skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would still be a good stepping stone to complete off-world industry; one of the reasons current space launches cost a lot is because you don't only want things in orbit but you want something in orbit intact and functional. A pallet of dumb steel ingots could be lopped up with something with much more generous tolerances ala the Big Dumb Booster[0], with any orbital maneuvering once up there accomplished by space tugs.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster
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The problem is that carriers have being retrieving this data for a long time. This news is that they're giving the data to the government for statistical analysis and we cannot do anything about it...
i understand your perspective. i live in denver and xfinity and whatever comcast lets centurylink have are my choices. i was initially reacting to the sentence in the post that mentioned that xfinity was the only available option and that struck me as wrong. i did a bit of research before firing off a post and discovered that my thought was incorrect and based off of incomplete information, but i left it there in case anyone else was under the same impression as me.
Did you have kids?

I swear all these public transit weenies forget that your time is valuable and these alternative modes all make you suffer more. Come up with something that saves me time and I'll pay attention. But wasting my time watching a car charge or waiting for a train or bus? No thanks.
As long as they identify themselves as not Spanish nation, they can claim that they have a right for independence granted by UN

To achieve it though they will have to convince the whole world that it is true and more important then anyone's relationship with Spain
What would you recommend as training/resources to get started in real estate investing? I was thinking of getting a real estate dealer license as a way to get a better idea of how the system works and go from there, but any words of wisdom from someone already doing it successfully would be most welcome.

There's plenty of "real-estate investing" information online but most of it looks scammy as hell.

EDIT: I'm based in NYC, FWIW
I have learned some prolog, and I really enjoyed it. The only problem I encountered is that I had a hard time moving to real world practical uses of the language. I enjoyed the language for the exercises I had in my learning resources, but I never found a problem I could use it for myself.
People buy a subscription to get/give reminders to call their parents. Every first Saturday of the month I schedule 8-12 texts per US time zone.
> Unless we are going to make self-driving ONLY cars that is.

This is the dream.

EDIT: More specifically, I envision a world where to manually drive your car you have to past a MUCH more rigorous test than the current licensing process. Including background checks for infractions such as DUI, would ban / block you from obtaining a manual driving license.

You would of course retain your freedom to have a car that can drive itself.
Yes. But no one is poor if everyone is poor. Poverty is a relative term. It's basically inequality in disguise.
What a bizarre ruling -- like saying that a parabola is not copyrightable, but three points defining a parabola are (because one could express the same parabola using many combinations of three points).

Surely, then, one could write a program to generate a copyright-free copy of a font by selecting different control points that yield the same curves. Or would the computer be the copyright-holder, as it selected those points?
My perception is that a few open source communities have blown up this way very visibly, and people are getting up in arms about it.

But I don’t think the problem is widespread; it’s just people getting excited about bad things that happened.

So I agree: more analysis, more facts please. It’s a good conversation to have; let’s keep it substantive.
Hmm, I guess that makes sense save for why wasn't the OS supplied microcode working or why was it out of date.
> even 10 year old devices may no longer be able to access the web

I think you mean 10 year old software, which is a much smaller bucket than 10 year old devices. And if you're browsing the web with 10 year old software, you have much bigger problems including but not limited to committing security-suicide.
> And that rarely holds up in court, especially in California.

Flowchart to help determine employer ownership of inventions: https://www.oncontracts.com/docs/Who-owns-an-employee-invent... (from 2010; annotated w/ citations to state statutes) (self-cite).

EDIT: Ownership of copyright in an employee-created "original work of authorship" will depend on the facts. Here are a couple of cases:

CASE 1: (A) The employee-author acted "within the scope of employment" in creating the work, AND (B) the employer and employee do not have an agreement altering ownership. RESULT 1: Under 17 U.S.C. 201(b), the employer owns the copyright in the work. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201

CASE 2: (A) Employee-author did not act "within the scope of employment" in creating the work, AND (B) the employer and employee did not have an agreement governing ownership of the work. RESULT 2: Under 17 U.S.C. 201(a), the employee owns the copyright in the work.

Note that calling something a "work made for hire" doesn't automatically make it one — the work must fit into one of nine statutory categories [0], AND the parties must agree, before the work is created, that the work will be a work made for hire.

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Community_for_Creative_Non-Viole...
> just have some checklist, screenshots and a quota to hit

From my own app review experience, this is all they do.
False dichotomy. Military budget that can be spent on Elon’s business is probably less than what NASA is prepared to spend on a proven Earth-Moon-Earth service.
> Does Windows really?

Yes, the signs that even English is passing through Windows' IME infrastructure in Windows 10 is pretty minimal by default (in Desktop mode, Tablet mode immediately turns on a couple more), but at this point Windows 10 makes almost all of it opt-in. Some of it is referred to as accessibility tools from an English perspective, because IMEs are also useful for accessibility.

The "big one" IME for most English users is the Emoji Keyboard accessible with Win+. or Win+; (whichever you prefer). It's really interesting how well emoji have helped Latin script users with further understanding the complexities of Unicode, fixing old ugly bugs in Unicode handling, and even introducing some such users to an IME that they want to use (sometimes every day).

Under Settings > Devices > Typing > Hardware Keyboard you can turn on the IME "Show text suggestions as I type" even on a hardware keyboard in Windows 10, which gives you mobile-style auto-suggestions (you can also turn on mobile-style autocorrect even on a hardware keyboard).
The problem is that the "right kernel API" (get_random_u32) will return whatever the hardware-provided RNG returns if it's available[1].

There is assembly in WireGuard for the crypto primitive implementations, but those are generated by scripts and are based on either formally-proven implementations or highly-vetted ones.

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.3.6/source/drivers/char/...
Somehow I doubt work would be willing to relax their weapons policies so that I could bring in the training weapons that sit in my car.
Ask HN: Should a free, open-source tax filing solution exist?
Creating a free, open source alternative to TurboTax, H&R, etc seems like a noble pursuit that could benefit tens of millions of people. Ideally governments would offer their own free tax filing solution for citizens, but apparently this has been blocked by lobbying [1]. There is also truth to the idea that the governments may have a conflict of interest, making you pay more taxes than necessary. In the meantime, companies like Intuit continue to profit off something that should be totally free and simple.

Such a project would be an enormous and complicated undertaking. The US federal tax code is huge, and all 50 states have their own code. These laws change every year. Audit liability is a concern (even if you add a TOS/disclaimer). Advisory from CPAs would likely be necessary. Supporting eFile requires IRS approval [2]. For these reasons it might make sense for it to be backed by a non-profit organization with clear governance.

There is prior work in this area – like OpenTaxSolver [3] – but these projects are outdated, have archaic GUIs, and lack the infrastructure+community to reach scale. A newer project could utilize the latest tech and all the great resources available for open source communities. A first iteration could just handle US federal taxes and possibly require forms to be printed & mailed to reduce complexity.

HN Community – Do you think such an initiative is feasible and worthwhile? What hurdles would you anticipate?

Also, if anyone is seriously interested in exploring this idea further (even just part-time), fill out this google form and I can try to create a mailing list or community to collectively push it forward: https://forms.gle/ejwjrZKe3WT6pbzE7

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

[2] https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/become-an-authorized-e-file-provider

[3] http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/index.html
Where did you find that?
Weird, because spell-checker for Russian in MS Word definetely knows about different endings and can predict them pretty well in my experience
Everything grows exponentially, but I could bet that the web had grown about 3X (between 2012 and 2019) given the first result I clicked given by Google.

Also given the fact that I worked for an SEO company I can definitely tell you that’s bot the money-making enterprise anymore since it mostly consisted of opportunists who happened to know about internet before anyone else before.
> 'm not sure if it still works like this or not, but up here in Canada with Shaw cable for the longest time, it just started out of nowhere one day, I'd always get redirected to a Shaw landing page or have Shaw ads injected into pages when I was browsing.
Ask HN: How to think about working for extended stay/hospitality startups?
A lot of companies have been crossing my radar that are similar to AirBnb, but focused on longer stays and typically with a more managed, hotel-like experience: Sonder, WanderJaunt, Lyric, and Stay Alfred, to name a few.

In spite of doing some reading on the topic I have a poor understanding of the business model underlying these companies and therefore have trouble gauging whether it's worth it to work for any of them. I would be grateful for any perspective on the industry. Some questions at the top of my mind:

- broadly speaking, are these businesses viable in the long term? With so much cash pouring into these companies the marketplace seems like a bubble.

- with so many well funded entrants in the marketplace is there any room for a "winner" or will each try to dominate a region and eventually experience flattening growth?

- do these businesses negatively impact the rental market? Are there ethical considerations about replacing housing for local tenants with hotels?

- how susceptible is the business to regulation? Seems like if local governments enacted any kind of restrictive legislation then bottom lines could be severely hurt, especially since many of these startups seek to acquire properties outright or take out long term leases on them.

Thanks in advance for any insight you can lend to the topic.
I'm new to hyperlinking on HN. My apologies.
According to the BBC - In total, there are more than 4,000 negative reviews from gamers playing on a PC, PS4 or Xbox, compared with just over 1,500 positive reviews.
Wow, how many hours have you put into building this? And you are doing it all for free?

OSS developers are the carries of our civilization.
Oddly it turns out that these days airplane mode doesn mean turn off all RF transmissions. e.g. it can mean "configure for use in an aircraft under fcc jurisdiction" which means turn off cell radio but keep Wifi on.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234
Car ownership in the US has been steadily increasing over time. There's a small increase in "no-car households" since 2010, but it's around a .5% increase.

https://investorplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screens...
If someone can use that information to identify you, then the data is by definition not anonymized. It doesn't matter how exceptional the circumstances where that's allowed to happen are. "Fully 100% anonymous, unless we label you a terrorist" is not the same as anonymous.
It's in title III of the ADA, if you want to read it.

However because of the way US law works, you probably need context on court cases, such as the recent supreme court ruling:

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/dominos-pizza-ll...

Going back to GG(G?)P, if you're writing software outside of the commercial or government space in the US, then maybe you're fine not complying with accessibility guidelines in the ADA, e.g. screen readers or what have you.

If you're outside of the US, then I don't know what protections there are.

But in the US, for commercial or government purposes, then yes, it's illegal in the above sense.

Edit:

borski above describes context pretty well too, since it depends on the commercial context in which you're operating

Edit 2:

also this latest ruling is new enough that we'll have to wait to see how the dust settles w.r.t. new lawsuits
> Most contracts don't allow for commercial side projects and the company owns anything you create even outside of working hours.

I never understood this. I have friends who were developers at a software company and afraid of doing anything after hours since they felt their company essentially owned them and anything they create, 24/7. I am not a lawyer, but I reckon unless you’re building and/or running your business using company property or company proprietary IP, that section of the contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
That’s actually just straight-up not true, and there is case law that shows it. [1] [2]

In addition, the ADA wouldn’t apply to non-US entities, either way.

Not saying I disagree with the idea in general; in fact, I think we should make our websites accessible because there is a large population of disabled folks who use the internet and should have access. But it’s absolutely not illegal, unless your online presence very closely mirrors a physical store. [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_v._Facebook,_Inc.

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouellette_v._Viacom_Internat....

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_B....
The litigation is on going. The Supreme Court declined to hear the petition to essentially throw the case out, in effect paving the way for trial between the plantiff and Dominoes.
The bug is in the initialization part of the microcode and can only be patched during CPU initialization by the bios. Early microcode loading by the kernel is too late.
I'm working on a website that calculates the unit prices on Amazon products. Hoping to help save people some money, since there are a surprising amount of times where buying in smaller quantities actually saves you money.

The website is https://unitprice.org/browse if anyone is interested! It's still very much in its infancy, but I plan on doing a "Show HN" soon! Based on the last two weeks, I have only made about $10, but that's been with very little traffic so far.
i wonder if the data cap is just at the router level or if they charge you for whenever you use any of the other xfinity hotspots that they set up on their customers' routers.
You have it backwards.

The parents have children to continue their genetics / DNA. IF the parents don't care enough to continue their DNA that is called evolution.

Then it's up to you the individual to succeed. No one else.
> So is any other proof short of the strong cryptographic kind, which is going to be a lot more trouble to get set up infrastructurally.

More trouble definitely, but not crazy hard. Some creditcard companies do it in those chip cards (others just put a readable ID on the chip, which is why you still see zoe gods printing chip cards). I know the government is generally less efficient than corporations, but they've got a massive budget. They should be able to figure out how to make an ID with a cryptographic signature that verifies itself and brings up a pre-registered photo on the computer of the person verifying you that's pulled from a government database. I don't really even want the government to have power, and I believe a national ID program like the one I'm proposing would do that in ways, so I'm fine with them failing to do this... I just don't understand why they haven't yet.
What you see might be what you get, but it's not what I get, for reasons that are innate to the web.

My mother still uses an iPhone SE with a 4.7" screen, while I use a gargantuan phablet. My grandmother has poor eyesight and runs her browser on a 720p screen at 175% zoom, while I have a large high-resolution monitor and normally open browser windows to 1280x2160 portrait. My monitor is color-calibrated and extremely bright during the day, but after sunset it's deep amber and very dim.

If you think that WYSIWYG for the web is desirable, you haven't understood the web.
This still supports what I wrote originally: there was a time when a 1 or 2 year gap brought massive improvements. Not anymore. Now it takes 4, 5, or more. Which is why people bought more often then, and less often now. Same thing happened to smartphones. Explosive evolution at the beginning and a subsequent slowdown when the generation gap started being so small that you can go more time between upgrades.
I've released two SQL courses on DataCamp, which bring in a nice sum every quarter.
I was not arguing pro or against the raise, I was explaining why an owner of a business that is still profitable might close.
Good question! The lack of this feature was why I made TeamCal because Microsoft has it already a long time in Outlook. It doesn’t seem that Google invests a lot in Google Calendar improvements, especially for B2B use cases. Thats why I’m not overly worried.
A TTC is a TrueType Collection. Multiple fonts in one file. Instead of having separate files for every size, weight, etc. they’re combined into one. The major advantage is the ability to share glyphs between fonts instead of duplicating information in each file.
Kronos (the timeclock company) still uses flash in the enterprise timeclock application that my company uses for its hourly employees.

They've told us that replacing it is "on their roadmap," but haven't told us when they plan on replacing it. (I also think that Verifone's vault for credit cards was flash based until earlier this year!)
What you are describing doesn't seem to be a MITM attack on https traffic, but something else, which is why I stated "sans CA cert".
"What a fowl day" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhfDQbJ3Lk
Is "invention" to be interpreted in a very broad sense here? If I build some cookie cutter CRUD app that nevertheless provides an income, is that an invention?
Really? Around here (rural Minnesota, in a rural school district), probably 80% of schoolwork is done on a Chromebook, at least in the final years of high school. I'm amazed by how much lighter my kid's backpack got in 11th grade.
Not exactly passive, but... I teach online webinars/in person tutorials on the basics of Data Science and ML with Python: https://www.data4sci.com Started beginning of the year and hoping to make it to $20k
Reportedly¹, the Goose game is quite different from Goat Simulator.

1. https://imgur.com/t/goose/zOcNSI1
The Insight Project
Sure (and I agree), but that means it's not a feature. But after reading your earlier comment, I have set nginx to only permit NextCloud traffic if I'm on the local network (I can't block everything because my personal website and Matrix homeserver need to be publicly accessible in order to function, and there's no way in hell I'm hosting my homeserver anywhere other than at home).
If you consider IG to be one of the newer example than also consider that IG copied most features from “first mover” Snapchat
Back in the pre-web days, we used to get software via ftp, usually as source code tar balls, from any of several well-known archive sites. One I remember was labrea.stanford.edu. Yes, it was a tar pit...
I worked for HS2, they are now "Bounteous" after rebranding and acquiring some promising eCommerce and marketing agencies.

They did the pizza tracker and consulted on the marketing and some design work (mostly for Dominos Canada) I don't think they did the pizza picker interface.

Great place to work, I only left because they were going through some growing pains in restructuring their eComm practice and some talented people got passed over.
I was ready for a leadership role.

https://imgur.com/a/IK6zyBt
Social Security + about $100 a year from an oil royalty i inherited
please don't ignore the rest of the post because of that line.
But I do agree about that being insulting
I mean the cost to me as a user. Why don't content creators charge me for the page view?
Why target Nestle so specifically, when there are so many other companies doing the same thing? Coca Cola has a few sweet deals allowing them to pay significantly less for pumping the water than the people who actually live in homes around their pumps.
it should say 4294967296 sided dice.
Previously, AMD shipped out free processors to fix an issue with Ryzen boards having firmware too old to boot the CPU: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/264097-amd-shipping-fr...
MITMing TLS requires either (1) a falsely issued certificate, which would be "a big deal" when (not if) found and would lead to the issuer losing their status as accepted in browsers, or (2) the user to install a certificate generated by the person doing the MITM, this is often done in corporate environments.
I adore my 12.9" 3rd Gen iPad Pro. In fact I spend too much time on it.

Being able to read PDFs at native size, Procreate with the Pencil, even just endlessly scrolling Twitter with a flick of the stylus, watching video, it's great.

I also agree with TFA about discoverability, I was annoyed to have to relearn how to get the search bar, and the multi-app gestures seem half-baked. As a developer I'm used to having to research how things work, but it's got to be a pain for more casual users.

IMHO the Pro iPad is on the verge of being a better computer for most people's use cases. iPadOS, as distinct from iOS, is fairly new software, and I'm hoping the recent issues are just growing pains.
Adobe didn't kill Flash, Apple killed Flash with Mobile Safari. Adobe is just accepting Flash not having a future.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if these 'Auto-Pilot' cars are actually being controlled remotely from some off-shore ops center.
Does an allways on VPN help?
This is the market at work. The reason the rates are so high is that the market put them there. These are high risk borrowers and many will default. Lower interest rates would result in a negative ROI. Tax dollars should not be subsidizing defaulted loans.
> Most software developers think about getting their software to work correctly, not about edge-cases dealing with the UI for tiny, specific disenfranchised groups of people.

The whole point of the ADA (and its counterparts in some other developed nations), is that building solutions that are also usable by people with disabilities should no longer be an edge case, but the default.
Are you a business owner?
Just the same landscape/architecture photography I do anyway. It's more than I made from Shutterstock. Probaly $100/year? So it's definitely on the level of "beer money."

https://pixabay.com/users/derwiki-562673/
We would also welcome you with open arms at https://github.com/saulpw/visidata =) Send us an email, or join us on freenode, twitter, etc, if you want to help out! I would love to onboard you.
i dont know why this is getting downvoted