skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It wasn't so much 'how to read books' as 'how to get something out of books (without actually reading most of them)'.

For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as well as many websites.

The Chrome extension comes with a 2-week free pass and I'm happy to send a month-long pass to any HNers out there who can benefit from it.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
> But it allows custom servers and player scripting/mods. Blizzard is far too tight-fisted for that to realistically happen for Overwatch.

Overwatch got the Workshop in 2019, which, while a fairly limited visual programming thingamajig, still allows for some pretty impressive stuff.
Oh it's fine as long as people aren't making money off of it. As soon as people want advertising suddenly we are all supposeto be PG-13 puritans.
SolarImpulse Foundation efficient solutions for environment
Does the single executable distribution change anything? node/python/google-chrome are all single executable programs as far as the users are concerned.
What does Pinterest and Reddit consider a click? Is it different from what GA considers a click.

When I was using Reddit App, I usually swipe through posts, including the ones marked promoted. So, I did see the promoted threads and comments, if any. Only by accident I would click through these promoted threads to go to link outside Reddit. I usually will quickly close or go back.

In my experience placing ads with Google/FB/Reddit ads, they tend to overcount clicks than real. They make more money that way.
> privacy is about blending into a crowd. Hard to do that if the crowd is small

Hard to do that if the crowd is all criminals lol. I often say BTC is only used for speculation and crime. At least the criminals in BTC can hide among the speculators. Zcash and Monero are literally only used by criminals and a handful of die hard ancaps. That gives you nowhere to hide.

It's the equivalent of trying to cash out El Chapo Bux. Simple possession is enough to pretty much guarantee anyone looking you've been involved in one crime or another.

The thing about the law is, as Lavrentiy Beria (Stalin's head of the secret police) said, "You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime." Once someone's looking at you, it's too late.
> iOS is a Shopping Mall "No Porn Stores Here Please".

Most shopping malls I go to don't block me from entering any malls that they don't own.

It astounds me how many people are willing to give Apple a free pass on this inexcusable behaviour. Microsoft got the crap sued out of them just for pre-installing IE on a bunch of computers, imagine if they also tried to make it impossible to install any competing browsers, and tried to claim that it was illegal to wipe the OS and install Linux instead!
I used something just like that for a year, and then iOS changed the rules about whether apps are allowed to intercept calls before they ring, and it just stopped working.

Do you vouch for this app working within the last 6 months?
"Access journalism". I feel the same about most reporting about non-public tech companies. "If you play nice, we give you a good 'story' (really PR) to print. If not, get lost."

In Japan, "access journalism" is also a serious problem with political reporting. But to be fair, so is the United States, but more subtle / less obvious. Example: Can Fox News really get a long-form interview with President Biden? (I am not trolling.)
Sex work is not a protected class and Apple doesn't owe them a platform.
A Government overstep is never a topic where overthinking is a hazard. This type of thing sets precedents that case law keeps alive into perpetuity.
> It was build by just a few people 10 freakin years ago.

I think this here is the key point, that it was built 10 years ago when smartphones were just catching up and general public needed one working and stable chatting app. Replicating that is not the issue here but making people switch from their "used-to" app is. Not saying that is right or wrong but I get where most of the people are coming from. These apps are now intertwined with normal lives who are either unaware or don't care about their privacy. Also making that switching harder by incorporating more popular apps together like facebook-instagram, facebook-whatsapp doesn't help either.
Just how much it costs mow would probably not be considered flooding though and its probably more informational
How far have we come? I think the answer is sort of disappointingly at most a small constant factor.

The thing is, most software projects have an inherent complexity that can’t be reduced. This gives an implicit limit on what can be reasonably created by humans.

And most software is insanely complex — simply because otherwise they would not be useful in many cases.
So writing software from scratch takes pretty much the same amount of time as it did 10 or 20 years ago. Yeah performance is much better both in hardware and in software (runtime, compiler), but eg. desktop app development may have become less productive since. All in all, there is No Silver Bullets, and there haven’t been since either. The only thing there is is incorporating already existing software.
Also: bugroff, the antisocial network

http://www.pavingways.com/wp-content/uploads/bugroff.jpg
I've heard this before and tbh I think it's like issuing receipts for 1 (one) barrel of oil that has already been consumed. Like, yeah, someone spent effort making it, but what does that do for me?

From a mathematical crypto standpoint it's sorta good, but again what value has been created? It's not like the blockchain is now saving us time and effort in factorization that can be applied to real world problems that would otherwise need to be recalculated regularly, which is a pity.

Of course you can truthfully say fiat currencies are totally notional, but as a practical matter the value of a fiat currency reposes economic stability and security offered by whatever government issues it (which may or may not be valued by other people).
U.S. FDA to scrutinize vaccine design behind COVID19 shots linked to blood clots
the entire angular2+ ecosystem as well
Aside: I've seen a lot of Viola's but I think this is the first time I've seen Volia!
It’s changing.

Even the fairly small doctors office I use locally now texts instead of calling.
> Anti cheat developers do not deserve anyone’s trust until they are open.

As in open source? I can't imagine that would go too well—my impression is that anti-cheat is almost entirely security by obscurity (because they have no other option; trying to beat the owner of the computer you're running on is a losing battle).
I may have written this in the past, but I still don't get why we still use PSTN where identifying caller is next to impossible, and very easy to be exploited (allowing mass dialing easily)

E-mail is not perfect, for example, but at least its address provides bit more context than the seemingly random number showing up, legit or not.

If we are insisting to use the current system, norm really should shift to a strict white list at least for residential inbound. The current system is simply not sustainable, and more and more people are not taking the call from the number they don't recognize anyways.
450w total (150wx3) of laser power seems like it could start a fire. I doubt farmers would be allowed to use this in summer or early fall here in New Zealand.

I am sure they have thought of this already and don't run the lasers long...but still, running 3x high powered laser cutters outdoors unsupervised seems risky.

A 150w laser can cut 1.2mm thick steel.
I find it great to test local traffic issues (ie, Comcastic days or wifi AP challenges). It's incredibly useful as one of many tools to gauge your speed.
RoboKiller. Works a treat.

https://app.robokiller.com/
It goes against most service's TOS.
See also, Wikipedia article on the Repugnant Conclusion:

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

Edit: Personally, I don't find it intuitive at all that adding more people to the world inherently makes the world better. So I guess my view would be closer to averagism. The Wikipedia article 'Population ethics' states "has never been widely embraced by philosophers, because it leads to counterintuitive implications said to be 'at least as serious' as the repugnant conclusion". But… which implications? The Wikipedia article 'Average and total utilitarianism' gives an example: "More counter intuitively still, average utilitarianism evaluates the existence of a single person with 100 hedons more favorably than an outcome in which a million people have an average utility of 99 hedons." But far from being counterintuitive, this strikes me as 'obviously true'.
Names cannot start with a decimal digit, so 0xfor can never be a name. It doesn't matter in which order the rules are checked.
No, it is not different definition. Women think they can learn things too. However, if you ask them how good they are in something or whether they already know it, they are more likely to provide accurate answer.

Also true story: if I am solving a problem and ask dude whether he knows the solution, he says yes I do, takes away my keyboard, starts googling and then refuses to return keyboard back, it is serious wtf annoying.

Also, people react different to overconfidence from woman - in my repeated experience, if woman claims she can do something technical she then starts figuring it on the fly, she will be butt of jokes. I mean, I cant figure technical stuff out on the fly in presence of some people, cause they will seriously mess into it.
> Therefore we have employed Hyper to build a new native HTTP/2 server API in Deno.

> The binding improves hello-world throughput by 48% when compared to the std/http pure TypeScript HTTP server.

Nice to read it about Hyper - one of my favorite Rust tools!
If you want to engage in cherry picking and rhetoric to insist on justifying your preconceived bias, allow me the same luxury.

High income inequality causes regulatory capture by a minority elite. Any financial discomfort to this tiny elite through popular movements that impose a very modest wealth tax, faces relentless attack by this tiny elite and their chattel, which includes the politicians they sponsor - ultimately resulting in the overturning of tax policies that benefit society as a whole.

High income inequality leads to regulatory capture by a tiny minority and results in a government primarily focused on the coddling of the idle rich. Hence, all examples of overturned wealth taxes you picked can be dismissed outright. Cherry picking is not a luxury available exclusively to you.

Your bias is obvious from the fact that you were fixated on France while completely ignoring their much more successful neighbor.
Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't a proxy do this?
My god, they’re disrupting disruption itself!
It depends on your success measure. There are way more Android users for example (most smartphone users), or people who interact with Linux servers (basically every person on the www), than people who use git (developers, a niche profession). The first two categories contain billions of humans, while the last category includes maybe a couple dozen million or so.
MS already did that. UWP apps are sandboxed. They even recently made an OpenGL implementation over DirectX 12 (vendor implementations are incompatible with UWP sandbox).

A few games in Microsoft Store are actually properly sandboxed as the result. For example, We Happy Few.
And others are running on stolen electricity in residential areas, sonetimes causing fires.
This is the level of creativity I needed this morning.
How do Apple users feel about being restricted like this?
If Google does something similar, discord could just host the apk on the official website.
And I can effortlessly install it. Like I do with NewPipe.
I don't know how they conducted the experiment, but they mention something about a science assessment. If you ask about math and science, men are going to believe they're more competent than they actually are because they've been socialized to believe they're better at it.

If they asked about cooking or cleaning, you'd probably get the opposite reaction.

Of course men aren't inherently better at math nor are women better at cleaning. It's just that we socialize them to think they are.
> you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are

A significant number of the spam calls I get are just dead air. Like, ring ring, I pick up, I say hello {myname} here, and I hear nothing.

I wonder if they're filtering out young voices? If I said hello in a quavery weak voice, would they start their pitch? Or is it some hapless scammer who just can't figure out how to set up his robocalling software?
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Even in the ancient Silk Road you could sell contraband effectively using internal, offchain transactions only. The customers pay using offchain transactions using the market, and the vendor can cash out via some trader in the same market.
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There are some really insidious errors in this comment. It's close enough to the truth that it runs the risk of being taken at face value, despite the errors.

> Microsoft licensed the source code to NCSA Mosaic

Not quite. They used Spyglass Mosaic, which shared only the name. Spyglass Mosaic was a from-scratch implementation.

https://ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html

> What never seems to get mentioned in these threads about Chrome and Mozilla is that Google hired a couple of Mozilla Firefox developers to kickstart Chrome.

Not quite. Early Firefox development resembled Linux: multiple industry actors collaborating on a single codebase—pretty unlike the way it works today, where a single (bumbling) corporation is almost totally responsible for marketing, product direction, and development. Google was one of the biggest contributors to Firefox development. The Firefox lead was a Google employee being paid to do just that.

When Google decided to do Chrome, they pulled their engineers off Firefox, with parallels to what later happened with the WebKit -> Blink fork: an initial cooperative effort, followed by their chafing at the overheads of collaboration and the lack of total control, followed by breaking away to do their own thing.

If there was any amount of poaching/brain drain that should be mentioned but no one really talks about, it's how many ex-Mozilla Corp folks left for Facebook and is partially responsible for the engineering culture there.
And what good will it do if it can't open the new file format?
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How are you going to a cash a crypto whose value is very volatile, like unless you cash out immediately its value in "real money" is in loss or is much higher?
You are missing the concept of a UTXO, but that's a bit besides the point.

You are in general correct.

However, there is currently no market price difference for "untainted coins". Some are expecting a secondary market to appear, some are not. A lot to uncover in this area!
Other than HN, Lobste.rs is good too for non-tech stuff:

https://lobste.rs

As for non-HN type news, I have pretty much stopped following establishment media completely (even non political stuff) and got paid subscriptions to Glenn Greenwald, Viva Frei and Robert Barnes, Steven Crowder mug club and give support to independent creators and journalists like Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Alison Morrow, Sharyl Attkinson. Catherine Herridge & Tucker are good too - though I don’t watch them often anymore as I don’t want to support any establishment media. I have gone as far as to install ad blocker and pi-hole and share archive.is links to avoid giving them money and clicks. I support people I like with actual subscriptions by setting aside around $250 per year.

Glenn Greenwald’s Substack

https://greenwald.substack.com

Viva Frei & Robert Barnes law related Locals and YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/VivaFrei/videos

https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com

Alison Morrow Locals:

https://alisonmorrow.locals.com

The American Conservative:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com

Crowder:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenCrowder/videos
Netflix use FreeBSD.
Many ISP in 90s use FreeBSD or Solaris.
I also don’t see how that thought will help. I don’t have the attention to focus on a book, I’ll surely forget my thought about what I’m going to take action on.
When I was in Japan, I had an account with DOCOMO (local cellphone service). I used the number frequently delivery services, bank services, hotels, etc. I never received a single unwanted phone call.

I return to USA I get new cellphone service and same day I get dozens of unwanted calls and immediately have to block all numbers not in my contact list.

Since the problem of unwanted calls doesn't exist in some countries, I have to assume that it is a solvable problem. Countries where it is a problem simply don't wish to solve it. I suspect it is simply some countries favoring corporations over individuals.
You can get an idea of what people think of by Googling. All but one of the first page of results for DSM is the same thing. None of them are what this article is about.
I had the same experience, Apples Terminal.app is a really beautifully built terminal. But newer versions of iTerm2 proved me over, it finally felt as fast or faster than Terminal.app.

What initially invited me to test iTerm2 was the one button quake style scroll-down terminal, but I stayed for the better tab management and much more customizable options.
That is not how anti money laundering works. Person has to prove their income is clean, there is no presumption of innocence.
I went the 4K route. I initially wanted a 40 inch 4K but settled for 32 inch. I'd recommend to get a single 40K display. You'll have the screen real estate of 4 24" monitors at 1080p side by side plus some extra space on top and bottom.

You can probably use it without scaling so high dpi compatibility won't be a problem.

Don't settle for 32 inch get a 40+ inch one.
How different is this from a subtle fisheye lens effect? I feel like I saw such a thing (Fisheye projection) rendered in the original Quake years ago and it looks very similar to the outputs in the article

edit: http://strlen.com/gfxengine/fisheyequake/
Glad I have android
If Synology doesn’t resolve this PR drama soon, affected customers should indeed try the legal route.

Not sure if Synology has their ass covered via terms of service. Even if they did, it’s their fault people lost access to their data.

Interesting to see how this unfolds.
https://archive.is/rcGNk
The system is awful but that’s what you’re stuck with in the US. In Europe open banking is regulated, so banks have to provide an oath-like API, often no credential sharing involved.

I run a fintech startup, and as ridiculously insecure as the Plaid model is, there is huge demand for it. Customers want to extract their transaction data and there is no good interbank payment system in the US.

I live in the Ukraine at the moment and the interbank payment system is far better here. Anyone can send money instantly to anyone else just by knowing their account number. The transfer fee is stated up front in the mobile app, and the transfer is instantaneous. Large amounts are protected by a 2FA approval notification, and you may receive a call from your bank. Businesses regularly accept payments through it as well.
> I can't fucking wait for us to move over to it

It's been nearly 15 years and it's still almost exclusively a buzzword used by scammers. It'll happen some time after the Year of the Linux Desktop.
We use openSuSE Leap in production. It's not traditional in the sense of Ubuntu/Debian but somehow the configuration structure is more sane actually. No more /etc/nginx/modules|sites-available and a plethora of symlinks and conf.d directories spread around all over the place for instace.
Can you clarify what you mean here? Is that a store policy?
Serious question: when does it come to web browser restrictions? I am fully expecting that’s the best target, and that it’ll happen simultaneously on browsers across all platforms.
The lexer reads the longest tokens it can (the "maximum munch" rule mentioned in another answer). Once it has read the 0, it has decided to read a number. It will then proceed to read the longest possible number at this position, which is 0xf. This is simpler to specify and implement than the alternative that would require looking ahead to see where to split.
This is actually similar to how I've been reading a lot of books over the past few years. As a practical realist, I realized that, when it comes to reading, if I have a clear objective in mind, as long as I feel I have accomplished that objective then I have no use to continue my involvement with the work. Much of my reading of literature has amounted to merely becoming somewhat familiar with the work such that I am able to understand what others are talking about when they refer to it, and can engage somewhat intelligently with them about that work. This does not require actually reading the entire work in many cases.

This for me is the true value of much literature as it applies to me personally. Of course, on a basic level this is perhaps not quite as rewarding as reading a book cover to cover and becoming intimately acquainted with all the characters, stories, facts, figures, and/or arguments inside. But in my approach to a life filled with an absolute abundance of ideas from so many brilliant minds - indeed, there are most likely more men and women of utter genius alive today than have existed in the whole of antecedent human history - I decided that it would be a shame not to become acquainted with as many perspectives and ideas as possible. Sure, I sacrifice the rewards that come with truly coming to understand some objects in depth, but my hope has been that in doing so I have assumed some breadth in the understanding of the world, its affairs, and a great many of its inhabitants' ideas.
They are being unwon right now by Epic and Xbox Game Pass for PC.