skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short: In the 18th and 19th century the British Elite, the most powerful back then, started to use beaches as a place to restore and rejuvenate. Then extended this to the Mediterranean and Baltic seas.

The article fails to mention that the main reason for the elite to seek solace in coastal shores was health-related: iodized fresh air on the beach helped (or at least was considered of help) with several diseases that were common back then.
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You can implement background processing with less operational complexity. This allows you to leverage activejob to get something up and running quickly and easily.

Granted, if you start having higher throughput, you want to move on from using postgres as your message bus.
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I remember being at an early BBSCON, perhaps in Tampa. I bought something at a vendors booth. He got on a PC and typed in my order. I asked what he was doing and he explained that he was connected to their BBS in Denver. Once it charged my credit card it was going to print out a mailing label with a bar code. An employee would scan the code, find the book, put it into an envelope and slap on the label.

That book was waiting on my doorstep when I returned from the conference. This was maybe 1989 or 1990, I told my boss that our brand new FAX machine was toast, I'd just seen the future. The really funny thing is that thirty years later that FAX machine (or it's replacement) is still being used.
Why would they care about a report? That for the Brits to care about. Russia couldn't give a shit and they probably planned this launch years out.
Considering they were only lending to one person at a time, it does seem like the lawsuit is uncalled for.
ARM Holdings is the IP licenses it sells is it not? I don't think ARM Holdings does HW design, or do they?
To be clear: putting `class='centered'` in your HTML is absolutely mixing concerns. That's exactly the problem I'm pointing out.
There's no way to really know how true this is but it certainly feels true if you're on the startup side - however most startups just aren't being realistic with themselves, and thinking they are special.

For example, my previous company brought our 6DOF MonoSLAM SDK, 3D model processor and OpenGL viewer to Amazon from 2014-2017 pitching the "AR View" functionality that they eventually put in 2017 [1].

Was that a result of us coming and pitching it? Probably not because that use case and stack wasn't a novel concept even back to 2010. So the concept and stack was certainly there for them to do on their own.

What we DID provide to Amazon however was a significant data point (based on our user velocity/interaction metrics and the rate of increase of 3D model generation from retailers) about whether the market was ready for that feature - and so they said ok it's probably time to do this. It just so happened that the cost of implementing it crashed to basically "trivial" in 2017 with the introduction of ARKit and so it was a no-brainer for them to roll out for a few years.

What's the takeaway? These big companies aren't dumb, your idea isn't that novel and they probably have the team and technology to do it better than you for cheaper.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16590160/amazon-furniture...
If someone gives you a gift, you are not forced to accept it. Tor paid employees probably have something else to work onto, given that they are paid my Tor's money, not by the bug reporter's money. Frankly, the issue about blocking connections is pretty useless: the author themselves admit that the underlying issue cannot be fixed, since the list of relays is public. And it's not a security issue anyway: of course your traffic carrier will always be able to drop your packets, but nobody consider this a security issue for any other application.

So they are basically reporting trivial issues (this is trivial, at least, I cannot judge for the others they say they have) and pretending that people paid by someone else now care just about that. Doesn't look like very smart.
not even inline blocks, that shit didn't work in ie6, i was fucking ecstatic once i could use inline-blocks
BitWarden. Switching our business from LastPass at the moment.

I found LastPass painful to use and sync between local vault and server side to be broken. No thought has been given to layout, commonly used options are buried and basic things like selecting the right credentials by subdomain do not work. Their recent UI refresh has simply made things slower rather like Google's admin UIs. They have rather annoyingly decided, against NCSC advice, that I need to see a reminder to pointlessly cycle my master password every time I log in.

The final straw was when they applied a large renewal charge without authorisation to a card they were not given permission to keep and then mishandled the resulting complaint in every way you could possibly imagine.

Bitwarden is cheaper and far more usable, I can't find any single thing that LastPass does better for twice the price.
Each industry always tries to hold on to max profits first. They don't have long term vision. They only have yearly balance sheets to care about.
Congratulations on the launch. I'm a remote worker, so I was keenly interested in this.

I've been using a Facebook Portal for about 1.5 years as an always-on video device. It works great, so I love the idea. There's open water in this space, so it's great to see others entering it.

For now, I don't see why I would ever use this over the Portal. The Portal HW has a high-quality build with a great speaker, and the auto-tracking video is creepy good. I purchased the large desktop Portal for $200 one time—a better deal than 25$ a month IMHO.

I wrote up my remote work experience with the Portal, too (https://medium.com/@dbal/facebook-portal-makes-for-a-better-...). Facebook has been researching business uses cases also. A research firm hired by Facebook came to our remote sites and observed how we used the Portal.
> I'm sure FB could think of

I still maintain expecting companies to do this on their own is a category error.

Companies think moderation is a cost center. Even if the moderators do the best possible job, they aren't adding value, only removing liabilities. The company is the wrong entity we should be asking for solutions to this problem. They are going to minimize costs and shift liabilities to 3rd parties (which will in turn hire independent contractors and play shell games in case they are sued).

We have to demand adversarial outside actors (government, labor unions, lawyers, non-profits, mental health professionals, etc) to start shaping the direction of the solution.
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Whataboutism what?

As far as I am concerned, we should be preserving knowledge and making it accessible to the public, not locking up knowledge forever.
You don't need to be a lawyer to read this bill, it's pretty short and clear.

Even if you don't understand all of it, it's good to read the source so you know you're not getting cherry-picked information.
What happens when an employee has one stolen? or coffee spilled on it?

How many free tablets can I get for $25/mo? What do you do when you realize someone has spilled coffee on 3 tablets, and now their credit card isn't rebilling and they aren't responding to email?
I didn't look into this one yet besides the home page, but I always thought Postgres would make a killer backend for ActiveJob, leveraging advisory locks for synchronizing jobs and such. Resque is Redis backed, but if you don't want to add that as a dependency and already have Postgres setup, then this would be a great fit.
what launch page, this?

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=20657644011

It might not be hitting market due to lack of interest. The way I "solve" this today is to just send myself an email when I think I need to order something, then order it next time I check my email... works pretty good.
Satanic ritual panic and several other deeply moral panics say hello. Loud and extreme opinions and bullshit have always been rewarded with more attention because the adherents are more passionate.
Last I heard from this story, the lawsuit was because of unlimited lending:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391662
Isn't the important factor whether it's trying to become one? Windows and IE were never the only possible options.
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> since police find crime where they look, and they tend to look in poorer and non-white areas.

That's true for property crime, moving violations, etc. But most of these crime predictors are looking at break ins, violent crime, murders, etc. Those numbers don't go up when police are focusing on an area, those generally go down.
It's because Russia as a country does not matter to those leading it. Putin and his friends have been plundering it hard since the USSR fell and nothing matters as long as they can keep raking in a significant portion of the country's GDP.
That's why things like the Magnitsky act were so offensive to Russian leaders, because it hurt their riches personally, and also why they were so effective, until a certain someone basically unilaterally killed them
It's not so simple: social media is how regular media get most of their clicks. Not that I'm a huge fan of social media companies, but the constant push by regular media companies for social media companies to promote "authoritative sources" (i.e. regular media) and the accompanying hit pieces make a lot more sense in this context. To me, these articles are being honest in their criticism when they call for less social media in general, not just more control of the existing social media. This is one of the latter.
Interesting, I don't know much about FB governance. I would venture to say it's probably (and unfortunately) becoming the norm rather than the exception that employees have little input into governance. This is another area where I think unions have benefit.

My point about being a tech "underclass" was more about avoiding conflating FAANG employees with those who have little opportunity or options. FAANG employees generally have more portable skills than, say, an uneducated immigrant employee and I don't know that I agree they could both be "exploited" in the same way. While it may be rooted in valid points, it's a bit cringey to use the same language to describe both.
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Empires have fallen for even more petty reasons. Its funny how in capitalism you have to talk of empires, so I guess there must be lords and serfs too.
One can violate antitrust laws without being a monopoly. Certain parts of the law (regarding collusion on price setting, for example) can be broken by very small businesses.

See this helpful FTC page: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Since when is gunfire an appropriate or legal response to theft?
...I think I may have been misunderstanding something here. If a museum goes bankrupt, what happens to their collection? Is there some legal avenue where they can keep everything in storage until they (hopefully) get more funding down the road?
we're not talking about some highbrow philosophical disagreement or argument about cultural values, we're talking about very basic facts, which have the benefit of actually having truth value regardless of whatever people think.

The pandemic is a pretty good example. There are actually a lot of protocols and behaviours that have shown to make it so hundreds of thousands of people don't have to die regardless of what timezone or nation or religion or political party you're in, yet aided by constant social media barrage the US is so divided it can't even manage to enforce that.
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Trade secret protections can be quite strong as well. In 2006, 3 people were arrested by the FBI for trying to sell Coke formulas to Pepsi.

Contemporary article: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business/06coke.html

More dramatized version with info from court proceedings: https://thehustle.co/coca-cola-stolen-recipe
Code that can generate new executable pages on the fly, code that can access the various databases on my phone, code that modifies how the system applications work…I think that's fairly important and useful, especially since the alternative is…you can't do that at all? What's the issue?
> In total, 650 million books were locked up just in public libraries alone. Because of that, we felt we could, and should, and needed to make the digitized versions of those books available to students

Libraries also have movies and music... should they have put those out for free too? I love wayback machine but I’m not sure I follow the logic on this one. I’m no legal expert but that seems like pretty iffy reasoning.
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"It is the first time the UK has made accusations about Russian test-firing in space"

Have there been previous cases of Russian test-firing in space?
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Wrt #1, I think the issue is that scrollbar size makes it easier to tell one Tor user apart from another in the Tor browser, not that you can determine they are running in the Tor browser (or even know their platform from a common fixed set). For most users of Tor and the Tor browser, simply checking that they are coming from a publicly known list of exit node IPs is enough (or if they are already hitting an onion service, then it's obvious).
Because the US would advertise to the whole word that they have such a capability?
I would never want to buy ARM if I were Apple. Here's why.

Apple can design AND manufacture chips based on ARM architecture, essentially without any interference from ARM the company. Just pay a (relatively small) license fee and you're all set.

The article says it well:

> Arm’s licensing operation would fit poorly with Apple’s hardware-focused business model.

> There may also be regulatory concerns about Apple owning a key licensee that supplies so many rivals.

I think it's important not to confuse the success of a specific architecture, with the economic success of the company owning and licensing IP related to that architecture. These two things might not necessarily go hand in hand.

Edit: two very relevant comments in the parent thread, I'll just mention them here for completeness:

> the revenue of ARM before Softbank acquisition was less than the Net profits of Intel. (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930895)

True. As mentioned above, architecture success != economic success

> Risc-V (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930814)

Absolutely relevant. I am bullish on Risc-V and think there's a good chance we will all eventually converge to that.
Are also sells actual cores and blocks. They do a lot more than just the arm spec.
Set that possibility against the predictable deaths of 100,000+ people due to waiting.
In the docuseries he himself produced, MJ comes off as an absolute bully most of the time. It ruined a lot of the mythos for me.
What do you guys think could be the implications for employees who may or may not be finding out about this sale through HN rather than internally?
> As soon as Quora was breached, the bots came.

I'm curious why the flat earthers and the anti-vaxxers seem to have such good bot power but their adversaries don't.
What kind of company do you work at?
I agree with that to a point, but I think it's more like a job employed at someone else's company and making them money is never going to be a dream job. I do think there's hope in creating your own dream job via entrepreneurship and paving your own way, working for yourself. It can be a job that you control the schedule and all that you do. Everything you say I still 100% agree with and have also never found a dream job out of what are considered great positions. I think it's out there if you take and make your own music, start your own company, whatever is that you like/want to do on your own terms and if that becomes a successful venture. Self made.
Should anyone get compensated for creating the knowledge? If you "lend out" unlimited copies for a single copy you own, that compensation gets pretty much limited to a single copy and thew few copies that friends, family and fans buy, doesn't it?
display:table; doesn't actually replace table based layouts though, because it can't do colspan/rowspan, even today. Ran into this when trying to make a table (containing actual tabular data) responsive
> It is really 2 Gbps down. However, the Ethernet ports are just 1 Gbps.

Consumer grade 10Gbit ethernet and fiber NICs exist, and for fairly cheap too.
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A little over a decade ago, a lot of stuff went wrong because a bunch of economically dominant corporations figured they were too big for governments to allow them to fail.

And it looks like big tech is developing much the same rich-and-out-of-touch reputation that bankers and stock traders used to have.

I don’t know who, but I am assuming one of the FAANGs will be forcibly broken up in the next decade.
>I have no knowledge of the skill involved in (real life) modelling, but I do know the skill involved in professional photography is a lot higher than I fully understand.

Yes, but there's no shortage of people who know all the involved stuff...
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The lowercase “m”, for one, looks terrible though. It’s a cool demo but I’d never use it.
Yearly? Pretty sure it’s quarterly executive bonuses driving “The Market.”
Nobody in my circle of aged 25-35 North American friends talk about buying a Tesla because it is only an electric car. It is the whole package that gets people to buy it. Not only does it look good, it feels smooth while driving, it actually feels like it is a modern vehicle, the software updates and "autopilot".

Every known vehicle manufacture outside of trucks & SUVs have no brand value to "millennials". I don't know anyone I communicate with who is excited to buy a ford, toyota, and or even a porsche car.
It may be more that that's what the dealerships stock and push, but there really are very few other differentiators.

The Crosstrek comes stock with a 6-speed manual instead of the Impreza's 5-speed (though 90% of them are sold with the execrable CVT instead); the Crosstrek only comes as a hatchback while the base Impreza is a sedan; the Crosstrek has intermittently been available with a hybrid system.
I got the same thing, and looked for the story to supply the proper link, but couldn't find it.
I was actually hoping that at the end, it would be revealed that the article was written by a bot.
> for no reason

It is for the very real chance of preventing 100,000+ additional deaths.
Look at Crucial Conversations. Don't take it as gospel, but it's a good starting point.

Stick to facts. Clearly state your expectation, and show how they are not meeting that expectation. Then place the ball firmly in their court. The goal is not fixing the issue for them, but getting them to take responsibility for fixing it themselves.

Refrain from creating a "shit sandwich" by putting the critique in the middle of praise. That makes the conversation ineffective. These conversations are never fun, but they are important to have, and you eventually get used to it.
What a wonderful verb; thanks for relieving my ignorance. ISTM Amazon misses out on some aspects of the idiomatic definition, since they failed to popularize their own brand of client machines with an OS they control.

I think the original Netscape folks would disagree with your assessment of M$ sherlocking competence.
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You can dream up all of these scenarios. But if you have a healthy business then a small number of people scamming you for Galaxy Tab's doesn't kill it.
So we agree it’s a high-skill job not a low-skill job?
This looks great. I'd love to remove Redis from my tech stack on applications with low throughput background jobs. Sadly, it doesn't appear to have a UI.

Resque and Sidekiq are both good enough solutions, but what makes them my defacto choice is the robust web UIs that comes with them.
Despite the circlejerk, copyright helps push innovation and human knowledge by allowing IP to be profitable for those that spent time and resources creating.

In a post-scarcity world though I would agree. Were not there yet though.
You can pay in cash.
My watch is functioning just fine. I can see historic data, log a run, tell the time etc.
GoldenCheetah can do at least some of what you want. https://www.goldencheetah.org/
I think they also totally own the console space, don't they? The next-gen consoles from both Sony and Microsoft are based on custom AMD cpu/gpu combos.
They do. ARM Holdings is ARM Ltd.
Predicting crime is great. It means you're working to understand the state of your society.

Using it for policing is idiotic. You can't arrest a statistic.

Instead, it should be used for public policy, to understand what communities are at risk, direct efforts to understand why they are risk, and engineer better systems to support those communities.
That quote is just a way for people who have grown more conservative than they were in youth to excuse their cognitive dissonance. It's not some great truth.
"I will never purchase a tampon, therefore tampons are a terrible product with no purpose."
True, but losing influence on the core component you've pivoted your whole company around, would also be pretty disastrous.

Or in memespeak: scenes when nVidia controls Apple's CPU roadmap.
What are some of the other exciting things happening in the Rails world these days?
Being a better illustrator than most is not really an easy task. And the guy from Dilbert is not really a better illustrator than most. I mean, he draws some very basic shit.
Awesome! I could have built this with what I have at home, but I purchased because this is something worth supporting.
If the motherboard of the PC being controlled supports Wake-on-Lan that may be a viable option to send a packet from the local subnet to boot up the computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
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Mobile apps can use native controls. When there is an ecosystem of apps that use the same controls, it enables users to do more, because they can bring their knowledge from one app to another.

For example, with iOS UISlider, you can make fine or coarse adjustments by moving your thumb perpendicular to the slider direction. This works across all native apps. Users who learn about this feature become more capable in every native app.

There's no mechanism to create this sort of shared knowledge on the web. The web developer culture emphasizes customization, and so no two web apps work consistently.
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This is interesting, as I have essentially given up on attempting to figure out which sequences are faster. Instead, I go for the approximations that fewer instructions equals faster, and registers are faster.

It's hard to even figure out if the scheduling algorithms that work well on the Pentium and PentiumPro are worthwhile for the x86-64.
There is a reason EE do the FPGA work.
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I work at all remote internet company; I use my Portal to connect to specific people though in an always-on environment. I find it helpful for all the reasons described in the OP and more. When I went from a shared office with a co-worker to a remote office with the same co-worker, I thought we would lose something. The always-on video fills a void. I can't recommend it enough for remote workers that work closely with another person. Sometimes a look or a glance can even accomplish a goal.
I tracked a 20 day trip down the Grand Canyon on my VivoSmart.

I think it has the storage for a few months worth of continuous tracking before it needs to sync to free space.