skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon has a lot of money in Tesla. Tesla currently makes, and is moving to make a lot more, money in China. If they want to continue that in China then when China asks them to turn off their Earth facing equipment on the satalites over China they are going to. Unless Elon wants to get into censorship himself, which I don't think he does. They can leave their laser links running between the satalites.
Fast food increases exposure to a 'forever chemical' called PFAS
$30k vehicles are cheap these days. My mouth dropped when I was at the auto show and seeing SUVs like navigator and escalade with price of $80k+
The same thing?

I did some reading and it looks like the devices it runs on are ancient.

Linux on Dex ran on a Note 9 which has either 6 or 8gb of RAM.

With HDMI output it's possible to run visual studio code and it's very usable.

Even possible to run a Dev server.

And whilst I'm doing this using a monitor, keyboard and mouse, Android is still available on the device and I can use Spotify, send text messages and make phone calls.

Postmarket OS looks like at best a dual boot setup, running on ancient hardware and very alpha.
I have, but that never seems to go anywhere. There are just so many unknowns when doing things like this.
My thoughts going through this:

"That Weird Al-looking dude is Larry Wall, right?"

It was.

"Who's this guy? He looks like the Architect from The Matrix."

It was Vint Cerf. He is the Architect of the Matrix.
Safari does not support vp8 or vp9 when playing youtube, and youtube serves h264 instead. h264 is less efficient in terms of compression ratio (more to download for the same quality), but h264 is decoded in hardware on OSX, and VP8 or VP9 isn't, which explains what you see.

This is why, for example, Safari does not have 4k video on Youtube, while being perfectly capable of playing 4k videos in general.

Depending on the machine, VP9 can be decoded in hardware on Firefox on Windows, but chip support is limited.

All that said, we're working on our video playback performance as we speak, especially on OSX (because it was so bad a few release back), but also in general.
You mean... unsupervised machine learning? That doesn’t feel intellectually dishonest to me
"why do you need to debate it" isn't the point - the point is that you can't debate one side of it without people lining up to burn the witch.
On “Quantum Supremacy” – IBM
text-decoration-thickness is the most niche, since the only other implementor is Safari.

That said, yeah, they're all off the level 4 working draft, so they're standards-track at least.
I thought you already had a "Blade Runner" style one listed as Electric Sheep, no?

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customElectricSheep.php

I really like that one, BTW.
Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but agriculture seems to be an overlooked industry in the startup world, even though there is a ton of opportunity there.

What are some startups who are solving tough agricultural problems? Who are some more established players?

I'm curious about any ag startups, especially those attempting to curb climate change through agriculture. For instance, new takes on outdoor farming techniques (like Indigo), indoor farming startups, folks working on agricultural hardware, machine learning, organic farming, folks developing apps to help farmers, distribution/sales/marketing, etc.
I see, so is there a better word instead of this misappropriated colloquialism?

Its impossible to talk nuances of resource appropriation with an evocative term used inaccurately
DUPE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21094715
haha, good catch. ill keep it there
When the winner marginalizes those who reject the win as not being real champions, claims bigotry against those opposed to an obviously physical biological advantage, it deserves all the correction, protest, and outrage this gets.

Otherwise it becomes a silent ignored unfairness that never gets resolved.
If two of softbanks biggest assets get marked down significantly, and the rest of their bets are similarly, super leveraged high risk plays, It's not hard for me to imagine trying to liquidate some assets so they could leave with their shirts and give (some) money back to investors.

They've probably missed their window for huge VC style growth at that point anyway.
Given that they are porting ART to Fuchsia, most likely it will be Android with Linux replaced by Zirkom.
Actually all of us have substantial oil interests as you will discover very rapidly if Greta and Extinction Rebellion get their way.
It's a charge per month at $2-$3. The lowest annual plan costs $19.95 USD.

My heartburn is Gmail was rolled out as near infinite storage. They told you archive, not delete. And for a while they had a ticker at the bottom showing your storage increasing over time. The cost is modest, but I feel Google isn't being true to the spirit of Gmail when they limit and charge for email storage.
DUPE _ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21094715
How do you arrive at the list [0] I can view in my account details, that shows all purchases ever made with my gmail account (a feature i cannot disable)?

How else does your employer arrive at this aggregated/filtered dataset? Oneiromancy?

[0] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-tracks-your-p...
No one here is disputing the USSR was a bad place to live. I think that's an argument you want to have come up rather than an argument I'm making. I'm saying that the fusion of authoritarian government and leftism was both a tactic of the USA and the USSR for different reasons. That's not a novel idea, is been covered by a lot of historians.

> But it is very interesting to read a comment like yours. Not for any reason other than to see the pure rage, saying literally nothing "intellectually honest" about the subject, but rather comparing people you disagree with to conspiracy theorists who believe in aliens.

Rage? Okay.

Your "freedom to" does not invalidate my "freedom from". I am not suppressing you in any way by exercising my right to say that I'm unintrested in your straw man.
"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
Oh, yes, the copy was just illustrative.
Easy solutions: don't store photos and other files in your Google account and/or download old mail by dragging it to a local folder in an email client like Thunderbird.
It’s about approach. Most of the time people aren’t actually trying to harm you. Coming into every disagreement with a “you’re the enemy” viewpoint is a sure way to make sure there’s no such thing as civil discourse. Despite popular belief, blanket outrage actually fixes very little.
here's an inside story from a developper in a DotCom era web company:

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=35194

He's also explaining a lot of entrepreneur/technical details, since most of his usual audience is not familiar with those, unlike HN.
I agree with that too. That's how GP was providing "evidence" for their claims, however, so it seemed a fitting way to respond.
Can you quote the section? I am not able to find the relevant wordage.
> You can't compare it to a scripting language because it has type information.

What do you mean by this?
I dislike automated commercial email.

To be more accurate, I loathe and despise it, and have done since I first received a commercial email spam, in the early 1990s. The very name "Mailgun" sounds to me no different from "Spam cannon". Substitute "chimp" if you want; it doesn't make it better for me.
Historically, yes, that's true. But these days Chrome has a huge lead in the market compared to every other browser, so FF is the alternative again.
since it's using regular admin credz, a lot of prior 'breaches' might even have gone unnoticed, since its likely no alarm bells would have been in place to find authorised access misuse.
May I suggest to put a curb on your availability every now and then? I fully understand the urge to help out in times of need but I also know this creates a situation where you're always on call - whether scheduled or not. It also gives those who get to depend on your availability a false sense of security in assuming you will be there to help out, negating any impetus to find alternative sources. In the end you will be assumed to be available (and might get shit for not being there to help) and the distinction between 'work time' and 'leisure time' will fade.

To me one of the lures of the wilderness is the fact that I can go 'off-line' there. I paddled the Yukon from Whitehorse to the Bering Strait without being connected to the outside world, my only means of communication being the letters I sent to friends and family. The experience would have totally changed - and been markedly less - had I been in constant communication with the outside world, having a communication device go 'bleep' while running some rapids, sending that photo of that elk swimming in front of the canoe to whatever social network I might use for my share of likes and instant gratification.
I won't be surprised if WeWork comes out of this mess relatively strong. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste and I still believe that the idea of WeWork can be valuable.

A lot of ink has been spilled about how cooky Adam and his wife are but I really liked the WeGrow idea of providing schooling / daycare. Ask any parent of young kids how much they and spend on childcare and you'll be shocked. Combining the work space with childcare (providing everything is on the up and up) is an incredible bundling of convenience. Even some of WeWorks well criticised acquisitions seemed like great ideas to me. Leveraging Meetup.com with WeWork locations just seems natural.

It all hinges on Softbanks ability to eat shit for a few years while rebuilding the company but I do think that there is a still a very strong brand here that had some great ideas but got a bit too hooked on the Kool aid.
The Azores [1] were uninhabited before European discovery. If that's not a case of real terra nullius, nothing is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores
>True, looking forward to blaming a lot of US students for wanting education.

Some perspective:

Under 40% of people get any college at all. Of those, 30% of students graduate with no debt. The remaining average $30k in debt. This is not much debt compared to other things they will buy in life.

Avg starting salary for a college grad is $50k.

Avg new car price is $35k. Some people buy many cars in a lifetime. Median home listing is $279k. ~65% of US is homeowners.
Veterans get paid more than rookies. You have to work for X years to be a veteran. That’s the definition of seniority based pay.
Not caching your error pages is a good way to bring down your servers once something goes wrong. We usually have a short cache for errors to make sure there is an upper limit to the amount of requests coming through the cache.
If people move to the city they work in, they would not only be workers but also citizens. Thus increasing the supply of workers. But also the amount of consumers. It's a two way street. Importing work force that only work during the day and then leave is however bad I would say.
People that are sick are also a toll (that's expected to yield return someday, future investment).

That is just my uneducated take on it.

When I search for the terms immigration wages I get the following sources:

https://www.sns.se/en/archive/effects-of-immigration-on-nati...
https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-wages/
in general, you are responsible for whatever is done with your account/machine, authorized or not. if you are doing even the bare minimum to secure the computer, you should not be vulnerable to these kind of pranks from siblings/classmates.

if it's unreasonable to expect a child to clear this bar, then they are not yet responsible enough to be entrusted with their own computing device.
Presumably that's because that's not your data.

I mean nothing good or bad about that. But why would you expect to be able to download data that's not yours?
Cloud and containers are based on OS/360 principles and ideas.
And what do these people think would have happened if Exxon had made their findings public? Everyone would have dropped everything and suddenly stopped using oil? How many other companies factor in climate change when valuing their assets? (none) I have nothing but contempt for these activists who try to blame corporations instead of recognizing that it is their own desire for modern convenience that creates demand for oil.
> Will Firefox give me the same ability?

Yes.

> transition literally just: Install Firefox everywhere and start using it instead?

Almost. You will have to create a firefox account and export/import your bookmarks. That's it.
Haha! If I was up to no good I wouldn't be using my real name
in my handle to ask such questions :)
I'm not interested in debating it here, because it could damage my career, which is my point.

In fact, even debating whether I should be able to debate it could damage my career. I believe this widespread use of silencing tactics, by implicit threat, has gone too far.
Real time raytracing
"hey man, we're all selling our shares, but we can't tell you why"
It worked the last time I checked. Why would it be considered a failure?
Have there been any allegations of criminal behavior from the founder? This level of bamboozlement usually includes actual crimes being committed.
Asking Wikipedia about the WSJ is like asking the Democratic Party about Donald Trump.
Can't wait to compare this to Safari, which I don't like but is dramatically gentler on my macbook's battery.
if you owe somebody 500k, they own you.

if you owe them 50B (val of wework), you own them
Right, the username/password is easy to point to as an obvious problem, but surely this wasn't the _only_ security hole the hackers had to get through, right?

I can't imagine a secure database password would have prevented the hack.

Though the lack of a secure database password probably hints at Equifax's attitude toward security in general.
You're using Burke's theory of value: rich people make things have value by deciding they want them and being rich.

That position is not considered very strong by modern economic standards.
Distance is still a huge problem. The Starlink signal still needs to travel up to the satellites 500 KM up, and then another 500 KM back down. That should be around 2 ms (thanks user jobseeker990, corrected from previous 15ms) of added latency, so anything that is already below 4 ms of latency probably wouldn't be improved.
But thats the crux - pressure and incentives. Capital is supposed to reward ingenuity and efficiency. Instead it is mainly used like you say, in a recursive way, so to protect itself even when there is no invention, no ingenuity, just pure oppression through disruption of communication, things like unions, independent candidates, etc

Crumbs from an abundance are pleasing to those who have comparisons to look at: nature's parasites or pangs of age or pangs of poverty or 1800s medicine.

The real issue was never equality. It has always been adequacy and comparative "neo-nostalgism."

Until the hinge breaks of fully, there are usually never any real revolutions. Maybe the internet can change that.
Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
What's the state of saving & autofilling credit card info? That's the one thing that keeps me going back to chrome (rather than typing in my card by hand).

There are some bugs on this that look quite stale, and they don't seem interested in finishing support, and its disabled by default..
Rails 6 Adds ActionMailer#email_address_with_name
10% is outright fraud or bait and switch. About 60% is just racketeering (not exactly scams, but products and services they buyer can’t really refuse... Comcast, cigarettes, etc) and 30% is actual services and production.
>The problem arises from immediate action on the part of the administrators, stemming from zero-tolerance policies [...] Exercising restraint with respect to these tools would lead to better outcomes, in my opinion.

In fairness, there are a lot of laws out there that compel teachers, administrators, and school resource officers to take certain disciplinary actions without regard to their personal feelings on the matter. Zero Tolerance is like the whole Mandatory Minimum thing. A judge may know that it is asinine to sentence this pot dealing kid to 10 years in prison, but the law says that's the minimum, so what can the judge really do?

If a school resource officer sees something in the computer logs, or on security video, or wherever, I mean, they are police officers. They may have certain legal obligations that come with having reviewed that evidence. They accessed it, the system knows it was accessed. If something new happens and some other officer ends up reviewing all this information, the fact that the resource officer accessed it and had knowledge of previous offenses will cause trouble for that resource officer.

If you want them to show restraint, then you need to change the laws. Teachers, resource officers, etc, don't have the power to do that unilaterally. We would have to give power to ignore things to teachers, administrators, resource officers, coaches, etc.
Then we are two, I'm afraid. I really would like to learn it and have tried multiple times but it just isn't aesthetically pleasing to read.

Python on the other hand is awesome, and I also begun looking at Go which seem to be quite okay.
Although object lifetime and borrowing is mentioned, he focuses on the pattern expression which he's likely to get in any modern language.

Rust has many great qualities and I've been looking to find a project for it, but it just doesn't seem like the model for long-running processes with immutable data-structures and complex/dynamic/interlinked lifetimes. Seems like dev. effort is better spent on functionality than managing lifetimes, especially given that modern GC is so fast. (And I've seen C++ ports to C# become faster, due to unneeded calling of copy c'tors, and other goodness.)

I can totally see the case for Rust in systems code where lifetime is gated by a system/API call and you want to safely pass buffers around during the duration of the call, for inner-loop gaming, for embedded, etc. But seeing it's en vogue, there are many examples of Rust code where it doesn't seem like the right tool -- but then again, I feel that way about much code written in C++ as well.
"Google is tracking your purchases through Gmail" (May 2019)

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-tracking-your-purchases-...
Yes, it always comes down to funding. But the major anti regulation party has also been staunchly anti tech regulation for a long time (link below), and even when the major tech companies tried to throw their weight around they lost (see Google et al vs fcc during the repeal of net neutrality). This can also be seen with the recent public appearances of govt harassment/scapegoating of facebook, which looks like "hey, we'd like you to change your rules" while simultaneously not regulating them. I think the first step needs to be a bit of a cultural shift towards regulation again before it will be effective (see epa push after the Ohio River caught fire). I don't mean to say "don't regulate, it's pointless", I mean to say "set it up from the top down, don't try to piggyback data regulation onto a framework that wasn't designed for it".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessm...
Couple of questions about this: does FF import Chrome logins? Also, can Mozilla read the data or are they doing client-side-encryption?
Thanks, that's what I was looking for!
To be honest you don't need to work very hard to achieve this.
Well, they're shilling their own worthless cryptocurrency, so it is obvious to me that they cannot be.
I paid. It’s OK - it’s an amazing service that changed my life. Even after paying, I still can’t believe how cheap it is.
its easy to let them type old password then new password twice, that way u can confirm it's not similar to old password atleast since u receive it in unhashed form from the user themselves.
I had this and the whole account was locked too after adding a "suspicious" one. But the delivery/reception was still working for other domains, only config changes were disabled.

It seems they do that on a TLD basis, for example if you add the domain "spammer.xyz", it will probably lock your account because ".xyz" TLD is considered risky.

They support always fix the problem, but we're always locked a few hours, this is super annoying.
Of course they do. Users expect spam filtering, search, and a bunch of other things that require processing.
Gaming on the cloud. VR and AR.
The small drips are possible only because victim is tied and unable to move of shield head. A water dripping in the same room is not torture assuming you have option to move own head or put hat on it.

So it is pretty good analogy. When people both peraon with asperger and working with one having asperger can talk back, reorganize work tasks, move tables, prevent the one having asperger from doing juniors code reviews, torture don't have to happen.

It is when having asperger is treated as license to abuse or sign of "being the one that is more logical/technical and therefore right" when it becomes abuse acceptance. It is the "he has asperger therefore it is ok for him to do it and you have to be subjected to that" that makes it so.
Colleague #437: "So whoever first set this up has left, so I'll just follow the documentation they left to figure out what they did... Oh. ...eh, I got a deadline."
I got redirected to the MX site
Or maybe softbank has redefined what dumb money means.
Ask HN: Which Questions to Ask for Senior (Software) Engineer?
Suppose you are going to meet Senior Engineer (like Wozniak, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Linus Torvalds or any other start developer) which questions you would ask him?

Could be anything, estimating projects, finding tasks to do at work, how to stay focused, stay motivated and so on.

PS. I am going to meet engineer whom I consider senior and has a lot of knowledge in this area. he is an engineering manager and also really good software developer
Ask HN: Searching for diabetics to interview
> Wealth tax.

HAHAHAHAHA

If anything, a wealth tax is what turns things from "depression" to "catastrophic failure" - capital flight would be a massive problem. And even ignoring any effects from changing incentives, why would taking from the most productive and giving to the government improve the economy?
It's going to be wild in twelve months when we have the "Bad Blood"-ish book, the attendant sale of the movie rights, and the conservative-libertarian thinkpieces that vaguely defend him.

But also, fuck this guy.
Another (very) happy Postmark user here. Tried most of the available email APIs a few years ago, Postmark was the only one that I could reliably use to get transactional emails into all of my test inboxes.