skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very explictly: everyone should try and become a member of congress - they are exempt from SEC insider trading laws. Your friend at a FAANG who has the quarterly results early? Take their info and short TSLA and face no repercussions from the SEC!
I'm not sure why you are addressing this opinion to me.
WNBA Commissioner on Texts from Kobe Bryant
I can send you BAT right now, which you can then immediately sell for fiat currency, without the involvement of anything related to Brave.

Brave does not control BAT – it is an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain. Do they still own much of the BAT in circulation? Yes. But other than tanking the value of the BAT you own by selling all of theirs at once (a silly thing for them to do), there isn't much power they can exert.
So if this became prevalent, society should just accept losing your house is the cost of having police?
Yes, you're totally right. A lot of the things called "devops" are actually just ops. That sysadmins automate what they can is nothing new. In the early 90s I ran a unix workstation lab and wrote tools that would be familiar in spirit to a lot of things today.
They do get hundreds of thousands of reasons per year to not do that, and stock options on top. Don't put your hope on the people that benefit from the problem.
I wonder if US gave the source code for its Patriot system to anyone
I would also like further explanation, since it appears the parent is criticizing Brave because it has "ads", without differentiating between the implication of different methods of delivering ads. Since Brave ads respect user privacy, it seems that this specific criticism against ads is an argument in favor of Brave.
You’ve got half of it, but the other half is the existence of the cell to interpret the data. The DNA is like a Lisp program, but how much good would a Lisp program be without a computer to run it?
Third party observer: I think the US Army is totally correct in this judgement. Why would you want to buy this if you don't get the source code? I mean, that's really the key thing here.

I think the US would do better developing this kind of system from scratch than buying a weapons systems without source code.

Perhaps this is part of negotation game from the Israelis?

(Give them a few more F35s...)
Show HN: People's Voicemail – a voice-based message board
HN’s automatic anti-clickbait thing made this title hard to understand… you might want to add back the initial “How”.
Netlify makes it easy to deploy static sites. I’ve used it and it’s been a decent experience. Their UI is quite complex and the notifications are annoying (they don’t turn themselves off after you read them).

GitHub can roll out something like this very easily. They already have GitHub actions and GitHub pages. Netlify’s core proposition is when you commit to a branch, a build command is run that outputs assets to a directory. Netlify will put those assets in a cdn. You can route your custom domain and they’ll provision the letsencrypt very for you and you have a https site. Boom!

They have other value adds like forms which seem quite overpriced. That’s when you need a db.

Overall my experience is that it’s good to get something out of the door but you prolly will need to move to a cloud provider if you need full control like caching headers and any form of backend.

Basically as a dev all I want is something simple. Here’s my script that builds the frontend. Here’s the docker files for various services. Here’s my requirements for a database. Lastly here’s my routing rules of urls to different docker services and how to scale them. Go host it and give me a good log analyzer so I can monitor how things are operating.

Render.com has nice things but there’s definitely value in simplifying most webapps deployments and still making the whole thing dirt cheap to operate.
"Do I really want to be around these people?"

truth is: subconcious ensures those do never hire me.

BTW., this medium seems to have negative voting, tooo. And feels a bit like a demo-toy. Will not stay as it looks...
Hah, good catch! Reminds me of that Saturday Night Live sketch:

“The big lesson of the Vietnam War: stay out of Vietnam!”
Wouldn’t this arrangement not be very useful because it’s very hard to adopt a codebase as opposed to developing your own in-house expertise?
Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by ppl without symptoms flawed
Using attacker personas to improve your threat model
I had a thought the other day. It's theoretically possible for a computer virus to lead to a biological virus. Corrupting the data of a computer responsible for manufacturing a vaccine, for example.
One of the companies I've worked for developed in-house solution (with some domain-specific stuff).

I've had to write some kind of admin tool for one of my clients.

And then I've used to start another project with scrapy and I feel like I need to develop another one tool for scrapyd management :)
In another recent thread, I mentioned running ~62 apps on kubernetes, and people asking if it could be simplified to less.

They are mostly plain old PHP webapps, non-trivial amount of them Wordpress (shudduer), some done in random frameworks, some with ancient dependencies, some in node.js, one was ruby, etc. They are the equivalent of good old shared hosting stuff.

With kubernetes, we generally manage them in much simplified form, and definitely much cheaper than hosting multiple VMs to work around issues in conflicting dependencies at distro level or keeping track of our own builds of PHP.

We also run CI/CD on the same cluster. Ingress mechanics mean we have vastly simplified routing. Yes, we cheat a lot by using GKE instead of our own deployment of k8s, but we can manage that too, it's just cheaper that way.

Pretty much smooth sailing with little operational worries except the fact that Google's stackdriver IMO sucks :)
Boeing engineering has been systematically trained to paper over problems, even over the showstopping kind. A major aerospace contractor and one of the world's two manufacturers of widebody planes has been completely hollowed out. It's a national security issue, nothing less.
Ah, a collaborateur...
Do you know of any individuals to whom this would apply? Or is this just speculation? This comment reads to me like poisoning the well and presumption of motive.
Ah, but is it pronounced Gooy-lite, or Guil-ite, like a mineral?
I posit that we should account for their stock price before the employees of Boeing embarked on the road of corruption, fraud and manslaughter.

i.e.: before their profits, especially due to sales of the MAX, are taken into account.

I guess the markets have a short memory as long as you only kill people instead of simply losing people's money.
I recently saw an article where the Education minister of Singapore articulated some reasons to not close schools.
Basically his case is that this alleviates burden from parents, and the school can provide food + sanitation for the kids.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/no-plans-to-cl...
Ah I can empathize with you here (as a former DS) -- we had incidents in the past that were data pipeline / instrumentation changes causing bad data which then caused metric drops (versus a real product issue, but they nonetheless caused a loss of confidence in data).

We think there are a number of diagnostic features that could be helpful here (to be built!). Teams today run playbooks to root cause issues when metric drops happen. We should be able to take that playbook and automate it. Say, Orbiter identifies an abnormal change in Metric X. The team is then probably analyzing sub-funnel metrics Y and Z, or looking at various dimension cuts to isolate the issue. Maybe they're also checking data quality by comparing the count of event volume vs. count of user IDs vs. count of device IDs, etc. If we run all of these diagnostic checks when Metric X drops, we could give the team insight into what we know is OK vs. not OK.
The Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens (2017)
This again shows how governments across the world are unprepared and not taking it seriously enough. People tested positive should not be allowed out, and instead they should be put on a good care and under 24/7 monitoring. This would limit the spread and save many lives, including those in isolation. It would benefit everyone. And no, not enough space is not an argument. There's plenty of space and options, it's just that nobody cares enough.
Am employee would have her paycheck in bitcoins.
Same quantity every paycheck.

Inflation is an emission problem and Bitcoin solves it.
Nocedal has some papers in this direction.
Too bad AKS is just terrible.

Slow provisioning time, slow PVCs, slow LoadBalancer provisioning, slow node pool management, plus non-production ready node pool implementation.
It might not be that easy. Making the 737 MAX a new type could mean losing grandfathered exemptions from new rules, which might require several other changes to the aircraft.
Team America!
Depends. I know wealthy Europeans with inherited wealth and most of them are putting it into real estate.
The best, and the worst, of the coronavirus dashboards
Compare and contrast the NYT article to the sublime beauty of a classic in the genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4nVg_W_6Y
What a great read! I find it so crazy that after decades of thinking that there's all this "junk DNA" in us, it turns out that it may serve a purpose after all, even if that purpose is malicious.
Minix is still huge compared to xv6
Responding to the point about what you are supposed to do if you need a lawyer and don't know any - I needed a lawyer once and didn't know any. I first read about what I was accused of, I read the relevant parts of the law I was accused of violating, and then I googled and read whatever I could about the crime. I then looked up local lawyers and read their websites and bios and googled them to see if there was anything to read about them.

Background research done I created a list of lawyers I wanted to talk to and called them one by one and discussed the case over the phone. The crime I was accused of was somewhat rare and none of the five lawyers I called were familiar with it. I could tell fairly quickly that several of the lawyers were, for lack of a better term, bullshitting me about their familiarity with crime because I had first done the basic research so I had some understanding of what was reasonable to say about it. One lawyer was obviously reading passages from wikipedia verbatim to me, which I recognized having recently read the same wikipedia article myself. Another lawyer didn't seem to listen to me - after hearing my story he confidently assured me he could get the charge reduced... to what I was already charged with. Others just didn't seem that competent.

The lawyer I ultimately went with was a former prosecutor, which I liked because I figured it meant he would know the other prosecutors, and he was the only one who, when I called him, said "I don't know much about this. Let me do some reading and call you back." I immensely respected that more than the people who tried to pretend like they knew what they were talking about.

Ultimately, we had an extremely successful result and now if anyone I know ever needs a lawyer, I have one to recommend. It may be a bit harder if you don't have connections, but there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with.
agree - possibly any of the BSD's might be a good follow up for 'advanced' study since the codebase & kernel structures have a direct lineage. Maybe doing the 'base' course on like 4.2BSD which is still smaller and close to v7 might make sense
Ask HN: Does Netflix Have a Future?
With every other entertainment company pulling content and starting their own streaming service, what does Netflix have to stay competitive?

I have personally found their original content to be 90% mediocre, especially compared to HBO/ShowTime/etc. Do you see them making better content in the future, or sticking to this model of frequent low-quality shows?
Optimizing for a target cpa is never a possibility because at an agency or in house marketing team your given x budget and expected to spend it.

That's far too strong a statement. Plenty of small businesses could be more flexible than this if it made commercial sense.

I’ve never seen someone underspend a budget and be thanked for it.

That's a problem with the businesses you've seen, not the principle of not spending money unnecessarily.
Small threads from 2016 and 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874206
The obvious answer is that these are extraterrestrials masquerading as people, living amongst us, writing codes for the military industry.
It is not; in fact, it does violate whole books of rules which has been grandfathered to by exemptions.
Tell HN: Verizon quietly deleted my YahooMail inbox after 1 year of inactivity
Hi HN, like a lot of people, I had an old YahooMail account which I was not using much. I logged in after many months to realize that whole inbox was gone. Looks like they have added it in Terms & conditions.

But they didn't bother to send any notification to my primary/secondary email account or to my linked phone number.

Of course I made mistakes too, and I don’t feel entitled to their service, but I am feeling terrible and never going to use any of Verizon’s service again.

Just wanted to give a reminder to folks, if you have any old YahooMail account, please back it up, and/or login to it at least couple of times in a year.
I agree, yet you can still hide most of the info with stuff like P2P transactions or encrypted transaction storage.
Kentonv, how does CloudFlare manage to offer free cdn when google cloud and other providers charge a ton for bandwidth. What are your limits? How are you still making money in the millions of sites that use free CloudFlare cdn ?
This is why I prefer their print newspaper. No ads, no clickbait, no interactive bs.
I know that Bezos is betting on fusion, but dropping a couple billion on implementing this would be a game changer and would be a PR coup for him.
> how such a relatively small amount of data could describe the massive complexity of a full-size organism

The busy beaver numbers are an interesting connection here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Yep people like to distinguish between “dumb money” and “smart money” but the truth is there is no such thing as smart money.
Openshift wraps around Kubernetes, with some of their own special offering stuff on it. Generally, plain K8s is a building block - RedHat made Openshift with a bunch of opinionated choices, geared towards enterprise deployments, some of them migrating later to Kubernetes itself (OpenShift's Route inspired K8s' Ingress), some OpenShift cribs from K8s (Istio becoming part of OpenShift by default in OS 4).

Generally OpenShift heavily targets enterprises as "All-in-One" package. Some of that works, some doesn't, but honestly it's often more a case of the IT dept that manages the install ;)

Except installing OpenShift. That's horrific. Someone should repent for the install process, seriously.
Since we're on piano moving war stories, there is a messy ongoing case in Dallas.

http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/11-26-19-preston...

Decades ago, a man had a large grand piano moved into his condo. It had to ride on top of the elevator. Recently, he moved out of that unit and found that the city building codes no longer allow this.

Then a bunch of complicated drama happened with the former condo owner, the condo management, and a piano moving company, and it all turned into a lawsuit.
This comes as surreal for me! We're just one step away from "The top 11 Vue.js coronavirus dashboards".
Only in the beginning. After a week or two, you'd probably visit every site you visit regularly anyway and you'd have set all you need in uMatrix. Additional bonus is that all cookies, scripts, ajax requests etc. from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Disqus and God knows what else are blocked for good on all sites I ever visit!
They’ve come pretty close; absences are being excused and teachers have plenty of work to send the kids come with. The only difference is it is currently “allowed” vs “encouraged”.
Now THAT would be s cool DIY video...
Dying Out and Loving It: Grimes' Rebirth of Tragedy
It'd be nice if you could zoom in on that Demo wall on mobile (I couldn't on Chrome on Android).
It wasn't a terrible question, but your question is answered in the first couple sentences of the main article. I do notice a trend where comments that suggest that the commenter didn't read the article get downvoted. I think in general I'm fine with that, except it's sometimes hard to notice when someone has read it, but just didn't understand.
Does any consumer grade motherboard have IPMI* support? When I tried to optimize my server costs one issue I ran into was that colocation providers require IPMI capability, which seems only available in server-grade motherboards.

* IPMI is for remote hardware management
It does to me.

> Milwaukee police have used Google geofence warrants to solve an array of crimes, including homicides, shootings, a string of robberies and kidnappings and a sexual assault involving an abduction, he said. “I would think the majority of citizens in the world would love the fact that we are putting violent offenders in jail,” Armbruster said.

I would be willing to endure what Zachary McCoy endured to prevent one homicide, kidnapping, or sexual assault. (Robberies too I suppose although that seems less urgent.)

When Snowden revealed that the NSA already has the "dirty laundry" of the vast majority of criminals on file I almost felt sorry for them (the criminals, not the NSA.)

At this point crime is only possible because we let it happen. Privacy is dead so why not have a crime-free world as well?
If that's really the issue, why are they constantly making ghost flights? Surely there are places to park planes in bulk (eg. same place where they're parking all the 737 MAX)
Just because you are right doesn't guarantee you'll win. You feeling lucky?
It also happens with taxes.

Tax agencies target people and companies that don't have the means to defend themselves, because then they can collect on them. Whereas they usually stay away from wealthy/legally savvy individuals/companies, because the cost/benefit of going after them is not worth it.

A few years ago there was a big push in California to go after food trucks. They were the perfect target, small businesses run by individuals or families with few resources or legal sophistication. At some point the media got involved, as well as some advocacy groups. The issue ended with the BOE (California's tax agency), changing the way food trucks had to calculate, report and collect their sales tax. However, many non-wealthy food truck owners ended up with very unfair personal tax liabilities in the thousands of dollars, which they might still be paying today.

I was involved in defending one of these food trucks and putting together their case. They were being assed $60k in taxes and being proposed a payment plan that would have meant them paying a total of around $100k over the course of 10 years. In the end the liability was reassessed to $0. At the beginning of the dispute, every accountant and tax lawyer consulted said the tax liability was unavoidable. Tax agencies are scary.
Startups Weekly: Remote-first SaaS products boom as workers stay home
Isn't it more limited though, e.g. with auto-scaling not available for nodes, but only for pods?
The old Yahoo! did this to me a few years ago. The first time I reopened the account. The second one I just left ...
Maybe I didn't do enough with Kubernetes to need a dedicated team hmm.

The point I wanted to make is that my opinion is a bit different. Being able to declare how state should be instead of doing it imperatively/with configuration management is just something I enjoy and which I think does not cost much more in comparison.

That is why I wondered why not use it as a small startup?
Hound - Lightning fast code searching made easy.
Ah good to know, thank you!
I understood that. In that particular quote, author was playing Devil's advocate, except it's not working.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA14943
> A floppy drive is still a basic tool for system construction

In 2004! I grew up using Macs, so this is wild to me. In my candy coloured little world the floppy drive was finished in 1998 when Steve Jobs told me it was.
Hardware Startups That'll Be Missed
That's just your brain on HN misery mode, where all earthly concerns bow in vague allegiance to business logic that may not even exist.

It's also wrong in principle: memorable demos remain the most culturally-significant standalone things associated with tech since the 1960s.
OpenAI just announced it will port its sparse libraries to PyTorch, so exciting times ahead!
You can read more here about this (OP here) :
https://medium.com/huggingface/is-the-future-of-neural-netwo...
What's interesting about the last ten years is previously the cells dominated the cost of panels. But they are so cheap that other costs, glass, aluminum, manufacturing, installation are significant. That starts pushing you back towards higher efficiency solar cells.

But yeah everything I've read about perovskite is it's got problems with moisture. There are reports from the field of 30 year old silicon based panels that 'work fine'. Since solar panels have high capital costs the more durable, the lower the depreciation rate the better.

Edit: Just a caution. A lot of work was done over the last 50-60 years on alternatives to Silicon for semiconductors and outside of a few niches[1] they've all failed.

[1] Examples: Gallium Arsenide for high performance RF. Silicon Carbide for high temp power transistors. Various materials for LED's.
AFAIAK GitHub pages require that the built files are stored in the repo.

Netlify checks out the repo, runs the build command and then takes files from your dist directory. I’d love for GitHub pages to behave like this. A much simpler setup.
To elaborate, while I like such optimization efforts, for this to work you'd need to run your own datacenter because the _ones I have found_ that offer cheap bandwidth require IPMI (to lower their labor costs).

Or you need to know some providers I don't know, in which case, tell me. :)
I'm glad you came to this realization, I just wish it had come from one of the many cases where police severely injure or kill innocent people, rather than from a(n egregious) case of property damage.
At what point does a grand piano become a fixture rather than a chattel?

I unboxed a foam king mattress at my new house once it was in the bedroom. It is literally impossible to get it out of that room without destroying it or I guess putting a hole in the outer wall.
Sometimes inertia is all that is needed...
Can you give more details? The question is too general as it's highly dependent on the product.
The sophisticated types who can carry out such plans tend to do their machinations in the corporate or business world, where it's much more profitable and even legal on paper.
Similar outlook expressed by Naval Ravikant recently as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0bPSseOlMc&feature=youtu.be
Anyone got text from behind the paywall?
Or the converse of this, malicious DNA has been used to exploit sequencing computers. (https://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/)

I swear I heard Mikki Hypponen talk of a self-replicating version of this that exploited the sequencers to encode the exploit into other sequenced DNA, making this self-replicating, but I can't find a link.