skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber and Lyft did give long-term drivers “appreciation awards” which they could use to buy stock in the IPO. So not unprecedented.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/11/uber-is-dishing-out-apprec...
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> Leaving it up to local voters makes it sound like it's ok for a police dept to misbehave, eg harass minorities or evade accountability, as long as the majority voters in that city/county are ok with it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
> there needs to be penalties for nonuse.

If they don't exceed the penalty for being caught in a particular instance of wrong doing, then it's not likely to be effective in those cases.. which are likely to be the most important of these cases.

> A couple of hung juries and the powers that be may get the message

DAs are elected. Let them know they shouldn't even bring these cases, or you're going to unseat them for even trying a single one.

We shouldn't rely on the long tail of justice to save us here, we need protections at every level of the system. Peoples lives hang in the balance during a trial, why should we chance it?
There was nothing wrong with his English. It was easily comprehensible and was some first-hand or ground level knowledge from an Italian person. I completely disagree with the idea that HN is so petty that they would dismiss an informative and useful post over "unprofessional" writing. What professionalism are HN users expecting from the comments on an article about Italians and coffee?
> Personally, it reminded me of how people say "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon". Yeah, but Haile Gebreselassie runs the marathon at an average of 20 km/h.

He is so agile he can run the marathon as a sequence of sprints. I wonder if software developers will be expected to do the same.
Focusing on a negative. Yes the internet can be exploited but the internet means communication between all people in the world.

That has never happened before in history.

I believe that you don't have to bomb a country to free its people. Simply show them that there is a better way and the people will eventually demand change.

This is what the internet is doing. It's showing people women who vote, gays who celebrate their freedom, free health care and education for all, safety, security. Fundamentally that is what all humans want.

But I guess it also becomes harder to oppress one remote culture, and use them for cheap labor, if they can see where their labor is going and what it's worth through their cellphone.
Former Facebook leaders are now [Biden] transition insiders
Indeed! M means minimum! If anything, the step below an MVP should be called a NYVP ("Not-Yet Viable Product"), which should hopefully remind eager sales folks that it might be ready to demo but not ready to sell.
Because it was copied.

I'll take the flag off now.
The sheriff is elected, and there's enough communities in the South where shitting on blacks is a way of life. Do you remember the case of the kid who went to prison because he had birdshit on his hood that the drug quicktest identified as cocaine? Dude only got out quickly because he played football (for I think UGA) and the coach intervened. That stuff, friend, is government-approved reality for many.
>"What constitutes a valid criminal investigation, who decides? Do you, does a prosecutor, a judge, the police?"

Some sort of formal process with reasonable oversight the necessity of multiple points of compromise and/or collusion in order for the data to be abused for non-governmental use. Bottom line, I can't say I've "solved" the problem and have the perfect answer to your question. But I'm sure we, collectively as a society filled with smart people that want to move us forward, could put down some (fundamental?) tools/rules/processes that would negate the potential for abuse up until a certain point. Maybe we can't do 100%, but we could do 95 or 98%?

>"Is it a valid to decrypt your data just see if you were at a specific location at a specific time? What about so the police can check a theory? How about to see if you joined an unsanctioned protest, smoked a joint, speed while driving, downloaded a movie?"

Yes, very much so Yes! Especially the location based stuff as it's perfect for investigations without revealing details. "List all people that were within 50m of this crime location during this timespan." <-- that is so unbelievably powerful as a crime-solving tool, that I am baffled that we're avoiding it out of privacy concerns. As for the speeding example: That's probably another example of us already giving the data (car's black-box) to government (and private insurance companies) in order to facilitate an investigation.

But to your point about drug-use, speeding and copyright infringement. If we don't want something prosecuted then we shouldn't have it as a crime. But as it stands now, a bunch of what you mentioned is a crime. That represents an implicit agreement by all of us in society that says we deem those things punishable. We can't hide behind lack of capability to police said crimes, but still label them as such. That is ripe for offical-power abuse. For all we know, if we lived in a society where we had such strict enforcement of laws as I suggest, we'd potentially have greater churn and change in our laws to match the opinions of society as it changed and evolved.

> "Privacy is a fundamental tool for allowing society to progress and change, and for avoiding totalitarianism."

I disagree. I'm not seeing it. There is just way too much going wrong today in 1-st world countries whilst we have really good privacy for it to be the case. We're downright descending into totalitarianism and thought/opinion control territory, all whilst our "privacy" is mostly maintained and respected. Are you saying we need more of it? What would that look like to you?
It is mildly disappointing. Not necessarily that this article is here but if an article were posted that is equally interesting yet coming from another political bent, it would be almost immediately marked [flagged] and hidden. Even if the article were interesting.
Orbitz used to charge higher fares for Mac users [2]

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-users-pay-more-than-pc-users-s...
That makes me nervous as well. I'd like a Covid vaccine, but I'd like to see a few tens of millions of people take it first. Especially since I (small town, WFH, kids in virtual school) have a much less risky situation wrt Covid.
>Requirement to be a graduate of a "good" university is not a meritocracy.

I didn't say it was. Meritocracy in this case was in reference to the company's internal competition (organic or not) for top spots at the company.

I completely understand there are certain jobs where you need a degree. Bar even. A lot of software engineering doesn't fit that mold. I'm 100% behind requiring an advanced degree if you're writing software that controls: lives/property/money in any meaningful way. Money in this case being large capital investments, not consumer payments. I'm a big proponent of hiring people who need a second chance, who maybe are down on their luck, or otherwise have a different path than suburban white America or the H1B visa mills they created (caveat, I'm white). I think there are plenty of opportunities for software engineers without degrees to build web apps, mobile apps, services, integrations, automation, etc.
> Australia has been calling for decoupling with China for a while now.

What do you mean?
trade
There's always a "Oh Australia should look for more export markets rather than just China" but there has also been great and deep support for building deeper trade and investment ties with China.

As a specific example, [1] is the Wine Australia export guide for China. They provide guides like this, run trade shows in China for Australian wine producers etc etc.

[1] https://www.wineaustralia.com/selling/by-market/export-marke...
Handing a MIDI printout to a musician who expects sheet music would be like handing a novel to a movie director who expects a script.
Does anybody know when liquidity event will happen for employers and ex-employers? Potentially could be a good time to buy stock shares.
Without logical replication you're effectively locked in the same way people talk about Oracle lock-in. If you have any sizable amount of data you'd have to do a dump/restore to get it out which would be a change of data size operation. For 100 GB of data you're looking at 1-3 hrs depending, for 1 TB you'd be looking at a day probably.

Logical replication allows you to create replication slots and send it to other places. It does allow for more interesting things as well. One really common use case (not even migrating off) is change data capture out of Postgres into Kafka leveraging Debezium. In older versions of Postgres you could use wal2json for this, now more more recent versions with logical replication supported the pgoutput plugin is great here.

Upgrades are a thing, but in place upgrades can be fully captured without logical replication. The short is though they are limiting a lot of what Postgres can do by not supporting it.
If I drive across the county line, don't I (still) deserve a decent police force?
This is talking about the managed database service.

There is nothing stopping you from renting a VM and running whatever you want.
You offer up statements about population aggregates as a supposed explanation for the self-reported mental states of a collection of individuals, so you don't really get to reasonably complain about this.
Great list! Here's a similar blog I wrote a few months ago describing what I felt were the essential SaaS startup tools for <$100 - basically what we felt as we built our startup were the necessary tools to get us off the ground and functioning as a company - https://www.sleuth.io/post/the-2020-saas-startup-100-essenti...
Cops rarely get fired, they get paid vacation.
Even if they turn them on, many body cams in use store the files locally on an SD card with no authentication or verification of chain of custody, just flat video files. It is trivial to wipe evidence from these Axon cameras especially - https://github.com/xraymemory/haxon
Wow, the financials are a little bit surprising (in how bad they seem to be, but in actuality might be okay)

Amazing growth and story up to 2018 (only $20M loss on $3.5B rev), clear investment in the marketing side that leads to the 2019 loss, but now curious if they can rebound when the world opens up.

Investing in Airbnb is definitely a bet on their model righting itself in a reasonable time frame. I wonder if their IPO price will have to reflect current realities instead of just future potential (given it probably won't improve its profitability for 2 years now)
You can. This is for Google's fully managed SQL service, "fully managed" meaning that you don't have to directly manage Docker instances or VMs yourself.
I... disagree? Hard numbers showing high rates of these interactions would be a systemic thread. The loudest voices on the Internet, not so much.
Tons. Nearly everything. Sheet music is very expressive. So is MIDI. It’s kind of like asking, “What information isn’t captured in the movie but is captured in the novel?” They’re just radically different ways of expressing music, and much is lost when you translate from one to the other.

If you are curious, try flipping through a book on orchestration at the library sometime, or a book on music theory. Even at its most basic, a score records which notes to play, but MIDI doesn’t even do that—MIDI records the note values only, so you can’t tell the difference between G# and Ab. Then add in all the articulations, dynamics, and arbitrary instructions that a composer can put into a score.
> Honestly, I envy the young Mavericks who code shit and get work done. They at least sleep at night.

Ignoring the burden shifting of on call rotations, I often find the young mavericks don't sleep at night -- they're fire fighting and debugging their work.
Probability of exposing your family to Covid-19 over the Holidays
Why ouch? How is this TSLAQ site relevant?
I know there is a tradition in MAME machines to do the "button matrix" for each player — so much so I cannot think of the last MAME machine I see that didn't have it.

I grew up in the arcade but bailed when the Street-Fighter-type games arrived.

I have no use for the button matrix because I never play those style games. To add all those buttons means for other games players are left wondering which of the dozen buttons is "jump" and which one is "fire".

If you're into the fighting games, then what can you do. It seems often that people try to design a machine to do everything and end up with a bad UX.

I've built perhaps 8 or so MAME machines over the past 15 years or so and have experimented with different layouts on them. I move more and more away from trying to be all games in one cabinet.

Not to piss on this particular cabinet at all. I love it when anyone builds something for themselves. I love it doubley when they share their experiences. Congratulations on both.

It had never occurred to me to use GitHub to document such a thing. I do see it more and more though veering from code-only. Your write-up is so much better than anything I have seen on that Instructables car-crash of a site. ;-)
To be fair is not great to compare Sweden and Finland neither, except for the climate ...
All the salary negotiation tips can be reduced to this: You have to have a better alternative. That means doing getting multiple offers within the same time period before you accept one.

All the other stuff goes out the window if you can do this. You can be a terrible negotiator. You can mention a number up front. It won't matter if you have other alternatives because it's easy for you to say "I'm sorry. I have an offer for $X more."
Historically giving power to local politics in the United States has been (sometimes) used to discriminate against populations. This is effectively what the Jim Crow south was, legal but unequal.

This isn’t to say that federal policies don’t also have issues. If we think something is a right of all citizens (Such as to not be subject to abuse by the police), that only really takes hold if it is applied across the nation, which is federal.
>>the board of directors reduced Mr. Chesky’s base salary from $110,000 to $1, set his target bonus at $0, and granted him a long-term, multi-year equity award comprised of 12,000,000 RSUs (the “Multi-Year Award”).

Its quite surprising that CEO of Airbnb should make just $110k/ annum in base salary before the company goes public. I would expect it to be around $500k.
Some guy wrote a tool to intercept the keys for level three on windows. Most streaming services offer only low-quality streams with level three, but big G dmca'ed the repo and most forks. Mirrors are still up all over, though; here's one: https://github.com/kipyegonmark/widevine-l3-decryptor
On my home network I used this [1] guide to set up a pihole with dns over https. Should stop snooping of some of those types by anyone but your chosen DNS target at least (middlemen, ISPs etc). Though I can't comment on other types of attacks.

[1] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
Ironically, every response to your comment seems to be this exact kind of anecdata.
> Facebook prioritizes engagement as their top metric.

Slight nitpick, but the top metric is money. If Engagement didn't lead to the most dollars it would not be prioritized. I think this is important to separate because "Engagement → (Ad Impressions + Societal Collapse)" feels so much more fixable to me than just "Engagement → Societal Collapse".
It is probably early to congratulate the founders and the team, but as someone who started using Airbnb before they were cool, and having watched the company grow, it is very joyful to see they are finally going public. Hopefully it's just up and to the right even more from here onwards. Good luck!
President Obama does say "our democracy" not a real democracy.

I guess we know why President Obama did not follow through on his promise of reigning in the FISA court - he needed it to go after his political opponents.
The Road to Wigan Pier [pdf]
Tesla stock jumps on news company is joining S&P 500
That works only if you need to get the money from account. If you need for something more W3 has no advice on that.
A large number of people seem to use macs as fancy ssh video terminals/zoom phones. That application completely breaks in this situation.
No hardware provider really uses a standard network adapter, and as I said that's the main thing to check when purchasing a laptop. You can't have a reasonable expectation of just working, but that's all you should need to check.

Though, isn't the issue more that your listed requirements show a strong personal preference to macbooks?
Well I’m Italian and I drink Cappuccino at every hour... I don’t have troubles with lactose but there’s absolutely no “rules” to don’t drink cappuccino at 4PM or 8PM.

More often people in Italy make breakfast with brioches and cappuccino, but just because the coffee here is veeery small compared to American coffe.
To be fair the loss in 2019 is largely attributed to the drastic increase in marketing spend, but also their increase in product development cost line item. Neither of those increases led to a significant increase in revenue though.

Makes me wonder what the 2020 story would have been without COVID.

Personal bias makes me think Airbnb is here to stay and the marketing spend can definitely be cut back. The timeline to revenue growing back against their costs is probably 2 years with this pandemic though and that hurts anyone who is looking to invest and hold.
Ssssh! Don't give the game away ;)
The way they are currently treating guests in France (and probably in others European countries) due to the 2nd lockdown is a disaster.
Turning Libya into a country where they sell slaves in broad daylight was needed to keep his democracy alive, I guess.
> Capital One used to offer different mortgage rates to IE users and Firefox users

That's amusing, I didn't know about it before. Looks like the story broke 10 years ago:

https://hothardware.com/news/at-capital-one-different-browse...

https://consumerist.com/2010/11/01/capital-one-made-me-diffe...
Every single human being can be assumed to think they fall in the reasonable bunch. This is a combination of hardwired bootstrapping (seems unavoidable), self-serving biases, and the fact that most mistakes won’t be recognized even in hindsight (so much for saying hindsight is 20/20).
> Because then you end up with recordings of things that you shouldn't have, like the officer using the restroom or a victim who has asked not to be recorded.

Then make the recordings encrypted, and ONLY let the DA have the key that decrypts them. This solves the lack of data problem, but it also prevents the police from using their own footage without authorization.

> Do the math sometime on what kind of bandwidth and storage capacity a large agency like NYPD, LAPD, Chicago PD, etc. would need to upload several hours worth of officer-recorded video each day.

You don't have to save full quality video indefinitely. After several days, remove all color from the video. After several more, reduce the frame rate. After several more, reduce the resolution. If you built your system carefully, you could save much more video than people tend to estimate.

Beyond that.. there is a statue of limitations. I expect the police to keep their body cam recordings for up to 90 days, beyond that, unless they're directly related to a case, they should be allowed to reclaim that storage.
For servers? Yeah, I'd agree with you.

For desktops / laptops, I think either approach can work, depending on your personal preferences.

If you prefer a big update that you can schedule, and are okay with setting aside a few days every year or two, and are okay with a repository that gives you "stable" application software that may be quite old, then a release-based distribution might work better for you.

If you'd rather deal with smaller updates, and if you like having a repository that delivers application software updates closer to when they're released upstream, then a rolling release might work better for you.
xD. Are working for a short seller?
He's got a place to live, and food to eat, and he spends 200% of his time at work. At that point money is really just a thing that idles in the bank.
Even ten years ago WFH and online school just would not have worked, this was when the iPhone 4 was hot new tech and most people still had single digit mbps internet. There's no chance that you could try the sort of 'online everything' we've been doing this year. The lockdowns become far less palatable when the consequence is clearly "no school or work for a long time".
Do they? I'm only familiar with the IPCC in the UK, and they are basically worthless. Germany, for example, doesn't even have something like the IPCC. Are there any examples of working police oversight bodies?
I'm not a a lawyer, but according to the first google result "the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing".[1]

In practice, this doesn't seem to mean that every time you buy an iPhone, Apple provides you a paper contract authenticated with an actual verifiable hand-signed signature of an authorised officer.
Art 5.0 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
It means that DARPA is cutting corners by farming their work out to unpaid "challengers". You solve these problems at your own peril. You're participating in weapons research.
Did I say it was?

It is the host's fault for charging me damages outside of my control. It is also Airbnb's fault for refusing to take a side.
This is a really handy list, but misses a few of my favorites.

The first is \e to open up your default $EDITOR for the query. In the past I've actually setup sublime text to open up my last run query, be able to edit it, close and save and it'll execute. I'd imagine you could do the same with vscode, though I'm currently just configured for vim personally.

The second isn't really psql commands, but that you can setup a psqlrc - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/how-i-work-with-po...
Think of risk vs response to that risk as a sliding scale. Right now with COVID, the risk is low, so we don't have anywhere near a universal response to that risk. But, as you slide right along the risk scale toward "really risky", you'll see more and more of the population self-selecting to not play the risky game. I am merely proposing that people be able to choose their responses based off their risk tolerance. The problem with doing anything else, is that you make policy that will have winners and losers. A good example is the current school shutdown. We have millions of families with two working adults that rely on the school system in the United States to both educate and to supervise their kids while they are working. Those kids are now self-educating using remote learning techniques while parents are at work. When viewed in aggregate, that cohort of kids are just about guaranteed to have a lower overall outcome in life compared to the cohort where the family earned enough income to have one parent stay home.

Rushing school closures is one thing (it's a policy that when made early in a pandemic with unknown risks, can be reversed once risk factors are more understood). Rushing novel vaccines out is another, it's not something that can be reversed.

Life is risky. I am not trying to argue that COVID isn't real, that masks infringe on my liberties, etc etc. I am just trying to say that there are direct and indirect consequences to policies, and a general rule of thumb that I and millions of your fellow citizens use when developing our opinions on topics, is that personal liberties are a fantastic tiebreaker.