skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the problems is that there are different types of "illegal". The laws we're familiar with specify both that doing something is illegal, and also spell out a penalty for violation. But benerally the laws that set out government procedures don't specify any consequences for failing to follow the procedure.

So the best that can happen after years of court time (with the government agents being paid the whole time), is a court judgement to stop doing something. There is no personal liability for the offending agents, no liquidated damages for the victims, no conspiracy charges for management's illegal policies, etc.

In general, the state has a massive blindspot towards damages that it itself inflicts. As we can expect from any natural system, it has settled into creating ever more externalities. Cops have been abusing "you might beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride" for forever. Now that moral hazard is everywhere.

In a just society, much of the state's activities would be viewed as just another actor on a level playing field, and would therefore be directly liable the damages it itself causes to innocent parties.
Though the magazine was largely before my time, I have an art print of the cover for the May 1981 [1] issue and it makes me smile every time.

[1] https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198105_Byte_Magazine_Vol_0...
Hi HN!

GPXZ (https://www.gpxz.io) is an API for elevation point queries. These APIs are used for things like flight planning, flood analysis, elevation profile visualisation, and weather forecast localisation.

Google Maps is the name brand elevation API but it's expensive, you are restricted in how you use the data, they decrease accuracy for batch queries, and their dataset is being left behind by all the amazing open data sources released in the last few years.

You can self-host an API serving open data (I also develop https://github.com/ajnisbet/opentopodata) which helps you do this) but elevation data comes in different formats and quality levels which are non-trivial to merge without artefacts, and the datasets are too large for a typical cloud workflow.

So I built the 12 TB GPXZ dataset, which carefully merges open lidar and satellite sources covering the whole globe. The idea is that with a single dataset you can get the best-possible data in your area of interest.

The gpxz.io API runs on a boring stack: nginx, uwsgi and python on dedicated servers. Everything is in a django monolith, except the API which I recently liberated from the monolith into a standalone flask service. I have a few freelance customers who are paying me for data processing and managed opentopodata hosting that have been extremely helpful in validating this idea.

I know this is a niche service compared to most Show HNs, happy to answer any questions about elevation data or geospatial APIs!
Gosh, and the defendant didn't even call anyone a pedo.
Well, that escalated quickly.

Guess some people's really don't like animals and the urge to show that is strong.
All I could think about when reading about the coffee shop experience was that the author would be robbed blind (pun intended) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Computer snatched because of the lack of awareness, phone stolen, etc.
If your goal is to optimize money, then yes.

But since PokerStars VR is only with fake money, most are there just to have fun, at least in the lower stakes tables, so people make (and call) a lot of silly bets.
As an addendum, the only powerful force outside of laws for moving a company's position, is its own high-value employees. It's not boycotts, but sometimes its enough employees internally who can get a company to change its ways, but often the execs or some groups will try to band-aid grievances or create illusory changes to try and calm the uproar but still keep doing what they want secretly.
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I've been getting into his later work with Chiara Carletto: Constructor theory of information. It's an interesting way of looking at the world. Rather than using dynamical equations to describe the world, in constructor theory it is about looking at what things are possible and impossible with respect to information exchange. A constructor is something that can apply a transformation to something without itself changing (kinda like a catalyst in chemistry).

Here is the home page if you want to learn more:

[paper] https://www.constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03...

[homepage] https://www.constructortheory.org/
Here's what's available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?&sort=date

I'm not sure what's missing there, but it sounds like this collection fills in some gaps.
Ask HN: Is it possible the “extra value” in Bitcoin is brand equity?
Most brands are worth more than the value of the thing they sell, hence the high profit margins. Is it possible the same kind of phenomenon is happening with bitcoin?
Because of lobbying and greed, sadly.
How many employees does Google have working in Russia?
Well... maybe. Whenever I see folklore like this I always suspect there are real effects but they may be attributed incorrectly. For instance, an ancient Greek feels sick, and worships at the temple of Apollo to ask the god to heal him. The Greek starts feeling a bit better when they leave. Apollo or the placebo effect?

My first thought with telling the bees is that just speaking our thoughts to an impartial third party can help ease our burdens and make us feel better. Maybe it's a therapist, a stranger at the bar, or a garden of bees. Now this doesn't explain the supposed effect of bees dying/leaving if the practice is not followed, but it could explain why the practice continues.
> different food sources contain varying specific fatty acid profiles as well as other constituents that may result in distinct lipid and metabolic effects. [4]

This was something I discovered only when researching the chemistry of fatty acids. There are actually dozens of various fatty acid compounds that comprise food fats [1][2], and they vary wildly in their metabolism and known effects on the human body. Yet, most dietary information usually just refers to them as either saturated, or unsaturated fats.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saturated_fatty_acids

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsaturated_fatty_acid...
Just a caveat — the article is very Facebook-centric. All the software they mention seems to be Oculus-specific within that closed ecosystem. No mention of non-Oculus options.
Having perfect sensors and only one task to do makes live a lot easier.
Also, I disabled email confirmation so if anyone from HN wants an api key to try it out, you can just enter anything in the email signup input.
“The Development Abstraction Layer” or what Management should really do?
I actually accidentally found this blog and I've been fascinated with articles from this guy.

One that really caught my attention is the one that I'm sharing here.

I'm curious what the general opinion is here?

Mind you, article is from 2006 ! And what's more, most of his articles are from 2000s and YET, if you read them today, hell, they're 100% to the point.

Thoughts?
Companies have no problem hiring people with degrees even though getting a degree takes more time than an immigrant visa so I don't buy the time explanation. Some companies don't even have a problem with sponsoring an H1B visa for foreigners, which takes time too.

As to your question about benefit: for every I140 petition the company claims that the immigrant worker is the only one available, there are no Americans that can possibly do this job so, if they are not lying, it's the obvious benefit as they get someone to do the job nobody else can.
From a couple years ago maybe?

Some other Byte mag convos lately:

week ago on cover art https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607038

Logo language issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603556

another cover archive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26453783
> The standard american diet (SAD) is characterized by high amounts of processed foods, refined carbohydrates and added sugars, refined fats, high fat dairy products and red meat.

The problem isnt too meat and animal products it is the whole thing. Litterally any diet choice that deviates from the SAD has positve value.

I agree with "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." but the thing to do more of is to rip the whole diet up and start again.
Exactly. The author does not make a sufficient case of why content moderation is necessary, and doesn't even touch client-side moderation.
And a Blazor rewrite of the frontend shortly behind that, if they haven't already.

My previous company had to rewrite a bunch of its old (~7 year old) code from Silverlight just before I started working there too.

We also rewrote the front-end of some apps from AngularJS to Angular 2+ while I was there (and their older apps had some jQuery and Knockout code still in there), which took some time also.
Authoritarian regimes are using Interpol to target minorities and activists
Would be interesting to hear what countries you all are talking about. I mean, what "Catholic" means in Italy, Ireland, Mexico and the Philippines varies to some degree, for instance.
Resource consumption for low-accuracy voice transcription is trivial - think in the single-digit milliwatt range[1] for custom hardware. It would also be really easy to hide the resulting small amount of textual data in routine communications with the service's server.

You can't rule out audio transcription on the technical basis that "it's too hard" alone, because it's not too hard.

(for Google, that is - Facebook is constrained by the Android sandbox, but Google has their opaque Google Play services blob on almost every Android phone)

That's obviously not a reason to believe that it does exist - we'd only know that if a Google whistleblower stepped forward, or if someone reverse-engineered Play Services - but we can't rule it out on a technical basis alone.

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2018/Price_IEE...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking
Is anyone else super-skeptical of SAFe? I've always heard it touted in some enterprise circles but I'm not sure I've heard much about it spreading and gaining popularity? Sounded like it was potentially just a consulting grift.
I know this thread is a week old, but the nonsense about the arrested-courier-for-hire was entirely the product of your imagination, not mine. I don't even know how you logically arrived at that conclusion.
I was prescribed fish oil (EPA omega-3) for ADHD. 3g/day.

It seems like the dietary ratio of omega-3:6:9 is the most important.

IIRC, canola is often used because it's cheap. Personally, I use small amounts of avocado oil or butter in high temp cooking and olive oil for refrigerated or room temperature foods.
2005 called and wants its security vulnerabilities back.
That’s most likely because your device used their wifi and ended up behind their nat using the same ip as them. The anonymous tracking cookie ids on your device get associated with searches from that ip. (i.e. “cookie 1234 is in-market for glazing”) and you take those cookies back home with you. This is actually a massive failure because you’re not likely to purchase glazing at all.
The accidents and near misses show that MAD worked. People were reluctant to pull the final trigger because they knew the outcome would be catastrophic. Despite decades of serious diplomatic incidents, misunderstandings, and mishaps, there was no nuclear holocaust: this was exactly the outcome that MAD promised, and delivered.
I've been working on one for a while now that's very slowly coming together: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween if you're interested.

I've been building out some backend stuff lately so there's a bunch of new features waiting to go in. https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw has some demonstrations of the sort of procedural animation features I'm planning on adding, for instance.
This is nonsense, refurbished screens are not counterfeits. The problem is screens that were manufactured with apple logos without apple authorization.
Hakka's most obvious archaic feature is the syllable-final stops, as in Yue/Cantonese and Min. I know Yue dissimilated some of them (details fuzzy in my memory, possibly -t went to -k with a dental initial). I don't know of any changes to them in Hakka.

Hakka retains the -m final, instead of merging it to -n. It retains distinct 'round' and 'sharp' (velar and dental) onsets in positions where some Mandarin varieties (including Standard) merge them to the new palatal j/q/x.

The Middle Chinese palatal ny- is lost in Hakka as it is almost everywhere. It merged with r- in Mandarin, y- in Yue, and ng- in Hakka. So you can't read the archaic form directly off any one of those varieties, but you can detect it by comparing any two.

Hakka tonal developments are middle-of-the-road. Like every variety of Chinese, it had the four Middle Chinese tones altered by the voicing feature of the syllable onset, and like every variety outside of Wu/Shanghainese, it then lost the voicing feature itself.

Hakka splits the ping/level tone in two by voicing, like almost every variety does. It splits the ru/entering 'tone' (the syllables with final stops) by voicing, like almost every non-Mandarin variety does, instead of disintegrating it like Mandarin.

In the shang/rising tone, Hakka agrees with Mandarin against Wu and Yue that you don't just split the tone down the middle by voicing; you split off voiced obstruent onsets and leave voiced sonorant onsets alone. It agrees with Mandarin and Wu against Yue that the split-off voiced onsets (whether all of them or just the obstruents) merge into the qu/departing tone.

Hakka agrees with Mandarin against almost everybody else that the qu/departing tone does not split.
I love how clean and minimal-looking the UI is. Internet community should become aware of Spaces in the element app.
Or you can do what I do: go to bed early, tell yourself that you're going to get up early and do things, and then sleep until your normal time anyway. That way you don't have fun _and_ you feel bad about lying to yourself! But at least you get enough sleep.
The internet itself is unmoderated in any useful sense for content, yet it has lived longer than most of these cheesy "moderated" products that seek to impose their morality on you.
Compared to life before this paradise. I dread going back.
This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once
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I hope you realize that Europe got hit by that same ice storm as Texas did, it wasn't a crisis. Europe just has better power infrastructure in general, being dense and well connected helps a lot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/08/snowstorm-...
Fortunately Quest Intrusion Passthrough is rolling out soon
Interesting article, I wonder how many UGC platforms got away with a third party solution to help their moderation. Feels like a core part of the business that would directly impact if it sinks or floats.

> It’s the dirty little product secret that no one talks about.

Hmmm. I’d say that the first thing people have in mind when UGC comes on the table. A bit like how nobody thinks lightly of storing credit card info, that’s part of the culture at this point I think.
All fair points! Docker could certainly make it easier, and it sounds like Cloud Run could do better to accommodate this type of case. AFAIK these type of issues have been the main motivator for the creation of alternative container runtimes such as Podman.
> moralization of nudity

Even porn sites need moderation. Trying to stop sexual abuse and child pornography isn't weird moralization.

> and it's 100% not required there at all

I'm not super familiar with the darkweb, but I assume that darkweb platforms also have active moderation, even if it's only to keep griefers out. Pornography is not the only use case for moderation.
Before these past couple weeks, did you also struggle, or is this completely new and sudden?

How do you feel overall about your job? Did you enjoy it a month ago? 3 months ago? Did something change?

I’ve had feelings before where I suddenly lost drive, though I didn’t completely stop being productive. In my case, the underlying reason was a realization that my productivity wasn’t going to solve some deeper organizational/people matters, and that my productivity was more like throwing a glass of water at a burning building.
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I'd say definitely increase that limit. I have a 4TB file hanging around over here, I'm sure others have bigger ones.
Show HN: Building a product and launching it in 30 days with just HTML and CSS
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> Whenever the sensor doesn't see any obstacles it reports the value of 0. On the contrary, if the value of the sensor is small but not zero (i.e. 0.01m) it would mean that the obstacle is close.

I would guess that mapping ”nothing here” to a value that is higher than the others would give better results. The software wouldn’t have to learn that weird inversion where the safest value is very close to the least safe ones.
I've heard that the general industry estimates for something like this are 5 (up to 10) years. However, both Intel and TSMC's USA are saying 2024. Potentially related is that 2024 is a presidential election year.

It's like trees: a long-term investment, and you might as well start now.
I used to be an adult ESL teacher and had students who had immigrated to the US from all around the world. I mentioned this practice one in class, and a student from Guatemala made clear that, at least where he was from, people were still telling the bees. I wonder if this is due to convergent evolution or colonial influence?

[0] I learned about telling the bees from the incredible Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA: https://www.mjt.org/exhibits/bees/bees.html
The Quest 2 was heavily optimized for reduced cost since otherwise, VR is a very expensive hobby to get into. Before the Quest, you had to buy a $600 headset AND a $1500+ gaming PC if you didn't already have one if you wanted to get into VR.

As it is, I imagine at $300, Facebook is likely losing money on the sale of each headset.

High-end headsets like the Valve Index come with a very good strap. There's no need to mod it or get an aftermarket one because the stock one is already very comfortable and balances the weight on your head very well. But the full kit is $1,000 and requires a gaming PC.
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I have seen footage of a B-52 laying down two B83 training shapes near-simultaneously on the same target, so I've got no doubt the scenario happens.

I don't know how the fuzing worked in those situations. Perhaps one weapon senses the gamma ray burst or other emission from its companion and a form of salvage fuze detonates it.

As an aside, I've wondered what I would do if I were a Soviet guard at an ICBM site or the like and a bomb was laid down nearby. It's going to sit there ticking for a little while to ensure the bomber escapes the blast radius, so you'd have a bit of time to think things over. I think I'd probably shoot the bomb in hopes of disrupting the detonation process, but I suppose just sitting on it and having a swig of vodka would be an attractive second choice.
Thanks! Yeah that would be a significant improvement.

This started as a little demo project with Nextjs + Mux and then evolved into more of an actual product (https://github.com/muxinc/stream.new).

Right now the lightweight utility aspect of stream.new feel right, but if we continue to build upon it as a standalone free product then adding the concept of an "account" with saved videos makes a ton of sense.
They failed miserably at getting things done with remote workers, which is indeed difficult, but there's no longer any alternative.
But they'd complain about the opposite -- for example if the program were an external-event-driven state automaton.
He definitely can by putting a warning on the subject. If I read every email from every online service I've ever signed up for, I would be doing this all day long and be unemployed!
> In the us there are grey areas. In Canada they can just ignore it if they can convince a judge to say it doesn't apply

You realize that those are just two different ways of saying the exact same thing, right?

> and the judges are political.

While the judicial branch in the US is sometimes distinguished from the elected “political” branches, federal judges and especially thise of the highest court which serves as the ultimate arbiter of Constitutional interpretation are very much tied into partisan politics; if that hadn't been clear before, all doubt of that was erased during the Reagan Administration (continuing similarly thereafter), and the further heightened judicial political drama of the Obama and Trump Administrations has bolded and underlined that for anyone who still somehow had doubts.
This really sounds like low-key return-to-office propaganda.

> Over the past year many of us have sat at home, confined to the same four walls for much of the day, contemplating the same view, munching the same lunch and wearing the same clothes (at least below waist level).

That really wasn't my experience at all. My city is well interspersed with gardens, parks and trees in general and since the lockdown was lifted I was able to explore the parks near my house by taking walks during lunch break or by going out for lunch with my SO from time to time.

My coworkers and me still meet from time to time, when we all decide to do a gathering in the office.

So yeah, that's low quality bait.

If my experience sounds extta-terrestrial to you the good news is that you can achieve something similar or even better while working remotely (since you're not tied to a certain place, city or area in the same city).
You'd be amazed at how many of the daily front page political posts come from only a handful of people.

There's still a ton of offenders, but only so many super prolific ones.
Are you implying that Musk didn't know about this lawsuit?

Highly doubt it, since he seems to be exactly the type of CEO who would do this and also he's not the type of CEO without whose approval such a thing could have happened.
> you're trying to pass him off as some kind of fringe conspiracy theorist

He is. Just watch the webcam video.

>you can't blame people for buying illegally imported

It’s only illegal to import counterfeit parts.

>there is no legal way to obtain them outside of AARP

It is perfectly legal to buy generic replacement parts without apple logos, but the chinese factories don’t find it worth their time to produce such as “authentic” parts earn them more money.

And yeah, he ended up admitting it and bragging about buying counterfeit parts.

> Oh yeah also, stuff like this is the reason why Apple is a two trillion dollar company.

These things have nothing to do with each other, but I rather doubt that you even read Apples financial statements.
Larry Ellison is on Tesla’s board. https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/larry-ellison
Does anyone know of a good marketing guide for engineers? I sort of grew up engineering-wise with a "if you build it, they will come" attitude to products and I've realized that isn't very realistic anymore, but at the same time I'd still like a guide to marketing that lets me do a bare minimum set of easy actions that should work marginally well. I don't really want to churn out marketing content all the time, or pursue affiliate deals, nor do I want to create spam in people's inboxes, etc., and I've always, I think, looked down on companies that have to do this, telling myself "bad products need a sales/marketing team, good products sell themselves". So what resources should someone like myself consult? Multiple times in my life I've had that situation where I work on a side project for several years, "launch it", and nothing happens, so I'd like to avoid that going forward if I can, even if it means learning about marketing.