skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sold a lot of copies of that album. Only took 10 years for it to go from talking/singing about it to actually happening, and even then it was supposed to take longer, but for once an accident of poor public planning worked out in humanity's favor.

They didn't actually mean tear it down now, they meant we should form a committee to discuss a plan to fund a study to determine how you'd go about tearing down the wall.

Then some busybodies showed up with crowbars and hammer drills and concrete saws and it was just chaos in the streets.
My concern is not for my data (because I don't care, not because I trust in Google's goodwill and governance), but Google has a sad history of mismanaging their smaller side projects.

I pray that this time, it's different, but I'm not holding my breath.
I could be a lot healthier in many ways.
Sounds good to me. This is clearly targeted at big cloud providers who have been free-riding for years on the work of open source projects.
Do we realize it?? Imagine listing all the insane things happening in the US right now. It would take hours. It’s incredible how fast people can normalize things that not long before would have seemed completely delusional.
entitled people doing what they want is a bit tautological
Notes on Running Ubuntu Linux on the Thinkpad X1 Nano
In the Bay Area masks are required indoors and outdoors whenever within 30 feet of people. For apartment dwellers there’s been no way to legally enjoy fresh air for the last 10 months.
Where does Elastic claim SSPL is open source?
Ask HN: Best source of info on pre-seed funding and early-stage startups
Hi, I'm getting started with an idea that I feel is ready to turn into a company in 2021. I've looked at some of the early-stage logistics and sources of pre-seed funding, but the information is contradictory and not well organized. I was wondering if the community here has any good resources and pointers, e.g. typical approaches to pre-seed funding conversations and valuations, company setup and other funding options, and so on. I have a few exploratory VC conversations lined up, and I think I'm lacking in resources to make the best decisions at this point. Any help would be appreciated.
Do people commonly wear masks outside in some places?

Yes. In my area it's required by law.

What's the point of wearing a mask outside?

Basically nothing other than signalling, with possible exceptions for crowded environments. Overall I expect outdoor mask mandates to be harmful on balance, by causing people to shift from outdoor to indoor gatherings.
Please tell me you’re at least if donating the $ to charity!
Given a choice between deleting things that might make me look bad and explaining the choices that I make, I will always choose the latter. It's the only surefire opportunity for me to learn.
Well, FWIW, I grew up in SF and I'm mostly Left-leaning (although I would have voted for Mitt Romney rather than Biden if that had been an option) and I'll go ahead and "own" our crazies.

I've met a few Left-wing nut jobs here over the years. I once attended a Communist rally by accident (I had a crush on the math teacher's daughter, no one told me the overnight field trip was to a Commie rally until we were already on the freeway.) Even as a kid I could tell that they were just a pathetic "religion"-without-God, I would say the lot of them (American Communists) are card-carrying loonies.

But (and you can see it coming can't you?)

But they never stormed the capitol.

Two questions for you:

1) What were they trying to do? (If they are not weird cultists?)

2) Can you think of a group on the Left like Qanon on the Right?

I'm sincere, I'm not trying to troll you or talk shit. What do you think?
I concur with the general sentiment.

I don't want to speculate too much and go into armchair territory. That said, I wonder if it isn't more productive to look at China and each country in the region based on its own characteristics instead of a regional idea. Looking at all those you cited, they all have pretty specific ways of doing things and very different histories. I think they have less in common than say France and Germany have together, but that's my personal impression.

Ultimately China has much to gain from changing the world order, just like it was natural for the US to export its values and overthrow governments back in its own heyday. It's frustrating to see Western countries reason along the lines of "1. Be democratic 2. ??? 3. profit" instead of remembering why it has historically been a successful model and working from those first principles. This veering into cargo cult and magical thinking territory is of paramount danger if China is currently developing a competing model.
Australia to kill pigeon that crossed Pacific from Oregon
The PPB were renting N50TV (FOX livery and all) for a while and using it to hunt people walking home for enhanced harrassment. The owners of that helicopter didn't feel great about being associated, so PPB moved on to other rentals out of Port Orchards, WA.

Through the summer it was possible to watch C172's on ADSB squawking as IDAHO33 and IDAHO44, circling at 3000ft. They haven't been visible on ADSB in months. I have a great view of the areas they often circle over. They're still active, they're just not squawking. As recently as yesterday afternoon, in fact.
My brother got hacked, what's the most plausible attack vector?
My brother got a desktop from Ebay. It arrived yesterday and had Windows preinstalled. He installed Manjaro, found out the wifi driver required fiddling and removed it again and installed Deepin Linux instead. And he kept Windows installed also.

A day later I discover that he has an ssh server running on his desktop and connected to Russian, Chinese and Thailandese IPs.

Other things he had running were Chromium and Zoom as he was attending a lecture.

The way I found out is because I tried SSHing into a media server that I have at his home, and I mistakenly ended up sshing into his desktop. The media server and his desktop shared the same not very secure password since he had set it up for me and he is careless like that. Because I didn't care enough about the media server I was using password login (not public key auth). Once I logged into my media server it was untouched.
BTW we aren't VIP or anything. It was probably some kind of botnet.

What is puzzling me is how his desktop got infiltrated. Because how could he have an openssh server running on an almost new installation with practically no use? He is certain he didn't do it himself. The other question is, how did they get the password?

Edit:
Through http://www.blocklist.de, I found out that the botnet once connected was doing bruteforcelogin on other targets. So that is likely how they got in. Still not sure how the openssh server was running.
You might be surprised by the plumber’s income bracket.
I was a Parler registered user and there is no comparison. If you scroll through Facebook you see mostly unflatternig selfies, ads for stupid crap, somebody's random complaint about something you don't care about, a few Trumpies from high school, and maybe 1 comment every 200 meters saying something borderline-violent about Nancy Pelosi etc.

If you scroll through Parler, you barely had to go 1 meter before there's something aggressively violent.
He said it was mom that told him "has to give it away" but Buffet guided him on how to do it.
The Case for Duplexes and Townhomes
At the same time, nobody has accumulated a billion dollars in personal wealth with a totally clean conscience. Millionaires, sure, thats an order of magnitude less wealth though. Billionaires are such a distortion of economic allotment that just to be one necessitates having such a profound influence on so much of their economic sphere that to have gotten into that position required someone else being taken advantage of at some point, and in practice its a lot of someones and a lot of harm caused. Its no different than diverting a river into a reservoir - you can make a small lake with minimal ecological damage, but when you divert into a sea or an ocean the entire environment shifts around it for some good and some ill with there always being some consequences for it happening.

For a lot of people (myself included) it is not mainly about the ethics of individual billionaires, its about the ethics of the existence of billionaires to begin with.
Mozilla on challenges and opportunities in the AI era
I usually only see people wearing a mask outside if they go by public transportation.
Your reference does not actually state anything about the average life of cars, just that reporting mileage is required for cars up to 20 years old.

20 x 13500 is 270k. I don't think that's average.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
That's a really good point.

I tend to be seen as a product lead / owner / stakeholder, so I feel like I'm being called out. lol

I think one difference is the software engineers see me as someone who is helping them by making their life easier. I'm not just throwing work at them blindly. I'm working with them. Also, they like it when I include them in the data science brainstorming sessions to solve difficult problems. I guess it's seen as exotic or something, but whatever the reason, they really love to be apart of it.
I wasn't aware of this, but apparently, yes, he does.[1][2] I think it's important to note that this doesn't have to be because he expects something in return, he could just think funding good news organizations is a good thing to do. It's also important to keep in mind that even if he doesn't expect favorable reporting doesn't mean he doesn't get it anyways as a byproduct.

1: https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-awa...

2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding
The title kinda over hypes it. "foreign account" a french programmer, not the GRU. It was some edgy french dude who was some sort of physically ill and gave all his money to similarly edgy ppl who shared his beliefs before killing himself. The title makes it seem like the GRU sent a right wing Militia money or something, maybe they did but they probs used cash.
All you need is ZF...
Parlor was incredibly lazy and opportunistic. The massive data leak and slamming by one of the most notorious sites on the internet, The Pirate Bay, suggests strongly that Parlor was not pursued in the most competent manor. [1] [2]

There are dozens of webhosts other than Google/Apple/AWS and plenty of ways to collocate directly. Even if you wanted to host something no provider could touch, you could publish a front

Picking some of the most recognizable and PR influenced companies in the world to host your publicly and deliberately controversial content is just plain stupid. They could have just seen how the pirate bay responded and copied them. Heck, since Parlor didn't host anything actually illegal, they could have potentially used the .swiss or .ch TLD since Switzerland has pretty strong anti-censorship laws.

[1] https://archive.vn/yrlwA
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/pirate_bay_cofounder_...
Engrenages, le Bureau des Légendes. You will not regret it.
Do you have any suggestions for how an economist with this specialty could better contribute to the situation than doing research like this?
Goodbye Gutwhale (2020)
Bill Gates holdings are actually pretty diversified. Most of his wealth is not in microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment
Same age, grew up in the rural southern US and this was my experience in middle and high school. Lots of fighting. Everyone who wanted to "be somebody" was under pressure to participate in it. Winning meant advancing in social rank. At some point the school cracked down and the suspension for fighting was 10 days. After that it was lots of meeting people at such and such location after school or at some party on Friday night to settle things.

Definitely tapered off the last couple years of high school, but some of the rougher kids continued to engage it. Those kids pretty quickly got into serious enough trouble that they ended up in jail, expelled, on probation. That quieted things down a good bit.
Separately, I've heard personal reports and seen a documentary about young Japanese men in general.

It was said that their mothers do everything for them and for a much longer time than other countries. Is this true?
Debugging in IEx is actually quite nice (https://nts.strzibny.name/elixir-interactive-shell-iex/), but I agree that GUI-wise there is nothing I want to use.
So, cheap expansion?
Really, why can't US and/or EU government allocate a modest sum from the budget to establish public journals and solve the problem forever. This system seems so obviously broken.
What? For years I've been trying to get my teams to start using Elasticsearch and Kibana.

For any project that relies on logging data and events, ES is a godsend. You can log file system changes with filebeat, process logs from a distributed system, transform logs, monitor hardware, etc. etc. and it's fast. I love it.

This license just makes it impossible for me to recommend it now. I don't care if it's supposed to strangle some corpos, it's now a no-go for small startups.

EDIT: It seems that I might be wrong about this? The article is just alarmist bs?
It's the result of having a good public relations firm.
It is still possible to register a domain name, run a web host, and present your speech to the unbiased, (nearly) global, public internet.

If you will indulge a bit of doomsaying, three recent trends should be more worrying to you:

- The current administration's actions against net neutrality

- ISP terms of use clauses against running any kind of server on "residential" connections

- "unlimited [insert streaming service] included!" data plans

Debate over where twitter should ban any users is wasteful bike-shedding in the conversation around modern communication.
I would trust any type system that doesn't require me to prove that my sorting algorithm maintains the length of the vector it sorts.
Toxic positivity suppresses emotions and can lead to stronger negative emotions
Same. I was able to put up with taking BART with people openly smoking meth and shooting heroin but it was my wife's safety that finally was the breaking point. We lived on the edge of Glen Park and Noe Valley and once my wife became pregnant we could no longer live in SF and feel safe. Every day I had to walk my wife to her car because we had constant trespassers in our building garage that the SFPD refused to address. The law protects criminals in SF, not the middle class. Want to go into Walgreens and steal all the makeup and fence it on Market Street? No one will stop you, but god forbid you ask the cops to remove a criminal on your property--no one will lift a finger.
Does proton use game specific forks?

I’ve always been curious, I stopped playing games shortly before steam on Linux, back then it was a mess of using various wine versions and configs on various games (or maybe I just sucked, I had far less luck getting stuff to work than others on Wine DB).
This is an alarmist headline. The SSPL license to which they are switching only requires your code to be open sourced if you are providing Elasticsearch itself as a service. This change is directed at cloud providers who take open source software and then provide them as a service for payment without contributing to the project. If you are using Elasticsearch on your backend to build search-enabled products or websites, then this does not apply to you.

Edit: Not a lawyer!
Ads are cheap compared to moderation teams.
In 3 years time all the customers can look forward to it being shut down.
ConvNets were invented in the 80s.
pg: "Twitter made a mistake in banning Sci-Hub." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1349771657485955074

To say the least.
Are you sure that overall deep learning customers are spending more than traditional ML customers? My guess: it’s not even close - financial sector is still order of magnitude larger as paying customer than those hot CV/NLP companies.
I think the reason Intel is not doing multi-die packages is because the R&D to make it work is large and they don't want to take on that risk.

What are the downsides, exactly? Thread-to-thread latency is the key one that comes to mind. It is far cheaper to make a multi-die package because yields are so much higher for any given node. The business advantages are great. The bleak picture for Intel that is being painted is warranted.
Ask HN: How hardware upgrade decreased your build time?
Are you a developer that upgraded hardware lately? What was the impact on development compilation / build time of your project? Share hardware specs, times and software stack.
The most important consideration here is whether you want to take VC funding at all, or bootstrap as much as possible. There are many fine businesses that fall into the VC game, have undue pressure to hit hockey stick growth and hire too fast. If their strategic prospects are limited, you end up having to downsize and restart.

This essay changed my perspective
https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting Not saying this model is right for you, but worth a consideration.
Also, the "muffin top" only really goes away at like 15% body fat or lower. I had a small muffin top back in college with an incredibly active lifestyle (lots of walks all the time) and a BMI of 21.8 (well into the 'ideal' range)
good self discipline correlates with lots of positive things.
Just as I thought: A test that bases its effectiveness on occult fecal blood will obviously stumble around the very common phenomenon of hemorrhoids, and only a colonoscopy can clarify better. On the other hand, if no blood is detected, there still exists the possibility of polyps or tumor growth which have not recently or yet started to release blood, making this test more than a bit unreliable as a measure of something that could be life or death.
But is that maintenance lower than the existing maintenance burden?

Even then, this is still a wildly conservative estimate in terms of price. For example, you're also not taking into account any of the things that can't currently be easily electrified, such as passenger jets.
> All kinds of changes would need to be made by you and your body just to survive. From fitness level, to body fat percentage, and so on.

Sure, but if the wimpy guy hits the gym every day and has an optimal diet (but otherwise works their desk job, maybe with a standing desk, and retreats to their man cave), would you expect that to work roughly just as well?
No the article is odd/fascinating because most people's "rent-a-person" would be a friend or family member. And there would be no exchange of money.

It's kind of sad people have to hire people to do friendly things, but this is a pandemic. And you would "rent-a-person" to move probably in most places (unless you had great friends haha).

Also this makes sense "I'm not a friend or an acquaintance. I'm free of the bothersome things that accompany relationships, but can ease people's sense of loneliness"

So you want a throwaway friend. Or a casual therapist that does things with you. Rent them. Ok I guess not as weird as first glance. We have something similar in the US - life coaches which seemingly everyone on LinkedIn is nowadays.
Who cares about Twitter anymore? Telegram has more active users than this minor blogspam outlet :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/6qcxx7/is_signal_da...
Sounds miserable.
It's a monopoly on social graphs. I don't want to rediscover and invite my friends everytime I start a new account on another service.
when you're grabbing gas station coffee for your pre-dawn bus commute to a job multiple hours away. distancing requires both time and space that you do not have. moreover it requires the social cachet to choose to be the odd man out in a peer group that has been doing high-risk close proximity labor for the entire stretch of the pandemic. this generates broader complacency since you either already got it or you're fucked anyway because if your roomie gets it you're gonna get it and if you didn't get it by now then it must not have been a big deal so why single yourself out?
How does this affect people providing “search” functionality of arbitrary items, but not Elasticsearch itself (AWS)? Where is the line drawn? Is the SSPL vague enough for that?
We don't directly recycle treated wastewater into drinking water much in the US. The closest you get is treated water being released into a river, and a city downstream uses it, there's a lot of dilution going on in-between. You'd also expect someone to notice it not affecting cities with water supplies that aren't downstream from wastewater treatment.
I thought most distros come with SSH standard? When I spin up Debian and centOS VMs I don't have to do anything special before I can SSH into them.
That's probably true for 99% of us?
Wow, he does seem like a massive jerk in that video. That said, I try not to judge people on how they acted in the past, but how they currently act. Compare that more recent interview and videos (like Mark Rober's) and he seems to have mellowed out a lot. Maybe it's all for the cameras and he's privately still a massive jerk, I don't know, but my impression of him lately based on stuff I've seen online has generally left a good impression.
This reminds me of someone saying that eventually Amazon will just start sending you things and charging you for them with no intervention on your end.

It'll just happen to be what you needed at the right time.
This subthread was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779139.
A lot of people have joked that there really is no "lockdown", there are just rich people staying home while poor people bring them things.
If the product is a social media site that emphasizes freedom of speech and not scanning your data, it sounds like they were perfectly equipped and qualified to do that.

Did they ever claim to have a well-moderated platform? I think that was the selling point.
>> decentralized

Much easier to actually use
Historically, yes. American soft-power has been arguably more important than its military supremacy.

The whole world watches Hollywood films and buys American brands. If America becomes uncool and unpopular, that will be a loss that no number of aircraft carriers could make up for.

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/jihad-hyperpanda/

https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/basic-concepts-1kyae
> This is a logical fallacy and the equivalent of saying 'you are welcome to practice free speech, in this here sound-proofed room'.

No, it's saying you're welcome to practice free speech, you just can't borrow my megaphone to do it.

How hard is this to understand? You are not entitled to use other people's property without their consent.

If twitter was actually the only way to communicate with people on the internet you might have a case, but that is completely, ridiculously, absurdly not true.
> A city with services driven by AI

That's some tell-tale bullshit right here.

That said, the video is very interesting. As well as branding - The Line. Would work very well as a setting in a sci-fi movie or a videogame.
It's just a change to make sure that those who resell ES as a service share their code.

We use AWS's ES. And, as far as I'm concerned they already open-source their version.

SSPL is actually helping the open-source community here
I have that experience with anime. Sometimes Japanese subtitles really help.
New in Amplify DataStore: Selective sync and sort functionality
I know that, I read curious if the alt right potentially thought they'd benefit from sabotaging it even more and leverage crypto as a hedge.
Again, there is no 60% requirement in the constitution, or elsewhere in law. Simple majority is enough. Filibuster is the thing that takes 60 senators but that also can be eliminated with simple majority.

Also, Puerto Ricans were asked and did consent. Their opinion really changed after the non-response to Maria. In recent global politics entire brexit happened due to similarly slim margins.