skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually not sure I see the difference here when your information and access to you are the only things a website can secure at all. If you're selling my information, or access to me, that's by definition terrible privacy.

Granted this isn't the definition of "privacy" that corporations will use, but that's hardly an accident.
It misinterprets Lesson #1 even.

A city is not printing money, and has no ability to increase the money supply. There's no chance a local program like this leads to inflation.
The ones in Times Square (probably) don’t spy on you (yet).
Any time I read threads like this one I am grateful I found Basecamp years ago. Granted, my company has a really small team (projects with 4 internal people on it), but largely due to how Basecamp is structured and my own dislike of being interrupted or time-sucking meetings, we suffer very little of the problems OP brings up. I strongly recommend Basecamp or at least checking out the philosophy behind the software.
Thanks for pointing this out. Bellard deserves most of the credits. I updated the description accordingly.
I think this is also the psychology behind those pop-up like/share button bars at the bottom of web pages, that on mobile just so happen to sit exactly where your navigation bar hides, and if you tap one pixel too high you hit the share button instead of pulling up the navigation bar.
Learning languages through real, simplified text/audio content
Hello Hackers!

I am the founder of the app https://www.tiengos.com

For years I have been struggling with getting out of the Vientamese and Chinese language learning intermediate purgatory. In the end I decided to create an app which would solve a similar problem for my native Polish, and now: Spanish and Vietnamese.

Tiengos is a language learning app for intermediary foreign language learners. Such people are still not ready for consuming native content like, newspapers/books/podcasts. Tiengos gathers interesting reading material written and simplified by native speakers. It provides multilingual, profesional, literal and contextual translations as well as high quality audio, produced by native speakers. The audio is provided for both, words, phrases and sentences. You can also listen to the articles as if Tiengos was a podcast player.

I am looking forward to get your feedback, and possible feature requests!

Thank you in advance.
it does say "Not secure" for the https info, so I guess they intercept the request
Yes, ISPs are blocking DDG. Airtel(ISP) is blocking DDG but HTTPS version is accessible.

https://imgur.com/a/y7wnOjD
I'm really curious how this reached #1 here on HN. Not accusing anyone of foul play, just really curious why this is so popular.

As for quickJS, I've really enjoyed using it and was surprised how easy it was to get started with a brew install on a Mac.
It's still not clear what basis you're bounding that risk on—it seems like optimism that one of the investments would pay off. I would strongly prefer pessimism in this case!
Confusingly enough, when NixOS talks about reproducible builds they are not talking about https://reproducible-builds.org/. They are talking about reproducible systems.

NixOS doesn't solve reproducible builds as-in "bit-for-bit identical binary distributed files", but it does solve "same input" -> "functionally same system". This is the core idea of NixOS and what makes the package manager and the spawned ecosystem (like Guix) quite neat. I also think this isn't any more controversial then say having your infrastructure reproducible with terraform and ansible/salt. It gives you machines as cattle, and not pets, with the added flexibility that gives you. NixOS is just a complete package where in other systems there are several components accomplishing the goal.

As to why reproducible builds is important is to ensure a strong connection between the upstream source code and the distributed binary build. This gives you confidence that everything going into the build has been declared and that the binary can be reproduced bit-for-bit identical if you so wish.

This can be both important in a supply chain process. I recently saw tailscale provided pre-compiled binaries without signatures. What does those binaries contain? They are not signed, so the releases could very well be unauthenticated and someone could have compromised the server distributing the binaries. So I tried reproducing the tailscale binaries without much success as the build process is proprietary.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/779

So what does the tailscale binaries contain? I can't get a bit-for-bit identical binary without putting into a great deal of effort so for all intents and purposes they can very well be proprietary.

Now I don't think the tailscale people are malicious, nor that the binaries have been replaced. But it's a real-world example I recently went through.
I put the blame squarely on the consumer. It's partly the reason why these screens rarely hit above 400nits of brightness. Market forces simply don't drive manufacturers to make 16GB the base because consumers continue to settle for the 8GB models available.

For general browsing, light workloads and watching videos, it's enough for most people.
off the top of my head (these are ones that I use at least somewhat regularly):

- !a (amazon)

- !gm (google maps)

- !i (ddg images, could also use !gi for google images)

- !news (ddg news)

- !w (wikipedia)

- !mcmaster (mcmaster-carr)

- !r (reddit)

- !hn (hackernews)

- !tw (twitter)

- !economist (economist)

- !gh (github)

Also I find that sometimes I just guess and get it right (thats how i ended up realizing !mcmaster was a thing)
My recollection of home ec was it was majority boys and mostly athletes. Most of the girls felt they didn't need the class (already had the life skills those courses covered) or were college-bound and didn't have time in the schedule for it.

A good friend of mine, who later went to the NFL, was so excited he learned to bake cookies. He also learned to read the stocks section and was super excited to try investing.

* He's doing quite well now. Football paid for college, NFL paid for law school.
Civilian applications would be dramatically more efficient air transport, for starters.
It's unreasonable to expect the average person
on the street to be an expert on the subject and
to have fully researched everything before walking
into a store, so if the TV's packaging doesn't say
anything about the subject, how do they learn?

I 100% agree with you that the current solution stinks and is unfair.

The solution depends on who you ask.

Some would say that it's up to the consumer to be educated. Like you, I don't think this is realistic. It's not realistic to expect every consumer to become an expert in the nuances of every single thing they might buy.

Others would say that if it's really important to customers, we'll vote with our dollars and demand alternatives to the current situation.

Some would say that the government should ban the practice or at least require some sort of very clear disclosure.

What would you like to see?
I sometimes wonder if someone at the top is trying to drive people away from TV/film/video. Yes there's more content than ever before but as regards drama etc. the writing is generally dreadful and the stories lack originality, on YouTube the adverts are becoming obnoxious and if extremely one-sided political messaging isn't to your taste, well, good luck finding a single programme that isn't stuffed to the gills with it.
If your local supermarket A-Mart sold A-Cars that refused to drive into other supermarkets parking lots then yeah. You could argue that you don't like other supermarkets practices and want to ensure you or your spouse or your parents don't accidentally drive there so you buy A-Cars for all of them. And it isn't a monopoly, these cars have only about 50% market share, if you want to go to another grocery store why not buy their cars?

Anyway, the point is that coupling things unnecessarily is dumb. There is no need to enforce coupling of hardware and software like Apple does, the only reason is to ensure that Apples strong points also lets them sell their weak points.
Some phones have HDMI out.
> I don't get why public stuff like NPM, DEB or Docker registries haven't switched to use it as primary way of distribution

2 of them are run by commercial entities. I don't think those are all that interested in reducing dependency on them.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/united-states-...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/pa...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
The wording of that is odd.

But my guess is, your face could be identified wether or not you are using this particular system. But your palm only works after the system does the scan of you so you have to specifically opt in to use it.
Amnesty to halt work in India due to government 'witch-hunt'
There appear to be a number of dictionaries improperly listed under "Online Services / Tools" instead of "Translation / General". Though I have no idea how to fix that, or even how to report it as an issue
Yes Skynet leverages the Sia network for storage and retrieval.

We don't have swift bindings but other developers have been able to make iOS apps without much trouble - the API is pretty clean.

Example: https://github.com/tetek/skynet-ios
As much as Apple can be annoying for developers, at least they have been pro consumer in certain areas:

-AppleTV will not do this, and likely never will
-iPhones do not have ads all over them put in place by the carriers (I still can’t believe this happened)
The general expectation is that blue collar jobs pay more at the beginning, and white collar jobs pay more at the end. So at 20, the white-collar college student is eating ramen and wearing thrift store clothes and the blue collar worker is already making a decent salary, driving a new car, thinking about buying a home. At 40, the white collar worker is doing well, has a house and a car and a family, and the blue collar worker is about the same. At 55, the white collar worker is in the prime of their career living comfortably, making very good money, and achieving a level of prestige while the blue collar worker is living about the same life they had at 40, but with more physical ailments slowing their working ability.

This is what has traditionally been believed and does not necessarily represent reality, but it explains the tradeoffs each route offers.
Writing a retro 3D FPS engine from scratch (2017)
Outline VPN in Civo Kubernetes
Mention QuickJS Engine in the readme . I came to know that this project uses quickjs (i believe it is written by Bellard) after reading about it in "comparison with deno and node"
Samsung TVs in the US have had ACR since 2012.
I’m concerned that in the future devices I do not want to be connected to the internet (let my TV) will come with 5g or some other technology and be able to connect itself. I think with IoT and a desire for ease of setup this might be possible if the price of mobile internet drops enough.
I don't see a reference to Siméon and Wadler: "So, the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/xml-essence/xml-...
Do you really think this is a photo of your palm they're storing?

No doubt there are 3D scanners (to map the elevation of your palms, the depth of the lines, etc.), infrared imaging and a slew of other minor sensors. To make this fast, they need to effectively correlate enough of the data to identify you without relying solely on a single thing.
> I'm really curious how this reached #1 here on HN.

Usually people submit then direct friends/contacts/Twitter followers/etc to the "new" page to upvote. "growth hacking"? :)
Apparently the 30% cut has it's origins in a deal between Nintendo and Hudsonsoft. 10% licensing fee, and 20% manufacturing costs for physical cartridges.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-30percent-fee-...
I want Linux from a trusted source, so I compile it myself :P

If you can get the kernel building (that repo), you can use any distro; that repo even has packages bundled for Debian, Arch, and Fedora.
everything you said is more or less right, but not everything is a problem.

- There are more difficult to buy, as they are a b2b product, but on amazon they sell some models.

- brightness is higher, depending on the purpose of the monitor, there are monitors for sun facing storefronts, which are way brighter, but those also have fans and are noisier. The ones purposed for indoor are more or less the same brightness of the tvs, and sometimes have sensors for changing the brightness depending the environment, which is actually a plus.
- no antenna, some offer iptv, and others actually are android or linux based, so you may even install some apps, but you must configure them manually so much easier to use an external player.

- they are tougher panels, but they are designed for showing ads and static content, so no dark blacks, less contrast and usually less colour gamut coverage.

- not many 4k panels, the are designed to see from a distance, so many are fhd instead of 4k.

- another drawback is that many doesn't have speakers, so you have to hook up your own sound system.

Anyway, I'm in front of a storefront samsung om55n and watched some content and it's ludicrous, at night and the room seems illuminated like during the day.

Samsung also has a business line of tvs, are more like the domestic ones but designed for longer operating times and you can configure them to show slideshows or to have a ticker overlaped. They use the same basic tizen system, but the home screes is different and I doubt you will find ads on them.
All I’ll say is that I was in engineering on a team that worked with the OC team.
Hold on to your crisis-hit customers, it pays off
Steps for Migrating Existing Applications to Microservices
How do you weigh the value of Apple's APIs?

As in, to continue with the game console analogy, you must have at least one license to a powerful engine (like Unreal Engine with a 5% fee) to develop efficiently.

Do you actually save 5% (assuming PS is 30%) by developing for the Apple ecosystem? (Assuming Metal is comparable to Unreal)
So what you're saying is you want EA to be able to have its own store on iPhone where Apple collects 30% on the backend anyway? Because that's what Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft do now. I don't see "I should be able to purchase iPhone apps at Target" as a compelling argument, much less relevant to the case at hand.
Trying? It virtually is already.

Want to put out some software and not pay the $99/year Developer Fee and still have a simple install process for your users? Good luck with that.
> There are a lot of humans.

Unfortunately, each has to be trained separately.

That said, the fact that producing additional untrained neural networks is often done recreationally by unskilled labor has to be factored into the unit economics.
I might be wrong but this thing China is doing is just like credit scoring that also takes into account behaviour?
I mean... It's stuff that, at least in UK, is already done one way or another.
Examples: I book a retaurant table and don't show up - I have to pay a fee or like most decent clubs have that unified database with trouble makers and some people are refused entry.

Edit: Just to clarify I'm not a fan of a system like this. I can see it going wrong and being abused in pretty much any country in the world.
Lol comparing India's traditional caste system to the Constitution's requirement that the President be a natural born citizen -- the only role in our government like this -- is a real stretch. So is the birthright citizenship, something only common in the New World to begin with.

Give me a break.
Supermarkets also need to stay open so they can sell you your beloved products, and you'd not believe how thin the margins of some supermarkets are: Having 8 kinds of lemon yogurt, each someone's favorite, while disposing of the products past the expiration date leads to either some of the highest prices in town, or closing down. Profitability in very small supermarket chains is small.

Now, the models that the somewhat sophisticated supermarkets use don't fit on a spreadsheet, and really try to guess which items really are people's favorites, look at profit margins, and risks of people just going to a different supermarket altogether because the competitor down the street still has your favorite, or charges 30% less for it. They check what happens when a product isn't in stock, or when a competitor has a significant discount. It's a difficult optimization problem, given all the differences among people's shopping lists.

Having a favorite product get discontinued sucks: It happens to me at least a couple of times a year, and sometimes straight from the manufacturer, so I can't even buy it online. But don't imagine that every supermarket out there is run by teams swimming in money. It's an extremely competitive business with many players, and there's not that much of a difference between the way the small chains run their operations today and having to close down because the lower prices of a larger competitor dropped sales just enough that they are losing money.
> I wish people would just copy the MS Natural Ergonomic 4000, but with better keyswitches.

I replaced my MS keyboard with a Kinesis Gaming Edge - it's a pretty good replacement, and I've found being able to separate the two halves of the keyboard and put them about shoulder width apart makes for a very nice typing experience. No numpad, and I'm not a huge fan of the home/end/pgup/pgdown placement, but you can add a numpad in a second later if you want to.
The Era of Big Memory Is Upon Us
Are you responding to my assertion that there's no fundamental difference between type systems and static analysis? If so, if we just change "well typed/not well typed" to "acceptable/not acceptable" I think you've pretty much just described static analysis.
Before then computer science was the only course really offered. Around that time some universities seemed to start offering other related courses such as "Information Technology" (I remember they had slightly lower entry requirements as "computer science" was a relatively hard course to get onto in a decent University in the UK as it was popular.)
Meteor has been under active development for a long time. It's not nearly as hot as it was 5-6 years ago, but it's still definitely a thing. A lot of the team that built Meteor went on to work on Apollo, the GraphQL data library. One of my companies has a Meteor based app...
Hahahaha, my interpretation of this is that palm prints are proprietary and require less widely available technology to make use of them.
We were actually working on writing a scheduling system for the LG webOS ones for a time, I joked about taking one home with me.

If I'm not mistaken the LG ones were significantly more expensive than their consumer counterparts, but those Samsung ones don't seem all that much more expensive.
Ask HN: Is there HN for Finance?
Sounds like the two of you may be "harbinger customers", the interesting economic phenomenon of people who tend to like products that flop.
The main selling point of game consoles are uniform hardware specs and knowing that the console can run all games released on it. That isn't true for phones.
Top panels all have these "features" honey.. You can get a shit panel without ads or smarts...
Damn, maybe I should have done the return then.
I'd argue that universities as we recognize them are already an unstable hybrid of their original purpose with jobs programs. Institutions of pure academic curiosity are valuable, but not so valuable that the US needs thousands of them, so a return to the original vision would probably mean closing most colleges.
It's only ironic if you think castes are somehow equivalent to allowing the grandson of an immigrant to run a country.

It's not ironic. It's not even relevant.

This site sometimes and its weird desire to turn every discussion into one that is critical of the US or Trump.

Yeah keep pressing the downvote button and I'll keep using carrier grade NAT to make new accounts. Fuck you anti American assholes.
This is a company supposedly famous for great user interfaces and usability. Why not try to live up to it?

There are actually many times I don't have my phone with me while watching TV. I carry it with me everywhere all day, but I try to keep it on the table most of the time when at home.
People born in the last 50 years have no idea of the anger and resentment that Americans had towards railroad companies, immortalized by the use of the word "railroaded" in slang.

Back in the day the railroad would go right past your town, refuse to build a stop, buy the land along the tracks a few miles away, build a stop, and then start a new town there.

Cher had a monologue in the 1990 movie "Mermaids" where she talked about the feeling of freedom she had from getting in her car and that feeling can be best appreciated by understanding the way that pre-WWII Americans felt about taking the train. Today a car payment, insurance and all that feel like a millstone at your neck, but back then you could get in a new car and smell the freedom. That generation knew what it was like for somebody who could care less what you think to decide when and where you go.
Re. point 3.

Have you streamed yet or it’s just an option right now? Something I’m considering but I’ve not looked into. Wondering about lag, and if I have to run upstairs to my pc to start games etc.
Whenever someone mentions SOAP I’m always reminded about this funny article “S Stands For Simple” [0].

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[0]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
£1 for hitting it with a hammer

£999 for knowing where to hit and how hard
3 hdmi and a 1 displayport the one I have in front of me. It uses the same remote than the cheap domestic and hospitality ones.
Done, thanks for pointing this out ;)
The problem with Pinata is that they charge $150 per TB for their Individual plan. That's nearly 6.5x the cost of storing the data on S3. Sure it works, but that high barrier to entry pricing scares off a lot of people. Why not just use S3?

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for Filecoin to launch, and networks such as Sia have seized that opportunity and created great things like Skynet [1]. Skynet itself still has some overhead if you want to ensure data persistence and availability, but the cost is orders of magnitude lower. In addition, new layer 2 providers have emerged to address those gaps, such as Filebase [2]. They provide S3 compatible object storage that is backed by decentralized cloud storage. You get high availability (of the storage layer), geo-redundancy, and less than S3 pricing out of the box.

It is this type of offering where we are going to see the most impact and adoption as the underlying technology not only makes things more efficient, but cheaper too.

[1] https://siasky.net/

[2] https://filebase.com/
A great idea, but the latencies make it impossible to even play keys, to say nothing about live collaboration.
What I mean is a lot of people, like me, said flatten the curve, but would have wanted to eliminate it if it seemed reasonably possible. So I and other people who said the same thing now feel we made an error.

Flatten the curve started as a Twitter meme and only then spread to governments. I don’t think govts wanted to eliminate, but my point is I wish those who were in the forefront had sent a different message. I was looking at this from mid feb, before western governments were generally sending any message at all.
The CubeSat Platform Enables an Inexpensive Space Telescope
Great question, and I just recently watched the video bhargav1195 suggested. Watching it will be well worth your time.

Side note: As much as I'd love for "table steaks" to be the parlance for minimum entry requirements, the correct term is "table stakes".

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