skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even fastmail is still using a centralized service.

I use fastmail (with my own domain) and hardest part about the switch from gmail was going through all the crappy website account flows to change email (some of which are impossible).

I dropped FB last year after painstakingly deleting every post/like/photo, but I still use twitter (though I do delete old stuff after a retention period around 1yr - this is easy to do for tweets, but hard to do for likes so I stopped liking stuff).

I think Amazon is really great and still use them, same for Netflix. YouTube I use because there's no real alternative, but I pay for premium to at least avoid ads (though can't avoid the tracking).

Apple hardware is arguably the best available option for aligned incentives/privacy. In theory you could throw ubuntu on a thinkpad (I did this for college years among others like Arch), but the experience is bad and the security is likely worse.

I play around with Urbit and it's surprisingly usable - it also feels like old school internet from when I was young. Strangers hanging out on forums or chat and enjoying the shared experience of being online. The nature of people interested in Urbit brings some of that back.
Pinterest is another one that exhibits this pattern. Infuriating.
Technology often is the problem, or more concretely we can use technology to make the solution cheaper, which makes it more plausible for politicians to implement. Politicians already use x amount of money trying to prevent climate change. If technology was advanced enough that x is enough to prevent climate change completely, we could then solve the problem with a technological solution (assuming politicians are willing).

I don't think the tech is nearly cheap enough yet.
On a related note... if you can afford a CGM (continuous glucode monitor), especially one with alerts (like the Dexcom G6), I wholeheartedly recommend one. They are life altering for a type 1 diabetic. Being able to check your blood sugar by just looking at your phone (or separate receiver) is very convenient. I check my blood sugar 100 times a day, instead of poking a hole in myself 10 times a day. And I can (mostly) rely on it alerting me if my blood sugar gets low (or is going to get low soon). I cannot stress enough how much it changed my control of my diabetes.

Admittedly, they're not cheap w/o insurance, which sucks. But if you can get one, so do. You won't be disappointed.
But they're not identical, they differ by a comma.

It's a desired feature of sorting algorithms that they should be deterministic, in which case arbitrarily ordered input should produce identical output.

Otherwise, having non-deterministic output just makes everything harder -- harder to make comparisons, more work to write tests, etc.
Typescript to the rescue ;)
Right, I am not passing judgement. I am not saying gambling in certain ways is immoral, but I am saying that it is illegal and thus bitcoin is often used to try and stay hidden.
No, no. We want tags. Later we want hierarchal tags (with some complex workarounds to maintain some legacy thing included in the implementation).
> I'm not sure why you'd be getting downvoted.

Because it's one of those comments that took 3s to write but would take a lot of effort to properly respond to, because it's 'not even wrong'.
Looking forward to Apple leaks filmed using body cams.
Ever tried to cancel your phone contract?
Cancelation at anytime is the exception not the norm. Same with most contracts, they all have notice periods.
>What am I missing?
People have obligations like rent, health insurance, school fees.
They have families and children, so a minimum of planning is important.
Everything else is inhumane.
The funny thing is that someone could openly start wearing a bodycam for themselves and record everything for leaks, and no one would know that it wasn't authorized.
Would such a law exempt LEOs? Or are we saying that having video documentation of any worker is not worth the privacy loss?
Costly New Alzheimer’s Drug Could Force Medicare to Restrict Access
There are a large and growing number of job openings working directly on climate change, and the time to get in is now.

Trillions of dollars are going to change hands, and millions of person-hours of work are going to be performed, to transition the entire world off of burning fossil fuels. You can get a piece of it!

My company, Genability, is hiring full-stack engineers[1] to work on digitizing energy pricing. Many other companies are also hiring to work on different areas of this problem space.[2]

I quit working in digital media to work on climate change full time last year, and I can't recommend it enough. Join me!

[1] - https://www.genability.com/careers/
[2] - https://jobs.climatebase.org/jobs
Ah ah ! I had the exact same issue with an Instagram account I wanted to see because it was mentioned in some newspaper.

I have no problem with private content but here it’s not even that : the content is shown then hidden.

Of course it’s their site, their rules. But it says a lot about the engineering of frustration and the respect they show to potential users.
I never made a claim they had more or less evidence, you ignore the South America example entirely which is that it’s ok to have circumspect evidence but extrapolate based on priors.

There’s no place for silencing opinions, and those are opinions that all have different levels of evidence. That you tend to weigh certain evidence differently is your own stance, not objective fact.

To try again, let’s say someone is a “body language expert”. I don’t really believe that to a large degree, but fine. They post a YouTube clip showing the Chinese gov denying the lab leak and say “oh man I can tell based on X, Y, and Z their body language is a total giveaway that this was intentional!”

Again, I don’t believe it. But it doesn’t matter. Whether they think it’s aliens because they saw some cloud trails or tea leaves or whatever, it’s all a matter of degree.

The lab leak was shut down under the same premises. “Our” evidence is strong, and “their” evidence is conspiracy theory. Except it wasn’t. So I don’t trust anyone, you included, to be the decider of valid evidence. I’ll sort through it myself.
I have some bad news. All corporations are authoritarian.
it would be amusing to me if this is not in fact true but was a plan given to a specific employee suspected of being a leaker, waiting for him to leak it as proof.
That sounds more spinny than the original - phrases like "select few" and "hardware trade secrets" seem to add valuation to an otherwise fairly factual title.

Note, when I read this, the current title was:
"Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks"
Is there any good research to support "introvert vs extrovert is more determined by where you get your energy from" or is it just one of those folk wisdoms like power posing and ego depletion?
Not necessarily as an enforced standard, but normalizing sharing your identity online earlier on might have changed some of the formational culture of the Internet. The Internet was also a dangerous place, and still is, so perhaps this is not the best idea
I'm not sure TSX was really intended to be used everywhere though. Admittedly the glibc team tried to use it in pthreads and it was a disaster (a lot of code broke and of course it kept getting disabled in CPUs).

Their issue IMO was not really scoping down TSX... the project was far too ambitious.
Crazy times when a company with zero revenue and no products launched is “not a startup” because of their funding…
There are far more sources of co2 emissions than just electricity and meat production. There's a lot to engineer to become carbon neutral, especially if we want to do it at a reasonable cost.
> This is actually a call for restrained Product Management.

I would adjust that, like so:

This is actually a call for restrained, jargon-free, Product Management.
they "renew" by "improving" their existing product enough to make it obsolete, and to get a new patent. Per the article below this has been happening since 1923

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_peop...
The stable polyfill (and eventual native version) can't come soon enough. We're looking to move off of Moment given its deprecation status and how much it bloats our bundle, but we're waiting so we can go straight to Temporal instead of another intermediate library
No kidding - each of the these crypto folks go "trust us" - and then even the simplest things (1:1 US Dollar backed coin - seriously - how hard is this!) turn out to be a full of crap and lies.

And if you believe USDT has been 1:1 backed by us dollars for its full history - dream on. If you believed they would actually get audited when they said they would - hahah.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-illustrating-ho...
> This presumes that all employees are incapable of saving money or seeking alternate employment quickly.

It doesn't presume anything of the sort: you don't need to make a statement about "all" employees to observe that the average American under 35 has under $10,000 in liquid savings[1]. That can disappear pretty quickly with a car or home accident, unexpected injury, or legal liability. Even outside of those, it's not very much to live on outside of LCoL areas for more than a couple of months.

The average American is also not a tech worker: they're somewhere in the lower middle class, and may or may not have the ability to transition rapidly between jobs (our current funhouse-mirror economy aside). You're making extraordinary presumptions about millions of people, presumptions with very real and material consequences.

But to go even further: we should not be punishing people with the threat of hunger or exposure for failing to keep liquid savings! The current economy doesn't encourage liquid (i.e., conservative) saving techniques, and American education does not consistently include financial planning. The vast majority of Americans are blamelessly "winging it" and should not be punished for that.

To tie a bow around it: I don't need to make a universal statement about every employee in America to correctly observe that many employees are materially threatened by at-will employment. Attempting to promote this into universal claims is bewildering at best; it's immediately obvious to everyone that plenty of people can survive an unexpected firing.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-ame...
What I don’t understand is why Reddit wants us to use the app so badly. Is it just for ads? Is it data collection?
A lot of applications were subtly buggy (unlocked an already-unlocked mutex sometimes). Unlike the previous implementation, with TSX, unlocking an already unlocked mutex is an instant crash. And the applications were buggy exactly because nothing bad happened before due to this bug, and there were no widespread-enough tools that would have helped recognizing this as an application problem during development.
Formal methods are about matching the spec. Errors in the spec are still an issue. Moreover, there is very, very little formally verified code in the world, much less than you'd believe.

My former professor (RIP) oversaw the formal verification of the F-16 computer software and it still had significant bugs in the end where the specification itself was incomplete or in error. And that was a multi-year, team-scale effort. No one is doing that for smart contracts.
Do you think it is possible to maintain solar/wind for an extended period of time given the reliance on rare earth minerals that it would create? Also one argument that I haven't heard answered is how to handle the non-biodegradable old solar panels/windmills that need to be replaced.
These things definitely can be implemented but are they sustainable? Not a rhetorical question, I'd actually like to hear some opinions on this.
Totally true.

That said, to deposit 10k of cash in a bank you need to fill out some forms.

I also don't have a great way to send you say 100k in cash. Suitcase full of dollars? But I can send you 2 BTC much easier.

The big hole in demanding giant ransoms was always taking delivery of the suitcase full of money. Not so hard to do with digital currency.
Portland, Ore. expected to reach 114 degrees on Monday
But it's so much worse than that, right? Bugs in a smart contract are immutable. Those are just the terms everyone agreed to. There's simply no path to deploying a fix that every good actor agrees is beneficial.
Why do you think they're enthusiastic about killing for any ideas? Calling for killing is not the only way an idea can be extreme...
Isn't this obviously a joke? Just how would body cams help with leaks?

The concept of police body cams is that there's a discrete event at a specific time that they want to investigate, for example an arrest. You cannot do that with leaks. If the iPhone Next leaks, just what are they going to do? Scan through every minute of body cam footage over months? And look for what?
Except that carbon taxes that are only implemented in one country cause fossil fuel demand by that country to decline, which makes it even cheaper for countries without carbon taxes.

I wonder if instead of a carbon tax, there should be a tax that funds a fossil fuel 1:N storage requirement. You burn a gallon of gas, you need to store a gallon of gas in the strategic reserve. That way the tax is paid, we eventually figure out how many gallons were accessible (because we eventually run out), and the price goes up for all countries even those that are not taxing carbon.

Alternatively, rather than extracting and storing the gas, the tax could fund the purchase of estimated reserves that are left unexploited.

I assume the oil companies would also love this method.
A Startup Without Any Outside Investment. Andcards: Management of Coworkings
Microsoft Windows is even worse.
Constant disruptive updates, forcing you to make an account during install, ads in the start menu, that creepy "Cortana" process that you can't kill...
I don't know much about this space but a half million dollar marketcap is absolutely tiny and non-news. BTC market cap is what, close to a trillion or something?
Okta and AWS: “Join All Roles” Setting (2020)
I purchase Malwarebytes for my parents for Christmas every year and it's saved me so much time troubleshooting or recovering files from my parents' PCs.
UN rights office highlights policing reforms to address systemic racism
This is absolutely as weird as the original title. These are CIA style measures.
In a free market, editorial decisions are made based on advertising revenue.

That’s not always a good thing. Simply because something is factually true and increases audience engagement doesn’t mean it’s relevant or responsible to include.

For example, COVID had a fatality rate of 2%. That’s a fact. It also will increase engagement amount certain media markets.

But that’s also very misleading. 2% of the world is 140 million people.

The fact that it’s piece of “true data” that increases audience engagement doesn’t mean it belongs in mainstream articles.
This article is so interesting when I re-read it. Some of its conceptual bits still seem so foreign to note-taking, like the fact that there's a heading/step called "Irritation".

Also:

> Do not sort your stuff. Don’t waste time making up categories; this hampers organic growth.

I have a hybrid sorted/unsorted approach, and TBH I really like the sorting and categorizing. The trick is to keep it as simple as possible, and to change it as soon as it's needed. Then it saves a ton of time and I don't ever have to look at a depressingly-long flat list of something, especially when my file manager has a lot of built-ins for dealing with folders and levels of folders.

I find the same is helpful within each individual note: I have a hybrid sorted/unsorted approach. I use a template with a TOC and some favorite headings that are convenient--To-Do, Log of Lessons Learned, Log (Meta), and Resources. Sure, I can type to search, and I use tags where it makes sense. But just knowing the layout of each note in the broader sense makes everything easier.

Anyway what I REALLY like about the Zettelkasten prompts appearing here on HN is that it gets me thinking about how to improve my system. Thank you.
Frederic Rzewski, ‘daredevil pianist’ and iconoclastic composer, dies at 83
As nice as that sounds, critical thinking is not an emergent property of networks of people. Information pollution is, and we need to start thinking about it in the same way we think about other kinds of pollution.

A little bit of garbage here and there is easy to deal with, and that's what critical thinking is for. But given enough garbage, your normal functions (and that of the network you're a part of) will be impaired.

You are what you eat, and your brain is what it reads. Feed it enough garbage, and no amount of critical thinking will save you.

If your goal is to have a "stable" system that converges towards truth, stability, consensus, and generally progresses over time, you need to have some sort of mechanism to regulate garbage.
Missed all the Cloud announcements.

Biggest I thought was Azure Arc. I can now run Azure App Service on AWS/GCP or any k8s-based cluster. That's a game changer for most folks who do use multiple public cloud providers.
You have to give context on where you live. For example if you're in the USA and not in a region susceptible to flooding/storms there is very little justification to do anything at all.

If you think the worlds going to break down then move something farther north with guaranteed access to fresh water. Michigan in the USA or start looking at Canada and stock up on guns and ammo cause if it gets that bad that's the new currency.
A native Rust solution, with meta-programming: https://crates.io/crates/packed_struct (written by me)
From the opinion, internal citations omitted:

> The FTC has failed to plead enough facts to plausibly establish a necessary element of all of its Section 2 claims — namely, that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) Services. The Complaint contains nothing on that score save the naked allegation that the company has had and still has a “dominant share of th[at] market (in excess of 60%).” Such an unsupported assertion might (barely) suffice in a Section 2 case involving a more traditional goods market, in which the Court could reasonably infer that market share was measured by revenue, units sold, or some other typical metric. But this case involves no ordinary or intuitive market. Rather, PSN services are free to use, and the exact metes and bounds of what even constitutes a PSN service — i.e., which features of a company’s mobile app or website are included in that definition and which are excluded — are hardly crystal clear. In this unusual
context, the FTC’s inability to offer any indication of the metric(s) or method(s) it used to calculate Facebook’s market share renders its vague “60%-plus” assertion too speculative and
conclusory to go forward.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...

The court also threw out the similar argument from 46 States (and in a way that the States are unlikely to recover from):

> First, the States’ Section 2 and Section 7 attacks on Facebook’s acquisitions are barred by the doctrine of laches, which precludes relief for those who sleep on their rights. Although Defendant purchased Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, Plaintiffs’ suit — which seeks, in the main, to have Facebook divest one or both companies — was not filed until December 2020. The Court is aware of no case, and Plaintiffs provide none, where such a long delay in seeking such a consequential remedy has been countenanced in a case brought by a plaintiff other than the federal government, against which laches does not apply and to which the federal antitrust laws grant unique authority as sovereign law enforcer. If laches is to mean anything, it must apply on these facts, even in a suit brought by states.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...

Relevant to both suits, the Court separately found that the argument that Facebook violated antitrust law by revoking API access for other apps that duplicated Facebook features lacked merit (the policy is not a violation of antitrust law) and came too late (the implementation when they revoked access was years ago and there is no ongoing misconduct).
Yeah - this is why I stay out of Instagram. They're repeatedly, blatantly hostile to any non-user use.

At least they're not as bad as Pinterest, which has done this for years, plus their million alternate domains polluting search results.
YouTube doesn't "report" anything. They host videos that other people create. Nothing there is necessarily "endorsed" by YouTube, and there's not even an implied agreement to only upload newsworthy or even good-faith or non-invented videos to the platform. You should only trust uploads from actual news organizations.
Why would any of those things be better bought with crypto? If anything, better to buy all of those things with fiat cash, no? Why would you want a permanent record recorded every time you buy something? (Crypto)
Regulators Target the Booming DeFi Space
It’s expensive to fire people, it can be done. Money doesn’t seem to be an issue for startups these days.

Every company I’ve worked for has given equity as compensation here.

Opening a company is insanely easier than anywhere else I’ve been.

I can’t relate any of those factors to lack of innovation from my own experience. It must be something else?
Let's start with the negativity and hate that Twitter and Facebook revel in, first. If you want to solve the problem, let's start with the biggest offenders.
Yup, but these have become so common, in the industry, that they are now synonymous.

For example, I no longer trust people that describe themselves as "iOS developers" to know the first thing about actually developing for the Apple ecosystem. In some cases, they don't even know how to use Xcode.
Buying in a developing country can absolutely be done same day. I've done it and know several others who have done it as well.

It definitely doesn't take months.
What is worse, is that even though I installed the official app to squelch this nonsense (the Fuck You Pattern is effective) the mobile site still prompts with "Open in the Reddit App".

When I click it my iPhone opens the App Store. The App Store then has a big blue "Open" button to launch the app, but of course all context is lost and opening from there brings you to your Reddit front page.
> Why not go all they way and let everything run in ring 0?

How would you get memory protection or debugger support then?

Or the very-likely use-case of rendering live (i.e. untrusted) web-content in-game? That would require a modern engine like Chromium which in-turn necessitates per-process isolation.

Also, no-one wants to have to reboot their entire computer system just because some application code crashed. Even if preemptive scheduling and the MMU works in ring 0 all processes in ring 0 can manipulate the MMU registers, so a misbehaving process can still bring down the entire system. Bad idea.

Even dedicated HPC applications need it - remember that the HPC/scientific-computing/batch-job-processing model is the whole reason that operating-systems exist today: they're highly evolved successors to job-control programs (e.g. Chippewa Operating System). So I don't think they'd want to give up all the improvements of the past 50+ years.

Ultimately we're just arguing about the principle of how the user who owns the computer should be in ultimate control over the hardware - but unfortunately Apple has demonstrated that principle is unnecessary to make obscene profits and also runs contrary to the realities of running a large secure platform today. We shall see how this ends-up...
I am not sure I understand the connection you're making between the cumulative and highly technical nature of math and the age of a mathlete.