skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "seeing yellow auras" when he closed his eyes

I want to demystify this a bit. I don't think it's as unusual as you suggest.

I assume you haven't had any substances lately. What do you see when you close your eyes? If you're like I've always been, you see floaters, a few spots of light here and there, maybe a faint "ghost" of the image your eye had seconds before, especially if it was bright. I first noticed that in childhood. In childhood I also noticed that in low light, like in my parents' car in the evening, I would see this light occasionally. I read in some places that this is a possible explanation for when kids complain about seeing monsters in the closet, or similar. As I got older I noticed this sort of thing less.

Later I started getting migraines, though, and when I get those symptoms I also see light that isn't there. Sometimes when I have a headache I can see it come in waves when I close my eyes.

Later still, I got a little into meditation, and I noticed I could make those perceptions come about by manipulating my breathing.

And finally, I did a low dose of psilocybin exactly one time in my life. I saw colors when closing my eyes. It was pretty much the same as all those experiences above, only a little more intense.

But you know, we also see faces in clouds. Sometimes we think we spot recognizable objects, then look closer and longer, and they're not there. Our brains are taking shortcuts based on limited data all the time, without drugs. What the drug does, in my layperson's understanding, is make your brain very eager to make these connections. Just as you might see a face in a random, noisy pattern when you're not looking closely, your brain is eager to interpret whatever visual data it gets and run with it. When your brain is deprived of sensory input, such as in darkness or with eyes closed, seemingly it can do this more.

I would say about your friend, don't rush to judge them for describing a particular wrinkle of how his brain works. Perhaps they got a little too into talking and thinking about it, or came to the wrong conclusion. But the experience itself is not that remarkable, and happens to sound-minded people all the time.
Betting on the stock market (mutual funds) over timescales in decades is about the least risky thing you can do. You don't need a 5% return every year (that won't happen), you just need it to be the average.
Please don't cross into incivility in comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have the 5k iMac with slow hard drive. I ended up getting a USB3 SSD and booting the system from that drive. Works great. much faster.
> although a lot of injustice was done to Falun Gong followers

Where do I sign up "the church of" Scientology to have harm done to them?
It lives off being someone's side project, it's nowhere near being funded by donations:

> Liberapay currently receives €154.65 per week, they need your help to reach their funding goal (€700.00 per week).

That's only about $9000 USD / year, without accounting for any of the payment processing fees.
Yeah, but you hit the nail on the head when you said you have a steady, consistent latency on your TV.

When you're stuffing the pipe w/ 4k encoded content that puts a lot more pressure on the connection and added packet loss or delay is brutal in that case.

All of this stuff is subtle but it compounds in the same way that the average gamer won't be able to immediately spot 30 vs 60 fps but they'll know that the game "feels" better at 60.
I get the point you are trying to make, but it doesn't make sense in this case. For all it's problems, East Germany solved the housing problem [1], in fact, its probably one of the main contributors to Berlin's ability to grow while keeping housing prices "reasonable"[2]. Our current property system isn't really that great at handling rapid fluctuations in housing demand, as we are witnessing in real time in the Bay Area. If we don't find more efficient housing solutions, we essentially condemn all but the privileged class to impossible commutes, poor quality housing and homelessness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau
[2] https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/09/a-second-life-for-ber...
> but I assumed it would be from the Chinese government, not someone rather bitterly opposed to them.

I have to admit, I thought exactly the same. Just yesterday saw a booth with a nicely dressed man in a suit, selling Shen Yun tickets and thought it must a troupe from China and wondered how much propaganda is in it. I was imagining something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute. Then today saw this on the HN front page.

It turns out yes, it is selling propaganda, but not the kind I thought.
Is there any reason that requires infrastructure to _play_ the games (in a consumer sense)? That seemed more like a prototyping tool to me.
> How do you make that price-competitive here?

Could they be using these GPUs for other purposes during idle times (AI model training, cloud GPU instances)?
If you’re in the market for this model, do yourself a favour and don’t buy the base configuration with the unusably slow 5400 rpm HDD. I bought the previous model with that hard drive and the startup performance is appalling
It's a smart move for Google to leverage their huge captive audience on YouTube to drive adoption. With Amazon's similar position with AWS and Twitch I'd be surprised if we didn't see a similar offering from them.
Alternatively, does it integrate with Mastodon in such a way that Mastodon hosts could easily offer immediate access to Pixelfed for their already registered Mastodon users without requiring any additional form filling etc on the part of their users?

By that I mean, does Pixelfed integrate with Mastodon in such a way that a Mastodon server could also run a Pixelfed server instance, and use the same user database for both services?

For example, the Mastodon server I am on, vis.social [1], seems like a place whose user base might want to use Pixelfed. That Mastodon server describes itself as “a social space for anyone in data, visualization, creative coding, and related arts and research.” (Said description is what prompted me to choose this specific server when creating my Mastodon account.)

[1]: https://vis.social/about
Why not take power that is available to you? Management certainly exercises every bit of power that they are able to.

The relationship between a company's stockholders and a company's employees is part competitive and part collaborative. Ignore either at your own peril.
They actually make it worse with every revision. This isn't a matter of not having enough money. Even their badge to put on websites blasts megabytes of analytics script at you to display a tiny image.
It was legal if the listing contract instructed the agent to not show the seller offers below a certain amount.
I'll take cheap gimmicks from a desperate startup for $500 Alex.
politifact, sure. Last year, there have been 28 rapes or sexual assaults in my city. According to police reports, witness reports and phantom photos, 26 of those are not from Germany. In the end-of-year reports, that number is close to 0. Funny how that works. because double-citizenship, acquittals, people never being caught, unknown identities.. you pick one
There is as much overhead as people want there to be.

That is, so long as the employees are content, it will be very low; try to do things that they don't like and the cost will go up.
50's too much and 40 should include an hour of breaks. Noncompetes and very broad claims of inventions and copyright by employers need serious push-back until they're rare or illegal, and organized labor can do that.

Also it'd be nice if some of the more powerful workers here could organize and help lobby for things like parental leave and minimum vacation for all workers, including those without so much clout.
Yes the globalists want to turn America into a shithole country. Thus how obvious why populist leaders get elected. Was 2016 election a surprise to an avg Working class American? No.
Economically, the fairest tax system is one that does not affect people's behavior. The most straightforward means of doing this is a head tax, but that's not politically feasible. The best thing to do is a sales tax on price inelastic things.
I clicked the link and... have no idea what this is. It looks like instagram maybe? I can't even figure out how to figure out what it is. The only clickable thing I see is "@admin" which just takes me to what looks like an Instagram page. It doesn't even mention fediverse on that page, and even if it did, you'd have to know what the fediverse is.

This feels like a huge barrier to adoption for them beyond the nerdiest of nerds.

I like Instagram because I get to see what my friends are up to. How will I get my friends on this?
As someone who has pushed back against on-call overreach, all it achieved was a negative remark on my next performance review. The company attempted to make an "intermediate-severity" class of incident, where on-call workers were required to respond between the hours of 8 am and midnight (the next-lowest severity required response only during business hours, and the next-highest required 24 hour response - both reasonable if applied reasonably). Of course this new severity class was instantly abused to enact permanent crunch time. Even my humble suggestion of changing it from 9 am to 11 pm so I could have time for 8 hours of sleep with buffer time on each end was shot down.

Individual workers are powerless, only able to bring their own labor to the negotiation table. I was lucky to be able to just switch teams to get away from it, but would have much preferred the option of enacting positive change without changing jobs.
Completely agree with your perspective on existing social platforms and think it's awesome that you guys are trying to break from ad-generated revenue. Any chance you'd go with a freemium model vs. free trial?
This is a very valid point. Adding 100ms of latency to games that already struggle to deal with their built in ~100-150ms already is basically a non-starter.
So you're left with casual games, single player games (with no modding), and maybe some less latency sensitive multi-player games.
Both of these comparisons are silly.

> The EU has about the same GDP as the USA

But it has 60% more people.

> Several member states beat the US by GDP/capita

And several member US states beat the EU by GDP/capita...
I literally wrote a book on Meteor.js and still have to check the manual for stuff all the time. The fact that engineering interviews are essentially roast sessions / pop quizzes is insane.

I interviewed with Snapchat a few years ago and was asked to write a Sudoku solver. Some context: I had never played Sudoku in my life, lol. I came up with a naive (unoptimized, unrefined) solution and didn't get past their third round.
Not to mention the size of those machines. I visited ASCI RED before they turned it on in 1997 or so and it was multiple long lines of refrigerator sized units. According to the guy who showed it to me, it also required an air conditioner that could have comfortably cooled the local college basketball arena.
I hope you've had a bad experience with the IRS because otherwise it's really frustrating to see the government-targeted analog of libel. Imagine working hard and professionally to serve your country only to have your reputation tarnished like this.
You can't do time slicing, no, but you can definitely reduce time to first frame in many ways. If you don't do that, you need to provision even more hardware. Packing is also part of the capacity planning phases of a service.

The other costs (power, people, etc.) are amortized over Google's array of services.

Last but not least, it would be very dumb of them not to run batch workloads on these machines when the gaming service is idle. I bet $1000 these puppies run under Borg.
Can’t you just do a bank-to-bank transfer online in the US? It’s how people pay for stuff online in Poland.
Yes. The founder rebooted it: https://www.lanetix.com
and abandoned the Twitter account
https://twitter.com/lanetix?lang=en
> it all depends on how Google prices the service

I doubt pricing can change the underlying fact that you need really good latency and being close to a Stadia server.
There are a thousand and one ways to mitigate risk in terms of choosing investments and withdrawal strategies and your FIRE age, it makes no sense for you to be so negative of the concept. In the extreme case, some people make so much money starting so early that they can live the rest of their lives just on cash.
Right this minute? Yes, tech employees are better off in a lot of areas than say Amazon warehouse employees, but there's nothing saying that in 10 years the market won't be saturated and people won't be pressured into working 60-80 hours a week (which they already are at a lot of the huge firms).

It would be better to solidify these things before the industry takes a nose dive.
Particularly if Facebook overtops them with some sort of streaming Oculus appliance. This is already a killer app for people on the edge about upgrading older PCs. I beta tested this as did a friend - he was able to play on a chromebook! But if I could play Elite: Dangerous on a streaming VR console I'm not sure I'd ever buy another high end PC again.
Show HN: Fastlane – a simple redis and docker based queueing service
Tesla Delays Price Increase (Again)
I didn't mean to say this question is scandalous. It is a needlessly confusing question. No PIN I've ever heard of requires unique digits, and the question does not actually have anything to do with PINs.

If a CS student taking this test does not get “tricked” by this question, they should definitely be able to answer it.
(I think) RetroArch have already done something similar: https://www.retroarch.com/index.php?page=latency
Right, but that's on the same grounds as refusing to hire someone because they're black/Muslim/some other minority of some sorts. Becomes very hard to prove.
They have a staff of 90 engineers already out of an overall headcount of ~300. Performantly serving text and images to a userbase of 2 million users/month is not a wild expectation. it's barely even table stakes. And if you fail at that, despite employing 90 engineers, why should anyone trust you when you claim that taking more money out of their pockets will somehow turn that around?
It compares only India, China, Russia, and the US, where there is a huge variation in education quality for the first 3 countries.

It would have far more interesting to see the US stacked up to other English speaking countries. Wonder why they didn’t do that and had the exam translated instead..
TLS, TLS MITM, and TLS MITM detection are tools; that's all they are. They have their advantages and disadvantages, and can be used for good or for evil, depending on the intentions and/or the competence of the parties involved.

Frankly, I see a case for the use of both. Let us take the example of a bank. For accessing your accounts on the bank's website, it would be a very good thing if they could detect that that even though you landed on their login page via TLS, something has intercepted the connection and downgraded you from TLS 1.2 using ChaCha20-Poly1305 to TLS1 using 3DES- MD5 and throw up a warning that your encrypted connection may have been intercepted and your password and accounts might be at risk if you continue to sign in. It doesn't matter whether that TLS intercept is happening on a coffee shop wifi that's been popped by the kid in the apartment across the street with a cantenna, or the SuperSecure(TM) feature of Grandma's new Comcast cable modem. I sure as hell would want to know that someone has been monkeying maliciously or incompetently with my encryption before signing into a page from which my life savings and investments can be controlled.

But on the other hand, let us take the case of individual workstations within that bank's internal network. A call center operator is going to be signing into various accounts and have at least some degree of access to sensitive data, like account numbers, balances, PII, etc. All the data breeches in the news point out how important it is to keep this data from leaking, and it is absolutely in that bank's security department to be able to monitor and control what data is entering and leaving those workstations, including on encrypted channels. Again, it doesn't matter whether that's blocking inbound malvertisements from lunchtime Facebook browsing, or a clever outbound data exfiltration channel.

On the gripping hand, I recall one of the security folks at Google commenting on their bugtracker that local anti-virus' TLS intercept was one of their biggest impediments to securing the browser. And the bank's internal TLS intercept in the above scenario does make for a high-priority target for an attacker, and is potentially a Game-Over-class single point of failure were it popped.

I'm personally of the opinion that TLS interception is a bad idea in most cases, and making it less common is a net win for overall privacy and security for all involved. But, it is a tool, and can have valid uses.
These are the features still on my wishlist:
- First-class portable password manager and built-in support for pkcs11 SC
- security device that's not buggy,
- fingerprinting protection,
- first party isolation,
- default fonts,
- better zoom behavior,
- built-in ublock origin ad-blocker.
Yeah inequality has been in play for decades but heavily since 2000s.

The Great Recession and subsequently Occupy Wall Street were early reactions to the symptoms that started heavily in the 2000s but really has been in play since the 70s. Share of GDP is a steady downtrend [1]. Velocity of money fell of a cliff in 2000s [2]. US GINI coefficient has increased steadily [3]. Inequality definitely became more of an issue in 2016 election but not much has been done to help it, it will continue to be an issue until UBI or GDP share changes.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Is there such thing as "tech" that makes unionizing easier? AI that helps with the paperwork, some sort of app the allows structure organization easier, etc?
Not a popular opinion, but these are usually non CS types that have flooded the fields later due to money. Not very skilled, but very entitled. The sense of entitlement is very ridiculous these days. I see folks outside the Bay asking why shouldn't they get paid the same as Bay area folks, when they want to remote from somewhere that has 1/3rd the cost of living. Or people outside the country with 1/10th the cost of living wanting USD rates. ... or literally "coders" who just know how to plumb software and build a basic CRUD wanting compensation that's on par with FAANG level. The world has lost it's damn mind and all I can do is SMH and watch with a grin.
Just aside, performance gains in latency may not be large, but performance gains in resource utilization per connection add up quickly.
Non-profit doesn't mean they can't make money - just that they can't outfunnel it to shareholders/owners.

Whether they would get more research funding from accepting investment instead of donations or if the mission would survive is a separate topic.
Try slowly typing in "Performance" in the Windows 10 start menu and watch the top result flip around pretty much at each key press...
Software Development Project Management Tools, Compared
I wish it were possible to scale the price of a piece of software with the amount of money that people make with it.

Then you could make money from big companies, and let individuals and small startups use your software for free.
Well, no. A murder didn't used to be something extraordinary. Especially not in Germany---with respect, we are still talking about the country that committed genocide as state policy in the '40s. Germany's murder rate has remained basically flat for decades [https://ourworldindata.org/homicides]. What has changed is the population has risen by about 10 million in 50 years, so with a flat rate, you're going to see more murders.

...but more importantly, what has also changed extraordinarily is communication. We see a lot more of the murders, be they local, national, or international (the fact that we, a German and an American, are discussing Australian policy in response to a New Zealand murder spree is indicative of this). Internationally, we're a lot less tolerant of murder than we were because we can see it now. And as a species, we're pretty bad at risk assessment and filtering with this newfound panopticon power. It's a pretty well-documented phenomenon that fear in Germany of crime doesn't align with the hard numbers on incidents. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-09/german...

People see what they expect to see all too often.

If I may make an observation... You appear to be ascribing to some conspiracy-theory thinking in the statement that the coroner report aligned with perceived political pressure. Where is that notion coming from?
Thanks for the correction. I'm not in this industry, so still learning and dialing in my terminology :)
The pace has slowed down somewhat. A 2080 (discounting the DLSS and RTX stuff) is about as fast as a 1080Ti, a 2070 is about as fast as a plain 1080, etc...
As a top performer:

1. I do my best work when my colleagues are also doing their best work. It doesn't matter how good I am at my job if I can't use the leverage of having teammates. I will be happier if the company can compensate all of my coworkers well and make them happy and hire good coworkers - both in terms of intrinsic motivation / happiness and in terms of whether the company is profitable enough to compensate me as my performance deserves.

2. I'm a lot better at doing the work than negotiating for the salary I deserve. There are plenty of people in this industry who are the other way around.
Some form of 'association' is probably unavoidable, otherwise it would be trivial to game for truly bad actors.

Big problem is that the current policy seems to insufficiently discriminatory between bad actors and accidental policy infringement. Perhaps they can start with short bans and rapidly increase ban length on recidivism.
Fermented foods such as kimchi and sauerkraut can supply B12, as can seaweed and some other foods.

So it is possible.
My favourite feature is where all of your keystrokes are logged and your (stupid) webcam in the arrow key records you and uploads your information to a server in China.

But cool, virtually no bezels!
The globalist vs anti-globalist thing is a way to capture the "wealth inequality" vote for conservatives - our town hasn't been doing well but those damn dirty urban liberals seem to be doing great!
Mostly libertarian here, but not aware of the full views of the party, so I looked it up. Apparently the 2016 election view states on unions as below which I don't see contradictory to unions. [did this for my own knowledge]

"We support the right of private employers and employees to choose whether or not to bargain with each other through a labor union. Bargaining should be free of government interference, such as compulsory arbitration or imposing an obligation to bargain." https://www.lp.org/platform/
No reason. But Google may decide to share it only with cloud partners. Of course it depends on the competition, but the may manage to do so.
I almost agree.

Have you talked to anyone who does professional entertainment/movie work about their thoughts on unions?

Unions are expensive, corrupt, and don't actually do much to help most of the workers. The unionized workers hire contractors to do the real work for many features, and are parasitic organizations that mostly just drive up the cost of making movies.

There was recently an article in the Times about a local NYC union president who's office is decorated with such high-end fixtures & furniture that he has a second office on another floor just to appear more humble. I can't find it at the moment...