skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Unfortunately I'm in Colombia at the moment and this is a Colombian country. So I feel like my avenues for help are limited to facebook support.
This group has tons of journalists in it and for one reason or another, Twitter has paid outsized attention to it and let it shape the product and company policy, to nearly everyone's loss, including Twitter.

It's a simple competitive issue. Every click that goes to Twitter is one that doesn't go to newyorktimes.com, washingtonpost.com, or (yes) foxnews.com... and it's one that isn't likely to lead to any of those sites, for that matter.

Regardless of their political alignment, journalists have no reason to support disintermediation between news makers and news consumers. It threatens their livelihoods. Say what you will about Trump (just not here, please), but he does understand that much. Twitter is worth a lot to people like him, which I'd think would make it worth a lot to investors as well. Arguably it would have been a better investment for Jeff Bezos than WaPo was.

Heck, just the ability to front-run Tweets by five seconds might be worth a lot on Wall Street.
Ford allowing dogs at work in bid to lure tech talent, change culture
An informative look into Amtrak's genesis and a well-reasoned argument for the establishment of national passenger rail from a policy perspective. No discussion of rail from an energy-use standpoint, though.
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The most burning question I have is, why on earth would the company do this?
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The thing that got me about the Magic Leap is I couldn't find a reliable video of what it looked like through the lenses. Everything was clearly a CGI overlay or recreation. Reviewers claimed they were prohibited from showing video through the lenses.[0]

I can understand not wanting their product misrepresented, but all the secrecy and censorship about it makes me believe it is bad, and I'm not going to spend money on something I believe is bad.

0. https://youtu.be/TfzlU7nW23Y?t=34
Magic Leap Burning $40-$50M a Month
It may be popular to hate on the Kardashians, but this kind of personal attack is really in poor taste.
> I think the key is that the people who do have a reason to detangle the logic of minified JS can be very impactful.

You don’t need javascript for this. People reverse engineer native binaries all the time. Reversing wasm isn’t much more difficult than minified javascript as my sibling commenter states.
I agree that $2300 is a steep price for an experiment but I'm not sure you would want to base your price on the cost of production - why is that any better than any other arbitrary price?
Don't you think that scaling to handle global growth is a feature?
The original Microsoft HoloLens was $3000-$5000 and sold 50,000 units in two years. Now the US Army is paying them $480 million for 100,000 units. The problem isn't the price IMO, but the fact that Magic Leap hasn't been able to make a case for what exactly it should be used for. Random enthusiasts aren't going to shell out thousands of dollars, but a company or government definitely will.
The problem in old cities isn’t as much that they can’t get through old stuff, but more that they don’t want to because of archeology.

For an example, see the Bosphorus tunnel in Istanbul (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/25/turkey.iantray..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray#Delays)

A huge find, unfortunately on the location where a terminal was planned.
>In the browser, text is your pixel. Of course you are welcome to build things on top of that with CSS, images, and Canvas. More to the point, I'm not saying that 95% of the time you should abandon your design and make a minimalist terminal interface -- I'm saying that for 95% of the phone apps and native apps I see, HTML would be fine. There is a pretty good chance the design someone has come up with is already representable in pure text, and they just haven't thought hard enough about how to do it. I'm not saying design everything minimalist, I'm saying your design is probably already a lot more minimalist than you think, and it probably wouldn't be that hard to separate content from pixel-positioning and style for most apps.

This is your opinion, and your opinion deserves to be fulfilled. My opinion is that the web is a multimedia platform that can do combinatorial designs where text motion and visualizations can be combined into something like this:

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

In my opinion what you see as 95% of all user interfaces is largely a because HTML and CSS are the rendering target not the other way around. There are less games and those types of UI interfaces on web browsers because HTML + CSS is bad for doing those things.

So if we have different opinions what's the best way to fulfill both? Libraries. One library for your text based philosophy and one for mine. The lower level technology should be agnostic to both of our opinions. What I don't like is having to submit myself to your design philosophy and write my canvas library on top of HTML + CSS.

webassembly makes logic language agnostic on the front end. It's time to do the same for the "render target"
> They should market (and engineer) strongly on privacy since that's where Google is weak.

How can you build a privacy oriented search engine and still make money?
Ever since they injected 70kb of JavaScript into my site, I don't trust Cloudflare anymore. I just checked, and other CDNs seem to be very expensive.

I wonder if there are any other ways to defend against DDoS?

Maybe looking for a host that helps with such matters? But then they will probably be more expensive, too?
Competitive enough not to worry about being unemployed.

If they get the job of their dreams, it is a completely different matter though.
I do wake up at night but its only since I started closing the window for winter. I have a feeling I have very low tolerance for heat (I like sleeping at <70º F).
I'm not sure that's true. Traditionally, customers are paying for the wages of the cashier.

Cameras, sensors, and software are likely 1-time purchases. There may be cloud storage costs if your cameras are storing videos off-prem, and maybe the software is a monthly license fee, but I'd wager those costs are cheaper than a cashier.
Yeah, I like the fact that they took the style, and built off of it. it gives it personality.
>The main problem I have is that the claim in dispute seems to be that Zen 2 has comparable (perhaps slightly higher) IPC to Skylake, and then Daniel picks out two benchmarks and shows that Skylake has higher IPC than Zen 2.

Exactly my thoughts.

Casually hanging out sites that are bias towards AMD, even those never claimed Zen 2 has same or higher IPC than Intel.
>I can't imagine that the cost of production is more than $500... start selling them at that price point.

You can't imagine that the cost of custom bleeding-edge hardware produced in four-digit-volume runs is more than $500?
Maybe they don't want to sell very many yet? If the software is rough the last thing they want is a lot of unhappy developers complaining about the state of things.

I wouldn't panic just yet. I bet for every order of magnitude they reduce the price they will increase sales by an order of magnitude. Get it under $100 and the will sell millions of units.
I'm also taking a sabbatical! I guess mine is also self study, although I never quite thought of it that way. I've taken this time to be able to have in-person lunches with many interesting people, work on open source projects, and sit in on seminars at the local university. I think I'm just beginning to learn how to access local resources for learning.

I'm also thinking of freelancing, and have been gearing up for contracts, and also to perhaps start an agency with a friend. I really value the freedom that has allowed me to explore my programming and math (and climbing/yoga/martial arts) interests these last few months.

One unexpected thing about my sabbatical: my social life is better, I have way more time and energy for it :)
I've been meaning to do this all week. Do you have a specific pair in mind that works? I tend to prefer dead silence if I'm already energetic, because the adjacent noises of my coworkers slurping or coughing or chewing with their mouth open make angry. (yes misophonia)
Yep, all checkouts. But I know what you're talking about, the Meijer in my old town was setup that way.

And I agree about Home Depot, that system, while imperfect, is pretty great. No more having to lift heavy awkward items over a small scanner!
I am also familiar with Vieta from math competitions but I think this is more than that.

Given two numbers, r1 and r2, if you know their arithmetic mean:

m = (r1 + r2) / 2

and geometric mean:

g = sqrt(r1 * r2)

then following Loh's derivation you get a very cute formula:

r1 = m - sqrt(m^2 - g^2)

r2 = m + sqrt(m^2 - g^2)

Vieta gives an easy way of finding those means from a quadratic equation: r1+r2=-b and r1*r2=c. So you can plug in m=-b/2 and g=sqrt(c) in the equation above.

The fact that you can state roots in terms of their means is the more novel insight to me. (note: Loh doesn't talk about geometric means but I thought using just product of the roots isn't as "symmetric")
I'll add current events to this reply: Donald Trump's use of android cellphones is widely believed by analysts in multiple countries to be listened into by both allied and hostile nations.

He constantly uses an android device and it's believed that France, Israel, Russia and others listen into every call he makes.

Just saying, bugs are bugs are bugs.
There's broken link in your article to https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta/tree/master/core/00...
$1,000 can feed an adult for 1 year.

$1,000 is much more than some sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians can afford to eat in 1 year.

If you have enough money for a phone that costs as much as another man’s year’s worth of food, your woes are irrelevant.

It sucks when people who don’t have the things they want, and live in areas they don’t want to live. But in the grand scheme of things, these are all conditions that we control. Unless you are incapable of providing for yourself (truly handicapped), and then the only reason you don’t have, to a certain degree, what you want, is that you don’t want it bad enough. If you have even a moment of downtime (TV, gaming, relaxing), then you live in luxury compared to those who relentlessly pursue their dreams.
How are we even surprised. They are the Theranos of AR. They pushed the 'fake it until you make it' mantra a bit far, and now reality is biting hard.

Hopefully they will still trigger a revolution of some sort... but this was predictable.
Unfortunately heat pumps are not very good at producing power from small heat differences. In industrial plants, any waste heat stream that's below 100C is considered "low grade" and mostly used for heating office buildings etc.
> none of the cash flow

Twitter's operations threw off about a billion in cash for the first nine months of 2019 and 2018 [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/0001...
I would not call using an item which one already owns with zero marginal cost to be an expense for the customer.
Are cookies violating if they don't leave the website? It doesn't seem to be a problem as long as the cookie is only used within the context of your site. It's when they're used on other websites that the tracking capabilities exceed what you can otherwise glean from the server logs.

Plus, they're kind of important for sites that provide logins, or have shopping carts, or a variety of other legitimate uses for cookies.
I begged to job shadow the future users of my software at my last job and I was told there not enough time.We are all too busy. Keep your head down. Do what you're told.

But I'll be able to understand their job better and what the software really needs to do to make than more efficient and productive. They'll appreciate that and be more likely to buy in and adapt to the product they'll be using.

That's not your job. Your job is to implement the features you're told to implement.

But the users saw those features and said that is not what they asked for.

So? Why do you care if the project fails? It's not on you if it fails. Just do what the BA's said to do.

Boss, they aren't translating the business needs correctly. We have to rebuild features 2 or 3 or 4 times. Is we could see what they do and talk to them it'd only take once. That's happened a couple times during user acceptance. They said that's not what what we asked for. I said what did you ask for? I coded it right there on the spot and they signed off on the user story.

Go back to work. I'm busy. This isn't a productive conversation.
Three of the main things he calls out are caused by embedding of the Facebook SDK, the Google Analytics SDK and AppsFlyer SDK. The most worrying one IMO is actually AppsFlyer - I doubt they have the resources to properly protect the data they're collecting.

It might be more effective to go after the companies providing the SDKs rather than individual apps, to have a real impact. But OK this was for a news story about TikTok and that's what readers can relate to.
He did say outside of criminals. Underhanded practices to remove competition is illegal
I kind of miss the early directories for sites.

It probably can't happen now, since there are billions of websites, but it was a simpler time, and finding something you needed wasn't THAT hard.
Sure, but how come other features can't be released in parallel?
> We can no longer pretend that Google is a positive force in the world.

It's amazing how Google has gone from a "do no evil", where everyone celebrated every new thing Google did to "it is the evil"

Hard to win that brand back once it's tainted. May be the whole alphabet move was so Google's brand wouldn't taint it's other brands. But by association, Waymo is Google-ish and they'll be seen as invading on privacy just like its sibling companies.
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You clearly have not worked retail.
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By selling ads solely against the query, and figuring out a way to track conversions against generated unique referring URL instead of using cookies. Maybe it's less profitable, but it might still be profitable, and it gives you a foothold.
Why not follow the model used by consoles and cell phones? Sell the hardware at a loss and take a 30% cut of software sales.
The fact that you're asking the question indicates that you are a good developer. The bad ones don't care enough about their work to worry about it.
It's still vaporware. I want whatever it is they were suggesting with the whale-in-a-gymnasium demo.
This is exactly what I was thinking. There are those who believe that the next world wars will be fought over access to fresh water. This technology seems to make that future even more likely
Heck I would have murdered a few by now if murder was legal.
thank you for posting the legal link! That is atleast some route to pursue, and the only one that I know of.

Unfortunately I'm in Colombia now and this is a Colombian company. I don't perceive that I have any great legal options and don't have any connections to lawyers down here but I'm looking into it.

Anyway thanks again.
I think you meant drivel.

And here is a fine example of how to dribble (via twitter):
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/120241814211214540...
>These are different issues with different levels of severity and different solutions.

All of these issues are rooted in the same principle, namely: allowing people to freely express themselves in the face of authority is a net good for human society.
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Its not bad but it wouldn't make sense really. Microsoft built a custom camera rig to show off the Hololens which they could have done.
Why doesn’t he just serve some nice plain text then?
The difference is their product works (to some degree) as opposed to being total vaporware like Theranos.
If they did then it would be active policing, not just conscience based.
Roughly 0.04% of the company, for those curious what the math works out to.
By passively listening for what bands are being broadcast on?

Exactly, that's my whole point. Obviously I didn't make it clearly enough.

Are you in the 0.0001% of the planet's populated area where the local cell network doesn't tell you roughly where you are? Fine, then turn on location services. That's almost never going to be the case.
They have everything to do with Musk's credibility.
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The problem is that a video through the lenses isn't going to tell you anything about the experience of actually wearing one of these things.
Let this be a lesson:

Working prototypes trump all theory.

I heard all silicon valley gurus stating they were "bearish on VR, bullish on "AR". This proliferated as a mantra throughout the industry. I thought they were wrong then, and believed the opposite - because I had a working VR headset that was awesome, but had only heard somewhat meh things about existing AR prototypes.

Until great AR hardware comes out, I'm still sticking with the same opinion.
Two hour old account posting a political article in violation of HN guidelines.
Looks really nice. I wish there was kind of the same thing for static website. A super simple, minimalist, privacy-friendly statistics tool.
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> Canvas Fingerprinting. They draw an image in the background using vector graphic commands. Afterwards they save the image to a rasterized PNG. This data is quite unique among different devices depending on settings and hardware.

> They also use audio fingerprinting to identify visitors. This doesn’t mean they actually use your microphone or speaker. Instead they generate a sound internally and record the bitstream, which also differs from device to device.

This really blew my mind. Correct me if almost all of them are doing this. If it is so, the congress hearing last year, all those privacy suits, all went into vain didn't they. (PS. bad english)

:/
Was able to build for alpine, but I get a segfault on running.
Thank you for the response. I'll get your book as well. I got that book because it had good reviews on Stackoverflow survey that said prefer that to the Dragon Book.
WASM is essentially a more efficient version of Asm.js, which is just Javascript. WASM is a binary format. Asm.js is Javascript. They're equally obfuscated.
> No references in any of your published source code, and your search engine isn't free software:

You looked at the wrong tab, check in "Code" to find "code" related to Anolysis: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acliqz-oss+anolysis&type=Co...

> Cliqz has done unsavory things in the past (like the Firefox fiasco a few years back, for example, which I can't fault Cliqz entirely for: Mozilla is just as guilty).

Not sure how this is Cliqz' fuck-up. We are not hiding anything. On the contrary we are very transparent and detailed about how everything we do is designed to not track users. All of this is on our new tech blog: https://0x65.dev, feel free to have a look between two comments on HN and give us some feedback!

> "anolysis" gets around both uBlock Origin and uMatrix, despite both of them automatically blacklisting any URL with "analytics" in it, as an example. Getting around the most popular content filterers on the internet is a pretty strong signal.

It's not called "getting around it" when there is no tracking or ads going on (if you want to see how smart the "most popular content filterers are" check out this link and see that the image is blocked because it contains the substring: "analytics": https://whotracks.me/blog/private_analytics.html. Wicked smart!).

Anolysis is not a typo, it's a project name, people tend to do that when they care and spend a lot of time on projects: give them names. So, at the risk of repeating myself, Anolysis = Analysis + Anonymous (at the time we thought it was a pretty neat name!).

Anolysis does not operate outside of Cliqz products (no websites analytics here and we do not rely on a third-party, we built it in-house for this reason) and we put a lot of work into it to make sure it does not use a unique ID (like virtually every other analytics out there) but allows to by-design not track any single user (in fact the system does not even have the concept of a user). Sure, we did not write extensively about it but I guess we have to start somewhere (in December we are writing on 24 different things we do, we will be sure to consider Anolysis as a good candidate for a technical blog post in the future).

What you attribute to malice is simply a lack of time, as you probably noticed Cliqz is working on solving a lot of very hard problems (search, browsers, antitracking, adblocking, privacy-preserving telemetry and so much more) and writing a paper about the new system you designed and implemented is not always the priority :)
Ask HN: Ideas for s/w company we can reach out to?
Looking for recommendation of some niche Cloud based s/w companies whose services are delivered by (preferably RESTful) API. It is preferred that the solution (delivered by API) is computing intensive and is useful as a build block for other software solutions.

We are a startup that is specialized in connecting API publishers and business users.

Thanks in advance.