skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follow the link in "Digital Trust Standards" to the "Criteria for Security and Trust in Telecommunications Networks and Services" (https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publi...). Political & Governance Criteria numbers 8 and 9 would seem to present problems for companies in the UK and US, both of which require suppliers to cooperate with the government in secret and unchallengeable ways.
Yeah that's what's really annoying, I can't contact support to figure out if the charge is legit or not. So I can either eat the cost or file a charge back and potentially deal with a bigger fallout on my other accounts that I have with Google. It's a shitty situation either way.
Can we realistically implement these in the near future? Will this not function as a stop-gap in the meantime while we do work on your (better) solution?
Could you please point me towards said research?
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Hey there Happy Monday. Each week Productivize is something I look forward to as it gives me an opportunity to push my product thinking further and provide value to you all. Thank you for reading and learning with me

https://productivize.substack.com/p/productivize-issue-6
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> Whoa, I don't think it's safe to say that it's done anywhere. Just look at Melbourne, for an example of an outbreak in a country that supposedly had COVID19 under control.

In Melbourne, they shut down in an attempt to stamp out COVID, keeping people from catching it, leaving a large population still prone to infection.

In Sweden, they did not. Their goal was not to stop people from catching COVID in Sweden, it was to let it happen at a rate they could manage, and treat people who caught it to the best of their abilities. That's why they aren't at risk of a second wave, but countries that shut down are at risk of one until a vaccine can be deployed to a herd-immunity level of the population. Sweden is there already.

Sweden is likely the only place on Earth it is safe to say it's done.
I agree that M4A should be adopted, but disagree that not adopting it is hurting Biden. He's doing spectacularly in both state polls and national polls. Back in Spring this could have been ignored, but the election is less than 3 months away now and he has managed to not just retain his lead, but increase it. There's no reason to rock that boat now with major policy adoptions, in my opinion.

For what it's worth, if Dems manage to gain control of the Senate, then I think President Biden will sign anything that is put in front of him, including an M4A bill. Not doing that would actually cost him the 2024 election.
Funnily enough, like British Chinese and Indian food, fish and chips are likely a pseudo-fusion import (they're believed to have been invented by Sephardic Jewish immigrants).
A really good cup of tea after a heavy workout. The perfect way to start a day IMO.
And whenever a company - even overseas ones - request a check/cheque to "verify ownership" of a checking or current account.

I'm like -- what century do you live in? Since when a) is that an appropriate way to verify an account, and b) does anyone even use cheques anymore?! Most banks don't even issue them anymore and most people don't have them.
The Chinese has shown no interest in co-operating with the world. They are an enemy. What’s wrong with keeping them out of our internet when they have their own?

To put it another way; this is like allowing your enemy to design and manfacture your military jets.
Yes, actually Amazon has had this feature for awhile now. Although it is supposed to be enabled as you leave the house, no really telling if its on by "accident" or not.
I remember reading something somewhere that points out that Library Science is exactly about the skills to solve this problem: organizing, managing, and indexing large amounts of otherwise-unstructured data.

It strikes me that all the various "corporate wiki" services are really just trying to patch over the absence of staff dedicated to this role.
At least PDF doesn't bombard me with click walls and cookie disclamers so that I can actually read and scroll.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Guide to Fault Attacks (2004)
I can call my CC company and declare fraud and get the money back and a new card, but then I'd have to update all other accounts that use that specific CC and it's a shitty experience.

Being able to at least email google support would resolve this.
Google Stadia however is an interesting middle ground. To an extent it can be considered an interactive streaming service.

What if Netflix realises a movie where the user can decide different story lines? Would that infrange Apple policies too?
HN gets just as many left-leaning articles. When Jacobin stories appear here (or similar), we get comments exactly like yours complaining about how HN is overrun by $left-label.

We try to go by article quality, not site quality. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... I haven't read this article but the HN thread it led to is surprisingly good. Perhaps we got lucky this time.
An increasing percentage of wealth in the U.S. is created by systems and automation; individual people are no longer as competitive and this is reflected in lowered wages. The trend will continue.

People who can create systems and automation still have value but the economic machinery will optimize us out of the picture eventually. We're literally training our replacements with ML.

There's no rich CEOs or politicians to blame; we're part of an optimization process designed and evolved to find and exploit efficiencies and loopholes in the existing protective framework of government and cultural/social values.

The solution is to work together as humans to correct and augment the incentives of the current economic system. Economic growth and activity is only a shadowy proxy of human happiness and satisfaction.
The voters, for the most part, are treated as useful idiots [1]. The real constituents are the business community, which will make or break your candidacy, who not only vote, but more importantly, fund candidates in alignment their own self-interest.

Voting is actually the least effective means of democratic change (It is more effective then sitting at home, and complaining.) The second least effective means of democratic change is getting other people to vote. The most effective means of democratic change is picking the candidates that will be in the running - before voting happens - which can largely be done with dollars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Falkon.
We've been experimenting with Rally on/off for a while. A lot of other attempts at this try to replicate physical space for larger groups (avatars wit WASD controls etc.), and that seems unnecessarily ham-fisted shoving a 3D experience on a 2D screen.

Rally was the first one that felt natural, to leave and join a table, and for there to be a natural speaker "on stage".

Next it would be cool to see if we would hold these calls persistently so we can capture some of the serendipity of hearing conversations one table over when in person.

Kudos to the Rally team!
The whole premise of slack seems to be “let’s throw away everything we know about effective communication and try again”. That’s how we end up with threads nobody can follow, annoying bots and extensions you can’t mute, and a “knowledge store” that only works if you know who, when, and where something was said.

Every week I have to unsubscribe from the seventy channels and direct message groups I got involuntarily joined to.

If IRC could handle unreliable connections better I think it would absolutely trump Slack.
Which API did you use to do this? I looked into this a while ago but it looked like Android wasn't allowing programmatic access to airplane mode.
Don't we live in the world where we're free to speculate on pretty much anything?
Terraform 0.13 Is Available
I think you have a point here. When they say "DSP chip" instead of "DSP core inside the Snapdragon chip" it makes me wonder what else they got wrong. I don't think the oversimplified language is any more approachable here.

(As it happens I read the slides and this is a legit vulnerability but you'd never know it from the press release.)
I am a 62-year-old conservative white male.

Men can be pigs, for sure. I personally think that we need to return to the social standard of men simply acting like gentlemen, the way mothers used to teach them to act. That, minus of course, condescending attitudes toward women that were the norm for some.
I'm not sure about incentives from Uber, but the few drivers I talked to report at least twice the minimum wage, doing normal total hour amounts (more during the weekend, at night, etc). It also covers any benefits from minimum wage

I prefer advocating for Uber getting less % than forcing Uber to hire everyone and destroying cheap and convenient transportation

Cut Uber profits but don't force outdated labor rules on something that relies on cheapness to thrive

Driving for Uber isn't a career and shouldn't be legislated as one
Does anyone else feel like it is a HUGE miss that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy isn't included. :P
One tip that helped me a ton – if you're WFH, turn your former commute (or some % of your former commute), and force yourself to work out during this time. I started that at the beginning of COVID and without exaggeration it's been life-changing.

I put 0 pressure on myself to hit goals, I just run / do pushups / walk briskly, but I make sure to use the commute time on that rather than working more or browsing the internet.
Your conductor on this journey through the Unavailability Zone: the BOFH!
Refreshing to see something without so many dependencies.
Have fun dying early.
could someone give me a high school explanation of this?
Also on aircrafts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power
> tax hikes needed to make it work.

Crazy how when you word polls to indicate that taxes would be "hiked," that people get spooked. Never mind how we'd save money overall.

> Trying to pass off m4a as a feasible plan isn’t real

This is the real tragedy of the Bernie campaign. It wasn't feasible because it'd be spiked by Democrats in addition to Republicans. It's really heart-rending. You've got an entire voting base who simply can't imagine a better future where you're not squeezed for every cent, where you're not represented by people who are more focused on representing Pfizer, and where you don't have to be constantly in fear of accidentally getting cancer and, whoops, kids can't go to college now. Or say you catch a stray bullet, take an ambulance, and you're not covered--youre double fucked then.
Yes, I read all articles about the USPS the day they are published across a wide range of journals.

However, I'm simply looking for a direct, factual claim that supports that these firings were directly intended to slow down mail delivery so as to cause problems during the forthcoming election. So far all the claims I've seen are indirect; further, the PG has explicitly said they are prepared to handle mail-in votes during the upcoming election.

It's entirely unclear whether firing administrators (rather than mail carriers and postal office workers, etc) has a direct effect on mail delivery rates and accuracy in the short-term.
Still getting updates for my one plus 6. YMMV.
I think the "ship asap" is necessary for brand new startups. If you can't generate the user growth necessary to secure the next round of funding you'll be out of business, and that time spent writing the ideal code was not only a waste of time, but also a potential cause to the slow user growth. In its first year or so, until it receives enough funding to stabilize, it makes sense for a startup to give more weight to the short term than the medium term.

But once stabilized, and there's no immediate danger of running out of runway, things shift, and the medium and long terms become much more significant. But many startups fail to realize this; they've become too accustomed to the fast-paced, ship-asap mentality. Breaking from it seems to them a decline in productivity, where it's actually just a shift in priorities. There are a lot of contributing factors to this oversights, and they can vary from company to company, but it's continuing to prioritize the short-term is a dangerous act that usually serves neither the end user nor the business.
It's also a site that will happily send zerodays to your browser.
Adam Serwer summed it up fairly succintly: "The Cruelty Is The Point"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...
If Amazon ever builds a highly optimized robot for delivering packages, they could call it....

Optimus Prime
That might be jumping the gun a bit. Malice for the sake of malice is usually one of the least credible options.

Other valid possibilities:

- They don't agree with me on the first point.

- Someone followed an un-nuanced SOP.

- They expect a strategic benefit from this kind of attitude.

- People are making choices from a job-security perspective rather than a greater good (or even greater good of the company) perspective.

- ...
That takes care of all the low hanging fruit, then the real work begins. High cost and high benefit regulations are where it starts to get significantly more difficult to find the right balance. I would argue that if this balance doesn't at least lean towards the progress of long term environmental goals, then it is the wrong balance.
Funny enough, there is a text description on the woodcut itself. If you click through to the photo on Wikipedia I believe there's a translation in the description.

For the lazy: it's pure, unadulterated smut
Having worked at companies that use knowledge management software like Jive and Confluence I think I've found my favorite way to deal with this stuff. And the answer is Slack.

I slowly found myself searching Slack for answers and the search is pretty good. I'm sure deprioritizing older messages and posts is built in to the index algorithm but the messages are still there for if I need to go back that far.

I hate to shill for Slack but this is the closest thing I've found to a Stack Overflow/Google substitute for enterprise knowledge. I usually arrive at these conclusions through experience and test feedback loops.

Confluence I've found is tolerable for static documents like business requirements but the UI feels stuck in the early 2010's and isn't as usable as it could be. Google Docs and Sheets seem to suffer from discoverability issues at a bunch of the places I've worked at.
Look, 1 death is 1 too many. But let's step back for a moment from this "The world is ending" dialogue.

Global deaths as of 08/10 according to the John Hopkins' tracker is at 732k. It hasn't been a year yet, but lets say the world will be at 1.4mil by New Years Eve. Double the current at a 9ish month rate to a 12 month rate. Just for worst case scenario giggles.

That puts it roughly even with worldwide road injuries and under diabetes. A bit more than the amount of people dying from diarrhea. I said it in another post, 9+ million people die from heart disease due mostly from really poor diets and lifestyles (the fat, lazy kind more than the malnourished kind). And no one cared about any of those. If you're going to cry about the world is going to end, don't you think those would red flag for that sentiment first?

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/causes-of-de...

Modern medicine is fucking awesome. This could have been a death sentence for a hell of a lot more people. More people died in others pandemics and the world kept spinning. Let's keep that in mind. Hell, the sheer fact we have germ theory has fucking saved more lives than we can ever imagine. Yea, things are bad, but they're no where near as bad as they could be. If folks in history could see how we're emotionally reacting to our situation right now, they'd laugh.

Yes, don't be stupid, cough into your elbow, wash your damn hands (it scares me how many people did not wash their hands on a regular basis and admitted to that before all of this) but stop crying and pretending the world is going to end. That mentality doesn't help at all and you're equally the problem if you toot around "The end is near" like a hobo on the side of the road with a cardboard sign.
The answer is, of course, “it depends”, but let’s zoom out for a second.

No one buys software because they like software. People buy software because it’s solving a problem. Ideally they are buying the software because it’s the most cost effective way to solve the problem given their circumstances. (Just telling a human to go solve a problem for you is often the easiest, but very expensive way)

SaaS as a delivery model has advantages that either help make the solution easier or more cost effective. These can make it a better value than other types of software. For example:

- there’s nothing to install because I access it through a web browser. So getting started is easy

- there are rarely hardware or software requirements so the Potential audience isn’t limited

- the “state” and data is Usually stored in the cloud, so you can use the software from pretty much anywhere even changing machines and still have access to your data.

To be clear there’s are advantages with on premise software as well (data doesn’t leave the premises).

The question of what delivery model you should use needs to be entirely framed with what is the problem your customer needs to solve and what is the most cost effective and easy just way for them to solve it
There's a reason doctors drive nice cars and wear nice shoes; they are collecting monopoly rents. The doctors and nurses are the ones extracting the vast majority of the wealth from the ever-growing healthcare sector. The problem is that saying we want more, lower-quality doctors, and cheaper foreign ones to improve services and reduce our expenditures is politically unpopular.
Here is the effective tax rate paid by the top 1% going back to 1915.

It’s higher now despite the rate being lower now (because there were many more ways to avoid tax back then).

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/
And SpaceX did blow up a spaceship for human flight where they didn’t expect it to.
I hear you - thank you for the feedback. I've got similar feedback from devs who are liking XgeneCloud as well. We are in really early days of our journey - I promise to improve this flow by many folds.

The way it currently works is :

* Each new project has a folder in your filesystem where GraphQL API source code is generated on pointing to database! So when we generate APIs, we also generate source code for those APIs (node.js/express.js) behind the scenes. This is a big leap on how easy it becomes to customise APIs or put some business logic in them

* Thereafter, as and when a developer changes schema (add table, add column etc) - the underlying GraphQL code also gets updated automatically.

Here is a demo of generating GraphQL on postgres & GUI based schema design:

https://youtu.be/QEq3Mjbeelg

https://youtu.be/ETEEcY4mmEg

Feel to free reach out on twitter/Discord (in profile). Happy to help you get started.

edit: sentence corrections
They will definitely figure out a way to charge us more for hardware that is less reliable.
This is the C Standard specifying its VM to match the assumptions of a *nix environment. `main` isn't so special, IMO. Conformance to the C Standard is always optional, see C++, golang, Rust. However, conformance to ABI is less optional.
According to the WHO, the virus shows no signs of seasonal patterns[1]. This means that the spread and transmission of the virus doesn't change depending on the time of year. So which organization is wrong?

Also, I've seen many posts claiming something like: "Study shows recent protests with 300,000 ppl hanging off each other didn't cause spread of coronavirus". If you believe this (and I actually do btw), why do you think it will spread so easily in public, where basically everyone is wearing a mask and bathing themselves in hand sanitizer?

Not trying to incite an argument, I'm asking real questions that I feel people aren't asking themselves because it intersects with other aspects of their beliefs.

[1] - https://m.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-covid-19-shows-no-sea...
Bezos' asset wouldn't have increased in value so massively if he'd done things like paid his warehouse workers living wages.

It's not compensation in the "the company paid for my time" sense, but it sure affects the decisions that he makes as CEO.

(But yeah, for the original point about compensation, Bezos perhaps was a poor choice. I'm rolling with that decision.)
Most people aren't philosophers or social scientists, and their understanding of criminal science is based on their personal experiences with crime and punishment or their casual suppositions. This is why a trusted and high quality education is essential for a strong democracy.
Apropos of this, in TFA's case they apparently never tested "rip the battery out while the system is running". (There are other, harder-to-test ways for a battery to fail, but that seems like a obvious and easily-tested failure mode.)
Because he views the world transactionally and as a zero sum game, “America first” has to come at the expense of other nations. It doesn’t hurt that his benefactor feels threatened by NATO and was expelled from the G7
>What does Google expect customers to do here?

https://support.google.com/a/contact/admin_no_access

To the OP ( 'HelloThur ), this is the answer to your most immediate question. I found it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17120223

> Greetings. This is Alex Diacre here from G Suite Support. This has been flagged for my team and we’re looking into it. If any G Suite customer has trouble accessing their account they can always contact Google Cloud Support here: https://support.google.com/a/contact/admin_no_access (this is a special form to use when you cannot access any admin account)
Really i thought you have to pay some monthly fee but thanks for letting me know
I used to use isometrics pretty heavily. That style pretty much means you do not use much equipment at all. For me it was an old sturdy chair and a heavy couch to pin my feet under. Diet for weight, exercise for strength. I used good portions of the Charles Atlas program. I skipped his diet as I was not looking for body building. Just kept myself under my 1100 caloric number (varies on height and age). Just wanted some strength and not be fat.
Well "what's going on in the background" is exactly what's being discussed here. End users will never be exposed to any of it.
I'll come back and respond after work, or you can email, address is in the profile
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver?
>From what I understand, they are piggy-backing too - and we have broadband speeds here, not broadband-like.

They're operating as a full mobile network that will also allow users of other operators to roam onto them - it's a lot more than just running a repeater.

This is the kit they're using as cells:

http://www.accelleran.com/products/e101/

>£2.25M! 3 years!

>I am struggling to see how “50 or so” masts could come to this cost. That’s £45k a mast.

That funding is not just for this project - the funding has gone to a consortium it's part of:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-65-million-package-fo...
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. There's obviously a lot of substance in a topic like this—an overwhelming amount really—and the idea of this place is to try not to collapse into the one or two pre-existing fixed points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow, didn't expect this post to blow up like this.

For reference, I have no 2FA, nor did I lose my corporate device. I've always accessed it through a web browser, never through a mobile, therefore when it asks me to verify with my corporate mobile device, I do not know what device it is referring to.