skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why Palantir is the "tech boogieman" is because it willingly and enthusiastically sells its tech to governments specifically for surveillance reasons, and even consults them as to how best integrate it all. And then we look at the politics of its owner, and it's explicitly anti-democratic - so it's not a coincidence.

And yes, of course, complaining about Palantir online isn't going to change the government policy. But if working for Palantir means that no other self-respecting software engineer will want to shake your hand, then fewer people will want to work there, and their surveillance tech will be lower quality and have more holes in it.
Yes. I get that. But, why is that the same number of people search for a specific term everyday? Is the aggregate demand so predictable? Don't you find that weird?
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Does logrotate or plain old write() actually handle those error cases by default?

It sounds like you're arguing to use an even more sophisticated logging system than the status quota of blindly writing bytes to disk.
That sidebar doesn't show on major landing pages, so it's not as silly a mistake as it might seem. I missed it for several minutes while looking around myself, as I started by following the prominent links on those landing pages. I only found the separate installation information page when someone else here helpfully linked to it.
I have interacted with some of the orgs in the list below. I'm fairly certain that they are all 501.3c orgs but hopefully this will give you an idea. I've tried to think of orgs that are mainly tech focused. Hope this helps.

Volunteer Match
Give Lively
UPchieve
WeVote
Learning Equality
Ask HN: How do Linux/Ubuntu compare to macOS in terms of UI/UX and app support?
If you have switched recently from macOS to Linux or Ubuntu, how do they compare in terms of UI/UX, app support, responsiveness and overall feel?
> gravimetric energy density of up to 1.76 MJ kg−1

Gasoline has 47 MJ/kg [0], in 2007 Lithium-ion batteries were 0.36 - 0.90 MJ/kg [1]

[0] https://neutrium.net/properties/specific-energy-and-energy-d...

[1] http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/includes/pdf/Panasonic_L...

Cited by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Performanc...
My former co-founder thinks we are friends, he is a talentless hack that speaks business world bullshit and ideas that don't make any sense because they don't.

I just needed the +1 to get funded. It worked.

He is your typical idea guy: no skills, no capital, no ability to execute.

I think we have good synergy for his ability to get behind a vision and repeat it to other people the same-enough way.

Reading this thread makes me wonder if he would be posting on here about the "friends" he lost.
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Mobile broadband is witnessing intense competition in grabbing customers as millions of rural Indians are coming online. This started with a Petro-chemical billionaire starting Jio Network and giving free unlimited 4G data for a year(his company has 300million subscribers now).

Already 4 networks have exited the market and 3rd & 4th largest networks(Vodafone and Idea) have combined due to cash crunch. Airtel(earlier largest) has been raising outside money in hopes that it can survive the low prices. So there are only 4 networks remaining. Only recently they started increasing prices.

That billionaire is also going into Fibre(purchased his bankrupt bother company's infrastructure), maybe we'll see that competition extend to DC and interconnects.
It's too bad you guys cost ~2x as much for storage as S3 when I evaluated you in 2018... ($0.04/GB vs $0.023/GB) ;) Glad to see you're beating S3 in $/GB now!
Because supply constraint (or lack thereof, 'unlimited' in this case), is not the only constraint factor acting against your situation. A constraint of awareness is also acting on your situation with the addon. Demand is potentially (very likely) hindered by awareness constraint. In this case, with an addon, if you're seeing a quite consistent uptake daily, with unlimited supply, it probably means your awareness factor is consistently acting on your situation as well.

An older and quite predictable example of this in action, would have been during the glory days of SEO, where based on consistent search engine rankings, you could expect highly predictable traffic to flow in day after day (still somewhat true today, it's just no longer as easy to game to the result you want). That's Google acting as arbiter of the awareness constraint.

It's an incomplete picture, when you've heard people talk about supply & demand as if they're the only constraints occurring. The context is usually far wider and more complex than just those two constraints, there are usually many constraints.

As a simple example, if you have an unlimited supply of eggs and you're giving them away for free, it doesn't do you much good if you have no awareness such that people don't know about the free eggs. The awareness factor is the constraint rather than the supply and it is keeping demand at zero. Supply without awareness equals zero demand.
Anyone want to make predictions for 2040?

Here's a start:

Self-driving cars will be the norm. Humans will not be allowed to drive.

Extreme weather will make many parts of the planet unlivable.

Manufacturing will return to America, where robots will do the manufacturing.

Universal Basic Income will become a thing.

Humans will work fewer hours, fewer humans will work, and fewer workers will work from work.

Wealth and power will be concentrated among fewer people.

There will be no retail industry.

Sports will be the only reason to leave the house.
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Live migration of virtual machines is kernel independent. The guest VM can be running a unikernel, BSD, Windows, etc. The interface the guest uses to sync or retrieve time depends on whether the guest reads the virtualized hardware clock (goes by many names) or a paravirtualized API is used (such as kvm-clock).
> Was it influenced by Envoy?

Not really -- it was more like, I sat down and thought about it: "I want to be able to change ANYTHING about my server using a simple REST endpoint. Hmm..." and then I remembered that JSON can be traversed using path-like notation. I'm not the first to implement this kind of API, but it wasn't a borrowed design. It's elegant as heck though. Every time I use it, I'm like "Ahhh that felt nice."

> Are there any influences/overlap with Envoy?

Probably, but I don't use Envoy. I'm pretty confident that Caddy 2 is capable of doing anything Envoy can do (with the added benefit of memory safety) -- just gotta write modules for it, maybe with some extension to the core to expose surface for those modules to hook into, but shouldn't be too hard to do that.

> Is Caddy overlapping in the space of Envoy in any notable way?

Yeah I think so; it's a greatly flexible reverse/sidecar proxy.

I hope you enjoy using it!
In fact when Cecilia Payne proposed that the Sun and other stars were composed of Hydrogen and Helium in her Doctoral thesis in 1925 the conclusion was rejected by her advisor because of the conventional wisdom of the time that the earth and the sun were composed of the same elements. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
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There are no fixed properties of the human experience. This mortal coil is whatever we make of it.
There is no such thing as that. He has no limit on the number of times
exactly, what the hell is that about?

is it a form of abuse like trying to keep everyone under control? is it a form of psychological conditioning to remind you that you just a resource whose top priority is to be interrupted at any time so knowing that you don't really have any personal space sovereignty or privacy to your own thoughts or creativity but that you must answer and create only for the collective?

I don't feel I have a clear picture on what it's about any insights?
Yeah, my hope is that someone will write a sort of scheduler / supervisor app for it so that I don't have to keep re-learning systemd every time I stand up a new service...
doesn't look cheap at 5x the price of blackblaze. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
One time I had a friend send me a few thousand photos on Google Drive. I tried to download those. Oh boy. Do too many at a time and it'll crash, otherwise it's select a few dozen, wait 5min for Google to zip them, then download and repeat.

I finally solved my problem by interfacing directly with their API and writing a Python script to recursively download larger folders. It's sad that I was forced to do that, but it worked.
I think Matt Might's intro is relatively beginner-friendly depending on your familiarity with Scheme: http://matt.might.net/articles/intro-static-analysis/
[Please move away from the DV button - I like to encourage discussion around here]

You forgot the conclusion. The prevailing opinion about the world's age is not 6000 years. I think some fundamentalist Christians might try for 4004 BC so 6000 years ... ish but I don't even know anyone who subscribes to that nonsense. I'm sure there are some who do but they are not my mates. They are certainly not general population.
I don't think it is a matter of metaphors at all, but simply a limited understanding of laws and forces. There wasn't a force known at the time that could produce so much light and heat for so long with the mass of the sun. The only conceivable way to produce light and heat like that was to burn vast quantities of fuels.
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I wonder if anyone became worried that the sun could burn out at any time
SAFE is the way of the future. Especially with what is going on now....If you can't see it, too bad for you :)...but suggest you give it a read or watch, plenty of videos too if that is your thing. Interesting too in 2008 the last financial catastrophe we witnessed the birth of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology emerge. This time, 2020 we have the same yet there is also a weird Orwellian/Huxley type aspect to it with all the worlds governments pushing forward with all kinds of Draconian measures and here we are on the cusp of team Maidsafe about to hit the launch button on the SAFE Network.... ;)
Does it? Per capita they did better than most countries with the least warning.

I'm no fan of China, but I give credit where credit is due.
there are plenty of flat earth and creationism videos on youtube, find a new slant
India has hecka pollution and they have low deaths. We can discount their government's ability to register deaths but they can't hide bodies and right now there aren't massive amounts of bodies coming out.
Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake
Please do try to mount an attack on your server's admin endpoint; let me know if you're able to break into it.

Keep in mind that if your system runs untrusted code, all bets are off: there's not really anything we can do as a single user space process to protect it. If your system runs untrusted code, you'll need to make sure your system is locked down properly... maybe you can use a permissioned unix socket for the admin endpoint, or just disable it entirely... it's really up to you. I think our defaults are safe though. Let me know if they aren't.
They were referring to other externalities like work that requires security clearance.
You mean this isn't the original web page? :)
Introverts can like being social and feel isolated from others. Not liking being social is something else.
Of course, and thanks! I turned an almost-emergency 'need a replacement' laptop purchase into a 'wow this new laptop is so much nicer' purchase.

(My 2016 non-TB MacBook Pro's battery had started ballooning and it was getting difficult to click the trackpad. The bottom case was touching the table in the middle and the front feet were about .5mm in the air. Didn't want to let it get worse!)
> I got into knot theory.

Didn't know there was such a thing.
Ah yes, "if I can't support my position then you are a troll". The height of intellectual discussion.
Have you tried our site search? It's the same service that powers the HN search.
This just means you can't use electronic passport gates, so you spend more time at border control and may be targeted for harassment for non-compliance. There's a small chance you could be fined, since the passport isn't actually yours it belongs to the government.

The passport deliberately requires the MRV as input for the NFC data stream, so to get the data out of it a hypothetical attacker has to read your passport (because that's where the MRV is). That's why the electronic gates require you to show them the passport open at the right page with your data on it. They literally need that data to get the exact same data from NFC.

For a machine this is brilliant news, it can now let you through the gate after deciding that you're allowed in. For a human adversary it's not an improvement at all because looking at a photograph versus downloading a JPEG of the exact same photograph is not different.
No, such Bible-based estimates are far older. I found a review that seems comprehensive, albeit reaching an incomprehensible (to me, anyway) conclusion.[0]

0) https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/how-old-is-the...
Some days it feels like it's still March...
Yep, you could do that and I'm sure it will work well, just like you don't need dropbox because "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."1

Once we signed up with Oracle Autonomous DB, we immediately could start developing and deploying web apps and web services all within the platform, without installing or integrating any other tools, and I'm not aware of another enterprise level platform where that's possible "out of the box". So, re: the original comment, that's why we chose Oracle for a reason other than supporting legacy systems. It helps us go fast, performance is great, and the on-demand licensing gets us all that without breaking the bank. There are definitely other ways to achieve the same thing (as you suggest), but I'd rather not spend my time doing any of that, just like I'd rather not roll my own dropbox, trivial though it may be.

1. see "Infamous Dropbox Comment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Oh the sweet ennui of the priviledged technical manager class. I hear the world's smallest violin playing, My heart pumps purple piss for you.
You need to balance not jut your chance of death, which is low if you’re very young, but your chances of getting very very sick. Spending a few weeks in the ICU is a good way to bankrupt yourself on the path towards returning to regular work, let alone how hard a ventilator is on even survivors.

Plus, we have no idea what happens to the infected a few years or a decade from now. If given the choice, not getting sick at all is the best possible outcome.
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Reading these kind of anecdotes makes me wonder why is this legal or at least opt-in.
We've been looking at digital contact tracing from the perspective of Australia, as we see a huge push for the COVIDSafe app, based on Singapore's TraceTogether app.

It seems the sensible order of questions is:

1) Do we have a contact tracing problem?

2) Does digital contact tracing generally solve it?

3) Is the specific app / implementation useful / safe / privacy-respecting?

It appears the national conversation almost entirely skips thinking about 1) and 2) and gets lost in the limited analysis of 3).

We had a deeper look at 2) in this recent piece:

https://blog.crushthecurve.today/why-should-you-install-the-...
I like the interface, but why throw an error when a user has their mobile device in horizontal orientation?
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There’s nothing quite like reading old periodicals. Really puts a lot into perspective, no matter what your interests or expertise are.
Shh, you're disrupting the narrative...
Nice theory!
I want to know how they identified a new viral pneumonia back in late November with just a handful of cases.

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but since the initial symptoms are flu like wouldn’t it require a statistically significant number of additional cases, deaths or symptoms in order to alert the health officials that something new was taking place, and an investigation was warranted?

In late November they had less than 15 cases but they had already identified it as a new virus. How would they know to look for a new virus with so few cases? Unless they had prior knowledge about a new virus that was accidental released, which prompted them to start looking.
Many big BIG international conventions take place in Vegas. If there's an industry for it, they probably have a convention in Vegas. It makes sense for Vegas the city to incentivise cheap flights/hotels, which makes it more appealing for business groups to meet there. And of course come spend money in the casinos and restaurants after a hard days work of conferencing! I know a few people that went to Vegas just to party for a long weekend etc. But the vast majority of people I know that went to Vegas, went "for work". Also yes, CES is a big deal.
For a lot of the year in the UK, the grey sky you can see out of the open office windows is not especially invigorating.
I would not call CorelDraw, AutoCAD, OrCAD "baby". Those are the "babies" that implement what I said above. This one here can learn a thing or 2
records is possessive and should have the apostrophe, addresses is not possessive and should not. This class of typo is pretty common throughout the briefs I have looked at.
The nice thing, if you do it right, is that each piece is going to be simple.

There may well be emergent complexity in how the simple parts go together, but that's going to happen anyway. Might as well make the parts simple where you can.

Incidentally, I think email is a great example of something with clear divisions of work --- an actor could easily be responsible for a single user's mailbox, and there should be no overlap in responsibility. Possibly, you could have one actor per folder, but gmail doesn't really have folders, so...
Americans can actually get "passport card" which functions like the EU national identity cards, within the United States. It is intended for use within the United States, as ID laws are changing. However, the RFID chip in the US passport card only has the identifying number encoded in it, for lookup in government databases. US biometric passports of course contain all of the traveler's information. Likewise EU national identity cards are biometric, as this is the standard.

With respect to the EU, as you know, there is to be a transition to biometric EU national ID cards, if countries have not already switched to them. The vast majority of countries already have. Some EU national ID cards are more useful than others, giving people online identities, for example.

Although I am culturally an American, I am also Croatian. I hold two citizenships. Croatia participates in the eID scheme [1]. Next time I go to Croatia, I am getting my eID, so I have an official identity on the internet. I am excited, as silly as it sounds.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eID
This is wonderful news for me. I host a video on demand site Codemy.net and all the original source videos are on backblaze. Originally I had to write a library to connect to the backblaze api. Now I look forward to using the existing aws client libraries, one less thing I have to maintain.
I recently bought Alex in numberlansld. Quite an interesting book. Also try What is mathematics? The book helped Einstein to grasp math concepts.
Forget the misery. Caddy has been sheer wonder to work with since more or less the beginning. 2.0 in beta and RC has been looking swell for a long time. Well done and congratulations to you.

It's a one-way street, though. Once I'd set up my first Caddy site, there really wasn't any way I was ever going back to the legacy stacks.
The combination of pihole and raspberry pi has impressed me. I just checked and the last reboot of my pi was 180 days ago, and since then things have just worked.

It's in stark contrast with my server, which admittedly has more demanding tasks. For $35 it's the most trustable computer I bought, I now have a lot of respect for the Pi foundation.
Awesome, thank you!
We fixed it on another page, inside the app, I didn't realize right away it was about the marketing site.

On a side note, it was a spontaneous decision to post here and now we realize that our website overpromised on what we offer right now. We've updated the site to set expectations right, and that at this point we're looking more for users and feedback than customers.

I'll follow up once you sign up.
Thanks,
Anton
"From: James Gosling (May 04 2020, at 10:36)

Great letter. I struggle with the contradictions every day."
Wow. Those numbers are way bigger than I expected, thanks for sharing!

I remember running web stats software against my apache logs in the old days, maybe we should go back to that.
Of course, by blogging and posting on HN about this experience, it will be more difficult to tell what portion of future sales is due to giving the books away for free, and what portion is due to blogging about having done so.

Seriously, with the downvoting? This was meant to be a philosophical comment on the self-referential effect of posting about the experience.
“Be right back. The other doctors will want to see this.”

- response to a power tool injury
I've heard that MTV caused new fashions to become popular outside big cities first, because rural areas were more likely to have cable TV in the 1980s.
Because it wasn't going around Las Vegas? Which we know because people haven't been tested for it? And so he shouldn't get tested to see if what he had was covid?
We took a deeper look in an article linked in another comment on this thread.

One thing that's interesting to think about more deeply is how difficult it is to estimate proximity based on the combinatorial explosion of different hardware, individual device peculiarities, battery levels and environmental factors (walls, glass windows, partitions, ventilation).

The very limited data published appears like interesting preliminary field work which finds significant variability in signal strength across hardware, and rather than concluding proximity estimations are useful, ends in a plea for OEMs to release factory calibration data for their BLE implementations:

https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-calibration...
Intent matters. Palantir specifically makes surveillance tech, and specifically markets it to governments.

As for compelling arguments... is the history of most of the world's governments not enough for you? In US, you can look at the census for a case in point: this data was used to chase draft dodgers during WW1, and to compile list of Japanese for internment during WW2. Curiously, by WW2, the federal census law had specific provisions preventing the Bureau from disclosing that information to any other government agencies, precisely to prevent this kind of use - Congress simply repealed those provisions. Nevertheless, the Bureau subsequently denied sharing that data and buried any leads, so we didn't have definitive proof until this century.

Or we could talk about COINTELPRO, PRISM etc.
Huh. Strong forced air evacuation is also common in restaurants, bars, and cafes in Japan, where until very recently smoking indoors was commonplace.
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I know he stood to make money off this deal but I sort of assumed when he was removed that it was in his best interest to take the money he could get and run ... rather than face the house of cards he built.

Does he want a legal fight here?
Different for the sake of being different is raison d'etre for strong brands.