skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely true, and not that you’re arguing for this but:

Just because the technology is out there doesnt mean we throw our hands in the air and give up. Yes it’s there, it’s going to be used for most of the nefarious cases we can imagine, but that doesn’t mean we have to tolerate someone using our image against our will.

In fact, I would imagine that the data privacy advocates I often see on hn should see this as a logical extension of the privacy protections they want to see across the web.

No, Lyft employees should not be able to view our trip history willynilly. No, the NSA should not be able to gobble up all of our google searches for profiling us. And no, we should not have to suffer being put in porn against our will because we are a person in the public eye.

This stuff should be treated like revenge porn, IMO. Functionally it’s the same even if the technical implementation is different
Even if written in C, I would gladly use this over Electron.
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Clicking that link and following a few clicks on YouTube made me find a song I've been searching for around 20 years.
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Well, it's time I fire up KSP again!
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The decision that makes voat.co become successful?
Applenuses the same codec everywhere. They needed H264 support for other things (like video foot recorded from iPhones, or physical cameras). They also support it in Safari.

This isn’t like Mozilla, who only makes a web browser.
Recording of John Perry Barlow reading his "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace": https://vimeo.com/111576518
Including safer systems programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
I found this library interesting (as a developer that uses Go and has access to vSphere at work). I'd seen the Python library but this looked easier to use. I'm thinking about creating an OpenFaaS function to clone/list VMs etc.
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Outside of the main use case right now, I hope this technology continues to be developed and made more user friendly.

I'm looking forward to the day when scanning you and your friends faces into a cool movie or game is commonplace.

Yes there are concerns that need to be addressed, but I hope we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

To that end, is anyone aware of any projects for movies or gaming that are taking this approach? I know it is already a thing for high budget Hollywood movies... I'm more interested in it becoming consumer friendly.
> apparently we own the hardware

Actually, in many cases, we do not even technically own the hardware. And in cases where we do own the hardware, we do not own the firmware required to make the hardware operate.
Agreed. This is a huge loss.
> The rejection is not about the ability to disable colours

That's all the code does.

> … but about adopting a "standard" that someone made up by themselves.

People's imagination is where standards come from.

People make them up and get agreement from other people to implement them.
I'd say that in this utopia of yours maybe all those mostly equal super rich inhabitants of earth could afford to drop one or two percent of their luxuries for the benefit of biodiversity.
I also use a surface pro for note taking. The glass isnt the best writing surface, but it’s fine. What really sets it apart for me is the handwriting recognition. My handwriting is not super neat but the Microsft recognition software makes very few mistakes converting it to text. Being able to take notes with a stylus during a meeting and then converting to a searchable text is the beat of both worlds
That's not a theory, you just don't like people who use Instagram or whatever a bunch. Which is fine if that's how you feel, but let's not pass it of as anything deeper than that.
Man, this makes me sad beyond words. It's a great loss for all of us, even those who don't realize it.
I generally use a VPN 100% of the time on my laptop. It doesn't provide a ton of extra privacy by itself, but it combines my traffic with that of a large numbers of others. And by using browser extensions such as ublock, umatrix, and privacy badger, I can feel a little more peace of mind about being constantly watched.

On mobile, it's a different story. I'm not sure about iOS, but on unrooted Android phones, I don't believe there is a way to route IPv6 traffic over a VPN so you are a bit more limited from information gathering via that route. Also, VPN clients eat a lot of battery so useability goes down. My solution for that is to limit my use of mobile devices.

Edit: clarified a statement
In particular, the first, which seems to have the most comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994265
Love the look of the landing page, is that a purchased theme you used or created from scratch?
That's not the purpose of grandfathered pricing, they just want to raise prices without upsetting active users.

If you cancel you're not an active user anymore :)
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"We find that the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing),
preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed."

So men make more because they are more likely to take initiative, be more flexible, and drive faster?

What exactly is the problem?
That was the only thing I still liked about LinkedIn after they retired the network visualization map tool.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/01/linkedin-is-quietly-retiri...
So maybe use them on people then? Sounds like a great alternative to a life of prison. But seriously, why wouldn't you, if you think it's good doing it to dogs?

edit: (can't reply yet) I was going to ask if you'd do it to your children. I guess you're joking. Maybe people do that, I've no idea, I hadn't heard of giving pets electric shocks. But I don't see a huge difference between doing that to dogs and to people, maybe you do.
Very interesting, thanks. A question: how does it run on embedded systems? I was wondering of two very small boards, such as a Nano/Orange PI or similar ones implementing a VPN portable box that can be used both to connect PCs/tablets etc, and/or offering encrypted voip communications: plug one here, the other one there, give each other's ip addresses (using encrypted mail?) and you get a secured pipe to talk or send data through. (I assume the keys are hardcoded)
Finding each other IP could be achieved by using an external trusted email server; each box cold employ a button to send a mail with a id:ip pair (or a daemon to do that every time it changes), so that the other box(es) know what is connected from where and keep the connection alive. Doable?
One thing that was clear from following him on Twitter was he had a big heart, and in particular was a doting father to his (I think three) daughters. They all seemed to be very free spirits.
Had he grown up anywhere else, with any other friends, he would have been one hell of a car salesman...
For me, it'd be almost the reverse: state-level adversaries almost certainly have remotes for strongSwan and OpenVPN, but due to its design, it's unlikely that they do for WireGuard.
His Principles for Adult Behavior is hard-earned wisdom: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/i_am_john_perr...
So you judge people for dressing up. How are you any better than people who judge you for not dressing up?
I've posted this on HN before, but his introduction to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is highly worth reading. Among other things he talks about how (after entirely too much acid) he was planning on becoming America's first suicide bomber, to protest the Vietnam war, but got caught by his friends at the last minute:

http://realitysandwich.com/34204/beginning_birth_psychedelic...

Fortunately for the rest of us he ended up co-founding the EFF instead.
There's actually a pretty interesting behavioral economics point to be made here. From a purely rational standpoint, you would choose to make 1% over 0%, because it's 1% more than you otherwise would have made. In practice, humans have a "fuck you" threshold above which they feel taken advantage of and refuse to cooperate. Check out the idealized economics experiment version of this which is called the Ultimatum Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Barlow once recounted a time that a random person in Vietnam called him on Skype because she wanted to practice English and he was named "John":

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/technology/internet-calli...

You can find the whole thing (which is kind of amazing) at https://archive.li/jHN8B (search for "The Intimate Planet").
I agree, for the most part.

One thing though, I won't call aeon "free," exactly. They take donations and I would encourage people to donate if they like it, even as a one-off.

I think an idea that underlies the OP's maxim "Enjoy content. Not too much. Mostly paid," is the economics of paid content is clearer and more pro-consumer. I think that's true whether the payment actually gates the content or not.
Yes. The primitives aren't where protocols tend to go wrong; it's the joinery that's the problem. WireGuard is Noise, which was designed with 20 years of hindsight into what breaks transport protocols.
Continuing the nitpicking: "JavaScript" isn't actually what prevents setting the seed, you're talking about a common implementation detail of specific JavaScript runtimes (Mozilla’s documentation says their seed can't be changed, for instance). A runtime developer could, as Googlebot apparently does, seed the prng with a constant value. You could also use some user-provided constant as the seed. All three are compliant with the letter of the spec.

Bottom line: the PRNG is, as all PRNGs are, deterministic. The user-facing math.random API using the underlying PRNG may or may not be. Those are distinct things.

From the spec's description of math.random with regard to random or pseudo-random:
"...using an implementation‑
dependent algorithm or strategy."
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Well, don't discount institutional sexism. I think that general attitudes and approach is a major factor, but not the only factor.
There are loads of HN memes. "strawman" "true scotsman" "this is why we can't have nice things" etc.
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So they made a search-engine based on deep learning for a specific (but quite large) target group.

How long do they think it will take Google to catch up, if they haven't already?
Why would we? Our own EM emissions drop below the noise floor at only a few light years out, and AFAIK our total emissions have been going down as we transition away from pure broadcast to cell and wifi.

Even assuming that there was a large civilization out there that communicated via EM across interstellar distances, they'd almost certainly use point to point lasers to keep the SNR usable.
And watch them take that as cudos...
Wow, that's one of the most idealistic statements I've ever read. Too bad we ended up with the WWW of today instead.
The big problem with that is that you end up using different browsers on different platforms (IE10/11 for Windows, webkit for Linux and MAC) which is a bit problematic to support.

LCUI doesn't seem to rely on a specific browser but still remains fairly small so that seems pretty good.
I do find this super interesting as a pure behavioral economics question, but this situation is a bit more complicated. There's actual work to be done for this revenue, other costs you have to manage, opportunity costs for any capital you have invested, and the risk that you'll actually make enough at the end of the day for it to be worth it :)
The problem with Electron are the large resulting binaries. Sure, it gives you everything, but you don't want to ship a whole browser engine every-time you ship a small app.
Is this target market big enough to interest Google?
In addition, with the ubiquity of online persona I wonder if:

(4) Physical appearence/face to face meeting is not usually where people form their first impression anymore, and focus/effort has shifted from wardrobe to online appearance
Ex-agency guy here, now client side. This is not the full picture.

Just because brands outsource media management to agencies doesn't mean the many business reasons for improving the UI go away.

As someone who has collaborated with Google engineers and PMs on such things before, I can confidently say they care quite a bit.

You see, agencies margins are in part dictated by how much time it takes to do "low impact" but "mid-high" effort activities like reporting and day to day campaign management. It takes real people hours to do those things and if to platforms are delivering otherwise comparable performance, at the agency level, they will push towards things that deliver higher margins. Which might be the platform that lets them get the most done with the least effort.

And I'd also add that i think AdWords and FB have some of the most user-friendly interfaces for such an advanced and massive feature set compared to other players in the industry.
> Crazy idea - what if other utilites were aware of ANSI codes and behaved appropriately?

If ANSI sequences were only color, they might be feasible; getting a clear idea on what “appropriately” means for general ANSI content in a text stream is... difficult.
Rainbow six Vegas had the ability to scan your face onto the player model. Results were less than impressive (but often hilarious)
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The term ‘flamethrower’ means any nonstationary or transportable device designed or intended to ignite and then emit or propel a burning stream of a combustible or flammable substance a distance of at least 6 feet.

This bill is clearly in reaction to The Boring Company flamethrowers (https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower), yet their definition of a flamethrower doesn't even cover those flamethrowers. From the videos that Musk has posted none of the flames from the boring co. flamethrowers shoot out 6 feet...
Is LCUI reusing a layout engine from another project? That is, how is it interpreting XML/CSS?
Yeah I have 0 data to support that point. Its a purely anecdotal one from my own personal experience.
I thought it was growing faster than spotify (which makes sense because it has less market share and thus its prospective market share is bigger) but is still smaller?
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I’d come to find myself in Portland. In the home of a stranger but there was no cause for alarm. This place felt like a home. It was real and a part of our collective universe. I never met my host, not once while I was there. She was a kindred spirit. Her home was warm and welcoming but I never knew her. On the last day of my trip, we managed to cross paths in the house, only in sound, never vision. She entered the shower, and I left to catch a plane to New York City. Like any other day.

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He was Cyberspace. A man who’s been with me my whole digital life. A dreamer. Someone who believes in more. Surreal clarity. A tangle of wires connecting this whole god damned universe caught us both and brought us together, for just that moment. I don’t know why the wires thought I was special, why I needed to know, but I’m happy they did.

I reflected on this moment. This connection that was both possible and impossible without this man and his daughter. Here’s to you JPB and Anna for being the conduit for these crazy electrical signals that had something to say. It was but a moment in passing in our collective universes, but one that left a mark.
I still haven't got approval on my shock collar for children, but I guess you're right, I should pivot and pitch it for law enforcement uses.
When I was a grad student back in the late 70's, I worked in the campus computer center where all the undergrads had to use Hollerith cards and only the grad students got to use CRT terminals. There was one card reading machine that was known to be flakey and would mis-punch the letter E occasionally and I used to love it when they would come up to me all frustrated that their program would not run and I would pull the offending card from their deck and hold it up to the light and pretend like I could sight read Hollerith and tell them they had a mis-punched card. They all thought I was a god... until someone would clue them in not to use old reader #11.
> I've been collecting ideas in my head for a phone music player that allows you to safely store your library externally. I doubt I could ever get it into the App Store, unfortunately, but at least it would fix my personal problem

Plex?
i am on the fence. using my face, and making money off it without my permission seems wrong. however, what if the 'animated' porn star just happens to look like me? inevitably, a generated porn star will look like SOMEONE. for me, this is getting murky.

then there is the case that the program generates porn for me. if i privately generate porn using a famous person's image, to me - thats my right. no different than me fantasizing about them in my head.
Yep, I completely agree. We need to draw a line between what's real and what's not. I could easily see teenagers use images of their crushes in an "app" that makes their dreams come true. Let's not go there. I know you tech community, drooling at the $$$ in this.
I really don't know what you're trying to argue. We're talking about web video here. There's nothing stopping Apple from adding VP9 support. VP9 outperforms H.264 and the other major browsers have added support for it.

Apple will be adding support for AV1. Like VP9, AV1 is royalty-free. The Alliance for Open Media has been so effective (even before AV1's release) and HEVC's licensing has been so terrible that MPEG is starting to question whether it can survive as an organization:

http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...

Royalty-free video formats are simply a better way to go.
That would probably be quite unfashionable. Or largely ignored, I don't know.

But the parent comment did provide further context:

> Fashion is very much about who is wearing it, why, and how.
Can you elaborate on this test? Do you mean they are leaning towards not letting you browse Reddit without signing in? Or rather moving away from unverified accounts without an email attached?
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Ban all you want, it’s not illegal, and silly to suggest as much.

Here’s a picture I drew of your mom. Look at those stink lines.

Arrest me.
Looks like voat.com/v/deepfakes has already existed for while in anticipation.
Barlow was always larger than life, always on, his mind never quiet. They don't seem to make them that way any more. He'll be missed.
That small-form-factor Xeon box of theirs[1] would make a very nice little PC...

1: https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/blade-shadow-cloud-streaming-p...
Ask HN: Your development environment on Windows 10?
I’m a full-stack web developer and I’ve recently built a pc, having previously been working on Macs for the last 5+ years.

Im finding it difficult to create a productive development environment on Windows. There seem to be a couple of popular approaches; WSL, Hyper V vms, VirtualBox vms, git bash, ...

What does your setup look like?
I'm not sure anyone should have been given the .dev TLD. However since Google has it, it makes sense for them to pin HSTS for the domain. Anyone else with a .dev domain is potentially impersonating a Google domain.
The IUP C GUI library (for desktop apps) seems interesting too. Checked it out a bit. It's from the same University in Brazil as the Lua language, IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUP_(software)

http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

"IUP is a multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces. It offers a simple API in three basic languages: C, Lua and LED. IUP's purpose is to allow a program source code to be compiled in different systems without any modification. Its main advantages are:

high performance, due to the fact that it uses native interface elements.
fast learning by the user, due to the simplicity of its API."
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At least those people might be trying. I find it hard to read anything today without major bias and misleading half truths. Mainstream news is in very serious trouble and I don't know how society can save it with everyone having their claws out. We need a new leader, but who could do it?
I've seen a few young adult females wearing some 90s style retro sportswear alongside with modern clothes (e.g. a Nike retro windbreaker) and I remember I found them (the persons) quite pretty.
Is that why those symmetry groups are so often mentioned, because they single out unique theories? As far as I know, but I am not a physicist, gauge symmetries are more of a defect than a feature of field theories. Because we lack theories without redundancies we just declare all states in the mathematical model that are related by a gauge transformation to be equivalent to each other and to correspond to just one physical state. In consequence I always wondered why one would then stress those symmetries but it would of course make sense if they were some kind of unique labels.
My 2018 VW has "car-net" I believe, which is the same thing. Built in button on the roof panel that calls someone instantly.
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