skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the main reason to try it is the frustration of having been working for 20 years as a freelancer or as en employee.

In both cases I've been investing my time and blood in exchange for money. Then the money runs out and you start all over again, and again. I want to invest my time into something which hopefully can grow so that I can keep investing more of my time instead of just giving it away. I want to plant a forest that will produce on its own instead of having to plant and harvest again on each season.

Freedom is another important aspect. I've been frustrated during my professional career with clients and bosses making the wrong decisions again and again and living with the consequences of those decisions.

I might totally fail while building what I'm building (see my profile) but that's better than waking up one day and realizing I've wasted my life. Thankfully I'm in a position where I can invest a couple of years of my life without earning money and I don't have people depending on me.
Let me see if I follow. Auto-provisioned TLS (misleadingly termed "fake SSL") on the front-end for delivering static contents and caching. A private subdomain with a pinned cert not managed by the CDN to deliver static contents to the CDN. And a third subdomain for the application itself that's not going through the CDN.

I was under the impression that the same result could be achieved with Cloudflare, or indeed nearly any CDN. Was I mistaken? Though you may not actually need a secret, private subdomain for static files with all CDNs.

Again, please let me know if I've made a mistake somewhere. I'd love to learn something this morning.
So, not exactly a problem for anyone who wants to use a raspi but also windows? If you need MHz of GPIO speed, you're basically in arduino land now, and raspi+win or a minipc+win doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But hey, you can you also just connect an arduino to the minipc and get the best of both worlds.
Nonsense. I'm as far from libertarian as you're going to get and I really don't see the case for breaking up Twitter. Breaking up Google I can understand, especially given their dominance in both search and advertising but Twitter is by comparison a bit player and all it really does is serve as a relay station. It's as close to a dumb pipe as you're going to get modulo a very small amount of content monitoring. And why would a Twitter hack reflect on Facebook to begin with? It's not as though FB owns Twitter.
There's other ways to deal with anti-trust besides breaking the companies apart. Data portability, interoperability, ownership of your own social graph. If these platforms were forced to act more like email, where leaving google for microsoft doesnt mean i can no longer contact my friends, the network effects that give them monopoly-like power diminish.

Imagine how ridiculous email would feel if you need a gmail account to email gmail peeps, a microsoft account to email outlook peeps, and another separate account to communicate with people in every mom and pop community. Imagine not being able to export your address book in an industry standard format. Imagine not being able to use whatever third party client you want to access your own data.
This is a fun project, but for practical purposes I think the PGP Word List [1] would be more useful. It encodes any bytes (UUID or otherwise) as common words from a list chosen for distinct sounds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
TileDB Embedded is a storage engine like HDF5, with the following differentiators: (1) it is cloud-native, (2) it supports also sparse arrays, (3) it offers rapid updates, (4) it supports data versioning and time traveling built into its format. TileDB Cloud (our cloud SaaS solution) further allows you to see which arrays you own in the cloud and which ones you share with others, along with full access logs. You can also attach arbitrary descriptions and metadata that can search on, even find and access public datasets posted by you or others.
Yes. Came here to say this.
Time series data can vary and I'd agree that most time series is immutable. There are however use cases in which updates can happen. For instance, at my previous job before TileDB Inc, we had a case where 99% of our data was immutable and never updated but a very small amount of data could be updated if there were late arriving parts. In order to get near-realtime data we accepted that sometimes some columns might not be available within the window the datapoint represents. In that case that record might reappear at a later time with the complete and correct values.

Of course there are trade offs, we could have forced a longer waiting period until we were confident the data was finalized. We also could have ignored the updates. In the end we used a system of staging tables for loading the last 24 hours of data before merging out into a more finalized table. This kept the load of updating records in the database down, and still allowed us to achieve our goals.

At the time, several years ago, I was not aware of TileDB else we would have considered it instead of a more traditional database vendor.
You only need to the vaccine to lower the spread to an unsustainable level, and the disease will fizzle out.

The challenge for smallpox was more to do it in every remote corner of the planet.
Delegation and Voting with EIP-712 Signatures
After reading the article, it seems inaccurate to summarize it how you did. In particular, all the videos are now back up, and the Blender channel still does not have ads.
> but the world CANNOT WAIT for studies of long term effects.

We said that before, and we got Pandemrix.

Vaccination is safe. It's important we get as many people vaccinated as possible, and one of the ways we do that is by maintaining the safety.

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

https://www.narcolepsy.org.uk/resources/pandemrix-narcolepsy

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
What would your "interesting sense" of comprehension look like?
Super Mario 64 Conspiracy Theories
Is this HN-speak for "it was a clusterfuck and there were too many stakeholders with incompatible requirements"?
There are people in the world for whom $500 or even $1000 track pants are viewed as a status symbol and worth the price for the exclusivity alone. That's how they assign value. To be successful in negotiating it's important to understand what the other party values. Time, cost, status, quality, there are many different factors. As a negotiator it's your job to understand the where the other person assigns value and if that value is different from yours, work to shift their perception of value closer to yours. If they only value cost but also want high quality(or a warranty,) and fast you have to shift their understanding that the lowest cost won't come with a warranty or other guarantee of quality but fast may be OK.
> People still might get lucky and make epic money, but it is in the same zip code as driving drunk and not getting into a crash.

The rest of your post notwithstanding, this is a moderately common misconception. Most drunk driving does not result in crashes, and that's part of the danger -- after dozens of successful trips you might delude yourself into thinking you're somehow able to overcome the reduced reflexes and whatnot, but as soon as anything atypical hits the road (like a family crossing) you probably won't be able to respond adequately.
You have to at least try to find a path toward self-actualization at your current job. Depends on how your relationships are with your various coworkers. For example my personal experience is this: Last gig was a startup, but I was stuck with the wrong people. It only takes one bad apple in your group of cofounders to generate enough chaos to plunge the whole thing into the ground. Since I bailed, I started working 9-5 at a job that pays me more than I've ever been paid and I split my time here working on 3 different projects which are all exciting and which I have a good deal of creative control over, and I enjoy working with every single one of my coworkers. It is my belief that the most effective way to move yourself toward the working environment that you want to have is to shape yourself in the image of the type of person that you want to work with. In my experience that has something to do with experience and knowledge... so I do not shy away from opportunities in which I can expand my experience or knowledge especially in the topics that I'm passionate about. And it's also important to proactively share your experience and knowledge. That one is the most genuine way to demonstrate that you know your stuff.
> That's why as a manager I always set my teams okrs to be aligned with whatever crap business is going to place in the scrum stories

How could it be any other way (and work)?
Looks neato. Are tests versioned? I'd like to be able to see a textual diff to changes in tests over time.
Also notice this trade-off [edit: I'm saying this with a neutral tone, and not implying anything, so that a more informed person can elaborate on it]:

[quote]

Is it safe?

Yes, but there are side-effects.

There were no dangerous side-effects from taking the vaccine, however, 70% of people on the trial developed either fever or headache.

The researchers say this could be managed with paracetamol.

[/quote]

Unrelated PS: What's the deal with these one-sentence "paragraphs", BBC? I think I know the answer: it is the "modern medicine" for lack of attention spans. (What about the side effects to this...)

Unrelated PS-2: I didn't notice that someone else here has already quoted the above part. Sorry for the duplication.
For more on the topic of tyewriters in non-alphabetic languages, I recommend The Chinese Typewriter (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter) from MIT Press.
seems to break when you fiddle with the width slider, but it's a nice work never the less
> The death toll from COVID lockdown is so much higher - from excess suicides, poverty, crime and violence

That's the same false dichotomy we've been hearing since the pandemic began.
Ignore it and fight through it!

It’s the equivalent of sore muscles that professional athletes feel after training day after day.
Where Police get their military equipment
There is a huge asymmetry between the effort to make an outrageous claim and that to refute one.

> I never, ever got called out.

In Reddit parlance: ain't nobody got time for that
Kijiji might be popular "in canada" but in vancouver CL is dominant.
Search a movie, find out who's still alive in the cast and crew
It's really tough. I bet that a good % of failed early stage startups fail because the founders simply can't keep up with the rejection and negativity.

The simple truth is you just have to keep trying, for years and years possibly, before something really hits.

Try not to think of them as rejections. Re-frame it as "this person isn't the right user for us right now." That removes the emotional bent from it, and maybe will force you to ask the question of "who IS the right user for us right now, and who's the right user for us tomorrow?"
There are no shades of grey here - state actors have access to every internet node, fibre optic cables, operating systems and hardware.

So unless you take your time to build your own CPU, main board and modem and only use our own private direct fibre connection, you're a potential target for being spied on.

It's as simple as that. You can make things harder by encrypting your traffic, but that's possible regardless of were your Tor relay is located at. And even then some crypto algos are known to have been deliberately weakened by intelligence agencies so you best be a crypto expert as well if you're really that paranoid.

The irony is that most (not all!) people who are ever so concerned about these things still use their smartphones (even though EVERY GSM/UMTS/4G protocol has been hacked at this point and is thus insecure), use cloud computing (either directly or indirectly via 3rd party services like Uber) and post on social networks.

The only computer that is safe from attacks is not connected to any network and only ever used in a windowless room surrounded by reinforced concrete walls.

The only information that is truly private is information you don't share in the first place.
The Serfs of Facebook
> Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest son and campaign surrogate.

From https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...

Not directly a world leader, and even Trump Sr. was still the nominee, but not far removed from the scenario you describe.
Don't the regular flu vaccines have the same side effects?
> A massive and obvious flaw in the "capitalism is slavery" argument is the fact that American agriculture became MORE profitable after slavery was abolished.

“Capitalism” and “maximizing systemic, aggregate profitability” aren't even related concepts, much less so intimately linked that not doing the latter proves that something is not an element of the former.
the fundamental flaw in your analogy is that there is an authority above both parents and employers - the state.

Who will watch the watchmen? Once the state legislates overreach into law, who will challenge them effectively?
When I was in university one of my friends tried to win a bet at a bar by editing a Wikipedia page to add the outrageous claim he made. At first my trust in Wikipedia increased because it got removed in less then an hour. The next day it decreased, because he registered a free blog account, published one post with his outrageous claim in it (and basically nothing else), then edited Wikipedia again adding the blog as a source. That edit stayed up for years. He still tells that story when drinking with friends...
Most of the time you don't need the extra SSD cache. If you do use one for the ZIL (writes), it will only help synchronous writes, it should be redundant if possible, and it should be extremely low latency like Intel Optane. L2ARC (reads) on an SSD is not as good as just adding more RAM.
Read a Paper: A Comprehensive Study of Autonomous Vehicle Bugs
> FOSS Desktop doesn't scale to keep a company running under such premises, because a large majority refuses to pay, and living from patreons and donations only goes as far.

Okay, how complex does an OS need to be, really? Let's see, it needs to schedule and run your programs, interface to the hardware, manage permissions… that's about it. Why would it need to scale? What's so impossibly complex about an OS that it couldn't be done by 5 highly competent engineers in 2 years?

Oh, right, the hardware. With the exception of CPUs, hardware vendors don't publish their specs, and don't agree on a set of interfaces. So you end up having to write a gazillion drivers, dozens of millions of lines of code, just so you can talk to the hardware.

Solve that problem, and OSes won't need to scale. Perhaps even to the point that game devs will be able to ship their own custom OS with their games. As was done in the 80s and early 90s.
Here is the fundamental flaw with the parent analogy:

Both the government and the citizens are adults. Don't treat me like a child. Government is not supposed to keep us safe from ourselves but protect our god given freedoms.

In the US the government is of the people, by the people, for the people.

The other argument that people in government are smarter is laughable, at best.

Government is a necessary evil, but it needs to be limited.
> to be used against German law enforcement.

Against, or by? I'm not trying to nitpick, just make sense of this. You imply that the German government hired Gamma to gain access to FinFisher, and then talk about it being used against German law enforcement. This seems internally inconsistent.
it is also a pretty good case study in the "bitter lesson" and all but ensures that the future of AI will be driven by the companies with the deepest pockets.
Capitalism has no moral principle except to increase shareholder value and amass capital.

Keeping their mouth shut and pandering to Trump, Saudi, China, et al, is exactly in service to those values.
So they put in effort to make this, you consume it for free and then you complain that they can monetize it?

OK.
Hey John, thanks for taking the time to reply.

Respectfully, the info in the S1 (flywheels, etc.) seem to be what sustains you _now_.

Maybe a better question is "how did you identify and kick off that flywheel?"
Popular DNS Attacks and how to prevent them
> That leads me to the question: can anyone here recommend a good Indian author from the same era as Kipling? (Yes I know Kipling was born in India).

While not a direct answer to your question, I think The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha is relevant in the sense that it addresses why your question is difficult (perhaps impossible) to answer.
Then what is the meaning behind the expensive, power-hungry hardware used to host his videos? Fun is a meaning!
But I a dollar stock is more likely to triple than a $100 stock.

As you say, it's the total market cap that matters in how much value a share is actually worth. But there is a floor to how much an individual share can be sold for before they de-list it entirely, resulting in a lot of volatility for very-low-priced stocks.

When a company on the brink gets a bit of good news, it's easier for it to triple in value than a company with an existing, stable business. Such things can suddenly turn into big, quick wins for the people who were there before the news. (People investing after the news are pretty much just suckers, though market irrationality still lets them sell at a profit to even further suckers.)
It sounds different than something like the US, where if a law is unconstitutional it's struck down immediately (rather than giving time for the legislature to fix it), and the defendant acquitted (not sure what happens in germany).
Try The Economist, they aren't focused on breaking news and tend to be terse and with high informational density.

They also have a companion magazine, 1843, that dives into longer-form cultural articles.
The UK got a 65k people over mortality over the last months, for 45k official COVID-19 victims. So if anything the UK is undercounting COVID-19 victims.

See https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06... for excess mortality in a few countries. Many victims are not counted.
Silent data corruption is a real thing, I have a few thousands files for the evidence.

If you are building a home NAS from quality rackmounted server parts, then maybe you are fine. But this was not an option for me, as I did not have dedicated server space and needed something quiet. And once you have to start with to mess with desktop cases full of hard drives, it is very easy to get corrupted data.

I run ZFS on my home NAS. Yes, it (probably) eats too much RAM, and it (probably) not the fastest thing, but at least my data is intact. I had to piece together my photo collection from multiple backups, it was not fun at all.
How do you do meeting reports?
My previous company had an internal process + app for writing meeting reports after a client or user meeting. They were high-signal syntheses of the meeting and what it meant for business development or product management.

I'm trying to figure out a lightweight system at my current gig and was hoping to get suggestions.

Key criteria:
- Lightweight UI
- Easy to disseminate to large part of the company
- Easy to search
- Filterable by author, client, product + viewable over time

Suggestions? Thanks!
you should be able to make an argument without resting primarily and directly on other people's words, even if you largely rest on other people's ideas. whether it convinces any particular person is largely out of your control, and shouldn't consume the debate. citations don't change that calculus.
UFS on what OS?
Plus that means hundreds of unique domains with unique content. If you have hundreds of domains all pointed back to one site with a single forwarding rule, 99/100 could be free tier accounts.
This would likely rank among the greatest human achievements of all time, if the vaccine is out by end of the year and is actually efficacious.
Graph Visualization and Interaction for Notebooks
Use networkx, panda dataframes or JSONs to visualize and interact with your graphs in Jupyter Notebooks.
Face recognition on 330M faces at 400 images per second
Thanks! Yep tests are versioned - if you click on the 'History' button when viewing a test you'll see all the executions within your retention period. We don't show a diff view of historical changes, however we do show a diff view when a text change causes your test to fail. So say if your 'Log In' button changed to 'Sign In', we would show you a diff of that text change and give you an option to make 'Sign In' the new baseline used when running future tests.
The 7-colour version doesn't support partial refresh and has a 15s refresh time (~0.067Hz refresh rate), so you'd want to be a really confident touch typist.
> If it's really down to a single company not being able to manufacture enough then it's time to open up the vaccine to licensing and let other companies pile in.

The world is facing a few problems like this, where the structures of the economy are getting in the way of doing real work. Climate change is another one. If cost wasn't an issue, and everyone was paid by some infinite coffer, we'd have switched to green energy years ago and it wouldn't have been controversial at all. Only now that it's cost effective are we switching en masse to green energy, and we're having to drag economies kicking and screaming away from coal even still.

The community seems to be second to capitalism at every turn, and whilst I know it's not a new thought, it's becoming more and more prevalent that we've made societies devoid of the capacity for community effort.

Edit: Thought I'd clarify, my point is that our governments are meant to supply the community capacity through paying for work with our taxes, but often structures that benefit private businesses win out.

More specifically, you're hopeful that the company manufacturing the vaccine would actually open up to licensing, but they don't have to, and the US has consistently shown it's disdain for compulsory licensing. It would be an exception for them to force the company to license a vaccine, and it's not like pharmaceutical companies have an ethical track record in the US. If it came down to money vs community health, I would absolutely expect money to win out in the US. It already does. Worse yet, the US has bullied other countries into tightening their own compulsory licensing laws, in order to protect US pharmaceutical companies.
Ask HN: What are some software companies that are doing good for the world?
Feeling a bit bummed about the current state of the world. What are some companies and/or roles in software that are actively working to better humanity or the planet?

It would be great to help with solutions to climate change, equality, or mental health, etc. Perhaps I’m just not aware of it but it seems like most of these sort of things are primarily in the realm of other disciplines - humanities, politics, non-software eng fields. What are some ways software eng can meaningfully contribute?
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC.

“We had to have the conversation now because at some point we’ll be a public company. We had to prompt that discussion,” said Prince, who added “we want to be ready internally by July 2018,” for a possible stock offering.

CNBC Link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/24/cloudflare-ceo-matthew-princ...

Editorials discussing the event:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-to-draw-the-li...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-...