skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read, and a close call!

Like other people mentioned, the fact that Sale's predictions were even remotely close to what we're experiencing today should be hair-raising.

What I took from Sale's argument was that "Technology" is not an absolute good, and without a framework of life on which most people on this planet can adopt to guide our use of tech, it will be the end. Hopefully, it will only be the end of this current iteration of civilization.
How does that work, like how does the connection get made and identity discovered? Generally I feel the echo chamber effect would be more common.
I just want to chat with my friends without spooks putting it into a permanent database to later be used out of context against me. A crazy, dangerous idea, I know.

It's amazing to see how far we've fallen - to be at ease with the idea that there can be no such thing as a private conversation, and therefore that any private conversation is by definition illegal.

Any crime should require an actual victim. Which means there is evidence of it happening. You don't need a permanent record of everyone's conversations to uncover such crimes, police just need to do the job which we pay them for, which is to investigate.

CP and terrorism are both disgusting, horrible things, but even those are not worth losing all our basic human freedoms over, or we won't be left with a lifestyle worth defending.
Reminded me of this "ad" for google that google never made - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ysH2Glw5w (folks from India might appreciate more, but it is in English so should be accessible)
Wow, I got sucked in and realized I'd watched 30 minutes. I also just realized I want to live in a small 1 train stop town in Norway.
Eh, it's like how non-K intel processors technically can be overclocked* in that less features can mean you get the same CPU but cheaper.

*: I know there are other reasons for non-K processors (binning might actually mean your non-K CPU can't overclock), but it's largely just a way to move more product and sell at a lower price point to those who can't afford unlocked or otherwise wouldn't have overclocked.
>but Sale, who for years had been churning out books complaining about modernity and urging a return to a subsistence economy,

It is generally men who talk about how great the subsistence economy was. For women, a subsistence economy was hellish. There was no reliable birth control, maternal/infant mortality was high, everything depended on physical strength which gave men an advantage due to their larger size and higher musculature on average, and the system demanded lots of children, so women spent much of their lives pregnant and/or caring for small children. Many of these cultures (see Papua New Guinea for example) have huge amounts of violence against women.
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Many many years ago (during undergraduate days), we used to download MKV animes at campus lab (yea yea bad practice, I know).

Typically, we didn't have admin rights to install the necessary codecs for watching those movies. Guess what? A friend told me to download "VLC portable".

Guessed what? It worked automagically.

Now I work on various OSes (Windows/Linux/Mac), and VLC is still my default multimedia player.
Open Source: It’s the community, stupid
Why do people hate on the Kochs?
Japan has won best pizza in the world 5 times by some Italian pizza judging contest in Italy

https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+wins+best+pizza

Yes there is also bad pizza in Japan but, for example, there are around 90 "certified" neapolitan pizza restaurants in Tokyo.

https://www.pizzanapoletana.org/en/

Whether or not you believe the certification means anything, the point is there's lots of good pizza.

There's also lots of bad too ...
So, there are some unpowered options, none of which are as efficient individually as a powered humidifier, but may work in tandom:

1) Plants - they release the water you put into them into the air, as part of how they pull water up from the ground to the leaves.

2) Open Water - Aquariums, fountains, etc.

3) Humidifying balls - basically rough ceramic balls which sucks water up into them, and the water naturally evaporates. Slow, though, and if your water has any impurities they will accumulate on the surface.

4) Humans - we breathe out a lot of water, and if your house is well enough sealed, you'll actually have to de-humidify, even if the air outside is dry. Costly, though.
> Quadrivium was founded in 2014 by James and Kathryn Murdoch. Yes, those Murdochs. James is Rupert’s son and worked for NewsCorp for 17 years. His wife, Kathryn, used to work for the Clinton Climate Initiative.

Ahem.
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That's not what I am saying at all. I mean for the sake of conversation and discussion, asking to even explain a belief, for understanding. Sometimes even the question is seemed as a threat. I didn't say I want to change anyone's mind. Wanting to have a discussion about important topics with loved ones isn't an instant trip down selfishness lane. I see what you are saying, but you jumped the gun a little bit.
SaaS is a common way for open source companies to create revenue, look no further than WordPress, GitLab, Databricks, DataStax, and many others. Kudos to the opstrace team for taking this path.

There’s nothing inherently dishonest when a company emphasizes their open source strategy. Open source community building is as much about shipping code as it is leading people, and that requires you to be transparent about your intentions. I’ve interpreted opstrace’s release as just that.

I think the concern about neutral project governance is an important one. It’s early days, but from what I’ve seen it seems clear what is being sold vs what is open today. The fact that the project is released under the Apache v2 license means that folks are able to reuse, distribute, and sell the project as they wish — even fork it if they dislike the direction. That said, if governance is a priority for your use I’d definitely look to project in neutral software foundations like the Apache Software Foundation and CNCF.
The intent has been that there would be two equally available buttons.

Regulators just hadn't understood yet that you have to make that explicit, then hire some people to find the loopholes and make it more explicit. Down to prescribing font sizes and colors, or even a standardized dialog.

Of course, mandating compliance with DNT (or a new header) would be better.

And then you need actual enforcement, because when the compliant players see themselves get screwed out of ad revenue by everyone else ignoring the law and nothing happening to them... they can't stay compliant, and they won't.
I remember being in high-school when this came out, and wandering into it with a couple of friends because it was the only movie on at the time we hadn't see, and it would pass the afternoon.

The three of us laughed continually through it, to the point we were getting death-stares from the tweens who were not finding it funny at all.

And, 20 years later, I still find it hilarious and love watching it with my kids.

It's great to have a Disney movie that's well written, but doesn't take itself so seriously. It's written to be fun, to be light and enjoyable, in a way that most other movies weren't, and aren't. I find too many current cartoon movies try too hard to hit the right cultural note, to make the right pop-culture references, and catch the moment, and it all falls flat. This was more like the Animaniacs, that feels timelessly, daftly hilarious.
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Tech didn't force anyone or any org to act maliciously. Either one chooses to uphold their own values every day, or they sway with the wind regardless of consequence, but either way the choice was theirs. If it was so easy to convince the so-called fourth estate to drop truth-seeking and fair coverage for clickbait, then it wasn't a core value to them in the first place.
> I've been diagnosed with ADHD but personally hate the diagnosis. I don't want to be viewed through that lens, nor do I want to view myself that way.

Totally with you on this. And I think I understand why some people make it their entire personality, but that just feels all wrong to me. To be honest, I regret telling anyone at all about it (outside of anonymised discussions such as this).

The way I see it, it's okay to feel really bad about being afflicted with this condition, and coy about acknowledging it publicly, while still quietly continuing to take the medication to mitigate it somewhat.

But it's difficult to come to terms with even so. I sincerely hope you find peace of mind.
You want to make the web even worse?

Instead, mandate a standardized header to communicate the intent, as most users have the same intent on all sites.

Show a cookie popup to a user who already said no via the header? That's a fine. Do it again? There goes 2% of your annual revenue.
> There are much simpler and productive approaches to solve the problem of data interoperability.

Really? Which ones?
What do you mean? They're not shutting down Stadia, but two internal game studios.
It's expensive, but distilled water will fix that. Cheaper is filling it up from an RO filter (not as low in minerals as distilled, but probably "good enough")
Same. I want to start a club of people like us. At a library with a coffee shop and bar included. Bunch of us philosophical peeps chillin and talking shit but nobody gets mad. I would love such a paradise.
Better to live in a shallow but comforting dream, or in fuller knowledge of the world as it really is? To experience only a few things, or to discover that there are more things than we dreamed of?

We were near-sighted, then we put on glasses. We're sharing a time of adjustment. 25 years isn't enough. What do the young say?
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Kind of, but Geforce Now made the mistake of trying to create something that looked kind of like a storefront that appeared to auto populate your game library from Steam, which pissed off publishers who thought GeForce was basically making money off of their games without giving them a cut.

It's probably more of a semantic difference, but saying "Here's a VM, do what you want with it" is different than saying "Create a game library with us and we'll stream publisher X's games to you. We'll even put them in your GeForce library if you own it somewhere else!"

So publishers got mad and many of the biggest pulled the most popular games. Had GeForce just said "Here's a gaming optimized VM" and let users do whatever they want, it probably wouldn't have been a problem. In fact, an very early version of GeForce now did exactly that, complete with a windows desktop.
Very nice. How can one convert this to VR (google cardboard) format?
3Blue1Brown Style E&M Series
Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor
The anthem of Russia on YouTube was “privatized” by an American company
I remember watching Saved by the Bell on Nickelodeon as a teenager. By that time it was surely the rerun of the rerun of the rerun (and so on), but I recall it being a decent show nonetheless (at least as far as teenage soaps go).

It says in the article that the show ran for 11 years, but that Diamond declared bankruptcy a year later and later was "sued several times for delinquent taxes and missing mortgage payments, and was sentenced to four months in jail after a bar altercation" (and, uh, starred in his own porno)? That's crazy.
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It wasn't close! Is there anyone who thinks we live in a society that almost had a socialist revolution? Where's the eco-collapse (not just damage, collapse, and multiple collapses as well -- this guy was basically saying there'd be no outdoors)? We can barely hit a 2% inflation target and you're saying dollars are close to worthless?

Edit: The guy was saying all of civilization would collapse and the survivors would start over from nothing. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see multiple comments saying this was a close call.
Like when your own computer starts lagging?
I believe this is the paper that inspired Pijul.

https://pijul.org/
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Heh, I remember VideoLan from early 2k research university days and using it to play multicast video streams out of places like JPL and other uni test things. The LOL let's do something to justify better network rings so, so true.
It's indeed a potential concern, basically the quantum edition of the Sweet32 attack. History will repeat itself (Although I wonder how much pre-quantum AES-256 traffic will really be vulnerable in practice. I think an interactive attack will be very unlikely, the concern is mostly pre-existing ciphertext. I guess most OpenPGP traffic will probably be secure? And even HTTPS will be okayish as long as you don't send too much data in a single connection? It would be an interesting study...) Fortunately, start using ChaCha20 or XChaCha20 is easy, unlike inventing and deploying a new public-key cryptosystem. So symmetric ciphers are still an "easy" problem.

[0] https://sweet32.info/
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How is it a bad idea? I want to play PC games but I don’t want to buy a desktop PC just for that. I’m currently travelling but I’m planning to get it once I settle. I had playstation Now before that and it was pretty dope.
> 1. Warm Mist humidifiers work by boiling water. This has the downside of... well... boiling hot water hanging around the area. But otherwise, these are the simplest and are only ~$20 or $30.

Or $0 if you have a pot, a stove, and a tap.
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Ah well, got to die of something.

If taking Vyvanse most days knocks a few years off my lifespan, it doesn't matter. I'm going to die anyway, eventually.

As we all are, ADHD-medicated or not.
>It's frustrating that I has to refute the argument many times: "If 80-bit is insecure today, 128-bit will be insecure soon any cryptosystem can only guarantee a few decades of security because Moore's Law..."

I believe you are doing the people you are talking about an injustice here, because assuming Moore's Law held, we would be doubling computing power every two years (well, transistors really).

Doubling... what comes to mind... Ah yes! Bits! Because with every bit you are doubling the number of keys, meaning that you could crack an 81 bit key today in the same it would have taken you to crack an 80 bit key two years ago. So that gives you 100 years, or about 10 decades, to go from 80 bit to 128 bits.

Or, in other words, Moore's law is also about exponential growth.

So if those people you quoted did indeed say "a few decades" they were right on.
The problem with Stadia is the its value proposition is in conflict with its technical direction and in conflict with its business strategy - the former is manageable, the latter will kill Stadia.

Stadia has an decent proposition for cheap casual gamers, everywhere else you have a better option. These are however the lowest value gamers for most game companies, at least the ones that build AAA games. However, the technical direction is overbuilt for some (mostly unused as of yet) special capabilities. So the companies that go for casual gamers have to port/build their product with no support. Result: both casual and AAA companies just go for different more profitable platforms.

In addition, the type of gamers with the most benefit from Stadia are the ones least likely to hear about it. Google doesn't market it directly anywhere as much as it could. That means you need some kind of external support for marketing - like, say, Android's many many resellers. The game equivalent would be exclusives. But there's no good reason for an AAA company to agree (again, relatively low-value gamers).

In short, Google needs to either admit Stadia is a casual platform and manage it appropriately - or pivot into a very different type of platform focused on things only cloud gaming could do, which may well require making its own games if others don't care about the capabilities.

Closing its own studios probably kills the latter option, but it's not enough to make a pivot into casual. Since Google is unlikely to do it (casual is a lower status thing), I expect Stadia to be closed within 3-5 years.
I remember a time where new consoles would launch with like 10 games available. It was fine, more games came later.
“Abomination.”

“Stupid-head.”
When the PS2 came out there were like 10 games available.
Wtf? Who cares what the median wage is? People can’t afford health care or housing.

Have you been outside in any major city recently? There is a homeless crisis that is truly shocking going on around all of us.
Music, movie, and book history would be trivial to implement. This is timely, given the removal of Goodreads' API.

User profiles as well, à la gravatar.

How about work history, LinkedIn exports, standard resume formats?

A lot could be done with medical data, using FHIR's ontologies.

Fitness data also deserves a place there.

It's difficult to understand how Solid isn't a major success after all these years.
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using pydantic pretty much everywhere.
You might try the engineering menu shortcut when the Sync get stuck. I haven't had that happen to me, but it's worth a try. Hold eject and next track for about 2 seconds; it may be easier than disconnecting the battery or pulling a fuse.

WARNING: The engineering menu starts a speaker test in a few seconds if you don't cancel it, and it's very loud. You want to cancel that.