skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until it costs $1 millions for everyone, then the system breaks down. Every actor is trying to make as much as they can before the music stops.
Well after the embarrasment near the LoC when they sent Mig 21's against modern F16's/JF-17's they needed some positive press.
Perhaps the total volume is higher, but this doesn't lead to downwards price pressure since there are many small(ish) buyers.

The opposite is often said for the NHS in the UK - certainly a smaller buyer than the US aggregate, but maybe a larger player than any one of them?
I remember writing for a review site called Epinions back when I was a broke teen in the mid-2000s. They paid for reviews of products, with the monetization based on views of my page. I bought a $100 Sandisk MP3 player when the average price of an iPod was $250, and reviewed it. I made $50, but over the course of 2.5 years.

I think about that sometimes and still think it's a better ROI than posting anything on Medium.
> People don't have the tools or the time to understand all this stuff

Which is why we delegate that trust to experts. There are many such experts. Take your pick among your government, other governments, pharmaceutical companies, your doctor, anyone else’s doctor, immunologists, or any scientist with domain expertise. They all come to the same consensus.

What doesn’t make sense is distrusting all of them while trusting Internet numpties peddling supplements.
Code of conduct doesn't apply to national security issues.[1]

1. https://m.economictimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/i...
Hmm, I thought this pattern was really common? That is, appending everything to a file and reading back from the file when there's a reboot. I constantly use it when a database (or redis for that matter) is simply overkill for my use case.

Here's a 34 line implementation I use on a node production system. It writes struct-like JavaScript objects that represents events to disk. When reading it back I do a fold (or .reduce) to build the state.

And yes –– it could be way smarter (writing to memory and disk), but YAGNI has been working out pretty well so far.

class EventStore {
constructor(file) {
this.file = file;
this.cache = null;
}

async appendEvent(event) {
// Purge the cache for entries since we mutated the store.
this.cache = null;
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
createWriteStream(this.file, { flags: 'a' })
.on('error', reject)
.on('close', resolve)
.end(`${JSON.stringify(event)}\n`);
});
}

async readEvents() {
if (this.cache !== null) {
return this.cache;
}

try {
const data = await readFile(this.file, 'utf-8');
const lines = data.split('\n').filter(line => line);
const events = lines.map(line => JSON.parse(line));
this.cache = events;
return events;
} catch (error) {
return [];
}
}
}
Ask HN: If AWS used all its power, how fast could it decrypt 256bit encryption?
* No logging.

In a massive environment you would find that logging is almost needless and metrics take control. Then if you have an issue you take recording of events and replay on dev env instead of checking logs.
You need at least machine learning to fix the touchscreen centered restaurants absurdity
You cannot destroy money, the government literally adds money at any time (physical and electronically). Deleting 100k would be a drop in the bucket.

Often when the government creates new money it's given to the banks who loan it to the rest of us with interest...
I wonder if there's a sensible pattern for wrapping a segment in a context that accumulates log calls within until it errors or returns, then concats and dumps.
Lol spiritual successor to Avatar what the fuck are you talking about
He's the cofounder of Twitter and has a track record of getting traction with his products. I would imagine VCs care more about that than his public profile.
I'm a fan of Transferwise and recently opened a business account with them. It was a very easy process, even compared to other UK challengers like Starling (who aren't that great, really). They give you a SortCode and AccountNumber. I'm very interested: what is missing for Stripe/PayPal integration?
But Google sure does spend enough time trying to be in every aspect of your life. They want to be your search engine, and your phone, and your TV (you tube), and your music service, and your voice assistant, and your watch, and your calendar, and your email, and your office, and your car, etc. etc.
> [...] contracts never indicated their photos could exist anywhere but on the specific domain in the contract

I doubt many contracts are written for specific domain names. I expect most contracts allow for a publisher to use it in their publications without specifying exactly whether that publication is a website, magazine, publisher branded app, or an Apple News article.
"Pretty sure" how?

Google trends seems to indicate the opposite.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=turing%20award,tu...

But it's not about "well known" anyhow. It's about significance. A turing test winning chat bot would be a much bigger breakthrough then an incremental improvement in image and text classification.
i think in the end, this whole divide boils down to a divide in philosophy between free software and corporations that support “open source” but don’t want it free (as in gpl)

thereby we get the constant tension between google and hardware makers that want to keep their jewels secret, and the linux/foss community that wants to keep their freedom to install their (open) software on any device... by keeping the drivers in with the kernel, linux can foster that end, but it causes no end of frustration to google et al...

i think that’s probably the reason we get fuchsia: google can be open source, and with the hw makers, keep the proprietary parts proprietary... the result being, we have open kernel and os bits but no guarantee (or much hope at least) we could ever run it on our devices...

i think that’s the biggest cultural divide: freedom to change and replace the software vs freedom to look at the code (and maybe run it in an emulator...
What embarrassment? IAF uses what's present in their inventory and that includes MiG 21s.
I also immediately thought of that one. It has that rare combination of cutting insight and flawless comedic timing.
I would love for someone to write a Robert Caro [0] style book on the hidden history behind the cable and broadband oligopoly in the U.S that has endured to the detriment of the American people.

I've seen just enough to surmise that there must be some serious power players a la Robert Moses [1] working behind the scenes to fleece the federal purse while enacting protectionist laws at the federal, state, and local levels.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Caro
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111.The_Power_Broker?ac...
What Is Xargs?
You need a machine description of "element" - which turns out to be a lot harder than it sounds.
Buses are mentioned in the article.
In some (most?) states vaccines are already required for a child to attend public school. There are some religious and medical exemptions though.
I’m a big fan of Mongo for the use case you described - searching by ID and all information in one document.

But people don’t seem to understand that there are plenty of scenarios where you really either don’t know the schemes in advance and/or the “schema” is defined by an external source.

I worked for a company that sold software that allowed users to create forms that could be filled out either on the web or via a mobile app.

The user created the form and the schema and the indexes were created on the fly - one collection per type of form. What would an RDMS have bought us?
It may be difficult to believe but while there may be a lot of FE trolls, there are also a significant number of true believers.
As discussed in the article, some content management systems (like hosted WordPress.com instances) produce AMP variants of each published page. The author/rightsholder may not be aware of this and thus has neither expressly or implicitly agreed to anything of the sort.
> "you'll get news saying that on some days renewables became a significant part of the mix (for that day)"

Yes, there is significant day-to-day variance in renewables production. But renewables are a very significant and rapidly growing energy source in the UK, reaching 30% of total grid production in 2018, while both gas and coal are in decline.

In fact, just wind + solar has already exceeded the combined annual generation from the UK's entire nuclear fleet. And it's likely that in the next 1-2 years, wind alone will exceed nuclear production.

Daily variance is also declining over time as the wind turbine fleet becomes more geographically dispersed.

It's true that if the UK had never built gas power plants and still relied extensively on coal, then we'd be in a much worse situation. But if we had gone for gas alone, emissions would be far higher than with a gas+renewables mix. And energy security would be worse, leaving the UK vulnerable to fluctuating prices and potential gas shortages and supply interruptions as most natural gas is imported.

> "Those who shunned gas and nuclear and went all in with wind and solar are usually amongst the worst."

Well, we all know about Germany. The problem here is that not only are they relying on coal, but much of it is actually lignite (brown coal) - the dirtiest form of coal.

And much of the reason they are still so dependent on fossil fuels is not because of lack of renewables production, but because of transmission constraints between the north (where most of the wind production is) and the south (where the biggest demand centers are). This issue is being resolved over time.

You also seem to be ignoring countries like Denmark, Spain, and Portugal who have very successfully moved to wind and solar and now have very little dependence on coal.
Burgers, cheese, buttermilk fried chicken, and donut sticks. Sounds like cancer, obesity and diabetes galore. Why does anyone eat that stuff?
Yes, this is a monumental cock up, and yes people fucked up. But it's hardly the first time it happens. Perhaps instead of just blaming the users (and I have no problem with also blaming the users in this case) we should also look at the underlying systemic issues that keep causing this to happen.
Just like murder is the fault of the sword right?
This is occurring mainly because of an offline distribution in the Orthodox Jewish community[1], if this source is correct. Facebook has nothing to answer for when people are hand-distributing a pamphlet, and overworked doctors refuse to talk to mothers concerned about vaccines. Coming down hard on communities (via laws about what can be discussed online) can backfire, the cure is sometimes worse than the disease, and yes, people will die if you don’t crack down, but that’s the price of freedom of speech and association. Why are you blaming Facebook instead of Orthodox Judaism? Because they are an easier or bigger target? And what happens when the “do-gooders” get a taste of power and start cracking down on other talk they don’t like? Be careful wishing for the secular equivalent of blasphemy laws! The slippery slope may be a logical fallacy but it’s often a good rule of thumb for reasoning about hard topics. Proceed with caution.

http://gothamist.com/2019/03/26/orthodox_jewish_nurses_vacci...
> Administrative burden isn't academic, but it's not peculiar to AGPL, either.

I didn't mean to imply that. The AGPL however greatly expands the scope of folks to whom the burden applies. Some companies can basically just look for AGPL to exclude because they don't distribute anything.

Others (like us) must check everything.
Looking through the rest of the blog, it looks like the author worked at Amazon between 2014 and 2016.
The new EU copyright directive expressly excludes caching services from the new publishers' rights (the "link tax").
Yes, that's where I first heard of it. It's a great podcast and worth recommending!
This post isn’t about a single snapshot in time, this is about all of the people who didn’t evaluate MongoDB properly over the years and then were “burned” by it. I actually think it has received a bad rap due to people over the years not evaluating it properly. Sure, some of these things have changed (transactions very recently), but they all come with serious caveats and limitations that need to be explored... which was the main point of the article.
If you’re going to rip sick people off to pad your bottom line and reward your executives and shareholders, at least have the courage to be upfront about it.

It’s weird to say this, but maybe the world needs more Martin Shkreli’s. That way there’s no room to doubt the motivations of virtually all large drug companies (at least in the US).
YouTube Music Not Able to Play Local Music Files in Its Full Mode
Haven't read the full article yet, but I'd like to note that ~20 years ago a now-defunct company tried to put to market something similar.
The product name was, IMS, "Zaplets": the idea was to have html mails with Java applets embedded, so you could for example send an email with a "poll Zaplet" that would work more or less like a Doodle poll - restricted to the email receivers.
And if you were one of them, you could periodically open the original email again and see the dynamic zaplet content with all the changes that had been applied in the meantime.

(I used these a bit to coordinate small stuff in a project I was working on, mostly for the novelty value).

The company was soon acquired by some other bigger company, and the Zaplet concept was shelved for good.

See: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-new-kind-of-email/
"The game progressively gives you tips and messages on how to get better and do stuff"

Maybe rimworld figured out a tastful way to do that but, so far, every game I've seen it in only managed to ruin the experience.
this doesn't cover my use case at all - moving around city 90% with public transport (like everybody in europe), but 100% weekend trips of 50-200 km, often to neighboring countries with very limited to non-existent public transport.

So for us it allows us to travel to places that wouldn't be otherwise accessible at all. I mean remote mountain villages and valleys, hopping to Italy etc.

Of course cars have tons of issues, but sure as hell they add tons of life quality for many folks out there.
uBlock origin: needs new permission: Store unlimited amounts of client side data
This is where the caching exceptions in copyright laws comes into play. A service can automatically cache content passing through it and not be held liable. Caching is really broadly defined so just about anything can be considered caching.
The description available on the ACM website right now doesn't mention AI: "For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing." [0]

As it should be. The whole AI buzz misleads people into thinking we are close to solving things we actually are not. Like upload filters capable of differentiating fair use and copyright infringement.

[0]: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hinton_4791679.cfm
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Show HN: Dislack – Form creation for the modern maker
Is that a special deal you get through Shopify? It sounds less than normal fees?

We use iZettle now for in-person transactions in our shop instead of a traditional PoS card terminal. We're getting 1.75%, but they're cardholder-present, scanned+pin, transactions which are very low risk.

Barclaycard decided we suddenly needed to pay PCI DSS noncompliance fees (our only equipment being their mobile card machine - so no storage of details possible, no network involved, etc.). Cheaper this way, our only loss is no CNP.
If people think I can destroy citizens' voting power and their ability to think and make them endanger kids because of things people voluntarily share over Facebook, what do we say about how much we respect that vote and voter? And what are we saying about what we think Facebook's role should be in this, potentially as a guardian against our destructive and irresistible instincts?

People, both as individuals and communities, also need to have some responsibility over their own willpower, their own souls, their own minds, their own clarity, their own grasp, their own sense of reality. Or else how do we believe in the true heart of democracy -- the citizen and their worthy mind, a mind of ideas worthy of community negotiation and leadership?

Somewhere else people are condemning Google for not showing people the objective truth, and instead giving you what you want to search. Like it's Google's responsibility to regulate you against your own risk for delusion. If people think citizens are that weak then how do you trust the value of their intellect?

Are voters one Facebook network away from losing their trustworthiness as citizens in a democracy?
It's pretty common. All the wonderful proprietary file formats from the 90s (and probably before, and probably after) basically boil down to writing raw C structs to disk.

You can try it yourself... mmap a file, memcpy some structs there, do the reverse ... and enjoy!

(Obviously depending on the memory layout of one C compiler on one architecture does not make for portable files. But that was never a design goal of this system.)
They do. But they focus on the earliest stages of drug development, mostly involving proofs of concept. That doesn't solve the problem of actually getting the drug approved so that it can be used by patients - which is where the costs skyrocket.
Hi everyone, Sam here! I want to share a new product we just launched called Dislack. We're focused on making a more seamless way for people to create, collect, and manage form submissions.

Thank you in advance for taking time to read this we really appreciate it. We're early but have some cool things planned in the roadmap.
Slightly annoyingly, Insight Maker supports the core idea of stocks and flows but doesn't really use the stock-and-flow notation.
Money is created when debt is taken out. By repaying debt, the allowed maximum amount of loaned money (i.e. arbitrarily created money) is reduced. If all debts everywhere were repaid, all money would stop existing.

Therefore, if you give your money to people who use it to pay off their loans, you effectively do the same thing as having it "deleted". The other question, of course, is how to keep those people from taking on new debt now that they have some breathing room.
Then the author should pay attention.

If wordpress by default said on the footer "content licensed under CC", how would it be my fault if I reuse the content, just because the author didn't bother to change that?
Yes, actually it does. So does AU, US, and CA laws. Or, not expressly, but it does say a caching service must respect recognized industry standards for updating, removing, and excluding content from being cached. That covers HTML meta elements, HTTP caching headers, /robots.txt files, etc.
In that case, I would loose the tooling around Mongo for supporting JSON docs - especially the C# Mongo LINQ driver.
Indeed BNP Paris does that for the Pin number, so it's only numbers you have to type.

It has been there or a long time, so I kinda consider it a remnant of the old battle against keylogger, since the number position changes.
It does seem outdated now, and I'm unsure if it's still useful compared to all the other possible checks they could implement.
In a way, that is still shooting the messenger. Or the messengers car to be more exact.

Facebook just mirrors society at large. At least those parts, that would use it in such a way in the first place.

Unfortunately, I don't think moral obligations apply to our current economic system.
An iterative process makes it impossible to hold the line on safety, I think. In each cycle it'd get compromised a bit, given how both the producer's and the client's overriding concern is cost. Waterfall is the natural model for software that deals with regulated activities but the word has somehow become an epithet.
> The parent site wouldn't be able to manipulate any of the content/ads/paywalls/functionality

What? What do we disable CORS for if not to allow Javascript from one domain manipulate content in an iframe of an other domain? Am I missing something?
Here's one I'm currently using in node (wrote it as another comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499799
I like this idea much better. It is their intention.
That's exactly how HyperCard works, and we all know what inspired HyperCard!

https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp...

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/247?autostart=f...
Do you have any pointers to good books / lecture videos / introductions to start with for these?
For a PhD you have a pretty philistine stance on art. Seriously, "my 4 y/o can do it" is not "intellectualism," it is the most basic and unimaginative critique of modern and contemporary art
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Facebook, Axios, and NBC Paid This Guy to Whitewash Wikipedia
I worked in such a company too.

Every time we wanted to do something new a founder would say "Domino can do this!" and then they would spend the whole weekend setting it up for what we were trying to do.

All because we were some kind of IBM partner and they wanted to please the big wigs.
> Qt can be used commercially for free. It's LGPL whether you pay or not.

This is true now, but was not always the case.
With almost any language, you can enforce schema via the “ORM”. Yes I know it’s not really an ORM but you get the point.
What I'm hearing is that you used MongoDB as a read cache, rather than as a database per se.
I think this is looking at things from the the perspective of an enginneer, not a lawyer.

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
General trigger warnings are not used to address this particular subpopulation. There are medical approved techniques for people with diagnosed psychological ailments, like PTSD, but they are individualized. Psychological ailments are a very diverse set of problems with a even more diverse set of causes.

If we still try to do some general treatment for PTSD it generally comes down to reducing stress. Things like bright lights, loud noise and sudden actions are all things which are known to cause stress, which is why doctors treating PTSD patients recommend against fireworks during New Year's Eve and other national holidays. A bit different from the trigger warnings that the study explored.
Europe shouldn’t fall for American hype against China: Norwegian Mayor
Nobody really know that. Could change any day.
Hackett: A Metaprogrammable Haskell
Well, GPL "tools" like Linux, Git, Emacs, etc, will be used. If there's an established pattern that using a GPL licensed thing doesn't trigger GPL terms on their code, companies are fine with it.
What are the most secure programming languages?
That's a good question, but I have a hunch and am willing to bet that by sheer coincidence they will focus particularly on the smallest of the seven named.
Maybe so, but that has no bearing on the economic incentives that make google search and facebook different, which was the parent's point.
‘Godfathers of AI’ Honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of Computing
Seems to be opt-out, at least it was enabled for me by default on Android. :/
That is the whole internet. This is digital tyranny literally.
Around 400 km for me.
As a non-American, why do costs skyrocket in the approval phase? Is it that the drugs have to go through multiple rounds of clinical testing over years? I struggle to understand the astronomical price tags, but I'm assuming it's something bureaucratic?
Facebook should be treated like a publisher and be held responsible for any and all content it disseminates. If someone wants to publish something there publicly (visible to more than let’s say 50 people) it should have to be reviewed. This is what for example tagesschau.de does with every comment.
I do not like paywalled sites like nytimes.
Well deserved!

Imagenet challenge and 2012 has been an inflection point but few have slogged through the AI winter and made it through to the other side.
Thats insane tyranny. Fucking book burning psychos.