skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Serving up new ads is no different than what the site creators themselves are already doing for their own work.

It is different because you are collecting money that would otherwise have gone to the sites creator?

(assuming a non ad blocking reader)

Update: I think I see where you are coming from, that as a _reader_, blocking ads in Firefox is the same as choosing to use Brave and willing watching Brave ads so that the Brave company can make money that would otherwise not have gone anywhere. The _reader_ generates no money for the content producer.

But as a _publisher_, an ad blocker reader in Firefox is just somebody who chooses to ignore the ads, but the Brave company is directly monetizing your content without your consent.

I my mind, the difference is that in scenario A. the use wants to be free of ads, in scenario B. the user doesn't mind ads, just not the ads you have chosen to show. And Brave is making money from that.
I can also recommend this New Yorker profile of David Zwirner. We are all complicit ;)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/02/dealers-hand
The Rust community opened an issue on their tracker [0] - it seems that they are not working on one right now:

> Greetings folks! I work on the team that builds the Cloud Client Libraries. Per the last comment - I can absolutely share that we're not actively working on a Rust SDK right now, and we have no immediate plans to start. We completely understand this would be useful, and we'd love to go build it. However, we're focusing all of our energies on Java, Go, Node.js, Python, C#, Ruby, PHP, and C++ at the moment. If you're looking to build something, I'd be happy to bounce ideas with you!

For now, we have https://github.com/Byron/google-apis-rs.

[0]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/124538614
I remember hearing a French popular activist talking about some titanium thing.

I have some gum and they just have E141.
There is also the (no help at the moment) fact that the more money that Starlink's parent company makes, the more likely we are to get the world's cheapest heavy lift orbital booster soon, and the more likely we are to soon have multiple large orbital telescopes that far exceed ground-based capabilities.

Basically, if SpaceX makes it, we'll probably have a Starship-launched lunar observatory quite soon, in the grand scheme of things.

This doesn't help the situation now, although there is so much screaming from the anti-Musk people as well as the pro-Musk people that it's hard to tell what the actual impact of the now-somewhat-albedo-mitigated starlink v.whatever satellites are. All of the coverage is breathless sky-is-falling stuff.

In any case, the situation is temporary. Either SpaceX makes it and we get a far side of Luna observatory and LEO/MEO telescopes besides, or they don't and in a few years Starlink all falls down and burns.
"Better ads" is just one of the three reasons the Facebook app provides for enabling tracking before asking users to do so:

1. Show you ads that are more personalized

2. Help keep Facebook free of charge

3. Support businesses that rely on ads to reach their customers

Source: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69222710/...

While "better ads" could be construed as a benefit for users, the other two reasons seem like an attempt to scare/guilt the user into enabling tracking. Of course, it's just a bunch of bullshit they had the marketing department come up with so they could continue to profit from tracking at least a small percentage of iOS users. Businesses don't need to rely on Facebook's invasive tracking to sell products. Don't let Facebook guilt you into giving up your personal data.
Goodwill needs to be careful here. I think what drives a lot of donations is “stuff arbitrage”.

Many people don’t have the time/attention to try to think about what potential value their used goods have. Goodwill has experience figuring out what value can potentially come from what is being donated.

If you make people think too hard about the value of what is being donated, then it may not be worth their effort to donate anything and just throw stuff away.
I'm reminded of Earth orbit from the film Wall-E for some reason.
First of all, the pandemic is still happening. Imagine telling your neighbor about the abstract dangers of parking in your driveway when they're currently doing so because their house blew up and they don't have anywhere else to park.

Second, the CEO published this without talking to a single one of their employees about the issue. Why? "I am concerned about the unfortunately common office worker who wants to continue working at home and just go into the office on occasion." Can you imagine your colleague stating this publicly without ever speaking to you about it? It's incredibly disrespectful. Your neighbor is parked in your driveway out of necessity, and you're within earshot asking a friend "Can you believe these people who think they can park wherever they want? I hope they realize how easy it is to tow a car off your own property."
In fairness, that's an attack class that's very difficult to eradicate even with virtualization.
That's pretty much what the demonized CEO in the linked article is predicting, too.
This has become a serious problem on IMDB as well. It's common, almost the norm for small releases, to have a flurry of reviews right at release giving ratings of 8 or 10 out of 10. They'll have glowing comments about how the director made such effective use of a shoestring budget, and so on. And then a little later this gets followed by a string of 1- or 2- out of 10 reviews, saying it's one of the worst movies ever and the high reviews are obviously shills.

For larger movies, or over a large enough timespan, the noise eventually gets drowned. But it's made IMDB reviews useless for deciding whether to watch new movies.
Next to what other users said it gives very specific supplement recommendations, riboflavin (B2) far above the daily recommended value, as well as Q10 and Magnesium. I’ve made some good experiences with the latter and will give the others a shot too.

They recommend ketogenic food too (I never noticed an effect on my migraines though).
I don't understand how no one at any point wondered whether it was a good idea to render web pages on a server they did not control. Mighty has investors, are these same investors using the product?
My answer: don't visit Goodwill at all.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-worst-corporation-in-_b_1...
https://barnacl.es/ May be what you’re looking for.

It’s an instance of the lobste.rs codebase, for bootstrappers (and specifically not VC)
I'm surprised to see reports that this concept works for some people. We have a bunch around the Bay Area, and they are inevitably full of garbage books that their owners weren't comfortable trashing. They're not really books they expect you to read, just books they want out of the house. You put semi-possibly-usable trash on the curb, you put trash books into the Little Free Library.
Is it just me, or are these densest in the places that nobody's probably hurting for access to books in the first place?

That doesn't make them harmful, of course, just.... weirdly pointless, as far as I can tell. Couple that with the "someone cleaned out their garage" selection of books that others have observed, and I guess I just don't see what problem these solve.
This sounds a bit like a 'no true Scotsman' (i.e. the bar would be moved with any example of a bad unit test that needs types), but I would need think more on it.

In my opinion, unit tests need to cover multiple levels, at least two, the units, and also the business logic, and proper types would cover the gaps in between. If anything I would invert the title of this, and say a strong enough type system makes unit tests unnecessary, but I don't think that's anything new and you can see it at work in pure FP languages like Haskell.
> Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it.

If they're at the point where they've won the judgment, they've got a fairly easy way to enforce it: wage garnishment. Since they've won the judgment but you still refuse to pay, the next (very easy) step is to get a court order for wage garnishment, after which your employer's payroll processor (like ADP for example) will simply start taking the money before your checks even get deposited. <insert obligatory IANAL statement here>
Does not work on Catalina and Big Sur.
Even if they weren't, we can't have everything. Do you know how crippled a huge chunk of the world's population is without robust internet access? I have two telescopes in my house and I would give up looking at the sky forever if it meant my cousin's kids got to attend Zoom class instead of having to work from take-home materials.
Wow, the consistency here is amazing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=littlefreelibrary.org
>Regex doesn’t work fine even on that.

Most of the time it works just fine for my purposes.

And it's not like I don't know alternatives. And I've written a toy compiler in the past (C with classes subset), done heavy XSLT work, know how to write a parser (manually, with flex/yacc, with PEG), have parsed XML with SAX, DOM, XOM, have used xpath expressions, css and jquery selectors, and used libs like BeautifulSoup.

Most of the time a quick regex will do just fine for that purpose.

See, I don't intend to send the href's to the ISS or to some medical equipment that will blow up if, god forbid, I accidentally found an A tag in a comment or inside a script or attribute.

And I'll probably run another regex or simple editor or awk filter to get rid of some false positives and I'll be fine.

>If you want to parse HTML, you need a parser.

That's a tautology, so it's always true.

If on the other hand you just need to extract some information from an HTML file, and you can just open the bloddy file and see its structure and it is perfectly servicable with a regex, you might not need a parser at all. Simple as that.
Critical Race Theory and the 'Hyper-White' Jew
I'm still curious to do this carbon accounting when you consider exports.

This gets much more complicated but it would draw a fair picture.
I don't think you're being downvoted for criticizing the F-35 and instead, being downvoted for thinking the A-10 and F-22 programs were epitomes of engineering excellence. The A-10 suffered from wing cracks; the F-22 continues to suffocate it's pilots. In terms of engineering excellence, I'd say the F-16 or F/A-18 programs were far more successful at developing a successful, useful, adaptable and delivered on-time warplane.
To this, all I can say is that I spent from 2005-2014, and then from 2016-2020, doing nothing but security evaluations of products, probably about 60% of which were serverside multitenant SAAS systems of one form or another, and I don't remember ever evaluating (or overseeing the evaluation of) a system that relied on Jails or Zones. Lots of Docker! And, until a few years ago, multitenant Docker isolation was an infamous joke! I'm not sticking up for it!

You can look at the recent history of Linux kernel LPEs --- there has been sort of a renaissance because of mobile devices --- and count all the ways any shared-kernel multitenant system would have broken down. At the end of the day, it's not so much about predicting whether your system can get owned up (it can), so much as: "what do I need to do when there is a kernel LPE announced on my platform". If you're doing shared-kernel isolation, the right answer to that question is usually "fire drill". It's not a noodley thought-leadership kind of question; it's a simple, practical concern.
Use your free time to build stuff, save the money to bootstrap and when your project gains traction, leave and build your own things so that you're not making someone else wealthy.

The brightest absolutely do spend their time and energy making others wealthy (ex: I would consider most senior eng at FAANG to be bright and although they are definitely rich, they are not wealthy). I suspect that's because of the cycle of responsibilities and spending most of their incomes.
github repo points to it. and the archive.org page footer points to the repo.
Bitcoin price is not related at all with energy prices or fossil energy tax. If price of energy is high enough bitcoin mining will not be profitable for so many people and number of miners and their energy usage will scale down to the point where average reward for each miner covers energy cost.

But you don't want miners to disappear. You want them to use the money they got from financial markets to build their own renewable energy generation capacity vastly exceeding what people now build for ordinary use.

Same way they bought coal power plant they'd build a solar or wind farm and sell energy to the grid when price of energy is higher than mining reward.
It may be possible to use `<wbr>` in a single representation, assuming the indentation is solvable.
That's not 'combat deaths' though, that's 'total deaths'.

In those wars, a huge number of people died from things other than direct combat.

Here are the numbers [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...
That's where we agree.

But where we differ is in using a typewriter versus a word-processor. A few years after I had used nothing but word-processors, I had to use a typewriter again. It felt like I was in a straitjacket. The simplest job seemed difficult and annoying.

Every typo threatened either the use of white-out or to the need to throw the paper away and start afresh. Every time I changed my mind about the sequence of words, or the order of paragraphs, meant that I had to throw away what I had written and start again.

That was the moment I mentally discarded typewriters into the dustbin of history.

I still loved typewriters for what they were physically. But only as museum pieces, rather than something I could use on a daily basis.
> Comparing uncompressed but minified JavaScript to compressed JavaScript is not an honest comparison. Obviously the minified JavaScript would also be compressed and smaller than the unminified JavaScript.

The video covered that.
This also applies so hard to grassroots community organizing. They are doing all their scaling purely through manual human strategies. Which is great, but even small amounts of tooling can help these groups to organize better and avoid burnout -- burnout and frustration kills movements, because good-feels and passion is pretty much the only thing holding people together (never money, like in a regular field)
That's why I just throw it in to my neighbour's yard, solves my problem.
Nasdaq's computer system can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's sky-high stock price
Regulation has a way of keeping out innovative founders who would rather add value in newer, unregulated fields.
Some hates being a commodity, others hates not being a commodity. Plenty of people love those boring jobs since they are easy to perform, you know what you have to do and you know you can do it. And since you are just a cog in a big machine nobody has their eyes on you since you aren't special in any way, if you quit they can go out and hire another one like you right now.
If you’re talking to investors at all, ask them for recommendations. That’s a good place to start.
I wonder how we will measure ad campaigns effectiveness in a few years...
One of the interesting parts of the OP is that they say Soviets moved to Latinise the scripts of all people as a move to unify Communist groups (second para under "Linguistic Revolution"). Then they simply say "Cyrillic became the preferred, unifying writing system" without explanation.
What's the appeal of emoji in the terminal?
Can you explain how that works or what it does? I understand delay slots, but I didn't know it was legal to have a branch in a delay slot, so I don't really know what this means :)
Every now and then I need to compile lists of locations for this or that application. The drop-down of locations in this tracker is very interesting. Does anyone know how the list was compiled?
Mechanical engineering is one. The problem is gaining buy-in from the old guard that your newfangled tech will make their lives easier, not harder. To do so, you might need to get a mechanical engineering degree and work as one for a few years. Reminds me of how FarmLogs was started by someone who grew up on a farm. Ultimately the block is communication/persuasion, not technical though.
Well TOTP is absolutely trivial and there's no reason a non-smart phone couldn't or shouldn't have support for it too.
That's one reason to look at excess mortality. The number of people who would have "died anyway" this year would be pretty similar to the number who died last year.
There also is a lot more to document. That Marantz receiver or shortwave radio probably had less than 100 transistors. Your smartphone has billions. The cost of providing documentation alone may be sufficient reason not to provide it to customers (yes, they have documentation, but that may not be sufficiently checked for use in a B2C setting, where you likely can’t provide documentation with a “reality may be different” disclaimer)

I also think that, historically, electronics were documented because they broke down so often.

You just had to be able to spot a broken tube in your radio, clean a potentiometer, etc.
I would be miffed about it for the thirty minutes it takes me to find the nearest body of water.
I don’t get it.

Who is this for? Who has the ability to edit their own existing image into this but doesn’t have the ability to make a screenshot?
Thank you for linking to the text-only version - it was very pleasant and easy to read.
Very costly and lots of regulations, big consequences for failing. If a SaaS product has a bug, worst case scenario, someone loses money, if someone messes up in healthcare, a person might die.
"Software is simply the encoding of human thought, and as such has an almost unbounded design space"

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1385928617943838721
Along with Salvation Army, they've increased their prices to the point where it's no longer worth buying from them versus surfing eBay or OfferUp for a good deal on stuff in considerably better shape.

I too remember the late 90s and early 00s fondly at the thrift shop. My childhood stereo systems were exclusively found items at Salvation Army (on Grand River, which had the biggest stereo selection) and my first few modems came from SA. It's something I don't think today's youth have available.
Agree that it seems weird, and that it doesn't align with their other permissions wording: "always allow without prompting", "allow each app to ask once", "always deny without prompting".
You think there were a half million excess suicides in the US due to our response to covid? Again, this is just nitpicking at an article that supports a (very obvious) conclusion you find politically inconvenient.

As to whether a suicide due to pandemic-induced depression "counts" as being "caused by the pandemic" or not, isn't exactly the kind of confounding effect you railed against above? Isn't the solution, again, to not demand that we micro-classify every death and simply look at the external effects we can measure?
900k people did not die from COVID-19. This "model" is predicting deaths related to the response to COVID-19 (deaths to to increase drug usage, missed cancer screenings, etc.).

The second paragraph of the linked article clearly states this.
then borrow those books and throw them out :) Fix the system by creating space for better books. (Though be careful this isn't just you not enjoying certain books others love -- if that's the case, then you might tread into "that asshole" territory :) )
I loth Apple. I am a Apple developer and it is painful. After thirty years sticking to Unix like systems, Apple is not!

That said I am very impressed that they turn off apps access to the UUID for the device by default. Bless them. There is more money to be made, I would have thought, by going down the well trodden path of avarice, duplicity, and self deception that Google has trodden. Well done Apple.

(Perhaps I am wrong and there is some nefarious plan for world domination behind their moves - just because I cannot see it does not mean it is not there!)
Because it's such a low bar, it's not at all hard to believe. They really don't have to try hard to be better than that, and their self-interest is real obvious.
The trick there is to work remotely. You can just build software, make art, do your own side-business 8hrs/day while hitting the employer's bar of "I'll keep paying this guy" and keep that income flowing.
In my experience, they wind up for sale in street markets all across Africa for extremely low prices. In 35 countries I saw American clothes in HUGE piles for sale.. many still had the goodwill tag (or other donation brands) still attached.

I bought plenty of shorts and t-shirts from these vendors :)
I'm curious if you say the same thing about airplanes (which aren't exclusively American either). They are also quite noisy.
So what? What is the higher purpose of not "polluting" the night sky?
If you have a kernel implemented in Rust, (1) you should shout that from the rooftops and (2) use whatever isolation mechanism you like on it.
The effort that is put into the integration of video game music with the rest of the game is severely underappreciated for a lot of titles. I could list a lot of games from the top of my head that do that well in one form or another. But I'd like to point to two games that stick out of the pack in my opinion.

1. Portal 2: There are tons of subtle details to the background music in the game. Thermal Discouragement Beam targets will emit a melodic hum that integrates with the background music when they're activated. In rooms with multiple of them, each one becomes a distinct, randomized voice in the song. While catapulted through the air with an Aerial Faith Plates, the normal background music briefly fades to wind noise - with a procedurally generated retro synth melody on top. Normally, this fits in with the electronic/ambient background music, except in the one segment where there's a Bach piece playing. Then these short interstitials match Bach.

2. Control: This game has a segment called "Ashtray Maze". At the start of that segment, the player character puts on the headphones of a Walkman and a song by the Old Gods of Asgard (actually Poets of the Fall) starts playing while the player walks down what seems to be a run down motel hallway from a bygone era. The following section pulls the player through a quick succession of set pieces with big, fast fights and platforming elements, while the song seems to follow its own structure naturally. The pace is determined by the player. Yet, singing passages alternate with purely instrumental ones in a way that doesn't diminish or break the dramatic arc of the song while the tense section of the song invariably coincide with intense player action. It all culminates with the end of the song synchronizing very well with the defeat of the final enemy and exit from the section. The sound track version of the song is almost 8 minutes and the game version is probably split into countless sections (I estimate more than 100).

Honorable mention: Journey and ABZU. Both games turn a score recorded by a big orchestra and choir into an adaptive layered soundtrack that is just seamless.
What's the point? Most people choose to suffer, even when you offer them something that requires learning the thing just once. No matter how nice the thing is.
I wondered about that but I wasn't able to see the Street View integration without it - I think you're right though - better without the past ones. Thank you.
This is cool! I've thought many times that something like this would be useful, as previous commands seem to never be in history when you need them again, especially across multiple terminal panes/tabs.

More details on how the encryption for server sync works would be helpful for assessing security.