skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason the government is not allowed to buy this kind of data from telcos. What makes buying it from a professional surveillance group any different?
Wittgenstein's "meaning is use" has been an invaluable maxim for me when it comes to assessing complex questions and arguments.

Glad to see his works discussed.
Zine culture has already made its resurgence !
Where does one find information on erase granularity, and, like, doing the optimizations offered by NVMe ZNS on a "normal" SSD?
I assume if you throw a sufficiently uncomplicated ZNS-like workload at them, they don't try to ruin your efforts?

I guess arguably this comes from the lack of availability of ZNS drives, especially ones that aren't outcompeted by a Samsung 980 series drive on workloads that don't exceed the 980's warranty's 600 drive writes over 5 years. And depending on what you're doing, you may even use such drives for the IO-heavy load and retire them after 90% of their TBW to something like fileserver duty.
> getting there requires ... a migration that should be completely invisible to the end user, providing them with the same or better reliability, and the same or better cost.

So you're saying we just need to remove all the excess CO2 from the air for free? And you think that people who value the environment are the "utopian" ones?
Good point. I will do just that.
Unless you can sideload apps, Apple will punish and reward based on whether they use Apple payments or not. They can just keep you in review purgatory every time there is a new release for example.
Why would a support discord do that?

>porn account

literally no one cares

>type a nickname

You don't need to

>sit in the waiting room for 10 minutes until you can click the emoji that says you read the rules

Most servers don't do this and you can set up your server to not do this

>get notifications from unrelated channels because someone used @here begging for boosts

This doesn't happen to me in the servers I am in.

>get pinged again by a bot because you levelled up

You don't need a bot like this in your server.

Instead of hating discord just hate when people set things up like that.
> in eleven out of the twelve areas of concern that were studied (such as loneliness and eating issues), more teen-age girls said that Instagram helped rather than hurt.

That's a data point that seems to have gotten lost in most of the coverage. Although you might argue that data based on what teenagers report is dubious at best anyway.
Requiring people to set you as the default search engine (much less install an extension!) to even try the thing is setting up a barrier to entry large enough to cause most people to nope out. I'd be surprised if your usage stats will improve by shutting down the top of the funnel so completely.
Nobody else has the software and store that takes % of sales. Also Quest 2 is heavily simplified(cheapened) compared to even Quest 1.
Those both are fine. I do wish the dependency management system was friendlier to either airgapped or nexus/solarcube development environments.
2D Plane Transformation
That game is really cute. Thank you for the link. And thanks for checking our game out.
The AR part of ingress and Pokémon go is really just a gimmick IMO. Everyone turns it off after a while because it works simpler without it.

The idea of integration with real places is ok but just a gameplay mechanic and not really a compelling or fun one I think. I think most of the popularity of Pokémon go comes from it being Pokémon. It's really just Ingress with some Pokémon skin and a mini-game slapped on.

I think we shouldn't think of Niantic as a "leader" in the AR realm. What they're doing is not pushing the envelope. They're just exploring the fringe inside it.
Nice, any tips?
Google got the same problem, probably they use blackhat SEO so its hard to keep up.
> Should they be using these services at all?

Title should be changed.
No, I'm talking about migrating to energy sources that don't rely on fossil fuels. I don't see "removing excess CO2" as a reasonable goal.

This again goes to "recognizing which solutions are viable and which are not"

Now perhaps that will change, technologically, in the future, so I'd be willing to fund some R&D for that, but barring some breakthrough we are not going to be removing CO2 from the air.
Thank you, and you're right...I'm perpetually surprised at the actual number of my age.
That journalist published a lot of articles that exposed a lot of powerful people long before the Panama Papers.
It's a trade show... people sneak in to them all the time, usually to just look around, and get some cool schwag. It's not like you're actually breaking into Fort Knox.
Thanks, I did read Homage to Catalonia. I read A Farewell to Arms at about the same time. I think my Orange County high school education had Ronald Reagan winning WWII and that was pretty much it. They didn't teach the Depression and they sure didn't teach the Spanish Civil War as a prelude to WWII.
As you mention, it differs from system to system.

When it hits that threshold it becomes immediately noticeable - I/O performance will basically fall right down. At my old job we noticed it around 93% on Solaris 11.x, and maybe 85% on Solaris 10 off the top of my head, on two different production systems. Best practice was considered to keep pools on any ZFS system (OpenZFS or Solaris) below 80%.
I bet the air conditioner isn't!

Besides, if you could buy an electric water heater that runs when electricity is mostly free, wouldn't you replace your gas heater? I would.
Let me clarify: I'm not suggesting that precedent and consistency demand one way or the other, I'm saying precedent and consistency only matter until it's a corporation with lots of political donations brought to bear, in which case precedent and consistency cease to matter.

Therefore, arguing precedent and consistency is relatively pointless. My point was an exercise in "anything goes, so make the law fit the argument." That's what Chevron would do.

In other words: What's the desired outcome? That corporations cannot wantonly create mass surveillance any more than the government can. So make the law fit the desired reality: extend the 4th amendment to say that privacy is a basic human right and people cannot contractually sign it away any more than they can contractually sign away themselves into forced labor. A clever judge could outlaw H1 visas in the same ruling and get 2 birds with 1 stone.
The thing that's not clear is, how often do you have to do this? It's definitely not an everyday pill like Prozac, but it's not very effective after 6 weeks. Would you trip every 2 months? Seems like that would rapidly run into diminishing returns. No one has even tested a second dose! How is this actually going to work?
I didn't even have to open the article to know it's a CSS bug.
John Wanamaker; https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/wanamaker_h...
The government purchasing this data is tantamount to a search. There's quite a bit of precedent on this, much of which was needed after telephones became ubiquitous. Just because the electrical signals carrying a private conversation pass through wires that are owned by a third party does not make the conversation public. Similarly, just because internet traffic is observable by anyone with a network tap does not mean that the government can passively collect this data "just in case". Purchasing the data from a third party does not magically absolve the government of its Constitutional duty to first obtain a warrant for the data.
Short answer, yes
Not to mention the whole house of cards comes crashing down when some poorly maintained project either throws a major release out of the blue or retags "latest" to something that suddenly has huge breaking changes...
No, but when they first launched they needed 5,000 users to grow 10%, now they need 5M(?) to grow the same? So investing in other means is probably necessary.
please make a free version with limited levels or whatever
We were going for an old school look. I'm trying to think back on a 2009 aesthetic lol. Thanks for trying our game. Really appreciate it.
The Semantic Web.
I always wanted to have a text editor capable of writing several columns of text side by side. This way, I could have a large file split into several columns with easy visualization. Editors like vim can split the screen vertically, but they're not great at keeping these columns in sync for the same file. This could be similar to the text flow option you'd find in desktop publishing software.
What's interesting about Simons and RenTec is that a _lot_ the people involved are genuinely first rate scientists. And I don't mean econ Nobel laureates, like at LTCM, I mean the kind of people who'd have joined the Manhattan project 50 years earlier. That fact, together with the quality of Medallion's returns, makes people wonder if they really found something.

FWIW, I don't believe this myself. But that's where the interest comes from.
The * in that css rule is pretty painful.
Wow, I didn't realize that. It does look like retail sales taxes were first introduced in the US during the 1930s.
I'm glad you brought it up - I was going to include it but I couldn't remember the details well enough. It's included in every history of the period that I've read.
How is the worth determined? Are there actually buyers/bidders at the appraisal price?
Yeah when I tried a search and got that "download our extension" message, my immediate gut reaction was that it was trying to hack me. If I hadn't started from HN, I'd have been convinced of it, closed the browser immediately, and never gone back.
I've heard this stated a few times - that flat roofs are meaningfully cheaper - but really? How? The tiny bit of extra material to add a bit of height to some ridge seems trivial. Where's the cost?
Exactly, that is why if utilization is particularly spiky or unpredictable, that's a perfect use case for AWS (or similar).
> "Embrace, extend, extinguish" isn't real and has never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... is full of examples that failed and not a single one that succeeded.

How on Earth did you reach that conclusion? A trivial look at that list:

* Web browsers. -- Worked so well that IE remained the dominant browser for over a decade [1]. Of course, bundling was important here too but without the intentional incompatibilities between IE and Netscape, bundling alone would not have been nearly as effective.

* Office documents. -- Despite .docx files being notionally based on an open standard, to this day, Microsoft office will frequently reject as "corrupted" .docx files that have been edited using other implementations of the OOXML standard (in my experience, particularly when tracked changes are enabled or images are involved). In most such cases in my experience, the sentiment from coworkers is "why don't you just install Word" --- so apparently still working as intended.

* Instant messaging -- seems to have worked pretty well at the time [2] and remained popular for nearly a decade. And while they later lost marketshare to transformationally different technologies (texting, mobile messaging), the competitors against which they used the strategy remain dead.

* Against Java -- Led to major legal action, in which Microsoft was forced to pay Sun >$2B and agree to discontinue the practice in settlements, presumably only because by now people were catching on to the strategy. Failing that, Microsoft just made a separate competing language for cross-platform (AKA "write once run anywhere" :) development and called it.... .NET [3]

> And it's strictly better than Microsoft spending their time enhancing closed-source software, no? That was my question at the end: they could make .NET closed-source

Presumably it is reasonable to assume that they would like to grow the market share of .NET. While more open code is usually good, I would indeed not consider it "strictly better" if their goal in this work is to capture market share against other languages by leveraging the popularity and community that comes with "Open Source", while leaving them in a position where they can then reassert hegemonic control over their language via exactly the pathway being discussed here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#First_Browser_War...

[2] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

[3] The tagline on https://dotnet.microsoft.com is currently "Free. Cross-platform. Open source." The "Open Source" part of course only added somewhat more recently after the closed-source version failed to dethrone Java. Not that I like Java so much or anything, but you get the point.
PD does two big things:

1. Alerting: Phones you when your servers are down.
2. Incident Management: Help coordinate a response across multiple people.

For the first, there's also:

- OpsGenie (owned by Atlassian)
- Squadcast
- VictorOps (now Splunk On Call)
- xMatters
- PagerTree

For the second, there's a bunch of new contenders:

- Datadog now has an IM product
- Blameless
- Rootly
- Incident.io
- FireHydrant
Is this over reach? Seems like it would be good for the treasury to go after tax dodgers and money launderers.
raylib v4.0.0 Released
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It's called 'belief'. Faith, religion.

Once you believe, nothing else matters.
“How did we ever let Instagram and TikTok become a large part of the lives of so many eleven-year-olds?”

And yet again, YouTube somehow escapes scrutiny. Funny how that always seems to happen.
This sounds more like a problem of scope creep than unexpected complexity
I just hope that we are not the Smashing Pumpkins of indie game dev.

Thanks for your comment. Made me smile.
Have you asked about this on the discussion board? (https://discourse.julialang.org/)

I don’t know anything about it myself, but I’ve heard that some people have had success setting up private package servers. I see there’s some discussion at https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-private-registries-and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Waste_reductio...

> Since breeder reactors on a closed fuel cycle would use nearly all of the actinides fed into them as fuel, [the] volume of waste they generate would be reduced by a factor of about 100

> In addition, the waste from a breeder reactor has a different decay behavior, because it is made up of
different materials. [Its] fission products have a peculiar 'gap' in their aggregate half-lives, such that no fission products have a half-life between 91 years and two hundred thousand years. As a result of this physical oddity, after several hundred years in storage, the activity of the radioactive waste from a Fast Breeder Reactor would quickly drop to the low level of the long-lived fission products.
Apple arguing developers need to be protected from those same developers newfound ability to add links to external payment options.

That's... quite a take.
How come you didn't continue making games?
Given that the link here is stylized as "Pam" and not "PAM", I was really hoping this was about the cooking spray (https://www.pamcookingspray.com).
I had it previously but removed in recent release, hehe. Ok I will put that back. Thanks for the suggestion.
I'd recommend Laracasts.com.

Sorry, just a plug for Laravel.

Good luck with your CodeIgniter project, but definitely check out Laravel if you haven't already.
You highlight the biggest problem: humans simply must change/adjust/whatever you want to call it, if humanity is to survive. The only technological out is fusion power. Without that, humans must learn to do with less (of everything). Everything else is empty rhetoric and time wasted.
Will do that! Thanks.
That's really not true. My advisor in undergrad publishes 5-6 papers a year and has never bothered to seek grants in his entire career because he works at an institution that actually emphasizes teaching and compensates it's professors accordingly.
So it sounds like your intent is to be dismissive with positivity to avoid abuse by an undue burden of negativity. I mean, I’ve experienced that kind of abuse so I don’t blame you. But I still the response that way, I think there are better ways to protect yourself, and I think a lot of people who are in pain and feel unheard deserve better than emptiness of any kind regardless of the positivity expressed.
The new version of Mapbox GL JavaScript introduces non-Mercator map projections
> thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse

What percentage of people can do something to improve their appearance? 32% doesn’t seem like a high number to me. You’re looking at photos of well dressed, fit people. Why shouldn’t that motivate a person to do something to improve himself or herself?
"may allow escalation of privilege" - from being a mere consumer to an actual owner? All advantages as far as I can see, but of course to the authoritarian corporatocracy it's a vulnerability...

I really miss the days when Intel basically released all the documentation you needed to build a computer around their CPUs. The Pentium was when they started being secretive.
Oh, I didn't imagine it could be that far. I meant more than a quarter mile = very far. I meant like being 200m from the dining hall vs 3 football fields from the dining hall -- you end up socializing more with people in your dorm if you're slightly isolated.
Reading this post it occurred to me that if huge levels of remote work become the norm, there may be consequences for what 'rights' remote workers may obtain at the 'host' richer countries. I mean, somewhat like large companies effectively influenced the mechanisms for immigration, right?

The same may happen wrt. access to financial services (e.g. Facebook employees around the world may eventually be indistinguishable from US citizens for the purpose of opening bank accounts or owning property in the US, etc.), for example. Maybe a particularly bad example because taxation is very complicated and this messes with that too directly

Perhaps a better example would relate to access to State-sponsored programs like healthcare. Imagine future in which Amazon, Facebook, Google lobby for allowing a knowledge worker to travel from their country of residence to their country of work to utilize a governmental program that was previously reserved to citizens only. (Add a bit about actual citizens losing that right if they are 'unproductive' and you got yourself a setting for a sci-fi story)

It's late and maybe I'm not making much sense, I don't know. I'm aware there are a million possible reasons why this should not come to pass but at least on law & regulation I think that if the incentives of the companies align with 'extending rights of remote workers towards citizenship-like rights', then law and legislation will be changed via lobbying, etc. without much ordinary citizens can do about it

I offer no judgment of value - simply pointing out something that we may see happen over the next years or decade
This doesn't really work in a lot of places in the world, because the base things are already too expensive. Most of the world does not have HVAC at home. They don't generate heat with electricity either. Car battery chargers only matter if you own an electric car, own a house and have a charger at home. None of this is relevant to most people in the world. It might be in a couple of decades, but not yet. And this includes France.
I can't stomach using anything by Nathan Myhrvold
I used to be a big EFF supporter until I learned they take millions in donations from the same organizations they’re supposed to be watching. Best case scenario it’s a massive conflict of interest, it’s a big problem for me that they find it to be ok.
No, but you could, for example, allocate the holidays equally amongst the team, or as a special class of days with a different schedule like weekends.. rather than just screwing whoever happens to be on that week?

The fact that the product seems to have no concept of holidays when its essentially a scheduler++ is a problem.

The problem with doing trades which is the default easiest thing to do given the PagerDuty interface is that when you come back from (or just before you go on) vacation you typically end up with extra bonus on-call shift outside the cycle. Delightful!

All these things just sort of pile up into the "maybe its just easier not to take a couple days off" category, which is not really a mistake on your employers part.
Ah, I was misremembering whether email or phone verification was required. Either way, it's still a very heavy-weight requirement for what's basically a drop-in drop-out support channel for us.
As far as I know, a warrant is required to tap a landline phone. I don't see how the principle behind that (reasonable) interpretation of the 4th amendment would not also apply to any kind of data (or metadata) from Internet traffic. Just because some 3rd party collected what is, by legal precedent, clearly considered personal effects and papers does not mean that 3rd party can grant absolution to the government in its need for a warrant to obtain that same data.
Not at all. I haven’t had issues with swap use so far and I intend to upgrade on a regular cadence (every 18-24 months) so I don’t expect it to be an issue for drive longevity.
> You don't need the extension or sign up to use the search engine, just type into the search bar on the top of the page.

I'm not sure this is true when you're using Chrome. I use safari and thought the same thing at first.
> Known Issues

Some of these issues seem like pretty big issues:

> Bug 40671: Fonts don't render
> Bug 40695: JS enabled on Safest in Windows (new)
Cardio Before Weight Lifting May Help Boost Muscle
> we're still seeing a large influx to ICUs

Is this true? I've heard claims in both directions but seen no sources for either.

> mostly driven by the small but aggressive anti-vaxx "community

Same question as above. There's a massive push to fire all the essential workers that took the brunt of the pandemic early on if they happen to believe the growing body of evidence showing that they don't need the vaccine if they've already recovered.

That certainly doesn't help retain people either.
https://archive.ph/rotq8
Is this generally how you prefer mobile games? Free to try...or just a playable limited free version? How do you feel about ads or IAPs?
Children could use less protection, to be honest. We barely give them any room to think for themselves.
This is a good point, but would that ever actually happen? Or would it just be "free" electricity at first and later the electric boiler owners find out that a gas one would've been cheaper after all.
Me wonders if the gnome his are aware of the further barriers to entry they're effectively creating by dragging up settled arguments.

Not a fan of anything they've done recently under the gnome banner and don't see that changing too despite the IBM/RH money backing some of the project.
You ever hear the saying "The customer is always right?". Seems like you are insisting on learning that lesson the hard way.
Don't "forget" about 1970 global freezing too.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/120-years-of-climate-scare...

Or just search "1970 global freezing".