skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without one we would be forced to use apps on a locked down OS and unable to switch to any up-and-coming alternatives at all.

Even to the extent web is open today, I’m able to run Linux on all my PCs/laptops and not to have an extra one to run proprietary OS in order to participate in modern life.
"Internet+ supervision" doesn't refer to supervision of the internet, but using the internet to make supervisory agencies in general more efficient. E.g. this post by the Zhejiang Archives from 2019 http://www.zjda.gov.cn/art/2019/6/10/art_1378485_34553497.ht... mentions that employees no longer have to carry around documents and manually fill them in to do their work, but can use an app for that.

The part you quoted probably means they want to get to the point where if someone in Jiangsu needs documents archived in Zhejiang, they can just access them through a unified platform instead of having to ask their colleagues there to send them over.
Fuck masks.
Fuck vaccine passports.

Fuck anyone that supports this totalitarian bullshit.
I picked up a cheap fire tablet on prime day, mostly to talk to the cars. The UI on that thing is a horrid mess, and I just don’t want to bother wrapping my head around it.

But AAPL’s actions of late have me wishing there was a 3rd option for a phone.
Most countries had pledged to reach net zero by 2050, China at least said to reach net zero by 2060, with few exceptions. Of course, it must be achieved.

But net-zero carbon emissions means that till that year, the GHG will keep accumulating, the carbon cycle is slow enough to not significantly reduce the amount that you have in the atmosphere for decades.

So the problem won't be solved that year, nor 10 years after that goal is achieved, but when GHG are finally below of pre-industrial levels (I don't know, near half of what is it now) so we lose more heat than what we keep.

All the way till that point, the global yearly average temperature should be rising. And extreme weather events will continue to pile up.

And, of course, net zero doesn't take into account the positive feedback loops that either emit more GHG or rise global temperature.

I feel a bit overoptimistic that article. Or that they try to push that solution tried by Hyderabad as a magic wand (or a cash cow).
This is crucial.

I used to be very excited about technology and I really believed it could fundamentally improve humanity in some way(s).

Now I'm excited about prosocial things, interconnection, anything which allows humans as a social animal to truly connect, find meaning, and uplift each other. Everything else is likely a distraction.

This is the hard part though. Technology lets you make incremental progress, occasional breakthroughs, and rarely has any major setbacks that aren't purely monetary. Humans having healthy social lives at the micro and macro scale is something we arguably understand and can affect much less than technology at the moment.
The more I think about this, the more I realize that you pick almost any time in history and if you were wealthy and powerful, it was freaking awesome. Can you imagine what the life of a Roman Caesar was like? Or a Rockefeller or Windsor?

Similarly for life at the bottom. In almost any period in history, life at the bottom sucked hard.
You can still get that by paying the same fraction of your income and flying business class.
OMG that's brilliant
Thoughts you mightn't'a thunk about remote meetings
Since I'm a non-believer, my feelings on religion is similar to that of aliens: I'm not discounting the possibilities that its real, but I've seen no evidence for it and see people picking and choosing what they attribute to their deity of choice. For example, every time something goes right, isn't god great? But when it goes wrong, its the persons fault.

> "My experience was authentic, even though all those other ones are not."

Yeah, I've had this conversation with a christian before, I asked how are they so sure they're right and the answer was because of their experience. When I told them that I've had the exact same conversation with the exact same answer with a muslim before too, they didn't believe me. Seems like a lot of mental gymnastics to me.

You're right, the similarities to belief in alien visitations are definitely there.
Are you thinking of another show? The final season of Orange is the New Black aired in 2019, and I don't believe Spacey was involved with the show.

Besides, actors can be replaced, but you can't replace an author who's already written the book -- and the allegations against Bradley are much worse.
Branding! And licensing costs, design, UI consistency, obvious reasons covered by Apple and Google when they updated their platforms to use them.
> If we forget, no other forgetting will ever happen. Everything will be remembered. Everything you read, all through life, everything you listened to, everything you watched, everything you searched for.

-- Eben Moglen, https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/en/2012/moglen-at-republica-free...
Primarily, any license fees your don't have to pay for billions of per-use occurrences is money saved. In Twitter's case: that's a lot of money.

But there's of course also the whole "Your honor, as the evidence makes plain, this content/communication is claimed to have originated on Twitter, but does not use our official typeface. We move to dismiss this case/be awarded damages based on the fact that we were not part of this particular incident", paired with "Your honor, as the evidence makes plain, this content uses our proprietary font, but did not originate at twitter. We move to dismiss this case because we were not involved/be awarded damages on the basis us defamation and will be filing a counter-suit for impersonation".
Silicon Valley's Fake Diversity Problem
> By the time war begins, it can be too late.

What war? The U.S. is invulnerable to invasion. The only conflicts that the U.S. would possibly need such a massive global military for would be foreign wars to maintain its world dominance (e.g. containing China, proxy wars, etc.), which I contend are pointless and destructive. I disagree with your implicit premise that the U.S. has to be the global hegemon - it does not have to be, especially when the most urgent geopolitical issue is climate change. Who is “top dog” and how their military is going to fuel their tanks doesn’t matter when the entire world is facing environmental catastrophe.

I’m glad our spending levels are apparently as low as they’ve been since the 1930s, but I’m not sure how that is relevant to the U.S. military’s fuel usage and carbon emissions, which are almost certainly higher than in the 1930s.

> the world and our adversaries would take notice, and we don't want the consequences of that

The consequences being, I assume, the end of U.S. hegemony?
Say that for US, Canada, France, and Mexico in 20 years. Do you want to bet on that?
I've recently tried Express, Proton and Nord. They all seem to have the same issue. Don't know if anyone has any suggestions of VPNs that don't lead to captcha hell, but I'd appreciate any pointers if there's one out there.
Gerrymandering is so pointless. The political party in government changes the map to win elections, prolonging its reign. But it eventually loses, and the new party uses gerrymandering to prolong its stay in power... In the long term the result is the same. If only political parties understood.

One possible solution would be to agree in objective reproducible rules on when and how draw new lines in the map, but again, that would require common sense from the political parties.
ICC like many commercial compilers used the EDG front-end, not their own.
If you are downloading subtitles you are already committing piracy, so you might as well download the whole movie in better quality and with less hassle.
citation needed for your first point: "Companies extract money from the stock market by issuing IPOs, after that happens, it doesn't matter to them very much at what price their shares are traded"
Here's the link for Mastering Ethereum: https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook
I see the argument that developers should be paid more because the company has some profit per employee that is a multiple of the employee’s wage.

From an employee perspective I understand how there would be room and desire to receive more money. However, I have a difficult time understanding why a company would want to pay more. Perhaps I’m a sucker, but in our engineering economics course we went over costs associated with projects. Typically when hiring on new employees to projects you want them to provide a return on the salary.

If the salary is increased to then absorb the profit the company makes on that employee, then there is no point of hiring the employee because the company isn’t getting anything from them anymore.

If a product line ends up breaking even, then companies look to see what can be done to reduce costs or increase prices. Why would employees be any different? What am I missing in these arguments?
Yes, it does. I'm sorry. I was going to mention it. We currently don't allow anonymous posting. However, it's only username and password - no email.
How the Far Right Exploded on Steam and Discord
Sadly the “display devices” ship sailed a long time ago. Smart TVs were phoning this stuff home way back in 2013: https://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging...

Of course that was just file names and TV tuner/input metadata like channel numbers, not even MusicBrainz/Shazam-style fingerprinting like they would probably be capable of these days with beefier SoCs and more widespread always-on connectivity. Files-on-USB are no longer “en vogue” anyway with everyone and everything moving to streaming services where the surveillance is built right in by definition. Every time I watch something on Netflix/Hulu/Disney they’re watching me right back even if it’s ostensibly for my benefit e.g. for more accurate recommendations.
For those reminding me of that poverty has been greatly alleviated with the last decades, I understand very well however this article completely lacked this info and it came across to me as ignoring this important demographic.
>He's going to crack down hard and control the population, so when the inevitable comes there is acceptence

I'm curious how that will work. Are you saying CCP propaganda on TikTok is going to ease famine?
That's not true. I needed to take a test to verify that I really had the vaccine to enter Israel.
Those images seem to have the same font (might be the resolution/compression) but I just went to twitter.com and I saw immediately the difference.

And I'm not even a big user, I visit like once a week for 10 min. I guess it's even more obvious for people who use it all day long.

I wouldn't say it's better or worst, it's probably just a matter to get used to it.
That's pretty much it. Can confirm, as I am Ryan Sipes. We (Thunderbird) are still 99.9% donation supported, so every bit helps.
> What happens when governments start distributing lists of hashes belonging to "subversive" material

Soon for any device containing a computer: "We are just including this hash check feature so we can do business with China, don't worry it'll be disabled by default for western countries"
If you are ordering 10k + pre-flashed SD cards then you are an enterprise. On first run the user must download an installer to download the most recent bugs and features. That is how things are done.
Is Etcher still an electron app? Love to run an instance of Chrome so I can have a GUI for "dd".
Makes me think further...are there any documented cases of a three letter agency being on the board of any company?

I'd guess they tried it once or twice, and it was too slow so they went for more forceful means.

This just reasoning from what they've already done in the past.
London Breed is a nazi.

I hope she gets her ass fucked up on the street.

Fucking cunt.
One is better off suffering that and letting it inform your behavior (avoiding sites that implement that trash, to the extent you can), than continuing to buy into the surveillance web and making it ever harder to separate yourself.
Elasticsearch official Python client changed to not work with forks
It's interesting that likely the biggest beneficiaries of Cold War ending were Russians, not Americans. So maybe US won the cold war - even though they were really worried about collapse of USSR and creation of multiple states instead the former one - but Russians certainly got something out of that collapse.

EDIT: and by "Russians" here I rather mean "former Soviet citizens".
My impression was that wikidata was the main answer to this problem by centralizing all the facts in a central database to avoid each page having its own data and sources, but I can see how there is much more than the data at stake.
It would be okay if we'd only just start using it. Having lived overseas for a couple years, your brain adjusts after a short time. Sigh.
But tens to even hundreds of times smaller than any single tweet that has an image in it, so not really a useful metric.
More fires, more droughts, more pests, etc.
I guess I was thinking incentive beyond the legal - like, people often do things because they have desires outside of the legal code.

For example - even though the GPL contains, to the extent legally possible, an "as-is" clause like the MIT liscence, it's extremely common for GPL projects to publish information (ex: hashes, known good package repos, etc) that help people ensure they've gotten the software they expect. Sigstore seems like it's driving towards the same goal.
The general advice goes like

"You want to work in Geography A, in industry B, with job title C. If getting all of those at once seems hard, you might switch to one of them at a time. Maybe change to industry B, work up to job title C, then move to geography A"

You could already interview for a position doing basically what you do now for a company in a better industry, for instance.

Any kind of big change can be broken up into smaller bits.

I'd advice anyone who feels incomplete web programming to try embedded programming with Arduino (I did this myself) I started out blinking a few lights and making a logic tester for 74 and 54 series ICs, then I got a idea for a flashy side project which is in progress now. (An LED strip for the side of my car that can display letters, symbols, or picture of a Mclaren F1, ...)

I am not looking for a new job, but I have even more ambitious ideas of artistic and performance projects that are the personal version of a moon shot which I will need allies to pull off and the project above will be part of a portfolio which could get me the support that I need.
Conductivity matters. Copper pans that are thick heat-up really fast. This is one of their primary benefits in that they change temperature quickly based on the input. The heat-up and cool down quickly. This is why they are popular with chefs - fine tuned control on pan heat which you generally want to change while cooking.

Cast iron is the opposite. They take a long time to heat-up and a long time to cool down. Steel is somewhere in between.
Decarbonize as soon as you can. If you own a house, add rooftop solar. It can be financed pretty easily these days. If you have extra spending power, give money to Climeworks or Carbon Engineering. Tradewater might be even better bang for your buck.

Consider changing your career path to work on climate issues.

Invest in moonshot ideas like sustainable fuel, small-scale nuclear, fusion, etc.

Get involved locally. Set a good example, and help others follow your lead.

Call your senators.
etcher pro is a physical device, so if you don't connect it to the internet, it can't phone home. or does it require internet to work?
SQLite as a library is amazing, SQLite as a spec for a standard web API is not.

The issue is not just that there wasn't a competing implementation at the time, it is that you could not feasibly create a competing implementation. The set of features supported by SQLite is _massive_. And even you stick with SQLite, which version? And which extensions? Which features do you remove because they're not safe or not applicable for web?

Alternatively you could start from the ground up and create a new database spec that is similar to SQLite, but more limited in scope. But then it will not be directly compatible with SQLite, and need a translation layer. The browser would likely have to re-implement large parts of SQLite for this to work. And you'd miss out on so much of the functionality that makes SQLite attractive to use.

Arguably that would still have been better than IndexedDB. All that IndexedDB has going for it, is that it is simple to implement. But even then Safari manages to get the implementation horribly broken so often.

What we need instead is to have a low-level storage api that can be used to implement other databases as libraries, including SQLite. The Storage Foundation API, mentioned in the post, might just give us that.
https://www.peachesnstink.com/p/kdCuZJPHvit88DuD5TCXLJ
"Snitches" makes it sound like I'm doing something wrong that my devices reported me for. In fact, they're spying on everything I do.
Gift cards are unregulated banks then?

The difference is banks have fractional reserve banking and stable coins do not.
Well the problem is that people who are purveying information in this country at large - but especially between Paul and his base - is a lack of nuance. Calling cloth masks or "OTC" masks ineffective, esp. w/o pointing out that n95 masks are effective is over the line between disingenuous and lying imo.
> North Korea has done much worse (economically) than the USSR, but is very politically stable.

NK doesn't go to wars outside it. And they have support of China. This surely supports a long term stability... but how much of a long term, remains to be seen.
I think we as people are predisposed to believing that unexplained phenomena are the actions of some sort of agent. Humans that more often associated rustling in the grass with a predator had a better shot at sharing their genes than ones that didn't (even if this belief is often irrational considering the circumstance.)

Across humanity, most cultures historically ascribed natural phenomena to agents; wind, fire, lightning, floods are caused by agents (either animal, spiritual, ancestral, or personal.) It makes sense then that if I see unexplained behavior in the sky, and I've been introduced to the idea of UFOs, I may be predisposed to believing that the unexplained behavior is the intentional acts of extraterrestrial actors.

I think most people can be perfectly rational in most aspects of their lives, but for certain beliefs and behaviors (the social, sexuality, and identifying agency) there's likely always going to be a degree of innate irrationality.
> The pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of deaths just in the US hasn't had the same sort of coverage.

Sorry, but where are you living/getting news from because I am jealous and I want to be that isolated.

Literally every new story, list of headlines, broadcast, tweet, and conversation today includes COVID. CNN used to have daily death counts and totals. Every single person's life, from the way we study, work, shop etc has changed because of COVID.

If your thesis is that somehow this big crisis hasn't been sufficiently publicized and people aren't aware, I just have a really hard time connecting to your perspective on the world.
Yep. More precisely Moments [0] which is great for photos and videos. But the Synology app ecosystem as a whole isn't bad at all. Just remember to buy a NAS with an x86 processor so you can also take advantage of docker based apps. I believe the DS220+ is a good device to start with if your budget is around $300.

[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments
Twitter's designers did this because it helps them get promoted and earn more money.
"99% of the time when you say no, the other party will just shrug and say ok." You must live in a particular bubble of NDA's.

For product R&D in Biotech (non-California at least), NDA's are nearly universal and never optional. You don't sign, you don't work.
Yes, it's currently an electron app
That sounds a lot like a problem with the sign enforcer, not the second guy named Jack...

You can't just expect people not to take free money laying out on a park bench with their name on it...
It's right to be critical of the slippery slope argument, except that you can take a look at history and see how even in western governments in "free" societies have spied on those who challenge the status quo. I think we're right to be skeptical of surveillance as there is a proven track record of this kind of behavior from governments and corporations.

Take a look at a law that's being proposed in Canada right now. It includes allowing the government to request take downs for a broad number of reasons including otherwise legal speech that they consider to be offensive, data retention, what essentially amounts to a national firewall etc.

Cory Doctorow, who is from Canada originally, has a good write up on it: https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the-canada-variant/#no-ca...
If Google Earth Were Designed for Your Wall
Fun! And since "there's no such thing as a fish", these drawings are as legitimate as anything else you call a fish.
Makes sense because even my oldish Macbook Pro goes into afterburner mode trying to browse the modern Internet.
If they are able to replace real world contracts one day, that could be a benefit, i.e. escrow and title transfer for real estate. They would need to be pretty complex to do so, since currently title companies track local laws and make sure everything is in order, but, stuff like this could automate some things which are done manually now. There also would probably need to be a way to have human intervention, i.e. being able to upgrade or sidestep the contracts, if something doesn't go as expected, but I still think automating this can modernize certain fields.

In my opinion, the process of buying / selling real estate, at least in the US, seems antiquated. There has to be some way to automate this instead of manually having some escrow company hold funds and then manually releasing them once the sale is complete, and issuing the title (gets more complicated if it's a mortgage vs a cash deal, since a bank loan would also be involved, but either way, it is possible). The smart contracts could be coded in a way where the funds are automatically released, and a title issued, once certain criteria are met. One risk is that the smart contracts could be hacked, but over time the code could be become more solid.

It seems that as a whole the world will move more to automation, over time, and smart contracts might play a part in that. That said smart contracts that can't really be stopped could also become Skynet or something (i.e. Terminator), but I don't think fear of that should prevent us from exploring the possibilities. My point is that smart contracts could automate certain things that are done manually now. They might still require some human involvement, but the amount of human involvement required could be dramatically reduced. I don't think the main benefit of smart contracts is just that they are unregulated. I also don't think that the way smart contracts are used today are the only ways they can be used. It is a new field and many things that folks haven't even thought of yet are possible with this type of technology.
Some Indiana Jones bullshit! wow!!!
Use Explainable AI to Convince Executives That Image Classification Works
Having read a number of KSR books, I admire the creativity, but find some ideas a bit half-baked. The characters and storytelling are generally a bit lacking in depth and development as well.