skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If he was being held against his will, I doubt the pubs the first place you go.

I dunno - 9 years without a beer and I might have different priorities...
"This team moved 40 TB of data with just one hour of downtime, and realized the same or better performance at half the cost, powered by Amazon Aurora."

Would have loved to have read some technical details on how 40 Tbyte was transferred in an hour, even migrated.
I take no responsibility for model drift and filtering adversarial data is the responsibility of the consumer :)
OT: Am I the only one who thinks that most meetups are crap? The idea of meeting like-minded people is tempting but the reality is always different: Crowded places, stuffy air, weak talks, lame sponsors, 1-to-n presentations, no real interaction, stale drinks out of thin plastic cups, odd devs
The police have other ways of catching people doing crime. We don't need to give up all of our privacy and rights for them to do their job. If you think having privacy or rights stops the police from catching criminals then you are quite mistaken. If the police can catch el chapo and the rest of the drug cartel bosses then any other criminal can be taken down regardless of the technology they're using.
>... All we know is that some Republicans are biased, just as all people have biases. Also, your source is not substantiated.

Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow.
I took my undergraduate business degree at the same time as a colleague took his MBA. They were similar enough that we were taking exams on the same topic at the same time.

I'd only consider an MBA if it were a top program, and only to build my networking.
Nick did a post about this: https://dev.to/nickparsons/how-to-build-an-ionic-chat-app-wi...
I was surprised with how good the performance was. Really, better than unoptimized native apps, which is (at least to me) quite surprising
I used to write PL/SQL long time back. In old days, every business logic was written in stored procedures, which the java code calls. Migrating stored procedures is a hard part since whoever wrote it left the company long time ago.

Whatever talent available in the company that wants to migrate off Oracle, would not want to take the risks of migration failure.
Exactly. A screwdriver and a file can make a deadly weapon, a piece of car tire inner tube paired with a Y-shaped piece of wood and a few bearing balls can make a slingshot capable of killing a person at distance. Bows and arrows are easy to build, and the necessary materials are easily obtainable in nature.
If we restrict everything that can be used also to harm others, we'll end up needing a weapon permit just to enter a hardware store or take a walk in the park.
I was pushed to be a good student in high school. Absolutely useless. I wish I only cared about math and English. I actually tried this sort of focus on a few subjects, but you know how it goes -- everyone and their momma is convinced you gotta be "well-rounded" i.e. study a bit of literature, history, geography, art etc and come out knowing precisely jack shit.
>How about proof of citizenship for the right to a free press? Should we require a passport to get into church? Do only citizens get to walk into a post office? Do I need to show someone an ID before I send a letter to my representative?

None of those things make any sense. A church is more than welcome to only accept people with a passport. I can't imagin that will be going on for long. The post office is a service, and they will sell to whoever can pay. Sending a letter to your representative - you'd probably get a bigger impact if you somehow managed to convince him you voted regularly for different parties. As for "access to a free press", I don't know what you mean. They want your eyeballs as long as they can make some dosh there.

The rest of your post doesn't make sense. The computer analogy breaks down as you don't have a nice evidence log for voting and possible illegal voters, so you start trying different things.

> The majority of vote fraud (the 'r' is deliberately dropped, BTW) is by the incumbent party systematically preventing votes and voters from being counted

That's begging the question. You're asserting the point you're trying to prove, which is what "begging the question" means.

> Jimmy Carter tells the story, for example, of a town in Georgia where the voters were recorded as having voted in alphabetical order. That's real vote fraud, and something that no amount of pretend voter ids will help.

Yes. First, the plural of anecdote is not data. Second, just because something helps in that situation, doesn't mean it will help in the problem you want to solve right now. You _can_ do both. Nuance and stacked solutions are important.
A wealth tax doesn't prevent spending money on your children, it attenuates it. For a toy example, imagine a logarithmic estate tax. If you make ten times as much as everybody else, you can give your kids twice as much as everybody else. You're still giving them a big leg up, but for the dynasty to continue they have to make something of themselves.
Show HN: I created a non-money-oriented crowdsourcing alternative for developers
Ah yes, get to the airport 5 hours early everytime you want to fly so you can go through that process buddy. That's a huge barrier to entry, one that is clearly not taken advantage of very often because the vast majority of Americans have an ID..
I liked it but i could tell it wasnt miyazaki, and made sense when the credits rolled. Hard to say what was different, perhaps the pacing and emotion?
Unfortunately, the opinions of others often intrude on your dream world, and determine whether or not you are employed, married, incarcerated, etc.
IPFS person here - there are a ton of improvements to the libp2p DHT in the works (many which also relate to bootstrapping efficiency), but a key component of shipping these to an active 100K+ node network like IPFS is testing and validation, so it's taking us longer to ship these improvements while we build a testground able to simulate network conditions to increase network _reliability_ as well as performance. IPFS is still actively WIP and directly focused on improving performance, reliability, and usability - so feedback and collaborators welcome to help us address these issues head-on. =]
Tool caved in, so will they.
Cruise Waymo Tesla or any other startup for self driving. Gates Foundation for the rest ?
Android is FULL of malware. Being able to detect that shouldn't be too hard considering google rarely detects it quickly. (odd strings in APKs, traffic to suspicious ASNs, traffic to low rank domains). There are many reports online about android malware to look at to find patterns to detect future malware. Many reporters around the world are running malicious software on their phones and have no idea.

Great report to listen to about it here.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/48/

Warning. The darknetdiary episodes are ADDICTING. Awesome stuff!

Posted link to wrong episode. Correct episode about journalists and smart phones..
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/38/
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Recent AskHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253620
The bad assumption of this article is that the goal of Kmart/Sears in bankruptcy is to get out of bankruptcy. That is completely false.

The entire goal of the Sears/KMart management is to siphon shareholder value and money from the parent company into shadow companies that the executive team owns, while saddling the main company with increasing debt and passing it through various stages of bankruptcy. At each stage the maangement will pilfer real estate and other main corporate assets from the main company.

Why this is tolerated, who knows.
I walked away from taking a job there after I had a "peer lunch" with the team I would be working and found out it was mostly vacant due to firings and departures for "performance reasons".

Any place that can lay off a significant majority of a team has issues.
Hey guys. I've been working on this on and off for a few years with a couple of others. It's essentially a model that merges Crowdfunding and Open Source in that it allows people to invest their time & expertise (rather than money) into projects that interest them and collaborate with others on those projects and share the profits between themselves.

It's quite cool because it's not really been done before. So as the value of users' contribution grows, tracked by points like sprint/story points and whatnot the proportion of the share of the profits you get increases. We provide all the tools to distribute the money to everyone in a project + project management tools, a peer review system etc. etc.

The aim is to enable developers, programmers and engineers (etc.) to create equitable and autonomous projects, keeping money, investors and banks out of your projects so you can focus on collaborating and building without having to quit your job, hire a team, compromise on ambition, deal with investors/investment nor piss around with payment processing and regulations.
Well, I know this sort of sentiment is usually dismissed as xenophobia but… where’s the evidence that this is a bad thing _for U.S. citizens_?
IPFS has built-in denylists so it isn't very uncensorable.
I'm not a legal scholar, but I believe there are more restrictions on the 2nd Amendment than there are on the amendments related to voting. Specifically the 24th Amendment prohibits the poll tax and requiring a voter to pay for an ID is in practice a poll tax.

Also this topic isn't limited to presidential elections, so that Electoral College logic loophole doesn't apply to all elections.
1. https://i.imgur.com/CzGesdb.png

2. https://i.imgur.com/hlGGwWO.png

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On the other hand I'm using an LG G4 running LineageOS (16) since more than 4 years, and it will probably continue getting updates for as long as it doesn't break.
Only Android devices allow this.
They don't have a search algorithm. They're using Bing for the search results.
Some support contracts only support if using x JDK
Some software checks the exact JDK and only runs using it
etc.
Yes. I have actually bought my own insurance through one of the state-run exchanges in the past.
There are several recommendations for alternate e-mail providers in the comments of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 (Search for "fastmail", "protonmail", "tutanota", etc. to find the relevant subthreads.)

I've been using fastmail.com for years, and have found it to be very reliable. (As with many e-mail providers, you can use it with your own domain.)

You mentioned work e-mail. That's the least reliable e-mail of all for anything non-work-related, since (1) you lose access to it immediately if you're fired or laid off, or if the company closes, and (2) you have absolutely no expectation of privacy (your employer can read or delete your messages on a system that it owns - the messages are its property, not yours).
Notice, the farm did not belong to him. So where is the owner?
Click-bait. Imagine you made a way to make 88k a month and keeping growing, why tell anyone?

Exactly: You tell once growth has stopped and you need a quick fix.
Hey that's a great idea! Unfortunately it sounds like Sears' management would be loath to consider any real "innovation" or "R&D".
> Luckily, I don't have to work on anything that needs a designer anymore, like WinForms, but if I did I would certainly install VS. Even then - I think I'd only use VS for the designer and go back to VSCode for everything else. (And I love Windows and I used to love VS, having used both of them for 30 years and 15 years respectively.)

The WinForms designer is wonderful. I can throw up an ugly CRUD app that works so insanely fast with it. The web-equivalents are horrible. Everyone is trying to make a rich web app to write rich web apps and IMHO they are all targeting way too low on the "technical ability" scale for their users.

Though web is harder, since apps need to be responsive, and cross plat, and automating code gen of CSS that does that cannot be easy, and having a form designer UI expose settings for how a UI resizes itself doesn't sound like a UX challenge I'd want to tackle.
By that reasoning, what would be best would be to identify a few items of information exposed that are commonly used for tracking but that have little or no effect on browsing, and randomly alternate them between the default value and 1 or more other (or random) values.

If the data can't be relied on to contain any specific useful information (even whether it's default or not), then it's effectively useless for tracking, and you've not just hidden yourself in the largest category for those bits of tracking data, you've effectively made them entirely useless for tracking you (which is more effective than hiding in the biggest group).
Sort of. You'd be left paying the difference of 3.5% to 20% (16.5% or $49,500) in a FHA Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP). This means another loan that you need a 1.75% down payment for (making your downpayment ≈ 3.8% or $11,400) that adds another payment (≈ $400) in addition to the mortgage. MIPs last the entire life of the FHA loan, too.
This account by itself refutes three popular claims that were circulating a few weeks ago:

- that RMS's removal was the result of outside agitators, not of long-term free software community members who long believed he had come to be more harm than good for the movement

- that nobody patiently worked with him to help him understand the impact of his actions, and the real problem here was that he was merely socially awkward but well-intentioned

- that media attention to RMS's Epstein statements triggered a kneejerk, rash response out of nowhere instead of simply being the final straw on the back of a camel who had been at its limit for years
As a frequent user of google, I think a is not to be underestimated. Google has gotten more aggressive with stemming and other forced "corrections" to your search. This (I assume) helps in general but can frequently result in undesirable search results if you are attempting to search for words like in spelling but unrelated to common words or uncommon senses of common words, both of which seem to occur somewhat frequently in technical jargon.

There's something to be said also, I think, for the ever expanding mountain (of 90% shit) that is user-generated webcontent that must be sifted through by any search engine: The problem of searching the internet is itself getting harder and harder by the day.
> if your query doesn't get the results you want (...), prepend it with !g to search google instead.

Do you realize how inconvenient this is on mobile?

It requires 7 (!) taps on the screen to restart the search.

I'll switch to DDG as soon as they implement a "search on Google instead" button at the bottom of their first results page.
That's a problem with Bing (the underlying search engine), not DDG.
Remember to disable your adblock extensions on DDG. Let them earn some money for their privacy focused search engine.
The estate tax exemption is $11M, so you do not pay any estate taxes if the wealth you leave behind is less than that.

Do you know many poor people with more than $11M in wealth?
Craftsman name brand was sold already, and their tool quality was already vastly degraded with any of the buyers that knew what they were doing.
Think of how much you can spend on beefy hardware though, if you go with PostgreSQL, versus spending that money on Oracle licensing.
The ACLU did a writeup on it. This seems to me to be a fairly recent phenomenon (within the last 20-30 years). Another example of the corruption of our government generally favoring business interests at the cost of citizens. It's so bad now, we have debtor's prisons now all except in name. We just call it regular prison.

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/0221...
Apple thinks otherwise.
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I am 34 years old working remotely as data scientist, making $107k TC. My wife who I've been married to for 13 years is a stay-at-home mother as we have two children in grade school. Since they are in the school she is turning in our half-acre into a sustainable garden with chickens. We own our home, are financially comfortable while saving $1500 a month, and travel. We were planning a 2-month trip to Japan this upcoming summer until we realized the Olympics are held there in 2020. In the end we will shift dates around to make it work.

Aside from being active duty for 11 years which allowed me to complete through two graduate degrees without any student debt, was taking my first role after the military in a small town one and half hours from the nearest city; a small city at that. I stayed there for four years to get comfortable enough to work on my own without any oversight; soaked up all possible learning opportunities. When switching roles to my current job, I negotiated to work remotely, now I live 2500 miles from my employer. Cost of living is the same, but now I don't have to purchase airline tickets to see family.

The number one advantage I see compared to others comes from the military. I complete all tasks asigned without complaining, and get them down without bothering those above me. Doesn't matter the task, if it is assigned and needs to be completed, I do it. Sometimes these are trivial, others would say beneath them, others are writing patent paperwork with the co-founder. This mindset has worked two-fold, I touch numerous areas of the business so my skill-set is well rounded, and my bosses are happy; work gets done without their involvement.

Live below your means, take advantage of where you live, and maintain a simple life. Good things come to those who wait.
one group i am in uses meetup for event announcements, but manages the event on their own website. it's really just to enable people to find them on meetup. meetup never sees any rsvps except some that rsvp by mistake.

the only thing that virality helps with is event anouncements. finding all events in the same place, that is what makes meetup.com useful. the actual registration, and what not can be done anywhere else without causing to much friction.
Interesting timing on the Meetup $2/attendee fee, coming right after parent company WeWork collapsed.
>And where, and when. That's pretty sensitive information.

Both can be addressed by batching uploads, as described in the gp comment.
Are we sure it's lower-income? Because if that were the case, then these Republican shenanigans in states like Ohio and Michigan would focus on rural areas. But we don't see that, we see them focusing almost exclusively on urban areas.
You just infiltrate the site and use social engineering to hack it. TOR site does not stop police from investigating and catching the people running the site.
But why not just use wifi then ?
Firefox mobile supports extensions. I bet it should be easy to write one for the purpose. Maybe my next weekend project if not already done?
Well, it did feel "colder" than a cold winter day of, say, -25 C and wind outside, but I don't recall it hurting as such.

Then again, I didn't do deep breathing. I'd guess diaphragmatic breathing would've probably hurt in some way.

Overall the impression was a kind an inverse sauna if you know what I mean. In my experience taking deep breaths at the top bench of a dry and hot sauna stings, so the breathing naturally adapts to this.
School children are sleeping on average 1 hour less than theirs peers did 50 years ago. This has been driven by earlier and earlier school start times. Sleep deprivation in school age children has been linked to lower test scores, lower knowledge retention, higher rates of "trouble making".

Really happy to see these laws getting put in place!
They are genuinely afraid of more media screwups and bad press?
DDG is also Bing.
Please keep https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html in mind when commenting.
There is a reasonable expectation to not be face-tracked in public just like there is a reasonable expectation for everyone not to be followed 24/7 by undercover officers. In the past law enforcement did have to be told not to do the latter, since it's a total waste of resources, but now the former is cheap enough to actually happen and administrators want the new tech on their resumes.

Current precedent is out of date. Free society depends on the people's ability to bend and break unjust laws. It cannot survive the ossification of mass surveillance.
> Voter ID is important

Voter ID would be important, but unfortunately, the Republican Party has repurposed the concept as a tool of oppression rather than a way to secure the vote. People are rightly wary of the idea because of this, and will continue to be wary of it until free and no-hassle IDs are available to everyone first.

> However, for most people in America I would wager that this is not the case at all

Most? Probably. But "most" doesn't matter. Voting is a fundamental part of the democratic process, and "most" still leaves millions of people in the lurch. Make it "all" and then I'll stop being upset about it.
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The reason why it hasn't been shut down is because they already have ways to compromise it, so it's better to act like they want to get rid of it, all the while knowing that they can crack it if they really need to. It creates a false sense of security.

If there's truly a guaranteed secure way of doing things, the government would act a lot quicker.
Nobody is looking...but our algorithms alert us whenever you might be doing anything "suspicious" and can put you on automatic blacklists.

Here is just a hint of what the government might consider suspicious:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141024/14222128933/guide...

Also nobody is looking...but anyone could be looking anytime they want, and without a warrant. With the latest 6-year FISA 702 extension, the FBI is now allowed to look at all mass surveillance data before it has to go to a judge.

Alerting the judge about their spying on any specific person is only required when they decide to build a case against that person. You can imagine the thousand ways in which this can and will be abused over the years.

I mean, even NSA agents were running a "LOVEINT" program - who knows what kind of self-interest programs the FBI agents are running. And even in the face of that Obama was shameless enough to say "there have been no abuses" - just like he did when he pardoned Bush's torturers from the CIA, but that's a whole other topic for another day.
> “Studio Ghibli does not make their films available digitally

This is false. Terrestrial broadcast is now digital and I see their movies appear on free-to-air TV quite often where I live.
Get your own domain and host your own email on that. I use a small, family run ISP, and while there are the occasional outages because they can't be available 24/7, there is always someone I can talk to if there are problems.

The main problem with every big provider is that there is no one to talk to if something is wrong, and sometimes the people you do end up talking with are about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

With your own domain you then have a long-term solution, as you can migrate the domain to a different host if necessary. You can even host the domain and then redirect your email to someone recognisable, like fastmail, protonmail, or even gmail, changing the redirect if/when needed.
Why would you need a bluray player to setup Plex?
Does that work to windoze?
That is fair, when I enter an HN post I automatically think of HN as hosting technical discussions, not business, and that is why I decided to look at the technical side.
PhD = doctorate, BPD = borderline according to older DSM-IV. PhD was in cognitive neurosciences, likely with silent goal for her to figure out what was wrong with her.