skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until the only way to get <app/game> that is either necessary or useful is via another store. e.g.: a transportation app, or something used to interact with family.

I really dislike this constant refrain, because as soon as more stores can be integrated, all bets are off. Everybody who says this gives off the impression they aren't thinking more than 5 minutes into the future and we start seeing stuff like Epic having exclusive games, or Origin, or whatever else. And you better believe someone like Facebook and/or Amazon is going to take advantage of being able to build their own store.
The author of the tweet also wrote a major NYT story about the topic earlier this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972121

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-goog...

The story focuses on a software engineer who discovered that he was the slander target of someone who had been fired by his father 30 years ago. He found her identity and took her to court in 2018. But the libelous Google results didn't change. The NYT story even ends with this:

> Yet even that hasn’t solved the problem. See for yourself: Do a Google search for “Guy Babcock.”

A day after the NYT story, those results disappeared. Here's what they looked like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25973045

If a software engineer with the resources to find and take an anonymous libeler didn't know that Google could manually intervene and remove results that listed him as a pedophile, I'm assuming the vast majority of people are equally unaware.
It's comma soup, there's no way to parse this reliably.
I've been using i3 up until recently. I'm trying out Gnome because it works out-of-the-box and e.g. Sway does not. Yes the software churn is rather worrying. I hope they learn from the mistakes.
Toby, I haven't laughed so hard in a month.
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The Nazis’ Nightmarish Plan to Starve the Soviet Union (2017)
Yeah it was taught very strangely IMO in my schools. There was always such a goofy focus on the dumbest science fair projects that were probably just as likely to reach a completely wrong conclusion instead of relating the process to the real world and how we as a society continue to learn how the world works in any scenarios newer than Redi’s meat / maggots experiment from 1668!
I think Trader Joes does that too?
i am sure they will also remove stuff, but most ppl such as employers just do a google search
If it's an internal corporate system where all the users sit at assigned machines and have fixed IP addresses, yes you can do stuff like IP address checking.

Otherwise you probably need short-lived cookies that get renewed by the client in the background, with a hard expiry of some reasonable "work day" length such as 8, 12, 16 hrs. Then even if it's stolen, there's a fairly short window of time that it's useful to anyone.
I personally also find https://hisgis.nl/ an interesting resource, especially if you want to know about the 1832 kadaster maps, which are far more detailed that the maps that topotijdreis shows of that period. I do not know if this is available for the whole of the Netherlands, but the maps of Overijssel are available.
Synthetic Messenger: Botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news
With the exception of wait times for in-person service, I don't really get the impression that the USPS does a worse job than any other delivery service. Mail arrives consistently, on time, and at competitive prices.

> Why should package and letter delivery be a public service?

Because everyone needs equal access to those services. Everyone, no exceptions, regardless of how profitable it is or not.
Cryptos are not even a single narrative, if I wanted to be really negative, I'd say it's more like a tumor. A wild bunch of slightly similar yet always evolving narratives wrap in thin sheet of fad.

95% of it is superstition.

It's a really strange bridge of mainstream / tech and finance, where very few people have a serious clue.
So let's do the rough math and figure out the comparison

300k per day is around 100 million transactions per year, three orders of magnitude less than Visa.

BTC uses 110 terawatt hours per year right now[0], which is 396,000,000 gigajoules, a three order of magnitude difference in the other direction. Assuming everything scales nicely, if Bitcoin were the size of visa it would use ~6 orders of magnitude more energy.

OK, so that is way worse than I thought. I'm still not sold on the idea that it's a bad thing, but it's nice to put numbers to the situation.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/hbr.org/amp/2021/05/how-much-en...
"Men are losers, women are misguided."
enterprise support contracts provide access to early release builds / feature flags / etc, or require signing up to be a design partner (ex: logo + joint talks)
Searched Google and DDG for "I don't care about gender identity"

google top: reddit post about "What are you if you just don't give a fuck about gender and you have no kind of dysphoria?"

DDG top: blog post titled "Don’t care about gender Self-ID? Here’s why you should"
About the same thing for USA: $70k is median household income, $300k is top 5% threshold. Give or take.
I personally find the Generalized Monty Hall problem as unintuitive as the original one.
But I belive that I found a batter way to make it intuitive (at least for people that have heard about classic and conditional probability). And it event worked on one of my friends :)

If Your first choice was lucky and two goats remained in other gates than Monty does not change anything by showing You the goat in one of them (it't the same as if Monty selected random gate).

Things becomes intresting if You was unlucky and selected Goat. Monty MUST show You the other goat (because there is only one available for him to select). And thus he introduces information to otherwise random selection (it stops beeing random).

And by doing this he eliminates for You conditional possiblity of selecting second goat when You selected one in first round (and in this conditional scenariu swiching is sure bet which changes the overall odds to 2/3)
You might have better luck watching their youtube videos to find out. This one from March says English, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin (2), Portuguese, Cantonese, and I think also Japanese although he did not say as much: https://youtu.be/Z71md2rjGjE?t=494
There are a handful of non TJs brand items. Not many, but some.
Excellent points. Many real-world problems that people are seeking to solve with a blockchain are often not good fits for the unique attributes that a blockchain has. Many of these problems are best suited to continued centralized administration, or targeted improvements without changing the entire governance model.
The point is to create a predictable period in which downtime, if any, would occur during
So cookie gets them into Slack. But how were they able to get into the network, spin up a vm and connect to p4? That doesn't happen with a cookie and MFA token.

They either had a username/password combo already, or support also allowed them to reset the compromised users password (ex through a one time link to set a new pw, or perhaps more egregiously "here is your new password: welcome2EA".

A video call and a few questions could have stopped this. Or a password reset flow that requires some sort of previous information. Would love more details here.
Even they show now popup and permission on mac. It made lots of app and developers living miserable. They are showing popups for permission every where.

Thats why there is no income now for indie developers in appstore
There's definitely a tension between bringing money and people into communities that need them and bringing a lot of money and people and different preferences into communities in a way that makes them less good for the people already there.
Correct. Keynesian economics is a fraud we're taught to disguise the fact that we're being robbed. You don't need an inflationary currency for a currency to work. Gold and silver worked just fine for thousands of years, and only ran into problems when corrupt governments and banks printed more paper receipts than they had reserves. Central banking just legalized this practice for private profit, and then the peg to gold and silver was eliminated once they had monopoly control.
They kept your clothes too?
If so, I hope they provided some substitute clothing, so you could avoid getting arrested when returning the car.
You don't think page space matters? How many people go page 30 of results?
What eBook reader do you use if I may ask?
And that disconnect between economics and what’s environmentally manageable is at the very heart of a lot of modern problems.

I often wonder, if there will ever be a way to make that widening chasm disappear, other than going back to living in caves …
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Kinda like a decentralized Dropbox except the data is actually stored in a virtual container on your machine. That makes it censorship-resistant and cuts away the single point of failure, like ones where outages of Google affect a significant part of the global infrastructure. These containers are encrypted by default and access to them can be shared (key exchange) or be made public.
They want to decouple user data from the operating system it's stored on.
The goal is making it possible to store different data in different containers (think of them as folders) and being able to clearly define the access to each container.
It solves a lot of problems with IT security, since it allows a framework (and in the future a user-friendly interface) for everybody to store their valuable data in very secure containers only they have access to (operating system, secret documents, keys) while running pretty much the rest of their system in isolated containers. This way even if you were to download some malware only the container it's running on would be contaminated, unlike nowadays where the hacker gains access to pretty much your whole storage space.
They also define another kind of containers called 'compute manifests' where instances with access can perform computations; as far as I know legacy cloud storages like Google Drive don't allow the user to run executables in them, so that's quite revolutionary.
For instance, look at this sample 3d scanned house: https://matterport.com/en-gb/media/2486. Make sure to switch to the doll-house view from the toolbar. There are many holes in the scan.
> But nothing implies something

Put another way, nothing has absolutely no properties - including the property of being nothing, or empty. If an empty nothing lacks the property of being empty, or nothing, then something must arise.
This is an excellent way to have a LOT of just bad, bad dates. Good luck! I hope you change, for your sake, and for the sake of the people you'll drag through dates.
ON24 does a great job of all things enterprise data-related, but it's very complicated, quite expensive, not self-serve, and in our opinion, the user experience is highly outdated. Their default event pages have a very Web 1.0 feel and showcase this very clearly.

After talking to lots of people over a year, ON24 and GoToWebinar are usually the two players that most people strongly dislike. We believe that innovating on the actual attendee and organizer experience is the right long-term approach instead of merely collecting and analyzing some data points.

I'd recommend trying out Slingshow and comparing the two. It'll take you a couple of minutes to see the differences. We're far from perfect and have more work to do in terms of data, but we think we have something quite unique and delightful.
That argument doesn't make sense. UI has no impact on API compatibility. The only situation in which software would break is if it's doing screen scraping and automated input, in which case that software deserves to break.

Backwards compatibility is not an excuse to allow 20 years of tech debt to accumulate anyway.
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You mean her song about wireless access points?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PlLRUoSukk
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> Wiktionary suggests that the Franks (from whom these derive) themselves were named after a word for "spear"

That is only one possible origin. The other one is "frec" (greedy, bold, brave).
Right, but once you get past that area nobody will question it. In the same way that someone who works for your company on slack pings you, you assume they work for your company.
What are you even talking about?

I just Googled "I don't care about gender identity" and the top results are all agreeing with that statement.

The search is working perfectly. Google isn't inserting any kind of left-wing bias whatsoever. It's finding the same types of pages as DuckDuckGo does as well.

So why are you spreading this misinformation?
The author works on ads, so I can't say I'm surprised.
Agreed. It depends on what you do.

When I ran large-scale Exchange and database systems, we would always get into big fights with the storage people, who believed that SAN disk with performance tiering, replication, etc was the way to solve all problems.

The problem at the time was that the fancy storage cost $40+ Gb/mo and performed like hot garbage because the data didn’t tier well. For email, the “correct” answer in 2010 was local disk or dumb sas arrays with exchange dag.

For databases, the answer was “it depends”. Often it made sense to use the SAN and replication at that layer.
The paper, if anyone wants to save some clicks : https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00990
There should be. You can't guarantee it will always work, but it's certainly possible to encode some fingerprinting into the cookie so that if the fingerprinting no longer matches what the client requesting data from the server looks like, the server throws up a red flag and asks for the authentication challenge response to be repeated.

But no, it sounds like Slack doesn't do that, which is a problem.
Lots of people raised voices but you need to understand they are small and no one wants to fight app while making leaving
Great, thank you for those resources

For followers on, the answer is in section 3.3.2 of the whitepaper (currently page 31) and boils down to:

> A very important feature of the PoU token is that it is designed to not become a speculative crypto asset. As it is permanently locked with the user’s public key, it cannot be transferred and hence traded. While we envision delegation of voting power along the lines of liquid democracy principles, this delegation can always be revoked by the user

so the PoU tokens granted back to the user is actually not related to the monetary relationship between the user and Wildland, but is a side-effect of merely participating in the experiment. Those tokens appear to grant the user voting rights on the product roadmap of Wildland, although it's not obvious how one would "spend" those PoU tokens given that they can't be transferred back to Wildland in order to buy a feature

They talk about it in terms of voting based on the accumulation of PoU, which I think understand, but if Jeff Bezos got to vote 54B times for President and did not have to _spend_ any one of those 54B assets to do so, the country will perpetually do whatever Jeff wants without any real risk of overtaking that king of the hill status
It also subsidizes the use of dirty power sources. The greenwashing of Proof of Work cryptocurrencies is insane. It's using the same amount of electricity as Argentina.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkby7z/a-fossil-fuel-power-p...
This is already a problem. Apple banned WhatsApp for ages just because. So you are no worse off than before. Of course, with a competing store Apple will be less likely to ban things arbitrarily...
Not sure where you live, but 800 sqft condos are going for like $800K here in Toronto.

SFH under 2000 sqft are going for well $1.5M.

Inventory is near all time lows.
That isn't floating points fault, but whoever wrote the buggy parser..

Floating point is overall pretty good, sometimes I wish there was a version without some many ways to store NAN(for 16 bit floats it is so wasteful), and maybe versions of sqrt/div/rcp/rsqrt that would clamp invalid inputs to 0, but other than that it is hard to see how you make any major improvements given the fixed # of bits.

Actually one other possible improvement would be a way to request the hardware to dither when rounding down to the fixed bit count, although I'm not sure how it could do anything besides pure white noise, but better than nothing..
So they've banned people (who would have done it for free) from clearing out dead wood, overgrowth and underbrush but now will send in goats they have to manage. Does California land (mis)management use There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly as guide for their management practices?
you're putting yourself at risk of split-brain though (or downtime due to fail-over (or the lack of it)).

In either case what you're describing isn't really the 'cloud' alternative.
I haven’t used it myself, but I believe Simple Emacs Spreadsheets lets you write formulas in emacs lisp.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ses/inde...
This is an example of a large central authority censoring information.

How does the notion of a purely distributed, unregulated, uncensorable, blockchain-backed internet handle "revenge porn" or other genuinely harmful content?

An argument I hear from the crypto community is that blockchain is good because it enables freedom of speech that can't be banned by governments or other central authorities.

The crypto community needs to address the other side of that coin too. Are there circumstances when something should be banned, and how does that work on a blockchain?
> I think we should just have some pretty clear literature that if you modify a device, the manufacturer is not responsible for any injuries it might cause you.

That's not nearly nuanced enough. Manufacturers should still be responsible unless they can prove you caused the failure. We currently require this standard for something as simple warranty coverage, we ought to require it for something as severe as death.
> I'd suspect this has a lot of to with women being in the workforce meaning men are less required to work relentlessly.

Afaik, career men working hours went up after women went to work. The culture of overwork went up.
Bad editing on my part ;)

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Seignorage revenues are distributed amongst ordinary people borrowing money who benefit from lower interest rates rather than being captured by those who own gold mines. Takes a remarkable degree of cognitive dissonance to argue granting them to the latter group would be a more progressive approach.
So we make it free until verified. Problem solved, filters for frauds, prolongs a few lives, ends pointless suffering in others, and creates a huge block of efficacy data. Win/win
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we HAVE right to repair on cars, and we've had it for decades. it's why the OBD-II port is standardized and mandated. it's why you can buy tools built only by the auto manufacturers for working on their own cars. it's why auto manufacturers are required to sell every part and every tool to end customers for at least 10 years after a model year is no longer manufactured. it's why third-party replacement parts are available AT ALL.

people forget all this. this is the same thing people want for farm vehicles and personal electronics.

we got it done for cars and trucks in the late 1980s. I don't understand why it's so hard to get lawmakers on the side of the customer --their constituents-- today.
> The economic plays a big role, but there’s a tendency nowadays to call the root problem for everything economic

As with everything on the internet (it sadly seems), there is a necessity for nuanced position. Perhaps, economic and cultural factors are playing a self-reinforcing and thus compounding effect on our society?

There are also the non-cultural and non-economic factors such as declining testosterone levels. This could have profound emergent economic and cultural implications that we have not even begun to calculate.
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> forget about dating until early 30s

I don't know... I'm not sure most women would be comfortable dating a man in his early 30's who'd never had a relationship of any kind...
For people who haven't dealt with this - a good encryption scheme produces output which you can't tell apart from a purely random stream of bits - it has very high entropy, and is therefore not compressible.
So worst case scenario we end up with walled gardens, which is where we are now.
That might be true at some companies, but has not been my experience at 3 different companies.

> And in all but the smallest companies I've worked for, you needed a card swipe at the door (or an escort) to pass from public to internal areas.

And once you're past the barrier of those internal areas, you're unlikely to be questioned in all but the most strictly controlled places.
Smartscreen is blocking the installer... That's so annoying.
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> but your entire calendar data history has basically been exfiltrated, and could be worth far more than whatever the price of software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476030
More from the ceo of Influence.co here: https://twitter.com/nielr1/status/1403383934394658817

I thought this insight was interesting:
> We’re starting to see lots of derivative creator monetization companies. This makes us think we’ve reached basecamp one on the hike up creator economy mountain and we’ll see a plateauing of innovation for a while. A race to accumulate market share will follow that slow down.
People only care about quality for a very few select goods in their lives. Most of them are of hedonistic nature and/or are publicly visible so are a status symbol.

Everything else will be as cheap as can be bought (so probably 90% of purchases).
Not just in California, but in most of the U.S. and E.U.

But if you weren't yourself negligent, you can recover your losses from an upstream supplier. In practice it's manufacturers or importers who bear most of the insurance cost.

The whole point of the doctrine is that someone injured by a faulty product shouldn't have to hunt down the negligent party, who may have chosen to sell through a byzantine supply chain in order to protect themselves. Similarly, a downstream seller shouldn't be free to benefit from such an arrangement, either. IOW, retailers and other sellers should (and because of strict product liability do) have some responsibility to choose their suppliers wisely.

Note that at least conceptually strict liability lessens the need for centralized product regulation. By making recovery for actual damages more efficient, there's less need for government to try to prevent negligence beforehand. And at least in theory that makes it easier for industry to innovate--to take calculated risks. Alas, the U.S. doesn't embrace this potential as well as it could.
Has there been any culture shock for you? As someone who grew up in NJ, I'm always interested in hearing how other tri-state area people deal with moving from an urban to a rural environment.
That seems very roundabout. "unreal" seems like relatively recent slang to me, just like the "very great" meaning of "fantastic".

"Fantastic" also means "based on fantasy", so the leap to "imaginary" is short.