skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to better understand your thinking / background on this, as every case study I've ever read about crisis management indicates that you are better off being very vocal and visible about mistakes and at least superficially make it look like you are acknowledging the breakdowns and seeking to make reparations.
I just tried "igloo" in photos and it immediately showed the only picture of a snow fortress that I built with my kids 7 years ago. "skiing" also worked fine, as expected, but "Tom skiing" did not.

Since the first level implementation works fine, you're talking about a second level detail. Do you think this would nudge enough people towards using Google Photo to actually matter?

I very much doubt it.
Show HN: Polir – Make voting decisions based on politicians' voting records
Spinnaker AWS Deployments as easy as 1-2-3
Same reason they're still shipping Notepad, or the non-Powershell command interpreter: backwards compatibility with old enterprise software that hooks directly into those specific things (e.g. by targeting the mouse at specific pixels.)

Basically, think of it like: LTSC ships without a browser. If you want a browser, go install one from the App Store. What it does ship with is an ActiveX-enabled-Intranet client.
I find exercise important, and almost always feel better after doing it, even if the specific activity isn't enjoyable.
Hey HN, polir is a site where people can share their opinions on key legislation and then see which politician's voting records match them the most, helping them make more informed voting and donation choices.

Longer term, it can be the place to follow and discuss important legislation, giving people more transparency around the political process and giving politicians feedback on how their consistituents feel about each bill.

Right now, it's a pretty bare bones mvp, but wanted to get the concept out there and start getting feedback and start building an early community. I'd love to hear what you think. Thanks!
I think these are the major related threads so far. In reverse order:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21931258 - The NRO Issues Inspection Request to ICANN Concerning .ORG Sale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21800085 - ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21723682 - Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21689121 - The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667355 - ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656960 - Why I Voted to Sell .ORG

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626677 - ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677 - Save .org

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592297 - Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold to private equity firm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582622 - Private Equity Is Going to Ruin the .Org Domain System and Screw Nonprofits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557779 - ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526982 - Private Equity company acquires .org registry

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20263561 - Regulatory Capture at ICANN

Did I miss any?
"Misconfigurations are unfortunately a common error across the industry. We have solutions to help prevent this kind of mistake, but unfortunately, they were not enabled for this database."

They need a solution to watch their solution that watches their configs.
> "Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats."

What did he have to say about reclining seats?

https://www.gadgetduck.com/goods/kneedefender.html
Rent.

Rent is probably cheaper than ownership, except for the investment component. Because the market isn't efficient here, and because of the asset growth, owners can get a positive return even if rent doesn't pay the full mortgage.
The Yang Gang and Its Bots
Thanks! We've been writing all the content we wish had existed when we started out as embedded software engineers. It's fantastic to hear from folks who enjoy reading it as much as we do writing it.
See http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html for another explanation of the details of IEEE 754.
Startpage person here ️. Maybe I can shed some light on this. Last year, Startpage announced an investment in Startpage by System1 through Privacy One Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of System1. With this investment, we hope to further expand our privacy features & reach new users. Rest assured, the Startpage founders have control over the privacy components of Startpage (https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...).

Also, a couple of things that set Startpage apart from DDG: 1) We're HQ'ed in the Netherlands, ensuring all our users are protected by stringent Dutch & EU privacy laws, 2) we give you Google results without tracking, 3) with Anonymous View you can visit results in full privacy.
In California, where Mozilla is headquartered, political views are a protected class. It's not (in principle) legal for an employer to fire you for your off-the-clock political views.
> Would you expect an ethics class to do anything more than provide a forum for debates like these?

No, not really. That's kind of the point of ethics classes - to debate our ideas of "good" and "evil", to make people think for themselves, and to alert them to the fact that the questions exist in the first place.
Meh. "Suspected criminals" if you like. It's a rather fine hair to split, given that fleeing the police is itself a very serious crime, risking negligent deaths.
Native full encryption through zfs. That was my main reason. Zfs is well integrated in BSD. Something that will not happen soon in linux based on Linus latest comments that zfs has legal issue with linux
The other part people don't think about: your ownership of land is only as valid as your (or the government's) ability to enforce it. A lot of major civil wars in the 20th century have been fought over land rights -- in many cases, it has been local citizens seizing land back from foreign corporations and land barons. Many countries have laws on the books restricting land ownership to citizens as a result.
Bonus points if you let me add UTM or Lat+Long coordinates to have marks appear for the peaks I've bagged on the peak map. Then I can buy a mug or print a poster that lists all the peaks I've bagged or intend to bag.
And your comments are infuriatingly dismissive. Typical of a software engineer to not give a shit about accessibility, ease of use, actual efficiency, tools getting out of the way of people who want to do their actual jobs, etc.

tl;dr You’re arrogant and elitist and think everybody should work like you do.
I don't think this is quite right. Most buildings don't get all their design parameters tested in reality. But say when there is an earthquake, and the building collapses and you find that various checks and balances in the design process went wrong. I know here in NZ where we have had a number of significant earthquakes all kinds of known and unknown things have been discovered about buildings, either ones that have ended up killing people or ones which now are condemned because things played out differently than the designers thought they would
Former ACSC chief MacGibbon blasts calls to legitimise screen scrapers
Love Aether. Really good way to manage distractions without missing anything important.
Does the PI 4 also have this problem?
I'm not ignoring those facts about the destructive role of America in the Middle East. What I'm alluding to is that fundamentalists hating the West have way more "historical ammo" for their arguments than just pointing at the US. It's just that the current biggest offender is America (which makes it the main target for terrorism). Before that, it was Britain.

On a grand historical scale, the Powers That May at any given point in time become the main offender against those having something of value. Next time it'll probably be China (beginning with the "Security Theater" [1] in Xinjiang).

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2009/11/beyond_secu...
I hope the different edits for portrait and landscape eventually become standard.

I also think the short, serial stories by prolific and talented people is a good idea, assuming there are a lot of episodes and they release frequently. I’d hoped for more of that on YouTube.

I don’t think Quibi will be the service providing these feature in five years though.
Why rely on tags if there is the ID appended to the file name and the file name is the title of the video? Youtube-dl names the files it downloads this way by default, just leave it as it is and you can identify the files easily.
For developers at least you don’t need any kind of artificial scoring. If they pass the phone screen, just bring them in and pair with them on a contrived problem - you will know very quick if they are a fit or not.
I remember getting emails from Stevedave and Davesteve for weeks after signing up!

Sadly, shortly after that Adams died. I bought "Salmon of Doubt" and it took me almost 10 years to read it because I didn't want to read his final words.
I would call this article deliberately misleading.

It tries to make the point that new luxury apartment construction is bad for rent prices:

>And ideally, developers say, building more units for wealthy tenants means they’ll move out of their smaller apartments, leaving them available to lower-income renters. An analysis out of the Joint Center For Housing Studies of Harvard University found this isn’t happening.

The article then links to an analysis that contradicts their point by saying:
>> expanding supplies of
new luxury apartments pushed
up vacancy rates, helping to
slow rent growth.[2]

The article tries to convince the user that these units are sitting empty:
> one in four new luxury units built after 2013 remain unsold, according to the New York Times.

That's an odd way to say three out of four of the new luxury units have been sold.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bnme/tons-of-new-apartm...
[2] http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS...
Visual C is not such a good tool to write desktop application. .NET monstrocities with almost the same problems in regards to low level stuff, multimedia etc as Java when I can have single exe with no dependencies? Thanks but no thanks.

Also I do not really appreciate mentoring. Was doing just fine completely on my own for the last 20 years.
According to the article, no it didn't.

> ICANN must sign off on the deal in order for it to proceed. In December, it paused the sale for 30 days amid public outcry, expressing concern about the lack of transparency surrounding the deal.
Wider cars are often taller which isn't so safe for pedestrians or bicyclists.
My tries:

>22. Who was rabbit!bimmler

User Bimmler on the rabbit machine, maybe Elizabeth (IIRC, from K&R or K&P book).

>44. What language preceded C?

B.

>45. What language preceded B?

BCPL.

>64. How many different meanings does Unix assign to '.'?

1) Current directory

2) Prefix character for "hidden" file names.

>75. What does grep stand for?

Globally find Regular Expression and Print.
If the password is sent to the server and the data can be decrypted with the password then it's not end-to-end encrypted.
> difficulty of scale, which prevents the Blackrocks of the world from just buying up all of the property that could actually return 20% and making the market efficient

What exactly is stopping House Flipping BigCo from doing what you're proposing at scale?
I posted the following comment on that thread:

I would call this article deliberately misleading.

It tries to make the point that new luxury apartment construction is bad for rent prices:

>And ideally, developers say, building more units for wealthy tenants means they’ll move out of their smaller apartments, leaving them available to lower-income renters. An analysis out of the Joint Center For Housing Studies of Harvard University found this isn’t happening.

The article then links to an analysis that contradicts their point by saying:
>> expanding supplies of
new luxury apartments pushed
up vacancy rates, helping to
slow rent growth.[2]

The article tries to convince the user that these units are sitting empty:
> one in four new luxury units built after 2013 remain unsold, according to the New York Times.

That's an odd way to say three out of four of the new luxury units have been sold.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bnme/tons-of-new-apartm...
[2] http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS...
How do you work with it? Are you writing scripts and sparqQL that query an endpoint, or ser you using an ontologi aware databrowser that can do calculations? Or something completely different?
Real ethics is a fine thing to consider, but these days, I see people take their personal political beliefs, call them "ethical", and claim that policy that goes against their preferences is "unethical". This abuse of language has become sadly commonplace in tech today. The people who do this struggle with the question "who decides what's ethical?", because in their hearts, they believe the answer is that they get to decide.

Nowadays, when I see someone campaigning for "ethics" in tech, I just assume that this person is just engaging in general issue activism, close my eyes against the distraction, and get back to work. It's sad that we've reached this point.

In truth, the best way to stop unethical behavior is to make a law against it --- that way the process of rule-making is fair and transparent. The democratic process doesn't guarantee legitimacy, but it's better than anything else. The democratic process should decide the rules under which a society operates, and we shouldn't let a few self-appointed moral guardians misrepresent their personal preferences as universal rules and set the bounds of whole societies.
Reminds me of Sony-BMG installing rootkits to enforce DRM; and Dell and Lenovo pinning their own root certs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-...
And yet when I fill in the size of that PCB, JLCPCB quotes $11.90 + shipping for 10 PCBs.

Cheapest shipping option is $9.

That's far away from $50...
Coronavirus: China to bar 11m residents from leaving city at centre of outbreak
Yes, the creator of actix-web has appointed a new maintainer after realising it was unfair to just up and delete it. The issue is here: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289

The project future is obviously in flux with this transition, but I am hoping myself & other contributors will be able to carve a path forward.
The second sentence is not much of a surprise; why would something require IE if not for its ActiveX support?

Certainly, some things might render brokenly in other browsers, but ActiveX is the only real "IE-only feature" a site might depend on.
Assuming the letter is real, it may refer to a job where the quality and care of your car directly reflect your job performance--say if you work at a car dealership, detailer, mechanic, custom finish shop, etc., or if your job requires you to take clients out in your car for any reason.
Can someone explain the issue? Currently, anyone can buy a .org. I imagine that this company will charge more money for .orgs in exchange for some verification procedure. Compare this to today, where anyone can buy .orgs for any reason: it might be a public good if there is some authentication and prestige.

NGOs and non-profits have money. Paying $100 a year to maintain a verified "I'm not a company" status might be a good idea. Keep in mind that non profits aren't necessarily good -- many are essentially tax shelters.

This article feels anti-capitalist. Nothing in the article makes a principled argument for how .orgs should operate. What's the argument for allowing anyone to buy a .org for $10 per year?
People are getting bigger! I know a few people who are on the heavy side and bought SUVs for this reason.
Pythonesque humor is a staple of nerd/hacker culture.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/t...

It's tough to get much deader before they just rip it out.
Is this really a modern trend, or just cherry picked data? This article needs a more thorough statistical analysis of car width through time.

I'm hesitant to take it at face value because, for example, to my knowledge the classic American land barges of the 60s and 70s (many of which are quite beautiful in an aggressive, almost obnoxious way) were quite wide - a 1969 Dodge charger is just a couple inches narrower than a 1990 Ford F150/Bronco, for example.
My landlord was definitely losing money (on a cash flow basis) renting to me in Toronto -- rent did not cover mortgage interest + condo fees + property tax.

He was just gambling on real estate appreciation and using me to cover most of his carrying costs; I would rather gamble on stocks.
I think of 'Red Barchetta' and its two-lane-wide ultra-safe futurecars.
People are paying $400k for homes in Tracy these days, not $800k.

I mean I'm sure some wealthy folks are but it's definitely not something that you "wouldn't bat an eye at".
UN experts say hacking of Bezos phone suggests effort to influence news coverage
Fully agree. Mozilla's statement is basically ivory tower eliteness to bestow onto the huddled masses.
I did my city. Lots of streets (that are decades old) are not on there, including the street that my house is on (which has been there since at least 1970). Other streets cut out and then pick back up a half mile or so later. What happened to the road in between those two points?
Your assumption is probably correct, but it also seems like an unusual coincidence, as 2002 was when Microsoft reached a final judgment on the case that DOJ brought against them in 1998 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
Discord is also not big enough of a target to garner the ire of those publications nor do its users care about the court of public opinion.
Price increases. Went from $49/month our first year to an order of magnitude higher.

That, and we found that our intercom chat emails were caught in spam folders frequently.
You could at least read your own link before spreading FUD. The increased height limits only apply to the rail / ferry stops (i.e. the green areas). The bus routes and jobs-rich areas get density requirements waived (i.e. you can create one story condo-complex), and reduced parking limits, but there is no change to height limits in those blue areas.
But you are assuming the result of the rewrite will be cleaner and have less rabbit holes. There is no reason to think that. If it is developed by the same organization it will probably end up with the same level of quality. Perhaps worse since it will suffer from second-system effect.

Indeed Netscape 6 was more buggy than any of the previous versions.
Mount Vesuvius eruption 'turned victim's brain to glass'
It’s disappointing that this got flagged - has conversation become so polarized, so lacking any space for nuance, that we cant even have a discussion about this topic anymore?
> They are deploying this to all O365 customers, regardless.

According to the article, it's only the "ProPlus" version of Office 365.

For now ;-)
Well done. If possible, can you add functionality for:

- Pre-saved color swatches to cycle through, like those at color.adobe.com/trends

- Custom cell phone cases. A bunch like casetify offer affiliate revenue.
The owner relented, and passed control to a contributor.

It was on HN, but I found it easier to find the OP:

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289

Edit: discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099335
Something has gone seriously wrong when one of our original TLDs, which, from my perspective, should be considered sacrosanct elements of the internet with historical importance, are able to be sold off by interloping individuals, who, for some bizarre reason, feel that they are entitled to capitalize on these TLDs, and who do so purely with their own self-interest at heart.

I'm really just disappointed and angered that this happened.
No they aren’t, read the post. It’s for ProPlus subscribers only, which is a plan that includes Microsoft search.
But they are. You make roughly a million dollars more in your life time than you would if you didn't graduate college.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Exec-Summary-w...

Inflationary dollars are largely irrelevant as everything is more expensive than it was decades ago due to inflation.
ConvertKit founder discusses undoing a rebrand
I understand what my avatar will do when I go get that morning coffee at about 8:30 am but what will my avatar do at about 9:15 when I lock myself in the bathroom stall for ~10 minutes?
Thanks! If we lose interest in Front, I'll take a look.
> Would I prefer working somewhere else? Absolutely...

Have you done anything to act on that preference? Did you send a resume out this week? Are you networking?

Prioritizing your/your families wellbeing over an abstract evil might make sense the day you take that job, but that circumstance must be re-evaluated regularly.

Too often folks talk themselves into thinking what they are doing today is ok because they didn’t have a choice yesterday.
Adults can consent. An adult choosing to say yes or no is a voluntary interaction.

Childrens’ minds have not fully developed yet, and are vulnerable to adults exerting power over them.

Apples and Oranges. This argument is an example of sophistry: clever, but totally incorrect. Don’t be taken in by it.

The crime that is grooming a child using a power imbalance has nothing to do whatsoever with the voluntary interaction between a member of the press and their adult source.
journalist's thread >

NEW: Saudi officials close to MBS tell WSJ they were aware of a plan to hack Bezos' phone, but not of any attempt to blackmail him. Qahtani was involved in the hacking effort as part of a broader intimidation campaign against Khashoggi, officials said.

More: FBI is investigating the hack, source says. Bezos didn’t want to provide his phone directly to the FBI, so FTI Consulting, where several former FBI officials work, conducted probe but stayed in touch with law enforcement, the person said.

WhatsApp was not contacted by FTI during the investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.

Also new: Oct 2018 contract btwn Michael Sanchez and AMI gave rights to “certain information, photographs, and text messages documenting an affair between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.”

Mr. Sanchez "acquired Confidential Information lawfully,” stated contract, seen by WSJ.

https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1220073641326665731
Flaws in Apples Intelligent Tracking Prevention Safari Feature Enable Tracking
Multi stage builds do indeed seem much better, thanks

Regarding writing bytecode - this slows down the first load of a file, in exchange for speeding up subsequent loads of a file. It has no effect on runtime speed. Given that python code is only loaded once when a Docker image is run, it is better to disable this.
microsoft/playwright – Node Library to Automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit
> No way to safely bring the bus back to idle from mid-transaction.

Why would you want to do that? Not having the ability to do this is part of the contract. If you design your device such that it always completes the transaction, then there should be no problem, unless one of the devices on the bus doesn't play fair but then you have a different problem.