skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you create a global and free internet? Speeds aren't as important as just the ability to communicate, i.e. at least a text chat system.

You could do something like meshing with HAM or other radios (or combine a lot of messing networks together depending on the hop distance). We can already communicate globally with HAM.

The question to me is how do we advance this more for higher reliability, better speeds, and create tools that everyone can use (essentially a zero, or low, knowledge system, like a cellphone). The major factor I see is reliability, so that it is difficult for an oppressive regime to shut it down (would also serve as an extremely reliable method when other systems fail during things like natural disasters. You can probably see more advantages to this backbone network). So we could have an open alternative to the segmenting internet that is currently happening. I honestly believe global communication is one of the fundamental necessities to achieving a more peaceful world.
Where there is a profit to be made, businesses will grow to fill the gaps. Right?
Representative comment: https://github.com/mozilla/ssl-config-generator/issues/8#iss...

> In this new era of looking for premium service opportunities I suspect there will be value in having metrics of some kind.
I love it when purely ideological comments run into the messiness of reality. Food production being completely contrary to a free market, they are one of the most heavily subsidized and regulated markets around.

As a pragmatist, one of my favorite phrases I say quite often:
"The difference between theory and reality is that in theory there is no difference."

The article is excellent expose of an issue and a solution. I hope they would include specific things we can do to help improve the situation. I'm part of California YIMBY, which promotes legislation that helps ease these issues.
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FTA, the significant aspect of this new twist in Levandowski's ongoing legal saga:

> It is not uncommon for tech companies, which fiercely guard their intellectual property, to sue former employees or the firms they join after they leave. But criminal charges of a senior executive for theft is unusual.
Towns and cities too please!
How did you compensate for the daylight drift over time?
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Yeah, but has more warmth and oomph.
The next wave of interesting startups will be shelter. Not housing that keep people comfy at night, but effective walkable citylike places. Places that take into account that the human race is very social. Places that makes it easy to be friendly to the environment.

Poundbury in southern UK was nothing but greenfields. Now it’s a highly succesfyl city that attracts people and businesses, despite 1/3 of the buildings being affordable houses projects. Good cities reduces the inhabitants need for long distance travels.
> Regulation like zoning and countless other regs prevents market forces from working the way they should.

On the other hand, so do externalities in the absence of regulation to internalize them. Real markets quite often don't approximate the idealized way markets should work without lots of help.

> Have you ever heard of a banana shortage crisis [...] in the US?

“Yes, we have no bananas today” is actually a reference to such a crisis.
There's a bunch of software products with the name fabric.
Are they seriously expecting Hong Kong people to back a facial recognition startup? "Hey, guys, we know you've been cutting down facial recognition cameras but how about you actually buy in?"

These people have been fighting for their freedom for weeks, using Telegram to coordinate protests and provide shelter and medical help to those hounded by the 'police', using non-violent (largely) methods to fight back against opression... And now a Chinese state-sponsored startup wants to get money from them? How's that going to work?

Even the article states that the company is losing money and seems to be getting worse. Pretty sure Hong Kong citizens would rather invest into something like Telegram/Signal or a means of resistance to state-sponsored surveillance (EMP devices, masks, signal scramblers, etc.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804671
Nothing like buying a house and having a bus depot opened on the lot next door a year later. #freemarket
It goes the other way in countries where matches are based on sexual attraction. Families decay when bright, successful men choose women for their beauty.

In societies where matchmaking is done by parents or by recognized matchmakers, the outcome is likely much better in terms of creating and maintaining high achieving strains.
"We already do it" is not really an argument. Many people (rightly or wrongly) disagree with progressive taxation so it's really just an appeal to a non-existent consensus.
It's being pretty closely guarded, but one of them is Wellesley College which is using Workday's Cloud-Native Product.

The piece that is really holding back schools from moving to an all cloud erp is the "Student Information System" (SIS), which is the Higher Ed specific scheduling, advising, degree audit, credentials, advising, registration etc. piece of the ERP stack. A lot of companies that built Student Information Systems in the 90's/early 2000's are working to port their on-prem solutions into the cloud, but they are somewhat slowed down by having to support numerous legacy on-prem systems.

On the schools end, it also takes a lot of courage to flip off a system you've been using for 20+ years and start with something new, and right now there are basically no positive case studies of launched, cloud-based SIS systems.
Nice to see more triple store implementations. What’s the industry take up of data stores like this? It always struck me as much more academic and not used as much in industry. I saw a SaaS triple store a while ago but it seemed to disappear or never really take off.
The primary reason for the original creation of 'letters patent' is to prevent all of human knowledge from being hidden behind trade secrets. We can debate how long, or in what form patents should be granted. There are many inefficiencies in the current system, but granting patents is a useful government endeavor because it requires the party who wishes to receive the patent to publicly disclose their discovery in which they want patented. You should consider this before you throw out patents as a non-useful feature. It is hard to have a conversation about IP in general when Trademarks, Patents, and Copyright vary so highly.
You are probably right in how that would be best in how it would be done.

My wife recently went to LA, and between the pictures she sent and me looking into it more afterwards, your description of several cities tied together is a very apt description. Even by what I know (Chicago), LA is just massive.
This episode of "The Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy" covers piracy and discusses the negative side (potential loss of profit) as well as the positive side (it forces innovation to keep ahead of the pirates).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NVVRV7F/ref=stream...
I wonder if 23andme shows CCR5. Or is there anyway to check from 23andme data if we've decreased risk of catching HIV.
I've been to part of the world without strong regulations and seen, first hand, what the unregulated capitalist housing market will deliver if you allow it. Dangerous dwellings, that are impractical, bread misery (particularly for families), and an endless race towards that bottom (since that's always the most "efficient" way to "store" people, and therefore most profitable for a developer).

It is very easy to make these glib "just remove regulation and let the problem solve itself" comments, without really addressing what that reality actually looks like. We aren't talking about a city of single family homes, we're talking about family homes largely no longer existing since lawns, property separation, "extra" rooms, "extra" walls, etc are all inefficiencies that will be eliminated by the market sooner or later.

So, sure, run housing like bananas or jeans but don't be surprised when dwellings start to look less like homes and more like a efficient storage medium for human creatures.
The US doesn't manufacture those items because it's cheaper to have them shipped from China. Raise the cost of manufacturing them there and importing them, and the balance changes.

The domestic vs. offshore production calculus is actually closer than a lot of people realize, in many instances. Often it's a choice between a highly-automated and capital-intensive production process in the US, vs. a manual process at a contractor in China. The combination of higher shipping and very low cost of capital in the US is a pretty good one.

Whenever someone tells you that it's impossible for the US to rebuild its manufacturing base, go take a look at factories in China: they're not that old (esp. the light industrial stuff). What was built in China in 20 years could be built in the US in the same amount of time or less, if the economic case was there. There's nothing magic about China, it's just a place where labor happened to be cheap at one point in time.
His site says he's constantly looking for freelance artists, and he has made a point of how he makes a lot of his money from reskinning and re-releasing his back catalog, so if one of the many people who seems to be so dead certain he'd do much better with better graphics and that it isn't such a big job wants to put their time/money where their mouth is, they could always contact him and propose a profit share.
And this funding is disproportionately paid for by the poor:

https://gawker.com/ferguson-and-the-criminalization-of-ameri...

The use of bureaucracy to funnel wealth from poor to rich also operates in the same way for private institutions such as banks. Graeber goes into this modern tendency towards bureaucratic rule in detail in his book "Utopia of Rules"
or as Linus says, "Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time."
I said the same thing when JK Rowling prevented me from publishing my pirated copies of Harry Potter. Why aren't I allowed to do business but she is?
Form Based Zoning Codes are a good step. The goal there is to focus on physical form instead of land use. So as an overly broad example - keep the height and setback restrictions but remove the rules about subdividing a residence or converting a residence to retail or office. This allows market forces to have a stronger influence on the real estate market.
Blocked in South Africa.
You see, the word "coffer" is entomologically derived from "coiffure", because 18th century noblemen would store their money, in the form of bills of exchange, in their wigs.

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If the tools they are making are used for the same purpose then obviously they are. We are not quite at that point yet, but it's not looking good.
So where is the external audit to Google's data centers, verifying that they actually do what they claim to do?
> the widespread creation and spread of data is inherent to computers and the Internet

It is not. It is that way because we developed software to he that way

Edit: I don't beleave in absolute privacy, we never had that, but Ibdo think people get surprised and find things creepy for a reason: we are abusing the trust that people had put on us software developers and hardware manufacturers
Thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211913
Find out what you can do to create habitats for native bees. Keeping non-native bees (honeybees) would add competition for resources with local bees; that's not what you want.

Colony collapse is mostly related to agricultural bees (honeybees,) a non-native species keeps for agricultural purposes.

In my area, creating habitats for Mason bees is preferable.
Start with something smaller, such as lk.
I found the FAQ[0] to be the most informative.

[0] https://doc.duple.io/faq/
> They’d be in pretty hot water pretty fast if they didn’t honor it,

Only if they got caught, and only if the person who caught them saw fit to make waves about it and let other people know. And even then they could likely worm their way out of any real trouble by apologizing and pleading that it was accidental (because the sycophants would likely eat that shit up.)

Corporations break contracts every damn day. There is no way for me to even hope to verify that Google isn't breaking their contract in this case. You and others in this thread expect me to trust Google and trust that the threat of a contract breach lawsuit will keep them compliant, but there is no reason that I should. They don't deserve the benefit of my doubt. They lost that a long time ago.
> Why do we want users to know less about how their computer works?

It's not what we want, it's an appreciation for reality. You can want all kinds of things, like people to read documentation, not install malware toolbars, not click reply-all, not answer "I don't know" to product questions on Amazon, use their turn signals, I could go on for hours if not days.
> Like, when you're thirsty and see a bottle of water on the counter, why think to yourself "I'm thirsty. There's some water there I can drink." Who are you talking to?

There is probably some miscommunication happening here. Do people regularly turn every intended action into a sentence in their mind? Like some kind of play-by-play sports commentary about their full life? I certainly do not do this, and I would expect most people do not.
Because if just telling people this was the solution, we wouldn't have this problem. It comes across as snarky because it treats a difficult and complex problem as a simple one.
According to the abstract[1], the polypill contains hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg, aspirin 81 mg, atorvastatin 20 mg, and either enalapril 5 mg or valsartan 40 mg.

1: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> What's actually wrong with it though? Why isn't it still "good enough"?

Anyone who has had to try to manage security permissions on a big flat list of files knows it's like holding jello with rubber bands.

As an another example people might be familiar with: having to manage a big PHP or Ruby codebase where everything is separated by the models, views, and controllers a hierarchical level _above_ the business function. It's a nightmare. Trying to pull out the useful business functionality that's interleaved everywhere makes it very hard to pull codebases apart to where different teams can work on them.

With respect to Joe's comment here:

> Bad: It's very difficult to decide which module to put an individual
function in. Break encapsulation (see later)

As much as I like Joe's thought process, that "difficult" part is otherwise known as "the real work". All systems which scale in complexity--as opposed to the simple problem scaled in performance--need strong boundaries. They also all have a hierarchical component to them.
As a heads-up to other HN commenters, this poster has a years-long streak of submitting positive articles about ridesharing companies (1,2,3,4) and is looking to generate karma through ad hominem attacks on journalists. I would take this with a grain of salt.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361287
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17928253
3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980231
4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251361
> tastier (than the Polypill)

You’re not supposed to chew the thing!
Probably a combination of Politics, not-rocking-the-boat (generally), and a question like yours.

With globalization increasing as it has in the past few decades a lot of the old shipping and carriage agreements become counter productive.
It's definitely not a fast sale. But at the end of the day, with all the murmors of Higher Ed changing and/or dying, universities are working toward becoming more cost-efficient and student-success oriented. In many cases states are incentivizing schools by offering grants or even direct funding to undertake these types of initiatives.

It's really a new day and age that we're living in where school will spend a lot of money on software - as 5 years ago this would have been crazy.
"According to the complaint, Mr. Levandowski, who worked on self-driving cars at Google, downloaded more than 14,000 files containing critical information about Google’s autonomous-vehicle research before leaving the company in 2016. He then made an unauthorized transfer of the files to his personal laptop, the complaint said."

If the allegations are true (always important to bear in mind from a one-sided view of the complaint), I can see why they took that step in this particular case. Any "senior executive" should know that's illegal.
It’s worth noting that they first used Elm very extensively, then because of that they hired Evan to maintain the language there.
Yes I went to Georgia Southern briefly and had friends who graduated from there. A couple of our fraternity bothers got busted by the road block ahead trick. Maybe it was around Dublin.

Metter was/is a speed trap but I’ve only been through once in the past 5 years. Here’s a list from the AJC[1]. I can vouch for Doraville being a trap.

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/news/local/traffic-...
>Eventually people are going to realize that the SaaS companies have sold them out.

In what way? And which SaaS companies?
>So what should the government do if someone doesn't pay their fine?

Just go through the process of taking the money instead, no different then a civil party who was owed a legitimate debt? There is no reason a fine should be any different. Just go through the standard process, get a court order for lien, and then just seize the money from any bank accounts, liquid assets, salary, or property of any value the person in question has (or ever will have in the future up to the statute of limitations). In fact the only real difference is that I don't think a fine is dischargeable in bankruptcy.

But why do you think there is any need to use force against the person in question, or pay to imprison them? It's not some moral issue, it's just a matter of them legitimately owing money. So just take the money (possibly allowing the working out of a payment plan). For the vast majority of cases that's all that's needed, and the few who truly live as hermits can be written off and suffer their own effective punishment anyway.
I don't really care about errors. That is important for newcomers but after sometime people eventually learn idiosyncratic stuff in languages. The motivating part of .19 is the improved compile times.
Here's a fresh discussion related to the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795526
I firmly believe that its the sugar/insulin response that creates most of these health problems due to the inflammation. There's a few studies that scratch the surface of just how bad sugar is, but with all the focus on cholesterol, there's been no focus on how much sugar is in people's diets who also happen to consume high cholesterol.

I've been off and on a keto diet for the better part of 12 years. I don't eat like crap when I'm "off", but my entire body gets inflamed and I blow up like a balloon, compared to being on it. My resting heart rate rises. This should be impossible, according to the dietary cholesterol theory. My health should get worse, and blood cholesterol should raise. This does not happen. We've lived for 50 years under low fat high carb dietary recommendations, primarily because its so much easier to scale grain production. Now there's grams and grams of sugar in everything we eat.
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We really need to strengthen awareness of the fact that paying for a product doesn't mean your data isn't getting vacuumed up.
Still some work to do ; on their demo page [1]:

"Simply follow the instructions" -> "Simply follow the <US_DRIVER_LICENSE>" ; same for "contribution". So I'm guessing some overly eager regex is to blame, which doesn't make you super confident about using this for something sensitive.

[1] https://presidio-demo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
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> And Tokyo, by the way, does a pretty good job with housing

Only in the sense of getting more bang for the buck. It's the 10th most expensive city to rent in the world: https://infogram.com/1prdmkx1zvdve1sg79z2vp56vmsm2ygmn90

Or a more comprehensive study here: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...

Notice something in these list? It's all famous cities. The fact that they have wildly different housing regulations doesn't affect the rent prices, any supply is immediately absorbed back.
While I agree Syncthing is about seamlessly syncing files with devices you own, not file sharing as such, it does a good 98% of what this program offers with a more open source background and is completely free.

I share files, what, once a year? Syncthing works great for that use case. If I want to share files too big to email, I can stand to upload to Onedrive/Dropbox/an open directory on my web server for that one-time use. For more frequent setups, sure an Owncloud/Nextcloud instance wouldn't be amiss.
Nothing wrong with that. If a Chinese company wants to ship things over in bulk, break them up here in the US and ship them via the USPS, more power to them. They'll need to incorporate in the US, pay taxes in the US, probably rent space in a US warehouse, and generally play by the same set of rules as a US company that buys stuff from China and imports it for sale would.

I'm all for having a level playing field; the UPU rates were anything but.
> there's no pill to treat a severed finger

I’m pretty sure we have a pill to stop you from worrying so much about that problem.
I said it already. They make software specifically for tracking populations. Their user manuals were leaked by vice recently. You can look it up. Trying to equate the software described in those manuals, and what we know of their other contracts and products with Tableau is nonsense.
The sheer number of bees being shipped means that at best you would ship them shorter distances, as there is no way you could sustain enough bees around monoculture crops that flower once a year.
OK but it may lead to such a conversation:

Hey, company X pays less! I want to pay the same!

But Company X files very constructive bug reports and has called support only 2 times this year whereas you only whine and call support every other day, so, sorry.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-unio... has a deep breakdown, I was just speaking to the consequences the USPS (which handles international mail in the US) felt from the price setting that occurs under UPU.
Haven't used Windows for over 10 years and I'm surprised to see how far it has fallen.

It's weird to me that the author thinks of these problems as mere annoyances. To me it's utterly ridiculous to have any of these features be part of an OS.

It's like I bought a big advertisement machine.

Tried it out recently and was greeted with the usual endless automatic updates and messing up my dual boot.

What's with the "people" tab? This is the kind of half-drunk idea I've come to expect from Microsoft. When I want to talk to people on Skype, I open Skype. It might be a nice abstraction at a very high level mentally (these are apps I use to talk to "people"), but it seems pointless to have this in software.
I have long been a fan of Synology NAS's for this type of thing (I have been using one since 2007). They offer CPUs these days that should be beefy enough for a CI use case, unless you have a very large project. QNAP offers similar products as well.

I bought one as I just wanted a low power always-on server that Just Worked with a software ecosystem around it. You can now run docker containers on them as well easily.

I can access at home or via the web- they provide a dyndns service so I can just go to http://quickconnect.to/$username and access from anywhere.
To a large extent, yes, get rid of them all. The Japanese zoning system (applied at the state level in the US) makes a lot of sense to me.