skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 20 years ago reputed organizations such as newspapers, radio stations and television informed people the truth. Conspiracy theories were fringe and didn't have a way to spread. Today more than half the population believes in conspiracy theories because they learn the "truth" from disreputable sources on social media.

Why do you suppose that is, though? Could it be because algorithms designed to feed users content they like promote and reinforce echo chambers which, in turn, incentivize the creation and spread of convenient misinformation?

Social media did not start the echo chambers, but they have played a huge role in making them more accessible and extreme than ever before. How can we trust them to safeguard us from misinformation when they are the ones profiting from it?

I do not want Google deciding what is and isn't "misinformation". As far as I'm concerned, they're more guilty of the mess we're now in than any media organization or content creator.
I asked this elsewhere in the thread as well, but what about tracking done through the session cookie?

e.g: Tying together two browsing sessions by one user on two different devices.
In what legal universe could she claim any damages at all, after making it clear that she was quite happy to resign if her ultimatum wasn't met? And with no evidence anywhere that her 'departure' was racially motivated? Are Californian courts really so biased that they'd see racism in a situation where the employee had been planning to sue her own employer, in an at will state?
Law professor wins China's first lawsuit against facial recognition
No doubt, France is pro-EUarmy and pro-EUtax, as long as the army speaks French and the tax goes to French farmers.
The parent commenter might have alluded to "What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
The App Store doesn’t allow downloading apps over a certain size unless connected to wifi.
Damn straight. The prospect of how much you can learn about human reactions is INCREDIBLE. Eye and mouth tracking is everything, here: it would be turning a wide variety of human behavior study into Big Data and straightforward machine learning.

What would you do with it? What wouldn't you do with it?
I actually don't... I mean I have a blog where I post the odd article at my other site, https://division77.com but I didn't think anyone would be interested in my ramblings.

Maybe this thread has changed my mind on that.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/danoot/status/1334967635318956034
Would you mind sharing what your app is? I'm curious what level of technical sophistication is needed for an app that makes $2k/day. Was it more engineering or marketing or equally both that helped you gain users and traction?
I thought this was going to be a link to a technical article suggesting the merge of vim and emacs... Vimacs.
I personally think it was this tweet that sealed her fate at Google. Calling out your leadership unecessarily with a tweet about white supremacy is just insane.
Yes, within the context of what was stolen. "Nothing of what was stolen should be secret." was the statement referred to.
Right, so I guess we'll need to wait at least until game engines are Vulkan-native...

By the way, are the new consoles Vulkan-native?
Congratulations on the achievement!

The site looks very good, and the idea is very appealing (though I am not a target customer). Will point Songbox out to my audio producing friends.

One question in regards to where the audio is being served; would it be possible to proxy it through Songbox from another origin point?
See... I work for one of the largest banks in the world and in vicinity of me there is a Clojure project. The guys are trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Original developers left the company or advanced to management roles and now nobody is able to figure out what this convoluted, obfuscated, undefined, unstructured mass of code does or how to modify it so that it doesn't blow up more that it already is.

As much as I love Clojure I see the problem is you need really good (not just intelligent but also wise) developers to reap benefits. Otherwise you can run into huge problems.

"With great power..."

Clojure has so bad rep here that even I think I made a mistake that I let on that I use it for my projects.
> Counter backlash then. You don't have to support people that don't support GeForce Now over Stadia. GeForce Now is no different than renting some server and streaming to another device.

Can't really backlash considering I already own the games of those publishers who initially supported GFN and then pulled their games from it :P I already paid for the Mafia trilogy, Fallout & Elder Scrolls, GTA, Red Dead Redemption series, DOOM, Wolfenstein, Borderlands series, .....

FWIW I paid for Stadia for a month but I wouldn't sink much money into it, either. The games I want to play are mostly missing on Stadia too. Wouldn't pay for either GFN or Stadia at this point.

> From what I've heard people are able to play Cyberpunk 2077 with RTX on using GFN (GeForce Now).

Yup, CD Projekt Red are one of the publishers of AAA games that seem to have no beef with GFN.

> That's interesting, I'm surprised you can't use Steam to stream games. But interesting nonetheless.

Oh, I forgot about Steam Link actually. I've used that too. It was... okay, but I experienced more bugs and couldn't get the same quality I got with Moonlight. Moonlight has higher framerates available (90fps, 120fps) and is more actively maintained than the Steam Link app (the Android TV version, anyway). Moonlight does depend on you having an NVIDIA GPU though.
What AI research has she done that isn't related to "ethics"? She doesn't seem to have any track record for creating new algorithms, for example.
Nah, maybe it is about time people learn to pay for their tools like in other professions.
> EY moved 7,500 roles and £1.2trn out of UK to the European Union
> it won’t be significant enough for anything major.

Whith the EY example being one company only, I don't think it's warranted to call it "nothing major". In fact, I know it: I work for an investment bank and we're moving vast majority of our UK-managed assets to EU. Roles are moving slower than expected, but with the assets being managed in EU, it's only a matter of time before the UK roles become redundant if employees refuse to move.

Almost all my team's work during last 24 months was related to Brexit and the change of legal entity. It's major. Very major.
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Great question.

There's a few approaches depending on your target latency. If you need to get below 2 seconds, yes, you'll likely want to use a WebRTC based technology to deliver the video. There's a couple of open source approaches out there, including Pion [1], which is a go implementation of a WebRTC stack. You could also build something on top of Jitsi [2]. Commercially there's also a few solutions, including Milicast [3], Red5Pro [4] and others.

The biggest problem with WebRTC based stacks is that the cross device compatibility is still generally poor, and the cost of operation is generally very high, as you can't use commodity CDNs for delivery.

If you're comfortable around the 2-5 seconds latency mark, there's more traditional HTTP based technologies available. MPEG-DASH has a Low Latency mode which uses chunk transferred HTTP fragments, and Apple has recently introduced a Low Latency HLS mode, which works in much the same way [5] [6]. You can build LL-HLS and DASH-LL solutions on top of open source toolchains like Streamline [7], and use commodity CDNs for delivery to reduce cost.

[1] https://github.com/pion
[2] https://jitsi.org/
[3] https://www.millicast.com/
[4] https://www.red5pro.com/
[5] https://mux.com/blog/low-latency-hls-part-2/
[6] https://mux.com/blog/the-low-latency-live-streaming-landscap...
[7] https://github.com/streamlinevideo/streamline
Or simply deny to work without an internet connection, like Chromecast, even though you just want to stream local content when your internet is down.
I love using footnotes and sidetone in my writing and I have had this frustration myself.

Part of the problem with footnotes is that they must be rendered in completely different ways depending on the device. It is annoying that there really isn't a good way of expressing that something should be a footnote attached to a particular piece of text in HTML. Depending on the stylesheet, this should be rendered as an expandable in-line span, a floating block off to the side, or a footnote at the bottom of the document or printed page (for printouts or PDFs).

My website uses a modified version of the tafte.css project, which meets _some_ of requirements in a sort-of hacky way.
Both of these are true.

There are affidavits. They have not be submitted to courts. But this is not because Trump and friends have been prevented from doing so. Instead they have chosen not to submit this material. So cases have been tossed for lack of any factual evidence. These affidavits are reasonably declared "not evidence" because when offered the chance to get a court to look at them the legal team has instead skipped it.
The separate company could still sell Facebook all your data though, right?
$63 x 10 for the complete set
Saying "the world is in change" doesn't do much when it's plain to see that Brexit is a net negative for the UK.
Just so you're not recommending a competitor, it's songbox :-) not soundbox.

Hmmm... I'm unsure of wether you could host the audio somewhere else and serve it through songbox. It's an interesting proposition though and one I will look into.
I think the outcome of the investigation will be that Megan jumped the gun when she prematurely terminated Timnit, and Google will pay Timnit a bunch of money in a private settlement. It's unlikely Megan will see any real punishment for it, though- she's a favorite of Jeff's and is well-protected by HR.
According to Taleb, low IQ actually is... but not high IQ !
You seem to have missed the point entirely and opted to just regurgitate numbers to plug into the guiding function I explicitly questioned.

What is the number of deaths it takes for you to think the government should take whatever action necessary to prevent it? Is it 1? 100? 1000? When does reduction in deaths become more important than other considerations?
It doesn't however require you to disclose exactly how to reproduce it or how to do it cheaply or affordably. That information can be kept as a trade secret.

Part of the reason for patents is that someone else could devise a method of reproducing your patent cheaper or more affordably and undercut you.
Yes, the issue is widespread mental health issues in America.

Neither this apathy in the face of a mortal threat nor the delusional and mendacious outgoing President are an anomaly; they reflect the degraded state of the American psyche.

I don't see it improving.
I'm confused by some of the more inflamed reactions here.

YouTube is a private company. They should be able to cater to their customers as they wish. Anything else would be evil government meddling. In a nutshell: freedoms!
Root Cause Analysis has determined that solar flares, which come from the Sun, are the reason any life exists on Earth. Without the sun, no technical evolution would have occurred and no outage in Facebook's infrastructure would have happened.
CentOS was supposed to be a community project supported by Red Hat. They appointed themselves to the 'governance board' and never held a single election, not even one seat, to represent the 'community.' Then, they made this decision behind closed doors, rather than at least have a public discussion period.

The community response is in no way FUD. They took a project, killed it, and expect you to like whatever rolling alpha they pretend is it's replacement.
why Signal and not wire? (no sim card needed), No need to allow access to your address book to make group chat. Works in browser, ios, android, desktop app. Using signal protocol. And you can draw in it.
> causing minor shortwave blackouts
Yep, it was to prevent you from accidentally blowing through your cellular data cap. They no longer prevent the download, just warn you that the app is over 200MB.
Sometimes you just need a break. Something that worked for me was taking some time off and not putting pressure on myself to get back to it. It gave me the freedom to relax and not think that I was failing because I wasn't doing it. Eventually I wanted to do it again, and have ever since.

For me it was writing but I think its translatable.
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Okay. I hope this comment made you feel better in some way.
Update: looks like most services are accessible again

https://downdetector.fr
A story about saying no to Facebook and losing millions
You're not the first person to say that. It used to be $50 a month and no-one took me up on that, however the product has evolved quite a bit since then.

Will re-look at pricing in the new year.

Thanks a lot for your input, it is appreciated!
You can also buy a motorcycle. It's cheaper that therapists in the long term.
It seems like the pace of antitrust actions by U.S. federal government and U.S. states has suddenly ramped up quite a bit. And now we have this, albeit from the German government.

Anyone know why these are all happening at once?
The Horus Heresy is not much better than WoT in that regard: I must read "they grasped gauntlets in the manner of warriors" or some variation thereof at least ten times per book
> I don't have to give Logitech my drivers license to plug in a mouse

Reminds me of how Nvidia's Geforce Experience application requires you to create an account with them just for the convenience of auto-updating your graphics card driver. This "experience" sure doesn't feel right to me, so I update those drivers manually.

Companies are really trying everything they can think of to get more of your information, even if it's just an email address.
x10 boxes to get the whole series = $600
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Sadly, currently sinking without trace. But I'm pleased you enjoyed it - I'll let Christine know.
Very trickey question. I used to be at the same point, in my case logistics. I always came back to it, because quite frankly it is the only thing I am good at I can earn a living with. What helped for me, was two things:

1) See the logistics tasks I have as not "my" logistics, in other words getting some professional distance back I didn't realize I lost

2) Do it really for someone else, in my case, I turned consultant of sorts. That supports point 1), it also means I have a client now who hired for a clearly defined, concret task. So in a way, I am not simply doing it for myself

Especially the "not doing it for myself" part helped a lot. It prevented me from burning because I am less personally invested. And it also means, by doing for someone else, that I have an outside goal I can "serve".

Put in other words, not doing things because I want and I considered them cool solved my prioritiation issues. And doing for really someone else, solved my personal investment problem. For now at least.

EDIT: A hobby, how could I forget that. In my case, a 1982 Range Rover. Besides the engine and gearbox, I tore everything appart in the last 2.5 years. Never touched a car before that, so. Yeah, doing something completely different, completely new without the oal being money helped.
If you are interested in a moderately realistic economy simulation game then checkout prosperous universe.

https://prosperousuniverse.com/blog/2020/11/03/learn-economi...

I think it's incredibly interesting because it helps people actually experience economic theory first hand by letting everyone run their own virtual business. It's obviously highly simplified but if you have spent your entire life on the consumer/worker side then you will never get to experience even a tiny bit of the complexity of running a real business and how economic theory works out in practice. When you aren't actually running your own business you often get hung up on high profile edge cases like monopolies where it's in your face that the economy is not in your favor but you never ever stop and think for a second about the parts of the economy that do actually work out just fine. Things like water futures are a net positive compared to the previous situation. Instead everyone in this comment section assumes the worst and thinks about how this system is going to get broken and abused because that is what they experience all the time in far more complicated situations like health care.

Free markets aren't ideal in every situation. That's true but there are also situations in which they are excellent. The closer you get to a prefect market the more effective the free market. Health care is the ultimate counter example to a perfect market and managing it as a free market will not yield efficient results.
haha well I'm Scotland and the way I look at it is that it now pays for my car, fuel etc. So I see that as significant.
If you compile everything statically yes, otherwise yes they need this integration.
Yes, that is a fair point that once people are interested, they will read more deeply... I sometimes try to handle both by bolding the key words and phrases to help skimmers while leaving in additional content for readers. I'll give it some thought the next time I write up some blog posts, but for much of the writing online, you are right - it is optimized for skimmers.
Public disclosure of the thing being patented, not all aspects of how you plan to produce and distribute it. In fact, those details are open for additional patents.
How familiar are you with the ML family of programming languages? If the answer is "not at all", that might be the rabbit hole you are looking for... it'll take you places.

I recommend F#.

You seem to be concerned with... delivery. I find that the prospect of starting a project that may never get completed is a showstopper for me and so I've let go the idea of ever achieving anything a couple years back. You might discover things are perfectly fine like that.
They changed it with iOS 13. It will warn you now, and you can still download over cellular if you want.

https://www.wandera.com/ios-13-app-download-cap-removed/
You don't talk a lot about your job. "You lost interest", but apart than that, how is it going?

Maybe you just need some rest. I know everybody is hellbent on doing side projects and moonlighting over here, but seriously, you most likely don't need that to live a full life or even put food on the table and pay the bills.

These days, I start with the premise that everybody is exhausted and feel like shit and that's normal. Hang in there baby, things will get better.
Find someone to mentor or at least collaborate with someone that has the enthusiasm You have lost. Attitudes are contagious so they will give You the shot in the arm(Kick in the Pants?) that You need but be careful not to drag them down.
So you’re an immigrant who says none of the 4 freedoms are beneficial to regular people, when it looks like you personally used those freedoms - freedom of movement and possibly freedom to establish and provide services.
I always thought it was a military term meaning "zero kill". No casualty is OK.
IMHO, it is NOT encrypted, unless the service provider (also can't read your message). A promise from a Russian based company (the Facebook of Russia) doesn't put any assurances for me.
At some point, the spark may just go away. In my experience, even the most fascinating things in the world will loose their luster when you've made them your day job.

So long as it's not burnout (or depression, etc - a counselor is a great resource here), often the best thing to do is to find other things that excite you in the time you're not at work.
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That's unfortunate, but I see your point. It's a real catch-22. If you build everything in Java it's harder to attract good devs, but if you use something like Clojure you need to attract those good devs.
This makes now two designated CentOS successors, after the announcement of Rocky Linux from the original CentOS founder.

I wonder if they consider to join forces?
I was talking here about the typical foto cameras. Of course you can measure the wavelength of the light with other devices like spectrometers. I was specifically talking about camera sensors which have separate filters in usually 3 colors in front of the pixels. The sensors, which are made by Sigma, formerly Foveon, use a different principle. They determine the wavelength by measuring how deep electrons are generated by the photons in the silicon. The depth depends on the wavelength of the light. However, it is more difficult to get a precise color response that way as you cannot just use predefined color-filters.
FireEye discloses breach and theft of internal hacking tools
I have noticed that people often use such criticisms against anything they aren't familiar with. If you can find an enthusiastic polyglot who says the same then it becomes a bit more believable. And - of course - the fact that it is so unfamiliar to most is probably a valid criticism anyway.
This may not be a particularly compelling use case for you, but one of my side projects is a music editor that can generate and upload sheet music and backing tracks for existing or new compositions: https://woodshed.in

While there are tons of image sharing sites with suitable APIs for this, it's surprisingly hard to find audio sharing sites (maybe due to piracy concerns?).
Yeah I have to have the desktop app running and am initially thrust into it before I can launch steamvR
Brexit: 'Large gaps' remain after trade talks with Ursula von der Leyen
To "steal" has many definitions. When it comes to data that can be copied, there is another.

This action may well deprive the owner of said information of income/deals in the future.

But I completely follow your argument re: copyright infringement.
Nice, then i wait until RedHat/IBM gives out billions of dollars from the software they sold and took for free.
I really agree with you. I think in any walk of life you can reap so much benefit from just being a human being and treating others the same.

I get so much response when I email people. Every email is hand typed and I just say whatever comes to mind at the time.

Its super helpful for getting feedback and getting to know my customers.
So a liberal professor in Austin, who is also a CNn analyst, thinks it's a "crazy stunt" with no actual law analysis? [0] And his peers are on the Biden transition team? [1]

Well, I'm convinced.

[0]: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
[1]: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-te...
This has happened to me after a 20 year career and successful side business. Instead of fight it, I accept it and look at it as a natural part of growth, not stagnation. It opens up the possibility for you to take your job for what it is—a job—and explore new hobbies and interests.

If nothing is interesting, take a break from trying and play video games or watch tv for a year. Youre going to bump up against a lot of potential interests, and one might naturally take off.

For me, that new interest has been electronic music production. And I don’t follow any predefined path. Instead, I just go in the direction it takes me. For now, that’s been developing 4 bar loops and hoarding gear. Those are the antithesis of a productive producer.

But I remember how I got started in software collecting warez and keygens without any real rhyme or reason. That lead to me wanting to know how software was cracked, built, then how businesses and careers were built, learned a lot about leadership as a byproduct of having a career, etc.

So, while it might sound cliche, open your mind and follow your heart and don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s ok to relax, breathe, and enjoy the life you’ve carved out for yourself so far.
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (zdnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586