skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only skimmed this article but I didn't see any step where the default credentials ("pi"/"raspberry", IIRC) are changed so if you follow this guide you should expect your "home server" to be hacked and become part of a botnet shortly after you

> head to your router settings and port forward 80, 443, 22 and any other ports that you might want.
> Testing cars you can't afford is awesome.

How much does testing cars cost the dealer? Compare it to the mattress.
3D star maps would be a great application of VR.
Note the word "privacy"

California Constitution

ARTICLE I DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

SECTION 1.

All people are by nature free and independent
and have inalienable rights. Among these are
enjoying and defending life and liberty,
acquiring, possessing, and protecting property,
and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness,
and privacy.
Many people are pointing out that the 2.3% rate is just the case fatality rate (so known cases) -- probably the most cited source right now for infection fatality rate (which makes corrections for unreported cases) is this: https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...

The current estimate is 0.94 (0.37, 2.9).
> until I set our services to run on system boot.

Which pretty much is how things were always done, even in the PHP-CGI days.
You can try Stellarium, a multi platform software that lets you navigate instantly across space: https://stellarium.org/

Not sure if you can get as far as this, but certainly worth a try if you are looking for a more detailed experience.
I'm not OP, but I'd guess its because there is a really limited market for mattresses. People of course need and want them, but the turnover is (or can be) a very long time. I have a mattress in our guest bedroom that I used in college, over 20 years ago. It could probably be replaced, but will probably only get replaced with our main mattress when we replace it. It's fine for the minimal guests we have or when my wife or I sleep in it when we are sick (and don't want to keep the other awake).

So for mattresses you really can't afford low margins if you want to stay in business. I can't imagine mattress stores sell more than several mattresses a month. As for why Casper and Purple mattresses are so much when you are supposedly removing the middle-man (the physical stores), I'm not sure. Because they can? I don't really understand why someone would buy one of their mattresses that you can't test out at a store, when you can pay the same price at a store and test out all your options.
tldr; With money.
It's not really a question one could answer no to in my view. The historical struggles against absolutism really don't allow any other answer but that power requires powerful checks. And that some forms of power are not legitimate at all.

With capitalism the solution was roughly that some things were taken out of money's reach. You can't buy them. Still I say that a guy like Bloomberg has too much power. It's not like the struggle is over.
Except the blue check can be and has been revoked for reasons that have nothing to do with identity.
NPR's Planet Money podcast recently had a relevant episode on Germany's feed-in tariff.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797322305/episode-965-das-gre...
Bill gates hit the nail on the head when he said that modern climate mis-activism has become a bigger threat to humanity than climate change denial.
I imagine black box data from plane crashes, or in general data that comes out of a tragic event that no one can or would want to replicate, but is otherwise extremely valuable.

Of course, if you can sell it to one person, they can just pass it off to others, so this will quickly turn into a DRM business profiting off tragedy. Probably not a good idea.
“Superspreader” in South Korea infects nearly 40 people at church with COVID-19
You can also get free stuff from the shop by putting it in your pocket and leaving.
They mention they cannot push enough GPU juice to the screens, so they only render the camera focus area in full resolution. Also there is 12 frame lag which prevents moving camera too fast.
Neither what's illegal and what's immoral are static (though I concede that it is often slower to change laws than public perception)
So it sounds like the salient aspect here isn't necessarily the type of data, but the manner in which that data is collected. Looks like compstak's success is a result of creating a platform that facilitates crowdsourced data points that are difficult to acquire using traditional data collection approaches...that scarcity is what makes the data valuable, especially since that data can be used for leverage in a negotiation. Also, they appear to prop up the overall scarcity by only granting access of existing data to users who provide new data.[1]

I'm curious how they figure out how much to charge companies for this data? And also how they stop real estate insiders from gaining access without sharing new data?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/18/compstak/
Not all, but Romans do stand out. While Greeks were discussing philosophy and building mechanisms like Antikythera, Romans were slaves to the rich, building roads and aqueducts with arthritis and broken bones, and rotten grain for food.
So any Internet forum which has to moderate content (because there is illegal content for which the law doesn't provide immunity from) is a publisher now and has to be able to fully vet everything everyone posts?
If you're a retail brokerage, most of your revenue (60%+) comes from net-interest. This means taking your clients money and lending it out long at 8% when your short-term funding costs you 2%.

For an established bank like MS, the net-interest is a drop in the bucket. The strategy here is about getting a young, educated, well-off retail base.

The demographic trends are such that there is a multi-trillion inter-generational wealth transfer occurring over the next decade as the baby-boomers pass on their wealth to their millennial kids. You want to get in front of that.
It would be interesting to see quick deploy to firebase, aws (lambda??) or other services.

Any idea what a moderate size website (10k users per day,500k events) would cost to run on Heroku?
Rails File Upload Behind The Scenes
You should notice that I qualified it with "very".
Recognizing a car that is going to let you in in front of it is not black magic. Yes, it will take a lot of data. Yes it has to be done safely. Self-driving cars will have to learn and join the dance.

Sure, a fallback remote pilot is probably going to happen too, but that's a very big can of worms. Just think about what happens if the remote pilot wants to take the car through a rail crossing and the connection drops. Whoops.
The thing is: you guys are talking about two different things but using the same word. One is talking about Scandinavia and one is talking about The Khmer Rouge.
Or, do what I (and lots of others) do: run an open access point. The one I run does not allow access to my LAN at all and I impose certain limitations on it, but it's available to anyone. No credentials required.
I have to admit the “full retard” is one of the best lines I have ever heard in a movie. Maybe “10-20 million dead, tops” from Dr Strangelove is on that level.
Merrill was more of a bail out during the GFC than some brilliant deal making.
The code is at: https://github.com/amirouche/copernic

A quick tour is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbYfuOhG9w

Here is the equiavlent of the following SPARQL query:

SELECT ?uid ?key ?value WHERE {
?uid <http://title> "copernic" .
?uid ?key ?value
}

link: http://copernic.space/query/?uid0=uid%3F&key0=title&value0=c...
The best part is that you have to use their wax refills. So they'd get you on the initial purchase and then get you again supplying you with wax.
Then maybe you should propose and support a law that addresses that very point instead of taking a hammer to it and completely breaking any Internet forum out there, especially those that won't have the money and size to afford to deal with this.
I don't know if your arguments are miscolored, but they all seem to apply just as much the other way around. How exactly do Trump supporters get ignored or denied? Trump's primary policy seems to be that he wants to ignore and deny various minorities. It really appears to me that the primary reason Republican voters are angry at liberals, is that the liberals don't want them to discriminate foreigners, LGBT people, and women. Republicans claim they're being persecuted merely because other people are receiving the same rights they have. Many of Trump's policies are specifically about hurting people, denying them rights, and protecting people who hurt people.

Do you understand why I find it hard to have any sympathy for that?
Well, to start, the number of n-bombs they drop is super uncomfortable these days, even with satire in mind. I love the movie, but that aspect just feels off now, even though I understand the intent.
Well to start the actual information in the story is about the folks involved... and they got all that done without any overarching conspiracy from ownership.

So is the risk here some unproven ownership influence, or the something any given dude can just go and do if he can get a job?
If they would open offices elsewhere, they would drive prices up there, too. In fact here in Berlin they cancelled their plans after protests by the locals.
The medical markets, but I don't want to go any further because that's what I'm doing right now :p

SMART on FHIR is a newish standard for medical applications that is getting a HUGE push from large companies like Cerner, Epic, along with all the tech giants. Hospitals are itching for more FHIR apps that can integrate directly into their Electronic Health Record system (and web apps be delivered directly on a doctor's web portal within the hospital's IT system).

So that might be a good place to start poking around...

Here's a good brief overview: https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo...
Yes, they most definitely want the cake and eat it too but there are lots of good arguments to make for that, arguments that have nothing to do with sustaining the business model of multi-billion dollar Internet companies.
The question is why the ISPs can't claim the same protections as The New York Times in selling this data. IOTW: is this a 'you know it when you see it' type of situation like pornography, or is there a real differentiator?
Just yesterday I discussed a blog post that I have on my mind, with somebody from dbt, on the rise of the open source analytics stack.

there's a bunch of great hosted tools out there, across ETL, workflows, dashboards, etc. Think Fivetran, Segment, Matillion, Periscope, etc. And then of course the warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, etc.

But I think there are three issues with that stack, roughly like this (I've got to do some more thinking, would appreciate your input):

- Privacy: you have your customer data flying around in all these different tools. it's hard to impossible to track your compliance

- cost: all these vendors charge in some way by data volume, MAUs, etc. - you get taxed multiple times for the same data stream. It all adds up.

- control: your data is subject to pre-determined schemas, proprietary formats, black boxes, etc. - mismatch for the same metric across different tools, less flexibility to manipulate your data and pack up and go elsewhere.

I think there's a valid open source alternative for every layer of the stack:

Segment --> Rudder Labs, Snowplow

Matillion --> Airflow, dbt

Fivetran --> Stitch / Singer

Periscope, Looker, Tableau, etc. --> Metabase, Superset

Warehouses --> just yesterday I learned about materialize.io here on HN

And then add open source products like PostHog, that add additional value for very specific use cases (in this case product analytics).

Not arguing the value of the hosted products. They are amazing to use if you just get started. But there's a great open source "stack" available that long term likely will be more transparent, more flexible, and cheaper.

Would love your thoughts!
> Wow. How do Palantir engineers sleep at night?

Like other >99% of the engineers in the world.
Aren't they just a middleman for AWS anyway?
I don't heat because I want it cold. It's hot enough in summer, in winter it's finally cool.
> The worlds worst IoT idea is almost fully funded

Most dangrous perhaps.

This is an absolutely great idea. An actual use for IoT that makes sense.

But it is very unsafe.

If could be put away and accidentally ignited, or have been knocked over.

If you can't see how useful it is, then you are quite short-sighted.

But the reason it's so great is people haven't designed non IoT versions because of the extreme danger.
Compiling a Mac OS 8 Application on macOS Sierra
Yes. The problem is that, once the ability exists to nuke whatever you consider to be illegal, someone else will use it to nuke stuff that you like.

If every country could impose its standards on the Internet, there'd be no Internet. It's only worked so far because the US has strong free speech rights, and has dominated.
big deal, huh
The best book about the ARPA/Parc research community (Parc sprouted from ARPA) is "The Dream Machine" by Mitchell Waldrop: it is both the most complete and most accurate.

"Dealers of Lightning" is at the next level but far from the bottom. Its flaws are too much "Heroes' Journey" and a very complex and confused jumping around timeline (I had trouble myself orienting in some of the spots). But it also has a lot of good stories, of which a reasonable number are "true enough".

"Fumbling The Future" is extremely inaccurate.
I'm not familiar with pam_shield but I've used the pam_faillock module (which is similar to pam_tally2) for years and it just works(TM) [0].

In fact, here, it's automatically configured on each and every host at install-time (via the post-installation scripts in my kickstart files). I can't remember a time when I ever needed to "touch" it afterwards.

(A few years ago, I evaluated pam_tally2 vs. pam_faillock and settled on pam_faillock but, unfortunately, I can't recall what led me to that choice.)

---

[0]: In reality, though, it doesn't really do much. There's only two Internet-facing servers with 22/TCP open to the world -- the bastion hosts -- and only public-key authentication is permitted on those.
"egg tray" !!!
While scary, it's not exactly relevant to any Tesla made after they broke off from MobilEye (Which I think was 2016?).

Current Teslas don't read speed limit signs, they access an online database. Vandalize the speed limit signs all you want, as modern Teslas aren't even reading them.
>In 1985 a contemporary machine would be the Atari 65XE for $120.

Or the Amiga 1000 at $1295!
Future crimes: Aggravated tweeting. Seditious live stream.
That'd be a 25 light year sphere, but then that just leads to the same question with a different number.
I agree with most of that, which is why I think LARPing is a fair metaphor. It succinctly gets across that this is a cool thing for techies but not for general usage when it's safety critical.
Ransomware attack forces 2-day shutdown of natural gas pipeline
in fairness, changing the password is step one on any internet connected raspberry pi.
I like this. Reddit should not be allowed to remove r/* because they don't agree with the politics of the subreddit. To enforce it, all members, individually, should be eligible to arbitrate the removal. Given the arbitration cost burden to the company, this would make them think twice.
> Can't they set up an offsite hotbox to get rid of the bedbugs before it gets onsite?
I am not sure if you are serious or not, maybe you think charities have huge amounts of money to throw at all problems like Google does?
My high school started at 7:17am and I would have given anything for a 9am, or even an 8am, start time.
The problem with just limiting it to illegal content is who gets to decide what is illegal? Websites don't have jurisdictions in the classical sense. Should website follow German laws and ban Nazi imagery? Should they follow follow Polish law and ban blasphemy? Should they follow Russian law and ban homosexual imagery? Should they follow Chinese law and ban support of for an independent Hong Kong?
At a $10/hour minimum wage, that's a range between $20,000/year and $1,000,000/year.
The article is about energy politics, not personal preferences.
The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits
The icons are fine, but some are identifiable as Microsoft/Windows, and others are completely generic.
Nikola Badger
It's tricky. Read up on Pareto Optimization.

You can't really trade off square footage vs commute length linearly because there is no objective criterion.

What you can do is prove that Apartment A has fewer square feet than Apartment B and a longer commute so A is dominated by B.

Out of your complete set of apartments you can that there is a small set that dominate all the others. When you are down to that you can make your personal choice from that set.
Well if we're playing loose with language and all:

- the IRS didn't target conservative groups specifically, they just chose to stand down the audits on billionaires and add extra auditing of groups with particular keywords in their name, keywords such as; tea, party, people, patriot, country, or 9/12 to name a few. These tax exempt or applied for exempt status groups were likely funneling money and investigation was needed. Results inconclusive.

- Affordable care act mandated that you could keep your doctor. And you could. You just might not have been able to keep or afford to keep your health care plan. So it's really the fault of the people who didn't keep or couldn't afford to keep their plan, giving the ACA a bad rep.

And my personal favorite,
- Hillary may Have ordered action taken on contractors and other actors when she released sensitive documents about certain employees from her private server.

I normally attribute such things to malice, but I've learned to never underestimate the gullibility of people who listen to MSNBC, CNN and occasionally FOX.
Isn't technically the internet, as a whole, operating as #1 (at least, in theory?).

If I want to post material that is sketchy, or even illegal, I can typically get away with posting it somewhere. It means that I have to host the content but it also means I have total control.

So in a way, revoking section 230 would inevitably break up the big sites by forcing people who are interested in posting/hosting content that others disagree with on their own.

While this would have some economic impact (just like demonitization), it might also mean that the amount of content might go down because people would have to defend themselves and their use of said content.

In a way, I'm a bit torn about this because revoking section 230 would seem like it comes about it from a different angle: removing the protection would allow the "free market" to respond whereas the other option would be the government "forcing" the breakup.
My manager at Google told me to keep my mouth shut.
Any rules that can be gamed, sooner or later, inevitably, will be gamed.

The "suspicious discontinuities" shown in this fantastic post are evidence for it.

It seems to be an Iron Law of Human Nature.
>I wonder if we shouldn't group kids by size for sporting activities instead of by age.

Depending on how small your buckets are, you may end up with a scarcity problem (players and admins/coaches). Also, age matters a lot in regards to coordination. A 13 year old who is roughly the size as a ten year old will, on average, have a large advantage.

Some people just aren't cut out for athletics genetically. Some grow later on and may or may not be interested. Age seems like a fair sorting criteria and general enough to not introduce too much complexity.
I think it applies to adults just as much, except most adults "get used to it". So at my company we've always started the day at 10am and everyone cites it as one of the things they like the most about working here (we then end at 5.30pm – which also works out well as all the 5pm rush traffic has cleared up by then).
> The basket of goods may include the price of gasoline, but does not include the cost of car insurance

Seems like CPI in the US does include motor vehicle insurance though.

> but does not the cost of buying a health insurance

It does according to the business insider article.

Seems to include wireless telephone services and telephone hardware so I'd be surprised if that doesn't cover a mobile.

Where are you using for your list of the basket of goods?

https://www.businessinsider.com/breakdown-of-consumer-price-...
I believe that investigation started before the Steele dossier. Steele was fuel on an already raging fire.
I know this is inappropriate..

but to me, it sounds like a fascinating and hilarious dystopian visions... there'd be entire legal teams dedicated to find, and claim and defend the corporate specific ways to implement.. a range check (NO! Don't put a space there! Oh dear!). Or, if a number is even. And an eternal cultural feud between the "is-even"-clan and the "is-odd"-triad.

Once we include mercenaries hired to steal certificates about a specific is-odd implementation, we're in a really weird kind of cyberpunk or shadow run.

Also, don't count the number of paragraphs in this comment and think about them. Don't! Or else!
> That's only true for discretionary spending. The article's whole point is that the real cost of a family's non-discretionary spending (Healthcare, education, shelter, and transportation) have gone up, to the point where they are no longer affordable on a single income.

You're overlooking that education, housing, and transportation all have a discretionary component. Having a house is non-discretionary. But having a house with 1,000 square feet per person (2015) versus 500 square feet per person (1985) is definitely discretionary consumption. Even if you say that college is non-discretionary these days (which I disagree with--somehow Germany manages with 75% of people not going to college), but all the amenities of modern colleges are certainly discretionary. (Compared to when I went to college just 20 years ago, even state schools have vastly nicer facilities and more administrative support.) And transportation isn't discretionary, but sharing cars versus having multiple cars per household certainly is.

Your argument also overlooks that two income couples were already typical in 1985, the author’s baseline year. Since 1985, women’s labor force participation rate has increased only slightly. (From 55% to 60%.) So more women aren’t working in order to afford essential expenses. About the same percentage are working. They’re just earning much more money. And they’re spending it on more consumption.

As to healthcare--the author's analysis is extremely misleading. The author compares health insurance premiums to a single man's wages. But most people who aren't on Medicare get their health insurance from their employer, and employers cover on average 70-80% of premiums. If you want to count health insurance premiums as a cost, you either need to separate out the employee-paid portion, or look at total compensation not just wages.
I was at fireside chat with the DigitalOcean CEO. Not once did he mention this. Very interesting though. I have always thought that debt would be the only way they grow and remain relevant in a crowded cloud space.
It makes you appreciate the distances between binary stars when it takes 30+ minutes to travel from one to the other at 1000C :)

Anyone slightly interested in astronomy should take the game for a spin or just to open the galaxy map and zoom out.
Why not capture carbon from air with surplus energy? Build few capture plants and buy energy to keep price positive, then sell carbon cerificates on european market.
Big tech: How to make sense of the latest tech surge
Brian Greene on JRE