skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm an eco-nut but my first (well, second) reaction was, "Is it that proximity to trees is roughly inverse to proximity to cars and other pollution sources?"

I was just reading about nanoparticle pollution: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191113-the-toxic-killer...

Evidently it's both really bad and pretty localized (exposure levels seem to drop rapidly with distance from car traffic, for example.)
Scientists may have discovered fifth force of nature, laboratory announces
Yeah okay boomer, so you're saying they're almost keeping up with inflation?
PC's don't generally need a subscription service to access games or multiplayer, but your upfront hardware costs to play modern AAA games are huge.

And existing consoles require you to:

* pay a large upfront fee for the hardware

* purchase games at full price

* buy a recurring subscription service for access to updates and essentials, like multiplayer.

Stadia doesn't seem unreasonable at all by comparison.
Hello Professor Hewitt,

Hmm...I don't quite understand your criticism, particularly as you yourself point out that "every important scientist (including Einstein) made numerous errors", and go on to describe some of those errors.

The fact that Alan is a towering figure who has contributed more to this field than I (and most people) can ever hope shouldn't mean that we cannot point out where we believe such an error was made, should it? That's not how science, even computer science, is supposed to work.

As a matter of fact, it seems even more important in the case of such an influential figure.

Of course the article points out that it was (a) a "brilliant" (quote from the article) construction and (b) the fact that it was wrong wasn't really Alan's fault, because he didn't have any large computer networks to look at, so (c) using the same brilliant construction with up-to-date inputs gets you a better answer.

The claims you make about the impossibility of things that are clearly being done seem a bit strange.
Doesn't seem like they do "whatever", but rather "whatever they're told" - otherwise they'd be free to maintain passion projects (like our beloved Reader.)
When people say this, what exactly does this mean? If you break Google up into Gmail, Search, Calendar, etc... what stops those from within, who have intimate knowledge of the innerworkings and HR related matters within Alphabet as a whole, from simply secretly colluding and sharing resources off the books?
Imagine going from being on the verge of cashing out your equity options to being fired within the space of 3 months.
But for stadia, where the game licenses, executables, and probably save games probably can't be exported legally, how does one provide a migration paths once Google inevitably says "servers are shutting down in three months. You will lose access to everything on that date. We will give you a month free or something that in no way makes up for the service shutting down and you losing everything"
> I guess the next step would then be computer vision on the video stream.

Matching output seen on the screen has existed for decades under the umbrella of macros. I remember writing my own for an MMO around 2005 using AutoIt; it was significantly easier than any client modification.
You can also toggle formatting with keyboard shortcuts.

I wonder, if they introduced a keyboard shortcut that cleared all formatting, would that be a reasonable compromise?
It wasn't required a day ago.

Slack can't seriously expect us to apply clumsy workarounds
to their single most important feature (text-entry) that
many of us use hundreds of times per day.

In particular since the solution is
as trivial as adding an off-switch.
The inherent fragility of seccomp() (2017)
G-suite (Docs, Drive, ...)
DHH Twitter - SmashVC, investors buying minority stakes in profitable businesses
Unless email servers have gotten a lot more turnkey in the last few years, I'm gonna disagree with this, sorry. :) I can get nginx running on most systems with literally a couple commands ("package-manager-thing install nginx" and "service-manager-thing start nginx"). Getting a mail server running -- at least in any form that qualifies as "Gmail replacement" -- seems to involve "install postfix, immediately edit the configuration because it has no out-of-the-box defaults, create multiple configuration files beyond that because that's how postfix rolls, install dovecot, immediately edit its configuration because it has no out-of-the-box defaults either, create some directories and user accounts and more configuration files because that's how dovecot rolls, then test that everything's working." And I'm leaving out the "install MySQL" part that many guides you'll find online will also have you do. Also, I haven't talked about running a spam filter and YOUR HARD DRIVE IS ALREADY FULL OF NIGERIAN PRINCES TRYING TO SELL YOU PENIS-ENLARGING BITCOIN I'M SO SORRY.

I would love it if "package-manager-thing install mail-server-thing" and "service-manager-thing start mail-server-thing" could get things going with sensible defaults like they do with nginx, even if you'd probably need to tweak things after they were going just like you're almost certainly going to do with a web server. But AFAIK, that just ain't the case.
Join the hundreds of people complaining in this twitter thread, I put my beef with it in there too.
https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1135955676545585164
Outstanding Engineers
These kinds of things have me quitting most things recently.

I don't own a TV, don't own a car, don't drink coffee anymore, don't subscribe to any streaming service, don't have a TV, don't have social media. My internet usage basically boils down to NYT, HN, Reddit and Youtube.

I can't say I miss much of what I gave up. My life is far from deprived. The caveat is that I live in western Europe, with good public transport, accessibility to plenty of nature and many things to do outside of glowing rectangles.
Any recommendations from you side as learning resources?
Not really, because it's rarely a problem when things are faster or more reliable than you expected.
Yep, louwrentius is referencing this Jobs quote - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445621-when-you-re-a-carpen...
You're right. It's too late to edit and correct my comment but here's the relevant part of the article.

> “I really don’t think I’m making money on it at all. I’m pretty sure I’m losing money,” Jessica said while looking over her spreadsheet. “I’m pretty sure I’m at a 10% loss. But I’m okay with it, because I’ve gotten a whole bunch of new stuff.”
But that can't apply to stadia.
> My TV actually has a steaming service

Nice Freudian slip there. We have a "smart" TV here that's never been connected to the Internet. They seem to just universally suck.

For extra credit, our TV is a Roku TV, and from the CEOs comments, I doubt I'll ever connect it to the Internet. At least until they start coming with 4G connectivity built-in...(!)
Are You Ready for Udemy Black Friday Offer 2019? – Steemit
Going to start ordering everything coated in vantablack then...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
The biggest problem I see with this right now is that Stadia appears to be sub-console quality and really nowhere close to PC gaming. The Pro service that is supposed to be 4K@60 is not at all 4K.

I do agree that if it reaches the point where Stadia allows you to effectively rent a $3k - $4k high end gaming PC for just $10/month, it will become an interesting proposition.
Coke actually has regulatory protections in place. They can use flavor extracted from coca plant through a special arrangement with the dea.

Anyway they sell all kinds of varieties of sugar water, and the margins are extremely thin.
Winter Holidays and Depression: An Opportunity for Growth
> What is different with Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure.

That's not innovation, it's just having a bigger stick than the other guy.
FCC will free auto airwaves for WiFi after long-running battle with automakers
I've been using Plaid for a toy project for a while, and, while it works well, what surprised me the most was their support. I had an issue with my bank not sending me SMS and their support was quick and helpful, responding to my problem with actual feedback rather than canned responses.

Now that I'm saying this, I realize what a low bar our current support climate has set, but Plaid is great on that regardless.
Ask HN: Overcoming Authentication by Country?
I'm a UK/Australian citizen currently living in Berlin, with bank accounts scattered all over the world after travelling for a few years.

I always have problems signing up for things, because services always assume that my nationality is the same as my country of residence is the same as my bank account nation is the same as my mobile number prefix is the same as my postal address is the same as my language preference is the same as my IP geolocation.

1. Why do site developers always assume things about my nationality/country/language? Especially now that VPN's are common and we can "be" in any country online.

2. Anyone got any ideas on how to create a consistent online persona while travelling?
Big difference between a startup and a massive valuation that everyone assumes is about to IPO.

WeWork deflated more than any company in HISTORY. You’re technically correct but people are irrational and I’m sure they were being lied to their face in all hands about how great the future would be.

At that stage as an employee you’re counting on those to be able to put down a down payment or do a much needed renovation, or hopefully not payback debt.
How to get Google search results in Google sheets/ excel – Aozata
RTL-SDRs are receive-only devices.
Saw this posted in another related story:

If you're affected by the WeWork layoffs and looking for a new role, fill this out:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx4TOVN7AdgvyAZGbq...

If you're interested in recruiting ex-WeWork folks, you can look them up here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CAtBsn3ZTL59tNMVbew...

original source:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199247
Today, another halogen lightbulb failed at my house. These are the very unreliable replacements for incandescent bulbs as mandated by the EU.
Maps was an acquisition, too. "Skyhook" or "Keyhole" come to mind as to the original name, but I'm not sure which.
Flimsy justification? He played spy games laundering intelligence from the Russian military to successfully attack US Elections.

Julian Assange literally attacked American soverignity and arguably was a key factor in delivering the American Presidency to Russia.

At this point, I hope he get's Epstein'd.
AD is mostly used internally on corporate networks. Why would untrusted networks be relevant?
Where did I say this was Amazon's problem?
Feedly was amazingly positioned for that. Their two signature featuers were: 1.) it looked and worked almost exactly like Google Reader, and 2.) it could import your Google Reader feeds with one click.

Within months of Google announcing Reader's closing, Feedly had acquired something like 8 million new users. Amazing stroke of fortune for a well-deserving product. I still happily use the free version.
Options are a risk you take, and every analysis out there says that one should discount them almost to zero, especially for startups.

It does suck for those employees that their risk didn't work out, but for most of them it was a conscious decision to take on the risk, presumably for a high potential upside.

And if you accept the risk, then its unfortunate that it didn't work out, but that is what risk is.
I have tried it in the past, but it just ain't the same, I wasn't filled with joy and its UI annoyed me. Maybe I'll try again.
In that case, would you really want to work there?
Leading to a black market in manufactured implosion-causing problems!
> probably made lots of women very uncomfortable.

Did you ask them?/How do you know they were?
I was at the all-hands I think this is referring to, and I'm not familiar with the flags. There are profiles, but most new features we're creating are going in the build.
Indeed, calling the Dakotas/montana as "desert" is... misleading.

Tundra maybe, but its not really a desert. And the plains are a great spot for grazing critters like Bison. The land there is their old stomping grounds, they fit in there like jelly on peanut butter sandwiches.
A Prison Play Goes on Tour
>Realistically, there is little incentive for China to cut back on coal usage.

How about the world not ending?
T-Mobile Customer Information Leak Incident
My parents have an Amplifi, and it's useful for them to issue the update (shows up on screen) - easy for the most part. They can also reboot the Amplifi without the plug/unplug.
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
I disagree. North Korea has newspapers. North Korea has media. Are its citizens well-informed? Of course not. The media is literally owned by the government. And in that case, you get pure propaganda. The reason for separation of church and state is that religion and politics are both powerful forces that influence people. If one entity controls both, it inevitably causes a loss of liberty. The press has the power to shape narratives and influence massive amounts of people based on how they frame a story. That is powerful, and it needs to be treated as a power that should remain separate from the government. There should always be competing narratives in a free country. Democracy doesn't die in darkness. It dies in uniformity.
I largely agree with your point but I think your example could have been better, companies like CC but a better example would be Red Bull could easily be switched out for a cheap clone and not suffer much in revenue, Red Bull has no superior quality but it's the brand that sells.
I think most people don't know that shelf space is actively sold by the stores. They imagine the stores go out and find the best products to display. That's not what happens.
Funicular
That's because 2/3rds of the population are rural poor.

The other 1/3rd live what are essentially first world lifestyles.
Yeah, it's a common sentiment by people who are completely out of touch with how people work outside of dev.
> Personally I don't think it can be fixed not because the software is beyond saving, but the community surrounding it doesn't actually want it to be an experience for regular non-technical people. Try going to a mailing list and suggesting that editing text files in /etc isn't a practical end-user experience and see what response you get.

Thank you. This is the truth, and your attitude on the issue will tell you which dog you have in the fight;

The non-technical among us, the 80-90% if you will, are not going to use a desktop Linux distribution the way they are currently setup. A home user is not going to use Google to fix a problem. They're not going to call their technically-inclined family member. They're not going to edit text files nor understand the minutiae of their hardware (and it WILL happen, eventually, 100% guaranteed). They are either going to throw "that piece of shit away" or they're going to call their buddy Steve who can put Windows on it.

Unfortunately, the community is still "the community," and much like those kids who wouldn't get out of their parents' basements, they're now in their 50s, crusty and pedantic as hell, sitting in their own ivory tower, incidentally not much different than the one they rebelled against in the 90s. Anyway... blah, blah, blah.
> Linux and Mac have to struggle with Wine and the FUD around it.

What FUD? I don't think I've ever seen someone spread FUD about Wine. Are you referring to the website that lists how well games/apps work with it?
I’ve asked this question an bunch of times and never got a serious reply. There’s no strong anti-trust angle or end game to these things, it’s purely vindictive because it’s trendy to hate on SV.

Sometimes companies are shitty but it doesn’t justify such a strong hammer. If anything their search products or mobile products would themselves need to be broken up, (or FBs network and Instagram) not the whole company... but even then it’s not like they will go away.
The jobs are definitely real and I was careful to not make any claims otherwise. I've worked in failed startups myself, so I certainly know.

As far as WeWork not being a real business, I think this was fairly well documented during the IPO attempt. However, more generally, when I say real business I mean a business that can survive without getting most of its funds from an unrelated source, i.e. investors. All evidence points towards WeWork not being able to continue without continued burning of investor money and there's no path to profitability on the horizon even.
The tools that I have already learnt are working perfectly for me. I feel these days we are just adding tools for the sake of adding new tools. Instead of spending time to perfect what I already know, I have to spend time learning how to use tools I will never need.
The simplest web server I'm aware of is `python http.server 8080`

... and even for that, I had to disable / re-enable the firewall and fish around in the docs just last night to get the dang thing to accept connections from a source other than localhost (PROTIP: when running on a pretty-out-of-the-box Windows 10 config, the default options bind listeners to IPv6, not IPv4). And I definitely wouldn't recommend that configuration for production; you'll open yourself up to a universe of pain.

But as an analogy for setting up an email server vs. just subscribing to Google or whoever, I accept it. ;)
I work with these teams at Google.

There are teams that actively (and solely) work on spam and abuse detection. They're larger than you seem to believe, though I won't give exact numbers. There's also obviously sre teams that maintain uptime. (Note I said teams, and there's a public approximate minimum size for an are team at Google of 8-12 people)

The problem is that spam can't be "solved". Reputation is easy to solve: only accept email from a known list of good senders. Gmail, Yahoo, MailChimp (or not), etc. But that makes people on HN complain. So your have to try and infer reputation of mailservers on shared hosts. And spammers are always trying to beat you, and there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of spam outfits. Af they're sneaky. They try to use awa or gcp to send email, or even send spam from Gmail, prevent trickier things. So you're left to defend from a spam campaign from Yahoo while also trying to not block everyone at Yahoo, and detect the spammers who are using Gmail to spam Yahoo too.

And the spammers are always innovating, so you have to as well.

My personal belief is that Google likely considers spam detection to be an area of competitive advantage so investments are warranted.
I'm just one anecdote, but I love FI and my Pixel 3.
I’m not a huge fan of it either and I agree with some of your points, but:

1. They are investing in first-party studios, but I’m not sure about second-party

2. Most of the launch games available to Founders are up to 50% off and included 2 free games (although that’s just like Free Games with Gold so I wouldn’t necessarily say it sets them apart)

3. They’ve worked with other studios getting their games on Stadia. For example, they sent engineers to Bungie for 6 months to help port Destiny 2.

4. It took MSFT years to develop Game Pass and the relationships with the developers to do so

5. Not many, if any, AAA companies are going to agree to put their new game on a subscription service, which is why Game Pass only has old games and Microsoft’s first-party games (although there might be a couple of exceptions)

6. It’s the developers that are choosing to sell the games for full price. Google definitely could eat some of the cost though
> Tooling and speed.

That's too vague to be of any use. What tooling? What benchmarks?

> I can vouch for the quality of SQL Server's tooling – SSMS is very nicely integrated with SQL Server.

The fact that you like SSMS doesn't really say anything about tooling for PostgreSQL. I find the quality of PostgreSQL tooling great.

There is certainly plenty of reason to believe PostgreSQL is superior to MS SQL [1]. I don't agree with everything in the referenced article, but your claim of MS SQL being far superior is, so far, completely unsubstantiated.

[1] https://www.pg-versus-ms.com/
Google was one party in that. The other was the person who choose to gave Google the content to post. When we choose to give content and power to a few, large, centralized organizations, that's on us.
Is Firefox support on your roadmap, DK? I'd use this in a hurry, as someone who meticulously hides social 'like' elements via Ublock Origin for the same reasons as described on your page.
Ask HN: How do you store secret site credentials?
The default option seems to be just put your secrets in the cloud somewhere. Other options seem to involve using a vault like 1Password (clunky), or gpg & file encryption (messy). It seems that Hashicorp's Vault should do this, but I can't quite figure how.

Is there a good way to have credentials somehow checked in with your code?
So nothing has changed in this regard since 17th century, right?
the article speaks about individuals attempting to gain recognition through grandstanding.

I think the more contemporary issue would be with individuals attempting to manipulate the 'psychological set" of a large group through a moderated grandstanding eg your with us, or your with the [insert villain here] !
note this is simultaneously an assertion of brinksmanship.
The problem is that most political speech is rarely simple facts with true/false values. Political speech is complicated and full of nuance and ambiguities. Just look at the example that AOC grilled Zuckerberg over: "Republicans support the Green New Deal". Which Republicans? Which version of the Green New Deal? Which parts of it?

Ultimately you're just handing control over speech to the arbiters of "true" and "false", who are themselves political creatures.

Sometimes we just have to accept some bad things in our society, because the consequence of eliminating them is worse. See also: The War On Drugs.
Both of the major parties are Big Tent parties. The Red Tribe institutions that look similar to major Blue Tribe institutions are going to be the ones operated by fiscal conservatives, libertarians, veterans organizations, etc. If you want news from religious conservatives, there is an organizational structure that as far as I can tell has no Blue Tribe analog -- a mostly-decentralized network of localized institutions called churches.
Reminds me of Apple Remote Desktop. It used to be an amazing application for managing our fleet of signage machines, an indispensable tool. Then (I think after Sierra was released), we started getting occasional crashes. It wasn't very often, but it was annoying. Then High Sierra rolled around, and it became unusable. You'd be lucky to go 2 minutes without a crash. And there was no consistency to it. We submitted bug reports, and nothing ever happened...until October 7 of this year, when I noticed an update queued in the App Store for ARD.

We had to abandon ARD so I don't know if they actually fixed it, but the price is still $80, and at no point has Apple ever lowered that price, even when it was unusable.
Bloomberg has lost my trust as a reliable source of information since the invented story about China Chip hack[1]. Contrary to the article, China is the leading investor in renewable energy[2][3].

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/01/11/china-...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China
This is somewhat a non-value adding comment, but thanks for your work man! I'm using a VPN set up with Algo now for day to day use and I love it!

I am going to try to figure out how to deploy a home VPN solution using it this weekend.