skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace while also being a participant.

Apple's App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.

It's all very profitable.

If we cannot trust large companies to not abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.
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(small nit: yes, Chia does use HDDs, but plotting is mostly done on SSDs, afaik? and yes, not that important)

I believe mining today in the US is 70-75% sustainable, which is pretty good, if true. (I haven't done a deep dive on this to confirm, seems a bit high).

Personally, I find the notions of reducing energy usage in general quite terrifying.

As we go up the Kardashev scale, our energy needs will keep rising exponentially, and for human civilization to pass the Great Filter we have no other choice but move and move quickly, but of course not too quickly to commit suicide.

Not sure what's the best way to achieve it, but it is very hard to believe we can become a multiplanetary spacefaring civilization on a combination of hydro dams, windmills and solar panels.

My hope is that Bitcoin can stimulate development of clean nuclear, or if we get lucky, maybe even aneutronic fusion.
I still run manjaro on one of my laptops but just recently returned to windows 11 for my other laptop because running 2 different resolutions (external display) on linux is just too much of a pain. Windows just works. But with wsl2 I find myself not missing linux :/
Apple to Pay $30M over Store Workers’ Security Checks
Holy crap. Yeah. 3TB, $750/month?!?
> The one case Google apparently WANTS to settle out of court is the case on the use of data!

Generally, companies want to settle out of court in order to bring a case to a defined conclusion and limit future liabilities. Along that vein, it's not an accident that this case is now news after the judgement in the EU.
I wonder if it will be common for people to don disguises in the future to escape this labeling?
Why can elementary particles decay?
Rule of Thumb: If you can't hold it in your hot little hand, or touch it, IT IS NOT YOURS. And it can be taken away from you at any time
What exactly are you trying to have a discussion with me about?

Edit: it’s wrong of me for uh, responding?
> You'd think an agency as important as the FBI would verify who is working on their systems

Why?

The upper echelons of these federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies are universally political animals with names suffixed by III and IV that instinctually perceive anything as even vaguely technical as far beneath them. The only time something like the security of a network becomes a priority for these people is when it causes them embarrassment. At all other times the operation of these systems is a budget item that gets farmed out according to the prevailing political prerogatives of the day; actual competence being well down on the list of priorities.
"For young children, Covid looks like a normal flu, if not a mild one: <US hospitalization rate for 0-4 yo olds chart, covid lower than flu for 9 out of 10 past years>". This is new data. Hopefully in a year or two our media will finally muster the inquisitive spirit to research such data for other age groups. Who knows, maybe we'll learn that covid is like a (mild) flu for most age groups, except past retirement age...
I sync my photos via Dropbox and Google Photos, and I have a second phone which has a backup of my Google Authenticator (as well keeping separate backups of every QR code I add so I can re-add later).

Manually backup Signal messages.

I assume everything else is temporary. I've had too many Android phone fails where I assumed Google had some backup, but their 'backup' is basically just app installs and very little data seems to come through.
Think of small, in-house applications managing an inventory of a couple hundred to a couple thousand items.

"Hard discount" stores like Aldi are supposed to have <1500 SKUs, for example.
While an extremely interesting read, I've read this about once a month on HN. The story keeps getting posted.
plugging secureshellfish to you then: it's the same guy as working copy, and just absurdly well done.
Twitter Elon Musk spam, thousands Twitter accounts hacked daily
it looks like this

https://twitter.com/jessrai3/status/1459694103118192644

https://i.postimg.cc/L8cG9bG5/Screenshot-from-2021-11-14-01-51-34.png

There are hundreds of these being posted every hour all over Elon Musk and space-x accounts :

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1459563497403170824

earnings from one wallet, many more wallets

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MuskPA973mjbS5z5UdhuiEBSePFPTwWWS

new one:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MuskhTeHydj3PzdUEgeaoQcS3xbAReFRa

I don't understand what is so hard about twitter blocking "CRYPGIVE dot NET" . It's obvious that this is out of control. Users are reporting this.

Thousands of twitter accounts are being hacked daily to spam and defraud people out of thousands of dollars/day in crypto. Unlimited number of hacked accounts. There is probably some exploit that allows this. I remember a long time ago trying to contact twitter about how hackers could steal accounts through something like a cloud cluster to change ips.

When thousands of accounts are being hacked daily to post the same message to the the same accounts (elon and space x) for months on end, I don't see how twitter cannot not be aware of this problem.

Like july 2020 hack but everyday and thousands of accounts/day

How much money do ppl have to lose before something is done. $200 million? That is like a years worth of ransomware. I think one person made $20 million in 3 months from elon twitter spam and a few others made millions. Easily tens of millions of dollars a year in revenues.
Snap sued for misrepresenting impact of Apple privacy changes
I was referring to this:

> It's like the [...] .NET Dynamic Language Runtime or invokedynamic in Java.

My answer concerns the "DLR", aka `dynamic` type in C#/.NET, which is untyped.

The GP is not correct when describing the DLR/`dynamic` as to "be able to intercept meta-messages like instance creation, method call, property access, etc to provide their own"...

...C#/.NET does not allow for this: you cannot intercept methods or otherwise have Smalltalk-style message-passing in .NET. Using `dyanmic` does allow you to intercept methods and define behaviour but only with `dynamic` objects managed by your own `IDynamicMetaObjectProvider`, which I concede you could use to implement this, but that would force you to type everything as `dynamic` which also means you lose static type safety.

(pre-.NET Core, the CLR had hardcoded magic behaviour for `Proxy` types, which is how .NET Remoting worked with any object type: including sealed types, but this was removed in .NET Core and its replacement in `DispatchProxy` falls far short: it only works with interfaces (hence vtables), not static/non-virtual methods).

--------------

What surprises me about .NET's CLR is that despite the (frustrating) simplicity of its type-system, that applications still don't have any real opportunities to extend the CLR's type-system to suit themselves. This includes anonymous refinement types via flow-analysis (TypeScript gets this right), the lack of support for real ADTs (F#'s tagged-unions exist in their own hierarchy: you can't have a tagged-union of arbitrary types, which basically makes them the same as Java's `enum` classes).
The Taihang solar farm in China is built right into the local mountains
For the unfamiliar: in his role as Chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke became somewhat infamous for his endorsement of "quantitative easing" as a response to the 2008 financial crisis. This was (oversimplified) a mildly fancy way of flooding banks with newly-printed money to offset the impact of falling asset prices. Bernanke became known in some circles as "Helicopter Ben" in reference to an earlier speech in which he (in turn) approvingly referenced Milton Friedman's thought experiment of a "helicopter drop" of cash to the general public as a method for boosting liquidity in the economy [1].

(I feel compelled to point out that as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a solid consensus that quantitative easing was objectively poor policy under the circumstances; a lot of this discourse apparently fell somewhere in the gray area between good-natured ribbing, vacuous memeing, economics school schisms, and mockery of the ostensible hypocrisy of "fiscally conservative" Republicans).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
Not really, when any investigations or actions are likely to be indefinitely delayed as soon as a lobbyist writes check. If they actually do something other than slap-on-the-wrist fines that don't even do damage, you won't hear me complaining, but I don't have high expectations. The EU seems to be far more interested in reigning in big tech, but they don't seem to be any more succesful, and their most substantive efforts have had lackluster results (I mean, really, is anyone's privacy improved by having more javascript popups added to every single page? Does it even lower the potential for tracking and abuse, let alone reduce the actual commission of such acts?).
And a mere 18 months or so after Jeff Raskin wrote this, IBM produced the IBM-PC and the rest is history with BILLIONS of PCs covering the world today.

Arthur Clarke wrote about this failing in his "Profiles of the Future" that most people who predict the future are never brave enough to predict big enough- "A failure of Imagination"
Since everyone in this thread seems determined to dismiss this take entirely due to who is saying it, perhaps people would prefer this article by Matt Lavine explaining much the same thing?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh...

Hint: PFOF is fine.
Is that when the majority decides for everyone?
https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market...
The hubbub over this is shameful. If we can’t fix any little thing like this, we might as well stop trying to improve the language at all. Put it in maintenance mode and move on to agda or smth
The good thing about shopping channels was that you could easily ignore them.

I hope this will be the case for this stuff too. But I'm sure these companies will go all-in and shove it in our faces. Oh well, yet another reason to avoid them. I see more and more apathy towards social media around me.

One reason I go to Amazon for buying stuff is just that they do it so well. They don't push too much stuff or send me newsletters. They just sell me what I'm looking for and deliver it to my local pickup machine so I don't even have to be at home. And no-hassle returns.

I know they're killing local business but the stores for stuff I buy on Amazon (electronics etc) are all in the hands of big multinational chains anyway.

But if I could buy directly on Google, would they do it this well? I doubt it. They probably use the cheapest shitty courier that takes 3 days to deliver and have an office on the other side of town to pick up from if I wasn't home.
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Another example: FDA is funded by pharma companies.
Total compensation has risen with labor based productivity just fine.
The Socratic method is a way of asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. Teachers use it all the time. It helps the student become an active learner.

You can use it by getting a text book and answering the end of chapter question first even before you read the chapter. It's a way to learn the material by asking questions first. You become an active learner rather than a passive reader.
Yeah it's been a ride.

I moved to One Financial, but I've kept a local credit union account as well. This probably makes no sense, but then again it's ok to feel conservative about banking.

It's worked out for me so far. The local credit union is one block away. I have not used it but there are no fees to just park money in a checking account.

I still don't know what happpens to such retail banking as interest rates go negative.
> Windows also have problems with such setups.

Not at all. Windows just works.
Stainless steel is not forever in the presence of salt water.

Ceramics, though, hold up well over millenia. The oldest ceramic pot known is 16,500 years old.
Wonder what other pay to post sites from Web 1.0 remain and how they are now. MetaFilter is still up and around.
I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand
I am more interested in seeing if, for example --

You compare the nerons of the father of einstein, with einstein -- then a peer of einstein and their father (or mother/whatever)

To determin if neural pathways are genetic in such a way that we currently dont understand - and if theyse pathways are similar in anyway between two different persons with similar level of intellect.
Why the US doesn't use the metric system? (2018)
I just had a crazy idea: Apple selling systems with a nice Linux distribution that included full support for iCloud. Apple would lose money of App Store sales, but opening up to a slightly larger market might work. I would also be interested if they got into selling M1 racked systems for data centers. Why leave money on the table.
External displays have been relatively trouble-free for me ever since Xinerama+xrandr became the norm on Linux/Xorg systems.

Prior to that it was a nightmare, and I'm sure it's become a disaster all over again with Wayland.
And on mine (Windows 11) "PROGRA~3" is "ProgramData"
Well, at least now we'll know about an accident upwind without needing to look.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29184198
The demo link sent me to a straight-up scam website...
On this, supposedly STEM-oriented forum, such a grave violation of chemistry nomenclature should be a bannable offence.

I've lost count of how many times everything is "rare earth", including Magnesium. An alkaline earth metal that's nearly as common as iron.
export is a shell builtin -- it can't be executed by xargs and even if it could, wouldn't be in the context of the shell you want.
Consider what ion channels are evolutionarily. Gaps between cells.

The first proto brains were colonies of cells that lived communally and expressed logic through group dynamics.

Think of a colony of cells on a rock under the ocean. As the sun moves across the sky, the cells have to make a decision to move to the more exposed face of the rock to maximise the capture of solar radiation.

The cells have to communicate because the cells on one side register different quantities of radiant energy to the other side and extremities. So they conduct a poll or a vote. The data is tabulated through intercellular communications, which takes place across the gaps that eventually evolved I to what we know of as ion channels and synapses in modern multi-cellular animals.
Many crypto ecosystems fund developers and projects.

Look into cardano community and pitch your ideas

Enjin just launched a fund as well.
Does this vary with nuke's design?

I'd expect some do better than others.
“Vaccum” in title should be “vacuum”.
Code is 8 years old! I should have known when coffeescript was mentioned
> Compared to a problem that doesn’t reliably reproduce and for which the person reporting it claims nothing changed, this one is child’s play.

You forgot +inaccurate reporting of the problem.

We had an employee in IT at a client who would tell us "It's broken." This went on, for every report, for three years, with us asking the same follow-up questions every time. For who, in what way, when doing what, what changed, etc.

As far as I know, that individual still works there.

People like that are the best argument for why a basic income and removing some folks from the workforce would increase efficiency.
The many uses of mock data
A comment elsewhere is that the site was made with the 'IBM Form Experience', and that this issue is possibly just a part of how that product works.

In which case I could totally see how it's part of the culture, having worked in orgs like this:

- A person brings up this concern

- "Uh sweetie, I think IBM wouldn't make a mistake like that"
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By DP state, I mean the arguments to the recursive function (for U, the state is the tuple (i, j)).

For example, if you wanted to use DP to compute all-pairs-shortest-paths (Floyd-Warshall), you add a third parameter to the DP state ((f(u, v, k)).
It's been a struggle getting two monitors to work on my GeForce 2080ti. I've been trying to install Linux natively on my machine and unless I turn off one monitor, I get crazy artifacts and I can't even see the UI at all for the setup. I've tried different distros even... All of the latest versions of these distros have this problem, so I'm assuming it's some kind of kernel bug.
You can use a bookmarklet like this:

javascript:location.href='/about'

An easy way to create a bookmarklet from scratch is to create a bookmark from some other page and then modify the URL.
The second post also has a joke:

> Apparently a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.. And I thought my morning had sucked so far!
> Wonder what other pay to post sites from Web 1.0 remain and how they are now.

Given that SomethingAwful's non-forum content is predominantly user-generated and user-submitted (although not algorithmically) I don't consider it Web 1.0, it's more "proto-Web 2.0". See this article from 2005 which tries to define Web 2.0: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.ht...

----

As for your question: ClassMates.com is still around (lel...), but most sites around that time actively tried to avoid requiring payment to join or do anything because payment-barriers (even "only to verify your age!"-type walls) presented a massive narrowing of your conversion-funnel (like you could go from 90% visitors completing a free signup to less than 1% as soon as you put a period-correct (and aesthetically ugly) Authorize.NET credit-card screen (ah the days before Stripe.com...).

I think the horrid results of adding a paywall for low-value activities from 20+ years ago is permanently ingrained into web publishing people today and why they're so averse to it, even when there's clear demand for a premium-tier (especially ad-free) experience from YouTube Premium, Twitter Blue, Hulu, et cetera.
I'm not the most proficient JS programmer, but that looks like a more apt comparison, yes.
I assume you live outside the US? Our home connections here haven’t improved in two decades.
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One reason is that one of the main resources students should learn to be efficient with is their time. There are definitely places where low memory use is important, but 95% of the time, the first place you should go is to use all the tricks you have to make writing code faster. Knowing how to be careful with precision is great, but so is just using Double (or even BigFloat) to get something that will work robustly without having to analyze as carefully.
This project does seem to the play into the “criticism is negativity” trope that some teams (and, generally, egos) fall into. It’s possible to be tight-knit, respectful, empathetic, and openly questioning.
Yeah, this has been apparent from the beginning (summer of 2020).

puts on tinfoil hat

Maybe the overall reaction to Covid was exacerbated by the fact that Trump downplayed it, so everyone felt like exaggerating it to oppose the viewpoint? I know I did.
You remind me of a similar story, only failures would be a couple of times a year because of the positioning of the sun:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688090

The first reply to that has a story that seems similar to the one you remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28689288
Thanks for your response. She's retired and collects a pension (71yo). No formal educational background.
also check out shaderchain which comes with some features for mapping textures between shaders to layer them as well as midi mapping support for uniforms. and it's not several years old

https://connorbell.itch.io/shaderchain
No, neutrinos are simply a decay product, and in fact there isn't anything particularly special about a muon beam, neutrinos are a common product of many reactions, muons are just convenient because they don't cost much energy to produce and form into a beam, and they decay quickly while still living long enough to be useful.

Neutrino detectors work because there is an astronomically small but non-zero chance that a neutrino emit either a Z or W boson. A Z boson can hit a nearby electron, accelerating it, or a W boson can decay into a fast moving electron, either of which can be observed in various ways. There's no way to prompt this behavior, but if you're watching enough matter while enough neutrinos are passing through, eventually you'll see some events. The number of events are proportional to how many neutrinos are passing through, so if you see a large number of events in a short period of time, you know something has sent a pulse of neutrinos.

That said, you could most certainly have a muon beam neutrino detector located at the same site as a neutrino detector, allowing you to both send and receive messages. Because the neutrino beam is highly directional, it won't interfere with the detector.
> can imagine just how anonymous the internet was then.

It wasn't that anonymous on SA though. Once you paid your :tenbux: then the site admins (incl. Lowtax) had your PII, assuming you used your own credit-card, ofc.

I don't recall Lowtax et al. ever doxxed any of their own forum patrons, at least not any in good-standing, but I assume fear from the possibility of being doxxed for being an asshat on the forums kept enough people in-line - not the fact it was $10 in 2001 (hmm, that's $27 in today's money, according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - but that doesn't seem right to me)