skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most recent use was to get a feel for whether the Windows 10 Pro license Kinguin.com are selling (actual vendor is NextKeys.io).

Reddit gave me the impression they are surplus genuine OEM keys. I paid AU$45 rather than AU$339. Mind you, if I change harddrive or motherboard I have to get another license, but I'd have to do that 7.5 times before I've spent $339.

Went ahead with the purchase, activated by phone no problems. All good. Thanks Reddit.

My other recent use was to get a feel for whether the diesel heaters for motorhomes being sold on eBay for ~AU$300 are any good, versus the name brand units at ~$AU2000. Yep, all good, went ahead with the purchase, no problems, all spare parts available. Thanks Reddit.

Seems to work as intended, for my use case anyway :D

To answer your question though, I actually don't know! I'm an expert in about four fields-- anatomy & pathophysiology, nutrition, metal fabrication and laser cutting / CAM of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, 2D CAD, but haven't really thought about looking at Reddit on those topics. Maybe I should, I might have something to contribute.
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Probably the doctor has no readily accessible way to hang a patient upside down and wouldn't want the legal liability of doing so anyway.
While I think we should criticize others and call them out for their bad behavior I do want to stress that it is very important to hold ourselves to a high standard. This is an essential part of a democracy. There is always room to improve. We are trying to form a more perfect union. Criticize others to learn from their mistakes. Criticize ourselves so we fix ours. (I do think think self criticism is common in the west though often misunderstood, even amongst ourselves. Especially in the current political climate)
Except it used to...You named two of the largest slave crops in history.
For all the people complaining about the web UI, it’s optional, Teleport also has a CLI and if you really want to you can use OpenSSH as the client. Teleport’s benefit isn’t really the web UI, it’s the fact it manages a certificate authority for authentication, hooked into the same authentication used for other things, and full audit logging of what people are doing via SSH.
Rotterdam ports seem like the sketchiest place in Western Europe. It really comes across as a den of pirates but with modern buildings and.

So many traders with phantom product and other bullshit, a huge useless blacklist of LLCs that people can just spin up anywhere in the world at any time.

And a torture chamber in the port because the "encrypted chat" everyone was using was not encrypted anymore?
How does that work? Do you really mean it's August 9?
That one is a puzzler, and I encountered it with a neighborhood issue recently. Why are there some rights that are required to be periodically exercised in order not to be withdrawn? Didn't make sense to me.
We see that all the time. You can read articles in major newspapers about the "rubber rooms" where teachers who can't be fired -- but who certainly also can't be put in front of a class -- are required to spend their workdays.
> I agree that being locked up once surely makes going straight harder (because employers are wary) and going crooked easier (as you now have more contacts).

It's not just a question of "going straight" - most "criminals" aren't professionals who have to make a discrete decision to stop their hypothetical "life of crime." Even if we ignore the types of "crime" that essentially involve engaging in normal behavior and being unlucky enough to get caught (ex. jaywalking, driving after having a few drinks at happy hour, or smoking marijuana) and look at violent crime, you'll find that a significant percentage of that is the result of social/psychological/economic instability and is directed at those within the social network of the individual involved. Many of these crimes are so-called "crimes of passion" or the result of some form of mental illness - in neither case is an individual likely to stop, think carefully, and rationally conclude that committing a violent crime is in their best interest.

You can lock someone like that up to prevent them from repeating actions that harm those around them, but you can only do that retroactively (which does little in material terms for victims). Given that less than half of crimes committed each year (including violent crime) are even reported to the police, and that a majority of crimes which are reported to the police aren't solved, it seems much more proactive to work towards a solution that prevents people from ending up in the type of situation that produces criminals to begin with. Proactive policing can easily be at odds with that goal if it throws petty criminals into unmanageable situations that preclude them from having a "normal" life. We can't forget that poverty itself is hugely correlated with crime.

> But I'm not convinced that looking the other way at violent crime is at all the right approach.

I don't think anyone is proposing "looking the other way" with regard to violent crime. I'm certainly not. I think it would be beneficial to make prisons more humane, in that it would increase the chance of rehabilitating them, but I don't think enacting some real-life version of "The Purge" is a reasonable course of action.

> However, there is no way this is the main causal link between policing & crime.

Oh, I definitely agree. My intention was to point out an edge case, not imply that police are the main source of crime.
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Yeah police shootings doesn't say anything about guilt. Seems ok from that angle.

Although I don't read clearly that the police were the ones that pulled the trigger. And "police involved shootings" doesn't say anything other than there was a shooting and an officer was involved. So the media does dance around the details.

Maybe it's cop-speak, maybe it's liability protection, maybe it's to get the readers to be curious on the details or a combination of all. I don't know.

"Officer was shot" or "officer-initiated shooting" is more clear.
I used to think that question was snarky, but now I realized it means "what makes your app better/I want to switch but I want to know what I'll gain".
I think this whole conversation is missing the forest for the trees. What matters is that it was worth enough to motivate torture. Quibbling over what number to put to that is missing the point.
I appreciate why they did a noise reduction pass, but it does have the unfortunate side-effect of making the voices in the background unintelligible. I would like to have known what they were saying.
It wasn't always that way. The sugar industry in the Americas was heavily tied to slave trade.
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Passive-voice is frequently nonfactual. Cars do not run people over (unless they are rolling, and not being driven); guns do not shoot people (unless they experience a mechanical malfunction). This phrasing is _designed_ to mislead, to divert blame from the responsible parties, and has no place in the vast majority of news stories.
> Sorry, but that's the nature of standardisation, and the price you pay if you want to show you're really vendor-neutral. For me, actions like these make Istio go from the almost de-facto default choice for a service mesh, to suddenly wanting to consider other stuff.

That's not what the Cloud industry is about, it's about speed and time to market.

> and it's in their best interest that things are complicated as they can make money out of that.

Valid point, i have no evidence to support this, i just feel like CNCF looks for any opportunity to monetise itself for reasons i don't understand (Certifications, Conferences...). For a non profit that doesn't hire the core developers of the tools they support (most are hire by tech companies) i don't see why kubecon should cost 1k$+
+1 for the optimism, but unfortunately even with those mitigations it is not enough. Using a VPN in combination with DoT/H is currently best practice I believe.
If you're looking to run it with Wine, you'll also want a copy of the IA32 version of mfc42u.dll.

added: totally necessary proof https://qui.suis.je/drop/peakfun.png
Right, and it's distinctive, which sneaks type information past all the gremlins in your pipeline determined to strip away any and every bit of context they find in your data. On the whole I think it's probably for the best, but it is ugly.
What role does MongoDB serve and why use MongoDB instead of Badger?
Thanks i will read that article.
There was this bug in Java related to a leap second that broke all Java servers in the world one summer..
Amna is structured more like a todo list and it’s really focused on making it easy to complete the things you work on.

For example, if you have a task that requires you to edit a Notion document, you could do all of your research and edit that document directly within the space Amna provides.

Now let’s say you have 5 tasks that deal with editing Notion documents - you now have a better way to jump between each of those tasks and minimize the friction of keeping up with 5 disparate docs connected in your head.

Since you do the work in Amna, if you have to switch between tasks, all of the context and research for a task will stay preserved. Ultimately, making it easier to context switch more freely
One of the benefits of writing tests is that it makes it painfully obvious which parts of your codebase are poorly architected. Difficulty in writing tests is a code smell.
did they disable this in OS X? Used to work fine for me, but I gave up buying $2,500 iPads after the keyboard debacle and ensuing 1984 treatment
yep says so in the Help > About modal

"XP Paint is a fork of the web-based remake of MS Paint called JS Paint."
The extension is at least 3 years old (by the oldest review comment, I also remember trying it around 2 years ago) and has 130k installs. It's a little beyond an MVP. I guess they don't do telemetry (oh the irony) so they don't have a way to know which files are most reused across CDNs.
Collective bargaining evens out the power imbalances between workers and their employers. It doesn't really matter if the employer is the government or a private company. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about collective bargaining and democracy since the two are unrelated.

There are other ways to handle public sector unions. For example, in Canada the military is not part of a union but their pay is tied to other public sector employees who are unionized. This makes sense since you don't want the military going on strike. When the union employees go on strike to get better pay and benefits the military also gets the same increases. You could do something similar in the US by tying police salaries and benefits to another public sector group like teachers or nurses. I have the feeling that this would be extremely unpopular with the police.
Suppose you are importing a shipping container full of canned tomatoes. Due to negligence, it is improperly stacked on the deck of the container ship, and in rough seas it slides off the deck and into the water. Luckily for you, you have insurance, and you submit a claim to your insurer. Does the insurer reimburse what you paid, wholesale, to buy that many cans of tomatoes? Or does the insurer calculate its value by multiplying the number of cans by the average retail sale price of a single can, and then pay you that? Obviously they do they first not the second. And, conversely, if you were uninsured, what loss do you book in your accounting? The first loss, not the second.

I think this example, which has nothing to do with illegal drugs, demonstrates the problem with how law enforcement calculates the value of seized illegal drugs (at least in their media releases).
A tribe member is still a US citizen. They just aren't State citizens (residents).
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Sure, I don't think either of those contradict what I'm saying. I have about as low an opinion of the NYT as possible, and have for years. I just wanted to temper my criticism by saying that it'd be more difficult for them to attain trustworthiness than Scott, even if they were run and staffed with intelligence and integrity.
Note that Decentraleyes appears to break some sites due to CSP and SRI issues. I uninstalled it months/years ago, but forgot which sites broke. The bug tracker link is at https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/issues/16 .
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>the writer makes obvious their biases with statements like

Your refutations of the writers points on the surface level is still too charitable. The New Yorker writer knows very damn well that Metz could have just been lying to Scott about the real name "policy" and lying about the purpose of the piece in an effort to make Alexander cooperative.
It would be better if the plots in that thread showing Arizona/Florida/Texas vs All Other States used the same y-axis scale. They don't and it is hard to tell if a "trend" in shape is of the same order or not. If you view the US states in log-log plot [0] you can see that Arizona (as well as all the other hot spot states) has a much lower doubling rate (for deaths) than New York did for an equivalent number of deaths. Something strange is going on, and it can't all be explained away with Simpson's paradox.

[0] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?data=deaths&region=US
Seems like all of your points conflate current/ongoing wrongs with past wrongs. At some point things that happened in the past are best left there, read about in history books.
It's available on the TouchBar control, not sure about elsewhere.
Pardon my 51yo brain, but I seem to remember that every ssh login is logged?

Yes, auth.log if my memory serves.
Wow, that's really wild. Would you mind sharing the name of the restaurant? I'd love to reach out to them to understand what happened there. And thanks for posting this, that's definitely something I'll take into consideration.
By the way, has anyone else noticed that Gorsuch takes a much more conversational writing tone in his opinions? He uses contractions like "can't", "doesn't", "it's", etc.

I'm am not sure yet whether I like it or will get used to it. But it is noticeably more informal than the other justices.
If police unions would do that to the officers who kill or beat prisoners, many people would be satisfied.
India now uses rock dust for cement aggregate since excavating river sand is causing environmental problems. Would concrete buildings help?
How is this different to Airlow, k8s jobs or cronjobs exactly?
I believe that the logic behind 0 based months in many languages that use them, although I don’t know if this is true for JavaScript, is that month numbers are often used as an index into a table of month names so numbering months from 0 is convenient.
> Still, it seems weird that Congress wouldn't get a say in determining what their own bills mean when there's a dispute.

That's true, although you might argue that Congress should be clearer when they write their laws to begin with.
> One trick that I noticed that adds considerable amount of 'spin' while allowing the article to remain factually correct is to present positive things about the group as subjective

It's a bit ironic that you would say that, even as others have complained that the "subjective" presentation is just weasel words and fake balance, i.e. saying "Some people think X." when you really really want to say "X." At least when the author is stating things directly from their POV ("News media is totally not chasing for clicks, honest!") it's clear that it's their own stance.
I hate this line of reasoning and so do many economists.

It’s not the “opportunity cost” you should be measuring. It’s the “opportunity cost of the next best alternative.”

If I am an hourly worker making $50 and going to get food would be an hour that I wouldn’t be working, then yes it is worth $50 to not spend it going to get food.

But if I am choosing between watching Netflix and going to get food. The next best alternative pays $0. From a purely financial view it makes sense to get food.
Valid point, and that's the balance i think OUC is trying to bring, not being as un-flexible as CNCF and trying to be as open to the community as possible. Again OUC is about the trademark and not the licensing of the software which is what contributors and maintainers should care about in my opinion.
I only believe that theres only one kind of testing. Black box testing. And that is broken into two types. Integration and unit.

Tests that validate the interface of the big black box and assert that it does the right thing (integration tests). I.e assert the behavior customers depend on.

That black box is made up of many smaller black boxes that talk to each other. So you test the boundaries of each of those smaller black boxes. (Unit tests)

The ROI for testing the big black box is much higher. But when something fails it’s hard to know what exactly caused it and how to fix it. If you have a decent number of tests for the smaller black boxes then you know what box needs to be fixed.

But all good tests are black box tests. I.e they don’t test the internals but the interface of using that box.

A well designed system is made up of small boxes that do one thing very well and work with other boxes. Once you’ve tested them you can forget about them and work on higher abstractions. They will continue doing what they promised.
Not just US-style. The House of Lords in the UK, a cabal of unelected lifetime appointees without any meaningful oversight, is consistently saner than its elected counterpart. Political parties, and being constantly afraid for one's job, seemingly have quite the detrimental effect.
>Very much this. There hasn't been a gun rights "compromise" (or proposal for one) where democrats gave anything back in congress in ... well never. It's always more restrictions of existing rights.

This is actually a very good point. I wonder what the response would be to a Democrat-authored bill that (say) demanded universal background checks and proof of a firearms safety course completion and mandatory insurance like a driver's license that ALSO banned any restrictions on large magazine size and removed any restrictions on fully-automatic weapons, or something similar.
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Loosing an opportunity to make business :)
It was quite interesting to see product copy on checkout pages evolve overnight in hospitality and delivery apps when COVID took hold in mid March.
The Touch Bar should have been right below the screen, where I actually see it. Otherwise I need to interrupt my flow by looking at it. I’ve made it somewhat more useful with Pock (using negative spacing) but still not blown away by it.

This kind of application and many other uses would be so much better if it was like a part of the screen instead of the keyboard.
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Do you have any sources to back this up? My understanding is that non-unionized groups like charter schools do not outperform public schools. Many charter schools appear to outperform but once you account for the fact that they can choose their students, removing all of the low performers and putting them in the public system, they no longer show a benefit.
That's not how it works. It's on the party making the assertion to have proof. So far, the "yes that's an ad hominem" side seems disinclined to provide any evidence or engage directly.

Anyway, from Wikipedia's explanation:

> Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue.The most common form of this fallacy is "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong".

Note that "rather" in the explanation. It's a matter of substituting character attack for reasoning critique. "Based on their shitty reasoning, I conclude that they're real dumb" is not an ad hominem in the least, it does not fit the definition, the causation has to go the other way.
It was 2003 and I was playing with idea of Linux in a notebook without a keyboard - touch interface, minimum amount of ports - not for long. And than iPhone and iPad were announced and I was like "it's obvious, why I never shipped?".

Execution matters, people were working on this idea at least since Dynabook (1972). It is that hard.
Show HN: CVPR 2020 unofficial statistics, with better search functionality
CVPR 2020 statistics (unofficial) + better search functionality

tldr; I have created a dataset about CVPR 2020 papers consisting of the title, author(s), affiliated institution(s) and the abstract of each paper and put it behind Elastic Search to make it more accessible. Happy searching!

Initially, I wanted to find out which research institution is in involved in what papers. To my surprise this information wasn't readily available. I had to go through each of the 1500 papers to extract the information. I used a script to get the title, author(s) and the abstract of each paper and worked with a freelancer (100$/~30h) to get the institution of every author. Then I used local sensitive hashing to clean institution names and put the whole dataset behind Elastic Search. A simple idea turned out to be a good learning project since it was my first time working with a freelancer and also my first time using Elastic Search.

Quick summary about CVPR 2020 statistics:
Google is still the number one in terms of number of publications. China is gaining momentum quicker than I expected.
> “The Tesla fanboys formed like Voltron and ganged up to flag my video for removal on youtube,” Benoit said in a tweet. “The video which was flagged for ‘inappropriate content’ was about me selling my Tesla and buying a gas car instead.”

The algorithms strike again. This had nothing to do with EV or gas cars, but rather people spam flagging a post. I see this happen all of the time on other platforms such as twitter, but that's almost always because of political reasons.
But the parent comment was about neither genocide nor systemic racism. It was about corruption and how, despite it taking different paths in the US, it's equally reprehensible.
Basically we should both maximize the potential for creative developers to create revolutionary tools, and also protect users who know next to nothing about problems with the web.

More vim-split like capabilities - native multiple tabs within a tab would be great imo

More programming languages (not just confined to Javascript)

More hackable (like emacs level hackable maybe)

The current plugins system is good, but maybe there are more creative ways to push the envelope.

Better native ABI support, maybe.. suppose I wanted to collaborate my Ableton jam session into someone else's Firefox tab, or I wanted to pair program in Sublime Text with somebody else via a Firefox plugin, etc

So kind of like how Netflix Party improves Netflix, but instead with any app

Maybe some good built in (opt in) tools that allow people who have a problem with surfing the net for too long every day. E.g. browsing screen time, etc. Of course private data, not to be shared.

Maybe a browser fingerprint-intercepting layer that just returns useless data to browser fingerprinting tools, unless the user would like to be fingerprinted. I really like Firefox's Facebook container plugin, which helps protect me from Facebook across the web.
Think storage - in a snowglobe kind of way, networking is just a dynamic storage pool (or tamperable storage in this case).

No-frills data means a lot nowadays.
As i commented above i don't have any evidence supported by data, just an opinion, i don't understand why kubecon cost 1k$+ while as a speaker you have to pay your flight...

I know non-profit in the US has to fill public tax returns, i will be interested in figuring out how much execs earn at CNCF!