skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most cloud hosts are painfully expensive. If you don't value your own time at market value (as is typical and reasonable for hobby time; it isn't really exchangeable), then we're comparing an ongoing lease to just the hardware cost.

It doesn't take much usage for those lines to cross.
I think these products are different from each other so Gekri is too :)
We didn't have universal healthcare when we stamped out polio, smallpox, or yellow fever. I don't know why you'd think it would stop us now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_eliminated_fr...
Plain Text and the Power User Fallacy
> stopped traveling for fun

Uhm... how about stop travelling for business in the world of instant communication?
Presumably, you work for a company that sells stuff. How familiar are you with your sales department and everything they do? Are you willing to go to jail if you're wrong?
Thanks for posting this link. I'd never heard of softwarepreservation.org before and now I can see I'm not going to get a lot done today.
how would you feel if someone stole your car? that is private property
So you decline to provide evidence that the article positively

> state[s] that well-executed, fact-supported, scientific arguments are a superior (or even valid) form of policy debate

We both agree that the article goes on at length about the recklessness of fact-based arguments on HN.

Furthermore, I point to two direct quotes that I characterize as anti-fact and elevating non-factual or (debatably in the case of the latter) semi-factual methods of discussion to the same level as fact-based discussion.

You decline to provide evidence rebutting those two points, and instead cite the "emphasis" of the surrounding paragraph as a reason those two points should be ignored.

Does that accurately describe your position?
I've said before and I'll say it again. Trump has no interest in settling the trade war with China any time soon. He is forcing companies out of China, and once China realizes this and tries to correct it, it will be too expensive for those companies to want to return.

This will be viewed in posterity as the fastest cold war ever won against a Communist country.
Bingo!

If FB trains to recognize the face of some friend of an FB user, but that friend is not on FB, and never previously signed up for FB, then FB would be clearly in violation.

I think FB does this when people tag friends? I'm not sure though?

You upload a pic of a night out. Tag all your friends in it. And one of those friends is not, and never has been, on FB. Well, clearly, that guy never gave FB consent. And FB is doing it all without his knowledge.
Outlawing meat and depriving us life's finest pleasures (eating delicious, succulent meat) would have catastrophic effects on society.

It would wreck havoc on low income people, obliterate all the great meat heavy cuisine of the many immigrants across the USA and Europe, and turn us into weak, dispirited, sanctimonious saps.
Next to what @nabla9 said, cancellations and returns are not possible for digital goods. In German shops, you'll have to mark a checkbox to state you understand this, before you can proceed with your purchase. A bot might click this, not sure.
They probably look like the flu, which mutates rapidly, with the virulence and symptoms drifting around.

The rapid mutation is why annual vaccinations are necessary.
Ask HN: Laptop seized by immigration. Now what?
Hi HN,

Submitting this post after a very stressful night. Long story short: my girlfriend went on a 10 days planned holiday trip to Israel. Before boarding, she's been sent to a separate security check, then interview room and got heavily questioned, - strip searched (!!!) and everything - for several hours. She eventually made it (flight had been delayed for some reasons).

Now, why am I asking here: when she has been taken to the interview room, all her electronics has been taken away. We have no idea what they did to them. She got back some of them when landed in Israel (Phone, camera, both being obviously searched through). However, they decided to keep the laptop. At the moment of writing, we don't know where is the laptop neither if/when/how we're going to get it. We also don't know why they kept her for so long, why they questioned her, why they took her electronics, why they didn't give it back to her before boarding and why she couldn't get them back for the flight.

Now the real question: I'm concerned about the electronics themselves. Following the theory they could have been tapped, would it be possible to reset both phone and laptop (if we ever managed to get our hand back one), google pixel phone and macbook air 2012, in a way we know they wouldn't be compromised? Could we do some sort of bootloader reset, or anything else that would guarantee a genuine hardware/software?

In addition to obvious privacy concerns, my girlfriend has some clients who required privileged confidentiality and can't afford working on potentially compromised hardware.

Any advice will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
> I get depressed and think of killing myself...

Are you familiar with the State → Strategy → Story framework?

Before you can solve the work/career piece, get out of your mind and into your body.

Simple hack is transformative. > https://medium.com/@BogdanYZ/how-to-start-your-day-better-in...
Sure, but then not even "safe" languages like JavaScript will prevent all memory bugs.

And to be fair, Rust does introduce memory issues of its own in terms of allocation strategy. For certain projects, Rust would not be considered "safe" with respect to memory.

Zig's release-safe mode is worlds away from "the memory bugs that exist in C".

See also: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301
what do you think the standard of living in balarus before the second world war was, and do you think people would accept it now in belarus let alone the the US?

Its odd to call back to 1930s eastern europe for an example of how to live. There are many arguments to make against meat etc but 1930s belarus is not one that logically follows.
I’m the author of the article. Currently on my phone, but feel free to ask questions and I’ll answer as I’m able.
> A carbon tax fixes this.

Not really.

You're conflating the tax with spending the tax revenue. You don't need to spend any of the revenue on carbon sequestering projects. Just implementing a carbon tax that pushed the price of things like air travel up to the reflect the real cost would do a huge amount to reduce the amount people pollute.

If the price of a flight doubled then fewer people would fly.
I agree, but I think securitizable carbon credits make a lot more sense than a straight up tax.

Also it’s not just that can’t guilt people into changing behavior, I don’t think we should. Humanity moves forward by solving our problems not through everyone magically changing how they act.
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What makes you think that people don't value those sites enough to pay for using them? People pay huge sums for cable packages which is essentially a monthly fee for "make the time go by more quickly". Social media is similar in that regard, so it might just be worth money to them as well.
Good.

Where I live (town of around 250k inhabitants), cars were banned from the main shopping street in the city center in the 1970s. It was an extremely controversial decision. Today it is one of top 15 most expensive shopping streets in Germany and the 9th most visited shopping street [0]. If anyone would propose to again allow cars there, there would be an outcry from the public and the businesses.

Before:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Kreuzung...

After:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/2017-05-...

They slowly extended car-free zones during the 80s and 90es. Five years ago, they closed down another major 4-lane street and made it a pedestrian or reduced traffic zone, which was also (again) hugely unpopular, but is now seen as a big success (despite minor controversies which have nothing to do with banning cars) [1].

Before: https://deacademic.com/pictures/dewiki/85/UB_Freiburg.jpg

After:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Werthman... (the black building replaced the abhorrent building in the previous picture)

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Joseph-Stra%C3%9Fe_(Fre...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platz_der_Alten_Synagoge_(Frei...
"What's wrong with recognizing people that are committing crimes and sending them a notice, "We were about 1% sure this was you doing something wrong, so here's a 1% fine." Everyone agrees such systems will be initially imperfect, but everyone is also totally agreed that present law enforcement is imperfect. I fail to understand the problem."

Well then why not skip the whole imperfect parts recognition and simply fine the whole population each a fraction of the fine? We are 100% sure that the criminal is within the population. So lets just fine everybody one / $population_size fraction of the fine. The adequate fine will be paid and the criminal will be hit and hey, the system is not perfect, but what is?
I'm not sure how that would work. Apple isn't just sitting on exploits.
It's kind of funny, for a bunch of people who ostensibly look for edge cases all day.

Then they want simple one case fits all solution to a complex or intractable problem (and usually the same solution, regardless of the problem).
... and knowing to do that. And knowing to do that over other methods.

Institutional knowledge, mindshare, and documentation are all Things.

Debian's documentation (Debian Administrator's Handbook, Debian Installation Guide, Debian FAQ) do not appear to mention either zram or zswap at all. DAH/DIG do mention swap configuration, but only in terms of traditional swap patterns.

There is mention on the Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam But not under the Swap topic: https://wiki.debian.org/Swap

"As easy as" really doesn't mean much if the information isn't accessible. It's also harder to to advocate if it's not at least mentioned in standard documentation.

If you're aware of any standard Linux documentation mentioning zram/zswap as options, please let me know.

Again: this is not an argument against the technical merits or advisibility of zram or zswap. It's an argument that knowledge of these options is not widely disseminated or assimilated. I'd commented recently on the matter of intergenerational knowledge transfer, both general and specific (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617656). This would be a case of that.
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what was the life expectancy? what was the standard of living? trying to call back to 1930s belarus as an example to live from is crazy. It doesn't even logically follow that we should avoid meat because poor farmers in belarus didn't each much.

Where's the logical argument?
The difference in amount of bikes you see on a rainy/cold day vs a warm spring day is huge though.

I think what he means is that when you want to move a couch/bed/big television for example you don't really have good options, because even disassembled these are usually pretty bulky boxes to move through public transport or by bike.
I just kind put together why this isn't free market.

There's no incentive for anyone to push back on price.
There's plenty of money to be made doctors make the same either way.
People don't notice because they just want the best healthcare available regardless of cost.
Pharmacy make more money with gouging.
Drug companies do.
Insurance companies make more with higher prices.
Companies just pay what they have to show it as a benefit.

Who in the entire system looks out for costs?
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We stamped those diseases out after thousands had contracted them.
At a guess cows that are grass fed and not given growth hormones grow much slower and thus take longer to reach 'slaughtering' weight.
Oh of course I'd be upset! (I don't have a car, but will entertain your theoretical scenario.)

If someone stole fruit from my tree I'd be upset too!
I think it's interesting how much animosity there is between the military and the militias. I personally think it makes sense to make a formal link between them to build trust.

For example, the military could regulate the militias in exchange for access to military equipment and a promised to join in officially declared wars under federal command. I honestly don't know the particulars (i.e. what militias would accept), but more formal ties with the government could ease tensions with these groups that just want to defend the America they believe in. Some groups obviously wouldn't accept, but that just makes it easier to tell who is likely to cause problems.

I agree though, I'm not worried about mosques, I'm worried about extremists, and extremists come from a all manner of backgrounds.
There is a documentary I watched called "dive" a few years back which had a guy feeding his entire family with food he could get from the dumpsters of grocery stores. And it was not just unhealthy stuff. Fruits which were almost ripe like bananas are thrown out. The food wastage gives a good opportunity for free meals if we know where to look.
http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
If everyone stopped traveling for fun the worldwide tourism economy would collapse. There are whole countries that rely on tourism to make it through.
Based on my business travels mostly related to sales, I don't see any of them shifting online. When it comes to decision making, physical presence matters a lot. This is not some routine weekly status call we are talking about. Courting customers, making them feel good and closing that deal - none of these will ever happen online, unless some magical VR tech comes about.
Desire can warp our view of the world
I think it’s more equivalent to making a new distro - still a lot of work.
> Next to what @nabla9 said, cancellations and returns are not possible for digital goods.

Hence why I was careful to specify "physical" pictures.
Sadly, I think the only thing that will make a big impact in changing people's consumption will be related to antibiotic resistant mass-contamination events.

A few back to back meat recalls in the US got me to try vegetarianism 8 years ago. The animal welfare element only developed after I started learning about the new diet I was on.

It also helps to promote stories of very healthy vegetarians (especially pro athletes). My favorites were Carl Lewis, Herschel Walker, and Venus Williams. There are many more out there.

The key is to find decent, not too complex recipes. Dropping a slab of meat on the grill is so easy and results in such a tasty primary component of a meal; but making an interesting vegetarian meal requires more effort (at first). Once you know some good recipes, you get to the point where the only time you miss meat is when you're at a festival and you smell barbeque :).
Hey everyone!

I tweeted a video of the app in action here: https://twitter.com/utkarshkukreti/status/115832371651577856...

I made this TailwindCSS Playground over the last two weeks. I really like the core idea of Tailwind and the productivity gains it gives and would like to build more stuff with it in the future!

Features:

* Compile custom @tailwindcss config and CSS in the browser

* Live preview in 5 screen sizes

* Class name autocompletion with CSS definition preview

* Save code online or export .zip

* Vim/Emacs/Sublime key bindings + Emmet
And conferences to watch somebody give the same talk that is on youtube or training that is on Pluralsight or scotch.io.
> Media like HN is fine

There might not be anything purposefully done to get you hooked, but link aggregators have some "innate" features that your brain really likes, such as getting upvotes and discovering cool stuff on a random basis.
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The Swiss experiment was a massive disaster. Wish we had never done it, and it certainly took a few decades to clean up its effect on parts of Zürich. It attracted junkies from all over Europe and with it brought crime and violence. I spent a few years going to primary school near the epicenter of it in the late 90s. The number of times I saw people shooting up in broad daylight right in front of my school… is shocking. Even more shocking were the parks littered in used needles. Parks kids would play in… can you imagine what can happen? They'd be cleaned up on the regular, and staff would literally have bags full of used needles!

It was pretty traumatic to see, not that I really understood it as a kid.

It was way worse than the streets of San Francisco today, which are an absolute disaster too!

Good riddance, getting rid of that "treatment" was the best thing we ever did.
I would argue that nowadays it could be framed as a "minority of Americans". [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/upshot/trump-approval-rat...
Because at that time people didn’t distrust medical authorities like they do now (anti-vaxxers among others), and didn’t fear (as much) the other consequences of coming into contact with government agencies (incarceration/deportation).
What is the probability of an Apple developer introducing a hard to catch bug and sharing the information with third-party so that they share the bounty?
> With 200 CPU threads (128 CPU cores), I think most startups can run a complex microservice environment on a single machine.

Why would you want to? Your whole environment will be down when the machine, or some component thereof, fails or is rotated out for maintenance

I think this is more of a benefit for cloud providers in that they can pack more disparate customer workloads on to a single machine.
There are a lot of ways you are flat wrong about this issue.

I was a CSO at a large technical company and we were successful in separating the role of Security Engineer from regular Engineer with HR.

With regard to corporate politics, you have hit on an interesting aspect of the problem. Why is it that politics should trump the actions taken to prevent breaches?

The CSO/CISOs that I know all have this stress of knowing what the risks are and the difficulty of moving the organization, incrementally, towards a safer posture. Successful ones know how to navigate whatever the culture is and somehow produce a solution.

The underlying causes of breaches really come down to 1. the corporate culture, 2. the technical competence of the organization, top to bottom, and 3. the strength of the security team. If the security team up through the CSO is very good and the culture is not so good (recent breaches will give you names), or the technical competence of the company is low (e.g., putting a breach response site on the internet disconnected from your root domain), then the effectiveness of the CSO is not very good.

There is a fundamental tension between spewing off features to win market share and producing quality, secure software.

A wise company will find a CSO who can help move the culture and influence the technical practices. Those folks are very rare, and as such will have very high pay.
Riding the Web 3.0 Wave
At least in the USA, this could in principle be fixed by ending the corporate welfare state. Old news, but All major industries like the beef industry get huge tax breaks, free water and other giveaways at the general taxpayer’s expense.

Fixing the corruption (both democratic and republican parties) in our our political would end up helping the environment a lot. That said, we have zero chance of fixing our corrupt political system. It will never happen, the elites have won that war.

One problem with reducing meat consumption is the general low skill level for cooking. Vegetarian food can taste better than meat dishes but you need skill and good ingredients. I have mixed feelings about Beyond Meat: my wife and I love the hot Italian sausage and burgers, but it is really not that healthy.
But they're doing this with their own branded replacements. If I put an actual apple battery into my iPhone but don't do it through apple's store, this behavior is what happens.

This is akin to my check engine light always being on whenever any mechanic makes repairs to my car. Yes, Kia is "protecting themselves from liability of damages by 3rd party behavior" but they're also creating a UX problem for me.

As the end user: this is stupid, and I don't like it, and it seems like a choice not a need on the company's part.
This greatly reduces the need to have complex microservice environment.
The UN has no such authority, nor did I form it or consent to be ruled by it.
Can you elaborate more on this? My understanding is that on modern browsers, most of the memory usage comes from the tab's contents (pages), or extensions. In both cases they don't scale up with the number of windows.
Could you provide a example of the history you'd like people to learn about by reading "a history book"?
The design is broken, on desktop below a certain width the menu disappears, and there is no hamburger menu either so once you're in a section you're stuck. Also the links are not links, you don't know where they are going and the url does not get updated which makes it impossible to have incoming links other than to the root of the site. It also behaves unusually, if you drag a link it just behaves as a click.

Honestly if I came across this site in the wild I'd quickly pass to something else.
openpilot, an open source semi-automated driving system
That was useful, thanks for your response!
Impossible Foods directly disagrees with you (they say it comes from heme) and they have food scientists working for them.

Tofu dogs never taste like meat, ever. If you wait 2-4 weeks you're just creating a new habit, not approximating meat in any way.

Your comment, while potentially a healthy choice, certainly isn't an accurate description of meat taste. And meat eaters everywhere can recognize this because we have all tried the other products and it doesn't taste close, even after 2-4 weeks.
Please be civil. We don't call people names in here and we attack the argument not the person.
Please don't interpret my comments as harsh...But...Disabling the context menu is not nice. What is the point of doing that? You added some code in order to disable fundamental browser behavior? And worse yet, this additional code goes against your stated goal of "...aiming to keep load times fast, minimal JS, etc." Again, apologies if this comes off as harsh. Clearly, you can code which is great, good for you! But, with great power comes great responsibility.
> Nobody had to ask me nicely, they just needed to help me to think about it and be self-reflective.

My theory is that you have to be ready / have to already, deep down, made that decision and then just needed a little push. Since this is a major topic in many societies with vegetarians and vegans proselytizing, I doubt that the majority of meat eaters aren't aware - they just don't come to the same conclusions or like it too much to quit.
Second-Order and Higher-Order Logic
Statisticians take pride in models that are understandable, while machine learning practitioners take pride in models that are profitable.
for fair and balance as a moderator, I hope they're not too left or too right, though I will not be surprised their political view are already on the left, since it's from Silicon Valley.

also the system should have a way to know who is upvoting all the time or downvoting all the time, those are noises statistically and should be somehow mitigated.
Or the bar would be lowered to accomodate for that
I don't know. But I do know that the way to prevent that is to handcuff all the developers with crushing process heaviness. Then they won't introduce anything malicious, because they won't introduce anything at all.