skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but if non-transparent pricing was such a problem, wouldn't those customers simply use a competing product that does have transparent pricing? how can non-transparent enterprise software companies continue to have customers if their customers really care about this issue?
Wi-Fi 6 will upgrade your workhorse wireless network
The Calgary public library has a pretty decent online holds system that will transfer physical goods to your local branch within a day or so. I've never been to out fancy new downtown branch that cost a fortune but hear the focus is definitely not on books or even media, but social activities. I find this disappointing because IMO we still need physical repositories of knowledge; they are the unifying hub around a broad audience but specific purpose
Murphy's law: "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"

Muphry's law: "anything that can be mispelled, will be mispelled"
This is good.. just need a hashbytes formula for Excel to make anonymization accessible to the majority of MS customers who are fumbling around pii haphazardly.
> you just know something stupid like that is coming

Please don't be a jerk in HN comments, especially when commenting on someone's work. Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> so the local government gathers funds the only way they can find it.

Because the local government is a bureaucracy, and the first motivation of a bureaucracy is the same as with any organism, self-preservation.

Rather than elections for sheriff and alderman, etc. there should be referenda every couple of years to dissolve the jurisdiction.
> These protections will go away in a few decades, possibly sooner.

I doubt it, Walt Disney died over 5 decades ago, yet Disney is still plenty busy lobbying for more copyright extensions [0].

Considering how much money they have available, and are still making, I'd be really surprised if they didn't manage to drag this on for pretty much forever. Especially considering they are not the only powerful entity lobbying in that direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
>Many of your thoughts are formed as you speak, there is even evidence that talking to yourself in third-person helps you stay more calmer and objective.

Talking to yourself in third-person means having switched into thinking of yourself as some third party which can itself affect subsequent thoughts/talking, so this doesn't contradict what the parent says.
This happens at restaurants in cities which increase minimum wage, too. "We've added a cost of living fee to your meal of 8%, don't forget to tip your waiter!"
I’d say when we’re talking about a dietary choice an individual makes, looking at carbon on a per capita basis is the right way to look at it. Especially given that the US consumer is a very influential one in the world. China is set to put a substantial chunk of global emissions under a carbon tax in the near term, which should prove to be a market force which drives down meat consumption, among other things.

The US agricultural system has global implications — from tooling and process, to subsidies and what poor countries grow. A fundamental change in the American diet would have an enormous ripple effect across the globe.
I just spent two weeks in central Europe and was blown away by how many bees I saw. In the DC area, I might see one or two individual bees a week. But in one park in Prague, I saw several dozen buzzing among the flowers at once. And there were plenty more in every other location I visited, both urban and rural.

This is just my anecdotal experience and it may mean nothing, but I was truly shocked by the differences in what I see.
So where should I be buying my automotive car parts?
>they aren't doing any useful work that couldn't be done more fairly and effectively at the state level.

Or equally fairly and effectively without having it officially orchestrated by the government.
A white paper is necessary to understand this. It doesn't make sense otherwise. How would a smart TV or any TV for that matter be configured to export it's USB devices as a network mount? I mean, there's absolutely no way to reach a USB drive attached to your TV except from within the TV itself.
I'm from a country with so-called day fines: a fine is a multiplier of your daily earnings. It boggles my mind that a similar system isn't in use everywhere. It's easy to understand and fair to everyone; a deterrent against infractions independent of your income.
I learned # from my father, who introduced me to electronics as a lad by bringing a broken Telex machine home from work. He called it "pound," and it stuck with me.

Also, I remember * being "splat" back in my PR1MOS and Vax days.
I will start caring about the second one when we have solved the first, and not before.
Since there is no profit, the money certainly isn't going to shareholders. And I wouldn't be surprised if Uber actually does spend 500m/year on trust and safety.
We can't make real progress on a lot of other problems unless that is addressed. There's always calls for more housing in the cities, but it's going to be real hard for the cities to support growing populations if transportation infrastructure becomes harder to maintain, if coastal land is encroached by the sea, if water supplies can't be secured. If large-scale agriculture isn't sustainable, cities won't be sustainable.
That's rather drastic, but I'm glad that worked out well for you. Everyone thinks prior to having kids that their kids are going to be the next Carl Sagan. Nobody ever considers that their kids might be the next Jeffery Dahmer.
Original, Commented Atari 8-bit PAC-MAN Source Code
I suppose I've never really felt the need to "maximise" a window as opposed to putting it in fullscreen.
You argued upthread for reverse engineering. Binary is the source code, albeit in less convenient form. So maybe it wouldn't be strict copyleft, but close enough.
Why it’s strong to be ambivalent
Apart from all the other stuff, it seems suspicious that they would use Serpent for encryption, rather than using AES or another more well-known cipher suite (also, no talk about AEAD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(cipher)
Pretty sure the appeal is the outrage it triggers.
Agree completely. Houston doesn’t have zoning. Houston also doesn’t have a housing affordability crisis. Houston also doesn’t have high developer fees or low income housing mandates. Houston also has a lot of parking. Weird. A city doing almost the exact opposite of what many “housing advocates” prescribe and they don’t have a housing problem.
Or, you buy from a different source.

If cheap crap x from China has a moderately expensive source alternative from the USA and stopping subsidising the transportation costs from China makes the moderately expensive option price viable then that's good for the USA supplier without any middlemen being involved.
It still has to go to trial to be determined. This is used as a punitive mechanism by prominent rightsholders. See the sad tales of Prenda Law, and Rightshaven. I'm not sure what the official term is in the case of "we assume X, but we'll have a trial to see if X is true", but the presumption is that whatever was copied, so it has to go to court. In combination with the "American Rule", that makes everyone shy away from coming too close to copying. You can lawyerly say what you want, the situation is that theoretically you can invent something yourself that's close or identical to some rightholder's ideas, but basically you're punished for it. SO stay away.
This would help, but it would be nice if there was a way to somehow verify a chain of custody of media where each modification somehow added to the chain and could be independently verified. I don't really see how that could be done but it would be really amazing.
Yes and no. Essentially this is already happening, except they are drop-shipping you the product for next to nothing direct from China. In fact, there is a small industry that revolves around this business model. The barrier of entry has just risen dramatically with this news.

https://www.shopify.com/guides/dropshipping

There are thousands of small drop-shipping businesses based in North America that depend on cheap postal service from China. Excuse me while I go short Shopify stock.
Valid, and I don't know what the total fines are, but if the speed cameras alone netted 3.2 million last year it seems quite plausible that fines are accounting for 10% or more if I'm reading this report correctly http://www.providenceri.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Accou...

But you know, I'm not an accountant
>This is the absolutism that derails the discussion for me

Because things are going very well on this privacy front, and it's the absolutism that should be curbed?
Products are never really done
You're not wrong about the benefits of the Cloud. Some people make bomb shelters in their basement, some people stockpile canned goods. I stockpile data. I even have an old text only offline copy of the English Wikipedia.

My main issues are privacy. I don't want Google peeking into everything I upload for marketing materials. I also don't want to trust a third party company with my kids photos. They can change their privacy policy in the blink of an eye, or disable my account by accident without reason or warning.

Then there's the security aspect, and I'm settling in for a fight here. Google, AWS, Azure... These are all consolidated attack vectors. When WWIII breaks out it's not starting in the physical world. It's starting on the internet, and the first casualties are going to be major infrastructure providers followed immediately by FB, Google, Microsoft, and AWS.

Take out those 4 companies and our world is in chaos. Your company won't get their emails, their apps will be offline, and half our economy will be out of business by morning time.

But not me. My RAID arrays are still spinning away and if I want to I can reach out and touch them. Who knows where everyone elses data is. That's not my problem.
There will be a time in the future, when we look back on pills as a laughably crude form of treatment, similar to how we look back on bloodletting now.

Take X pill to solve Y, but side effect(s) are Z.

Your best bet in life now is to invest in your health early. It's a compounding effect. Walk regularly. Exercise. Eat healthy (mostly vegetables, fruit, reduce animal products). Sleep well.
And especially favors the rich as they have the time and money to pay the government upfront, while the poor get to deal with higher insurance premiums.
Something contemporary American culture has entirely forgot is the principle of a right to repair.

Even in a post-IP world you can have it be law that anything sold must include its documentation, manuals, and thus in the case of software on the sold product, its source code.

The fact so few realize how grossly unjust it is that most products sold today not only are undocumented but are intentionally obfuscated to make repair nigh impossible in order to drive replacement is the origin of the problem, though.
Biology is complicated and there are always unintended consequences even with simple drugs or other procedures. you've listed outcomes, but not how to get there. do we increase muscle mass by overexposing growth hormone? in which exact cells and how do we time it? Do we increase IQ by increasing Nerve growth factor or some synaptic channels? What if the wrong cells are expressing them at the wrong time? We barely understand what many of these factors do on a cell to cell level. chasing the things you list WILL come with toxicities and/or a failure rates. Perhaps in 'patients' whom we will have to look in the eyes and explain why we did what we did. Maybe we will get where you suggest but it won't be a straight road there.
If you have a fast connection, xz decompression may be the bottleneck, but in some places, downloading that 1.8GB can easily take an hour or more. So I’m not sure whether this is the bottleneck in the usual case.

I would also be interested to see if it’s using parallel decompresssion when possible. I have an intuition it doesn’t, since I have always found Arch defaulting to single thread decompression, e.g in makepkg or for compressing with mkinitcpio.
It's not "tickets," but https://handmadehero.org/watch is live-streamed coding, funded through https://handmadehero.org/fund. I've found it educational and entertaining, and is an example of a programmer doing a "live show."
Any chance you're going to post updates on this? I would love to hear how this treats you!
Punchcards weren't the problem, Nazis were the problem. Should we be focused on ensuring that every data analysis vendor, worldwide, refuses to sell to our government or should we be focused on ensuring our government doesn't do bad things?

The former is sisyphean, the latter is the most important thing we as a society can do.
A Pi is too weak for my workloads I'm afraid ;)
Actually I considered a Hades Canyon (successor to Skull Canyon) with an early Intel 10th gen part but it has it's iGPU disabled and comes with a Radeon (!) GPU which just calls for trouble and additional cooling, though it's still much better than nvdia for Linux I guess. But then I'd rather go all-in on AMD CPUs which are winning in the bang-for-buck and multi-threaded department anyway. Plus, I don't want lasercut skull-shaped grilles and similar gaming traits if I can help it ;)

Edit: also it's already out well over a year, and given Intel's atypical immaturity wrt their 9nm parts, it might be better to skip on this one
If it was independent to your income, then your income should not matter. The fine should be proportional to the infraction/crime/damage.
o365 home is $99.99/yr (not $50/mo), and allows up to 5 users, each of whom gets their own 1TB OneDrive allotment, evergreen desktop and mobile office software, skype minutes, etc.

It's a much better deal than paying $80/year for 1TB of OneDrive if you have 2+ users.
Taxis, shuttles, rideshare are a thing.
Don't forget the homelessness, mental health and drug crises that are challenging everyone on the West Coast. It's not just about not having enough homes, it's about the culture we create for people to thrive.
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My love of wandering through the stacks of a library is definitely nostalgia-driven but there's something about being around mountains of books that is exciting. Probably the same reason people like old record stores, flea markets and bargain stores like winners...
>This is I guess likely the reason you have many more gas stoves in the US than in Europe where you can easily install a high power electric/induction stove instead.

You'll need to redefine Europe.

Loosely in some countries electricity is "cheap" (example France), whilst in many other ones it is "expensive" (example Denmark, Germany).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#/media/Fil...

And of course prices need to be compared with actual income level, 16.4 in Norway is very different from 16.1 in Slovenia (Net average monthly wage of Euro 3,452 vs. 1,128).

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

If you prefer, in Italy - as an example - we actually can have the three phases and relatively high amounts of power, but we simply cannot afford it (and thus most of heating and cooking is gas based).
Hopefully it'll be the time where pill-equivalents will contain sophisticated nanomachines (read: e.g. proteins) specifically crafted to solve Y without side effects.

Until then, I'll happily take my ibuprofen pill instead of wondering where my life went wrong so that I now have fever and am in pain.
As much as I wish it was unnecessary, we run a cryptocurrency platform. There are constant attempts to sign up using fake/stolen credentials, and we have to make sure our users don't fall prey to various attacks that could lead to total loss of their assets. Fingerprinting isn't the be-all and end-all and it's not 100% reliable, but it's extremely useful as part of a broad set of signals for detecting bad actors.

The comparison to a physical address is silly - the address is the fingerprint. If I can meet you at your house, and obtain a legal document demonstrating that you own the house, I don't need to do anything else. There is no such equivalent for most internet-connected devices, or at least not one that's obtainable outside of law enforcement applications.
But that's not what the article proposes.

They want removal of regulation regarding parking spots (free market), but building of rent-controlled social housing on the freed space (non-free market).
The renovated Rose Reading Room is really beautiful. Great place to work for a couple hours. (So is Bryant Park on a nice day of course.)
Thank you for sharing this; I find the technique refreshingly simple.

> You may have seen people achieve this with a more complex headless Chrome-based solution, but for many sites, this will be perfectly fine!

Can you elaborate on the difference between using wget and a heavier solution? I assume the main difference is that a headless browser can execute JavaScript and then serialize the resulting DOM back to HTML, allowing you to build sites in client side frameworks (React, Vue) and then make static versions of them for deployment. Are there other benefits of using a full browser vs. simply using wget?
Government is "sticky". War taxes stick around long after the end of the war, and city bureaucracies stick around long after a city declines.

Nobody wants to accept that maybe a town of 5-20k people don't need 20-100 man police forces, and a far lower level of public services in general.

Nobody wants to admit they have to lower their standards of living in the face of adversity; instead we double-down on reproducing (or improving on) the standard of living of our forebears and thereby immiserate ourselves with the debts (or oppression in this case) needed to square that circle.

Even the most economically irrelevant areas of rural america have paved roads these days when they could simply have stuck with gravel, etc. In many ways we are trying to exceed the prior standard of living (progress!) all the while forgetting that the economic base of most of these places has either not improved or significantly worsened.

We all increase our standards of living at our own peril; one must save and capitalize first (which is actively punished by low interest rate policy). Taking this as a given, should we have expected any other outcome?
There aren't any Minnesota towns on the map in the article so it must not be more than 10%, presumably.

It is interesting to see some towns that are famous in my local area for it:

Morrison, CO (45.3%). 150,000 drivers pass through it daily, with a population of 431. It's hard to argue with as they stop people if they're going 15 MPH over the limit. [1] I think people here just get used to the lack of enforcement of the other cities.

Mountain View, CO is only 0.09 sq mi (0.24 km2), population ~528. Sandwiched between Denver and the next suburb over, writes more tickets combined than Denver, Boulder, and Aurora. A lot of the tickets are for things like seatbelts and cracked windshields [2].

[1] https://www.speedtrap.org/colorado/morrison/
Quote: "They got me going 41 in a 25. $135 ticket. They are making a killing by gouging people for no reason so beware!" LOL

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_Colorado#Police...
> If they are going to use minor violations of the law as a pretext for revenue collection, they should call it what it is: kleptocracy.

Fancy word, there, son. 'round here we call it Dixie.
That probably was the reason when package managers were invented. I don't think it makes sense today, especially when we do have some package managers downloading in parallel (like dnf as I mentioned). That means at least some distros believe their infrastructure can handle it.

As for volunteer servers, if a particular server can't handle >N connections, it can drop them. No reason to gimp clients instead.

And specifically in openSUSE's case, nobody has put forth server bandwidth / limits as a reason not to parallelize downloads. [1][2][3] It's just not been done because nobody (including myself) has cared enough to figure out how to do it.

[1]: https://features.opensuse.org/307862

[2]: https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/104

[3]: https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/160
Interesting! How exactly do you run the tests and the linters then? Pytest with flake8+pylint plugins? Separately? Serially? In parallel? Why flake8 and pylint at the same time, did you find significant differences?
Magnetic fields, which are created by the current, destroy the super conducting effect.

The colder you run a superconductor, the more current it can conduct.

T quoted for superconductivity is the phase transition for I = 0 A
It's not just skin color, though. It's height. It's face structure. It's the fact that some Sneeches have stars while others are without thars. It's a natural diversity of _everything_. Yes some aspects of that diversity are devastating congenital issues, but IMO we're not ready — socially or technically — for such power to be safely applied through gene editing.
ISPs (at least in the US) have been selling their customers out for years. Nobody cares as long as Netflix works and their photos get to the people they want to see them.
This is absolutely the new definition of “library”, and honestly though I came here to criticize an egotistical architectural exercise, after reading more about Oodi I am suitably impressed.

$100 million is an extremely good deal for what they got, and they say that includes the equipment? I don’t quite believe they built it for that little.

My town (population ~15,000) wanted to build a new library last year — it was voted down as unnecessary — at a cost of almost ~$30 million for a two story 30,000 sq. ft building.

Oodi’s 185,000 square feet is an exquisite leisure center, and with up to 20,000 visitors a day sounds like a fantastic investment for Helsinki.
I say this sarcastically - I don't think anything about Brave's security ops is flawed or even misconfigured [now], but Google and Mozilla have a lot more resources than Brave does dedicated to security and auditing of things like CI servers and access controls.

And the password sync thing was related to the server that runs sync - it's E2EE, but Brave controls the update process and could very well deploy a malicious update that exfiltrates sync data or leaves it open to attacks.

That's why my point is about where you place your trust - if you're not up to the task of building your own browser (or at least auditing and building chromium yourself) and running your own sync software, you have to trust someone; oftentimes this means giving up privacy (Google) or giving up security (Again, choosing Brave isn't really giving up the security of your sync data, you're just now trusting a company that might not have the same security procedures and amount of resources dedicated to audits).
Microsoft research is still perfecting the "substring search" technology.
He works for the New York Times. They have editors. He's not some lone wolf journalist/activist
Isn't it wonderful that both options are available today? You remove IP, you remove an option. Perhaps that doesn't hurt you, but there are quite a few people who appreciate that they can get the output from commercial creators at low prices.
I think that looks great, it is VERY stylized but it is consistent and definitely had a goal which is more than likely hit.
Bananas and jeans are inexpensive consumables. Homes comprise over a quarter of non-financial assets in the US while being responsible for 68% of household liabilities [0].

Regulations have undeniably caused harm in California.

Yet, an elephant lurks. Housing is a massive system dependent upon the price of homes/land continuously rising. History has shown that when that doesn't happen, it is disastrous.

Maybe the market disentangles that, but by god would it be destructive.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/25/six-facts...