skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google managed it 20 years ago.

Today I guess one can have more than 50 times the compute capacity at around the same price and in way smaller space. (Estimating from Moores law.)

Given that Google has been lowering their quality over the last 10 years it shouldn't be that hard to compete from a technical perspective.
> we even saw this with the use of masks early on

And even now it is highly debatable that masks worn by most people are effective. And even if they are effective, do they need to be mandated? And even then, what about kids?

Society needs healthy debate.
This looks more like a mess that would happen if S3 buckets by default were accessible to anyone with an Amazon account. Which would clearly be a colossal mistake made by the platform.
Speaking as a Reddit mod, it's often possible to identify ban evaders through their use of language.
I'm aware of his track record prior to becoming a science fiction author.

But what has he invented after he started writing about the singularity?
I heard the terms "corona" and "covid" long before the term "china flu"
Ask HN: Which systems programming language is maintainer-friendly?
By "maintainer" I mean someone who has to maintain a project written in a systems programming language.
I feel it's bit unreasonable to expect a non-technical user to even start to comprehend this issue.

Many of them know that the photos, videos, music from their old iPhone would be available in their new iPhone after they sign-in; But do they really understand what happened in-between to enable that, Should they even know that? That's what Apple is banking on.

It would be pragmatic to expect even technically equipped Apple fans to call-out Apple's latest hypocrisy and move away from the ecosystem. They didn't do it earlier, They didn't do it when it came to light that Apple knew that its contractors exploited child labor[1], They wouldn't do it now.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apple-knew-a-suppli...
There were also monochrome flat-panel displays, either LCD or plasma. My first¹ computer was a 25Mhz 386 lunchbox luggable with a plasma (amber) display. It was portable-ish and ran on AC power only.

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1. Well really my second. The first was a Spectravideo computer I got for writing demo programs for the midwest distributor when I was in high school. It wasn't very useful though.
Show HN: Shoogle – Community project to find local shops easily
My thoughts as well, /r/worldnews is for a long while already an echo chamber dominated by one political perspective that, to use a courtroom analogy, act exclusively as prosecutors against populists, centrists and conservatives or they act as defense attorney's for those they already vote for, depending on the hot issues of the day.
Generous to think that you would consider a project over engineered, but still rely on its internal abstractions.
So lead generation would be something to look into in more detail?
I really don't see how the current hashrate is required to prevent a 51% attack, that seems way beyond what is necessary.

These Proof of Waste systems aren't really a negative feedback loop, ultimately asset prices determine mining yield. Capacity will keep being added to the network until the difficulty rises such that you are required to destroy $99.99 of resources for $100 of crypto. Until that point it's worth buying more hardware and energy as you get a positive expected return.
The group stated that enrollment should be capped until there's new housing. They also simultaneously argued that a housing project shouldn't move forward. Isn't that circular logic?
I don't think focusing on individual responsibility will work. In order to make a meaningful difference we need to make sure that

a) everyone knows what the issues are and what changes need to be made
b) everyone is willing to make the sacrifices necessary

If we've learned anything from (the entire history of the human race) it's that people who know and care will shoulder the burden of making changes while those who don't will benefit from it all.

If we want to make a dent in our fossil fuel consumption, we need meaningful action at the national and global scale by major political powers. Taxes, regulation, criminal consequences are the only way to move the needle.

edit: dougmwne said it better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28317665
Consumer demand is not, realistically, an isolated phenomenon, though. There's a tangled web of feedback in many directions among what people want to buy, what industry offers people to buy, what technologists are can work on, what R&D risks industry wants to take, and probably other factors. Advertising drives culture to some extent and reflects culture to some extent, not just one or the other.

The key point to figure out, I think, is so we know which lever(s) is most effective to fix the problem, rather than just assigning blame.
What props they made a pretty obviously wrong choice here.

Banning antivax nonsense during a pandemic is no brainer. It is light moderation not heavy. I assume you have no objection to spam or troll moderation, how is this any heavier.

If you think about it for a couple more minutes the weakness of your position may become more clear to you
May I ask how do you pay for yourself for many years to do so?
TL;DR: Mosaic 0.13 introduced the blue links because it had to distinguish visited and unvisited links. Just paraphrasing article here, not sure about it's accuracy since many have pointed out its inaccuracies.
All of these posts on the various subreddits link to each other, encouraging brigading. It’s funny because several of these subreddits have rules against cross posting for that reason. It’s possible that 140K people in total are upvoting all of these while others are ignoring it or out of the loop. Given that the posts are touting how they represent tens of millions of users, at best 140K votes means that the community is very split over this and no censorship should be undertaken.
That seems a lot like it's relative in the same way as the universe's existence is when I put my hand over my eyes.
I'm not even sure what this comment is about. The important bit right now is trajectory. China is definitely not trending lower. They have added huge amounts of coal generation in the past year, and their carbon market is broken by design (to keep emissions cheap).
The author didn't say, "Let the user design the software." They said, "Would the user benefit from this feature?" That's a big difference.
Probably a VT220. IIRC those had amber screen phosphor. The VT100 had white.
A little too literal IMHO. No reason a floss mobile os can’t exist. Android proves Linux is technically capable.
For every one journalist who thinks they're cleaver for comparing the latest food science product to Soylent Green, there are ten people who don't really care about food and wish meals were simpler. Is this worse than any other processed food? At least it doesn't fake a meat-ish shape like chicken nuggets.
The US Senate recently passed $52 billion for domestic chip manufacturing.
They don't own the information/recipe, they own a trade mark. That's very different. You can absolutely make parmigiano, you just can't call it that.

For artifacts etc: it's about the physical items. I'm not aware of a nation outlawing e.g. discussion or reproduction of that artifact anywhere else in the world.
Those screenshots are from 1993 ("This is a (242kB) screen shot of the browser, taken when things had got to the point that Communications of the ACM was interested in an article, in 1993."[1]), which matches the year the blog post settled upon for when blue links appeared, but that still doesn't answer why they are blue.

Can you find a screenshot definitively from before 1993 that shows blue hyperlinks?

1. https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
> Till privacy advocates come up with emotional reasons why privacy is absolutely necessary (like grandma is gonna die without it), this is a losing battle.

They have already come up with good reasons.

"Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive." -- Bruce Schneier

"“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -- Edward Snowden

Surveillance harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.

> Pushing everyone to Linux will eventually lead to all hardware falling under some national security law

I don't see any connection here. Linux is already used on all servers and nothing happens.
You'd be surprised, but an all-in solution can be easier to sell than a mealy mouthed half-solution.
I think Exxon et al saying climate change is real and their own internal research confirms it would have changed policy. Better policies could have meant batteries, nuclear, solar, wind, etc could all have been cheaper faster. It could have meant a carbon border tax which would have hamstrung a lot of US manufacturing going to China. The negotiations between Obama and Lindsey Graham for a carbon price might have succeeded.

There's a whole "What if?" where the innovation and beginnings of a post-denial GOP could have happened earlier.
But they did the wrong thing here. For no good reason
Maybe I am missing something but that is not how I understand the BBC article. The article doesn't specify exactly what the illegal content mentioned in the leaked documents is. It could simply be copyright violations or similar, which every major content site also turns a blind eye to unless they receive a formal DMCA notice.

So I am not seeing anything to support your claim that:

> they literally allowed their users to post illegal stuff (apparently including CSAM, according to the guy from US Homeland Security they quote)

The homeland security agent also does not appear to ever say that onlyfans intentionally allows such content. It seems his only contribution to the article is the observation that a large volume of CSAM he sees on other sites appear to originate on onlyfans. This is the entire section of the article which mentions him.

> Special agent Austin Berrier, from US Homeland Security, specialises in investigating child exploitation online. He estimates he finds between 20-30 child abuse images a week which he says have clearly originated on OnlyFans. He says every internet forum he has visited as part of his investigations in the past six months or so, has included child abuse images from OnlyFans. Most of them are videos that were live streamed on the site. In some of them, children are receiving direction - he says.

> "It's out there, it's all over the place and it's being widely traded."
Social housing (or other approaches to subsidized housing) are a necessary piece of the puzzle. However, they are also extremely expensive: around my area the commonly cited number is $500,000/unit. It would take a very major political shift to finance enough housing to even cover the 1-2 million people/year US population growth rate (~$750B/year), let alone resolve the backlog.

A more feasible option is to let private developers (who collectively have access to trillions in capital) to finance housing creation for rich/middle class people, and rely on government subsidies for low-income housing.
I recently left iOS over the surveillance stuff and I was looking at a Nokia device to replace my Apple Watch. I read in the Amazon review that you had to create an account and their privacy policy explains that your location data will be synced with Nokia and you can't opt out, the device can't be configured without accepting that.

Nope.

I'm at my wit's end with ALL of this stuff. Most software, apps, digital life, everything related to technology or a computer or a phone - a good majority of it is frivolous. I will no longer exchange my privacy for these idle conveniences.

> Browsing a site through the browser and not the app? Half of the functionality is not available, just to force the user into the app for no good reason. I just want to read a comment.

reddit you absolute POS.
What would Tmobile or those whose details have already been leaked have to gain from going after the guy now? The information is already out there, is it not?
> The other issue is most engineers want to over-engineer.

My experience is that everyone wants to engineer to their own standards. When it's in a team setting, people with different standards (and tastes) results into "over-engineered" code base.
youtube-dl already has a gui app.
Gotcha. Sorry your obsolete workaround is being painted as new and borderline malicious. :-\
My understanding is that this is the central idea behind BECCS (mentioned briefly in the article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_...
Even if the guess is reasonable and is eventually true, like "we'll need to scale, so might as well prepare for 100x capacity now", it's still frequently a mistake to over engineer.

The architecture to support something that is not needed tends to introduce rigidity into the codebase, adding a tax to future changes in order to maintain those features.
Hahah yeah I was super surprised as well.

Yeah I can check out how to add permalinks. would people use them tho?
With the omnibox on chrome, firefox and mobile, this is pretty much everyone now, isn't it?
Not saying it should be. I prefer no censorship at all, including threats of violence, gore, naziism, pedo RP, etc. But giving an example of the sort of thing people are wanting removed.
The company is pretty small, a two man team. Yeah I guess talking to friends and family might be viable but it would lead to penny projects. Making something for free or pennies is a real time drainer if you know what I mean.
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What's strange is that the very first impression I got from this is that it's OSS - and it's not - which doesn't make it particularly attractive for me as an 'alternative'. Anyone else feel this way?
You don't have to control what software is permitted to run: you can just ban changing USD to Bitcoin and vice versa. Stop the exchanges. Most people aren't mining their own coins anyway.
A Real-World Look at Covid-19 Vaccines versus New Variants
It's likely this person came across this during their research, but decided to omit it because it didn't fit in with their already weak and speculative narrative.
> I curse Slack every day I have to use their Electron app

I did that too for the last couple of years, but recently switched to this client: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ Found the link in comments here on HN.

Works well so far. There’re couple minor UX issues, e.g. hard to react to messages with these modern hieroglyphs, also images are loaded in web browser, but I can live with them. The upsides (ability to setup font faces and sizes, resource usage, GUI latency) are far more important for me.
What do you mean the vault was robbed? We put an "Authorized Personnel Only" sign out front.
They didn't use the controls at all. To Palantir, inaction or omission indicate there should be zero controls.
Every security person ever: "security is laughably easy to get right yet every company in the world is incompetent"
There's New Evidence That the Surfside Condo Complex Had Extensive Corrosion
What are some of these alternatives that aren't overrun with extreme right wing opinions? I've been looking for one as I quit reddit a few months ago.
If we're sharing experience with underengineered code, let me have a go.

At $BUSINESS we have a very successful marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers! We've recently IPOd. We get a lot of new items in and we have an internal page which is used by multiple full-time employees to approve new items, maintaining quality and defeating spammers. The code is written in HTML::Mason templates in Perl (which is basically pretending to be PHP, but for Perl).

The code makes a query to the database that joins the main `items` table with millions of rows with about 5 other tables. It does complicated locking logic in this query, and if this logic fails, the multiple full-time approvers cannot effectively coordinate their work, and the site cannot make money off new items. The HTML and the code of the loop are interspersed, and there are additional queries issued as you go through the loop. The code outputs JavaScript snippets to the page inside the loop which manipulate data structures incrementally.

> Under engineered code tends to be simple, straightforward work with a low blast radius

Hahahahaha this was a delicate multi-month project to split code and presentation within the existing codebase (outputting a single JSON blob instead of writing out incremental append operations to the page source), installing a separate locking system, performing a zero-downtime cutover to this new locking system, following up with a zero-downtime cutover to a backwards-compatible new subsystem, switching that system over to more-scalable queries — then finally developing a much more ergonomic but less acutely critical new frontend to improve productivity.
Kim Stanley Robinson proposes this in his recent novel, The Ministry for the Future. He mostly skips the details around how it would actually work though, beyond needing an enormous amount of human labor for verification. In real life, that would break the decentralization of it.
Apple Maps is on desktop, do you mean on web? Either way, try searching on DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=directions+new+york+to+los+angeles...
My mistake, the 400 number is not correct as you point out. Still, even at 5km per km^2 it is one quarter the density of Seoul and one fifth the density of Paris. I've never personally been to Seoul but Paris still seems to have plenty of green spaces.

I don't doubt for a second that building a lot more housing is not possible for the foreseeable future but like in most places that is a political problem and not some fundamental constraint. And rent controls don't "solve" the basic imbalance between people wanting to live in a place and there not being enough housing for all of them in any meaningful sense. You are still rationing one way or another. When there are fixed supply constraints then maybe that is a more just way to do it, but when the supply constraints are artificial then it just entrenches a bad equilibrium.
That's not at all controversial. It's correct

That said fire in a crowded analogy is terrible, it refers to a legal standard that was overturned and was about jailing people for pacifist literature during WW1
Simple Tips for Overcoming Procrastination
TMobile actually has good coverage now. Since the Sprint merger they have started rolling out 5g 600mhz on the old Nextel network. I'm in a rural area and as of last year I can get 90mbps down with TMobile. Verizon and ATT are like 5 and get swamped on weekends.
We need more cute aliases!

@att.rs # because it refers to both AT&T and Rust
@at.trs # musicians will love it
@a.ttrs # because I never remember where the dot goes
@ttrs # because @ looks like an a @lready
@trs # @ is “at”! Get it?
@t.rs # I like both Perl and Rust
Apple is already on 5nm. By the time that fab is built, Apple will want to be on 3 or 2nm
It depends on your location, antenna, and the aircraft's elevation, but in the bay area I'll often pick up aircraft all the way out to Sacramento. Sometimes quite a bit further.

Of course, the higher the aircraft the further you can "see" them. Most of the traffic I see is within 45 miles (especially low flying GA traffic), but I'll still pick up the occasional high altitude aircraft at 100+ miles out.
The renewable argument never made any sense to me. Electricity is mostly fungible if crypto wasn't using it something else would or it would be used instead fossil or it wouldn't be produced in first place. Every single one of those options much better than spending it on fairly useless speculative bubble asset...
Haskell Foundation: Interview with Andrew Boardman
> That's not true. No mention of 48h anywhere.

Please see https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr/article/ce-que-vous-devez-sav... and https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr/article/logement-squatte-pour...

The 48 hours are a generally applied rule for the squatters to be differentiated from, say, burglars. Because otherwise someone forcibly coming into your house while you are there could not be arrested at all.

The ones you mention is for the preéfet to statute about the expulsion.

> We have a family house that was squatted on the coast during last winter

I honestly pity you. I know of two families whose house was squatted and it took months for them to get back their house (in a terrible state); They never got anything from the quatters (nor from the insurance in one case).
Management Information Systems. A "business oriented" computer degree. They were popular in the 80s as an alternative to comp. sci. They focus on how to use databases and spreadsheets, and other analytical and management systems. In those days, "decision support" software was a big thing. Is MIS still a thing anymore?
Thanks for the input, sounds like the cold hard truth .
Reading this I had a realization. The "soft fear" is alive and well in the USA.

A huge fear right now is slipping up in life and falling off the capitalist progression. There is no safety net here, so if you screw up and end up homeless because you didn't work hard enough or save enough money, your chances of climbing out are almost nill. So rather than sending someone off to a Gulag or prison camp, the gulags are the ghettos patrolled by the police departments.

Here, we say to ourselves, "We don't have gulags," but in the same breath, "if you are 'lazy' it is not our fault that you ended up in the projects." And then the system works to keep you there, from all sides.

By disguising this oppression as a side-effect of "not working hard enough" or "not picking the right career" we can look away and say it is not our problem; yet we live in fear that if we lose our jobs we might end up in these hopeless places. And many will blame themselves because that is the narrative.

Clever, and insidious: the prisons are all around us, just without walls and barbed wire.
> Our consent is cloaked because even when we democratically elect a ruler, they then say see we have the consent of the people to do xyz, even though they were elected saying they would do abc.
> Most people just say well next time I’ll elect my other side and they’ll do abc that I would consent to. And the process repeats.

An interesting aspect of this is: full blown direct democracy is one thing, but simple finer grained continuous high quality polling of public sentiment (however imperfect) is rarely discussed, and isn't particularly technically challenging.
Yes when will Reddit admit take responsibility and ban antivax subreddits?
If it is consent, then it is manufactured consent.
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Not enough Enterprise or cloud in the name, I don't know that I can get enough buy-in as-is.
I wasn't aware of that. I know about NewPipe which is almost certainly using the API. But not a desktop app.
They left it up. It’s fine. We’ve all had a year to evaporatively cool our Covid beliefs into whatever they are and the learning rate has decreased by a factor of ten. Everyone there is already insane
Apple Watch user base hits 100M
Updates on our continued collaboration with NIST to secure the Software Supply
P2 was a long persistence phosphor. It was used in analog oscilloscopes because those couldn't be refreshed -- the waveform was drawn onto the display as it was received, and the phosphor was responsible for making that visible.

You wouldn't want that in a computer monitor. The computer is perfectly capable of refreshing the monitor, and the long duration of the phosphor would make anything rapidly changing (like a scrolling display) impossible to read because all of the previous contents would interfere with the current image.