skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sucked about the ‘WebRTC stack’? I think the situation is much better these days. We have multiple options. SRT only has one with lots of bindings. With WebRTC you could use any of these!

* werift (Typescript)

* Pion (Golang)

* aiortc (Python)

* KVS WebRTC (mbedtls, embedded C)

* GStreamer's webrtcbin

* rawrtc (C++)

* webrtc-rs (Rust)

* libwebrtc Google’s Implementation (C++)
This is pretty interesting. I'm watching it now.
See also the Dixie Flatline construct from Neuromancer (1984), an AI-reconstruction of a brilliant hacker https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Construct
>sign up/sign in

Why were clear terms like login/register/logout replaced with a “sign ...”? I get confused twice a week by these, especially because the difference between “in” and “up” is so subtle (and overloaded, like “sign up for a meeting at friday”, unrelated to registration routine). Sorry for offtopic, but it is really annoying. Is it more linguistically correct or just a hipster thing?
But the SV engineer will be parking their Tesla on the street next to their one-bedroom apartment.
This is exact my experience working for German Mittelstand. There are patriarch, family and their slaves. As a foreigner one ends up in the slave group. While cutting your salary because of difficult economic situation patriarch orders a new Mercedes. That was so surreal.

I wasn’t that lucky with American company. I ended up in one with American brand on the building and rotten hostile culture inside. Local patriarch is hostile towards Americans and the family insults new American owners on every occasion. Luckily I am leaving this show in 7 months for my own startup experiment.
The amount of brain power and financial resources these companies have amassed for the purpose of generating targeted ads or HMIs, is disconcerting.

Maybe it's too much of an Arthur C. Clarke type fantasy but I always wonder what our world would be like if a substantial fraction of these billionaire budgets at Facebook, Google, Microsoft were spent on Natural Sciences, even if with a commercial scope narrowed to Applied Sciences.
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In some countries you could call a number to do it.
Ars Technica coverage:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/luka-...
Email sometimes takes too much to be received by the user, but the approach could be handy in other contexts.

For example, some time ago made a Slack bot with a web dashboard. The authentication method was based on introducing your Slack username and the bot would send you an OTP. The latency problem didn’t exist here.
Pretty cool, and it has a public mode too

https://www.birabo.com/d/hackernews/
Squatters issue death threats to archaeologist who discovered Caral
Why does my grandmother have to force an update every time I restart her...
> GPS absolutely requires up to date orbital parameters for each satellite it's using. Who is going to constantly ping the server for up to date ephemerides every 30 seconds when the GPS chip can give you them for free?

I agree with the general point you're making, but this is wrong. The main benefit to getting ephemerides data is to get reasonably up-to-date orbital paths, you don't need it every 30 seconds.

The GPS device needs to project future paths anyway up to 30 seconds into the future even in the best-case scenario, so it's already making predictions based on past data.

The devices in question were already caching this data for days or weeks. It only became a problem when the server-side data was wrongly generated for whatever reason.
You have to pay VAT on any imported item.

If your item is below £135, you have to pay VAT at the point of sale. Above £135 and the VAT is collected at customs (maybe optionally at point of sale too? This part is unclear)
Even from facebook you could opt out. I am mostly sure you can create account without phone number
Adult content(before and after), and it was about ten years ago. Odd part was, the owner renewed some of the domains, so I got this income for two years.
I don’t think that’s the case at all. None of those places were actually difficult or expensive to make and could easily be replicated today. The difference is that today, there is an army of hipsters with disposable income ready to buy their way into the ‘cool’ subculture. The rich kids of 1980 weren’t eager to live in an abandoned warehouse, whereas today they’ll gladly do so - provided that it’s remodeled into a comfortable condo.
how about having FPGA execution units in addition to the normal units and os deciding how and who will use these new EUs based on the most CPU intensive apps running currently
It's a question and answer site, not a question and unasked-for advice site.
If someone's taken the time to write a thought-out question, then people should assume they've put research into it!
So Uber was financing a nazi propaganda website, nice.
Im super happy that they lost their money.
The other reply already said what needed to be said. I too genuinely find the site distasteful and am not just virtue-signaling for social status.

I would just like to add that I'm, in fact, not American (nor Western European) and that we dislike low-key misogyny in other parts of the world too.
I guess if companies were to go all-remote, and offer equal pay to anyone, based on the sheer numbers the equalized salary will be closer to that on Bangalore rather than SV. So as a EU resident I wouldn't complain much, there are a lot of people who envy our salaries too.
About the choice of license (MIT): could you share your considerations about it? (if any)

It's a topic I'm interested in. Mainly to see examples (and learn from them) about when people prefer lax licenses on the style of "do what you want with this, including a closed-source proprietary business" (MIT, Apache) which has allowed in the past that big Co's. benefit from it without giving back (lots of cases in HN), vs. strong copyleft "do what you want except closed-source proprietary stuff" style (generally speaking, the GPL family -- EDIT: I know that this, being mainly a server-side thing, would be more affected by AGPL than by GPL. Bear with me.).

If there are no business / commercialization intentions in the foreseeable future, would it make sense to use a GPL license (one of them) to build a strong open-source community?

Or it doesn't matter in practice? (i.e. it doesn't really affect the chances of building a good and strong developer community)
> treat people like they were your friends

that's not saying "these are your friends", it's saying "treat them like they were your friends". They're clearly not your actual friends, but negotiating is easier and gets better outcomes if you're friendly and positive. Starting a negotiation with an unfriendly and hostile or combatative attitude doesn't work as well.
I think you might just need a better job if someone complains about that..
Yes and no. I think it is possible to appreciate it for what it is while acknowledging the ways in which it is problematic.

I mean, can we all agree that this is neither a great work of art in the vein of a Voltaire or Boticelli, nor is it “Mein Kampf”?

The site is irreverent and crass. The level of humor you is what you would expect to find on the door of a middle school boys’ bathroom stall.

Imo that is about all the merit and demerit this deserves.

That someone seems to have put a significant amount of time and effort into this is an amusing and sad little bit of meta.
I remember reading about a startup that already did that. If I recall correctly, it developed organically out of a situation where the founder had actually lost a friend and trained a chat-bot on their email backlog.

Later she realized that there might be a business idea in this.

Does anyone recall that article?
You do know that relational databases were predated by other kinds of databases and were far from standard for a long time, right?

They won their way to becoming a standard, for good reason.
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Please comply with our Cease to Exist order.
China: The Disappearing Millionaires (2019) [video]
This usage fits definitions a, b, and c. This very definition draws a distinction between a 'fallacy' and a 'logical fallacy'
Most of these companies could already sponsor workers from outside the US, so they already tapped a pool of global workers. If they want highly skilled employees, which will constantly be in demand, then the cost to hire them will still be high. Salaries will drop in cost for less skilled roles, and will likely be outsourced to countries such as india, but quality will also drop.

So if employers want to be competitive then they will have to pay well regardless of location. In Europe we see a lot of US applicants these days, some good some bad, but we pay equally for most part depending on skill set.
I agree with you that relying on state/country cooperation to build the apps was part of the problem.

I don’t agree that it’s useless, 15min of close proximity to a confirmed positive COVID patient within the timeframe is the best possible determination of exposure and people should quarantine if they get it.

I could be persuaded that too many are notified if there’s decent evidence of it, but with the massive case load/spread in the UK right now - I’m more likely to suspect that amount of people exposed is massive.
I think that you can consider the Remain / Leave argument in the abstract as being a debate between:

1. Ability to change rules more rapidly and in a way that better suits local conditions.

2. Greater interntational cooperation and coordination.

The problem is that although 1. sounds like an unadulterated benefit it isn't always. It's more likely to result in rules that swing rapidly between approaches (as government changes especially in a system like the UK's) and also probably more susceptible to regulatory capture.

So it's not really abour 'running better' - it's about stability at the expense of a degree of responsiveness.
I was struggling with that too initially - replace the word with 'standard' or 'natural' and it retains the same meaning.
A good one-time-sign-in-link implementation will send a link to authenticate a session elsewhere, so you can click the link on your phone to complete login on the computer.
You're also bidding for eyeballs. An established player might want to scoop up the most relevant keywords forcing competitors to at least price match, effectively starving them either of views or cash
DDG has a No Javascript based search.
Why can all instant messengers do this “instant” part and email cannot? I’m aware of mta chains, decentralization, etc, but heck.
I would say that program that are run and exit immediatly are a minority of what is produced with languages.
A lot of web server, services, gui are produced in JIT languages and have a timespan of multiple minutes.
AFAIK FPGA reprogrammation time depends on the size of your edit, and your hardware, the article says that they expect to reprogramm it on a program load, so I don't think it will be that slow.
Singapore has democratic pressure points than it looks, and that's largely the reason why LKY acted "benevolently" where he did. He was essentially forced to. He was still a thug.

Firstly the fact that the leaders and all the population are squashed up against one another exerts a massive influence on the government. They're much more vulnerable to protest than other governments because they can't hide as easily. This makes them much more nervous and more willing to placate the populace than the government in, say, Myanmar, is.

Secondly they were competing with as well as trying to crush the communist Party. LKY co-opted a lot of their policies as well as trying to crush them. Note the essentially Soviet style housing and various effective social security systems. These were popular. This is a pattern that they have followed since (crush the opposition, steal their policies) and it helped fix their schooling system by bringing down class sizes in the 90s. Is that democracy? Kind of.

Singapore isn't proof that if you get the right dictator he can be benevolent. It's proof that the will of the people can be exerted through means other than the ballot box and that even a thug can do the right thing if he lives in fear.
The EU engineer living in a city apartment probably won't even have the money for a Tesla. They are really expensive on an EU salary.
Yes, it's been measured.
That link's about the Euro which is a separate (but related) debate from the wider EU point. The impact of the Euro on different member states is well understood and predicted.
Isn't this the same thing that happened with India, though? At some point the entire subcontinent seemed to be working in support or engineering for Western companies. And then it kinda balanced out. It's still definitely a thing, but it didn't kill Western software development rates as people predicted (it did kill IBM though, as people predicted).
Loris Cro did a great talk on error handling in Zig, which also deals with how to return information with an error if you need to, and why the common case optimizes for simpler error values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOIYyTacInM
Not the grandparent, but I'll add some points anyway:

Replacing large parts of a country's population, culture and traditions won't be possible without 1) societal changes affecting the existing population and 2) societal changes affecting the migrant population. In the end, neither the existing population nor the migrant population are likely to be happy about the end result.

1) Being a part of a cultural minority is a very different experience from being a part of the majority population, and the experience of simply having one's expected but unborn children/siblings replaced as suggested, would, to put it plainly, fuck with a lot of peoples' minds by messing with peoples' sense of belonging, identity, and general trust of society. In other words, if societal cohesion is a priority then replacing the populace will be tricky; many countries have raging debate about immigrants despite having an immigrant population of less than 5%. Imagine the debates if that number was steadily increasing and approaching 50%. My guess is it won't be pretty.

2) Whenever this topic is brought up, the main issue is usually that modern society needs to import workers in order to fill the positions open at the bottom; the existing populace is progressing upwards, since employees are scarcer and wages go up; while the low-paying jobs get filled by immigrants. The problem is that the migrant populace probably aren't really aiming for those jobs; moving halfway across the World to clean toilets simply isn't what most people want, and since linguistical, educational and cultural differences will shut the doors for more than a generation (assuming we don't get _much_ better at integrating migrants into our societies), migration won't provide what many migrants are looking for.

It is definitely possible to compensate for falling birth-rates by the means of immigration. It just won't be a drop-in replacement and it won't be easy. In the end, especially considering other issues, I'd say it's time to have a look at having a look at how to structure our societies in order to manage declining birth rates over an extended period of time. Migration is not inherently bad, and cultures can and will continue to evolve, but importing people to handle the shittiest of jobs available simply isn't a good way of welcoming anyone into your own society.
UK judge rules against extradition of Assange to US
Yep, many many times on my 2017 MBP. Far too consistently repeatable to be coincidence, IMO.
> Would love to get a transcript of exactly what he said at a forum a few months ago

Transcript: https://sfl.global/news_post/mayunshanghaiwaitanjinronglunta...

Translation: https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-spee...
Oh please, the experience in practice for this is terrible unless you're on Mac OS and even then it's not always good.
You might want to consider checking for hosts listed in https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

This is an excellent merged blocklist, with public whitelist (oisd is fully closed, no insight in what is whitelisted and why, also causing more false positives..)
From my experience, you should first understand your audience, who they are and then find places where they hang out.
Find groups on Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook and post about your product.

Another thing you could try is services like Betalist. For my last project it worked pretty well: i spent 120 EUR on paid promotion and got around 250 signups. I can't say that they were all relevant to my product, but around 30% signed up for the app and used it at least ones.
Thanks for making this project possible.

Have you tried streaming via Tor? Is it possible to achieve streaming via Tor even if subsecond delay can't be achieved?
We were playing the Jackbox series of games together, the other folks were participating in the game with their phones. There are various minigames with 5-50 second timers, so 10s latency is a lot. Some of the games have a special streaming mode which extends the timers, but not all of them and it's best played with regular timers anyway. Obviously for true action games, you absolutely need sub-second latency, preferably <100ms.
I don’t disagree, Singapore specifically leans a little authoritarian and doesn’t really care about the privacy preservation. I was thinking more for countries that have stronger privacy protections or culture around individual rights.

In those countries a lot of people dismissed the Google/Apple approach without understanding it which lead to a privacy worse approach that’s also less effective.
USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
Julian Assange cannot be extradited to US, British judge rules
> Do you really want equal pay?

And conversely for a company: do you really want to spread out your developers over very disparate timezones, different cultures etc?
No, this isn't correct IMO. 20 years ago, this was funny to the small group of young men who would've been aware of it. "Locker-room talk" if you will. This was never "simply funny" to a lot of people, they just weren't empowered to say or do anything about it. Thankfully, things are changing.

Web technology isn't just the reserve of "geeks" making websites in their basements anymore. It fills every corner of our existance. It's no longer in the locker room and it should behave as such.
While I sympathize with your points I believe they are missing the mark. This isn't cringeworthy today because of the mental abuse that Spears was subjected to, or her possible underage status: this has aged terribly because there has been a seismic shift in how we (as a society in the west) talk about people in general, and women in particular. In my view, bullying and sexually tainted degradation has gone (is going) out of fashion, and not a moment too soon.
On the other hand(and I'm Polish myself) you can live an exceptionally good life in Poland for 27k USD/year. Living in Poland I'd be happy to accept a salary that makes me very comfortable financially, even if theoretically the same position elsewhere pays more.

I think most people get it wrong - it's not that people living in cheaper locations are underpaid. It's people living in more expensive locations that are massively overpaid. Just because a software engineer in SF can make $100k/year doesn't mean that's what the position is worth, it just means these companies are massively overpaying.
I had this exact same idea 2 years ago. My wife said it wasn't worth pursuing. lol
In terms of the patent, I can't actually read anywhere that says the intent or a use case is specifically to create chatbots for dead loved ones.

The headline is misleading - The technology could be used to create chatbots from your dead loved ones, but that isn't what the patent is about.
Well the argument that the author makes is crucially about one argument - "equal work". For it to be really equal, these external influences cannot have an impact, and we know as a fact that they do.
Please don't link to twitter when other sources are available. In this case:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/04/julian-assange...

Reading twitter makes my eyes bleed.
If you were against lung cancer, and writing about the issues caused by scented candles emitting smoke and that smoke corrupting lungs - it would be hard to take you seriously or accept your criticism as valid. It's probably true that scented candles are infinitesimal contributors to lung cancer, but it's just silly to think of them that way.

Likewise, yes, language models use energy, but objectively, it's not that much energy and the sources for the energy are sometimes green and always efficient (i.e. Coming from the grid and not by burning jet fuel).

You can't really solve the problem of lung cancer by addressing scented candles. Reducing energy used by language models likewise won't have an effect.
A good number appear to be straight-up logistics; there's a worrying number of "and Ireland", where the only issue shipping to Ireland from the continental EU is the physical logistics of the UK "land-bridge".
I always thought that it was clear cut decided by Interflora case in EU court, and that such bidding is only prohibited if impersonation happens.
So called "Identity Graph" or "Identity Resolution" providers integrate with thousands of CRM systems and harvest the customer data in bulk, then sell the combined profiles back to the companies integrating them. Get an API access, provide one piece, like a phone number, and they resolve it to names, home addresses, email addresses, social media usernames and so on.

I mean i don't like facebook, but this topic is small fish
The current state of chatbots is embarrasingly bad. I still haven't seen a chatbot use-case that can't be solved better with an FAQ section + documentation search and a human as second line of support.
It is isn't it? I've been watching StarTrek The Original Series lately and oh boy, have we changed. There is a Netflix Explained episode on Political Correctness, fascinating stuff.

To be clear, in my opinion we definitely changed for the better, the position of women at the end of the 60's (which seems so close) is almost mind boggling to me now. It's just 2 generations away from me, but back then my grandmother's mother told my grandmother: "You want to work? What? I'll teach you how to work, in the kitchen, and around the house." I think this caused my grandmother to be very liberal with her kids and as a result my mother was with me and my brothers. As a result I never understood how one can not see men and women as equal. TOS gives some "nice" insights into the matter though...
Ability to fast forward and rewind is the big one in the DLNA client on the LG.
Then you require a video conference solution not a live streaming one. Similar but not the same.

edit: Why am I down voted? A live stream is a broadcast, a conference is an interaction.
A lot of this sounds like some of the highest paid people in the world complaining that they are unable to practise lifestyle arbitrage by combining their high salaries with a low cost of living. This is simply not an option for the vast majority of the world.

So we see this "pay me, but no-one else, for the value I create" nonsense, as though programmers alone should be exempt from the dynamics of supply and demand.

If we're going to go down this path, then let's pay nurses and doctors for the value they create, which has been proven to be extraordinarily substantial this year. Let's pay supermarket cashiers, truck drivers and shelf-stackers - the people who had to literally risk their lives so that the rest of us could have food available during this pandemic - for the value they created in the rest of us not starving. Let's pay child care workers and teachers for the value they create, which I wager will often be far greater than what some programmers contribute.
Pretty good article; mentions the others involved in the whole "mRNA" research.

Thanks for posting the link.