skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What tools/apps are you using to figure out the size of applications and directories that are using the most?
As far as I know, one-on-one chats are not E2EE by default (there's a "secret chat" opt-in) and group chats cannot be encrypted at all. Has that changed?
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Not normally, no. But there are some puzzling exceptions:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-cancers-that-are...
Basically, the only major systems it not on are the BSDs, as the work is still in progress.
I do not have time to research to which games are implementing loot boxes or other gambling mechanics or showing them ads, so restricting my kids (while they are too young) mostly to Apple Arcade solves that problem for me.

Although, who knows, maybe if Apple Arcade is compensating game makers by how much time is spent playing their games, then those tactics will be present in Apple Arcade too.
Thanks but didn't ask. Really tired of people flooding telegram related posts to say shit like this. We know , but we also don't care. Telegram's feature set is unmatched and until that changes, fuck off
This really has nothing to do with software as a product sector. XBox subscriptions aren't even subscriptions to software, right? It's subscriptions to game content, which is no different from subscribing to any other form of media.

The one I'm still hooked on, that this reminds me I've now given something like $3,000 dollars to over 3 years because I've been too lazy to make a phone call and wait on hold, is the YMCA.

Even religious nonprofits are engaging in dark patterns.
I'm pretty sure they're joking.
Handy and expressive language, power-full ecosystem (libs, community, tooling)

Especially tooling, people might like it or not, but I think MS has really strong people working on languages and combining compilers and tools, so you have things like editing code while debugging it (at fly), evaluating expressions at fly, IDEs that makes you use refactor often and make your life waay easier and those are only things that I notice the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfBfBQq7EE
"Studies on each of these coronaviruses indicate that they jumped into our species from bats or other mammals."

Has this been proven for covid 19? I thought it was still a theory at best.
This is clearly needed, even if late, considering that antitrust laws are not a new thing.

There is hope, we tend to forget after only a few generations, but if politicians are moving now this is because the collective opinions about big tech progressively shifted during the last decade.

I might be naïve, but I think that HN played a role.

And of course this is not over yet.
They had to release it.

>The report prepared by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was required by the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by Congress late last year. The U.S. intelligence community was given 180 days to prepare an unclassified and classified report on what the U.S. government knew about UAPs.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/highly-anticipated-ufo-repor...
> Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.

Seems like a convenient place to hide some cool planes.
Our government expects visitors soon and this was a step towards preparing the public to what is about to come? xD
> We all get it. We all know.

No... not everyone gets it. I have met plenty of people who don't believe burnout is a real thing in the tech industry. I have also met quite a few employers who have zero qualms about running their dev team ragged and burning them out as long as it meets their quarterly goals or whatever.
You are correct- but they do complement each other very nicely, and Minecraft as a game has many properties that encourage both creative and analytical thought.
Nothing too crazy here. Exactly as expected.
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But, how would they make money otherwise?! /s

I think fucking social butterfly Arianna Huffington [1]'s website Huffington Post is the one that started the trend of headlines like "X {destroys,obliterates} Y" to report on 140 Twitter outbursts. Thanks, lady, for your contribution in destroying the media landscape.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1994/11/ariannas-virt...
As long as the Russian government is able to keep funding it? :)
The anti trust break up of AT&T led to disruptive innovation, like mass produced cell phones. I personally can't wait for the AI revolution that will occur when Google is broken up. The Big Tech incumbents need to die out, because innovation stagnates in these monopolies.
To say it succinctly...

Psychopaths like psychopaths.

https://www.psypost.org/2018/10/study-psychopaths-are-attrac...
The Senate ordered DNI to write a public report last year.
Mitterrand’s Last Meal
Lots of websites reject email addresses at entirely valid domain names as invalid, too, such as any at some of the new TLDs like .email.
Side note about “instant multiplayer Minecraft”: Minetest is as instant as possible for a native application: you download the client (about 25 MB), then connect to any server, no matter which games and mods run there, and have all the needed assets streamed from it, too. Non-existing nickname is all the identification player needs, IRC-style. It is even inter-operable across major versions and forks, at least to some extent. Of course, it has been this way because it has a typical relatively small and tight open source community, but, from a cursory look, it is possible for a public server to have a protected spawn/sightseeing area with rules and information, then (auto)grant new players who want to participate various gameplay privileges based on their progress.

It doesn't seem that web client built in the same manner is impossible. What's impossible is, most likely, telling a browser to give you a gigabyte or two of memory to keep the local world area, then step aside and forget about it.
What I've noticed with vehicles you have a last mile problem. Cars solve it but at huge cost both primary and externalized. With electric vehicles poised to cost less than gasoline powered ones, it's hard not to worry about Jevons paradox. Might be a wash if electric cars service life is significantly longer than gasoline powered ones.

I digressed, things like electric bikes do partly solve the last mile problem. Biggest threat to their adoption is having to share the road with cars. My constant suggestion is grade separated bike lanes.
> you would not have seen that and would not have gotten emotionally triggered

Don’t do that here. The comment is about Rally pretending to be about altruistic academic research while actually being a platform for Mozilla product development.
Don't feel bad, no-one else will get a chance to play it either ;-)
They didn’t release any details on specific incidents, right? This pdf is all there is?
There is a whitest kids you know sketch about this where the government was talking about the invasion by ak47 weilding bears.

The reporters asked: "wait a minute, are we invading Iran again?"

This always is on my mind when I see these reports.
Not everyone would want to work at a FAANG company either. I have quietly hoped for a redistribution of software resources for a while, it's not a practically thought out hope. I just feel like the worlds software talent could do better work in more interesting and varied fields.

I also think it would lead to more innovation. How many engineers aren't working on their own ideas because the insane salaries at big tech would be stupid to give up? I don't blame someone on 200-500k a year for just sitting tight and soaking up the dollars. 500k a year is as much or more than a successful small business owner, and you don't have to take on any of the risk.
Uptown, NE, all kinds of areas have changed drastically for the worse over thr past few years.

Having a friend of a friend casually explain how he just leaned his seat back when he heard gunshots sitting in a drive through was really telling. That, and a family coworker us ending his lease early and moving out of NE minneapolis after a bullet came through the wall and narrowly missed his cat's head. Another coworker had a car window smashed in overnight in uptown because he forgot to not lock thr car doors when he parked on the street.

I understand that country living isn't for everyone, but I don't think you could pay me enough to move back to a dense urban setting.
Nope they are very far behind typically and that’s the assumption I start with

You should look at a few technology related executive orders to show how difficult coordination of this is and how behind they are
> There will be many. Be prepared to say, “we were wrong.”

I'm not. That's a comfortable, lazy cop-out. I'm prepared to do it right. Maybe you and I should eating meat?
> Are attractive people actually more intelligent, friendly or trustworthy?

You are getting downvoted, but this seems to be a very non-trivial question, especially if historic context is taken into account.

For example, a mere 100-150 years ago, syphilis was widespread in the population, and it often resulted in face deformities [0] and deterioration of the mind [1] at the same time. For someone living in that era, avoiding people who looked ugly and unhealthy might have been a useful heuristic.

Maybe we still use an outdated heuristic from the age of syphilis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Tertiary
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosyphilis#Neuropsychiatric
They are not. They are predominately in the part of the sequence that codes for the spike proteins.

There are other evolutionary mutations spread across the genome, but they are minor by comparison.
A lot of the bad in the world comes from leaving people unequipped of certain basic "soft skills". It's not the same thing as mental illness, but it has similar effects.

And, for some reason, people become seemingly completely unwilling to learn-by-example any new-to-them soft skills, once they reach adulthood.

Or perhaps "lifelong learning of soft skills" is itself a soft skill that people aren't being taught.

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Anecdote: I was diagnosed/treated for ADHD as an adult, whereupon the "social soft skills" part of my brain suddenly started working like it never did through my childhood.

I went from thinking I was on the autistic spectrum, to noticing all sorts of new patterns while observing social interactions. I quickly realized that my capacity for social-skill learning had never been missing; but rather, the learning itself had just sort of been "paused", for lack of "voltage" in the right brain areas.

I did / am still doing a lot of delayed soft-skill learning as an adult. And it's really starkly obvious how much other people with me in the same situations, aren't deriving the same learning I do from those situations — even when those people are sorely lacking in the relevant social skill, but aren't otherwise socially unskilled. It seems like they just aren't bothering to look at the situation under the right "lens" to see the pattern, even though it's a "lens" they clearly possess.
You've just described a decades-long strategy of the strongest information security teams, which has turned into the industry of red teaming.
No, McAfee worked at Booz Allen Hamilton in the 80's.
> 1 - there are no straight lines on a farm.

I'm not sure what you mean, to me this sounds like "everybody knows that birds can't fly". But I might just be totally misunderstanding you.

Do you mean "there are no straight lines on farms near where I live"? Cause, well, half my relatives are farmers and their farms are very much made up of straight lines.

For context, here's a google image search for Dutch potato fields: https://www.google.com/search?q=aardappelveld&source=lnms&tb...
(2018)

2 years ago Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565
I'm done here.
If you are interested in more maths and 3D Geometry, the bible of the field is "Multiple view geometry in computer vision" by Hartley and Zisserman. Szielski's book is very hands on, but is it more of a formulas + litterature review book than a clean derivation book.

A lot of 3D Geometry algorithms are based on clean derivations and estimations, thus depending on your math fluency, you will find great enjoyment in that book too. The proofs flow really well.
QA should be done on a cheapest phone available to buy at the telcos 2 years ago.
These are all in animals and I specified human cancers for that specific reason, thanks for the article though, I only knew about the Tasmanian Devil one
It means that "Apple Music" cannot rely on an "online platform" (large online service) owned by Apple.

A more practical example is that Google can't run its ad-tech services in GCP. And Amazon cannot run its online store in AWS. They could, however, use each other's cloud. But not their own.
>> App stores also fund hardware. Ask a consumer if they want a device 50% more expensive or better terms for developers and guess what the outcome will be.

What would be interesting is if instead of the Appstore taking the cut off the top, the Appstore charged developers based on utilization of different parts of the A13 or M1 processor. Sort of like an AWS compute pricing.

If iOS Netflix users are using N million hours of the video accelerator, then charge Netflix something like NCost per video compute. If an Augmented Reality app users are using N million hours of ARKit, charge them NCost per ARKit compute.

This could lead to more efficient iOS apps and better future HW roadmaps.

I'd say apriori the one difference between AWS compute fee and an iOS compute fee would be that Amazon owns AWS hardware, whereas Apple sort of doesn't own iOS hardware (i.e the iOS user does).
One doesn't go without the other.
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One thing I noticed of my mobile games is that they seem to download a huge amount of items for each "event", and because they will reuse the resources for future event the downloaded items were never cleaned up. So eventually I got a blob of a couple of GB instead of half a GB in the beginning. However, since most events only come around a few times a year (e.g. Christmas event only comes once per year), it's frustrating to keep all those garbages on my phone and waiting for them to be read next year.
An even larger number proportion is people being assholes because they can…just like offline bad behavior.

Mental illness reduces culpability.

Attributing most bad behavior to mental illness excuses it. It treats Twitter trolls as if they have no agenda.

But Twitter is what we celebrated in the Arab Spring. An effective propaganda platform. That’s how trolls use it…to promote ideologies. That’s why the article leads with LGBT hotness; to define the victim perpetrator roles.
I suspect the HN headline, the URL slug, an (from those two, I assume) the original source headline befoe a correction all result from someone using “landfill” where just “fill” or “fill land” (which is the relevant kind of “artificial land”) would have been accurate.
I appreciate it :)
Anyone that says anything that is meant to hurt people has psychological problems.

But reading intent is impossible.
We also lost Bell labs.
Love all the little details. Some favorites:

* Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match

* Tiny flag icons to select country

* The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad)

* number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time

* utterly ambiguous human verification instructions
Yes, there's a feedback loop, same as with alcoholism. It's nice and good to consider alcoholism a disease, but there's a point where the not yet completely dependent person should say "It's not even 4 o'clock yet and there's no social reason, what am I doing with this can of beer?"
Note to employees by BuzzFeed's CEO: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-next-chapter
Cure for cancer? Better batteries. Materials for fusion reactors. Replacement for plastic. All sorts of things.
you're free to have another worldview; it doesn't hurt listening to people who have a different worldview though, especially when it's a viewpoint relevant to the topic (i.e. the founder of basecamp speaking on his point of view).

I had a distinct impression from what you wrote that you wish you didn't waste your time listening to his point of view though, which I find a bit sad if true, but you're free to have your worldview after all.

I really think that the speed at which some people reach judgement and conclusions is astonishing. It's all so easy; the world is split into two groups "us" and "them", right? the right thinkers and the wrong thinkers.

Listen, think, don't jump to conclusions, let things simmer, think again, object to concrete things, ask questions, express your point of view, hold your opinions. I can't make all of that in 20m; lucky you if you have that skill.

One of the most interesting parts of the interview (honestly I don't remember if it's before or after your 20m mark), was when Jason mentioned that there were several employees who felt attacked for not speaking up on some political topics at work; "consent by silence", while people just didn't chime in because they just didn't feel like talking about that stuff, yet suddenly they were treated as if they were racists; or others who felt attacked because they didn't use the right words when discussing about these topics. The whole thing easily backfires: imagine all you want is to promote inclusion and non-toxic environment and you end up fuelling the very same problems from the other side.

I'm not sure I can reach you and actually have a conversation about that; I have the feeling you'll dismiss me and just because you think you already know what I mean and what I stand for; perhaps just labeled me like "them", whatever that means.
I think that the biggest issue isn't the chemical space but the complexity of biological systems. It's hard to tell what the molecule will do. We just don't have a good enough simulator. AlphaFold is definitely a helpful step but more are needed in the same direction.

(In 2010 - 2012 I worked in a laboratory that did small compounds screening and I was building some tools to explore the chemical space)
Could this have an RSS feed? Maybe of recent projects posted, bought sold etc?
> "Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation."

Yeah, if we could just get a copy of that data real quick, that'd be greeeaat.
There's definitely room in the e2e messaging space that is more corporate oriented. Think centralized administration, key escrow, etc.
New Windows 11 UI preview?
I kind of want to say "Stop trying to make Chime happen" with my best Clueless impersonation.
It depends on your situation: If you already have a Postgres instance then the FDW is probably the easier solution.
Interestingly enough though removing preinstalled apps with `adb pm uninstall --user 0` (0, perhaps unexpectedly, being the main user, not root) does have a similar effect to disabling it, except it saves space permanently and only leaves the original APK in case of factory resets (not only this, but this works on what cannot be disabled otherwise, e.g. Google Play on some devices).

Just a side note that rooting may not be necessary. (even if I would love me a true Linux phone :)
I was into FIRE movement until I realized that i cannot retire until I am about 60 (42 now). A big meh moment. Thus new goal is that in about 5yrs to be able to work max 3 days per week, remote or not (though highly biased towards remote). Even if that means switching careers Product to Dev (re)learning, etc, I'd be fine with it. + Frugal living, of course, i did all the grind + material accumulations, as result of hard work + career advaces in tech + wife in marcom. I find it that 3 days work vs 4 days for life is a good balance (self time, raising kids, travel, the whole set). The big economy sistem should support in general more flexible methods of earning a living.
That code is not fullproof for blacklisted drivers across ANY browser.
One of the things that I would love to see would be the ban of all those acquisitions that those large firms do. Yet alone the 9bn USD MGM takeover by Amazon was not understandable.

Amazon is already too huge. Why are those aqcuisitions allowed?
I think THIS is a nuanced and useful way to approach this topic. I felt the very same thing. "Get a good job or else you'll destroy your body doing 'hard labor'".

I should be able to just will myself to work harder, for longer stretches. I'm just too weak to break through this low-spell. At least that's what I typically tell myself.

There's certainly room in this discussion for the boundaries of self-care and not accepting inherently destructive work practices.

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I appreciate them.
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Does the ACCESS act require sane pricing/lack of technical hurdles?

For example, AirPlay requires HW chips that aren’t actually needed and could be done in SW. This gives Apple a non trivial economic advantage in the BOM of their products.
The genome for SARS-CoV-2 shows strong evidence of passing through both bats and pangolins. But how it made the jump to humans is still unclear.
Be nice if Americans could make something this good again. Have you seen WhatsApp lately? It's a pure travesty.
Yep, it doesn't look like there's anything else that has been published.
No, the key is being able to sell yourself something for far less than its actual value so that you can squeeze millions of dollars worth of assets into the few thousand dollar contribution limit for an IRA.
Yeah, my daughter has been eighteen since she was five.
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> innovation stagnates in these monopolies

Bell Labs managed to come up with a couple of interesting things, though.
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I’d like to second “Why Does He Do That?”. Pointing out that abusive husbands often only break their wives’ stuff was a real eye opener for me in examining other people who harm others or lash out and then claim that they weren’t in control. If they don’t ever harm their own things or lash out at themselves then they’re not as out of control as they claim…
I see both sides here. On the whole, I think both people are trying to contribute and help in their own ways.

Some more specific comments:

> You're being combative for no reason so I'll leave it here but, in the future, don't always assume malice.

Saying "no reason" doesn't ring true to me. What one person considers to be (valid) reasons is subjective. In my view, 'reasons' includes a person's identity and experiences.

With that in mind, how do you think this alternative message would have been received... ?

"It was not my intention to chastise you. I meant well in offering some ways to reduce the chances that trolls come after you. Please don't assume malice. I'm happy to listen if you have suggestions on how I could communicate the message more effectively."