skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you, but looking at this from the perspective of a middle manager, especially a lower ranking one, rather than a shareholder or senior leadership view, it starts to make sense and isn't quite as cynical. A single IC or low ranking manager leaving a large or middle sized company will probably have no effect on the company ROI, but could seriously affect that managers goals. Outside of that the manager has a personal relationship and perhaps sees themself as a mentor to the employee that leaves, so they might take it as a personal loss even if they entirely understand the reason for departure.
Wow, you're pretty easily upset. Was Mozilla alive for you before this?

Their privacy policy is pretty straightforward:
https://nextdns.io/privacy

Not saying this is going to be good, but at least I'm going to withhold judgement until I've got more data.

> They also aren't at scale, and have to learn lessons the hard way with outages.

Is that a reason you're upset about? Is that a certainty? I don't get it.
OK, maybe my gold example was not so good. But in what way is Google licensed? The lyrics in text format do not exist. So the 'rights owners' license something that provably does not exist and they do not have? That is valid how? Which means the license covers a process Google is allowed to apply to the recording. Since Google gets stolen lyrics I doubt their license covers that.
Ask HN: Tools to run, manage, track SaaS service deployments?
Every multi-tenant SaaS or PaaS (cloud) needs to track which user deployed which services, when, for how long. I'm seeking existing technology to do this.

Features:

* specify what services are available

* for each service specify the deployment steps (e.g. script) for creating, starting, stopping, checking health, removing a service

* upon user request or some other trigger, schedule a service's deployment steps

* execute and monitor status of deployment steps

* should have a cli and/or REST API

* track deployment status in a database for easy persistence

* run periodic health checks

My preference is to have a Python component, perhaps a Django app, but I'm open to any other implementation that is easily docker deployable. I have already implemented a Django app because last time I checked there were no ready made tools available. Not sure if I should continue investing in it.

PS: I know there are some potentially applicable tools, but they are either too specific in use case (e.g. rancher, terraform), or too complex (e.g. puppet, chef).
Open Sorce C# 2D ( Game Engine)
Only because Atlassian abandoned HipChat after trying to replace it.
What's the point of tribalism? It's a natural human tendency to be protective of what's close to your heart and reject things you're unfamiliar with.

Every single HN post about either Emacs, IntelliJ, Vim, VSCode, or Atom always gets riddled with disingenuous comments of people who liked one thing more than other things. Things they either haven't tried or had some cursory experience with them.

These tools are very individual [just like toothbrushes], for someone Emacs offers something that IntelliJ or VSCode can't, for others - nothing is better than Vim.

To truly achieve mastery, one has to try and learn them all and choose a tool that works well for the situation or the one they like (for objective and subjective reasons). Some might say: "that's a waste of time", try saying that to musicians. Go tell James Hetfield of Metallica that he shouldn't be trying all sorts of different guitars because Gibson is hands-down the best.
I find these maps difficult to use if I'm in a new city. I have to essentially guess which station corresponds to which real world location to plan my trip. Luckily, Google maps can account for that, so only station names become important. At that point, the subway map itself is pointless though.
Show HN: I built a chatbot that helps you find, apply and pay for a visa
He does briefly address this as complicated for beginners to enter (which is true). Given that no-castling actually makes the game simpler, its worthwhile to consider it as an alternative.
Bigquery is excellent too
I keep trying to tell my friends to not sweat going to the bathroom at work, people just don’t get it smh
Their own description of the app says

> We launched an App that let you customize your iPhone to look like a 2000s era MP3 player.

It's pretty obvious what the intention is. And while I don't know precisely how skins work, it's hard to imagine that they enabled clickwheel scrolling by accident.

> What Apple Music features is it charging for? That isn't even a thing that Apple complained about.

I don't know specifically but even their own blog post explicitly cites this as one of the 3 things Apple pulled their app for:

> 2. Charging for Apple Music features

> This is less unreasonable […]
> Use email or something else for more permanent discussions.

I don't actually agree with this. Email has hefty overhead per message. Chat allows for faster and easier communications, which does NOT mean you can't have a history. Indeed, history and search is the real selling point of Slack for me. Everything else Slack has over IRC is trivial and not worth abandoning the standards.
Regulators would ensure there would be nothing to correct
So many questions...

1. Will 23andme share returns with the people who provided the sample in the long term?

2. Are the drugs that GSK going to produce being charged thousands a vial?

3. what happens to the data of those that are covered by GDPR?

Quite sure all the answers will disappoint me.
Microsoft have plenty of platforms and products that were abandoned overnight. It’s hard for me to even think of Windows Phone, for example, without thinking of what happened to WP7 buyers when they abruptly pivoted their mobile OS/runtime strategy with the incompatible WP8. The most they got was a WP7.8 update that skinned the immediately-dead platform to look like the new one.

It’s a matter of visibility and what kind of customers own the products being shut down. From a PR perspective there’s a big difference between killing an enterprise product with few large customers, and killing a consumer product with many small ones. Even if the few complaints are louder, the many complaints around the latter would still totally drown it out. I’m sure they have analytics to know how many people still use Windows Phones and weighing the possibility of an outcry e.g. if all their unsupported phones got 0wned and they collectively took to Twitter about it.
Yeah, I don't find these arguments particularly convincing.

> In particular, the nontraditional starting positions make it difficult for many amateurs to enjoy the game until more familiar positions are achieved.

Actually the nontraditional start is part of what makes it fun. It's fresh and forces you to start using your brain from move one. I don't buy the claim that the main enjoyment of chess is due to familiar positions.

> The same is true for world-class players, as many have confessed to me privately.

I can't speak to Kramnik's private conversations, but as a serious player what I can say is that my competitive advantage over an amateur diminishes considerably in Chess960. Perhaps what Kramnik's friends are complaining about is the fact that it's harder for them to win at Chess960 than standard.

> Finally, it also seems to lack an aesthetic quality found in traditional chess, which makes it less appealing for both players and viewers, even if it does occasionally result in an exciting game.

Yeah, there's a difference in aesthetics for sure. But who is to say that it is "worse"? Some piece configurations do feel a bit "ugly" but to me this is more than balanced out by the beauty of new patterns emerging where they weren't expected.
Stadia runs on the edge, not in their cloud.
>IRC works pretty well.

No, it sucks.
But you'd have to guess which station is where, because the map isn't necessarily representative of it.
> Google is far from the world’s “third largest provider”

You're being a bit disingenuous. Your own source states quite clearly that Google is in the 3rd spot and arguably, if you cherry-pick results, you can place it in 4th.

By cherry-picked results I'm referring to posting 2018 results and ignoring how GCP's revenue doubled in the last 18 months, nearly matching Azure's revenue.
Don't forget low-cost SDR dongles - great for introducing digital signal analysis, satellite communications (wxsat, etc), ADSB aircraft tracking, HAB, and other ham-adjacent topics. This sort of thing was unimaginably expensive when I was first getting interested in radio. The first WinRadios I saw advertised in hobbyist magazines were, what, $700 or more?
Hey and that's cool but you can't make that call for other people. That's the whole thing about consent and why it's important.
I see you are asking the important questions.

Fun fact: if you pause west world while they are looking at code it kind of looks like JavaScript, which explains a lot
In Orlando there is a free Bus system downtown only on certain routes. They don't seem to have the homeless problem on the bus. But I suspect that may be because homeless generally don't need to seek warmth.
If you've always been a fan then maybe you have some more recommended reading for me? Title of the paper seems to be a bit over the top, it just seems to counter some straw man arguments against Superdeterminism.
"People in their fifties" not "People from the fifties"
Cliqz: Why we forked Firefox and not Chromium
The only reason this article is trying to get the federal government is involved is because more economic outliers say that then actually do
I expect Comac to do a much better job on supply chain support than Sukhoi did. Russia in general has always been troublesome for parts supplies for its exported equipment, whereas China has a much more consumer-friendly culture and is likely to invest heavily in making the C919 a success there.

The bigger issues I expect for the C919 will be fuel-efficiency, and trust that it is a safe plane. The fact that they're building it from scratch when the main competitors are using refreshed old designs of the 737 and A320 might help it achieve competitive fuel-efficiency, but it remains to be seen. Safety trust will be hard to make up, but a possible pathway would be to have Chinese airliners and cargo companies use it first to establish a track record free of major accidents before getting sales to international airliners.
Pentax mount lenses are missing
True, yet they often do not realize it. It's also why authortarian governments do not like independent religion.
Simple-peer: Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels
> That fact that it easily could...

It's also easy to add poison dust to toys one resells, or razor blades to candies.

However, both these acts are illegal.

What is also illegal is what the WSJ did. Selling food items of any kind in interstate commerce, including all internet sales, is strictly regulated by the FDA, and sellers must have a facility license.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-industry/how-start-food-busine...

> If you are importing food products, conducting internet sales, and/or shipping food products outside of your state, you must register as a facility.

WSJ is not registered with the FDA as a facility and therefore is in violation of federal law. They should be charged, prosecuted, and fined. Given the violation was willful, egregious, and put people at risk, criminal prosecutions with jail time should be considered as well.

Selling food taken out of dumpsters in interstate commerce is not legally permitted.

Amazon's solution here is simple. Anyone listing food needs to prove they are an FDA registered facility. This includes all amazon properties as well. Amazon is also engaging in illegal activity if they are not FDA registered and following all regulations. Which they clearly are not. Enforce existing laws. Including maximum fines and prison time as necessary.
I love the way subway maps look. I would really like to download the higher resolution images, but they appear to be 404.
>Use email or something else for more permanent discussions.

That assumes that every discussion which eventually is important enough to be made permanent starts out that way. One of the nice things about a history-keeping chat is that the barrier to starting conversation is low, and the barrier for preserving that conversation is also low (i.e. nil).

That has a double benefit - anything that becomes important is automatically preserved, so you could have tuned it out at the time and later be able to come back to it. There's no need to always focus on a chat if it's guaranteed to saved for later, unlike with IRC, which you can't always risk tuning out.
You're probably confused by the fact that (1) they are plotting ice core based CO2 concentrations as years before 1950 and (2) the time resolution of the ancient ice core data is quite low, while all the anthropogenic action happened in the last 150 y or so (and about 50% of the CO2 addition happened in the last 50).

Look at [0] for a more authoritative source and specifically compare the 800 and 400 ky data to the 2000-year (Law Dome, Antarctica) data. This will show you that we are indeed at the top of a very slow CO2 cycle, but that we added about 100 ppm on top of that in the past ~100 y! This is more than the amplitude of the underlying cycles.

[0] https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/co2/ice_core_co2.html
Uber currently uses Mattermost but will most likely move to Slack.
During my 2 years at Amazon, the SFO based Prime Now team used Mattermost but we were eventually forced to move to Chime a pitiful example of a chat client.
Tell me about it. I have over 25 years worth of living expenses and still haven't gotten the nerve to just get out.
Sure, if you're pitching this as "a simpler way to learn chess", I can get behind that. Anything to make chess accessible to more people is great in my book.

But he's selling it as a way to save late-stage classical chess from the era of boring draws and endless opening theory. We already have a better solution for that in Chess960.
(a) I have no reason to believe at this point, a priori, that Parkinson's isn't curable (Clarke's First Law)

(b) To address that issue, I vote for politicians who advocate for radically restructuring how healthcare is paid for in the US to minimize incentives to gouge unlucky individuals
By the way, I'm streaming on Twitch at the moment if you wanna join while I work on Chartbrew. I will probably stream until midnight CET :)
this could be a two fold disaster. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't NOT reporting a breach a pretty heavy fine in some countries today? Worst, if they are dumping the data, people in the EU could be hit by GDPR fines as well if the exposed data shows they weren't keeping up with guidelines.
Is it what consumers demand?
Didn't Microsoft Calculator used to have a browser built into the help menu somehow? I remember it being exploitable to get around stringent GPOs....
Or maybe someone wrote a validate_user_and_email() API and someone else wrote a send_password_reset_email() in a context where they lack access to the user DB, so they just validate the {username, email} and send to the attacker-provided email address.

The first case (yours) is a plain bug, while the latter (mine) is an architecture bug. Architecture bugs often arise out of organizational bugs.
Totally agree. But here's a thought: could wealth accumulation be a feedback loop? What I mean is, can the earning part benefit from a "reckless" spending side? Speaking from experience, I've been in the business of making more money because (1) I don't believe in saving (I've bought a few insurances here and there, because of course, health isn't guaranteed) (2) I love nice things and will get them at all cost.

I don't know what feeds into the other. Is my taste for recklessness a result of my implicit knowledge that I can generate a good sum of money when I need. Or am I waking up everyday and putting in the work in order to satisfy my reckless side? What I know for sure is that one can deliberately climb the ladder. And the undisputed "best way" to climb the wealth ladder is to generate (not receive) income. There are many ways to do that. Usually employment isn't one.
Costco Capitalism
As a historical note Newegg was bought by Hangzhou Liaison Intrctv in 2016 which kicked off the whole marketplace thing.
It's a punishing leak. Akin to publicizing the pull out dates of troops. Amazon and Microsoft will sit tight and enjoy their duopoly.
> Using a single .c file that includes the file and defines the IMPL symbol would negate what you are saying anyway and in fact is a common way to use them.

Ok, well we're obviously arguing semantics at this point, then, because in my opinion, moving the IMPL definition into a single .c file doesn't negate the complaint about single-header libraries, it makes it no longer a single-header library. :D
Only speaking for myself, but I've become much more cautious about buying electronics from them, because much of it turns out to be poorly implemented junk.
Yep, still need to add Pentax (and some others).
Here: http://www.inat.fr/metro/delhi/
Life insurance, disability insurance and long-term care insurance providers can use genetic information to deny coverage[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/07/6360262...
This is something I think about a lot as an American in Canada. I can afford to stick my neck out in a lot of ways because, worst case, I still have healthcare even if I'm out of a job for 4+ weeks.
Why in the world is this age-based?
> >Your shields are officially down.

> What's this bizarro metaphor about shields?

I think it's a reference to Star Trek shields, which were typically let down when a ship trusted another ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shields_(Star_Trek)
You can find them on the actual site: http://www.inat.fr/maps/
We need new blood in Amateur Radio but we need more openness to those new people to be experimenting with and doing things the older HAMs don't care about. One really interesting aspect is that the amateur 2.4GHz band overlaps with WiFi, allowing for Part 97 use of WiFi to create mesh networks over very large areas and at higher power than ISM use allows.
I still don't know how that equates to actual ownership of anything - it seems like an incredibly abstract form of ownership, as you get no power, don't share in the profits (if you don't get dividends you only get cash if you sell, that price being only vaguely linked to the current success of the company), and can have your ownership watered down at any time. You own the stock, but that seems incredibly distant from any "means of production".
The knock on effects from unlimited energy go a lot further.

We could use technology we have today for CO2 capture since it is heavily energy dependent and simply scale it massively. The bulk of industry processes that currently require coal, oil, or gas to provide cheap heat could be fully electrified. Prices of a lot of commodities would drop dramatically. Indoor farming would be a cinch. People and governments would abandon internal combustion for the cheaper alternative.

We could do absurd things that no one would even consider today like greening deserts as you mentioned or settling the arctic. You might be able to replace concrete with basalt if you could cleverly design a system for melting stone and casting the resulting lava in a form. Hell, you could banish winter by putting radiant heat in everything, walls, sidewalks, streets, and adding supplemental lighting like Moonlight Towers[0] except I suppose they would be Sunlight Towers in this case. The list goes on.

The world would change so much it would be like living through the first half of the 20th century again. From horses, coal, and brick buildings to jet aircraft, nuclear power, and glass skyscrapers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_tower
Neither of them are small to medium sized web sites, unfortunately.
I know but I was trying to answer your question

> did she add a company policy or guideline by adding what she added? I wouldn't classify a union drive as a company policy.

The answer is that it's a policy that must be posted (just not necesarily there). It wasn't a union drive.
If they're going aggressively for market share this could only mean one thing: price war. They've been running (and cost-optimizing) cloud services for much longer than Amazon or Microsoft, so they could actually make it _really_ painful for the other two players, and they know it. Most of all, they could undercut them on egress pricing. I'm all for it. The current pricing in all three clouds is nuts.
Looks like every end user agreement is bs by that metric too
These statements just made me remember a quote from Will ferrels movie.
Ricky Bobby : Wait, Dad. Don't you remember the time you told me "If you ain't first, you're last"?

Reese Bobby : Huh? What are you talking about, Son?

Ricky Bobby : That day at school.

Reese Bobby : Oh hell, Son, I was high that day. That doesn't make any sense at all, you can be second, third, fourth... hell you can even be fifth.

Ricky Bobby : What? I've lived my whole life by that!

GCP is easy to use when compared to AWS according to me. I have used both the service providers. Starting with Firebase, Firebase hosting, App Engine, Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery and monitoring via stackdriver. Everything just fits very well.

Number of people visiting their yearly Sessions are increasing and their training platforms(Qwiklabs & YouTube videos) are very much precise. Most of the issues are solved in Stackoverflow itself and you have Google groups for each products.
What Does the Self-Taught Programmer Miss?
The definition of doubling performance every few years stopped holding up a while ago. The formal definition of doubling the amount of transistors somewhat holds up, see the huge increase in core counts in recent years, but that doesn't benefit most applications much. Incidentally cloud providers are billing by core count so adding more cores doesn't help the bill.
Why a $525M IPO Was Hardly Cloudflare's Biggest Feat in 2019
The presence of this story on the front page, I think, underscores how different HN is from the other technical venues I frequent. It's a straightforward overview of RF and how it's used and what that means to amateur licensees. At any of my other haunts, this would never get an upvote.

Imagine a story called "The Command Line", a straightforward take on the core concepts thereof. I think everyone here is pretty familiar with that topic, and would regard such a story as pretty much the opposite of news or even interesting.

To my eye, this story is just as out-of-place because it's a topic I just assume everyone here is already quite familiar with it. Am I mistaken? Or is HN just that different a crowd?