skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two thoughts about this.

First, respond to every inquiry by telling them the price is USD$70,000,000.00. And stick to that price. Many of these sleazy companies get their leads from the same "lead generators," who will eventually take you off their lists because they know your terms are unreasonable. It doesn't work for everyone, but when I did it to spammers trying to buy my mailing list, it significantly reduced the volume of inquiries.

Second, put a page on your web site listing all of the offending companies, with links to the letter you received.

Apr 1, 2021 - Company X promised $3-5k/month if I alter your search results. Link.

Apr 3, 2021 - Company Y promised $1-5k/month if I promote thier product on other people's web pages. Link.

A lot of people on HN will claim "O, noes! Lawyers! Libel!" I wouldn't worry about it. These people don't have the money for lawyers, are usually in geographies without legal systems, and don't want their names and other information exposed in a public legal filing. Plus, all you're doing is stating facts.
too many of them have stolen enough to live comfortably even in US without having to work ever again. It has always been “Plan B” for many, so they can just take that.
Nikon is Going to be Fine... Probably
Nice one Nuand, the BladeRF v2 looks like a very interesting alternative SDR modem to the cheaper Adalm Pluto educational kit by Analog Devices, the manufacturer of the transceiver chip being used by the BladeRF v2.

There is another alternative open source WiFi stack, openwifi and it has been discussed in HN before [2][3].

[1]https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-...

[2 ]https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273919
Was once approached by a company who had software that would allow me to install affiliate links on Google Searches results by installing a third party on my extension.

Had about 50k active users at the time and was making around €1.8k a month.[1]
To be honest, users were informed on the install flow and most people didn't care what I was doing. Probably how Hola unblocker still has 8M.

Google understandably told me to remove it.

Donations inside extensions offer near nothing.
Doesn't feel like a extension that can offer a paid tier.

It's a dirty but effective way to generate an income stream relatively quickly.
Even more so, if you wash your hands from it and walk away.

I'm surprised Google hasn't taken it down completely, as it breaks the single use policy.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/M4CD9CB.png
Given suborbital speeds and availability aerodynamic lift means that they can significantly limit the G's on re-entry.
Pretty sure Giuliani is just pocketing the money since Trump stopped paying him his legal fees and Rudy probably just wanted to come up with a new vertical.
That particular "bias" isn't actually a bias, it's an accurate learning about the distribution of genders between jobs in the real world. Very few professions have an exactly 50:50 balance of men and women. Most are tilted towards one gender or the other. The purpose of a correct search engine is not to reduce my "surprise" at arbitrary events but rather to give me the information I'm looking for, which will more often than not be questions about the real world - not the fever dream of some hard-left activist.
Is a pardon effective? When the person applies for a job or starts a company, and he has to declare all investigations, grand jury indictments, and prosecutions when applying for government contracts, will a pardon eliminate disclosure?
Doesn't matter if it is solar.
The thing is, many more people are using Windows, than Macs and many more people are using Macs, than desktop Linuxes. So your anecdata goes against a mountain of anecdata from people using those platforms.
I shaved my beard at the beginning of the pandemic so I could wear a properly fitting particulate respirator. If something like this had been available, I might have been able to avoid that. PAPRs were about $1000 at the time and I figured I should leave those for medical professionals and industrial users who had more of a need.

Why the mocking for people who want to protect themselves?
Company Culture: Virtues over Values
I'd wear it, particularly when I have to start commuting by bus again. It looks a lot more comfortable than a mask and (supposedly) gives better filtration.
Anarchy is simply absence of tall hierarchies.

You can have each individual community choose what OpenStreetMap tiles to use, what to censor etc.

Like HN does. What if HN was kicked off a host? They would put the backups somewhere else and repoint the DNS.

What if ICE seized their domain? Then we could move domain name resolution to a DHT.

What if AT&T refused to carry it or charge extra? The signal could route packets along other lines. No single point of failure.

It’s not just about banning 0% or 100% but the prices and friction imposed by privately owned rentseeking infrastructure monopolies. Why in a span of less than 10 years, VOIP has caused international calls that used to cost $3 a minute to turn free and have video!

The weird thing is that when A wants to connect woth B you think there has to be a one-size-fits all C that can block it.
People aren't shy about posting their grievances. Having a dedicated thread for that would just breed more of them.
Thanks dang, I’ll send an email when I get a chance today. Very much appreciated!
I don't see which actor in the industry (outside of browser makers) has the human resources to make such an experiment.
Mozilla were the one lobbying for wasm... and chromium has abandoned pnacl because of them. The only hope might be microsoft.
Oracle could do it in theory but I don't expect them to do it anytime soon.
>I really wish they would just go 100% paid and stop pretending they care about anything open/free at this point.

As a Red Hat employee for ~5 years, every line of code I've ever written professionally has been open source and licensed under the GPL. The same is generally true across the entire company (with the exception of contributions to external projects licensed Apache / MIT / BSD).

Can you explain what you mean by "open/free"? Perhaps "free beer" rather than "freedom"?
I wear a biker "buff" type of mask, which is not a mask at all and probably not even half as efficient, but it's much more comfortable and I compensate by just keeping a distance to others at stores or in town.
> assuming it is in the ballpark of true

It is. It’s very easy to generate big money with ad replacement or proxies.
I've only once seen an outbreak of locusts and I hope I'll never see one again, it still gives me the creeps more than a decade later. Everything covered in insects, as far as you could see. This was in Northern Canada, just South of Sudbury, near the Magnetawan river.

I'd never seen anything like that ever before, I had to stop for gas, saw a few insects land, went in to pay and by the time I wanted to go back to the car it was literally covered in insects, there was no way to get into it without bringing a few hundred of them along. I ended up waiting out the worst of it.

Horror movies really don't capture the feeling well.
All this serverless talk is just marketing speak for limited shared-hosting environment.
> Started streaming 9 hours ago

Still going. Don't think even stopped to eat, drink, or bio break. I'm also surprised his computer hasn't crashed or something! Really fun to watch him work.
"Goodbye Masks?"

"$199"

Well, at least the headline is helpful enough to answer its own question.
Feelings, not reason, probably applied there. At least it the logic was consistent in both cases.
Needing to scratch you face or rub your nose but not being able to is awful. They need to solve that problem first.
See also https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/08/22/remarkable-story-....
TL;DR: We use Keycloak with millions of users and it works fine. You don't have to shell out for outsourced auth if you would consider a self-hosted solution. You also don't need a team to run it.

I work for a large organization that incorporates multiple other businesses with millions of users under their own domains. After using Auth0 and other SaaS auth providers, we've settled on using Keycloak and are happy with it. Cost, security (you own all data) and extensibility were the driving factors.

+ If you have Java developers, you can extend its features via SPIs. Worked great for some custom authentication and migration flows we had to build for legacy systems.

+ It comes with batteries included: Install it, hook it up and for most cases you are done.

+ Redhat seems quite invested in it, so it has corporate backing. This could also be a bad thing, depending on your view of Redhat and which direction they take the product.

- It is a big pile of java. Since it works so well, even in cluster mode and containerized, we've never had to dig into its internals. But it is still a big pile of java. They are working on a rewrite with Keycloak X, but that is still in development.
Similar concept to what I do when programming in F#/OCaml by default. You create your data types and then they "flow" through functions. Each function is `input -> output` but bigger workflow are also input -> output.
Superweb
My (relatively uninformed) understanding was that you couldn't transfer information via quantum entanglement. Is that not correct?
I'm sure it could be done that way, but if it violates TOS then I would be wary that the bridge will be unreliable.
For those that don't use a macintosh(or don't care about imessage), ferdi is a great free alternative
Is this Chinese prototype the shape of maglev train tech to come?
Yeah, I know. But the chip kicks butt :)

Software will catch up with the M1, I hope!
iMessage integration is interesting but I can’t imagine it will last. Not sure what type of wizardry you guys pulled but a cease and desist is likely on its way. Either way, congrats. Really hope it works out as this is very much needed.
So the advice is to buy a second hand one 5 years from now?
One of my favorite YouTube channels did a "review" of this, his humor is mostly dry but I thought this video was hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZYWvUh28s
How do I get started? I put in my email like 10 minutes ago and have received nothing...
I do like this take.
When Volkswagen stood in court for dieselgate, their legal language suggested that the Software devs on their own decided to write the cheat software for diesel cars. it seems that software developers do not hold very important positions in VW
A realtime hud with audio might be the only feature that would convince me to wear something like this, and even then it better be realllly useful.
Actually I built a single sign on system for a Rails app and a WordPress site many years ago, based on Devise and probably (can't remember) some PHP code on WP. Probably also a Rails+phpBB SSO. They were meant to be short lived services and luckily they did. The reason is that in a mixed language / framework environment it's better to have some centralized authentication and authorization service and a standard API to access it. Having to write and maintain N adapters is going to take a toll on the development team. However I never self hosted a service like that so I don't want to give any suggestions about what to use.
What Is the Equivalence Principle?
It sounds like this was an issue with an independent antivirus vendor, not Apple.
It seems like media around the world is really preoccupied with the USA and the mess we have over here with COVID. At the same time, your situation sounds like an actual nightmare to me (also being an introverted person), and the accounts of others in Europe and Russia sound even worse.
Whereas we in the USA were, relatively speaking, having a great time in 2020, travelling all around the country (flying is so much better - cheap tickets on short notice and no middle seats), enjoying the mountains and parks; most of the year, dining in restaurants, going to gyms, etc. The only thing I do miss are board-game meetups, well and travelling to Russia to see family (and I guess now that we have a re-entry test requirement, I'll also miss other international travel, there are enough sensible countries to have made it possible before that). In proportion to the risk, I am taking 10-20x of the precautions I take with flu before I get a shot... instead of almost none, barely any :)

I am happy you are doing well with the situation but do wish you guys luck in sorting the lockdown mess ;)
> But that is sometimes the wrong design.

I'd say that's always the wrong design, with a few exceptions that people can expect to find only a few times on their careers.

The entire point of exceptions was to pop the errors up on the stack until you get into a level where you can treat them. The entire reason they were created was because C-style error handling consists nearly all of code popping the errors up, what made C code very hard to read. The great revolution of error handling monads was that they made popping the errors up not require extra code, thus getting the same advantage as exceptions.

Nowadays I suspecct exception hierarchies was a mistake, and that the only reasonable way to have exceptions is to have them explicit. The monadic handling normally does not copy this hierarchy and is always explicit, what makes pokemon handlers something people must go out of their way to create, instead of being the only reliable way to catch them. But going back to the C-style isn't even only reverting minor gains and keeping the large ones, the large gain is handling the errors on the correct place, that Go throws away, the minor gains are verifying things at compile time and making sure the developer knows what errors he is dealing with, that Go takes a modern take.
What does the dot command do?
Constitution also grants the power to suspend the constitution
That doesn't make sense.

You suggested they should freeze the assets of these guys ...
> If you look at, say, the evolution of the “if” statement, it was a number of years before this “obvious” control structure was added to programming languages

As described [0] and discussed [1] a few weeks ago. Fascinating.

[0] https://github.com/ericfischer/if-then-else/blob/master/if-t...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406211
They will recover, but we're not at the bottom yet.

I think the stock will hit rock bottom in early-to-mid 2022. It'll start to climb around Q2 2023 when new products on working Intel nodes are announced. Once those products are reviewed and performance is at parity or better than AMD / Apple products, it'll rebound.

And they will have to recover, one way or another. Intel is now a strategic asset. TSMC is too close to mainland China to risk losing access to, the Arizona fab won't be online for at least 3-5 years, and its capacity is tiny compared to the main fab in Taiwan. Samsung can't afford to share capacity because whatever portion of their fabs aren't used for Samsung products, the rest is locked up by NVIDIA, which literally every researcher needs because GPU-based compute is now dominant.

Intel has to succeed, and if they can't do that on their own, the United States government has to step in, in some way. They did it for a bunch of shitty bankers in 2008, they can definitely do it for an industry that produces an actual, tangible product.
It is indeed incredible. As I said, you cannot “criticize the profit” in the USA without losing social standing. Capitalism is a national religion because people think the only alternative is socialism (collective ownership of the means of production - which btw isn’t scary on small levels) and the USA fought a cold war with USSR for decades.

That’s why there will be a third party in the USA that unites disaffected progressives on the left with disaffected paleoconservatives on the right. A lot of people are fed up with the divisions.

I welcome counterpoints and debate but as you can see — there are just silent downvotes instead
It is like recipe. And in general it is the way we read books.
On nixon: might well be. But it's never happened so far, and that's because congress is hyper deadlocked by design and a ridiculously high bar of non-proportionally-represented senators need to agree to convict. Just compare that to other democracies that can switch their executive with a simple majority in one house, yet remain stable.

As to congresses deadlock being a feature: it may well have been intentional; but it's pretty plausibly a long term fatal blow. Countries need to be able to evolve, and when small minorities can prevent that (and we're not their yet, but it's moving that way), you're creating really perverse incentives for horse trading, leading to really low quality law making, and thus low respect for congress. It's not out of the question that this might lead to the nation's dissolution in our lifetimes - what happens when elections are legally stolen?

On impeachment: we'll see what happens with trump who happens to be a perfect case to check whether this feature of the constitution is more than hot air; but given how stacked the deck is against conviction, I'm not holding my breath - and if it's not going to happen now, it never will - not only was he utterly shameless in undermining the election (knowing full well that democracy is worth fighting for, i.e. raising tensions dangerously) and addition literally using combative language and calling for as close to a stormin of the capitol as possible while trying to retain plausible deniability, we're also just post election that shifted the balance of the senate against him. This is pretty much the best case scenario for an impeachment, and it's far from a sure thing.

Additionally, the current election was upheld largely because of states still sticking to extra-legal solid traditions. Those however, are not constitutionally protected; i.e. what worked was american culture & tradition (sometimes backed by state law), not really the american constitution. I mean, for scale: it's easier to throw out an election than a president, which is absolutely Not Ok.

Some of your other objections relate to tradition, e.g. such as puerto rico not being a state. This has nothing to do with the constitution; this is purely a political tradition. And indeed; many traditions are fine - while I think there's no question on the specific instance of puerto rico deserving statehood, the point is that the constitutional bar is very low despite the fact that it allows senate packing. A malicious populist could easily abuse that, if convenient, were it not for the real protection: tradition&culture, not the constitution.

The US has a solid set of traditions and an extremely civic culture; and that's why it works - not because of the constitution.
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Seattle protesters were unarmed and getting tear gassed by SPD for a solid month before SPD decided to just leave the East Precinct on their own. "Armed protectors took over gov. buildings and city blocks" is just completely false. After SPD left, some people put up some signs and blockades and that's about it.

SPD is an arm of executive branch of the municipal government. Again, SPD was beating and gassing protesters (and the entire neighborhood — gas spreads) for a solid month. That is the city's clear policy on protests against police brutality — bash the protesters until they stop protesting. Outside of maybe Sawant, who is a weirdo, no city official promoted, condoned, or "excused" SPD leaving the east precinct.

Lots of violence and murder: your implication is that the handful of shootings in cap hill while SPD were out of the precinct were caused by CHOP/CHAZ, but correlation isn't causation. (And N is also pretty small.) Outside of the handful of shootings, there was only increased violence in Cap hill after the cops left if you don't count violence by cops.
I'm pretty sure if you enable Extension Developer Mode, you won't get that nagging message on launch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons...

Sorry, it was 100k, 50 up front:

"A onetime top adviser to the Trump campaign was paid $50,000 to help seek a pardon for John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A. officer convicted of illegally disclosing classified information, and agreed to a $50,000 bonus if the president granted it, according to a copy of an agreement."

And this is not to trump, but rather to his groupies to talk to him on your behalf. At least on paper.

Still, probably a good value if you actually get it.
Recall of the Wild: The quest to engineer a world before humans (2012)
As I was reading this I was enthusiastically agreeing with the idea, but something felt super familiar about it. Then I realized this is basically the same concept as Unix pipes.

I have my little individual programs, grep, awk, sed, jq, etc, and then I can endlessly mix and match those different components to do what I want.

The limitation that I have seen with Unix pipes isn't often with the ability to process or manage the data it is that it only works if all the data is setup the proper way. As I have been in the industry longer it seems to me that most code that gets written isn't about actual computing but just centered around importing and transforming data that is expressed in different ways.

Is there something that makes reading in disparate data records easier so I can focus on the computing part of computer program and less time on parsing data?
>subpar support for a webcam, energy saving, suspend/resume, the trackpad, brightness/volume controls

Honestly this sounds exactly like my experience with linux on any laptop, including three thinkpads.

Linux is a great desktop and server OS but the UX of a laptop actually demands a certain level of polish/fit-and-finish that linux desktop environments just don't have, otherwise it's constantly getting in your way.
We probably do have the technology (money is the hard part) to build a telescope array that spans the solar system, and to keep some rockets in standby orbits beyond Neptune. That would provide for earlier detection of an approaching object and a better chance of having a rocket close enough to intercept it.
I'm a little bit confused.. I am ecuadorian (efefctively 3rd world), we manage ourselves in dollars.
I live in a somewhat affluent side of a main city, even tho I am not rich myself, and on a daily basis I see cars which are 50k+, one behind the other.
Even though this people are corrupt (most of them, tax evasion, etc..), I'd argue that US corruption would be on another different scale...
20k for a presidential pardon from the president of the US, that's the price of a Chinese manufactured brand new car.
There were dozens of ranges, too many to blacklist. Which made me suspect that it might actually be the memory controller. In which case, it's totally F'd. But given this I went for total data evac.
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These problems apply to masks too
The nice thing about executive orders is they can be added by the next guy. Would be nice to see this as actual law, and not an executive order -- but if Trump cancels anything on his last day, Biden can re-do it on his first day.
If I couldn't work from home, I would seriously consider buying one. My province has a mandatory mask order, but when I take public transit, there is always at least one person not wearing any mask and 5 people with masks below their nose. Fortunately I don't have to take transit often because I work from home.

199$ is way cheaper than the cost of a car and would allow me to take transit with greater piece of mind. But then again, it is cold here, and I am not sure whether and how well this product avoids fogging. So maybe not.