skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last year, differing answers in different societies to the following hypothetical privacy scenario have seemed important.

Suppose there is a dangerous, highly infectious novel pathogen which can be spread by apparently asymptomatic people. Alice tests positive for this pathogen. Does she have the right to keep this information private? Alice tells Bob, but asks Bob to keep the fact of her positive test private. Bob knows Alice has seen other people during the window where she could potentially have been infectious. Is it socially acceptable for Bob to post on Facebook that Alice tested positive?

What if Alice's government systematically tests people and carefully follows people who test positive? Is Alice less free? Does she have fewer rights than if she lived in a society with strong norms against this kind of thing? What if the latter society has a much harder time containing the epidemic, resulting in longer-lasting, more onerous restrictions on public gatherings due to uncertainty about who is and isn't infected?
Right side of history? I dunno about anything like that. It’s just business, show me the money.

There will be a new trend next year or the year after, ad nauseum.

I’ve been consulting on and off for over 20 years now, I dont even remember my first 10 customers anymore. I get a lot of referrals from customers and from a consulting company I sold.

I was primarily focusing on terraform, which is the only technology I’ve actully ever enjoyed professionally, but there’s just so much stupid $$ in k8s.
Yep, that makes sense, except as far as semantics, there would be nothing "bootleg" about it -- if they are licensed AGPL, that means anyone who gets it has a license to redistribute it to others under the same license, all totally above the board and legal. Right? That's something the AGPL license, that the author has chosen, gives you the right to do.

I think this kind of mismatch stays under the radar when the stakes are pretty low, they probably aren't making tons of money off of this. If they were, someone else might try to get into the game. And if the pricing of the extension was a lot higher, more would probably use it (entirely legally) without paying.
Actually, poetry frowns on purple prose too. Hence the “prose” part.

But you can’t call adjectives and similes and metaphors all purple prose.
I think this is a very plausible reason. After a F9 blew up in 2016 or so, the NASA accident review even threw a little bit of shade because the telemetry right before the explosion was lost to bufferbloat
Then you make sure you can update a live/running docker image without having to remake it.
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At this point, it seems really unlikely we will "solve" the problem. I suspect we will go with flood defences, water management projects and geo-engineering.

So I think it's safest to take the cheapest option. Right now, that seems to be green energy (wind and solar) plus some gas power to deal with intermittent supply.
I installed one of the experimental compilers a couple months ago and rewrote a shell tool with effects. It worked. And I loved it. I can't wait. I would have kept using the experimental compiler, but there was compatibility issues with the rest of the ecosystem. The most glaring one was I couldn't use any preprocessing. Nonetheless, inspiring stuff.
I've been looking at Minecraft pi on raspberry pi but am unsure id use the pi for much else

I'm instead looking at Minecraft on the laptop or the other option is code.org
The pro-sumer market is massive. It's really not that hard to deliver $10 worth of value to people whose time is very, very expensive.

As far as YC goes, pivoting and working on new ideas really rapidly is downright normal. Sometimes that looks like taking weekend hacks and seeing how far you can get with them (this one being a canonical example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819)
To be honest, it doesn't even sound like a privacy threat as much as it as a potential security (and respect of user choice) question to me.

If software that's already running on the system wants to e.g. exfiltrate something from the system, or to phone home or whatever, it could do that just as well by making an outwards connection as by accepting an incoming one. (I'm assuming the OS or firewall isn't limiting or reporting on outgoing connections.) Denying incoming connections is more useful for reducing attack surface in case of security vulnerabilities in the running software, and generally not so useful for limiting what the software can intentionally do.

Resetting firewall settings to accept incoming connections to listed or built-in apps overrides user security choices with a more lax policy, and that's concerning whether it's intentional or not. But I'm not sure it's really so much about privacy as it's about respecting user choice.
The other person (at the top of this sub-thread) did say "Both of these points considered, I disagree entirely with the premise. There can be value to dense, even perhaps enigmatic writing. I would say that the greatest works of English literature tend towards that direction (James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace)." I would not consider these edge cases, because I don't think literature is relevant to the essay and its purposes.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140,000 fintech companies
I use Fantastical 3 which not just puts a calendar in your menu bar but also solves for most (if not all) of your calendaring needs. All of it for ~40$ a year which allows you to use it also on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

P.S: Not affiliated with Fantastical in any way, just a happy and paying user for a few years now.
HN is supposed to be a place for civil, intellectual discourse so I hope we can keep it that way. That said, I feel you start your comment with a strawman.

It has not been proved that George Floyd was murdered on account of his race. It has not be proved that George Floyd was even murdered. There is currently a court case going on about that right now. It has been stated that he had an overdose level of fentanyl in his system at the time of his death. I think the correct way to look at the Floyd death is through the lense of (possible) over use of police force. It happens to all races and seems to be more of a class and police abuse of power issue than a race issue. The media staked its flag on the "race" issue but this has not been proven. The media does a better job dividing America over statistical noise than any Russian bot.

See for example

https://www.tmz.com/2017/12/07/mesa-police-involved-shooting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4xmsFBKHEg

https://www.joelevi.com/utah-highway-patrol-taser-man-for-re...

Seems to me that police brutality / excessive use of force is the problem. Just because the victim happens to be black does not make it a race issue by default. And that was the point of the article...

In 2021 if anything, 99.9% of cops are going to be assiduous about treating perps of colour to spec. because they know they will be lynched by media otherwise.
The school's purpose is still education...

It's just not educating in the specific areas you want. I imagine your kids aren't learning quantum physics or fine dining etiquette either. That doesn't mean that the school is no longer educating.
Really? can you buy a phone or electronic device (new) that has say 1 month or less warranty in your country? In EU is is 2 years and you have the option to buy more

I will disagree that computers are special, why should replacing a fan or changing the disk on my computer be only done by approved people or even worse I have to buy a new one?
Our plan is to build both some extremely sophisticated analog design tooling that improves the state of the art (by leveraging our existing investments in modeling & simulation from other domains to build a clean simulator implementation) and then have the ML acceleration be an optional "one more thing" that can be used where applicable. Of course the first part is a major undertaking, so we're talking to potential customers to see what particular thing to start with that would really get them to consider using our system. That is independent of the DARPA-funded work though, which is particularly on the ML side (closely aligned of course).
I'm sure people can realize the difference, but I'd expect the thought process in Germany to go something like

1) hmm, they have .kz as the TLD

2) apparently thats kazakhstan? TIL

3) kinda weird that they, not being from kazakhstan, would choose to have that as their TLD. Maybe they're using it with another meaning in mind.

3.5) Let's give them the benefit of the doubt but remain wary of potential secret nazis, as one has to, here.
Have a look at quaqua: they have loads of experience in the offline interpreting world and are now taking this online: https://quaquameeting.com/
#4 reflected my experience in Healthcare interviewing to a T.
Biggest Healthcare concern in XX states? Hiring the _13th_ person to the security team?
Someone in the comments asked about this.

She is fine with only targeting the German market, it is big enough for her.
I wonder if there's a way to import subscriber list (like the way NewPipe did with youtube account data request) ?
How do you measure SEO impact in a title split test? Scraping SERPs or monitoring query volume real-time?
I would love to build charity ware to help offset some of the ethically questionable things I do, but I was wondering how did you choose a cause to donate toward? Did you know someone personally who perished from malaria? There’s so many things that can be donated to I don’t know how to pick one or evaluate where donations would even be most effective.
I think it’s a pretty big stretch to call them “evil”. You can block cookies if you want. But wanting analytics on your site or ad revenue from your publications isn’t exactly “evil”
FB didn't invent clickbait, but they made it way more insidious. Tabloids didn't go viral like FB posts do. Just as guns and nukes don't kill people, but they do make it easier.

Really, I see Facebook as the A-bomb of virality and fomenting extremism. It is devastatingly effective. That's why they've made so much money. Much more than the NYTimes or National Enquirer or Drudge Report. It's not just another media source, it's a game changer at harnessing people's attention and outraging them as quickly as possible. At scale, with 1 billion users, this has world-changing effects.
Thanks. (You didn't exactly ask, but fwiw for anyone reading: there are key doctrinal differences, like the belief that the "trinity" are really separate divine persons, united in purpose; and that the pure doctrine and authority to administer ordinances was lost in the centuries shortly after Christ and restored (re-established) lately in preparation for His 2nd coming, that there are living prophets providing counsel specifically for our day, as was done anciently. Also that the Book of Mormon (a companion to the Bible and another testament of Christ) is how someone can decide for themselves.
You're conflating open source software, which is any software published under an OSS license, with an open development model. (Not to mention the assumption that "open source" automatically means publishing to GitHub—it doesn't.)

Apple, for example, publishes a ton of stuff over at opensource.apple.com. But the majority of it is stuff thrown over the wall, and not attached to a community that has to be actively managed.

The insistence on confusing these things for other people is perhaps one of the biggest threats to open source.
nah, I think both ideas are wrong. that crowd would never want to work for a bank or insurance company in the first place unless desperate. due to their org structure they can never get any real value out of any 1 person, especially an engineer. so that salary will never exist in the first place.
Would be interested to read the code! I’m playing with an idea for a shell tool and wouldn’t mind trying out OCaml.
> an open source maintainer absolutely could ignore even critical bugs

If the maintainer is a solopreneur, whose source of income is a paid SaaS version of the open source project, then no they typically cannot ignore critical bugs.

> Those people clamoring for attention may be annoyed and frustrated with you, but that doesn't answer the question as to why that's a problem unless you choose for it to be.

Out of curiosity have you ever maintained a decently popular single-primary-maintainer open source project? How about one with a SaaS or commercial version?

Frequent frustrating interactions with users isn't exactly beneficial to one's sense of motivation, at least in my experience (which mirrors the original article quite closely).
This can be a useful connection, but I believe it's worth fleshing out in case it is misleading

What's the alternative to using a NN for position evaluation? I can think of two:

1. Do minimax search until you have a winner or a stalemate. Then you have the exact value of the position. Well, this is the problem we're actually trying to solve to begin with, and it's also impractical to do for chess and any interesting game. This is what necessitates an approximation to position evaluation.

2. A human expert writes a position evaluation function. It determines a huge handful of features, a simple example being how many pieces I have - how many pieces you have, and some way to combine those features into a score.

In surrogate modeling, you can get ground-truth data to evaluate your approximation against. You're approximating another model that you can compute, it's just too slow for practical use.

In chess, we don't know THE position evaluation function. We can certainly get data about it, but we don't know it in the same way we know PDE models.

To be clear, I am not saying we _know_ the PDE models are accurate with respect to reality. That's the science part, to determine if the model arising from empirical evidence or first-principles that are themselves arising from empirical evidence, actually summarizes empirical evidence.
If your account is usable by 2 people of the same household and 1 moves out and continued paying half of of the Netflix bill... would you expect them to be booted out? So how does Netflix make a differentiation?
Just like making money from software requires every product have an artificial scarcity feature, so too does making money from journalism. It makes sense that journalism-for-profit businesses would want control over not only their own stories and content, but some degree of control over what other's say, as well. It's not clear what leverage they would use, apart from attacking "fair use" doctrine.

AFAIK if you learn something from the NY Times, you're allowed to tell others about it, and talk about the event. (right?) But haven't you also economically harmed the NY Times because in your tweet noting some fact you learned from the NYT, say, you've provided most of the value of the NYT (a factual report) to your audience for free? This presents the interesting problem of "copy-writed facts", which would be a terrifying world to live in!
I really hope you're willing to share some metrics on your findings in regard what you said somewhere below was this exploration of the level of pain you're addressing. I would think that churn is going to be high and one of your bigger challenges unless there's stickiness that I don't see.

Are you worried about iStat Menus, Bartender, Alfred or Better Touch Tool adding your product as a feature? Is there a hard problem that you've solved that they'd face in replicating the idea?

FWIW, what I'd personally love is a physical stoplight on my desk with Green-Yellow-Red lights for whether a meeting is coming up. It should have a hotkey that launches the meeting. For that I might pay $10/mo.
Of course, no amount of OS-level security would help if you have a backdoor (intentional or unintentional) in the hardware [0], [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
If you can't be bothered to provide a demo of your product why should I bother setting it up myself?
Can a 500 year old painting be copyrighted?
Sadly it seems like a few of them are missing these days from the Boston equivalent: https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/2018/02/09/community-sol...
If nemiah is reading these comments... well done! Loved your story!
But unfortunately plugins cannot provide remote backends, and it's a little clunky to use the S3 one:

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/27304
> Generally speaking, the vast bulk of economic activity is value-creating.

This is what is known as "rent-seeking behavior"

And there's a metric fuckton of it in our economy.
I've come to believe that there's a certain amount of insanity required to be a great entrepreneur. Like Jobs or Musk--their personal qualities aside, they both had arguably legitimately insane visions that they refused to let people talk them out of.

The side effect is they're also crazy in other ways (Musk-time and the billionaire-playboy-cyrptocoin-gambler being easy examples), but I think it really does take someone who operates with a totally different set of constraints on the world to pull Really Cool Stuff off. Like reusable rockets. Or electric performance cars. Or an incredibly versatile computer that fits in your pocket (while also giving the middle finger to Flash, the incumbent web media tech at the time).
Very cool! Great job, guys.

Do you use a similar technique to https://poweruser.blog/embedding-python-in-go-338c0399f3d5 to embed the Python SDK?

Also, was there a reason it's not against the B2 API? Not a judgment, just curious about the design tradeoffs in a professional-talking-to-professional sense.
> TL;DR: Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". Most “conspiracies” are probably just people being coincidentally dumb, incompetent, or lazy.

At some point Hanlon’s razor becomes a middlebrow dismissal, and a bit of a red herring. It’s a good rule of thumb for not getting mad at your boss, but useless when analyzing the actions of powerful institutions.

It really doesn’t matter whether we can prove some kind of ‘malice’ in the hearts of NYT journalists.

It does seem unlikely that they are any more malicious than any other corporation.

However that is utterly irrelevant to whether their institutional biases or lack of analytical capacity make them harmful given the power they hold.
Thanks a lot, these are great suggestions.
Worth noting that if you're savvy at flashing custom ROMs, you can install /e/OS (their preferred styling) on your own devices, too: https://e.foundation/get-started/

I've been using it on my old OnePlus for about a year now, and reasonably happy with it.
This is what happens with my open source Chrome extension's reviews on the Chrome Web Store. Not that you can really make money off of extensions even if I wanted to, but such is life.
This is such an amusing take. I upvoted just because I think this just falls within acceptable level of discourse on HN (not inflammatory etc.), and I bet there are quite a few folks out there who feel the same way as you do.

I think you're partly right - Indian food does not yet have the snobbery you would find in other cuisines - yet. But there a few chefs out there, like Gaggan Anand, who are working to make it more palatable in an "upscale" setting. But I wholly disagree with the idea Indian food uses spices to mask poor quality ingredients or preparations. Perhaps you haven't got a chance to try the more elaborate preparations, but there are well documented ways of cooking many dishes in the "right" way with the "right" mix of ingredients and spices, but most restaurants and households end up using their own judgement for convenience and/or novelty.
On my phone at least (latest iOS) it will search any installed keyboard languages.
Maybe this can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cV32Dlnqc -- It's long but sheds some light to lots of new ideas; as a musician I don't see lots of negative sides (except the environmental fee). It shouldn't be seen as an investment yet or ever. The vast majority of us are struggling. But it could be a great tool to revolutionize copyright, royalties etc.
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"The next step was to convince someone else to buy an emoji email address.
TikTok seemed like a good place to start given its demographic" that's accurate haha
It's kind of like the rise of live electronic music. Oh there aren't any feats of manual dexterity like playing the guitar or drums well, but people go to see electronic musicians perform anyway.
Emacs Lisp or Racket. They won't have to out-grow it.
From the existence of the phrase "based and redpilled", we can see they're different things- or why mention them?

To be based is to have a certain effortless confident, self-assured fearless character and disposition towards the world. Someone who's based doesn't care if what they say is controversial, because they're too cool to care, but they won't say controversial things for the sake of it- attention-seeking is cringe, it's the act of a weakling who has to scramble for whatever power he can filch off others. The Based one simply says what he believes to be true when he wills, irrespective of social norms. He could pretend, but has no need for pretense, because he does not fear reprisal.

Being red-pilled is something else; it's a certain kind of enlightenment, a disturbing revelation about the nature of the world. When you take the red pill, you're throwing aside comforting lies and confronting the hidden/evil truth.

What exactly that enlightenment is varies from subculture to subculture- the imagery of the red pill has been used by lots of people, and there's a whole range of pills now; the bluepilled are normal people who still accept the lie, blackpilled people are redpillers who have fallen into despair and hopelessness (where it's implied that the red pill usually implies a call to action, the black pill implies apathy- 'just let it all burn', and blackpillers view redpillers as naive in their desire towards action, which will be pointless at best and counterproductive at worst), the white pill which is a hopeful rejoinder to the black pill, the iron pill which says you should work out more...

A lot of these pills act as revelations to previous revelations that recontextualize the previous pill's lessons and worldview, and in the face of all this uncertainty and flux, you can imagine there's a lot of anxiety.

This is where 'based and redpilled' comes in. The based attitude quenches the neurotic anxiety of the pill-seeker's revelation, while the information in the revelation itself- paired with the confidence, self-assurence, and courage to act on it- lets the Based and Redpilled avoid the pitfalls others fall into, and stride forth as more than their peers, as the union of chad and virgin, as the guy who says the n-word on twitter and doesn't get fired because he's his own boss.
This year I was suspended multiple times from Facebook for posting real science and facts that challenge the current narrative.

This should alarm and encourage you to seek other platforms.
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> The kg-of-protons experiment on the other hand you could do in principle, it would just probably be better if you didn’t.

What if you want to build a fusion reactor? For now neutrons have to be along for the ride but that's only because we can't squish and heat plain protons hard enough.