skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you live in Utah?

Yes.

> You meet a lot of Mormons and you can often tell who they are, but they are very nice and it doesn't seem to affect day-to-day life much at all.

Well, I didn't say it affected my day-to-day life, I said that it affects local legislation.

> Liquor stores aren't open on Sunday and you can't buy full strength beer in the grocery store. Other than that the differences living here vs. elsewhere aren't huge.

You can't buy liquor (apart from the low-strength beer) from any stores except the state-owned ones. The state strictly limits the number of liquor licenses they give out to restaurants and bars, and the rules surrounding the use of those licenses are strange and ever-changing, such as the "Zion curtain" that forbade bartenders from making drinks in view of the public. The strongest drinks bars/restaurants are allowed to serve are weak, 1 ounce of liquor per drink if I recall correctly (it may be 1.5). For a while they had that weird "sidecar" exception that allowed the establishment to sell you an extra ounce of liquor on the side the customer can mix in themselves. Servers are not allowed to serve you an alcoholic drink if you have one unfinished. Restaurants cannot sell you liquor unless you also order food. And so on.

There was a law (it still may be in place) that forbade car dealerships from being open both Saturday and Sunday. Since no dealer is dumb enough to close on Saturday, this was an obvious effort to force those businesses to close on Sundays.

The state has been very amenable to big land deals with the LDS church downtown, deals they would not have made with any other entity. For example, the City Creek project.

The church strongly influences legislation on things like medical marijuana and gay marriage. For certain people, those influences would very much affect day-to-day life.

This is what I can remember off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more. Like I said, it's mostly a good place to live. But the church currently has too much influence in government.
Yeah, I get that.. it's not unreasonable. However, why does Google Home force you to turn on location tracking in general, that's what I don't get.
It sounds like apps scanning for SSIDs could easily be handled by a specific permission for that. No need to enable location tracking (turning 'Location' "on" in Settings) for this. It doesn't make any sense (except for what it looks like: Google wants to get your location, by any means).
> What's wrong with tracking raw downloads? This seems like a great way to measure a podcast's success since the number of downloads probably tracks pretty closely to the number of listeners

As a podcast host... not really. We'll sometimes see our ambient download numbers swell while a batch of new listeners catch up on the backlog, then it'll die down while they wait for the next episode. So it's up and down all the time, with very little signal amongst the noise. Except for launch-day for a new episode, then it spikes up nice and high.
Reading the entire comment will help in this case.

The paragraph after what you quoted:

[instead of buying a new oven]..

"Or I can walk over to the oven, turn it to 450, and say “Hey Siri, set timer for ten minutes” and wander off. When my wrist buzzes, I go stick a pizza in the oven and I say, “Hey Siri, set timer for thirteen minutes” and go do stuff.

I don’t need a new oven. I don’t need to worry that I’ll pick the wrong oven."
Massive Computational Experiments, Painlessly (STATS 285)
This won't last. Users and companies will jump ship to another platform.

It is already a pain that I can't write bots on WhatsApp like I can on telegram.
While I understand the sentiment and generally agree with you, someone has to pay for the service, right?

And businesses have been paying for all those Toll Free calls customers are making. It's only toll free for the caller.
What Silicon Valley Has Brought Us (2013)
> Also, you can't usually specify DNS servers on cellular connections.

From what I understand this is only iOS.
Radeon Rays is more comparable to OptiX (2009), in that both are GPU accelerated ray tracing libraries. RTX (2018) differs in that it uses special purpose ray tracing units on the GPU, rather than running only on the SMs/CUs.
Interesting, I haven't ever used YouTube mobile web (despite generally preferring to use web to native when possible) because I've never found it up to snuff, presumably for technical reasons. I wasn't aware the quality had declined. Thanks for the info!
But you still lose your yacht because it's not in the blockchain.
It's much simpler than that: Both rasterisation and ray tracing are methods to solve visibility. The main difference is that one answers the question "given a primitive, what pixels does it overlap?", the other "given a pixel, what primitives does it overlap?"

Light transport, shading, shadowing are all just implemented on top and not a direct result of the visibility calculation.
It's supposed to make you sound educated to include those little jabs.
But then the feature you mention didn't affect storage if user data.
Step 1: Push all of your web assets into your B2 storage
Step 2: Set up cloudflare for your web app...
Step 3: There is no step three!

What do people use now for web asset hosting, storage, and edge content services that don’t cost a jillion dollars?
This article seems a little unfair to the WhatsApp founders when it suggests they should have known that any assurances Facebook made to them as part of the acquisition were obviously lies. Sure in 2018 it might be obvious to most of us that nothing Facebook says or promises can be trusted but I don't think that was necessarily as obvious when the acquisition happened and they can be forgiven for thinking they weren't being lied to.
Federal use of A.I. in visa applications could breach human rights
> Check out the new GMail, my new corporate account has no ads but it still weighs in at 25MB (well 28MB now - still asyncing stuff!) for the inbox.

The new gmail is the slowest web app I have ever used. It's gotten so bad I've started managing my email on my relatively snappy inbox iOS client.

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't load so much crap, like the gchat functionality nobody has used since 2008.
Well, I'm connected to my home network via VPN when I'm not on my home network, so....
Can you dockerize drivers?
<div id="battery" style="height: 95%;">
<div id="bat_data">
<a href="https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/weather/"><span id="sky"></span><span id="level">95%</span></a></div>
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Looks pretty much like the battery level and current weather conditions ;-)
That's like how the EU Cookie law gives incentive to enable cookies:

Disable cookies? See annoying useless cookie warnings all the time everywhere!

You have to enable cookies to make it remember not to spam you with the warnings

EDIT: and good point in the article, one may wonder how making it easier to request data helps to improve privacy
but there are other people that live in or visit my home. Maybe they want to visit those sites.

I'd love a pi-hole like solution that was as easy to temporarily disable as a browser extension.
There is clearly a mass market for preconfigured plug-&-play versions of this. Reminds me of the little bits they used to (probably still do) sell to go between landline phones & the jack to screen telemarketers.
Does anyone have advice for starting on a path towards sysadmin work?

Ive used linux for years, I develop on a chromebook running an all cli ubuntu chroot and have loved working this way for the past two years. Im very interested in devops (Im a fullstack JS freelancer) and enjoy working with servers and the cloud a lot. But Ive never considered myself “learn-ed” in the ways of linux.

I have the time to devote to linux sysadmin training, and intend to do so.

Specifically:
What areas of linux knowledge are most useful from an employer’s standpoint that would make a candidate attractive? Is it mostly experience architecting systems in production?

I think devops as a realm of work is very interesting, and would like to gain experience doing it professionally to find out if I’d want to pursue it longer term.

Beyond joining a team and learning from real world applications, is there anything useful you would recommend I look into? There are training courses available online for these things (AWS certs and linux foundation training comes to mind), does anyone have an opinion about the usefulness of such material?
Sounds good to me. Thanks!
HELL YEAH I'VE GOT MORE TO WORK THROUGH :)

In all seriousness, thanks for the feedback and I especially appreciate the part about vulnerability. I started writing this just to get it out of my head, then I figured it's probably what I should be writing anyway instead of like "5 ways to hire the right offshore developer"
Color Spaces and How to Use Them with OpenCV and Python
As a former regular Weeds listener whose politics are drifting conservative: I'd recommend Commentary and The Editors: National Review. John Podhoretz is one of the most fair-minded pundits around, and The Editors has a broad spectrum of conservative opinions.
True. For mobile browsing it works well as long as you use Firefox on your phone too, but it doesn't help for tracking and ads within apps. Pi-hole can help there, but only when you're connected to your home network.
This looks awesome!

How would it work with existing databases?
For example - I already have a mysql database and I want to build dashboards on the data using stacker. Is that possible?

Also, how does the opposite work? Is there a python or node library to connect existing apps to stacker to send it data? Or is it all through REST?
Dithered images do not compress well. I'd be interested to see side-by-side comparisons of optimised pngs, optimised jpeg, reduced-pallete optimised pngs, and some more cutting-edge formats like BPG[0] and FLIF[1]

[0] https://bellard.org/bpg/
[1] https://flif.info/
Actually it does. IBM is spearheading the Hyperledger projects, so I'd suspect they're using Fabric. Fabric allows you to run chaincode on all transactions, which has to succeed for all parties of the secure ledger before the transaction is committed to the log. I think this tech makes a lot of sense for the use case.

Plus, I'm excited to see IBM do something new, if it works we all benefit.
Why People Leave Your SaaS Landing Pages
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Microfontends with Elm, React and Vue
I managed to get it running on a few Intel Edison's (no longer supported by Intel) that were lying around. It makes browsing a stress free experience. For anyone looking to get it running on an Edison, check this out https://hello-w0r1d.github.io/Installing-Pi-hole-on-Intel-Ed...
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If you read this, please click “vouch”, upvote, and then click “unvouch.”

My hypothesis is that very few people read dead comments. How few? Let’s measure it.

It costs nothing to participate, and it won’t harm the site since unvouching a comment will cause it to revert to [dead].

If you don’t know how to vouch a comment, click on this comment’s timestamp and click “vouch.”

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For games most will access the functionality via the new DirectX ray tracing APIs (or perhaps the Vulkan equivalent in the future) so there's nothing stopping AMD or Intel from adding hardware to accelerate those APIs too.
Deciding to go to a city like San antonio, Texas for programming (I am from California) than going to congested places like NY, Boston, Silicon Valley.
You can also run pi-hole on a tiny VPS and set your DNS statically on all devices.
Well, this is still an improvement over having no information about your produce, and a blockchain would provide a reliable ledger to sue deceptive food sources.
> blockchain smart contracts where code is law, more secure, trustworthy and transparent than any individual, bank, government or company.

The DAO issue [0] clearly showed that "code is law" doesn't really work. It's people writing cryptocurrency software and running the nodes that are "the law".

[0]: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-executes-blockchain-hard-f...
* Lots of infighting, blame flinging and politics

* No pride in what they develop or ship. A despondent attitude towards product

These are all symptoms of something seriously wrong at the top mgmt and in the marketability of the product. As long as this is not addressed, there is no way the company is gonna survive.
To be fair, even professionally produced shows will have interviews done over the telephone, Skype, etc.

But, yeah, you get into professional production values and a lot of incremental gear and work gets involved--arguably for pretty incrementally diminishing returns. Whenever I'm involved in some way with video for some company event or web clip, I'm always a bit taken back by the amount of equipment that's set up to record a few minutes of talking head footage.
What year would it be ok to be naive enough to think that any for profit company’s main motivation is not to make as much money possible?
You really think anyone wants to maintain something like that, let alone subsidize the advertisers' bandwidth costs?
It would be nice if there was a site that indexed RSS feeds that contain whole articles, not just ledes and snippets meant to get you to click into ad-riddled articles.
It could be in the original agreement that if you sell the car, you can only sell to someone who also agrees to being spied on.

I mean, they could try putting the onus on the seller.
The troubled legacy of Terry Davis, “God's lonely programmer”
On topic 1 I was thinking to myself the other day, "I wonder if I can create a static webpage that isn't some sort of SPA or web app."

It took me time to work out where to start... Once you think it through you realise it is pretty easy and obvious. But (and this gives away my age a bit), I have not built a static webpage since school (over 10 years ago), and have become so accustomed to all the crazy shit that goes into web development today like Webpack, NPM, React, Angular etc etc that I had forgotten how to actually just serve a piece of HTML.

My dependence on all these frameworks and CLIs sent me on a quest to find out more about pure javascript, and I came across an incredible talk by a developer who created a pure javascript web app for music notation. I really wanted to link it here but cannot find it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-population-in-extre...

It's a straightforward extrapolation from data.
I think a huge drawback for podcasting is that the same sponsors sponsor ever single show.

If I hear one more ZipRecruiter, Squarespace, or Mailchimp ad, I’m going to cry.

I end up skipping the ad sections 95% of the time, and only hear a fraction of the ad time.

By contrast, the Fantasy Footballers podcast has a product line which is intimately tied to the podcast, and they talk about their products in an integrated way with the content.

Which brings us to expectations...the Fantasy Footballers have what appears to be a decent business at the scale of 3 hosts, a writer, a producer and an intern. They do not have a decent Buzzfeed-scale business.

In podcasting, we can expect more native advertising building long term brands, like Tyler Cowen whose book sales and event attendance certainly benefit from his brilliant podcast.

P.s. the author mentioned short attention spans of social media, but I know many people who will binge a season of Netflix in an evening and listen to 13 hours of podcasts in a single week of commuting. There is plenty of attention.
TarsGo: A fully-managed microservice framework 5 faster than gRPC
Even if you're a billionaire - $850M is not chump change. I would have a non-trivial time walking away from that much money no matter how much I was worth.
I can't answer the question, but I'm curious how you think NVIDIA should have introduced real time raytracing to the industry? They can make it proprietary at the API level, or proprietary at the ISA level, but at some point you're stuck with the fact that their hardware can do something AMD's cannot.

Is it industry hurting to make the GPU they sell have any exposed new capability, other than making the same old thing slightly faster?
Was it possible to paralelize the process? Seems like training on few dozen cloud GPUs and finishing much faster would save a lot of money in terms of engineer time
And others are thus highly incentivized to publicly block your attempts for politicizing FOSS project.

See how that works?
Alexa never even hears me when I shout at it, nevermind whispering!
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On your resume, you can list the name of your contracting "company", even if it's just "Sakopov Software Consulting", and consolidate all the client work into that entry, rather than separate resume entries for each contract. That mitigates the "hopper" perception and also gives the reader less noise to process. Obviously you'd still want to list recognizable client names prominently if possible.
I love x86 complications (ARM is way more elegant in comparison), and I WILL be bothered to walk through mov %eax, (%r12), or 41 89 04 24
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41 - being the amd64 prefix that 'unlocks' rax to being interpreted as r12
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89 - still the same MOV instruction as the first one in mov %eax, (%rax)
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04 - The ModR/M byte that specifies the %eax part, and [--][--] as the 'Effective Address', which is another way of saying that we need a SIB byte because this (%r12) doesn't already have a simple encoding with the ModR/M byte alone (the same would be needed even if it was a simple (%esp)).
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24 - A 'Scaled Index' of none and as simias stated, RSP (but R12 in the context of the 41 prefix for this instruction).
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All of this is easier to visualize when using the ModR/M and SIB tables in Volume II of the Intel manual. In my copy of the manual it's pretty early on in Chapter 2 (2.1.5 Addressing-Mode Encoding of ModR/M and SIB Bytes))
As far as I know, both Vulkan (with extensions, for nvidia VK_NV_raytacing) and DirectX (with DXR) have ray-tracing capabilities in their standard.
Their shouldn't be any patent that deny AMD from providing an implementation in their drivers.
If you really want to produce propaganda, it's possible and plausible to build optics that will project arbitrary pixels directly onto the sensor of a phone camera. It's expensive and tricky, but it's a one-off expense and small compared to known intelligence projects. The phone can be secure, unmodified, but still be "convinced" of a false reality.

Furthermore, who controls the keys? The device manufacturers definitely will have access to them (since the signing keys need to be put in the device), and it's not that you need to convince the world that it came from my phone (where you might need to extract a secret from it), you need to convince that the key came from a phone. Once the major governments get a bunch of fake keys that would have/could have been put in a real phone of a major manufacturer, you either admit the inability to discriminate propaganda or you have to automatically distrust all media produced from all phones of that manufacturer, which won't happen, the public will look at such media and believe it or not depending on whether it matches their opinion, not depending on its signature.
I'm not saying I'd write an "I Agree" bot, but I've certainly written scrapers of comparable or greater complexity, and I'd be quite surprised if there was nobody that did this.

If you haven't written a bot, but you habitually download the JRE/JDK from Oracle's website, accepting the license manually each time, is there really a difference? How many people are rereading the license each time they do this? I would guess the number of people that do this is roughly a rounding error above 0.
I think you've misunderstood me. I'm not criticising Google here. I just dislike any tool that encourages people to unintentionally forget passwords for the sake of "getting this annoying prompt out of my way". This can be a "remember me" on a website's own page, or a browser feature.

A good password manager is a great tool and more secure than a few simple memorable passwords. But when I use it, I'm making a conscious trade-off between memorable passwords and secure ones, but usually I'll at least need to memorise a master.

I'm fact just thinking about it - if Chrome's signin affinity is turned on, and I have chosen "remember me", AND I use the password manager, isn't that effectively equivalent to having your entire password manager with a "remember me"?
If Skype hadn’t been a thing I’d agree, but it was.

The fact that we aren’t using peer-to-peer encryption in our message apps today is solely because companies want to charge you money for sending messages.

Because Skype had the capability to operate as a decentralized encrypted messaging app, and now 10-15 years later, there isn’t an app like that. Not because it’s not possible but because giant tech companies have become the equivalent of fossil fuel companies, killing innovation by buying it and absorbing it, altering it or shutting it down.
So I was wondering if anyone else finds the lack of F keys to be a minor annoyance? I currently have been using a 60 percent keyboard and am thinking of getting a similar keyboard with F keys because some times it's just really inconvenient...
You may consider that the authenticator offers enough security but a Security Key is more convenient. I hate typing 6-digit codes into things, touching the little contact or pressing the button on my Security Keys is much more tolerable.

Now, personally I wouldn't want the phishable Authenticator as fallback, but it's definitely better than SMS for example.
Ah, excellent. Then I support this future. I thought this would be a gameworks version 2.0 problem.
Low-Tech seems a bit of a misnomer when referring to deceptive simplicity. Wonder if they considered building After Dark.

https://after-dark.habd.as
Is there a...non official repository of these somewhere?
It's physically based, it's just not a complete simulation of all the physics involved. It's at least as physically based as most rigid body, cloth or fluid physics simulation.
How an individual can leave $850M on the table to prove a point blows my mind.

I'm in awe at that guy, but I can't help but think that with $850M he could have funded so many interesting projects/research.
I had wondered about this too and asked about it in r/speedruns [0] I originally assumed that speedrunners used some kind of special software/hardware that provide the watch counters displayed during their streams, but apparently, the displayed timer is controlled manually, via something like a foot pedal, and is not meant to be the official time (which is verified later through analysis)

But for a game like SMB, in which there is a hardcoded "window" (the 21-frame rule), it seems like it's fairly easy for a speedrunner to know if they've performed optimally when they finish each level.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/9iturn/super_mario_b...

Helpful comment:

> Additionally for Super Mario Bros. there is a thing called the frame rule that basically means that you can only beat a level (except the last level) on certain frames. If you beat the level before the frame rule then the game waits until the next frame rule before starting the next level. It's something like every 20 frames, I'm not exactly sure. So for most of the levels you only really need to know which frame rule you hit, which is fairly easy even with manual timing. The end of the last level needs to be measured precisely though.
I learned to protect MY shareholders first. (my family)
I am somewhat OCD and have given sweat and blood for companies more motivated by the "get it done" attitude then for the money. After the last .com crash debacle, I realized no matter how nice the company or important the task, Family comes first.