skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

The holding in that case is quite narrow: "Constitutional protections of free speech under First and Fourteenth Amendments still applicable within the confines of a town owned by a private entity."

You would have to stretch the definition of "town" to include "website" to have it apply.

>> You can still shout whatever you want in the town square,
> This is such a dishonest conceit.

Fine, then you can go on Gab, 4chan, 8chan or any of a number of other platforms or sites that accept hate speech to varying degrees. There are digital platforms available for that kind of speech.

> The audience relationship is not with people and YouTube. It's with people and a particular creator.

The editorial aspects of Youtube (including recommendations) are certainly within Youtube's rights to control. Youtube is a brand, not an ISP. Creators must establish a relationship with Youtube in order to publish content on it.
There are terms for any such relationship, in the case of Youtube, they are described at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/policies/#community-guideli...

> If there were a monopoly on printing presses,

There is no monopoly on the technical mechanisms of distributing video online. There are plenty of websites that self-host video content today, and there is no reason that a new provider couldn't attract the creators and audience that Youtube doesn't want.
That's because Sony has already been doing cloud streaming for years. They bought Gaikai in 2012 and offer streaming through PlayStation Now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaikai

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstation-now/
Does anyone feel 4G is lacking in any way? I don't think I'd notice if my phone's network was any faster.
Wow, I’m paying $130 for 100/5. Damn cable companies.
> Like Tesla, Rivian will collect data from its customers' cars and push over-the-air software updates based on what it learns.

I still don’t like this trend towards every product we own collecting data on us.
I believe that genetic analysis has shown that blue eyes trace their origin to a person who lived in modern day Turkey. So who knows...
Asee+ for PC / Windows 7.8.10 / Mac / Laptop
uptimerobot has a free plan... Guess its a race to the bottom for all these monitoring solutions?
Nowhere to stow it.
A Digital Map to Restoring Notre-Dame Cathedral
The science behind lightning's crackle
Meteorite from the red planet contains fossilised bacteria, study claims
That's why I'm looking forward to the Bollinger Motors e-truck. It's as stone-simple as it can be, while still hauling around a mindboggling pile of angry pixies.
No, we are giving too much power to a certain tech company with a certain browser and OS which now has amassed so much power and influence, including participation in all important W3C working groups, they can basically do whatever they want.

Given the Web as-is, and its growing importance, it even makes past misconduct of a certain other big tech company in order to try and get control over the Web look like child's play.

And no, SSL cert authorities actually don't have much power at all. Everyone can be a cert authority (just make a properly set up certificate chain with something like OpenSSL and you are good to go) but the companies who have the ultimate authority by either accepting or rejecting cert authorities (or actually by accepting or rejecting their root certificates and/or control over the HSTS whitelist for global deployment) do,
which brings me back to the point above.

My two cents.
If both aggressive MCAS is unsafe because pilots can't control the plane and nonaggressive MCAS is unsafe because of stall risk that would seem to imply that 737 MAX should not be certified to fly.
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Not magically.

I used to put down the leaders of big businesses for the various screw-ups you read in the news, such as the 2008 financial crisis, Carly Fioria destroying Bell Labs and nearly destroying HP, the recent meltdown at GE, the 737 MAX scandal, etc.

Over time I realized that incredible screw-ups happen all the time at small businesses (say a small-town general store) or medium businesses (say a venture-funded startup) If the people who ran big companies screwed up as often as the people who run big companies, we wouldn't have any big companies!

You might not need a 10x salesman to be a 10x developer, but the failure of any part of the value chain can multiply the value of your work by zero!

There probably is some way to measure the pathology that I mention, but it's not going to be superficial or "magic".
I haven't studied this deeply, but i see a deep irony here.

The old school business guys had a plan (or at least a wish) to get rid of programmers. Ironically, I now see the best programs being written by programmers who have no BA's (essentially becoming BA's themselves). It turns out that it was way easier to just get the BA's to talk the language of the computer, rather than the other way around.

From what I've read, the same is true in testing. The best BA's are people who are actively interested in testing, and willing to learn the language they need to best help out. You cut out the middleman, not by making translators, but by learning to speak the language natively.

As it often is, it's easier to change the people than to change the world.
You can keep it 'non visitable' but it will need a roof of sorts. The quickest way to get rid of any building is to open it up to the weather.
> The only result of 5G would be the end of public wifi which typically has 5 - 10 mbps speeds.

Not if they charge anything close to what they charge now.
I remember not being able to get off the garbage planet in Space Quest III without the hint book. It was a MacGyver-esque exercise to build a spaceshipfrom scattered junk on the planet. And just when you thought you were done a giant rat would kill you.
I agree, and that we can even have this discussion on HN right now, rather than it being knocked out of the park into cranksville, ignored or flagged is pretty big. I'm no expert on (HN) zeitgeist history, but my feeling is a couple of years ago you couldn't. Things like this are rapidly seeing more public engagement.
This according to measured upper limits on photon mass. Strong theory postulates absolute zero mass for the fundamental particle and in this case it will have an infinite lifetime.
T-mobile de-prioritizes this product though: "During congestion, Home Internet customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization"

At least where I live, T-mobile towers are at least occasionally congested. Its not too uncommon for data to be slow or even non-functional with good signal levels (on my smartphone, don't know about this home product).
I wonder if the 3D Audio system will include special hardware like the PSVR which changes the sound based on the angle of your head? If so, it could be pretty awesome, as that system is incredible for increasing immersion. If not, then it's really only a minor improvement except to those with acute hearing.
Ironic given the recent arrest of Julian Assange. Last time I checked, Brexit was in the future, not the past.
basically a dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672514
React Tutorial: Build a Trello Clone
The name Infocom comes from their desire to make business software. To a large extent they considered games that they had written in the past to be a way to raise money so they could afford to make the business software that would make them rich. Games were always a distraction in their eye - a profitable one, but not their purpose. As far as I know they never got anywhere with business software...
YC deadline invites sent/not?
Is anyone received invitation for interview today? If you received/rejected, what's your company?
I think astrology as a concept is extremely dumb; I also think it's great business because a lot of people take it seriously, so there's money to be made.

Some people may have a moral issue with taking advantage of people's beliefs in woo.
Service Oriented What Again?
Hmm, stop-and-go is less efficient though. I try to average things out myself to maximize fuel-economy in those traffic conditions.

Even with regenerative brakes, the regeneration isn't fully efficient. You lose energy to heat. So smoothly traveling one speed is superior.
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...seriously? Apple? Apple is your privacy company? And you were just complaining about telemetry and pushing updates and DRM. Ugh.

My Original comment:

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At this point, I trust Apple more than I trust the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Project (the bar is quite low for Apple).

Way to take things out of context ;)

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what does that have to with any of the above? Also the EU and many other orgs are thinking about the same thing. The Internet is new and we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation. I'm going to make the best assumptions about you, so I'm hoping you can see why experiments in that realm can be advantageous.

I guess maybe you should look into the black mirror before you think about censoring others (I guess you are in favor of speech for me and not for thee). You already spread misinformation with the redaction of my original comment.

> DRM
>>
Again, a necessity. You cannot watch most news online without DRM. Supporting DRM is not the same as campaigning for DRM, which brings me to the biggest surprise I found in your comment of all the others...

More false information being spewed. I have never been prompted to install the DRM plugin on any (mainstream) news site that I've visited. Point me to just one.
If you haven't had a chance to watch this documentary, it's worth a look. It's like a Christopher Guest movie, minus the actors.
One thing I've learned working in both kinds of companies is that having software as the core concern of the business isn't automatically a shield from bad project management or bad engineering management.
Which airlines provide full refunds? Do they allow this for both changed aircraft types and N-numbers, or only the former?
Kubernetes External Secrets essentially copies secrets from an external source, in this case AWS Secrets Manager, and creates a native Kubernetes secret in the same namespace where the ExternalSecret custom object was defined.

Kubernetes is being leveraged as a secrets cache and transport layer, with just enough access control thanks to the built-in RBAC functionality. Kubernetes is not the source of truth for the contents of the secret, but provides APIs for referencing, and ultimately transmitting cached secrets to containers under management.

I like this approach. Nice and simple. I do have one suggestion that might improve External Secrets for use with multiple clusters.

By running the External Secrets "control plane" inside the Kubernetes cluster you end up with what I described above. Now consider the case where you have multiple Kubernetes clusters in the same environment -- HA across multiple regions in production.

You have a few options on how to leverage External Secrets in this context. The obvious approach is to deploy the "control plane" across every cluster. There are pros and cons. While you have the ability to do a canary roll out of the External Secrets control plane across multiple clusters, you also take up compute resource across every cluster, and must store the credentials required for the External Secrets control plane to sync secrets from an external store.

The other option would be to enable the External Secrets control plane to live outside of any individual Kubernetes cluster and work as a "global control plane". In this configuration the External Secrets control plane can push secrets across multiple clusters. Users can still define ExternalSecrets objects in each cluster, but you now have the ability to support "global" ExternalSecrets objects which are replicated to every cluster, or a limited set of clusters and namespaces based on configuration.

You can still host the External Secrets control plane using Kubernetes, but in a "admin" cluster, which is separate from the clusters where normal applications are deployed.
>40,000 bytes for all code and data. Wow.

That sounds impressive, but it really isn't that much, because it's text-only.

If you want to see something truly impressive, look at Super Mario Bros. on the NES: the entire game is about 64k! Most of the NES games were on that order of size, and they were graphical real-time games.

Also, I'm pretty sure that you'll find with these text-adventure games that they compress quite readily down to a fraction of the size you stated. NES games, not so much. ASCII text isn't a terribly efficient medium of storage, and they didn't have much if any data compression in those days.
I did enjoy reading the article though, so thank you for writing and posting it!
No, never had Lispy syntax -- "Make it look like Java" order before I started meant C-like syntax.
I honestly don't understand the fear of usage based billing. It's the only sane way to charge for this kind of thing. The marginal price for a "unit" of data is just too high. The real "cost" of delivering a terabyte of Netflix or Youtube content is so small compared to the price ISPs are able to charge.
4K is 3840x2160, or 4 times 1920x1080.

Pedantically, 4K is 4096x2160 but UHD has come to resonate as 4K thanks to TV marketing.
Ask HN: Does your company offer a referral program for engineering candidates?
Please respond with:

1. Your company's name
2. How much the employee referral bonus is (or a range depending on the type of candidate)
3. Whether or not you pay an external referral bonus and how much that is as well
4. Any details on how successful the bonus program has been?
Lecturer and teacher Scott McCloud once said this to the effect of hiring practices, how there are three anchors from which an employer of any variety must seek out among potential employees.

To turn in work of professional and skilled caliber, to do so always ahead of deadlines, and to be easy to deal with generally.

A person only offering one is not providing enough to make their employ worthwhile or long-lasting, while the chances of someone realistically offering all three are extremely rare. So, the idea is to look for somebody what can comfortably guarantee any two of the three anchors. For example, a person may only submit average-quality work, but if they are reliable for at least that much and are easy to work with, then they are employable. Or, a person might be notorious for blowing schedules, but if they are always friendly about it, and their end product is always outstanding even though late, then they themselves are worthwhile.

But no psych test in the world can guarantee with 100% accuracy exactly how people might work together. Too many variables and too many subjective variables.
Intel Acquires Omnitek for FPGA Expertise: Some Context
If 5G is going to impact radio astronomy then the governments that license the spectrum should fund alternatives. Some simple space-based telescopes orbiting out beyond the 5G bubble would be expensive but not terribly difficult (radio telescopes, not the JWST). Put a couple out beyond the moon and the next image of a black hole won't be so blurry.
>Yet sometimes the two big values involved—privacy and civility—come into opposition. If you give people ways to keep their data completely secret, you also create secret tunnels where rats can scurry around undetected. In other words, every choice involves a trade-off, and every trade-off means some value has been spurned. And every value that you spurn—particularly when you’re Facebook in 2018—means that a hammer is going to come down on your head.

Some good journalism here. I'd not explicitly understood this before, but it makes sense. Nothing is perfect.
That's a pretty common technique. The problem I've found is that it risks incorrect results be assumed correct. If I refactor your algorithm, and fix a bug in the process, I'll be very confused if your tests start failing.

The benefit of calculating it yourself first is obvious, you get to cross check your result. That tends to highlight minor errors such as -/+ errors.

This is not a problem if stability is more important than correctness of course, but that's not where I am.
Yeah any talk of a "drawbridge" or "emergency shutdown button" has always been either sheer ignorance or a pretext for censorship. Since if you want security you don't shut it down for everyone but either disconnect everything of infastructural importance.

If your power plants are at risk of hacking you don't prepare by planning to shutdown the internet - you prepare by making sure it can work when unplugged them from insecure networks. Because if loss of said connectivity would cause problems shutting it down is no help and if it doesn't there is no need to boost collateral damage - unleas that is the /real/ goal.
I wonder if the new namespaces functionality will break compatibility for users. I guess I always assumed gawk was feature-complete, or at least a mature enough tool that I wouldn't expect compatibility breaks.

11. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this
is that files included with -i, read with -f, and command line program
segments must all be self-contained syntactic units. E.g., you can no
longer do something like this:

gawk -e 'BEGIN {' -e 'print "hello" }'
I'm a bit mixed... I wouldn't mind if DNS security were at a point where someone could just self-publish their public key to DNS, and treat it just like domain verification.

With Let's Encrypt, I think the issue is mostly addressed, I think it's harder for internal business networks though, which is where a DNS option would be of value.

Maybe limit DNS public key dist to a .lan TLD, that isn't able to be registered publicly. You have a TXT record for public-key.servername.orgname.lan then that will be used as the public key for servername.orgname.lan and the browser treats it as domain valid cert without CA.
I realize. Still doesn't mean I can't lament them for not realizing they were already successful and could continue to be. Just imagine if BioWare had kept trying to make medical software despite the success of their RPGs, just because their name said they should.
App claims it can improve your marriage. Can compatibility be programmed?
For a read heavy environment, QLC SSDs should be fine. Sony can probably get the raw QLC flash at something like $.05/GB by next year. They also will have less returns due to damaged consoles, as magnetic HD are by far the most delicate part of the system.
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PlayStation 5: Sony gives the first details of its next generation console
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN...

This adds some "graphics". I personally love this format for these games.
The Death of App Attribution
That's a valid point that someone who fell behind their usual performance may also do just as bad the next year since school material is cumulative. I strongly suspect that this effect is smaller than the reversion to the mean, but you are right we would need to look at data to know for sure.
The whole business model of Facebook is to collect personal data and sell it for profit. It should surprise no one that they are doing that. Furthermore, it shouldn't surprise Americans that there are zero regulations protecting their non-health related data. Free stuff on the internet doesn't run on fairy dust.
1. Do the tasks with, as far as you can tell, the most uncertainty as soon as possible in the process.

2. This is why "agile" tries to avoid estimating more than a few weeks. The more tasks you have in there, the more you estimate is likely to be really off.
Not a 747 pilot (not sure why that matters here)... but a pilot. The flight positions are equal. The plane is designed to be flown the same from either flight position and this is routinely done. The guy saying otherwise is talking out their ass.
unlikely as there are no other symptoms but thanks for the tip - might check sometime in the future.
This is an idealistic world view. In reality many high profile cases are determined primarily by the political clout of the entities involved. When it comes to nations such as the US we are going to get what we want on issues that are deemed significant. The recent Huawei case had a particularly interesting illustration of this.

Under US instruction Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder of Huawei and a high ranking executive of the company herself. Following this event John McCallum, Canada's ambassador to China, stated that Meng Wanzhou had a strong argument against extradition for reasons including political interference from Donald Trump, the extraterritorial nature of the charges and the fact that Canada is not party to American sanctions against Iran. For context one one of those points, Trump himself has publicly stated he'd be happy to "intervene" in the case in exchange for a favorable trade deal from China.

Following internal pressure John McCallum released a message stating, "I regret that my comments with respect to the legal proceedings of Ms Meng have created confusion. I misspoke. These comments do not accurately represent my position on the issue. As the government has consistently made clear, there has been no political involvement in this process.". He was then fired by Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau.

This does not speak to whether the charges are legitimate or not, but rather that people involved in cases like this are often in positions of immense pressure that undermines the entire system. McCallum had a 20 year political career. It's likely that his firing has now come with an implicit political black listing as well, ending that career. Such can be the cost of honesty in such cases.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/26/john-mccallum-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/i-misspoke-can...
>I do touch-type, but I don't seem to do it in the quite orthodox way. My "homerow" seems to be shift-A-W-D or F and K-O-P-between ' and ENTER.

The problem here is your QWERTY keyboard. We're taught to use the "home row" and to keep our hands in that position, yet the keys are layed out in almost the most unoptimal way for this: the home-row keys are some of the least-used keys! It's an entirely idiotic layout for a keyboard if you want speed and comfort (from moving your fingers the least).

If you want to actually touch-type correctly, you need a different keyboard layout like Dvorak, where the home-row keys are actually the ones you use the most.
MSFT spent $7.2 billion dollars on Nokia in 2014 to try to increase their market share, which failed.

>Much like the death of the keyboard slider form factor on Android, the lack of sales came from consumers having no options to buy than not wanting the product.

I think it is very safe to say that no one wanted a Windows Phone, despite the backing of MSFT and tens of billions of dollars spent.
Still - If someone had a life threatening issue, I'm not sure they would think that the extra money spent on this kind of thing (icons etc) is more important.
I know this is true at least from a mathematical point of view. The common knowledge case is the conic sections that were discovered during this time. But like the library of Alexandria, our historical knowledge has the infortunate property of being limited by extant texts.
wow, I was expecting an intelligent list of reasons why he cannot explain how mathematica works internally (I'm sure there are many). Instead, this post is a ridiculous strawman argument against the open development model.

For all the reasons he says, he could perfectly publish the source code of mathematica (e.g. under the AGPL) but still do not accept external pull requests. There are many successful open-source/closed-development projects out there.
Qt Creator hits 4.9 with ever-growing language skills
Not that I'm avoiding google, but this link connects to

google.com
googlesyndication.com
googletagmanager.com
gstatic.com

When rendering the page, so this just proves that avoiding sending data to google is very tricky indeed!