skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A decentralized social network protocol is needed (ActivityPub is something like this), data stored in a neutral way, and the software. When exchanging data between users, you exchange only data, and you see it based on your software (protocol implementation).

The software would ideally be hosted on the cloud, so it's always online. You log in your software and see all your updates/interact with others.
At least in the USA, the legal justification is to promote progress in science and useful arts, not to give someone/some entity a monopoly on use an idea. If someone writes a great book and then up and dies (John Kennedy Toole, "A Confederacy of Dunces") I'm not sure that giving any entity a copyright promotes any kind of progress in science or useful arts. Toole can't write another book.

Yes, this is legalistic, but just giving some entity ownership over representations of anthropomorphized rodents doesn't really make a lot of sense either.
I tried to explain that in abstract terms at https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/#st.... That also links to other, less abstract, introductions.
I'm not so sure that'll still be true once they have a critical mass of users on there. Perhaps a lot of users will have been brought on through their network, instead of through their belief in the platform. Before you know it, perhaps most of their users won't care as much as the original set!
To me, it isn't really clear what it is about.

Facebook said:

> Did partners get access to messages?

Yes. But people had to explicitly sign in to Facebook first to use a partner’s messaging feature. Take Spotify for example. After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app. Our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature.

Spotify pushed "log in with Facebook" and as far as I know, for a while it was the only way to use Spotify, and I would have expected Facebook to word the above stronger if they had additional steps to give access to messages. Do you know additional details? (really wish both sides here would present detailed flows)
There was a great Radiolab episode about the lower-frequency stuff. IIRC, the hypothesis there is that you can stimulate certain types of brainwaves that tend to run on similar frequencies, so that seems like it's probably working via a separate mechanism from the proposed effects of the ultrasound treatment, since ultrasound is way too high-frequency to correspond to any known brainwave frequencies. Perhaps both treatments could be complementary, though, assuming they both pan out.
Smashing Magazine has become unpracticable with their last redesign. They wanted to focus on paying readers so I hope at least those have a good experience, but I almost totally cut reading it.
Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up
I think "water cooler" talk is over stated because many companies will have different channels to discuss these kinds of things. You no doubt loose the face to face human interaction, but there are other ways to account for this. Getting out and socializing with people via hobbies can help greatly here.

As for the commute, I've worked out a flexible work schedule that lets me be home a few days but as I stated I'm in a higher COL state (NJ). So a 30-40% reduction in pay ends up being a fairly big change in QOL. I've learned to make use of the time on the train by engaging in things I enjoy (video games, podcasts) which may be harder at home. Moving closer also doesn't help because A. it gets even more expensive B. QOL drops due to higher density areas which makes it harder to ride bikes, garden, etc.

We've accepted the choice we make to be where we are because of what we get from our life outside of work, but it doesn't mean I can't hope for better remote possibilities.
Good work. Besides fixing the false positives others have suggested, I would really like to see the total numer of posts per category in comparison to the total number of posts per month, i.e. a relative quantity to better explore wether there is a trend or not.
You're right, it is easy to over engineer sites these days. It boils down to tooling for SPAs vs traditional static sites. The tooling for making static sites, even the most modern tooling such as Hugo or Jekyll, simply pales in comparison to libraries such as React, Vue, or others. The author is absolutely right that developers are attracted to shiny new objects, and the interest of the greater community is focused on SPA libraries when we should be equally (or arguably, more) focused on static site generation libraries as well.
I think most Elon Musk fanboys like him because he’s trying new/interesting things. Believing that he’s infallible and always right is ridiculous, but I would also say it’s ridiculous to not appreciate someone who is trying to solve real problems instead of creating solutions to problems that don’t exist.
The line to know: "Remarkably, combining as few as four consensus choices outperformed the wisdom of thousands of individuals." Confer away!
You might want to consider performing your text analysis using something with a negex implementation; this would distinguish an instance of "remote" from "no remote" or "can't hire remote".
According to the Verge Apple had acces to data even if the user explicitly disabled data sharing.

>Giving Apple access to users’ Facebook contacts and calendar entries, even if they had disabled data sharing, as part of a partnership that still exists.
>> you're paying them $5/user/mo instead of paying Slack $6.67/user/mo and you're right back where you started

Are we complaining about price or are we complaining about proprietary services?
Really hope the OP did full word searches...otherwise he would be double counting "react" and "reactjs" as well
Perhaps it's saga writers who don't talk about feelings. Take a look at the Oedipus plays, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus. I can't say anything about the ancient Greek but public performance of the modern dress English version of Antigone (based on Jean Anouilh's French version) that we put on in high school was as emotionally charged as you can get. If Sophocles were around now he'd be serious box office material.
How to run Julia in the Browser
Great interview with Hassabis from the BBC. It's meanderingly biographical, with insights about his path through internships, curiosity, startups, commitment, burnout, trusted team mates and eventual successes ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06qvj98
Right, which should also indicate that this trip to Cuba wasn’t part of a pattern but rather an anomaly.

I understand the complex legal frames that this exists in, but they appear to have the data to be way more precise here.
> you can then do pci-passthrough and let the guest system have nearly-full access to that graphic card with nearly full performances.

It is possible, but when it works and works well, which is not always the case. In addition, one may have to lock the card for usage with the guest only, since drivers may not be compatible with intermittent (=on/off) vfio usage.

I've had mixed experiences, depending on the hardware. my current system is 100% stable, however, I don use the card on the host (it causes instability). My previous system worked badly, and it was essentially not usable.
This is so crazy, I love the idea but the world isn't going back to how it was in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I've been in web hosting for a long time and I love the idea of everyone creating their own little website. The truth is people don't have the skills or care enough to do something like that, FB, Quora, Twitter, all these services that are walled gardens work because they make it EASY to share/create and CONNECT people easily with others and easy to use apps that do x. WordPress is about the closest you get and it is a nightmare to manage and $$$ on the hosting side compared to closed gardens.

We need to just accept the new world and keep innovating inside it, there isn't going back to how it was.

And stop this nonsense about privacy, either pass a big federal law or accept that your info is how free sites are funded :).
I might be looking at this too simply, but I think FB's "current" success is related to the fact that it's simple to use and "everyone" is already there. It's just not worth the effort for a non-technical person to set up a personal website that involved selecting a platform, configuration, hosting, space restrictions, fees, access restrictions, etc. FB is like an "all-inclusive" resort for those wanting to easily connect/share with friends, family and acquaintances quickly. It's free (at least in direct financial costs) and there's very little friction and decision-making involved.

As a web developer, I see the value in owning your web space, but it's a very hard sell for others due to the extra work involved.
What's wrong with Mattermost? We use it for our FOSS community (and I use another instance for our company), works well.
Exactly right. People esssentially voted for this model of gaming with their wallets; it proliferated in mobile gaming where the race to the bottom for game pricing meant new revenue models had to arise
I think the advantage of VB is its installer and ease of creating and spinning up desktop VMs. The last time I tried using virt manager, I decided it wasn't for me, at its then-level of polish, but this was probably back in 2011 or 2012 or something. Boxes seems promising in this regard...hopefully it gets some momentum behind it.
I have a devops guy trying to push me to use Vagrant at the moment, but I am aware of these issues with virtualbox. I was thinking about using one of the lxc shims, but now you have me curious, how useful is openshift in that "I want to spin local vms up for testing" approach? I thought it was much more geared to server and not workstation, as opposed to vagrant.

Of course others are right, virt-manager is probably a better replacement I think.
Great interview with Hassabis from the BBC.

It's meanderingly biographical, with insights about the long path to success: internships, curiosity, startups, commitment, burnout, trusted team mates and eventual successes ..
the most amazing and unbelievable part of this story is "Congress wants to do something about the issue"
To be or not to be, that is the question,
Not if you use the Virtualbox extension pack to VNC (that's the free/GPL extension pack, not the Oracle one). That will work with anything. Hell, it'll work with a DOS 1.0 guest.

(and yes, it's VNC, not RDP, I believe the oracle extension pack actually allows for Virtualbox to do RDP as well. But you can stay GPL-only and still support headless VNC. I believe phpVirtualbox uses it with beautiful results)

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=85886
> ... everyone should...

But everyone doesn't, and lawmakers are, on a good day, when doing their jobs, more concerned with reality than idealism.

Or at least, they "should" be :)
Ask HN: IQ test recommendation?
Any recommendations for the best online IQ test? Paid or free.

A search reveals lots of options. Understanding which of the offerings is backed by real science doesn't seem to be all that obvious.
It appears we are talking about place of origin of accounts, at least in my wife’s case.
Not sure if I entirely agree with this. A lot of the luxuries we have now were enhanced for the military. For instance, airplanes (aileron and jet turbine development), internet, semiconductor, and even PCBs (or mores specifically, the predecessor Hybrids ICs). A good amount of grants actually come from the Navy and Army for research grants in the academia. Though I did go to grad school for Mech Eng so we probably saw more grants from the military because of that.
It’s a lot more about how fast we can get stuff done. Wordpress exists for a reason and lots of apps are build with redux - getting what you need done at a cheap cost, not bikeshedding new processes when the old works fine.
Here's a time lapse of William Santacruz using MagicaVoxel to make some Mario fanart [1]. I recommend playing at 2x speed.

Gives you a good idea of what the app can do as well as how voxel modelling is different from traditional polygonal modeling like in Blender.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPtw7L-lV7Y
Confessions of an E-2C Hawkeye Radar Operator
I understand why the author obfuscated the anti-virus (hereafter: malware) vendor, but by doing that he makes the information less interesting. Now I won't know which vendor to perform tests on or avoid altogether when it's clear the malware's slimy tentacles are the cause of this issue. Malware violates principles including Least Astonishment--look at how long it took them to figure out it was malware--leading to the poor company spending thousands on consultants to help them diagnose the issue. In a just world, the malware company should get the bill.
@ephtracy has been developing it for over 5 years. I understand why you might be concerned but that's a lot of time to invest creating a niche piece of software in order to launch a malware attack. If it was new today I might share your concern.
Bring back LiveJournal!
This strongly reminds me of that South Park episode which had the BP Oil CEO apologizing for fucking up. Over and over again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTsDqIcpHUc
This conversation always devolves, or evolves into a discussion about RSS.

I actually think there's an opportunity for the "website builders" namely WordPress, to create "consumer" app(s) that pull in feeds from WordPress powered blogs (with RSS) This consumer / consumption app would compete with Facebook/Twitter directly.

WordPress powers a significant % of the web and combined with the market share of some of the other large providers like Wix & Squarespace I think they could mount a legitimate challenge to FB/TW
Yes, but being in the kernel makes it much faster, since you don't have to copy packets between user space and kernel space. It also allows you to use WireGuard from early boot, as well as allowing you to manage it like a real network interface (you can do this with TAP interfaces but it's less clean).

There is a userspace version available if you really don't want to use a kernel module (this is what the Android app uses if your kernel doesn't have WireGuard).

Also, WireGuard is an incredibly small program, less than 4000 lines. You could audit it in day, and has been extensively fuzzed (and was designed to be secure in many aspects). I would be far more worried about buggy network drivers than WireGuard.
The opening line says he served 4.5 years. The parole started after he was released, after having served his time.

edit: after more research it seems my understanding of parole's place in the criminal justice system may have been incomplete. Also there is a distinction between parole and probation that I had never noticed.
Ah, but I wasn't requiring the state to pass laws

A word of advice then: best state that immediately from the very beginning next time, instead of equivocating your way around the point for days. The minute you start talking about "curtailing freedom" there is one inextricable link that conjures in the mind from this type of language: the state.

Backing off it once the horse has been beaten into putty to say "oh I wasn't talking about the state" just looks like you're doing all of this for sport and not attempting to hold an actual meaningful position before finding a convenient escape hatch out of the discussion.
>, but for once I think this is hugely overblown.

its actually just gotten incrementally worse..
Okay, I pay almost nothing for my domain.

Provide me with the tools to create a cheap, mobile friendly, HTTPS website and I'm in.
This is why 90% of data science is the messy, grunt work of just simply cleaning/normalizing the data. The analysis is the easy part.
"For Musk, the only way to get around the city is a car and he won’t allow anyone to tell him otherwise."

And millions upon millions of Americans. Quiet time in a car is sometimes the only solitude many can get in a culture that values it more than some.
It's mostly about 1979 and the humiliation of the hostage crisis.
Yeah, I do. I'm so glad that you've realized that, I feel flattered.
This article is just musk hate, no substance
Yes. Was facebook randomly choosen in coin toss?
Say I am running a social network. I want to allow my users to give access to their own damn data to third parties. I want them to be able to use third party chat UIs.

Now, how do I do it in a non-evil way? I am presuming here that everyone agrees that should be possible to make that work.

Apparently Facebook did it the wrong way. Why?

If the argument is "Users who agreed to this integration did not know what they were doing because the permission dialog was not clear enough", then I have a couple questions:

- What was the permission dialog like, really? Does anyone have a source for this?

- Why does the New York Times not go into this? I mean, if that is the issue, it seems kind of important?

- Reading the latest Times piece, does anyone feel comfortable arguing that the reader will understand what is apparently the issue - the permission dialog was not clear enough? Or is it more likely that the reader is left with the vague notion that Facebook just dumped all user's private messages over to a bunch of other companies?
I think her point is that it's negative, dismissive, and ignorant of statistics to claim that we should ignore these things.

She brought up some extremely valid and common real-life cases for this:

• being in a foreign country
• being at a place with a shitty wi-fi connection
• that 30% of rural America is still dealing with 500kbps or lower internet

Basically, the ignorance to say 'I can't be bothered to take the time to optimize my web site' is literally basically what she's calling people out on. She's, from what I can see, stating that especially in a large organization - (she uses the example of an airline ticket site), the statistics behind this seem significant enough that depending on your number of users, their locations, and their activities, you could be looking at a significant number of users who could simply just ignore your web site or services because you couldn't be arsed to try to optimize your web images, or simply make the site work without having to display them. (Certainly not text-in-images, at the very least!)

I work as a senior iOS dev at one of the big banks in Canada on their iOS app. We won't stop supporting iOS 9 until that number falls under 2%. That still represents more than 10,000 active users for us. These 10k+ users rely on us for mobile banking, and we could lose them as customers if we don't support their devices, because some other bank will be happy enough to keep supporting it if we don't, and it just means more for clients for them.

The author clearly gave another example of this in the anecdote she presented about the individual who could not even log in to the airline's website at the airport itself, and ended up having to schedule a flight with a different company. They lost at least one customer there, and who knows how many more, all because they can't be arsed to check to see how the page behaves on a crummy connection, and optimize it thusly.

I remember living on a farm in rural Illinois, and the best internet we could get at the time was satellite. Which (or, worse, dial-up) is the only option for a lot of Americans, apparently.

Satellite internet, in particular, causes these poorly-optimized web sites with hundreds of tiny JS files and images to take forever to load on this type of connection, because Satellite internet works by pinging the satellite for every connection, meaning downloading a large file can be fast, but opening Facebook can take up to 3-4 minutes. (My ex-partner who still lives on that farm confirmed this for me today.)

In absolutely no way is this woman claiming 'developer time is an infinite resource.' In fact, I think she's saying 'dear developer, the web isn't about you.' It's about the users.

Plan your development for these kinds of cases to start, and you won't be spending 'infinite resources' on it, because it was always considered.
Announcing Try F# on WebAssembly
>Oracle is being extremely aggressive and mounting what is essentially a phishing campaign against organizations that it sees accessing the extension download page. They are e-mailing employees directly and asking them to contact Oracle.

You have a very broad definition of "phishing".
type "website.new" in google chrome
Wordpress on a cheap VPS? TLS certs are free if you use Let’s Encrypt.
> Not only that, their marketing/outreach efforts were also aimed at younger developers.

I do remember a lot of MongoDB t-shirts, cups and pens around every office I was in around 2011-2013. When I would ask they would tell me that a MongoDB developer flew halfway across the world to give them all a workshop on it.
So for those of you who live in uninitiated bubbles, realize the same literal thing can happen to your bank accounts at any time.
>> Why would you spend time and money optimizing for a tiny percentage of users?

I also didn't like the tone of the article. And some arguments were pretty far fetched if you ask me. But this is actually a very valid point. Its not very hard to optimize websites for accessibility -- but its almost never a hard requirement except for government websites.

Oh and, one thing I found particularly interesting about this site:

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Your correlation between iteration cost to net positive for users is completely false. It might be a net positive for developers but certainly not users. You sound like the kind of developer who has only ever worked with an electric screwdriver. Loading 2 megs of javascript so you don't have to redirect and open a dropdown is NOT a benefit to the user.

Relevant: http://suckless.org/philosophy/
Can nerds as a group please drop the "I don't get the sportsball so it's clearly a waste of time" bit? Athletics promote physical fitness, working together as a team, and are at their roots generally enjoyable to those who choose to play them. You can argue about how it's expensive, but in my mind the price is well worth the investment if it gives kids a sense of camaraderie, keeps them out of trouble, and helps teach the value of teamwork. There are of course people who get way too invested in sports, but that is a totally different problem to be addressed, the sports themselves are generally fine.
the vacuum tunnel train idea isn't new, it's 200 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain

tunnels aren't new, they already exist all over the world.

He's just a hype-man.
Policy juries are an under-used decision procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_jury

You could also have one body of the legislature (the US Senate? The House of Lords?) selected by Sortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Which is great for politeness, but largely rubbish for working out what people might be up to, given that people not only regularly disguise malice as stupidity, but in some cases find it highly entertaining. Hence the existence of - https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/
I would think the same if the jewelry cost like $5. It's just a game, don't take it too seriously.
It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams

I’m sorry, but pages that pull in several Mb of ads and tracking to show a couple of Kb of text the user actually wants are by no means constructed for the benefit of the user, any more than the line is baited for the benefit of the fish.
I feel like a better analogy is you're looking for a yeti named Frank and you find a yeti named Danny. But maybe I'm missing something in the history of astronomy.