skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those business transactions could be easily verified. Had he been such a successful businessmen, why was their initiative failed so miserable as he himself acknowledged when the said fund is provided in full? He quite literally burned 100 million dollars over the course three years without the company being operational sustainable let alone profit, in what scenario would an investor be ok that their actual 100 million us dollar all turning into dust? His own operation here in the US are bankrupted as well, in what sense is that a successful business? or that he is a successful businessmen? All of those are year old material existed on the internet before his wsj piece. You should be easily able to find more. Following the bankruptcy, a company's asset will be liquidated. He also claimed the government filed patents without his consent, while it's the company he worked at filed and owned those patents, it's the company's property from the beginning, that's how it works, surprised? get a job. any financial investor would require how it should be done. Be reminded he have 100 million cash in hand to spend, while 'technology' was valued at 100 million too, with two parties each owning half of the company, which can't be said to be a bad deal.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/saleen-might-file-for-ban...
It's in the FAQ section of the page under "How is my audio processed?"
I noticed that too, no doubt posed, as the story said, due to the slow exposure required. Probably in a rear training area or perhaps 2nd or 3rd line trench. The trench with the men aiming rifles didn't look like it had ever been shelled so unlikely they were facing the French or British.
Yeah, Hypercard represented peak Apple in my opinion. Using a computers was still "fun" in a way I can't articulate. Perhaps it reflects more myself at the time — not yet jaded....
> So, because Firefox on your phone doesn't have X, you deleted it everywhere and installed a browser that... also doesn't have X?

No, because Firefox on my phone has removed X, I'm switchting to a browser that's getting X, and where the time-line isn't "we dunno lul". Maybe Brave doesn't hit their timeline, but Mozilla doesn't have one and I have no idea when my stuff will start working again. Until Brave Mobile has extension support I've downgraded my FF on mobile to the EOL version.

But as I said, it was the last straw that broke the camels back, I do not consider Mozilla to be trustworthy anymore, and this was just the latest in a series of issues.

I don't see how this is in any way similar to TLS 1.0 deprecation, because sites should have upgraded. There's nothing extension authors could have done. This is fully Mozilla dropping the ball (once again).
In my experience it's usually the bank having an issue on their end. If you try to make a transaction late at night, say 2am, there's a good chance your bank is "down for maintenance". My account is with a public bank, not sure if this is true for private banks. Either way, reliability varies from bank to bank.

One reason behind this (communicated to me by a friend who has some insight into the banking system) is that the government has prohibited charging for UPI transactions. So every bank needs to maintain the infrastructure to integrate with UPI but don't make money off it. This leads some to not treat it with priority (a good to have, not a necessity) or treat it like IMPS/NEFT/RTGS (which only work in a fixed time window).

Overall the reliability is still quite good and with increasing reliance of the masses on it, it will hopefully get better.
AGPL is avoided because cloud/server corporations know exactly what it means. It's expressly written to ban their business models.

Likewise for GPLv3 and Tivoized corporations.
Debugging! Not so weird as I first used vs code for front end so had no need for debugging. Once I started doing node though, having a debugger is great and it’s a pretty decent one, although not as good as the daddy visual studio.
1) I was referring to IMPS,not NEFT(mistyped).

2) An ID could be created for IMPS account like in BHIM to mitigate the "lot to fill" problem.
Run LLVM Assembly in the Browser
The regulations require it to be enabled by default afaik. SBI (I don't have experience with other banks) allows you to turn off 2FA for different classes of transactions. It's hidden away in the settings on their legacy web interface.
UPI doesn't work without a bank account. Additionally, its launch was preceded by the Jan Dhan Yojana [0] which pushed hundreds of millions of the poor to open bank accounts. Today most street vendors in India - including even pushcart vendors - will accept payment via UPI. It has become even more popular in the past couple of months because of Covid-19 and hygiene concerns with handling cash.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradhan_Mantri_Jan_Dhan_Yojana

Edit: added link
Or the early web was more like that. People throwing up "hobbyist" web pages. "Here is shit I am into ... and here's a rocket made from a 5 gallon water bottle and liquid nitrogen."
I see what you are saying but I'm having a hard time understanding why there is a prerequisite to "take away ... privileges" in order to ensure individual rights are being protected. I guess I just wouldn't use the word "privilege" to describe something that is an impediment to protecting the individual rights of any individual.

I realize that "privilege" is a very overloaded word these days so perhaps I'm just not understanding its use in this context.
Well, it's nice that the author is considering the costs compared to the benefits drawn from doing something "just because".

I don't think the article does a convincing job of arguing that releasing behind feature flags would be much easier to maintain than a staging deployment, though.

For making this consideration, it'd be worth seeing why the costs can't be lowered, why the effectiveness of staging can't be increased, or what cases might be difficult to handle with feature flags.
The site is asking $25 to read the paper. This isn't a very accessible story, is it?
Powerful post. Unfortunately no potential solutions are explored. Ideas? Is it a matter of figuring out how to shift/part wealth from the ultra wealthy of the world? Or develop a means of building wealth at lower costs? Of course limited land is still an issue. Even if you got cheap land in a remote area, you're likely to be disconnected from the world without running water, electricity, and internet.
A lot of people believe that the year of the "maker FPGA" is upon us, and that the only thing holding it back is bad vendor tooling, so there's a lot of HN posts about them as of late. The vendor tooling is bad, but more than anything, the use case just isn't there.

Given, this is just my opinion on the matter, so take it with a grain of salt.
Thanks for sharing this. It really warmed my heart.
Content, no. Ads, when it really counts ($), yes.
CS520 Notes – Knowledge Graphs
Brazil is doing a similar bank-agnostic system called PIX. Kinda interesting how in the previous thread where I mentioned it a lot of people were against it because it was "not competitive" while here I'm seeing (mostly) praise for UPI.

IMHO, this is how it should be, a bank-agnostic standard set by the central bank that other services use to connect to the central and with each other. Competition is good? Yes, but not when it's a complete mess.
How are you going to change the laws? It's the same problem.
Dan Gackli, are you really a blithering unstrung archead or, more likely, a paid shill of the nefarious Anaphoric League? I KNOW I'LL BE DOWNVOTED FOR THIS but discussion of pronomial syntactic sugar is unNILable proof HN has turned into /r/lisp.

(as penance for the above: I was once told the Reed College student handbook contained a sentence saying the trouble with psychedelics is that one will be tempted to contemplate grand questions such as "what is love?" or "are there a finite or infinite number of gods?" when one is in a mental state completely unable to adequately address petty questions such as "what is toothpaste?" or "where is my left foot?")
Invite list? In 2020, really? Startups need to start letting people in without needing an account or at least not a pre-registration
I actually prefer Twitter than MSFT

After all, they had Vine back then
I remember when I saw Parallela, I thought it might have interesting applications for low-cost, low-power, embedded ML applications.
The alternative is what's done already: debt score penalty. And demanding payment for debts without harassment.

It's not hard.
> UPI is unreliable

I have made thousands of UPI payments, make at least 1 payment daily, and never has a payment failed after telling me it has succeeded. I get an immediate fail/pass and that has never been wrong.

> I find Bank transfer like IMPS/NEFT more reliable than UPI.

I find NEFT to be very unreliable in the time it takes to complete the transaction.

I think the main driver of UPI adoption is the immediate nature. It is as fast or faster than transacting in cash. NEFT/IMPS etc need you to add payee, confirm addition using 2 factor, wait for 24 hours to get it unlocked, then the actual payment also takes at least a couple of hours, it doesn't work on weekends. UPI is literally 10 seconds from scanning QR code to the shopkeeper getting a confirmation on their phone. It takes more time to deal with cash!
And US tech companies will be the big loser, if the other countries are going to apply the same national security argument to themselves.

Who would they sacrifice then? Obviously, it will be the Big Techs.
having a database schema at all is the root of that problem. i wish people who are writing systems from scratch would reflect on whether they actually need an RDBMS or RDBMS-like schemas.

Everything I've worked on in the last few years would have been in far, far better shape if they had just started with a no-schema data management system like Bigtable and just adapted their backend code around its limitations.

Imagining you are safe because you are smoke-checking DML statements in staging is just begging for a week-long outage.
You can change your MAC address. I always thought this was permanent. Regus (OG wework) offices have finicky WiFi and one day it refused to connect to my laptop. Eventually I googled how to change MAC address and there was an ifconfig command.

Suffice to say I had to change my MAC address every week to fight their shitty system.
I saw no mention of fraud, or mishandling of mail-in ballots, or absentee ballots. The crux of the short article was not on voting fraud but on the new Postmaster DeJoy's actions that are being investigated.
This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )
You ate a decimal place: 77$/MWH per source is 7.7c/kwh, not 0.77. or 6.6k$/m2.
You want staging to be as close to production as possible, but obviously not exactly he same size.

If you spend 1M on production, you might have a staging environment 1/10th of that size. Say 10 machines in a cluster instead of 100. But some technologies also have minimum implementation cost requirements per tier of usage. Like if you have a multiple data centers in production, you will need to test that in staging. You can’t just have 1 machine in a cluster, so your staging environment needs at least 3 to make a quorum. Therefore, to have 5 data centers in staging, you now need 15 machines... which is more than the base of 1/10th of production.

Issues like that can balloon staging costs if you try to properly implement it.
I wrote the IBM software to count the undesirables for the final solution. I loved that job.
I'd love to understand your confidence in reducing the individual debt systems of thousands of cultures to a bland, two-point progressive analysis. What kind of debtor prisons were in place in 10th century Tekrur? What part about the biblical decree that no debt can last longer than 7 years without full forgiveness does a bankruptcy system improve on?

There's not much point in comparing modern, highly legalized forms of debt with the myriad much less formal systems of the past if you don't know much about them.
Depends on the business you’re in. Sometimes an “environment” is a rack (or 2) of servers and that might be 100k-400k/rack before space & power & bandwidth.
https://archive.vn/dgioh
Unfortunately nobody seems to be working on foss toolchain for those either.
Thank you! The problem is huge in scope, and there are many potential solutions (with lots of smart people debating them). Land scarcity and cost is a core part of the intergenerational wealth divide. There, variants of Georgism[0] are becoming more popular, but the debate is far from settled. In some places, legislators are setting up incentives (taxation, benefits to owner-occupiers rather than landlords, etc.) to correct these market issues. Effects of such recent legislation in Germany and Vancouver, for example, appear to be productive.

Regardless, I'm just trying to draw attention to the fact that a lot of current lifestyle trends are coping mechanisms to deal with poverty, no matter how good the Instagram pictures look.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Alternatively, charge them appropriately. I billed at double rate with an one hour minimum for unscheduled phone inquiries. Nothing makes you rich or stops their misbehavior faster than sending a $200 bill for a 2-minute call that was essentially "did you see my email?"

Special feature requests were tied to minimum spend contracts.
I’ve used this trick in the past. More than a few times the bad customer tries to quickly do a 180 and be superficially apologetic to prolong the relationship. Unfortunately, behaving in this way, at least in their minds, represents an effective strategy for getting what they want. I’d be curious to hear what others have done in these cases? Raise prices even more? Refer to competitors?
It's a good thing. It should get the defaults right first before rushing into plugins. Webpack had everything delegated to plugins without a single sane default for years which only contributed to its complexity. As thebiggest example: it had a several-thousand word article on consistent caching that used three different plugins for three or four years before that became default behaviour in version 5.

I, for one, welcome a future of build tools without plugins.
Sure, you don't have to go out of your way to challenge your type system, but it still means that you're a single typo away from sending your compiler and yourself on a wild goose chase.
I love UPI and it has proved to be a boon in this time when I am scared of touching cash. It's very fast, easy and quite reliable in my case. In Bangalore, it works literally everywhere. From the smallest shops to big supermarkets. Many small shopkeepers even discourage me from paying in cash.

But people need to realize one aspect of UPI that it is exactly as unsafe as cash. Would you send cash to someone over the phone for accepting delivery of a product later? No. So don't do that with UPI.

Use UPI when it would be appropriate to use cash, when you're standing face to face with the seller. Just think of it as more convenient cash. Otherwise, it is ripe for exploitation by thieves.
Nightly has been this way for quite a while now.
I’m going to make the Reuben Dip and will be back for more. You really should at least add some quick CSS, color and friendlier fonts, would’ve impressed her more. Get some use out of the domain!
It's getting tougher than ever to disrupt the previous industry disruptors. How does one compete these days?
Does that suggest validity?
A startup I know was basically killed by this (COVID was the main cause, but this was a large straw that absorbed a ton of time just before the pandemic).

Over a month was spent caving to every inane request of this one customer and the only reason they did it was because the customer was willing to pay $250 and they were the first non-institutional paying customer so they were obsessed with getting it right.

5 figure a month contracts that were soon to start but paused due to the pandemic went unserviced so that large parts of the product could be rewritten to serve this one person as though they were the expert on what non institutional customers wanted. And in the end they wanted nothing more than a custom Craigslist type of ad, just with their own custom style and everything.

Could have spent that month protecting the large contracts.
I've looked into open source voice assistants before. I found mycroft, Jarvis and a few others, but either got bogged down in dependencies or configuration. Many supported shipping your data to Google or Amazon if you configured it, or an open source voice recognition tool.

I hate this idea that our voice has to be shipped somewhere to be processed. I remember a lot of the speech-to-text tools in the early 2000s weren't all that great (they needed a lot of training), but why haven't we been able to advance on-device processing? Why is everything done in "the cloud."

So the only way to semi-accurately do voice recognition is to source algorithms that re-train off of millions of people? We have processors in our desktops and laptops that dwarf that compute power by leaps and bounds. We should be looking to Star Trek TNG level voice processing, on each individual device, without some central mainframe.

But marketing, advertising revenue, data mining, free (as in beer) software that pumps your data like an oil rig, efficiency in data centre (cloud) design .. all these factors have led to these powerful little Intel/ARM/Ryzen chips to be nothing more than thin clients when they're not playing games.

If Mozilla really wanted to make something amazing and in the spirit of Firefox, give us an experiment where voice processing is done on our devices. Even if it meant I needed to download a 230GB data set, I'd gladly do it, if it could remotely help in getting away from these data silos.
I got fed up with Python when I found out that xarray couldn't support unitful quantities. In Julia, it just works. In Python, it turns into a massive project due to duck-typing & single-dispatch. It's been 5 years and xarray still doesn't have units, although it's getting close.

Julia's equivalent to xarray: https://github.com/JuliaArrays/AxisArrays.jl

Original issue explaining the problem: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/525

Latest issue detailing the work: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3594
This is what many load balancer or firewall appliances contain
It's interesting to see how NASA has been slowly being privatized via these contracts. People used to be rooting for NASA and now they are rooting for a company that at the end of the day, will do as they please with the technology developed. Americans seem to prefer small government and 'offshore' everything to for-profit companies. In the future, what stops an American company from one day abandoning the USA to another country and leaving the USA without the infrastructure to do space travel anymore? (not familiar if there's regulation in place to stop this?) Or maybe this would just cause the price to rise in the USA for the same services.
Believe T singned a bill for medical bill transparency this year.
Apple was ahead of its time.
It's kinda sad how the U.S. perceivedly went from conquering space and innovating to getting stuck having basic discussions about climate change, flat earth, vaccination and the effectiveness of face masks.

I know it's all on the surface, a vocal minority if you will,and that great science continues to exist and innovation is ever so strong but boy would scientists from the 50s be disappointed if they were to look at the public discourse these days.
DeOldify is going quite good job on old photos: https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
If you follow the link to the course's page at Stanford, you can find videos and slides from all the sessions.
Heh, it accidentally ended up type punning.
> For all the non-exempt countries, i.e. for most of the world, there is obligatory quarantine on your own dime. Unless your job allows you to work from home, that's a substantially larger financial penalty than the fine you suggest.

Aaand.. quarantine based on trust in people is eventually going to be ineffective. "Traveling fine" was a minor point, the major point was forced, guarded quarantine upon entry.

I mean, you can go out of a plane, go to a party next day instead of placing yourself in quarantine, infect several people, and.. nothing is going to happen to you. You could and should be prosecuted by "smittevernsparagrafen" but that most likely won't happen even if you somehow DO get identified as the source of the infection.

> Oh come on, this isn't China.

The way people have been partying lately around the country only proves that people can't even uphold simple rules and that a strategy based on trusting that people aren't going to behave stupidly is eventually going to fail.

> Then you are probably also aware that the idea is that the whitelisted countries have a low enough case rate that the authorities believe that closing the border to those countries has little effect.

The large infection cluster that has been brought to Norway this winter came from an Italian ski-resort that has been in a region that would be considered "green" today. The authorities' beliefs contradict concrete evidence.

> This may or may not be correct, but you seem to try to view the situation as negatively as you can.

Well... I look at people's behavior and there need to be real, tangible consequences for "unwanted" / irresponsible behavior.
Not every system scales along the monthly active users axis.
The market for face masks is probably enormous right now but the information out there on which ones to buy is anemic. I assumed this was because masks were such a commodity that it didn't really matter which ones you bought, but this article shows otherwise. Even just among the cotton ones there is quite a difference.
My frustration comes from the sentiment that supposedly everyone with a can-do attitude can learn Quantum Mechanics (which is addmitedly quite easy to grasp after you have had years and years in studies of the whole physics curricula) It makes physics sound SO easy! I fell for that lie when I was inspired by my physics curriculum in high school which was quite advanced. I dropped out of physics after just 1 semester, because the courses where horrible. I have learned physics in my engineering school and I finally understood what the problems were I was facing: I had approached my physics studies the same way I was learning physics in high school.

Inspiration is an illusion, an illusion is a lie, it's concealing the thruth. The physics faculty, instead of taking the realistic approach aka "forget everything you know about physics", had chosen to reinforce the sentiment that everybody can do it. In truth, the faculty needs numbers of students to get grants from the government. The faculty doesn't care about your inspiration. Many of the books she lists I actually do possess and have read them partially, watched a lot of lectures. But nothing can replace how the learn that stuff, how to translate it so that it fits in your own head.

Since then, all I read when I see "If Susan can do it, so can you!" is in actuality "If Susan can do it, good for her, moving on!"
Isn't this the reason why it is called Rome? In JavaScript history, we are past Babel (and the Greek city states) and a centralized tooling will allow for an unprecedented language economy?

Constantinople and Moscow are waiting, as well as Venice and London. A plugin system that wants to incorporate everything will risk having to maintain Byzantine diplomatic relations. On the other hand, restricting the plugin system to its core will create a local powerhouse that will utterly fail to adapt once new ventures become available.

I am waiting for the TypeScript / JavaScript split.
Did you have a prior agreement for that? I'm not sure if it's either legal or ethical to do that without prior agreement, no matter how difficult they are.