usage, not distribution, of MongoDB.

If MongoDB's license does not satisfy the OSD, I think it is probably section 6 that it conflicts with:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
I think it's per-state, but in Texas at least, it's illegal to do profit sharing with non lawyers. It is also illegal for a non lawyer to have majority or controlling ownership of a firm. I know because both my SO and my mother are best in class legal secretaries and we were investigating opening our own firm without the asshole lawyers taking all the money for 1/4th the work.
petty things such as avoid paying the cleaning staff any sort of decent wages or benefits.”

It’s pathological. WeWork, Google, Facebook and all the rest don’t need to shaft their cleaners, catering staff, security guards etc. The cost is a rounding error and it’s directly antithetical to their stated brand values. But they just can’t help themselves.
This+Is+Your+Office+on+AI:+UiPath’s+RPA+|+Nvidia+Blog
Just waiting for Elon Musk to tweet a dig on the SEC about this
Or a text/email once a month with a basic overview. Constant notifications don't help anyone
Maybe you could write the African version of "Crazy Rich Asians"?
Nice to see /r/entrepreneur get linked here. If you can get past the wantrepreneur BUY MY EBOOK spam bullshit there's a lot of good information in that sub.

I especially like the more location-sensitive, small business posts like this one. I like to think that someone can provide good advice and someone else from a totally different region can apply that knowledge in their own community, which is a net gain for that local economy.

r/EntrepreneurRideAlong used to be another one, with a specific focus on starting a cleaning service in 27 days.
The easiest way to get "brand reinforcement" is to deliver a good product. I will remember them. Right now it seems they want to get "brand reinforcement" through constant nagging which already causes me to dislike the brand.
FBI Arrests a Cyberstalker After Shady “No-Logs” VPN Provider Shared User Logs
No, just that it isn't going to be removing amyloid plaques. For the plaques to build up the neurons are clearly malfunctioning for some reason. Beyond that, who knows?
>Most people probably won't do nothing because that's boring.

I'm really not worried about the people who decide to do nothing (at least not in the first generation of UBI). I'm worried about the people who realize that now they can dress up as clowns and terrorize random people as a full time job because the food is coming regardless of what they do.
I love the keyboard, and I've had to repeatedly blow mine out with air to unstick keys. So, I get why people are mad (low reliability), but I'm definitely happy with the actual feel of it.

Re: touch bar, I suppose it really depends on what apps people use. Finder, Calendar.app, Mail.app, iTunes all work really nicely with the touchbar. It provides negative value to someone who isn't using an app that supports it unfortunately.
Anyone that is a net payer of taxes benefits from a tax cut.

> You will always find people who you can argue unfairly benefit from a redistribution scheme.

A redistribution scheme is inherently unfair.

> At least with subsidized housing the program is government administered so it can be accounted for when considering UBI.

Subsidized housing creates artificial housing demand, raising rents. Without subsidized housing, wages would need to raise in order for people to live in a given location or rents would need to fail. Failing rents make rental units less profitable, thus more people would be able to purchase homes and get out off the rent treadmill entirely.

Solving the affordable housing problem cannot be achieved by subsidizing low wages and high rents.
Ask HN: Can you suggest some projects to broaden my horizon?
I'm a systems level programmer and I also do some web programming. I was fascinated by emulators so I built one and learned a bit about how computers work. Any such other projects?

Maybe functional programming could be a good one. I've been fascinated with software cracking as well.
Ask HN: Degoogling – Google Voice alternative?
I'm considering leaving behind my google account, to be surveilled no more (or, more realistically, to be surveilled significantly less).

GMail is pretty easy to replace with another email service.

But I wonder if anyone can recommend a suitable replacement for Google Voice. Importantly, I am willing to pay a monthly bill in US Dollars, but I'm not a business, just a household with two adults, so it shouldn't cost much.

Some requirements:

- I want to make and receive calls over the internet on both my smartphone and from my desktop.

- I want voicemails, when I miss a call, to be delivered to my email. Ideally both as an audio file and with a transcription, but I could live with just the audio.

- It's ok if I can only make calls within the US.

- I want to port in my existing number which is now my google voice number

- I want to be able to port my number out again.
I've worked on recommenders for a big brick & mortar with significant e-commerce.

Our team's recommender algorithms were marginally effective. Despite having significant data on our customers.

The new new thing is "personalization". We'll see if that helps.

If I had to guess, broadcast and individual targeting both (can) work, but the middle ground is fool's gold.

IMHO, I'd like to see renewed emphasis on improving search, browse, foraging. I generally know what I want, but still struggle to find it.
The insinuation is, as his high-roller life elevates his social status, he becomes very attractive to her.
Bullshit jobs problem is entirely caused by labour being too cheap in turn caused by the only now industrializing third world. Same with poor working conditions.

If the corporations had to pay the full cost of employing people without the option to subsidize it witch cheap Chinese labour, they would long had to get rid of most bullshit jobs (some inefficiency is of course unavoidable) and make work much better organized.
I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. There are a lot of tweaked and lightly modernised Teles on the market, but Fender will happily sell you a period-correct Tele, design flaws and all. When does a Tele cease to be a Tele? If it has a compensated three-saddle bridge? If it has a six-saddle bridge? If it has a truss rod that actually works? If it has a humbucker in the neck? I dunno.

Given how hugely inconsistent the early Teles were, it's hard to definitively say what a "real" Tele ought to be like. The Blackguard necks were all shaped by hand, with the only commonality being a thickness at the 12th fret of about 1". There are a huge range of profiles, thicknesses and fingerboard radii on vintage Teles. They used whatever body woods were cheap - ash, alder, poplar and pine, often switching woods within the same year. The Tele has always been a crude, cheap working man's guitar, so I see no sense in being a purist about what is fundamentally a mongrel.
Ah, that's not how the EU works when it comes to trade.
You're in or you're out.

Non-EU countries make trade deals with the EU who is collectively acting on their member states behalf.

There will _NEVER_ be a "side" trade deal between Britain and an EU member state directly.

Don't feel too bad about not knowing this. The original Minister for Brexit David Davis (& embarrassingly enough a former Europe minister) also didn't know this.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/minister-for-...

> However one of the main basic features of the European Union is that EU countries cannot negotiate individual trade deals without side countries and instead do so as a bloc of 28.
it feels like FB would already have this data - perhaps an external entity will crawl the hashtag?
His brother is a billionaire also I believe (not as rich as Elon but still that’s a nice safety net to have).
A number of CS publications (or non-CS publications with custom software) don't include the source/enough exact parameters/... to reproduce their results.
... because none of the power users used them.
Are most of the images failing to load for anyone else? It's a delightful post, but so much of it refers to the images that I feel like I'm missing a lot
Many can agree that society needs to change. The important questions are how does it need to change, and what is a viable path of creating such change? Politically, we can't do something that would lower our quality of life en masse, which limits our options with regards to this issue.