skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you honestly say that you didn't think Airbnb or Uber sounded like a stupid idea?

Oh my God, Yes I definitely can say that I didn't think Airbnb or Uber were stupid. I had been hosting on Couchsurfing.org since 2004, 5 years before Airbnb first launched. I thought Airbnb was an amazing idea from day 1, and felt stupid for not thinking of it myself.

As for Uber, I had regularly been fucked by taxi drivers up until Uber came out. I used it the first day I could, and remember fondly how amazing the experience was when it first came out. That was when tipping was explicitly not required and the only option were the Black towncars.
#1 is a link to another place where you don’t answer the same question.

#2 if you can identity the police using ML, then you can use those identities for any legitimate purpose that a badge number would be used for, such as collecting evidence against them, and clearly doxxing is not the only thing you can do.
"Startups are hard."

They're even harder when your founders are an arrogant out-of-touch industry insider and a bureaucrat with no passion or insight for the market you depend on. That's why people are laughing. A bad idea is survivable. A bad leadership cadre is fatal, and both of them should know that by now.
I have seen in other comments that it can be changed with a simple majority with another prop, but if the legislature want to override the prop they need a 7/8 super-majority.
Citroen makes a 25k electric vehicle, with a $25/mo. lease, where you have an instrument panel you put your mobile, and sized from just 2 people.

GM decides 105k just short of an Escalade, prolly seats 6-8.

And I'm sure I will see them here in NY/Long Island, and just like every other car on the road, you'll see one person behind the wheel.
It pays so well to be the bad guy. I imagine this fact would be an extra sting to anyone that lost a loved one and there is nothing anyone can do in their lifetime to change the system to prevent it. Been this way since the dawn of time.
This is a solution to a problem of their own making.

OAuth transactions are "big" because they allow the use of RSA keys, which are large. The keys would be smaller if they were simply opinionated and mandated a specific cipher, such as Ed25519 that uses much smaller keys.

Protocols like SAML, OpenID, and OAuth aren't. They're not protocols at all. They're protocol parts thrown into a bag that everyone can pull whatever they like out of. They support way too many cryptographic primitives, and have far too many pluggable features.

Just yesterday I had to deal with an outage because a large enterprise ISV's SAML implementation doesn't support signing key rollover! You can have exactly one key only, which means after a key renewal all authentication breaks. You have to do big-bang coordinated rollouts.

That is typical of the kind of stuff I see in this space.

Everyone gets every part of these protocols wrong. Google does SAML wrong! Microsoft fixed one glaring security flaw in Azure AD, but neglected to back-port it to AD FS, because legacy on-prem security doesn't matter, right?

If Google and Microsoft can't get these things right, why are we working one yet more protocols that are even more complex!?
I think the most odd thing is the cheap hardware store greenhouses for outdoor dining that are shown. I guess those patio heaters don't really do the trick do they?
Humans Judge Machines
How would known usage data help you decide how urgently customers want to use a new feature that doesn't exist yet?
Cool, thanks!

I was actually just playing with Hyper for a few hours last night. Are you guys using async/await yet? Any suggestions for learning materials for async rust other than the standard stuff?
Let's say I grabbed the e1000 driver from Linux, how much of the Linux kernel would I end up re-writing (badly)?
"How dare you say Juicero was a stupid idea!"
> Apple has choices, legally. My problem is that they keep making the wrong choices.

Wrong according to you. I’m not going to argue either position here, but let’s be clear: what you see as wrong, others see as right.
I both think that opioids should be more legalized/available and that if people break the current law, they should face consequences for doing so. If we have a punishment/deterrence-based society, then it seems like the deterrent is not working well for many large corporations. Giving a fine that is a tiny percentage of their money doesn't seem to penalize the behavior much, and more importantly, may not lead to behavioral change. I believe some people need to be held criminally liable and go to prison to stop some of the harmful behaviors.

I think the challenge is that even if someone saves 100 lives, if they kill 1, they face criminal consequences. Maybe coming from the assumption we're supposed to do things to help people, I dunno.
> Rather than take the approach of a startup to validate their idea they went full steam ahead assuming they knew exactly what people wanted.

This is the big one for me. YC more than anyone pushes the idea to launch early, and validate. Raising a huge amount of money is fine, all the power to you, but hiring a ton of people off the bat, building your app in isolation of real users, and pouring gas on the marketing before ever launching is just asking to go out in flames
The Armenian-Azeri 'information wars'
Anything more than 150hp for a non-sports car is just silly.

I actually feel that the insane acc that Tesla makes normal for non-sport cars might be a safety hazard. There will probably be many "hits the acc pedal instead of brakes" accidents when they get more common.
Whats happening at Apple's spaceship? Is it empty?
Can I squat there?
>These are scientifically unsubstantiated claims but to claim that they are impossible is to go beyond the scope of the current science.

Proving things impossible is beyond the scope of _any_ science, that's just how epistemology works.

>How can you know that mind control is impossible?

I can't. I also can't know with absolute certainty that climate change is real, that the earth isn't flat, that vaccines work and don't cause autism or that bill gates isn't a satanist using covid pandemic to implant people with mind control microchips.

I have seen absolutely no evidence for any of it and all the believers seem to be absolute lunatics, so the chance of it being true are low enough that I'm pretty comfortable with acting like I know it for certain.

>If you were truly capable of it, would you advertise it?

Well, I'd say writing about your experience with your abilities in a book certainly counts as a form of advertisement! I also don't really see what there'd be to worry about if it's true that these powers could simply be learned.

>But all that aside, it's not really about believing or not believing in whatever the claims are.
>Whether or not you become a pyromancer is actually not important, most of these disciplines actually discourage these things even though they believe in them.

Sure, they might see it like that, but I don't think it makes sense for anyone else to view it this way. If someone is either lying or deluding themselves, I think that's pretty important information to consider! If someone is, say, an anti-vaxxer that doesn't mean everything they're saying is false, but it certainly makes it seem pretty reasonable to dismiss what they're saying until they've provide some actual evidence.

Similarly, why shouldn't I be skeptic of people who are claiming supernatural powers while not being able to offer any evidence? Especially because they're not making it clear where knowledge ends and religion begins, possibly because they themselves don't know.
Yeah I definitely sit strongly in the former camp (that is, navigation should be in the same tab for anything that is your content).

When linking externally or to something that isn't yours, I feel it makes sense to go to a new tab then.

> someone did make a claim, that I was unable to verify, that modern users don’t use the back button and therefore relying on it to allow users to find their way back is unacceptable

I think this person is projecting their own experiences. Would be interesting to see the impact that mobile browser experiences have brought to these interactions, but for instance Android has a literal OS wide back button. I think that claim is a pretty far stretch.
it makes more sense in the frame of the original AB5 being passed with a massive margin, so a slightly higher margin was included to prevent an immediate reversal by the legislator.
Currently the only two child comments to your comment mention the requirement of 7/8ths in agreement for legislative amendment and say that this is ridiculous. I just finished reading an article saying that most ballot measures do not allow for legislative amendment at all.

Who knows what to believe anymore. I don't live in California anymore so I have no vested interest in the politics there. Let this be a lesson to not believe everything you see on the internet.
Very likely both.
Yup. If you can't host a webserver from your home IP, that's one less thing your ISP needs to worry about taxing their network. It's sad the incentives just aren't aligned for a decentralized internet.
Some SW can simply be run in a VM and you can do anything you want on the host computer and activate and deactivate passed devices.
First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
While you're clearly in pain and vindictive for lack of access to effective treatment, putting "crisis" in quotes like it's a manufactured epidemic with no real impact is extremely disingenuous.

In 2018 ~130 people died every day in the US overdosing on opioids[1]. I'm sure they're effective for you but if people are not responsible enough to be trusted taking them without killing themselves then you might as well be arguing to legalize heroine for treatment as well. It would probably be even more effective.

And for the record I do think it probably should be legal for treatment anyway.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...
No. It came not following standard practices to prevent contamination. Multiple plants had contamination and three people died.
Yes, but did you read that huge HN thread about political activism in the workplace? Maybe this is just Ubers "mission", and if you are not on board, to hell!
“make doctors more comfortable with using them” is a bit of an understatement.
On the other hand, I'm hoping this kind of thing allows Sidecar to work on Macs logged into VPNs.
Sorry if I was unclear. I'm not asking what the difference is; I'm asking (semi-rhetorically) why the former is acceptable and the latter not.
Please use the original titles as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The article's title is "San Francisco officials vote unanimously to ban racially-motivated 911 calls". The submitted title "[...] makes it hate crime to call police" changes the meaning.
In this context are you saying that paying tax is a donation by the taxpayer/employee to the government?
Can also try out "hydranol" or "dihydral ether".
Markdown is plaintext, because of e-mail, which works best as plaintext. A plaintext format is much easier to write consistently, without issues like invisible formatting [0] (which will bite you when editing), or Microsoft Word’s decision to make your ordered-list markers bold because some part of the previous line or this line is bold (and I’m almost convinced the algorithm for that is closely linked to rand()).

[0]: https://xkcd.com/2109/
Wait... the repository states that the source code is under the GPLv3. Doesn't the App Store disallow apps that are under the GPL, or is that a myth?
Interesting, I wonder why they used x86 emulation and didn't just run ARM binaries on it.
This is a misleading headline. It is part of an $8.3B settlement.

Edit: I should have read the whole article. The $225M is against the $11B the family has siphoned from Purdue.
Well technically there is. It may run afoul of Apple’s guidelines. An app can play a silent sound in the background.
I think state governments go after large purchases, like (pricy) wedding rings, aircraft, cars, or anything like that simply because that's where they'll get the biggest return.

It might be an urban legend now, but I've heard of a soon-to-be-married couple purchasing a wedding ring in Portland, OR, and making several trips from SF to Portland. They took photos of the ring at typical Portland attractions (Mt. Hood, Multnomah Falls, food carts), and did that for several months. Doing that, after adding up all the flight/hotel tickets, was still cheaper than buying the ring straight up in California.
I didn’t know that. (But I just looked it up and you’re right.) At the time, it was a secret, so as far as the world new, “Switched on Bach” was created by a man named Walter Carlos. The public didn’t know about Wendy until many years later. But, from a scholarly point of view, you don’t go back in time and change the names of authors. You generally refer to the author’s name as it was at creation.
Have you tried meditating?
Going for a walk?

Do things to practice being alone with your own thoughts, and when you do, don't identify with them just... observe.
I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure there are things I'm not seeing but I think the loophole here is that as of right now, because of the emergency stay on AB5, drivers are independent contractors and not employees so this might not apply.
Big Pharma is an easy villain to hate (and there's a lot to hate) but why aren't the doctors who prescribed all these drugs being held accountable as well?
Other fun stuff you can do:

- Easy weighting for observations (just put a weight in front of the corresponding term in the sum)

- Identify and isolate sufficient statistics (by breaking up the summation until you've got terms that only contain data, no parameters)

- Just add a quadratic term and pretend it's kinda Gaussian now (esp. fun if you pretend one of your parameters is generated with a Gaussian process).

- Take the expected value of it w.r.t. some other distribution (Cross entropy / Variational Bayes)

- Pretend the negative log probability is a Hamiltonian and add some momentum + kinetic energy terms (Hamiltonian MC)

- Same but skip the kinetic bit and pretend it's a thermodynamic ensemble (information field theory)

- Same but perform a Legendre transformation to get the Effective action / Free energy (ends up being the same as the KL-divergence)
At least one or two order of magnitude more systems are using unikernels or rtos rather than a full-blown os. You can write a small scheduler even for a small 8bit microcontrollers (avr).
The main purpose of the unikernels or small rtos are handling multiple running contexts (aka threads or tasks). I wrote several smaller kernels for embedded sytems, before starting threos.io .
It's much easier to handle multiple tasks.
ex. one of our project was a wireless voting terminal, one task handles the communication (RF) interface (protocol, error correction etc.), the other handles the user interface (buttons leds etc), and one task is handling the vote application program or logic. The tasks are communication over message passing. All of this running in a cortex-M3 with 8k-32kb ram.
A more common example are wireless RF modems (WIFI, GPRS, GPS, Bluetooth etc.), nearly every RF modem uses some kind of unikernel or rtos.
This has nothing to do with citizens united.
the one that results in more money I would imagine
I think that maybe then you too should be mad at the Sacklers.

They intentionally and knowingly deceived the market that opioids were safe. Had they not done that maybe the opioid epidemic would not have happened and you could still have access to the medicine that you are grateful for.

Please do read up on how horrible they are.
Kubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla released
if amazon is prioritizing postgres/mysql development over aurora development because there's a lot more users using the regular postgres/mssql instead of the aurora equivalent, it's a bit of a reach to suggest that there'd be a lot more demand for aurora on a new processor type.
This one hits me close to home, it was the same way back then in Turkey.

To describe how bad it is: Recently a popular politican tweeted Playstation 5 costs 8299₺ in Turkey, which is more expensive than booking a flight to Bulgaria, having a modest stay and buying Playstation there. This is a country where minimum wage is 2300₺ ($290) and around half the country is being paid that amount. iPhone 12 Pro? Base model rumored to be $1900.

Oh, and cars cost around 4 times more expensive, so a second hand 2007 Ford Fiesta costs around 15 times the minimum wage.

But hey, voters were happy and they've been happily voting for the same guy for 20 years. There must be some 'folk wisdom' there but I certainly missed what it is.
Seems like a stretch. They only want to operate the company under specific regulations. They aren't firing employees for voting one way or another. There is similar legislation in NY. When DNAinfo voted to unionize the owner said, forget it, I don't want to deal with this union stuff and shut down the company.
target="_blank" isn't an excessively clever bit of scripting, it's an attribute of the anchor tag that's been around since dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Restaurants are already doing take-out. Most people don't eat the food truck, and certainly not when it's cold out, so I don't know what else restaurants would learn from them.
Love it. Nice succinct dismissal!
Seconding iA Writer. I especially enjoy the focus and editing modes.
Put the LIDAR pack on an independent motorized 2-axis mount too.
Maybe the governor can make an emergency order that remote workers get promotions?
> After Catalina I plan to run offline mac for design, photography and video work connected to intranet/NAS.

Good luck. Keep in mind you won't be able to use any software that requires online activation (Adobe products, Sketch), and certainly none of the apps that won't launch without internet (Figma).
I did a contract programming gig for UCSF Med in 2018-2019 and they had a highly competent, mercilessly detail-oriented internal IT team trying to find HIPAA/security holes in my app on the reg. I actually left the project because this level of security wasn't in the original scope of work. Surprised if they weren't applying similar standards to their internal data and backup strategy.
> No restaurant that I can think of has outdoor dining in the winter. I live in Georgia, and our winters are fairly mild compared to northern states.

I grew up in the South and live in the Pacific Northwest now. I think you see a lot less outdoor dining in the South not because of the winters but because of the summers. It's so hot that eating outside is miserable half the year, so restaurants aren't physically designed for outdoor dining during the couple of spring and fall months when it would be nice.
Best Covid data analysis till now
Indian yoga has claimed that both parts of that are true for centuries.
>The point is that we didn't ban smoking

Actually, we did. Especially in places where masks are currently required. When was the last time you could just light up a cigarette or cigar (or a joint for that matter) in a restaurant, bar, shop or other indoor venue?
Honest question. Except for wild game and things that stink in general, why do you get a pick-up instead of eg. a big combi? They are so common in the US but only hunters and farmers have them where I live.
There are reports that this has started working again in some developer betas. Still, it's not something that could go on the App Store.
Keepassxc has either keeshare[1] or you just share the db files, while in bitwarden it's organizations and collections[2]

[1]: https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html#_databas...

[2]: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/getting-started-organizat...
"Election Interference" is ycombonator's opinion and the word is not part of the article's title or text. As per guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
I don't know but I'll be the first on the plane either way! I was in Oahu for two weeks at the end of January, just before the Pandemic hit the mainland. It was amazing.

What's it like living there?
"Look at all this checks notes potential energy that could be released if we could all just treat these workers like the slaves I think they are"
No sale hobs.

He posed a question asking if the cop is spending all day beating people and drinking blood.

I'm convinced you aren't engaging in good faith discussion. Moving on with my life.
I'd love to hear your precise rationale on the financial side.
> have no incentive to obscure facts

They do.

They got hacked, it makes them look incompetent. People might call for some of the staff to be fired for not having security or backups.

Prospective students, research participants, etc. might hesitate to go to UCSF if their data's going to be exposed.

Also, they paid the ransom. Funding sources from alumni to state legislatures might hesitate to give more dollars, if the university's using its money to pay off extortionists as opposed to improving education or lowering tuition.

The university has lots of reasons to hide what happened.
Technically the rents should go to the employees now devoting parts of their homes (and utilities) to work.
My hope is that, depending on the service they're tendering, plaintext (or at least static) emails will become a legal requirement.

What if you need to read a "dynamic" email a few years after it was sent, and the company rendering the dynamic components goes away? And those dynamic components are somehow essential to the content of the email? A receipt, for example.

There's some precedent for this kind of regulation. For example, the government requires medicare advantage insurance carriers to send physical mail to insured members under many circumstances, regardless of the member's digital-accessibility constraints or lack thereof.
The checkpoint file is 3GB, how could it possibly contain 175B weights?
The office is an important persuasion technique. There's a reason why the CEO has a fancy office with a beautiful view that you have to go past 3 tiers of security/admins to get to. It sends a signal to everyone that they should respect this person. It's the same reason you have a shitty low walled cube that you share with 3 other people. It's harder to have that same visual persuasion if the CEO is wearing jeans and a tshirt in his living room on a Zoom meeting.
You may be technically correct, but I would ordinarily read "threat of discharge or loss of employment" in a retaliatory sense, not an existential one.

A more cut-and-dry example might be clarifying: if there were a ballot initiative to outright ban strip clubs, and a strip club sent a memo to its staff, correctly noting their jobs would be gone if it passed, would that be a violation of this statute?