skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you should make an effort not to be an *ss on the internet next time as well. Wtf. This comment is more hateful and demeaning than OP. Why not set a good example instead of stooping lower.
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I can relate. The sales pitch is still “so easy anyone can do it”. As a result, corporate money is thrown after tools that enable business folks to build dashboards...which isn’t a good use of their time. :). In truth, they need good data folks working with them. I guess that doesn’t make for a sexy product sales pitch.
What frequencies do you use to serve the last mile? (not a potential customer) Do you see degraded performance during heavy rain?
Absolutely agree. Housing is a related, but separate, problem that should be handled directly with its own plan.
Are Google push notifications reliable? They certainly don't work reliably for Gmail, I frequently don't find out about emails unti I open the app.
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He didn't have insider knowledge though. He used the games own rules to play an advantage. Those rules were available to everyone, everyone could have done the same.
Yeah, I don't think burying it in the ninth paragraph of the Terms could be reasonably called 'prominent'.

For that matter, the landing page for the Apple Card shoves it into a footnote.

Seems like a case of "tech company trying to act like bank has no idea how to comply with banking regulations".
You mean "largest" :-)

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

About $3 Billion in revenue, been around since 1989. Not considered hip, no glass partitions, but actually profitable.
If only Emacs had become the VM of the web rather than Chrome! I'm more than ready to trade our impending soyberpunk police-state dystopia for a case of carpal tunnel syndrome.
And don't forget to write your own compiler, OS, DE, and IDE, lest someone pull the rug out from under you. /s

Specialization is at the heart of increasing productivity. Let's say a given person makes awesome travel videos. If that person can find a way to broadcast and monetize those videos with YouTube, Vimeo, or whatever, that almost certainly makes more sense than devoting their time to maintaining their own streaming platform. That's time the person could have spent continuing to refine their actual product: travel videos.

Video editing and production are extremely time intensive tasks that require a lot of skill; people work on these skills their whole lives. Likewise, dev ops and infrastructure management are incredibly deep rabbit holes to jump down. The idea that every hobbyist blogger, photographer, and indie band should learn about server administration seems crazy to me.

Does not owning your platform have risks? Of course. Everything has risks and business is always about tradeoffs. Platforms like YouTube solve a lot of problems for content creators. For most creators, those benefits are going to outweigh the costs.
This was a final project in a course I took in college surveying programming languages. I thought Prolog was insanely interesting. Through most of the project I thought it was crazy, but when I finished it made excellent sense.

Since then I've thought a lot about using Prolog for optimized job/task scheduling, but I've never had an actual need to do it.
The overall experience of prison monumentally sucked. From the thin mattresses on the beds to the extreme lack of stimulating things to do...but I got through it. Having books sent by my dad really did help the experience.
Is there any reason behind the ordering? Like why is Space Grotesk first?
There is security, and then there is freedom. You can have the most secure system in the world -- but if there are state sponsored, or company back back doors it means nothing.

In FOSS initiatives spent ages building fee and and open software, combating proprietary systems and software that they had no control over.

All that would be loss just to give it up now that we have moved from PCs to phones....

I for one want control over all the software I run on hardware I own. I am not sure why we are so willing to give that control up simply because the platform changed.
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I worked at Raytheon for almost 2 years, right out of college.

I worked in R&D, which sounds cool, but essentially means that you’re project’s budget is at the whim of the highest-level executives, who are utterly out of touch with the engineers (looking at the org chart, they’re literally 7-8 levels above me).

Because of that, EVERY single project that I was on was cancelled, due to budgetary reasons. The executives would get really excited about something new, and reallocate funds to new projects.

Nothing ever got done. I saw zero projects get shipped. I never saw a customer - because there’s is no customer. There’s not even a government contract. It’s internal R&D.
To put it shortly, it may be the case that "we don't need F-35 because we have peace". But a more realistic POV is "We have peace because we build more F-35s"

Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Isn't the problem space here genuinely complex in terms of business-complexity? Is there some better alternative that doesn't entail some other massive tradeoff such as managing your own servers, creating ingress mechanisms from multiple systems, building your own version of salesforce etc.?

In short, is there any solution that "does everything you could possibly want" while ensuring you _never_ need to hire a data engineer? This is a holy grail that I don't think exists.
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reCaptcha works just fine in India. It does have some troubles in the world's second most populous country.
Do you mean that as a good or a bad thing? VB was fantastic to many people!
> what you have to do to land oneself in a blacksite to begin with

Yes, like going on vacation to visit relatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
"I just have this other question, could you please clarify" is a classic troll gambit, as are "how is X a Y" and "how is ABC different from XYZ", so I'm afraid your comment comes across as litigious.

This is a sort of risky situation. I'm willing to help anyone who sincerely wants to use HN as intended. But it can be a considerable effort. It's draining, because these discussions are so repetitive and often adversarial. One spends a lot on the boring task of weatherproofing whatever one says.

Such questions can amount to a DoS attack on moderators, because of the time it takes to patiently answer them, which then we can't spend making the site better*. If you want us to invest those resources into helping you understand the intended use of HN, you need to clearly establish that that is your good-faith intention.

* Edit: it's for similar reasons that we don't publish a complete moderation log.
> But whatever, obviously Amazon is getting into the slave credit business. Like they care, and like anyone would bother holding them accountable.

I hear this kind of argument from the same people who say the government shouldn’t be telling people they can’t do recreational drugs, or who to marry, or what to do with their bodies etc etc — that they can decide for themselves.

... but the same people can’t be trusted with a high interest credit-building card??
Sure, you have the money to cover those expenses. But will you? Simply inheriting the money doesn't answer that question. Receiving the money speaks nothing about your ability to manage it correctly.
You're right, but I like the extensibilty of Systemd. Things like running every week or whenever the next start is. Or only if the network is online.
Streaming is a tough cookie because it's so reliant on the end user's ISP behaving nicely with advertised speeds. I was a beta tester for google's streaming project with assassins creed odyssey, and even though I had a gigabit connection the game occasionally had to drop framerate. If even a wired gigabit connection wasn't reliable enough, I can't imagine how terrible the experience would be if you had a more modest internet package.

However, it would be sweet if LAN streaming took off. The Xbox becomes something you just plug into the wall in a nook somewhere in your house, and streams to every screen you own on the wifi network; phone, tv, laptop, whatever you have. That seems a little more tangible to me than expecting ISPs to walk the talk with internet speeds.
It's not relying on the presence of a library. It's indicating that the app is still running in the background, and thus using more battery.
> You can't say they're not money makers though.

Since that's what Amazon is optimised for, that's indeed a success.
I think Netflix Fyre festival documentary had a section about you
Not a Oslo resident, but maybe I can help :)

You can find chargers in Norway by using one of the many maps or apps: https://www.ladestasjoner.no/kart/

Many of the Oslo chargers look like this: https://www.salto.no/media/images/referanser/_big4by3/søyle-...

Here's another one: https://www.google.com/maps/@59.9287152,10.7231221,3a,59.2y,...

See the instructional video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgb4Rr6cG38

With the current gen electric cars it's easy to keep a car charged in Norway. I haven't installed a charging station in the garage yet, so I just park mine at one of the city (Bergen) car parks once per week (while I go to work). A work day of charging gives me about 400 km (250 miles) range.
By taking an old stodgy business (commercial real estate) and bringing it in conformance with modern expectations of design, ease of transactions, lease length, and vibe.

The real estate owners couldn’t be bothered to do this because they make too much money by doing nothing to bother with doing something for an extra $47b (a rounding error on the value of global commercial real estate)

The huge fundraising rounds are an important part of this because the hype is important for making it seem like a cool place which is essential to the economics.

Add in some founder god complex which is not really necessary or sufficient for a successful startup but does seem to be often present.
> that there is a big difference between targeted ads and selling data.

I'm not arguing that the data received by the advertiser through targeted ads is anywhere near as valuable as a selling a dossier full of an array of information about a person, but... they're both examples of selling data. Unless you're redefining English language verbs... data is being sold. About a person. To a 3rd party.

There's a difference in scale and value, but there's no difference beyond that.
This again? We all know our genomes, from eskimos to bushmen and almost identical, so all you get are local variations for local survival. I note that as man varied to move North he lost a lot of his melanism, because Melanin blocked the UV from the sun that made vitamin D (which man does not make = have it or die). They also lost some aspects that shed heat on the head = curly hair. Then he moved east across asia and south into India, ceylon, micronesia, and he had to have Melanin or fry where he stood. The people of India wondered about the stupid "Mad dogs of Englishmen - out in the noonday sun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2YvYiWtovM
So we all have the same genes, more or less, and again we are all as smart as each other more or less, with local needs overlaid, where vital survival needs replace the need to parse Greek literature - as the Lion eats the brilliant British Greek scholar, and turn donates his pelt to the Swahili warrior...
So IWG plc, which has a British stock-market listing and does business mostly as Regus, had 2018 revenue of £2.5 billion and a current market cap of about £3 billion.

It thus trades at about 1.2x annual revenue. WeWork's multiple is way higher.
If you have a phone with T-Mobile spyware then it almost certainly also has a locked bootloader with no official unlock method. What are you expecting people developing alternate OSes to do about that?

The obvious way to get a phone not running T-Mobile spyware is to not buy a phone from T-Mobile.

Not trying to be snarky here, I have one of these phones too. Though if you happen to have a T-Mobile Oneplus phone like I do it is possible to flash the international ROM and replace the T-Mobile spyware with Chinese spyware.
It's useful. I looked at it last night for a refresher.

Also, look at other major distros. And, for building packages and patches, look at LFS, Free/Open/NetBSD ports, homebrew, macports, linuxbrew, habitat, NixOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Arch. For security advisories, be sure to check the multitude of sources... note that more than few released packages ship vulns that need patching and some packages are essentially abandonded. Have a look at the old RHEL 5 NSA hardening guide and other major guides for Linux hardening too (be sure to compile things using modern toolchain hardening flags, and test them thoroughly and relentlessly to suss out gotchas).

The big things with distros is package updates and system upgrade securely delivered (Debian flavors are good at this), don't break a system and don't interrupt users unexpectedly. Most distros' packaging systems are flexible but confusing and under-documented packaging descriptions. Habitat and Arch are cleaner.
It won't be able to run if the user that is running it doesn't have the proper privileges. You could even protect the files by giving them other permissions so only the root user can use them.
That. We ended up at $3500/month for ~200 TB/month. Reading this thread I might have negotiate harder when renewal time comes.
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Not exactly Godwin’s law, but pretty close. Comparing advertising and marketing to the ownership of human beings? Slavery infringed on the inalienable of human beings, the existence of advertising doesn’t take away my freedom or potentially subject me to beatings.

It’s a ridiculous comparison. I am not a friend to intrusive ad-tech, but making a moral equivalence to slavery is to trivialize slavery. It’s like comparing parking tickets to the death penalty.
JavaScript is dead – long live ECMAScript?
SERP = Search Engine Results Page

For anyone else who didn't know.
The prisoners want to starve themselves to death because they are being tortured indefinitely by "moral high ground" people.
What region is this in? Would you mind sharing a real-world example?

I've done a lot of navigation around areas that have one way streets without a problem. In one area I drive in the city blocked off intersections at an angle to prevent through-traffic and it's marked appropriately on the map. When a street near my house closed overnight I went in to mark it the next morning and found it had already been changed.

Maybe different areas have differing amounts of attention.
I remember him as a very Torvalds-like person, for better or worse.

I wanted him to stay a little more around the Rust 1.0 era because I thought as many warts as possible should have been fixed before the backward compatibility guarantee was made, but he left too early.

Didn't know about the CopperheadOS incident, too bad such a situation happened to him. Good to see it's kinda resolved now.
And even without A/B testing, there's obvious user experience reasons to evenly split traffic among alternate routes with about the same travel time.
I tried it out today. It does disengage, but only at the very limit, which is why I must not have noticed it before. And when it does disengage, it surges forward disconcertingly fast, so I'm not too convinced by its usefulness or safety.
But my "system" isn't AOSP. It's my OEM's specific packaging of AOSP along with Google services and other components. Why should the line be drawn around AOSP specifically?
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Slowdive!
5% back on only Amazon with a $120 annual fee (prime) is not very good.
A few other ways to find WISPs in the U.S.:

http://www.wispa.org/Directories/Find-a-WISP

https://broadbandnow.com/

BroadbandNow uses data reported by ISPs to the FCC. Disclaimer: I do have a relationship with BroadbandNow, they sponsor a website that I run.
For completeness' sake: even power users cannot really do with their devices as they please, if they don't happen to be kernel hackers with a few months' worth of time to spare.

If google was trying to hit some sweet spot (I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here any longer) then they would not spout such obviously wrong BS to scare users into submission. Conversations and telegram both put the work into doing push notifications The Right Way (TM) so scaring users about this is stupid at best.
People posts simple projects, learning projects, projects that are inadvertently a dupe of some other project, projects that are deliberately patterned after existing projects, etc, etc, etc all the time.
It's highly unlikely that Amazon or Apple "had no idea how to comply with banking regulations".
Yep it's actually mentioned somewhere in the paper:

Chari et al. [10] introduced template attacks as a strong
form of side-channel attacks. They first collect side-channel
traces from an attacker-controlled device, the so-called template. Then, they collect a single trace from an identical device
processing an unknown secret. The unknown secret can then
be recovered by comparing the trace to the recorded templates.
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This is a MUCH better writeup than this recently submitted link. I remember reading it at the time, very well done.
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Are you really failing to make a distinction between individuals and corporations? Or is there something in your argument that I missed?
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This data says that Android is bigger.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
I see a lot of people complaining about Mac Pro not for them and iMac / Pro doesn't fit their needs / price point.

Is there any reason why Apple isn't considering the option of using AMD?
check back in few months
I've always wondering if this was a money issue (ex: how expensive holidays can be), or a stress issue (ex: distracted about the 20 things that need to get done today before the inlaws arrive / deadlines because of employees being out of office)
Radiohead's discography has been this for me with almost every album. The most jarring changes were between The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A: each time I hated their 'new sound' at first and then eventually they became one of those albums that I just default to when I can't decide what else I might want to listen to.

The closest analogue in movies, I suppose, are the Coen Brothers. I wish there was a word for the feeling of listening to/watching/reading something, disliking it, but knowing that you'll probably end up loving it.
Regardless of whether humanity caused this or not, we ought to be sequencing the DNA of all of these species in the event that we survive the climate shift.

If the conservative talk radio is right that humans aren't causing a shift or that there isn't a shift at all, great! We'll still want to be able to study the DNA of these extinct species to improve our understanding of living systems.
I'm firmly in the "you own your body" camp.

But we have to admit that ok, hanging yourself in your cell should be fine, because of this logic.

The reason it's not is political: looks a lot better to have somebody run a story "those horrible prisons are making prisoners eat!" than it is "two-hundred inmates supposedly hung themselves last year because they had the right to"

This is a political battle the prisoner is having with the jail: I am unhappy and ready to die. Make my life just a tiny bit more bearable or I will die in a way that makes you look bad.

I could go into a long rant about all the problems of the American system of jurisprudence. There are tons. We've lost our way on the reasons for prisons and the purpose of incarceration, amongst a lot of other related matters. I still think these folks should have absolute control over their bodies. If it looks bad? Well, it looks bad for a very good reason.

Political systems exist for political reasons. People forget that and ascribe all sorts of things to these systems they never deserved even when they were working well. We need a lot of reform. I wish these folks the best of luck.
I don't know the ins and outs of this, but wouldn't that still mean that the app would have to rely on google infrastructure to do push notifications? That might be a fix for the licensing problem, but it wouldn't address the problem that that would move virtually all remaining google-free (-ish) messengers into googles direction, with the potential for centrally siphoning of (meta-) data
WeWorks multiple is irrelevant when it is losing money every quarter. This current era is redolent of the dying embers of the dot com boom - over leveraged loss makers trying to go public to pay back vast sums of borrowing from investors
Mostly importantly, because pretty every company and platform will turn on you when it's politically/legally convenient for them.

We've seen it all the time on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Suddenly a post or video that's fine legally is blocked/removed because the angry mob is complaining about it with torches and pitchforks. A video or piece of content that's arguably under fair use is removed because a large compant files a claim or strike, legality be damned.

Having your own platform is a significant advantage there. It means you're a lot tougher to get rid of when the angry social media mob forms over something 'wrong' you said/did in the past, and many, many companies will not risk legal action by going after an independently hosted site/service.

Obviously that doesn't mean the site is invincible. A determined enough adversary can put pressure on hosting companies/registrars/cloudflare, and a DMCA notice can lead to a court case as well.

But many won't go to that level of effort, or depend on these platforms being willing to turn on their users at the drop of a dime.

Yeah that's not for everyone, and admittedly many users would fine on these platforms. But anyone even remotely likely to get into any type of controversy would certainly be best to own their own platform.