skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until this kind of shit is legislated out of existence, every company that makes an installable program is going to be tempted to do it to generate more revenue. If it's not forbidden, every company will think they have to do it to remain competitive, morality be damned.

Until that happens, use a piHole.
> Where is the fun in that? Gotta throw an elastic kafka beanstalk at it behind a series of microservices that serve the frontend as multiple single page apps composed into one umbrella via iframes.

Had they done any of that, it might even have worked. I don't think their stack is as exciting as that.
I've never been more grateful for the protections of U.S. law. 100x leverage to gamble in cryptocurrencies? There's a recipe for the bankruptcy courts.
Election software made by Shadow, inc. No joke
Perhaps the density of the cargo is, on average, too low. The amount of ballast needed would make it impractical.
“ Bail is still being built, and will be available very soon, on iOS, Android and online.”

I have a feeling that OP hasn’t started working on anything, and is using this to prove that there’s a market for it.
Sneaky, but good for you!
You are implying that capitalism is the problem? What does privacy look like in non-capitalist places? What was the privacy like in East Germany? Or China? Or Cuba? Capitalism isn’t the problem, it’s the solution: build things people want and the market rewards it.
Agreed completely with this - there are second order effects to this as well on the customer side.

A smaller file for the same quality means that customers need less bandwidth to stream a show, improving their experience and decreasing buffer times, etc. This might not be as relevant in the USA as other places, but I'm sure there are a significant number of customers and potential customers that this will make a difference with.

With an encode-once stream-many setup, it's likely quite worth it for Netflix to pay whatever upfront transcoding cost if the resulting file is advantageous in any way.
> doesn't mean it is cost beneficial to do so now

But they are using AV1 now i.e. you should presume NetFlix have judged that the benefits outweigh the costs (unless you have other relevant information to share).
Ask HN: Books Like “Without the Hot Air” but in a different domain?
Read MacKay's book—excellent, albeit somewhat dated. I really like the "accounting" approach of doing up the numbers, and wonder if there are books similar to it on topics like carbon emissions, UBI (whether it's feasible, do the sums add up), and so on.
Obligatory xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/937/
Not mentioned thus far anywhere in the article or in comments: potentially weaponizing this against deep fakes.

What's to stop cameras from making raw photos "radioactive" from now on, making deepfakes traceable by tainting the image-sets on which the models generating the deepfakes were trained?

This isn't my field. I'm certain there's a workaround, but I'd suspect detecting sufficiently well-placed markers would require knowing the original data pre-mark, which should be impossible if the data is marked before it's written to camera storage. I haven't even fully thought out the logistics yet, such as how to identify the radioactive data.

But am I missing something? I feel like this is viable.
> If you let fly with a Hiroshima sized bomb (what this is)

It's actually less than half (1/3rd in most cases). W76-2 warhead (what's on these missiles) contains 5-7kt[1] yield vs. Little Boy's 15kt[2], and Fat Man's 21kt[3]

But I do think your other point still stands - these are still pretty large - large enough to not just be launched for any reason, or small reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W76

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
Not my experience. They work reliably and perform well. AMD drivers don't.
Google probably does 2 factor better than $smallapp. I'd probably take more than 1 form per report though (I think that falls under "similar systems" stuff you mentioned).
I'm really liking the blog of Amos: https://amos.me/. I haven't actually read many articles but I like what I've read.

I know this might be unpopular, but I also like to read Drew DeVault's blog: https://drewdevault.com/
Does anyone have the source code or packages for the apps? I think the HN community could have a field day with this!
The first sentence is comparing to the vast array of "less" lethal weapons modern police are equipped with with and how they seem to be more willing to use them in situations where they wouldn't be willing to shoot someone.
Create a Dashboard with Next.js API Routes - YouTube API
Ask HN: How to deal with bigger competitors?
Hello HN,

I'm facing a huge dilemma and I would get used for some advice.

With a friend, we start developing an app for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gyms in which the core features are the management of the classes, the attendance as well as the subscriptions and the payments, plus other features related to the sport itself.

This starts as a pet project which was an excuse to keep in touch, experiment with new technologies and most importantly have fun. Now we are evolving it into a business idea that we would like to pursue with a bit more focus and care to be able to eventually make some money out of it.

Everything started based on these promises so we didn’t do any research beforehand, especially in understanding the market and the competitors. Huge mistake.

We already have a pilot gym that is using it successfully, and we are about moving to the next step and adding a new gym to the network, in doing so we start doing some research and we spot a very big competitor that have already implemented all the features that are also in our roadmap and I’m not afraid to say that we panic a little bit.

What we should do now?
Is this project just not worth the effort anymore?
How do you approach such an issue?
Making it illegal won't solve much. E.g. FB doesn't sell private information, they sell the ability to target demographics. However I understand the underlying principle which you are espousing.

The genie is out of the bottle at this point. IMHO the only method forward is how do we as a society responsibly allow for coexistence such that all parties are satisfied.
If anyone wants to see a clear video of a rogue wave in the wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_4V3zqAvg
Where the literal hell did you get your certificate from? This thing is like a who's who of shady domains:

Common Name: app.groupchat.co

DNS Name: admin.lotto-dd.com

DNS Name: ads.noedgesoftware.com

DNS Name: api.picniic.com

DNS Name: api.plancto.com

DNS Name: app.decisao.net

DNS Name: app.groupchat.co

DNS Name: app.taifho.com

DNS Name: archaapps.com

DNS Name: aseanport.com

DNS Name: asielroofcompany.com

DNS Name: aurenice.tk

DNS Name: beta.g17.eco

DNS Name: beta.medicswitch.com

DNS Name: cfi.internal.develop.foodpairing.com

DNS Name: chat.hopkins.optelgroup.com

DNS Name: crm.mafdrive.ru

DNS Name: dice-of-god.com

DNS Name: dinorabazar.com

DNS Name: eatthethings.com

DNS Name: ecelladgitm.in

DNS Name: events.modus.vc

DNS Name: gamerwordjar.com

DNS Name: greenpiglet.com

DNS Name: imported.buja101.com

DNS Name: insidestack.com

DNS Name: insult.arnigu.info

DNS Name: jbsalenger.com

DNS Name: jooyoung.tk

DNS Name: jscimoveis.com

DNS Name: kyuuventure.com

DNS Name: lifeaceleradora.com.br

DNS Name: lisatb.com

DNS Name: loccitane-omy-experience.com

DNS Name: login-int.setkeeper.com

DNS Name: luyendethuongnhattraidat.tk

DNS Name: m-int.setkeeper.com

DNS Name: magicdocs.co

DNS Name: moletrappernearme.com

DNS Name: mushino.com

DNS Name: mypabox.com

DNS Name: nu12.dk

DNS Name: oaktown-greens.com

DNS Name: omkar.co

DNS Name: pathshala.samkitgroup.com

DNS Name: pattayaclub.it

DNS Name: pay.mealhero.me

DNS Name: pesquisa.corfio.com.br

DNS Name: petrafilme.com

DNS Name: piservertesting.com

DNS Name: postal.gift

DNS Name: ptmt.co

DNS Name: pwa.movementtracker.app

DNS Name: pwa.orderfly.in

DNS Name: review2019.bioproaplus.org

DNS Name: saraketabi.com

DNS Name: sitebuild.io

DNS Name: staging.playmetric.io

DNS Name: sub4.fdltest.net

DNS Name: sub5.fdltest.net

DNS Name: sub6.fdltest.net

DNS Name: sub7.fdltest.net

DNS Name: sub8.fdltest.net

DNS Name: webcomponents-qa.truckstop.com

DNS Name: www.archaapps.com

DNS Name: www.archeapps.com

DNS Name: www.asielroofcompany.com

DNS Name: www.bebyjay.com

DNS Name: www.birensuthar.com

DNS Name: www.bugrakara.com.tr

DNS Name: www.corfumap.tk

DNS Name: www.dice-of-god.com

DNS Name: www.dinorabazar.com

DNS Name: www.downmood.com

DNS Name: www.eatthethings.com

DNS Name: www.ecelladgitm.in

DNS Name: www.gamerwordjar.com

DNS Name: www.glowdeck.com

DNS Name: www.irix.pw

DNS Name: www.jscimoveis.com

DNS Name: www.kulxtreme.ga

DNS Name: www.kyuuventure.com

DNS Name: www.lost-monsters.com

DNS Name: www.nu12.dk

DNS Name: www.odhg.org

DNS Name: www.omkar.co

DNS Name: www.pattayaclub.it

DNS Name: www.perfi.eu

DNS Name: www.petrafilme.com

DNS Name: www.petrashortfilm.com

DNS Name: www.piservertesting.com

DNS Name: www.play-hangman.app

DNS Name: www.postal.gift

DNS Name: www.ptmt.co

DNS Name: www.rentingway.com

DNS Name: www.saraketabi.com

DNS Name: www.sitebuildergenie.com

DNS Name: www.tnsj.pt

DNS Name: www.unfabricate.com

DNS Name: www.wapini.eu

DNS Name: www.zzinc.com
A typical non-apology. Making it sound like there were just minor subtle errors that they could never have foreseen and were caught off-guard by.

They were deploying an app to a very inexperienced user group, via developer certificate enterprise sandbox because they couldn't get the app done in time for App Store review and approval. They didn't do the requisite amount of live user testing and were sending out instructions up to 3pm on the day of voting.

They had a chance to evaluate whether they should take on this job and do it right or not. They could've advised and warned the IDP that they were going to get in trouble.

But they thought they could handle it based on their past inconsequential apps. And they wanted the business and publicity of doing this job. They were wrong, and now playing it off like it was some minor mistake.

It wasn't. Just a typical story of overly confident people getting in over their heads, and now passing it off as no big deal when in fact it is a big deal. Maybe if such behavior was fined or penalized there would be a lesson learned...
This is specifically about how "Big Law" does this – so no, most lawyers don't do this, but the prestigious and high-paying firms do.

They're hardly "historical practices" when the 2007-2008 financial crisis is so recent. And the article goes deeper into the premises and mental models that place state power in service of private capital. I'm not sure why you so quickly dismissed it.
Compared to OCaml, SML pattern matching syntax can be frustrating, mainly because there's no guards. It's not needed that often - but when it's needed, the code with guards is much simpler than multiple branches with nested conditionals.
Do you mind sharing more details on how you store and manage these photo uploads? Are you leveraging NFS or cloudfront + S3 at all?
Working on a Kubernetes based clone of Instagram.

My plan is to deploy it and a VPN tunnel and give certain folks access to keep in touch. I’ll have instructions for self hosting and VPN key creation/sharing (Wireguard ftw)

There’s absolutely no reason to bother with cloud services. They’re nothing but big corp coopting our problem solving.

It always comes down to be gatekeeped but no one having the guts to gate keep a rich douche whose money to buy security goes away as soon as we do
Giant V-Shaped Airships, Space, and Phoenix Lights with JP Aerospace's Founder
The windows approach to driver certification makes this really difficult. Microsoft virtually requires every driver maintainer to pay $100-odd every couple of years for a signing certificate (and ironically enough this is done in the name of improving driver quality). For a corporation that's nothing, but it's a pretty steep ask for the hobbyist maintainers that OSS drivers tend to rely on.
Your suggestion that honesty and empathy are in conflict implies that honest people are less empathetic, which is at least as disparaging as anything I said.

I'm not suggesting it's something they need to correct. The problem tends to solve itself through selection. Flaky people hang out with other flaky people. Dishonest people have dishonest friends. Mercenary and opportunistic people have friends who are likewise.

Why bother with these elaborate rationalizations to justify dishonesty?
Independent of network cards, TLS using AES-GCM will cost one cycle per byte.
How about drones?
Maybe you can upload lists several times from same account? Then you don't need 10M accounts.
That is what we call a meta analysis. It is probably the best thing to look at if you are going to derive conclusions from science.
I think there are limits, though, to caring about people's preferences. To me, dealing with people who make me jump through hoops to successfully communicate with them is an incredibly draining, patience-testing, tedious activity. For some people it's worth it, and for others it's not; I've definitely reduced my level of interaction with some people due to this.

I used to be very introverted and shy, and I still hate doing things like answering the phone or talking in person to people I don't know (and I still work on improving there). But I've learned that communicating with the people around me who care about me (and vice versa) is nothing to be anxious about. It's taken literally decades for me to get here (I now consider myself a somewhat-shy extrovert), but I do feel that my life is better having (mostly) left that anxiety behind. I don't see this as some "personal preference" type of thing; I mean, social anxiety disorder is, well, actually a disorder listed in the DSM.

Your analogy about Candy Crush doesn't really speak to me, because I absolutely agree that there's nothing wrong with killing time with a silly game when you're in a situation where you have to wait (with the exception of games that deliberately and maliciously hook into addictive tendencies). But I do think that an inability/aversion/anxiety around basic communication between friends is actually a problem. I'm not saying that people who have these issues are bad people or anything like that, but I would hope that people with those issues actually view them as issues, and not just a "style of communication" or whatever.

Beyond that, one possibility is that this app just won't gain much traction, and it'll either fail or find a small niche. Otherwise, I just don't see this as something that people will use in moderation. I feel like the people who do genuinely need it (due to introversion or social anxiety or something like that) will use it frequently, and will end up bailing on more activities than they would have otherwise (which sometimes will be good and sometimes will be bad). And I think other people, who don't really have introversion issues, will use it as a way to make rude flakiness easier to justify, and have a normalizing effect on that kind of behavior.
A big part of the issue was that the app needed to be downloaded first and many of the precincts were in rural areas of Iowa with particularly spotty cell service.
Just saw this article from ProPublica [1] that basically implies they sent all the data over http instead of https.

So much for "improved security"

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-iowa-caucuses-app-had...
Two domain names got bought a week after I searched them on GoDaddy. It could very well be a coincidence, but it's tainted my perception of them.
I would guess that the substantial majority of repositories on github have had zero effort put into making them look presentable. The thing is that you don't normally see any of them because you don't spend your time on github looking for half-finished experiments that no one uses. Open a prolific user's profile and scroll down to the bottom of their repository list and you'll often see a bunch of completely unpolished things, though.
I've never heard that, but i've heard of being picked up by police being referred to as being rolled.
This guy is quoted in Vice magazine throwing shade on Vertica, a database written by a Turing Award recipient and used in many demanding roles. Then he hired some Starbucks prep cooks (literally, check LinkedIn) with no education and no industry experience and created a disaster. These events should replace whatever is currently in the literature as an example of the consequences of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
That does not solve the problem that more pages take longer to read. Given the pace of science these days keeping up with papers just in your subfield is an actual problem.
Eh, this article was disappointing.

It teaches good business practice of tackling 1 thing at a time & not over-engineering.

But simply using read replicas, caches, CDNs, etc. does not mean things will scale.

Actually, often this will break your app unless you write concurrency-safe code. Learning and writing concurrent code is how you scale, the "adding more boxes" is just the after effect.

For instance, we have about 10M+ monthly users running on GUN (https://github.com/amark/gun), this is because it makes it easy/fun to work/play with concurrent data structures, so you get high scalability for free without having to re-architect.

But learning something new is never an excuse for shipping stuff today. Ship stuff today, you can always learn when you need it.
Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming [video]
Yeah, 'good' was the wrong word. Maybe 'understandable' but that's still is a bit too charitable.

I was mostly musing about how changing code can have legal/business as well as technical side effects, and we've seen that to some degree with mobile app permissions who just grab everything because it's seen as too much effort to do it right. So I'm curious if this is going to change for the better any time soon.
Can you clarify how this relates to the article?
Frankly it is criminal what this organization gets away with with regards to humane labor practices. And it is criminal that one person made such a huge fortune off of the backs of so many other people. Perhaps the 21st century will see an end to this scale of exploitation, perhaps not.
Intrusive: adj. that is not provided through Google's platform
But that first step, "we need xyz"... they didn't.
No COI to see here, folks.

Why isn't the DNC harder on crap like this?
Although a little kludgey, it does cross of the boxes:

- Only allow one entry per GSuite ID in Google Forms

- Enforce yubikey 2FA on GSuite.

- Issue each captain a Pixel 1 with Google MDM for remote wiping and app deployment.

- Turn off all other apps (Docs, Fi, Photos, etc...) in GSuite.
Should this have a /s, or not? I can't tell! :)
It would be actually free in addition to being practically free, and it would come with multi-factor authentication, authorization, and abuse protection that is undoubtedly in another league compared to what this company barfed out.
"... that we got caught manipulating elections for our buddies."
Boosted’s struggling to move beyond electric skateboards
It is insane to use low-yield nuclear weapons because as they are incoming, the recipient has no choice but to assume the worst and potentially retaliate accordingly.

EDIT: Note: Not related to this article, but it is also insane to place nuclear weapons on typically conventional platforms such as a cruise missile, because then the recipient must now assume incoming conventional attacks could be nuclear as well.

Also, a low yield bomb is still a nuclear bomb!

EDIT 2: Note that it is also insane to use a high yield nuclear bomb, but we knew that already.
It's options, they just expire worthless. He could never lose $4.2M
Thanks for the great list, now to disappear down the wikihole :)
Yeah, that's a good point. I think I personally like the idea of a default-on get-together vs. one where people have to opt-in week after week. And, again, I do agree that your use case would be a really benign and useful way to solve your problem.
Why do people use GA? Every HTTP server generates a log. That's always been good enough for me. Then again my site doesn't have ads, so maybe that's the answer.
Also "they did good work" can't possibly be true, since Clinton 2016 was a bad campaign, with bad data, that lost.
All else being equal, that is...
Cool so if you get laid off but find a new job immediately, you still have to put off babymaking plans?
"We need more time testing this app, sir" - Dev

"No" - Manager

"But it could..." - Dev

"I don't care." - Manager

"Okay :(" - Dev
> just OWN up to it

That’s how you end up getting sued.
gravitational wave detection
The irony is that it used to be an ocean before climate change covered everything in glaciers.
The national party does not operate state elections and caucuses.
Hmm... I'm certainly rusty on physics principles, but as far as I remember the (flawed) classic bernoulli effect explanation of airfoil (assume equal travel time ... pressure differential causes lift) does not really directly talk about moving air down at all, and would hypothetically still work if all downward air movement from the top of the wing were magically canceled out, (and airfoil had an attitude of 0 degrees, so no downward air movement from the bottom).

Now granted even with that magic, there would be downward air movement relative to the airfoil, due to the airfoil rising, but that would be an effect of the lift, not a cause.

Now I could well be overlooking something here, and having invoked magic to violate conservation of momentum, this thought experiment is not rigorous, and is discounting the fact that the equal time hypothesis is unfounded, and even wrong. (But in reality the air above moves faster, so we would see a larger effect than predicted, even before accounting for redirected airflow.)

Of course there is no magic canceling out any downward momentum of the air from the top of the wing, and planes normally have a nose up attitude, so the bottom of the wing also directly reflects air downward, so downward directed airflow is definately also a cause of lift.
Any suggestion on what Prolog to use?
Your intuition here is great.

1. Nano bots -- no idea; outside my wheelhouse.

2. Liquid Biopsy -- many companies are working on diagnostic tests to detect cancer early, monitor treatment, detect recurrence, etc. Some of these products are already available but most are in R&D phase.

3. Immuno-Oncology -- the most promising development in cancer treatment in a long time. Successful tumors evade the immune system by essentially hiding themselves. Many companies are working on treatments to assist immune system in different ways. Some products have been in the market for a while now and have been pretty successful.
Having read about anonymization techniques I have started to believe that definitions of anonymity and pseudo-anonymity are well settle by now but criteria that contributes to the invariants for performing data transformation are not, so the result is that this criteria fail to guide the implementations of the transformations.

You keep data because data is economically valuable, but even when you care enough to implement some techniques that depends on the invariants you still fail to achieve something the better because of scale and because you don't want to refine the techniques. This also means that somehow somebody may have a technique that, provided enough pieces of data, can reverse you transformation.
The real question is how the rest of the market will respond to EVC, not necessarily VVC.