skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy to say from an ivory tower, but in the real world people have to get to work every day.
Gosh I can relate to the blank feeling. Any idea why this might be the case?
While it's true that Safari only supports H.264, Google already produces quite a lot of H.264 video. In fact, Google has a Google Meet iOS app; I don't suppose you have any idea if they push H.264 to that app, or if they've actually embedded a software VP8/9 encoder/decoder into the app? I sincerely hope it's the former for battery life reasons if nothing else (though we already know Google doesn't seem to care about power efficiency).

What does Web Push have to do with WebRTC?
Damn It All: The Penguin Book of Hell
Given that the Amiga supposedly replaced a refrigerator sized computer, probably to avoid buying 18 more. If it's all controlled by radio anyway, what's the point in decentralizing?
If you use "rent-seeking", you need to know what it means. I do not believe that you do know what it means. Economists use "rent" to denote extraction from existing wealth. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economicrent.asp

Brave adds wealth by pricing users back in from the start (via a genesis block of tokens we give to users and referring creators), and by blocking inefficient, dangerous intermediaries (cut out the middlemen, as Marx said) for a much more efficient market.

Those intermediaries are the _grands rentiers_ today, and yet all but Google, Facebook, Criteo, Amazon, and a few others are dying. Ad/tracker-blocking is a user right but it alone cannot explain the walking death of most intermediaries in the Lumascape.

Rather, too many intermediaries arbitrage and abuse data. This induces not only the ongoing rise of ad/tracker blocking by users -- it cuts off residual revenue to publishers (who make <40% off of programmatic ads in practice, sometimes <20%), who also want fewer hands in the till. Arbitrage always goes away (till next opportunity). The data misuse causes ongoing rifts and scandals. GDPR and laws like it are icing on the cake.

If you are party to the existing Lumascape of ad-tech vendors, your post is projection and I suggest looking honestly in a mirror to see "rent-seeking". If you're calling Brave rent-seeking out of some irrational animus, take a closer look at the product itself, and let's reason together.
I too have wondered this! In fact, Doom 1 was the only game to ever make me throw up (9 or 10 years old at the time). Despite playing all kinds of games comfortably, Half-Life 2 makes me nauseated.

For some reason I've associated the sounds of those games to the sick feeling. I've always wondered if the sound has anything to do with it OR if my brain is just reminded by the sounds and is trying to warn me "I've been sick here".
So what you're saying is, visibly panicking is a public good?
> When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.

Doesn't this contradict what UE is trying to regulate now (the copyright bill)?

> Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.

Can I opt out on this?
This sounds like a use for the everybody-loops compiler flag: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19964
You can’t. Really, it’s impossible to vet everything.

I use littlesnitch and ClamXav as an extra security measure, along with what the OS brings but as far as CLI third party tools go, we are all blind: pip, npm, gems, random prexompiled go apps, docker containers and te list goes on and on...
>The liberal understanding of this is not entirely wrong

Yes, it is.

>The evidence is that if you look at the big pro-life groups, they are not just anti abortion, they are also anti birth control.

That is incorrect, and a good example of the bubbles being real. You are just looking at church opposition because that's what the media likes to focus on showing. And it would not make the liberal idea of the conservative view correct even if it were true. Christians who oppose birth control do so because they value the traditions of their culture, not because they hate women. Again, most of them are women. And many of the people who are portrayed as "opposing birth control" actually just oppose having their tax money used to pay for other people's birth control, which is not the same thing.

>So it is not entirely irrational for liberals to think the way they do about this.

It isn't irrational. Being wrong is not the same as being irrational.
We used to have a thing called glass that worked really F'king well.
> The RISC-V instruction set family does benefit from the decades of research since MIPS was first created.

Agree.

Also, RISC-V has a business model built around open source, it isn't a desperation move, which is what the MIPS move smells like.

Also, RISC-V has mind share right now -- implementing RISC-V variations is now homework sets for MIT 6.004. MIPS is day-old bread.
I'm sure it's easier to snoop on SMS because we're talking about telcos, which definitely have rich histories working with the government. (Remember snowden leaks/verizon?)

Messaging apps on the other hand are what the govt generally CAN'T break into.
Well, not so random, seems like it would be pretty easy when you give narrow personally identifiable snippets like "I worked at a portfolio analytics company so I had free reign to snoop around"...

Who knows other similar comments they've said in other threads on HN?
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> This is a complicated topic that deals with legal issues and our primary goal is to unblock contributions from specific corporate contributors.

You were saying?
yea i never thought about this happening to canned food either.... until i heard stories of shipping containers full of counterfeit redbull being caught by customs at a terminal.

If it's branded and there is a decent profit margin, i guess we should assume some questionable actor will steal that margin given the opportunity.
Is Audio Technica a gaming headset brand?
Take a look at Chinese e-commerce sites and learn how they deal with frauds, they have been dealing with these for more than 10 years.

In terms of technology, one can use machine learning for fraud detection. In terms of business operation, they have dedicated e-commerce site for official sellers, and there are several sites aiming up middle class market where products are curated and QCed by the sites.(sort of higher end Amazon Basics)
And even though they strive to be even handed, one particular segment of the US claims that they belong to the opposite end of the political spectrum.
On the other hand if you're able to get the money and time together to start a bank, it is literally the least likely business to fail. In fact, in growing areas it is not uncommon for local businesses to throw in together to do just this.

Starting a restaurant? You've got a 21% chance of failure in the first year.

You've started a bank? Congratulations, you can now lend money you don't even have and earn interest on it. You have joined the club of 7,053 FDIC insured institutions of which about 0.25% fail per year.
As BTC Difficulty decreases, the profitability of miners begins to re-enter the picture, but at a cost.

It no longer costs ~$6000 of dollars to mine a bitcoin. Difficulty has dropped dramatically, by 30%+ since August, so miners can actually make money selling BTC in the $3000 to $4000 region now.

I used to theorize that $6000 was the price floor for BTC, but I was proven wrong these past few months. If BTC's price drops, then miners leave, which causes the difficulty to drop, which allows (remaining) miners to stay in and make a profit.

Which now brings up the question: what is BTC's true price floor? If difficulty can ramp up and down and respond to market conditions, what exactly is supporting BTC's price up? If anything, the low difficulty of BTC now acts as a resistance: miners probably are fine making a profit now at $3500ish, so I don't see any real reason for BTC's price to go up.
When ATC Says 'Unable'
if you still have the packaging, it might be worth sending all of it to the real company to see if they can determine 1. if its fake, 2. if so, how they teach consumers/wholesalers to catch it and destroy it.
As a Silicon Valley outsider that surprises me. I've heard that interviews at all the FAANG companies are all difficult (as an aside, why is Microsoft never in that list??). For organizations the size of Google and Apple, there are bound to be employees who squeaked by their interviews and would not have been hired at the other company. Why does "Google" on a resume look better than "Apple"? Is the Google interview that much more selective than Apple's?
I have an edition of this published by Taschen [1] and spent some time going through it (about 3/4 of the way through).

My main frustration is there are many mistakes. In an effort to keep the text aligned with the original, those mistakes are in-line and the corrections are at the beginning of the book in a prefix. This makes following the proofs a bit difficult since once you get far enough along the mistakes compound. The later proofs are built on earlier proofs. There are some instances where Proof C has a mistake that relies on Proof B that has a mistake, etc. And then flipping back to the corrections and keeping track of all of them is a bit difficult.

It's not a problem if you are just enjoying the book for its aesthetics but since I was very carefully checking my understanding of the proofs it was annoying.

I still recommend the book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Byrne-Six-Books-Euclid-Multilingual/d...
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Looks great, but I prefer to use native Cisco IPSec[1] so I don't have to install 3rd party applications. Works out of the box with macOS, iOS, and Android. Non-technical users can follow a tutorial and setup on their devices. It does lack some nice-to-haves such as two-factor authentication though.

[1] https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
American Ghostwriter
Stop Amazon propaganda. Serverless is when there is no server, for example only clients communicating P2p.
This applies to way more than just diet. As I've gotten older I've realized how many people are totally adverse to doing things that are even marginally difficult or inconvenient. Eating healthy and exercising definitely fall into that category.
this is true on amazon as well. $20 mouse cost me $8 to return.
Your thought process reads like: "Anyone motivated to solve x issue is only trying to make a buck by selling a solution."

What venture capitalists are funding these guys? https://climate.nasa.gov/
> Sorry, but that's not going to help at all. After Amazon banned incentivized reviews, pretty much all the sellers contacted the reviewers to buy products and then get reimbursed by PayPal. Sure, it's against the rules, but it's not being enforced.

Source for that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-merchant...

If you have a Facebook account, you can find those groups easily. Though you may have to search for obfuscations like "AZON".
These include instructions for saturating arithmetic (arithmetic that give the greatest or lowest possible values, rather than wrapping around), 16 and 32 bit fixed point, fused multiply add instructions, and some SIMD instructions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS_DSP

Basically your usual DSP fare.

ARM has a similar extension; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#DSP_enhanceme... for a reference to it, or http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.... for details.

I don't think that RISC-V has a DSP extension yet; they are still working on nailing down their SIMD/vector extension story.
It seems odd to me that they would make such move in the first place without proper legal analysis

As we hear repeatedly on HN from Google's Dragonfly apologists, it's perfectly normal to keep the legal department out of the loop in modern-day "disruptive" businesses.
This is a very similar thing as saying people choose to be poor. Do you agree with that?
Lol, the story with them choosing MIPS over ARM is that ARM was too afraid to get slapped with sanction, and they went to MIPS instead.

After ARM saw that the sky is not falling on MIPS, they decided to license them their cores as well.
It may also never have had a legal challenge. we may very well live to see a day where taxing communication is rendered... illegal.

Things change. Remember 30 years ago where people could smoke inside a grocery store? How mind-warpingly fast things can change right?
Israeli test-tube steak smells real, feels real… and may even be kosher
We?

Granted I understand if you don't want to say.
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"To disable stats collection, run the operator with the flag --analytics=false"
> you're not interested in the investments of someone who buys

Someone is a person, not multiple projects.

And no, his specific investment on any individual project isn't that particularly interesting.
SIPC covers things like missing investments If Robinhood was undercapitalized and used money in the sweep accounts to cover the liabilities of bad investments to keep themselves in business.
Where do you see the advantage of this package of established "batteries included" promise libraries like http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/api/collections.html ?
So many people here only look at the business cost of what Google wanted to do and don't care about the human cost.

It's great that you were born in a western country with a good understanding of freedom and your rights. The majority of the world don't have these conditions. Your "business" decision effects billions of people in the world.

I was born and mostly raised in Iran. "Business" decisions from companies that sold the government DPI equipment made sense for them, their shareholders, and their investors. But at what cost? Iran is a very young country in terms of population age. Many Iranians simply didn't have the opportunity to grow simply because a few companies wanted more $$$ in their pockets.

If you in any way support these decisions while having complete freedom not to, then you're complicit. You're part of the reason so many countries have a lost/dark generation. You're part of the cause of so much suffering in the world.

Good on you Google Engineers who stood against making a few $ of profit to stop the suffering of many, many people.
His "are index funds communist"[0] theme is great and he has said it's a personal favorite of his (there are many of his articles over the years which discuss this question, I've only linked to the most in-depth one). I also recommend his discussion of the DAO 'hack'[1], and for pure absurdity value this story about insurance contracts[2].

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/are-in...

[1]: here, he also links to other analysis by him around the same time: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-17/blockc...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/arbitr...
An Experimental Study of the Skype Peer-To-Peer VoIP System (2006)
I never saw that as a criticism.

Just an interesting counterpoint.
Is going black that much more costly?
Who does the passing in in development mode? Where does the data come from?

You have this problem anyway, and it blocks you from launching new code. These out of band communication mechanisms always lead to problems with developer ergonomics and repeatability.

It's essentially a larger version of the problem of testing pure functions versus heavy usage of mocks. Passing the data in directly makes testing the callee very simple.
So maybe we'll learn the lesson that shorelines aren't constant, and stop building right on the water? The ocean levels have been up and down hundreds or thousands of feet in the past.

Or we won't learn, and the rise will be slow enough that no one's going to drown. (Other than very low-lying islands, which were precarious to begin with, and which don't usually house complex civilizations.)
What garbage is this article? God created the world whole.and thats final. So deal with it.
As one of our clients at the private bank where I used to work put it, “Don’t try to make me rich, I’m already rich.”
Never attribute to malice what can equally be explained by stupidity.
In that case I can only recommend going to a library and skimming few books in the young-reader aisle :-P

There definitely are many I found there to be entertaining or insightful just for me,even if I never got around reading it to my daughter :)

Writing a book you wish your younger self had stil seems a worthwhile endeavour :)
It has been proven that Face ID can be fooled for a while now.
http://www.bkav.com/d/top-news/-/view_content/content/103968...

Edit: changed 'circumvented' to 'fooled'
I wonder if Malaysia will try to arrest a Goldman exec in a foreign country and extradite them. The US has set such a scary precedent with the Huawei case.

(What I'm referencing: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/business/huawei-cfo-arres...)
You 'steal' from the future every time you pump gas, eat meat, flush the toilet, maybe even breathing counts by your definition? I used to live next to a Neutra building in the ghetto of N Hollywood... Amazing architecture. Very fortunate the owners kept it in meticulous original condition down to the exterior paint triming colors.

Plenty of property owners would greatly appreciate owning this home, so he could have sold it off if he wanted to. Instead, he tried to cheat the system.
FWIW The few times I was in the US I noticed a couple of things different from my country: 1. We drink water/coffee/tea all day (mostly without sugar), in the US I see sodas constantly (ok, usually light). Also, US guests here always ask for the soda machine while we constantly offer black coffee and water. 2. Portions are huge! One cannot go home with even a trace of hunger. Whereas here, it's ok if it at least tasted nice. 3. Almost all food was sweet, have some Asian wok food? Extremely sweet chili sauce on top. 4. Unlimited refills of soda. It's nice but you drink a lot :) 5. 4 p.m. snack? Out come the pastries (sugar and flour glued together with butter)! Here we may have a cookie or some fruit among my colleagues at least. 6. Breakfast? We have yogurt with muesli or a sandwich (meaning we put a 2 micron thick slice of cheese on the bread) and perhaps a boiled egg. In the US: The smell of Fried potatoes fills the room! 7. Pizza: Have a good pizza here and the sauce is just tomatoes and some garlic. Have a US pizza (sure we also have them here) it's sugar and salt all the way. Better drink 5 glasses of water 1 hour after eating over 10 mg of salt or you will get a headache. 8. We usually cook ourselves, from fresh vegetables and meat or fish. In the US it's much more common to eat out. It's very unlikely to pile sugar and salt into a home cooked meal. 9. I haven't seen the situation in schools but one hears these "pizza is vegetable" stories from the US, here the kids only drink water in school (at least ours, it's not obligatory but parents provide the drinks and most of them get water) and a piece of fruit. During lunch they get about 2 slices of bread with meat or cheese or chocolate sprinkles (hagelslag).

At least that was my experience. Of course, I loved the burgers and after a few days of them you start to get that real craving for them. I love burgers and I love fries.
> YouTube (and perhaps GMail) is extra slow on non-Chrome browsers because they use a dropped-and-never-standardised feature that is available only on Chrome, and force a slow polyfill on Firefox (and perhaps Edge): https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185

I work on the Polymer team at Google, and have worked with YouTube on this. I can promise you that the folks at YouTube are working very hard on porting to the specs that are supported crossbrowser. Switching to the final versions of the specs is super high priority for all of us, there were just some changes between v0 and v1 that are hard to paper over, and as you might imagine, YouTube has a lot of code.

> Google Earth is Chrome-only, because they use the Chrome-only NativeClient

My understanding is that if it weren't for spectre, cross-browser Google Earth would very likely be shipping today. There is a web assembly version of Earth, but it needs threads and SharedArrayBuffer, which is disabled in most browsers today because of spectre-class security issues.

https://medium.com/google-earth/earth-on-web-the-road-to-cro...

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/02/meltdown-s...
Seems to be missing the fact that if you are unable to handle stressful situations you have no business being a police officer in the first place.

Becoming a police officer is akin to stating: "I will approach confrontations level-headed and try to deescalate" and I'm sure police officers receive training to that end as well.
- brew.sh: shell script is hosted on Github, transferred over HTTPS. Brew is based on using Github to store repos for formulas (=packages), so you need to trust Github. If you don't trust Github, don't use homebrew.

- atom and emacs are both signed with a Developer ID certificate issued from Apple. macOS doesn't even let you run unsigned binaries downloaded from the internet by default. You can confirm using:

$ codesign -vv ~/Downloads/Atom.app # verify
$ codesign -dvv ~/Downloads/Atom.app # display signature info
That is pretty awesome. So three 'open' RISC architectures (RISC-V, MIPS, SPARC) with varying amounts of ecosystem support.

That the patent stuff seems to be dealt with is key here, one of the challenges with working with MIPS and SPARC was always that their 'parent' organizations (SGI and Sun respectively) were essentially patent trolls when it came to third parties being successful with the architecture. Now that SGI and Sun are just footnotes in the computer industry, perhaps these architectures can flourish.
>moving from being a freelance writer (sounds like a relatively cushy job) to an Amazon site worker must have seemed like entering hell.

Agree. Everyone has some version of their own hell. Somewhere out there.
This is exactly why companies shouldn't be involved with business in China.
Most of those 'artists', are just people playacting on instagram as artists. I suspect few will find any relevance for that reason alone. The number of people who want to appear as artists have always outnumbered actual creators by several orders of magnitude. Actual artists are loathe to do such marketing of 'branded content' ouside desperation and subtrafuge.

Personality marketing on social media might be an art in itself, but it sure isn't pretty up close.
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The divide between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon weakens national security
You're correct that were architectural reasons initially for why Apache httpd 2.0 not considered, but the license also played a significant role in later years, when it became obvious that Apache 1.3.x was showing its age.

nginx was initially considered, but the upstream wasn't receptive to patches that OpenBSD worked on, including a chroot(2) support and security patches, i.e: reallocarray to protect against arithmetic overflows. At the time, Nginx cared more about it's Nginx PLUS offering and less about the community.
It's very hard to define a floor. Speculation exists that there isn't one, though I wouldn't exactly agree with that. Bottom line, the floor is wherever people want to buy it enough to overcome their caution about doing so.