skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube demonetization is such a big problem for most creators, I'm sure a last impactful YouTube scandal could push a lot of users to another platform.
Cheers to a decentralized world!
Hey just because it may be a fair time until I next get a chance to ask someone who may have the answer - I've wondered a fair bit do you guys get a lot of spam at the abuse@ for domains or do spam bots know to not bother with them?

No reason to ask at all honesty, it's just been one of those curios that pops up in mind occasionally
Agreed, but cross-posting is a pain so it probably won't happen.

Unless somebody makes an app to cross-post automatically, I don't see PeerTube getting much adoption from the mainstream.

Even if such a cross-posting app existed, it get shut down by YT pretty quickly. To survive, I think it would need to be well-supported open source endeavor.
Kinda seeing Jack's side of the argument. Why do we need the voters to partition up the city budget in perpetuity? It's a bad way to run the government.

The city has a far better, far cheaper lever by which it can fix the homelessness crisis: nuke the housing market by permitting 45-foot-tall multifamily buildings on every parcel in the city. The fact that they will never do this tells you everything about that city.
This requires pretty loose definitions of OK, which, I guess, works out OK for Visa and MasterCard ?

Both systems experience what on the Web we'd consider a staggering level of problems. Fraud losses just in the UK for the card payment system exceed £500M per year. They're proud of themselves for catching about 60% by value of potential fraud. That is, people _tried_ to steal over a billion pounds each year, but only get away with £500M...

They use out-dated cryptography, they straight up lie to their partners, to customers and even to the courts. I trust them about as much as some random Etsy maker.

Now, my country's laws mean when Visa screws up, my bank, regulated by those laws, has to make me whole. And I'm a middle-aged white guy, so good old-fashioned unconscious bias means when I'm screaming at a regulator about my rights they listen.

But if I didn't have those laws, if I was an elderly black lady, I can expect that I'd be told it's not the payment card company, I must have secretly travelled to Hong Kong last weekend and bought $5000 of men's watches and so I have to pay for that transaction even if I have witnesses who say I never left... after all the computer says it was my card and how could that be wrong?
Most folks buying supplements aren't in a position to perform checks on the ingredients in the actual pills. Not only that, but they aren't always in the position to know which claims are BS and which aren't. It is wonderful that such companies exist, but most folks won't check. And if someone simply doesn't check a product, it'll go undetected. And all it takes for a product to start flying off shelves is someone like Dr Oz mentioning the product and folks deciding he simply wouldn't give bad information. They trust him more than random website.

(I should mention that I worked in a pharmacy, and have seen these effects first hand. I've also seen folks completely ignore a pharmacist recommendations for whatever their cousin's husband's mother said).

I'll add that I wouldn't trust such an agency to tell me my actual, FDA-approved medications are safe, and we are basically talking about folks using products for health reasons.
taking one video of one pulse, and not editing it
Good. It sickens me that there is so much wealth in both the Bay Area and Seattle, yet both cities are going through a homelessness crisis.

I recognize I'm part of the problem and I'm working to help the problem, but I'm only a little guy, not a billionaire.

Tech companies keep building skyscrapers, feeding their engineers food every day and paying their employees ludicrous salaries, yet those employees walk past tons of homeless folks on their way to the offices...

Are there any examples that folks are aware of where a big tech company (or really any company) stepped in to help with a crisis like this? What companies should we be celebrating for being 'good citizens'?
I've recently gone on somewhat of a Google purge in the last few weeks, but the one thing I can't seem to shake is YouTube.

These platforms are made and broken by their content. Even though I absolutely support the "federate all the things" mentality (I'm a Mastodon user), I fear that YouTube will remain the default platform for the foreseeable future until PeerTube offers something other than "federated YouTube".

I also worry that what will inevitably happen is that one service will become the de-facto standard for video sharing, and effectively monopolize the thing anyway, such as with Gmail.

I built a prototype system based on Kademlia that addressed the second point, but I don't know how I'd convince anyone to actually use it.
There are at least a dozen food stalls on the lower level of Union Station. Most of the food is garbage, but the sushi place is decent.
Yeah, this "two-layer storage paradigm" is exactly what I'm getting at. There are a lot of other ways you could slice it, though. System services want simple APIs with high performance -- they'd prefer not to pay the cost of the higher-level user document representation.

Personally, I think user documents shouldn't be a kernel concept -- it should be a protocol implemented by user-space system services. This would let any app expose its storage as "documents" without having to change its internal representation.
Linux and Cloud Themed Pumpkin Carving Contest
I work(ed) for a TLD registry, not a registrar, so our information isn't in WHOIS. As such, it gets little to no abuse. We do get email from the big names in security research/abuse tracking guys.
Worse than overdosing in the streets?

This seems like a classic case of the perfect (being off drugs completely) being an enemy of the good (off the streets but on prescribed heroin).
It happened at between 2011 and 2014. It looked like a complete coherent change locally, but slower to move from one place to the other, like in a month you go to the market, people cut the line and others just shrug, then next month you go to the same market, people cut the line and everybody starts to complain immediately.

I imagine it was related to the corruption fighting that was all over the news. It clearly caused some social tension, but I don't believe it's responsible to most of current tension (I think most of the current tension was carefully fabricated by propaganda creators).

And yes. I think the change is a good one too.
Bread is bad. Refined wheat flour baked; full of acrylamide. Beef is as bad. And what about all the cheese? Vegetables are better, but still not the best as far as human digestive system is concerned.

Look around you. If these things were so healthy, why is the population getting sicker by the day?
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.

I don't know what Benioff's motivation is here, but if he actually thinks this tax will improve the homeless situation, he's even dumber than he looks.
I was never a Salesforce fan, but Benioff is making me take a second look.
Does anyone see the student debt as a positive thing? Curious.
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Oh, FireGestures.

How I miss that.

The speed at which I could switch tabs, close them, open new links without clicking a button felt like magic.

Hopefully someone will make something like that for a recent FF version.
This article doesn't lay out which parts of the company are to be retained by Dialog, but I could swear an article I read yesterday listed Bluetooth chips as one of the areas where they would continue to develop their own product.
Vendorizing libraries and static linking has become a security hell.

Just an example: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/04/03/a-study-of-security-vuln...
GDPR-noob/American question: how does that violate GDPR?
A fascinating related concept is incentive compatibility (one of his variants use the Nash equilibrium).

« A mechanism is called incentive-compatible (IC) if every participant can achieve the best outcome to him/herself just by acting according to his/her true preferences. »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incentive_compatibility

I use this mind tool very frequently being an incentive system architect.

One interesting technology that allow IC is the vickrey auction.
Amazing motion illusion. V5 is firing due to V4 saturation
Tcl is still the king of this kind of distribution with Starkits/Starpacks. Since you can virtualize the filesystem within Tcl, you can pack in all your resources as regular files and generally scripts will work without knowing that this has happened (and without hacky extracting of the archive to disk before running, or while running).
“This is the Bay Area: We have 70 billionaires. We're the headquarters of the 4th industrial revolution,” Benioff said. “We're in a homeless crisis."
It's because sometimes, such as when Apple takes a year to update a line, that you can find an ultrabook that costs half of what Apple is offering for similar specs (or in some cases, same price, much worse specs).

Take a look at the MacRumors buyers guide release date graph for the pro-line https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

It's not as severe as it used to be now that returns are diminishing on new generations of components, but even three/four years ago, it could be startling.
Point being, the same is not true for virtual memory.
You could leave the memory deallocation out of the destructors, and it is all going to be returned to the OS instantly on _exit().
This is in fact what Tcl Starkits/Starpacks do -- all access to the filesystem goes through the Tcl VFS, which can be redirected to the script level.
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Second, the author is looking for a solution that can run in soft real time, so that it can be used for system monitoring.

Histograms can absolutely be used for alerting.
We have done this at Circonus for ages: https://www.circonus.com/features/analytics/

I wrote up the case of latency monitoring 6 weeks ago here:
https://www.circonus.com/2018/08/30/latency-slos-done-right/
I don't need to work anymore. Thanks Uber!
By the way, if you are looking for a tool to embed resource files in Go binaries you might find these interesting:

- https://github.com/benbjohnson/genesis

- https://github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata
Why would you need investor money for a niche desktop app like yours? And why would an investor see that as a valuable investment?
He saw about $240 million worth of stock that he personally purchased evaporate as the shares tumbled. Another $287 million that he received in compensation has all but disappeared.

... so he made $40 million?
Didn't expect to see RenrakuOS mentioned in this thread -- hey man! I actually started playing around with some ideas for a modern follow-up recently, stealing a lot of concepts from Redox. Maybe once it gets off the ground, I can rope you into working on that OS too, haha. (For those who are curious, RenrakuOS was a pure-managed (.NET) operating system from the late 2000s: https://github.com/daeken/RenrakuOS It could run on top of a desktop .NET framework, or compile to native code and run bare metal, even including some basic networking support and such. Ended up dying mostly due to me getting too busy with startup stuff, but also it had a lot of poor design decisions, e.g. a broken process abstraction.)
I totally forgot about the built in RSS support. I've been using a self hosted tt-rss instance for a few months and really like it.
If the U.S. Doesn’t Control Corporate Power, China Will
From Wikipedia:

In 2014, the City of San Francisco spent $167 million annually on housing homeless residents.[64] By 2016, total spending (including housing and treatment) was believed to be $241 million annually.[65] However, much of this spending is focused on housing the formerly homeless, or those at risk, and not the currently homeless. The city's shelter program has approximately 1,200 beds, and several hundred people are on a waitlist to be housed.[65] Even with 1,200 shelter beds and several hundred on waiting list, most homeless avoid the shelter for various reasons such as: overcrowding, safety, and rules that, among other things, separate people experiencing homelessness from their possessions, pets, and loved ones. In 2015, the Navigation Center shelter was created to address these issues.[65]
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How much money is going to solve this problem ? This reminds me of extending roads to tackle congestion, 5 years after the extension, the roads have same congestion conditions because of the sprawl. At some point, spending more money and making it better for being homeless in SFO will attract even more homeless and creating the conditions similar to today.

I do not have enough information about Prop C and what each of them are coming from, but I am leaning towards Jack simply because the holier than thou smugness from Benioff.
The import through youtube-dl is the most awesome new feature recently added.
Probably the journalist didn't want to get this guy in trouble for doxxing him.

I'm pretty sure the FBI would love to arrest him by now. Just like MalwareTech.
I'd think that positioning himself this way would be seen as a positive. The more he virtue signals and raises his own profile the easier it is to move in the Fortune 500/1000 circles, landing new or expanded contracts.
It was a similar story back in the iPod days as well, Wolfson Microelectronics (coincidentally also a UK firm like Imagination Technologies) suffered similar problems when Apple massively reduced their orders.

> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/mar/27/wolfson.app...
i wonder if there's a model where ads are served and host, platform and creator all get a slice.
Facebook is not a small blog operator. They should view this as a professional communications medium.
There's now homeless removal as a service.[1] "Call Bio SoCal for fast and professional service to clean up and remove the homeless encampment. We operate 24/7 and can provide service during or after business hours to meet your needs and get you back in business."

In Seattle, there's an app for reporting homeless encampments.[2]

Dallas considered a concentration camp, to be called "Dignity Field", at an old military base.[3]

[1] https://biosocal.com/services/homeless-encampment-clean-out/

[2] https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/unauthorized-encampment...

[3] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/05/02/old-naval-ba...
The point is that you brought up rotten meat. And then proceed to call any rotten meat we still consume "processed". That's intellectually dishonest.
Fantasy Maps That Put the World’s Tallest Mountains Side by Side
This captures it. Metadata isn't a controlled spec so there is no leverage to say "you are doing it wrong". As a result when you only care about a couple of "big players" it is feasible to just follow along with their changes as they change but a dozen different players? That is impractical.
Things are more complicated than that. (Depending on the pricing scheme, you might end up paying per gigabyte per hour, for example; which may or may not include transfer/storage of actual data; a faster "drive" could be much more expensive than a slower one, etc.)
How Amazon is making IoT happen
The headline made sense to me as
- Facebook; says hackers, stole
Or as
- Facebook says, hackers stole
The ultimate evolution of cranking up Quake FOV settings right there....
Last time I touched OS/400 was in 1993, where my sole job was to manage weekly tape backups, so I don't remember much technical details.

I ended up reading OS/400 Redbooks years later.

However I remember that all file related activities were done via the catalog management tools, files weren't visible as such.
This made me laugh :) but I Wonder if humanity can find an even more useless debate.
I would characterize high-level poker playing as very analytical, much in the same way that bridge (or spades in my case) is analytical.

I would say that the psychological game — especially getting into someone’s head — exists in bridge, spades, poker, and even games like chess and go (high stakes go games between a pro and a rich and skilled amateur often end with the amateur being brain-fucked and playing far below their actual skill level).

I will use spades as an example moving forward due to the fact that I have much more experience with it than bridge, and the gameplay is similar (as well as simpler).

A skilled poker player is always putting opponents on a range of hands, and the betting becomes largely very mechanical once the skilled player is dialed into a weaker player’s range.

A skilled spades player is going to make a guess based on bids and cards played about how the bidder plans to make their bid — specifically, with what cards — and then discard accordingly to attempt to create the highest probability of setting the opponent. The same can be said of winning the bid and potentially choosing to play a specific gambit if the hand doesn’t seem to be a sure thing.

The cards always matter to some extent in both games. That said, the analysis and mind games can be used in both as well.

Does that answer your question?

[edit: The author uses the term “psychological” to refer to physical tells. Online poker is played with no physical presence, so this form of psychological advantage does not exist. What about bet sizing info? They are called betting tells in the poker world. Is that psychological or analytical? What about learning about hand reading and playing tendencies?

My point is simply that I think that the skill sets of high-level players in each game are actually more similar than is widely believed and represented. Whether these similarities are called psychological or analytical is really just semantics in this particular context.]
Let me know if you need help in reviewing the second edition. I might also enlist a friend with some startup advising experience.

I also provide nagging-as-a-service, for a modest fee. :D
Apple Criticizes Proposed Anti-Encryption Legislation in Australia
Bio SoCal seems like a great service. Thanks for making me aware.
Just to make sure I understand your argument:

You are going to vote a certain way on a proposition because tech a CEO was smug about why you should vote one way or another?

Regardless of which way you are voting, there has to be a better, more informed and analytical way to decide how to vote.
For some reason I have to battle the same argument again and again in this thread. It's like people are blinded from having seen glamour magazines with crazy layouts.

The solution is that you don't use fancy layouts for papers. Imagine that you only have HTML 2.0. Put your text in paragraphs, put images and large formulas in separate paragraphs between those of text. Now chuck that into a ready-made styling template that applies modern typographic conventions. Voila, you have a great-looking article that can be read on a display of any size, be that today or three decades from now. It can be reformatted into columns or stringed into a horizontal ribbon, printed on paper of any size, read aloud by a text-to-speech engine, saved in apps like Pocket or Evernote.

Most popular content sites today use this layout for the main content column, and the pages can be read fine on phones or saved in apps. Markdown readmes on Github use this layout, and it's smooth sailing with them. Pages in HTML 2.0 from the 90s display just fine on modern devices, aside from the different text size.

You don't need to be a designer or make sure that your articles look fine on different devices if you stick to this simple layout and use tested styling. Pages with full-time designers have problems on mobile devices because those people try to do fancy layouts. Don't use fancy layouts for papers. I've spent zero time fixing problems with layouts in Markdown or, by the way, in posts and comments on sites like Reddit and HN, because they don't allow me to do fancy layouts—and they stay readable on phones. If authors have to spend time fixing layouts of their papers, it's because they use too complex layouts which indeed would have problems displaying on different devices.
If you're just going to spread unsupported lies, I'm not going to keep this conversation going. People have been eating meat, bread, and vegetables for thousands of years without issue. If any of these were the problem, the human race would be dead by now.

Hell, the Eskimos ate a diet almost entirely meat-based for hundreds of years. It wasn't until they were introduced to fruits that they began developing diseases like diabetes. Steve Jobs' health nose-dived once he switch to the fruitarian diet; research now shows that the fructose and glucose in fruits is in fact the number one preferred fuel source for cancer cells, which is why the current dietary advice is for cancer patients to go on low carb or ketogenic diets.

The greatest athletes in history eat omnivorous diets; during his record-setting Olympics run, Michael Phelps ate thousands of calories of fast food each day. Few professional athletes are vegetarians, and no elite athletes are fruitarians. All of our most famous scientists, including Einstein and Hawking, ate balanced diets that included substantial amounts of meat. The evidence, and thousands of years of human history, speaks for itself.
"Visualizing pilot-wave phenomena: the $60 rig" http://math.mit.edu/~bush/?p=3230
Certain cities in Ukraine are quite livable (Lviv, mostly) and have lenient visa and taxation policies too, if Monaco is a bit too rich for one's blood.
What do you guys think is the biggest lever for this crisis?
It feel amazing putting all my capital to help advance the transportation technology of a whole city. Truly amazing!
Yup, exactly. It's a terrible idea to start passing piecemeal tax increases to fund specific programs. And Prop C will only put an expensive bandaid on the housing crisis, absent an actual increase in the housing stock; any homeless you house will just result in displacing lower middle class people.
To be fair on that, I regularly get requests from my banks for me to consider letting them give me a "better rate" for my auto loan, and it is generally three or four times the APR I got from the dealership for my auto loan. I tell them what it is, they apologize for bothering me, and hang up. So I feel like I (probably) managed a good deal there.

I'm going to shop around, so I don't really mind if the dealer is offering from a lender they have a relationship with. What keeps that in check is that another dealership will maybe offer me something better. I assume I can do this even if I am buying over the web.

I just found it particularly amazing how much the salespeople were focused on that monthly cost and dodging that total cost number or the term length. Maybe some consumers are fooled by this and let themselves get chained to something they'll be paying for figuratively forever?

I absolutely held it against dealers when negotiating if I felt like they weren't answering the question I was asking (literal total dollar price), so I feel like a website that exposed that information well would appeal to me.
We have a Cava now in Union! Delish.
Is AirPower, a fancy induction charger, really important enough to warrant a 600 million dollar investment? I suspect this is more likely iOS device related.