skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
let's limit creativity because some asshats have made looking at a list of fonts a negative

Yes.

Security and privacy come at the expense of other things. It's not totally unreasonable to prioritize them though.

It would limit creativity, but not by very much.
> We are going to have to strike some balances.

the balance is easily reached before the advent of facebooks' policy - you buy the hardware, you get to run _any_ software on it.

Some software require an account, but only because that software's specific needs (like VR chat would require some sort of account to identify a user).

Steam lets you use steamvr without having a steam account. The only reason facebook didn't is because they saw an opportunity to pull in people by force into the facebook ecosystem.
as soon as you create a namespace like that, you've made the lever that will be utilized for centralized control. In reality, if you had no chance of getting somewhere without the centralized registry, you don't have the connection.
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Bad example: regulate telecommunications companies are required by statute to provide certain information on request. A better example is Amazon with their law enforcement partnerships through Ring.
Of course they are, that's the same as saying 'house prices are rising faster than income'. Both follow exponential growth curves, so if they have different exponents, the difference is always exponential too. Hyperbole, but also, still a serious issue.
PWAs have been seen as crappy for the same reason WordPress sites have been — lowest barrier to entry for hackjob teams!

Now, with installation of PWAs, it'll become the same as the "apps" of old, just without a store in between.

PWA manifests etc
I've actually made the dial-up sound my default ringtone.

(Not the number-dialing part though)

The handshake is such a unique sound (and high-pitched too) that it cuts through all environment noises and can't be confused for anything else.
It's actually Controlled Digital Lending: https://controlleddigitallending.org
> helium can also leak irrecoverably out the atmosphere.

Won't all atmospheric helium be lost to space? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape#/media/File... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the only planets that can retain helium, AFAIU.
Would the PCI-E one work under Linux? I've got an old 98/XP/Linux machine that would be fun to stick a modem into for the novelty. Unfortunately the PCI slots are all taken up
At least some of them do appear to support sideloading, for example my TCL 43" from 2019. I haven't tried loading anything yet, but following the "Enable Developer Mode" process described in the Roku docs [1] does yield the option to enable the dev server, and I don't know that there's any reason to suspect IDK apps won't run if loaded. (Might need to update the OS, though; I haven't done that in a while.)

[1] https://blog.roku.com/developer/developer-setup-guide
Hard beds, like those popular in Asia, definitely do affect matters. But western mattresses are all about the same.
I've always wondered - does Ada track or enforce these ranges?

Like, if I have a variable `i` in range 0...10 and write the Ada equivalent of `i++`, does Ada know that from there on out `i` is in range 1...11? Something like TypeScript's type narrowing?
i'd expect people to not want to carry such a large amount of cash, and it makes the shop a burglary target.

Credit card payment is likely the only form accepted in a store imo (not been to one physically myself, so i can only guess).
Counter their arguments better so they don’t.
Even usr manufactured those terrible winmmodens: https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5638/ ?

Reputation scratched.
you don't need a credit card to update macosx. You might need an apple login for some updates, such as for your appstore apps, since that's not operating system related.
I have had similar experiences. I end up having to do my own research if I want a problem actually solved.

Another thing that bothers me is that they never seem to do any sort of testing. They just throw solutions at the problem until one of them works. It is 2021 we have had the technology to grow something in a culture for over 160 years now, but no just take these antibiotics and if they don't work come back and I'll take another random shot in the dark.
IMO, VR/AR’s main issue is that interaction between people is going to be avatar-based (cause nobody wants to see you with that thing on your face). And that’s not going to cut it for most people. It’ll always feel like a game.

If you can’t do visio, it’ll never replace phones.

If MagicLeap did manage to cram AR in such small devices, then maybe… but visio will be as if everyone you’re talking to has sunglasses on…
One of the best breakdowns of those sounds i’ve ever seen

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
Internationalization and localization don't require more fonts, just different fonts. When a user is viewing a site in English they'd see a different font to a user viewing a page in Japanese. That's fine. Just serve one a stylesheet with the English font first, and the other a site with the Japanese font first. They would still work fine.

Bold and italic were different fonts in the past, but variable fonts have solved loading separate fonts for different weights and italics. This change would require developers swap to use those in many cases, and to create variable versions of brand fonts if necessary. I don't see that as a problem. The benefit makes it worthwhile.
The reverse also often happens, weeks of planning saves you hours of programming since many issues becomes a lot clearer once you start writing code.
haha that's pretty cool! I love custom ringtones. My current ringtone is the Pornhub intro.
The page says they sell both controller-based and winmodems.

But Linux works with some winmodems: http://www.linmodems.org/
> Or is it multivariate and all the parameters matter and affect and interact with each other?

I've been saying this a lot lately (in different forms):

Reality is not a single variable problem; it's a multivariate puzzle which is never as simple as a single cause -> effect scenario.

This applies to absolutely everything these days, from growing plants to politics. In many ways this is the failure of the internet/social media. Everything tends towards simple single variable explanations that are never, ever, in alignment with reality. And yet, entire populations become divided along these simple lines. Even when talking about how to grow a lawn.
The images on this site load very slowly... I very much hope this is because someone at USR deliberately throttled each connection to 56k. Retail performance art is an underexplored niche.
i'm hopeful that the interest here is indicative of a broader politically-relevant interest. personally, i have no great interest in general aviation and am not even a very good environmentalist, but i'm enthusiastic about the advancements here because it seems like the sort of easy wins we should be pushing for, where a lot of the hard work has already been done.

i'm basically just here as a bandwagon fan so i can celebrate when "we" win this one. the same way i cheer when my local hockey team makes the playoffs. and i suspect that a lot of us are following this story for similar reasons.
PCI-E for that old of a machine?

Why not use the USB one? https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5637/
This might work better if GPT3 is used to rewrite each statement into an algebraic equation. And then a equation solver is used to solve the system.
Very interesting question. According to this summary, [1] it seems like it could not be considered insider trading.

> The laws pertaining to insider trading encompass (a) trading by an insider while in possession of material non-public information; (b) trading by a non-insider while in possession of material non-public information, where the information either was disclosed to the non-insider in violation of an insider’s duty to keep it confidential or was misappropriated; and (c) communicating material non-public information to others.

The concept of an “insider” is broad and includes officers, directors and employees of an issuer. In addition, a person can be a “temporary insider” if he or she enters into a special confidential relationship with the issuer and, as a result, is given access to confidential information. A temporary insider can include an issuer’s attorneys, accountants or consultants.

My reading of this (as a former lawyer) is that under current law, insider trading requires that there be an insider involved. The insider can be the person who did the trading, or a person who transmitted information to other people. The insider has to be someone affiliated with the issuer (of stock that is being bought/sold).

OTOH, there's probably not much benefit to buying stock in advance of the actual announcement. If the expectation is that the pop happens after the announcement, someone could just wait until the second it's announced and then make a purchase. Presumably the share price wouldn't have gone up appreciably in the intervening seconds (but HFT, I know), so it would yield roughly the same result, and without the possibility of insider trading charges!

Follow-up question: is it a violation of insider trading laws to prepare a transaction and then execute it the instant that material information is made public? Does an insider (or someone informed by an insider) need to wait a reasonable period, in order to give the rest of the market time to digest the information that has just been revealed?

1: https://katten.com/Insider-Trading-A-Primer-10-26-2009
It's common for the architect to stipulate in the contract that the plans are for the specific project (down to the location) and cannot be used for any other project.
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Yes, it's enforced by any _runtime_ operation.
See: https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/h...
Setting Up a Remote Dev Environment When You’re a Cloud Skeptic
Good for signal but if I were going to play devil's advocate, I would put myself in the shoes of folks in the government that want this information... I would contact Google or Apple and ask them to throw in some non-advertised APIs that take and then send screenshots of the signal app from the OS to a central server. Put another way, if the OS isn't fully trusted, it's still game over, even with all of the encryption in the world.
Oil and Helium are both replaced on geologic timescales their effectively a constant in terms of human lifespans.

You can estimate decay rates from net heat generated by the earth, but only a tiny fraction of the helium produced is close enough to the surface to be captured by us. On top of this helium is really good at escaping confinement so you need very specific geological formations to end up with significant quantities.
How the Chinese Military Is Adopting Artificial Intelligence
How to Use MetaMask – Binance Academy
Unethical from your point of view
OK, let's try again.

It is clearly possible, in principle, for a corporation to behave responsibly if its officers really want to and its board permits it. A corporation whose management wants it to do something responsible doesn't need a regulator to tell it that must. They can just do it.

What else, then, would lead it to choose to capture a regulator? To force its competitors to behave responsibly too? To force its future self to behave responsibly? Can you identify any single instance of either ever occurring?

Whatever may be possible, what we have seen over and over again is, instead, corporations capturing regulators and then hamstringing every effort to enforce any sort of responsible behavior.

Automobile manufacturers fought tooth and nail against requirements that they provide seatbelts, and then airbags, and then pollution controls, and then crash safety. Tobacco companies fought tooth and nail against labeling requirements, and restrictions on sales and advertising to children. Boeing management lately had the FAA approve their deathtrap 737-Max, at ultimately ruinous expense to their own stockholders and to airlines suckered into buying them.

The least harmful examples I know of have been to raise barriers to entry for their industry by imposing expenses that they, but not new entrants or smaller competitors, could afford, in the form of requirements on reporting, or fabrication materials, or quality standards, or occasionally even restrictions on effluents.

We see in many states a Dairy Council that has got itself delegated authority to assess their own taxes, spent then on billboards promoting dairy products, or buying up and destroying "excess" production, invariably favoring the biggest dairies and making smaller ones less competitive. Medical, dental, legal, hairdressing, and other "associations" are allowed to maintain licensing regimes to limit competition that, sometimes, act to establish a minimum required level of competency or education, but more reliably guarantee captive income for schools and exam boards.
Open Letter to FreeLukeJr after been banned at Twitter
Google shut Google+ down cause people weren’t using it. Nothing to do with how facebook was/is doing. And Facebook is still doing pretty fine btw…
The declension of "ditia" is not very productive (gen "ditiati" etc.) Usually a noun with a rare declension is moved to a different, more conmon declension by assigning a certain productive suffix which uses a common declension. Such suffixes have their own assigned gender.

Same for Russian "rebia" (rare declension) which became rebenok (common declension) by assigning -ok suffix which happens to be masculine. Or in Greek, masculine "pais" had unproductive declension (gen. paidos) so it was assigned diminutive suffux -ion which happens to be neuter, hence modern Greek "paidi" is neuter.
The range wouldn’t change in Ada. The type for a variable is fixed at compile time. It will ensure (at runtime and partially at compile time) that the value doesn’t go outside the range, though.
Interesting: https://www.usr.com/do-not-sell-my-personal-information/

> Please be advised that USR does not, and has not sold any personal information in the last 12 (twelve) months. Similarly, USR does not have any future plans to sell personal information. Please refer to our Privacy Notice for details on how your information is used.

> USR respects and understands that you may still want to ensure your personal information is not sold. Therefore, if you would still like to proceed with your “do not sell my information” request, we ask that you kindly provide the following information:

Yeah I'm not putting in my name and address.
I find it surprising when companies recover in less than 72h personally
Pentium on a 386 Motherboard
I’m under the impression that sleeping on rough ground actually produces the greatest long term health benefits. Much like how sitting in a plush chair isn’t all that healthy really.
Roogle: A (Hoogle-like) Rust API search engine
I love random pieces of history like this. Like when I discovered that StuffIt was only discontinued in 2019. I wonder who was buying it as late as that. https://support1.smithmicro.com/portal/en/kb/articles/stuffi...
A waterbed will disabuse you of this notion. Terrible for sex.
How is that interesting? Markets are irrational.
The Sound of the Dialup, Pictured
The solution might've been a bit shorter if he'd known to search for info about the WOW6432Node and found out about how registry redirection works, something I don't see him clearly call out in there despite wondering where that extra bit comes from:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/reg...

Presumably this is happening due to this being an old 32-bit game running on 64-bit Windows. The WOW in there stands for "Windows on Windows."
As always, the discussion is heavily oriented towards social, consumer or entertainment uses...

Ask the military if VR / AR is just a fad. XR tech in the professional world has seen a steady, encouraging growth even with its current limitations.

Imo it proves the tech has fundamental value. Will it go mainstream with a breakthrough consumer use case ? Maybe. Will it be as envisioned by Zuckerberg? Probably not.

As a side note, I'm really curious about Apple's take on VR / AR. We know they are working on it, but they haven't shared their vision, afaik.
Winners write history.
Hacker news has a poor track record for high-ranked comments being able to correctly identify inflation though. Pretty much every iPhone was identified as a marginal improvement until people gave up claiming that in the face of overwhelming technical and market success.

New things that have never been done before are innovative. It may not knock anyone's socks off, but innovation is happening.
There appear to be two different rights in conflict there, so there's some complexity to the situation.

On the one hand there's the teachers' free speech rights, freedom from compelled speech. On the other hand are the students' civil rights protecting against discrimination.

The ACLU in that situation has decided the later should prevail over the former when it pertains to government workers & their speech while on-the-job.
Do you have any sources your can share or more info about this?

I Googled and the first result was "Under delta, supply chain strains, Toyota slashes production."[0] Many similar results[1][2][3].

Six months ago they were getting temporary reprieve because they monitored supply and snapped some up[4], but now, six months later, they seem to be having to slash production like everyone else.

[0]https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-hea...

[1]https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37364490/toyota-cutting-g...
[2]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/toyota-slashes-producti... (pbs reiterates AP report)
[3]https://www.thestreet.com/phildavis/stocks-options/thursday-...

[4]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/how-toyot...
Like Hubble’s first director’s idea to point the telescope towards empty space for hundreds of hours?
(This is not advice to seek out these things)

In reality most people aren’t going to (or rather, shouldn’t try to) seek out drug dealers and prostitutes on the street. For the former it’s more likely someone will “know a guy who knows a guy”, or maybe use the dark web. For the latter there are websites and classifieds, you just need to know the right terminology, etc (from what I’ve gathered, I have no personal experience...)

So yeah, it’s underground, but not that underground.
PCIe 1.0 was 2003-ish [1] (I don't recall when the first motherboards actually shipped with them). Even in 2006, AOL had millions of dial up customers, particularly in rural areas without serious broadband options. Eventually they raised the prices on dial up to push anyone that they could to switch to their mediocre DSL service [2].

I recall a lot of even casual internet users finally accepting around that time that they should just transfer their email from AOL (to GMail if they knew someone to get an invite!) and get faster, cheaper "real internet".

But for a time, new PCs from folks like Gateway and so on had an option for PCIe modems, IIRC!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-hanging-up-on-dial-up-customer...
Munger is more interested in figuring a way to not heap mountains of debt on students.

The cost of building everyone’s dream college experience is one of the reasons people are paying 50-70k/ year for college.

If this design shaves off 10k/year in costs that’s a down payment on a condo.

Maybe that tradeoff seems unreasonable to people. But the ability to see and make those kinds of trade offs is… just maybe… one of the reasons Charlie is a billionaire.
That kind of technology would make the issue more obvious, but I already operate under the understanding that people's personal computing devices are effectively extensions of their minds.

I read a good short story on the subject recently, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
do you have tips for further reading about the part with electric aircraft cost per hour?
This worked so well for everyone involved the first time.
I assume he is afraid of people with lofty high level ideas in charge of pushing out products for the metaverse that are just not fun or even usable because they started top down, missing end user detail, while Carmack would start implementing the details instead and maybe the high level stuff emerges, maybe not, but at least you have products users want to use.
Don't Tor onion services basically work like that already?
There is a twitch streamer (kitboga) who role-plays as an elderly lady. He baits scammers into calling him and messes with them for a few hours.

His setup is quite elaborate. Fake bank accounts, google play store, etc. One of the more subtle parts is a chrome extension he wrote that adds a random delay to the load time for web elements to better simulate an ancient home desktop and poor internet connection.
I remember applying for a visa on a country's government website and their Javascript was broken. I "hacked" the HTML just to finish the application. I think it was a Firefox compatibility issue.
Have you seen the research demo for Facebook photorealistic avatars? It looked like face tracking and realistic avatars are a solvable problem.
not OP but rooting is incompatible with security.
If you mean "points, badges and leaderboards", then it's not enough.

If you want to know what works, start by reading 'Hooked' and 'Actionable Gamification'.
> I was there a few years ago

> Imagine if such amazing tools could be used at actually ethical companies.

Congratulations. How long did it take you to realize things are, in fact, as bad as the "haters" (to use a favorite term of the FB inner circle) said they were?

On a more on-topic note, is entGo actually worth implementing as an ORM for Go? I've always been suspicious of most ORMs for all of the various reasons we all know about letting other people manage your database connections, in terms of performance/etc...
That isn't a weird policy position. The speed cameras do ALPR and can store all the results, so they build a location history of all the vehicles that weren't even breaking the law. That's bad.

It's also bad that cops pull people over arbitrarily, but that's not the part in the EFF's bailiwick, and there are other solutions than putting ALPR cameras everywhere.
For everyone struggling to find the perfect mattress for you - foam vs memory foam vs latex foam vs cotton packed vs coil spring - I found great results with Sleepnumber mattresses.

My biggest regret of moving back home from the States was that I didn’t ship my sleepnumber mattress home because it cost so much.

Sleepnumber stores look (and probably are) gimmicky but man, the first couple of nights I slept on them, I didn’t know when my head hit the pillow and when morning came. I truly understood what “sleeping like the dead” means.

Now I’m planning to somehow insert a thin air mattress into my current latex foam mattress for extra back support.
Yes because every CMO knows getting a blog post to the top of HN is easily worth losing a few weeks/months worth of leads..
To pick from one of the random sources that went into creating that graph:

> at least once, his symptoms were interpreted as a social distancing mechanism. [0]

The term has been in use for a _very_ long time. You'll also find it in editions of the Oxford dictionary from the 80s.

[0] Diseases of the Nervous System. Volume 36, Issues 1-6. (1975). Page 73.
Gotta have weed control or they overtake my lawn.
Those are some remarkably tenuous justifications for why the product is desirable.