skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> open sources surveillance (search engines and warez sites)

That's the first time I've heard "open source" used to refer to a warez site.

Is this overloading of the term being seeded by someone in order to, in a roundabout way, discredit the open source movement? A few years ago there would have been an obvious suspect for such FUD, but they seem to have embraced open source these days, so that wouldn't make sense.

Weird.
It's not rocket science. It's what every other company making consumer goods for the international market is capable of handling, and many of them are 1/10000th the size of Google.

Google has the resources to do better, so let's stop making excuses every time they fuck up the execution of a product launch because they're too cheap to do it right.
Haha, I know that Sourcehut is open-source and you derive revenue from the fact that people prefer to use it as a SaaS product, but it is amusing that the SaaS-ness of it means that your statement only applies to the front-end portion.
Then you chose to live in an expensive city.

If WFH becomes the norm for the majority, companies may not want to maintain expensive physical offices for people who can’t (or don’t want to) work from home.

I assume even limited living spaces in major cities include a bed, desk or couch, at least.

WFH doesn’t mean “only from home” anyway; you could work from any space you have access to. Parks, restaurants, if they allow it, which I expect they will, along with many other facilities popping up for remote work. It could actually create an interesting new industry of third-party office providers.
BetterC is very suitable for embedded work. I wish I had it available when I did such work.
> You do realize that all the problems you listed exist because of regulation or can also be solved with regulation? Maybe instead of regulating how Comcast does business we should regulate things so it's easy to have many ISPs.

I was mainly just responding to the weird idea that "anyone" who doesn't like Comcast should start their own ISP.

More competition would be great, but I think it'd only occur within some kind of regulatory framework that explicitly encourages it, which I think is along the lines you're thinkging. ISPs are basically natural monopolies that require significant amounts of expensive physical plant to operate. The unregulated free market handles such situations poorly, so some kind of regulation is a necessity even if it's not the current regulatory regime.
> a non-artistic picture of it

I believe that precedent says that these are artistic images, partly because you wouldn't be able to make such high quality images yourself just pointing your camera in the museum. They set up lighting and things and that counts as art.
It's a shame that Waymo (as well as Google Streetview?) isn't operating on the road at this time, since there's probably no better chance to do mapping as when there are far fewer cars and people to obstruct the view.
You’re making some incorrect (though I guess understandable) assumptions about why people buy cars. If people brought cars for the use case you’ve described, then you’d expect the top selling cars in the US to be small ‘city’ cars, or at least high mileage sedans. But it’s not, 4 out of the top 5 selling cars in the US last year were SUVs [0].

People don’t buy cars that suit their most common use case. They buy cars capable of fitting any use case they might conceivably need it for over an average period of 6.5 years [1]. Its a pretty safe bet that most SUV owners don’t use their sports utility features, but they buy them anyway. The risk alone of being caught at a charging station for an hour or more, or the impracticality of longer trips is a major anti-feature.

You’re also missing one of the core value propositions of owning a car. For as long as cars have been sold, the freedom to get in your car and drive any place you want to at any time has been a core part of the value prop. For BEVs, it’s the exact opposite. You drive the car on terms set by the battery and your ability to charge it. That’s why range is still considered a significant constraint, even on BEVs that get 250-300 miles (10x your number of average daily drive). People simply don’t buy cars to meet 99% of their needs, they buy cars to meet 100% of the needs they know that have, and often a number of other needs that they don’t currently have, but think they might have at some point in the future.

And all of that is before you get into the issue that a lot of car owners don’t have off street parking, or live in places like apartments where they may not be able to install chargers.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276419/best-selling-cars...

[1]: https://www.autonews.com/article/20161122/RETAIL05/161129973...
Once a nazi, always a nazi.
Where did you read that? Was it a reputable source that cited peer-reviewed data? We use RT-PCR every single day at our company (vaccine development) and we couldn't do our jobs if it performed so abysmally. The RT-PCR is the gold standard when it comes to detection.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point then. I got from your posts roughly: It is unethical for end-user software to be closed source, everyone is fundamentally entitled to the source code for programs they run on their computer. Further, if an end-user decides not to run the closed-source software, it is still unethical because many people don't understand the value of source code and they are still being exploited when they purchase/run the software.

My question: Is it still unethical if the exchange and use of proprietary software is made only between people who fully understand the value of source code and decide to anyway?
Weirdly that's significantly less technologically advanced than the video's control. It's just a bunch of switches and buttons.

Though I wonder how programmable it is, could be a pretty cool automation control panel.
Thanks for your valuable comment!

I thought telemetry and online verification will be just an option. If some app vendor doesn't want their users to force such thing, they will not use it. However, maybe, for some specific users, it may make sense.
Having worked in a HIPAA regulated space, I can say that hashing the username, such as the email address, for login purposes can allow for account recovery if the credentials are retained. At the same time the cleartext username and other PII can be stored in an object that is both encrypted at rest for its lifetime, and on top of that has its sensitive fields overwritten upon logical deletion. Account recovery cannot recover non-credential derived PII but that is a small annoyance to the user in order to be compliant and trustworthy. The internal user ID should be used throughout downstream reporting rather than actual PII for the sake of continuity and privacy.
For me Amazon was a way to find a selection of HIGHER quality products than I could at local stores that maybe had 1 item that was ok quality and 2 low quality products.

Now when I go to Amazon they push the lowest cost thing even if by a $1 (like Wallmart). These weird "Amazon's Choice" options are increasingly lower quality cheap stuff. And Amazon day feels like a garage sale where I think they're pushing out their back stock of rock bottom quality garbage ... more than usual. And that's not to mention fakes and etc.

At this point I'm shopping around the internet way more than I used to when I was all about Amazon first.
I'm out of the loop, what did they do with ES (except for providing unstable service...)?
How many different screens does the average startup engineer use? github/lab, CI, CRM, analytics, metrics reports, ad portal, etc.

It's all specialized tools for specialized jobs. Not a farmer, but my understanding is tractor supplies torque for whatever tools are being pulled behind it or attached onto it.
Expand the HSA to be a universal savings account, more like food stamps + social security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Provident_Fund

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010921
Do people questioning the intentions of this move, have actual experience using Oracle cloud?

It seems that people really eat the marketing that AWS/GCP/Azure are the best cloud provider for every single product.

Oracle Cloud's perception is in the gutter, and it's all press. It's very possible that they have a competitive cloud service. They were making some decent offers for talent last time I checked.
Compiling for the Reconfigurable Future
Let's not be too harsh. It's hard enough for the parents to WFH.
The EU says that GDPR applies globally.

Some violators might successfully keep their assets out of the reach of EU enforcement, but that's going to be really tough to do for any large business with global operations.
So I though this is about some nice astronomic phenomena one can see in the sky during May (like the spectacular post launch Starlink satellite "trains") but it is just some weird anti smartphone addiction campaign. I am disappointed. :P
That was just a low-tech non-targeted way to perform the same application of heat without breaking the warranty sticker on the console.
When I know vaguely what a product should do, I use Amazon to find the specific brand, product, and models. Then I try to buy it directly from the manufacturer whenever possible.

What's the search engine equivalent of "showrooming"?
I feel the proportion of students taking school seriously has been gradually decreasing over the last decade or so.

And now we treat college kids like children. It's hard to believe today's 18 year olds are old enough to vote.

These aren't just rose tinted glasses occluding my view. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that people in general were expected to grow up a decade sooner than today. That's the price of increased living standards - delayed adulthood and reduced fertility. Then its the generation after that suffers from immature parenting.
The Bitcoin Halving, Explained
While governments around the world are using quantitative easing to print money, Bitcoin is set to undergo quantitative tightening.

The Halving reduces the reward that miners receive for confirming transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, and subsequently, Bitcoin's rate of supply will be cut in half.

Here's a deep dive I wrote on what the Halving is, and why it matters:

https://medium.com/ryze-crypto-digest/the-bitcoin-halving-explained-d1dd1c7833f0
I have a lot of issues with Amazon in terms of worker treatment, etc - but admittedly, out of all the online shopping I've done, I still go back to Amazon because I get items delivered quickly, the prices in most categories (as a Prime member with free shipping) are still competitive with only the occasional exception, and every return I've done so far has been super easy.

Despite its problems, it's still for sure the best shopping experience online overall for me, as much as I hate that to be true
IIRC, Brookings Institute had a handful of studies. (I'll help you find some when I get back to my computer.)

My TLDR:

Ballots should be secret. It takes very specific procedures to protect voter privacy, especially with postal ballots.

Voter registration and participation (that you voted) are public records, by necessity, with some exceptions (judges, cops, victims, public figures).

Voter eligibility should be adjudicated as part of maintaining registration. The biggest flaws with our VRDBs would be fixed by simply adding an eligibility flag, with an audit log.

Currently, legally, VRDBs can only contain the most current record for eligible voters. No history. Leading to a lot of data quality problems. False negatives, false positives, purging, caging, and so forth.
If the government has required your legal business to close, you should be compensated for that. Just as if they take your land to build a road, they have to give you the fair market value of the land. Otherwise, if you're not being compensated, you should be free to stay open.

These are only "zombie companies" because they've been directly shuttered by the government.
We used Zoom over Meet for 2 reasons. One, it had a big board where you could see all or most participants at once. Two, you could have larger meetings for free or a low cost vs. Meet. Recording ease was a big motivator but not a final deal breaker. Since then, Hangouts has added a big board style view that I've yet to test fully. On our next company meeting I will try out Hangouts and see.
Much better than a quiz, for sure.
Last year I made 349 orders on Amazon and cannot think of a single time I got a counterfeit item or felt tricked by the reviews.

I would really like to wonder of the people encountering frequent fake products on Amazon, what categories are you shopping in? Is it fashion items or something similar? My main Amazon purchases are household items/toiletries and then hobby electronic parts. I haven't had any issues with these - and beyond the review issue the Amazon pricing/delivery time/return policy is by far the best of any site I've dealt with.
> British Museum ... in the United States

Hey, think about export and re-import:

I use an image which is PD in the US to make a new work, whch gets reimported into the UK... where the image I used is not PD. What happens? It has to have come up.
I don't know much about Go's GraphQL support, but the majority of the ecosystem exists in node today, and Rust has some stuff, but it's not as mature.

I would have other reasons to use Rust here if I were to do this, but Node is the safest choice, imho.
Does what you're saying also apply to the "doctors" who work with the WHO and the various levels of government?
And yet "wartime spirit" is a thing. "We were poor but happy" is a cliche'd phrase for a reason. I'm not going to tell you that you enjoyed your serious illness, but it's not a claim that everyone feels happy all the time (clearly false) or that people wouldn't always change things if they could, it's about what studies repeatedly find from people's self-reported happiness.

That we vastly over estimate how happy success will make us, and how miserable illness and failure will make us. That 6 months after winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic people self-report being equally happy with their lives compared to before. That people become happier when stuck with a thing they can't change, than they do with a thing they feel they can change. That we don't know this about ourselves makes us make choices that make us less happy overall. And that these are surprising results is the reason the talk is worth watching.
Some of the key differences:

- Written in Go rather than Java/Scala (big benefit here IMO is getting a small static binary rather than having to run a JVM)

- Doesn't rely on Zookeeper

- Is integrated with NATS (can extend NATS with Kafka-like semantics, but in the future will allow for abstracting NATS away entirely)

- Uses gRPC for its API

- Supports "wildcard topics" - e.g. a stream can listen to the topic "foo.*" and will receive messages published on "foo.bar", "foo.baz", "foo.qux", etc.

- Allows for streams to be paused and subsequently resumed automatically when published to - on the roadmap is "auto-pausing" of sparsely used streams

- Exposes an activity stream that allows you to respond to events such as streams being created, deleted, paused, etc.

One advantage Kafka currently has is its consumer groups, which are on the roadmap for Liftbridge but not implemented yet.

There's a more complete comparison available here: https://liftbridge.io/docs/feature-comparison.html
> Coronaviruses are easy to vaccinate against. They mutate very slowly.

Wait can you expand on that? I thought RNA viruses mutate very quickly?
There’s two main programs, one is yes buying bonds but the other is a loan backing program for smaller businesses that can’t access the bond market.
Oh, totally; if they want to make a page, "unix really wasn't better than multics", and include such points as "Bell Labs Unix was also proprietary/shared-source", then I'd 100% support that. But I have to object to a page of "myths" that range from partially true to completely true.
2000 is a small number and says nothing about trajectory, time is less important, 20 years sounds like a zombie project if it's not a brand name by now.

It's about adoption, skillsets available, industry standards. Never heard of this, the landing page does not instill confidence.

Hence poor choice

It really seems like you have an attachment to this project, at least na emotional one. How do you know how many paying customers there are?

Are you sure this was not a promotion of the project originally?
No earbuds fit me, though I don't see anything immediately wrong with my ears.

I use IEM because the regular old plastic ones that sit in the ear give me actual physical pain after 5 minutes of them just sitting there, it's incredible. And the only brand of IEM that don't fall off are BOSE ones, which are oval shaped and have that little stability wing like these ones from Google.
California already has vote by mail and a higher than normal share of undocumented immigrants. If this would be a problem nationwide, then there must be evidence that it's already a problem in CA (and other vote-by-mail states). I haven't seen any evidence that it's a problem. There's no need to speculate. So no, people shouldn't be concerned. There seems to be precedent for doing it right.
I feel like the comment was more directed on the kids' parents having to walk a mile in the Teacher's shoes. And the ease with which it is someone else's problem to make sure your kid learns.
> What forms of disinformation have you found?

One example is the remarkably-common “mistake” of putting a “(D)” after the name of an obscure congressman or senator caught committing some crime or other, when the person in question was a Republican.

Or the recent coronavirus coverage e.g. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/media/4907...
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
I don't see how can Rust be more ergonomic than Python, can you elaborate? A data scientist doing some analysis is not concerned with memory safety, why will he waste his time fighting the compiler?
I don't think it's only the American psyche. I'm pretty sure there will be paranoia the world over.
One week in I noticed some serious pre-burnout symptoms due to the stress of working full time, being the cook, cleaner, safe parent and teacher of the house. So on my week off from my kid (I co-parent every other week) I first of all wept due to the stress and how much of an asshole I was due to all the pressure and then decided fuck it I'll lower my expectations on what a work day is and what a school day is. We stop the schooling at 2pm latest, doesn't matter if something is unfinished it won't matter. We don't do all the assignments and I don't try to be the best possible employee as it is god damn impossible under these conditions.
I discovered this on HN, I think:

https://github.com/hongkonggong/tldr-digital-security/blob/m...
> average

My money's on brown splodge. And I don't think you can call that AI.
It looks like older videos were removed from the channel but when this first made the rounds (on twitter) a few days back there was a video of filling some reservoirs, and on the video there was a man on crutches. I assumed that'd be the father and why he's not operating machinery.
The amount of corporate debt could be a real problem in the coming months. I'm curious to see how all of these economic recovery programs end up working when we look back in a year.
Scaling Page Scraping with Apache Flink
That’s nothing. One teacher in our high school has seen a 39% drop rate in her classes. And this is an honors teacher.
Or a nation state kidnaps a senator, and vpn their vote back through the senators primary residence. They create a fake room that looks identical to the senators house. Any bad guy that's seen Mission Impossible one too many times would be inspired.
Amazon and other platforms allowing payments to far-right groups
>I was sharing a personal anecdote of something that happened to me.

Fair enough. I infrequently get situations where I have to watch Fox/CNN or at least it's on in the background. But I find them both to be aggravating in similar ways.

I comment because a lot of people use this to justify their side by attacking the other. I've been leaning into other sources a lot. I find Bloomberg still has issues but I like them more.
Didn't they just do a 20% layoff last September?
Cases like W95 and Photoshop are exceptional edge cases that worked for them as a part of a very aggressive marketing push with a very long-term market domination goal. It doesn't apply to ISV products that need to feed their devs right now.

If you add licensing enforcement into your program, making it trivially breakable is just... dumb. At the very least it will pollute the heck out of native search results with all the hacked versions, because THAT will in fact be the more relevant search for a lot of people. Secondly, people won't bother actually buying a license if a hacked version works. It's a very persistent urban legend that allowing easy hacks is good for adoption, but it's a legend indeed. Making products less easily hackable results in massive increase in sales.
Dave Lee/Joey Negro has been rescuing the master tapes of classic songs for years, and after the legal rights hunt is done baking the tapes before digitization, Genius respectful remixer IMO. Also love Chandler but much as I like his incredible tape deck mixing didn't enjoy his set that much

https://news.traxsource.com/articles/819/remixed-with-love-b...
No, it depends you see, when minorities claim police misconduct, those claims require evidence before we accept them. In the case of a 'former' Neo-Nazi claiming Jewish heritage we accept the claim without evidence.
And fewer things to hit?
For example, see "school of the air", an Australian rural education program that used to run over radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air

Australia has long been a world leader in distance education, likely because they had such a large problem, and a head start on solving it.
Frecure – Food Recalls Happening in Your State
I'm not seeing how that is a contradiction. His full sentence: "Eventually, I was able to get myself away from this world while serving in the United States Navy."

I interpret "while serving in" to mean that the process overlapped with his time in the Navy. If there was no overlap, to me it would have been more natural to say something like "upon joining" or "by joining" instead.
You mention having that service at many places, including sending individuals to homes. What about that opportunity cost? You could use that budget for other community services. With voting as a part of your civic duty, one should be willing to incur small costs like spending a day getting a license every 4-7 years. My experiences have been fairly convenient, much better than other government agencies like the sheriff's office, county treasurer, etc. It should be seen as a service to their fellow citizens of not having to pay another government employee salary, benefits, and retirement. The DMV handles the same ID services for drivers licenses, so they are a logical choice to be efficient (if there are no political games with availability).

I was going for a more general approach to reducing opportunity cost. What about the opportunity cost of reducing this opportunity cost? It's a tradeoff for what to tackle. Should we spend effort and money here, or on education, etc. I'd rather they just modernization the process or address the tax situation.

Yep, thanks to turbotax etc lobbyists.
The last part of the blog is wrong, "I'm feeling lucky" just means "take me to the top web result for this query" which is all that is happening there.
The articles when they first came out really blew me away. Initially I thought though that this might be an interesting reason that explained it.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...
The kids will just retreat to their study? At a lot of homes, there are much bigger challenges than just internet access.
The article says 435 in Sept which was 8%.