skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors can file a DMCA. If they don't, there's no issue. If they do, the law will sort it out.

Though it sounds like a flippant response, I've spent a lot of time trying to decide how to feel about this. (I released 194k plaintext books as the books3 dataset.)
If you're developing you should really use something like asdf or at the very least RVM. Depending on system packages as a developer seems kind of self-defeating.
I have huge amounts of nostalgia, from when my parents bought me a version of flash from my birthday to kickstart my whole interest in programming, to building animations and games for Albinoblacksheep - Without flash I would never have learned to code.

So yes, some people have nostalgia with no rose tinted glasses, and I would like to think I have a clue about technology.
> If the water tanker guys are able fulfill the deficiency, then you know that there is enough water.

Not if they’re taking it from folks who now don’t have enough.
IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and SMTP accounts via HTTP API
Ah, sorry! (I did wonder whether to add a temporary extension of the sale timed with the blog release but decided it would be tacky... also I wasn't expecting the blog to do well!)

Re: licensing, if you don't end up launching the first project you're welcome to use the single-site license on the second one and the software doesn't restrict you from doing that.
Eh, most messengers use phone number as the primary identifier these days. Whether I use Telegram, Signal or WhatsApp, I add people using their phone number. In the last 3 years or so I can think of one exception where someone preferred Discord but I still got their phone number as a "backup".
Presentation outlines how Dataminr sells services to foreign governments (2017)
Given the way Russia works, i expect it to be sold to scrap dealers in exchange for a couple of bottles of fake Dagestanian "vodka" :D
The legislation was to discourage tracking. Unfortunately it backfired and now the web is even more shit. Easy tracking, particularly via Google and ad networks, is considered so important to basically everyone that deploys it (metrics, revenue), that they feel it's acceptable to put the banners up, rather than develop a different way of gathering and managing the data they want.

The fines aren't large enough. Google Analytics is on 50% of all web content (I should research the actual figure). The fine should reflect the effect that has on Goog's revenue, rather than this pocket-money sum.
Well, when someone lets you off a 72k bill you generally think nicely of them. But considering Google had no way of collecting that and asking for it would have resulted in loss of other business (they'll keep hosting there and keep paying them) and this isn't like Google lost 72k or like 72k even matters to them so it's just good PR, good business to get money on the backend and faster.

I have to wonder if even if they tried to get the money would they legally been able to fight it. From my experience with judges in Europe, they would have most likely looked at the budget being ignore and then upgrading someone from a free to a paid plan without consent and told Google it was their own fault and the services weren't ordered or authorised.
> just drink any water they can, waterborne disease is rampant

Is boiling water not option or am I missing something? On a world scale having a potable tap water is more of an exception than a norm.
Back of the envelope they are estimating a little under 2 undiagnosed cases for every confirmed case. Putting our “actual” total around 42 million as of today.

I have no reason to doubt this particular study but I’ve seen other studies estimating up to 10x actual for every confirmed. It seems there is no great way to know this without some consistent, nationwide, antibody testing effort. Which hasn’t happened and by now may be too late to ever happen.
https://www.lpi.org/
> I haven't talked about lockdown measures at all

> Thats a political calculation. I haven't waded into that in any of my comments and don't intend now.

you literally began this thread by posting under the comment that questions the degree of "responsibility for the costs of the measures they [authorities] take", and you proceeded with defending authorities' actions and stating that they have their skin in the game and that they follow the science. Your comment was about politicians making political decisions and enacting certain rulings regarding the lockdown.

> Lock down measure do restrict the spread of covid - that I won't refute - and that is scientific in nature and if you are of scientific worth you can't deny that.

What lockdown measures are you talking about? Generic lockdown measures or particular measures like enforcing "face coverings"?

> It's merely physics - if people don't see each other there is no ability to transmit the illness.

If people don't see each other, there's still a physical world they interact with. They can still pass stuff around and to each other, like food and clothing, right? Or do you live in a vacuum world of abstractions where no one sees nobody and lies still like a rock?
ejecting a parasite multinational bank is also essential for independence
We are being told that markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet

For which there are two possible conclusions.

1) Free markets are unable to supply reasonably priced, high quality health care and internet

2) The markets for healthcare and internet in the US aren't Free markets.

You seem very sure that possibility 1 is the only correct conclusion, without examining possibility 2.
The "betrayal" sentiment comes from Red Hat reneging on their commitment to support CentOS 8 in particular.

Prior to this announcement, Red Hat promised to support CentOS 8 until 2029 (the same life cycle as RHEL 8), and I have no doubt that many organizations made the decision to invest in and deploy CentOS 8 based on that promised lifetime. With CentOS 8 effectively dead at the end of 2021, that leaves those organizations less than a year to find another solution. The fact that CentOS 7 will remain supported until 2024 (which was Red Hat's initial commitment) makes this situation even more awkward for the engineers that advocated for CentOS 8.

Now, you could argue that these organizations have been free-loading off of Red Hat and got what they paid for, but it's understandable why people are upset. If Red Hat had made this decision earlier (i.e., making CentOS 7 the last version), or made good on their promise to support CentOS 8, I doubt there would be anywhere near as much outrage.
>"Cai’s team pinpointed oxide trapping as the culprit by studying the

transistor’s frequency dependence

— the rate at which electric pulses are sent through the transistor.

At low frequencies, the performance of nanoscale InGaAs transistors appeared degraded.

But at frequencies of 1 gigahertz or greater, they worked just fine

— oxide trapping was no longer a hindrance. “When we operate these devices at really high frequency, we noticed that the performance is really good,” she says. “They’re competitive with silicon technology.”
Like the "tragedy of the commons", it is artificially caused by concentration of power in the hands of the few. People were well able to coordinate use of the original commons; and if it weren't for belligerent ruling classes and corporate-commercial interests, the people of the world could have handled the water issue reasonably well to day.
> The latest version of Ruby on AWS linux is 7 years old.

On RHEL 6 and 7, Software Collections are supposed to help with this: https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/h...

You can install rh-ruby26 which doesn't sound too bad to me.

On RHEL 8 there are modules/appstreams (according to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel8-app-s..., you can use the ruby 2.7 appstream today which will be maintained until March 2023).

Red Hat also produce container images for those who want to go that way. Of course you can use any container image you want... I'm only mentioning this because the ubi8/nginx-118 and ubi8/nodejs-14 container images seem pretty up to date to me... ;)
Yeah a friend of mine wanted a real cert, not letsencrypt (I don't understand how that is more real but ok), as a bit of a noob he clicked around on the AWS website and some days later had a bill op 1500 eur. They also nulled it. Still, this scares the hell out of me.
Quite literally in my specific area, the former is true, and also it's a fact the city government has put up a number of signs in the nesting area. Still happens.
For AWS you get about $0.20 per 1 million requests on Lambda.

If you get it right, great. If you get it wrong then you end up doing billions of operations by mistake, which could cost a huge amount. That's what happened to the author of the article.

But really the first lesson you should learn in any cloud setup is Billing Alarms

Alarms only tell you that something is going wrong. They don't stop it. If your mistake is costing $1000/minute and you're an hour away from a computer you have a very expensive problem.
"Somehow" is because there was nobody enforcing it, so nobody had any incentive to honor the request. Legislative approach is the only way to have an actual effect.
GDP/productivity scaled with population PRE-INDUSTRIALIZATION. It's why China historically occupied greatest share of global GDP, it simply had greater proportion of global population. GDP then was also proportionally accounted by subsistent farming. Civilization was built on the little bits of surplus left over. Post-industrialization, capital has been gradually accumulating line share of productivity. It's how US accounted for 40% of global GDP with 6% of world population post-war. Post-automation, you simply do not need that much labour for large scale widget factories. Nor do you need that many farmers. There is now a curve where excess people becomes a drain.

In China's case, even at the height of pre-automation manufacturing economy, the manufacturing sector accounted for 400M jobs. 300M work in agriculture, kept deliberately deindustrialized (until recently) specifically as a jobs program. Today, 600M subsist on less than 2000 USD per year. These are excess people. What do these numbers mean? World demand was/is literally not enough of uplift 1.4B Chinese out of poverty. That's simply too many people. The sooner China can settle at 800M (2100 estimate) the better. There's literally not enough resources in the world for China to consume much above middle income, let alone high income like the west. If everyone consumed like US we would need 5 earths. China is 1/5 of global population.

Long term, One Child Policy was the better moral calculus despite social ramifications, i.e. demographic bomb, which TBF is blown out of proportion. It's better to be less populous and rich than the alternative. At minimum wealth allows you to import cheap surplus labour to take care of aging populations, which China should be able to arbitrage internally due to income disparity. Family Planning and crudely, millions dead under Mao worked in China's favour (well minus purging experts). The alternative is geometric population explosion to support successive generations. We know from overpopulation studies that this is fundamentally a self terminating system that will exceed carrying capacity of Earth.
It's been kind of hard for me, because my visa process was impeded by USCIS. My compay has moved people to US before, under Obama presidency, and the process was much easier back then. And you're right, US is no longer a desirable place to move to, now that Biden has won.
I have no data to prove this, but I feel like TS is far more widely used than CoffeeScript and Dart have ever been.

Support for Dart in Chrome was added before Dart was popular (if you can even consider it popular at all). Since TypeScript is already popular now, I think if Chrome added support for stripping the types and running TS code as JS, most devs would welcome that.
Well, I don't necessarily mean just creativity in that sense but also where you have a problem to solve and during a walk or shower you get that flash of inspiration, a way to solve it that comes from your brain making unexpected connections... I find that one of the most satisfying aspects of the work.

Though maybe I'm lucky in that I have very broad architectural responsibilities in my job...
This isn't about the technology used. The issue is that the tracking is not disclosed to the end-user at all.
Yes, I was obviously being racist instead of talking about decreasing the amount of people going out to restaurants and other public places, which is the main focus of the current containment measures all around the Western world.

And if you think that one set of containment measures is better than another (masks vs shutting down travel vs closing down public places), then that's a separate discussion to OP's comment who clearly stated that one political party tried to contain it while the other one did not, which is complete tribal nonsense.

PS - you should apologize for the racism comment.
I'm under the impression: Because it's all in the marketing. There is no incentive to build a "proper high-end" fully active system for 500 Euro when you're outcompeted on price and marketing by a manufacturer offering a "pretty good but not quite high-end" 400 Euro system that sounds good enough for all but a few (and then you're all of a sudden competing with much more expensive systems as well).

Also, your estimate seems off to me. I don't know your personal background, but prototyping a good-sounding speaker cabinet takes time beyond a few hours. Even more if you're aiming for mass production. Add to that the DSP + n-channel Amp board, this will be expensive, even when building 10000, AND it is not trivial circuitry to design.

Also, "proper high-end" is a relative term. When researching which speakers to build and where to source chassis, I found a nearby "proper high-end" manufacturer integrating realtime measurements of cone movement into their DSP corrections...
In Rawtherappee you can choose which demosaicing algorithm to use.

http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Demosaicing
> What makes you think that public ownership and distribution is so effective?

Its ability to address needs rather than wants. A free market does not distinguish between the need for people to drink and the need for a billionaire to fill his pool with freshwater in a drought.

This can extend beyond non-survival needs to societal needs. Society "needs" educated workers who can contribute to the economy. Society "needs" you to be connected to other workers either physically or electronically.

Public ownership allows us to address concerns that would not be appropriate to be driven primarily by profit motive. Typically we see this in the form of services rather than the direct transfer of physical goods. Most people believe communities in remote regions should have similar access to utility networks and transport, the ongoing cost of providing these typically outweighs the revenue that could be charged, so the state steps in.

The fire service is a fairly universal example of a service that should not be driven by profit motive and we have good records of the damage that occurs when they are. The military would be another, it is not in society's best interest if your primary form of defense is willing to work for whoever will pay it the most.

> And what are the limits of these benefits, so that they only apply to important goods? Why wouldn't we want even goods of lesser importance enjoy these benefits?

Current governance can be inflexible, it usually requires taking everyone's viewpoint into account to minimise the risk of failure or of being viewed as misspending public funds. Our solution to this at the moment is to allow private enterprise to operate in the areas where the extraction of profit is likely to cause minimal harm. This increases choice but the downside is that it introduces a huge amount of inefficiency and waste.
Google earned more than 100 million with current solution (by automatically setting the cookie) and will earn much less by waiting for the user's approval... So maybe they just waited for the first fine...
The reason why this never become a reality? Religion. The religious party/side will never agree to teaching critical thinking in the school.
Europe is resource hungry when it comes so social spending. Budgets are huge, and a lot of money is being spent. Some of that money is not even ours, it's just other people buying our debt.

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

I do question myself sometimes how much longer this can be maintained. Our world is changing fast, and it's not like Europe is losing the game, it's that we are not even playing it.

We will eventually need to do something about it. What exactly needs to be done is definitely debatable.
I'm Romanian and have many Polish friends. This is not even remotely accurate, except for basket cases that I have yet to meet.
This is kind of one of those shocks most people will get when they goto those countries. Just as you said, even the well off have to fill up their water tanks daily and hope they don’t use it all up. I have no idea how everyone else gets by, but certainly in the west we simply take water for granted.
CVE-2020-6016: Critical Flaws in Valve’s Steam Core Networking Library
Azure has it for some plans [1], but not others like pay-as-you-go. It seems arbitrary.

1. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...
Music or Podcasts? Commuting, Meditative Walks, and Solitude
What are the top recruiting trends in 2021?
So just because a company has a patent on "X", say some very specific mRNA stuff, it has to disclose all its other non-patentable production secrets? That seems unreasonable.
Report a Vulnerability on an Mod System
No worries, in that case the licencing for a single site is permissive enough :)

I'll have a look at the documentation and might sign up :)
CENSORSHIP, Gov't needs to step in and force Google to split off YouTube.
Covert microwave weapon “most plausible” cause of Cuba “health attacks”
Co-founder of Kyso here. We will be opening up the platform before the end of the year. So going forward, it will be free to teams of all sizes. If anyone is interested, feel free to reach out to me at kyle@kyso.io
> As others have pointed out, anti-monopoly legislation os largely about preventing firms from abusing monopoly power to increase prices. If you consider the cost of using a social network to be the data the user provides, then the more data the user gives up to the use the social network, the higher the cost.

Unfortunately this is a wildly speculative argument, which is unlikely to find favour with regulators in this case.

Even if it weren't speculative, how do you define the value of data? Is it by bits and bytes, or as the expected lift from incorporating it into a model? If I improve FB's/Google's ad models, do I increase the cost of all of their users? That seems ludicrous to me, but maybe that seems fine to you.

> However the cost that users pay for engaging on the platform is the use of their data. So I guess what I meant by aggressively increase the “price” of advertising was referring to the hidden cost of Facebook being able to serve adverts in the first place.

This is a trade. You and I may think this is a poor trade, but it's one that many, many users make (and like) daily. In no sense is it a cost.

Additionally, if (hypothetically) one chooses to make advertising-supported websites illegal, then that leads to FB (and Google) shutting down, which I don't see as a net positive for the world. (Certainly most of their users wouldn't think so).

> By purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp, at the time the two biggest threats to engagement on Facebook the website, Facebook the company are able to coalesce the three networks, making stickiness stronger, making it easier to raise prices (consumption of user data in exchange for adverts) and thereby abusing a monopoly position.

So I don't agree with your argument about prices, so I'm not going to engage with it further (if you need to explain what a standard term means in the context of your argument, that's normally a warning sign).

However, IG had 20mn users when it got acquired. The consensus here was that it was a terrible idea and that FB would shut it down. We're now in a world where it has 1bn users and mints money for FB. Now, it definitely looks like FB acted badly.

But consider the alternative. FB are blocked from buying IG, so IG need to set up a sales team, an adevertising method and epxand globally. None of these things are cheap or trivial. There does exist a world where IG competes on a level-playing field independently, but I would argue that at least 80% of the time, this hypothetical leads to IG either under-performing or flaming out.

And to be fair, at the time of the IG purchase, the biggest threat to Facebook was mobile (once upon a time, FB had no ads on mobile).

Whatsapp again, should have been stopped by the EU, but there were little to no competition concerns raised within the US based on that acquisition, as nobody in the US used Whatsapp at the time.
> MDRS

Is it Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station ? Space nerds tend to abuse acronyms almost as much as developers.
You are free to host your video evidence on your own website, following your own internal moderation rules for what is deemed credible or not. No one is taking this right from you.
Governments are great at investment. Its just they don't reap the rewards life a firm would. If every company had to 'license' the discoveries and tech funded by taxpayers there wouldn't be much of a private sector.
A. One. And then let one GNU user call BSD user to change a bulb.
> The CNIL rejected the companies’ arguments that it had no right to impose the sanctions because their respective European headquarters are in Ireland and Luxembourg

So they are fine with taking French money, but want to be above their laws?
How to Segment a Target Audience
I only skimmed after the part about him having three side hustles and a podcast.

Focusing on one thing instead of four is the key to success.

Spreading yourself too thin is going to lead to frustration and burnout.
The government has told people exactly what to do (stay away from large groups, don't have large gatherings for thanksgiving etc). People didn’t listen. Thats why they had to take the next step. It sounds like an opportunity to educate yourself about COVID.
Europe is fine. Europe will be to the world, what Switzerland is to Europe.

I agree with you, that it has to focus more on innovation. Regarding quality of life for the average person I would take the stability of a Northern European country over the US or China at any time.

Examples for things Europe is also missing: Opressive governments, gang shootings, school shootings, people without healthcare, social scoring systems, polluted rivers, forced labour camps, denying of facts like evolution or climate change.
AWS pricing is not obscure, it's just not for you. So in that sense, you are correct to not see a reason to move to the cloud, but your advice does not apply to everyone.

And I don't believe they make "more money" that way at all. AWS margins are either very low or very high, and the higher margins and prices tend to be the "simpler" ones: packaged, managed products such as Redshift that are billed on fewer tiers and flatter prices.

When you design your application with AWS, pricing has to enter your design considerations. For example if you are designing something that will interact a lot with S3 you want to minimize PUTs. You want to minimize ram usage on lambda by streaming rather than buffering. Etc.

AWS is not a suitable product for playground stuff. The only reason it gets used as such is because it's easier if you're already using AWS for other things (or it's you're already very familiar with it).