skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DirectX on Wine on native Linux seems to work okay already. GPU on Linux is a seriously mixed bag, but this is largely nVidia’s fault, not Microsoft’s. GPU on Windows works okay because Microsoft is willing to play the let-nVidia-do-whatever-it-wants game on Windows. GPU on Mac is a bit dicey because Apple seems to be unwilling to play this game.

nVidia gets away with this garbage on Linux because (as I understand it) they have strong-armed enough vendors into bending over backwards to support their driver model. The result is that nVidia can tell end users to either put up with constant breakage or to use of several not-really-upstream-kernel-based distros to get something stable enough to support the driver properly. Sadly, nVidia has the market power to pull this off.

I would love to see a big enough consortium (e.g. Red Hat, SuSE, Citrix, Oracle AMD Canonical) tell nVidia to buzz off. If all of those vendors dropped support for out-of-tree kernel GPU drivers and instead tracked upstream more closely for improved in-tree support, AMD and Intel would get a boost and nVidia might have to change its tune. And the vendors could stop wasting engineering resources to keep nVidia working. Users get easier-to-work-with systems. Everyone except nVidia wins.
1password is my big one.
webring.js - who's got dibs on the javascript library?
I was expecting a punch line on that comic strip. nothin.

Regarding the "Always Load Sorted Data" section, it says to insert the data into the table so that the column you want to select on is already sorted, thus having a correlation of 1.

What if I'm adding a single record to the database, how do you re-sort them all upon insert?
Which is? To catch the disease while isolated in your home? Or get a positive test result after staying isolated at home?

The latter seems like it would be far more common than the former.
Pompeo certainly was hinting the same in speaking of rioters in the US, and his office slyly even seems to suggest that was the reason behind closing the Houston consulate.
Steam actively banned users for getting chargebacks and defrauded ~20,000 Australians seeking refunds, Australia's like 5% of their users so they probably defrauded several hundred thousand more people worldwide. They're not a consumer-friendly company at all they just had an epiphany about their liability and updated their refund policy while being sued for a little tiny fraction of their thievery.
Flutter Rating Widget
Hint: They're not.
You don’t need SMS-2FA
Source? Cause this sounds like wishful thinking.
Hmmm I'm not sure if it could be properly used to circumvent ad blocking, after all the ads will still probably come from a separate request which one could block.

However I do see it being used for web apps that prioritise performance--in terms of providing a smooth experience, rather than load times. I think Figma already does that (through emscripten or wasm, I'm not sure); for it to be more widespread, only the tooling has to catch up (e.g. React Native).
I imagine so!
I can’t find your $3,000 per month. Your reference ranges from less than $1000 to maybe $1500 per month.

And 1/3 of that is housing, yet, I know plenty of couples without kids have 2 or 3 bedroom homes. Converting your old office to a kids bedroom isn’t increasing your monthly housing cost.

This report is more “costs we can attribute to children” rather than “additional costs as a result of children”.
> Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations

I think it would depend on the local jurisdiction's definition of the tort. A purchase/refund scheme would not induce Apple or the vendor to breach their app store contract, but it would deprive the vendor of its expected economic benefit.
People can view those brands positively and still want to break them up, regulate them, or change their leadership.

In fact, polls seem to suggest that's exactly the (seemingly contradictory) viewpoint of many Americans[1].

I suspect the thinking is along the lines of, "Amazon makes my life better, but I worry about their ability to abuse their power in the future."

1. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20870938/b...
It sounds like Spufford fails to see the Soviet citizens as real humans.

For an example how to not do that, all one must do is read any of the authors you mention (or Tolstoy, Chukovskaya, Gogol...) Tolstoy in particular has a knack for painting the interior psychological worlds of his characters fluidly and from a place of deep empathy.
It's less of a matter of "I don't want the government to spy on me, the individual with a banal life" than a matter of "I don't want the government to spy on us, a society".

For instance, having a FB account enables FB to spy on non-FB users via shadow account - they will create shadow accounts based on faces they don't recognize in photos, and shadow friend profiles based on numbers stored in my phone.

A more insidious situation is that TikTok enables Bytedance (read: the CCP) to monitor political dissent and potentially shape cultural zeitgeist via content recommendation [1]

Many content recommendation algorithms use some sort of collaborative filtering algorithm, where if the system lacks data on one user's preferences they can infer it given a sufficient number of users with overlapping preferences and attributes [2]. So even though my data and life are not special, it does enable the government to find out more about people they are interested in.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
Also thanks, I'm particularly proud of that map hahah
Ah, challenge trials. That makes sense.
The more you feed world hunger the more the hunger grows.
No, but that's inevitable if funeral workers refuse to handle body's due to lack of ppe, which was the underlying cause for the temporary morgues in most places (not sure about New York)
Standard pizzas from any chain in the US are about 12” diameter with 8 slices. A pizza can feed 2-3 people comfortably.
Kyber-K2SO: Go Implementation of the Kyber v2 Post-Quantum KEM
The implication is that this article was paid for by OmniSciDB or someone with an interest. This changes the presumed context and should be noted upfront by the author if that is the case.
In my city, we are working on an ordinance to put oversight of surveillance technology into the hands of a community commission. Definitely hundreds, but possibly thousands, of people have called in, emailed in, or otherwise commented in support of our efforts.

Saying the public doesn't care about surveillance is oft-repeated reductionism, even around HN, and I think we could level-up ever so slightly by widely admitting that average people are just as complex as you, and have lots of interesting cares, when the context is right.
I believe the average citizens have duly noted that they are potentially under surveillance, and are thus self-censoring to some extent. They may view it as uncomfortable and a bit chilling, but by and large a small price to pay for the possibility to catch terrorists, preferably before the act.

I believe this will be status quo until it becomes increasingly obvious that "terrorists" are gradually coming to include normal political opponents and that these tools are being used by oligarchical forces to suppress democracy itself. It hasn't happened yet, but we're getting close.
"Perception is reality", and it's super true in investing. It's in Russia's and China's (and India's, and others) to weaken the dollar and the US' role in global hegemony.

To that end you keep stoking the fire, keep raising the question.
I think many people would argue they are paying taxes and not getting much in return.

There are probably very few people immigrants making over $100,000 as well. It probably keeps people from making a bunch of money off of US-based businesses and then skating off to Vietnam or something.
> I don't get the impression that the average american cares very much about surveillance, whether it's by corporations or the government.

More than that I'd wager they'd be more likely to support it. As we've seen in the past just advertise it as a way to nab the most heinous form of criminals (terrorists, child predators, etc.) and enough people will be ok with it. Hell, even here, a site you'd expect to be strongly anti-surveileance, I've seen comments that basically equated to "I'm ok with [mass surveillance tech] because it's going to help stop [bad guy group]".
> There is no law requiring that...

So, let's make them!

Saying that there is "no law" is the weakest argument ever.

We the people make the laws, we can decide whatever we want, and we can certainly vote into law the regulations we think are necessary.
If you replace Minitel by internet, you describe it well too.
I just see it as part of the data monopoly. A near impossible aspect of the OS you cannot turn off that robs you of privacy.
They pass on a commission. I've found a couple articles that claim it's a 50/50 split (https://www.fastcompany.com/90489801/libro-fm-kanopy-audiobo...), but I don't know if that's true at all or true for every store. Since they don't disclose it, I'm guessing they have different deals with different stores.
A large asteroid is the obvious possibility to create such an event
Ask HN: Easiest Way to Patent an Idea?
I have been tinkering with an idea related to spam (as in, how to reduce/remove spam), and I'd like to explore the possibility of patenting it.

I have no familiarity with the system, and would love if any of you can shed some light on how to proceed with it, and what pitfalls to avoid.

My goals is not necessarily to minimize the cost of patenting it, but rather making it simple, straightforward, and the least time consuming.

Thanks in advance for any help!

p.s. If you have a personal story to share on something you patented, please do so!
Hopefully not Facebook and Twitter
This seems like a smokescreen for the actual problem, which isn't the algorithms(I don't think anyone has said the algorithms are the problem), but the fact that their app is effectively spyware.
I built a simple and addictive mobile game in less than two days
It’s more than games. Hololens/mixed-reality has a boundless amount of modeling and more.
Could you explain why you think having the word "may" in a title implies that it is referencing a fact?

I've added the definitions for you, because I am genuinly confused:

may
/mā/
verb
1.expressing possibility.
"that may be true"

--

fact
/fakt/noun
a thing that is known or proved to be true.
The JSON Schema specification: https://json-schema.org
Tampermonkey: modify your favorite sites with JS and CSS

Remove YouTube Recommended Videos, Comments: prevents me from falling down the rabbit hole.

Disable Facebook News Feed: I haven't seen my FB feed since Feb 2019. Love it! I can still lookup friends to see what they are up to, but I don't let an algorithm tell me what is important.

(These are all Firefox extension names, I'm sure their equivalent exists for Chrome).
Gimp's interface leaves a lot to be desired (to put it mildly), while inkscape has nowhere near the feature set of Illustrator.
I think you're wrong there, bringing dxgkrnl to Linux would have been a much more involved process instead of just providing a redirect.

dxgkrnl is by far the heaviest NT module afaik.
We have plans to invade everywhere, buildings full of plans.

“Future” oriented thinking would be Phase IV Occupation plans. That filing cabinet was empty (by design) and “It’s the UNs problem now” is not very future-oriented strategery.
Since you know Python, this book called Think Stats would be a good start, I think. A free PDF is available here: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/
Seems like you’re misunderstanding the threat. You hinted at it with the collective for policing and advertising purposes. Handing over a picture of American life down to the individuals to the CCP gives them enormous power to create tailored disinformation campaigns that sow dissent, in addition to being a kind of real time probe into the mindsets of a foreign population. The culture wars that Trump tripled down on have partially been a product of foreign interference to create the seeds which the domestic audience happily latches onto and grows to division and in-fighting. Then there the issue that while you personally may have a boring life doesn’t mean that everyone does, and being able to harvest location at minimum from a variety of targets arbitrarily is a big coup for a foreign intelligence agency. These are just some of the possibilities.
So then this suffers from the same issue that for instance public education does: A focus on the bottom tier to the detriment of and middle and top.

The bad outcomes are potentially very bad, so society disincentivises single income households to the detriment of the large swath of people that may actually benefit from it.
His other benchmarks of OmniSciDB that ran on systems with Nvidia GPUs, but I think he's pointing out that the in this case, the AMD GPU wasnt used by the DB engine even if it was part of the system config.
We used to do this at an old job. We were a consultancy which specialised in a particular e-commerce framework, and were hiring people with experience in it.

So we set up a small project using this framework, and mildly wrecked it. Made some really basic mistakes, made some more subtle mistakes, added a bunch of dead code, wrote good tests for some of the broken stuff, wrote broken tests for some of the good stuff, etc.

Candidates came in, and we asked them to add some simple feature to the app, which we warned them may be broken. We had someone sort-of-pair with them as they work, to watch what they do and keep them on the rails to an extent. We then evaluated whether what the candidate did was sensible: did they run the tests, did they pay attention to the failures, did they find and fix the mistakes, did they get distracted by the dead code, etc. Candidates didn't have to do everything perfectly, but there is plenty of scope to go really wrong. I remember one case where the very first thing the candidate did was delete all the tests. Thanks for coming in, we'll let you know!

The company did quite a lot of rescue missions, where we would pick up a project that another consultancy had started and failed to deliver, and get it live. This interview wasn't just a trick, it was testing everyday skills!
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has been promoting tech listings for years. Recently they have a range of policies such as easier routes to listing for tech companies than for traditional firms. I would not consider a tech index an artifact of Beijing influence, which has its own domestic tech stocks in Shanghai, Shenzhen, etc.
A lot of my friends in SF tend to pick up a new language every year or two. Is this type comparatively rare in Berlin or are people just digging into a long list of other languages first?
A free-return trajectory doesn't enter orbit around a body, indeed its appeal is that if your propulsion fails while on such a course, you'll coast home "for free" rather than enter orbit around your target or drift into deep space.

Entering orbit almost always requires an orbital insertion burn, and in the case of an Earth-Mars Hohmann transfer definitely does.

Your point stands though: returning from a fly-by (including a free-return) requires much less fuel than returning from orbit, and even that's much easier than returning from the surface.

For fun, take a look at rotovators (AKA "momentum exchange tethers") that could make orbital capture/departure—and even landing/launch—"free" on bodies with minimal atmosphere.
I fail to see how magic advanced computer power would solve the problem of economic calculation in the socialist commonwealth. Without prices there is no efficient distribution of resources.
Exactly. According to the membership page[1], Microsoft will be paying between €30k/year and €120k/year[2] to the blender foundation, along Intel and Ubisoft. On the other hand, Nvidia, AMD and Epic games[1] are contributing €120k+/year each.[2]

All of these companies get "direct access to the Blender team for strategical discussions. Roadmaps and priorities will be aligned with your requirements as good as possible."[2]

I don't see how they're going to "extinguish" blender. With this kind of reasoning, OpenBSD was also "extinguished" in 2019.[3]

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[1] https://fund.blender.org/#credits

[2] https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

[3] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2019.html
Increased immigration is another old world idea.

We don't have factories lining the shores of the 3 rivers in Pittsburgh making coke, iron, and steel.

Bringing in hordes of uneducated masses does little for the US anymore, and Trump has turned off the only beneficial sources of immigration (educated) the US has - but this is also a limited resource.
Steam is the very opposite of a walled garden.

Putting them in the list but leaving out all console manufacturers and operating system devs? Strange.
> Anything that requires significant energy

So instead of sending a rover with 4x or 10x energy, the answer is a mission that requires enough energy to launch the samples all the way back to Earth? This makes me smile.

I do agree though. We can expend 1000x the energy of the return trip once the samples are back on earth. And we also have the luxury of unlimited time to invent new tests and new tech to apply to whatever is left of the samples.
Redox is still very much active...

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/groups/redox-os/-/activity

[2] https://www.redox-os.org/news/
Have you tried www.photopea.com? It's a Photoshop clone.
€60.000/yr seems reasonable. This is the average salary in the Netherlands (home of the blender foundation).
This. Plus: most apps don’t make money. It’s easy to keep 100% of zero.
Isn't marketing Apple's job. If the message was communicated it would be upto them.

The problem is Apple doesn't need paided third party apps as much as they use to. The app store gave them runway to develop important apps internally. Big name/vendor free apps are welcome.
Breaking the monopoly is the solution. Pouring regulatory cement on just makes the monopoly legitimate and sanctioned forever.
They almost invented a network, not the internetwork.

Important difference.
Yup. Unless OP had symptoms, there is a chance that’s a false positive.

There are people who have flown on flights with actively infectious cases of Covid. Following hygiene practices, none of the passengers got infected.
Completely agree with this, and would like to add that these two problems are very, very solvable.
Damn

Sending money thru gmail was the best way to send money.
Hey! Only just see this comment, no worries at all. I can take it all in my stride :-)

I think Hordak could really do with a version 2 anyway. There are a number of issues open which I think would make for a big improvement, but would also result in breaking changes. I'm not precious about the codebase either, it hasn't been a priority for me for a while and it would be great to see it given some love (especially from someone with a better knowledge of accounting than I!)

Definitely get in touch if you are interested in being involved. I'd be happy to add you as a maintainer after a pull request or two.
> I attribute it to him being weird, and not to him being afraid

Surely it could be both.
I think this is one of those cases where the most correct answer is simply "yes".

Realistically, the guards were put there to halt the transfer of people, goods, and currency: to be the physical manifestation of a hard border. Although, the motivation for this border (who it benefits, is it to keep "others" out vs "us" in) was a dynamic concept that evolved over time.

However, if you integrate the motivation function over the entire time of separation, which is one way of reducing the complexity, the primary result is to keep easterners from escaping. In the early days of widening division, there was a mass migration of people fleeing "The East"; each person carried a multitude of reasons for their flight. One effect of the border was to halt this flow.

There were easterners who sincerely viewed this differently, and wanted to keep westerners out (especially the "spies"!); however, their perspectives were definitely a minority, and don't survive the integral.
https://cloud.google.com/edge-tpu/ has a "Buy" button that leads to https://coral.ai/products/ . They appear to be available for purchase?

edit: reading more on the edge-tpu page, they definitely appear to be of limited use compared with the ones available to google's hosted plans.
Please don't don't put facebook in the same category as Tesla, uber, shopify, etc. They generate an enormous amount of free cash flow. Without AWS even Amazon isn't generating much free cash flow.
I am at the beginning of the book, but for my taste it's too much storified (if that makes sense). He talks a lot about how he found something out and his personal experience with learning about breathing.

Also similar to OP here [1] I was super curious about his claim that you can influence a lot of stuff in your body by picking one nostril you breath with. I googled for confirmation and wasn't satisfied with the results. Later he also recommends oxygen deprivation (breathing very shallowly while running and warns about blackouts)

He doesn't cite studies in a usual science like way. So I decided I won't read the book in full.

Hope this helps.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23980094
And when that doesn't happen, you'll come up with your next theory. The goal posts will keep moving until one day you'll run out of things to say and the company is a behemoth capturing a percentage of all car sales (not just electric).

That's been the dynamic with Tesla since the company was started.
Putting politics aside, Twitter's app is purportedly very clean compared to TikTok. Just type in "tiktok spyware" in your search engine of choice and see what comes up. There's plenty of mainstream articles about how TikTok aggressively spies on and fingerprints the user.
>And how many such daemons do you have running on your laptop?

Typically none, but the security of someone else's system is not defined by the security of my system. For some users, they might have CUPS running because they have a printer configured, SSH so that people can connect to help them (or so they can push files to the machine over the network), perhaps they're doing some web development and have Apache running. There are any number of daemons that could be running on a laptop with legitimate access to the rest of the network.

> Any adversary with 0days for those would certainly have linux kernel exploits too.

I wouldn't say that's a given, first off, and second off, they may not have a Linux kernel exploit, and even if they do, why should they burn a Linux 0day when they can simply just listen using this open hole?
I will no longer sleep with Eric on same bed, Lilo speaks in tears
AFAIK, photopea is not FLOSS.
> This was someone trying to build a business on guessing gender based on meaningless data

This claim is baseless. We don't know their dataset or how it was used to train the model.

> It did a very poor job

By what metric? I didn't realize people have done stastical models to show that it was inaccurate.

> It couldn't even get it right with the name of the person behind it.

Yeah because it's machine learning. It's imperfect.

You ran circles around what you want to say. You implied that I was being overly sensitive about how upset people were, but then you went on a tangent.

To address the main point of conflict head-on: making assumptions of people based on a limited dataset. Some people think it's okay, some people think it isn't. I think in this situation, it is fine! They aren't determining who is being sent to prisons or something, they just made a mathematical model to make fuzzy predictions to help with things like advertising.