skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E2E encryption of email by a client-controlled key avoids this problem.

The encrypted archive remains accessible, but actually reading it requires a key only the client holds. This neutralises most email account phishing attacks.
How is this relevant to wasmjit? User space programs written in C can already corrupt themselves. As far as I can tell there is no new inherent risk to kernel stability by running wasm code in kernel space as long as the wasm spec is followed. Just like wasm programs aren't able to corrupt the browser sandbox in which they run.
What do you mean struggles to be viable? Cryptocurrencies is already viable and used in a lot of places. If you mean other usages of blockchain I do agree.

And please don't bring up scaling (it's already viable today so the future is irrelevant to the point) or high fess (caused by Bitcoin's incompetent devs).
Charge me two dollars as a first world American, and give someone else the service for free. Infrastructure can be expensive, but not that expensive. Let's Encrypt, OpenStreetMap [1], and Wikipedia run on donations, and these are core internet properties.

If you think you need tens of millions of dollars annually to run a chat client at scale, no.

[1] https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/9867/what-is-annual... (OpenStreetMap infrastructure costs less than $100k/year)
The elephant in the room is to focus on what motivates people to work, once they have enough wealth to address their existential needs. When we look closely, we notice that people desire wealth for social/psychological signalling. This explains phenomena like:
* why one billion people volunteer their time to generate over a trillion USD/year in value, while not caring for an economic reward,
* why many extremely wealthy people live frugal lives (Buffett, Ingvar Kamprad,...),
* why many wealthy people give away (most of) "their" fortune (Carnegy, Gates,...),

Another fact to note is, that economic inequality is a relatively recent phenomenon. The hunter-gatherer system - where people shared equally all economic "product", but exceptional contributors were rewarded with regard (social signal) - lasted for tens of thousands of years.

These observations suggest how a system can be built bottom-up, that can topple capitalism. It will look like the HG system, but will be held together by apps running on personal computing devices to simulate the economic transparency necessary for the system to work. Crypto currencies are a caricature of such a system (the important parts are in place, but the proportions are way off).
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Ascribing ethics or lack of ethics to a business is like ascribing the same traits to a non sentient being.

Even if your manager is ethical and “cares” about the well being of his employees, his manager may not. Even if his manager does the board, the investors/shareholders, etc. probably don’t. The whole purpose of a corporation is that a corporation survives without regards of any one person getting hit by a bus.

I worked for a struggling company a few years ago and management was very honest about the dire straights we were in, I was part of the team who sat in on interviews and did presentations for potential acquirers so I knew what was going on.

I trusted management not to purposefully screw me over. But at the end of the day, if they “guaranteed me” that my check would clear for every hour I worked I wouldn’t have believed them. The only reason I stayed until the bitter end was because our VC backers promised us in writing that we would be payed until we got an official layoff notice.
If you're just watching it's arguably more fun to watch, since it theoretically represents absolutely perfect play.
For sure. This is what happened with Super Mario World. Someone discovered a glitch that dropped it down to like 20 minutes. Then another one was found that dropped it to 10. Then 5. Then 4. Now, you can beat SMW in under 42 seconds if you do everything correctly. Or you can spend two hours building and playing Flappy Bird in it instead. Either one works
I read an article once that argued the big problem with microtransactions was the transaction cost imposed on users.

For the sites, sure, everything can be automated. But even in the best case of good browser ui/ux support the burden shifted to users would be massive.

The cognitive cost of trying to decide whether to spend 10c on an article I haven’t read yet costs me way more than 10c. Man that article sucked. Did I just get ripped off by clickbait again?

This argument is what convinced me that straight per-article “microtransactions” will never take off for very low value things on the web.

EDIT: found it: http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/31/costs-of-micropayme... - Think it was Nick Szabo.

What’s scary to me is that the one “successful-ish” application we have for microtransactions is mobile gaming. Imagine a huge ecosystem of different beans, gems, flooz, widgets or whatever, and all the dark ux patterns to get people to spend them, and also to hide how much they are spending from people.
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WordPress isn't really targeted at single-user blogs for technical people... it's targeted at an environment where you can have multiple people writing blog posts and doing design without being programmers or mucking with the server. And it fits that need very well.
No papers unfortunately.

As far as results, we saw some great numbers for the effectiveness of the recomputation. The language is self hosted. And the type checker is currently incremental. On my machine the initial type checking of the compiler itself is in the ballpark of ~40s. Changing a file and getting new type errors returns in <0.5s
counterpoint. The healthcare system pushes people into emergency medicine for non-emergencies. About 10 years ago when I was in high school I got a cut on my chin that required stitches, my mom got an urgent appointment with my PCP later that day–who then told me to go the ER, saying, "we don't even have a suture in this clinic" We were trying to save time, money and not burden the system, and instead shot ourselves in the foot.
Based on my previous experiences with disillusionment, here's my rule of thumb:

Late stage research announcement to viable product/start-up announcement: 1-2 years

Start-up to commercially useful: 2-3 years

Commercial viability to industry impact: 3-5 years

Can go quicker and if research is preliminary can go much longer. But this is what I tell myself when I see something I'm excited about
And yet here you are responding to a person who said that he was actually gay, and telling you that you are exaggerating. How about you let the people you are talking about speak for themselves?
I would like to add that I intend to maintain it and build a community around it in outside of FB as it is mentioned on the front-page.

"The language, compiler and libraries are maintained as a side project by Julien Verlaguet, the main designer of the language."
If you look at Los Angeles you can clearly see that the problem is zoning. The only high rises are in the downtown area. It looks almost comical. The vast majority of the city is zoned for single family homes.
> And AFAIK you can't press these keys with Fn+numbers on Macbook.

There is a System Preferences > Keyboard > "Press Fn key to <Show F1,F2,etc Keys>" option available to do just that.
A stolen idea with open contempt for his users. No it was never ideal.
Home built vehicles can be registered just about anywhere as long as they have headlights, taillights, and a license plate light.
Doesn't "Probably not, he said. At least, not as quickly." and "Perhaps. Eventually." mean essentially the same thing?
They get Google and Facebook.
Does it matter ? Walmart is saying "jump" to 1,000 small suppliers, and next year they will say "jump" to 100,000 suppliers

At some point other businesses will say "if a freaking lettuce grower is putting their supply chain on the blockchain, why the hell aren't we?"

Somewhere there is a tipping point - and then logistics is done through dozens of "private" blockchains, which i will better is orders of magnitude simpler and more efficient than now.
Let's encrypt and wikipedia are not-for-profit. If they charge americans $2/month and eastasians $0, then people will be outraged, and they'll find a way to get it for free anyway.
This is impressive journalistic work. If you are a fan of such type of open-source intelligence, I highly recommend the Arms Control Wonk podcast and blog, who have done amazing investigations into North Korean missile development (https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/).

Yet, with so many obvious giveaways, I find it hard to believe Russia ever wanted to get away with the Skripal poisoning. From using a very exotic Russian-made poison to the absurd Salisbury Cathedral story, it looks like a provocation or trolling. Of course, the Russian government will officially deny any involvement, but they are doing it with an obvious wink.
Side projects prove the passion, I certainly agree. Only, I can't get my head around if employee decides to start dreaming his/her side project taking over the current job. If odds are close and side project has good traction, maybe it's not ethical to work in fulltime before understanding it either.
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plenty of examples, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)

is a pretty one.
I've used mitmproxy in the past for debugging purposes but there was always a stipulation that one must install a cert on the machine in order to intercept HTTPS traffic. If intercept.rest can accomplish the same thing without the need to install a cert I could see this being very useful.
Editing the hosts file is a security risk.

You don't want a malicious app do this in your back so that when you type alice.com, you see bob.com instead.

Fortunately, to some extent, HTTPS or GPG come to the rescue.
You can do masking in the same way Linux does it. It prevents "branch code bypass" without using an explicit size:

cmp %bound, %ptr
jae bad_ptr
sbb %mask, %mask
and %mask, %ptr

Just two extra instructions. No need to memory map or hard code the size of bounds.

See `array_index_mask_nospec` in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu...
If the best argument you can fathom for being anti-union is "puritan morals" I highly recommend you spend 5 minutes researching the issue. This is a good rule of thumb for ANY time you are unable to come up with a reasonable argument against your position. I mean, have you EVER changed your mind about an important issue? Were you being stupid or irrational EVERY time you did that, or are some issues legitimately tough to think through and both sides have positions grounded in a reasonable assessment of the available evidence, just perhaps differing weights on that evidence?

Whenever someone expresses a strong opinion to me, this is a simple test: "What's the best argument you've heard against your position?" If they can't come up with anything, or resort to an exaggerated caricature of their opponents, I know they are merely being emotional and cannot be trusted, at least on that particular issue.
There's been plenty of public discussion, albeit in the tech community [1]. It's a hard issue to sell to people outside because most people don't care if a website is downloading 1mb or 100mb.

[1] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
The Four Seasons is technically in East Palo Alto -.-
technically one of the pacific islands the US used for nuclear testing has the absolute highest.
The $1/yr thing was BS. The app never actually took you to a payment screen; I think it was "free for 1 year, $1/yr afterwards". The only time I have ever paid for Whatsapp was in the Blackberry App Store back in 2009, when it cost $3.
I would ask for proof people would be outraged. Google and Facebook have used their overwhelming first world profits to fund internet ventures in the third world, and no one is outraged over the actions except for the blatant colonialism those actions represent.
> This innovative system uses four ultra wide-angle sensors and computer vision algorithms to track your exact position in real time without any external sensors.

I'd be really curious at what FPS they are able to accomplish that and still have enough resources available to actually run applications.

Even with hardware dedicated to "computer vision" tracking it'd be quite the accomplishment to do this with a high enough FPS to not induce motion sickness in some people.
You can't do the speed run without first doing a regular run
No tree style tabs though
There is a reason discomfort can generate a 911 call. I have known people who ignored a discomfort and died a few hours latter. If they had called 911 they would have lived.
Ergonomics was a large factor in building my own ErgoDox, my shoulders were killing me due to the keyboard being too short to be supported by the rests on my chair. Choosing to build your own keyboard is it's own little rabbit hole to go down, but it's worth it and you have a truly personalised device at the end. Some soldering and research is required but places such as r/mechanicalkeyboards and geekhack exist along with many many tutorials.

As far as curved keywell that comes down to your choice of key profile. I'm using XDA which a flat profile, while a SA profile has a decent curve to it. The choice of board does come into play but most kits are flat as to avoid 3d printing and whatnot[1]. For the feel of the key itself there are a ton [2] of options, from extremely smooth and light linear switches to heavy clacking tactile switches, most being compatible so mixing and matching is possible. PCBs come in all sorts such as tiny 70% sizes, split, stenographic and some freakazoid monsters [3]. Even FOSS firmwares such as QMK are common and hackable! There are are too many options to enumerate!

I just wanted a split keyboard that was small, light on my fingers and wouldn't wake the girlfriend up. I took some time and built a ErgoDox with Gateron clears, XDA blank keycaps and a programming focused layout. For less then 150CAD, it was worth it for it being entirely my own.

[1] https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
[2] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Category:List_of_all_keyboard_s...
[3] https://keeb.io/products/bfo-9000-keyboard-customizable-full...
Western media present this material as if "Russia" means the Russian government means Putin. But there is a large presence of Russian oligarchs and organized criminals in the UK, who do the things those types of people do. It doesn't make sense that all of it is being planned by the Russian state, let alone Putin personally.
Perhaps, as the Internet diversifies, the podcast scene hasn't diversified accordingly. It was definitely a jarring sentence, but the observation is not inaccurate and worth considering.
I started a coding youtube channel that used to make around $1000/mo before the algorithm changes started favoring channels that uploaded more often and my ad rates dropped from about $20CPM to around $4CPM: http://www.youtube.com/devfactor

Now it makes around $100/mo

When I was working on it it was around 4h of work to create a 10min video tutorial. I think I have around 100 tutorials.

When I was making low income working for a startup I also did consulting on the side, charged 3-5k for small business websites. Now I work at a big company which pays me enough to survive high CoL so I don't do that anymore.
in Vivaldi: File > Save Open Tabs as Session
$400, no need for a computer, no need for all of the external tracking cameras that the Rift uses. I'm pretty interested in this, especially with the upward trend in GPU prices. RTX makes for some very pretty games yes, but it's another incremental step in ever increasing graphics.

The stuff happening in VR feels like a more interesting direction, and can probably extend across a broad market because the hand controls are more approachable than console game controllers.

I haven't actually used a headset newer than a DK1 though. Fingers crossed these get demo setups at Best Buy or something.
A lengthy but fantastic read. Apparently 1954 was the real turning point (a series of minor ones earlier), and here we are 60+ years later.

Not an insightful, opinionated piece as might be implied by the title. It's a well done historical piece with just enough analysis so as to provide some color yet still appear unbiased.

Not sure if the problem is fixable at this point. It seemingly would require more political will than is available. Too many vested parties.
so...with the removal of EE, Corba, WebStart, JFX, and several other legacies(?) APIs how much slim is the new JRE? (still don't see the JRE link @ Oracle download page, only JDK).
WebStart tech wasn't that bad, IMO. Too little, too late?
> I think he's acknowledging that his company was un-monetizable and selling was obviously the best thing they could do

That's wrong - WhatsApp was monetized - IIRC, they had 200 million users (and growing) and a staff complement of 50[1]. They could have been easily profitable even if a fraction of their users then paid $1/year, or charged Businesses or bots.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive...
This is exactly what I do with Uber. I don't use it. I use Lyft. This is because I don't consider Uber an ethical company, nor do I particularly like their HR and other management practices.

I don't know very much about Lyft but I have yet to hear anything bad about them which is pretty encouraging.
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PeerTube is trying for it - torrent-based decentralized video platform, uses ActivityPub for things like commenting/sharing so you can comment from (for example) Mastodon or Pleroma or Diaspora. The network isn't that big yet but it has potential.
I think this is a the right combinations of tech at a reasonable price, though I still wonder about the larger viability of the VR market. It's also nice this is self-contained and doesn't require a PC.

I've owned a Vive for over two years and not having to devote a good chunk of my basement to it is another plus, along with not having to maintain a really beefy gaming PC.

I would much prefer to not deal with a PC; this isn't an anti-windows thing, I work on Win10 all day writing code. However maintaining a gaming rig is another issue entirely. I frequently have to spend 20-30 minutes getting the sound to work correctly after windows updates, iTunes updates, vive updates, steam updates, etc etc. It's almost comical and I wonder if this is an indication of the PC gaming tool-chain issues, or something as simple as Steams VR software is shit. And honestly I don't care, I just want it to work.

VR is a lot of fun though, and for most of the past 2 years was worth the hassle. Lately though I don't have the energy to fight my gaming rig and I when I occasionally play now, I just ignore whatever issues crop up. I'm ready for a simpler solution at a good price.
Why do you think they were written by someone else?
Does this work with Hulu and other things that try to prevent content loading if the ads are blocked?
I think the term is 'ray casting' - though a quick bit of googling shows that wolfenstein 3d was ray casted, but doom was not. (instead Doom used a BSP-based technique that I can't find a pithy name for)
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Quantum research in the US was just handed a $250M boost
I've hit 75% before. My Roku desperately wants to phone home (25k requests/day).
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I would hope that someone worth 3.6 billion would have a much easier time walking away from 850 million than someone worth 1 million would walking away from 200 thousand.

To violate one's moral code should surely be worth more than 200k, if they're already taken care of financially.
You forgot about energy in your list of ingredients. Portland cement needs a lot of energy to make. The materials you list are the cheap ones, energy is the expensive one.
I suspect that will only get worse with the torrent of "but muh Russian collusion"-type political speech which seems to come up every time people feel like blaming somebody else for their decision not to vote.
to protect the harmony of the society, yes.
> [...] or away from work, using my own equipment, on my own time [...]

That sounds illegal.
And of course (irony warning), the first line on codekata.com says "How do you get to be a great musician?"... sorry, just poking fun.
I always phrase it as, "how does a distributed ledger solve this?"
One of the few uncontroversial results of theoretical economics is that in bigger markets, money ends up in fewer hands, because concentration of power is inevitable.

So what can we do ? Roll back globalization. Heavily tax or outright prevent international movement of goods and people.
Not a lawyer, but you wouldn't be able to legally assign the IP from you to your client, as the IP would be owned by your employer.
CA and NY don't have more significantly regulations about what people can build and do on their property than Texas and Oklahoma. We simply have more reasonable zoning restrictions, like not allowing housing in areas designed as floodplains, or schools and housing within a few hundred feet of an oil refinery or fertilizer plant or other industrial facility susceptible to explosive accidents.

Parts of California, like the SF Bay Area, have more restrictive zoning laws. This is not true of the state as a whole, and generally the restrictiveness of zoning laws is highly correlated with the per capita household income of an area, not with its political leanings. (In LA, for example, the most restrictive zoning laws are found in Palos Verdes, the most conservative part of the city but also one of its wealthiest. Commercial buildings are generally limited to 2 stories in the few areas where they even allow commercial development. Contrast that to Beverly Hills, an equally wealthy neighborhood that leans significantly leftward that allows for significant commercial and mixed-use developments. )