skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses danger to human rights
I would simplify this to: understand the principle of portfolios. And the benefits of them.

Too many people buy just one investment, not understanding they can reduce their financial risks buying several unrelated things. For example, only owning a house. And refusing to buy stocks because of risks.
It appears you have given a perfect illustration of the comment you are replying to.
It's amazing they know the exact month already.
It certainly was, nowdays its a bit more niche.
They're willing to pay for security, but they don't want to pay a penny more than they must. Security is not, and never will be, an open-ended budget.
In what way? They've got Rust in the title... you can just ignore them mostly.
well, hoarders would love her, because all their garbage spark joy!
> I'm confused on what the replacement is.

There isn't one (assuming you don't use ChromeOS).

Google is saying: "We're killing this. Find something else."
I'd argue a phenomenon that affects anyone with an audience of any size is critically important, even if most people don't have an audience.
Misinformation abounds in climate change discussions. The issue is as complicated as our environment is. You can't write a headline like "China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals" without including a whole nation of nuance by implication.
There is no Nobel prize for economists, specifically anyway. There is a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, but that was created in 1968 by Sweden's central bank, and has nothing to do with Alfred Nobel other than being from Sweden and "borrowing" his name. I believe the Nobel foundation now manages that award, but there are still only 5 "real" Noble prizes.
>> A powerful outburst in a distant galaxy produced photons with high enough energies to be detected by ground-based telescopes for the first time

First sentence makes no sense.

several galaxies produce photons with high enough energies to be detected by ground-based mark-1 eyeballs every night.

Staggering numbers of galaxies produce photons with high enough energies to be detected by ground-based telescopes every night.

They need to include the unusually short wavelength of the photons to convey their message.
Worth noting that The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is not an actual Nobel Prize. It was established by a central bank so they could award people who justify the existence of central banks.
All these companies trying to look cool by restricting "political"
adverts while retaining full power to corporate advertising which is 10000% political.
Right but if there's 6 words it goes up exponentially, even if they're short words

>>> math.factorial(4)

24

>>> math.factorial(6)

720

So the password iamahorsebatterystaple is about 30x harder to crack than correcthorsebatterystaple using this approach, and I highly doubt people doing xkcd passwords are strictly sticking to 4 words
I doubt it would ever be used on private property like that, but we absolutely will see this tech used in the advertising space.
Everyone is commenting on privacy, but isn't the main use for VPNs (at least in the US) to avoid the consequences of digital piracy?
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What you are saying is pretty much in line with what Matthew Walker is presenting as a hypothesis for the role of dreams in his book "Why we sleep". I have no training in the field, nor am I particularly well read on the topic, but I thought you might like a confirmation that this is not just an anecdote.
What a romantic and uncynical view on humanity. I wish I could see things the way you do. But the evidence around me (and within me!) says otherwise.
I already adblock the Like elements from the sites I browse. It's less clutter on screen and if you never vote it serves no purpose. A lot of that stuff is 3rd party junk anyway.

It would probably be simpler to just release an adblock filter instead of having another redudant addon, but I'm okay with its purpose.
I don't hate the USA, I hate fragile/secretly-already-broken promises and simply being lied to. systemd has a smell.
- Keras: Sequential/Dense (for classification,regression)

- Sklearn: many (for classify,regress,dimensionality reduction)

sklearn can be used for data engineering around keras
Firefox QUIC Support
The $130 box gives you a controller and a Chromecast Ultra. You can use both of the outside of Stadia.

They are also optional: you'll be able to play on Stadia without the controller and without the Chromecast (e.g. on a computer with mouse and keyboard).
Doesn't have to be necessarily a bad thing if you ask me.
I’m not trying to be glib when I say this, but I really don’t know which side you’re referring to. I’ve witnessed an equal amount of tribalism from supporters of both sides.
L4D in VR? What a dream!
When I went to the lowest point of my life (after bankrupting a startup) was to give up on everything and start travel/move to the beach (yes, without money. Volunteering, selling stuff on the street, getting used to hunger and to not have a shelter). Well, for my surprise, in the lowest point of my life I met real happiness and made lots of great friends (hostels are a great place for that). After that, I got back one step at time, and currently (5 years later) I live the best time of my life (for 5 years).

I'm not sure if my advice can be useful, but to change what I expect to do with my life was the first and most important step.

Also, very important but very personal as it worked for me but can have the opposite effect on others is that at my lowest, I started to smoke weed and started to have long sessions of thinking, meditation and productive time alone, reflecting or studying something new.
Would something like this address your sms finance communications? https://www.asktrim.com/ I use it to get notifications on charges and I can check my balance.
We've been waiting for decades for the release of this. I'm a HUGE fan of HL but not a fan of prequels. Hopefully this will showcase VR as a viable medium.

IMHO, I think Portal VR would have given a more immersive experience, along with less locomotion issues. However, I'm sure Valve has done their research.

My concern is, if this isn't met with favor, will Valve bow out of game development permanently? It just feels as if they are losing interest in new game development and would rather buy other studios and keep Steam chugging along. More money there..
I'd pay for something that filters out front-page titles with specific words in them.
There's a certain old-guard zealotry that's a common thread on HN, amplified by the echo chamber.

Can't wait until it dies off.
The comment is true for me, though. When I see a linux machine boot up and display a series of aligned [ OK ]s on the left-hand side, I know instantly that it's using systemd. I don't remember seeing [ OK ] with sysvinit, or at least not as uniformly.
Do you have any evidence that this was the reason why the prize was established?
Yes. Sorry. Absolutely correct :-) For some reason I had in my head the new one was called a Vive Index, but it's not, it's a Valve Index.
There is also the way that, in a capitalist system, every message eventually gets swallowed up and transformed into a way to sell products. It's just the nature of the beast. The hippies started out preaching the importance of love over material wealth, and their message ended up getting twisted into a sales pitch for Coca-Cola (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM).

So in the end, it doesn't really matter much what Marie Kondo's message is; once it became popular the system was inevitably going to fold, spindle and mutilate it until it could be used to sell products, because that's what the system does. It deflects critique by absorbing and redirecting it, and it is really damn good at doing so.
Given the timing, I have a really hard time believing some variant of this isn't at play here.
How are they going to do this through integration with credit cards if most payments are just charging an amount and not telling you the contents of the purchase?
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Drivers can set pricing. Just not when they take a gig/ ride with Uber. Nothing stops them from pricing rides differently when they are not using the platform. How many drivers actually do this? no clue.
It's definitely overstated but I do think it exists particularly within social media where everything is public but the social bonds are weak.
So show us some data, rather than just claim that it's wrong. "No it's not" is not a very convincing counterargument.
Well you can't really achieve low latency if the end-to-end system has low FPS.
Before a company goes public, the only way you get to be on the board is by being a cheerleader. After a company goes public you have a lot more responsibilities.
This is a very lovely response, thanks!
the_gastropod is right though.
Very disappointing and probably the least honest and transparant update from YC.
The word "safety" in connection with nukes has been redefined to mean "it blows when you push the button". So the DOE's responsibility to maintain the "safety" of the arsenal sounds much better than it is.

Not blowing up when you don't push the button doesn't have a name.

When they actually dropped a pair by accident from a B-52, both got very far into their ignition sequence before something failed. Questions were Asked, after. So it is probably better now. Here. Russia? Israel? India? No telling.
>"Planned obsolescence" and "value engineering" have almost the same effect for the customers though.

No it doesn't.

We live in a world where if you want a quality drill, you can spend a few hundred bucks and get a quality drill that will last you a long time. You can also spend $20 for a cheap Black&Decker that will be good enough to do very minor things around the house. You're suggesting that we implement laws to make the latter illegal. Are you sure you want that? What if you don't want to pay for a quality drill, because the chepo-plastic one is more than enough for what you need, and you'd rather spend the money you save on something you value more than a drill.
> Because the market for desktop Linux applications is too small to be worth considering.

I would also add in there are other open source options that are compatible and work well with MS Office now. Libre Office and Open Office are two such examples. I can now write my resume in either or and save it in a docx format, send it to a recruiter and then they can open it with MS Word without any issues.
Yes, it would be more appropriate if sociologists and public/political scientists took charge and were doing these studies and not economists. Some of these RCTs are only loosely related to solving market questions.
Are you asking about customer support or support for common enterprise use cases?
Lara Croft would like a word.

Or Samus, if you want to go back even further.
> I tend to agree with parent that the general Linux UI/UX experience (even the flagship Linux OS, Ubuntu) is subpar compared to commercial operating systems.

Have you used linux is a desktop for a non-trivial amount of time? The fact that you call Ubuntu 'the flagship Linux OS' makes me think that you haven't. What is lacking in linux UI experience?

> The vast majority of Windows users do not need to edit registry settings, just as the vast majority of macOS users don't need to edit `defaults write com.apple.[star]`. More importantly, they don't want to.

I don't think you have any data to make such a claim about the vast majority of users. Many Linux users also do no need to edit /etc configuration files.

> My grandma is deathly afraid that any wrong action she takes will brick her PC. You're telling me that she'll be fine running sudo in a terminal, even if there's step by step directions?

You're telling me your grandma is okay with editing firewall settings, installing new software, editing registry settings, etc on Windows?
Yeah, I have a hard time imagining doing all this stuff in the game without haptic feedback, like loading the gun etc.
Vanishingly small...the Linux community are usually fan-faring increases in usage on a fractional part of a percentage increase, ~ 2%. And to me, how could they anyway, I can't find "a Linux desktop". There are many, which one would they port to? And as a shareholder, I would not want them to waste the money at this point...
It's known as the System V ABI on Linux. Not on Windows (Microsoft X64 Calling Convention for x64 windows).

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44893431
It looks like you can get 400 single precision MFLOPS for those 5W. So 80 MFLOPS/W +/- 20%. It isn’t the worst and it isn’t the best, but it is respectable. It would be a big hassle to make and maintain a cluster of thousands of these.

https://www.arnabkumardas.com/platforms/nvidia/nvidia-jetson...

https://raspi.tv/2019/how-much-power-does-the-pi4b-use-power...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt
I can't see an Electron based Excel appearing. Excel is pretty much the best spreadsheet application that exists in terms of performance. Using Electron would likely kill that to the point that no one would use it. The browser based versions of Office applications fall short when you start pushing them hard already - they're fine for light editing, but I wouldn't use them for anything substantial.
One of the links off the page talks about how it adapts based on your systems capabilities. It supports both the finger tracking controllers as well as the older trigger controllers.
> well but completely unaware of each other

The dysfunction on the main GUI level is even more obvious: using command line is still not necessary for a Windows user. Linux would be utterly unusable without the command line and the command line programs. I believe that even those who write GUI and GUI apps themselves aren't using them.
No platforming, safe spaces and trigger warnings are all outwardly focused. Especially no platforming and trigger warnings.

The dynamic within christian groups that leads to a the things I described all have considerable in-group signaling component.

Also, some level of that in-group signaling is functional - people don't just randomly take coordinated actions like that. The signaling component is likely necessary for the organization to happen.
Every single previous discussion will cover this, pros and cons. Look in HN prior posts for your answer.
I work remotely currently from Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America and the reasons are:

- cheap with good life quality

- great night life and Argentinians amazing people to interact

- Best meat and best wine
But then you're using gmail.
"The take-away is that if you’re going to start emitting events from a piece of software, put just as much care into it as you would as you do in specifying an API. Because event formats are a contract, too."
Not just the root of "call out culture"...
I've been using ProtonMail and ProtonVPN for over a year, paid subscription. Both web and mobile client is ok, not great. On desktop I use Outlook (Windows) and Thunderbird (Linux). I like the domain @pm.me.

Overall happy with the service. Customer support has answered questions competently.
You may create your own solutions and export/import them to new accounts, but we do not have any reselling program so far.
After playing it for about 5-8 hours in the last 2 days, I'd say for a casual gamer like me, there is no perceptible latency. Even in an FPS like Destiny. But again, yesterday was the first time I played a AAA game after two years so maybe I'm just a bit rusty.
What are you talking about? Firstly Dota 2 started in source 1 and was the first game ported to source 2. It has nothing to do with dota 1? It is made by multiple of the original developers of the warcraft 3 mod, your whole comment does not make a whole lot of sense.
Let me ask the other end. What context do you have to compare it to what it replaced for any given use case? Can you tell me why its good? Can you tell me why its better? What problems it "fixes"?

Reasons to dislike systemd as a professional sys admin?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 - brick EFI based systems!

https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/736868148348063744?lang=... -- Systemd broke your very mature stable application like screen and tmux?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15688 - Root a box on bootup with poison DHCP offers

I can keep going, but how are you doing on my questions?
I think after my generation, the value of a college degree is going to drop like a rock. Most people I've talked to who do hiring haven't been impressed with the knowledge of people coming out of bachelors programs.
This seems like it will be a more difficult one to shut down since it is a subscription service from the start. More likely to be profitable early.
What's dishonest/opaque about this?

YC is generally Bay Area-only, and after consideration they decided to stick with that.
It's not the hard part, it's simply impossible to ensure from your side. You can have everytrhing righy, and they'll still block you based on IP address.
Add that to the Google Cemetary.

https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
Even better for Google as that means they don't have to upgrade their gaming servers as often = more data centers from Gamer money.
The law doesn't grant clothing designs the same IP protections that other creative works enjoy, which makes it much easier to knock off fashion without facing legal challenges.
The marketplace is clearly willing to implement hardware speedups for crypto, and in the low-power market where consumption of joules is tracked with multi-digit precision, shuttling expensive power operations to specialized hardware that can be powered off when not needed (e.g. after transition into a symmetric scheme) is a great thing. So I have to wonder if chasing off-the-shelf efficiency (e.g. in-CPU) is maybe not the right thing. If I have to power up a beefy CPU just so that I can do a key exchange or validation every few months, and pay for that the entire time it is not being utilized, that's just not a good power equation.

One of the benefits of SIDH and friends is the ability to re-use some existing ECC hardware. This is a very good thing for key exchange, but the signature problem remains challenging with enormous keys or signatures.
This was perfectly said and articulated, thanks
Those projections onto the castle are quite stunning. The technology for producing an enormous, apparently seamless image on that uneven canvas is amazing (even if it's static). And a lot of creativity went into building an animation that used that very specific venue so well.
Maybe it wasn't a useful comment should I delete it?
Wait did you just say you liked a google service and they killed it? HA! Welcome to the world.

Google services always find a great niche. The problem is google wants MAJOR hits or bust.
its the public display of likes that's driving this posturing behavior
*KsqlDB
I doubt it. VRcades will have to compete with people being able to play regular video games from their homes. Not only will playing from home be a lot cheaper, it’s also a lot more convenient.

Unless VR becomes a lot more compelling, I don’t see a significant chunk of gamers being willing to go down to the local VRcade to do their gaming on a regular basis.

And imagine the cost. A VRcade would have to have a lot of space per player, they’d have to be staffed, cleaned, maintained. A good game these days takes at least 40 hours to play through. I’d wager that 40 hours of VRcade time is going to be a lot more than people are willing to pay for a game these days.
You are right. We are planning to add negative values in next updates. Have some problems with graphs when negative values is bigger than positive :)
As a workaround right now you can copy "-" symbol and paste it before balance value. But note, that graphs can be displayed incorrectly. Will be fixed in next releases.Anything else that need to be improved? And thanks for the feedback!
Disclaimer: I don't subscribe neatly to a particular political label.

Commercial social media platforms have way too much power to put their thumb on the scale, i.e., manufacture consent and subvert democracy to whoever pays them the most: Cambridge Analytica, HRC, etc. A better state of things would require large social media platforms be:

1. Prohibited from monetizing ads for themselves or data-reselling. (Subscriptions and donations okay. Company and individual/celebrity pages monetizing ads okay.)

2. Similar to the previous equal time rule in mainstream media, but extended to stay out of politics.

2.a. Prohibited from officially favoring any candidate or adjusting algorithms to accomplish the same.

2.b. Prohibited from running political ads.

2.c. Prohibited from contributing to elected officials or PACs. (May or may not require overturning CU.)

3. Required to monitor content for violence, terrorism, child endangerment, bullying, genocide, and mis/dysinformation.

Just like the seperation between church and state, seperation between social media and state (and eventually, seperation between extreme wealth (corporations) and state).
Good idea, thanks for sharing. So I set up an MX record (on Route 53) to point to Fastmail and also set up DKIM by adding several CNAME records for fm1._domainkey.mydomain.com. FM confirmed pretty quick that those changes were made. The last bit is SPF config. I added a TXT record as per the instructions, but I keep rechecking with FM and it's not verified. Emails from FM currently show up as being sent "via messagingengine.com". Any ideas - do I just need to wait?
To be clear I don't think finger tracking is supported on anything but the "knuckles" controller.
> Just seems like a small target of players who are old enough to fondly remember the original

Why oh why would you need to play prequels to enjoy a game?

Half-Life is a series where you have guns and you kill shit in an inherently interesting setting: earth invasion. Getting dropped in medias res without knowing 100% of what is going on is just an ancient trope of story-telling.

Look how much people enjoy the latest Doom game. You don't need to have played the original to grasp the idea of demons pouring into earth through some sort of interdimensional gate. You aim and you shoot them.
I think that was an acquisition, and the choice of games is very poor, it looks like they use PS3 there.
Fairemail let's you specify different reply from addresses (if allowed on the server). I use this with mailfence.
I’m sure they were doing it for the greater good of the consumer...
Thank you for taking the time to write such a thorough and considered reply detailing your thorough and considered internal comms!

I'd love to know more about your email habits; seems super important to you as you've mentioned it twice. You mention a lot of the content you cover - do you do a weekly update that ties together all these disparate strands?
Right - I get that - but my thinking is, why would you make short-sighted greedy choices that are fundamentally bad business decisions? One could say hindsight is 20-20, but I don't buy that. WeWork at its core was a legit business (I say this as a former customer), unlike a say Theranos. It could have legitimately been a wildly successful company without the shenanigans. It seems trite to simply say that the board hoped they would get theirs before everything imploded.