skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreclosures are a necessary evil. Without the ability to foreclose how do you prevent people from taking loans in bad faith? The only way would be to not give loans in the first place.
The company is big and most people wouldn't know I left. The one that you claim in the scenario that works at the same new company would probably have talked together at some point in the new company if we were alums.

Waste what money? If it's a good case, then it would be handled on a contingent basis.

Frankly, I'm tired off all the BS prestige and reputation. I have plenty of people that have a high opinion of me and that wouldn't change with this scenario. People who did find out would message me to ask what happened. I actually ran this scenario by a friend at the company and they said it makes sense and they would do the same thing. It's stupid that promotions and hiring is all about backroom deals and bias.
You didn't answer the question - Do you want someone to regulate them?
The Pentagon is (plausibly) Starlink's by-far most valuable potential customer. It seems pretty safe to assume that Starlink was designed to keep working after anti-satellite weapons, jammers, hackers, etc. knocked out GPS.
Ask HN: What do you use for audit logging?
Some companies we've been talking to have requested the ability to see audit logs for actions people take in product and we'd also like to see this for customer support reasons.

We saw a lot of stuff about how to implement it ourselves, but would rather not if we don't have to do it ourselves. What do you use?
Lol. The good old Bobby Tables attack.
Not really, no: it isn't even a very high quality act, and in fact can be quite negative:

1. The multiplier is net negative for software engineers: it advances the commoditization of our knowledge skills;

2. It does so while providing essentially free labor for large organizations with agendas that are rarely positive for society;

3. Most (>99.99%) software development is not similar to, say, mathematical, engineering or scientific inquiry: there's no similar value produced for society by working on it (open source or otherwise), and people who work on open source now thinking they're following the traditions of the hackers of 30-40 years ago are quite mistaken (see above two items) most of the time

Some open source software projects are altruistic. The vast overwhelming majority are not.
They forced SD resolution to appease technophobes who were crying Netflix was wasting bandwidth on ‘unnecessary entertainment’ while they were having trouble with their ‘necessary video meetings’. Which of course was a limitation of bandwidth across the internet while Netflix mostly uses local bandwidth, they try to stream from machines on the ISP networks because it saves them a ton of money.

After about a month this was reversed.

In the meantime it’s possible they have switched compression standards or settings which you may have noticed. But the covid limitations should be long gone.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/
I know people may be desensitized at this point, but if you can't see the correlation with the book 1984's consistent theme of the past and current being scrubbed of "wrongthink" that is thrown down the "memoryhole" to dispose of it, then I think we are all in for a far worse future than we would like.
>What's the equivalent for Google?

The aurora borealis perhaps? The sun could decide to throw us a particularly nasty geomagnetic storm one day and suddenly Google would go to fearsome tyrant to basically irrelevant overnight. I imagine most of us on HN would be out of a job too!
I feel that is overreach by the state (and there are quite a few others), but I would also ask if boycotting is not violence then not using a specific pronoun would fall in the same category as the above -impolite but not violent.

As a teacher, your job is to educate in the subject, teach some social behaviors (civics0 and stay away from political indoctrination.
Publishers and platforms are not mutually exclusive concepts.
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Do you think YouTube would be justified in banning ISIS recruitment videos, for example? After all, who’s to say that’s “extreme BS”?
Not sure what’s the privileged view here. VR is being pushed by wealthy businessmen from the first world, who probably have nice tables. Instead of using their resources and acumen to make sure the rest of us get nice tables too, they’re providing us with a virtual world of material luxury while they get to camp out in the real one.

https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social...
you wanted a world run by the hysterics of Branch Covidians on Twitter and you got it
Nope, in India we recently had a unicorn which launched a women only EV division.
It "solves" the problem of me having to do five calls in parallel. They can with asyncio in theory be done at the same time, since python can move on and fire off the next calls while waiting for IO.
About dang time. Hey Facebook, your turn.
> and I hate things in my ear.

That's because you haven't tried the wax+cotton ones - or if you did, not the good ones. You just should not feel them, at all. Like they don't exist. My personal favorite are Mighty Plugs (https://mightyplugs.com). I tried all different ones but nothing comes close.
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> It’s interesting that the accounts would be originating from Kosovo and (north) Macedonia.

As someone whose spent a bit of time in the Balkans can I just say that you can buy a Macedonian sim card with no ID for a few dollars and get perfect 4G signal from close to the border in 5 different countries without ever stepping foot in the place?

Not trying to defend what's happening here, but just saying, not all this stuff is as clearcut as it seems. Blaming these places seems a bit premature without understanding the region.
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If you're battery constrained and not expecting a signal most of the day I imagine you could put the radio to sleep for 5-30m. I kinda understand a weak signal getting boosted and draining a battery, but when there's none at all? It just seems like a use case they didn't care enough to address. Since it sounds like this is the primary use case, I figured someone might have tried.
It's only on if the 'Find My' feature is enabled, and then it can be disabled.
I get your rather stunted libertarian take, but fact of the matter is that they are not allowed to delete or remove evidence of crimes.
The router has the issue of traffic and the path being encrypted. It does not see the paths that are browsed and so cannot backup or replace/URL with the new one?
I didn't say I want Italy to be an economic island. Isolationism has been against Italian economic interests since, at least, the renaissance. Probably since Magna Graecia.

Italy doesn't need a Lisbon Treaty bound EU to trade with its neighbors. Italy didn't need it in the 1400s, and it didn't need it in the 60s. In neither periods was Italy under the Lisbon Treaty.
What is it you do? I had to build this at a past company and while we looked at some external options, most of the work was in collecting the right data, which had to be bespoke anyway to be useful.
is it impossible to access sci-hub without a browser extension?
Yeah now I see it even has the phrase "core business", which he says is vague. I don't think it's that vague if you just add the qualification about "down the stack".

It's hard for me to think anything that should be brought in house that isn't down the stack, i.e. on the critical path to serving Twitter. It's just not obvious to outsiders what is down the stack for a given company (the "I could write Twitter in a weekend" people), but it should be more obvious to people working there.

e.g. the example of expense reports is obviously not down the stack -- if it goes down or is generally terrible, you can still serve your customers. As another example, in the old days, the big tech companies used to actually hire chefs and kitchen staff themselves. These days I believe it's all done through contractors.

Also I'd say the post assumes that saving money is always important... in the earlier stages of a company, they are frequently really wasteful and prefer to grow the business. An example is Dropbox starting on AWS and then building their own data centers to become cost efficient.
It's just called Global Positioning System now - they dropped 'Navstar'.
I wonder why VSCode hasn't yet adopted TreeSitter for syntax parsing. Seems like it solves at least part of the performance issue via incremental parsing
We absolutely do not have a shortage of gas (petrol, as we like to call it). It's just not in the right place because we have a lorry driver shortage - and the media has created a toilet-paper style panic that's caused everyone to try to buy as much as they can, all at the same time.

They could equally have said "we're running out of milk!" and we'd have a milk "shortage".
Western society is way too tolerant of certain kinds of mental illness, such as sociopathy/psychopathy, and intolerant of others (e.g. anxiety/depression).
> states are enacting legal bans against teaching the history of racism

There's a big difference between keeping government employees from saying certain things during their official duties, and keeping everyone from saying certain things in general.
It's memespeak from over a decade ago. Here's an example: https://www.memecenter.com/fun/312757/sexy-time
"A good interim solution for the US would be to adopt Israel’s Arrow-3 for homeland security defense"

Which should be provided for free, given the billions in US military aid Israel has received.
Prayer is the recognition you exist among something better. If you are Christian, you exist not because of a past mistake or chance, but because whatever is better could have a much easier time vaporizing you, but for whatever reason, decided not to. Don't expect it to mystically grow you a kidney. Do expect it to keep a drunken mob of organ vampires from taking yours.

You're going in there. The people there are going to patch you up as best as they can. But your discomfort means very little. Do it, or die. God does it. God does it to himself. What do you think is in store for you? Think of it as just material waste we are dumping into a black hole, turning our local cosmic region into a place for pure ephemeral humans.

I think I'm going to start saying people converted to Catholicism. Not little people. Big powerful people. Bill Gates. Elon Musk If they say "no, they didn't". I'm going to just say, "yes, they did. That's not up to them". Here's a third of all they own. It goes to Catholic institutions near where I live. After the tech guys, the baptist and protestants. Hollywood, the ugliest place in the world. And it's just a dry run for the godless lawless international fools who think they get to do whatever they want and tell everyone what to do.
> IDK why, but locally available masks are mediocre.

Probably for the same reason you mentioned – they are hardly used by anyone in Europe, whereas overnight flights are very common in the US – think West to East coast, for example.

Also, see my other comment just above on the plugs. And mind sharing which mask did you buy?
Do you think it's a coincidence that this article is getting clicks on HN specifically?

It is implausible that people have noticed that serving "Christians" and "African Americans" content they want to click on is profitable, but nobody has put the data together to realize that they can do the same thing to "Liberals" and other favored groups here on HN.

It's just, those articles won't get upvoted and clicked on here. Nobody wants to talk about themselves or their favored groups getting targeted like this.

There's plenty of people here reading this and congratulating themselves on how they aren't stupid like those groups, and then rolling straight over to their own content-farmed, clickbaited news solely posted for ad revenue that fits their own ideology one browser tab over.

"Those groups are the stupids! Not like imtelligent youse!" is one of the perennial clickbait stories. It's part of the reason why clickbait is so dangerous; a certain amount of division is inevitable, but people deliberately deepening the divisions just to make .0001 cents per view is not!
How many times has Cuba invaded the U.S.?
I just convinced the company that i work for to do exactly this. We’re small so there isn’t a lot of extra cash lying around, but we just started with a low number and we’ll increase it as we go along.
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/09/14/china-most-adva...
> Another reason to have in-house expertise in various areas is that they easily pay for themselves ... If, in the lifetime of the specialist team like the kernel team, a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity ... people will also find configuration issues, etc., that have that kind of impact.

KEY observation that we forget when we wear many hats at small companies. This is the satisfying core reason 'why we debug'. Our deep dives matter. (Though not as much as they would at BigCos)
Ok, that's pretty even reasoning though I feel it's an abuse of their monopolistic position.
It would be really nice to not always have to do a worker thread or iframe to get multi-threading. Web apps with more involved and/or extensive ui's would benefit a lot from this in terms of the ui responsiveness.
It's NOT an iOS 15 feature.

I have an iPhone without a SIM card that I use as a test device and it happen that yesterday I left it in my backpack, together with an AirTag in the car. Shortly after I walked off, I got the AirTag notification as expected(the left behind notification). What I did not expect though, was to see the test iPhone also having an up to date location in the Find My app. That iPhone has no network connection, so I assumed that somehow it must have connected to my daily iPhone's hot spot.

And today, I learn that iPhones are capable of sending location even when turned off. So I checked the Find My setting, it's right there on iOS 14.4.2 on iPhone 7.

It's pretty cool, very aggressive tracking. Maybe we need clothes with faraday cage pockets for occasions when we don't like to be tracked.
This is more like ice crem joke …

Question: Do you know why near every ice cream shop in Croatia is run by Albanians?

Answer: money
> it stops the virus from spreading

"It doesn't fully stop spread, so it doesn't work as a whole". Thanks for giving another example for my comment.
Macedonian here. Its true what you said about Kosovo being a puppet state, and yes Macedonia being an EU and US puppet too, but not to such extent. The troll farms in this case are not government supported, theyre basically run by digital marketers, the govt probably cant even track them down without the help of some foreign intelligence agency.

In the 2016 election there was a lot of fake news sites originating from Macedonia, and this is because since late 2000s there has been lots of digital marketers making quick bucks with black hat methods. I used to be a part of the forums, lots and lots of people did this full time, which was way more lucrative than the average 300 USD salary. Heck, high schoolers were dropping out of school to do this full time.

So this has nothing to do with the government of Kosovo or Macedonia or Serbia. And it could be russians routing IPs but I would doubt it, its just digital marketers trying to make a buck
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I am a researcher, and despite having institutional access to most papers I want, I still rely heavily on Sci-Hub as do my colleagues. It has been such an incredibly valuable resource and I'm constantly surprised by how complete it is -- I very rarely come across a paper I need access to that it doesn't have.

I do wonder sometimes if it almost makes it too easy, in a way that ends up propping up the status quo of closed publishing and takes away the incentive of publishing in open access sources. Early in my career I remember discussions about publishing in closed journals, concerns that papers will be less read because people may not have access to them. In the last few years, I feel like this has gone away because it seems like everyone (among researchers at least) knows about Sci-Hub.

I mean, I still think that on the whole, Sci-Hub is a good thing for the research community and the state of the publishing industry -- it gives people access to the research and ultimately does take some money out of the publishers' pockets. But it does also make a broken system feel less broken, and thus people are less willing to actively push for change.
I haven't read much by Boghossian but from the bits that are floating on the internet he seemed to hold a decently balanced perspective on things.

Somehow reducing him and his decade of activity as a critical thinking professor as just "a troll" based on a half-failed publicity stunt seems a little drastic.
Good question. Also consider that most of the threats to GPS are ground based jamming. It is fairly easy and cheap to make a jammer out of hobbyist parts and knock out a large area of GPS coverage. However, just because someone jams GPS for an entire city doesn't mean that they are able to jam the LEO satellites flying over that city.
Reality causes suicidal thoughts in teens though. Does Facebook cause more or less than anyone else? Fashion magazines, their peers, global warming, poverty, etc etc.

If there's evidence someone found out that doing X would cause more suicides, and they did it anyway, that's bad.

It's not that governments have to regulate Facebook specifically, it's they have to act more rapidly, and globally, and that's two things they're terrible at.

Facebook isn't the problem, it's the symptom of a rapid massively interconnected world that hasn't existed before
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Not directed at you, just to get that out of the way. But I am quite fed up that the masks-don't-help meme is constantly brought up. That was in early 2020, a lot of mistakes were made back then because nobody really knew what they were doing.

Especially because it usually brought up by people that are consistently wrong about pretty much everything, while propagating active lies, as a defense against anyone pointing out the utter BS they are spreading. That gets tiresome.
Ooh. Crazy, not at all thought through, probably bad, legislation idea popped in to my head:

EU Data Address Ownership Directive: All services that allow users to upload data that is then made publicly available, MUST have a method for the user to create a 301 redirect to another location where the content is available.

(Maybe allowing for a "Are you sure you want to follow the link to https://alternative.com and leave Youtube? We have no responsibility nor control for the content on alternative.com")
I can't recall last time a C-level company executive get into trouble for using deceptive tactics, every S&P500 company does this to some extent. When they get caught, in majority of cases it is a gentle slap on the wrist or given more of a timeout and reallocation of their position. Also unfortunately using public money and delivering a bad product is not a criminal offense, more like being sloppy at what you do. With big lawyers involved she might get sometime in a fancy hotel like prison or some restrictions on trading stock or fundraising.
The elephant in this room is that the UK is slowly turning into a 3rd world country.
IBM used to lease RAM. Honeywell had a disk drive that was built to support double sided disks but if you flipped the switch yourself, you voided the maintenance contract.

BMW make people pay subscriptions for using onboard entertainment systems.

Why is Intel selling certain parts of its functionality on a lease or optional basis different?
Oh, please.
A big part of it is that GitHub Issues has essentially been the same product for the past like, 10 years, and even 10 years ago it was still seriously behind contemporary alternatives in a number of ways. The only reason people tolerate it is basically the social inertia, obviously. I bet if you ask any maintainer of a major GitHub project what pain points they have, Issues will be a top contender.

If you've ever worked on a project with 1,000+ issues, you'll know how big a difference small stuff makes when it comes to efficiency, especially for people who maintain the project. GH Issues really is lacking in so many ways, and as a result people come up with all kinds of crazy automation strategies to help make the issue database more "useful" to the developers, even if it's basically second class automation. Stalebot is one of these. The idea is really (at heart) that you just want to keep the open ticket count low because that's one of the simplest Signal-to-Noise ratios you can use as a search filter or mental criteria. If you have better tools (more powerful search, customized forms, powerful tagging, etc), this isn't true, but you have to play the hand you're dealt.

I don't think it's a good strategy, mind you. But I think understanding these recent trends as an effect of older, more fundamental causes is worth pointing out. This is all based on my experience, mind you. But it helps understand the thought process. And people see these tools being used on their big projects, so they kind of naturally gravitate (or at least try them) out of curiosity.

Two issue trackers that are substantially better than Issues are both Maniphest (Phabricator) and Trac, for curious people. Trac was a bit annoying to run and I think effectively unmaintained now, but as a bug tracker it's actually still really good. (It was also small and easy enough to hack that we were able to make modifications to fit our workflow, and maintain them for a long time.) I still miss both of them a lot every time I open a big project on GitHub and have to start searching for issues... Here's hoping "GitHub Issues 3.0" will get some things right and they won't wait another 10 years before doing major updates.
>I recently came to a decision which will have a big impact on my open source work. In particular Rich

Why does a library for displaying pretty text on the terminal need a full time maintainer?
We're building a way for people to build UIs using existing design systems without engineers.

In the past, I've built this in a bespoke way at another company and ran into the problem that I had to also build a bunch of internal tooling to make this useful.
Collecting the data was relatively simple, but managing the tooling and making volume changes was not =/
Sure, but there’s also a big difference between keeping YouTube users from saying certain things on YouTube, and keeping everyone from saying certain things in general.
It works up to 3000km with full precision, you just need a receiver without CoCom limits. (actually, precision should be better without atmosphere). It also works all the way up to geostationary orbit, but with some limitations.

https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/presentations/2011/09/ICG/mil...
This is from 2018.
So it punishes me that whose closest family is 500 km away. The next closest is 1000 km away and then half way across the world.

A $100/flight tax for a family of 5 would bug me, but wouldn't stop me from flying. $1000/flight certainly would give me a pause.

My proposal is against my own interests.
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