skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people are going to hear the story on the radio or in a podcast app / RSS feed. It’s useful to have the story indexed on a shareable web link where it can be played on different platforms without any setup. If I wanted to share a podcast episode with friends in a group chat, a link like this would be a good way to do it. Since this is more of a long-form text discussion forum I’d probably look for a text format before posting here.
Can you tell me the other one?
Sad? Horrible? How about batshit insane! C-suits going after nobodies is, well... this. I mean, that must have been some crazy amounts of coke and bad judgements all around, to get SIX seriously unhinged individuals to the top of eBay of all the places. How does it even happen? I mean i've seen some amoral corporate bullshit, and shady shit, strays into "not strictly legal" and "how can legal cover our ass?", but this, this is crazy in literal sense.
What stops the government from abusing this standard to impose arbitrary restrictions on spending?
Good news, there is! It's called a database. When an item comes in, tag it with a unique barcode and add a row to the database saying "Item X came from company Y in shipment Z" and then sue/penalize/whatever company Y when it's counterfeit.
SimpleMDM
The biggest opportunity for disruption is the checkoffs.

>These types of programs represent an already existing framework of farmers ‘paying’ for this type of knowledge. This model has proven scalable, even more so with the internet and social media making information readily available. Note this doesn’t prevent bad information from being shared, but since savvy farmers will try and eventually ignore unprofitable methods, one can assume this is an efficient system.

No. It is one of the most wasteful systems I've ever seen. Take one look at the reports they put out to justify their existence and you'll see that it is filled with ridiculous math, where ROI is based on outputs instead of outcomes. The data being collected is junk, all the vendors are super-insidery and collaboration is a political minefield at best. There's so much room for improvement you could throw a dart at any of the checkoff 5-year ROI reports and blindly hit an area to innovate on.
Trunk based development isn't how all source control was done before DVCS.[1] The Git documentation suggests using long running branches.[2] "A successful Git branching model" was very influential. Git Flow sounds official. GitHub Flow sounds like Git Flow.

[1] https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/alternative-branching-mode...

[2] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branching-Workf...
We changed the URL from https://www.deta.sh/billion-ideas to the project home page, which is more appropriate for Show HN.

We also changed the title from "Show HN: A Cloud for the Next Billion Ideas", which is too baity for HN. I always advise startups (especially YC-funded startups when they prepare their launches) to rigorously take out any sales and marketing language from their text and titles. HN readers are averse to it.

The basic rule is: Don't try to sell them, try to interest them. If you sell them, they will close the tab. If you interest them, they will sell themselves.
Democracy also allows for diverse outcomes; Trump is not emperor.

And, ironically, might not have become the president if he didn't inherit a $400m+ fortune.
Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
Citizenship: The Great Extinguisher of Hope
Are there issues with removing that protection from providing passwords? Intuitively, it feels to me like if police can compel an individual to let them search a house with a warrant, the same should be true of a computer (there may be incriminating evidence on it, but there may be incriminating evidence in the house, too, so I don't see this as being any more or less self-incriminating than textbook warrants). Moreover, if this didn't introduce glaring problems I'm overlooking, it would be a great way to cut out the legs from the "let's just backdoor everything" agenda.

The key thing being the law enforcement agent has to present their warrant to the suspect.
> Cops (QI aside), are responsible for the actions they take. They shouldn't be able to hide behind "the tools we use are bad", especially when (as a parent poster said), the tool is known to be bad in the first place and the cops still used it.

But literally no one in this thread is arguing to not hold them responsible.

Everyone agrees that yes, the cops and PD are responsible. It's just that some people are arguing that there are other parties that also bear responsibility.

No one thinks the cops should be able to hide behind the fact that the tool is bad. I think these cops should be fired, sued for a wrongful arrest. I think QI should be abolished so wronged party can go after the house of the officer that made the arrest in a civil court. I think the department should be on the hook for a large settlement payment.

But I also think the criminal justice system should enjoin future departments from using this known bad technology. I think we should also be mad at the technology vendors that created this bad tool.
Feel the same about the above.

I would add that Perl is still the best for one liners since you don't need to "import" key packages to do basic work e.g. you can regexes in a Perl one liner with no imports.
Dedicated landing page for server-side Kotlin
Loved that thing! Batteries lasted forever and the LCD was perfect for the job of being focused. My hands are almost too big to touch type on it so notes often needed editing when transferred to a desktop. Typing on it is kind of like writing with Graffiti on a Palm, it takes some practice and then all of a sudden you're pretty good at it.

If you liked the Psion you might like its successor the Gemini from Planet Computers (https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1). Same awesome keyboard.
> > use utf8;

> there’s still much to be done to make Unicode the default

Why's that? If that's something someone with zero Perl experience can easily understand. Isn't this only about the source code? Or does this mean all strings are unicode?
I was leaving the declaration implicit.
I already have a cloud sync service through OneDrive that is substantially cheaper for my whole family for starters. That Apple won't allow a 3rd party to act functionally equivalent to iCloud is annoying and seems like mostly an intentional business decision to sell more iCloud than provide a good user experience.

I don't need 2 different cloud storage providers, let me use the one I already have.
Excluding free software from a quote that starts "When something is free..." is equally silly. The quote stops being about anything.

But yeah, good point that my argument didn't make sense.
This is a great reminder of a lot of tools, and the closing thoughts are excellent:

"Still, JavaScript is the most brittle of all front-end web technologies. An important skill of a front-end developer is to know when not to solve a problem with client-side JavaScript. It is always more robust to solve a problem further down in the stack."

Also, maybe the title here should include (2017)?

> Published on December 21, 2017.
Only one of these services is brand new and just starting to build mindshare. Only one has no free tier. Only one currently has few enough users that securing a highly desirable username is still wide open: "My new email is billy@hey.com. I love it so far."
> we can do whatever we want this side of legal with impunity

The polite term for this is legal realism - “I am rich and you are not, so most of the time fuck you.” Certainly every executive, by the nature of their salary, their incentives, the world built around them, they perpetuate legal realism to the detriment of legalism or whatever you want to call opinions/moral stances like “you should not harass randos on the Internet.”

It is zero sum for sure. You will never be on the wrong side of justice of a targeted harassment campaign, meaning you as a normal person will never conspire with your coworkers to do that - which is to say, of course this was blessed by eBay, in the same way that gang leaders bless the crimes their minions do - so presumably those laws should be as harsh as possible. Conversely you will sometimes be a landlord in your life, sometimes a tenant, so even in the most cynical rationalist reading we can reason about what justice looks like for both sides, even when it’s just about money.

What then is the punishment for a corporation? In a bull market, little legal action has ever sunk a large cap company (pretty much only lying about cash balances). And you wonder, in a world where investors are buying the stocks of bankrupt companies like Hertz, will Wirecard even get its due? The business, not the person. BP made one of the worst environmental disasters in the world, a normal person will never do that. You will never be on the wrong side of spilling oil in the sea. Some DoJ employee decided what to do, in an afternoon, in a 15 minute meeting after maybe a few phone calls with the Louisiana governor and the president, “the outcome will be, BP will not be shut down.” Then 5 years of litigation parallel reconstructing that determination in the legal system, in a world where you have footage of BP spilling the oil, they did it, what is there to talk about? Lawyers will say a lot, but honesty I’m sick of hearing lawyers points of view on whether or not eBay did something wrong, of course it did, what is the punishment?

In our country punishing a corporation is actuarial work. That is the problem.

Maybe the law academy has an answer, it would be interesting to see “a official, parallel courtroom where poor litigants have a hope of succeeding.” Maybe law school is just minting new lawyers every year who are in denial of how predictive “what side of capitalism are you on?” is in terms of legal outcomes.
I try to do text only myself. Unfortunately Fossil requires CSS (although it does still work reasonably well with Lynx), but other stuff I write is usually just plain text, or if HTML is needed, it rarely has CSS. I also have a gopher server too.
Wow, that's so cool. I have long been interested in permaculture, which this seems quite similar to — how would you describe the difference? Answering my own question I'd say that immediately the focus on automated harvest of non-monocrop is very important, ad the main arguments against permaculture that I've come across (here and on e.g. Reddit) are that it's not scalable with automation. Thanks so much for sharing
Notice how abnormal "gift tax" is -- it isn't something people ordinarily pay. We have specific exemptions for moderate amounts and for charities because we don't really want it. The only reason it exists above a threshold is that everybody was using it to avoid inheritance tax. Neither should exist.
The iPhone SE had the same CPU, GPU and RAM as the 6S but had far fewer pixels to deal with. That was probably more of a contributor to the snappiness than the iOS version.
Amen. Windows 10 is now >5 years old. It isn't like this is new.

There are more valid OS choices now than ever before: iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows, OS X, Linux. And you can get them at any store regular people shop at like Costco, BestBuy, Amazon, or Dell.com.

And there are more cross-platform options for software than ever before: native multi-platform, native-ish (ReactNative/Electron), PWAs (Twitter's Windows client is just a PWA), web (Office 365, Google Apps), etc. Most of the core apps I use every day (Outlook, Office, web browser, Teams, Skype, Netflix, Prime Video, etc) are available 5+ platforms (Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or web). 10+ years ago you'd be lucky if something was on Windows AND Mac.

If you don't like Windows, quit bitching and switch. It is your fault if you are somehow surprised by Microsoft's Windows 10 telemetry behavior for the 20th time.
That certainly doesn't solve the problem of other people showboating their knowledge of obscure Perl sigils by using those ridiculous line-noise abbreviations in code you're trying to use and understand, so you have to look up each bit of obscure punctuation in its particular context in order to understand the code.

If hard-to-read-and-remember syntax exists, people WILL use it. And some people will make a POINT to use it, because it makes them feel cool.

Having two totally but pointlessly different syntaxes for the same thing doesn't absolve you from having to learn both syntaxes, because you'll still encounter other people's code that uses both of them -- it just gives you twice as much syntax to learn.

If there's a "sensible alternative", then why does there have to be a "senseless alternative" in the first place?
You have to wonder where the line should be drawn. Why shouldn't someone be allowed to share an opinion? Despite common misconceptions, most of climate discussion is not settled objective fact, but projections and models about whats probably going to happen in 100-200 years given constant assumed inputs. Most of these models are changing quickly as well. They are not what they were 10 years ago for instance. Should facebook really be expected to hire people to be deleting every opinion that doesn't perfectly match whatever the (always evolving) IPCC's opinion? At that point why not just ban any comment with certain keywords?

This forum has an extreme bias against facebook, so I doubt this decision by them will be popular here, but I can completely understand that facebook would like to prevent echo-chambers.
Nearly everything at Fastmail is in Perl. Cyrus, which is the mail storage engine, is in C (and open-source), but everything else is Perl.
Yes, but I got tired of making the tables :) I've pointed that out in some other comments, that was a massive jump and is probably a major reason the 6S is still supported.
> And for the case of Google, someone pays Google shitloads of money to buy YOUR data.

I am a vocal Google critic, but I have yet to see any evidence of them selling my data. Unlike a number of other companies and organizations Google serms to have realized long ago that they are totally dependent on user trust.

I'm not saying they are smart (judging by the ads they have sent me the last 13 years, the killing off of Reader, the nymwars and then killing off Google+ after it turned out to be nice) or nice (the way they keep trying to crush the open web, the "embrace, extend, extinguish" model of pushing Chrome relentlessly until they almost have monopoly, then try to remove the possibility to run adblockers etc etc)
Looks like you can get this accomplished with a Heroku instance or a digitalOcean box. I current have a script that runs 24/7 on DigitalOcean that costs me $5/month (might not work for you if you're looking for a free solution).
Why use iCloud? Why use or not use any feature? Who cares. If one chooses not to use it, why nag him incessantly?
The notion that there's even significant wealth held by private individuals is total fiction. Compare yearly flows of money to private wealth. The global GDP is estimated at around $150T, and total global private wealth at perhaps $200T.

You could literally confiscate all private wealth in the world and it would run out in a few years.

Most people just don't realize this simple fact. We hear about how just a few people hold most of the world's wealth and it creates this image of enormous control and influence. But when you compare it to flows of money you realize how little of world's economic output these "super rich" people have captured for themselves.
This is not new. Safari has been blocking third-party cookies for a while. Even Chrome offers this setting now. With that setting turned on, Chrome will also block Google Analytics when you are not on a google.com page.
Serious question: does anyone writing professionally or as a hobby use voice input as main input device? Why?
Israel coastline: 171 miles

US coastline (not including Alaska): 5,800 miles

So the US has 33 times the coastline. It sounds like we're only one order of magnitude off to meet those desal needs.

ps. If we include Alaska, which is another 6,600 miles of coastline, we could again halve that need.
I had a similar experience with EBV. Although I also think it caused a sleeping disorder as well (Delayed Sleep Phase). Any doctor I've mentioned this to has shrugged it off, I guess there's not much you can do even if they could establish that it was actually the cause.
Totally agree. It's even more useful in a cross-compiled development environment.

Typically I'm developing in Qt/C++ on a host and then using a custom crosstool chain to recompile for the target. The entire cycle isn't that bad, but it's not instantaneous. Using Python has radically sped up some parts of what I'm doing on the target hardware.
> Isn’t this going to be true of any “pure” retailer?

No. First-party retailers don't generally commingle stock with other third-party retailers. They typically have few suppliers, often one supplier, for each good. That's for many reasons, but it also makes it easy for them to identify who sent them counterfeits.

Amazon is discovering what old-fashioned retailers learned long ago: customers do not give a fuck who, ultimately, has injected the counterfeit. They will blame the retailer.

If I was Wal-Mart I would be absolutely hammering this point to customers. I'd be running ads about "Shamazon". Tearful mothers whose child got sick. Teens who saved up for a game system or phone and got a block of wood. Grandparents who bought medical equipment and got a faulty knockoff. Everything dangerous, disgusting, outrageous or even just annoying. I'd be carpet-bombing every channel with ads amplifying the message that Amazon can't guarantee what you get. Wal-Mart aren't saints, but their historical success has rested heavily on an incredibly tight grip of their supply chain and logistics. They do actually know what they have on the shelf.
the column on the right takes whole lot of space from README. It just looks very annoyingly un-balanced.
This is all true, Iceland is the worlds aluminum smelting hub. And the CO2 here is for the process.

However... what people fail to realize over and over is that the route for most of the worlds aluminum is from China to Iceland to China again. In tankers burning fuel like there is no tomorrow.

The biggest gain would be in how to refine the aluminum without shipping across the world twice.
What do you find awful about the monetizing on Maps? So far I've found it not very intrusive, and it seems much more clear on Maps than on Search when something is an ad.
I'm excited for this too and I was very excited a couple of years ago when Android launched instant apps which were the exact same idea, but they never took off. Hopefully with Apples tighter control of NFC in their phones and better marketing they will become more prevalent.

Even for interacting with your robot hoover or your headphones there's plenty of opportunities to create much better user interactions than your first step of onboarding to involve going to an app store.
That is a matter of user education comparable - but not equal - to what is keeping 'the year or Linux on the desktop' always somewhere in the future. The difference is that LineageOS (et al) is more or less identical to (the better) vendor-supplied distributions while Linux is a different operating system, not just a different distribution. Once installed something like LineageOS is just as easy to keep up to date as vendor-supplied distributions.
And the nuclear plant will produce at 100% of its capacity in any weather.
Meanwhile wind will jave average capacity of like 30%
Google Assistant is a product that relies on cross-learning from large amounts of user data. GSuite is a product that is contractually obligated to NOT doing this. The silos between GSuite and the rest of Google are intentional.

I don't work at Google these days so I can't offer the exact reasons why, but it shouldn't be surprising then that the two don't play well.

Amazon, on the other hand is not contractually obligated to create this silo. For it, your GSuite account is just another third party account, no different from your GMail account.

Yes this is an undesirable outcome, but when business users choose to buy GSuite services with the assurance that the data won't be available to Google for general purpose learning, this is the price they pay for that privacy.
the column on the right takes whole lot of space from README, which looks annoyingly mis-aligned.
What numerous Netflix documentaries and now Covid has revealed is that ag industry is perhaps too efficient from a people perspective. Those people closest to production carry a disproportionate risk of the supply chain with very little compensation. This is problematic in that it creates funnels too close to the raw materials that can break without adequate redundancy.

Where ag industry is less efficient is in material usage like fertilizer, water, and waste products. For example it takes about 18 gallons of water to produce one avocado fruit and there are concerns about a future shortage of phosphorus. Then there are also the environmental footprints as well.

For what it’s worth the loss of resource efficiency inversely drives land use efficiency. When resource inputs/outputs are a concern land use is compressed to consolidate management concerns while land use concerns relax when resources are more abundant.

One segment that really seems to nail resource efficiency, at least in North America, is commercial lumber but then they operate on long time horizon unlike edibles.
I'm genuinely curious: how is that not advertising your product?
Algorithmically speaking, Shamir's Secret Sharing seems of interest to your "combination of private keys" option.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

• https://cs.jhu.edu/~sdoshi/crypto/papers/shamirturing.pdf

I agree with the sibling commentators though that it just isn't strong enough to withstand a threat model of "people motivated to get the master key to vast amounts of encrypted communication". Even if such a scheme couldn't be cracked algorithmically, it wouldn't hold up against the relentless social engineering efforts that would be thrown at it.
It sounds like this sort of attack would not be widespread (because Apple would revoke the app rather quickly) but be great for spearphishing or high-value targets.
Robotics on traditional farms is where it's at. Weed/Pest killing, fertilizing/watering, and tilling robots will cut down on fertilizer/water usage and will alleviate the need for GMO and pesticides.

I hope to run a droid farm in 10 years like uncle Owen Lars. I just don't want to be charred at the end :D
Linode also has a 5$ tier. No issues with them thus far.
Facebook executive admits to ‘trust deficit’ on call with advertisers
I wonder how far could one go with just Unicode symbols. Entry would probably need a proper editor support. Additional use of sub/sup could also help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_sym...
This feature was created in the vacuum left by the slow and stale nature of web standards organisations. There should be a safe, simple way to develop a website that has all of these features. This would allow functionality like this to exist on platforms outside of Apple's control.
> But St Johns church is not a public space

Lafayette Square is a public place, and that is where POTUS cleared peaceful protectors with force, so that he could walk across it for his photo op at the church. If it were an issue of protecting St John's Church property, they could have cleared just that property, and brought the president in with a helicopter. But the whole point was to demonstrate the show of force against the protesters.

You appear to be focusing on St John's Church's private property with the goal of distracting attention from the public place where the actual use of force against peaceful protesters took place: Lafayette Square.

One doesn't need to be a liberal to call out the shamefulness of that incident. In fact the hardly liberal James Mattis did exactly that, as did the other general who was caught in the photo op.