skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My home country, African country, is in big trouble when it comes to the economy. It is possible to "send" money or goods home. You just head to advertised stores in your resident country and hand your money over. Your relatives at home can go collect money/goods from a store that's part of the network. No systems involved except WhatsApp.
What is with this consistent gas lighting? These articles mention Chrome Incognito, and the laser focus gas lighting is consistently that "of course you can be tracked in Chrome Incognito, why are these people SO STUPID?"

This has nothing to do with the fact that you can theoretically track users in Incognito mode. You could be using Firefox Privacy mode, and the problem would be exactly the same. It's that Google's services are tracking users who are clearly indicating they don't want to be tracked. If Google built their whole company around relying on bad faith encounters with their customers, and it's going to be painful for them to unwind, then boo-fucking-hoo. Do dumb shit, get dumb rewards.
I mean you could absolutely inspect the source for the page, but these things could be modified at runtime by JS, right?

I'm talking about the meta tags. It would be neat to have a toggle on the tab for isolating the content of the page from the network.
If you're looking for an alternative take, check out some of Cory Doctorow's writing on this. His position is that forcing platform neutrality is less important when platforms don't have a monopoly over communication.

Different people have come up with different plans about how you could address tech monopolies, with varying degrees of extremity:

- Splitting up companies that control entire vertical slices of a market. Warren in particular was campaigning pretty hard on this, especially in regards to Amazon/Apple app stores.

- Forcing companies to allow data exports by consumers, and specifically to allow automated data exports. For example, Facebook would need to allow you to access an API to pull your data, so you could plug that API into a competitor instead of manually downloading everything.

- Weakening Computer Fraud and Abuse laws around site scraping and adversarial interoperability.

- Adding additional exceptions to the DMCA around interoperability. For example, allowing companies to break Kindle DRM for the purpose of moving books to a competing service if Amazon didn't provide a way for them to migrate books on its own.

- Forcing certain data formats to be standardized, or requiring standardized API layers on top of services.

There's a lot of debate in those areas about how far is too far, and what counts as a natural monopoly, and what negative side effects might exist for particular strategies. But, the thread running through all of them is that Section 230 is fine, awesome even. There's no need to get rid of it, 99% of the time we want moderation on most of our platforms.

Platform censorship is really only a problem when consumers don't have the ability to easily switch platforms/hosts, and in that case we should break the monopolies, not the Right to Filter[0]. You see people complain about censorship on Twitter, you don't see as many people complain about censorship on Mastodon, because on Mastodon you can set up your own server if you really need to. One of the biggest points of federated services is to allow communities to choose how aggressive they want to be about moderation.

[0]: https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-filter
For example, the caller could cast `int` to `myInt` which implements the appropriate interface. This is probably more idiomatic than using a bare `int` type anyway.
> Wow $2000 USD for a monitor?

My monitors usually last me for a long time, right now I'm using a Dell P2715Q 4K that I got 5 years ago and I'm staring at it every day for multiple hours.

It wasn't that expensive but a good monitor is definitely worth the money and is not something you should cheap out on if possible.
If I don’t see a dripping blood horizontal rule as I click through the ring I’m going to be real disappointed.
For some reason I read that as "Two thumbs ago, would drill again" and was sad for you and your drill press accident(s).
> She and her roommate signed a lease on a two-bedroom apartment in the West Village for $4,995 a month

Holy cow, I knew NY rent way expensive, but wow I didn't know it was that bad. Growing up in upstate NY, you could be a nice family ready home in my suburban home town for ~100K. Of course there were houses that went up to ~150K or even 200K, but 100K was standard for purchasing a home. I even though that that was a lot.

I'm working in RI right now, renting a room outside the city, and I pay ~$500 a month for a room and all utilities. Have I just lived in very cheap places and the rest of this country is very expensive, or is it really just the big cities that have extremely expensive housing?
I'd take a 2560x1440 monitor (or 2 or 3!) over 1080p displays that the author seems to prefer, even if those 1080p display are actually 4k pixel-wise...

Being able to see more things >>>>>>> sharper text, once you're past 100dpi or so at least.
That's awesome - I like the idea that the bell-making business was baked in from the start. I think the same could be done with software development or some sort of SaaS instead of bell-making.
> Authors without available research funds for the remainder of the publishing fee can request that the Library cover the entire amount. Authors may also choose to opt out of open access publishing if they wish.

I agree. Authors with limited fundings will have trouble getting their papers open access. The UC library claims that they may cover the fee, but hopefully this process will be simple. Otherwise, the papers most widely circulated might come from a smaller circle of authors with more access to funding, i.e. a net loss in scientific diversity of thought.
Well, that "nous sommes en guerre" (we are at war) speech by Macron was mocked by pretty much the whole country, rightly so in my opinion.
I vouched for you to get this comment out of dead. I think you may be shadowbanned for your first comment on your account? Talk to the mods.
remember that the address and data pins are multiplexed - the 8088 and 8086 have the same number of pins

My guess is that the prefetch buffer is always 6 bytes but the 8088 fetches instructions more slowly and never fills it past 4 instructions

I think they're probably the same die, the thing to look for is whether there's a bonding difference
Baseball players do this because of how their sports work: some guys can get outsize contracts and it isn't obvious early on who those guys will be.
A lot of engineers in my group as well as a few friends are leaving the SF bay area. Now that working there is no longer a requirement and everything is shut down, why live there? Oregon, Nevada, Colo, (cheaper areas of CA), all are places that they are heading to. Main reasons are cost, crowds(lack thereof) and overall better quality of life. Expect this trend to accelerate once more leases end.
My mind was blown when seeing connections [0] between Stewart Brand and many of the folks whose work deeply shaped my thinking about computing and systems. In retrospect, the influence is obvious and it’d be surprising if worked any other way. Which makes me wish CS programs included more courses covering history and philosophy of computing. I think we spent a a week or two on it —- Alan Kay even did a guest lecture —- but I still feel theres tremendous value in focusing on why we are doing what we do.

[0] http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cyberneti...
During the housing crisis the exurbs suffered price slumps, but core housing did not. This time the opposite might happen exacerbating DC sprawl. People will work more days remote and housing in Leesburg/Frederick will become more doable/attractive.
The blogger who hit back against a hammer-wielding Russian ‘assassin’
A Look at the Gameboy DMG
Well, no one would actually lead with that, but I've met people in the Bay that have lead with "What are your pronouns?" and "How do you identify?", either of which may make for an awkward (or worse) first impression in a lot of other places.
I don't think they were doubting that somebody does develop in those random setups, they were disagreeing with the people that say it doesn't matter and you can code anywhere. In your quote, a royal you.
That's why we have the word anecdote.
I believe there is economic research that says increases in density are correlated with larger increases in productivity.

I also think the environmental cost is lower, for example if you're not burning fossel fuels in single occupant SUVs in order to do everything. My personal experience is also that avoiding that last part is good for your health, physical fitness and stress.
Nintendo shocked when virtual economy for Animal Crossing creates RMT market
Since the original post seems confused about why a browser would ask for contacts:

A legitimate reason could be so that they can easily autofill forms for you.
Meanwhile, this paper has also just come out, which looks at whether such effects are due to factors coming in from the young animals or things being removed from the old ones. The authors, from UC-Berkeley and the California Pacific Medical Center, are looking at what they call a “neutral blood exchange”. They replace half the blood volume in mice (both young and old) with isotonic saline plus added albumin protein. The effect of this on the older animals was also significant, with noticeable improvements in wound-healing ability, neurogenesis, and fibrosis/fatty deposits in the liver. The younger mice were not really changed by the treatment. The authors tried several control experiments to make sure that this wasn’t an effect being driven by added albumin protein, and it apparently isn’t. They conclude that removal and substitution of old plasma “is sufficient for most if not all observed positive effects on muscle, brain and liver” in parabiosis-type experiments. It doesn’t exclude the idea of there being beneficial factors in young plasma, but suggests that this is not the driver of many of the results seen. (It would be very interesting to check the DNA methylation status of various tissues before and after this treatment!)

The paper wastes no time in noting that therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is already an FDA-approved process (as witness convalescent plasma treatment in the current coronavirus epidemic), and it says that Phase II and III human trials are being planned on the basis of these results. That will be quite interesting to watch, says the 58-year-old dude writing this blog. Overall, I still find such results hard to believe, but at the same time they seem to be showing up from multiple experiments. This second paper especially seems to be a very testable hypothesis indeed. That’s a good thing, because in the end, it’s going to be reproducible human clinical data that decide whether this is real or not – so I’m glad that feasible experiments will allow such data to be collected. Something to watch. . .

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/12/yo...
You can transfer out, but you pay the similarly insane egress costs. Somewhat cheaper, but still bonkers.

Snowball/snowcone, US East

$0.03 per GB ~-> $300 per 10TB

If you're buying disks at scale that's almost the cost of the disk.

Network egress

$0.15 per GB

$0.08 per GB (>150TB/month)

It makes sense for the occassional transfer so you're not paying for expensive EBS storage for stuff you don't need cloud access to.
I agree. That's why I'm asking Zoom: "Define end-to-end encryption." Most likely, it will be backdoored form where they can intercept the call if they want to. And they'll promise us they won't unless there's a "lawful request."

What use is E2EE if it's backdoored? Nada, zero, zilch.
Sometimes it is: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage
'Racial Equity' is a nice way of saying that they'll perpetuate racial discrimination.

The way forward is for race to take the back seat and then disappear from the radar, not to ensure it remains the focus of attention and cause for discrimination.
... for 64x64 px resolution.

This is truly a brute force approach.
>What they are missing is the knowledge of and empathy for people who are actually harmed by these behaviors.

Don't worry, most people asking for such bans don't have any real empathy for people who are actually harmed by these behaviors either.

And inversely, most people who are actually harmed, don't care for such bans, they prefer substantive and inherent (felt and voluntary) changes, not bans.
One dark thing the article doesn't seem to mention: what about COVID-19 evictions?

Have to get new tenants when the old ones are being kicked out or going back home to live with their parents.
I don't think he's trying to convince you he's not lying, but rather we should promote services that encourage transparency and open standards.
That's a cool idea. I wonder how many re-uses a box like that would take to make it cost effective over the same amount of cardboard. Should be feasible I'd think.
"As a product manager, your job is to live in the problem space. You should spend nearly all of your time focusing on your target customer, what needs they have, and what value you are going to provide to them. Nobody else in your organization is set up to spend time in the problem space like you are."

Couldn't agree more. I would add it's the PM's responsibility to bridge the gap between the Solution and Problem spaces, especially when compromises need to be made at implementation time.
I’ve been a remote worker far longer than Covid and live in a dense (for the US) area. For me the density value comes from things that specifically can’t go remote.

Having parks, beaches, produce shops, restaurants, schools and friends in walking distance is the value.

Covid has proven those things can’t be replicated online.
They give a month "free" to avoid dropping the official rent. Make them drop it.
I recently listened to an interview with the editorial team of Deadliest Catch (Art of the Cut #51). I could see this product being used by similar media productions where thousands of hours of film footage is generated in remote locations with low uplink speeds. Instead of shipping the drives all the way to the post-production house, the drives could be ingested at the nearest AWS facility.
The lack of privacy and security. Throwing an ad-blocker on a browser is just a band-aid; the festering wound is still there getting worse.
Everyone says this, as if none of us who advocate for urban life understand having kids. I have two kids.

Also, they raise plenty of kids in other countries where they haven't oriented life around suburbs.

Also, this was more true in the United States before white flight, and the US raised plenty of healthy kids then.

So I don't think the kid thing makes as much sense as they say. But the state of US school systems does make the urban kid raising thing needlessly expensive for many.
Hi, -H-M-H- . Totally newbie here. I tried installing the deb package. I set up the uinput, but I still can't make it work. I'm using xubuntu along with an IPAD. Do I need to change the "bind address" on weylus? What could I be missing here? Thx
Yeah, I'm thinking more and more the same, I'm beginning to think we need a dual function web.

Static web, and run as an app web.

I kinda have this by running with javascript off (this solves all sorts of other issues, though much of the web doesn't work that could work.) When I need to 'run as app' I allow js for that one visit.
So far, I've never had an issue with KDE Plasma and 4K@60Hz on linux, once I realized that you can't just use any old HDMI cable: you need DisplayPort or HDMI2
"Expensive" and "coastal" are critical caveats. Looking at the full Zumper report (https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/), there are surprisingly high year-over-year increases in a lot of other metro areas: Arizona sees nearly 8% increases in both Scottsdale and Tucson; Austin, TX is up almost 7% while even California has seen sizable increases in its second-tier cities like Sacramento (7%) and Bakersfield (6%).

The CNN story gives the impression that this is a nationwide trend, but it's really isolated to the housing markets that have been the most unaffordable in recent years.
3. 60hz CRT refresh rate is 16.67 millseconds of delay. Interestingly, I connected a VT220 to my 56' 4k Samsung TV via a BNC-to-RCA cable, and by comparing the cursor blinking on both screens there's a very noticeable and visible delay, like a 1/4 second.

4. CRTs are analog. It's as many bits as your output hardware can make up.

5. CRT is still supreme for contrast (at least over LCD) despite all the tricks and such for LCDs.

7. That VT220 I mentioned above is from 1986. It's monochrome, but works great.
Seems like the conspiracy theories that the rich and global elite harvest the blood of the young and innocent to rejuvenate them isn't as false as we once thought... /s

Sometimes I wish we had a medical system where whoever wanted to be a test patient for whatever reason could sign on the dotted line once advised of the potential downsides (up to and including death assumedly) so we could advance medical science faster. Maybe we'd find out things a lot faster than we currently do.
>McArthur is revered as a god, over there

When they talk to Americans, maybe.
Thanks for reporting! The encryption actually works with unicode (as it is go) but apparently vue.js does have a problem with it.

Will check how to solve this :D
LA is actually good for this, because despite a few rich neighborhoods, it’s primarily an immigrant and working class city.

I grew up in the Midwest, which people romanticize as the real America, small town life, etc. But now it’s mostly strip malls, chain stores, and deranged, adversarial politics. In LA, by contrast, I could find a small, locally-owned business for just about any service or need and people were friendly and accepting of everyone.

If you can separate yourself out from the Hollywood BS and gentrified neighborhoods, it’s really a great place.
YCombinator Startup School Library
The DMZ!
The worst part of this has not been mentioned:

>While broad-based open access publishing in the most well-known Nature subscription journals is not initially included, the deal commits Springer Nature and UC to a Nature open science pilot in 2021 and to the development of plans for a transformative agreement for all of the Nature journals to be implemented in 2022.

So for now this does seem not include Nature and likely neither the field specific Nature... (physics, photonics, materials...) journals. Which are the ones that are clearly interesting. This seems very similar to the typical deals from Elsevier, Springer... to include only sell bundles of journals with their high profile journals with lots of journals that nobody wants. Just in this case it's we include open access on all these journals that nobody cares about, but not in the view journals that everyone cares about.
Found the Fed.
> Maybe this sounds strange, but I think there is also a category of people who prefer suburbs or exurbs and are really bitter that the pendulum has swung back to cities in the last ~20 years.

What would they be bitter about?

The suburbs of "thriving" cities are "thriving" in basically exactly the same way as the city centers are. Even in the extreme examples like the Bay Area, the crazy SF prices haven't stopped prices in Mountain View from also going nuts.
At least here in Portugal there are already plenty of Renault Zoe being used for Uber. The running costs are lower and range seems more than enough for city driving. With decent chargers the cars are only idle when the drivers are taking a break. As far as I can tell the only roadblock right now is the price of the cars. With the new models coming out of VW and others I expect EVs to take over these roles actually much faster than the general public. There are no long trips and the running cost advantage pays for the extra cost of the car much easier.
"The mother of all demos."

Hyperlinking
Computer mouse
Videoconference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Which influenced Xerox Parc which in turned influenced Apple.
So any post that has "... a liberal amount..." or "... take the conservative approach ..." or "... replaced the right wing nut..." would be filtered.

Political candidates also share names with other people. Name based filtering can silence unrelated people. See how well our no fly lists are at targeting people who just happen to have the wrong name.

For every problem, there is a simple solution that is wrong. Getting things right is often not simple.
The CLI is Java and probably not well documented.

In the past I think Open Whisper systems have been hostile to third party client builds interacting with their servers, so I'm not sure they'd welcome third party client implementations.
well, time to throw my brand-new BenQ 24" 1080p monitor in the garbage, I guess.

but really....1080p is just fine for looking at text on a screen. Maybe the reason the text is blurry for you is that _you need glasses_.
This uses signal-cli[0] (communication happens over D-Bus) and signal-cli in turn uses a patched version of libsignal-service-java[1]. The latter might be used in some of the clients provided by Signal (not sure) but the signal-cli + libsignal-service-java combo talks to Signal servers instead of any apps running locally.

Nothing is stopping you from building a web client for yourself.

[0]: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-service-java
Im on Gnome and use fractal scaling . 2x and everything got too big. But 1.6 looks OK. Its actually not on the app layer, its the screen that is scaled up. Although some low level programs can have issues with mouse pointer position if they dont take into account the scaling.
The water in a dishwasher can get up to 60C, which is above the maximum storage temperature of most consumer electronics.
High School Students and Alumni Are Using Social Media to Expose Racism
So what have they done in 3 years?

Not to be dismissive I tried looking through their portfolio.

https://www.1517fund.com/portfolio
West/East and western/eastern does not just have a geographical meaning.

It also has a political/cultural meaning, which has some roots in geography, but is otherwise totally different.
It's just a different stylistic choice. A lot of font nerds prefer the OSX choices because they try to stay true to the original font spacing without regard to the pixel grid.
I am somewhere in between. I don't go for hi-DPI but am using 28" 4K on the desktop and 14" 1080p on my laptops. So identical dot pitch and scaling settings. I just have more display area for more windows, exactly as you say like a 2x2 seamless array of screens.

I actually evolved my office setup from dual 24" 1920x1200 and went to dual 28" 4K. But with the COVID lockdown, I only have one of the same spec monitor at home for several months, and realize that I barely miss the second monitor. I was probably only using 1.25 monitors in practice as the real estate is vast.

People who complain that a monitor is too large should stop opening a single window full-screen and discover what it is like to have a windowing system...
Hmm. A $2,000 loss fee.

I sure hope they don't use Amazon delivery. They'll deliver stuff to other houses, complete with a "delivery proof" picture of the wrong house and claim that you must have lost it.