skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
# Observed spamming large amounts of https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=NNNNNN
# and ignoring 429 ratelimit responses, claims to respect robots:
# http://mj12bot.com/
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

Coincidentally, I've just read more negative things about MJ12bot last week: http://boston.conman.org/2019/07/09.1
Show HN: Live Visitor Based Pricing Module
Except that the email at the beginning has the URL in it
JuliaCon 2019 Schedule
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As I have to say far too often to people:

"What does your contract [or in this case, purchase agreement] say?" If it is silent on the subject of updates, how would a court interpret the argument that you are entitled to free software updates? For how long?

The battery and powertrain warranty is specific. The remaining component warranty is specific. The amount of time you receive premium data for is specific. There is no language to my knowledge (I would have to pull the purchase agreement for my Model S out) that speaks to a purchaser's entitlement to software updates when purchasing any model of Tesla.
> I find that it's really easy to use AI techniques "the wrong way"

NLP-wise, is there "a right way"?
I don't think so for buses. The line I used is labeled "Bus occupants."

The train data is less clear. It's described as "Train accidents" so it could potentially be more general, but grade crossings and trespassers are separated out, which seems to imply that "Train accidents" is occupants.
AI solves Rubik's Cube in one second
They explain what the mean by that two sentences later:

> Hosts on Sia do not have to worry about building and maintaining enormous datacenters, employing thousands of employees, and marketing their services. They only need to worry about providing reliable storage capacity to renters on Sia.

And yes, it's essentially a decentralized storage market built on smart contracts. You can either pay to store your files (the client software handles redundancy, contracts, etc automatically) or _get_ paid to rent out space on your hard drive.
The solution is to have the function not return a pointer but return a ref. A ref is a non-owned pointer.
What's the performance like? Isn't cloud run limited in terms of CPU cores?
Yet, strangely enough, selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia was just fine according to this administration.
Hey vikramkr, thanks for your comment and good points. I've worried about political warfare devaluing something like this fast. I would lean heavily on requiring evidence or sources for each paragraph written (at first, I'm thinking requiring at least one source), maybe eventually curating a whitelist/blacklist of domains to make sure the sources are reputable to a satisfactory degree. I would hope actually that heavy stress on the need for supporting evidence would perhaps foster greater understanding between opposing sides, assuming that participants are ego-controlled enough (some website features may help with that? like karma?) to consider what the other side is proposing as support. So maybe the energy fueling political warfare can actually be channeled into cooperation when the battlefield is fine-tuned towards that?

As for how policies can be implemented, if a given well documented plan of action can reach a certain level of maturity on the platform, it can either be picked up by (or, in the beginning, proposed to) activist groups searching for solutions on the given topic. Assuming that such crowd-sourcing yields a wealth of perspective on the nature of a problem and creative solutions to it, activist groups may come to find such proposals to their liking, maybe even proposing bills of their own on the platform for community perspective to refine. Once groups start accepting bills then their methods of marketing (social media, lobbying) would carry the bills the rest of the way. I'd envision that a platform such as this should restrict itself to facilitating discussion and data collection as a matter of principle, to remain apolitical, as much as it can be.

If some other mechanism comes to mind, I'll post. What do you think about such a mechanism as I've described above?
I've also considered what an effect this can have in slowing climate change. Perhaps, if participants from diverse backgrounds work on detailed international or regional legislation, the end result can be a creative, more easy to swallow plan of action than other propositions out there right now? Any thoughts on that use case?
Pohoiki Beach is a neuromorphic computer capable of simulating 8M neurons
Simplicity(2006)
For a number of years, a lot of people have said that “newsletters are the new blogs” — and to a certain extent that’s true. During TinyLetter’s heyday, it was often easier for someone to create a newsletter and send it to people that wanted to read it than it is to setup a website and deal with what the entails (which sadly, in 2019 is more complicated than it was in 2006).

But setting up a newsletter isn’t without its own costs and considerations. What platform do you use, how much does it cost to send emails (something that’s hard to ascertain if you don’t know how many subscribers you have), checking formatting for various mail clients and services, avoiding being marked as a spammer, etc. And that’s before you get into the aspect of creating the newsletter — which again, TinyLetter aside, is often difficult because most newsletter services are geared towards marketing/customer acquisition, rather than something akin to a blog.

And if you want to charge for your newsletter, that’s another challenge. You have to figure out a payment processor, a membership signup system, deal with account issues, etc.

For the Ben Thompsons’s of the world who were early/pioneered the game of paid subscription newsletters, the investment costs of infrastructure and technology is probably worth it. But for many others, it’s not.

So Substack has the potential to be that defacto place/platform. I see it as trying to be the Blogger or WordPress.com for content-based newsletters, subscription or not.

I’ve almost started a newsletter about 18 times and I even signed up with Substack a few years ago (but haven’t set it up yet because I had a few concerns about how to migrate away from Substack), because of all the options — it’s the one that seems to have the least-amount of friction.

Now, in a perfect world, there would be an open-source way to do all of this with the option for both hosted and self-hosted options. Owen Williams’ newsletter/website Char.gd [1] has a great setup (he showed it to me at XOXO last year) and I know Ernie Smith from Tedium [2] has a really cool custom setup as well. I’ve been wanting to convince either or both of them to go in on a platform for this concept with me, because although I think Substack is definitely the easier way to do things for lots of users — there’s also a market (albeit smaller) for people who might want to have more control over the platform/ecosystem, but don’t want to have to cobble the whole thing together.

[1]: https://char.gd/
[2]: https://tedium.co/
Don't limit it to the younger developers: we're all doing that all the time! Always have all our lives. We learn a lot of things by imitating, then understanding, then building on that. I mean, I learned English from my mother at a very young age (who was following the best practices of the 1950s) without understanding any of the underlying principles. :)

Likewise, some of the "kids these days" (literally what I call the rest of my much younger development team, and they're just as capable about poking me about my age :)) may be doing that in tech in their early-ish careers. I think it'd be underestimating younger devs to apply that too broadly, because I've seen too many little gems of genius from younger devs.

The way I see my role leading a younger team is to help the folks somewhat younger than me learn from some of the lessons I have learned: to spot code that is going to be a nightmare in the long run, to maybe gain my weird knack of being able to tell people what their bug is without even seeing the code. But they also have a valuable role in teaching me to be less conservative (disposition, not politics) when I should not be, or coming up with brilliant solutions that I was blind to.

If I had a point, it's that there's room in the world for all of us, and that both the old motherfuckers and the Kids These Days have a lot to bring to the table to build up each other. I hope this was useful in some way. :)
I have not been doing any edits of video for a long time... What are most people editing vids with these days?
1. Money [finance] is a technology just like Communication and transportation.
2. Now, If you think about it, computers and computer networks came around only recently whereas these 3 have been around for thousands of years.
3. Each of these domains will/are being re-imagined / reconstructed as if they came after the dawn of computers.
4. A car invented after computers will be a computer itself on the network while processing with a capablity to drive itself.
5. Communicating with any human being on the planet face to face will approach epic cheapness as these humans will have a computer in their pocket with a camera while being on a network that allows this.
6. Now, Extend this to money/finance, The currency and the network through which the currency flows have been separate entities for more than a millennia, i.e. Banks and the Fiat currency or USD on a Master Card/Visa network.
7. Evolution of the above would be a network that moves money/value while solving the double-spend problem and still not centralized i.e. Trust shifting from institutions/Govt to the Decentralized network that allows for this.
8. Bitcoin is the protocol/Network/Currency that is the culmination of this evolution of money.

If you want to dig more: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36448501
It's also a descriptive observation that they can afford to pay more without destroying the company. Whether they should is a separate question I haven't even attempted to address.
I feel that it's an institutional problem in the U.S. Leaving cultural issues aside, if people were being taken care of, they would less likely have such an antagonistic relationship with society(which includes government, businesses, companies, other people, etc) where they could justify fare evasion and other "small" crimes. Ideally, people should understand they are ultimately stealing from themselves and hurting themselves when they do things like litter or steal. Because if they pay taxes in any shape or form, that's partially their money that's going to be used to fix it. Unfortunately, in the U.S., for many it feels like the taxes they pay either never go back to them in the form of services and infrastructure that benefits them or is out right used to exploit or hurt them.
It looks like it's very similar to Vue, except that instead of <script type="application/javascript"> it's <script type="application/x-go"> and the special HTML attributes are prefixed with "vg-" instead of "v-".

That is: It's lower-level than something you would ask to support ARIA standards. It will support them if the markup you write for your Vugu components supports them. Vugu doesn't ship any built-in components or anything.
Seems like this could be a common use case for pirates. Similar to how Megaupload or Fileshare worked a few years ago.

Sia's encryption doesn't protect the file hosts, if the uploader posts a link + decryption keys for pirated content to a public file sharing forum.

Does the take down notice go to everyone that hosts a fragment of the file? Who is liable if the uploader can't be traced?
Wow it has been a long time since I've read a news article with a tone that was that condescending, but then again I dont read much news so maybe this has been the norm for a while
The Design and Operation of CloudLab
You are absolutely correct, and I wrote it wrong. Thank you.

That said, it's horrible. Not even a strong El Nino year.
How do they verify that a host can actually store all of the data?
OsmAnd does that :-)
Aren't all those costs priced in? I assumed the data storage with Sia was redundant and encrypted, which should cover basically all of those things, right?

Looks like it from looking at the site:

>File segments are created using a technology called Reed-Solomon erasure coding, commonly used in CDs and DVDs. Erasure coding allows Sia to divide files in a redundant manner, where any 10 of 30 segments can fully recover a user's files.

[...]

>Before leaving a renter's computer, each file segment is encrypted. This ensures that hosts only store encrypted segments of user data.

I'd love for someone to do an analysis on the performance and availability of the data. I wonder if you could pay more for faster speeds or higher levels of redundancy? That would be neat features.
I mentioned in my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20453558) that I think the potential for writers here — of being a Blogger/WordPrss.com for newsletters, is the opportunity. It’s about being a platform.
I mentioned corollaries... there’s no reason zip code or lat long should be an input.
San Francisco Considers Raising Taxes on Tech
I think its more important when you're putting something on a platform that is publishing your work. Having control of your work is paramount - this is what they're saying is one of the benefits of the platform. That they can effectively change the "license" to creators work at any time and kick them off the platform if they disagree seems like a large amount of rights to give away.

They could for instance have a generalized terms of service that does NOT cover works licensing, and works licensing be its own agreement which is not subject to change except with more proper controls than an auto-agree if you use the platform any time after they unilaterally update.

Who owns the audience and content at the end of the day? Legally, its still the content creators copyright, but with an unlimited irrevocable license Substack de-facto is co-owner. The audience is entirely built on their platform - the email list looks like it'll be owned entirely by Substack since its through their platform - no mention of this in the ToS. I doubt there'll be an export feature. They may legally protect their rights to "your" subscribers.
> If you are writing a sales tax calculator and need to implement 500 different local state sales tax regulations from a scanned Word document, your best developer is going to be maybe twice as fast as your average one.

This isn’t software development. It’s mostly translating a scanned document into data. If you leave that task to a non-developer (because it isn’t development-related), I’m convinced you can see a 10x difference in productivity for the remaining work (writing the actual software).
The data is encrypted by the client, so that's theoretically impossible. Neither you nor the authorities have the ability to determine what file fragments (whole flies aren't stored; just fragments) are on your PC.
The Fed is governed by laws Facebook isn't and it's board is appointed by the government.

The Fed has clear interest and motivation to have priorities in line with the country.

Facebook absolutely does not.

What happens when Facebook goes under and private capital bleeds it dry? (cough Toys R Us). I don't think Bain Capital's monetary policy would be good for us.
This is an interesting contrast in behavioral ethics. That is, if you ignore the thoughts/emotions/etc and only look at actions. The scale and agency of one set of actions is not even comparable to the other.
You’re right—I remember reading something from AsiaSentinel and getting there via the Wikipedia page on media censorship in HK, but it doesn’t link to anything any more. I should have checked. There are lots of stories on Google though so is possible to verify that I am not in fact making things up.
robots.txt is the sheet with the house rules on the wall (or part thereof), not the enforcement of those rules.
It's not about buying an office dog, it's about people bringing their own pets to work. I'm not denying that it affects a portion of the population - like I said, there's a tradeoff that companies have to make.

The anaphylaxis thing isn't a reasonable point at all, since people for whom that's the case will self select out of working at offices that have pets.
Please reread the article. The article itself admits that non-financial data is useful and used (where this is allowed). I agree 100%.

You drew the wrong conclusion about something you don't know a lot about and doubled down. Good luck with that and I forgive you.
Looks like bicycle wheels
> Looks like she was not working 'so hard' on anything that can be of any use for building 'killer robots and war "minds"'. In fact, for building anything.

This looks like you've subtly dodged the complaint I raised by trying to insinuate that she doesn't have a right to express opinions aboht functions of Google she herself did not personally participate in. This leverages the information asymmetry in disclosure; we can't publicly discuss the bulk of her work and therefore you can suggest that there was none.

I find this to be no different from suggesting that she has no right to protest and therefore deserves to be run out. You're just trying to run the standard "she wasn't that important and therefore doesn't have credibility" playbook. Gross.

But despite the disingenuous argument, I'll accept it head on. I challenge the entire premise. I certainly can and do express opinions about my employer's involvement in weapons development and I am glad they are not doing it. I'd fight to avoid doing any more of it, and I'd be willing to resign over it. I don't work in AI, but my work supports any such system at Google and therefore I'd feel responsible to help prevent building killer robots in any capacity.

I, like many such employees, am both a shareholder and an employee in a company that claims to have an interest in a transparent and egalitarian corporate culture. This practice will naturally introduce friction between different parties and I expect us to work through them as fairly as possible. So I will not simply eject at the first sign of something I don't like. But if I feel that there is a line crossed while I was there strenuously objecting to that line and I haven't been given adequate reason to change my mind, I won't hesitate to resign.

I make these facts clear to folks when they hire me. If they don't like it, they shouldn't hire me. Hopefully you respect your own agency and intellect enough to give yourself similar license in your own life.
Running NMAP on your Airbnb network is a great way to find hidden cameras
Business as usual for the millionaires funded by billionaires then.
Most accountants will give a free one-hour consultation. I met with a few before starting contracting and not only does it mean you can choose one who you get on with, but you can also have all your tax, legal and other questions answered.
Can't have cake and eat it too. Isn't it better to suffer a little for the moral good? Basically, what countries like the Phillippines are saying is that money matters much more than good, and they don't care what the future where China leads the world holds. And I completely understand it, so don't get me wrong. I'm also not saying the U.S's hands are clean either, hell no lol.
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
Yes. That's another barrier I put in to prevent a carefully crafted source code from being a malware vector.
This paints a pretty bleak picture.

I am curious, however, what Microsoft donated to those in support of the various issues here. For example, one statement presented is:

>"[...] Microsoft made political donations totaling $46,500 to 18 of the 65 representatives voting against it."

How many of the representatives voting for it received donations, and what did those donations total to?

I can't help but wonder if they are donating to a number of representatives and this report is just being selective, or if things are really as two-faced as the article presents.
It's fine according to ANY administration.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-...
One way to put it is, why do people go to church rather than just praying at home? Well, many reasons. And praying together isn't just like praying alone plus a bit of socializing afterwards—it changes the praying itself.
Regulations That Mandate Sepsis Care Appear to Have Worked in New York
> Then again Netflix makes Netflix originals, which are only available on Netflix, and I don't mind that

There are arguments for why this could be a bad thing. Originals/exclusives have the effect of giving an "unfair" advantage to the company who makes them, because to watch them you need to subscribe to their service. This allows them to compete in avenues other than price and quality of service. This is a similar issue to movie studios owning theater chains, the customers benefit from being able to go see the latest blockbuster at any theater they want, instead of only at company theaters.

The counterpoint is that this makes exclusives more valuable to a streaming service than the average tv show, which means more might get funded than if exclusives were illegal
This seems unnecessarily complicated and antagonistic. Mostly just to publicly shame a bunch of people.

At Reddit we originally blocked a couple of crawlers but then realized how pointless that was. The entire robots file[0] is basically now just for google. All of the restrictions are enforced on the server side because there were so many bad bots it didn’t matter if we listed them or not.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt
> Libra may be the last best hope of the US to maintain its current level of influence in the international currency market

Sorry- what's the connection here? Libra will apparently be a basket of different major currencies, how does this benefit the US specifically? I say this as someone who would like to preserve dollar hegemony, I just don't see the connection
January 22, 2008 is when the built-in feature to make self-posts was added: https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/666ne/testing_self/
Much of what you describe is covered in this search termset. Juries have the same problem, the Loud Howard's over shadow the intelligent jurors.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=2jMuXeWVCa-OggekrZnoBw&q=de...
Judges get detailed training. Go over a few pages of these trees and select things you can apply.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+be+a+jury+foreman&oq=...
If I recall correctly, the client pre-computes hashes of random fragments of each file then "quizzes" the hosts on that information periodically. If they're not actually storing a copy of the data, they won't be able to compute the resulting hash. (I may be misremembering some of the details, but I believe that's how it works in principle.)
Interesting. Obviously they view it as a core competency. This would seem like a non-obvious and unnecessary expense to many, but (on the Tesla side) differentiates them from other automakers. Whether that results in a barrier to competition... we'll see.
No.

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/github.com.html
This is FREE book by Witold Jaworski released on July 5, 2019.[0]

Witold Jaworski known as expert in aircraft modeling using Blender. He also published book «Virtual Aircraft» (few editions already released for Blender 2.4x-2.7x); now it available as e-books (Polish editions of those e-books are fully FREE!).[1,2]

Witold also has very useful blog about aircraft modeling.[3]

[0] http://airplanes3d.net/pydev-000_e.xml

[1] http://airplanes3d.net/wm-000_e.xml

[2] http://airplanes3d.net/wm-009_e.xml

[3] https://airplanes3d.wordpress.com/
Update your Logictech wireless dongle
This depends heavily on how you define "innovative". The vast majority of use cases people claim to be building blockchain/crypto solutions for would be better served by a basic database and some regulation changes to lower financial transaction fees. However, I would say the underlying technologies are innovative and can be impactful in the future if applied to right problems by people who aren't just speculators wanting to get rich quick.