skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very fair to say that your average user absolutely does not care about privacy past catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data.

Wether that's wise or not is definitely up for debate. I think we'd be much better off instilling a higher value for privacy than we'd be trying to legislate and regulate the problem away. Companies will find ways to skirt legal measures, but an evaporating user base cannot be ignored.
man there goes my idea of uber for toaster strudels
Not sure how eradicating Twitter is going to keep Jenny McCarthy off Oprah, Dr. Phil, and Larry King. Idiots had way bigger megaphones long before Twitter.
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Of course I am in the minority. The majority of people on this planet have neither the education, interest or intelligence to understand the cage that is being constructed around them. Are you in the blissful, ignorant majority that cannot see what is actually going on here?
Smart. Fly less, kill less nature with CO2, sleep more. Have always loved the night trains here in Europe.
Also sticking to email for notes. It's the one account that I expect to migrate between providers when need arises,whereas something specific to notes I would likely just abandon. Advanced features like sync between devices is already set up and it's searchable, I have encryption when I want it, the UI is familiar.

For even more transient notes I have a widget on my phone's main screen that is just a single, persistent multiline text field without even something as complicated as a save button. It will typically show the number of a hotel room I stayed in months ago or something like that.
yeah it’s easy to fix those with a filter on the predictions. could use bayesian approach or just smooth using a majority vote over rolling window of say 3 frames...
>Things that were significant were preserved when the people involved decided they were important

Sounds like you answered your own question.
Ok. “Hopefully” did not convey that to me. It means you leave open the other possibility, not that it’s obviously not the case. In which case I interpreted your statement as saying it could have F-117 level instability. If that’s not what you meant then carry on.
Nothing beats this resume https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf
720p webcam with cuda is about 90 for me.
EME does not require Widevine; you can implement EME in its entirety yourself, in open code.

Widevine is only one of several implementations of a Content Decryption Module; it just so happens to be by far the easiest to license (though that doesn't mean that's easy!).
ok, so how do we do this?
Hmm, I’m thinking whether this is an example of Goodhart’s law (when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure - the measure being the number of product launches) or “tragedy of the commons” (i.e. some sucker will do the maintenance, I’m going for the promotion!).

Either way, it’s frustrating as a user. I will never forgive them killing Google Reader.
How does Chrome OS make money? Are there licensing fees involved?
Are you referring to the reverse engineering role? They aren't describing an app they are making - they are describing the act of reverse engineering apps on the App Store.
There were stable at altitude, but at low speeds those "fighter jets" became very twitchy. Delta or swept wings are a problem when low and slow. Their landing speeds were sometimes extreme and/or their angle of attack so high that visibility was an issue.

Fighter jets are also, in comparison to airliners, not very aerodynamically efficient. They can be fast but burn lots of fuel while doing so. They are like a motorcycle compared to a bus.
How easily, and how much setup is necessary? Remember, we're talking about competing with a service that doesn't even make the end-user consider whether that is a problem that needs to be solved (just plug in a credit card and off you go).
YOLO is a very good and approachable object detection technique. I recently re-read the paper for the original YOLO [1] from 2015 and loved the apparent simplicity of this technique.

As a shameless plug, I wrote an intuitive guide to understanding SSD (Single Shot Detector), another popular object detection technique: https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-ssd-multibox-re...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02640
Fantastic reporting. We rarely get to see game dev under the microscope, especially for very recent or ongoing projects.
True, but even that detail doesn't stop people from being upset at this. I remember that early on in the Kindle's life Amazon had to buy back pirated books (including a version of 1984) that had been erroneously sold to customers, and even the refund didn't stop people from being angry about it.
I'm a Stripe fan, so my perspective on this is that Stripe has done an incredible job making "easy things easy," and a pretty good job making "hard things possible."

There are things I'd love to see added to the Stripe Billing APIs (some of which I mentioned in the article), but I have a really healthy respect for the amount of good work that's gone into the design of an API that, as you say, touches just about every part of a potential customer/payments workflow.

Stripe's API has consistent naming, a clean design of the core data objects, consistent data formatting and request patterns, good dashboard tools for seeing what's happened in requests and webhooks, and great documentation. All of which are non-trivial, and basically none of which any of the other "name brand" APIs I've used in the last year or so do. :-)
i would've appreciated a bit more breakdown on where all the spending was going. i mean, the user acquisition cost, will eventually go away for the most part once they reach a certain size. After that it's all about operations. the question is how do the scalability of providing service fundamentals look like, long term cost vs revenue.
Yeah this article is a bit ridiculous. Pen testing is what security researchers do. It's a proverbial mountain out of a molehill.

The Intercept longs for its Snowden glory days.
I was thinking less end of humanity and more a general expansion/growth threshold.
I implemented Android support on Slate. It is currently the first release and I will be committing time to fixing the remaining bugs starting within this month most likely.
YOLO, no! https://i.imgur.com/R1RZ2N0.png

Jokes aside, we need better temporal consistency, especially when we start arming AI. citizen -> citizen -> citizen -> armed insurgent
Who else is here is using Firebase? What are the odds of the whole thing getting canned with 2 years? For all of the "we promise GCP isn't going anywhere" comments from the Googlers in this thread, I'm seeing nothing about, well, GCP's equivalent of Inbox.
if this wasn't true there wouldn't be tech giants
Commento is open-source and you should be able to self-host... was just looking at the Dockerfile used for builds, kind of beautiful actually. Haven't dug into the code (seems to be go-based), and unsure of the database platform used.

https://gitlab.com/commento
How does that work? If I have an old player that is perfectly technically capable of playing new media, will it fail to play requires new keys? If so, that's atrocious, and I'm glad I jumped off the physical media train post-DVD.
You run it once, and on each new data element you introduce into the collection.

Or if you prefer, geohash it JIT style, and once it's persisted, you don't run it again thereafter.
A coder spent an hour changing the code, once, and now it requires zero effort for users. They never know the difference. Open popcorn time and wait for it to quickly buffer.
Box plots can still obscure the nature of a distribution, e.g. it might be multi-modal.

Violin plots + outlier dots + additional markers are more helpful. Sometimes the CDF is also more useful than the PDF, e.g. for latencies.
> doesn't mean that the comments on the two sites are so dissimilar that they can't be compared.

Actually, it does. I discuss things of significance here, where the information may be useful to someone in the future, but I only commented on reddit for entertainment purposes (jokes, witty remarks, etc.) Also, creepy people don't comb through past HN comments looking to call you out in current conversations like they frequently do on reddit, and almost always out of context and spun to fit their agenda. While entertaining, it started getting annoying after a while, so in my opinion, that's why they can't have nice things, so to speak.
Anyone heard about the sargassum catastrophe in the Caribbean? [1]

While I think it is terrible it might be an additional great sink for CO2.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XD92EgWzZg
Oprah is likely ground zero for the entire mommy knows best movement, which contains a hell of a lot of pseudo-intellectual bullshit beyond just anti-vaccine stuff.
If someone doesn't want to vaccinate their kids they are risking the lives of many other people in their community with this choice, not just the kids they decide not to vaccinate.

The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated for things like measles until they are 6 months old.

So people who aren't vaccinating their kids and have their kids running around spreading the measles virus in public places are risking the lives of any infants under 6 months of age who haven't even had a chance to be vaccinated.
Maybe a solution for the problem in the post: one way to simulate Electron but using full Chrome instead of the DRM-less Chromium, is to make the app target Carlo[1] instead. It's basically what a Chrome app used to be (now deprecated), but run from a Node.js script.

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
It's conifer's terpenes that cause the haze* in the great smoky mountains.

https://www.livescience.com/46958-trees-ozone-pollution-map....

(*not the same as smog, you need NOx emissions as well for that to form)
Strange content indeed. I thought it was interesting but totally inappropriate for a company’s blogging platform. Seems like a cheap shot way to drive traffic to their site.
Not working in tech.
This is true. Google cannot be relied upon.

The axing of Google Talk & Reader is still fresh.

Even the other day, a friend mentioned that instead of waiting for Gmail to be killed, its better to move email to your own domain.

Even I moved off keep. I am confident that it is going to be axed soon.

The thing that bugs me the most of why Google doesn't just opensource the code. Open-sourcing Google reader was the decent thing to do. Like netscape open-sourcing its code to Mozilla before it sank. I still treasure the Netscape CD I got with from my ISP in the late 1990s.
Good in theory, but implementation was poor the one time I tried it. The 6-person sleeper car is extremely cramped (2 triple bunks), and with the passport checks at border crossings, it's difficult to get a good night's sleep. Personal safety and luggage theft was a concern as well. I canceled my return trip and booked a low cost flight instead. Maybe the extra funding will improve train conditions and process.
How do you determine those percentages? The reason all these studies are necessary is because biology is hard.

Example: cancers where Ras proteins are mutated are common and also predictive of poorer outcomes. Ras signals through several effector pathways including ones involving BRAF. So if someone develops a BRAF inhibitor, we should call it a day and people should just start taking these? Ooops, turns out this paradoxically enhances Ras oncogenic signaling.. Is it better to find that out 6 months when everyone who's taken these dies, or would these people be better served by doing your beta testing and "years of studies/paperwork" in cancer cell lines and mice?
I'm not sure about "revive," since sleeper trains have been coming back in Europe for years.

There was a Wall Street Journal article about it recently.

Sorry the link is Apple News, but that's where I bookmarked it from: https://apple.news/AdFPGWf-GTmOabJK30Za0ZQ
We learned Facebook can be used by foreign adversaries to influence elections. I think we might be learning that it can also be used to commit what you might call biological warfare.
Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash
I had a similar impression when I was implementing Stripe for my business. It seems like there's a lot of boilerplate and heavy-lifting that I would have preferred to just abstract away using some existing service instead of spending the hours on getting it working in a way others probably already have.

Would you be open to sharing your thoughts on how you'd like something like this to work? I might be interested in giving it a shot. My email address is hello@wyatt.engineer
Good point. I hadn't considered this.
The state in the United States often represents the will of most people. Some governments represent whoever is most able to get and keep power. So if you support the idea that "the state has an obligation to protect children by <insert value> and as such the parents contrary desire shouldn't matter one bit" could be replaced with the following values:
- ensure meat is a regular part of their diet
- ensuring they are not fed meat
- teaching them about God
- teaching them that there is no God
- raising them in military training facilities away from immediate family
- sterilizing them

When you give power to the state, are you going to ensure that no one you don't like will ever come into power? What if we had given the previous president this power, how would the current one use it? Or the next one?
Thanks to you and the team for all your hard work. Live Share has been very helpful to me for teaching junior programmers and pair or swarm programming.
I think Google Keep killed it. I'm part of the user base that hardly takes notes, so for me, none of the advanced features of Evernote appealed to me. Once Keep came out, I just stopped using Evernote because Keep was more convenient.
You didn't have to read TFA very far at all to see it's not about GPS.
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That paralyzing illness:

> acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, a rare, mysterious and sometimes deadly paralyzing illness that seems to ebb and flow on an every-other-year cycle and is beginning to alarm public health officials because it is striking more and more children.
So long the "informed consent" really is truly informed, and not something that is slanted or otherwise concealing evidence or data. In that case, then I do not disagree with you.

However, considering what we know of how PR and Marketing works, I am inclined to err on the side of "Abundance of Caution and Due Diligence", even in the face of personal responsibility.
> the 99% at 867 ms latency makes you have a moment of panic, but when you see that 95% is 60 ms, then you really realize how few of your visitors are experiencing the slow response.

And then you realize that visitors are hitting your application with hundreds of requests per page load and the 99th percentile suddenly becomes your average.

And then you realize that you didn't plot the windowed maximum and have some crazy hangs every now and then that block entire page loads for a whole minute.
Life goals list. 1 man. 10 years. 100 goals reached
Where does the money go for Lyft/Uber? The software platform can't be that expensive amortized across a million+ drivers.

It's not like the drivers are overpaid (and in many cases, they are barely (or not even) paid enough to cover costs)

What else do they spend it on? Marketing? Bribing...err... lobbying politicians for favorable treatment?
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism
You can run cargo install-update -a every now and then to check for updates. At some point in a few weeks I hope to have binaries distributed with every release, which means there will be better/faster ways to install sd than cargo.
Currently I'm on Apple's notes app. There are lots of things I don't like about it - rich text formatting needs to die - but it gets the job done and has "jot-ability". I've thought about writing my own dead-simple notes app but just never had the time. Plaintext, dropbox backup, simple substring search, maybe tags, maybe markdown.
After the Moon in 2024, Nasa wants to reach Mars by 2033
> How do you get people to come to your website, to trust your service and give you their credit card details?

There are several ecommerce website aggregators and search engines, where you can hook up your website (export product list via XML) and promote your products.

You don't need to handle ccard info at all. You can use direct bank-bank money transfer, or use post office to get you the money from the customer on delivery. Post office is regulated and can't refuse you service.

> You have to use something like PayPal or Stripe

No you don't. There are many other options, individual banks and other third parties offer payment gateways (where you can accept credit cards). I know about at least 6 common ones, and I'm sure there are more.

Not US.

Economics of this clearly work well enough.

It's so weird. I live in a country that's 30x smaller population than US, and we seemingly have more ways (that are workable and widely used), to help sellers sell their stuff in an independent way, deliver it, and accept payments for it, without being dependent on semi-monopolistic unregulated third parties like PayPal or Amazon.
Engineers, Rider Incentives (aka marketing), Driver Incentives (aka marketing)
I believe there is untapped creative potential in procedural art. It is an under-explored area because of lack of tooling imo.

Dr. Jacobs' work is the best manifestation of the idea of "composable tooling" in the context of procedural art.

This video explains the idea in a way that I found very accessible for myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWraWSERlY
> The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated for things like measles until they are 6 months old.

It’s not limited to infants btw. People with immune deficiencies can’t be vaccinated either and for some people the vaccine doesn’t work. They’re all protected by herd immunity and if the vaccination rate falls below the critical threshold they’re all at risk.
I had missed this one. Thank you!
Because that bit of information has nothing to do with the point of the story.

Folks don't want refunds, they want the item they paid for.
If you choose a 6 person sleeper car, you can't really expect much. It's a bit like a hostel - you choose it because it's cheap, not because you expect to get proper rest.

To me, the 140EUR would be very much worth a private room, bathroom, and shower. It's travel + hotel, or some decent approximation. If you booked other forms of travel and an overnight hotel, you'd surely spend as much money and more time.
Ask HN: Does your employer own your blog content?
As part of my job I was researching MySQL's support for JSON data types. I put together a document to explain to the other devs the various functions that you can use along with simple examples.

As the document grew, it seemed that it would make a nice blog post that I could put up somewhere. At which point one of my colleagues pointed out that because this was done during work hours, I dont own the content and would need express permission from my employer before I could do this.

Sadly my employer doesnt have a tech blog, as that would have been the obvious best place to put it. I've asked for permission, and it's more than likely they will be fine with it (they tend to be good with things like this). But this got me thinking about other bloggers.

So my question goes out to all you people who have a personal blog; I assume you do some research of your content during work hours (as part of your job) and then blog about it at some point.

What relationship do you have in place with your employer? or is it all done in your own time?

Bonus: while you're at it, which blogging site do you use/recommend?
One of the more common explanations I see online about the adoption of antivax ideas is that its a way for people who can't afford healthcare to justify why they don't need it.

As healthcare becomes more and more of a financial liability for Americans, people look for alternatives, and antivax has a large, established community that has already conjured up answers to most of the basic objections to the idea.
Within Visual Studio, our team culture is very focused on solving customer pain points, and ensuring we can address the broadest set of developers possible. Over time, we hope that some of those developers consider using other Microsoft products (such as Azure), assuming we do a good job of providing a delightful and integrated experience. Additionally, there’s plenty of value within the Visual Studio SKUs, which allows us to decide which features are available in each. We decided to make Live Share available across all VS SKUs and VS Code, because we believed that real-time collaboration was something that is applicable to the vast majority of developers.
Improving the way junior programmers deal with reusing code
Build buildings out of wood -> Plant more trees -> build more buildings out of wood -> plant more trees, etc. This can sequester a lot of carbon over time, especially if said wood buildings are in places trees can't easily grow.
Article is quite US-centric (not a criticism, it is after all the NY Times) - can anyone comment on similarities or not around the world?
This is akin to asking "if evolution is real why do we still have apes!?".

The answer is of course "Because that's not how evolution works.".
Well if we go by your narrative then the world is anyways doomed. Since majority of the planet has no education, interest, or intelligence to understand anything complicated, their votes are not going to vote for solving problems which are important, but irrelevant to them. IMHO, unless your cause is important to the masses, it is doomed. You should probably think how can you help the blissful, ignorant majority to understand your perspective from their point of view to achieve your cause.
What happens if you lose access to Stripe or they shut down?

Engineering is one thing but it must never trump strategic business thinking. Sometimes the cleverer engineering option is a business death trap.

Any solution that puts your balls into someone else's hands is suicidal.
Thanks for a feedback and links.

We have done a lot of work on core stabilisation and API improvement. First version of editor.js is used for a while by local big (well, relatively) media projects — vc.ru, dtf.ru, tjournal.ru with the 200-500k DAU. This projects have UGC communities, so the Editor is using many times in a day. I mean most of our resources on the past stage was directed to the stability purposes.

Fully agree with you about the importance of UI and UX (and mobile adaptation) in our case. This is a next step we have start today. And this is a reason why it is an open source and free. We see many talented developers and the demand, so we will continue to work.
London and Cambridge are exceptional cities for political and economic reasons, so that’s not a good comparison.
There are many overnight express trains in Europe. Cozy and not expensive, enough space for bikes. Warsaw-Moskow, Munich-Bologna, Paris-Tolouse, Kopenhagen-Hamburg just some examples.
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> The 6-person sleeper car is extremely cramped (2 triple bunks)

You get what you pay for. There was probably an option of a 4-person compartment (2 double bunks), or perhaps even a first-class option with a two-person compartment. FWIW, I personally have never had a problem sleeping even in the 6-person cars; people are generally respectful of each other.

> with the passport checks at border crossings, it's difficult to get a good night's sleep.

Where was this with passport checks with border crossings? Were you somewhere in Eastern Europe? There is plenty of room for overnight trains within Schengen where passports are not generally checked at border crossings.
Oceans and the Carbon Cycle