skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the concept for this app is to "bring human interactions back to the dating scene", I'm not sure it serves any purpose. The idea is to see who around your physically location is single and strike up a conversation. And the example(s) given are bars and things like that. Hasn't that been going on forever without this app? Everyone knows where to find single people in large quantities.

What value does it provide? The fact that you know with certainty that someone is single (or at least claims to be)? You still know nothing about them and cannot converse with them on your phone. You must initiate face to face contact, which is all fine and great. But all of this would theoretically happen anyway without the app.

Also, there at least two issues I see with the concept that make dating worse.

First, the example on the site of the guy who "doesn't want to be actively looking for singles tonight, he wants to let people know that he's single". That's called laziness. This fictitious guy is going to basically just put out the digital equivalent of "hey ladies I'm single" and wait for the women to swarm? Yeah, ok. Only in rare instances will that happen because socially we still function in mostly the same way (men are still expected to pursue). And in the reverse scenario where a woman does that...well, that's basically exactly how society functions right now. Women know how to project that they are single in a setting like a bar. Men observe, figure out who they might have a chance with, and then attempt to strike up a conversation and pursue. So the app literally offers nothing in that regard.

Second, people will probably be more prone to only risk talking to someone they see on the app as a confirmed single because it's less risky. This would make their choices smaller because they are probably unconsciously eliminating everyone else on the basis of risk. This makes the dating scene worse, not better. Unless damn near everyone was on the app and used it all the time. Which I'm sure the app developer would love. But realistically almost surely won't happen.
Speaking of Servants and Economics:

A while ago, I conjectured that Land Rent Theory doesn't properly factor in live-in servants, something I suspect would minorly affect the mathematics of it. By how much on a micro-scale, I can't say, but based on this an the above article, a more macro-scale-economical thought follows, on a more interesting level of abstraction than 'communal land prices':

If we consider an area a given Uber-for-X service operates in, and given that the employees there finance their living within that area by working for those companies, don't those employees then map to them effectively becoming live in-servants of the entire group living within the respective areas of operations?

You know what live in-servants used to get called in some circumstances?

If you have an immediate answer to that question, you might want to think about whatever answer you immediately had at hand for a bit and how it got there.

And if not, you might want to think very hard about which message you've failed to notice here.
I think you're debating semantic here. Everything can be reduced to "it's just human nature".
That's not a satisfactory answer to a socio-economic system critic.

In its current state capitalism is far from what it was just 50 years ago, I don't see anything crazy about pointing out its current flaws and working on them. It'll be changed anyway, the only choice we have is to be an active part in the process or be moved by it.
I've always been so tempted to leave it
Okay so i'll download all my history of data and all that, that's fine
I may just go through and see who I care about and let them know im leaving? idk. I think i stay for my grandpa at this point
It's amazing how its only acquisitions keeping Facebook alive besides Messenger.
> Next time u c a shrt'd wrd u cn just ass. it's useful. B/c they r.

They aren't always useful but I've rewritten your sentence in what I would consider a minimally legible format for me... but that's the problem it's for me. Don't introduce jargon in an effort to reduce comprehension time, it almost never works if you consider the time to familiarize yourself with the jargon. So when you're writing a blog post about PHP feel free to sprinkle in some comments about var vars, when you're communicating with your team use all your internal jargon... but when publishing an article for wide consumption just write everything out clearly.
Advice and tactics for passwords have been bad for a long time, perhaps even comically so:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png
He should have submitted this to the Onion. Seems like a real missed opportunity.
> This is a breaking news. We are adding more details as we learn them.

I don't get it. Nothing in this article is new information.
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Have you run a simple marketing campaign or media campaign before? -- to make the idea less abstract let's add some specifics and paint a simple picture -- imagine you're going up against just one dominant US corporation -- let's say it's a mortgage bank, a financial company, or a national retail chain. Do you know hard it would be to move the needle just one bit, and how many billions are spent by equally large corporations competing against each other trying? Now imagine two of the biggest corporations in the world competing -- Microsoft vs Google or Walmart vs Amazon -- these companies are so massive they have virtually unlimited resources, more resources than most countries. Imagine going up against any one of them. Now imaging going up against all them, and then every other US corporation and intelligence agency combined. All the while essentially going undetected, and then winning the market against all of them at same time? To argue that feat would be possible or even plausible, that's essentially what you would be saying.
So many examples of this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=python%20neural%20scratch&sort...

Is this example better than previous ones?
I suspect a lot of the people who think "expect violent retaliation for airing your views" is in any way new turn out to be racists who aren't used to being called on it.
Is there a specific reason you doubt the estimate, or is your problem that the sample size is small? Small sample sizes don’t imply incorrect conclusions.

EDIT: To whoever has downvoted this, I politely (but urgently) recommend you read up on statistical significance. The idea that a small sample size implies a study’s findings are unreliable is one of the most widely held misconceptions in modern statistics.
I'll be that guy.

Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security.

They sandbox their code aggressively. They build this project with security in mind from day 1 - it's been architected for it.

The Chrome security team(s) has a lot of power for a product security org.

They fuzz. They invent new fuzzers. They cluster their fuzzers.

They have a world class bounty program.

They have a world class research team for finding vulns.

They invent or otherwise aggressively adopt mitigation techniques.

But someone out there did it.

Their track record for security is something to really be proud of - this is the first public ITW exploit of its type that I am aware of. But users are getting owned because of, at the very least, a Use After Free vulnerability.

Let's just collectively admit it, finally - you can't write safe C++ in a codebase this complex.

edit: (From a post below)

To be clear, I'm not saying "Chrome should be rewritten in a memory safe language", I'm saying that Chrome is an excellent project to point to, say "Wow, no one does as much to secure a codebase as them", and to follow that up with "and they still got owned by UAF".
Then TFA was wrong.

E&Y’s own reports say that it was the Applicant’s own “expert” that tried to break in.

The applicant is the founder’s widow.

The expert doesn’t seem to have much of a specialization for breaking into computers. Who knows what kind of mess he caused.

S. 12

https://documentcentre.eycan.com/eycm_library/Quadriga%20Fin...
Here's a chance to reread the comment. He was paraphrasing Tolstoy.
> I would gladly pay $5-$10 a month for something that didn't sell my data.

Hmm. Facebook has something like 2 billion profiles. Of course, most of them wouldn't pay $5/month - say that only one percent would. 20 million profiles times $5/month = $100 million/month. It might be worth it for someone to try to build such a thing...
Do you examples? That sounds educational.
And the widow is left with just the 17 properties, 2 cars, yacht and plane that he earned through honest hard work.

Another thing you could work into the plot is $9m appears to be with WB21 "Banking Redefined" which claimed a million users but was discovered to only have 135 downloads of its app (now removed), is run by a convicted fraudster and was awarded "Global Banker Award 2018" in a black tie ceremony that they seem to have set up themselves to give themselves the award (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKMdhpwbaw). They are still going I think if you are looking for a safe place to put your money. https://amycastor.com/2019/03/01/diving-into-wb21-the-compan...
Interesting that they designed it with 360 degree horizontal field of view when they are using it on the bumper of the car.
EasyDNS. Neither the cheapest nor apparently as well known these days, they seem to be sustained by a devoted customer base. I've used them for nearly 20 years.

The product lineup and administration interface is somewhat complex and confusing, IMO; perhaps an artifact of trying to appease long-term customers. I could never be bothered to figure it all out, but whenever I've looked for a feature I've never failed to discover something new to appreciate.

I'm interested what others have to say about them.
I agree, but it's a pain. I tried to run AOSP on an Xperia XA2. You are missing so much. Sony doesn't offer much software for your hardware on AOSP. F-Droid has like three orders of magnitude less apps than the play store. Even the many apps that don't rely on google features, hell even competitors like Microsoft offer e.g. their Word for Android nowhere else. In the end, you probably will install google services non the less, but this time from less trustworthy sources since google doesn't officially want or will help you getting their stuff run on ASOP.

The system was generally unstable. I finally gave up when I noticed video playback in landscape mode turns the screen green, but works fine in vertical (Different apps, even ASOP stock apps, even after fresh re-compile)

I'm now going the other route... using a sony image and rip out everything unnecessary. Neither seems worth the time for average consumers. Learned a lot, though.
Yup, all the teenagers I know of are on Discord and Steam.
No, because my first argument still applies in full to satoshi. There are balances of satoshi, but no individual satoshi.
> Which means that although they re-use the code for components, the code for data fetching logic must get duplicated.

In my experience, the rendering server has a copy of the SPA mounted. I'm not aware of any normal reasons for duplicated fetching logic.
Its public, but you can't reverse it.
If facebook wants us to believe that it is committed to privacy in the ways that it is suggesting here, than the solutions being proposed here (basically another E2EE messenger) are not sufficient.

Facebook can promise to put itself out of business, spending its cash reserves on development of an ecosystem of interoperable, open source, fully decentralized solutions to replace all of what it does with no central authority and no possibility of censorship or surveillance.

It can find ways for this new decentralized network to be accessible in China, unlike its current platform.

Instead of saying "we'll consult with safety experts, law enforcement and governments on the best ways to implement safety measures," it can expressly refrain from working in any capacity with governments who seek to inhibit speech or expression on the internet.

It can disclose all of the algorithms and decisions that produce the news feed and allow people to opt in or out of them, ensuring that their news feed is not a means of manipulation.

I mean, I can go on and on course. None of this takes any serious genius, just a decision to prioritize freedom and justice in society over money.
I thought the internet would connect people who could do things together, not only to share a car or some chore, but to share company, help each other, build a network. That was the sharing economy.

If you look at tinder, this concept of finding compatible people by economic goal, interest and location is really the ideal things we want from the internet.

But instead we're back to the basics of market mechanics, profitability, jobs, consumption, comfort, and the ability to make money. It's not surprising. But I still have faith in an internet of proximity where people post ads, talk with nearby people for stuff they need or trade, instead of letting big money own how internet gets to be used.
You track D and E. At scale, there surely are consistent patterns.
Blockchain to CSV, realistically.
Ray Tracing Gems [pdf]
Acquisitions which were developed and grown a great deal after becoming part of the company.
The "tank huge amounts of damage" thing has annoyed me going back to the old RPG games on NES and SNES. How do we make the game harder as the player progresses? Give enemies more HP and DMG values. Ok, how does the player combat this? Have him aquire levels/skills/equipment that increases his own DMG and survivability to restore things to the same balance they were earlier in the game. Repeat ad nauseum. Some variations restrict the player enhancements to DMG so they're forced to chip away at enemies in long dull fights. Others restrict survivability, which tends to result in shorter, more random fights, while others allow near infinite enhancement, but lock it behind boring, redundant grinding.
Way too many political posts from my friends and family.

I love the political posts that are thoughtful, informative and spark real discussion.

So, maybe, one or two in the past three years.
Even with 100% of hashpower you can't steal anyone's money
Pretending to die is an extraordinarily rare occurrence, yes.
What are people's thoughts on not deleting FB to better secure your personal identity. In the context of leaving google's services, I see people say that they sit on their email so no one else can take it, but I never see that sentiment about deleting fb.

Is it just that the bar to successfully impersonate someone via fb is higher and email is lot easier to manipulate?

I am particularly interested because I am planning on deleting my personal fb soon.
How soon till the happiness pro-biotics are available for purchase?
I'm drawing a line between "software developer" and "high tech"

By high tech I ideally mean a company building novel and innovative software using new ideas and techniques, but implicitly I pretty much mean FAANG/well resourced startup in a tech hub.

And of course it reflects the "HN bubble", that's literally what I was referencing.
Vuln is a common abbreviation in the security space - although, I dont appreciate parts of the sentence structure and how things are written in the article in general. Its difficult to read.
I never finished this novel, but the juxtaposition of social maneuvers and war struck me early in the story.
I think this referred to office politics.
Why not use the built-in mobile preview tool that allows you to set custom dimensions?
Lots of things changed.

Facebook began as an exclusive social network for upper-class students. Gradually it grew to encompass not just all of America, but the entire world. It turns out, many of us well educated people don't really want to network or socialize with poorly educated people. Police started monitoring our activities, so the events all but disappeared.

The world changed, too. Facts used to matter; we read books and the newspaper, not 25 reasons to be an idiot on Buzzfeed. Truth used to matter; less of the nation was as polarized. It was easier to get along without people shoving their ignorant political ideas in your face. Then 2016 happened, with the Russian trolls and other psyops used against us, and some of us realized we'd fucked up by buying into and encouraging others to join this network and others like it.

I could probably go on for a lot longer, but that's the gist of it.
I live in a somewhat large gated community that has a pretty active facebook group. The group is somewhat loosely moderated by the HOA (for better or worse) so in general people stay on-topic and neighborly. It's great for asking for recommended contractors, asking if somebody has a thing they can borrow, etc. This is one of the few things that keeps me on facebook.

Of course facebook is a terrible venue for this group - with its algorithmic feed, horrible search, and showing "notifications" when nothing of consequence has actually happened. If there were a more prevalent network I'm sure the group would move but there's really no other alternative that already has a critical mass of users and people aren't going to sign up for a new service unless everyone else in the neighborhood is already there.
The customer deposits certainly existed somewhere, even if a single cold wallet holding $137M in BTC didn't.
“Be yourself” is terrible advice
facebook, twitter, youtube all have gone down hill since gamergate in my opinion. Russia, Nazis, and 4chan learned how to leverage social networks and SEO to spread misinformation and noise.
I do recall looking up the definition of 'bijection', and seeing that it slightly resembles a graph. As a generalization: so an n-dimensional tensor can be viewed as a weighted n-partite graph?
I think if you wanted to get into the self-driving car arena and were a startup on a budget, and you wanted to play with 3D LIDAR - then the place to hit up for one would be Ebay.

Lately I've seen used Velodyne 3D LIDAR units being sold on the site for (compared to new) dirt cheap. Granted, much more expensive than used SICK or Hokuyo 2D sensors - but that would be expected.

The fact that they are being sold on Ebay at all is a fairly new and interesting development; the question becomes "where are they coming from"? That is, what is the secondhand source they are being pulled from.

In the case of SICK and Hokuyo sensors, it has generally been industry or research. For Velodyne sensors, they were explicitly made for self-driving vehicles (though they've found other markets since).

It makes me wonder if one or more the established self-driving vehicle companies are shedding the tech in favor of some other system...?
What's that in percentage?
Did you mean Herbert's "Dune"? Or did the movie diverge from the book?
I'm excited about EVs improving this situation.

With ICEs it's somewhat necessary to become more obnoxious in pursuit of greater performance. Faster ICE-powered cars tend to be noisier and stinkier, it's somewhat inherent.

Gearheads in the EV-era will be a lot less visible. You won't know who has upgraded their batteries, controllers, and motors. I wish Tesla would take a different stance on this and instead embrace and support the grassroots motorsports scene. GM Performance has already announced an EV crate motor, so it looks like GM might be taking the lead here.
Anecdotal data; I’ve purposefully stopped posting, liking, commenting, and am transitioning all my business hooked in things to a “business acccount” I’ve made with a goal of deleting the non business one by May 1.

It’s crazy how many places FB wormed it’s way into.
My low-information read of the current state of knowledge is: we've established at very high confidence that the gut microbiome really is very important.

And that's it; we don't know anything more detailed than that.
3) Renew for as long as a time period as possible. If a domain is 12 bucks a year, 240 bucks is a small price to pay for knowing your domain is set for the next 20 years.
I doubt that reaction will happen. I would expect Facebook to follow Microsoft’s lifecycle instead (which was founded in the same era as AOL).
I know this is anecdotal, but a lot of PhD students I know who have depression struggled with it in undergrad as well, the stresses of pursuing a PhD just made it worse/caused a relapse.

To be fair though, the article does acknowledge that the studies done are not enough, saying that "the evidence is too limited to permit robust conclusions about the mental health status and needs of researchers. Nevertheless, the potential mental impact of pursuing a PhD should not be disregarded."
Try a coffee place. If you do work/read in a coffee place, it is easy to interact with other folks that are doing the same.

Basically: Say, hi... what are your reading, working on...etc...

99% of my interactions this way have been positive
Good question. As I said in the response to a comment on my initial, we thought it was the peak when we bought. That may seem crazy now but people have been saying Vancouver was at a peak since the mid 2000s. So it was conceivable that it could have gone down. We knew it was a possibility.

It is hard to say though. You don't really know someone until you go through hardship together. My sense from knowing my friends would be yes we would be friends but I just can't say. We did go through some things in that time on personal fronts but it wasn't financial. Financial things can be different than others.

Our main focus was having a place of our own. We had the five year plan but as I said, I liked living where we were and with our friends. If it turned into a ten year plan or more, that would have been fine with me.

I think if we all kept our jobs, etc, things would be fine. If someone couldn't pay their side of the mortgage or something, that would have been more detrimental. Or if we had some sort of fight and were mid-renovation and had to try to finish the renovation not getting along or try to sell a half renovated house. Those things would have been pretty detrimental.
Strong feelings.

In all seriousness, people already use tinder and similar apps like this. Sitting at bars, swiping. Not talking to strangers because “it’s not normal to just go up and talk to women/men that you don’t know”.

This is the world we have built for ourselves! Technology is wonderful, isn’t it?
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Wow, didn't think of that. I wonder if that's a possibility.

As a clueless person, I'd think the quantity and stomach acids would make it a negligible risk but worth studying.
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Phone surveys were accurate when robocalls and cellphones didn't exist. Now you're only sampling the people who aren't discerning enough to reject unknown numbers.