skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make it slightly more expensive for the adtech industry to spy on all my internet traffic. I have little illusions that any tech measure whatsoever can thwart government entities.
I am creating a personal knowledge management platform called Memory Maps that enables users to build and maintain spatial mnemonics alongside their notes.

-It is built on Google Maps and allows you to create memory journeys anywhere in the world where there is Google Street View coverage.

-It will include an AI based copilot that can learn from the images you create, autosuggest good encoding images, and remind you of what you have already used.

-Spaced repetition based active recall practice is built in and optimized for mobile.

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Browser fingerprinting works much better than checking IPs. With multiple devices being behind the same IP, it's necessary to distinguish between users.

I'm not saying VPNs are worthless - I'm on one right now for work. Commercial VPNs, for most people who purchase them, are completely worthless.

And I very much doubt that tunneling your connection through a VPN can improve ping.
This is The Way:)
If an organisation writes an article to promote a cause, and it gets picked up and commented on by other websites... isn't it that original organisation who "seeded" the story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28642415
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640964
> I'm pretty sure if we all suddenly went offline, half the internet would seem to keep going as usual.

That could be a good Black Mirror like scifi movie, everyone dies but chatter and social media just keep living on.

"Did you guys see that amazing sunset last night? Check out this book to capture these amazing moments!"

"Can't wait to see the new [dystopian movie] this weekend!"

"Amazing shows to see this weekend. Download our event app to log on and find the fun!"

"The [other party] are a it again today... protests should be intense today at the capitol."

... no one there ...
If you think it is indeed 99-to-1, then perhaps. My perception of the trustworthiness of most crypto projects is certainly much lower (see the endless parade of crypto horror stories on https://www.reddit.com/r/SorryForYourLoss/), so personally I would think the odds of a crypto project going under or just simply losing my wallet keys is way higher than the chance my bank or my government will steal my money or my stocks or whatever. Then again, I do live in western Europe so YMMV if you live in Venezuela or someplace like that.
I have family in Australia (NSW and Queensland) who are becoming increasingly concerned with the habitability of Australia over the coming decades. Have you given much thought to this / do you have any practical advice besides emigration?
Making someone with a history of doing exactly the thing that a company purportedly stands against the CTO seems like an absolutely baffling choice... unless the company is doing that thing (enabling surveillance).

If I were to use a VPN service, this news would certainly disqualify ExpressVPN from my list of possible options.

I imagine that if I were working for a company like that out of belief in the mission that this news would be difficult.
You are right that most people are just signing up with the same credit card and details as their isp and even if they claim they don't keep logs the vpn needs to link the use of their service to your details for billing just like your isp.

That said if you live in the UK the government logs your internet history to be used against you at their convenience. Using a vpn like mullvad.net that you can buy with bitcoin and no details prevents the government logging my history, thats worth the £5 a month.
I don't see why they're mutually exclusive. On mobile, they're equally important.
I've pretty much stopped using my dSLR. My (android) phone isn't quite as good but so much smaller and more convenient its completely taken over. I'm torn whether I should upgrade dSLR because I love them, but will probably give up.
Let’s say Bernie is saver. He could have easily a massed 3 million by his age. This if he had started at younger age let’s say 20. Compounding interest is a pretty powerful force over years . Bernie is not quite a young guy and has been working his entire life.

3 million isn’t exactly a lot of you live within your means and save.
I think VPNs are having no problems selling that, for exactly those reasons.
Google Present Zero-Label Language Learning
Small retailer here and I can confirm similar dips. Basically it’s pulling out a channel we can use for discovery ads which just leads us all back to making the same boring stuff to feed into the Amazon/Google searchplex.

Hope everyone enjoys having the same of everything!
Selling a future that hasn't happened is fine. If you saw the initial version of the internet or a cell phone you'd likely dismiss them.

Crypto is rebuilding the same things that already exist but that process has the chance to remove people from a system who used to provide services and replace them with an algorithm. Most people would dimiss a NFT but some of the use cases could be great. If most laws/rules were enforced in code for business transactions would you need to spend as much money on a lawyer in your lifetime? That's the future of money and it's exciting. Will that happen? Maybe not, which is why it is speculative.

The problem is that a large majority of people who are speculative and most crypto assets are highly centralized, which defeat the point of decentralization to remove a few large actors from having control. Plus the scams and idiots in the space that income without labor always attracts.
Chess pros burn a Michael Phelpsian 6k calories per game
> ... one was fixed in 14.7, but Apple decided to cover it up and not list it on the security content page. When I confronted them, they apologized, assured me it happened due to a processing issue and promised to list it on the security content page of the next update. There were three releases since then and they broke their promise each time.

I think this is 100% intentional.
I hope it all comes crashing down, so that cryptocurrencies will go back to their use of transacting instead of speculating.
> This mode of programming is actually not the most performant way to handle many problems.

This is correct, it's for increasing _throughput_ in concurrent scenarios. Meaning that when your server is processing multiple requests at the same time, yielding back rather than busy-waiting allows a different request to progress instead (or even to start processing a queued request earlier).

When waiting for I/O with another machine (a database, an API, etc) you can't wait faster; but you can wait better.
Ask if they do borrower paid compensation. you might also want to check a local credit union.

You might also try looking for mortgage brokers and small banks in smaller towns in CA with lower property values. They might be willing to give you a break since your loan amount will look big to them. And they are used to doing loans for 4-6K

Also make sure you get the inspections worked out upfront. Last thing you want to do is try to round up all the inspectors at the last minute.

Here are some you may need:
pest, radon, structural, general, one with moisture detector

for buyers agent
https://www.upnest.com/ finds agents willing to offer buy credits
Crypto != Bitcoin. There’s a lot of exciting innovation happening in defi and other areas. The argument that crypto is only used for trading is well out of date
The US has several large military bases on Guam
I like to answer sql questions too and it's like being in a quick draw match with Linoff around. he once blogged about how he's able to find all the new unanswered sql questions so quickly, iirc he made his own search
Terrifying stories like those are the norm in the outdoor recreation industry. Risk management is almost always nonexistent, and people coast on the principle of "if it didn't go wrong before, if probably won't go wrong now". They made an excellent choice to take out at a random bend in the river, but one has to wonder how the company training them didn't tell them every feature for at least three miles past the takeout.

As for the canyoneering drowning--that sounds awful. Fording a river seems like such a simple task, but it can be so dangerous.

The first time I rafted, we were on the New River in West Virginia. We took a raft ourselves with a novice guide just for fun, and flipped in Class IV rapids. I've never been that scared before.
Private server? So all of your traffic comes from the same ip? That defeats the purpose of the VPN.
The other very common approach (that has been used for millennia) is use gravel or
similar fill.

Making the whole thing out of monolithic concrete would be really absurd - both from cost and from shrink cracking and similar issues.
"tether is a fraud/ponzi" claims aside, does SEC even have jurisdiction here? The SEC isn't out to protect all investors, only to protect them from securities fraud. I'm skeptical whether a stablecoin could even count as a security. From bloomberg:

>The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” meaning “the investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others,” is a security

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-08/lendin...

Under that definition, are stablecoins even securities? You buy it at $1 and the best you can hope for it is that the value remains at $1. There's no expectation of profits.
For those of you trashing NFTs, have you ever bought one? If not, I suggest picking something up on a drop from Nifty Gateway. Of course, research the artist first. I also check out the artist's Twitter page and Discord server to make sure they have a solid community established already.
> Judging by this comments thread, it is working very well.

Good. A company's motives don't matter.
Companies are just reinforcement machines that go where they think money is.

If they release a "privacy" feature, for whatever hidden motive, and users flock to it, they will infer that there is money to be made here and continue in that direction, which is good for us. It makes no difference what their reason to move there was in the first place.
You seem triggered. Are you invested in something competing with the phone. It is a new experience! For most people without an expensive stand alone camera. perfect review? You obviously didn’t read the criticisms he wrote or notice the lack of a rating or any sort of measure of perfection. You sound jealous.
This is it. Greed has no boundaries!

++ "electing people with a functioning moral compass"
> Consider that the minimum grain of a Task.Delay is 1 millisecond.

The minimum here is contingent on a few things. The API can accept a TimeSpan which can express durations as low as 100ns (10M ticks per second: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.timespan.ticksp...). The actual delay is subject to the timer frequency, which can be as high as 16ms and depends on the OS configuration (eg, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/22862989/635314). However, I'm not sure how any of this relates to "go[ing] as fast as possible", since surely you would simply not use a Task.Delay in that case.

> There is a shitload of context switching and other barbarism that occurs when you employ async/await.

Async/await reduces context switching over the alternative of having one thread per request (i.e, many more OS threads than cores) and it (async/await) exhibits the same amount of context switching as Goroutines in Go and other M:N schedulers. If there is work enqueued to be processed on the thread pool, then that work will be processed without yielding back to the OS. The .NET Thread Pool dynamically sizes itself depending on the workload in an attempt to maximize throughput. If your code is not blocking threads during IO, you would ideally end up with 1 thread per core (you can configure that if you want).

Async/await can introduce overhead, though, so if you're writing very high-performance systems, then you may want to consider when to use it versus when to use other approaches as well as the relevant optimizations which can be implemented. I'd recommend people take the simple approach of using async/await at the application layer and only change that approach if profiling demonstrates that it's becoming a performance bottleneck.
Cryptocurrency is a distributed ledger over a blockchain. The real question is what is a digital money ?

Digital money is the digital equivalent to cash. It's money that is emitted by the central bank in digital form that you really own, not a debt that a bank somehow owes you.

Cryptocurrency or not, central bank application or other, it's all implementation detail. The important definition is : it's money you can own but that you can't touch.
That is: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+is%3Aanswe...

It seems like only all of the answers NOT tagged sql https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+-%5Bsql%5D... are sql-related.
Sure, it's a very bulky device and expensive to run! But, when you're talking about 'real' blood glucose, it's the gold standard that you need to use to pass regulatory scrutiny.
I have no problem with lawmakers making stock trades, but you can certainly argue that it is immediately made public. To be fair, there are probably edge conditions where a congressman has direct control over the financial realities of a publicly related company.

I think the more heinous cases are lawmakers becoming lobbyists and (worse) lawmakers making huge bucks on public speaking which is a very thinly veiled bit of influence peddling. Believe me, the Clintons didn't get paid $153M to give short speeches. (https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill... )

I suppose when you get down to it, as government becomes more powerful it becomes more gameable.
Apple is a company that plans the obsolence of billions of expensive devices per year, wasting more CO2 and energy than almost any other company on the planet.
Plenty of money in NGO. You just don't get it directly in your wage.
Some interesting places that caught my eye:

- Cocos Islands has their own cable and they don't even have 600 people;
- Saint Helena has its own cable (googled to find out it is very recent and will start offering 18Gbps in 2022);
- French Polynesia seems well served.

Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn probably will never get their cables.
When discussing doping in sports people are generally receptive to the following argument: Athletes will do everything they can to dope because the benefits far outweighs the drawbacks. It is probable that many of the world's top athletes are doped.

However, when discussing financial trading people are generally not receptive to the following argument: Stock traders will do everything they can to exploit inside information because the benefits far outweighs the drawbacks. It is probable that those who consistently outperform indexes exploit inside information.

Why the discrepancy? Do people believe that successful stock traders in general are more honest and law-abiding than top athletes?
Thats not Facebook's fault, that ad people lying to product people or product people not caring.
I hear you, but the iPhone has given me so many photos that no way a DSLR would had given me, because it is so portable.

You always carry your phone, but not your dslr. For an untrained eye, the iPhone 11,12 photos look gorgeous.

For professionals of course there is no debate, regardless what Apple marketing is claiming.
> Windows keeps waking up for random things

Mine will wake the screen and make "device connected" and "device disconnected" sounds while the computer isn't sleeping, regularly. Besides being annoying (I eventually disabled those specific sounds), it probably meaningfully hurts the lifespan of my monitors to power cycle them every five freakin' minutes.

I've never been able to figure out what exactly is happening here, trawling through event logs and such (I'm no Windows guru nor do I want to be).

At this point, in my particular case, Linux actually feels more "hardware compatible" than Windows. It can keep the monitors off.

I really wish Windows was good enough to not raise my blood with things like this, because sometimes you just need to use it.
whats ur username on SO?
They are, it's just in very rare circumstances (monitored public wifi + possibly unsecured connection, for example). Most people should do fine and thanks to https, public wifi is far less of a threat than it used to be (plus, some started blocking VPNs).
What I constantly ran into was disconnecting from the server I was connected to and wrangler not being able to handle that. At the time I had a somewhat spotty connection (nothing terrible), but it made wrangler dev very painful - so much so that I ended up writing my own node.js wrapper around it for local development. The lock-in to webpack also isn't great when I am nowadays accustomed to esbuild which is so much faster.

Happy to see miniflare now :)
You are welcome! The Guix installer has Btrfs support, so you can use the partitioner in the installer to get set up. I (and others) have found that part of the installer in general to be a bit brittle, best to use the most up to date version and/or do the partitioning by hand (same as eg Arch install). I'd recommend asking any questions in the #guix IRC channel as there are quite a few of us that use Btrfs.

I had done a manual install for other reasons anyway, but it should work just find from the installer, no extra steps. And as you can see in my config, in the end you just declare the file system and partitions/subvolumes. Since it is Guix, it is all that one file for the system. (You could use that file to write a live bootable USB image of that system, or initialize a new install directly with that file. Since I have some nonguix and additional channels it requires slightly more, but that is the idea of a system like Guix.)
No, rather, it asks from you to assume good faith from me.
Thank you. Good point.

I still wonder if machines should be designed to deal with this, and would still be tempted to call it a "warranty issue" that they didn't handle a scenario they're clearly aware of.

On the other hand it would also be very nice if software just didn't decide it can unsuspend a laptop whenever, and then apparently do hours of work without ever re-suspending, so... I guess you could say I've got enough blame to ladle around for everybody.
Movies make billions of dollars from users who don't contribute any content. As long as users consume content, who cares who makes it?
Let’s say 2 people per tent. That’s a population of 500. Let’s say there’s 1 security person per 10 homeless person @50k/year. That’s 2.5 million/year. Let’s say you need triple that for round the clock coverage. That’s still only 7.5 million. Let’s say food and restrooms eat up the rest of the budget. Are the homeless a prison-like demographic where you need a security guard every 10 people for order? Heck, even prisons don’t have this level of security. This feels like a grift for funneling money to security firms that hire off duty cops/ex cops for their services. The city should just hire the homeless directly for providing their own security services. At least that way the money would also be going into the community that needs it.
but why would I want one? it doesn't denote ownership, I don't get the original thing, at best its a "print" at worse its a scam.
A ukulele is easy to carry around, but is pretty pathetic sounding compared to a proper acoustic guitar when it comes time to actually play songs.

For the average consumer who doesn't know how to play music at all, maybe the ukulele would be a nice option. If you hand a professional guitarist a ukulele, and tell them it's a proper guitar, they will probably laugh at you.

That a ukulele is smaller is actually the opposite of what I'm looking for. I don't need a smaller guitar. I need a nice one, that plays and responds like I'd expect a guitar to.

I would never use a ukulele as a way to somehow replace a recording of a traditional guitar, even though it's more convenient.

There are thousands of photographers who feel this way about DSLR's.

If it doesn't fit your current/busy lifestyle, cool - the ukulele works for you. But don't pretend the ukulele is / can be a guitar. Popping lenses onto an iPhone camera is like putting an amplifier onto the ukulele. You're still trying to make something better that is, due to its size alone, never going to have the depth or quality a guitar or DSLR would have.

Also, I'm not dissing the ukulele, here. I'm trying to provide an example that just because a tool can work for a purpose, doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job.
That’s because the btrfs deduplicator is quite a different animal. You could just as easily run fdupes or something similar. Meanwhile ZFS is doing something much more ambitious.

In any case, I don’t think that either of them are worth using in most cases. Deduplication is just too expensive to be worth it.
Mind you, tor had basically the same issue a while ago https://archive.is/4FMxm
https://www.doineedavpn.com enumerates legitimate use cases well I think.

> This site was conceived and built by IVPN to challenge aggressive marketing practices in the VPN industry.
That's a great overview, and I think Grain would benefit from a page like this. "X for Y programmers" is a useful pattern.

> OCaml: [...] Hopefully the community is significantly less toxic.

What do you mean by this?
Well, it is a US territory and our most western one, at that.
The first time I found out the weight of water was when I had the bright idea to lay a tarp down on my driveway during a snowstorm so I could drag the snow off to the side instead of shoveling it.

What was the most extreme rapid you ran? Did you have any close scares with death?
New technology often goes through a phase of wild speculation, touting by liars, and impractical business models that people throw money because they are afraid of missing out. The bubble eventually pops. But people keep improving the tech and it becomes practical and eats the world.

First there was Railroad Mania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

After the initial bubble, rail roads changed the world

First there was the dot-com bubble, and then internet changed the world.

Both sides can be right in this debate. Crypto can be a bubble and a scam and it can also change the world.
Covid-19 will just end up causing a cold, says Oxford vaccine creator
Serious question — why do people so frequently sleep rather than shut down? Is it to save time on booting up? Is it because you want other processes running? All of the pain points below are reasons why I just always shut down. I think I developed the habit at a time when sleep just never worked on my linux machine though, but that was years ago now. I’m speechless reading below that Windows wakes just to install updates… and then remains awake!
I don't know that Singapore (effectively a single-party state whose PM has dictatorship levels of power) is the best example of how this works in a republic (or sub-republic) with separated powers.
thanks again.

> photographically document

I have aphantasia, so it's a little more abstract for me, but I can still walk around spaces and pin concepts to them :)
I wouldn't say commercial VPNs are waste, It depends for what purpose do you want to use the VPN. Privacy? Yeah maybe not the best for that but these are extremely useful to bypass geoblocking of content. Moreover, many ISP do not like you downloading content via torrent. How do you propose we solve it? User experience with Tor is not always the best as well. Tor network does not have lots of bandwidth, It is okay for browsing but the moment you want to download something using Tor you'd notice that its actually very slow. I'd bet my money that using Tor would attract lot more attention by your ISP than using a regular VPN.
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