skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protect your hearing before it's too late. We often think that the worse that will happen is that you'll lose a bit of hearing and be hard of hearing when you get older. If that's all you get, consider yourself lucky.

What could happen to you is that your hearing apparatus gets damaged to the point of getting permanent severe tinnitus and hyperacusis. These are not mild conditions - they are life changing conditions that bring people to the brink of suicide.

To give you an idea of how serious it is, it is just second to Chronic Pain in terms of suicide ideation in the population, and higher than Parkinsons', Insomnia, and advanced cancer. See https://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2016/070...

Tinnitus has no cure and no viable treatment other than mind-related techniques to help you cope: there is no way to lessen the symptoms. It is a terrible predicament to be put in, and if you are unlucky enough to suffer from a severe version of it, it can easily take away your ability to think, socialize, and sometimes perform basic tasks.

Unfortunately, protecting your hearing isn't sufficient to dodge tinnitus & hyperacusis: there are other ways that can lead to it, such as ototoxic medications, ear infections or other ear conditions such as otosclerosis, cholesteatoma, etc. Still, it's your best line of defense, as one of the biggest causes for Tinnitus is noise induced hearing loss. Please take it seriously.
They can't make the argument that the bank employee had no legal right to grant NPM a license as the bank owns the copyright and not the employee?
https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=parti...
I just read the App Annie 2019 app report this morning, and the 3 most used apps in Singapore in 2018 were Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook. Though I didn't check for US stats I'm sure they are similar. That is effectively a monopoly.
My thoughts on this aren't really about Elon or media coverage, though I think all sides have valid points. My thoughts are that Tesla lowering prices overall was a bit strange to begin with. Not many were calling for a price reduction in model s and x. Everyone wanted the 35k model 3 because that was what was promised. So by lowering the prices of all 3, they had to close stores. Bad move IMO. Relying on online sales is putting faith in a change in consumer behavior. When i buy a new car, sure I look for the car online first but I NEVER buy a car without a full physical inspection. That would be bananas in my world. So keeping stores open is smart. Keeping the savings for just model 3 is smart. Increasing the prices of s and x back up to what they were is smart. Reversing recent decisions makes me nervous but at least I get why they're doing it.

On a second note, from friends of mine who work there I hear that this kind of 'change of heart' manuevering is common from top to bottom. They'll be working on a project and then a decision will be made, often without warning and often because it's what manager think Elon wants, and they'll spend hours in overtime transitioning to the new regime. In one case I was told about, they refactored their codebase to a different language in a week and a half only to be told to refractor to yet another language half way through. They are always stressed that whatever they're working on is going to be scrapped at any moment. Not sure if anyone else has had this experience where they work but i have not.
True, but all of these small-business/relatable analogies break down because fb is a monopoly. It would be unreasonable if a polite disagreement with one person excluded you from 90% of bars in your state/country.
Great point. For all their talk about attempting to shatter echo chambers, people with this agenda seem to love upvoting stories that agree with them and downvoting ones that don't.

Science is absolutely on the side of journals like Nature, and pays barely any notice to valueless rags like Quillette.
I suspect the price of the car will determine market share going forward.

For example, the leaf had a lower price for a long time and sold 400,000 cars.
> This is clearly a niche for PHEVs or BEVs.

(And yes it would, and that's great!)
China may use facial recognition to stop kids from live streaming
It's not about what they claim to be, it's about the legal provisions that may or may not protect them. I'm not sure of all the details, which wouldn't fit in an HN post anyhow, but the short version is that if they are picking and choosing what can appear on their platform, they're also liable for it. Facebook, among other companies, want to both be able to pick and choose what appears on their platform and to enjoy the legal protections that come from not picking and choosing, but the days of that arrangement working for them are clearly numbered. And in the case of Facebook, they're clearly going to go for choosing what can appear on their platform, so it's only a matter of time before they get sued about it.
I really liked the animation! Could you share the other visualizations you were considering somewhere?
I think you could say the same thing about GMail. It looks and works the same way as it did 15 years ago. At times, less is more and feature creep ends up being like Microsoft Outlook - bloated, slow and frustrating to use.

I don't love my set of spoons like I love Dropbox, Digital Ocean, Eames Lounge Chair, Sublime Text/Merge and Teenage Engineering synthesizers. There are a handful of companies that give you immense pleasure in using their products daily.
In defense of transactional replication as an HA technology
Market concentration causes huge problems - outsized lobbying power, increased wealth concentration, potential for judicial abuse, unbalanced power dynamics (e.g. between youtube and it's content creators, or Amazon and its sellers) and so on.
Huh. That's kinda surprising, since MP4 containers are really just a standardized extension of QuickTime.

IIRC, it reads like they took the QuickTime spec, did a find-and-replace to change the word "atom" to "box," then added a couple of MPEG-specific enhancements.
Sure, they have competitors. But there are no close equivalents with substantial market power.
I think it's a intellectually dishonest to try draw a parallel between a local store that has a reach of hundreds (maybe thousands), and a platform that reaches and influences the world-changing (or at least country-changing) decisions of over a billion people.

From a strict business perspective, of course you're right: an independent business that offers a subscription product should be allowed to terminate ongoing uses of that product that it doesn't like.

But from a social and political perspective, FB censoring ads like this makes them look very, very bad, and basically proves the point that they have way too much control over what news and information reaches a troublingly-large number of people.
A statement from the whistleblower's attorney said Tesla had hired former members of Uber's intelligence team (that had been spying on drivers, regulators, and competitors a while back) and referenced a proposed settlement agreement for the wire tapping & corporate espionage charges that outlines the tactics (allegedly) used by Uber.[1]

It also mentions Tesla installed "specialized router equipment within its Nevada Gigafactory designed to capture employee cell phone communications and/or retrieve employee cell phone data."

Sounds like some sort of man in the middle attack? I didn't catch any similar references in the Uber document but its heavily redacted and the entirety of my knowledge in this area comes from Dinesh's criminal girlfriend so it's very possible I missed it.

[1]https://www.scribd.com/document/367287753/Uber-Jacobs-Letter...
That doesn't make it any less fun to find out /how/ they are Turing complete!
I wonder if that's due to the federal + state discounts ending moving lots of sales from jan/feb back to december.
Not really, no.

Encode quality has become a science:

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/dynamic-optimizer-a-perc...

For a deeper dive on FFmpeg options you can crib from the ‘scene’ community:

https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=tvx2642k16.nfo

Or grab Handbrake, pick some built-in device or streaming target, and see the tuned default CLI options.
In the context of medical records, as a patient, id like to be able to download and transport my records without an office needing to pull out paper and copy it for me.
Admittedly, most of our focus (on the crypto end) has been on simplifying the key provisioning/management process, establishing secure sockets, and signing and verifying data. Our protocol does allow for storing a source ID and additional data with encrypted message data as a single serialized set of binary data to be written to disk or database. When this data is deserialized we can use the source ID to locate the key and then recover the original data with the AD and encrypted data.

Underneath, calls would be made to the open source crypto lib yielding, for example, data encrypted via ChaCha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 MAC authentication.

Also, our platform generates a provisioning configuration that tells the device to generate a dedicated set of keys for the purpose of encrypting data at rest. Those keys would not be used for any other signing or socket security operations. In general, if the target hardware can support it, we create dedicated keys for each type of data security operation (read multiple RPCs sending different types of data like log data, command-control data, images). We think this is especially important for encrypting data with LTKs since there have been cases where encrypting with a secret key has resulted in secret key leakage.
In California, under the new funding formula, all property taxes collected for public education is redistributed based on certain metrics.

For example..if there are more children on free meals, that school gets more funds from Sacramento. If there are more students whose parents are non English speaking immigrants, the school gets a bigger share of the funds for extra teachers etc.

For example: Fremont in the Bay Area who has a higher income and educated demographic spends around $9000/student while Oakland which has a lower income demographic spends 14k/student.

So good Area = higher property taxes = good public schools is no longer valid. Good schools are in regions where affluent parents are able to send their kids to private tutoring classes. The schools have crumbling infrastructure because 85% of their school budgets go to wages and salaries.

It’s not really simple as it seems. CA is more complicated and we are one of the highest taxes in the state anyways.

Most of CA’s woes would be alleviated if we had a good public transport system. Not like the high speed rail system but even public
Infra and inter city fast public transport improvements.

We are not connected enough. The taxes are not being efficiently used for the benefit of the entire state. High Tax payers often get the least benefit. I think there is some societal responsibility for the wealthy to bear the needs of the weaker sections , but it’s veered a little too far to the left especially since it’s about virtue signaling now rather than accountability. I think the public would trust the govt if there were more transparency and accountability. My 2c.
It takes a lot of experience and discipline to apply the right amount of leverage to the problem
Google paid former exec accused of harassment $35M in exit package
Hello Uber and Lyft!
It supposedly was the tradition at Intel to, on finding a unlocked desktop, to fire up Outlook and send a message just reading "I love you" to the person's manager.

I don't know if this really happened.
I do notice small businesses using Facebook in lieu of a website - I find myself having to check Facebook to find today's specials menu at the two cafes I normally buy lunch from...
Hot take, the future of open source is just massive companies sponsoring projects to get free dev hours.

You can try to fight it, but if Amazon wants your project they will either take the code or build a compatible API. There is no defense, IP rights only favour proprietary software.
It depends.

I have routines using vanilla javascript, believe it or not.

Model binding is a requirement only if you are going to deal with your model in javascript. Maybe to perform an ajax call or something alike. But I often simply do a form submit like in the old days.

In more complex routines I may use Angular.js (not Angular). But not as a single page application, bundling code, minifying it etc. I often get away with an angular.js application locally to the page which is going to use that script.

I won't lie, the codebase is ugly, inconsistent and unpredictable as hell and new developers, when arrive to the team, get immediately convinced that the architecture was planned by some amateur who don't know what he is doing.

They are probably right, but get familiar with the project really quickly and understand that there is order under that apparent surface of chaos.

I'm pretty sure this leads to more code having to be written, but it's code easier on the brain, easier to split in tasks to different developers and so on. We are not typists after all, experience shows that it's best to spend more fingers and less brains.

This is the best I could do so far to make a fairly inexperienced team deliver at a reasonable pace while dealing with users changing their minds at relativistic speeds.
Boeing and the FAA no doubt believe they are protecting shareholders by not grounding the fleet, but they're risking their reputation. If it turns out that Boeing is at fault, will the American media/industrial complex be able to keep a lid on it? I doubt it.
I realize our patent system is totally fucked up, but hopefully not so fucked up that things like "user authentication" can be patented.
FOSS devs have the same bills as anyone else.
How in the world is that enforceable, or legal?
Fox News' webpage looks like a tabloid...but there were 2 videos about the crash and Boeing's safety concerns on the front page when I checked a minute ago.

Notably, the most liberal news site, NBC News, has a story about the Boeing MAX being safe at the top of its home page.

So I think it's your imagination.
Man I didnt even realize F5 was still relevant...

I recall my first two F5 box purchases...

Tore it apart with the engineer installing it for us at Decide.com in ~1999 and each box was ~$35,000

After asking about and being shown what the box was, a low end machine with a custom linux distro with a custom LB logic that was complex... I was really turned off by their implementation....

Dont get me wrong, it was revolutionary as a product and what not - but from an engineer, I was kicking myself as to how much they could charge for the thing....

Now ELBs are "free" for same functionality in cloud...

So what is F5 doing - and Who is buying them, aside from governments? (I am not hating on them - trying to understand them)
It may get embedded tcl.
In our company access to public repos is blocked.

I was upset about it when it was introduced, but now I start to see the point...
Thanks! Fortunately I don’t have any Visa issues to deal with. Could have been a nightmare otherwise.

I put my notice in last week and they terminated me early today because they didn’t “have anything left for me to do” in the next few days, which I think is code for “I’m pissed you’re leaving so I’m going to make it look like I’m in control”.
Last year, 27 people were murdered in India due to shared WhatsApp messages. https://www.wired.com/story/how-whatsapp-fuels-fake-news-and... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/technology/wh...

Facebook is used as a platform to attack Rohingya muslims in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Over 600,000 have been forced to flee the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/asia/myanmar-govern...

Politicians have hired companies to mine Facebook data of millions of people for use in their campaigns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Foreign governments use social media accounts to spread disinformation and destabilize elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

.....But this whole "regulation" thing is clearly overblown. It's not like there are serious consequences to having multiple Big Brothers that not even the state controls. Right?
> they stock the store with a rotating selection of random crap that fell off the boat, baiting the impulse for an aspirational or just-in-case buy

I believe this is the key to their fanatical customer base. The random crap aisle means that when you go into the store there's a chance of an awesome deal on some random thing. This provides strong intermittent reinforcement which directly triggers the brain's reward mechanism, no different to loot drops in an MMO or payouts from a poker machine. People literally get addicted to Aldi's random-stuff aisle.

We've actually taken to referring to Aldi as "visiting the casino". :P
I see multiple headlines on Fox News about this crash. I think you're over thinking this.
It's different because Facebook isn't selling coffee, they're selling a "community platform" and publicly insist they support free speech. Warren is demonstrating not "this is a terrible coffee, contrary to the company's claims" but "this is a terrible platform for freedom of speech, contrary to the company's claims".

IF you believe representative democracy, though perhaps fatally flawed, is the best system of government we as humans can muster THEN demonstrating the forum for debate is flawed is more essential than roads and water.
Universal React with Suspense
They're not playing the hapless victim. They're doing exactly what the open source license was designed to do and support. They're forking it because they don't like the direction of the current mainters, and are releasing their own open sourced updates to it.

We've seen this happen repeatedly through many open source projects over the last couple of decades. Take the Jenkins/Hudson split, for example, or OpenWrt/LEDE, Node.js/IO.js, or to stretch even further back Mambo/Joomla.

The whole purpose of the open source license is to ensure that you are always able to patch, support, and maintain what you're running. That you're not stuck depending on a single company to keep your software running. That you're always able to add missing features as you see them, etc. (obviously, the license you choose dictates whether you have to provide those back).

By mixing up proprietary code with open source code Elastic betrayed those central ideals of open source, as have Nginx and any number of companies that have adopted this model. The reason why should be pretty obvious. By building the company model around premium modules, they have disincentivised themselves to fixing or enhancing the open source version of the software. Worse, they're not incentivised in any fashion to even accept patches that open source contributors provide that provide the missing features etc.

By way of example, there's a fix for a common issue in Nginx that has landed in their upstream commercial version of Nginx, that hasn't made it in to the open source version (at least last I saw it hadn't, and the fix had been in upstream for quite a while). Nginx ignores DNS TTLs, and can seriously trip you up unless you happen to know to use a particular combination of variables and statically configured DNS resolvers in nginx to make it DNS TTL for servers it proxies too. The company behind Nginx has had zero incentive to provide that in the open source version, or accept patches that fix that behaviour. That leaves people tripping over the same bug for years on end, until they discover, just like so many before them, those blog posts that detail the behaviour and how to save yourselves from it.

What each of these companies have done essentially makes actions like Amazon's actions here completely inevitable.
No, but it will have the ocean on top of it!
> Thank you for the extensive response. With that context, I would say "full control" should amount to the ability of a pilot to overrule systems that may send an aircraft nosediving due to faulty sensors.

Thanks for reading it :) . As you phrased it specifically, I can't disagree with you. But in these systems, the devil is in the details. For Boeing's MCAS, which is like an add-on piece of functionality to the core control system, it seems like an obvious piece which should have a manual override - and it does. The criticism, as I understand it based on Lion Air, is that the override functionality is not obvious and if you were previously a 737 pilot on non-Max variants, you might not know about this or have practiced its use.

However, consider safety systems such as Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System ("Auto GCAS") or Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System ("Auto ACAS"). These systems are designed as reactions to multiple known cases of human error that have resulted in otherwise under-control aircraft being flown into the ground or other aircraft. They are specifically designed to override a mistaken human. Technically, it's not impossible that pathological failures or spoofing could trigger these automated systems, which would wrest control away from pilots. Should such systems be overridable at all times?

Resolving these kinds of issues does involve some judgment and adopting a philosophy prior to the implementation. Airbus and Boeing, for example, have historically differed in their philosophies, each with reasonable rationale.

I personally favor the approach Boeing has historically used, with AF447 and QF32 illustrating some of the pitfalls of Airbus' approach. For example, as pointed out by ggreer in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355402 , being susceptible to common mode faults.

However, I still fly on either manufacturer's aircraft without hesitation.
meh, amazon sues over the patents and gets them tossed out then introduces a compatible API anyway.

You can't beat Amazon. You can't beat google. You can't beat Microsoft.
It's their founders personal account that blocks everyone and I am reasonable sure it's a personality trait.
Amazon patented 1 click checkout.
That's a better idea. Concrete has substantial CO2 cost.
>Aldi stores has tripled since the early 90s to nearly 2,000(SKU's), although that remains tiny compared to the 25,000 or more in a big supermarket.

This is why I shop at Aldi when possible. I'm willing to make small compromises on quality and overall selection for efficiency gains and less frustration. I don't want to navigate 25+ brands of canned tomatoes, disect manipulative pricing schemes (10 for $10* | * must buy 10, lesser quantities sold at $2.79/ea), subsidize add-on services I don't use like free in-store daycare or check cashing, walk to the deliberately deeply placed staple sections like produce, dairy, etc., calculate savings in expiring and unclear fuel rewards at on site gas station, or be forced to provide my private information for my purchases to be tracked and sold in order to be eligible for purchasing things at advertised prices.
Wow, that guy looks a lot like Mitt Romney.
Thanks for the work and for the update
It's open source meets the real world. We aren't all hippies who can sit around at MIT.
The world has changed, but not that much. People do have mailboxes, mailing addresses and receive letters at least once in a while. Again, they drive cars, use public transit, walk on streets, etc. The real life still here, far not everything has moved online. And even for that online part Facebook is not a monopoly.

Influential online company? Absolutely. Monopoly? No.
If someone is looking for a third opensource alternative to Elastic Search, I highly recommend http://vespa.ai
We migrated from ES, and it is truly next-gen compared to ES
You choose to put importance where you deem best. Some will risk a job to keep up with outside hobbies. Others will drop hobbies.

If you set your priorties you will usually get your most desired outcome.
This advice is about as useful as the also ever-present HN saying, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product”

In other words, entirely useless and just a derailment of the thread.