skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like harass their employees, create nuisances for their neighbors.

I don't call business that behave that way "annoying". I call them "abusive".
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring a senior product designer
> the message can be disturbing to some

How would it be disturbing?
Absolutely pathetic on their end.
I'm sure you avoid going to conferences in the UK because they occupy a piece of Ireland, don't you?
I seriously considered App Maker to build some internal code flows but could not develop the trust needed to deploy into production. With SaaS apps that require serious onboarding and deployment it's become almost impossible to trust Google in particular on this issue.

I'm hoping SMBs will start to seriously consider business continuity as a key feature of SaaS. If I wanted to differentiate as a SaaS product today, I'd consider offering putting at minimum source code into escrow upon sale/bankruptcy.
All the more reason to tax the entire planet and pay the freedom dividend to the entire planet.

The us already taxes the entire planet via the dollar / banking system. So it’s more of a relabel than a new conquest of the world.
Are you about to break Prod?
Fittingly by rock band “Sixpence None The Richer”.
Hardware RAID can also suffer from this indeed but does ZFS suffer from it as well? With exactly the same impact? AFAIK the filesystem stays consistent on ZFS.
>Are you serious? There was an article on HN just yesterday about how Turkey censored Wikipedia for two years.

And yet it would maximize those who would be able to attend. Both Israelis and Arabs can fly to Turkey pretty easily.

>I think a lot of Israeli engineers would just like to be able to host conferences without it turning into a geopolitical debate

I'm sure a lot of North Korean and Venezuelan engineers would love that too, but until the Israeli government ends racial apartheid the chances of it not turning into a geopolitical debate are zero.
The trouble with other vendors is the constant threat of the aquihire.

Really this is a problem with SaaS in general (although Google takes it to a pathological extreme)

You're one VC away from a pivot that is a closure under any other name.
The delta between one and two bathrooms is huge. When someone is showing and someone else really needs to go to the bathroom, that’s a mess.

The delta between two and three and higher is quite small.

I don’t get these houses with like six bathrooms. What’s going on there?
There's a 1998 Plymouth Prowler Prototype Buried in a Tulsa City Park
Yes? But most viruses don't lay dormant waiting for you to type in a bank account password and quietly send it off (some do for sure).

A lot of viruses sell "installs" - where other less moral software devs will pay per installation of their software. Or they spam ads across your entire computer etc. Or they encrypt your files and demand a ransom. None of these things are quiet or stealthy - anybody with decent IT experience will notice them pretty fast.

It's kinda like regular crime. Sure every once in a while there's a thief that quietly lockpicks his way into somebodies home after spying on them and knowing they've left on vacation, leaving little evidence they took anything at all. Most of the time somebody just does a smash-and-grab, quick and dirty.
What kind of concrete construction are they using? Straight up reinforced concrete? Or something like ICFs? Or maybe mortar joined cinder blocks? Do you maybe have some links I could read up about that?

As for brick veneer, I dunno really about its durability. It definitely is less susceptible to decay than traditional wood siding, but I don’t think it’s any better than cement fiber cladding, or other modern non-wood materials. Additionally, if anything goes wrong with it, I think it’s much harder to fix it in a seamless way, unlike other most types of siding, where you can just repaint them after repair. I have it on half of my house, and I can’t say I’m a huge fan.
I would really advise against investing in flutter.

It's "kitchen-sink" approach is resource-intensive to maintain. E.g., there's a language to maintain and a full suite of controls (doubly hard since integration with OS UX conventions is a constantly moving target) in addition to everything else you need for a full cross-platform app development platform.

Yet, where's the revenue stream to pay for it?

I think it's a matter of time before Goggle pulls resources off it.

It's open I believe, so it won't just stop, but it will quickly sink into disrepair without significant resources maintaining it.
> brand value reflects culture and values of the people that work on it.

It also reflects the priorities of their customers: those who can only ask for "cheaper" will not get anything else than "cheaper".
Why is in order for us to do this, we have to do that? What about supporting Palestine bothers you so much?
Thanks, I appreciate this. I didn’t really have data to support my conclusions, but echoing rhetoric I’ve heard before. Glad to know I was wrong. It’s not surprising that it’s polarizing when the end result is taking money from people.

That said, I’m really curious of the causation of higher tax rates on economic growth. Like, if you want to still be just as rich, you have to work even harder.

Personally I think slightly higher taxes would be acceptable, but I don’t at all trust the economic efficiency of the federal government right now. We need food, transit, houses, healthcare and education... but I don’t think these would be spending priorities.
Thanks for the link, Rodoauth looks interesting. Especially that all JWT things is already included.
It's very real scarcity. We're talking about a single unified globally unique namespace, that must serve billions of potential registrants. There are only so many short strings and common dictionary words available, and way more people want them than can get them. So a domain like e.g. clothing.com, or clothing.{some other popular TLD} is absolutely a very scarce economic good in a real sense. It's more scarce than almost anything else I can think of; most products are fungible and more can be manufactured to meet increased demand, but you can't sell multiple copies of the same domain name. A good domain name is like an original artwork by a known artist, in scarcity and in price.
I wonder what's going to happen to tensorflow Swift now, seemed like Chris was the main champion there.
How else can it be measured except by the sentiment of the people here expressing it? You can argue there's a silent majority, and I think a lot of us may not disagree, but the sentiment of the people expressing themselves should at a minimum be judged to be sincere lacking and further evidence otherwise.

The uncertainty of Google's service future and also the loss of control of my own data's future drove me to purchase email services from a commercial email provider rather than continue to rely on Google's Gmail for my personal email. So, I can say I also share this sentiment, and I am actively seeking alternatives to all the other, more "stable" services such as Search, Maps, YouTube, and so on and trying to rely less-and-less on them.
I really hate the way AWS forces you to choose between portability and cost-efficiency.
IMHO the carefulness that was put in writing that message make it impossible to interpret it as antisemitic or bad faith. Actually interpreting it as antisemitic is bad faith.
Yep. If this is really about fair and competitive markets — fine — just go after all the other industries as well!
Not sure what you mean by "faces", but I count 24: 4 outside "N"s, 4 inside faces, 4 upper corners, 4 lower corners, 4 slant tops, 4 slant bottoms
WebAuthn, interesting. It's not quite the same, because they want to offload the private key storage and computation to hardware, which requires browser changes. My design requires either nothing or at most an extension install.
And AdWords, obviously
Can you explain why this is such a problem? The way I read it it's for development, not distribution.
As with most things in life the total emotion is a sum of multiple unrelated experiences. The primary driver is the product shutdowns, but its also a mix of Google's original reputation as "the best" or "the smartest", combined with above average salaries and compensation.

It's like if that annoying know-it-all at works makes a mistake, the mistake seems extra bad.
Edge TPU will eventually be canceled as well, I'm pretty sure, which is why, as exciting as it is otherwise, I'm not using it for anything practical. There's just no way to make $1B/yr with it, so it's officially below Google's executive interest threshold.
The Knuth quote stands. It has been and continues to be one of my favorites. It has served me well.
> However someone with 55% hash power can get 100% of the rewards plus fees a significant bonus.

Note that, until the 2-week boundary where difficulty adjusts, they only get 100% of the roughly 45% less frequent rewards, since the 45% orphan rate will slow down overall progress.
I use RSS to quell the internet firehose, specifically Feedbin (also great for Twitter lists).

I do a fair bit of reading in Feedbin. Anything I read and want to save, I tag and send to Pinboard. If I want to read it later, I mark it as such and also send it to Pinboard.
The code is simple, but the runtime is incredibly complex and every implementation is slightly different ;)
I've been told I should've shared the friend link to remove the paywall (my bad), here it is: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-build-a-diy-web-scra...
I think Voice is still going? My number still works anyway which surprises me. Gtalk moved to Hangouts which presumably is getting another transition but seems to still be going. And then Docs/sheets/etc.
A better (worse?) story is Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, and Windows 10 Mobile all being completely different, incompatible platforms that deprecated the prior one, before they decided to give up and use Android.
I mean, seeing google making announcements on regular every few months about shutting down another product that people actually use would kinda lead to this sort of sentiment. I wouldn’t say it is unexpected at all.
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Have you read the letter ?

> I'd personally volunteer to give the same talk twice for both audiences.

And you've drawn a lot of false equivelancies, leaving aside that its completely unrelated to this topic.

The article is about the interpretation of Anti-semetism.. Not litterally where the conference should be held.

But seems you haven't read it.
My guess is that Swift+Tensorflow on hold.

Last I checked, Swift is still years away from 1st class Windows support and adequate tooling. Without those in place, Swift+Tensorflow is still a very niche product for Google and I cannot think of a good enough reason why they should heavily invest into it.
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
That's lot of money per dev.
Let this be a warning, never get locked into a platform specific solution.
The advantage of the "this vs. thin" example is that they are pretty much identical in structure. They both start with the "th" group, followed by the same vowel "i", and finally end in a consonant even if it's a different one. None of the usual "but it's grouped with this", "but it's followed or preceded by a vowel or a consonant", etc. should make a difference.

The "ch" is pretty much always read "tʃ" instead of individual letters. And I think "ci" is also pretty much always pronounced as "si" (Pacific, specific, city, scarcity, etc.).

As an individual letter yes it changes but you can find a semblance of a rule when using the ch vs. ci examples.

Fun read: Ghoti is a creative respelling of the word fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
http://t3x.org

Has been around since the early days of the web.
Another one for the Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
How would the community collectively agree to ignore the rogue chain in a timely fashion? If a client announcement is sent out, that'd help, but there'd still be a lot of people stuck on the original chain (for example, some people on vacation or something). For at least a few days, there'd probably still be a lot of trust to capitalize on, and they could possibly get away with a few big heists (e.g. making a big purchase with BTC and then reversing the transaction after you've received the items).

Also, if the community does ignore the rogue chain, what's to stop the attackers from switching their attack to the other non-rogue chains as soon as they seem to gain traction? If they can hypothetically reliably sustain 51%+ power for weeks, they could potentially perform a DoS on an entire currency. And you're right, Bitcoin would probably soon reach close to $0 (though would probably slowly bounce back once/if the attack seems to be permanently thwarted).

If I'm understanding your last sentence right ("probably boost other existing resources to back it out"), then I also think that'd be the most likely scenario. A serious sustained 51% attack (lasting beyond several days) would turn into a Dragonball Z-like battle, with both sides firing continuous energy beams at each other in parallel. Each side would be trying to increase the magnitude of their beams to keep the other side's beam from collapsing theirs. I think the legitimate mining team would have a lot more energy in reserve (e.g. good samaritans who start mining for the first time to help push away the attackers - kind of like Goku's Spirit Bomb, which Frieza can't replicate) and would probably win. However, if for some reason the attackers can win for weeks at a time, then it'd be a serious DoS.

Disclaimer: I might be misunderstanding something important here. Not a cryptocurrency expert whatsoever.
Maybe the fact that the people there don't do anything about the groups that live among them who intentionally target Israeli civilians like they were legitimate targets?

I wish nothing but the best on the Palestinian people and a quick death on all the terrorists who use their own people as human shields.
Damn, I hope that family wins hard. This sort of theft is widespread amongst other law enforcement agencies as well. I hope that they win hard enough to make everyone stop (or at least curtail) stealing.
I think you might have misread. I'm excited about it, it just wasn't mature enough for anything client-facing for me.
Ballmer was an ineffective leader, and he's gone now.
I was also pretty excited when I heard that they were baking autodiff into the language but unfortunately Swift has very little traction outside of mobile development, which makes it a hard sell.

I think a compiled subset of python is the best way to make that happen. All of the JITs (Numba, PyTorch, Jax, etc) already handle a decent portion of the language, so it should be doable.
By running 2 x 4K screens, you have a multiple of MP (megapixels) compared to the UW fans in this thread who are essentially just running two mid-2000s resolution screens without a seam — I don’t get it.

If monitors were sold by MP like cameras, all this ‘resolution’ stuff would stop confusing buyers.
Does this apply to things like Square card readers plugged into an iPhone?
Why especially Amazon, I haven't seen them shutter any major service?

I've seen lots of companies throw away their V1 and start over (hopefully with the knowledge learned), so my opinion is that it's okay to vendor lock-in and leverage stuff like AWS Load Balancers, ECS, etc. You're going to end up having to rewrite it when you finally scope out your real challenges, so it doesn't matter if V1 was agnostic or vendor-based.

> You're better off investing your time into building your own agnostic solution.

This sounds suspiciously like 'not invented here.'
What shift?

It's my understanding that Qt had subscription based model for a long time. Commercial Licenses are sold for time and developer seat.
I can understand it, but how can you expect to keep living normally as if nothing was happening, when your army's snipers are shooting live bullets on protesters and 10% of your population lives on illegally occupied territories?

This is not "a geopolitical debate", this is a fundamental human rights issue.
Nothing about supporting Palestine bothers me in the slightest. I'm explaining why someone might think a thread about organising a conference about an open source operating system in a city with many open source contributors is not the appropriate place to bring it up.

Don't bring geopolitics into everything. That way lies madness.
Windows Defender is a little too understated IMO. Most people don't even know that it's a decent antivirus.

I wouldn't mind if better marketing for Windows Defender made a bunch of shady antivirus companies go bankrupt, but Microsoft probably doesn't want to get into another round of antitrust lawsuits.
We've built a tool that can fill the gap for anyone looking at alternatives called Webase.

You can check out Webase here: https://www.webase.com/
Interesting! Can you link to any examples / info about grit? Maybe an amazon product page or something too?
Computational power is not a good proof of anything. It devours energy and disproportionately rewards weird market actors (like people with custom mines ASICs).

I always wondered whether storage could be used as proof of stake. It might use less energy and it probably will have much better effect on the IT industry as a whole. First, mining ASICs are not general computational devices and cannot be used for anything useful. On the other hand, storage is storage and can be repurposed. Second, it will up the prices for storage hardware, but that is probably a good thing in the long run. (Consider how super-cheap storage enabled unlimited surveillance and software bloat, for example.)

I don't know whether access to storage can solve all the problems a blockchain solves, but it can solve some. Like proving that you're a real actor in the system, rather than a temporary fake.

Some random ideas I had about how this could work:

If you want to transact with someone, they send you a challenge that consists of a set of addresses in a large file. You must respond with a hash of data at those addresses, problematically proving that you have the entire file.

This is the foundation. There are obvious challenges to how useful this is. Many of them are solvable.
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Fat Men from Outer Space?
This was news to me, but is dated July 2018.
(This is from July 2018.)
> Wine is an emulation layer

Wine literally stands for “Wine is Not an Emulator”.
Beginner's Guide to Grow a SaaS
Very true, but the other old saying is,

"Fool me once, shame on your stupidity.

"Fool me twice, maybe I'm the one being stupid by believing you are acting in good faith, and attributing to stupidity, that which was actually caused by malice."
> And unlike PoW, if you fail your "attack money" gets nuked.

To be fair, in PoW your "attack energy" (and thus money) gets nuked too.
There are lots of these TLDs with restrictive registration policies based on who you are and they tend not to do very well because they're too much hassle and they suffer from a chicken and egg problem; not many people use them so there's little added benefit since the average user isn't aware that they're more restrictive, and then since it doesn't really matter to users potential new registrants don't bother with the increased hassle and cost.
No. Proper or more sophisticated quoting syntax would encourage an author to offload some or most of the interpretation of the quoted sample to the reader.

In the interest of the reader(s), the author should extract the meaningful from the quote and present it in a simple, readable form thus demonstrating that time & effort have been spent on (a) understanding and (b) asking the right question/presenting distilled information.
Yes, these UWs are a marketing trick compared to two 4Ks side by side. They can run old low resolution panel manufacturing line and cut it in longer strips, charge more than two 4K screens.

The antidote is to calculate your megapixels, and decide accordingly. You would with a camera sensor, so do the same for your displays.
FYI, more comments over on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
But then it’s not really cost efficient, eh? Just a mirage until the pain comes. Until then, “let them consume highly abstracted services”.

There’s a reason some savvy firms continue to own their own infra. No one is forcing you to use AWS.
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Your proposal would break it an order of magnitude more, easily.

Also keep in mind that domain names are treated as property in most jurisdictions. You cannot take away someone's foobar.co.uk domain just because you want to retroactively change policies. It's not even possible from a legal standpoint.
Portugal hacker says he exposed African tycoon
Don't underestimate corporate stupidity.
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
Why would windows matter so much for tensorflow? Isn’t most ML work these days done under Linux?
Goes right up there with: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me."

I have been 'burned' by Google once.
I have learned from history, and the foibles of others related to Google.
I won't be fooled again.
who on earth has got Bitcoin Gold in his pocket ??? ;)
You can do much better than that! The simplest way to profit from a 51% attack is to send some coins to a crypto exchange, wait for the required 'n' blocks to confirm your deposit, then 51% attack the chain to remove your original payment. At the same time, you can either withdraw your ill-gotten coins from the exchange, or trade them for something else and withdraw onto a different blockchain entirely.

This mechanism lets you double your money (minus the cost of the 51% attack)
This feels like that time when the Colorado Attorney General sued Boulder County on behalf of the poor, defenseless oil & gas companies.
It's a shame that progressive thoughts get laughed at in the field of academia.
You obviously never watched enough Gilligan's Island :-) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230840/
Further proof that the US federal government now exists mainly to defend domestic corporate interests.

Climate change -- just like the breastfeeding resolution -- is the other example of corporate greed corrupting the government to the detriment of science, the environment and public health.
After apple Lattner went from to tesla to google to sifive in no time flat.