skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's no evidence of any of this.

I disagree. I think Facebook, driven by ad dollars, is attempting to secure as many users as it can. Part of that is to make it as seamless and convenient as possible.

Data as currency is a given at this point. Facebook ensures longevity through ease-of-use. Service providers secure further assets, and are in a position to use it.
Partially refunded? You do know stock market movement doesn't mean MS gets the money?
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Yeah, that all sounds very similar. Once I figured out how to move in water, I tended to do what your daughter does, swim under the water and surface for air. I still like swimming that way.

It's interesting that people I know who went through a very formal swimming program as youths and then think of swimming as exercise and laps, tend to struggle with below-the-surface activities, like diving for items.

I remember my brother had a whole slew of underwater games we used to play like "tea time", "hold your breath at the bottom the longest", "headstand", "underwater flips", "drag your friend while they're underwater while you run in a race", "pull a gallon of dirt off the bottom", "upside-down Buddha" and so on including some pretty intense and dangerous-ish horseplay. There's probably a more comprehensive list somewhere as he didn't invent all of these but learned them elsewhere. Looking back I realize that we learned breath control, buoyancy control, how to handle strange orientations and direction underwater, diving, getting accustomed to handling stale air or out of air situations. But it all happened naturally through play.

Growing up, the only other kids I knew who could do the same kind of things also learned in similar informal ways built around play.
Does this remind anyone else of the back to the future movie where Biff is the free worlds leader and just a pompous asshat with the power to keep being a pompous asshat?

Having watched Microsoft over the years steal ideas from smaller companies (not purchase them then bastardize and part them out mind you), but actually steal their ideas and make them standard in their operating system.

Some examples are CDR/CDRW now standard after small companies in the late 90's developing the standard.

The bastardized implementation of Active Directory after Novell's Netware platform and the later implementations of OpenLDAP and the standards that were spurned.

What about the MIT Kerberos authentication mechanisms after Microsofts MsCHAPv2, MsCHAP & NTLM roll your own crypto schemes were found easily crackable and exploitable?

I can go on but actually have to do some work today...
Paul Manafort getting nailed for what half of DC lobbyists do on a daily basis. Oh, and he used a property for AirBnB, and some people didn't like that. What a farce.
Being a founder in a SV-funded startup is not a hardship. You spend some number of weeks taking coffees with investors. You get funding and start recruiting friends and posting job openings. You go to SV conferences and meetups where, as Founder, you're one of the elite. You're invited to the summer party at August Capital, and year-round founder events by your investors. And yes, you work hard.

And the employees also work hard, and are working on reduced pay, and are doing it because it's fun and they believe in the mission. And they believe they're all "in this together," but learn otherwise only when the big day arrives.
On my evil list Micrisoft is better than Google and Facebook. But worse than Github. If I heard Microsoft was buying Oracle I'd be dancing in the streets.
Please please keep GitHub a neutral place for hosting code, resource and everything as always.
> Once bitten, twice shy.

With Microsoft, the bites have been numerous and some are ongoing.
Those are good points. Your initial comment criticized the endogeneity issue, not the multicollinearity.

Further, controlling for parents income is essentially an AR1 model, which doesn't suffer from the multicollinearity interpretation issues you described. The problem would be if child willpower were too highly correlated with parents' income, not if parents' income were highly correlated with child's income.
Awesome! Thanks a ton, I'll play around with this later today.
How bare down? Is a base Model 3 much more bare than a 320i?

How about each with $5k in upgrades? 10k?
Yes, hooray for freedom. Have the same opportunity, personal fininces, acceptable level of risk, and luck is another matter.
The implicit claim of this headline is that WhatsApp is not end-to-end secure or that somehow they have a way to interdict and decrypt the encrypted messages.

But you should read the article very carefully before making a claim like this. Indeed, anyone "can read the content of encrypted messages" once they've been decrypted.
The US wasn't monetarily sovereign then, they had chosen unnecessarily to tie their money to a commodity. It wasn't surprising, gold standards always fail eventually. A gold standard doesn't actually prevent inflation, and when inflation comes it's impossible to hold the peg.
Ok, I’m all I’m on robot snakes. Sign me up!

That said, I don’t see anything here that wouldn’t be done faster and easier with a hose on a boom.
Asad Durrani is Hersh's one named source.
It's an electric car. They are usually reliable until the battery or drive train fails, at which point they can be used as excellent chicken coops. Things like brakes, body, electrics should be fixable on the cheap by regular non-brand shops.
Something costs exactly what it was paid for.
uhhh, you mean "encrypted text messages were shared with Mueller's office"?
So because the corruption is widespread, no one should be punished? Or because some of it is minor, it's also excusable?
For the longest time I had no clue what "free as in speech, not beer" was supposed to mean; even now I don't think it fits very well - free speech is about what you have rights to create and what you have rights to say. That would be like a right to create your own software. Free speech is not about how you can re-use someone else's words, or how someone else's .. proprietary and restrictive speech can lock your data into someone else's ecosystem (see, it's a nonsensical comparison to try and write out).

"Freedom respecting software. Think zero restrictions on how you use it, not zero cost". It's not as catchy, but it hints a lot more at what it means. Even "Think free as in freedoms, not price" seems more helpful. But maybe that's because I already know what it means now.
> I actually just made a bet with a friend on whether or not they'd switch GitHub over to Microsoft logins

Did your bet stipulate a time frame? I think the odds of this go up considerably after a honeymoon period of 2-4 years.
These don't break fundamental time translation symmetry, anymore than regular crystals break fundamental space translation symmetry (which is equivalent to conservation of momentum). The fundamental versions of these symmetries are that the laws of physics are unchanged under such changes.

These are merely systems such that the system itself lacks such a symmetry. This will indeed allow a change in the "effective" laws of physics (like electrons having different effective mass in metals or semiconductors than in free space, and quantized momenta), and give something interacting with the system the illusion that energy or momentum is not conserved. But this is only an illusion: momentum and energy of something interacting with the system are exchanged with the system.

This shouldn't be mysterious though -- a time changing potential already didn't preserve the energy of what it's interacting with, and a crystal can absorb momentum as a whole without any local disturbances that could be seen by a particle in it (e.g. Mossbauer effect). But the upshot is that what counts as a symmetry depends on what's fixed under your analysis vs what's part of the state space.
Informed consent is simply that -- being able to consent without missing a piece of knowledge.

It may cure nothing. But the fact remains that Facebook acted (and continues to act) in bad faith to the user.

Maybe nothing changes, especially now that users are so deeply attached. Real-time targeted advertising has been around since the early 2000s, but explain to the average tech-illiterate user that their phone can hear when a Tide ad is on television and can serve a Clorox ad in their Instagram feed, and watch how uncomfortable they get.

How much of this could be stopped with informed consent.
Within my finance circle, there is big discussion on why Microsoft did an all-stock deal and the substantiated rumour through the grapevine is that the $7.5billion acquisition was Microsoft's way of releasing a chunk of stock without having to go through the public market. Read what you will of it but interesting viewpoint nevertheless.
Succeeding isn’t implicitly useful either. Succeeding mustn’t be held up as a goal or you end up with Uber.
Already there: https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/

"MoltenVK is a runtime library that maps Vulkan to Apple's Metal graphics framework on iOS and macOS."
Scott Bell thinks you're a moron like him.
I feel it more likely they just had an informant.
> Photoshop rely on OpenGL these days as well ?

Yes, though with Adobe's relationship with Apple they probably got all the handholding and resources to do the port to Metal.
We got a ford focus electric it looks nicer than the frog face leaf and is zippy to. Almost like new was $16k and it works great as a local second car. But the range is really low, you can’t go more than 25-30 miles away from home. Still, we love it for what it is and does.
I picked up emacs in 1993 when I first got my hands on a unix system, and it was the only thing there that made remotely any sense. Fast forward to 2018, I'm still using emacs, and the upside is I haven't had to learn anything new in the intervening 25 years.
This could theoretically go around corners so you could send it down a hallway and then into a room.
Thanks, it's a simple layer on top of the existing APIs and search interfaces so it's not nearly as feature complete as those other services(that would require actually crawling and indexing). I made it just for fun but who knows, might be worth expanding on.
Isn't it possible for the witnesses that were the receivers of these messages to have turned their message history over to the investigators? The articles seems to say that these people already reported the witness tampering, so it would be no surprise if they showed messages too.
Or, honestly, just get an Apple Watch. Turn phone sounds off, wrist gets buzzed. It just works.
Same here. After a few years and moving it around from server to server (switched hosts a couple times), it's run flawlessly and upgrades are just one apt-get upgrade away...never had a single issue with that. We have 40+ projects and utilize container registry and CI with Kubernetes as well.
Consider “where would I be the most successful?”

• buy something at a lower cost then sell it at a high price

• study and solve difficult challenges with precision and convenience to paying customers

• do the dirty work that most refuse, physical day labor is always in short supply

~ Khayri R.R. Woulfe
Good question. The specific problem that I'd like to tackle is sharing code as safe as possible.

The happy path is that you have some code to share and I want to get it exactly as you wrote it.

Right now the current issues with just using GitHub to share your code are the following:

1. GitHub app gets hacked and let's someone else do a commit (like the rails hack mentioned above).

2. GitHub employee modifies files in prod servers.

3. GitHub cloud provider gets hacked

4. State actor with lots of resources MITM GitHub.com domain and internet traffic and you fetch something else.

I think all this problems could be solved if:

1. Git enforces that all commits must be signed.

2. There is a decentralized list of usernames and keys.

This feature doesn't exists in git but it would be great if you could run `git clone`
and it rejects the cloning if not all commits and tags has been signed.

But what If someone hacked GitHub to add a commit and she or he signed the commit. We need some kind of CA to only accept signed commits from the right people.

So there should be a fixed list of committers allowed in the repo and git would have to enforce that as well.

Then you have the problem that if all public keys are stored in
GitHub then you almost get back to all the problems again of GitHub getting hacked. It would be great to have as many copies of usernames and public keys as possible. Something like a blockchain would be a good fit.

To recap, by having a decentralized system of users and public keys, and making
git validate that the commits are signed and from the right people, we could have a much more reliable way of sharing code.

Additionally, we could have an "audit" system on top of all this were users can review code and mark it as "good". Then if you have a repo with a tagged version that has 5 reviews you can hope that it's pretty safe to run that version. Because it's a single system of usernames, you can check who are the reviewers.

It might be a bad idea to `curl | bash` a script from an stranger but at least you remove the risks of your code being delivered by a third party.
Who in their right mind would trust Facebook over the New York Times? Try again Facebook. I’m kind of glad they are doing this, I think it will speed up their decline in the end.
Edit - I did some checking on Twitter and saw screenshots of the docs[1]. Others have also confirmed that there was no decryption of messages. Informants have simply shown the messages that they preserved and it's also possible that they gained access to iCloud backups which are NOT encrypted. All is well in AES and Diffie Helman land :D

I think we need more details than this to confirm that they decrypted and read an encrypted message. I've studied Whatsapp/Signal's protocols and unless Whatsapp is blatantly not using it, then I can't see how their office is decrypting the messages.

The way this article reads, it sounds like they got their hands on the decrypted message or in some form intercepted the keys required to decrypt the messages via a device.

Either way, it doesn't seem like they got encrypted messages from Whatsapp's servers and bruteforce decrypted them.

I hope I don't have to eat these words though. (edit-I don't :D )

[1] https://twitter.com/donie/status/1003828144279838720
If true, puts a new spin on the meritocracy hiring debate.
Noted, thanks for pointing that out I hadn't thought of the accessibility element.
>50% of a $7.5 billion sale is going to 3 people? insane.

They'll need to be frugal to remain members of the 3 comma club.
> I have always been struck by the minimalist knowledge of
> most developers, when it comes to the programming
> language they were using. It took a while, but
> eventually I accepted the obvious: most developers
> don’t need to know much about the language they are
> using to get their job done.

Sadly, yes.

"Premium mediocrity" is still mediocrity.
Anything that requires a takedown will have negative consequences depending on who you are:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/right-...
Well It Was Twenty Years Ago Today – Open Source Initiative
Yeah I made this in reaction to the news. Glad I got it together quickly!
The problem with the reservation system is that I couldn't wait any longer. My Leaf's lease was up, so my wife and I delayed to the AWD version and bought a different car.

Who knows what will happen when the AWD version comes? Will I be willing to replace our other car that we planned on keeping a few years longer?
Radio waves are used to power cochlear implants. There is a chip & receiver unit that is inserted under the skin on the head, with electrodes that go into the cochlea. Externally there is an antenna that is held on the head next to the skin, using a magnet to hold it in place. Radio waves are sent across the skin to power the chip and control the electrodes.
I never understood the obsession of all car makers to always design EV and hybrid cars with ugly shapes and black plastic all over the body.

Can I just have a regular car that works on electricity please? Spare me the tacky from-the-future look please.
Not the one they showed here - it was ~10ft long, and making it longer means more jets which means more water which means making the hose bigger which means it’s heavier....

This is purely a first step in a long process of potentially making a robot snake that can fight fires in specific scenarios. A worthy goal, but it’s a long way from being useful.
That one requires global governance which doesn't exist (and frankly seems VERY undesirable).
> The debate is not "are pretty things nice"

If the debate is not about how something looks then why was your first instinct to dismiss them as “just prettier versions of :) and :(“?
Youtube is the weirdest one for me. I still don't get it, even though I'm already clearly wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just recently bumped to John Carmacks stories about Steve Jobs, among which he convinces him to adopt OpenGL[1] (HN commentary [2]). Thought this might be an appropriate historic reference here as OpenGL now appears to be on it's way out on MacOS.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=214641282559...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066846
I think they are saying there was so much work involved in getting it to that stage, they could have built on any OS and not spent any more time doing it.
Sorry, but you really aren't, quite yet. I'm trying to import a very small repo from github (literally 1 branch and 2 files with hardly any revisions and no issues) and it's still sitting there showing "Starting...". I had tried to mass import a lot and after 11+ hours of "Starting..." I decided to remove them and just try one at a time. Still no luck after almost 20 minutes.
Dat Protocol – The Best Parts of Git, BitTorrent, and Dropbox
Europe Complains: SpaceX Rocket Prices Are Too Cheap to Beat
Fantastic. Amazing. Well done.
I think its to disguise the ultralight frame? Has to be plastic; sketchy frame means it has to stick out to cover all the bases.
Very disappointed about the deprecation of OpenCL. We use it to achieve cross-platform GPU compute usage (Windows, Linux, Mac). Dropping OpenCL is not going to encourage developers to target the Mac for such software as ours.
Did Obama win the lottery? Did Bill Gates?
You are aware it literally has a train line through it used by no less than the LA metro right?
I run websites that get traffic from Amazon Silk browsers. I've never signed a data sharing agreement with Amazon. There's more going on in this story than a simple browsing proxy.
> If the custom cake was an expression of free speech, forcing the baker to do so would be compelled speech.

This overstates it some. The baker is not forced to run a business that sells cakes to the public.

> The principle you use to compel that speech would have broad implications for artists, writers, and all other creators.

Not clear what the implications would be. I am not coming with broad results or impacts in a few minutes of thought. I get examples like:

* An artists that sells couple portraits to couples can not refuse a gay couple.

* A writer who sells obituaries to the public can not refuse to write one about a gay person.

* A baker who sells cakes to the public can not refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple.
This is a case of "speed" meaning more than one thing. Go optimizes for latency, not throughput, so even though each collection pause is very short, you end up with a lot of them.

Steel Bank Common Lisp would be one open-source tool that has a GC optimized for throughput at the expense of latency. Full GC pauses (which are rare, but do happen) are large fractions of a second even with moderately sized heaps. However the throughput is great to the point where many workloads are just as fast with heap allocation as stack allocation, and the gc overhead is actually less than malloc/free (or new/delete).

Obviously the SBCL garbage collector is totally unsuitable for video games (there are games designed to be build with SBCL, but the allocation is done during non-interactive parts of the game).
Climate Change Has Run Its Course
Netscape was a competitor to Microsoft in the 90s, and it has never been a competitor to Google.
Yes, and per further up in this comment chain the purpose of that is to avoid signaling issues:

> For YC - we're thinking actively how to prevent any signaling. That's why we invest pro-rata in all of our companies in the same way.
Would love to have something like this for myself. Perhaps watch a few Udemy/LinuxAcademy videos to restore my access to YouTube/Twitch, haha. :)
That is why you get paid for your time, and it is probably a lot. Leave work at work and move on when it is time. It's just a job. Those founders did much more than the people you know. They took a massive risk at complete failure
Molecule of the Month linked there is broken. I'll keep checking back but is someone aware of that?
Err, "molecule of the week."
If you include MS, you have to also include IBM. FAMAING.
The messages are said to have come from someone's attempt to tamper with and intimidate witnesses, using encrypted messaging apps. It's possible that these witnesses are the ones who provided the messages to Mueller's office.
What do you do if you don't mine me asking?
I was reading this and I was wondering that perhaps it would be better define a line as "80 characters of code", and measure by characters, then divide by 80 to get lines of code.

The whole point of measuring lines of code is to get some sense of the complexity of the code base, but if what if one code base has lots of short lines, and another code base has lots of long lines. How would this be resolved?
That isn't remotely true. OpenGL is only outdated on macOS where Apple hasn't updated it for 8 years.

OpenGL 4.6 isn't anything like OpenGL 1.0/2.0 even though you can still _run_ those old OpenGL 1.0/2.0 tutorials.

You can even do most of the cool stuff of Vulkan in OpenGL via AZDO techniques (example: https://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-vulkan )
I'm sure everyone's favorite /exclusive/ Mac apps are probably using Metal.

I'm guessing you haven't used apps like Maya, Nuke, or Houdini. They were all written in the mid-90's on IRIX machines and later ported to Linux, Windows, and OSX. Surprisingly, 3d performance isn't always big goal of their's. My guess is the core features don't sell new versions, so even though they have annual releases those things don't get much attention. They'll have drawing issues and transparency sorting problems for years. Same with audio bugs.

Their Mac support was spotty and irregular until the past 5-10 years.
Optane is faster than SSD, but not as fast as RAM.

But it is permanent storage, not ephemeral, like RAM.

So, either it takes the place of SSD and maybe we have new algorithms for accessing that permanent storage, or it sits as an additional layer between RAM and SSD.

Maybe what we call RAM today becomes a L4 cache into the much larger storage of Optane.

Dunno, but Optane is not nearly as fast as RAM, so you’re not really going to be able to effectively use it like you would have with RAM.
First impressions:

- Doesn't seem very performant, panning behavior and zooming seems to redraw a lot unnecessarily, low framerate and not very smooth on good hardware
- Poor support for touch events, pinch zoom and pan didn't work for me on touchpad
- Looks to be using (PNG?) image tiles but and over-scaled canvas element, my laptop's fan came on during simple zoom and panning. I closed the tab and it promptly shut off.

The API seems okay but nowhere near as good as leaflet. MapboxGL has better performance imo.

I'm trying to understand what the compelling reason to use this would be? If you want the best quality basemaps, use Google Maps. If you want the most customizability and a great API, use leaflet. If you want a fancy map, use MapboxGL. If you like apple, use this??