skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens way more often that most people expect.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...

for example (at least that one has a happy ending - where after the right exposure a bunch of companies benefiting from his work stepped in to fund it...)
The technology is still young clearly, but:

1. Drones don't need to always be flying. Flocks of birds turn up on radar quite a lot and I don't see some early detection system for birds as impossible.

2. The flight paths for migrating birds can be predicted, reducing the need for a high presence in some directions.

3. 15 minutes of flight time is low, with some super big LiPo batteries for high performance drones you're easily getting an hour. The benefit of these large batteries is that they can be charged quickly too (charge rate based on power offered).

4. They are relatively fail safe, if the drones stop functioning you just go back to not having any real support.

5. It's likely that with some additional work, they could work on calculating the conditions that cause flocks of birds to fly towards scary sounding planes. I imagine it to be quite likely that they will only fly from certain directions given wind conditions, etc.
We have guided bullets today. A guided mortar is downright trivial in comparison.
There is nothing of value to read here, so...

Let me say just this: click bait.
I'd offer Mastodon as a healthier example of somewhere Twitter/Facebook refugees can turn. I'm sure there are some federated instances that harbor the type of toxic behavior you describe, but on a well-moderated instance, they'll get depeered pretty quickly. And there are lots of instances to choose from, so a bad admin just means you need to find a new instance -- you're not cut off from the entire platform.
We're bootstrapped, and we did it last year. I wrote about our experience: https://canny.io/blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-st...

I would guess that this is YC's version of freemium. They're giving away a slimmed down version of their product for free, to drive brand awareness / resonance, and attract more qualified leads to their paid (7%) program.

You might not be interested in YC proper, but there's still plenty of great advice, that will probably translate into you having a more successful startup.
> It goes back to the "hanging chad" election.

Didn't this only happen because of an attempt to elctronic-ify the election and have machines tabulate the results?
I don't disagree, but I think it commands a certain level of "is this really good for us long term?" to ask if the fact that hundreds if not thousands of PhD holding scientists have had their collective efforts devoted to making people buy as much, download as much, consume as much, watch as much, etc. as they possibly can?

I mean marketing is marketing and always has been, but where it is today the Mad Men era marketing guys couldn't have DREAMED of having. You can now target demographics with laser precision and choose the exact sort of message that's going to hit the hardest. I mean I'm all for marketing fluff and a certain level of salesmanship, that's what capitalism is based on. But you've got actual scientists putting their best foot forward to get Joe Everyman to buy, download, watch, play, stream, etc. and all the discussions I see about this paint it as even odds. That's laughable. Joe doesn't stand a fucking chance, and we all know it, and we all just keep acting like that's ok.
One of my motivations for writing a compiler was to get my game Empire to run faster.

Wound up with a career writing compilers, not games.
It's way nicer than Go (features and syntax) tooling and libs are not as developed obviously.
"It can only store string data. Boo. This makes it pretty useless for storing data that's even slightly more complex than a simple string. And sure, you could serialize everything including data types into local storage, but that's an ugly hack."

It's not an ugly hack, it's the same thing you do every time you make an (async) HTTP request. Its serializability is one of JavaScript's greatest strengths as a language.

"It is synchronous. This means each local storage operation you run will be one-at-a-time. For complex applications this is a big no-no as it'll slow down your app's runtime."

Along with... all JavaScript variables? Why would locally storing small (<5MB) pieces of data need to be asynchronous? It will not slow down your app, I promise you.

"It can't be used by web workers =/ This means that if you want to build an application that takes advantage of background processing for performance, chrome extensions, things like that: you can't use local storage at all since it isn't available to the web workers."

An unfortunate limitation, but hardly a reason to avoid using it. Besides, it's easy enough to have your main JS thread be an intermediary.

"It still limits the size of data you can store (~5MB across all major browsers). This is a fairly low limit for people building apps that are data intensive or need to function offline."

Again, a limitation is not an inherent evil. If you need your app to function offline, you need to be using workers anyway. For caching, use the purpose-built Cache API.

"Any JavaScript code on your page can access local storage: it has no data protection whatsoever. This is the big one for security reasons (as well as my number one pet peeve in recent years)."

Sorry to break it to you, but but if malicious JavaScript is running on your page, it can access everything. The user's most private data that ever shows up on any page. The password they're typing in. Their security questions. Their cookies. The only place data is (possibly) secure from malicious client code is the server itself. The primary security mechanism on the web is domain separation; XSS is a very real concern, but using localStorage hardly elevates the risk beyond what it already is.

This is a bad article.
While I suspect you're right (a number of my family members use a full Apple ecosystem and love it), to someone who doesn't there seem to be an almost endless number of changes you need to make.

I've had a couple of iPhones, and at times tried to fully use their system, but that promised "perfect simplicity" seems to always be around one more corner. Change your browser. Change your music provider. Change your backup procedure. And after all that, your Windows PC is a problem. And there I hit a wall, because I can't justify changing my PC, which is my livelihood, to an unfamiliar system in the hopes of simplicity.

I'm not knocking the Apple paradigm for those who are inside it. But transitioning to that apparent state of seamlessness feels nigh impossible.
Can't speak for everyone, but personally I just got tired of Snap's bad UX and moved to a different platform.

Now a lot of my friends have moved to Discord, WhatsApp, and Slack. Really been digging Discord lately, wish they had some way to make money I believed would work so I knew they were going to be around for a while.
There's some balance in that we might be able to ditch some parking spots, opening up lanes for other usage.
Killdozer is a perfect example of how we CAN defend against this kind of attack: Make sure that everyone has something to lose.

If they'd just cut that guy some slack, like maybe not destroying his business, or helping to relocate, or anything that left him with a reason to keep being a productive member of society, then the outcome would have been very different. But they fucked him into the ground, until eventually he fucked back.
I don't want to Godwin this, but it totally could be Godwinned.
> Also, so much fluff to get to the point? Buzzfeed, these articles could be much better reads with some editing to cut down the length, avoiding repeating points a few times and getting to the crux of the matter quickly.

Buzzfeed's "News" Articles Used Psychological Tricks To Make Teens Think They Were More In-Depth and Professional Journalism-y Than They Actually Are
The GPL is not a EULA
If you don't have a concept like obscenity -- even one that is as ill-defined as obscenity is after Miller -- you can't ban child pornography. Or the Human Sacrifice Channel.
World's first four-bit 4TB SSDs for consumer devices coming this year
It's desirable for a couple reasons. Firstly, the node enables whisper, which is a p2p messaging protocol. You can't do p2p messaging with a public node, and nearly zero users will host their own nodes.

Also, public nodes can be DOSed or otherwise taken down. They can invisibly filter the requests they receive. Some jurisdictions could have the nodes completely blocked.

The point here is to build a fully p2p system, so running an on-device node is an attempt to do that. That doesn't mean that public nodes can't also still exist.
The U.S. didn't occupy a functional country and then destroy it. The outbreak of mass murder and tit-for-tat violence wasn't motivated by political grievances against U.S. policy. The U.S. removed a dictator that was keeping the lid on religious sectarian infighting.

The US got a lot of good will right after the invasion. It destroyed that by disbanding the Iraqi army, by failing achieve basic safety for the country and by managing the country in an incompetent fashion.

Moreover, the country was in horrific shape due to ten years of draconian sanctions. They were theoretically against Saddam but the average Iraqi suffered horribly - the looting of priceless Iraqi artifacts by destitute mob was an expression of what US sanctions had reduced the country to (along with Saddam himself, of course).
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Reading semiaccurate.com feels a bit like reading InfoWars, everything is a conspiracy.

That may be but Intel is certainly not beyond ... ahem ... interesting tactics. Demoing a CPU holding 5GHz by cooling it via an industrial chiller just to steal some of AMD's thunder?
Huh! I had no idea that timber railways were ever a thing to be replaced with iron in the first place! Neat!
Day care costs of course.

Total paid on childcare is higher in a family without a stay at home patent, though the two earner family generally will have more net disposable income (After child-care)
Medium-term solution:

EV chargers can be integrated into lamp posts or other items of street furniture. A city-wide network of charging points can be managed using contactless payment, with IoT sensors to indicate vacant charging points. Building out widespread on-street charging infrastructure won't be quick or cheap, but it's entirely feasible with existing technology.

There's also a reasonable expectation that some combination of car-sharing, ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles will significantly reduce the rate of private car ownership. Electric bicycles and scooters show tremendous potential for reducing the demand for car ownership in urban areas. Good public transit of course has a major role to play.

http://www.rolecserv.com/ev-charging/product/EV-Charging-Str...
> I don't want to have to choose and think which option I'm going to want more often as long as it works.

Last 5 words are why I can't use nor recommend Apple products.
Javascript had the web. And, Java had the JVM. A killer 'app' is not necessarily singular & discrete.
>One of the reasons I like watching TV over streaming is that whatever on is on. I don't have to "choose" a specific show, just a channel that will play things I generally like.

I've thought for years that YouTube and Netflix could trivially produce channels of lightly-curated content drawing on their existing catalogs. The only solid reason I could come up with for why they haven't is in some kind of attempt to break away from the paradigm of broadcast TV. Maybe there's a separate argument that it would somehow pollute their metric-gathering efforts.

But the utility of channels like that is still there for the reason you mentioned - The (very real, very strong) barrier of choice paralysis is overcome. I hypothesize that having those channels would improve the subscriber retention rates for a variety of reasons.

Some YouTube channels (e.g. funhaus) are already solving this themselves by establishing live streams that just cycle their back-catalog of content.
I'm an idiot, was muddling up Mojave and High Sierra. Right you are.
Well, if you're using anything with ads, expect the experience to suck.
That will be the line of argument from the EU of course, and I'm sure plenty of non-iPhone customers will accept it. Everyone with an existing iPhone effectively being told that the product they currently hold in their hands is now banned from sale because the little socket on the bottom isn't blessed by the EU? That little socket that their millions of customers love and appreciate as being a desirable feature of the device?

Good luck with that.
I'm going to put my tinfoil hat on for a second and say maybe this is due to social media companies cracking down on fake accounts?
Jihadi who plotted mass attack on CHRISTMAS gets 15 years prison dawah
That's true, in that, if the metering is purely electronic, the only thing "separate" would be two different readouts. For electro-mechanical metering, I'd still expect a need for two physically separate ones.

Regardless, substituting "readouts" for "meters" is irrelevant to my question.
How is this a shift in our society? When in recent history has this not been the standard?
Objection: machines are only as indifferent as the people who make or control them.

On top of that, they are opaque: it's very hard to verify that a machine does what it claims to do and nothing else.

If you like machines, I present you a perfect machine: it's a clear box into which you throw paper ballots. It even counts the ballots: invariably, the result is "akira2501 won" - that is written on the outside; it works instantaneously. Any party that finds it suspicious can challenge and recount the paper ballots inside, in presence of independent observers.

Since there's no better way to verify the work of a voting machine other than counting papers, this machine is as good as any machine you just described - and is definitely cheap.

As for the cost - citation needed that machines actually provide any savings here.
Remember the movie, “Pump Up The Volume?”
Boost.Asio network programming little book
Momo: police warn over horrifying WhatsApp image
Will be interesting to watch twitter die once Trump is out of office.
Funnily, I've been using Android for years and I never noticed until I thought "Why on earth would they call it Pie?" and it struck me. Guess I'm not as observant as I think.
This could also be used at landfills to scare away seagulls.
That One Weird Trick:

> We eventually identified a psychological trick:

> 1. Set the app’s Instagram profile to Private.

> 2. Set the bio to something mysterious, e.g., “You’ve been invited to the new RHS app—stay tuned!”

> 3. Follow the targeted users.

> 4. Wait 24 hours to receive the inbound Follow Requests. (They were curious about our profile so they requested access)

> 5. At 4:00PM when school gets out (The Golden Launch HouseTM), add the App Store URL to the profile.

> 6. Finally, make the profile Public

> This notified all students at the same time that their Follow Request had been accepted—and they subsequently visited our profile, looked at our App Store page, and tried the app.

What Happened Next probably won't Shock You!
Lars (and company) approach to implement a Dart VM in Chrome was just ahead of its time. WASM is an attempt to accomplish a similar goal and implement a common VM. Perhaps, in the near future, Dart can be a syntax to compile to WASM and accomplish Lars' intentions.
I am a security engineer, and I understand this argument. BUT if I were a decision maker in a corporation, it would be reasonable to pay a couple of hundred bucks and get back to work rather than think about what is "good for everyone". Also, as an industry, we need more measures to deal with the Ransomware problem beyond just telling companies not to pay. We preached them to patch their OS and they didn't listen, what makes us think that they will listen when we advise not to pay the ransom when their data and reputation is at stake?
If it makes you feel any better, nobody really gives a shit about these stupid regulations and nobody is going to stop folks from saying whatever they want here, or anywhere else if here becomes impractical. My personal website (not updated since forever) is my username dot com. And if ICANN turns against free speech there’s always pirate radio, every citizen who even considers “guns to protect us from the guvmint” should get trained as an amateur radio operator first.

(By the way, even as a supporter of the Second Amendment it is remarkable that in America one needs a license to operate a radio but not a rifle.)
As a long time Snapchat user i know my friends at this point like Instagram more. Snapchat’s recent interface changes make little sense and sometimes serve to actively confuse the user experience. Classic case of fixing something that wasn’t broken.
Most developers I have worked with have cared more about the product they are building than the tools, but they still care a lot about the tools because they often improve the product.
It would be amazing if Pony Lang's[+] concurrency model could be realized in Nim, or if Nim could be extended as a language to optionally and cleanly support it. That's easier said than done, of course, since Pony's concurrency model is deeply wedded to its type system ("reference capabilities").

[+] https://www.ponylang.org/discover/#what-makes-pony-different
I wonder if there’s a case to be made that continuing to provide a platform to Alex Jones effectively creates a toxic working environment for Twitter employees.

Could be a great deal of liability there.
As a computer architect, I’m really curious what their practical capabilities will be for this process. There’s definitely a market for low volume / high performance chips if they can develop something interesting (ie mask costs similar to 90nm but performance closer to 7nm).
> with new technologies are going to come novel and compelling forms of social interaction.

What, Web 3.0 will come with booze?

While I am entertained by social media, I can't remember the last time I actually interacted with anyone in a substantive way. I'd much rather hit the bar and admit to myself that social media isn't very social.
> They'll be able to make all of those movies available to their own streaming service and lock everyone else out if it makes business sense for them to do so.

They have to make that streaming service first. Disney has a long history of acquiring internet and game companies only to shut them down a year or two later when they prove unsuccessful. Their own endeavors in the web and game space have been wildly unsuccessful. They fundamentally do not understand the internet and I see no indication that has changed.
Off topic but... are there any plans to adapt Flutter for desktop apps?
Good work Twitter. Alex Jones is a liar and a nut but free speech is more important than preventing a liar and a nut from having a platform.
Good. Political speech, which conspiracy theories are, is the speech most in need of protection.
There are defaults that most people probably don't change.
This part at the bottom caught my eye:

>Note: by California state law, Title 17 U.S. Code § 1030, Rz. Pl. u.1994 nr 24 poz. 140, and binding international covenant it is forbidden to use the word "hack" in conjunction with this blog post.
I think you mean pedantic trie-hard
How the marvel of electric light became a global blight to health
What stops us from wrapping the circuits around the sides of the chip? Holding onto them? Or the fact that stacking gets you more layers than 2 1/2?
Re the second point did you manage to get around this? Played with it a bit and it felt almost like flash back in the day where you could eschew the timeline and do everything programmatically. In the end ran into a problem where I wanted to move the universe around the player and couldn’t get the particle engine to cope..
What about the other hundreds of thousands of outwardly racist twitter users? Just ban them all? They’ll just congregate in their own communities.
> Of course as soon as you say that, some pedantic try-hard with their real name as their hnews handle will swoop in and tell you that time they saved Google by implementing one in production in under 20 minutes.

You say that like it's a bad thing, but isn't it good? If I think that something is of only academic interest, and then I find out about a real-world application, I feel that I have learned something that's worth knowing.
They can't ban him unless they are willing to ban Trump who says similar stuff.
This is actually one of the more terrifying videos out there on this subject.
Disgusting.

Twitter is trying to hold on to relevance by staying the mainstream medium where demagogues discuss their garbage. The world would be a better place if they kicked off the white supremacists and the jerks, but their stock price would take a hit. To me, it's an easy decision (I'm a shareholder, the stock is already in the toilet), but one twitter has consistently abdicated.
And where is this?
They should ban Trump.
This has essentially happened. J1772 is the standard for "normal" charging, CHAdeMO is the standard for fast charging.

Even Tesla, the only company to not follow these standards, supplies a J1772 adapter with every car.
Preservationists, please save a dying language before it’s too late: Chicagoese
There's just nothing Snap offers that isn't as good or better on Instagram.

And hoping gimmicks like new AR tricks or Spectacles can turn that around has always been a lost cause.
There are plenty of other platforms that would love to have him. Like, say, Stormfront. And the advantage of pushing this crap to those margins is that it denies them legitimacy. Push it out to stormfront (or equivalent) and it's real clear where it sits in the marketplace of ideas.

Leave it on the big platforms and you make it clear that bad behavior is tolerated and rewarded.
Here in the UK, EV chargers are heavily subsidised, on the basis that they're tantamount to a common resource. Installing a 7kW home charger costs as little as £150 ($200) after subsidy, with charger grants also available for businesses and local governments. It's a bit regressive considering the high cost of EVs right now, but it seems like a sensible step if you're aiming for ubiquitous charging infrastructure.
Anything that is too niche is bound to be a "barren run", at least for a while ...
anybody still actively use twitter?
The claim of "every project" seems very exaggerated. I tried "kid" and "sleep". Kid has no results and sleep had one for sleep analysis. I must be missing something, or nobody has products for sleep or kids.
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> Web 1.0 lets individuals create and express ideas

> Web 2.0 lets groups create and express ideas

> Web 3.0 lets societies create and express ideas

It's blockchain. Blockchain is what gets us from web 2.0 to web 3.0. The technology is almost here, and after another few years of basic R&D the stuff we're going to be able to start building is going to transform society in ways that are barely even imaginable today.