skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its closer to a cross between Twitter, Email, and Bittorrent. People create accounts like Email, on the servers they like. You can publish new videos to your followers, like Twitter, using ActivityPub. Followers on other servers are notified via ActivityPub that a new video was made.

When followers click on the video, its shared with Bittorrent over WebRTC over everyone's Web Browser (with the PeerTube server as the permanent seed).

Personally, I don't like the idea of the Bittorrent bit, due to the publishing of IP addresses. But I really like the idea of federated video sharing through ActivityPub.

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I guess ActivityPub might be the new RSS, if RSS lists were hosted on servers and had concepts about users. And PeerTube is mostly about notifying ActivityPub members that new videos are available.
Multiple drivers told me years ago that they had riders get into the car with a lit joint and demanded to be allowed to smoke it. They said they'd give the driver a bad rating otherwise. At the time (in my city), this often meant the driver would have such a low rating that they'd rarely get any fares.

I personally dislike it when cars smell like (any kind of) smoke because I smell like it, so I like this feature of the app.
Facebook suspends analytics firm Crimson Hexagon over data collection
In this context, "delete" should probably be understood to mean "removed from production systems, and retained only to the extent required to meet legal obligations".
Gödel spacetimes to fuck with your intuitions.
Why was this flagged? Please explain.
SingHealth, largest healthcare group in #Singapore, suffered a data breach
> given the story and that workers from the company were banned from internet usage

I think the internet ban only happened after the fact. From the ST article linked in the BBC article [1], it seems like the attack vector was malware installed on one computer:

> Initial investigations showed that one SingHealth front-end workstation was infected with malware through which the hackers gained access to the data base. The data theft happened between June 27, 2018, and July 4, 2018.

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/personal-info-of-15m-...
Yeah, might be worth it on the API docs, for sure. Maybe file a bug? :)
It's a total of differently weighted values for all the extra visa free countries, land, population and hdi/freedom of press of the target country. So we're aiming at a country that'd give you access to the most new countries/land/population while being relatively developed and not too totalitarian.
I don't know, sandals work pretty good.

> they have a carbon-fiber plate in the midsole, which stores and releases energy with each stride

... the achilles tendon + calf already play this role.

Just don't heel strike.
I remember something about being unable to do any CP violation.
> should the Italians decide to have a referendum on the Euro.

About the only way for an Eurozone member to leave is to leave the EU (since that's a condition for Eurozone membership and the Eurozone has no leaving procedure of its own in its bylaws).

They will at least wait to see how it turns out for the UK before trying anything like that.
My experience was similar, in that I mostly avoided the promotional content after I'd seen enough to sell me on the concept.

I saw the concept of "open world, seamless procedural planets, wander around and gawk at the pretty scenery", and I was pretty much sold. Any promises past that were either obviously over-hyped, promo bs that could not possibly be delivered in time, or ads/interviews/videos that I never saw.

I wanted a modern take on Noctis, saw that NMS was offering something pretty darn close to that, and was happy with what I got.

This is not to detract from the misleading promotion, but I do think the whole thing would have been so much better received if NMS was published as the beta/early access procedural survival/exploration game that it so clearly actually was on release, instead of the AAA Sony/PS4 flagship must-buy that it was marketed as.
New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
>The companies taking on the most risk in terms of debt are for the most part not traditional tech. Think Chevron, GE, and other industrial and energy companies.

You mean, precisely what would be considered 'traditional tech' in any sane world? :P

Industrial and energy companies have a much larger and more important impact on the economy than information technology.

We live in the strange topsy turvy world where 'information technology' has somehow been narrowed to "that guy who fixes your computer and administrates the servers" and 'tech' narrowed to mean what 'information technology' should.
This website is not a blog
This reminds me of the powerful arguments that Christopher McDougall presented in his book (Born to Run[1]) around bare-foot running [2]. I've tried running bare-foot and using old-ragged shoes and absolutely love it.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run

[2]: http://www.chrismcdougall.com/born-to-run/the-barefoot-runni...
I'm working on getting there. I don't think I can this year but I'm gonna put the intention out into the Universe.
What's up with Apple? Seems to me like they should have just dropped the i9 option altogether, since they couldn't make it work. It just further torpedoes their fading reputation for being able to build top-notch hardware.
they also added a lot of stuff after the release, i think. they could've worked on it a bit more as well.
Huh. I can’t remember Reeder ever crashing, and I’ve just checked and found none in the logs. Different usage patterns I guess.
For me, it's that I use a variety of systems and operating systems depending upon the circumstances. Unless it's relatively specialized tools (development environment, heavy-duty photo editing), I'd much rather have a web interface I can get to from anywhere rather than having a native app I can only use on one system. The native app has to be a lot better at some task.
Meditations on Moloch (2014)
> For some of these people, the fact that there's natural splendour there isn't the point and isn't relevant

I can't think of a single climber, mountaineer or ultra runner I know that any of that applies to (including myself). Do you have any actual examples of people like that?

> setting is just a convenience

Nothing about ultra running in the mountains is a "convenience"... in my experience the opposite is true, and almost everything done in the mountains is done easier on flat ground.
Distributed and decentralized mean different things. distributed implies a distributor, which is itself a centralized function and in fact the internet has several of these centers of decentralisation that make sure that the grand partitions of high value 'land' assets such as IP address blocks and domain names are apportioned in an explicitly centralized manner.

'Decentralized' as it is commonly understood is about eliminating such central control points and devolving those powers to the edge of the network graph - to individual nodes, or more exactly to individual people.. This never works long-term, and always collapses right back into a centralized hierarchical system.

Information wants to be free, but value wants to be centralized.
> To the contrary: you never signed a contract, but you still got a free education, roads and libraries and schools, etc. growing up in your own country.

Yet it's not France that stop you from going away, it's the other countries that stop you from going there...

Why France refuse someone that doesn't cost them a penny for their education, roads and libraries and schools while they were growing up?

I'm Canadian, more specifically, from Quebec. I've met PLENTY of french people that had to go back to their countries because their visa expired. They didn't cost us anything, they gave plenty in taxes, more than many people I know, yet they have to go.
> I mean, look: it was a bad game.

But not bad enough to get that statement any higher than the fourth paragraph of your comment. Even Gamergate came in the 3rd paragraph. You're more interested in flogging a previous commenter than... well, you get the point.

The order of ideas does not necessarily represent their importance in an absolute frame of reference. When talking about lithium batteries you won't start with a disclaimer that you strongly condemn child labor in DRC cobalt mines.

Also, for my 4th paragraph, I'll just say that you're willing to grossly understate what the developers did which makes me think you are very biased about this, hence making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to the least important part of a comment.

> and probably lied a bit too
I haven't been able to load a Melpa library with https for many months. I had assumed it was just because MacOS is weird about TLS since it doesn't use OpenSSL (getting freaking curl to work for https in MacOS sometimes takes hours of futzing around with libraries).

But maybe it's Emacs' fault?
You think typing a mean comment online is worse behavior than outright lying to your own customers?

Objective conversation should specifically reject externality. That's a fifth wave myth anyways.

Stealing and lying is definitely worse than being mean online.
Does anyone know why these events are focused on physical performance? It seems like gathering data (the "search" portion previously discussed) would be more focused on data collection rather than moving objects, jumping, etc. Before seeing the events I was imagining something like move 50 meters while transmitting video, or transmit temperature data while flying for 5 meters.
Yahoo uses oath and doesn't adhere to GDPR. The HN link does, though I dislike AMP anything is better than oath.
I think open protocals will really help in shifting people away from centralized services and towards decentralized or federated services. Activity pub, for instance is awesome. I think once we have open social protocals paired with cryptocurrencies, we might finally get to a point where federated/decentralized networks become attractive to an audience and to content creators and to developers. We can have borderless, uncensorable, and resilient social networks.

Anticipating some downvotes here because I mentioned cryptocurrencies.
The fact that some people are nuts does not absolve Sean, and the fact that Sean perpetrated a fraud does not absolve the crazies making threats over a $60 game.

We can't control the crazies. They will always be out there and it makes no sense to focus only on them every time they pop out of the woodwork.
I remember trying to use it a few months ago and it had trouble syncing todos.

Data was lost due to this.

Contacted support,and they did not care.

I definitely do not recommend using Microsoft To-Do.
If you mean hashing the whole blob of data, one issue could be that if they ever wanted to add a new tracking data point, they would lose backward compatibility with their previously collected values. I guess they could fix that by making the hash of the added stuff separate, but that would be pretty weak when there isn't a ton of possibilities for the new data points.
Evidence only exists if conspirators are sloppy.

Intelligence agencies are usually excellent in covering their tracks, so for example many conspiracies from WW II only become known after MI6 declassified their documents after 50 years grace period.

Who knows what historians will be able to prove about our times in 50 years time ?
A floppy is 1.44MB, so off by more than an order of magnitude
>Compared with typical training shoes, the Vaporflys are believed to wear out quickly: Some runners have said they lose their effectiveness after 100 miles or so.

This is about two weeks of peak marathon training, although if the shoes are as advantageous as the article claims that's impressive in any case. I suppose one could reserve them for races and train with cheaper shoes.
Yeah, so to clarify, I know from the Borg paper that Google basically implemented the first cgroups and the first cgroups-based containers. I'm pretty sure that lmctfy was the open-sourcing of this work, but it's also been deprecated and last I heard, that code was moving to libcontainer/runc.

If (as the article implies) Google uses Docker internally, that would be a surprising and interesting bit of news.
> X Windows

... doesn't exist, of course.
Thank Richard Borcherds (R.E.B.) for a lot of that.
The #AWS World Shook and Nobody Noticed
They mentioned that Kubernetes runs some workloads and they are probably using Docker for that, like GKE does (17.03, I think). No way they would use it for Borg.
and that is where the problem lies. All code is readable if you spend an hour or two. The point is that it is not lucid. You have to strain to understand such code. The issue is people thinking this code is acceptable.
It’s under “Republic of Ireland”
No there's not, it's the second party being harmed directly. These game companies secretly harmed users by extracting and storing personal information without making it apparent that it was part of the deal
I've started using NetNewsWire on the Mac in...2005? Earlier? They can pry RSS from my dead cold hands.

I wish ReadKit didn't seem abandoned. Great keyboard shortcuts, Pocket integration, and no attempts to algorithmically sort items. I wonder if this is another app that got hurt by the lack of upgrade pricing in the Mac App Store. I'd pay again if I could.
My ISP is exercising administrative control over the systems that deliver all packets to me. Should they be held responsible for filtering out forbidden content?
That sounds like a way to end up with social networks made entirely of people who like cryptocurrencies. Sounds awful to me.
I have been to old town centers in Europe, you really ought to tone down your elitism.

What I meant when I said "tractor drivers getting to work" is people like my friend who grades and compacts pads for new homes. He drives a 4x4 pickup down a dirt road sometimes for 10+ miles to get to his tractor so he can start working. How does mass transit work for new construction?
Discussion on a similar article from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17567729
It's nice to see journalists actually reflecting on how to make journalism better for once. Sometimes I wonder if engineers and doctors are the only profession that constantly hold conferences and write blog posts about how to become better at their jobs.

But it's kind of a weird and poorly constructed argument:

It’s easy to see why some readers would feel whiplashed by the current, critical coverage of Facebook and Google, which seems to come out of nowhere.

Whiplash ... came out of nowhere ... so journalists changed their view too fast then. Next sentence:

That’s our fault as journalists: We’ve been too slow to spot how things have changed

Wait, did journalists change their views on tech too fast or too slow? It seems to be both at once in this paragraph.

Later he appears to lament the historical dearth of "serious tech journalists", but he defines serious as journalists that "hold tech to account" which in turn simply seems to mean attacking them because they're big. I guess I'd use a definition more like "understands technology", with Jon Stokes at Ars Technica being a good example.

We do need a new model for tech journalism and indeed all journalism - we need journalists who are more interested in neutrally reporting accurate facts and news rather than engaging in poorly thought out social advocacy. Given the contents of this essay I'm not holding my breath.
Headline: "Apple fans are returning their new MacBook Pros that cost a minimum of $2,800 because they can't reach the advertised speeds"

Actual data: two Reddit comments that say they're going to return their MacBooks

What's wrong with the headline "Youtuber finds New MacBook Pros Not Performing as Advertised" or "Youtuber finds Cooling Issues with High Performance MacBook"?

It's basically useless to read headlines from most online news sources these days.
Thanks for the reply, I've had some downtime today to look over the documentation. It looks like it's pretty solid, but I have a way to go, but I'm actually planning on becoming active on github for your project. The whole java thing kind of irks me, but hey I did fine with it in college.

How welcoming of contributors is the project?
I'm not sure that 'decentralized' in this case means decentralized in community.

I understand it more as decentralized hosting since it's P2P.

Now, peertube does state something about 'instances', so that might separate content from one accessable website. I don't know.

YouTube's big point initially was video hosting was expensive and YouTube made it cheap (for creators).

It is also is a centralized community so you can find a video on virtually any subject just from the search on the homepage. If peertube is able to do this in a similar fashion would aid it's potential adoption (though again, I don't know if instances hinder that).

PeerTube still needs to be build a user base, attract users and creators from YouTube. Getting creators to use both platforms would help.

Lastly though, since it's P2P I don't know if that means only popular videos would then load at a comparable speed YouTube or not.
>great comment. as an independent game developer i’ve noticed similar things about game players. they are more entitled than saas product users for some reason.

How exactly do you reach the conclusion that gamers are entitled because they expected features explicitly said to be in the game by the lead designer and developer? Sure, gamers can be an ornery bunch, but in this instance Sean deserved everything he got short of the perpetual harassment and threats. He literally defrauded the people who bought his game, and that's not hyperbole.
If these shoes really can provide a measurable improvement in times they probably should be banned. Otherwise it will go the way of swimming, where a bunch of world records got set before they ended up banning those full body suits.
While all of what you say is correct for grants given to universities by industry, this isn't in the same class of activity. These professors are becoming FB employees, while still retaining their professorships. Some aren't even located at the same location as their university for 7 months of the year. Its almost like a yearly sabbatical with funding for your lab and far more resources.
Interesting that they aren’t trying to get laymen to set up instances. It’s good and bad. Good because they will restrain their instance runners, and thereby governance, to technical people who want this site to flourish. Bad because their governance is potentially limited in scope (for now).
If you're talking about Diaspora, it more or less failed because of some technical decisions made early on, but there was a lot to be learned from their effort.

What you're seeing here is the second wave of stabs at the same concept, after internalising some of Diaspora's lessons.
It isn't false outrage. If you don't care that your users want you to stop you should get out of development.
The bible is one of the most completely translated texts in the world. If the biggest hammer of text you have is the bible, then maybe it sees everything it doesn't understand as a nail. What google should do is admit there is no confidence in the user input. But that's just me. I don't work in this area of engineering.
There is no need to define anything new. Native assembly already exist for each platform.
XMPP / Jabber isn't doing so hot though. I wouldn't call it a "failure", but Facebook / Google, especially with the "hangouts" thing cutting out XMPP support, definitely reduced XMPP's userbase.

Decentralized can certainly fail, or at least shrink over time.
If a politician spouts outright lies (to the effect of "this next bill will do X, Y, and Z" a few days before the bill is signed, when it does none of those things, which is akin to what happened here), they justifiably will get a ton of complaints from people.

When you put yourself out there in a public space, and especially when you're charging people money, you risk major backlash if you're caught lying about significant things. Does that warrant death threats? Of course not. Does it warrant criticism, protests, demands for refunds, and accusations of fraud on social media? Definitely.

If the game dev considers public backlash harassment, he should enter a new line of work and/or not lie to paying customers. Except for cases where the harassment turns into threats, he has no right to complain. He's the only one who put himself in this mess.
Google Antitrust Story Unfolds
"games journalism", which seems like an extremely niche area.

Gaming is huge. Absolutely huge. Why do you think that games journalism is not only niche, but extremely niche?

I feel like there's more games journalism journalism than just games journalism,

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I'm sure people have mailed plenty death threat letters with fake return name/address to implicate someone else.
It also just doesn't make sense for Google to use Docker (or even Kubernetes) for their core infra. They've been the foremost leader in distributing containerized applications across data centers. Whatever they've already built is almost certainly more battle-tested and more customized to their needs than anything public that's based on their concepts.
Chase Saphire Preferred is probably the best deal right now. 15 months at 0% and 50,000 bonus points after you spend $4000.

I'd say sign up for Credit Karma or Nerdwallet and see what they recommend for you though. They'll give you a list with approval odds for each card.
I think the comment that they can't build top-notch hardware isn't entirely true. Airpods really made an impression. We also need to count the fact that the entire PC laptop market is in some kind of limbo. Few tried touch and then hybrid then detachable. At least Apple is still kicking in the game I'd say.
carbon fiber doesn't get tired
Podcasts are lovely but the scale is miniscule compared to video.

And video podcast technology exists but is deeply underused (perhaps in part because people choose podcasts when their eyes are busy)

Suppose I want to use a podcast client app to watch what today is in my YouTube subscriptions. Why not just use YouTube? I'm not obligated to read the comments. There's also a pattern that goes: Post a video to YT, then post a link to reddit.com/r/mychannel (or an alternative, or on several alternatives) where users can watch the video as an embed and then engage in discussion under whatever commenting/moderation system I choose.
Tangentially, I'm looking for a good RSS reader for iOS (preferably free and well designed, but paid ones are ok too).

I used to use Pulse, but it was bought by LinkedIn and completely messed up after that. Then I switched to using Apple News to follow some sites. But News is not a proper RSS reader as such, and Apple has done little to improve it since it was released with iOS 9 — still supported and available only in a few countries, cannot add RSS feeds, cannot find certain sites through a search, and very weird bugs if one switches the region setting. It's basically abandonware, as far as feature richness and expansion are concerned. Three years on, I still don't understand why the app cannot be available worldwide and work as a feed reader too.

I've tried Flipboard, but I don't like the fancy magazine-like layout and navigation (which I find unintuitive).
Yea, this also baffles my mind. It's probably the first thing I look for before even thinking of downloading something. Google images only has screenshots of very old versions it seems.

Lack of screenshots usually indicates to me that the interface is probably not worth showing.
>Podcasts are, for the most part, decentralized

No, they aren’t. Of course anyone can put up a podcast, but the successful ones tend to cluster into podcast networks of like shows or join the big podcast groups like Nerdist, Wondery, or Earwolf. Or be a part of an established media company like NPR or Slate.

It’s easy to start a podcast but very hard to survive and expand alone.