skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two weeks later -

I wonder exactly what he or she had been doing for those two weeks, just staring into space? Were you being billed for that time?
> I think we'll have to agree to disagree over the possibility or desirability of running low-trust vaccination campaigns.

I can happily agree to disagree about such things, but I will point out that you still have to live in a world with crazy idealists like myself who will become potential disease vectors if not provided a low-trust mechanism for vaccinating themselves. That isn't intended as a threat, just food for thought when considering cost/risk analysis from your own worldview.
Are we looking at the same charts? Both show AMD with a majority in the top 5.
In banking and finance everything is speculation. Pork bellies are speculation. Gold is speculation. That they consider money to be speculation as well is just a matter of perspective.

Outside of that world it's not speculation.
Can you point me to the online ad service where in 2004 you can do "Show this ad to people of (gender/age/race/sexual orientation) living in (area) who like (these things)"?

Also Cambridge Analytica did more than that, they figured out whether the voters were easy to influence from their Facebook profiles, and they targeted people on the fence with ads pointing to Anti-Hillary conspiracy videos...

If you think journalists are just lying about Facebook being able to do all that (it's just all fake news, right?), read this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

and notice how FB didn't have any concrete denials in the lines of "None of this is true"...
I guess it really depends on what AWS services you use. There are companies that can manage your AWS 24/7 for a fee.

Other options includes using another service that offers 24/7 uptime. Obviously you pay more for that.
There are small and middle corporations that don't have people brave enough to choose AMD. I know, I worked at two of them. In there, nobody has the time to think about AMD and to swallow and explain eventual issues that might arise.

And frankly I've never seen AMD trying to reach those people.
Civil asset forfeiture was severely limited last year in a unanimous Supreme Court decision. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf
A proof-of-concept is not a real world exploit. The PoC operates under perfect conditions.
Some women lack odour-detecting brain cells but can still sense smells
seconding this, if you don't need lots of resources it makes sense. I pair it with Amazon cloudfront and so far, almost one year in with zero problems. By far the biggest win for me is the peace of mind
- ff — A distributed note taker and task manager — https://github.com/ff-notes/ff
Right, then use the car.
One category that's missing on the left is "Parents." There's Tinder for parents (Peanut), Birchbox for parents (multiple subscription boxes). It would be interesting to think about what Uber or AirBnB for parents would be.

I couldn't read the article though because I got that absurd uncloseable newsletter subscription screen. That was one of the most user-hostile things I've seen on a website lately.
Depends on who the cops are. Such action is not unprecedented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
Company insiders are selling stock during buyback programs
Gun is also very unstable, and all of the support projects (superpeers etc) are skeletal at best. it's not usable for production applications yet
“In the Case of WeWork, I Made a Mistake” – CEO SoftBank Group of Japan
Cloud gaming is coming, soon it'd be what's the point.
Another take on this: https://www.semiaccurate.com/2019/11/05/intel-messaging-hits...
I think that's a reasonable question to ask. Most startups do have some way to differentiate themselves from their competitors, and if you ask them what it is, that's often the fastest way of understanding what they value and what their company is like.

I am guessing that you find this question annoying because you have to answer it a gazillion times for Robby. ;-) https://robby.io/ But to me I am pretty interested to hear your answer, of how do you differentiate from all the other delivery robots out there. And if the answer really is "well there's several that are just like us but I think we can all be winners", that's an interesting answer too.
That's a fascinating take on internal security.

Naturally, everyone must determine their level of risk aversion and take the steps they feel most prudent. I've not heard this perspective before. Thank you for sharing!
cf. climate change.
People should organise a running contest to honor him and call it “The Turing Compete”.
Because lobbying is legal, and excellent ROI for TurboTax's maker.
"During this outbreak, Muyembe has also made a decision many thought unthinkable even a few years ago. He decided that all of the blood samples collected during this Ebola epidemic will stay in Congo. Anyone who wants to study this outbreak will have to come to his institute." not sure if this is a good idea
Had this alias for years and it still works:

alias random-mac='openssl rand -hex 6 | sed '\''s/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'\'' | xargs sudo ifconfig en0 ether'
So you think if you pick a big enough market, then building a billion dollar company with no product differentiation will be trivial?
Always treat third-party systems like they're full of nitroglycerin. Double check all response codes, expect the unexpected, degrade gracefully when it hits the fan. You're always better off serving up a nice 500 error page than spinning forever or returning a false positive to users. And make sure you have a clear SLA with them and can escalate/mitigate/compensate when they don't fulfill it.
Death by metoo hits Toronto startup Planswell
The younger generation can do the same thing the older generation did and buy a house in a cheaper real estate market. It's funny that people feel entitled to buy a house in the most expensive place on earth. I think a lot of the people who bought houses for 100k in California in the 1970s would not have expected to buy a condo at the same time on 5th Ave in Manhattan (for instance). It's a recent phenomena that young people feel they should own property in world cities.
+1 for UptimeRobot. Learned about it right here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576250
I use ext4 with my distributed async-to-async JSON database: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy/wiki/Storage

You can try it here: http://root.rupy.se

The actual syncing is done over HTTP with Java though so maybe that's why it works well for me.
Documentation and templates and placeholder assets.
If only we would have spent $6 billion on nuclear energy research rather than on the Large Hadron Collider.
I thought we were talking about FP paradigm, not the language, and the Typed data concept which includes compile time type validations, type inference.

And also I'm pretty sure TypeScript has union, intersections, tuples, record which are pretty much ADTs.
What a horrific dark UX pattern.
Hey, this unsolicited feedback is great — so much that I already implemented an arrow to signal there's content, can be clicked, and disappears as soon as you scroll down.

Thanks a lot for this comment, really.

Here's a demo GIF:

https://imgur.com/a/YywdM2i

(You can also go to the home page again and do a hard script refresh, CMD + SHIFT + R on macOS Chrome.)
You can't live inside of Apple stock.

Well, I suppose you might be able to make some kind of structure if you had enough physical stock certificates...
Python vs. Common Lisp, Workflow and Ecosystem
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. If you'd please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd greatly appreciate it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular, please keep generational spats off HN. Those are inherently vapid and possibly the most tedious kind of flamewar we see here, though I think there might be a three-way tie with bicycle-vs.-car wars and diet wars.
It's not a windfall if you live there for 35 years and don't sell. It's just your home.
> how UPS differentiates themselves from FedEx.

Wikipedia will tell you that UPS started as a parcel delivery service in the early 20th century. Naturally it was ground based and evolved that way.

FedEx was founded in the 70s as a technology driven startup with the idea of using planes for delivery.

FedEx was UPS for Express Deliveries. X for Y.
> When they try to make housing more affordable, it becomes dramatically less affordable.

Zoning law (the biggest factor in restricting new housing growth) was never about making housing more affordable, it was supposed to be about quality of life (and many times was actually about racism, see redlining era)
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of egotists.
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.acti...
They should make it illegal to stab people then. Problem solved.
tinder for weed. somebody did tinder for weed. that's got to be the most young californian thing ever.
I'm sure the politicians responsible will campaign that they "stood up to a tax evading landlord."
greenbuildingadvisor is a tremendous resource that laser-focuses on getting the important little details right. Finehomebuilding is also good.
This problem has been solved for years, and yet no platforms implement it: K-Means Clustering

https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-k-means-cluster...

The property "interesting" is an individual decision. A forum like HN could implement K-Means Clustering instead of having dang madly moderating stuff. Over time, those HN users interested in "technologically interesting stuff" would aggregate together, and generally only see posts that are "voted up" by others in their cluster.

All the other crap would be seen by all those HN users that migrated over from 8chan.

The problem with this, of course, is that HN would be full of all sorts of sickening crap that you and I would never see (or, at least, until a small sampling of us saw it, and all down-voted it into the 8chan netherworld).

The great thing about this -- the FBI, et.al. would have much better tools to do their jobs: they could troll these seedy underbellies of HN, etc., and actually spear-phish and destroy the scum that is posting repellent garbage.

Or, we could carry on doing what we're doing, even though it can't work. Our choice.
> In recent years, younger, less-educated and lower-income folks have led the exodus from the state ...

Or in other words, Republicans [1]

1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/06/study-finds-republica...
Some lawyers will work on contingency. My wife is an attorney and has done some cases where a large of amount of cash was seized. It's a tough fight, but she has had success recovering assets from the government.
Do you have a link to these analyses?
This article is remiss in not mentioning how Jarvis et al. also got commercial property included in Prop 13. With many commercial properties held in trusts and corporations, the ownership never "changes" and generations of beneficiaries pay a pittance in taxes on incredibly valuable real estate. San Francisco, in particular, strikes me as a city awash in properties that haven't changed hands in generations because even a crappy old warehouse practically mints income.

Thankfully, Californians have the opportunity to correct this giveaway with a vote for a split-roll in 2020[0].

[0]https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Change-in-Calif...
A more direct question would be "Why should a potential customer choose you over $established_competitor_x?"

If your best answer is "We are adding diversity to the marketplace", then you're probably doomed. If you aren't better in some way (faster, cheaper, better tech, etc...) then people are going to naturally gravitate towards the incumbent who has already shown some staying power and has infrastructure in place that you do not.
Not trivial, but very possible with a lot of hard work.

Let's say you want to start a new grocery store chain and compete with Safeway. Differentiating your product (e.g. Trader Joe's) is one way, but another way is to just build new grocery stores where people want them and they don't already exist.
I just tell people that my neighborhood also has multiple grocery stores
Only gets you the front scans of the pieces, not the contents. Also only shows in transit (doesn't enumerate the facility where the scan was taken or the data/time of the capture), not delivery confirmation if the sender did not pay for and request that service. Great start though, I hope USPS expands on it for contents. I'd rather give them my money instead of a third party processor.
That only ensures the programmer fixes the pointer before dereference.

Tagged pointers that don’t make it to the bus are still a compatibility problem. It means malloc() can’t return an address overlapping the tagged bits.
How do you plan to optimize for the increased NUMA overhead?
Wow, this is such a good recommendation. And they're already in booklet PDF format — ready for printing. Huge thanks Lev, I'll definitely print some of these. Feel like I've got a lot to learn from what's on them (e.g., https://jvns.ca/strace-zine-v3-print.pdf).
How Lyft differentiates from Uber might be more on the nose.
You need to be able to answer that. The answer can be no, and saying why will only help demonstrate your understanding of your business and the market.
Akka also provides some CRDT based distributed data capabilities:

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/distributed-data...
Red Dragon was always going to be one way, as a lander for some notional science payload. It was still a bit harebrained because it wasn't clear how to deploy that payload, whether rover or other, through the hatch. (I think I once saw a slide that had a subsurface drill deployed from inside the capsule by drilling through the heat shield.)
Looks super cool. Thanks for sharing I'll take a deep look at these.
I carry a pocket knife because it occasionally comes in handy. Opening a box, trimming a loose thread, picking a piece of spinach out of my teeth. Those are all good and lawful reasons, but I don’t think they’d be good enough for the Brits.

(I also carry a concealed handgun because someday it might come in extremely handy, but that’s a whole different kettle of fish.)
FWIW - if you just want to make sure your services are up - consider:

1) pagerduty.com or uptimerobot.com for remote monitoring to make sure you site(s) are up (and get alerts when they're not).

2) Datadog or New Relic if you want deeper monitoring (application performance, database performance, diagnostics/debugging.

3) Rollbar.com (site doesn't seem to respond) for site performance/errors.

4) Roll your own with Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/, or Nagios (https://www.nagios.org/)/IcingA. Or... strangely - I still use MRTG for a few perf monitoring things: https://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

5) If you want to monitor the status of deploys/builds - I love integrating CI/CD systems with Slack - very helpful.

Hope that helps - I've spent a lot of my career monitoring things, and have this mantra that I need to know about services down before customers call to tell me same.

(a lot of these have free tiers)
The fix works perfectly for me, glad I could help! Your sketches are fantastic.
Ive struggled with this for years. AWS is not foolproof and with environments for web, Android, amd ios availability gremlins have killed much of my spirit despite users proclaiming how they've been looking like a service like mine for yrs.

Docker, elastic beanstalk, SNS, and the hidden world of AWS instance performance are all a PITA. Oh yea, certs...

Welcome help as well.
All of these companies were started between 50 and 150 years ago, when there was much less competition. These days you need a better story for how you're going to win a market and keep it.
> If people were using BTC for its intended purpose (transferring money to and from people they don't trust) it'd be brilliant and it'd have a much more minimal environmental impact.

Making BTC transactions is the very thing that costs electricity in the BTC network. If no one made any BTC transactions today, then no blocks would be added and every miner and node would be idle.
Reading the article and trying to think of different startup ideas. Gets a non-closable (AFAIK) modal that covers the whole screen force you to go back. Maybe a startup idea that helps entrepreneurs grow without adapting to bad UX behaviour is a great idea that needs attention
I recall learning of the z80000 (via a datasheet) in '88, but never managed to find a machine using it.

I know of machines designed and built with the z8000, but I've only heard of the z80000 being used for embedded devices (possibly one main customer?).

Are you able to provide a reference to an actual general purpose computer built around the z80000?
> The economy as a whole would be better off by managing housing values to not be out of line with median incomes of any given area.

I don't think anyone serious about this topic can disagree the economy would be hugely benefitted if the bay area built a massive amount of housing, particularly around transit corridors.

Despite this, it continues to not happen.
Which specific companies surprise you? Employees selling their RSUs is a drop in the bucket vs the market cap.
I find that we use CRDT's quite often in the form of append-only sets (formally a G-Set). Rather than choose the CRDT specifically, we've seen that an append-only set was the natural choice for a particular need and then we identified the commutative and idempotent properties of the operation. Once identified, we leverage them for scale.

One good example is processing items in an SQS queue, where (without enabling FIFO) there is no guarantee of ordering. With a G-Set you can read and merge batches of items (and retry naively) without affecting the outcome.
>> But would the Congolese have had electron microscopes but for Belgian colonialism?

> Probably yes.

Probably not, if you understand how "non integrating gap countries" work.
Conservative viewpoints are political ideals. Scams are scams. If you don't make that distinction, then Ponzi schemes become protected speech.

There's also a clear (direct) profit motive, and it's depriving people of property. There's lots of ways this argument changes. When you censor political views, you're depriving people of their rights. Shutting out a swindler isn't even close to the same thing.
Irrelevant. If you sign a contract then you have to abide by it. You don't get to pick and choose.

Furthermore your claim that there are no alternatives in some general areas is simply false. I defy you to identify a single residential area in the US where there are no non-HOA properties within 50 miles. Sure you might have to pay more or drive further but there are always alternatives.
Today in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/06/ok-boo...
Year old mining CEO explains the future of crypto mining
Oh, my mistake! Will do in the future. :) Thank you for pointing this out!
I'll mark it on the calendar.
non-primary residences as well as commercial properties are also covered by it. It's about wealth, not about keeping someone in their home.
Ok, we've turned the partners into API users.
Blockbuster use to rent consoles. But in general the market for that sort of service is capped by the relatively low cost of said consoles. Plus you have the problem of everything being tied to an account these days.

Maybe on the PC side you could have a guy loaning out his rig with his monster Steam library and VR setup. On a small scale this might be a modest success, but it's hard to see it ever becoming the next Uber/AirBNB.
My political views are pro-taxation and pro-public services. (Except we should have the Swedes or Singaporeans come over to run our public services.) Which is why I think waging a class war against billionaires for a piddling $275 billion in additional revenue, while not increasing taxes on people making up to $250,000, is pure insanity. European countries have figured out how to pay for public services with middle class taxes. We should follow their lead instead of dreaming about wealth taxes.

Also, I used “confiscate” in the context of literally taking all of billionaires’ money.
it speaks to a general problem of ML systems. Real-world problems are open-ended and a system that cannot reason about what it sees but merely applies object classification is completely clueless and won't reach a level of fidelity that is needed for safety.

I'm increasingly convinced that virtually every unstructured problem in the physical world is an AI-hard problem and we won't be seeing fully autonomous driving for decades.
As far as winning the market goes, actual product differentiation doesn't matter that much. In their particular market it almost all boils down to how much the rides cost. I usually just open both apps and pick the cheaper one.
I think there is a straightforward solution to the housing crisis, and it’s not building more houses and squeezing more and more people into the same limited space. At least for Big Tech, which seems to be the focus of the problem, the solution would be telecommuting. As a software engineer, there is no reason whatsoever for me to go to an office. I can do whatever I do from anywhere in the world as long as I have a decent internet connection. Yet I’m forced to live in an expensive place just because of some old pre-hitech mentality that expects me to be in an office.
Yah Reason.com? really? The same rag that towed the line to destroy net neutrality? find me a better source and I'll buy it.

https://reason.com/tag/ajit-pai/
Really depends on the school, luckily the public high school I attended was high ranking and it was in sort of a company town. Despite that, I recall one week in 9th grade when two upper-class football players tried to shake me down for lunch money several days in a row. Since I played dumb and told them that I brought my lunch (a lie) they lost interest after a few days. I didn't report it, and I'd been exposed to enough stuff in middle school that I didn't dwell on it.
Emergency vehicles need to get through. The flimsy plastic covers can just be rammed once the barriers are down.
Where did all those hackers go?

No idea, they ransomware.
Depends on the case, but as far as I can tell, most of the time comments are flagged and removed, it's because too many people disagreed with the poster (including the HN moderators), rather than somebody spamming the site, so yeah, a lot of the moderation here is censorship in any way you could define it. You see this over and over again on public forums: a means of controlling spammers who are not actually participating in what the forum was designed for is introduced and is immediately abused by people who want to limit actual participation.