skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hooking it up to the Nest was really clever. I've dabbled a bit with IR control of similar units, but that really takes it to the next level
A bit over a year ago now, so at least that much time has passed. It looked like a very good product then, looks like a very good product now. When I spoke to their support I was actually helped out by their CTO so I always felt it was a pretty rooted place.

But, at that time it didn’t meet our requirements.
Hacker Gives Away 386M Stolen Records on Dark Web
"I've made enough money now" ShinyHunters said as stolen data is offered for free in a commercial dark web hacker forum.
As a meta comment I will say that the rhetoric you're using is representative of the kinds of rhetoric you see on the internal mailing lists in case anyone reading whose never worked at Google wants to get a taste of what that's like. It literally reminds me of being back at Google.
But it is under a framework of laws and regulations.

All governments, including the US, have the legal right to ban companies and block mergers/acquisitions on national security grounds.

Each company has different issues hence why the idea of it not being discretionary doesn't make sense.
This should not surprise anyone. Giving an exemption from vaccine injury is pretty standard and there is a fund for payouts if children are injured by a vaccine. This isn’t the only exemption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_I...
It seems there is disagreement on this but to me it seems like a perfectly valid disclaimer to give, given the vested interest.
You are not the target audience of his comment.

I appreciated the comment. It exposed me to something I didn't know was going on.

With regards to "who are you to take it away from them..."

I don't think the parent poster has that power.

The president does and he may ban it to protect users privacy.

Some people are parents of kids who use it and they would have the right to limit where and how their children can express themselves.

Countries like Egpyt are putting girls in jail for dancing on tiktok.

This has all of the making of the next footloose.
If you were me, you might've deleted that remark in shame after realising it is maximising snark at the expense of worthwhile advice.

What I actually do is: minimise the number of apps installed, run a pihole to misroute unwanted traffic, run a VPN tunnel between home and a VPS that I manage myself for location masking and additional egress filtering, install a nonmonetized content blocker for which the source code is available (and run in advanced mode, with assets manually unblocked only by need), and use DuckDuckGo as my search engine.

Neither MixPanel nor GA are in my good books, and if a website requires such spyware to load before it functions, I abandon it.

What's more, I don't allow anything of the sort to be installed on my own services. The only third-party assets permitted are the card-capture fields from our payment gateway.
There's always someone out of approx. 1 million who will flip a coin heads 20 times in a row. The guy who does is always the poster boy for active management. You can (of course only after the fact) interview him, ask him how he thinks he became such a good coin flipper, and read investment books about him, or just passively invest and accept market returns.
1. There's the First Amendment in the US

2. Tens of millions of Americans use Tiktok as a platform for speech.

3. Now Trump wants to prohibit the platform which enables the free exercise of political speech against him.

What's more important, geopolitical considerations or the Constitution?
I don't see how with that arrangement they could guarantee the app is also not collecting and uploading data in addition to the data saved on Microsoft's servers. It would come down to trying to prove a negative which is not really possible outside of trivial cases.

The only way to make that arrangement work would be to give Microsoft access to the source and ability/responsibility to review the source/releases. Not exactly a great Setup for either party.
It's about complexity, about design and process. I don't think anyone can seriously deny that Google, it's engineering process and resources have a vast impact on what a documentation or package server comes out looking.

If all you have been building for the past 20 years are web services and you are surrounded by Kubernetes-but-the-internal-version and Postgres-but-the-internet-scale-version, is it any surprise that what comes out at the other end is invariably a centralized web service running on a bunch of Google proprietary infrastructure? And is it really that difficult to see how that is very different from the principles in Go, the language?

Git is very much the same thing. There is no doubt that in a world without Git, version control inside Google looks a lot more like Team Server than it does decentralized Merkle tree.
None of that is relevant; you can feel the Google engineering approach is the worst in the history of humanity – all fine with me – but ..... that does not mean you get be misleading about facts. You can – and should – state that one feature doesn't work; rather than say that none of it works. Because the former is true, and the latter is not.

What is the goal of your post? To inform your readership, or to convince them that Google is bad? If it's the former, then you have done your readership a great disservice. If it's the latter – which seems to be the case – then congratulations: you've fooled your readship – or at least part of it – in to believing something that's not true.
How (Not) to Behave in a Crisis
With a corrupted USB drive, the FBI Agent may as well be drawring bleedn ded
“This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in ... four years the vaccine is showing side effects,”

It's going to be well known any of the vaccines available will be considered risky.

I'm not sure people are considering how society will react to that.
Right because Twitter isn’t Trump’s favorite platform to bypass the media.
Re: Japanese rice brands, my personal recommendation is Tamaki Gold. Pricey but a fantastic product

you can also make zhou/congee with a rice cooker and steam foods. I often use mine to reheat leftovers like chicken legs while cooking rice
I think that's an advantage. You know what goes in and out, you can see where it's passed and used. It provides transparency and fewer accidental behavioral changes.

E.g. I had a really weird bug in a script, git seemed to break for no reason, until i figured out that some other script had exported GIT_DIR which pointed to the git top level directory. The name of the variable isn't bad if want to save that directory. But git uses GIT_DIR as the location of the .git directory it should look at when it is defined.

Using environment variables is kind of like using global state, it can often cause weird behavior at a distance without a clear path of influence if you don't know exactly which environment variables are used by all your scripts.
Careful. You’re spilling out ‘logic’ and ‘truths’ here that doesn’t fit WIRED’s narrative. Indeed Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat were banned in China long before TikTok even existed so Wired’s point of ‘hypocrisy’ really falls short at this.

China has other alternative social networks like LINE, Wechat to take their place but alongside the TikTok ban in India, they were also among the 58 apps banned too.

I guess they say it’s hypocrisy because it’s ‘Trump’ doing the ban. But when Biden started to tell his own staff to delete TikTok from their phones it’s apparent that it is more of a security concern than a ‘Trump embarrassment’ issue, such that they have less trust in Chinese-owned tech companies in general.
Ok, but for real: TikTok is a propaganda machine for China.
End of story.
>If some guy walks into a bank and claim they're you and they believe it, the banks aren't gaining anything.

They would have just sold a loan.

>If anything, they lost money.

Can't they sell the defaulted loan to collections?

>Lax security practices are negligence at best.

Systemic, known, and long-standing negligence speaks to intention.
Now you need to hop on a rocket to go steal the iPad to make use of that password.
Let's be clear apps like TikTok are a threat to national security.

Widely deployed apps that capture location data can and have been used to determine the location of military bases and assets.
Interesting! Did not know that.

... still, whatever happens with the US subsidiary should not, IIUC, affect whether or not the app can be downloaded.
The US being a free market and China tightly controlling it's markets is precisely what's unfair. Think if it like a tariff. When a country establishes a tariff, most other countries set up their own tariffs in response. This is fundamentally the same thing. China banning Facebook, Twitter, et al. is effectively a tariff on US tech companies. Now the US is setting up its own tariffs in response.
Yeah. Many don’t realize he was making beats for well known rappers before the general public knew who Kanye was. I still think his best talent is as a beat creator/producer.
No, he doesn't. He's under the impression that selling order flow is the same as front running.
Why not the Vanguard Target Retirement 20xx Fund? Unless you really know how to assess your risk or manage a portfolio I think it’s what you are looking for.

(20xx is the year you should be retired)
Very interesting. American Elite are often antivaxers and preppers while Russian Elite go out of their way to take new vaccines.
Disclosures Confirm: Trump Himself Target of Obama Administration’s Russia Probe
The rationale in your comment is unconvincing to me. If Tiktok is breaking the law, that should come to light and be actioned like any other company breaking the law; likewise TOS violations on respective app stores. I haven't seen any reports to suggest that Tiktok is breaking U.S. law, have you? And if the rationale is, as you suggested, a retaliation against 'bad behavior for decades', what precedent would banning Tiktok set for other non-U.S. owned apps and services?
From a Chinese multinational to an American multinational. I'm not convinced that any sort of data safety will arise from this. This is really just US giving China a taste of its own medicine.
Thanks for chiming in! As a UX/UI guy, this makes a ton of sense!
Ask HN: Developing an easy to use Coursera like website for my dad
My father (based out of India) is a retired professional who wants to start an educational video site (e.g. KhanAcademy) but in specific subject (geared towards Accountants). He is what one would consider a non technical guy.

Initially, the website/content would be free but maybe he wants to monetize it in future.

For a start, I setup an account at wordpress.com and even that interface is kind of intimidating. Sites like Netlify requires a Git based workflow which again is not something he is adapt at.

What other options do I have? I could but I dont really want to reinvent the wheel to build another custom CMS site for him.
As someone who has worked directly with the FDA, this is an absurd position. If anything, the FDA errs on the side of causing no harm versus getting a much needed treatment approved.

And it might be good to know that most countries approve drugs based on the same data - global clinical trials. Australia is looking at the same data as the US when making an approval decision. Some countries require local trials (China and India, I believe).

In addition, there is plenty of collaboration across drug approval bodies when developing or changing regulations. They are all talking to each other to determine the best approach.

Here is a good example of the FDA and TGA (Australia) and Canada approving a new cancer drug together[1]

[1] https://www.fdanews.com/articles/192766-fda-approves-first-c...
They chose the wrong disaster to optimize for. A pandemic proof design would have also resulted in less assault on their women by other passengers.
Say goodbye to online JSON formatters
Amazon is offering 24TB RAM high memory machines on AWS. The Stackoverflow setup is far away from Big Iron :)

In terms of opportunities to add complexity: I'm surprised there is no mention of a data-platform or any model training for ranking, etc.

To reduce components, it might be possible to combine ElasticSearch and MSSQL into just PostgreSQL which has awesome text indices. As MSSQL performs very well and presents a somewhat esoteric SQL dialect this could be an expensive project.
The boycott, more than anything internal to those companies (like reduced expending as an experiment during the pandemics), were a message instead of a direct hit at Facebook. Hubris can be a dangerous toy to play with and I hope for their best that folks at Facebook paid attention to this boycott and won't simply go "lalala you can't hurt us lalala".
"That raises a huge red flag in my mind over its safety."

In this particular case, AstraZeneca are not doing the research for a COVID-19 vaccine. They have struck an agreement with the University of Oxford to manufacture and distribute the university's COVID-19 vaccine (still under development).

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-04-30-landmark-partnership-an...
Here are some options, saw this article shortly after posting my last comment here https://www.theverge.com/21307332/dark-sky-alternatives-weat...
I said if it's a matter of national security.

> TikTok is not a national security problem, no more than Whatsapp or Telegram or Skype is a national security problem.

Yeah, you don't actually know that. What we don't know is the most consequential for us. China is ambitious and is clearly engaged in a long game against the US.

We should watch our backs, no apologies necessary.
You keep misrepresenting me. I have acknowledged America’s faults, including the absence of universal healthcare. This isn’t meaningfully “a consequence of capitalism” as indeed many European countries with their public sector healthcare have capitalist economies. It’s really too bad that you insist on misrepresenting me and making disingenuous comparisons, because I think this conversation could have been interesting and mutually enlightening. Oh well, you are right that this conversation won’t be going further.
This is true, but I wish it were not. Once Facebook introduced the news panel, I stopped using it because everyone started hating each-other on facebook instead of just sharing pictures.
Alton Brown taught me: No single taskers in the kitchen, except for the fire extinguisher. I don't see what's so hard: put in rice, wash it, fill cold water to one finger joint above the rice, boil, cook slow 7 mins, turn off leaving covered, wait at least 5 more mins while finishing sauce (but up to 15!), fluff, serve.

Pots are for cooking. Machines are for other stuff.
Generally yeah, fuck'em all. There are however cases when playing with the device using 3rd party software could lead to bypassing safety features and if people got hurt who is to answer?
The Japanese also thought a very large magnitude earthquake couldn't happen in the tohoku region. Never say never.
It's the #1 way to pay progression, sadly. Job switching rapidly in your early career is the only viable way to get pay raises - unfortunately. It's worked out - in that sense. I'll be switching again here soon enough - but no more startup shit. Big N or die trying. (Although I said that last time too - but now at least I have options currently worth $180k+/yr that put me near Big N in terms of pay... but only if they actually ever get turned into real $$$)

Honestly - I feel like I stick around at places too long. Get my first year vest and then immediately bounce is what I want to do but I sometimes stay longer because I'm terrible at interviewing. I'm nearing 2 years at my current place and I'm dying to leave because they won't increase pay and keep putting me under absolute horseshit of managers.

When you join startups - you can ask as many question as you like to find the right place but in less than six months - the company, your manager, your team, and what you work on can completely change for the worse. Even when I was at a bigger company - that still happened. Half my team was laid off and my manager was fired... both had no replacement.

I'd stay if I found a place I genuinely liked but even if I think I like it when I join - it can drastically change within six months... And, sadly, that's kinda been my experience at every place. Managers fired, sexual harassment lawsuits against the CEO, employees laid off, CTOs fired, huge pivots in what I work on, drastic product changes, etc. etc.
Quick search to do something on the web and there’s a strong chance it will be python2.

Pip install? Or pip3 install? Who knows, whatever you do don’t follow the instructions s to upgrade pip as that breaks Debian and Ubuntu installs. Cpan was always a bit ropey but never this bad.
I've been using 3x ETFs for the past few years to pursue a Permanent Portfolio style strategy in one account, and an All Weather strategy in another, rebalance annually, and both have been doing well.

Low net volatility, high returns. Backtesting of the strategy shows total returns just under 3x the return of the unleveraged portfolios, just what I expect given the leverage costs.

I expect both strategies to be both market-agnostic and age-agnostic. About as close to fire and forget as you can get.
> that almost nothing in the country is oriented around children

As I'm actually living in Singapore for several years with a small child, i find this comment quite strange. I've lived in and visited many cities in the world and would be hard pressed to find any place more child friendly or with a variety of experiences oriented for Children - lots of it for free. Walks and Trails, Parks, Arts and crafts, Libraries, free concerts and performances almost every other day, beaches. Every residential locality as several parks and playgrounds, even the commercial districts has play areas for kids (often free) if you research a bit.... Kids ride free till age 7 on public transport and i see 10 year old kids go to school by public transport by themselves. There's no way I'd feel safe doing that in any other city in the world I've lived in or visited.

On your other comment, that's actually how many Asian cities have evolved. In Mumbai and Chennai where I've lived before, there will be an area you go to buy electronics (still true for components), another area with marble shops, yet another for flowers etc etc
Actually looks really useful plugin too!
I wasn't around on this planet when razors-and-blades model was first invented, but it wouldn't surprise me if people raised objections back then.

To me, the general model of selling/giving away a device that serves only to lock the customers into buying overpriced consumables is ethically questionable. I find it exploitative, dishonest, wasteful and anti-competitive. Such business model requires the corrupting the law to create completely artificial constraints, to make it illegal for competitors to offer said consumables, in order to prevent competitive pressure from pushing the price of consumables down to where it should be[0].

I can't give a detailed and coherent argument for why I feel that way, not just yet - part of the reason I comment in IoT/DRM/another-product-turned-into-bullshit-service threads is to try and discover that argument through discussion. But it really feels wrong, compared to a hypothetical reality where both the devices and their consumables were properly priced closer to the marginal cost of production, which can happen only if people can freely build on top of platforms.

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[0] - And if I'm listing negative adjectives, I might add parasitic - in the sense that if you imagine business models as organisms, this one took over host society's legal system to ensure it could to outcompete more straightforward (honest) ones.
Yes, as the other person said, Yandex is available in the USA right now. I’ve seen Yandex bots crawling the USA-based websites I manage at my job. And that’s totally fine.

We don’t have a great firewall here in the USA. At least not yet.
How do you do Face ID with a helmet visor? How do you do Touch ID with gloves? You can't leave it unlocked because the device needs to be encrypted. A pass phrase would be more secure but when you're a 400km away from the nearest threat actor there's nothing wrong with a short PIN that is set randomly prior to the mission and cleared immediately on return.

Now, maybe if iOS supported using a USB or Bluetooth key to unlock the device.
I’m sure it is. That gives plenty of opportunity for discrimination.
> Can't they sell the defaulted loan to collections?

Why would anyone pay face value for a defaulted loan?
I have mentioned this before, this is a supply problem. If you do not gatekeep medical degrees with irrelevant non-academic barriers (volunteering, portfolios, admission letters) and mandate medical schools budgets to keep up with new demand, then there would be plenty of doctors and diversity of thought. Let the MCAT standardized test be the only signal for admissions and force the acceptance of medical accreditation based solely on technical competence. Medicine has a scale problem and nobody is trying to tackle it. The American Medical Association recently pulled their collaboration with Khan Academy to further keep up the barriers. At the end of the day, regardless of the complaints of big companies trying to seek "cheaper workers", software engineering as a field is still much more meritocratic than others. Attempts at unionisation and accreditation instead of leetcoding (kicking the ladder hmm?) has all gone absolutely nowhere. Be vigilant about attempts to gatekeep. For too long MBA and public policy institutions spewed the drivel that non-free-access accreditation is the end-all be-all, of the idea that if you do not genuflect before various admissions committees of expensive professional degree schools you do not have the right to take the accreditation exam, that you are a threat to public safety. Imagine where the world would be if the average admissions rate for computer science was 7%.
You and me both buddy :)
"Ideally the money should come from the elite class that is accumulating the capital thanks to automation and monopolization."

Have you done the math on this? The scale of UBI is so large that it has to mostly come from the middle class. A meager $20k UBI for all 300 million Americans would cost $6 trillion. Even if you liquidated the 100% of wealth of the top 400 Americans you'd only get $3 trillion, and you're only able to do that once, not every year.
Somebody should build a service that blurs the entered pin on live stream so we can have posts like this a thing of the past.
Mergers are blocked all of the time for competition and security reasons.

And the President has the right to ban companies on national security grounds as well.

The legal basis for both is very well founded with plenty of precedent.
I didn't say it was. It's also not illegal to have market power.

What is unlawful, at least in my enlightened jurisdiction, is abusing market power to mislead the consumer, and even more so obliging other parties to do so.
> Well they are magical until you need to do something a bit more complex, like window functions.

The best method I've personally found for window functions is cross/outer apply + narrow indexes with included columns. A lot of times you can get away without an indexed view at all.

> you need to hint the server to actually use the indexed view or it will just use it as a regular view which I don’t understand the reasoning behind

SQL Server Enterprise will use indexed views automatically. But you gotta shell out the big bucks for that improved query planner.
- TikTok would seem to be an existential threat to Facebook.

- Acquisition by Facebook is problematic given current scrutiny of their market position.

- Facebook has been Trump’s media ally since 2016.

- Trump is intervening clumsily to kill a rare Facebook competitor.

Circumstantial to be sure. But the pattern match is bonkers.