skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++20 adds std::format [0] which is based on the excellent fmtlib [1] (both type safe and claims to be substantially faster than printf)

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format

[1] https://fmt.dev
Not necessarily. "Just" making it free software (eg slapping a GPL v2 on Elasticsearch) doesn't require AWS to share any changes to the codebase, and wouldn't have prevented the current AWS/Elastic drama as it wouldn't have prevented AWS from monetizing Elasticsearch.

Now AGPL might have, if it was used from the start... not because it would prevent any monitization, but because it might bring enough legal uncertainty for AWS to even consider using it
In some countries the government pays the bills in exchange of favourable coverage. How do they pay? The owner gets government contracts in other industries or the government buys ads or issues as public service.

In lest corrupt countries but still with corrupt journalistic ethics the news becomes the ads.

The entire tech journalism business revolve around this. Give me good reviews and I will send you demo units, I will take you to a camp and will give you real good accommodation and slap a paid promotion video order as an extra.

extra governmental political journalism is also not any better. You become a mouthpiece for a political group and the funnel money to sustain your publication.

You can tap ads business for the stuff that is not allowed to be openly advertised. For example, in some places where doctors are not allowed to advertise the news channels will offer an interview about certain illness in exchange of payment from the interviewer. The news sites get their content and get paid for it, the doctors get their name on news articles that looks legit journalistic work.

It's really unfortunate.
Audio Modulated Tesla Coil (2010)
The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
VPC peering is not free.
Good move. I'd never consider owncloud on LAMP.
Best UK tech startups to watch in 2021
Several of the extensions you recommended at the end (Adblock Plus, The Great Suspender, LastPass) are widely considered to be compromised
Bonus:

Doom E1M1 theme played on musical tesla coil, by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDBhdPNEKDU
Shoot, the $45 an hour mentioned up this chain would be life changing for me (yes, I live in the U.S.), after 15 years at my job I make 17.26 an hour. It's why this talk of $15 minimum wage mildly terrifies me, I know people need it but man, it suddenly thrusts me nearly to minimum wage (minimum wage is currently 7.25 here).
That's not the whole story of what google does though, right?

The other side of the medal: Google uses their content to stay relevant and make money off of ads.
I have it wired like this deliberately.

As I pointed out, some pieces and parts keep using electricity. Amongst which is the radio. This will drain the battery. Slowly, but surely. If I don't use the car in 14 days, it (probably) won't start; but with this wiring it does, just fine.

Which is why I installed a [don't know the english word]¹, so that my battery is switched off entirely. Everything in the car is fine with that. Except for this "modern radio".

Hiding that switch in a somewhat unexpected place also delays theft. 37 y/o cars are easy to steal; this makes it slightly less so.

¹ here's an image: https://www.hsct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IMG_8097-247x...
I always thought that those rules were at the discretion of the domain administrators. Are they actually externally imposed from ICANN or something else?

I know that my country (at least nominally) requires that its TDL is only used by citizens, residents or bussiness with "significant presence"; but that should be a choice each country makes.
Is there any reason to believe Google would intentionally disable the default search on all Android phones in Australia?
I know 3 examples from personal experience. One that I worked on myself, that was scrapped before completion. Two other two were finished but they have severely impacted the business. But they are not so useful to share because you would not know about these products. My assumption is that we all know these kind of projects, but the Netscape story is a great reference because it explains why it is a bad idea.
There are quite a few people claiming the opposite, actually. Large squares of regularly trimmed, flat grass only to show one's decadence isn't exactly the same as a road used daily.

If they were at least used for playing children, that would be one thing, but most front lawns are large spaces not designed for any purpose beyond aesthetics, and many back lawns have similar structures. It is almost devoid of life thanks to the lack of protection from the sun combined with the lack of diversity in vegetation, just so someone can show off their property.
My first job straight out of university was at Reincubate. I thought I'd share my experience because Reincubate is a small company - you could count us with your fingers when I joined.

It was a fun place to work with nerf guns and rubber balls to throw at each other. You learnt to keep your computer locked the "fun" way. We always went for a team lunch on Fridays - something that I've missed ever since. I enjoyed coming into work every day because of the people.

The favourite highlight of my entire career was there, back in 2015. The whole team of engineers (~6ish) worked together to figure out how to decrypt iOS 9 beta backups as Apple had changed the encryption system. Everyone contributed in some way and I delved into using a disassembler, IDA Pro, from zero prior experience armed with a textbook. It took a whole week from the beta being released, and I believe we were the first (public) company to do it.

The values of the company, as described on the website, have changed, but what they say now still matches up with my time there.

Switching to something more relevant to this article. I was looking for a webcam a couple of months ago for quite a while before it also hit me that my iPhone camera was actually damn good. Since then I've been connecting to Zoom twice (from my phone for the video, and my computer for the audio). It's not a great experience but I never really looked into the "random" apps that could create a virtual camera. Well Reincubate is not random to me and it looks like there's a beta version of Camo for Windows, so I don't really have an excuse :)
Interesting – for basically the same reason we made the inverse switch from Resilio to Nextcloud with a small startup team with <10 devs.

Nextcloud provides us custom shares, user groups, public shares, URLs, better local clients, compared to the Resilio performance. Resilio was especially bad on Linux (but worked remarkably well on my android with a large SD card). With Nextcloud I can even choose to use WebDAV only if I don't want to mess with clients.
A strong lion may seemingly indulge such a code of honor for a while - not because of honor, but because healthy antelopes taste better and the lion is fast enough to catch them. But these conditions can change at any moment.

This mirrors how, in general, markets approach human values. They're a nice thing to have if you can afford them, perhaps you can mention them in your marketing - but the moment competition threatens your margins, you'll drop these values to stay competitive. Ethics is a market inefficiency, and expecting companies to behave ethically over time if not explicitly forced to is, indeed, naive.
"we're basically a cryptotheocracy with the head of the Anglican Church as our head of state."

I sense a teensy bit of exaggeration in this remark. Democratically elected politicians drafted this legislation, not the Queen.
Somebody will make the next version of GPT read the all existing published law and it will be a clusterfuck. Tons of contradictions, everybody is guilty of something, nobody except computer program can hold it in their memory to know when and what should apply. It's madness.

Yes I know it's only tangentially related, but I believe most regulations against big tech only establish their domination. These companies can likely invest more resources in legal analysis than the goverment, so they will use most of it to their advantage.

Laws should be as general as possible. We have robots.txt, you can even add some new marker, if some news site doesn't want to have it content fetched in an automated way, let it have that but it's already a slippery slope because why should a human be able to read it and write an article citing source if a program cannot do that.
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I'm realizing that many people, including HN commenters, have no idea what blackmail means.
First, the dispute between AWS and Elasic is a trademark dispute. Second, ES had always been incomplete in it's open source form. No auth or access control (this feature requires an x-pack subscription) is included. It's also important to point out that ES relies on other open source software (Lucene) for its core functionality. Its hard to feel bad for either party here.
That's a 12 inch medium pizza, without the box. An antenna of that size can't be carried by normal people going about their daily lives.

More people are willing to buy a phone and a phone plan (Facebook was even willing to subsidize the plan in India with Internet.org) than buying a phone, a phone plan, an antenna and a StarLink plan. That's even more true for people who aren't internet users yet.
I'm not very familiar with Android but it looks like they've ported the dex2oat compiler to RISCV.

[Warning, large text file] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/T-head-Semi/aosp-riscv/mai...
Ask HN: How To Overcome Information Addiction?
I consider my information addiction as one of the top two personal problems that are holding me back in my life.

What are you doing to deal with this?
Oh wow, thanks for the quick reply. I searched for nextcloud audit but haven't found the reports, just docs about the "monitoring and audit" and the "security scan" feature. (I still can't, but maybe that's because these audits/reports are not public, I don't doubt your word.)

The bug bounty is very reassuring!
Good for you French newspapers.

Enjoy the free money.

This is exactly why the next Google won't be a French company.
For the cost of a small desk tripod, £50, and Canon’s latest Webcam Utility, I was able to repurpose a 2012 DSLR (1DX) into an absolutely fantastic webcam.
Only flacs&opus sir!
If you're using resilio I would like to recommend Syncthing. Developed out of neutral Sweden, files stored as-is.
I think it is a fair characterisation. They want their content on Google because if they don't then it won't be seen. I'm not saying this was a deliberate strategy by Google but it is the reality.

I would argue most people don't want to buy newspapers because we have created an expectation that content should be free.

As to the quality of the content, a) that's subjective and b) it can be seen as natural evolution of an industry whose income source has been decimated by Google/Facebook. It's a lot cheaper to produce what you (and I do as well, to be fair) consider garbage than to produce the quality content we would like to see coming from newspapers.
> Hard to believe Microsoft was so utterly reviled by competent people in 2007.

Combine "my way or the highway" stance of Google when it comes to tech and standards, Oracle's utter corporate ruthlessness, turn it up to eleven, and consider they had a lock-in in the entire IT market similar to how Apple now controls the iOS market, and you'll start to get sense why.
The display frame has plenty of space for a phone-type camera sensor of any resolution, it's just a flat CMOS. Even a really big phone sensor is only 8x6x3mm

A good lens is more difficult to fit in the Z-dimension but that doesn't constrain the resolution of the sensor. A small bump in the bezel and a corresponding recess in the base would allow a better design of lens.
Do you have an opinion on MSK?
Then I'll add to the idiocy. I think fake lawns are stupid. (/opinion)
Nightwind: a Tailwind CSS plugin to enhance dark mode
Query : For people who recommend UUIDs as a unique identifier in a distributed sytem, does the above satisfy the need?

In the SO answer[0] uuid v4 is being recommended but that is the most random version of uuid. Isn't that going to hurt the b-tree performance by having a very high fanout? How does it help the primary index?

[0] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33274291/postgresql-uuid...

EDIT : Apologies. I meant low fanout. What I meant was that you need something ordered to have a better organised b-tree node. If all values are random, each node will have a lot of children, increasing the search space. It might turn into Linked list in the worst case scenario.
How Google is incentivised to prioritise the best content for users? Google doesn't make anything if you quickly find what you are making for and consume it.

Google's optimal position would be if you keep searching for the stuff you are looking for and get distracted by ads and buy something in the process.

The second best thing would be if you find the stuff you are looking for directly on Google(Google no longer shows only search results but the content of the results as if it comes from them) and then you proceed to buy something through an ad click.

For example, Google wins if you search for "When did Trump leave the White House" and you see a snipped containing "Trump left the WH in the early morning of January 20, 2021 using a helicopter". Now that you have your answer through the content that Google mined for free, they can monetize you but what about the people who put together that information? Why they would be left out of your business? What's fair about that?

There was a recent HN discussion about Google mining the database of a small business that specialises on compiling information on the wealth of celebrities. They lost most of their traffic when Google began showing the answer from their database directly instead of showing the link that contains this information.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105465
Does it mention creating bit perfect mix tape clones and redistributing to unlimited others?

Some info here...

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v07/07HarvJLTech377...
Cycling is not strength training. Did you do some form of resistance training prior to the trip?
Thanks for these code deeplinks. That's scary condisering seahub. I'm a happy Nextcloud user, thanks for your work!
> encrypted folders, which allows you to share a folder with someone for redundancy and have things stored encrypted on disk

Fwiw Syncthing is working on this feature, not fully baked yet. On mobile so can't link but it's in nightly builds.
Why are you defending those trumpists that stormed the capitol?

Sure, we could argue that "terrorist" is the wrong word to use here, but if we used another word, such as "criminals", I would guess that you would still make pretty much the same argument.

And talking about "toxic divisiveness" while defending people trying to overthrow an election? Are you even listening to yourself?
While I generally agree with you (look how VATMOSS, that was supposed to be a way to force Amazon to pay vat taxes, forced all the small sellers - without money to spend on implementation - on Amazon), I don't see an upside for Google.

This is likely just change for Google though.
They probably consider the value of showing French newspaper content to be higher than whatever the price has been set.
Yes I figured that, but the 50/60Hz frequency seems quite low for that to be the case.
I spun up a 32 vCore spot instance to crack my own WiFi password once. It only cost ~$2 and I felt so powerful.
The people the suburbs were built for are gone
50USD/h would not be crazy high, a little on the low side based on what I’ve seen.
I'd think long and hard before I willingly supported News Corp too...
There are monthly official post for people seeking Freelancers. Wait until February 1st and remember to post in the correct thread.

Last editions http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I'm fascinated by the picture from inside the Harrier cockpit, it's very much inline with the interior I've seen from other fighter planes. It just looks grimy and worn down, and fighter planes always seem to look like that in the cockpit.
With this design we aim for the storage to become the single-point of truth and scale-out as the metadata is spatially close to the files.
If you don’t want visitors reading snippets on google, simply block google via robots.txt

Ditto for fb.

Forcing a company to buy services is ridiculous.

But i guess they have to do this because their alternative is a foreign tech tax, and subsidizing their local media
I took a look at part 1, and the use of CMBC was cool!
Having most of my friends beaten up as a group on prime time TV by the national broadcaster quite recently this resonates deeply with me.

The complete lack of care for the consequences it has for normal law abiding citizens and their children.

And at the same time a good number of them are paranoid themselves: one particular friend of mine got in hot water because he included pictures of guns in a description of how he had been threatened by criminals, journalists made a story of how he was somehow threatening violence to journalists..!)
'Otherwise objectionable' is meant to be a catchall, but isn't really the one Amazon is relying on, since much of the content Parler stated it didn't want to remove is also unambiguously abusive and defamatory. The words itself are the same as Section 230, except in this instance Amazon is saying it is willing to consider its clients responsible for their user generated content.

There are religious web hosts that will terminate you for not following their Statement of Faith, so I don't think Amazon would have any issues in requiring its customers to have a particular stance on gay marriage in the very unlikely event it wanted to.
I have experience of the similar software quality issues, however none of this is unique to China, north America, Europe, India, China. My question was specifically related to the hardware most people run, which is often fabd China, given most people take it for granted that this is "safe".
Disclamer: I'm a cofounder but I want to challenge my buddy and CEO @johandCutych .

@Johan, can you tell us about how see Welder in the content creation life cycle ? And also for media ?
If the dispute is with AWS abusing the trademark, license change is an exaggerated punishment that harms many others besides AWS itself.
I've just purchased it, and it looks good.

It's nice how when you click "Purchase" a second time, they tell you to donate to SyncThing instead.
Good question! We are quite similar. The main difference is, I believe in the attitude. We focus a lot on the ease-of-use and reliability and not so much on adding robust features that are requested by B2Bs like podcasting studios or media.

I also believe we are heading in different directions as we want to shift from being just a tool that does HQ recording remotely to start-to-end solution to help startups and product teams produce purposeful content with ease.

We believe there is a lot of space for an improvement for businesses in term of showing who is behind the product, building empathy and educating their customers. The process of putting out meaningful content and building brand love is cumbersome right now and takes a lot of energy.
I've been a Signal fan since the days of Redphone/TextSecure but the biggest differentiating point for Telegram that I can see (other than a network effect) is the public groups. These are especially important i've noticed in Asia (e.g. Hong Kong Protests) and Latin America. Unfortunately one of the usages i've seen it popular for in Western Europe and the US is far right organising.
Er... if you say so
> they were lifting content from the article wholesale and embedding it into search results

How is this not straight up copyright infringement? Or have the sites agreed to it and are now just being whiny babies?
Do we live in the same reality? Massive situations that constrains available resources cause innovation, prioritization of key goals and efficiency. Abundance of resources results in the resources being wasted on various forms of fluff. This is not unique to government, you see it in just about every type of organization.

I'm not saying "defund all the things" is the right answer (mostly because I don't think it's that simple or it would have worked where tried and we'd have done it everywhere) but there's a very clear correlation between available wealth to allocate to government and bloated government. Not having government be a gravy train also seems to help select for people who genuinely want to be civil servants because the people who are just in it for the paycheck don't stick around in challenging environments like that.

It seems like all the innovation in government (e.g. novel program to keep the parks clean or whatever) comes out of places like Detroits and Buffalos of the world who actually have a pressing need to figure out how to stretch their resources whereas the NYCs and the SFs of the world just increase their intake.
Fyi, in Scotland, museum access is free... Something I'm grateful for and happy to contribute my taxes towards
Excuse my possible ignorance, but how is more entropy in a primary key going to hurt index performance? The fanout in a b-tree is completely in control of the database, and not dependent at all on properties of the data — apart, of course, from the size of the data, since typically the node fanout is precisely the number of fields that fit in one disk page. Randomness does not influence the size of a UUID on disk.
This isn't strictly speaking a UUID. It's just a 128-bit identifier. It's "compatible with UUID" only in the sense that both are 128 bits wide, but this scheme doesn't have the structure of a UUID.

To summarize the scheme, a 128-bit id is generated by concatenating:

- 48 bits timestamp (milliseconds since UNIX epoch)
- 80 bits of random data

These ids have the property that they're ordered by generation time (ids generated at the same millisecond are ordered randomly). The result can then be encoded in base 16 or base 62 to make it URL-compatible.

By the way, encoding timestamps into an id is not always desirable. It has some privacy implications, since now you can tell from the id when the resource was created. If this corresponds with user activity (e.g. a user filling out a form or uploading an image) having this information encoded in a URL is possibly undesirable.
That would be nice wouldn't it.
Frozen view: https://archive.is/0PIDt
> If they didn't want their content to be indexed by search results, they could ask Google to remove it,

You're describing a classic prisoner's dilemma.

That is, it's in the interest of the news industry as a whole to not list their content for free, but if individual news companies do that, they will lose out relative to the alternative, so every individual news company is trapped in a situation they don't prefer.

Google set this prisoner's dilemma to their advantage, using their position as a monopoly power to create it. It's reasonable, then, for the EU and the news industry to seek to remove Google's monopoly advantages.
They mention the involvement of research institutions - the Swiss universities use a common OwnCloud system (Switch Drive) for researchers to store and share files within and between institutions; which generally works very well. So seems likely they are involved since they must be one of the biggest OwnCloud users in the world.