skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is too successful. They are so successful that they are mainly focused on implementing features to remove users, rather than to add them.

Also, the 2016 election broke big tech a little, but covid turned big tech into China, at least when it comes to that issue. It's as if anti-covid lockdown activism was the west's June 6th tinnamen square remembrance movement. It also broke google in much the same way. I have to use Yandex or at least duckduckgo when searching for information about any controversial topic now. To even hear what the anti-lockdown crowd has to say I have to go to obscure telegram channels.

Facebook isn't the worst offender even. I recently tried to have a political discussion on nextdoor and me and a couple of other people just gave up because all our comments kept getting deleted. This is what I call "The lost doggy and kitty internet".

On "The lost doggy and kitty Internet" only the most light topics can be discussed. Only yoga classes and lost kitty notices are allowed. On the lost doggy and kitty internet there is a polite dinner party taking place, with a slaughterbot drone hovering overhead, buzzing around between partygoers listening everywhere intently for wrong think with a hair trigger fire button ready to go if any section of the crowd starts hurting people's brains...
Once again, an article all about something visual with neigh a proper visualisation in it, let alone a photo of a greater scope, and no original design trace out proposal or recreation. Both of the provided examples essentially look like weather-exposed rocks.
Ask HN: What do you think about “sport fan tokens”?
Hi HN,
i noticed a lot of football (soccer) clubs in europe are using these "tokens" to give fans new experiences and different perks. It's another way to make money. OK.

What i don't understand is why it needed a blockchain and a token?
Yup! And the ones with full logic controls that could be controlled via a dongle on the earphones wire! And automatic reverse so you didn't have to pop out and flip the tape! And automatic skip!

Such an exciting time.

It's funny to think about all the effort that went into innovating technologies to overcome the shortcomings of analogue solutions.

I used to think that future would be created by all these Japanese technological powerhouses. "How can the US compete?!?!"
Most gameboy games use banked memory, swapped in as 16k chunks. I'd wager a guess that the recording process monitors what chunks get banked in during the recorded gameplay, removes any bank that isn't used, and then restarts the demo if that removed data is accessed, as a failsafe.

The Raccoon demo behaves the way I might expect this to work: most potential player inputs allow you to reach the Raccoon, trigger his two text prompts, and cut the grass with Link's sword. But you can't enter any other screen, can't leave the second screen out the bottom, and can't perform most other actions; the moment you do, the game would need to run code that the quote never accessed, which triggers the failsafe. Even performing certain "safe" actions out of order occasionally fails, I'm guessing due to the RNG for stuff like leaf particles and whatnot.
A big fan of your work! Just wanted to let you know what iOS devices provide quotes as “ rather than " - you may need to support the character “ or at least let people know that iOS is not supported etc… right now I get a generic character error.
Principle? Dude have ever read anything about Kissinger or dulles? And do you think institutional investors are as nationalist as you?
It's not at the top of my list of priorities. What I want is reliability and security updates for a long time. If a bit more glue means the phone is less likely to break when I drop it or if it gets wet then I'm happy with that.
The no-storage version of it already exists: https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/

but when the "somewhere" is S3, AWS egress costs can easily fund Bezos' next space trip. To fix that, Cloudflare now added cheap storage.
Many employees have no idea how a cap table works or even what it is. They don’t understand that a buyout for $X dollars doesn’t mean that all the shares are divided equally. VC’s have a good deal with liquidation preferences.

Sometimes an acquisition works out great but this generally when a company was going to go public anyways.

We hear about all the IPO’s that made 200 overnight millionaires. But we don’t hear about the vast majority that either fail, have a poor exit, or just sort flag in the wind.
Non-starter because you don't want to migrate the images into Cloudflare? I.e. you want the transformation/caching of some non-CDN images via Cloudflare?

Asking as this could look very attractive (£ wise) for a project with images stored in Uploadcare where it would be feasible for us to do the source-image migration.
Indeed. I only read the blog post, where this info is missing. Thank you.
Interesting. I as a content consumer feel exactly the same way. I don't use FB/Instagram anymore and rely solely on email updates from bands, brands, museums, theatres and so on. I actually get some MC emails and always liked those since they are so easy to unsubscribe.
Denmark to outlaw life sentence prisoners starting new romances
If you don't have TLDs, would each DNS server need the details of every domain?
I was testing ZGC the other day on my machine (24vcores, 64GB RAM) and it ate through about 4GB/s of garbage with about 10milisec of pauses over 220sec of runtime (24 threads doing nothing but allocations). G1 ate through about 2x as much garbage but with higher pause times. It's amazing how far we've come.

I hope this means we can get more games in Java since I'd like to code one or two in my favorite language :)
Germany is becoming China-light. We are talking about accounts critizising lockdowns for valid reasons, which has NOTHING to do with "fake news" or misinformation. These accounts are usually made by people who got their businesses or lifes destroyed by radical lockdowns, and the topic is far wider than just lockdowns (it's also about closing down all indoor activities): literally the entire nightlife / clubs / sports / gastronomy / travel sectors are killed by questionable rules.

In the last 18 months lots of journalists, artists, activists, scientists and masses of critics on Social Media have been silenced, it's a bizarre situation. If the government says it's correct, then it's correct.
The actual problem is not that Apple removed the app. It's that there is no other way to install the app if Apple removes it from their store.
For some individuals it isn't even that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28543096
Or at least, which laws will someone go to jail for breaking vs us just getting slapped with a fine?
And China sees India as a threat... They have opposed interests and border issues inherited from the British (at a time when China was being cut piece by piece).

I don't think that there is more concern one way or the other beyond the FUD about China. There are a lot of unease in central and South America but the US have had time to impose a tight grip, including by force. Perhaps that's what China's neighbours want to avoid.
I don't think it's possible, but why does it matter?

You either join with lower salary + equity, or higher salary and no equity. (and equity is always a lottery ticket)

You shouldn't trust anyone saying "they would never", especially in business. Situations change, people change their mind, opportunities change, lives change, regulations change and so on.
I think the exception is not Russia but Pakistan.
Well, it's all in the eye of the beholder. As someone living in Scandinavia looking at the US that doesn't look like elections much either.

Pick your favourite animal:

A: Black horse

B: Brown horse

Z: Pony
Whilst this is totally fair as an assessment, it would still be just as true if mailchimp founders had not sold at all.

The current new, at best, puts a fine point on this argument, but it doesn't change anything.
No. I am pointing out that based on the info provided and your own bias you might find the clients or the brigading groups that were talked about above to be either in the right or in the wrong. The way that comment was worded, it’s impossible to tell who the real victims are.

Also I think it can be argued that democracy and mob mentality are pretty damn related :)
If you think driver management doesn’t suck then try owning an HP wireless printer. Total shit show.
Open source game achievements – Fedora Magazine
Of course not, especially if the interference is on the level of "One activist's teenage daughter has a TikTok account" like it is in Navalny's case.
>I don't think it's in the realm of impossibility that in a near future certain types of cars, within an age/engine range, will stop being allowed to drive in public roads.

Most of the rules about emissions have exceptions for old cars. In the UK cars over 40 years old are exempt from the MOT (hence no emissions test) and road tax.
Nobody has ever called your work masterful, have they?

That must be why you've been so dismissive and rude in this thread, because you feel sad. :(
My (sort of) counterpoint:

I was at a conference yesterday for IoT in the energy industry, and my main two observations were

* #1 complaint from industry was the skills gap in the current (aging out) workforce. (Of course, as automation has decimated that workforce, there's major reluctance to assist in your own potential demise ...)

* the main pitch from vendors was young people with those skills only want to work in tech / consulting / startups.

So definitely a competitive advantage is your ability to retrain your experienced staff, and definitely a personal moat is your ability to brand yourself as an old dog who is happy to learn new tricks.
"AI" and "simple programming" are not mutually exclusive :)

look at the Speech and Language processing book, particularly chapter 3 about language models https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

You can implement a language model based on character n-grams to calculate whether a sequence is more likely with or without a space. Of course you would need a way of estimating the proability of each sequence, which means you need a corpus to train your language model on.
The needs of the many legs outweigh the needs of the few
reductio ad absurdum! If I was earning $5 per hour I wouldn't be looking for $20. It would be nice to get $5.50 and $6 would of course be better.

> For one pound of iceberg lettuce, which costs about $1.20 on average, farmers receive 40 cents and farmworkers get 13 of those 40 cents.

An 1.6666666% increase in price would be a 15% increase in salary. (say 1.7%)

>The BLS data show that expenditures by households (referred to in the data as “consumer units”) in 2019 was $320 on fresh fruits and $295 on fresh vegetables, amounting to $615 a year or $11.80 per week. In addition, households spent an additional $110 on processed fruits and $145 on processed vegetables.

$320 fresh fruits + 1.7% = $325.44 per year

$295 fresh vegetables + 1.7% = $300.01 per year

sub-total:

$615 + 1.7% = $625.45 per year

$11.80 + 1.7% = $12 per week

$110 processed fruits + 1.7% = $111.87

$145 processed vegetables + 1.7% = $147.46

$255 + 1.7% = 259.33

Total without extra pay:

$255 + $615 = $870

Total with extra pay:

259.33 + $625.45 = $884.79

The difference is $14.79 !!!
Additional Guidance Regarding OMI Vulnerabilities Within Azure
Regardless, Mailchimp's engineers still sold their labour for way below its value, whether they were fooled or coerced.
Serious question: Do we have the infrastructure to support everyone driving electric cars?

I'm in the UK and I don't see many charging stations. Sure, it's not zero but it's a tiny number.

Edit: By infrastructure, I don't just mean public charging stations but if people plug in at home, can the power stations handle it?
Understanding the impact of OMIGOD (CVE-2021-38647)
VPN handling.

L2PT in Win 7 either auto-guesses your routes, or you have to add your own - after each connection, as a local admin, with ever changing interface name. You don't have scoped DNS either.

Windows 8 (!) fixes both these things: you can set up routes together with the connection for once and all, you can have scoped DNS, and you have complete control over cipher suites. As a bonus, you have Powershell API to that.

Windows 10 inherited this from Windows 8.

So this is one datapoint, what Windows 10 does way, way better than Windows 7.
That’s a better analogy - there have been countless extinctions and mass extinctions and the ecology shifts as the climate changes anyway. Nature is indifferent.

It would be ‘good’ if we weren’t causing this one, but good and bad are concepts of consciousness
We are doing exactly what any other, less intelligent species is doing too: myopically exploiting the environment to fuel instantaneous growth. Wolves don't think, "heck, let's leave some deer around and limit our offspring so we may prosper next year".

Of course we should know better, and be kinder to our planet, for our own good. As far as nature is concerned, we are doing what nature does. And if we go extinct as a result, that's part of nature too.
It isn't charging for Unlocked. It is the US model comes with mmWave and Apple charges higher for these model. mmWave cost are subsidise on US carriers since US MNO managed to find mmWave usage and business model on mobile phones which no other MNO on the planet managed to do so.
> Politics intruded

You cannot have a massively expensive and centralized energy source without having huge political, military (!) and economical implications. And risks of corruption and coverups.

There is no "intrusion". This is an intrinsic problem of such technology.
PWA. A native program would have been nice. And it requires Chrome. 2 no-go.
This is the definition of Integrity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity

It means that whatever apple says, they are only driven by the market.
Any stance they have on privacy or security is pure bullshit, they don't and will never give a crap about it, they only care about their revenue, otherwise they wouldn't be in China for example.

In this case, it proves that whatever they say about their stupid store and authoritarian approach to it, it is not and will never be in the interest of their users.
It is just to make it easy for apple to enforce anything, whatever the source of the decision is, a dictator like here, or to destroy competition before launching their own crap like their keyboard on their watch.

If apple would have cared once about their customers, they wouldn't have created an ecosystem that jailed them and would still make it easy for users to install the app they want.
> I expect the US government to keep inflating

I am not certain they have as much power over inflation as they think. The US have been trying to drive higher inflation since 2008. Japan have been trying to drive higher inflation since 1990's.
Europe have been trying to drive higher inflation since 2014.

Printing money, making money free, paying people to borrow, buying assets, bonds, mortgages even stocks has been attempted. We have gotten to the point of literally putting money into peoples bank account, and finally have an inflation print akin to pre 2008 in the US and Europe.
From what I recall, the service was spun out of another company though, it didn't become its own thing before it was profitable. There was some origin risk in the original business, but MailChimp itself was arguably a low risk endeavour on the part of its founders.
Not sure why a US company deciding to close accounts without being forced to is Germany becoming China-light?
> Are they talking about hiding money from creditors? Or just finding other ways of making money now that their previous money-maker (perdue pharma) is going under?

The investment banker's advice was "the one thing you don’t want to do is to become poor". Purdue Pharma going under wouldn't make them poor. So it couldn't mean the latter.

Sackler referred to the Virginia courtroom where Purdue Pharma's parent company admitted to fraud and agreed to pay $600 million. And "all of these courtrooms". Not to operating losses or any such thing.

> Is the state going to convince the jury of that better than the defense?

There's 1 way to find out.
I don't think doing that through money is a good thing. I actually thought about that a lot when Tony Hsieh died, which probably a lot of people here are familiar with. He was incredibly generous, had the best intentions, but at the end of the day he created dependency relationships.

'Offering' other people a life well lived as if that should be my task and not theirs, and justifying things you otherwise wouldn't do has very big problems. Because you can always take it one step further, it never ends really.
I very deliberately wrote “most applications”. Of course there are exceptions.
Permanent carbon sequestration operates on geologic timescales so it’s very very slow, but trees are one of the more common ways to permanently sequester carbon. Deep roots in a low oxygen environment can last a long time. That still takes the top layer of soil being covered, but grass for example simply represents less biomass per acre.

Another common process is run off from rivers getting buried under a continuous stream of silt, and a significant portion of that biomass comes from trees.
They are supporting charging infrastructure.

New York is building its own charging network (in addition to the other charging network operators): https://evolveny.nypa.gov/

And there's the federal infrastructure bill which provides subsidies for EV chargers: https://electrek.co/2021/08/02/heres-what-is-and-isnt-in-the...
Very true, I also preferred Windows 2000 and ran it until XP SP3 appeared, or so.
You’re not wrong, it could be as simple as that. What’s got some people up in arms isn’t that.

The police in America have proven repeatedly that they will ignore individual freedoms to look indiscriminately for people doing bad things.

Apple creates a tool that enables pattern matching without consent. But they promise they won’t use it for more than CSAM, and that only they will hold the keys.

Okay so imagine that your HOA enacts a rule they’re now allowed to review all of your purchases by comparing known hashes used by drug lords to determine if you are cooking meth in your basement. And if they find a match, without your knowledge, they will report you to the police who will have a defensible justification for a warrant to come enter your house and look for meth lab stuff. Sounds fine as long as you have nothing worth hiding right? Might as well let them just go through everyone’s house preemptively looking for meth labs and skip the hash checking right? Oh you don’t support that leap? Don’t worry, others do.
The NYT article they link to in the first paragraph does a good job providing that exact thing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...
There are 'tiers' of people I would consider a 'friend', who'se pitches to me I would also be skeptical off, for suspicion they are self-interested.

Now, this tier of friend is very close to 'acquaintance' but I think there are plenty of people for whom the boundary of 'being a friend' includes these kinds of acquaintance.
The US was barely a democracy under FDR. FDR was the closest the US got to a dictatorship. There's a reason term limits were put into place.
> Video of the monterey beta shows it works without being fullscreened.

That is so confusing. Doesn't that mean you could create a malicious video which basically freezes the display for multiple seconds?

And wouldn't your interface feel super laggy if it's reduced to something like 30fps? That's what most content is produced with, right?
You don't know what you are talking about. Every Rails release from 4 adds a ton of new stuff, bug fixes to the framework.

ActiveStorage is great addition - storing files on AWS now takes 30 minutes at most to setup. You don't need to use external gems for the same functionality now. Labeling it as a regression is nonsense as Rails before didn't have the functionality at all.

Ruby also evolved a ton since Rails 4. Just look at changelogs or something.

Scaling Rails is same as scaling any other stack. If your software grows it will run into bottlenecks no matter what you use. Rails is no harder to scale than anything else. It mostly is about people, not stacks anyways.

And i think mentioning ML points in a direction that you don't know much about normal web development since for 99% of web things you don't need any ML at all.
Bronze Age Europeans couldn't drink milk
How do I watch this? I signed up, registered, etc. and then I click `Room 1` or `Room 2` and I just get sent back to the home page.
Walkmans were quite amazingly complex for being an all mechanical device. A friend got one, dropped it and asked me to repair it - my reputation is that I can fix anything. Well, not so with the Walkman. Opening it up took more time than any other device I ever worked on and I distinctly remember the moment when I removed one screw holding a plate down after which the whole thing went 'sproing' and there were parts all over the desk. I knew there and then that I wasn't ever going to get it back together again. That didn't stop me from trying though, but after a week or so I had to give up. Serious respect for both the design and the manufacture of a device so compact and so complex. And as long as you didn't drop them on concrete from two meters up they were surprisingly rugged.
At least in Germany, the communist part was actually looking better very early after the war. It was of course soon overtaken economically by West Germany.
Yes. Imagine that the "boids" change colour as well as alter their X, Y, Z position. That supplies additional "guiding" information to provide purpose and also alter behaviour, in much the same way that hormones act on a growing foetus.

And this reminds me of those audience experiments with people holding up blue and red cards and using this "vote" to successfully steer a vehicle.
>> it was every bit as mind-blowing as the iPhone when it was first released.

> I respectfully disagree

Agreed.

I think what is mind-blowing is that Sony (and others for that matter) weren't able to sustain their lead, continue to innovate and dominate the industry.

Well, perhaps that's not entirely fair since it's quite evident that they had the technical prowess. It probably had more to do with their conflict of interest of also being copyright purveyors.

edit: just remembered Sony's rootkit fiasco. What an absolute fall from grace.
You can see the source here: https://glitch.com/~tenmile we haven't taken the time to figure out what precisely what the appropriate license should be, though it will probably need to be GPL since the emulator we use is GPL licensed.

That said, the basics of making a quote are so simple that it should be pretty easy to add Playable Quote capabilities to other emulators with a minimal amount of code.

A full writeup of how it works is here: https://joel.franusic.com/playable_quotes_for_game_boy

Thanks for reminding me that our site said the post wasn't ready yet, I've just updated it with the link to that blog post!
It's unappealing because it seems like AWS is all these unnecessarily complex APIs that can only be used in one place.
Israel had a ~80% vaccination rate. Didn't help them. Had the world's highest daily infection rate last week.