skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We, Mozilla, are a privacy-first company. Firefox is powered by DNS services that respect your privacy. You can trust that your browsing history is safe with us."

> "BREAKING: Firefox default DNS provider tracks what sites you visit"

^damage to reputation
Modin's View of Scaling Pandas: Comparing Modin vs. Dask, Ray, Vaex, and Rapids
The 12 million is for both North and South America, while 130 thousand Covid deaths are in the USA alone.
Our entire service is based around the belief that you should control the video source files. So while we can auto-import existing YouTube videos, our core belief is that you should provide a self hosted version of the original video files, and we provide a seamless way that will transform that to the 5-10 formats needed for optimal streaming, as well as deliver it over our global cdn. Implementation with us is just insertion of a javascript snippet. And that means that switching away just means deleting that snippet.

You always maintain that source video file and you can easily switch to another provider. You don't actually upload to us at all. You insert our javascript snippet and everything else happens magically behind the scenes.
Yes, ultimately infrastructure is the real solution here. Take the Netherlands for example. We interviewed folks from nearly every country on this, and the response in the Netherlands was heartwarming:

Every person we talked to had never even heard of someone being hit by a car while riding a bike (or walking). And after the interview, they interviewed a bunch of their friends/family/etc. and came back to us with those results: Still the same, not a single story of an accident.

And this all goes back to the way the Dutch design infrastructure. A ton has been written/filmed/etc about this, but here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
“There's some amount of discomfort I'd be willing to sustain if I felt it they were beneficial, but I also find they're rarely worth the bother.”

Also sums up my feeling of reading this author.

I only read the first two paragraphs and determined this article needs unit and integration tests.

Assert sentences:

Have noun, verb, and subject

Are not run-ons

Do not contain typos that render them unintelligible
You're going to get a flood of porn, pirated content, illegal-for-other-reasons content, and, of course, nazis who have been banned from all the other platforms.

Which will, of course, drive all the normies away. (Well, okay, all the pirated content might not, but then you'll also include 'all the media companies' and 'the government' as your list of enemies.)

And if you add federated moderation (Like Mastodon did), you're going to quickly understand why federated moderation is a labour-sucking, drama-ridden, centralized-censorship, tire pyre.[1] (Like Mastodon did.)

[1] Mastodon instance administrators blacklist instances that produce problem content and problem users.[2] (Child pornography, nazis, furries, etc.) These ban-lists are centralized, because nobody has time to investigate every single other instance in the network. I hope you trust the person running those centralized lists!

[2] Oh, and if a troll group does not like a particular person, they can follow him around, shitting on every instance that he posts in. How do instance operators deal with this sort of thing? By banning[3] the target of the trolls, because then they can stop wasting time playing whack-a-mole.

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-harassm...
HTTPie – command-line HTTP client for the API era
Replace "serverless" with "managed service" and I agree. But serverless doesn't give you any magical reliability improvement over anything else, because your NFRs dictate the implementation that will produce the most reliable product.

The design of a wooden table will inform what tools will produce the best version of that table. It may not be the newest power tool; it may end up being chisels, hand planes, winding sticks, a kerf saw and a mallet. If somebody maintains your tools for you they'll stay reliably sharp, but that doesn't lead to a good table unless you pick the right tools and use them the right way.
No, the large majority of services in the SOA are unrelated to customer-facing AWS services and they are inhouse/LOB/custom.
In a world where global warming poses an existential threat to humanity, any actions that devalue public perception of experts and scientists are dangerous.

We are in big trouble, and if we don't collectively recognize that, put aside our differences wherever possible, and start acting accordingly, a lot of people are going to suffer.
When the St. Paul mammoths died off, the population on the mainland had already been extinct for several thousand years, so the title is true, albeit somewhat trivially.

(There was also a contemporary population on Wrangel Island that lasted another thousand years or so, though they were likely hunted to extinction).
We Achieved Smooth Navigation Across Microfront Ends
One click opt-in, zero click opt-out would be better.
You're telling someone who works for a PaaS company what a PaaS does and doesn't do. I think maybe they know.

More broadly, almost any application these days is "just API calls". The issue is which API calls, how many, with what frequency and where. That essentially is the application, and a PaaS employee doesn't magically know that stuff instinctively.
Personally I think people with sports and military backgrounds have the soundest perspectives on leadership.

The sociology of software engineering biases the perspectives on leadership therein toward this kind of contempt for subordinates.
This wikipedia article says the majority of these enslaved Africans were sent to brazil. Serious question, what is the BLM situation like in brazil right now?
A ruling that some of these dark patterns are valid would be a disaster to the people trying to enforce these laws, so undoubtedly they're trying to build a watertight case to prove them invalid - knowing that the companies they're trying to enforce against have ridiculous amounts of funding and entire businesses will fall if the enforcers win.

All this on top of the larger concerns in the GDPR - for example, companies that, once they've collected data for one purpose, proceed to process it for another purpose without any legal basis at all.
Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive [to COVID-19]
It's not just Youtube, Android apps and developers get banned as well, often with little explanation or recourse. I'm not sure why anyone would invest time or money building a business on any of Google's platforms.
Perhaps also of interest to HN - the hypercard version of the Catalog! https://archive.org/details/the-electronic-whole-earth-catal...
Non-euclidean 3D rendering engine
GDPR affects the server default. A header that's supposed to show user intent still needs to default to blank.

A law enforcing DNT would be good, but honestly it would change the semantics of the header.
This is a 0.13µm CMOS process while the 4004 was made using a 10µm PMOS technology. So the electrical characteristics would not be the same. If you don't care about that then the answer is "yes".

An attempt to do something like this would have a Z80, a 6502 and a 68000 in a single chip (none of them are rare, however):

https://www.crowdsupply.com/chips4makers/retro-uc
I'm not pro-Wikimedia here (see other comment), but you're not being fair exactly; I'd go as far as to say your comment is wrong in everything except that the banner is obtrusive and that your funds would be better directed at the IA.

The scale and scope of Wikimedia has been constantly expanding, and outside of a few terrible bets, it's generally been for the better. It hasn't been recklessly overspending and it's definitely not "providing relatively the same service."
Hello Hacker News!

Even though I'm a semi-lurker, Hacker News and its community have been a staple in my life pretty much since launch, through 3 startups and 3 kids. So I'd love to hear what folks think of my latest creation.

Requirements to try out: Google Calendar plus ability to grant edit permissions; optional Slack integration. We are not a chrome extension or new calendar app, nothing to install.

My cofounder and I started Reclaim after working together as product management leaders at New Relic for several years. While there, we experienced what many busy middle managers feel: super impacted schedules that often resulted in working late at night just to try to stay afloat. We decided that if we could build a product to help better defend and focus time for these people, we could ultimately also help capture the oft-hidden conflicts and dependencies within organizations that are often the root cause why people, teams, and companies burn out.

Here's how it works: in addition to helping sync your personal calendar(s) to block out your work calendar (launched in January), we now also block out time for important habits/routines that you want or need to do, professionally or personally. You do this by defining a "habit" that has a title, start/end window of time, ideal time, and min/max duration. Reclaim will then find free time on your calendar and tentatively block out the time.

We say tentatively because if your schedule isn't too busy, we may mark the time as "free", making you still appear available to meet with others -- something we think is really important for managers. But as your schedule fills up, we will defend the time by marking it as busy. This is a job that is just too tedious for a human to do, but ideal for a virtual assistant like Reclaim. So for example, your 11am to 2pm could be wide open, but if you suddenly get invited to several late morning and early afternoon meetings, Reclaim would defend your lunch slot by marking it as busy and, optionally, even declining any further incoming meetings.

I use it to block out my entire day for personal and work routines meals, time with kids, bedtime for kids, exercise, morning and afternoon emails, morning and afternoon coding.

The result is that my agenda looks fairly well planned out every day, but often slightly different because of the meetings I have with people throughout the day. And because of the flexibility and throttle of the free/busy time, I can hand out Calendly links and feel good that I'm offering up my most flexible availability but also that if too much comes in at once a "circuit breaker" will flip and my day will get defended.

In terms of the tech stack, it is a React-based frontend and a Java (Micronaut) + Postgres backend, deployed on AWS Fargate. We're getting the most out of Postgres by using jsonb, hstore, and have even turned it into a fairly scalable little pub/sub + job service, utilizing the listen/notify + for update skip locked features. We deploy 10-15 times per day.

Thanks for checking it out. Feedback welcome!
There are quite a lot of these. Here is one I like: https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/
Managers are useless guards for the bosses. Quit immediately and let those engineers manager themselves.
You're being disingenuous. They already had an exception through Spring and Summer 2020. No one batted an eyelid. They're removing the exception they had to a stricter by-the-book enforcement for no particular reason except to use the opportunity to kick out more foreigners. I see that as a plainly xenophobic motivation.

> People are really measuring all this by two standards. If you think it's okay for citizens to be impacted by necessary lock downs, parents not working due to young children staying home, but foreign students are cozy in their home office?

I think this phrasing is completely devoid of empathy. Students in a foreign country typically having taken big loans and paying through their teeth are in a much more vulnerable position than citizens. There's no reason to compare one set of circumstances with another.

At the end, universities will be forced to offer some portion of their courses as in-person which will only make the pandemic worse. Do you think these measures are making the country safer if that happens?
The stock market is not the economy. All you are ultimately advocating for is keeping the exiting corrupt corporate leadership in charge and preventing market forces from replacing them with ethical leaders.
You are tracked by more means that just cookies.

Fingerprinting is not solved by clearing your cookies. The GDPR is not about cookies but about data retention and processing using cookies or not.

Accepting to be tracked allows the website to store legally your personal data and probably use fingerprinting to follow you around.
I remember back in the the late 90s when my dad asked me for a javascript solution to prevent people from right clicking on his photos (that he wanted to sell prints of) on his website and clicking save image.

He was horrified to learn what the Print Screen button on his keyboard did.
> So racism has been killing more than the 130,430 people who have purportedly died from COVID-19 in the United States? I really doubt that, and I'm seeing why a lot of people don't take public health experts seriously anymore.

It's genuinely unclear to me why you think the quoted speaker is saying that racism is killing more people than COVID-19.
It is possible to show content based ads rather than ads based on your tracking. It is perfectly reasonable for a website about motorcycles to show ads for motorcycle products, and this could be done without tracking the user.

I don't want that one piece of furniture I (or my SO using my computer) looked at on Wayfair to follow me to the motorcycle website. I definitely don't need an ad empire following all of my activity on the internet and knowing that I'm a 35 year old man that wants to buy a motorcycle, needs a plumber, wears size 32 pants, and looks at green couches among all the other data they are collecting.
Woah. Err I don't handle billing but it looks like we got App Search through Elastic and it comes with the entire ELK stack behind it.

I know they are moving App Search to some kind of Elastic Enterprise service, perhaps we're dealing with that instead?

We use the analytics, clicks, and suggestion API's - idk if those are included at the base level or not.
It really is becoming a public utility and should be treated as such by government and business. The original concept for "cellular division" for higher density bandwidth is why we call them cell towers in the first place.
To answer my own question, the top comment from urschrei links to an analysis from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Digital Rights Ireland, giving it a "C+ grade" on its adherence to "experts' best practice principles regarding government surveillance technologies".
Minor trivia:

By glitch, I mean the music would drop, not the desktop.
I would guess there are some passages from many religions' sacred texts which could get your whole channel deleted if promoted. Unless there's a written or unwritten exception.

The conflict or tension that troubles me the most is between platforms' incentive to have the most vague and broad TOS and users' reasonable expectation of consistency and explanation.

The same tension exists in government police/arrest powers and resulted in many historic documents and rights. YT is not a government but their power rivals many actual countries. It will be interesting to see if the same revolutionary actions result. I don't think it's clear yet that it will or could happen.
I think there is definitely something here. If you look at some recent trends:

1. Past few years have seen a huge growth in new content distribution networks, which are trying to lure creators to rehost their content in their platforms. Usually these are "internet-tv" channels that come automatically offered by TV providers nowadays

2. This constant stream of high profile cases where people lose livelihoods because of reliance on a single platform

3. The massive increase in mature and professional youtubers in the past 10 years.

4. Lowering costs in storage and bandwith

Combining these all it seems to be clear there is some kind of viable business in some kind of "Anchor of video distribution" for lack of better phrasing.
+1 on Becoming a technical leader:

https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Sol...
If you take food away from a dog, it gets angry. It's not afraid of losing something else; it's pissed off and willing to fight because it disliked what you did. Ditto if you give one chimp cucumber for doing the same task its neighbor gets grapes for.

Our limbic system isn't that different.
I would definitely recommend Weinberg.

Don't be put off by the fact that his books are self-published, and the covers aren't great. He is brilliant.
The crossover point where ASICs become less expensive than FPGAs is also lower than you might think even including mask costs, provided it's on an older process node.
Supercharge Your Bash History
I also like that book. There are some obviously major motivational things that are different from corporate life (from what I've read, I have no first hand military exp): a camaraderie of protecting your peers with a common mission of literally staying alive, a chain of command with dire consequences, and other humans trying to kill you.

None of those things exist in software engineering so there will be people that aren't motivated by the allure of moving up, aren't passionate about the product and maybe just want to do their job and go home. There is nothing wrong with that as long as they are doing their work.

As a leader, you may have peers that will like you to take extreme ownership because they can play politics and blame you for things. I don't think there is room for that sort of BS on a battlefield but I don't have first-hand experience.

There are also a lot of teams that don't have 'mission' like goals that are clearly evident (e.g. root out terrorists in Ramadi) but have a continuous flow of work to be done.

Like any books/videos/courses on leadership or self-help, take what you can from it an see what sticks in your world, don't take it as a prescription or steps on how to do something.
Only to pedants, but they're wrong.
Most people prefer the great men version of history vs more structural takes, and even more like to think that since nazis are evil and they don't see themselves or their friends as evil then such a thing could never happen here.
Cybersecurity Expert Admits to Espionage and International Kidnapping Charges
Working on an infrastructure layer project to address this called Skynet - https://siasky.net

Data storage costs at around $1/TB/Mo raw ($3 for 3x redundancy), bandwidth costs at around $1 / TB egress. Pricing comes from an open marketplace, and we do a lot of sophisticated stuff to make sure it's high reliability.

We've got video buffering solved as well. The latest builds of Sia (decentralized storage network) can retrieve files at about 700mbps with a time-to-first-byte of under 200ms. We haven't fully rolled this upgrade out to siasky.net yet, but it should be there in the next 1-2 weeks.

The decentralized cloud is a lot closer than people realize, the infrastructure is finally reaching a point of being competitive.
That quote says “killing people a lot longer” not “more than”.

I’m not a sociologist, but how would you measure the number of deaths caused by racism in a fair and unbiased way? I assume it’s something along the lines of the difference between disability-adjusted life expectancy of different ethnic groups, but even then you have a question of are things like poverty and education levels confounding variables or examples of systemic racism?

Likewise, are the healthy life years lost to genetic disorders like sickle-cell anaemia the fault of society for not treating them or the fault of the genes for being adapted to (in this case) malaria when there isn’t any malaria around to protect against?

And even if everyone agrees on the same answer to the above, the fact that racism hasn’t been constant over time makes it unclear what you are integrating over and when you are integrating between — The absolute racism since the Declaration of Independence or the estimated difference between actual history and a hypothetical counterfactual that nothing changed since the race-segregated toilets were drawn into the original design of the Pentagon?

I mean, if you count all the racism in post-Columbus Northern American history, you’d also have to count the literal genocide of how many native Americans tribes, and I’d also argue the slaves. I can even see a way the non-slave deaths during the American Civil War could count.

What I can’t see is a way to be totally clear in advance what the question is even supposed to answer. They’d all be true, but they’d mean different things. If I had to guess, these are all big numbers, but they vary by more than two orders of magnitude.

Like the saying says: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
And they probably don't handle the case where you have instructed your browser to not accept any cookies - that is at least an option lynx gives me and an option I seem to remember from my youth in Netscape.
Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach - Jerry Weinberg (and many other great books by him) - a book I've read and re-read many times. A brief review here - https://blog.mkorman.uk/book-review-becoming-a-technical-lea...
“Self-Amplifying” Covid-19 Vaccine Administered to 15 Volunteers in UK
While I'm a big fan of the concept and tech around p2p video, it has a number of flaws, the predominant one being that WebTorrent, etc. won't work at all unless the video being requested has a number of fast peers available right now to serve that content. (For browser-based things like Peer5 or BitChute's implementation, this translates to concurrent viewers of the same video, at the same time, thus only helps with very popular content.)

Having users act as nodes that always store and share some chunk of content is a noble idea and a piece of the puzzle, but the scale required to support something like YouTube is very different than how simple it usually is to find a torrent of a popular recent film or whatever. Ensuring that the network also always has available an unpopular 6-hour video someone uploaded last year of some birds in their backyard is a lot harder. If users can't use your video platform without some basic guarantee that the video will even exist or have peers, this would likely be a much bigger problem than most people have with YouTube (though perhaps not philosophically).

I personally feel that decentralization and shared distribution is likely the only way a viable alternative will be able to surface, survive, and not make the same mistakes, but we aren't there yet, and PeerTube is too simplistic of a solution.

One potential piece of the puzzle that I'm closely following and casually involved with is VideoCoin (https://videocoin.io/) which distributes the expensive work of encoding videos across nodes, and aims to fully power the delivery of their livestreaming product the same way. (Yes, I know anything "blockchain" in 2020 is likely to force your eyes to roll, but it's actually a fantastic product and has made lots of progress.)
Reflecting on my first 2 Years Bootstrapping
Most importantly, the audience should expect and accept a delay.

Youtube goes to great lengths to make videos play instantly, including running huge local caches near large traffic exchange points. The audience is conditioned to see a clip start in under a second, faster for popular clips.

Anything that runs off distributed (not replicated) storage, let alone peer-to-peer links, will inevitably be slower to start. It may take 10 seconds, or 30 seconds, for a clip to begin playing.

This alone can kill such solutions for the mass audience, hungry for instant gratification.