skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only reason I have the 'pro' version is the "safety" feature that lets my wife know where I am, approximately.

>Anyone got a good alternative for that?

Take a look at Life360. You don't need the paid version to do what you're asking for.
Wow yeah looks like you’d need an RTX titan, which are $2500. Crazy expensive.
I'm quite satisfied with it. I put time into it that I was able, and no more than that; and for that time put into it, it is good.

I have a private TODO list, in point form, that is over 1300 lines long, so there is no shortage of stuff to do.

There was never supposed to be Lisp dialect, object system, FFI, or any of those things; it really was just a specialized text extraction tool.

A decade and 5200 commits later, it's interesting that I'm the only contributor (of any logic). There have only been doc fixes.

I also didn't think that a decade later, there would be more than 5200 commits, almost all of them from only me. There have been only some half dozen contributions from outsiders: most of them documentation issues, and something in the configure script. Third party code I've brought in, of which there isn't much, I took over as if they were my own. I've kind of gotten used to it being that way; if that ever changes, it will be big adjustment from "everything here is mine".
Check out Sendy: sendy.co

As a business that sends emails infrequently, it's probably saved me hundreds/thousands and it has good instructions to set it up with SES. One-time (ish) fee, until you need to upgrade to the next major version.
> Then we moved on to restoring the WAF functionality. Because of the sensitivity of the situation we performed both negative tests (asking ourselves “was it really that particular change that caused the problem?”) and positive tests (verifying the rollback worked) in a single city using a subset of traffic after removing our paying customers’ traffic from that location.

Haha, so the free customers are crash test dummies for providing test traffic. Nice.

I actually don't mind that much, considering it's basically bulletproof DDoS protection for free. I'd much rather "be the product" in this way than in the way ad companies cause at least.
Wow, dude really goes all out to explain / prove it politely.

Thanks for the video. Never heard of Veritasium before, now one of my new favorite youtubers
there you go: https://cloudkernels.net/rpi4-64-bit-kvm-docker.img.xz
sha1sum: 1b96a6be5256182eaceb5894fb993c8ffce8c2a2

it's quite beefy, 2.5GB -- apologies for that. We should be able to craft a much smaller image based on the ubuntu server release. Apparently, something was off about mounting the root partition on the first boot, so we went with our original image.
HN starterpack: Dunning-Kruger Betteridge Streisand Godwin Effect. Say "conflate" a lot too
One reason I really like the 1 based indexing is that I can have a UInt index and 0 can act as a sentinel value. Really nice for writing things like vector embedded linked lists.
On top of that you have academic and work achievement put on pedestal. And not, say, being a decent social human being.
No?

Consider the phrase "we need to be cautious about vaccinations." That's true. Everyone agrees that that's true. The medical system is set up to be cautious about vaccinations.

You can say it without being an anti-vaxxer at all, and support the current vaccination scheme.

But an anti-vaxxer will say that we need to be cautious well beyond what has been demonstrated to be a correct level of caution.

So, if someone makes that statement you CANNOT TELL if someone is an anti-vaxxer or not. You must look to the larger context.

Similarly, a non-racist can make the statement "that more blacks have a lower IQ can be seen as a lambasting of the system, and empathy towards the black community".

But so can a racist. A racist who accepts the decades of racially biased IQ testing might conclude that we need to treat blacks with special empathy the way that children or pets need empathy, and lambast the system of racial equality put into place by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as being unrealistic.

Thus, your interpretation cannot, by itself, be read as something that only non-racists would agree with.

Even if non-racists CAN and DO agree with it.

Looking at the larger context of Raymond's writings, he's a racist. Not an overt racist in the George Wallace mold, but clearly a racist along the lines of the pseudoscientific "scientific racism" which has long since been disproven.
Their Economics 2.0 paper showing how new tokens will be issued / mined / grow and the expected modeling isn't out yet - or do you have a pointer to it?
Do you have any particular KVM switch recommendations?
H.R. 1044 Increases the per-country numerical limitation for H-1B immigrants
Unexpected things are bound to happen. But, one thing that stuck out to me is that you dont seem to have a safe way to test changes (which would have prevented the second failure). Are there no other environments to test changes on? Is there no way to incrementally roll-out? Is there not another environment which can step in in place of a failing one while you investigate? These seem like fairly common industry practices which help you deal with unexpected failures, but I dont see a mention of if/why these practices failed and if/how that is being remediated.
Bird, like Uber before it, is ultimately making a play that in part includes skirting regulation at first, and then pivoting to regulatory capture and alliances with companies who benefit from its services. Just as Uber was practically unlicensed cabs until saturation made it oftentimes politically untenable to ban, entire new regulations were created to fit Uber going forward, and Uber now delivers people to stores and food out of restaurants. In some places, it even has government contracts to serve as a substitute for transit.

Bird is dumping these scooters in cities, and is now working with them to become the preferred provider who is allowed to do this in that city, while others aren't allowed yet. Having that head start is a significant advantage in capturing marketshare. And while a second or later mover can come along and dump their own scooters and convince people to get their app, Bird can then choose to leverage their relationships with governments and businesses and dent the progress of an upstart.

The whole point of VC funding is to build out the capital-intensive parts quickly and develop moats that make switching to later comers difficult. Discussions about how Uber has no moat come up from time to time, but ventures like Uber Eats that form a captive market are demonstrably moat-like. The real question is whether Bird can develop such a moat, or is simply laying the groundwork for some other knockoff to come along later, by which time Bird is low on cash, and all hurdles that would have impacted similar companies have been cleared by Bird.
Here's their What Went Wrong:

1. An engineer wrote a regular expression that could easily backtrack enormously.
2. A protection that would have helped prevent excessive CPU use by a regular expression was removed by mistake during a refactoring of the WAF weeks prior—a refactoring that was part of making the WAF use less CPU.
3. The regular expression engine being used didn’t have complexity guarantees.
4. The test suite didn’t have a way of identifying excessive CPU consumption.
5. The SOP allowed a non-emergency rule change to go globally into production without a staged rollout.
6. The rollback plan required running the complete WAF build twice taking too long.
7. The first alert for the global traffic drop took too long to fire.
8. We didn’t update our status page quickly enough.
9. We had difficulty accessing our own systems because of the outage and the bypass procedure wasn’t well trained on.
10. SREs had lost access to some systems because their credentials had been timed out for security reasons.
11. Our customers were unable to access the Cloudflare Dashboard or API because they pass through the Cloudflare edge.

Here's my version of what went wrong:

1. The process for composing complex regular expressions is "engineer tries to shove a lot of symbols into a line" rather than "compile/compose regex programmatically from individual matches"
2. Production services had no service health watchdog (the kind of thing that makes systemd stop re-running services that repeatedly hang/die)
3. Performance testing/quality assurance not done before releasing changes (this is not CI/CD)
4. No gradual rollout
5. No testing of rollbacks
6. Lack of emergency response plans / training

All of these things are completely common, by the way, so they're in no way surprising. Budget has to actually be set aside to continuously improve the reliability of a service, or it doesn't get done. These incidents are a good way to get that budget.

(Wrt the regex's, I know they're implementing a new system that avoids a lot of it, but in the new system they can still write regex's which (I think) should be constructed programmatically)
For some simple photo manipulation Gimp works - but it seems a lot harder to use. Plus it's missing non-destructive adjustment layers, and the brush engine is nowhere near as advanced as photoshop.

Inkscape is similar - everything is a little harder to do - and there's some basic things that don't seem to be in the application at all. Does Inkscape support multiple artboards yet? What about exporting multiple resolutions without duplicating the assets? The symbol support also was very lackluster when I used it last.

Krita lags horribly every time I've tried to use it.

I like the notion that there are open source replacements for these systems.. and I'd love to drop my $50+ per month subscription - but the alternatives aren't yet equivalents.
Hi callalex. Ben from 1Password here. I'd like to hear more about this situation. 1Password does indeed keep a local cache of your data and even if you cancel your subscription you continue to have read-only access. Would you mind reaching out to support@1password.com to elaborate?
All the neighbors are working and few are open to socializing. People are way too busy nowadays.
> Huh, I also work in downtown Seattle but have never experienced any of this.

You are fortunate and very lucky in this respect. But I would encourage you to stay situationally aware because the city is getting more dangerous and shit-filled.
I think you have it backwards? From a mathematical perspective, the constructivist framework is defined as "provable without the axiom of choice." Constructivists are very concerned with avoiding the axiom of choice.
You do realize that the minimum wage worker at your local phone store can setup a new phone with your number?

That they may have friends who they accidentally do this for?

That they may not detect the fake ID some random person with your name and number shows them?

Etc etc. None of this requires getting your phone.
I’ve had the same frustration recently and coded a working prototype in Elixir. I’d be happy to share.
How about a compromise and people start using the Halbrad [0] instead? It has the upright posture that scooter users seem to like with the pedal action that cyclists are used to, plus you can carry it on public transport. Disclaimer, I want these to take off so that the unit costs come down to the point that I can afford one.

0. https://halbrad.de/
Remember kids, drug use is an entirely personal matter that has no effect on anyone else.
Zheng is from Shanghai and has a B.S. from Fudan University, and Yang a Bachelor of Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, and so I don't think it's a stretch to expect that both are also Chinese nationals.
Does population size matter?

Per capita investment will be the same whether the population is 5 million or 50 million.
That's not exactly correct. Ryanair expect to make about $50 per passenger one way.

Though even at profitability, the flights in EU are typically cheaper.

Flights in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus are very expensive... They are in Europe as well.
This page has some resources that should get you started: http://featureflags.io/resources/

There are lots of open-source feature flag options. Most are probably better thought of as 'libraries' than 'services', but they can definitely get you going with feature flags.
Using an AOL or Hotmail Email Makes You Unhireable
that's crazy about LastPass. It was a decent product for its time, but password managers evolved quite quickly over the past few years.

My beef with 1Pass is that they charged around $35 - $50 for their standalone product during the exodus, and about a year later moved to their subscription platform --- pretty much abandoning development for the standalone users. The OSX application was far less buggy than the Windows client. And when you needed to grab a new copy of the standalone client, it was buried on their site in a FAQ.

1Pass should have offered a few months for free to pull the standalone folks over to the new service, but instead they said 'we don't have any offers, but feel free to contact sales' -- which is a difficult sell when compared to the newly polished Bitwarden that works on all systems and browsers out of the box without any requirement for payment or a subscription.

All this said, we're technical people, so we're more aware of sketchy practices and are quick to jump to different products, and may not be their target -- especially with their previous lack of Linux support.
djb (2009)
More recent source in April mentions:

> Only with renewable energies, this country has been operating for more than 6 months. The heavy rains in the region have allowed the country to completely renounce fossil fuels, and to feed almost entirely on the electricity generated from 4 hydroelectric plants – with a little extra help from geothermal, solar green energy and wind projects. With a little more investment, this trend can be maintained over time.

https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-is-running-only-with...
Microsoft rolls back decision to take away internal usage rights from partners
The thing I found somewhat baffling is that they didn't renew the certificate because they were certain that Firefox wasn't checking the certificate expiration. I'm wondering why they didn't renew the certificate and then implement a certificate expiration check.

I don't mean to be too harsh, but that part of the post-mortem reads like, "Oh, we don't need to renew our intermediate signing certificate because there's a known security vulnerability in Firefox that allows us to get around it."
Hi chrischen. Ben from 1Password here. We do support standalone licensing and vaults in the latest versions. Please reach out to us at support@1password.com for more details. We definitely want to encourage everyone to use the latest versions, which is one of the reasons membership is such a big push for us (as it includes access to all of the latest versions).
Yes, agree ! We send around 700k emails / day with no issues :) thanks for Phplist!
Instagram Outage Caused Chaos at Paris Fashion Week
GPU cluster? You might need to tweak the pytorch code, but you can disperse across multiple GPUs very easily with pytorch.
Ownership comes with significant inconveniences like having to transport and lock it up outside wherever you're going. A major convenience of Bird / Lime / etc is being able to just grab one at any location and then just leave it wherever when you're done, and not have to worry about these things.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Judgment of Atlantis, Episode 3 Release Timing Revealed
Leaving Internet Explorer installed on a Windows machine is like buying an old building and not removing the "whites only" sign from the bathrooms.
Ask HN: YC and Startup School Interest in Game Startups?
I've noticed that YC has funded some game startups, but they're pretty rare. If I'm interested in applying to Startup School or YC's core program with a game startup, what are some key features YC looks for that distinguish a game startup from just a bunch of people making games?

Games-as-a-service is the most obvious path to scalability and to a billion-dollar valuation, but what other factors would come into play?

For reference (off the top of my head):

Accepted as a game company and still is:
- MZ (accepted under a different name)
- Humble Bundle
- Windwalk Games (very recently)

Accepted not as a game company, pivoted to games:
- OMGPOP (originally IMINLIKEWITHYOU, a social network/dating site?)

Accepted as a game company, pivoted to something else:
- OneSignal

(Not counting Twitch because they don't make or sell games.)
Similar. I got to meet most of extended family at least once, some relatively often. We're spread out but in clusters. This helps if anyone wants to move and it helps keep in touch.

(Some went to another country, we haven't heard much of them - distance can still be a barrier and culture in Western Europe is different.)
nope! awesome.
Some of their article titles are still hilarious, like http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie
The intro to this Svelte (JS framework) conference talk discusses the miracle of Spreadsheet reactivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao
Interesting timing, I just read about the Scooters Richmond, VA seized last year about to be sold at auction. [1]

Obviously the $70k in scooters they're losing here won't break them, but scooters are now legal in Richmond, so one would assume Bird could just pay their fines and get them back now. My guess is they already wrote them off last year so they just don't care, but it's not a good look for them.

[1] https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/07/11/flipping-birds-flock...
How can WINE ever be as good as Windows when it is forever doomed to play catchup with a vast team of developers and decades of secret compatibility hacks that make Windows behave differently for different applications on purpose? I know that the hacks exist in a special shim layer and Windows has a database of applications that require certain sets of shims enabled. But details like an actual documentation of the individual shims are secret.
Alternatively, they could move to secured cloud services; what with encryption at rest, nightly backups, and inactive file storage.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bobby-bonilla-was-more-...

Sorry, there's a whole lot of context that my previous statement leaves out, as well as me framing it very poorly.

No, the real value of the contract (because of interest) is greater than the amount he was owed (adjusted for inflation). By that math, the Mets payed more than they should have and you are correct.
In case you missed, LLVM and GCC enjoy lots of contributions from amateurs.

Maybe they should stop accepting them then.
Much like a car or bike as you go from A > B > C > ... the scooter you own is where you are and thus where you want it to be.

And just like car rentals for regular users ownership is much cheaper. Tourism or some other niche maker surely exists, but the overhead assuming they need to break even is huge.
I think also knowing which streets to avoid entirely are good too. Each street has its own vibe and always has. 3rd and pike was bad way back in 2000's in ways that are similar to now. The ambient level of visibly homeless, and more importantly those in actively crisis has gone way up IMO--and you can't really avoid that.

Be interesting and depresisng to make map for people to use like that but I am not sure how it wouldn't devolve into fearmongering like nextdoor does.

I feel bad for the occasional wide eyed family from the burbs I see walking streets even I wouldn't dare tread on from my car or lyft.

edited typo
Similar experience here.

Not to mention the seemingly-continuous/mysterious "update bandwidth". When I boot up a Windows machine at my vacation condo with a 2Mbps DSL line (okay, yeah, but it's all I can get), it sucks it completely dry for an hour or more, with nothing about updates or anything meaningful appearing on the Windows screen at all.

What's it doing? Who knows.

edit: clarity
It was speculation. We were looking at sudden massive CPU use all over the world. Since we do staged deploys that shouldn't happen yet...
> the older I get the more I want to be alone

That was my first thought, as well - I have a wife and two teenaged kids, and they drain absolutely all of my free time. I keep reminding myself that I should be taking advantage and enjoying this time that I have to spend with them because in a few years, they’ll be away and I won’t see them very often, but I do feel like I would like just an hour here and there to pick what channel to watch and not have to debate about it. I wonder if I’ll feel differently when I finally get to that point, though - I am sure that I’m going to miss my kids when they move away, because I already miss having little kids running around the house (even though they sort of drove me crazy at the time then, too).
Incredibly well written, thank you.
Database of 780 Files Signatures: 3 lines Python wraper
Hi EmersonL. Ben from 1Password here. I'm sorry for the confusion. 1Password 7 and 1Password X are very different offerings. 1Password X is a membership-only browser extension that does not require a desktop application. It is great for folks on Linux or ChromeOS who cannot use one of our desktop applications. Those who are on Mac/Windows who are using either membership or standalone are likely to better enjoy 1Password 7 which can offer a richer experience and better integration with the host operating system.
Costa Rica has a tropical climate.

> Because Costa Rica is located between 8 and 12 degrees north of the Equator, the climate is tropical year round.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica
The groups 'homeless due to housing affordability' and 'homeless due to mental health or drug problems'

As housing prices rise, there are people with mental health or drug issues who are largely stable who lose their housing and then become unstable. There are government organizations and nonprofits that can now provide less units of housing to the same people because their money doesn't go as far. There are people who are just at the edge of stability and whom their local community is stabalizing and for whom moving to new affordable housing destabilizes. There are halfway houses that seeing too many needful people turn out problematic people they might've otherwise tolerated because they can bring in less problematic people who equally need help.
Apple has a lot of inconveniences that pile up. I want to like their ecosystem to the point where I dropped thousands of dollars to be here - but there's SO many day to day issues that I can't stay. My next laptop will most likely be a linux laptop and leaving my production workflows on windows on my desktops.

If they would pay attention to the usability of their machines they'd be amazing. But I can't afford pay thousands of dollars to work slower.
Apologies in advance if someone has already commented about this, but it would appear that Zoom removed that local web server feature for the MacOS version a few days ago:

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Current Release
July 9, 2019 Version 4.4.53932.0709

New and Enhanced Features

-General Features

--Option to uninstall Zoom
Zoom users can now uninstall the Zoom application and all of its components through the settings menu.

-Resolved Issues

--Removal of the local web server
Zoom will be discontinuing the use of a local web server on Mac and will be completely removed from the Zoom installation.
--Minor Bug Fixes
(https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361963-New-Upda...)
My wife (who is from Oregon) and I were seriously thinking of moving to Seattle a few years ago. We flew over to go to a few job interviews and see friends. She was attacked by an aggressive (luckily slow) drunk person within 12 hours of being back. I love the city, and would love to move there, but she gave it a hard veto after that experience.
So, point two would mean that, in an environment that regards VC finding as success, any good idea, in the sense of getting VC funds, would optimize to tick the right boxes, wouldn't it?