skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first PS2 model came out ~20 years ago, and likely offered backwards compatibility only because very few developers then were building games to maximize the capabilities of DVD storage.
> Of these the iPad is far and away the best option currently.

Except when it isn't. When you actually need to transfer a file from/to an Ipad to another device, and that you cannot access the file system and you don't have any other Apple device to do so, this is the hardest device to work with. I remember being honestly puzzled as to how to do it, and looking online for numerous "solutions", all of which involved installing more applications to hopefully do the trick. Pure horror. (It was, as far as I know, impossible to transfer files even thru a direct USB connection without any specific application - meaning USB was completely useless by default).
> Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.

If you live in Russia, yes. Protonmails's headquarters were in SF and some of their infra in Lithuania last time I looked.

Remember Crypto AG...
i'm wondering if that robots.txt might then get you sued due to blocking scrapers / bots?
It's the world we are living in nowadays.
I subscribed to Seth Godin's newsletter and I receive a post everyday from him. I admire Godin but the quality is shitty.

It is an example of what happens when you feel the urge to say something for the sake of saying it.

And all of this makes me think that maybe somehow there is more randomness to wealth Creation and distribution than we already acknowledge.
I'm not sure you appreciate how much performance would be lost...
This gets an upvote from me just for introducing me to "Farawavia".
No, the point I was trying to make is that even with absolutely perfect transmission (which is the best they could hope for) it can be very difficult to translate words back into actions. It's also hard to learn golf or dancing from a book (again, perfect error-free memorisation) because there's a lot of knowledge which doesn't fit well into words. Muscle memory, once you've got it.

I presume this was also true of the making of stone tools, or pottery. And of the recognition of edible plants & mushrooms. All of these are skills which I'd be surprised to see transmitted over a long time-lapse. (Without being at all surprised by the memorisation of stories, at a level I could never match.)
I think there's only two full time developers on the project, and both are based in Brazil, so this actually goes a really long way.
Who is Warren Buffet? The submission should be edited to reflect the guy's actual name: Warren Buffett
Why would a new upper reservoir need to be so wide and shallow, rather than having much less surface area and being much deeper?
I have used Skype, Zoom, Slack, Google Hangout, TeamViewer without any issue many many times on Ubuntu.
Someone replied on that thread that the iPad doesn’t quite have the same upgrade treadmill as other devices. I made do with my iPad mini 2 when it started having a video glitch during the long gap between the 4 and the 5. Then I finally bought the new one. That was almost five years for me.

Another one said they were common with children, which is true. But if they grow out of them, then they also might not be replaced that often. Birth rate in the first world is steady or falling. High end device sales for children should tend to follow.
Why can't nuclear be scaled beyond 1TW?
n=1.
An evildo-er wanting to hide bitcoins has many routes to do so:

* A Mixer

* gamble on one of many online casinos

* buy physical darknet goods with them

* Hack someones account on an exchange and use it.

* The above, but use the coins to 'pump-n-dump' a tiny altcoin. Be one of many 'investors' making money out of the change in altcoin price.

* Go margin trading with them, but make sure to loose them all in a margin call. Do it on a small altcoin so you can be on the other side of that margin call.
Volatility drag. Not trying to be a shill but I wrote a blog post about the mathematics of volatility drag if anyone is interested:

https://smabie.github.io/posts/2019/10/04/vol.html

It involves deriving “perfect” leverage ratios and talks about some other interesting (imho!) stuff.
The definition of social norm is what most other people think. Do you not realize that most people will just sign the form without reading or checking? That is the norm.
This is just disingenuous yogababble. :jonah hill going "nah" gif:
Best line in the very short article “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege and that is why I am so proud that we created an insulin price cap that successfully puts patients above profit,” according to Gov. JB Pritzker.
That viewpoint is common in programmer circles because it applies most strongly to them. The work they've been doing for likely their entire career is still either painfully difficult or impossible to do on anything other than a "real" computer, so of course they're going to say that for them an iPad is a terrible replacement for one.
And if I had a magic flying Unicorn I wouldn't be stuck in traffic.

There's zero chance these for-profit companies are going to open source the current game that they are selling.
Fingerprinting across devices is possible too, using things like behavioral analytics, network traffic, timing, third-party data sources etc.

The third party data sources is the easy one. Log into service A on your computer and service A on your phone. Service A fingerprints both and sells the data to service B. Now service B knows how to correlate your behavior between devices even though you never logged in.

I’m sure you’ve logged in something on both your phone and computer. It doesn’t have to be Facebook.
Because, like with mixing services, ZCash shielded transactions are opt-in and can easily be detected. So exchanges could decide to ban coins with mixing in their history or require extensive KYC information.

Yes it's a little different from the problem described in the post, but it's another facet of the fungibility issue.
> If your CV is scraped, you could end up anywhere and now you're getting recruiter spam from all over when you're not interested.

I would point out that this is still possible (even probable!) without any bots being involved at all. Back before CVs were online, humans working for recruitment agencies would “scrape” information from local, physical job boards by hand into their company’s databases (where “database” here could just mean a filing cabinet.)

IMHO, the real solution to that is a spam filter (or an “agent”, in the old world.) Just because a lot of people want to talk to you, and most of them aren’t very interesting, doesn’t mean they need to be prevented from accessing you—they just need to be prioritized by interesting-ness, which is something you can do yourself, or hire a service to do for you.
This struck me as an odd little forgotten corner of circuit design history and I thought HN might appreciate it.

From the article: “A wobbulator is an electronic device primarily used for the alignment of receiver or transmitter intermediate frequency strips. It is usually used in conjunction with an oscilloscope, to enable a visual representation of a receiver's passband to be seen, hence simplifying alignment; it was used to tune early consumer AM radios. The term "wobbulator" is a portmanteau of wobble and oscillator.”
I am really anxious for the people that will lose their insulin because of this...
If Bitcoin isn't granted money status, that would suck. We can't hold downstream buyers accountable for the money.

However, I still see this as a good thing; if the hackers did sell 96 Bitcoin to one single buyer, then we can now start a paper trail (or physical evidence) on what the single buyer gave them in return (paper money transfer?)
Aren't there cow-milking-machines out there automating the cow milking process? Wouldn't be surprised if there were dairy farms without anyone knowing how to actually milk a cow by hand.
Today's there's also F#, which is the "" to Ocaml's ";;" and to SML's ";".

Concurrent ML is definitely worth looking at.
Again? Somebody really wants you to read this.
Never said it should be banned, just flagged. People doing that should be able to provide receipts to prove they got them legitimately.
When I heard news of bans like this, my thought is that their goal is two-fold:

1. Inconvenience current users
2. Prevent new users so the service doesn’t gain traction

With the second reason being their true motive.
People's emotional reaction to nuclear plants isn't about long term safety, it's about the failure mode. When a nuclear plant fails catastrophically it becomes a long-term area denial weapon.

At a statistical level, I'm willing to bet that driving a car is probably much more dangerous than living near either a nuclear plant or a fossil fuel plant, but we still do it.

The problem with nuclear power is, unlike fossil fuel plant or cars, an accident takes your home, your daily social connections, and your daily life. It turns you and your family and friends into refugees.
I would place a bet on not greater than 0.1%
How will people lose their insulin over this?
I just want a Macbook where I can fold over the screen and it's an iPad. Then I want to be able to use iPad applications in Macos. Is that too much to ask for?
I didn't see HSBC, but I did see Monzo - which I was surprised and disappointed by. I see no legitimate reason for them to be connecting me to my (disused aside from messenger because of friends' network effects) facebook account. Not impressed.
I love my iPad, but I think it's safe to say the sum of the parts is less than the whole. If unix is about composability, iOS is the opposite. You can get work done... within an app. Your apps will never act as a multiplier to make the device as a whole more useful though.

I guess where I diverge from the author is that I don't really think it's a problem that it's mostly a consumption device. I think desktop computers are so thoroughly better as creative devices that maybe its fine that the ipad has its own niche.
> I agree the radio silence wasn't great but blasting Google has become the new pasttime here.

I see similar comments on stories about WeWork, or Apple, or Facebook, or Amazon.
If you can write Python, you can write GDScript. You'll get bitten very occasionally with the differences, but the core language is extremely similar. As for a package registry...meh. There are a lot of built ins to GDScript that make depending on external code mostly a non-issue.
It doesn't completely answer your question, but what Nathan is pointing out is that private contracts cannot negate common law.
If Russia had a functioning democracy, with rule of law and an independent judiciary, if Russia's legal system resisted abuses of power, if law enforcement protected the people's interest against the interests of oligarchs and the politically connected instead of vice versa, I might have a different view.

But I have little confidence that surveillance requires warrants, or that warrants are only issued with valid probable cause of real crimes, and not against dissidents, journalists, political adversaries and business competitors.

Therefore, ProtonMail's only moral and ethical response is to refuse to cooperate with Russia's law enforcement.

The same would be true in China if ProtonMail was available there.

And given what we now know about the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, I'd have to say they've become more like Russia than most care to contemplate.
Also, the virtualization support came in the 68010 follow-on which would have been available couple of years befora Macintosh launch. Of course for actual VM this would have still needed an MMU.
Can we fix the headline typo? It's Buffett.
So what is the appropriate action for you to take here?
So, when can I force companies to stop blocking my crawlers for their public data, and how do I accomplish this? :-D
Greenbacks seem to do fine despite the existence of marked bills.
This complements another wild theory I've heard, which is that the Medallion Fund exists to launder money from corrupt states.

Say you have a $200B state pension fund - you invest a portion in the loser fund, earn a portion back as personal wealth on the winner side.
Steal a banknote, nobody's going to find it.

Steal enough banknotes and the bank will go to great lengths to find you. The Northern Bank robbery stole a significant fraction of all NB notes in circulation, so the bank re-issued them, relying on the impossibility of the criminals laundering them before the swap deadline.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/the...
For me it's often something like a manpage I have had to find via Google. The web developer isn't thinking about stuff like that because it's a pure Web 1.0 static page that normally doesn't need anything like that.
They are already paying two full time developers from the Patreon money. There are actually software developers out there (the vast majority of them actually, the US is not the whole world) who do not make 6 figure salaries.
US law has a very similar approach. See e.g. https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html

But I don't think that's relevant here, as a) this isn't a copyright case and b) HiQ are not attempting to recreate the entire "compilation" of LinkedIn
Don't let "it's not enough" stop you. Make a one time payment of what you can afford within reason. They don't expect you to put yourself out.
It has little to do with work effort. Many of the hardest workers are dirt poor. Necessary perhaps, sufficient, hardly!
Strict mode was opt in though, and code would still evaluate without it.

There's also a lot of new syntax though, which does have high costs in cases like generators, and shipping the regenerator runtime because you need your code to run everywhere.

To my knowledge they have extended syntax and added modes, but not actually made any breaking changes.

A mode was a way to avoid making breaking changes.

What I missed from my comment is not just about the engines in use, but also that all old spec confirming JavaScript should still run, in all new environments.

That is backwards compatibility.
If it does happen, for some people, it proves the whole system is wrong, not their own ideology.
“The most secure password manager” is quite a bold claim.

The website goes on to say:

> Almost all Password Managers are unsafe […]

If you don’t even acknowledge that security/safety are always relative to a threat model, why should I trust you to design a good password manager?

For example, does Multi One Password mitigate against an attacker getting hold of your master password? (Yes, other password managers do.)
I think it's soon to come, due to the rise of its use and the security counter productivity around SMS 2FA. You could argue Google Authenticator for Android but personally, even if a first party authenticator comes into Android and iOS, I'm still gonna use Authy.
What a strange mindset. I’ve used compilers on the original iPhone itself. My main computer is a core 2 duo MacBook from 09 and the latest Xcode runs fine
He definitely invests in what he’s familiar with.

Which is why it perplexes me when tech people are so diversified with their holdings, there’s little opinion built in.

You have a competitive advantage. You see the tech tools that are utilized every day in your offices. You can understand neural networks and whether Tesla’s auto pilot OS technically reasonable.

You have the knowledge and skills to properly assess tech companies and their products.

You’re an insider in some respects.

Make an assessment, place your bets.
Which is crazy, makes you wonder what the terms of the debt being refinanced are.
"We" absolutely can.

If one were to sell a sports car in exchange for a pile of marked bills taken from a bank robbery, one would rapidly find oneself in hot water. Receiving stolen goods is a crime.
Archived copy, which works with JS disabled:

https://archive.is/REV0t
Has there ever been a price control experiment that hasn't resulted in even worse problems?
That may be true, but I still think it's a low-effort way for them to do it, and I expect better from Monzo than this. Plus it tracks people regardless of if they fit in a) or b) - neither of which is the case for me.
Huh, I thought in USA they also did them to avoid an injunction having the effect of making the judgement irrelevant. So, where the case is not clear cut the injunction could prevent one party acting to 'kill' the other (and so avoid judgement) in the meantime?

Could you cite something on this that indicates this (my understanding here) is wrong?
In my experience this is pretty bad advice.

Friends are usually good for a kind of support, but aren't a replacement for an actual, trained therapist.

After a while, the mental load gets too much for them and they cut off contact. (entirely understandable)
STFU, noob.
Yep. When I read somewhere here another article about thebpromotion processes at Google, the early Stadia launch started immediately making so much sense. It was a launch for internal reasons.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791
Here's the transaction: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/6b7308c0ce185810a...
At least in Europe, when you 'e-sign' a document, you're doing it with the cryptographically secure identity cert embedded in your ID card.

You haven't 'e-signed' anything if you haven't used your ID for it. In some countries this is a requirement for almost all docs, including signing a mobile phone contract, or opening a bank account. You'll have the same if you get a fancy Estonian e-residence.
Trump’s Israel-Palestine peace plan, explained
Yes, this is called "decay", and it's why you don't want to hold a leveraged fund over any long period.
Can you please elaborate? As far as I see it, IPsec is encrypting traffic. IKE is for setup of security associations. What part of IPsec would do routing, and in this case: potentially multi-hop mesh routing?
I'm really past the whole "pharma need to charge high prices to fund research" line of argument. Aside from being factually untrue (research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example[0]), it is also arguing for a continued unhealthy relationship with pharmaceutical care.

A large amount of research is currently publicly funded. Either via public academic research or directly. When that research bears fruit it is often given away almost at-cost (or below cost when you take into account the larger research landscape) to pharma companies who then privately profit off of it.

Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars and then turning around and profiting off of you too. Sure, the benefit exists, but this whole model is broken as all heck.

We should just scarp for-profit pharma development as an industry, increase public funding of research, and drug production factories should be a modest profit venture (e.g. 20% of the wholesale cost). Looking more like the generics industry today, where they produce, they don't develop.

Why do we need a private business to develop drugs at a 40%-1000%+[1] margin when the taxpayer could do it at nearly 0% margin? We've chosen to make it this way, other countries haven't, and we see plenty of drugs developed via public institutions around the world.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/bio...
Yeah, there's not a lot of choice in how you represent an API for a VR headset. You have to give the implementing program a position and orientation at some point. And you have to do it fast. So I think most of the APIs end up pretty similar in concepts because of that. In some cases, the data structures are almost identical, other than the names of fields.
That is because the cameras haven't been connected to facerec AIs until now. Now they will be.
It is indeed for a transition phase. I agree.

But if we need to reduce our CO2 emissions really fast it's one of the most efficient way to cut 1/5 of the emissions without massively changing how the grid and the other things are working.

But for sure in the end it's more a way to save time and to reduce coal usage that is also producing serious health issues to the populations.
>Do such low-effort posts from other people as these recent pg ones ever appear on the HN front page?!

To be fair, yes regularly.

Maybe it's supposed to be a meta essay, an essay about noobs that reads like it was written by a noob?
> 2D coords starting at the top left corner of the screen and increasing right/down is really confusing. If the player jumps, y goes down. It's a bit strange.

Where do the coords start in Unity? Just curious
AR Leaders Join the 'Four-Comma Club'
>All the time.

I guess I'll really regret asking for a few examples of that! But here goes - Some evidence for that claim? Recent links? (This site has stuff that made the front page I think, if that helps https://hckrnews.com/ )

By low-effort, I meant..the combination of bland content, first-draft-quality style, and very short. I don't think I've seen anything that short on here, and it's high on the blandometer too, though some people on this page say they got value from it. (Aw I feel bad criticizing now, hopefully he takes his own advice not to read HN pages about one's own stuff..)

edit: Ah, someone on this page mentioned Seth Godin, which reminds me he had a blog-post linked recently (not sure if it made the front page) - even shorter, and much less to say. One of the most popular blogs in the world! It said. Amazing. My first exposure to him. Well, maybe he used to be good, I don't know.
> in Go you just put in the code URL (git repo / branch / sha1) and you have it

It seems you're thinking of the old Go dependency management.

The current Go dependency management, Modules, means that you put in the unique name of the Module (which is its URL) and the Semver-compatible version. Then go mod can resolve the exact code you need.

Sure, it's still source-code based, so you don't need to build a JAR file. Of course, that also means you can't have external dependencies that you pull in - you must have everything required to build your go module in that source code.

Go mod also checks version incompatibilities based on Semver and chooses the lowest specific version which matches everyone's Semver dependency specification.

Your source-control server must also know how to act as a go mod repository (it needs to respond to some go mod specific HTTP calls, as far as I could tell).

Now, when you want to publish a new version in Go, you don't build and publish a specific build to some extra repository. Instead, you need to tag some commit in your repo with a Semver version.

If you want to publish a new major version, you need to do much more than that, since any version higher than v1 will impact the name of your package in import statements in Go code (import "github.com/mymod/mypack" will become import "github.com/mymod/mypack/v2" in any code using your module, including internally).
Bugs are delicious.
The site: https://militarymaps.rct.uk/
Because you don't bet the entire fund on every trade.
Mixpanel vs. Volument
So many ideas start to come to mind if scraping is legal.

Can we start to scrape Google Search in order to bootstrap building an alternative to Google Search? Search is a really hard problem (that somebody should tackle), but if we can leverage what Google has already scraped from the web and associated with popular search terms, we can use that to help train and validate our search model.

Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads? It's hard to bootstrap a social media website, but if you can import all the content from the existing giants, your site is no longer a wasteland.

Can we finally scrape and get rid of IMDB? I'd love to put all of their content on a wiki and be done with it.