skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, in conclusion, your startup isn't so much about helping people make friends; it's about giving businesses another advertising opportunity and reducing some barriers that keep customers from giving them their money.

I had to find a way to fund it somehow!

Original inspiration was when I was traveling, I wanted to meet up at a bar with some locals. I came back to Seattle, friends told me that the idea is great, but that they'd love to see it done here at home!

> "Going out with other people [and spending money together]" is an optional and frequently minor part of friendship. You claim that you're "working to solve this problem [of loneliness], but this the kind of definitional distortion I was referencing in my other comment. The meaning of friendship is twisted to overemphasize its most economically significant aspects.

V1 feature set is around helping people find things to do at local businesses. Future planned features focus on helping people organize their own events, but the startups that started off in that space initially have all failed.

I'm trying to do something morally good, but at the end of the day I have to pay for to keep the servers on somehow.

> I feel that ethos of business is a big part of this problem, and it won't be part of the solution.

Only a small % of events that are listed are even from partners, and as many non-commercial events as possible will be added, e.g. hiking, public gardens, and the like. But the other side of this is, when it comes to meeting new people, the vast (vast!) majority of people surveyed say they feel safer in public spaces. For high density urban areas, that mostly means commercial spaces.

Finally, I don't think helping people find things that they want to do is inherently bad. I do not believe that fulfilling a someone's request to "find me a group to play laser tag with" is an inherently immoral action to undertake just because it is facilitating a commercial activity.
I like the idea although I can't help but think the visualization sort of draws me to comments with lots of responses....and on HN that is ok.

On sites that heavily rely / encourage getting responses such as Twitter I worry it just encourages posts that are trite, obnoxious and such as those get the most responses.

Granted this is a visualization tool so it's not "responsible" for issues that are largely human / platform issues.
Yeah I lived that life for a while too, I was even in the church band for a bit, after I admitted atheism to myself. I loved church, except the whole god part.
Really sad the Times is just an outlet for what amounts to a symbolic nothingburger.
Android project security – A way to hide sensitive keys
>The question is why browsers do not have these capabilities natively.

Money.
Fair. I don't expect companies to manage drug addicts.

But what about ex-drug-addicts? Or convicted felons that have served their time? The government "fixes" the problem and them drops them into society and says "good luck!" (well, it actually doesn't, but for the sake of argument)

I'm saying in cases like this, these people can offer valuable insight due to their circumstances. Perhaps valuable enough to spend a couple extra months on upskilling an ex-felon on, I dunno, product design. You do it, then they turn around and create an educational product for inmates that you can sell to a state penitentiary system for millions, which you do for all 50 states. A silly example, but do you see my point?

I think we've gone way into the weeds here and I'm confusing myself at this point, but I appreciate the dialogue.
...by the Police and municipalities. Amazon, etc, can still use it in their "grab and go" stores.
Hi, have you tried Contabo.com ? There is vm’s for 5euros with 4 cores and 8gb ram
Are there any resources describing the patent issues for hash chains? Have patents expired, or does cryptocurrency somehow work around them?
I'm quite sure this title will be changed when the mods see it, but for the record, since it's funny, the title the OP gave this was "Twitter baits developers into their API again", which honestly is a pretty good summary.

After what they did the last time, why would anyone trust them again?
There’s probably a lot of code sitting in private git repos where like one guy worked on it five years ago and then quit the company and gitlab/github might be the only place it exists.
I tried Notion but honestly found it to be overly complex for what I had primarily done in Evernote. Am I must missing some key workflow concepts with it?
Private repositories. You may not want their contents to become public
Awesome-Reload
I admit I’m using height as a shorthand here. I’ll put it more simply: Do you think anyone can become a professional athlete with the right training?

I don’t. I think it’s a field where genetics determine who can succeed and who can’t. That isn’t to say that everyone who can become a professional athlete becomes one though.
Story of development of Erlang from 1992.
I don't know why Erlang does not include backtracking. It seems a required part of Prolog. Can anyone explain the advantage?
I read this PDF to see if they answer the question but found no mention of it, as if Prolog doesn't support backtracking at all. Does this make sense to anyone?
Err no, no it's not. It's that there's been a ton more attention there. We're no more or less safe than we were before, we simply didn't know about the bugs that were there.

(FYI, I've been a security researcher for 15+ years and work as the head of hacker education for HackerOne; I am very, very pro disclosure. :) )
For what it's worth, Shattered specifically altered a small part of an existing file. Perhaps with chosen-prefix the story is different.

https://shattered.io (check out the two pdfs)
You are thinking only about quality of video increases. I agree that is essentially finite if we ignore upcoming technologies such as 360 video and eventually VR ready video (fully 3d, any perspective).

My argument was primarily based on the number of videos uploaded (see https://tubularinsights.com/hours-minute-uploaded-youtube/). Looking at the area under the curve, supporting the historic videos is a fraction of what it takes to store the most recent ones.

I am arguing as long as the youtube continues to be able to support to store the recent videos, storing the historic ones is not that much more expensive.

edit: also, running out of stuff to store is not going to be a thing ever. Amount of cameras in the world is increasing and people will keep shooting more videos.
Amazon isn't using facial recognition in their "grab and go" stores.

Predictably, it's somehow worse than that, though.
For server development the hard part is simulating realistic network conditions. For example, on localhost, you'll never witness any prioritization happening, because you'll never grow a queue of responses still waiting to be sent down.
Document links:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
I think the practice is consistent with general HN expectations, and also what you might expect for say a legal journal. I will also add that many people on HN, including me, post under their real name so that anyone can Google them and see what they’re about.
so weird that we live in two totally different worlds, this was a completely benign announcement to me, but to you all of this cognitive dissonance has flooded your mind

what I saw: Hm Stellar has a Development Fund, and people within Keybase' engineering team that wanted cryptocurrency security to be easier so less people get scammed

what you saw: questionable corporate goals because things involving cryptocurrency involve people getting scammed

fascinating, to say the least, it is a perspective.
Is the 737 MAX’s proposed behavior with one AoA sensor broken also compliant?
No one step will stop a police state, but many small things may.

Democracies operate in small steps rather than broad strokes like totalitarian states.
Unitarian Universalisy is exactly the church for atheists who see the value in the non religious parts of church. The problem is most people don't understand the value of this, so most people won't get it unless they are driven to it by religion, and religious people tend to not notice that religion isn't the main reason the good parts of church are good.

Religion is to church like the stone is to stone soup, including the part where dirt on the stone can mess up the soup.
If only you could target the processor type for your cloud instances...

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/amd/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-lv2-se...
This really feels like attacking the symptoms not the problem. Shouldn't the city, state and federal government develop guidelines on what can and can't be done with this information and ensure lack of abuse? You're in public, you have no expectation of privacy -- whether the video is assessed by computers or an army of humans, does it matter? Don't human viewers have 'facial recognition technology'?

Progress can't be stuffed back into the bottle, but it does need to be guided and controlled. It feels very SF these days, sad to say, to long for the good old days by placing the collective head into the collective sand (as with allowing new/taller buildings to be built).

Technology is neutral, what matters is what we do with it.
I'll have to remember to skip while jaywalking
Those kotlin handy extensions, creating a new Activity
That is what I thought as well. Sometimes if I am in a bad mood/snarky and they ask me what I do for a living, I just say “computers”. They always ask me “computer what? engineer? programmer?” I simply respond back “computer! computer!” and they just angrily let me go.

I do this not because I want to be mean but to show them these questions are a pointless waste of time. I mean there are thousands of people who dont speak a word of english who return back. I doubt they can understand these officers, much less respond to them.
Yes, my issue appears to be #69. I'm using Waterfox on a desktop.
> it is interesting that Bloomberg has stood by the story

My guess as to why: one of their reporters was misled by a trusted source, or multiple trusted sources (who were maybe actually catspaws of some-group-or-other who would benefit from getting this story out.)

So now, although Bloomberg would like to speak truth by issuing a retraction, such a move would likely severely damage the original reporter's career; and they don't want to do that for something that wasn't that reporter's fault.

Having some corporation or government agency with tons of resources come along and force or trick a reporter into running a story, would be the journalism equivalent of an insurance agency's "act of God" waiver clause. I would guess that every major news outlet has a policy for protecting and defending reporters who—by hook or by crook—get used as patsies by forces out of the news outlet's control.
I’ve recently picked up the works of Vilem Flusser, a pretty underrated philosopher who touched on this subject in his 1983 book, Post-History. Much of what Flusser writes about is prescient, but in regard to increased loneliness in modern culture specifically, he argues that a major shift from dialogic forms (speaking with) of communication to strictly discursive forms (speaking to) is responsible. Even our so called “social media/social networks” are discursive and not dialogic—aimes more at telling people about ourselves than stimulating converstion. Part of this shift stems from specialization—when our interests are so highly individuated we have no shared grounds from which to speak, which reduces us to speaking about “pop culture” a shallow solutions to this growing gap in mutual experience.

(Even this post is discursive, not dialogic, just like many of the other parents in this thread, since the technological collective communication mechanism doesn’t emulate real conversation—in online chats you’re already speaking to everyone and no one thanks to the veneer of anonymity/new identity a user name gives you, coupled with the guarantee that others in an online forum are coming from disparate backgrounds. The notion of an audience with shared values/cultural origins has dissolved and been replaced be a universal Everyman/Noman which in turn leads us toward the dissolution of community outside the realm of technical specialization.
And how exactly do you enforce those requirements if you allow people to just walk over the border at will?
It's inevitable that San Francisco (and other parts of the bay area), which like to be on the forefront of certain rights issues will occasionally run up against the interests of some of the repercussions of the technology developed in the area, as technology stresses different areas of rights and the law.

Ideally, SF is just a testing ground for something enacted at a state level that's a bit better worded and more comprehensive, and that in turn is a testing ground for some national legislation that works even better. I mean, that's how it's supposed to work, even if it feels like it rarely does. I've been waiting for something like that to happen on the front of ownership of personal information and online tracking for years. Looks like it's finally getting a bit more attention, but who knows if something useful will come out of it.
Why don't you just not use the radio?
Tim?
Were citizens having trouble with this in SF? I live in SF and have never seen police use facial recognition, nor have I seen anyone have a problem with it's use at a Governmental level.

Could that happen? Sure.

But SF Board of Supervisors have SO MANY REALLY BAD PROBLEMS they need to be solving.

Instead they are choosing to be pro-active legislating against tech (because they hate tech, let's admit it). Pro-active legislation is something that should be higher level -- state senate, federal, etc. Local politicians should be listening to their constituents to determine their priorities.

They need to get off their butts and solve our homelessness problem with the $50k per homeless individual they now have in their yearly budget. Why do I still see crap all over the streets? Why do I feel like I'm going to be attacked when I'm in the streets?

Some guy stabbed himself with a knife right buy the Caltrain station last year. If that was an isolated event, I wouldn't have a problem.

Their priorities are so out of whack.
The rise of secularism probably is a factor. The social function of religion was to create a link between people and to regulate and control their coexistence. It provided a set of collective rituals, customs, festivities. Take that away and what remains is essentially the family unit and the market forces.
from TFA: "One year ago, we announced that Keybase is supported by the Stellar Development Foundation."

Don't have to look much farther for motives. However, may I suggest a slight amendment to your statement and thinking:

The association with keybase.io does much to give the appearance of credibility, trustworthiness and stability to cryptocurrency.
The threat cited in the article said not just that the code would remain deleted, but that it would be "leaked" - presumably many of these were private repos.

You could never trust that the attacker actually deleted their copy of the repo, but then, the whole cryptolocking business model falls down if the attacker isn't at least moderately honest, so I can see why people would respond to that threat.
You’d think that someone smuggling drugs would not tell the customs agents “none of your business” when asked where they are going. I did.

Or, when searched a dozen times, would have drugs. I didn’t.
Repo's with remaining ransom file: https://github.com/search?q=1ES14c7qLb5CYhLMUekctxLgc1FV2Ti9...
There used to be a big billboard for Data Translation A/D converter cards on I-880 at San Jose city limits. I saw them right after moving to the Bay Area in 1990. It felt like driving through the entrance to paradise. :)
The actual logs Tesla seem interested in (including the stills of things they are interested in) get written to a removable SD Card before getting uploaded to the Tesla mother-ship.

You are not wrong that a soldered eMMC (compared to a eMMC held by a ZIF or a removable SD Card) would be more mechanically stable and potentially faster (A fast uhs-ii sd card compared to a cheap slower eMMC for example), just saying that Tesla already use removable SD cards in production cars today (which doesn't brick your media unit if it dies or dislodges).

Storing the OS on a removable SD Card is (imo) a bad idea, but if they are really interested in these logs they already have a easier to replace removable storage "drive" they could write the logs to instead of burning up the eMMC.
I don't think signing up for beta software on a car like this is a good idea.
Sounds like a stand up guy.
The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future
Would love to enable HTTP2 on Cloudflare on our site, but there seems to be a bug with it in Cloudflare where it randomly stops requests, and we're stuck in an endless support loop so we have to disable it on our PWA which would have huge benefits for it.
Boeing was allowed to act as the FAA’s contractor in certifying the plane.
How certain are you that the photo archive you use had a copy of that photo? I mean, yeah, most people have local trees. Inevitably someone won't, and like spam this is a volume scam.
> Modern life, then, has not crushed our minds and bodies

It is indeed objectively correct that modern life has not crushed our minds and bodies.

> Modern life has not turned us into atomized machines suffering from toxic levels of emptiness and isolation

It is indeed objectively correct that modern life has not turned us into atomized machines suffering from toxic levels of emptiness and isolation (unless perhaps you include suicides from self-perceived loneliness, I assume Pinker does not include those in his analysis).

> Modern life has not set us drifting apart without human contact or emotion.

To me, this seems true only if you take it pedantically literally, where "without" = "absolutely none" (and even then, I wouldn't be surprised if it was not entirely true).

> How did this misconception arise? Partly it came out of the social critic's standard formula for sowing panic: Here's an anecdote, therefore it's a trend, therefore it's a crisis.

Really? Is there no non-hyperbolic (see 2 out of 3 of the examples provided above) way that can or has been used to describe the increased social isolation that many people are in fact feeling, regardless of the "expert" opinions of people like Steven Pinker?

> But partly came from genuine changes in how people interact. People see each other less in traditional venues like clubs, churches, unions, fraternal organizations, and dinner parties, and more in informal gatherings via digital media. They confide in fewer distant cousins but more in co-workers. They are less likely to have large numbers of friends but also less likely to want a large number of friends.

And yet, any feeling of social isolation is one's imagination? And only as a reaction to the fear mongering of social critics?

> But just because social life looks different today from the way it looked in the 1950s, it does not mean that humans, that quintessentially social species, have become any less social.

That, specifically, is objectively correct. However, the fact that humans have become less social (as Pinker himself just finished describing above) might be a sign.

Hopefully he releases a revised edition so we know know what to think and how to feel.

To me, this style of writing may contribute to the "backlash" against expert opinions we hear about.
>no competition outside of China

For now. Duck is growing and I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple build their own. Not to mention, the use of content blockers is rising.
This is happening a lot across the US, but should happen more. And doing so doesn't put the books part at risk, as some fear; and it might turn people on to books by proximity.
I actually practice this more than my argument probably leads on. Coming from an unorthodox background means that I don't really evaluate potential hires based on their school, upbringing... I look solely at ability to do the job. I don't have the liberty of gambling on unqualified people though. I personally would hire an ex-felon if they could demonstrate the ability to code at the level required for a position. That's a pretty personal choice though and I wouldn't fault someone for not being comfortable doing that.

What I won't do is hire someone who's unqualified. I've seen (and passed on) plenty of unqualified people with degrees from high end schools so this cuts both ways.
I can't speak to your specifics, but I've interviewed people that would be my manager before. While I didn't have the final hiring decision, my input was valued because the person hiring them was C-level, and not as knowledgeable about the function this person would be leading as I was in many ways, both because of their skillset/experience, as well as the level of interaction they had with the team.

Outside of title inflation concerns where it may be useful, it's really an opportunity to get additional valuable perspectives.
Sure, if you do it wrong. But if you do it right, you can get a lot of informative, valuable data out of a benchmark result that can accurately help decide between two (or more) technologies.

Like I've been saying, benchmark results are plenty useful if you know how to use them.
Tesla is not the only car with a touchscreen.

OTOH physical knobs and switches are much easier to operate without looking at them. Which is particularly important in a car.
SVG Drawing Library
Stellar is a pretty cool platform. Here are some features:

Any node can issue tokens pretty easily. Tokens are basically IOUs and come with counterparty risk. For example you want to issue tokens for carbon emission trading, you can do that with a few lines of code but people have to trust you to redeem them for whatever they are worth at the end. The only asset that comes without counterparty risk is the native asset XLM.

It uses the Stellar consensus protocol (not proof of work) with a new ledger being closed every 3-5 seconds. SCP favors safety over liveness (no progress until consensus is reached)

Stellar has a decentralized exchange built-in in the protocol layer. That means that market orders are p2p messages and are part of consensus for each new ledger.
Nope - from the article "The facial recognition fight in San Francisco is largely theoretical — the police department does not currently deploy facial recognition technology, except in its airport and ports that are under federal jurisdiction and are not impacted by the legislation."

Drugs, homelessness, human feces, insane housing prices -- well at least we can solve theoretical facial recognition
I've just received in some Thinkpad E485's which have the Ryzen 2500U CPU. They seem pretty nice, with a 1080p screen that's non-glare. The documentation says they support Redhat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. So far they seem nice. I was thinking of trying PopOS on it and see how it runs.
When you aren't being charged for something you are the product. And when you've being fed ads even when you're being charged, guess what?

You're still the product.

Pay for ads in product has come a long way since AOL.
If you have to travel for business, you can, at least in Canada, pay a premium processing fee to skip the queue.