skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really isn't the point. I'm not talking about comments but how you manipulate the perception of the public discussion.

By the way your assumption about free comments is really arrogant I guess power corrupts but it could be that you've always believed that.

Anyway 1984 will enter the public domain in 2020, we could actually try and see this then; and I bet the average comment will be more thoughtful than your
average comment that seriously doesn't bring to the discussion anything but hate and frustration.
I agree. However, I had heard of "red phosphorus", so the expression "red mercury" sounded vaguely plausible to me.

I suppose that claiming that something is a "myth" is a bullshit excuse journalists use for writing about something that is completely untrue, which they are not normally supposed to do.
There's also the almost never used software that people complain about being forced to use.
So why do the sellers not sell 'red' Mercury sulfide? They aren't misselling something then.

Perhaps it says something about the buyers? Perhaps they want to be misled? Or have such low faith in science that something accepted by science becomes less legitimate in their eyes? It appears to me that it's coming from the same place as conspiracy theorists, which I suppose is what this basically is.
Then it would be easier for an ISP to block encrypted DNS (by port number). It is better to masquerade everything as normal HTTPS to make blocking more difficult.
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My bad, I sould have specified, I was only addressing "Without Docker, you might have a different version of BEAM installed (or none at all)"
Even when your crypto activities are secured, there are privacy issues
I trust Mozilla and the contract they have with CloudFlare (not just CloudFlare by itself) more than my ISP.

> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

Mozilla has a strong Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) policy in place that forbids CloudFlare or any other DoH partner from collecting personal identifying information. To mitigate this risk, our partners are contractually bound to adhere to this policy.

These are much stronger guarantees than my ISP's.
Will be very helpful in building an SGML DTD grammar for the HTML subset usable in emails, like I did with regular HTML [1]. CSS, though ... will have to wait for a little longer.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net
Plaid.com’s Monitoring System for 9600 Integrations
Trump: 'unfair' about Eich (2014)
I'm referring to the table in the article.
Their website at https://www.walldecaux.de/mobile-ooh#multimediale-kommunikat... only lists QR codes, iBeacon and NFC, while the article says (translation):

> This is only possible because Adsquare's "OOH-Planner" evaluates data from 43 million smartphones in realtime in the background.

Okay, the tech behind this can almost be called trivial at this point, just like data integration with whatever their existing database was, but how in the hell is that not illegal, especially if they combine data into profiles? Even if they hide it in some pseudo opt-ini legalese, I remember a lively debate here in Germany around the time tracking garbage cans were deployed in London, and that was before GDPR was introduced.

Edit: Removed rant about developers at these companies, because the tech seems to be different than proximity based sniffing. According to PDFs [0] on their website they use app data from a plethora of platforms and get anonymized phone traffic data from a company called MotionLogic, which in turn seems to get their data from Deutsche Telekom https://www.t-systems.com/de/en/solutions/digitization/solut... - good job privatization, the then government based entity now sells your movement data to ad companies.

I really wonder how "anonymized" all their data really is after integrating all of their sources. Feels like an almost laughable claim.

[0] https://www.walldecaux.de/smartnet#download
I thought side projects were shared on GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket...
A CENG is a Charted Engineer like a PE in Canada, the BCS is the British Computer society which works with the IEEE on the certification part.

The other part was at my first Job I was on the Vocation track in mech eng and got to the first rung on the Certification track. "technician engineer" I think it was called
I think the example was that this law will not create such a scenario, in the way that previous rent control schemes have.

The example given is of a 500% increase in rent, by definition no rent control law should make such an increase possible in a short time frame.
Didn’t get it right away
> it is ridiculously profitable to rent out your property right now

I'd be curious if you can share specific numbers on where this is true?

Where in CA can I buy a house/apt and rent it out for more than the mortgage+insurance+taxes+maintenance? A link to the MLS listing would be appreciated.

Every now and then I look at housing costs vs. rental income to consider buying some investment property. But the numbers never work out, I'd always end up loosing money to rent it out.
We should not forget that Rust wants safety over speed, so it utilizes array bound checks and such at runtime, because programmers make mistakes. Sadly, that introduces slight overhead.
IMHO we will still get a space opera-esque future, just within the Solar system, not outside of it. There is plenty of space, energy and material around for potentially trillions of people on billions of space stations and space ships.
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This was supposed to be a secret but i already vowed to myself that i will expose it to the world if they were able to complete my work.
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I'm the happiest person in the world now.
Well there are middle Eastern mediaeval writers talking about it, middle eastern sheiks going to Egypt after it, and middle eastern terrorists trying to buy it, so it may not be well known in the west, but is obviously widely believed in certain circles.
I tried to dismiss the cookie wall and that completely breaks the page as well. I can't scroll down.
An important quantum algorithm may be a property of nature
Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study
> DoH would prevent other WiFi users from seeing which websites you visit,

This is false, and downright dangerous information. A network attacker can still see that you are visiting pornhub.com even with DoH, since you are sending the hostname in cleartext as part of the TLS handshake.

Google isn't a snake-oil security solution - they shouldn't be making such false claims.
It's only fair to pay market rate rent as a tenant if the landlord pays market rate property taxes. Why should the state subsidies the landlord and not the tenant?

It's mind blowing how landlords forget that the reason the vast majority of them can afford to be a landlord is because they don't pay market rate property taxes.
Ask HN: How big is the HN community
Does anyone knows how big the audience of HN is ? Like DAU or total account numbers ? Thanks
Coming from a strong hobbyist background, I did a "conversion" master's in computer science at a decent university, and definitely knew more than the professors on the topics that I already knew about. I didn't know anything about SDLC or requirements engineering, for example, though, so from that perspective a good third of it at least was very useful (and at the end of it I had a lovely qualification and had spent a generally enjoyable year, so I can't really complain).

(This was slightly longer ago than I'd care to admit, so maybe things have changed... I would expect it's still something of a case of "YMMV", as we used to say.)
Just saw Rémi Parmentiers talk at SmashingConf 2019, worth a watch, it's not online yet though, so you guys might have to wait a day or two. He's the guy behind this project and probably one of the most knowledgable persons about everything email.
Yeah, enabling noalias optimizations is on our todo-list. I think that’s one of the most interesting performance features of Rust. It could be the thing that makes Rust faster than C, ultimately.

Too bad it‘s so broken in LLVM :(
I wish more countries would have so few problems so they can focus on that kind of creative idea and innovation
Couldn't marine creatures learn to collect air bubbles underwater in order to use fire?
Nobody has a way of eradicating mosquitoes. Particular species of mosquitoes are what is being targeted.

It is inconceivable to me how eradicating the malaria parasite by eradicating a few of the thousands of species of mosquitoes could end up killing hundreds of thousands of people every day. The much more likely scenario is that doing nothing allows the malaria parasite to evolve into something much more deadly (and that is pretty unlikely, given how long malaria has been around).
It doesn't allow you to buy the skins directly? In most F2P games I played (HotS, Paladins), you get random skins in lootboxes, but you can buy the skin directly, it just costs more than the lootbox (but obviously much cheaper than buying lootboxes hoping for that one specific skin).
Immersive and addictive technologies report published
Instead of rapid firing spacebar to catch the frame, you can use [.] and [,] to advance and go back a single frame when paused.
Few seconds are my dream coming true. Try working on an application where every deploy is a coffee break... :(
To take the other side of the argument here I'm completely against this change but I'm happy that it passed. The reason is simple: without data we're all just speculating. If I'm correct, now I will have real bias-free (since we're looking at this exact location as opposed to other locations where rent control has had... issues) data to support my views.

And of course only a fool would cling to certainty on issues this complex. It's very possible my views are wrong. And if they are then that's a great outcome. If they're not? Well the cost of this experiment is not going to be that big, and it can be reversed relatively easily.

The one thing I think both sides often fail to do though is to set falsifiable metrics before running such an experiment. Take a group of qualified individuals against the program, and those for the program. And have them sit down and work out their expectations of the program. So for instance homelessness. The pro side probably expects this will cause it to decline, the neg side probably does not expect it to have much of an effect. Why not convert those views to numbers collected in a mutually agreed upon fashion, which can then be regularly published - alongside results? And let's see who's right, with accurate data. Of course there are confounders. If we hit a major recession, homelessness will increase regardless. These factors could be mentioned alongside such data.

Instead without doing things beforehand both sides are simply going to spin arguments entirely in their favor, such as with the case of minimum wage increases. Did minimum wage increases collapse the economies? No. Did they cause some economic damage? Yes. Did they bring about a great life for low earners? No. Did they improve the quality of life of some low earners? Yes. And so both sides just create disingenuous arguments painting themselves as 100% correct, which informs nobody and divides everybody, since both sides come back with 'told ya so!'
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190912012052/https://exple.tiv...
On the internet "ROTFL" no "tankie" is a 1950's labour party slang term for the Communist Party members that didn't leave after Hungary in 56.

A tankie is the sort that sells the papers with editorials praising Assad for crushing the counterrevolutiony scum beneath the wheels of tanks.
Asking and querying even hard question is one thing, but having " a lot of suggestions for improving the codebase" is a totally different level.

Even if you are convinced that your suggestions are the best and absolute truth, at a minimum be attentive and humble.

On one occasion a senior engineer came to my team and on the second week brought some major suggestions that were immediately accepted by the front end team, but that's the exception and not the norm

It doesn't matter if you are a newbie or more experienced, give some respect to the rest of the team
I've worked in lots of places where having a degree was not a requirement to get hired but certainly a lot (especially bigger) companies value an education. I would say that the more accurate statement is that enough valuable work-experience can alleviate the need for a degree but degrees are far from worthless.
Before, my ISP could gather the domains I visit by DNS. Now, they can still gather them from the IP addresses and SNI, and Cloudflare can gather them from DNS. I'm really struggling to see how this isn't a reduction in privacy.

> Mozilla has a strong Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) policy in place that forbids CloudFlare or any other DoH partner from collecting personal identifying information. To mitigate this risk, our partners are contractually bound to adhere to this policy.

What happens if they get a FISA warrant? How does your contract protect users that before didn't have their DNS queries sent to US companies?
Thats a good point!

In the end he did learn his lesson, sort of. He realised he had squandered his cash but in learning the game mechanics also found out some skins could be unlocked by earning points through playing. As he doesnt like shooting anyone its up to me to grind for points. I agreed for the extra turns of course. Perhaps a lesson in effective delegation to boot :)
Then it may be a good thing that this hoax has been made more well-known like this - expose it for what it is before it becomes a more mainstream scam or dangerous medicine like e.g. the current anti-vax campaign / essential oils trend.
I think clearly defined goals are one way to effectively measure productivity. There are methods like OKRs which help when used right.
So any company with a good goal setting process can afford to give employees not only flexible hours but also any other flexibility that makes them more autonomous in doing their work. Employee will be happier and more productive.
The physical boosters are different, because they are set in stone and they're just there, ready to be bought. The odds are set and won't change.

With lootboxes, you allow dynamic regulation, which can be abused. For example, a famous streamer is opening your lootboxes live? Give him better droprate so that he constantly opens "Epic" items, so that his followers think it's so easy and want to try it for themselves too. See a whale opening your lootboxes? Starve him when it comes to loot for a bit to make sure he buys more lootboxes.
What Is an LTPO Display?
كلمات اغنية يا دار عبدالمجيد سعود مكتوبة كاملة
In the 2010s drones revolutionized photography and movies. Amateurs can now do aerial photography and for pros many shots requiring helicopters or that were previously just impossible are now done with drones.
DoH won't become required for many years yet.
Or creating our own planet at an appropriate orbit somewhere.
Establishment of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
From this post, nebulous statements of dread

"You can sense a desperation"

"make people desperate, and desperate people are willing to try desperate solutions"

"such as radical wealth redistribution, or government/centrally planned economies (socialism) [already happened, no?] or ...?" (or = unstated fear)

"radical wealth redistribution, or government/centrally planned economies (socialism)" (oh noes, the horror!)

Your prior posts go the same way. Pretty good way of stirring up dread. Basic question then: what have you done about any of it? Or, what should we do about it, specifically?

" think the market is more volatile that many people believe" - I think anyone with half a brain is aware there's a crash coming. For real concern, a carrington event or global warning are likely much more dangerous. So do something.
Nah, it's opt-in.
That's the thing with hypocrites. "Fuck POTUS" I acceptable, "The Dems have fucking lost it" is not.
Not if you have negative interest rates. I heard on the radio that some European banks want to introduce this.
Beside, I am using Markdown in all my email thanks to https://markdown-here.com/ and Thunderbird
Yeah ... except the whole video game gambling is fine-tuned and relentless in its pursuit to prey upon the vulnerabilities and blind-sights of the very exploitable. It is an addiction machine fishing for kids to enthrall.

By all means educate your kids, but also make sure to protect them at their most vulnerable against an 'opponent' in a very uneven playing field.

As for your comparison to trading card game boosters: sure, there are some dimensions of the experience that are similar. Varying rarity and desirability of items contained in a purchased container that does not reveal its content until after purchase. There are also things that are vastly different. There are things like the virtualization of the transaction (spending online virtual coins, even though you purchased them with real money has been proven to be psychologically very different from a cash transaction), the sensory stimuli that are build into the opening rituals (real card packs at most can optimize the tearing experience and the smell of the freshly opened pack, which they do btw) which makes it a very different matter.

Sometimes there are real grey zones when it comes to the balance of overprotectiveness vs predation. It is not because the delineation can't be made extremely precise that we can't identify that some things are clearly outside of the acceptable middle.

IMHO lootboxes do not fall into this grey area, and are clearly a predatory mechanism that the most vulnerable should be prevented from having to be in a perpetual armsrace against.
How will this really make things worse. Humans already invest huge portions of their time to MMOs. I don’t think VR will make it worse. Is just going to be a better quality experience. People still need to sleep and eat.
You Don't Need a Mac to Develop Your iOS App?
I've read somewhere that matrix server uses too much RAM due to bad design.

Personally I'd prefer XMPP.
Are there materials available with three orders of magnitude better properties?
UK Parliament has released a report from the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Commons Select Committee about immersive and addictive technologies.

The committee found some games-company representatives to be dishonest (which is remarkable) and to be lacking in transparency.

They've made these recommendations (but you should read the report.)

Sale of loot boxes to children should be banned

Government should regulate ‘loot boxes’ under the Gambling Act

Games industry must face up to responsibilities to protect players from potential harms

Industry levy to support independent research on long-term effects of gaming

Serious concern at lack of effective system to keep children off age-restricted platforms and games
I just read somewhere in this thread that 'ship-time' at the speed up time is zero. So that would mean 230 consecutive days of acceleration.
Can't copy-on-write achieve the same thing? If you keep a reference count, you can know whether it's safe to mutate the underlying data, or whether you need to make a copy first.
Yeah but using an Intel Compute stick with the Atom and a Pi 4 both with Ubuntu the Atom is definitely faster in my experience.
So yet another thing -- along with Prop. 13 and the cost of housing, which is partly the result of Prop. 13 -- that helps people who are already here, at the expense of newcomers. I suppose you could argue that that's appropriate, but it seems short-sighted to me. I'd rather see us build a lot more housing.
They should express their love to tech people openning up osx instead of these lame attempts.
Right, and looking at Adsquare partners, you find apps such as wetter.com or The Weather Channel.

So weather apps just track the real time position of their users and resell it to adsquare? I'm really dumbfounded, but this appears to be true:
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/612719/the-weather-channe...
I do love Koyaanisqatsi. The last part is so tragic and poignant that I'm not really feeling that as a comparison. For those who don't know, this is where the music for the Dr. Manhattan origin sequence in The Watchmen comes from. Works even better here though.

Instead, for me, that apple video is a good match for the middle section i.e. breathless human industry and I think it is sorely missing the end sequence to reveal that this industriousness has forgotten something important. It is empty, futile and ignorant and will return to dust.
LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama :D
Thank you all for taking the time to explain, very valuable for me at least.
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We probably could if it's travelling at low enough velocity. But if you match its orbit you're just going the same place at it is anyway, at which point "piggybacking" is just code for "getting some company".

And if you don't match it well enough that you end up roughly the same place you're going to have a fast, and therefore violent, encounter.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

> Mozilla has a strong Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) policy in place that forbids CloudFlare or any other DoH partner from collecting personal identifying information. To mitigate this risk, our partners are contractually bound to adhere to this policy.

So, the "obvious" view seems to be wrong.
> I strongly disagree. A browser has one job, and that is to follow and render URLs.

wow. not only has history rejected your premise, but the many technologies that exist today in a web browser prove you wrong.
If performance is a concern, you probably don’t want to buy a $39 SBC. It doesn’t need the latest and greatest to be useful.
If you leave a room then you are no longer inside and you can't know what people inside were talking about while you weren't inside. As it should be.
It's not a bad design, it's just the reference implementation is python based, and, well, a reference implementation; so they don't do too much for optimisations and focus instead on readability.

When Matrix as a protocol settles more, we'll start seeing optimised versions of the server, I'm certain of it.