skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually much more pedestrian than that, as I'm confident it works on cases more complex than me. It's simply that I've got a series of mechanisms that work acceptably, and it takes time and effort to run up a VM, set up an archive process, test a new suite & workflow over several weeks.
So is widevine essentially just a bunch of built-in javascript functions that the netflix website calls when you try to play a video?

If so, couldn't you just copy and paste the implementation into your browser from the chrome source?
Distributed Application Architecture for Edge-Based Service Delivery
the users care that your site is secure, especially if you're using their confidential info.

can you achieve security with a dead language? I don't think so.
Biggest Mistakes Marketers Make
"Don't be evil" they said... Most people working at google might be nice people but the one in control are the they ass holes that you will find anywhere else :-(
> Predation, old age (wear and tear), disease (pollution) are the primary reasons that what we consider "living things" die.

...on Earth, where the multitude of things that make space inhospitable - both objectively, like no atmosphere to protect from cosmic radiation; and subjectively, like vastly different conditions that terrestrial life hasn't evolved for - aren't an issue.
You'd know if you had read the article you just posted.

""That's because trees don't just absorb carbon when they grow, they emit it when they die and decompose, or burn.

When you add up both the absorption and emission, Canada's forests haven't been a net carbon sink since 2001. Due largely to forest fires and insect infestations, the trees have actually added to our country's greenhouse gas emissions for each of the past 15 years on record.""

Also, something not mentioned in the article (but added by a botanist friend), conifers in general apparently produce much more volatile oils, so are more susceptible to flames/ignition/burning.
For a lot of people and groups, the Internet Archive is their only hope at preserving at least some of their Google+ content. I've been working with many of them over the past six months.

Google+ had millions of active users of a wide range of technical skills, but by far the majority at the lower end of the scale. Even the ones with technical chops were often limited by budget, network bandwidth, costs, or reliability, or other factors, in what they could do.

Google+'s promise was to host text, image, and video content with Google's deserved reputation for high reliablity. The company itself is not, as many other failed social and online media services were, going out of business. It's simply decided to exit this particular activity.

The first realisation I had of the problem Google+ Communities faced was when someone commented on the subreddit I'd created about the G+ shutdown that they were wondering how they were going to move 400,000 users and content to a new home.

I didn't even know how many communities G+ had. The online information I'd found said about 5 million, but on checking it was actually 7.9 million as of late November, 2018, and over 8.1 million by January 2019. Through Loysoft (Friends+Me), I got a summary dump of all 8.1 million communities and some overview characteristics (members, posts and posting dates), and could finally start getting a handle on how many significant communities there were. That resulted in an extract of about 100,000 communities of 100+ members and posting activity within the previous 30 days, which was used for outreach and migrations. I made that freely available to anyone looking to assist in migrations.

But a lot of communities were missed, Google itself shut down the G+ Communities serving Community owners and moderators, with no notice, making outreach all but impossible.

Is there a lot of crap data out there? Yes, there is.

But there are also some gems, and the task of sorting between the two in advance of archiving it is more effort than simply archiving everything and making it available. And the Internet Archive has set itself the mission of total archival, where possible. So there's that.

The questions are ones we're discussing though at the PlexodusReddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod...

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I'm eternally amazed at the rate of speed at which any HN comment section derails into off-topic nonsense. What does this have to do with the linked article? Is it possible to do what's described in the article with PayPal?
I used Looker for years and have always wanted a product priced less for the enterprise and more for developers. I even prototyped a similar tool myself.

Congratulations on the launch. I will be using mprove and will give you feedback along the way.

EDIT: I would love to get in touch with you and learn more about what your plans are. Possibly collaborate if you'd be open to that. I'm dpaola2@gmail.com -- I couldn't find your contact info anywhere!
An OS kernel is a bounded problem, it abstracts hardware, enforces some security constraints, and allows user programs to run. So it's not really that hard to have a consensus of what Linux should do.

Linux also has the (unique to it) idea that the kernel and the rest of the OS are not the same thing. There is no other integration point than the ABI for userspace.

And OTOH, Linux userspace is ridiculously de-centralized. There's competing distros, init systems, C runtimes, memory allocators, filesystems, etc.

And that's not even taking into account the absolute chaos of the Linux desktop.
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You have to sign up for one of the several data subscription services that provide this. There are special ones for private investigators or bounty hunters which have contracts with the telco companies. Once you subscribe to the service its a fee per lookup, but getting the subscription is somewhat involved.
No, I think you’ve missed my point. A technology that prevents generally honest people from slipping casually into dishonesty sounds valuable. Battling people who are determined to be dishonest sounds much less valuable.
what can be manipulated with meta tags?
As a "foreign person", I'd rather like for no organization to come and record everything I do just because I wasn't born in a specific place.

Ironically though, the average American citizen is probably under more CIA surveillance than the average foreign person such as myself.
I always buy the product that's in front of me, in the state it's in, and expect nothing more. This is why I bought a Jaguar I-PACE instead of a Tesla Model 3. A big part of the differentiating Model 3 value seems to be in vague promises for full self-driving capability and in an increasingly robust charging network in the future. Looking at the features the two cars actually have now, as well as where I can get with the charging networks that already exist or are actively under construction, in my book the I-PACE made more sense.
The Nürnberg Laws were one of the earliest phases of the Holocaust.

The Final Solution was only the last phase of the Holocaust, not the whole thing.
I can't feel sorry for someone who goes to Google for better privacy protections. I mean, really?
When I was a kid, being an environmentalist was all about saving the rain forest. A century ago, it was all about the conservation of natural spaces. Today, it is all about carbon. To me, the carbon argument is shame-oriented while preserving (and cultivating) forests is value-oriented. This study calls into question the rhetoric of carbon -- if "restoring nature" is both necessary and more compelling for the general public. Carbon is abstract and removed. Natural forests have inherent, relatable value.
The Million Dollar Engineering Problem
It will be interesting to see whether limits on our collective intelligence relative to our collective health will be our Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
It's true that there aren't really such things as "green electrons" in a vastly interconnected grid. And it's true that my "60% Green" plan often gets to that 60% with REC's purchased from a renewable plant half a continent away that any reasonable analysis would tell you the raw "electrons" or "energy" doesn't really reach me.

But you make it sound like there's some double-spend accounting going on. I thought that RECs had to be tied to the output... if Norway sells some hydro RECs to Germany, the electrons may not technically reach the German driver (it doesn't quite work like that), but they did have to at least leave Norway in a way that the Norwegians can't count them in their own consumption.

I know energy markets are the most complicated beasts out there, but can you explain how this sold-twice accounting works in more detail?
As a (former) plugin developer and long-time user and community member, I don't think you're exactly the best person to evaluate today's install usability for a non- or even somewhat-technical new-ish user.
This works because the arithmetic mean of a large number of trials should converge to the "expected value", and expectation is linear: E(X+Y) = E(X)+E(Y). So this can be a useful way to reason about sums of random variables.
binarymax in another comment is correct about what PBG does. Still, I am interested in combining deep learning and Neo4J (and possible RDF data stores in the future) and I am experimenting with some code for a book project.
I've been developing on a RBS (Razer Blade Stealth) 2019 since the beginning of the year, absolutely love it - felt like the instant upgrade from my late-2013 MBP I was craving, even trackpad and keyboard are improvements imo

will write up on my blog properly after 6 - 12 months daily use
Formlabs is giving away a new announced Form 3
We actually see folks using Live Share for streaming all the time. What you can do is share in read-only mode, and then explicitly grant read-write access to specific participants. That way, you can give the session link to your viewers, and allow them to interact with the code, while only allowing specific guests to edit.
I think you've been doing a great job, the best of any networking site I've ever encountered (only Tildes appear to come even close in terms of purpose and leadership), and I truly wouldn't feel any resentment if you banned me because you felt the community would be better off without my comments. I think the place where we hold strong disagreement is in how to deal with evil. For instance I feel very confident that you (and almost every HN reader) agree that it's wrong and shameful that Apple would make it impossible for Macs brought in China to display Taiwan's national flag. I want to mention it whenever the context allows, even if it means repeating myself a thousand times, whereas you appear to prefer it being mentioned once and then never again. I feel my approach is necessary to achieve what I assume you agree is the morally right thing to do (that Apple will revert its decision and once again display their national flag).

I of course also realize that it's you and not me who has to deal with moderating thousands of new comments every day, and that my comments likely make it much more tiresome for you to do your job. I can't stop making these comments, but I can agree to stop using nicknames such as Xitler.

As for today's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554466), I feel what's happening here is the scariest thing I've read this year, and it deserves much more focus and not to be dismissed as unsubstantial because of guesswork. China does not deserve benefit of the doubt at this point, they've proven over and over again that they have little to no regard for human rights, that they want to censor everything that put them in a bad light, and that they'll take every opportunity to rewrite history for their benefit. This is a fact and only to what degree can be argued.

Right now China can make UC Browser default on all Huawei, Lenovo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and many more devices. They've demonstrated countless times that they'll behave like a spoilt child to get it their way (e.g. fire an employee for liking a tweet thanking their company or we'll kick you out of the country).. they've just demonstrated they'll gladly censor a SSL protected page (before today I didn't even consider it was possible, did you?).. how can you not be scared? How can you not feel extremely confident that they'll end up modifying Google search results and abuse this in so many other ways? If they're willing to do it with a GitHub repo, why wouldn't they do the exact same thing with Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, etc? They're already forcing companies to censor and manipulate content, rewrite history.. if they could do it by themselves on a massive scale then why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they sell devices at a loss if it meant they could control these people to influence foreign policies? Honestly, I'd accuse you of being willfully naive if you saw a less evil outcome.
as a side note: not all the video was using autopilot mode, the icon changes to show where there was manual intervention
IMHO plotting the distribution should be the first step before trying to compute its statistics. If you know the shape, you can understand the values - otherwise it's guesswork.
The Sahara as a desert is very important for the global weather cycle, as the hot winds created there help irrigate places with rainfall. Any significant amount of forestation on natural desert biomes could threaten to upset that cycle and make the whole situation worse.
Ask HN: In 15 years from now, what do you want your life to look like?
Site Reliabilty Engineering goes over this in a lot more detail.

https://landing.google.com/sre/books/
Agreed.

> In general, we think it's a good idea to make Stripe the "one true source" for as much of your customer and billing data as possible.

Customer and billing data are mission critical and as such having a third party payment processor as "one true source" seems suicidal, frankly.

We have Stripe handle the actual payments and nothing else.
> It requires Gtkwave to view waveforms with (opinion, but I hate the UI)

It dumps a value-change file (vcd) which can be viewed by anything, no? Sure it's not very compressed (and the compile-time for vcd-generation is unfortunate), but it's not a show-stopper.
I highly recommend doing this. I got fed up at one point and started clicking unsubscribe in every non-personal or un-important email and, without all that much effort, my inbox became infinitely more manageable pretty quickly.
Exactly my point. PayPal also makes it extremely simple for fixed amount monthly subscriptions - which is my use case. I do use Stripe, but not for subscriptions. This is the reason why.
The images aren't working for me. Looks like they are embedded straight from Dropbox Paper which is probably is not allowing hot linking.
Completely absent from this narrative is a discussion about the immense value people get out of these technologies and what people like the author propose as a replacement.

The internet and "tech giants" have given us the ability to put our thoughts out to a global audience, stay in touch with friends and family around the globe (for free). Take and store a near infinite number of photographs. Order a car to your front door and have the destination chosen before hand without having to negotiate with your driver...

Tech is awesome, life is good. Yes the East Coast old media companies hate that they've lost their gatekeeping power but plenty of us would see that as yet another benefit of tech empowerment.

The cost? You give up some privacy. Only no one cares about that. Most people don't have anything to hide from advertisers. Most of this personalization tech doesn't even work. I've literally never seen an ad so enticing that I've clicked on it.

Normal people love their technology and the "issues" outlined in this piece and the book it's discussing are those of the old money elite and their loss of power, not those of the masses who are more empowered by tech than ever before.
The Internet of Dead Things
MCAS is safe in its current implementation like nuclear power is safe- it works well when you know exactly what you're doing at all times.
> Reviewer #2 AKA Dan Grossman (lol blinding who does that)

lmao
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There is some cognitive limit of how many variants of procedures pilots can be expected to memorise and execute.

Detecting a classic constant runaway trim is an old drill for pilots.

Detecting a trim that gradually runs away, then stops to make the situation look normal, then runs away again until the plane is way off level flight is a new failure pattern.

It works for non-critical software where users can learn workarounds for only those problems they happen to encounter. But it doesn't, in the long run, work for cases like aviation where there is a known but growing set of special conditions that the pilots need to learn and remember even if they don't ever bump into them.
> It's a dangerous idea to assume that all those who are malicious are not intelligent.

I agree on this point - there is an important distinction here between "frequently" and "always". We should be vigilant indeed and seek to uncover the true purpose of those who are malicious and deceitful. The previous remark should perhaps be taken more as a statement of relief, that fortunately there is often an inverse relation between maliciousness and intelligence.
The minute-scale dynamics of online emotions
You need to realize that the EU "directives" are not actually the law (aka the thing that will get you prosecuted).

The directives are "transposed" into national law, country by country - and each country can (and does) add a local "flavor" to it. So if the Poles have watered down the anti-circumvention clause (it is very vague in the directive, giving a ton of maneuvering space to the national parliaments), the situation he is describing is very possible. On the opposite side of the spectrum is traditionally France, with its (fortunately incredibly ineffective) three strike system. Very different approaches to things even though both countries are implementing the same copyright directive.

The other type of texts coming from Brussels are "regulations" - those go into effect immediately, without having to be rewritten into national laws. GDPR is an example of such regulation.
I haven't thought about chemistry in a while, but He as an alkaline earth metal just makes me laugh.

(I have seen layouts where H is above F, though, and I can get behind that...)
I had a similar response when developing Polar but for Electron and the MS app store.

I write a few posts about it here:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/13/microsoft-blocking-electr...

https://getpolarized.io/2019/02/28/dear-app-stores-dont-bloc...

It took me four weeks to unblock me and I finally had a chance to re-publish to the MS app store and I'm waiting for their final approval of my app.

YES.. I can develop the app without being in an app store , but my distribution will be dramatically reduced.

Doesn't make sense to have an app with no users.

Google is probably not actually targeting this app specifically just that they've been insanely incompetent lately and screwing over developers ALL over the ecosystem including Android, Chrome Extensions, etc.

Our chrome extension continues to need approval every time we publish it EVEN if we just update the assets/images.

Google is really dropping the ball and pissing off developers left and right.

Over at /r/androiddev people are actually talking about protests at Google IO...
If I were an intern at Google and it was my job to maintain Reader I would be ecstatic. Hell, I'd happily do it now as a senior engineer. Why would I rather do a bunch of bullshit on a product nobody cares about when I can work on something I know people deeply love? Can you think of something that would have a larger impact than maintaining Reader?

This mentality is entirely the reason why large corporations can never do anything apart from their core business, and why they always spend billions acquiring startups (which usually fail to integrate into their business). They just fundamentally are incapable of creating anything new, and when they somehow do it the incentives are so misaligned they shut it down and the only thing they get for their efforts is making the public rightfully hate them.
Google also kills entire niches in the short term by doing this stuff. Almost nobody is going to try to compete with them head on so if they are in a niche with a product that eventually gets killed, all progress stops in that niche for potentially years.
Of course it is unsafe. If it is activated, correctly or not, it operates covertly without indication or anunciation.

It retains no memory of being overridden by pilot input but will keep pitching down until cut-out of the loop or the aircraft exits what it thinks is the dangerous corner of the envelope. Unfortunately it often lacks the information to make that determination correctly, due to the poorly-designed sensor integration.

That sounds like something right out of the 'Catastrophic Failures' books we studied in uni.
The runtime behavior I was alluding to with C++ would be exceptions, which dramatically changed the language compared to c—I'd peg the demise of C++-as-a-superset-of-C with the death of cfront in 93: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront