skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://unisoft.com/atsc/atsc3.0.html

> A return path via the internet enables a variety of interactive applications

Sounds like they’re using the internet based on this page and others I searched, but yes still troubling.

I set my router to drop traffic coming and going to my smart tv recently. Seems like that’s the new future.
SNI Proxy
Tape vs SD cards? Tape.

NAND flash can leak charge over time if not powered on which makes it unsuitable as an archival medium. Depending on P/E cycles each cell has undergone and the drive type (SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC) it can be from 3 months to 10 years.
You might consider whether you are ready to go into management. We know the trope of the engineer forced into management, who did not want that job. But I think the opposite is just as common -- great engineers, who would also be great managers, that never (want to) make the transition. Understandable -- a good management day seems less enjoyable than a good code writing day. But I bet most companies, careers, and products would be the better for it.
I feel like that misses the point though. I'd be shocked (and happily wrong) if a large portion of those 2M users are none technical average people.

If anything, all I would take from that number is that the tech crowd is perhaps larger than people give it credit for. But I highly doubt that waitlist expands highly beyond the tech crowd.

Happy to be wrong, though :)
Super excited about 1.1.1. Warp.

kudos @ launching, have been waiting for this

How I see it: a well operated VPN service for whenever you trust Cloudflare more than the internet connection you’re currently on (coffee shop or airport wifi, co-working space, random mobile ISP when traveling or even at home, …).

Compare this to the current best alternative: difficult to evaluate VPNs ranging from paid to free & non-trivial to set up.

Not saying there are no alternatives but even for me it is not easy to tell which ones are actually better or in the same ballpark (@ trust, speed, ops-skills, …) let alone for the longtail of users who would be better off with something like Cloudflare than with a random shady VPN or nothing.
Why should a user pay $4.99/month for Warp+ when they can pay less than that for a traditional VPN that masks their IP address? Does the performance benefit make up for the relatively weaker privacy?
Combining Unity and on-device AI to create realistic AR experiences on iOS
There is an emerging argument that vaping is less health damaging than smoking and it likely is, however, Nicotine addiction is key to the business model and that will not change.
Not when idle but a minimal amount of usage spikes, like 10-20% CPU for a minute or so. IMO the fan really shouldn't be spinning up unless the CPU is really under stress for several minutes.
I get how this is happening and is independent from other things going on in the world... But what is the deal with all these CEO's stepping down?
> I lost 10 Twitter accounts because I argued with facts, without ad hominem. It's hard to state the truth if it goes agaisn't their bias. It's ok, it's their business.

You either have way too much free time or seriously need to reconsider your hobbies.
To be succeeded by a former tobacco executive. The takeover of Juul by big tobacco is now complete, and they have someone with strong experience downplaying, denying and obfuscating to weather the storm.
I didn't watch the video but I read the interview.

If I could get everyone to take away five things from it they would be these.:

Keep everything as simple as possible, keep everything modular and as independent as possible, develop the features your users actually want and need, build on a solid base, and keep the maintainability of the project as a top priority.
America was settled largely by people fleeing religious persecution in Europe.

> It might have to do with the last time we in Europe experimented with unadulterated free speech, and got Hitler and WW2 as a result.

Um, I'm not sure what they put in your history books over there, but I'm certain that's not an accurate characterization of how that happened.
What is WeWork worth? We redid their valuation from scratch
Deep learning found to be effective as humans in medical diagnosis
Confirmation bias? Better access to information?
I really hoped their focus would be on making an even better keyboard than the one in MBP 2015, and of course the return of at least the physical escape key.. But to be honest, I gave up all hope on that. They destroyed the MBP, making it a more classy thing for the upper class maybe? At least, the latter seems to become more and more their market.

For now I stick to my 2015 MBP, keeping it alive as long as possible. I refuse to go to Windows. Although it's a solid OS, it feels like it's infected by multiple viruses to me. They can go F* their selves with all their add-ware rubbish, forced auto updates(silently adding even more sophisticated viruses), sending home heaps of private data(including my keystrokes), etc, etc.. And although I love Linux, as on OS it's just not good enough yet compared to OSX IMHO.
I've been hiking/mountaineering in the Alps for the past decade, and have personally witnessed how fast they have been changing in the new climate.

This summer was insanely, persistently, and consistently hot. In fact hiking, even at high altitudes, was becoming impossible without a great chance of a heat stroke. At 2700 m in July you could wear short sleeves at night.

I was mostly shocked about how little environmental awareness there seems to be even in the very areas where glaciers supply water and energy.

In Aosta, Italy they were watering grass fields to be used for cow feed.
In France, Italy, Austria, the primary mode of transport is cars, and I've seen jams in the most unlikely places that rival jams in cities like London and SF.
In all these places, I've witnessed local people burn piles of garbage in the open, instead of composting it.

Probably only Switzerland stands out with reasonable public transport.
Likely enough for Uber to bet on it.
The whole idea behind the company was bet that once they capture the majority of market via aggressive expansion, the self driving auto will hit the market allowing them to cut out people from the business.

Seems like they underestimated and going to crash (or they pivot and change the model to actually include human drivers as part of the business).
VLC and mpv are the only media players you need. I like using VLC for audio (especially since it can also handle MIDI), and mpv for video.
Hiten Shah on Building FYI, Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics and Advising 120 Startups
> it must also be possible to forward instructions to GPU/GPGPU in the future with little more effort.

Highly unlikely. On most (all?) high-end systems the GPU or other compute accelerator has its own memory, and is connected to the CPU via a teeny tiny straw (PCI-E). The cost of shipping the data over and shipping the results back is astronomical. It's worth paying if you can ideally leave the data there or if the computation is so intense that the execution is just so much faster to pay for the overhead and then some. But a "smart JIT" is unlikely to figure that out.

If we were talking a homogeneous shared memory system, like most mobile devices, then maybe. But there's still non-trivial costs & setup associated with that.
I think it depends on where you live. $100k / year here in New York City is not a huge amount of money.
I've played a lot of VR games but they were games with a beginning, middle and end. So in that regard you can't really put more time into them than the duration of the game. They were good games, though (for my preferences). Shout out to TO THE TOP for lasting me a very long 15 hours of arm pumping motions (and I didn't 100% it!) Room-scale VR is of course restricted by the user's physical condition, so you can't just marathon a 15 hour game.

The only uncapped VR experiences I've tried so far were Beat Saber, Rec Room and VR Chat. At the time of writing I'm at 99 hours of Beat Saber.
Very familiar with it, nothing indicating a backdoor there.
Best design practices from popular Alexa Skills (+ PDF cheat sheet)
I have been in companies that open-sourced small bits like this. Basically, it worked like this: someone came up with a cool tool that helped them (in this particular case, likely finding NPE's in their Android app). Then others heard about it and started to use it. Once the use spread a bit, the developer who built it tried to clean up the code and document it better and make it easy for others within the company to use, and then someone said "let's open source this" because that way it looks great for the company ('see, we're giving back, we're cool- more developers will want to work here') and the original engineer (who now has a open source project on his resume, also probably gets to go to a conference and give a talk on it, which the company will gladly pay for because it makes them look cooler and attract more developers). The LoE once you've built the tool is pretty small, and 'finding things that were causing crashes in our Android app' clearly has a direct bottom line impact on Uber.

But it isn't the crown jewels of the company: their data, their scheduling algorithms, anything like that, its little side projects. (Some companies do open-source the crown jewels and make their money on support contracts, but that's a totally different business model; outside of Red Hat I'm not sure how sustainable such businesses are.)
Hi HN!
There is plenty of VUI design articles without any real-world examples at all. I think that the best way to learn something is to check out real-world examples of that thing.

So I talked with a bunch of popular Alexa Skills, wrote down the best design practices, and compiled them in one article. And I also made a PDF cheat sheet with all the examples put in short.

I'm thinking about writing the next part of the article with more advanced practices, so let me know if you'd be interested in it.

Happy to answer any of your questions!
Palantir taps Japan companies
Appeasing management (as you described) might preserve your job, but it doesn't fix a fundamentally broken process.
It is a sad thing to say, but the simple solution to this alarming trend of rescinding consent after having consensual sex is to record the audio of your interactions with the opposite sex. A voice-activated recorder that can store months worth of conversations can be purchased on Amazon quite cheaply.

I've even heard of work situations where male managers refuse one-on-one meetings with female employees due to fear of being falsely accused of sexual impropriety. Again, in these work-related situations, recording the interaction may save your career.

I realise the questionable ethics of recording someone when they don't know they are being recorded. I also understand that there may be legal ramifications for doing this depending on where you live.

However, if you are falsely accused of sexual assault, with an audio recording proving consent, you can avoid the complete destruction of your life. You still may have to face the legal repercussions of recording the conversation, but this will be much smaller than the consequences of not being able to prove consent.
A Year in Web AR
This could be smoothed with some thoughtful UI design though.

Drivers could set their preferred areas and rates beforehand, creating an inventory of drivers.

For riders asking for a ride to a destination, they'd get a slider that has a preset 'Uber suggested fare,' based on their driver inventory. One could slide it up or down and see the wait time for a pick up and car quality change.
> not one single vendor decided to make less expensive tape devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU
This doesn’t explain Lithuania which is not isolated, has no alcohol/drug problem, and has enough sun.
Seems like a transitive bit of reasoning might be a useful law here.

If I post a photo to facebook with "public" settings, then later want to delete it, facebook should do so. If an indexer like google has indexed it, then they should delete it too. Profile photos are an instance.

If I am the subject of a public interest news story, then I don't think I can ask them to forget me, so maybe in that case I can't ask google to forget me either?

I could then ask google to forget something if and only if I could ask the underlying content publisher to forget it.
The last paragraph in this article is the most concerning. Surely, this would never happen?

"There has also been the suggestion of using glass panel keyboards with force detection for each key, the addition of touch-sensitive keys, and replacing the keyboard section of a MacBook entirely with a touchscreen."
There also seems to be an effort to turn it into an NLE, which is very cool: https://www.videolan.org/vlmc/.
The problem isn't the ads, it's the tracking.
Efficient CPU implementations and efficient GPU implementations that solve the same problem are typically completely different algorithms for anything that is more complex than a big loop. Programming 64 4-wide or 8-wide extremely powerful cores is very different from programming 400 limited cores, each 16 wide.
"To produce the effect, the researchers use photon polarization. Then, they produced two different kinds of time-reversal breaking. They used fiber optics to produce two types of gauge fields that affected the geometric phases of the optical waves, first by sending them through a crystal biased by powerful magnetic fields, and second by modulating them with time-varying electrical signals, both of which break the time-reversal symmetry. They were then able to produce interference patterns that revealed the differences in how the light was affected when sent through the fiber-optic system in opposite directions, clockwise or counterclockwise..."

Lordy, I with these folks would speak english, but no, whats really important is saying things in a way only others in your field can comprehend. You can actually comprehend papers written even just 50 years ago because they written to be understood, not to confuse the granting body.

TL;DR: they setup a laser interferometer and twiddled the light in different ways through each path, the resulting interference pattern was evidence of the effect claimed.

On one path they polarized the light by running it through an LCD (a "crystal biased by powerful magnetic fields"). On the other path I'm less sure what they mean by "time-varying electrical signals", probably just means they were effectively pulsing it on and off. And somehow, by running each path through opposing winds of a fiber optic system they think they are getting results indicating "time reversal". I'll have to take them on their word on that, that's where I know less about the subject matter.
Ah yes, the old "you're not a lawyer so your opinion is worthless" argument. As I mentioned, every single thing I read by legal professionals leading up to this decision said it was entirely legal. I am not a UK citizen, let alone an expert in UK law. But I read up on it and I can follow my own path of logic based on what they described the law to be.

Also, let's not pretend like the courts get things right all the time. Even the "highest court in the land" fucks up all the time. Same here in the US. The judges are just as biased as everyone else. The law on this isn't even complicated. The Queen, not Boris Johnson, has the power to prorogue parliament. Therefore the request that she do so cannot be an illegal act by Boris Johnson. That's really simple logic to follow. And the Queen is immune from legal process so no act done by her can be deemed illegal which is why the court ruled that it was the advice/request that was illegal. This insane logic is just as outrageous as the actual request to prorogue parliament made by Johnson.
Glaciers are the charismatic megafauna of climate. They're easy to see and feel attachment to.

Anybody paying attention to the science already grasps what is wrong and has at least some ideas about what to do. But an awful lot of people don't pay attention to the science -- not least because an enormous number of people deliberately obfuscate it -- and so you need other methods of persuasion.

It's easier to get people to pay attention to large, attractive animals than to concern themselves with small, ugly ones even if the latter are more crucial to the food chain. We may not "need" the Alps glaciers, but they're easier to understand than a 0.1 pH drop in the oceans, and they have the same root cause.

Among scientists it may feel dishonest to focus on truthful but not-critical aspects of climate change. Scientists were almost universally persuaded decades ago, yet action fails to come because scientists are only a tiny fraction of the population. Even a huge number of people calling for action against climate change don't really understand the science. Getting anything done, however, requires getting the attention of a majority of Americans, who produce massively-disproportionate carbon and are disproportionately likely to reject the evidence (or remain unpersuaded by it.)

So yeah, I'd rather "concentrate on saving the parts of the ecosystem" that need to be saved. I'd rather be doing a lot of things. Instead, people focus on what is possible rather than what is needed.
My knowledge of this period is very shallow and mostly comes from the History of Phiosophy Without Any Gaps podcast. Lost Enlightenment is probably the best place to start.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00F8MIJMQ/geneexpre...
They just did a security update last week.
Could there be a cultural factor, too? At least historically, in very rough habitats, you really wanted to be useful for your community, not a burden. Many native tribes in eg. Alaska and Canada even had a range of customs around suicide or leaving behind or even killing people of old age and poor condition, usually based on the wish or consent of the victim.

Maybe such attitudes combined with bleak social and economic prospects and general feelings of purposelessness and uselessness could well contribute to the phenomenon?
Ask HN: What Happened to Steve Jobs' Shares of Apple Stock?
I was watching the Netflix documentary about Bill Gates and was fascinated by the wealth he acquired. There was a magazine shown where he and Jobs where on the cover, and it got me wondering what happened to Jobs' wealth after he died.
oops yes.
How did they even get the game running in the first place?
There is not much difference between conscious and "non-conscious" optimizing.
I wonder if any popular applications for a mobile platform ship with Rust code already.
Blaming WWII on free speech is like blaming 9/11 on planes.

If Europeans are too weak for freedom that is their perogative, though I do not understand it.
My sense was that Comcast is far bigger than cloudflare, and from my googling that appears to be the case.

Xfinity: $52 B revenue 2017

Comcast holdings (the parent of xfinity, couldn't find numbers for xfinity): 184,000 employees

Cloudflare: < $ 0.2 B revenue 2018, several thousand employees (looks like less than 2000)
It's probably not a single person, but a metric that has become statistically related to revenue.
>SSN misuse will stop once the USA has a secure national ID that is free and easy to get (don’t have to go to a DMV).

What does that even mean? There will definitely be a bureaucracy with offices that administers it, which will be functionally a "DMV".
Personal experience of adversity influences compassion toward others
Practical activities and ideas on how to run better team meetings
Anything Google is the very definition of malware: if you install it on your computer it’s not your computer anymore.
> If you have the chance, watch YouTube techlead’s video on Facebook. He summarized it better than I can.

He's seriously an ex-Facebook employee? I thought it was satire.

> Everyone suffers this issue because mark sucker berg and Sheryl sandderp refuse to take any accountability for the culture and direction the company is going

I've read over and over that Sheryl Sandberg was the worst thing to ever happen to Facebook.
Vitamin E acetate and myclobutanil are the most likely culprits. Myclobutanil is a fungicide that cannabis growers use to prevent mildew. It also turns into cyanide when heated.

Speculation: State governments are leveraging the hysteria to slow a loss in excise tax revenue stemming from the decline in combustible cigarette use.
I could do without thinness but if they is a way to make it lighter I'm all for it.
It is not the latitude that is causing the suicide rates. The at-risk populations just happen to be there. Causality does not equal causation.
I think time estimation can be learned to some degree. As an anecdote a couple of years ago I had some free time and my sister was renovating her home. I volunteered to tear down all the wallpapers (basically an entire apartment). I had no idea how long it would take so I took a kitchen timer, set it to 25 minutes and started chucking away. After a couple of these 25 minute runs, I could predict fairly well how long the task would take for a certain room. I also found it interesting that it was very easy to adapt the estimate to changing conditions. For example in the kitchen the wallpaper was soaked in fat and there were 4 layers glued over one another. After working on this for about 5 minutes to see how much harder it is (answer: a lot) I was able to estimate fairly accurately how long it would take.

Granted this is for manual labor where you know exactly what will happen. Estimating more uncertain environments is a lot harder. Nevertheless, I have grown used to using this time-chunking approach for all sorts of new tasks. I think shorter timespans (10 minutes) work better for estimation but for actual work, 25 minute "sprints" are good.
Yes, you might be engaged in "deliberate practice" , but that does not account for individual talent. Someone might take 5000 and another 20000. Gladwell dumbed it down.
I'm not crazy, things are listening
Background: both my wife and I carry modern smart phones. We also have a Sonos One with Alexa in the living room.

Incident 1: Living room TV was on and an RCN ad for Eero-based WiFi was playing. Wife said we should get that, as she thinks our current router (Archer C7) is not great. Just a few minutes later, at my nearby workstation, Amazon advertised Eero bundles to me on its front page. I had actually opened Amazon to price Eero systems, but had not even clicked on the search box yet!

Incident 2: We ran out of cone filters for our pour-over coffee, so my wife said that we should dig out out old Aeropress. I got it out, washed the dust off and then told her that I couldn't find the Aeropress filters (little round paper disks). She couldn't find them either. This was a conversation mostly held in the kitchen, not very close to the Sonos. The next day, Facebook began advertising some gold-plated, reusable Aeropress filter. I had never searched for the Aeropress filters online.

I wanted to hear what other people think about this. Thanks.
As far as I can tell the only logical reason is political. It would be far less popular to force news organizations, which might be influential and local, to delete data than forcing an unpopular foreign corporation to do it.
Ask HN: What are good resources on network-request-to-HTML lifecycle in web apps
Im looking for learning resources to better understand what happens in the life cycle of a network request in a web application, and how to go about performance measurement.
I actually had bookmarked one from here (HN), that rebuilt a node js application on ubuntu multiple times (6 I think) in different ways, touching on different aspects like load balancing, but my machine crashed and I lost it.

All help much appreciated.
That's not an emerging argument, that's been the argument from the start.
I’m from Kaliningrad, which is right next to Lithuania, and it’s actually less gloomy than Santa Barbara where I currently live. Also, SB is in the middle of a desert, while Lithuania is full of beautiful forests.
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