skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know. Again, I read the full report. I don't think "Harmful" is an accurate summary of their position either. (At least in a layman's sense of the term; it may very well be the correct category from the perspective of Mozilla's formal standards position process.)

The more detailed summary in the full report says:

> There is a lot to consider with web packaging. Many of the technical concerns are relatively minor. There are security problems, but most are well managed. There are operational concerns, but those can be overcome. It’s a complex addition to the platform, but we can justify complication in exchange for significant benefits.

> [...]

> Big changes need strong justification and support. This particular change is bigger than most and presents a number of challenges. The increased exposure to security problems and the unknown effects of this on power dynamics is significant enough that we have to regard this as harmful[1] until more information is available.

> We’re actively working to understand this technology better. The Internet Architecture Board are organizing a workshop that aims to gather information about the bigger questions. That workshop is specifically structured to collect input from the publishing community. The technical details of the proposal will also be discussed at upcoming IETF meetings. Based on what we learn through these processes and our own investigation, we might be able to revise this position.

(Source: https://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2019/06/mozilla.p...)

That doesn't sound "harmful" to me, it just sounds like they're skeptical, and possibly a bit confused. The meat of their concerns also seem to be primarily political, not technical.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions
Quite a few other countries simply ship people back as soon as they are found to have violated their visas, or if they lacked a visa. These are normal democratic countries with advanced economies. I’ve seen people given hours to days to settle their stuff (sell or give away property) and leave. That’s an alternative.
If you look into power over ethernet surveillance cameras there are lots of options that are standalone devices not associated with any specific cloud service. You then have to get some software that can receive the stream from the camera and do something with it (records, motion detection, etc.). It's not nearly as plug and play as going with something like Ring, but I also think that's expected when you are wanting something that gives the user more control.
It's less that and more of the underlying technologies that make up those tools are what surface in the CUR. For instance, you want to know how much you're spending on ElasticBeanstalk. How do you do that? The easiest way is to just get a cost broken down by AMI, then look at the AMIs that are EB (though not the best solution it works most of the time). AI/ML tools do the same. It's hard to break them out (hence why tagging is so important).
In dictator-land, you first have to remove the dictator. You still have to actually solve the problem after removing the dictator.

It's easy to say "the dictator is bad" but historically getting rid of dictators without a specific and concrete plan for what to do afterwards has not turned out so well.
I once caught dashcam footage of a hit and run. Clearly see the license plate, the vehicle occupant - easy case closed stuff. Called the local non-emergency number for the police station and they wouldn't even give me a place to send the footage, much less do anything about the fleeing driver. Had I been smarter, I would have given it to the insurance company of the car that had been hit - but lesson learned for next time.

Footage does nothing to deter people and it has no consequences. It can only be used against the interest of common people - because stopping crime does not lead to meaningful profit. Selling security devices to folks, charging per the hour for security checkpoints, selling x-ray machines, well, that's very profitable - but you can't do those things when nobody is concerned. Harvesting data, selling facial profiles - again, profitable, extremely so.
My guess is that they're using a boilerplate ToS, as the app looks relatively new.
> The purpose of SXG is to allow publisher signing of edge-cache accelerated public content

Is there a rule that SXG content can't contain forms or sth?
«the entire AMP approach to doing this is questionable»

Why? AMP is roughly speaking a subset of HTML that's somewhat easier to cache, and nothing more. Ideally it should be possible and encouraged to serve most webpages from a cache, to optimize Internet traffic on the global scale. It should be okay to fetch them from a cache without breaking anything. I don't see why the AMP Cache is hated so much. Publishers shouldn't care whether browsers hit their servers or some third-party cache, as long as they can have proper analytics. And guess what? AMP does provide a way to do proper analytics. You can even send analytics data to an in-house URL: https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-analytics/#send... I think most of the hate against AMP in unjustified. Any search engine could decide to cache AMP content.[1] AMP in and of itself doesn't give search engines "more control" over the web (whatever that means), it just makes the web easier to cache for everyone, all search engines, all end-users.

Edit: [1] not only Google caches it, Bing does it too: https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...
How do you know about the merch or Patreon? Do they not even tell you about it?

Because if they do, that's an ad.
Anon didn’t downvote you, when you reply to somebody they can’t downvote your direct reply (but can proceed to downvote further down the chain if need be).

I wasn’t the person who downvoted you either.
It's a-typical. Make prices lower for customers, resulting in same or more revenue for the middle man (Getty, et al.) while screwing the producers.

Eventually, good photographers will leave.

Getty should be compensating lower prices by taking lesser share from the producers.
The indiegogo funded camect is pitched as a private 'cloud optional' recorder. The beta unit I have is cloud connected but the final release has the option to be fully local. It has a lot of neat features like identifying people/ups trucks/cars/etc.

It only has a webbased client, but I kind of like it and the beta version has been way better than any of the cheap dvr trash that big box stores sell.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/camect-world-s-smartest-m...
Looks like a pretty good idea
I came here to judge - but if there's no way of paying for the adverts to go away (stitcher? maybe spotify (I pay, but don't use it for podcasts)) I have sympathy.

Skeptoid did offer a nice/hacky/old-school solution likely to work with your favourite player - subscribe manually with ~ http://<username>:<password>@<site.com/ad_free_url/>podcasts...

Providing your player lets you put in a URL - it "works" and doesn't require you switching your client.

I do wish there was a slightly more formalized process letting you provide credentials to your app and it sorting this all out for you - but then I'm reluctant to engage in a movement that might f'up the XML+MP3 standards approach that's allowed podcasts to flourish.
I appreciate the work of photographers, but plunking down $500 for a high-res photo and knowing they're going to resell that same photo to others god knows how many more times has always rubbed me the wrong way.

I get there's hardware/time involved in setting up a single photo, but hell, not that much.
This is a really bad take, voting with your dollar works when there’s actually competition. Amazon has an effective monopoly, and we need people to vote with their vote for regulation to protect works.
This is advertising, not news.

So, they put a supercapacitor between the rectifier and the output to stabilize the voltage. This is old technology. The reason why so few cyclists use a dynamo nowadays is not because of the voltage instability, it's because a dynamo slows you down, and because good, long-lasting and rechargeable batteries are ubiquitous.
It's probably not a terrible business model in some regards. However, as a software engineer there - it was miserable. Compensation was crap too. I wouldn't recommend it as a place to work unless you're high up. I think those people got $$$.
That's quite an accusation. Do you have evidence for it?
Last fall, my father asked what I thought about a video on YouTube that took a passage from the Book of Revelation, upcoming astral events from Stellarium, and interpreted them into an end-days prediction.

I said that it held about as much water as predictions based on numerology.

And then he asked what I would think if the astral event happened when and as described in the video.

I said I had no reason to assume Stellarium was wrong, but that the fact of some arrangement of astral bodies doesn't inherently validate any interpretation that the arrangement is significant, nor any subsequent interpretation of what its significance is.
I usually respond to that by asking "What's the most you will pay?" Then I get their lowball answer and tell them that it looks like we can't agree on a price.
You could find a porchcam that connects to a computer you own instead of one that uploads the video to someone else's computer.
So if the opposition only has 5% support, while the establishment has close to 95% support (for the sake of the example).

I'd argue the opposing party 5% support would likely have a matching resource pool of their size. Meaning the establishment might run 95% of all ads as ads supporting the establishment and only 5% of ads would support the opposing party. So I struggle to see how that would help the opposing party?

Obviously, it isn't that cut and dry, but America is a good example actually. Because they have 2 major parties and several third parties. But those third parties never make any meaningful growth even after running ads because they only represent >5% of the available political parties.
Sweden’s ‘Milk War’ is getting udderly vicious
youre not wrong and i may be biased as a long time java guy but if i had to do java without the tooling to make it less annoying , id probably try to switch languages... and this is an independent problem from the other benefits i get from JVM... namely platform (JVM) and ecosystem (open source libraries).
The best way to skip ads in podcasts is to not listen to the podcasts if you don't like the ads. Or, you know, pay the creators.
> Non-cloud camera systems can still upload remotely

I have only talked about cloud based backups, not running the entire system via the cloud. Of course it's best if you have an on-site storage of video material, as well as a (live) off-site backup.

I'm not a proponent of Ring. In fact, I'd never put their hardware into my house. However, there are advantages of putting video footage into the cloud (encrypted or in the clear). Compare this to internet based locks where there are no advantages that can't be done locally as well.
“Pro”
> And you can't simply apply a gonna "all things must be tagged" enforced in the AWS level because some items can't be tagged, or the tagging has to happen after creation (for instance, by SDK/cli, you can't create an ec2 instance with tags.. you make the instance, then tag it. The GUI does this behind the scenes so it looks like one step)

The accepted approach is warn then terminate. Give them an hour and then if nothing's done start the slaughter.
I also encountered this rather big hole in the market. I was looking for a home security system that worked on a local private network with no outside comms, but that apparently doesn't exist. I ended up going with Abode without cameras or their monitoring service (self-monitored), but I'm still not 100% happy with that, since they still store all of your data in the cloud and have permission to disarm your home and so are then an attack vector I'd like to avoid.

I've thought about this a lot and have quite a notebook full of ideas/notes on this: I think there's room in the market for a privacy-focused open-source home security system utilizing micro-controllers (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Adafruit, etc.) and secure cryptographic protocols. You could make revenue assembling pre-built security sensors built from the micro-controller ecosystem, perhaps with good modern aesthetics, but the more security conscious of us could buy and build everything ourselves based on the spec for each sensor.
You might be right, apparently only 4.1% of burglaries involve a lockpick.

https://www.art-of-lockpicking.com/criminals-dont-pick-locks...
"server reports 404, autonomous defense mode activated"
I think Microsoft's engineers would love to, and do wherever possible. But Windows' #1 selling point is backwards-compatibility. It's possible that there's types of security hardening that simply can't be done without breaking large swathes of legacy business software.
my web dev guy tells me I've explicitly told him to delete that feed, so I'm guessing chances are slim. Sorry about that!
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Some interesting ideas here. However, C is being improved in an evolutionary fashion; the latest revision was C18 in 2018. I like languages like this (my favorite is D), but the only C successor language I use is C11 (this is what clang targets; C18 is an incremental minor update to C11 that only fixes errata).

x = t.1; // extract 2nd tuple element (zero origin)

Zero-based indexing in a programming language is not necessarily a dealbreaker but is always a worrying sign about how hard the designer thought their design through. (This does not apply to the design of C, which does not have zero-based indexing; arrays are indexed by offset rather than "from zero".) These are structs with fewer names and less ceremony involved. Why would the first field be "field 0"?
I didn't see anyone mention Wyzecam here. https://wyze.com/
Their models start at $20, the smartphone app is very well done, and you can configure it to record events under various conditions quite easily. Can anyone comment on Wyzecam's data security policy? AFAIK there's no cloud feature that lets it interact with other Wyzecams, and I like that.
Ask HN: What frustrates you most about remote job sites ?
These people aren't fabulously wealthy, that's the pricing they need to be able to sustain themselves.
There's a difference between you manually skipping the ad and the app automatically skipping the ad.
That's definitely a legitimate offsite backup strategy. If your data changes more often than you visit, you may want something more interactive like a Raspberry Pi connected to that external drive that you can send files to.
Yah, but re:wework, throw in a dry cleaning app that schedules a dirty laundry pickup and suddenly the valuation goes from marginal to billions. Especially if you get some machine learning in there to detect spots (or something).
Eufy also offers a wired doorbell with local storage. It was also on sale for $99 over Thanksgiving weekend so I got one to try it out.
That doesn't make it the answer though, just something else that might be beneficial to mention.

As an answer it obscures whether the original question had merit and leaves it unanswered. As something that's included alongside an answer it is superior to an answer alone and to itself alone.

I agree whataboutism can be useful in causing people to reassess their perspective on a topic, but when used haphazardly it can obscure more than clarify (and has been used this way extensively in the past for this purpose).
For at least 12 years :-p

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60806

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
A popular DIY setup: Hikvision cameras & Blue Iris software

Hikvision cameras have the benefit of not being wireless and using Power over Ethernet for people who don't mind running some cable. I think that has a lot of value over a bunch of cameras killing your wifi. Off the shelf cheap routers do poor with a ton of wifi cameras it seems.

Blue Iris can send you mobile alerts without a subscription. All videos are stored locally & it's very configurable.

You could upload alert photos/videos to a cloud provider for cheap off-site hosting if you choose. That way if the bad people destroy your PC you still have video unless they take out your internet. One could setup limited backup internet with a mobile company for this case &/or for when your internet goes out in general. This of course applies equally to Nest/Ring etc.

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Honestly I'm surprised Ring/Nest/etc still charge for storing video footage. At this point I would have figured they would have found one of countless ways to monopolize off the video footage. Most average people seem to be fine with their data being sold if it provides them some value.

I' also wondering when the first services will start to pop up that provide a marketplace for video footage.
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Hey AndrewKemendo, such a great comment, so many points to think about. Thanks for sharing!
Do you own the data? Do the police have access to it? What about Amazon or their partners?

Starting a post with a sentence about how you're a paranoid guy and dislike Big Brother and what-not, and then pivoting to spend multiple paragraphs on how you live in a nice neighborhood and don't mind providing data and surveillance on those around you feels more than a little disingenuous.

Despite (because of?) being an Amazon employee, though one who works nowhere near the Ring, I'd never buy a Ring - and I don't exactly think I'm the most "paranoid guy" about "the surveillance state and whatnot".

Isn't the whole point of the article that the corporate-cop partnerships which are budding here seem distinctly dystopian? Why post all of these positive aspects which -- ostensibly -- exist in competitors (Arlo, maybe?) without the shady downside?
I think it was Tennessee where a dude was dead on the floor for a good 20 minutes. But a week or two earlier, they noticed on the cameras he put an item in the wrong bin when stocking. They told him after about 90 seconds of him doing it.
At the risk of seeming pedantic:

There is a difference between "Apple" and "your device". If there is evidence that Apple is collecting/using location data for some purpose not detailed in their privacy policy and granular settings, then yes, that would be a problem. But that isn't what the info currently available says. It says that the system (device itself) is periodically accessing location data IF location services (globally) are turned on. Seems to me that should be expected...
Funds make money on failed investments too. I'd be happy to throw away someone else's money, if I got to keep 20% as a management fee - and a slice of the profits in case one of my lottery tickets is a winner.
That’s cool. I never played with CDK. One issue I had with using CloudFormation was that when I built the Docker file with a tag of :latest and then ran the CF Template, CloudFormation doesn’t perform any updates because the template didn’t change.

Luckily we use CodeBuild and Octopus Deploy. I was able to use the CodeBuild build number environment variable to tag the Docker container, to specify the Octopus build number and use an Octopus Deploy variable in the CF template to force unique and consistent tags.
You could say the same thing about adblockers in general. It's unfortunately pushed more content creators to put up paywalls and move to subscription-based models.

The smart thing to do with apps like this is to keep it to yourself, but inevitably someone will release one for the masses.
Lost time or job restrictions. It could be true that Amazon is more aggressive about restricting work after an injury resulting in more reports.
> I do wish there was a slightly more formalized process letting you provide credentials to your app and it sorting this all out for you

There is. The app I use, AntennaPod, allows you to specify a username and password for each podcast feed, and iirc, it uses those for good ol' HTTP authentication.
> responded to a man's-name resume that did not respond to an identical resume with a woman's name

If you can demonstrate evidence of this, you absolutely should, because that would be a particularly surprising finding considering how many organizations state upfront that they have preferential hiring for women. I’ve hired software developers for decades, and the resumes are dominated by Indian-sounding names: I don’t know about you, but I usually can’t tell whether those names are masculine or feminine. I’m shocked on the rare occasion I come across a resume with an American sounding name like Jim or Mary.
I feel the exact same way. Although, I got a remobell.

> police don't have default access to it, I'm cool.

That's the only thing that concerns me. Why are people up in arms about this? I mean if it deters people from stealing from you, that's a good thing also it's not pointed inside your house.
That's Luminary's business model, as far as I can tell.
Dan Carlin presents a similar case for treating the time period as one (maybe borrowed from Ferguson). Thanks for reading recommendation.
So get the free content without giving the content provider money or any opportunity to monetize via ads ? And expect that they will give quality content forever ?
you need to be crushed in order to know what is possible. but you should also go against people who are similar/worse than you. ranking systems are good at that.

jiu jitsu is a good example of this. the belt rankings indicate experience/skill and give you an idea of where people are in training. if i just steamroll day-ones it is helpful to a degree. people of similar experience will give me a good fight that will allow us both to make mistakes that we can both capitalize on. but if i get manhandled by higher ranks i can see the possibilities and get ideas for piecing together holes in my game.
The article says that Getty is still deriving most of their revenue from generic stock photos? That was quite surprising to me, since Wikimedia Commons among other sites provides plenty of such images under "free content" licenses (including images in the public domain). Perhaps the typical downstream reuser is unwilling to resort to these for some reason?
Yeah podcasts are one of the few domains I don't find ads intrusive and can't be bothered to care to skip them. Often I find they are more useful and better targeted than web ads, I might not go as far as saying I'm interested in hearing them but it never feels "in the way" of the content I want.
Looks neat, why not try to upstream it to the Go standard library if it's fully compatible?
I think you might be surprised how little of a deterrent surveillance cameras are to package theft. This likely depends on where you live, but in many cities the police won't really do anything about thefts in the value range of a typical package. I have multiple visible cameras on my house and have still had packages taken on a number of occasions by random transients. Even once had a woman come up on our porch, steal a package (put it in a bag she was carrying), and THEN ring our doorbell to see if anyone was home. Meth is a hell of a drug.
Ask HN: How do people verify time put in by contractors?
I have seen a lot of contractors eg designers, consultants post hourly rates for work. I am wondering how do people measure how many hours they actually put in. Is it based on trust, predecided before work, measured in some way?
Ideally, I would have an appliance that recorded from my 6 Ring cameras without going over the internet. But the cost of that in terms of setting up and maintaining a server/software is actually higher than just paying Ring $10/month.

I work making computers do stuff all day, I don't want to futz around with them on my free time. This is also why Apple TV/Tivo has beaten out MythTV in my home.
I wonder if employing some string metric threshold would make sense. It would be interesting to measure the dispersion of names across pypi along some chosen metric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_metric