skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add to my previous post... this is stuff that has irritated me in just the last few minutes:

* When selecting a VM size in the new-VM wizard, it silently resets it to "DS1 v2" a bit later. You have to go back to the first tab and re-select the size you really wanted.

* This then promptly resets my "Already have a Windows Server license?" setting so then I have reapply that too.

* The default VM template suggested is Windows 2016, not Windows 2019.

* The selection box for the region keeps resetting to US East, even though that's the worst location for me. There is no default location setting in the portal that I can set for myself. This is an Enterpise-wide setting only.
"Due process"?? Buying Legos from the official store is not some kind of inherent human right. They can sell to whom they want. No doubt this person was breaking the terms of service. Explaining why he's banned would likely give away something about how they know he was cheating the system, which makes future fraud easier.
"All the worries my classmates have is how to get an internship at FAANG."

Hopefully you'll give yourself permission to worry about something other than corporate behemoths before you graduate.
And the actual blog post from Tesla where they state they are releasing their patents is from 2014!

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
What are the mechanisms in corporations that determine these figures? Always been super duper curious how the salary of a VP is "set"...
I’ve decided that if I’m at work, please keep me out of your protest. Let me decide how I want to react to a company policy my way. Don’t violate the trust given to your team of managing my work tools to inject your political/social objections. Organize outside of work.
I'm with you. Maybe I'm just lucky but I've never had AusPost go wrong and their local delivery staff are all really friendly.
Interesting! I would have guessed going 2:1 against a stronger player wouldn't help much. Maybe I'm digging in, but I'd expect that it stops being true soon -- I'd be surprised if a 1-kyu didn't beat two collaborating 6-kyus most of the time.

(I used to play a lot but don't anymore, was last at 1-dan AGA.)
> Many times when editing in emacs I just "do the thing" without consciously knowing what keys I pressed.

More than once I've tried to describe a feature to some other Emacs user, and had to physically put my hands on a keyboard and watch them in order to say which keys were used to invoke it.
that's sort of what I'm getting at. what's holding you back? I'd like to think if I had 25 years... yeah, I'd just stop and do .. well, I'd probably do what I do now, but less of it, and be more picky, and travel more.

as it stands, I've got perhaps... ~5 years of living expenses saved up. Certainly enough to not worry about a few days of non-income, but it's.. certainly not FU money. 25 years of expenses lined up seems like it might give you more breathing room, but, I suspect your comfort level and goal posts move.

when I was in big debt, I thought "man, just having $1k in the bank will make all the difference, and I'll be fine". and when I got there, I was 'fine' for about 10 minutes. Then the goal was $2k. Then 5. Then 10. Then 30. And so on. For me, there's a realization that it's moderately hard to earn and keep that money, and that it can be reduced rather quickly, so.... keeping earning income is still top of mind, at least for another few years.
I pay $5 a month to my local PBS but it ticks me off that if I want to stream the live channel I have to pay YouTube TV. I'd gladly pay $10-$15 a month for just my local PBS channels in HD. My antenna isn't always reliable to pick them up, which puts me in the spot of paying my local PBS vs YouTube TV.

Aside from that, I love PBS.
Does it really matter? I'm a huge, non mistakable guy, and have been told 'thank you ma'am' to my face. You know what I do? I say you're welcome, not launch an internet campaign against them. In their case it was just force of habit, mind somewhere else, etc. But in the end, it makes zero difference, unless you want it to.
Don't the other generations feel the specter of dread hovering over us? Like you are running on a treadmill as fast as you can and knowing that if you trip or stumble, even a little, it's over and what progress you've made will be undone and you'll end up wandering the streets, muttering to yourself?

Or maybe it's just me?

Among the many things that make me feel ill is that byline. We're painfully aware that we exist to serve "The Economy"- perhaps _that_ is what is making us ill, that we must forever justify our existence in terms of the movements of bits of green paper?
Please don't post unsubstantive submissions to HN. This is basically trolling.
I hate it lacks the side scroll and they move it to thumb side scroll
> I could easily turn development into a full time job in that industry. There is a lot lacking in what already exists.

Care to describe what's missing in a little more detail?
What are you talking about? Can you give some examples? Many of their things are licensed under MIT.
> there's not much you can do about a keylogger

How come keystrokes aren't encrypted yet? I don't really have the foggiest idea how my computer interprets the data that comes from me turning on and off a bunch of switches in rapid succession but it's odd to me that we all kind of accept that we're screwed if a bad actor starts logging our keystrokes.
"First of all, many of them, like this one, seem to conflate two separate issues: poor security practices and then the dystopic, surveillance concerns. I don't see the two being particularly related."

Since the poor security practices have led to people getting spied upon and harassed, those poor security practices are clearly related to dystopic surveillance concerns.

The article also directly addresses larger issues than poor security practices. Two examples:

"And Amazon's surveillance doorbell cameras are just the start: The company is selling a multitude of other gadgets equipped with microphones, cameras and sensors, all designed to gather enormous amounts of data, which Amazon refines -- like crude oil -- into power and profit. Alexa, the company's "home assistant," is constantly listening and explosive investigations revealed that Amazon employees have also listened, via Alexa, not just to private conversations, but also to deeply intimate moments such as couples having sex or kids singing in the shower. Amazon even marketed its microphone-enabled Echo Dot Kids directly to children."

"Amazon devices aren't just giving hackers and Amazon employees an eye or an ear into our homes. The company has also partnered with more than 600 police departments across the country to tap into the surveillance network its customers are creating for them, developing a seamless process for government agents to request footage from tens of thousands of Ring cameras without warrants or any judicial oversight."
I think part of the appeal of an obelisk is that it is hard to keep the stone together during the raising. Erecting an obelisk in ancient times was a bit of a hassle where one may be being erected would be considered a great act or at least the act of a person able to waste resources. A modern feat would be like the arch in Saint Louis where you use concrete and steel in a way that isn't perfect for them(some tension).
Also, say you were able to go to Mexico and fly home to India, what then? Your assets are probably going to be frozen (unless you stashed it in crypto), and India has extradition treaties with the US, are you going to be on the run for the rest of your life?
There are seven "best of" seasons on Prime with 10-15 episodes each, highlighting most of the milestone episodes with the things you remember. Most of the answer to these things is "It's on prime" or "It's on the PBS app, which you pay for or subscribe to via your local PBS stations."
Not simple - they have an extensive blacklist of VPN servers too.
https://bela.io
When workers organize and attempt to make demands greater than than the bosses are willing accede to, the bosses call in the police, private security, and depending on the political climate, right wing street fighters to start cracking heads. For a famous example of a dual power situation consider the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters' strike.

https://teamster.org/about/teamster-history/1934
I'm kind of sad 'gtst' (from the C.J. Cherryh books) didn't catch as a gender neutral pronoun. Also in my family we still refer to social capital as 'sfik'.
Sounds like there’s a logical fallacy in there somewhere. Death by 1000 cuts? Isn’t that how we got into the current situation — by slowly giving up privacy one step at a time?

With a phone, I can at least make the choice whether to track myself or not (by using the phone). With a doorbell cam, now you’re involving everyone in your neighborhood. They don’t have a choice.

I have no doubt someone is going to say that those people are in a public space, but there there is a huge difference between the theoretical concept of being in public, and the actual reality of public spaces being under video surveillance 24x7.

Have you not heard that Amazon has been partnering with local law enforcement to give them access to a bunch of cameras? It’s not about just giving your data to Amazon or Google anymore.

Also, in the US, there is the Third Party Doctrine. Any data you give to a third party can be given to the government without any Fourth Amendment protections. By using these services you are giving up your Constitutional rights.
My understanding is New York’s metro map is an anomaly due to there historically being 3 unconnected and competing subways. Thus sometimes to get places you had to transfer and the relative locations and distances between stops was relevant.

Normal subway maps, in my experience from living in 2 cities with a subway (Toronto and Berlin), aren’t like this and derived from work by a guy named Harry Beck [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/iBErp8qvWZg
>You’re giving your money away to the bank to borrow their money while they sit back and do nothing to collect

Banks do not lend money, but instead newly create credit and money. See https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/archive/starkey_banking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Credit_theory_o...

>A study of banking software demonstrates that the bank does nothing else than adding an amount to the two accounts when they issue a loan. The observation that there appears to be no limit to the amount of credit money that banks can bring into circulation in this way has given rise to the often-heard expression that "Banks are creating money out of thin air".

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

>This study establishes for the first time empirically that banks individually create money out of nothing.
True. But not everyone works at a multi million dollar business. Many start using cloud platforms in small companies and side/school projects and build up knowledge from there which eventually affects bigger companies: "Hey! Should we use the platform most of our people are already familiar with, or the one Bob used for his 500 line hackathon app last weekend?"

I'm not actually worried much about the multi million dollar companies using Google Products because then they start actually caring about you. When I worked at a place that made them significant ad money, I got splendid sub hour support. But Google is among the most disrespectful companies towards smaller actors while still trying to get as much money out of them as possible I have ever interacted with. E.g. Just recently it took us 3 weeks, 5 chat support sessions and 2 interventions from their supposed expert team to get an inappropriate "customer photo" shot 4'000 km away from maps/search removed. Or the whole Youtube ContentID disaster, or getting forced into G+ just for them to close it, etc etc.

Don't think anyone really cares about 1-2 products being closed that they were using, it's just a lot a things that add up and changed the perception of the company quite a bit over the years.
Providing good customer service is expensive, and is generally not rewarded by the customers. It becomes what they expect but will not pay for.

So, you inevitably get a race to the bottom. And once you’re there, someone has to find a new bottom to race to.

So, why bother?
Yeah moved away from Ruby a while back. Took a little while to stabilise but the new app is a lot better these days.
At this point until there are regulations on how you can be banned and how you can litigate bans from websites etc.

Maybe they have a policy limiting people from purchasing too much lego either to prevent reselling or from stopping people from becoming whales like in mobile games.

To be honest the community should have already abandoned bricklink when it was sold to the nexon founder. It is their own fault for continuing to support the website. People always make the mistake, the first time a small company sells it is usually good afterwards but the second time it sells it is rarely good afterwards.

Also this would not be as much of an issue if antitrust were enforced. It is absurd that Lego can own the secondary market of its own product.
And IdeaChannel, before they stopped making new episodes.
Of course their motive is not altruistic, and what does it matter anyway? They won't make money if the outcome of the research isn't beneficial. What use would a bunch of government bureaucracy be?
React Raycasting Demo
1. Follow your passion.

2. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

3. My experience: The best things came to my life after i took the risks of violating someone's nonsense terms
Ref thinner lines in particular though, one of the trade offs is that information has been removed. For example, which Green Line trains make stops where. Also the connection between Park and Downtown Crossing is no longer labeled leaving us to wonder what it is. There are other examples as well.
Its kinda conspiracy theory stuff but there are claims around this:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon#Claimed_biowe...

I would be very surprised if some countries had not looked into this at some level.
The issue is that folks here think GCP is the same thing as Google Reader. That's absurd.

Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.

GCP and the entire physical infrastructure isn't going to get "turned off" if it isn't #1 in the market in 3 years, that's just silly.

https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/

https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i...
They offer excellent customer support for GCP. I think you are conflating this with YouTube or other services.
Amazon builds internal services on top of AWS. The services AWS sells are not Amazon internal services.
Seems like it's new reality of online services, for example Instagram just rolled out "offensive captions checker"[0], that's look like beta-release of Orwell's «Thought Police».[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1206637381224259584

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police
> 2. Your neighbor buys a Ring. Now it's you who are being monitored. Amazon will learn details about you and anyone who comes to visit you, and they will profit from it. (Also they will share the details with law enforcement.)

How though? What information could possibly be gleaned from a Ring camera that isn't already available? It's a unidirectional facing camera with limited range pointed at a public area. The amount of information it could possibly collect on passerby is miniscule, and is already information that is readily available via: smartphone tracking, satellite imaging, or literally anyone on the street with eyeballs, including law enforcement. I fail to see how a neighbor having a Ring doorbell meaningfully changes anything for their neighbors.

> anyone who lives near a Ring owner is going to be contributing to Amazon's business

Again, how? I fail to see how a person's Ring is going to generate anything in terms of usable data on their neighbors for Amazon to act on. It seems like jumping to the worst possible conclusion, on par with those who assume every new application of AI is one step closer to Skynet.
Last month I was attempting a game in Unreal Engine for fun. The article does a decent job describing some of the problems. I know C++ and use C++17 at my job, so it wasn't an issue. One minor point is that Unity just tends to work. Unreal engine has some odd bugs some times and the lack of community I think is a huge downside. I have made a few games in Unity and it is a lot easier to find help and free support.
reflects poorly on FAANG hiring practices more than anything. how are they not sniffing the phonies out?
This week I’ve made a comment on social media, about exclusive games making the market worse for everyone but console manufacturers. I expected it to become unnoticed, but then an angry rando walks up to me and tells me that ‚If I‘m poor‘ (I’m not, he couldn’t know, and he made it sound as if I am a bad person if I was) I ‚should f*cking work and not play games‘, and that having multiple consoles is no option only for people with ‚low economic standards‘.

Even the burned out former bay area software engineer in that documentary seems to have been living with stereotypes about homeless people. Unfortunately this only changed after becoming homeless himself.

This added an observation to a long-term curiosity why many US people seem to forcefully ignore all the homeless people on their streets while claiming to be Christian. Completely brainwashed by unquestioned and unrestricted capitalism.

There was a similar documentary about poverty and US people having 3 jobs a few weeks ago and that comment section was full of non-US people wondering why everybody is just accepting this situation. Why there aren’t massive protests. Thought about this when seeing how that single mother was forcefully evicted with 1 day notice out of her house of 7 years, and just accepted the situation.
After using both Unity and Unreal Engine for XR Development, my personal favorite is Unreal only for the fact that I can still look at the source code of the engine if something weird is happening and I can even fix it myself. That's the main reason. Unity seems to be catching up a bit in the performance area but I still feel that UE4 is ahead.
I'm not sure about transit but when I (EU citizen) have been to the US they took all ten of my fingerprints, and this has also been the experience of my friends.

(Incidentally, my own government doesn't even have any of my fingerprints...)
Perhaps I should force myself to read that, as someone who uses electronics. But I bailed out after the descriptions of injuries and accidents in the second paragraph.
Last time I went there (July 2019, Shanghai), I had to submit myself to a fingerprint scan. As I recalled I have done the fingerprint scan previously. But this time, for some reason, the machine did not work or had an error, and the immigration officer saw it. She fiddled with my hand and checked the machine, was confused, then allowed me to passport check anyway.

I don't think you can refuse a fingerprint check. But if one can somehow make their fingerprints unreadable, through one way or another, you probably could bypass it.

One of my coworker is notoriously hard to fingerprint scan. Her fingerprints are allegedly busted up due to all the hand washing she'd done in her previous line of work. So maybe it can be bypassed somehow.
I never thought of replacing WebSQL like that. Cooool.

Pretty sure Electron provides IndexedDB though.

(Ref: https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-localsto..., vaguely https://nolanlawson.github.io/offlinefirst-2016-03/)
> Imagine you sent me a post card (...)

I like this. Post-cards are a better analogy for plain http than the sand castle.

Of course postcards are not "secure": everybody can read them, and you can trivially impersonate somebody else sending a postcard. Any serious snail mail communication must go via safer channels. Yet, postcards are a very nice thing to have, it would be a shame if they weren't possible. My kids can easily send a postcard to their grandparents, just by themselves. My grandfathers will probably (but nor surely) receive the postcard, and they will recognize who wrote them (but they can never be sure, really), and everybody will be happy.

In the same vein, HTTPS is better than plain HTTP for serious communication, and there's nothing wrong with it. Yet, the existence of HTTP is another fundamental part of the internet, and I make a point of using it as much as possible.

Do you propose that anonymous postcards shouldn't exist, and that the post office should only accept letters certified by adults who had identified themselves at the local police station? I would hate that! And for the same reasons I hate a world without http.
Is there anywhere I can see this animation system in action?
Orchid’s Privacy Network Launches
A drug for my kid's IBS costs $1400 in the US and $30 in Russia (and moreover, it's available over the counter there). Same exact drug. Made in Italy, so it's probably cheaper still in Italy. It's not genetic or anything else that would justify a high price - it's a simple antibiotic. Probably costs a dollar a gallon to make.

I'm seriously considering finding a good clinic in e.g. Israel where I could pay cash for treatment, and giving up US medical insurance entirely. Thankfully now I can do that without paying a penalty. $15K/yr for a family of 3, with crazy deductibles is kooky. If I get cancer or something, getting treatment in the US would be an insane proposition.
What value are you adding with this meaningless comment?

I was refuting the parent’s point:

“any change like that would be major national news, debated extensively in Congress, and then, if turned into a new law, would roll out over years.

Which is manifestly false for the reasons I outlined.

Are you suggesting otherwise?
From 2014: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

… the “blog post” ABS CBN references might be a tweet Elon Musk wrote in January 2019 referring to the 2014 post.

Hard to tell if there was anything new other than the tweet 10 months ago. ABS CBN fails to link to any source material.
Google: The Art of SLOs Workshop Materials
Mattermost CEO here,

Awesome work on raspchat! And thanks for the kind words.

Often we see users and customers have both Microsoft Teams for Office365 users and Mattermost as the "developer's choice" given the open source code base and flexibility in high security environments.

Per the article, the market is very large, and there's many different user segments to serve. Therefore there should be multiple winners here, in my mind. I think this category is only just starting.
You should comply with laws that are justifiable and not with laws that are unjustifiable and represent petty authoritarianism. The working class can tell the difference. I 100% agree that organized resistance is key. Individualized resistance just earns a beat down.

I disagree that only rights granted by courts are effective in winning labor struggles. Strikes, legal or not, are required for advancing labor's cause.

This worker was attempting to organize her colleagues in an extremely tame way. There was no property damage. We should show our unadulterated support to embolden the working class.
It’s a terrible user experience for anything other than clicking on things. Can’t use a lot of keyboard shortcuts because they trigger browser behaviours. An issue that didn’t exist when they had a chrome app. The website always breaks in some form. Is laggy. If you’re using windows and the lock screen happens and you come back. Copy/paste stops working.

The chrome app was awesome. The website sucks.
The US has been doing that for about 15 years, based on laws (such as US-VISIT) passed after 9/11.

Jan 2004: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3875747/ns/us_news-security/t/us-b...

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-vi...

https://epic.org/privacy/us-visit/