skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a student (or visitor), when you joined the network (wired or Wi-Fi) you weren’t allocated some internal IP behind a router but a PUBLIC

As an interesting detail, which seems alien today, is that this was also true at my various employers throughout the 90s. My desktops at work all had public IP addresses and were directly on the Internet, no firewall or anything.

I ran mail and web servers, fully internet accessible, on my work desktops (and lab machines). It was a natural thing to do.
Ask HN: Facebook's namechange to 'Meta' Effect on codebases/online presence?
Will the entirety of codebases on github etc.. go through a refactor and change all symbols to 'meta'? this seems like an impossible/enormous task.

for instance, right now on github , we have https://github.com/facebook/react... will this move to the 'meta' namespace etc..

By the way...
https://github.com/meta Is already taken by an individual person... Will facebook somehow pay him 10 Million dollars to legally give up that url? how is this going to work... are there legal actions in place to wrest important online presence accounts like that from individuals and place them in corporations hands?
Enemy Of The State is for me the canonical conspiracy theory action movie.

A conspiracy theory dynamic was shoehorned into the Minority Report movie (the short story is very different).

Hydra stuff in recent MCU comes to mind.

Predator is an interesting inversion in that, while there is a bit of CIA backstabbing, the real conspiracy relevant to the conjecture above is actually "our heroes", who are eliminated by the single antagonist until the climactic fight. I guess that's kind of a horror thing, though?
This comment was striking enough that I thought it deserved more than a simple upvote.

Thanks for showing us this perspective :)
Population controls won't fix our emissions problems. A bunch of our emissions are from things that won't suddenly stop even if we drop population growth to 0, like manufacturing and power generation.
Since ISPs generally see DNS queries from the gateway and not individual hosts, wouldn't your ISP still be able to see those requests?

AFAIK, the only way to prevent your ISP from collecting the domains you visit is if you use something like dns over https. Even then, you're tls connection leaks the domain via sni (hopefully this hole will get plugged by tls 1.3).
Yes, the policy we followed doesn't seem to be so effective. Then why do you think it saves more lives than it costs?

Merely arguing that it is really ineffective isn't helping your case that all these lockdowns cause more good than harm.

Take a nation that did nothing, like Brazil. It has 600K deaths and 215 million pop. Scaled to the US, that would be ~900K deaths.

That seems to be about the ballpark of where we are in the U.S., right? So what good did all the lockdowns do, exactly?

But let's say the U.S. is 200K deaths lower than the nations that do nothing, so that's how many lives the lockdowns saved.

Again, my point is that you need to count lifeyears, since those are mostly elderly deaths and correspond to say, 800K - ~1 million lifeyears. Or distributed among the population, 1 lifeyear for every 3 people, or 4 months per person. Did the average person lose more than 4 months during the lockdowns, once you consider all the costs? I think a good case can be made for that. Would you agree to shorten your life by 4 months in order to have no lockdown at all and keep your house/career/savings/schooling? To be able to visit your family, friends, travel, and go to the gym? A lot of people would say yes.
VIPs expect special treatment. At Wikipedia, don’t even ask
The binary metric you're referring to is simply an answer to the question "are you interested in an exchange?". This question is fundamentally binary. "Consumerism" is just the interaction of private property and freedom of association - which of these would you get rid of to abolish it?
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In my head, after 'thumb-under', I think of 'skips' and 'leaps' depending on distance for whole-hand repositioning, which is descriptively accurate for fingering on the piano, guitar, and violin (etc.). Though, for the novice I could see how conceptualizing a movement this way could interfere with legato technique, as it encourages more discrete chunking than does the 'unbroken' thumb-under during a run.
Does that nomenclature match your conceptualization at all?
That was year one-ish. Within a very short period, Roku expanded well beyond that, as it was the only small box and soon stick with an OS, vs. Chromecast, Intel WiDi/Miracast, and other tech that tried to become a remote display, and the myriad of tv boxes that faded out or got commoditized (a zillion tv boxes running android). Replay, TiVo, WebTV, most of the standalone boxes had faded by that point, and Roku, from the bones of Replay, quickly became the place to have "channels" separate from a cable or YouTube/Metacafe/Dailymotion/Vimeo controlling platform etc.

So, yeah, early early days were Netflix bound, but with 1200 channels in 2013 and over 3000 by 2015, Roku was clearly showing more than just Netflix. At that time, sounded like Roku was the open door to distributing content to a group of hungry viewers...

And today? Still tons of "channels"... but instead of the garden of a million flowers, we instead have the top line players offering the most requested media, and so 3000 or 30000 makes little difference. In addition, a quick perusal of https://channelstore.roku.com/ reveals that past the first few "most popular" options, it's a desert out there. Lots of screen savers and public domain streamers, and little else.

So, what are Roku's options? It can promise that all can play with carriage fees reflecting consumption. It can offer it's own content (The Roku Channel) to compete. It can offer an advertising service to allow monetization of channel/media creators. And/Or, it can decide that it owns it's viewers, and instead of being an open gateway, it's a closed wall. And that's where we are: It's not easy to be a slightly-smart pipe, so Roku punted. Open no more.

I'll never get rid of all the Rokus, for hope that they'll come back around. But thinking back, the power of those early days in 2012-2015 when you got a Roku because you wanted to see almost everything without having to get a sketchy box from who knows where and have it pull torrents in the background... well, those were the days, indeed.
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I have a static ip4 address. It costs $10 per month.
Everyone's time is limited. It's not reasonable to expect that for every downvote / flag on the internet there will be a rebuttal.
Considering the weather patterns (cold and wet in the west cost), this wouldn't be the case without global warming. Bad news.
No thanks. In my experience, taxi drivers the world over have regularly been rude, untrustworthy, and found ways to swindle customers. Uber was a game changer. I have no idea why they need an army of engineers, and maybe they can cut costs. But I appreciate their existence and the competition they brought to an otherwise uncompetitive racket. I would rather pay double for an Uber than deal with traditional taxis.
No, just countries building stronger borders to prevent ecological and economic migrants from escaping the countries that don't have enormous wealth as a buffer against change.

:(
No problem. It's already atleast 3+ vs. 3+. Amazon vs. Walmart vs. Home Depot, AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP. Market cap doesn't really lie too much.
When was the last time your automobile engine broke an exhaust valve, cracked a cylinder head, or had a magneto come apart?

Exactly. An automobile engine is subjected to far less stresses in normal operation. 300h at full load is considered an extreme torture test for one, while a typical aircraft engine is meant to run for over 1000h between overhaul ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_between_overhauls ) and spends a significant amount of that time at full load --- that's normal operating conditions.
Quote from article:

It’s clear that Wikipedia is animated by some principles that date to an earlier time in the Internet’s history. To start, there is a deep-seated suspicion of authority — after all, Wikipedia still boasts that it is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, not just experts. There also are the convictions that more information is better and that information “wants to be free.”
People were willing to set exceptions for sites they thought were important. Not important AND requires JS => bye.
Looks like power doesn't necessarily always get wielded in the usual direction, i.e. by management against workers. Every now and then the workers realize their own power and wield it. And of course every time they do, neoliberal subjects are left aghast -- "why, this is just not the proper way of things! Strip them of their livelihoods to coerce them into medical procedures if that's what it takes. But for them to withhold their own labor, why, that's just not fair!"
Why is 5G bad, I honestly don’t know?
That can happen with prescription drugs too though. People lose access to their insurance and then end up going off the drug too fast.

The bottom line is, don't you think if they could sell more of this drug, they would? Opiates are a pretty terrible choice for an antidepressant for multiple reasons.
>Their solution is not viable. It won't even put a dent in the current output

Crazy idea do more than one ship.

Crazy idea, these plans all help fisheries so they might pay for themselves and scale and stop a few animals going extinct and help reduce pressure on farming and land clearing.

But we all know any solutions are not actually wanted, we all want to wank ourselves off about how the world is dying and we can't do anything about it to distract ourselves from the fact all our jobs are meaningless.
Bang on! This just summarizes the experience of browser video hardware acceleration on Linux. Marred with bugs and incompatibility issues. Regressions are the norm for Firefox in this regard according to my experience using an Intel card.

Since announcing support for HW video initially on Wayland, Firefox has been off to the races on this [0]. Despite requiring lots of hacks to enable flags as you linked on the Arch Wiki, one of which now suggests disabling the sandbox for content processes and a major red flag, it somehow worked.

For one reason or another [1], Firefox chose to lock the video drivers to the old i965 drivers instead of choosing the newer iHD driver. A weird decision that still applies to current builds.

There have been incompatibility issues with video codecs. In my experience I can play h264 videos with hardware acceleration but not vp9 with the flatpak distribution. With vanilla package, both h264 and vp9 video is hw accelerated.

I could also have sworn that video acceleration support has gotten worse over time since the introduction.

I now get a weird artifact at the bottom half of the screen only when watching YouTube videos. [2]

Video hardware acceleration is not entirely doomed on Linux. Even if Chromium does not want to make any move toward this direction in this century. Gnome web or rather Epiphany has stellar video acceleration support by using Gstreamer plugins. So it is possible to get hw video working on a browser.

[0] https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedor...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619585

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1724663
>they will just mimic correctness

This depends on the culture. Mimicking mainstream opinion is not a traditional ideal in many parts of the world, which is why some geographies are underrepresented.
> Was it solely the correlation between depression/anxiety and adhd?

Yes, but partially also your existence on HN. Depression/anxiety + well read is almost always some shade of ADHD in my experience (of observing people who get diagnosed by doctors).

Giving up isn't a bad thing. I've given plenty of things up, usually after either realizing I was right or finding someone else had done it.
I’m not sure what exactly you mean by aesthetics but photons going into your eyeball and ending up as “images” constructed by your brain is much closer to a model fed by some data than it being some objective reality ingestor
> if cars were more similar year to year

They were like this in the Soviet Union, and it was laughable how much they ended up lagging behind after a few decades. I see the process you describe, despite it's perceived but necessary inefficiency, as resulting in a system that delivers the most progress and the most resiliency. There's a reason that self-driving cars are being invented in one place and not another. The driving force behind that reason is much more important to preserve than any incidental waste or excess along the way.
No. The threat of war looming over 40 something countries for 60 years has kept them from going to war with each other, at the cost of having to go to war in a handful of countries for some years.

The country-years of war in the region between 1950 and 2010 could potentially have been in the order of 1000s, but has been in the low 100s.

I'm not saying US threat of war did actually prevent a lot of smaller wars in the region to occur.

I'm also not saying if it did, that it was a good thing. (Maybe like with forest fires, many small wars are better than a few big ones.)

But that's the argument used by people favouring this US threat of war.
> That's cutting corners and letting the best qualified candidates get away.

You do realize that 99% of the resumes you will get are pure junk right?

> Playing the "it doesn't scale" card is just code for lazy and incompetent.

I'd like to know what you propose when you get several hundreds of them and you plan to see them in details for one hour each. You skip your weekends?

No matter what you do you will have to cut corners somewhere. How you do it is the only difference.
This is how every piece of music was taught to me since grade 5 when I first started learning an instrument.
The previous part (part 3) was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042562
I have a personal site I'm trying to pursue an old-style feel with, but it never qualifies by the heuristics people use, mainly because:

* image-heavy (with careful expressive intention! https://maya.land/latin/)

* I have javascript that, horror of horrors, is separated into multiple files (so I can manage it without a build step) for such malefic purposes as accessibility (https://maya.land/prefers-reduced-motion/) and displaying the current moon phase

But I think it's kind of good that there are different people pursuing different visions of The Good, even if many of us from different corners are all inept calling it nostalgia without better language to articulate our visions. This blogger is presenting cesspools like voat and raddle as a positive vision. Despite the fact that I think they're wrong about a lot, I think it's good that we're both out here on the web seeing and doing things differently. Maybe it takes some people to be obsessed with text-heavy content to act as a counterweight to FB misrepresenting video view counts. Maybe it takes some people like me going wild with GIFs to balance out Leo Babauta's web ethic (https://mnmlist.com/w/), and both of us to balance out the standard wordpressy norms.

ETA: I realized this looks like self-promo, so if you are suspicious of my using my own site as an example, https://sadgrl.online/ isn't me but illustrates a lot of the same thing I'm trying for
i suppose that's happening with natural language too.
Theirself sounds way better, but I've always been more of a neologist.
Hardly recovered. Just a little better than last year.

When my 19 year old was 2, we used to go to Santa Cruz Natural Bridges State Park, one of the spots they overwinter. The monarchs hung in thick cable-like strands from all the trees. As the day warmed, the sky swarmed with many thousands. Two thousand total is still a pittance. This population remains in dire straits.
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It's a bizarre world. How can a person get a death sentence from 50 grams of cocaine. What an idiot regime and or public moral you must have as a country.
How would you prevent one of these collectives from, say, inventing an iPhone and monetizing it? And if you don't, aren't you back to square one again?
Now do the flu
There was an article on this board not long ago, which was very eye opening. It was about the process of rewriting their ios app in swift. It described how they have multiple versions of the app, written by completely different teams, in different languages.

Interesting to read, because it would seem any engineer with more than a few years of experience would understand the risks of rewritting an application of any complexity, but worse they would also understand the difficulty of picking immature technologies. Layer on a whole bunch of other WTFs (related to how & why the app itself is so large) and a picture emerged for me. Never mind the fact that no one in mgmt appears to have questioned why it wasn't possible to pick a cross platform language/toolkit (or even write a custom shim) and reduce their app development overhead.

While they might be getting the glory for what the org has achieved the whole thing sounds crazy dysfunctional. Mostly because it sounds like no one with any actual long term experience developing and maintaining software has any power in their organization. Its totally the software version of "the emperor doesn't have any cloths".

So, it doesn't take much imagination to see how they could be wasting immense sums of VC money on engineering, and likely are stuck on a treadmill or dozen that continue to cause them to fail upwards.
what happens when some people don't want to participate in your voluntary communism and insist on inventing new things and marketing them?

You'll note that membership in intentional communities is quite low.
This is well-known and has been for decades.
i think i just saw some service/startup that does 'due diligence' on flippa props.

i put that in quotes b/c it's kind of what they do, may even be the name of the company, etc.
In this context, perhaps higher power consumption (owen side) relative to 4G?
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Umm no
I’ve never believed taxation is slavery, it’s simply social contact from which we all benefit. We all benefit from the army, the fire dept and the police so we all chip in. This is why we have democratic elections. Plurality rule is an effective compromise.
And who would on to such stock?? Surely these are not still manufactured??
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29046754
I get your point. There is certainly a spectrum here.
I can tell you (as the author) that for mission-critical assets with less 3rd party dependencies - I do see that most prefer to use the hard-coded or policy, or pull it via api per build in the CI/CD.

However for more dynamic websites (like blogs) that tend to have many 3rd party dependencies - It's very useful and effective to be able to update the policy with one click (or even automatically).
I don't play piano, but double bass and cello. A challenge that I see is that a great deal of sheet music is still not available in computer readable form. So there's no data, much less labelled data. And the pace of introducing new material is painfully slow.

A problem may be that once fingering becomes intuitive, then there's no incentive to write it down, and you might not even be able to articulate why you chose a particular finger.

I only think about it when I'm trying to work out a difficult passage, and then I'm usually thinking of intervals and shifts that afford me the best chance of playing in tune. Fortunately that's not an issue on the piano, but the idea of finding an ergonomic and less mistake-prone fingering is probably a similarity.

On the other hand you might be surprised at how little it might cost to have a pianist or piano student number some music for you. At least on cello and bass music, when material has fingerings, they only need to indicate the ones that are non-obvious.
How would you improve the content?
When I hover over the link, Chromium shows "https://8.8.8.8". And when I manually typed in "http://010.010.010.010", it converts it to 8.8.8.8. I also tried it with the integer representation of 8.8.8.8 and that converts it immediately as well. It looks like this is just the browser converting it. Am I missing something?
At this point I think just having the composability without the compactness would be a major breakthrough.

I'd claim that practical composibility without compactness impossible. Being huge, like a deep neural net, makes composability intractable. If your "elements" are akin to deep nets, composition will be very, very hard to calculate and so impossible to train.
My theory - I believe that BigTech started releasing huge updates to normalise having an always-on internet connection during updates and normalised the slow update process for the opportunity it provides them to mine and analyse all data on your computer. Often an update is the only time when they can (and do) reset and toggle all the privacy settings back to their favour, and then do on device analysis (like collecting meta data of all your files or analysing your photos etc.). They can then send the data back to their servers to add to your profile they have on you unencumbered (no pesky application firewalls to deal with it). That's why I always make it a point to immediately switch off my router after downloading an OS update and starting an install.

(Both Windows and macOS spend a lot of time in indexing your files - processes which can also be done post-installation - and doing all sorts of on-device analysis on your files to provide some specific feature, for example facial recognition on photos. And both collect a lot of your data during this process.)
> And yet the current world chess champion often plays 80 bullet games within a matter of hours in various online events or matches.

Botvinnik's quote refers to tournament games, that is, long, over the board, classical time control games that take hours to play. It says nothing about playing practice/friendly games, or playing other time controls.
It's simple. Instead of worrying about how to make machines smarter, just make people stupider instead.

It worked for the Turing test, so why not for AGI too?
A book will never teach you which muscles to engage to play an instrument. Find a piano teacher if you want to learn correct posture and exercises to prevent injuring yourself and play properly.
Consuming less is not a serious solution and never has been.
A convenient way to dismiss valid counter-critiques
I was kind of waiting to hear the guy had killed someone, so that I could invalidate the whole article. But then it’s 42g of heroin on someone that was undoubtedly suckered into doing it.
Only 8 organizations actually "own" IP addresses (AT&T, Apple, Ford, Cogent, Prudential Insurance, USPS, Comcast, US DoD).

Almost all of IPv4 is allocated by IANA to Regional Internet Registries that in turn allocate them to customers like Google and Verizon. You pay yearly maintenance fees to keep the addresses assigned to you.
Reminds me of Speedtalk [0] from the Heinlein novella "Gulf." [1] Okay, apparently I'm not the first person to make that connection. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedtalk
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_(novella)
[2] http://ithkuil.net/faqs.html
I find it hard to believe a pianist (or any trained musician) has never heard of playing something over and over again without mistakes...
The Tyranny of Neutrality in “AI 2041”