skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can assure you that there are no shortage of people on the receiving end of non-Western boycott threats for making comments deemed to offend, say, religious sensitivities in India or support calls for democracy in Hong Kong.

The best defense that can be mustered is that the worst authoritarian and theocratic dictatorships of the world do the same thing so it's no big deal? To be fair to you I guess the truth of the matter is that really is the best defense. It just happens to be terrible.

> And needless to say there's no shortage of things that can be said or done outside work which call into question one's suitability for the role or commitment to actually helping the company succeed which have nothing to do with 'cancel culture'.

It's just a coincidence that what we actually hear month in and month out year after year is professional offense taking victims out to collect scalps on behalf of their cancerous idiotic ideology, right?
You certainly don't need lidar to do auto-steering on a farm that you own yourself. You can get decent straight-line results using a PID controller on a compass alone, and tossing in a GPS module would make the whole thing even more accurate and robust. As as the OP said, there's already a bunch of open-source stuff out there to help make that happen.
A UX approach to video meeting fatigue
> But I'm sure that your response (in spirit) will be "The only essential businesses that should be allowed to force people to work are the ones THAT I NEED. I don't need a Tesla so it's not an essential business and we can just let it go out of business and layoff 50K people."

I appreciate your presumptions. As someone who has worked as a paramedic, first responder, who has been a participant in County Public Health meetings, as someone who has supervised a quarantine and isolation facility, you'd apparently be surprised by how conservative my perspective of things is, whether or not I "need" them, and how willing I am to accept the inconveniences therewith.

> So each employee should be able to make the choice to take a very small risk and go to work or to live in irrational fear and quit their job.

There's a rather vast middle ground there. How about expressing alarm at the conditions being entirely suboptimal for minimizing risk? Despite Elon's claims, there is apparently significant concern about social distancing, opaque issues at Tesla's facilities.

> I guess by your logic ... are all evil

Please don't put words in my mouth. I never stated or implied that Elon/Tesla were "evil", or anything approximating that.

I have an understanding that in order for society to continue to function certain things have to keep happening. I also understand that there is non-zero risk in this. I also know that given some care and flexibility, there are ways to significantly mitigate these unavoidable cases.

I've also not had a haircut for a few months (actually, I lie, my girlfriend used a trimmer, once). It may be that my definition of "essential/necessary" differs from others. I don't overly have much sympathy for the people claiming that they are being "tread on" because they're not able to easily access a nail salon, etc.
Show HN: Real-time uptime monitor of Let's Encrypt
Or the American “regular sized” soda which is the equivalent to an XXL soda anywhere else in the world.
I worked at STMicro for a while, and a neighboring team worked on Symbian support. I remember they had this weird coding standard that was essentially "why the fuck not?".

Now, over a decade later, I understand that they looked at the Symbian standard, and saw that anything goes.
There are few more places where you could grab Symbian sources.[0]

[0] https://mrrosset.github.io/Symbian-Archive/Links.html
You can get similar functionality by mapping the pictures you've taken using their coordinate metadata. Google is even working on this for Google Photos:

https://9to5google.com/2020/06/11/google-photos-explore-map/

In general, I think "privacy as a right" is a better approach for society. If people want to opt out of privacy, they should have that ability, but that should be a choice.
This survey only covers issues in the first 90 days. In terms of repair cost, anything that comes up in the first 90 days is likely covered under warranty, so the cost of repairs would be $0.
Not everything needs https.

You can read more about this here: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/ (Discourse on https)
Ask HN: Is Product Market Fit Just Luck?
I you read some of the lean startup type books, you get the idea that you need to speak to customers first.

Pat Flynn had this idea of making a market map in his book Will It Fly. I think this is similar to Amy Hoy's Sales Safari. The idea is to go around online forums and other places where users are having discussions. You look for pain points by certain keyword questions.

These method works great when there is a forum and a good number of people discussing a problem. But if you recall the 1% rule, there are 99% of the people not talking online and contributing content.

Rob Walling had another method where he used the Google Ad tools to gauge search volume. I am not sure if this really works anymore given changes to those tools.

This makes me wonder if finding product market is really just luck. What is your take on this? Is it luck or are there better methods?
Right, but that isn't a conspiracy but rather because raw milk is risky: research says 1 in 6 people who drink it get sick, and of those who do 20% had serious complications.

https://www.livescience.com/41883-raw-milk-1-in-6-get-sick.h...
VPNs vs. Zero Trust for Remote Access
Idk,I actually don't understand the obsession of many with Tech Stack or predicting the doom of a language. Because Facebook uses PHP for their service, Would you still use PHP? A lot of people despise PHP. But there's PH maker Mubs, most of his indie products LAMP stack. The main lesson I get from any of these is that pick the one that you're comfortable with and deliver the project than looking for what's the best tool in 2020
https://www.farmprogress.com/affordable-auto-steer

You program your desired path into the system and it uses GPS to follow the path, using a device that turns the steering wheel as necessary.

The farmer is still required to avoid unexpected obstacles, usually by stopping and moving the obstacle.

Farmers have been using GPS since the 1980s, long before the rest of the general public.
It's doubtful that advanced computer vision is required to steer a tractor around a field. Adding it might improve yield somewhat, but consider the law of diminishing returns.
Do you have any examples of outreach methods that you appreciate?

Obviously when something works it's not likely it will be noticed, but I'm curious if anything broke through without offending?

Also, do you pay for SaaS or are you not at all that demographic?

I personally detest every email marketing attempt that is not a curated newsletter I intentionally signed up for.

I also don't browse ad funded social media, so that's not reaching me.

And I use ad blockers.

So I guess my question is, how can someone with something that you or I would want to pay for let us know that it's available? In a way that leaves us saying "thanks for telling me"?
Also, while this move is good, surely data that's 18 months old just isn't that useful to Google anymore, right? They've already trained their models and extracted the data they needed. I do see how this can have any real practical privacy effects, beyond someone's account being hacked.
Wirecard’s scandal shows the benefits of short-sellers
Show HN: Mirror, click to setup a selfcontained environment for Machine Learning
The biggest features missing are cross cluster replication (federation), elastic data, and HotCache. There are also some WebLogic features not included but I would argue that the majority of the product is there. No limits on scale, and includes distributed disk persistence.
Along the same lines: https://www.stationarywaves.com/2020/06/slate-star-codoxxed....

I have to admit, it makes a great what-if story. (Albeit the author does get some things wrong, e.g. Scott was not sloppy about preserving his privacy. He was just going about it in a different way than what OP assumes.)
Space exploration gets such a small fraction of our resources as it is.

I agree we can invest and function better in other domains also. It's just not a choice we have to make; we easily have the bandwidth to do all of it.

And the practical benefit to space exploration or readiness is non-zero right now. Satellites, defense (from others but also celestial objects), climate science. The future hypotheticals, your "Sci fi", may one day be added to this list.
They have to sign the books that its done properly.
I think this would be your best bet to make an argument against this type of behavior:

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/does-creating-impressio...
Reasoning by analogy is akin to modeling. A model is presumed to capture a sufficient number of principal components that by permuting those, you can usefully predict the behavior of the target system.

That said, I agree with you. IMO, systems that can't be factored into quantifiable components can't be modeled accurately -- i.e. analogies.

Like the field of economics, where too often, analogies that are based qualitatively on only one or two factors are often proposed as sufficient to explain the behavior of diverse international economies, IMO analogies have proven to be insufficient bases for larger theories.

Same goes for philosophy and science. Analogistic thinking too often leads down garden paths. Too untestable.
The person behind this being outraged at Google refusing to assume partisan and anti free speech projects to push the agenda of employees indicates they may not understand the the philosophical issues which underlay their motivations. That the person lacks the intellectual or emotional ability to understand why it is beyond reasonable for a corporate entity to stay out of woke culture politik wars speaks volumes.
> You've got to start somewhere right.

Am I starting somewhere wrong?
Weird that a network or OS level concern is being moved to the application layer. But considering that trust in all the other layers has been lost, from the ISP to the OS (specifically Windows), maybe this makes sense.
>> Even if you change your DNS server from the default to 1.1.1.1 or whatever, your ISP can and does still read and/or intercept these requests.

Not if VPNs/firewalls are properly implmented. Plugging DNS leaks is security 101.
I personally try to keep toddlers off electronics, but I imagine others might like it. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=toddler+laptop has a bunch.
If you assume there isn't anything in the field for the tractor to run over, you can just use GPS.
And even then, dividing by 2 wouldn't necessary match up, since Rams are just one of multiple Dodge vehicles. (Not sure if the weight of each model is based on sales share or random)
How is it less safe than changing them in a (scriptable) text editor?
Write once, run poorly everywhere. It's a lazy programmer's dream ; )

https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32
I'm just hoping other companies can offer something coming close to competing with Tesla in the next five years (my timeline for getting a new car). I'm already leery of Tesla's autopilot being more camera-based.
My guess is that Google determined that old data with such granularity just isn't that important to keep around.
Doesn't answer the question of why. React is the same old flawed component framework that will be replaced with the next cool thing eventually. A component system would allow objects built in whatever technology to co-exist over decades.
I’m leaving academia
Why is this being downvoted? It's true and has been explained by Emma Best herself https://archive.is/0VsQR
> "Because, as it turns out, a Libertarian free-for-all doesn’t work."

But isn't that how the Internet works? No one "approves" a website for release.
Whitesmiths style is for sadists.
For more detail see the Gemfile for Hey [0], posted in a follow-up tweet. [1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/dhh/782fb925b57450da28c1e15656779556

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275917612556226562
California agency blocks release of police use of force, surveillance training
I have stepped down as a Microsoft MVP
I believe the human voice is the most popular instrument, world wide by a long shot followed by clapping. You are probably right that most drums are inharmonic, but I wonder what percentage of percussive instruments have a strongly identifiable fundamental anyway (or some tone if not the fundamental). At any rate, perfect intervals sound really consonant in singing, so I'd expect a bunch of cultures to independently stumble into that knowledge because singing is so popular. I didn't read the actual study, but I'd lean towards distrusting a single study or two, and in this case, wonder if this group of people is into polytonal singing.
The Kafkian scenario is why I posted the cousin comment about Paul Robeson. The US didn't use passports controls to keep him out, but to keep him in.

(Comrade Rabinovich, with whom will you be staying in Israel? / My cousin. / But comrade, you told us you had no relatives abroad. / That's right, he's not abroad, he's at home in Israel. I'm the one who's abroad.)
US seems to be totally fine about opinions expressed from freely available data. They don't like a campaign to leak everything that can be caught hold of. So I would not compare the reaction to Assange to a general reaction to journalism.
I somehow hope they were talking about light drugs. Given the amount of storm it caused, it's beyond me why there was no official examination, to say nothing about explanation.
> - MySQL for DB (Vitess for sharding)

Curious why not postgres?
Sometimes, being a total outsider will see things other people cannot.
Yeah, selecting a stack IMO has more to do with scoping your goals.

For example, if you are an indie dev who will be developing a project solo, pick whatever you're best at, because all that matters is the product.

If you're an open source project, that's a different story. If you're looking to hire engineers, also a different game. And if you're the creator of Ruby on Rails and have created a giant personal brand around being contrarian and ignoring the new-hotness in web dev, then your choice is made for you.
False. Emma Best (then Michael Best) published the information about turkish women, not WikiLeaks, and was explained by Best here https://archive.is/0VsQR
Yeah, before seeing the videos I was certain they were carrying some incurable disease like the American foulbrood. I was surprised to see that the reason for euthanizing them was the aggressiveness.
I understand the decision too, you can tell the guy in the video is really torn about this. He's frustrated but it was clearly a hard decision, he kept justifying it to the camera but I think he was really justifying it to himself.
I agree. I am a NoCode fan. I run a small operations of a few million dollars and to run it in Systemic way I built a lot of systems with NoCode as i didn’t have the luxury of putting engineers on the job. While I am an engineer myself, my day job was to run the ship and which meant I had little time available to make systems. 1st google spreadsheet is where I started and quickly made apps for recording attendance and crm and other stuff. Soon I hit a wall and had to have engineers deployed. However since last year I started using a NoCode tool to build all internal apps and today I and my HR manager have put up a fully functional system right from attendance, pms, timesheets, project management, crm , sales , purchase and everything you can imagine as a fully usable web and mobile app.

I must say if the tool has a right type of user identified then nothing can beat noCode.
The FBI’s Repatriation of Stolen Heritage
It wasn't a touchscreen, but my dash display in my 2018 Accord needed immediate replacement when I bought it new. After that repair the first week, never had any issues.
At least I'd prefer a simple here-doc:

tee -a .gitignore <<'EOF'
output
.psc*
.purs*
.spago
EOF

(or use:

cat <<'EOF' >> .gitignore
output
.psc*
.purs*
.spago
EOF

But I think the tee-version more readily emphasize what's going on, and works with sudo).
Something as complex as colonizing Mars would really need to be tried before anyone should claim to have expertise on if it's possible. It looks like our current technology and knowledge is up to the task, so I'd say it's worth seeing if humanity can do it.
US nuke transports don't look that impressive either: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-couriers-201703... (of course it is entirely possible that Pakistan doesn't have much in the way of hidden security around those, but flying under the radar seems to be a common theme for this business)
GloWGR: A fast, sensitive method for genome wide association studies
> For what it's worth, that looks like distortion I've seen in other Google Maps images.

I'd like to think that I would've noticed before reading your comment but I saw the picture after... it looks pretty obvious though, especially to the right where the distortion follows the stitching line where there is clearly different light.

Even if the distortion were believed to be real, some of the discontinuities in the structure would be so severe as to be catastrophic.
That is a thing. Some employees do have imediate and direct representation on boards, boards who could hire/fire leaders like Musk. Any US corporation could choose to adopt these practices, although not once it has gone public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

>> Known as Mitbestimmung, the modern law on codetermination is found principally in the Mitbestimmungsgesetz of 1976. The law allows workers to elect representatives ... for almost half of the supervisory board of directors. [...] It applies to public and private companies, so long as there are over 2,000 employees. For companies with 500–2,000 employees, one third of the supervisory board must be elected.

>> The Prussian state aimed for a conciliatory policy between capital and labour, and worker committees were one way to involve and bind workers into a system, and avoid conflict. In return unions conceded objectives on the establishment of a socialist state.
Well, I have never used Android or iOS on my primary mobile device - went directly from cell phone to Maemo on Nokia N900, then MeeGo on Nokia N9 to Sailfish OS where I am to this day, running Sailfiosh OS on supported Xperia devices.

Hopefully, with reasonably open mobile hardware (PinePhone) other open mobile OS efforts will get more traction now, as the main obstacle of mobile OS development to this day has always been closed hardware & all the crapy proprietary software bundled with it.
The House Has a Universal Fiber Broadband Plan We Should Get Behind
It is so ridiculous to call the emails that WikiLeaks published "tabloid" just because a conspiracy theory sprung up around bizarre language which was used in a subset of them. Taken as a whole, they revealed absolutely rank corruption in the higher ranks of the DNC.
Yeah, the conspiracy theory is just insane. Almost as insane as the conspiracy theory that one of the world's largest religious organizations was engaging in something similar, except at a scale spanning every continent except Antarctica and having done so for at least as long as living memory.

For another conspiracy theory, what about the idea that if a conspiracy was uncovered, instead of denying it those with something to lose would double down on the most exaggerated parts of the conspiracy to down out the less insane and more likely parts. Get the public to focus on the pizza shop and not on the (since deceased) billionaire.
> Effective regulation is synonymous with “making individual moral differences irrelevant.”

I think it's more illuminating to phrase the problem in terms of externalities.

Things need to be set up to ensure that the profit motive cannot lead to the following thinking: Rather than spending $100m on doing the project to a high safety standard, I'll spend $70m, introducing a mere 1% chance of catastrophic failure and hundreds of deaths.

1% is of course far too high a probability, especially if this line of thinking is being followed in hundreds of different projects, but the odds may look fine to the manager.

Without regulation, companies can be incentivised to take corner-cutting risks where they profit by the upside, and we all bear risk-of-death on the downside (failing aircraft, collapsing buildings, etc).

With regulation, companies are required to meet a certain bar. Reputational harm can also incentivise companies to invest in safety, but it's not enough; regulation is needed.
I wouldn't call DHH contrarian for sticking with a mature framework.
This looks like a cool technology. But I must object to using "ML" to refer to every type of statistics. This is linear regression, which is about the least exotic thing I can think of.
> Privacy is at the heart of everything we do

Good god...
I mean, they are in the middle of rewriting Office to use react native, specifically for cross platform compatibility. And Teams already has a linux client.

Regarding AD clients, what are you looking for that's not well covered by LDAP clients and all the AAD connection capabilities built into Azure? AKS runs RBAC based on bindings to AAD. Certainly for any server workloads, AD integrations are well covered.

Perhaps the clarification Yu out need is, microsoft loves Linux on the server. They don't particularly care about linux on the desktop.
If Lyft can enter the market easily, then the market is a commodity market. A commodity market has very few returns. In fact, you can predict that it is a commodity market because of the existence of taxi monopolies. There is no barrier to entry to the taxi market: just get a car. Since there's no natural barrier to entry, they had to create a regulatory barrier to get profitability. Uber making a profit pre-Lyft is indicative of nothing; they are in a commodity market, so their returns will be low single-digits.
Not affiliated with them, but there's a startup in New England that sounds like they've gotten pretty good results and feedback using drones. I think they use hyperspectral sensors find things like areas that are under/over-watered or that are running out of nitrogen, etc. The whole things is supposedly automatic, so you don't even need someone directly piloting the thing.

I know that there's been some success in remote sensing of aquaculture at the academic level that's also demonstrated some promise with drones.

[1] https://www.american-robotics.com/
Why do you want them to rely on the company DNS servers?
I agree with you, for >95% of projects most of the tools available to you have reasonable upside and downside. If you were equally skilled in all options, it more or less doesn't matter what you pick. There are definitely problems, and entire fields (like hardware) where you don't have much of a choice due to the performance demands. But if you're building a small company or website, for the most part the dogmatism around the tools you use are nonsense, and just get in the way of getting stuff done.
If you're a person who, while reading, is constantly arguing with the author and digging into their and your point of view, you may find this article and method of reading shallow. The method of "surgical reading" is most suited when you really don't care about the point of view of the author, don't want to have a dialogue or understand their deeper philosophy or context; you just, as he mentions, want to extract the 'knowledge', whatever that may be.

I gotta say, this method seems less relevant if you want to allow yourself to be changed by dialogue with an author. Reading a book or even essay by bell hooks in this way, for instance, seems like a tragic waste of time. You don't read bell hooks to 'extract a knowledge nugget', you read bell hooks to look in a mirror and see your own experiences differently.