skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair response. That said, it's worth noting:

> The Project Sponsors received a minority participation (7.5%) of HNS in the interest of aligning all stakeholders, including industry. All of the 10.2MM USD collected from Project Sponsors (Funds and Individuals) will be given to Free and Open Source Software projects.

The rest was all airdropped in an attempt to get wide distribution / get it in the hands of as many users as possible.
this is 100% because you've become inured to how strange it is. Google's name was a joke when it started.
This is being done in EU anyway. IIRC I've seen several third party vendorssay that this type of tracking is legal under GDPR to justify 'anti fraud activities' like tracking users and sharing access to their data with other paying customers.

I personally have EasyPrivacy enabled on uBlock (because these tracking scripts using canvas, webgl, etc spin up my GPU and absolutely shit all over my battery life) but they are getting more and more aggressive with first-party CNAMEs, shipping a list of dozens or hundreds of hostnames to try progressively if any are blocked (and probably honestly risk score you higher for "trying to evade them" even though it's a default uBlock list).

I think it's honestly rather stupid, and I am not a fan of hearing my fans spin up for no reason accessing an otherwise plain website while it tries to open media players, try video elements, draw to canvas, download several megabytes of obfuscated garbage to evaluate.
"From a correctness point of view you don’t program for FPGAs at all. You configure them."

You program what needs to go into the FPGA by writing RTL, then you synthesizes the RTL, then you configure them at powerup time.

This subject of this topic is about using .NET as an alternative to traditional RTL languages. That's programming. If you're going to call that configuration, you're overloading a term "configuration" in a way that nobody in the FPGA industry ever does.
When the SDK is released [1], there's no reason why a plugin to support BAT couldn't be implemented.

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/braves-privacy-focused-ads-to-spre...
> to limit which sites can use javascript/images/etc

The new privacy tools allow you to tune this from the url bar, but I think it only applies to cookies, javascript and trackers.

> and/or to open multiple config tabs at once

yeah that's the sticky part. It only allows one open config tab unfortunately.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck. I suspect it will work out well.

I've been in an "involuntary" sabbatical. When I left the company I'd been at for over a quarter-century (mostly as a manager, but very technical), I immediately ran into "Go away, old man. Nobody wants you."

It was pretty jarring, insulting, and humiliating, but what really happened, was I got upset.

When I get upset, I get busy (paraphrased from "Back to School").

Fortunately, I have the means to set up my own company (I actually have 2), and I have spent the last couple of years ferociously focused on working full-time to write software, using the most modern and relevant techniques for my chosen direction (Apple tech -I've been writing Apple software since 1986).

It's working well. I haven't lost a thing, in over thirty years of software development. In fact, I seem to learn much faster, these days, than I ever did, when I was younger. I suspect that all the context I have makes picking up new stuff easier.

I've been building (actually, just organizing and adding to) a HUGE portfolio, with six figures of lines of code, in dozens of repos, spanning at least a decade (although I also reference my first engineering project, from 1987), hundreds of pages of documentation, dozens of articles and essays, and a number of deployed and shipping solutions.

I've learned to work alone very well, indeed (I spent my entire career in HUGE heterogenous teams; spread around the globe). That was one of the things I was afraid I wouldn't be able to master.

The difference in productivity is staggering. I often get more done by 8:30AM, than I used to get done all day as a corporate software developer (I get up early, and close my green ring by 6AM).

I tend to be all about "Get Stuff Done." I like theory and experimentation, but I've been writing shipping software my entire career, so that's the direction I've picked. I heard a guy once say "The #1 feature of the project is SHIPPING."

Working alone has forced me to keep the scope humble, which has worked out, after I learned to adjust my project plans. The biggest coefficient for me has always been quality. I like to think of myself as a craftsman. I get special joy from writing high-quality software.

One of the biggest lessons that I've taught myself was how to be very, very flexible (I call it "ultra-agile"). My corporate background was Victoria Falls (REAL Waterfall). I have been yearning to break free of that yoke for decades.

Working alone has allowed me to explore an evolutionary design and construction process that has, so far, worked fairly well.

The story is still very much unfolding, and we'll see how it goes. I still have a lot to learn, and I like it.

More Will Be Revealed...
In LA, Hispanic neighborhoods have 24 hour urgent cares but the doctor quality is all over the place though usually bad.

Urgent cares used to be pretty upfront. I went to an urgent care a couple of years ago, $99 advertised in the window. I go in, fill out all the paperwork and they tell me it's going to be $150. When I point to the window, she says it's expired. I start to walk out and she tells me to come back and gives me price. This is not the only time I've had to walk out over various health things, it's ridiculous. They think you won't do it because you're ill and act that getting angry over this is some sort of insane response. So now I just pretend not to have the extra money.

Anyway, I use Heal now. So happy that the VCs are funding this, hope it lasts.
Yes, on mobile. Now it's ok, it seems to be a direct link now. Previously it was terrible, really barely readable, in a thumbnail mode like this https://imgur.com/a/oKm3fP1 which presented this https://i.imgur.com/BOB10kkg.png . Never mind...
Do you ever leave your private dwelling? Are you not "living" when you do so?
South Florida doesn't need to have all that talent. Pretty much none of the people I know who were considering offers from Magic Leap, with some eventually accepting them, were from Florida at all.
> If you have 99% conviction rate, people will just stop doing crime

Do you have any information to support this claim?
I live in a rural area, so I'm all for it.

But if I lived in a metro area, I wouldn't like the idea of paying taxes so somebody out in the sticks gets high-speed internet.

I'll feel a little guilty if something like this comes to pass. But I bet it'll pass quickly. :)
No socialized system pays what our system pays.
Oh man I'd forgotten about that edit.

Cracks me up every time.
You're right! A lot of what people mean when they say "human nature" is cultural and social, a product of stories we tell another. These are things can can, have been, and will continue to be changed.

That said, there do appear to be some things that are not wholly learned. So perhaps it might be worth considering that humans are not wholly blank slates, to be formatted and molded to our infinite convenience.

Again, you're absolutely right. Humans are made of stories and culture learnings and more! It just might be worth considering that complex low-hair plains apes might not be born pure and clean, waiting for any old arbirary formatting to come along.
Agree with this. Clearing site data is more verbose than it needs to be.
As I said it’s optimized differently.
In what way is it bad? From the various video reviews I’ve seen, it seems to work a lot better than the Hololens circa a couple years ago.
As someone who worked in a field that necessitated some significant anti-fraud measures nope to

> Browser/device fingerprinting for anti-fraud is a well established industry practice. Browser makers don't like this practice and have taken steps to make it harder, but the truth is that it's used across the industry.

If it's that important to you switch off of the web into an App, require sign-ons against an internal system for authentication and policy people actively. Falling back on fingerprinting is a BS excuse used by folks that want to minimize user barriers and maximize the profits they're extracting by push authentication and identification off onto public resources - it isn't ever necessary and it isn't okay.
It will be interesting to see the moral gymnastics involved here, seeing as Trump and Corbyn are perceived as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum, and President Trump basically did similar things (take advantage of leaks from Russian agents). I imagine many of the same people that excoriate Trump for this will find a way for Jeremy Corbyn to be innocent, and those that condemn Corbyn will have justified Trump.

The Russians meanwhile, probably just want everyone divided and easy to manipulate. Which has been working pretty well I guess.
Correction: Prefect is built by one of the Airflow committers. At this time Airflow has ~50 committers.
https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/airflow
I've been a Netcup customer for a year and a half or so, and I love them. Locations in Germany only, but for less than $10/mo (5.29EUR), you're not going to do much better than this on price to spec ratio. Performance is fantastic. I have the 8G/300G SAS rootserver for 8.99EUR (rootservers just give you dedicated cores). Note however that (similar to BuyVM), they are also extremely quick to cancel you outright if you don't pay in time.

https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2006
That page actually goes against your point of HTML as a singular render target. You need CSS or that entire page won't look right at all.

The point isn't whether or not you can do this in CSS + HTML. (Which by the way CSS + HTML is proven to be turing complete so you can actually do anything in CSS + HTML including writing a JS interpreter so you can use javascript on non-JS enabled pages)

The point is to get to the above, you need to basically hack your way there. HTML + CSS is not the ideal medium to program something like that in. It would be better to have a library written over a pixel level API to construct the interfaces you see in the page rather then either hack your way through HTML and CSS or create a library of hacks on top of HTML and CSS.

>I'll make a bolder claim then: 95% of native apps are just interactive documents (with a few category exceptions like games), and most native developers who claim that their interfaces couldn't be represented on the web in HTML are kidding themselves. In the majority of cases, HTML/CSS would be fine for what they're building.

Sure make that claim, even if it were true nobody wants a computer to just be a platform for text based UI. Nobody wants the internet to be JUST that. People want the computer to be a universal computing platform. Games may be category but it's a huge category as no one will buy a computer that only has the capability of displaying text, they buy it for the computing potential to do anything.

Heck under your logic, why even have the OS expose the pixel level api? Just have the OS expose a DOM. 95% of apps are that way so an OS that does this is perfectly fine.

If you want to restrict the potential of what the internet is, then yes. If you want to expand it while keeping your design philosophy in place then the platform must expose a pixel level API and HTML and CSS must be moved to a library. It makes no sense for a lower level library to be written as a component of a higher level library, it should be reversed.
If you're willing to take a chance on smaller operations you can get significantly more powerful stuff.

e.g. I purchased a VPS with 3vcore and 4gig RAM at 6 USD a month during black friday
>it is really hard to make a leap in improvement in technical skills.

So true. I think it's exactly because of this that many professionals tend to reach a level and then expand their knowledge at the margin.From today's vantage point, it's incredibly difficult to tell which jobs will be around in 10, 20, 30 years' time. That makes me feel like learning new skills isn't a choice, it's a way to stay in the game for the long run.

Except that I don't think that the way you learn a bunch of skills in college still works when trying to learn deeper into one's career. It's not just the time, but the relevance.

I spent the last two years picking up skills in natural language processing, and the way I went about it was very different than reading intro books (personally, I found intro books least helpful).I've written about it on Medium, in case it's of interest:
https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-nlp-the-practical-way-b...
Carl Jung: Multiple Personalities
How much information do you have about the employees in any of the companies that you purchase from on a day to day basis? People that you politically disagree with work for all kinds of companies and you normally have no idea. You should either demand that you know about the political leanings of all employees for every company that you purchase from or you should stop advocate targeting individuals through their employers.
That's the point. The "highly-managerial" firm is the present and the future, and in that kind of firm, the capitalist/socialist bourgeois/prole framework is an inaccurate model.

They're like mini command-economies, each with its own commissars, competing with other mini command-economies, subcontracting some parts of their activity to tiny "bourgeois capitalist" enterprises, and others to modern-day slave plantations.

I think Ted Chiang called them the original paperclip-optimizers.
They teamed up with Coil which sets on an open standard named ILP. We don't need more walled gardening.
All relevant Browsers support it alredy. W3C is behind ILP. Doesn't need it's own Token. Supports Fiat an Crypto.
I concur! Just finished MH and really enjoyed it.
> And the ownership is often so diluted that replacing an obviously bad manager rarely happens.

It can happen via a takeover bid - essentially, a bet that whoever is making a bid for control of the firm will be able to increase its value enough to profit from that investment.
> There several different verifiable voting systems that have been conceived of – I’ll be describing a system called Prêt à Voter (the only one, to my knowledge, that’s been used in a real election).

This is not true. Scantegrity was an excellent voting system implemented in a real, binding US election. It is also (relatively) easy to use and requires little modification to a traditional ballot-based voting system.

https://www.chaum.com/publications/Scantegrity-II-Municipal-...
I asked a customer service rep about it on the online chat. Here's what they said (I doubt they'd mind me posting it here):

16:10:46 Thank you for contacting us. An operator will be with you shortly.

16:10:46 Guest: Is there an installation fee for Gigazone internet?

16:11:08 Guest: Hi, I see that there's an $85 activation fee, but is there also an additional installation fee?

16:11:40 Operator JJ joined the chat

16:11:47 JJ: Hi there!

16:11:51 Guest: Hi!

16:12:13 JJ: There is no installation fee. It is rolled in with the activation fee which is waived if you sign a 6 month contract.

16:12:54 Guest: That's great--I was discussing this with friends and we can't figure out how it's possible! How can you afford to run fiber optic out into the country and charge so little for it?

16:14:36 Guest: Part of why I ask is because almost no other rural areas have this figured out

16:14:56 JJ: Well, there's a couple of ways. For a long time we required our members to have phone lines along with our internet service as there are a number of government grants that we can qualify for as long as we're building rural telephone infrastructure. That's the reason we still are required to require phone service in some of our service area.

16:15:13 Guest: I see, cool

16:15:52 JJ: Secondly, we're a co-op and committed to the community. If we plow a fiber line to your home and you end up moving some time in the future, the line remains for some other lucky co-op member in the future. It's kind of a "long-game" mentality.

16:16:05 Guest: Makes sense, thank you!
No, there'd be buyers for his shares, at the market value determined by the performance and intrinsic value of Microsoft

The value of Microsoft has to do with the performance of its business, not the makeup of its investors
So a simple div function (x/y) turned into several classes and boilerplate. For what again? So that the program would not crash if it got into a bad state? JavaScript please give me back early errors! I hate that Promises just swallow errors. If there is an unexpected state, something that should never happen,then GTFO immediately, print the stack, give me a friendly error with a line nr to make it simple to debug, create a memory dump. Don't continue the execution with a poisoned state! If you want a safe program, it should exit at even the slightest smell of error. Not make my heart beat 300 bpm or put the airplane into a nose dive, or show the wrong altitude so that the plane flies into a mountain. So you are feeling anxious that your program can throw an error at any time? Don't be, that's much better then the alternative described with the airplane above. You solve the edge cases, and gracefully handle errors that can be worked around, but for unexpected errors, like the altitude showing -2 million. (int overflow or something) you want it to crash (the program, not the airplane).
What examples do you have? So far I can think of Steem coin and Dogecoin. The former has the vendor lock-in issue, and the latter has no standardized automation of tipping.
no facial recognition?
I don't want to accuse anyone of astroturfing, but the comments in this thread seem to be eerily positive and very marketing-y. Maybe it's my skepticism of everything crypto-related being incredibly biased one way or another.
I have a feeling this comment will be linked on HN eventually (in about a decade) the same way people link that one infamous comment about Dropbox being an unnecessary thing that no one needs or wants. Or the same way people in 2019 mock those from a couple of decades ago who were saying that internet was "just a fad" that will go away sooner rather than later.
This is true, though they aren't doing a very good job of it. There's a ton of trending content under political # that get popular and left alone.
For whatever reason firefox seems to actively sabotage any attempts to reuse their technology. The one area where people were reusing it, mozjs has been nothing but heartaches for everyone involved because they literally break part of their API's with every release. Back a couple years ago they changed the library bindings from C to C++ basically forcing all their users to write their own shims even if they were C based projects.

This is likely a large part of why they are losing, I remember showing people how it was possible to create a web browser with a couple clicks and a line or three of code using the IE activeX component in delphi around ~2000. Back then it was possible to do similar things with KHTML.

So instead of a nicely structured project its got layers of crap, even in the build system where you have to dig through python wrappers around automake, etc just to figure out simple things where some options are in one place and others are in another depending on whether they bothered to convert one part of the project or not.
Their bottom end openvz is 15 bucks. That's probably what he's referring to

https://buyvm.net/openvz-vps/
I kind of called it 3 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972212
Show HN: Process Content Security Policy Violations with SQL, Send to Slack
It may very well be huge. I don't have the expertise to know, so I have no position on that.

What I do know is that the 400 home figure is way, way off. The average home uses 10 MWh/yr, or 1 kW [1]. This system is enough to power about three homes per square meter. Unless I am missing something, their math is totally wrong.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3
The missing factor may very well be taxes and corporate accounting. If the ISP is writing off the cost of running the lines as a capital expenditure and are further able to reduce their tax burden from amortization over the life of the lines that $80/mo could conceivably be all profit.
It's not a "hack". This tool uses the official Kernel packages from the corresponding Ubuntu LTS repository.
I meant more so in selling off large amounts of shares at one time.
I don’t know if any are at Magic Leap, but other General Magic alumni include Andy Rubin (Android) and Tony Fadell (iPod) so at least some of them did ok eventually.
I've worked in anti-fraud software and it isn't necessary. Fingerprinting is extremely convenient and sales loves it, but I would hope that necessity could be broken down by reasoned arguments in the EU - I'm outside of the EU and not familiar enough with GDPR but there are a number of clear and accessible counters to that point - especially if payment is involved. If payment comes into play then fingerprinting becomes irrelevant as anyone making a payment can be trusted up to the level of that payment and that payment method tied to their actions.
It's an arms race, and the problem is that there are two groups of "bad guys."

One group of "bad guys" are the ones who want to track what you're doing even after you've cleared your cookies or track you across different domains or different apps. I would argue that this group is the smaller group, but browsers have been taking actions to make their jobs harder, including the "Facebook fence" that Firefox implemented.

There's a second group, which is the cybercriminals (or maybe just grey-market). Think Russian bot farms and purchase fraud bots, but also the guys who sell clicks and followers and rankings, and the ticketmaster bots and black friday bots and such. Those guys do their business by creating thousands or millions of fake accounts, and then funneling their transactions through them. They generally use scripts and cloud farms (sometimes even physical device farms). So app makers and websites need a way to detect when they're being attacked by one of those guys, and the way they do it, is more and more, through fingerprinting.

So every step browser and OS makers take to make the first group of "bad guys" jobs harder also makes the second group of "bad guys" jobs easier, because it makes it easier for them to pretend to be legitimate users.
> Your home can run for two days from an EV battery, but the problem isn’t the home, it’s the car itself.

Those numbers seem high for electric vehicles. You've got a Model 3 doing something like 26kWh per 100 miles and an average commute of 16 miles each way. That's less than 10kWh per day but they're showing 40.
Dude, no. They can have Texas.
it's always worse than you think
One wonders when we might see the same thing happen in regards to the emerging climate emergency.
microsoft ate my lunch too