skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This shouldn't have been downvoted and here is why: there is a mad dash for liquidity by corporations who expect to have cash problems Q42020 through ??. You're seeing it in S1's, credit-line drawdowns and bond issuance.

An infrastructure bill was badly needed in Q2/Q3 to have impact in time. As it stands now it will hit too late and another round of USGOB aid will be needed by companies small and large. This will happen regardless the extent of fall and winter quarantine needs.

The inability of Congress and the White House to put politics aside is going to cost American workers and companies dearly. It will not have been worth the political gains either side expects.

There was never a time in this Country's history that bipartisanship was this needed, at least since WWII. The failure defies words because even in less critical times names like Baker, Johnson, Dole, Rayburn, O'Neill, Rostenkowski and others - some corrupt - put self-interest aside briefly to conduct the country's business.

We are to blame by the way. The HN community is comprised of many bright, successful and/or wise folks from all political spectrums. We're either caught in the partisanship, or we're silent and checked out.
I suspect in the end it's ... they can test development of this in Alberta because it's a locale which is super "business friendly" (read low taxes, low regulations). Doesn't mean it will ever actually get built, though.
I think that reality is more nuanced. Totalitarianism is type of government and in such a situation you have no choice over types of government so totalitarianism has no driving factor to ever work in your favor. Additionally they have control not over just your phone but your entire being which in the hierarchy of needs is significantly higher. However in a hypothetical environment where you can pick between multiple different totalitarian states and the totalitarian states have no control over your entire being (and cannot ever become so) the totalitarian states have to compete with each other to attract people to live under them.

On the privacy/data aspect, if Apple forced data to be uploaded to the cloud, I would care. If it was "privacy" where the "privacy" is protected by apple keys I wouldn't really call that privacy. However that's not what Apple does in general where it can avoid it.

For example, in the new iOS version they're adding offline language translation functionality rather than uploading your voice snipets to the cloud to translate them. This is substantially harder engineering problem than doing it in the cloud as it requires significantly more turning to run on a constrained platform like a phone. If Apple actually didn't care about privacy they'd do what basically everyone else does.
What do you think of the HashiCorp configuration language (HCL)?

Overall, I completely agree with you, but I do find that HCL seems to be a pretty good fit for what its used for (at least for Terraform, which I have more experience with than their other tools).

My little story was really just me dumping my thoughts after reading about Stevecode, as someone who made a little language (not a configuration language though) and isn't an argument for doing so at all. I'm definitely in favour of sticking with an existing format for configuration (personally, I like to use TOML or EDN for my own projects' configuration needs, or JSON if its not normally meant to be edited by humans) and even for scripting, normally I'd stick with Lua or Javascript. My language came into existence because neither of those was sandboxed in the way I wanted (it was also deterministic and guaranteed to halt as there were no unbounded loops).
Lots of my spending is online. Like everybody else, considering Amazon's success.
Congrats, I guess. But I don't really follow the how you connected beating captcha to raising money to build a coronavirus app. And that app, I don't even understand how it is going to be useful since majority of the texts is about unrelated captcha stuff
Thanks for sharing your experience. I also work on a free utility for macOS that I'm not paying $100 each year to release. As a result, macOS treats that app like it's radioactive.

It's a disservice to users who intentionally download the app to improve their experiences, only to find out that the program is a second-class citizen on macOS, and they need to perform a security ritual to use it. If the users don't know what the ritual is, to them, the app is just broken.

I recognize the writing on the wall, though. macOS isn't a platform to hack around on anymore, it's Apple's platform to extract rents from its developers and users. If your app or use case doesn't fit into that ecosystem, that's just too bad.
Provided you are not behind CGNAT then dynamic DNS is your way forwards here. My parents have a RPi for a phone exchange (RasPBX) and a pair of Yealink DECT handsets and BT Home for an ISP. A static IP is impossible.

I tie the Pi to my home router via OpenVPN and use https://freedns.afraid.org/ for dynamic DNS to send calls to. It has worked fine for four years now. The Pi runs a one liner from a cronjob every 15 mins or so. The TTL for the DNS entry is very short and the DHCP lease is something like 24 hours plus also I think it tends to renew the last one used reasonably reliably. I don't bother monitoring that. I could write the cronjob result to a local log I suppose.

More things can go wrong than the tiny window that might exist when the DNS might be out of whack. Don't let the lack of a static IP address get in the way.
Or most optimal spread peanut butter on slice of bread fold bread around banana like a hotdog bun.
Oversimplifying, after some years without cases, you change from the oral (attenuated virus) vaccine to the injectable (totally inactivated) vaccine, to solve the risk of the vaccine derived cases.
No your observation is correct. Japanese people have many credit cards but also pay a lot in cash, and small restaurants for example do not accept cards.

So they are now in the absurd situation where they do not have enough credit card numbers, but still many shops do not accept card payment.

(I edited my previous comment for realism: it's more 5 cards/person than 15)
I know him a little. He's as-expected based on all the writings on him, as most people will tell you. He's weird. Works his ass off. "Good" to his employees if you're into the cult-ish like environment he's about.

Completely tanked DT Las Vegas project, but that was easy to call. Way out of his skillset.

A pretty good guy I think. Always followed through with promises to the best of his abilities, never did me wrong. Just a weirdo. Which ain't so bad.
I wish there was a law saying something like "If you sell a machine that claims to do X, it does X, no exceptions."

This "We'll let you develop software for OUR X out of the goodness of our heart as long as you promise not to do Y and pay us Z" BS really gets under my skin.

lol I have a feeling everyone here will hate me for saying that though.
This story is ridiculous for another reasons. I worked for card payment (implemented credit card terminal application, internalized couple thousand pages of requirements).

Credit card numbers are assigned by payment organizations in the form of prefixes (BINs -- https://binlist.net/, https://www.bindb.com/bin-list.html)

The worst that will happen is that Visa/Mastercard will issue more BINs to those organizations. There isn't going to be a shortage of credit card numbers.
I think the difference is that all those programs are run by the government using data the government owns. The LAPD is going to scan license plates and analyze the data whether Palantir helps them or not. Palantir does not by itself collect or mine data, which could be better or worse depending on how much you trust your government.
With HSTS and preload it should mitigate the vulnerability.
The ability to buy other hardware devices to avoid one company's control is not a real solution. Besides that, all the major vendors are trying to push you to buy things in their controlled gardens/app stores. Instead of buying more devices (practical maybe for rich computer programmers) how about we just prevent vendor purchase lock-in. I should be able to run or buy or sell to end-users whatever software I want on my devices.
Relevant related article:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/11/sharecropping-in-the-clou...

Maybe one day there’ll be alternatives, you’ll be able to buy and own books and read them on devices like the Open Book:

https://itsfoss.com/open-book/

In the meantime I’ll be sticking with old paper books.

On the downside they take up a lot of space (but I guess that’s why we have public libraries, charity shops and second hand book shops.)

On the upside they have a great battery life.
mmh, I see your point. audio/video rooms could be messy is none is actually moderating the quality or the responses. What if somehow you could lock the capacity of those rooms to make it of high quality for your interactions?
In a previous YCNews discussion of this topic, I worked out based on public Root DNS statistics that this traffic amounts to at most a few gigabits spread across hundreds of DNS servers, each of which has at least a gigabit connection.

Notice that all of the breathless articles going on about how evil Google is are using percentages, not absolute numbers?

This is because journalists don't do journalism any more, they just put their name on corporate PR that is intended as a weapon in a war for control.
I know for earnings reports the SEC uploads XBRL documents to EDGAR. Weird that they don't do the same for S-1s.
Ask HN: Have you built a front end app with Svelte?
I'm not a frontend guru but out of necessity I do a lot of frontend work. I primary use React (and increasingly Next.js where it makes sense) but I'm intrigued by Svelte. It looks very interesting.

Have you built a frontend app with Svelte? How did it compare with React? I would guess the dev tools aren't as mature. Did it scale well with complexity? Any gotchas you ran into?
The Saudi funded Hyperloop project should be a good litmus test for Hyperloops around the world. It's ideal: across flat land, no mountains / tunnels, lots of money behind it.

Not sure how far along they are in construction though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49096675
Are you saying that reading an answer to an old question is time consuming?
No, Faceboook removing it's app from the appstore does not constitute an issue with anti-trust.
If you're referring to the fact DOE controls our nuclear arsenal, then sure. Not a lot else at DOE directly contributes to national security that I'm aware of.

They sure do fund cool basic science research though.
Tolino is also an alternative: https://mytolino.com
The Dropbox syncing feature appears to only be a feature of the Forma model.

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033830114-Add-boo...
We could use nfc or some other protocol for submitting online payments via the physical card. This should help reduce fraud. Each token could be randomly generated based on some data stored in a chip on the card, time, etc.
In the US retailers don't want to lose customer tracking they can do with fixed card numbers. This is why you see nonsense like "Kroger Pay" and other store specific payment apps. The hardware exists in nearly every terminal that supports EMV (Chip and pin/signature), the retailers just haven't turned it on.

Meanwhile, with my Samsung phone and its mag strip emulation, I can use my phone nearly everywhere anyway even if the store doesn't want to support NFC.
Intuitively, I'd expect a substantive difference between a "we've just got to get through this and everything is fine" power outage - complete with cookouts! Can't let what's in the freezer go to waste - and the calendar-melting, interpersonally isolated anxiety hell and economic collapse, then un-collapse, then maybe collapse again? of COVID. Power outages also have much precedent in the living memory of the US, crucially including that things really will go back to normal again - while pandemics lack any such cultural familiarity. Just that uncertainty all by itself I'd expect to depress birth rate somewhat, nine months hence. (Not to mention, how do you even social distance in bed with somebody? If you're married or live-in partners, then sure, but I have to figure booty calls have plummeted lately, and that's also not a pattern you'd expect to see in a blackout.)

All in all - yeah, people have time on their hands in both cases, but they're not otherwise very comparable, and I feel like, in the much higher-anxiety environment of the latter, it's considerably less likely that people will opt to pass some of that time by boning down - and on top of that, safety measures foreclose a considerable range of opportunities for doing so in the first place. That said, we'll know pretty well one way or the other by probably January or February, so for anyone not trying to front-run the diaper and formula markets, the uncertainty of the moment is probably fairly bearable.

Fwiw, some Brookings economists found not wholly dissimilar reason to predict a very measurable bust, along with an interesting aside on rates of conception during and around the various waves of the 1918 flu. I don't know whether I entirely buy their analysis, but it's at least not absurd on its face; make of it what you like. https://www.brookings.edu/research/half-a-million-fewer-chil...
Wouldn't the Luhn algorithm checksum [1] limit the available digits? It is specifically there so a one-off error doesn't result in a charge going to a valid other account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
The only real solution to being able to do things the Japan way is to increase the number of digits.

Think of all the extra information we could encode in the number!

They also cannot ask for an extra prefix, since all their forms and systems assume the same prefix is used everywhere.

(Note, I have no idea if this is actually the case, I’m just extrapolating from my experiences here)
> which is the opposite

Huh? Are you saying that my source claims that chewing ice causes anemia?
American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. vs. Aereo, Inc
still far below historical highs if you are being taxed at that marginal rate.
Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'
Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving.
> Not sure why you're getting downvoted

It was downvoted already before I got here, but I personally loathe "obligatory simpsons/xkcd/etc" and "does/did anyone else <irrelevant thing>?" meme noise comments in article discussion threads. Probably others dislike it too and consider it an "etiquette violation", as you put it.
At some point the platform has to be considered common infrastructure, similar to power transmission lines, the railroad or the Windows OS. Just because you happened to build a successful platform should not imply that you can hold everyone hostage - that is why antitrust is a thing.
Ask for Forgiveness or Look Before You Leap?
That's pretty cool. I deal with a system to collect fees for financial advice. It's boring and provides no real societal benefit. I can't wait to quit.

I'm not sure what measurement would say I'm worth anything.
Or just reuse them eventually. Wake the number up again for another very specific transaction.
Google Cloud Workflows – orchestrate services into serverless workflows
That The Nation article seems to be implying that Gates is dodging his civic duties to pay taxes and support nice things like public infrastructure, but at the same time he's also avoiding paying for terrible things like funding the military which bombs things like weddings and Médecins Sans Frontières hospitals.

Gates has done some shady things in his day, but I can't fault him for that one. His fortune is a drop in the bucket of the federal budget, but being able to control and target his charity makes a hell of a lot of difference in the world. It's not like the federal government was going to cure polio in Africa, but for a few billion more dollars in tax revenue.
Interviewed there for an internship way back. It's basically a cult. I was relieved to find out other companies to be expectedly normal after having Zappos be my introduction to the professional world.
I just turn off the Kindle's wifi unless I actually need it.
They would need to EOL over-the-phone payments to do this. People have horrible diction and it's hard to tell the difference between b, c, d, and e when a particularly lazy lipped person says these letters (in addition to non-hex letters like g, p, t, and v). Then they use their own ambiguous phonetic system (b as in ball, c as in call, d as in doll will confuse anyone trying to distinguish between the three). Oh and this compounds on ambiguous sounding digits like 13 and 30; 14 and 40; 15, 16, 50 and 60; 17 and 70; 18 and 80; 19 and 90). It can't be done with DTMF digits anymore either.

All in all not a bad direction to go in. I wouldn't really miss phone payments.
Squeak Smalltalk on a PostmarketOS Cellphone
>the main reason to use Firefox over Chrome on mobile is

>the extension support, and now that's gone too

That's not quite accurate.

From "Firefox for Android upgrade FAQs" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-android-upgrade...

Supported add-ons (note: currently, a limited number of Recommended Extensions are supported.

Here's the list:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?recommended...

Things like uBlock-Origin etc are there, so I'm happy.
> Not for me.

So would Apple be better off serving you or the general population? I think the numbers speak for themselves.

> I think I know: You would gladly trade the freedom of the general population for security.
If so - I'm sorry to hear that. If not, maybe you should think about what you're saying because you're on the wrong side of the debate.

Yes because when the founding fathers came up with the phrase they were referring to the “freedom” to save a little money buying virtual currency to buy the Carlton dance in Fortnite.

You are perfectly free to buy an Android device. Most people would gladly choose some type of assurance that they could install video conferencing software and not have a secret web server installed that they don’t know to delete (ie Zoom)
"In 2009, Zappos was acquired by online behemoth Amazon.com Inc. for 10 million shares of Amazon stock"

Stock went up 30 times since then. I wonder many shares he kept.
Sure, but if the book you're looking for is only available on Kindle and your eReader is not a Kindle, then the conversion is better than nothing.

I've found some O'Reilly ebooks only available on amazon in the format "Kindle Edition" (ie. KFX). Pretty aggressive market strategy from amazon given EPUB3 is the technical standard, but there you have it.
> but he fucked america first

I dunno: He played a crucial role in a long-term, industry-wide collaboration that resulted in practically every household having at least one computer. And for years he's been devoting his fortune and his intellect to solving global-scale problems. That has gotta be worth some redemptive value for past sins, yes?
This is never going to happen as a project. It's a vanity project because there is no reason to replace low-traffic freeway with mass transit where inclement conditions are common.

>Not sure why you're getting downvoted, downvoting isn't for disagreement, it's for etiquette violations, etc.

Whence do you draw this justification for upvoting and downvoting?

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
> a funny ownership dance

Oh well ok then, they don't do any data collection or mining, they just sell the tools to empower three-letter agencies to do it more effectively. Conscience is clear then!
> These financials are awful for a software business.

That's cuz they're not. They are a hybrid services business that also sells "cloud computing". The are very comparable to Cloudera - they have a proprietary analytics platform that they then customize specifically for the workload. They then charge an implementation fees, on-going "maintenance", and a subscription fee for the "software" (which is basically a highly customized single tenant).

> Gross margin of 67%

Which is still better than IBM or any professional services firm could ever achieve from the government.

> If you add these pilot costs to COR, you'd get better numbers manufacturing furniture.

If you added S&M costs to revenue attributed to a multi-year subscription fee, you'd be called an idiot. Hence why they are probably not in there (could be wrong...we don't know for sure).

I do not like Palantir in the slightest, but this assessment is kinda off.
Gatsby and Jekyll are technical tools. The audience of a CMS and the audience of a command line program to consume a file system directory of yaml are different people.

Additionally, something like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea is at the minimum required to even make that existing pain-in-the-ass workflow work.

Try updating your jekyll site from your phone without using GitHub, for example.
OP is the author of the post, in case that helps any.
The biggest thing I've missed is that pull to refresh doesn't work, and it's such a basic tiny little thing it drives me crazy every time it doesn't work.
Why would hyperloop need the same regulations as preflight security? Trains today do not have such regulations, and considering this would be a vacuum sealed vehicle with no chance of veering off course, it doesn't seem to be a great vehicle for a terrorist attack.
This is a good guide for the young aspiring entrepreneur as well as an autobiography. He made a self narrated audio version that I highly recommend. It adds depth to hear his story narrated in his own voice.
but the executable that is built with these optimizations is running on people's computers, not as a backend on google servers.. or am I missing something?
A dopamine deficiency will cause you to seek out more frequent reward. So if you find a way to make your brain recognize reward that is on your intended path, you win.
It does not place software creators at a lower payscale - all the software creators I know in academia are at the payscale level where they should be given their experience, however, all of them have a PhD or are in the process of getting one very soon.

My point is that it places outsiders (no matter if they're going to do software development or something else) on a lower payscale until they catch up on all the academia-specific factors of evaluation.

It's not a caste system between different types of activities, but rather a barrier of entry - in some sense, you have to start from 'level 1' no matter how much experience you have in other fields, so inexperienced people can join easily, but for senior/experienced people doing it is possible but costly.
It's often a requirement that non-devs be able to edit the website. WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking, or if you can afford to pay Wordfence $99/mo and take the time to make it reasonably performant.

Gatsby is not a CMS. It would be very nice to have a well-designed and supported CMS that is actually secure and efficient by default.

> How much more complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS and JS put it on a webserver."?

My favorite so far is the combination of WordPress and Gatsby in such a way that you get the worst of both worlds. E.g. building a single page requires creating 10-20 posts in WP, with zero ability to see what changes will look like without actually deploying the site. All this complexity instead of just setting rel="preload".
Perhaps you will then not be surprised that ChromeOS Linux kernel has been built with profile-guided optimizations for a long time.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/chromite/+/mast...
Not really sure what point you're trying to make, sorry?