skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as a non-degree owner myself, I always say its not about _not_ learning the material. Its about learning it in a different way. You absolutely still need to cover the material on your own.
It could be reverse-engineered too if they got their hand on an exploited phone, but these firms don't seem to offer any defensive cybersecurity services. It seems to me that would be a great synergy, if they can scoop up exploits used against the customers they are defending, they could then use those exploits in their offensive products.
That is right in terms of the business. For the consumer though, the Social Graph did (and does) have real utility. It just has zero business value now as it isn't even useful for the retargeting data.
> not buying Microsoft early on when they had the chance.

That would likely have led to closing down the clones, not allowing others to use DOS, they would have became an also-ran.
I wonder if the hacker did any smaller transactions in the last two weeks, as proof of concept.
VR is never going to gain the traction FB is betting on. Absolutely no one wants to spend their day inside a headset cut off from the outside world. It's uncomfortable, antisocial, expensive (for now), and just clunky overall.

If anything is going to come of this it's going to be AR, without a doubt. People want to be able to see the world they are in, they don't want to walk into tables, have to disrobe to answer the door, tend to children and so on.

AR adds value everywhere in the real world. AR can blend meetings, add meta information to day-to-day tasks. Think driving, you can now have your maps, speed, collision warnings, and so on in a virtual heads up display.

Even if Meta knocks it out of the park with early AR it's going to be a long time coming and they will still have a trust issue that younger, faster AR startups won't have.
> Is tech/computer science the only STEM field that had boot camps? medicine, nursing, electrical engineering, civil engineering, physics, biology, environmental science, etc.

In the US, careers in those fields requires certification and IT does not. Probably because 1) the field exploded in popularity before anyone could formalize a certification process and 2) bad developers aren’t as dangerous to society as bad surgeons, bad nuclear physicists, bad civil engineers, etc.

Also IT’s labor gap is especially extreme. I think it takes less knowledge/training to be helpful to a company when they desperately need workers with computer skills.
How can banks be sure that computer, the browser, the os people use is very good at security?

It should scream the people that phone is rooted. But, denying services is inimical.

Its not just banking app I have started to see a lot of app behaving differently when phone is rooted. Rooting generally means people can mitm app, which app developer obviously doesn't like. Its more about control than security in my opinion.
Billionaires have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art on superyachts
Tests that involve complicated setup or are otherwise bigger than "unit" tests probably don't make sense to keep in the source tree.

But it's a nice idea to keep unit tests specifically alongside the "units" of code that they test.
Winter storm descends on Texas, Bitcoin miners are helping
I'm reminded of this bit from Bill Gates on David Letterman's show, ~1995

“Late Show with David Letterman” clip courtesy of David Letterman

“What the hell is [the internet] exactly?” Letterman asks Gates.

“A place where people can publish information. They can have their own homepage, companies are there, the latest information,” Gates says.

“It’s wild what’s going on.”

Letterman wasn’t sold.

“I heard you could watch a live baseball game on the internet and I was like, does radio ring a bell?” Letterman says.*

Gates said unlike with radio, the internet would allow users to watch a baseball game whenever they wanted instead of live.

″[Do] tape recorders ring a bell?” Letterman asks.
Unfortunately, you can't simply choose.
Messaging apps that don't interoperate inherently create forces to use their app if you have contacts you want to reach on that app
We pay most of these large bills once a year and as a thank you we get a 2% discount or alternatively they don't charge us extra for each month's bill.
Low horsepower vehicles feel downright dangerous. Especially in the third world where executing moves quickly is very important. I suppose there is a way of driving that takes this into account but it feels so unnatural to me.
I wanted to be able to install water leak sensors in the bathrooms/kitchen and get rid of the external security monitoring company by having direct access to my home (and what’s happening there when I’m away).

I started small with the basic stuff and went into more home automation thingies…
>> in a way that covers all edge cases

That is simply not possible. No-one can think of all edge cases.
You need only glance directly at the President. No other authority is needed to change the schedule. AG works at the pleasure of the President.
Netflix paid just 1.1 percent in Federal Tax
> This suggests, that it isn’t a necessity or preferable for comprehension.

Or, it shows that they're trying to get people to stay around and use them more. I actually really doubt Duolingo produces anyone who has true comprehension in reading a passage of text simply because it only ever asks you to translate one-off sentences (and rarely at that, it only has you click words if you're on the app!). I don't think they're optimizing for comprehension and understanding as much as they're optimizing for user engagement.
Do computer games work on this? (Emulation?)

Does it have MS office with macros, or still only a limited version?
Also, this isn't the first go round with VR. Google Glass launched publicly in 2014 and the original Oculus Rift launched in 2016. I remember tons of discussions around enterprise adoption of VR in 2016-2017 with use cases ranging from immersive marketing campaigns to technicians using them to troubleshoot equipment.
Build lots of housing so that the market isn't demand driven.
Other than the board, that page is completely opaque to me. There's a whole bunch of what are apparently technical stats, but I can't even infer enough to know whether big numbers are good or bad.

This would be a whole lot more engaging with more explanation, at least hover tips over all the fields and so forth.
Yes in my experience.
I'd try two things:

1. try and see if accessing youtube through a vpn improves the bandwidth (in that case, your ISP is probably looking at both dns requests and connection endpoint ownership)

2. preload and buffer whole videos (es: https://www.technorms.com/35122/preload-buffer-entire-youtub...) this aims to get your traffic usage pattern not having the "usual" shape of a typical youtube session (that is: brief burst of full-speed downloads)
Tl;dr streaming video protocols often have unique traffic shapes, and you can also make reasonable guesses as to the resolution of the served video. After that, the provider simply throttles bandwidth of the connection.

What a great post.
A streaming video connection will also have a fairly characteristic bandwidth usage pattern. Tracking the requisite state is a bit tricky, but doable. This would allow them to throttle anything that looks like video streaming.

Whether or not they do this, I don't know. But it is technically feasible.

Now, technically, it is probably pretty obvious that what they ought to do is just limit bandwidth or not, regardless of what it is used for. But the rest of the business, and for that matter the rest of the world, conceives of video streaming as something different than "just using bandwidth", so they'll sign contracts about how video streaming will be treated better or worse depending on this or that condition ("Free netflix as long as we can throttle it", "we'll prioritize Disney+ because they paid us and everyone else gets degraded", etc.), so even if it makes no "logical" sense, network hardware will just have to figure out what "video streaming" is to fulfill the contracts whether the engineers like it or not.
> Super important to keep these sort of patches lowkey and to try to stuff them into larger commits

That's a bananas philosophy
Good!

These buffoons are responsible for the spread of mis-information and should pay for the murder / unwarranted deaths caused by their desire for more views during the past two years by giving every village idiot an amplified voice!

I have reported so many mis-information post and they do nothing. They could create thousands of jobs by having more humans for verifications, but no. They want to maximize profits and depend only on AI with no appeal possible. They do not want to create more jobs to balance the transition to digital from analogue world so I am glad their stock price is getting avg'd out.

They really don't think long term of their role/responsibility to society. All their top brains and fancy school hires cant even grasp long term consequences of their short term on-steroid decisions.

Every empire / entity / co. will come to an end, it's the law of nature due to stagnation & complexity. So will this. Good riddance!
Yes, the challenge is some of those sites don’t allow streaming on a VPN.
> Facebook makes no mention of the impact of deGoogled Android phones

They're probably too insignificant to affect Facebooks bottom line.
Facebook Groups and Marketplace are both good examples of content graphs. Your social network is irrelevant to them, in fact you may prefer NOT to see the listings made by your friends/family as the negotiation/purchasing is often nicer when it is relatively anonymous. Facebook's one moat is very shallow in this space.

Unlike high attention media with placement and interstitial opportunities, Marketplace and Groups are not great business models.
I just completed running a transformation of a F500 company and these were the players who shut it down.

We were on the cusp of turning the corner and the consequences of their approach are staggering in terms of people, revenue, and client relationships.

I’m looking to discover how I might more effectively engage them in the future.

Any advice?
For what it is and how it contributes to me daily I don't believe it's high. $5/month for the peace of mind Signal provides is something I can make a case for. I subscribe to the $10/month level - because everyone in my circle uses it, and I pushed many of them in that direction. I want it to succeed, I want it to continue to improve, I want it to be available. I know I spend more than $10/month on other things that could easily be argued are far less useful than Signal.

That being said I do think there's value in a $1/month option, because that shouldn't be hard to rationalize. If something that's ad-free, operationally simple, and provides an improved level of privacy for it's users - one that requires humans and services to operate and be maintained - and still that can't be rationalized at $1/month, then the end user doesn't value what Signal is or can offer. Never mind the tradeoff one makes for "free" alternatives.
> For instance Facebook could have very easily been Slack for businesses, as well as an enterprise internal social network

They actually have that already. Now it's called "workplace"[1] but before it was called "facebook for work", think Yammer from MS.

[1]: https://www.workplace.com/
Ask HN: Have developer tools become commercially viable again?
A few years back it seemed like developer tools had no way to monetize. Open Source alternatives and the Cloud providers routinely came in the way of straightforward ways of monetization.

But in recent years, there have been successful SaaS offerings and APIs targeted at developers (Stripe, Twilio, PagerDuty, Postman, Cloudflare, Tailscale and so on). Trends like product-led growth and solo entrepreneurship are aligned with the growth of developer tools.

So do you feel it's becoming commercially viable to sell tools to developers again?
I got to tour that place in high school! Lived across the street for a while from the guy who ran it, too. They were hardcore evangelicals, his son tried to burn my D&D books one time. Fascinating place, definitely worth the visit, don't lean on the fence and remember they'll walk you past sniffer dogs on the way out.
Yep, you nailed it. TikTok is hitting Facebook and they are unable to respond. May be they will by copying the algorithm but things are going to get worse before they improve. Not sure if they will change Facebook itself though. That is too entrenched and too many users to change. This is going to be tough for fb to fight.
The problem is that the problems are mostly the same problems we had since 2012. I am not sure if we can really address them without new breakthrough technologies.
It's possible, but I sure do wish it was more common. I went to school for English and switched to software dev via self-teaching, and the contrast is quite stark to me.

I've had coworkers unable to write basic emails without someone helping them; or worse, they can't clearly explain their thought process on anything and are confused when you're unable to read their mind, verging on some kind of mind-blindness.

Of course, not everyone is this bad. But by the nature of the work, chances to practice communication skills are few and far between.
"One in four people struggle to keep up with friends because they are using too many apps"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10451559/One...

TLDR: people are just not aware of their requirements
having investors does not mean you are a public company.

there are private investors, angels, VCs, etc.
WHat would be the best gear to extend the wifi range Iif I ever buy a Turris Omnia? Big house, lots of concrete walls.
Look at an everdrive. I'm not sure about compatibility. I have a very old NES everdrive and some hacked games work while some don't. I would ask on the support forums for someone to try it out for you before buying.

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> For example, converting to Monero and back to BTC would be near impossible to trace.

You still have the problem of justifying where you got the initial crypto if anyone audits you. "I just remembered about some crypto I mined in 2010" will not cut it.
I switched to Downcast when they removed the ability to really archive podcasts, since that was obviously a move toward the dark pattern of locking everyone into streaming.

Downcast is pretty nice. It's not as polished as the Podcast app but I actually like it better and it works just fine. Also lets you archive.
Curious, why does this need to be a browser extension?

I'm interested in the concept here, but the use of a browser extension just seems like a vector to do nefarious things.
A simple "pay what you want" would be superior. I'd probably do $2/month for Signal. $60/year is way too much to ask and as a result, I did one month, then cancelled. Perhaps I'll do that again in six months, but maybe not.
From many of the cryptocurrency threads on HN that I encountered:

5. Learn to get Wallstreet-level smarts, or be the sheep that just moves along.
That's not entirely true. You can absolutely load underlying data structures into your own application, and in fact this is how a lot of older database tech used to be. Stuff like dBase, Access, etc., used to be literally "load database into program memory" or "read database format from file" - similar to what SQLite does now.

I wonder if CSS could implement sqlite...
If we're going to be pedantic, then yes, no Turing Machines exist and everything is just a Finite Automaton. It's more helpful when talking about programming languages to assume an unbounded memory. For example, the desktop I'm at right now has only 16 billion memory cells (16 GiB), but I don't think of it as a Finite Automaton.

The linked StackOverflow answer does not preclude adding more memory cells. It was just capped at 900 for an arbitrary reason.
Already here. I am writing this on KDE Plasma.

The amount of other people reading this on a linux desktop is 100% irrelevant to me.
No built-in ethernet, so WiFi-only? And no WiFi 6? Proprietary $60 cable?

Woof.
No it doesn’t make sense unless people are almost completely illiterate.
Helpful. Another thing to notice: You don't necessarily need a pcb. For small demo purposes you could close-pack one layer of serpentine insulated wire, then a second layer of a second serpetine wire. There would be a height difference, but perhaps not more than with a two-layer pcb.
Re: metaverse, it's not really a handwavey after thought - they've been investing quite significantly ($10bn lost last year alone while all of Google's bets including deepmind and waymo lost ~1.45bn. >10k people working on it now AFAIK).

I think Facebook just got burned by not having a hardware platform this cycle - Apple and Google control the phones and Microsoft has the PC, XBox etc. They just want control over the next big hardware platform.

Whether that's a reasonable bet or not who knows? But I wouldn't be as dismissive of their ambitions in the space.
> It's all fine and dandy until central banks lose control and inflation causes catastrophic issues.

Genuinely curious: what issues are you specifically referring to?

> BTC & ETH aren't deflationary as much as they are predictable in their money supply.

See this is another crypto myth. So yes Bitcoin is limited to ~21M coins theoretically but we don't actually know what the limit is because wallets have gotten lost and will continue to be lost. Second, a lot of crypto people don't seem to understand the impact of derivatives to effectively increase the supply and thus bring about all the problems crypto advocates say crypto doesn't have.

I mean look at GameStop. There are a fixed number of shares on the market (buybacks and issuing new shares notwithstanding). Yet derivatives created a situation where there simply weren't enough outstanding shares to cover short interest. Taken to its extreme this would mean those shares would have infinite value.

What really undid the subprime mortgage market (other than the fraudulent ratings for which no one went to jail and they absolutely should have) was all the derivatives on top of actual mortgages. I forget the exact number but it was something like a factor of 10-20 (meaning $10-20 in derivatives for each $1 of a mortgage).

The exact same thing can (and will) happen to crypto. That's why fixed supply is a myth.
Fair point.

As someone that regularly digs through 200-1.5K files (2K is a bit much, for me), I can report that good documentation makes a huge difference.
I cringe so hard when I see someone with these type of opinions.

Why you just don't shut up. If it actually doesn't change the world, you were just one of the critics, if it actually does, the size of the change will be the same as the size of your foolness.
if you share it with others or if your site is popular, it will be added to popular blocking lists before long

Are the block lists sophisticated enough to block it if the Javacript part of the analytics is - say - shared as ‘host-it-on-your-server’ with an arbitrary file name?

I suppose the block lists would just be amended to block the outgoing connections that that JavaScript makes?

But if the JavaScript were obfuscated and routed the collected data through a first-party server that simply forwarded it on to ‘the analytics server’, is there anything uBlock etc. could do to counter that?
Like a more friendlier Reddit?
It's all about brand power. With the podcasts app, Apple has the brand power not the podcasts, so Apple is who users associate the experience with.

If you bought a Dyson vacuum at Target and it was rubbish, you wouldn't later go to a Walmart to buy a Dyson for your mum because you trust Walmart more than Target (ok, contrived example). However if you go to a store and buy generic products that turn out to be shoddy, you're likely to hold it against the store.
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> Next steps: Levitation / sliding enhancements

I wonder if vibration would help reducing friction. I.e. superimposing a low-power high-frequency component in the field to avoid static friction.
I Don’t Know Which Container To Use (And At This Point, I’m Too Afraid to Ask)
Didn't know leaking meta data was a requirement for most of the people ;-)
Why not engineer some compilers and see what happens?

Engineering is practice, not a slot on an organization chart.

Good luck.
> By the end of 2018, the loan had increased to $105,000,400, which is due to be repaid on February 28, 2068. The loan is unsecured and at 0% interest.

This is from Signal Foundation's Wikipedia. There is a schedule.
Hacker News is starting to feel like Reddit /all more and more every day
I’m not claiming climate change will force people to cities, I’m saying climate change will reduce the amount of available places to live, resulting in urbanization of the remaining locales from migrants/refugees of climate change.
An V8 is written in C++ so...
Is that the version that is actually deployed to their servers, though?
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