skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the newly formed salt monopoly will increase prices, thus reducing use of salt on roads and reducing the impact on the environment. Win-win?
What I'm referring to is that perjury seems to be limited to cases where the claim to represent the copyright holder is unauthorized. One can file any number of DMCA claims on otherwise false grounds (such as fair use, etc), and if the court then chooses to sue upon DMCA appeal, they can cost the user far more than they should be able to, even if the user wins, as long as the person filing the DMCA is authorized by the copyright holder to do so.

I would like to see such perjury charges be expanded to situations where it is clear the copyright holder's representative has acted in bad faith regarding whether infringement even happened, or whether it was justified infringement (fair use).
Additionally, their bug bounty program, like most/almost all, is designed for reported security-related bugs. They made an exception here, which they had no obligation or expectation to do. I'm sure the modder wasn't anticipating any kind of financial compensation when they embarked on this.
Or they're annoyed you're wasting their time by trying to pull permits as a homeowner but can't outright say that they expect you to not get permits and that they don't care.
Well crap.

I need to edit while I can.
All Android builds use Gradle and download their dependencies from Maven Central.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Let me repeat this: all Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android apps that use Maven or Gradle to build ALL download their dependencies from Maven Central. These are the very same libraries, same bytecode.

For example, do you use Mockito? You will download that exact same library from Maven Central regardless of the platform you are building on.
Our legal team code most of our documents in a hybrid of Pug, Markdown and Handlebars which works for us - it also supports automatic sectioning as well. This works well for the general case where documents are generated from question sets defined in JSON, developer time is required when the documents need to use something more complex - modelling a cap table, the vesting schedule for an option grant, convertible loans etc.
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While I am normally critical of the unicorn pizza-kitchen-on-wheels type of excess, I think this is only true in hindsight and has a lot to do with Docker lacking a commercially minded founder. Open source isn’t a business model. There are very synergistic business models that go hand in hand with OSS but that distinction is important. Github does not really have a defensible moat. I think the network effects there are mostly trying to back-solve for its popularity. But it’s just a good product that became synonymous with modern version control. Docker had similar potential, but needed more commercial creativity.
That's like saying C++ exe's are portable if you just ignore all platforms that don't have an NT kernel.

Market share determines a platform's relevance to portability claims, not its intention towards the JVM.
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You are forgetting defaults and motivations in humans. By default, my kids would spend all day playing Minecraft. They do not have the motivation to do anything else.

I have to stay on their ass and push them to study. I am motivated to do that because I know how crappy low-level jobs are (I had one). Otherwise my default would be to let them do whatever they want. I love them!

A society which removes the motivation for its members to better themselves is a failed society.
Not really. Employers don't give a fuck, and you could always lie anyway
I have also experienced this pain where a company I worked for went too hard on splitting every thing into separate repos, such that updating something deep in the dependency tree becomes very painful and involves a protracted "version bump dance" on dependent repos. There's no silver bullet here.
> a better starting spot is the roofs of bus shelters or even the buses themselves

I agree that buses and bus shelters are a good opportunity for solar, but this is a strange comparison.

First, if the panels really are as cheap as they claim (though I am skeptical) then wouldn't it make sense to do both? Why does it have to be either/or?

Second, I don't think anyone who is deciding whether to spring for the "solar" option on their electric car is weighing that against putting solar on their bus or bus shelter.
Seriously, talk to your lawyer before doing any such thing.

I have done work for lawyers in exactly this scenario. Be very very careful.

You do not want to have to explain to explain the provenance of such a file without having someone to back you up.
I love the phrase 'toxic optimism'.
Yeah given a time constraint I would make the same decision easily.
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I don't know for sure, but I'd guess MS Office makes up most of the revenue for their cloud offerings. Honestly I think their cloud is mostly a service to push MS Office harder, and they seem to be doing quite well for that.
> Black males seem to disproportionately die at the hands of police.

There are lots of ways to measure this, which one are you talking about? There are lots of variables to control for: # of police encounters. Person being confronted while in the middle of (or just after) a committing a crime. Person being armed or not.

Talking just about deaths I feel like distracts from the issue that really warrants discussion in American society, which is number of interactions with police and how many of those turn into physical altercations. Then we need to look into the reasons for those and what the possible solutions are. We also need to admit that this likely isn't just a policing issue, but a societal and cultural issue that needs to be addressed.
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It seems to work with chains, at least.

e.g. a search for "home depot" turning up the close ones with location turned on.
Can you imagine if your bank charged you to write a check?

I don't understand how people are okay with gas prices being a given.
"Data" is such an overloaded and vague term, anyway. Almost all classes have "data", so what the heck is a "data class"? Is it one that only has data (not behavior)? Nope- these can have arbitrary methods.

So, I'm kind of glad they didn't use it. (But, to clarify, I really don't care what color the bike shed is)

I'm more wondering why they didn't go with "struct" or "value class", especially because the latter is exactly what we've been calling "class whose equals() is defined by content rather than identity" for many years.
Reused? Ha-ha. Just swept somewhere out of sight.

Which is much better than the salts, because sand is mostly neutral, while salts, esp slow-dissoving stuff kills plant life long after the season ends.
I'm in the middle of a dense urban area (San Francisco) without a car, and cannot get delivery to home (items are stolen within <60s, carriers ignore all signature requirements and forge their own, mailboxes are crowbarred and broken into).

Amazon is the only vendor with 24 hour lockers for pickup - multiple locations within walking distance. There is no Walmart nearby. There is a Target but the pickup line is basically standing in plague-town for an hour, ~25 min away by bus. Best Buy is about 40-45 min away by bus (you will probably be mugged if you are seen with a BB bag).
yacy is interesting, thanks!
> Why do companies seem to love to ship products of unacceptable quality?

You say unacceptable quality yet it seems everyone accepts it.
When can I convert to USD?
you probably know this but you're building a nice labelled training set for machine learning to help you automate the process later
Cool research. The crab population increase described in the study is impressive.
Thanks for the info. Could you give me more info on the link ?

As i tried, wsl need a VM to run.
And you could use some of the extra heat in hot air balloons to offset the weight of all the Stirling engines.
Makes ya wonder how many monks climbed aboard such boats and failed to cross the Atlantic.
Ask HN: What is the maximum level of privacy for investors in a company?
Hey,

Say a holding company wants to invest in a US or Canadian tech startup. What is the maximum level of privacy that the owners of the holding company could legally maintain?

Would they need to provide names and addresses of natural persons? Could everything be done through documents, or would situations arise where owners or employees of the holding company would need to communicate by voice, by video, or in person?

What minimum level of personal ID / documentation would the owners/directors/employees of the holding company need to produce?
Hi there,

I think Prisma might cover "smart many2many relationships". What exactly do you mean by smart caching techniques? Prisma is applying the dataloader pattern from GraphQL automatically under the hood, which we find to be a much easier thing to reason about compared to all the complexity of multi-tiered caching in Hibernate.

The dependent field requirement is super interesting, and something we will tackle in the future based on Change Data Capture. With Prisma you will be able to write a simple declarative data transformation, and the system will automatically keep the field up-to-date, even if the database is changed by another application, or manually by a user.

Hope that makes sense? :-)
Fair point, but if one declines to install their proprietary apps it just falls back to SMS verification which is obviously terrible.

Kraken (a cryptocurrency exchange) allows you to set up one TOTP token for regular logins, and another, separate one for withdrawals... obviously not as good as individual confirmations but still a heck of a lot better than SMS!
> Just like any tool that doesn't offer more than an abstraction layer over OS features, eventually it becomes irrelevant as OS tooling improves

You'd think. But I think what we're seeing here is the opposite side of the coin flip of that thread that smug idiots like to continually link here where people were saying Dropbox could be implemented in a day using basic Linux tools. Those people in the thread were always correct (I mean, this is "Hacker" news, so people will approach every problem with their hammer... shocking).

Dropbox just happened to get lucky. Docker, not so much. Both have serious competitors, including Google.
Agreed. But Kotlin 1.5 will have enough interesting stuff with the new inline class and const methods that I think it'll keep its appeal for quite some time.
I mean, Linus has openly acknowledged that he has behaved unprofessionally in the emails he sends to people who are trying to contribute. There isn't anything secret here.
95% of worldwide grid energy storage comes from pumped storage hydro. Yet almost nobody mentions this, or suggests building more.
> I use Safari.

So, instead of handing all of your info to Google, you hand it over to Apple.

Nothing to write home about.
Currently it changes the capitalization of every other character excluding spaces, but can push a randomized version!
That was awesome. I imagine a huge amount of time was spent in putting that together, and it was well worth it. Who knew TCO could be so approachable?
I get system76's coreboot offering looks interesting because there aren't many vendors shipping that feature. What's the appeal of their other products though?
And how big are these European or Brazilian companies? That's all fine if the US wants to become a 3rd tier economy. But if the country wants to expand, it has to trade with China.
> Microsoft whose primary business is to sell software, not ads, so they are less dependent on collecting user information.

If it was true they would not collect every keystroke on their OS.
And every developer needs to explain this to clients.

I had a client wanting to defer identity validation on a two-sided market system. I had to explain how it would be used for money laundering. It had never occurred to the client.
Yes, but that is part of the point. Atmospheric drag causes the orbit of the ISS to continuously decay (fall deeper into the atmosphere).

The ISS must expend fuel to push its orbit back up periodically. The momentum of the trash would help push the ISS higher.
Yes, life has hardships, but please do not tell me they are the ones controlling its course and your choices don't matter.

For hardships you can buy insurance with money or time (family, friends, various organisations) but your choices are entirely your responsibility and there is no way to insure yourself against making the wrong ones.
Are you any different from https://finmark.com/ in the last YC class?
As someone who doesn't want to be a sysadmin, but wants to deploy applications to the cloud, the options are fairly limited. Kubernetes handles updates and scaling, networking between services, has managed offerings from all the major cloud providers, has an enormous ecosystem surrounding it, with many tools providing out of the box support for it.

I could use docker swarm, or nomad, but I have to manage infrastructure, write my own integrations, manage the underlying hardware.

Or I can run az aks create and be off to the races
I did LOTS of research on what firewall/router distro to install to my new router a few months ago. See my comment history for considering different options.

I have to say choosing OPNsense has been a great choice. All the things you said I can agree on, but I have to add one more thing:

That quick search bar on the top-right corner where you can quickly type where you want to go. That thing is just super nice when jumping through places in the router.

Now if I'd need to build a new router, I'd like to try my luck with NixOS. Would be great if I could just build a new router from a reproducible configuration.
Lucky you. I have not been that lucky. Heck, I had one go up in flames even though it had a surge protector because of an up-down-up-down event. F'n video card.
from a very broad conceptual viewpoint; "the law" exist from (or out of) written language (where "language" is seen as a social-technology).

what computer technology and the internet (or for short: software) is doing to civilization is still at a very early stage. As I see this, the goal of "law" and the goal of "computer science" are quite similar.

As I see these kinds of articles (stratechery focuses on exactly this), is that we're witnessing the 'adjustments' in society brought about by the invention of software. I put all of this on a level comparable to the invention of writing and the subsequent 'rise' of rule of law.

having said this, the difficult thing to make sense of, and to explain to people with less software-experience is coming to understand what this article taps into in the section of "the global internet"; it's actually quite tricky to pin this down for me right now.

I'm referring to that aspect (or quality) of software that causes several executives to say this kinds of things:

>We have tried to get to what’s common, and the reality is it’s super hard on a global basis to design software that behaves differently in different countries. It is super difficult.

>If you’re a global technology business, most of the time, it is far more efficient and legally compliant to operate a global model than to have different practices and standards in different countries.

It's that thing sowftware does in which special cases worsen software complexity.

Software (and computing, and even industrial automation) are all about doing the same thing, no matter what. It's all about finding ways to avoid special cases; to avoid code repetition; and all that.

I'm sure that most people in Hacker News, due to our hands-on experience with software, are quite able to intuitively grasp this. But it's not so easy to explain and this 'quality of the digital' is (and will continue to) forcing contemporary capitalism to be re-evaluated (or something along these lines).
Google Takeout is a good way to find out all the things you thought you deleted, but are still hanging around on their servers. Even stupid banner photos from PicasaWeb and G+ 8 years ago were buried in my Takeout that I had zero access to see or delete, but they were there (and probably still are).
> Improving repository maintenance

There's one thing I'd really like to see there: the ability to lock out the repository and perform a really aggressive repack. I'm talking `-AdF --window=500` or somesuch. On $dayjob's repository, the base checkout is several gigs. Aggressively repacking it reduces its size by 60%.

There's also a git-level thing which would greatly benefit large repositories: for packs to be easier to craft and more reliably kept, so it's easier to e.g. segregate assets into packs and not bother compressing that, or segregate l10n files separately from the code and run a more expensive compression scheme on that.
Yes, these sweet exposure bucks. /s

I don’t think this point is valid anyway. He got exposure prior to actually got the acknowledgment and money. And he probably won’t have got either if the story didn’t get so viral.
I recall that argument, I just don’t read the platform page as charitably as you do. Even in an extended family network, the two parent unit is the nucleus. Particularly in view of the conspicuous absence of the word “father,” I read the platform point as seeking to further normalize the situation where kids are raised in households that lack fathers but includes other relatives (usually grandmothers and aunts).

I agree with you about the need to remove barriers to multi-generational households that include other relatives in addition to two parents. I just don’t read the platform that as being directed to that.
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The world has changed, traffic has changed
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.
I probably fall into their target market - my typical commute is ~3 miles a day to a train station and back, where I park in an open lot (and I park in an open driveway at home). I have plenty of room for a charger, but this would just mean I would have to charge less frequently (and electricity is ~0.25$/kwh where I live).

As you point out, by the standards of 'car accessories and upgrades', this one is probably reasonable and novel.
Good point, and a fair one. I would imagine though if there were any chance though they would have to be shielded.
> Why do companies seem to love to ship products of unacceptable quality?

Sorry I can't hear you over the noise of our money printer
My phrasing is "there is always a study 'showing' something is good or bad".
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Thank you for your comment. I understand, agree and feel the same. This is absolutely something we need to address very soon. Nobody knows us, other than what we have published on our SELLFF profiles. We wanted to launch, knowing that there remain some very important obstacles that we still need to overcome. Credibility and communicating trust to the public is certainly one of them.

Until we can get to the next step, we provide this:
[1] https://sellff.com/terms
[2] https://sellff.com/privacy

Also, my assurance that our intentions are good and that we will try very hard not to screw things up. Additionally, would welcome any suggestions you have for how we could meet this higher standard of trust you are looking for. Thx.
When you build Android you're not building it on Android, you're building it on Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Maven itself is not being run on Android or iOS.

The Java code that powers Maven isn't portable. The AndroidX code hosted on Maven that everyone is pulling down for Android isn't portable, either.

Your claim would be like saying that PHP is portable because every platform has a web browser that can talk to the server running modphp. That's not what portability means.

> For example, do you use Mockito? You will download that exact same library from Maven Central regardless of the platform you are building on.

Mockito only runs on 2 of the 4 platforms (doesn't run on iOS or web).
What gives you (accusitorily) the right to deny me from living in a HOA neighborhood?

> So now the house you supposedly "own" will be governed by some people that you don't even know.

"Governed?" I wouldn't really say that. I'm still allowed to take a shit whenever I want, and use as much toilet paper as I feel is right and proper.

If you want to argue about the existence of HOAs, I'm probably not the best counterparty. I don't feel too strongly one way or another. Just giving my perspective on whether HOAs would "lose their shit" over solar panels.
On the contrary, nobody was thinking of the sysadmins (until we injected the notion of Operators rather late).

Devs chose K8s, I think the evangelism phrase was “developer dopamine”. It felt like the Rails of DIY infra, where devs could inherit an opinioned pattern for doing n>1.

There’s still decades of resentment of devs being gated by IT.
I enjoy the juxtaposition between your comment and the sibling comment wrt “the value of reputation”

Personally I am not so convinced this persons reputation will earn them millions, but I can imagine it to be a reasonably valuable resume point
Yes. I have worked on this product for over two years. Our pricing does not scale with revenue and we are ready for general access; 14-day free trial for anyone to try.
Lets phrase this differently.

People who buy a machine, ultimately buy the work product of said machine.

How that happens is a layer above the core value proposition.

Technically, it is a limit on what they want / need to do, which is why they bought the machine.

Nits being picked higher up are not germane.
> But in America when when people say "Free Speech" they mean the 1st Amendment which predated Bertrand Russell and is more common.

John Locke's 'A Letter Concerning Toleration', which also deals with free speech, predates your 1st amendment.

It is indeed common to conflate free speech with 1st amendment protections in the US, but it is still an error to do so.
Indeed, look at the bevy of Twitter posts from authors of a given tech/stack/framework being turned down by companies to work with said tech because of "lack of experience".