skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3MF file format and why it’s great (2019)
The author explained why he did it
> it’s also not really that hard to set an billing alert in CloudWatch and track spend in Cost Explorer

Billing alerts aren't good enough.

Consider a scenario where you're consulting on someone else's small- or medium-sized project and your bug costs the client a huge amount of money in the middle of the night. Now who pays? Say goodbye to your paycheck or reputation, even though it should have been preventable.

Another scenario: you launch a startup, and a bug empties the bank account and kills the company. If the solution is to just not use things like AWS and GCP (including Firebase, which has no billing cap) when you're getting started, why are they advertised that way?
> I'm not sure battery replacement falls under the category of repair, more like required maintenance.

Which would suggest that Apple's glued-in batteries are a bad idea? Whatever one chooses to call the process of changing a battery, this is unnecessarily difficult with Apple hardware.
Exact same thing happened to me too
If you take the Moonlander apart, you can probably remove the wrist rests and it would still tent fine.

However large it may seem, the size seems good to me. I only actively use (i.e. place my hand on) maybe 2/3 of it, but the remainder makes it so that the angle is more comfortable than I imagine it would be if it were shorter.

It's worth mentioning I have relatively large hands. If you don't, you might need a fair bit less space.
I don’t think of my devices as being hack-proof, but as being the best set of trade-offs for me personally between security, privacy, usability, etc.
I mean, isn't that kind of the point?
I first got interested in this subject back in 2001 at the time of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd. , where a Russian developer who'd made an ebook cracking tool was arrested as soon as he stepped off a plane in the US.

Since then there have been various problematic claims at universal jurisdiction, especially relating to money and gambling (poker sites serving the US, crypto regulation in general).

The situation remains .. stable, but fragmented around the edges. There's going to be a slow tick over of cases like this. I don't think it will affect investment, the "break the law and hope you become big enough to make a political win later" approach of Uber and AirBnB has become popular.

Global law is unlikely unless it's set by the US, and the US terms on privacy (very loose except for finances which are subject to total surveillance) is not in sync with the rest of the world.
With such a successful privacy marketing campaign, Apple doesn't really need to care about security anymore to make boatloads of money. The public is mislead into thinking iPhones are secure and news outlets won't report on these minutiae.
Spam wasn't killing email for me, but Gmail was a noticeable step up for sure. I do wonder how much was innovation on their part and how much of it was simply executing the same filtering techniques really well.

Now, my impression is that all of the well-regarded email providers do a good job of handling spam—it's no longer a differentiator. (Although it might start to be again if Google has genuinely let their guard down.) Fastmail does a good job in my experience.
> the negative press of an app going down because the cloud didn't scale is far worse than any received by surprise bills.

Certainly it is the customer's decision to make, and not AWS' ?
Developers can support this, if they want. Conan Exiles guides you to install the 3rd party anti-cheat, but you can opt out and play single player fine or even multiplayer on servers that allow it.
So about 3 years ago, there was a car which got a wheel stuck in the CALTRAIN crossing near 4th st in SF (they turned right into the tracks without completely crossing over). We were appalled to find out that the guy in the car was on hold with the rental company & we immediately called 911.

Of course you call 911. You also call the number on the blue and white "REPORT EMERGENCY OR PROBLEM" sign that's at every US crossing and read them the crossing number on that sign. Usually it connects to the train dispatcher who controls that track, has the controls to turn signals red, and has a radio link to the locomotives. Call that number, tell them there's a car stuck on the tracks at crossing 123 456, and trains will be stopped.

DOT actually says to call that number before calling 911. The 911 dispatcher will eventually call the railroad, but there may be confusion and delay as to where the problem is. (Cops use street names and addresses, railroads use routes and milepost numbers.)

Those blue and white signs are kind of low key. Maybe too low key. It's not obvious that the blue and white sign gets you to the person who actually controls the trains.

If stuck on a crossing, get out of the vehicle, get well clear of the crossing, like 50-100 feet, and call. Then, once the train dispatcher tells you they have rail traffic stopped, efforts to extract the vehicle can begin.
> Sometimes you just want to be able to make choices based on instinct, forgoing deep analysis when you need to move fast and fully accepting that the wrong direction could be the end of the road for the project.

I've come to believe that this is why a lot of people are attracted to starting something of their own. While "bureaucracy" and "red tape" is indeed excessive and detrimental in many organizations, some amount of it is inevitable when an organization gets large and successful enough.

I think a lot of engineers never fully appreciate this. Listening to stakeholders and getting buy-in can make the process feel too slow, but the human components of product management and software development are important. Success usually isn't just about pushing code; it often depends on having listened to stakeholders, obtained buy-in, etc.

Of course, every entrepreneur is forced to understand this if their baby takes off because there are very, very few organizations that don't become slower and more bureaucratic when they achieve a certain level of success.
> There are various features provided by Snapchat (camera, filters, games) and FB (marketplace, messenger) that nobody would ever compare to a BBForum/Wikipedia.

Yeah. That's because all those features used to be separate applications, not tied to BBForum/Wikipedia engine. They're all complex, but they're also orthogonal to the platform, and their implementations are pretty much commodities.

The only value provided here is by integration with platform (particularly UX-wise). Which seems fine, except the only reason this is valuable in the first place, is because the platforms prevent everyone else from doing such integrations themselves.
A company keeping records of it's own interactions with it's customers is fine, nobody is arguing against that.

The problem is companies selling customer data to each other and snooping on customer activity outside the company's own web site or app. This is what is meant by tracking and Apple doesn't do this in their ad service.

It seems like what Apple is doing is trying to cripple tracking for other ad services to make their own service more competitive.
> Teslas crash less often than other cars, even less when Autopilot is enabled.

[Citation needed]

Substantiate your claim with sufficient, unbiased and relevant evidence first.

I also think you meant ‘supposed to crash less often’. But it is clear that this system (FSD or autopilot) is even more unsafe than advertised. Otherwise it would not be currently under investigation by the regulators.

False advertising and deception seems to be working for Tesla’s customers. Maybe it is for Tesla’s own good for their autopilot beta software to be under close investigation.
Mechanical hard drives that lived in pockets and backpacks inevitably died. People seem to have been happy with the lifespan they got, though.
We do dependency visualization (it's correlates with dataflow) at viezly. You can check it out here: https://viezly.com/change_requests/3986
> Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself.

Can we apply this logic to downloading copyrighted material? I would love it if I could openly and legally download ROMs of all my games and archives of prime time broadcast television.

But since that's not how the legal system works, it's pretty obvious that getting something from the licensed distributor is different from getting a copy made and distributed by someone else, even if it's automated.

> But the music actually came from Spotify so how is it different?

The downloading is still legal. Spotify is still legal. The only problem is the new part you added. This is not analogous to the download vs. download comparison.

> Tech people always feel entitled to loopholes in laws

You know the test came from a highly regarded court, right?
the primary benefit to home ownership is stability. While in the US, one has a "sane"/"professional" rental market (i.e. buildings that are built as rentals and managed as a whole). In many other markets, one doesn't have this. One essentially has individually owned apartments that are rented out by those individuals, without any strong form of protection in terms of required maintenance that needs to be done or the knowledge that as long as you're willing to pay market rent, you can stay for as long as you want. In those cases, its better to buy, simply for the security / control, even if its not the best "financial" use of money.
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It's more about how you use More and run startups. They are not bad in their own right, and if done well, enhance development and productivity for teams
I’m a little confused by the question. When you say “microservices” do you mean individual servers with something running in them? Because serverless just means using some proprietary cloud tech to run code whereas a microservice refers to the responsibilities and role of that aforementioned code. The two aren’t really comparable in any sense.
And actually playing foosball/games are frowned upon Fakecool, all a part of the signalling that companies do to attract talent.
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It might come back but it will have to be another law. The current law prevents the executive branch from doing mass surveillance without a warrant.

They already installed more than a thousand (there is FIOA law in Serbia, but the official number is designated as state secret) Huawei cameras through Belgrade (a city of 2M), but they are (at least officially) not doing automatic biometric matching currently.

In general, the politics scene is completely broken - there is one (ruling) party that allegedly bribes/blackmails people that work in the public sector to vote for them.
The most important one for us is the `environments` feature, but indeed a lot of four-eyes-principle controls are also missing in free tier (MR approval requirements, committer verification, push rules...).
Honestly, I think juxtaposing the world's most finely engineered trash can with members of a crime-ridden, homeless underclass that shit in the middle of the street is a perfect representation of the image that San Francisco projects globally.
I do often think of smartphones as being an extended, new age version of the payphone and I guess after reading this - the ATT equipment. Since you don't really own the device it is very similar in a sense. It feels like the same model with the capacity just shifted around...
This is not entirely true (disclaimer: living in Germany, with a German-based business).

You can embed social media.

What you can't do is embed a social media post without disclosing in the cookie notice (that must be approved beforehand) what will happen to the user due to you doing it.
I do that. Atreus with Dvorak by day, laptop keyboard with QWERTY in the evening. It's basically not an issue.
Hey,Thanks, it's Notion settings so can change it unfortunately, Do you think it'll be better to just put all the text without summarization ?
Twitter accelerates again with Bitcoin tips, NFTs, recorded Spaces, creator fund
There are plenty of examples of SF government being wasteful, but this does seem pretty reasonable to me. Most cities can afford to be less concerned with the “tamper proof” feature, and when you add that to the other requirements, it’s not unreasonable that a custom bin is needed.

Plus, as other commenters have said, it’s one of the most visible public works, so it contributes quite a bit to the character of the city - a unique look would be nice.
> I think AT&T and telephone business are a bad analogy, exactly because Google kind of is involved in the telephone business and does not apply these stratagems there.

Users didn't come to expect it, and contrary to the Silicon Valley playbook, it turns out that you actually can charge nearly 100% of people and they will pay you: you don't have to give it away for free to have penetration. To me this is more of a hypothetical on "what if a company like Google (specifically the Google of now) invented phones instead of AT&T?".
This is really interesting - as the basic worker regulations that Uber have tried to avoid catch up with them they could face these liabilities in all sorts of different markets. For non-UK readers, it's standard that all employers must contribue a minimum amount (recently raised to 3% of qualifying earnings) to a pension and by default employees contribute too. It's fortunate for Uber that this scheme is only relatively new (I think the reason this dates back to 2017 is that's the first year of mandatory employer contirbutions but I could be wrong), but this is a big liability and just 1 more way that Uber was using regulatory arbitrage to out-compete local businesses.
In many other countries, 4G is so inexpensive that many people use it as their primary Internet connection though.

They don't see a need for a modem hooked to a wired line necessitating a second subscription and procedures to follow when you move apartments, when in any case you will have a 4G connection that follows you around on your smartphone.
I don't get how people can use anything else for development. They handle all the little stuff so you can focus on the code.
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Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
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How is prisoners working for basically free any different?
Speculation here, but I think WASM lends itself very well to JIT compilation, and V8 has one of the best compiler teams in the world.
Some reading material for you. Being an ass is already annoying, but being an ass without even primary school level knowledge of the topic at hand is unacceptable.

PDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

Screenshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics

See also: aspect ratio, custom print CSS, webpages that are longer than one screen height (all of them!)
Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily by small donations (<$100), during its fundraising campaign once a year. You're linking to a page that names donors who contributed $1000+.

Notice that Wikimedia Foundation has little to no influence over the content or community that runs Wikimedia sites. The money is primarily used for running the infrastructure, developing the software, paying the staff (a large percentage of which is spent on tech and legal), and organizing community events.

disclosure: I worked for Wikimedia during the earlier years.
For all of the faults of Azure, they let you do this reporting directly in the Portal. You can slice and dice the data without having to spin up infrastructure.
Wow, I tried this (or another similar project) a few years back and loved it. Nice work! Sorry it is still pending though. I don’t work on the SDKs unfortunately.

On the auth side, the major change since then is that you can use the IoT credentials provider to provide certificate based auth to all services (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/author...). You don’t need to be using any of the other IoT services. It was created to make it easier for devices to use AWS services but can be used by anyone/anything.

What we did was combine the AWS CLI feature to source credentials from an external process (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configu...) with a script to do the certificate based auth. This allows you to obtain STS credentials using a certificate and pass them to the CLI (access key, secret key, session token). Your secure hardware just needs to do the normal work of assisting in the mutual TLS auth which in our case was done with curl and Zymbit’s OpenSSL engine. We are releasing that code along with a SoftHSM2 setup so people can see how it works in a test environment.
From looking at it for like 20 seconds (I ain't no serious rustacean, so forgive if I'm wrong) I think they're using just a growable pool (as vectors) of each fundamental type in the Go language, then having each instance of each fundamental type be boxed in a Rc (reference counted) type so that they can count all references to each instance of each fundamental type.I believe that this can be used to get simple reference counting "for free" via the borrow checker of Rust. Probably many downsides, and apparently they don't yet implement GC of channels, but it seems like a nice straightforward way to get a script-ing/purely interpreted implementation of a language off the ground.

The Rc module with the impl -
https://doc.rust-lang.org/alloc/rc/

Further docs on Rc- https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-04-rc.html
Not just UX.. one day Element just wouldn't connect anymore (and in a typical webapp fashion, no useful error messages). Nuking its config directory and starting from scratch fixed it (never needed to do that in 20 years of using irssi).

I've seen other issues like video previews getting their bottom half completely crippled. Can't make a video call just sharing the desktop with someone -- it demands a microphone. Can't disable read markers that are broadcast to everyone (bad for privacy imo). They were working on this when I looked into it but I've no idea if they've fixed it yet.

And yes I've seen UX bugs such as some UI setting getting stuck in a state when you try to toggle it in the settings.

I'm guessing these are more Element issues rather than Matrix issues (except for the read markers). But I get the vibe that we won't be seeing a client I like anytime soon; or it'll be a very minimalistic client with no support for all the fancy modern features, in which case I'd likely get the same or better experience with IRC anyway.
Ah if it’s just about significance (I thought you were arguing about rate of death being negligibly different) then agreed, little difference. In this kind of scenario, errors decrease like 1/sqrt(sample size) so quadrupling the sample size leads to halving the error (which was tiny to start off with).

If 1 out of 20 die of flu, the frequentist 1 sigma error is roughly 5% too, so same order of magnitude as the probability estimate. Different story with a hierarchical Bayesian model etc.
Apple has been vehemently against tracking their users from the start. Steve Jobs was adamant about it, it's even why they ditched Google Maps and developed their own mapping service starting in 2009. So Apple has a very long history to back this up, and have sunk billions of dollars into avoiding commercial entanglements that compromised their user's data.

Imagine if Apple had gone heavily into tracking back in 2009, as a lot of analysts predicted they would. They'd have been giants in the tracking industry. Imagine how much the detailed social graph of Apple users for more than a decade must be worth? They would have hauled in tens, maybe hundreds of billions. They walked away from all of that on principle.
I could have written this. The exact same thing happens to me and now I am realizing you might be right and it might be on purpose so we scroll through all the unnecessary ads. Arrgh.
Show HN: Simple, zero-friction feedback tool for newsletters and websites
C++20 Coroutine Iterators
Mobile App Monetization Strategies for 2021
Every search engine uses ads to monetize itself. A search engine you paid for wouldn't get enough users to pay for itself, since the cost of indexing the internet is huge. Youtube is the same deal, there are more ads when watching cable TV you paid for than watching youtube. You can't say that Google made the ad situation worse there either. So Google isn't pushing ads into new areas, Google is just running a normal business and applying the normal ways to monetize the areas it operates in. It just so happens that they are the biggest web business around and on the web you monetize with ads, but they weren't the ones starting that trend.
But Micro-USB was considered a good standard too. There's always a standard, but it doesn't start that way for long for a reason.

Why should it stop at USB-C? What will be the requirements for throughput and size in six years time?
Im a layman on these topics but I often think an intermediate translation to a controlled natural language should be invaluable (e.g. you can train a NN to translate, and a human can verify it without knowing about coding).
It's still bizarre the way history turned out. The British, for whatever reason—and I'm including the greater UK in this definition—have led the way in virtually every field of technology. Why they didn't end up dominating the military, biological, computing, and space industry is quite a puzzle in itself.
> Google Groups used to be handy for shadowing a bunch of Usenet groups, but that's gone now. I'm not sure how much Usenet exists these days.

I think Google Groups killed Usenet when they made a web interface for it. It was flooded with people who didn't understand how it worked. There was a definite turning point at that time, and I cancelled my subscription.
I saw CosmosDB turn up in some recommended multi-region designs, and I had a customer with DR requirements so I looked into it.

I started by spinning up a small one in my lab but when I saw the pricing I back-pedalled very, very fast. Deleted the whole Resource Group and never looked into it again.
Same issue for me on SwiftKey (yes, I know, shame on me). Definitely a browser issue.
>On analysis of the file, I found that the vast majority of the records are actually related to sex, porn, and other smartphone brands. There are mentions of Tibet, Hong Kong, and other religious groups, however, mentions of the CCP and “China” are also included, too (albeit there are a lot fewer mentions of China and Chinese politicians comparatively). One would think that if this were a list that exists to censor content that may go against the Chinese Communist Party, all mentions of “China” would not be censored online.

It appears more likely that the phone is tracking sentiment and mentions of items on the list, as opposed to applying it as a strict list of censored phrases, and that's far more dangerous to users (obviously censorship would still be bad regardless).