skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@rockinghigh #1 In paper yes it seems so. But quick googling shows me this page http://jukka-pekkakukkonen.puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/223502-u... In which the guy goes through finnish Uber TOS which states that Uber is not liable of any damage to you or losses caused by the driver. Also because Uber drivers have the basic insurance for personal use but not for professional the insurance companies might decline compensation because it's against the terms of agreement.

#2 Also I think the point the taxi driver and (consequently I) was trying to make that Uber does not check can you actually be a professional driver. They might check your crime record but do you think that's all what it takes to be a taxi driver? Granted it might differ in your country but in Finland taxi drivers are well-respected because they behave like a customer servant should. And from what he said it seemed that Uber's process seemed a bit flaky "fill a form and you're an Uber driver" or something like that.

Have you no trust in me? :) If you show me a non-Uber source that debunks my claims please go ahead.
So - and maybe this is a stupid question - how do I go about converting my Bitcoin back to electricity?

Say 1 kWh costs $0.20 in the US and $0.04 in China. I am in the US, and I have a machine that requires exactly 1kW to run. How does Bitcoin mining in China allow me to run this machine for $0.04/hr? Or am I misunderstanding what "arbitrage" means?
I don't know much about the specifics of ABP's history, but there's an obvious arms race component to ad blocking that could keep a developer busy indefinitely.
Regardless of how you want to label it, it wasn't a very convincing argument either. It had zero substance, didn't ask any questions, nor did it try to further the discussion.

I think I can fully represent the post with a single vocalization: "nuh-uh".
Blackberry up 10% today on another possitive quarter
The entire presentation, and the look of the glasses reminds me of the quite dystopian short Movie 'More': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk
Have you tried Samsung Gear VR with Galaxy S8? S8 has the latest and greatest mobile display with one of the highest pixel density in the market. However, when I use it in a VR headset, I can still see the pixels. It may be good enough for some gaming but it's not usable for working with spreadsheets in VR.
For those who dont remember, this has happened in the past with systemd - https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402

At the time systemd got a lot of serious heat and poettering got called names for something that was not systemd's fault to begin with.

> To make this very clear: we actually write to the EFI fs in systemd. Specifically, when you issue "systemctl reboot --firmware" we'll set the appropriate EFI variable, to ask for booting into the EFI firmware setup. And because we need it writable we'll mount it writable for that.
I see some potential to AR for assisted training of employees. Imagine being able to train someone to a series of tasks that are displayed right in front of the user's eyes.

We learn much faster by copying someone, and having this kind of tool would free up resources while you on-board someone.
That was kind of my point. The new designs don't incorporate any new functionality.

The designs don't necessarily look outdated, they look out dated to us because we live and breathe that stuff.

I'm not speaking in absolutes here though - some bank sites do need to be completely reimagined. Chase specifically comes to mind for example, but Wells Fargo's site was perfectly usable and did not feel dated.

To go even further, I'm not entirely arguing against redesigns, I'm arguing that if you do go that route it should at least be simple and straight forward, it's a bank site not the next social media behemoth.

It's always a really tough problem to keep old users happy who've been using the old sites for possibly years while treating new users to something more modern. This is one of the toughest problems I've encountered working in this field and haven't yet found an elegant solution.
Would you sign up to a weekly email roundup of startup acquisitions?
The difference here is between how children react and how grown ups react. In the grown up world your words along with the SPIRIT of their meaning underpins your actions. in this case all the parties agreed on splitting the costs, not retro actively changing the rules to suit themselves.
Yea, that is the first thing I thought of when I saw this. PWAs could be made for this and I think could be awesome
What service exactly are these web developers even providing in the first place? The site is built. The servers are running. Any technical upgrades are almost certainly to the advertising machinery, and if you want to make back your server costs, you probably already manage that with donations. The internet is cheap as dirt.

If you are trying to make more than that, beyond of course the actual work that you put in, the reason you want to do so is because of the massive capital investment that you have to justify. Capital investment that was attracted because of the promise of advertising revenue.
They have a different perception towards the human life. There's no way anyone would allow this in America because of the potential for catastrophic failures outweigh the benefits.

You have to understand the fundamental difference between the two countries on a cultural and government level. Chinese people are more than happy to submit to the government as in the neo-confucian sense, the state is the provider, the father, the protector. This is what most Koreans thought too during the early days of dictatorship era that brought tremendous economic uplift.

So it's obvious that China would be more daring in areas where the US would not but because they view the cost of human lives differently.

For instance, the leave no man behind, is not unique to the US military but seldom executed because of the sheer logistical and cost-benefit analysis. In any case, you hear routinely hear Russian soldiers being left to die in Chechnya, Crimea, and now Syria.
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There's going to be so much space business to go around in the coming ~20 years as these systems come online and bring costs down, that we'll need more than whatever launch volume SpaceX and Blue Origin can muster. They'll be turning away business.
That's how BT works, of course, what IP is downloading what torrent is not private information (and kind of can't be, from others participating in the torrent. you can blacklist known snoop IPs).

The RIAA already knows too.

But yeah, good to remind people.
Ask Hackaday: Preserving Electronic Devices
LCDs really did us a disfavor by imposing a fixed resolution. Before LCDs there was a wide range of available resolutions for different needs.
I guess I'm doing something right because even though I use a static IP and no VPN, and I've been continuously seeding some torrents since 2012 that site does not list any of my downloads.

It probably only looks at popular movie download sites and I don't use those.

But anyway, the domain name is a lie.
I think it means that even if you don't have Adblock Software installed and you are the type to ignore all ads anyway those ads are technically succeeding. I'd imagine the thinking is that subconsciously you can't completely ignore an ad although the way this was worded is rather confusing and doesn't really make sense considering Adblock Software completely removes the entire ad.
Some older computers had weird resolution / aspect ratio combination.

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FelipePepe/20150423/241730/N...

Basically, if you play video games from the DOS era on a modern computer without correcting their aspect ratio they look stretched, and that was not how they were supposed to look.

So, the same goes for fonts. They look weird if you look at it with your current resolution and aspect ratio. They would look more condensed/thinner on the CRT monitors of the DOS era.

> The thing is, most MS-DOS games were actually rendered in 320x200, which is a 16:10 aspect ratio and thus widescreen – but they weren't displayed that way. I won't pretend I know all the technical details – there are way better sources for that – simply put, the CRT monitors back then stretched images to fit the screen.

> The 320x200 image was stretched to fit the entire 4:3 screen, to something close to 320x240. What today we see as a sharp, square pixel was actually a blurry rectangle back then, about 20% taller than wider (the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST and other home computers all had different resolutions, but the principle is quite similar).

Even if you're lowering your current monitor resolution you're not actually seeing those fonts the way they were meant to be rendered. That's because your monitor will display a native DOS resolution as widescreen. When CRT monitors of the time took that widescreen resolution and turned it square.

There's a lot of understanding about old rendering methods that has been lost in the mainstream. The article I linked also showed how people exploited scanlines to make water look transparent in a very smoothed way. Your LCD pixel grid just doesn't show things the way old low resolution CRTs did.
It's very easy in my opinion

- I pay for my internet, which has bandwidth caps, so I'm selective about what I want to download.

- websites have right not to serve me their content, and so I have a right not to download what I don't like
the Pimax 8K X might well be good enough for working inside a virtual office with virtual screens -
https://www.pimaxvr.com/en
This kernel model was written for the explicit purpose of modifying the BIOS[1]. The module writer makes the recommendation of not enabling in KConfig[2]. The question is did Ubuntu enable it by default and if so, why?

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/8afda8b26d01ee26a60ef...
I don't think ads on badges conveys trust.
They must have degrees in grafting because that seems to be the only real engineering going on in the upper circles.
Looking at you Reddit...
Or we wait until it is in rubble, until the Romans realize what they have done to themselves, and then document the destruction so that nobody forgets the mistakes. That's what I think Disney just did. That Trump robot will be terrorizing people for generations to come.
Capitalism works in both ways.. I don't buy stuff I can't afford, and businesses don't have to produce content that is not profitable for them.
Benchmarks? (R/W ops per second, etc.)
Already mentioned on this page at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971180 .
What did you do to recover?
I can't say for certain about AR/VR screens in particular, but we know some things about doing extended "close work" with your eyes: https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/when-stress-strain...

Nearpoint stress basically can render your eyes permanently damaged. It's definitely to be avoided.
I think the issue is that you and millions of other more than likely want a lot more assurance it will work well and contribute to their workflow. Gamers are much more likely to make a speculative purchase, or at lease have a smaller set of requirements to consider it a useful purpose.

People's workflow is often fairly static, and this would need to fit the existing requirements. Games are very different from each other and transient. This may not work well for most of a gamer's library, but new games might come out that they will buy and utilize. If this doesn't work well (or even just as well as what you currently use) for a browser, terminal, spreadsheet and text editor, are you going to switch to some new software that you don't know that might work better (but still possibly not as well as what you used originally) just to make use of it? I wouldn't.
You know that exactly the same argument was made against the US, Germany, and Japan at different points in time, right?
Windows became the dominant OS because of demand from computer users; the problem was that Microsoft used its dominance in the OS market as leverage to gain dominance in the browser market. It is not just that the OS came with a bundled browser -- Microsoft deliberately and for no technical reason made IE a dependency of several unrelated Windows features (e.g. the desktop, the file browser, etc.). Most people received Windows pre-installed on a computer they purchased; had Microsoft not made IE a dependency of Windows itself, OEMs would have bundled browsers according to customer demand.

So yes, in fact, having IE pre-installed was a problem and ultimately Microsoft was forced to create this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
I rarely download torrents, however it shows just a list of a bunch of movies I haven't even heard of before
Nice attempt, but I haven't downloaded anything and it shows two downloads. Not so reliable I suppose.
Definitely I will be there!
That's what you hire lobbyists for and pay them. They will just keep working on it until they get it done. As citizen you can't sustain the effort to fight them, so eventually they will get their way.
Ask HN: Loan vs Convertible Debt during seed round?
In the early stages of raising our seed round, an independently wealthy individual offered us a loan rather than convertible debt.The loan amounts to several hundred thousand, and the first payments wouldn't be due for 12-18 months. Exact terms are still tbd, but I wanted to ask for some advice.

My initial thoughts:
Pros: no dilution, similar maturity date, similar consequences if things go south.
Cons: higher monthly payments

Is there a significant disadvantage to taking on debt vs convertible debt? Does a loan impact future rounds negatively? Is there something I'm not considering? Anything I should keep in mind?
It appears online music publication Pitchfork has been given a preview/demo as well.

Somewhat coincidentally (or not) at the same day Icelandic music-greats Sigur Ros were there to check out a new iteration of the AR-app they have been developing together with Magic Leap for the past 4 years.

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/is-secretive-virtual-...

Pretty interesting read.
A good reminder to Dockerize + VPN

https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

put that on any cloud vm and you have peace of mind + good internet speed.
It was never private. In BitTorrent, IP addresses are public. Trackers help peers match with each other, but trackerless mechanisms have been introduced not long after, and this keeps a distributed datastore "in the cloud", distributed among participating peers.

Any peer, whether a real downloader, or purposedly written to just crawl the DHT, can obtain IP addresses for peers who have relevant pieces, and aggregate this information over a long time.
I think back to Caddy and how they offered this and they still had to resort to that controversial thing where they started replying with a special Caddy header with pre-compiled versions of their server.

Even professionally, shops with good admins/devops will usually prefer CentOS/openSUSE over RHEL/SLES, since they can handle almost all the support themselves.

The other model is tools like Gitlab/Alfresco/Magento where the enterprise version has closed source code not available in the OSS version.

I wrote a thing about different OSS support philosophies a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
Yes, while Ubuntu has regressed, the root of the problem seems to be a Lenovo logic error where Lenovo resets the BIOS settings if the write protection bit is set to read/write.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147...
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Apple has already proved they can do major software transitions gracefully with their adjustment from PowerPC to Intel.
I would leave a bank because it lacked features, not because it's design looked old.

A bank is a tool, I don't care how pretty it is, I care how functional it is.
Anyone who thinks it works like an Oculus is totally and completely wrong, as one is AR vs VR. Whether it works similarly to a Hololens is completely unknown. The technical details just aren't available. A ton of handwaving and promises of features but very little information on actual technology.
D seems like a cool language. Do many people use it?
But I'm not forcing them to share it with me.. They can request me to pay for it, I just won't unless it's something I really need.
It’s insanely powerful only for its size and energy usage. There are so many cut corners and micro-lies when it comes to mobile that make all the specs sound good but at the end of the day they are far, far more crippled devices than any desktop or laptop computer. They tout things like processor specs but the entire computer matters, and turns out when you optimize for power efficiency and battery life a whooooole lot of computing power is simply not there for you to use.
A “Amazon's Choice” item has 100% Fake review
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075DVXBPB/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I9LX8SCJPV0TH&colid=22D6U5RCK2YHG&psc=0

https://www.fakespot.com/product/yoozon-selfie-stick-bluetooth-extendable-selfie-stick-with-wireless-remote-and-tripod-stand-selfie-stick-for-iphone-8-iphone-8-plus-x-iphone-7-iphone-7-plus-galaxy-note-8-s8-s8-plus-googl-more
Probably the one that isn't owned by two wealthy elite individuals...
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I find it absolutely amazing that they would let someone else handle the money that represents the life of their business. Hard to feel sorry for them. No doubt the correct thing to do would have been to delay the campaign until the banking issues were resolved. This was an amateur mistake. Yea it would be nice if we lived in a world where we could be naive and let strangers handle our money without fear but we all know thats just not the case and not prudent even if it was. I don't feel sorry for this project, lesson learned they won't make the same mistake again.
Implementation can make a huge difference, people do install these systems in Alasca and then supplement for a few weeks in the middle of winter which is still a huge fuel savings and cost reduction.

But, if your going to base this on a central location then sizing the system and maintain the desired temperature output is simplified.
No. Scientific results shouldn't be viewed through the lens of the scientists' personal beliefs. Beyond that, even with good-faith effort, its simply not possible or practical, not least because an individual may not know their own biases, making self-disclosure inherently unreliable.

And why would even a good-faith effort be made? Why would a politically liberal/conservative scientist want their research on "X" automatically discounted by a significant fraction of the population? On personal political biases, I think you'd just find a whole lot of scientists suddenly identifying as "independent"

Much better to mandate disclosure of professional biases. I'd rather know if your research was funded by an organization or institution that had an interest in a specific outcome. I want to know if your research is funded by the modern equivalent of the Tobacco Research Institute. Mercenary science is a much bigger threat to research integrity, and more readily solvable. Focus on that.
Ok, lets do basics.

You have 1Mbit/sec worth of traffic and the max connection speed is 10Mbit/sec. Packet loss is at 0% and latency is speed of light + speed of forwarding.

Do you need QoS in this case?
It takes about 2 seconds on my 8 year old desktop (2.5GHz Phenom II, SSD) running Debian unstable. 20 seconds seems excessively slow for your hardware. I wonder how long it would take to load in a Linux VM? That could eliminate the possibility of the hardware being a problem.
It's coined "piggyback economy" where the first move innovator ends up absorbing all the risks in developing the product and getting it to the market. The second mover then simply improves on the original product likely with ton of issues as they have to distribute their resources throughout the full journey the product makes it from the drawing board to the consumer. The market is there and the second mover is able to "catch up" when the product is as good if not better in quality which finally leads to the exit of the first innovator signaling new entrants that will put pressures on the second innovators margins.
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> There's no way anyone would allow this in America because of the potential for catastrophic failures outweigh the benefits.

The perception of the potential for catastrophic failure outweighs the benefits.

Given it’s an unpressurised rector that doesn’t boil the working fluid the potential for a serious accident is very low compared to a high pressure reactor. It can easily be passively cooled and shutdown heat decay can be handled without much fuss. That’s why most research reactors are of this type.

The problem with nuclear power, and in this case heating, is humans are extraordinarily bad at estimating risk.
I was responding to this bit:

>Password sharing is a symptom of cable companies inability (or indifference) to innovate on either content or price

Because video is barely profitable and HSD is very profitable, cable companies definitely do not like to sell TV as much as they like to sell HSD. Cord cutting is not as big a deal for the cable companies' profitability as most people think. If anything, the bandwidth required for streaming (now in HD but soon in 4k and then in VR) is so high DSL becomes less viable as a competitor and cable companies can raise prices for HSD even faster.
This is a nonsense name, some useless design effects and the first sentence I read is "We're adding another dimension to computing". Which is an insult to everyone working in computing to this day because it claims everything we've done is a null set.

Can someone please tldr this without marketing bullshit?
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I remember back when hosting a website was orders of magnitudes more expensive than today, and how many hosted their own website, about something they had a passion about.

If all those who make websites to peddle ads were forced of the net, maybe there would be a space for those who have a passion and love to create.
I believe the pink plane comment is a reference to Alan Kay’s idea that there is an entire “blue plane” of ideas that lie orthogonal to the “pink plane” that people live/think in, that only becomes unlocked with a change in perspective (“looking up”). He talks about it in his How To Invent the Future talk.

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/11

https://www.startupschool.org/videos/12
It didn't work for me when I tried it out; there was key functionality broken for various tasks I was using. I'm sure it will be fixed eventually, but there's still some work to be done IME.
Yes. The Internet wasn't created to support someone's ad network.
Nah hololens is bigger than that (unless your totally standardised smartphone size is massive), and also square.

VHS at half-arms length does sound only a bit bigger than the hololens.
They mate fine. Most of the problem has been linked to their zoo habitats, at least in the west. They were so precious that they weren't given the climbing structures (ie trees) to properly exercise in case they fall. The Chinese give them lots of climbing exercise and are breeding them just fine. Give humans too much food and no exercise and they stop breeding too.
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There have been lawsuits over exactly that, I think - specifically about ad-skipping DVRs.