skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government has banned file sharing, marijuana, prostitution, etc., and all those things still occur at billions of dollars of value scale. They occur because those transactions derive value for participating parties.

Any nation state that bans crypto assets just pushes development and innovation out to the more accepting countries. And so you have game theory against other competing nation states, where if you ban it and they don't, capital flight occurs and you end up losing in the long run.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend, and that you've had some bad experiences with recommendation systems recently, whether it be on YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook.

I also had a similar experience after a friend was killed in a home burglary, and my news feed started pushing all the latest updates on the case as well as similarly tragic news stories. For a long time, these recommendations were a painful and unwanted reminder of my friend's murder. Even worse was that the algorithm was definitely trying to push increasingly extreme and fear-mongering content about home invasions, all to try to get my clicks, and perhaps unintentionally radicalize me in the process.

As for why this type of thing happens, I think this part from your last point is pretty much right on the mark, "none of this requires any complex algos". All it takes is data of your browsing habits, the webpages you visit, the keywords you search, the webpages your friends and contacts visit, etc. There don't need to be any database fields explicitly encoding this information, which is why it's so worrying, such a system can push personalized traumatic content a global scale with precision, all from keywords and algorithms intended to maximize click revenue.

The other side of the equation is the content that gets recommended. I'm not sure who created the YouTube video that mocked your friend's death, but in my experience I was pushed content from typical local news outlets, then less reputable outrage content farms, and finally even more despicable sources, like white supremacist sites. That's something about this experience that really disturbed me. I've seen uncannily accurate product predictions before, but usually the 3rd party was relatively reasonable. I hadn't really ever been recommended radicalizing propaganda before, not to this degree. I've read articles about some of the operators of such sites, and they often don't even believe the content that they're pushing. They know that it triggers something in people who are vulnerable, and they exploit that for profit. That whole ecosystem just seems pure evil to me. At least the recommender systems work most of the time, usually just showing me stuff related to my hobbies, cute cats, etc.

Anyway, the combination of incomprehensible recommender systems and toxic content on the web is definitely not good for anyone's mental health. Hope you feel better in the future.
> I have a degree in writing C#

Where does one get a degree in writing C#?
I got the second Moderna shot and I didn't feel a single side-effect. Interesting how that works.
> fuck around with JSON APIs alone is worth the price of admission

This is true for Blazor Server as well. I just love the fact that you can generate HTML on the server and have the productivity boost of having to work with a React like component system.
Speaking of the founder of Ventrilo -- this video is priceless:

https://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/21/video-man-sells-gt500-ra...

I guess there's no more of that.
ucspi-tcp https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
Then just just a Tile or some other tracker.
Responsive means different things in common English and web jargon.
Also the provider needs to develop a history of responding appropriately to reports of abuse. (And the abuse needs to be reportable... When I was in the business of blocking IPs, most of the stuff wasn't really reportable, we'd just add ASNs for hosting to our suspicious list when abusers started using them)
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it is very much alive, I assure you.

it isn't Google Play, for example, but it is very much in use by both devs and consumers.

avoid using your circle of friends and acquaintances as a barometer of entire ecosystems; that type of comparison will fail you every time.
I met the founder several years ago to discuss this when he applied to YC, which was experimenting with some sort of voting system that year to get instant access to the accelerator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459790

Cool that it is still ongoing. I think the way to implement this is with blockchain / crypto considering how easy it is to mint new money. But as another commenter said - the challenge is getting merchants on board.
The author, J Wiegley is the maintainer of Emacs too. He's a heavyweight.
Never claimed it started this way, but they've had replaceable models for ~3 years now, if not longer.
You’re sending me a lot of red flags, so I’m hesitant to engage, but I feel the need to point out that defending the rights of the individual is not motivated by some desire to defer to authority on how one should orient themselves sexually. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

The quote has no truth. It’s a fantasy used as anti-intellectual propaganda. Anyone can say a clever platitude.
I don't think that's an apt conclusion. If you addict people to something psychologically it does not imply that thing is better than reality. You can get addicted mice to consume themselves to death via addition, is that better than whatever mouse reality is?

Conversely, an individual in an uncontacted tribe, do they miss out on this? Do they feel left out of anything modern? No. What about most people if they were dropped into an isolated tribe, how would they feel. Why so? Point is, you can deal with reality just fine, you don't need distraction. Distraction is a distraction from reality but is unnecessary and completely disconnects people from their selves.

Could we get a regular uncontacted tribesperson hooked on a VR future, you bet, even if they were living out their lives just fine before ---just as they could get addicted to hard drugs even if they did not need that before.
Yeah this is what I do. I have 3 WiFi aps and obviously they are on different channels (though one of these is 5ghz only). But I have the power set to minimum. This actually helps proper roaming around the house.
Not public, our production and sandbox instances are behind passwords. Exactly flame-graph like use. We use a somewhat updated version of the first pic as a hub for tracking images that are being processed, i.e. fully colored is done. We use single hexes as quick indicators of digitization/record completeness. Our collaborators want more, they want to use versions to filter results etc.

I should update the images on the repo with some more demos. There are some nice ways to order the hexes by simple Ruby sorts, different layouts, etc. You can get spiral layouts with complete records to the center, etc. I have used it as a toy library to play with quilt (fabric) prototyping for my sig other too, less flashy, but fun.
Perhaps because younger veins and capillaries are easier to accidentally inject into?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061031141826.h...
The entire Oculus experience is being mined for data. From what you look at to how violent you are in a game to what sites you visit in-app browsers. Your mannerisms. Your voice. Your movement and reflexes.

You think you decide, but you are more impressionable than you think. Your emotions will be exploited in this new medium even more effectively than the rectangular screen, because you will feel embedded in whatever experience they pull you towards. Sure, it's cute gaming experiences now, just as Farmville was 11 years ago, but the nature of Facebook as a company (and the forced FB login means everything is 1:1 traceable with social network identity), means you and everyone else are going to be manipulated in these worlds. And they'll even be able to measure the effect on your social network activity.
This is good and helpful feedback. Thank you. I'm humbled by how well this has done so far but definitely feeling the criticism. A title like, "Mongita is embedded MongoDB for Python", while being a statement without ambiguity, doesn't immediately convey the vision for why this might be useful to people. SQLite by contrast is a nice rhetorical anchor that people understand. I'll have to think through whether there is a better way to convey it that fits that goal.
I'm unsure it is the same project, but I did find
https://developer.fastly.com/solutions/demos/doom/
I’ve seen plenty of serious backends that use multiple threads and are horizontally scaled.

I don’t think this is a particularly compelling argument for the lack of multi-threading. The worker thread pattern is fairly useful and there is no reason a well architected application couldn’t use both horizontal and vertical scaling. Independent scaling is only really useful if there is a large variation in the amount of work done by the workers per query. If it’s well bounded, then it might be easier to just horizontally scale the entire backend.

There are also other use cases for threads that don’t fit into the worker pattern. For example, background tasks that happen outside the serving path.
You could use a closed source spam protection API from an open source project. Best of both worlds. Oh that is actually what Wordpress does with Akismet
When the trading stops, the bloodshed starts and bodies flop.
CloudFormation does quite a bit of work to manage and calculate state differences. It's not CDK itself managing it (to my knowledge).

This is noteworthy because many times CDK's constraints match CloudFormation's constraints.
I've noticed a few issues in the CDK github repo that a feature is incomplete because they are waiting for a change or feature to land in CloudFormation first.
I saw him give a talk about Pirahã and recursion in 2007 or 2008, and his argument depended entirely on data that he collected and translated.

Pointing that out made him really defensive; understandable, perhaps, but recursion has been found in literally every other language in the world. You can't be that surprised when people have serious reservations an argument that hinges on the validity of a tiny data set from a language that only you understand.

I stopped paying attention after that, though. Maybe there's other people doing work on it now.
I don't want these things near me
Introduction to Apache Flink for Data Engineers
(2017) ?

Not sure how to date this, but the latest commit for the source of the book is from 2017.

https://github.com/jwiegley/git-from-the-bottom-up/commit/76...
Interesting idea.

If you were running your own pool then people would likely be tracking your pool and know where you're located. But if you are keeping a low profile and participating in a variety of other pools, then you might go unnoticed. But still, the pool operators might track which IPs are submitting work, and geolocate them, and see which countries are dropping in their work submissions. If you had ran all your stuff through a Chinese VPN historically, then it would make sense. Although usually you want the lowest latency possible when mining to avoid losses due to submitting stale work. A VPN would probably hurt your profits a little.
This is a great story about right to repair as well as the right to access data and the hardware when manufacturers won't help you.
I guess the way I see it, given that we don't currently have a way to test for consciousness, inventing invisible "consciousness-stuff" is just a solution in search of a problem. We are supposing that it is necessary with no evidence.

> The analogy that occurs to me is that you're assembling a really complex jigsaw puzzle and expecting it to fly.

I would though. More precisely -- if I looked at a real airplane and modeled it with, say, balsa wood and a rubber-band propeller, even with no understanding of why airplanes fly, I would expect it to fly, and I think that would be reasonable. I don't think that I would think, because flight is so fundamentally different than what wood and rubber bands normally do, that a "real" airplane must be also composed of some invisible "flight-stuff" that I cannot harness for my model. Even if I say, neglected to angle the propeller blades or wings correctly, so it did not fly or even move on its first attempt, supposing a new branch of physics would not be my go-to explanation.

I do see your point though about consciousness being a qualia and philosophical zombies (thanks for introducing me to that term). It's supremely challenging to conceptualize who is the "me" who is experiencing consciousness.
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A lot of big platforms refuse you service without doing so now. Facebook even uses your 2fa number as data about you
Assuming the resources previously spent on those other things is wisely used it might be advantageous
Can you elaborate on how you reach that conclusion? A taxation system than encourages more efficient use of land leads me to the opposite conclusion.
It’s almost as if both approaches have legitimate tradeoffs.
i'm surprised that you even bothered checking after that long, but awesome that you did.
I'm glad someone brought this up. I always feel like I'm just stupid or missing something important when people start talking about the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. As far as I can tell, it looks like it would be a huge pain in the ass to use anywhere other than on a stable flat surface.

And yeah, having to constantly clean a screen that big would drive me crazy. I'd much rather work in an environment where there's no expectation on the part of app developers that I have a touchscreen.
My research area is Human-Computer Interaction, aka "UI Design." It combines Computer Science and Psychology. I am also a practicing designer.
Because you're misreading it. It doesn't say you have to relicense the code. It just says (A)GPL terms have to apply to both parts of the code. That's not relicensing. You don't need anyone's permission for weakly-licensed code to do that. Weakly-licensed code already allows it, that's why it's a weak license.

Weakly-licensed code also allows to be covered by a proprietary license. Nobody needs to relicense weakly-licensed code to lock it up in any way and apply further restrictions to it, whether they be "good" restrictions like the (A)GPL, where you forbid further restrictions, or "bad" restrictions like a EULA, where you forbid people to look at your modifications or to do further modifications.
Yes, it's a pity that AppCache and ServiceWorkers won't be able to support this use case. Also, the data URI trick comes with its own limitations, such as the fact that the address bar won't present an actual domain name or padlock, so it has a slightly worse user experience than normal websites.

One simple way that the web platform could be improved, then, would be to adopt something like the Hashlink proposal[0], which would allow the hash of the initial "bootloader" to be stored in the query string. If this were possible then a simple bookmark would suffice, or a URL sent in an email, as your comment suggests.

[0] https://w3c-ccg.github.io/hashlink/
Are a few 'Radical Feminist thinkers' the same thing as 'the feminist left'?
But isn't that just a market problem? Once resistance is widespread, won't companies be incentivized to find new antibiotics?
Reminds me of this https://www.nand2tetris.org/
> the end results are the same as before

Except it's not. In the old world, advertisers literally track you around the web and gather data about every single website you've visited, how long you've spent there, and so on.

In the new world, they basically just get an anonymized "group" you belong to that roughly gives them what you're interested in. They wouldn't know who you are or anything else about you, just that your in group 8123 and that group happens to generally visit a lot of websites related to fishing.
That's kinda a nitpick. I have a game programming degree, where the majority of programming was C#. But local computer science programs also tend to have language-specific tracks available, like C# as well.
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Doesn't it also depend to some degree on how much code sits between the user and AGPL code?

IIRC AGPL was created to bypass a thin wrapper frontend type situation. I make a website that takes PDFs, it lets users extract pages. In the backend I'm just running a modified Ghostscript command line and sending back what it makes. From my discussions with other people, this type of direct coupling automation is what is intended to trigger the AGPL. Is this incorrect? If that doesn't trigger it, the 'users interacting with it remotely' clause is all but useless because firewalls and service chains like this are really easy to construct. Not all AGPL software is able to natively run as a server itself.

And if it does trigger it, a simple ToDo CRUD app that relies on a database is pretty much the same thing in my eyes.
Been using this in production for years now (although we target just Windows and MacOS so I don't have experience with it on Linux). It is buggier than WPF and has occasional annoying issues when you update to a newer version, but it's still too good for us not to use compared to .NET-based alternatives. We've been using it more and more over time.

Just keep in mind, this is all custom rendering, it is not a native control wrapper. If you want an app that will look like a normal MacOS app on the Mac, this may not be the best choice, and something that wraps native controls (like Xamarin) would likely work better. If you want a UI that looks the same everywhere, it's great.

One advantage is that it works in a very "sane" way - you're just writing a net core app, that's all there is to it, unlike with Xamarin.

A disadvantage/advantage (based on your perspective) is that this is just a UI framework, so you don't get .NET wrappers for all the other, non-UI platform stuff that Xamarin provides. If you need some platform functionality, you have to access that in some other way.
uBlock Origin works - everything else I can take or leave.
Bla bla bla bla bla.
It's not really an option these days, most services _require_ a phone number and for some reason that is completely unknown to me, a phone number is considered as secure as a password or email address - despite sim jacking and generally losing access to your number when changing contract being very known problems.

You could use a fake phone number service, but ultimately somebody else could just use this to login to your account. You also can't guarantee you are able to use that phone number again when you need to get back in.

The only real option is to not use the service at all, which is easier said than done when your family, friends and even employers use (and require you to use) the service.
don’t need to if they are not tracking
That is just a horrible suggestion... Doesn't matter what rules or what level of enforcement you take to try to control prices/allocate resources... people will find a loophole to get around your authoritarian restrictions, and rightly so.
One of the circles that I am in, people have been realistically considering Forth for a bootstrapper; it's very easy to build up the rest of Forth using Forth once you have a minimal set of keywords implemented in assembly for your hardware of choice.
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Wouldn't the quantum of language be the idea?
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Singapore was a British colony before WWII, not a nation state though. All the Straits Settlements accumulated that wealth on the back of colonial England, and before that it was part of the Johor Sultanate but was just some jungle that no one cared about, not even the Sultan himself who gave it to the British.

After leaving Malaysia it ranked right down the bottom on basically every economic and social measure, unemployment was at 10% and many lived in slums. Plenty of third world countries had better GDP per capita numbers.

Also my estimates are just fine according to that clickbaity link and a minute of research:

Upfront:

$10 tender application
$39 three year hawker license
$321 Basic Food Hygiene Course
$260 Stainless steel cart + delivery From JB [1]

Ongoing:

$49 a month for a stall at Mei Chin Road
$600 a month in cleaning/service fees
$1000 a month in raw materials for say 100 chickens + everything else. Serves 1000 dishes.

It's certainly possible. That rental isn't common but certainly not out of the ordinary, you can get cooking stalls for ridiculously cheap.

[1] https://www.carousell.com.my/p/second-hand-stall-stainless-s...
mRNA does phase out - they're blueprints that are broken down when they're not needed. The half-life of them is measured in hours: http://book.bionumbers.org/how-fast-do-rnas-and-proteins-deg...

Edit: As noted in a comment, the half-life for the vaccine-related mRNA strands are longer, by design, so they produce more spike protein, but they remain fairly transient.
$50 a ton? Did that analysis not include sealevel rise? Or, more likely, did it put an arbitrary cutoff at the year 2100?
The status quo is advertisers tracking every single website you visit, and keeping a personalized profile of you with all your data in there.

The system under FLoC means they don't see anything about you and which site you've visited, they only get a single cohort ID, which is group roughly representing your browsing behavior.

How are these the same?
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> It's admittedly confusing and not all that well explained.

Can anyone help a brother out with a good repo or two that codesplains MAUI decently?
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The original code was written in F#, then re-written later in F7 then F* (FStar).
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Just a couple weeks ago, you couldn't use the spacebar in YouTube search in Firefox only.
Lately I've been using AvaloniaUI ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia ) for all new projects. For most intents and purposes it is much easier to make single UI codebase work across platforms when behavior and look of components does not depend on quirks of native controls (which MAUI wraps).
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Only in the united states (where i am not from). Normally i think of paper ballots as the hand counted sort.

However as long as tge machine is just a scanner (still paper trail) much of the same argument spplies.
I suspect not much will change. The Delta-V requirements for sending precious metals back to earth is insanely high. And, you’d be trying to send back some of the heaviest elements. But what point would that serve if you were to simply put the gold into an underground vault?

I imagine any mined minerals would stay in orbit and people would “own” that material while never taking possession of it. It’s not too different from what we do today. If you buy gold for your IRA you’re basically purchasing a share of some gold hoard you’re never going to see.
I don't know, but I expect that Google uses the OpenJDK release, which is identical to the Oracle JDK except it does not receive paid support from Oracle. I strongly doubt Google which has been fighting Oracle for years about a Java license would be paying Oracle for support. But stranger things have been known to happen!