skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of funny because iOS is currently the “lowest common denominator” - by far - when it comes to the web.

And boy does it set the bar.

Safari/WebKit is hopelessly behind and suffers from bugs and quirks that makes it very hard to build a decent experience using the web.

Browser choice could help raise that bar.
Agree. I started with personal computing in 1983 and what was so exciting about that time, I think, was that each new generation of hardware could do something incredibly cool the prior generation fundamentally could not. I remember feeling a nearly constant level of excitement about tech, always so stoked to see what was coming next and what incredible new capability it would bring to the table.

And Moore's Law didn't hurt either, those clock rate increases!

Today's tech is amazing, but the progress is mostly incremental and that doesn't tend to get the blood pumping.
Ah, I won't buy tech that needs a cloud subscription, though. Especially not one linked to Facebook.
Remember the Chrome "puzzle piece" extensions menu post where Google announced hiding extension icons inside their new menu by default?

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

Almost universally negative feedback and ... "Thank you for the feedback", we're not changing anything.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=111474...
DF-17 + DF-ZF & Xingkong-2

https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/01/27/chinas-hypersonic-wea...
yes, no doubt the challenges are significant, given the centrality of public education in local, state, and even national politics, but policy (slowly, piecemeal) got us into this problem, and perhaps only policy (after a long cycle of learning & debate) can get us out.

the main point is that a key (hopefully self-evident) principle is that our liberties shouldn't be for sale at any price. if that means states/localities need to develop software (and software development as a competency), so be it. political winds can change.

but as has been pointed out, it's not even clear that we really need much new technology, when existing tech seems to be perfectly satisfactory, if unexciting. the mass distance-learning experiment we just experienced seems largely a failure. turns out learning, while central, is only one of many educational concerns, and computer-based learning is at best augmentative, not primary (unlike, say, school administration systems).
Carmack is smart enough to know that the greater good involves not working for an ad surveillance company.
Eight years ago, I launched a desktop website editor with Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7023071

The post got to the front page and brought in the first two sales. That got the ball rolling and I was able to focus full time on the project since then, building a small team and continuing improving and expanding the app.

Here is the story of our first year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8878381

And, I'll soon post another Show HN. This time for a side project created with my son.

Thank you HN :)
I'd love to have dark mode feature.
Revenge bedtime procrastinators are aware of that too. But in that moment, the recklessness overrides your better judgment. So how can you say when you "choose" to be reckless, you are not indulging in the same akrasia that addicts do?
> He funds Thiel College

Huh? I've never heard of this. Searching doesn't give any good results. Could you direct me to somewhere to read more about this?
Request: Use workers KV to coordinate object locks, like a file system. (Well, something better than a file system.)
Yes I also use Youtube Vanced :)

Firefox on android is noticeably slower for me than chromium based browsers.
The author states:

>"A mutex on the fast path of a program severely limits scalability. Instead, Masscan uses "rings" to synchronize things, such as when the user-mode TCP stack in the receive thread needs to transmit a packet without interfering with the transmit thread."

Is "rings" here referring to PF_RING mentioned in the preceding paragraph or is it referring to a specific synchronization primitive?
This isn't a new concept - You've been required to show proof of immunizations to register for public school (including college) and get a visa (or immigrate) for decades.

It's a bit annoying when you start college when you are 38 years old and you no longer have any of your pediatric medical records, which happened to a friend of mine. For my friend the school accepted an antibody test, which a friend of mine had to get.
Follow Arms Control Wonk. There's a bunch of OSINT folks in the podcast slack channel including friends of mine that have been interviewed by magazines like The Economist.

I'm there more for the cyberwarfare takes, but from what I understand nobody is seriously worried about a power imbalance between China and America regarding missile speed since interceptors aren't accurate enough, but that's just me regurgitating what I see tweeted around and talked about.

Edit: And don't be intimidated by people reverse engineering sidewinders in the Slack. The community is very open to humble, curious newcomers. They'll teach you how to analyze satellite imagery for free, haha.
Generally, I'd say that anti-carrier strike group tactics involve simply (well, maybe not so simple) overwhelming the defenses. Quantity can work as well as quality.

You might look into Russian missile work. Of course, as a land power (and not as invested in trade as China), their answers are different.
The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading
I've dug a bit into the new version. It's entirely different product. There's no baby stepping this change for your legacy users. I'm very happy that legacy dashboard is accessible otherwise I'd have a real problem with the new design. To make the old version and the new version more "compatible" you could change the nomenclature on the old version from "unproductive time" to "personal time" - and it would make more sense if you are switching back and forth between the new/old dashboards. Also, for integrating calendars, only gmail and outlook are available - I'd love to have ical links monitored. I aggregate different calendars on iCal.
Holacracy
Isn't this the same with Android phones and google accounts?
Or iphones and icloud accounts?
Like android had custom roms without google, i guess this open the path to roms without fb?

I think no can disagree that this is at least a step in the right direction
Teaching Elementary Computer Science Through Universal Design for Learning
>I hope this is a precedent for when headsets go unsupported in the future, but damn, getting all the necessary permissions for this involved SO much more effort that you would expect.

This is one of those things that if you start with it as a goal, it is relatively easy, but if you want to ADD it later, can be insanely difficult - or impossible.
> Absolute worst case! You're going to end up DMCA'd by the entire music industry.

You'll even get DMCA'd for your own content!

In late 2018, musician TheFatRat had one of his YouTube videos taken down due to a DMCA report: https://twitter.com/thisisthefatrat/status/10729330469391933...

Herman Li, the lead guitarist for Dragonforce, had his Twitch account suspended due to supposed DMCA violations because he played his own music on stream: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/10/twitch-dragonforce-herman-...
Well, "lurking killer robots" is already the daily experience if you live in a conflict area where drone strikes are implemented.
That's an important point and I'm glad you pointed it out. Thank you!
Incredibly well explained, kudos to author! This reinvigorated my interest in genetic algorithms. Last time I considered getting my hands dirty with GA was for this Kaggle challenge which still remains largely unsolved:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge
I think people vastly underestimate the amount of fetching and cleaning that goes into cooking. If you can load all that onto a table, a knife + arms are doing the easy part.
Sorry, which ISO standard?
Huge numbers of tech people are fleeing California and NY and going to Utah, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. And the reason is not because of whatever government initiatives are being done now but because of much cheaper housing and a substantially higher quality of life in terms of bang for the buck. I'm a frequent visitor to Miami and absolutely love the warm waters, laid back people, and remarkably affordable housing. Every time I go to Miami I see cranes in the sky. They are constantly building and going vertical. Once you have a critical mass of skilled people, that becomes an attractive location for companies to establish offices.

Don't get me wrong, government regulation makes a difference, but it's not stupid culture war stuff, it's housing, taxation of housing, and zoning laws that are the key difference maker.
I’d love to try your product out in combination with Jaeger. Is it possible?
Pretty questionable whether you should be letting a five year old use any VR headset. Oculus Quest specifies only ages 13+ and the science is definitely not settled as to how VR use would affect motor coordination development. If nothing else, the ergonomics really are not going to work for a child that young using any headset released to date (and I don't imagine any company sticking their neck out to release a targeted pre-teen headset anytime soon).
Can confirm the QC app is closed source.
> A year ago they did not suffer massive shutdown due to supply chain issues, I think you will be seeing many manufacturers wanting more and closer control over the supply chain for their factories. This means ford will want battery manufacturers to be close to their F150 factories in the US, which likely means they will need to front some capital to get these companies to build said factories that do not exist today

Hence the article here where Ford announced massive battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee closer to their other plants.

Though Ford's biggest supply chain issue right now is still processor chips. Maybe Ford also needs to also invest in a big semiconductor fab stateside. I know some minds in Kentucky and Tennessee that have wanted such a facility for some time, if Ford is interested.
What your describing is reinforcement learning :)
Except alloca'd space is only dropped at the end of a function. VLAs are dropped at the end of a block. This makes a huge difference in loops as alloca can quickly exhaust the stack.
https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader is great for this. Adds dark mode to any site.
Interesting NLP tech:

> Amazon claims it’s the first company to offer this kind of privacy-first technology on smart speakers. Last year, Amazon unveiled the AZ1 Neural Edge processor, which powers current Amazon Echo devices, but its new Echo Show 15 will be powered by the AZ2 processor. Amazon said that this processor can do 22 times more TOPS (trillions of operations per second) than the previous generation.

> The company built this module alongside MediaTek, and it will allow for on-device neural speech recognition for new products.

Aaand, as I expected, it is for English only:

> Amazon says these latency benefits will be available first for English in the US, but it plans to expand to more languages “in time.”
There's also a good Open Source app that allows you to do that: https://obsproject.com/ Particularly if for some reason you want you face to be shown during screen capture.
It really frustrates me that this level of abuse is just accepted as a fact of nature.

It feels like watching masked bandits stick up a bank then walk away casually to the next bank down the street while the bank manager says "Drat! Too bad we didn't stop that one at the door. Oh well, at least they only got one register"

I know all the responses to this are going to be "mUh PoLicE sTaTe" but I really wish there was some system of accountability for breach of trust online.
I very much doubt this will happen except if Carmack stays on and pushes hard for it. He's already got one foot out the door, and I suspect he's spent a lot of political capital on this one, which is for a headset that they've already determined was a dead-end form factor so at relatively low cost vs if they were to do this for Quest 1 in a year or two.
We use DirectTV Streaming (aka AT&T TV Now) for local NBC channels. The app is so poor that I wanted to look at switching, but I guess not to YT.
The irony of saving 6 characters in the word million, but people don't understand his post and use many more keystrokes asking what he means.
It's not a real airport because 100% of its operations are wankers flying around in their obsolete mosquitos. The Bay Area has a superabundance of GA airports and RHV is superfluous.
Whatever happened to Something Awful? Are they still around?

They charged a one-time $10 fee to access their forums. If you got banned, you could pay $10 to get a new account. It made being a total dick expensive. I've heard it get called the Idiot Tax.
Democrats are considering minting a trillion-dollar coin
Application name, window title, website URL (if in a browser), and time spent in activity. All anonymized when analyzed in aggregate.
The way I read it is that for low-scale users, they're not going to have request pricing. For higher-scale users, "R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers". AWS charges $0.0004 per thousand GET requests. Let's say that R2 charges $0.0003 per thousand GET requests. That's still cheaper than AWS or Backblaze's B2 (even if just barely) and if they're not charging for bandwidth, then it's really cheap.

The announcement says that they're eliminating bandwidth charges three times.

I don't know the whole economics around cloud storage and bandwidth so maybe this is unrealistic pricing and your suspicions are well founded. However, Backblaze seems is offering storage at $0.005/GB and bandwidth at $0.01/GB. Cloudflare is charging 3x more than Backblaze for the storage and $0 for the bandwidth. Given that Cloudflare's costs are probably lower than Backblaze for bandwidth, that doesn't seem so unreasonable - but I could be very wrong.

I think Cloudflare probably sees R2 as something that is sustainable, but creates demand for their enterprise products. You start The NextBigThing with R2 and suddenly your application servers are under attack. You have a relationship with Cloudflare, you're used to their control panel, you trust them, and when you're at the scale that you're getting attacked like this you can drop $10,000/mo because you're bringing in a bunch of revenue - $10,000/mo is less than 1 software engineer in the US.

R2, in a certain way, can be a marketing tool. "Come use our S3 competitor with free bandwidth rather than getting locked into AWS's transfer pricing." 6-12 months go by and you're substantially larger and want more complex stuff and you're already getting emails from Cloudflare about their other offerings, you see them in the control panel, etc.

It seems like Cloudflare might be trying to move in on AWS's market. R2 is an easy way for them to do it. It seems like S3 has high margins. Competing storage services can be a fraction of the cost per GB and AWS's bandwidth markup is incredibly high. If you're looking to attack a competitor's market, it seems like going after one of their highest-margin product could make the most sense. Again, R2 becomes a marketing tool for future cloud offerings.

Part of Cloudflare's strategy might be targeting things that they see very high margins on and being willing to accept lower margins. If something has 50% margins and you're willing to accept 20% margins, you're still doing pretty great. Plus, over time, the cost of hardware comes down and you can keep your prices at the same level once people are happily inside your ecosystem and don't want to deal with migrations.

> CloudFlare bandwidth is some of the most expensive available

It sounds like you might have gotten burned by something with Cloudflare. I don't have any horror stories, but I'm always interested in new data points if you have them.
Prime members bristle at Whole Foods’ $9.95 delivery surcharge: ‘It’s just rude’
Soaking the soil with EDTA solution might do it.

(EDTA is also used medically for heavy metal poisoning).
Yeah, proof of immunisation for yellow fever to some random African country, not continental Europe
> Special thanks to the developers at YouTube for working with us directly on the initial implementation of this feature [YouTube integration] and helping to make it a reality

this is pretty cool to see, OBS sure has come a long way in such a short time
Supposing that all your disabled readers are also all programmers is a terrible approach to developing your website. It was developed a long time ago without any consideration for any of these things and simply hasn't changed to address these things; it's not with intent.

I appreciate that hacker news is largely unchanged and I also appreciate a website that is more conservative about making unnecessary changes to it just for the sake of change, but addressing accessibility issues shouldn't be eschewed just for the sake of not changing. You might argue that anyone that is bothered by those changes could also just modify locally for their own personal taste, which seems much more reasonable.
Is the premise here that carrier groups would be survivable in the absence of hypersonic missiles? They... aren't at all, are they?
> NOT an official government one

Not sure how this is an "important detail," as it doesn't even make any difference: governments have a god-awful track record of securing data[1][2]. Any sane infosec professional realizes vaccine passports (or any other "passport" app) is a terrible idea. Heck, Apple has zero-day exploits like every other week.

[1] https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-leaks-pii-two-...

[2] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2020/02/disa-exp...
Take this to the grain of salt. I'm pretty sure they have CNN listed as a centrist moderate Network.

"The interactions of conservative accounts are skewed toward the right, whereas liberal accounts are exposed to moderate content shifting their experience toward the political center. Partisan accounts, especially conservative ones, tend to receive more followers and follow more automated accounts. Conservative accounts also find themselves in denser communities and are exposed to more low-credibility content."
Meetup Pro gives you the ability to:

* Start or support as many groups as you want

* Get up and running quickly with our dedicated community experts

* Promote your network with a branded community hub

* Segment your community—and seamlessly tailor your communications

* *Gain access to attendee email addresses to grow your database*

* Power up your business with the Meetup API

* Track your community with a performance dashboard

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I am fuming right now. I loved meetup and met many friends through it but is this the only way they can monetize? If the answer is yes, we have failed so horribly... I am going to stop... I have nothing constructive to say about this.
Absolutely. Our conception of robot is fixated stupidly on things with arms and eyes.

The toaster is a perfect robot. I mean perfect. A more modern example is my smart pressure cooker that does just about everything in closed-loop control. It's fantastic.

Automation is not only a very old practice, it's actually stagnating relative to the amount of magic miracle appliances that appeared in the first half of the 1900s.
Is the end Goal to make conversation only accessible via the telephone and kill off in-person conversation?
Does Taiwan have nukes? EDIT: google thinks no.
Of course, dictionaries simply document established usage. The existence of idiolects isn't a prohibition on discussions of diction.
If you want to apply through the standard recruiting process, it might be better if you waited 3 to 12 months after your previous interview before reapplying. Most Big Tech companies have a waiting period--either informal or formal--before top-of-the-funnel job applicants can apply again.

However, if there is a specific engineering manager at the company who has open headcount and is excited about hiring you, then they might be able to convince the company to waive the waiting period and treat your previous failed interview like it did not happen. I've seen this happen at a few companies, but not specifically Microsoft or Apple.
> "capitalist" countries can and do regulate businesses. Those that are democracies do so based on the general interest of the citizenry

You have a strong reading of the level of citizen constituency at play in these neoliberal corporate welfare states
Can you go into this in a bit of detail? I thought reverse osmosis water wasn't great to drink, because it's essentially de-ionized water. So, the water has no choice but to rip ions out of your cells. But, I've never looked into biology enough to understand.

I did work in a lab back in the day where one of the students was filling his water bottle from the DI tap, because he preferred the taste. He didn't drop dead or anything.

I clearly have just enough of the details to not understand.
Indeed, this quote shows the app is basically useless:

> > Hussein had denied that the app validated Yeung's false information, despite it appearing to do so, because he said the fake picture would be a giveaway.

> "That's not true. We saw it on the back end and we were watching it.… So even if that user showed up, he wouldn't be able to utilize that picture because that's not him. So you wouldn't be able to get in. Secondly, that QR code, if someone scanned it, it would show that picture again," he said at the time. So there's basically no point in using this middleman then? You can just show them your ID...

This app is just an overly complicated and dangerous middle man.

You might as well take a photo of your IDs + vaccine PDF with your phones camera and use the photo gallery...
At that point, why even bother with all the interface hassles of having it work with a mobile manipulator? If you're already getting semi-custom equipment all over the place and designating robot exclusion zones within your house, then you probably have the cash and floorspace to go all in on special-purpose labour saving devices like a washer/dryer combo that loads directly from the chute and can run itself.

But once you begin describing that, it's clear how absurd it would be to install it all for use a few times a week.

Home mobile manipulation will never be a thing until it can use the existing HMIs.
No. We're building houses for humans. We're not building a robot retirement home. Design it for humans first, or you're going to wind up with a really crummy place for humans to live.
It’s essential to the well being of several very well funded companies so no surprise.
I love this project and Robert is one of the most awesome, thoughtful people in the security world.
Yeah, hugely important detail - this post should change title to what the article actually has as it's title: Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data

Because it's just fueling misinformation and mistrust of what will eventually be the official apps. C'mon CBC. People stupidly using random third party apps and you're making it out like it's the official government 'should be trustworthy' one when it isn't and is just a random app data leak story.
Yes, mobile, apologies, I should not have posted while distracted, it didn't even dawn on me they meant desktop.
Oculus hardware is quite good for the price, and since you can root it and sideload the Facebook point is moot now.
> Should a conflict in the South China sea break out, China could nuke US carrier groups

If China wants to start a nuclear exchange, sure. The US probably wouldn't go nuclear in response to an invasion of Taiwan, but it absolutely would in response to a nuclear attack on US forces.
Has this actually been proven or is it like the old wives tale that sitting too close to the tv will do the same thing?