skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your statement on multiple levels. First, a highly liquid market tends to make speculation less profitable because your opportunities are arbitraged away that much more rapidly.

Second, speculators are not necessarily bad and add further liquidity to a market by taking the side that others may not be willing.

Third, a liquid market will of course still have speculators, but will be less vulnerable to distortion from truly malicious actors because it is more difficult to move a highly liquid market.

An illiquid and opaque market is worse in almost every sense. When things get bad, price discovery is much more difficult and bad actors can actually have outsized influence by cornering what little liquidity there is.

You seem to be biased against speculators, but the actors you should be actually biased against are market manipulators.
My comment wasn't against accounts (although I strongly suspect that I think that the kinds of things that should require accounts is much smaller than you do), it was against accounts that get arbitrarily cut off, or cut off because the account for accessing your media is tied to all kinds of other things that have nothing to do with accessing your media and for which you can be summarily disconnected with little to no recourse.
If FB is unaware of the illegal sedition they have plausible deniability.

In this case, MasterCard no longer has plausible deniability. This increases their liability.

Imagine someone at a liquor store sells beer to someone. Then, they learn the ID is fake and the person is lying about their age. Once they know someone is doing something illegal they can be held liable if they continue to sell the person beer.

Note, I'm not getting into right an wrong here. I'm getting into legal liabilities. Large companies like MasterCard are conservative (legally speaking) in how they handle this stuff.
The NWS directly works well for me. Just type in the location in the upper left. I kind of appreciate the simplicity of their website.

https://forecast.weather.gov/
You are in Spain but you haven't said where? If you are in, or near, Barcelona try to get involved in the local te h scene. There are some great EU funded incubators who would help cover all the parts of the business you don't already have expertise in, and also have a vested interest in raising your (marketing) profile.

18 months is optimistic in terms of runway. Try to raise the same again in angel/friends & family funding. It's much easier to do that now, at the beginning, than it is later on, when suddenly everything seems bleak.
Very best of luck,
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Section 230 no longer protects companies who are hosting child exploitation as of SESTA/FOSTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

And Section 230 will be gutted more thoroughly or retired entirely in the coming decade. A lot of internet marketing is going into protecting it from tech companies whose bad behavior relies on it, but both political parties in the US agree it's time is over.
Those apps, if they exist, are explicitly against Apple's App Store policy.

Usually they don't pass review.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
> If this sets a precedent, and does become the new "interpretation" for anti-monopoly laws, it would also make console business model or Amazon Kindle business model illegal.

It sounds like you think such a thing would be scandalous, but that's how it used to be. There was a time when game studios would just give Nintendo and Atari the middle finger and produce a cartridge that worked with their consoles anyway. Back in those days, the computers and consoles weren't restricted to only running software signed and approved by the manufacturer.
The erosion of the idea of personal responsibility in favor of the idea social responsibility. Combined with a complete and utter disregard for the livelihoods of the millions of people impacted by these decisions.

That is before we even consider the long term health consequences of what we're doing to people. Stress kills, too.
Was planning to stay in SF at an Airbnb at the end of the month until the order from SF was just announced that prevents non-essential travel.

Tried to cancel, no luck, out $1000. Airbnb says if you book anywhere after March it’s your fault if the government shuts down the location.

Glad I played a small part in helping Airbnb’s valuation.
Or maybe having advanced economies with better safety and family networks than the west would do the trick. Save your barely secretly coded racism for another time.
> If you want to hear a more or less alive Gaelic language in everyday use, visit rural Wales.

>Thanks, TIL!

And yet, you had the confidence to assert the above...interesting..
"It's been an incredible journey, and we would like to thank all those who have shared it with us."
Clojure has no null safety. You may encounter it less because of the foundational building blocks you use in the language, but NPEs are most certainly there.
fwiw I've had cloud vendors be relatively willing to forgive bills when something went wrong with SLAs, bad bugs, or their internal dashes misrepresented usage.

they know their systems aren't perfect, and if you velvet hammer them long enough, they'll do the right thing.
Sorry to be snarky, but I can't get any farther than to respond "this will solve everything, because nobody ever does anything illegal".
Is CSP required by any security standard?
My old manager had "optional" 1:1 meetings that were decent enough provided folks above him didn't schedule over them.

We would talk about projects I am working on, their general status and if I have blockers, if the team is working good from my POV, administrative stuff like PTO, performance reviews. He also had varying interests so there was some personality there such as what game you playing, what shows you watching. We even shared a bit of "how things at the homefront".

We were both in our late 20s/early 30s and he was relatively new. He didn't want "that manager" because lord know that company had a lot of managers that existed to attend meetings and divy work up with nothing of benefit to the team.

But, I can echo what you are saying. I have had manager that hold meetings just to dodge work and claim they did some managering that day. Yea, daily 2 hour "team lunches and planning sessions" doesn't do anything for the fact we need to get work done boss.
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Main use case is probably musicians sharing pre-release music with the press / agencies etc but I do have a pretty wide spread. I have schools, businesses, engineers, composers, producers etc. Basically anyone who uses audio files can find SongBox useful.
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AirBnB was always a regulatory arbitrage play.
Can I sue Red Hat if my software worked on RHEL 8 but they remove some key component I rely on in RHEL 9, if all my customers use RHEL? How about when Microsoft dropped Silverlight and basically killed any products built on it and the ability to put “Silverlight developer” on one’s resume? Or Adobe and Flash for that matter?

I think it’s reasonable to put some restrictions on the choices a company can make about their product direction, but just “it screwed a third party that built on my product” is a bad one.
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My whole point here is I don't understand why "Uber scale" is so large. I have worked in large organizations - smaller than Uber, but we did more stuff (as in more complexity and diversity in products - shipping software and the hardware to run it, for example).

"100s of screens" is as meaningless to me as "thousands of lines of code" and wholly uninteresting because it seems like the front end is the least significant reason why Uber requires so many people to operate. That's why I'm interested in seeing how many people are assigned to projects and what they actually spend their time doing, because at scale you begin to experience inefficiencies due to scale for bad reasons if your incentives aren't aligned. From the original twitter thread that sounds like it was rampant at Uber.

Not sure how long you've been around, but "Uber scale" used to be a joke a few years ago because no one could understand why they would reinvent so many wheels because "they don't work at Uber scale." The joke being that Uber didn't need to be Uber scale to begin with, they just had investor money to burn.
> For the specific claim made above (Biden and Trump both filled in, going to Biden), if I recall it was one of the witnesses during the Michigan legislature hearing.

To follow up on this, specific citation is below. This witness starts at 1:34:45 in the below video. (Christina Caramo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw&list=UU8Ioh4atND...
Why? Security and ensuring "It just works". Choice, freedom, and customization are enemies to both. We can see this in action with the last MacOS update. I'm not saying that I'm with either side, but these are the pros and cons.

What I'm not seeing is, does iOS have even enough market share dominance to require regulation? From what I remember they only have around 15% of the market.
Thanks very much :-)
It's absolutely useful in practice. Sometimes the library you need was written in C++, and needs to run performantly and offline. I needed WASM and PWA to make an offline Japanese dictionary:
https://birchlabs.co.uk/mecab-web/index.html
It uses WASM to do linguistic processing via the C++ library, mecab. It tells you where the spaces should go in a Japanese sentence, and what the dictionary form is of each word (so you can lookup the meaning).
Would you rather invest in a $1B / year company that has a 10% profit margin and is growing 10% YoY
or
A company that is doing $1B / year with a 10% loss due to investment in growth but is growing at 30% YoY?

Both options are reasonable investment strategies but for folks who will take a gamble to have a bigger pie, #1 is pretty reasonable. Especially if you can later cut costs and still have that 10% profit margin.
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Moon hoax: why not use telescopes to look at the landers?
Given that this is a common problem, and one that can bankrupt individuals or their businesses, when is AWS going to implement spending caps that are easy to set up for new developers or business owners?
> Pornhub said on Tuesday it had banned video downloads

youtube-dl still work great..
MasterCard and Visa will stop processing cards for Pornhub
I feel like "closed form" becomes a lot less special when you realize that things as simple as sin, cos, log, or even just sqrt don't have "closed forms" in the sense of "able to be expressed in terms of 'simpler' functions".
> Answering my own question, a little, I use figma.com a lot. But the potential seems so great, and the available PWAs so poor....

It's just that WebAssembly, like any new technology, can and usually is used in very specific paths that require it.

As a result, it's true that there is not that many full WebAssembly-powered PWAs, although the ones that are, like Figma you already mentioned or Google Earth or various Blazor-powered apps already speak for themselves.

However, there is even more apps and websites out there that use Wasm either directly or via library dependencies for calculations, graphics or even things like hyphenation - in my research https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly was one of the most popular Wasm-powered libs used across a bunch of CMS and blog platforms - probably the last place you would expect to find WebAssembly in, and yet...
18 is probably the "somewhat average" line we draw from a legal sense when we decide people are able to make and be responsible for their own decisions. Some places and for some reasons it's 16, or 21. It's not a perfect method by any means, but it protects for the most part the most vulnerable of our population.
haha well I have a family and a house etc to maintain so £500 isn't cutting it.
They should (as far as they can), and Mastercard should take responsibility as far as they can. Both should take appropriate levels of responsibility given the capacity and scope that they have. I assume Pornhub already does try to directly address child abuse that is obvious from the content, I assume Mastercard can go further and identify child abuse based on known entities in their payment system, and so on. And if both fail, they should delegate information upwards, but only then.
Google trying to get back into the social media game. because they have been so successful at it in the past.
Should we take this approach, there would be nothing left, including the internet on which we conversate here. There were these exact arguments present against it.

It's unfortunate but the reality is that every advancement in society can and will be used for illegal and immoral activity. It is a matter of the greater good.
Exactly.

MasterCard has nothing to do with verifying the legality of the transaction - pornhub, or whoever, should do their due diligence to validate everything is legal.
> It's likely the DOJ is pressuring them. Look up Operation Choke Point.

No, this is driven by public and media pressure. There was a really blunt expose about PornHub a week ago by a prominent NYT columnist.
They have hundreds of thousands of sex workers uploading and making ad revenue, and selling content, which they now won't be able to. They also announced a few days ago that uploads would only be for people in their model program and partners, so this is a huge blow to those sex workers.
https://www.corp-research.org/HSBC

Here are billions in fines for HSBC. You can say financial regulators aren’t doing enough, but you can’t say they’re doing nothing.

Where did I say anything about fairness?

There is a problem where prosecutors are rated by success and they only take slam dunk cases. That problem really has nothing to do with the laws themselves,
> From what can we see, our users can run their ML/DL loads relatively effortlessly on CentOS for some time.

Yes, containers are a god-send for those apps that require some specific version of a specific distro.

> Do you use IB on your nodes? If yes, is it easy to deploy the kernel modules?

Yes, we do. We use Mellanox OFED, which supports Ubuntu, so it's no more difficult than on CentOS. Perhaps even slightly easier, since minor Ubuntu version updates don't break the kernel internal ABI's so there's no need to wait for all your out-of-tree kernel stuff (MOFED, Lustre, whatnot) to be updated before you can upgrade.
I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

I like the walled garden and have no interest in it going away. I like that my mom can install apps and not worry about them spying on her.

I like that developers aren’t allowed to use their own payment processors. I don’t want to input my credit card into your black box payment system that might or might not charge me correctly.

I see that it does harm developers, but that’s a different conversation entirely.

If you want to install whatever apps you want, buy an android phone! And have fun while their bloat ware and preinstalled crap spams you with notifications and scams you.
When reviewing the history of ID Software I came upon an interesting fact: Back in Softdisk, i.e. before ID was a thing, the team managed a product called "Gamer's Edge", which is a bi-monthly subscription service (people nowadays would love the idea) that gave players two full games and a bunch of other smaller tools.

I'm wondering if indie teams should more or less do the same if they are not eyeing big hits, which few managed to pull off. Two months might be too stingy, but with the engine and tools built it might not be impossible to pull off a by quarter subscription?
I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
“What we found over and over was that something is happening with the mitochondria regulation that throws everything out of whack.”
I am curious, if such an operation exists, then does it stand to reason that perhaps they have agent provocateurs that post illicit content, then report it to the banks to disrupt the service?
Yeah, IDK, just looking at the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 in front of me, I see:

* Two notifications that can't be hidden, one about a postponed update, the other about a system configuration update it probably should handle on its own.

* Another unhidable notification about there not being a SIM card, but that is niche enough I can't feel bothered about it.

* Pre-installed apps I can't remove: Netflix, Facebook, Samsung Notes, OneDrive, YouTube, Duo, Maps, GMail, Bixby. This phone cost $300 more than my iPhone new

I'm glad you've never experienced malware. Unfortunately, it is common enough on Play and other stores that users have to worry about antivirus: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-android-antivirus-apps Even if users don't seek it out, many phones come with it preinstalled.
+100 because I came here to post exactly what you did. I just bookmarked this to share with my tween who's getting interested in photography and starting to ask things like "Why that camera?" and "Why this lens?"
Interesting, are you on the latest Chrome Canary? If so, could you please report a bug with a simple repro to the https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=D... link mentioned in the article?
That sounds like a recipe for the #%#%^#^ GDPR popups but 1000x worse.
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Cash also has the fundamental “flaw” of allowing criminal activity to be funded. Should the government stop printing cash?

Encryption has the fundamental “flaw” of allowing terrorists to communicate freely. Should a back door be installed everywhere?

PH doesn’t seem to be throw their hands up, either. They deploy algorithms similar to other social media / video websites to detect illegal content.

I’m not saying PH is definitely doing enough; I can’t possibly know that. But whether their effort is enough should be judged in the court. If they aren’t doing what the law requires them to do, they should be prosecuted.
And even older, Passporta Servo, that exists since 1974 and is still alive and kicking. Alas, there's no money involved so it is of no interest here.
I don't even understand it since most of these sites just have the same videos (mostly clips from commercial porn) uploaded over and over again with different titles. The actual amount of novel content is much less than the total number of videos. Clamping down on arbitrary uploads would be doing their users a favour.
Probably true. Nevertheless, positive change did happen. Let's hope that sanity prevails.
MasterCard and Visa stop allowing their cards to be used on Pornhub
The Google app on my iPhone enabled this a few weeks ago (The home section shows news below the search bar.)

The UX was extremely confusing as there was no scrolling, swiping changed stories, and tapping went to the next page. The content was 90% image and 10% text and was extremely annoying to read.

It was also inconsistent from other content, as unlike the other "non-story" items, I could not change preferences (ie ignore the content from a site or ignore the topic). The same set of stories showed up for a week before I just turned the whole feature off.
I think it's more like an oncologist who avoids smoking for health reasons being on the board of a cigarette company.
You should read the wikipedia page further as it points out an exemption for this type of case... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#Sex_trafficking_-_...

The exception for this type of case had bi-partisan support.
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Reddit and my corporate VPN went down at about the same time. Interesting...
Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree with the article’s main assertion, that startups need product engineers who think about more than just code. Engineers who can make decisions for the benefit of the customer, and ultimately the business.

This is all the more reason to delegate responsibilities, rather than tasks (as argued in Little Tasks, Little Trust [0]), so programmers actually get the necessary experience with UX, design, interacting with customers, etc., and exposure to the consequences of what they build, in order to grow into full-fledged product engineers.

I fear though that such roles, and consequently such engineers, are few and far between.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346460
> Why anyone would want this? I do not know.

its product manager at Google, looking for a promotion (and then let it rot)
1:1 meetings are just as important in my opinion as an open door policy. Yea, you are my boss's boss and have a lot more reports, you probably get pulled in a lot more directions than I as an IC. I understand why, as teams and companies grow, things get more distanced. Even Linus over at LTT laments that his new hires never get the same 1:1 time his earlier employees had.

But, the topics talked about need to have action take on them. Unless you just don't have any power at all, which I can believe. Quarter after quarter at my old company we would mention that the tasks and direction our org were taking weren't the best, would lead to problems, and that we weren't staffed nor compensated individually enough for the new work and responsibilities being loaded onto us. It fell on deaf ears and when I left we had already had almost a full team leave. Shoot, the whole reason I got that job is because they needed folks so bad they took someone not entirely skilled in that area to pick up the slack. The cycle just kept repeating and here it is, MONTHs later, and I hear the same thing.

Suppose grindhouses are good for cutting your teeth at least.
I hope when they put this on the search results page, it’s gonna be in a single easily to block div.
That's a nice false dichotomy you built.
Eve online with people? Thatll be exciting heh
Ask HN: Resource Suggestions – Agile in Manufacturing and Technology
I believe a lot of agile has originated in manufacturing [1], [2], yet it's not quite common to come across parallels. I was wondering if there are any books or resources have made the comparison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_circle
Reddit is down (10th Dec 2020)
As a French guy still living in France, I don't find Paris to be attractive at all.

It is a dirty city, housing is expensive and generally in a poor state, and there a lot of security issues and social unrest: burglaries, violent protests (almost every week), periodic riots in some suburbs and terrorist attacks. To the point that more and more in the media, you hear about an upcoming civil war.
Add that all the famous France's plagues: strikes, bureaucracy, very high income taxes for people earning more than 2000/m Euros and more recently communities living more and more separately.

There is no social unrest in Germany, Frankfurt is much safer and Germany more reliable.
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