skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue the opposite. We should not allow companies to use "AI" as an excuse to avoid responsibility. I think it is perfectly reasonable to hold Facebook directly responsible for this.
Correct. An easy win for Firefox is to become a zero telemetry browser by default. All that telemetry is giving them wrong data anyway as users they should be most interested in disable telemetry and are not represented in usage data.
Already we have witnessed increased frequency of extreme weather events. And the thing about positive feedback loops is that they accelerate.
You really think you can’t accomplish multiple things with a piece of legislation? That’s exactly how political science works, you craft something to benefit yourself in the most ways possible.
Most tax utopians rally around LVT. Transfer and transaction taxes are regressive. Reducing the federal budget greatly would cause a great economic contraction likely resulting in social and political chaos.
DMA can work in both directions. You could put information in a specific location in main memory, then ask a peripheral to read it.

But equally a peripheral can expose its own memory and ask the host to write into it.

Cheap devices tend to do the former because it avoids the need to have expensive memory built in. They can just “borrow” system memory. More expensive, performance optimised, devices tend to do the latter.

It’s also worth mentioning that DMA tends to work between every device attached to the PCIe bus. So Microsoft’s DirectStorage API seems to be using this feature, by having the GPU directly read data from an SSD, without the data ever touching the CPU or main memory.
Unsure that is a sound direction. https://www.mixminion.net/ is defunct but it and its predecessor paid close attention to metadata removal.

It's basically Tor but with variable, high latency. It never took off, you need people to buy in and run nodes.
The West can learn from China
AWS doesn't retain anything for you unless you tell them to, and when you tell them to delete something (as in the example relayed by the person you are replying to), they delete it as best as they are able. That's part of the value proposition: when you delete the thing, it goes away. Why would they start now for clients who want their bills to be in the tens of dollars (when if you really care you can do it yourself off of billing alerts[0])?

Going to be real: you aren't "triggered", which is actually a real thing out there that you demean with this usage of the term. You're just not the target market and you're salty that it's more complex than you think it is.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
>Blogger seems to just remain stuck in the amber of ~2005.

I dont blog myself, but what would be needed to be added to Blogger? A blog is just header image + text anyway right?

Meduim blogs are mostly just text right? Is it just the nice theme? Ads? Payment?
Disclosure is insufficient to prevent aggregation. The same kind of people who sold browsing data to advertisers are selling this data. If you do not want to be tracked, you have to get those around you to not provide the data.
AWS is the solution looking for a problem, which happened to be modern web dev practices.
Data that's had data censored from it is bad data.
Plenty of people are running on VPS or other shared hosting, with generally limited resources.
NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate
Text Secure/The Signal Protocol the author praises was basically the SMS equivalent of PGP/what they spend the first half of the article bashing from all sides. Even in 2021 while it has switched from SMS transport for the encrypted streams (mostly because it's just a shit transport that cost users more money than data at that point anyways) it still allows comingling and sending messages as plain SMS instead of over the encrypted channel. If used properly Signal solves one or two of the main points listed but is just as guilty in the other half. It's also been found to be imperfect over time even though it hasn't been around as long as PGP.
I don't know, I don't think so. I am very sensitive to the color and quality of light, for example I imediately see the metameric failure caused by crappy (99%) of LED lights and I spent months finding some good LED-based lightbulbs.

One hypothesis that I came out with might be that advertising competes for my attention using lots of colors, and I have become very experienced in tuning out any kind of advertising. I don't consciously associate colored text with advertising, but for whatever reason the mechanism seems to be active in my brain.

Sometimes color highlighting actually serves as an objectively beneficial function, for example colored grep output or colored diff output. Even in those cases I still have to turn colors off, otherwise I simply skip past the important bits of the text that are highlighted.
Yeah me too. What keeps me on windows for my desktop is a couple of pro image library software packages and games. $15 is well worth my time to not deal with the unreliability of linux.

I could use a mac, but they don't have justifiable storage costs and external storage is annoying, costs more and is less reliable than internal storage, and macs don't do games well anyway and I just built a new mini-ITX sized PC. Apple is also going down a path in computing I don't like, so I don't know if they are that viable too...
Complaining about it on Twitter might work (tag the company, maybe an exec or two).
Salesforce does a lot of business in Texas, and hasn't announced any plans to change that, so I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "boycott". The source article just mentions a relocation offer. I suppose I don't know Salesforce policy specifically, but every big tech company I'm familiar with has programs to bring overseas employees to the US if they want (and can get a visa).
I really like Geizhals. It provides a way better UX than Amazon for browsing computer hardware and other electronics.

My only gripe with it is how many stores only sell to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I know that it's not geizhals' fault. Because of this, it's mostly an improved way to search Amazon for me.

It's a bit funny that if I were in a richer country, where people are paid more, the price of commuter hardware would be cheaper.
I do statistical computing, and I very much disagree. My single-page J is much easier to read 6 mo later than my 500 loc R script.
Your perspective makes total sense. Don’t mind the downvotes.
As nijave said, the declarative style is the difference. I can read a terraform file and already know the exact state my system will have.
A couple of boomers went on an unguided tour, unarmed. I didn't know insurrectionists tended to leave their guns at home
And yet that doesn’t constitute even close to the majority of developers.
This a very good point; I would also stress that mathematics itself is highly “functional” (in its modern form anyway), and that it is stateless (unlike its representation in an imperative language).
I am not arguing it would not be worthwhile to try. I argued that this data being collected and aggregated is inevitable. I still have not read a convincing reply otherwise. The ALPR data market is a perfect example of where we are heading.
> Roughly 2GB of memory per server [...] so your VMs are going to be memory starved pretty much 24/7.

Most applications don't need gigabytes of memory though? I don't know what one uses a mainframe for but web servers, file shares, remote login software, proxies, traffic scrubbers... lots of common applications use up to a few dozen megabytes of RAM; throughput is much more important there and memory to operate on is just for some state and buffers. Even a database with millions of rows and a dozen indexed columns, the index of that (I just checked a database of my own) is in the hundreds of megabytes, far from even one gigabyte.

It seems a bit odd to assume each server always needs multiple gigabytes of RAM.
Hmm not working from my Firefox (latest on W10): secure connection failed with MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING... Chrome works though.
> Every long term secret will eventually leak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPstXCqyus

"You can’t hide secrets from the future with math. You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past"
Yes, but there's still a lot of pollution associated with it: https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2011151
Substack doesn't seem great either.

https://twitter.com/Codie_Sanchez/status/1408473091727052804...
I used to run an AWS consultancy, which is how I know. ;) More than once I had a customer go "well support won't help me, how can I get my data back?". And I had to tell them "well, support isn't just not helping you for kicks, you know?".
Showkase: UI component browser for Android developers
The devil you know...

If you hold an election after toppling a non-democratic government, you never know if that's going to be the last election or not. Also, you just can't trust that the people will elect your "guy". If you're already "controlling" the current leadership, no need to turn over the apple cart.
Your morality should have no impact on my morality, unless my actions directly effect you. For example I’m vegetarian for various reasons, but I don’t feel the need to prevent you and society from eating meat if you want.
I was in middle school in Russia back then. I remember our teacher dedicated a whole hour to watching and discussing the news. It resonated because Russia was also experiencing acts of terror by Muslim fundamentalists. It was way before USA and Russia became enemies again. Two months later Putin would visit Bush's ranch.
You’re account is 1 day old. I am a little confused how you saw it 2 days ago? Or better question why you made an account just to say something is fishy when it’s just a simple site about dog genetics, not a ad or anything else?
Global warming: is weight loss a solution?
If it serves the public, it's a public service. Utility companies were private companies until people decided they weren't.
At this point, there's only one way that I can see to opt out of this nonsense. Don't fly.

I've been fortunate in being able to avoid flying for years now.
Happily, just pay me the equal ~$100s/Mo, the distribution of Publications, the killer SEO rankings from Medium (always first page) & the 1000s of click-throughs to my personal site.
So they are at it again.

In late 2015 Whatsapp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, was caught with the pants down intentionally crippling functionality when detecting links to Telegram.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/09/whatsapp-is-blockin...
When you’re reading a book out loud to a child one thing that matters is who is talking (so you can do their voice) so colour-coding characters would be nice!
> There's no way I'm installing kernel-level proprietary monitoring software.

Yeah, me neither. It's gonna suck if they start requiring it on Linux though. I hope smarter people than me will find workarounds that allow us to pretend their shitty modules are running.

Just in case anyone is wondering why this is a big deal:

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter...
Of course not, they're written horizontally as usual. Where did you even get the idea they would be written vertically? BTW, even on a laptop screen with vertical tabs I see 31 tab names with ~20 characters in each name. With horizontal tabs, I see 15 tabs with ~5 characters in each name. 9x more information, now that's UI/UX!
Another recommended Korean movie with a story like that is "3-iron". It has a more poetic approach.
I believe "Writing is nature's way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is." should be attributed to Dick Guindon:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160731175038/http://www.guindo...

I love this quote.
>aren't you giving too benefit of the doubt

the largest mastodon instance has 500k users. Facebook has two billion users. If you can post twitter and tiktok and tumblr links on facebook, do you seriously think there's someone sitting at facebook taking names and making lists about a social network that practically nobody even uses

there are competitors a hundred times as large you can link too. My first guess is it probably tripped some NSFW filter because on some mastodon instances there's quite a lot of porn.
Exactly. Delegating decisions does not reduce responsibility.
I think your last paragraph is the sales pitch for AWS. Hiring that level of expertise doesn’t scale.
Easier and cheaper to hire 10x as many “developers” and pay the AWS bill than headhunt performance gurus that understand hardware and retain them .
I am not arguing for any laws. I am saying that I don't see how any legislation will stop this technology from being used to identify and track people.

We saw how eager people were to install Google Analytics on their websites. They don't care what they do to their users.
This 'correction' replaces a specific statement with a rather more general one, obscuring the point of the reply.

"California doesn’t allow health insurance to deny paying for abortions."
Good ideas aren't worth much if the business model doesn't work. They've raised over $100M and have pivoted multiple times. At some point you have to ask whether the idea is not a feasible one.

Alternate possibility: the core idea is a good one, but they raised too much money. Now they have to live up to an impossibly-high valuation and can't just be a blogging platform.
> I'm confused. At the top of the second paragraph, it explicitly mentions the erosion of privacy rights. Isn't that a valid principle upon which to oppose mass surveillance without cause?

"We should oppose surveillance because we have privacy rights". Sounds like a tautology. It raises the question: why should we have privacy rights?

The long passage you quoted enumerates negative consequences of surveillance. We should have privacy because democracy depends on it, we should have privacy because surveillance doesn't work, surveillance is racist (how trendy), etc. What's missing, in my opinion, is an assertion that people have a fundamental right to privacy solely based on their being human. That's a natural rights perspective, I think it's indispensible, and I think it's unfortunate that we (not just the ACLU) no longer find it convincing.

As long as we justify our rights based on contingent circumstances they will always be up for debate.
Medium feels like it's the Experts-Exchange of article publishing, it's well indexed and comes up in search results, but every time I open a link and get begged to signup I immediately close it.

Hosting on Hugo/Netlify is kind of a good solution, but I feel like there needs to be a completely free, managed version. Setting up Hugo/Netlify is mostly simple, but it's one of those things when you don't want to deal with updating your local tech stack vs a managed service.

I feel like Substack is slightly better, although it still does lean towards "subscription" first services (but at least it's per user / patronage type model)
I see, thanks.

Maybe I'll write up a page with one-line summaries of the most useful VIM plugins - not only the IDE plugins - to help people find what they need. Any ideas for plugins or information to include welcome.
I opened it in Firefox Android and it crashed whatever the android equivalent of the window manager process. Quite impressive.
A shocking amount of people in the comments are misspelling it despite it being written in the headline.
Weird plex doesn't do that for me. I run plex on a rpi3b and everything plays (without encoding of course) at 4k with no issues. I use firestick as client.
There is a lot out there that is bad. What is good?
It’s a lot easier to transfer employees of any skill and speciality to different states. Transferring employees between countries is a lot harder, and for some careers (e.g. tech support) going to be nearly impossible.
https://www.metafilter.com/10034/Plane-crashes-in-to-the-wor...

Just to save people time and Metafilter's servers possible wear-and-tear.
Copenhagen Suborbitals' achievements include [1]:

- Most powerful amateur rocket ever flown.

- First amateur rocket flown with a payload of a full-size crash test dummy.

- First Main Engine(s) Cut-Off (MECO) command sent to, received and performed by an amateur rocket.

- Handling and orchestration of a sea launch, by a small-budget organization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals
How can he lose your discoverability when he never had it? Sure, you won’t read his blog now, but you had no way of discovering it before.

You can’t lose something you didn’t have.
Not just the internet. This is the world we have made for our children. It is highly distressing.
I just moved to Texas from California where there is: horrific levels of crime, homelessness, and drug use in my area, outrageous cost-of-living, bad public schools, bad housing, and people are generally just incredibly unfriendly to each other. I also worry the lack of water and annual fires will tank the biggest industry in the state (agriculture), and who is going to pick up the tab?

Texas has problems, but they're not as bad for me. Personally it's the lack of nature that's been the worst drawback so far. Most of them can be mitigated by purchasing a nice house with good A/C and a standby generator—which is affordable.
A number of orgs have perpetual site licenses, or so I've been told. It can solve many problems elegantly and with minimal code and development time. But it requires a core group of people who do almost nothing else.
Step 1: put them behind Medium's paywall.

Step 2: I don't know what Step 2 is because I'm unwilling to do Step 1.
I really like this. It took me a minute to figure out that having GitHub in dark mode was making the embedded math images effectively invisible. Just in case this trips anyone else up, switching to light mode will make this doc make a lot more sense :)
Nobody:

PNW Hyperwoke: You're fired!
The naivety in here is astonishing. "The AI just messed up". Facebook's entire existence is 1) identifying the smallest details in information 2) buying up small competitors before they are an issue.
Enemy of the State (1998, Will Smith):

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwNirOiTdg9BJ...
This is pretty stupid IMO.

There’s no requirement to have a health procedure done in the state you live.

It’s way more convenient if Salesforce offered transportation to get an abortion, instead of forcing you to relocate to get that assistance.
> Qt is probably fine but their licensing turns me off from ever using or considering it.

If I may ask why? They provide GPL and LGPL, and this last one is quite permissive.

See: https://www.qt.io/licensing/open-source-lgpl-obligations

> In case of dynamic linking, it is possible, but not mandatory, to keep application source code proprietary as long as it is “work that uses the library” – typically achieved via dynamic linking of the library. In case of static linking of the library, the application itself may no longer be “work that uses the library” and thus become subject to LGPL. It is recommended to either link dynamically, or provide the application source code to the user under LGPL.
I'm not sure I would call it "lockin" but yes, it only runs on Apple devices.

You asked if any browser does this, and I said that one did. Other browsers supported by your browsing history are unlikely to make this change.
Ask HN: Any experienced bread makers out there? (Question about yeast)
I am making some apple cinnamon bread and the recipe calls for two packets of yeast.

It is my understanding that yeast multiplies itself by through consumption of sugar, so my question is:

Can I use a single packet of yeast with a bit of extra sugar and just let it proof longer before making the dough? Instead of using two packets? Or is there another purpose behind using more yeast?
One api to get the ip details. This provides with the alpha code for the country. A second api to fetch calling code for the country. Code's here: https://github.com/droyson/wa-connect/blob/main/js/countryCo...
While they have run afoul of the government a few times the penalties and "negative press" ever amounted to anything that slowed down their growth or revenue. So to the OP's point if you can afford the fine it doesn't really matter?
Why would the author be interested in helping netlify track where the clicks were coming from unless they got something out of it?
Epidemiologists and public health officials disagree with you on that.
I agree it’s fairly easy nowadays to maintain a "live" demo of your components with Vue or React.

It’s useful also to keep semi static mockups when you do revisions on a homepage for example (as the html/css guy) so you can preview something with the team.

And nowadays you have simple Markdown + Vue plugins for eg. Vite, so you could even write your styleguide / demo as .md files.
Gab and Torba are awesome. Crusaders against the tech hegemony
Thunderbolt is basically PCIe in a cable.

But the big issue you face is that PCIe is fast because the physical layer is so tightly controlled. Lane lengths to the same port are all approximately the same length. All the lanes are carefully shielded with a complex mix of grounded traces and large ground planes above and below. The length of the traces is limited to make sure the speed of light doesn’t introduce too much delay.

So PCIe speed doesn’t come from fancy algorithms, but from fancy electronics, and a very tightly controlled physical layer. Extending that layer outside of a computer is tricky.

Just like trains are much faster than cars, PCIe is much faster the DisplayPort. But trains require tracks, that are long and straight, and car don’t. Equally PCIe requires electrical connections that are short and straight, and DisplayPort doesn’t.

Thunderbolt kinda splits the difference. It’s basically PCIe, but heavily downrated so it can handle being outside of a motherboard.
Does anyone know if Substack is making more money than Medium was at this point? From the outside looking in, it sure seems that way.
I was hoping this was recommending against protonmail and tutanota rather than recommending against PGP.
Ah.. this is interesting. Looks like I wasn't the only one bugged with this problem
Selection is a process by which evolution works, so this is a false distinction. Modern definitions of evolution are usually something along the lines of changes in a population over time. There's no inherent time scale over which those changes can be observed, except for that of the generation time itself.
I recently saw an article about reversing fibrosis in mouse studies using an FDA-approved drug, e.g.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210823170126.h...

If I google "pulmonary fibrosis reversal" a number of things come up although they all appear to still be in the research phase. Never say never.
Proving 50-Year-Old Sorting Networks Optimal: Part 2
Medium allows making money from blog posts, similar to how you can make money on YouTube. It also does some work in helping you gain readership by allowing helping people discover other blogs in ads and in a special section on their website.

As a writer, Medium is probably the best medium to blog on. As a reader, it's probably one of the worst popular ones.