skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The soviet union was the first one to go into space and had far more of the outer space firsts than the US. They also had no market incentives to begin such projects.

It's ridiculous you could even bring up the cold war without acknowledging the major scientific and engineering breakthroughs done by communist societies.
Sometimes Facebook requires a photo ID to be submitted before "approving" a new account. Seems to happen when they suspect the person isn't real (fake name, or whatever).
You might not be able to use it even then. I deleted, not suspended, my Facebook account years ago and recently tried to create a new one because there was a Facebook group I needed access to. Created the account and a few minutes later it was suspended with no mention as to why and I was required to submit a photo of my driver's license to appeal the suspension. I did so and ended up waiting weeks before discovering that the account was now permanently suspended with no ability to appeal. No reason given. I literally did nothing between creating the account and it being suspended so I couldn't have violated any policies.
It is like they created a solution specifically to have a blog post.
I would happily trade it in for a better sense of direction. If it wasn't for Google Maps, I would never be able to get anywhere.
This is unfortunate. I've been using them for years and wasn't aware of this. I wonder how much it's affecting the sites I use it on...
Ugh. Well spotted.
One thing you'll notice is that games run through a good emulator run even better than games running "natively" to mobile ports.

This has been true for a lot of Square Enix classics.
How could a normal Joe User know which websites [...]

No amount of technology can stand between a user and seeing dancing hamsters.
ewaste ftw
Not technically; I've got a PhD in astrophysics but no longer work in the field. You can contact me at astrophysicianhn@gmail.com.
Guess the extra PII + the ad space are more valuable to them than a slight decrease in hardware sales.
To close the deal, I suspect that many assurances were offered by Facebook. Why do we assume that he lied instead of someone at Facebook?
"I have a feeling there's something more to this story that we don't know about."

The part that didn't make sense to me is how a manager even knew to ask the guy if he had helped someone. My guess -- and this is only speculation -- is that the "friend" came into the store to buy the new machine and/or have the data transferred, objected to having to leave his old and new machines there for a couple/few days, and the tech offered to just take care of it for him at home, off the clock, since the tech knew the customer. Again, that hypothesis could have nothing to do with the actual facts but it would explain how the manager would even know there was a potential customer service event that never happened... not to mention the liability to the Apple Store if an unofficial agreement to work on the friend's computer happened in the Apple store: what if the tech had accidentally bricked the computer?
Matomo has this feature I believe (if I understand correctly from your description).
> I just don't think the Earth can sustainably support more than 2 billion people.

Of course Earth can sustainably support way more people than that. The problem is waste. The US alone loses 30-40% of the food it produces, worldwide it's something to ~1/3rd.
You rely on "magic" algorithms every time you fly in an airplane or drive a car. Because they're not "magic" at all but based in reality, on math and science.
The growth rate is slowing, but population will continue to expand till we add several more billion people. With our current population, there are many resources we are using unsustainably: soil, fresh water, seafood, raw materials, fuel, and carbon sinks. Any one of these things could cause extreme disruptions if a country or region's access is cut off or reduced. I think it's common to think of these kinds of warnings as alarmist. Compare this with the denialism and impact of COVID. At first it seems remote and impossible, as if life will certainly continue on like it always has, then suddenly every school in the world closes down and all borders are shut. If a bit of RNA can change the world so, imagine extreme regional food shortages.
I believe monopoly laws should apply to any companies having a "few million" customers and it not being trivial for customers to switch or there not being much choice to switch to.

In case of Apple it's neither trivial to switch (you can't move bought apps over) nor is there much choice (in practice it's basically Apple or Google).
Yeah, no arguments here, all fair points. I guess my point is that the Rust folks may have good reasons to pursue a (c)(6) and I don't think it says much about the future of the project if they go that route. With forethought, you can engineer the board and management structure to really be technology focused and provide in-built protection from 'corporatization' of the project.
You should always value options at $0 even if they do give you information. Take the probability that the company won't go under, multiplied by how much you'll lose in further dilution rounds, multiplied by the likelihood that you'll get screwed by some other kind of dirty-dealing, and startup equity almost always comes out to be worthless. Work at one anyway if you want the experience, but never kid yourself that your options will amount to anything.
The larger point here is that there needs to be sensible limits on how many markets or products a single company or group can operate in (among many other regulations). Otherwise the endless acquisitions by the global behemoths will continue right into techno-fascism of one kind or another.
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I'm one of Parse.ly's co-founders. This post was written by one of our product managers about a project and investigation we've been doing for the past few months. It first got on my team's radar when I posted this set of tweets back in 2019:

https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1165262620959617025

Specifically: I noticed a huge difference between the metrics we were reporting on my blog post in Parse.ly, and the metrics being reported by my personal blog's Cloudflare CDN (caching the content).

Ironically enough, this traffic was all coming from HN and the post was itself about modern JavaScript[1].

Since then, we've also been hearing from a lot of customers about various scenarios where traffic is either under-counted or mis-counted. For example, something that has been tripping us up lately is that our Twitter integration relies (partially) upon the official t.co link shortener[2], and yet, due to modern browser rules related to W3C Referrer Policy[3], the t.co link's path segment is often not transmitted to the analytics provider, and thus the source tweet for traffic cannot be easily ascertained.

I firmly believe in privacy and analytics without compromise[4], so the team is trying to come up with ways to at least quantify shadow traffic at an aggregate level, and to ensure legitimate user privacy interests are honored, while making sure they don't break legitimate privacy-safe first-party analytics use cases.

As a developer, something that concerned me recently was realizing that Sentry, the open source error tracking tool with a SaaS reporting frontend and a JavaScript SDK[5], gets blocked in many conservative browser privacy setups. Though the interest to user privacy is legitimate, I think we can all agree it'd be better for site/app operators to know when certain browsers are hitting JavaScript stack traces.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785616

[2]: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/url-shortener

[3]: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/

[4]: https://blog.parse.ly/post/3394/analytics-privacy-without-co...

[5]: https://sentry.io/for/javascript/
i'm learning vuejs. i figured that knowing a frontend framework along with a backend one (PHP, RAILS) is a good mix. plus i like the fact that vuejs is progressive so you can hook it into an existing site. something you can't do with react or angular (anymore).
You can way lower the likelihood of unwanted things happening through policies and proper enforcement, but never 100% stop it as people are still free enough to mess things up, so I wouldn't rush to immediately blame top management for a slip-up happening. If it happens often the story is completely different, of course.
It means that _today_, I can run an IDE on my 32-core home desktop and interact with it seamlessly on my 13-inch laptop at the office. I'm not sure whether this is possible with Wayland.
The same thing applies to the gullible idealists that believe in B-Corporations
> Which means after 60 years the proportion of stock you'll have left will be .99^60, or .547

What is this formula called? I.e. .99^60
Plus, Luckey was 22 in 2014. That's plenty young to be naive (though that does nothing to excuse his behavior since then).
Musk is chaotic neutral. Zuck is neutral evil.

http://easydamus.com/alignment.html
You can make a burner email account that doesn't track you around the web, and other places.

Is it possible to do that with a Facebook account?
If you make a Facebook account and never touch the Facebook aspect of it, is there any material difference between that and an Oculus account?
>fighting climate change will make that inequality worse.

That's weird, because it's the very rich and industrial processes that actually emit most of the greenhouse gasses.
Apple's money is coming from where exactly ? At $1000+ price, in gaming terminology that is either "whales" or users who cannot afford it but are exploited/addicted to the "product".

So people are addicted to iPhones? Apple sells a $399 phone that is faster than any Android phone at any price.

Apple will not give any volume discounts. They can get away with it because of their control over the market.

Rumors are that they did in fact negotiate with Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. They actually offered something of value.
Facebook has a policy where they can arbitrarily ban you for failing to "prove your identity" if they believe your account does not use "the name you go by in real life." One of the ways they ask you to prove your identity is to send in a license.

Unsurprisingly, this ends up hurting all sorts of people who do not use their legal names online: people who have just chosen other names, people who want to avoid being targeted or stalked, trans people, etc. They've updated this policy to allow for some of these situations (https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/facebook-real-names-1.336...) but folks still get banned for failing to comply.
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What do you mean? Are you aware of a long history, and continued attempts today, of voter disenfranchisement in the US?
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I never have nor never will have a Facebook or Twitter account. Probably not other social media either.

It's bad enough having a Google account and all that encompasses.

It is astonishing that another company would require an account on some other system. Now I don't have a problem with allowing using your Google, Facebook, etc. account as a convenience to authenticate your account on some other service.
I agree, at least afaik there is no way to construct a formal "Proof of Deletion". This risk though I believe exists with even centralized services, so for example if I ask Amazon to delete this blob of data I actually don't know if in fact they did delete it. We all just assume they are doing what they are purporting to do, because if they aren't then there could be significant legal repercussions.

In the Filecoin case, I would still think that it should be possible to guarantee that a particular object is not being actively served by a node on the network at any particular point in time and penalizing nodes (loss of Filecoin) that do not pass this check.
First of all, the observation that US's shrinking middle class is attributable to an increasing upper-middle class is objectively true, it's not that controversial [4].

Second of all, Piketty's argument is more that capital's share of growth will necessarily outpace labor's share of growth (r > g).

Third of all, Piketty isn't gospel. There have been a number of rebuttals published since his findings that make fairly strong refutations.

The IMF studied empirical evidence to see if it matches up with Piketty/Saez/Zucman's theoretical models, and was unable to validate their finding[1].

Further studies showed that r > g almost entirely goes away when you exclude land/housing appreciation, mostly attributable to restrictive zoning regulations [2].

Auten & Splinter found that Piketty failed to account for existing taxes and transfers. When you do that, the perceived growth in inequality goes away almost entirely[3][5].

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16160.pdf

[2] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35310497.pdf

[3] http://davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-Tax_Data_and_Inequali...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/25/upshot/shrink...

[5] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3546668
Yes treaties is what I meant. Hopefully more collaboration after November with the new guy in charge!
> If the FBI and subsequently you find out that you have these files, you will remove them and then thats that.

Sorry, what? How do you imagine that works? Wouldn't it actually constitute destruction of evidence, which is a felony?
If Bill Gates was born to poor parents there's a >99% chance he could not produce a Microsoft.
> I also don't understand how we think we'd do better on Mars than on Earth. We have near infinite resources and advantages here and we trashed it. We have none of those on Mars.

Elon's goal isn't to do better on Mars. It's to have Mars as a backup of humans in case something happens to Earth (for example - big meteor).

As we sit now if we lose Earth, humans are finished. If we had a colony on Mars, at least humans as a species would continue.
I mean, this is really a condemnation of any data privacy practices whatsoever claimed by any company, as they may at any point in the future sell the entire company and databases with it.

The only privacy claims one may wish to take seriously are those that occur simultaneously with promises never to sell the company.

I used to use a location tracking app called Moves, which was a neat 24/7 location tracking lifelogging tool. Facebook, the very last people I would like to have that data, bought them, and presumably integrated it into my shadow profile.

Special thanks go to to the founders of Moves: Zsolt Szász, Jukka Partanen, Juho Pennanen, Aapo Kyrölä, and Aleksi Aaltonen. Hope you got paid selling private data that belongs to the users that entrusted it to you.
That is sad beyond words and is the cause of the current state of things.

It's probably how a lot of democrats think in red states.
With some exceptions where the company simply can't turn the other way, if someone high up gets fired for relatively minor rule-breaking, you can be pretty sure the board and/or senior management was looking for a reason to show that person the door anyway.
As soon as someone manages to get your account flagged as possibly using a fake name I think.
It's fairly well documented -> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/25/upshot/shrink...
You're paying for iTunes Match, which is a different service than Apple Music.
Better throw my "old" vive on Ebay. Some people are going to need some headsets!
Valves VR looks awesome!
Maybe he assumed that his new position would allow him to veto or persuade the rest of Facebook to not make such a move? I could certainly see somebody being naive enough on that front.
Interesting thought. I wonder what the difference between a vindictive boss and a vindictive Siri would be. If corporations have all the rights of an individual with none of the responsibilities, how does that play out when Siri starts applying corporate policy on your iLife? Corporations can be criminals, but only bodies can go to jail.[1]

[1]: https://consumerist.com/2014/09/12/how-corporations-got-the-...
Someone I knew involved in defense procurement explained the proliferation of such devices. Basically these small companies who make these things will hound politicians saying they've got a device that can save soldiers/police lives but your bureaucrats who handle supply chain sourcing and testing are slowing us down - please help us accelerate this and we can save lives. They'll usually bring up that this is a small company who is competing with the military industrial complex keeping them out of the game. This usually results in one or multiple politicians pressuring the applicable agency, to the point where they'll threaten to withhold funding to consider a trial or small purchase. Fast forward a year and these devices are deployed and thrown away due to the fact they obviously don't work. It's worse in the law enforcement circles where they actually believe the stuff until a court gets involved and things get thrown out and guidance is given to drop the crap.
Wow Apple can go right ahead and fuck themselves.
How much longer until we need to login to use create-react-app
When you make a facebook account disconnected from a social graph (new email, or unused phone number) facebook shuts down the account.

Their position is clear. They’re fucking creeps masquerading any user experience they create as anti-spam.
I don't see a way to halt, much less reverse, global climate change without making massive sacrifices to the quality of life people enjoy in developed countries.

We will pay the money it takes to protect our cities from floods and cool our buildings and deal with the other impacts, and people in poor countries will be left to deal with the problem on their own. That's not what should happen, but that's what will happen.
"We" is also common for old-school Let's Play series, dating back to the screenshot-only days, though those often have some level of voting or other interactivity that gives some fan involvement in each segment.
And he will quite likely die with less than $100 cash to his name.
Briefly, any drive (floppy disk or tape drive) has some likelihood of failure. You can minimize loss of data (the reliability being discussed) by replicating data in more than one storage item. It just becomes a matter of how many you buy (and how good you are at keeping them all properly organized).
It could, but Java the language definitely isn't bad. Sure, it's verbose, but it's pretty simple to grok overall.

I agree with pjmlp (and I don't even work for Oracle!). I think that once Java has caught up with pattern matching syntax, data classes, fully integrated Loom and Valhalla etc there really isn't a need for Kotlin on the server-side anymore.

For Native or frontend stuff it's definitely always going to have to play catch-up and try to shoehorn wildly different semantics into the same language somehow.

So I guess it'll end up as a niche language on Android, ultimately. Not necessarily a bad place to be, though!
The article mentions that the Main 2D Engine had a mode that could write to a framebuffer that was the combined area of both screens, and could pull from the 3D engine into that full framebuffer layer.

Also, you'll notice in the New Super Mario Bros example that many of the sprites were pre-rendered 3D and the 2D engine was just pulling bitmaps at that point.

So a bunch of options with all sorts of interesting trade-offs and it would be interesting to see breakdowns of specific games and how they used the trade-offs.
They say that when malls begin to die, you cannot reverse it
Seems to me like an employee helping a customer out, on their own free-time, fostering goodwill and a good customer experience in the overall ecosystem...

would be something Apple would want to encourage?

I agree something is missing.
not good enough. maybe if you only play solo games, but once you play with others facebook will get enough data to get an idea, if not identify who you really are. you may get tagged by your friends or family, connected to a location, etc, many ways to leak personal information. the only way to stay safe is to not log in to facebook
Can you unpack that a bit?
I recently gave a seminar about how to use Oculus devices in combination with Unity at university. Oculus produces great devices, but man is the software a convoluted nightmare.

A (very patient) student of mine tried to install the oculsu software on a current thinkpad for 4 days in a row. It always failed for various reasons. She used a current Windows 10 and her computer definitly has the specs. She even reinstalled windows. In the end there was an electron error, which we sent to the support - we never got a reply.

If you can avoid Oculus, do so at all cost.
if you're not logged into it in the browser, it can't follow you around
What's legal has nothing to do with swaying a jury.
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It's not that he necessarily hides something intentionally. There are reasons why a company might want to separate from an employee. HR has to make sure that this employee doesn't sue then the company, so they're fishing for enforceable reasons. It might be bullshit, but if it's legally sound, they'll use it. I think it's a fair bet, that this employee didn't have the best standing with his superior and he might not even have been aware of it.
Hello!
I've been a longtime lurker here on HN and finally decided to make a post for an app I've been creating. This app will be a part of a larger project that is currently in the works.

I created this portion with JavaFX, although I've thought about writing it with native technologies (i.e. SwiftUI). If you all have any questions or suggestions for me, feel free to let me know.

Thank you!
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Are you looking for crowdsourced equity like https://wefunder.com ? You will only find small startups though.
> You can help revenue by decreasing expenses by automating something or noticing how the business is wasting money w/r/t tech and taking steps to help fix that

I once worked with a process engineer who, a few months after being hired, had identified a number of manual processes as low hanging fruit that could be easily automated. He presented his findings to upper management, argued that they should let him build out a team to automate these processes, and that they could fund it with the headcount he's able to reduce. Management gave him the green light, adjusted his budget each quarter based on how much money he had saved the company over the previous quarter, and over a few years he was immensely successful.

You'll be treated as a cost center so long as you let other people think of you as a cost center, but if you can frame your contributions in a way that makes your value proposition obvious, it's possible to be treated differently while doing largely the same work.
I've tried virtually everything over the years - unRAID, SansDigital boxes, Linux RAID, WIndows RAID, Hardware PCI card RAID...

This year I broke down and bought a Synology (918+). It's not perfect but I'm still a HAPPY happy camper --> I'm at a point in my life where RAID is a means/tool, not a goal / fun project to pour lifetime of hours upon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like America. I don't plan to leave but yes... many wealthy people already have secondary citizenship. Jim Rogers says you should think of it like insurance. Hopefully you don't need it but for a variety of reasons it's a good idea to have a backup plan.
For me it's the reason, why I never started gaming again. I just wanna buy a game and play. I don't wanna have any spyware on my PC.
Are his game purchases tied to the deleted FB account?