skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a factor. This is utterly bizarre and horrifying in the US. It's in the news because it is far far from normal.

She's 6, even if she needs arresting (and that's a rather big "if" there), she's tiny, she doesn't need handcuffs.

The person who did that needs to have their head checked. From the video they did not appear to be wantonly cruel, they appeared to be some sort of rule following robot, without a brain that says "wait - she's 6, let's not do that".

But this is not some normal thing in the US.
Y Combinator is completely out of reach for most people. There are limited slots and tens of thousands of applicants. It makes the whole selection process essentially pseudo-random.

Also, Y Combinator is not popular because it is successful, it is successful because it is popular.

It's no coincidence that Y Combinator operates the most popular technology news link aggregator in the world which all the big corporate tech executives read. This significantly affects the odds of success for startups which join Y Combinator. They choose who wins and it doesn't matter who they choose. If you are selected into YC, it's like winning the lottery.

They should do an experiment; filter out all the obvious scam applications then for all remaining applications (tens of thousands of them probably) run a random number generator to select startups based on keywords that YC likes. I bet the success rate for that batch wouldn't be very different from previous batches.
Microfunds as a way to gain early insight into promising startups
Ah, the wonderful feature the spies on my location to suggest me friends that are in my phone book, but aren't connected on Facebook in any way whenever I get to actually hang out with them.
I love Tailwind but hate having to deal with build tools and purgecss and package management and [insert modern workflow hassle] just for a little side project.

Is there anything similar to Tailwind that doesn't require any build process?
Amsterdam-based companies are hiring developers from everywhere
It is still debatable whether carbon emissions are falling. Most of the country hasn't got enough data under a carbon tax, and oil and gas pricing has swung more significantly over the last 10 years than the carbon tax impact, and that didn't impact consumption very much.
I don't think it's true that many jobs are being replaced by tech. Restaurant workers, store clerks, nurses, assistances, even warehouse workers and so on are stable. Go through a list of the jobs in the US that employ most workers and none in the top 30 have been created in the last 20 years.

Many economists have pointed this out. If the 'rapid innovation' that a lot of tech entrepreneurs talk about was happening (and they have an incentive to oversell it), we would see high unemployment (as people are being replaced) together with high productivity and high GDP growth. We see no such thing. The Andrew Yang robot horror scenario is nowhere in the data.

By historical measures, the technological progress of the 1940s to late 1970s vastly outpaces today.
Building your own infrastructure seems viable even for small countries.
f* off bernie
Delphinusdnsd: A small authoritative DNS server
Before just responding with all the ways this could go wrong immediately, I'm making clear that this is a discussion point, not a call to action. I'm aware of a lot of the immediate problems this suggestion could cause, I'm not posting this lightly. So:

As an expression of the extreme opposite end of all this, a talking point: what would happen if we simply stopped hiding information? Open up every server, make lists of name/add/SSN/credit info, medical, legal, everything under the sun open? Governments, too. And every company. Find every 'secured' server and remove all access restrictions, every machine, everywhere.

No doubt there would be about a generation or two worth of chaos, as everyone learns everything about everyone and we figure out new ways to protect ourselves from the bad actors/stalkers/black ops people now in the open, etc etc etc.

What would we look like as people and as a society?

Could we learn to be honest and aboveboard and treat each other with respect, instead of taking advantage of each other because of all the secrets and perceived leverage?

Remember, in this new world, all the corporate info is out there to see, all the personal details and dealings of the manipulators as well as us peons.

How hard is it going to be to be Google, profiting off marketed secrets, when there aren't any?

How hard is it going to be to peddle misinformation, when the actual history is there for anyone to look at?
Disambiguated source: https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost...
Not in the US. Nobody makes it here. Over $250 per 12 tablets at Kaiser. HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) is still used for autoimmune disease and is a lot cheaper.
Part of it is how we scope law enforcement's job. Thanks to technology there's tremendous growth in the amount of information about people. Traditionally law enforcement needs to find evidence that a person may have committed a crime, not necessarily prove a crime. Limited availability of data makes it less likely that law enforcement finds evidence on innocent people.

My take is that even with a warrant, law enforcement's reach into private data should be limited for a free society.
Seems that the officer got fired for this - https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-den...
The wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost 550$
MongoDB has _suspiciously_ amazing SEO and marketing. CouchDB's by contrast is awful.

As silly as that sounds as a reason to choose CouchDB it demonstrates where the respective company's priorities lie.
No, please do _not_ drop a double opt-in on this or any situation where you're collecting email addresses. People mistype email addresses all the time. Always verify email addresses before using them.

(This is a personal pet peeve since I have a short email address that tons of people sometimes think belongs to them, and get a huge amount of mail intended for other people.)
Congrats to the whole team.

Looking forward to CouchDB 4.0/FoundationDB goodies. Do we have any roadmap details on this.
Wouldn’t tapping dark fibre be a bit useless? Or were the links tapped while dark waiting for the target to start using them?
> At this point, you are now a world class expert at a technology that is not economically viable. But, you can't transfer that knowledge, or at least most of it. You are also now 50 years old, give or take.

> Back in the day when lots of people worked on hard technology, they were paid well to work on the problem

is the model closer to "tenured research scientist" rather than "startup founder or employee"?
New proposal for income-based parking ticket fines in Boston
Let's see, is the girl black? checks photos Yup.

Welp, this is America.
Most (theoretically all) automated trading is going through some sort of risk checking software to prevent it from doing just that. The broker dealers are only allowed by regulation (enacted after the flash crash) to allow the algorithm guys to respond so aggressively (the limit is usually an internally set one but you gotta be within it or the feds get on your case) to changes in the market.
Well. That guy the news is about has arrested multiple kids that age and that was fine? And arresting kids for misbehaving, with multiple adults being around, was apparently fine by them?
Yeah, the psychiatrist seems the easiest to explain since when choosing a medical professional people may ask their friends who they recommend.
Ok, we changed to that from https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERtzZoaVAAE09Og?format=jpg&name=.... Thanks!
There was also a fashion for adding architectural follies, for example there's a tomb in Sir John Soane's home (complete with an egyptian sarcophagus, oddly in spite of its otherwise sort of Italian vibe)[1]

1: http://explore.soane.org/#/section/sepulchral
One time pads are not secure by modern cryptographic standards.

Elaboration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6008695
If only that applied to everyone. Most people will get ten crappy notifications with one good one and go "Oh, well, not too bad." I think I used the 'People You May Know' feature a bit when I first joined but, as time went on, it really just became "This one guy who once worked at the same place as you and maybe knows someone you know". These algorithms are very smart and that's their problem - they overestimate the number of connections an average person makes.
Or I could very well understand the thing deep enough and feel "no thanks".
I already have - I manufacture an open source hardware product in Shenzhen and ship the results worldwide using a fulfillment service there.

We shut down as usual for CNY and that shutdown extended longer until the beginning of this week, from my point of view the disruptions are over and my backlog has shipped - though I know that things in Shenzhen are not back to normal (and I'm putting off a manufacturing trip until they are).
I think we in the tech community tend to vastly under-estimate the threat of legal restrictions on encryption. When the public gets scared, they look to governments to "do something", whether that something is really a smart thing or not.

If we're unlucky and we get caught unprepared, we run the risk of getting stuck with a backdoor or "exceptional access" mechanism that provides little or no technical safeguards against massive and nearly unlimited government overreach.

IMO this makes it our responsibility to figure out how we might design such a system that does have strong protections against misuse. Of course that is a very difficult thing to do. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
If it was constant, I'd agree, but the natural temperature was always changing and whatever it would have been today will also be changing. So you'd be graphing a different quantity, f(t) = temperature(t) - natural_temperature(t). From such a graph, you wouldn't be able to tell if a change was a change in the actual temperature or just a change in the predicted natural temperature. A predicted natural cooling would look the same as a human-caused warming.
In fact, user data usage and share is a multi-faceted issue. The most obvious stances are (but not limited to):

* Pro-privacy claims that big techs share their user data to too many irrelevant entities.
* Pro-competition claims that big techs monopolize uses of their user data.
* Pro-regulation claims that big techs don't share their user data to accountable government entities.

Each of those arguments has some valid points but also conflicts to each other in a some degree.
Emacs is unchanged muscle memory for the last 30+ years. Cut is ctrl-k (or ctrl-w depending on your perspective), yank is ctrl-y. How many WYSIWYG editors have risen and died in that time? How many desktop environments?

And the "cut copy and paste that works on any computer" -- on a windows pc its ctrl-blah, and on a mac its cmd-blah.
I have never understood this attitude, honestly. Some of the most worthwhile things in life are difficult, literature included. Discarding things because they don't immediately grab your attention seems like a side effect of our low-attention span age.
I agree that 4GB is more than a sane person should probably be using. I don't think that going above 8MB is very hard or uncommon though. If I'm going to spread everything across many different documents and document types and then join them all together, I then have to make a case for why I'm still choosing Couch over a RDBMS.
Seriously question, how are they going to stop me from downloading signal from source, building it locally, and installing it on my and everyone i knows cell phones?
That's because many people are disgusting and don't give a fuck about proper hygiene. Just among my acquaintances I need both hands an a foot to count the number that don't even vaguely cover their mouth / nose -- let alone _properly_ cover -- while coughing or sneezing.

No amount of gentle reminder -> passive aggressive suggestion -> explicit suggestion had lasting effects on their behavior. All I could do is be vigilant and recluse myself from their company whenever one's clearly showing symptoms.
I always have trouble imagining examples of this kind of evidence that criminals were previously utterly unable to hide but can now do it easily using encryption. It seems any kind of evidence could had just been shredded and burned in times past or hidden in an obscure, physical safe that no one knows about. If anything, the digital age had made the location of evidence more obvious and even produced entirely new kinds of evidence (traffic and connection logs, emails, etc).

It seems to me that law enforcement is simply pining for the fjords of a very short time span in human history when ample digital information co-existed with the lack of widely available cryptographic systems.
Note to people downvoting without commenting and raising a counterargument: you’re complicit.
fired for this, but I think more saliently kept on until this, despite every indication that he was not someone who should be a cop.
The CDP Report 2020: The Rise of Customer Data Platforms
My major issue switching to FF is still the lack of a Chrome-style translate function. I live in a country where I don't speak the language, so rely heavily on translating. Copy/pasting into Google translate is too slow for general browsing, and being able to switch between translated and un-translated near instantly means that I can still navigate the site when inevitably the translation breaks the JS navigation. Switching also allows me to very slowly learn the language. I'd love to use FF, but this is still a blocker
Fair point, but IVF are a single new person, not an existing one you'd copy.
That is a great area to work in! I use to work in a government agency in on a very similar area (bush fire hot spot tracking), so your efforts are appreciated! Tedious is one way to put it, but I agree the tech side of push notifications, servers, APIs etc isn't hard but as you've alluded to, disaster detection/classification is tricky and if you are interested in the space, government jobs tend to be the most stable as commercially it doesn't have an obvious "market" consumers are willing to pay for. Similar to utility scale sector in energy, you'll have a hard time as a small team convincing government and commercial weather operators that your detection or forecasting of events from satellite imagery etc are more accurate, so my advice would be to do this with your eyes open and produce as much data validation evidence as you can to share widely so others can validate it.

Working with live satellite imagery has a lot of challenges, and pulling clean data out of them consistently. Each satellite is different and has its own biases, operational issues that can be tricky but working on these problems I think is a really useful skill so not time wasted IMO.

Best of luck!
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TIL that CDPR owns GoG. Thanks for pointing that out! I have until now made it a habit to almost exclusively buy on Steam (convenience), but this might make me support them more directly.
> There is only a ~2% mortality rate from COVID-19

Correct.

> less than the usual flu

I'm pretty sure that's wrong. From a quick Google the best I could find was an Atlantic article saying the rate is typically around 0.1%. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vac...
But we could also apply that same ethical argument to an unborn baby, either genetic manipulation or abortion.
I just got it today, with firefox 73
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were successful in malaria prophylaxis on a weekly dosing. Someone should start a trial among medical personnel to see if it is effective in coronavirus prevention. These are non-specific antivirals. Once virus takes hold, they have not yet been proven to be that effective in clinical settings.
As soon as law enforcement is granted any exceptional access they’ll go on to claim they need more access and less oversight.

As soon as they’re granted such access it will become an irreversible status quo.
I think they just err on the side of false positives. You can always ignore the friend suggestion if it's someone you don't know. If they fail to suggest someone you do know, that's a missed opportunity.

Some of this is inevitable. For example, their algorithm was eager to suggest one particular person to me, and it did so multiple times even though I did not know the guy. It was someone who had worked at the same company as I did, in the same department, but quit the company slightly before I was hired. So he and I had easily 10 Facebook friends in common. Facebook had good reasons to suspect that I knew the guy. Even though I didn't, I might have, and they have no way of knowing for sure, so they might as well just ask.
You still can use the external CDN link. But you won't be able to do a custom configuration file which is completely okay.
anybody acquainted with pouchdb devs ? just to know if there are plans to migrate already or not
> It has been estimated that bats save the agricultural industry of the United States anywhere from $3.7 billion to $53 billion per year in pesticides and damage to crops

In comparison, the coronavirus scare has wiped out $1.5 trillion from US equity valuations just in the past two days. Even taking the higher end of that estimate, preventing one coronavirus epidemic every 20 years still passes cost benefit analysis.
Right. Which is why government research is probably a better model for these world-changing basic technologies than Silicon Valley.

Ugh, can you imagine how bad TCP/IP would have sucked if it had been developed by venture capital funding?
My last sentence is referring to exactly what you're saying, your statement is dangerous and irresponsible because it is designed to make people think SARS-CoV-2 is less dangerous than regular seasonal flu. Comparing annual deaths from an established virus to the current deaths from an emerging virus is on the face of it absurd. You need to compare mortality rates, the rate of spread, and projected infections. You can come back and compare total deaths in two years after it has become endemic everywhere like the flu already is.

If I gave you the choice tomorrow of being infected with this seasons flu or the coronavirus, which would you pick? Hopefully you're smart enough to understand the difference between a 0.1% mortality rate and a 2% mortality rate.

Leading people to believe the flu is more dangerous has slowed (and is still slowing) the response, reducing preparedness, increasing the spread, and as such will have a part to play in loss of life from this virus.
I agree. I read more than 90% of the ppl I know and I'm heading in a direction of quality over quantity - at least for nonfiction.
Real criminals won't use such platforms anymore, but use custom end-to-end encryption. They'll find people to make them something, if need be by using steganography.

This will only hit innocent people or low-level criminals, the real bad actors will find ways around it.
it's = "it is"
its = possessive form of "it"

So should be "it wins for its unique..".
Banks in the U.S. are required to notify the IRS of any deposits/withdrawals in excess of $10,000.
People eager to give others power over them don't really appreciate what it's like to live under a totalitarian state.

The older I get the less hope I see of people learning anything from history. Perhaps we really are doomed to repeat it.
(Context: the original comment mentioned dark fiber, but I changed it to be more precise to avoid exactly this confusion.) Dark fiber is a bit of a misnomer and term of art, IIUC. The way I've had it explained to me, dark fiber is not necessarily dark. It's just not on the public internet. When you lease dark fiber, you presumably do so to put your own signal on it, making it no longer dark. But folks still call it "leasing dark fiber" and still refer to the fiber, once lit, as "dark fiber." I'm not a networking expert so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Because the process (from what I recall) involves destroying the house and throwing out it’s burnable content. So, no outrage because this is what should be done. Granted, I didn’t interrogated someone who had their house burned about their opinion. Also, countryside context, not in a city.
Hi all, we'd love to hear your thoughts about TileDB (https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB), which offers the key advantages of both HDF5 and Zarr, such as chunked dense arrays, numerous compression filters and native cloud support. But TileDB is more as it also supports sparse arrays and integrates with more languages, databases and data science tools. If you'd like your data to be readable by multiple languages and tools or need array versioning, it is worth taking a look.

Docs: https://docs.tiledb.com/developer/

Website: https://tiledb.com/

Earlier HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547749

Disclosure: I am a member of the TileDB team.
> There are many difficulties with this statement, including the presumed gender of the programmer.

Oh my.
To me it seems more related to Paul Graham's essay "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas"

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

A startup working on Schelp might not necessarily be working on a very hard problem but more of a tedious problem, or one that doesn't sound that interesting/exciting to most people (like fixing payments).
I'm more afraid that uptake of subscription services will hit that worst case scenario problem of prolonging the fight just long enough that people give up on the fight in a war of attrition before subscription services simply prove again why (digital) landlords cannot be trusted and (digital) renters have no rights.

A big part of my concern here is that copyright terms are so long today that any subscription/rental-focused world is a multi-generational digital feudalism. With a larger and "closer" to the current generation public domain it might be much easier to trust competition among subscription companies. You allude to this indirectly in trying to open the market, but there will always be "exclusive" distribution rights so long as copyright casts such a long shadow from the big castles on all the lowly consumer sharecroppers.

While I doubt we'd see much legislative interest in shortening copyright terms and enlarging the public domain, fighting for digital asset rights from digital retailers that use words like "own" and "purchase", given long histories of consumer protection laws and consumer protection court cases, seems a lot more plausible, and a lot more worth fighting. I worry that a lot of people won't care to fight so long as the castles make subscription services seem like good sharecropping just long enough for most people to give up, and then it will be too late and there won't be a big enough public domain to protect us.
Only to people judging what "works" means with similar criteria as yourself.

I'm fairly certain GP does not share your criteria; ergo, your statement that "it works" degenerates to "it is, despite the protests of those opposed."
Yes, that's why you can be sure that data is vacuumed up, and fed into a model which can exploit that behavior.
Don't be so pessimistic. I'm from the USA: we might be divided (and people like you are pushing the divide!), but we still have the ability to get things done when we want to. There just isn't a collective goal pushing us all in one direction.

Overall I think it is a good thing. Only by many diverse opinions and goals from many different people can we try everything and see what really works out.