skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about group email on demand? Setting up a group takes a few seconds, so does exiting or blocking. Ever imagine doing that with yahoo groups? I have some permanent groups but we have created and dropped so many need based groups. No need to accept the group by logging in here and clicking this and so on.
Actually quadcopters/drones/fixed wing, RC aircraft et. al. are "aircraft" per the FAA.

14 CFR 91 defines both, here's the FAA interpretation of 14 CFR 91, which they also produced to explain why they were allowed to further regulate RC aircraft operations outside of the boundaries set by congress in the FAA FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/educational_users/media/model_aircra...

Basically the FAA took the stance that all these things are "aircraft" and the same sets of rules apply to their operation.

Shooting down or at a drone, or RC aircraft has always violated the same set of laws, perpetrators just haven't yet been prosecuted for it yet.
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Think about it this way - if you know Python inside and out, to the point that you can comment on internal design of CPython and it's drawbacks, that would make you an expert.

It also helps if you write a book about it ;)
https://workinjurysource.com/workplace-injury-statistics-201...

> States with Non-Fatal Workplace Illness and Injury Rates Above the National Average:

> California

> States with Non-Fatal Workplace Illness and Injury Rates Below the National Average:

> Texas

It's completely possible that Texas is less adversarial/bureaucratic or similar than California, but whatever they're doing is working.

Though it could be cultural differences. Government regulations are often half good best practices and half harmful backwards nonsense. A culture that only calls OSHA for not following best practices even after having it pointed out and not for not implementing backwards nonsense could pretty easily end up with a better safety record than one that prioritizes strict compliance over actual safety.
I figure it's because we want to feel extremes of emotion briefly, in a controlled way. No one actually wants to be scared for their life or suffer a tragedy ... but we enjoy feeling fear and sorrow briefly in a movie or the theatre. Having our emotions amped up makes us feel alive, I think. Afterwards we also feel good that we've avoided a similar fate.
Modern Heraldry is a book featuring seals, stamps, crests and shields
To be fair, most companies underperform s&p 500. S&p is driven by giant winners, and every generation has different winners. In the 90s GE was the winner and other companies in s&p trailed them. This is what makes survivors like Microsoft so amazing, they managed to remain on top by reinventing themselves many times under different leaderships.
At Lehman Brothers, the waves came every few weeks.
On Tuesdays, HR fired business people, and engineering people cleaned up the mess.
On Wednesdays, HR fired engineering people.
On Thursdays, HR fired each other.

It allows you to ramp down without pandemonium.
It seems they have fallen into the age-old trap of confusing unicorns with Pegasus.
Then you and your team should take over the epidemic modeling software development, there's a real need. I assume you can deliver on an academic budget and produce high-quality code in time for it to be useful in this pandemic?

Because if you cannot do those things, you're not really contributing anything of any quality.
I feel the same way when grumpy customers spam posts about interesting topics with their complaints.

Can we all agree to just talk about the interesting thing that was posted, and skip the one-off customer stuff? (I predict: no.)
Why are you so focused on the "sole means of transportation"? Before COVID I've used Uber and the likes around twice a month - when using public transportation was unfeasible, like going to the airport with heavy luggage. Using public transportation and supplementing it with Uber was definitely most reasonable solution.
The bsds are actually less stable than Linux.

Stable meaning changes, in this context, right? freeBSD changes ABI compatibility with every version.

If you mean that they have old software (and old==stable if you think Debian) then that’s because of BSD licensing vs GPL. GPL can take from BSD but the other way around is not possible.

Stability of uptime? Yeah, they’re rock solid.
It might get tricky when you have home grown terrorists walking around with long guns shouting that it violates some right they think they have to not wear them.
It's called GPS :-)

You can use a GPS as a time source for an NTP server (on your airwalled network).
The blocking of competition was mentioned several times in the links I posted. Here's a couple of quotes:

> Google required direct partners to exclusively use Google's AdSense and could not engage with Google's competitors

> Google required that partners take a minimum number of Google ads and predominately place them above any other advertising, nor could place ads from other services above or alongside Google's ads;

> preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems

> Google entered into anticompetitive exclusive agreements for the distribution of Google Search on both desktop and in the mobile arena

> The Commission’s complaint alleges that Google reneged on its FRAND commitments and pursued – or threatened to pursue – injunctions against companies that need to use MMI’s standard-essential patents in their devices and were willing to license them on FRAND terms.
YouTube was much more profitable before the current era of partisan activists engaging in targeted campaigns of harassment against specific brands when their ads appear next to controversial content.

Before, industry players, YouTubers, and users largely didn't mind. Now, there is a systemic chilling effect in the form of demonetization, algorithm shenanigans, and banning.

To recover revenue under this new paradigm, YouTube is catering to "brand-safe" corporate media productions and surfacing their videos much more highly than those of independent creators. There's likely media money involved as well, much like how Yelp and food delivery apps rank restaurants.
Maybe? It seems that it is more about whatever metric VCs are excited about is what will lead to the next bubble. What are you measuring? Revenue? Is it viral coefficient? Is it revenue per customer? Is it lifetime revenue above acquisition cost?

Whatever it is that lands you the round will be the place that money gets burned to goose the metrics until the dollars run out or folks realize it was a phantom.
I can't switch to duckduckgo. I do the kind of intricate searches that don't find what I need there.
I've never worked for a true unicorn but I've been in companies that got a sudden success and grew way too big way too fast. I think you can tell from the inside when a company loses its way. As you mention, suddenly you have tons of teams working on what seems to be fairly niche aspects of the company's product. You have man-years worth of work going nowhere as projects get scrapped mid-development. You start having a massively more complicated hierarchy of bosses and managers and project leaders and it seems like everybody is chief of something and everybody loses sight of the big picture as they just become focused on a single aspect of a given product. What was once a lean startup with a vision is now struggling to get new products out of the pipeline even though they have ten times (or more) the manpower.

Growing is hard and unicorns are expected to grow really, really fast. In the end many companies with a completely viable product end up going under just because investors thought that a million dollar company should be a billion dollar company.
What social situation?
It is, and parenting is in and of itself a job.

Imagine a society where its an actual career - parenting, as a job, apart from teaching. Professional parents paid to raise children. That is basically what nannies among the rich are now anyway.

It is totally just a culturally normalized incongruence that is just assumed for the sake of assumption. In the same way until a hundred years ago educating everyone was considered infeasible. The farm laborer of the 1850s would have looked at sending their kids to a public school as unbelievable and fantastical as someone today might look at having children raised professionally.

Its also worth considering that, in the age of two income households reproducing as regularly as they do, school does do that already. The raising of the kids thing. It just does it really badly, because its not structured or designed for that. The prevalence and use of after school activities in many cultures as a way to keep kids busy until their parents get off work or during the summer is indicative of an ill-fitting bandage that nobody wants to consider pulling off and reconciling culturally because that means "admitting" millions of people are not time wizards that can manage to do 80 hours of work a week in 60.
I mean that's the point, no? The dow having a record day while tens millions are suddenly no longer employed demonstrates a disconnect between the two. Tens of millions out of work should spell disaster for companies, should it not?
Most advanced economies are experiencing internal ZPG. Many are unused to lots of foreigners coming in. Many are relatively overpopulated. It would also dilute local culture and for small countries it would certainly overwhelm the local culture. On the other hand they need to remain a “going culture”, i.e. not dying out.

Korea’s pop nosedive should not be seen as the antidote for badly planned demographics elsewhere.

Sure, if they want to that’s okay but they certainly aren’t obliged to.

Let’s imagine what would happen to Bhutan if they opened their doors to their neighbors.
> Why are the developers at Google acting in such boneheaded ways?

(I'm a developer at Google, but I'm not on the Android team and am definitely not providing any sort of official response here - this is personal opinion and may be inaccurate)

If apps can download arbitrary code and then execute it, they can bypass the validation that's done as part of the Play Protect program. My understanding is that there's plenty of evidence of malware in the wild that presents as a harmless app and then downloads the actual payload after being installed on the user's device.
Counterpoint (just to manage expectations - you should read it for sure!): I was hyped to read the book, but ended up finding it a bit tedious. The technical parts were not technical enough (sometimes flat-out wrong, or maybe, naive sounding?) and the rock star parts got repetitive (even a lot of the same phrases used over and over). Still great fun, but not as good as I'd hoped.

I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolfenstein and Doom books (https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/). These go into WAY TOO MUCH technical info (in a great way!), but don't cover any of the hilarious rock-star antics.

My secret wish is someone would re-write Masters Of Doom to be 25% more Game Engine Black Book, and fix up some of the prose!
> Why are the developers at Google acting in such boneheaded ways? Is it literally just "I get paid loads of money, lol"?

Come on. You’re not even making sense in your own terms.
> Going full alt-right MAGA is going to cut his customer base in half, at least in the US and Europe.

Putting my best effort to be charitable here: he could be opening up a whole new market that is opposed to tree-huggers, fuel efficiency and Priuses. Texas loves trucks, the Cybertruck will be henceforth known as the Freedom Cybertruck and the Texas Edition will come with a complementary "Come and take it" sticker.

"Southern Heritage" flag interior design & center console wallpaper will be a paid extra.
> So maybe it would be better if these companies actually followed the same rule as the government is required to, even if they aren’t currently legally obligated to.

I disagree. The difference between private organizations enforcing a moral code, and the government, is strong.

Ostensibly, if racists wanted their own youtube, they could make one. I see nothing of value in the further existence of the racists' mindset, but I do think it's important that there aren't thought police, for many of the same reasons that your average alt-right racist would yell about "freeze peach."

Of course, perhaps it isn't such a bad thing to have thought police, if there were open stretches of ungoverned land where racists could go live and start their own government. Beyond Antarctica though, that isn't the case. So for now, I think it's important to allow that separation between private and public rule.
Studies are coming in daily showing no benefit from HCQ. As this article [1] points out, any other drug would not be looked at further given the current set of information. But, since HCQ has been seen as a cure, a lot more time and money will be spent showing the same results - no effect.

[1] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/no-benefit-fro...
Good idea that leads to cleaner code
I agree with some comments: WeWork is not a bad idea. Try signing a lease for commercial space and you'll understand why.

It's a great arbitrage/cutting the BS opportunity. However it should have been run by someone more grounded in reality.
US Telecom?
Ask HN: What should we do if someone is crawling our website?
A couple days ago I found out someone was crawling our website. she was sending low traffic (150 rpm) and it was not a real problem! (we have around 15k rpm on average).

I created an automated service to find crawler IPs and ban them, I did this for fun (parsing stream of requests, finding malicious behavior and blocking using firewall API was a challenging task).

Not only this service didn't stop her but she is trying harder and her request rate has tripled today (she is using more IPs. today, 1.5k of her IPs were banned).

What do you think I should do, let her crawl or chase this rabbit hole?

Thanks
+1 to a maid. You can get someone to clean, do laundry, and possibly cook 2x a week for less than $10k ($200 week * 50 weeks) a year in a mid-sized metro. Possibly even cheaper.

Any couple that bickers about cleaning at all should try a maid before a divorce or couples counseling.
Still, it's redacted due to some interesting parties pressing charges. Protecting a whistleblower's identity is the right thing for sure, but I don't believe Google add his name on the list for the righteous reason.
So a luxury that you can normally get by without? You seem to be strengthening my argument that it's not essential.

I think my point is being missed though and that is that using Uber as your daily commute is certainly not cheaper than owning a car. I think that's perfectly reasonable to say.

Also I don't mean to imply that Uber is a luxury in the same way Lois Vuitton is a luxury.

In my examples in other comments using Uber as a daily commute option almost certainly costs nearly 1000 or more per month.
Money Stuff: The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch
> Power users can use Android.

I've tried Android, I don't like it. Apple has put a lot more thought into their UX. Also the Apple hardware is better.

Telling someone to use Android because they want control of their iPhone is a ridiculous argument because they aren't substitutes for each other.

> The problem with side loading us social engineering attacks.

Exactly, which is why I said to make it hard to side load. Require you to run an app on a Mac laptop and write some code to make it work. Make it so that there are so many steps that only the most dedicated are interested. But just make it possible.

And besides, somehow Android doesn't seem to have a widespread problem with this, despite allowing side loading.
Oh, man. Who lied to you about healthcare compensation?

Just go check glassdoor.

Major IT companies bail on healthcare because margins suck and it's enormously regulated.

I give you, for instance, DICOM, Hl7, Meaningful Use, Infobutton, or any of the other half-useless dead-letter, best of the 80s-era mainframe technologies that are required to meet healthcare regulatory burden.

The best thing that's come out lately if FHIR, which is 9 years old and still doesn't qualify an EHR for meaningful use. Instead, it's all pipe-delimited TCP/MLLP and WTF.
I'm hoping distributed computing platforms will mature enough in the near future to get us there.
That is a highly disaggregated long-tail group of content with lots of low-quality content mixed in. Not only that, there's still the opportunity cost for the writer, and secondary non-monetary benefits that "pay" for the effort, be but let's ignore all of that for now.

It isn't practical for consumers of content to try and find the quality content mixed among the mass of dross when content is spread out among individual creators. This gives rise to aggregators. And even aggregators of quality content cost money to run. Maybe you'd use HN as a counter example
but HN isn't run out of the benevolence of ycombinator, there are secondary benefits that justify the costs.

So my comment shouldn't be taken as "there's no such thing as quality content without costs" and if I made it too easy to interpret that way instead of more charitably, that's my fault.

So let me amend it: You don't get concentrations of quality content without costs.
I see your point, but it's not as bad as that. Pressing the right key combination is optional, and all it does is skip an annoying beep. Factory reset isn't triggered by inactivity, it's triggered by pressing space and then confirming.
> you can pretty much walk the same distance

I think I'm the intended use case because I live about 2 miles (3.2km) from an entertainment district. I can walk it, and I have done so, but it takes quite a while, around 45 minutes. On a scooter it takes like 10.

Because of parking costs, scooter is cheaper than driving. It might even be faster. I own a bike, so I could ride that, but I don't like parking it in a busy downtown area.

There's also a bus I can take, and sometimes I take bus one direction and scooter the other if the bus schedule doesn't work for me.

I admit many people park scooters in a very inconsiderate way, but I always park carefully out of the way, so I don't feel bad about that personally.
Except there are cases where Walker went so far as to remove portions of a graph to support his argument. This kind of manipulation shouldn't be allowed to stand and it's frustrating (though not surprising) to see a book that relies on this sort of dishonesty get so much uncritical attention and praise. I can't put it any better than Andrew Gelman:

"If the data didn’t matter, then why did you include them in your damn book in the first place? If the removal of the bar from the graph didn’t matter, then why did you remove the damn bar?"

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...
Every hate speech law I’ve seen has a reasonably rigorous definition of what qualifies, including what kind of groups are protected. I’ve never seen a hate speech law that protects criticism of political parties, if you have please link to it.
How much does it cost to build a website like hunter io?
How much does it cost to build a website like hunter io?
From what I can tell, the W^X restriction is via SELinux, which is a kernel level mechanism that cannot be circumvented with LD_PRELOAD games.
If we're downweighting an off-topic subthread A, but it has a subthread B which is actually on-topic, we sometimes detach B so that it doesn't get pulled down by its parent. This is a good example. In this case A and B were almost completely unrelated.
I’ve been looking into building a pc this last week after almost 2 decades on Mac laptops. My motivation is that I’m playing around with Blender and my old MacBook is not having a fun time with it.

It looked to me like a modern AMD combo is the way to go - is that the general thinking these days? Are there issues you need to watch out for if you’re going to use them with Linux?
I have installed Ubuntu to my mom and my wife's parents PCs and I never ever spent time having to worry about those computers again. They instantly learn where the browser, skype and printer menu is, and NEVER have a problem with a computer again. I also never worried about antiviruses and malware since.

They are all in their 70s. No regular user has a problem with Ubuntu these days, but they regularly did have all kinds of trouble with Windows.

I also run a business and for the last 13 years have had countless new hires (non developers) who have never seen Ubuntu and were productive on it instantly, without any problems with the OS ever.

So it is simply not true that people "feel there is a problem the moment they see Linux". Ubuntu is the most friendly and reliable OS for a regular person out there, I say it from decades of experience.
Yes and AIUI, libhybris is working on supporting those userspace hardware drivers on a non-AOSP install. The postmarketOS folks would rather do without using downstream code/drivers/firmware at all and keep everything upstream based, but some devices will need this and it might also be useful for quick bring up on new devices.
How long do people usually stay at your company?
Because the Grandfather comment was about classifying Uber as an essential service when it's clearly not as demonstrated by yours and other comments. Using Uber a few times a month for extenuating circumstances is really not Essential.
365.25 days in a year, roughly 80 days of summer, seems like a solid bet that they'll likely give birth during the school year just by chance alone, no?
Yeah, it's stunning that someone who's experienced motivated authoritarian repression is arguing in favor of the CCP's bullshit regime-preservation distortions on speech, thought and discourse.

You know who the global leaders of disappearing citizens they disagree with are?

Automated filters on a global communication platform instituted for bullshit, regime-appeasing reasons are not going to solve community-driven hate in localities.

Anyone motivated to hate you will invent as many slurs as they need. Warping our institutions to play whack-a-mole against bad actors is shooting ourselves in the foot.
It's the same at grocery stores, packing places and the farms. Food is wasted at each step along the process. I know grocery throw out a ton of food. There'd always be at least a shopping cart full a week of expired stuff that got thrown out when I worked in one. Some stores around here will leave old produce outside for people to take as animal feed, but the one I worked at did not.

I imagine it's much the same at the packing and shipping places.
Sheikh Rashid's quote [1] kind of sums up the desperation of several countries in the Middle East to somehow diversify out of oil: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel"

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
Hi author, thanks for your blog. I've really enjoyed reading many of the articles that you have posted! Thanks taking the time to share your thoughts and research.
The tech that they sold included US IP. So now they fall under some of the same embargo rules.
WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web
Unfortunately the GPS signal is generally too weak to be used indoors - especially in a larger building like a hospital.