skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure and like America eventually, they'll be taken out by ecological collapse (Rome was dealing with exhausted agricultural soils for much of it's collapse).

But in the wake of that, the idea that you're going to be holding onto much of anything that'll matter globally is laughable.
A friend who was on holiday in Turkey was refused a new iphone battery (she was willing to pay for it) at the official Apple store as it was not locally bought (she bought it in SF).

So no global warranty, but also no global repair or replacement of parts with official parts even when you are willing to pay for it.
With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch time unfold and witness nearly four decades of planetary change.

This is amazing, will this be included in the VR versions of google earth? For those who haven't tried it yet Google Earth is the first thing I show friends who've never tried VR before by giving them a Godzilla's eye view of Tokyo. I've yet to find someone who doesn't ":o"
Huh, I thought they published a range of IP addresses they used to prevent this, but apparently they don't use an entirely consistent one and you need to do a dns request [1] to actually check if something is google's crawler. I'm willing to bet most organizations aren't doing that... so maybe.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
So much for a protocol eh ...
Apple should consider other verticals for video, rather than the tv shows on Apple TV Plus. For example, home improvement projects. Gardening. Rather than trying to reinvent netflix they should expand on what's been so great about Fitness+

That said, admittedly those things don't sell more watches.
I think it's the opposite.

I understand that if Sony go ahead with server shutdowns, there's a risk that when your PS3/4 battery fails and is replaced, you still won't be able to play games you've paid for offline.
People making so much $ with elon Twitter giveaway thing
Even after 3 years these guys making a fortune

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1382539825421582339

No end to the number of victims. The US govt. should just fund its next stimulus with this instead of selling treasuries. Way more money and no end to it.

No one goes to jail, no punishment despite tens of millions stolen . Easiest money ever made if you can figure out how to do it. I don't know where they are getting the accounts. I tried find people who can sell me some but no luck. maybe dark web? is it even illegal if there is no punishment and inaction on the part of twitter to do anything?

The reason why it works so well is because twitter cannot block text-only comments easily like they can links.

Like this:

"The b1ggest cryptôpartŷ ever!!!

Right there••••>>>/www.blahhhhh.com

T1me is l1mited !!!"

comments like these

A few months ago some genius spammer figured out that they could make near unlimited posts on musk's twitter unfiltered by just using text instead of links or pictures.

There is no link, so twitter cannot block it easily. I think twitter does not care . It is not that hard to treat text only links as real links.
How are non-proof of work algorithms doing?
That looks exactly right, we have five digits and four fingers, apparently. Who would have thought?
Thank you, that's very interesting (and it wasn't obvious to me from the web site). Especially that Omron uses QNX, that's even cooler.
Filesystem is like a database. Except for transactions, which is very important when multiple processes can access it.
An often overlooked issue is background noise. As a musician, I'm familiar with microphones, recording, etc.

I always give people the following advice: If you can hear it, the microphone can hear it. This includes HVAC noise that is ridiculously hard to get rid of in most office and home locations.

If at home, you can always temporarily turn off the HVAC while you record yourself. In fact, I've recorded at a commercial studio where, after getting everything set up and checked out, the final step is they turn off the HVAC.
There is a whole field (now relatively mainstream) of differential privacy, concerned with answering questions such as "can I be correlated and de-anonymized across queries" (query might be "what's your current cohort id?").

Is FLoC not built on sound principles of differential privacy? That would be a big shame on Google.

EDIT: Huge shame on Google! From their FLoC whitepaper: "We want to emphasize that, even though differential privacy is now the de facto privacy notion in industry and academia, we decided against using it as our privacy measure for building audiences."

What in the world are they thinking?!
I know a couple people with Pelotons, and am sure it's the best option for them. They're not technical at all, and one of them doesn't know how to ride a regular bike. They just want something that's good quality that they can plug into an outlet, get a decent workout on, and sometimes join classes or watch videos while riding. IMO, that's exactly who Peloton is geared towards.
I imagine it was bought with money.
Nice.

Does Pulumi support stuff like Cloudflare Workers, FaunaDB, or Auth0?
Lessons when scaling from 0 to 130 devs
I thought FLoC was supposed to become yet another DOM API that any Javascript of any web page you visit can access (if Google got their way). Where would there even be an EULA to sign?
Or you could just, you know, buy from Saas'es that provide SLA's enforceable in your jurisdiction. Vote with your <insert local currency here>
Hydrogen cars were supposed to be the future. What happened? [video]
"In a different blockchain they go by different rules" yeah no shit, of course.

Ethereum is not Bitcoin because Ethereum doesn't want to be Bitcoin, otherwise Ethereum wouldn't have existed in the first place. That's like complaining that GCP is not following the advice of AWS "leaders", of course they are not gonna do that, otherwise they would work together, not on two different projects...

Also, no matter what Satoshi wrote in 2010, multiple implementations of Bitcoin does exist today, most of them relatively stable: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Clients

And the integrity of the network is not harmed by multiple clients either, just harms the users of that client, not other clients so not sure what the harm is. Yes, it's difficult, but so is a lot of problems in the cryptocurrency space.
Has the modmic gotten better? I've had one for years and it has always sounded like garbage.
Bitcoin can't function without the same standing armies
GME is actually quite a solid gamble, and could lead to what people are referring to as the MOASS.

https://iamnotafinancialadvisor.com/DD/GME/og/GMEv14.pdf

It hasn't alreadys been like this, but everything has been turned into overdrive. Where people were talking about 10% returns on investments, people are getting 1000% returns on investment.

There is some bubble going on at the moment with the repo-market, hyper inflatation and what is being coined 'the everything short', but it's all too crazy to talk about seriously. Money has always been valuable, but will becoming a millionaire in a years time be the same as it is now? It's literally a field in a database, and a sheet of paper from the future could get you there! The stock market and crypto is so similar to gambling too it really pushes those triggers in the brain.

Buy and HOLD does run counter to this though, but still, we are all still dreaming of benefiting from the chaos.

I've been full on GME for a while now, and back in January, the shorts did not cover. Not even by a long shot.

Ask me anything about GME and I will try to answer, but it does feel like some kind of echo chamber at the moment, even though I am participating, but then again everything is so crazy at the moment regardless, it might just be true.
Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, and Fentanyl should never be legal. They are too addicting.

Possession in a small amount should be decriminalized using a stick (drunk tank for a couple days) or carrot (state run rehab or classes) method.

Stop the prosecutions and jailing of the users. Mandate a class or whatever like they do for DUIs and provide a state run place to ween them off. Combined with a safe place to do drugs and safe needles.
Eventually all markets will converge on renewable energy being the cheapest. It can be no other way — no consumable fuel will always beat consumable fuel in the long run. Bitcoin accelerates this transition process by providing something of value.
Visa has a more compelling and proven value proposition than crypto
Is about looks? The US used to be smart when it came to geopolitics.
Shouldn't at least a unit test be added before accepting a pull request?

We're talking about 15% of a 300 billion dollar currency.

I have written tests for smaller things than that.
I'll admit when I'm wrong.
Thanks for the info
Does Apple offer more than the legal minimum in other countries?

I'm curious, I don't know, but in my experience buying Apple products in several countries, they offer the legal minimum nicely, without resistance (which is already better than many corporations), but generally not more than that.

If the legal after-sales minimum is nothing, then that's what I'd expect Apple to offer.
That's a slick implementation, very nice.
It's not so much the distributed concept, but it's the "verifiably discrete" packets that behave like a global internet protocol concept. I don't think you know the tech under the hood vs. existing tech, it sounds like. There has been no way, prior to now, to verify that my packet I'm sending over a network is a discrete entity, unless you use something like a certificate authority, and that's not really the same ballpark/use case. It's worth digging in that direction if you actually have an open mind about it.
Internally I’ve written a generator to spit out a deploy config based on input vectors such as (qps, data size, connections). But it assumes using Twitter’s container environment.

Publicly I think I want to do two things:
1. write a blog about cache operations and how to config Pelikan properly in general;
2. create some templates for common deploy mechanisms. What do you use for deploying services? What are your cache requirements? I can produce an example and put that in the repo/doc
How does it handle infinite reads?

For example: I used to work with a Couchbase cluster of 6 nodes, billions of documents (> 1TB of data) and doing roughly 25k-50k reads per second and every read was returned in < 1ms.

Are you telling me we could have used SQLite on a single instance and it would have also have an average end to end latency of < 1ms. I.e. from App server to DB and back was < 1ms? For 25k+ OPS/sec?
I think this depends on how good the specs are. I agree that if we look at other examples of separate implementations, this would support this argument (see Browsers for example). But on the flip-side, ETH 2.0 - the proof of stake work, released very good specs and now we have working implementations in Go, Java, Nim, Rust and more. All working right now since the launch that happened in December 2020
bitcoind is the most used implementation by far, but there are others that work fine, like btcd

The more significant difference seems to be Ethereum is far more complicated (a Rube Goldberg machine, as critics like to say) and has trouble coordinating hard forks.

A hard fork of Bitcoin is considered a different network, so it’s no longer an issue.
Floor, Ceiling, Bracket
Most of the tickers are traded on Canadian exchanges (NEO, TSX.V, CSE). If you’re in the US, I believe Interactive Brokers (and others) will let you buy stocks at these exchanges. You can do all this self-directed, no need to involve a processional.

If your current broker doesn’t allow Canadian venture/OTC stocks, $CMPS is the only ticker traded on NASDAQ so far. $MMED is expected to uplist to NASDAQ in the near future.
And then there's always some jackass on the call who refuses to use headphones, causing an echo due to the feedback loop between their speakers and their microphone, which makes everybody else sound terrible.
Don't sweat it. All you really need is Firefox + uBlock Origin. And even without uBo, Firefox blocks some trackers by default.

Privacy badger is largely useless ever since they got rid of heuristics. ClearURLs is useful, but you'd probably be fine without it. And pi-hole doesn't block anything that uBo doesn't in Firefox (but is still useful for applications outside of the browser).

On the other hand, maybe you're like me and want to squeeze as much privacy out of your browser as you can, even if it means breaking some websites. If that's the case, check this website out. Just remember that the tweaks listed here are nice, but not entirely necessary.

https://privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config
So you're saying that because we've already given the government too much power in areas that it was never meant to be involved we should just keep going?
Lol, Fox has never won a Pulitzer and for good reason. They run propaganda in prime time every single night. Roger Ailes was a bona fide conspiracy nut: https://www.axios.com/john-boehner-book-ted-cruz-fox-news-a1...

NY Times has been in operation for 170 years and has made a few mistakes. There is just no comparison. They are best news source in the country bar none.
The quoted message says:

"Sorry about this, but App Store rules say you can’t join age restricted servers on iOS. Please use the desktop app or website to join this server."

This does not clarify matters, as both of the following three contradictory statements all agree with it:

1. "Our lawyers informed us that the app store rules prohibit this, and we chose not to discuss or contest our lawyers' interpretation with Apple before proceeding."

2. "Apple both informed us that the app store rules prohibit this, and we chose not to appeal that ruling with Apple before proceeding."

3. "Apple both informed us that the app store rules prohibit this, but we exhausted all avenues of appeal before proceeding."

Which is it, Discord?
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that's why I try to trust my opinion and ignore everyone else. if I'm wrong then it sucks and I feel dumb but nothing is worse than the feeling of going against your gut and ending up taking an L. if I've never used a service or don't understand it, then my opinion is NO OPINION. I grew up in America, and I feel like we get this idea of sharing our opinions and our takes on stuff drilled into us from school but most of them are not worthwhile. very important to realize this
The problematic block https://hash.horse/0xac324366422b3ef181a3f62efd81eee6a3a887c...
Edit: apologies, I misread the comment and the “3 months” bit. Apparently (TIL) India has very weak consumer protection laws.

I still think you should take up Apple’s offer to have it repaired/replaced. I guess that’s your only recourse.
Imo Peloton has more to worry about with Oculus Quest 2 and the upcoming generation of VR
Depends on what you need. It does not seem like a great idea to run Postgres in a browser, but it is usually less resource hungry than the JVM-based app using it to return HTML or JSON, so I can call it lightweight for server use.
Just mild warning for folks considering this. These companies are highly speculative. (They're also mostly down 20-30% in the last couple months.)
Azimuth is a Unit 8200 shop, just as Cellebrite is. So, yes, still an Israeli outfit.
I’m not trying to provide absolute security as it’s for my home network.

If there’s a zero day ravaging my kids iPad then that’s the risk I take. And it’s acceptable given my situation.

“People that know better” for my situation seems pretty hard to qualify. I’m glad it makes sense to you, but since you have zero insight to my config and the changes required to implement I think it says more about the quality of your recommendations that you can give a recommendation without understanding the usability trade offs.

Maginot lines suck for protecting countries, but simple, clear defenses are pretty darn handy for protecting home networks. I’ll take a disconnected NAS over a wonderfully synced, fully compliant NAS following every recommendation (that also includes making it network accessible).
In theory you're right, yes. If the majority of the hashpower runs a specific version with specific consensus rules, then that version of the chain would "win".

But in reality, developers and others write the specification, which gets implemented in the clients and when a new version is available, the miners usually upgrade to the new version without any qualms what so ever. So in practice, the specification is what controls the network, as developers writing the clients implement things from the specification.
I think it’s reasonable to expect a replacement product, but why should you be able to return it for cash? You already made the decision to buy one, I don’t think it’s Apple’s responsibility if you change your mind.
If you know a product is faulty, why did you choose to buy another one?
It’s cool that you think there is no benefit. Bitcoin is an optional system that nobody is forced to use. I find a very large benefit and so do millions of others. Enjoy watching the depreciating fiat!
I guess if you never leave certain large cities it might work. But it's definitely Epic Fail for the remaining 90% of roads in the USA.

This reality is why I still have an iPod in my car.
Not that I’ve found through searching their docs and walking through the UI, but I haven’t really dig deeply into the internals.
No I am serious.

If I visit Iran, I can not go to USA.
I think US should apply the same rules, and cleanse themselves from all Russian influence. All Russian developers, tech, companies...

Also do the same for China...
I mean, the Inquisition sucked, but the mob/knight based "justice" was far, far worse.
Is there some central aggregation point of ~everything (or in that spirit) that SN wrote, across all the various forums and such? I feel like I finally need to dig in and read all of that.
> excessive and sustained consumption of psychedelics seems to lead people into increasingly weird thoughts

We have lots of _clinical_ evidence even that that’s the case for a lot of medication, which is why we don’t usually administer excessively and sustained, but carefully and controlled.
> Let's not forget that Microsoft deliberately murdered DNT by making it the default value

I totally disagree. Just going to link to a few previous comments I've made on this subject rather than rehash the entire discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24289186

It is not Microsoft's fault that DNT failed; a privacy option that can't be turned on by default is not a real privacy option. Microsoft made the decision to turn on DNT by default because it determined that most of its users didn't want to be tracked, and the ones that did want to be tracked could go turn the header off. That's a very reasonable determination for any privacy-respecting browser to make. Users should be able to have defaults that closely align with their preferred user-agent behavior.

The reason DNT failed was not because of underhanded sabotage. It's because it got adoption. Advertisers were unwilling to remain in a world where the majority of people didn't get targeted. That's why I say they burned the bridge, because DNT's wide adoption was never a real option for them in the first place -- it's entire existence was predicated on the assumption that most people would not use it.

> there will never be legislation reining them in

We could do this anyway. We don't need to present an option ahead of time to make advertisers happy. I guarantee if you go to anyone in Congress and ask them why they're not supporting a privacy bill, they are not going to respond, "we would if better technology and standards existed for targeting." Senators and Congresspersons aren't thinking about browser standards in that level of detail. And if you're worried about advertisers lobbying, I do not believe that FLoC is going to make advertisers lobby less to block any privacy bill.
>Let's not forget that Microsoft deliberately murdered DNT by making it the default value. Had they not made that move, there's a good chance, we'd have seen DNT honored and eventually codified.

I always thought this was a naive take. People would say "Of course websites and ad services will respect DNT, it's in the spec!" as if that was a magic incantation that would prevent corps from tracking you.
Or the other side of it, which is to see shopping as an experience and part of life, rather than something purely transactional where you pay money and receive goods.

Though I suppose as big box and discount retail has eaten the lunch of specialty stores, malls, and so on, many of those other benefits (discovery, browsing a curated selection of products, trying things out/on, conversing with a knowledgeable salesperson, etc) have faded somewhat. But on the far end of all this, I'd expect the only brick & mortar stores who are going to "make it" against online retail will be those who can not just promise and deliver on these extras, but also persuade their customers that the extras are worth paying for, whether that's via higher prices, a direct patronage model, or the ability to offer an exclusive paid product not available online.
Rebuilding is not a problem. It is the birth rate that is a problem. Tokyo is vacuuming everyone from countryside. You get some refugees in their 30s moving back but it is a trickle.

This fund is a typical Japanese corporate bullshit. You can see who manages it an know everything you need to.

They could just pay 10mil yen stipend per child after second and it would be far more effective. Japan needs young people, period. Not more taxes, infrastructure etc

I lived in Japan for a while, loved it. But the crash when it comes in 10-20years as countryside disintegrates is going to be horrific.
I'm sure you know exactly what you're talking about... but I can't really imagine what major incompatibilities you're seeing while doing these upgrades. Java is amazingly backwards-compatible in my experience. I don't think I've ever had to change anything during an upgrade, in my entire career, except sometimes a couple of minor things to do with Unsafe. I'd love to hear more and some concrete examples if you're able to.
I used twiddler 2 (I think). It was cheaply made chorded keyboard. I admit I did hold down the keys rather hard while learning to use it. Soon after I'd learned the patterns the keys started breaking. I took it apart to take a look, all the keys were connected by tiny bridges of plastic. When the plastic bridges broke the keys became loose and non-functional.
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What a curious opinion. Care to elaborate?
Do most retailers? I haven't researched it or anything but my guess is that most retailers just offer the legal minimum, unless they explicitly have a generous return policy as a differentiating factor (Costco?).
I use FRAM for this exact reason. Higher cost but zero worries down the road.
To counter the whataboutisms abounding in the comments thread here, I will start a comment tree differently.

How does the bitcoin community solve this problem? Is migrating to a proof-of-stake system viable in the long term? Would doing so affect the value of bitcoin as an asset? Would it improve it's value as anything else?
Same in Switzerland. I don't even know why they released the Apple One subscription without this.
You are my kind of nerd
Apple India has one of the worst after sales services. If something goes wrong with your device, they'll charge 2.5k (INR) to just look at it and tell you what is wrong with your device.
I use a 1200.00 mic setup for my recordings for https://www.codehawke.com/

I can't tell that much of a difference between it and a blue yeti. The yeti, is definitely cheaper.