skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have multiple devices that connect to your router that could identify you?

Have you ever logged into any services like Google or use Google Search/YouTube/Maps on your gaming PC?

I still don't know if this is a Google thing. Browsers can share location and it may be possible that it's serving up the last known location because it can't provide the current one.
If someone is in my home looking for my U2F key, they've bridged the gap between the threat model I'm concerned with and the model where they're clearly motivated enough that putting the key in brick isn't going to stop them. Furthermore, I don't really like the prospect of having to take a sledgehammer to my wall when I drop my U2F key during a trip.

Personally, I have a couple U2F tokens and OTP on my phone, with recovery codes. If I register for a new site when I'm on the road, it gets my travel U2F and phone OTP. When I get home, I pair up the 2nd U2F and drop the recovery codes in the box with the rest of them.
> I prefer a good life over one that ends with me jumping off a bridge I built.

That's a fantastic way to put it. If we aren't being productive to improve happiness (directly or indirectly), then why are we doing it?
Only a Chinese could view that as a positive but ok; in the west we consider it negative because it reminds everyone she was imprisoned in the first place, not to mention her husband’s plight.

Sorry, I didn’t look at the time stamp, wsj just doesn’t cover China as frequently as they used to. Here is one from August 2nd on nyt: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/world/asia/china-sun-weng...

Oh, and if you consider safe vaccines a human right: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/07/26/a-vaccine-scandal...

Nary anything about xinjiang.
> DNS resolvers are already computing some form of location to determine whether a query is in or out of country

Most of it is based on publicly available IANA databases (RIPE, ARIN etc) which are not always accurate, as IPs are traded and moved between AS's all the time + dynamic IPs that are given to users from example both coasts of USA.

> the poster's point was just that "in country" is not necessarily "closest", "fastest" or "best" (or even that those three are the same).

And I wrote it's not easy to solve because you do not get accurate GPS positions to most of IP clasess, which means it's a lot easier to point to the same country and that's why almost every provider does that. Some use geo coordinates of IPs but only for certain classes that have accurate positioning and are inside the same country.

PS. I am building globally distributed anycast GEO-DNS service/system at the moment.
Tangent: I love highway rest stops and I think they are one more example to the middle class of what government can do (along with, you know, the Interstate system). Not all government is evil, Aunt Sally.

Now to your point: Almost all businesses in the US allow people to use the restroom without buying merchandise or food, unless marked specifically. The places that don't allow it are typically in high traffic tourist areas that already have public facilities, or otherwise have a homeless problem that has them needing to keep their facilities from being abused.
This shouldn't be downvoted. Restrooms within U.S. urban centers are hard to find, for patrons only, if they have public restrooms at all. Seattle, NYC, Atlanta, San Diego, L.A...all the same. There's a reason people urinate behind dumpsters.

10 years ago on NYE at Times Square, people were literally dropping squat or pissing in bottles in the middle of a televised street for lack of anywhere else to do it. I've been desperate enough to have to to it myself.

Somewhere in the suburbs? Sure, just stop at a McDonald's, a public park, a mall, or any number of places with toilet access. But cities themselves largely lack them.
I thought that was related to the nerve gas attacks on the subway and deciding they would rather have litter sweeped up than standing cans which may hide bombs.
Housing was already expensive in 2000, well before the current "foreign invasion."

Perhaps they should try reducing the red tape required to build new homes.
You make a fine argument against isolated and incremental change.

I agree. We should aim for nothing less than paradigm shift.
I too hate the idea of paid toilets in public buildings like train stations in Europe, but dense, non-car-focused cities in the US like NYC or San Francisco also have public restrooms few and far between. Most fast-food places require you to make a purchase to use them. Starbucks did recently drop this policy, the tradeoff being that their restroom now have even longer lines and tend to be nastier.
> If you want to be a woman, just act like one and you will be accepted.

But you still aren't a woman, you are omeggid.
I've been at the start-up game non-stop since the mid 1990s. You know what's really amazing today? What would have cost me $30,000 per year in infrastructure in 1999 or 2003, plus the obnoxious management of it all, is now $2k or $3k at DigitalOcean (and others) and rather easy to script and manage. After you adjust for the better hardware vs increased total Internet users scale and often increased resource demands, I also think that value proposition heavily tilts toward a greater than 10x gain versus eg 15 years ago.

Most everyone here will fully understand that effect. I'm skeptical the NYTimes et al. understands what it has done to the start-up vs capital equation however.

When Excite got started, you know what they needed? A $10,000, 10gb drive. Vinod Khosla had to provide it just so they could properly test out their search engine. Adjusting to today's scale, the equivalent might be three dozen virtual servers for tens of hours per month at a cost of $100.

I don't need venture capital to scale to a large size. It's beautiful, the VC aspect has almost entirely become optional outside of a few niche scenarios. That has provided the large capital raising start-ups with a lot of sustained bargaining power that they have never had before. If nothing else, you can simply wait longer to deal with VCs, boosting your position. That's not going away with the next crash (it will deflate some of course), that cost edge is here to stay. The leverage point is: can you actually build the thing, can you execute, do you have the ability / persistence / etc to get it done.

It really wasn't that long ago that infrastructure was the biggest cost in being able to prove out an Internet business and scale. Just to put on a good test of a product meant for scale you had to sink large sums of money in upfront. Today the people - their time - have become the biggest cost (unless you're in SF etc., then it's that and real-estate). If I want to start something today, my time is the (personal) red ink risk, rather than very large amounts of capital plowed into infrastructure.
Woah, as a native English speaker, that's cool.

(Just for fun, I put a few errors in and it caught them, including these one ;-)
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We were originally discussing who benefits from higher stock prices; the answer is overwhelmingly, by a huge, huge, margin, those benefits go to the top 10% of Americans by wealth.

The fact that a tiny portion of workers also own some stocks doesn't change that fact.

And the fact that $30k in a retirement account is critical to a factory worker, doesn't help your case much. That pittance will have been saved out of already-stagnant wages that have been kept down by corporate management in favor of executive pay and stock buybacks, and will be nearly worthless for retirement purposes no matter what the stock market does. All you've done is reiterate the all-too-common disaster scenario for the working class that comes from favoring shareholders over workers.

The workers' real skin in the game is their labor and the value they produce from it, which is increasingly being kept back from them. They can have everything to gain and nothing to lose by gaining mandatory representation on the board.
But the problem there is that they used a carousel in the first place. Were it content that justified clicking 30 times into it, it would also justify backing out of it 30 times.
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The key quote from Theo:

> We believe Intel cpus do almost no security checks up-front, but defer checks until instruction retire. As a result we believe similar issues will be coming in the future.
Encourage everyone to boycott YC. I certainly won't be applying again.

It's funny to watch YC do this, the one time I was actually invited to interview with YC was when our Chinese co-founder submitted a rather fraudulent[0] application.
Angry that we wouldn't participate in his fraud he disappeared and filed a frivolous lawsuit against us (which after many years we won).

China's tech growth is built on IP theft and protection by a murderous regime.
It's a total antithesis of what made the Valley great. Big numbers put out by some people in China don't change that.

If YC plans to invest in local Mainland startups:

- ownership is going to tough, likely through dubious trickery

- these uncertain legal rights expose YC to strong political pressures, anybody that has vested interest in China knows it - if you want to have a chance at cashing out your better be in good graces with the CCP

- unethical behavior of YC pupils is inevitable, a PR nightmare in the making. "it's not the real YC, it's YC China, don't blame us!"

You've destroyed your brand, now good luck getting a dollar out of China.

And again, a necessary reminder I like to tell everyone:
China is actively imprisoning and killing thousands of people for their religious beliefs. Censorship is nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Few people know it, I certainly didn't, I wish I have.
Like many I've heard something about the Falun Gong, I've seen the signs but never bothered to looked into it.
It's all real, it's big, almost Nazi scale persecution. Please share it with anybody that does business with China.

[0] because in China I guess that'd only be normal-fraudulent, right?
> Again, spending time with people in a social environment is a meaningful thing to do with one's life.

Totally agree on that one, but I would rather that social environment is not overlapping with all sorts of economic power dynamics. I would much rather hang out at cafes and public places and spend time outside economic contexts based on shared interests such as literature, art, music etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45009337

A timely piece from the BBC about the reduction in toilet provision in the UK over the last few years. The tldr is that public spending on toilets is discretionary and councils have cut spending there since it's an easy target when needing to cut their budgets.
What changed?

(Twitter tells me that it is because of immigration from the 3rd world.)
Yea, I noticed this same thing (the fee for public toilets) on a trip to Bolivia earlier this year. It seems the same as government agencies that split out the cost of their downstream credit card processing fees and optionally add them to the price of their product (like paying your water bill for instance). So rather than doing the most efficient thing by enabling online processing building in the transaction cost, the consumers are all incentivized to stick with paper checks and the water department carries on assuming that managing the incoming paper checks have no associated processing cost because the cost is internal and they don't have a third party charging them.

This seems to be more common in the public sector. It happens in the private sector but, in my experience, when it does it is with small mom and pop companies that are similarly incapable of seeing the big picture.
Pretty much. Writing markdown with jekyll is too technical or not WYSIWYG enough for most people who don't want to touch a command line, and running your own ghost/wp/etc blog is too much for the average person to do without using ghost.org or another pay-per-month hosting service.
Your example is exactly why we have both History.pushState and History.replaceState[0]. The core question there is whether a new slide represents a new page or not. And in this case, I agree that it doesn't: it's the same page, just in a different state.

EDIT: If you mean one of those 20-image slideshows intentionally made to create fake click statistics, I agree that that's absolutely infuriating. But in that case ergothus' comment applies: the real problem is bad faith webdesign in that case.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History#Met...
I don't think you read my post, because I didn't say anything that you proposed I did:

1 - I live in Texas, not Silicon Valley;
2 - I don't work in technology;
3 - I'm not a contracting company.

Finally, if you read at all what I said with any kind of open mind, then you'd have noticed how hard I said it is. But people rule out the option without really looking at it.
> do you emulate the actual sub-operations the FPGA does?

Yes. It's an emulator.

> ... is going to have to write an implementation in C that emulates the hardware.

Makes sense. It's an emulator.

> ... and it'll run dog slow on the CPU compared to using the native functions.

Isn't that to be expected? It's an emulator. This isn't like games where it just has to look close. If it's a dev tool for testing correctness, exactness matters.
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You are not alone. That's why there is even a media query for it! https://css-tricks.com/introduction-reduced-motion-media-que...
50% of all this money is being captured by Bay Area landowners.
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While equally obsessed with maintaining a stable API towards userspace. Sadly much of userspace is an unstable churn of API changes.
If parallel dimensions exist, then it's most certainly one of the closest dimensions to ours.

If I'm sure of one thing, it's that as soon as we decided to build everything as Microkernels, we'd have the same squeaky wheels touting the massive benefits of Monotlithic OS design. We're hilariously cyclical in our preferences.

"Think of all the runtime efficiencies of the shared memory, and how much easier it would be to develop on the shared codebase!"
400 for a large city like Paris isn't that much and discoverability is an issue. They're fairly densely packed in some areas [0] I'm guessing near restaurant/bar heavy areas but fairly sparse out side of that.

[0] https://www.paris.fr/services-et-infos-pratiques/environneme...
Of course I would (in theory)! The reality is different though.

New Yorkers are reasonable people that would agree that the quality of our lives (as measured by our habitat, access to air, nature etc) living almost ANYWHERE outside of NYC in the continental US would be higher. Everyone who has lived in New York for years knows this.

You live in NYC because of the people and opportunities. The incredible amount of intellectual fire power that is crossing the street at the same time as you, or having a beer at the end of your block, is unbelievable and incredibly motivating. They come from all walks of life, doing all manner of jobs, and many of them perform those jobs at the highest level of their industries globally. I grew up in Georgia, and the odds of coming across people of that caliber casually on the way to the grocery store or whatever, are almost zero.

If I could get this while living in Santa Barbara, believe me I would. The math just doesn't support it. Of course, this may not be what everyone at any particular point in time values. I appreciate that, NYC is not for them.
Praying these crazy tech salaries continue for years to come!
Medical bills, home prices, education prices....

It has definitely hit main street
You still have the source to the old drivers. It's just not a priority for others to support anymore, but you have the means to go add that support yourself, or pay a third party to do it for you.

Contrast with when windows changed the video driver architecture in Vista, and the only option you had was to pound sand.
Time square was also cordoned off during New Years celebrations I believe. Why they didn't include sufficient portapotties within the perimeter but out of central show areas is beyond me.
I'd generally agree, however, seeking to team up with others for a greater good is also a healthy sign for an entrepreneur.

"Hey, you have some capital, and we have this great thing that can serve the world. We're capital constrained, either for quality or for growth, how about we partner to make the world a better place?"
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People are averse to machines making moral decisions
In biotech (by which I mean therapeutics), out of ~150 "major"* VC investments from 1/2018 to 7/2018, 14% of deals have been over $100M. Many of these have been Series A deals [0].

Many of these rounds are tranched (ie you only get a certain amount upfront, then get the rest if you hit milestones), but I think I saw data suggesting only 30-40% were tranched.

I think this phenomenon is largely due to 1) more money going into biotech VC but 2) very little increase in the number of good startups. Many startups are created in house by 5-10 VCs (though this is changing, especially with increasing number of well funded Chinese startups), so there's limited bandwidth. Therapeutics is so different from any other type of startup that pretty much all the incubators / educational materials don't apply, and the only ppl who know how to start startups are those who've developed drugs at big companies or have started successful companies before

* Announced Series A through later deals, and some large seed deals ($5m+)

[0] source is a website where i've been tracking major biotech VC investments. i'm a hobbyist programmer and its on a free heroku plan, and i'm in the early stages of turning what was a personal project into a product so expect bugs and not-ideal performance. but deal coverage is comparable to other biotech databases.

https://bio-vc-tracker.herokuapp.com/
> eriously, I don't understand, what does a cheap currency (what does that even mean) have to do with trade surplus?

The way international trade works in theory is like this: when a country is running a trade surplus, demand for its currency increases, so that other countries can buy its goods. That extra demand drives up the exchange rate, which makes its goods more expensive, which drives down exports, which brings the balance of payments (exports minus imports) back into equilibrium.

What happens in the EU is that, because you have a shared currency, this balancing mechanism breaks down, and so trade imbalances between countries can only be corrected via deliberate subsidies (exactly as happens between rich and poor regions inside the US, for instance).

But, more than any other EU member, Germany has blocked this kind of policy, choosing to interpret trade imbalances in moral rather than economic terms (southern countries are too lazy, laid back, inefficient, etc).
The age old joke about the computer encased in concrete at the bottom of the ocean does indeed come to mind.
Do you remember roughly where you read that Feynman quote? (Or was it a video?)

I'd be really interested to read it.
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It's no different than forgetting that there's a fire extinguisher in the trunk of your car. You might forget you have it from day to day but if you need it you're pretty much guaranteed to remember it. A small pistol in a handbag is the same way.
Often the blame will lie with someone else - the designer or the PM. Some webdevs are to blame, but many of us would prefer to work on tasks OTHER than arguing with the browser over how it should do it's job.
So basically U2F clones. It would be neat to have some sort of CA between U2F devices, device A could sign device B and be put away, and device B could store the signing and share that with sites. This would allow device A to revoke device B completely, but would require a change of u2f support.

I understand the counter piece, but let's say someone steals your primary U2F, can't they just increment the counter to 1000002 and it would keep working even if you have used your backup token?
Seems reasonable to me. Housing should be for housing people, not a speculative financial investment.

It's reasonable for cities to ask that people show that they have some skin in the game, that they're living, working, paying taxes and contributing to and enhancing the community.
I'm wondering as well, how much of this is due to monetary policy pushing investors into higher-risk investments. That's been the point of QE and negative interest rates, right, although I don't recall hearing it framed as an attempt to push investors into taking on more risk?
That could be encouraged trough mutualization programs.
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Good to see research from the 1960s is finally paying off and now almost anyone can use simple libraries for NLP.
Gas stations, fast food restaurants and large chain stores (Walmart, grocery stores, etc.) are all effectively free public toilets, at least in the regions where I've lived. I imagine they legally have the right to limit access to customers, but I can't remember ever seeing it done in practice.
Lack of performance on microkernels is a myth nowadays.

QNX and many embedded OS, some of which driving high integrity software, are all microkernel based.

Including the one most likely handling the real time communication of this mobile radio.
It'll help you live forever! (If it doesn't kill you first.)
They are not placing all blame on foreign soeculative real estate investors, but are assigning some blame, which i think is fair.

Many countries require some form of either citizenship or residence in order to qualify as a real estate buyer.
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True, and democracy here is a big red "emergency brake" button. In a monarchy or de-facto monarchy (all states that saw multiple presidents-for-life from the same family are in that bunch as well) you have none. Only alternatives given to people in them is to start a civil war.
Sounds like a variant of the mops and sociopaths problem.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
One point of clarification for readers of @neslinesli93's post is that Timescale does not create "heavy" indexes.

We do create some default indexes that PostgreSQL does not, but these defaults can be turned off. We also allow you to create indexes after bulk loading data, if you want to compare apples-to-apples.

But to be clear, the indexes Timescale creates are the same, or can often times be cheaper, than PostgreSQL (remember, TimescaleDB is implemented as a PostgreSQL extension). We're always happy to help people work through proper set up and any implementation details in our Slack community (slack.timescale.com).
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> The ultimate businesses are those that are highly profitable and can scale using their own funding

I'd like to fly across the sky on a unicorn while drinking whiskey with a leprechaun, but it's not really in the cards.

How many bootstrapped businesses can you think of in the Fortune 100/500? It's very rare to get to that size without the capital to make mistakes. Bootstrapped businesses generally have very little room for risk, and the ones with business models that can both be executed on and monetized profitably to > $100MM revenue/yr can probably be counted on two hands (e.g. GitHub, Plenty Of Fish, Braintree, GoPro).
How about you set maximum font size in your browser? That would be a much better plan. See what I mean?
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