skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Microsoft doesn't rely on AdTech and tracking for its survival.

Well, it advertises to you in its start menu and even has scummy ads in its built-in browser homepage. And it makes you log in with a Skype/Outlook/Windows account to install Windows 10 (maybe you can bypass it by avoiding wifi during installation? I didn't check).

Whether or not it needs these for its survival doesn't seem like much of a distinction, and possibly even more of a fuck-you that it doesn't need to do this for its survival. In fact, that it does this at the operating system level is worse to me than it being done when I use applications that work by talking to remote servers because you simply can't escape it. Meanwhile I can simply avoid Google products.

The HN discourse around Microsoft these days really just shows that Microsoft's attempts to buy back goodwill with things like VS Code must be working. Often we talk here as if Bing is some indie underdog.
Not going to get broken up. Apple has Samsung. Amazon has to compete with Google and every other e-commerce store. Facebook is in a natural monopoly business and has taken steps to be politically involved. Google owns the web through search and other products. Google is the only risk and even then maybe.
There was some plan to beef up their Java Interop library (currently used with Xamarin on Android) for more general usage for .NET 5, but I think it fell by the wayside. It'll probably happen eventually though.

https://github.com/xamarin/java.interop
I do this but with music notation. I transcribe scores into Sibelius all the time. I learn so much about the music that way.
You are welcome, reminder to self - read HP Lovecraft :)
I would love a non-trivial demo app or webcast that uses some of the components (eg. service + DB + static site + multiple workers) to check out the configuration required to make everything work together.

Maybe examples of how server/workers communicate, support for RPC, event queue. I'm in the process of figuring out all this stuff and App Platform sounds perfect, but without a starting point it may become more straightforward to take the platform-agnostic approach and spin up droplets where I control all of this.
Digital Ocean App Platform
You can just... Make one. You can just make the division. You can turn off the work computer and walk away at five.
i've come to appreciate how useful it is to just remember basic stuff from stlib instead of having to look things up. Makes getting into flow much easier.
If I understand the article correctly this isn't a problem for uses of Ed25519 in systems like DKIM or DNSSEC.

These Ed25519 interop problems only arise with maliciously crafted keys and nonces. This is a problem for consensus systems (like Zcash in the article) because the signature is recorded and needs to be verified by many parties, and if a malicious signature it tickles an interop bug it can maybe (handwave) force third parties to treat the blockchain as invalid, or something like that. But in the context of DKIM if a sender generates a signature that a recipient can't validate, by using buggy key generation code that produces small cofactors or noncanonical encodings, only the sender suffers pain.
The emergence of a new "tech-feudalism" is even the subject of Cédric Durand's last book: https://www.editions-zones.fr/livres/technofeodalisme/

Cédric Durand is an economics professor in Paris Sorbonne and Geneva University.
Gitlab's security trends report – our latest look at what's most vulnerable
Curiosity, playfulness and no fear of the machine.
The very beginning of the article almost makes it seem like the curators of this collection are just projecting their ideas about these guys on to the photos. But the entire collection (scroll to bottom) makes it clear they are not.

I was a rural living 12 year old when my state (MA) legalized gay marriage. I had this funny perception at the time like: "wow the gay people mobilized to make this happen like 2 years ago and here it is. Democracy is amazing!" It was a couple years later when I realized what a long fight the whole thing actually was. This image in particular struck me [0], it would be 104 years before they could get married.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/9OyXYmNN4C45HBz-tNU1J...
>But I never hear anyone address how time becomes spacelike.
Take a region of space, let everything that could exist absorb heat. Take the same region of space, and emit enough heat to create a voltage in anything that could look at it.

Fall of the cliff of all things nature that want heat. Don't just have a parachute to slow your fall to non-existence, but a jetpack to absorb some heat of your own. Absorbing heat, you can now emit heat. Something asks "anything exists here?" you now have an answer.

Nature has no internal mind, no distinction between time and space. Heat transfers through mating conductive surfaces, flowing convective mediums, or the nothingness of electromagnetic radiation, like sunlight going through the vacuum of space to warm the Earth. Special relativity provides a medium. It's easier to slow down the ticks of your own clock, move, and speed up your own clock again than it is to just move.

At best, nature sees the photoelectric effect, brightness converting to internal voltage, which we see as "clock speed locality" and volumes of voltages. At worst, nature doesn't even make that distinction. It's easier still to have wiggle rooms in your answer. I slow down my clock when you say I'm going to move. I move when you say I'm going to slow down my clock. Looking back, both are true, whatever is in my advantage, because I hold the cards, and I make that potential a medium in of itself.

The way I reason about black holes is that they tell more about what's around it than what's there. Everything that could exist is in agreement that we all dump heat there. I'm really interested in seeing if we can point a telescope at a black hole, and cause something elsewhere. Or point a telescope at everything, and see if the black hole does something, like pair production.

Gravity and massless photons are such loaded terms promoting mysticism. Newton's idea of gravity, a cannon on top of a mountain shooting a ball that falls down as equally as it transverses lengths is a good place to start. No absolute position, everything is relative motion, and sum up yourself to all relative motion you are accelerating. Then move onto fields and Maxwell. Ticking clocks slow down and speed up for advantage. Before you get brighter, you need to charge up some internal energy. That's Planck, and Einstein brought the photon by relating that to relative time creating a voltage.
Yes. Also, please share what benefit tobacco companies provide to society.
> Moreover, pointing out to earlier oversights cannot be a justification for an absence of oversight now.

Got confused trying to parse this, then realized you are probably using the word “oversight” in two diametrically different ways in this sentence.
Part of it is these companies should be paying WAY MORE taxes back into the system.

Having large tech companies IS a good thing because it basically leads to natural tech standards and advances things. I'll just stick with mobile area- we have iOS & Android. What if we didn't have ANY big tech companies and there were 10+ mobile OSs. Sound great for competition? Yeah I guess. But in reality, it would never have allowed mobile to take off. How do you put resources into developing an app when you have to make it work on 10+ OSs? All with their different quirks? It's hard enough with 2.

So I think there are a lot of advantages of a small number of large tech firms.. HOWEVER. When they are able to accumulate 100+ BILLION DOLLARS it can only be clear that they are NOT contributing back into the system to "pay" for their quasi-monopolies.
Either find something that excites you enough to be really interested in or take medication
It's not particularly logical, but it's been in use since the 1700s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving_Copyright_Act_1734
One could say, "his absence left a black hole?"

I'll see myself out.
Fixing Time.deltaTime in Unity: What Did It Take?
The examples I gave obviously requires being part of a team, but even programming on your own, I think it's one of the most important skills.

I'd be happy to elaborate on that argument if you have any examples of one or more situations where you wouldn't consider communication important? :)
Thank you so much for this comment!

There is a lot of unpack in this topic and I hope to address this in later posts (this was my first one!).

I think the most important thing now is to write about what you said last: stating goals!
Sure, but as I said "un filon" or "un bon filon" as meaning "easy money" is very common.
It could be cheaper or faster to get it printed and shipped locally? I would be happy to pay the same total price even though it's printed/shipped by someone else
I'm not sure I understand your point.

Tesla was awarded tradeable regulatory credits. They didn't have any use for them, so they sold them. I suppose they could have just sat on them and refused to sell.

There are valid criticisms around the environmental cost of building electric vehicles. There are also valid criticisms of the regulatory environment that Tesla operates in. I'm not convinced, though, that it makes sense to expect Tesla to refuse to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unneeded credits out of principle.
Interviews are really tough. Salaries are awful.

Seriously. Please stay in your coastal enclave. It's terrible here :)
He was saying fixed foveated is not a significant improvement if you set it to a level that isn't perceptible.

You can easily tell when games have it cranked up and the quality drop off at the edge is very severe. Perf improvements are only moderate.
If you introduce that feature please make it optional. I love the idea of typing novels to get a more intense connection to the content. Gameification for WPM would disrupt this. Please consider this use case even though I understand that this ist not your target audience.

Great Work!
Also this is magnified with many kids out of school. With reduced child to parent transfer those that do need to go in to the office may have less background infectivity. When my kids were in elementary school I had more sick days in a year than the ten years prior combined.
That's not wrong, but as a Midwesterner, I think you also have people have legitimately enjoy experiencing all four seasons. And in cities with good public transit systems (like Chicago and Minneapolis) the damper of driving in crappy weather isn't as present.
That is not at all the title of the linked article. What is going on?
Defining the Scope of Your Pen Test
How? I cannot find any "notify on activity" in my gnome-terminal version (I used to use it with Terminator). But anyway it's not the same, or at least it wasn't in Terminator, since you can just notify for activity in a terminal regardless of the program generating activity in it. And I don't want to turn it off and on every time I stop/start using terraform in that session
Progress is laying off Chef folks
https://twitter.com/jtimberman/status/1313493757858381825

There’s a bunch of posts on Twitter from Chef folks getting laid off. No official news yet but it sounds really bad.
stocks, stocks and stocks. if you want something safe, buy some index. maybe something form a sector you understand a bit about or just go with s&p500, etc.... there is nothing safer than that.

personally i pick my own stocks. so far i am +35% since december and i was at +60% recently. it fluctuates but i am a long term investor so i just chill and don't sweat about it.

in the end it depends on how much work you are willing to "invest". you can flip alcohol or houses or daytrade but it all requires time and effort and it just becomes a job. hence i advocate for long term investing.
Wow people are missing the forest for the trees. I wasn't talking about resolution or texture quality, it's the colour choices that are inherently ugly.
You do have some good ideas there

I do find it kind of strange that Walmart has such a big monopoly in the US, but i can only assume that they are viewed positively by most people or else they 'd have faced antimonopoly action. Same with their brand products, I m sure some other brands will have complained about unfair competition , but maybe their anticompetitive behavior hasn't been egregious enough to bring the ire of politicians. Tech OTOH has been quite aggressively monopolistic in certain areas, and needlessly so, with things like the App Store(apple has way too much profit to justify keeping the app tax so high). In a way ... they make themselves look overly greedy and bring it upon themselves.
Pandemic or no pandemic, most jobs are at least local to the country. If he is from Russia it's way harder for him to get a job in a U.S / EU company.
Also - if it's hard for him to get an Elixir job now (and let's assume he knows if it's hard or not and heard of the concept of remote), while Elixir is past it's peak, is it a good bet to keep going the Elixir route?
How strange. Is there any practical difference between waiving your copyright and granting everyone an unrestricted license?
This is the dumbest idea and it screams that the House just wants to appease their constituents. You can't break up tech companies; we've been through this before with Microsoft.

What happens is, congress breaks up a big tech company then the people who started said big tech company invest large sums of money into the next generation of tech companies and effectively control them. The next set of boy geniuses get to be the face of these new companies for recreating ideas that the big monopolists weren't allowed to finish because they were broken up.

See Microsoft and Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg is the "boy genius" who recreated an idea that wasn't allowed to be completed by Microsoft.

See Bill Gates starting Microsoft recreating a bunch of ideas that weren't allowed to be completed by Xerox.
Government exists solely for the purpose of negating security and life of bad actors who want to take away your rights. That is it's function, via the social contract.

That can only be broken in one of two ways. Either people don't care enough or they grow so distrustful of it that they don't participate in it or keep it in check.

When things like that happen you get elected officials decided by less than 40% of the country, anti-maskers, and asymmetric warfare in the streets to combat "the man". It's untenable.
I'd be cautious about this. Unless the regulations are carefully crafted, this might lead to a situation where platform owners decide to completely vertically integrate software on their platform, rather than allow third party vendors to play in their walled garden.

Look at gaming platforms and their respective stores, for example. If Microsoft isn't allowed to compete with third party publishers on their platform, they might very well say, "screw it, Xbox doesn't run third party games anymore, it only runs Microsoft games". Then you're in a situation where the Xbox is nothing but a vessel for Microsoft software.

To a certain extent, we've already seen the gaming industry move slightly in this direction, with Microsoft and Sony buying an ever expanding list of gaming studios. It's wouldn't exactly be a huge leap for them to restrict their respective consoles to running games coming from their in-house studios. Heck, the console manufacturers might actually prefer this model, as they get to keep 100% of game sales revenue, rather than 30% (or whatever it is).
No it should definitely not. I really see this as an extra tool you use when you are already in a call with people, And if you don't like the Microsoft teams / zoom culture just use https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ its free and opensource and works just by sharing a url.
Good job man! I did start of the first on the list :D it was fun for a moment.
I can't find the sources but until 60-70 years ago almost every houshold in NY had either chicken or rabbits.
CBP Bought 'Global' Location Data from Weather and Game Apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

We fix the things that are broken. Those things are bad but not we are talking about, we should fix those as well.

Please participate in a discussion about the topic rather than derail and deflect.
This is great. I do not see WPM and ACC stats though. It just shows empty placeholder for those. I use PiHole and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts to block ads. I see that the google analytics is not resolved properly in dev tools. Is that the issue with WPM/ACC stats?
That's true, which is why I think there's a middle ground. A total 10-30 minutes daily commuting is nice and better than 0. I saw statistics once that said the average one way is 40 minutes, which is dangerous and tiring.
I'm interested in the use case for people who use tools like this. Do you have a lot of bank accounts/credit cards so that logging into each bank site is a pain?

I tried to get into finance tracking along these lines (YNAB), and it was a lot of work. I don't care where every penny goes because it became clear that most of my pennies go to the same place every month (housing, utilities, etc.). I just want to spend less money on the every day things I have control over.

I'm trying out a system for that specific purpose over at spendweek.com. I've realized that some people just love to see all the data, which is great. Others of us just want a simple tool to curb bad spending habits.
>> The province of Ontario has an emerging population of a few hundred pigs, and it’s educating the public, collecting data, and testing how to track and remove swine.

Just tell the hunters you have a problem and invite them in to eradicate them. I feel like government bodies whose job is to deal with such things never want to "solve" a problem completely, but would rather "manage" it so they can keep their job.

Some day these few hundred pigs will be 10's of thousands or more and they'll look back and wonder why they didn't put more effort in sooner.
Does anyone know if there are any websites that do the same for novels of different languages? I want to practice typing in Russian.
Absolutely the right move, in a social media/post-magazine world the journalists need them way more than Nintendo needs journalists.

Seems utterly absurd to be a company that actually builds something of value from nothing to be required to court and curry favor with individuals who only exist to talk about the work of creators and hope they talk about your work positively when instead you can just bypass them and be the master of your own narrative.
We have 1 HTML and 1 CSS standard, despite dozens of browsers. In fact we have more fractiousness in the mobile space than in the web.
Facebook is a tool. It can be used for good (the majority of the use) or it can used for evil (some of the use). You can attribute the same good-evil distribution to virtually everything.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/
We've gone full circle:

1. Pre-kub: orchestration is manual through AWS EC2 ui

2. Kub: orchestration is automated and configuration is treated as code (YAML, JSON, proto, whatever) and kept in revision control just like source code

3. Post-kub: orchestration is manual through a ui

In all seriousness I'm sure this is useful in limited cases, but for most the right answer isn't some fancy UI, its middleware or some layer on top of kubernetes that allows you to automate away the toil-y parts of YAML, but keep the flexibility.

EDIT: line breaks.
So, it's worth upgrading if you're running Redis or Dwarf Fortress :)
AI Training Method Exceeds GPT-3 Performance with 99.9% Fewer Parameters
We use celery heavily, but now our system started growing I wished we used a message bus pub/sub system that was language agnostic. I guess its a different beast, but a lot of the same things can be solved.

And if you have first-class messages instead of function calls as the data in your queue, things like decoupling into services becomes much easier.

In celery the consumer and producer are very tightly coupled (same code needed).
It would be great if the app could let you import arbitrary .txt files. In that way, I can practice typing with my favorite works.
Is this like a visual/gui Terraform or Ansible?
It’s a really popular meme around here to bash Google for killing products, and Google’s behavior here annoys me a lot.

However I’m skeptical whether many consumers care; Google’s favorability ratings are very high:

https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-approval-ratings-best-appl...

This is just the top result from Google, I’ve seen others similar.

I’m in favor of strengthening antitrust (and that applies to a bunch of other industries too, not just tech), but you really have to be careful not to destroy more value than you preserve with this sort of thing.
Yeah, I mean why have nice built in stuff - far better to go and buy everything separately. For instance cars should have seats, stereos, gps, etc... it'd be better for you to go to 3rd party sellers and buy them.
What the Travel Rule Means for Crypto Users and Investors
Not sure if those values are inflation adjusted. If not then that floor still represents a 13% drop in price.
Covid Strategy 101
> What is the end state if we let this continue? 20 large corporations in America and a field of small feeder gig economy vendors? We will all be serfs (NPCs) in a feudal corporate cosplay.

The reality is that this is what we're moving to, break-up or not. The ownership of these publicly traded companies remains the same disparate set of high-capitalization funds.
Ask HN: Why does LinkedIn ramp up my CPU 100% and how can I fix it
I'm in Linkedin pretty much all day (sales role) and it drives my 2020 MacBook Air to over 100% CPU utilization within minutes of starting up. I've tried a variety of noscript chrome extensions and can't seem to turn off the right things without breaking the site entirely. It's driving me crazy that this simple-ish site is making my fans blow at full speed all day. I even modded my MBA by adding better thermal components, literally just so I could use LinkedIn everything else slowing down. I have uBlock Origin running, tried to turn it off as LinkedIn allegedly punishes user with ad blockers by forcing more CPU usage, but still nothing seems to work. I'm contemplating running a remote instance (on paperspace?) just to use Linkedin without killing the performance of my other tasks...
The threat here is not against anonymity, it is against encryption.

You can make as many PGP identities as you want and associate them with any sort of identity you desire, so there might be a political point available with respect to anonymity as well in some situations.
The ability to write down in a few sentences what you're actually trying to do. The number of people who can't frame the problem they're trying to solve is unbelievable.
My point is that alerts aren't really enough. If I'm asleep or on a plane or something then it could be many hours before I even see an alert, by which time it's probably too late. I'd prefer to be able to set up rules beforehand that prevent an unforeseen bill.

If the App Platform doesn't have that feature, and it isn't planned, that's OK but I'd argue that isn't really preventing a surprise bill as the marketing site claims. A warning isn't quite the same as prevention.
It's completely from scratch, and based on playing around with it, it's a weird kubernates system. Which is why the pricing seems super weird compared to existing DO products (100GB's base and then you pay per a GB).

Nanobox was a tool that allows you to build and manage a container with setups for heroku build packs. It handled deployment, load balancing, etc. Similar to heroku for example. But it also worked with Vultr, Amazon, etc.