skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this example, they paid about 72% of the full fine -- more than I expected. ($59.5k paid, $22.7k reduced)

I was expecting "a fraction" to be 10% or 20%.
I go out a few times per week by bike for food, stretching exercises every day, and Sundays it's 5h of bike in the hills, that's the vitamin B, hormones and health catch-up for the week
Not time specifically, but if Goodreads is linked, it automatically records the date the book is first opened, and the date the book is finished.
Not an economist, but I rather figured it means that markets are regulated in a way that properly allows and encourages competition. No monopolies, no anti-competitive practices, no pricing or wage collusion, no regulatory capture etc. I'm sure this can be interpreted in as many ways as there are special interest groups, though.

E.g, radically, labor markets in the absence of a basic income system are not really free, since employees starve and lose their homes if they do not accept the best available offer. Hence companies' competition for paid labor is not really free, and most groups have an existential threat if they do not accept the terms of the employers that are willing to employ them.

There are a million aspects to this that I'm not an expert in, but many of the "free market" principles are considered in the context of contrasting a market economy vs. a planned economy.
Thanks again for great UI suggestion. I really appreciate it and will make these changes soon
> I don't think tech debt should be communicated to the business people.

This is wrong. Technical debt is almost always incurred because of the business requirements. They need to be made aware the debt is being incurred at that time so they are aware it will need to be paid down ASAP.

Example: a startup is asked by an investor for a particular feature to be implemented for a trade show a week from now. That feature - if done properly - would require a database schema change otherwise the queries will be abysmally slow. Luckily, for the trade show the amount of data being queried is small enough that it won't matter. But as soon as it starts getting used, whoa boy.

Management needs to be made aware that there is technical debt being incurred here. Yes, the deadline will be met and the show will go well. But there better be time on the schedule to do it right afterwards.
The way TREE grows it's very much possible that all these are inferior to simply f(n) = TREE(n+1).
$500 smartphones are only ubiquitous in the most wealthy parts of the most wealthy countries in the world.
i’m not so sure... to people in industry that’s probably true, but to the average person/consumer, i would say that’s probably a different story...
You're right, those uppity "creators" should be thankful.

Joking aside- This will become less true as technology makes film-making and distribution more accessible. Studios know this, so they've switched focus to tightly controlling distribution. Hurray for cultural gate-keepers.
Ask HN: What Do You Need Someone to Build for You?
huh, interesting
> Nobody is going to rewrite thousands of applications like Youtube, Telegram, Maps or Happy Farm for Debian.

Funnily enough, the libre YouTube app of choice on Android, NewPipe, if I am not mistaken, just uses youtube-dl under the hood, which is a script that was originally written for desktop Linux.

With regard to Maps, the sort of people who want to buy a Librem phone are probably often the people who like to use OpenStreetMap-based apps like OSMAnd or Maps.Me. I am concerned about the availability of a map app on Librem, but surely one of the existing libre OSM solutions could be ported over?

> Also 3 Gb of RAM might be not enough for Debian/Ubuntu based OS.

The Raspberry Pi 3 has less and has still served people well for many uses.
> Have you ever considered simply buying an HD/4K projector, a decent-quality screen, and a surround-sound setup?

I think you're missing the point. I have a fairly decent home cinema setup and rarely go to the cinema but there are some films that deserve viewing on the big screen. For me these are films such as Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Alien, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Star Wars (original), Close Encounters. These were movies made where the "cinematography" had the cinema in mind, not a home cinema system (because they basically didn't exist unless you were extremely well off). Seeing these films in the cinema is, for me anyway, a genuinely different experience.
Bermuda Principles
Primes and Knots [video]
Exhaustion at the End of the Trail
Not really. uBo devs recommend having only one blocker in place to reduce chances of issues/breakage occurring.
Sure, but it surely possible that subcultures of a large company like Google's converge to different targets given very different requirements in very different fields run by very different people.
Syncthing does file versioning, although a bit noobishly. It just keeps n copies of the old file in a hidden folder with DATE_MODIFED appended to each copy.
> You want your daughter getting in fights with boys?

If a boy touches her in a way that she doesn't like, or if someone corners her, I want her to do what any boy is encouraged to do. Fight her way out. (if one boy pushes another, it is expected that the pushee stands his ground. Why should a girl be any different?)

I want my daughter to be pragmatic, not passive. Leadership is mostly pragmatic arrogance. (I can make these people achieve more, etc. I don't want her to believe that shes the only person to lead. ) In retrospect, arrogance is the wrong word.

> This could end so poorly

You wouldn't be saying this if she was a boy. The insinuation that a girl is not as strong as a boy is bollocks. The only thing that is different is expectation. I expect my girl to fucking lay bullies out. Not sit there an take it, because "girls can't punch" or some shit.

> Making terrible jokes?

not until she's a parent. I want her to make funny jokes
I understand GP as saying that if business people know about technical debt, it means you're giving them too much details. Business people care about features being implemented and bugs being fixed; they don't (shouldn't) care if implementing a feature is 1/3 direct work on the feature, and 2/3 fixing the architecture to make the direct work on this and future features faster - but if you communicate this split to them, they'll start asking if you couldn't cut that 2/3 part out.
Texas has coastlines, bayous, deserts, hills, and wide-open plains. It’s entirely possible to make that amphibious landing, sure, but then you’re in wetlands. If you’re hand waving an adversary capable of amphibious operations on the Gulf Coast, they could just use helicopters to insert into Minnesota, too.

But my point is that even if you allow, for the sake of argument, that the “great power” phase of the war entails a two-week blitzkrieg, that still doesn’t get you out of the counterinsurgency business. And Texas is land that an enemy would definitely want to hold just for natural resources and logistics.

As for fighting the last war, the last great-power war had blitzkriegs that resolved themselves within weeks, protracted operations along broad fronts, irregular partisan warfare, and every other form of conflict one could envision. The Battle of France is just as much “the last war” as the Eastern Front was. I think the only sure thing is that we don’t know what the next great power war will look like, unless it’s merely a catastrophic nuclear exchange.
There are/were some startups in this space:
DoNotPay, WinIt, Off the Record, TurboAppeal. Not sure how they're doing.

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/5/17119956/parking-ticket-propert...
>No. This is not how anything works, as almost anyone attempting to work in the art world implicitly understands. If there are 7,000 people globally who might be interested in your work, it would take a massive global campaign to find them. Which most people can't afford, especially not for a "this appeals to 7,000 people" idea.

It used to be hard to find those 7,000 people but it's now much easier with the internet. Niche forums, long tail Google search, FB groups, local meetup groups, Twitter, etc... Seth Godin talks about showing up every day and share your (niche) ideas. The internet is full of niche topics/interests. It takes time but it's possible.

>No, they are the ones most empowered to connect with those thousand true fans. They have resources and global reach.

Global brands definitely have the reach but are people really listening. Are those really true fans? If they need to cater to not just those 1,000 but the rest of the 999, 000, the message gets diluted. It's not just about reaching those people but to create resonance with them.

>For normal people without those resources, "true fans" generally come from personal connections, in my experience. And even if one gathers up thousands of personal connections, it can be really hard to convince even close friends to be interested in spending their time or money on what you're doing.

Go after people who'd like to BOTH give you their attention AND are interested in what you're offering. You can do that on the internet if you keep showing up and provide value to them. That personal relationship can be built on the internet even if you never meet them in person.
A Gentle Introduction to Logistic Regression with Maximum Likelihood Estimation
I tend to agree, as I've seen it used and misused from both sides already. While the higher echelon often misses empathy for technical debt, what they need rather than a "euphemism treadmill" is real and actionable education on the _cost_ of technical debt.

Likewise, engineers do tend to refactor everything and their mother when left alone with too much time and with too little education on opportunity cost and context on the big picture.

The best advice I can give is first creating awareness and secondly making nonfunctional requirements part of any product negotiation. Always quantify the implicit expectation "...and it works": How long, for how many people tops, with how much possible downtime,...

More often than not, business stakeholders can get away with much less than engineers think. That way, lots of technical debt and bad examples of overengineering never come up.

But it's too late (and eventually, all code ends up as legacy code), these days I follow the school of https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpportunisticRefactoring.html

Collect a few things that could be done way better / faster / stabler, ... — and then just convince everyone that a better architecture is the best way to get there.
Sure, check a bit the dates I mentioned. If you look for big civilian protests worldwide in let's say 2011 or 2014 you will se a lot of things happening during the same year. Of
course it depends what you consider to be simultaneous or not. My point is that it isnt clear to me that the current situation is unique. I feel that we are pretty bad at remembering the zeitgeist from the past. But I only have a limited knowledge of protests and conflicts around the world, I m sure that I missed a lot of things happening.
If anybody has doubts how bad this could end for aid workers, here's an article about their current situation in Syria[0].

Summary: they are somewhat certain to die when Assad's army takes over northern Syria and manages to identify them as aid workers, even remotely connected to anything we would consider "good". The agencies are trying to burn all their local paperwork to protect their employees' identities.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/10/am...
I've transitioned all my self-hosted services to behind a Wireguard VPN. This even includes SSH, so there are no ports exposed except the UDP port for Wireguard.
Panama has the fifth highest HDI in Latin America. And you can bet that the HDI in poorer regions of Panama are much lower than that of poorer regions in Chile.

But besides that, these trade offs are for Chile’s voters to resolve. Those voters decided that sticking with markets, even in the face of higher inequality, was the way to go.
> Your solution is effectively corporate welfare. The free market should determine whether customers will order packages or not.

A government fair use or congestion tax on delivery vehicles, which you are proposing, isn't a free market solution.
Thanks for the fast replies. I was able to kill it by blocking the widget.intercom.io domain with Privacy Badger. I wonder why it wasn't already blocked by default...
That means more vehicle-miles where it’s taking up space and likely drivers who are less familiar as well.

My point was just that aggressive deadlines preclude options: if you live on 3rd St and I live on 4th, one truck can deliver both of our packages with only minimal increased distance but that depends on enough people ordering within the same delivery window. Otherwise you get what I see a lot, which is the same company showing up at the same houses every day of the week even if most people could have waited to improve efficiency.

I suspect the long-term strategy might be to brand it as a pollution savings bonus, transforming a longer wait from something almost everyone sees as a negative into something which many people will feel good about.
There are loads of people who enjoy cheating in multiplayer games so much that they’re willing to spend hundreds of dollars a month on the hacks.
Your analogy still doesn't make sense because people get murdered in front of beautiful murals all the time, and people walk past disheveled tenements without getting murdered all the time. This "fractal" nature you describe doesn't exist. You are confusing emergent properties of society with something entirely different.
> smart engineers from Google

Questionable.

> well-tested and maintained

Not really.

> well-documented

Not really.

> has permissions and isolation for apps which Debian doesn't have

Having compared google play and the apt-get ecosystem, I cannot trust the first.

Also, Debian has seccomp, cgroups and the tooling required to provide very fine-grained access control.

> has several app stores including FDroid and lots of apps made by independent developers

True

> Are there some technical or licensing issues

Concentration of power; monopoly; corporate surveillance

> Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?

There is no "they use in Ubuntu". It's a distribution. It benefits from application written in two dozen languages and most people don't want to rewrite applications in java.

> UPD: Also 3 Gb of RAM might be not enough for Debian/Ubuntu based OS.

Nonsense. I was using it with 32MB of RAM. Now 4 and I have free memory while running 2 browsers.
I love this tool! But generally speaking, the user experience of the PostgreSQL admin workflow could be improved so much.

The psql client binary should include visualizations like this even in text mode, so admins don't have to follow a multitude of steps as described in the repo:

1) run query, store results in .json file

2) scp .json file to your dev machine

3) run visualization tool

If I already have a psql client shell open, why can't this all be done in the background? I think there is still a lot of potential for improvement.
Malicious JavaScript Infecting Discord’s Electron App
>and they always felt SO SMALL to walk around "inside" when they were correct to scale, even though one of them was a fairly big 1800's house.

Is that due to the Field of View being lower in games compared to real life? When you increase the FoV in games then things further away look smaller.
I think I'd rather keep STDOUT et al as byte streams but include an additional channel with details about how to read that data.

eg it could describe the data as a JSON array and the next command would grep through the elements rather than lines.
Anyone know how many other semi-known search engines are using it? Also, your searches are completely anonymous using any third party Goggle search engine?
The Japanese solved this problem. :)
The World's Largest Automotive Supplier Probably Makes Parts for Your Phone, Too
Why You Should Say No to Almost Everything
There is microG, but last time I attempt using it I run into issues installing their base services on a modern Lineage OS. Some people are using it successfully. It's kinda a shot in the dark really.
I see it as one using weasel wording to sound principled while in fact it's not.

In particular using "institutions we have elected to do X" instead of just "institutions that do X" steps around the question whether the institutions really do X. Which is, incidentally, the major concern of the opponents.
I think both applications and media would benefit from a split of html into seperate language for defining app-like sites, and traditional content pages. Html and the dom APIs are currently strange mix of content orinted semantic elements and app oriented (often non-semantic) elements. Not to mention that the default flow layout does more harm than good for most applications.
https://deepstream.io/tutorials/concepts/what-is-deepstream/
Elimination of natural gas water heaters is necessary.

Workplace charging stations isn't so much an employer thing, as a commercial real estate thing. So it's not so much an inconvenience since borrowing money to pay for upgrades of real estate is what those guys are about.

And of course natural gas heating needs to die as well.
My apologies. My posts have been largely ignored on reddit and I don't frequent ycombinator so I didn't realize that it was getting such play over here. Thus when some fellow nerd emailed me a few hours ago asking if I'd enable ipv6 for my site, I figured "Why not?"

Well the answer to that question turns out to be: I just spent the last few hours of my life dealing with intermittent website availability issues on nginx after attempting to configure ipv6. I have now reverted everything and we are back online.

Sorry :(
Using Docker Application Packages to Deliver Apps Across Teams
One thing I noticed about travellers was they can be put into two buckets:

#1. The lost. Running away from problems at home (or travelling for vague reasons).

#2. The motivated. Going to a country with purpose to do stuff.

It sounds to me like you did #1, and if you do it again perhaps you need to find a drive for #2.
Panopticlick is hyperbole. Yes you can be tracked and you should be worried about it but the stats they report are not valid.

Take an iPhone10 in California and visit the site. They'll tell you you're in a million in 1 or one in 500k people.

All iPhone10s have exactly the same signature. They only differences at most are region settings and time zone. If you're in california those are likely the same for 95%? 90%? 80%? I doesn't matter to my point.

How many iPhones10s are there in that time zone? I think there are like 55million people in that time zone (Seattle + Portland + Bay Area + Los Angeles + San Diego). How many of those own an iPhhone10? Let's be what I think is conservative and pick 1 million. Now compare that number to the number you go from panopticlick and you'll see their stats are off by several orders of magnitude.

Their excuse is they don't get that many visitors but it's only useful to track you on popular sites with lots of visitors. If you go to a site with few visitors then you're already unique. Any sight with lots of visitors will have lots of iPhone10 users in the same time zone with the same region settings and so tracking you is much harder.

Of course I'm not saying you shouldn't be worried about tracking and if you're on Windows/Linux/Mac/Android your device is likely much more unique. My only point is that it exaggerates given that there is popular hardware that has the same signature it should be reporting different numbers for those devices.
Does that include the 4% GDPR fine this leads to?
The article isn't about copyright. It's about a change in distribution and access rights to Fox's back catalogue of movies since Disney bought Fox which is harming smaller cinema house operators.
I was defrauded by wire transfer and could point to the exact local address the money went to. Still nothing.
Factorie is a toolkit for deployable probabilistic modelin in Scala
I sort of agree with the author, for a similar reason that I don't like the concept of code rotting. Digital artifacts left alone don't change. They don't become more broken over time. Technical debt in code you're not currently modifying isn't incurring interest - and a debt without interest is one that you can safely leave unpaid indefinetly.

Both "code rot" and "technical debt" are concepts that, unlike their real-world analogs, are only problematic in context of ever changing environment. I feel this is a crucial and unmentioned difference that makes the analogy bad.
Maybe Qwant [1] is a good alternative? I'm interested what others think about it. It's European and they seem to respect privacy. I like their detailed FAQ [2]. According to Wikipedia they use their own indexing service but collaborate with the Bing ad network [3].

[1] https://www.qwant.com/
[2] https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-make-mon...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
> My vision-impaired father reports that his text-to-speech software now works better with PDFs than with real web-pages.

I have enough experience with PDFs and screen readers that I find this very surprising. Which PDF reader does he use, and does he get most or all of his PDFs from a particular source?
That what looks like when someone gives advises when know nothing about industry and tech

And that is not even funny
Now that canvas, webgl, audio is starting to get blocked the most creative solution I have seen so far is css3 transforms with long floating point numbers, seems to create unique values for bounding boxes etc! I spend too much time with fingerprinting because I find it fascinating.

Also maybe sad to point out something far worse if someone chose to track you specifically, if one were to get bid stream data (or even a 1% sample), they would see virtually every website you visit. Sure your cookie/ip/geo/ua etc are less entropy than JS fingerprint (though 1st party google cookie surely knows who most are). this exposes the very core of who you are, what porn you watch and everything.
Smartphones are ubiquitous, not high-end iPhones.

EVs will be ubiquitous, not Tesla Model S.
I work at a very nice company. We make sure that people aren't bullied, its a core principle. But I am just one devop in one small company.

I have a great many friends from all over IT, and the female ones all have the same problem: dickheads.

On github,/hackernews/other change your name to something feminine, stick a profile pick up from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and experience the dick forcing it's way into your PRs DMs and email.
Blockchain Could Provide ID for Those Who Need It Most
I share a fingerprint with 1 in 25k browsers, so why do I have to worry? Is it because of temporal analysis, which is good enough to whittle that down to uniquely tracking me between sites?
As it should, honestly. What's really happening is that, usually due to deadlines, a job is left unfinished, and the undone tasks (like cleanup, optimization) are then labeled as "debt" just in order to push a ticket do "Done" earlier.
VPN or SSH tunnels. I just use WireGuard these days.