skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. Stupid brain. Trying to get sense of the challenge, I worked some numbers to try visualizing how much carbon we're talking about. I'll refind my notes or recreate.

Thanks.
Voting is by person, but money is speech, and one side has a lot more speech to influence voting patterns than the other.
Or use startpage.com which has Google search results.
Libertarians: Governments should be as small as possible and not have any way to exercise coercive power on citizens.

Mega-multinational corporations: exist

Libertarians: No, not like that!
It’s been a while since I have been a department manager, but the calculation was live and performance stats would be reviewed daily, although formal performance management would only happen after someone has had consistently low performance below target across a number of weeks.

A lot of the conversations were bonus related too - “Hey, FYI you are scraping the bonus threshold so if you really smash it across the next 3 days you can pocket an extra $200 or so”.
I was going compain about null bytes in text (never, period), but then realized you actually did mean the U+2400 SYMBOL FOR NULL[0] character itself. That's surprisingly viable (though you do now have to worry about the string "\xE2\x90\x80" ending up in your data).

0: Which is actually incorrectly named - it should be "SYMBOL FOR NUL".
>Someone who works as a delivery guy needs to drive a car a lot, such person would have to pay big climate dividend.

Delivery emissions should be attached to the person getting the delivery. Otherwise you could just skip most of your emissions by having everything delivered.
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> $100M wouldn't buy a Starlink Dishy for even 200,000 people

By a large measure when you look at the actual costs and not just the amount they charge the customer. The dish's actual cost is >$1,000. So $100M really buys dishes for less than 100,000 people.
Seems like it's set to false by default. So it's not really a "user request" not to track so much as a "browser request" not to. Reminds me of the situation with the "Do Not Track" header where browsers sending it by default caused the signal to lose all meaning.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos looks promising
right - cos tiktok is totally looking after you more than any of the other services /s
When you are a landlord for instance.
It is in the best interests of the owning class to perpetuate myths of upward mobility. If your employees are making minimum wage because they are “young artistic types who just need some extra cash”, or “it’s just a non-skilled/temp/entry level position”, then it is much easier for the owner, the management chain, the customer, and the media to justify how terribly leaf-nodes on the org chart are treated.

This leads to the mast majority of jobs becoming temp, “gigs”, part-time, commission-based, no benefits, no reward for loyalty, no reward for seniority, and with the only hope for mobility is becoming a manager over the other poor souls you would crush in an instant for an extra $4/hr (less in practice!)

If we had a strong set of myths about taking pride in ones work, mutual respect, venerability, and craftsmanship, I think we would not put up with it. I personally cannot even walk into a Macdonald’s because the environment behind the counter is so obviously demeaning; it disgusts me that we would eat in front of people who are constantly under survaeilance, slaves to beeping mechanical masters, and that they get $8.25/hr, less than the price of a single person’s order.
A Jimquisition video from today about how microtransactions in video games etc. can also be understood as specifically preying on those with ADHD and other conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2SjNeYq8k
Do you mean "You can't drop bare fiber"?
Twitter is worse.

Reddit is more propagandized.
Because it causes real harm, same as yelling bomb on an airplane or fire in a crowded building.

Misinformation can cause people to not get vaccinated or storm the capital building...

As much as we'd like to think people are "deciding" anything, it's simply not the case. They just take what they hear as fact because they believe the source is trustworthy.
You can actually use old-fashioned four conductor phone wiring for Ethernet, but it's limited to 10 mbps. Still useful in a few situations if it's all you have available.
Nothing prevents it, except practicality: running enough fibers to support a terabit point to point is already hard enough. Add in needing to support millions of people and it becomes impossible. As is, internet routers and fiber links already use tons of power. Asking for 1000xing that just can't happen without a dyson sphere or something.
One of the important lessons I got when I started in the workforce after university. "It is not just important to work hard, but that other people know it." If you're just silently grinding away, you're just part of the background.
That's always the case to be fair.
Who said it's a good OR bad thing? This is a discussion of who has the power, not the ethics of the power.

Having said that, I think the current balance in some places can be harmful because there is a non-insignificant number of tenants who stopped paying rent simply because the eviction moratorium means they can enjoy the property for free. When questioned they say "investments have risks ". This leads a number of landlords to jack up credit requirements or let properties stay empty, exacerbating supply problems.
The buried lede for me was that the slopes in the Pajarito ski mountain were created by one of the scientists just grabbing a bunch of explosives and blowing up trees:

- Oppenheimer invited George Kistiakowsky from Harvard who was a world-class expert in explosives; in his spare time Kistiakowsky would use his explosives knowledge to raze trees and create ski slopes on the mesa for recreation for the scientists.
Doesn't require running javascript, so presumably the devices could be more efficient in sending them versus XHR/fetch.
Infinite-scrolling is awful for 2 reasons:

1. What you’re currently looking at is not directly addressable (instead it’s “open this URL, within this time-window, and scroll exactly X-many pixels in exactly S-seconds to get to the exact same content as me”).

2. It makes it impossible to get to the real page footer, which often contains essential links like Contact Us, the About/Impressum page, and other important stuff.
Why is this vaccine verification app even needed at all? If the vaccine works as intended, then the individual and those around him or her are protected. If it doesn't, then this is not really about public health at all but something far more nefarious and concerning.
Of course they are. Water is wet.
In practice they do?

Last time I checked, there were significant "limitations" (to be charitable... that you could only redeem holdings above $100K, only if you were a non-US person, and subject to 90-180 day holding periods.

People have also offered bounties for proof of people having redeemed Tether, and those bounties are still outstanding.

My suspicion is that if anyone has actually redeemed Tether, they are either institutional (and Bitfinex doesn't want to piss them off) or an insider/"friend".
Well yeah but maybe there's something to learn from it... Or at least prompt some soul searching about the question of "how do I build an enterprise product that doesn't eventually fall into the cesspool of shit"? Is it even possible?
> the fact that we can't even say (and probably never will be able to) whether it was worth it, is damning enough.

Exactly. I assert that for any of these non pharmaceutical interventions to have been worthwhile their effect on “the charts” should be plain and dramatic. You should be able to pull anybody off the street and show them a lockdown state vs a non-lockdown state and have them see plain as day the profound difference.

If you need grad student level statistics to tease apart differences it means even if these things worked, their impact was so minor that the extreme social costs made them not worthwhile at all.
I think everyone may be interested in: https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

Github having an option to have their PR GUI use an AST diff like this could be a fun and useful option.
Film studios sue “no logs” VPN provider for $10M
This seems like a technology demonstrator, rather than an operational system.

International undersea cables that carry a continents internet are scary fast, but in the tens of terabytes.
There are only about 1080 atoms in the entire visible universe...

Should this be read as 10^80? The way it's written is confusing.
I always particularly loved the tech scroller shown in-game:

TECHSCROLL DB 21 dup(1),'YEAH YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A GAME LIKE THIS ON THE PC'
DB ' FIRST OF ALL THE GAME IS CODED IN 100 PERCENT ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE '
DB ' WE RUN IN A SPECIAL VGA 320 X 240 OR 360 X 350 IN 256 COLOR MODE HARDWARE IS USED FOR SCROLLING THE TABLE '
DB ' THE FLIPPERS AND DOT MATRIX SCOREPANEL ARE DELTA ANIMATED AND TO MAKE THE GRAPHICS RUN FLICKER FREE WE ARE USING RASTER INTERRUPTS THE PALETTE IS USED FOR FLASHING THE LIGHTS '
DB ' THE MUSIC ROUTINE HAS FEATURES SUCH AS SOFT CLIPPING AND INTERPOLATIVE MIXING '
DB ' ALTOGETHER THIS MAKES THE GAME POSSIBLE TO RUN ON A 12 MHZ 286 WITH SOUNDBLASTER MUSIC AT 16KHZ IN EACH FRAME'
DB 21 DUP (1),255
Well, I explicitly asked for your charity. If you're unwilling to grant me that, then we're already at an impasse.

Yes, what if what if what if, a hundred times over. Imagine whatever mitigations you deem appropriate to obviate this corporation. We obviously disagree. I'm not trying to argue you into my position, but can you understand where my ire comes from?

It's not that I've done the cost-benefit analyses and rationally found Facebook deficient. I'm saying that in this specific circumstance, with these specific actors, I find Facebook directly responsible for every suicide that any teenager wishes to blame on Instagram.

I value Instagram and their sniveling PR bureaucrats far less than I value the absence of any harm they've wrought from their profit motive.

I'm not stating that you hold the contrary opinion; I believe that there is a set of morals you can hold that allows you to not blame Facebook, while not precluding the goodness of your character. In fact, I'm willing to give you the charity of assuming that you hold some such set of morals; if I didn't think you were engaging in good faith, I wouldn't engage you at all.

I believe I understand what you're saying. I don't agree with your values, such as I understand them. So I'll ask again: will you grant me the charity of assuming, just this once and solely for the purpose of my argument, that Facebook is directly responsible, without mitigation? And, under this assumption, can you relate to me what value you find in delineating between "directly responsible" and "literally killing"?

If you can't grant me this charity, then that's entirely fine. I'll still believe we're engaging in good faith, with good humor; and, in fact, I'll enjoy our engagement all the same. But if you can't grant me this charity, may I ask: why?
> This is handing 20 million dollars to a random on the street who takes your transactions.

Yes I'm sure it's purely coincidence that the "random on the street" who mined this block is a major Bitfinex shareholder.
Turn down the brightness, use something with an inverted colour scheme, adjust the text size to something reasonable, and don't read in the dark if you're doing that

But as I said I also have a Kobo reader for reading on its own, and it was very cheap compared to the remarkable.
Making procrastination unpleasant seems like a good idea. Ideally the result would be more time spent on being social with coworkers, or even get out of the office and participate in local events. Doesn't necessarily increase productivity, heck, it could even decrease, but one might just end up being happier either way.
Voting is one sort of power. Many see rent-seeking as a form of regressive taxation; setting of tax rates is another form of power. Landlords, in this situation, are kinda like middle management. While they don't have absolute power, denying that they have power is a bit narrow-minded.
I once interviewed for a shop assistant position in a chain that sells consumer electronics and computers as I thought my technical knowledge would be applicable. Turns out the company didn’t actually want me to help people, they just wanted me to sell as much as possible.
"People will need to accept each other and practice more tolerance and love."

Says every utopian thinker throughout history against the overwhelming evidence of the human experience.
It's treated as temporary as part of a justification for lower wages. This idea has been explicitly stated by those who oppose a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing that people making current minimum wage, or close to minimum wage, are not actually poor, or won't be in the long-term, because their current wage is temporary (the Cato Institute makes this exact argument and gives the example of "working students").
The biggest barrier to free abundant energy is the fact that our currency is based on oil, literally, the petro-dollar.

The chances of cheap abundant energy being allowed past the gate keepers which will essentially overthrow the financial system is essentially none.
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>but I believe the total combined bandwidth of the internet today is ~400Tb/s

I am not sure how one could even measured combined bandwidth of the internet. Just measuring Tier 1 network?

For reference The purposed PLCN connection from US to HK has 144Tbps alone. The current HKA already has 100Tbps.
It takes a police
Ask HN: How to do create reminders in your app?
I am seeing the need for a flexible reminder system in our app to remind people about various things they should do.

It's not an app that people use daily, so it's important to remind them about pending tasks and upcoming deadlines. I can find several services to deliver the message, but nothing that would let me generate the message without writing a lot of code.

Have you built something like this or aware of an API that can do this?
As long as it isn't 8 hours a day, and someone else is bearing the brunt of the surveillance. That's not as big a problem.
Pretty much every single one of those kids had at least a comorbidity, usually diabetes, obesity or cancer.

There's also a slight problem of overcounting covid deaths in the US, so a few of those kids actually died of car accidents, and then tested positive for the virus, so into the pile of covid deaths they went...

The actual risk of death from covid for a healthy child is 1:1000000. There are so many things in life that are much riskier than that, and yet many places closed schools over such a tiny risk. It's absolute insanity.
> where they had refrigerated trucks full of bodies because their morgues were full

Is that really true though? Because what the headlines of these kinds of stories say vs. what the article itself says usually never match.
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This article doesn’t seem to make any clear claims about “why”. The point seemed to be to say “they don’t have to be”. I would have expected to see something about tight margins in retail, and the low barrier to entry for the work.
That is extremely true, but I think it's ugly on a screen-to-screen basis. Random text justification, no distinction between editable and non-editable text, various shades of boring/corporate off-white to distinguish sections of the screen, and literal bugs in the software, like you make a table and then when you save the ticket it changes your lower 5 rows to columns in a single row.
“We Don’t Consider This a Conflicting Investment”
She’s not even an expert in this subject but she has name recognition so OP wants her opinion. Just weird.
Yay poverty?
Well don't I feel special now!

Yes, t3 instances. I wasn't seeing this behaviour on _all_ of the instances. Deploying and redeploying a three node cluster a few times trying to track down what was going on never left me in a stable state though so it certainly wasn't rare.

This was in us-west-2. I didn't notice if the issue correlated with the AZ or anything else, as until I figured out what was going on I naturally assumed it was an issue on my end and once I found the issue I just patched over it with `kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast` and moved on since this was just some play projects.

Haven't used FreeBSD at work, but I've been using it at home and for personal hosting on AWS for the past 20 odd years. Just pledged a bit on Patreon. Thanks for all the work you put in!
Murders Spiked in 2020 in Cities Across the United States
> Someone who works as a delivery guy needs to drive a car a lot, such person would have to pay big climate dividend. Is that ok? Probably not.

Probably yes, because that the whole point of Pigouvian taxes.
s/weekly/per unit time/g

But to the broader point, perhaps I misread. I fixated on the ‘cannot be kept up with’ bit which I read as implying a change in expected future consumption, but I see could also be read as a referring specifically to the demand shock.
Wow. As a more left-wing person I've been shadow banned on HN for much less than this. HN used to be one of the few places where intelligent debate accros political spectrum was allowed. If you look at this whole comment thread all you see is one POV.
> but I don't see any valid reasons for kids below 13 to ever send or receive nudes, and I would hope that most of them wouldn't even have a "sexual orientation" at that age.

I think you’re being extremely naive, if not badly misinformed, about how old people are when they start to develop their sexual/gender identity - these things happen before puberty.
The article specifically says the offending pages used JavaScript to add the ping attribute to the <a> tags, so the attack wouldn't have worked against users with JS disabled anyway.
Another fun one is the "EURion constellation", a set of features on printed currency that photoshop and color copiers will read and then refuse to operate on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The "conversion issue" is merely a display issue on GitHub - I myself appreciate that the source files were uploaded as-is and not converted to UTF-8. They are true relics of their time and will look correct when viewed in the programs they were intended to be used with.
Biden Backs Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains
yes, I meant kWh. I picked up kW/h as a nasty habit from my previous power company's billing statements.
Before reading this, I was really thinking of Ozzfest and Ozzy! - lol - I must read the article fully tonight, because I was laughing half-way through, and could not comprehend fully wtf was going on... this is too much
Threadly reminder that Scylla is licensed under the Affero GPL and depending on your needs may not qualify as a competitor to Apache Cassandra.
> the free association rights of their bosses and colleagues should not be

I'm not sure "free association" applies to employment. If someone chooses not to have any friends that aren't the same race as themselves, racist as that might be, it's not illegal.

But if they start a business they cannot filter either customers or employees based on race; in that sense they aren't free to choose who to associate in a business sense.

> There is no principled way to consider racist trolling free speech, but not also those calling for their firing to also be considered free speech.

I wouldn't say firing someone is merely an "expression" of speech, it's also the ending of an actual contract.
It would also make slightly nicer diffs
The recipient in this case absolutely appears to be "associated" with Bitfinex, who don't understand the concept of "arms length", so entirely 'nepotistic' transactions like this would be par for the course (remember the loan between Bitfinex and Tether, who were at the time being stated as independent and unrelated, yet somehow the same two people signed and countersigned the loan for both sides?).
> and this is p.e.r.v.a.s.i.v.e., 7-10 day long vacations in September and October

Any theory on why that happens so much nowadays?

My pet hypothesis is that travel got cheaper so more people do 1-2 weeks vacations abroad, and at most companies, summer months are overbooked for leaves, so people use September and October as backup vacation time.
> it destroys reachability to your systems from the population at large

Indeed.

Sometimes I think it was never meant to be. We're allowing our computers to talk to untrustworthy strangers. It was always a matter of time before one of them sent a crafted payload...

Perhaps computers shouldn't be so reachable. Can't exploit a computer that's not even there, zero days or not.
When the renters are a collection of screeching children who want to defund the police.
No the argument is that if you outlaw all jobs under $15, then you've just outlawed employment for anyone who can offer less than $15/hr in value, and relegated that person to unemployment and cut their ability to climb the wage ladder.
Sweden was beating the "we're not restricting stuff!" drum for a while, but eventually they chickened out and locked down, just like everyone else, if not more. They are not a good example.
I am not sure I buy into the idea there is a problem here. The light is on the right side of the car. The light is flashing. Ergo the car is turning right.

If it were turning left (as per the "arrow" direction) then the light would also need to be on the left hand side, and I would have to be imagining a whole car exists to the right of it. Which means either:

- I cannot move into where said phantom car is, ie where the real car is going

- upon observation of the lack of car it is obvious that the turn signal is to the right

I have seen a few of these, and I haven't suffered a moment of confusion because I am not looking for arrows to indicate direction. Indeed I have never seen an arrow light indicating direction of turn! It is simply a point in reference to the position of the vehicle.

Side note - this is why hazard lights suck. If you can only see one side of the car they're indistinguishable from an indicator and a source of regular confusion in the real world (for me, at least)
SQL-like query pattern on top of bigtable-like distribution.

e.g. you're willing to model your reads such that you dont need joins, and your sorting/scanning is based on the idea that you cluster data together, sorted in order you'll read it, into something called a "partition", which is how data is found within very large clusters.
> You can just drop bear fiber in the ground, and cover it up.

You can do this, but it's a bad idea, so I think you meant "can't" (with a unstated "and expect it to work properly, especially long-term").
I don't know if I'd go that far - we can probably get more than 1000x throughput without absorbing the whole power of the sun - but it would require some meaningful amounts of infrastructure improvements and replacements.
Ah! Sorry, it's a nasty habit I picked up from my previous power company's billing statements.
When the incentives are asymmetric, the party that cares more only has to install a few hurdles to win.

I congratulate renters in Seattle on jumping over the hurdles, but I suspect it required some doing.
The environmental and economical cost of excavation.

Also the environmental and economical cost and waste management.
Netflix asking me if I'm still alive after three hours does nothing to prevent mindless consumption on the whole