skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With one side of him he saw with true imaginative clarity the ruinous course the world was set on—‘as if a whole social form were breaking down, and the human element swarmed within the disintegration, like maggots in cheese ... so that it seems as though we had created a steel framework, and the whole body of society were crumbling and rotting in between’. But all he had to offer in the way of a solution were the sick phallic fantasies and perversities of quasi-impotence, carried in his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, to a pitch of absurdity seldom, if ever before, equalled.

He was one of those men, tragic and gifted, who work out in themselves the conflicts and dilemmas of their time; who are themselves our own fever and pain. In Lawrence’s case, his sickness became the cult of succeeding generations; Lady Chatterley, sponsored by a motley collection of writers, clerics and miscellaneous intelligentsia, was the progenitor of a torrent of porno-eroticism which her creator would have found deeply abhorrent, and incidentally so enriched her publisher in the process that his shares were quoted on the Stock Exchange as Chatterleys.

Malcolm Muggeridge on Lawrence in Chronicles of Wasted Time
List of Nazi Science and Technologies in The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
Same. I refuse to give google my credit card details or ID for this. I've been on Youtube for about 13 years with this account, I'd have to have been 5 or less to not be old enough to view whatever I want now... What garbage.
My favorite crazy ideas from Science are

- "Imagine, they're like really small animals, but the're too small to see! The're everywhere! They live on us, in us, around us! They are what makes us sick!" (Pasteur, germ theory of diseases)

- "You know how there can be mountains as huge as the Himalaya? Easy! In reality, all continents are really like small leaves floating on a see of magma, and they're bouncing into each other, and when they crash we get these huge mountain ranges and continents." (Alfred Wegener, tectonic plates)

- "You know time? Yeah, it's really different for everyone, and there isn't even a thing such as 'simultaneous'. I'm serious! Just imagine riding on a train and playing with a flashlight and a watch!" (some patent clerk in Switzerland)
This will get shut down very soon. I am actually surprised Apple even approved this.

I essentially built the same thing for myself (music player that combines/searches multiple sources, use youtube-dl server to stream optimized mp3 only), I had to skip app store and sideload it.
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The article states the two options:

Paywalls vs. ads.

Now it's not that those are the only two conceivable options, it's that those are the only two options that are reasonably successful at scale.

I'm sure you could think up a donation system, or do something similar to what the Brave browser does, but those do not scale. Of course if you have some alternative approaches that work and produce viable business models, it would be great to hear them.
In practice all the interop lives at the edges of the application. As a concrete example, Pedestal HTTP server has around 18,000 lines of code, and 96% of it is pure functions. All the IO and side effects are encapsulated in the remaining 4% of the code. This has been a common scenario for the vast majority of Clojure programs I've worked on in the past decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0if71HOyVjY

Core of the application does data transformations using native Clojure data structures. This is where all your interesting business logic lives. The interop lives at the edges and typically used for stuff like database drivers, HTTP servers, file access, and so on.
On my current plan MMS cost about 50ct US. I am in Germany, I use matrix, so Purism’s priorities align with mine here. Let’s also not forget that good Matrix support was promised in the Librem 5 campaign, where the phone was marketed as IP native.

There’s also been a lot of of work going on to enable MMS, it’s just that they want to do it properly, which takes more time.

For now, if MMS were used here, I’d try to get it working via the Matrix implementation in chatty as described in [0] or via [1].

[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_MMS_with_Matrix
[1] https://git.sr.ht/~anteater/vgmms
provides no evidence that earlier times had been perennially populated by paragons of literary virtue

That's an astounding alliteration, but I always took from Orwell's essay that this was intended for public communicators like politicians(hence the title), and not literatis. A few years back when I was trying to figure out why someone who seemingly spoke like a fifth grader on purpose had such a tremendous appeal in his run for president, I thought of Politics and the English Language. Sure enough, using very simple language(my favorite was probably "super duper missile"), he could get the attention and support of people who would otherwise never find the motivation to vote.
I think that's more of an indictment of how bad the concept of "production python" is.
Why not have a look at QuickJs. I assume your reason is to run js in the browser in an isolated environment for security reasons? I’ve found this article from figma to be an excellent starting point [0] Also useful to consider this benchmark [1] of js runtimes.

We’ve found quickjs-emscripten [2] to work really well thus far. You can see my implementation of it here [3] in Lowdefy. If still has a few rough edges, so would be really keen to make it better.

I’m interested to know, is spidermonkey more comparable to V8 than QuickJs?

[0] - https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...
[1] - https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
[2] - https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten
[3] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/blob/main/packages/operat...
"First, users do not currently have that choice. Sure, you can pay for some things (e.g. youtube premium), but it does nothing for your privacy. If you buy youtube premium you'll very likely see more ads for youtube premium (if you're not already blocking ads)."

This doesn't make sense. I mean, you might see ads for YouTube premium on other sites, but you aren't seeing them on YouTube. You're paying to remove ads on YouTube, not the whole web. (Nor does it prevent people from stalking you IRL)
Ads pit platform owners against their users because their incentives drive platforms to employ addictive designs that prey on psychological weakness to maximize user time on site. This is the fundamental misalignment that drives a lot of downstream effects.

On the other hand, a fixed fee would cap the incentive to push the upper bounds of user time on site, thereby respecting users time and inherent interest in whatever platforms offer, absent addictive designs that try to alter that inherent interest.

Features that nag you to invite people into groups, add non-friends via PYMK, push low quality notifications to reengage, show you outrage-inducing content, push you to constantly engage or share private details of your life, check out related groups and drive you deeper down rabbit holes, etc wouldn’t have the same oxygen if the fixed fee model was used. And a service to chat with and find out what your friends were up to wouldn’t be costly at scale; likely pennies per month [1].

I appreciate your thoughtful comment and the logic you’ve laid out but disagree. I believe we’ve settled on a lucrative, low friction, easy to implement incentive model with ads but it is far far from the ideal model with way too many negative externalities.

Note this only goes for ad models with unlimited appetite for user time. I wouldn’t have a problem with ad models that have an upper bounds, eg 5 ad impressions a day max.

[1] see: WhatsApp $1/yr model prior to FB acquisition
Feels too simple to be right, but would this work?
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That's the part that screenwriters often talk about. But his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, covers more than that and there are insights applicable to being a scientist.

A key insight is that mythology's interpersonal structures are special to people, and our minds are wired to see them everywhere. A neuro-Bayesian might call them a prior. As a result, if your role in society somewhat resembles an archetype, the public is likely to perceive you mostly or entirely in terms of that archetype.

Scientists are at risk of being pattern-matched to the Daedalus archetype. The public will ascribe all sorts of Daedalus-nature to you (even those who don't recognize the name) and you'll wonder "Why would they assume all those things about me???".

The book may shed some light what's going on and how to deal with it.
Speaking as someone who uses compressors both for shops and breathing air - this is mostly non-interesting so far.
For starters, 70db is actually pretty horrible.

Indoor Scroll Compressors are around 47db (IE 100-1000 times quieter than the 70db mentioned here). They are completely oil-free and produce class 1/class 0 air. That is, you can use them to breathe from
They are not as energy efficient as rotary screws, but it's only off by about 20%.

In practice, the flow of air into a tank produces way more noise than the compressor itself with these.

Even rotary screws are around 60-65db, and there are both oil and water cooled versions. They are very energy efficient, and due to the design, can be put on VFD's and modulate air-demand incredibly well.

Oil carryover is typically <3ppm, and you can use oils meant for incidental food contact/etc or filter it down further.

Both the above have 100% duty cycles. They can be on continuously (and in fact, oil-flooded rotary screws get unhappy if they are used too little).

Without more, or at least, based on what this article says, it's really hard to see what part of the market this thing will inhabit. They also don't talk at all about how to modulate them, what their duty cycle is, etc.
Nor the dewpoint, etc.
It's strange, I look at my Google maps histories, and it showed when I traveled by car vs by motorcycle. In a state like California, where lane splitting is legal, I figured they might use [going faster than surrounding stopped traffic] to determine, but since I've moved, it continues to indicate correctly. Only way I assume they're doing this is via accelerometer.
Nice, but the first thing I always try with these things is negative phrases. E.g. "show me shoes that are not Adidas" doesn't seem to work.

Positive flows worked great though.
I don't know if you'll ever see this now, but here is a nice big list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-World

There are a lot of familiar titles in there.
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That is along the lines of what I was thinking, but does not make the point as cleany (they end up combining the speach-primed and non speach-primed data because participants said they percieved it as speach from the start.

They also used an ABX methodology, which forces the subject to put sounds into boxes by essentially asking if X is more like A or B, not if X is different from both.

The one I am thinking of used an odd-one-out methodology, where the subject was presented with AAX, and asked to pick which sound was different from the others (where the others were genuinly the same sound).
The one I am thinking of also found a priming effect, which yours apparantly didn't.
just to be clear, when I said you were a designer rather than a dev, it wasn't intended to denigrate you, just to correct the inaccuracy in the "other devs" phrasing.

from your writing, it was very clear that design was your priority, whatever other skills you might also possess. so I feel a bit vindicated seeing your username.
What do you mean by "scale" in this context? I fail to see how, having not tried alternative approaches, you conclude that they do not "scale".
Considering his background, I don't think he was talking about algorithms. In the past he became involved in this project:

"Quantum computing (QC) is a flexible model of computation and there are many physical means of implementing it. One obvious means of implementation is by classical simulation. In other words, performing QC by running ‘quantum software’ on conventional hardware."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131005014920/http://noospheer....
They are for me. Exactly the same pronunciation and emphasis. Maybe there are some dialects of English where they are not pronounced the same.
I love this idea. Will keep in mind the next time I happen to draft the release notes.
This is an amazing step and the transistor density chart shows you just how big a deal this is. 1/3B transistors per square mm. Now for 'grins' take a piece of paper and make a 2 x 2 mm square on it. Now figure out what you can do with 1.3B transistors in that space. Based on this[1] you are looking at a quad-core w/GPU desktop processor.

Of course you aren't really because you cant fit the 1440 pins that processor needs to talk to the outside world. But it suggests to me that at some point we'll see these things in "sockets" that connect via laser + WDM to provide the I/O. An octagonal device with 8 laser channels off each of the facets would be kind of cool. Power and ground take offs on the top and bottom. That would be some serious sci-fi shit would it not?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
MIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQxyVuLeCs&list=PL9F74AFA03...

K-12: https://www.khanacademy.org/

All free, available on the supercomputer in your pocket.
The gist of it is that there was a flippant, reactionary tone to anyone criticizing Theranos, that attempted to brush off valid criticism with "you don't like her because she's a woman" or "you want to see the company fail because it's run by a woman". No, actually, I just want to see some data, regardless of who is in charge. Save the "women run the show in SV" rhetoric and flashy cover page photography for Vogue. This is strictly a business analysis. If we can't have a civil discussion about these things without being accused of being sexist, or envious, or whatever other pejorative people use to redirect criticism or probing questions, then we might as well not have a discussion at all because we all know how these things go. The comments write themselves.

Having said that, it's tiresome to have the same pile-on garbage of negative comments every time a PG article is posted. The last 4-5 of his articles invite so much backlash and scathing kneejerk rhetoric, I wonder why these people use HN forums at all.
How many content creators are fully supported by ads? All the material I read says that is probably the worst way of trying to earn a living as a content creator.

Seems to me that creators are getting a dreadful deal from the current set up and that FB etc are the ones gaining massively.
Like the IRS has streamlined taxes and the US postal service has streamlined mail delivery?
Can you elaborate? Ive been lucky so far but Id like to know what to look out for
I think they need to do far better than 70db to make this viable compared to existing technology.

My home shop has a California air tools compressor in it that I chose specifically for its <70db volume. You can easily have a conversation when it’s running, and compared to my dust collector or other tools, it’s nearly silent.
It's a lot more important than many realize. Good products -- for example tractors and electric cars -- are being locked down and made less appealing to customers because of right to repair restrictions and exorbitant maintenance costs. It's one thing when you have to go to the manufacturer to repair your iphone, but when you need to do that to repair a tractor or a personal vehicle you have to use, then that can truly impoverish people. This is a very important battle in the fight to preserve the middle class.
Tetris' worst case is all S-pieces or all Z-pieces, in which case you could never clear a single line.
Although it may give you some beneficial thought processes about products and future state of the tech industry.
The chances of a group of unarmed people, and a LARPer with zip ties, overthrowing the most powerful government in history is 0.0%. Even if that was the intention of the group. Which it clearly wasn't.

That otherwise logical thinkers are getting caught up in such hysterics is unnerving.
I get the sense that it's mostly children and right wing PACs that keep the ad business afloat
Pornography for women works completely differently than pornography for men.
It‘s early days and phone cameras are 90 percent software. The PinePhone shows that with decent software even a potatocam can produce okay-ish photos, so I would not judge these early pictures too harshly.
> ensure the buyer that accidental injury/death is not possible unless they’re not paying

Exactly. You don’t seem to get it.

Is there a service being provided via this remote functionality? No. It’s only purpose is to “ensure” people are paying. It’s purely an insurance mechanism for their financing.
My code must conform to whatever programmatic interfaces that the exchange provides, even if they are not a good fit for the token's intended purpose. So yes, there is integration legwork that I the developer have to do.

> Using the network is not "skimming" transactions.

Sure it is. Users are paying a different token to miners (not me) to use my app's token. Tell me, if users are given the choice between transacting in both ETH and the ERC-20, or transacting only in an ERC-20, would they ever willingly do the former?
This is a solved problem though, with optimistic updates. See Mosh, which does this for the terminal. If you've ever had to run Vim on a high-latency remote connection, it feels like having superpowers.
Fwiw, unlike the examples above, we have permission to your data (if you give it to us) but we don't own or control any of it. We don't store it elsewhere. We don't sell it to the highest bidder. We don't mine it for some other purpose.

Let me be clear: we plan to charge a subscription. That's our only business model.

I think we can improve privacy and security for most users who have trouble managing it. For instance, we can patch Chrome zero-days (many have occurred this year) a lot faster for everyone.

What we offer today is a faster way to use applications that do own your data so you can be much more productive and hopefully enable a new set of applications never before possible.

We help improve decentralization of the web over duopolies like Apple/Windows. We make the browser more powerful, not less.

We improve the market share of Linux as a consumer computing OS as it underlies our tech.

In time, we might be open to people owning their own hardware and running Mighty on it but I think a lot of people will prefer we make it "just work" for now. I don't view either world as mutually exclusive.

If there's an opportunity to research making things trustless, we'll work on that.
Then to take control of your own mind and acknowledge you don't know, is the greatest achievement.
Fancy air compression systems (eg: not consumer) will have a drain valve that automatically opens when the pressure falls from turning system off for night/weekend/other maintenance so people don't forget to drain it.

Its also not just water that is collected at the bottom of the air tank, compressor oil also collects. Oil can also be deliberately added by either as a byproduct of compressor design or from separate equipment, into the airstream help lubricate and protect equipment from the moisture, reducing the need to remove the moisture through other means.
You can get 42109 quite cheap as it is well known to have poor performance, so it can easily be found in sales.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/app-controlled-top-gear-r...

But I would recommend to buy 17101 Boost (harder to find now, but also in sales) which will give you an out of the box programming experience and sensors, not just motors.
Also the Boost app works on cheap Android tablets (even Amazon Fire 7) while newer LEGO apps for Powered Up/Boost don't.
I had a first-generation one, and it ran on Windows 95/98.
The ESP32 can negotiate TLS1.2, using, among other options, mbedtls.

https://tls.mbed.org/api/

> mbed TLS supports SSLv3 up to TLSv1.2
Good write up, but this reads as a naive implementation of a single band compressor with gain compensation, a long look ahead, fast attack and slow release setting.
Right. So anyway, can we talk about fatalities per billion lines of code by programming language? :)
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But they may be excessively worried that they are sick and demand excess testing and excessive stays in hospitals.
>> coup attempt
> it was neither a coup nor a coup attempt. i have a hard time fathoming the combination of ignorance and privilege that would lead a serious, thinking person to make this claim.

I would take the opposite approach here. Trump replaced SecDef after the election. He was working on scuttling the post office and proper vote counting before the election. They tried to rig the election. When their efforts didn't give the results they wanted, they tried to overturn the results with violence. He incited the violence, helped direct it, refused to stop it, and cheered it on, as his own VP was asking for help.

I'm not sure what combination of ignorance and privilege would label this "trespassing" rather than an attempted "coup".

> you might as well call any whitehouse trespasser a coup.
> context matters. they were political rioters, not a replacement government.

The goal of the prior administration was to remain in power. The folks who stormed the capital weren't the replacement government, they were the brownshirts.
Interesting, this looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing
Anti-NN were doing the same, so on that account perhaps they're equally awful. But defrauding the democratic process of public commentary & input into the policy making decisions of a major governmental organization rises to quite a higher level.
I mean, it's stupid and petty, and she should be punished, but multiple felonies? I could see it if she'd tampered with grades, dropped the db, etc. But cheating to be Homecoming Queen seems pathetic enough to almost be its own punishment...