skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That seems like watching these fewer ads directly on the site,

The ads from Brave are completely separate from the website. They are presented as an OS notification pop-up.

> Somehow there has to be money going into the system that supports its own existance.

Yes, of course. Their revenue coming from the advertisers that get to place ads on their notifications. They only pay to the users a share of this revenue. If for some reason they stop getting advertisers, they will stop paying the users. Simple as that.

> This means that you get potentially even less money.

This is making the very bad assumption that they have a fixed revenue. As their user base grows, more advertisers will be interested in placing ads on their network and their revenue will increase.

> Also, why do they pay out in BAT?

Primarily, because it simplifies the logistics and allows them to escape the regulatory hurdles of having to become licensed money transmitters, and lets them outsource all of that crap to the crypto exchanges. A second-order but also important effect is that it attract users who want to speculate on the token.

> Why should I support someone by using BATs instead of paypaling/patreoning/whatever-elseing him the money directly?

Whynotboth.jpg?

Patreon is not bad, but they are not in a business that can fight surveillance capitalism. Patreon does not have a way to block Facebook from tracking my browsing. Brave does. Patreon does not block the Youtube ads from the people that you want to support. Brave does.
> No it didn't. The only reason the vote was called was because the majority of that government demanded it. The current Conservative PM campaigned for it. There are a long list of senior tory party members who pushed it, dozens of former ministers etc.

I just wanted to butt in about this point. The Lib Dems at the time also wanted a referendum on EU membership if they won, the theory being that if the Lib Dems won, it would signal that a referendum would pass remain very easily and would give a strong mandate to the pro-Europe types for further integration.

Over the last 60 years the Tories and Labour have had a wide range of views on Europe, and with euroscepticism and europhilism and euroantipathy present in both of them in meaningful measures. Certainly some of the tories in government at the time were eurosceptics and wanted the vote because voting out was the eurosceptic wet dream(which came to pass). I don't know David Cameron personally but my impression of him is that on balance he was probably closer to Nick Clegg on Europe than Bojo, else he wouldn't have left so immediately after the vote. I think like Democrats who were rooting for Trump to be the Republican nominee, he was blissfully overconfident in the result and asked a question he really didn't want the actual answer to.
It's pretty easy, having lots of experience with HW-Raid and SW-Raid, software it the way to go because:

1. Do you trust Firmware...i don't, i can tell you storys about freaking out san's...never had that with solaris or freebsd and zfs.

2. Why having a additional abstraction layer, HW Raid caching vs FS-Caching, no transparency for error correction, not smart raid rebuild etc.

the list can go on and on, but HW-Raid is a thing of the past (exceptions are specialized san's etc)
I'm from Dublin. We didn't pay the Danegeld, and in retaliation they built a city.
I think it would be an APS constellation, because Martian orbits like Areosynchronous get their prefix from the greek Ares.

That would be really cool, I wonder if it would be faster and more precise because there would be negligible human-produced radio noise to interfere and the Martian ionosphere is much thinner, or if it would be worse because the thinner and weaker atmosphere and magnetic field don't protect the receivers from solar noise.

I wonder if a rover could drop a few beacons for time-of-flight 2D triangulation, it's not like they're moving hundreds of miles away over the horizon.
I got my start programming with a tool that originated on mainframes, saw a brief popularity in text-based minicomputers (Vaxen and Unixen), was ported to X11 Unix, then to PCs beginning with MS Windows 3, and through multiple generations as that became the overwhelmingly dominant user platform.

There were further changes and inheretences from within each of those environments as well.

It was possible when using the application to recognise where and how various components and features originated and what platform(s) they were developed on or for. Even some 50 years after the first release, this can be determined.

As I came to use Unix and Linux more heavily, I noticed the same trend in various applications, both command-line (GNU and BSD userland, MVS JCL relics such as "dd", and others) and graphical. Various X11 and graphical toolkits became instantly recognisable, and though the appearances (and often feature locations and implementations) were often wildly inconsistent (Xt Intrinsics / Athena scrollbars, anyone?), once the contexts were known, the visual indicators made clear "oh, this is an Athena app, this is a Motif app, this is a gtk app, this is a KDE app", or singletons (Netscape / Mozilla / Phoenix / Fireox, StarOffice / OpenOffice / NeoOffice / LibreOffice, Applixware (remember that?), etc. came to be known quantities. Various JS toolkits and Electron apps are probably the current version of this.

I've (mostly in jest, though possibly more seriously with time) had the tag "technological archaeologist" in various online bios. That traces directly to my experience with tools developed over a number of different platforms or tools. Or simply the influences of time and trends or fashions.

Microsoft Windows at about 45 years of age now has its own design legacy and archaeological strata.
Related existing tech is Shotspotter. Placed on rooftops in cities it can detect and triangulate the sound of gunfire. Picks up the occasional backfiring car though.

https://www.shotspotter.com/
I would suspect it's a denominator effect of Apple dropping intel chips.
I'm no designer but I've seen amazing ones work. Could it be that this is just marketing talk unrelated to actual design philosophy underneath because it is not targeting people related to that?
> Under load, the Netgear R8500 uses 21.5 Watts of power making it the most consumptive router we have tested [1]

Of course a gaming computer uses more than 100w. Of course a crypto rig uses more than 100w. And that's not "basic computer use", it's the most power-hungry computer use.

Meanwhile, my UniFi UAP-AC-Pro APs are powered via PoE and are using <4w.

1: https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac53...
Excited-screaming, maybe. "My brother just threw my favorite toy in a mud-puddle" screaming? Nope, that sounds exactly like death or dismemberment is happening.
I noticed the other day when I wanted to watch a video in PiP and I went to go edit the DOM to do it, Reddit refreshed the page on me.

Must have been some MutationObserver hook to prevent people from fiddling.

I was pretty turned off after that. Anyway, that being said, browser perf is so bad with the new Reddit, you basically have to use the app.
> Not reuses wholesale, but cites as a source of information. [Which is what you want, right?]

Yes! Thanks.

As an aside: I splurged on an OED subscription, which isn't cheap (they had a sale recently, maybe still going on, but usually it's something like $300/yr). If you care about concepts and ideas, I can't recommend it enough: It's a dictionary of every concept to which anyone has ever assigned a word (or term) in English, and in minutes you can see the concept from every perspective it's been seen, in every time and place, and the OED bring that together with the primary sources - the actual (brief) quotes where the person introduced the term. IME, it's also the best place to start for scientific and mathematical terms. If you look up "relativity" you get original quotes from Maxwell, Poincare, Einstein, etc., as well as several paragraphs succinctly and clearly defining the Special Theory, General Theory, etc.
The entry points are "whatever works".

Typically:

* Password spraying from previous data leaks

* Good old-fashioned fishing

* Bugs in anything that's common in enterprises, exposed to the Internet and not patched fast enough, including MS Exchange, various security/VPN products, vcenter, you name it. All of these had pretty critical pre-auth bugs exposed just this year

* malicious browser plugins

* malicious O365 apps

... and so on.
When I said blocking all outbound 53 I meant no exceptions, my local forwarder already uses DoH to an outside resolver.

Everything that I don't have complete visibility into the network stack of goes on a VLAN that does not forward traffic to the internet, it advertises a proxy via WPAD and DHCP option 252. I have a whitelist of hostnames that each device is allowed to make CONNECT requests to, so far there is only one.

If it's not a plain unencrypted HTTP request to my proxy, or a CONNECT request involving a server/device pair I've decided to trust, it's not going anywhere.

This breaks a lot of things that I would just as soon rather do without. I can't change my universal remote hub settings from the vendor portal, boo-hoo. I can't view my cameras from the hardened VLAN or from the internet (unless I VPN in first since the only copy of the recordings is on my local NAS)... good.
GPS doesn't have to be satellites. It can simply be beacons on the ground. Often used terrestrially to get a few more decimal points on a fix.
Might be an issue with how Safari renders links, or maybe the app itself is not a default for opening Reddit links.

When I get the mobile page on Reddit, clicking "Open in App" on the popup works fine for a third party Android app (Now for Reddit).
That's not what I've noticed in engineers.

What I've noticed most often is engineers, who say they are logical and thinking-first unemotionally, exhibiting:

Anger, frustration, anxiety, exasperation, beligerence, smugness, laughter.

You've almost certainly met engineers who agitatedly tell you how much they are logical, beligerently "reason" with colleagues, or gleefully put down people they regard as soft and emotional.

Those are emotions.

This isn't true of everyone of course. Some people really seem like the emotion chip wasn't fitted. But I have noticed intense emotions in a number of engineers who explicitly describe themselves as being unemotional, logical, and thinking clearly.

It's an interesting blind spot.
I deployed to South Pole ten times from 1997 to 2011, each time passing through McMurdo both southbound and northbound. Of course I knew about the reactor, and walked around that area several times, but it is fascinating now to read a more detailed history. Especially fascinating is the notion that the reactor had to fit in an LC-130, in order to be used at the Pole. I definitely would have been less than excited to be at the Pole if that reactor had been the main power source. (Not sure how jazzed I would have been to be a passenger on said LC-130, either.)

That being said, I wonder if some of the compact reactor designs being generated today[1] would actually wind up being a good fit for remote sites like the Pole. The current power plant runs on AN8 jet fuel and spews smoke/steam into the air 24/7. Clean power generation there is difficult because of lack of consistent wind and sun energy (pilot programs were in place at various times when I was there).

Parenthetically, the Pole's Clean Air facility there has some of the cleanest air in the world (upwind of the power plant). Their continuous CO2 measurements, graphed prominently on one wall when I visited, were sobering indeed to contemplate.

[1] e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27133196
[2] https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/South_Pol...
I know this is offtopic and will probably be downvoted to hell (and so what?!), but I really dont get how adults can complain about such a thing in a public online space with phrasing that makes it sound like something terrible happened to the person tweeting. I really dont get the appeal of this. Is it another way to generate conversation?
> The PLO was founded in 64 way before any occupation of the west bank and gaza so your point of fighting your oppressor is moot unless you consider the occupation the entire state of Israel then your legal argument is void

And ~50 years after Palestinians were promised self-rule, Jews were promised the right to move to Palestine, and Palestinians said they're against the mass migration of Jews there that displaced them.

Why is it that you think Palestinians only have the right to Gaza and the West Bank when they were the majority across the whole of Palestine less than a hundred years ago ( what, two generations?) ? The PLO didn't see it that way in 64, only a few decades after Palestinians had their land stolen ans themselves evicted from it by new settlers.
More like 50 watts max, and 20 watts under normal load. The power supply can't even provide more than 60W. And gaming computers are more like 2-5W suspended, 20-50W idle/browsing, 200-500W gaming.
I decided to just stop using Reddit a while ago. I can’t be bothered to use a website that is so hostile to being used.
Nerdsnipe of the evening – idealised comms medium
Regarding the power structure observation, I've lately been weighing the merits of co-ops in the tech industry. Intuitively, it seems like a tech product owned by its users would lead to more product-centric decision-making. Leaving governance to shareholders who aren't necessarily directly involved in the product feels weird by comparison.
Reddit is one of a few websites (Twitter, LinkedIn) whose design has gotten progressively worse for as long as I can remember. I really wish someone would come along and execute on a clear design vision for the company. It's insane to me that it is this poorly built.
Sounds like the working title of a Harlan Ellison short.
I dunno, N=66 training and N=34 for validation along with Lasso regression suggests the performance measures are dramatically overfit

See figure 3 etc: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.1c01754
Finetuning GPT-3 175B efficiently with low-rank adaptation
I understand it can be fun to point stuff out like this, laugh at it, etc.

Personally, I think this is actually good. Consistent and Productive Design, especially on the level of patterns across an entire operating system of both first and third party applications, is an insanely difficult problem. This means one absolutely needs to bring in the consideration of resource allocation. Its not possible to do everything exactly the same; in fact, a related but incorrect argument may be that its not possible to do everything exactly the same on Day 1, but because "Good Design" is a moving target, its actually really difficult to reach that goal in any capacity whatsoever.

Inconsistent design, like this, tells me that it isn't a resource allocation priority for Microsoft. Thus, those resources are most likely diverted to more functional aspects; getting it working, faster, more consistent behavior, broader and deeper feature sets, etc.

This is the right trade-off for Windows. One can point to MacOS or iOS and see a much more consistent design language across first-party apps, as well as pretty strong adoption of this design language across third-party apps, but the cost of this near-perfection is abstracted away. Its easy to see inconsistencies in design; its much harder to speak in aggregates about obscure software issues, missing features, delayed releases, etc. Strongly consistent design, in the face of these issues (many of which are unproveable externally) may actually be the right trade-off for MacOS and iOS; Apple is a far more design/PR/marketing driven company, and this guise of "everything is engineered and under control" may actually be materially important for their brand.

Windows is different. Moreover; it should be different. The fundamental idea that an entire operating system needs a cohesive, strongly consistent design language is one that Microsoft has tried to push several times, but one which hasn't even seen internal adoption, let alone external. One can blame this on the design languages being bad, or their tooling being bad, or anything, but at the end of the day its still the most popular non-server OS in the world (or is Android bigger now? Well, its the same argument there too). Conforming to any central design pattern isn't a priority for Windows users. There's no physical law of the universe that OS-wide design languages are a naturally good thing; in fact, I would argue that design languages shared between many domains of applications may fundamentally fail to account for the wide variety of interaction patterns within every domain, and thus as a software platform increases its complexity of services offered, domain-agnostic design languages naturally begin to fall apart. They may actually be Generally Bad, though I only feel comfortable asserting with any certainty that they're probably not Generally Good or Bad, and there's room for different platforms to try different things.
Oh that's an interesting take, and feels right to me. So the thing that holds back TDD is ergonomics (compile time/cached results) and maybe marketing.
And go to what industries in NYC? Ad-tech is one of the worst industries I've ever worked in, both from a work-life balance and from an ethical perspective. I've never seen such slimy individuals as I saw in the ad-tech space, and I've never seen that many layoffs, either.

Finance dominates in NYC, although there seems to be an increasing tech presence.
A sticky problem indeed. I'm sure their sock puppet budgets must run into the tens of dollars.
How about burial in a volcano? All natural cremation.
I'm not so sure this means the landing page is effective. On the contrary, they fully expect people not to understand their product and need more explanation. Even then, I didn't get the value prop without reading the comments here. Why not just strip that all away and say what was said in the comments here, "By using Orbik, you don't have to do the management of the reward flow."

One sentence. Perfect clarity. Put that on the landing page.
Parts of the body will decompose at different rates, so it won't be long before parts of the body will detach from the part that is weighted down. 7,000 people in the US die every day, 2.6 million a year. Random body parts from millions upon millions of corpses quickly find their way onto beaches everywhere, to the delight of sunbathers.
SpaceX is charging 1 megabuck for a 200 kg payload, (5 kUSD/kg). That's still cheap enough that for bespoke spacecraft the launch is still much less expensive than the satellite.

What is the basis for your < 1kUSD/kg estimate?
Terrible article - rehashed old news with a new title and even though it’s on “control.com” has no mentions of what said advanced control techniques are. Atleast it has pictures.
This is a tangent on your metaphor, but PB&M has actually been a popular combination in the past. https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/peanut-butter-mayonnaise-...
But the main thing of an fs is to preserve your files...btrfs can't even check the most important point.
To be blunt, the security of the software that runs so much of the world is way more important than the feelings of some programmers who feel that their beloved languages are under attack.

With ransomware and other online attacks on the rise, the stakes are too high to allow safer alternatives to be developed at a leisurely pace by volunteers. That's why ISRG is paying to have the work done, and why corporate projects like Android are putting financial resources into this as well. It's not a sinister attack on your favorite language, just an effort to make software more secure.

Getting back to something you said in your previous comment:

> you will take my C++ out of my dead cold hands.

Is this really the hill you want to die on? To me this suggests a lack of perspective on what really matters. A programming language is just a tool, not something to get attached to. When a better tool comes along, be open to using it when you can. Especially if someone pays you to do so. I used to be a big fan of both Python and Lua. Now I usually don't use them for new projects, though I may still if I think one of them is the right tool for the job.
The importance of cross-platform 3D-APIs for game development is vastly overrated though. The problems of the Mac as gaming platform are much more "holistic" (but yes, in the end it's about the economical viability).
> I think 11 will be a true return to a Microsoft experience supremacy not seen in a decade.

I’m sorry. I had to laugh.

Windows has been so complicated and inconsistent, with built-in control panels, vendor mini-applications, inconsistent within Windows itself, where you see the parts that haven’t been touched since NT 3.5, alongside each and every version of Windows ever sold, plus the built in vendor specific control panels that makes it impossible to figure out what is the currently active Wi-Fi configuration (a recurrent problem I have when helping house guests to connect. Macs just work. Linux just works, Androids and iPhones easily connect. Windows laptops? Ha! Just use the range extender that’s in the guest bedroom. For some reason I will not dedicate the time to figure out for every Windows version and PC manufacturer why, that little thing seems to like Windows machines.
I think they are complementary goals.

On aspect of the Rust-on-Linux worked I've helped out with is trying to make sure standard
library abstractions aren't just suitable for userspace. I hope the medium term result of this is more comparability between bare metal projects on axes where they aren't trying to differentiate.

Longer term, I hope that means a corpus of driver that can be shared between kernels, revolutionizing kernel diversity the same way LLVM revolutionized programming language diversity.
ALWAYS try a chair in person first, whether Herman Miller or Steelcase. DO NOT order blind and try to "tough it out" to see if a chair is for you.

The thing is, high end chairs differ radically in comfort. I thought the Embody was a great chair but the Aeron outdid it. I thought the Aeron was great but the Mira was better. For me, of course.

If I ordered online I wouldn't have known this. At the most I'd have returned the Embody for an Aeron but not found the chair that suits me best - the Steelcase Gesture ;)

To answer your question, I would recommend going to a furniture store and trying chairs from Herman Miller and Steelcase.
If you believe banning cryptocurrencies will suddenly stop ransomware, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Security is impossible. As long as there are incentives, nothing will be secure. It’s just a matter of incentive/difficulty. With enough incentive stuxnet or solar winds or omb are possible. Bitcoin values are causing this equilibrium to be disrupted, making this appear as though it were a new problem.
> I don't see any way this could go wrong.

We asked to robots to maximize the number of screaming humans they found... it turns out that metric proved quite easy to game.
That's fair. However, when listing notable features for the sake of comparing software, I think it's important to also list other characteristics of a given piece of software. If we were to compare software by feature sets alone, one might argue that Windows has the most features, so Windows must be best OS.
Nothing religious about Marvel, except Disney’s worship of Manna.

If there are any modern “pagan” worshippers of the traditional gods, I hope they’ve preserved the fundamental version. Probably closer to any truths.
That could be an option for Hawai’i!
Selling in Public Experiment
The design is fine, but you can't make money by showing ads to a bunch of anonymous users and non-logged in visitors. Hence the dickbar for mobile users. Reddit have big investors now, and they are under pressure to monetize. Unfortunately their ad product is garbage, and the Reddit audience is notoriously ad-unfriendly.
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