skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come. On. You don’t get to that kind of valuation with a basically free product without ad targeting. An accelerated vesting clause is not an assurance. If they wanted assurances they could have made it a condition of the deal, ok? They didn’t. Accelerated vesting just means they were telegraphing that they wanted to leave before the shit hit the fan.
Apple Watch can be used without iCloud for sure. iCloud Sync for Health data were added in iOS 11, and it can be disabled easily by a toggle.

Apple Watch can only be connected to iPhone, though (not iPod touch) so have it sync to a device without LTE baseband radio is not possible.
Anyone got the text from behind the paywall?
What does whatsapp uses right now to make money? From what i know i dont see any ads there
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Not only that, when opened all day long, it can slows Firefox to a temporary freeze. Bloody annoying.
Hey! Co-founder here, we don't support external databases today but we're working on it! We hope this makes it easier to dip into Stacker. The opposite works already, each app created in Stacker has a REST API.
TL;DR, someone who has gained access to your account can also download your account history.

It's like complaining that someone who "hacks" into your email account can download all your email.
Only if there is no way to identify the user. A hash or anonymised id is still personal data if you can identify a person with it.
Developers support RTX via DirectX's DXR raytracing API. AMD can put whatever hardware they want on their cards to accelerate those calls and implement the appropriate drivers.
How do I edit the hosts file on my iPhone?
> So basically 40% of the debt is internal debt and interest payments go back to the the government.

Just like when you borrow from your 401(k). You're paying yourself interest back.
At major news outlets, the person who writes the article is not the same as the person who writes the headline.
I’ve been thinking a model for such a distributed ledger is Usenet/nntp where multiple partial copies of the data is stored on various servers.

If one were to deploy a non-blockchain version of such a thing, what would it actually look like?
I agree. You would need an oracle in order to put physical things on the blockchain, and that is subject to incorrect data or tampering. It's non-trivial, but not technically impossible.
> I heavily believe we should be supporting creators

Agreed. Do you disable your pi-hole on sites like Reddit? They vet their ads so not have any of the malicious attributes that you described. All the larger newspagers like WaPo and NYT are also good about this too.

I'm all for blocking intrusive or malicious ads. But quality content depends on ad revenue. The author dedicated an entire paragraph on donating to the pi-hole project, but no mention of supporting quality content with subscriptions or unblocking acceptable ads.
forced ip transfer
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Don't quote me on this since it's partially hearsay. However, this isn't a "trying to get $$ out of businesses" measure as much as an anti spam.
There is also the option to e2e encrypt your chrome data.
Thank you for your contributions to this site, Shawn. The thoughtcrime enforcement is unfortunate. There are plenty who silently agree with you, but are afraid to even so much as upvote for obvious reasons. Thanks again.
Writing an "I Agree" bot without checking out what the license was...
Before the MS acquisition Skype was not completely free. It had subscriptions and you could buy credit to reach the PSTN, however it was not profitable. Money would eventually run out, as it happens to every company that keeps an unsustainable product alive.

Of course we as consumers would love to have everything free, but someone is footing the bill.
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Instagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse
I have just deleted WhatsApp from my phone. I am not really sure though what to replace it with for the occasional foreign phone calls.
The "dumb fucks"[0] thing came out in 2010. The WhatsApp acquisition was in 2014.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
Do you remember how skype worked in 2011? You could send messages anytime, but they would only be delivered if you and your conversation partner were both online at the same time. If you used two computers, the conversation history would sync up if both computers were online simultaneously -- or you would sometimes get it from your conversation partners if they were online.

That's fine in the world of desktops with always on connectivity (often not even NATed), but it doesn't work on iPhones were when your app isn't on screen, it isn't running (they have a limited amount of background execution these days), and anyway connectivity is spotty.
How is this not a problem if the court system is filled to the brim with situation that could have been solved with smart contracts in place.

As for the yacht it's easy, the ownership is transfered from your address to the buyers address on the government's blockchain. :)
I agree that there is a difference. But in both cases we have a company sucking up as much data as it can and even if it doesn't sell the data today they still have it and can decide to sell it tomorrow. Or be forced by governments.
Go does not have exception handling at all. It is a proposal they're seriously considering for go2:

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

See the bits about error handling and error values.
That is because they haven't developed shout mode yet.
I'm proud of my low tech personal website: http://mrtno.com - I promise: it will never work on smartphones, just good old computers...

I will build your static html page for money. Hit me up. ;)
Like some buttons? https://www.nickearl.net/2018/05/27/controlling-pi-hole-with...
They don't have an offering for businesses other than having a platform with a huge amount of customers and potential customers. Businesses have been trying to use it to explore the potential, but I'm sure they'd be happy to pay for something that can scale and be used by multiple users, like in a contact center.
https://archive.fo/q3bG5
The issue with this line of thinking is that this change isn't really a privacy invasion. Account consistency didn't at all affect privacy. You still had to opt in to syncing, which did affect privacy.
https://outline.com/9yP5Mk
I was not referring to that. I was referring to the matter that they weren't ready to jump TO JDK 8 when JDK 7 was EOL, nor the next year, nor the next year after that.

What did they do with security updates when they were available for the version they were on?

Questions.

Don't get me wrong, they're not the only ones ice skating uphill on this.
Nah, 2014 makes no material difference. It's not the recent scandals that have somehow revealed Facebook to be the spiritual successor to Microsoft's "embrace and extend" strategy; this has been obvious for at least a decade. Maybe the public didn't realize it yet, but anyone in tech, especially a successful founding team would have been well aware.

That said, I'm not going to demonize these guys. Brian Acton clearly is repentant and putting his money where his mouth is in terms of supporting Signal, and that's worth a lot more than some principled nobody who never has enough clout to further his own principles in society.
We are migrating from Java 8 to Typescript. Yeah a rewrite.
I think DAGs are possibly even more useless.
This is awesome! I have really been impressed with gnu's use of guile, and I really like how much more quickly iteration is than many other gnu projects. For those heavy cron users, mcron (guile based cron replacement) has been my favorite so far.

With a good deamon manager, we're one step closer to HURD!
For the love of god, please save the window position of the developer tools when they're in a separate window. Firefox also fails at this.
I was doing this using Tomato and it introduced serious stability issues in the two routers (both Asus) I tried it on.

Pi-Hole is a drop in replacement to an existing network setup that doesn't require hacking your router to install a custom firmware. It will also persist router upgrades.

My only gripe with Pi-Hole, which isn't their fault really, is that power losses can quickly corrupt the Raspberry Pi's SD Card. I have my network gear on a battery backup but when I was first validating Pi-Hole I had it sitting on my desktop and managed to corrupt the SD card with power drops.
Show HN: Memex – annotate and instantly recall any website
After 18 months of tinkering and iterating, we want to show you our Memex: An open-source browser extension to effortlessly organise your web-research.

We'd love to know what you think :)

Check it out at https://worldbrain.io/hn

Memex features:

- Instantly find websites you visited with the fuzzy memories you have about them, instead of bookmarking everything or keeping dozens of open tabs. Search for every word of every website you’ve seen, and filter by time, domain, custom tags or bookmarks.

- Add your thoughts to websites via comments & annotations, directly in the browser - not in external, disconnected apps.

- Cite websites with precision: Share links to pieces of text on any website.
Probably not good I would think, especially if you take into account the energy used to produce and ship the computer, router, etc.
Today's GPU are probably much closer to what Renderman was doing back when Toy Story was made than you think. They used an algorithm called REYES, which has nothing to do with raytracing and in fact can only barely be made to combine with ray tracing at all [1]. It was completely thrown out of Renderman only on the last couple of years for that reason.

REYES really is an early take on rasterization with tesselation, designed for hardware with extreme memory constraints. Although the actual tesselation algorithm works differently from GPU hardware tesselation, the basic idea of tesselating dynamically to the required level of detail for the current frame carried over intonthe hardware.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering
I found the same thing with emails sent from an airline. It was frustrating because I did actually want to follow the links in the emails as they were to do with a flight I was taking.
I'd call it suboptimal.

Why not wait out the few months, then donate all the money to privacy focused NGOs / investing in competing businesses?

That would be a much more impactful way of proving a point, imo.
Not so much "with", but she's reading it also. She prefers and has time for reading where I mostly listen. But, yeah, it can be a little weird some of the books I want to share with the kiddos. No better are the books she's reading in school that I'm following, like The Secret to Lying...

But, she's gone through the OWL training a number of times, which helps prepare her for life.

I really want to share Diamond Age with her, but think she needs a couple years. Not because of the sex, but because of the abusive parents Nell has.
Are people commuting more? If anything there has been a revival of urban areas and millenials have prioritized cities over things like owning a car. Podcasts are easier than radio for mass transit commutes, so maybe that's part of it?
There are a smattering of code snippets around

This[1] is the one I used as a reference for my kernel build which includes brcmfmac

There is also a feature called 'channels' (not widely documented AFAIK) which allows you to describe an outside repository of code you can reference to install packages. There is one[2] that provides Chromium (though I cannot get the build to succeed).

The downside to all of these not being provided in mainline is the amount of time and energy to build them. I suspect there are more people than I would like curating their build of the linux kernel, manually specifying drivers included in the kernel. I really wish the community were a little less hard-set on the principle of 'freedom' and a little more pragmatic; I am sure the community is smaller due to people being turned away at the sheer amount of effort required to get their machine to a usable state.

[1]: https://github.com/wingo/guix-nonfree
[2]: https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium
I think that is an example of synecdoche, using a part (the water) to represent the whole (the glass of water).
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We have different perspectives here. I agree that J for C Programmers is good for novices, but I wouldn't say NuVoc is for experts. Next, J allows solving problem with different algorithms, and the choice you make among primitives reflects more what you want than what you can do - so the problem author is discussing seems rather odd, you can go many different ways, what do you mean "which way I'm supposed to go"? Yes, decomposing problem is different with APLs. No - believe it or not, after three days of meditation I've got enough understanding of J that makes the road from absent of major roadblocks. That wasn't and still isn't the case with supposedly easy Python - years of conventional languages like C, C++, Java etc. still allow me to struggle with Python - perhaps because I didn't have those days of meditations with it?
As an aside, the title is a garden path sentence if I’ve ever seen one. Had to backtrack at least twice to parse it correctly.
Yes, you can use an Apple Watch without using iCloud. You cannot pair an Apple Watch to an iPad.

iCloud Syncing for your HealthKit data encrypts and stores your data in iCloud, similar to iCloud Keychain. If this is enabled, HealthKit information is stripped from iCloud backups, if you use them. You can also do local encrypted backups through iTunes. If you don’t use any of the above options, HealthKit data stays on the device.

On device, HealthKit has lots of permissions for apps to access health data, including per app reading and writing permissions for each data category.
I agree, it would be nice if they compared e.g. PostgreSQL to the setup.
Many analytics databases implement something even stronger than that.

They keep what are called "zone maps", which are pre-computed statistics for groups of rows that contain those same aggregate functions. This allows for those types of analytics functions, but also for pruning of data to read at all during regular table scans further in the query execution.
That looks pretty cool - are those video effects or is it really showing files writing to different files?
Jocko Podcast (leadership, war, self improvement)

Conversations With Tyler (Politics, Books, Economics)

Masters in Business (Ritholtz, finance and econ)

Invest like the Best (Patrick Oshaugnessey, finance, econ, crypto)

a16z podcast (tech, vc)

This Week In Startups (Jason Calacanus, tech, vc)

The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish, learning and investing)

Tim Ferriss (fitness, self improvement, business)

Joe Rogan Experience (nature, hunting, fitness)

Planet Money (NPR, stories about finance and econ)

Revisionist History (Gladwell, lots of great stories)

Hockey:

The Full 60 (Craig Custance)

TSN OverDrive

Spittin Chicklets

YouTube Channels:

How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman)

Talks At Google

Local:

Toronto Mike'd Podcast (Mike Boone, TO-based radio and TV personalities talk about the city and their careers)
Your observation of hyper-focus upon the tiniest nuances of two different art forms reminded me of the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/915/
It doesn't - hence the immense pressure Facebook feels from its owners.
[ MEMEX TEAM ]

Hey Hackernews crowd,
my name is Oliver and I’m the founder of the worldbrain.io, the project developing this Memex.
You can ask me anything about our strategy, our financial model “Steward Ownership” and roast me about the details of our vision.

# Vision Summary: https://worldbrain.io/vision_deck

# Economic Vision: https://worldbrain.io/crowdfunding-memex/#why

# Detailed Vision: https://worldbrain.io/vision

Almost exactly 4 years I started the journey of researching a solution on how our society can collectively tackle information overload & misinformation (also known as “fake news”). I believe that getting this right is crucial for us to make the most complex personal, social and political decisions effectively, sustainably and compassionately - or go bust within the next century. Counter to common tactics of approaching this problem I think we should not dictate a certain truth to battle misinformation but give people the tools that shared truths can emerge. Memex is our first step towards making this possible and we are excited to show it to you today.

In order to build the first prototype of Memex I learnt how to code. (or rather how to be a skriptkiddy and piece together things from GitHub and StackOverflow ;) )
Even though the code was pretty shitty, it helped to gather a wonderful team and a community of volunteers that rebuilt everything from scratch (and ditch my shipwreck of code). So in reality they did 99% of the work of developing Memex and deserve the praise. :)

Now here we are. After a tinkering and iterating on Memex over the past 18 months we feel ready to show you our progress. Let us know how we can improve Memex to make it really useful in helping you to overcome the information overload in your web-research.

- Oliver
Yep, Egyptians were cat people.
Well, yes and no. Back the day, Facebook and Zuckerberg were the shining examples of successful Silicon Valley companies and founders with a good mission.

That Zuckerberg, at the young age, managed to retain control of facebook all the way up to, and beyond, the ICO should have given them pause so. That hints a certain personality (no judgement intended in that assessment). But that is 20/20 hindsight which is always easy.
Aren’t these all implementation details?
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I don’t know why they trust me...

- Mark Zuckerberg in 2003
It's obviously subjective, but I really like the yellow-ish block background for the battery level. Lends the site a distinctive paper-like feel that reminds me of the Financial Times.
And raw downloads of podcasts is still way more accurate than how TV viewership is measured. As far as I can tell advertisers still love to spend money on TV commercials.
Every time you see a news post about a tech company "partnering" with a Chinese company, you should be thinking they were forced to do that. This has been going on for many years, but it became much more of a "rule" in China since a couple of years ago. It's when most of the large American tech companies started announcing "joint ventures" with Chinese firms almost in unison.

However, tech companies seem to be more than happy to give 50%+ of their business in China away, as well as 100% of the tech IP that will be stolen once the partnership happens. And then they whine about how restrictive the GDPR or a similar law in the US would be.
Facebook's entire business model is ads. Of course, it was going to a) include advertising or b) add more user info to better target ads in other apps.

Facebook has been lying to us since at least 2007. People were always okay with it because they perceived it as being okay and supportive of the right people and policies.
Even the MIT URL in the source uses Anders demo -- it's that good.

Edit: Oh wow -- Anders is the author of the MIT demo. All the same stuff really.
It's Facebook. Facebook is the reason for the uproar. Facebook has drawn a lot of attention to ad-based revenue companies like Google. Facebook is the modern day version of Geocities, except, now it employs modern advertising technology to harvest information and engage users.

Facebook has apparently grossly mishandled how it engages users; providing a platform for the proliferation of false information (like idiots on Geocities) but now in the form of "news". Facebook has also grossly mishandled it's users information; providing dubious 3rd parties with information that's been used to, among other things, target specific demographics to influence ELECTIONS.

Because of the ire Facebook is drawing from the entire world, Google is being group with them because of their business model. Google's big fault here is in it's likely emulation of Facebook's engagement model (likely same tech, same time) in steering users towards more extreme content in an effort to maintain engagement- mostly on YouTube.

I think the average HN user can understand how and why this happens. It's 1.0 of the engagement game. Ad-tech that analyze the content of a video and attempts to match it with similar content. Only apparent problem is, it's not that smart and it tends to direct towards the extreme - or likely the easiest content match- more extreme content likely repeats similar phrases more often, idk, someone with more insight can jump in here.
[MEMEX TEAM]

TL;DR: AMA about the full-text search functionality and general experiences with using the extension.

Hello everybody. I'm Jon - one of the lead technical contributors to the Memex extension. I have been involved in the project for roughly 18 months and watched as it has changed and grown over that time through the hard work of many different individuals.

I would be happy to provide answers to any questions regarding the full-text search and how we enable it for each web page your visit. I have spent a large portion of my time at Memex focused solely on the search and, with the help of some fantastic technologies like Dexie (http://dexie.org) and IndexedDB, we have arrived at what we believe to be one of the fastest in-browser full-text history search engines. However saying that we hope to iterate on and improve important aspects of our search - such as results accuracy - in the near future.

I would also love to hear any feedback you might have from your own experiences with using or having the extension installed in general - we're always aiming to improve that experience.
AFib detection will only be reported if it's detected six times, to reduce the impact of false positives.

https://twitter.com/benbajarin/status/1040018930637520896
Ask HN: What can we do to stop the rich from getting richer?
The current political developments indicate that the Anacyclosis [0] theory is true, the political caste is closely engaged with big business and the small voter has almost no influence in changing this development . Same is true for the media, which are with a few exceptions by globalists, so the fourth estate is, to check those in power. Morover, in germany - as an example - flat market prices are dictated by a few coorps too [1].

Are we doomed to watch the system evolve into an oligarchie/dictatorship or are there some bottom-up approaches to stop it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nachdenkseiten.de%2F%3Fp%3D46219%23h18&edit-text=&act=url
Probably suggested buzzfeednews.com
> you can't literally put those physical things in the blockchain

You can not otherwise too, right? A blockchain holds interactions/transactions not the data itself. Most blockchains are incredibly small in size. For example, the size of the entire Bitcoin blockchain is 215.84 GB [0].

[0] https://bitinfocharts.com
It is called a being a mass noun. They are uncountable and the singular takes the same form as the whole.

Blockchains are countable, so it does seem to be incorrect to use it as the title does.

https://medium.com/@ryanshea/blockchain-terminology-a-gramma...

(It grates on my ears to hear blockchain used the way it is here. I'm not sure when it started, but certainly doesn't sound like it should.)