skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great example of why tech needs regulation. Normal people get hurt when risks aren’t disclosed in an effective manner. You should absolutely file a class action lawsuit and I bet they’ll settle just to avoid the bad press.

If this crappy, unethical business practice becomes widely known I doubt people will keep using them.
What's your point? Is your thesis that those with mental illness make excuses everywhere?
> No way for Apple to know you are calling https://sometwiddle.com is nefarious or not, at runtime

They could blacklist the common tracking app's domains/IPs. It might be futile since I'm sure they'd jump IPs daily/hour/etc if they need to. Perhaps they have a better way to detect them during app approval. Either way, the point is that Apple is trying to combat tracking in safari but it seems like they've completely missed this attack surface and that might be why they're being targeted.

But you're still right that a better article would also investigate Android apps since they're surely doing the same thing.
> according to what you just said, is too personal

That is not what I said!

I said it can be, and then I clarified with: There are a variety of things that can be classified under "blaming a team" so I can't give it a blanket okay/not okay.

I see the tweet. I call this case not personal. He's pointing the blame at large groups inside someone else's opaque company.

If you're pointing at a blob of 100+ people (like you said, support is also being blamed) then you're not making it personal.

> Was there anything in this situation that was gained by Prince calling these people out in these tweets?

People know what company to blame (a good thing), but nobody outside that company even knows how many teams, let alone specifics about the people on those teams (an acceptable thing). Overall positive.

> Would it not have been just as effective at calling out Verizon (while being less unprofessional and less personally malicious) if those tweets had been less vitriolic?

Being less vitriolic would not make it more or less personally targeted.

I'm not sure if the vitriol helped exactly but I think Verizon did enough to deserve it that there's no need to berate Cloudflare for the vitriol itself.

> Why does CF have a license to be petty but VZ apparently does not?

Presuming I even agree with your definition of pettiness, the problem is not the pettiness itself, but the actions they take or don't take.

It's not terrible for VZ to be petty as long as they still fix their broken equipment.
> If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. For this reason, don’t trust a company with a trust page.

A true sign of what the Web has become
Cache/mirror for now: http://archive.is/6ipJB
I don't know what india has, but i can assure you that India's doctors would all emigrate to the US if they could work as a doctor there.
"I would expect people protesting in front of their homes 24 hours per day. And covering their cars with rotten eggs when they went out."

Honestly that would be letting them off too easy, they need to be dragged in front of a court and be made to explain their behavior to the loved ones of victims that had died from this. They also need to be sentenced to a few thousand hours of first hand volunteer work that directly deals with people impacted by this. Seeing first hand the cost of their greed might knock some sense in to these people, if that won't I'm not sure what will.
True. But Oracle is exceptionally good at it.
Your phone will just use its cellular data connection if it doesn't have wifi, which drains your battery more.
College Baseball’s Tech Arms Race
This seems to ignore the incredible numbers of testimonials from very sick patients who say marijuana improves their quality of life by reducing anxiety, and/or increasing appetite, and/or reducing pain with few long term side effects.

It also conveniently ignores that you can ingest cannabinoids in a variety of methods besides smoking.

And the fact that there are an absolute ton of “FDA Approved” products which have barely gone through any of the rigor you’ve talked about which is why there are all those commercials on TV about “have you or a loved one suffered acute bronchitis as a result of taking prophylactyse?”

As well as the incredible lists of side effects even well studied drugs seem to have which is why all the other drug commercials end with “Side effects may include internal bleeding, gastrointestinal distress, ...”.

All that being said, I’d love to see more research, why not?
Norwegian e-commerce website with terrible layout
Treat it as anything stolen. Go to the police with the serial number of your camera and any proof of your property like photos, videos or so. Exiftool is your friend. They probably will discover a vault of many other stolen objects in the same place.
Qt. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. Supports at least one high-level programming language very well (Python). Has good tooling and a lot of support.

It's LGPL, which is fine for most cases. But you could always buy a commercial license.
i was only thinking about this a few days ago. ive been using reason on and off since version 4 and i have never finished a song!
it was the same when i played guitar. i was never really interested in making music for other people and i got a lot more enjoyment out of just noodling around
modern DC-DC is already 96+% efficient. LiPo charging is well understood too. Where is the extra efficiency coming from, other than the hot air out of the marketing department room?
> The problem is that they fail differently than humans do

That is a great argument for giving such a model as an aid to a human doctor. Together they will be better then either one alone.
Could you clarify what US journalists President Trump has assisted in murdering?
Another interesting discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332918
Guns were involved, that is why OJ went to jail.

If OJ walked in to the room without guns or "muscle", saw his stuff, then walked out and called the police, he would have been okay.
This is what I do. If an app doesn't need an internet connection, it can't access the internet.
I've actually tried this. The doctors and office staff will always claim they don't know how much any of their services cost. They will stubbornly stonewall you if you escalate. I've gotten into an actual shouting match with a doctor over this and ended up getting banned from his clinic. Go ahead and threaten to go to another doctor: They don't care because they know every other practice will stonewall you about anything cost-related as well.

No clinic will even let you sign up as a new patient anymore unless you sign their form that essentially says "You agree to pay any amount that we decide you owe. If we make a mistake, tough luck. If you can't afford it, tough luck."
Has Verizon responded in any capacity yet?
I wonder how this will run on Xbox. I've been out of PC gaming for a while now and no way this will run on my current PC. It would be sweet if you could hook up a flight stick to an Xbox and play this.
This article captures one of the biggest problems I've seen in the discussion about Libra, which is that everyone has been writing it off as a currency that Facebook can control. In reality, Facebook's control is limited to being equal to the other members of the Association. Facebook controls the Calibra wallet, _not_ the currency as a whole.

The thing that really drove this point home for me was when I browsed to both websites. Browsing to the Calibra wallet website, the entire site broke because I have blackholed all Facebook and tracking domains through NextDNS. When I browsed to the Libra website to view the whitepaper, everything worked just fine. This is a great demonstration of who is in control of what.

That being said, I think this article also outlines the clear incentives as to why Facebook would like to promote Libra in the first place, which is the data they have the potential to gather through the Calibra wallet.
The article mentions one.
In my experience as a Cameo customer, the videos are received very well as a gag gift. "OMG, I can't believe you got them to make me a video!"

To me, the open question is if the novelty factor will wear off. I don't think I would ever get the same person a second Cameo. I'm not even sure if I would keep buying Cameos if the service was well-known. A big part of the gag is "How did you pull that off?!" Maybe there are enough birthdays that it just doesn't matter.
On the other hand, cheap micro SD cards and thumb drives hold far more than CDs or DVDs.
Well to me it is thing that should not be done at all, instead of doing it diligently.

I will put this in category of 'The secret of good user tracking on web', 'the secret of doing quality journalism on ads supported model' or 'the secret of nuanced political debate on Twitter' etc.
He mentions mobile and internationalization. In both cases hiring consultants may be more reliable than trying to build the expertise in-house.

I've become the de facto internationalization expert at several companies and it's always rough. Everyone wants sentence structure to be simple and will fight you when you insist on something like interpolation instead of fancy string concatenation. Like Yoda, you will sound. Hmm!

And then there are straight up dodges like using Arabic numbers for everything in Japan because they have multiple counting systems. Apples and humans use different words when counting.

At the very least you will hire outside people to do the translations after you get the code in place to utilize them.
NFS can not use the entire raw bandwidth for application data, and it is very likely that mplayer compresses its filesystem calls instead of making a perfectly spaced stream of them.

Also, Ethernet does simply stops working way before 100% of the bandwidth is used.

I don't know why you expect things to run smoothly at 50% utilization.
Am I the only one who is irritated with the typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors in the KitSplit screenshots he shared? Things like "When renters rent your gear, they're also required to use a credit card which and we use to secure payment processor that includes fraud protection services." -- note the "which and we"*. There are several of these. It just strikes me as a hobbled together startup; that would be a red flag to me. That said, I know it's unreasonable to expect users to comb through all of the documentation looking for such things.... Although un-hopeful, I do hope this guy gets his gear/money back.
The page load took a second, on a desktop tethered to 4G. Chrome says "1.6MB transferred, 6.7MB resources" presumably because Google Analytics was a cache hit. Much of that is obfuscated-looking Ember containing some SVG and JSON inlined.

A ctrl-R only loads about 20kb but still takes about half a second to render.
This is how all the free specialty tools rentals at the auto parts stores works.

You don't have to bring it back unless you want your money back.
Or more if we're talking about the slice of the market that are of the type to be interested in indie hacking projects... aka exactly the sort of people that want a editor they can hack on, or whatever.
It's easy to an incredible amount of damage to a property.

For example, close a drain and turn on a faucet.
Then they also need departments for checking the authenticity of the claims as well. Insurance isn’t easy.
I think a lot more effort in public perception needs to be made in separating the actual drug from the most common method of absorbing it, which is recreationally smoking it. There has been a lot of advances in drug delivery over the past few decades, we probably should use one that doesn't fuck your lungs
As someone who doesn’t own a car or fly anywhere because of climate change I don’t think you can accuse me of short term thinking.
So what you actually need is the ability to change your address online. Not the ability to go into a physical branch removed.
As a person who isn't a professional coder. Fuck me this thread is depressing.

When I was working as a chef: out of a 12 hour shift, perhaps 9-10 hours were full on.

When I worked on the docks(forklift driver/unloading by hand), 7-8 hours full on out of a 10 hour shift.

As an eikawa teacher, a little better, 40% full on teaching, 20% prep and the last 40 bullshitting.(I hated that job).

My current job, 9 hour shift, 4-5 teaching, 2+ prep and creating future classes, rest meetings or bullshitting/lunch.

Today: 5 hours prep for current week/future courses, 3 hours classes, 4 hours meetings(random day today).

I was thinking tonight about how my workload had changed and it seemed much better, but damn.

I don't even know how to put this into words at this point, without sounding too conceited, but I cannot fathom a reason for anyone here to complain about overwork :-p
That's pretty much exactly how the transition is for me:

Dear Customer,

Since Oracle acquired Dyn in 2016 and subsequently acquired Zenedge. The engineering teams have been working diligently to integrate Dyn’s products and network into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. A majority of Dyn products have now been integrated and upgraded on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Accordingly, DynDNS Pro/Remote Access is decoupling from the Dyn brand and business unit this summer, and will remain a business unit within Oracle.

Your organization has the right to access and use DynDNS Pro/Remote Access. This product will continue to be available from Oracle without any disruption of service and no action is required on your part at this time.
> which is unlikely in this case: smoke causes cancer in general

You do understand that you can get the effects of marijuana without smoking it right? Edibles do exist.
Well, there have been stories where folks clear out the apartment completely or significantly damage the apartments. A quick search for "airbnb stolen property" on Google will yield a few results.
> The wholesale cost in the developing world is about US$6.06 to US$7.44 per month.[5] In the United States, as of 2016, the wholesale cost is about US$1,415.00 per month.

Considering that the alternative is simply not having unprotected sex, it is hard to convince people that they should subsidize this in rich countries. This is by design, or else we won't have drugs at all
> This is one of the reasons I dropped out of crypto for years, most of its supporters were completely delusional and tragically uninformed about actual banks.

I don't think you understand bitcoin as well as you think you do. 51% attacks do not work like this.
How did you fix your sleep problem? And if they both disappeared at the same time, how can you be certain that your not the one mixing up cause and effect?
What I found most shocking is that if KitSplit claims that less than 0.1% of rentals result in voluntary parting, why not cover this person's losses?

Maybe covering voluntary parting would result in too many fraudulent claims. If that's the case, they should clearly explain that theft is not covered and perhaps offer an insurance supplement.
> As long as people keep looking at this through a "market" lens, or through a "just make it single payer" lens, the problem will never be solved

There is definitely a sort of impasse on both ideological positions. The forces that be for some reason have not agreed to test out their ideas: a public option and deregulation simultaneously. But neither policy is popular in neither party.

I disagree with your diagnosis, but I'm willing to do a policy that satisfies both your ideas and mine. Support a public option that will not have the issues you mention, and let me have my unlicensed, foreign, cash-pay, non-subsidized doctors, non-FDA meds and malpractice waivers.
This is not the meaning of an exponential function but merely a property of exponential function with a base > 1.
I once tried to figure out why two visits to the doctor, apparently exactly the same, by the same person, were billed different sum. The difference wasn't significant monetarily - it was about $20-30 or so - but I wanted to understand how much that visit is supposed to cost. It was an HMO, so there's no question of negotiation or anything - they are setting their own prices. Still, nobody could give me the answer. I called several time, and I spoke to five or so different people, and all I got is "yeah, you've been billed right, there's no mistake" (not what I asked!) and "well, that's how much it costs" and indeterminate mumble. Nobody ever could explain me where these prices come from, where I could see them upfront, and how I am supposed to know which visit will cost me how much. It's basically "you come, and we bill you later whatever we want and you hope it's not too much".

Interestingly enough, in dental medicine everybody seems to be completely able to give the full price upfront, and explain all out-of-pocket costs before I even start talking to the doctor. I wonder what's so different there that can't be replicated elsewhere.
OK, let's test this. This site banning pro-abortion would be OK? My point is the left is fine banning the right on moral grounds, but if the right bans the left then it's bigotry, free speech suppression, and a different set of morals. Of course the inverse is also true (right gladly bans the left). It's all hypocrisy - that's what I'm calling out.
How come a company doesn't require enough enough from the scammers to track them down and get the camera back?

This company is literally doing nothing to help them. I feel so sad looking at this entire thing, not only he lost his camera but also wasted so much time with zero support offered by the company.
The text on the trust page linked in the article https://kitsplit.com/trust, does not specifically protect the equipment lender:

> KitSplit Short Term Insurance and Damage Coverage Options:

> Accidents happen, but on KitSplit you are always covered. Owners: rest assured that we require renters to purchase insurance, a damage waiver, or leave a full deposit. Renters: you have the choice of three kinds of coverage: you can purchase short-term coverage through our site, you can upload a certificate of insurance, or you can leave a deposit for the value of the equipment. Read more about coverage here.
This is pretty bad on KitSplit's part. How can they even advertise that the owner is covered by a full deposit if the owner doesn't get compensated with it upon theft?

That's blatant misleading advertising, hope this blows up on them.
Voice is solved? Then wider hall cunt my giggle nexus ever get thaddeus tribbleshits?
I just use a regular clunky 650VA UPS with a lead acid battery. Disadvantage is size, but they do seem to work and the batteries last long enough. Most have USB output for getting info on what the UPS is doing, battery level etc, which you can then connect to the Pi.
I absolutely love how unique and fun this is to use. Wouldn't be surprised that the design is so anti/archaic that it converts well for its audience (how else would it still be around?).
This is absolutely fucked. Surely they can be sued for something. If you setup a go fund me I’ll put some cash in.
> No government is going to let FB and any coalition do an end run around their national currency

China allows WeChat Pay and Alipay to be predominant methods of payment, so it's not obvious to me that new payment methods threaten governments.

What, precisely, is the threat?

And what, exactly, can governments do to stop companies from offering their own scrip?

Would they outlaw Venmo? Gift cards? Airline miles?
AWS VPC and Link Encryption
Actually the growth is on the exponent. The exponent isn't a constant.
==But now that it's getting more popular, it seems to me the value of it being unique would get washed out fast.==

Or, the prices will rise and Cameo revenue will increase. Each celeb has only so many hours in a day, so there is an upper-bound on the number of Cameo's they can realistically record.

From Crain's Chicago [1]: "On average, customers are paying $62 per video, nearly triple the amount just 12 months ago. Cameo keeps 25 percent."

==Like being able to invite them to parties, or events, and pay them for an actual true "cameo." It would obviously come with a price, but to me, that would be much more innovative.==

Isn't this idea basically the Fyre app? It seems like Cameo took a solid route, it will be interesting to see where this round takes them.

[1] https://www.chicagobusiness.com/john-pletz-technology/cameo-...
I do embedded, real-time and distributed product development for clients in the commercial, enterprise, aviation, defense, and big science domains. I probably own two dozen Pis of various vintages (and just ordered one of the new Pi 4 models). It's my go-to platform for prototyping, especially for ARM-based systems. I keep one on my LAN just to regression and unit test software that I otherwise developed on an Intel platform. I've also used Pis in devices that are more-or-less permanently deployed, like an NTP server that uses a GPS-disciplined chip-scale cesium atomic clock as its oscillator, and a home-built WWVB clock. I'm currently using three Pis in a Differential GNSS system I'm prototyping.
The upfront costs of building out an insulin production facility and getting it FDA approved are quite high. Especially because insulin and insulin-analogs are large molecules that are hard to prove are biologically equivalent to their patented versions. Which is made even more difficult by a large number of patents surrounding the manufacturing process the brand name company uses to produce it.
I think your interpretation of what I said is disingenuous.
According to the paper, their laser pulse rate is 500kHz; if they're writing a single 1 bit per pulse, and half the bits are 1 bits, and there's no coding overhead from something like 8b/10b, that's 125 kilobytes per second, so 10 seconds per 1.2 megabyte 5¼" DSHD floppy. At this rate, filling the 360-terabit capacity of the disc would take 11 years. You would not expect such a slow storage system to be able to compete in the market with 50-megabyte-per-second SD cards, unless data retention of centuries or more was a key selling point, so the fact that such storage systems have failed in the market provides no evidence against the claims made in the paper.

Bubble memory, similarly, does work; it was just too slow to compete with DRAM and not dense enough to compete with spinning rust, except in a few niche applications.
How is kitsplit different from renting out your gear to random people on the street? They seem to provide no actual service and definitely not the most important one: security of your gear. What a waste of a company.
A few years ago, we needed to move 4 VMs from one host in a DC nearby to on-prem. They were in their own little IP subnet, and they ran this crappy software called CoPath from Cerner. The app, being written in PowerBuilder, it was a delicate app, and I called up Cerner to ask the best way to move these VMs since we'd need to change the IP address space they occupied. Cerner said they had no idea what might happen, it might work, or everything might break. The safest path was to reinstall in new VMs and move the data. It would be $25,000 to do that. I laughed, said I can get a new LIS system for taht including data import. They said they'd take that feedback to the quote team, never got another response.

I changed LIS systems, saved money.
I think Will Farrell achieved peak lampooning of this pattern with the bit about "With all due respect, <deeply offensive and derogatory comment>."

"I said, 'With all due respect'!"
I know the people who ran the stage three MS trials comparing whole plant vs sativex vs established medication, here in the UK. Trials are going forward and evidence is mounting up for THC and whole plant. Other than for THC, mostly via sativex, right now there is less evidence either way for CBD and other isolated cannibanoids as they have had far fewer trials.