skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since more people are LARPing as journalists than ever before this doesn't surprise me.
We will look back on the ruination of journalism as a profession as one of the most consequential changes of these last two decades.
> If the the only value of your hosted offering is the hosting I would expect you to get eaten by a company with cheaper hosting costs than you

By this logic Google and Amazon should just own-all-the-things because they have the cheapest hosting costs?

> I'm talking specifically about a clean-room reimplementation of proprietary add-ons that typically make up the "enterprise" version of lots of software.

I don't know what you mean here. As far as I know this is not what is being discussed. Amazon has done no "clean-room reimplementation" here.
As a Californian who lived in Texas for 2 years, I'm surprised the lack of really great BBQ here isn't what your friends and family bring up.
Had the same thought but with kinesis
SCIM is a pleasure to implement compared to SAML, no doubt. You might be able to get away with only supporting SCIM, the main thing you'd be missing is "just-in-time" user provisioning.

But given that you'll probably need SCIM at some point anyway, probably a good idea to start with SCIM, and then add SAML only when you need to! It'll also inform what subset of SAML you actually need to implement.
"If there were one and you wanted to change it for security reasons, it looks like you can’t and with the vendors denying it’s existance"

How is this not fraud? If anyone can just lie with no consequence, how will the consumer ever find a company that does take security seriously?
Very difficult to sell something named "Shitlist"
I think what they're trying to do is force Apple (and other OS makers) to provide the ability to uninstall built-in apps. So, your iPhone will come with Apple's default messaging app, but you would potentially have the ability to uninstall it.
> This is LONG overdue and I hope it at least shows users as much info per app as Google Play does where you can inspect the permissions the app requests/requires

This is not that feature at all - iOS has had the ability to show/control permissions since they have had permissions, and an app cannot require unrelated permissions to function.

This is about data that is collected, and how it's used - not app permissions.
Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
I agree here.

Apple's privacy changes might seem like a good idea from the outside, but essentially or paradoxically leads to higher entry barriers for new competitors and cement the role the actual players have.

However, we do not have experience with so-called "big tech." It is relatively new, iPhone came to light in 2007. So I regard Apple's measurements as another experiment, and we will see how things further evolve.
Running a script as sh script.sh returns only script.sh, thus, you've already got SELF, but you wouldn't get DIR.
Interesting that Singapore also is the 4th least corrupt country per the Corruption Perceptions Index - one of the biggest discrepancies with the Democracy Index.
It's obviously hard to describe, but yes, I had a very hard time thinking in words, but simultaneously I also had intermittently very racing thoughts. But as an example, imagine you're sitting home alone deciding what to eat for dinner. I have quite a verbose thought process where I almost pose questions and answer them to myself, like "Pizza? Naah, I had it yesterday, and it's quite fattening, I haven't worked out all week, I should get a sallad instead".

That was totally impossible to do. I could speak those things out aloud, but I couldn't really do them inside my head. If someone asked me a question, I couldn't prepare an answer in my mind before speaking. And those existentially depressing places my thoguths sometimes goes to were also not accessible.

I expressed it to those around me as "I can't think", which was obviously not completely true, but I think I was so focused/grounded in the pretty overwhelming experience that my mind couldn't really waste CPU cycles on wandering or evaluating what the best answer was to a question.
Is imposing restrictions on foreign companies bad?
A bunch of major apps like Discord do/did that too.

WhatsApp also occasionally tries/tried to access photos for no reason, which I caught thanks to iOS 14's "Would you like to give this app access to more photos?" prompt.

Then there's Instagram: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-...

It was iOS that outed them and not Android. This is why I prefer Apple to the other major corps; they're still the lesser evil among the sea of villainy out there.
Right. Grafana is a low maintenance application to run -- its just a web interface in front of various databases. More interesting is managed Prometheus, which it looks like they've also announced today.
> Naively I would have thought every keystroke sounds the same

Even if the keystroke sounds were identical at source, the acoustic environment between the key and mics (key position, shape of the surrounding keyboard area, position of hands, screen etc.) adds its own unique reverb signature too.

Speaking of mics - a lot of laptops have stereo mics. That's enough to start locating the acoustic source spatially by phase, in addition to the other characteristics.
I'm responding here to willstrafach 's claim that "The IDFA is just a simple static UUID. It cannot do a very good job at preventing fraud" and wil421's earlier "Can you explain how Apple’s anti tracking measures are going to hurt small business and make fraud easier?"

But yes, of course IDFA can be used for things other than ad fraud detection.
Torn paper thing (and the whole blogpost) is prob a marketing team only thing. Actual product interface looks okay to me.
Mysteriously, a number of the twitter feeds are no longer available. Perhaps the good professor grew embarrassed with her naked show of bigotry?
Wistron violence could sour Apple's 'Make In India' plans
> Journalists stoked and promoted race riots for most of 2020, took part in them

Citation needed
But that's because the non-trivial stuff, the real meat of the core product, is free right? Almost every dual (or more) priced (core) source available (at least) is enterprises with the money subsidising it for people/companies for whom the alternative is not to use it, not to pay for it.

If you have any emotional response like that it's 'ransom', then you're probably not the target audience for the enterprise tier.

(And I don't mean that you don't need/can't make use of features hidden in that tier, just that if there are many in the same boat, then the provider misjudged the contents of that tier.)
Isn't 10% too low a number to consider a platform systemic?
>> Nobody is equal under the law because we've allowed ourselves to diverge from this simple principle.

We've never diverged from it because it was literally never true, at any point in history. But back to the main point - maybe look at it this way: diplomats are offered diplomatic immunity as a courtesy. Countries basically say to each other "look, we're not going to bother your representatives, if you don't bother ours, deal?". Same reason why embassy terittory is technically out of jurisdiction of the hosting country. You could also ask "how is that fair?". Well, perhaps it isn't - but international diplomacy requires some concessions on each side, and that's the concession we agreed on to have good relations with each other. Diplomats are not bothered, embassies are not bothered - but both can be kicked out if needed. Good arrangement if you ask me.
Who are these people, and why do they get more say?
I assumed their level of "trustworthy" comes from them consistently flagging content or issues of the platform and those reports being valid, as some sort of reputation system, and not some users being selected for more arbitrary reasons.

I could be wrong though.
Out of curiosity, why the desire for anonymity - particularly if the subject matter is technical in nature?

I imagine it considerably harder (not impossible!) to convert anonymous blog posts into contracts/job leads, compared with something that has your name and work history attached.

Of course, I'm not ignoring the very real potential downsides and repercussions to writing online about politics, religion, drugs, etc - but based on your posting history here your interests would do plenty fine on a general purpose blog.
Yeah, PA gives a small discount too.

It depends on how far someone is willing to downsize. Many 1500sqft single homes in that region are paying about $8k-9k per year in property tax. I guess you could cut that in half if you live in a row home of about 900 sqft. That can be a big lifestyle change depending on one's hobbies (gardening, keeping a classic car, beekeeping, etc may require more space). Not to mention $4k-5k could still be around or over 10% of a retired persons income, or even working families too (Philadelphia has the highest rate of extreme poverty of any city in the US measured as families of 4 making <$12k per year).
That was also my impression from several high-profile instances of journalists being arrested this year. Here's one specific example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/minneapolis-cnn-crew-arres.... They're arrested for not standing where they were told, but at least from the portion of the interaction caught on camera, the journalists just seem confused about where they were supposed to stand and were willing to follow instructions.
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"average" is "mean", "median", or "mode" depending on context.
I get the feeling you are talking about Elastic here, and I 100% agree that core authentication and security features (and sane defaults) being "Enterprise" is a bonkers decision.
Ask HN: Analyzing Ballot Images of all 50 states?
We have all this amazing computer vision algorithms and machine learning. Why has not someone created something to analyze all of the ballot images across all 50 states?

It seems like could settle all these conspiracy theories, disputes, and just move on.

Is this a bad idea?
From the EU perspective, this is aimed at disentangling fundamental services for the general public from private corp monopolies. Good in principle, very difficult to implement?
My understanding is that California has pretty good laws for allowing employees to move on to other companies (specifically, I think non-competes are illegal there).

It'll be really interesting to see if the fertilization still works as well in a state like Texas that's ok with things like non-competes, etc, being used to limit employee mobility.
Google's Search Quality Evaluation Guidelines [pdf]
Doesnt save link as a PWA make it behave like yet another electron app with regards to key capture?
AWS Lambda Running Puppeteer in Docker
Yeah I dunno about this, and the grafana service. They’re not exactly complicated to run on their own. At this pricing you may as well be on Datadog.
looks good! I take it you're the developer of konva as well?
That’s like saying people get addicted to hard drugs and spiral out of control because they want to.

The games are clearly using, I’d argue, unethical tactics to get players addicted.
I see them as very different; in my personal experience, sailing offshore in a gale was type II fun, cycling an hour a day is just not the same.
> I've also realized that networking is the only true "hack" in essence to get past the drudgery of coding interviews

Good social skills are essential to managing a team. It's less a "hack" than just a standard characteristic people hire for.
Plenty has also been written about the bugs/issues that have cropped up that are only visible when inspecting what regions/nodes/cgroups an issue is coming from [0]. My use case wasn't exactly `pod=...` but it was very similar. It was more like `device=...`. Also, for a huge application, it's not uncommon to have 100s or even 1000s of metrics that are important to application health/performance. Constantly saying "do you really need X? It will cost us Y" will lead to an extremely under-monitored application.

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/sre-...
Definitely do-able, Google wrote a blog about how to do exactly that on the GCP Cloud Shell a while back so not unreasonable to do the same on AWS:

https://medium.com/google-cloud/how-to-run-visual-studio-cod...

And Hashicorp have one on using Terraform from GCP Cloud Shell:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/kickstart-terraform-on-gcp-wi...
I've read (and like) Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere but I fail to see the connection here. Is it just the name? Because I don't see any other relation to this product. It's as if I released a tool called Silmarillion and it was just some productivity app or whatnot.

I CTRL+F'ed through their "about us" page and no mention of Gaiman, either.
What If Covid-19 Measures Killed Flu Season?
Just wondering, why use this over Spring + JPA? Does this support reactive data patterns or something? I don't see much in the way of differences. Just not sure what makes this different to what's out there
My secret source tells me we might see the rise of JarJar. That should please every die hard fan
Show HN: A CLI for Using AWS Secrets as ENV Vars
The older I get the more I noticed a need for exclusion. At this point if I get a girls number, if anything is off about her I'll almost immediately delete it.

I recognize the wrong person can derail my entire life.

Took alot of pain to get to this point. It's better to few friends than those who will bring harm
I see - just curious, in what way is it mostly misused and can you be specific about how I've misuse it? I'm still not convinced I've misused it but would like to know so I don't do it again
“you are safe because your security vendor says it detects the SolarWind DLLs”
This is the trend of the past decade. More and more people are expected to work as replaceable drones without any real career advancement, or a shot at affording retirement, house, or family/kids. But the social pressure resulting from this is cleverly redirected. Instead of being passionate about starting their own business (and competing with the former employer), they are now passionate about policing what others can say or do. Instead of creating a new cool product, they create rules that others must follow in fear of being canceled.

This costs nothing on the corporate expense sheets, but makes the society increasingly more toxic.
While sales figures are 'Financials' the actual figures are just reports.

so something like:

## Marketing
- ##.## Reports (as a timestamped pdf etc)
The faq you listed says they would not count you in that case
> The app store needs to be eliminated.

Oh fuck NO. Apple has saved me from scummy apps more times than I can remember. They always refund without question, including when I fell for Match.com's "Pay up to see how many bots like you" scam.

Right now I'm fighting to get my money back from Couchsurfing.com (they started throwing a "COVID contribution" prompt on the app and the website that blocks you from doing anything, can't even delete your account until you pay) and they're flat out ignoring me. They use a custom payments system. If it was a regular In-App Purchase, Apple would have refunded me within hours by now.

Anyone clamoring for the protections of the App Store to be abolished is very likely someone salivating to prey upon users.
Inattention-to-detail as a service? I love it!

Hire me to do a half-assed job so your infrastructure can randomly fail to make it more resilient.
I agree. It's also a good and healthy attitude in life not to assume past dreadful events will repeat forever. So moving along, peeking here and there. See how it goes.. being curious. A bit.
Seems like a convoluted system to tax people based on property while still making it means based. What was the reasoning they gave for not just using an income based system, which should more implicitly align with one's means?
How Tail Call Optimization Works
This legit brought a tear to my eye.
FYI, the creator of Elixir, José Valim, was at Platformatec, but then formed Dashbit.
How is the landscape different in EU? Are there specific laws about publishing falsehoods. Apart from libel I guess
Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Group Video Calls
thank's for the nitpicking, fixed to "piques". :)
Three ways not to hire ethical hackers
> Most startups don't care about taxes or regulations.

Yes, but they care about cost. And the reason that everything is so expensive in California is regulation and taxes. Acting like these are separate things is not a valid assumption.
That is a big red warning, considering not much changes if you enable it. Though, seeing as the "human clock" doesn't work on humanclock.com - it does seem fair to have a message... and congrats to them for making it work mostly perfectly without JS!

Most of the internet is just a blank page. I want to get some tshirts printed up that say "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
The way I understood it, many only apps triggered it because either the old API didn't offer a separate meta data access function, or they didn't know that they should use it.
I can think of a lot of journalists if it is your definition. Some are not defined as journalists in my country, but other are.

I think, rising with WWW, James Randi and his followers are more and more numerous and reach further than they did. People that 10 years ago i thought were in weird places.
Yeah, that's ridiculously cheap.
From AP https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-the-counter-home-test...:

“Initial supplies of the over-the-counter test will be limited. Australian manufacturer Ellume said it expects to produce 3 million tests next month before ramping up production over the first half of 2021.

A company spokesperson said the test will be priced around $30 and be available at pharmacies and for purchase online.”
Looks cool, but maybe wait until after the new year before blowing up production on the team :)
> That's the real concern here. Speech must be handled very carefully, but now we're elevating some specific people to be 'more equal' than others? Who are these people, and why do they get more say? I can see that opening a can of worms.

Well, who are the people that censor all other kinds of media? As far as I know movies are censored (Motion Picture Production Code, Motion Picture Association film rating system), music is censored (Parental Advisories), TV is censored (TV station licenses), radio (radio station licenses) is censored, news paper are censored (I can't find the exact reference).

The roof hasn't fallen because of existing censorship, or am I missing something?
> I am not saying that they are better or worse than traditional press, which I have a strong aversion to, I am just saying ...

So you’re saying you just don’t like the press, basically.

Except maybe the press that says what you like?

Because tbh everything you wrote just sounds like a lot of authoritatively-stated opinion.

Which tells me that you’re either uneducated about facts-, or, looking to shift the conversation away from facts.

For that matter, what’s wrong with activism? And activism against what, specifically?

You don’t even mention that. Just “activists”.

LOL I watch twitter too and didn’t see what you saw. Here:

https://www.opb.org/news/article/aclu-sues-portland-oregon-p...

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2020/06/07/portland-reporter...

“ Video taken from a helicopter by WW's news partner KATU-TV around 11:45 pm on June 6 shows a person filming police in Chapman Square, until an officer turns to him, hits him with a baton and twice pepper-sprays him in the face.

... “‘As the man sputtered and spit and gasped, I, for reasons that I'm sure are clear, shouted to get the fuck off his neck,’ Farley recalls. ‘This is the moment a fourth officer approached, reaching for his baton.’

Farley says he believes officers targeted him because he was filming the arrest.“

Press-activists indeed.
If your intention is to hinder foreign competition, then yes. If it ends up doing that then I’d expect the US to take it to the WTO.
Case study finds Covid-19 infection can impact identical twins differently
Really? That’s basically the premise of every JavaScript web framework.
Cruise lines are offering over 50% off
As funny as this is, Chaos Engineering is not just random failures. It's causing known failures to see what happens. They may be a surprise to the service or even the engineers running the service, but someone should know what's happening so it can be turned off and so things can be monitored and recorded and hypotheses can be proposed and tested.
> ... traditionally, police have understood that they're somewhat more likely to be held accountable for abuses of power toward journalists. It seems likely that is primarily for the same reason that e.g. a tech company with a bad policy is more incentivized to fix it if it happens to stub the toe of anyone with an audience.

That's exactly what I see as problematic with it. When the only way to get google to fix something is by having an audience, that's really bad. When the only way to get society to fix something is by having an audience, that's really bad too.

There's an analogy to product reviewers. If the chef gives something different to the reviewer than they give to everyone else, the review isn't useful or is even misleading. When something happens to reviewers or journalists, it makes front page headlines. Until then, it just happens more quietly, which is dangerous. I'm just tired of the media not making a stink about important things until it happens to them, then suddenly this things is Import and and it Must Change Now.

> The other parallel I think folks are drawing is that abuses of journalists in particular is a common feature of dictatorships.

Totally agreed. I don't think we should withdraw protections from journalists. We need everyone to get the protection to see what's happening with their own eyes, talk about it, and post about it.
If I want to create completely open-data workspaces, does that mean I need a $5 per viewer license for everyone that accesses it? Or would it not be possible to allow public read-only access?

Something like this: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/
Reminds me of the Congress movie, based on The Futurological Congress but only slightly as it goes its own direction. In it actors sign off on their image to the movie studios, the studios no longer need the actors only the rights to put them in movies. They can create them in anything they want, always young, always available. This gets extrapolated out further as the film progresses.
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427756
Python's static type system can express what you describe using TypeVars or overloads. The issue is that `int pow(int, int)` is fundamentally incorrect. If the exponent is a negative integer, the return type would need to be float.

As evidenced by your comment, most people forget about negative exponents. The vast majority of usage is positive exponents; people expect an int back when they do `pow(2, 2)` and returning a Union or float would result in annoying false positives.
If you find awk unreadable, maybe check out this link?
https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

I actually find awk very readable. It's a far simpler language than Python really.

The exception is perhaps if you need to do something complex, like parse a csv.
Revamping Storybook’s Addon Ecosystem
My assumption would be it's a lot more difficult to reverse engineer apps on iOS.
Strange argument your making there. One of the interesting side effects of free speech rights is also the prevention of forced speech. After all how can you have free speech if someone else can force to express views you don’t hold?

Why should my right to free speech trump your right to not be forced to speak? Equally what right to I have to force any corporation to publish and distribute speech they don’t agree with?

Based on the argument your making, you’re saying that I have the right to go to your home, plaster it with posters that you disagree with, then prevent you from removing them.

Does that sound like free speech to you?