skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In college (uk meaning not US), smart attractive girl on the course, she could just not get her head around the programming part at all so I taught her enough to pass (and in truth more than half the code in her final project was mine but typed by her) and in spending time together we realised we where attracted to each other.

We dated for a while, was a lot of fun.

We could either pick the set project or any other project that would demonstrate what they didn't specify was the language (assuming people would use the one taught in class) so I did a VT100 emulator in Object Pascal and she did the set assignment in the taught language (sadly VB6).
Man, I’ve been gone so long I didn’t realize it wasn’t still a website.
I'm already dreading all the SEO spam it will lead to.
Making sure your website doesn't explode should have minimal cost.

4% of revenue at this scale, minus server costs, is an enormous amount of profit. Supporting one extra browser/OS combo should take less than one dev.
I've met people who applied to it at different times. None have got the key yet, including me. I don't think they are handing out many api keys. They probably had some sort of limit in mind when they launched and they probably reached it already. Unless you're a company or individual they are particularly interested in, I think the chances of getting it in the near future are quite slim :(
1/3 milk foam is not equivalent to 1/3 milk.
Maybe there will be something interesting in this newsletter in the future, but today, in this teaser post, there's nothing more than "there is a bad person on the Internet". Well, we knew that already.
I'm more curious to see what happens when single developers are able to launch products which are vastly better than existing solutions, using just a couple days of effort.
FaaS helps here.

It's easier to reason about the access one function does than all the infra a monolith needs to access.
And you don’t think this would result in a million more frivolous lawsuits against them?
Odd for a big company like HBO to throw away hundreds of dollars of revenue just like that
People piggyback on someone else's top comment to get attention for their unrelated reply.

Happens to top level submissions too. Lately I just avoid reading comments to “Show HN” submissions because they’re often a combination of either “here’s what I use instead” or “I’m writing my own version of the same thing”.

Which are fine but go make your own thread about it, gosh.

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tiny voice inside my head: you see the irony, right?

me, in response: I regret nothing. But yes.
Suppose Apple loses. Will they then start messing with the app approval process for this company out of spite?
Back in those days, computer companies named after fruit or flowers were common. Apricot, Tulip, Tangerine, etc...
There is no lawsuit, this is a trademark opposition. It's an administrative process through USPTO. It works through an administrative court that has some resemblance to a civil suit but the whole thing has a much more standardized procedure. Instead of a complaint letter, there is a notice of opposition that's usually pretty brief.
Sorry, but growing grains in vertical farms absolutely does not make sense. unless you'd have a very very cheap zero emission energy source. which would have a plethora of other sensible applications.

The single most sane way to change agriculture for the better is to eat much less beef. hands down. simple as that.
Bourbon and a nice dry cheddar are my goto when I need a serious unwind.
Is there actually any evidence that Apple has pursued legal action against them?
“taking screenshots like a tourist”

An underrated practice. We spend so much of our lives inside computer screens. It’s nice to take little random memento screenshots, for all the same reasons it’s nice to have photographs to look back on.
I regularly switch between devices, platforms, and monitors. On all platforms, it really depends on the font, the application, and the hardware. For example, Windows has a really hard time if you have multiple monitors with different DPIs. Some macOS applications have trouble with some monitors. macOS itself has trouble with some monitors. It varies widely.
> Completely foreign platform is moving the goalposts here.

No it's not, because you are consistently overestimating how similar the internal and public platforms are. I don't know how I can make this any more clear. Your estimation is incorrect. You are misinformed.

> everything Reader depended on is very likely to be available on GCP

This is, probably, approximately true.

> is very likely to be in a form that is very similar to its internal versions.

This is demonstrably wrong, and I and others have already provided examples, which you've ignored.

> I said in my original response that everything Reader depended on is very likely to be available on GCP, and is very likely to be in a form that is very similar to its internal versions.

Moving from stubby to GRPC is a lot of effort. Moving from Google's internal user ACLing to OAuth or whatever is a lot of effort. Switching the APIs used for Google's internal monitoring infra with the ones that are used by GCP is a lot of effort. Removing dependencies on borg particulars is a lot of effort.

Doing all of those things is a lot of a lot of effort and reasonably cost prohibitive. And that's ignoring a lot of other sources of "a lot of effort".

> Once your internal infrastructure is serving thousands of different engineering teams, there is only so much flexibility you can offer.

You have this backwards. It is precisely because the internal infra supports thousands of engineering teams doing complex things, up to and including hosting the external infra, that it must be significantly more flexible.

Note however that this is irrelevant to the broader point, which is that even if they're exactly the same flexible, they're not the same, and as a result, you have to rewrite every place where you interact with an external system, which means essentially rewriting the entire application.

> Which means internal infrastructure already has to be as general purpose as the variety of products a company has, which for these companies is pretty large.

Yes, which is more flexible than the external infrastructure. Put simply, the internal infrastructure is what the external infrastructure runs on. This may mean that sometimes you can run things on the external infra, but when you can't, the internal infra is strictly more powerful, since it hosts the external infra.

> I explicitly stated multiple times that I am not claiming 100% API/service parity

Nor did I say anything about 100% parity. I said, and continue to say cost prohibitive. To rephrase, since you misunderstood: if they need to better align them, that means that there are large enough differences that porting (or perhaps just interoperation) is cost prohibitive, and so they need to change how the systems work to make it easier to move between them.
Zeitgeist: The Movie. Which might totally deconstruct your worldview.

But as far as what next, technocracy usually oversimplifies and fails to integrate an understanding of the successes of capitalism and some of the failures of socialism.

Because technocracy usually assumes a type of AI-based central planning and has little or no room for markets. But I believe that any realistic plan must have accomodations for some significant amount of competition and inequality as well as a strong emphasis on facilities to evolve the system and have types of local specialization.

So my belief is that we do need a more holistic view of information and more ways to track and regulate than is provided by the basic concept of assigning monolithic points (money) which is also a gross oversimplification, but there also needs to be some concept like that, just more sophisticated. Such as tracking points available for different categories of things or autotaxing different activities or just tracking resources per transaction.

So I think it will not work to get rid of money, but we need money to be much smarter and less one dimensional etc.
2FA with some rescue codes printed and kept in your wallet / safe box seems like a reasonably bulletproof setup (hi GitHub!), but not every important site offers this.
Fuck these websites that hijack your browser history when you scroll down.

Can we ban links to sites that do this?
No they don’t exist the same way a hammer exists. A corporation is nothing but a piece of paper that a high priest of our religion (Secretary of state) has brought into existence via a ritual (signing a piece of paper). That is all a corporation is. Money: it exists as a physical piece of paper. Our belief in its value is what gives it value. Not unlike our belief in the idea that consuming a communion cracker is like ingesting the body of Christ (ritual cannibalism). Most things you consider real live in the intersubjective and religion is no different.
I'd start the questioning like this...

"On an average day how many kids under 13 do you think join TikTok without their parents knowledge?"

"On an average day, how many teens under 18 and preteens dance in a manner that would be considered provocative on your platform?"
Let's coin toss 100 times.

Let's put 'em in orbit and assume they survive reentry and land where we can evaluate heads or tails, so we have some flight time in this analogy.

Just for shits and giggles.

It takes a coin anywhere from two weeks to a month to land.

We have tossed all 100 coins, 25 per week over the course of a month.

Our stats could look like this.

Tossed coins = 100
Landed coins = 50
Tail landings = 4

To make it a bit more interesting, we could also say we are tossing 25 new coins per week right now, and that could change up, or down.

New coin tosses this week = 25

Right now, we know the outcome for 50 coins, and 4 of them landed tails.

(4/50) = 8 percent tails rate

We know at least 50 coins are in flight, outcome unknown.

It could be that every other coin toss lands heads. We could also say, there are no more tosses to consider. So let us add the 25 new tosses this week too.

(4/125) = 3.2 percent tails rate. This would be the best case.

It could also be every other coin lands tails too.

(54/100) = 54 percent! That is the worst possible case.

In reality, for this example, we know there are more tosses coming and we also could model poor testing and say we are not aware of all the tosses.

Some error factor could be computed to refine best and worst case too.

The better we are at collecting data, the more those outcomes will tell us.

The more time that passes, the more outcomes will tell us.

We may find tosses at night double risk of landing tails, for example.

Or maybe coins tossed mid week land tails consistently.

Ignoring that which has not come to conclusion biases the risk assessment toward lower risk with a larger error.

Low numbers with high error rates are not all that useful in this context.

Current global stats are:

Coronavirus Cases: 19,725,865

Deaths: 727,548

Recovered: 12,660,022

That's 5.7 percent deaths overall known outcomes with 7,065,865 cases in progress right now.

If people test positive, don't end up in the hospital and we have no death certs filed, they are recovered, but may be harmed in some way. Poor data on that.

Otherwise, we know they died.

Some argue a percentage of those deaths are with COVID causing a death due to other factors.

You can bias that overall 5.7 percent number up or down based on your own personal risk assessment, but dead is still dead, and catching the virus only adds to ones risk. These all count for purposes of policy and understanding danger.

I know at least one person who did that low risk assessment, went to a State with high case load and who has been on a ventilator for a month now.

They may live, and that looks increasingly likely, but will definitely not be the same after it is all said and done.

"I am unlikely to die" carries greater weight in that light, yes?

All I am really saying here is people would be wise to treat this with more respect than we may otherwise feel is warranted.

The basic reasons are simple ignorance (we are doing the science and it takes time) and lack of effective medicine at this time.

Both of those warrant the more firm, lower error numbers we get from actual outcomes.
What are other places to find new products and code repositories like HN?
Hi friends.

The best part of HN are the curated Show HN posts and the open source repositories for projects I often use myself or in my business.

Are there other places that have similar posts? Possibly github itself...although I’m not sure how to find new ones relevant to me.

Thanks and stay safe :)
The legal argument is much more clear though. The US can impose embargo via executive order.

Keep in mind Australia dropped Huawei over security concerns for their national broadband network back in 2012. China is a totalitarian regime that suppresses speech and is reeducating an entire ethnic group, possibly even forcing them into factory jobs.
I jokingly said i wanted to have the key so I could replace journalist's jobs.

Still no luck on getting the key.
I think history have shown us that if you want people to change their behavior you have to come up with something better not just something that you or I or someone else think is easier or more rational. The world doesn't work like that.
You can make anything faster on an FPGA given a sufficiently powerful FPGA. Just because something is possible doesn't mean you should do it.
The girl that I’m into stays up like 6 hours after I do (not in different timezones, her sleep schedule’s just very screwed up), but this meant that I wouldn’t be able to talk to her as much as I wanted to. I tried turning up the volume of my phone and did everything I could on native iOS to figure out a way to wake myself up whenever she’d text me on one of many different apps, but none of it ever really worked.
I don’t really have any real coding experience, so it took me like half a day to figure out how to hack together an app that would call my phone whenever a notification with one of her usernames would pop up. For the most part, I’m still able to sleep well and get stuff done, but I’m not sacrificing being able to talk with her to do it!
Great idea; let's have USPS administer it, like they used to do for money orders and wire transactions. No sense in replacing Mastercard with Google.
Is there any evidence that this is actually true?

I see none at all presented - not even a quote or statement from a cease and desist.

It seems implausible that Apple could win this, and implausible that they’d even see reason to take action.

Perhaps they haven’t.
I would not call it viable. The penalty imposed by using air breathing is considerable. Trade off studies of launchers with air breathing components almost invariably optimize to 100% rocket.
Why Use Oil?
Acrylic Pouring Easy Cell Creation – Perfect Result for the Living Room
You realize US presidents have imposed embargo via executive orders against nations for decades right? Cuba? Huawei?

Whether you think it's right or wrong, legally, it has prescient.
My understanding is that engaging is typically a bad idea because these folks typically fall into one of three buckets:

1. The person believes what they are saying strongly enough to say it openly and conspicuously. Attempts to correct them with facts triggers a backfire effect which causes them to believe the false information even more strongly[0].

2. The person is a troll. They don’t actually believe what they are saying. They are only saying it in order to make others (you!) upset because it makes them feel powerful[1].

3. The person is actually a bot or part of a coordinated disinformation campaign. Their goal is to create false division between people to create instability, and engaging only helps them achieve their objective[2].

In all cases, an action which causes people to feel the need to repeat false information may cause more people to believe the false information due to the illusory truth effect[3], which can lead to the sort of spiral we find ourselves in today. My understanding here is that false information existing is not a problem so much as the ubiquity of the false information, and from that perspective it’s more important to make it harder to find than it is to try to correct it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Psychological_c...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/28/russia-covid...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
Pretty sure it cost them more to keep the service up for linuxes than they got from the people using it.
It takes like 3 days to pay my Chase credit-card from my Citibank account. Lots of waste happening in the financial system.
There is one. It is called RTP - Real time payments

It is currently undergoing adoption among several big banks, although adoption for individual non-corporate accounts is slow
Nickel-62 is the most stable isotope, if memory serves. It’s not efficiently generated in star fusion, however, so iron-56 is believed by many to be the most stable.
I never understood when Americans threaten people with court expenses in TV series or real life. I was under the impression that no matter the case, if you are unable to afford representation, a state lawyer is appointed and does a barely passing job. Wouldn't a barely passing job be enough for a judge to throw a case like this away?

I've actually been in court and it has never been an expensive experience.

I suppose from one comment I read that patent law is different, and you have to actively defend your patent, but I see this theme in many different types of cases; for instance someone starting directing a documentary about something someone didn't like attention drawn to. How can this possibly be expensive to defend.
In an alternate universe, the Saturn IB could have been evolved to something like the Falcon 9. The H1 engines are in a similar thrust class as the Merlin, although with lower performance.
What is it about Linux and/or GPUs that makes it so hard to write great graphics drivers for it?

Do the two just not inter-operate well?
Why would he care? He makes his money and if, for whatever reason, he can't continue copying Apple, he can simply ditch the company and start a new clone of a different product.
What did the parent comment say about people fighting cancer?
Yes, but Trump, again, doesn’t have a good track record here. There are powers they have and powers they don’t have, they have to read up on law and tread carefully, Trump and whatever advisers he is listening to haven’t been shown to be apt at that.
Yes, that is what you said, and I think it is quite wrong. Being the original creator doesn't mean much when others can copy your design and not pay any of the costs associated with developing it in the first place.

Personalized solutions might work for some products but not for others.

It is pathetic because it treats illegal behavior as if it you are powerless to stop it. It would be like if your house kept getting broken into, and someone gave you advice to stop owning things, instead of say putting up security cameras, strengthening the locks on your door, or buying a gun or guard dog. I can only imagine you've never created a single thing in your life if you think that other people automatically have a right to take whatever you do and do whatever they want with it.

"Adapt or be left behind"...of what? Once people steal the IP, it is unlikely they are going to all of the sudden become great innovators in the field. At best, they are going to just keep producing shitty knock offs until there is no market left for them. In that sense, progress stops because no one will take the effort to build something because someone else can just come along and copy it. So there is no getting left behind. There is just shitty people siphoning off the work of good people and slowing their pace to zero.

How about the adapting is putting sanctions or restrictions on companies that engage in corporate espionage?

I'm really curious what you do for a living, and how you would feel if your work product was just stolen and ripped off and then used to attempt to shut down your living.
its pathetic because its a disingenuous argument offered to prop up the side of the oppressor. the type of business scenario you describe is an edge case, and you are arguing as if it were the only case.
I applied with, I think, a reasonable use case, but no word either. I don't have much hope to try it in practice anytime soon.
It is an attempt by ByteDance to eliminate any pressing need to sell their US customers to a non-Chinese company.
My understanding is that this is how the Netherlands became one of the biggest food exporters of the EU
But... why? What is the cost here?
If the reason for banning TikTok is to "protect the kids" why not say so in the order, instead of using some vague "national security" excuse? Clearly the TikTok ban had nothing to do with young kids using it or dancing provocatively, and the administration clearly isn't thinking about the kids when the ban was ordered.
hindsight is great!
If you read the article, they are also contesting the fact the order was rushed and bans ByteDance from retaining US lawyers once the ban is in effect, which is a violation of due process.

So the legal argument from ByteDance actually has merit in that respect, regardless of the political debate.
True, but can the average person deal with the typical information sources on the internet?
It’s an interesting story, but the firsthand account is better
Thank you. As someone starting a newsletter, it can be frustrating to get a few views for high quality content. Meanwhile its my basic tutorial that got to the front page of HN.

Obviously thats a different league, but I bet the temptation to get a "high score" feels the same. This post is a good reminder not to worry so much about the score, so thanks again
That's great if you live near an Apple Store, but only 25 countries have Apple Stores and half of those only have 1-3 stores for the whole country.
Indeed. There are ways to get altitude compensation in more traditional bell nozzles.
I actually had something somewhat similar happen to me, but with Twitter.

https://breue.com/twitter
https://breue.com/86851616.pdf

I was working on a project called Scoper, which let you do video streaming. It had done fairly well at SXSW, and we had a decent amount of users. Just before we thought we were gonna be awarded a trademark for the name, we got a not so friendly letter from Twitter's counsel at Fenwick and West, telling us we were infringing on their "Periscope" brand, and listing some pretty clear demands. We never really thought of our app as a competitor to Periscope.

Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford. We told Twitter we knew they had weak grounds and that the case would just drag on, and we would rather save both sides money, if they would just buy us out.

They gave us a super low amount of money to drop the trademark application, transfer the domain, all brand related stuff, and remove our app from the App Store. It was kinda depressing, but it could have been a worse outcome.

To be fair, this wasn't outrageous like this pear logo case, but it was just a feeling of being bullied and knowing you don't stand a chance.
This is essentially instagram
Tangentially related - I've just checked, luckily HBO GO still works (Fedora 31, Firefox 78.0.2).
I updated my comment...I found the evidence by searching the US trademark site.
You are kidding right? You are guaranteed representation for a criminal trial. Not a civil trial. How could that ever work??
Those problems are almost nonexistent if you get past the public torrent sites. Lots and lots of impostor sites and users though, I assume most of it automated.

The bitcoin mining problem is seeping into even free-to-play game markets, which I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, it's at least better than the corrosive influence of advertising.