skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting but not interesting enough for us to have an opensource vendor lock while the community builds opa.

Might be heavier (haven't seen a comparison so /shrug) but why would i set on one horse while all others are setting on the other?

As a side note: Thats a ton of money for such a tool per node base
The division of Germany also suggests an explanation of how Hitler wound up in his bunker that does not assume he was a madman. If he had had reason to believe that the west and the east would be in conflict soon after they met[1], he might have been hoping to sell Germany off to one or the other side.[2]

The Cold War did indeed come about, but unfortunately for Hitler, the two sides were happy to ignore any "Not for individual sale"[3] labels.

[1] read the Sportpalast speech to find out how they sold themselves as protecting all of europe against communism.

[2] Liebes Volk! Unser viewpoint has evolved with political and economic developments in the area!

[3] Sunrise, Paperclip, etc. What were the eastern equivalents?
The Unitary Patent is another attempt to validate and expand EU software patents
This is done often to sound more professional.
> The entire Bitcoin network could technically be run off a single Rasberry Pi. The network hash rate is only so high because the ROI is there, but without it, people would still be mining.

That's a bit of a naive view. It's like saying, we don't need this expensive security vault in our bank, we could just store it all in a shed.

the proof of work is crucial to the proper functioning of bitcoin, and if the only miners were running on a raspberry pie anyone could come along and do a >50% attack stealing what they want.
Yes, my recollection of the Squeak browser plugin was that the performance was indistinguishable from running regular Squeak, several orders of magnitude better than SqueakJS. And the startup time was vastly better than any Java plugin code.

However, if you were on dial-up, and your browser didn't already have a cached copy of the smalltalk image, then you were in for a quite a wait. (Though no doubt this could have been addressed - there were people arguing at the time for the creation of a much smaller Squeak image, but a combination of the lack of a clear goal to motivate this work, and the fact that for most existing users it was a non-issue, meant that nothing came of this within the timeframe where it might have made a difference.)

But it may be that this is all moot, because it could be argued that any browser-plugin deployment model would ultimately fail.
The #2 carrier in Switzerland, Sunrise, is already covering over 80% of the populated areas.

In France both Bouygues and SFR want to go forward with their Huawei 5G rollout. I believe the government has banned Huawei equipment only in a few sensitive areas.
So you are saying i have to take care of my parents?

Why?
TLS isn’t everything, you might not trust the server operator. In fact you probably shouldn’t if you’re sending a PM.
Honestly I've used RES for so long, I can no longer tell which features are from RES and which ones are from Reddit. Absolutely worth it even if just for these filters.
because most papers overstate their results
It's not a reasonable argument at all.

It's like arguing that the USPS is "not fair" to companies like UPS or FedEx. Or that public buses are not fair to Uber. Or libraries to book stores.
From [1] and [2] I understand that you can run the back-end on a server (in the cloud) and the front-end on the tablet in the Safari browser.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ow/status/1135919541073014786

[2]: https://medium.com/@ow/its-finally-possible-to-code-web-apps...
I’ve got no idea what this is. The text on the page is truncated in Safari on iOS so I assume there are some explanatory notes I can’t see?
Wait, are market incentives really the basis for hoping that Google doesn't spy on Firebase data?

I would have guessed because they'd be liable for breach of contract or GDPR or whatever.

What does Google say about its analytics applied to its Firebase customers?
If you are able to get the domain knowledge fast enough, sure.

Or as you said, the domain knowledge has changed from the original.
Hi dang!

If I may ask, why is this one not on the front page? It seems to offer something significantly different that that older link which only links to an article indexing police brutality against journalists, while this is against all people. It appears to have enough upvotes to be on the front page - did some other part of the weighting system bump it off or is there a manual flag/bump on it?

Appreciate all your efforts here and hope that doesn't come off as confrontational or accusatory.
This is a big reason why I don't comment on reddit.
Probably it should consider the alignment to the business strategy. Developers tend to rewrite because of tech challenges.
But I agree with the conclusion and rewrite should be considered if it is impacting the strategy.
It seems it's only worth it if you can plumb the waste heat into a nearby building.
I've been running various online businesses, including SaaS, for eight years.

There is no general answer to your question. Are those 8 customers paying you hundreds of dollars each per month, or tens of dollars? What's the reason you haven't gotten more? Have you lost motivation to work in this space / on that project?

I was in a similar situation to you a few years ago. I had started a clone of patio11's appointmentreminder.org for the Austrian market. After 2 years, I had 8 customers and €2k monthly recurring revenue. But it was very difficult to get new customers. I decided to stop growing this business. Since then, I've lost 4 of the 8 customers, but those that remain now pay me more for additional services, so I'm back at €2k MRR. I'm satisfied with my decision.

Another project I worked on is https://fman.io, a desktop application. There, I wish I had stopped sooner. I spent 3,000 hours and made <€20k. I actually recorded videos about this and the other business I mentioned above [1], [2].

In general, I suspect most founders keep going longer than they should. The fact that you are even asking the question indicates to me that you are losing motivation. Maybe it is time to move on.

If you'd like to talk about more details privately, feel free to reach out by email. You can find my address at http://herrmann.io. Good luck!

1: https://youtu.be/I1K3IkOlaVw

2: https://youtu.be/NWCOwvp23uk
Here’s my 2 cents. There are already experts who have compiled lists of great, free online resources in different fields (but they’re just a list of links). You can convert those lists into content-rich learning paths on your platform and give credit to the original list creator. That might give you some momentum, at least around the learning path feature. I would also try to replicate some elements of MOOC websites, such as progression bars and notifications that show your progress on a learning path. Maybe even allow for the creation of simple quizzes. Give a simple badge for completing a learning path - it would be generic by default, but the creator of the learning path would be able to customize the badge associated with its completion. There’s so much great info on the web that doesn’t get used enough, and even the lists that pull it all together don’t get enough attention.

There’s room for this to become more than a plug-in. Your service can become a crowdsourcing platform for aggregated knowledge curation.
UK implemented a full lockdown really late, a long time after covid-19 was fully established in the community.

There's a bunch of other stuff going on with the UK that has increased the number of deaths:

10 years of austerity has cut budgets to local authorities, and they're responsible for public health (so things like track and trace). LAs are also responsible for care homes, and the lack of budget means care home workers are on minimum wage zero hour contracts, so they feel they have to work and they often work in more than one place. This means they're more likely to spread covid-19 to vulnerable residents.

> the justification for the lockdown was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system (flattening the curve to under the hospital capacity, which everyone seems to have forgotten now)

There are ways to avoid overwhelming the hospitals. One way (which is what the UK did) is to just let people die in the care homes and never admit them to hospital. That's not great.

The problem with ending lockdown is that in many places it's not being done with any care. There's a rush to end lockdown without any measures being put in place around what to do if the number of infections starts to rise again.
Yeah. Oops.

Maybe use the opportunity to apologize for scapegoating medical support workers who don’t speak “good enough Swedish” to follow instructions. Same workers from similar background all over Europe of course, where authorities did a much better job with less xenophobia.
Zoom won't encrypt free calls to cooperate with the police
I have a different subjective experience.

The mixing between parenthesis and braces and the lack of standard indentation makes some derivations really hard to read.

I can't give you an example right now, but I've been looking at the nixos modules that deal with creating NixOS images lately. So you can get an idea of the part of the codebase that gave me this experience.
Now with Project Reunion making it official that both worlds are getting merged, I look forward that with time the minimal Win32 sandbox acquires full sandboxing capabilities.

I see current MSIX limitations for Win32 just as means to incrementally steer developers into it, while not introducing too many breaking changes (as WinRT happened to be).
You got a lot of mental gymnastics to squirm out of your culpability for perpetrating hate towards the 99.9% of cops who do their job ethically. But you got no words for a dead man who served his community for 40+ years and meets a fate like this thanks to instigators and rioters who claim they're for justice.
Thank you for clearing that up; I know they must weigh in all the options... but currently --- given the current chaotic political climate --- I'm quite sure they expected to fly under everyone's radar.
amex won't give most startups a credit line that is free of personal guarantees. that's the point.
It's an oft-requested feature, kind of like Easylist. I don't think it's a good move.

Everyone's filter bubble should be unique.
Firefox has been providing amazing developer tools for a long time already. In some areas they are better than Chrome's, and vice versa. Just give it a try and see for yourself.
Nokia and Ericsson are both European companies.
A Kea developer's take on IPv6 and DHCP
Web makes your OS irrelevant, the browser is the VM, it can even be running bare metal for what I care.

Best way to kill all alternative OSes.
It seems to me it's still not contradictory to GP: domain knowledge wasn't in the code, it was outside. The thing didn't work in all cases so you had to get the specs from something other than the code; rewriting according to this exterior source was the sensible thing to do
It's less about security auditing than it is just about freedom to view the source and/or modify. That's why Debian is separated into free and non-free to begin with. Nothing is stopping it from going into non-free as I understand it.
You should check Slavoj Zizek's take on this quote, where he completes the quadrant with the "unknown knowns", i.e. stuff that we know but we don't know that we know it, as in subconscious biases, ideology, etc.
Apparently those are derivative of a much newer controller, the Intel 8051 (1980), heavily modified, running at up to 450MHz, and with added hardware accelerators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51#Use_as_intellectu...
I would argue that rewrite is slightly more difficult then refactor. Refactor means, after all, making the current system better while rewrite would mean no update/change/feature on the current system and more pressure to get it done.

I would herby say that a good team with experienced people will succeed in both cases while an less experienced team will probably have a higher chance of doing a refactoring then a rewrite.

I like refactorings better. It allows me to optimize a system slow and steady.

I like rewriting better if you don't need to support the old env while doing the rewrite and having expierence in the old system.
You are correct. I found this great analysis of the official report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRf84EqaJI

The autopsy was purposely vague so as to give as much leeway as possible to the police.
I tried to use nixos-generators recently and the experience wa frustrating. For example, I tried to generate an image in the `do` format (DigitalOcean) and a few other formats. Every time, the script (`nixos-generate`) finished running and didn't produce any output.
There is research to support the idea that the equipment is a meaningful factor:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20531680177128...

> The US Department of Defense 1033 program makes excess military equipment, including weapons and vehicles, available to local LEAs. The variation in the amount of transferred equipment allows us to probe the relationship between military transfers and police violence.
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Yup, I was a bit confused about what you were trying to say. Thanks for clarifying.
Speaking more broadly, surely there is a point between zero privacy and 100% surveillance that we can all move to. If we take the encrypt (E2EE) approach to everything and all aspects of our lives, i.e. we should be able to protect our faces from video recording when walking into banks, then surely the system would be more open to abuse by bad actors. Accountability in society is what drives good behavior....if we take that away then chaos reigns. Therefore there must be a balance which is why the whole 'let's encrypt everything and protect everyone' feels like sometimes it goes too far and borders on zealotry...Yes I feel that personal freedoms are important but so is the state in mantaining peace.
This is one of the best ideas I've seen:

https://anacyclosis.org/2020/05/25/how-do-we-save-democracy/

TL;DR;

Re-align the interest of the rich so they have a strong financial interest in the middle class doing better. By having a progressive tax pegged to the median income of Americans.
Sure, but we get into a weird place if we try to argue that every thing that possibly might be written must be written - no copyright law is strong enough, we have a moral obligation to buy books we have no interest in, etc etc.

So why is the current copyright system the exact correct system for getting people paid to write, where any stronger or weaker would be bad? I can think of at least a few other possible systems that would get people paid to write as well - maybe an entirely different set of people, so some things would get written that aren’t today and some things that would get written today aren’t under that system. How can we evidence that our current system works best?
from what i've heard, 5g base stations definitely consume significantly more power, on average. but on a "per bit moved" basis, they are more power efficient.
> ”Building and maintaining infrastructure for low-density population areas is extremely capital intensive.”

The solution is to share infrastructure in sparsely populated areas where it would be uneconomic for each operator to build it's own.

The UK, despite being vastly smaller and denser than Canada, has long had poor mobile coverage in rural areas.

The UK government is now requiring (and contributing funding towards) geographical 95% coverage by 2026. Operators will use shared rural infrastructure to achieve this.

https://www.mobileuk.org/shared-rural-network

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/shared-rural-network
I'm not gonna tell you how to vote. I will only tell you to exercise your civic duty. We are all smart people here: to wield both the abstract and pragmatic concerns into a decision. Make it. It may be the last we get to make.
> Windows works because everyone, at Microsoft and outside, put in a lot of work to make it work.

Maybe that’s a general property of platforms and operating systems, it would explain why people get so attached to them.
> I am genuinely feeling oppressed by sans-serif!!

I fully understand you, so just a few examples of the opposite of what you describe:

https://www.alamy.com/old-and-new-street-signs-with-blacklet...

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-paris-july-14-art-nouveau-...
Yes, Jocko Willink explains very well in this video

“At what level up the chain does extreme ownership stop?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsMScRfjVC0

“When something goes wrong, where does it stop? [...] Ramadi, friendly fire incident... and I took ownership of it. Now you got to remember also [that] people below me in the chain of command said «no it’s my fault», «no it’s my fault» [...] I said «No, it wasn’t your fault, it was my fault. Now you could say... you could look at my boss and go «why wouldn’t it be your boss’ fault?», «why wouldn’t it be his boss’ fault?» [...] why wouldn’t you take it all the way up the chain of command to the president of the US, since the senior person in the US military is the president, why wouldn’t he say «hey, Jocko’s unit had a blue-on-blue and it’s my fault», right? Theoretically, that’s what Extreme Ownership is.
Here is the deal: the goal of Extreme Ownership isn’t just to take ownership. The goal of E.O. is to actually solve the problem.”

For anyone to whom that sounds interesting, I recommend listening to that whole segment, 18 minutes, where he explains in detail how someone taking responsability at the right level gets the problem solved.
It is a very interesting approach to the aspects which interferes directly to the mining environment. And I totally agree the discussions around this subject normally are superficial and around the market emotions.

Considering climate (weather) aspects is one of the strategic decisions about how to conduct the business in this case.
If you spend four years sowing discord and disorder, you reap what you sow. The president is to blame.
I found the move away from GraphQL again interesting, maybe because it supports some of my concerns about it. I never looked in detail into GraphQL, but just from the general principles I understand I found it rather scary to decide to use it.

It's a big complicated thing directly between the data and the frontend. If anything goes wrong there, now I have to debug a much more complex piece of software than if I use a REST API. And just like in the article, based on my superficial knowledge I was concerned that it could be easy to create bad queries, and hard to fix performance issues.

I'm not saying GraphQL is bad, I really don't know enough about it. But given the central position it takes, I would not feel comfortable deciding to use it without a serious amount of prototyping and getting to understand how it works. It often feels weird to me that such a complex piece in this kind of critical position is often casually recommended for any kind of web application.
Looks good. Will check out your transforms first.

Fwiw, Automattic’s image optimizer / CDN for WordPress is also called Photon:

https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/
Isn't the additional energy consumed also increasing the EM radiation levels?
You can highly customize the Google Maps javascript service to load and connect you custom panoramas hosted on your own server.
The Cpp.chat Episode: “It Doesn’t Get Bored and It Doesn’t Get Tired”
Works here on Arch Linux, Firefox 76.0.1 (yeah, I need to upgrade).
This is great - nice work! I also find that I would rather read than watch a video or listen to a podcast, I can read much faster than watch/listen. Clever use of the video captions as well.

How are you handling formatting and the punctuation?

Nice loading messages by the way.
What he means is that it's not practically feasible. Experts and a few talented crackers have the expertise to go through a binary with tools like IDA Pro and analyse it, but the process takes a lot of man-hours and is much harder than auditing source code. So yes, if there is a problem with Zoom the NSA and other state-run agencies will find and exploit it, but ordinary security professionals might not have the combination of manpower and expertise needed.

Since it's used so much now, I still hope that somebody reverse-engineers some of the clients. In contrast to auditing open source code, this might also pose legal problems, though.
https://a16z.com/2017/02/18/12-things-about-product-market-f...

"So what are considered some of the best tests for PMF? Rachleff writes that “You know you have fit if your product grows exponentially with no marketing. That is only possible if you have huge word of mouth. Word of mouth is only possible if you have delighted your customer.”"

Generally, if growth is slow, your product is not good enough, or rather there's no market for it. You should try different things until you get to a point where you have more customers than you can deal with. Slack originally worked on a MMO, then shut it down and worked on the messaging tool they used while building it.
Cause I'm risk-averse and lazy.
Hmm... 256M records is still not that much for postgres or mysql so it shouldn't be too much for kdb/q. Several gb of data also shouldn't be too much.
I mean, I work on custom software that my clients use in-house; my clients always get full source code and I bill them for my time. But I doubt that's particularly relevant to your situation.

I don't know what would work for you. If you're doing in-person support for your users, that may well be a lot more valuable than the software itself. Maybe that's a viable business, or maybe it isn't. Again, the world doesn't owe you a business model. If you're selling shrink-wrapped software then my honest opinion is that that business is dying (with or without the open-source movement) and it's better to get out of it.
I have perpetrated no hate, and don't strawman me.

Acts of violence are _always_ wrong. I did however point out the police are not prosecuted in any meaningful systemic fashion.
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How hard is it to install 32-bit windows 10 on a modern computer? I wouldn’t want to run that on an actual 32-bit only machine.
This appears to be using the passphrase as an hmac key directly, with the URL.hostname as the value.

Unless the user memorizes a proper randomly generated key, this is going to be brute-forcable based on a single website’s generated password, which would then allow all other websites to be accessed.

Also, if a website ever changes its domain name, you’re going to have trouble.

This appears to be a weekend project, and I don’t want to be overly negative, but do not use this as-is. This is more than dead-simple: this is deadly simple.
It'll stop feeling like zealotry as governments develop more and more stasi-like tendencies.

The trouble is, by the time they do (and they will, China is halfway there), it will be too late to protest.
>so far I have a 6-0 lead on providing sources for my complaints

wow, a master debater indeed. you should go on shows with Ben.
About to release this fix now.
Well, granted my knowledge derives from a single Wikipedia article, but it sounds to me like they considered it and concluded there was more to lose than there was to gain. Several diplomatic notes were sent back and forth and they couldn't even agree on basic conditions for starting negotiations. Yes, the West had ulterior motives, but it is naive to think that the USSR didn't also.