skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion as I stated before, is to follow the money trail.

I'd trust Digital Ocean or Rackspace over Azure, for example, because Microsoft does get some money from advertising/tracking.

If you're terminating TLS directly in 'your' cloud VM in Azure/GCP/AWS, I think that's an acceptable boundary as I don't believe these companies would risk accessing customer VMs (since it's not worth the backlash they'd receive in return from being discovered).
One of the problems that just surfaced in the news ... is the realization that almost all prescription meds are manufactured in China. The risk that poses to the US population and DoD is incalculable. How do we get off China meds?

Fake chips have been a problem too, polluting the supply space. All the more reason to protect and verify IP. There's new tech for that. Maybe the next big thing. Hardware verified. Authenticity.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594065
This reminds me of Germany, where flights between Munich and Berlin are at a constant 40€(easyjet)/50€(Lufthansa) for booking next day, since the public train company has a 4hr service during "rush-hour" now (nextday booking costs 150€ without a discount card - which is 250€ for a 50% rebate for a year)
You are being surveilled and tracked by governments and corporations regardless of what information or actions you willingly make/provide. People should be aware of how this is happening and methods of protecting themselves. Simply not saying or doing anything online you don't want others to know is absolutely not an effective method of maintaining one's privacy in the modern tech landscape
> If fiscal responsibility were the goal, they'd have required the other federal agencies to do the same

That's not how the Federal government works. It's a LARGE organization that sometimes have people with philosophies align. There is no chance that the military would prefund pensions. I think that, toward the initiative to make the USPS free of subsidy now and in the future, it made perfect sense. The USPS workers used to talk about everything moving electronic, but that's not happening in our lifetime. 50 years is just "the near future", respectively.
LA has bus lines covering nearly the entire county. With the exception of a few bus lines, usage is not heavy enough to justify the billions it would cost to build light or heavy rail along those lines.

Where bus use is sufficiently heavy, Metro is planning (or is already building) rail lines to be constructed over the next 40 years as funding permits.
Accident on potentially broken Bird scooter leaves man in wheelchair
Trying to make better babies through breeding / genetics feeds right into the white supremacy narrative however. It is a really slippery slope, one I'd rather we not try again.

Will we inevitably have "designer" babies at some point in the future morals / legality be damned? Probably so. Is this a good thing? Not necessarily.

The area I can see it being acceptable is fixing congenital defects or genetic abnormalities. "We've made your fetus 10x less likely to develop vascular disease or we've prevented cyctic fibrosis in your baby" vs "We made super strong soldiers who don't feel pain".
Wheat is the simple-starch-rich seed kernel of a hybridised grass.

Much of Texas lacks water -- generally West Texas, a line extending from roughly Austin. In the US generally, the 100th parallel divides the moister east from the drier west. Topsoils are also far poorer than further east.

There was an experiment conducted some years ago on dryland farming. It ended poorly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time is an excellent telling of this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=np1RwDQfpjsC&pg=PP1#v=onep...
While the narrative of human progress usually has hieroglyphics as way station to sophisticated written and verbal communication, Otto held on to the value of simple rule-based combinations of symbols and colours, particularly to graphically show complex data in easily graspable ways.

See also: Isotype Revisited, proceedings of a 3-year research project at U Reading, http://isotyperevisited.org/2012/08/introduction.html
That, and that I'm constantly being told that there are new windows updates available, which are really just Defender definitions updates. Just install them for me and stop bugging me!
YC's list of startup ideas it wants to fund at https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
Which sounds great until you realize the windshield you need requires automatic rain sensors, or has an antenna built in, and none of the cheap Chinese replacements are equitable drop-in swaps. Also, those "very reasonable rates" end up translating to shit-poor work in many cases. Anecdotally I've been through 3 windshields at one of these places. Each time it was improperly sealed, leading to water incursion damage. Eventually I did the right thing and went to a dealer who actually knows what they're doing. The cheap place ended up being the most expensive route I could have possibly taken. Maybe those trained monkeys can ham-fistedly install an older Ford F-series pickup truck's windshield and it's fine, but for modern cars I won't take chances anymore.
Yes, I agree. I do not stick to one "ultimate" programming language. I pick one (or two!) based on the problem at hand. I once used FastCGI + C because it made more sense and was quick to implement. :D
This is not an accurate comparison you're making and I think you know that. Palantir designs products specifically for mass tracking of people. Tableau does not.
There's lots of towns very well-known for being speed traps in my part of the Midwest. My hometown in particular has a police force of approximately 8 full-time officers for a population of 5,000. There's absolutely no good reason to have so many cops for a population of that size, especially when the crime statistics are very low for non-traffic infractions. The only traffic ticket I've gotten in 30+ years was at 12:30 AM coming home from a concert in a larger city, going 5 MPH over the speed limit there. I'm sure he was pissed off that he couldn't also write me up for a DUI.
But when Jennifer notifies Alice that Bob is giving her information he shouldn't, and to please stop sharing it with others, Alice loses plausible deniability, especially if she ends up selling that information.
>but it is now in the conquering superpower category, it's time it loses this advantage

why?
You want to deport illegals, no objections from me. But in this case the ends don't justify the means. Do it correctly without causing unnecessary suffering and you won't hear a peep out of me.
Anyone have a favorite business blog theme for Jekyll? Specifically for a SaaS business blog.
Airlines often have a "fuel surcharge", a somewhat strange fee to account for higher fuel prices. You'd think fuel would be part of the ticket price.

See for example: https://blueswandaily.com/airline-fuel-surcharges-what-airli...
Pretty sure IBM 7nm was functionally complete but they decided not to expand facilities to support it. Why would they do it for TSMC 7nm instead of, say, licensing something from samsung again?
Moreso: How many surveillance systems have been bootstrapped using the full take, but will now happily function with a few unregulated breadcrumbs here and there.
Now canada can become the shipping hub for epackets and it can be forwarded to US addresses from there. Good opportunity for someone.
That's CHP, not town cops or country sheriff except when driving through Bishop or getting off 395 to drive into Mammoth.
Definitely bad for eBay and etsy. They're absolutely dependent on the flood of cheap goods.

Honestly this is disastrous for etsy, but maybe it'll help them get back to their roots and be useful again.
Anyone with even cursory experience with meditation would know this.
You have crisis in anything that people have to have, like housing, medicine, medical care, etc.
When Bob tells Alice she should do it, and compensates her for doing it, there's potential liability under a principle called "tortious interference". It's not a definite thing, but I think it's fair to say it's a risky idea to build a business on.
You wouldn't have to. Without copyright, it seems to me that everything becomes copyleft by default.

I could, for example, modify any piece of software I like, and legally distribute modified copies to others. Even if I didn't want to share my modifications with a larger community (or didn't want to do it for free), I couldn't stop it - someone else could do that for me. And as 'wolfgke points out, being open source doesn't matter much here.
I have mixed feelings about it. It can be fine but it needs to be handled a lot more strictly. It causes a safety problem around here when all the parked cars block the view around corners.
If I'm reading your comment right, I think you agree with the actual policy proposal presented. LA currently makes it illegal to build density via mandating parking everywhere. Removing that mandate doesn't remove any parking immediately - it only makes future development able to increase the density over what already exists.

Also, the fundamental way to have density and speed is Transit-Oriented Development. Basically super-high density within walking distance of stations. That way the experience of walking to a station, taking the train, and walking to a destination near the end station is really good. The places between the stations can be lower density without really changing anything.
Does this affect me somehow as a consumer in the EU?
> A fair price is whatever a seller and a buyer agree upon

I think there is an is/ought distinction here. What the price is is your definition here: what they've agreed upon.

There are numerous oughts that should be considered as well:

1. Did the seller coerce the buyer (or vice versa)? Without this ought, the mafia gets a fair price when it charges for "protection" services, both parties agree!

2. Does the seller know more than the buyer (or vice versa)? If they both knew the same things, would the price be different?
https://www.organizingcreativity.com/2017/01/adobe-creativel...
The clock is what defines the sampling rate of the delay, so a 555 is just a simpler version of what they already use. The true audio is always moving continuously. When the BBD receives a clock signal, it samples the incoming audio, and to reconstruct that audio as accurately as possible you have to play it back at that same rate it was sampled in. Very similar to how digital (PCM) audio works, except using charged capacitors instead of bits in a digital memory.

If you don't clock it at all, you'll just be sending out the constant voltage equal to whatever your first capacitor has charged, which results in no audible sound. You can adjust your clock speed and have it play back at speeds slower or faster than the incoming rate, with the pitch changing too, just like slowing a record or tape machine.

The output isn't really discrete though, only the internals, and even then like you say, even logic transitions aren't actually instant (but at a rate so much faster than audio we ignore it). The BBDs use filters on both the input and output that remove the very high-end of the audio range (a lowpass filter).

These filters will be made to match or be lower than the current clock rate [0]. One before going into the BBD removes any frequencies too high to be stored accurately (an anti-aliasing filter), and then one after the BBD removes any high frequencies which were created by the near-instant shapes of the capacitors discharging (a reconstruction filter). These means your output audio is "continuous", but also has zero frequency content above your filter cutoff (okay there's a teeny amount of information, nothing in reality is perfect).

To create the delay effect you take a long line of them (usually 512-4096) and the length of your delay is equal to the number of "buckets" times your clock rate. If you had a near infinite amount of buckets and ran them so fast there was no loss in fidelity from the sampling rate, you'd basically have a tape delay. The fun thing about BBDs though is that they don't always pass on their charge to the next bucket perfectly. So longer delay lines mean introducing more errors accumulating as your audio passes through the delay line. A near-infinite BBD would turn into audio mush. Though you can still get a very high number of buckets and a very high clock rate for near digital fidelity, but at that point it's getting more expensive than just using a digital effect, and you're ditching the unique charm of a nice effect.

Here are some more detailed explanations of a bbd [1] [2] The posts by Richard Crowley in [2] are particularly cool to the HN audience I'd hope.

> Curiously enough, BBD were a pre-cursor to EEPROM, DRAM, and FLASH RAM. Microscopic capacitors are used to store the data. In the case of DRAM, the capacitors aren't terribly good, and they must be "reminded" (refreshed) on a regular basis (many times per second). Very similar to BBD.

[0] okay technically 1/2 the clock rate because of nyquist-shannon, I just mean it will be linked to the sampling rate.

[2] https://www.electrosmash.com/mn3007-bucket-brigade-devices

[3] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/geekslutz-forum/897599-how-d...
Good point, I'm going to add more contact information.
I have a list of beta testers that is steadily growing, its a good mix of people from reddit and similar sites. I cannot give you demographic data but in the past I've had testers fill out surveys and asked them for their twitter handle (but only optionally if they were OK with it). So we could include that question in a survey for you.
> Ah, I see, so we could abolish IP law by renaming it to Conditionally Shared Secrets and keeping all provisions the same?

I will try to explain it to you again: the purpose of all the criminal offences that are subsumed under "Geheimnisverrat" in German law is to punish leaking confidential information (e.g. trade secrets).

For example, a movie that is available on a BluRay disc, is not confidential because you can easily buy it. Thus, copying a BluRay disc etc. is does not belong under the umbrella term "Geheimnisverrat" because the content of the BluRay disc is not confidential data, but copyrighted.

Thus, in German law, Urheberrechtsverletzung (roughly and often translated with "copyright violation", though not identical) and Geheimnisverrat (secret betrayal) are very different criminal acts.
That is sort of his point, whether you agree or not.
Bringing back the land value tax
Methods for Microservice Communication
This is the offer:

"The beta version of Duple is now available. You can download it and use it for free. However if you’d like to participate in the Duple beta program, and get a lifetime discount as a reward, click here."

But I don't understand what we are paying for going forward. Presumably you pay for the software once. Is there a recurring charge of some sort? What for? If the software is on premise, you can't really turn it off or stop it from working.

Does duple, the company, ever touch the data?

If privacy is the killer feature, it seems that an open source version will ultimately displace this.
When someone says "modern day snake oil", this is what I think of. A "cloud" that isn't the cloud at all, pretends to be more reliable and secure than it is, and over-sells basic features like replication. "This USB stick will solve all your problems for a low, low price!"
These metrics are totally inaccurate because different verticals pay different CPMs. Some can be much higher, but I've no idea how programming topics fares.
tl;dr:

It's an easier to install and use Nextcloud alternative, with open source components (to be released in the future) but closed source core.
In the library, next to a row of regular PCs for internet surfing, they have a couple of beefed up workstations for CG artists and video editors and even data scientists. The workstations had super juicy internals, connected to large displays, and came with a very nice Wacom tablet!
>or owner is responsible for his vehicle's actions?

If it's sold as fully autonomous, i.e. significantly beyond Tesla's system today, I don't see how the manufacturer could not have the liability. How comfortable would you be to use a car that could expose you to severe criminal liability because some company made a mistake with their software?
Oh I guess you'd say 05 zillion ("oh-five zillion").
> No server needed. No expensive hardware required... You can use your Router, NAS, Raspberry Pi, Smart TV.

So... it turns those things into servers then (many of which already run servers by default)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but a device running server software is still a server, even if it isn't dedicated to only that task.
“Not Productive for Our Business” –Michael Dell
When towns can't raise taxes to cover basic services or the revenue they do have dries up as the population shrink, there aren't a lot of options left. Transient taxes on hotel rooms or traffic fines are pretty much it.
The police lacked funding and the population of the towns were falling. If they raised taxes the very limited business could leave. The state did do something to prevent speed traps[1], not sure if it worked or passed.

Sheriff is a political job and even more so in small towns. It’s just as much of a mayor type job as it is a policing one.

Their entire school system had less students than my high school in metro Atlanta.

[1]https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/spee...
I think Kleptocracy would only apply if the folks in charge are funneling funds to themselves.

If it is just what funds the government, that isn't a kleptocracy. Bad policy maybe, but not kleptocracy.
Talking about people in high school who will end up in public service is irrelevant.

Having more money in the bank than you take out for a car loan is fiscally responsible. Not exactly. More than. That's WITHOUT your holdings (bank account balance) being subject to market forces, which is a compelling reason.
"Fair" is a value judgement and a weaponized word that people use during negotiation to anchor something to their interests. (Source on this idea is, um, that famous negotiation book by the FBI hostage negotiator)
That's like saying C doesn't need pointers in the type system, because it already has pointer-sized integers (BCPL actually had that philosophy).

Slices greatly improve interfaces. Especially if you want to return a (sub)slice of something, C doesn't have any non-clunky solution.
the plain old model has historically been full of exceptions in order to make it work. Copyright used to expire, you had libraries as an solution to written words and people could do public performance without asking for permission.

Then in the last 30-40 years all those exceptions and escape vales for the plain old method of copyright was either made obsolete or amended away. Copyright does not expire in any meaningful way, public libraries holds only a marginal amount of all the copyrighted works, public performance got locked down, and so on.

The old "give me money to give you thing" worked fined in the old times with old time copyright and society. It work crappy in current time with current copyright and current society. Thus people are rushing to find a new better way.

As a programmer we could go back to 1790 old copyright law and still have a job. Even the game industry would survive fine on it.
The U.S. has 284 police officers per 100,000 people.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...) That would translate to ~14 police officers for a town of your size.
Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release
This for others following along more than you, but the work that Luigi Rizzo did on IPFW [1] and FEC (forward error correcting codes) for internet scale video delivery is amazing.

I used ipfw (my router was running FreeBSD) to give ICMP traffic 300ms of jitter and 5% packet loss. Enough to make my DSL endpoint sour enough that the hack attempts went to zero. They would scan with ping, decide that my link was garbage and move on.

[1] https://github.com/luigirizzo/dummynet

[2] http://www.iet.unipi.it/l.rizzo/research.html
Did you actually read that paper? It's an article, not a study. The article is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/

The USA is obsessed with cholesterol because of years of bad science. Here's a 2015 Japanese Supplementary Review on Cholesterol and Mortality Rates: Higher Cholesterol = Longer Life

https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/381654

It concludes:

> Our fervent wish is that, through this supplementary issue, people can see that the cholesterol hypothesis relies on very weak data—and sometimes considerably distorted data. Indeed, many studies in Japan actually show that cholesterol plays a very positive role in health. We hope that JAS, and the government authorities that defer to JAS’s recommendations, will move toward recognizing cholesterol as a friend not an enemy. In the meantime, we will continue pushing for acceptance of the anti-cholesterol hypothesis, to reverse what we see as the biggest mistake made by medical science in the previous century.
It's not open source and it's not for sale, even though it's a business, so beware about what it's future may be.

However it might be reusable with an alternate core:

> Q: Do you plan to open-source it later?
A: We'll open source everything (server, interface, etc...), except from the C Library. Reason being that the library is what gives us our technical competitive advantage (being that you get the full private cloud experience with no need for a server). It's also important to note that you can't patent your code/algorithm in Europe, so there's no other way to protect it. But everything else expect from the library will be open-source.
I added a gmail script to auto delete emails with a certain tag. It should be easier to do and it’s convenient because i can tag all reminders and automated emails that i would otherwise forget to delete
Colorado Captain brings icon to life to benefit cancer research
Is there no one selling licenses and giving you the files directly these days? There's zero technical need to involve JavaScript in the process.
Inline Encryption for Filesystems
Proposed better title: China trade war "not productive for our business" says Michael Dell
>How does it work?

>Just turn it on!

That’s not an explanation of how it works, that’s an explanation of how to use it.

(I mean, you just know something stupid like that is coming the moment you see a loading progress bar for a static page. It’s not surprising, just disappointing.)
https://blog.licensezero.com/2019/08/24/Process-of-Eliminati...
Reminds me the ridiculous "no software" campaign by Salesforce.
Hell, I'd say that any town that leverages against the economically poor to benefit the economically elite is bad, and just going by the way fines are handed out, that happens everywhere. Only a handful of countries fine you by according to how much you make. While doing this can add an extra incentive for the rich to be dishonest (which happens anyway), by not doing it you are essentially telling the rich that they are above the law - which is something that large swaths of ultrarich both already believe and know to be true.
* Environmental protection

* more poetry overall!
Not associated with Capiche FYI, but how much would you pay for someone to call all of your SaaS providers and negotiate discounts based on the information Capiche obtains (or find similar SaaS tools to what you're using who will negotiate if someone you're using won't)? Possible monetization strategy for them, especially if they can automate a lot of the email workflow for doing so.
I’ve had great success getting all sorts of stuff delivered straight from China (usually sold through eBay). As long as you don’t need it next week (or sometimes next month), you can save a ton. Compared to domestic sellers who want to gouge me $7.99 to ship a 5 square inch bag of diodes 50 miles.