skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd resident for the HN front page, but if you could take just 5 authors with you, then Morgan Housel might be one is them. Well, unless you have already achieved the sorts of fuck you money he talks about in this article. I would still appreciate his wisdom though. It's Sunday, maybe you have some time, just open up a Google search and marathon read everything this person writes.
luckily keyboards are bulky enough lots of people do that, so you probably could aquire one again for a reasonable price ;)
https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts
Inferno is available for Nintendo DS, more info at https://gamebrew.org/wiki/Inferno_DS
I can verify that it runs, at least, on a Nintendo DSi, though I never actually did anything with it and didn't have another DSi (or enough knowledge) to find out if it could actually network.
I have used both and prefer FairEmail. Do note though that while FairEmail is free (and free) software, what makes it really great are it's paid pro features.
It seems both Matt Thompson and Blake Hall (former Army Rangers) launched the company while at Harvard for the Military and I presumed through connections they had. After the Military adopted their platform, they were able to segway into the Civilian Gov side of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me
I'm sure some of your 1995 classmates did not have personal computers with internet access. Or know anything about the internet outside of AOL.
Can we stop writing/linking listicles … ? it seems for me, a lot of blogs are only „the 10 next things you should definitely do“ „the 5 tools that will change your life“ … it exhausts me.
Absolutely. Much can be said about superficial activism or "meme activism". We should certainly be concerned with the ways we mine the earth for profit even as we are running out of drinking water. We can build a system that better cares for each person without exploiting the earth for endless profit.
And receivers on earth (or at least the humans reading their output) want UTC, so GPS needs to tell them when to add a leap second.
I'm young so I'm still fairly healthy but I do have some minor issues(that aren't solvable in an easy way) and the thought of my health continuing to decline over time terrifies me. To make matters worse, nobody around me seems to care. All those issues are solvable, if we had more knowledge and better tools. I'm not sure how I can contribute, but I am sure that this is the most important problem that affects everyone and something I want to dedicate my life to.
But surely that would be best done at height rather than tilting the tower. Climb up from a boat or fly in on a helicopter.
Yes, things are overly focused on pirating new releases and the clients are feeding into that problem (or that line of thinking)

I use to seed say 100 old things, sort by seeds, if there are leaches and no seeds give it 5-10 kb until a copy exists again (everything else I don't seed) I've also had things complete after years.

Disk space is cheap. It seems doable for clients to periodically run over archived torrents and seed the dead ones. In stead the whole list is actively parsed for every action.

Say someone has a youtube channel with 500 videos. Also distributing the videos over bittorrent shouldn't have to cost much. But then they have to jump a lot of hoops, run a client with 500 active seeds in it. Its so user-unfriendly a different [more dedicated] medium is probably a better idea at this point.
> they're strong together like they were generated by GPT-3 or something

I agree, the article is not very coherent. However, neither of the authors is an English native speaker, so maybe that is playing a role here?

OTOH, the website where the article is being hosted does look somewhat sketchy, so maybe you're right and the article was not written by the paper's authors but indeed strung together by an algorithm.
That reminds me of Roger Penrose's 1100pp The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, which I was very excited about reading when I bought it years ago. Lots of lovely diagrams.

Turns out I could learn almost nothing from it, although I really tried: The first half of the book was basic stuff I already knew, but I could understand nothing of the second half, it passed so quickly from the elementary to the super-advanced. I ended up wondering who it was written for—I imagined everyone would have a similar experience, whatever their level—it's stuff you already know until suddenly it's stuff you can't understand, and no way of passing beyond. It covers so much ground so quickly, with no time for enough explanation—if you didn't already understand the current topic. Maybe that was just me! But it was extremely surprising putting so much (money,) time and effort into a book with rave reviews by a leading physicist, and learning virtually nothing.
CIOs Scouting for Tech Talent Keep Eye on Wage Inflation
lol, nice

its true though, at this point, you can give new life to older laptops/desktops with linux by just throwing in a ssd and bam, use that. or even buy a cheap intel NUC and now you have your linux box

dual booting is terrible
I understand the concern that people aren't getting help when they need it, but the numbers around unemployment insurance fraud are unbelievable. Axios reported that as much as half of all unemployment insurance paid out has been stolen. [1]

My dad was one of the 21.5 million who had their SSNs stolen as a part of having a government background check done [2], and a couple weeks ago he was personally a victim of someone fraudulently applying for unemployment benefits on his behalf.

I'm not saying that facial recognition is a reasonable way to try to fix this, but we're talking about $400,000,000,000 being stolen. They have to figure something out.

[1]: https://www.axios.com/pandemic-unemployment-fraud-benefits-s...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/us/office-of-personnel-ma...
It is low enough for manned expeditions according to SpaceX concepts: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/10/spacex-its-rocket-coul...
Seems like a stretch for 6-12months. Maybe 10-20 years this will be the case.
I agree with your assessment here. The crux this entire theory is built on is the auditing. People will find a way to defraud it, especially if it relies on physical evidence of carbonization. It would have to be highly regulated to deal with your conspiracy scenario. But the fact that it's decentralized makes that incredibly difficult. It's definitely something that has to be considered as a possibility before being practically applied.
The clickbait-y part is that it is possible to retrieve a token from the previous user. Pretty normal as you say.

The non-clickbait is that the previous token is still valid as far as Amazon is concerned. They absolutely should have a process for invalidating tokens.
This is much too narrow, it's just a special case of the articles point; that the highest form of wealth is autonomy.

From TFA: 'the ability to wake up and say, “I can do whatever I want today.”'

Hard to wake up and do whatever you want if you're paralyzed/in a coma/cripplingly depressed.
Joe Rogan said in his earlier podcasts said that the greatest thing money ever did for him was never having to worry about bills. Spent $2000 at a bar buying drinks but didn't know the prices? Oh well. Porsche needs another repair? Sure when will it be done by?

I'm definitely not "rich" in the sense that I'd shrug paying those things off, but if I had to, I could pay it in cash tomorrow no problem. And frankly, I have to agree with his statement. It didn't buy me happiness, but it has bought me peace of mind. I never had to worry once about how I'm going to pay for stuff simply because I just worked and saved my money. I lived a very simple life and never felt a compulsive need to buy expensive and fancy things just because I had the money to do so. I've known way to many people who did that and were always dirt poor. Most of the time they couldn't even afford to fix essential things like a car to get them to their job.
This is why I originally got an odroid-c1 instead. IIRC newer rpi don't run Ethernet over the USB bus, so there's more bandwidth available.
The article doesn't go into much detail about what type of fraud they're trying to prevent, but it looks like the issue is fraudulent unemployment claims:

> A rapidly growing number of US states, including Colorado, California and New York, turned to ID.me in hopes of cutting down on a surge of fraudulent claims for state and federal benefits that cropped up during the pandemic alongside a tidal wave of authentic unemployment claims.

This ID.me company doesn't sound great at all. Although the government doesn't always have a track record of efficient software development, I wish they would work on developing a different solution for verifying identities remotely.

There is a similar problem with people filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. Fraudsters are loving this shift to remote filing because it bypasses the need for creating a fake photo ID and risking walking into a building. These new remote-only systems only require some personal information to allow someone to file fake taxes under your name or steal unemployment benefits. They get to walk away with the money and you're left to deal with the consequences.

Can anyone share how other countries are handling remote ID verification? As more services go remote, we're going to need better ways to verify people's identity remotely. Passing the problem to companies like ID.me doesn't sound like a great solution.
> does anyone know if these apps also upload all of one's photos once the user grants permission on iOS

That would eat up a lot of bandwidth. I suspect someone would notice it. An app could extract a lot of information from the metadata though, assuming it had access (I'm not sure how permissions on iOS work currently). It could also potentially run facial recognition algorithms locally (not sure how well that would work in practice though).
I agree, there is only one reasonable method to consider a drive "wiped": encrypt all data written to it with a key; wipe == destroy the key. Drives are basically little computers now, they have full-featured CPUs, OSes, memory, write caches and persistent buffers, they compress data before writing it, lie to you about where the data is (ok fine, it's a legitimate abstraction), and who knows what else. My point is that drives have become way too complex for wiping by "overwriting" "every" "block" to ever be an option again (and yes all three of those words deserve scare-quotes). The answer to this problem has become: always encrypt, lose the key to wipe. Period.
I don’t know about you but when someone with a gun shows up, my motivation begins and ends at “get rid of this person”.

I am not going to have a productive conversation, because I don’t know what kind of situation I will encounter.
"Lots of critical military devices still use star based navigation,"

ICBM's inclusive. I've always thought it poetic that if humanity destroys itself, one of its final acts of comprehension will be that of a robot contemplating the heavens. We end as we began.
Commodore Amiga! By far my favorite computer of all time. I know friends still usin' my old Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 to this day. (Gifted at 'em because "retro" computer are their big passion.)
A new bill would hold Facebook responsible for Covid-19 vaccine misinformation
I keep a Gmail for that exact reason.
> This effect [would only be] expected if … crows can understand the empty set as the smallest numerical value on the number line.

Another explanation is that they recognize that an empty screen and an almost empty screen are somewhat similar. That doesn’t mean they comprehend zero. They might, but this isn’t enough to convince me.
Confession by Scott Meyers from the article linked by "zerr";

I’ll begin with what many of you will find an unredeemably damning confession: I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever. Furthermore, I’ve never even tried to write production software in C++, so not only am I not a real C++ developer, I’m not even a wannabe. Counterbalancing this slightly is the fact that I did write research software in C++ during my graduate school years (1985-1993), but even that was small (a few thousand lines) single-developer to-be-thrown-away-quickly stuff. And since striking out as a consultant over a dozen years ago, my C++ programming has been limited to toy “let’s see how this works” (or, sometimes, “let’s see how many compilers this breaks”) programs, typically programs that fit in a single file. (make? Who needs stinkin’ make?) My living is based on C++, but it’s not by virtue of the programs I write in it.

Donald Knuth wrote TeX and related tools which are huge/complicated software over and above his Algorithms/Computer Science Theory contributions. He stands alone in his greatness.

Scott Meyers is not even in the same league. He is a "consultant" (with all the good and the bad which goes with this profession) and in the same group containing the eXtreme Programming/Agile/Scrum crowd.
Mental health on top of it, too.
The Navy is historically in charge of keeping official time in the US, and many other countries.

It's not that they can or can't make adjustments vs any other standard of keeping time, it's that they don't have to.

Whatever may (or may not) make sense today, we adjust to Navy time, because that's what's official, and that's what GPS time is ultimately based on.

Re, relativistic corrections, I don't know the answer for sure, but they average the time between multiple (I think cesium?) atomic clocks. If those clocks all shared the ~same reference frame, I'd think, by definition, you'd not need to make a relativistic adjustment. The frame you'd reference to is the one you're already in.
I'd love a flexible e-ink or oled display so we can finally make the A Scanner Darkly masks / scramble suit.

http://objectsinfilm.blogspot.com/2015/04/object-13-scramble...
Whay incentive is there for buyers to bring in their own auditors? That costs money too, and if it's anything like the current situation many buyers are just looking to get the carbon off their books. What is their incentive to pay even more after burning the tokens to cover secondary auditing costs? Or for some other third party to insert themselves? And who oversees disputes when the trusted auditor disagrees with the challenge auditor?
Intel Hardware P-State (HWP) / Intel Speed Shift
What's basically completely immoral is trying to claim that these criminals are somehow not to blame just because of what word is used for something that wasn't done to them: If the legal term were "gnartleflarb" in stead of "entrapment" even you would see that you have no argument, because they clearly weren't gnartleflarbed. So what if the law enforcement and judicial system now happens to use the word entrapment in stead, and that means something else to you? What is meant in the law still didn't happen, so you still have no argument.
So change FPTP to ranked choice and end the age of American extremism.
You cant cleanly recurse if you hold onto the head of a stream
Me as well!
So, the article commits a pretty large error by describing this as the cheapest energy storage. This advance, even if we take a corporate press release at face value, only brings the cost down the the level of compressed gas storage. It's cheaper than lithium-ion but battery storage project costs, like most other utility projects, are dominated by infrastructure, land, regulatory costs, inverters, etc.
People trying to access government/public services that are coerced into using 3p SaaS with their own TOS/Privacy Policy are basically being shafted outside of the legislative authority of the state.

These 3p processors basically get to write arbitrary law, gatekeeping public benefits.

It's utter bullshit and should be illegal.

You shouldn't have to agree to arbitrary private company TOS to access the things your tax money has already paid for.
Amazon...
I remember when US Robotics sent out a buncha 56K modems for a dime to 33.6K modem owners. Loved US Robotics before that, but loved 'em even more after that. :)
Nobody cares about cycle efficiency when the inputs are free, which they are.
This too is covered, both explicitly and implicitly, in the article. The concept that more money can make you less happy is explicitly covered, and the concept that if you want to do something and can't you aren't wealthy is covered. Obviously, there are many people for whom what they want to do today is play with their kids/grandkids/friends.

I think the issue many are running into with this article is that autonomy is a complicated subject and it covers whatever you're thinking isn't covered here.
The flash on your iPhone is nicer than cheaper embedded devices / microcontrollers. I have no idea what Echos use, but I’ve seen modern ARM micros have a 50k flash life expectancy or less.

It’s not impossible to have a flash memory without a user data eeprom that you could “burn out” (in reality make less reliable).

I have no idea if it’s true in this case, but the straight comparison / jump to iPhone 11 might also be speculative.
This seems to me like a common scheme in the US. People have a general aversion to government services, but they still need to be done so in the end the government ends up actually paying some completely opaque private actor for the benefit.

I remember reading about laws preventing the police from collecting license plate data but not private individuals, so companies exist where the police literally buys license plate location data and nobody knows anything about what data they collect. Same with Palantir, same with Clearview and so on.

Kinda disturbing trend to outsource fundamental services regarding identity and privacy to unaccountable private industry.
true, but this would be ideological rather than economical, which is why it would never happen, unfortunately.

a sysadmin will commoditize the process, make it cheaper, faster, more convenient, transferable (a family moves to a different place), etc. This sysadmin's business would grow, kill the competition, and then we would be back at the current state where we've ceded computing/networking to corporations.
Nope. Big bang theory is the most offensive garbage TV of the 2010s. Insulting to nerds everywhere.
What is trying to be expressed by "highest form of wealth" is usually about agency.

The problem with agency, unlike what 'power' connotes you to believe; you can't just have and store it for later. Like others rightly point out in this thread, there are many avenues in life you want to be agentic but cannot solve with anything you possess, but only through becoming a required thing through transformation; examples are health, skillfulness, being understood in a relationship, an equanimous existence etc. Even then, you're to an extent up to the whims of misfortune and fortune, or if you're not allergic to that word; to fate. There is at least one thing you can't be agentic about with any wealth, and that is your fatality; which connects to the original meaning of fate.

But that's not even the only problem with agency; most of the time you don't even know when you have it and also when you don't have it. This is the bread and butter of psychotherapy; you either misattribute blame where it doesn't belong or fail to hold people/yourself accountable when you should; or you miss what and how you could solve a problem but instead invest your energy and emotions in an avenue that just won't work.

Which means agency, capability of doing things that get you towards your real goals, whether you've realized them or not, is deeply tied to wisdom; knowing in which manner you're deceiving yourself be it through buying things instead of being things, or getting out of being confused about whose agency exactly lies where and where is the way out of an agentic entrapment.

Which ultimately means, there is one and one only form of wealth, that thing you constantly need to aspire to build, and that is wisdom.
The carbon emissions reason is just one of multiple the writer gives. They also mention that they don't code in PHP anymore, they had issues handing it off to other maintainers, and the codebase is becoming obsolete with PHP8. It became too much of a hassle.

That being said I am fascinated if developers are seriously considering the environmental footprint of their apps when deciding to maintain them. Is this becoming a thing with other devs?
I don’t invest in Chinese stocks, but I follow a guy who does. His basket of Chinese education stocks plummeted something like 75% on Friday, I think. I guess this is why.

Pretty wild.
> ID.me uses a form of facial recognition known as facial verification, which compares a photo ID with a video selfie that a person takes on their phone

Noteworthy. This is not Clearview taking a face and returning a name, this is a service taking video and an ID photo and returning a boolean.

No one would be shocked if a clerk in a government office asked for an ID and looked at his face before approving unemployment benefits. Providing access to benefits over the internet is a strict improvement, pandemic or no, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to subject people to a similar level of identity verification.
Why fake a new data leak at all? It's likely to be illegal either way. Depending on the quality of your work I suspect it would be easy to find buyers for aggregated and cross validated data sets on the black market.

For that matter, I have to assume that the shadier businesses silently make use of publicly available leaks. The data is just too valuable to ignore depending on your business model.
Interesting note: modern high-density NAND flash ("TLC", "QLC") is so sensitive to the data patterns being written (writing zero bits causes more wear than writing 1 bits - the latter being the default non-written state of the medium) that controllers need to use a scrambling algorithm to statistically balance the number of 0 and 1 bits that are written. Earlier schemes were based on LFSRs or similar, but then I guess someone noticed that an encryption algorithm would also do a similar job, with the advantage of it being much harder to create pathological cases (look up "CD-ROM weak sector protection" for an interesting rabbithole related to that) and "self-encrypting drive" also be a good marketing point.

On the other hand, it's a nightmare for data recovery, especially the "I didn't ever mean to encrypt this drive, what do you mean you can't recover it?" situation.

There's some discussion of the older version of that scheme (not encryption-based) here: https://joshuawise.com/projects/ndfrecovery
Ask HN: How do big companies get all their information?
A friend and I are starting a company that helps people optimize their tv subscriptions, so they are paying the least amount possible for the shows that they want to watch. The problem we are having however is that we can't find a reliable source of data. I know big companies like google have web crawlers, but Netflix will not let smaller companies scrape their sites as far as we can tell. Do you guys have any ideas as to how to gather information about what online tv services have which shows, and then compile that into a database?
> The water in aquifers, streams, rivers and lakes should not be considered something you can hold the right to as private property.

Maybe it shouldn't be, but it has been historically, and reversing that under the US Constitution requires compensation for the value of the property thereby deprived, see the 5th Amendment. It is not something that can be reversed by state fiat without compensation to owners.

Short of a federal Constitutional amendment or California seceding from the Union, your desired model of water property rights can't just be willed into existence in the state.
Does it solve the crash I often experience when deleting messages from large IMAP folders?
This looks great. Happy to see an easy way to access registry timestamps, as the default editor doesn't make it known they even exist.