skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They're just another crypto pog designed to fleece dumb money with the hope that no one goes to jail for securities fraud.
Nice work looks awesome! Looks like there are some parallels in our websocket implementation too.
>Every time I read about what the EFF is doing I get the sense that their priorities are clear, they’re fighting a good fight and in my case they’re generally acting in line with the values/beliefs I hold around the areas they get involved with.

I no longer feel this way. They got heavily partisan in the last few years and their statements on online censorship are weak and incoherent.

Why is their website on censorship (https://onlinecensorship.org/) abandoned and only contains examples from one side of the political spectrum?

Why are their lawyers participating in pro-censorship industry panels?

Where was EFF when New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden laptop was censored by Twitter and Facebook? That was completely unprecedented, probably the biggest case of big tech censorship ever. (And yes, that reporting was accurate, contrary to what many here probably have heard: https://rumble.com/vmteq5-new-proof-emerges-about-the-hunter... .)

Where is EFF when YouTube relentlessly deletes educational videos, congressional testimonies and interviews with doctors when they say something "prohibited" about Covid-related topics?
You can find the FLAG cable referenced in the article on this map. The easiest landmark for finding it is the narrow section of the Malay peninsula. Stephenson spends some time in the article covering the overland construction there.
>> Does the population of Serbia actually buy into that sort of rhetoric?

> By and large, yes. Serbia has an aging population and especially older people

You mean those who remember Clinton bombing passenger trains to make up for the mistakes of US/NATO/EU in dealing with Bosnia?

It's not a stretch once you've been through that. Besides, a lot of people in the US still thinking Putin changed actual votes in the 2016 election. So, yeah, people are susceptible to this kind of stuff and it's not new.
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Facebook, the website, is dying a slow death. Everyone knows it. Certain core target demographics no longer see the website as essential or even relevant.

Facebook, the company, is probably going to survive through its acquisitions.
Yea it really shows it's a skill not some weird hack that will change your life in one sitting.
I was sure wasm was going to replace javascript by now, still waiting though. Is it ever going to happen?
The problem with use of flyash in the West is mostly legislative.

The problem is that there are no two similar sources of flyash, as there are no chemically identical sources of coal from which it came from.

Current code only lets a very narrow selection of flyash to be blended into OPC, despite most of it being suitable, and not influencing the resulting characteristics.

For the geopolymers, the issue of natural variability is even worse.
Thermal sensors measure temperature in specific points / small areas. There are a finite number of these and they do not cover the entire CPU / GPU / motherboard / etc.

If one puts a massive load on a CPU, the temperature spikes quickly and widely across enough of the die that the sensors work as expected and the system throttles / shuts down.

If one puts a small load on the CPU for a long period of time, areas that are not covered by sensors may overheat, damaging the CPU. This is true for other components in the system, too.

If the laptop is out in the air, convection will remove enough heat to prevent these invisible "hot spots". The bag acts as a blanket. Over hours, the laptop cooks parts of itself to death[0] in ways the system cannot detect.

[0] Or damages them in ways that make them unstable.

Edited to add [0]
I mean, if you look at transaction cost, settle time, user friendliness, and currency risk, it doesn't even work as a medium of exchange, which is the definition of money.

More than a decade on, approximately nobody uses Bitcoin for normal transactions. Compare with Venmo or MPesa, both of which launched around the same time, to se what actual digital money looks like. Both of those do way more transactions than Bitcoin and are much more widely adopted.
I own an M1 Air. It is a macbook, and seems fine so far, but it's over-hyped.

I'll agree that it seems that currently most people are like you. They don't think about maintainability when it comes to belongings. If they care about the effects their actions have on the environment, they might want to start.

If you are buying a new phone and laptop every two years, where are you putting the old one? What happens to the toxic materials in the batteries? Did you need to have a new machined aluminum shell, or could you have just replaced the part that was bad inside it?

That all said, I don't have any illusions about changing the course of the average person's thoughts or habits via an HN post.

Like I said in the original post, I'm done with buying throwaway goods if I have an alternative. I'm happy that an option like the framework exists.
> I was ...

We'll need a peer reviewed article to believe that.
This last one was an issue in an image decoding.. it was public API.

It’s extremely common for an attacker to find a way to exploit a maliciously crafted image. Take a look at libpng, https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7294...
Even when there's not much fresh air supply, it can circulate the existing air over a larger volume and transfer heat faster into whatever material surrounds it. Doesn't help much, but might be the difference between "it's burning my fingers but still works" and "it died".
Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: Design of Multi-Member Districts
Isn't fungibility only one of many aspects of a token?

They can be totally differnt besides their fungibility.
It’s pretty clear from the article that the author thinks markets are intrinsically bad, most entrepreneurs and founders are generally bad, and that economic activity is generally better coordinated and controlled by the state. And it’s pretty clear from the upvotes and comments that many here agree with this viewpoint.

And that’s fine. That’s a completely defensible world view, that many smarter than me have held throughout history. But for heavens sake why are you spending your time on a forum about celebrating startups hosted by a venture capitalist?
>> (note that this doesn't include people who buy these with the sole purpose of flipping them to a greater fool).

Hate to burst your bubble, but that is 99.99% of the NFT market. There is maybe 5 people total who bought a NFT for art appreciation reasons, but aside from that rounding error the only reason anyone owns one is as a speculative investment.
My experience with Apple customer service
I recently had two experiences with Apple customer service and they both had the same unpleasant vibe. A way to put it: I had the impression that I was dealing with an entitled snob.

The first experience, I had an issue with my Airpods Pro (common issue apparently). I was unlucky and it was the second time it happened to me : they gave me replacements 2 months ago, and the replacements started malfunctioning again. During my latest visit, the Genius-staff went out of their way to make sure I understood they were making me a favor replacing them again. They were expressing this in different ways such as coming back to me several times saying "the system shows that your airpods have already been replaced, I'm not sure I can replace them, however normally it shouldn't be an issue because it's a common problem", or "here, it'll cost 179$, but I'll go check with my manager to see if I can waive the fee"... The whole thing took 2 hours.

The second one was when the screen of my macbook air started showing dead pixels. I went to a store to have it replaced. The first thing the staff did was to examine the laptop and tell me that "there are some marks on the cover, like if I had dropped something on it (seriously?!), but they don't seem to be related to my issue". Again, they print the bill (400$+) and "waive" the fee.

Both experience gave me a very negative feeling of a company trying to find every way to shift the responsibility to me, and making sure that I understood (by showing the bill) that they were making me a favor (honoring a warranty is in no way a favor, if anything it's an inconvenience for the customer). I never had to use any warranty in my life (the way it should be), except for these two occurences with Apple... I am appalled by the misalignment between the premium experience of the products and the miserable experience of the after sales service.
> Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then, and anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS, or has left POSIX filesystems entirely.

I'm not very familiar with this space, but if this were true why would Fedora use Btrfs by default?

Also on Fedora wiki [0] -- Btrfs is a mature, well-understood, and battle-tested file system, used on both desktop/container and server/cloud use-cases -- which seems to contradict what you said.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault
The iPad Mini (2021) Review
I would think the main thing they're afraid of is that it allows Chinese citizens to operate outside the state apparatus of surveillance.
I have been a C# developer for a while as well now and I'm not sure if this is true:

"Use of async void in ASP.NET Core applications is ALWAYS bad. "

Depending on the context, it can even be recommended to do async void. See Stephen Cleary's brilliant explanation of this: https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/02/async-and-await.html

Edit: The correct link is this, see first table column exceptions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/...
I think what was happening was, if you wanted to make a VM image (which you could then later clone to new instances), it would result in the original VM (i.e., the source of the image) being no longer usable.
It uses the old trick that good propaganda should have at least some truth to it. The reasons you listed are likely why it is finding fertile ground.
This is odd considering Prolific makes users input a bunch of demographic info (age, sex, location, education, ethnicity/race, etc) so that researchers can target specific demographics for their surveys. Did the researchers just assume that Prolific would deliver something balanced on it's own?
Very obvious of course, but never thought about it: Europe to Asia (and back) takes a lot of routing.
Not misleading at all. Their sleep is BROKEN compared to what people's expectation of SLEEP are.
Not exactly, that is true - it is rather hard to describe international trade in 140 characters-or-less. It can not be denied that there is a lot of truth to the statement though even if it does not describe all factors of influence:

> a system where TPTB get to fudge the books as they see fit

This depends on whether the media are in to the party or not but when they are this is mostly true.

> impose taxes via intentional inflation

This is a fact in those countries which have control over their own currency.

> and keep tabs on your every transaction

This is a fact and one of the driving forces behind the "cashless society".
The cookie popup is something else, and the result of misinterpreted legislation and companies trying to cry foul that they can't do whatever they want anymore. It's not at all needed for common cookie usage - just the unexpected soul-selling kind.

GDPR restricts companies from using data however they want, makes you able to obtain a copy, and makes you able to require it deleted. It also required the company to document, provide a person responsible to contact, etc.

It only benefits you as a consumer, and the downside in proper uses is that the webpage/app might have a page somewhere with data processing information should you be curious. Nothing major.

Any nuisance are poor implementations or because companies can no longer do terrible unexpected things, like selling your data to hundreds of companies just by accessing a page, without permission, because it is nonsense no one would expect or want.

And with everyone clicking "no" (which must be at least as easy as clicking "yes" as determined in court), the practice would die eventually.
I think comparing EFF targets against Apple actions gives us strongly mixed results. Strongly - because you're dead on. Apple set the bar with protecting users there.

Also strongly because Apple set itself up as a supervillian over right to repair & closed ecosystems - and as an IP bully cage fighter.
I don't think anyone really argues that async/await is a raw speed win. It introduces overhead, after all. It just makes code easier to manage in general, which usually comes with some perf tradeoffs.
I've used ZFS on FreeBSD for many years and it's absolutely rock solid. There was even a case where an IPMI had been hacked and the attacker reformatted the disks for Windows 10 and I was able to recover most of the the data. The attack was interrupted before they could copy data to the disk and I had left a small amount of space unallocated at the end of the disk.

Lessons learned:

- ZFS is very robust for handling partial corruption

- Always leave unallocated (~1gb) space before and after critical data partitions. accidental/malicious reformatting will likely use the entire disk so the new FS superblocks are less likely to overwrite all of the original ones.

- Always have an offline backup of your partition table in case of accitental/malicious repartitioning

The one thing that still makes me nervous is large stripes of mirrors where a multi-disk failure in one mirror can take out the entire stripe. For that reason I stick with simple 2 disk (or 3 disk for critical data) mirrors and avoid combining them in stripes.
Part of the “appeal” of some of these tech areas is the supposed status of working on something that is perceived to be hard. But then people get into them and realize that, unless you’re the ones doing the actual research (which itself is frequently a slog in a different way), for most part the day-to-day is the same as anywhere else: occasionally solving small challenges amidst a lot of “boring” work and maintenance. Some “cool” tech alone is not what makes a job fulfilling over any appreciable timespan.
Nice to see some real science. Too bad we can't debate science anymore on social media.
There’s some interesting military history and tech regarding submarine cables. The first act of WW1 was to sever a cable, for example. And during the Cold War the Americans planted bugs on Russian cables and were eventually exposed by a spy. Nowadays the Russians have some interesting capabilities that can be inferred.

http://www.hisutton.com/Undersea_Cables.html
"Every watt of renewable power generated to power a crypto miner," IS investment in renewable energy.. which he would rather was not invested in renewable energy. I don't see any other way to interpret that, unless you think that paying monies for renewables is somehow not 'investing' in renewables.
some political groups value activism and appearance over substantial gains
You misses the point. There is no reason to ban anything.
You can also buy Pokemon cards and sell or trade them. Call them funny money cards if you want, but there is no legitimate reason why people should not be able to buy/sell them.
Also plenty places have already put cryptos in the laws declared them as alternative currency so they cant really prevent financial institution form handling it.
If they really would globally cut crypto form fiat. You wouldn't need to pay taxes with anything you do with crypt anymore since its just "funny money" this would boost crypto and devalue fiat and cause all kind of horrible side effects. You have in incentive to get paid in funny money if you dont have to tax it.
Apparently it used at facebook a lot too.

https://lwn.net/Articles/824855/
> it can even be recommended to do async void

I don't see this reflected in the linked article at all. Aren't you confusing async void with async Task?
Some people claim that they want personalized ads (at least on HN and similar communities)

I've never met anyone in real life who wasn't creeped out by a targeted ad. Everyone nowadays has a story about how they were having a conversation with someone about something, and then one of their devices served them an advertisement for the thing they were talking about.

Everyone finds that creepy as hell, but it's hard to attribute it to any particular device/company, and even if you find out that it's your Alexa that's spying on you, it's hard to throw it out. Not only is it a waste of money, it's a loss of a convenience, and there's some social pressure involved. Like do you really want to be seen as that one paranoid weirdo who doesn't trust technology that everyone else is using?
I guess the reef is doing better so that means we can continue to destroy the planet and everything is ok, awesome. Great thread. I’ll be buying a Hummer H1 tomorrow.
Using fork and exec with a pipe is not going to work within a sandbox. That "cruft" is necessary for the thing to work...
At ~1 cable per 1M pop they are probably leaving most countries behind them in a cable/person ratio, being topped only by the transit hubs in the pacific.
Has anyones status been raised by owning a specific NFT (outside of the NFT ecosystem)? No. Maybe they could sell it for an amount of money that raises their status elsewhere but at this point in time the answer is no.

Is owning a rare baseball card a status symbol?
Speaking of Pommerman, we caught up recently with the organizer. While unfortunately Pommerman is no longer running, he was super helpful in giving us some advice for Bomberland.

It'd be awesome if there were previous participants of Pommerman here who could share some feedback on how we could improve Bomberland, since there are some obvious parallels.
Ah yes, the old "end crime by making everything legal" gambit.
Specifically here: https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl/blob/master/example/s....
Owning a rare baseball card is a status symbol to rare baseball card collectors.
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My stocks are worthless to me, other than hoping to sell high for the next sucker.
maybe PoS powered micro payment in the browser instead of ads... one day in utopia
Zerodium is not interested in this kind of bugs. If they own at least one RCE+LPE, they can already access all data on any device and more
Well this is not really comparing equivalents.

Apple too has a good track record of releasing security updates for versions of OSX that will run on 10 year old hardware, regardless of whether you can update that hardware to the latest OS.

Many PC OEMs completely abandon security updates for drivers and firmware when their systems go out of warranty, if not immediately after they're discontinued. I had this issue with my last Thinkpad which was less than 2 years old.
Synology SHR is btrfs (or ext4) on top of LVM and MD. MD is used for redundancy. LVM is used to aggregate multiple MD arrays into a volume group and to allow creating one or move volumes from that volume group.
So what's the maximum amount of seats that would be possible?
Great. Thinking about the building and now Cash's "Earning Ring of Hires" is my new head pest.
Yeah I'm surprised it's not more of a thing that google search turns up almost nothing about its founders since the company dropped "don't be evil".

And since nobody has commented here about what they think of dropping "don't be evil", I'm beginning to wonder if any journalist has ever asked them.

And if no journalist has ever asked them that question, I'm wondering what has happened to journalism in the world.
An application on Linux is very unlikely to do so, especially if shipped in a security/privacy focused distribution.

OTOH Android apps are a minefield, making it extremely difficult to protect user data.

Also Android itself leaks data or sends telemetries in many places.
Someone would have to really despise their grandmother if they install Linux on her desktop, doesn't matter which DE it is.

I guess some people out there do like moron-friendly UI and UX.
they ban bitcoin every year. what is the news?
I always feel like laptops have actually started to degrade in the last decade. Maybe it's consumerism, but fairly often I get the idea they just assume after two or three years their products will fail.

I can personally vouch for Acer though, while I haven't purchased one of their laptops recently, when I was younger I had one I just abused the hell out of and it still worked fine.

It's very fun to make your stuff last longer
How is that the point? GNOME is an understaffed and underfunded project.
Steph Curry 'bought' an NFT, made it his avatar, asked about getting into crypto, and then immediately announced he had a deal with FTX to be a sponsor/investor (coincidentally right after another FTX celebrity sponsor, Tom Brady, replied to his tweets about crypto).

It wasn't purchased by Steph Curry on a whim as a status symbol. It was probably given to him as part of his roll out deal with FTX.

It's nearly the same roll out move every other FTX celebrity sponsor has made, of which, there are now many. They get paid to act like they're interested.

None of this is organic. It is all a sham.
Thanks Brad! Battlesnake is pretty awesome too ;) A really fun programming project, and great Twitch streams too.
Plenty of people have thought it through in great detail over the last 30yr.

Those people are mostly not being listened to because small government is a dirty word to most of the people currently pushing to defund the police and because viewing crime through an economic lens is out of vogue in favor of a racial one and people who are seriously studying minimum viable policing historically tend to be from one of those two camps.
Thanks for those references.

Being from New Orleans, a majority black city, its absolutely crazy to me that this is even a debate.

I think these BLM people seriously believe that police do more harm than good in black communities.

And they think that there's no co-orelation between funding and performance for the police.
Riot games already made this on their game titled "Valorant." It's irritating because you need to restart your pc every time you encounter some of the game's errors.
> Hell, US intelligence agencies block ads at the network level because the ad industry is so infested with tracking/malware/spyware/exploits/etc. That’s a hell of an indictment.

I think this just means that they have a different threat profile than I do, and they take it seriously. There is a chance that an ad could attempt to attack me, but I am not likely to be targeted. If I thought state level attacks were going to target me specifically I would do a bunch of things differently, but it is not currently worth the effort.
> There is no elephant in your room right now.

Prove it.
“Young women who enjoy TikTok are people too"
I don't think people who use tik tok should be classified as a human. I'm ready to die in this hill.
"Anyone can join, if they have the money."

Yep, status symbols. NFTs are just internet bling/flexing, like digital cold chains and chunky rings.
Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness