skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a moral argument. Any form of coercion that prevents the free lawful use of private property is an attack on individual freedom. No act can be considered lawful if it comes from an unlawful act. No individual or group of individuals may dispose of another individual's property without violating his rights, whether this property is a refrigerator or communications infrastructure. People in the United States asking for more socialism, regulations and abuses against private property should know that the Berlin Wall no longer exists.

It is an economic argument as well. Oligopolies based on regulations and government protectionism are always bad and monopolies arising from competition are always good because they offer what the demand demands and favor social cooperation. It must be understood that competition lies in the free entry and exit of markets and not in a utopian perfect competition from the neoclassical point of view. If there is only one ISP in your state or city, you should ask yourself if the government has given it the monopoly concession of the service through prior regulation. Regulations and interventions always require more regulations and subsequent interventions giving more rights to politicians and prebendary monopolists at the cost of taking freedom from the rest of the people, people who pay the benefits of these groups without getting anything in return.

Just think of all the regulations against free-speech that certain groups want to impose throughout the Internet. Which companies would be favored if these regulations on social networks were carried out? Of course they would favor big companies over small ones because you are artificially raising the competitive cost without improving the service. Cost that not all companies can afford. The moral argument in this case is self-explanatory.
It seems like social networks are inherently fads with low switching costs (how many of your facebook friends do you really need to drag over to the next one).
Counterpoint:

Many new innovative companies are being founded in this space and those that are successful are richly rewarded (by selling to FB). The system is working exactly how it is supposed to.
> It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing

Google Trends never lies. Some say that people have learned they don't have to search for Facebook, but the trend for Facebook follows the 'myspace curve of disengagement':

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=f...

Note that people never type 'whatsapp' into a browser.

I think that social media is always going to be fickle. Google and search is a much better bet for the product being relevant in years to come.

Facebook is also a black hole. It is very rare that something written on Facebook is noteworthy enough to be shared outside of Facebook, here for instance.
Damn, that's sad. Alex Trebek is such a wholesome person, and has brought a ton of entertainment to millions of people with hosting Jeopardy. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is incredibly hard to treat; it's inspiring Trebek very well may be using his final days to continue to be a positive influence on the world and bring joy to people watching him.
My favorite quote. I read it as it is too late now to change anything for tomorrow rather than as planning is irrelevant.
Yeah, it was heavily reported. I read it first in the Good Weekend article.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/we-didn-t-expect-all-13-ou...
Start with all the reviews people write for Amazon (including myself.) No way Amazon should be able to legally claim these as its exclusive property; yet right now this review pile is probably their most valuable asset.
I have a hard time believing this and can't find any details online. Source please?
In the north of Italy. People in the south probably don't think about dinner at 6 PM even in jokes.
I had a very similar reaction and was surprised to see the difference between Vijaya and Dorsey responding to his claims with documents and first-hand knowledge, just for him to rattle off some news articles that are making claims without any tangible proof other than 'well this guy says he was banned for no reason'. I don't blindly believe what Vijaya and Dorsey are saying but to put your faith into articles and hearsay doesn't seem to be any better.

There were also times that he made a series of assumptions leading up to a question and it left Vijaya and Dorsey to somehow demolish every assumption because he wasn't satisfied with the answers they gave.

For example, at one point he explains how he thinks Twitter is such a big influence and at such odds with the US laws that they are facing regulation to allow 'free speech' on a 'private-public' platform (his words, not mine) and kept digging into this point without considering that his fundamental assumptions are wrong (Twitter is a monopoly and should be using US free speech laws as their basis for content moderation). Instead he just keeps getting more frustrated as they can't answer the question without first addressing the assumptions that made him ask the question in the first place.
Your math is great and comparable to many people's experience.

You do 10 years. Let's do 8 years instead so we take our next move age even 30. Using your numbers there's 465.5 saved total. But we put that in the market each year in boring run of the mill bread and butter commodity stocks with half decent dividends and reinvest the dividends. Over all we see a modest 7% annual return from the market all together, both gains and dividends. So we're 30 and have $625k in fungible stocks that can be cashed in. Similar to 617.5k but somehow having 0% returns, and we're 2 years ahead.

So the only option is to buy a lousy house in a bad neighborhood with crime in a city where homeless guys are blowing each other on the sidewalks which are strewn with feces and AIDS infected heroin needles?

No of course not. If in such an area the only rational thing is to move to another area.

Now if you bought a house in this hot market that house appreciated more than 7% for these 8 yrs. But you also were paying 4% or so on a mortgage. Still you have a big gain. You paid $480,000 for a condo in 2010 and now it's worth $1.3 million (12.5% APR). BTW, I'm using real numbers for a family member's property in the bay area with these exact years. So that's nice cash infusion as well, rather than losing money on rent. However ignore that, let's just go with rent and stock gains instead, which I recommend anyway. I don't recommend people pay cash for houses like I do unless they have a reasonable justification for doing so. It's better to let the bank front it when mortgage rates are low as they are.

Anyway so you get a transfer to Topeka or Bismarck or Austin or Durham. You buy a mansion with a swimming pool and a horse barn on a 2 acre parcel. Or maybe you decide to commute 10 minutes from outside town where you buy a 4500 sq ft farm house on 75 acres of land. And you pay $250,000 either way. If you had bought your condo in 2012 you have around $1 million to spend, if not you have around $625k to spend. The rest you leave in those stocks.

You took a big salary hit moving. Went from $140k with $300k in bonuses and equity to $110k and $300k in equity/bonuses if managed to move in-company but different office across country, or $110k and no equity if not. Either way your living expenses drop to near zero. Company has full benefits so you're paying utilities, low property tax, and food. Maybe $500 a month total since your mansion is paid off. Now you have $104k a year to stuff into those low yield commodity stocks.

But you get "lucky", like everyone who invests long term. It's not luck, it's just persistence. One of those stocks takes off. Or maybe you have an equity event in a company you're consulting with who couldn't pay market rate. So that's a few million here or there.

I'm not lucky or special. I just do basic common sense stuff and avoid stupid stuff. I know car mechanics who have done better than me by retirement with their investments because they took more risks. But I have done OK and my value is above $30M. I'm old and now have health problems, so it's nice.
I run Firefox on Arch Linux and OpenBSD with zero crashes. Hundreds of tabs open at once.

Consider that it's possibly the fault of who packaged Firefox and not Firefox itself.
Here's some I saw about artificial sweeterners:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14232

http://www.israelscienceinfo.com/en/medecine/weizmann-israel...

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/2/367
I guess the conclusion from the last couple of years is that every shared resource is nearly guaranteed to be a source of information leaks.

Don't share CPU functional ports -- or cache memory -- with untrusted programs.
No, the found wallet is under the control of the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of MtGox. We know this for certain because he sold 35,000BTC when BTC was around 10,000USD, ensuring the creditors will get their full investment back.

Doesn't make us whole of course, but it is nice.
I don't get it. Don't the majority of people browse at full screen, on common devices which all have the same fullscreen dimensions?

Who out there browses to a size, resizes there window, then browses to another website, then resizes again and so on? That makes no sense.
Major study finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism
Never happen. That might further reveal how absurd their pricing is.
Think about if it was reversed.
You're somewhere and there's a list of single women...
Every woman there would be swarmed upon, which is a situation they already have. (Open an account on any dating app as a woman with no image, or bio, you'll still get plenty of messages/matches)
The example is a good case, they might not even initiate, just stand in viewing distance of a single guy they like.

Women filter their choices more than men.
Bumble works for a good chunk of women who will initiate once filtered to something they're vaguely interested in. The number of conversations initiated by women on tinder must be close to 1%, if that.
Their primary mission isn't the discovery and publication of critical zero-days but it doesn't make them good faith actors if they occasionally do when it's both convenient and strategically advantageous.
Hmm. Is the developer version affected too? Iam running Version 74.0.3717.0 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) compiled at march 5. (gentoo).

Looking for an update in portage right now.
Because for most people there is no reasonable alternative to cars.

Chrome does have reasonable alternatives.
The reason why a lot of recent digital music sounds bad is because of the intentionally terrible mastering.

I guess that's why the vinyl versions of my wife's albums always sound better than the downloaded versions. Even to my really quite bad ears.
Signal work all right, but it doesn't feel very polished. Notifications are a bit wonky, and the unread message icon never shows up on the home screen icon.
Maybe it will help bring attention to the disease. We haven't made much progress. Next week will be 11 years since Randy Pausch testified in front of Congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaD1TsjGR0w

As Randy pointed out, there aren't many advocates because people die too fast.

His Last Lecture is definitely worth watching:

https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
I consume Instagram like TV (they even launched IGTV, although I don't use it and it's terrible). People mostly don't get anxiety from watching TV. Maybe it has to do with the fact I don't use Instagram as SNS.
D would be interesting but it's also not memory-safe. Not strictly. You can restrict yourself to SafeD, but then you're stuck with a GC you don't really want. Or you can tag all your functions as @Safe, but then it's just a "best practice" and you can't do it everywhere because you can't do things like make system calls.

D has some interesting bits, but it did a lot of head-scratching stuff too. It seemed really confused about what target it was going after, like some middle ground between C#/Java & C/C++ that really doesn't seem to exist.
yeah well im sure anyone can look up your criminal records, or was it wiped as a part of your plea deal? Do you even feel empathy for the people you fucked over in the past? As somebody who was a victim of a financial crime, it is the single most worst thing you can do to a family, as Im sure it was for your parents. When my parents were victimized by ID thiefs like you you traumatized an innocent kid just like your current offsprings. Thiefs like you broke my family apart and drove my mother insane. She's just not the same since, and it happened around the same time you were committing crime. Fuck you, you fucking sociopath. Does your kids know their daddy ruined other families lives?

It saddens me to see your past glorified in mainstream articles and you milking it very well.

What skin do you have in SerpAPI exactly, you don't exactly strike me as an angel here.

Which is more likely here, I'll take a jab: a criminal thief, that sees some romantic notion of mob justice for "narcing"? Or perhaps you were the beneficiary of SerpAPI (hey back when I was a freelancer this was written in Visual Basic), and now jaded that its been swept under your feet, which explains the sudden influx of downvotes.

It puzzles me as to why someone would be willing to risk their current breadwinner that probably puts food on your kids table.... for a complete stranger from a thread you just "stumbled upon" like the rest. Totally no bandwagoning on HN folks /s
It could work if Firefox had as much marketshare as Chrome...
It should be pointed out and understood that when a domain enters Redemption period, in every TLD, the inflated cost to redeem it is imposed by the registry itself, not the registrar.

So the point where the normal cost is $6.95 but it cost over $100 or $200 is not because the registrar is gouging you, but because the registry is charging the registrar minimum $100 or so, and then the registrar would also apply their own markup, which is pretty standard.

Also - all registrars are contractually obligated to send out multiple notifications to the admin contact email, and even though this wouldn't necessarily apply to .DE (because it's overseen by DENIC, not ICANN) - most registrars use the same notifcation workflow across all TLDs. Usually something like 90, 60, 30, 10 days and -5 days.

I will say that the rule in .DE that you can't renew past T-5 is pretty weird though.
If there's ever a project as large as Chrome written in a non-C++ language, I guarantee you it will have these bugs as well -- due to use of `unsafe`, or bugs in the compiler, or what have you.
Fair. I do commonly do social statistics myself and have to deal with worse. My gripe was moreso that it's a random digit dialing survey (which I think would be full of bias for a purpose like this) instead of the actual usage statistics that facebook provides. Also, sampling is simply a hard thing to do. And their definition of leaving is pretty poor.

Also if we want to get nitpicky, while there is a significant drop between 2017 and 2018, there is no significant drop between 2019 and 2018 (62% -> 61%, p value of .57), despite the headline being 'Facebook Usage Continues to Drop' :)
Google for "fake death mafia". You can add in the name of the CEO if you like, but for me articles about his "death" are already the top hits
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2019/01/07/battlefield_v_nvi...

Battlefield V Ultra 1080p RTX on is ~63 FPS average (not minimum FPS, but average), which means it will regularly dip below 60 in practice.

> Also last I read, RTX really isn't designed for offline raytracing and doesn't really bring much to the table. Its use is in realtime.

On the contrary! RTX Cores are a hardware-accelerated BVH-traversal. That has HUGE implications for the offline rendering scene.

See NVidia Optix for details: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-optix-ray-tracing-powered...

IMO, this is the killer-feature of RTX. Accelerating those Hollywood Renders from hours-per-frame to minutes-per-frame. NVidia Optix takes industry-standard scene trees and can use the RTX Cores to traverse them for hardware-accelerated raytracing.

Or more specifically: coarse AABB Bounds checking, which is a very compute & memory heavy portion of the Raytracing algorithm.

Even if RTX is too slow for video games, any improvement to offline rendering is a huge advantage.
I see what you are saying, but context matters.

In code that starts something like "/* implements gambler et. al 2019 (doi:xxxxxxx) eqn 3 ... */". Then I really expect the code to go to great lengths to match the notation used in the paper. Anything else is adding to the cognitive load.

The exception is if the entire algorithm is discussed in the comments of the code without outside reference, then I want the code and comment to be extremely consistent.

Personally, I like the former as a shorthand for "don't mess with this without the paper in front of you, you'll probably screw it up".
Between the "surveillance" and "proactive" steps there is analysis, which has grown immensely in the modern day - both technologically and economically. Analysis run by an explicit arm of the government is a cost center, whereas modern commercial-based analysis is (eg Equifax/Facebook) is actually a profit center.
>The system is working exactly how it is supposed to.

US system is designed to be anti-markets and pro business, so you have a point. Good for startup, good for FB, bad for consumer and competition.

It's still against what anti-trust law was supposed to be.
You need reCAPTCHA to log into HN (or at least I do when I'm working from some parts of the middle east)
I didn't say C++ was a bad choice and I've purposefully avoided making this another language war issue.

What I'm saying is that Chrome is an example of a project with more security funding than just about any other project out there, and it still can't save users from the footguns of C++.

I guess the question used the wording "should have written it in?", to which I said "a memory safe one", and that's not true. I'm not interested in making a judgment call on their initial choice - I totally get the decision, regardless.
Does this happen frequently?
Way more. They say it has a 95 degrees vertical FOV and 360 degrees FOV. The vertical FOV is awesome actually.

A Velodyne VLP-16 has roughly 30 degrees FOV. We need the vertical and horizontal angular resolution to make any real judgements though.
Google for "fake death mafia"
You understand that "pop-ups" by their very nature are temporary?
This. Poor countries use Facebook for really valuable actions like talking to loved ones. In the states we have alternatives and can afford a few bucks a month for a service. But in poor countries, Facebook is often a lifeline (sometimes literally, in the case of crises)
There are, of course, alternative theories about "The Catastrophe" as historians call the event, when almost all the cities facing the Mediterranean were sacked in a few short years, preceding a 400-year "dark age".

One well-supported theory suggests a military innovation that enabled a cheaply-outfitted, quickly recruited army of 10,000 to defeat a standing force of 1000 charioteers. Such an army might be easily filled out from among the overtaxed farmers surrounding each walled city. In this alternative, the "dark age" might rather indicate freedom from centralized oppression, with "civilization" arising again only after its faults were forgotten; and the Catastrophe an early sort of "Mediterranean Spring".

There was never more than conjecture supporting the "Sea Peoples" idea. For the popular-uprising approach, we may imagine a core of a few hundred organizers proceeding from one city to the next, with local recruiting promises (and testimonials from the last) of rich spoils from each new target.
The Rise of Wgpu
I think this should be extended to post doctoral fellows as well. People generally focus on PhD students but post-docs are even more vulnerable. Many academic places have some level of protection and oversight for PhD's. These proections are certainly not enough. But post-docs are treated as contract workers, where your supervisor can terminate you whenever they feel like for whatever reason they want. In this situation you really have no recourse and your institution owns your data so you are essentially left with nothing.
That doesn't mean that they (or anyone) should still be using it.

The choice of language 15 years ago has nothing to do with the languages that could be in use today on the same project.

Rust has `unsafe` all over the place; it's no more safe if you use that keyword to do the same things that are done in C++.

Get more compiler people on Go and it will be even faster than it is now (really fast), and Go is written in Go so there's no reliance on C++, unlike Rust.
In fact, while I may be mistaken, it looks to me like you are currently serving binaries vulnerable to the exploit linked, which is known to be being attacked in the wild.

Your package-lock.json references electron 3.1.3, which was released at the end of January, while that vulnerability was only patched Feb 27. I think (but you should check) that 3.1.5 includes the patch. Edit: It doesn't. The only way to get this patch seems to be to update to Electron 5.x.
it's worth asking what the word servant even means/connotes. a first-rate butler can make $100k or more. if you have a well-paid butler working for a single household, a low wage house cleaner who cleans many different homes, a salaried web dev, and a freelance web dev, which members of the group would you describe as "servants"? does it matter if the butler makes more money than the devs?
Neither would fast food. Is Uber worse than Taco Bell? You can ignore nutritional atrocities if you like...
I guess I view it from the other end of that spectrum. It's a place where I get ideas of places to go and things to do/see/eat. Plus I enjoy seeing the people I care about doing things that make them happy. I want my friends to show off the best parts of their lives.

But I'm also very particular about who I follow, unlike on Facebook where I'm friends with every old coworker, classmate and family member.
You're looking for:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement#mainadv... (data seems different on the US site?)

TL;DR: AdvertisingID handles ad tracking in windows and can be opted out of during install, in settings and globally on your account. AFAIK you can also wipe any previously tracked data. AID tracking is unrelated to telemetry.

Telemetry does not contribute to advertising at all unless "tailored experiences" is enabled in settings, and even then the data is mostly used for Microsoft to suggest features and fixes for problems.
You may be missing a whole bunch of people like me who refuse to use facebook. And you'll just never know how many. If there's an event that is solely organized through facebook, I just don't go. If that means I miss out, I miss out.
I have a hard time believing that something written on sophos.com can be so click-baity/devoid of substance.

Half of it is vulnerability vs exploit in eli5 style, and then the rest is just mentioning FileReader in passing.
Sure, but is your goal maximal safety no matter the cost, or are you trying to strike a balance with other factors?

If all you want is to keep users safe then it'd be easy - ban JavaScript wholesale. Bam, done, instantly made the web safer & faster. Don't even need to deal with the huge security can of worms that is WebGL, either.

But safety is rarely the exclusive factor in play, now is it? Things like memory usage efficiency & performance also play large roles here.
PayPal has established the absolute rock-bottom industry-floor of 2.9% + $0.30 for payment processing + fraud reduction.

Fraud reduction accounts for the majority of that percentage.

Patreon has established that they will completely go out of business at 5%.

Steam is taking 30% and Epic is taking 12%. Salaries, servers and regulation are expensive.

Microsoft offering 5% is a steal.