skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This someone only bought a book when they couldn't pirate it anywhere, unlike the rest of their "virtual library". They then "lent" the book to "everyone involved who really wanted to read it" and then wondered why DRM exists.

Seems appropriate.
No longer at that gig, but in order: Kubernetes applications using Kubernetes abstractions, S3 API abstracted away at the library level, RBAC done through Kubernetes (which includes IAM integration), we did use SQS and SNS but those were easy to replace given our abstractions. No security audits (third party ones at least, we did have scripts and checklists for deps and GDPR compliance). No hybrid networks, we either had an internal API/frontend for our services or we used bastion servers for SSH proxying. Wherever data transfer was a major issue we stayed within AWS, but that's our fault for going with AWS in the first place, which doesn't belong to the bandwidth alliance; a hard migration had been discussed and informally planned for but punted for later. DNS can be handled cross-vendor easily with Terraform since it's easy to set a module's outputs to another's parameters. Pipelines we ran with CodeBuild and hosted in ECR, but running a single command and docker pushing to a repo is not something I would even consider as a migration pain.
> "What to you may be just another opinion is another's legitimacy of them being them."

Ironically, progressives say this piously while failing to extend it to those with conservative (or even moderate) beliefs or religious beliefs.

(For the record, I am a non-religious classical liberal, part of which means I am against the intolerant aspects of progressivism.)
The way WeChat distributes additional content is in the form of mini-apps, which has no similarly to GMS. It is something that does not exist in the ecosystem of US apps.
Could you effectively replicate the restaurant example by having a qr code that leads to a website when scanned?

A nice, smooth, mobile-optimized website, I mean.
So what? The number of albums available to stream is a few orders of magnitude higher than the number of shows/movies available.
>So ML/DS people need to overpromise in order to get anything approved, otherwise they'd just have to sit around and do nothing, and overall everyone would be worse too, bc that real but unreliable progress would never happen.

IME with 8+ years as a Data Scientist in internal and external consulting roles. What I like to do is propose a phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, etc. Phase 1 is almost always a mix of scoping and "Does it even make sense to do this."

Only a fraction of the teams/customers I work like appreciate and have a tolerance for this longer term strategy. Most of those projects are a success and people get value out of using a model in addressing their business problem.

Most people hear this and respond with "No, Phase 1 needs to solve our poorly defined business problem and show massive value in 3 weeks so we can boast about how innovative we are being. You need to AI this problem. AI it now. Do some of that AI stuff. Give me the AI." Most of these fail and I know they are doing to fail, even if any models turn out be useful.

I will say that there there Data Scientist/AI/ML people who really just throw models at stuff and don't think about the value of what they are trying to deliver, but a lot of them are typically inexperienced and just have new toy syndrome. It's not really any different than somebody who reads a bunch of books (e.g. leadership, business) and then gets overly excited about using what they learned. They'll grow out of it or leave the profession when reality hits.
I specifically was referring to your identity as a programmer, not how you market yourself. Those are separate things.

The OP said "I'm a python programmer", and discounted the value of learning something new like elixir because it would undermine this due to the opportunity cost, which implies they may be falling into the trap I mentioned. All other things being equal, someone who is reasonably competent at both Python and Elixir is going to probably solve many problems in a better way than someone who didn't have a broader perspective. (In part because learning Elixir stretches well beyond learning a programming language, it is an introduction to an entire distinct continent of distributed systems knowledge and technology - OTP, BEAM, etc.)
The Puzzle of Teach for America
Ah shit. Turning it off. Thanks for the heads up
To be honest, these days outside of some categories like games (where the prices are relatively uniform) if you just need something to use casually, there's probably one or more open source options. Of course, the open source option may actually be the best one as well but, even if it isn't, it's probably good enough for the odd task now and then.
Many large companies have structured mentorship programs, but this is mostly for onboarding. Your mentor will help you learn about the company itself, e.g. all the different internal practices, tooling, teams, etc. (This is nothing to sneeze at, given how big these orgs can be!) It may include some more general career development but this is often aimed at early-career folks.

For more general mentorship, especially as your career develops, it’s the same as anywhere, you have to find someone you get along with and who can help you learn. The advantage at a big company is that there’s a huge pool of potential mentors, and you can see their calendars and coordinate more easily than if you were hunting in the community. :)
Who works at 12:00IST in India?
Other aspects are communicating, researching, not a deep dive into human psychology to ensure people don't pirate your software.
Oh. So at this point the blockchain part is only kept to be able to brag about it being a blockchain. Otherwise it's your ordinary payment system, complete with all the annoyances and limitations that come with it being that.
They're already "designed" for 18-wheel trucks which weigh 15-20 times that. Even heavy EVs are nothing compared to heavy transport.
This phenomenon is referred to as a "double flash":

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2015/04/18/the-nuclear-double-fl...
I had this one bookmarked, I think it's originally from 2017.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190508145128/https://www.exped...
Ask HN: Product teams using GitHub and Slack, how do you track your projects?
Our whole team uses Slack & Github religiously, but those two don't have all the features for managing and tracking projects end-to-end. We tried bringing in a few sass project tracking tools, but their integrations with Slack and Github are so limited that people stop using it over time and conversations, to-dos move back to Slack and Github Issues eventually.

Is there any team out there that has solved this issue?
Lockdown is a draconian political mandate justified and defended on the basis of virtue. It really hasn't been a matter of science because so far it couldn't be: there's far too many unknowns and inaccuracies in the measurements we're making, they're changing all the time.

From the beginning, authorities have been scrambling to appear competent and failing catastrophically.

There are major political ramifications of lockdown and other actions of leaders. They will not readily admit failure and neither will those convinced of the virtue of these measures - it's a matter of political identity now.
My guess is we'll see these first used in advertising, a fancier lenticular billboard.
The provisioners are the easy part - understanding the ecosystem and how the different parts of the cloud providers relate is the harder part. I routinely go back and forth between C#, Python and JavaScript using the official AWS SDKs and I understand how to accomplish what I need in either language. Using those same languages, I wouldn’t know where to start with Azure or GCP.

Using Terraform vs CF is easy compared to using AWS vs Azure.
Right, but hardcover is usually 100% more than paperback, at least more. So 25% less than hardcover is 50% more than hardcover. And a lot of modern hardcovers are so poorly made (especially as I've learned in the last couple of years, when it comes to RPG rulebooks), it's not as if the paperback is less durable.
Since running wireguard with algo.sh seems to be popular now, this is the situation you'll end up in with most ipv6 supporting cloud hosting providers. Digital Ocean only gives 16 ipv6 addresses to the best of my knowledge, others are probably limited to only 1.
This reminds me of the Tim Minchin song Storm. "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work?...Medicine."

I've never thought of it that way before but alternative medicine and AI have a lot in common.
Aids is not wrong. [1]

> However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec).

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307021121335...
AI has plenty of useful applications for business. Fraud detection, forecasting, enterprise resource planning, logistics - all of these were considered AI at one point.

The specific problem the author cites - digitizing data in PDFs - shouldn't even require AI. It can be solved better by just inputting data in digital form to begin with (like with a web form), and passing it around in a standardized machine-readable data format. But the commercial real estate industry is pretty backwards, and can continue to be pretty backwards because its core competency is ownership of the real estate, and digitization labor is round-off error compared to the profits generated by it. It'll take a major recession (and this current coronapocalypse may qualify) to create selection pressures to weed out inefficient firms, and until that happens there's no incentive for them to upgrade their processes.
3D glasses were really cool actually to experience CGI in. It was actually possible to enjoy that content together in the living room unlike VR content when you are expected to sit in the same space with boxes on your head
The cost of electric cars goes down every year. We've gone from $100,000 for a useful/ good electric car to ~$30k (Chevy Bolt EV) in less than 15 years. We're already seeing pricing parity on higher electric cars and soon with the Cybertruck, lower end cars will come within the next 10 years or so.
This is cool!

As mentioned in other replies--some small styling tweaks for readability would be useful and would literally only cost bytes (on the order of the x-clacks-overhead on the page...)

If you're focusing on an extremely small page size, I'd prefer an external static, cached stylesheet than inlining all styling on every page load. That and a less complicated email obfuscator. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#IRS_audit
It's also a tool that helps generate a JSON compilation database [0] for Clang Tooling.

[0] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms:

* https://write.as/

* http://txti.es/

* http://telegra.ph/

* https://txt.fyi/

* https://verbatim.link/

* https://www.pastery.net/

* http://ix.io/

* https://commentpara.de/

* https://rwtxt.com/

* https://distbin.com/
Aren't companies owned by individuals?
I'd use a snowball, to convey the growing nature.
Apple has a significant bug-bounty program that actually pays out https://www.zerodium.com/ios9.html

It doesn't appear (from what I can find) that they released their exploit through Apple's bug bounty program, and I don't know much about Pwn20wnd other than a blog and a Patreon.
I should probably say in the process of flipping rather than have flipped over that time period, it’s not going to be 100% or 80%, but the s-curve transition will be well underway, and car manufacturers will have their hands full developing the technology.
Show HN: Teletext TrueType Font
The average paperback book weights between 1 and 2 pounds and would cost 2.75 -> 3.25 in shipping for media mail in the US. In addition amazon would take 0.99.

Pulling up a few random books for example https://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640/...

I see I can buy it new for about $11 although I wouldn't be surprised to pay $15 in a physical store. Selling it could get me about 10 but I would have to pay about a buck to amazon and around 3 to ship it for a net of 6.

This is 40% - 55% of original value.

Perhaps more importantly lending or giving them in person arguably gives them the same $10 worth of value. Shipping it to someone produces $10 worth of value for 3.

A book that is shared 3 times has produced $30 worth of value. A book that is shared 10 times has produced $100 worth.

An ebook that you might not be able to read in 10 years is SUBSTANTIALLY less valuable than the physical book.

Adding this value proposition back in and removing DRM that strip actual ownership both laudable goals in themselves are entirely at odds. Artificial scarcity is broken by design and unfixable.
About suffix aliases, shouldn't one resort to file associations instead, and use the corresponding command (possibly with an alias)? It seems weird to have these settings stored in two places, and have inconsistent results when you open from the terminal and from another application (like a file browser).

What's the benefit of suffix aliases compared with setting up the associations? You only save two keystrokes if you have a single-letter alias (for xdg-open on linux).
It depends on the problem.

For integration, you can just derive.

For infinitely many other problems... verification is way harder.
'z' should work well here - 'z D B'
You shouldn't use StringBuffer.

The reason it is slow is because it is "thread safe". 99% of the time, you don't really want that (especially in cases where you know how big the string will be at the end of everything).

StringBuilder should be preferred for pretty much everything.
No. The FCC's 2015 open internet order had an exemption for "reasonable network management":

>A network management practice is a practice that has a primarily technical network
management justification, but does not include other business practices. A network
management practice is reasonable if it is primarily used for and tailored to achieving a
legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the particular network
architecture and technology of the broadband Internet access service.

Net neutrality has always been about leveling the playing field, not about preventing network operators from improving service for users. So, for example: QoS rules to make real-time communication work better in general? Great! QoS rules to prioritize Zoom over other real-time comms because the ISP has a deal with them? Nope.
The Fire Phone had other issues. It was a new player in a crowded market and had no reason to exist. It had one gimmick, but it was forgettable enough that I can’t even remember what it was right now, but I remember it was dumb.

Google themselves has struggled in this market: see the Nexus line.
"The South Atlantic Anomaly is already causing issues with satellites orbiting Earth, the ESA warned, while spacecrafts flying in the area could also experience "technical malfunctions" - I'm struggling to find the meat on the bones of this article that matches the headline.

I'd be grateful if someone else could either confirm or deny this, or enlighten me as to what those issues and technical malfunctions might be?

If not then I can't help feeling like the author has cheated me out of some very interesting information. Which is a great pity really.
Ooh, this looks neat
The average crypto startup or exchange is probably a scam. So maybe not the best measure.
Yes but you can fire them without dismantling your IT infrastructure.
You can define the image meta, but
yes it sounds like HTML is good fit for your needs.
> There's a reason why companies put customers through all this garbage and the reason is because I can easily pirate these books.

There's a reason why customers pirate and the reason is because companies put customers through all this garbage.
> Almost all of our kernel patches are in mainline Linux, and ifupdown2 and FRR are packaged on Fedora and others.

I did see FRR recently make its way into Fedora, but I haven't seen anyone package up ifupdown2 there. Is someone working on that at Cumulus? I'd be happy to do the package review if someone hasn't already grabbed it before me once it's submitted. :)

> In defense of VyOS, they contribute to FRR and generously offer free licenses for people who work on the projects they use (https://www.vyos.io/open-source-contributors/). I think in general there's a lot of goodwill between the people working in the open NOS space.

Oh, I don't doubt it. But it's weird how many of them built on Linux are still not FOSS or collaborating with their upstreams...

> Gotcha, I understand now. I can't provide any direct insight into why ifupdown2 was chosen instead of nm. I also use nm on my personal devices - though I can't say I've ever missed the ability to e.g. configure vxlan tunnels on my personal infra ;). I guess if we'd chosen nm 10 years ago then there would be similar feelings from people who prefer /etc/network/interfaces. Of course, at the end of the day Cumulus engineering time is spent primarily on things that ship in Cumulus Linux.

Well, for what it's worth, /etc/network/interfaces is supported by NetworkManager. :)

As for VXLAN configuration in my personal network, I do it for homelab stuff. Setting up layered networking is kind of necessary if I am going to be messing around with things like OpenStack and Kubernetes.

I totally get that the engineering is primarily spent on things that ship in Cumulus Linux. I just want to see more work from Cumulus that benefits everyone, especially given that networking is so hard to get right! :)

> Btw, appreciate the feedback :)

You're welcome. I'm happy to see such an engaged person from Cumulus like yourself responding well to feedback! :)
Apple Should Provide Notarization for Open-Source Apps
Yes, except that as I pointed out in my other comment - public stations around me charge about £0.30-£0.40 per kWh(and I know that rapid stations near motorways charge even more) - at that price, it's literally cheaper to drive a diesel. Yes, we can make an argument that once people have no choice, they will pay that money to charge anyway. But privately-owned infrastructure has no reason to be free or cheap, except for the very initial period when say shopping centres are trying to attract EV drivers. Once they are essential infrastructure it's hard to see them being cheap.
Georgia is a decent serif that will typically be available.

Or just `font-family: serif` which will most commonly be Times New Roman or similar, but will be whatever we prefer for those few of us that set the default fonts.
Me and a couple of friends having been working on similar ideas for the past few weeks!

https://gather.town & https://theonline.town

There are a lot of people exploring this idea recently, you might be interested in trying them:

- https://cozyroom.xyz

- https://www.calla.chat/

- https://party.mookerj.ee/

- Phillip Rosedale (Second Life)'s High Fidelity
>no player likes walls of text

It depends, there are players that love learning all the lore details, the good games add additional dialog or letters/books/emails that are optional so players that are in a rush can skip them.
I realized when I bought "The Catcher In The Rye" in digital form that I can only buy it once.
But I want to buy more copies of "The Catcher In The Rye",
Every time I visit Amazon.com I try to buy "The Catcher In The Rye" but it won't let me because I already own "The Catcher In The Rye" and that's a real shame because I really like "The Catcher In The Rye" and want to buy more copies of "The Catcher In The Rye" whenever I see a copy of "The Catcher In The Rye" which I cannot do in digital form.
First three things are on point, but we tried the last one. The "Paycheck Protection Program" that immediately ran out of money was our attempt to do something similar.

In a perfect world, a much larger PPP would have been more efficient and easier to manage than expanded unemployment benefits; in world we live in, that would have meant trusting an administration that prides itself on incompetence and corruption to handle what would have been the bulk of our economic response.
We resolve arbitrary names with DNS to a global identifier (an IP address), but for routing, what you need is a local identifier (which neighbor router to send the packet to), which means every router or set of routers would need its own database, and each database would need to know about every host in the world. This is exactly what we have nowadays with BGP, only with networks instead of hosts: every core router or set of core routers has a database which knows about every network in the world, and tells which neighbor AS to send the packet to.
> You're right, but the tricky part is, how do you explain that to a group of children who is just being introduced to the concept of adding fractions, without leading them off track? That's hard!

She's already introduced bottles of water and pencils. So one interesting question is, "If you take three bottles of water, and add three pencils, do you now have all of the bottles of water?"
I was thinking high end jewelry store window display.
Q Prophecies. American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
I've worked at several enterprise companies, two banks and an exchange, and all of them have Chrome and Firefox installed on all their desktops as standard. Everyone I know mostly uses Chrome.

Generally the IT department apps target IE as they are Windows shops, while all the line of business apps developed internally by the business technology teams (Trading, Risk, development tooling) primarily target Chrome and those teams prefer Linux as their back-end platform of choice.

MS have been trying really hard to compete with Chrome. Edge was a genuine, all-in effort to win back the desktop browser space on Windows. A primary reason it failed was precisely because so many enterprises had already had to put Chrome everywhere and developed scads of enterprise web apps that relied on Chrome and FF. It was too late. Our IT department tried really hard to push Edge when it came out, but everyone in the business technology teams just went "Meh, Sucks" and carried on using Chrome and Firefox as much as possible.
Personally, I've started seeing algorithmic discoverability as an anti-feature that mainly serves the interests of the attention economy.

For my part, I want more long-form, thoughtful articles that offer an enriching read. Not only have we got a good decade or two's worth of experience showing that no algorithmic discovery system ever favors that kind of thing over content that's morally equivalent to Five Minute Crafts, but I've got a couple decades' worth of experience telling me that, since long-form bloggers tend to link each other quite a lot, never needed an algorithm to help me with discovery in the first place.

If I want anything, it's algorithmic filtering: Take the feeds I'm already subscribed to, and filter out the stuff that I tend to skip over without reading. Because my blog feed already delivers me a couple hours' worth of reading a day, so I can afford to be choosy.
I wonder what marketing/advertisement work was done to achieve this. It's not like you just need to open a Patreon account and start getting $10k+ immediately.

P.S.: BTW, all this money is "donations", aren't they? So under a lot of legislations you wouldn't even have to pay taxes on that.
You're misunderstanding options vs shares here.

He was only given 100,000 shares ($5 million/year).

The options only give him the right to purchase shares at today's price in the future. If the stock goes up substantially, he can profit on it, but the options could also be worthless if the stock price remains flat or goes negative. If the stock goes up 10%, the options would be worth ~$29 million (option to buy 1.4 million shares at a price of 208 then sell them at the future market price of 228)