skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather see criminal penalties for execs who commit such actions. A good example is Boeing's CEO. He's the one whose policies led to the unnecessary death of 300+. He knew what he was doing and instead of a golden parachute, should be spending life in jail or even getting the death penalty as the number of people he murdered is enormous, eclipsing most serial killers. Have real accountability and real consequences and what happened will not happen again. Instead, he gets millions and a nice retirement for murdering hundreds. He's living the American dream: making profit off other people's misery. The same can be applied to other disasters that could have been avoided if the executives weren't negligent, uncaring, greedy assholes. But let's face it. Justice like this is a fantasy that will never happen because as a society we believe corporations can do nothing wrong. Or maybe it's just Washington that makes it seem that way. The distinction is almost irrelevant since Washington is supposed to represent our people.
If we accept that to use the word "communicate" to describe something is to anthropomorphize it, then I absolutely can just give it a name. I shall name it Clippy. However it does not, then my computer will not receive a name.

But in all seriousness I'm not sure if you're joking or just didn't read the comment I replied to. I don't think there's a time against asking if someone read a comment!
This looks like it could be pretty nifty for some niche use cases. Cool find!
"The government is failing to pursue these sadistic pedophiles! Better just leave everything in their hands and not empower the government to do anything."
I think it also establishes a connection between the dad and the kids that makes the dad a better parent down the road. At least spending a lot of time with my infants did change me enough to be a much better parent for the rest of the journey.
Just sounds like some vague connections thrown together that happens to match the thesis of his book. Yawn.
>> or shy away from it because of nonsensical urban myths.

I shy away from it because it gives me migraine headaches. Not everyone is like you, and that doesnt mean those others are being nonsensical.
It's widely known to academia (but often ignored by popular history works) that the vikings (especially the Swedish vikings) spend more time trading with the Arabs then raiding England to the point where several sultan's had viking mercenaries as their private bodyguards.

In fact the best contemporary description of an viking burial comes from an arab trader who observed one in what is today Ukraine.
I'm such a big Elon Musk fanboy that it pleases me to no end that the short strategy is failing. We need heroes of industry who engineer the things they think are important for society. I hope they can get their production ramped up to justify my optimism.
A few questions and observations:

* If I choose to use this notes app on multiple devices, and am careful enough to be the only person using it and complete any note taking on one device at a time (closing the app properly), I should be able to store and sync the sqlite database on any cloud storage service and wouldn't need the paid sync option, correct? In other words, the sync option makes multiple clients opening and making updates in the same time period a non-issue?

* The costing seems a bit weird when one digs in, because it defaults to counting in one GB increments even though the unit is stated as GBm and compared to things like KWh in the explanation. Even if you store only a few bytes of notes (or a few KBs), the documentation says that you'd still pay a minimum of 1GBm. So that works out to a $7.176 a year if you don't cross 1GB in storage used.

* Since this is open source with AGPL, anyone could fork it to support a custom sync mechanism that allows to store the database on cloud storage/sync services, but would have to make the source available if they distribute the app to others.
Hey, not everyone is thwarted by the dreaded front page. I generally look about 3 to 5 pages in because some of the more interesting discussions tend to end up getting flagged in one way or another.
If I could afford it, absolutely. In reality, my mortgage and other financial commitments would likely have necessitated me going back to work.

What we likely would have done instead is staggered my wife's medical leave with a shorter chunk of my own PTO rather than both of us being home at the same time, and put the baby into childcare earlier than we're currently planning on doing.
It's not challenging, but it's wrong. If you want to explain it to them, making a binding promise of what it would be used for, and have it be opt-in, that would be another thing.

It's not hard to see how to do it right.
Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
Good post. It would be nice to see a follow up with brands that don't track you.
Ask for more money to account for lack of career growth or ask to be moved to a different team. You are losing a TON of money by working with legacy technology, don't get duped. Imagine taking a job writing knockoutjs in 2020 for normal salary wow.
To the contrary I think much of the fear surrounding MSG is still based on a racist campaign against it in the 70s-80s. The rhetoric remains after the sources are mostly forgotten.

In fact specifically labeling it by its chemical name rather than any brand/whatever names was I think an intentional technique.
>...because it implies that the neural network has to understand object identity and movement, which requires understanding physics, and what a train or a person is to begin with.

I agree with most of what you said, but disagree with the need to know underlying fundamentals: most 5 year olds can throw and catch a ball without needing to understand calculus or Newton's laws of gravity.
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Oh come on you mean to tell me that private industries aren't full of nepotism, bribery, corruption, and incompetence?

Thalidomide, 737 max, Enron...

Meanwhile tons of public sectors run silently but smoothly and are taken for granted.

Your argument to demonize the public sector is ill considered, cliched, simple minded, and one sided.
My understanding is that the targets of this resent social safety nets. They view them as demeaning, especially since they are capable of work. But the only work traditionally available in the region is coal mining, and that won't be fixed by retraining. So they see the coal, and the ability to work, and grow resentful that they are forbidden from putting these two things together.

They are also attached to the places, and do not wish to leave. Retraining for new jobs in cities, or even different rural areas, means leaving longstanding family homes.

I need to note that I'm not an expert. I'm speaking here thirdhand at best. But I'll note that in the last Presidential election, when asked to choose between a candidate who promised retraining and social safety nets versus one who promised to re-open the coal mines, they overwhelmingly chose the latter.
> This is the paradoxical nature of the thing: attempt to emancipate women; in reality end up making them work like dogs for 40 years and (for many soon it seems) die childless.

This is begging the question. Nothing you've said has shown this is the reality.
Of course they want to know your approximate location. It will probably help them target ads for the next iteration of the tablet.
What is personally interesting to me as a classical liberal is to watch how both main parties engage with followers. I generally sign up for updates from both parties from local all the way up to federal level. I do this with a dedicated email address. It is interesting to watch the approach, intensity and messaging coming out of each camp. It is also interesting to watch how far and wide your email address and info is shared. Definitely do not do this with an email account you care about.
That happened to me, although I contacted support and they restored it the following day, no questions asked.
>users have little expectation of privacy to begin with?

The cynical side of me wonders how long it will be before prosecutors argue, with a straight face, that using evidence obtained from mass surveillance against people using Microsoft Windows is okay because Microsoft collects a massive amount of data so nobody should expect their files and activities to remain private; that there is or should be no expectation of privacy on such a system.

And then how long until warrant applications come in with supporting evidence that the subject of the warrant uses Linux and therefore their increased desire for privacy is prima facia evidence that they're doing something illegal.
If she's sitting in a cafe in some random country, let's say Morocco or Bermuda, what is their law enforcements motivation for finding her? As far as I understand, there is no arrest warrant out for her, nor any Interpol involvement. They've got better things to do, so I wouldn't be so quick to assume law enforcement around the world is in on this.
yeah, same. account created in oct 2007, never checked and i have everything turned off.
Well someone has been fined for disorderly behaviour for covering their face.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7036141/Police-fine...
Pakistan resumes China flights despite coronavirus crisis
Things may reverse in an unlikely fashion in the case of the water separation, but your shattered glass will never jump back into your hand and become whole again no matter how long you wait.

Some things are truly irreversible because death is a one way door.

It's no wonder we have different psychological feelings about past and future. Some aspects of the future are potential which have yet to crystallize, and so they can be changed before they set. Some things in the future are inevitable. Some aspects of the past are set in stone and you must accept that they cannot be changed. Some aspects of the past can change with new found understanding of past events. Hence the distinction in emotions. It doesn't take a scientist to figure that out, although I appreciate the line of thinking.
"The research that was put into finding optimal processes for those non-differentiating business functions can of course be invalidated at a later time."

And there's a good chance the new, improved process will make it into SAP sooner than you could develop a new software system reflecting the new process.
HIPAA data is not immune to a data leak... not even the organization that wrote those guidelines are immune:

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/201...

There's tons of PHI on the internet. Your local hospital's online medical chart, your insurance companies bill-pay, etc...
Is paid paternal leave viewed as a good thing by most voters (or voters represented by the larger part of the electoral college/senate seats)? That can be viewed as a factor that erodes the remains of traditional family.
See also the Varangian Guard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard

The Vikings really got around.
I agree that it was a very important process but what are the parallels with today? I think the current situation is more like 1920s and 1930s.
> If a manager has a track record of damaging behaviour or works in an industry that does obvious harm, why would somebody give them insurance?

If a manager has a track record of damaging behaviour or works in an industry that does obvious harm, why would somebody hire them? The liability to the corporation as things are now is the same as what it would be to the insurance company.

And that's assuming that actuarially the people who have made mistakes in the past are more likely to make them in the future. Maybe the people who have made mistakes in the past are the people who have learned what not to do and are a safer choice than someone with less experience, or at least are not sufficiently more risky that the difference in insurance premiums would be prohibitively large.

> People are talking like the results are useless unless it personally bankrupts the managers responsible, the goal is not to hurt the person responsible as much as possible, its to actually provide compensation for victims, and provide a market force to reduce harmful behaviour.

Making the managers responsible for corporate liability doesn't do much for victims because the managers typically have far less money than the corporation itself. All it can really do is try to motivate the managers to avoid the liability, but it doesn't even do that when it's the insurance company and not the manager that pays in the event of liability anyway.
Is it ok to sometimes be a jerk?

Is the jerk capable of sometimes pass on being a jerk?

It is OK to be yourself.

Unless you're a jerk!
He should comp the passengers and airline for the damages he caused them and they should all share in any material gain he gets out of this stunt that they suffered for.
They turned it off after somebody simjacked jack.
I think most commonly indemnification agreements are actually regarding B suing C or vice versa. E.g. if I sell you some software to use in your product ot resell, don't come sue me because you got yourself in trouble with it somehow.

To protect a third party from liability you would have to operate somehow like insurance, and that has a lot of legal requirements like you need to have sufficient cash in a bond or something to be able to guarantee you can pay claims.
> Do you mean employees of the federal government?

No, I mean most workers, under FMLA.

> How long is the leave?

12 weeks.

> Is it paid?

No.
I have. Twice.
Not agreeing is not the same as not allowing. I think this is a false logic. I see a lot of people mistaken freedom of speech with some god-given right of being listened to.
Nobody owns words, dances, numbers, or sequences of bits.

The fact that a kludge invented by congress to prop up a commercial industry a hundred years ago has so tainted our worldview to view everything as property with associated rights to be enforced against others is troubling.

You can’t own the exclusive rights to someone else moving a certain way.
Based on the "large network of fake accounts", I'm guessing the attackers were doing something to effectively query every possible phone number and associate an account to each one.
GDPR is currently entirely valid and enforced until December 2020. After that point it is believed that an entirely compatible law will continue to exist - currently the understanding is that the UK will be considered to have adequate equivalency therefore making it a safe third party country to transmit data for processing. No hard guarantees until the end of the year though.
Flaws in WhatsApp’s desktop app allowed remote access to files
YaCy does seem to already have topical crawlers, they are just users who crawl topics they find interesting. You not just get more than "the" website but [ideally] every small site they could find.
You're not shipping enough homepage updates
Google has released a tool to spot faked and doctored images
I think it could work with micro transactions on the backend. In B2C Internet consumers won't pay for content. But in B2B its the norm. Paying for an indexer or crawler is really no different than the umpteen million AWS transactions that occur everyday.

Most consumers probably won't want to pay for search. At least initially until the culture changes. But that's fine, they don't have to access the crawler or indexers directly. Instead they can point their browser at the frontend URL of their choice. And that frontend can monetize by injecting ads or whatever other business model they want.

As long as they earn more in ads than they pay on the open market for backend crawlers, indexers, etc., then they're a viable business. Given how ridiculously profitable Google is, this shouldn't be a difficult hurdle to clear.
Thanks for the insight. My intuition was kind of the same, but on modern hardware computing the digest-style (as opposed to cryptographic, slow-by-design) hash is essentially imperceptible for payloads in the low MBs -- and much above that is a use case for LFS.
TIL God was a fashion designer.
He's actually right. The community defends even bad decisions that come from the BDFL (more like just the DFL) and cargo cult parts of the language like ports or the inability to interface with native JS code.

And there really aren't any ways to make generic functions.
He's the chair of the math department at UC Davis, a public university under the University of California system.

The only thing different about the "oath" he cites and the diversity statements coming out now is the ideology they want you to subscribe to. Ideological diversity is diversity too.
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Thanks for sharing! Maker here!
It's certainly the more cynical explanation.

I believe wanting it for product development is just as simple.
Fair. Catalina is the last version of macOS that I will run. I will move my mac mini to Linux after Catalina loses security support, should it live that long, or I'll replace it with a NUC running Linux if it doesnt.
My understanding was that Stripe only does a very very small, specific portion of what "Banking" does, for a fairly specific subset and type of customers, for clearly defined types of transactions and needs. They were successful specifically because they would take well-defined, well-understood bites of the overall "Banking" problem that could be simplified, even at the cost of excluding the 1% or 0.1% "edge cases". I'm sure people here or Patio11 could correct me :)

I feel the failure of extrapolation between Stripe and Banking is exactly the failure of imagination most IT folks have between "single or multi purpose application" and "Enterprise Resource Planning Application".

One of the implementations I've worked on had 128 labour agreements. That's like 128 companies or ways of handling employees, in one. 10's of thousands of time and labour rules. Across 50+ government departments. A smart, focused company like Stripe would not touch that project with a 10,000 foot pole - but it still needs to be done :).
In Russia we sometimes joke, that a project can be implemented by a student paid with food. This project reeeeeally looks like such project.

I mean honestly, probably anyone here can create this “app” in a day.

Maybe I don’t understand the complexity, but it doesn’t feel like it has any. And if so, than no money could save it :)
The unit I used briefly (~10 mins) is comparable to my 2015 MBP
Is it that easy to start a new bank?
Rounting, styling and data storage is much better and easier to do.

I lost interest beacuse I wanted to help/influence it's the development but my ideas weren't welcome and after two? years since then the problems are still the same without a solution in sight.
I strongly disagree. The driver does not have to collect an event log in order to react to focus changes and switch settings. It much less has to transmit this event log, let alone to a third party such as Google.
Is it actually hard to disappear if you have money?
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>The government is notorious for being corrupt and inefficient

So is the private sector. Excellence is rare. Such is life, welcome to earth.
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TIL the origin of Calvinism...
What are the negative impacts?
Maybe Wacom isn't really aware of this and there is a guy named Rick who has set up an elaborate scheme to stalk his artist ex girlfriend.

Edit: While this post was meant to be tongue in cheek, it is possible and I'm not sure which is worse.
How do you server side render web components?
> The physical models we have are causal ones.

The question is do you need a detailed causal explanation you can understand.

In the case of lift, you can simulate aircraft model and calculate the change of vertical momentum in particles going above the wing and below the wing. Usually 80% of the lift comes from above the wing. If you are modelling a brick, it's the other way around. But do aircraft designers need to know that or are they just satisfied with less?
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As I said earlier, you have your right to an opinion, and can express it freely. If it feels awkward for you to not being agreed with or people not liking your views is not the same as someone not allowing you to have that opinion. So feel free to say and argue whatever you want, but people not liking what you say or people thinking you are having a strange opinion and rather not discussing with you have nothing to do with not allowing you to express that opinon. Saying that you are not allowed to have an opinion kills conversations.
So the right to privacy is a political agenda item now? I don't get what you are saying, can you please clarify?
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Screenshot Creator is a web app that helps mobile app developers create beautiful marketing assets for their App Store and Google Play listings.

Screenshot Creator came out of a problem that I had encountered when I was building mobile apps in the past. When listing apps on the App Store or on Google Play, I always dreaded uploading screenshots because they took me forever to make. I didn't want to just upload plain screenshots - I wanted to make them look just as good as the ones that the top apps had.

I used to spend hours making these screenshots and updating them. I tried to look for an existing screenshot maker but none of the ones in the market really stood out to me - they tended to be buggy, or hard to use, or too expensive. So I decided to make my own, and I designed it to be dead simple to use, but still really powerful.

Check it out, and let me know what you think!
ahh ok didn't realize
The press headlines of how much was spent on an IT system; as well as how much actually went to "coding" portion; in my experience can be sensationalized and wrong by several orders of magnitude.

As indicated elsewhere, ERP implementations can go spectacularly badly - and I maintain my claim that treating them as an IT project, which your estimate/equations are doing, is the #1 way of setting them up for failure.

In fact, I would imagine that the key work done at Stripe is not by talented engineers/coders with IT/systems knowledge (not to in any way put them down), but by business/financials/law/banking experts (who ideally would have some or lots of IT knowedge or background so as to not be dangerous). Again, think of our friendly neighbourhood patio11 as a perfect example of technical skills and hard-earned real-world business experience.
Had you bothered to read this little sub thread, you would have noticed that the original post was down voted into oblivion. Is that what you call a conversation in Sweden?
Assuming you have a relatively stable growth curve, you should have some ability to predict how long your hardware upgrades will last.

With that, you can start planning your rearchitecture if you're running out of upgrades, and start implementing when your servers aren't yet on fire, but are likely to be.

Today's server hardware ecosystem isn't advancing as reliably as it was 8 years ago, but we're still seeing significant capacity upgrades every couple years. If you're CPU bound, the new Zen2 Epyc processors are pretty exciting, I think they also increased the amount of accessible ram, which is also a potential scaling bottleneck.
also unchecked,and i have my phone number there.
> pressure cooked meat is very often gross and spongy

I haven't cooked much beef in it that hasn't become part of a stew, but my experience cooking chicken and turkey is that it comes out incredibly juicy and flavorful. Even better if you have the air fryer/convection add on. I've done turkey in it for the past several years for potlucks and family meals and it always gets rave reviews. For beef, part of the appeal was that I could brown it, saute aromatics, and then cook it in the same pot.
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What about RancherOS? Is that a viable replacement?