skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof of work, it’s inefficiency, or it’s security implications on transactions more generally are not relevant to your comments on the vulnerability of their coin faucet or the veracity of their claims.
It's optimistic to assume people feel anything at all. They'll just assume that the government won't actually target them with these powers. Just like violence seems like a distant reality until it happens to them.
I've seen more and more websites that serve ads from their own domain. With filenames that don't reveal that these media files are advertisements.

With pi-hole it's impossible to automatically stop these unique requests from happening. And with websites constantly and randomly changing html-element names, ad-blockers simply don't know what to block anymore.

I guess you would be better off browsing selected ad-free or subscription based websites. Or reading a paper book :-)
This looks very good! I hope Kookbook [0] (which I use without too much hassle) implements it.

[0] https://github.com/KDE/kookbook
American consumers? How does that square with 94% of the marketshare not being from those brands at all[1]?

Or do you mean Samsumg normalizing surveillance.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
You show one example, but I can show you 1,000 others where it really didn't get anywhere, just look at a few GitHub profiles :D
There seems to be little information about the company/people who runs Texts on the website which is strange - where did you find the info of who runs it?
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Not mentioned in this article is that Hydro One also charges rural ontarians a “delivery fee”, which is about 2x the price of your usage.

So you might pay 6 to 14 cents per kWh, but your bill will be 3 times that amount.

The delivery fee is also completely opaque: there’s no explanation to determine how it’s calculated, other than a brief text saying “a portion of this fee is fixed, and a portion depends on your usage”. But I haven’t been able to derive those values. If the formula for this delivery fee is something like ‘$xx + $yy*kWh’; then it appears these x and y values are not static.
I generally agree with you, but at the other hand, linux ecosystem is held back a lot by this everything C mentality. Like, ripgrep, a grep clone written in rust with proper parallelism runs loops around the C version.

Rewrites of smallish mature software is hard more because of reliance on backwards compatibility — for such long-living programs, even certain bugs/strange behaviors are part of their specification.
kWH is a more consumer-friendly unit since it's easier to calculate that a 100 Watt light bulb run for 10 hours consumes 1 kWH and you would just multiply by the cents-per-kilowatt-hour billing rate to find out how much it costs. If you were billed by the joule you'd need to divide by 3.6 times the rate. Or is it multiply by 3.6 divided by the rate? Do you subtract the 32 before or after?
> In general anything to force drivers to drive slower

But never, ever force the handful of car manufacturers to electronically limit the top speed of their products?

Note: for the top-end German marques, this is just a configuration file change: they are already limited to 250km/h.
I don't know. The future of privacy doesn't look good. Maybe Ted Kaczynski was right and many of our modern technologies are antithetical to certain freedoms people in the past enjoyed, like privacy. If that is the case, then no amount of legislation can restore or save privacy. Maybe only delay its inevitable death.
> Users normalised surveillance by buying cheap …

I agree with the rest of your comment, but I wouldn’t say that “users” normalised it, as their choice in the matter is limited. Now it seems that hidden cost of those services is a problem that will need a cultural shift to see a solution. Education helps too.

Apologies if this sounds like a nitpick, I just think that the language we use when talking about these things matters more than we expect.
INS that doesn't drift pretty much immediately is expensive and needs periodic fixups, and the moment GPS became available it pretty much dropped off anyones purchase plans (as it can't be used as backup for GPS unlike VOR/DME)
AWS AppSync: Getting Started
Because there is an element of Trust involved in the statement: "Just observing identifiers you can't use to identify individuals", which unless you completely understand the protocols and math (does anyone?) inflict at least a small amount burden on the mind.

EDIT: Just to add a little bit to this reply. Using your example, counting the number of cars on a highway is clearly surveilling the group of highway goers. This could perhaps allow you to note that one demographic travels more on Sunday than another, or that a remote farmer himself was out for groceries last Tuesday.
I clicked a couple of comparisons and they say the opposite.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-4800H-vs-Ap...

The rest is not strictly about M1/Apple, but I found technically superior hardware can be quite sluggish depending on your software stack.
This release is MVP, to test the waters. If people like the project we will definitely continue to expand to other platforms. I’m not 100% sure but it might work on windows in WSL already.
except only 0.06% participated in the end
NYC’s nonprofit DIY mesh internet
How to build bad research tools [pdf]
Apple Privacy Rules to Blame for Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth
video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsfBIXi6t2s
TFA doesn't precisely enumerate them but two I saw were:

* removes the ongoing process / cost of updating mag tracks as the Earth's magnetic field shifts

* avoids errors that occur when the true/mag difference is correctly specified
Yep. GitHub Issues is not a scrum board and shouldn't be treated as such. It's for consumers to discuss with authors and other consumers.
Live text in iOS 15 is on-device (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212788)

> Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in photos across the entire system and on the web

And as for AR Walking directions, i can't find any place documenting if it's on-device or cloud based, but i know Maps will download your route information from the cloud.
But then again, if you're using GPS, i don't see how AR Walking Directions could do (more) harm.

> The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance

Prior to Apple and Google releasing the contact tracing protocol, various governments had some interesting ideas that focused more on finding infected people than it did on protecting privacy. Contact tracing has actually improved privacy by a lot. You're literally only a random id number, and the way you get notified if you've been in contact is if your random number appears on a list that gets broadcast to your phone. The checking happens on-device. The authorities never know anything but your random id number.
http://calca.io is a decent alternative that‘s available on Windows and still maintained on mobile.
I have nowhere near the same reach and marketing capacity as Element, but if my experience running a managed hosting service [0] for Matrix (and other messaging/social media services) is anything to go by: individuals really don't care enough about that to the point of paying $5/month, but there is a growing opportunity for business that want to have some control over their communications.

These bridges can be amazing if you want to have a chatbot, or a support desk that can put all their conversations in one place, etc, but to replace the mainstream apps it is too much of a tall order. At the moment the mobile clients have so many bugs that makes it hard even for me to go when offering support for my "customers", which at this point is just the couple dozen friends and family that I managed to rope into it. They don't even have feature parity with any of the competitors, so for end-users it's just easier to switch apps on their phone depending on who they want to talk and their will have a better experience doing so.

I still use and support Matrix, but their clients still need to improve a lot if they ever hope to reach mainstream. I am focused now on another project [1], but when/if I ever get to work back on communick, I will pivot away from end-users and into SMB.

[0] https://communick.com

[1] https://hub20.io
Interesting, but the =AVG() and I suspect other functions might have a flaw. When I tried =AVG(B1:B4), with one value in B1 (6), it returned 1.5 as the average.

edit: ah, just AVG() then, the scroll didn't work on my first try so I assumed it only showed SUM() and AVG() was just a "hidden" function.
How Can I Mine Business Data from LinkedIn?
One thing I didn't spot, does this tier allow you to use a custom domain name on Matrix, or will you be :matrix.org still? $5/mo is an interesting price point for me if it can do that, I don't need the bridges but I could support the project this way.
This is why governments have passed incentive acts to help. In the United States, that came from the Rural Electrification Act[0]. It was a recognition that rural areas are critical to our urban areas because they provide food and resources, in addition to an occasional oddball university location or something to stare at on a transcon flight.

Although the law is nearly 90 years old, it continues to be foundational for supporting rural communities. In 2014 it was updated to provide support for rural electric and telephone cooperatives to supply gigabit internet. And that’s why the north woods of Minnesota often has better internet than large swaths of Minneapolis and St Paul.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
Maybe due to the Swift toolchain and what is easiest to get working first? (I have never used Swift)
Surveillance was normalized far before that. People have been using Google products and social networks for years before these devices. The only difference is the extent to which one carries that Panopticon with them.
It removes the need to maintain the lookup tables that are used to compute magnetic north from the true north determined by the navigation system.

I don't know anything about them, but looking it up, apparently inertial navigation systems can determine true north by sensing the spin axis of the planet! So it isn't just a 'gps is easier' kind of thing.
Some of it comes down to how much compliance there is to the laws in the first place. In an environment where no one is complying, and no one is reporting for fear of losing their job (particularly in environments where you can be laid off without cause fairly easily), standing up for your rights can lead to being dismissed for "unrelated reasons", and future reference calls talking about how you weren't a "team player".

Just having the laws on the books, or even an enforcement mechanism that works is sometimes not enough to get them widely adopted.
This is true in politics and religion as well, the outward facing representation of a group is often defined by its loudest proponents. They are often not representative of the group. But external perception is still important and easily shaped by loud / repeat voices.

Disavowing certain behaviours works on a personal level, but otherwise people who wield power in such groups have to try and use that power to try to improve external perception often in spite of the many vocal members of the group.

The world is full of self-selected spokespeople.
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It seems relevant to me.

Wired is trying to redefine “surveillance” to mean people collecting and sharing their own information, while at the same time conducting real, detailed surveillance on anyone reading this article.

You might wonder if they being completely disingenuous.
What I want is that HN will have less toy stuff upvoted because the title contains a specific keyword. I will submit tomorrow my X11 re implementation in Rust, it is a thing I made in weekends, full of bugs , it is missing everything and I am not experienced in anything graphics related but I read half a book about X11 and a fvew Rust blogs and now I will be on HN first page and get tons of stars on GitHub.

Long story short, HN should not be IMO a Rust forum where any toy or shit re-implementation is admitted but it is what it is, fanboys will up-vote anything until the Rust image gets completely destroyed.
They related these two points by saying that either it’s hackable, or there’s something weird going on under the hood, and that proof of stake alleviates these issues. Idk if I agree or disagree but it seemed straightforward and relevant what they were asserting.
> Pixar licensed a bunch of GPU rendering tech from NVIDIA in 2015, so that's six years ago.

Pixar still primarily renders on the CPU. Only within the last year have they added a hybrid GPU option to the Renderman renderer.
> The United Nations codified that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Article 12 states that, “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy” and that “everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”

the united nations also promises the right to affordable housing... where's my fucking house Blackstone?
On the point of arresting people planning to protest, many protest around the world were fueled by the use of social media/messaging apps. So in that case its not obvious that it has a negative effect on democracy.
The NEORV32 RISC-V Processor: Datasheet
Seriously, should've named it WHUPF..
Long-Term ADHD Treatment Alter Brain Dopamine Transporter Levels (2013)
In Ontario, IT people can be forced to work any amount of time per day, with no breaks and no consideration of time off between shifts. You can also be forced to work 7 days a week. You do not get time for lunches or meals in general and you do not get overtime at any time.

You might say 'just quit' but as per OP, you are forced to blindly sign a non-compete and so you're not allowed to get a new job or risk being sued for 1.1million like I did.
He was right place right time almost always even if he didn't succeed. Armadillo Aerospace could have been SpaceX in a different timeline. Was clearly on the money with VR.

It's hard to feel bad for Zenimax here, they had opportunities and generational talents and wasted them.
During a summer not long ago, a client called with an urgent issue. Some critical messages were not being passed on, leading to a full stop on their end.

However I couldn't make heads or tails of what systems this was or how it related to us.

After a bit of back and forth, the customer said "ask Glenn, he always fixes this for us".

Glenn was of course on vacation and didn't respond to messages...

A few hours pass while we make zero progress on this issue and customer increasingly annoyed, when Glenn finally responds to my messages.

Turns out that on a different server from where our software is installed, there was a Java-based message broker service running that needed occasional kick in the pants (IIRC stopping, deleting a file, restarting). We're not a Java shop, we don't use message brokers.

For years, Glenn had been keeping this service running and updated for our customer, as the customer didn't have any internal resources that was capable of handling this. And nobody else at our shop knew this. Why? Well, he just did what had to be done and moved on to the next issue at hand, as he always did...
> Funny thing I mostly know what I am talking about.

You are only however talking about your subjective experience and projecting it onto the entirety of the industry.

I've worked in both animated features and VFX at a few of the bigger studios. What sort of studio do you work at?

I'd suggest looking at the landscape of big feature films and seeing what studios are using GPU rendering. It's rare to see any of the big studios using GPU rendering, not just because of existing farm hardware, but because none of the current GPUs and GPU renderers are capable of handling the larger scenes required, as well as losing out on some shader functionality like full OSL support among others...

If you look at the ACM breakdown of production renderers, in their rendering special, there's not a single GPU focused renderer there.

Individual artists may want GPU rendering. However your statement of only old school people using CPU rendering is just ignoring the realities of production.
Oniro – The Distributed OS That Connects Consumer Devices Big and Small
Maybe not very interesting but I'm using SQLite as a dataframe replacement in languages where the support isn't great, for a project where I want to transition from a CLI tool to a web application (and probably from SQLite to Postgres).
Magnetic declination and deviation are already trained concepts in nautical navigation. Don't see why they couldn't be used with aeroplanes as well. Bit more calculating, but not really very big deal.
DOS game “Cosmo Chicken” patched after 25 years
Macbook Pro 2020 13-inch doesn't turn on after this actions:

1) Downloaded Monterey update. In the end appeared error message that some package with strange name can't be unpacked

2) Downloaded Big Sur 1.16.1 update, because information about Monterey disappeared and there were not any button to install new OS.

3) System was automatically rebooted after 2), started update screen in few minutes and macbook completely turned off with no signs of power.

Resseting SMC, NVRAM didn't help. Battery was 73% when started updates.
Rust doesn't kill 100% of the bugs either (remember, memory/thread safety are only a small subset of all the possible bugs).

Then again, I don't think that the sanitizers, while great, prevent anywhere close to 98% of the issues either.
non sequitur.

Instead, the fact is that the issues is complex in itself, we are constantly working with incomplete (and sometimes wrong) information forming our judgements in timeframes and under social pressures to have an opinion on so many diverse field in "almost real time". Nobody can accomplish this, which is why we have a clash of "visions", which are substituted for reasoning. Visions of the elites and their numerous followers are dangerous for a simple fact that they quickly become isolated from a feedback to reality. They provide social status advantage, and personally become entwined with one's ego, hence strong emotional bond to mere opinions or collection of such.

Any person disagreeing or challenging the assumptions or premisses of the prevalent vision are viewed not merely wrong in fact but also in a state of "sin" (by not following the elites propagated vision). In fact, one can write entire books on this very topic (e.g T. Sowell, vision of the anointed, and reference therein).

(Way out is only one way [in a sentence] which does not lead to a totalitarian, elite-we-know-better-for-you society; let people bear the cost of their decisions. Not have 3rd parties make decision about individuals bearing no responsibility for the results, nor socializing costs of a decision post-fact.)
Chicago creates one of the nation’s largest ‘guaranteed basic income’ programs
It took VW so long because they developed a platform rather than individual cars for their dozen brands.
I said not much, not "nothing". It's AFAIK true involving family is one of the most effective things you can do in rehab.

But it can be very costly on a human level, and there's still depressing outcomes.

It's not easy to run such family intervention initiatives. An old friend in my teetotaller org did it for a while, starting up family clubs after the design of a little known Yugoslav/Italian academic, Vladimir Hudolin.

There are things you can do, but they're not very effective and at best they help you and the ones closest to you. I'm saying, I think we should see it as a social problem more than an individual problem, and try to address it at the social level first and foremost. We'll likely always need rehab in some form, for humane reasons, but it's not possible to use it to paper over the deeper problems surrounding drug use. That's like replacing traffic safety with emergency medicine.
>That's how I feel about macOS. It's for people who prioritize maximum animations over speed. For example, Finder is so slow compared to Windows Explorer. I love Windows. I love the customizability I love the speed, and even 15 years ago, there were 10X more software package for Windows than Mac.

Well, I don't have windows at hand, but Finder on my 2019 MPBr opens in much less than a second. Maybe Explorer opens 3 time faster but what's the point? Yes, I do prioritise speed over animations (linux is clearly a winner when it comes to animations by the way, macOS has just a few by default) when it really matters.

>there were 10X more software package for Windows than Mac.

Quality over quantity. I do agree that macOS lacks in a few departments but most of the time this is due to the closed-garden-like nature. Windows has things like Rufus and other tools because it has to play jack of all trades role. macOS is free of this. Like it or not.

>I love the customizability

This is understandable. I love this on linux too. Now I just don't have the time nor do I care rally. I'd prefer an OS that gives me 80% of what I need\want for 10% of my time rather than an OS that requires me to spend 50% of my time for all those tweaks.
You can try to run precompiled Linux binary, it’s statically linked so doesn’t have any dependencies (almost).

Edit. Here is installation instructions https://github.com/cooklang/CookCLI#installation
Devil's advocate: some projects are extremely open-ended and will always have issues, hundreds of them. Bugs will be a permanent condition of the project so some bugs might be not deemed relevant, ever. Auto-closing helps here.

If nobody is attending a given issue, definitionally it doesn't have an economic value: nobody deemed the issue/task worth solving OR paying for it. It might be annoying, but not sufficiently annoying to take action.

It doesn't block your business, workflow, productivity etc; if it was, you'd be personally involved in solving the issue in some or other way.
A Week with an AlphaStation: The Old Computer Challenge
"Meanwhile, the ADS-B mandate in Canada has been under an indefinite suspension since November 2019. It was originally slated to begin in February 2021 but was placed on hold in response to stakeholder feedback."

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...
> Before fentanyl contaminated heroin came around

But today, fentanyl poisoning is fueling the massive increase in deaths, it's over half of all overdose deaths.

Benzos are lower than prescription opioids, heroin, and cocaine in terms of overdose death.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...
> "I am depressed". No, you are depressing yourself.

What about Bipolar and Schizophrenia, do you think about them same as depression?
Yeah this is a curious dichotomy. Universally hated from the outside but beloved from the inside. It does seem perhaps a little cult like though, the median tenure seems incredibly long - people join and _never_ leave.
There are two main ones
1. modern navigation systems often work in true North already but have to map to magnetic for display & to match charts.
2. magnetic north moves! This greatly complicates how you deal with the first point.

I don’t envy the Canadian pilots they were talking about who tested some of this current stuff, and found their plane’s idea of the runway direction way very different from where it lay.
I want one three of these. I'll worry about the logistics later. :)