skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mozilla at least has done plenty of things to reduce the effectiveness and scope of tracking on the web.

Just because we can't create an ironclad solution doesn't mean that there isn't real value in reducing the usable surface area for profiling and tracking users across the web.

FLoC is an additional means of tracking users that is presently being pushed by a giant corporation who controls a significant web browser, of course anybody who is pro-user-privacy would rail against its rollout. It's ridiculous to call that an irrational reaction.
Auth should be doable with just redirects though right? Isn't that how OAuth and OpenID connect work?
Maybe risky if the client company finds out the CTO has been moonlighting, but there are risks worth taking. Many times, this is one of them.

Building a SaaS product without a first customer is, to me, riskier, so I say well done.
"The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions."[0]

"Currently neither Autopilot nor FSD Capability is an autonomous system, and currently no comprising feature, whether singularly or collectively, is autonomous or makes our vehicles autonomous"[1]

[0] https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

[1] p30 of https://www.plainsite.org/documents/242a2g/california-dmv-te...
This was a Model S, though: https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/2015-tesla-model-s-da...
Going meta^ here: You mean 'You mean "You mean nitpick"'.
He was, and still is.

You are correct about the risk. They aren't our only customer but are the largest one. If they left, we would continue to be profitable, but just barely. :)

Regarding conflict of interest, he has handled it well. Like me with my own boss, he was transparent with his boss from day one, and is very good about defending his employer's interests with anything related to PriceTable. We have actually given his company a pretty great deal in terms of pricing — and that's because he negotiated like hell with me, his cofounder, on their behalf!

Regardless, that's why I'm anxious to expand our client base, because it would greatly reduce the risk of having most of our eggs in this one client's basket.
> Someone who is panhandling wants money and they get very angry when you interrupt that process. At least in the US, the panhandlers tend not to be the genuinely homeless--they mostly tend to be scummy people. It's a semi-regular news occurrence for someone to follow a panhandler with a camera to find out they really aren't homeless.

My belief is that this is a very small percentage of beggars and the videos are so widely shared not because they reflect a common situation but because they make the people share them feel better about walking on by. I don’t actually think that you can determine that someone isn’t homeless just because they don’t want to accept food from you.
sheep is already plural, you shoop ;-)
I totally get how that sucks but, if I lived in such a neighborhood, for that particular problem, could I solve it by buying a car cover? Not that I should have to, just curious.
>...a threat to who, and for what?

I'm sorry, are you just completely ignorant of everything that's happening across the globe? If so, why are you even commenting?

China routinely harasses, threatens, and then acts on threats given to human rights activists and expats. Chinese citizens that speak with reporters and human rights activists are put at severe risk because people like you are fine with letting Chinese technology infiltrate all aspects of your infrastructure.

Your ignorance is malicious.
Yet some random idiot who put $2k into coinx 2 years ago will feel brilliant the rest of their life for their incredible, deep conceptual $3M achievement. That idiot now has tremendous economic power to further spread the entropy for many years to come. The effects of crypto are going to ripple through time.
Thanks Nick. Saw your email and will respond tomorrow. Had not heard about your podcast so I appreciate you sharing it!
The Tor Browser is a pretty comprehensive solution to that, especially in high security mode.
Cooling: "Liquid Nitrogen" reminds me of the amazing day when somebody first overclocked a slot based AMD Athlon to 1.0 GHz using a custom refrigerant loop system.
Well, I guess he also understands me not giving a sh*t about his opinions if he's not going to put his money where his mouth is. I hope he's not managing someone else's BTC wealth.
It's hard to believe that you are arguing in good faith if you're trying to suggest that Brazil is anywhere close to doing well when it comes to COVID.
Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say in My Exit Interview?”
I think you can enable/disable FLoC via chrome://settings/privacy or chrome://flags.

See: https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/103#issuecomment-8218146...

Then again, FLoC is only enabled "in a limited set of circumstances" anyways.

For details on said circumstances, see: https://github.com/WICG/floc#qualifying-users-for-whom-a-coh...
Then I guess his opinions on BTC are pretty loosely held.
Grumman TBM Avenger Making Emergency Water Landing at Cocoa Beach Air Show
Actually, the original web browser, WorldWideWeb (circa 92) could display postscript files. As browsers were created for other operating systems, support for all the media that a NeXT could display was lost... NeXT's GUI was unique in that it was built on Display PostScript...
> The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

And evolved to walk to walk barefoot.

> I suppose you are thinking "Why should I care, those Walmart sneakers fit me just fine"

No, I use comfortable quality shoes. But most feet aren't that unique that a massproduced shoe that conforms to them after a break in period wont fit them.

> Pravda says this is potentially a way to free the poorest paid workers of the world from some of the most difficult repititious labour.

Do you expect millions of low price shoes to be produced by specialized machines after taking a 3D scan of your foot?

> What will all the people be doing in the future when all the work is done by machines?

I don't have anything against machines or robots, just as I don't have anything against regular juice presses. You can automate those jobs with more conventional robots. Having custom shoes printed to order is not a realistic production method for the vast majority of shoes sold. When it comes to bespoke equipment for a handful of elite athletes or rich hobbyists anything goes of course, you can already buy 3D printed bike saddles and handle bars, but this is not the future of shoe manufacturing for the masses.
based on my experience volunteering for habitat, the hard part of scaling the model is finding affordable and buildable infill in cities (which is where the highest need is). it typically takes years for each project to go from ideation to purchase to design to zoning variances to enviromental review to groundbreaking. the construction itself is only on the order of months. everything that comes before actual construction is what makes it expensive.
Looked neat, but scrolling down crashed Firefox before I could check out more on the page. It escalated to Windows blocking gpu access :/ (Never seen that one before)
Very interesting analysis!

> Simply put – Apple doesn’t need to care about Vulkan or OpenGL performance.

Apple being Apple. They just can't play nice with standards.
Also a hobby dev who learned Rails. What was the switch to Elixir like in terms of learning curve and community support?
Yeah I'm sure you'll be able to outrun those silly aliens and their second-rate ships.
The following article has influenced my naming choices ever since I first read it:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
In the US, most of the mortgage market has the government as the guarantor, via Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, and Freddie Mac.

If you have a conforming loan, then whoever is collecting interest is basically insured by the US taxpayers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conforming_loan
China and Huawei's Dystopian 'New IP' Plan for 6G
Made me think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26778406
Housing Hubris
Oh, that's weird. Doesn't happen to me on my Firefox.

There is an mp4 video embedded immediately underneath the header section, so maybe that's what caused the issue for you?
I lost my weight by eating less and better. I experimented with a literal "no exercise" regime to see if exercise matters in losing weight.

My findings is that food intake is 100% of weight loss based purely as ratio to movement/use of food intake. (you can run all day, and if you eat too much, you stay overweight)
Anyone know if there has been any research into the relative value to people placing advertisements in content-targetted vs person-targeted ways?
Be nonchalant:
G'Day guys, we've been wondering when you'd show up.
Edited for clarity.

Resource limits:
If the universe is infitine there are infinite suns to use. And energy doesnt disappear. It just transforms.

Genes: i think you are caught up in semantics. Any alien race will follow the same building blocks of the universe. They may not be carbon, they may not be bipeds, they may not have sexes, but they cant skip evolution. Every planet every sun every organism follows an interative pattern. Thats a basic block of the universe we reside. You start from something, creator or not. And your race then is to survive period. Those are the 2 rules. If your survival is guaranteed because you have access to infinite resources and infinite escape routes, then over time, your race reflects that condition.

You can imagine killer robots. But everything comes from something. For creators to "escape", that implies they are trapped somwhere. And if they are trapped, that means they dont really have the means to move about freely. Perhaps the killer robots do exist, but they are just as constrained as we are by our tech.
Oh, okay :)
good question what, if anything, they actually added... but search hn history for "hacktoberfest" for background...
All those years are in the past.
Yes, the answer is always yes you need a DR plan if you are running mission critical systems. The level and detail of the plan just varies with the need.

The simplest DR plan for AWS would be to back up your data and images in reliable ways. For example, put the data in S3 so one region being out wouldn't stop you from spinning up images in another region and getting back online. Keep up to date AMI's in multiple regions etc. If you can be down a few days this is the easiest and is totally reasonable. Just remember with the growth of data this can start getting unrealistic.

As the acceptable time shrinks to operational from failure you need to have a more and more sophisticated plan. From simple hot standbys in other regions to complete multi-region duplication.

It really doesn't have to be complex at first, start with a simple backup/recovery strategy and then add as your requirements demand it.
> many hours old

I regularly will respond to things 1-3 days old

Even if I don't get a reply (I regularly do!), people are definitely still reading, and will be in the future.
Could you please read our exchange from your first comment and tell me how you parse it?

From what I can tell; I agree with your dismissal of avalanche and offer an intuition for what may be the problem by contrasting it to my work-in-progress idea, then we have a series of back-and-forths where I consistently mention datalisp but never once talk about avalanche..

Regarding global agreement of state, yes it is not a criterion for datalisp. Datalisp approaches the network like a sheaf (locally consistent but globally not necessarily so) and uses the properties of propagator networks (which are fully CP, therefore they converge on a fixpoint) to reason about convergent consensus that executes lazily.

The casual dismissal of datalisp (as it stands) is that the message format for communicating your beliefs w.r.t. probability of signal-to-noise is not fully worked out yet and all we have is a series of heuristical arguments.

However, datalisp is a data-intechange format first and foremost and optimized for building authenticated datastructures. It is not specialized for cryptocurrencies per-se (since the focus is on second order byzantine fault tolerance).
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. These are good points. The literary world enjoys a good mystery. Look no further than the debates over Shakespeare's genuine identity or discussion of the whether Socrates was indeed a real person.

This is where discussion of a historical topic often ends up however when facts are few. We end up carrying around a bunch of "widely held" beliefs among other odds and ends.

There is a movement that seeks to shelve any historical beliefs that aren't backed by some physical evidence. However, there are documented cases of these kinds of things turning out to be true.

i.e. this ancient author claims a civilization minted coins 200 years before any known coins in some area so no one buys it. But eventually someone digs up a pot of coins minted by such and such civilization.

Pursuit of these kinds of informal pieces of information have led to breakthrough discoveries. Sites of ancient cities have been discovered this way.

I think the general position of most historians now is to believe the fact oriented claims passed down, not too intensly, so long as they aren't outright fanciful or seem intended to inflate personal or ethnic or political glory. For example, most ancient historians believe that most accounts of battles actually corespond to a real battle but they are often skeptical of the seemingly inflated numbers of soldiers supposedly mustered.
Canard Pusher Reprints
> it really doesn’t take much of a stretch to see the concern about Chinese party wanting to spy on the rest of the world given the lack of freedom of their own people

Perhaps not, but I try not to believe things just because they confirm my existing biases.
You can't have an accident without a risk of accident first.

Risk and harm aren't always inherently crimes. For example a cosmetic surgeon harms people and exposes them to unnecessary risks. In contact sports people willingly subject themselves to risks of serious injury. Same when people drive on public roads. The degree of risk is critical, hence the "reckless" requirement for the crime.
This could be a great interview podcast.

Somebody writes a fascinating comment who clearly understands the subject. Interview them about the article and post back to HN for distro
Thank you. Totally agree with you.

Happened to see both Notorious and Holiday over the last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed both.
I'd say the most important thing you can do after providing a useful product in order to retain early users is communication.

Interacting directly with early users also "humanizes" your business.
WEBRTC is showing 94% support: https://caniuse.com/?search=WEBRTC

Can you elaborate on the Firefox support issue?
... yeah, maybe it's a mess on linux too heh. at least it's a mess you can interact with via version controllable text files and scriptable cli tools though...
Hey, cool!
> What if the Cessna salespeople and marketing was all doublespeak about high G flying

The driver deliberately set out to sabotage mechanisms which are there to protect you.

A more apt comparison would be if the pilot disabled the stall warning on the aircraft. Then attempted to do low flying maneuvers at the threshold of the aircraft's stall speed.

If someone deliberately disables safety features, they hold the bag.
HTMLized copy of the iconic Rutan newsletter. Some OCR artifacts noted, but very readable.

Also of interest is a scanned PDF collection, organized by date:
http://www.cozybuilders.org/Canard_Pusher/
I now pay more per year in property taxes outside of town than I did for rent on my first apartment (~15 years ago) walking distance from downtown. Granted it's considerably less than what rent probably is on that apartment now; rent has roughly doubled in that time.
I think if you want a really reliable DR plan, you should also consider a multi cloud strategy. Being able to spin up a backup version of your service on another cloud (e.g GCP or Azure) is going to be more reliable than placing all your plans within AWS.
I'm sure all the Microsoft domains are whitelisted, natch
What is the longest word without a vowel in any language?
Safe stack iff I don't ever want to put it into a production environment for work. If it's my side project then I would still use it.

Why because at the moment I like F#.
Generating Bug-Fixes Using Pretrained Transformers
It's interesting how programmers tend to reinvent the idea of type systems after enough experience. The us_ prefix is a manually checked Us(String) type. Fortunately in modern languages we can express that at the function signature level and we don't need to spend "three weeks" training our eyes!
PSF Hiring Python Packaging Project Manager
While that’s generally true, the inputs and outputs and execution environment that you can count on is well-documented on AWS Lambda. That means that recreation of execution environment for the function in question is pretty reasonable locally (why is this not a thing then Amazon?!?). For the rest of AWS, you can either get credentials in place for access or mock those out somehow, but that’s not officially supported either.

I feel like the service is leaving a bunch of easy work on the table that would let people have a local development process that mirrors the remote development reality.
Specifically to your question of defining the best features, goals, and products, I recommend these books:

* 20 YC Lessons

* Outcomes Over Output (a lightweight version of The Lean Startup)

* Strategy Rules

* How Google Works

Here's the rest of my Product Manager book reviews: https://www.briansnotes.io/audience/product-manager/
It's a meme in the sense that it's propagated virally and the story has mutated as it goes. There's no evidence that HSBC were wilfully blind to anything.
Thanks for finding that data. That's interesting. I'm amazed that that happens, because absent people bringing it up when talking about Tesla I've never really heard that before.

Most interesting is that the first part of an ICE to catch on fire is most frequently the electrical wiring. And even if it is a flammable liquid (the second most likely cause), it's only a 42% chance that liquid was gasoline!

Thanks again, it's interesting reading.
With positional audio you could solve some of this, there are millions of people talking right now, but you don't have to hear all of them, just like you don't read all the text posts at once.
It’s a dichotomy because politically active and influential people do not want density near their detached single family suburban style homes. Everyone wants to live around people at or above their level.

If you’re a developer, then fighting against this group will take a lot of resources and it’s risky, so you can’t bet on medium density to make it worth it, you have to aim for more.
Thanks. It’s unnerving that such a dangerously misleading statement can persist.
Cars have stopped catching on fire nearly as often since GFCIs were introduced. My guess is that is coincidence.
> Are there any examples from human history where explorers have arrived on “new” land and have then been defeated by those already inhabiting it?

Europeans in North America. For a long time any colony that was founded only survived if the natives allowed it. Yes, the Europeans had guns vs. bows and arrows, but the guns at the time sucked. Bows and arrows were faster to fire, faster to reload, and had better accuracy.

It wasn't until some tribes that were not doing well in wars with other tribes made alliances with the Europeans that Europeans really started to get established.

Later the diseases that came with the Europeans tore through the whole continent, rapidly reducing the native population by over 90% and then Europeans could pretty much take over anything they wanted to.
begin.com helps address a lot of the issues here. If you want to deploy your own arc.codes is completely open source, works locally and generates standard aws sam flavored CloudFormation.
MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland
And that's pretty much the situation of every telecom in europe and probably many more countries https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
One difference: Each coop member owns shares in the entire organization's assets, not in their specific unit (or they own the same fraction of their unit that they own of their neighbor's). For example, imagine the cooperative owns 10 buildings totally 50 units, worth $12 million total. Each of the 50 shareholders owns shares worth $12m/50 = $240,000.

For simplicity, I'm omitting the issue of the members building equity over time.
11 cubic meters seems like a fairly small amount of water for a car fire. That's less than the capacity of a typical water truck.
What, "applied directly to the battery," means raises questions in my mind. Is this a calculation based on the exothermic potential of the entire battery pack?
If someone is capable of hosting their own PostgreSQL database they probably use it as a storage for their backend and you don't want to give any access for production database. If you do then why use self hosted DB? Maybe google spreadsheets is enough for your business?

RBAC? Look at row based security.
Audit logs? There are few robust trigger based solutions.
Want quick access and UI? Just use any existing tool.

I don't see any benefit of using this tool.
I often answer questions like this by posing two other questions

1) what notional dollar value can you place on the loss of service and information inherent in this AWS (in this case) deployment?

2) what % of that loss would you spend to limit exposure to that risk?

There is a third question:

Does your contract with Amazon include any penalties on AWS for service or data loss, beyond "free credits" and does it explicitly deny you rights to sue?
Why can they not put spikes on these shoes? Best of both worlds
Really depends on the file, the font format, and viewing program (if you aren't talking about printing). Printed PS can look fine, and is still used in some industries for essential mail. Viewing programs are usually the poorer cousin of PDF viewers, presumably because PDF is much more easily parsed. PDF files tend to use TrueType fonts more, while PS might be using Type1, but that shouldn't matter much.
* Prepare a thorough agenda in a shared/cloud editor before scheduling the meeting

* Send out the meeting invite 3-7 days ahead of time, including full reasoning for the meeting, and a link to the agenda in a shared editor

* Only hold the meeting if you weren't able to work it out async in the time leading up to the scheduled meeting

Sometimes avoiding a meeting is incentive enough to coordinate the work async ahead of time. But if the meeting still happens, you’ll have a well prepared thought out agenda, and all participants will have had time to prepare as well. So your meeting becomes a matter of working through any remaining unresolved topics/details from the shared agenda.
Crystals of silicon dioxide. Heard they're easy to mine from these places called the beach.
Nonsense. Last you heard was 5 years ago or so. And even then it could be done, just a bit more work rather than a default install.