skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will mainly be entertainment and nostalgia.

The key for entertainment will be becoming someone else.

Being the QB in the game or maybe seeing things as players in actual games.

Being able to play in a concert as any member of your favorite band, being able to talk to the crowd and they respond.

Playing your favorite actor in your favorite movie.

Meet up with friends at a concert of sporting event, current ones or ones in the past.

I expect they will recreate epic sporting events from the past.

Someone creates your hometown or your college campus what it looked like in the past that you can explore in VR.

You can have someone create your house you grew up in or maybe you can even recreate the tree house you played in and invite your friends to meet there.

Virtual dance clubs for both exercise and meeting new people.

Virtual sports bars to cheer on your team, maybe even sports bars for specific games where fans from both teams can interact.

True virtual shopping, see and try out products in VR.

Oh and the adult industry always tends to be the leader in new technology pushing everyone in a specific direction.

I don't want Fbook to create it but I think the metaverse could be great.
> I personally don't use swap, because if something is consuming too much ram I most likely want it dead.

Swap is still useful to move stuff out to disk that _never_ gets accessed again.
New York also has been getting increasingly richer. Mrs. Jensen's kids almost certainly don't have a deep-seated desire to commit robbery, they want the material results of having committed a robbery. If you want to stop robbery, getting better at catching Gary only makes him faster at running; you need to prevent Gary from deciding that joining his friends in a robbery is the most rational option.

There are a few criminals who genuinely are motivated by the crime itself (serial killers, rapists, etc.), aka "want crime" - but for exactly that reason, they're unlikely to be influenced by a change in the "atmosphere of crime." For most quality-of-life crime (including organized crime!), criminals are rational economic actors like anyone else. They don't want crime, they want to get up the first layer of Maslow's pyramid.

During Giuliani's tenure, unemployment in Manhattan dropped from almost 10% to 5%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYNEWY1URN The median income rose from $54K to $93K, which even adjusting for inflation is a >40% increase: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCPI36061 The number of people below the poverty line dropped from 340K to 270K even as population grew slightly: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCPI36061

(None of this is to say Giuliani was or wasn't responsible for the changes, just to propose an alternative causality than the attack on crime. Nor does it ask where the unemployed or poor in Manhattan went or to defend it, it's only looking at the statistics. And also none of this is to say that Gary isn't morally culpable for his deeds, it's just that the goal of reducing crime isn't the same as the goal of assigning moral culpability.)
If this is in Defensenews just imagine all the shenanigans out at Dugway that are still classified... probably five years ahead of this.
Worth noting that during the British election season in 2019, The Guardian was all too happy to report that Tory-imposed austerity had defunded the police and reduced patrols, exposing the working-class to criminal predation, and that Labour would give the police all the resources they need to tackle crime. But in an American context, we learn that putting too many cops on the beat is actually bad.
Don't OS upgrades come out more often than that?
I just want to point out that the "Superhost" status is related to your reviews and star ratings, not the amount of properties you run. I rent out half of my house on AirBnB and I am a "Superhost"
Legacy Meets Innovation: Preserving the Royal Opera House with Sensor Technology
People who think like that generally never lived embedded in a high crime neighborhood or had to work in or traverse though on foot. I remember a buddy who had a friend in a different part of the city and wanted to go visit. She's like I'll send someone to the station to "escort" you guys. Without an "escort" people would have known we were not from the neighborhood and we could be in danger of assault. There is always a tension and things could break out at any moment (but not every moment) but life, like in war zones, has to go on, kids have to go to school and people have to work despite the dangers.
Boomers are retiring and their spending drops off a cliff. That’s why the velocity of money has been dropping.
Ask HN: Allowing anonymous posting on HN ?
HN is littered with burner accounts, people having difficult, sometimes important stuff to say, who can't risk association.

Wouldn't it be healthier for the database, and indeed, our sanity, if there was a checkbox next to the submit button, allowing registered users to make the post anonymous ?
Facial recognition, the most troubling law enforcement AI tool
Okay, would you out yourself having these views? Surely if you’re so righteous and noble you’d have no problem writing a blog post on LinkedIn. You know it’s bogus, give me a break. 400 years of slavery, hate, segregation, and economic discrimination is what has led to these “ghettos” with over policing and high crime. The cause is multi-generational poverty. You want to solve the problem? Then go support reparations in the form of extra funding for everything in the “ghetto.”
In context of Sweden:

Steel production require massive amount of energy, especially if you want to go coal free. Forest products also depend on cheap energy. An other area is concrete production.

After those I suspect it is food production. Read somewhere that fish farms on land is suffering in particular.

Basically any production dealing with raw materials.
It's serviceable for one-offs, but you can't do any really high throughput stuff with that since it's going through a network protocol. For example you really need to keep your git repos on the WSL fs, rather than in the Windows tree. The upside is that they thought about it and Visual Code integration is seamless.
My bad I have clarified my comment, this was confusing. By conversion rate I was talking about the ratio between people that say they would buy, and people that would actually buy. I’m sure there is a better term for that.
More manipulation tactics. Can’t we just make good products and sell them with old fashioned salespersonship.
Well funded grad students trying to scale-down an airplane into a kite
Can a player with a pirated version of a game with a multiplayer mode on his console enter multiplayer lobbies? Could a player in theory pirate their game to give their units unfair advantages and then hop in a lobby with other players?

I don't really care what people do in single player.
To me it sounds like a sugar cookie? There usually is not much in them other than sugar, butter, flour, vanilla, and eggs? There are a lot of '15 min' cookies out there. But sugar cookies are usually the simplest. I was always partial to the ones on the bag of chocolate chips. Buy stuff on back of bag (you are at the store already and cant miss it), mix, cook done. yummy!
How well does your scanner do in recognizing text? Is your archive searchable?

I've been stuffing things into Evernote for around a decade now but there recent changes to the Windows client means I'm probably done with that service. One thing that I love is how they find text in just about anything you upload and so the document can be found via search.
Hi, paper author here :) thanks for providing a great answer to that question. I missed that the post/paper made its way to HN.

One thing I'd add for the benefit of the discussion is that the term "metadata privacy" is rather fuzzy and different people mean different things with it. That's where some confusion can come from.

I like to use "unobservable communication" to refer to absolute metadata privacy where no single bit of information is leaked - i.e. an adversary cannot even tell if any communication is happening at all at any point in time.

For most real-world use-cases and threat models, this absolute privacy goal is often a bit unpractical because it comes with high latency or bandwidth needs. For instance, Tor is popular and practical because they prioritise latency and throughput with a careful threat model that excludes a global network adversary. However, the right threat model really depends on the individual use-case and circumstances.

I think that Loopix (as linked above and what we use in our paper) does a great job in quantifying the achieved anonymity. See also https://bib.mixnetworks.org/pdf/serjantov2002towards.pdf for some more Information Theory in the context of Mix networks.
Paper Website: Start a tiny website from your notebook
Pretty sweet stuff, all the best to the WeWeb team!
Here you go: b4a457fa7a566ca23fb214b986ff19234234a0654dc786f348377990b53585abb7dc1fa91672ab15de0d87deb66133f5657f85a2662bd1f95de3743933d49982.
It's the SHA512 hash of the full-size version header image of an Apple I from Wikipedia.
Autobattlers are probably the most recent innovation, funnily enough coming out as a mod of DOTA.
MBA marketing taught us :

A product's DEMAND is the ask for a product backed by the ability (& willingness) to PAY.
> Are you worried about data security/malware at all?

Not really. I scan everything I get on paper, and put everything on Google Drive.

But it would be quite a lot of effort to dig through my hundreds (thousands?) of PDF documents that I have on that drive, and to find something that can actually be exploited and is worth more than what an attacker could get by just having access to my computer. An attacker can get my credit card numbers when I shop online, access to bank accounts when I am using online banking, get all my tax data when I file income taxes... I think that's far worse than anything that can be found on my Google Drive.

So I think having a separate laptop is overkill, unless you have something that's really more at risk than the data on the internet-connected computer.
Opt out anonymity > opt in anonymity imo.
Not sure why this is downvoted. wlroots wants to be a de-facto standard, and the devs have put in a lot of effort to document how to use it. But it's far from a true de facto standard, since most wayland window managers use their own library.
The date code on the capacitor is 1976 so I’m guessing not.
I was struck by that too. Don't know why or how or with which action, but lost all my opened tabs on my iPhone a few weeks ago.

Luckily it was really just work "in progress", but never the less I've lost information. Which shouldn't happen in 2021.
The overall gist matched my novice programming experience— you underestimate all the features and edge cases you’ll need to cover, at least I do. Butttt I don’t like the example. The base url recording is a two hour task for a given os. If you want regex then use grep. If you want timestamps use local epoch time and get on with your life. Format with csv. Forgo the icon, just put it in a daemon/service/whateveryou can stop/start. If you want context in the csv add in a curl get and grep out the title. Boom, you now have a product a cs professor can use to save URLs.
The second sentence by the OP explains the mechanism. "Heavily capitalized". Finland especially is very capital poor.
> but people see "science" as having a higher social status than "engineering".

I wonder why, I mean generally engineers are paid more than scientists, specially towards the bottom of the respective fields and money seems to be a big driver of social status.
I was handed a chart from our shipping manager. It had columns for each state, and shipping prices based on quantity. This was a simple project to turn into a table and then lookup the needed value. When the manager needed to update the prices, they could just update the table.

I noticed the 3rd column for quantity was "3 or more". I should have ran at that point. The next page of the spreadsheet added exceptions for certain item #'s, certain zip codes (each borough of NYC for example). It was still manageable but it was way past the two hour point.

Sadly, when this was originally put on the AS/400 it was 4,000 lines of IF statements since the original developer didn't put it in a database. It probably started out as a hack that said "for a quantity of 2, let's offer a discount on shipping", and then later someone said "If we're shipping to states on the west coast, use this price"...etc
Thanks for the feedback and context, really appreciate it!
Some great points AlDante2. There is also the issue of how open-ended the engagement is versus clear confined specification.

I work with clients on an hourly basis because of the open-ended nature of the work I generally do. It is almost impossible to write a decent spec ahead of time. I do a weekly check-in with demos and discussion so they know what I am working on, how much progress is being made and with weekly check-ins they don't have any surprises at the end of the month when I bill them.

Recently, I added a new client where I was much faster than the estimated hours for the initial scope of work. If I had been fixed bid with them I would have made a lot more per hour. As it is they are using the remainder of the hours in the original estimate for some other work and it sounds like there will likely be more in the pipeline. Truthfully, I would rather have them turn into a longer-term client in a high trust relationship than to have maximized profit on the first project.
> Maybe a stupid question for Flutter users, but why are there two versions for every UI element in the source code?

The author is using 3rd-party UI libraries that have each been designed to be platform-specific.

Traditionally a Flutter app would use the built-in UI components that are not platform specific, but then you end up with a Material-style look and feel.

There's not actually anything stopping the app from running with the macOS style UI on a Windows machine or using the Windows-style app on the web platform because they're all inherently cross-platform. In fact, the Windows-style UI package actually has compiled to Flutter web and you can use it straight from your browser: https://bdlukaa.github.io/fluent_ui/

The decision to build separate UIs for each platform was the author's choice, but it's not a traditional Flutter practice.
I wanted a sedan, not a 4WD - if I wanted a 4WD I would have bought that instead.

I’m pretty tired of people telling me what is “good” for me. When they don’t know my situation or how I use my tools.

The product you’re advocating for exists - I didn’t buy it on purpose. I know it exists, I looked into it and it wasn’t for me. I don’t want the product I chose to turn into that other product - that would be a bad thing. That would be anti-consumer and anti-choice - I don’t regret the choices I made and I’m regularly reminded that they were the correct choice to make.

I’m educated and mature enough to know what is good for me, I don’t need a random telling me what is good for me. Stop pretending to know what is good for me - you don’t know what is good for me and using jail metaphors doesn’t make you sound convincing - it makes you sound biased with a predetermined outcome. Don’t try to “market” to me using such words, they are transparent.

Contrary to your hand waving of the concerns of others - there remains legitimate issues with that approach, and arguably it’s good that both options exist in the market.
All of the figures from said article add up to EFF receiving a total of $478K from Facebook and Google over four calendar years (2015 through 2018).

Of course I agree that these orgs shouldn't accept money from tech giants, but any critique should be done accurately with citations.
> There's a reason large states arose in the first place, to displace hunter-gatherer tribes, and it is precisely this.

Aren't you skipping quite a few steps here?

Hunter gatherers have been out of the picture in most of Eurasia for thousands of years. Nation states are at most a few hundred years old.
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing a way that six billion will "solve World hunger". It's a lot of money, but hunger is a complex, messy problem.
If the police are able to implant a device into your brain to get information out of you, I think you're screwed either way as the good 'ol rubber hose method is likely on the table - at least until people commonly elect to do the surgery or the surgery somehow gets to legendary levels of safety in the dystopian future.
CryptoWine
Right, which is something I forgot to highlight.

If you have say a couple of 4TB disks in a mirror vdev, get it say 98% full, then expand adding new vdev with two 8TB disks mirrored, then you still have to pay the price whenever ZFS allocates from the first vdev.

ZFS tries to spread the load between vdevs in a weighted manner, which means most of the writes would go to the new vdev. But if it allocates from the first vdev you'll pay a latency price.

This means the latency in this case can be quite unpredictable, and not something that'll go away until enough blocks are freed from the first vdev.
The next truly massive tech revolution will have to be something even we tech peeps reject. And I think bodily embedded stuff would do the trick.

It could be amazingly effective though if this is where we’re at already. Imagine the speed and enjoyment increase for anything from typing to gaming to driving a car. You’d get completely left behind if you rejected it.
New York's incoming mayor says crypto should be taught in schools
> still falling short in gaming (mostly due to a lack of support)

It's pretty outstanding it can emulate an x86 fast enough for games to be playable. The way Android SDK suffers when emulating even a puny cellphone ARM SoC is telling.

Remember: this is a workstation-class laptop, not a playstation-class one ;-)
How does someone which isn’t a university student in the internship/university hire pipeline in a financial hub and has no prior experience in the domain get there, assuming their skills up up to it.
Safari actually does get backported to previous macOS releases, at least during betas. You can run the Safari "Technology Preview" on n-1 macOS. https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/

But they aren't backported on iOS, I assume purely for marketing (look at our new tab layout! you'll get it in the fall), which doesn't make sense considering the last time anyone cared about a browser feature was probably when tabs were added to IE7.
World War I Turned Soldiers into Tourists
Marketing in a nutshell: lie to your users to increase sales.
Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government
Yep, for paper documents I have a 4-drawer filing cabinet, which I got cheap second hand years ago. It takes up some space, but the benefits over the years have been huge:

- I always know where to look for a document (even in the worst case of not remembering which folder it's quick to scan through the folders and to look through the 'misc' folder).
- I never have to think about whether to keep or throw out some letter or item -- I just file it, there's plenty of room. Every few years I have a shredding session to get rid of some of the ancient stuff and free up more space.

The important rule for me is that I never put anything in it unless it is really just reference material -- if I need to do something first I do that thing pretty quickly, or at least get an item in my todo list for it. And I set up automatic bill payment by direct debit so that I don't need to take manual action for arriving bills. So the filing cabinet works partly because 95% of incoming paperwork is "read in 30 seconds, file and forget" and I don't procrastinate the other 5% long enough for it to pile up.

My electronic document handling, on the other hand, is shocking:

- documents scattered between multiple machines
- no coherent folder structure
- online statements usually stuck behind the web UI of each individual bank or utility, with no trustable archive

so I much prefer paper bills and statements to electronic...
> The premise seems wrong in that he disagrees with the elite overproduction thesis, but the professions he lists are " lawyers, MBA holders,..." and later to finance. But these are the professions likely to be zero-sum.

What makes you think so?
No-one ever proved he didn’t. Look at the share price now - it would have been a damn good deal!
> Kites like Makani's are autonomous

The are also cancelled, gone, don't exist, will never happen
No, as there are plenty other kit and assembled computers at the time. For example, the IBM 5100 Portable Computer came out in 1975.

https://www.old-computers.com
I'm also underwhelmed with the new Evernote clients. (IMO it's gotten worse on Android, too.) But I like Onenote even less. What are you looking at moving to?
Why not just buy an Android phone with the features you want? That’s what I don’t get here. Like if I wanted to repair my phone for example I’d buy a phone with that as a feature. If I wanted to “install anything I want” I’d buy a phone with that feature or capability.

If you just don’t buy an iPhone then maybe market forces will cause Ape to add this (to your eyes) feature.
For me, the few things that are more important (insurance paperwork, certain types of health records, legal stuff, etc.) I do file separately in a file cabinet (or my fireproof box). But tossing most of it in a pile works pretty well--and anything it turns out I do need (e.g. for filing taxes) is almost certainly near the top of the pile.
It has `editor.renderControlCharacters` but only recently started displaying few dangerous previously invisible ones (directional overrides) natively [1], but besides that you had to use extension that adds highlights for non-ascii non-whitelisted [2] or predefined [3] characters.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116939
[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nachocab...
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nhoizey....
That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try

Thank you for working on that!