skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, basically, AppleScript for regex.

I think this bumps JWZ's problem counter to 3..
The actual harm? If you steal a dollar from everyone what's the harm, it's just a dollar? Except now you have 7 billion dollars and you can do a bunch of bullshit with it. Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency and using it to create reality.

Not only that but that cache of power, it's not available to you but it's probably available to rich people and governments, further exacerbating power divides. The power of information is insidious and grows as you gain more of it.
It could also be used in home ventilation systems. Its much easier to remove CO2 from the inside air than to rotate out the entire air envelope, for a chemical that makes up a few hundred parts per million.
> But still this seems far less flexible for me then what is currently set up

It totally is. It's also far less costly in time.

> i nearly always have time to highlight something..

I don't. I guess we have different usecase

> My memory is not perfect

Exactly! And it's a feature!! See that as a mechanism to purge an entry from the cache if it hasn't been refreshed for a while.

The problem with bookmarks (and TODO, and everything) is that they tend to accumulate, since there's no natural pruning mechanism. So you need to only use them as a data source, or augment them with some algorithm to extract what remains relevant.

> you still have a mental model for your system, same as i do

My model runs in the background, and doesn't depend on any action.

If at any point in time I need something, I'll fire up a query that will hit all datasources to give me a list of possibilities sorted by this rough score, so something in edge collections (level 4) will be above something in level 3 etc.

Someone here gave stats: in 4 years, for 7000 entries, they used their system 20 times. That's like a 0.28% usefulness. It's not worth spending much time on.

> I wouldnt switch to manually writing SQL queries of bookmarks and relying on my memory if you paid me.

Well, if your system makes you happy, stick to it.

Personally, I prefer to optimize my workflow for 99.72% of the usecases than the 0.28%

> this stuff ultimately is a preference

Totally

> your tone almost seems to suggest everyone should only set bookmarks and search their contents using SQL queries

If you got that impression, sorry. I think your system would work for people who are say researchers and need to carefully read and categorize everything.

My personal belief is that isn't the case for the modal HN reader, and that they'll be best served by being lazy and avoiding premature optimization - and if they really want to optimize, maybe they can start tapping into the data that's already collected (bookmarks, timestamped visit) some of it automatically instead of creating a parallel workflow that's highly dependent on their ability to do some manual tasks (highlighting, reading, annotating) that will require a lot of effort considering it will be useless about 99.72% of the time
Does the director really have the expertise to evaluate how safe a stunt is? Seems like the wrong person to give that responsibility to.
Apple is more likely to discontinue support for x64_64 altogether in favor of arm64e than they are to bring back 32bit support. Rosetta v1 didn’t last long when transitioning from PowerPC.
Totally agree, the health care plan my very large company offered had months long wait times for therapists. The company would send email "We care about mental health" with a list of resources and EAP stuff. When I emailed them about the unavailability of therapy through their insurance they had no response. I tried using the internal EAP and it had so many limits and hurdles that it added more stress.
Maybe strobe isn't the best word for me to use. Choppy? Whatever you want to call it, the result is kind of nauseating.
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We should drop “tech” from tech company altogether at this point. No reason other companies, like Walmart, can’t be blamed for the same things.

Even a little cottage industry player for Apple or Intel is just grifting on large scale grift of agency and planet destruction; one shared reality makes it kind of hard to hide the whole economy is thoughtless dedication to death cult behavior.

So much pointless taxonomy is generated about our society. Free speech is great but like with infinitely big little numbers, it can just meander forever, as our political system is showing us.
I can back on far right, but not back on opinionated.

Björn Olsen has held a consistent line throughout so he is worth listening to.
If the aim is to reach "net zero", then the ecosystem will have the same amount of CO2 in year N as in year N-1. That doesn't seem like a drastic situation (except that the level we stop at will already be well outside the recent historic average).

After reaching a steady state, we can then consider how much we want to continue scaling up the CO2 removal process, and for how long we want to run it at "net negative" levels. Whatever rate we choose should cause fewer violent disasters than the process of extracting and emitting the carbon did in the first place.
Muslims can't trade crypto, says the head of Sharia compliance
I've been contacted by a FAANG (or is it MANGA?) company too recently, one of the traditionally better ones.

Earlier I'd fallen ober myself for that but I ended up not following through. I love my current. I'm hesitant to work in a place where I can get thrown under the bus for being a man. I'm not sure I want to contribute to the surveillance economy etc.

Maybe another day I'll answer yes, but...
> Just because this would be easier for them to have official backdoors doesn't mean they can't ever do anything given enough interest and funding behind it.

Considering there are random "mom and pop" scam agencies across South Asia and the Caribbean stealing billions of dollars from Americans annually while posing as the FBI and IRS and nothing whatsoever happens to them I'd wager that it's quite unlikely the FBI has the ability to do much of anything regardless of interest and funding.

> There's plenty of political reasons to state that (even if they were to know otherwise) and if they actually do have more accurate information on a different entity it could avoid showing their hand if they just attribute it incorrectly.

This is suggesting there is a 4D chess move at play, which is a straying a bit too far for me. The only other possibility here is if [Russia, China, NK, Iran] know the US is not able or willing to enforce a deterrence and they don't even bother hiding.

> but if the FBI is running the supposed "Russian VPN" that gives them lots of information

That's extremely unlikely to the point where if there was a complex covert operation like this they wouldn't burn exposing it on outing an independent malicious actor.

> Are you willing to bet your life that this is the case?

There are entire groups that have literally bet their lives on this and are still very much alive. If the US government was as sophisticated as you're suggesting, I don't think they'd still be driving patrols around the levantine desert trying to find ISIS members or have a giant fentanyl issue plaguing the country.

I really can't make sense of the idea that the US has all this power at their disposal but completely refuses to use it against actual organised groups targeting the US and Americans, but will somehow put all their cards on the table when Johnny from Idaho exploits a mail server.
> Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency and using it to create reality.

What does this mean?
> Don't. You can't predict prices like that.

You can predict that not emitting CO2 will cost less than emitting CO2 and then recapturing it, because it's the second law of thermodynamics.

> Consider that electric cars roll out of the factory having emitted more CO2 than the equivalent combustion vehicle. It takes a lot of miles to break even.

It takes about the number of miles that the average person drives in a year. New cars last a lot more than a year. Also, the CO2 it takes to make an electric car has a lot to do with the fact that existing vehicles and power generation emit CO2, which goes away as we get more electric vehicles and non-carbon power generation.

> If you put a price on the CO2, you may well figure out that combustion engines end up more efficient, because carbon-neutral fuel is close to being economical.

So put a price on CO2. The point isn't that subsidizing electric cars and solar panels is the best solution to the problem, it's that subsidizing carbon capture is strictly worse.
“where the model is updated and then the model notifies other views of changes”

I like your overall analogy but you lost me (as you predicted lol) with that last part. Views notifying other views (probably via listeners and event handlers) sounds more like the MVP pattern to me. But yeah overall I like your take on understanding the article.
They did plenty of effects tracked to actors before computers, they just tracked them manually, frame-by-frame.
Kind of like how some cities / states already subsidize solar panels / heat pumps / electric appliances etc.

But even more like how some organizations (like PurpleAir, maybe thats the only one though?) will get you connected with the hardware necessary to be a part of their air quality monitoring network.

Except this is a way more interesting idea for a lot of reasons.
As soon as you add that requirement to coal power plants, they become immediately uneconomic to build or operate. They are already borderline due to the fall in cost of renewables.

With a meagre Carbon Tax of $15/tonne, coal costs double in the US.

There's nothing that can be done to fix coal power apart from just shutting it all down.
It's weird? TFA is literally "look at how capitalism has enabled surveillance capitalism as evidenced by all of these companies." It's "complaining about very specific entities exhibiting very specific behaviors and performing very specific action" and how all of those behaviors and actions are just the result of capitalism, and that Vizio is another data point in how everything is connected to general economic concepts?

Sometimes everything is connected, and sometimes your boss is just a shitty boss, or a company made an unethical decision.
I don't think the "Please stop spreading misinformation." boilerplate is necessarily always hostile and provocative.

In situations where the comment is only aimed at correcting a factual mistake, for example, it can be okay, if still bad style.

It always feels as if it prematurely implies evil intention, which is a move that does not belong in any intellectually honest conversation, neither casual nor scientific.

I don't think the boilerplate should be used in comments that then continue with highly questionable, very radical statements. Especially if heterodox opinions are stated as if they were well established positions.

For example:
"This is no different to instituting lockdowns before vaccines became available."

The idea that conditional lockdowns are identical to non-conditional lockdowns from legal, medical or political perspective is not just wrong, but also unnecessarily radical. The radicalism just makes the wrongness trivial to spot.

The position that actually justifies conditional lock-downs (like the new Austrian policy) is one where the discriminatory treatment is acknowledged and justified, not simply denied.

...which should not surprise anyone who somewhat followed the discourse on the issue.

I know that's not as attractive as just denying the existence of differences between two obviously different policies.
buying and holding TQQQ requires some intestinal fortitude I don't have, I'd rather take a few days worth of an upswing and be happy with that. Trading is all about risk management
I like that strings and arrays (not their individual elements) are marked with `[]` and `$`, just like BASIC. Beginners tend to have a shorter attention span and can't easily reason that some names defined earlier are arrays or strings, so that would be easier to understand for them as long as you disallow names that only differ by those markers (and give a helpful error message, for now Easylang doesn't seem to do that though).
> The shift over years has been that the second strategy produces more crops with lower expenses

I read an interesting book recently (Seeing like a State) that makes the claim that large-scale monocrop industrial farming is only actually “optimal” if you don’t price in the heavy subsidy, and if you ignore the non-revenue contributions of small-hold agriculture (e.g. the land might provide fuel, crafting materials, and otherwise support the farmers in a way that doesn’t show up on the balance sheet). Not to mention that the larger farms tend to be extractive, in that they are using up water from the water table and nutrients from the soil, and so they will eventually degrade the land to the point where it cannot be productive any more.

I did some digging and the farm subsidies in the US are truly eye-watering, and particularly notable is that the biggest 10% of farms take 90% of the subsidy, so we are not even subsidizing “traditional working farmers” or anything like that, just shipping hundreds of billions to huge ag corps.

I wouldn’t claim to be an expert nor to be certain about those economic claims though, and would be interested in others’ thoughts here, particularly other books you found useful on the subject.
Doesn’t closing positions cause a price spike in the first place? It seems to me that they kicked the can down the road waiting for a better opportunity to do so.
That setup does eliminate Vizio’s spying ability, but my understanding is that Amazon and Roku do essentially the same thing. On Roku at least, you can turn on settings like “limit ad tracking” to mitigate this somewhat.
Well, it depends - for a current investor of any scale in the utility and fossil fuel sectors, this is a disaster.

1) Installing solar panels on millions of acres would be done most likely by utilities for grid-scale power. This means an accelerated investment in infrastructure, and that means profits don't go to dividend payments but for solar panel purchases (from an international manufacturer, as domestic US solar manufacturing is basically a joke at present).

2) Then you have the follow-on losses - investors in utilities tend to have large holdings in fossil fuels, and one hand washes the other - power plants buy fracked gas, in other words, boosting the value of the fossil fuel investments. So when you switch to solar, and write off the natural gas and coal plants, there goes the majority of the profits that investor's portfolio generates.

There's no way around it: renewable systems are far less profitable than fossil-fuel systems, because you don't get to <sell> set up a wind and sun cartel (*orbiting sunscreens maybe?). This is the source of both Wall Street and fossil fuel exporter disenchantment with renewables.

Now, if you're a farmer and can generate your own power while continuing to enjoy good crop yields, it's all winning. Although your 401K retirement fund may decrease in value. But that's OK, as your net savings are greater than that loss.
Unfortunately second-order effects make rooftop solar less desirable than you'd think. In urban areas built to adequate densities (> 100 residents per acre) there's not enough roof area to power those residences, so you need the off-site generating resources anyway. Denser development has significant demand efficiency payback, but it always reduces the ratio of on-site solar generating resources per capita.

On the other hand you also have the phenomenon that after a person puts solar power on top of their little detached single-family house they start yammering about "solar access rights" to stop the construction of even slightly taller buildings nearby. Boulder, Colorado is ground zero for this kind of stupidity, see their "solar access protection" law which is as naked an act of NIMBY greenwashing as anyone has ever seen.

https://www-static.bouldercolorado.gov/docs/PDS/forms/815_So...
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I think React is pretty soon gonna share same fate as jQuery. Svelte is slowly picking some steam, and with recent move of original author to Vercel I am more confident than ever that momentum is shifting. My friend directly got to work with Carmack, and him moving away directly from project should tell a lot about what the future of the hardware holds with FB.

Microsoft had to rewire itself in order to recover from Windows. Facebook (or Meta) needs same. Microsoft had to bring in a new leader, I think Zuck should step down, and bring somebody different before it's too late. I can imagine a fight for throne happening inside already.
> he pointed out the blooms moved like rubber as the character runs; seemed pretty conclusive.

Is it? If we could build such robots, they would be plastic. Any holes shot into them wouldn’t be rigid, and would deform when they moved.

Or are you saying “moved like rubber” obviously looks different from whatever way the stuff this robot is supposed to be made of would move?
Have a look at the plans for USSR tractors. Those were fairly well-documented. An acquaintance of mine working at a kolchoz - a USSR collective farm - told me whenever new rolling equipment came in, they usually took it apart and rebuilt it from scratch.

The Belarus (MTZ) tractor factory [0] still produces a popular super maintainable model that hasn't changed much since the 1970's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_(tractor)
Yeah that was completely obvious. Check out the scenes that actually were CGI. They are trivial to spot, with a 2021 eye and DVD level quality media or better.

The whole shot that "went through the computer" has a completely different feel to it than scenes that don't.

Compare 3:38 and 3:44 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhL8WlDHKaY.

It looks like it was shot with a completely different camera, or going into a mini-dream state.

I mean it's extremely well done. It holds up so well even... jesus christ 30 years later?!

But it's extremely obvious which scenes got the CGI treatement.

Oh, and if this is one of those "once you can see it, you can't unsee it" things: Sorry about that.
The movie itself is made with no cgi. Helps when the cast is made up of stunt actors

Tarantino on JRE described how the car crash scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imS39s9DKtQ) was done by pulling the two cars together with a wire & dummies for the gore
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After a while, your code will be easier to reason about, you will learn how to use asserts and proper logs, and you will write much better error messages. Why I need to launch a debugger, when I can detect an error condition with assert and put relevant information into the error message?
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I don't know about "more often" but we certainly do it pretty normally. There are entire businesses built around obtaining rights to use land, building solar farms, and selling the tax credits.
Threats to civil liberties only ever come a few dollars at a time.
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It’s rare to have a perfect clarity diamond.

Almost all have some inclusion.
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Where can I learn more about the soviet culture around industrial equipment that you’re describing?
I think it's worth demonstrating this in this kind of context to characterize how children adults might be different. There's a lot of interest in aging and what that means, broadly speaking.

However, I agree this involves some fairly broad principles. I think you could even say this is kinda how Bayesian inference works too. If you use a [strongly informative] prior, on average you get a better estimate, but you're taking the gamble that your prior applies.
The Hobbit just looked bad, IMO. They seem to have lost their heads with color grading.

I remember seeing a video where Jackson was raving about how they can relight shots, showing a pretty uniformly lit shot in Hobbiton. They went on to try to add directional light, shadows etc. using masks, and the image just got worse and worse until it was an inconsistent mess. But apparently they liked that.

And don’t get me started on how they smoothed the dwarves’ skin out so they look like glamour models. I really can not fathom what they were thinking.
I was talking about the current era. But you're right, it has been like that for a long time, modern technology just has made it more efficient.

My comment was hyperbolic, it should have been more moderate.
EDIT: This comment is wrong, I've mistakenly read `(?<=y)x` as `(?=y)x` and wrongly determined the key ":after" is incorrect when writing this comment.
Unless you deactivated Siri or Ok Google your phone is definitively listening to you and people around you.

The audio isn't leaving the phone but a text transcript probably is.

I don't trust closed source software owned by quasi monopolies to do the right thing instead of what will maximize their profits / control over users.
CGI contributes to making everything bigger (see late GoT seasons), which isn't better storytelling or more compelling, just more "badass", which is what they were optimizing for anyway.
Most of the use of libpcap is with files.

If you need to capture live data, most likely it's not a good fit. Reliable high throughput requires a special software architecture, that the format isn't even particularly suited for.
Please.

Quantum physics disproved materialism over a 100 years ago already.
What's your take on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165961 ?
Don't believe that using an external device helps -- the TV can detect what content is being played by sampling the video stream and creating a fingerprint. They can compare to live tv streams to detect channels, and static video files to detect movies/tv shows -- even the menus and cutscenes in video games can be detected.

Also note that disabling WiFi isn't always helpful - some devices expose ethernet over HDMI which the TV will use to phone home.
For hells sake be careful of the security!
Every so often someone makes a teddy shaped thing and they end up being picked up for being able to get remote video or audio from kids.
who the fuck is scraeming "AGRIVOLTAICS" at my house. show yourself, coward. fusion energy will never take off
Uh, are all these things really accurate though?

"The persecution of Europe’s witches, by this account, becomes in part a way of disciplining a class of semi-autonomous beer producers into accepting the work and gender order of the domestic household."

"female brewers, bartenders and, most importantly, drinkers (...) have always been there, not just alongside men but usually one step ahead of them"

"The word bridal comes from bride-ale: an English tradition of raising money for a wedding whereby ‘a bride-to-be brewed a bunch of ale and threw a big party.’" (unsure if the bride herself was actually intended to brew this)