skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of comparison of device makers, with regards to privacy, in this thread. I think this is a moot point, in that data is collected regardless of what company, service, device is used. The fact that the data is being collected is key; your anonymity is compromised regardless. Google is an easy target due to their size and market share, but many people here work for tech companies of all sizes. Reflect on what data that company collects, how it is leveraged, and if the semantics is much different. Collect, leverage, repeat.
> Free software made cheap, network centric computing feasible.

Anybody remember the dot-com boom? Sun Microsystem's silly "The Network Is The Computer." ads? No? Linux wasn't even a blip on the radar back then at the enterprise level.

> In a world where Windows was dominant and you had to pay a per cpu licensing fee, would companies be trying to put everything on the web, or would they create more apps that ran locally with some network based syncing?

Um, obviously yes? The fact that Sun and the other UNIX server vendors and Oracle other server software vendors were charging various fees for their OS and software, on a per server or per CPU basis, did nothing to put the brakes on the dotcom boom. Network-centric computing took off well before free software became the buzzword of the mid to late '00s.
> The thing about rural areas is nobody lives there, by definition.

I get what you're saying, but according to this[1], about 46 million people live in rural areas. That's...not nobody.

I am a died-in-the-wool car loving 'Merican, but even I can agree that cities shouldn't necessarily be designed around cars. It'd make the most sense for a park & ride type situation (only one that actually works), where us rural-types can drive in close to the city, park, and take public transit in towards the town.

Edit: as another commenter pointed out, this plan wouldn't absolve the cities of needing roads, because goods still need to make it into the businesses in the city.

[1] https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/states/united-states
I've long contemplated a boosted board, but am hesitant to spend $1k on a skateboard that I can't use when it rains.
> I wonder if you could design a game around this by drawing BOTH the predicted motion and a ghost image of the last known verified server position of players, and then deliberately introduce 500ms of latency. The gameplay would then be about tricking your opponents into thinking you were going somewhere you're not.

This would be fun. Maybe call it "Kalman's Revenge" or something.
Could you expand on this more? My friends and I just got up and running on our own beefy home server and it'd be nice to take advantage of the massive amounts of RAM on it.
Not to mention users! I can't count how many times I've seen bug reports responded to with a dismissive "you're welcome to file a PR", which is just a thinly veiled expression of the same attitude: you're not valuable, your domain expertise is not valuable, and the time you're taking to engage in the development cycle is not valuable; only your code is valuable. It's really not a big mystery why more average users don't flock to that sort of treatment.

Even when that attitude isn't so explicitly directed at users, you're right about it being visibly directed at other community members. It all sends a clear message, such that the average prospective user will move on, thinking "that application is meant for someone else."
I'm not. I cannot be without a job at any given point.
Lemme guess, they finally banned Bitcoin?
Cost is rarely a concern unless you are barely making ends meet. iPhone's cost per year is actually lower than most Android flagships, if you factor in how quicker are the Android phones to start breaking down and/or lose their system software update window. So IMO Apple has the upper hand in terms of amortised cost (albeit not by much if you look at the insane prices of the iPhone XS/Max).

I completely agree we shouldn't have to make the big trade-offs between the duopoly. But truth be told, if Microsoft failed to gain ground as a third smartphone vendor, what hope does anybody else have? They were sabotaged by Google at every turn and let's face it, if your mobile OS cannot have YouTube that means at least 80% of the smartphone populace will write you off as useless. If not 95% even.

I also haven't found the perfect setup yet. Pondering investing heavily in a 10Gbps router + 10Gbps switch + NAS with 25TB as a start. I have loads of videos and can't pay iCloud for them. So things are still shaping up.

Overall though, I am really happy with my choice. Serves me well in 98% of the time.

Thank you for the kind words. Right back at you. :)
Road cost efficiency increases the more small vehicle traffic you put on it. Think high speed autonomous caravans.

The cost per mile is already too low. That’s the over-demand problem being discussed in TFA.

Autonomous driving technology will triple existing highway capacity by ~2050 when it becomes illegal to drive non-autonomously. That’s a lot of “free” infrastructure.

We should not invest billions in light rail that will be unprofitable its entire life and archaic in 50 years.
Is it still popular with kids? I was under the impression that it was replaced by fortnite. And what do both games have in common? They're both free.
Tesla's software lead is so big it should worry other automakers, AI expert says
Or you could just overprovision solar.
> Are we going to give Yemen a nuclear power plant? Somalia? Can Bolivia afford one?

This is an excellent case for these lighter reactors, but perhaps more so for molten salt / Thorium reactors.

Where this reactor has smaller amounts of radioactive material and Thorium has little use in weapons.
The source you're citing talks about 4.4 kg estimated per m^2 for algae in the open ocean, and notes that the maximum known rate is 9.16, so around 9 * (44/12) = 33 kg per m^2/yr converting C to CO^2, or around 11 square meters.

In terms of CO^2 sequestration it doesn't seem implausible to fit a farm of that area in something the size of an apartment..

Of course the energy/water use would be insane, hopefully you could funnel sunlight in, or just open the window. But as a thought experiment that ignores the economics of it think more space station than apartment.

Critically, you need on the order of N m^2 of sunlit area on your culture, not N m^2 of floor space. If you image search "phytoplankton culture" you can see that people grow these in bottles or thin plastic bags under artificial lighting, maximizing the surface area.

You can easily fit 11 m^2 in one square meter like that under standard 250 cm ceiling height. Just have a stack every 20 cm.
When I get a plumber over to my apartment to fix the sink I don't want him telling his colleagues what's in my medicine cabinet.
Ads are much harder to block on mobile. Especially on iOS, it's nearly impossible to block ads in a native app. There are some tricks you can do with a VPN but the coverage isn't great and it's error-prone enough that I don't bother, which means casual ad-block users like my sister will absolutely never go that route. So to the extent that mobile is the future, it seems ad-blocking is not a long-term solution.
I don't think a few of us using Gimp (yes, I am an occassional user) will stand in the way of convenience winning. Hige majority of people do (and will) use Photoshop, simply because it meets their needs better.
It may be a wise use if a security break-in would be a problem for your client.

I am a big fan of restrictive CSP, but it's often hard to get there from an existing site. It's often better to do it in stages, e.g., when you work on page Q, you make that page have a restrictive CSP. Later, when you work on page R, that can grow one (or at least have fewer CSP issues). If having someone break into your site would be a serious problem, then you should speed up what it takes to get there.
Please educate me on this. What ways do I have other than investing $500k here in a business and pray that I still get the visa when the rejection rate is >30%?
>a grain-of-rice sized Android tracker implanted in their body

I don't even think they need that with everyone having a smartphone.
Justice Department Charge Deep Dot Web Administrators with Money Laundering
As a full-stack dev I recently locked down my security headers and I have a new perspective on what a web browser actually is. Before I saw all web-browsers as just a window that renders web content and enables user interaction.

Now, I see that I can have a conversation with the browser at a different level. Headers allow me to dictate the intricate details of how this hardened security tool (the browser) will interact with my code.

HTTP headers do appear to be a duct tape solution, however, once you implement them and understand what is going on; your hindsight will be 20/20 and you'll probably see them differently.

From what I understand WebAssembly doesn't have anything to do with this issue. HTTP Headers are a contract between the server and client about what can happen on a webpage. WebAssembly is a programming language and virtual machine that executes code. WASM code executing inside a VM would still need HTTP headers defining permissions for its actions.
Well, we did what we could and hopefully learned a bit in the process
Animation can be useful to draw the user's attention to a change. For example, a subtle animation when focussing and defocussing fields 1) makes you notice the focus shifted, and 2) makes you able to see which fields the focus shifted between.
I apologize, for some reason I was in confrontational mood.

This paper is also about using GANs to generate fake data.

Here’s the thing - to generate high quality fake data you need to have a lot of real data, but if you do then you don’t really need fake data.

Re denoising with GANs: do you have a lot of clean data (eg from inside the skull) that is equivalent to the noisy data (from outside the skull)? Let’s assume you do. Do you have any example of someone using GANs to clean those signals? Or any radio signals? What makes you think it would work better than any other existing denoising methods?
>it's hard to see how using personal data to sell ads is going to cause a harm anywhere near as bad as a person dying

No need for imagination, simply read history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
yes.

On a boosted, I can go to the other side of my city, but I cannot do the return trip.

I can do the 6 miles to go there (since there are slopes, we are far from the theoretical and inflated max range)
Spend several hours .. and I would love to be able to go back on my skateboard afterwards.
It is possible for most people to live their lives without Facebook's Apps.

It is not possible for most people to live their lives without some form of Google, whether it's search, email, drive, maps, docs, or calendar. It's almost impossible to function today without using Google or interfacing with someone who is using Google.

People are more OK with Google because there is no alternative.
As a tall, lean cyclist I'm always a bit surprised by both the extremes that people go to in weight reduction and by the palpable speed difference that you feel when riding a light bike.

When I ride a 1980s steel road bike, we (bike+rider) weigh about 75 kg. On a modern carbon-fiber bike, we weigh about 71 kg. That's a 5% difference, but the latter feels like it has rocket boosters when I get out of the saddle to sprint up a climb, while the former feels like I'm carrying an anchor the whole ride. Borrowing a friend's hill climb fixie machine well under the UCI weight limit gives even more of an exhilaration of speed. But conversely, adding 30lbs of bags to go touring doesn't feel that much more difficult once you're up to speed.
There are tons of clones and rip offs. But why would you play them if Minecraft is so cheap, and all your friends are on Minecraft servers, with Minecraft mods?
From what I can read here[0], I get the impression that turning unmanaged forests into managed forests is itself a threat to biodiversity:

> These Southeastern coastal forests in the US are home to bears, endangered red wolves, salamanders and a number of bird species as well as many endemic plants. According to a 2015 report by the National Resources Defense Council, the potential pellet sourcing area for existing and proposed pellet mills includes “critical habitat for 25 species that are federally listed as endangered or imperilled”. The area has been classified as a biodiversity hotspot, meaning that it contains an unusually high level of biodiversity (2000 endemic species in all) and that it is threatened. The threats here come from forest degradation and fragmentation, caused by urbanisation and ‘forest industries’ such as biomass.

[0]: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2018/pellets-introduction/
Yes. You have to be careful which comparison you are making.

The one I am making is "If a human could eat gasoline, there would be orders of magnitude less environmental damage to do so compared to eating ordinary food"

Humans can't of course, but the guy claiming biking gets 3000 mpg equivalent is making the same comparison.

In truth if we're making atmospheric carbon loading comparisons between traveling by car of bicycle, the equivalent "miles per gallon" would be much closer to equal with cars and biking, especially if you fill yourself up with grain light, produce heavy organic diets.
I have seen quite a few belts on internally geared hubs - a quick search turns up quite a few[1] commuters shipping w/ belt + Nexus internal hub.

1: https://www.bikeexchange.com/blog/best-urban-belt-drive-bike...
In a more just world, there would be a way for common people to avail the benefits of our legal system without sacrificing a day of work, mailing snail-mail letters and faxing forms in triplicate. If a company owes me $25, why can't I just take them to small claims court with a simple E-mail to my county court?
I don't disagree. You point out that there are no incentives for FOSS developers to cater to the muggles. Fine, so how do we fix that? I really want to know. I have to believe it's possible.
The above video doesn't show it changing gears... I was wondering how it did it. It is (sort of) covered in the "fully explained" YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9gQ1KRhesM

Explanation: very complicated with a battery powered wireless electronic shift mechanism embedded in the drive shaft. The "fully explained" video doesn't show it changing gears either, just explains how they would do it. My take-away is that it doesn't change gears as of the making of the video (July 9, 2018) but "they have a plan..."
lol. cigarette smoking pales in comparison to emissions from vehicles.

worrying about second hand smoke (unless you're literally trapped in a room like a bar, etc.) is almost laughable.
Minecraft hasn't been free until now.
In addition to the no-surprise explanation of the "tax cut" not being an actual cut at all for most people and the uptick in household interest payments (likely driven by student loans and increased housing prices in many markets), the key takeaway quote for me is:

"two-thirds of April’s new jobs were generated in lower-wage services industries such as administration and support services, health and social services, leisure and hospitality, among others. The flip-side of this dynamic is that high-paying job growth has been nearly halved to 1.6 percent since peaking in 2015."

I've been trying to explain to people for years now that reduction in unemployment does not mean people are getting good jobs, it just means people are getting a job that employs them "full-time" with or without benefits, livable salary, etc. The data here supports that: "good" job growth is far outpaced by low-quality job growth.
Try fractured relationship with spouse because they cannot work, uncertainty about long-term investment since I can be asked to leave the country any moment if my employer fires me, unable to take up the jobs I want, trepidation about not being allowed back in if I leave the country, not being able to travel to see sick parents if visa is currently being processed with no insight into ETA.
Remember that Apple didn't help the FBI in breaking it. Apple stood up to the FBI. The FBI later went to an Israeli firm to crack it.
Nissan's self-parking chairs keep lazy offices tidy (2016)
I have meh balance and I still learned boosted just fine.

You also get a lot better at it with time. Shocks that would have thrown me to the ground 1 year ago are not that scary anymore.

Just find a park or a parking to learn to use it.
For everything non-Radon, I'd trust Awair (http://getawair.com) honestly. I feel like I'm shilling for them at this point. Outside of DHH's recommendation, I read somewhere that their sensors are certified (plus their 2nd Edition does PM2.5 and CO2, unlike the foobot one). I've looked into smart things, but I'm not concerned about Radon, so wasn't going to pay the extra $75.
CSP could be better, but it's perfectly useful as it is. The problem is that too many people did things badly (using inline JavaScript), mixing up code and data. It's time-consuming to fix problems like that, but possible. Enabling CSP is easy... it's fixing your system so it works with it that takes time.

The CII Best Practices Badge uses restrictive CSP. You can tell that here: https://securityheaders.com/?q=bestpractices.coreinfrastruct...
I would have to think a microwave would be rather clean, considering it is hard to really "burn" something in one.
Wife will not move to a colder place. Already considers NorCal cold during winter.
So Apple are pretty much anti-freedom, since they for example don't like competing browsers (which are FOSS) and they don't allow them in their store. They also don't like people installing something they don't control, so they try to forbid it with DRM and other junk. The whole idea of lock-in is anti-freedom, since it reduces choice.
Google for something like: your os name + "make a ramdisk"

You'll also want to look into making sure the save data is persisted to durable disk across reboots/power loss.
The greatest mouse ever made is the MX518. I've been using mine since 2007, and I bought one as a backup a few years back.

Logitech just re-released it and I may buy one out of curiosity.
Real wages are dead flat for decades, everything else costs more so purchasing power is significantly reduced. The middle class is shrinking. For a lot of Americans it's a really bad time.
That might have been great for Docker the company, but I wonder how it would have been for Docker the technology. Maybe Kubernetes would have ended up being less open.

I don't know much about it beyond my own perception, but I think of the cloud vendors are doing as much as possible to seem neutral / safe while usurping business logic at every turn. Things like an API gateway that's specific to a cloud provider seem like nothing more than super risky vendor lock-in to me. Another example is all the serverless rage with tech like Lambda@Edge and the equivalents. Who's realistically going to move that type of stuff between providers once they hit a certain scale?

However, I don't have that same cynical view of Docker. For me, Docker has become a safe bet of sorts. I know that anything running in a Docker container is pretty safe in terms of portability between cloud providers, so it becomes the default choice for me whenever possible.
In this case, the technical side is also at fault for allowing this (on every other website (well, aside from Google search results), the status bar shows on hover where you will be taken if you click), but I do agree that we very often talk about the technical aspect and not the legal one.

I don't know any country where anyone goes to the police when they had a malware infection. It's a little like countries where there is no point going to the police for theft: nobody was killed so the police has better things to do. Here too, if you're not a huge corporation with millions in damage, they won't even look at it, even if you supply logs that point to an IP within their jurisdiction. (Example of a few years ago in the Netherlands: employer was hacked, hundreds of customer websites taken offline, IP address came from a home connection in the same city as we were in, police took the report straight to /dev/null...)

The only way to get anything done legally is by starting lawsuits yourself, which doesn't work for criminal cases, but oh-so-conveniently works for online copyright infringement.
"Don't teach me about ..." -- aren't we all here to learn? Let's keep the tone civil and assume the best.
Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering Natural World at Unprecedented Pace
This comment made my day!
> Adjusted for inflation, personal income excluding government transfers peaked in December and has declined at a 3 percent annual rate over the past three months.

So, it declined 0.25% between December and March? Or like, $40 a month for the median US worker?

Oh wait, they adjusted this figure for three months of inflation, so it's more like... no change at all.
If you are running off a fast SSD for storage I'm not sure that the RAM disk method will get you noticeable perf improvements; but I don't have any data for this so appreciate any corrections.
I find this image to be highly relevant to the discussion.

https://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/016/837/45...

A bit a flashback from 1940s and the urgency of arguments at that time about conserving resources.
I don't think that's happening, but I also don't blame people for thinking it. It doesn't seem like an important thing to refute, except for Facebook PR perhaps.
How Coca-Cola Influences Science Research
High rejection rate with $500k of hard-earned money locked in. Not gonna happen.
> Rather what is considered good UI and ease of use is sub-optimal for people who understand tech

The widespread love of the Mac and OS X among techies on HN says otherwise.
I love these fake feel good stories. In other words, britain offloaded energy intensive manufacturing and its coal burning to china, india, etc.

Just like how ireland "recycles" most of its plastic by shipping them to china.

https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-plastic-waste-3786393-Jan2...

And of course how norway is doing wonders by buying electric cars and investing in "clean" energy using the money they got by selling oil.

I just can't stand the self-aggrandizing bullshit from northern european countries.
To be fair, none of that involved selling ads.
https://ivanceras.github.io/spongedown/ I haven't revisited these projects for awhile now.
The inline translate text using your camera, right from search was in windows phone circa 2010. Just sayin'. This feature plus offline maps caching & offline routing with subway info was incredibly useful for a European vacation my wife and I took.

RIP WP8
Congestion Pricing Should Use Apps, Not Cameras
>this isn't the power to reshape the Earth at all

Then why are there so many tech companies obsessed with "changing the world"?

None of your rebuttal did anything to negate the fact that big data can be and is used as a weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before.
works fine for me (macos)
Don't take this the wrong way because I'm genuinely asking - how is this useful? All this does is cut out the sidebar/header content along with the graphs. I hate bad web design as much as the next guy especially on text and pictures websites, but I don't get what the site you linked is trying to accomplish.
You'd think MS could do a rewrite given how much money they spent on it. But I guess the incentive to mess with things just isn't there for them.
I'm glad you like it.
A brief search of "site:blog.mozilla.org inurl:2019 survey" shows a bunch of results, and even more for inurl:2018. Have you signed up to receive unsolicited email from Mozilla in any venue? If you've opted-out, then you may be experiencing observer bias.
Minecraft Classic was free for a long time, it's just that it was taken offline at one point.

(Note, Minecraft Classic ≠ "Minecraft Java" or whatever they're calling the primary pre-Microsoft PC version now)