skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AFAIK my podcast player isn't tracking me or using targeted ads.

Some podcasts use "dynamic ad insertion", where the ads are inserted when you download the podcast rather than when the podcast file is created and uploaded. [0] Discovered my podcasts were tracking me when I traveled and then heard ads for an out-of-state regional chain after I returned home, clearly because I had downloaded the episodes while traveling.
Overcast added privacy & tracking info, to show whether each podcast uses dynamic ad insertion or (possibly) tracks IP etc. [1].

[0] https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/10/08/podcast-priv...
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/03/podcast-privacy-alerts/
I've been playing online since the 90s and I've yet to see an actually effective method of combating toxic behavior in competitive games. Not censoring it, but preventing it in the first place.
1. Michael Swivel: https://youtu.be/C27RVio2rOs
2. Steve Huffman and Emmett Shear: https://youtu.be/6IFR3WYSBFM
3. Jan Koum: https://youtu.be/s1Rd4UShDxQ
Also, it’s not really about performance as such, but about keeping your muscles loose. Tight muscles lead to injuries.

N=1 but the difference is huge for me when I don’t foam roll (or do some other massage).
Teaching that words can't do you permanent harm, yes. How you feel when being called a name, or having someone say something hurtful may not be a choice. But whether you dwell on it, whether you choose to continue to feel hurt, whether you choose to act in revenge... all of those things are within one's control. We absolutely should teach self-control and mastery of one's emotions to children. It helps them become sane, happy adults.

It is cruel to withhold this education from them, because a state of perpetual offendedness is misery.
The trouble with not having MMS in the US is that it's a "lowest common denominator" type service: not everyone uses it, but everyone expects you to be able to use it. People will be surprised if they send you a photo or group message and you don't see it, and notably, they also can't tell if you were able to see it or not.
The author may want to consider using LORA as a backup for 3g/4g for connectivity as the use of jammers by thieves and burglars becomes more common as days pass.
Ideal for the few folks who hold more than 60% of it. https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-dogecoin-addresses...
Speaking of silly Tetris games, I once made a version of Tetris where you can only move pieces by shooting them - https://jack.plus/guntris/

The pieces aren’t on a grid either - makes playing it very frustrating.
They are identical. I think he was making a distinction between {week, weak} on one hand and {wick} on the other (but I was also initially confused by the way he put it). This is a big hurdle for native Spanish speakers as well, because i in Spanish is always pronounced as "ee". There seem to be a lot of embarrassing word pairs around these vowels; sheet, beach, etc.
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Given appropriate likeliness annotations or profile-guided optimization, it's possible for the compiler to _invert_ the conditional and move the log statement to a "cold" section of code outside of the main flow, making it a never-taken branch.
Not so radical. See the minimalist movement and related themes.

Specifically, there's the prevalence & overabundance of low-quality manufactured products made possible through economies of scale and mispriced environmental externalities.

In fact I think it's a good thing for one to question once in a while if they really need to buy that new thing.
NewPipe isn't on the Google Play store. I assume that this app can't be either.
Is it? I mean, like I would never want to invest the time to actually learning how to decipher it. It doesn't seem worth the effort when there are audio ways to convey the information.
Because shares express ownership, and ownership is defined by being able to make decisions about the owned thing.
If you're willing to get a fake job to plant a bug, why not pretend to be an office janitor and plant the bugs in the CEO's office and boardroom?

You might even be able to hide it in the VoiP phone on his desk and steal both power and network.
Agree. And worse I sometimes just don’t get the pop ups.

It’s literally the only reason I’m considering dumping the Gmail app. If you use an app password and the standards based mail client like imap or pop, this isn’t forced on you.

Ive also seen an increase in google flagging my accounts for some reason and I have to go and reclaim/verify them using the recovery accounts.
Twitter deserves a full time CEO
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if you use the latest drives m.2 pci4, etc. high end the whole thing gets really hot. high end boards thus have heat sinks. keep in mind nand needs to be warm to reach peak perf, but not too warm.
the whole heat sinks can reduces the heat by as much as 7°C degree.
Hmm, very interesting, thank you! Is it this one?

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.103...

Seems to be exactly what you describe.
I don't think these messages are mutually exclusive either; you can say both "yeah, life is unfair and racist" and "toughen up" at the same time.
Crypto is the Great Filter
Or use it for looking at the fungi on Mars

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065361)
Best I could do is five lines, and even that felt like it was because the game was optimized to prevent "any line now" rather than "any lines in future".

Method: If you lay the "s" pieces on their tip, next to each other horizontally, starting from one side, when you get to having a gap of two left on the other side, it changes to giving you line pieces. You can then lay these line pieces horizontally on top of the s pieces to create a full "wall" eight blocks wide all the way to the top. Then start filling in the two-wide column to start making lines. Best this seems to give is five.

Has anyone made it to six? Is it possible?

Edit: after reading more of the comments here, I see the high score is 31!!! Wow, didn't expect that -- it is neat to watch it through:

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But nothing is going to happen. Nobody wants to go through it again and nobody wants to go to jail. People will complain for a bit and next week or month almost everyone will forget about it.
Furthermore, there are legislation coming e.g. from the EU (terreg) that makes hosting of projects with user generated content prohibitively expensive for small players, not to mention hobbyists.
The internet as we know has ended.
Does concluding that a list of funny names - mostly of western origin - is not evidence of white supremacy require a process? It's almost axiomatic.

Claims of white supremacy need to be backed up with proof.

Histrionic breakdowns and screaming at screens doesn't count as proof I'm afraid.
$149/month Todo list app
Get tasks done, or get charged.

Should I build it?

If I get 25+ upvotes I’ll build it in 24h.
It's too bad goto has been so demeaned. It's great for "we're done here but I always want to do a few things before we exit". Like logging. That's it actually why I always work to a single return. I like to know, right before I exit, that I can clean references up, or write to a log, or whatever and that only has to happen in one place. If I'm patching some legacy code, I won't usually refactor to achieve this, but I might.
That's always been one of my biggest gripes with Apple. Their security theater was particularly convincing for a while, but in recent years it's been going downhill, hard. The T2 chip was dedicated hardware for a prng generator, the "secure enclave" is based on technology that has been cracked for years, and their team actively ignores security researchers who report vulnerabilities to them. It's definitely one of the deciding factors keeping me on Linux.
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I started hearing the idea that people wanted more personalized ads when I joined an ad tech company, and I have only heard it since from people working in the space. It doesn't seem to be an idea that normal people voice.

I have heard the opposite, which is people getting creeped out due to things like getting ads for infant products before they've told their family they're pregnant (presumably inference from browsing).
Discussed here, with a screenshot of Google failing:

https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/comments/n6bjws/integer_overfl...

Berkshire is overflowing a 32-bit unsigned integer representation. When an unsigned integer exceeds its maximum representable value, it wraps around starting at zero.

If you add 1 to the maximum, you get 0. If you add 2 to the maximum, you get 1. If you add 3 to the maximum, you get 2. If you add 4 to the maximum, you get 3. And so on. The number wraps around to zero (it's modulo 2^32).

They're using a 4-byte (i.e., 32-bit) unsigned integer to represent the price in terms of ten-thousandths of a dollar.

For example, the standard size of an "unsigned int" in C on most modern systems is 32 bits. The maximum value you can express in a 32-bit unsigned integer is 32 one-bits:

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111

This binary number is two to the power of 32, minus 1 (i.e., 2^32 - 1) which is, in decimal:

4,294,967,295

This integer represents $429,496.7295 because the price is specified in ten-thousandths of a dollar.

The Berkshire A-share (BRK.A) exceeded that price.

The B-share (BRK.B) equivalent price is $286.33 (divide A-share price by 1,500).
Ironically, crypto currency is nothing but private money creation. Including Tether, which allows private creation of dollars!
I appreciate this comment. We can develop these little ingrained patterns that keep things 'optimal' and at the same time think about future us having to read the code again.

I know that even 1 week future me appreciates readable code at the expense of a _little_ bit of performance.
Agreed, but I think we have to accept that the mainstream definition of hacking is, "doing something you aren't allowed to do to a computer or computer system."
I guess I didn't explain myself well. "Starting fresh" can mean two things.

1) Adapting to a new system that has changes outside your control. This is the case of a major version update in MacOS.

2) Reverting to default settings and re-configuring the environment.

In the case of 1 I am disrupted because I have to learn new ways to do what I could already do before.

In the case of 2 I am disrupted because I have to repeat configuration I already performed.

The context of this thread is choosing 2 on a regular basis just for the sake of doing it. By choosing to always accept defaults you are effectively maintaining a stable system, which is the opposite of what the second situation advocates.
Are you being sarcastic? You cannot see consequences in the fact of a gigantic tech company having access to: searches, emails, attachments, photos, videos, location, messages, calls, apps installed and their usage, sleep schedules, driving styles, medical records, and about 1001 things I forgot to mention?
Pay more money.

Literally it’s that simple.

If you can’t match contract day rates, then your business model is not working in the current market.
Because they don't want to pay market rates.
We do fuck all about carbon dioxide killing our planet, but are "extremely concerned" about the fact that people will have to spend some money on one building. That's as close to "non-concern" as we can have.
> Despite their whining, most people want free stuff, and ads are almost free (a small attention cost).

> Most consumers cannot afford to pay for software or news subscriptions.

> Don’t work for adtech, block all your ads, pay for everything.

All this is false.

Growth hacking has created products that are addictive and which people don't really need. These are then justified by saying that consumers can't afford to pay for them (fact is that they wouldn't do because deep down they know they're not worth much). And in the meantime society suffers the consequences whilst FB etc profits hugely.
I think GP's point is this:

1) You cannot have cryptocurrency without the web, so it is web tech.

2) Computational cryptography long predates the web. It would be more accurate to say "the web is cryptography tech", if anything.
>$50 for a hub plus $15 per motor or sensor

For the kind of thing they're doing (hub connected to peripherals over a UART connection or similar bus) this is actually a pretty hard price to beat building everything from scratch. (you can, but you'll need to be pretty optimal and probably need a 3d printer and ICSP for whatever micro controller you want to use for each peripheral.) Plus all the time you take re-implementing stuff is time you don't spend on your project.

It's a bummer it looks like the largest hub only has 6 I/O ports, it wouldn't be crazy to design something compatible with the peripherals that had more.
But as previous posters cite, Ballentine covers this as a special case and it isn’t electromagnetic.
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Yeah I could think of multiple answers to my questions, which is why I asked.
> It's when technical people look at what seems like a groundbreaking idea, seem unimpressed, and say "couldn't you just _____"

Sounds like HN's reaction to cryptocurrencies
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every cycle has a new "trick", e.g. in 2017 ICO's to tokenise everything, in 2020/2021 IDO's, yield farming and NFTs.
It does discuss feature flags and touched on navigation approaches and the challenges with these. It doesn't touch on coordinators per say: it's one of the many patterns you can use.
You can't. Did you lose anything? Did one spoofed message have any bearing on the result?
Maybe if people came together it would be different, but whoever made the decision could say that they knew these messages were off and had no effect on the result.
Bullshit. Targeting depressed teenagers with self-esteem issues is not the same thing as selling a car.

You cannot be in good-faith with these kinds of arguments.
Another one is finding a pattern.
My argument is for eating less meat because it costs so much in resources to make. A moratorium can be easier (especially when trying to avoid something unhealthy for me and which I feel compelled to consume), but rather than urge everyone to be vegetarian (consistently 5% of USA population[0]) it makes more sense to set limits for everyone, along with introducing options to help the shift.

[0] podcast: How to Save a Planet, 2021-03-25, The Beef With Beef
Thanks for the reply.

At a basic level there isn’t anything you can “do” in crypto (outside of gambling / tax evasion / other crime ) that you can’t do in the banking system.

If you are looking for the “wow it can do that!”, it doesn’t really exist.

Crypto offers a way for more companies to provide the services banks and exchanges provide. I wouldn’t say anyone could do it due to the technical knowledge required.

Crop futures - this was an example. More useful stuff will come along.

My Linux analogy is that anyone who I spoke to in the 90s “I might install Linux” would laugh. Why not just use Windows. What can Linux do that Windows can’t? It’s for geeks etc. It then found a use case in powering most of the web by being the OS of choice for web servers.

I think this is a good analogy because Linux still requires you to be technical and Ethereum will require this, but companies will build services to make it easier for ordinary people to get use of the system.

Business is all about trust so a completely trustless and still useful outcome is probably not possible.

I probably am not explaining this well enough and that’s my fault. It might be a tacit thing where if you use cryptos a little bit (in a playful way, small amounts of money) and keep an open mind you start to understand. Once you’ve done an exchange of one token to another with no central party, no company involved in that exchange with the price figured out by a contract no one can manipulate, to me that’s when you feel the potential of the tech.

That said there are so many problems with crypto it has some way to go. Number one is carbon emissions, number two is scams and number three is technical difficulty. I think these could be solved longer term.
Court authorizes IRS to seek identities of taxpayers who used cryptocurrency
Ask HN: *ly(:?.com?)
Most of the domains ending with *ly(:?.com?) immediately cause a perhaps non-deserved mental immune reaction in me.

Like grammarly, literably and countless others (visual.ly, embed.ly, cutt.ly etc.pp.). From my POV a complicated, hard-to-spell domain name is more credible and peer-communicable as one of those machine-learning optimized, bullshit-bingo-feeling inducing streamlined domain names telling nothing else as "yes, we know what is trendy and what's easily SEOifiable", signalling on the same frequency "hey, we're incompetent and we can't market our product by means of content and/or provided value,not to speak of actual functionality besides being an MVP".

Is it just me feeling this way?
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I'm just asking how so though? Does Clubhouse display a trail of who invited who publicly and also Clubhouse admins are actually going through and booting people that invited the "wrong" person (other than the normal stuff like that every site must do to remove networks of spam accounts/bots)?

No one "vouched" for you to join Gmail, the invite system was just a way of limiting the initial load or viral way of having people advertise it to each other depending on who is telling the story. I've never heard it as being to done to make sure the users were "vouched" for.
(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Timescale, I didn't work directly on this feature but have some knowledge of what it does).

I'm not 100% sure I understand exactly what you're asking, but, perhaps some more info will be useful. First off, the goal with this isn't just to find the next unique item, it's to find the set of all the unique items, so you'd need to iterate the search, which is basically what the skipscan is doing internally.

Internally, the index is using something like a binary search (it's a btree, so slightly different, IIRC) to skip to the next unique item. A lot of the work here was in teaching the planner / executor to actually do that rather than the simpler, less efficient way that PG usually does it (brute force unique over a full scan). There's some more complexity on top of that in terms of teaching it to do that over all the chunks and then combine the results (because each has a separate index) and some more complexity in terms of knowing when you can use multi-column indexes and the like, but at its most basic level, it basically is using some sort of binary search to find the next item. But perhaps I'm missing what you're asking, feel free to clarify if I can better help here...
Your position is very tenuous, based on a reasonable reading of the definitions of "coup" and "attempt"; but even if GP changed their wording to suit you (e.g. "We just easily stopped a political riot") it seems to me that their point (that the powerful people who planned it escaped punishment in that case, and therefore will in this case) would stand unaltered.

Also, when introducing a hot-button political topic (especially in a thread about a different hot-button political topic), it would be nice to do it in a friendly way, i.e. without orating upon the sheer quantity of ignorance it takes to disagree with you.
The problem is that it's still an open-loop system. Central banks for currencies that are well-accepted internationally manage the money supply to avoid excessive deflation or inflation, and the money supply has to grow with the size of the economy. If Dogecoin is slightly inflationary that might be an improvement, but there's still no feedback.
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you can get really small dc-dc converters that are suitable for the power draw of a pi. Take input of 12, 24, 36, 48VDC, whatever, convert it to 5VDC and power the header pins of a pi.

take a look in some of the subsections here: https://www.pololu.com/category/131/step-down-voltage-regula...
Yes. I guess that's covered by "it's probably ok"... I'm going to play in godbolt now.
This doesn’t check out. If I was paid $500K to work, and $600K to not work, I would choose not to work. The absolute numbers don’t matter for the incentives to be inverted. Low wages are an unrelated problem.

Suggesting the US is not a first world country further weakens this entire comment.
> heliocentrism has no practical affect on life even today

I disagree. These discoveries (showing that we aren't "special" or at the "center") had huge religious/philosophical implications and through some intermediate steps ultimately led to the kinds of secular states we (most of us) spend our every day in practice.
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Wow.

Is there a resource (book, videos, ...) that takes this approach to teaching it (and accessible to/understandable by a motivated layman?)
Is it really conceivable that the Web would have been stillborn without ads, or with limits to the externalities of ads? Does "software will eat the world" only mean "software will eat the world if it can sell ads?"

I'm pretty sure ads don't support the cell phone industry, or at least didn't support its exponential growth phase, yet the middle class and poor have cell phones.
What exactly is "adherence to public-domain/open-source implementations" in context of this specific operating system?
> It's all about Simple Harmonic Oscillation, except using complex numbers

And both of those are among the details which can be safely ignored. The only math you really need in order to understand QM conceptually is linear algebra. (And actually, even the harmonic oscillators are not that difficult to understand. If you understand Euler's identity, you're 90% of the way there.)
-O2 turns it into a "jump if nonzero" without any extra annotations: https://www.godbolt.org/z/j9dfrbosv
wasnt it obvious to some people back then who the real companies were, and all it took was everyone else catching up to speed to understand who the real companies were?
What's fascinating about crypto, whether you are a fan of any particular coin or not, is that we get to rapidly iterate and experiment on everything from Keynesian to Austrian to MMT to Monetarism economics to varying degrees in real-time. We can afford to try all the experiments simultaneously to see which ones succeed over the long haul.
> Say you have a table with two rows

You mean two columns, right?
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> With gratitude as a dominant force in ones's life, one is able to step back and see pictures other than what one wishes to see. One is able to stop buying into hysteria.

But... this doesn't apply to looking at China, only to looking at the US, for some reason?

This is a very confusing conversation, you seem to be switching the parameters of what we're talking about.

We started out talking about the general dangers of a superpower in the world, especially to people not citizens of that superpower. Is that still what we're talking about? Are the purported invention of air conditioning or the internet in the US relevant to that conversation? Is "gratitude as a dominant force in one's life" relevant to it? How does "gratitude as a dominant force in your life" effect your view of China? How should it effect the view of someone in a country getting significant investment or foreign aid (or cough vaccines) from China? Are you asking us to have a different attitude toward evaluating the danger of the US as a superpower to the rest of the planet vs evaluating the danger of China as a superpower to the rest of the planet? With one we should center gratitude and avoid hysteria, but with the other we should.... center hysteria and avoid gratitude?