skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralized Governance: There's No M&a in Crypto
0 : ℝ ↦ ℝ is both even and odd, because for all x ∈ ℝ, we have 0(x) = 0(-x) = -0(x).
As an anecdote, here in a building of 400 residences the monthly used clothes donation could fill a large van twice.

The clothes used to be donated to local services who distributed them to those in need but starting two years ago those organizations no longer took used clothes. Many of them are so awash in money from rich donors that they buy new clothes and their clients no longer will accept used.

The only choice left was to donate to organizations who took the clothes and sold them to a local business who then either sell them locally at a high price (often higher than new) or ship them overseas.

Lately even that market has dried up and now used clothes go into the dumpster.

This isn't just clothes, but everything from housewares to high end electronics.
Nothing is wrong with it. Just looking for all my options.
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> An AI model trained on vast swaths of the internet won’t be attuned to the nuances of this vocabulary and won’t produce or interpret language in line with these new cultural norms.

As those become pervasive cultural norms, why would the model not adapt to include them?
Unfortunately

> If the local() function is provided, specifying a font name to look for on the user's computer, and the user agent finds a match, that local font is used. Otherwise, the font resource specified using the url() function is downloaded and used.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face

And this is not the case for Google Fonts anymore, for example

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto%20Sans

I've created issue

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2855

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>> Any correctly-coded website will try a local source first, which should help a lot for poor connections.

> Then Google Fonts is not correctly coded, as it'll use remote font only. And myriads of websites reusing Google Fonts snippets. To try local source first, you have to explicitly ask for it in @font-face/src which Google Fonts does not do.

> So installing font into your OS won't help you with any website using Google Fonts service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301830
Is there a way to avoid YouTube ads on a Smart TV with PiHole? Those ads are becoming more pervasive each month.
Jio (India) is super obnoxious in the fact that their own router is locked down hard. Now you cant even change your DNS. I have suggested few people to bypass this limitation by removing the router as dhcp and using pihole for that. That works but don't know for how long. The pathetic thing is their router does not even allow bridging mode. Fuck jio.
This has nothing to do with labor theory of value.
I’ve lived almost this exact experience during winter after borrowing a telescope from a
close relative.

I could make out the rings of Saturn from my backyard and it was a special type of magic, an unforgettable experience the first time it happened.
Physical infrastructure itself needs to be federal. I believe that’s the most economical solution. But it could be virtually decentralized.
what if there was a section 230 carveout where you are not liable for comments on your blog, say, as long as they are

1) digitally signed (can be by anonymous identity)

2) content is id-filterable by id, by user agents (aka browsers + user controlled software), easily enough, following a reasonable man test. so users can moderate their own content following blacklists and whitelists, if they want. law enforcement and gov can of course have their own white and blacklists.

3) you take illegal content down when notified with reasonable latency period. This can be automated for mom and pops with limited resoures, if you follow illegal content blacklists maintained by gov. If someone wants to fight the blacklist, ok, the eff can go to court, supreme court if necessary. This isn't going to happen as long as black lists aren't abused.

This puts your private blog on the same footing as social media giants. Everybody follows the same rules. If government blacklist is too aggressive, society debate can go to there, where it should be. Sue the government, in court, for doing black lists too aggressively. Mom and pop isps and blog owners aren't at risk.

This also forces social media giants to make their sites content filterable by user agents.

They call it a user agent for a reason...

There doesn't have to be a government blacklist for this to work, either. I'm just saying there could be. And if there was, this should be the focus of litigation, not 230.

IE, if the blacklist was truly used only for child porn, I don't think this would go to court. But government and "powers that be" can't hide behind social media giants for censorship enforcement. They make themselves directly responsible, and it better be in a way that society finds acceptable.
Thank you for the article! Very uselful!

Most smart TVs have built in web browsers, you can also try website like https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ to check your DNS.
Why? All physics theories we have are deterministic.* So if we take that to the limit, then we are also deterministic. To me, there is nothing conspiratorial about that.

*Yes, quantum mechanics is kind of debatable.. But if I understand it correctly, the actual theory is deterministic. It's just the interpretation of the measurements that can lead to some debate. However they can also be viewed in a deterministic framework, as the link you cite shows.
Unless you want to end up with Adeptus Mechanicus worshipping the Machine God in the MS-DOs boxen, you need to change from time to time. You need to at least be able to open the metaphorical box and see if you can reproduce it in case of disaster recovery.

The more important the system, the higher the existential threat for the organization if you just let it be.

I do understand that it's a thankless job, so this needs to be enforced from up high.
> The whole point of having AI ethicists is to identify current indicators of potential future ethical problems so that they can be considered in guiding the direction of development, so that you minimize acute ethical crisis.

An alternative motivation could be to launder accountability so that when the acute ethical crisis /does/ come, you can throw your hands in the air and say "See? Look at how much resources we poured into this and it still happened! At least we tried!"
> It’s a web-based graphics editor

Yeah, for something like that you are going to need a lot of libraries and infrastructure to pull it off as a side project without heroic effort, so it makes sense to go with the most mature framework available.

Reasonable people aren't unqualified in their criticism of React. There are times and places for it, and this sounds like one of them. It is the over-use of React (and other SPA frameworks) that most reasonable people are criticizing.

The headline, a take on "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" is interesting in it's own way, because that's the sentiment that leads to React being chosen for projects for which it is not appropriate.
>What happens when your hard coded DNS is not available?

The same thing that happened each time when DRM servers went offline. Time to buy a new TV :^)
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Put a password on your wifi, it other security benefits as well.
Doesn’t usb support isochronous scheduling? It did for v1.0
And what's the definition of "cost"? Moreover, does exporting anything second-hand constitute "dumping"?
Here's why I have absolutely no sympathy for Google in this situation.

They hired Gebru as a professional thorn in their side. "Come up in here and be a pain in the ass! Tell us what we're doing wrong!", they said. "We're Enlightened Corporate America, after all!" She is a chess piece in the game of Wokeness Street Cred.

She then proceeded to do the job she was hired for, and now they're all "Hey lady, Here At Google that's not how we do things".

That said, as a manager, I would have "accepted her resignation" and/or fired her without hesitation.
I generally agree that using boring technology is better. It makes projects smaller.

But what is left is still discovery/inventive work.

That’s because in software, anything repetitive gets factored out into libraries and platforms.
I don't get the rectangle, it's only 4 cards. A poker hand is 5 cards.
It's not just shitty devices. By putting it on the HTTP layer which usually is even available to sandboxed applications they made it possible for every single application to bypass your own resolver. Pretty much a trojan horse.
Agreed. I’m a lawyer who practices in this area a bit. My female clients are subject to incredibly grotesque harassment online on these various platforms. The “report” functions rarely work and when they do, it’s a very slow process. The sites are so negligent that they are complicit at this point.

I’ll defend Section 230 once the sites start holding up their end of the bargain and rigorously protect. And if those sites start editorializing, then anything should be fair game.
We use Github and we are not that interested in the decentralized aspects of git itself.

The low-friction UX and integration of issues/PRs/code makes it lightyears easier to ramp new developers than if I had to sit down and also explain Jira & Jenkins to them. The fact that git is centralized or decentralized crosses our minds precisely zero times per week.

In the absolute worst case where Microsoft somehow loses everyones' issue/PR/project data (assuming non-enterprise cloud hosted account), we could still rebuild with whoever has the latest master copy on their local. Presumably, one of our developers must have made the latest commit so this should work out always. We have a process where we include the issue numbers in our commits, so it would be possible to reconstruct a large portion of these with inference across commit history. Personally, I trust Microsoft to safeguard our business data more than I trust our 7 person team w/ a $2000/m AWS budget.

Ultimately, I think the objective of making all things around your source control technology look & talk like your source control technology is a huge mistake. Issues and code are completely orthogonal things that intersect in very narrow ways. These intersections are hugely valuable, but we are not interested in aligning the planes of functionality.
Could you elaborate? I am very curious to know about the potential downsides.
For real though, 99% of personal blogs/substacks/medium published here is straight up pretentious self-advertisement. I honestly don’t know how people put up with it, especially when some many of them offer no value at all. For example, go back three days on the frontpage and you’ll see 4-5 articles about “How I read book” or “How I take notes”. All of those offer little insight into any of those activities beyond what a high schooler already knows. Meanwhile, they all make it sound like their method is the most useful thing under the sun, and that they should be thanked for their “enlightening research”.
How is it beyond your understanding? What is so hard to understand about the fact that 99.999% of people won't have the knowledge or the inclination to do that?
It's best to seperate the human from their technical work.

I do technical work and unfortunately can't contain my Politics on social media (due to their psychology tricks). I know both Republicans and Democrats will dismiss my math because I don't belong to their side.
I don't agree with this characterization at all. This seems to be a much deeper battle about much more serious potential issues with AI. It's not just about language choice. One of the examples cited in the linked article is how facial recognition wasn't trained on as many examples of lower-albedo people and thus gave more false matches for them, thus potentially leading to false arrests for crimes they didn't commit. This is about a lot more than just language.
Location: Argentina

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: mostly C on Linux (including some kernel experience) and Win32

Résumé/CV: please request it by email

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What about Netflix? Can I have Netflix in Kodi (in a raspberry)? Honesty asking.
Hm this looks good too:
https://github.com/lambdalisue/vim-manpager

Any other suggestions? I only looked for a vim plugin since I already use vim, and would rather not add all of emacs just for man, but I wouldn't mind something standalone. Slightly surprised (having only briefly searched 'manpager github') not to find anything though.
That's why the wording here is specifically:

> As a number, is zero even or odd?

Treated as a number, not as a function.
Does your TV magically crack the WPA2 password?
Sold a title? What?! Most of us peons don’t even know what that means. Can I buy nobility? How much does it sell for? What benefits does it convey, and who would recognize it?

This sounds like a level of old-world elitism that is intended to completely alienate one from the rest of the world. Do you think that had anything to do with your situation? How did the rest of the family take being poor?
What about the neighbor's wifi?
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makes it utterly useless in an IPv6+NAT64 environment, incidentally.
Sounds a like a lot of support calls to me.
Linux and BSDs. They are still used quite often, and for the most cases are compatible with Linux.
> They don’t actually collapse, which is what the many worlds theory essentially posits.

That's not consistent with classical physics, and it is not what MWI actually posits. The universe branching that MWI posits is not really different from wave function collapse, and decoherence also doesn't really solve things. You still fundamentally have a single position for any classical system, but multiple positions with different amplitudes for quantum systems, and some mysterious threshold where you pass from one to the other.

Probability also can't really explain this, since the classical model also applies to single particles after they have interacted with a macroscopic system.

MWI considers that observers inside one branch can't interact or notice observers inside other branches, and this is why we perceive the world as if objects have unique definite positions. But this still doesn't hold up for quantum systems, which do in fact perceive and can interact with all of the other "worlds", including interacting with themselves in other worlds such as in the single particle double-slit experiment. So MWI doesn't really get away from the duality in any rigorous way.
Or some clash with a TSR (sidekick?)
At least it’s not because of their religion, skin color, ethnicity, etc.

Can’t deny that isn’t progress!
Great work there.
I would love to sign up, but this has no email sign up option
It’s not just the U.S. A problem report once lead me to discover that the Spanish company Telefónica cached DNS results for years longer than the TTL. My error monitoring also picked up content injection (prior to HTTPS) and DNS hijacking around the world.

Before going with the conspiratorial take note that Mozilla shipped DoH early and both Microsoft and Apple implemented it. Untrustworthy ISPs are a real problem even if Google deservedly gets suspicion about their motives. This isn’t another AMP.
Could you give an example of the second part?
These shenanigans are exactly why Universal IPv6 only access still fails.
That design is amazing.
DOS is the cheapest RTOS and simplest RTOS, with very hard guarantees (just disable interrupts altogether, and run a busy loop).
Here is where structures come into play, though.

If you get Section 8 housing assistance in the US, it is illegal to house that relative who needs a hand without an extensive paperwork and approval, which you probably won't get. It is especially difficult if that relative has a drug charge in their past, including "smoking a joint at age 16". (If that relative has a felony drug charge in their past, they also can't get federal student loans ever.)

Many of the things people do to help their families have been made to have bad consequences for poor people in the US. To me, it feels as if there has been a systematic effort to break poor families, take away their ability to help each other, and ensure that they continue to be embroiled in "the system" in the US.
Hey FYI your landing page gave me this error, Firefox ESR 78.5.0. Right now it's a big blank screen with no content.

{…}

code: "EACCES"

errno: 13

message: "Error: EACCES: Permission denied."

path: undefined

stack: "n@https://gitopia.org/main.js:277:55609\non/<@https://gitopia....

syscall: ""

<prototype>: Object { constructor: n(t, n, r), toString: toString(), toJSON: toJSON()
, … }
main.js:339:94885
c https://gitopia.org/main.js:339
configure https://gitopia.org/main.js:277
store https://gitopia.org/main.js:277
on https://gitopia.org/main.js:277
I never connect it via WiFi so it never has my password and use an Apple TV for streaming services. If I need to update the firmware, I use ethernet and then disconnect when done.
Yes you can. It can stream a bunch of things along with regular tv.
Visit the last time this was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249994
Right, I also like waterfall for bigger projects with fix requirements at the end.

In fact I also mix agile with waterfall. So much easier to keep adjusting your requirements for a few milestones ahead than to scramble together stories to fill the next sprint every other week.
Why would it need to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350
There's a lot of speculation going on here. The version of the paper I read did not feel like an early draft at all, but a final one. This is just the excuse Emily Bender is using to avoid providing Technology Review with a copy of the paper. You're right; they wouldn't have submitted an early rough draft for peer review at a conference (these aren't amateurs we're talking about here!).

The real reason I suspect she didn't want the paper published is that the other 4 colleagues are still employees at Google and could get in trouble, seeing as how Google doesn't want it published and all.
> it was the social/security net family/friends hold so that if you were unfortunate enough to fall, someone will catch you.

I've no doubt that, for every person who ends up rough sleeping in the US there are 1000 who move back in with their parents. Or sleep on a friend's couch. Or get gifted a few hundred bucks from a loved one to tide them over. Or move in with a partner when otherwise they wouldn't have.

But there will always be some people who don't have any social connections left to spend - if your parents have died, or were abusive, or you're a first generation immigrant, moving back in with them might not be an option. Maybe you've had $300 from grandpa several times before, and lost it to your gambling addiction. Maybe you've stayed with your sister before and scared them with your untreated mental illness.

None of which is common - but if a million people are struggling to make rent it's a simple numbers game: some of them won't have any social connections to fall back on.
not long before every TV comes with a built-in SIM card and a whispernet-like arrangement .
I hope computer monitors at 40-50inch size reach affordable prices.
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this is a great comment, and shows why the original author’s “opportunity cost” argument is a double-edged sword
Electric vehicles also require less service and maintenance. That's a hit to dealer profits and another reason dealers are skeptical. Anyone who has ever owned an American vehicle has probably experienced what I did as a younger man: American dealerships hustle you for service and parts.

Several folks I have spoken to agreed that in Texas the average dealership hustle every time you brought your car there was ~$400.

Once I bought foreign cars that all stopped, at least because I never really needed a repair, did the oil and filter changes myself, foreign cars are built better. Go figure.
> Universally? Perhaps in the US? But IoT devices are sold worldwide.

Ugh, the situation is even worst in countries with censorship laws. For example, in my country, all ISP are required to intercept all DNS requests and filter all requests to any blocked domains found in the government block list. At least they're transparent about which sites are blocked though (the list is publicly available to query or download), but the fact that all DNS requests are intercepted causes various technical issues and some ISP are trying to profit from it by redirecting the blocked query to their own ads-laden landing pages. They even went as far as inspecting http host header as well as randomly injecting scripts on unencrypted http requests.
We already have drones with cameras, drones with guns, and drones that are autonomous. How long until someone combines these?
If you a write a simple protected mode monitor and debug it well, your app (running under the abovementioned monitor) will be more stable than if it were running on Linux, Windows or other monstrosity.
The long-awaited voice conferencing feature is finally here
Yeah, not politics at all at work. And the worst fact (at least for me) mostly 90% of all programming guys are Democrats :(
Wardriving is a thing. Broadcast an unsecured SSID and talk to anyone who joins.
How does something like truecaller work with gdpr? I mean you are given some sort of one way access to names of contacts from their database and in return you pay them real money, you are shown ads based on your IP address, who you call, how long and other parameters and the most problematic is the fact that your phone contacts are taken as a payment.

I came across this app back in 2011 and noped the fuck away. Never installed trucaller once and my details may be there but I don't want it.

My question, can truecaller take your contacts not to serve you in particular but to build a wordwide database and they dont say that in clear terms from what I have asked its users. They DONT know the software is doing that
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While not for the average consumer, most routers are easily jailbroken. They aren't locked to anywhere near the extent a mobile phone is.
Dirty bomb started off well but the classes and maps they added later on slowly sank it. One of my favourite fps's.
The post raises some good points, but I nonetheless think that C++ is a better language for having std::variant. It can result in some very clear, expressive code, despite the boilerplate and dabbling with more advanced language features that it necessitates.

Indeed, from the article: "In spite of all of this, I’ll be busy encouraging my coworkers to use variant if anybody needs me. Sum types are such a useful concept that they’re worth the pain[...]"
Haven't made that experience. I worked in really good cultures where I loved the teams, but that can't always remedy the situation.

It's just a drag on everyone: Nobody wants to work with that person, they fail to communicate important things, there are pointless discussions. Even honest communication, mutually agreed on workflows and so on can't always fix things.
We just onboarded a new PM with loads of experience. I was very skeptical at first, but within 3 weeks I was being kept honest by this new manager on our daily calls. I didn't realize that we've never had a "good" one and how amazing it might be.

I feel like the process for building your software is more important than the software itself. I.e. How can you worry about building cars when the factory that produces them is burning down, or experiencing a work stoppage because no one ever thought to develop a maintenance schedule for a particularly tricky piece of equipment?

The more I look at this whole enterprise of software engineering as a virtual factory floor, the easier it gets to draw analogies between developers and project managers regarding how we should manage work.