skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have an Amiga 600 with a 2400 baud modem. I can't remember the name of the BBS I mostly connected to, but the telephone number was just passed around word of mouth.

I lived in Lincolnshire in the UK, a pretty rural county - not very wealthy. It was a local rate number - same area code and it meant free calls. The person who ran it had a pretty big switchboard so could handle about 10-20 connections at once.

The best thing about it was it had a persistent MUD running. You had a character which moved around room to room, slaying monsters but also PvP. If you killed the other person you got all their stuff. One of the problems was if you logged off your character just sat there and would only rudimentarily defend themselves if someone else came along. So you'd need to find somewhere in the middle of nowhere to leave them.

Now the _really_ great thing about this BBS is the owner also had a Compuserve connection. He had it set up so you could trade gold pieces in the MUD game for Compuserve credits - minutes on the _actual_ internet.

I remember finding a logged out player, killing them, getting a jackpot in gold coins and then eagerly spending them to get on Compuserve. It was the first ever time and I didn't really know what to do. I seem to recall their was a directory of _all_ the websites in a big listing with their corresponding index numbers. You could then browse over and take a look.

It felt like some crazy magical sci fi novel at the time. I was about 11 or 12 back then - very early 90s. Just before the blizzard of AOL trial CDs hit the UK.
How would you gain access to the account itself just by knowing the account number?
Whatever ills Ethereum was trying to solve these gas fees certainly aren't helping. Even a slow transaction is averaging $120.
Many years ago when I was in high school, a friend of mine told me about Duff’s device. I filed it away in the back of my mind, excited that one day when I was a professional programmer I could pull this trick out of my hat. Looks like that day may never come.
The case of some Android user that mostly drives alone, but drives by other cars with iPhone users, should be pretty common. You could stalk them, and they wouldn't get a notice.
For sure. Any good product balances desire and possibility. Salespeople have a lot of data on desire; engineers on possibility. The problem isn't involving sales. It's not involving the engineers!
Hi, not currently, myself I’m actually in the latter category and don’t have a strong identity online (even as I semi-envy those who do, as it seems like it could provide tangible long-term benefits).

I don’t like the phrasing of “owning the means of production”—no matter where you express your thoughts, presumably you will always own those particular means of production—but agreed on distribution. Still, if one is thinking in terms of “distribution” and “publishing” with regards to their thoughts or writing, one definitely leans towards a platform, be that microblogging or something else; for others this is not even a problem as they rather seek exchange of ideas or the feeling of belonging.

The point about playing with the limits of a medium is appreciated. I suspect if this problem is tackled with an engineering/experimental mindset, rather than identity mindset, interesting results could be achieved. However, on the face of it, doing this publicly seems to require either certain fearlessness or a healthy degree of sociopathy—being OK experimenting with communication, even if it means being fatally misunderstood. (I don’t mean sociopathy in a bad sense—I myself follow a few accounts, many anonymous, who do this kind of explorative posting and I enjoy it a lot. Maybe their owners engage in what @vgr calls “minimum viable sociopathy”.) In this sense, a community provides a shared framework that reduces the chance of this misunderstanding, which could be appealing to some.
It makes sense if the person who put the tracker there was someone who knew the woman and wanted to scare her (which it seems they succeeded in as she didn't give her name in the article for fear of her safety). My guess would be an abusive ex that wanted her to know they were watching her.
Adventure Time is an insanely excellent cartoon.
To all Android users: there is an Open Source app to detect AirTags.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t...
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection...
Source code: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
Beyond all the theoretical implementation complexities of space elevators, we don't even know of a single material with the required tensile strength. Graphene was thought to be strong enough, but recent research found practical graphene had defects that significantly reduces its strength below that required for a space elevator.

Space elevators aren't scrapped, just on the shelf until we even have a material that let's us think they might be feasible. That said, Lunar space elevators could be done with lower-strength materials, like Kevlar, and there are some people working on them.

For Earth orbit, I think the centrifuge concept (e.g. SpinLaunch) has some promise. Still some huge implementation hurdles, but could be a huge step forward to put all of the energy for the first stage on the ground.
ABC Valve Manufacturing is running on a 6% profit margin. That cost wipes out their entire profit margin for the year. (They are competing against people in other countries without the same constraint.)

Now, perhaps this is an upstream problem. Perhaps the problem is that we have built systems that are nigh impossible to secure for small businesses. Perhaps we need laptop computers with no USB slots (no external keyboards.. no external mice.. no external monitors..) and no ability to install anything without going through an app store.

This company (that makes its own operating system) also will tell you exactly the systems you can use. Everything is certified by this company to be secure and you pay them a yearly protection racket fee to assume liability. In return, you have no control over your computer. Very strict internet filters are on these computers - no stack overflow, no hacker news, just the systems that the business has paid for.

This sounds dystopian to me. I'd hate to work there. However, that's literally the only solution I see for many businesses, because the current IT system is failing us.
Depends on what you mean by good but there are many that certain enterprises couldn't do without that well outperform competitors and employees would melt into bubbly goo if they couldn't use them anymore -- but they tend to be very custom made for either a particular enterprise or a very niche set of very similar enterprises.
Author here. I've used bup, and elfshaker was partially inspired by it! It's great. However, during initial experiments on this project I found bup to be slow, taking quite a long time to snapshot and extract. I think this could in principle be fixed in bup one day, perhaps.
They could have simply told people "masks are good, but please leave them to health worker", i.e. appeal to people's better side. Instead they chose to take people for idiots and lie to them, and lo and behold, people don't like being lied to and taken for idiots.

This was not just in the US, exact same thing happened in most of Europe.
We haven't. We just can't produce enough carbon nanotubes cheaply to build a space elevator. Amongst other technical issues.

One limiting factor of a rocket engine is the exhaust cone. This big dome-shaped piece of internally cooled structure tries to make the burning of fuel most efficient by controlling the shape of the exhaust reaction.
In atmosphere you need a different size than in orbit to burn optimal, that's one reason why staging is done and the second stage is much different in cone size.

Since in aerospike the direction and shape of the exhaust gasses is different, air pressure is used as a "dynamic cone" making single-stage to orbit" rockets much more feasable. I'm not sure if we want that at all, though.
The actual title of the article is “Surveillance Capitalism Vs. The Surveillance State.”

I could be very wrong about this, but, I worry more about corporate surveillance than government surveillance.

That said I worry about both. When the government and corporations know much more about us than we know about them then they have a tactical advantage in every interaction.
Extortion is really unpopular. If I want to be safe from Apple trackers I have to engage with said company on their terms. It is at least unethical.
Yes, whereas we only get the raw unadulterated truth from our media outlets and tech censors here in the West.
The only reason this seems special to you is because its your story. Your story could have happened with a lot of different languages though.
By an AirTag? Obviously not, but it also won't disclose your own location to an AirTag owner unless someone with an iPhone is near you. I have an Android phone and keep a Tile tracker in my wallet and on my keys, the number of Tile users is much lower than the number of iPhone users, but it can do the same. You'd have to know I was a Tile user, though, to get your own Tile to track me, but if you did, it would not alert me regardless of whether I used an iPhone or an Android device.

Will an iPhone alert you if you're being tracked by a Tracki/Tive/Lightbug GPS+cellular tracker? These are common in commercial shipping, but easily accessible for consumers too Here's [1] for $16 (requires $20/mo monthly fee) and [2] is a bring-your-own-SIM off-brand device for $20. Or, heck, they could just get an actual Android phone (either just an old one they have in an electronics drawer, or they could buy a used low-end model for $50), plug it into a 12V charger in the trunk, and set up location sharing.

To be clear, I think Apple made a reasonable effort to do the right thing here. The difference between Tile and AirTags is that the AirTag has a scale factor and pervasiveness that enables 'crimes of opportunity'. It's infeasible to prevent determined criminals: if you have to plan purchasing it, and signing up for the subscription with your personal details, and wait for the shipment, and install it, most people will think twice before following through with that whole sequence. On the other hand, if coworker A is preparing a laptop bag for coworker B to take home, and is fidgeting with the AirTag on their keychain while they do it, their impulse control might not be sufficient to prevent them from slipping in the tracker that they already have on their person.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Tracki/dp/B07N4DHFZM

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Tracker/dp/B09DX9CNCJ
Check the source, near the bottom.

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“Owning an iPhone is the only way for Apple to alert you that you’re being tracked.”

Doesn’t it also beep?
There's mention below of a forthcoming Android app to alert people that they're being followed by AirTags, but no mention I saw of any protection for those who simply do not own a smartphone. The thought that people who likely have chosen to purposely opt out entirely from the always-connected ecosystem are now subject to unwanted tracking with no way to opt out or even be informed is frankly despicable.
You are right, this is the .js that increments the numbers, it does not have any networking:

https://www.realtimestatistics.net/rts/RTSp.js
iPhones are unusually popular in English speaking countries. Globally it's more like 75% Android, 25% iPhone, with some places being 95% Android.

But really the important question is if your target notices the stalking, and for that they either need an iPhone or travel with someone with an iPhone.
I'm not sure, but no doubt this will be the subject of a 10,000 word post on acoup.blog before long.
I don't think this is correct. Are you confusing gwei with USD? A normal funds move is around $10 USD right now https://etherscan.io/gastracker which, yeah, is high, but a lot less than $120
You are flying a plane over the Atlantic and you realize that you may not have enough fuel to make it to shore. Your options are:

1. Focus on flying the plane in a manner that uses as little fuel as possible not bothering to even glace at the fuel gauge, watching the air currents and gliding where possible.

2. Turn on autopilot and spend time and effort trying to calculate the fuel you have to see if you make it to shore before going back to flying as conservatively as possible.

Number 2 feels better. Number 1 is more likely to end with a safe landing.

If you have a deadline and won't be getting new resources any time soon, and what purpose does a estimate serve if you are already committed?
Populism being the point of democracy or am I missing something? How can that be "often to the same end" than totalitarism?
Such as doctors that prescribe sleeping meds to rich clients that... end up dead.
It's also a branch of pickup artist pseudoscience.
It is interesting indeed. But don't take me as an expert, I'm thinking this through with you.

> So... an autonomous, self realized human being is just another way of saying a human being? What additional meaning does it impart then?

The thing is that the worker loses these innate human characteristics, such as being autonomous and self realized, by becoming an economic entity in a capitalist setting. That is how I understand it.

> So Tony would be not-alienated and Tommy working at McDonalds would be only meet 1/3 of the alienation criteria?

Perhaps it is important to consider the notion of sense of provided value. As Tommy, I wouldn't feel like what I'm doing is meaningful. I'm preparing low quality unhealthy food and I could be replaced at any time, making me similar to a tool. I agree tho that as Tony I wouldn't probably feel alienated.

But as I've never worked as a cook, perhaps it is easier to describe alienation as a software developer.

I'll take as an example 2 distinct jobs I had.

One in a small startup with a very flat hierarchy, where I was involved in most technical decisions and I met customers and users. It was a B2B model so I couldn't technically own the product I contributed to make, but I was somehow convinced that it would provide some value for the "greater good".

The other job was in a medium sized startup, where technical decisions were imposed from the top and I had very little agency. Being a large product, my contributions would only have tiny effects on the final result. I was "checked on" daily by anxious managers. I had no contact with our users, and this wasn't the kind of product people would make grateful reviews about.

Can you guess where is it that I felt alienated?
Why does it depend on the CPU architecture?
Please add these points under a usecase heading in your README.
Have a look at Borg, it handles incremental backups very well
It depends on how often this purpose is needed or called by the system. Tackling debt that is rarely executed can cause other debts to mount.
Well, until you hit the philosopher layer.
And just to add to all the other responses pointing out why this is a bad analogy, estimates on building a house assume fixed dependency costs. You need wood? You know where to get it, how quickly it will arrive, and what it will cost you. Software, you need some data? You have NO IDEA what the cost of getting it will be; who owns that system, how quick they are to respond, is there an API already in place, is the data in a format you can work with, etc. What was a "yeah, we've got an API you can use" "great, a day" turns out "Oh, that API isn't actually able to provide you data at the scale you want, and it also only allows querying by ID; if you want ALL the data we'll need to build a new API, and you'll need some sort of caching layer, and we need to discuss the ways we invalidate that cache to make sure it's sufficiently consistent for your needs and etc etc"

It's like what happened to the home building industry with the pandemic. Suddenly the cost of materials has shot up, the availability has dropped, and everything went up in the air. That's simply the default state in software, because every bit of software -is- unique. It would be like if every housing project was using unique materials. Literally a new material, that has to be fabricated, whose properties are unknown. Sure, it might be an alloy of something that previously existed, but it still brings in a bunch of unknowns.
why are do they have such high consumer satisfaction ratings?

Could be that the car is so good in so many other ways that people are willing to put up with a lot more minor problems. Things like the infamous misaligned panels might be annoying visually, but it doesn't affect your ability to drive the car.

Or it could be that the problems only really show up after a few years and most people voting up the Tesla are driving cars less than, say 3-5 years old.

Beyond that it seems to be one extremely unreliable model really dragging down the overall score. If all the other models are OK on reliability and great in every other respect then that can also explain the discrepancy.
Very rich people will do far better in a private or blended system than a country with only a public system. Your best approach would be to triage your own health requirements: (1) spend as much as needed on preventative & health components, (2) pay a retainer or monthly fee to a private health network, (3) pay cash immediately for any rare, critical or emergent needs. You can get #1 in lots of countries, #2 in fewer and #3 in a handful including but not restricted to the US. As a Canadian, if you are super-wealthy you need to likely leave the country for #3.
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I have no issue with using algorithms to filter machine-generated content, only human-generated content. I realize from a practical perspective that can be a difficult distinction to make, especially for an algorithm. In principle though I think it's an important one.
Dynamic languages start becoming problematic as more the size of the codebase increases. It becomes very hard to maintain.
Dfeed is a feed reader that tries to make it really easy to get started. You don't need an account, and you can add many feeds at once with copy-paste.
What sort of solution would you suggest
Other people gave good answers about how this compares to RCV/IRV (thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266519#29269246), and both of the links in my first footnote above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266519#29266537) cover it.

That's all academic, though. A great real example is the 2021 Seattle City Attorney primary, which had only 3 candidates. The votes were split: 36%, 32%, 30%. These 2 candidates emerged from the primary: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/us/seattle-city-attorney-.... The candidate that most accurately represented the opinion of the electorate, Holmes, was eliminated. That would have still happened in a ranked ballot. The voters who voted for Thomas-Kennedy or Davison in our current system would have still put Thomas-Kennedy or Davison #1 in a ranked ballot.

I tried to distill this in https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1461389190206156802. And a 3-way race like that is actually the simplest possible case. Effects like that are much more likely with more candidates and they happen everywhere in the elimination cycle, they’re just less obvious to casual observers. That's what you see in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btAd1HYvjU&t=1329 (note that IRV == RCV in that video).

(Obligatory disclaimer: I don't care who wins. I do care how accurately the winners reflect the inputs, namely, voter opinion.)

Separately, Washington law requires cities hold a primary that produces 2 candidates for the general election, so cities can't legally eliminate primaries. That said, whether primaries are a net positive or negative is a really complicated discussion. Beyond election mechanics, the disadvantage of primaries is that only a subset of voters in the general will turn out in the primary. The advantage is that voters don't spend much time on ballots and it focuses that time. Seattle had 15 candidates for Mayor (many races are 10+). If someone spends 10 minutes on their ballot and the ballot has 10 races, that's 1 minute per race - 6 seconds per candidate. No easy answer here. However, for practical purposes we don't need to answer that hard question; this one change delivers an incredibly representative election.
I think it’s more of a “is my girlfriend really going back to her parents for Christmas?” thing.
From that video, I assume you're in the UK.

In the USA, it is still 2015 basically. Everything I've seen on charging non-Tesla EVs in the USA makes it seem like its a total dumpster fire. One of the YT's I watch has experiences like this all the time: https://youtu.be/jGjUQuXozYc?t=862
I'm excited to see some innovation on the terminal! This could be really helpful for some of my students using new tools like git for the first time.
> Wealth follows a power law because there is a positive feedback loop.

You even get a power law if you have a game where everybody gives 1 dollar to a random person (if possible). If you play that game for enough steps, then the wealth distribution becomes exponential.
Some common standard will need to be developed for compatibility, but I really don't like the use of "mesh" networking for this as it leaves your device vulnerable and susceptible to hacking. The Android app idea is not ideal too:

- An Android app will make the "AirTag network" even more pervasive, with even Android phones doing the tracking for Apple.

- What happens when there are such "tags" all around you? How many false alerts will it take before users start ignoring it?
That’s fair; a community of repeat players has a different feel than people trying to win one round.

Your OP said the stability involved “some sort of community with social hierarchy and structure, agreed-upon values,” though, which I think came partly from the early Internet being a narrow-ish slice of class and culture.
Author here. The executables shipped in manyclangs are release builds! The catch is that manyclangs stores object files pre-link. Executables are materialized by relinking after they are extracted with elfshaker.

The stored object files are compiled with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections, which ensures that insertions/deletions to the object file only have a local effect (they don't cause relative addresses to change across the whole binary).

As you observe, anything which causes significant non-local changes in the data you store is going to have a negative effect when it comes to compression ratio. This is why we don't store the original executables directly.
It was mainly operated by BND, a german intelligence agency. GCHQ and NSA were also involved.
The only common sense bit about stairs is that they were likely made to ascend to places and descend from them. Everything else is conjecture.

It'd be the same if people were dead convinced that doors were made to open a certain way to keep the right hand free for attacking people behind the door. There may actually be some doors somewhere made that way for those reasons, but that would be a silly belief to hold for all doors, wouldn't it?
GPS trackers with a cellular connection existed before AirTags
That's easy to say, but for small teams and startups it's difficult to achieve.
This isn’t new or unique to AirTags. You can buy a GPS tracker on Amazon for a few dollars, and short of tearing your car apart you’d have absolutely no way of finding it. Frankly I think apple has put far more effort into safeguarding their product from malicious use than any of the readily available competitors.
It's amazing how complacent we get.

Two times every day I duck under an electric gate that's fed by a 10kV (might be higher) low-impedance charger. Been doing it this way for years.

Then a few days ago, ducking under it as usual, I happened to be on a slightly higher part of the ground and my back touched it as I was wearing wet, muddy boots. And I was instantly reminded why the horses have learned to not get too close to the fence :-)