skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t new towns and villages built all the time? Definitely not with all the aesthetics this author is looking for, but not fair to say we as a society have forgotten how to do this.

I can think of several examples in Texas, the mueller neighborhood in austin. Steiner ranch outside of austin ( built on an old ranch ) . The woodlands outside of Houston built up in the 80s and 90s by an oil baron
I don't have a college degree. Though I usually get jobs where I'm surrounded by people that have degrees or advanced degrees. I can recall a particular startup where I was the only person without a degree, the person that I worked for had an advanced degree. This person that I worked for always resented that I made about the same income without a degree. There is no way I could have ever reached management in that company without a degree - no matter how qualified or good, because of elitist bias.
Or they have a boss-level robot with a bit of rubber on the wheels and you don't even have to fail in neutral.

I kind of wish this would turn into a giant robot wars for a few days of the year, maybe you can buy a ticket to control one of them for the day, if only it weren't such a waste ^^'
> What’s especially neat is that the stimulated brain region normally doesn’t generate any sense of euphoria, the downfall of opioids. This means it’s likely to decrease the chance of addiction.

Ok, this is such a nonsense. Addiction is not caused by euphoria - it's caused because people can't stop taking it because of nasty withdrawals.
Now, when you are using it for chronic pain, you don't usually feel any euphoria, but pain relief.
I've been using prescribed opioids for years and I am really anxious about doctors falling for this kind of messaging. If I had my prescription stopped, that would be the end of life for me.
Another is Seaside Florida.

Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida Panhandle in Walton County, between Panama City Beach and Destin.[2] One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, the town has become the topic of slide lectures in architectural schools and in housing-industry magazines, and is visited by design professionals from all over the United States. The town rose to global fame as being the main filming location of the movie The Truman Show. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects's Florida Chapter placed the community on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as the Seaside – New Urbanism Township.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside%2C_Florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
> This leaves the last row—"data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any)." While that's certainly a broad category and not particularly well-defined, it's also a fact of life in 2021.

On web services, which don't have access to your whole machine. Also perhaps in closed-source software, which many FOSS users use nothing of.

FOSS doing the same is pretty far from fact of life in 2021.
Peanuts. I am actually angry at companies like twitter and such doing business there while neglecting the plight of the dalit and the raging corruption going on. But like china and uighurs not much we can do about india and its dalit discrimination. Cheap labour and cheap products plus a strategic ally in the region trump human rights.
It seems biased to assume apocalyptism. It is perfectly possible to predict mass negative outcomes in a cool headed and honest way. Like predicting massive overspends on a major construction project.
In high school, I had a job driving a tractor and planting grass seed for a summer. I was working with a couple gentlemen near retirement age.

I made a comment one day about how this wasn't so bad, getting physical activity, breathing fresh air.

They told me to get a job in a nice air conditioned office. I wouldn't want to still be doing this when I was their age.
They are showing it because within the study they used data from the device to monitor adherence to each intensity level of their trial groups.
Pea-cans or pick-kans?
Community is usually the thing that makes a menial job feel meaningful.
Telemetry alone doesn't tell you how valuable a given functionality is. A critical problem, one imposed through the tyranny of the minimum viable user,[1] is that the high value creator community of any tool or service is going to be small. Quite often 1%, if a very small fraction of that.

Your telemetry data will show you only that such features see little use. They won't tell you how much value is derived from that use, or what the effects of removing such functionality will be on the suitability and viability of your application.

Default telemetry is demonstrable harm for negative gains.

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Notes:

1. See: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
It's not different :)

Water can absorb enormous amount of energy. And releases huge amounts as it evaporates. And the lake is in contact with massive land surface that also absorbs ton of energy.

The deeper parts of Seneca lake are isothermal with regional ground temperature, so there's clearly no problem with heat dissipation
"so that our usage doesn't drift too far from mainline"

Famous last words.
Why is his/her job not open to "them"?
> Somehow this does not register well with free speech enthusiasts

It registers fine. What you may be glossing over is that Twitter itself has free speech - so it is free to do this, unless you have something akin to a fairness doctrine.
How can you sell solar power to local users without connecting to the grid?
Just to add on to this, NASA estimates that the internal core temperature of Jupiter could be as hot as 24,000°K [0]. For reference, the Sun's photosphere has a temperature of about 6000°K [1].

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[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-...

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-read-that-the-s...
I'm seeing Godot mentioned a lot: one major distinction between O3DE and Godot is that O3DE is "ECS-based" while Godot is "OOP-based" [1][2].

This makes little difference for the hobbyist gamedev, but it has ramifications for large projects with many interacting systems. Proper ECS architecture better supports the latter case [3].

[1] - https://docs.o3de.org/docs/welcome-guide/key-concepts/#the-c...

[2] - https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-gam...

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw
Sometimes this would be preferable to the alternative.
I don't think the speed they were passing other cars was unreasonable. My best estimate is slightly above 50 for the white car, versus the tesla going 69/70.

Not slowing down for the signal is bad behavior but I don't know if you're obligated to slow down for a signal and it's not really a driving speed issue. Someone signalling isn't a road condition.
but A* is not AI. Routing is like the easiest part and we figured that out for games and other applications decades ago. Use a 3d data structure where the third dimension is time, not exploring branches that cross a cell during a time where it is already marked as occupied. At least that's what I did for automating the air traffic control game from the bsdgames package on debian (/usr/games/atc).

Either way, GrumpyNl asks a fair question. Some parts, sure: machine learning aka "AI" for working with this vision system is probably a lot quicker than manually figuring out rules for recognizing items. But the amount of emphasis they place on it, that this is all run by one big AI? It sounds to me more like they mean "AI" in the same way that 90s games said "CPU" or "AI" or "Computer" player, when it had nothing to do with machine learning.
Heck, there is literally no builtin solution for networking. There is a HTTP client, sure, but if you want any sort of realtime multiplayer, you have to use either a separately-billed paid third party, roll your own from sockets directly (good luck supporting WebGL), or use a community-maintained version of the deprecated networking system which frankly is not very good.
Why the overhead of login? Why not just save state locally?
And next comes automatic detection and nullification of thoughts and feelings?
I would have to emphatically disagree. The application architecture of the contemporary web - a distributed system which involves smearing application state and logic by transporting code and data dynamically as needed from one location to another - has only existed for at most 15 years (since the advent of "fast javascript" with V8 and the growth of the set of APIs that enable rich network interaction, which we can summarize crudely as "web 2.0" or "AJAX" or what have you).

The flux and frenzy in the space is much more a sympton of the novel nature of the application architecture, the size and speed of growth of industry around it, and the rate of experimentation with frameworks and tools to quickly build extensive applications within it. Those are not self-inflicted, but circumstantial.

> That’s a separate issue from how smart people working on the issue may be.

I took particular issue with the original commenter dismissing an entire class of developers on the basis of what tools they worked with. I found it to be an example of gatekeeping that unfortunately is far too common in the industry.
"is seen as" x 4

By who?

I'm pretty sure they still teach the difference between passive and active voice in school. Passive voice is great if you want to paint in broad strokes without naming names so people can't actually discuss your points. This is choir-preaching. Or argument by implication if you want a secular term.
Meditation can do this to an extent.
He is much more satisfying to read than modern philosophers.
There's a "Snow Ranch" that is a working cattle ranch near Stockton California, where the owners allow model rocket launches. http://www.lunar.org/events.shtml

I wonder if that's what he's alluding to. I don't see an explicit connection to SpaceX, but it seems to fit.
It's pretty funny how "people follow the jobs" and on the employer side "business follows the people". Hence the modern city hellscapes.
This isn't the only crypto mining setup causing problems in rural New York state. A few firms set up shop near the St. Lawrence river in the northern part of the state to take advantage of cheap hydropower and rent. Locals complained that their electricity rates were being jacked up, which resulted in a slew of new rules at the municipal and state level.

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/40458/202...
That may be true, I don't really know. I tend to make my choices based on what's available to me currently, rather than the standards of the past. Even if a nice tent is better shelter than most humans have had for our species' entire existence, I'm still going to choose to live in a house.
If this technique can relieve pain it can likely also cause it, and also cause pleasure. So it has the potential to become a technology for human puppetry. Or for self abuse, as in Larry Niven's wireheads. It isn't hard to imagine various modern regimes willing to implant control devices into prisoners, criminal or political.
My terrestrial ISP fails open on identity check/verification, so I was able to give them a brand new alias and answer "none of the above" to all of the public records verification questions, and simply run 100% of the traffic out of the pipe over a VPN via a VPN router. They see nothing but ciphertext to a datacenter. This did require their largest-tier service deposit due to null credit history, but such is life.

To answer your question directly, no, they have the service address. But with no other data to link the service address to me, this is okay.

With starlink I am hoping to upgrade the privacy setup to +/-2km location fuzziness. I don't think I'll ever use an ISP without 100% of the last mile
traffic being VPN'd ever again.
European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
That's better than the covid vaccines!
Can you cite an example of an article which literally says "we need to shut up about this to calm China down?"
Feeling the same lately, so I've been using JustWatch to curate as much as I can and avoid waisting time with bad content.
OP refers to Twitter CEO (@jack), who said that “Bitcoin incentivizes renewable energy”

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1384903902907314176?s=21
Don't discount how lucky many on HN have been. Its better to be lucky than good or educated.
Saying it's a waste is like putting a moral qualifier on the use of energy - and for the purpose and affect that this decentralized monetary system can have on the world is definitely worth it in my eyes. People dont make a fuss about using 2 clothes dryers and 24/7 christmas lights that use more energy, but hey that's an approved use of energy.
> "join the Navy,"

Maybe they hoped this way you'd get to learn the science technology? :-)
St Thomas was a man of prayer and a Galaxy Brain!
The target is 3k people. 20% in k-12 is what I roughly expect for this sort of community.

I went to a few K-12s with fewer than 400 people. They were great.

American public schools are notoriously inefficient. Spending tons of property tax revenue is not necessary, just politically challenging to undo. You might be able to pull it off in a project like this. Or just say there are no public schools and outsource education to parochial schools or something. It doesn’t really matter - education has minimal impact on life outcomes until high school/college. It would not be my first concern with this kind of experiment.
Who is the ethics arbiter in that quote?

"Submitting anonymous usage data in order to build a better product" sure sounds legitimate to me.
I expect this will end with a web API for remote attestation. Several standards for remote attestation are in the works[1].

Servers will be able to check that you are running a popular walled-garden operating system that does not allow sideloading before delivering content to you. That way they can know that you are not running an ad blocker, you aren't able store the video stream, etc.
Something similar already exists with Widevine certification levels[2].

It won't matter that you have open source hardware and OS that can run any code, you won't be able to access most mainstream content with it. Devices allowing general computation will be useless to most people and thus be relegated to a small enthusiast niche.

I am disappointed by how little skepticism there is on this and how all tech media I've seen simply regurgitate the "TPM == 60% less malware, nothing nefarious going on here" claim.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/wg/rats/

[2] https://technicaljayendra.com/widevine/#Widevine_Certificati...
I'm sure there's a middle ground between our default level of evolutionary baggage and no pain at all though. I wouldn't mind keeping burns and broken bones being painful, but I'd love to do away with minor annoyances like stinging nettles, wasps, and things like that.

Also being able to turn off pain to a specific problematic area would be nice too, I have a permanent headache from a neurological issue and it'd save me a lot on the quantities of CBD that goes into keeping that at bay!
I program in C and I'm in my early 20s now and still create new projects or write C on a regular basis.
Much of the time it’s asking what the motivation behind a line of code is, such as why we take some crazy convoluted approach to what seems like it should be a simple task. Editor plugins such as Git Lens display the blame output so it is much more convenient if that information is in the commit rather than in an associated tag.
It's often said about suffering, which pain is a subset of.
It serves companies like checks notes Google, Apple, Spotify. I think it works just fine.

As for anecdata, the only cloud platform I've heard nothing positive is Azure.
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I use it to personalize content that should be in a CDN cache but can't because it's personalized.

I have application configurations that need to load super fast as they block application rendering. The magic of the configuration is they can be modified by rules based on the user loading the app, so I pull the configuration out of Cloudflare KV Store, tweak it a bit for the user, and return it.
Your assertion is equally as silly though. Pain is not necessary for life, but it definitely has a lot of merit as a survival mechanism and danger signal.
While America seems to spend a lot of time talking about "how to improve / change yourself", and the "American Dream", every study I've seen (for example https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.... ), shows it does poorly for social mobility.
Don't think thats the intent here. Rather to help treat people with debilitating chronic pain.
https://www.engadget.com/2019-03-21-preshow-free-movie-ticke...

>The company has developed a way to track your gaze to make sure you're actually looking at the PreShow commercial. The app also places a green border around the edges of your screen to confirm that it sees you. If you look away for too long, or leave your seat, the ad automatically pauses and you'll get a red border around your screen.

This horrific shit is all ready to go, I think there is no hyperbole or irrational slippery slope at all
This was basically Walt Disney's idea of E.P.C.O.T. before his passing, and specifically focused on commuting via 'peoplemovers' and walking instead of cars.
https://youtu.be/tKYEXjMlKKQ
Because his philosophy is true.
Hollywood certainly involved, but I think something closer to the root cause is that the number of tickets sold for films in the US peaked in 2007: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

I think the root cause of the ticket shift is technological: cheaper screens, higher resolutions, better bandwidth. People have lots of entertainment at home.

So what does that shift mean? Execs get risk-averse in flat/contracting markets, which alone would account for some of the perceived decline. Artists and execs who are excited for innovation/risk are going to move toward expanding market segments, meaning toward streaming.

Also important here is who is buying tickets. 20 years ago I would happily haul my ass out to an art-house theater to see something novel and interesting. Now it's almost all available from my couch; the hard problem is picking something. More educated audiences are more likely to have the money and technology to watch from home, making niche theater-distributed films even riskier.

What's still going to work in theaters? Things with mass appeal and audiences, especially ones that take advantage of the kind of sound/video that most people don't have at home. Things where audiences know what they're getting. Of the top 20 films from 2019, 18 were related to existing IP, and the other two were from famous directors: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2019/
Fastmail, Disqus and a good chunk of subreddits could easily have 5 million registered users in India, and they are not billion-dollar MNCs (not sure about the valuation of the first 2)
They don't match profits though. Basically these companies take most of the value produced by workers out of their hands. Their work is so valuable that even the pittance FAANG pays is being portrayed as something exceptionally great, but it does not mean they are paid right.
There seems to be a strong push back whenever the inadequate pay is discussed. How come companies can make exceptional profits that look like an anomaly, but at the same time won't pay the workers who created it?
> Yes, and when they come back, they should update their software - which should have a hardcoded checkpoint in it from much more recently. That's the solution that you're repeatedly ignoring.

Setting aside for a moment the fact that users cannot be relied upon to update software, do you understand how this isn't a decentralized, trustless solution? If you're willing to download a checkpoint from a trusted, centralized entity, why even bother with decentralization? Why not just have the US Government sign blocks?

> You're just wrong. Show me a single active PoS protocol that works this way. You won't be able to because that's not how it works. No one else would accept most of these blocks.

Well, let's start with Cardano, Polkadot, or Tezos. Yes, all of these chains enforce a delay between blocks: the way they enforce that is that no one accepts blocks before they're supposed to, i.e. consensus.

...which is completely useless when you're entering the network and receive two conflicting blockchains, because you have no way of verifying when any of the blocks were validated. Consensus doesn't help you, because you don't know what the consensus is.

Show me a single mechanism in existence that can allow me to look at two blockchains and reject one based on the fact that the blocks were mined too quickly. Hint: it exists, but you're not going to like what it is!
Yes, and there are at least 76 stars (i.e. potentially interesting destinations) within 100 light years of us [0]. So, assuming you can set an arbitrary course at 0.95c, and decelerate without turning the humans inside your ship to organic goo, you can reach quite a few interesting places.

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[0]: http://www.solstation.com/stars3/100-as.htm
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> but it seems very wrong to me that the electronic-gentry portion of society is comprised of people sitting in air-conditioned offices thinking "god, I'd never work outside"

I had a part time job planting trees in high school. I knew I got into a good university and part of me was feeling like I was privileged to be able to go to college when the other people I was working with might not have the same opportunity.

But then I heard one of them say "thank God I'll be graduating soon and won't have to do school work anymore."

And realized they had zero interest in pursuing the path I was on.
Heh. That Google Image search was probably a substitute for some chart already in the office, possibly gathering dust.
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Are you talking about going in via Activate, a MAP, or something else?
In the Star Trek future isnt everyone basically a Phd? I always thought this is what we wanted? Perhaps the issue is elsewhere.
Awesome-distributed-system-projects repository
list of distributed system projects with open source code in various programming languages which may be useful in order to better understand how to build distributed services.
It's not even about privacy, it's the basic ethical principle that you should ask for consent before doing something to me. It is a command line tool that I run on my machine, why should it be allowed to what I didn't ask it to in the first place?

Developers might think telemetry a good thing - then decent ones would care to convince the user that it's a good thing too. Some users will agree, some will not, but asking is just a basic act of respect and decency.
mTCP is small enough to be used easily on DOS systems all the way back to the original PC. I have several XT class systems which I have restored. I have a few 8-bit ISA NICs which I use along with the FTP server provided with mTCP to transfer files to them.
Augustine does explicitly reference Aristotle's "Categories" in his Confessions, I believe. Not sure what other material of Aristotle's was available to Augustine, I'm not a scholar on the subject. Of course, even to us today, many of Aristotle's works are STILL lost, so...
Marfa isn't valuable because of a secretive bunch of artists, it is valuable because it has been exporting real estate appreciation from Manhattan for over fifty years. Judd, the artist who brought all the wealth to Marfa, bought the building at 101 Spring Street for nothing and throughout his life borrowed against its value to acquire property in Texas. Today the building is worth at least $100 million.
It’s standard legal boilerplate to say “if we do get a request in the form of a warrant, we will follow the law and comply.” Despite the common reading, it does not mean “we collect data we can hand over to law enforcement.”