skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some companies have customer-facing dashboards. The AdTech company I used to work for had kanban boards that were visible to major clients for them to track the on boarding status of their data. Honestly, it was much better than having to email them all the time.
Kafka was thinking about etcd:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-273+-+...

Considering most Kafkas will probably run in Kubernetes at some point, they could have shared the etcd used by Kubernetes.
Dayton OH tried this crap with Persistent Surveillance Systems equipment that's basically a time machine: a high altitude camera that photographs the whole city and lets you follow a vehicle forward or backward in time, inferring meeting places, routes, etc. The outcry that arose cancelled the project. So yes, protest works!

https://www.acluohio.org/archives/issue-information/warrantl...

The one over Baltimore is JLENS by Raytheon: that didn't get struck down because it was never put to a vote; it was privately funded.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/15/baltimore-surv...

https://technical.ly/baltimore/2015/08/19/another-surveillan...
JIRA can also be run on your own servers and then you can do whatever IP whitelist you want in front of it, or just not put it on the public internet at all and require VPN...
21st century people were idiots. They treated cancer with poison.
> But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been frustrated that Facebook doesn’t get more credit for the growth of Instagram and WhatsApp. Associating those apps with Facebook could improve the overall companies’ brand with consumers.

It is difficult to see how this could improve Instagram and WhatsApp's image though.
Health Care for People – and for the Planet
No. Most of the phones were completely destroyed. The problem is that lithium ion batteries will bloat up after a while. Keep in mind, these phones were pulled in 24/7/365 basically which destroys the battery over time. To me, it was a cost of doing business so to speak. Toss 'em and swap 'em is the saying.
> Those same threads have logins like "indebt4life" and "kids2feed", which matches what I've heard from doctor friends: the length and cost of medical training and insurance are so brutal that the folks gatekeeping are themselves in an unhealthy lifestyle and don't want it to get worse. In other words, and benefits of gatekeeping accrue to the school and hospital complex more than the individual practirioners.

This really depends on the forums you read. If you hang out on the whitecoatinvestor forums you'll see that there are plenty of folks who are getting by just fine on their $600k annual salaries and may even be retiring early.

Reading those forums it's clear that there are challenges (not buying a doctor house, avoiding loan debt, budgeting like a resident even once you're in your real earning years) but there are plenty of opportunities, in some disciplines, to be happy with an eight-figure lifetime earnings and a balanced lifestyle.
The games had "auto advance" modes built directly in to them.
I think this might be what they're referring to:

https://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-control-the-foo...
Confluence. It's not a bad product, but a bit bloated.

In my previous job we used GitLab (wiki) and I think it's a perfect mix of simplicity and functionality.
Differential Privacy is not new. It's better than nothing but it dies NOT fix PII leaking to third party and for first party it's a matter of trust
You are talking as if these engineers grow on trees outside US borders.

The US is the largest source for this type of engineering, other countries are simply not doing any of it.

The cost of buying a Ferrari is prolly lower than getting a Phd from Stanford on any of those topics.

The fact is companies are not willing to pay for the training etc for it.

There simply is not enough demand at the economic price point for it, or else companies would be spending billions in retraining.

Even I want to own a Rolls Royce and date Katey Perry.
A few points.

First, mustard gas is not a bioweapon. It's a chemical agent. There will never be a cure because it's like saying that you have a cure for fire.

Second, the point raised above is that things like food preservation technology implicitly confer military advantage. The same is true of many lifesaving medical technologies, especially things like celox that treat trauma.

And then there's cryptography. I find it hard to believe that you (or anyone on HN) support Joe Biden's approach to restrictions there. But that's quite clearly a dual use technology.

Finally, I never said it was equivalent to a cure for cancer. I don't believe that, and it's disingenuous to put words in my mouth. But things like self driving cars probably will actually save lives, and even independent of that I think it's worth examining very critically what restrictions we as a free society are willing to impose to gain military advantage.
Yea, this comment from Zuckerburg seems strange to me or maybe I completely misread how people are currently viewing Facebook as a company?

Generally speaking, it seems like the majority of the people are talk to only have bad things to say about Facebook (the product), and positive things to say about Facebook's (the company) other products such as Instagram and WhatsApp. Seems like they would want to keep these brands are separated as possible.
Google is taking that search string as evidence of suspicious activity, fwiw.
Right because the hot/black is connected to the neutral/white through the load completing a circuit so current flows. The “ground”/green is only connected to the chassis so no current flows in normal operation.
guys, warez wasn't just for the BBS generation. i knew and learned about warez through IRC. i think of myself as the IRC/ICQ/AIM generation and i tried BBS be could not figure it out. but this makes me feel nostalgic too :)
So if the cash price is five hundred something can the lady in the story decide to pay that now instead of her insurance deductible? If not why not?
> “Obviously, there are laws to protect people’s privacy and we are respectful of all those laws,” Hartman said. “We also understand the importance of operating in an ethical way as it relates to further protecting people’s privacy.”

Sure /s
But it won't be a great way for them to set their children up. Their schooling, their circle of friends, etc are very material for their future:

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/map-income-race-...

That is why so many people are willing to forego the low cost of living areas and gamble on making it in high cost of living areas even though they may have a lower quality of life.
Basically, every day you reset any phones that were frozen. That would take 15 mins or so. Every now and then you would have to swap out a phone that was boot looping. Every now and then update the app. I would say 20-30 hours per month maybe?
At least we have warning. Time for me to disable automatic updates for Whatsapp.
Mithril.js has global redraws by default. This turns out to solve practically all React's "local redraws only" problems & solutions, and requires less written code in the process.
https://worldtree.info/paulownia-scam/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/timber-investment-sch...
Did they correct for people’s behavior or skills that would cause them to choose one place to live over another? Living in a regional or rural area is within most people's means as long as relevant work is nearby.

Perhaps people who are more suited to the the sort of work that is more often done in densely populated areas are inherently more depressed.
Perhaps they should do it the other way around then. "Facebook, from the makers of Whatsapp".
> There is absolutely no purpose to these purges, except to stop legitimate voters.

Just as an exercise, you should consider trying to make a good faith argument in favor of doing these purges. You might be surprised.
> ACiD

While I never had any talent for drawing (with ANSI or otherwise), I spent most of the time in my high school AP Computer Science class hanging out with Rad Man[1]. We wasted probably half of the school year using the school's BBS computer (286) and modem (2400 baud) to log into various bay area BBS (esp..Code Room). Fun times... (and now I kindof wish I could play Barren Realms Elite)

> I also don't remember much of a crossover between the ANSI scene and the demoscene

Yah that's right. Jason Scott gave a fun talk[2] about warez/crack intros, which eventually evolved into the demoscene[3].

> the only way to access a BBS was through a terminal emulator

If you were feeling adventurous, RIPscrip[4] was a fun alternative.

[Unfortunately, my internet connection is currently crapping itself (ADSL bouncing up and down every 30s, massive packet loss), so I'm gong to have to watch this video later.]

[1] https://archive.org/details/bbs-20020727-radman

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0

[3] I've been really impressed with several recent prods: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69648 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=77399 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66962

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol
Stanford Hospital used to turn you over to collections if you didn't pay. And I use the word collections loosely here. The guys who showed up at my house were basically bikers with a license to carry. Scary dudes. I had to call the cops because they wouldn't leave my property. The cops had to pull their guns to get the "collectors" to leave. Oh, and after all the billing was sorted out, I didn't owe any money. They were just try to scare me into paying tens of thousands of dollars. One day, a big hospital is going to get indicted under RICO, and it will be well deserved.
The world will be divided into two parts for sure, one is for China market and one is for US market.
People already started to prepare for this.
G2 and Beyond: Foxconn founder sees 'one world, two systems' leadership framework forming
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20190624PD205.html
How could anybody working not realize it was embezzling money? It’s not possible to run a 70 man team on 60m of capital, even with 2 and 20.

One of my friends is a partner at a hedge fund that manages 100m and has three partners, no employees, and money is super tight, they barely can make ends meet every month.

It’s inconcievable that anyone would ever think the fund was legit, regardless if they found the accounting fraud or not.
Hey,

For Mobile App, I am using Ionic 4 and React Native. The main positive point is in the end you will be able to build for iOS and Android with same code.

For backend, I am using Google cloud, Firestore, google functions , graphql.

o/
To clarify, I meant 80s and 90s suburbs, not the godawful European-looking Stepford-wife monstrosities they build now. Suburbs with tree cover where you may or may not be able to even see the house next door. The kind where every house looks different because it was built by a different company and none of the lots are smaller than half an acre.
The thing is, last moment of your life isn't in any significant way special. It matters just as much which music you will listen in your last moment as it matters what music you'll be listening in exactly 43 minutes.

If you like to make decissions you can make and implement them now.

The thing is decissions are tiresome. You might want to forgo some avoidable decissions and focus more on pleasures of living.
There are other people that aren't Americans on the net.

That aside, what are you doing to oppose this? People may not be commenting because they dont know how to go about stopping it or simply don't think it can be stopped; leading by example is more powerful than an appeal to pathos.
What's interesting is we don't look back on all people evenly, nor do we esteem people less who lived farther back in time. For example, we tend to esteem the Greeks and Romans more than the Medieval Europeans. The author has a chip on his shoulder because we don't regard all eras equally.
This is more detailed: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html

Conclusion in the link:

The very premise of creationists' probability calculations is incorrect in the first place as it aims at the wrong theory. Furthermore, this argument is often buttressed with statistical and biological fallacies.

At the moment, since we have no idea how probable life is, it's virtually impossible to assign any meaningful probabilities to any of the steps to life except the first two (monomers to polymers p=1.0, formation of catalytic polymers p=1.0). For the replicating polymers to hypercycle transition, the probability may well be 1.0 if Kauffman is right about catalytic closure and his phase transition models, but this requires real chemistry and more detailed modelling to confirm. For the hypercycle -> protobiont transition, the probability here is dependent on theoretical concepts still being developed, and is unknown.
Yeah, what I really want is a service that buys detergent/toothpaste in bulk when the price is below a certain given threshold.
The way you bond is codified too. The source feed is wire-nutted with a pigtail connected to the box, and to the ground of the device in parallel. If the bonding was daisy chained it could be interrupted when servicing or changing.
Bruce unfortunately calls the blog post a "Forbes essay" which it isn't, although it's an easy mistake to make.

The trouble is the Forbes blogging network has almost nothing to do with Forbes proper but the forbes.com domain lends these blogs a credibility they haven't earned.

For the record, any Forbes link that starts with /sites/ should be treated the same as you would any random blog.
> I don’t get the negativity around this announcement. Makes perfect sense.

The negativity is largely out of fear that the existing communities etc. around Instagram and WhatsApp might take a hit when people who might not have been conscious of Facebook's ownership of either of them might now be more aware of it -- and thus see Facebook's influence on both. Public perception right now is more in agreement with the belief that Facebook largely left Instagram and WhatsApp alone, and with the founders of both having left Facebook in the last year or two, Facebook's now free to exert more influence around the direction both of these properties take.
Ask HN: is the California state park website leading to malware?
California state parks use a reservation system that seems to be hacked by malware, by using a DNS typo masquerade, then tries to install Chrome extensions.

What do HN readers recommend to 1) stop the problem now, 2) protect the website for the future?

To reproduce:

1. Visit this California parks page: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=616

2. Notice the highlight text: "go to reservecaliforrnia.com to view available campsites" and see the misspelling with the extra "r".

3. Go to that misspelled domain name. It redirects to "gogetsplendidapps" and/or to prompt to install Chrome extension "Keep Safe Search". Google reports this as malware.

Update: I'm reporting the issue to the real website, and to the real domain name registrar.

What are approaches to terminate the hack website?

What are suggestions for long-term defense against this kind of attack? For example to install software for many users that would have blocked/refused the hack website?
The article was about bathing, not washing clothes.
Privacy issues aside, all that does is rob me of the opportunity cost of spending that money optimally and it forces me to spend it at a vendor that's not always the cheapest or most convenient.
The Donald realized this years before the NYT.
I paid like $3k for hearing tests for my kid because my insurance wouldn't cover it. This was at a world famous California children's hospital.
I believe that within our lifetime we will see a direct replacement of that traditional model that you are thinking of (only "traditional" universities offer reputable degrees). New model I see occurring is more focused on certification based credentials where you have to prove your competency on a rigorous evaluation by a reputable testing organization. If someone has obtained specialized knowledge then it should not be an issue if you got it from online sources or traditional university sources.
Its all about huiwei and the technology, that’s the ultimate bottom line. They are fighting for the long shot prize. Retaliation is only to show face. Unless they can spin non retaliatory action as something better. Ultimately they seem to be fixated at 5G deployment
> The thing is, moving apartments has a high switching cost. It’s really something you want to avoid being forced to do, both for economic reasons and for social & personal reasons. Now, Amazon has you trapped: however much you may be inconvenienced or disappointed by being effectively required to purchase Amazon’s stuff rather than other merchants, it’ll be less bad than the monumentally large cost of moving apartments.

Worse: in this scenario, "Amazon" competitors are unable to provide competitive pricing any more because everyone else, like you, waited a few cycles, and now they don't get enough sales volume for that. It is no longer economical for you to leave for another apartment that doesn't mandate this supply monopoly. The only way to break out of the cycle is if 1) a large proportion of people in your situation agree to move at the same time, which is particularly difficult because of individual circumstances as well as political will; and 2) all of you can afford to prop up the more expensive competing suppliers until volume discounts start rippling through the supply chain.

* I say "Amazon" because this is entirely hypothetical, as the author admits, and I think it's rather unfair to use Amazon's name like this, which the author does not.
There’s always someone who’s going to tell you how something is not as green as you may think.

Maybe we should just forget about global warming for a little bit and try to remember how dirty the air is from gas vehicles.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/09/21/las-dirty-air-vio...
Interesting thought experiment, but I don't think the economics work out.

Retail has razor thin margins as it is, so I can't imagine companies paying customers enough to make a significant enough dent in their rent.

Also, the practice of buildings selling exclusive customer access to certain companies already has precedent - cable providers. And as you may imagine, profits or savings from such deals are never passed down to renters.
Grand Jury: VTA is ‘most expensive and least efficient’ transit system in USA
This is disturbing
> Should it not be the case that one of the responsibilities of the quorum is to vote new members in or out? I mean, as a first-class feature of the system.

Indeed. What you're describing is one of the main motivations for Raft. Paxos showed that distributed consensus was mathematically sound, but did little to guide implementors in actually building such a system. Raft is not a fundamentally new consensus algorithm; just an incremental improvement that formalizes many of the improvements that you needed to make to Paxos anyway, like membership changes, log compaction, and multi-decree support from the get go.

If you're interested, the Raft paper is quite readable and goes into this in detail. [0]

> The main problem I see is that in most consensus systems, any member can be nominated as leader. But if the member was inducted during a partition event - which one could do if the partition were long duration - then nominations for new leaders will go out. What happens if the new member gets elected? How do the partitioned machines find that leader when they return? How do the partitioned machines find that leader when they return?

This isn't actually the tricky bit, as it turns out. Communication flows from the leader to the other nodes, so the leader, even if it's a newly-inducted node, will initiate the connections to the partitioned nodes when the partition resolves. (The leader necessarily knows the addresses of the partitioned nodes, because the leader knows about all committed entries, and the identities of all the nodes in the cluster are committed into the Raft log.)

Again, the Raft paper does a great job explaining cluster mebership changes—much better than I can!

[0]: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
- George Orwell

Perhaps?
Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?
I've been fiddling with a idea sometime and I want to turn it into a product. I first want to build a MVP. I can't make a decision stack I am going to use. I find it difficult to make the difference between taking too much and too little account of an untenable and scalable 'future'.

Do you consider SQL for your data layer or settle for NoSQL solution, or maybe for something like firebase? How do you think serverless functions can contribute to a MVP?
Amazon’s Plan to Move in to Your Next Apartment Before You Do
Right but I think the issue would then be that if more people became aware FB owns all these brands, there might be an even larger voter push to get them to be broken up, whereas right now people don't know and this care.
I've forgotten to mention my PocketBook also has a microSD card slot. It came with just 1 GB of internal memory, ⅓ of which is occupied with the OS (Linux) so I've just bought an additional 16 GB microSD card to extend it recently. Now I just plug the card into my laptop SD slot (using a microSD-SD converter that came with the card) and don't even need to use a cable (which never worked well, it often happened that the device would charge but won't establish a connection).
I've said the obvious before, but technology is going to make mass surveillance relatively easy. Natural protections are no more. We have to reaffirm our liberties and not tolerate unreasonable search.

Also, let's cut out the criminality when it comes to drugs. The rationality this rests on can be chopped out from under it if we just regulate the drug industry better. Give drug users the drugs with limitations, which is better than having them served via some barbarous criminal enterprise.
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This is a rather blanket claim. My step-dad grew up in crazy-rural Oregon. His dad refused to take a bath more than twice a year. Those long-johns with a trap door stayed on a looong time during the winters. They were still using an outhouse.

I kind of feel like there's plenty of modern examples in which regular bathing is not a priority (or even an advantage, given the lack of warm water during the winter).
Not for me. Check your browser's installed extensions/add-ons, and remove any that might have been taken over.
"How could they have 7 billion people? Did they all live in the desert?"

"Yes, there was food growing there in the desert, too. Right out of the ground, as far as your eye could see."

"And they just threw it all away?!"
Not if their fundamental goal is a higher stock price.
I use Freda in Windows and Android, and Foliate in Linux.

I find any of them far superior to PDF.
But now people knows that big tech co. are researching it and that it can be done
Are things flying at that altitude required to have a ADS-B transponder or something like that to prevent collisions with other aircraft? I wonder if you could track the balloons tracking you.
Calibre will convert your books for the Kindle, so yes.

I have a Kobo that lets you read even more formats than Kindle, like .cbz for comics.
not all that tangential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szk7XXEb_sQ
Your Favorite VS Code Extension in an Online IDE
While you're at it, move it to active sprint, add CEO to the watcher list, and under Related Issues pick "This issue causes - " {this HN thread}.
Other cars are basically apps for Tesla systems via retrofit
Public perception maybe, but regulator perception may be different - "You are misleading the public, and building a monopoly in an underhand and obfuscated manner. This is a misuse of your position."

Now that they are already looking at it, I suspect public sentiment may matter less.