skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Captain Fravor is s liar? He claims to of seen the tic-tac and chased it. So if it’s a secret jet, he’s a liar, or we developed anti-gravity tech in secrecy somehow.
The Founding Murder and the Final Boss
I've started working on a client for this decentralized reddit. I'm giving it the code name "rn".
Like what, better ad targeting for social media?
Would love to use that if/when you get it working.
It's probably using fingerprinting rather than uploading the whole frame.

And I would guess it's only audio fingerprinting, rather than full video.
That seems like a weak argument, because almost everyone trying to enter the car manufacturing market is doing so with electric cars or other low emissions technology, and aren't inconveniences at all by California's emissions requirements.
I've been meaning to try Google Fi for a while but I'm sitting on the fence too long. The fact that they could "sunset" Fi on a whim when they get bored with it and lack of good customer service since it's not Adwords bothers me enough not to try.
Did they not automatically transfer those accounts to this one? Thought they had a .us domain for over a year now.
Why doesn’t the standard just say this explicitly? The last time I looked at it the word “compile” just appeared once in a footnote.
In my personal opinion individuals entirely hiding their assets from their native governments is a thing of the past. Why hide your assets and risk going to jail when you could just pay a consulting firm a fixed amount of money to optimize your tax rate and deductibles to the point where you essentially pay nothing at all.
That's just the "literally" argument again. Literally doesn't mean literally, and UFO means flying saucer.
What were you doing at age 20?
Also, blogging like a hacker includes not being afraid of your blog being hacked. Static HTML has the advantage of high security + high performance.
For anyone paywalled: http://archive.is/Blzuk
I have always wondered why the US government never took advantage of this sort of thing to make serious money. Just think of a massive extraterrestrial-themed resort in the desert in the vicinity of Area 51. Think of all the licensing deals.
Verizon claims to deprioritize on busy towers rather than hard throttle you after a certain number of gigs. Same thing happens for T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint.

With a hard throttle there is no way a user could burn 200GB a month over LTE, but with deprioritization you still get full LTE speeds on most cell towers.
This is a tough one for me. I wish I had a CS degree, because, well, I just want one.

But I don't have one - I studied for a different BA degree, found computers, neglected classes, and then proceeded on to 27 years of programming. I'm nearly 100% self taught.

And here's the weird part. At the handful of companies I've worked at there has most certainly been mild disdain for those with degrees. Nothing overt, but it was understood that if you didn't have the passion to teach yourself, and went to school to learn your programming, you were somehow inferior. We did have lots of people with degrees who turned out great, but they were always considered the exceptions, not the rule. I found this fascinating. Nearly all the senior developers, even lead developers, had no degree.
Is there actually any advantage to having a dynamic pool of IP addresses like this? Associating a number from your IP block to a subscriber number seems far, far simpler and better.
> You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigating takes a bit to load.

Yeah, quality gets awful at that speed. For reference, the 'unlimited 480p' type of feature is six times that fast, 1.5Mbps.

If my phone throttled to 2Mbps, it wouldn't affect me very much. 0.25Mbps is not acceptable.
Watching You Watch: The Tracking Ecosystem of Over-the-Top TV Streaming Devices
Full copy of the article: https://archive.org/details/howtheinternetarchiveiswagingwar...
I strongly disagree with your corporate positioning and aggressive convenient spin that no "real person" would establish.
It can also be another country’s tech in our airspace

US is so not used to that!
Using Apple's Combine Framework
Next time you see it, break out your phone or camera and capture a video. Then we can discuss the actual video!
I like how simple it is—best of luck! (BTW I think your demo video can be shortened in the middle; after 6 selectors it's clear how that works.)

1. How hard would it be to do inputs? That is, there's a form that I have to fill out manually but I want to do so by API.

2. How well does this work for creating UX tests? The Selenium "no code" tools I've seen are terrible.
That would seem logical, but it’s less accurate than you might think. Revolutions actually become more common as society exists famine and extreme poverty.

The issue is when people start wanting more than food and shelter it becomes more apparent all the things they can’t buy like free speech, or more recently clean air.
user engagement increases with frustration.

the A/B test isn't telling you that users like something, only that its taking them longer and they didn't bounce.
the CARB is much less about fuel economy than it is about the composition of the emissions. Therefore it's mostly about tragedy of commons with air pollution
President Trump has no strategy. He is acting out of spite, exactly how he has acted all his life. A real loser.
It is not clear why we should necessarily be suspicious of smart TVs based on the findings here.

The lines seem to be blurred between what data is being sent by the TV OS itself versus a third party app that someone may have decided to use during the period that the researchers watched outbound network connections.

If someone is using the Netflix app, this necessitates that the TV must communicate with Netflix. How else would it work? Similarly, if you use the YouTube app, you would definitely get some requests to Google. Surely some developers of smart TV apps have decided to use Mixpanel or Adobe for analytics.

The "sensitive user data" alluded to in the headline is later admitted to be, at a minimum, "information about the device people are using, their locations, and possibly even when they are interacting with it".

Let's unpack that. It's pretty common for every web browser to send a user agent. Why shouldn't apps for a TV send device info to the app maker? Location can be inferred via IP, like any network request (nothing special here). And with any request, you of course know the time it was made (and could infer the interaction that produced it, like opening the app).

So they've told us nothing to support the headline. Indeed, the original paper from Northeastern notes that they did not try to inspect the data or MITM encrypted connections, so all we know is that requests are being made to these services during the course of operating the device and its apps. Not that the device manufacturer itself is sending your data, unprompted, to these third parties. So, the headline does not match the story.

Seems like university PR office must have gone a little crazy with this one. Why is nobody on HN questioning such a sensationalist, substanceless article?
People don’t actually want the government to be a for profit enterprise. It would mean the government being influenced by private interests with money.
I need to switch from At&t to google Fi because of sim swapping.
This is a really great movie.
That's not bad.

It's only taken 10 years and more since I suggested on Mini-Microsoft that Microsoft do 'an Apple' and put a Windows GUI on a Linux foundation just like Apple had put the Apple GUI on a BSD foundation. I remember that suggestion being howled down derisively by the Softies.

You can always trust Microsoft to do the smart thing .... after they've repeatedly wasted years and years and billions of dollars doing the dumb things.
I suspect when living under a system experiencing nearly miraculous economic growth people are less political and more willing to look the other way with potential abuses.

Growth leads to a lot of things being a lot better for a lot of people.

If that ever slows down though I think there will be trouble.

It's good to think long term, but removing term limits seems to increase risk around transitions of power. Though at the moment I suppose they could point to the US's current political situation as a reason you can't trust the public to have unfiltered access to the internet with elections.
> Nearly all the senior developers, even lead developers, had no degree.

Not true in France. How can one learn TDD and Agile Methodology without having at least an MS in CS?
"Anyone here ever see something similar? "

Nobody who wasn't off their face on drugs or mentally ill probably, no.

"they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors."

Other than little aliens in magic flying machines what do you think they could have been?
>I haven't; what was in the movie?

Pretty much exactly what you're describing haha (with obviously a fair bit of artistic license).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4onAJ-3FAM
Only once: While on an Army training exercise at Fort Irwin California, through the IR scope of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, at night (~ 9:45 PM) in the summer of 2009. I was gazing at the exhaust of a hovering black hawk when a perfectly spherical, very hot, object moved into my field of view. It was behind the helicopter, and as I followed it I realized It was rotating 360 degrees -- at an unknown distance -- around our position. I attempted to range the object with my gun, but once I did, it immediately froze in its position, went from white hot to cold black and back again, and then shot up (very quickly) and out of my view where I lost sight of it. I shared this with the rest of my platoon afterwords, after which we all took to our scopes, ... and it came back, but six spheres this time and in a diamond shaped formation. After one full rotation, the objects slowly broke formation and disappeared into the sky. I never knew what to make of it, but like Mulder, I want to believe.
I used to remember a lot of anti-smoking ads on tv but no more now. You need to run ads for each new generation of teens. The same for ads against bullying, racism, drunk-driving, drugs etc.
The first edition has been my go-to for introducing some of the newer (1999 and later) features of C (and some of the subtle footguns) to people. I'd definitely recommend it as a first introduction to C.
Actually, the term "graphics workstation" isn't uncommon, and "gaming rig" is a very common term for machines with great big GPUs attached.
I've had a few problems with my family plan and my parents. All resolved pretty quickly via chat. I'd much rather have a bit of lag/latency of chat than listening to that awful hold music with periodic "We appreciate you patience" that always triggers me to think the wait if over.

The chat folks seem much better than most, none of the crap where they don't understand and just waste your time. They had to the power to change my account, fix problems, and gasp actually got back to me.
Anyone notice the pilot switched between BLK and WHT mode and on both occasions the designator was coming back as COLD! Shouldn't a designator with an exhaust or any machinery in motion return HOT? Or did I get this wrong?
I'd like for you to spell out exactly what you mean by "I was a skeptic of a lot of things until..." You saw something you couldn't explain. How is this connected to skepticism? Haven't you ever seen a magic trick you couldn't explain? Conversely, haven't you ever been lied to and were convinced you knew the explanation but later found out it was wrong? The absence of evidence that something terrestrial happened is not the evidence of absence of something terrestrial happening. You saw something you are uncertain of, why does it seem like you are flirting with being certain it was aliens? Your experience was legitimate, please explain the legitimacy in linking your experience to other accounts of completely different phenomena and the alien narrative overall? I think if your skepticism was shaken you were doing it wrong.
Thank you for pointing out contravariant functors; I have fixed that sentence in my post and credited you.
Personally, I'm starting to find it hilarious just how bent out of shape people get over even the most minute poke at the male ego, particularly when so many of them would probably tell anyone else offended by anything else to stop being such politically correct SJW babies.

Of course, even in a thread about C, this would be the top conversation. A minor, insignificant, barely even snarky two word parenthetical. Of course.

I guess outrage culture is only a problem when someone other than a man is outraged...
Don't know about the organization, but their ux and tech could definitely use some updates to bring it to 2019 levels of expectation. Aside from that, we are lucky to have them.
It can't possibly block all phone home attempts. How would the Netflix or YouTube apps work on those devices if network traffic to those respective third-parties were blocked?
Texas is 2nd largest population and doesnt have CARB. I'd guess wildfire emissions(smoke) are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than vehicles.
> ability to tether

In a different thread, people were complaining that Google Fi doesn't let you tether while roaming. Is that false? Or is it just a limitation for certain phones?
There’s this article that talks about how they could be radar reflecting balloons specifically designed to be seen by the navy to test their response and radar capabilities, like we have in the past against other countries.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...
Are you using a pixel purchased from Google in the USA?

I've heard many similar problems when people buy random international versions of the phone off ebay.
I wish I could eat keto, unfortunately my body requires starchy food.

And good luck getting the rest of America to voluntarily cut it out!
Any companies working on this?
They government prefers to grant franchise licenses to organized crime.
I never graduated high school and have been in the software industry for about 20 years. No one has ever asked about my education or where I went to school.
Fossil fuels are a large contributor to climate change, which is forecast to, and in fact is already causing, great harm.

In order to profit from them you have to have some form of investment in them, which means in a small way you have contributed to the cause of promoting fossil fuel usage.

Exactly how morally corrupt people with an index fund are is a question I'll leave for philosophers.
Haven't people have been learning to navigate virtual environments since the original Doom? I was hoping this would be related to AI learning the concept of 3D space without having a body to move.
What is the "completely different thing" you're referring to here. Between:

1. Having a static JSON string, and decoding that string.

and

2. having a static blob, and using protobufs to decode that blob.

these two things accomplish the same thing. I'm not sure why you seem to think one is a "cold start" and the other is "hot" - they're both "single, one-time object creation". The former is going to be parsing ints and floats as ascii, and reading in "true" and "false". Regardless of compression, the memory-inefficient JSON encoding is going to be used (whether it's over the wire, or just as an intermediate representation during parsing). I've used protobuf decoding for things like localizations and configurations before - the "cold start" use case you're talking about - and it does in many circumstances result in faster loading. My napkin paper reasoning is that this will be much more heavily weighted to booleans and integers that are much more efficiently encoded in protobufs than JSON, so maybe if you had a use case that almost entirely decoded strings your performance differences may not be the same.
Thirded, especially on the pragmatism, this by far the most pragmatic programming book I've ever read. I fell in love with the C as a scripting language parts (https://github.com/RhysU/c99sh), now I don't have much of a use for a scripting language to sit between bash and "proper language" (apart from some occasional awk).
I think all -isms are an ego trap. I'd like to stop there. I don't care to be validated as an experiencer or as a skeptic, both are extreme points of view if you ask me. Some people jump straight to aliens, others jump straight to bullshit.

I would give this more time but I need to go to bed, I've spent more time in this thread than I thought I would.
>Once WebAssembly gains APIs to change the DOM quickly and the big JS frameworks switch to WebAssembly for their internal engines

Any idea what the timeline for such changes could be? Personally I'd welcome the possibility of compiling complex web apps down to WASM, but I can't see the things you mention happening any time soon
I know you are being sarcastic, but the startup I work at is building something like this: https://beta.trustory.io/.

Here is a bit about the technical architecture: https://link.medium.com/yjevZ7y15Z.

Used to be a heavy Usenet user back in the day.
I don't suppose you could give me an example that demonstrates the clunkiness? I have not worked with SPARQL myself, but I'm very curious as someone who's been leveraging a graph database (dgraph)
If you have youtube red google will download the 500 most common songs to your phone, which really helps minimize the bandwidth for streaming audio.

You can even edit playlists on the desktop and play those playlists on the car. Said playlist will auto download to your phone.
> One of the basic benefits is always being able to return to the US. Being inside American borders is very much safer than being anywhere else if/when the next major global military issue arises.

It’s a funny fear, because today, being in the US vs. some other developed country takes about 7-8 years off your life.

Meanwhile, those developed countries with functioning health care systems that you can return to whenever don’t bother with worldwide taxation.
Too much work to edit my comment on my phone. Obviously the Wii U chat only enabled communication with a limited audience, and I think it might be deprecated now anyway. But the Kinect does Skype.
Except that apparently the new plan throttles video from the start.

And unlike T-mobile, 480p throttled video counts against your data use.

This seems awful.
You do realize you're describing quite a lot of popular books such as the Quran and the Communist Manifesto, right? You want to quarantine them to research labs only?

How is the world now so filled with people who are afraid of ideas? Have you run out of real problems to worry about? Or are you just too young and naive to realize that ideas aren't simply good and evil and that, alone, they don't cause people to do things? Nazism, for instance, came about because the people were being oppressed as a result of losing WWI and it was a rebellion against that oppression. It wouldn't work without the oppression. The idea itself is not the problem.
What we need is good p2p tech that will enable distributed storage that is impossible to censor while also automatically providing gazillion terabytes of storage distributed over all peers. Problem solved.
That's not really the business they're in but nothing stopping you from doing it!
I’ve pointed this out before, but China has a huge population. They also have hundreds of millions of “migrant workers” who aren’t allowed to live in cities without having an active job. These works have to collect money so they can send it back to their farms and pay for their brothers or kids education(s) (because in China you have to pay for education).

We are likely only seeing the voices of people who love the CCP. I do agree many love China, of course they do, everyone has to or they aren’t allowed to work, or have internet...
The brilliant part is how quickly Comcast makes back the money spent on cables laid to apartment complexes and projects. They can wire up 20-1000 apartments with copper coax and distribution boxes for something like $50,000 and have the infra and labor paid off in under a year. After that first year, the business is essentially a money printer - no incentive to innovate or rewire neighborhoods when you have no competition.

Since the cable internet standards haven't required new copper (DOCSIS 1->2->3.0->3.1) in over a decade, Comcast can simply upgrade one or two $100 boxes per complex, raise their prices and provide "faster" service while spending nothing on actual R&D.

They can outsource customer support to Southeast Asia, standards to CableLabs, modems to nearly any company in China, and even piracy detection to random firms like IP-Echelon. Don't forget - Comcast owns an enormous number of film studios and production companies. If there's anything approaching the digital media panopticon, it's Comcast.

I don't know if there's a better-positioned software company in the ISP business.
Amazon S3 Introduces Same-Region Replication
Interesting! I know it's 'cool' to just dismiss things like this but I like to believe there are still many mysteries in the world and that human beings are still pretty primitive in grand scheme of things. Especially when you consider the Kardashev scale.
It's not hard to memorize it's 'FI' + $CODE. I switch regularly when I have poor connection:

##FITMO## (TMobile)
##FISPR## (Sprint)
##FIUSC## (US Cellular) <- Have never used this though
##FINEXT## (Next carrier)
##FIAUTO## (Switch back to auto)

I never got the app, though I really wanted to at first, thinking it did this automatically, but all it does is paste in the dialer codes. Why would I pay for that?
Yeah, and I don't think they were aliens. I just don't know what they were.

We were driving through very rural Illinois at about 10 pm. I was just staring out of the window up at the sky.

Suddenly, I noticed a rather bright orb (not perfectly circular or anything, I just don't know how else to describe it) hovering in the air. I would guess maybe a quarter mile laterally, and only a couple hundred of feet up. I didn't think much of it at first; I thought it was a plane to be honest. But then it faded out -- more like shimmered out. When it shimmered back in, there were now several of them, 3 or so. They moved in very quick, defined spurts -- thirty feet left then stop, ten feet up then stop. Then these faded out, and faded back in again, but now there were 6-8 of them. More weirdly precise movements, moving separately but staying close as a group. Then they all went absolutely tearing off, directly up, in unison. Lost sight of them almost immediately.

I can't emphasize enough how close they seemed. These weren't far-off objects I had to squint to see. For those who have driven through rural farmland in USA, think about your typical interstate with a planted field off to your left. A big planted field, but still only field sized, with a line of trees marking the property boundary on the far edge. That's what these were by, and they were well within the boundaries of the field.

I was in the car with my parents, both of whom saw them. (I was getting ready to enter college, so I was probably 18.) They seemed very freaked out and refused to discuss it; I was just captivated and curious. To this day they won't discuss it and sometimes even pretend they don't know what I"m talking about.

Again, I'm not at all saying they were ETs, I firmly believe the properties of the Universe make it an infinitesimally small chance that a crossing-of-the-paths will ever occur for two intelligences, if multiple inhabited planets even exist. But I just don't know what these were. They were very close, very bright, very concrete (if that makes sense at all), and their movements were unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Very unnatural-seeming motions.

I've never seen anything like it since, either. It's not like I've suddenly started seeing lights everywhere I look.