skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe because back in the day you needed big money for a big audience. Local channels on TV had worse ads than national channels. The best ads were on the most expensive airtime and became part of the Superbowl experience. On FB, anyone can buy ads.
Doge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only left the project in early 2015, which would mean that he was involved through the whole of 2014 when Dogecoin was a genius-level marketing phenomenon: that was the period of the original NASCAR sponsorship, for instance. The guy is of course entitled to change his mind, but he has absolutely changed his mind.
I could be wrong, but I belief that the issue is bigger than that.

If you live in the US and drive a car or eat meat, you are likely to be co-responsible.

Soy culture is used to create a cheap protein feedstock for the meat industry.

Modern car fuel contains ethanol (10% in the EU). The ethanol is produced by having micro organisms convert biomass. The idea being that you use the short carbon cycle (already in the eco system) instead of the long carbon cycle (stuff that has been in the earth for 200My) thus effectively reducing carbon emissions.

Both of these are produced in Brasil, both have a footprint much larger than the gold or exotic wood markets (which are tiny, compared with meat and car fuel)
> If there are people who are fine with tracking in exchange for services, then they should be able to make that exchange.

Informed consent is almost always lacking. 99.999% of people party to it do not understand this bargain. Do you fully understand it or just "in principle" - which is fine until the rubber hits the road.

"All you have to agree to is being warm, sensitive and caring to our clients." Fine. Prostitution should be legal and absolutely nobody should be subject to it on that basis of understanding what they're signing up for.

Properly informed consent is always crucial to this argument that people are fine with it. The dishonesty, bait and switch, ongoing secretiveness of it should not be necessary and would not happen if it were informed consent. But that consumer fraud being perpretrated 100% built google and facebook. There is not now nor has there ever been consent. Morever when consent is completely withdrawn - you delete your account - they keep a shadow account. To HELL with them and those who pretend all this is honest and above board because it just isn't.
I'm sure the answer is you need to check, but would the cost of checking if you can gallop hurt performance in other cases.

I'm wondering if this removing the branch idea and the galloping idea can coexist.
It is of absolute importance to get the haystack just right.
Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House
It should be at least as profitable (per hour) to find and fix kernel out of bound writes as writing full exploits. The risk is you’re doing legwork for bad actors. Of course the exploit is published after the fix, but not all devices are fixed by that time.
(incidentally: it's "free rein" as in horses, not "free reign" as in monarchs)
In my experience the “Bobos” were never really subsumed by the creative class - and I’d wonder if the creative class even has the top rung on the ladder - or jumps into The Office at all - it is a paper company after all.

We know that the office does a great job of recreating the type of people you find in a boring office job so it’s no surprise that they match up with these different sociological profiles somewhat well - but there’s other personalities too in the show, which match up with people you may find in your own office. Do Jim, Pam, Kelly, Meredith, Toby, Jan, Stanley, Kevin, and Angela fit into each of these three buckets? Or are they simply “Proles”?
Tiffany & Co and JBS Foods shareholder have flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source.

This collective blaming becomes tiring when the actions are self-contained in a small group of profit seeking investors.
There are many places to sell domains. You can sell on sedo.com or with godaddy.

The site I created is to help people find good names which I come up with using the tools I have built over time.
Are you interested in making something that works with the Adafruit Feather & FeatherWing system?
Anyone have details about the increased surveillance associated with TSA Pre mentioned in the article? I understood that these programs authenticated the passenger once but did not increase their ongoing surveillance. Bruce Schneier has some good work about how these programs do not enhance security. I always understood them as a means for the TSA to peel back some of the most cumbersome security theatre while still maintaining the perception of security among the general flying public.

Anyone have other thoughts or information on this point?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/security_risk...
No, we aren't going to just politely allow you to enable slander.
> Consensus courtesy of cryptography and game theory

This solves the vote tallying problem. But that’s not the real problem. Trusting the people making the decision is. Cryptographically guaranteed kangaroo courts don’t help anyone.
And the bigger the network are and the more transactions there are, the more important a complete connectivity graph is, and the more failed transfers you will get if you have an inaccurate graph. However, the bigger the network is, the harder it is to actually gather an accurate graph.

Thus, it doesn't scale.
China Taking Control of Zero Day Exploits
I'm totally fine personally with other people doing what they want to do. Buy a phone knowing you are being spied on.

But do you forget that we did not know we were being spied on. Some of us suspected perhaps, but this only became blatant with the Snowden revelations. The point is that this is not an open, free-sharing system - it is plainly deceitful, designed to extract our most personal information, to provide it to a corporation/governance structure whether we want it or not.

And now we see the long path we are on coming to fruition - we will have to have a phone, a vax passport to simply get into shops. We are facing a world like East Germany, but on techno-steroids.

So, fine, choose what you like. But do you not think a line is crossed when the techno-snooping becomes mandatory, with smart phones, smart tvs, smart meters, etc? Must I hand over all of my information to what is shaping up to be a fascist (government+corporate) governance structure?

Most people around here would say yes.
Perhaps the difference between merely observing a crash while fuzzing and being able to exploit it for RCE or whatever?
It's concerning because the 15% is primarily driven by an unexpected flaw in the engine.

As estimated in the article, the hoped for engine-less rate (driven purely by maintenance cycles) would be ~5%.

Also as noted in linked to articles, the mission capable rates (MCR) had increased from 62 percent in FY2019 to 76% in FY20202, and that was a big deal. At 76%, the F-35 had the highest MCR in the USAF fleet (the legacy airfames were all sitting around 70%). With the engine problems, we can estimate that it's could be knocked back down to ~60-65% (though obviously there are probably ways to shuffle engines around to reduce the impact somewhat), bringing it back to the bottom of the pack (well, F-22 is below it at like 50%... but whatever).
I want to replace those external drives with cloud storage. Is that possible?
Hmm, I have heard about it once or twice, as a minor “Java improvement” language like Ceylon.

It is, however, next to impossible to popularize a new programming language without dedicated evangelists (e.g. hardcore fans who spend a lot of time on programmers forums and social networks, arguing for the language).
His comics: https://bonkersworld.net/
No matter what the law?
side topic: the funny part about going through anxiety myself, as an atheist, is it really made me appreciate certain aspects of religion - from the comfort and wisdom people get from faith in something bigger than themselves, to even appreciating services from organized religion itself, therapy services for those who can't afford therapy otherwise, to the mental benefits of social/communal gatherings and belonging.

i'm no less an atheist than i was before anxiety,but i'm certainly less of an asshole about it.
Complaints show the opposite of what you think it does. People are using it despite the flaws because it is irreplaceable.

There are the programming languages everyone complains about, and the ones that nobody uses.
I saw the pencil shop collection. Its really amazing
Do you think military planes or even personal carriers are always at 100%? 90%? 80%? How long do you think it takes to overhaul an one of their engines?

It looks like the F-22 had something around 50% mission ready.[1] Not to mention a Hurricane messed their training place up pretty bad (as well as my beach house).

A classmate in college was in the Airforce and it took something like 10 hours to software upgrade an F-22 and it was likely to fail the first time.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/air-forces-f-22-rapto...
Blurry is one thing, I get teeny tiny mouse cursors too that I just can't find half the time. Incredibly annoying, especially when it's inconsistent within the same application.
That whole YouTube channel is excellent!
> It's a bummer you can't use Google the search engine to discover them.

So Google blocks it’s own content from being indexed?
It’s fascinating that Balmer was not CCed
thanks, i've probably been making that mistake for years...
Actually, most people around here wouldn't say anything because this topic isn't important enough to them. They glance at the comment and move on.

Is this more unacceptable than people dying in a building collapse in Miami, or children starving to death in third world countries, or a loved one passing away, or someone being rude to someone else?

It's truly in the eye of the beholder.
GitHub Repositories to Learn CSS
I think there is huge a difference between working because you have to, and working because you want to.
> The problem is that if a company uses its name and charges the same amount as it’s other services there is an inbuilt level of expectation which leads to disappointment.

> Personally I can’t think of a single application that couldn’t be better in some way.

> The solution to this would be to temper peoples expectations and host these types of projects under a different domain that clearly explains that the project is very early in production. Providing an opportunity to give feedback would also make people feel more involved in the projects and give projects that have no clear vision some guidance.

> The problem is that if a company uses its name and charges the same amount as it’s other services there is an inbuilt level of expectation which leads to disappointment.

> Personally I can’t think of a single application that couldn’t be better in some way.

> The solution to this would be to temper peoples expectations and host these types of projects under a different domain that clearly explains that the project is very early in production. Providing an opportunity to give feedback would also make people feel more involved in the projects and give projects that have no clear vision some guidance.
> ... crypto lovers that don't change their opinion because of greed.

Making blanket statements like this is a sign of stupidity
Carbon dioxide is good for trees. This will continue the planetary greening which has been occurring over the past few decades thanks to human activity. Trees are very good at adapting to and compensating for additional carbon dioxide. I look forward to further decentralization of forests and an overall greener planet.

BTW, the science behind planetary greening is that higher carbon dioxide helps plants to be more water-efficient. This allows them to grow in areas which would otherwise have been too dry for them.

https://theconversation.com/rising-carbon-dioxide-is-making-...

"Evolution is cleverer than you are" - Leslie Orgel
> Media buyers who run Facebook ad campaigns on behalf of clients said Facebook is no longer able to reliably see how many sales its clients are making

Not sure I get this. Presumably an e-commerce site knows it’s been clicked from an ad due to the url. This must be referring to sites that aren’t recording that and relying on some Facebook pixel in the checkout or aren’t handling cookies themselves to remember when people have visited before.
I keep trying to like this site and I just can't get past how bad the moderation of submissions is.

Stuff is endlessly re-posted even in the same day, and with the most uninformative clickbait-y titles that seem purposefully structured to make you go "...okay, and what exactly is Fruutluup, which apparently just hit version 3.0?" Due to fear of missing out on something cool/interesting, you click on it. Because the submitter knows damn well that if you knew Fruutluup was a MOD tracker written in Scheme, you wouldn't give two shits about it.

The vast majority of posts here are either reposts, fall firmly into the category of "less than a hundred people give a shit about this", "yet another implementation of ____ but in some programming language nobody uses", the ever-popular "nerd getting all philosophical", or some random subject where the post is just the means to an end, letting HN commenters engage in extensive navel-gazing and "intellectual .

A great example of the latter would be a recent submission about agriculture where the author of the news story noticed the traffic and jumped into the comments to ask "uhh, this is a computer tech site, right? How are so many of you qualified to discuss this subject?" and she got absolutely hammered by HN neckbeards going "well ACKSHUALLY, we're programmers and that means we're VERY intellectual people. And some of us are autistic, even. Thos people are EXTRA qualified to talk about shit we just googled an hour ago."
Steven Sinofsky on Windows 365
I made a new youtube channel where the focus will be on Smalltalk game development

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QoB2Ik54E1gEJsBixqJ9A

Alternatively I'll be sure to post it to the pharo discord and the smalltalk subreddit
>That sense of entitlement makes me sick.

No. It is in fact your sense of entitlement that makes us sick.

Update: ok, after checking danbruc's comment history, they probably weren't arguing for tracking, and the second paragraph should be read in third person... I'll take my downvotes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like being able to pay rent though.
How JavaScript Works: the evolution of graphics
An In-Depth Guide to API Authentication with Laravel Passport
The F-22 has comical maintenance requirements (they designed for peak performance).

Lower maintenance cost was a program goal for the F-35 (within the scope of an advanced fighter anyway).
I think it was Ogilvy on Advertising where I read that titles shouldn't have full-stops (periods).
I would not put it that way. Criminals, all manner of bad actors, too can be creative. Creativity alone is not enough of a good to rescue a practice, there are other things to be considered.

Advertising and marketing have been, at least as far as my cultural memory extends past the 80s, cynical and soul sucking. Always trying to figure out what was going on in people's heads and spit out some amalgam of an image or lifestyle or identity for people to latch onto and, critically, for businesses to exploit.

The wrapping paper has eternally been "what's wrong with matching a product to a customer" and justifiably that is a difficult point to disagree with. If we are to have products and customers it is almost self-evident that they should be harmonized. But the premise in question presupposes that a customer will have a need; to the degree that needs are invented as much as the product even to justify the expenditure of resources to create a product in the first place. In the end we loop back to the the previous paragraph. Creativity in service of what? pure exploitation.

Software Engineering is, or can be, an exceptionally creative profession. That alone isn't justification for whatever we design! We must be more careful.
I didn't think it would turn out this way at the time, but I miss scything and hay gathering so much, it has such a spirituality to it.

Nowadays, whenever I hear the whetstone touching a scythe in some remote region, my eyes well up.
“In each case, the device collects intimate and detailed biometric information about its wearer and uploads that data to servers, communities, and repositories. To the providers of the devices, this data and the subsequent processing of it are the main reasons the devices exist.” This statement is a complete non sequitur in the case of the Apple Watch. The main reason the Apple Watch exists is to sell it to people in exchange for profit. What part of the business model there is about intimate data collection?
Assessing unit test quality with gap analysis
That...changes nothing?

It just demonstrates a collective insanity at the organisation in question.

They're welcome to put their heads in the sand and claim whatever irrational bs they desire is "unhelpful" and "sexist" but that doesn't make it so.
On that page there's a related project called is-even . I pray for maximum laughs that is-even depends on is-odd, and just negates the return value of is-odd...

Edit: it actually does! Hah!

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even/blob/master/ind...
> thinking about something along these lines...

There are some solid ideas behind cryptocurrency and perhaps your example is an illustration of how those good ideas could work. Many of the proponents of cryptocurrency describe such use-cases and it seems perfectly sound and air-tight on the surface.

But the current reality is that the OVERWHELMING use-cases of crypto-currency are wild get-rich-quick shell-games, illicit trade and tax-avoidance schemes. This is showing no signs of sobering up, in fact it has become worse. People keep saying that it will "settle down" but there is NO EVIDENCE for that.

The truly disturbing thing about cryptocurrency is that it reveals the possibility that "money", as a concept, is NOT necessarily a medium to exchange goods and services. It is something much more complex and fluid. Cryptocurrency, as a currency, takes all the awful and volatile hidden features of money, accelerates them and makes them overt and central to it's operation.

I think many of us find that idea repulsive. If crypto (as it currently exists) becomes the money of the future, it will mean that the vast majority of the population who earn money by exchanging their labor will find themselves at the mercy of wild and random fluctuations in the value of their labor. Their labor will mean less or more not because of what they actually do, but because of completely unrelated fluctuations caused by "millionaires" and institutions acting on whims, or even joking around. You could argue that it happens now with dollar money, but that kind of fluctuation has been almost always slow. Crypto promises to make crazy fluctuations the norm.

Vitalik Buterin, for example, famously donated ~1 billion "dollars" towards India COVID relief. Except that it wasn't really dollars, it was some cryptocoin that he was gifted ("shiba-shitto" or something like that). That value plummeted almost immediately. I don't know what it is now, it seems the news orgs have lost interest in the story. I do hope that India COVID relief got something out of it, but would have been better if they didn't have to hire crypto people to process that "money" into something useable when they're dealing with a pandemic.
So the important feature is H.264 encoding support on the GPU.

I'm surprised that Lenovo is the one that would pay the licencing fee, I imagined that Nvidia would sell that bundled as part of the chip.
Sweet, seems I should be living in Abu Dhabi. An abundance of sun, a balmy 40 degrees and practically no rain.

It’d be nice to have humidity info too.
Seems kinda monopolistic... You're not supposed to make "agreements" with your competitors regarding what you will and won't compete on, right? That's what they always said in those corporate training videos, anyway. How was this legal?
Anyone who's interested in pgtyped may find this library comparison helpful: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2020/sql-libs-for-typescript...
The alternative to Google, ads, monopolies and crony capitalism is not blindly supporting Firefox, Postgres etc. I think the HN crowd have to invest in learning macroeconomics, philosophy and politics. And a visit to small and medium enterprises in developing countries who rely on these ads for increasing their reach for the lack of better marketplace presence or bad governments. Travel a bit. Meet a few more people. Perhaps a few courses and then use that to lobby local politics and contribute to value driven education at the grassroots level. Support economic reforms. The problem is deeper. If you’re throwing frustration at Google by recommending people to use Firefox, you’re doing it wrong.
But why? The real underlying reason might that we (the EU) don’t have large consumer Internet companies…
I ended up buying a 4 disk synology NAS unit/appliance for about $400 a couple of years ago. It's been remarkably reliable, and has a built-in feature to backup to Glacier, although there's third party tools for most any online data backup system you can think of.

Prior to that I had this monsterous, 4U server that I had to maintain, update, debug, not to mention build and move from house to house, for 8 years. At the time it seemed like a good move, but over time, as my time got shorter to work on personal products, I started to look for other ways to solve the storage problem.

I much prefer the Synology NAS to the 4U custom built system. It's about as close to a toaster-style appliance as I can think of. If it died tomorrow, I'd buy another one (then restore from my Glacier backups).