skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old. I opted out of the order as a solution and I orbit around it making incursions of support and encouragement. Try techniques described in the Undercommons by Moten/Harney. Spend your attention carefully.
Netflix has something like 150,000,000 subscribers. $10-15/mo adds up quickly.
It's not GDPR compatible by the way.
This is interesting, and it may be partially true, but I'm not convinced it's malice, as that statement seems to indicate.

Last year I wrote a small book called "Splash of Code", which teaches newcomers to code (in JavaScript) in a way that similar to the way I learned 30 years ago. I selected JavaScript because the barrier to entry is low, you just need a browser. Many programming ecosystems are daunting to setup these days but there are still some easy systems we can use to introduce newcomers without all the modern complexity.

Browsers have come a very long way in the last 10 years and are a pretty amazing platform for development. Once you learn a little bit you can start to write amazing software for a cross-platform worldwide audience.
Rats Prefer Social Interaction to Heroin or Methamphetamine
Uber Investors Are Pressuring CEO to Revamp the Self-Driving Division
To turn this in a more broad discussion, are there any examples of “great” corporate structures for tech firms that scale well? Google has its problems (unwanted side effect being abandoned projects because of how they promote internally), I’ve heard quite a few bad things about Netflix as well. Apple and Microsoft seem to be faring quite well in this regard?
Back to basics: easy guide to avoid SaaS churn
"He specialized as a generalist" Hmmmm.
I am not sure it is half as good as it sounds. Played through a few first quests, and got more Borderlands feeling from it, than Fallout. It was so gimmicky, I did not continue to play.
The update syntax is actually more of a `.copy` method, than a property update since it returns a new object. It's actually quite nice in that respect since it's easy to update multiple fields:

e{lbl = val, lbl2 = val2}
Yeah, the whole point is that I was trying to avoid installing non-free software, at least in my home/personal computer. I run Chrome in my work machine to which I log in remotely. But yes, at least it works on Linux!
For now the "trick of the privileged" (like myself, I guess) is to work remotely for an US-based company and get half of US salary, while living in a country where that salary is still 2x what you'd get on your home market. It probably will stop working at some point (as salaries for remote workers reach equilibrium), but for now, it's a good way to live.
Pretending does not provide insight.
I think you are incorrect here. DNSSEC protects from the root servers' (.) keys downward. If you have a compliant DNSSEC resolver it should authenticate the entire chain using the pre-shared keys for the root domain.

For a MITM attack to work in this scenario, the attacker would have to first get fake keys for the root domain (that normally come with the OS) into your computer, at which point not even DNS over anything would work because they should be able to install TLS certs too.

As far as I know, all these DNS-over-TLS flavors' advantage is that they prevent eavesdropping, not spoofed traffic (because DNSSEC can do that too as per my explanation above).
Are DNS and email both components of the build pipeline, in your view?
I wrote a 1 star review for similar behavior and my review was removed. Amazon is either corrupt or stupid.
unsourced twitter rumour
Think of how many people have Netflix that don't even use it. They want to get Game Pass to the point where it's a de facto standard that a gamer has Game Pass.
I'm no Facebook apologist, but Facebook's response seems to (reasonably) point out that Ireland's DPC doesn't appear to be well functioning:

> "Facebook was given only three weeks to respond ... [and] wasn’t contacted about the inquiry prior to judgment being handed down"

> "... one person [Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner] is responsible for the entire process"

> "... no other big tech company using similar methods to transfer data to the U.S. from the EU is under the same scrutiny."
>Reduce decision fatigue for customers.

I am a huge evangelist of this piece of advice. I'm the founder of a startup that offers ONE price --- and free trial credits, of course --- for each product. I think it has helped us tremendously.

The amount of startups I see that use the 3-column pricing plans (or worse!) is mind-boggling. Perhaps there is empirical evidence supporting complicated pricing. But I've never seen it. I specifically went with one price per product because I think complicated pricing plans negatively affect sales and sign-up rates, not to mention operational complexity!

If you're interested, here's our pricing page: https://siftrics.com/pricing.html
This sort of 'dark pattern' can be found even on otherwise reputable websites, like TomsHardware.

I believe it's against the letter of the GDPR, but as it isn't being enforced, we can expect this kind of thing to continue.
How does one get this data? I skimmed the article but didn't see how I could make a request.
No, that's delegated to ODAs paid by and reporting to Boeing managers, which is the systemic problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_Designation_Autho...

The FAA relies on certification paperwork, which was falsified for the 737 MAX.

So the FAA was completely cut out of the certification process.
> Also, my understanding is that on Windows, OpenGL generally runs into more issues with driver bugs than D3D does.

I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, but it definitely has a bad rep on Windows. Initially (throughout XP and maybe some of Vista) OpenGL support on Windows was done by a OpenGL -> DirectX translation layer, so performance was always worse in OpenGL mode unless a game's Direct3D implementation was especially awful. This stopped being the case when NVIDIA started shipping a full OpenGL driver. (I'm not sure when AMD/ATI started shipping theirs)
> What's troubling you here ?

Given that many people are wearing masks, avoiding social gatherings or public places, practicing social distancing, and/or being meticulous about handwashing, one might expect the incidence of influenza -- and of every other contagious disease -- to drop precipitiously.

But apparently this is not the case?
Lol. Kids. Video is certainly not film, but once upon a time was regularly recorded onto magnetic tape running over reels (google "VCR" or "VHS"). Still photography also used moving parts. Things like shutters would make audible clicks when exposing the photographic film, which then had to be moved out of position mechanically. That "click" noise on your iPhone camera is actually designed to mimic this ancient camera technology.
Wait but Why and Kurzgesagt
A brilliant article.

Often it seems that SaaS vendors don't have a plan for pricing but rather they design a "pricing page" that looks like the pricing page for other SaaS plans.

If you start asking questions like: can you afford to offer this service at this price? what value does the customer get out of this service? they get defensive.

I have refused to use SaaS services and I've refused to work for SaaS vendors because "I don't think you can make a profit with that pricing" and they tell me "why do you care?
"

As a customer: "I am paying you for a service because I want the peace of mind that I don't have to do it myself. If you business isn't profitable, you're going to go out of business and I'm going to have to find a new way to provide this service."

As an employee I reject the marxist idea that I'm necessarily getting ripped off if I make more value than I get paid. If you are not making a profit for your employer why should they hire you?

In a profitable company you are often struggling to get a decent computer, good working procedures, etc. In a non-profitable company it's almost impossible that they'll treat you with respect and give you the resources you need.

My one complaint is that, mindlessly, this article has a pop-up at the bottom that says "you are browsing this web site from India (not true), click here for our regionalized site..."

Sure big companies like Dell, Logitech, waste your time when you are looking for content by trying to segment you via country, are you an SMB (the article explains why the word "SMB" is mindless), etc. You'd think internet-native firms would know better.
That is avoiding the issue. Avoiding is exactly how we got here.
Still dyed green when leaded, blue when unleaded became available in recent decades.
If I may ask, at what time do you exercise?
I've been using Game Pass for roughly 18 months. Really like it so far, though I've gotten it for "free" through MS Rewards. I'd probably have a different opinion if I actually paid for it monthly.

The thing that is missing are the huge AAA games, but I honestly can't see most of those coming to Game Pass. They may come but like 1-2 years after initial release.

Minus like the Forza and Halo series, most of the MS owned studios developing games are fairly shorter in length. Don't take that the wrong way though, even though they are shorter some are real gems. Just don't expect to play every game on there for 20+ hours or anything.
I do nothing of these pretty overboarding tips (Grammarly, skitchy, OBS, ...) and I'm still a very good remote developer.

The best tip is missing: deliver in time, in good quality. Be defensive, write tests and docs. Best docs before tests before code.
It's being downvoted because the OP already answered the question. They're being treated exactly the same as the rest of the public.
And I routinely placed in track races when I was a teenager, but funny how that doesn't help me with running as a middle aged overweight guy.

I love the Mozilla mission, and worked at Mozilla for several years as both an IC and Manager, but the current Mozilla leadership, and Mozilla fan base need to stop pining for the old days, and figure out a clear, sustainable path forward.

I don't think there is anything wrong with Mozilla earning money through their Google contract, but if the Mozilla mission is going to persist beyond the short term, they desperately need both revenue diversification, and a new, high-impact project that will buy them relevance in a market where the influence that Firefox has is waning.

Although this is a bit of a downer comment, I really do believe that is important that they are successful in this, and winding down investment in low-impact, low-relevance projects like WebThings in a way that preserves them for the community is a great step forward.
I like to build synthesizers.
Every single comment in this thread as I'm writing this is some version of "wouldn't it be great if facebook left". I don't use facebook, but I can't fathom the arrogance of wanting to destroy something that billions of people use, of thinking you know better then all these people how they should spend their time.
Ex Optiverian here.

Amsterdam is one of the major HFT hubs. You can find more HFT opportunities in Chicago, New York, London, but after those, Amsterdam comes next (together with Sydney, Singapore).

Optiver, IMC, and Flow Traders are bigger players. There's also Webb Traders and DaVinci Derivatives, and smaller offices of other players, e.g. Jump Trading, Mako, and there's always a rumor that DRW is planning to open an office in Amsterdam, etc. etc.. There are also some non-HFT shops but I'm not very knowledgeable about them.

Speaking for software engineering (not quant or trader positions): They're quite selective but if you have a decent resume, you can get an interview and it's not extremely hard to get in. Although, you need to have strong interest in trading, and good CS fundamentals, and ability to think quickly on your feet.
> Is the purpose of my toaster to sit there broken, because it's broken right now?

This is proof by demonstration that for you, the highest value the toaster can provide, net of costs, is to be a room ornament.

I hope you are keeping its exterior clean.

Edit: Perhaps its purpose is to be a 21st century memento mori?
This is my observations as well. For 20+ years I have run ssh on a high port, with exception to my sftp server. The sftp server is hit every day, all day. I have received 0 hits to my ssh port on all my other servers. Even if they hit that port, they would not see anything, as I use a poor-maps port knocking using iptables string matching, but I would still see the attempts in the iptables counters and they are always 0.

FWIW, when I chose my port, I looked at port scanning statistics back in the day, looking for the least scanned ports. It appears those stats have held true for a couple decades at least.
For some people solving business problems is boring. But tinkering with those things that you're calling trivial is what brings joy.
>This is also wrong; anecdata, but at least one person (my dad) hated having to call up travel agencies in the 90s to book a plane ticket.

Yeah, and I hate scratching my head when itchy. Doesn't mean an "automatic head stratcher" is the best use of our innovation, or adds anything significant to humanity...
Isn't XBOX ONE from MS?
When Facebook bought Oculus, Palmer Luckey said that a Facebook login would never be required to use Oculus products. The Oculus Quest 2 that comes out in October will require a Facebook login.

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-guarantee-promise-facebook-l...
Great video, thanks for sharing
The best strategy is to defend general rights or human rights in my opinion. You won't achieve much without wider support that is always focused on mostly individuals.

Your rights against being discriminated against is violated by a lot of modern "diversity" strategies in my opinion.

Perhaps Asians would be the last to profit from such an endeavor, but I don't really see better alternatives.

Jews were indeed similarly discriminated against. Universities had quotas to keep some of them out of higher education.

To be honest, I think minorities are abused to justify claims to power or by others for emotional needs.

It wouldn't be wrong to pronounce the specific plight Asians face, but I doubt it will help being treated more fairly. But you can certainly write representatives that there is discrimination. If that discrimination is enacted by institutions instead of individuals, it is real institutional racism for once.
Derive_di the new dependency injection realization crate
Read a Paper: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel
I have a related question: Is high-touch saas (enterprise sales with long sales cycles) inherently harder to bootstrap than a low-touch saas business?

I'm guessing the answer is something like "not if you have the network"
What I would like to do is flip youtube videos or whatever on my phone and cast to the monitor, which is 6 feet from the couch... an impassable barrier as I'm sure you'll agree.
Having tried 10+ "IOT Frameworks," and still had to write our own because none of them managed to even boot on the most beefy MCU on the market without extra RAM.

Another example of something begging for a question "Do these people ever use their own software?"
Let’s compare like to like, though. In theory anyone could start a site to provide a marketplace for sellers for $5/month in hosting and maybe a few hundred bucks in upwork costs for standing up a php e-commerce platform. In practice the cost to compete with Amazon is much higher.
Gradient Ascent #1
It does not support Drag & drop, is it right?

I think the support is missing in Playwright.

Are there any plans about this?
This story reminds me of the Viking lander biological experiments where NASA initially discovered carbon chemistry favorable to life on Mars. But it turned out, there were inorganic explanations to the observed data. In short, they had not done the preliminary work of understanding the inorganic chemistry of Mars. The recent life on Venus story reminds me of that Viking experiment in that our understanding of inorganic chemistry of the atmosphere of Venus is probably far from complete.
Huh, I kind of disagree with that. It's like Fallout in that you can pop in and make some decent progress on a side story or just poke around if you have limited time. I definitely didn't do very many 3 hour sessions when I played it.
The 1.5-Degree Challenge: Holding Warming To 1.5°C Could Limit Climate Change
EU is just doing a protectionist move (yes, like all countries do). The cynic in me feels this "fighting for your rights!" PR is just to deflect from the embarrassing questions of why so much brain drain to the US for better pay, and that it's easier to start companies there.

I don't think this can all be reduced to "The US tech companies are able to make more money by stealing your data!" as the tech industry is and has been so much more than ad tech.
Yeah I thought about that a few times, but I would have to change inputs, so it wasn't really the experience I had in mind.
Obligatory link to an excellent John Cleese talk "John Cleese on Creativity In Management": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck
Like many data-collection companies, unless you live in the European Economic Area or the state of California, you are not allowed to see the data about yourself that these companies are collecting

https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/data-subject-rights/
It would also recover a useful substance.
>Yeah, that argument gets used any time new technology arrises. Sure it wasn't hard, doesn't mean you need to stop working on making it even simpler.

Why not? Technology has opportunity costs. Usuless "easier" technology makes us slaves to it and to increased infrastructure.

Opportunity costs, diminishing results -- all those are good questions to ask.
It'd be useful if the author revealed how she managed to obtain her data. I am pretty sure that a request with just your real name wouldn't reveal much. I assume that most data is collected under some identifier which isn't matched to your real name in order to thwart this kind of request.
It feels like a 10-15 years old game, has no replayability (unlike Fallout 3/4) but it's an unusual/interesting experience.
... and I'm out of the trade for about an 8% gain.
I've been mulling about building furniture from wood already. Not as a substitute, but as an add-on after my 8 hour mark.
The following is pure speculation and I haven't given it too much serious thought.

Is this just the latest form of trade protectionism? That the EU is unhappy about being the clear non-leader in tech so they're attempting to raise trade barriers such that the American leaders are forced out or become uncompetitive in the EU?
>SEC is nowhere to be seen.

Really?

>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining Nikola Corp. to assess the merits of a short-seller’s allegations that the electric-truck maker deceived investors about its business prospects, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/sec-said-...
Maybe $10/mo towards games from studios they own is more profitable than $10/mo towards games from elsewhere?
Commercial jet fuel is a pale yellow liquid with a petroleum odor. It has an auto-ignition temperature of 410°F (210°C). Its explosive limits are from 0.6 to 4.7 percent by volume in air. Hydrogen's auto-ignition temperature is 550°C and 4 percent by volume
I reminds me of CORBA's IDL.
Ah this is a good idea, I hadn't thought of approaching it that way. Having basic pause/back/forward media controls would also be nice, but they should work if the browser location gets updated right?
>At least WeWork didn't need any revolutionary technology to execute its business plan

Just a miracle
Show HN: An interactive tutorial teaching spring physics for animation
I'm just pointing out that the difference between (.g) and (. g) is potentially easy to miss.
Even if it wasn't for global warming you can't come out ahead economically if you use a steam turbine for power conversion.

If you put down a steam turbine and a gas turbine with the same power output side by side in buildings you would think that the gas turbine was an auxiliary building of the steam turbine, maybe with a break room, some bathrooms, and a small machine shop. The difference in power density is that extreme.

It's a major reason why the nuclear LWR has failed. Even if the fuel and the reactor were free it would be hard to fight against methane-fueled gas turbines.
I'm sure it's just a few rogue staffers rather than being a structural issue.

Because of course it's not problem for the company that owns and controls the marketplace to compete with most of the products in it. It's only a few bad apples.

That was sarcasm by the way.

There is a sane alternative and it's called distributed protocols.
The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/

Even though it is mostly about gaming history, his writings on the history of Atari, Commodore, Apple, IBM and Microsoft, and the people behind them are absolutely fascinating.
WoW Classic is Activision, isn't it?
Fancy seafood dishes often contain fishbones, the good thing about fish fingers is that they are relatively safe for children.
> But the key point is we’re still Bethesda.

Day one post acquisition? For sure!

A month later? Of course.

6 months later? Yes, ok.

1 year later? Maybe?

3 years later? Never!
Wolfenstein was made by Machinegames. Though there is quite a bit of overlap between the two studios during production.
Childbirth in the Pandemic How Covid-19 Is Indirectly Killing Mothers and Babies
Are Android 0days still selling for way more than iOS 0days due to relative scarcity, or is that outdated information?

If it's still true, this article is missing pretty much the whole story.
From Betheasda news press release: "And, we have a long history of working with Microsoft. Our companies share many of the same basic principles. We believe in a culture that values passion, quality, collaboration, and innovation."

Last week Microsoft was thanking Trump from giving them a chance to acquire TikTok. It did not go well.
I'm not an expert in this area really. I've heard the argument made that even if static IP's were commonplace you would still need other fingerprinting methods as there are entire houses/apartment complexes/businesses running multiple users through NAT behind their static IP.

Also, I'm not sure what your experience has been but my IP only changes very rarely. Seems to happen about once every 6 months. My understanding that this was somewhat common, at least in the land of cable/coax-ISPs. Is 6 months not long enough to glean anything useful?
Testing AirPods head tracking in Unity
true, at the same time nowadays the state and the central bank are already taking the hit, at the place of the private economy.
This is probably not true & the tweet was deleted:

https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1308054293254152194
One reason why Google spends so much on security is because they collect so much. Imagine if they got pwned. Literally everything about every person in the world leaks. Like everything
This acquisition has interesting timing given that they acquired Obsidian not long ago and we know Obsidian is developing a first person fantasy RPG (Bethesda's bread and butter). Have to imagine M$ execs will be thinking about further consolidation.
If Epic is successful in their lawsuit against Apple, then I think it's only a matter of time before the consoles will have to allow alternate stores as well.

The hardware-is-sold-at-a-loss argument that people like to use to defend closed console stores isn't as convincing when the console makers also own the biggest money making game studios as well.

Go Epic, go!
> I'm not sure Nintendo would want to sell?

Nintendo definitely wouldn't want to sell but it's publicly traded so a hostile takeover is always in the cards
> Why is this not a condemnation of Amazon?

this is a feature unique to capitalism not just Amazon.
You beat me to posting this. It's a great video - I often revisit this video for creative inspiration.
Yeah, I mean, Sega don't have the mindshare they used to when they owned hardware, but they're very much still a thing.
That doesn't fit Wikipedia