skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(disclaimer I guess I own a company that offers VPN services, it's like ~1% of revenue though).

I think this seems like a bit much. I'd love Firefox to double down on building a great browser, rather than getting into Pocket, VPN, a Phone, IOT, etc.

Sure, a VPN can be really helpful when you're on sketchy open wifi, or other adversarial network conditions. But you're still trusting someone to handle your connections reliably and fairly. Several ISPs have proven themselves to be sketchy: injecting ads, adding tracking headers, etc. But do we really expect VPN providers to not crunch the same numbers and come to the same conclusions?

Note that despite my thinking, it does fit in well with their agenda:

> Mozilla has identified five key issues that are critical to build the open Internet we want:

Privacy and Security
Open Innovation
Decentralization
Web Literacy
Digital Inclusion
This is a pretty cavalier comment for a brand new poster. Welcome to Hacker News, where deep discussion is welcome.

The issue with trust in journalism is a real one, and as "deepfakes" and the current problems with the perceptions of "fake news" and "anything I don't like to hear is probably made up", the question of faith/trust in journalism and reporting is huge.

I don't think trust in journalism should go down. I think that when journalists and publications are caught with misleading or inaccurate stories, it should be in their interest to catch the problems and self-correct. The name of an institution is its integrity: It is built over time, and can lose its value quicker than it gains it.

There are correct ways to do journalism.
I support legalizing... well nearly everything. Some things might be actually dangerous and need to only be used within controlled settings.

Having said that, I'd really prefer if everyone that wanted marijuana would use the ediables rather than smoking it in various ways. Living in a state where it's legal, I absolutely detest the smell, it's smoke is even more potent and disgusting than tobacco. On the same note, I hate tobacco smoke and want use of such products to be limited to negative-draw scrubbed exhaust environments.
This is a stab in the dark but the pattern fits: did the social media company no one has heard of happen to be TuneWiki?
Correct, it helps the farms remain profitable. My wife is a winemaker and even with the guest worker program they are not able to find enough workers. The salaries have gone above $20/hr, though the way overtime works is different and requires a lot more than 40 hours of work (for now). Don't have the time to put together a well referenced document, but the inability to hire workers at what I feel is above the value of the work is a real problem.
Sure, but no one used them -- just like Repl.it, pretty much all of their monthly active users were only there for the free plan, and they left as soon as the companies tried to monetize.

Koding, in particular, went through pretty much exactly the same cycle as Repl.it a few years ago. They started out getting tons of users by giving cloud servers away for free, targeted mainly at children/education market. Then they started selling premium plans for beefier servers, but no one bought them. Then, they tried to become a cloud infrastructure company[1] and created a distributed filesystem product[2], which seems to be exactly your plan as well!

As it turns out, the educational users were only there because going on a free website is easier than installing Python on your computer, so when Koding started trying to charge for stuff, no one bought it.

[1]: https://blog.koding.com/koding-is-not-an-online-ide-e2693f74...
[2]: https://www.koding.com/docs/kd
The closest thing I can think of is Nextcloud [1]. You can host it yourself or get them to host it for you. It encrypts files at rest. That is transparent to the user. You or someone have to be technically savvy to set it up, but the users should be ok. File transfers, messaging, etc... all encrypted.

[1] - https://nextcloud.com/
My inner scientist looks at it this way:

1) It seems to do less personal harm than alcohol. I've known potheads and alcoholics, and the latter was far more disruptive to their personal lives and health.

2) It seems to do less societal harm than alcohol. Alcohol consumption is strongly correlated with violent crime, but weed consumption seems correlated with annoyances (like "let's all sneak into this pool and go swimming when we're not supposed to").

3) Alcohol is legal. Given that it's at least as bad as pot in every way I can imagine, and often much worse, I can't think of a single continued justification for laws allowing me to go buy a fifth of whiskey but not possess a few joints. It just makes no sense to me.
Maybe let's let the justice system figure things out?
Hasn't it been like 5 days? Seems a little soon to draw conclusions
Plausible doesn’t mean “it happened.” It’s plausible that a convicted thief might steal again; that doesn’t give a news outlet to write, “anonymous sources said Joe Thief stole something from Target.” No evidence at all other than “Joe Thief” could have conceivably stolen something just because he happened to be at Target.

A lot of things are “plausible” but accusing people of having done the thing versus, it would be possible doesn’t rise to the standards necessary to maintain journalistic integrity.

Enough with printing anonymously sourced speculation as fact! Good journalists get sources on the record and, if they use anonymous sources, use them for background and not as primary sources. See Woodward and Berstein’s work on Watergate on how to use anonymous sources correctly.
I remember when 6DOF HMD + Touch + GTX 970 was the bare minimum... and then all these new headsets stated coming out with far weaker GPUs. I wonder if anything has changed or if they have just decided to sacrifice quality for adoption.
Sad but true. What a f* up situation where corruption and legal bribery enables this.
Don‘t get me wrong, i still think some form of capitalism is still the best to make human endavour possible, but the human nature on the other hand cripples it to nothing but moneymaking for a selected few and misery for the rest.
A lot of the text is overlapping for me on mobile.
A lot of "influencers" (I hate that phrase so much) like to play the vague game.

"Thanks, Club Med, for a great week!"

and consider that "disclosing the paid nature of the item".
Human evolution, variation v. species and sub-species
Report: Intel is cancelling its 10nm process. Intel: No, we’re not
I don't know about that. There's a serious market for a real desktop personal computing operating system right now, one that is simple (note: not easy, simple), and enables users instead of trying to coddle them. Could RISC OS fill that role? Probably not without a whole lot of changes, starting with a conversion to preemptive multitasking. And worse, if anyone took it up they'd probably make it all POSIX and integrate a package manager and try to turn it into another Linux Distro.

Still, I can hold on to vain hopes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhZB7rQ7iA
Experience cannabis users are far less impaired than experienced drinkers though. Evidently once you get used to driving under the influence your brain adjusts. It doesn't work that way with alcohol.
Price is the least of VR's problems. The biggest issue is there's no way to produce an immersive experience without ridiculous space requirements or requiring the user to sit down. I'm extremely skeptical VR will become more than a novelty accessory for gamers and that overall it won't make much of a dent.
Thank you! Hope it would be helpful.
A Short History of the Computer
I made a Go client for this a few years ago, not sure if it still works: https://github.com/imjasonh/go-marvel

I used it to make a gif of Uncanny X-Men covers throughout time: http://www.imjasonh.com/dump/2258.gif
Yeah, look at what happened to Dart in the browser, which is a shame.
> Elon cools down

I'm curious to what you are referring, exactly?
And doesn't have to be taken year after year for new strains of polio, filling your immunological memory with outdated junk.

So, apples and oranges.

There are reasons to have reservations about flu shots that do not apply to polio and such.
https://abstrusegoose.com/302

I think a modern case around the Babylonian language confusion can be built around the fact that before you agreed on a common vocabulary, you may not at all be sure whether your exchange of ideas is actually being successful. A bit like talking about latitude and longitude coordinates, but later you find out the receiver was a flat earther.

See also: RFC 2119
The Saudi Funds Supporting Tech's Growth
Why are you posting the exact same comment you posted three days ago word for word?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18259097
Are you conducting some kind of controlled experiment and using HN commenters as lab rats?
Systemd objectively breaks Unix principles. That makes it subjectively "crap", because in your eyes (not in everybody's, and not in a demonstrated superior or inferior way) that's a bad thing. I'm not too sure what's complicated.

And as I was saying to the other poster, calling something "objectively crap" isn't just most of the time wrong, it's almost always inflammatory. "Don't do it" feels like a good rule of thumb here.
I just started using a todo list app a few weeks ago. I started with any.do but I didn't care for the UX. I am on todoist now, and it works well but I'm not married to it. I do like how I can enter "every X days" in the due date to make a recurring task. It is very natural.

I haven't signed up for yours yet, but I might. Your UI looks good...Simple and clean. I like that.

My only hesitation is that I really like how todoist has an android app. I have a widget on my homescreen and I can mark tasks as complete without any effort at all. They are also constant reminders of what I have to do.

If you ever get native phone apps/widgets I would be all over this. I might even be able to stop using Keep for note taking
Good to hear; I know of other GNU maintainers who feel the same, I don't think we're isolated. FWIW, Guix adopted the Contributor Covenant and it's worked great for us—our reaction to incidents is firm but it has never been "punitive" contrary to what RMS suggests.
i would not have minded if mozilla had offered their own vpn service, trusting some third party sounds like a bad idea.
iTikZ: Cell and line magic for PGF/TikZ-to-SVG rendering in Jupyter notebooks
They are MUCH cheaper -- especially when graphics card is factored in -- and don't require being tethered to a computer. Most consumers just aren't going to put up with that.
Careful. Javascript was a perfectly acceptable temporary solution too. Temporary solutions have a way of becoming permanent.
The whole point of inserting malicious hardware for shadowy intelligence-related reasons is that you do it either out of government coercion or via government funding.

I don't know why it's so implausible that Chinese intelligence is using the Chinese tech industry to carry out their operations when American intelligence uses the American tech industry to carry out their operations. Nobody said PRISM was fake news because why would Apple and Google and Facebook invest in it; the actual investment came from NSA and the cooperation of these companies is via top secret FISA warrants. China doesn't even need to maintain the pretense of legality that the NSA does.

Again, I don't think the Bloomberg story by itself is credible anymore, but I also don't think it's as implausible as you are making it sound.
Here is a (recent) very interesting interview with PG, among others, talking about Viaweb. Bonus points: very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WO5kJChg3w
They use Iterated Amplification to train ML models on toy problems to validate the approach. So, yes.
it was, and thank you for sharing it.
Cars have been sending data back to manufacturers (which include location, odometer, etc) for a while now and there's almost no way to disable it nicely (destroying the radios voids warranty):
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160809-your-car-is-not-your...
> please let me know what more you would like to see there

I would love to see Hyde dogfood Hyde. I think that might be helpful to those coming in to check it out. What does the documentation of Hyde look like put through Hyde and output through vanilla Jekyll?

Clever name, by the way.
I don't see any markdown though. And you should show the html output as an example. (if you want users anyway)
Building React-Native Hackernews Clone
Wasm apps can just target canvas if they don't want to deal with the DOM. That's what they've been doing, since DOM access has been reliant on using JS.
DC's legalization effort has been incomplete due to Congress undemocratically stepping in and overriding local laws, but the legalization measure specifically changed the definition of reasonable suspicion so that "smell of marijuana" cannot by itself be used to effect a search. Makes sense since part of the point of legalization was to reverse the unequal enforcement of drug laws against people of color. Seems like other places could easily adopt a similar rule.
Boy do I remember these. Analog component inputs. Essentially RGB+Hsync+Vsync. Or more correctly, YPbPr,H,V if I got the abbreviations correct.

I used to crimp/solder BNCs to cables, and I was so happy when we could switch to SDI instead of analog video cables. Each cable for the analog component video cables had to be the same length (within a very small tolerance) or the signals would be out of sync causing the color to not be reproduced correctly. Some devices had timing that you could adjust to compensate, but cable length was important. If you screwed up one of the cables and needed to cut off a bit to redo the end, you had to do the same "correction" to all of the other cables to match.
Why would this be treated as an act of war?

Spy work happens all the time; it's a normal state of affairs. One country or company stealing secrets from another country or company happened today, whether or not the Bloomberg report holds water.

It's only the first volley in WWIII if world militaries choose to escalate in response.
> I can make my program and make it an executable in one line of code.

Many Lisp implementations do that - even native.

Personally I think the Racket IDE sucks. Big. It's slow and buggy. On my Mac it is barely usable. The interactive response is extremely poor.
It has been my experience in Colorado that a lot of additional people will try or occasionally use cannabis over time after legalization. First it becomes normal to try it, people realize it's not that big of deal, they become occasional users. Also, there's a big barrier to entry when you have to find a dealer to buy illegal drugs from, it's just not worth it for most casual users to maintain the relationship in order to use infrequently.

I'm pro-legalization though. I don't think more people occasionally using cannabis is a big deal.
Maybe a stupid question but why does the browser itself need to do compilation?

Why can’t WebAssembly developers compile ahead of time and just serve the binary?
I enjoyed it quite a bit in my teens and twenties, but not so much anymore in my 50s and 60s.
There were some very dire predictions.

... But you are still correct.
I see a shell, I type `ls`. It's how life works.
Fair enough. I appreciate your feedback and will take it to heart.
It's weird, though, right? I mean, flip the logic.

What if someone had a code of conduct that was clearly about people treating each other well...but started it with "First, you must acknowledge that there is no God." Or "First you must acknowledge that Mohammad is God's messenger." Or "First you must accept the mitzvot as binding." Or "Brahman is Truth and Reality."

None of these is promoting inclusion.

That said: I'm an observer here. I haven't chosen to participate or not participate in the SQLite community because of this. I simply think it's a strange place to promote one's religion, and it doesn't surprise me that non-Christians might find it unwelcoming.
I don't actually think Rust has that many stumbling blocks compared to other programming languages. It's a pain in the ass compared to Haskell but not e.g. Java.
Supermicro short sellers?
Why is 'rival' quoted?
> What societal harm is there?

Brain damage in young adults.

> "Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife"

http://m.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657.full (2012)
For longer distances like earth to mars I don't think it really makes sense. The tug will be out orbiting the sun for quite a while before it is useful again. So you might as well leave it attached to the cargo and use it for a return journey. But then isn't really a tug any more.

Maybe could be useful for moving things between LEO and Lagrange. Then the tug could be used again quickly.
Big companies are now scandal proof. No amount of negligence or criminality is bad enough to bring one down.

Wells Fargo committed millions of counts of bank fraud, yet they still exist and people buy their services.

BP destroyed a large part of the economy and ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico, yet they still exist and people buy their products. One of their top lawyers just became Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.

VW built millions of cars with hardware designed to fake emissions testing data, yet they still exist and people buy their services.
The Council of Europe has appointed Dutch political party CDA member of parliament Pieter Omtzigt as special investigator in the murder case of Daphne Caruana Galizia. He is expected to present his report April 2020.
I worked for a retail analytics company that would do things like track WiFi/Bluetooth devices, faces, and general shopper traffic.

It had been a few years since I've worked there but the real problem was that all of this didn't work. All these promises to our clients that's you would get data equivalent of online shoppers, in store, but it simply wouldn't work. Guess people age, gender, previously seem face, tracking where they walked. All horribly inaccurate.

Though apparently it's an industry wide thing as "imputing" was common practice. Don't have the data? Make it up!
By private pension I mean a self-invested one. Essentially a trading account that you control.

In the UK they're called Self Invested Private Pensions.
> Developers need laptops to run their development environment in.

Not strictly true. I spent a bit of time using Cloud 9 and found it to be quite a useable experience. It’s certainly very handy to be able to access a dev environment from web browser wherever you happen to be.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
The biggest complaint I have seen and read are MRI studies denoting reduced gray matter in the "orbitofrontal cortex" or that area of the brain which effects decision making.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2016/09/reg...
Every reason one might use to outlaw marijuana is far worse for alcohol. Health effects, addiction, harm to others, etc.

If we intend to keep pot illegal, alcohol should follow.
Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
This is fine as an ethics or description of good manners.

The problem is that it is often turned into a politics.

The logic of this kind of identitarian social critique, insofar as it becomes political, is decidedly illiberal.

It is authoritarian.

But all of this is nothing new! In fact it's about 30+ years old.

It originates in the aftermath of the failed revolution of the 1960s--in other words, it appeared as a phenomenon of the dissolution of the New Left in the 1970s-1980s.

Some see its origins in the Maoist practice of self-critique. I think it's better understood as the response to the realization that the New Left's politics was no longer viable--that its historical potential was completely exhausted.
>rocks

Wait till these guys find out what most fossils are made of
Branson steps down from role as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop
Actively recruiting a group of people that are underrepresented in a community seems like a good way to solve the problem. If there really aren't people pushing people away, then the ratios will quickly correct and you can rest assured it was a recruiting problem. If people start to drop out you can follow up and discover the problems. It may not even be the communication of existing contributors. It could just be friction in the contribution process that is preventing the community from growing.
It depends on context. Sometimes an absolute datetime value is going to be more appropriate, but often relative times are more meaningful and easier to parse (e.g. in this comment thread). Although as others have mentioned, I'd appreciate the full datetime in the title attribute whenever this is used!
The P51 actually has a magnesium body, which I only found out because I was leaning it against some concrete walls in a parking garage while troubleshooting some equipment with it.

It's a tank.
What are you serving? Some of the Rust frameworks for backend should be able to do more than 1000req/s, but it depends what you're doing.
Yes the survey is really poorly done, the only people who are susebtible to spend a lot of time sending and checking emails are the people who work, not everyone. The survey needs to be redone and more accurate.

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https://downloader.vip/minecraft-pocket-edition/

https://downloader.vip/google-play-services/

https://downloader.vip/counter-strike/
DC is in a similar boat for slightly different reasons: possession and use were legalized by citizen initiative with the expectation that the city would create a regulatory apparatus for production and sale, and then they were forbidden from spending any of their money to do so by Congress, which has veto power over their budget. So now it's in a weird quasi-legal gray area.
>A list like Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo! is probably more accurate

G for Google makes better acronyms, and you can throw in Netflix too: MAY FANG!
Elon Musk says his first tunnel will open in December
A guess - Twitter
Why does GitHub need my support ?
Maybe something like:

Bloomberg registers with cert auth. They publish articles and each has a pending cert item (image?) on their page that is loaded from 3rd party cert auth. The cert auth uses algos to determine if it's fake or not and published results back to the placeholder.

Edit: Forgot to mention, please do take the idea. And good luck!
The facebox isn't really the problem, it's the price and the equipment. You need a highish-end PC in addition to the VR rig itself, towers for sensors/ir lights, etc. I think the Quest will probably be a game changer here, being a stand alone self-contained unit at a reasonable price point.
> Sidenote: the ublox M8 chips are a pleasure to work with, and there are variants that have IMUs (gyros and accelerometers) on board for sensor fusion. All for <10$. What an exciting time we live in!

I wish someone would build a USB data logger using one of these. I still use one to geotag photos and record trips, but all the available models use old GPS-only chips and can be pretty jumpy when reception is poor. Having one that fused multiple GNSS and had an IMU to smooth out some of the random jumpiness would be ideal.
I would guess that the downstairs neighbors were upset to come home to a hole in the ceiling and a laptop stuck halfway through their coffee table.
Picture of the Google Docs post on what they tried (which appears to no longer be available online) can be found:

https://femto.pw/6bsm.png

As a reference to the above poster.
So you prove knieveltech correct, the price of bread has not gone down despite whatever productivity advances may have come about since then.