skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd like to argue that MS is giving this away just to be nice, instead of as a calculated move toward sustaining or increasing revenue, I'd be interested to see that. But for now let's assume they're doing what their shareholders expect: making money.

We can't know whether I'm an intermediate product without knowing their goals, which they're unlikely to be transparent about. But lets suppose one of their goals is usage and market share statistics that they use as proof to convince paying customers. In that case, my usage is very much an intermediate product.

Or let's imagine that one of their goals is restored market dominance in developer tools. To that end, they would like their competitors to receive less money, leading to their collapse. If they paid somebody else to give away developer tools for that purpose, I'd obviously be the product. That they're paying for that internally obscures it, but fundamentally doesn't change the exploitative nature of the relationship.
AS someone who is the core demographic that will use this: if this works the way it says it does, it could cost $100 and I would still expense that to my company without blinking.
> Let's imagine...the car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit.

We don't need to imagine a world like that, because it has nothing to do with what we are talking about.

Let's stick to the real world. The EU implemented a law. Everybody is scared of the power of the government, so they implemented what they thought was the intention of the law, to avoid prosecution. The mom-and-pop flower shop down the street could care less about making troll political statements about technical internet topics.

Turns out, the law had stupid unintended consequences. Was the person who designed it stupid? Or is the entire world stupid?

If your answer is "the entire world is stupid," then I'd argue you don't understand how the field of design is supposed to work.
HSV always seemed particularly poorly understood in the society to me, e.g. with many people getting it as children due to careless parents/extended family, and the benign branding of "cold sore" as if it is related to a cold. Given that the vaccine for 1 or 2 has proved to be extremely challenging, always wondered if the public simply being more well-informed on this topic could help reduce the incidence in the population.

Asymptomatic shedding of HSV has to be considered, too. "Transmission commonly occurs from contact with an infected partner who does not have visible lesions and who may not know that he or she is infected. In persons with asymptomatic HSV-2 infections, genital HSV shedding occurs on 10.2% of days, compared to 20.1% of days among those with symptomatic infections." (https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/stdfact-herpes-detailed.htm)
I mean, good for you to have that ability.

> "Zero excuse for this IMO."

So, zero excuse, as long you have the money to pay someone to do all the thinking/planning for you. And as long as you have the money (and live in the right locations) to have someone do all the actual work of cooking for you.

I also suggest you go read the commenting guidelines, especially the "assume good faith" piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or he lied and the parents are covering for him. It's not like he's got ID.
i was gonna ask how but then i tried it... very cool! i agree not very useful unless you want to do manual translation haha
It is fun indeed to speculate that. One could even use this line of "imagination" to get big Pharma interested in investing in this line of fundamental research which, as we have been reminded more recently, is extremely crucial.
All that is nice. But who are they building this for? Who is asking for this stuff?
I did exactly what you're describing when leaving a privately-held company that was about to have the final 21% ownership acquired. You have to have enough cash-on-hand (and be willing to risk losing it) to purchase the options in your 90-day window. Once converted from options to stock, you have to hold it until the company can buy them back from you. The advice to consult a lawyer is relevant as I'm sure the contract language has several paragraphs related to this transaction.
Maybe it's like prostate cancer in that it changes so slowly that often something else kills you long before the prostate cancer has a chance to? [0]

[0]https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/understanding-prostate...
FWIW, I own both the SB1 and SB2, and it's been, hands down, the best hardware I've ever used (and I've been through a lot, including multiple generations of macs).

Typing this on my SB2, which weighs next to nothing, is capable of good gaming, has acceptable battery life, and allows me to detach the monitor and use the pen while in client meetings and marking up docs.

Best all-around machine ever.
The websites aren't free, you pay by letting others track you.

This seems like it's a silly nitpicking point, but in this context that's the whole point of the discussion: whether your users understand and consent to paying that cost.
I get what you're saying in the abstract, but when I try to imagine it concretely, it stops making sense to me. Eg. a person is using a sex toy and tries to make it vibrate a certain way, but an attacker has caused it vibrate a different way. Sure, in some vague sense it's an unwanted type of stimulation and someone is involved in it that isn't supposed to be. But I think that scenario tortures the definition of sexual assault beyond recognition. Am I just not thinking of more obvious cases?
Is there a way yet for me to run a server on Windows, and be able to code anywhere from my web browser? I basically want code-server that works on Windows.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server
I live in the UK and know plenty of people who tip delivery drivers. Not to the extent of the US admittedly.

Do you have a source?
The global menu bar is one of the things that macos just got right. You always know how to acces your basic functions, like closing the application, saving, etc... without having to look in the UI for that small button that does the same thing.

Another advantage of the menu bar is, that you can always see which shortcut belongs to which action, because most items have a shortcut displayed next to them. On Linux and windows it is trial and error, or looking them up online.

Also it makes the windows look a lot less cluttered.
Dutch Low Saxon
Firefox also has a "always use private browsing" option that I've been using for about ~6 months with great success—with a password manager the only annoying thing to do is get through sms "2fa" gated auth—mostly banks, health insurance, etc.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781879
Correction -it's not entirely on-premise. The script storage and login is tied to our server.

This thread has given us some serious thoughts about a fully on-premise version though!
For Buttplug specifically, it's just a hardware control library. While there are ways to use network-as-ipc for the system (mostly to establish control from browsers that don't support hardware access internally), it's not recommended as a basis for a service without some modifications.

Buttplug is a core technology of my startup, alongside the user facing Intiface brand (https://intiface.com). I'll be working on more network focused services there in the near future, where I'll be addressing more security focused questions.

If you're curious about some of the beginning directions of that, I posted a full Teledildonics 101 workshop last month on my youtube channel, that goes over systems design thinking for remote intimacy, including some touchpoints on security.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZBOOe-bdwNAjm018ql9...
I don't think this has anything to do with childhood. It's just a matter of illustrating the shape. Fundamentally, most people don't so much draw things as crudely diagram them.
I tend to feel like "fun speculation" around new science research feeds loads of incorrect information being spread. Which makes it not fun to me at all.
> Even for C#

Weird way to put it, C# is expected to work better in VisualStudio, it's the standard/officially supported .NET IDE. For everything else I prefer VS Code personally.
I came to a simple realization: Only intrinsic motivation lasts. Achieving external rewards and arbitrary goals feels nice for a while, but it always wears off quickly.

Now I don’t have goals anymore. My idea of personal growth is to keep rearranging my life so that I'm doing fewer things I'd rather not be doing.

No goals. Just anti-goals.
Any leads on a lightweight C++ client for bp's protocols? I'm thinking about creating a plugin for Skyrim/Fallout 4.
Yes. Please do not put the controller in your butt.
Doesn't gitlab fit the bill here?
How consistent is the bot? Will it answer the same question phrased differently with the same opinion/fact/feeling?
Oh, and for more security resources, see this comment up-thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095167
Maybe. Maybe not. To know that for sure, you'd want two large studies to be done. One showing correlation between having cold sores and AD. And then, one where some people are cured of HSV (I don't think we really have a cure yet...) and where others are given a placebo, with long term tracking to see if intervention reduces AD. That sort of work is how the link between cholesterol levels and heart failures was demonstrated.

This paper isn't even really about the Alzheimers-herpes link, it's more about demoing how you can use HSV-1 with their brain structure to get what looks like a good model of Alzheimers disease. What they gave the model might not even be "real" Alzheimers. Their goal was to develop a really good research tool[0], not necessarily to show an AD/HSV link, and the cells in their model, as induced neuronal stem cells redifferentiated into brain-like tissue on a scaffold, might not be truly reacting like cells in your brain.

[0] from the discussion in the paper, here's the first line emphasizing the takeaway:

"Generating in vitro human models of sporadic AD poses a considerable challenge because of the complex, undefined etiology and slow disease progression that naturally occurs in patients. Here, we describe a multidisciplinary approach to address this critical need by generating robust and physiologically relevant 3D human tissues for studying sporadic AD through the use of hiNSC technology and HSV-1 in combination with a bioengineered brain tissue model."

The herpes-AD link is somewhat supported by this since clearly adding HSV to this brain model caused these AD-like developments, but that could be a factor of how the cells used to make these models react and their physiology might be different as differentiated induced stem cells.
What about Tag Manager violates GPDR in special ways GA does not?
Something as simple sounding as a menu can be surprisingly complex.

A local burger place's burger has, I just worked out, 34,832,528,367,943,700 possible combinations. Some options are mututally exclusive, some add an extra charge. Etc.
Get to know the Actor Model (2017)
Website seems to have been XSSed :c
I made it in, only to see a list of IP addresses, JS Alerts and finally being redirected to YT to get Rick Rolled.

Or perhaps that was intended?
My favorite song by kraftwerk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsQgmq-fNs
Data yes, "insight"...not so much.
Good thing my grocery store doesn't have a loyalty program or track purchases then. Maybe you should use a different one?

I agree the lets-exploit-the-customers behavior you're talking about is currently common, but it's far from universal. And regardless, in a value-for-money relationship one has power that just isn't there when one is purely being sold.
When switching to "Reader Mode" in your favourite browser, the text will be left aligned. :)
Yes. If only it hadn't taken them so many years that the most Android users have switched to other services by now.

I believe I moved to Authy in...2015, maybe? Between migrating phones and trying to juggle the tablet I had on the side (as a backup), it was just too much of a pain to use Authenticator anymore.
Thanks for the tip. I don't know if I'll ever use it because the options around where I live are pretty terrible. But maybe I'll be desperate some evening.
In LA at least, I can get Indian, Mexican, and Thai food delivered as well. And salads, if I really want to waste my money. In call cases, deliveries are by the restaurants own delivery staff.

And higher-end restaurants generally don't deliver at all, on any delivery service* because the quality of the food can be diminished during transit. Some have made exceptions during the COVID19 lockdowns, and some have simply closed down for the duration.
Just to be clear, you can still use cookies, you don't need consent. Shopping carts and login sessions etc. will work just fine.

You can still display advertising, that also doesn't need consent.

You just can't collect and process people's data that isn't required for providing the service. If a site displays that notice, it's because they're attempting to do more with your data, or collect extra data, than is strictly needed for the service.
This currently only works with Chrome (still an MVP). We would eventually like to expand support to other browsers with future iterations.

RE: Data leaving the network.

This is a very good point.

If you have a strong business-case you'd like us to look at, but find privacy is the main issue, e-mail me at yaseer AT axiom dot ai; we may be able to investigate what on-prem would look like.
Reddit has no shortage of problems, but it's the most civilized large online discussion platform by far.

Moderation, partitioning of interests into subreddits, and the existence of downvotes go a long way to reeling in the worst things about online discussions.
> It seems the obvious way to do this was to have SMB mounts on either side and optimize the hell out of the already existing SMB implementations on both OSes to get the performance close enough to disk.

That's basically what they're doing, only that it's not SMB but 9p protocol servers.

Here is a video where they discuss the WSL2 architecture. The link is time-stamped to go to an overview picture of the architecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhMThePdIo&t=2435
It's not that you "can't" do certain things in Sublime. But Sublime and other "normal" editors have only a few primitives in terms of editing and moving, whereas vim has a language that lets you compose more complex commands from a set of primitives.

The general form of a vim command is:

(repeat)(verb)(motion/object)

That is, I want to perform 'verb' 'repeat' times on a 'motion' or 'object'. Examples:

fX == 'f'ind the next occurrence of character 'X'
3fX == repeat 'fX' 3 times
w == go to the next word on the line
3w == repeat 'w' 3 times, i.e. go 3 words right
dw == delete word
3dw == delete 3 words
dfs == delete to the next occurrence of 's'
yw == "yank" (copy to the buffer) the next word
y3w == yank the next 3 words to the buffer
H, M, L == move the cursor to the top, middle, or bottom of the screen
zz == center the current line of text in the editor window.
8j == move the cursor 8 lines down
ma == create a bookmark 'a'
`a == go to bookmark 'a'
"ay == yank to buffer 'a'
"ap == paste buffer 'a'
. == repeat the last editing command (insert, delete, yank...)

I like vim because its commands are both efficient and precise. I don't need to look and make sure the cursor is at the right position or that I've selected what I want to cut/copy correctly. I know it's correct because I typed it in. And I don't need to move my hand to the mouse or arrow keys. And bookmarks and buffers are great.
It certainly is if you can find any platform that comes with Debian.

You may pick your distro and even pick predefined software collections you want to have installed or simply install only the core. But really thats not the point. You can build your personal windows 10 image an replace the default apps too.
Covid's death rate is less than 1%, if we saw a "zombie apocalypse" disease (death rate 100%... plus zombies) we'd see a very different reaction for a very good reason.
It is actually what I have on in the background right now. That now Amazon owned IMDB streaming service has it with commercials for free.
When that stranger is giving good advice, however ..
There's a reason large bodies of text are left aligned and not center aligned.
> Don't forget about VSCode! It's very quickly becoming one of the best free editors out there

I don't know if people realize just how much market share VS Code has grabbed. It went from 7% to 50% in five years, according some some surveys [1]. Microsoft is quietly dominating this part of the stack. [2]

[1]: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/vs-code-javas...

[2]: This is not an invitation to debate the merits of VS Code or tell me which editor you use, just an observation of growth
I could get on board with leaving Moon, Mars, and most other planetary missions on hold for some serious replanning and some serious test missions.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

- Bill Gates
The irony of this is that the countries who were worst at their handling of the covid problem will be at an advantage at the end of it.
I am always reminded of David Foster Wallace who wrote a successful novel while still in his early twenties, and before even finishing his MFA. He had to recalibrate his entire life expectation wise when he achieved his goal in his 20s and found it empty. Where do you go when you are just 'starting out' in life but have already grabbed this thing that was supposed to complete you, and it doesn't change anything.
Hi there, thanks for asking! It's very cool to make research more accessible. Would you be able to rename your experience to "Modified Small BlenderBot without Safety Layer"? And I think it’d be helpful to call out what changes you made when you say it’s adapted from our research.
Tools for effective remote one on one meetings
Show HN: Snake AI in Rust Implementing Genetic Algorithm and Q Learning
> cartoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSU1IJk70i4
Yep yep, completely agree.

I wish most of my time was spent writing code, but a vast majority is spent reading it and swearing at my monitor because things don't work, so I don't think even a perfect editor would make me a lot more productive, at least not directly, except (as you stated) maybe through me liking the editor a bit more.

I personally spend as much time as I can in the terminal, and so my "IDE" is actually is typically NeoVim, tmux, some kind of language-server, and a command line. Am I more productive than my peers using IntelliJ because of this setup? Almost certainly not, but I find it very intuitive for me to do stuff with, since I'm super familiar with the tmux keystrokes, and I find Vim's design really intuitive for me.
We have firsthand accounts of the abuse of North Korean citizens.
you swipe from the right and adjust the brightness with the slider at the botton: https://i.imgur.com/sBYNv5z.png

older versions, you had to swipe right, then touch screen icon and slide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFYmwnzRpJ0
Go Pro X, lice a little. Seriously though I am using one and could not be happier vs an IPad definitely but vs a PC using a RDP also.
If you can't afford a lawyer then your only choice may be to wait. You can always get a free consultation and see what they say. Anything your old work tells you get in writing. If it's, they'll pay out in July, get it in writing.

Even if you had a lawyer you're liking looking at beyond July to get anything back if they want to delay.
I was disappointed in the last few seasons but they were still very good. I've thought about multiple storylines from time to time. Lovely sci-fi TV.
Replay of Learned Neural Firing Sequences During Rest in Human Motor Cortex
Oh, for sure. I agree. I don't think bash is the tool for that job.
I'll admit I've been a little depressed about the state of open-source software lately - especially when it comes to GPL licensed projects.

So to see a new project like this - one that isn't just developer tooling or bleeding edge new-tech experimentation for nerds - it's refreshing! There's nothing wrong with the other sorts of projects - but good GPL software that is actually useful out of the box to average people - that's the dream. At least that's the dream that drove me into this industry in the first place. Thanks for creating and sharing your work.
I feel like there's something really interesting behind that choice that probably isn't that flattering to Facebook.
StackOverflow has some data for this.

TL;DR: DevOps makes a bit more than Full Stack.

DevOps: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary/results?l=San+Francisc...

Full Stack: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary/results?l=San+Francisc...
I kinda love the apple charger situation. They never changed the long cord, so I have like half a dozen accumulated over the years tucked around my house, be it by the desk in a power strip or behind the couch in some hard to reach outlet. If I want to plug in, I just slap on the brick to the nearest convenient long cord, and there are plenty. If I am out and about, I'll throw the nub on the brick and tuck the whole thing in my sleeve. Then again with modern battery life, rarely do I need the charger when I'm out and about (nor is there much of that going on right now with the pandemic).

My biggest gripe, other than the lack of magsafe, is that they removed the cord wrapping arms from the brick. It really kept things tidy in the bag.
Women are not showing demand for male sex bots.

It is far easier for a woman who desires sex to have it quickly with something higher quality than a sexbot (think tinder) than it is for men. As a result, men want to buy sexbots. Woman who want male bots likely make up less than 5% of the sexbot market and that's generous as hell of an estimate.

I'm willing to bet that this is not all social construction, and a world where men were equally as objectified would only cause slightly more demand for male sexbots. Additionally, I think male objectification is more widespread than you give it credit for. Though, much of it is men objectifying other men.

You're right about your other points though.
I remember seeing it around or just after midnight when I was visiting a customer in Taipei. I had fallen asleep two hours earlier, but set a timer to wake up just for this historic event.

Totally worth it. That was one the best executived live streams of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
Qdot did I ever show you, like 8 years ago after some Arse Elektronica, my thrusting brushless linear motor based sex machine? I designed and built brushless linear motors from scratch as well as the drive electronics. Anyway I never made it in to a business and lately think I will open source it all. I was going to ask for your email but I just discovered metafetish, so I can post something there. I'll do so in a few days.

Anyway I haven't seen you in 8-10 years but it's good to see you around here!