skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why presumption of innocence is so important is, you don't need a smoke bomb making materials to get the public to think someone is a bomb maker.

Are we forgetting the time a splayed out alarm clock became a national scandal?

You could go into someone's home, pull out a Raspberry PI and some loose jumpers and hold up something that the average citizen thinks of as proof this person is some sort of mainframe hacking nutjob anarchist.

(And more importantly, there are police out there right now who would jump to the same conclusions. See a simple hobbyist electronics bench and take it as something nefarious.)

That's why you don't go around presuming people are guilty of things.
I can totally understand people’s reluctance to government run internet. The biggest argument I see is that the government can compete unfairly against private companies because they don’t have to make a profit. Usually when this debate about government run internet comes up, there’s two discrete options: the private sector ISP and the government run ISP. However, there’s an option that rarely gets mentioned: the public infrastructure + private ISP model.

I used to live in middle-of-nowhere central WA, and they had fiber internet all the way back in mid 2000’s. This was a town of <20k people. Other smaller towns around the region also had access to fiber as well. Basically it worked like this: the county public utilities district was responsible for laying the fiber and connecting it to the building. Once the fiber is hooked up, you can call any one of a dozen or so ISPs to provide you with service.

As a side note, because of this relationship between the ISPs and the public utilities district, some ISPs also operated point-to-point wireless networks to reach customers outside of the fiber network. The ISPs would typically place a tower with several radios at an existing customer’s site, in exchange for free service. These tower sites were usually connected directly to fiber for minimal latency. I mention this because I don’t see how these wireless networks would have been viable without a public fiber network backing them.
I will be honest, I wasn't sure this wasn't satire until I went to the company's own site. I am really curious how many customers they actively maintain.
You can also just get a "professional" job in said country and move there under the same or similar conditions. The application for an employment visa to move to Germany from South Africa took about a week to get approved.
The difference is that placing trust in China/Russia means trusting in a narrative driven by a small group (the ruling elite), while placing trust in "the West" usually refers to the collective knowledge of scientific endeavours that tend to succeed better in a nation more friendly to liberal democracy.
I don't know how common it is. It does happen, though. It probably depends a lot on the bouncer's impression of how old you likely are and how much you look like your license photo.

I changed hairstyles dramatically between my license photo and age 21, so I had my license challenged a significant (probably single-digit percentages) number of times until I got a new photo in my mid-20s.
This is true in the sense of if you ask someone "Should the federal government be smaller?" they will say yes.

It is not true in the "Should we get rid of Medicare and Social Security and reimplement them on a state by state basis?" or "Should we abolish the FCC, SEC, EPA, FDA, Postal Service?"

When you ask people if we should make the federal government smaller they'll say yes, when you ask them about a specific piece of the federal government they say no.
Many people claim that a company has no conscience and can do anything as long as it's within the boundaries of the law.
>Sugar, though, yeah. Sugar is the devil.

And seems almost impossible to avoid unless you cook everything from scratch and don't snack on anything premade.. it's so crazy.
Depends on what the price point is. I don’t think it makes sense to do sales for a product under $49-99/mo. Huge time sync. Better off marketing self service and scale from there.
The next musical instrument: finalists and vote
>At $1/mo, it's going to take the rest of your life for the price to work out in favor of the Brother.

$1/mo = $12/y

(7 * 12) + 30 = 114

Do you know something about the rest of my life that I need to know? How much time do I actually have left!?
there is a reason why MSSQL is called tedious in npm moudle.
I never suggested that year should be precise. I just think it is useful to use year as a vague number instead of something completely arbitrary. I think the only real downside is if people assume too much from that number.

> FMA4 extensions on Bulldozer are no longer supported, so a 2012-era CPU supports FMA4, but 2018-era Zen processors do NOT support FMA4.

I don't see how this is relevant. Isn't this the same problem that v4 supports something that v9 doesn't?
> On the other hand, with open source, we have a different set of social conventions

Agreed. I'd like to see this particular convention change.

> Do you view it as ethical for someone to use open source software without payment?

Sure, assuming the license says it's ok. So I guess technically were talking about FOSS.

> Isn't that also getting something for nothing?

I didn't put this well before, but the problem isn't in getting something for nothing per se. The difference comes from the cost imposed on the other party involved. If I download your code, the cost we both pay rounds off to 0. But if you implement something for me, you pay a hefty cost in time while my cost remains 0. So all the value produced goes to me, and you get very close to nothing.

I see a problem with any situation where you end up worse off and I end up better off. This is the source of much open source project mortality. The core developer(s) give until they give out.

> Is it ethical for someone to ask a question on one of my blog posts without offering to pay me for my answer?

Depends. If they are profiting off of the response and all you get is the work of answering, then no. You will eventually get bitter and stop blogging unless you are some angelic person.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Agree, but I’d consider the photo quality printing to be more of an edge case for most users. If one just occasionally prints a few photos there are other inexpensive services available. But if that is the use case then yes I’d agree inkjet is better.
Thank you for the tip/link. Seems to be an appropriate solution, just have to fiddle with my build process for a bit.
my day has max 1-2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNT162 sounds like it's this one
> fills your stomach with useless fiber

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/f...

> Makes a balanced diet (which is pretty vague, what’s so balancing about it?)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
Just wanted to say that the Magit UI makes it really easy to pick and choose which lines to commit (plus it has code-folding for files and chunks, which is nice).

I still drop into the git CLI if I need to do things like editing the contents of lines, e.g. if I've added a new function and renamed an existing one, and I want to add these as two commits, I might edit the first commit to use the old name.
Ask HN: Google Authenticator crashing, what do?
The Google Authenticator app on my iPhone seems to be crashing. I tried rebooting a few times but no dice. I guess deleting and reinstalling the app will lose all my tokens; I have recovery codes religiously preserved, but setting up more than a dozen accounts all over again is going to be painful.

Has anyone had this problem before? Is there any way to extract the current data from the app? Even just a list of the accounts, so I know what to set up again.

I have a feeling my next TOTP generator won’t be Google’s.
As someone who loves a good domain name and collects them, your domain name just gave me a small brain aneurysm.
In my view, if someone is indie hacking first time and still makes about $400-$500MRR in 12 months, its still a success.
I'm basically going down the opposite path, and am learning how to more effectively use my printer for a variety of tasks.

You can Doxygen your code into a .pdf, and then print off a reference copy of your API. Use a 2-hole punch with standard prong fasteners: and you've got a decent binding system (far superior to staples).

Just $15 for a 2-hole punch, $5 for 100x prong fasteners. From there, double-sided print from a laser-printer is pretty efficient.

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A Booklet of 100 pages can hold a surprising amount of information, and practically works as a 2nd (or 3rd) monitor for your productivity.

Learning to make __books__ out of your printer, by using a basic binding system (comb binders, 2-hole punch, or 3-hole binders) is a good skill to have. It really does improve your productivity.
Thanks for the link; I've added it to the article.
The trick is that a lot of Pokémon names make good tech names. Metapod would be a great name for a perl documentation suite, or a container orchestration tool. And that makes caterpie a questionable, but valid, name for a partial container orchestration tool; and maybe butterfree could be containers evolved.

Onix is clearly a unix-like or linux distribution that's shaped around some software with first letter O (Opera? OpenOffice? I dunno), in addition to a Pokémon.
I guess that the author might be an astronomy aficionado ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWszdSHkyE
Typically an internal CA adds to the certificate trust store rather than replacing it.
I'm a Starlink Beta customer. I can't believe anyone is worried about the last mile any more.
I've seen a similar website before with IndieHacker or ProductHunt verified revenues (forgot which). Maybe I missed it here but how are these reoccurring revenues verified, and as others mentioned here, are they audited?
At the time that was doing the rounds (2015 or so) someone expanded it into a "Pokemon or Big Data" quiz game, which is startlingly difficult: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
I would guess that a lot of the factories that are capable of producing these type vaccines also produce a lot of other important drugs and vaccines that we can't just put on the back-shelf without even greater harm.
On top of that there have been more than a few stories of over zealous school systems who have demands of computers used to access online content. So one would expect that a similar entry point would be uses to restrict content if not sites.

The real threat is tracking that will exist but "wink wink" protected under the rule of requiring a court order to reveal; or if your in the political arena just someone who doesn't like you and leaks it.

At least with a private provider there is a remote possibility of suing them or using the government against them. Against the government there are just too many barriers and would require very robust legislation to protect us.
The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
I wish there was a version of these videos with comments by Steve Wozniak.
George Hotz on Tesla, Waymo and the self-driving industry
That should read as 60^2 - 1^2 -- the twos should be typeset as superscript.
I didn’t say you could.
Vivaldi browser also doesnt ship codecs. They simply use whatever is available in the system. Means they might be the only browser that crashes when trying to play video in Windows N. But even they are able to use ffmpeg codecs installed in Linux.

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-...

https://gist.github.com/ruario/bec42d156d30affef655

I venture a guess DaVinci Resolve not using already installed codecs is either one of the ways to generate sales, or result of strong arming by MPEG LA.
UK-Japan Trade Deal punches USA-sized hole in privacy
>somewhat unsurprisingly, will be called "McPlant."

Is it just me that didn't find the name obvious, and perhaps not a good one?

Many people have an aversion to something if it's called plant, healthy or natural. I think Impossible Foods was right in marketing their products for meateaters rather than vegans.
I don't fully understand what this is.

This seems to be a tool to allow me to semi-automate repetitive tasks that access a REST API; is that correct? Can I download it and fill it in with my own endpoints, etc?
Here's a random simple request I got on icdiff: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff/issues/136

"ptzz: I would be nice with a new release so that options in .gitconfig works."

I have no idea who ptzz is, and it really doesn't matter to me whether they're a hobbyist playing around or at a company using icdiff for paid work. Either way, I was happy for a friendly reminder that I hadn't done a release in a while and that there were people looking forward to one.
H.R.8215 – Improving Digital Identity Act of 2020
How to GraphQL with Ruby, Rails, Active Record, and No N+1
Still a tiny fraction compared to available tokenizers in Pygments: https://pygments.org/languages/

(Or the vast number of TextMate grammars in the wild, such as editors like VS Code have standardized on.)

The "universality" of tokenizers is tough to beat, and though the tokenizers seem "dumber" than parser brethren, it's at a nice maxima for "good enough" for things like character-based diffs.
They have to hurry up and shovel some pork to Telesat before their excuse to do so disappears in a few months.
Also zola, hugo, and other pretty light weight generators are quite okay. I'm using zola which runs nicely on Win/Mac/Linux. All you need to get started is some theme/template and your blog posts in Markdown. Then enrich it with whatever floats your boat.
https://scottscheapflights.com/ is a good source
I don’t get how the consolidation of networks to platforms (e.g. Gimlet to Spotify) increases their value, since the operating costs seem so linear.
MariaDB – MyiSAM/Aria Temporary Files Arbitrary File Delete Vulnerability
IIRC there have been infections that had animal reservoirs and still were eradicated.
Traditionally, “X-graph” refers to the device which produces an “X-gram,” a physical record of some sort (e.g. telegraph/-gram, electrocardiograph/-gram, etc.)
Shouldn’t you have gone with “PatchWoman” if you were playing off of “PostMan”?
This is absolutely violation of the unix spirit!

Don't you know that the output of every tool and the format of every configuration file must have their own unique format?

Not even systemd is allowed to use JSON for config files.

/s
Perl … haven't seen that old friend for a very long time.
Contract tracing has worked at scale at South Korea for example.
A third of the people on HN hate Apple. It's a proper subset of the population that hates Facebook.
Seeing how he kept almost none of his promises, probably also more accurate.
+1 For Brother laser printers. I've had mine for a few years now, and only gone through 1 cartridge of toner. It works with my Linux setup too.
As mentioned in my other comments,

Yes. This is all real data. No false data. All data taken from various sources like stripe, paddle, baremetrics data.
Only thing to note is - this is before expenditure deduction.

Its revenue. Not profit. But with most of these typically sass and lean startups, I would say 80%-90% would be profits, may be.
I've had a Samsung ml-2525 for probably ten years, it works great. Sadly Samsung sold their printer division to HP. HP even removed features from the driver, they took out the ability to do manual duplex printing.

HP doesn't sell toner for my model anymore but I was able to find it from cdw. I figure the printer will outlast my ability to find toner for it.

This just confirms my already existing stance to never buy anything from HP.
Similar experience incorrectly checking the “Have you committed a crime” checkbox for the Australian ETA. They are unable to “change my response” (Department of Immigration seems to have found a use case for blockchain :) I previously lived and worked in Sydney for 3 years. Now I’m banned from using ETA for life.

Once COVID is over...if you know someone’s first name, last name, and passport number, you can fill out an online form to ban them from visiting Australia for a mere $20!
Yummy pork.
We need a moniker for Turing Incomplete that's easier to explain. I'd really like to see this become more of a thing. When groups organize, you can lean on their expertise and expenditure of effort to make your point for you rather than having to fight on your own the whole time.

I'm trying to put together a community wiki for a non-technical group (with ideas of expanding it out to others should I succeed) and every time I dig back into it I'm pretty sure I want a markdown format, and any fancy layout is up to me to sort out. But most markdown engines allow embedded HTML. Which is great when all content is authored by the maintainers, not so great when one tech-savvy troublemaker misuses it to put turing-complete content into the page.

I'm thinking of switching implementation languages to Elixir, and the Elixir Markdown implementations all seem to assume inline HTML is a feature you wouldn't want to toggle. I am already biting off too much, I don't want to throw a parser into that too.
And more or less on a whim, to the shock of his advisors.
I'm a little bit wary of only providing layer 2 serivices to ISPs. It very easily leads to technology lock-in and other problems.

The preferred solution is to provide dark fiber and layer 2 transport, ISP's choice.
One benefit of the ethereal nature of digital is that editing is really easy which is part of what makes digital so appealing. The downside is that it makes it hard to silence your inner editor. Often the editor takes over before you even get to create.
json, the new xml
In a sea of startups/products, where everything feels as if it is already created - how does one come up with a product idea?

I feel that every problem I try to tackle is not a real problem. It’s a vitamin and not an ibuprofen. The real problems already have a solution - which means that I’d need to spend a few years and a few hundred thousand dollars to just get a chance to maybe make a profitable product.
I've been using Microsoft's since I de-Googled, and I'd recommend it.

I think by design they tend to make it very difficult to extract data from it, and on an iOS device it's going to be even harder, because your options are limited. ...Maybe... from iTunes you could back up your iPhone to a PC and then dig into it?

One of the backup strategies I'd advocate for for 2FA in the future: Print out the QR code you scan when you add 2FA to an account, and store it physically in a locked/secure place. When I get a new phone, all I have to do, is scan each sheet in the stack into my TOTP app, and I'm good to go: The QR codes contain the actual token used to generate your 2FA codes. And storing them offline makes them difficult to compromise!
Is there a small amount of fraud? It wouldn't surprise me at all to find some in every election.

How about a thought experiment: If you wanted to do it on a large enough scale to swing an election, How would you do it? Say you knew that there are three states which are going to be very close, and you wanted to add 10000 votes for your preferred candidate in each state. What would you do?
HN invaded by conservative/libertarians? That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
"points vs comments" is how I judge which articles to spend my time on... the closer a post gets to a 1-to-1 ratio, the more likely it's not worth a click ;)
I'm not really talking about the software as it exists at any given moment. The right to make a copy and use it is explicitly granted by the license. I'm focused strictly on change requests.

> The problem isn’t taking the painting, it’s coming back later and asking for a change of background color or a new frame, and expecting that to also be free.

Assuming the painting cost nothing to copy but costs alot to change, then I agree.
Lox: A word that hasn't changed sound or meaning in 8k years
Would love to hear some good domain names you got :)
I understand what OP meant, but the data we currently have shows that one shot of this vaccine is not likely to convey a decent amount of protection.
As someone who recently got a remarkable tablet for work, i wholeheartedly agree

Not the same technically, but effectively is for me
Is there a beta in Canada available yet? Or are you in beta in the US?
> What are the markets, a handful of rich in banks and large corporations?

Glad you asked. No, "the markets" are not simply a handful of rich people, banks and large corporations. The markets are also more than just "stocks."

In fact, the majority of "the markets" is actually bonds, and most of those bonds are debt issued by nearly all the countries of the world (sovereign bonds). I think roughly 80 Trillion dollars, but don't quote me.

If you live in a country with roads, infrastructure, buildings, etc.--then the markets are responsible for everything around you.

But you seem to be complaining about stocks since they get the most media attention, so let's look at those.

You may not realize it, but the future of every single country with a socialized pension system, sovereign wealth fund, etc. depends on the returns of global stocks. They make up only a portion of most pension portfolios, but deliver nearly all of the returns. Everybody has a stake in them even if they don't realize it.

Are the markets all-knowing or perfectly efficient? Of course not. But it's literally the only place where you can measure how a global herd of humans are feeling about the state of the world at any given time with a single number. This makes it a default reference for journalists to cite, ie. "thing happened, this is what the humans and their algorithms collectively think about it."

The journalists are often wrong and don't understand what's happening, but this case seems to be pretty straightforward.
It isn't just cultural, it is also genetic.

The 5-HTR1A gene affects whether we more easily make relative versus absolute judgments. And this seems to be true for everything from the length of lines, to quality of life. The allele that is most common in East Asia makes relative judgements easier, in America it is absolute judgements that are easier.

Politically, having the relative form of the gene encourages more community thinking while the absolute encourages more individualism. This leaning holds within whatever society you're in. But when a culture is dominated by one form of the gene, it will naturally shift the entire society.

I learned this from pages 183-186 of https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Charge-Free-Science-Brain/dp/006... and I've wondered ever since how many of my opinions are reason (as it feels) versus genetics.
Yes, i got one too. Biggest boost in productivity in years
Explainer: How and when will Trump leave office?
Can some explain why Pfizer insists they were not part of the Operation Warp Speed ([1] “We were never part of the Warp Speed”), despite the fact that both Warp Speed [2] and Pfizer itself [3] had press releases in July that stated the opposite?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfiz...

[2] https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/07/22/us-government-enga...

[3] https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...
Seawalls’ marine biodiversity enhanced by eco-engineered tiles
> If anything, you’d fear that Brother’s software [e.g. drivers] would suck even worse than everyone else’s; but somehow, it doesn’t.

On Linux it certainly does. For some reason I can use network printing on my Brother laser from Windows and even Android, but not Linux.
Yeah, but that's cherry-picked, and it relies on lidar and maps. It almost never snows on Lombard Street.

And let's not even get into the cost of the equipment that was used in the Waymo setup! It cost many times more than most people spend on a car...
Waymo did 6.1M miles in Phoenix, Arizona alone.

Waymo did a lot of simulated driving, they claim about 200M miles a day: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/04/off-road-but-not-offline--sim...