skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Los Angeles, and locals are getting so frustrated with tourists littering these things all over the city that they're beginning to knock them over, throw them in the trash, etc.

It may be immoral to hack them, but it's also immoral to treat our streets and sidewalks like a scooter landfill.
My goal wasn't to explain a "correct" view quantum physics, only to demonstrate at a cursory level that a binary computer's bits differs from a quantum computer's qbits. Quantum physics is not intuitive and attempting to use a classical understanding of probability will get you in trouble. I highly suggest looking at videos on YouTube, which have a far better explanations on the actual behavior of quantum computation. This is a very good video on Bell's Inequality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs&t=856s
Thanks :) Comment edited to (hopefully) clarify the language.
I would also recommend the bayesian statistics book with the dogs on the cover. Can't remember its name off hand, but got handed a copy. Its a great foundation.
Usually they have a clause in the contract stating that they can change the terms. Github provides 30 days notice, Gitlab has an email with instant effect and a vague thing about checking their website. I've seen sketchier companies who have instant changes w/ no notice and that state their published TOS is inaccurate.
Every freekin day.

I do a lot of WordPress hosting for large-ish non-software clients running one-off webservers that were setup by who knows years ago.

I certainly can and have automated stuff... but when I get a client who already has hosting setup, they just want me to manage it, not rebuild it.

As a sibling comment mentions, a lot of that is troubleshooting...

But making changes to stuff in /etc is an extremely common case where I just ssh in and use vim.

None of these clients have documentation on how the server was setup, much less any sort of way to set one up automatically. So there is a lot of "hey, can you up the max_file_upload for PHP" or "add a link to the hard-coded footer menu in our Drupal install".

And even when they want me to setup new stuff, they prefer me to just deploy a new instance and give them notes on whatever I do to it. Since these are 1-off things (like a server running some video conferencing or file management), there's not a lot of utility in build a script in BASH or ansible or whatever to build the server.

I'm a dev and the only one at the buisness where I work, so I'd be stoked to hear about some better way of doing work. But really, spending time in an SSH and configin stuff with vim seems like the fast, lightweight path for most of the work I do.
5 years on the road: Thoughts on sustainable independence
Indeed, the fact that so much of British politics in recent years has be reduced to a binary proposition is probably a red flag.
Sorry, but that's a brutal commute, and I spent 5+ years commuting from Mountain View to SF...by car.
I'm not sure the legislature wants that. Its members may prefer the current situation to one where they are subject to real reporting.
Classic cars converted to Electric with Tesla batteries
Eh, look at comments coming from that account. If that's how they treat their users I think there's little to no chance this stuff will be reverted
Its location in effectively the city center is unfortunate. I absolutely love Amsterdam and recently spent 10 lazy days there but tried hard to avoid getting within a kilometer of Amsterdam Centraal. Reminds me of Times Square but with a lot more bros.
AI Bans Toxic Gamers
At least there is nothing to install for WASM. Plus you're getting updates when the browser updates and don't have to worry about updating other things independently.

I do agree there is some potential for misuse here but that's pretty much true of any web based tech in the last couple decades.
It’s weird though that Keith Schiller and Trump changed their stories about what happened that night right?
Typora.
It's got nothing to do with the possibility of getting a job and affording a normal life. Most homeless people just want to be left alone. Mild weather and lower rates of confrontation make cities like SF ideal.
I'm normally the tinfoil-hat guy in any given discussion.

I'll go out on a limb and predict that my HN internet points score is not a signal of interest to NSA selection criteria.
I worked on a project that involved customizing an open source document management system for government use. One of my first assignments was removing the built-in/hard coded tracking baked into Alfresco:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/removing-the-tracking-image-f...
Can the title be updated to include the date on the Article as 2018? This particular piece is nearly 2 years old.
I am looking forward to seeing network performance numbers. Throughput, latency, jitter, loss, uptime. I would love to be in a beta program.
Everyone is cool from afar with sexwork until a meth head is jerking it on their doorstep. "Like, wouldn't you rather have it be regulated and legal?"

Everyone is cool from afar with homeless until they're sleeping in their own doorway. "Like, why are you trying to get rid of all of these poor homeless people?"

"What's the big deal, maaaaan?" they ask, "Why do you have a problem with it?"

But the second the problem comes to their own doorstep they call the cops.

It's one of the most delicious hypocrisies of the internet. People get to bitch about people dealing with all of the negative aspects of any problem while self-righteously pretending to be open and accepting from thousands of miles away.
Taking Tesla Bionic: Making a Prosthetic Leg with Internal Lightning
I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, but it seems weird that WASM files would need to be loaded into an html page in order to render.

I would like to see a future where you can just open a WASM file in the browser and it will compile/render to the screen as an application. This would alleviate the pressure put on html pages to behave as if they're something they're not. It would let html go back to, as you say, its core responsibility, which is to be an interactive document.
Yep, pretty easy to do - especially if your pattern is recognizable or doesn't cross over itself.

"Oh hey, cool, a Σ!"
> The Greater Phoenix area casts a nighttime arc of light over most of Arizona, extending more than 200 miles in each direction.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/09/0...
> There were many more concerns than we expected.

Telemetry was always going to be a concern with services that promote themselves as "open-source" or "free-software". The subject is so important that it is one of the reasons that the mass exodus from GitHub to GitLab happened. So to say that "there were many more concerns than we expected" is complete bullsh*t and appears more like the VCs are puppeteering the founders with this talk here.

Like other companies that are at the mercy of VC funding, they will do anything to please them over the "community" to show that they are growing. So don't be fooled by this empty response.
That guy sounds like a real POS
You made it weird by singling out Cheney, but impact on medical devices is an important consideration for any such scheme.
I work at a company that is currently suffering through very public issues caused by bugs in our code and I feel pretty bad about it. Then I read this article and the one this morning about Twitter's entire quarter essentially being torpedoed due to a buggy platform and it makes me relax a little and realize that bugs in very public facing code are just part of life.
The phrase they were looking for was faustian bargain, although even then, Apple's APIs are not all or nothing (but if you use some, maybe just use them all cuz youre stuck either way?)
The thing that struck me about the red light district when I visited Amsterdam and walked through it one night was just how sad and small and tawdry it was. It has this almost mythic reputation, but there's not a whole lot to it.
> If you are still lying $500k, what’s the point of that move ?

I think you mistyped here. The point of the move is that $500k in San Francisco vs $500k in any other city in the US (except New York) result in substantially different qualities of life. $500k a year income in Miami can get you a mortgage on a 3 bedroom house and a boat.

In SF, you get a mortgage on a 1 bedroom apartment.
Gitlab is so incredibly reactionary. Competitor does something, let’s blog about how we do it too. We roll out new changes we’ve identified as being vital to our growth moving forward and users complain: okay nevermind let’s undo that.

All this herky jerky stuff is mind blowing. They have a product people seem to like a lot but I don’t think they have the right core values and beliefs to sustain it long term. If they did, this would have been executed much better and there wouldn’t be this knee-jerk reaction to random gripes on the internet.

Chasing shiny objects and the noisiest users is gonna get ya killed.
Brutal is a bit overstated, but it can be very chilly (especially in the foggy areas) compared to what people expect of summer. You often need to wear or carry along warm clothing even in July.

A lot of sweaters get sold at Fisherman's Wharf during summer months to people caught unaware.
ah yes, overflow checks are not in release mode today. They may be in the future. And overflow isn't UB, it's two's compliment wrapping.
I think it depends on what you mean by coop. I will assume that you mean that all people doing work on behalf of the coop have an ownership stake and somehow share in decision making.

Assuming you're organized as an LLC, I think the key is whether you're taxed as a partnership or as a corporation. If you're taxed as a partnership I am certain that you have to pay any owner as a "guaranteed payment" or something like that, I couldn't pay myself on a W2 when I organized it that way. You have to send a form to each owner showing their share of the profits and losses, guaranteed payments (i.e. salary), and then instead of the LLC paying taxes at all, every owner pays a share individually.

If you're taxed as a corporation, I believe you can just pay yourself with W2's and the company has to pay taxes separately.

Of course, you can always democratize decision making and share profits as bonuses even if it's a sole proprietorship with regular employees. Either trust based or by contract or operating agreement.

I think the main logic people use when deciding how to be taxed is that if you share profits and losses directly on taxes, all the owners can theoretically write off losses and other things business related. But it then makes everyone's personal taxes harder, so it's kind of a choose-your-poison situation.

I've found the trickiest bit is basically deciding how to decide. Does everyone get an equal vote? Do people need to "buy in"? Work there a year before they get voting rights? Do people get more from a contract if they find the lead and are the project manager for that customer? How do they entice other contractors on the team to help?
On a Mac, if you have the input menu enabled in the menu bar, selecting "Show Emoji & Symbols" will pop open a palette allowing you to put all kinds of things into pretty much any text input.

System Preferences → Keyboard → Show input menu in menu bar
Thing is that top of the funnel is not composed of majority local people. Many are people who relocated and many are people who are not local now but if hired the company would move them. If they can move them to SF they can also move them to another major tech oriented city.
The number of machines you have doesn't matter nearly as much as unique IP addresses, as far as network security is concerned
Microsoft is really a funny beast. Sort of tangential, but I actually really like the UI in the Edge browser. Unfortunately the interface is laggy, but otherwise I found it very comfortable to use. Also the "save tabs for later" feature is really cool.
I agree that it's bad optics, but personally I think it sounds shway. If we're gonna live in a dystopian future where we have to evade omnipresent government surveillance using illegal* code, it might as well sound like something out of an '80s sci-fi novel or a '90s anime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*Currently illegal in some jurisdictions, more coming soon!
That is like... The two usual ways to use it. Although I recommend using it with C++ for nontrivial applications.
> I suspect the think was more along the lines of: let's slip it in and hope nobody notices or at least the ones that notice don't raise a hue and cry about it.

"let's slip it in and hope nobody notices" == "mgmt heads up their asses"
We know that there are some gaps in the alerting feature (we dogfood it ourselves). The Grafana team will be focusing a lot more on alerting in 2020. For Grafana 7.0 in May, we are aiming to build better alerting that retains the simplicity of the current alerting but that will fill some of the those gaps. The new engine will decouple alerting from the graph panel and hopefully sidestep the problem with template variables. Once we have got further in the design stage then we will share more with the community about the proposed solutions.
Soli on the new Pixel 4 could easily allow that.
I think the Andrew Gilligan debacle, and the more recent Naga Munchetty issue, are both symptoms of the BBC falling over themselves to appear impartial at the expense of common sense.
Haha good luck with that as well.
It's a single purpose VPN, so I've only whitelisted 5 sites.
The red-light district is for sure a tourist attraction, for people who are dumbfounded and awestruck to people going on drug fuelled benders.

I am the former, I've been through the red light district at night and there are a few bro's but generally it was decent.

The tourism culture seems to actively promote seedy/druggy stuff though.. Maybe if it wasn't being pushed it would be better?
Marin is inaccessible for people who live in South Bay. They will lose out on a lot of senior talent
Reddit.
Word of mouth & now SEO would some mild success.
I haven't got a lot to add apart from saying that my experience parallels your own. We have an eight-month-old, our first, and my wife feels inadequate all the time because she can't ignore the carefully cultivated facades from 'influencer' parents. Rationally she knows that these standards are impossible and unnecessary, but we humans don't get to select our anxieties.

Also my daughter is super cute and smiley and we secretly suspect she really is unusually adorable, even though we rationally realize that it's mostly hormones. Mostly.
^ this is the single most important point to make here. The design issues with Flash were not the reason it was abandoned. It was abandoned because it was not a browser standard, and Apple decided not to support it with iOS. The idea of rich, interactive content that lies beyond the scope of html is still a great idea, even if the some of the results were kinda crazy.
Yes, you did.

Thanks!
For gitlab it probably means getting information on what buttons are pressed, how long users stay on a page, etc. For users, it means running proprietary javascript snippets from 3rd party tracking services. How much should you trust that code? You may trust gitlab, but do you trust the vendors they work with? How much visibility do you have into that?

As you can imagine, a lot of businesses are not willing to take that risk with trade secrets like source code and internal bug tracking -- especially when there's no upside to them.

I think the furor is probably less about the data being collected (although people aren't happy about that), and more that Gitlab just offloaded a lot of risk on their users for purely selfish reasons. (And it is selfish. They can get the data in other ways, or, make decisions based on expertise and customer feedback instead. You don't need a mountain of data to drive a product).
We do that at Grafana Labs are part of Grafana Cloud...
A. Ocasio-Cortez grills M. Zuckerberg during Congressional hearing [video]
>And sometimes such actions are necessary

Sure, maybe sometimes they're necessary, but this isn't one of them. Leaving your phone behind isn't difficult. They may have a legitimate gripe, and this was a theatrical way of shining light on it, but there was nothing inherent to their stunt that prevented its execution while keeping a secure site secure.
It's a touchscreen phone, not a keypad. Everything would be smudged.
Markovits came to my attention when he was a guest on Ezra Klein's show:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/6...

He's also now published a book, The Meritocracy Trap:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/...
I'm not sure I follow...

You don't need a passcode or facial recognition to access any phone that doesn't have those features enabled.

If you enable them you certainly do.
Ask HN: Failed one-person online businesses (and lessons learned)?
A recent thread discussed successful one-person online businesses (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072)

I'm curious about the failed attempts, lessons learned, and what advice others would offer.

* How many people here have tried starting a one-person online business but feel that they have failed?

* What would you do better next time? What lessons did you learn?
Do you work as a writer for Black Mirror by chance?
Find a niche, build a product.
A friend of mine realised that there's not much of a email testing platform.

4 months later, he released https://www.mailslurp.com
In my opinion, I would ask them first. Each company builds it's own culture and your team is small enough that you can customize perks for them.
agreed... I'm super curious. Workers are my next major inquiry for new tech. they seem fascinating.
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I don't see why being "trashy" and into drugs+sex has to be relegated to a journey outside the city center. Pearl clutching moralists (not necessarily you) always have a strong voice at this table though. Being interested in these things is no better than raising useless generations of children who, on average, will eventually have MULTIPLE degenerates in the family line.

Some jobs are just simply for poor people. I'd rather solve that problem than isolate the effort to sex work.

The work involving sex doesn't make it significantly more exploitative than being so poor that you're willing to take short term gains and long term losses driving for Uber or something. At least you can come out profitable in sex work.

Let's also think of the service being provided here. Low economic status, ugly men can have their biological urges satisfied. What happens to incels if that goes away? This question is only going to become more important, given the trajectory of hypergamy.

As someone that lives in the US, neighborhoods, in my opinion, are ruined by moralists, even if they appear respectful. e.g. I can't legally walk around sipping a beer.
So Gitlab basically became huge from nothing simply by strictly adhering to 'Github but better'. Now it's time for something else to do the same and pick up the ones who'll leave because of these policies with 'Gitlab but respects you'
I wouldn't take it; I'd quit and go work somewhere else in the Bay Area. I have enough roots here in California that do a lot more for my quality of life than an extra two bedrooms in my house would. (And a boat? What a maintenance nightmare that would be! If I owned one, I'd pay someone to get rid of it.)
What is wrong with this picture.. that the NSA is used as the villain vs. getting around the great firewall in China?
Not all crimes require intent. Crimes where intent is not required are called "Strict liability" crimes, for those crimes it is sufficient to prove that the accused did the thing which is forbidden, and it's entirely irrelevant (to guilt, though not necessarily to sentencing) why they did it.

Also for some crimes the intent needn't match the outcome. For example in the UK _Attempted Murder_ requires (as well as facts of an attempt) you had an intent to kill, but _Murder_ only requires that you had an intent to at least cause grave harm, the fact of death makes it murder, even if a jury believes you intended only, say, to hospitalize the victim.
quick somebody do the combinatorics on this
This seems like a big deal. A fundamental method to enable dramatic changes to computer architecture, that will boost compute power at a cost that will unlikely be as astronomical as say quantum computing.
This argument can be used to justify all sorts of things. It's still an editorialized title.
Running an entry or exit node is kinda risky since your IP will be associated with a lot of illegal content. Running an intermediary node is much safer. All kinds of nodes are important for the network.

The amount of configuration you need to run a node isn't terribly difficult. There is plenty of documentation online and really it's just changing a few lines in the config file. The Tor daemon is pretty good about pointing out potentially undesirable configuration options if you watch the log file on startup.
Exactly!

Swappable batteries are a nightmare to integrate into the chassis. Look at any press release for a new car and you’ll see a paragraph about how they made chassis X% stiffer. Swappable battery will do the opposite!

It is extremely difficult to make a car with shitty driving dynamics and charge a premium for it to recoup your R&D. Thus, swappable battery car is not feasible commercially until structural engineers figure out how to make the 2 ton battery pack a stressed member while also be swappable. Give it a decade or two!
What if "someone" is an astronomical observatory?
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

By your logic, saying the thread is a thinly veiled attempt at blaming republicans would make the GOP lawmaker actions a thinly veiled attempt at terrorism, wouldn't it?

See where this is going?

There is some good Jon Stewart-era Daily Show material about GOP terrorism for the sake of politics.
How dare people try to get ahead in ways I find repellent. They clearly must be coerced into doing it, so let's coerce them into not doing it.

It attracts trashy people and tweakers! They should abuse prescription drugs and wear the respectable fashion and be mannerly like upper class people such as myself.

Mote, meet beam. I'm sure we can whip the sinners into virtue and establish the true city on the hill.

We may not like the criminal underworld, but the cure is worse than the disease.
The one area where C++ can be a lot faster than C is in places where C uses a function pointer where C++ uses a function template.

The standard example is sorting. Say you’re sorting an array of integers. Then, C’s sort has to (1) call the comparison function passed as an argument, whereas C++’s std::sort can inline the comparisons into a single instruction.

(1) if the source of the function passed in is visible from the compilation unit, I think the C standard allows the compiler to compile a specialized version of sort in the same way C++ can, but I’m not aware of any compiler that does that
So who is that? I'm not up on my random member of congress identification skills.
Nobody said how poor we're talking.

Anyway plenty of people are terrible with their money from a young age. When I'm a parent I hope I can instill better money management practices in my kids. :)
It is. They have a holdout rule though, trains only pull into the station and open their doors when the track is clear for obvious reasons.
Parents don't make adults out of children, children make adults out parents.