skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't read too much into the email part, that is pretty standard thing that pretty much all CAs do. I wouldn't expect Google to pursue email certificates in a major way. It's more like ticking a checkbox in the application and leaving that door open if the need arises. Also might be just some legacy from GlobalSign.
I am not sure if you are using the term "Mechanical Turk" correctly. Would you mind clarifying?
They're likely referring to Amazon Mechanical Turk:

https://www.mturk.com

as opposed to the chess-playing variety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
What does libertarianism have to do with private funding?

I've read two of his books. I don't find his views to be very libertarian. He supported bank bailouts.
Comments 28 and 29 confirm that they don't intend to sign email (S/MIME) certs for now, and the PDF from Mozilla in comment 30 says "Mozilla Trust Bits: Websites" and "Mozilla is no longer accepting requests to enable the Code Signing trust bit.", so I think the intent is only to sign websites for now.

That sentence happens to list of four of the six standardized uses of certificates (RFC 5280 section 4.2.1.12; the other two are timestamping and OCSP responses) so I think that's just copied-and-pasted from somewhere. Somewhat poor form to copy-and-paste that if they don't mean it IMO, but it's just prose, not the technical part of the submission.
I came here hoping to read this.

Thank you.
"Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics" by Robert Bridson would be my suggestion for getting started with grid-based methods. The SIGGRAPH course notes on his website are very similar to the 1st edition. [1] It's no longer the state of the art (which is probably APIC), but the new methods are all based on the same fundamentals.

Particle-based methods like Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) are simpler to implement and are more intuitive than grid-based methods, but they're also harder to analyze mathematically. SPH is the method used by PixelJunk Shooter. "Fluid Simulation for Video Games" by Michael Gourlay is mostly about a different fluid technique (vortons), but does include SPH. [2]

[1]: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/

[2]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/fluid-simulation-f...
But someone heard the word may feel offensive.
8 minute miles with a backpack with a laptop and a change of clothes? Perhaps for some people, but not everyone.
the kinds of metrics that might be applied

Expect open rebellion in a lot of areas. Most of the world is clued into the idea of remote observers posing behind duck blinds with clip boards, it's just that we haven't experienced visceral provocation yet.

This takes the conceptual hazard to another level.

The way it goes down, in order to habituate a mob is to wait for a generation to grow up, having no memory of ever living another way.

Then the real exploitation begins.

So, as with environmental pollution, it's not really our problem, but 20 or 30 years from now? Forget it. Those lives are already ruined.
That's not the definition of fictional.
It seems like the incentives for employees at Google are the problem here. People are rewarded for successfully completing projects, not for maintaining existing ones, so rational employees will maximize their compensation by moving on from a project after it launches and trying to launch a new one.

There seems to be nobody at the top enforcing a consistent product vision.

This is how Android ended up having several text messaging apps at the same time a few years ago. Apple certainly would not have done that, and I doubt even Microsoft would have allowed that state of affairs to exist.
> "a fresh look" and may occasionally happen to be useful

The use of three words to hedge the usefulness aspect, somewhat contradicts the original assertion of opinions being undervalued.

I happen to agree that a fresh look, in the form of an opinion from a non-expert, can be extremely valuable, especially since I'm acutely aware that I'm certain to be biased on any topic where I have expertise from experience. However, that value seems to be proportional to how well-informed it is.

That is, if the opinion is based on insufficient knowledge (that can be obtained other than by experience, such as with a Web search), it can easily result in a subtle form of talking past each other that doesn't reveal itself until after a long back-and-forth. Sadly, that mostly just reveals fundamental gaps in knowledge, rather than any fresh perspective.
I’m so confused. Is he not treating his leukemia? The entire article acts like this is a non-factor, which seems unlikely unless he’s simply decided a year to live or whatever is enough for him.
This is cool, but I don't get how to use it? I'm sold because it works on ESP8322, but I'm confused now because I have to buy the board again?
Initial Google Trust Services announcement discussion thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494780

This has been brewing for quite a while now.
Many libertarians believe in market failures, and (I think) most believe it's possible for markets to NOT fully capitalize on business opportunities.

Of course, Cowen is also a market actor. So, I'm not sure where the inconsistency lies.
I happen to like, and have used, mutual authentication (and thus client certs) for B2B HTTPS APIs where the systems at both ends are servers not people or user agents. I agree it's not so great for people.

FWIW TLS 1.3 encryption kicks in before the certificates get sent, in either direction, so if you like/ need client certs but worry about confidentiality you should go to 1.3

Oh TLS 1.3 also has nicer filters so you can tell a client "Hi, please send me a client cert, but, I want one that has the following properties based on ASN.1 OIDs" whereas with earlier TLS versions you could only say "Here is the list of Certificate Authorities which I trust to issue client certs, give me any cert you have from one of those CAs".
10 GigaRays/sec = 80 rays per pixel at 1080p60fps.

That should be enough to do full scene real-time raytracing with rays per pixel to spare (usually 10 rays per path are more than enough).
I don't see an endgame that wouldn't have resulted in outrage.

I doubt Google would be committed to keeping both Gmail and Inbox around forever.

Either Gmail would be merged into Inbox, or Inbox features would be merged into Gmail. Both of those choices would outrage a large group of users. Frankly it seems that getting rid of Inbox involves pissing off far fewer people than getting rid of Gmail.
Next: Chrome and Search privilege Google CA over others.
Wow this takes me back.

BASIC was how I started programming, 30 years ago.

Is this the first time someone's implemented BASIC in JavaScript? It seems so... obvious in hindsight.

I wonder if this has any potential for kids who want to start to learn programming? Or if there are other better, more modern, places to start these days?

Also... why is this from Google of all places? Seems like more of a personal hobby project.
"As for Google Search, why can't they just offer features for those who want them?"

Heh. I am intimately familiar with the road that leads down...

My first project at Google was the Search Options panel [1]. This was a collapsible left-nav with a bunch of additional tools that you could use to help refine, visualize, or otherwise improve your search results. Many of these tools were very useful to certain populations (one that I worked on was called Wonder Wheel [2] and was very popular with teachers, reporters, and advertisers) and virtually useless to everyone else. Why was this panel collapsible? So that we could offer these features to just those who wanted them without cluttering the UI for everyone else.

Many of these tools got very low usage despite rave reviews. Why? Well, when we interviewed users, they didn't know they existed. On Hacker News discussions I'd direct-link people to a specific tool like custom date range or verbatim mode, and they'd be like "Wow, this is so useful. I had no idea this existed. You guys should make this obvious in the UI."

So my 3rd project at Google, a visual redesign of all of Search [3], included an always-open left nav.

After an initial bump, though, usage numbers for all the tools started dropping off. One interesting effect that you find out, if you do enough metrics-based UI design, is that people become blind to features they don't use. These tools were special-purpose enough that the majority of searchers - who just want to get to their result as fast as possible - were becoming blind to the whole left nav. So the order came down that we needed to hide most of the tools, and only show the ones that we could predict would be likely to be used on the particular query.

Well, we did that, but another principle of UI design is that controls should appear in a predictable order and not move around, so that people can build habits around their use. Changing the set of tools displayed per query violates that principle.

Eventually, after a few more redesigns, the left nav moved to the top nav and most of the tools were discontinued anyways. Many of the features you want actually exist, and I bet you don't know about them. You can get long results through Settings -> Search Settings -> Results per page, for example, and you can prevent Google from inferring what you really mean via Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim. But that sorta proves my point, right? You can't really please everyone - even if you build the features they need, there's no guarantee they'll know about them.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/up-close-with-google-search-opt...

[2] https://www.ppchero.com/how-to-use-google-wonder-wheel-and-r...

[3] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis...
"Your honor, my client -- a child -- had a typo in the submission form. There is no case here." (IANAL)
Hell, I bet there are insiders who were surprised about the decision to close up shop on Google Inbox. There's no guarantee that Cloud and Domains will never be closed, but that's on the level of RIM no longer making Blackberries. Google's a modern Internet company and has bet, and bet big, on being a leading cloud services provider, and Domains are a key component to having a vertically integrated offering.

Google is a public company and as such they are required to release certain information in annual report, so their investment in the cloud is verifiable.
Too targeted would for example be something too relevant to their job. They'd know what the typical emails and logins are so they won't fall for it easily. If the training is for spearphishing, it should contain extensive detail about the user. I mean really, you can't train someone who combats phishing as their day job against spearphishing.

The only real threat training combats against is untargeted dragnet attacks which typically use generic content or attacks that target organizions(not individuals).

In other words,you want them to be trained for the technology threat not the content threat. You want them know the difference between mail.company.com and mail.company.com.seemslegit.site . Currently,training seems to focus on "email looks suspiciois,why did you click on the link" not "what about the link made you think it was legitimate? and this is why you were wrong."

Also,training is done as a campaign at most places.a few users fall for it and suddenly everyone knows about it before opening their inbox. Mostly theatrics. It shouldn't be "send phishme emails to a 1000 users today",it should be more like "pick 50 users out of 1000 at random and send them a new campaign everyday for the next 20 business days quarterly"
Anyone here familiar with overall performance / server costs to give an insight if AMD might actually become competitive considering with all the hype around AMD these days, I have still yet to see any of the 3 major providers offer an AMD chip?
The "neurotoxin response" theory that the author doesn't like would say that this is because you anticipate the movements perfectly because you're the one causing them.
To tell you the thruth, I pay for Netflix but download them from alternate sources...
I've worked with Google APIs before and I was frustrated by the poor support and the breaking changes, but I didn't have a choice. Lack of integration with Google services would have been a major weak point for our product.

The bottom line is that Google is so big and important that other companies just have to put up with Google's behavior. Until that changes there won't be a migration away from Google's APIs.
Less annoying Hacker News
>You heard it, right folks, AMD’s 2019 CPU family is designed to tackle the Intel 10nm Ice Lake Xeons favorably and things are looking really good for AMD as their Rome CPU family will only be competing against Intel’s 14nm++ server refreshed family, aka Cascade Lake-SP.

More evidence that AMD may soon pull ahead in the performance race as they take good advantage of Intel's 10nm stumble.
Doesn’t defamation specifically require false statements represented at truths? I’m not sure free speech is meant to allow for that as well (negative truths, represented as truths, are fine though)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but inbox shared your same content as Gmail, right? If that's the case, nothing was lost.
China need not be involved. And anyway, in a national emergency the government would simply seize any foreign owned asset they needed.

It's the continued consolidation that will result in cartel/monopolies and their catastrophic outcome. That combined with unlimited finance in politics to protect these interests and we have a perfect storm. Unless anti-trust is zealously enforced and quickly, we are facing a future a lot rougher than today.
The author's theory doesn't account for motion sickness while sitting or even completely still looking at a video game/VR. Why doesn't the article make any attempt to address this? I'm not finding it convincing at all.
And a lot of the time you don't have a choice. For example the Xtensa core in ESP32s doesn't have an upstream quality GCC or LLVM backend last time I checked.
Ok, we've changed the title to that of the page.
He calls people "postmodern marxist's" which is rather contradictory.
The only thing I can remember it having was the smart playlist feature, where you could construct playlists using criteria like "Has at least 3 stars" and "Not played in five days" etc.

Though that was more of an iTunes feature, that I wouldn't mind seeing in Spotify!

It let you make auto-updating lists to keep your library fresh, and not rely on the shuffle feature.
At least there are a million disclaimers, specifically saying if you have depression or anxiety disorder or hypochondria to not enable the health checks.
You Don't Really 'Own' That Movie You Bought, but Pirates
I had a Creative Nomad before the first iPod came out, which also had about 4GB of storage.

1. The Creative Nomad had a slow-refresh screen with mushy buttons, vs a wheel on smooth ball-bearings and a quickly refreshing screen and intuitive hierarchy to navigate

2. The iPod took about a second per song to transfer music with Firewire, compared to the ridiculously slow USB on the Creative Nomad

3. The Creative Zomad was a little larger than a Discman, and fit in a very large pocket. The iPod fit into jean pockets
MS is pushing this kind of hybrid ray-tracing in DirectX 12. I imagine that Nvidia has been holding off on this until that came about because otherwise it would’ve been way too hard to push.

Of course you know Microsoft worked with all the major vendors because they don’t want to be seen as playing favorites. I would expect AMD would have whatever their version of this is in their next generation chip.

The article made it sound like DirectX only specifies a very high-level interface. So there’s probably a lot of room for AMD and Nvidia to maneuver for performance and quality without breaking compatibility.
Twice the number of cores compared to first generation EPYC with its main competitor misfiring. So do they go for profit and double the price or go for market share and keep it the same? As both a consumer and a stock holder, I'm hoping for closer to the latter.
Coca-Cola buys Costa Coffee for £3.9bn
It doesn't seem relevant to the subject of the article, and it's private, so I don't see why it should be detailed...
Introducing new specialized roles in your organization
> ...It crushes most competition and development of open source alternatives....

This is the aspect, above all the others, that bothers me. Apple is guilty of this too. As soon as a project or tool is released free or as part of the OS or whatever, it drives any competing version out of business. Does it matter if the implementation is shitty? No, because it will still be "good enough" for enough users to make that competition unviable. Does it matter if the implementation stops being developed and eventually gets pulled? No, because the competition has already been driven out.

If somehow the big company that pulls this (Google, Apple, etc) were to seriously commit to maintaining the project, hm, ok, fine I guess. But of course they've repeatedly shown that they won't do that.
The 2018 Chevy Bolt Makes the Electric Car Feel Normal, and That’s the Point
Not the event, but the team I was on at the time.

-subs
Supply vs demand but it would be smart to discount low end server class CPUs for market share (not the 64 core CPU).
Quite interesting. Any performance/feature comparison with nailgun [1]? We have found that useful for Hadoop hdfs commands, though haven't tried it for spark,tez etc.

1. https://github.com/facebook/nailgun
Wow, that’s still around? I last used webmin on a couple of servers 15 years ago.
Looking at the demo video Nvidia released yesterday[1], it is pretty obvious that the performance is still bit limited. The shadows and reflections are distinctly low-resolution and I don't think its solid 60fps either.

Sure it's still pretty nice for first-gen product, so not complaining too much. But there is still fair bit of road to go on.

[1] Atomic Heart: Official GeForce RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIiQZw_p_E
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They still want to pull in more people that may buy high margin concessions. Their per user costs are pretty low they can cut the price per ticket down to pretty much the amount they have to pay the studio.
The clause, "so on I bounced" sounds wonderfully meaningful somehow.
Airport Drop Off and Airport Pick Up Melbourne – Baby Seat Taxi
You can with a VR headset though.
Hey calhoun137,

I'm doing some research on ed-tech tools and helping students learn by creating and experimenting! I'd love to check out your tool and talk to you about it, but I see no way to contact you! Could you add a email or Twitter handle to your profile, or you could contact me, my details are on my HN user page.
I get similar symptoms under two very specific circumstances - when sitting in a car being driven by someone else in the morning I easily end up horribly nauseous, and when lying in bed at night with a pillow that doesn’t elevate my head enough, I’ll wake up in a terrible nauseating death spin of vertigo. Two of the very worst feelings I’ve ever had.
One Desktop as well. I thought it was my ad blocker going on steroids !
JavaScript Equality Minesweeper
Yeah I alluded (maybe too subtly) to my agreement on that point. But I read guys email blog and he doesn't seem to think cryptocurrencies are worthless.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKeh7OYBh90
How does attachment whitelisting work? That sounds promising.
I was under the impression from the initial coverage that they were actually getting something like 1 to 2 rays per pixel per frame. Perhaps even less.

From there they were using some sort of smoothing and/or temporal anti-aliasing to gather the data from multiple frames to get decent quality out of it.

Or are you proposing how many raise they would NEED to be able to do real time full raytracing? By the time we have that ability I imagine everyone will just want the 4K version anyway and we will be behind again.

Either way what nVidia has shown looks great. It’s too bad I’ll have to wait years to be able to use it as a console gamer.
> I think many of the problems created area also created from the altitude that "they are the best and brightest so whatever they think must be right". I know this generalization does not hold true in all cases. This sort of attitude can be seen most recently in the way they are handling "www" and "m" domains, and then even suggesting that they would somehow just make the change and then assume they could push a standard on the rest of the internet. There are other cases but don't have the time or will to detail every one of them.

This. That attitude will also result in an almost total inability to take valid feedback. If you incorrectly and arrogantly think your the best and brightest, why would you listen to the plebs when they tell you you're making a mistake.

Then you get the plebs who buy into the best and brightest myth. They falsely assume whatever decision Google, Apple, or Facebook makes must be backed by air-tight reasoning, understanding, and skill; then praise turds to the heavens out of ignorance.
LE is great for a lot of things. But it doesn't offer the wide range of SSL certs everyone requires, such as OV and EV certs.
What a wonderful explanation! Keep up the good work <3
I compiled a works list of the composer Virgil Thomson, who wrote two operas with texts by Stein. I don’t think it is that hard to understand the politics of certain modernist artists given their impulses towards utopia, comparative naïveté in geopolitics, and, as mentioned in other comments, the prevailing structure of feeling at the time.

Yes, it would be strange to see a poet of Stein’s stature today staking out the positions that she does, but artists such as Dalí were also doing similarly puzzling political declarations at the time. That’s not an excuse for any of them, but history does not get written (merely) for us to stand in judgement of mistakes of the past.
Perhaps the author should have reached out to the spokesperson before writing this non-story.
> But damn, when will the gaming community realize they need something like GC?

I-- what does this even mean??

On the one hand, they don't need something like GC, as this clearly shows. Many larger games can't afford it, and wouldn't really benefit if they could, since they've already worked out more special-purpose access patterns.

And on the other hand, those games that can afford it often do use it already- Unity games are written in C#, UE4 has a limited GC for game objects, Minecraft was written in Java, tons of games use scripting languages like Lua for gameplay logic.
Most movie theaters don't give me headaches and make me feel like I'm getting carsick.
None of them are hi-res enough to really do that job.
Maybe he is taking Gleevec.
Cool idea! I always thought of Python being the modern Basic. Its interesting to see this - could there even be potential for something like this?
A $300B Question
Weird. It needs the second slash.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/pki.goog//en/GTS-...
That site is toxic on mobile.
AMD needs their own foundry again
The famous Sten machine gun is actually a zip gun. It was intentionally designed to be produced at any metal workshop. The Soviet ППШ-41 had the same strategy, it was designed for mass production, contained 87 elements and any metalworks with mechanical press could produce it. But the main difference of zipgun from real firearms is this. Zipguns are usually first attack single shot weapon.