skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same, unless I feel my life is in danger (reckless driving). Why punish someone who might be working for less than minimum wage?
The moon might have been seen as similarly silly. US might much more easily have focused on nearer space with a greater ROI on the project itself. But apart from the geopolitical bragging rights, the technical constraints of a moon shot meant the development of all kinds of technologies that rippled outward through society. We see some of the same effects with the LHC. Its direct uses have limited (immediate) practical impact, but the technologies required to build it, harness & process those volumes of data, etc., have spurned on all sorts of more immediately practical innovations.
It's a great argument for devices made in the US. We can't trust Chinese tech yet we don't make our own.
Interesting. But if Google wanted to hurt browsers that don't have DRM they could put DRM onto every YouTube video "just because".
Often enough, people change jobs -- quit, or get fired. Their e-mail becomes a black hole for at least a month, until somebody in IT gets around to turning it off, if ever.

Some people are so bored at work they pretend interest just to have someone to talk to. Then maybe they get busy, or fired. Sales is rough.
How much is the push against Apple's App Store policies is the result of Apple's platform having the most lucrative users by a significant margin?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...

Google has been slowly tightening down its platform too. Not mention, Google's bread and butter makes them money both directly and indirectly, so the incentives beyond security to tighten their platform weren't there from day one. Apple has always made its money based on direct relationships with its consumers (more or less, I'm simplifying a bit).

Now that both stores have been around for a long enough time, I think its starting to become clear that Apple has the more lucrative users to sell to, and I'm sure this plays no small part in the increasing fervor around all this.
If I find info/stories interesting and worth sharing I will share it on HN. Now the point is that I should also try to make conscious decisions on when it is most likely to get votes? (Different time zones/regions = different preferences).

But I understand that no votes should maybe not count as dup.
Personal rapid transit is just a waste. You can transport A LOT of people by rail ... orders of magnitudes of people more than cars, even if you had a highway full of self driving cars all moving at 120kph. There's not even a comparison. Self driving and even personal transport does not compare to the capacity of standard rail stock:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...

Public transport also forces you to see people every day. Even this very bare minimum interaction is vitally important. It changes the way we see and treat people.

There was an executive at Lehman Brothers who had a private elevator he used from his condo to take him to a car with a private driver, which took him to another elevator that took him to his office. Most days he could go from home to work without interacting with a single person. That changes the way you see and treat people, and we need less of that.
Specs cease to matter once a player gets too dominant. It becomes added work and not following the spec costs nothing.

If we're really headed to a single-browser future, enjoy those specs while they last.

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-l...
There's no way the windows kernel is 1.89GiB. That's ridiculous.
> There IS GOING TO BE a barrier of entry SOMEWHERE.

This is correct. When everyone has a degree, then no one does.

There is a limit to how many productive professional jobs can exist. All the necessities for society and life can be produced and distributed by really about 10% of the workforce, working with economies of scale. Everything else is nonessential service jobs or entertainment.

Around the 1960s, the 10% that had college degrees happened to match that 10% of skilled jobs. We fooled ourselves into thinking that was causation. It's not. Awarding four times as many college degrees does not mean four times as many productive jobs will somehow exist or the consumptive power to sustain them. Companies don't want to hire a degree, they want to hire from the most able 10% of their applicant field. A degree used to be a proxy with significant signal towards that, but now has little.
Did they run the tests without training first?

What’s the point?

If Security/IT is so dense that they see any value in testing before training, we’ve already identified a problem: culture or a “our employees are too smart for this issue”.
This is really cool. I really admire what she's doing.

Is there something similar for black males? Just asking because from what I've seen black males have a rough time as well.
I'm including Dante/Ravenna/Livewire in that question.

My guess is that this is more an application toolkit for home/consumer applications instead of professional use, but a lot of the problems they have listed on their roadmap are already solved through a family of open* standards. The name escapes me but there's an industry initiative to provide FOSS APIs on top of web tech to build these kinds of applications. Engineering manager from Fox/Disney gave a talk about it last month (maybe it was march?) at the LA SMPTE meeting. Lots of money is going into this domain.

* with an AES membership, but you should have that for this kind of project anyway
It's $0.10 until it isn't. Average crypto exchange has hundreds of automated tx per second, once it is attempted onchain the fees go up. Atomic swaps onchain are good for large amounts and rare trades, but not for retail traders.
Voting with your dollar is how you elect the best products and services.

No one used PayPal because they liked Elon and thought he would make a great ruling oligarch.
hey cuckas
They answered your question, please read more carefully:

> ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer assistance. We only do so when ordered by a Swiss court or prosecutor, as we are obligated to follow the law in criminal cases.
Mars colonization involves building an entire industrial economy from scratch on top of an airless pile of rusty sand, so you can connect anything you want to it. The idea that a planetary satellite network would be a top priority for a place with no air and nothing to eat is also a curious one. Musk would be better off developing an interest in hydroponics and radiation shielding.
It's worth listening to the podcast that the screenwriter put out alongside the show.

He discusses the decision to collapse the scientists into one character, and explains why he chose to do it this way. Whether or not you agree it's interesting to see the though process that goes into a decision like this.
You could just use Zdog for it...

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/munsell-spin
Can you help a newbie understand why I'd want to use this instead of Firefox + uBlock Origin? Seems like a lot of extra maintenance overhead...
From their roadmap summary:

> Research. Learn to measure the full network latency, test Roc on different network types and conditions, determine the minimum possible latency that we can handle on different channels.

It sounds like latency is unknown, but my guess is that it’s comparable to RTP plus a few extra milliseconds to handle error correction and a constant latency.
I couldn't agree more, except instead of newspapers, I got a couple magazine subscriptions (Maclean's & Bloomberg). I love it.

I quit caring about what happened today, and instead I get my news a week later. I take the magazine (only one, I browse the other over the week) to a coffee shop on Saturday morning, have a couple coffees and read that weeks magazine. By not constantly being 'up to date' outside of occasionally using Twitter, I've found I'm a lot less stressed. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone.
In montréal I've seen people just pull the turnstile back a little and then get like a foot wide gap to walk right in.
> Netflix AND the studios would go out of business in no time without the ability to protect their work.

The fact that every video a streaming studio gets is available to pirates to download within moments of it becoming available suggests that DRM does not in fact give them anything but the appearance of security.

It's required by content providers and film studios as a matter of course, but has no reflection that it actually works in the real world.
A Signal in Giant Earthquakes That Could Save Lives
Golang web server in chroot in OpenBSD
Only technology being worked on ? >> Digging.

What a coincidence, that's pretty useful for oil too.

The market uses money to burn oil to burn money to burn oil.
If you set up a fully private market for student loans, you'll find that you are now making it more difficult, in general, for African Americans to go to college.

What kind of people will not be able to secure a private loan? The kind of person from a poorer family with bad/no credit, unable to find any acceptable cosigners for a loan.
I didn't either, but I had multiple schools (USA and Canada) where the guidance counselor basically sat you down with a book and said, "Here, check what you're interested in in the book first."
Except it literally provides this via the app store. Even paid targeted advertising.
It also means, that you cannot use existing form controls for your custom element, you must build them up from scratch from divs, and relegate them into uncanny valley of not-quite-native, slightly-off elements.

Yes, it is possible to not use them; you can always make your life harder than necessary, you could also write an modern OS in assembly, for example, if you wanted to. If people are avoiding them today, one reason could be that they want their components to run in Safari.
My dad lives in a small rural town (population 1500).
Mars is going to need some kind of payment system! Also a method for rescuing children trapped in Mars caves.
Plus Chicago's is super old. Use the newer Orange Line and it's much quieter. The high speed intercity/commuter rails in The Netherlands are also super quiet (and massive!). They move a lot of people too!
> Common Carrier

...

> A common carrier is legally bound to carry all passengers or freight as long as there is enough space, the fee is paid, and no reasonable grounds to refuse to do so exist. A common carrier that unjustifiably refuses to carry a particular person or cargo may be sued for damages.

food for thought.
95% of blockchain projects are a garbage heap, crypto currency is WAY overvalued, but the 5% of projects that are actually useful, and have a real need for a blockchain may just fundamentally change parts of how we live life

when micro transactions as a concept came to games, it changed the way people wrote games. when crowd funding became mainstream, it allowed more innovation from people with just a need and an idea

don’t dismiss the 5% useful for the 95% useless (and no, i’m not going to enumerate the useful cases because it’s been done to death)

*EDIT: and to be clear, i think the currency part of crypto currency is in the 95% not helpful (maybe unless you’re talking about stellar, which deals more with fiat/other currency exchange and for the most part eschews spending crypto currency itself)
Unless she's in the process of joining Uber and working on the feedback component, she's not "trying to make the system useful", she's just refusing to engage with material reality.

Direct action needs to actually affect the people who have the power to make changes. Stubbornly rating drivers 3/5 for a good ride just makes their lives harder, and let's be clear, nobody who is working at Uber gives a shit about that.
They are not denying that, they clearly stated it:

> ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer assistance. We only do so when ordered by a Swiss court or prosecutor, as we are obligated to follow the law in criminal cases.
Well yeah, that completely changes things. The comment I responded doesn't exactly make that clear though does it?

>It is "right" to provide an honest rating. What you seem to be saying is that it is the rider's duty to provide dishonest ratings.

That seems to me a staunch defense of doing what you want to do regardless of how it affects the driver.
Sure-- I think it's fair to say that society & civilization as a whole is better off with both types of people.
When in full control of the file format, it is hard to find a cross platform user-space solution that beats SQLite.
For better or worse, banks tend to use back-end risk-prediction and risk-prevention methods. Those stop-loss much, though by no means all, fraud losses.

One unified model of understanding all the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, real estate) is to consider them as fundamentally attendant to the question of managing risk. To a vastly greater extant than any other economic sector.
In theory, anything that increases competition is healthier for capitalism, but that doesn't mean that "anything that increases competition" should be mandated by law. Why should opening Apple's platform to other App Stores be mandated by law?
So far I mostly tested Roc on several 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi networks. You can usually expect 100-500 ms in this case (depending on the network). See "Typical configuration" in this article[1].

Most likely you will be able to achieve lower latencies on a better channel, but I did no serious testing for lower latencies yet. This is in my to-do list.

[1] https://gavv.github.io/articles/new-network-transport/
The point is just that you shouldn't link empty discussions as "duplicates", unless they got many votes but no comments (happens rarely), or something has been submitted repeatedly (e.g. some people submit the same thing every two days). Submissions don't get traction for whatever reasons all the time, no need to fret over it.
An even more inconvenient truth
You just reminded me of a couple of BBS we had locally when I was a kid that where only on for a couple of hours a day but never exactly on the hour, everyone would start dialling our early to try and connect.

We had a thriving BBS scene despite been a poor northern town because of a historical oddity that meant local calls cost a fixed price whether they lasted 30s or two hours.

I love my modern computers but there was something cool about computers then (or simply the optimism of youth).

It felt like they where going to change everything..and then they only sorta did and not always in ways I’d have wanted.

I guess that’s what people thought of the telephone, wireless and steam engine though.
Exactly! Initial load is IMHO far more important, since as I travel the world some sites (including allmighty new GMail) just won't load. No load, no sale. And maybe perfectly crafted JSON will be very small, but a classic HTML page it's not gonna be much more than that (compared to cached assets).
Updated Dropbox plans get more storage and improved capabilities
AES67 is just an interoperability standard, it's more of a device level protocol than anything. You buy AES67 compatible gear for your application, then use the vendors' tools like Dante Virtual Soundcard (so you can essentially treat the networked audio system as a normal soundcard on your machine through CoreAudio/WASAPI/JACK/etc).

It's actually pretty great, most of the time there's no need for a separate API just to handle streaming. It "just works."
An even better solution is to transform exchanges into channel hubs, and settle trades instantly without ever touching blockchain. I.e. trade dynamic remains the same, but now each party holds a balance proof and redeemable onchain collateral.
Yes, I'm pretty sure this is what they count on.
Everyone who is knowledgeable or motivated enough, did already change. The rest obviously didn't so even if a part of those will change, they can keep on pushing it through bundling or advertising to regain a part of them. The bulk will just stay. This is the "internet program" for them.
Microsoft might just have the horsepower to keep up with any particularly shitty changes that Google might potentially try to push through, better than some of the other Chromium skins. At least if they want to.
People tend to search for weight loss tracker though, and that's what this app is for. The tagline is perfectly named. Why should it change because of Apple's mistakes? Shouldn't we be pressuring Apple to fix its monopolistic store?
Yep. Can confirm this exact experience from an update yesterday. Dislike.
I could only imagine how bad things would be if most people didn’t have their own smartphones.

I think having a “guest” wifi discourages employees from using visiting random streaming websites on their work computers.
Curiosity killed the cat.

But you can't stop curiosity.

I wonder how many such phishing e-mails a company gets a day.

If the volume is not that high and it's something manageable by the (proper) security team, I wonder if a company could implement a policy where the employee can report a phishing e-mail to the security team and get to sit with them to watch them investigate. If that's not possible, maybe have the security team write up about investigations into phishing e-mails from time to time and send the results to employees as internal memos.
Why Can't We Stop Yelling at Each Other?
> disabling javascript

Unsurprisingly, HTML cannot encrypt your data.

> verifying with a phone number

I never had to do that.

> getting stuck in captcha hell if I'm on TOR

Applies to pretty much all websites that use captcha. The purpose of captcha is to stop spammers; just suck it up or switch browsers.

> and if I want to pay with Bitcoin

Why would you want to do that?
> Competing apps on the App Store.

Whole section looks like it was designed for antitrust regulators and a judge.
>I see this argument made again and again. Just because one is "worse" by selective parameters doesn't mean that the other option is any good either.

It means it's the better option given the choices available. Everything in life is a trade-off. Everything has downside. Some things have more downside than others.
If you think it's tough dealing with Apple, try running an app that allows adult content.

We're not allowed in the app store, we're not welcome on any major payment platform, and thanks to Apple dragging their heels on PWA support in Safari, we don't have any access to push notifications (or most of the other major native features).

The vast majority of our traffic is on iOS, but we're completely locked out from providing a native experience thanks to Apple's bullshit policies.
Don't forget about customer outreach, you can't visit a major google property without being ask to switch.
Carmack's talks can be very long, but if you can find an evening to sit in front of YouTube, settle in to the couch, you'll be startled by just how smart this guy is. Deep, in depth discussion on highly technical topics for a long period of time with barely a word mis-said.

Anyone interested in programming should watch at least one long Carmack talk.
German student here: sure, university is mostly free, but that leads to people taking their time, resulting in regulations about how long you are allowed to study, leading to all kinds of bureaucratic tricks like switching majors, getting your semester counter decremented for work in the student council, etc. But generally my life as a student is quite pleasant (didn't fail exams, so I'm still on track time wise).

The thing that I'm worried about is the reaction of these all-inclusive countries once they see a rise in "education arbitrage": get your degree in Germany, then move to the US to pay less taxes (and make more money in case of CS) and optionally move back once you want/have children. On a long time scale that could bleed a country of resources. And I fear they could get the idea of making people stay somehow.
One of my favorite things with Firefox is the ability to “edit and resend” requests in the browser devtools. I’m sure there are plugins that do something similar on chrome/chromium. But I use it all the time and my colleagues are always blown away when I show them this.
This isn't true. Uber has always had a minimum cut-off for driver ratings, and it has always been around 4.6-4.7. Uber set that expectation, not the riders.
Sorry, what's an innovation that came out of the moon program or the LHC that has broader social benefit?
The question quality seems highly suspect to me.

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Question: 9

The easiest way to play videos in HTML...

_ is to use an AWS source

_ is to use an Namecheap source

_ is to use an SiteGround source

_ is to use an GitHub source

_ is to use an YouTube source
I hope that the terms can be re-written to impose some sort of liability on anyone who tries this sort of thing. The only disincentive is the wrath of editors and the foundation, which, frankly, doesn’t amount to much.
They should ask people for justification on 5 star ratings as well, like "What was the absolutely exceptional, one-of-a-kind aspect in this ride?". Because if 5 stars means "everything's normal" and it is the maximum, what do you do to express the deviation from normal into the positive direction?
Actually, they dismissed it pretty quickly I thought.
Yes, I've watched Albert Bartlett's lecture several times; and if we get to talking about converting literally everything to pure computronium in a sphere expanding in all directions at approximately light speed, I admit that's a lot further into "forever" than I was imagining.

I was more thinking of the near-term future of resource scarcity, to make the point that "value" doesn't run out just because gold or oil extraction from the Earth runs out; people value intangible things and the economy runs on that being real value.
My comment was intended to point out that the rating system is inherently dishonest. It was not intended to indicate what I would or wouldn't do when rating.

From reading the comments here, though, I think I know what I'll do: opt out of the whole thing and avoid ride-sharing services in the future.
The next Fortnite could sell VBucks through an exchange like this
I'm also optimistic about technological progress, but if you look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineerin...

The 21st century might look a bit lackluster so far.
That basically is what they have (see bottom):

https://www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/how-ratings-work/

I think it's absurd that they try to dictate user behavior based on broad averages, as opposed to normalizing each individual's ratings to fit a standard distribution, then averaging those normalized ratings.
I mean, mobile Safari doesn't allow extensions, and only recently allowed content blockers. Safari also has essentially the same model that Chrome wants to adopt:

> Apps tell Safari in advance what kinds of content to block. Because Safari doesn't have to consult with the app during loading, and because Xcode compiles Content Blockers into bytecode, this model runs efficiently. Additionally, Content Blockers have no knowledge of users' history or the websites they visit.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
What did exploring the Moon bring us?
The trouble is that people have a ton of intuitive buttons to push, and being intuitive they're not usually aware of them. (In straight cons, the buttons are often emotional, which is why the term con comes from building "confidence." Phishing is more faking authenticity than appealing to emotion.)

Skepticism and rational thinking require effort, and thus as people are rushed or tired, those are the first defenses to fail. You can train to recognize patterns of phishing, but learning those patterns takes time, repetition and effort.

All that a good phish requires is finding the right buttons to push on the right person, and they have many potential victims to press them on, and little to no consequence to getting it wrong.

So, the answer is people are not particularly gullible, but the weak links are a constantly changing, largely unknown dynamic and the phishers can hammer at all of them simultaneously until they get through.