skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was 1985, I was in a VAX computer lab with about 40 other people typing on the VT100 terminals... I ran a program to compute something, and forgot that I had bumped my priority wayyy up... everything in the room stopped, even the line printer, everyone went ohhhhhh.

10 seconds later, my program finished... and everything snapped back to life.

Another time, I walked into a different, bigger lab, with 100 terminals... snooped around the system, saw that the compiler queue had about 40 minutes of entries... bumped the first one up a bit (the queue was set to lower priority than any of the users, which was a mistake)... it finished in 2 seconds, instead of 2 minutes...

15 minutes later, the queue was empty, 30 minutes after that the room was empty, because everyone had gotten their work done.
> It's Pride month, and today is literally the anniversary of Stonewall

And not living in the US, I have no idea what Stonewall is nor that it's Pride month, nor even that Pride month is a thing (is it in France too?)

> implying you think the mere existence of a minority sexual identity in content is a political statement

No, I think recommending this and only this is a political statement.

> so it's prejudicial to claim the different for LGBT content during pride

It's literally written "LGBT" in the 1 line description of the ads I have.
What it is more disgusting are the obvious shilling that favors this ads intrusion. I invite you have a look on Reddit /r/ShieldAndroidTV/
> It’s hard to know the truth here though when nation state interests are at play. To what extent were the sex related charges against him political or flared up by nation state meddling?

I think that, even in and of itself, if a nation state intelligence agency is attempting a smear campaign or outright character assassination, and the very best they can manage is "may have had sex that was consensual but unprotected without agreement"?

That's one hell of a sad state of affairs for that intelligence agency.

Like beyond "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity", "government incompetence" cliches. Like amazingly pathetic. I can't fathom that being the line they'd go for.

"Sir, we came up with a plan to destroy his character in the public's eye!"

"Great, what is it?"

"Well, uhh, he had a bit of a threesome-like affair, and he may not have used a condom even though he said he would... we can spin that so well that everyone will disown him!"

"..."
I can understand the copyright stuff because Google can’t possibly afford the fight against the MPAA/RIAA. Why wade into politics though? What gain does Google obtain through political censorship?
>How much longer do you think Apple is going to support Intel Macs now that they're releasing them with ARM chips?

The next version of MacOS is slated to still work on 8 year old Intel Macs.

The next version of Windows is going to cut off machines less than half as old.
Not reading the entire article - I believe this is going the wrong way…
I think this is an excellent example of how to organize one's knowledge in a manner that makes it very accessible.
Experts recommending the five best books in their subject
That's an absolutely wild read. I've never heard of this before today, thanks.
Thanks. I'm going to give the Apple TV a shot. If frame rate matching works well in other apps, it will probably be good in Plex, too.
Whenever someone builds a reddit competitor it is instantly filled with FBI trolls who post hate speech, spam, and malware to poison the well. Competition is bad for intelligence agencies which already have pipes from the major social media providers.
I really think that every well rounded person/STEM academic should at one point in their life (hopefully sooner rather than later) expose themselves to some hands on machining... like, even just a few hours on an old decrepit mill/lathe.

I feel like the foundations of the industrial revolution (speaking within the US) are... very much forgotten/taken for granted given the fact the near entirety of our modern life and comforts exist because of it.

There's fortunately a ton of great, readily available content on YouTube/elsewhere that's sprung up in the past 10 or so years you could just watch, but actually machining is such a cathartic experience... at least when you're in a position to do so that isn't in a grimy ass factory/warehouse with somebody yelling at you to push out more operations than is humanly possible, haha.
Yes it’s not because it’s on the books. It’s people thinking that other people thinking that other people thinking the price will go down.
Edit: Actually your reward also includes a bug report. Go to journal and append to journal work perfectly. However, process isn’t creating any tasks in omnifocus. I’ll test the other actions.

Format is:

* Do laundry

Ok, fantastical worked. Drafts opened fantastical. It did not ask to open omnifocus.

—————-

Oh, got it, thanks! I had to click manage in actions then enable your set, now it shows easily and the actions are straightforward.

It’s very hard to tell whether this will be a thing I fiddle with for a couple days and then set aside, or if it changes everything. But this has definite potential to be one of those things that changes everything. (My notes are a mess of notes and todos and never knew how to process well.)

Thanks for making this and for writing up the comments about it!

As your reward you get a feature request haha. If you’re ever adding to this, I would love Reminders support.
We generally do not clad our houses with wood in the US either. We're mostly clad with brick, vinyl, or stucco. Roofing is occasionally wooden shake in dry climates like California. But asphalt and clay are by far more common.
I have a hunch that a lot of division in the US atleast has some role or interference from Russia/China. No proof, but to me it makes sense and it is so easy to do, we've seen it happen in the past (Cambridge Analytica), and if I were an adversary of the United States, I would be trivial to sow discord amongst the populace. We're currently witnessing some fractures in the US military leadership as well.

I don't mean to sound conspiratory, but I guess I kinda do. We're going to have a hard time getting along with each other in the future. It is going to get worse. :-( I also fear closing down our open platforms, so it is a lose-lose situation.

Reminds me of the white doves and hawks analogy from Richard Dawnkins' Selfish Gene. Until there are too many hawks, the doves suffer. Btw, this has nothing to do with good/evil, just exploitation of social settings where trust is the default state. Too many hawks and the population starves so it reaches an equilibrium, but also oscillates over evolutionary time scales.
WebAuthn and similar tech
Well you can't secure normal cookies against extraction with a TPM, because you have to extract them to use them.

So the question is how a particular protocol works, and whether a site can still identify you after you've deleted your session cookie. As far as I understand it, if you were wantonly using webauthn for all your session cookies, it would be relatively easy for a site to check if you're the same person as before.
Pretty sure they're still trying really hard to get GCP functional in mainland China, somehow. You know, like how Amazon/AWS made it: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/
Terrorist propaganda is not welcomed on social media, nothing new there.
You're correct, and the dangers of this redefinition of "security" were known even further back:

"Unfortunately, the attestation model in TCG's current design can equally effectively prevent the software on a computer from being changed deliberately by the computer owner with his or her full knowledge and consent. While the owner is always free to alter software, attestation adds a new risk: doing so may now eliminate the computer's ability to interoperate with other computers."

https://www.eff.org/files/20031001_tc.pdf
Is SSHing no longer normal? What do the cool cats do these days to manage their servers?

I use K8s and docker to run software on my server, but initiate these via SSH. I suppose CI is perhaps modern approach or what else is everyone using?
For a web exposed use case: TPMs are used as part of Windows's FIDO2 implementation, to make sure that the secret actually cannot be exfiltrated to other hardware.

That doesn't come with any particular privacy concerns however.
Makes you wonder what else they can tweak that would be correct according to one spec or another but would still trip up people who assumed reasonable defaults, and why they don't do that as well.
I grew up in such a subdivision in another state. It was fine. With a couple of exceptions, all of the houses were identical. They all had the same floor plans, but were oriented in different ways, and some were mirror images. There were also a number of different facades.

I lived there for upwards of 10 years before I figured this out, one day when I was at a new friend's house, and realized that I already knew my way around.
Original article is about C compiled programs, not about arbitrary languages. It's not a huge problem in C.
If you stumble upon it randomly like this posting it may never end up being useful and you may never go back to it.

But if you're looking particularly to get started on a topic, or get some tips, it's very useful.

The O'Reilly "recipe" books have been very useful to me over the years, and they're basically just a more formalized version of this sort of thing.
I doubt food scarcity, when it occurred, was for lack of land. Also, not all forest land can be used well for agriculture, and if there wasn’t much forest, there weren’t many twigs, either.

IIRC, bricks became popular because wooden house were forbidden in dense cities, and clay beat stone in availability/price/suitability (wouldn’t know which)

Certainly, after London burnt, “much of the old street plan was recreated in the new City, with improvements in hygiene and fire safety: wider streets, open and accessible wharves along the length of the Thames, with no houses obstructing access to the river, and, most importantly, buildings constructed of brick and stone, not wood.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London#Aftermath)
> because you have to extract them to use them

Nope, the thing is that you ask the TPM to sign something with the key/secret, but the TPM will not allow you by design to exfiltrate the secret.
I have to believe it's fixable within our lifetimes. Otherwise why get out of bed.

We have multiple viable tools. Oviline, some kind of atmospheric dimming, rewilding, industrial carbon capture. And I'm sure we'll try 100s of other ideas and strategies.

My current grumpiness is that we're not already dual track.

Yes, we have to get humanity to carbon zero. Urgently.

We also need to remove carbon. By whatever means possible.

We just can't wait for carbon zero before we start carbon negative efforts.

--

I haven't heard or seen any efforts about securing current carbon sinks. Like maybe replant the tundras with stuff that will delay the thawing. Or precapturing submerged methane and flaring it. Or...?
> “We were all very much aware of what happened there and what a tragedy that was,” she said in a recent interview. “That made the whole field of gene therapy go away, mostly, for at least a decade.

Damn this sucks to read. To think of how much progress we might have made in a promising field if we could just get over one person dying. Yes it's awful, and we shouldn't be flippant, but we're talking about work to help _humanity as a whole_. This isn't the same as saying "the means justify the ends." This is just saying, "Shit, we fucked up there, let's not do that again, but let's keep learning." I don't know how you ever advance without making mistakes.
The default mobile site feels like it's so over-engineered to the point of being broken, even typing a comment on iOS the keyboard makes a weird echo key sound as if multiple keypress events are firing with each press or it's somehow running so much code with each press its making the whole OS choke.

Utterly bizarre.
U is Sunday and R is Thursday.

This is what I found:
https://eventguide.com/topics/one_digit_day_abbreviations.ht...
A Miniature Article About a Miniature Stop Sign in Brooklyn
You Slandered Me Because I Am a Girl
Countess of Lovelace was a sure thing.
A similar approach I use is google cloud sdk + ssh socks5 proxy.

Create some preemptible instances on google cloud first, then connect them with commands like "gcloud compute ssh instances-name -- -D localhost:port".

And the last step is to connect scrapper to those proxy ports over localhost.
>you don't have large firms that can exploit economies of scale.

There are also diseconomies of scale in residential construction, partly for reasons described in the original post. Having many layers of management is inefficient when you're dealing with work that involves a lot of customization and homeowner input.

>Despite being around for decades, most contractors still use copper.

No, they don't. Pex is ubiquitous in single-family and smaller multifamily construction now. Copper is used in larger and nonresidential projects where the plumbing codes require it. The idea that professional plumbers and homebuilders haven't heard the news yet that Pex is cheaper is silly.
That's still not a defense for hosting it and not censoring the data though. They're still complicit.
By "improvements" do you mean sewer hookups and so on? Japan is no different in that those add value, and they don't redo them when rebuilding the house (barring some problem).

Also, depreciation of the house includes things like maintenance costs -- did you spend money on your roof? Redo the wiring? Renovate the kitchen? Unless they're intended as a teardown, old houses are often sold post-renovation, and that investment can counter the depreciation but won't show up if you just compare the selling price against the price of the bare lot.

Lastly, it sounds like if your lot is $70k and houses are $350k, maybe construction costs have gone up a lot in your area since 2004. That could cause an old house to appreciate by increasing the cost of new houses.
There's a curve to most people's response to levels of advocacy. The response rises with advocacy to a point, but then past a certain point, the response drops precipitously. When the advocacy turns into over-the-top vehemence, people tend to stop responding and may even respond negatively (i.e. rebel and go full anti-whatever).

As an example of a similar drastic falloff at the top of a response curve, I recall reading that people who live right next to a dam report near zero concern about the dam collapsing, but as you go further away people are very concerned, then somewhat concerned, than only little concerned.

So anyway, we need more carrots, fewer sticks.
> As I understand it, the commenter's point does not rest on 'contact' linking being present. Their point is that any kind of data linking provides a reindentification risk.

It appears that the parent commenter revised its content to indicate that the concern was indeed “your data getting mixed with my data, when browsing Facebook”, to paraphrase.

My response there was essentially: ethical review would have to determine if all data must be provided through informed consent of all the originating humans.

Held to the gold standard of ethics, an IRB would likely have to contraindicate a research design if it did not provide a way for every individual human involved to provide informed consent. If any single individual in a data set indicated that they did not consent, then that data set would need to be reshaped to not include that individual. In lieu of that, the entire data set would have to be excluded from study.

Of course, that has some complex implications, when it comes to broad categories of data sources for browser usage: social networking sites would be a minefield. Did the website author provide consent for their content to be machine analyzed for sentiment, etc., if one really wanted to get down to it. You’d have to consider each and every resource location. Can’t assume that all browser traffic is open web traffic - someone could have left their Rally extension running while navigating to a corporate confidential network, complex copyrights, etc.

My understanding is that the US Supreme Court is about to decide on whether “if you can read it, you can keep it” as a consequence of Microsoft/LinkedIn vs. hiQ Labs, so don’t forget the “arms race” of justice, either.

> Many smart, well-meaning efforts have fallen prey to linkage attacks. They are insidious.

Indeed, even just basic double-blind medical studies are hard to defend when you consider operational security, let alone information security.
"an entirely distinct human being with it's own DNA, etc"

What makes us human beings is our personalities, our brains. Chop off my hand, I'm still me. Destroy my brain, I'm deceased regardless of how long you keep my other organs going.

A fetus does not become human, IMO, until it can have a personality and sentience. Women have the power to create without consent of the created; the power to destroy their not-yet-human equally lacks the consent of the created. If the latter is prohibited than so should the former.

From a societal view, we have enough people. Every way to support people consensually choosing to not have children should be encouraged.
all large distros are using shim which supports secure boot

you can also enroll your own key relatively easily using mokutil

if you're building your own kernels it's one command to sign them (sbsign)
Affordances are one of those core UI concepts that everyone should know and implement to guide the user smoothly all the way through. Design of Everyday Things, and one HCI course pays off so much in the long run.
sUnday and thuRsday, to disambiguate them from Tuesday and Saturday.
>Vote for the party which is most critical on them.

>Currently Republicans though it used to be the Democrats.

This statement shows the absurdity of a two-party political system.
Voting for either party will not change anything. You need to vote for particular politicians, and if that's not possible, then there is no way at all for reform or change.
The Cloud Genie: How to spend $100M US in a month
Always made me curious why the boss don't request daily/weekly summaries of what their assistants did for the kids. Would be easy enough with an app we control, I think?
Not really surprising considering the many other blatant lies in the Assange case.

For example to this day barely anybody seems aware about the fact how Swedish police changed witness testimonies to create rape accusations that were never even made by the two women, to have these nasty accusations leaked to the press only hours later, in the middle of the night.

That's only one of the many findings by the UN rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer. His investigation into the Assange case is probably one of the best and most neutral takes on it, but if true also a really scary one [0]

[0] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
Don’t know where you are geographically but if you’re in London, I’d be up for getting a drink!
You banned my account for highlighting the fact that social media is majority controlled by Jewish (and therefore more than likely Israeli) interests. I'm not sure exactly what I said that warranted being banned and shown the guidelines. If you think I was trolling - no, I was pointing out the bloody obvious that the rest of the posters here don't want to bring to light.
Right, I meant that there's no javascript API to communicate with a TPM directly as far as I know. You can still use a TPM as part of your auth to a website, it just has to go through a protocol where the browser handles the interaction. So a website can't leverage the TPM for tracking purposes afaik.

But web is really not so much my thing, so I'm now at the point where I'm probably going to start saying incorrect things.
You Hurt Me
You hurt me.
> Heat pumps need plumbing and installation which increases the construction cost.

So do radiant floor heating or straight-out radiators. And force air needs ducting, which takes up a lot of volume: and unless you use floor trusses instead joists, you have to be a creative with the design of your runs.

What HVAC system would you suggest?
That works because an unsigned 8-bit integer is one piece of data.

But the problem we're kind of discussing is a group of objects and/or characters moving in a shared environment. You can't represent that as one 8-bit integer. Instead, it's a bunch of pieces of data: x- and y-locations (and maybe z, as well), extents, x-and y- (and maybe z-) velocities. You can easily get that into an inconsistent state - two objects occupying the same space. This is the point of "not many places write the data": To keep the data in a consistent state, you just have to get a little bit of code working right. To debug it when the data is in an inconsistent state, the problem can only be in a few places.

If you're in a multithreading situation, it gets even worse. Yes, it still works for your unsigned 8-bit situation, because it can be written in one assembly instruction. But if your data takes more than one assembly instruction to write, you have to worry about threading. If there are only a few places that write the data, you only have to protect a few places to keep the data from being corrupted by threading issues. (You might also have to protect the readers, so that they can't read it halfway through a series of writes...)
You're paying with the commute. Sure I pay the same for my smaller apartment as some people pay for their mortgage but the land near my office is expensive enough that the only way to make a profit is efficiency in the form of dense construction. The result is I have a 20 minute (round trip) walk from my kitchen to cube where many people have 1.5 hour drive through city traffic plus maintenance/insurance etc.

WFH changes that some, if you don't mind driving for groceries/hang-outs then going far out of developed areas for a larger home isn't so bad, although I will say as someone who grew up in a place like that it makes your kids significantly more dependent on you and severely limits their ability to socialize. Some people argue that's a plus and perhaps they're right, many of the most knowledgeable people I know came from similar situations but I'm not convinced it's all positive.
Wow, I did not realise that was a horizontal slider either. (I've used Android since the G1, so certainly since whenever that was introduced. I've seen it a lot, just never scrolled it, because I didn't know it did.)

Another book I'd recommend to anyone interested in this sort of thing js Spence's Information Visualisation: Design for Interaction. I also had the pleasure of the author's course at university, apart from anything else it was an excellent sort of 'something a bit different to think about', that I often recall when I'm frustrated by things (as in the submission), and perhaps more often should when working on frontendy things.
Hmm, that's interesting about the dam, though I wonder whether only the people who wouldn't fear a dam collapse would live next to one.
Oh thanks! Will get that added to the second list and make an update!
Yeah... at least throw a couple fast network interfaces on it to make it a useful server. But as is, it's a head scratcher to figure out a good use.
I know so many data scientists who almost deliver value except their mad python skills aren't so mad.
You’re just replacing one set of problems with a different set of problems. Linux isn’t a panacea. It has its own set of meaningful issues that make it an unattractive option to a lot of people.

I do agree at least that not enough people ever make that consideration that should, but that kind of requires qualities that free software either doesn’t care about or is not competent at (ie marketing)
I moved to a conservative state to escape modern insanity and have made many strong friendships. I’m mid life and never had a better group of friends.