skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: I know some of the folks involved with Berbix

I love this, for the same reason I love Stripe (and before them authorize.net et al): I don't want every vendor I use that has KYC requirements to implement their own controls on the screenshots/scans/videos/whatever of government IDs, because then there will be a huge amount of variation and some of them will inevitably get it very very wrong.

Putting it all under one roof (or a few roofs) allows those few companies to get storing and handling this toxic data really right, extract a reasonable amount of revenue, and everybody wins (Berbix wins because money, their customers win because they don't have to pay the opportunity cost or real cost of developing this in house, and end users win because of better/safer handling of ID information).
Is that true?

systemd is part of freedesktop.org (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/)
> freedesktop.org is a completely volunteer organisation with no corporate backing or funding stream. We are a member project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., for the purposes of holding assets.

meanwhile gnome has it's own foundation at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/
> The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that furthers the goals of the GNOME Project, helping it to create a free software computing platform for the general public that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.
But the issue is that the games with 4k, are currently only upscaled to 4k - https://9to5google.com/2019/11/20/stadia-4k-games-quality/
He was in a lot of pain and wanted to die on his own terms. He was an advocate for dying with dignity, and his last message was to help normalize euthanasia. The creepiness you feel is your impetus to work through your feelings about death and come to terms with it, to admire his incredible clarity and mental ease without having to couch it in "it's his choice" terms. I thought at the time it was a touching piece of humanity and I am grateful he was bold enough to express it.
The website says there are options for teleport locomotion, so you'd probably be fine: https://half-life.com/en/alyx/vr#setup

On modern hardware, motion sickness is only really an issue in VR games which move your head around in-game in ways which don't match how you're moving in real life. Teleport and physical movement don't cause issues for most people.
There are many simple solutions for that which cost less than the founder's edition.

And, if I'm a little bit snarky, you can't exactly play those old games on Stadia either.
There are one or two NanoPi models with an M.2 slot and full gigE, but that doesn’t get you an array unless there’s some m.2 breakout box I’m not familiar with.
Isn't 'cancel culture' vastly overstated? We hear so much about it because media personalities (mainstream through to podcasters) are the targets of it, so they're naturally going over-value the threat of it.
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ZFS doesn’t support hardware RAID controllers?
This would upset me if I was one of the remaining employees.
They could have printed electricity costs on the packages. Instead they artificially limited competition. That doesn't sound like they had anyone's interests but their own in mind.
For those who have used Plaid for personal projects, can someone confirm if you can pull basic monthly stats by account for all account types, including cash, debt (CC/mortgage), and assets (investment accounts, etc.), and then net worth and net income, all while on the free or pay as you go plans?

It appears from the docs that I'd need to pay $500/mo for very basic stats for anything not cash account balance related which is not feasible for my personal use.

My current alternative is Mint which is really lacking in the "automating my own spreadsheet with the data" department.
This looks really interesting. Took a quick glance at the site but didn’t see anything about use case examples. Do you have a hunch about what use cases will be most frequent? E.g. for landlords, selling cars, etc.
To me, I see it as an alternative to Steam or the Epic Store. They provide a free service, I just pay for the games I want to get.

(the subscription is optional, gives you discounts and free games, so it might be a good deal for some people)
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Right but we're assessing the quality of the business he built. It's crap. That doesn't change with what the parent said.
If you check his website at http://hintjens.com/ you'll see "In April 2016 he was diagnosed with terminal metastasis of a previous cancer".

So his choice was that or further suffering to the same end result.
Before we pile on the social sciences, maybe someone familiar with them can tell us why RCTs are so hard to do. There are likely other issues involved that make RCTs very difficult -- I'm guessing some ethical issues at least. I doubt social scientists and economists are just a bunch of idiots or charlatans. Likewise, the recent breakthrough wouldn't be such a breakthrough if it had been easier. I don't have an Economist account so I can't read the rest of the article. Perhaps that was illuminated in the article. Anyways, before we criticize another field, we should at least have a good understanding of it.
You're demonstrating precisely what you're arguing doesn't happen.
It's gratifying seeing a discussion that focuses on the central problem of waste heat control.
I agree that those are all terrible as well! The reason I don't think they lead to "moral grandstanding" that we see discussed in the OP is because they were fundamentally outward focused, in that they were meant to accomplish something (misguided and pointless as they may be). Whereas the items I list are very much about in-group signaling. Hence "grandstanding".
> So "literally hitler" has taken power?

No. I believe I used the term “analogy” which is the opposite of what you’re implying.

> How have the civil liberties of American citizens been curtailed by legislative actions?

I didn’t mention legislative actions. There’s an overwhelming consensus among experts on authoritarianism (not just US experts, in case you were hoping to dismiss those experts as partisan hacks) that the US is currently in a transition from democracy to authoritarianism. I won’t argue this point with you for the same reason I won’t argue the reality of the climate crisis.

> > Would you recommend forbidding anyone from making this comparison?

> Why would you recommend forbidding anyone from making this comparison?

You are misquoting me: my question does not start with “why”. You added that word out of thin air, completely changing the meaning of my question.

> I responded to your comment claiming that we ought to punch people who hold certain positions.

I never said that either. You must be confusing my post with another.
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Yep. I'm planning on spending around $2500 just to play this game. I don't even care if it's the only game I play on it.

With the VR tools they're releasing, I (and everyone I've talked to about this) expect Garry's Mod 2: VR to come out of this.
You just clearly explained how they are inferior in multiple ways, even if carefully researched and mitigated for. Most people just want what worked, to keep working as well as it did.
Friends and I paid him a visit when he was already living on borrowed time.

It was what he really wanted.

I fondly remember the July 2005 party we had at his Molenbeek warehouse after defeating the EU software patents directive. His 4am African music and dance demonstration. Memories...
Don't forget the expense of porting it in the first place, and then maintaining it after.
protonvpn has its own servers in a former swiss army bunker. these are only a few of the many, but they offer routing to other servers through their swiss center which they market as "secure core".
"Yes, the new editor is horrible. [...] most users learn to work around it."

What a time to be alive.
You're missing two important points.

First (and most importantly), Fastmail aliases don't need to be linked to my domain. If the goal of this is to not have my identity/addresses tracked across services, it is important that I not have a single, unique identifier shared between those emails.

If I sign up for Walmart with `walmart@danshumway.com`, I haven't gained any privacy. If I sign up with `walmart@fastmail.com`, I've gained a great deal of privacy.

Second, another use for Fastmail aliases is filtering -- the fact that they're not catch-alls. If I use a catch-all, an abuser can still fill up my email box by sending to unfiltered catch-all addresses. However, most emails you send to `@danshumway.com` will bounce, because I explicitly don't have a catch-all set up.

I could add a bunch of custom filters into Gmail to auto-delete emails that didn't go into a specific address, but I'd basically be re-inventing the wheel for no benefit. With Fastmail, I can easily modify, remove, or add a new alias in less than a minute, and I can have my aliases split between as many custom domains as I want. This is all stuff that Gmail handles very poorly. Even setting up custom domains at all is annoying in Gmail if you're not paying for GSuite.

And of course, Fastmail aliases can also contain catch-alls and wildcard operators, which means you get the best of both worlds. You can set up a wildcard alias for your domain that forwards everything like you describe, and that only counts as one alias.
I’ve seen a few of these RPi clusters (obviously none this big), I think the main reason people make them is to demo distributed systems or build a homelab cluster(sometimes they will argue its cause of
the power efficiency). Also they are usually a nerd magnet so it makes for a great conversation piece as this probably was for their convention.
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He's not getting that for building fluff. Adam is walking away with 1.7 billion dollars because he fooled whoever is in charge at Softbank into getting into bed with him for WeWork and Softbank decided that that was an appropriate amount to pay in order to get rid of him.
Off Topic, but I really like this trend towards very simple blog themes.
Yes, this would probably have been better recieved.

But it's only a few downvotes, and I think that total downvote count effect is limited to only a few points per post? So don't sweat it.
The article explicitly mentions two times things that are only true for x86 (grep for it). In addition, the statement at the end is definitely not true for POWER: "As soon as the data is read/written to the L1 cache, the hardware-coherency protocol takes over and provides guaranteed coherency across all global threads. Thus ensuring that if multiple threads are reading/writing to the same variable, they are all kept in sync with one another."
> They call an 800 number to get help or send it back.

So they either attempt to get a solution from the same kind of service you get by buying a commercial linux desktop (or just the support), or they 'send it back' - which was exactly your complaint about Linux. You're contradicting yourself.

> That, right there, was exactly what the person was responding to.

It was actually a question regarding the need to tell tales about 'crusty basement-dwelling kids now in their 50s'. What was the point of that other than to make yourself feel better?
RCTs are obviously a valuable tool for economics, and it deserves a bigger role than it's gotten historically. After the Nobel Prize, RCTs will probably get more attention than they merit for a while. Ultimately, there's a very limited set of economic topics that they can be used to illuminate. Based on the discussions I've had with economists since early October, I feel like we're about to see a lot of effort to push them to and beyond their limits, at the expense of the silver standards you mention. Mind you, I don't think that's a huge problem, and it's better than the original state of zero RCTs. But academia has its own fashions, just like anywhere else.
He told a kid to slide. Then he got sued
Have you tried one of the newest generation headsets? Supposedly the higher frame rates counter motion sickness quite well. I haven't had anyone mention motion sickness when playing on my Valve Index (only when looking on a monitor how someone else plays, because the screen shakes so much then).

(The price of the Index definitely doesn't make it mainstream though. Just trying to get a sense of this issue)
Unfortunately there's a chance it's biological. No matter how high the FPS is or how responsive the screen is, if you're "walking" in VR, your body isn't walking in real life. That's what your brain is probably reacting to.
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Ya'll realize they're slowly doing an embrace, extend, extinguish on Linux don't you?
Unlikely. All the mechanics would have to be reworked for mouse and keyboard. You can hear it from devs themselves: https://youtu.be/-9K0eJEmMEw
Building a Linux distro was like playing with Lego: the pieces were very interchangeable (in practice there were difficulties, but usually ones that were fun and rewarding to resolve; "fun and rewarding" is the exact opposite of SystemD).

SystemD also fails quietly or with useless errors and makes problems hard to diagnose - so a bug not directly caused by SystemD looks like it comes from SystemD because SystemD slime is on everything - is extremely poorly-documented, extremely over-engineered, and subject to rapid change due to the moodiness and instability of the OverPoetter.
If what you're saying is true, it means that people never get involved in politics for the wrong reasons. People get involved in all kinds of things in every area of life for all kinds of wrong reasons, and I don't see why politics should be different.

For example, charity is a good thing (feeding the poor, etc.), but would anyone say that making a show of your generosity is a phenomenon that never happens? It's an impure motive, but it's also very common. So common it's a standard PR strategy for companies.

You can say that good can still come of it regardless of motives, and I'd agree, but when trying to understand a social phenomenon, I think it's fair to look at what motivates people to participate.
The mobile app is just a native shell around a browser serving up the mobile website -- why can't they have an array of account credentials and allow switching accounts? It's the little things like this that have me annoyed that I'm not just paying cash but also in terms of time and efficiency because of the features Fastmail lacks.
There's also some info on getting tick level Forex data on that page.
The Engadget article just says "probably not" and doesn't provide any sources.

The Popsci article says there are no studies pointing one way or the other.

The CNN article only talks about PTSD in a quote from Google's Daydream View saying it can cause it.

The Quora answers are interesting, but still hardly support that strong claim, they're at most an educated guess.
The short version is that Unix has traditionally been built around small tools, well-tested and optimized, that did one thing and did it very well. Systemd is often perceived as kind of a "betrayal" of that idea, as a big system that tries to do everything. A lot of mistrust comes from that criticism.
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Ask HN: Why don't Uber/Drivers get in trouble for price fixing?
Since drivers can't set pricing why wouldn't this be considers an illegal form of price fixing?
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I want cloud gaming!

Why?

I don't play video games that often. Usually, when I play a newer game, it's because I happen to have new hardware that's capable of playing the game. Otherwise, I just sit on the sidelines when there's new games that come out because I don't want to shell out $BIG_BUCKS for some shiny new console or new PC that I'll only use for 20-40 hours total.

But, assuming I could stream a game with hardware I already have, or very inexpensive hardware, I'd probably play more games. Not nearly as much as active gamers willing to play $BIG_BUCKS for a shiny new console, but probably 1-4 hours a month.

And, yes, I understand that the speed of light introduces fundamental latency problems with streaming. It means that these systems only really work well in dense population centers. It's not like I live out in the boonies where this won't work for me.

I think the point of game streaming is to remove the high cost of entry of a console or PC. At some point, these services can be integrated into smart TVs, and all you need to play a game is a generic USB or bluetooth controller. Everyone wins, especially in a market where consoles were historically sold at a loss.
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> it also seems like a bit of a stretch to describe her "philosophy" as nothing more than "own anything that you like."

That's not really what he said. Mindful ownership isn't "anything you like".
Sure, but if Oculus came out with a finger-tracking controller, there's no doubt it would be supported given SteamVR's track record.
ANYONE can lose that kind of money - that's the point they were getting at.

No need to be pedantic.
> Is my VPN provider going to exploit me less than my ISP would have?

Well, probably the answer is yes, since we have many years of experience with the terrible behavior of ISPs. VPNs have a much smaller userbase, so I suppose they have less of an opportunity to screw you over, but come on, even the worst of them has to be better than something like Comcast.
That's not true or fair.

That you've had a wonderful experience with it doesn't mean that others don't have legitimate issues with it.
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Thanks and great question! Our patent-pending fake ID detection provides an additional layer of fraud prevention on top of the surface-level checks of visual indicators that are typical in online ID checks. This gets closer to a DMV database check without the high cost (several dollars) of checking against motor vehicle records.
Oh yeah the whole thing is kind of a shit show right now but that's what they're pitching so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for the moment and treating this like one big early access trial for the minute. From all indications this launch came in incredibly hot with the lineup doubling at the last minute, almost as if they had some last minute major issues with some of their Linux ports.
I will say on the flip side - Going from cron jobs to Systemd timers has been super helpful. You can use journalctl to track the output and find pesky issues like difference in shell, missing environment variables, file permission issues.
Thank you! And yes, this space is definitely becoming increasingly important. Our focus has been to provide a lightweight, low-friction means by which to confidently check IDs. While we have been primarily serving North America-based customers, our product can work well for any US or Canadian IDs or ICAO compliant travel documents (which includes many European IDs).
I hear what you're saying, and I don't think you're necessarily wrong. And at the risk of sounding like a partisan, I really don't think the two "sides" in U.S. politics are at all equivalent. There is one party that cares about "winning" at any cost. They absolutely justify this by, as you say, painting the other party—and those in their own party that don't toe the line—as "the enemy". It is terrifying, and I don't know how this gets resolved.
Oracle doesn't charge per CPU it charges per core. Enjoy paying for 4240 cores!
Sucks for the employees and everyone else who built up the founder's ego and his wallets. But honestly, this is an indefensible business model with clearly unsustainable economics. This deal and Theranos has convinced me that venture capitalists aren't as a group particularly insightful or worthy of admiration. Personally I hope the collapse of WeWork takes Meetup.com with it.
I agree that regular users should not debate this , but I seen admins critiquing systemd and regular users trending on defending systemd and on linux reddit the topics are always locked instead of moderating the bad actors.

As an example GDM/GNOME should not depend on systemd components and they should accept patches to support alternatives.
Allbirds are actually quite cheap in here in NZ. $150 NZD for a pair of nice sneakers is cheap when New Balance will cost you $200-300 NZD.

They don't look luxurious either. They look stupid if anything. The only luxurious part is they wear out in less than a year.

Also nurses here really like it because how comfortable they are.
A few questions:

1. "images that leave our system..."

Why do they at all??

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2. You're a startup. Meaning: 90%+ chance you die. What procedures have you put in place to make sure that ALL the data is destroyed in case your company changes hands, so that it cannot be used by somebody whose ideas and privacy are different than yours, simply by buying you (or your carcass after you are bankrupt)?

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3. What use is watermarking in case of a giant data breach? The fact that we know that YOU lost our data doesn't help us any. What are your plans for data storage such that a breach in your systems does not allow easy exfiltration?
In case people reading play with raspis and aren’t aware: you can reduce power consumption by several percent by disabling peripherals. This wiki has some useful information for those looking to make raspi clusters.

https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption
No different than Walmart prioritizing their store brand which explicitly copy the branding of other products ("woah, there's no way that isn't butter"). If you cant get your customers to seek you out directly then you don't have a brand.

As a consumer I like when store brands do this. It tells me what they're trying to impersonate more than the "compare to XXX" in teeny tiny print. But they're just a brand like anything else on the shelf -- Kroger pretzels are better than Rolled Gold, but their sandwich cookies are much worse than Oreo.
It's a tasteless trait of Linux bootup processes since long before SystemD's existence (on RH, SuSE at least), along with totally accessible blue-on-black (wtf) terminal colors.
From what I've seen in VR platforms that support custom avatars (even in modded Beat Saber), the userbase may be male but most of them want to be in female bodies...
It's particularly amusing/frustrating/enraging because they have already shown that it's possible! Up until today, I've had some workspaces with the old (and functional!) text entry, and some with the new one — in the same app!
Really? I played Witcher 3 with ping (to Paperspace machine) of about 40ms, the latency wasn't noticeable at all.
By natural selection I meant that if you have two (or more) bodies on the same orbit they'll crash or they'll find stable orbit (resonance). Of course you see resonating ones because ones that wouldn't would collide millions of years ago.
Realistically? Because Uber spends a lot of money on lobbying so that it can both classify its workers as contractors and not actually run as a marketplace for those contractors. This is getting at the heart of the current legislation push in states like CA and NJ to force gig companies to pick a side.
Upscaled on the device you already paid for, yet somehow need a subscription to use the upscaling.
Are the trolls not virtue signalling in their own community?

The interesting part is that there is no place for honest beliefs or serious discussion on any side of any argument on the Internet.
Ask HN: What pre-trained models have you used in production?
I write about ML in production—working with models like OpenAI's GPT-2, Hugging Face's DistilBERT, AllenNLP's ELMo-BiDAF, etc—at cortex.dev. What other pre-trained models should I be looking at? Are there any you've used in production?
How would a Sony or Nintendo exclusive be on Stadia?
I’m glad I was included in the lay-offs. The situation was unbearable.