skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably most Tor exit nodes are run by agencies trying to snoop on traffic.

Well, that would explain why the nodes don't get shut-down when the local police come knocking...

Still, that must require some very awkward conversations when ethics committees or even departmental budgets are approved - not to mention inviting consternation from the general-public who really don't approve of their tax-money being used to knowingly facilitate dark-net activities, especially horrific child abuse, ugh. (I'm a utilitarian myself, but personally I'd pull the plug on it: surely there are better ways for embedded agents to exchange information? What about digital-steganography, and concealable satellite comms hardware?)
At one point, I managing some servers for a project at a large company. There was an internal web app via which one could modify and change the update / patch schedule for servers.

Only it was behaving like I wasn't authorized to use it (despite being the registered owner of the servers), and I couldn't find any documentation on what groups it wanted me in.

Take a quick glance at the js, and it's doing AD lookups from my client, via an unofficial AD-REST endpoint everyone used, and then using the result.

So easy enough to just return what it's looking for and change my server's schedules as desired.

But hmm... I wonder if it works for the admin-looking group? Yup. Of course it does.

Ping it over to a friend who works in appsec, they poke it for awhile, and figure out (a) with admin permissions this tool can change the patch schedule of everything (e.g. AD domain controllers) & (b) the same pattern of client-checks was used on a lot of other tools that team built.

So I threw some poor team's roadmap into disarray, but a little curiosity on my part helped improve our security posture.
> For some reason, when we try to figure how to manage abundant resources, only solutions we come up with are to make them artificially scarce.

There are other solutions that have been seriously considered or proposed. For example in copyright one idea is to allow things to be freely copied and have some rich entity pay creators. This was how it was done a long time ago, with the rich entity usually being a king or a ruler of a city-state or a wealthy lord.

Another idea is to pay creators via some tax on something that is roughly correlated with copying. An example would be a tax on blank tape.

A problem with these approaches is deciding who gets paid and how much. In the tax approach not many people seem to like the idea of the government deciding which artists should get funded. The usually way to avoid that is to have it based on how many copies are made. But then you need some way to get that data.

You could do it via some kind of polling. That was probably the only way back when copying was mostly physical, such as copying a record to a cassette tape. Nowadays when it is mostly digital you could do it by server side monitoring on download/streaming sites and/or device-side monitoring of playback--but then you are getting into areas that will worry many people for being an opening to more general surveillance.

For ordinary physical goods we don't have these problems--a free market (even the poor approximation of a free market that we have) works pretty good for determining what to produce. But that only works if the goods have certain properties, which copies of art do not have. (If anyone wants more information, look into excludable vs non-excludable goods and rival vs non-rival goods).

The approach of current copyright law is to legally give copies those properties so that the market can determine what art gets produced and how much the artist makes. This is a tradeoff, because it does mean that the consumer pays more for copies than the "correct" free market price (marginal cost of copying).

The other approaches mentioned above tend to make the tradeoff the other way--the consumer pays marginal cost of copying, but less art gets produced than consumers would like.

There's not really any way to avoid having either underproduction or underutilization when it comes to easily copyable art. Once you realize this things make a lot more sense.
The "value" that economics maximizes is wealth-weighted (in the sense of who gets to determine what is valuable and what is not).

Understanding this fact has led me to a thousand and one horrible "that's a feature, not a bug" realizations.
It's entirely possible. My friend told that his almost newly built apartment had very good insulation. My parents is good as well, only noise really is the elevator if on other side of wall. My current rental isn't bad either. Though some noise get through. Last place was horrible though, specially with dog that made noises through the night...

So it is possible to have good noise insulation. In general the noise from outside is bigger problem than from neighbours. Only real case with issue is renovation as any drilling or hammering through travel in structures.
I'm always surprised that people don't cite the economic and physical limits for the metaverse more often.

Light only moves so fast through cables. Average ping time between New York and LA is in the high 60's, and that's assuming a wired connection.

I think often about the old talk [1] Web Design - The First 100 Years, that talks about why planes never went supersonic. The alternatives were good enough, and the costs rose exponentially for linear (or sib-linear) gains. Transmitting information across the wire is an obvious win on value. Transmitting experience seems like a whole different order of magnitude that might just not be worth it.

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
If ML had well documented biases towards hitting people on purpose, then no.
I've seen all kinds of demographics and localities on HN. What would be the new HN then?
That's cool. The size of this dictionary is pretty intimidating though.
I hope they never sleep in a hotel. Who know what happened there!
>> but I just think a native solution of the platform is preferable over a 3rd party tool

I had a job interview where someone asked me what I would prefer Terraform or Cloudformation for AWS.

I said Cloudformation because it's managed by AWS who writes the actual software as well. And they kind of smugly said Terraform is better because it's cloud agnostic.

I was thinking...have you ever USED Terraform.
Bit-twiddling: optimising AArch64 logical immediate encoding and decoding
Tokyo is way more centralized than London, yet it’s completely affordable to everyone working there thanks to draconian centralized zoning laws making it easy to build denser housing anywhere as the market demands it
Pretty humorous to quote anarchist thinkers and then endorse the government’s arguments, unilaterally telling me my gym is “not essential”, and deploying one of the biggest rollback in public liberties within democracies in history!

More to the point of the article, I’d argue most PhD work meets the definition of “bullshit jobs” much better than Graeber’s unrigorous and widely contested book.

It’s clear to me that we’re moving towards a two-tier economy, with one tier best described as varying levels of “broke” (which includes everyone from homeless people like her, to people who buy second hand BMWs and Mercedes who don’t have even $50,000 in savings), and asset owners. Earning money outside a salary is essential, whether online, or by starting a business, or OnlyFans-style stuff. More resourceful people with multiple, diversified income source will thrive, and people who believe “the system” has their back, and that a salaried life is the “prestigious”, “default” path, will crumble.

I guarantee you, there are people making money online, working 10h a week like you say, living in third-world countries that give you more day-to-day freedom (as long as you’re not a political opponent) than Western democracies. It’s not a dream, it’s reality! If you’re an anarchist, don’t expect the government to bail you out. The “dream life” according to you, is very real, today, and you can get to it with maybe a year of hard work, with the added benefit of being geopolitically independent, and able to bail if things get bad.
> I’ve seen some arguments that no one wants live in small towns. And I don’t necessarily disagree, because the centralization of talent, competition and investment is often what makes large cities attractive.

I prefer small town life, and I'm sure many others do too. One upside of the pandemic is that with more companies getting comfortable with remote work, centralization of talent is not quite as big a deal as before.
The perfect time for me was when I realized that WSL doesn't have IPv6 support. I appreciate the work Microsoft put in with WSL, but it frankly feels incomplete without full native Linux environment to go along with it. Managing all of your software with package management feels so futuristic, too!
Yeah, this pains me too. Here's a relevant issue to keep an eye on:

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/3854

I've used an nginx-based S3 proxy in the past to get around this. Not ideal but it works.
Better sleep habits are CORRELATED with better college grades. This was not a causal study.
The company Facebook changes its name. Why Meta?
Mark Zuckerberg announced in his last speech that Facebook is changing its name to Meta. Thus, he confirmed the reports that had been circulating on the Internet for some time.
Fields are planted with things grazing animals like to eat then mowed, the plants are dried and baled and can be stored for a long time to feed animals when needed.

It’s not really a commodity product like grains so the producer and consumer are much more likely to deal directly with one another.

These are classified ads for cow food.
I assume you don’t have to buy the whole lot, if it is like other hay sellers we have known.
Introducing JioPhone Next, the Made-for-India Smartphone
Meta with your own smartwatch? Equipment caught in the photo
The Meta company, known so far as Facebook, is currently developing a smartwatch that will be able to take photos and record videos. The Bloomberg news agency has published a photo of this new smart watch.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039
So, roku started out as a democratic middleman offering access to multiple streaming players. But it's devolved into another turf war, where it now continually threatens it's purchasers with loss of access, today Youtube, tommorrow Amazon Prime Video.

From such heights, it's really becoming very disappointing.
The national trend they claim is based on new home prices to national median household income, which is misleading (new homes are disproportionately built in “hot” areas and generally targeting the high end of the local market), so a lot of that represents growing local and between localities inequality.

The local trends are...unclear in meaning. They use the ZHVI, which should be more representative of housing in general, but its not clear what it is against. They describe rather than cite data, and the description “estimated family income” from HUD doesn't say much—it should be household, not family income, but a bigger issue is it isn't clear what summary statistic of family income their source uses (median? mean? something else?).
The local trends
I think it's Jonathan Haidt who popularised that phrasing.

The first part of his book "The Righteous Mind" discusses this aspect.
You may be right on some level. I’ve used VR a bit. Was kind of neat and novel at first. Made me want to puke after a five minutes of use.

Then again, I don’t game for the same reason.
Google has, in the past, made YouTube reliant on non-standard browser APIs and shipped a polyfill for other browsers that had terrible performance.

It's not just that they passively focus on Chromium, they will deliberately trash performance on every other browser without a second thought.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that successful projects like the internet, the original Oculus, Email, IRC ... these were not created by huge companies with huge budgets, they were projects of passion usually at most 5 people.
If you see Dune in a theatre with good enough sound and screen (ex. IMAX), it’s an incredible experience in a way a book could not be. Not saying it’s “better”, it’s just different in a fundamentally incomparable way.
Perhaps it is the case that there is a certain group of students who do well in class and sleep well? The article speaks of correlations at first, then immediately jumps into causation.
Do you have a citation on that 7x claim? That’s significantly higher than the <2x for natural gas or <1x for crude oil differences shown on the economic data but it’s closer to what you’d see if you were comparing retail prices without noting the differences in tax rates.
I've read a lot of game reviews on VR and was surprised about demographics. Lots of older (40+) people there. Anyone has more reliable stats?

I personally feel that hardware need to be next-gen as I am nauseus but would be happy to have discord alternative to play in VR. Imagine drawing board, fake cinema, sharing games, arranging common space minecraft-like. I think this will work. You login after work and do creative shit with buddies.

This is how it works for me now but we have discord and own game that we work on. Happy to upgrade XP when new hardware comes.
The Verge editor reflects on tech’s relationship with the rest of the world
More people are trying out van life than ever before, but most quickly wake up to the fact that the reality is a far cry from the fantasy portrayed on social media. After realizing it's 1% staring pensively at canyons and sunsets, and 90% looking for parking and washrooms, most treat it like a road trip than a permanent lifestyle.
Avatars may provide a better way to express authenticity and vulnerability compared to text or a video call.
Nobody is forcing us to use this tech. If we all happened to agree that it was annoying or "super weird" then we would just opt out.

Fact is, that for now it feels valuable enough for us to keep using it (more so for social 'hangouts' than for things like stand-ups, which we still do via Zoom and where we can be as authentic and vulnerable as we like)
Remember Clubhouse? The $1bn Unicorn? Basically defunct now because people just defaulted back to passive aggressive typing.
> Sometimes it's helpful to go back in time to come across things.

Yeah, I remember her posting about the original Unix source code. I've never read it but I probably should. I bet there's plenty to be learned.

Sometimes I come across papers from the 70s and 80s too and they blow me away. It's amazing how much our predecessors achieved. Sometimes it feels like we're trying to rediscover or reinvent old technology.
You ignore Youtube, Twitch, Instagram, TikTok, the entire gaming industry, the entire entertainment industry, the entire sports industry, I can go on.
> It is. Every couple must have a certain amount of children in order to simply maintain a stable population.

On average. That doesn't mean that every single couple needs to reproduce. In fact, historically, that's certainly not been the case because some couples are just incapable while others reproduce far more than the average.
Yeah, but I actually think zoom meeting aren't the ideal proving ground. It's a head-2-head between two tools that can do the job, with certain advantages to both.

For hanging out with a younger sibling, zoom doesn't work too well. Video (or audio only) calling enables only a certain kind of interaction. In the physical world,we play tennis, have dinner, cook together, etc. We don't just sit in front of each other and talk intensely all the time.

VR opens this up a little.
That's only considering part of the equation. We use software because it does things faster or more correctly than us. A slow and bloated spreadsheet software will still be usually way faster than manual calulation, and more correct. That way, you can understand why some people would prefer more features to faster software. The new feature allows people to do some things way faster than before. Because when a software can't do something, people still do it. The classic is exporting data in spreadsheets and doing stuff with it. That happens all the time in big organizations. And it's usually slower and less correct than having a way directly in the software to do that.

So there is, in fact, a performance level that's good enough: faster than doing it manually, or as fast/slower but more correct. That's the point at which software becomes useful.
One of the first things I do when I setup Windows is setup an instance of VirtualBox running Ubuntu in headless mode. Then I can SSH into that and do anything I could do with Linux plus do all the windows things.

I'm not really sure what the overhead is since I usually have 16GB or 32GB of ram anyway.

That aside I feel the article is applying a double standard. Someone who properly can use Linux can easily resolve most of the authors criticisms. It's also possible to run Windows (haven't tried on 11, but is possible with 10) on a USB stick or external hard drive. You can also install Windows (10) trivially on most machines. Certain Linux variants also have telemetry, etc.

I enjoy Linux, I also enjoy Windows. There's no need to create a false dichotomy. It's very easy to just run both. Best tool for the job and what not.
When the government constantly erodes the value of the dollar, what can anyone expect? Money flows into the physical assets (capital preservation). Gold use to be the go to to protect wealth but it couldn't be leveraged to earn anything more than whatever the market said it was worth, housing on the other hand can be rented/leased earning a monthly return (especially with super low interest rates). Just go and try and buy some land 200-300 miles outside of civilization, where it use to costs 10k for a 100 acres, now it's 500k. Anyway, the US has a far way to go before this becomes a problem, other countries like Canada, UK, etc are complete fucked. The average young person is making 50k and a house is 1.5 - 2 million.
Not on their own people!
>missing bitterness

ah, so he’s a junior dev
The function key alternates for keyboard lighting have been taken away. How does one change keyboard lighting now ?
Sure just pull them from youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6uzHdk4Xmk

And play as described
Reminds me of the game drugwars
> you get something you've researched

Really, though? I feel like part of the whole scam with online mattresses is that the review sites where people think they're conducting all this independent "research" are mostly in on the racket, getting freebies and kickbacks and taking payment for top recommendation spot, etc— Fast Company had a big expose on this a few years ago, but they're far from the only ones who have tried to blow the door off it:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
Coveted land is a limited resource and will always be an asset to some degree. It’s value depends on social drivers that make the area worth living in.

Policy though can help prevent the asset price from being driven further by speculative investors, using tax penalties that heavily favor owner occupiers. It’s difficult to get right because there’s an argument to allow investors to participate, as it drives investment and effort into new house building.

But right now, 0% rates for businesses has flowed into large scale purchases of residential homes by Zillow, Redfin and others, who used their data positioning to capitalize on the flight to the suburbs due to Covid. That is what has devastated affordability. There’s no broad social benefit there, I hope it stops.
This article nails it. Particularly the part where the author reminds us that Gibson's cyberspace and Stephenson's metaverse were both DYStopias run by and for massive evil corporations. It's like they are trying to make that awful future a reality.
Or another way to look at it, you go to the doctor because your head hurts so they give you aspirin to treat the symptom rather than treating cause from the gaping wound.

We keep suggesting things like limiting use of fonts as a polyfill for not being able to create legislation or what not. How about not exposing the available fonts to the browser through JS? If the font is not available, it should silently regress through options listed in CSS or browser defaults. JS can request a font, and it can be used if available. If it's not available, JS shouldn't need to know about it.
Risking, Fast and Slow
I think that happens to just about all Dramatic shows. Same for Mad Men, Breaking Bad and other popular shows. Without the scarcity of yore, we have a constant buffet of alternatives, so who has time to rewatch (or catch up). In contrast, The Office, Friends and Seinfeld are apparently still bringing people back, perhaps because it is comforting to spend time with those characters and the viewer doesn’t need to make a big commitment.
> Could celebrities who don’t want to have children have cells taken from them and put through this process?

Later, they will be sued for child support, of course.
Are there any articles from Microsoft folks on why they made the 32/64 compatibility choices they did?

I'm not going to say they're the worst, and they certainly work, but they're also pretty obtuse and "Why would you design a thing like that?"

From memory of the era, the 32/64 bit client transition seemed a bit rushed when Intel had long decreed no home users would need 64-bit, and then AMD promptly started selling the Athlon 64 to anyone who would buy one.

So maybe just time pressure?
Land is scarce, people aren't...
Well political systems aren't true or false statements about the world. People can and do have different political visions.

Political debates often boil down to nonsense like

"The best way to apply thermal paste is with the dot method!"

"No, are you an idiot, look at the facts! The way you proper way to cook a steak is with a reverse sear!"
One smart thing with Buffett is he likes the day job and doesn't need to go off and build rockets or similar.

"""
I can do anything in the world I want to do but what I want to do is run Berkshire Hathaway. Now why do I want to run it that way? There's a couple of things:

A) I get to paint my own painting. I go down there every day and I feel like Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel or something. [...]

And the second thing I like, frankly, is I like applause. I like appreciation. So I like having shareholders who feel good about what I've done.... Everybody in our family has got all of their money in Berkshire, and so those people are counting on me. And that's kind of fun to have something where you can actually deliver for other people and change their lives in positive ways.

"""
The encasement I used for the mattress has flame retardant properties.

Like barbegal mentioned, there are some safety requirements for selling a mattress. I don't recall exactly how you'd get approved, but I vaguely remember that it wasn't actually that hard to meet them and had the production quality of my mattress been a bit better I probably could have gotten the approval to sell it.
2000 employees is pretty huge for a company that just makes a streaming box isn't it? Amazon and Google do way way more things.
If you are on a Mac, make sure to map Caps Lock to Control and Command to Meta. Otherwise I agree most key combinations are painful.
Though that’s without the defence having a chance to tell the jury why they should disregard that fact.

But in the end, I don’t think judges are doing any better. The only reason the justice system works is because the vast majority of cases aren’t very complicated and have physical evidence. Colombo-style crime mystery is fairly rare.