skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's super cool! I have an old BBC Micro in a box under a desk somewhere which I want to get back on its feet someday - last time I powered it up I think it was working (made the right boop-BEEP noise!) but I didn't have a screen to test it with.

I also have a box of 5.25" floppies that I want try and read any data off - they've been untouched for decades, is there anything I should/shouldn't do before plugging in the floppy drive and spinning them up?
I also hope these changes disincentivize the use of FB sdk (which I think benefits greatly from the current cross app tracking system) for other app developers. I am not sure how much value log in with FB adds to an app anymore.
There is no way I’m ever buying a TV.
We tried that for a while at Microsoft but a sprint or two are too short to being meaningful results. You should think about what do you want to achieve and how much is needed to actually do that- if the teams uses similar technologies, infrastructure and code base than it is possible to achieve something in short periods of time otherwise it would be a waste of time
Of course they like money, that's why the rule is there in the first place. High amount of chargebacks and fraud costs them money.
Thermodynamics of computation: Quest to find cost of running a Turing machine
Reflex Actions : hard to stop, not always helpful
> Do I really want a pfSense box and some external WiFi APs, or can I make OpenWrt on plastic home routers do everything, and isn't Ubiquiti gear pretty but closed?

So I went from Tomato on an old Cisco router to buying a fitlet2, installing Proxmox on it, setting up pfSense as one of the VMs and then finally connecting a Ubiquity Unifi AP to the box.

pfSense is very nice and definitely beats Tomato in terms of things you can do with it (although Tomao/OpenWrt is great for 'upgrading' an existing router). Because my network is 100% wireless the Unifi UI has a great overview of all connected devices and I get to set up separate SSIDs with their own VLAN tags which then feed into the pfSense's firewall. This means my IoT devices are on their own network and can't interact with the rest of my stuff and my one external camera has no direct internet access at all.

It's all great fun setting up!
When updating from one format to another, you should generally write code to convert it. Once you have that code, it should be trivial to update old -> new format by using all the intermediate software versions, or not as trivially, you can have a transformer from all previous versions to the current in your latest releases.
a) pay

b) clear differentiation between required and nice to have
Thanks!

In the long term, I believe I will have this. Due to the complexity of video editing (I mean, implementation wise), I chose to go with a single platform for now (Windows 10). The more I think about it, the more I think I should have gone with Mac, but that's another story. All in all, I do want to go multi-platform, once I've gotten all the right features ready.
I think you misread the article. This is about the Nintendo Switch. They accidentally bought 350 million copies of Pizza Bar Tycoon.
I assure you, being diligent about checking for updates is more than enough to solve that issue and there is no need to disable updates in addition. If you install them regularly, then you will not be interrupted.

Changing back settings that you already changed once and an update reverted is still an interruption.

Having ads or new social-media-backed login screens shoved in your face when you try to run your software is still an interruption.

Restoring damaged or destroyed data from backups is still an interruption.

Reinstalling a wrecked system because some device driver or anti-virus update rendered it inoperable is still an interruption.

We are far from the rosy future you describe in some of your comments here. You might have been lucky enough not to get caught out recently, but clearly many people and businesses have not been so lucky.
TikTok CEO (Former DIsney) quited
If it's important enough to not tolerate a 72-hour delay, email is a completely inappropriate medium through which it should be communicated. A competent worker would certainly be aware of that.

The medium is part of the message. Avoid sending the wrong message.
Intel Slips, and a High-Profile Supercomputer Is Delayed
I hate DRM, and I’m a free software advocate. However, if I were in the shoes of a TV content provider who relies on DRM, I would seriously consider lobbying system designers to prevent firmware downgrades.

I wouldn’t want consumers to downgrade their systems and exploit already-patched vulnerabilities in order to circumvent DRM.

One could argue that DRM is evil and wrong, too. But then again, it enables subscriptions and renting and there’s arguably a market for both.
We already have a protocol spec for stuff like this

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5050

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dtn-bpbis-26
My RV-7 gets ~25 mpg depending on winds, power settings, etc. It’s been done before in private aviation. But, this is a very interesting design. Like you said, aviation does have a long history of new designs making big claims that don’t pan out in reality. I wonder what tradeoffs they made to achieve those results. It’s encouraging they’re into test flying phase, though.
When did ARM ever release a binary incompatible CPU?

For the application space they have the old armv7 and the new armv8. The latter can actually run armv7 in aarch32 mode.
Innocent people (the ones on the same subnet/VPN) don't deserve to be banned, that's a bizarre suggestion.
@onion2k

Of course publishers will still show adverts...but if your main source of revenue drops 50% overnight - that's going to be a huge problem for a number of content creators...which is what Facebook are warning against.

Most of FB's revenue is direct inventory sold - so this won't be too much of an impact on their owned and operated inventory - but as I say, it's publishers who rely on Facebook's targeting to generate high eCPMs to efficiently monetize their audience that will suffer most.
I think Apple made this move to increase their Search Ads business. Now that those app install ads on Facebook and such are going to be a lot less effective, iOS app developers and publishers will flock to Apple’s Search Ads. I see this as a double win for Apple - free publicity, and more revenue.
Radio astronomy is most definitely going to be affected by all that wireless internet they want to put up there:

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3702/1
That’s an interesting take and far more reasonable than pointing to words on currency and the concept of a pardon, it goes down especially well with the “American Religion” inherent in the near worship of the founding fathers and biblical constitution too!
A 15 year old is usually able to draw a clear distinction between service not being available, the network connection to their device not working, the ISP being down and the Internet at large being dysfunctional.
+1 to you sir.

Nail. Head. You hit it.
it wouldn't have helped in this case.

I'm not certain that is the case.

The trolling on Github was using a logged in account

Except, if Github bans the user, that user (the actual human being, not their worthless handle) is gone — banned permanently. That's both a disincentive, and a rate-limiter.

Also, if the abuse is egregious enough (ie: a death threat), the troll is now in legal peril. The cost/benefit of reporting a troll to the police (even under a pseudonym) on the new internet is much more attractive. Currently, trying to track down an IP is fairly worthless. It's not tightly-coupled to a human being.

Trolling is a societal issue, not a technological one.

We disagree on this, but — let's be honest — there's no way to prove either position conclusively. I'm tempted to bombard you comparisons and contrasts from the various historical periods, but I doubt it would convince you. There are myriad counter-examples with which you could reply.

My take is that the internet, in its current form, enforces so little accountability, that it gives bad actors far more power than good actors.
It's still way better than the 500ms satellites it replaces.
Regarding your side note. Apple is also, more and more, requiring you allow the login with Apple button. This would effectively shield most of the data off if you want.
Is it so hard to just give the user a sql dump of all of their data? (or a json blob if it’s some nosql thing.) If it’s not in a db then just give them the files. None of that seems complicated.
IE11 is still widely supported across a lot of the industry. It's use is declining, but I suspect it'll be a a good while yet before it disappears because there are still so many IE-only internal apps.
The title should be that Facebook apologizes to its _customers_, not its _users_. Its customers are people buying ads, not the users using the social network. As the saying goes, if you're not paying, you're the product.
I am not sure how can this scale up, if a sensor can cover X square meters then you need a LOT of them to cover huge forests like Sweden has for example, not to mention the amount of bases, communication channels etc.
Validating CloudFormation Templates in AWS CodePipeline
I hate this, but, I think you're right.
Firefox on Android Gets a Major Update and Users Hate It
Why didn't Phonewords succeed in the UK?
Having a "passive income" is the neat way of saying social parasitism.
The emperor isn't deciding this. The president is using authority which is granted to him by law. In this case a law which includes a means for Congress to overrule his decision if it wishes.
"By buying its competitors."

Yup.

Using its advantage in one market to muscle into emerging markets. Classic monopolist move.

The part I'm stuck on is how Facebook (Zuck) has repeatedly attained and leveraged their superior competitive intelligence. For just one example, their basically evil stunt with the Onavo VPN.

What Zuboff identifies as surveillance capitalism.

I now assume network effects (preferential attachment) leading to winner-takes-all outcomes in all open markets. It's tantamount to a natural law, so why fight it.

So I now happily advocate governments regularly harvesting victors by somehow periodically shaking the ant farm for a market reset.

What Scott Galloway calls "oxygenating the market".

I prefer repeated radical cashectomies, especially targeting windfall profits, but am ok with whatever works. Award the leaders a Presidential Market Victory trophy. Relocate them to the Freedom Markets™ lecture circuit to continue living in comfort and glory. Then divide the spoils.

But I don't think such common sensical measures will effectively curtail Facebook and Google. Per Zuboff and others, my current hunch is that we'll need new tools to defang (deFAANG? haha. just thought of that. I slay myself.) these monsters.
First of all, as GP pointed out: whose cost?

Second of all: I highly doubt that this is "trivial", given that observatories are built in the most remote areas of the planet because light pollution was already an enormous problem before these satellites appeared, despite the extra costs that adds to any such project.
You read my post wrong. I said explicitly this is NOT a master/slave situation, "master" has completely different meaning here, there is not any "slave" branch under its rule.

I agree the master/slave pair itself is a weird terminology to use (especially the slave part), but master branch, master degree, master ball in Pokemon games are all fine in my book.

Context matters. This is not far away from attacking anything associated with words white/black.
Diversity in science: a case study of women advancing female birdsong research
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Hah. Lack of pay on job ads is one of my biggest bugbears!

I've always been of the opinion that nice to haves just shouldn't be there. They don't help self-select in a meaningful way. The must haves must be actual must haves. E.g. must be able to code confidently in Python.
Why do you think the porn industry is prone to more fraud/risk?
Are LGBTQ+ rights a foreign ideology that seek to destroy basic Polish values?

Is Malgorzata Szutowicz an Eastern European who thinks about "sex" and "gender" as different concepts?

I quoted a BLM protesters as saying they were there "to show solidarity but also to point out the problem of racism and police violence in their own countries", which includes racism against the Roma people.
Cool!

YMMV but 0 of my WFH colleagues own business-grade headsets though. Some have Airpods, and most use Gaming headsets (like I do) or Bose QuietComfort (which IIRC don't have dedicated mute buttons).

Until we find a unified API around all those devices, a prescribed unified usage pattern IMO doesn't make sense yet.
Imputing makes little sense when you are trying to _measure_ though.
Fighting or detecting ? I think that the most efficient way of detection is by covering a lot of area at once and satellites are best for that, I see that there are multiple efforts being done around automatic real time detection and alerting of forest fires from above.
To be fair, the original title is "Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy"
This got me thinking... people _will_ start putting infra into space sooner or later, just for the better latency. Imagine the new availability zones in aws/gcp/azure :)

Could definitely lead to more investment into space, more money to SpaceX / Blue Origin / etc for their new-gen lift vehicles.
Is TDD driving the design of a system
The office is dead. Get yourself a backyard shed
I love this kind of theory, speculation. Thanks.
Listing in a local newspaper in a section devoted to listings of such things is perfectly fine and desireable. Placing your ad anywhere where users do not explicitly go to look for such information that the ad offers is evil, yes.
> On its face it seems trivial

To me it seems completely impossible. How exactly do you expect to replace the missing information? Statistically from the neighboring pixels or frames? That works if your goal is to make an image prettier, but if you want to make measurements on the data "inventing" the background is not good enough.
I don't think that's still true with 802.11ac. My Wi-Fi adds only 1 or 2 ms latency. There is way more jitter, but it doesn't really matter if the total is always under 10ms.
Oh, did you get the ads yet? My Sony TV randomly started showing sponsored content on the Home Screen.
> Is that true?

Absolutely.

> What are they missing?

Everything. Whatever one can do on Earth which requires big optics and maintenance is many millions times more expensive to do in the orbit. And the many million times higher expenses of all astronomical projects in the world are certainly not going to be covered by the operators of the "cheap and small" satellites.

Optics, for the purposes we talk about, just doesn't work small. One needs big telescopes, big telescopes just can't be simply launched like the "cheap and small" can -- there are no scalable technologies for that.

Imagine it like this: there is a technology to launch "ant" satellites. But on Earth, one has "elephant" observatories everywhere. No rocket can even launch a single one. And the maintenance of an elephant in the orbit is insanely complicated.

So those who dismiss the problem with "ha ha we can send ants for them too" just show that they don't even understand what the problem is. But to uninformed people, it sounds "plausible."

No, not everything we've discovered was made by Hubble, and also won't be made with JWST.

And the demonstrated complexity of JWST should just give you pause, if you read about it. It's still not launched. The direct development of it started in 1996, the current plan is to launch it "just" 25 years later(!) You know all the problems to "get it right" to unfold? Exactly because the limitations of what can be launched and how.

More specifically, at one moment in time it was believed that the atmosphere limits what can be done from Earth. But then these problems were solved: for almost all purposes, Earth based observatories remain millions of time cheaper and better ways to make observations (as in, when something gets expensive enough, it won't even be done at all).

From 2019:

"This Is Why We Can't Just Do All Of Our Astronomy From Space" by Ethan Siegel

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/27/this...

Moreover, you can also read in other articles that even the approaches that were suggested by the astronomers to mitigate the problems were completely ignored by the satellite operators.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/20/this...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/30/dang...
As a PR piece for why most email to him goes unanswered?
Because there are eleventy billion free browsers out there already --quite a few of which are at least as good [if not better] than Firefox-- so almost no-one would see the need to buy a browser.
It wasn't my statement.
Windows 2.0.
Fair enough, I didn't know. I can't find a "delete" button for my comment though. Where is it?

On the other hand though, I feel like we should always complain about that kind of behavior, if at least to shame the practice and encourage developers to actively refuse implementing those.
Can't you just disable hijacking of the history in the browser?
Do you really? Let’s see.

European side:

1. Automotive: BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, all German companies, have complete access to the Chinese automotive market. Volkswagen would be dead, because of the diesel-gate scandal, if it weren’t for the Chinese market saving their sorry asses. BMW probably makes more money from the Chinese market, than any other market worldwide. And these German companies have almost 100 years of manufacturing knowledge, that the Chinese side did not have. Is this fair? You decide.

2. Airplanes: Europe has Airbus, which has some 50% of the Chinese aviation market. This looks like a monopoly here in favor of the Europeans and Americans. Will the Europeans allow Comac to compete fairly when they get their passenger planes airworthy? That is debatable.

3. Luxury products: European brands have a captive market in China. Louis Vuitton is French. Other Italian brands, etc, they all have free access to the Chinese market. Do you see any Chinese luxury products in Europe? Zero. Is this fair? You decide.

4. Software: Europe has SAP, Siemens, also German companies. These companies can freely sell in the Chinese market. Is there a similar Chinese company that can sell into the European market? I can’t even think of one. Is this fair? You decide.

Chinese side:

1. 5G: The Chinese finally create a new technology that they have full intellectual property rights to, the 5G internet, and what happens? They are now banned from every single European country. The reason? The potential for spying. LOL. How convenient of an excuse from the Europeans.

2. China has WeChat, but this appears to be irrelevant in Europe.

3. China has Alibaba, but this is also irrelevant in Europe.

4. China has mobile phone makers, but all are Android. And guess where the majority profits go to? The United States companies, Google, Qualcomm, etc.

It appears that the European side makes the lions share of the profits. They earn more from branding and royalties. Whereas it seems the Chinese side makes peanuts in comparison, and they must fight for the scraps in volume, to earn a decent profit. Is that fair? You decide.

This is obviously not fully conclusive, but each side plays to their own strengths.
Normally I'm not racist but...
So the I'm a "product" of Wikipedia? WordPress? Blender? Linux? mySQL?
How do servers work, and how do you write one?
The standard story in the computer folklore was Movable Type [0], a blogging platform. In the early 2000s when blogosphere was at its height, Movable Type was used by numerous authors. It was freeware, source code available, and had a big collection of plugins and extensions. It was not Free and Open Source, with restrictions on use and redistribution, but most thought it was good enough.

As time went by, its shortcomings and limitations became obvious and a new version was needed. But the development has already stagnated because the publisher's interests shifted. And finally when the new version was released, it contained numerous bugs, and many bloggers suddenly found they needed to pay several hundreds dollars of licensing fee under the new license.

Matthew Thomas, a blogosphere personality, wrote an outline for anyone who wants to create an ultimate blogging platform [2] that can stand the test of time and prevent similar incidents from happening again. Requirements included free database backend, open archive formats, and free software.

His article was also the source of a famous remark,

> In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero.

---

[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-pilgrim-freedom0....

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20051107103030/http://mpt.phrasew...

[2] The Movable Type Incident was a major event responsible for the rise of WordPress, which was a new project at that time. Even the name "WordPress" refers to the printing press, in analogue to Movable Type.
> which I would say is trivial

I'm frankly amazed at the arrogance on display here. Do you honestly think you know better then the entire field of astronomy?
CCDs are not really receivers that can be turned off for a couple seconds. A physical shutter moves in front of the detector and covers it (for most instruments as they exist right now).
We've set the API up properly now so its

curl 'https://api.grattr.org/james@grattr.org'

and

curl 'https://api.grattr.org/amy@grattr.org'
Remembering me when I was retyping Basic listings from mid 80's magazines...
> Really? What's the evidence for that?

I thought this was an uncontroversial fact everyone knew, but a two-second search on drug-related crime would answer your question, with many links. For example:

"In 2004, 17% of state prisoners and 18% of federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs [...] In 2002 about a quarter of convicted property and drug offenders in local jails had committed their crimes to get money for drugs [...] Among state prisoners in 2004 the pattern was similar, with property (30%) and drug offenders (26%) more likely to commit their crimes for drug money than violent (10%) and public-order offenders (7%)."

https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/duc.cfm

> I'm not necessarily in favor of criminalizing drug trade, but it stands to reason that absent that "line of business", criminals would be under higher pressure to make money otherwise.

Drug legalization is not about ending all crime, and nobody is saying it would, so I'm not sure why you keep saying this. It's about reducing the power of organized crime/cartels, reducing drug-related crime (see above), providing more effective rehabilitation and safety/health, and civil liberties.

> Drug trade at least is more likely to only affect those involved with drugs, whereas these other crimes are more likely to affect "bystanders".

I'm not even sure what you're arguing here, but it seems to be that you think the drug trade only negatively affects drug users and, even more bizarrely, that criminals aren't already involved in "other crimes".
I just started posting to HashNode this week as an alternative to Medium. So far so good. Can write posts in markdown and even sync them to a git repo.
> among hackers there is still a wide cohort of people who will absolutely deny that women face

That was one of the points of the trolls which is right: this woman is not a hacker. The way they go about it obviously is puerile, but the point still stands.
I enjoyed this one.
That good of calculations does not come naturally to man, woman, straight, gay, lesbian... She was one in a billion, question is in what all fields?