skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a non-zero chance WSL will make desktop Linux completely irrelevant even for developers.
It's extremely controversial ... in some places. In France right now the topic is extremely controversial due to recent events and will lead to laws proposed at National and EU level for regulating Social networks which are blamed openly by the public opinion for their amplifying effect.

This combined with new laws proposals from Germany could soon have a substantial impact on Tech by mandating various regulations on such platforms.

The effect of such regulations that could be endorsed by the two biggest and most influential members of the EU and could lead to a drastic change in the tech world in Europe.
The sense of time is connected to your age. There are studies about it and why time, as a child is perceived different than as a adult.

About: "Like, almost 1.5x faster."
You can check your perceived time by traveling the same distance you have traveled as a child (trip to grandparent, local lake for swimming etc.). If you are not 50% faster at your location, its surely your perceived time that has changed.
Facebook is going to start contributing to Rust
Hey, thanks for the reply :)

Sorry, should have written "an additional degree". The masters I hold is generic CS, meanwhile this one would be specifically AI related. There was no AI related subject on my first Msc.
I know my Yubikey supports NFC, and I use it with other iOS password managers. But Pass on iOS doesn’t seem to support Yubikeys.
I know you were just making a point, but I want to point out that the “nobody” part is certainly not true, as sad as that is. Generally something like that is considered fraud/deception, but it does happen.
What a waste of money that could go to projects really worth it, and not a service with pirated anime, tv shows, lingerie models, and very bad LGBT or religious content.

Who even taught this could be a good idea?
That didn't stop the blitzkrieg of anti-Apple posts reporting the same thing barely a month ago, yet Google-critical posts get flagged in less than an hour if they start getting traction.
Also, in general

OAuth => think authZ

OIDC => think authN
CDC Expands Definition of Close Contact for Coronavirus
Imagine having a better opportunity than the global pandemic to launch a streaming service crammed with original content and then missing the shot completely...
Fair point. The Sherman Act should deal with such control. We'll see!
Five years ago sellers on Fiverr could be from anywhere. Now it seems, a majority are from the Subcontinent where "juggaad" (Hindi for "gaming the system") rules apply. If you get taken, ha ha, it's on you. An interesting phenomenon is the same group acting as brokers for others. So the person you're buying from isn't even the person doing the work. Instead there's talk of a mysterious "team" with anonymous members. Curious how the women are always blond-haired and blue eyed, even if the email address tracks back to Nigeria or somewhere in Uttar Pradesh.
The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave
Firefox finally supports pull-to-refresh, now in the Nightly release
Yeah, famous last words.

The lawyers were right not to talk about remedies. Really, just getting the court to agree that google is abusing it's power is enough to stop them. Fool me once, as they say.

That said, something has to be done about pushing more advertising rev and therefore power/influence back to alternative publishers (wpost/wsj/nyt are alt publishers now). This monopoly/duopoly on 'thought' is insane and could very well be driving a great deal of ignorance / conspiratorial thought / etc in society. Trump loves twitter!

Trump is crazy, but crazy is what you need to get your message out these days. Just look at Obama and his tirade yesterday. I think it was ill-advised, the value prop of biden is dialing down the crazy, but that could just be the world we have now without more long form / substantive dialogue.
The physics are fine. Once you have 1G Torchships, orbital mechanics becomes very irrelevant.

You basically take straight line paths between to points in space, constantly accelerating for half the journey then flipping over at the half way point to decelerate for the rest.

Earth to Mars at closest takes 46 hours at 1G. Earth to Jupiter at closest takes less than 6 days. With 1G torch ships, the entire solar systems becomes accessible in less than two weeks journey. And the Expanse has ships that have much more acceleration.
unlike bittorrent, there needs to be some proof of work (e.g. that the document was indexed properly) which would require multiple confirmations. Right to be forgotten would be also possible if there was one blockchain, and a mechanism to verify that the request to be forgotten is legit. Having a blockchain also means there will be one development team of "Wise people" who are going to be developing the search algorithm for everyone.

Such a blockchain would not be good for current news, obviously. But even google takes days to update the average blog.
You are right, I do experience some startup time issues as well. There might be an alternative to pygmentize that is faster and supports many color themes, I am not sure! Someone might help us out.
"The CDC had previously defined a “close contact” as someone who spent at least 15 consecutive minutes within six feet of a confirmed coronavirus case. The updated guidance, which health departments rely on to conduct contact tracing, now defines a close contact as someone who was within six feet of an infected individual for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period, according to a CDC statement Wednesday."

This change will speed the closing of schools as even single cases will tag out even larger groups of people for 2 weeks at a time.
Intel pretty much didn't design it. It wasn't worthwhile for them to invest in making a consumer-oriented NVMe SSD controller of their own. Instead, they used the first NVMe SSD controller from Silicon Motion, whose SATA SSD controllers Intel had been using for a while. That SM2260 NVMe controller was cheap but bad, because it was made on a 40nm process (compared to 28nm or smaller for most NVMe controllers) and it was Silicon Motion's very first NVMe controller so they had lots of bugs.
> it is recommended to choose a license because without it, the default copyright laws apply

I think this is something even the FSF will tell people.
Welsh Government to nationalise rail service ('Transport for Wales')
One can block the channels on a per-user basis. And you can "personalize" recommendations to users to exclude channels or videos that are similar to ones they've previously blocked/excluded. Heck you can have curated block-lists that people can subscribe to. You can allow users to disable any non-subscription feed mechanisms so that the only way to find content is through search or other discovery mechanisms that may be external to the platform. There are so many different ways to solve the user-experience issue without deplatforming.

The more you peel back the superficial layers, the more you find that this is just about control as we "don't want to let people make their own opinions by finding content that we don't like".

Edit. Grammar.
For a trivial connection-oriented protocol the ports are part of a 4-tuple (my-address, my-port, your-address, your-port) so the 16-bit port isn't a big problem there. It doesn't matter at all whether this port is being used for something else in regards to any other combination of remote address and port since that's not a match.

And for fancier protocols it doesn't matter anyway because they have their own concept of a connection identifier. WireGuard for example doesn't care at all, packets arrive and either they're authenticated or they aren't, it silently discards all packets that aren't authenticated, QUIC optionally has a connection ID that can survive changing the 4-tuple as far as I remember.

If you wish you did have more ports, the IPv6 address space makes it pretty cheap to just acquire more addresses on your network and use those, but I do not sense much appetite because people don't feel like they're short of ports.

You do see people spinning up more addresses to not need SNI or similar. If you have sixty virtual machines on one hardware box, having sixty IPv6 addresses, one per VM, means now the packets for VM #4 and VM #18 are separated on the wire, which might be convenient but that doesn't feel like it's due to running out of ports, it's just more convenient.
Back in 2016 google sheets couldn’t do circular calculations, so many financial modeling tasks were impossible.
Fair enough, I feel like some antialiasing on the fonts would make it look a lot nicer.
What about https://commoncrawl.org/ ?
Yes. But do you mean to use conspiracy in a pejorative sense?

I think its pretty obvious that people 'breathe together' and formulate plans that work best for them. So with us, at the individual level, and so with those who have all the money and operate at the macro level. Are you saying that conspiracies don't happen? What is your method of finding the true ones?

The answer is that we require unfiltered information, and open communication with others. We need to personally engage in verifying claims. We can only confirm or deny whatever claims are made, if we have the information. If that is unavailable because of censorship we can only verify very little. This is where we are today.

As we can only verify very little, the problem is that we are not getting the information. Who is restricting information then? Is the world's leading, corporate-sponsored, search indexer (google), preventing the free flow of information? Well, yes it is. So we can say google is part of the problem, not the solution.
I smell this too. Sent them a mail 5 days ago inquiring about the claimed FSO advancea, packet loss metrics and company financials and they haven't responded.

Worse, the amount is just shy of typical angel investment but with their offering you'll likely have less rights than an investor does.
And Instagram had like what... 8?

Not every company that's successful and has millions of users needs to have a bloated org
Which is why you wouldn't pay it in the first place and which is why you would actually try to make your system secure instead of having an insurance pay for your gross negligence.
At least at the university I went to we had multiple classes that required using git and plenty of freshmen came in with at least a basic understanding.
it's called "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
Well of course it wouldn't work if the input is vastly different from what it's been trained on. Why would it?
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Laws and Regulations are themselves a Walled Garden with all the same problems with the added problem of a monopoly on the initiation of violence to enforce the rules
> Software like chrome and iOS aren't built for people to use. They're built to insert commercial software into people's lives.

iOS is designed to sell hardware, unlike Google's products.
If customers understand that it's not yet in existence, what is the dishonest part?
The harsh economics of open source (2018)
It's close enough to english that it almost just sounds like a really thick accent.
Amazon is pretty customer centric.
This mimics my own diagnosis. Stage 2 non metastatic as a fairly healthy runner / cyclist. That was four years ago. now age 32 and healthy as ever.
I've implemented it in mobile to authorize our app to communicate with our cloud, it does still use a webview to enter credentials, but there's a specific framework for doing authorisation with a webview on iOS
Some people might think their IT department is fully omniscient (or competent in other cases) and knows every flaw they could be targeted by which is why it would make sense to hire an external firm to audit you.
I hate their translation of The Master and Margarita. It’s ugly.
> I think that feudalism is fundamentally bad.

For the record, I think this is not how one should look at history. We have our current values, but to anachronistically apply these values to whole epochs long gone leads astray IMO.

Personal ethics is another matter, things like greed, dishonesty, callousness, betrayal between equals seem to be held in low regard wherever and whenever we choose to look.

There have been attempts to try and superimpose such personal ethics on grand epochs in history, but it requires a painful shoehorning of personal morals into some square holes where it doesn't belong. It doesn't hold up to serious scrutiny.
Fishermen crossed watersheds relatively often to enter pristine territory. Dragged their boats over.
True, I should have said most of Western/Northern Europe, I guess.

Edit: Actually, Europe is so diverse that any blanket statement is mostly worthless.
Trinidad: Team Boards Tilting Tanker
Yes, heaven forbid law enforcement perform work to enforce the law. That would be a terrible outcome.

In non-sarcastic words, I'm unsure what point your comment is trying to convey.
That only affects WD drives, these are Seagates.
I can't describe the feelings I feel in the last couple of weeks. It really feels like we are living in a (dystopian) future. Elon Musk is working on a brain-chip, people are wearing robot-arms and legs, space-travel gets faster and easier year by year etc.

Just crazy, I am stoked to see what new technologies and possibilities will arise in the next few decades.
Thanks for the Wikipedia link; should've have Googled/Binged/Mojeeked it!

We can have an interesting debate about whether "capital costs predominate". Many have said here they do for crawling/indexing. I don't think that's so clear
> uBO, Privacy Badger, and DecentralEyes are all the extensions I need.

I want Stylus.

> Sure, it might take one additional tap to open a new tab, but I'm fine with that.

Why? Why regress? What possible use did it serve?
Semantic Web Technology (RDF/OWL/SPARQL) is kind of that, used by WikiData and search engines (schema.org) among others (e.g. https://api.parliament.uk/sparql, https://data.gov.uk/dataset/6efafa3b-ec10-4e11-82a2-b4724dd5...).

If you make data available as RDF (which for JSON only involves creating a JSON-LD context mostly) then it makes it very easy for others to integrate with data from other sources as that is one of the key challenges that Semantic Web technology is designed to solve.
An alternative approach to regulating google's search monopoly would be to require google to either compensate users for harvesting their metadata, or prohibit google from harvesting metadata.

This approach would have different consequences to the DOJ's approach. It would leave intact google's ability to provide useful services that Tim Bray and others like, whilst redressing the economic tidal wave that flows google's way, for the better.

How would this work? There are many possibilities. Here are just 2, one of them individualistic and consumer oriented, the other social and community oriented:

1. Google gives coupons to users as compensation for harvesting their metadata. So if a user performs say 5000 google searches per year, google gives them coupons for say $500 which they can redeem on purchases made with vendors who advertise through google.

2. Google funds journalism by paying the metadata harvesting fee into a trust administered by an independent org that facilitates journalism. Like PBS or the BBC but not owned by the British Government, owned independently by a worldwide org that is affiliated with journalists associations.

The logic behind #2 is that pre-google, advertising revenue funded the news business. Post-google, the news business has shrunk by more than 50% of journalists and so the quality of the 4th estate has suffered.
i don't get why everyone's complaining about this. No-one was like "OMG they stopped making super nintendo games." or "OMG no more sega genesis games" when those platforms were end of lifed.

This is the same thing. Your existing games continue to work. You existing console continues to work. You're just not going to get an endless supply of new stuff for it.

I agree the lack of disk based games kills the ability to share and resell but that's a separate issue, and i'd like to think that we can all agree at this point that physical media is "a dead man walking" regardless of how we feel about that.
Love the perspective - sell the rocket fuel!
I really wanted to like OAuth but implementing it is a nightmare!

When can we just have client side certificates? That would be a great way to deal with most of the problems that emailing a "magic login link" (or just normal email based accounts) doesn't solve.
It's clearly stated in the email, it was company called Appdetex on behalf of Facebook. It even has a name of the person who submitted the claim.
Icebreaker time launched on Product Hunt
Looks like it'll be pretty resilient in the basic case from an web/tech perspective. They fetch the video content using plain HTTP against a video file hosted on a URL, getting it in small chunks using HTTP range headers. That's as basic as you can get it.
Most people who are happy with WoL are webdevs who do not really use anything beyond npm and git. So most people do not notice how bad things really are on Windows
thanks partially to google, NLP is now more of a problem of (moderate) scale
You underestimate most companies' (with significant internal engineering organizations) commitment to open source.

It's been 8 years since I've even had to touch Windows professionally and without any overt effort on my part.
Alex Gray (note spelling!) was also very nice to me when I once hung out in his loft on New Year's Eve.

He is over twenty five years younger than Randi was, and seems to be in excellent shape, so don't write him off yet. :-)

He left Manhattan quite a long time ago and now lives here: https://www.cosm.org/
But then you basically do what webtorrent already does, why reinvent it for no reason?
Putting cars on High Speed Trains would be uneconomical, a car easily weighs dozens of people, you wouldn't want to pay that kind of fare for a car.
She has a billion dollars. She won. Good job, game over. My analysis is that before she does any more damage she should donate 99% of her wealth and retire. If she's looking to do something socially positive, which I'm not particularly expecting, she could go raise money among her set, or advocate for a cause.
I'm curious what the motivation for putting this report together was. Some ideas:
- Create interest in company to aid recruitment
- For fun
- Client paid them to do this (seems unlikely)

Any thoughts?
But the last two were already so painful..
You are making the point that death promotes _change_. Not that it equalizes anything. That's a point I 100% agree with, except that you're saying that point is disagreeing with what I said. Because it doesn't :P
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I'm very glad that you are doing well!
I would dispute that, based on the amount of freight traffic I see on cab footage from Europe. What has changed is that much of it moves by container or unit train, so a lot of yard trackage is redundant now.

The other thing to note is that the freights are shorter and more frequent, rather than the 200+-car monstrosities we have in the States (made possible by remotely-controlled diesels mid-train or pushing).
It's not quite that scary. They're removing content that the site operator explicitly made unavailable to mobile phones. Old pre-mobile sites will be fine. I would direct the "fuck that shit" to those websites that actively decide to give mobile users less information, lower resolution images (even when you zoom in @&@#!), text that goes off the screen while scrolling is disabled, so you can never see it, etc.
I mean, Microsoft claimed in 2016 to surpass human performance and google subsequently claimed in 2017, and yet anyone that regularly uses voice dictation knows that <5% WER is far from realistic due to lack of generalization to new audio/noise regimes and domain-specific vocabulary.
better prepare for OAuth 3.0 bounties. a man's gotta eat.
Vint Cerf and RMS ... what a pair.

Vint helped spread the Internet beyond borders and to every Windows computer on the planet via async (aka PPP aka RAS). Sounds so awesome, doesn't it?

Meanwhile old RMS, an academic with tenure/nearly guaranteed income for life, finished us all off by establishing a political system that attracted all of the young minds to give away their software in such a way as to allow adversarial countries to obtain a 30 YEAR technological jumps without spending a friggin' dime.

(If you had any doubt that was his plan, you need only read https://news.slashdot.org/story/07/04/21/2025226/rms-protest...)

Combined, they created a platform for extremely ignorant and naive people to sip cups of coffee while uploading our national infrastructure and data to run on all that free software all over the planet. Yeah, they got theirs --now hackers are pouring through their websites and databases, Russia has ultrasonic weapons (who needs "StarTrek transporters" to deliver surprises) and China's Navy is the largest (sorry Taiwan!)

Don't even get me started about China's Space deployments --to orbit, the dark side of the moon and beyond. Maybe they can increase their efficiency using Vint Cerf's new suite of protocols.
The complaints resonate strongly with an article I wrote in 2018 when I tried to make a case for the value of cryptocurrencies: https://medium.com/hackernoon/in-the-context-of-everything-e...
The Daleks. They spend no time at all considering war, they just get on with it.
> require google to either compensate users for harvesting their metadata

This. Youtubers get compensated, why not ordinary users. Search, shopping and social media is work... It's the current year and billions are stuck home , many without even jobs.

> How would this work?

First you need a legal framework that allows users to sell their metadata. GDPR makes it illegal, but that's wrong. If this data has value (apparently it has a lot of value) , it should be tradeable for services.

Incidentally, i think one of the benefits of the DoJ action is that it gets people talking about solutions that people called 'crazy' until yesterday.
That seems normal... but in this particular case, it's kind of weird because anyone can make requests and observe how long they take. So nothing is really being hidden.
See pingfs. It stores data on ICMP packets.

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
GitLab issues?
every time this question comes up, the same answer is given. From the first paragraph of the guideline:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Unlock the secrets of building secure web apps using OAuth 2.0
But the employee does not see it on their pay slip, unlike the regular taxes and pension. So when people (aka employees) talk about taxes it is rarely mentioned. In that regard it is a hidden tax.

My boss told me he when thinking about our pay he considers the expense to the company to be about 2x what we get paid (pre-tax). So that's the "arbetsgivaravgift" (we got the same thing here in Norway) and pensions on top of our salary.
This seems a cure to privacy, not necessarily to antitrust. I think most technologists here believe that the current regulatory and legal environment is wholly inadequate in the face of surveillance capitalism and something like your approach is needed to solve it, but it doesn’t seem to pertain to the DOJ’s antitrust complaint.