skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recent dock video is inane and absurdly long, ~ 30 minutes. He shits all over Linux in it. Not the brightest bulb, treading on his audience and FOSS because he prefers convenience over conscience. Also, he never once mentions that most laptops can be plugged into all the same peripherals, including the monitor, without a dock. Most OS are configured to set the external monitor to primary once the laptop lid closes.

For someone whose job is to inform the viewer, he failed despite having nearly 30 minutes to tell the viewer that their laptop can become a desktop without a dock! All it might need is a display adapter like HDMI-to-Displayport, but most modern monitors and laptops won't need anything!

Docks are cute but mostly unnecessary unless you plan to switch from desktop use to on-the-go use often enough to make it worth the extra cost, latency, and bandwidth/throughout issues with USB/ethernet/etc.

After the prosaic, needlessly long dock video, chock full of Linux and FOSS hate, I see him entirely in a different light. His videos are entirely scripted and honestly just filled with a lot of empty conversation. Sure, entertaining, something to watch - but really not very packed with knowledge. Sparse would be the right word.
> the transaction needs to be "Signed" by the `from` public key

Is that so? The code actually signs with the private key. Although I might have misunderstood what that sentence refer to.
Ask HN: Will prediction competitions become mainstream?
Some examples:

https://oraclerank.com

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/23/facebook-tests-forecast-an-app-for-making-predictions-about-world-events-like-covid-19/

https://kaggle.com

https://www.augur.net/

https://www.gjopen.com/challenges
https://www.jazziz.com/the-hunting-of-billie-holiday/
Just as would happen with everything else about the modern web that the author objects to. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place.

Related: why can’t we just point the blind at a protocol optimized for just sharing text documents?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225291
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The best way of working I found for cookies is to automatically delete them a short period of time after the website is closed. And keep a whitelist for trusted websites you want to stay connected to.

It's trivial on desktop using an extension [1], but not yet on iOS.

[1] https://github.com/Lusito/forget-me-not
I'd be very surprised if this is what it's to be used for. The technique requires color, depth and motion vectors. That's three separate video channels, and two of them contain data that isn't usually stuffed into videos.

Any compression artifacts are going to stick out like a sore thumb, so you'll need to stream very high quality, and you're going to have weird interactions between different layers being compressed differently.
Does anything like this exist for XML documents? Wonder if it could be used for identifying interesting information in web pages.
>That is crazy how the girl managed to spend THAT much in a period of a month.

If you think about it, it's not that hard if she keeps getting queues to spend more without any track of how much she spent.

Hell when I was a kid and internet was paid by the hour, we got a lot of months with spending out of control and big bills for our standards, because you lose track of time/spend.

I bet the game doesn't tell "You've spent X so far!".

Such apps are designed precisely for that.

Hopefully some EU country will label such behaviors as gaming addiction, and make stores have triggers to control such behavior.
There are no real details in that presentation, they explain what input data DLSS needs, and demonstrate the outputs it can produce, but gloss over how it actually gets there.

From the inputs you can glean that DLSS is using temporal integration but that's hardly a new idea, the novel part is in how it performs the integration and Nvidia isn't sharing that.
There are quite a few rules and local laws in Japan that don’t carry any punishment or, indeed, aren’t even enforced but are still followed. Making it law in this case is more of a nudge than anything else. Honestly, it’s much more scary here to be stared down by a group old people than the police.
Two point verification always has value. It’s how every instrument we’ve ever made is calibrated.
Smart glasses obviously.
In Japan, it'll probably still be somewhat effective without explicitly stating a punishment.
I'm sure I'm showing my age when I say that I really don't like walking in cities (or anywhere really) with ear buds/headphones in. It's too much isolation from the environment and I'm just not comfortable with it. I imagine that's a minority option though and many will claim that the isolation really isn't a problem with the right earpieces. But I can only speak to how I personally feel.
Very impressive. I’ve gone cave diving before, and it was ana amazing sense of accomplishment. The idea of squeezing into a tight tunnel, under water, is not my idea of fun (I once got a bit stuck caving when my helmet somehow wedged against the ceiling). The skill required to do this safely is very impressive, which makes this all the more impressive. I think that with modern technology areas like these will become more and more (virtually) accessible.
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I think the grandparent's point is specifically against embedded scripts rather than JavaScript itself, since it can be used to make HTML less like a document, and there's also the proverbial can of worms where you automatically run Turing complete code from an unknown person.
An alternative to putty on windows is to get the entire Git SCM package[1]. You get not just git, ssh and sftp but many other useful command line tools too.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/
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I wonder what this means? Is there a timer until the cookie gets set?
Except, of course, that there are IRC clients accessed through browsers, mail through browsers, Usenet through browsers... so you don't actually exclude people that way.

If Gemini catches on, someone will write an add-on for Firefox that reads it. And then it's just part of the Web that is fast and looks a little different.

And that link is a long-winded way of saying "It's good to put an artificial barrier in the way."
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In general I find people using their phones whilst walking to be a nuisance, but I'm still not particularly in favour of this.

There are at least two legitimate use cases that don't cause too many problems:

1. Using your phone as an actual phone (i.e., an audio only conversation with the thing held to your ear, or with a headset).

2. Using it as a navigational aid. If I'm not too sure where I'm going I'll often use either Google or Apple Maps to set up directions before I start walking. I'll then put the phone in my pocket and just pull it out from time to time to check I'm still heading in the right direction.

The real problems are caused by people reading, playing games, having video calls, or filming themselves (or others) whilst walking. They tend to dawdle, lose awareness of their surroundings and others around them, and in general behave like absolute goobers. Doing these things whilst navigating stairs or escalators is particularly aggravating - not to mention dangerous.

This doesn't appear to be limited to any particular demographic or age group that I can see.
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A "community" needs a place to congregate and communicate --- like Hacker News --- which you have obviously already discovered.

Build a web site to host and dispense your content and post links to it here. There aren't many web sites tbat allow you to do this as freely and openly as here. Or you could build your own alternative. Take a look at dev.lemmy.ml
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Yeah, not sure how we flew around and listened to cell conversations in realtime. Dunno if we just had the keys, encryption was disabled or the device was operating as a MITM tower.
> How much do you care about what potential employers/co-workers/business partners/romantic partners think of you?

If someone judges me based on some randonm old comment without even talking to me, I absolutely do not want to work with them or be their friend, ever.
Not to mention the German Handy, i.e. mobile phone.
>Ideally anonymous

The problem is that it's actually quite hard to reliably anonymize data especially once you start to begin combining data sets from multiple places. That's the problem differential privacy is trying to solve in a mathematically rigorous way.

See for example how researchers partially de-anonymized Netflix Prize data by cross-referencing it with IMDB reviews.
With signed exchanges, the NYT is cryptographically opting into allowing Google (or other cache providers) to represent specific articles as being the NYT. It doesn't seem much different.
Note also that ssh and scp (from OpenSSH) are included in Windows by default since 2018.
Yes, but boiling quinoa or rice doesn't pack it, it blows bubbles of steam through it.
What a weird idea. What if you're using it for navigation? What if I want to pause the audiobook I'm listening to? I have to stop and remove myself from the flow of traffic? (not even possible sometimes)
The article is so low on details. I wish there was a more in-depth explanation. Isn't the first connection (with unknown host key) always a target for MitM attacks and thus insecure, unless you preload the host key?
This seems like a fair enough idea, except that there should be provision for "rich content boxes" that might contain images, forms, WebGL or other things that Gemini intentionally forgoes.

Having a "web browser" that can't do interactive content at all (no, server-side CGI doesn't count) is a non-starter in 2020. What if I need an interactive chart?
It would be interesting to write a computer program that generates random claims about some aspect of human health. For each random claim, the program would search the scientific literature for peer-reviewed studies that support the claim or its converse. The results might be surprising.
Slashdot was good for a while, then CNN and YouTube kicked off their trolls, and they all went to /. It's now the place to go, if you want swastika ASCII art.

ASCII art trolling is not new. Penis Bird Guy was a hugely famous Slashdot poster back in the 90s. I agree Slashdot doesn’t seem as good now as it was then, but the problem isn’t that.
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More context in these blog posts from the author of the patches:

https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/webgl-and-fgx-ac...

https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedor...
Thanks! Users can add new RSS feeds already, though it’s a bit hidden. If you click the “New Collection” Button, there’s a link at the bottom of the pop-up that says “Don’t see your favorite blog or website? Add it here” which lets you add a new feed.
like a moth to a flame eh googler?
Also food ordering, travel reservations, health care appointments, banking, government services, and a whole lot of other things that would take too long to list. It's not an exaggeration to say the entire Chinese consumer experience runs through WeChat.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416

Massive discussion there.
It's the current amp status quo that trains users that legitimate content is sometimes on other domains.

This change would restore the idea that the URL indicates the provenance of the content,
This is just categorically untrue. I've been able to peruse and yes even read very rare manuscripts at the NYU library all while being a mere "civilian" (no uni affiliation)
They already are. The question is not how we're going to stop that from happening but how we are going to roll it back.
Subjective - I like it
That's likely. But there is always hope for a new Feather project.
The ability for clients to render the markup as they please is actually one of the most important features, and a stark distinction from HTML, which only has one correct way to render.

I exploit this in my Unnamed Gopher Client[0], a client for the predecessor of the Gemini protocol, where I render links in a familiar files/folder format:

https://i.imgur.com/dw3e4Ou.png

And there are many more creative things that can be done with this.

[0]: https://github.com/zenoamaro/unnamed-gopher-client
I get that people dawdle but simply that 6% of people use their phones whilst walking isn’t a problem. It’s an observation.

What are they hoping to change and by how much?
Interview with Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner on Big Tech in Europe
> Since 27×3^3 = 729 and 8×2^3 = 800

I think you mean 100 x 2^3 = 800. But, yer correct that’s what I get from using a half remembered example without checking.
Jeez, give me a break. I'm not "visceral" or "impulsive", that's just insulting. Scroll through my comment history. I've been posting links to facts on this for months. And they're publicly available and widely covered in some forums.

Try these sites for a flavour:

http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

https://hectordrummond.com/2020/06/29/this-is-what-we-shot-o...

These links have a UK/Europe focus but the story is the same everywhere.

Re: lockdown does nothing. Take a look at the analyses by the major investment banks. They're all reaching the same conclusions because the data is public and anyone can analyse them. No correlation between lockdown severity and course of disease.
People either have the right to self-govern, or they don't. If you think the right of a population to self-govern is subject to veto by another population, you don't actually believe in a right to self-govern.
> In general I find people using their phones whilst walking to be a nuisance, but I'm still not particularly in favour of this.

Makes me wonder, if you bump into them and they drop their phone and break it, who is responsible?

What if they were standing still and texting in the middle of the sidewalk?
Very interesting! Bit of a tangent question, but does anyone know of good resources to read upon current theories of human migration (such as the migration to North America mentioned in the article)?
Maybe monitor the Emergency Machine itself? If it boot's up, emergency credentials are probably used?

But really good point, and i love the analogy to 'break glass'
You can physically put the (yubikey) device in a vault that will physically sound an alarm when opened. It could also have a battery-powered arduino inside the box (with SIM breakout) that texted the devops team when opened.
Not necessarily practical for everyday use, but can you navigate using earphones? I tried that when negotiating European cities like Basel, and Copenhagen on electric scooters, and it worked really well. Just start navigation, and preferably don't play music so you'd only get cues when you have to change course.

I actually got pulled over by a police officer for something unrelated, and he was fine with the earphones when I explained I wasn't playing music.
I don't know exactly when it was implemented but the Windows version has had it for at least a few years.
All of that goes without saying, so the only real question is whether Gemini can resist the scourge of the modern web.
Do you have a link to Conways proof?
17 years in isolation.

It can serve absolutely no punitive or reformatory purpose. It is of zero value as a means to compensation. Whether it is useful as a deterrent is unclear, but also immaterial.

The only purpose I can imagine is for the public to witness the misfortune of fellow citizens. A modern day public execution.

I am not hopeful that things will get better in the foreseeable future. I can only hope that our children judge us harshly.

17 years in isolation.
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Seems to me like it's easy to forget there's a difference between those two..
That's long been Google's stated reason for Chrome and much else, that pushing the web forward as a platform aligns with their interests as well.
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Foveal rendering is in a weird spot. The software seems to be there, but mostly only in academia. The hardware is almost nowhere to be found, because it is another expense. People prefer spending that extra money on a better computer, since that improves every VR experience, not just the possibility of (part of) future experiences.

FVR needs a hook: what can it do that "dumb" VR headsets don't?
Can gravitational waves be verified by optical signals? I thought the whole point of LIGO is that it's a method not relying on electromagnetic signals
Cassette tape-based navigation system from 1971
Time to change chess-pieces to green and blue, at least until we met Aliens ;)
You can find it in Polish or Russian stores (at leas on the east coast). I hate it :)
Satanic witchcraft considered harmful.
If you just look at the set of points at each instant in time, the self-intersections would produce discontinuities. So instead of deforming a raw set of points in 3D space, topologists deform a function which takes a point on the sphere and returns a point in 3D space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy

Mechanically, you get this deformation by adding another parameter to the function between spaces. In Go-ish pseudo-code, say at each instant of time you have a function

// lon ranges from -180 to 180
// lat ranges from -90 to 90
func eversion_t(lon float, lat float) (x float, y float, z float) {
// return the xyz point corresponding to the lon/lat
}

which maps lon/lat points on the sphere to 3D space. Then the homotopy is a single function, parameterized by a t parameter

// t ranges from 0 to 1 inclusive
// lon ranges from -180 to 180
// lat ranges from -90 to 90
func eversion(t float, lon float, lat float) (x float, y float, z float) {
// return the xyz point corresponding to the lat/lon at time t
// see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10466.pdf for the implementation of this function
}

where this combined function is required to be continuous.

By the way, the "push the ends of the sphere through each other" function is a perfectly valid homotopy. There's no topological way to talk about "creasing" -- you need derivatives for that. In particular, the eversion function is required to be an immersion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(mathematics)) at each point in time, which is an additional constraint beyond just being a homotopy.
Yeah, not great for road trips...

On the other hand, you get a new one every 20 miles down the freeway.
> although Gemini lacks in-line images, you can still use in-line links to images

this is telling. not only it's inconvenient, but claiming link to images are good enough for blog and recipe pages makes me think the audiences are completely misunderstood.

weird because text driven interface like airline reservations still exist and porting them on a common protocol would provide immediate tangible benefits today without the backward thinking about media
Well its not popular, but a decentralized alternative exists:

https://joinpeertube.org/
WSL is, IMHO, another good option.
Just out of curiosity, what were you expecting as output to that string of words? I think Tellina is only targeting natural sentences where the structure makes sense. Even I, a human being, have no clue what the response is supposed to be
I’m sure there are some use cases where you absolutely need a screen.

Phone calls and maps directions though are actually very nice, and I would argue superior, using just a headset instead of the screen.

The usage of mobile screens differs across the world as well. In my experience, in south and east asia people are glued to their screens much more than in other parts of the world (probably because the rest of the world still catches up). So such a rule might not seem as necessary in other parts of the world, yet.
Is it ethical to go to the red planet?
I think this is possible already, but should not override the displayed URL for the content.

Create a new “original URL” field or something.
I'm sympathetic to the foundation of the argument, about enclosure as the means by which capitalism became capitalism (and classical liberalism's invention of inherent property rights as the means by which this was justified.)

But for reasons others give here I think this is a rather weak analysis to explain the rise of the modern patriarchal family form. And in reality in working class homes women continued to work outside the home anyways, in factories and the like.

The ideological foundation for patriarchy runs much deeper, pre-capitalist, pre-feudal, and goes back to pre-Roman times, but in the context of later Europe it was accentuated by the early Christian church, which was positively _obsessed_ with issues like abortion, pre-marital sex, and women with any kind of power.
The web has become much more than a protocol for reading documents: controls that communicate both ways with the server so that they can be also updated in real time is a really useful aspect that won't make them go away anytime soon. I rather wonder if the browser is the best interface for that, or if html is the best protocol for that use.
The answer would probably be obvious: "one software doing all is cheaper to produce and maintain than two or three doing each one its own business (and we can still blame the user hardware for the added slowness)."
> Your article is dated June 9th, it's irrelevant since the comments I linked to were made on May 20, 3 weeks earlier.

Your comment makes no sense at all. The politization of hydrochloriquine has been ongoing for months, and these studies you're trying to ignore were triggered by the politization of hydrochloriquine as they are aimed to gather information to confirm or reject the baseless assertion made by a particular political group.

And the baseless assertion has been rejected.

> Yes, the drug has been politicized.

You're downplaying the whole political shitstorm that was created around this drug. It was sold by a political group as a magic bullet against covid19, intending to downplay the natural consequences of having denied that the epidemic was something to be taken seriously. After a few months ridiculing the disease and ridiculing other governments for taking action to contain its spread, when covid19 started to spread out of control within the US then hydrochloriquine was presented as a silver bullet that turned the disease into a non-issue, in spite of the total absence of any evidence supporting the outlandish political statement.

> All I'm saying is that the media planted its flag

There is no flag to plant. A political group which is militantly anti-intellectual decided to make a totally baseless assertion regarding the effectiveness of a particular drug to treat and cure an epidemic.

Consequently that political group was called out for their bullshit.

This sort of bullshit claim is not the only instance of this mind-numbingly propensity to sell snake oil treatments as national policies. We're talking about the people who felt it was a good idea to suggest injecting disinfectant to treat a viral infection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKCe8Pq_RUA
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I've seen my share of battles, but this is too brutal to even click on. How this kind of isolation is legal reminds me that criminals rule over us.
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