skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that, because the litigation in ongoing, Snopes is avoiding talking about the details of the case itself as most counsel seems to advise.
But these guys knew the kind of volume they would have on Day 1, and have the resources to get it right, and the brand value to protect. It’s not like a startup that grows like crazy.
These (unconscious processing) moments for me almost always happen in the shower. I'd love to find another ritual that gets me in a similar mindspace.
I do not notice Instagram ads for a simple reason that I am yet to see a single one. It probably has to do with whom I follow: a very limited number of people I personally know, no brands, no influencers, no company grams etc. As a software developer I sometimes wonder what are the thresholds or criteria in Instagram systems to show ads.
If they need replacing less often, then presumably you’d be willing to spend more on them, so do I infer that they are sufficiently more expensive to wipe out the benefits of greater reliability?
It really is just calories_in - calories_burned. If you change your eating habits and now eat less you have reduced calories_in. If you changed your eating habits and it boosted your metabolism you've increased calories_burned.
People very concerned about this should spend some time reading ${opposing political group} social media. As you'll discover, people will believe what suits them. Veracity is of remarkably little interest to a remarkably high percentage of the population. Most people, and this is not an exaggeration, would sooner kill/die than change their mind. And if that's true, then consider the mental acrobatics individuals are willing to go through before they even reach that point.
Ask HN: Why are so many companies changing their privacy policy suddenly?
I'm curious if there was a policy mandate similar to GDPR that recently came into effect. So many companies have sent communications to notify users of the updates to their policies but I don't see anything in the changes to justify it.

Does anyone have an idea of why it would be the case? The time period is roughly from the start of November 2019.
Show HN: On-demand data from Web Services, right in your spreadsheet
Next best thing: https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick
First of all, congrats on forming the alliance!

> Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data

That's what we are working towards on Wasmer, the server side WebAssembly runtime - https://wasmer.io/

In fact, we already have a lot of different language integrations (maintained by us and the community) and our software is the pioneer on the space.
Is there any reason on why you think is a good idea to do a side-alliance instead of collaborating with us and the community so users and developers can be the ultimate beneficiaries? (it's good, it just seems is not an alliance made for the users, which it's a bit weird from my perspective)
> Time will tell if they permit all such ads or only the ones that they prefer.

This has already been answered. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/tech/facebook-california-cand...

> Adriel Hampton, a political activist, registered as a candidate for California's 2022 gubernatorial election on Monday so he could take advantage of Facebook's policy allowing politicians and political candidates to run false ads on the platform.

> On Tuesday evening, a Facebook (FB) spokesperson told CNN Business, "This person has made clear he registered as a candidate to get around our policies, so his content, including ads, will continue to be eligible for third-party fact-checking."

The rules will be enforced arbitrarily only when FB wants.
Hiccups – frequent in neonates – provide afferent input to the developing brain
It’s not just the blogosphere that is dying because of this „trick“. Some bigger mainstream media houses (at least in Germany) do the same thing to their news. They change the date and headline so often that you happen to click the same news several times in one or two weeks, only to realize „oh, that again, but with a totally misleading headline“
Important part:

>What about patient data? All of Google’s work with Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations (including HIPAA) regarding patient data, and come with strict guidance on data privacy, security and usage. ... To be clear: under this arrangement, Ascension’s data cannot be used for any other purpose than for providing these services we’re offering under the agreement, and patient data cannot and will not be combined with any Google consumer data.
If she was on the board of a publication that promoted teacher's unions and left-wing ideology this would not be news. However she promoted charter schools and is anti-socialism, so therefore it's a big storm in the Twitter-verse.

I for one love capitalism and would rather send my child to a charter rather than the high school near my apartment, where the Dean of Peace Relations was recently convicted for attempted murder of a student he recruited to deal drugs.[0]

People without any means are forced to send their children to the monopoly school if they can't afford private and there are no charters. School choice is always preferable.

[0] https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/31/shaun-harrison-guilty-b...
@sixo @numlocked I'd be happy to share more about Snowflake's
architecture. As others mentioned in this thread, Snowflake completely separates storage from compute -- eliminating Redshift scaling issues.

Drop me a message, would love to chat.

william.ladow@snowflake.com
That seems like a lot. Snowflake typically cuts Redshift bills in half if you are hitting limits with RS
Have we reached peak advice? a.k.a. why we need to stop telling CEOs what to do
But this is exactly the tactic Snopes uses to be able to flip a fact check answer.

In this case, the original claim could have been "most" or "5 out of 6", and changing it to "all" is an easy way to post that big red x.
Spain recognized independence of Mapuche Nation after more than one hundred years of war [1][2].

Chile and Argentina started a war campaign against them [2][3][4]. The Mapuches call it the Last Massacre (La última masacre in Spanish)[1].

[1] https://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/html/m_nation/main/m_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Desert
That looks extremely promising!
Hi all -- its been a long journey, but wanted to share our app that makes remote data accessible as a custom function in Excel/Google Sheets. In addition to Python/Node.js we have a handful of nocode function packs for various web services, but happy to do some free coding if there are some specific integrations you'd like to use. :-) For fun, here's a Hacker News one: https://www.flex.io/integrations/hackernews Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated.
I’m wishing there was a search engine that was not filled with ads that does not suck.

And don’t give me duckduckgo, that one regularly ranks spam domains and typo domains higher than the real results
Texas a&M and Simon Fraser Universities Open-Source RL Toolkit for Card Games
It's a hard problem. The bearings that rotate the azipods are huge, carry the entire propulsive force of the ship as an angled side load on the bearing, are below the water line, and are holding something that goes through the hull. Look at one of those things, think about the stresses, and wince.

Bearings with huge side loads are rarely used, because they wear badly.
Ordinary ship screws are on a straight shaft through the stern, with a thrust bearing and seal. Far simpler, and solved a century ago. On the other hand, if you haven't solved the bearing and seal problems of propulsion pods, you shouldn't be selling propulsion pods.

"Ship early, ship often" gives you a terrible reputation in the heavy machinery business. There was once a saying in the railroad equipment business - "Never buy equipment from somebody in a better climate than yours." The good railway equipment manufacturers were in upstate New York, and over-designed everything. Which is what you want when a snowplow has to force the ice off the tracks, and devices in the trackway need to survive that. That's why you see railroad equipment packaged in half inch thick cast iron boxes.[1] That's from General Railway Signal in Rochester, NY.

[1] https://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/541/sintonswitch....
As David mentioned, check out the desktop app for local device storage at https://get.draw.io
I didn't say that all religious people were like that.

I said religious people that just listen to what a religious figure says and believes it are. Which is what we were discussing happened with the Aztecs. If a christian does it it's also ignorant.

What you describe isn't ignorance. Stop trying to make me seem unreasonable by distorting my arguments.
European technology was just that much more advanced. It's like joining a game of Civ around turn 60 when your opponents have already researched, traded, and discovered a bunch of tech. When your civilizations meet you will just not have a chance. The whole mediterranean was a meeting grounds for dozens of civilizations, if not more, where for millenia people traded goods and technologies. It was really a matter of luck that the ancestors of the Aztecs picked a far away land that was tough to farm and little animals to domesticate, and no one else around to share information with.
This is by far the most compelling pitch I have heard Yelp give for itself: “The big companies are full of spam and misinformation, while we take the time to get reviews right.” It is hard not wonder just how much more popular Yelp’s product might be if this message were spread as stridently as its anti-Google arguments.

If only it were that simple. Yelp does not personally review reviews. Nobody from Yelp has ever called me to make sure I got my review right and I wasn't being unreasonable. Ensuring that reviews aren't spam is an algorithmic problem. Yes Yelp has some features which provide hints to the algorithm but at the end of the day it's about ML. For every upvote from a fellow reviewer on Yelp, Google has 100 other data points on me as a reviewer. So who is going to get the algo right, Yelp, or Google?

My personal experience has been that 4.2 stars on Google means the meal will be good, 5 stars on Yelp means it's a trendy trap with bad food and worse service which I will not enjoy.

Go figure.
MTN's instant messaging platform has reached 1M active users
It's nearly impossible to us Instagram now without the app. You can't watch videos, and you can probably view one image before getting goaded into getting the app IME.
You're mostly just inconveniencing your postal carrier. They throw that stuff out.
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> but I don’t understand why there’s such a fervent backlash against it

Because it’s often both overreaching, ineffective, and/or harmful to unrelated things. See: the war on drugs, gay marriage until the last decade, etc, etc.

The more you do at the federal level, the more fallout it’s going to have and the harder it’s going to be to fix.

> and one particular party has let it be known they’re open for business in that respect.

This is a strawman to help delegitimize people who are against particular regulations for philosophical reasons. I don’t recommend repeating it if you want actual discussions. It’s like claiming most of the pro-choice movement is driven by the abortion industry.
Politics is full of bad actors, I do not think Warren is one of those people. You can disagree with her, sure, but she just wants to create fairness for all in my opinion.

Facebook is the opposite of this, with their closed systems, back door dealings and often shady business practices it makes perfect sense that they are opposed to her.
Netflix is trying to draw your attention away from the fact that they are constantly losing licensed content by conditioning you to expect a random assortment on each open. Because Disney owns its content they want to condition you to trust that the content you want is always there whenever you want to watch it. The UXs match the business models.
Somebody explain this to me, as I've never worked at a large company. Facebook has tens of thousands of employees. How is more not known about the extent that they track you like this (and other slimy practices)? I imagibe if somebody leaks something it would be impossible to pinpoint who exactly did so. Does really nobody whistleblow?
Buying Netflix? I think Netflix is going to start a steady decline as the content owners continually pull their stuff from Netflix for their own streaming services. The Netflix original stuff, let's be honest, is hit or miss, with most of the movies being a hard miss.
Highly Floatable Superhydrophobic Metallic Assembly for Aquatic Applications
At some point, I actually paid for LucidChart for a year.

Last time I used it, before switching to draw.io, it became slow to the point of being unusable once you had a few pages in a document. And I was making an animation where each page showed the next step in a process, so there were a lot of pages.

This was a couple of years ago, so things may have changed since.

My diagrams may have a bunch of elements on them, but I don't think I use any advanced features (irrespective of whether it's Visio, LucidChart or draw.io). From that perspective, these isn't much difference between any of these programs, so there's just no reason to use a paid product.
What’s better than TripAdvisor for finding sights and experiences?

Very much not a rhetorical question.
Ask HN: What is your ML stack like?
How did your team build out AI/ML pipelines and integrated it with your existing codebase? For example, how did your backend team(using Java?) work in sync with data teams (using R or python?) to have minimal rewriting/glue code as possible to deploy models in production. What were your architectural decisions that worked, or didn't?

I'm currently working to make an ML model written in R work on our backend system written in Java. After the dust settles I'll be looking for ways to streamline this process.
I love Telegram. And Signal.
Er, I read through the article and I'd agree with Snopes on this one. They present a pretty good argument. If you change the claim to 5/6 it becomes technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but the nuance that Snopes presents in the article is extremely compelling for why it is mostly false. Three of those 5 impeachments didn't even make it out of committee to go in front of the house, they were only introduced (and any rep can introduce anything crazy they'd like, including articles of impeachment) and one of the impeachments was Nixon which had bipartisan support.
So, essentially, they are asking the readers to finance the founders' bad divorce fallout? And present it as a First Amendment issue? Nice move for a respected fact checker and truth gatekeeper.
After reading the comments here, I decided to give Metabase[0] a shot. Awesome analysis tool. Very impressed. Works even with large SQLite databases.

[0]:https://www.metabase.com/
California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect next year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac...
A similar article seems to have gotten de-prioritized pretty quickly yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504985

What is the hnews policy for when "politics" collides with "tech"? These articles are only going to be more common as the election approaches.
Australian native population did not have land rights until 1970-1979 [1]

[1] https://indigenousrights.net.au/timeline/1970-79
Software Freedom Podcast #2 about KDE with Lydia Pintscher
More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
Often the merchant directs me to the middleman, in travel search.
CockroachDB 19.2
>2. Noise: No way around it.

"The Low-boom Flight Demonstration mission has two goals: 1) design and build a piloted, large-scale supersonic X-plane with technology that reduces the loudness of a sonic boom to that of a gentle thump; and 2) fly the X-plane over select U.S. communities to gather data on human responses to the low-boom flights and deliver that data set to U.S. and international regulators."

https://www.nasa.gov/X59
Ever tried travelling to the US? If you look for the ESTA site the official site looks less legit than the scam sites.
Dragging the canvas around with the middle mouse button seems much more intuitive in draw.io to me.
This is a TEXTBOOK case of fake news - a newspaper owned by Google competitor spinning purchase of space on encrypted Cloud Storage and Google Apps productivity suite as a big medical data mining attempt by Google to drive a political agenda.

There are obvious concerns around data security here, but the article is very heavily distorting facts to drive outrage.
On the engineering compensation factor, I interviewed with BAMTech (the successor to MLB [Major League Baseball] Advanced Media and the underlying video streaming platform for Disney) a few years ago. Their comp was considerably lower than Netflix. I got the impression they expected you to be willing to work for less because you were working on something related to MLB.
The smiley at the end of ryandrake’s post makes me think that they are very well aware of SABRE and hinting at it.
Those are both illegal as well, and the employees who did that would be held personally liable.
The term “Death Star” was also a play on the product’s marketing name of “Deskstar”, so it wouldn’t make sense for any other drive.
I've bought several products as a result of Instagram ads. They are usually related to companies I follow or interests I have, like camping or some household goods. But I don't hate the ads. They are easy to scroll past and I don't have to engage with them. They don't seem too intrusive and sometimes they are interesting products to look at.
Let me try this with even less snark: No one who replied actually knew if paideic meant it.
Not only for "find something". Google is everyone's launchpad, people google 'facebook' to go there, or really any question that the cumbersome mobile interface does not make easy to answer.
The hardware support is thin, so it makes sense to run it in a VM. I run mine inside VMWare ESXi, which has excellent hardware support. I give all the storage to the OpenSolaris VM, which in turn re-exports iSCSI volumes that are used by the other VMs. Solaris's iSCSI daemon is rock-solid, as is their CIFS server. It's miles ahead of the network storage daemons available for Linux. And of course it's all backed by ZFS.
Hulu is dogshit technically, I would hope that Disney+ doesn’t hit a line of Hulu code.
AT&T Exec Predicted the Smartphone in 1953
Is anyone else getting errors retrieving AWS IAM policies?
It's the Peter Principle in action. Facebook promoted them to their level of incompetence.
Americans simply have no idea how (relatively) straightforward and simple their model of property purchase, sale and ownership are.

In Ireland you get this letter in 8 point font from a company with no phone number demanding 1000 euro for ground rent and threatening you with legal action....AND it turns out to be completely legitimate because The Earl of Blah Blah and the Archbishop of such and such owned your ground rent until 1978 (when the Irish government finally ended the feudal system) and they sold it to some shifty operator who now collects and you're in arrears on your 11 euro per year since then and they've added admin charges...oh and you can buy out your ground rent, but you have to fill out a 12 page form and make sure you don't pay them unless you've confirmed they're the sole rights holder and if you forget to pay and the lease expires (you know because the solicitor forgot to mention the 275 year lease was expiring or something) then they own your house OR you have to pay them 1/8th of the value to claw back the house you bought perfectly legitimately.

Mild hyperbole here.
yes, I thought the same :)
Google is indeed the seed if its own "death" (being overly dramatic). The web has changed because of it and searching is now both annoying and irrelevant since websites have a lot less value now that everything is rigged.
If you treat it as a binary claim, then you could argue it is false. A more accurate description would be "Mostly True" as 5 out of 6 is a large majority.

Republicans may well have tried to impeach every Democrat president. I have no idea. If that is the case, then I hope Snopes has an article fact checking it in a fair way.
Breitbart being a trusted Facebook news source was kind of jaw dropping.
This works for many kinds of writing. I often tell people who are trying to work on their website copy to do this. Otherwise your mind comes up with too many objections and you don't get anything done. ;-)
As a data scientist (startup / Yahoo) turned product manager (4 startups), I've used a variety of stacks in the past - from plain SQL, to Mode, to Mixpanel, Looker, Interana, and Hive.

Recently we started using PopSQL (https://popsql.com) and love it.

When I don't have a dedicated data team, my philosophy is:

1) Make it difficult to get wrong answers

- Don't use Google Analytics. It's too easy to generate incorrect charts, and too difficult to verify them.

- Have a limited sandbox of reports for non-SQL writers

- Keep the SQL close to the report, so it's easy to verify the underlying query.

- Push people to learn even basic SQL

2) Make it quick and easy to ask iterative questions
- PopSQL is way faster than Mode. Like 20x faster.

3) For metrics that matter (e.g. KPIs), instrument them directly and even build a custom analytics dashboard if it's important. (beware dashboard clutter! https://twitter.com/andrewchen/status/1193619877489192961 )
A friend worked had a government contractor as a client that had to use a specific, 8-9 part carbon form because the form was referenced in law and had to be used. Due to other issues, the law couldn’t be amended.

At some point, it became difficult to get a printer and paper that would work with that many imprints!
They did do all that.
I will at my two cents:

I've been very happily using Restic and B2 for a long time. It's cheaper than the unlimited service given I have ~600GB stored. Plus, it's a "real" backup: on-going series of snapshots, older files are not replaced when a new back up is made, I can restore from as many points in time that I want to store, and I don't have to worry about Backblaze deleting anything due to inactivity.

One underrated feature of Restic is tagging, which lets you identify a collection of snapshots. I can point multiple separate backups and devices to the same repository tracked with tags; thus, I de-dupe across all of them.
Not at all... Just that there's a great deal of nuance that goes into many of these Snopes articles that is designed to flip the question so that it might be answered in a favorable way.

Just covering an opposing viewpoint doesn't mean it's covered in a neutral way.
Found out about them on HN, 10 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18904648

Glad to see the their progress
I am shocked that this is news. A business person is critical of a politician. Who cares? Would this be news if, say, the head of Apple News was critical of Donald Trump?
Why would they want to be fully working on day 1. At day 5, yes.

But before that, it's great marketing:

Our platform is too popular to handle demand currently, is the message
I guess that’s one way to look at it. Another would be “metrics” or whatever companies sell nowadays to make money. Isn’t a credit card with an address not enough?