skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! I might have already said most of what I need to in my other comment, but I'd like to get into your idea of how these big companies might be incentivized to cooperate and drop their garden walls. e.g. Facebook (/Instagram) - what do you think could possibly be done to positively incentivize them to open their data up to other platforms? They make so much from selling people's usage data every day to advertisers, and their relevance seems to be dependent on cumulative network effects (people sticking with them because all their friends are on it) rather than actual unreplicable innovation (their tech could be easily copied) or reputation (people kinda hate them now!). Why would Facebook loosen their stranglehold on user data, open their API, or allow people to easily leave en-masse willingly? It seems to me that the incentives for these big companies to lock people into their platforms far outweigh their potential benefits from sharing with other platforms. Utility/usefulness/beauty are cheap and worthless - anyone can create or copy something useful or pretty. It's network effects that are valuable - and sharing with other platforms (especially open source) means diluting your ownership of them.

I'd argue even that an eternally-growing "pie" is itself a bit of a dated concept. This kinda assumes value is created by greater and greater utility of an economy - whereas with Moore's Law winding down (and the arguments in my other comment) it's possible that value is really just aggregating in scarcity rather than innovation or uplifting of the general population - and so strengthening your ownership is the better play, rather than fostering open communication. (Though ideally you should secretly do the former while publicly appearing to do the latter) Sure, attracting networks of people is still valuable, and you have some minimum quality requirements to do that, but if you can make it as hard as possible for those people to leave without totally breaking those quality requirements - even better.

As I said in the previous thread: way I see it, I think to overcome these walled gardens we need to considerably mature the consumer incentive structures - making masse movement between platforms easier, and with real concrete payoff, to individual users. Only once such threats are actually viable will the big companies cave and aim to improve their user retention through good reputation rather than dirty tech practices forcing retention. The economics do seem to incentivize consumers eventually doing this, though, but they might just be a bit too dumb right now - and companies are taking advantage.
I've lived in both Japan and Canada, not the US. All the reasonable-priced plans in both countries had limits in the single digit GBs. Japan was better in that data over the limit just got capped at a very low speed, rather than paying extra. But in all three cases, a single page load unexpectedly using 65mB is outside reasonable.
If you think that Klan members were ostracized from society (rather than being local centers of power) and that all they did was harmlessly rally outside of public places, you seem not to know the first thing about the Klan.

Even if that was just a hastily/poorly chosen analogy, there's still a point to be made: groups of powerful, immoral people do not stay on the sidelines of society for long.
The HP 2114 minicomputers had capacitive touch buttons that lit up like elevator call buttons. These were used for loading the boot loader, as well as for a variety of input/output functions. For example, you could insert a "halt" instruction with a code that would get displayed when execution reached that point in your program. You could then increment the program counter register and resume running.
The problem is when all of the progressives opponents start banding together, there might just be more of them than there are progressives and then, whoops, game over. There are a lot of centrists and liberals that the progressives have alienated.

(You know you have a problem when even Barack Obama is stepping up and criticizing "woke" people: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261)
Sorry, yeah, Model S as the other poster stated.
A Twitter thread to explain why @foone uses Twitter threads:
https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128?s=21
You caused a downtime :)?
Are drones' RC controllers any more sophisticated than regular old-skool ones? If not (if the communication protocol still lacks encryption and authentication), they could easily be intercepted and destroyed by sending them to the ground. Also, the source of radio transmission can probably easily be located by appropriately trained "drone hunters". It does mean that not all of the responders can deal with the catastrophe at hand, but a few stiff penalties would make drones less frequent in disaster areas.
Zortech did very well, and was on a nice upward trajectory, and so became a very attractive investment opportunity for Symantec, which acquired it.

> now you have a taste for how the world actually works

I've known that since college, I just was lackadaisical about applying it.

Dressing better is a big part of being more successful. My advice to anyone who feels their talents are underappreciated and overlooked is to consider upgrading their wardrobe. Billionaires can dress like slobs, but the rest of us can't really afford to. Dressing better won't close the deal, but it can open up opportunities one wasn't aware of.

Working on one's speech patterns is effective, too.
It's opposite: the employer must sponsor you for you to stay in the country, else you have to go back home.

Unlike this where the worker cannot go back home.
Performing a web request to 1M targets takes a long time.

However, this is an [embarassingly parallel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel) problem, and renting out some machines would speed it up.
Office hours in places like Washington DC and NYC frequently start at 7am, some parts of the US are culturally early risers.

This works out brilliantly when I am in London, not so much when I am in Seattle.
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Yeah. I do routinely tether my laptop, I wonder if there is any recognition of that.
The very fast spinning blades, the engine intake, the windshield, the tail rotor. Pretty much the entire vehicle is composed only of critical parts, because any extra parts add weight and increase fuel costs. Helicopters, and especially their engines/blades, operate at high speeds as well.
I spend weekends with family. The last year, never did weekend work.
Look, I didn’t say “all Europeans”.

And “stricter regulation” is literally “you need to prove you need a gun and that you are sane” in most of the cases.
> exploitation of an obvious market that was restricted to preserve a public good

That's where I think the post is weakest. That statement is an obviously immoral thing, but apart from a few people who genuinely don't care, most don't join a company that they see as doing obviously immoral things. They join them because they view the activity differently (such as, "breaking a monopoly that was harming the public to enrich a few"). So I think the whole idea of "don't use Grace Hopper's advice as an excuse to be an asshole" falls flat, because nobody thinks they are doing that. In my opinion, of course.
You don't use a rifle for skeet shooting either...
The pendulum always swings
Admittedly anecdotal, but this woman was deradicalized thanks to online dialogue:

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/unfollow-deradicalization...

I would say that isolating people definitely does not work.
A browser-based UI makes sense for a lot of applications, even if the desktop browser isn't the right way to deliver it. Electron is great because it lets you package up the app and its own internal browser so that you can write to that as your UI. I do think that method of development will overtake desktop apps with their proprietary operating system APIs.
If that's the case, then it's a fight that was going to happen sooner or later, because it's not as if progressive opponents were sitting back and letting culture change without protest. If anything, calling out people for bad behavior is a reaction to the realization that a lot of "centrists" were just closet racists, who may not advocate for some form of supremacy or other but sure were donating and voting for it when the opportunity came.
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Your "when even" isn't particularly accurate. Obama was always a relative centrist. It's just that many consider it radical to think that we should do simple things like provide most people with access to healthcare.
Lidar seems to be a necessary augmentation to complement cameras to be able to achieve this level of drive autonomy.
Who gets to decide what a questionable moral is?
The offenses in the article seem to be a whole lot less severe than being a member of the KKK.

Where is the line? If I make a donation to the Republican party, does that mean I have questionable morals? Roughly half the country is Republican, do they all have no morals?

That is what the article is trying to grapple with.
I am saying that the people signing the checks made a business decision to narrow the focus of one of their brands. In my own opinion, a large number of the people working at Deadspin should have rightly been fired at this point.

Another thread mentions Google's 20% time, something that largely doesn't even exist anymore and for a long time still required approval to work on. Business changes and adapts with time. They aren't asking their writers to generate fake news stories or to not include culture in their sports writing, but that articles should have a focus on sports. They have other brands that write the types of articles they're asking Deadspin to stop writing.

In the end, the owners don't want another general millenial rage bait woke journalism site. They want a focused sports brand that they can grow in that space. Branding is important, and having a focus on branding is important. That's why PowerAid isn't labelled "Coca Cola". There are many valid business reasons why the people paying for the site want a specific brand focus.

I'm pretty sure that this has been explained at least once to Deadspin editors. However, it seems to me like the editors are a bunch of petulant children who don't understand that there are times where the person signing your check makes decisions you don't agree with, and not everything deserves to be rallied or protested against and that the adult decision is to either comply or find another job.

I've left jobs when decisions were made that I didn't agree with. I once mentioned I'd leave if the MPAA were taken on as a client. There wasn't malice, there wasn't a fit involved that brought a lot of undue public attention. These people need to grow the fuck up already.
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One perspective is that money is just fuel that can (perhaps) help you get where you're going. Where do you want to go?

If you haven't, maybe set some big picture long term goals. What do you want your life to be like in e.g. 1, 5, 10, 20, 30 years? How do you want to be spending your time? Do any of those goals have financial requirements or influence what you would spend money on?

> I go on a road trip vacation every year and explore a foreign country every few years. I don’t really have the work schedule that allows for 1+ month long vacations or multiple trips abroad each year

Maybe you're in a situation where you have an abundance of cash but a shortage of large blocks of free time. Do you have any opportunities to exchange cash for time? Does your employer offer unpaid leave? Can you change your job for one that doesn't generate as much cash but let's you do what you want 2 months per year?
I get the red page with Firefox Developer Edition with no extensions, Chrome and Safari are green on same machine. I have all of the anti-fingerprinting stuff turned on in FF though.
> even Barack Obama

I mean, he's not particularly leftist, is he? If anything he represents a pretty centrist liberal (as in Liberalism) position?
Please stop posting paywalled articles.
The ethical reason was to reduce congestion. Whether that's the real intention and, if it was, whether it was accomplishing that goal is arguable, of course.
Right now, in this era, with this Republican party? Yes, yes it does. ;)

It's obvious half the country has questionable morals (or at least values or sense). A little under half the voters elected Donald Trump president.
Interesting. My reverse light isn't working and I only discovered this because I was reversing at night in a dark spot. I tend to do most of my driving during the day and most areas have street lighting or I park in parking lots with lights. I don't know how long the light has been out. Perhaps you could add reverse lights to your odd hobby :-).
I find it somewhat ironic that the tool is served over HTTPS over some random domain. Certainly if an attacker has the resources to forge a certificate for eg. telegram.org doing the same for trustprobe.com won't be much harder.
> Cancellation does present a question about power, and who has it.

Neither side has it. The people with money have it, as always. Follow the money, and you can predict who gets cancelled and who doesn't.

Though there is an argument to be made for companies vastly overestimating the short-term negative financial impact of "offending" the various tiny, non-conformist factions in society due to how loud they are, and underestimating the long-term loss of faith caused by acting in league with those small factions against the majority of the population due to the "silent" in "silent majority".
Does anyone have access to the full text? Sci-hub hasn't got any proxies for this apparently.

I'm curious what geometry they're printing the the EC/PC bio-ink in, eg printing coarse grained vasculature networks.

If they're leaning too heavily on self-assembly I would start to question the term 3D printing here. Particularly if they're, for example, just printing homogeneous layers of the different inks and the syringe-on-a-gantry was just a readily available way to do so.
I mostly have them backed up using backblaze. I just dump a lot of them into my hard-drive from time to time.

Also, google now offers unlimited photo storage (as long as you are okay with compression) if you have google photos. Its free.
Continued deadlock will go away in a big hurry if a few people get serious jail time and fines. No one wants to increase the prison population but sometimes it’s justified.
Well I think with ample threats and a few examples made we could seriously help deter some of these events. Would anyone be crazy enough to fly a drone over area 51? I don't think so because they would know as soon as they were caught they would be going to some hole in the earth of a prison. We don't just tend to let fires burn on their own so any active fire should by default be considered actively fought by firefighters therefore keep your drones away. I would just make it illegal to be within "x" distance from any active fire with threat of 5 years in prison, loss of vehicle, ect... or whatever the punishment should be.
The other thing that happens is that I'm reluctant to research if someone had already submitted a bug, and so I won't risk submitting a known bug, because the dev gets mad.
There’s already a bunch of products that do this. In Singapore the police use drones that shoot nets to catch other drones. The net shooting drone handles tracking and targeting, and the net is tethered, so it doesn’t fall to the ground. The military has laser technology designed for this purpose, and there’s various radio jammer solutions on the market. Also, police in the Netherlands use trained eagles.

There’s plenty of existing solutions to this problem already.
HN doesn't have a single opinion. It's different people posting.
RFC 8314: Open port 465 for implicit (immediate) SSL
> Weird that this is being downvoted. What is the US government going to do, create a China-style great firewall? Even the (right-) wingnuts would be sharpening their pitchforks.

So, if I want access to EU market I can avoid GDPR and other European regulations so long as I keep my server out of Europe?
So basically what LisaOS in 1982 had was copied by Windows 3.0 in 1990.
> Which part of a helicopter is so sensitive to the impact of a drone?

Wow. Everything except the skids, if those are present. Foreign object damage to a turbine and fracture of a blade are the ones most likely to be catastrophic.
The problem is when you start canceling more and more and more people to the point where they have nowhere else to go.
Look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355407, where Mozilla is defending using the page visibility API to stop video playback for backgrounded tabs.

A user brings up the amusing parallel that Mozilla shouldn't block popups for the same reason they don't want to block the page visibility API.
Gossip and all its moralizing and social consequences used to happen over the back yard fence.

Now it's major stories in the paper of record, such as this one.

Another unintended side effect of the internet.
I love hypotheticals like this!

> If I make a donation to the Republican party, does that mean I have questionable morals?

Unquestionably.

> Roughly half the country is Republican, do they all have no morals?

(1) Only ~1/4 of the country votes Republican.

(2) Propaganda, cultural forces, and the Democrats rejection of the working class ("For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.") encourage poor white people to vote against their class interests. They aren't lost, but pandering to their racism isn't the solution either.
Simple research can have important implications
This could be cool, I was sad when nothing came of the old dataflow project in Clojure contrib. Readers might also be interested in:

https://github.com/sixthnormal/clj-3df

Which offers Datalog queries that deliver you fast, minimal diffs of data upon updates from external sources (e.g. Kafka). Build on differential dataflow, which is very cool.
"Precisely! Months of fruitful work, leading to a mature and responsible conclusion."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs
> because it made it cumbersome for someone to access the codes without understanding the encryption method.

I disagree. This is security through obscurity. You are simply transforming data, byte-by-byte without any key. This is encoding data using an isomorphic function. By you definition, GZIP is encryption.
My favorite quote:
“Woke progressives are a pretty miserable bunch,” he said. “Try joking with that group.”

Too true. And they don't have a clue.
I do miss NeXTSTEP since it had the scrollbar on the left instead of the right.
Do you arm your car when you turn it on? No, so why use it for a drone?
Nor is this in any way new. The original left-wing cancel culture was the Jacobin reign of terror during the French Revolution.
That’s because cars are not designed to be slept in. Inflatable mattress and a seatbelt/harness designed to be worn lying down and the problem is solved.
What is this nonsense? Is it like a "clean diesel" engine from Volkswagen?

It knows when when it's being inspected on a test stand, and in those brief moments, engages the observable efficiency, but the rest of the time, when no one's looking, it molests and defiles your network interface?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21372695

I've decided to work on a human-enabled service to automate repetitive tasks for startups, and am looking for initial startups to provide use cases to automate (completely free.. I'm just trying to learn / build out initial services). Please DM me or fill out this survey if interested: https://getwisdomapp.typeform.com/to/rLeXVq
Social exclusion is an overused form of punishment. It eliminates any chance of education or understanding on either side. Done often enough, and it polarizes everyone.
Increasing the price of using a vehicle in the congested region would have been the ethical way to reduce congestion, not making a market controlled by government officials that they could collect rent on.
For debian based distributions, edit /etc/postfix/master.cf to uncomment the block of lines starting with smtps

Main advantage: connection on port 465 will automatically use SSL, as was done a long time ago.

If you do not have one yet, get a certificate from letsencrypt for your mx. It will also be an option on port 25 (keyword: may) with STARTTLS.

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOURDOMAIN/fullchain.pem'

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOURDOMAIN/privkey.pem'

postconf -e 'smtp_tls_security_level = may'

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_security_level = may'

postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1'

postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes'
Demonizing people who have a different upbringing, culture, and worldview as being wrong just because they don't share a set of values with you is to be part of the problem.

It's a modern analog of a European explorer viewing native Africans as savages because they don't have the same culture and values that you do.
I don't think the scrollbar is needed in the UI. So in 2020 there might be no scrollbar. What do you think? Why are scrollbars needed?
Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral