skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While Google uses location data to target online ads, the company often turns over the data to law enforcement officials who obtain court orders, the Democrats wrote. "This includes dragnet 'geofence' orders demanding data about everyone who was near a particular location at a given time," they wrote, adding that "Google received 11,554 geofence warrants in 2020."

Okay, but like, if you are a lawmaker - why not focus on making these digital dragnet warrants harder to get? Especially since law enforcement can still get the location data from cell phone providers.
I think the problem with the proposed solution (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85720...) is that the refresh is used to keep the cache from getting too stale. Would it be reasonable for golang modules on sourcehub to be served from a stale cache? The problem is that the refresh does a full clone which is too heavyweight.

The other user who accepted that proposed fix had a single module that had a single user, so they can tolerate some weird caching behavior for their toy project.
I found no serious issues using Android Auto with my Mazda, what kind of things are you doing during your drive that are so impossible to do with the rotary controller?

The only thing I can remember might be the address entry, but that can easily be done with the keyboard on the phone itself (click "phone" icon in the on-screen Auto keyboard to handoff).
Because I'm assuming that he does actually want his website to work with go modules.
Especially because PPP funds were issued when to support payroll at a time when non
-essential businesses, like strip clubs, closed and removed direct customer contact.
It does start off like that, but I think after you start an industry within your city, you gain access to empire management, where you start organizing trade between other cities, building roads, managing armies, etc. It's been a long time though, so I might be misremembering.
I find it harder to accurately position a physical slider than a knob. The reason is pretty obvious once you realize which muscles are involved in each movement.
I should read more closely. :)

Thank you!
> how people value companies based on revenue and not profit

Profit is a closer abstraction to cash flows (i.e. to the investor) than revenue, but it's still an abstraction. Investors looking at revenues and unit economics can sometimes--often--predict future profits and discount backwards, in the same way that a value investor can look at a company's profits and sometimes--less often, frankly--predict future cash flows from dividends or M&A and then discount backwards.
Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies?
I'm not valuing my company solely by revenue, but it's easier to compare the values of startups by their revenues as a good chunk of startups are focused on growth and not profit - and thus aren't yet profitable. Will that start to change with the current macro environment? Probably. Was only trying to point out how out of wack valuations have gotten.
A Fantasy RPG where you can program magic spells.

Start with some foundational spells, traditionally that would be elemental spells but one could imagine those spell based on the physics engine to manipulate objects. For example, the three first spells could be Force, Mass, and Acceleration(perhaps having some cryptic word associated with them). Just using a keyword might apply a "buff" to your character, making it "stronger", "heavier", or "faster". The fun part of course would be to compose them e.g. `acceleration . mass` to inflict damage by ramming into an opponent.

I imagine the skill tree to be divided into language features and "spells"(those being associated with elements of the underlying engine). As an example, the player could unlock "variables" on one side and "Other", the ability to apply effects to objects other than yourself, on the other side. Everything limited by the resources of the player. Maybe a "magic book" system with limited space forcing you to golf your spells to put more of them in one book (therefore having more spell available out of your workshop). Engine-related spells would be limited by the player's mana. Spells could scale via the level of fundamental spells composing them. Self-applying spells could have a constant cost, while "other-applying" spells could raise the amount of mana required depending on the distance.

Actually, I don't think I would even want to fight in that game so there should be a way to level up by creating spells alone. Maybe link "XP" to an in-game object, "mana stone"-like, and make it available by fighting monsters and quests or merchants Building some kind of github-like market of spells outside of the game would create a nice community feel. The game could perhaps be multiplayer, making an in-game spell market more relevant, but the potential to break the game (figuratively and literally) makes that very hard to imagine.

I'd make that but I have to start "finishing" side projects instead of just starting new ones. Also I don't know anything about game dev
The Tor browser is 100% unique, it makes no attempt to pretend to be anything other than itself. Your anonymity set is other Tor users, not other Firefox users.
> if I stop paying for sync, I still have my notes and a fully functional product

The same is true for Muse. When your membership expires (or you cancel it) the app reverts to free mode, which allows you to read, copy, and export all your data. But if you're over the free card limit then you can't create new content.

That said I have total respect for the Obsidian model. They're really successful for very good reason.
A climate change simulator.

You are the head of a global climate change task force and are tasked with fighting climate change with diplomacy and technology.
Personally the big break was Civ 5 moving to 1 Unit Per Tile. This had huge secondary edfects that even Civ6 have barely quite managed to wrangle.

Unstacking both units and the cities has made a very different game now from the original Civilization Games.

If you're still on Civ5, might I recommend the Vox Populi mod? Really improves everything across the board.
It was an option, not a requirement. There are pros/cons to doing it, but it was ultimately the employee’s decision. I’m sure the risks were well disclosed. The issue is >50% of employees don’t understand any of it, no matter how well explained and disclosed.
> pushing against megacorp and user alike

No, it's pushing against megacorps (and corps) and they're trying to gaslight everyone into thinking it's pushing against users by annoying the users on purpose and telling them the GDPR forced them do it (while also breaking the law and still hovering up as much data as they can while they think they can get away with it).
Try Anomaly on Google Play store
I think Mount & Blade: Warband is a bit like that, but in a medieval setting, of course.
That was my post. I'm one of the ex-maintainers of minikube and skaffold as well.

[0] https://matt-rickard.com/docker-desktop-alternatives/
How does this get around Sonos‘ patents[0] in this space? They appear to be pretty broad. Sonos is even mentioned as a comparable product, so I hope the creators took their patents into account.

[0] see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273131
"Moral belief" in puritanicalism is correlated with higher consumption of sex industry products and services.
The first transgenic product was a tomato that decayed slower so it could be picked later. It launched the anti-GMO movement and was taken off the market.
This exists, it is called Screeps.
And what if we accomplish the same end result through selective breeding, as is common today?
I mean, yes, it would be valid to complain about that as well
Outdoor workers actually have a significantly reduced rate of melanoma. Sun exposure increases risk of carcinoma, which is almost never fatal (in fact, knowing nothing else about a person, diagnosis with a basal or squamous cell carcinoma implies a longer expected lifespan). Source: https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...

Regular exposure to sunlight, in amounts insufficient to cause burns, is probably very good for us. And why wouldn't it be? Life tends to find and use all advantageous resources at its disposal--so of course a diurnal animal with lots of skin collecting sunlight would have evolved all sorts of processes to put that sunlight to beneficial use.
I miss old school 2D MMORPGs. I'd love something with:

- beautiful & detailed pixel art (like Stardew, Hyper Light Drifter, Owlboy)

- many, amazing non-combat skills (like a tale in the desert, osrs)

- large community with many worlds / servers / regions

- holiday events

Ever now and again I go hunting for this sort of game and come up short.
Consider recalibrating your worldview; you’ll be glad you did. The use of ‘punk’ in this case does refer to the long-standing association with DIY, which is frequently associated with garages and workshops.

Also, punk shows are up-close and personal, so you’ll definitely see names like Gretsch, Orange, Alembic, etc. if you care to look.
kagi.com is doing exactly that (they're still in beta, but I'm extremely happy with the results)
text art with functional value: https://github.com/reportaman/arttime. It's displays your text art/figlet, while serving as a nifty clock/timer. No dependencies other than having zsh installed on your system, which exists on Mac by default.
Isn't this taking demand into account? Exploits for Chrome are worth more because more people want them.
New Startup- Advice needed-
Hello, I have already begun a startup. We are self funded and I already run a re-seller in the industry we are looking to bring about disruption. We have done customer interviews, competitive and market research, business plan and are starting the UI\UX design currently.

I am a little light one the technical side but I am not, not technical.

My question is! What is the number one piece of advice you would give me and what would your advice be to find a technical founder?
> Reddiquette is no longer a thing -- if you don't agree with something you downvote.

That's always been a thing.
Math co-processors had support for fast trig functions. Does that support not exist in modern CPUs?
IPFS/bittorrent for P2P
Seedship is cool game with this theme.
Go needs to talk to Python and Swift about how to abandon backward compatibility and properly destroy existing code bases.
I'm wondering how much load this is sending to github. Github has a ton of golang packages, including many non-popular ones that wouldn't otherwise get much traffic. A refresh job running full clones many times a day must be burning up bandwidth and compute over there as well. I suppose it's a drop in the bucket for Github's usage, but it's got to be a huge number.
For more interesting related projects, you may also want to checkout https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion

I'm fiddling now and then on an alternative conferencing frontend(Pyrite - https://github.com/garage44/pyrite) for Galene(https://galene.org), which is a SFU that uses Pion.
I agree that I'm working with talented engineers, but the company has shifted dramatically from when those 410k LOC were produced, and that number doesn't necessarily reflect reality. I noticed the team has a weird allergy to removing code, for example when they decided to turn the application into a React application (before I joined), but didn't delete any of the previously used Rails view files.

Either way, they were indeed productive for a while but in a way that doesn't sustain future development. Because they produced so much code in such short time, building new features now is becoming a problem because there simply is no solid foundation to build new things, and often have to stop building new features to fix issues stemming from that. Development in general has slowed to a crawl, like I said in the OP, with feature PRs being open for months on end because of it.

Maybe I really do have the wrong perspective on this and I should just churn out code without any thought put behind it for the sake of productivity, but I'm not entirely sure that's the engineer I want to be.
I found out about Arctype a while ago when I started writing for their blog about SQL, a topic I really enjoy. I'd recommend checking out their product if you spend a lot of time in SQL databases: it has tons of cool features, a nice flow & layout, and it might just be your thing.
Because you can get interest on the fed paper from money that isn't yours?

And if people redeem from you, just add a clause where if the liquidity pool is gone you have to wait X days before getting it redeemed.
This chart does not support the referred claim at all. Payouts are not only linked to the browser's hardening, but also to the amount of affected users. Given Firefox's engine low market share, it's not very surprising that payouts for its vulnerabilities is lower than for Chrome.
> I mean, you didn't even consider implementing a simple fetch of an already cloned repository in your mirroring server code. So yeah, I'd argue that the bad faith part is actually justified.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378...

> We did consider caching clones, but it has security implications and adds complexity, so we decided not to. It is certainly not trivial to do and not something we are likely to do based on this issue.

Drew continues to act as though he is always correct, and any viewpoint that isn't his is just moronic. I've repeatedly seen this behavior from him in multiple venues over the years, and
I'm happy to see the wider community start calling this out as childish.
I would love a MMORPG game that had sufficient story arcs without feeling like the effort is meaningless. For example, a game situated in a constant universe where the entire player base became an alien race trying to survive on their planet. Time would of course have to be faster than 1:1, so players would inhabit lineages of family units, and new players would be 'born' into their own lineages branching off of already established ones. Actual extinction events would wipe out the civilization, and so efforts could be made to leave caches in the stars or in orbit of small moons for future civilizations (probably the same players) to go retrieve. The biggest issue I can see with this concept is that most of the content would either have to be generated by the creator (e.g. something bigger than an extinction level event), or arbitrarily by the participants.
Zines were not difficult. All you needed was an x-acto knife and a glue stick, and a 24-hr Kinko's.
> There used to be command key shortcuts for the don't save/cancel/save (command-d/s/c iirc?) dialog buttons, but they've changed the ui to delete/save and seem to have removed the keyboard equivalents.

Command-d is still mapped to don't save (at least in Preview, just verified). Escape is cancel.
That's not a reliable source or claim to support the argument claimed here. That's more aligned with market demand, and whatever that company wants to pay out.
What is the biggest problem you have in work
The introduction of iodine to table salt is arguably one of the biggest public health policy wins of the 20th century, only overshadowed by the near total bans on tetraethyl lead and CFCs.
Agreed. Turn-based, especially sprawling lots-of-choices like the 4X genre, don't work particularly well in MP. Instead you ideally need to move to simultaneous turns.

Or be like the forums hounds who play 1 turn a day and analyze EVERYTHING.

Personally I would move to Tabletop games (or Boardgames). They're much better designed for short turns with interactivity so there's minimal downtime for players getting bored.

That being said, if you're looking for Civ5 but on mobile with Multiplayer, UnCiv is a FOSS project for Android, PC, Linux, and Mac w/ Java. Moderately vibrant MP community on the Discord.
Doctors recommend a lot of things due to herd mentality and syllogistic thinking. Their endorsement doesn't mean much.
Ben Franklin was not a sexual predator in your scenario. Consent matters.
Our GM crops are >90% engineered with what are called "first-generation" traits which offer resistance to herbicides, pests, or environmental conditions. First-gen traits are producer-centric, and the reason they make up most of our GM arsenal is because the same companies (Monsanto/Bayer for example) that provide the seed also provide the chemical that works in conjunction with the GM trait.

In the past few years, public trust in GM crops has diminished due to false information and fear of the unknown. According to published work, only ~5% of consumers feel like they have a good understanding of GMO.

The problem is that genetic engineering is not limited to "first-generation" traits. As a matter of fact, most of the unrealized benefit of GM crops is hidden in second and third generation traits. These are traits which increase nutritional value or improve shelf-life, etc (Consumer-centric traits).

Before you bash GM by bringing up Monsanto, super-weeds, or whatever, just think about the second and third generation GM traits which could solve major issues in the world (nutrient deficiencies, carbon sequestration, supply chain resiliency).

Plant molecular biologist with a background in genome engineering of high-value crops. AMA

Edit: I want to add a snippet regarding the uncertainties of "playing god". First of all, CRISPR is gene editing which is much different than foreign gene insertion via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. But even agro transformation has been occuring in nature without human intervention. These bacterium have the capacity to insert foreign genes into plant genomes and have been doing so on their own for quite some time. There are plenty of known gene-transfer events which happened without human pressure. Plant genomes across the world are littered with agro transfer genes. The only difference is now we use this mechanism to deliberately insert genes of interest for functional purposes.
I have lived many places with gas furnaces, and one with an oil furnace. None of them have worked when the power was out. The only place I have lived that had central heat when the power went out was an apartment with steam radiators.

All of the "currently need electricity" furnaces can be replaced with heat pumps without improving reliability of the grid. And if that is X% of the furnaces, we get X% of the total benefit by doing so. With IPv6, as long as each person accesses a single server node that is IPv4 only, then each person needs an IPv4 address.
Firefox, Safari and Edge being in the same price bracket and less than Google Chrome is not related to their relative security, but their marketshare being a lot less.
The fact that they can detect that you're using the TOR browser configuration isn't that shocking when they also see that you are coming out of a TOR exit node, or the site you are loading is an Onion site. The anonymity comes from looking like every other person who downloaded Tails.
Erm. The end of the post includes the actual response from hacker one where they say this attack is considered fraud and is thus not applicable for a bug bounty. So… I’m confused and a bit annoyed.
It is because money that would be building renewables that displace coal, oil and gas is instead tied up in construction, and not displacing any. When the project is finally cancelled, over budget and late, that money is spent and still not bringing renewables online.

So, each nuke project eliminates substantial immediate, progressive, and permanent erosion of their market.
> You can use standard live streaming techniques for doing this. Yes, it will have 10-20 second latency (or more)

You can do sub-second latencies with DASH and HLS. Not sub-second enough to do pleasant two-way communication, but literally an order of magnitude better than 10 seconds!
What I have not understood with running K8S locally. Do I need to run a separate container registry? Or can it read my containers from disk?
Talk about turning your employees into bagholders.
Congrats. 500 a month is nothing to laugh at. Relocate this a few times and you’re living the indie dev’s dream!
I don't think that's always true. If you are in that company, they almost certainly have exposure to the cost of those sales and the rate of sales growth, but also the cost to support more users. That gives you a good sense.

If you service has complexity and needs lots of hand-holding and is expensive to generate the sales, then it's harder to say what to do with sales numbers.
Ask HN: Know any mobile development communities?
I want to join some virtual mobile development communities but I'm not sure where to start.
using just this image it would imply chrome was the least secure browser, but I'm not sure I can really infer much at all from this image other than bugs have been found in all browsers.

Was this intended on showing firefox is the least hardened browser somehow?
The literal entire twitter thread where he was bragging about it and how great it was for "his employees".

There is basically no way to read that thread where it doesn't sound like an encouragement.
This thread https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493390167461224451?s... and https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1493609864534315014
The data-oriented design process for game development
Keep in mind that man's God-intended natural state is "... nasty, brutish, and short".
I love small / weird projects that I can bang out in a couple of weekends / evenings. Most recently, I built https://nozama.dev, a way to parse the CSV that Amazon lets you generate of all your past purchases. I was honestly shocked at how much I've spent there over the years....
The wording of these always makes my skin crawl. Just say what's happening and what led to this decision. Numbers, not handwaivey rhetoric like "we need to focus".
The problem with GMO is that it's intertwined with intellectual property shenanigans favouring corporations over traditional farmers, and upsetting traditional methods of farming.

> Are you infringing a patent by selling your soybeans that contain a minor amount of contaminating Roundup tolerant seeds from your neighbor’s land? Are you infringing a patent by replanting those seeds? While you don’t intend to use or sell Monsanto’s crops, intention is not material to patent infringement. All that matters is the mere existence of Monsanto’s crops in your harvest.

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-patent-landscape...

Granted, GMO is not the only type of crop affected, but it has a greater overlap with those practices than non-GMO crops.

> Farmers worldwide increasingly find themselves unable to legally save, share, sell, or breed with their own seeds.

https://www.opensourceseeds.org/en/about-us
I tried to order a Solo Stove last fall. I placed the order, they accepted it, everything seemed like a normal e-commerce experience. Two days later, I received an email saying my order had been canceled for suspected fraud. I've never had that happen before, and it hasn't happened since. My experience is obviously anecdotal but their fraud detection routine clearly had major flaws.

With news of layoffs at Bolt, I wonder how many partners lost sales like mine.
Digital technology demands a new political philosophy
Can you link to any example of that argument being used for reparations?

Also generational wealth is like _the_ predictive factor in future economic outcomes. This is basic stuff.
2GB limit. Cost of indirect addressing. Inability to address RAM and disk using same method calls without overhead.

I've implemented a modest database in both C and Java with memory mapping. It's hard to explain the feeling of programming both but in general: with java I found myself trying to add intelligence at the cost of complexity to make things run faster. In C I could get speed by removing overheads and doing less work.
The FlavrSavr tomato was developed to delay decay so that they could be picked in a riper state. GM doesn't just mean pesticide resistance.