skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm totally with you on this. People pay other money to prepare food?

It's not trivial either, restaurant food is 7 to 20x more expensive than home cooked (source- Efficiency Is Everything)

The only other business model for a restaurant is to sell drugs(aka alcohol and caffeine). Then your business model exploits customer addictions.

I think we've spent far too much money/resources/manpower on lazy food habits.
Efficiency isn’t irrelevant, but if you’re worried about efficiency, this isn’t worth caring about. A mast that can covers tens of thousands of people uses as much energy per day as driving an SUV for a couple of hours. If that mast lets one person work from home a few days a week, say, it has paid for itself energy-wise.

If you’re worried about energy inefficiency, the best things to focus on are probably domestic insulation and reducing car usage. People tend to get hung up on the small stuff.

It’s really bizarre to me that THIS is the aspect of consumerism that people go after for energy use. Improved access to the internet has substantial benefits to society; a little energy use is acceptable. SUVs and 5000sqft houses have no obvious benefit to society at all, and use vastly more energy than the telecoms industry could dream of using.
A Smalltalk 80 implementation and tools
Am I the only one who finds it really hard to correctly angle a photo-taking device without an optical viewfinder to look through?
The Unattributable “Lead Hunter” Data Breach
It's the religion thing, the belief there's got to be something big at work, always something or someone controlling the masses. Whether it's God, aliens, lizards, or a super group of people.

Because the alternative is that their life, everyone's life, is meaningless on a macro level.

People seem to almost violently reject that thought. Just like they reject any thoughts about death as if they're going to live forever (if not on Earth, then in Heaven/Hell/Purgatory/etc). It's rather fascinating.
>Step 2: Complete Binary and Malware Analysis at the Vrije Universiteit

>Step 3: Complete Computer and Network Security at the Vrije Universiteit

>Step 4: Complete Hardware Security at the Vrije Universiteit

Can you share the resources i.e. Books, Videos etc used in the above courses? Might be a good starting point for those who want to delve into the subjects.
Here are many apps for streaming as well as downloading movies but here I’m discussing some of the best apps which I use personally - https://streamingsites.com/premium-streaming-apps/ . HBO app is my favourite
Those are very good points.

I said we're back to normal, but I wasn't 100% fair: our borders are still semi-closed. We'll probably have another surge if we restore travel in the future from countries where Covid is active.

All in all I think it was a very small price we paid to be back on the tracks in only two months. Some companies are getting out of Kurzarbeit already (government help).
On/off representations are cool, but also a bit harder to work with. One can end up having disjoint groups that don't really make sense, so lots of permutations has to be thrown out. So finding the correct representation can actually be very hard.
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Do you believe most SPAs are a pile of steaming crap, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity? Do you laugh when people give up the power of PostgreSQL in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case? If so, you may fit in well with our mindset.

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I have been absolutely miserable working for others, as in:"life is gray" miserable. I tried on my own, with very bad outcome, so now I am in the difficult position to choose between give another shot with more age and way less money or get back to the grinder.
I tended to have a camera with me for years too--though I really slowed down after I no longer had easy access to a B&W darkroom. But that wasn't the mainstream case.

To Americans, the Japanese taking snapshots at every opportunity (including business meetings--OK we mostly don't do that) was notably odd behavior. Today, I'm sure just about any random nationality takes far more.

I have lots of dedicated camera equipment but most of that is for event, travel, or dedicated photography of some sort. If I know I'm going to be on a trip where I'm going to just be taking random memory pictures, I mostly just bring my phone.
I guess nobody felt like rewriting Google Reader!
You may be interested in the book “100 Days: The Rush to Judgement that Killed Nortel” by James Bagnall. This story should be better known as it is a cautionary tale of virtue signalling, both by American regulators and Nortel’s Board of Directors, trumping critical thinking. Ultimately a great deal of consumer value was destroyed due to the presumption of wrongdoing.
I applaud your effort, but, while there may actually be a single version of truth in the universe, there is effectively no good way to prove it.

I don't think a show of hands is helpful. I regularly encounter Reddit threads with 95% of the comments agreeing on something that elsewhere in the thread is clearly shown to be dis- or mis- information.

Cutting out political bias also fails to solve problems, because there are plenty of gullible, but "unbiased", fools out there, whose fact-checking isn't valuable. In fact, fools on the internet unwittingly do plenty of legwork for clever propagandists.

In my opinion, what would be useful is to allow the user to choose other users whom he or she trusts, and get a truth score based on their opinions. Create that and I'll be the first to join.
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Thanks for your understanding, dang. I'll stick to the title next time (or post the tweet if it is from the same author).

The karma stuff is the last thing I care about. I just want to bring this story out to the HN community since it is something worth discussing about.

Cheers.
AWS craze started much later than when it was founded. I'd say this was fueled by devops movement and docker, so around 2015
The most solid SaaS I've been a part of was not a fast start. It was almost 20 years from the first customer until the acquisition/exit. It was bootstrapped, and added about one employee per year. It maxed out at 2 developers.

But it grew to around $15M ARR in that time. That might not sound like a huge number compared to the best known startups, and VCs would have no interest in such a company, but it does prove that slow growth does work.

So to answer your question... when should you give up? Give up when you no longer feel fulfilled by working on it. There is no magical growth rate that makes it a good project vs. a bad project. It is all about your personal goals and whether it fulfills them.
Is it less effective, though? From what I remember about successes e.g. against organized crime or other groups that operated partially or totally over the internet in the news over the last years, it was mostly the simple and dull ~~physical~~ police work that leveraged mistakes of operational security, but not an evaluation of minable data (even when learned in hindsight that it existed).

E.g. looking at the logs of relevant servers and waiting for someone to login without their VPN at some point.
> I would like to live in a society where temporary actions made in the name of compassion during an emergency can be overlooked.

This could be read as:

> the end justifies the means

"Compassion" can be stretched to mean anything as long it's good to someone. I think IA's cause is a very noble one. I can stand behind that. However, noble causes don't give you legal exemption.
> As an illustration, if we get reasonable evidence suggesting that someone is growing marijuana in their ranch, we can get a warrant and go inside. There's not too much the owner can do to stop it. However a perfectly encrypted iphone cannot be broken into, no matter if the entire world agrees that there's evidence of crime in it.

These examples are talking about a different thing, we should be careful to not mix them up since the arguments for and against can be different.

The discussion prior to your comment was about protecting data in transit (end-to-end encryption); both your examples are about data at rest (full disk encryption).

With encrypted data in transit, not only can it be broken into by intercepting at the endpoints (in the case of video or audio calls, even through the physical world by pointing a camera and a microphone at the user's device), but also the end result of an end-to-end encrypted connection is much closer to a physical world private conversation (can be "broken into" only by intercepting the endpoints, that is, pointing a camera and a microphone at the persons involved).

With encrypted data at rest, the best physical analogy is a diary written in code; even if the whole world agrees that it contains evidence of embezzling, it cannot be decoded without the help of its owner's mind.
Uhm, it's definitely way older than Hitler even being a person.
Connectivity was one of the major reasons I was looking at flats in Cluj a little while ago, even roaming on a UK SIM up in the mountains I was getting rock-solid 4G at all times (and even down in Salina Turda).
That seems completely irrelevant to GP's point.

If a Civil War veteran were born in 1845, served in his late teens, and died at 85, then anyone older than 90 could have spoken to him.

Play with assumptions a bit, or go back a few decades, and the numbers become much less extreme.
Because fraudulent people don't actually provide value, where coinbase needs to confirm identity.
How to Access Device Cameras with JavaScript (Front and Rear)
> Why would a dedicated camera need to take huge numbers of photos to overcome sensor noise when it's not there in the first place?

Except there is noise. There is always some dark spot that could do with a little more detail. There is always a bright reflection that saturates the sensor losing its color information.

With a decent burst and enough computational photography, you can recover all that information.
Weirdos in the depression
And here's a talk by Ben Evans about implementing a JVM in Rust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECbwgkHdAE
Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg
To me, phone cameras work great for most cases in good light. For flowers and landscapes I never bother with DSLR now.

Poor light though and real DSLR with large aperture glass and a big sensor works a LOT better. And for some cases like moving wildlife at long range phones aren't competitive. Getting a DSLR is probably driven by whether those cases are important or not.
Extending the Life of Python 2 Projects with Tauthon
In ublock you can block remote fonts globally, then toggle them on for sites that need it.
Are they really cheaper? Anyone have the prices?

I think even if they're cheaper now, they'll raise their prices later. And then you'd just be lining up the CCPs pockets at the expense of EU companies (does not apply to SA, I'm just saying for EU citizens).

I was really disappointed in their newest high end phones. On par with Samsung in quality and price, but instead of making them more open (for custom mods and ROMs) they just went down the lockdown route. "Bootloader is locked for the user's safety"... Yeah, right.

Shame, that's one thing they could've kept doing to distinguish themselves and their products.
Building a Data Lake for the Database Administrator at Upsolver – Episode 135
Of course strong encryption and privacy protections makes surveillance less effective. The problem with mass surveillance is that it's very easy to abuse, and the abuse potential is very scary. The abuse potential is unacceptable. I'd rather get less effective surveillance.
It also means one point of security. Anyone with my phone has access to the OTP as well.
That's because it's fairly easy to link acquisitions with different marketing channels, whereas that is not possible for most technical work.

If you want to give engineers a financial interest you do it through options / stock, which is very common.
If police would just stop killing black people, this wouldn't be happening at all.
Follow the money to know when the economy will roar again
Yeah, they made a shiny thing one time... But it got away
To get reliable WebRTC don't you need a Turn server to relay your traffic when the NAT is too bad? Where does this get a Turn server?
More than 70 luxury cars stolen from dealership amid looting in California
Check out the StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com podcast. Lots of info on SaaS.

The latest episode is right up your alley.

https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-499-...

Some ideas/products will grow faster than others. Congrats on launching and having paying customers that is a BIG accomplishment.

Since you have the experience of creating one, start thinking about your next SaaS. Think more about the value it would provide, niche, market size, how would you market to them and idea validation.

I've built and manage SaaS for clients, I'm building my first one for myself right now.

I've been following SaaS for years, some have taken off right away to $10k, for most though the growth is very slow.

I think it depends a lot on your market/niche. How many people have the problem your app solves and what marketing channels you have available.

If you have happy paying customers chances are you're on to something. It just might not grow as fast as you want. Think about how to market it to potential customers similar to your current signups.

Congrats and good luck.
There's a very simple solution to "the provider cannot prove that it will not misuse its access to the stream" - it's to use e2e encryption.
Had you programmed at all prior to college?

I took my first college-level programming class a year earlier than you, using Smalltalk, and I hated the language. It just didn’t make any sense to me. But in high school I had programmed in C, and earlier than that in HyperTalk and earlier still in Basic. I was too immature at the time to see the similarities between HyperTalk and Smalltalk, and too hung up on what I thought of as C’s close-to-the-machine nature to appreciate Smalltalk’s high-level power.

I think that my previous programming experience — which really wasn’t very extensive! — made it more difficult for me to understand what was good and desirable about Smalltalk. It really was Blub for me.

But I don’t blame Smalltalk for that; I blame me. I was 18, immature, unable to imagine a world outside my head, and with strikingly little actual experience. I’d like to blame all that on my age, but of course there are folks who were better on these metrics at the same age.

(I stuck with my major, though in large part because later classes were all in C, and maybe one was in Lisp and another in Java — it has been so long now that I cannot remember. Glad I did!)
How is that the right thing to do? It would be the worst PR disaster the company has ever seen, which is a high bar.
In the US I think it is by each state not federal/countrywide.

* https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/21/covid-19-exposure-notificatio...

* https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-contact-tracing-app-fra...
"Pay us or we share your information with law enforcement".

Does this legally qualify as extortion?
This is pure nonsense. Random data is provably not compressible. So all the complex schemes the author came up with are useless, and it's not just due to a lack of CPU power that it failed to show results.
I can't post laws for each and every one of the 50 states, but you get the idea.
Making Collabora Online trivial to setup
The Republican Party fought hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill. Percentagewise, more Republicans than Democrats supported it.

> The degree of Republican support for the two bills actually exceeded the degree of Democratic support, and it's also fair to say that Republicans took leading roles in both measures

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2010/may/25/michael-st...

Not only is the party switch theory rather absurd (suggesting that Republicans were exploiting Johnson's support for a bill supported by over 80% of Republicans), it's also counterfactual. In fact, all but three prominent Southern Democrats remained Democrats. Al Gore's father was one of them, as was Robert Byrd, and the leader of them all, George Wallace, who won his last election in 1982, running as a Democrat for governor of Alabama.
Their terms of service disallow reverse-engineering or even disassembling the binaries: https://zoom.us/terms

> You agree that You will not use, and will not permit any End User to use, the Services to: (i) modify, disassemble, decompile, prepare derivative works of, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to gain access to the source code of the Services
> and it is released under a GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

AGPL for these apps is probably a good match.
The Go runtime apparently uses system calls directly. The implementation of every other programming language I know uses the C standard library. Rust has a freestanding mode which is great. I even made a crate for Linux system calls but that needs inline assembly which isn't stable yet.

As for user space projects, I know this one:

https://github.com/arsv/minibase

I meant to start my own but replacing what already exists is a lifetime of work. Haven't had much free time these days nor the willpower to make it happen. I created a liblinux but it's incomplete:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux

I also found out the Linux kernel itself has an excellent system call stubs header which they apparently use for their own tools:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/include/...
I think it's close to around 44% by recent numbers.

However, NY recently revised how they are counting these deaths, and they now count them in a way where if the nursing home resident is transferred to the hospital, they are generally not counted as a nursing home death. Up until very recently, they were counting that as a nursing home death the same as every other state in the union.

They've been the only state to make such changes so far, but the governor did make a deal with the nursing homes to limit their liability during this situation as well so this is pretty much par for the course here.
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One of the issues is that sales generated by a salesperson are a lot easier to attribute than sales generated by marketing. Let's say that, as a content marketer, I write an article for a client's blog that is widely shared. The article increases mindshare for the product, helps to establish the brand, and makes a material difference to the number of sales over the next year. But how does the business attribute those sales to me so that I get my commission? Many of those sales will not be from people clicking a CTA on the blog article, but from people who remember the brand and make a purchase weeks or months later. It's not even as easy as it seems to attribute sales to PPC or other forms of advertising.
Coronavirus sends MD-88 'Mad Dog' jets to an early retirement from US fleets
Probably with the release of Portal.
Why on earth should this post be greyed out? Just the mere mention of Mormons?
YouTube on PS4 has been down for 6 days now with error code NP-37602-8
Following on from my post yesterday.

Google and/or Sony have not been able to get YouTube on PS4 to sign in for six days now.

Either it's just the biggest technical problem of all time or they don't care. There's no other reason I can see.
This is what I'm curious about. I've recently gotten really interested in nature photography, but mostly on small details rather than far away.
Trying to get phones to focus on flowers, small insects, etc is an exercise in frustration. Even when I think I got something in decent focus, I'll view the photo on my computer and it is super blurry. I'm currently looking at cameras to get away from this personally.
Realistically being born rich get you to be rich.

But I agree that the main thing separating an employee from a founder is that one actually started a business. I disagree about the whole pushing yourself to the limit thing however. If you found a business or try to build a career, you are in it for the long haul. Sustained effort is what you need.

Generally when I see people complain about things they haven't achieved, I see two problems: posture and outlook. Posture is simple: if you want things to happen, you have to stop waiting for them to happen and actually take step to make them happen.

In my opinion, outlook is generally the main problem however. Just stop casting a bad light on what you have already done and put forward the good the part instead. Enjoy what you have achieved and start working on what you want to do next. What's done is done anyway. Also it's easier to convince people to do things with you when you have a positive outlook.

Anyway, if you are pondering why something didn't happen to you, unless you are looking for the reasons you failed in order to improve, you are most likely asking the wrong question. Start looking forward rather than backward.
> Last I read the UK intends to centrally retain proximity-contact data for 20 years. Rather than deleting when it is decided it's no longer needed to deal with the pandemic.
The UK has also refused to legally commit to not sharing the data with other government departments such as the Home Office (immigration and policing) and DWP (benefits).

that's scary..

any chance you can share the references for these?
You can, however, put it between two planes. (say for needle bearings?)
I'm fairly certain compressing random data is nonsensical. In fact there's a cash prize challenge for doing it that has been unmet for 20 years. https://marknelson.us/posts/2012/10/09/the-random-compressio...

Not sure I can explain it properly myself but it think it's impossible by definition. Intuitively, if you could compress any random data then you should be able to compress 2 bits into 1, which is clearly impossible.
The retirement also ends the era of the McDonnell Douglas name, the company that Boeing acquired in 1997. The planes’ were based on a jet whose history stretches back to the 1960s, the DC-9.
Data suggests unprecedented interest in cybercrime during pandemic