skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a great alternative funding model for the web. Modern online advertising has a lot of issues (privacy, intrusiveness) but most users don't want to directly pay for the sites they browse either (i.e. the subscription model). By displaying ads controlled by the browser rather than the website, the user gets a lot more control over the ads they see (solving the privacy and intrusiveness problem), while still supporting the websites they visit without paying for them directly.

The only major problem with this funding model that I can see is that it provides no incentive for users to contribute to the websites they visit at all. They can just as easily block ads and not replace that revenue with anything, which is actually the default behavior. It's essentially moving from a web funded by advertising to a web funded by donations; and based on past experience in using donations to fund open source projects I can't really see that model working out well for anyone but large, popular websites with minimal operational costs.

Though on the other hand, Brave does eliminate a lot of the friction associated with the typical donations model. Maybe they'll be more effective at soliciting donations on behalf of websites than previous efforts have been. It's hard to know for sure.
Apple's Phil Schiller on Reinventing the New MacBook Pro Keyboard
> it's painfully obvious that any company that is not on an exponential growth path is a failure in today's world.

I dramatically disagree with that characterization. VCs and the startup world think that it's "growth or failure". There are a massive number of businesses where stable is fine (though mild growth would be preferable). You just don't hear about them.
You can also use one USB-C to both charge your Macbook and drive a powerful 4k monitor plus a few extra USB-A ports on the back of the monitor.

Being able to come to work and plug in a single cord and have it drive my mechanical keyboard, headphone amp, monitor, and power is pretty amazing IMO.
(I'm not an Apple user.) I routinely simultaneously use all of the following:

Ethernet, 1-2 USB Type A, SD Card, 3.5mm audio, DisplayPort, (while charging too).

As we can see, Apple's 'Pro' products simply do not work me.
You're mistaking written standard for implimentation standard. You only need a standard in practice.

All of those things you've listed have only a few big players, with enough use and feedback cycle that there can be multiple different implimentations.

Those different implimentations are very similar. There is not a different C to compilers, they have their own quirks, benefits, and target different systems.

JavaScript is the least selective of any language, you will only find runtimes for it's modern versions in browsers Typically V8 or safari. V8 has become the effective standard.

SQL has multiple big implimentations that deviate completely. This has a lot to do with marketing, and the fact data storage/retrieval is a significantly diverse section of computer science.

In each of these known technologies there is a well known, well backed, named software project that people use it's name synonymous with it's supposed standard.

Wasm doesn't have this, and that's because the implimentations took place in browser, which afaik did not impliment a unique engine to it. It just integrates wasm instructions to their js instructions.

Which then led to there being dozens of different self called 'safe' implimentations. None of these have the users, time, and open source community necessary to know this. Which will inevitably lead to exploits.

Given that situation, the only way wasm is going to live up to its goal of safety is backing a well made runtime.

The problem of safety is what makes this very different from other software. Your own code with bugs is an annoyance, and maybe you can't do what you wanted. But code that is meant to be safe that instead allows for damage to you, your company - that deserves a much higher level of scrutiny.
The decisions are all done locally by your browser on your computer.
Nike ends its experiment selling on Amazon
>SSL is terminated at an edge location that is closest to the users.

So this is routing plain text http for most of the connection and at the same time giving the managed edge location direct access to the traffic and a valid tls cert for the domain? Isn't that mostly snake oil then, as the secure connection never originates from the target service?
But at least the resale value of a house is generally a /lot/ better than the resale value of a diamond.
Donation, premium support, hosting, specific feature, etc.
Most gun owners give their gun that level of respect.

Car owners kill far more people than gun owners do not give much respect to how deadly their weapon is.
Did they change their logo recently? Never noticed it before - it's pretty terrible imo; looks like something out of the 80s and doesn't inspire me to use Go at all...
Again, disagree. I read the comment differently.

There is a certain type of person who thinks because they are smart and good at one thing, e.g. software development, their powers of reason allow them to come to the right conclusions about everything. They are super vocal about this on social media, e.g. typical Twitter mob warriors. Because they think they are intelligent and their views are logical to them, everyone intelligent will agree with them ("the best and brightest will want to work with people like me").

Conversely, people disagreeing must either be dumb or have outright malicious intent (e.g. James Damore). This type of person has difficulty accepting that there can be highly intelligent people who come to entirely different conclusions about various issues. They can be intelligent, but they are also often toxic because they are loud and vocal and lead other people to just withdraw from the work environment, lest to provoke them. I am reading the original comment as the HR trying to avoid hiring such people, not that they don't hire someone who expresses dislike about Burger King's offerings or the latest Marvel movie.

That sounds completely reasonable to me. In particular, this says nothing about the morals of the people you do end up hiring. I am not aware of any research investigating the correlation between doing good and virtue signalling on Twitter, but my guess is that you can do one without the other, and that in fact participating in vocal outrage is a distraction to serving your community in more productive ways (e.g. getting people to vote, or otherwise getting anything done to change what you believe must be changed).
The emphasis on a lot of these sentences is all wrong; I wouldn't want to listen to an audiobook by this engine. It's still super impressive/terrifying though.
It's ridiculous, touching imo is a vastly less efficient information exchange than typing.
Team Guide to Software Operability
What's wrong with Wolfy?
Canada's Bill of Rights does not restrict those rights and protections to citizens except for political rights such as running for office and voting. The right to due process in particular, is considered universal in Canada.

Other countries take a similar approach to rights.
Even different boards with the same chipset from the same mfg will vary a lot.
This is cool. Hopefully soon I'll be able to use this to do automatic voice overs from written texts using my voice for podcasts and videos. Read pages of text without getting tired.
All of them? I don’t have a single device that uses USB-C.

How about iPhones, as a great example? :P
Yes, I remember seeing this a while ago. Nice work by the MILA group in Montreal.
I wonder what their models predicted as marginal revenue of the touchbar and butterfly keyboard mechanisms, and how that compared to their marginal cost.
The issue is that Amazon and other 3rd party vendors actually offer deals.

I was in the market for some headphones and had a specific brand and make in mind and when I looked in their site they were more than $100 more than Amazon. This has held true for me for a lot of items and even when using price tracker it is pretty much no contest to just buy off any reputable vendor most of the time.

I think it's just that the people who make the goods often have no market sense and rely on outsourcing it for 90% of their sales.
So it's a minor ergonomic improvement, at best. Hardly anything to write home about. When it launched it was marketed as something revolutionary.
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It's a lot like Sun Microsystems and Java. That was a big improvement in the lives of developers, but the company behind it never really figured out how to make money on it.
If you have to ask, you don't understand.
I tried emailing him about it a couple months ago, after I made this comment about a different downside of it (bandwidth usage / response size): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854662

He didn't consider it an issue worth fixing, and didn't reply to my long follow-up email trying to explain how wasteful and inefficient the current voting process is and how simple it would be to improve. It seems unlikely to change.
Starting an Engineering Management Book Club
Windows development -- specially if you develop with a terminal editor -- has become very feasible with WSL.

I was scared away from Apple by the keyboards and found a new dev home in Windows. I've tried to go back for personal projects, but it's just too much conversion for very little compensation.

I think I'm done with Apple macs
> You also get support

I manage my company's G Suite account, and their support hasn't impressed me. We were initially unable to set up DKIM. The page to generate the DNS record kept returning a strange error code. I talked to support they were friendly and apologetic, but the issue took months to fix. Every time I followed up I was told they hadn't even heard back from the engineers, which gave me the impression that the support department doesn't have much pull in the organization.
I would make excuses for anyone who violated the law while acting with good intentions. The rule of law is important. But so is having a sense of proportion about illegality.
If you don't mind spending a few bucks on a third-party tool, Better Touch Tool (https://folivora.ai/) will let you map two or three finger swipe gestures to control volume and brightness. This lets you adjust either without having to look at the touch bar and find the virtual button. It's still a slide instead of a press though, which takes a little getting used to.
We did blind tests when we were shopping for rings. It was stupidly easy to tell - moissanite sparkles more. Didn't go the way the jeweler wanted, though - he only sold diamonds, but had a moissanite ring he was cleaning for a customer for comparison, and we liked the moissanite better.
We are still figuring it out. We will most likely have 4 tiers with the highest tier offering unlimited domains. We are thinking of pricing the highest tier somewhere between $400 - $500 and offer discounts to startups with < 10 employees.
I am against capitalism. Sorry if it is not clear. English is not my mother-tongue. I am listening for any input about my writing btw. :)
>I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another.

This is why I jokingly call OpenBSD a full contact operating system; interacting with the community can feel like being at the bottom of a rubgy scrum. Still, the hardware requirements are so low and configuration and management easy enough I use it on old refurbished PCs as a firewall. Any refurbished $100 PC from microcenter and a couple of Intel gigabit ethernet cards is enough to make a decent firewall as long as you don't have gigabit ethernet to your ISP. OpenBSD really shines on legacy hardware.

I also enjoyed the fact it was the work of a few minutes to cut certificates for all my wifi devices and switch to certificate-based authentication instead of password-based. Unfortunately IOT vendors don't support that so you end up with a separate network just for semi-trusted devices.
I thought so at first, but they're so infrequent, it's really not a big deal. Mac OS bothers me about app store updates more often than I get ads. Plus, you get paid for the ads being delivered in BAT, which you can then contribute to sites (or trade on a crypto exchange).
All the data about you (history, etc) is on your computer (and not shared in any way) :)
I don’t understand why you care if you are Still getting full billing? E.g. list is $100/hr and you are still getting $100/hr net...
With cases, I think it's less about price and more about good airflow design, which will often mean buying more fans and/or a fan hub. There are really good cases from as low as $40 that will do better than some $120+ cases.
I think the only mathematics joke that I've come up with myself is "Almost-all numbers are normal" - a self-evidently true statement, which nevertheless means something wildly different than what a layman might believe - indeed, the numbers that a non-mathematician might be most likely to imagine or name are in fact not normal!
I was a dinner party when the topic of vacation homes comes came up. We were all young professionals in tech so a vacation home in middle age was not out of the question.

When I mentioned my reluctance to invest in beach front property everyone seemed confused -- I don't own a home yet but it makes me wonder, how much is climate change being considered as a factor for family real estate? I'm sure commercial developers are taking these things into account but are normal people?
I'm confused as well. It seems like this website is there to sell me something in pursuit of business goals. What business goals are discussed at Google for Go's future?
Not only on pure specs. By any measure you'd like. Apple device have some of the worst build quality of the industry. Watch a guy that repairs them daily list the issues for you. I'd challenge you to show a similar list of huge design flaws of any other manufacturer.
https://youtu.be/AUaJ8pDlxi8
I don't understand why people always discount suicides among gun deaths, as if suicides only happen to "other people".

It's true that you can limit your gun risk by being white/urban/middle-class/mentally healthy, but these are not advantages available to everyone. There's a lot of victim-blaming in some of these comments, which glosses over the fact that plenty of infants and toddlers die from guns.

Gun deaths in total numbers are roughly the same as car deaths: each are approx 30-40K per year in the USA.
The point is we shouldn’t have to be reconfiguring our laptops to make them usable. :/

I’m so over Apple hardware. Just let me hackintosh it.
It's a MacBook Pro. Surely it should care to Pros who have leanred how their keyboard works. Apple doesn't think the touchbar is a noob feature, because the Air (and the actual "MacBook") doesn't have a touchbar)
> The website you are looking at did not select _any_ of the ads you see.

That's irrelevant. In general the content creator gets to choose how their content gets monetized. They own the copyright after all.

That ads blocking isn't considered yet a copyright violation in the court of law probably has to do with the upsides, like protecting against malware and privacy.

But blocking ads for commercial reasons, like Brave is doing, only to replace those ads with their own, that's just racketeering and I hope to see them lose in a court of law.

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> I do not want to see so much garbage just for visiting a website

Then stop vising that website and go to alternative websites that treat you better. Voting with your wallet works.

Also a lot of websites these days offer subscriptions. I bet for example that 99.9% of HN visitors don't pay for subscriptions to their favorite publications.

Which would just go to show how self entitled we feel to getting other people's work for free.

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Note that I am using browser extensions, like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger, but I'm only doing so for privacy reasons.

And I'll never trust Brave with my privacy, sorry.
J. P. Morgan, maybe (though I'm not sure you would say that he started at the entrepreneur level).
F for your F key.

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/612924-five-years-ago-ca...
It seems like you're thinking about this in terms of perceived value fairness instead of objective if/then outcomes. If your friend hadn't brought the client to you, you would get exactly $0 from them. Ever. 80% of a profitable amount is a hell of a lot more than 80% of nothing.

If you've never actually landed a client yourself, it's a lot more difficult than you're likely thinking it is. I highly doubt this is merely an introduction based on nothing - more likely your friend has been working his network for a long time, vetting potential people who need work done, ruling out the ones that can't or won't pay a decent rate, setting up a business and all the contracts you need beforehand to make it easy to get started, etc. You're also probably not accounting for the fact that being a subcontractor has a lot of benefits. You're not that one that needs to chase POs, AP payments, renewals, etc. on a regular basis.

To your last question, it tends to be a spectrum in practice. A casual introduction that leads to a deal with no actual involvement from the salesperson will have a lower rate (possibly one-time) than one where the person is setting up the whole deal and subbing it to you. In your case, your friend already quoted the company a rate and they're ok with it, so this isn't a casual intro - he basically did the hard part for you.
Super computers and data centers are two different things with markedly different requirements.

Also, deep learning isn't a great fit for FPGAs anyway. There's dedicated silicon that does a better job if you're looking for matrix multiplies per watt.

Additionally, high frequency trading isn't doing much in the way of matrix multiplies, as they don't have enough time. They've got few hundred clock cycles per packet in to get a reply out.
I worked there until 2012. I find this opinion odd as I remain friends with many former colleagues, and probably 3/4 of them have left to work for other companies as well. The tech world is smaller than most people realize.
The MacOS and Windows App automate the process of running Docker on a non-Linux OS. It sets up a virtual machine, volume mounts, port forwarding, and so on, and the Docker CLI then allows you to just "docker run" an image and have navigation to "http://localhost:3000" just work.

Recently the app gained the ability to run a Kubernetes cluster as well, which makes spinning one up on a machine quite a lot easier to evaluate those workflows.
I bought a 17" Dell laptop with Ubuntu and have no plans to go back after 10 years on OSX. It's got everything I need and I can open it up to improve it more.

It's also huge, which I kinda like now...but that huge comes with the ability to have 3 disks, a huge replaceable battery, 8 cores and 64gb of RAM.

There's a slight learning curve to using Linux as your daily driver but it's hard to go back once you figure it out.
I'm not a fan of Apple but there are a few things I like of this laptop. Starting with the most important:

- It's got no number pad, so the screen, the keyboard and the touch pad are aligned with the nose of the user, which doesn't have to shift the laptop to the right to work and have 2/3 of the screen to his/her right.

- It's got a slightly larger screen than my HP ZBook but it's narrower and lighter: 14.09 inches (35.79 cm) and 4.3 pounds (2.0 kg)

- It can go up to 8 TB of storage and 64 GB of RAM (but there are laptops with 128 GB in 2019).

I didn't investigate if it can be upgraded (RAM and SSD) or if everything is soldered.
You can sell 1% of a really huge diamond, but its value doesn't scale
Hi.. The TLS is terminated at the edge, and from that point we fetch the data from origin server. As long as the origin has SSL, the communication is secure end-to-end.
Fair point. I read both statements in the context of the particular hardware bugs Intel's trying to fix, but I can see how my comment is quite vague.
The lease has a market value, and a utility, and comes with a pretty robust set of rights. I think it is wrong to write it off as worthless. That said, leases have a lot of variety, and some are better than others (and one reason for a general distrust of new build properties in the UK is newer leases tend to be a lot worse for the holder than older ones, in some cases catastrophically so). Free hold is almost never going to be worse, but lease hold can be just as good for most people.
The Touch Bar is only on their notebooks, "looking down" is like a half inch away from the screen you're already looking at.
Images of us can be sourced from any number of places: social media, government surveillance, private surveillance. Video less so but from the same sources. Audio from phone companies, VoIP services, surveillance, etc. Health data easily from a number of private companies if you use new-age "health" services, or less easily (illegally) from health records.

Maybe we can find solace in the fact that is or will soon be infeasible to avoid, so we needn't try to avoid it.
Is Brave making any amount of money from their advertising system? I can't find any public communications about it, and I would expect them to be touting if the numbers are good.

The weird thing about Brave is that they raised $35 million from their crypto ICO, but that isn't like normal fundraising because you can only do it once. So they really need their real business to kick in and start working before they run out of that money, more than most venture-backed startups need to start making money.

Getting paid money to watch ads reminds me of AllAdvantage in the first dotcom boom. It seems cool at first when the system is juiced by investor money, but once advertisers realize the ROI is low, the money dries up.
Cyclical Outlook: Window of Weakness
> This is troubling.

Only for people who for whatever reason still continue to buy Intel-based systems.
Disney+ surpasses 10M signups one day after launch
I did turn the conversation off: it is clear nobody will win any argument and I'm not interested in continuing it.
You can, though requires jumping through all the usual KYC hoops for buying a cryptocurrency, since that's what they use for micropayments. All managed through Uphold.
The difference with Brave is they also provide a mechanism to contribute those earned funds to sites you visit directly.
I can understand it feels like this, but I assure real people live and work there, and there is a real local culture and authentic life.

I lived there and I lived in many other cities like Paris, London, Munich, Krakow, Bangkok and Bali.

Venice is one of the most authentic cities of them all.

The language is alive and evolving.

It's a bit like the fight club, real locals recognize each others, while the tourists think it's just a Disneyland.

Quite fascinating!
That's actually a really good presentation.

Adding a title and description would have helped tremendously though.

Paraphrasing lightly from the intro:

"I decided to talk on something which is not generally studied, the link between economics and physics. The conclusion I will lead you to is that when you put physics in economics, you end up with results which are not easy to sell in an election.... The UN tells us that we can have everything at once in their development goals.... The short answer is no, we can't, so we can all go out and have a beer."

1h28m runtime. Hold that beer.
Thanks... Too long of a scroll to find somebody posting the actual science behind the click-bait.
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