skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who can come up with these stories? Like saying that if you let someone hack your email and download all your emails its the providers fault. These unknowingly ignorant media superstars of today.. Cheeze.
At the very least, the $50 million dollars he gave to Signal could go a long way.
I'm confused. You want people to write all content for free? Whilst that works for a lot of people who do it in their spare time, it does restrict anyone looking to write professionally from contributing.
My guess is that the frame rate will be capped at 60fps. In terms of graphics most games will probably be forced to use forward rendering with low resolution meshes and textures.
Honestly, I'm not even sure what modern website are doing when they generate pages. I've had highly dynamic PHP/MySQL websites running on crap hardware, and it was trivial to attain .03 second page generation time. Didn't even need fancy caching, just some common-sense SQL optimizations.
One of the great things about using unbound is how easy it is to blacklist entire domains, without having to know the name of each subdomain ahead of time. I've been doing what pihole does for over ten years using pfSense. I'm up to 437,000 fully qualified domain names blocked, and over ten thousand domains blocked outright. It has been years since I've seen an ad.
>I mean, there was no way he was going to drop $22 billion dollars on something and not get a return.

There's plenty of valid business reasons to spend money on ventures that aren't "net present value of cash flow projections exceed costs". There can be indirect effects like maintaining a moat - buying WhatsApp can be worthwhile simply to ensure that other companies can't use it to compete with Facebook's core business. Or there can be real option considerations. Or it can drive down the price of the complements of your core product.
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To be fair, I don't know if exploring/researching/soliciting input on monetization ahead of the "implementation" standstill is bad faith at all.
No, the OK Hand  is not a symbol of white power
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Where I feel my hand was forced was when a friend wanted help promoting a professional conference in the area of data and tech. I went to the website and, in the center of the page, there was an ad for cellulite cream.

OH! C'MON!!! I believe in the conference, but I'm not going to share the link with that ad on it.

It's been explained to me that the website owners don't know what ads are being served up. All they know is they signed up for an ad service. If that ad is a redirect to a porn site, the website owner has no clue unless people complain.

And that's why I ordered a raspberry-pi to set up a pi-hole.

I get that a lot of my friends won't like this. They're in advertising and marketing, and they insist that they're one of the good ones. Fine. But the bad ones are REALLY bad.

Also. I've spent HOURS opting out of tracking cookies. Then I heard that my effort is only as good as the entities that respect that I opted out. OH? WOW!

So, when I hear people complain that we're hurting them, and they're one of the good ones, it ignores the real problem. Look ...

if I was bitten by 10 dogs out of 50 dogs, I'm gonna have a problem with dogs. Period. You can insist on how friendly your dog is, but no. Talk to the other dog owners before trying to get me to take another risk.
Mostly german podcasts with focus on science and comedy.

English podcasts:

- omega tau - science and engineering (http://omegataupodcast.net/) now ten years old. Realy good mixed bag of topics. They interview people who know stuff or have done stuff. Last 4 topics were:

292 – Gene Editing with CRISPR/Cas

291 – Flying in the Papuan Bush

289 – Music Production at Sandlane Studios

288 – Flight Research at NASA Armstrong, Part 3: Historic

German podcasts

- Methodisch Inkorrekt ( https://minkorrekt.de ) Review of 4 new science papers from all research subjects

- Kohlenpod (https://kohlenpod.de ) Germany is closing down all black coal mines this year. This podcast releases one episode every sunday until the end of the year and discusses the history of black coal in germany. He started with the Episode 52 and count towards 0.

- Chaos Radio Express ( https://cre.fm ) Weekly radio show with guests from the chaos computer club. Mostly tech related. Since this is also a public radio broadcast show, it tries to explain tech topics to non-tech people.

- Omega tau ( its mixed german and english)

- Kack und Sachgeschichten (http://www.kackundsachgeschichten.de ) Discussing movies and series.

- Alternativlos ( also mixed german/english depends on the guest ) ( https://alternativlos.org/ ) Politics. Not day-to-day politics but the "big pictures".
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I use an Alienware 15 R3 as my main Windows gaming machine (since I game a lot at various locations) and I don't have any of the issues you describe. Sounds like you got a lemon. Their warranty support is excellent, so you should probably ask them about it.
inotify and seek works on most files.

FIFO file descriptors, not so much.

If you can't seek backwards, you pretty much have to cache the whole contents in memory, which seems wildly inefficient.
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I think this is called a "Grandfather clock" ;-)
> i don’t think any european citizen will understand why we prefer to start a judiciary war against the US just so that we can help a muslim theocracy broaden its influence in the middle east.

European citizens don’t seem to care that much about the EU’s tight relationship with Saudi Arabia... Why should they feel differently about Iran?
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I made this site to test my ability to work out music by ear. All of the code and music files are on Github. Contributions welcome.

Since this is probably the only place anyone would care about technical details...
This is hosted on Netlify and pushes to the Github repo update the site automatically. All of the audio and other files are being hosted from the Github repo.
I could reproduce it on Ubuntu with Chromium.
The doctrine of what the purpose of business is changed in the 1980s. During the post-WW2 era the prevailing view was that the purpose of business was to "create a customer", and as a result, corporations existed primarily for consumer benefit. Read Drucker for elaboration on this, and it's also still assumed in many economics textbooks of that period.

Starting in 1970, Milton Friedman argued that the sole purpose of a corporation was to increase shareholder value, and all of its other activities - providing jobs, fighting pollution, enhancing social justice, even serving customers - were subservient to that, to be engaged in only if they also helped profits. It took a while for this view to catch on, but following Reagan's election, it gained a lot of popularity in political & legal circles, and was firmly entrenched among business leaders by the mid-80s.

The problem is that we've since discovered a number of ways that corporations can enhance shareholder value (as measured by stock price) without actually benefitting customers, and most of them involve strip-mining value built up over the long term at the expense of the future. And so a significant fraction of the population is just engaged in financial games while they get busy firing everyone who does actual work.
This. I haven't got the vive because I don't want to get a gaming rig. It's too expensive, and then it comes with a lot of issues. Instead I got an occulus Go and the all-in-one experience is awesome. It just works. Coincidentally, I also bought a switch and I got the same feeling. It just works.
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Windows, Desktop, Firefox : no issues

Windows, Desktop, Chrome: Clicking the scroll bar works; mouse wheel, arrows, page up/page down do not.
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Could BBC please share the code for matching mountain ridges with locations?

They claim that the first mountain ridge was located by a tip from a Cameroonian source. Here they verify the ridge with the mountain ridges from a height map.

But later on without mentioning any tip or source they "found" an Channel4 news report in archives with again a mountain ridge match. I consider 3) possibilities:

1) They manually watched all the footage from the last few years in that area, freeze framing them whenever they see a mountain ridge, then manually trace it. I don't believe this is what happened, that's too many man hours.

2) They knew through other means (perhaps camera gps location metadata, perhaps report description/summary) that the report video was taken near the massacre video. Because of this metadata/textual data they were able to realize they had nearby footage of an outpost by querying for the massacre location. But then they fail to mention this trivial step and make a bit of a show by highlighting some features and again a mountain ridge. So in this case they have a database of archive footage and filter by location/time.

3) They have automated software for isolating mountain ridge profiles from footage (perhaps edge detection? remove all edges that don't appear to undergo rigid body motion? but how filter clouds etc?), and matching software for locating where on the heightmap it the footage was made. In this case it is explainable without ridiculous man hours or ridiculous showmanship (instead of mentioning say GPS coordinate metadata of the journalism camera). But in this case perhaps BBC could share this code with the public?
I agree think there's plenty of room for new ideas for collaborative blogging, but I do think relying on centralised proprietary SaaSS is very problematic.

Google can just take down your blog any day if they feel like it. With Wordpress I can host my own.

I wonder if it would be possible to use something like Etherpad as backend instead?
Timing seems pretty good for 5G at Home

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/5g-here

:-)
I'm interested and will read more later. But that should not be built into a browse, at least not exclusively. It feels like it could be an add-on. Of course, preventing gaming and malicious manipulation is something to consider...

This is an interesting problem!
Excellent point. And not only that, but "execs understand and take a calculated risk when they choose to do business in various parts of the world" seems like a rather no-brainer question, but is actually incredibly complex. In this calculation, what variable(s) are being optimized for, and over what time frame? Transferring the majority of manufacturing overseas might be the best thing for everyone involved (which assumes we actually have the ability to accurately and honestly measure such a thing) in the short run, but maybe it isn't the best thing for everyone or even anyone in the medium to long term.

Answering such questions is very, very difficult, but rarely do I even see anyone asking such questions. "Free trade is shown to increase GDP of all participating countries", which is a fact as far as I can tell, seems to be the limit of how deeply we want to think about these things, and suggestions that the world just might be a bit more complex than that usually elicits passionate, seemingly non-negotiable disagreement.
> This project isn't possible in current browsers. Browsers just don't expose the interfaces needed.

While I agree on the networking front, with pluggable bidirectional networking impl that others can write, the DHT still has value.

I am familiar w/ the Beaker project and definitely appreciate all of y'all's work (I did a much smaller PoC back in the day [0] when I thought MaidSafe had legs). I also definitely understand/appreciate the simplicity of some of the hyperswarm code and also understand fears of overabstraction for external use cases.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/safe-poc-browser
Distrust of a smartphone's mic can be mitigated by epoxying the microphone, or just ripping it off the board, and it's still a functional portable computer.

But to consider further: if you're in a situation where you have to worry about your smartphone grassing on you then you probably won't keep it powered on. Or will keep it in a Faraday case or whatever. In other words you'll be considering all attack vectors and behaving appropriately.

Whereas Amazon or Google could flip the notional 'record all' switch on their assistant devices on a whim and you'd be none the wiser.
Same for me on Chrome. There's a 'mousewheel' event listener attached to the window that is calling preventDefault()
The first users were insanely hard to get. Getting new users never gets easy, but less-hard as you go.

First users were usually contacts that I had made within the spaces prior to building. Then old-fashioned marketing and sales pipelines.
> Why would I choose to invest in your language over one of these other ones that has more momentum?

FWIW I don't think anyone is claiming you should, especially given it's not under active development (:
Might not be your typical answer, but I launched an ecommerce store that’s been profitable since the first month. At first I targeted solo devs without much digital design skills, but it turns out that blank sketchpads are very useful to designers and design agencies as well. It’s done well enough where I continue to run out of each batch of inventory and it’s turned a small profit as I continue to order large and larger batches of product.

https://sketchpads.co
The digital good is the chain of custody and timeline associated with the physical good. Money has always been a proxy for physical goods -- if you look at the Best Buy annual report, they don't tell you how many TVs are in stock, they tell you the value of inventory.

I know nothing about what is actually happening here, I'm speaking to a high-level process.

It seems logical that a workflow might look like this:

- All parties must have a supported application.

- Supplier scans carton labels as they are palletized and loaded into the truck. (you have a singed attestation that pallet x was loaded on truck y at location z)

- Truck is scanned on arrival at cross-dock.

- Cartons are scanned as they are loaded into various trucks for delivery. (you know how long the cold-chain was broken for perishables and who supplied what store)

- Cartons are scanned on arrival and scanned when shelved.

- Cartons are scanned when pulled and stocked.

The problem that you are solving is that at every step of the process, the process is at least partially out of Wal-Mart's control and every contractor has an incentive to either not track things or lie. If there is an e. coli outbreak, WalMart may destroy $5M of lettuce from Arizona where in reality they only needed to destroy $500k of lettuce from farmer X.

Is it the best solution? I have no idea.
Yeah. Well, guile already does AOT, but not to native code. Now it compiles to guile bytecode that is then jitted.

The plan is to use the JIT as a first step to do AOT compilation to native code and thus come a bit closer to the speed of chez. Hopefully quite a bit closer.

This is what I have gathered from Andy Wingo's mailing list posts, so grains of salt for everyone!
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The Russian word you are looking for might be "фарс", very similar meaning to "farce".
I built my startup while keeping my job until it was impossible to sustain. I tried really hard to make it work as long as possible.

At the time I quit my job the startup was profitable and growing really fast. A few months later we started negotiating an acquisition and closed the deal after working less than a year on it full-time.
The OP seems to have asked early users to vote and comment in the mistaken idea that this would help the post do better on HN, when in fact it's the fast track to getting flagged and penalized. Doing this is against HN's rules, of course. We want people to vote and comment because they ran across something and found it intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend has something to promote.

We have software to detect such violations. In addition, seasoned HN users figure out what's going on and react quite aversely, as you demonstrated. Once such a ring has been identified, if the story is still on the front page, users will flag it (as happened here) or moderators will penalize it. Plus we often ban the accounts and site involved.

This case seems to have been at least in part an honest mistake. More importantly, the tool seems to be of some interest to the community. Because the most important thing on HN is to have interesting things to discuss, I'm going to reduce the penalty on this post and let the discussion continue.

I hope everyone realizes that this is a rare outcome. The more common outcome is that we ban the accounts and sites involved. So please don't do this!
You can group tabs and use the Window sidebar to view grouped tabs as indented items. I disable the tab bar and use the Window sidebar exclusively.
Google sites has been around since 2008. Hardly new.
A trillion npm packages will for sure add a couple seconds of delay to your website loading speed.
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I'm really hoping this unit will allow streaming (graphics, controls) with a PC.

I'm guessing the latency would make that hope a pipe dream - but fingers crossed.
WhatsApp didn’t even have encryption until well after Facebook bought them.
Indeed, how much of a moral stance is it when you only make it on the last billion?
And if you’re that way inclined, a POE Pi hat can get another cable removed.
Initially, Brave was set up so a user could add bitcoins to an account and set a monthly spending target. Then Brave would split up that monthly amount and send it to sites based on how much time the user spent at each site. But as far as I can tell, they discontinued that model, and now they also sell ads.
I'm not one to agree with the right wing of US politics very often at all, but our country needs to sanction and tariff Chinese goods until US rightholders are reimbursed for their stolen technology AND the PRC greatly reforms its absymal human rights records.

People are literally living in a modern version of 1984, complete with re-education camps and stolen Western surveillance technology. No American can in good conscience send their technology to be stolen by a country that wants to imprison and torture entire states of its citizens.

If the PRC government merely didn't follow IP law, that would be a calculated risk. When the PRC steals our technology to power a global game of persecution, corruption, and espionage, it's morally wrong.
>China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother?

Bing is allowed in china

>Google hurts its public image

Sure some people get hurts but for some other, for example if I can use google service without having to mess with vpn, it would be convenient.
Struggled with this a few times myself, I plan to add some points to the "writing" section with more generic "writers tips". Thanks for the feedback!:)
Doing consulting for a big consulting co, I have many friends who have done work for all of the major airlines. From what they tell me, they all actually have very robust engineering orgs, and the systems that run things like the website, backend payment systems, security systems, finance apps etc are pretty advanced.

The problem is that those systems are pretty segmented from the systems that schedule/dispatch planes and staff. Those systems are incredibly complicated due to the complex nature of managing the status/location of 1,000+ airplanes, millions of pieces of cargo, thousands of flight attendants and pilots, etc. And those systems also often have to interface with antiquated airport or FAA systems. As a result, making changes to the reservations or flight management system is a lot different than working on a web app.
And how well will a handshake - he said/she said agreement hold up in court? How easy is it for one party to “misremember” what was said? There is a reason almost every contract has an “entire agreements clause”
on the other hand, this comparison accounts for the full cost of the rig, while a realistic comparison should consider the marginal costs. Most of us need a pc anyways, and if you're a gamer the marginal cost is pretty close to zero.
It is legal in California if the company can show a conflict of interest.
Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable.

It is like a treadmill that keeps increasing speed. If you slow down, you are thrown out.

If consecutive quarterly results are not good, CEO is typically thrown out. This pressure forces management to make unnatural decisions that might help short-term, but will hurt long-term. What we are seeing with Google with all of these recent events/decisions is a result of this, IMO.
The article mentions the now unenforceable racially restrictive home deeds and I am curious to know, does anyone who has bought a house in SF recently have a document with such a clause? It would be interesting to see how such an anachronism survives today.
Skip is not meant to be a system programming language. So the comparison with Rust for example is difficult.

> "I see a lot of C++ influence"
I don't see what gave you that impression. Perhaps the syntax? But I don't think it looks more like C++ than Java or C#.

> Why would I choose to invest in your language over one of these other ones that has more momentum?

There are several reasons, but of course I am biased:
1- builtin cache invalidation
2- safe parallelism
3- predictable GC

While 2-3 can be found in other languages, I think I can argue that 1 is very unique to skip.

The other thing is, what are you trying to build? If you what you want to do is to develop an incremental tool, then Skip is probably the best option out there right now.

Let's say you decided tomorrow to build a fully incremental C++ front-end, to support auto-complete for example (I chose C++ because it is notoriously complex). What would you write this in? I think Skip should be the language of choice.
Interestingly enough, Windows has gotten a little smart about kernel drivers misbehaving. I found out on my Windows 7 machine that if the AMD video driver becomes unhappy in certain ways, Windows will be able to recover it with no blue screen or loss of functionality other than the program who's access to the direct3D device caused the problem no longer having access until it attempts to re-establish a connection or is restarted.

An incredibly limited set of circumstances, but I was awestruck to see Windows catch itself hiccuping in kernel space and not explode.
As commented below, we don't actually maintain any of the lists, so that wasn't us you spoke to!

You can configure the lists that you use to suit your needs. You can also whitelist any domains that you need. It's up to you what you ultimately block!