skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The usual dichotomy is that if you control the platform, you can't sell using it will lead to an abuse of market power.

Eg "If we're massively successful in building/buying the water distribution network in $city why hamstring us?" Is an argument that holds no water.

There's a decreasing long-run average total cost curve for systems software. Which is why microsoft dominated the desktop for so long and why there are only 2 viable phone operating systems - where the veondors and controllers of those operating systems use their massive market power to compete in how much abuse of the users they can dole out.

I realise trying to explain conflict of interest and market power abuse to fans of a company that literally tax the revenue of anyone selling software on their phones and tablets, then destroy success by competing with it unfairly abusing that platform control, is doomed. But it remains a very strong economic argument based on the technical defintion of market failure accross the spectrum of economics as I studied it late last century, from Friedman to Keynes.

As ever, anything that contains "...with a computer" prevents most adults from engaging the critical thought region of their brain. [1]

[1] I'm really happy to have people disagree with me on specifics if they can explain why this thing "..with a computer" is different and needs to be treated differently in law and policy to the same thing, contstructed with thousands of people, filing cabinets, paper and old-school dial-up telephones. Imagine how you would provide the service with the latter. What policy is appropriate? What law is appropriate? When should that law be enforced? Then apply just that to the same system with a bunch of servers and software.

If that "same system - computerless" analysis and case was made each time, we'd have much more sensible policy and policy discussion. I can dream, right?

I wrote this with a computer. :s
Yeah sounds particularly risky to break the CFAA.
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great! signed up and sent an email with an article. Not sure what happens next though. How do I start listening to it?
It's also unclear how one could know it wasn't an authorized user who sent the message. ie: could be any of folks who are authorized who sent it.

Of course, they may have just asked all the authorized users, and had each of them deny it.
No, cetaceans.
(a) Wat. The Japanese people are just as indigenous as Canada's. Just because a people did not get conquered does not make them less indigenous. Unless your making a comment about the jomon...
> With LOX-kero

Small nitpick: kerolox is much nicer sounding and what people know them as ;)
The video is worth a watch.
>The court seems to have forced Tutanota to store new incoming non-encrypted emails in plaintext

This makes sense as AFAIK Tutanota messages between users are encrypted on the client side, not the server side. I guess they could try to backdoor that too but I'd think someone would be able to sniff that in the network traffic?
JS Doc is just comments. (But the typechecker can still read them.)
Funny thing to say when we're in the middle of a global pandemic, and more people are working from home than ever.

I work at an university and I've been forced to install that crap on my home computer because I need to teach from home. And so do all the professors in around half the universities I know in my country.
I don’t know what you’re getting at but it isn’t my point.

And the other way to look at it is California is expensive because the opportunity to become rich is greater here than elsewhere.
The two projects (Pinephone and Librem) have definitely diverged in terms of their goals, but that's fine.

I don't see any lack of contribution to the mainline kernel or upstream code from either community. The main divergence between the two is the price point and how the communities are run. As for fragmentation, well, if you want a choice in distro, then fragmentation does kind of happen as a result of that.

But overall a lot of the momentum is in the same direction. The biggest sticking point I see happened years ago, when Purism opted to make Phosh + PureOS and make it GNOME based instead of rallying more effort to the UBPorts project. That said, it's free software, so this happens all the time.

(Don't get me wrong though, I really love what Ubuntu Touch has become, and the UBPorts community too!)
oooh, it's illegal! but I thought the libertarian blockchain utopia wanted to get rid of any entities enforcing law because that's soooo socialist?
You have no idea how legal battles are won! They are one in the court of public opinion!
I'd imagine that in this case, as in many others, it is purely punitive. The state just likes reminding 'troublemakers' of its monopoly on violence.
Eat your way to a more productive you
I have to admit that stories like this evoke a really strong, visceral reaction in me.

The depiction of police (allegedly) escalating the situation with threat of deadly force, especially with kids present, literally (not figuratively) got my adrenaline going.

I'd be interested in hearing both sides of the story with supporting evidence.
I'm not sure she is surprised. But if her grievance is that her employer is not fulfilling its public health mission, and the data she is sharing is public health data she feels the public has a right to see, then she might feel getting arrested is unjust.
I’ve lived in SF for 11 years now and it feels like city is mostly full of people who actually want to be here now. Even in covid times, I feel like there’s a better sense of community and civic engagement with neighbors. I also was super annoyed by people who came to SF that said it’s not diverse, when it was them not exploring outside of the tech world. All anecdotal, but life in the city is actually kinda awesome despite covid, but I do miss bigger hangouts than just a small social circle, which isn’t allowed anymore even.
It might be better (although harder!) to take the traceroute from example.org, instead of from the clients. Forward and reverse paths often diverge, so it's important to find the path with the error.
Because they are scum. Many police in America are scum, a state of affairs perpetuated by a profound lack of accountability to the public. They can break down the wrong door in the night, murder the innocent occupants, and face no meaningful penalties (let alone meaningful criminal penalties) despite obvious negligence leading up to and during the incident. Given that, one can see how the wrong kind of people (assuming the job is what we naively assume it's supposed to be about) are often drawn to police jobs.

edit: This is a strongly worded comment. I believe strong words are appropriate when we’re talking about atrocities like the murder of innocents under the color of law. These scum are not a “side” that deserves “equal consideration”—we have a responsibility to figure out what’s true and what isn’t to the best of our abilities, but ultimately we need to strongly condemn evil whenever and wherever it manifests, and the breed of authoritarian cruelty practiced by many American police definitely qualifies.

Also note that I have intentionally not said all police are scum, because that’s obviously not true.
In most cases, one reason they can is because there is no enforced repercussion for doing so.

Most police forces do in fact have rules for this type of conduct and institutional mechanisms to regulate it, but enforcement has become discretionary to the point of non existence.

Please note that this description is extremely generalized and that there are numerous other factors.
We’re in year 35 of self driving cars being a few years away.
Was it a regulator paperwork hurdle? Regulations themselves? High cost of labor? No skilled labor available? High cost of warehouse/manufacturing floor space? All-of-the-above?
Coal isn't even all of the problem. "Rolling Coal" is a personal political statement of thousands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

Greenland once had a booming ecotourism industry, driving people across the ice sheet in diesel powered trucks. That is, until the diesel soot particulates destroyed the routes across the ice sheet.
I still think of Toledo as the place Klinger came from. Im sure is a great place with a culture of its own, but that's where my minds goes to when it is mentioned.

I wonder how many nightshift zoo keepers are searching for blacklights on amazon right now.
He's selling a book.

Also, this part is so contradictory:

But Eshed insists that Trump is aware of them, and that he was "on the verge" of disclosing their existence. However, the Galactic Federation reportedly stopped him from doing so, saying they wished to prevent mass hysteria since they felt humanity needed to "evolve and reach a stage where we will... understand what space and spaceships are," Yediot Aharonot reported.

So it's wrong for Trump to disclose the existence of the Galactic Federation, but Eshed is free to do so? Hmm...
As far as I can tell from the story, there is no evidence whatsoever that she had anything to do with the unauthorized access, which seems to consist of somebody logging into an account that has a shared username and password (!) and posting a message that got emailed out to ~1700 people.
Gas dryers last longer and are easier to maintain, in my experience. Same with gas stoves and ovens. Slow cooking is better done in an electric slow cooker, electric pressure cookers are great.

NG v. Solar is a non-obvious environmental question to ask. If you are posting from CA (the reflexive support for an additional tax suggests Pacific coast at least), you have the sort of folks who can answer that in your own backyard, LLBL. Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Check their website and publications.
The flu also has a vaccine and yet we have never managed to eradicate it, and this is even more contagious.
I'm generally too smart for my instructors. They are all either teaching by-the-book or actively trying to hold me back from going as fast as I'm capable of. The best courses are the ones that allow you to swap a midterm grade for any missed homework. In all the internships I had, developers solved problems by searching up the error message and trying suggested solutions one-by-one until something worked. Why don't schools use this extremely efficient method when teaching math and science?!?
Default timeout time on firefox is 30 seconds before retrying and a ctrl+shift+r refresh does not refresh the load, so random websites pause while opening and you have no choice but to wait 30 seconds before the page starts loading. (Psst, the default can be changed.)
75 Days of Discipline
> Somebody fired from a job over a grievance used unauthorized access and is surprised the FBI showed up at her door?

From the article, I think it was the Florida state police, not the FBI.
It wasn't the FBI, it was the FDLE. Also, the warrant was for something (more or less) completely unrelated.
When I bought it though, Macs were shipping with lower resolutions than 1080p. And not long after the Macbooks went retina, I bought a laptop with a 4k screen - which again the Macbooks don't match.

My point is that PCs have offered high end specs at affordable (but above average) price points even before Macs had them. And the fact that many PC laptops still offer low res screens point to price being the deciding factor which moves the PC industry forward, not Apple.
Crime-wise (and on many quality of life issues), Chicago is like 3 cities in one:
- a rich, extremely safe city (broadly, greater Loop and north/northwest sides)
- a poor, unsafe city (south and west sides)
- a middle income, very average city (the more suburban, far northwest, south, and southwest area)

Your experience will vary greatly, depending on which areas you visit.

It also has more than triple the population of SF, or twice as many people as SF+Oakland combined, so any absolute (as opposed to per-capita) numbers aren't comparable.
You asserted

> It's not a cynical marketing ploy like you describe - it's functional.

I believe the parent comment is saying that the closing-force varies closely with price; as price goes up, so does the force required to close it. While there may be a functional reason for some difference between opening-force and closing-force, you wouldn't expect that functional reason to result in that correlation so strongly, and that the majority of the difference in force at high price points is a cynical marketing ploy. (I'm not sure I buy that, it makes sense to me that a more expensive cooler has a thicker gasket to get a better seal.)

Yeti is a well-known expensive brand of coolers.
Background to this discussed earlier in the year fwiw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236613
Getting a configuration together that consumes all your dependencies and generates code without crapping a ton of meaningless warnings about duplicate type definitions in its own type mappings for runtime types is non-trivial and requires setting more than a few non-default compiler options, none of which are named anything that means anything.

I still don't know how it's possible to safely, cleanly make a library that other projects can consume comfortably with just TypeScript.
She hasn't been charged with any crime. It's way too early to be accusing a whistleblower of being a criminal.

You've seen zero evidence of her being responsible and you still accuse her?
The thing is, the SFBA while everything is closed down/restricted is not the same as during a regular economic downturn when you can still go out to eat and socialize.

For all the faults I take issue with, the SFBA is probably the single place I most fit in culturally in the world. It’s where I want to be. But I can’t justify paying the absurd rents to live there when my job doesn’t require me to be there AND socialization/networking/most leisure activities are on pause. After March there was nothing for me to do except enjoy nature activities/exercise outside, and my social life was in shambles.

I can’t wait for everything to go back to normal and move back to the Bay Area, but for now I am very happy I moved back in with my parents.
Gun ownership is very common in this country, and anyone on the other side of any door can have one.

So I can get that part.

Pointing a gun, loaded or not, at someone else should be a serious crime though! And there probably is, but cops can safely break most laws.
Lets see if she actually used unauthorized access or they just picked someone who could have done it and was convenient to blame.
> Proving who accessed it has become a huge forensic investigation at that point.

If you have some simple logging and a foolish "hacker", it's a pretty trivial investigation.
> Somebody fired from a job over a grievance used unauthorized access and is surprised the FBI showed up at her door? I don't understand.

This was state police rather than federal (a highly relevant distinction, given the context) and the snide "surprised" is unwarranted/baseless when we don't have even the full facts from one side let alone both sides.
This is confusing to me. You're saying that there are other sources of particulate pollution (a cumulatively dangerous pollutant), therefore we should NOT regulate human-caused sources? That seems backwards.
The variety of landscapes within a 30 minute drive is unparalleled in the Bay Area, though.

I grew up in suburban Boston. It was a very nice town - we lived on an acre of land, with woods behind the house. Drive 30 minutes in any direction, and you got basically - woods. Maybe some ponds and fields, with scattered houses and suburban town centers between. The city (a pretty nice one) was 30 minutes away. You could get to waterfront, in Boston or Salem or Nahant, but there aren't really beaches in most of Massachusetts (outside of Cape Cod). It did have a massive amount of history, though - in that 30 minute drive was basically everywhere significant to the birth of the USA.

I'm on the peninsula now, in the hills. 10 minute walk to a suburban downtown. 3 minute drive (or ~20 minute walk) and we're on some Bay trails. 5 minute drive and we're in the mountains. 5 minute drive to a massive lake over the San Andreas. 20 minute drive and we're on the beach at the Pacific Ocean. 30 minute drive (or 40 minute Caltrain) and we're up in SF. 30 minute drive and we're in downtown San Jose.
yeah baby lick that boot!
We don't actually know that she used unauthorized access. (Innocent until proven guilty? Apparently not here!)

That aside, even if she did, is that reason to storm in with guns? The level of possible harm is incredibly out of proportion with the supposed crime.
Jeff Dean invented BigTable that powers search, was a main author of the Google Mapreduce paper, and invented the tech that took Google translate from 85% accuracy to 96%. He is a big deal, bigger than linus, keller, kodhuri combined. The latter 3 make incremental changes whereas Dean is known for revolutionary discoveries (okay not StuckTable).
If this is the case (I'm not saying it is or isn't), then that is more akin to gestapo tactics and should not be even remotely acceptable by anyone in society. More so those on the right who often draw analogies to the Soviet Union.
But it cold in Toronto!
Even if you believe retributive justice is to be doled out by LE, one of its own principles is: "It is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the innocent or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on wrongdoers."

And I'm not buying that guns-drawn arrest with kids present is necessary. Dead serious.
"transient" for 30 years? It takes much less to gather investments, build houses and sell them.

People are building houses in countries where they sell at 20x lower prices.

Unless construction workers in SV are paid 1 million $ / year, the reason for not building is not that it's not (hugely) profitable.
Microsoft OSS stuff is generally good, VSCode, .NET Core and that ecosystem. The enterprise stuff (SFB, Sharepoint, AD, etc.) is a pile of garbage I wouldn't touch unless my life depended on it.
6) He's selling a book and he wants people to buy it.
> I'm always amazed at how often cops approach every day tasks with weapons drawn.

That is IMO a side-effect of the (from an European POV) absolutely mind-boggling, ridiculous sentencing of criminals in the US. Here in Germany, when a drug smuggler gets caught, they can expect four, five years behind bars. Not worth to shoot the cop that just stopped your car full with meth and make a life sentence out of it for murder.

In the US however? Decades, sometimes centuries behind bars. Given that perspective, it does make sense for a criminal to shoot that traffic cop - the chance to get away and escape a death in prison is non-zero.

Add to that the fact that there are more guns than people in the US, plus extremely lax carrying laws, and "stand your ground" laws.

The result are (rightfully, I have to admit) afraid and thus extremely trigger-happy cops.

If the US wants to get rid of trigger-happy cops they have to get the gun problem and sentencing under control first.
I think the point here is that there's things that justify that price and the other downcomings of living in the area.

I'm the one that started this discussion and it proved controversial. I tried to just talk about like, the amenities of living in the area and tech jobs, but most people replied saying "wait there's two or three of your list of five or six in...".

I may be biased because I'm not a "generalist web developer", I work in either crazy startups or kinda niche embedded/low level roles. I still get two or three really good job offers from big companies per month even when I'm not looking and they are in SV. I was getting one or more per week pre-COVID. Even when actively looking for that type jobs in Colorado and Austin I can't find them.

Colorado would be more interesting for me if I was a citizen and could work the government aerospace and defense jobs but unfortunately I can't.
This is the internet. I say 'arguably' because someone out there wants to argue.
Trump just fought China with tariffs. That is not the answer and I don't think is one of the "obvious solutions" referenced. Let me put it this way...

Should we allow a factory in Indiana to avoid environmental regulation if they just pay a 30% tariff? Is it ok to have a 5% mortality rate at a factory in Alabama if they pay a 60% tariff? Should U.S. companies be allowed to just pay fees to become exempt from FDA/EPA/OSHA/etc. rules?

I know some will argue that it is the case in the U.S. A mining company can break the rules, kill a dozen workers, then pay a million dollar fine and go back to business as usual.

But we don't investigate, we don't fine, we don't punish in any way foreign companies that don't follow U.S. environment/labor/safety rules. We open the door and put their products on the shelf right next to U.S. products. The answer is not to levy a tariff to make them price-neutral. The answer is to ban them just like we should ban U.S.-made products that don't follow the rules.

If a company can pass inspection and certify that they meet U.S. rules the same as U.S. manufacturers, and still have a price advantage, I say let them clobber U.S. competition. But the U.S. company gets regulator inspections as part of their taxes. Foreign companies have to pay for U.S.-recognized inspectors on their own dime.

Same thing for U.S. soy farmers selling into China or Norway. They should have to meet the standards of those countries and pay for the inspections that prove it.
You Have No Competition
Since no one has mentioned the elephant in the room: this appears to be a lobby of countries not happy with the current absolute ban on whaling. Norway never signed, Canada has always had natives continuing to hunt, and Japan dislikes how the treaty meant to restore whale populations has become a treaty to forever ban. Thus we see the world's pro whaling group. Plus the smaller nations who can be bought to the table.

One should expect sustainable whaling to be top of this groups agenda.
For any normal citizen, pointing a gun at someone unprovoked is considered assault at best.
This reminded me of a brilliant and hilarious presentation on microservices : https://youtu.be/X0tjziAQfNQ
They weren’t FBI, they were state police. And this was more than showing up at her door: they came in with guns drawn, pointed them at people. One cop had his finger on the trigger.
You can contribute to our attempts to find the bad router card here: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1336099461622157312

Almost certainly 12.242.117.22
They aren't FBI. Where is the evidence she did it? Even if she did send the text, why do they need that many guns drawn (check out the rifle on the last guy in the vid)?
I thought maybe there were sometimes exceptions to the rule.
It’s not, but this entire thread is focused on quality of life issues, which is exactly what the “tech elite” mentioned in this article want people to focus on, and not the real reason why they’re leaving.

My point is don’t fall for their public relations spin BS.
I agree that these incidents where a sign of significant issues. My point what they said little about the US Nacy’s overall capacity for warfare. Rates of accidents that are completely unacceptable in peacetime are a rounding errors in a significant war.
My favorite neural voice is from azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

Jenny (neural)
Customer service and newscast

I like Polly from an integration perspective but I’ve been searching for some as good as Azure Jenny.

Anyone found something as good or better?
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