skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you read article, it is important to note the before state and after state. There a lot of things that happen in between.

First, you need to understand that this culture existed well before colonization, and it existed in peace. Secondly, the culture's history and knowledge, specifically on how to survive in such a harsh environment, was oral as the Inuit did not pass things on by reading and writing. This is a key point.

It's not that it's impossible to survive in the Arctic, it's that that are many requirements, and these requirements were passed on generation after generation. Much like an Astronaut has to pass tests to ensure that they can survive the remoteness of space, the same can be said here.

What happened next is that the people, who were the 'books' of knowledge were taken away, put in schools, killed, imprisoned, etc. The requirements to be able to live in this environment were no longer being met because the people responsible for the oral transmission of the requirements and knowledge, were no longer capable of doing so. The fragile ecosystem of the Inuit and the remote environment was disrupted.

I don't think people are getting the idea that their oral traditions were essentially what we would call religion. When religion was put forth a long, long time ago, it was there to shepard our civilization by providing requirements so that people can survive, and to enable them to deal with trauma, for example death, anger, etc.

If you were to rip out religion from a population thousands of years ago, burn all their books, and make them forget it, they probably would descent into chaos. This what happened here. The Inuit had their oral traditions, i.e. akin to religion in this example, removed, and the memory or books, disappeared as the information was in the people, and not in a book.

The alcoholism, violence, etc. are symptoms of our current society applied onto theirs. This problem will span generations, and the situation will only improve once they are able to get back their oral traditions, their religion, their way of structuring their life in order to survive in the remote location. Of course, this is more complicated than that because we've now injected our modern way of life into the mix. I don't know what the outcome will be, but I do think once they are able to find their oral traditions, and to remember the stories from the old, they will be better than they are now.

Just my 2 cents.
> but hope there will always be more independent web because we exist than there would be if we didn’t.

I'm wary about joining in on Cloudflare bashing. I like Cloudflare. But...

The mark of a responsible company is that it has plans to mitigate potential harm once it stops being responsible. At one point growing up, I would have made the same arguments you make here about Google. They're not perfect, but they're better than the alternative.

The problem is that this promise essentially boils down to, "we'll try very hard not to be bad." You can't make that promise, even if you're a good person. At some point you're going to either retire or die, and your company will be handed off to other people. Your comment doesn't make me feel any better, because it reads to me like your plan is, "things won't go wrong", and you don't know that.

I'm glad Cloudflare exists, and I do think you're doing a heck of a lot more good than harm. Cloudflare is about as close as anyone can get to an ethical company. But if this is the attitude, then Cloudflare is not a responsible company, because it's not making plans for what will happen after its owners turn evil. Cloudflare is an ally for the Open Web right now. It doesn't have a backup strategy I can see for when that changes.

The Shopify analogy is actually really fitting to me. Shopify is better than Amazon, but Shopify is definitely not where I want the future of commerce to be. Many of the problems and risks inherent in Amazon's design are also inherent in Shopify -- Shopify just happens to be a more ethical company that tries harder not to exploit those flaws.

At some point in the future, once we've all centralized everything onto Shopify, that will change and Shopify will become the new Amazon. And at some point in the future, maybe even decades from now, Cloudflare will become evil. All powerful companies eventually become evil, it's inevitable.
Wow. That is a SERIOUS mischaracterization of the article and his conculusions. The third parties in question were services like Stripe (since he monetizes with subscriptions, not advertising) or Cloudflare. His whole point was he takes privacy seriously, but fundamentalist policy punishes good and bad actors equally.

But even all that aside, by your own words, it's not his treatments of the facts but his failure to account for the worst possible hypothetical situation that you have imagined in this specific area that is most important to you that makes him an unreliable journalist on any-and-all subjects? I would challenge you that this is an unhealthy purity test for him to pass.
Super cool. Github Gists as a headless CMS, now that's creative!
It could be alright for a rough/relative estimate...
And you've never come across items on Ebay/Amazon for ~$3 with free shipping from China? There's tons. They sell items for less than item cost + shipping than my shipping alone costs.
Saying someone shouldn't be a babysitter is a long way from saying they should still be in prison, or even from saying they're unhireable. Different jobs require different kinds and degrees of trust - it isn't that black and white.

> If the implication is they wouldn't be hired, that implication applies to every job.

Unhirable for one, high trust job doesn't mean unhirable for every job. For example, I don't care if a sex offender washes my dishes at a restaurant, but I wouldn't want them teaching my preschoolers.
That statement was a stumbling block in one of the recent Democratic debates. I have no idea why none of the candidates drive the point that insurance != doctor home(in most cases) .
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How does an EU person or company trivially and legally sidestep this?

There's the trivial solution of hosting it on a server outside of the EU but I doubt it's legal if the entity is still in the EU.

There's the legal solution of moving outside of the EU and assuming another nationality but for most persons that's not trivial.
> But it can change under your feet – someone might change a function to be async, that used to be sync, and now your code is broken.

Someone might change a function that returns a single value to return an array, and now your code is broken. Someone might rename the function, and now your code is broken. This is the nature of breaking changes, and the same solutions apply.
It's more composable with multiple includes.

For instance, if you have a simple active record type:

class User
has_many :comments;
has_many :likes;
end

User.includes(:comments, :likes).find(user_id)

Generates 3 queries, but importantly the number of records returned is appropriate.

User.joins(:comments, :likes).where(users: { id: user_id })

Generates only a single query, but the number of records returned from this join is the product of comments*likes for this particular user.

I find the includes stuff easier to reason about as the amount of associations you need loaded in memory becomes more complex.
There's a lot more XSS sinks than innerHTML, and "just don't do it" isn't helpful security engineering. Mike Samuel published a great post with lots of context on the design of Trusted Types at Google and why they think it works well:

https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-trusted-types/wiki/design-h...
> The US should just choose a country and copy it.

Just because X policy works elsewhere doesn't mean it would have the same effect in another country.
Yes, it would be great if US employees had those options, but they don't hence they aren't alternatives. The main alternative in the US to an employer based group insurance policy is an individual plan.

One day the US may catch up to the rest of the world, but unfortunately, the US seems content with millions of uninsured, healthcare related bankruptcies, and milking those who can afford coverage more every year in exchange for less.
One where your at stable weight and your regular diet is 4500 ?
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It's not even a cliche -- it's a talking point from the insurance industry.
The price of insurance jumped massively every year from the start of Obamacare to 2018. The fact that this has apparently mostly stopped now is the unusual thing; 2017-18 was a pretty typical year despite Trump's meddling. The article you linked suggests that this is because insurers have finally increases the cost of insurance to be in line with how much it actually costs them.
When your basal metabolism is 4500 calories a day.
Plus it ignores that we are all former children. Excepting of course those that aren't "former".
> The network of providers available to you is a separate issue from whether your company manages the risk or an insurance company does

What I'm saying is, my company manages the risk. We partner with a larger insurer company that provides A) network B) specialists for the roles you've claimed a company would normally hire. Because of this we don't have inside actuaries and specialists and such. As a result, there is no inside man looking at my claims.

I will ask for for a third time, have you experience that differs here?
The worst misuse of SSNs are treating them like some form of ID. SSN's are often thought of as a primary key that uniquely identifies American citizens, and that someone knowing the match between a name and SSN is "proof" of a person being who they say they are. The problem is that none of this is true- SSNs are re-used, so they don't uniquely identify people, and they aren't secret (the weren't intended to be)- millions of people have access to SSN databases to the point where they can't be considered even remotely confidential anymore. And you don't have to be a citizen to get an SSN.

To compound the problem, state Departments of Motor Vehicles have somehow become the arbiters of identity along with the SSN, when neither thing should have done so and very little verification takes place when a DMV issues an ID card. Any true national ID can't be administered at the state level- they might provide the manpower to hand out IDs, but the regulations and centralization should happen at the federal level.

I can go to a DMV with a paper birth certificate that isn't mine (and might not be real) and SSN card that isn't mine, and get a driver's license or state ID if I can't pass the driving test. I can take the birth certificate, SSN card, and new fraudulent driver's license, and get a passport from the post office. That passport, with my picture, is considered "proof" that I am someone else entirely, and I got it without actually proving who I am, because at some point we decided that the SSN card you got as a baby is good enough proof, along with a driver's license (that usually hinges on having an SSN). The crazy part is that you don't even need to be a citizen to pull this off, just know where someone was born and their SSN, put a little effort into making a realistic looking birth certificate, and you can get ironclad proof of citizenship that lets you stay in the USA forever, vote in elections, travel abroad and get assistance from the American embassies, and enjoy all the benefits of being a citizen.
> Then you need to set up systems for extracting any 'insight' from what they have and continuously managing and processing data from multiple sources, and so on and so on.

Agreed, this is quite tricky. The solution I described lends itself much better to one-off analyses, thus limiting its usefulness.

> No one is really sitting with a single csv file open in front of them, thinking "Hmm if only someone would tell me what I can do with this".

Yea, most people don't do this. I think the target user would likely be someone who has an ok idea of what they might want to do with their data, but needs some guidance as to what the latest and greatest techniques can actually do, given what they have. There may be a gap between what they think they can do, and what is actually possible. Or they might discover new things that they didn't think of. Perhaps this is more of a personal frustration that I've had in the past.

The "single csv" issue is a concern I have as well. Many data-science-type problems of course cannot be reduced to a single csv.

Thanks for the feedback!
Anecdotal evidence: I used to live in Oregon, where it rains a majority of the year (or the skies are otherwise gray). I was super unhappy all the time and was regularly depressed. Moved to Florida where the sun is out virtually 365 days of the year. I haven't had a dark day since I got here some years ago. I'm living in a lower-class area too.
Wouldn't you expect that with an aging population?
I understand why you're doing it, but the download link redirecting me to an email capture page is quite jarring. If your download link is at the top of your homepage, and there's more product details below that link, it's pretty typical to hit download and assume it's a normal download link while you read the rest of the page. An easily dismissible modal would work better (or put an email capture in your app on first-run)
I rarely use twitter, but I've got @stevew -- and I get a lot of truncated mentions about Woz and others.
Ask HN: What do you ask a founder to work with to verify they're competent?
I'm in a position of potentially going to be first engineer and am really not sure what to ask and gauge whether going from a cushy job to a risky startup is worth it? They have customers, but not many, as well as a very high conversion rate.

They also have some a small amount of pre seed.
I've not looked at the code, but wouldn't it be possible to patch this and enable Pro mode without paying?

Morally bad and ultimately self-defeating, but I'm guessing legally fine?
Doesn’t the fact that vastly different systems perform better than the US possibly suggest that our problem is something other than the payor model? What is the theoretical reason why US costs would be higher than Switzerland? Premiums for private insurance should be much lower in the US, given that Medicare takes high cost people out of the private pool.
Potential self-driving car feature: move itself to the back of the lot when the front gets too full; return to the front if it gets too empty.
There's another crane index, which is how many tower cranes you need to build one building. Google's is 6; I think they're among the world's least efficient builders.
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It's not that simple. Even adding additional time doesn't always work. E.g. Some things just can't be done till moments/minutes before having to leave. If you want to do those early you have to leave early as well. Then you arrive early, and then what. So you plan from the other side as well, and that means cutting things close with x% of buffer. Sometimes that buffer isn't enough and it throws everything off. Sometimes you're all set to go, slightly early, and something pops up.

Or, all the planning goes out the window when one of them is wailing or throwing a tantrum, or is so so so eager to show you this wonderful thing they finished drawing for you. Then you have to adapt that wonderfully planned schedule/plan, so your previously-allotted buffer dwindles and next thing you know you're one new-issue away from being late.

But yeah, one of other comments mentioned. There is a difference between being late once in a while vs always.
Yes. Well, we’ve built a prototype recently that just uses Hasura for the backend (don’t need anything other than data access at this stage).

It’s a really great engine and I’m glad we took a punt on it. Aside from the expected behaviour, you get some nice bonus stuff like nested updates for free.

We mostly tried it out because we normally use python and we wanted subscriptions. The graphql story in python (especially async) isn’t amazing. When we need more business logic, we’ll build it in python and then you can get Hasura to do delivery to python (to ensure each event is run exactly once).

I’d recommend kicking the tyres to see if it works for you. The team are awesome too, and moving quickly. I have no affiliation but I think it’s going to do really well.
Totally gone - the long thin bits are normally connected by two robots, it’s just one. This means the plastic case is separated. While I can just about close the lid by pushing from tr base of the screen, it’s really flakey.

The cpu fan doesn’t work either.
> I'm looking forward to the more robust change in 4.0.

VLC 4 has a new "player", but the behavior to fix this issue is exactly the same.

Tguillem implemented it in the player: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/blob/8fc06287a82f3f23...

And I implemented it in VLC 3:
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git;a=commitdiff;h=d...
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git;a=commitdiff;h=1...

This is implemented that way because retrying indefinitely may be the expected behavior (so we may not stop), we just avoid busy loops.
> Where does Cloudflare claim to be content agnostic?

They may want to claim it, one way or the other, as part of their IPO filing so that potential investors have some idea of liability risks with the company.
Isn't that also possible with EC2? Just set the startup script to something that installs your software (or build an AMI with it). Dump videos to be processed into SQS, have your software pull videos from that.

You'd need some logic to shut down the instances once it's done, but the simplest logic would be to have the software do a self-destruct on the EC2 VM if it's unable to pull a video to process for X time, where X is something sensible like 5 minutes.
If that particular combination of state transitions has happened before, then it lacks novelty. If it hasn’t though...
What the rich and powerful say in public is often different from what they do in private. People at Dimon's level are absolutely invested in crypto, they're just quiet about it so they don't spook the markets.

Warren Buffet often spouts folksy sounding wisdom like "I don't like businesses I don't understand", and then talks about Heinz Ketchup or General Mills. But at the end of the day, he extended Goldman Sachs a $5bn lifeline in September 2008 in a highly complex deal. [0]

[0] https://qz.com/67052/heres-how-warren-buffett-made-3-1-billi...
> As such, I think it will be a while before I can pick components out on Mouser's website, and have all those component chiplets fused to an interconnect wafer and delivered to my home or employer's shipping dock (though that would be damned awesome).

I agree. People have been talking about that future since at least the 1990s (back then SOC didn't mean a somewhat standard chip with a lot of peripherals, but literally a custom die with your own hardware on it). "Hardware/software co-design" was part of the jargon of the day. I'm not holding my breath.

But I do imagine seeing a lot of consumer products go this way. Not a $3 IoT light switch/malware vector, but anything that gets rid of connectors is a win on both the BOM and reliability standpoint, but anything in the $50-$500 price range with volume over a million units is probably worth it.
Yes, but longer than from the delivery unit. :P
yeah that’s how we are doing it now. Flagged and then manual review. Often the same bad actors will just generate a new protonmail account... which leads us to browser fingerprinting
It was a genuine question, sorry if it came off as insulting. I dunno, I've been learning to cook my own food since I was a kid, so I've got a pretty good idea of what meat and other food should look and taste like, to the point where most processed food doesn't really look or taste like 'real food' to me and I don't even look at it as food. Even those bottom tier just above fastfood style restaurants. I've always thought people realized this but just didn't really care. It's just never really came to mind there are people who just never realized.
Gabe Brown mentioned it in this lecture on regenerative agriculture. Sorry, but I don't have a timestamp, it's been a few weeks since I watched it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A

I'm not an expert in farming, but I do know a little bit of plant biology. My understanding of what he said was that the combination of atmospheric CO2 and fertilizer increases the growth rate of the plant, but the plant doesn't uptake a proportionately larger amount of other micro nutrients, either because it is biologically rate limited or doesn't have access.

Other Googling suggests that it could be a result of selective breeding picking crops that grow faster but are less nutritious, but that would seem to be a correlated problem. Those crops tend to be selected for their ability to grow with synthetic fertilizer and *-cides, with the lack of nutritional value being an unintended consequence.
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They say software but then the article is about databases, event streams, and networked communication.

But they leave out the other big part of running a company, which is getting the low-paid worker drones to show up on time and make the company money.
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Why are you using so much power? Do you use electric for everything including heat and cooking?
The saying in software is "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning."
Holy crap, that's what's happening?

It took me hours to figure out that the failed boot was caused by the `/var` symlink being removed. I was literally a minute away from reinstalling the OS when I saw a post from 2014 that had a passing reference to the `/var` symlink.

Then I went through and disabled every conceivable startup program, and even created a bash script to fix `/var` when it randomly disappeared. I didn't even consider that it could be Chrome causing it.

This all happened with SIP enabled, btw.
Well... medium speed I/O. "High speed" in an FPGA context would imply a 5+ Gbit SERDES, which the Spartan-7 doesn't have and the connectors on this board wouldn't support anyway.
Old quote, can't rememeber where I first heard it:

"At universities, the employees get better parking than the customers".

Although it wasn't true at my alma mater, where the only difference was that for staff and faculty the university would deduct the parking fees from your paycheck. For your convenience.
A group of companies that has form as well...

A previous recipient of the FSF 'Stupid Patent of the Month' award...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/stupid-patent-of...
> but in my calorie range

That's the difficult part--the insulin spikes from ultraprocessed food will make you hungrier and eat more as well as lower your basal metabolism. "Calorie range" is a moving target.
Here's an example off eBay for an item that measures 6"x4"x2", is fragile so has to be packaged well, and costs $2 with free shipping.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acrylic-Transparent-Photo-Frame-6in...
They couldn't afford to pay the fees. They got full rides.
> because your body gets into ketosis

For what it's worth, this mostly doesn't actually happen. There is some good science behind maintaining ketosis in children under careful monitoring by a physician. Most of the empirical evidence in adults is that it's hard to achieve and harder to maintain. The weight loss some people achieve on "keto" diets is mostly just due to caloric restriction when it's been measured carefully.

The upside is you don't really want to have your body in ketosis anyway.
8 KWh/day is very impressive. How did you get it that low?
Interesting idea but as others have already pointed out, it has a lot more than just programming languages in it. I understand that the description explicitly points it out but advertising it as a list of "computer languages"/"programming languages" is just plain wrong and misleading.