skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because in this "machine automated society" your supply chain is also coming from "automated" production and thus you have equivalent access to the same-priced goods as any competitor.

And before you scream about this being pedantic, perhaps first reconsider the original premise that you are proposing: automation taking over things and reducing job availability to nil. It's a fantastical premise to set.

Your reaction is only validation of my argument: you are actually arguing for some sort of inevitability of consolidation of the economy as if it is absolutely unavoidable. This is literally the same argument as Marx, disguised.

EDIT: you are also being profoundly intellectually dishonest when you do not acknowledge the plethora of existing SMBs that already compete against larger corporations (usually at local levels).
This is exactly what I'd do if I wanted to expand my cloud defense revenue. Amazon clearly stated that's a major goal of theirs, they are in hot competition with Microsoft, and Oracle/IBM want in too (both those company have long and deep relationships with defense). Google, obviously, showed itself out the door with its public statements about Maven.
Any chef with any talent could use meat that was cooked literally a day ago in any number of delicious dishes for actual people.
To be fair the content is probably produced by a separate team which is not maintaining the actual website.

Law experts don't code webpages.
But this is embarrassing nevertheless.
Cigarette in mouth on the uptake adds to the absurd coolness of the ordeal.
QNAP Q’center Post-Auth Remote Code Execution via QPKG
I wouldn't expect many in the 90% to buy an expensive iPhone in the first place. It's a narrow range that would buy one but not a replacement.

Regardless, kudos to them for persevering. As another user said, many people would assume the device to be inoperable, even if findable, so not try.
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#magnetfishing for more of it
"Self-replicating probes could exhaustively explore a galaxy the size of the Milky Way in as little as a million years" - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox]

The possibility of these things being extraterrestrial in origin does not seem that farfetched, honestly. If you assume something like a Von Neumann probe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#Vo...] to be possible (and I totally think one day we would make those), then the idea that someone else has already made one an that they are sitting around watching us, is not something that should be so easily dismissed.

No telling what these are, but I think the people assuming that some how human visual confirmation, video confirmation, multiple radar confirmation (on ship and in air), as well as Infrared confirmation of the same should shut up the "it's a camera artifact" or "sailor spinning tales" folks. Anyone care to do the math on how such a byzantine fault tolerant system could fail in so many different distinct cases over the last decade?
Well, yeah, there does have to be a public mailing list.

My point was that there are often public mailing lists, where engineers with real engineering problems could discuss those problems with the engineers responsible for the product/service; and yet the engineer with the problem nevertheless doesn't even think of using the mailing list to reach out, but instead decides to go through regular customer-service support channels to get their problem solved.
The difference is that polaroids are useful for legitimate purposes.

Every conversation I've ever had with a crypto purveyor, even as a person who has worked for crypto companies before, always comes down to "crypto is a good thing because it helps people commit financial crimes". There are no other benefits.
Forming the WebExtensions Community Group
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To be fair, HN is also confused why you wouldn't just eat cake.
Multipass: Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation
You can have weak inequalities in the preferences over alternatives -- e.g. you're indifferent between all rankings where your preferred candidate is number 1
I visited Boom at the Denver suburban airport facility in 2017 as part of a MIT alumni club tour. They had a 1/3 size mockup then- no passenger seats. I wasn't sure if that was the one they were going to use for flight testing or just for show.

A point was most of the design was done done and verified by computer. The Concorde and many of the early military supersonics were designed by sliderule and wind tunnel models, just like Apollo spacecraft.
AC are particularly disgusting, because their execs spent the last year posting sob stories about how the Canadian government was forcing them to lay off their brave staff (going so far as to convince the people they were firing to post on linkedin that it was all the government’s fault)
People in remote areas would have an incentive to invest in their own roads or perhaps use the same funds to innovate with other modes of transport.

If overall the costs are lower than taxation, it stands to reason that someone would invest time or money in solving the problem.

I'm not necessarily an absolutist, but if we're discussing the principles involved, observing the increased costs and often lower quality of state infrastructure isn't enough. The problem and key distinction for proponents of liberty is being violently coerced into paying for these services.

Even if you can make the argument that there might be potentially underserved areas, can you justify the use of force? If so, can you say that with a purely state run road system, there will be no underserved areas?

Getting back to the rejection of absolutism, I'm not convinced either system will be perfect. Both have trade offs. We live in an imperfect world. Utopia isn't a practical comparison.
If you are making €200,000 per year, your time is worth around €100 per hour.

Thus if this is going to take more than 10 hours, it is not worth your time.
Same in Germany. I never considered magnet fishing growing up there and now I remember why: it was super common for WW2 explosives to be found that didn't explode on impact but had corroded over time.
He was offered a 6 month sentence in a low security prison. He could have served that sentence before the trial was even set to begin and resumed his life as programmer and activist - reputation burnished by his conviction, if anything. Suicide is not a rational solution for anyone in that situation.
> If we want to go down this route, then we could argue that every platform censors content. Hacker News censors content when it removes rule-breaking content.

Yes, that's true. But for most platforms, like Hacker News, that's not a concern, because they don't have that many users.

> The radio station down the road is censoring you because they won't play your music.

That's not really what censorship means, because the radio station only has limited time, and they have to choose what music to play. (This limit on time also creates competition: Since one radio station can't play everything, there will always be many different radio stations, they same isn't true for social networks.)
The so-called "data economy" has improved our lives in immeasurable ways. I can more easily discover products that are relevant to me. Deserving innovations are granted a platform for quicker adoption. The world at large is more efficient, because relevant products and services are being delivered more quickly and efficiently than ever before.

The author is extremely paranoid. She uses the word "should" a whole lot, but does not back up her dictatorial statements with any reasoning.

This article has failed to scare me as intended.
I wonder if a swarm of drones can move faster than a single drone, using the technique like the catepillars who crawl over each other in a leap-frogging fashion to move at roughly 2x the speed of an individual.
I read much more book content in Japanese, a language I've been learning the past ten years, than English.

It helps that I can finish an English novel in a single day while I can pace myself in a foreign language.

I simply cannot stop myself from reading a story in English and it comes at a severe detriment to productivity and sleep.
Treasure Hunt 2021
Sure but what's the exponent?
Why floating torsos without limbs? Could they have designed something less creepy to talk to?
Think of it like startups that get off the ground and never find market fit/fold. We have many many startups announce, very few significant successes.

It is often for similar reasons - seems promising, but once you really dig into it there is a more economical alternative, or there is some difficulty in scaling/productionizing the process somewhere, or no one involved is able to connect with the right manufacturer/funder/customer/sales person because life.

It does open up new ‘hmm, what if’ options for further research though (as unlike many startups the things learned are often written up and eventually shared in a way that can be used by others later). If patents are acquired, in 20-30 years that may make it a now solvable problem for someone else as they can leverage the work without paying the cost.

But yes, if you’re looking at any of these announcements as something useful to you in the future instead of like a startup talking about the cool product they’ll eventually build - it’s going to be a rough ride.
> At this point, we really have to give props to the iPhone Hardware Engineering team: We were able to recover the device in perfect mint condition and without water damage. The new Ceramic Shield Glass really held up to the strong forces of the magnet and junk in the canal, and the IP68 water resistance is mind-blowing. And last but not least: MagSafe seems to be a perfect tool to recover lost iPhones from the water.
He was offered a 6 month sentence in a low security prison
As a former QA Eng, this is pretty spot on. We use to have a lot more lead time in doing manual testing and catching things during feature testing and then adding to our regression suites. Nowadays the mindset of continuous delivery is to just fail forward and rollback or feature flag something off if it doesn't work. There is still manual testing in teams that are more waterfall and probably dealing with more impactful issues that make manual testing a priority, like payments.
I believe the article clarifies this - the "no bonuses" rule didn't exist when Booking.com claimed this aid.

The rule existed for the second tranche of aid, which Booking didn't claim.
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“No handshakes, please”: The tech industry is terrified of the coronavirus (2020)
MCU Shortage Cripples Tesla Production, TSMC Ramps Up MCU Production
I disagree, the shell is in the best situation to do something about it. Or at least it would be, if there was a consistent way for programs to report to the shell how their argument parsing works.
He was offered a 6 month sentence in a low security facility
There was a need to rely on the boy who cried wolf at first, since he was the only one out in the fields.

There was never a need to rely on Trump. This was a pandemic. Basic journalistic curiosity and integrity should have meant that our "free" press should have been all over figuring out how COVID-19 came to be. Instead, they played politics with information that they could have easily looked into.
In terms of hollywood and pop culture, UFO 100% means alien. It's a great example of a piece of niche jargon getting a non-niche meaning, which ends up kinda taking over the word.
That's good to keep in mind. No IE support for `appearance` but it can be used in such a way that it's just a more ordinary input in that browser.

There are still more things you can do within a label. This is a good article on improving methods of visually hiding the actual inputs.

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/inclusively-hiding-and-sty...
Any power user using Firefox without TreeStyle Tabs¹ is simply wasting their time.

[^1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Someone who is hoping to get a government contract to track UFOs is probably paying a lot of money for publicity.
A good n-gate style description of their business model would be "uber for ubers."
Nowadays it definitely takes an effort to restart. Much less or none to keep going.

I recommend time blocking (for this and other things). What works for me now is non fiction with the morning coffee, and fiction at bedtime.
> Alexei Andrescu

Andrei Alexandrescu
It'd be interesting to see a performance benchmark of the various solutions, including ones that don't use lookup tables.

The results of such a benchmark would probably heavily depend on whether the lookup table is allowed to be in the CPU caches.
I didn't read maturity from this. I read timidness, conflict aversion, lack of standing up for oneself. Someone touring the world making hundreds of thousands of dollars, demoing your own software and claiming its their own? Violating your license setup, the foundation of OSS? I would have spelled it out as clearly as possible, including the legal implications, spelled out my assumption this person was claiming they worked hard on these tools when instead they did minimal stealing, and either talked about legal follow-up action or financial follow-up action. This is a time where anger, frustration, and being stern are justified.
Interestingly, they didn't just block the query string, it appears that they purged their image results based on some generalization of tank man. I noticed that "tiennamin square man" doesn't return any pictures of the scene. However, the purge didn't hit the "suggested image" thumbnails.
From February 2020. Interesting to look back to then, see what we already knew, what we assumed, and what we were totally wrong about.
The author of this article, Carissa Véliz, also wrote Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Power-Should-Take-Control/dp/...
LR BLE (900 MHz) is interesting and the band I worked with more-so than 2.4 GHz because its range was far superior.

What we need is Tile Ultra or AirTag+: Underwater edition using 1.85 or 3.75 MHz. Or sonic pinging. :)
[flagged] on submissions nearly always means users flagged it.

This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag.

Edit: details of what happened are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397230
Given the multi core, NUMA and Spectre/meltdown reality we’re living in, and the clear benefits of the io_uring approach, why not just have a dedicated core(s) to handle “interrupts” which are nothing more than entries in a shared memory table?
I agree with that and this is my thinking behind it.

(1) The number of filters they've passed through without destroying themselves suggests that they've overcome tribalism. The late-stage species most prone to violence are also the ones most prone to self destruction before they developed the tech to traverse space and get to Earth.

We don't have good predictions on the destructive potential of future tech, but suppose that tech advances in 1000 years means that every individual can easily make a weapon as destructive as a nuke. If such advances are possible, only the species predisposed to peace will survive.

(2) Resource abundance from technology removes the selective pressure towards tribal conflict, in the same way that it achieved that for the evolution of bonobos. They are genetic bonobos, not chimps, and violence is anathema to their genetic predisposition (assuming they're biological). Aliens may not have been that way in their ancestral past, but they would evolve in that direction post abundance.
I think you are right - this was a brain dump of some things I've been thinking about, specifically on how the fight against cookie tracking is making centralization worse and companies like Facebook more powerful. This article generically criticizes both, but I think there's actually a tradeoff here, and not making the distinction may lead to bad policies
I remember a time when the virtue that separated the U.S. from, say, East Germany, was the assurance that your library borrowing history was sacrosanct.
I watched the first part of this link, where he covers the 'tic tac' FLIR video, saying that it's probably a commercial aircraft far away.

As others have stated, what makes this particular case so compelling isn't the video, it's the testimony of the people who were there, people who have a lot of credibility.
I have said this elsewhere on this thread, but just to reemphasize: the person that Brendan met had absolutely nothing to do with DTrace -- to the point that when he told this story to me, I didn't even recognize the name. (And can't now remember it.) The DTrace team was very small (there were three of us), and the community of early DTrace users inside of Sun -- the earliest folks who could rightfully call themselves DTrace experts -- can be seen in the acknowledgements section of our 2004 USENIX paper.[0]

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
4 year old spherical drone. Have the leds emit light to confuse.

https://www.livescience.com/58928-spherical-drone-display.ht...

I imagine the tech has improved some since
The "innovation subsidies" are well know in the Netherlands as another tax stealing mechanism. Nobody takes them serious. The same as the intellectual patent laws in NL and Luxembourg. For Booking.com apparently most of their back-end is still Perl....
I think all your points are pretty strange, but this one I don't even understand:

> - They pretend to have all these problems hosting apps that are somehow solved by fees, while completely ignoring all the free apps that clearly tax that same infrastructure.

Clearly they are not saying that each individual app has to bear its costs, obviously free apps are subsidised by paid apps. And they've never said they are "having problems". They are saying that they are providing a valuable service and want to get paid for that.

> - They conveniently ignore the absurd amount of money they must be making from scams that are constantly top-grossing to add insult to injury.

Do you seriously think that Apple wouldn't prefer a world without scam apps, and without revenues from scam apps. It's very obvious that the presence of scam apps hurts their brand, not to mention their main argument for the walled garden, much more than however many hundreds of million they earn from scam apps, if that.

Apple categorically does not want to make money from scams, even the most rabid Apple hater should acknowledge that.
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Co-terrestrial civilization is interesting, but it's difficult to understand how there would be no physical evidence.

The ocean would be most likely (subterranean would be much more visible for any access points, by satellite and land-mapping LIDAR, or seismographs detecting underground industrial activity). But we get detritus washing up all the time on shores; for example, Japanese debris from the earthquake landed on western North American shores.

How does an aquatic super-civilization exist for hundreds (presumably thousands) of years with absolutely zero debris arriving on shores, or any evidence of mining or other industrial activity that would be required?

Interstellar seems more likely but of course we have the challenges of time and distance to explain.
Miner Collusion and the Bitcoin Protocol [pdf]
Efficiency is not always a good thing. We’re not machines and we shouldn’t aspire to some Wall-E existence where we do nothing but consume without any inconvenience.
Also, at least in American English, “ordinance” is not a mass noun. An ordinance is a piece of legislation. So I would say “an old ordinance can also be troublesome…”
Lots of results for 'tink man', 'tonk man' and 'tenk man': mainly tanks and men.

Zero results for 'tank man'.
What are the official definitions of the varying degrees of food processing? When does food become processed and then move into "highly processed" and then on to "ultra processed".

High fat and high calorie doesn't seem clear cut and scientific enough.
This is, of course, only true if you can bill someone for those ten hours.
They could stick to ANSI C.
Or even just a constitutional amendment that specifically defines rights of privacy.
> The concept you are looking for here is algebraic closure.

Yes, I know that the complex numbers are an ACF.

Why apply the Cayley-Dickson construction [1] only once? The complex numbers may be an algebraically closed field, but they aren't a Central Simple Algebra over the Reals [2]. Apply the Cayley-Dickson construction again and you get the quaternions, which are real central simple. Apply it a third time and you get the octonions. You can keep doing this over and over and over getting more and more closure properties...

> Without complex numbers, you wind up only being able to describe real exponential responses

Why can't you describe them using pairs of real numbers in polar coordinates?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_simple_algebra
Never understood why ransomware didn’t use more anonymous crypto currencies like Monero or ZCash.

Doesn’t that better protect the scammers from law enforcement?
Either they sell the data, or they keep it protected as a fuck you to google (aka apple) or they potentially get a data leak because they aren't following best practices in the slightest (aka Experian).

I remember being out of college and finally being able to buy adobe products to do photography and then Adobe got hacked and my un/pw was out in the wild. It was safer to pirate their stuff and trust some crazy keygen software that's definitely doing something nefarious cuz at least I could run that in a VM.
How did they encourage dirt cheap apps?
If you were to read the site guidelines, you would have a clear idea of how to get my attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What a complete and utter nightmare.

You say that you think this would lead to a better society. That aside, how would you personally feel if this vision was to become reality?

For me, I’m certain my mind being totally exposed like that would lead to debilitating mental illness and possibly even the loss of the will to live. I can’t imagine human beings, either as individuals or a collective, being fundamentally equipped to deal with such a thing.
Still seems like a long way to get to 'i don't like it'.

I have trouble believing anyone pushing the CCFA somehow cared enough to be disingenuous about it... to me that require more than a randomly applied label.
for me it works such that if I search for text results and switch to images, the 4 are shown. But they disappear afer any refresh of the page, no matter safe search settings
What does it mean to be first time buyers?

Such projects are inherently unfair, corrupt and introduce a privileged class.

It squeezes the working class harder. The money is best spent developing new areas away from the hot real estate.
I'm curious, can insurance companies get access to this information to potentially affect policy rates?

That would be insane. If they know how sedentary you are, or if you aren't sleeping well, or if you are driving too fast, driving at dangerous hours, or if you hang out at the bar too much ... can you imagine the implications?

It gets even wilder with things like Fitbit Charge 4 where this data, in the hands of data brokers, can include data like your resting heart rate, your SpO2 levels, exactly where/when you walk.