skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Edit: to clarify the below is about their cloud offering user since I'm on Mac and don't have my own PC to stream from)

I've been using Parsec to play games like No Man's Sky and it's really impressive technologically speaking, but the pricing model is a bit obtuse. It's made worse by the fact that the big cost for someone who doesn't game all that often is storage.

Basically, you sign up to a VM with an impressive GPU and it runs games really well, and the streaming tech is top notch. But to run it all you need to pay for at least 50 GB of storage and you need to pay for it on a time basis, which means you're left with anxiety of leaving it turned off, as well as sudden deletion of your cloud PC if you're not paying attention.

I wish they would come up with some kind of clever storage solution so that the basic Windows image is a shared (read only) storage component and the additional games are additional pluggable hard drives, also shared between users. This would mean you as the end user loses control of modding/patches for some games, but it could save so much storage. The save games etc would go on a tiny hard drive that you ultimately pay for (but I'd say Parsec should eat that cost to reduce anxiety and instead encourage a monthly subscription for any-time access).

TL;DR: Parsec is awesome. I want to pay a fixed price and not be exposed to their tech stack costs, so I don't get FOMO when I'm not using it every day.
minecraft? all of jetbrains' IDEs? but yeah, i struggled to name even those.

actually, the minecraft modding community is awesome, and they are doing some really great stuff. including amazing GUIs (inside minecraft, but still).
Proof is watching average machinists struggle to get decent postable CNC machine instructions from the Autodesk 360 “free” CAM system. Well-trained machinists and college guys have no problems. But most would be better off manually programming.
Hopefully it becomes just the new Youtube.
I'd say probability (random processes) is more important, but maybe that is splitting hairs.
Look at any forum discussing any cryptocurrency (including bitcoin). Everything is discussed through the filter of "will it pump the value and make us rich?" and there's hardly any in-depth technical discussion because most participants are here to become rich, not to learn about technology or economy.

It also means that any criticism of the technology will be immediately attacked as being "paid shills" with an ulterior motive. It's hard enough to have constructive discussions online, it's almost impossible when people have a financial incentive to defend their position to the bitter end.
Thank you for this response.

The other question/statement i have is;

Is there a discrete number of various cytoarchtectural patterns that can/do exist and are they catalogued? Assuming that through various amino acids and proteins we can get a stem cell to present as various tissue types, can we get them the present as a neuron? But then they cytoarchtecture is probably dictated by genetic coding and not amino-acids/proteins, so steering cell clusters to create a particular 'brain-circuit' is decades away, i assume? Unless there is a way to scaffold the desired outcome by putting new stems cells/neurons next to others which are arranged in the desired format already?
Half a dozen would probably cover more than 90% of all distros.
I've definitely been in the room when people talk about how there'll be a black bloc coming to an event for "direct action", where we all know damn well that black blocs come to, you know, break stuff and beat up cops and fascists.

I take it that the group that's in the room is collectively too scared to kick them out or to stop their violence.

That said, I wish that the cops, the state, and opposition parties would all stop pretending that their violence isn't violence

It is violence. That's how sovereignty works. The state has the monopoly on violence. The cops are acting on behalf of the state. All others who break it are either illegal instigators, or exercising the right of self defense.

Principled non-violent protest is the mark of a true activist. Violence is the mark of those who merely want power for themselves.
My honest view is that this is the new form of "acceptable" racism. It's not "reverse racism", it's just racism.

The idea that someone's ideas are more or less valid based on the colour of their skin is completely antithetical to the original aims of the civil rights movement.
SIGABRT in most places is not going to both get the stack trace and keep the process running. In fact, I would argue that if you are running something that continues working after it receives a signal telling it to /abort/, it's a bug. What do the word abort mean to you?

As for SmartOS, as someone who ran it at home and in production for years: Keep flying that flag, I guess. I liked it. But I also realized that Joyent, even with the Samsung acquisition, does not have the resources to keep it going in any meaningful way for anyone beyond themselves and people who have the exact same usecase as them. Things like lx branded zones are clever. I miss SMF, and am not a fan of systemd. But bpf is better than dtrace. Container management is easier than zone management. I've got less bugs dealing with KVM on Linux than I ever did on SmartOS. I spend less time compiling things from source and having to find random patch files to make things work. I know plenty about Solaris and SmartOS and HPUX and AIX and the BSDs and I don't think anyone is making the incorrect choice in deciding to learn Linux over any other UNIX-like.

That ship has sailed, man. And there's no compelling reason that it shouldn't have.
Discovering this is a big gamble because you don't accidentally double click these regions because a single click could mean going forward of back a full video in some playlist.
I didn't mean to say that at all, it's just that I don't use Twitter much but I sometimes get to see some tweets about American politics (especially tweets about Trump) and they are shameful. I expect them to be the same for any other country of course. I have edited my post a bit to make it clear.
There's no way to really stop a determined attacker from identifying you online, or even doxing you online if they want. Even seemingly insignificant details are enough for a lot of hackers. (And in the instagram case, wisely or unwisely, people are posting actual photos of themselves and their friends. So an attacker has a whole lot more than "insignificant details".)
This is a stupid use of averages.

PMs come in a little senior to rank and file programmers. That doesn't mean that a PM of ten years experience makes more than a programmer of ten years.
Or maybe they just show up here because the community is interested in cryptocurrency.
You dont want your users creating content IF that is your primary source of profit as a game studio.
If your users can effectively create new items, new maps, DLC, new missions, new characters etc what do you sell to them after your initial release?
The easier it is to create this new content (aka non expert) the more likely that the price of this content (even if there was a market) would basically be free. (discounting network and intellectual property effects)
As someone who works in filtration - one of the primary ways to reduce pollution - stationary sources are easier to filter.

Vehicles have limited under the hood space and are distributed.
I really hope someone on HN has a more in the trenches view of this and why?

Maybe more engineers should leverage the unique advantage of their skill-set: passive income from coding projects? Assuming they want to make more money than PMs.
I don't believe they made that claim? They said they didn't have evidence that the API was abused.
There are some goals that are mutually exclusive. or instance: a government might issue a cryptocurrency and require that their authority maintain the ability to issue new coins at their direction; another cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) has "no centralized issuing authority" as a core design decision.

The vast majority of existing cryptocurrencies are just copies of others, or just sit atop Ethereum. Those will certainly end up being worthless or nearly so. That doesn't require that all future cryptocurrencies will necessarily meet the same fate.
I've been doing lots of research on video games and some other niche areas, it's staggering how much information is on YouTube and only on YouTube. There are millions of hours of super high quality user-generated content locked up in videos that can't be (or aren't) indexed properly, all of which are effectively owned and maintained by Google.

The number of alternatives to youtube is approximately zero. No one wants to upload to a new platform because it's a lot of work and you don't get paid for it (once you hit a certain number of YT views you start getting paid and there's real incentive there, you can potentially get relatively wealthy from it).

Perhaps peertube will be the solution, but I suspect we need something groundbreaking to conquer the monopoly here.
I'd rather tariffs were taken off solar panels so they weren't rendered artificially uncompetitive.
One Month After the Titanic Sank, the Washington Post Blamed a Mummy’s Curse
Ok, cool. How does that secure the rest of us?
Thanks! I cleaned up the above based on this..
I wonder if this attitude was a thing when CS was first introduced as a major. At the time it must have looked like someone basically took a tiny part of electrical engineering and made it into it's own field of study.
Chocobozzz didn't say that PeerTube will never support load balancing, just that -- for the issue you linked -- load balancing the transcoding engine is not a priority for the core dev team/doesn't promote their top-line goals of decentralization.

I'm sure they'd accept a well-written PR.
Try notepad++ or other workspace-supporting software if you already have such installed. It doesn't have to be primarily aimed at note-taking to work. This method doesn't help with sync, multi-device, etc tho.
> If most of HN readers share views of Roubini who call cryptocurrencies as "Mother of All Scams", then I'm out of HN.

I don't know about "most", but many do. So do I.

And if I may be so blunt: I won't miss those comments. You have every right to post them, but I will downvote them. :-)

You may want to make this the hill you die on, like I regularly take my downvotes for strongly suggesting that the 1st and 2nd Amendments to the US Constitution are braindead. Or you may decide that you won't face the crowd on this.

But you will not convince the crowd.

Reading tip: "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain"
How do you search across all those instances?
duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217671
Can't do unique users or pages-per-visit without having cookies. But for statistics that don't assume any connection between requests, you could use something like https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io
AI starting to replace human auditors of expense reports
I think I rode a taxi in Paris once or twice, but never a private car - and none of our friends had private cars, either. I assumed parking was a nightmare, and expensive. The narrow medieval roads didn't help, either. Many of the streets around our apartment were closed to cars (at least on Sunday).

Being a cyclist, I thought I found a slice of heaven. I thought about being an urban planner when I got back to the States.
This is a major issue in many pollution studies. High pollution tends to correlate with low income, low education and less access to healthcare worldwide. One of the biggest sources of indoor air quality (IAQ) pollution is indoor fires - which are rare in many big cities.
Particles are part of the story, but also toxic gasses such as NOx and CO.

NOx in particular is a big problem in European cities due to the proliferation of diesel cars.
Also, it can be used as a selling point to stakeholders. Much easier to advocate for when > 25% of traffic is using it than say 10%
A photographic history of East LA in the 90s
EVs are better than average ICE everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe#Carbon_footp...
China is indeed catching up. Production of technology is done there because labor is cheap (being a producer does not imply innovation). Chinese companies still have a way to go to become mainstream in the western world. The blade cuts both ways, China needs the west at least as much as the other way around.
Neomaniac don't understand that everything new is necessary unstable and opaque. Older systems, cultures, technolgies survived for a reason. By obsessing over the new and dismissing the old we are throwing away knowledge and learnings.
The comment in the article is itself tangential. It's just a pointless bit of racist vitriol against the dreaded White Man, and has nothing to do with any of the substantive criticism
Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs
No, that's Rack.
I invested the time in submitting a detailed bug report as a litmus test to determine if it was worth spending more of my time installing the source code, learning how it works, and trying to fix the problem myself.

Because I'm a user interface programmer who could actually do that work, I also have a lot of other pressing things to do with my time, and wouldn't want to waste it if there was no chance of the developers accepting my changes or even acknowledging that there was a problem.

If they brush off my bug report, I thought, then they probably won't accept my changes.

But that's exactly what they did, which proved to me it wasn't worth my time.

The developers also ignored and argued against many other valid bug reports and complaints on the discussion board. Their attitude came through quite clearly and consistently, and my experience wasn't unusual.

If you disagree that it's not worth the time, then by all means you should get started downloading the source code, reading it to understand how it works, submitting bug reports on any problems you find, getting up to speed so you're qualified to make changes in the proper way that the developers will accept, fix the bug I described, test it on all platforms, and submit a pull request.
Interactive map of fiber optic networks around Chicago
To be fair, there's also the case for US having a huge population compared to other countries. And all of them are English-speaking, which means that a foreigner sees way more of that.
In Firefox Shift+Click bypasses this shenanigans as well.
Malware Data Science: Attack Detection and Attribution
I'm not sure -- because I haven't had a chance to look at the raw data and the article doesn't make it clear -- but it's possible that "software engineers" is a broad enough category to have a bottom-heavy distribution, which would drag down the median.
> I personally think this is a very big deal [...] Yeah, I'd say the article[...]'s tone is just about right.

That an article needs a "tone", and that it's right/wrong based on how big of a deal the reader thinks it is, is the issue. I await robot news that is a bulleted list of facts. We could argue about fact selection/placement, but I'll take that over arguing a particular organization's collective side of the bed they wake up on.

To your point, we disagree there wrt internal discussions of disclosure. What will be real scary is when there is a chilling effect to even performing rational discussion around these things. There is no such thing as disclose all, and when there is no such thing as talking about it either, you'll wish these rules were codified in law instead of applied selectively to issues you are ok with.
Electric cars will produce very little brake dust as they regenerative braking. In an emergency braking situation they will use friction braking but not for day to day driving.

That means 90% of cars particulate matter must be coming from tyres and the road surface. How far does this travel? Does it just fall back quickly onto the road? Does it get washed away in a rain storm?

Do you have a source for that 90% figure?
Unless you consider its possible therapeutic effects: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/playing-tetris-cou...
Even a hybrid will rarely need brake pads to be changed.
You are saying that they are only in it for the money, but they also want it to fail spectacularly. It doesn't make sense and works against their interest.
It's actually titled a “College of Computing”.
That's not really the same thing, the parent says that all cryptocurrencies are 90% greed, not that 90% of cryptocurrencies are only about greed. If it turns out that even 10% of cryptocurrencies are actually not crap it will be huge news. I'm not holding my breath.
Their justification - and you're of course free not to agree with their assessment, for my part I think it is a dangerous one, - is that they believe the establishment will never allow the establishment of a true worker state by democratic means. In other words, they expect that if they were to run and eventually win a majority, they'd just be met by violence anyway.

This is usually the basis for most revolutionary organisations. However, there is a major split between those groups that believe the way to deal with that is to participate in elections, try to win, and "just" be prepared when the establishment refuses to hand over power, vs. groups like the SWP that believes that there's no point in contesting elections at all.

The latter is a lot more dangerous, because like the Bolsheviks they may at some point delude themselves into thinking they have enough support without any evidence. But for a group like the SWP to actually become dangerous they'd first need to become magnitudes bigger than it ever was, and they just never got much traction.

I don't think anyone would suggest the police shouldn't have kept an eye on them, though. Nor do I believe they'd expect the police to ignore them.

The more relevant reason to question the effort that went into surveillance of them was that initial surveillance and ongoing evidence should have made it clear to the police, as it's done to anyone paying attention to them, that they were/are nothing more than yet another fringe group that are much better at talking than doing.

In the end, as it turns out, the SWP was so bad at doing and talking that they managed to tear themselves apart through their own internal idiocies than what the police ever would have hoped for, in the form of the crisis of their completely ludicrously offensive handling of a rape accusation [1] a few years ago.

[1] https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/comrades-war-d...
My experience with some PhDs would suggest too much schooling might have the opposite effect...
Ask HN: Why Paypal doesn't allow to turn on 2FA anymore?
A friend of mine just alerted me that the option to turn on 2FA on his Paypal account doesn't exist anymore. I checked and it's true, I still have 2FA but the option to enable/disable it is gone. Definitely interesting.
Might want to refresh your information about electric vehicles. Nissan Leaf era range is no longer the status quo. Tesla has vehicles with 300+ miles of range and other auto manufacturer are now planning to release or releasing 200+ mile range vehicles. Charging times are also not a problem. In my experience, I can handle my daily commute without doing anything special whatsoever. Super convenient. Just get home and plug in and never worry about range at all.

Total cost of ownership of an EV is getting close to a tipping point where EV is a better deal than electric. One thing pushing that way is the many moving parts of ICE vehicles leading to more maintenance needed. Another is that modern car batteries are turning out to have longevity much higher than what was projected by critics (early Tesla cars still have 90% of initial battery capacity). Another is that the cost per mile in terms of energy is an order of magnitude cheaper. The only thing really stopping electric is that people have been wary to invest heavily in the factories that were necessary to produce the economies of scale that would lower the price. Since Tesla has done that, prices are dropping and everyone else is being forced to follow.

ICE vehicles are losing market share, because the more practical EVs you mentioned are already here.
You basically said something to the effect of "Purple elephants are the best incentive for solving world hunger."
puma does pretty good at buffering slow HTTP requests though.

I honestly _don't know_ why we usually put apache or nginx in front of our ruby 'web servers'. But I keep doing it anyway, cause 'everyone else' does, and I don't want to take the time to be sure I don't need to, it works.

However, I believe rails deployments to Heroku generally _don't_ put another web server in front. Which, per your point, slow clients is quite exactly why they explained the switch from unicorn to puma as a default web server. https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/594

It is true that in 2018 web dev has gotten complicated (in a variety of different axes), and if there's a framework/platform that will allow you to not know it is, I don't know what it is! It would probably be one that made a lot more choices for you though (like, say, ruby web server, so you don't need to think about 'oh, unicorn can't handle slow clients but puma can') -- which is the opposite of Sinatra's philosophy -- but then again Rails approach to try to do that has not resulted in something people find easy either. shrug.
This.

Compounded by the fact that most companies don't hire PMs until they're more mature (aka more able to pay higher compensations), the methodology is pretty broken.
There's Enigma "v1" (SGX only) and "v2" (SGX + MPC). My understanding is that in both schemes, all code will be public, although inputs and outputs can be private. So e.g. if a company wrote a multisig contract, the multisig parameters could hint at the identity of the company. Zexe seems better in that sense, since the code is private.

On the other hand, Enigma v2 could enable certain use cases that ZKPs don't. E.g. MPC protocols can solve the classic Millionaires' Problem, while ZKPs don't help there.

Most of the authors are affiliated with Zcash, so they're probably thinking about adding this as a feature of Zcash rather than a new system.
Hey cool stuff, Chris! Good to finally see you taking the browser seriously.

We started to do the same at Rainway over a year ago https://blog.rainway.io/play-overwatch-and-anything-else-in-...

We are big fans of web-based real-time streaming so if you want to read more: https://blog.rainway.io/the-art-of-pivoting-how-we-built-rai...

Excited to see how you develop this!

EDIT: A quick correction for your blog -- the MSE low delay rendering was not added for Project Stream, it has been there since 2015 and is triggered via heuristics.
Am I the only one who read the title and was not sure if M.I.T was creating an AI college for students or for AI algorithms to earn accreditation?
Somali ‘Migrant’ Sexually Assaulted Woman in Tulsa Parking Lot
Wait until you see how much the sales people rake in.