skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over a decade, from politics, that amount is high, but not unreasonable.

Phrased in terms of opportunity cost, it's appropriate, again if a bit high.

Media gets YUGE dollars from politics. That flow of money in politics is one of the biggest problems in the US.

Many want to fix it. That risk, in terms of the financial opportunity assessment under discussion right now, would reasonably ratchet that number down further.
> Watching people argue about politics, or even watching people get into politics, reminds me of people arguing about their favourite sports teams.

So let me get this right:

Arguing about whether children should be locked in cages is like arguing about sports teams?

Arguing about whether people of colour are humans or vermin is like arguing about sports teams?

Arguing about whether women are entitled to a vote, or to own property, or to equal pay for work of equal value, is like argguing about sports teams?

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I'd say that you are articulating a very distinct political slant, and that slant is that nothing really matters, there is no absolute truth or morality, everything is about tribalism.

If you look around more carefully, you'll notice that a great many people argue about politics in a way entirely different than they argue about sports teams.

While I agree that there are a lot of people who share this point of view, and really all they care about is their tribe and not the thing they're arguing for or against.. I am not one of those people.

And let me tell you, when I disagree with that viewpoint, I am absolutely NOT arguing about it the same way I'd argue whether Eddy Merckx or Marianne Vos is the greatest cyclist of all time.
> "Hammer - Valve's level authoring tool, has been updated with all the game's virtual reality gameplay tools and components.

Community built environments are possible - that's a pretty huge thing!
Out of the aforementioned, I would absolutely bet the farm that the most dangerous is LEAD.... Highly dangerous to the organs...
> I take them out of my pockets and put them on a flat surface when I get home which means they are always in one of like 4 different places tops

Must be nice :)
SEPA mainly covers operations, such as inter-bank transfers, I don’t think it is linked to PSD2
I wonder what the cost-effectiveness is in terms of compute power. I'd assume not great, but who knows? Raspberry PIs pack a lot of punch for their size and price.
Shares of TD Ameritrade, Schwab Jump on Deal Report
I cannot recommend the books and series enough. Definitely worth the time. Some of the best sci-fi I have read and seen. It is this generation's Star Trek when it comes to inspiration to pursue science and influence of future technologies.
Detectorists stole Viking hoard that 'rewrites history'
How is Linux support for VR in general? I wonder if Valve looked at the ecosystem and decided Linux support at this time would be volunteering to boil the ocean.
No (AFAIK), SEPA is meant for facilitate bank transfers (cashless payments) across the members of SEPA. Basically taking the fragmented system across Europe and try to unify it under something to make things easier across the region.
This suggests that there's a huge void in the market for websites and magazines who would go the length to curate their advertisements to make them relevant and not annoying.
Per PSD2, the banks have to offer APIs. It’s already possible in Europe to see your balances from another bank on your primary banks app
I think maybe typo - at least at this moment I see the title at the Guardian site "...are openly operating ..." not "... operate online on.."

not sure if the title has changed or it was not input different than title at submission.
Someone registered this name, today.
Oh for sure. And there are clearly great games that can fully utilize VR, such as beat saber. But obviously VR lends itself best to a first person experience (though maybe that doesn't need to be the case) and the best examples of these games (Doom for instance) are not full experiences in VR.
> If you consider that most consoles last a 4-5 years

That was the case decades ago when technology was advancing fast. The last couple of generations are more like 7 years and future generations will probably last even longer.
My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail with multiple aliases and the official app is the only way for me to send emails with these different aliases.

Another reason is the lack of push notification (not sure if i'm using the right term) when using the built in gmail app for fastmail. It only gives me the option to poll every 15 minutes. The gmail app also doesn't support actions like snooze, swipe to archive etc on non-gmail accounts and I like having that in the fast mail app.
So I don't necessarily support it, and I agree a lot of technical people just hate SV and have no idea what it'd mean, but as a developer I can see some benefits.

Here's an example from Apple:

Only Apple Maps can show you maps on a locked screen.

Until iOS 13 Siri tightly integrated with Apple Music ways no other app could.

Apple Pay is the only payment method that can work with a locked phone.

Only Apple's app store can install apps.

Only Apple's messaging apps can create new contacts.

All built-in apps only call other Apple apps for supporting functionality, for example Reminders will only open Apple Maps, Siri smart suggestions for ETA only work with Apple Maps as well.

All Apple apps get an immense head start of integrating with new APIs and OS features.

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So if you create a competitor to one of those Apple apps, from day 1 you're at a disadvantage.

If they were broken up, all competitors would be on a much more even playing field with Apple's apps.

And Apple is just an easy example, Android is much more open than iOS, but Google Play Services is still a guillotine over anyone who dares to go against Google's wishes.

Imagine if Google services were separate companies so a claimed misdeed on one couldn't end what is the core of billions of people's online existence...
In case your are an US american

Call 1-800-273-8255 ( https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ )

Since I am not a US american, I do not know if this is a useful number. Let's hope it's correct.
Fun seeing Fastmail on the front page of HN the day after I started trying it out. I setup a free trial with a domain I manage through Route53, had some hickups setting the correct DNS records and reached out to their support. They were quick to respond and provided awesome, detailed technical support/hand-holding and ultimately got me up and running. The experience convinced me the love I keep reading about on here is real -- highly recommend em!
This technicality really shouldn't be brought up. War is war and several presidents have taken military action without a formal declaration of war in congress.
When was the last time a Google-free AOSP fork had a successful handset on the market? We've seen almost nothing but failures: Amazon Phone, Cyanogen, …

The market seems to have spoken that Android isn't Android without "Google Play Services" secret sauce, and that's entirely proprietary walled garden.
Kedro and MLflow – Reproducible and versioned data pipelines at scale
I always link them to nohello.com

The full post explains how to avoid being rude.
I've been curious about RPis for a while.

I have a file server running AMD Phenom II 955 that I'm thinking of replacing with a RPi. Is there a practical way to have RPis manage a software RAID? Performance is not a consideration. Is it even worth looking at RPi in this scenario? The advantages I can think of is small footprint, lower electricity cost.
When mankind is wiped out or whatever it is that may come, and Earth is rediscovered by a new population of intelligent beings, I truly hope upon discovery of the vault, that they do not take my Lisp programming skills as gospel. Some things in history should never be repeated. Full stop. Close bracket.
I'm merely curious, as when 3D movies came out a major complaint against them was that people got sick from watching them.

From my very thorough research (googling "3D movie sick", and looking at the dates; all from the period 2010-2015) this doesn't seem to be a big problem any more. Now this could of course also be because people have just accepted that it is not for them, the people who get sick don't talk about it any more, or people in general have just moved on from 3D, but it does make me wonder. Could the motion sickness not also just be a temporary thing for VR?
Microsoft went all in on accessible design. This is what happened afterwards
I've sort of experienced that in star citizen... sort of.

You can look down and see them, but they're not egregiously large.

Though one of the funniest bugs (feature?) will only happen if you play
with a female avatar: if you lay down in a bed, and then open up your mobiglass (in-game arm-tablet-thing) the UI lands about halfway through your breasts. It's like your character places their arm on their stomach, and the UI is projected forwards towards their face.

If I remember to I can take a screen cap of when it happened to me the other day on stream.
> "First it was "MS breaks compatibility on purpose, screw those guys!". Now it's "sure, they're playing nice but they don't have a product in every market segment we want so they must have some nefarious master plan we haven't figure out yet!"

You're framing this as a change in narrative from Microsoft critics, but I don't think that's a fair way to frame it. 20+ or so years ago people were accusing Microsoft of Extinguishing and now people are accusing Microsoft of Embracing, but if you actually listen to what people were saying they've been talking about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish the whole time. I think the narrative from Microsoft critics has remained consistent.
Well, when you dug yourself 60 feet into a hole, you can't dig up.
"Play on any SteamVR system. If you have VR hardware that works with a computer, then it works with SteamVR."

Bravo Valve. This is why anyone interested in this should get a Vive and stay well clear of Oculus/Facebook's headsets. They are busy trying to capture the VR market by setting up exclusivity arrangements with studios to lock games to their platform to cut others out which just divides up the already small market.

Value have built a cross platform framework and SDK and are releasing their games for all headsets.
How small are we talking about?

My PC sits in a very small room, and yet I can use VR. It does not sit in the living room.

Size of the room is less of a deal than obstacles. You may have to rearrange some furniture out of the way while you play. I have to move my desk chair out of the way if I'm not playing Elite.

Usually you don't move all that much – but stuff has to be out of your arm's way. Most games only require you to be stationary. It's just more immersive if you can move a bit.
Did people take their stances for or against slavery as a result of careful consideration the issue, or did people mostly follow the example of those in their social group and choose to support their own "side"?

Unfortunately, I suspect it's mostly the later.
I get motion sickness easily. So that counts me out of the VR experience. And I reckon that's going to be true for a lot of other people as well.

The price and inherent limitations (such as motion sickness) of VR are going to ensure that it doesn't hit mainstream, at least for the time being
AFAK SAMBA 4 can serve as an AD controller and you probably can run it on Azure. Or even on a Windows server if you want (I used SAMBA client on Windows once).
> tux == bucks

I don't have solid numbers, but a quick Googling suggests the rate of desktop deployments of Linux is under 2%, and VR-ready deployments is going to be a thin slice of any desktop OS deployment (I have no reason to believe Linux users are more likely to have a VR rig attached to their machine than average, and I'd put money on it being actually less likely unless they have a machine configured to dual-boot).
"How costly it is to guess SHA256 passwords: https://archive.is/vOn9q (instead of 1000 guesses/second, it's more like ~1197962070743187 guesses/second)"

He seems to have taken this bit from the linked article:

"In 2013, Bitcoin miners collectively performed ≈ 2⁷⁵ SHA-256 hashes"

and divided by the number of seconds in a year to figure out how long how many SHA-256 hashes can be calculated per second. But that's all of the Bitcoin miners in the world (in 2013, but still).

Anyway, use a password manager and don't reuse passwords and this is all moot.
Oh hey, if I make a user named [⬤◀], its services will automatically be started as root. What a handy feature.
That is what they do. But then they want to know why the secular schools get so much more of their tax dollars than the parochial schools they want their kids to attend.
Guy shows people how to party on festival and then something amazing happens!
Hopefully all those rabid programmers who'd start fights with each other over a t-shirt about a suite of software, have moved to SF already so the rest of the world don't have to deal with that.
Lack of perfect information is a well-known failure mode of standard economic models. It may be true that people value their inherently scarce time more than they value the improved light bulb buying decision they could make by obtaining more information, but that doesn't mean consumers don't value better light bulbs. It just means there's an inefficiency due to the cost to the average consumer of learning about light bulbs (or whatever product).
This doesn't seem to match my experience with ML and GPUs/ASICs.

TPU is the main ML ASIC in use. A major goal of the original TPU design seems to be reducing the number of memory accesses. The other top-end ML device is NVIDIA's GPUs with Tensor Cores. Both of those chips are designed around fast matrix multiplication, which right now seems to be the most important operation in deep learning - see how RNNs have started to fall out of favor to CNN-based networks with attention heads.

The TPU is not faster than NVIDIA's GPUs, but it is cheaper. Right now the future seems to be cheaper ML devices designed to be horizontally scalable.

From the CPU perspective, it appears that the major ML effort is related to vectorizing instructions via advanced instruction sets.

Everyone who creates silicon is focused very heavily on using smaller and smaller numeric types - float16 is standard and there is work being done for even smaller int based work.

I haven't seen any analog-based ML devices in use. Can you share an example? Is there even a way to approximate the results of a matmul using analog devices?

It's impossible to guess how much more speed we can get with current approaches, but everything from silicon to networking stack to libraries to network architectures are in their infancy so I would expect dramatic improvements in performance on a regular basis (but not as regular as other areas of software because silicon development is slow)
The books are really good, too.

I need to watch the series at some point.
Or that Elon Musk and SpaceX are doing real engineering work and other engineers recognize it and try to explain it to those who don't recognize engineering methods and processes?
VRcades will probably become a prevalent kind of retail establishment in the next decade. Two people can game together from geographically separate VRcades.
In case you ever doubted the systemd team suffers from delusions of grandeur.
That's pure speculation based on your own views and experiences. What you probably noticed, is the visibility into these people's lives that you or others did not have prior to social media and 24/7 connectivity. Universities have always skewed towards the left side of the spectrum, it used to be called liberal arts educated, today the right has successfully renamed it as indoctrination.
I think the disappointing part is there is so little choice in the avatar you can play in these games. I would like something with how bioware approached SWTOR, the dialog changes, voice actor swap included, to match the gender of the character and from there it is just as easy to adapt skin colors and features. Even better, her name is about as neutral as you can ask for!
I'm not sure if that's true anymore; I read the other day that e.g. Youtube's algorithm works with engagement, that is, the sum of up- and downvotes. Because downvotes don't mean it's a bad video anymore, it means that people disagree with it - but still would watch it. The algorithm probably also takes views, time watched (until voted), total time watched etc into consideration though. And some magic sauce depending on how advertiser friendly it is, which likely explains why the default suggestions (in anonymous browsing mode) are so weird.
No, but misrepresenting your opponent's position to make it seem indefensible is very much like arguing about sports teams.
This is the kind of response I think OP was referring to.
There are a million alternatives to SF that fit your needs FYI. Austin, Texas is probably the best, but plenty of towns in the southwest and south are hot year round and can be viable without a car. Even Denver is a decent choice.
My organization uses all of Atlassians products. Every time I as for a sane alternative and get shot down I question whether I want to work here.
i agree but would add that there are a number of reasons why your browser as the client is a better long term strategy that minimizes maintenance. Unless you want a really generic geeky bare-bones UI. Native UI toolkits don't have a long lifespan. You constantly need to tweak what you've built for changes in the latest version of the OS.

However, that doesn't mean it needs to be "hosted" anywhere. It's trivial to make an app run a little web server that they access with their browser instead of a native or QT UI.

Browser based interfaces are an excellent bet (probably the best bet) for "run as-is, forever" or as close to "forever" as we can reasonably get right now.
What’s terrible about it?
> ARM and POWERPC CPU devs worked very hard to get consume/release into C++11

AFAIR Paul McKenney was the primus motor, and the motivation was largely RCU. Then again, McKenney also worked for IBM at the time and certainly had an interest in pushing a model that mapped well to POWER.

But it turned out to be both somewhat mis-specified and hard to implement cleanly, so most compilers just implemented it as an acquire.

As you mention, there is ongoing work to fix it.

As for ARM, it seems the big thing they've done since the initial release of ARMv8 is to banish non-multicopy atomicity. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/armv8-mca/armv8-mca-draft.pd...
Too late. Now I am only feeling disappointed that "after another Half-Life is released" meme has become obsolete.
Thanks - I'll have to do a bit more learning to really understand this, e.g. how mutability relates to cache lines and what "Shared" means in that context, but this gives me some good practical direction and insight to take it further :)
AirVPN is the best, but PIA is ok if your not doing anything illegal. They will shield you from any copyright liability.
It all depends on your threat vector.

I think alot of this vpn hand-wringing is really just meant to discourage vpn usage in general. There have only been afew cases of paid vpn services giving up user information and they are well publicized.
Following that link, I also came across https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592

"I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm." @12:35 PM · Oct 4, 2016

From Wikipedia: Pieter Hintjens (3 December 1962 – 4 October 2016) was a Belgian software developer

It's his choice, and I support it if that's what he really wanted, but it's still really creepy to see.
https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Facebook-Is-...
The authors address this in the paper. They claim that MG is different to VS as VS is a colloquial term used to criticise people on social media, whereas MG “has been extensively explored and defined in philosophical literature”.
Seems like a dramatic example, but you are technically correct.
No state is in any position to try to leave the union at this point for a variety of reasons. If we rule that out, what utility does "keeping underpopulated states happy" provide, exactly?

The state system wasn't really intended to do anything, rather it was a byproduct of the fact that the founding fathers had to appease the colonies into wanting to unite as a larger entity without losing their local identity. It was merely a concession.

So electoral votes are largely a legacy feature from a bygone era where we had to worry about states trying to leave the union over minor grievances.

Combine that with the fact that cities and coastal states in general brain-drain rural areas, and you realize it's probably a dumb idea to give the brain-drained regions of the country the most decision-making power. The electoral college does just that -- it selectively gives vastly more voting power to the less intelligent regions of the country.

That said, it would also be wrong (both morally, and in the ill-advised sense) to have a meritocracy where high intelligence means your vote counts more. Since intelligence largely tracks with socioeconomic status because of access to different opportunities, this devolves to your classic rich noblemen making all the decisions situation with its obvious pitfalls.

So if you are trying to come up with an effective and fair system for electing a leader, sticking with the popular vote makes a lot more sense than affirmative action for places where no one wants to live.

The stupidity behind the electoral college is reflected at the local level in the stupidity of the system that allows for gerrymandering -- if there were rules in place forcing political districts to all be equal in terms of the % of the total population of the state that they represent, politicians couldn't manipulate the map for partisan purposes (at least as much as they do now).

As for the founding fathers' intentions, who can say? There was nothing really special about them anyway, they were more a product of their time than anything else. Now we are stuck with their mess.
Ah thanks, I was totally confused by this discussion and curious what it was all about.

At first I thought rabidrat was just trolling/joking, but their other comments seemed legit, so wondered if they meant the site in the OP or they had a virus or his site had been hacked.

I even Googled the quoted text, but it just brings up the HN comment. Just didn't think of clicking the profile.
I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service.

I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes.

One of their most underrated features is aliases. You have up to 500 email addresses on each account, which means all of your subscriptions can be a different email account, and those accounts can't be correlated by 3rd-parties.

With Gmail you can only use `+` and `.`, which makes it easy to derive the base email. With Fastmail, my main email can be something like `ilikecats@fastmail.com` and my Walmart account can be `iheckinhatecats@fastmail.com`. I didn't realize how useful that would be until I started using it, but it's quickly morphed into a killer feature.
They can pull all go your transactions in that time, changing your password after is still too late.
Emphatically not. The interaction space of VR is entirely different from the interaction space of a standard mouse-and-keyboard FPS. For starters, players in a VR game have two hands. A lot of games in VR could have been FPSs instead, but only because they're generally vastly under-utilizing the dimension space that two VR input controllers (plus the input of look direction) give a designer.

If you used the dimensionality of the VR space and you port it to the FPS space, you'll leave entire game mechanics on the floor.