skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we have different definitions of necessary. Advertising takes many forms. One form of advertising is product placement on shelf space in your drug store. To go back to the example of razor blades...without explicit advertising, someone has to have the prominent shelf space. Shelf space in drug stores is limited. What that means is that the shelf space is going to go to the highest bidder. How then is a cheap razor blade company going to get on the shelves? The answer is that they aren't. Which means that the only channel they are going to be able to distribute through is one like the internet. If you are running your cheap razor blade company which unequivocally benefits everyone who buys it (the razors are just as good, but cost dramatically less) how do you reach your customers without advertising? How does that company get bootstrapped? Do you think that company wasn't worthwhile, or do you think that it could have happened without advertising?
Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like it has a similar pricing model to Delphi, too.
see my other reply for more on this.

java has a nice low level audio generation tech where you just make a big integer array.

I take a radial sample of this field of cells, convert it to audo.... ok, there is no science going on here. I just fucked with the code until it sounded good. Several magic numbers involved. See my github at fleen.org/generative-art for the actual code. The sound generation is only a few dozen lines.
My biggest one is...

Requiring users to login with a username or customer id. (instead of email).
@lucidrains - this is pretty amazing. Every time you refresh the page, is it a real-time generation, or does it draw from a pool/DB of real-time images generated previously? I got the exact same image twice, which is why I am asking, which kind of dampened the "cool" factor just a notch.
New Russian face search engine claimed to be more effective than previous
Patreon's Future: Venture capital is bad, and destinations become dead ends
Seems I and my family are extremely lucky to live in 10 houses that didn’t collapse for the last 10-15 years. Oh shoot our whole apartment community (50 buildings) is lucky!

How can such a mind blowing ignorance comment not being downvoted?
Where do they announce all the other IPs that need to be reachable in order to access YouTube? Why is the dependency on 8.8.8.8 being reachable somehow more annoying than the rest?
The cost of the building is less than $250 per square meter. The cost of the land below, given the very high towers, cannot be much if you divide by 40-50 stories.
I am a vegan. This is the first and most important sacrifice.

I live in WA, eastern side. The fact that I live in a house is problematic, but we are keeping it cold inside. I must wear a jacket inside my house right now to be comfortable. This is almost nothing compared to having been a vegan for the last 15 years.

I drive less than 3k miles a year, work from home, and I'm going to start applying the wealth that I have to sealing up my home insulation-wise (it's old). This is almost literally nothing compared to having been a vegan for the last 15 years.

I have made a vow to never do personal travel by plane again, and will never cross an ocean for the rest of my life. My company has me going across the country twice a year for meetings, but they are about to reduce it to one, I think, and if we improve our train systems, I'm very happy to do a two day train ride to get there, if at all.

My wife and I love animals, and it's the main reason that we have a house. We will not be replacing them as they die. Ultimately my goal is to pay off the current old house that I have, and then either try to fill it with far more people, or have it demolished as I move into an apartment in town, which is a far more efficient way of life.

Almost all of my conversations discuss climate change in some way. In order to get the political pressure that we need to fight this, our culture must change. These comments are part of that key work.

I am not waiting for anyone. I am trying desperately to walk a path without exploitation, and it's incredibly difficult. I cannot expect my family to walk the path to the extent that I desire either, but we are all vegan and don't travel long distance, and these are the most important changes individuals can make.

You can rail upon my imagined hypocrisies if you desire. You can also join me if you wish.
You're really glossing over quite a bit there. You know people have tried to implement systems like that. The problem with them is in the details. When people produce goods and services from their own labor, they don't generally like to give them up to the collective. You can force them to, of course, but then you need an apparatus of coercion. Things get quite messy from there.
New construction of expensive high end apartments help lower the prices on other units. Wealthy people will move there rather than driving up prices on dilapidated brown-stones. Its kind of how the average new car price is 30k, which is off limits for many Americans. But the new car inventory drives down the price of older models.
Last year my family was all prime: 5, 7, 47, and 53. Six years from now, we will be 11, 13, 53, and 59. And then 36 year from now when the kids are approaching middle age.
> it's more of a tiny ray tracer

It's a ray caster, where the rays are sent out from the camera to intersect the map. With ray tracers, the rays are sent out from the light source, IIRC.

Your point on OpenGL is valid, but that just removes all the learning from it. OpenGL does so much of the grunt work for you. This kind of old-school game engine is a great learning experience.
Good point, but did you expect churches not to have people in them?
This article misses one of the primary reasons for AV's demise -- we didn't update our primary index for several months just as Google was gaining mindshare. A ridiculously high percentage of our front page links were 404s, while Google was always fresh.

This was particularly bad because one of our earlier strong points was fresh indexes. Our ability to refresh the supplementary index on the fly was awesome. When you lose one of your primary strengths, it's noticeable.

I don't mean to minimize the downside of losing focus. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned while working there. I'd say that our failure to maintain a high quality index was directly caused by our loss of focus, in fact. But it's important to remember that both UI and the underlying index quality matter.

"What about PageRank?"

Eh, not actually unique to Google. Remember that Jon Kleinberg was developing HITS in parallel -- AV was well aware of the concept of measuring page importance using incoming links, and we had our own implementation. It may not have been as good. It's hard to tell when your underlying data source is stale.

Also, any AV article which doesn't note that we bought Elon Musk's first company is inherently flawed. ;)
So everyone is happy with depending on a password manager? Because having 100 different passwords and having to rotate those isn't going to happen any other way.
Ah, you submitted the link from the Matt Levine column this morning :)

This is Bloomberg's first ranking of hedge fund managers. What's interesting about it is that Bloomberg breaks out income derived from management fees and income derived from fund returns.

Naturally Simons, Dalio, Griffin, Overdeck, Siegel and Shaw top the list - as usual.
Not through the straits. Around Cape Horn! An old British admiral started his career as a seaman on one of the last of the big square riggers that made that voyage in the 1920's, and brought along one of the earliest handheld video cameras. It's amazing photage (https://www.amazon.com/Around-Cape-Horn-Johnson-Sailing/dp/B...). It gives an amazing view of just how huge the waves are sailing there.

That was the China trade, though. That was bringing bat guano from Chile as fertilizer.
Microservices vs. The World
Since password managers are terrible, I'm not fond of any of his advice here. Every bit of feedback is regarding supporting password managers. I'll expand a bit more on why they're completely unnecessary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19172769 but suffice to say, this is a recommendation that is getting really old, really fast, and breaks every well-understood security principle. Single point of failure for your entire online presence is really, really dumb.

One-time login codes are, in fact, really the ideal way to handle login, and he's expressly asking you to not for the benefit of a far weaker security method. And in an attempt to emphasize how frustrating it is, he adds a lot of steps that rarely, if ever exist. Usually, you switch the tab to your email which is already open, and click the link, which opens into a tab where you are logged in. Two steps, not eight.
My bigger issue with this kind of behavior (beside that I have the exact same issue with it) that I can't watch anything even from my local network when the internet is down from my ISP. Very frustrating.
> As always, Europe is too fragmented, and slower to adopt new tech, for one of these solutions to gain wide spread adoption quickly

Not sure what you're talking about. In Poland, I can use my phone to pay for anything anywhere. Seriously. I can buy a single apple at a grocery stand and tap my phone on the reader that will surely be there and will surely work with all NFC payment systems.

Coming to the US is a shock, because suddenly nothing works, and even in places where it's supposed to work nobody tries to pay with a phone, because it's flaky.

So I'd say it's exactly the other way around. With customer-facing banking tech, Europe is way ahead of the US.
> it sounds like an exaggeration to compare Germany’s Bundeswehr to “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” look no further than the army’s standard-issue assault rifle, Heckler & Koch’s G36. The government decided to scrap the weapon after discovering that the gun misses its target if it’s too hot.

Is this actually indicative of a design flaw? All guns' accuracy degrade as the barrel heats up. The metal flexes more and expands, thus throwing off the zero. Weapons like belt fed machine guns mitigate this by having heavy barrels to soak up heat, and quick-change barrels to swap them out with fresh cold ones. Internet searches about the G36's accuracy problems seem rife with fudd-lore. Government studies did not find said accuracy problems: https://m.dw.com/en/heckler-and-koch-vindicated-in-g36-accur...

Other firearms like tank cannons get around this by having barrel sag sensors that adjust the crosshairs to compensate for the effect of the sag.

I get that nit picking the anecdote in the opening statements is kind of pedantic. But it shapes my senses of the author's technical understand (or lack thereof) for the rest of the article.
Well, there used to be four. Dorchester Heights was deconstructed in part to fill in the Back Bay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification_of_Dorchester_He...
While I agree with your points, wholeheartedly, someone shared this browser add-on/extension with me that has been a lifesaver for overcoming copy/paste blocking. The name is great too.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-wi...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...
Charlie Munger: Driving rich people out is pretty dumb for states or cities
Thanks for being respectful and well-reasoned in your response.

My opinion is that the collaboration is probably the best it's ever been right now. The example I gave lower down in this thread is that when WebAssembly was introduced, the Chrome team decided to deprecate their own solution, PNaCl.

We're far from the days of ActiveX.

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webass...
so it's a next.js clone?
The Moral Implications of Power vs. Speed
Both are examples of accidents which are physically impossible to happen on modern passively cooled designs.
The article states in Section 4.5 (Page 20):

As part of our offensive work, we developed proofs of concept in C++, JavaScript, and WebAssembly for all the reported vulnerabilities. We were able to leak over 1KB/s from variant 1 gadgets in C++ using rdtsc with 99.99% accuracy and over 10B/s from JavaScript using a low resolution timer.
Not mentioned in this article, there was an attempt to reboot Altavista into a Google competitor: raging.com

https://www.geek.com/news/altavista-is-raging-565120/
this gigantic hike I find startling enough to jump in.

is there a better solution for this price on the market?
I didnt get those vibes either. Wasnt it the yacht guy himself talking about his dependence on instagram? Anyways, props to instagram guy for getting his $$$ when he can. Dude is right, only a matter of time before instagram sucks and there is some new hotness.

This whole social media influencer thing is kind of funny. Of course I think it is trash and that likely some large percentage of followers are bots. However, it does have some degree of power in certain circles. Just yesterday on sports radio these talk show hosts (been working for 20+ years in journalism) are quoting people on facebook/twitter etc because they have 70k followers. The host literally said, I dont know who this guy is but he has 70k followers and knows Manny Machado's dad.
There was a time several spa frameworks used explicit hash routing rather than url-like push state but I don’t have sources handy. I thought angular was one of them but they may have done away with this behavior.

I work in analytics so I’ve seen things like UTM params get couched into the hash, breaking parsing, so at least it’s something to keep an eye out for.
https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...
So, if that's true, why is Chrome considered to have solved Spectre? Browser content processes from different domains share some memory. Moreover, if process boundaries don't have any effect on the branch predictor on current hardware, then why is process separation relevant at all? Doesn't all this mean Spectre is still an issue?
Ray-tracing does not necessarily mean rays are cast from the light source.
The question for me isn't the profit/loss equation, it's whether we should be giving subsidies to already highly-profitable companies.

You can argue all you want about whether Amazon would bring in more money for NYC, but the fact is that they would bring in MORE net money if they didn't receive the subsidies. Yes, you can argue that Amazon wouldn't come to NYC then, but that's only because American cities have allowed Amazon to set the rules by creating this competition for their HQ2 location. American cities need to present a united front that we won't be giving money to already extremely wealthy people. Otherwise any time a major company wants to start a new location they can play cities against each other and the people living in those cities will pay the price.

Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. If he wants a new HQ he can buy the real estate at full price. Americans need to stand up to the frankly disgusting idea that we should be giving him money.
I hope they do, I hope they make it very large, 10x, 20x! Increase it so much that folks run back to cash, checks and alternate digital payments. Let greed do them in!
The first two games were top-down 2D stealth games. The third was a pseudo-3D FPS. Most people picked up the series at the third installment, and the third installment is what made it into history books as the First Popular FPS, ignoring earlier FPSes which were Not Popular.
> I contacted Elizabeth Warren's office (she's on the Senate Banking Committee); if this matters to you, I suggest you do too!

Unless you've also got a plan to get a Democratic majority in the Senate, your plan probably needs to extend beyond Warren if you are relying on her role in the Banking Committee (if you are expecting her to win the Presidency in 2020, that's perhaps another story.)
Nobody is happy with it, but it's the least bad of a series of pretty bad alternatives.
Good job beating the system. If you tracked all the hours and mental energy you spent on these tasks vs the amount of money returned, what do you think the hourly rate would come to?
A lifestyle business may or may not be worth your time. Small businesses are great, but they don't reap the benefits of scaling massively in quick timeframes like tech unicorns do.

You want to start a unicorn. That's why you are risking your time and your money (and even your health). That's what every investor who gambles away their own money on YOU wants you to do. And look at the qualifications of the successful unicorn startup founders: Stanford PhDs, published mathematicians, 160 IQ -- these types could pass the FAANG bar without even sneezing (they are adding another letter to FAANG!) -- and YC would have invested in all of them (why would PG want to miss the next Google?). As improbable and out-of-reach the YC/FAANG bar might seem to the everyday HN reader, these gateways are child's play for the actual heavy hitters.

Founding a startup is all-or-nothing, and the economy only has room for so many billionaires and triple-digit millionaires. You have to be the absolute best of the best. Just by the numbers, you have to maximize your chances of success, and statistically speaking, the bar is right where it is for a reason.

"Survival" is easy in the startup world. Success is near-impossible hard. It's a poor metric because any founder can live off Soylent and ramen indefinitely clinging onto a nonproductive company that isn't growing (it is all but dead), while ignoring the enormous opportunity cost he or she is personally incurring. Survival in this context really means continuing a hockey-stick trajectory.

You can make single-digit and even double-digit millions over your lifetime doing other things with your time that are less risky and more productive than trying to found a tech startup, even with these qualifications.
Not the gov, worse, the culture
I was thinking the same. I expect elixer/phoenix to easily outperform js/node. I believe with phoenix it actually makes sense what they are going, which I can't really say from this "thing".
And so another nail in the coffin for a free and open internet for the world.
It was “good enough” to get a sense of what was in the document. Whats particularly interesting is how little things have come along since then!
I don't consider myself a human supremacist, but I also don't eat other animals even if some of my quality of life is ultimately sourced from their suffering.

I think it is just as foolish to assume that humans are more deserving, more important, and more valuable than any other life simply because you are a part of that group as it is to assume the same about your race.
>Password managers can't deal with this, unsurprisingly.

I use a password manager too and often wonder about this. Does this responsibility fall on the website's designer/developer or the password manager?

In one hand, I'd like my password manager to work on every site too but on the other, being a web developer/designer, I don't want another thing to support. We already have browsers and browser versions, and browsers and browser versions in specific platforms to keep track of. Do I want another layer of something to keep track of?

(This is totally unrelated but another thing I apply this question to is a page's/websites ability to support reading mode. You have straightforward pages that you can read wholly in something like Firefox's Reader View or Instapeper/Pocket. Then there are those pages that rely too much on some javascript library (sliders, read more, etc.) to display properly that gets broken when seen through reading mode.)
I Confronted My Worst Childhood Memory
Sometimes you want to make chili from scratch instead of going out to eat Peking duck.
Key elements that I see are

synchronizing the audio with the video. Video strobes correspond to audio strobes.

Some kind of simple physical-metaphor sound and video logic. Like, bigger = lower, smaller= higher. Certain colors correspond to certain sounds. Simple stuff like that.Like cartoon logic.

Total engrossment of the senses. Fill them up compltelely (thus "whelmer"). I see smell, tactile effects... stuff like that, being incorporated later.

There is definitely some kind of trance thing happening.

There is another tech at my site (fleen.org) called "clouded plain" that uses moving intersecting vibrating stripes. MUCH hallucinations off of that. Little kids like it very much. They just stand and stare.

I wrote it in java.

You really should download a hq copy and view it projected large (like 6-10 feet tall) with nice speakers. Here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...
Not only, as someone else pointed out, does the 2nd step of the login (eg, password) vary depending on WHO is logging on, it is theoretically possible that there is no 2nd step in some cases.

Maybe you have a USB dongle, and after entering your name or email, you are authenticated. Maybe the machine is trusted for any user who logs in, because it has a USB dongle. Or maybe only certain users, but more than one user is trusted associated with that USB dongle.

Or maybe if YOUR phone is detectable as near by, then you have no 2nd login step.

There are lots of arguments why putting the user ID and password onto a single form is just plain wrong. This isn't the 20th century anymore.
> Applications that require minimal latency (e.g. animations, games) are not well suited for Purview

It's not actually React compatible.

Just why?
> your plan probably needs to extend beyond Warren if you are relying on her role in the Banking Committee (if you are expecting her to win the Presidency in 2020, that's perhaps another story.)

It does. No need to pollute this thread, email me if you want to chat about it.
They're primes which are separated by exactly six non-prime numbers. It remains an open question whether or not there are infinitely many sexy primes.

More generally, see the article on prime gaps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap
Confirms a suspicion I had that it might be an issue. I assume it's a problem whenever you hash a weaker with a stronger, not just MD5 in particular.

Thanks!
Typhus is a disease spread by organisms like fleas. Fleas can exist in people and animals (e.g. rats). The epidemic in LA is among the homeless and those who have been exposed to them (e.g. city workers).

The problem is one primarily of policy and not due to infrastructure being in disrepair. Stating that a typhus outbreak is due to crumbling infrastructure just outright false.
Yes I witnessed the same thing while visiting 2 years ago, riding the high speed rail from guangzhou to Guilin. Being from California, the experience of riding HSR and seeing too much housing seemed like the polar opposite of California. The documentary, The Chinese Mayor is an interesting watch on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u06a9Nb2GsU
This site looks great and loads quickly on mobile and desktop. Makes me so much more inclined to seriously weigh this advice, which seems solid anyway.