skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So NOAA and the NWS are playing 3D Chess against AccuWeather whose been loddying against them for years? Now, unless AccuWeather wants to start paying for the data they'll need to start lobbying for them... I love it.
Yeah it’s not difficult to implement. The question is, are there offerings that are as easy to set up like Cloudflare?

If you implement it yourself you still have to set up geographically distributed servers and a syncing system, as opposed to registering an account and changing a pointer in DNS.
XScreenSaver 5.45
I really wish it was done in-browser - then we wouldn't have to deal with shitty UIs and dark patterns.

The DNT (Do Not Track) header was far too simplistic, and completely unrealistic.

I'm imagining having to specify a purpose when creating cookies, such as "session cookie", "advertising", "tracking", and then dealing with consent using a consistent, built-in browser mechanism.

Would be really interesting to flesh out this idea and get feedback, in the unlikely case that it hasn't been done before...
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. These are definitely good reasons for someone to resign. They're also reasons that benefit the resigner personally.

I think that's a good thing, and people should take care of themselves, but it reinforces my suspicion that resigning in protest is self-serving, and not usually beneficial to the person's cause. Again, nothing wrong with being self-serving, unless the resigner tries to frame it some other way.
Making a support contract dependent on restrictions on distribution sounds a lot like imposing additional conditions on the GPL, just with extra steps.
It seems like measures to ensure Rocky is permanently well-funded and never captured would be an advisable precaution. Under the circumstances.
Then use a shortcut :)

What about the (naive) users that d'ont use uBlock and similar tools and d'ont even know they exist?

BTW Goatcounter collects potential personal data. The querystring is not removed, is stored and presented to the website owner.
But are the rates for Clojure failures more or less than Java?
I don't understand, is one year of work considered to be a lot in the start up world? There are many businesses taking loans or living on credit for much longer than that until they succeed, I don't understand what is the big deal.
The same could be said about people like you. You've completely overlooked the negative impact that their business has had on millions of people.

An inspiration for wealthy white men in tech? Okay, sure.
No mention of Synaptic anywhere? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_%28software%29
Predates anything here by 5 years. Similar functionality. Yes, nothing is technically for sale in Synaptic, but it's a graphical interface to install thousands of software downloads. What am I missing here?
Prototype Android looked like a BlackBerry.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/05/24/android-was-born-on...
This 100%. From the tweets it sounds like the problem they were trying to solve was to make the app more modular so it would scale better to more devs. There were/are well established patterns for doing so in ObjectiveC. The Swift rewrite was not necessary and probably took a very difficult project and turned it into the death march that the OP describes.

They should have solved the architectural problem incrementally without adding a 1.0 language rewrite to the mix and then slowly rebuilt the app using Swift.

This is so obvious to anyone with experience it seems pretty evident that the decision making process there at the time was deeply flawed.
Do you not take any legal deductions on the taxes you pay? I'd imagine you are a tax avoider too.
I do wish Paul Graham would fix the certificate on his website. https://www.paulgraham.com/
>Windows/IE literally wasted hundreds of millions of person hours by being leaky, insecure, virus-prone crap. You could - if you chose to - make quite a nice income out of sending out phishing emails on our open email system. Likewise for randomsware, only more so. And so on.

And so your argument is that Microsoft should have forbidden anyone from using a different browser engine (like Apple does) to make things safer ? What if someone installed Chrome or Firefox - that could have leaks and then you would think less of the platform - right ?
I just do it for the low latency. It's incredible how quick requests are made and answered.
“Well done” us the only way to order In N Out fries. My family loves “Animal style”, but the onions give me heartburn. YMMV
Note that some of the dropping platforms advice doesn’t really help here, or only helps coincidentally, because the App Store serves you a device-specific app binary.
Exactly. A friend who worked at Oculus said they had the most over the top tricked out work stations and he was just doing testing.
The fact that they aren't party to this lawsuit?
It's not the medium that's the problem. DOCSIS 3.1 and 4 are capable of 10 gigs down. DOCSIS 3.1 is good for 2 gigs up and DOCSIS4 capable of 6 gigs up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Comparison

The reason you're getting 6 megs up is because of your ISP. And that's the reason your connection sucks, not the 200 down. For anything but large downloads, the difference between 200 down and 1000 down would probably not even be noticeable.
That's insane, but does make sense. I can't relate, I live with my girlfriend and all we have is:

My laptop

Her laptop

My phone

Her phone

TV/Chromecast

Never felt the need for dedicated devices just for music/browsing
The problem isn't knowing or not knowing Clojure.

The worst codebases (and that is true of other languages just as for Clojure) that I have seen are ones done by people who are intelligent enough to learn every feature of their language and any little trick available on the internet but haven't yet had the chance to acquire the wisdom on when to use them or what to use them for.
Demand for computer science graduates continues to outpace supply
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I've been commenting on this thread and I'd like to add a disclaimer. While I'm not a Fauna employee, I've been paid by Fauna to write articles that have been published in their blog. My opinions are my own though.

That said, I've been using and studying Fauna for almost a year now so if you have any questions let me know!
Why do you think video media networks get cult-like following over radio or print (in that order).

Radio and video you can elicit emotion. Video, more-so. Ever listen to Tucker Carlson? His voice is almost hypnotic and he feels like a friend, one I'd love to punch, esp. for making me think that.

Limbaugh? His voice probably makes some people trust him, or build a rapport with him.

It's all about psychology, just an observation I've had recently. I find if you try to listen to news without 'clinging to personalities' and 'personal biases' (not an easy task), you can get more 'facts', than 'opinion'. Sticking to print media from trusted publications is another way, but then - 'trusted by who' leftists, rightists, centrists?

I'd love to see a media network that's all round table discussions - but you've got like TYT vs FOX vs CNN vs MSNBC hosts on each round-table. At least you get ALL view points, opposed to one.
I mean, I’ve seen people post things on Twitter that would make me not hire them[1], but it was usually the actual words and not the way they’re posted.

[1] anyone remember that weird thread about Beau Brummell inventing toxic masculinity?
Recently Privacy Badger by EFF added a way for sites to detect if the user has it installed https://www.eff.org/gpc-privacy-badger
The headline may have changed at CNBC, but it now more accurately says "FDA panel recommends approval of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for emergency use" (emphasis mine). The next, and final step, will likely happen pretty quickly:

> Following the advisory committee meeting, FDA’s career professional staff will consider the input of the advisory committee members and continue their evaluation of the submission to determine whether the available safety and effectiveness and manufacturing data support an emergency use authorization of the specific COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...
Well you've got another month to think about it.

Personally LIDAR on the phone sounds a lot more useful to me than the iPad, and I say that having a 2020 iPad Pro.

Knew I was going to upgrade my SE to a 12 Mini with no LIDAR (based on rumors) so I sprung for the new iPad instead of looking for 2018s on sale. Nice to have one device with LIDAR to play around with, but it's super awkward to wave an iPad around to scan things.

More than anything else, I think it was pushed out as a developer kit to get the hardware in people's hands and apps ready to go before it hit the mass market with the iPhone 12 Pro.
They frequently ping home for those vital security updates, see @internetofshit.

AWS’s outage taught us Roombas download the floor plan at the start of every cleaning session.
> 2% of households are probably networked to actually use gigabit

A decent wireless router will do a gigabit, right?
I am shocked at this number too. I see so many homeless throughout California, and not just in the big cities, but in the small towns.
Majority of Polish people is pro European, however like in few other places in the world, unlucky series of events caused populists to reach to power. They used old divide and conquer techniques, seized media and manage to destroy some democratic circuit-breaker institutions. Since more then a month there are huge protests in the streets, despite covid. Worst case ee have to wait 3 years until next elections, but let's keep fingers crossed.
The biggest gigabit fiber selling point for me is having a symmetric connection. The "gigabit" cable internet available in my area is 960/30, and as a big self-hoster, that's not close to enough upload. I run nextcloud, media streaming, backups, etc for about 10 people, and my connection is always maxed out. I'm starting to move backups to local RPi's at my parent's/in-law's to save some bandwidth, but it makes management a bigger pain. I would love to have gigabit fiber, or even 100Mbps upload...
"No one will ever need more than 640k"
> The fact they were able to quickly halve their fee due to public sentiment and some lawmakers sniffing around means that competition was not working to even that out to costs plus some profit already

Apple's scheme was basically a flat tax but clearly they determined they could make it progressive with minimal effects on revenue. They could go even further if they wanted to: since the top 98% of apps supposedly account for 95% of revenue, Apple could basically eliminate fees entirely for the bottom 98% without greatly affecting their bottom line.

It's somewhat like how 96% of the US income tax is paid by the top 50% of taxpayers. So income tax for the lower 50% could be reduced drastically with minimal effects on revenue. A gradual/progressive tax scheme is more desirable than a strict step function to avoid weird paradoxes where your net income can go down even as your gross income increases (which is a problem with the Apple scheme.)

Regardless, having some entry fee (e.g. $99 developer membership) is probably helpful for reducing spam apps.
You should just detect bit color?
I figured it was some kind of COVID effect. Also, tastes are probably changing just as many users get the hang of the previously popular house styles of commenting, so patience from more established, better read or experienced users is extra short.
I wouldn't mind a recommendation engine based on my RSS feeds. But when I subscribe to something via RSS I want to see all of that feed. I can manage unsubscribing myself.
CRUD apps can be done well or poorly, just like any other product. In some ways, the difference might just be in tolerance for poor design in business outcomes. But it's not the case that every CRUD app must be god-awful.

Gread developers do great work, subject to the needs of the business, regardless of the difficulty of the problem.
As someone who works with big data, having gigabit at my home is phenomenal. With a full gig tunnel between the datacenter I connect to for work and my home (and only 1ms latency) it's pretty much like I'm plugged into the rack.
The building blocks for location based AR are pretty much all there:

- Azure Spatial Anchors (iOS, Android, HoloLens, ROS) [1]

- Google Cloud Anchors (iOS, Android) [2]

- Apple Geo Anchors (iOS & not all locations so not ready for use yet) [3]

Integration with these SDKs is pretty easy, and Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are production-ready. Minecraft Earth for example used Azure Spatial Anchors for shared multiplayer AR experiences. Infopop is nice, but doesn't have multiplayer or long-term persistence, so not really useful as-is. But wouldn't be surprised if it eventually uses one of these SDKs to provide better multiplayer + shared relocalization. You could probably throw together a rough version of Infopop in a week if sufficiently motivated, ARKit does a lot of the heavy lifting there.

[1]: (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/spatial-anchors/overv...)

[2]: (https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/java/cloud-anchors/...)

[3]: (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/argeoanchor)
More Americans are shoplifting food
>You will think that too when you reach 40

Oh please, get off your high horse. I'm only a couple years away from 40, many of my friends have adult children, and I don't think the average 20 year old is some drooling idiot who can't handle life.

Most 20 year olds are smarter, have more self control, and more financially savvy than my parents, who are in well into their 60s.
Reminds me of
https://www.pcg-random.org/party-tricks.html
finding Hamlet and Romeo in RNG output.

So perhaps the trick is to develop the game with normal content, and then spend a lot of cycles finding the desired output in some easy to predict RNG and then you don't need to ship the data files, just the (presumably long) seed of the RNG

Of course it would be always the same, but I guess that's ok.
What is an airbed? I’ve never heard of it/them, and google just gives me hits for inflatable mattresses.

(I suspect this may be the reason it isn’t discussed)
You might be able to get an insurance company to sign on to that sort of thing; have you shopped for quotes?

They'd probably want to look at a representative sample of "cloud overrun" events and see how much they cost, how likely they are, what reasonable measures could help prevent them, etc. But they aren't strangers to taking unusual bets.

Apparently a lot of big moonshot / X-prize type competitions fund their prize money through insurance. You present your research stating why the problem is hard, the insurance company works out how likely it is for someone to manage the challenge, and they come up with a quote for footing the bill in the unlikely event that someone wins.
> The "gigabit" cable internet available in my area is 960/30, and as a big self-hoster, that's not close to enough upload.

More importantly, 30Mbps is barely enough to ACK a 1Gbps stream of packets.
I think there is a larger portion of regular folks who dislike the nutty behavior on both sides (I'm one of them) and just want to move on to more important things than the current fake-outrage news cycles over irrelevant drama/gossip.

We might be screwed in the short-term, and if people out of choice/ignorance no longer care about certain democratic ideals, then it is impossible to force it upon them. Having said that, I trust people more than I trust systems. So it might take time, but I believe we're going to get past this eventually.
One problem in understanding the actual issues with mass immigration is the intentional conflation of culture, religion, and race.

Religion and culture are HUGE parts of a community's behavior and race almost isn't at all. To use the largest and most brutal example, the UK rape gangs are 97% Pakistani. It isn't because of race, but because of religion and culture. A religion that doesn't respect women and a culture that doesn't respect the law.

The two people I know who got banned from FB for pointing this out are a Pakistani expat and a Qatari Arab. It's not a racial thing. They both very persuasively show that it's structural issues in both the country and in Islam that make this almost expected behavior. Much like how the thin-blue-line might seem noble to police but obviously just leads to abuse. So these people trying to criticize their culture to improve it, much like everyone calling out the USA, christians, police, etc, were shut down by the white people who assumed they were being racist - towards themselves... Much doublethink.

When you come along and call out reasonable issues as 'coded racism' you're never going to stop the rape, and at best you're just going to cause racism. "No," they may think, "I didn't say that person was X race, but you are, and you're really defensive about it. Maybe you're on to something." But it almost feels like that's the goal these days. Accelerationists picking fights in everyone else's name, trying to burn down the system at all costs.
This has happened with PDFs where they just scaled a black square image over the redacted text.
> XP was supported for 12 years, iOS 12 was officially discontinued after 1 year.

Also a pretty false equivalence, though.

Windows 7 was a paid upgrade from Windows XP.

iOS 13 was a free upgrade from iOS 12.

Devices that shipped with iOS 10 got 11, 12, 13, and 14 for free.

(Some/many/most/all) will probably continue getting future iOS versions for free.
Does AWS implement spending limits? I would think that would be sufficient, if not, at least a start.
> Yes, it can, but the question is who is going to decide it.

The real question (for a business) is whether the profit of doing business with a company is worth the potential liability. In this case, PornHub has a rather high profile legal overhang which makes the liability potentially very high.

> I am pretty sure that Google and Apple and Facebook and Amazon they somewhere fund or support knowingly or unknowingly some kind of criminal activity.

Look at how quickly Google pulls content from YouTube based on the first sniff of a DMCA claim. Businesses have zero interest in fighting a legal battle for a third party.
Not sure if it'll work for you but I was successful in getting a same-day courier for the 12 Pro for $9 where shipping it would have taken a month.
>What happens when the dictates are not as benevolent?

OP literally answered this question.
Buy a different phone.
you think there is rampant theft of water in the US due to fire hydrants? I have never heard of that, do you have a source?
These are all concessions to the user experience that harm both consumers and developers.

You Download the Netflix App and it Doesn't Work if you don't already have an account.
Happy user here too. Well done! I wish you had an iOS version. Cheers.
You seem to be making an unfounded assumption. It's entirely possible GP has a balanced view that accounts for both Airbnb's positive and negative impact.
Write tax laws that are clear, simple, automatable and enforced. Then people will pay tax.

Complicated tax laws beget complicated tax dodges. At this point no one in the UK or US or many other countries is able to answer a simple question like "Has this company paid the amount of tax we intended?" It's all gray areas, and it's all your fault, not the foreign companies'.
Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks
In Defense of Mutual TLS
You are right about the sink cost, but ignoring a very real risk. Taxing capital gains to the point where the investor has negative returns drives capital offshore to places where it will be taxed far less or not at all. It turns honest citizens into tax cheats, and we already have too many of those.
What do you find confusing? Would be interested in your feedback.
+1 to all of these, with a special "My God, game patches" comment. 40GB day 1 patches are barely newsworthy these days. Keeping a library of games on your computer (or console) patched can easily run you hundreds of gigs a month.
YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online
I'm an author of 19 academic textbooks (my latest one published in 2020), and our publisher style guide still requires that Internet be capitalized.
FDA Advisory Panel Votes In Favor Of Pfizer Vaccine
You’re forgetting the opportunity cost.
I was in Afghanistan for this. A huge portion of our field radios and cryptography devices were affected by this. I want to say I remember a crystal diode having to be replaced. These are used for timing.

Interestingly, the Marines keeps a stock of non-crystal diode radios for exactly this event. We had enough radios at the time not to need this, but cool to see this event was remembered by someone other than myself.
> When there is no competition the prices are higher. That is one way the consumers are harmed.

They can also be lower (a monopsony), because the middleman in a two sided market can extract value from the provider and deliver it to the consumer. This is how universal health care, Amazon, etc work.
Nope! Don't need this, don't want it. Google finding new directions to continue their search and ad dominance.
Well, the real question for all cloud providers, for which I expect crickets as an answer, is:

Why don't cloud providers allow setting a budget which cannot be exceeded? A simple, 1-click way to say: this account should never go over $500 a month. Just stop creating resources or responding to requests if it does.
It's very hard finding high quality things that are cheap, and it's very easy finding low quality things that are expensive.

Rule of thumb is to read the 3-start (and below) reviews for anything that you're planning on buying. 4 and 5 stars are generally customers who had been paid to write those reviews.
Strictly speaking, one of the uses of eBPF is a DTrace-like tracing tool but it's also used in quite a few other places (for instance it's also used for devices cgroup policy in cgroupv2).
The future of observability with Charity Majors
From reading his comment the goal of the ad spend isn't to get a lot of visitors, but to get enough visitors that you can measure impact. So you don't need a big push, just enough that you can check if people want what you are building and compare again later after you make changes.
Brave doesn't replace ads. You can do either, or both of:

1) Block existing ads (like any other ad blocker)

2) Opt in to Brave ads (which are served via system notifications).

If you opt in, you can get "paid" in BAT. You can cash this out (from an exchange) or donate them to the sites you visit.

Realistically, it will never be an amount worth cashing out, so I suspect most people donate it to the sites and content creators they like. Thats what I do anyways.
JFTR, Till now all MilkyTracker 1.02 (previous release) packages in official Unix-like distro repositories (except FreeBSD) has CVE issues; in MilkyTracker 1.03 it was fixed.[0,1]

[0] https://repology.org/project/milkytracker/versions

[1] https://github.com/milkytracker/MilkyTracker/issues/224
Generalised: avoid cross-trafic turns.
I bet lots of those markets have been robbed, both by governments and other people.
Ah an excuse for me to work.
We’ve working on this for one of our side projects. When you have hundreds of calendars and need to find availability for some of them on a timeslot, or fetching the slots for a period of time (I.e, a week) it becames hard really fast.

We are evaluating if it may be interest on it to release as a separate SaaS.

You can find my email on my profile if you want to discuss further your needs.