skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They should have thought about that

They have thought about it! That's why they are using the BSL.

I note that they are using a time-delayed open source approach (after 3 years it becomes open source) which I understand Stallman has endorsed in the past.
Perception is everything. Many companies, especially Fortune 500, will do deep research before doing business with anyone. I've been through them where have been disqualified specifically due to our infancy and lack of proof of long standing. If someone read/mis-read someone's post that gave them the idea that the company didn't have enough runway, they might move to the next potential suitor.
Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, try
What Is SpaceX?
Cognitive dissonance, Upton Sinclair effect and corporate capture of OTUS politics. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, ..."
>People have different tastes in food and there's value in variety

Which is something that scale helps with. If one person wants Thai, the other Italian, the other Greek, and the last Indian a mega kitchen could fill that order.

>* Ingredients are low-margin, with prices dominated by transportation, so bargaining power over suppliers is limited.

With 100 orders an hour going out from a kitchen you're more likely to be able to combine deliveries. That's an easy way to double your profits since transport is such a big percentage of your overall cost.

>Cooks aren't fungible, which makes it hard to capitalize on scale without consolidating similar restaurants. The guy who makes my favorite lamb vindaloo is a TERRIBLE sushi chef

Eh, they're pretty fungible. Maybe not the chef designing the recipes but certainly the guys chopping vegetables are.
Note that I never said cost was a way to gauge good calculators. I was merely answering the question of why one might pay for a calculator app instead of using one of the many free ones. Again, this is why I very deliberately said "might" in all of my statements. By saying "might", I'm also implying "might not"...
I do agree with you, though access to private market equity isn’t a sure win by any means. A startup fails to raise their next round of funding 90% of the time every time. The riches are survivorship bias largely. This also doesn’t solve for deal flow which you have to figure out yourself anyways, and to get the equity “clearly” headed for the top you better be able to demonstrate value. You can already access “private market” equity via crowdfunding terms in the JOBS act but those exchanges exhibit heckin adverse selection issues.

The reality is if you’re a high profile founder with a great idea and traction you can get money from mostly everyone while maintaining a nice clean cap table. If you aren’t, you then raise from “suckers” (see the ICO market).

It's as though some of the libertarian leaning commenters think these rules were brought in because the government was tired of seeing so many poor people become wealthy. The reality is the government was tired of seeing so many poor people get rekked and thrown into the welfare system, what little of it there is here.

tl;dr: getting rich isn’t easy and deregulation is likely to cause more harm than good.
Google Meet works fine for me in Firefox fwiw. I'm in meetings several hours a day on Firefox nightly on a Mac.
From what I see, you could do about 18K short-haul or 30K airline passenger miles to match the CO2e emissions of a 10K commuter (assuming you yourself have a carbon-free commute). 30K is you and 2 guests round-trip San Francisco to Paris or you and one guest one round-trip L.A. to Sydney.

I agree you could do a lot of hiking or road trips and fit within that footprint.
Or just steal your session tokens. Not all apps are secure enough to prevent session roaming.
I've toyed with the idea myself, if you've worked around the lack of fixed IP's problem then sign me up.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple support Nvidia GPUs?
Valve is not perfect, but making them out to be rent seekers is a lie. They revolutionized the PC games market to the benefit of developers and consumers, and they are actively improving their platform and driving adoption of new technologies like VR.

Also this “reporter” evidently knows nothing about how Valve actually does things internally.
Yeah I have numerous copies. They're useful if the first one fails of course but also to try out updates of bootloader software or settings tweaks.

But I really don't understand why people make their OS drive their boot drive. Besides the potential for catastrophe it also means you can't move the OS drive between machines or do OS drive backups freely.
There's a difference between doctors violating HIPPA protections on your data by gossiping, vs. you having no HIPPA protections to violate to begin with. Here it wouldn't even be a violation.
> professors and grad students could get more recognition (and maybe income?) for jobs that are quite demanding but often dont pay a ton

I try to do a bit of academic blogging, and did when I was a student too, but it's tricky. To do it right still takes time, but it's generally not something that can go on a CV., and unless you have a very popular blog (and even then), it's unlikely to get you a job, or help you secure tenure. So I think it's really more a matter of time than anything else.
>Pirates of the Caribbean was a Disney film from a director with a record of past successes, a team of actors largely pulled from blockbusters, and an executive producer of some of the most memorable and (at the time) highest-grossing crossover blockbusters. It was not a risk to Disney at all.

It certainly was, the first PotC movie basically established pirate movies as a blockbuster genre. And while the Mouse was already rich back in 2003, even for them $143M budget is a risk.

Even movies that made them a small but solid profit like Tron Legacy (400M box office vs 170M budget) get chucked into the bin (most unfortunately, as I really liked the movie and had hoped for a sequel).
Show HN: KivyImageViewer – A kivy Python 3 powered Image Viewer
Hey there. Thanks for this feedback. I think it is important to be open honest but not blame-oriented in our review of the situation. People make mistakes and that is okay, so long as they aren't willful or due to incompetence. Neither of which was the case here. The key thing is not to create a situation where a mistake is an individuals fault. My general view is if people are making mistakes then we have done something wrong as a company and need to understand and fix the tools/training/process that led to the mistake.
Can you share your Anki boards for those topics?
> Easier to hijack SMS than own a computer or phone.

That depends on the country, in Germany it's way more difficult.
My First attempt at a kivy app programmed for the Desktop Linux. Any suggestions on how to improve? Thanks for reading.
Looks to be https://zacs.site
This is a good overview of a complicated market. And it highlights what I’d say is one of the biggest opportunities in the space: a trusted and highly curated recommendation service for kids content. (I don’t want to build it, but someone else should!)

I’m building a kids app (an interactive picture book series -www.featherbubble.com) that intersects a 5th major industry: publishing. My marketing toolkit/plans lack any obviously strong tactics for many of the reasons outlined in the article. Instead, my strategy is to build a brand on strong characters and content, as it seems like episodic tv has the closest thing to a winning model for apps.
It's worth nothing that the authors of the original NGC1052-DF4 article claiming little to no dark matter have disputed the conclusions of the Trujillo+2019 (i.e., the paper the phys.org article is based on): https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019RNAAS...3b..29V/abstra...

I think it's safe to say that the jury is still out on this one.

Edit: One reason this is difficult is that you can think of galaxies as having two major contributions to the line-of sight velocity we observe from earth: expansion of the Universe ("Hubble flow") and "peculiar" velocity (motion due to the local gravitational field in which the galaxy lives). The latter velocities are typically a few hundred km/s (or later if the galaxy is in a cluster). NGC 1052 has an observed recession velocity of 1510 km/s (https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%201052&hcons...). Assuming a peculiar velocity of 300 km/s, that means the peculiar velocity is on the order of 20% of the total velocity. But we don't know what component of the peculiar velocity is along the line of sight or whether it's positive or negative. So with these numbers it's "hubble flow" velocity could be from 1200 km/s to 1800 km/s. If you naive plug those two recession velocities into a cosmology model (e.g., the latest model derived from Planck observations) the distance range you get is 17.3-26.1 Mpc, or a ~40% uncertainty. So we cannot rely just on the Universe's measured expansion to get a sufficiently reliable distance estimate.

So one must use other techniques to measure distances. They each have their own advantages and disadvantages. In general most distance estimates are build on the "Cosmic distance ladder" and accumulate uncertainty as you move up the ladder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
I think one could argue that the original Doom had more in common with Fortnite than with its newer iteration. A Doom level wasn't that big, and it was for the most part a quick little stand-alone experience, almost arcadey; you could hop in, frag some demons, and play the same levels over and over. There was no story, no RPG elements, I don't even recall whether your health and ammo and weapons carried over between levels.
Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities?

I do!

So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
It doesn’t scale linearly, but we’re all here discussing in this thread because scaling support is hard.
So your example of a "low tax case" distributing power to "more" people is Russia.

I think whatever point there is to this argument has been made.
It’s the same counselor. I personally have dealt with depression and anxiety (and am a satisfied yet former Talkspace customer) and I have immediate family with bipolar disorder. I would NOT recommend this service for someone who has complicated mental health needs. If you need “simpler” therapy such as for relationship issues or depression/anxiety than Talkspace is fine, but otherwise I wouldn’t really trust them.
Nice. About time. I think I've seen this feature in some filing cabinets.

When I was a kid, I had a heavy metal dresser that was prone to being top-heavy and falling over with just any second drawer barely out of place (the drawers were difficult to move).
> Nothing in the statement from Digital Ocean indicates that they won't kill your account or shutdown your systems - that's not the sort of cloud host any company can afford to use.

There is no cloud that will issue such a promise. If your criterion is that a cloud has to promise that you won't get shut down, you just can't use cloud hosting providers.
Even worse: what about when it ends up on Facebook Video and you never even know about it because you aren't in the right group?

disclaimer: my opinion, as always
Capitalism lost, the structural profits of a platform make a rational actor choose not to incur the costs of licensing core IP
I also completely switched to Safari a few years ago mainly for power consumption (how can you all run chrome on battery??), but there isn’t really anything I miss in it these days.

It also integrates very well with my other Apple devices, and works with AppleScripts and keyboard maestro to quickly do complex macros and talk to other apps.
Man, this seems unnecessarily harsh, and distracting from the positive props to Limor. He’s well aware of what happened, does it need to be rehashed here? Starting something is extremely difficult and most people fail. HN celebrates people who try.
ycombinator startup 7cupsoftea also offers professional talk therapy from licensed providers. My recommendation is unless you are absolutely terrified of talking to someone in person, don't get e-therapy. So much of therapy isn't from the words but from the transfer of emotion and affect. I think the client will get some level of relief just from typing things out, getting it "off their chest", but it's not the same thing as going to their office, having that exclusive space and time, and seeing and hearing your therapist's affect and reflection of your emotion. Not to mention allowing them to use their expertise in detecting indirect issues. For instance, consider an alcoholic in denial, goes to therapy because of difficulty holding down a job. A well-trained therapist could sniff out the alcoholism even if the client was in denial or never even considered that to be the source. A chat system shortcuts all of that for pure informational content. Emotional problems are seldom solved with Sherlock-esque revelations of information.
A quick DigiKey parametric search yields instrumentation amps with GBW <= 35 MHz.
Hey there! I would love to follow up on the issue you're describing here. It looks like you tried to bring a disk image over from a provider in a format that we don't support, and unfortunately there's nothing trivial we could do to get a working Droplet out of it (which is a requirement for us to expose the volume within the systems we have).

I can't promise a super fast resolution - but I'd be happy to work internally to see if there's any outside-the-ordinary workarounds we can supply here if you're willing to follow back up on the ticket.
It seems comparable to people getting mad when they find out that communism didn't deliver everything that it promised.
If they have proper right to those resources then they certainly can consume them however they want.
iirc, southwest's seating policy allows them to turn planes around faster than airlines that assign seats.
3K in the RF world is cheap... I've watched as more than that in chips fried with a bad reflow profile, and that was with some very very cost-efficent people.
Here was my key takeaway:

"Cryptocurrency mining mitigation detects suspicious behavior, including very high CPU utilization on an account with no payment history, which results in an account lock"

Lots might have been done wrong here, but it sounds like they had an account with trial or promotional credits - I can see how this could easily be abused.
Hey Nkozyra - Zach here from DO Support. One of our remediation efforts, that is already underway, is that Support and Security Operations leadership will create new workflows to allow abuse-related events to leverage the 24/7 structure of Support.

On Support, we have additional Support Engineers joining our Developer Experience team in mid-June and early July. We will continually assess our ability to provide high-quality responses as fast as possible to all tickets. Our customer feedback will continue to be the measure of how well we're doing, but our goal is that no one will ever need to use social as an escalation path.
This is unfortunate, but tragic is stretching it.
"Welcome to Costco. I love you"
Yes. Gabe was the PM for Windows 95.

He and Michael Harrington founded Valve a year afterwards. I asked Gabe over email if it was because it was the 1 year anniversary of Windows 95 launch but he said Valve was actually founded on his wedding day.
Yep, I have a Keysight 7 GHz diff probe at work that cost $25k, and that’s one of the cheaper ones.
All you really have to do is check that someone has already used a particular set of hardware with the level of support you desire, and you're golden.

The software has improved a lot recently. Plugins like WhateverGreen and VirtualSMC means there is broader hardware support out of the box without fiddling with settings.

But yeah if you are happy with Mac hardware then Hackintoshes are entirely pointless. Laptop Hackintoshes are also more challenging without really competing with comparable Mac hardware.
s/CLI/desktop
Los Angeles, the Automobile, and Mexican American Life
SF may be down but New York is up. I love the idea of this. Technology remix culture used to create a Big Mood.

I'd like to request the addition of Chicago, please!
Yes, but it would be a stupid thing to do because you have cut off a major chunk of contributors to your project, especially if they were interested in using it in the first place.
Steve.
There are several different features of galaxies that dark matter explains. One of them is the speed with which stars orbit the center of a galaxy—this "rotation curve" is independent of how far the stars are from the galactic center, where if there were no dark matter, you would expect the outermost stars to go slower. That is an effect that is not affected by errors in measuring the distance to remote galaxies. We can see it in our own galaxy! https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l8_p8.html

In general, if you can think of an explanation that does away with the need for dark matter, you can also assume experts have thought hard about it and rejected it for good reason. Nobody likes dark matter as a hypothesis, everyone remembers analogous complications in the history of science that proved to be signposts to a better theory, and everyone knows that a Nobel prize waits for anyone who can find the correct explanation.
Just made Space Invaders in 512 bytes of x86 assembler code (one boot sector)
Thanks for the pointer. I'm going to blame my dad/up bringing for my over use of passive voice. He will be deeply amused by this. I will read the paper and attempt to improve.
Thanks for sharing. That is a pretty good amount for a first game and what looks like a niche title. Are you making indie games for a living?
I was supposed to mentor an intern this summer but his OPT didn't get approved in time. This is such bullshit.
It's pretty amazing that there are over 900k accessible vulnerable endpoints sitting there waiting to be attacked. This is why they're freaking out about it.

Source: https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/05/almost-one-million-vulner...

Eventually someone will wormify that vuln in a few weeks or months and it's going to be a big mess when it happens.
How about https://beautifulwebtype.com/ ? "Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces"

There are also some more opinionated FOSS font forges like https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ and (slightly bizarre) https://www.velvetyne.fr/
The timber extraction industry cares not which tree the fiber comes from and sells it to the highest bidder.

(Actually, they discard pieces that are too small to handle profitably, so they do care a little bit)
FOLS (Fear of Looking Stupid) and How That Plays into VC Psychology
Properly labeled knockoffs are fine in my book. Or at least a far smaller issue.
My preferences haven't changed since 2007 when Chrome didn't even exist. Firefox for everything; Safari once in a while to check browser compatibility; ditto for IE & Chrome; and The Back Button for apps that only work in one browser. It's been a while since I stopped caring about performance and power consumption because I have more performance and battery life than I know what to do with anyway.

I don't regret having stayed with Firefox through the years when Chrome was all the rage. IE6 was the most popular browser in the world when I first tried Firefox, so I know how it feels. Other browsers come and go, but Firefox keeps burning bright.
As someone who got his OPT extension before this cluster but still got his H1B rejected, it's safe to say I will highly discourage anyone I know from coming to the States for higher studies. Especially from India, since the Trump USCIS seems to have a special hatred towards Indians (because of outsourced workers abusing H1B? But that's not even the same people).

Till recently I felt guilty of the fact that every smart person I ever grew up knowing had emmigrated to the States and left India behind, but maybe this is a good thing for India now? Not sure yet.
I have no relation to DO, but I'm surprised by the negative responses in this thread. I can't think of any other major company conducting a public postmortem for a customer service failure (as opposed to networking/ops failure). Not only are they changing their policies across the board, taking on more risk to improve customer experience, but they are hiring extra people so it does not happen again. Kudos for that!

And of course DO will still retain the ability to suspend your account for suspected fraud - that is the case with any cloud services company, and any online business in general (check your ToS). Again, I can't think of any business that will en masse promise to never react to any fraudulent users. It's how this process is performed that matters and that's what they are improving.
What's unbelievable is the lack of sophistication on Kik's part. Any lawyer working for them should've responded immediately to this statement (and their general nonchalance about the issue) and advised to shut the ICO down immediately.

You literally can't make this any easier for the SEC. There's not much of a defense when you repeatedly admit that you're attempting to raise money by issuing something you market as an investment opportunity.
Yup. They don't have the advantage of being preinstalled and the default on all Apple machines. They really can't afford to break functionality.
> if requiring dark matter to explain galactic physics can be dispensed with by a distance correction, doesn't "we've been underestimating distances all this time" serve as a simpler fact of galactic physics than needing "there is mysterious dark matter everywhere" to explain galactic physics?

It would be a simpler explanation, but that would require that the distances to _all_ galaxies are overestimated. Presently there's no good evidence that our distance estimates for galaxies are systematically overestimated.

Something like this did happen in the 1940s, when it was discovered that a key type of star in the cosmic distance ladder (Cepheid variables) actually came in two types, with different period-brightness relations. Recognizing these two types and correcting distances doubled the distances inferred to nearby galaxies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable#History
The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a while, but this lack of a feature has proven too frustrating.

I don't speak French so I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. Do you mind giving a bit more detail?

I'm also curious about the other ideas you mentioned.
I'd advocate doing both. Be a generalist but specialize in something.
I was able to get New York to work, but then I foolishly switched to Portland. Now I can't get any of the scanners to work. It's just the music.
I saw this live at defcon and it was honestly my favorite talk of the whole con. VMB hacking was somewhat oldschool even in the nineties yet it’s even more powerful today.

If you get a chance, grab his talk from the defcon media server - well worth it.
Hence the use of past forms for verbs.
U.S. appeals court revives Nestle child slavery lawsuit
Embrace of death, maybe?
The United States warns citizens about going to China
I generally agree, though I do trust uBlock Origin with the coveted webrequest blocking API. It has some pretty powerful features that I don’t think could be implemented otherwise, block list limitations aside. I kind of hope Firefox does not get rid of the webrequest blocking API for that reason alone.

(Usual disclaimer: Googler here, opinions are my own.)
Develop everything in sandboxed containers
If the NSA was planning to hack you, it wouldn't be via you visiting NSA.gov
Pi-Hole is a nice DNS-level adblocker, works with anything.

Otherwise I discovered nextdns.io recently, which seems to work well too.