skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would surprise me given the low chances that a) the particular bug that hitched a ride was capable of surviving 1. interplanetary space 2. the atmosphere of Venus and 3. happened to be one to produce phosphene (according to TFA we don't even know what that is yet); and b) reproduced so quickly and efficiently that within 40ish years was able to be detectable from earth...

Would be neat tho
I no longer build software for money or for someone else.

I still love building software for myself, so that is what I do.

I don't have any money, but nobody is breathing down my neck when I haven't made a commit in 2 days (which is rare) or if I still plan to stick to the deadlines when I have more important life events happening.
It is available on arXiv. Link follows:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00752
> EU has done a lot to stifle the tech sector in the EU.

Examples? The only thing you might argue is privacy laws and there we could be thankful to the EU for being the only trading block that's made some (perhaps futile) effort to protect their civilians rights.
Specific to the software discussed here: Bit weird criticism of software that obviously is not intended to run on end-devices with MCUs, but on a more powerful gateway. (But yes, there is overall too much focus on that part compared to the bits that run closer to the hardware)
Nikola founder Trevor Milton quits amid fraud allegations – CBS News
Yes, well my opinions on Assange are independent of my opinion of the trial.
Ten years of experience in one tech stack will give you mastery. 1 year changes with a new language / framework / tools every time will mean you are forever a novice.
> It comes from a lot of places. Voter records is actually a big source, but also I believe some of the various breaches have made it in. And all of those sites continuously crawl each other and trade databases as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it comes from customer lists (either sold directly by the collecting company for a little extra profit or bought in bankruptcy/liquidation proceedings).
- Josh Rosen. West was there to the end.
No, my point is exactly the opposite: choosing the worst possible examples of someone who supports X to argue that's the norm is bad thinking. If you want to play the 'broad generalization' game, then you have to be able to suck it up and admit that on one side of the argument we have neo-Nazis, so if you identify with that side you'll be called a neo-Nazi.
The personal data industry is truly disgusting but the really funny thing is that most of the data is actually worthless. Its collected only because it can be. Not because its valuable or worthwhile. These companies are basically hoarders. Hoarders that rummage through your trash and spy on you from afar. They are awful, the business is awful and is a viable case of "just because you can, should you?"
Apple probably doesn't have much revenue from the OS X desktop store, but if we're talking about total gaming revenue, Steam is around $5 billion/year and Apple is around $20 billion/year. Although I'm pretty sure Apple's # represents gross sales, not their 30% cut. I don't know if Steam's # is the revenue they receive after their cut, or if it's gross sales. If their # is the cut they take, they'd be far ahead of the App Store in terms of gross profit.
Nice! I did the same recently, where I requested my data from 14 different location data companies. [0] One company returned my data. Part of the difficulty was making the CCPA requests since I live in Texas, but the majority of responses were along the lines of having no way to identify the person behind the device identifier.

https://duo.com/labs/research/data-companies-are-watching-me
And of course someone built it for real - https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=guivbip
Executable.graphics: 4kb Graphics Demos
How did you escape?

Asking for a friend.
>We've made 3 applications requesting recognition as expert fair trial monitors. Judge states that no 'special provision' will be made for our trial monitor's attendance,”

They requested they get special status as "fair trial monitors". The judge said they get treated like everyone else.

They should have no better access than you or I. They are nobody - a group that got together to push their agenda. They have no standing in court different from any other member of the public.

They can monitor the trial without some special recognition.
No, you are correct and having a side, as such, was the wrong term. Swap 'his side' for people who were fed up of political posturing and just wanted to get things done. That thing was obviously Brexit, at the time, but I think it also applies to 'things' in general.

In other words, taking the Covid issue head-on and making decisions in spite of what the media reaction would be may be something that the same group of people could support?

What we have now is a PM and Govt being criticised from all 'sides'. A classic example of trying to please everyone and actually pleasing no one, if you like?
The "Use example video" walk-through does not permit simply clicking through the demo. On the "This is the section where you are going to write your annotations." div, when you click the bottom next-arrow to proceed, it insists "Please, write a title and/or a body".

Users wishing to quickly "scroll" through the demo, are thus prevented from using that style of perusal. Some will punt. Perhaps this is an intentional tradeoff, sacrificing some, to increase engagement of others? It might be interesting to A/B test that. Perhaps the "user provides video url" and
"use example video" cases might be handled differently? Perhaps a "Continue with worked example? y/n" instead of the error, to still nudge towards engagement, but with a lower barrier to "I just want to see your thing - why are you stopping me?"?
Wow, "demonstrably wrong" are incredibly strong words given the lacking counter arguments you provided.

I remember when the virtual boy came out. It was a disaster. From wikipedia: "The Virtual Boy was panned by critics and was a commercial failure, even after repeated price drops."

And the second one, bringing up that one time your dad was annoyed to book a plane ticket. Not much more needs to be said.

What exactly did you demonstrate was wrong with his original take?
This seems like an attempt to address the "Playstation has better exclusives" argument.

Still buying a PS5, not an Xbox Series X. I can (hopefully?) play all Microsoft exclusives on PC.
Yes, but the transcriptions are not published. You have no right to see them.

There is no objective public record of English trials.
I don't understand what you're saying.

First, why can't you "create a tech sector when all your data passes through USA..."? What does one have to do with the other? Are you talking about espionage? If so, is there any evidence that the EU tech sector has been stifled because of US government espionage?

Also, this article is about data collection and disinformation. What does that have to do with "build[ing] a moat to stop haemorraging human and capital resources to the US" ?? And, anyways, what exactly has the US done, at a policy / regulatory level to "strategically protect" this?
Beautiful Floor Pillow
> Because your smart home gateway is designed to operate locally inside your home without the need for a centralised cloud service, it will continue to work just as before.

Kudos for that. Too many "smart" things are tied to online accounts for no good reason.
Carmack on the acquisition:

> Great! I think Microsoft has been a good parent company for gaming IPs, and they don’t have a grudge against me, so maybe I will be able to re engage with some of my old titles.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1308069857913720832...
The weird thing about F76 is that the monetization doesn't effect the game, it's just not very good. I have never supported a game through microtransactions, but I actually felt I wanted to for F76 as it seems like a candidate for a "Forever Game" fallout world that gets expanded upon. But they have nothing I would ever want to buy.
I just fundamentally disagree with your characterization of "hit piece" here. The personality and behavior of a source is very relevant information, especially when they're vouching for the authenticity of leaked documents. Maybe his behavior was a reasonable reaction to legitimate fears, but that's a judgment call that readers of the NYT should be able to make for themselves - reporters should not be in the business of strategically hiding information to ensure readers reach the right conclusions.
We are genetically inclined to sleep, find food, and have sex. Work in any civilization pays money, which allows you to buy food, a place to sleep, and resources to attract a partner, so I disagree.
I don't get how people watch him huckstering snake oil and continue watching, it's just Goop for men
Great read. Frankly I didn't know one could write queries like those in PostgreSQL
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is demagogue? Pretty bug accusations.
And downplaying rape?
Did Assange force or drug the women to have sex with him?
As someone who is a runner, Strava has ingrained itself as the de facto running and biking social app. You can certainly use other (better) apps for tracking and insights, but there’s no replacement for its community offering. They’ve put themselves in a position that demands better thought and attention to details like this.
smart move by microsoft. sony has been acquiring IP. microsofts failure to get exclusives is whats hurting their xbox.
I think the word you’re looking for is “utility”. People maximize for utility, which includes all of the terms above. Utility of money also has diminishing returns, etc.
"Totally" and "fully" also seem wholly adequate.
CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits
You don't really always need a VPN to bypass SNI based censorship since most implementations give-up on reading SNI when the ClientHello TCP segment is split over two IP packets [0] (apologies John Nagle [1]). Besides, there are various tricks just at the TCP-level that could be employed to bypass SNI related attacks [2] (though, a pretty competent firewall/censor would remain unaffected, which is where ESNI comes in).

Re: DNS-layer security: It is really not that hard to bypass it and if folks are subject to phishing via IDN homographic attacks (ex: https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/) or typo-squatting attacks (ex: googel.com) then it is time for Firefox to up its game and improve upon DoH to tackle those, as well. Extensions are helpful too, but how many people care enough to remember and install those [3]?

Between HSTS (or https-everywhere [4]), DoH (thanks Mozilla!), ESNI (thanks Mozilla!), and domain-fronting [5] (thanks CDNs!) we've got a pretty good VPN-free future to look forward to in terms of anti-censorship which is what most users use it for (sure, if you care enough to not leak your IP address, discounting the fact that device / browser fingerprinting is a thing, then VPN helps, but by how much? [6]).

The VPN industry does a lot of "scareware" marketing, I feel, and ESNI is a potential existential threat to them. Time will tell.

[0] https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm

[2] https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/china-censors-esni/esni/

[3] Not sure if uBlock Origin defends against such attacks, but wouldn't it be rad if it did?

[4] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601503
Curiously enough, people in your position rarely feel the need to share their supposedly different opinions of the trial.
Not at all. Plumbing can be very complex, digital ot otherwise. It's not as easy as "connect input to output and done", there are constraints on the system that need to be accounted for, and meaningful design decisions to be made especially with respect to expected volume.

But that doesn't mean it's creative. Plumbing, like web development, may have all of these complexities and constraints, but typically there is really only one solution that can be considered "right" and your job is to go through the steps and do the math to find it, there's not a lot of room for creative thinking, despite the complexity of the problem.
I suppose it depends on the house, and floor, but I think it might be fine as you're not explicitly saying "call". I always just say "raise" and put in the chips (all at once!), or say "I raise to XXX" with XXX being the total amount (call+raise), after which I can take my time counting out the chips (or put more than the total raise amount if I don't have exact change).

Saying call and then adding a raise is similar to string betting, where you first put some chips to gauge your opponents reaction, and then put in some more. That's not allowed but so many beginners do it.
Yes. When Epic bought Psyonix for Rocket League there was plenty of reassurance linux would remain supported. After waiting the absolute minimum time for people to stop paying attention Epic removed linux support and steam distribution.
Too early to go into details, but yes there are many possible yield bearing products we could build out comparable to what you describe.
Here's hoping Microsoft can force Bethesda to make a good Fallout game again
Nuclear would almost definitely provide real results faster than renewables, but renewables provide the illusion of progress. Being able to show progress let's them look a lot better than they actually are.
You only think that journalists you agree with politically should be able to have free speech and practice journalism?
There's no end to enjoyable ways to waste your time when it comes to enjoyable games across time and genre, plenty of fish. Games media like all media loves hyperbole. Who cares about Caves of Qud if you can get MAD about a GIRL fighting in WW2? Fallout 75! For all I care the AAA industry can cannibalize itself until there's only 1 studio left slaving away in the Call of Duty mines. Games are made by people. There will always be more games released every year by middling and small studios than you have time. Now more than ever if someone has thousands of hours to burn on an autistically singular interest, we'll always have good games. As I get older and the world sinks into a fervor of self-preservation and tribalism, I realize the number of fucks I have for Bobby Kotick or loot boxes has dwindled to none. In fact, I'm running out of those real quick in general. So congratulations on joining the Microsoft family Bethesda, I'm sure your children will have non recessive genes and normal sized heads.
Even if you had gotten into Berkeley, I suspect your current mindset will just instead feel similarly insecure about why you didn't get into Stanford.

And even if you had gotten into Stanford, I wonder if you would feel insecure around the Stanford whizzes who seemed like geniuses.

And even if you were one of those top academically performing students, I wonder if you would still continue to compare yourself to the most elite in that circle (i.e., "Joe got a research internship at Google Brain as a Sophomore! I just have this lousy Facebook internship that it seems like half my peer group got.")[1]

My point is this: if you choose to, you will almost always find a way to be miserable. This isn't a personal attack on _you_ specifically. I think all humans engage in this sort of constant comparisons, at least to some degree. I do this too.

But I'm pointing this out because there's also a component to this that is our _choice_. We choose who we compare ourselves against, and we choose how that comparison affects us (e.g., as a source of inspiration, as a source of excitement, as a source of self-deprecation).

I notice that in your comments, it seems like you have willing given up your choice and agency over to some set of other immutable forces, like your genes, your school's ranking or some other force.

I hope you reclaim your agency and power. It just seems a shame to a whole life in which you willingly give away your agency to be happy.

Finally, as for "fixing yourself", I would just observe that a useful framework for mental wellness to use is that of physical health: being healthy is a choice we can make, and we need to keep on making on a daily basis. At no point can you say, "Well, I'm fit and healthy now so I guess I can go back to eating chips and chugging beer." Fitness isn't a state that is obtained and can never be lost. It's a process of constant daily choices to improve and maintain. It's also affected by genetic and external factors we have little control over.

In that way, I think it's similar to mental health. You may not be able to "fix" yourself by seeing a therapist a few times. But you can continuously improve your mental health by noticing each time you compare yourself with a stranger online, engage in self-shaming, talk "down" to yourself, or blame your genes. Those choices can compound over time, and given a long enough time period, will start to show marked improvements in the same way that doing some pushups, pullups, squats etc. consistently every day for months or years will improve your physical health.

I wish you the best of luck.

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[1] That example is something I have actually seen in peers/friends who, by external accounts, seem very successful. But they themselves are miserable because they're always comparing themselves with someone else who seems even more successful. "Comparison is the thief of joy." - Teddy Roosevelt.
Just picked up a domain.

Do you use affiliate links? I would be happy to toss you the few cents or whatever if you do, but if you do you should disclose it.
Lots of googling your own name and email address. Finding all the hits and searching for "remove" or "opt out" links (search "sitename+opt out" etc). Repeating the process for close associates, phone number, address.

Then closely monitor. Submit search results cache removal as soon as it changes (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals). I've found it's best to do one giant wave of removals to avoid propagating from one site to another.
Nvidia buys ARM, Microsoft buys Zenimax and eats Bethesda. Next thing: Tesla buys Intel.
What is the correct background? our industry is hardly one of those those where you have to go to a white shoe ivy or Oxbridge.
From the doc:

> The FAA allowed the regulations to be modified to fit the 737’s preexisting design

Terrible.

I wonder, if the FAA gives the 737 MAX the all clear, but no one else does, what does that mean for the aircraft? Would a US-only certification still be an effective grounding in all but name? I guess there are a bunch of routes within the US, but there must be crap-tons elsewhere too (and presumably international from US<->* that formerly used 737 MAX)?
Non-sequitur. It is a non-sequitur because I was not expressing an opinion of the trial but of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. My post was a response to the parent post which expressed angst that no-one was supporting Julian Assange and Wikileaks; and I was stating my opinion about Assange's actions. I knew full well that a whole bunch of fanboys would start downvoting the hell out of me, or posting irrelevant responses, like your own. Because that's what they do.
True, but it's run by a massive network of volunteers; they are very carefully curated towards one specific goal and definitely aren't a general framework for a business
I mean this is the future described in Cyberpunk novels. United States of Coca Cola, Republic of Microsoft. Mega Corporations will replace states in an era of neocorporatism (AKA something else...), that's inevitable.
I have become exactly like this.

My experience with free (as in beer) software and services is that it's usually offered as a "strategic offering", maybe as an attempt to commoditize your complement(?) but I'm speculating here. The downside is that the wider business does not care that much about your software. It needs to work, but just enough that customers don't use your complement. And critically, when it comes to prioritization of resources (especially the most senior people who could mentor you), they would rather put their best people in other parts of the business.

I've become of the mindset that if you want to build best-in-class software with a best-in-class team, you should see if you can draw a direct line from the product to the revenue, or at least the core mission of the business.
Is the US allowed to extradite journalists? Yes or no. That’s what this case tests and I personally think Julian Assange does not matter so much, he’s just a vehicle to scare people.
Exclsuive to Xbox doesn't make sense given what Microsoft's strategy these days but games might be exclusive to Xbox and Microsoft Store on Windows.
I do not understand the complacency of people. Maybe they think that their freedom is unassailable?

The commercial surveillance industry is a real threat. It exploits citizens' data and in doing so serves the dictatorial interests of government and the amoral activities of capitalism. The surveillance industry is also inept, and cybercriminals and state actors will get the data eventually.
It can depend on where you are playing, but you run the risk of getting called for a string bet. The way you worded it definitely makes it sound that way because of the "and" combining two actions. If it is a friendly game you are unlikely to face issue, but in a contentious game with unknown enemies, this quote would get you called for a string bet in some of the casinos I've played.
The US has never been onboard with international human rights, see Guatanomo.
Soccer Analytics and AI: Learning Value and Style from Soccer Event Stream Data [pdf]
For those looking for how to request your information:

This is what I've found so far on the privacy policy page.

It sounds like it may be available only for california residents.

> In addition to the information, controls and rights detailed in this privacy policy, California law provides for specific rights for California residents. California residents may request access to Personal Information, request a copy of their Personal Information, or request that their Personal Information be deleted. You may submit a verifiable request through Quantcast’s Data Subject Rights page, which can be found here. California residents may also submit verifiable requests by contacting Quantcast via email

https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/
Have you tried any NES games lately? They're super hard! SNES games are better but they're still almost all very difficult.
Thank you for sharing this, these are fair comments. My experience has been more positive, but I see the truth in many of your points. For what it's worth, I have always been involved in controlled experimentation, and never anything related to ML or modeling. Our biggest issue is usually ensuring we are getting accurate counts of events, and when I see all the challenges in that, I wonder how anything more advanced ever gets done.
I recommend everyone to check NextDNS. I'ts basically a Pi-hole in the cloud: https://nextdns.io/

I use it in combination with uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...