skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the cost of hosting the end result. How much of your precious time did you spend building your site in a way to make 'static site hosting' (i.e. a file server behind a CDN) work? Did you put time into some CI workflow on Github to precompile the site and push it to Netlify? Did you mess around with Netlify itself to build what you want?

I can do exactly the same with a cheap VPS running apache and PHP and a deploy is little more than an SCP or FTP upload away. I don't have to worry about a build pipeline at all.

I'm not aiming this at you, but in general I'd love to see how newer engineers would tackle things like deployment if they couldn't rely on some SaaS offering.

Or are we talking about static sites that are static because they do all the server side stuff on the browser, and you're pulling down things like react and graphql to render a blog post?
? No! I don't mean F-it. I want to know what's going on.
That "fledging" social media company was personally funded by a billionaire media family.

At what point do we stop pretending that a company with access to tens of millions of dollars of funding (or more) is a "fledgling" company that isn't responsible for its own failures?
What happens when the fuel pump goes in reverse?

Also, anyone ever take you up on the hot meal?
I don’t mind working from home and have been doing it predominantly for the last few years.

What I’m finding hard is the lack of social life due to lockdowns and social distancing and not being able to travel (most of my friends aren’t close enough to meet up with in the park or whatever)
Microsoft invests in $30B driverless car company Cruise
SCons Releases 4.1.0
Do you deem there to be a difference since presumably the children's parents love the child but still choose to have them work? Again, I don't believe child labor is ideal, but I do wonder if there's really a comparison to slavery, which was entirely compulsory.
I thought Soviet resistors went to the gulag
Such a lazy, and hateful attack. Your post doesn't belong here.

We're talking about terrorism here, and your first reaction is: "But what about BLM?!?" They have nothing to do with each other. Your assumption is that people didn't condemn the violence this summer. They did. You just choose to ignore it so you can keep your political nonsense.

Get a grip.
As someone who is sympathetic to both cultures, this has been painful to watch. Now that it's time for the powers that be to punish the red tribe, the blue tribe is all too happy to join in the authoritarianism - eg feigning outrage at the gallows (ignoring the guillotine symbolism of the past year), assertions that speech must be policed, and calls to take right-wing terrorism "seriously" (meaning attack red tribe protests with the same zeal as blue tribe protests).

Really, the government is demonstrably out of control from its charter, the economy has been coopted by the bankers, the deep state is a thing (for better and for worse), and the ruling class gives no shits about We The People. When asked in the right way, grassroots of both tribes seem to agree on these things! But rather than having any consensus, the division is stoked by journalist clickbaiters and other political hacks.

The tech angle is how such nonsensical propaganda took over the red tribe so strongly - why they went "full retard" with the covid self harm and election theft hoax, well past the expected fomented-division of hating on BLM and "antifa" bogeyman. Some of that is surely due to the charismatic conman figurehead, but not all.
This is the best example of what "Show HN" is for!
Next up, build quality of Mercedes is superior to cars costing half as much. I kid just a bit, but it does make that price tag go down a little easier. The question for me becomes: will they sound better and last longer as a result?
In my mind one of the biggest negative effects of the Electoral College is that it doesn't just provide more/less national voting power, but in many cases effectively strips voters of any power over the Presidential election.

Unless you live in a swing state, you generally know how the Presidential election will turn out in your state. So if you're in the minority in a non-swing state, you know going in that your vote will have no effect on the outcome, it's effectively just going to get discarded. If you're in the majority, your individual vote still doesn't have a lot of power, anything over the 51% is irreverent and effectively discarded.

With a popular vote, every single vote counts. No matter how big the majority or how small the minority in a state, every vote still has power. Nobody's vote is invalidated by where they happen to live.
Let me then phrase it thus: this article puts it as if this be some revelation.

Everyone would know that Apple surely deals with companies it knows use slavery and child labor, because Apple produces batteries and there's no other way.

It is as if one præsent it as a revelation that Apple consumes fossil fuels, despite claiming to be environmentally aware.
Ask HN: Which PDF reader do you use on Linux?
I read a lot of PDFs, and I cannot find a good reader on Linux.
Evince does not support tabs and has no history navigation (back/forward). Qpdfviewer does have those features, but lacks proper text selection. Okular requires a big installation and KDE libraries, which are fine if you use KDE, but I don't. There are many other minimal readers, but they are too basic for my needs. Session persistence in a PDF reader would be nice too.

Which one do you use? How do you like it?

I think there is big room for improvement in this space. Nothing comes close to PDFExpert on the iPad...
>Amazon tried to push off a core cost centre from their business

This is absolutely not true.

Customer reviews were conceived of as a barrier to entry that could not be trivially recreated by competitors. They were also conceived (naively, as it turned out) as inherently more trustworthy than anything created by company editorial/review staff.

There was never any question of "well, we could do reviews ourselves, but ... nah, let the customer do it". The goal was to harness a subtle kind of network effort to do both of (1) improve the usefulness of the site for users (2) create barriers to entry.

[ EDIT; s/others/users/ ]
(#2 amzn employee)
Virtue signaling? Instantly on it, never miss a chance. Attack actual problems with the same determination. Nah.
If the game was good it wouldn't be resold in first place
You make a good point, but keep in mind that nothing will create a culture of distinctiveness from the Fed and group-cohesion within a state/region than imposition of rules that are popular nationally, but highly unpopular in said region.

As of now, the Federal government still treats cannabis like it's supremely harmful, with zero medical use, along with other DEA schedule 1 classified drugs. This is about to change, but since the 1990's, there have been locations in the US where a majority of the population reject this.

California was the first, and eventually in 2014 you had Colorado become the first state to wholesale legalize it, in spite of Federal law. Along with those movements, came a feeling of identity as a Californian first, an American second, that became particularly strong when the Feds raided businesses which complied with state, but not federal law. The people who really wanted legal weed increasingly viewed the Fed as an overreaching, far away tyrant. Imagine what it will be like in states that embrace low taxation if the Federal Govt is controlled for 3 consecutive decades by the party that represents city dwelling voters? Just like the reaction from Californians and Coloradans when the Feds raided citizens in their states for activities made legal at state level, it will help fuel anti-fed sentiment.

I think that's the risk we run today:

City residents are upset with what they correctly view as an intransigent, backwards system that gives too much power to small states and rural residents. They want to tilt this more in their favor, and correctly state the common sense "every vote should have equal weight" argument. The issue is that the construct that ties these states together always assumed that each state would have some form of pure democracy, and that the coalition of states would funnel each state's democratic desires into the Federal construct that was, by design, not democratic.

My view is that the majority of citizens, most of whom don't even care to know about US history at a remotely detailed level, and don't understand that the system they want will gradually erode the benefits of staying in for many states, and simultaneously raise the costs. Resentment grows, and next thing you know you have a secession movement.
Oh sorry, you are correct. The president commuted her sentence. I got confused with pardons today.
I bet if this supplier had started churning out broken or otherwise lower quality parts, Apple would have forced them to sort it out in fewer than three years.
I mean, yeah? That's how the first sale doctrine works?

If you don't want people to resell your game, then make a shittier game. Or something. I'm not really sure what it is you're actually complaining about.
I hope your prediction never comes true. It's terrifying to think of the human element in art as niche. It's a kind of dystopia our scifi authors warned against decades ago...
I particularly appreciate Sam Harris' take on the event in light of the prior BLM protests : https://samharris.org/podcasts/230-insurrection-lies/

It's interesting he notes the ripple effects BLM protests in the capitol coming to head here. ~28:03 in the podcast

>[00:28:03]
It could be something that reaches all the way to Trump, or it could be due to the fact that the mayor of D.C. didn't like the heavy handed federal response to the BLM demonstrations that happened in D.C., in particular when Trump orchestrated his photo op in front of the church. So ironically, it could be a fairly woak mayor is resistance to heavy handed policing that left the capital undefended. That would be amazing to have that be the underlying cause of what is now being alleged to be proof positive of the truth of white supremacy and white privilege governing law enforcement in this country.
True, many banks charge unreasonable fees for international transactions, but that‘s fixable: There is a very competitive market for international money transmission.

You‘re probably losing out much more than $13+$15 on bad exchange rates in the process too, so you should definitely shop around for options.

Chances are that the same transaction on Bitcoin, including conversion fees between your client‘s currency X and BTC, and BTC and your country’s currency Y (which you definitely will need, if not for food, then at least for income tax) is more expensive.
I made the snap private, and archived the repo.
How to Visualize Your SQLite Database with One Command (and Nothing to Install)
Germany has a considerably larger population than the UK, and the German public broadcasters are equally terrible as the one in Austria.

Good series or programs produced by public television you can count on one hand. Literally.

Indeed, they also invest most of their money in entertaining old people. This may be due to the aging population, but I'd rather assume it's good old grifting.
Yes, come to think of it, I have never heard sirens of emergency services drive near at night, but I have occasionally heard them during the day.

How odd. — I rather value my sleep.
The winds that day were fairly strong (looked like 15+ knots, with many of the flags being fully horizontal). It seems like tear gas would be relatively ineffective as a crowd-dispersal agent in strong winds.
Oh, most certainly they have abused it, no question about that.

The problem is if either side folded at notice / notice response step, then that abuse is visible only to platforms that receive those notices, not to the courts.
“Be the first to see” except you know the person who photographed the item, and the person who wrote the item’s description, and the person who fetched the item from storage so it can be photographed and many more.
I see less than 1% cpu usage and 200mb memory usage and 4% spikes while serving my personal website or fetching an IPFS resource.

(Though on a Linux system I also modified the low water setting up to 1000 peers and the high water setting to 2000 peers)
> Apple discovered additional workers as young as 14 years old during an audit just three months later.

While this may sound terrible, it's not that uncommon in less developed countries. I had my first job when I was 15 and that was one of the most exciting moments. I'm pretty sure those 14 years old are as excited as 15 years old me–eager to work and make money. It would be a breaking news if a supplier were to _force_ children to work, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case here. Those kids do want to work and they are proud to be doing work for Apple.
If your organisation uses the Apache v2 licensed Elasticsearch or Kibana in its projects or products, it must now assume that it is at risk one way or another. It can upgrade to version 7.11 of these projects, thereby accepting the terms of SSPL and potentially also being required to release the code for its entire stack (a great deal of which it will not have the copyright over and will be unable to release, thereby potentially being in violation of SSPL). It can remain on version 7.10, but then it will no longer receive future updates, including important security fixes, thereby taking on another sort of risk.

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearc...
Requirements Are Dangerous
>Far-right terrorism in the US has never really been taken seriously.

Tell that to Ulysses S. Grant.
I think version history doesn't work the way you think. It seems to be supported when you use Microsoft's cloud storage product (which I do not use):

> Version history in Office only works for files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint in Microsoft 365.

> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-previous-ver...

Or alternatively you can sort of hack it with track changes, but it's not automatic and there is a long list of caveats. In short, track changes is really intended for a single round of changes on top of a base document, not for permanently tracking the changes on a document over its entire lifetime:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-previous-ver...

Now maybe a Word expert will come along and tell me how to do it properly. :-) But even if they do that sort of proves my point, which is that Word is a large, complex piece of software and even if it hypothetically supports some feature, doesn't make it intuitive or easy to use in that way. (Or that you won't hit a bunch of corner cases when you try to use it.)

I do stand corrected about the find-replace formatting, so thanks for that. But on the other hand, I don't think it really contradicts my point either.

To be clear, I do think Word serves its user base! For low- to moderate- tech savvy users, it's does exactly what it needs to. And I'm not saying everyone should switch to Markdown. But for those of us who have the technical chops to go beyond it, there are some real advantages to working with other tools that shouldn't be discounted.
There is one point in which emulators are better than consoles in every way, except the nostalgic aspect, and some competitive aspects which only apply to serious competitions.

bsnes/higan can run every Super Nintendo game ever made in an accurate way, and can make use of shaders that can make the games look better.

Since the emulator is a process running in your computer you can use a software equalizer and make it sound better too.

I can use a cheap wireless controller that looks and feels just like a SNES controller.

As a result the experience for me is much better than with the console.

Dolphin can support resolutions that are higher than that the Gamecube and Wii did. You can run Super Mario Galaxy in 4k if you want.

And I do not know about other emulators but you get my point. Consoles were great but it can be cumbersome to set them up.
How does RISC factor into all of this? China is working on its own chips after Trump poked the bear. It wouldn't surprise me if, seemingly out of nowhere, they suddenly started promoting and selling RISC chips and compatible motherboards at competitive prices.
> bring macOS up to Linux level GNU with brew.

Ugh, not even.

Simple and straightforward shell scripts that work on decade-old Linux distributions don't work on Big Sur due to ancient macOS bsd tooling.

Just look at stackoverflow or similar sites: every answer has a comment "but this doesn't work on my macOS box."

(I've had to add countless if-posix-but-mac workarounds for PhotoStructure).
You can also use the unlock in my experience. But, yeah, searching for a car is my use case generally.
Could you please stop creating multiple accounts like this? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

That applies 10x when said accounts are breaking the rules, as you've unfortunately been doing. If you want to pick one account and want to commit to following the rules, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know which username you want to use.
I think "child labour" being unnacceptable is a pretty new concept. On one hand "childhood" is, I think, a relatively new concept - at least the idea that you are somehow incapable of doing things once you can walk. Children all across America do minor chores today, but in earlier eras those chores may have been much more physically intense. Children being able to not work is, IMO, just another luxury that specialization has brought to society.

In addition to childhood being a new concept I think it's also a concept that isn't consistently understood globally with some societies seeing eighteen as the margin of adulthood, America seems to view 21 as the common margin of adulthood, and in developing countries that barrier to adulthood is going to be a lot lower - a larger proportion of children will be required to be self-sufficient at a younger age.

That all said - I don't feel any hesitation in forcing companies that deal in western markets to obey western ideas around childhood. Economic hardship isn't easy to solve, but openly allowing companies with the ability to bear the cost to exploit the dissonance around when adulthood happens internationally to further their own profits is something that's very easy to come down hard on.

If Apple, as an example, felt morally compelled to allow child labour to raise families out of poverty they could, alternatively, just dedicate more money to charitably funding social programs in those countries instead... but that's specifically for the case where money is entering a country from outside - domestic child labour is a more complicated issue and I feel like it is significantly more justifiable to ensure that people gain better access to health, safety and good lives.
Does that use Cloud Run? I haven't tried Google cloud yet because I thought I'd have to learn Kubernetes. I have an aversion to learning Kubernetes because I still can't figure out what problem it's trying to solve. Admittedly, I probably haven't gotten far enough with cloud hosting to know what limitations I'll hit yet though. Some ok answers here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55786955/whats-the-value...

The computer science part of me just looks at a Docker swarm as a big graph. We should be able to balance a load if we just know the remaining CPU capacity of each container. But I look at the astonishing complexity of all this stuff (not to pick on k8s too much) and my first thought is: never have I seen so much code do so little!
How does seed compare to aws cdk pipelines

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continu...

I know if I go the route of cdk pipelines I will need to implement my CI/CD pipeline on my own using cdk. I want to know what are the other advantages of seed.
Because the car engine won't run without a computer, the ECU, telling the spark plugs when to fire (among other things), the ECU won't do that without establishing that some cryptographically secure element is within sniffing range, and in my experience as a computer programmer over many decades it's hard enough to get a computer to do the correct thing when it's cooperating. If it actively trying to get in your way, go around it, or under it, indeed anything other than trying to persuade it to be helpful.

FYI, for well over a decade now even plain looking keys that you put in a lock and turn have some RFID thing inside of them the car authenticates against, before it will cooperate. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32826625117.html

Still, you may have a point. It don't know what it's like in the USA, but in Australia this has lead to a corrosponding up tick in home break & enters. Since the car can't be stolen without the key by doing anything less than towing it away, they steal the keys. Regularly.
The US coffee tradition is both not very strong and made without pressure (drip/filter.) Most places use espresso level pressure even on larger weaker coffees. The stovetop moka is still typical for occasional coffee drinkers and is lower pressure, but still made stronger than drip coffee.

If you add an equal quantity of hot water to an espresso that is the European cafe attempt at emulating an American coffee, but it still has different taste because of the pressure.

I don't think Europe is as obsessed with aribica beans, robusta is common and actually quite good. In drip coffee, arabica is really the only thing drinkable or the closest to drinkable depending on your perspective.
I suspect they thought there'd be more complicity or active support from the police/guards. bringing your guns out in the open directly would have been too visible a giveaway up front, giving people time to react/block.
I’ll go ahead and say it -compulsory education is up to age 15 in China and “Apple discovered additional workers as young as 14 years old during an audit”.

It’s not worth closing the supplier down immediately for this. I also expect they have adults with families to support in the workforce.
I hear the application counts as a kind of contract - plus it requires disclosing information to them.
I don’t think there’s really a good solution here... Anyone can go rogue anytime.

Stack Exchange attempts to solve this using three methods: their “reputation” method (gamification), elections, and paid moderators. If you can prove to the community you’d be good, you and a few others are “elected” community moderators (happens once a year?). If you get 10k reputation on a single site, you get access to those moderator tools as well.

And for those with less, you get a smaller set of the tools. For example, IIRC, the “close votes queue” is unlocked at 3k(?). It seems to work well enough.
Fail in what way? I mean they didn’t actually overthrow the government or string up Pence, but their penetration and looting of the Capitol buildings was incredibly successful.
Do you think there's the possibility that families are kept out of severe poverty because their children can be utilized to earn the family money? Do you think lowering the options for families will increase their quality of life?

If you do believe those things I'm certainly not one to say you're wrong. I could imagine a scenario where removing all child labor is beneficial to the whole, but I do think it's a much more simple model to believe that the more options a family has, the better off they are long term.

Of course all of this rests on child labor being a choice for the family and not compulsory, something I don't know the specifics of for every situation.