skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your pains. That an the fact that a lot of tools here (portugal) cost twice as much as they cost in the US and we have way lower wages.
For finishes I just realized I have to do my own offline R&D the to learn what works well with the brands I have here. Started doing my own wipe on poly (it's harder than it looks when most brands don't even refer the finish is polyurethane). Also my finishing techniques tend to be a lot slower than what you see on youtube, which I guess makes sense, since I'm not on a schedule, don't need to be profitable but want my pieces to look as good as possible.
Facebook Helped FBI Exploit Vulnerability in Linux for Child Predator Sting
AlphaGo is the result of human evolution too.
I had a Technics SA-400 from about the same time period, but I sold it on a couple of years ago. Still working great according to the guy I sold it to.
I have no opinion about Ninjutsu OS because I'm not the target market. But I would have never even heard about it without this DMCA complaint, and I presume many who might be interested in it heard about it first from news about this DMCA complaint. Just pointing this out.
Yeah. Hopefully the people in CHAZ learn from Animal Farm and shut Raz down now.

Orwell would likely support CHAZ, he fight with the anarchists in Catalonia after all. People tend to not realize that Animal Farm was a criticism of the USSR from a socialist. It is not a criticism of all socialism or anarchism.
Both solution are required together.
I think this is almost exactly the point: incentivize police to target wealthier communities, who should then be able to push back more effectively.

I'm not sure reality works that cleanly, but I think that's the thought.
I know of at least half a dozen people who have found great jobs by HR reaching out to recruit them on LinkedIn.
Bird paid $300k to destroy its own scooters
I'd be happy to pay for software, if it's worth it. I just want to buy a perpetual license, not a token for a 5 minute ride.

(These days, however, I'm hesitant to pay for anything that isn't open source. I just don't trust any of you.)
I think there’s space in this argument to admit that many subreddit which are not really so much a vile den of wretched filth that they objectively should be shut down, and yet in the current climate they certainly run a high risk that they would be.

“Cancel culture” has become absolutely mainstream, having now reached all the way into the NYT OpEd pages. One only has to look at the myriad firings and resignations of the last 7 days to understand that there is a real threat to diverse mindsets and the open marketplace of ideas which we once strived to support.
> Are you using an actual GraphDB like Neo4J? Are you putting a graph frontend on Postgres like PostGraphQL? None of the post really makes any sense because GraphQL is a Query Language, not a data store. What are the CAP theorem tradeoffs in the new backend? What does more robust mean? What does more performant mean? This is a source control app. Those tradeoffs are meaningful.

GraphQL isn't particularly "graphy". Its name sucks. But don't worry, plenty of half-techy middle managers are out there making the same mistake and going "we do graph things, why don't you guys look into this GraphQL thing that's getting so much buzz?" It's not a great fit for graph operations, in fact. Not more than SQL, certainly.

As for N4J in particular, don't count on that to improve performance even if you're doing lots of graph stuff. Depends heavily on your usage patterns and it's very easy to modify a query in a way that seems like it'd be fine but in fact makes performance fall off a cliff. OTOH Cypher, unlike GraphQL, is a very nice language for querying graphs.
It has declining revenues, increasing liabilities, and sell expensive cars in a strange recessive economy. Its stock is being treated like early Facebook. Sure it might have some magical future where it dominates auto sales forever, but supporting this valuation is nuts.
I'm Yann, one of the founders of Koyeb. Koyeb is a platform for developers and businesses to run serverless data processing apps in minutes.

We provide an easy to use platform to build production-grade workflows for all your data, including image, video, audio, or document processing.

To provide a little bit of context, we previously developed Scaleway (https://scaleway.com/), a European Cloud Service Provider, and started Koyeb initially around multi-cloud object storage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21005524)
We are now going a step further: we are trying to also provide an easy way to process data and to orchestrate distributed processing from various sources.

Currently, we provide an S3 compliant API to push your data, you can implement processing workflows using ready-to-use integrations (https://www.koyeb.com/catalog) and store results on the cloud storage provider of your choice (i.e. GCP, Azure Blob, AWS S3, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Wasabi, Scaleway, or even Minio servers).

We're working on adding support for Docker containers and custom functions to let our users combine catalog integrations with their own code in workflows. We will also add support for new data sources to send, ingest, and import data from different services.

We of course take care of all the infrastructure management and scaling of the platform.

The platform is in early access phase and I'd love to hear what you think, your impressions and feedback.

Thanks a lot!
You sound like history could be owned by individuals.

In Switzerland you can own a old house (witch is under historic protection) but don't change it.

So no, i don't think its anyone's right to exchange history for money.
This is the important line for me:

> Every time you aren’t boring in a technology pick, you’re likely not optimizing for your company’s best interests.

Really helps to underscore the difference between choosing something shiny and choosing something pragmatic and efficient. When we do the former (as I'm sure most of us gravitate towards), it's very easy to kid ourselves that we'll somehow make the product greater as a result, but in reality we're only serving our own interests (learning something new and fun) rather than the company's!
The list of demands is extremely tame for a fricking anarchist commune. Look at the list of "economic demands." The biggest ask is de-gentrification and rent control.
800,000 bottles ? This mightve been intentional
The problem is that it -- at least my feed -- is not true positivity, it's fake positivity, which brings a strong negative reaction in me. Gurus talking entrepreneur-, startup- or hiring- bullshit, recruiters extolling the virtues of their profession, "if you're having a bad time with COVID19, here's something to stay positive" [bullshit follows].

LinkedIn is useful as an online resume. But the feed is mostly garbage. Fake positivity is the worst.
They should be forced to show the filter cost on the “it costs x per year” to run this device sticker, (which usually is for electricity)
It's a mixed bag, and it's almost impossible to tell what someone's actual opinion is when they babble on about "muh dark ages" or "muh not so dark ages." For example, it apparently become doctrine among some basket of "classicists" that the fall of Rome was actually peaceful multicultural assimilation of the Germans. This is obvious horse shit; ridiculous, preposterous horse shit, but it was commonly enough held someone had to write a book counting the number of coins, pot sherds and roof tiles made during barbarian invasions of Italy (there weren't any) to refute it. You know, rather than reading contemporary accounts of German invaders burning Roman cities and enslaving the inhabitants. There are probably still morons who profess to believe it. I am not a psychologist, but I assume this ridiculous belief comes about due to modern eloi ideas on immigration.

At the other end of the spectrum of historical imbecilities is the idea that nothing interesting happened between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, which is horse shit of a different nature. The 1200s, right before the black death were an obvious peak of European civilization. They invented all manner of things, started the Cathedral schools, invented the scientific method, made amazing, great and beautiful art, the population of the continent was never larger (until 1840s/industrialization basically) and there was all manner of trade, literature, territorial expansion (reconquest of Iberia, Christianization of the North) and so on. Noticing this makes many people buttmad, I guess because it's so .... Christian. They like to think it's a straight line from Galileo to smug yutz New York Times columnists I suppose.

Most people's views of history is pretty cartoonish; even educated people, and the cartoon they carry around is generally a basket of political ideological nonsense.
Are ethics hotlines effective?
The valuation on this stock is insane. However shorting it is also insane.
I recently posted an AskHN about this exact thing.

Just want to say there is a huge vacuum for this sort of content, and I'd definitely pay for it!
> I completely agree with the point of principle, just found it odd to simply dismiss a project on it.

I dismissed the project the moment I learnt it's closed-source, for the reasons I've given. A point of principle is a fine reason to dismiss something, even in the absence of a practical concern. Here we have both.

There are plenty of things I can shrug off about a software project, such as internal design decisions I disagree with, or using tools and languages that I dislike, or even using a Free and Open Source software licence that I dislike. Choosing to make it closed-source is bigger than that.

To be clear, I'm not a FOSS purist (I'm writing this from Firefox on Windows 10), but for a tool like this in particular, it should either be FOSS, or direct from Microsoft.

> The norm for HN maybe just hasn't reached the authors yet given their home countries and the fact they seem to identify via Steam profiles, i.e. are likely more involved in a social circle of Windows based gamers instead of FOSS folks.

This doesn't change my assessment at all. If the developers are beginners/hobbyists and are, bluntly, of such low calibre that they aren't aware of the advantages of Free and Open Source software, I don't see how that's reassuring.

> for all I know this was made by a bunch of 15 year olds that simply didn't know any better

Then I'm glad I was quick to dismiss the idea of giving their code admin rights on my machine!

> I found "not open source. won't install, won't suggest." a rather lazy contribution

You're right that detay's reply didn't explain their dismissal, yes.

> attribution of bad intentions

I mean, they are denying us the rights to study and improve the software. That's what closed-source software means. Was the decision to go closed-source the result of bad intentions? Perhaps not, as you say they might not be deliberately setting out to deny rights that people value, but my strong reservations remain justified.

> "closed source == bad" style comments are just plain unnecessary

In the context of software of this kind, closed source is bad. I think I've justified this position.
There's no controversy here though. What IA did was plainly on the "not legal" side of the line. (I mean, there are surely some people who believe otherwise, but you can find someone who believes almost anything.)
Branding is hard
As someone who currently lives near Detroit, the city is faring remarkably well in light of everything that's been going on. I haven't heard anything about rioters, just people who are peacefully protesting.
>>I honestly don't understand why they did it.

>Its right there in the article.

The grandparent isn't questioning the motivation for breaking the law, they are asking why the organization would possibly think it's a good idea given the likely consequences.

Q: "Why do you rob banks?"
A: "Because that's where the money is."
They haven't actually declared themselves independent from the US.

That blurb on the website "You are now leaving the USA" is tongue in cheek.

The actual demands make no such claim about independence, all US Federal, State, and Local laws still apply.

There will eventually be arrests, and the WORST thing Trump can do is attempt to use the military to squash relatively peaceful protests.
If you think this is insane, look at Nikola, an electric car company that has never produced a single vehicle...is now worth more than Ford (as of yesterday.)
Not OP - but this is really good policing in my view. If the data stays private and not used against people in an unfair way subsequently, then I see no reason for it to be seen as "worrying" as the other commenter said.

E.g. they can cross reference-timestamps and see which individuals were close to violent altercations, they can then build up a solid case for who to interview and investigate further. Or maybe an actual crime happens during the protests and they need to investigate further, etc.

Honestly, as a side note, I personally find it very worrying that I have to justify such policing to a tech crowd. We can have responsible use of facial recognition and data-gather / profile-building, and it need not be a privacy issue. Right now, we sit with a situation where violent/aggressive/illegal behavior is being allowed to transpire during chaotic protests and it slips through because of the chaos and sheer scope and size of the protests. There is no way that traditional "policing" can combat that, and I fear we're emboldening criminal elements to take advantage of peaceful protests because we're unnecessarily tying the hands of the police because of nebulous "privacy" concerns.

And yes, burning/looting is a criminal act and shouldn't be tolerated during protests.
You have to be purposefully ignoring the reality of current events in the USA to take your position unfortunately. Have you looked at how much more aggressively police have been targeting people of color during these protests? Your view only makes sense in a truly equal world. We are not in that world.
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People who say such things typically just regurgitate old narratives.

In addition, renewables surpassed coal in US energy generation recently: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39992
> NixOps is a tool for deploying to NixOS machines in a network or the cloud

seems like pyinfra is OS agnostic.
Care to elaborate why it's troubling?
Bad Human Factors Designs
Elon is the greatest entrepreneur of the era and possibly ever. Stockholders are paying for a large piece of his attention and interest.
Do the fundamentals justify Tesla's market cap? No.

Is Tesla just a car company? No.

Does Tesla still have an exponential growth outlook? Yes.

Has Tesla been able to meet their stated goals in the 1st 10 years? Yes.

Do you think Tesla will meet their stated goals for the next 10 years? Probably

This is why Tesla market cap is nearly 200 billion.
> attempt to de-escalate.

"I know that I just kicked down your door in the dead of night guns draw to gain the element of surprise because I anticipated or wanted an altercation but now that I know you have a gun and are actively trying to kill me, I'd like to ask you to calm down."
That is if they have been locked in the first place.

Also with a lot of devices being firmware upgradable, there is little point in enabling read-out protection if you can just download the firmware off the internet. (Unless you want to go through all the hassle of encrypting the firmware image, but most devices won't be doing anything so special to make this worthwhile)
I argue that it's positive rates of interest that are artificial, not negative ones.

Traditionally if you had a large pile of gold and you wanted to protect it, you had to buy a safe to put it in and hire guards to keep the thieves out. The guard's salary is in essence a negative interest rate.

It was only the invention and adoption of fractional reserve banking that enabled positive interest rates.
I've gotten multiple jobs from LinkedIn. I've caught up with old friends after not having talked for years, because I saw a job update from them, and it was a good reminder to get back in touch. I've reached out to people local to me, and to people from my college who I never knew, but I now see work in my field, in my area, and gotten to know more people. I've seen well-written articles, and found new people and blogs to follow who talk about the non-technical side of this industry - management, product ownership, leadership, and other such things.

Clearly, LinkedIn does have its share of warts. And if isn't for you, there is nothing wrong with not participating. But you get out of it what you put into it.
I’d ask on email or IRC. Info is probably on their site but I couldn’t find it yet.

https://www.archiveteam.org/
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Despite the production chaos, missed deadlines, over promises and general CEO fuckwittery, Tesla is a massive success story that was in the right place at the right time and completely changed an industry. I have huge respect for everyone who worked there and helped build it.

I was a (small time) shareholder from around 2013 until last year when I happily liquidated my position and put in an order for a Model 3.

I don't think anyone can really say whether this share price is justified even with all the future growth priced in. This is a company that has been at least partly responsible for some quite fundamental changes in mobility, and they're nowhere done yet. (I'm more excited about the Semi than Cybertruck).

They've also helped drive the price/watt of batteries right down which is having a multitude of knock-on effects across many industries. Without Tesla, would we have seen battery powered airplanes starting to be built? Maybe we would, but they would probably be at the least more expensive.

I can't wait to see what the future holds for Tesla, and despite all his shortcomings, I'm happy Musk is still in charge. This all simply would not have happened without his insane drive and determination.

(Strangely, HN, that loved Apple in Steve Jobs' glory days, seems to have a lot of irrational hatred for Tesla).
Talk to me again when they make something for the common folk like the Toyota Corolla or VW Golf ... sure they will become an important player but it will be like Volvo.
saltstack, fabric
What word would you use to describe thinking that those sentences can both be true at the same time?
Just create an app you want to use and keep adding features. You will end up with a large app that is ridiculously complicated and needs refactoring. Do the refactoring so it can become better maintainable.

Do that Asian for a number of projects and you will see that every project looks different, maybe better maybe more complicated than it should.
The Boston Public Library has done virtual cards for years as well, and a BPL card is available online for any Massachusetts resident.
Efficient PyTorch – Part 1
If you try to look for any sort of standard approach to Multi-tenant apps or even performing billing per API call there aren't good resources probably because they are worth keeping to ourselves resources. The same goes to DB migrations without losing requests & how to build your app with scaling in mind.
> My feed is mostly composed of inspirational quotes, people celebrating their anniversary at their current job, corporate brown-nosing, articles on productivity, articles about people quitting their job, etc. All generic, mostly low-effort junk. Let's not even get started on the recruiter spam!

My experience as well. Plus the UI itself is a nightmare to navigate. Even something that should be a no-brainer like the embedded messaging is confusing to use. And they keep adding "features" to it!
Show HN: Web-Scale UUID as a Service
I'd be careful with Github stars, but in general I don't think it is unreasonable at all to take the popularity of a project into account before choosing it. Though this matters a lot more for things like frameworks that touch all parts of your application compared to smaller libraries that are more contained and can be switched out easily.

The smaller a library is, the easier it is generally to just fork it and maintain it yourself if you need to. In that case there is no big danger in choosing an unpopular one. But for large, complex dependencies it can be very problematic if they become unmaintained. That is a risk that is always there, and that you have to keep in mind while choosing your dependencies.
Correction: while minimizing the risk of death. Tasers can still kill people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser...
What people are saying here is generally correct overall. If you are using the rpi as a server, the distro ever so barely matters. You probably wouldn't want a gui (why give away half the CPU and a sizable chunk of memory to something you aren't even going to look at?) and every distro out there has exactly the same server packages available.

I would install the minimal Raspbian and then add the server applications you want. Also, don't forget you can completely shut off the HDMI for a tiny bit of power savings. If you are going to use https, every little bit counts.

The only reason I actually name a distro when normally I'm hugely agnostic, is because Raspbian is the official distro for Raspberry Pi, and therefor can always be expected to support rpi's various idiosyncrasies.
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations
Show HN: Create and Edit animated GIFs for short tutorials
To go with the OP analogy: you can learn to ride a bicycle simply by trying, and having seen others ride bicycles.

The tacit is in the fact that trying beats explanations because there are so many variables to account for (eg balancing, how it feels to balance and glide will be different for everyone due to their limbs being of different length, their center of mass being different, their level of fear being different and whoknowswhatelse).
Who cares what the metrics or what people want if the new design allows them to data mine harder? Tell everyone this is what people really want, trust us, and then track every eyeball, tap, and scroll as hard as possible.
People will never understand Tesla's value if they don't understand that Tesla is more than just a car company. (But no comment on the current stock value.)
The loading is heavy, though since lockdown I'm finding HN takes almost as long to load for me, which suggests they have been reasonably smart about parallel loading.

LinkedIn is also buggy in many areas too. Search is wild - search for the same thing twice and get completely different numbers of results. This is good to know, when a job search notification shows 5 results, it's not real. Just click the search button and get 100 the second time for the same search!

But the fact it's an SPA works really well I think. Clicking around within LinkedIn seems much faster than the initial load, and things like open message windows keep their state. I like that. You can still right-click just about everything that looks like it could be a link to open a new tab or save the link. So I think they've done a great job of SPA.

It's a shame it's so buggy that I have to reload it from time to time anyway. LinkedIn is probably the only company where I use a product with so many obvious low-hanging-fruit bugs I'd actually consider working there just for the satisfaction of fixing them.
Conversations about software developer tools and the software industry [audio]
Really puts their "live for now" ad into perspective...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_for_Now_(Pepsi)
The nurse’s experience with Covid-19
So we're cool with it if the ends justify the means?

I'm glad big guns were brought to this, and that theoretically it was a narrow window of possibility for the exploit to work, but the FBI and FB getting together to play vigilante is not quite how the Robin Hood story goes