skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the 1st second, the ant moved 10mm. But in the next four seconds you blew up the balloon, so that 10mm of rubber is now 70mm long. The total distance from the ant's starting mark to her end-point can now be well over than 70mm, even though she only walks at less than 10mm/second.

Thus the expansion isn't caused by the movement of the photon but from something else? Then what caused that movement in the first place? And what cause the expansion?
It can easily be misread as "OpenBSD la.la", though.
I think it's Do NOT Pay

This company has consistently come out with some amazing products, really refreshing to see a tech company that seems to just purely be fighting to solve annoying problems that haven't been touched before. Also founded by a solid entrepreneur who is the son of Bill Browder who has done incredible work throughout the world advocating for legislation that will help eliminate corruption and who wrote a fascinating book (Red Notice) on his time as an investor in Russia. I won't spoil it but it reads like a thriller despite being nonfiction and is well worth a read.
harmonic gearbox
About 30 replies from highly non-representative samples.
This is useless.
They were a non-starter in the US, and still are. The US has deeply-ingrained political views (started by the Revolution, reinforced in recent history by Nixon and the Cold War) that the powerful use institutional tools of privacy to avoid scrutiny.
Stolen credit card data website ironically hacked
What does this have to do with the axiom of choice?
Out of curiosity how did you know the precision of location the app was asking for? If I recall correctly android gives the same permission prompt for fine and course location.
I'm not sure that's right since things are light-years away it means you also need to travel just as long (or is this just as far as outside obeservers are concerned?). But even so, the universe around you would still get older while you travel like that so in a few trips you will reach the heat death of the universe.
Why do you think it is discrimination and not just women not choosing that career?

Look at other previously male dominated positions like doctors and law where you now in Sweden have more women graduating those fields than men. Something changed there. I doubt software development has been more hostile and conservative than for example law.

The thing is that women are studying at university at a larger degree than men in Sweden but they are not selecting STEM fields, especially not computer science.

Maybe it will change with role models, culture and different initiatives but I suspect that most young women right now think it is a boring as fuck career (at least those I talk to).

It would be like someone asking me if I would like to study to teach kindergarten. Maybe I as a male have been conditioned not to see that as an option and maybe many more would choose that career if we were raised differently but for me it just sounds like something I would really really not like. I respect the work but for me taking care of tons of kids all day sounds incredibly boring and rough. The idea that there is discrimination (which there is and some men suffer from) is not near my mind.

Most women I talk to express similar thoughts about software development.
author should probably be using:
command -v

instead of:
which
I think what's happening is that they found out that instead of making real compelling content, they would just get their customers addicted to gambling. So they got used to a higher revenue stream that also allowed them to fire all of their highly skilled content creators.

It's kind of like if a drug company discovered they could get a lot of money by selling heroin and then they fired all of their chemists who were busy trying to create drugs that would actually be helpful to society.

Now that they're being called out on it, they're scrambling to try and find a way to avoid having to go back to working for a living.

A responsible adult would say something like, "You know, we thought that we were simply giving the market what it wanted, but really it does look a lot like gambling when you think about it. We're taking it all out."

And if they wanted to turn those lemons into lemonade, "Oh, by the way, we're releasing half life 3 and portal 3. It's the same game. Oh and we're releasing a Cave Johnson miniseries. J. K. Simmons is reprising his role."

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of work. But it also sounds like it's providing real entertainment value to society instead of selling electronic heroin to kids.
Facebook Finally Has a Good Idea
I'm slightly curious as to which of the GP's options you found out the hard way. I truly hope you still have your fingers.
Tried on one of my machines. Seems to work fine. You still do the delete file step manually but that's minor. This is going to save a lot of effort on certain machines.
Check his post history, he's still very active on reddit. He's rightfully pretty cagey about it from what I remember.

For all parties it's probably best if they just ignore it and pretend it never happened. Robin Hood is liable to some extent as they didn't highlight the risk in the trade.
I'd compare CPUs using benchmarks. I don't think clock speed is as good as a measurement, especially between AMD and Intel.
Buy higher quality servos, use a sturdier material for the arms instead of cardboard.

Personally I like the fact that it's somewhat sloppy. The pictures have a distinct style.
Sad that Dyn.com is no longer part of this discussion
> Nobody wants to read about your boring-ass life.

On the contrary, aggregated personal data sells for a lot of money. Entire companies exist only to collect it.
Site that sells stolen credit card data hacked by cyber vigilantes
That is _not_ the result though. This has nothing to do with computability. It's about the behavior of a certain pervasive class of dynamical systems.
I’d also like to mention that Chrome only overtook FF 2017 (compared to 2014 in the US) here in Germany.
When reading such comment, I'm glad I decided to stay in Europe. Here you don't need to do anything special to have 40 h work weeks, paid parental leave and other benefits mentioned by the poster.

The fact that it's not normal, but something to praise is very unfortunate description of many peoples reality.
And I can assure you that most of the car noise where I live is tire noise (typical speeds around or exceeding 40 km/h which is the default limit in urban areas around here) Especially when the streets are wet and/or when it's studded tire season (that is to say, about five months per year). I realize that both of those conditions are almost completely alien to Californians, but there is a whole world outside the Sunny State as well!
They have to become an open source company because they can't risk putting all their eggs in the software basket.

They have to work on projects like this to ensure developers can easily deploy to Azure so they can hedge their revenue.
How are loot boxes any different to Kinder eggs, where you don't know what toy you're going to get when you buy one?

(I appreciate that Kinder eggs are banned in the US, but not for that reason!)

It seems to me that the key thing about real gambling is that you win money. You put money in, and you might end up with more money than you started with, but probably won't. That's what generates the dynamic where once you lose some money, you keep playing to try and win it back.

With loot boxes, you put money in, and you get virtual goods out. The good vary, and there may be ways to sell the goods for money. But you're fundamentally just buying goods.

EDIT OF EDIT: This is the closest the article gets to touching on this:

> At least one case in the early 2000s had potential to resolve the issue of whether activity similar to loot boxes is considered gambling, but it was dismissed due to lack of standing. In Chaset v. Fleer/Skybox Int’l, LP, 300 F.3d 1083 (9th Cir. 2002), purchasers of baseball cards and Pokémon trading cards brought a RICO suit against, inter alia, the manufacturers and distributors of the trading cards. [...] The Court dismissed the suit for lack of standing based solely on plaintiff’s failure to satisfy this element.[26] It held that “at the time plaintiffs purchased the cards, . . . they received value . . . for what they paid,” and “[t]heir disappointment upon not finding [a rare] card in the package is not an injury to property.”[27]
Mississippi gov’t agencies fall short of cybersecurity compliance standards
Its simple if your are an employee and complex if you are an employer. For the self employed there is a super simple filling up to a certain threshold. Companies also have additional requirements based on revenue brackets, number of employees and type of economic activities they do.
Anything sligth complex eill require multiple agencies fees and byzanthine laws.
That's why I said rebuild, not new.
No, observations of galaxies that seem to have little dark matter are an argument for the existence of dark matter (over the competing theory of a modified gravitational interaction).

And here is why: If you have two galaxies with about the same size and about the same number of observed stars they should have about the same distribution of barionic matter. So gravity should work the same in them, no matter if that gravity is described by Newtonian theory (probably not), General Relativity (I would assume that, but who knows) or your modified theory of gravity (maybe, maybe not). Any difference between them can not be due to the theory of gravity. But it can easily come from different amounts of un-seen dark matter.
So, there is large quantity of matter permeating the universe with unknown properties? Doesn't that imply that our understanding, i.e., theories/models, are inconsistent with observation? All the the term 'dark matter' really implies is that there are observational anomalies caused by something that could be matter-like in its nature, but which we have not observed. It isn't necessarily at all like the matter we have observed, but could be matter-like. Or we could just be wrong in our models.
I don't think this is just a Google issue. Osterloh just happened to be the first one to come right out and say, yeah, maybe you should tell your guests.

Personally, I thought the bigger news (insult) was when he said, "Gosh, I haven't thought about this before in quite this way."

Give me a break. You knew it. I knew it. We all knew it. Maybe the right thing to do is have the device recognize there's an unknown voice in the room and announce that it's listening. That hasn't happened for some reason, but I highly doubt the reason is that no one ever thought of it.
What Are the Best Travel Hacks for International Flights
Citation needed.

They sell apparel to members of the military. AFAIK they don't design or sell military specific items.
> But your comment glosses over the part about rural people though. The reason these people love them is because there is no alternative and I don't really see how we can change that. Mass transit doesn't make sense in rural areas.

I didn't gloss over it, it just wasn't relevant to the point I was making. The topic is banning cars in cities, not banning them in general.

Anyway, I don't see a reason to force rural people to not use a car. There's plenty of space out in the country, so let them have their cars. Obviously, we need to transition all cars away from combustion engines in the near future, but that is a separate issue.
Republicans are not a lobbying group, but as a political party Americans have spent a heck of a lot of money on them, especially when you include PACs. Since you've limited it to specifically lobbying groups I don't know that the PACs qualify either. They definitely aren't as narrow either. It's certainly an interesting question.
> People just don't know how valuable this data actually is.

Jaron Lanier has an interesting plan for renegotiating the "paying for services with data" relationship we now have with tech companies: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/23/opinion/data-...
i've got servers just out of 5-year warranty with 768GB of RAM factory installed. they tend to take a while to boot but they aren't rebooted often enough to remember how long the POST takes.
Athletics Meet in Kenya, 1967
> Intuit's main argument has always been that if the government provided such a service many people would overpay their taxes.

If that's true, then most people would use Intuit anyway, once they realized how much they'd save.
Design patterns for building reliable, scalable and secure applications
wouldn't be surprised if they washed their hands of it and just ate the loss. It's a sticky situation and the client may have damages due to how KYC was conducted and the forced closure of the position. Also, the SEC would definitely be an interested party if this went any further.
Gabe from the Azure team here. We do want to promote more separation between dev and ops. Taking on too much conceptual overhead is hard for any engineer. By having developers focus on business logic and operators focus on platform concerns, both can be more productive.
> Nest/Google Home devices have a hardware mute button. They are off when they are off.

Can you cite where Google says that the mute switch is a hardware kill switch for the mics? I've only read where they say that it doesn't listen but never that it physically disables the mics which means it's done in software and the device could be "muted" and still able to listen.

Unless the mute switch is a physical disconnect for the microphones then it's no different than the Alexa's mute button.

And don't forget Google's Nest Secure contains/ed undisclosed microphones and not physical mute button and Google wanted you to trust that it is/was disabled.
Thanks for this, that is the best summary I have seen yet in this thread.
Google Stadia Launches on November 19
Imagine something like a pingback attack [1], it can hit you from at least tens of thousands of IPs you don't yet filter, because they are not proxies or relays and will likely exhaust various resources: file descriptor, socket limits, CPU. And this is one of the most primitive layer 7 attacks not even attempting to look like a real user agent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback#Exploits
In certain situations, even home users are in the same position as network operators. The processes running on their machines will use exactly these same mechanisms to escape the user control. The last few years have shown, that big brand names are not to be trusted, and their interests, as implemented in their software, are not aligned with user interests. In a way, we are getting back full-circle to Stallman.

DoH+ESNI will make it even harder.
Face Detection Using JavaScript API
Creating a Website for My Apple Collection
People used to ask me why I don't use Facebook. I haven't been asked that in about two years.

I predict that three years from now the majority will share our views about voice and video recording.
If I understand correctly, the theory is that spacetime itself was created by the big bang. As-in, space, and time itself didn't exist prior to the big bang.
Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
And if I ever intend to murder anyone, I will turn off Alexa.

Police cases of the future:

"He's a prime suspect because he turned off Alexa shortly before the so-called accidental death in question happened."
As you say protected class is a very US specific, but even there it actually depend on the state as they can and in some places has extended it. Protected class under federal law is one list and protected class under state law is an other.

Protected class does also not mean that everyone else if a free target for discrimination, and for international companies there is the European Convention on Human Rights. Refusing service based on politics require the company to do a quite complicated dance around a long list of laws and I doubt any company lawyer would be very happy to give a green light for it.
I'm not colorblind, but the colors chosen are hard to distinguish.
Are they new features, or new to OpenBSD?
Proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee
Cave Johnson vs Saxton Hale ... AT THE EARTH'S CORE!!

It could just be rebadged Factorio PvP. Come on Valve, this is a hojillion-dollar idea!
Quantum Computers 2020
While the tech seems to be catching up in certain areas (if not the FTL drive), socially we're nowhere near what was depicted in Star Trek. It wasn't just post-capitalism but post-money. People no longer had to work for basic necessities. That is almost an unimaginably different setup to what humanity has always been used to. There's also a noticeable lack of crime and corruption, again something humans will have to extensively transform themselves in order to reach the goal...
If the voice interface is implemented locally then it's not a problem. Google already has it working on the Pixel. It has some limitations but it responds faster and works offline.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/12/googles-new-voice-recognit...
New bill ensures Jailtime for CEOs that lie
Show HN: eBook to Audiobook Conversion Service
Two obvious reasons:

- Smart home devices are used at home, where you have a high expectation of privacy. In contrast phones go with you everywhere.

- Those devices are supposed to hear everything in the room clearly. A phone in your pocket or backpack? If they can make their mics good enough for that, I would like to have that tech.
HERE WeGo has an offline version. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/here-wego-city-navigation/id95...
There's a lot of players involved. IMO for regular people it's simple/cheap, but for companies/employers it's complex/expensive

Federal government charges taxes on income, production, import/export and over bank operations; states charge consumption and vehicle taxes; cities charge service and property taxes. Then there's also contributions that employers pay for workers, and some that workers pay.

However, consumption tax can compound itself (because of sales between distributors, or taxes over raw materials), so there's a "substitution" formula which can get pretty weird (but companies take care of it).
Especially on mobile.
Yes, ironic indeed. That said, I'll admit that the author might have word-smithed the post a little bit. For example, unless it's publicly known that he has Aspergers, the author probably should have avoided being so specific. Instead of saying that he has mental issues, they could have said "years of public behavior would indicate that he very well may have mental issues". Maybe that would have struck many readers as more "good-faith" criticism.
Ask HN: Early stage teams, what are your biggest growth/marketing challenges?
Looking for examples from founders, early stage teams and investors.

What are the common growth and marketing challenges you face? What kinds of solutions have you tried?
Yes, the inconsistencies are not named thus, but the explanation for the inconsistencies are poorly communicated. Saying they are particles says too much, we don't yet know that there are other 'dark' particles either. We only know that our observations have an inconsistency, and we can 'explain' that inconsistency by positing that the observable/known matter is interacting with unknown/unobserved matter-like stuff. Giving this stuff a name like dark matter implies far more than we really know to the public.
I can only speak from my own experience but here is a data point (note that I do not use Elixir only, but also other technologies, in production).

For instance, I implemented a HTTP "business proxy" last year, which needs to be able to keep a large number of concurrent connections & proxy the call to a slow responding remote server.

I made multiple implementations (including Go, Node, Ruby with Roda, JRuby, Elixir, Crystal).

In this specific case I had, Elixir throughput & stability was by far the best. The gap (under load) between min & max was also the best (all this without tuning), and so was the CPU use.

Of course, YMMV, make your own experiences!
I work for a non-profit. Yes, they're chill about some things, but it's not lower-stress by any means, and work/life balance is a joke.
> But people willingly bringing always on listening devices in to their homes (beyond what smartphones are already capable of) I just can't comprehend it.

Always-on listening doesn't seem like a huge deal. What matters is the policy of allowing Google people to listen to captured audio, even if it's for training purposes. This is skirting uncomfortably close to a dystopian surveillance society.

If you want to gather data from people, provide an incentive to voluntarily participate. For instance, on Google maps you can become a contributor and there are benefits and bonuses if you contribute enough. Yes, this group is self-selected so it's not as good as a random sample, but it's better than the dystopian alternative.
> Why would people voluntarily do this in exchange for being able to ask for weather, play a playlist, add a todo and a few other parlor tricks.

I don't really understand why the device needs to store my recording and send it over the internet.

I would be willing to pay more for a device that guarantees that my recordings are deleted immediately.
Direct detection would be detecting/trapping the dark matter particle(s). Those observations are indirect and it may turn out that there is another explanation other than dark matter such as we are using GR equations incorrectly as suggested in the post.
All's good so long as you yell out "BB is great!"
no, you just over estimate how valuable this data is because you desperately want to feel important. guess what, you saying "ok google turn on my lights" 1000x times is completely worthless to anyone. you're not important and your data means nothing to anyone. grow up
That's an average of 5.28 months ago, which would've been around the beginning of May, less than a month after taxes were due to be filed. Three of the articles are from 6 months ago (mid-April), and one from 7 months ago (before filing was due). It shouldn't come as a surprise that taxes, and the cost to file them, would be fresh on peoples minds at that time.
after the wake word is heard

It's more accurate to say "after the wake word is heard or after a false positive for the wake word is heard".

Even in the presence of hardware interlocks (active when the wake word has not been detected), the accuracy of wake word detection is a really important question, as is the question of whether an adversary can modify the wake word detection code remotely.
The tale I heard was that 4chan raided Stormfront and then the latter turned around and invaded 4chan and made it into Stormfront for nerds, but I have no clue if that story is true.
Another way to feed your paranoia as a new parent. There are other monitors already which purport to monitor infants breathing, and I haven't met anyone yet who used them who recommends them. Inevitably they give false positives, and it's hell on your nerves. After a while you learn to just ignore them so you don't go insane. Then you take out the monitor because what's the point.
By linear extrapolation, about 7 minutes per terabyte on an EPYC 7402, which can handle up to 4 TB.

Attempts to justify new init software by "it boots much faster" fall flat.
The point of lazy evaluation is to evaluate something only when you really need it. Not to auto-adjust the system performance wise. You can force eager evaluation in places where you want it evaluated sooner.

Personally, I think consistency is more important here because it leads to better predictability. If you don't know whether the compiler assigns something to be evaluated lazily or eagerly that could lead to a lot of nasty debugging issues.
Answer to What are the basic funding requirements for a startup?
They use the exact same hotword detection - that is all they are "always listening" for (obviously plenty of false positives that can still capture other conversations)
I use separate accounts for Google Maps vs Web Search.