skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested in seeing the results of an HN poll: "Do you agree with the existence of intellectual property laws?" It seems like a divisive topic here, and I suspect this is where the disagreement on dodginess comes from.
following up as another developer that really wants to get better at overall drawing/design. what are the best resources?
What's the problem with it? It's minimal and displays an element iconic to their boot logs. It's just a logo.

You can like it or hate it, it's design. It's bound to be subjective. But why is it "a waste of graphic design"?

On a side note, this kind of unhelpful/non-constructive feedback isn't welcome on HN.
> Why be a "staunch <Company X> supporter" at all?

The more people on the ecosystem I like and develop for, the more money I make.
The problem with a lot of these affiliate sites (which I alluded to in the conclusion of the article but perhaps didn't spend quite enough time on) is that they provide a small disclosure of their relationships in their footer or in the article. But they do it as inconspicuously as possible to avoid the drawbacks of disclosing anything.

I have a lot more respect for the sites that prominently disclose their relationships, like Wirecutter. Most of these sites are a business, they've gotta make money somehow. But IMO most readers aren't seeking out such disclosures automatically when they see a "review", so the hidden-in-the-footer nonsense is entirely useless.
I'm not sure if this is a big enough market, but system exclusive games would be a reasonable cause.

For example, a gamer playing on PC and/or XBox might want to play Horizon Zero Dawn for some time, but not buy a PS4 just for one game. Or some Nintendo exclusive game.

Most people don't have all gaming consoles available, and exclusives are (IMHO sadly) a thing, and this might be a reasonable workaround to provide compatibility.
One of the big overheads of WeWork was staffing a faux-technology organisation in order to justify the disruptive silicon valley tech valuation. I image a lot of those people are long gone. I'm sure there's a load of IPO related staff that are ripe for cutting too.
Usually that it is not owned by Google
To be even more precise, I don't care how P0 spend their time. If people don't like them blowing up their products, make better products.

But writing up an exploit that was basically handed to them is pretty weak evidence against the angry narrative.
Why is this being downvoted? Has no one in this thread played Echo VR?
> infiltrate all distros

> hard dependency from GNOME to systemd

> both projects belong to the same corporation

It is honestly impressive how you've managed to fit three different factually incorrect statements in a single sentence. Kudos.
I think you are massively overestimating the importance of the story of Half Life.

World building (to create tension and a creepy atmosphere) are much more important and also compact things, much more easily transportable and play a much larger role.

Since there will be hardly any plot-connections you are just not missing much …
Not to mention making your account more valuable to sell to marketers. Its a booming, and old-as-reddit business.
KaiOS Named to TIME’s List of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019
I'm interested in arguments as to how said flak could qualify as valid criticism.

Security research is inherently adversarial in nature, and it seems fitting to have competiting parties doing security research on one another's products.

Presumably, Android development involves some measure of security assessment?

If project zero never spent a day looking at Android, but all their competitors did, I don't see the issue.

If there aren't any/enough competitors, that seems very unlikely to be a security or security research related problem.
Fundstrat's Tom Lee Talks Automation and Cryptocurrencies
Slowly but surely WASM is turning into Common Lisp! (:

I kid, sort of. Greenspun and all that.

(Common Lisp has support for multiple values built in. They’re not a “data structure” like a tuple, but rather an extension to data flow and control. Returning a tuple vs returning multiple values are different things, especially when the consumer of the values-produced only actually uses a single value, as is usually the case with e.g. multiple-value-returning functions like GETHASH or FLOOR. FLOOR returns the quotient of floor(x/y), as well as the remainder as a second value. Most of the time you don’t need the second value, and there’s no need to “opt-out”.)
Paid adverting artificiality maintains and promotes ideas backed by money rather than having ideas become widespread solely based on validity.

If we believe in the "market place of ideas" where validity and accuracy are the sole determiners of success then none should have artificial support. So all ads should be banned. If an idea fails in this market place, then it is reasonable to assume it is a bad idea. Leveraging it is just as bad when done by Soviet approved posters or Exxon paid for ads.

The echo chamber is an example where paid ads will actually _worsen_ the situation: Ads are aimed at target audiences driving them into more extremes by seeing exaggerated or false statement they would not have seen if there were no ads. Also, those echo chambers backed by moneyed interests will thrive and expand while those not money backed will fade. So instead of at least having some hope of uneasy balance between two extremes, you get head long plunge into just one of them.
Ahh, so now we know that you don't use randomly generated passwords!
When you say San Francisco do you literally mean the city of San Francisco, or the bay area in general?

San Francisco is cold and foggy. A day warmer than 65F and brightly sunny is the exception. Also, hardware companies are generally not in San Francisco.

Silicon Valley proper (about an hour south of San Francisco) is generally sunny and often warmer than 65F, so can work for you. Still chilly in the winter though.
That's a competitor to a product that Google is very clearly not shutting down.
> the individual is seeking to gain status

Yes, but the individual may not know they're doing that. (I guess this is too obvious to the researchers to bother saying.)
Linear raises $4.2M to build a better platform for developer collaboration
Darn! Some of those were pretty funny... though when they contradict the prevailing reviews at Amazon it's obvious that allowing comments on Apple.com just invites the trolls.
It's an open source project, and nowadays they have logos and branding. What's the big deal?

It's identifiable and helps give a friendlier face to new contributors and outsiders.
Becoming a Better Engineer
That ship has already sailed
They are the public. It's their money.

If parochial schools are businesses then school vouchers are sending retirees social security checks rather than operating state-run homes for the elderly. It allows people to buy what they want in the market (from businesses) instead of being restricted to a choice between a government facility and nothing -- not even a refund of the tax dollars not needed to pay for it when you don't use it.
Vive is 2015 :). Buy an Index and get the game for free.
Yeah, it's easier to run, but nah, because diminishing returns.
> At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, tucked away in the Oracle Code One area [...]

As someone not familiar with Oracle events, I'm rather confused about Oracle Code One. I found a FAQ [1] which says:

> Oracle Code One is the ultimate developer event where we will cover the technologies and programming languages developers have come to love over the years. Expect talks on Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, and R and SQL along with more of the latest Java technical content.

but looking at the photos, I see in the background quite a few arcade video games. Is this some sort of break area for people to hang out in between talks, or something like that?

[1] https://www.oracle.com/code-one/faq.html
Boy they can fuck right off with that corporate doublespeak bullshit.

Commitment to users means respecting that people have different preferences, and options let you respect that.
Apple removes customer reviews from its online store
Well now I have no idea if you’re asking a serious question! To give a serious answer, it seems like most questions on forums like these are often not real questions, but rhetorical.
It’s not about doing “research“. They would love to work at Facebook if they could. FB software engineer is a dream job for many outside of SV bubble, and even for many inside.
Unless you're Anish Kapoor you'll have to settle for Black 3.0 https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/black-3-0-the-worl...
I do have gigabit fiber.

On my Xbox I often don't get around to pre-ordering games and there is limited disk space so if I want to play a old game I have to wait again.
The real selling point for me would be physical isolation. If you run all of them single-core you wouldn't have to worry at all about snooping using the various side channel attacks.
The tech industry would soon have some very expensive equipment destroyed.
But they probably built it as test cluster to do initial work on before going for a big shot on a big boy cluster.
>hiding inflation by cheapening construction

So true. I've heard for years that the size of our cereal boxes/chip bags/candy bars are decreasing, ever so slightly, while the price remains the same.

Reminds me of that whole frog-in-a-pot thought experiment. If you toss a frog into a pot of boiling water, it jumps back out immediately. But if you put it in a pot of room-temperature water, and slowly raise the temperature, the frog gets acclimated slowly and doesn't notice that sooner or later, he's being boiled alive.
Because it's trendy to hate on systemd. It's a bandwagon.

Really, that's it. There's technical reasons for really advanced users, but for average users systemd works just fine, and it's easy to use.

In my experience, it's been a pleasure to use.
YouTube is working to find advertisers for “edgier content,” CEO tells creators
You could set up a couple of GlusterFS or Ceph nodes. With the RPi4 having USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet you no longer get cramped by the previous generation's internal USB 2.0 Hub.
It "misses the point" in the sense that it wasn't what the article was about at all, I suppose. Ultimately the point was that people need to be aware of VPN reviewer's practices, it is definitely not encouraging the use of a VPN. Otherwise I'd agree with you, which is why we wrote about and recommend self-hosting with Outline: https://blog.privacytools.io/self-hosting-a-shadowsocks-vpn-...
Oh, I know what you mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763554

> people aren't actually interested in the plight of the Uighurs. Rather, it's convenient ammunition for justifying pre-existing political and national feelings.

Hardly anyone would say that to the face of someone who gets tortured, and nobody would say it while they get tortured.

For every Nazi who actually laid hand on anyone, there were hundreds or thousands of Nazis who "merely" looked the other way, with oh so flowery language.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dx8rn0/absolutely...

Can't talk about that here, it all gets flagged like a brick, because hey, anyone who cares is just "virtue signalling". I mean, how the fuck could totalitarianism be important for any intellectuals? Just like no intellectuals wrote about the Nazis or Stalin, why would they, it was all just partisan dick waving contests.

https://twitter.com/arslan_hidayat/status/118550371514021478...

Imagine being in bed with something so horrible, you don't even dare to lift the covers. Congratulations, to all whom it may concern. May you live a long life, see interesting times, and all that jazz. All of it.
That was the point of this entire thread. That MS doesn't care about Linux Desktop, so it's no longer a threat. The browser is the new threat, so being buddies with Linux is fine.

There's no secret plan here. Priorities have changed since 2002...
Wow, that's a real shame, because Google Cloud Print was one of those nice little services that did ONE THING amazingly. I loved that I could print stuff from anywhere and it would be sitting on my printer when I got home.

If I am working at a coffee shop, or out of town and bought something that needed to print a receipt, or a confirmation, or anything else. I could print it through Google Cloud Print and it would be ready and printed for me when I got home. It was just a nice convenience that worked every time.

Yes there are alternatives... most printers now have an obfusticated email address that you can send to and it will print from. But this is vendor specific and unreliable and required additional steps (had to save to computer, then open an email client, send an email, etc).

But then again, how can I be surprised? We are talking about Google, the company famous for shutting down projects. I wouldn't be surprised if I wake up tomorrow and they shut down google.com search engine. Right now on Hacker News (just a few spots above this post) is a another site [1], which hosts a countdown for when customers expect to shut down the Google Stadia product... a product that only launched a few days ago.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21596003
YouTuber hacks together DIY version of Intel’s dual-screen Honeycomb laptop
And many of the Oculus Store exclusives will run in SteamVR via Revive: https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive
I had about 12 halogen recessed lights in my house. I replaced them with LED retrofit recessed lights and so far over three years none of them have failed. The LEDs are brighter and more power efficient. I think I paid for their cost over one year due to power savings and not even considering that I would be replacing one halogen bulb every month or two.
Might be good insurance policy to spend $50 million or more and fail to become president - and damage the prospects of anyone from the progressive wing of the Democratic party while doing so- than having Warren or Sanders become president and take a real haircut in taxes.
Mein Kampf, 1923:

"The historian Ian Kershaw points out that several passages in Mein Kampf are undeniably of a genocidal nature. Hitler wrote "the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated", and he suggested that, "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."

"The racial laws to which Hitler referred resonate directly with his ideas in Mein Kampf. In the first edition of Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that the destruction of the weak and sick is far more humane than their protection. Apart from this allusion to humane treatment, Hitler saw a purpose in destroying "the weak" in order to provide the proper space and purity for the "strong"."

Note that this was in a book for popular publication, that Hitler "hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial". Announcing that when you rise to power, you intend to kill a significant fraction of the population is probably a bit much to expect.

The "temporary curtailment" was not really the first step.
Uber isn'ta Ponzi scheme.

I use Uber all the time, as does everyone I know. Hell, I even drove for them for a while.

They provide a needed service and they are subsidizing that to get rid of competition like Lyft and to grow a huge user base. Then, it's likely they will raise prices and start making money.

But it is not a Ponzi scheme. Last I checked, a local taxi company that is still in business wants $30 to take me into town, which is 5 miles away. Uber is $7.
I'm pretty bullish on VR in general but a few experiences (like the Aperture lab) were truly a class above. Problem was they were so short. The thing with VR is you really notice shortcuts, but when there is a REAL investment made the experience also can absolutely shine. My mental model for this is essentially the kind of experience that the aperture lab was but blown up to a full-length, AAA game. And that thought is simply awesome.
You're also making the assumption that Linux would be difficult to use outside of Office to non-devs. I challenge the assertion that a distro like Ubuntu in 2019 is any harder to use than Windows nowadays. Would you make the same assertion about something like Windows XP? Ubuntu has almost 20 years on Windows XP. What have people used their current OS for that is so different from what they did with XP? I think that there's validity in the argument that the availability of a solid suite of key professional software (e.g. Office, email client, Internet browser) would influence the adoption of Linux by organizations. Love it or hate it, nothing compares to MS Office on any platform by far, unfortunately it's also one of the last few of those key professional app that's not available on Linux.
> Not responding immediately or within a day could label you rude or non-collaborative. Even if you didn’t want others to feel like that, the receiving end of a chat message couldn’t help it. They felt they needed to respond immediately.

It really depends on the expectations of the team and the culture of the company. I suspect this is the same attitude that would manifest itself in the office as people randomly walking up and asking a question, thus disrupting the thought process. Some companies fare better than others in respecting people's time and concentration.

The author is organizing everything in Basecamp projects, and I'm glad that works for them. Basecamp is a great tool. But a similar process is possible with chat. We use Webex Teams (eating our own dogfood, by way of disclaimer) and organize ourselves in teams (pun intended) where there are many rooms for various topics. The general expectation is that participation is async unless you're @-mentioned. If one requests some task to be done and it's not some quick thing, the answer is usually "create a Jira ticket for me".

One of the limitation of chat systems such as Teams and Slack is when people try to use them to keep track of work items. That creates stress. But for ongoing topics that one can join or leave at will, it's rather useful. And if the discussion becomes something that needs to be sychronous, being able to instantly start a video call, hash it out then go back to other work is way better than back-and-forth in text, be it in a chat room or project management system.

The other point that the article touches on which is super important is leadership happens is actively involved remotely. That prevents relegating remote workers to second class status.
> ...he believed in his own spin and was phenomenally successful at building a large, real business.

Successful at building a large, real business selling $10 bills for $8. It's a dreadful business, they lose money hand over fist with no path to stopping the bleeding.

For a while now, any company who could claim to be a "tech" company like WeWork (an objectively real estate company) did was able to raise on terms that are only suitable for zero-marginal-cost businesses. That is unlikely to continue.
Well, let's look at the most obvious right-wing publication. Here you go, original news reporting:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/17/exclusive-facebook...

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/13/exclusive-facebook...

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...

I just noticed that they even publish stuff in opposition to Trump:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/11/exclusive-text...

Note that I found "right wing investigative journalism publishing sources" to be ambiguous, because you could mean a "publishing source" as in a place that publishes things or specifically that you want a list of references as found in academic papers or on wikipedia. If I guessed wrongly, perhaps you could clarify.
It's possible that the politics is so horrible precisely because the stakes are so small. There's nothing that makes Team A realize that there's something more important at stake than defeating Team B.
Somewhat of a tangent, but in the EU there is "brand" type protection for many types of cheese (think Parmesan), they have to come from the specified geographic area and use proper production methods, or else use a different name.
I think the most effective approach in this case is to set the requirements and start from them.

This is not trivial advice :-) Requiring 4 drives in RAID10 has different consequences from 2 drivers in RAID1. Requiring a price < 100$ is different from < 200$. Hacked storage setup (eg. USB drives) versus proper (eg. storage controller with multiple SATA ports) is different.

For example, if you're willing to spend more, but not so much more, than say, 80$, why limiting to the RPi? The Odroid H2, for example, gives a lot of options.

Among the other things, I use it as file server with a COW-filesystem on two (cheap) SSD disks in RAID1. The board has two SATA ports, so it's a solid hardware setup. It has two ethernet ports, so it's ready to work as router. It's also x86, so it will have software support for a very long time¹. And it also runs at an incredibly cool temperature - I bought the fan, but it rarely spins. To be fair though, the H2 cases are expensive trash.

You can certainly do pretty much everything on a RPi4, as much as you can commute 50 km a day with a bike, which is... not ideal :-)

¹=RPi have an enthusiastic community, but ARM boards are second class citizens when it comes to Linux support. While Linux is formally compatible, it's still adviced to run the specific ARM distro.
First example scrolling through that post: How is

static keymaps: [[[u16; 3]; 2]; 1]

an improvement over

const uint16_t keymaps[][2][3]

u16 is marginally nicer than uint16_t, but why is there a colon? and why do we have to nest square brackets instead of [1][2][3] (or maybe even better [1,2,3] which you can get with suitable C++ libraries)?

Sure I can parse Rust. But it is definitely more complicated, and more "noisy".
You should see the slick graphic skateboard decks for CNCF projects they have at KubeCon. The Prometheus one is killer.

This isn’t your grandfather’s open source, no sir.

(Edit: check the #k8sordie tag on Twitter)
How to hear – and delete – every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded
I just realised that, years ago, I have used a paper-based version of Anki technique to massively increase my vocabulary in a foreign language in a very short time span.
It's like you read the article as an instruction manual.
If only they could implement labels in the same way that ProtonMail and Gmail have! I want incoming emails to show in my inbox while being tagged with a certain label or category; this ins't possible in FastMail, only the ability to move the message to another folder entirely which raises the chance of missing messages altogether.
Have they solved motion sickness yet? I borrowed a playstation VR once but got nauseous after half an hour, no matter which game i tried.

Are the newer things getting better?
I also think there’s conflation here between knock-offs that do in fact violate IP laws which isn’t just dodgy but a violation of the law. And knockoffs that take the same general form or appearance of branded goods—with or without the same level of quality.
Right, just in a few minutes of playing around with FM, I can see it is true to its name - it's fast! How does one go about transitioning from gmail to FM when you have a lot of stuff going to gmail?
I, for one, loved Google Wave. It was much better suited to write specs with my team, nested collapsing branches are way more comfortable to use than google docs comments.

But the team needs to be disciplined not to get wave overblown, that's true.