skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GSuite has been getting better in FF. I used to have major issues with GSites (new) but now I can leave FF open for week+ without crashes or spinning if GSites tabs are open.

I use Chrome mostly to edit the GSites or present GSlides in full screen (in FF it still shows the window chrome in fullscreen).
I may be biased, but i freaking love slack.

I even keep my own slack channel just for me to store stuff.

Basically what evernot wanted to be. Evernote sucked. Slack is great.
one thing that was not mentioned- your ISP logging your data. Too much of my data in my ISP's hands is not a good thing. I'd rather tunnel out through a "trusted" 3rd party server then give all my data traffic to Comcast or whatever.
WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
You're assuming that war is the only way humans can hurt each other at large scale.
Correct, the endpoints are the weakness. My point was about being more difficult to find and not bringing attention by paying for a vpn service, a vps could be anything.
Any other recommendations by him? I grew up here and would love to read some cool crime thrillers that are close to home.
it seems like your beef is with twitter generally, but gp (at least by my reading) was more complaining about the journalists that rely on it in this particular way, not the underlying platform.

I agree that twitter is a cesspool and does not encourage thoughtful communication, but it feels a little forced to me in this conversation.
I’ve been making wordclocks as gifts for people. It started as a challenge after seeing a wordclock on hackaday. Since making my first one, lots of people said I should sell them. I’ve since refined the design and have recently started promoting them[1]. My wife and I have a goal of selling 1-2 month. So no big hustle yet, but hopefully it will be.

A pleasant side effect is that my kids are really excited about making things with me.

[1] http://www.finewordclocks.com
I do think there are certainly problems, but I don't agree what you describe is any rational conclusion of the principles of a free market. No one wants to live in a world where all resources are consumed to make widgets. Therefore, those people will not pay to buy that many widgets if they're informed enough to understand the true price of things. Most models of capitalism have weaknesses like this surrounding the need for information to be universally and equally available for their conclusions to hold, which can produce some incentives to obscure or hide information that makes exploitation easier. The issue with modern day overwork, though, isn't a lack of information but more a change in cultural values which needs to take place. Currently, the 'work hard and you will be rewarded' mindset which was productive (and often honest) in the factory-oriented past is being misapplied in modern environments where it is both counter-productive and false. 'Salary' doesn't mean 'paid for completing the work' as it was supposed to when legally created as a category, it means nothing more than 'required to perform large quantities of unpaid work'.
Okay so this is shockingly impressive.

For those of you who are thinking "eh, I like my `ssh -D8080 user@1.2.3.4` solution", sshuttle has the following two advantages:

1. no need to configure your SOCKS proxy in your applications

2. it works even when dynamic forwarding is disabled on the host you're connecting to
I think if someone shared it to their facebook, a non-technical user wouldn't be much less likely to read it than say a medium article. Non-technical users don't really care about the domain.

Certainly most readers of github are technical, but that doesn't necessarily make it less suitable for non-technical people.
Like so many things which are considered "soft" criteria for hiring, the problem is that those who argue that such things are a "plus" have a whole body of no evidence.

Nobody has taken one of these "soft" criteria to an extreme and blown everybody's doors off in business. As such, that tells everyone that "soft" criteria are simply far less important than many, many other things.
A geometric ray, not a light ray.
Firefox on Linux, we remember, is the browser that has software ffmpeg video decode. If you're looking for battery life, you better find some script that can pipe YouTube to VLC and an ad-blocker that allows you to block all videos, all of them.

And, well, then you are probably still using X server with various terrible extensions that are either polluting the graphics card with constantly composing windows as fast as it will go or, not entirely unlikely, doing CPU blits of window buffers. Just to produce an artifact-riddled not-Vsynced mess.
Going by patents is kind of a weird metric, when so many technology patents are such complete garbage. And what is not garbage is almost entirely corporate-driven.

It's not like people are inventing things in their back sheds and filing patents like they were 100 years ago.
These days WireGuard is just as easy to set up, and has lots of benefits over sshuttle (it's UDP based, supports roaming a-la Mosh, has a much more solid cryptographic design, and so on).
I don’t see how this is insider trading.
I think the transition from plastics will be vital. It will require new innovations in product manufacturing alternatives. Look around everything is made from it. It will change supply chains, goods lifecycles, costs, and consumer habits. For example, if a grocery store existed that didn't use plastics (in mass) for selling goods, what would that look like? Can it scale? Is it basically a farmers market, etc.
It's also one of the fastest growing cities in the US.
I wouldn't say nothing for TC. Breaching embargoes is a very big deal in journalism and incidents like this greatly affect a publication's reputation. They are definitely not getting any such briefings for a while now.
We are at a turning point in society right now because of all the things you address. In the last few decades have seen a rapid shift in the willingness of family members to look after their elderly.

There's a few reasons for this, the biggest I think is the ageing population. When your parents need care at 85 years old, and you are 60 looking at retiring soon (or perhaps can't retire and need to work for another 7 years), most people decide they'd rather enjoy the last few years of their "active" life before perhaps even needing care themselves, rather than be "burdened" with caring for parents, relatives, etc. And so it falls either on the state, or on the generational wealth of the elderly to foot the bill and pay for care. Relatives often shoot themselves in the foot though. Their inheritance is being spent on paying somebody to wipe their mum's backside, because they didn't want to look after them themselves. (Unless their parents are on medicare or whatever, in which case there's even less reason for them to care).

The only part is just societies disdain and repulsion of sickness, bodily fluids, etc. Centuries ago, if you could live comfortably (not amazingly, but not be in the street), just by showering a few old people and cleaning up poo, you'd have people lining up round the block to do it. Now, the willingness to work (and therefore the salary curve) has inverted, and you need to pay people increasing amounts of money to do what was once considered menial or easy work.
So beautiful and that's food right there.
Sounds interesting. Send me an email if you want to chat.
"there's syntax to learn" is an understatement. There's a lot of syntax to learn, and you can't get away with using a subset of it.
The French.
"In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies" is still published.

People in business say many things--they are often completely full of it.
Why don't they just timestamp the signatures so they don't have to resign them every few years?
HFCs are already being phased out in favor of HFOs (though you could certainly argue that this should be happening more quickly), is there a strong reason to go for ammonia based systems over HFO?
> Absolute majority of the code written doesn't have hard real-time requirements, and should just rely GC as a safer and more convenient option

Yes.

Most Rust code deals with "trivial" lifetime issues -- not trivial in the the sense of how it gets used (usage can still be in a "serious" context, such as systems programming) but how the lifetime is controlled. Only certain models lend themselves to be expressed as "borrowing from an owner", and ref-counting will break with general object graphs.

Most garbage is gen-0, which gets recycled with little overhead, and when scavenging is needed its fairly quick and tunable these days and can optionally take advantage of multiple cores.

Another "trick" I see in Rust code is to use a symbol-table of sorts to represent object graphs using names and lookups, but you're just inventing your own, slower version of object references, and then there's the issue of who owns the graph symbol table, so you're only passing the buck in the general case.
Where does the energy go in neural network workloads?

Wires.

To and from memory, in the memory dice, on the compute die, in the register files, etc.

Check out the paper "DNN Dataflow Choice is Overrated". And that's for the most compute bound cnns!

Edit: and if you think there's enough SNR to make analog "deep" processing in memory work, go make a quick billion dollars by expanding commodity memory with multi level. If you can add another level to flash you'll get rich quick.
Online ordering boom gives rise to virtual restaurants
Also anything with Sammo Hung
The reason I stopped reading is that the author didn't care enough to find out why the birds even have a protected area to begin with. His argument basically boiled down to "the birds can move" and he didn't appear to have done basic research to understand why they can't. If he's not going to dig into one of his major premises then it's not a very strong argument to be making and I think I'm better off moving on.

That's why.
That's just not true.

Austin Metro is 2.17M people, Boston Metro is 4.88M. Boston is also part of the broader "Bos-Wash" chain of 50 Million people, while Texas has about 29 Million people.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Austin

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas

Disclaimer: I'm from Austin. My friends and family really think it's a big deal... but, it's only a medium deal :)
Since July Firefox blocked over 450B third-party trackers from tracking you
May be this will help

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020

https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-st...
I work for SparkPost and would be happy to escalate for further review if you provide me with a ticket number or contact details.
To be fair, the idea of patenting a lot of what we call "tech" these days is probably clustered for the same idea: most people wouldn't think of patenting software unless they're at or around companies that glorify patent recipients and incentivizing more. Still "idea spillover". But for real, that's probably as close as they can get to studying this with easily obtainable, easily quantifiable data.
Did you actually read these and compare them to the original article? If you did, I doubt you’d be posting them.
Indian Couple Turn 150 Tons of Plastic Waste into Low-Cost Fuel
Can you talk more about that? What do the quant funds do with this data?
If you're number 1 choice is knocked out you're vote goes to you're number 2 choice, if they're knocked out it goes to number 3... It's not about understanding the intricacies of how the count works but understanding what their individual vote will be doing. When it comes to what you're individual vote is doing Condorcet is much more of a black box.
It would be great if someone would do some quick data analysis on this.
Sounds like an interesting idea... selling software under the MIT license which the software holder is maintaining...

Looks like I have a weekend project now!
How is this news? Isn't it known that power laws are pretty much everywhere?
I'll be relocating to Singapore in a few months, and I'm looking to connect with someone local who might be interested in working on a mobile AI (natural language) platform. Ideally someone with some business, marketing or design chops.

Remote collaborations would be great, but probably not something I'll explore until after I relocate (early 2020).
Hugo has themes section :

https://themes.gohugo.io/
OpenOrienteering Mapper 0.9.0
Interested to know more about the data science infrastructure. Is there someone you could connect me with?
This is some of the best advice I've ever read on HN. I started doing this about 6 months ago. I also want to warn that you can focus too much on that and it can burn you out. Moderation is key in any decision/lifestyle. Also can say self love and compassion is key as well and can take a long time to develop depending on the parenting you received.
The better VPN providers will be set up in a way that makes it difficult to touch them in the first place, e.g. they operate from a jurisdiction that sets a high bar for forcing a company to provide customer information.
That's funny, the multi-national company I work for is removing all MS Office automation because MS apparently told us that unattended automation is against the licensing terms. It's OK if you're watching the computer I guess, but not on a server.

Personally this didn't match what I found online (they said it was not supported i.e. if it breaks tough luck) but what would I know. Money must be spent retrofitting other solutions now.

I joked we should pay a minimum wage high school kid to sit in a room and 'watch' the servers but I guess that's too low tech ;)
Nature’s Solution to Climate Change
I'm also surprised by Austin's rank.

I'm from the area, but moved to SF a while back for much better engineering work. I wouldn't mind moving back some day, but haven't seen many jobs or much upward mobility that would make me want to go back. There are a lot of tech companies but they are largely smaller / regional, or are the cost centers of bigger companies (support, back office stuff).

I get the impression that's changing, though. It would be great to see ATX keep booming and reach the level of say, the Seattle tech scene.
Not sure if this is what you mean but these exist - Oracle Queues, MQSeries, RabbitMQ (open source MQSeries copy), all part of a generic thing called Enterprise Service Bus
Yep, white and asian men are being massively discriminated against and we are all lying about it for some reason.

Asian males need to outperform a female counterpart to be given the same opportunities. Why we are pretending this is a good thing is beyond me.
Don't go there. You'll be sucked into a cesspool of LGBT controverse.
Mainly litigation.
Xfce 4.16 development phase starting
No. Newswire services receive these kind of press releases in advance all the time.

As long as you don't use or share them, you're fine.
Thawing permafrost turns Arctic from carbon sink into carbon emitter study finds
Melting glaciers reveal five new islands in the Arctic
All well and good for you to say that now. But we also can't rewind, there's no safe harbor, and the IRS doesn't appear to be collecting my marginal rate of income tax in the denominated coin. So if I've got a bag of BTG and BSV that's not been sold, I owe a lot for a scam that I didn't unload.

I couldn't disagree with you more about this being fair. it creates a market hazard (dumping), and it fails to recognize the conjoined-value at time of fork. Were the futures value treated as the cost-basis of the new coin, that would be fair.

Moreover, this is a clever way for the IRS to learn your complete BTC holdings AND to seek stricter legal precedents against you.

All in all, this is very bad for crypto
I think we tend to look at these things from a North American (perhaps India as well) perspective which leads to some of these conclusions (it makes sense that in a diverse pop, a diversity of people would excel in areas) but in Japan, Korea, Rwanda or China since there is little diversity in actual practice, diversity is beside the point. Of course in China many non Han are considered Han enough to be Han, so are for all intents Han.
I’m way out of my element here, but would it be plausible in the future for say, Firefox, to offer a simple and free VPN like service? Something in the vein of incognito mode (it’s UX simplicity).
If you pull in that far for Boston, then you're pulling in San Antonio into the same metropolitan area for Austin. And my point still stands.
A detail I really like is how they made the user interfaces part of the story telling. The computer screens are displayed clearly and it allows the audience to interpret the information just like the characters.

Seeing the mecha switch from external to internal power and start a five minute countdown is pretty chilling. Jet Alone booting up version 2.2.1c and then reverting back to 2.1.1c without Misato's intervention confirms that it was sabotaged. When Shinji and Asuka's combined synchronization rate with EVA-02 peaks, we know they have won. Episode 13 visually depicts the angel taking over NERV's super computers: one triggers the self-destruct, the other two overrule it and the angel starts invading the other computers. End of Evangelion also revisits this: we know Ritsuko's plan has failed because one of the computers refused to comply.

2001: A Space Odyssey is the earliest example I know of this kind of story telling. The space ship's computer kills the sleeping crew: their vital signs slowly flatline one by one and in a specific order.

https://youtu.be/Z4n3dbPqk58
No, that's not entirely true. No single node in a Tor circuit knows both who the user is and what site they are going to. In order to compromise a user's anonymity, you need to do a traffic correlation attack (where you look at packets going through both the guard node and the exit node and match up the timing of packets). There are some protections against this attack in Tor (guard nodes are not changed often by clients, relays need to be running for a long time in order to be permitted to be guards, and there is some randomised traffic sent to the guard by the client) but it is definitely not a solved problem.

But of course, if you aren't using TLS then your traffic is not encrypted as it leaves the pipe. So obviously you should use TLS over Tor.
Just be careful and know when to change strategy.

There will come an age where your son's concepts of trust and responsibility will undergo a metamorphosis, and ordering them to keep a surveillance device on them might make them develop trust issues, and atypical expectations of privacy in their personal relationships, which may take them their entire young adulthood to work through.
"Possibility of death" is terrible wording, but I generally agree with the statement.

A big draw for the old timey sketches used to be "how did they do it?!", even though the audience was aware that the performers weren't literally an inch away from death. Today it would just be written off as mediocre CGI.
He’s a nefarious actor lying through his teeth with a straight face and talking out of both sides of his mouth in an Orwellian way. It's creepy when he talks and does not blink like a normal human. His censorship is alive and well. He has silenced hundreds of upstanding accounts who did not share his radical leftist views and consequentially molding the views of millions of Facebook users. Indirectly suck has reigned in the other opposing voices who care about their income to not speak openly to save their livelihood.
The problem here is that these manufacturers sell knives which, when configured by a jealous partner, can automatically stab the cook who's using them to chop vegetables.

The manufacturer should make it obvious to the cook that their knife has been modified that way.

It is quite clear in this case that the app developer has developed the app to obfuscate this configuration, and thus shares in the responsibility.
51% of Facebook employees think allowing false political ads may change election
Related: if you want to see how different urban areas stack up, this is the best list to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar...

By that list Boston is #10 and Austin is #37 in the US, which matches how different the two cities "feel" in my experience as well.
Once upon a time, I found this company's software on an employee's work laptop, installed by a jealous ex-boyfriend.

I called the company, and they refused to remove our data or even help with uninstalling the software without a court order.

The software helpfully logged the URL when it saved screenshots to S3, which it did every few seconds.

The S3 bucket was fully public, listable, readable, writable. It also contained keylogging and other data.

Not just from our employee. From everyone.
I'd love it if someone would explain to me like I'm 5 years old. What is this? What's the point of value here / why care?
I agree. Those making analogies are trying to obfuscate the issue, that's the problem...
The way you should think about captcha is how much does it raise the cost to bot. You can always just pay people to click to bypass
Firefox is testing a VPN, and you can try it right now https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/11/20861381/firefox-testing-...

Mozilla tests Firefox VPN service to help protect your privacy https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-tests-firefox-vpn-service-...
No, it’s not. Someone must make a trade based on non-public info for there to be insider trading.
Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
Austin has a deep tech network, especially around certain sub areas.
Trouble with a Jeep Wrangler is it's a utterly shitty unreliable vehicle.

Also if you want to trust basic balance sheet economics, a Prius is cheaper than than Jeep Wrangler. 'splain that.
From the WireGuard installation instructions:

"Generate a private and public key pair for the WireGuard server:"

"umask 077
wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey"

"This will save both the private and public keys to your home directory; they can be viewed with cat privatekey and cat publickey respectively."

"Create the file /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf and add the contents indicated below. You’ll need to enter your server’s private key in the PrivateKey field, and its IP addresses in the Address field."

That's not within reach of your average computer user.
> Another reasonable point downvoted on HN as this comment will be too I'm sure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Arguments about potential political bias are built on some pretty shaky and dangerous hypotheses. At this point, the number of current and former employees who have seen Google’s ranking algorithm and not whistle blown about some political signal makes its existence highly improbable.
This also ties your identity to a provider definitively. That's fine, as long as you tell people that's what is happening. A good consumer VPN that isn't a garbage one offers plausible deniability.
Nothing real, but I am watching closely. I write everything in TypeScript anyway and it is annoying figuring out what adapters to use to get testing libraries working and VSCode debugging, and debugging tests, etc.

If they implement Go-style concurrency that would kick this project up to the next level.
"True artist" gatekeeps what counts as "good" or "creative" work in his chosen medium. News at 11.
I’d recommend learning at least one other programming language, then use the tutorials.
Yes. Ask constantly the simple yet deep question "Who are you?"

Who sees when you see?

Who hears when you hear?

Who feels when you touch?
"There is no way for you to verify that, and of course this is what a malicious VPN provider would claim as well. In short: the only safe assumption is that every VPN provider logs."

This is demonstrably false; look at any VPN provider that was subpoenaed and unable to produce documentation.
Daydreaming is good for you, and other things I want kids to know about brains