skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of the regulation is that it requires a good faith negotiation. Not Google/FB/DDG/Bing just paying what the media organisations demand. Google's posturing inherently indicates they aren't negotiating in good faith and are attempting to use their market power to pay less than what most would consider equitable (I have no figures at all or even ballpark so who knows what that actually is).

Arbitration is just that, arbitration. It doesn't mean media organisations say we demand x and that's what the settlement is. Both sides present their case to the arbitrator who decides on the price. If you're in DDG/Bing's position, you put your cards on the table and take the extra revenue from having a massive boost to market share.

It is highly unlikely an arbitrator would actually set the price at an unsustainable value. If it means the search engine is actively making a loss overall then of course they'll walk away. But for DDG/Bing, making a loss on news links may be worth it for the extra revenue in non news search. In reality it probably wouldn't even be a loss, just a much lower profit margin.

Obviously Google is going to try and pay as little as possible, any business would. The difference is market share and power dynamics. Google believe they are in the position that if they can't get the price they want they can walk away.

To the no. 2/3 player in the market it presents to a massive opportunity if google does walk away. According to the latest guardian article [1] on this, Google declared $134M in profit in Australia last year on $4.8B. That's a big incentive for player no 2/3 to pay some of that profit to the media organisations.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threate...

[edit] fixed spelling/grammar
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Correct.

But the thing is only a human could, manually, check the code and consider it safe.

Rust can't decide it.
Thanks. It's a strange article in general, especially given that it keeps popping up here.

The article makes a lot of claims (500km, 10 minute charge from 0-100%, reduced battery size/footprint) but it doesn't back up those claims or even say who is claiming them. Is it Toyota? A manufacturing partner? "people familiar with the matter"? The authors themselves based on general industry knowledge?
I definitely suggest adding a guidelines page, like you'd find on HN[0] and subreddits. Without one, it's not entirely clear to me what this site is for other than git. And if this takes off, you'll want some rules to fall back on when moderating posts and comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So you want the US to nationalize Android.

Its copyrighted software, how is this supposed to work? What are the implications for other copyrighted works?
> Ancient cultures had value systems that were entirely different than ours, this doesn't make our scientific reasoning "better"

It's better at coming to the correct conclusions about objective aspects of the world (better – not perfect, mind you). This is useful if your value system prioritises knowledge, though knowledge is pretty useful for all sorts, so I think science is good unless your value system penalises knowledge-generation.
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Modern C++ is the anti-pattern.
Couldn't Google just block Google News in Australia, but let regular Google search operate? Would it still owe content fees then?
Advice (take it or leave it): I think the item titles should be real hyperlinks (not js actions), so when right clicking the user gets the option to open in new tab.
The fact no one else here has considered that all your private healthcare data is going through an MITM that can strip SSL before reaching the endpoint is rather terrifying. Even if we assume CloudFlare is trustworthy, they are US based, which means little to no GDPR.
> We have to address the root cause: advertising as a business model.

Isn't the root cause advertising that depends on data sharing, rather than advertising itself? I think it's fine if a site wants to display advertising that it serves from its own domain, without passing on any data to third parties.
We'll check it out!
Pick it up and start playing because there is a bit of an XY problem in your question. You want to play the ukulele not learn it. Make music not study it. Studying and such can be part of playing music, but not necessarily so. Good luck.
It’s not without some irony that a company named after a questionable magic ball from Lord of the Rings helps process data from what can most concisely be described as an Eye of Sauron over villages in Afghanistan.
I think the diagrammer is worth leaving through a bit, even as a complete non-expert: http://cds.cern.ch/record/186259/files/CERN-73-09.pdf
These are the very practical rules of computing some of the most fundamental quantities in our universe, all explained in slightly more than 100 pages.
This is why you have column headers?

If you just want it to look that way in a text log, then sure prepend the type with the id wasting some space there, but to use it throughout your db eats up tons of space from both text encoding the id and repeating the column name in the data over and over.
I think the main problem is they lost the edge on execution. Traditional "vision" is not strictly needed for moonshot projects; the vision for moonshots is provided by a small team working on their idea. But should the technology start panning out, the company needs to focus aggressively on finding a commercial home for this technology.

And this is where I think google (and many big companies) fail. Technologically, Loons worked. I did not believe it when I read about those, but looking at the trajectories in public ADS-B data (those balloons self-advertise) it is clear that they move as designed, doing 2D positioning using only vertical control and can stay afloat for months. Wow! Mission accomplished. But commercially, nothing happened.

I do not know if it was because business types were not sold on it and did not build a commercial case; did the technical team simply live in their own bubble not talking to the outside; something else? But a 10-year "moonshot" project that pans out technologically and fails commercially indicates that the right hand ("internal VC") does not know or care what the left hand (techies) is doing, which is the problem at the company. My 2c.
We totally didint pay Michael to say that. Thank you so much for the kind words!
> Because, given the opportunity and no regulation, companies will always push to make all employees contractors

This is not the case. Companies need permanent staff for:
- deciding strategy, at various levels
- deciding who's worth bringing on board
- managing internal and external staff
- cost (permanent contractors cost a lot)
- being part of corporate memory, which can be handed over in a notice period of a month or two or three, but not in the week it takes for a contractor to offboard
What prevents an amoral entity from being evil? Lack of motivation perhaps?
Yes, the overall routine does matter. Different routines work for different people, but my personal anecdote is that I get up, exercise, eat breakfast, then spend an hour on my projects.
It's actually an irrelevant point, because we're talking about entities in a foreign country where US law on what constitutes a protected class doesn't apply.

If a racist organization in South Africa started doing compliance checks on only black-owned businesses world-wide and providing the results to vendors, would you have companies everywhere discontinue doing business with black-owned businesses because they're "contractually bound to investigate allegations like these and to follow up on them, no matter where they come from"?
Given that Amazon's customers are inside Amazon's proprietary AWS environment, I think it's unreasonable to expect that an outside company can meaningfully compete inside that environment. In terms of customer preference, AWS customers will _always_ prefer a product offered by Amazon to a similar offering from an outside company. Amazon will always be less expensive and better integrated with other AWS services.
You can store UUIDs as bytes if you wish but when you are looking at it in a human readable form it will be still a UUID. I think storing UUID as text in 2021 is not that hard.

>> UUID's stored properly in binary form are only 16 bytes

Depending on what is your use case.
I only use matte screens. It definitely isn't that though. I didn't mean to say that black screens are too bright, that wouldn't make any sense.

What I tried to explain was the sensation, not the actual effect. It was a really bad example, I agree.
Is the inability to subscribe a screen reader problem, or do other people face this too?

I can't find a subscribe button anywhere, and I suspect that might be the reason, but I'm not sure how right I am.
Yes, I know. In fact, I know because my parents are retired doctors, and they (and all of their colleagues) were among the people who would opt out. On top of that, when I got my first mobile phone as a teenager I learned that I had to opt out as well, because patients would mistakenly think I was my father and randomly call me and tell me shit I really didn't want to know.

(This is why I was quite confident when I emailed them that this would not happen in my home country, but I'll concede that I maybe should have mentioned this in the top comment)
who would have known that The Naked Sun was actually the most prescient Asimov novel ?
Thanks, I updated the comment to mention that the link is in the context of MySQL's case.
I recall reading about using neutron beams to alter the chemistry of phonograph needles. I think the idea was to make them into a radioactive isotope that continually ionized the needle, so that it repelled dust.

But maybe I'm remembering wrong. The closest article I can find is from Theodore Gray [0]. It talks about old phonograph needles made from osmium, which is very toxic in dust form.

[0] https://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Elements/076/index.s1...
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Aka "hobby".
>At the time of account termination, they were growing at a rate of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of users per day

[citation required] This is an absurd claim.
How much can you change an MVP and intended customer and still call it a pivot?
ULID has a serious security flaw though.
In order to try to improve performance / increase prefix similarity, there is a mode where it reuses the random value, and just increments it, for each new ULID.

With purely random UUID, you can be pretty sure that nobody can guess them, so they're essentially identifier and access token in one.

However once you can easily predict the next uuid from the previous one (as by incrementing the random part by one), the access token property vanishes.

At least this proposal doesn't make the same mistake,
however 80 bit's isn't THAT much entropy.
(Remember every bit counts with exponential growth,
and 48 bits less, means 281474976710656 times easier to guess.)

So it boils down to. Would you be ok to secure all your data with 10 character one time passwords, which might not be guessed all at once, but where guessing SOME is sufficient to get owned?

Death by a thousand paper-cuts.
That would be super helpful to us. Can you please hit me at marek@getwelder.com? We could schedule a call or just text chat about it if that's ok for you.
I'm not quite sure I agree with your words here; generally speaking, net income is profit (accounting profit, to be precise -- there are other profits but we normally talk about accounting profit).

Secondly, revenue is super not meaningless! It's the capacity for you to be profitable! Amazon had 0 net income but were able to spend money on growth because they had revenue, and were able to classify their R&D as an expense, which pushed their profit/net income down. Without that, they would've been a positive net income/profit company who then reinvested net income/profits into R&D.

You can do all the expense classification shenanigans you want to to muck around with profit (ex. have profit & spend that on growth, or classify your growth as an expense and have no profit), but it's a lot harder to grow without having the money to put to growth. You'll get that of course in two ways -- increasing capital (equity/liabilities), or well, revenue!

EDIT: Had some typos so cleaned them up.
Some? It's about as subtle as a Bond villain.
Because they were apparently incapable of distinguishing the messenger who reminded them that there are potentially scary patients out there from said actual potentially scary patients.
This might very well have been your intention, but the license you chose (SSPL) is extremely vague in describing this (section 13, IIRC).

For one data point, my company attorneys interpreted that, even if we present a search box in a web page, allowing visitors to search our own indexed data, it could be understood that we "offer a service" -- and thus forced us to abandon Elasticsearch and figure out alternatives.
We might be unique, but I doubt it.
As a user and (recent) contributor to PostHog, I find it pretty incredible how good enough it is for such a young product, and the pace of releasing new features.

I really hope you'll be able to sustain it.
The architecture looks vaguely similar to a Motorola 68HC12, down to the big-endian encoding. Quite ambitious considering that it has more registers than a 6502.

Note that while most people here seem to associate relays with large clicking things, there are reed relays which are much smaller and faster, and also practically silent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_relay

...and people have built computers using them:

http://www.xpl0.org/rr6/
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You don't know they have a dial, everyone is taking one sensationalized (and overly dramatic) documentary and making it as gospel. Portraying it as a "dial" is also doing a complete disservice to the actual technical problem involved.

The documentary was successful in underplaying the challenges of moderating/recommending at scale and, in my opinion, scapegoating social media companies as the source of the problem when they're really a symptom.

The main focal point of The Social Dilemma, Tristan Harris, as creator of the Centre for Humane Technology has an obvious agenda (not saying he's wrong). Take the documentary for what it is but to throw the baby out with the bathwater is wrong when there are obvious benefits to social media.

Regulating social media is a fool's errand imo, it's a lose-lose. Either you let ideas flow which includes bad actors/ideas to propagate or you now create gatekeepers and censors with ever moving goalposts. I'm not against more regulation but do you really think the United States Congress is capable of passing legislation to effectively tow that line? Doubtful.
Thanks for sharing. This year, I set myself a goal to get better, and I'm going to use your advice on writing everything down.
This article is also useful for self development: https://ivypanda.com/essays/importance-of-continual-self-dev...
How is the audio quality on that lemur pro. I have tinnitus and headphones make it worse. So far I have not been able to find a linux laptop with good speakers.
Because somebody (not necessarily you) wrote the following code:

printf("%s - %s", id0, id1)

You can even do this:

printf("user-id %s group-id %s", group-id, user-id)

Do you think you will be able to quickly debug what is wrong in a high severity situation when a customer facing system is down?

I do not, so we use eids (external ids) that are easy to identify.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format
Tl;dr: The military hired a software company to help process surveillance data from a war zone. Is everyone is still afraid of Palantir?
The idea behind a Launch HN post is to come out to community and show what you've been working on when it's ready for public consumption and look for feedback. It is supposed to be for pretty fresh launches. In our case for example, we started taking early adopters off the wait list a couple months ago so this is kind of our fresh launch after iterating on early adopter feedback.
I think all of my units are correct. The primary point of the second paragraph was that the kind of analysis you are pointing to is inappropriate here. Thinking of this from a server heat-sinking perspective isn't helpful because the car side of the system doesn't have to operate indefinitely in steady state and is a large thermal mass.
We have 20k in-maintenance customers. Is the Atlassian marketplace a single point of failure? Yes, that's the main risk. But this is a $2B annual company, it would take time to disappear.

We still have many fingers in many pies. If that revenue stream went we'd be able to bring up $1M a year from one or more of the other marketplaces within 12 months, which is enough to keep us in the black.
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/gdpr/introduction/
What you described is exactly what Elastic doing now, and it triggers a fork. We will be fine if it happens again.
It's madness to combine application logic with update management in your codebase. Update management is very hard to get right, and there are a lot of corner cases that only show up under extreme conditions with delayed or duplicate delivery of updates. When the update logic is incorrect, you'll occasionally get plausible-but-somewhat-wrong answers that are hard to reproduce. The very worst kind of bug.

It's much better to have the update logic handled in a thoroughly tested library, and build your application logic on top.
Sounds like a bio from a sausage factory.

That would be better than nothing, and not as good as something written by a great writer who understood Claude Shannon's work.

At this point, we can only take what we can get.
Aren't such archives (~3TB as mentioned here) a perfect fit for IPFS? Are there any initiatives to put this and similar content there (or some other decentralized networks) and made it easily available to the public?
Hey, I've done a lot of work in the Salesforce owned (adjacent) Heroku marketplace. I'd love to connect and chat sometime about the ecosystem if you'd be up for it.

My email's in my profile.
You'd be right if we aged like Benjamin Button.

But you're glossing over the downsides of trading your youth away for a hopeful payoff at a later date. Not all of us like that bargain.

I make a fraction of what people in this thread are saying they make. But what price do you put on being 30 and single on a beach in Mexico, happy, with a low stress job? You could look at it as if I paid half my salary to buy back my time.

We all value things differently, but notice that it's your youngest self that's most eager to bargain your youth away.
I love stories about Shannon, Feynman, Weiner, Grothendeick, Turing, and others, but I've become suspicious of the idea of genius. While these and others are undoubtedly examples, and telling their stories inspires us to follow their paths at least for a while, the underlying idea is that these people, whose minds necessarily took liberty first to make their discoveries, are somehow unreachable Others.

This is where I diverge, as I think if we were to cultivate the core values of benevolence, humility, with iconoclasm in kids we could produce more minds like these. What makes genius so exceptional is less a magical quality of the person, but that they manage to achieve in spite of the rest of us in as we occupy our classrooms and offices. I suspect it's these values that are the necessary condition.

Such a pleasant article about such an amazing mind.
Thanks for the comment!

Yes, I'd like to clarify Timeflake (and many alternatives suggested) is NOT meant to be used for security.

There's an important note on the readme about this:

> Since the timestamp part is predictable, the search space within any given millisecond is 2^80 random numbers, which is meant to avoid collisions, not to secure or hide information. You should not be using timeflakes for password-reset tokens, API keys or for anything which is security sensitive. There are better libraries which are meant for this use case (for example, the standard library's secrets module).
> Your typical tourist in Amsterdam will visit the Rijks for one or maybe two paintings and they won't care about the rest (your guess which two)

Night Watch and...? Girl With a Pearl Earring? The Hare?
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Try a good faith interpretation.

Then you'll understand what they actually meant.
And yet another article in which the definition of terrorist appears to be "an enemy Muslim".

We'll soon need a new word for actual terrorists.
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you're about 24 months late to the party!
I tried out Gitea hosted via codeberg, and within a week disabled my account - Gitea allows usernames to be reused, there were bugs allowing people to push repos into other people's accounts (someone ran rampant on codeberg), you can view private repos via the Pages system and whatnot. In many of the issues, the current state is "it's a problem with Gitea" such as: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/356

HN readers are downvoting you, but Gitea's problems are real and they exist. Enough of them are listed in codeberg's issue pages that I felt the software/platform is very buggy and has a lot of security issues as just a generic user with one week of experience, much less an admin.
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>> but to use it throughout your db eats up tons of space

I think human resources and outages cost a lot more than disk space these days. If I can trade disk space for either of those I will do it in a blink of an eye.
> Because there is a lot of stuff he seems to be quite fine with that most people assume he would disapprove of because it is truly awful.

Give me an example, and I can probably find somewhere he's explicitly, unabashedly condemned it, and you probably can't find somewhere he's condoned it. Most of the places I've found myself in disagreement¹ with Scott Alexander, it's turned out that I was the one who hadn't thought through the moral implications of the thing I condoned.

¹: Excluding philosophical disagreement along the lines of “what should we care about?” – what would be religious disagreement were he religious, which most people in my culture don't consider a sign of evil.
Funny enough, I reversed engineered your numbers a few days ago. I guesstimated at least 3 million ARR with 2 - 10 FTEs. From revenue per FTE perspective you have the most impressive numbers I have ever seen!
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Money in the bank is a great lifehack. Money in the bank is the greatest stress reliever in our society. The ability to say "this ain't for me" and walk away free of consequences. And knowing that no matter what happens next your expenses are still covered is the best hack.
Afraid? hardly. Fairly disgusted? for years now.
>An unusually high number of reports of late breeding and captive rearing near the coast—primarily on tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)—may also suggest there are higher numbers of non-migrating monarchs than usual which can negatively impact the population.

Just a friendly reminder to milkweed enthusiasts to always use your local native milkweed instead of the exotics. They might attract more butterflies, but they're bad for the population because they spend more time later in the year on the exotics instead of migrating back for overwintering.
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Fahrenheit makes it really awkward to think about whether it's wet, snowy or slippery ice outside. Celcius is great for that, emphasis on the phase transitions of water.