skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is no way a vibrating collar will stop a cow in doing what they want to do. Cows are herd animal meaning they fight to establish rank. There is no way 2 cows close to a fence can be stopped from breaching the fence, no matter if it's barbed wire or if the fence carries 20K Volts. They will walk right through it - or better push each other right through it during a fight. Not even an electric shock would stop them and a vibration collar even less.
Thank you rekoros! More delivery modes is something I am really excited to explore, especially slower ones. I think pickup/delivery should always remain once a day, but you could specify that on a given thread, messages take 3 days or 7 days, etc, to deliver. I've noticed that in my own usage of Pony, this would be pretty nice because sometimes it is the passage of time that makes a correspondence exciting and helps there be something new to say.
It's important to learn to be ok with our own limitations, our proximity to the average.
I like Mark Manson's writing on the subject, e.g. https://markmanson.net/being-average or his book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"
> stood on the shoulders of Galilei

Why Galilei and not Kepler?Newton obviously derived the law of gravity from Kepler's laws. Kepler was an absolute giant, and his contribution would not have been possible without Tycho Brahe, another giant. We will never know who the "giants" were, or maybe it was just a pure expression of modesty, but if there were some, I think they were Kepler and Brahe, not Galilei.
This is really interesting.

Shenzhen markets were awash with old laptops when I was there a few years ago (I still have a tiny Sony Vaio I bought when I was there). There were giant stacks of things like obsolete Toughbooks, giant stacks of Thinkpads etc. along with obsolete servers being recycled.

Being able to recycle those robust, well made chassis with modern hardware is a great idea.
The Origins of Raoul Duke
In the bad old days before setns() it was more of a pain to add processes to a container since they had to be children of an existing process in that container.
It doesn’t matter.

I’m a bit of a ‘positive’ existential nihilist, and I strongly feel that everything I do is not important in the greater view of existence / nature. That doesn’t mean that I think everything I do is worthless, some things are definitely worth a lot to me. It comes down to what I think is important, for me. I have a tiny window in time to experience life on earth. I want to spend that time doing things I like, preferably with people I love. The chemicals in my brain makes me feel good or bad depending on the day, but this is something I just need to realise and reflect/act on.

I’m quite creative and relatively successful (I’m not a millionaire though), my hobby’s include making things (music/art/code/design), which I enjoy a lot. That helps me find some purpose in my life.

I can be very lazy and I don’t want to put too much effort into certain things. Which is totally fine! In my youth people always told me that I was lazy, and in general that made me feel guilty throughout my life. Luckily I moved on from that state of being.

Currently I’m doing a well paid ‘bullshit’ job and I’m paying off some debts, buying music gear and searching for love. I could die tomorrow, or in 40 years. I do hope that I can stay for a while. I like humans. It’s nice to see them learn something for example. Teaching is fun.

I’m diagosed with dysthymia FYI. I hope you can find some relief in your situation in sharing your thoughts, it usually helps to process thoughts by bouncing ideas with other people. I just want to say, it doesn’t matter. Some people would love to be in your position (technically speaking), the mental part you need to figure out for yourself! Luckily humans like helping each other, so maybe try to keep communicating with others. Peace can be found!
My advice: watch Akira Kurusawa's Ikiru. It's exactly about this.
This is the sort of wiki page that guarantees I'll blow my brains out far before I admit myself to an institution.
You describe me quite well too :)

I tried dozens of switches, key caps and layouts over the years. Soldering my own switches, trying different materials to soften the sound for the perfect “thocc”

It was/is a fun hobby but over time I grew out of it and now I am happy with a simple low profile keyboard.

My favourites (in no particular order) are: Apple Magic Keyboard with Numpad, Microsoft Surface keyboards, and the Logitech MX Keys.

I also used to really like the old Microsoft natural keyboards many, many years ago

Interestingly (to me anyway) is that even though I am British I have grown to prefer a US (ANSI) layout over an ISO layout. Not really sure why though if I am honest.
? November is not the dead of winter, there can still be warm days in the 50s and 60s. And anyway sometimes it's nice to be on a balcony even in the cold.

I witnessed a meteor/fireball on my Chicago balcony around 2009 or 2010, I remember thinking it must have been some kind of aircraft breaking up over the city, I went to Twitter thinking I would find out what happened but it wasn't til the next day I heard it was a meteor that ended up over Wisconsin.

I think it was April 2010: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2010-04-15-ct-met...
I think the people from CRI might argue the counter to Amazon lobbying is counterintuitively to have less transparency in Congress.

Some proposals being as simple to restore more closed-door committees and committees votes, that were removed in the sunshine reform laws of the 70s.

Lobbying orgs often lobby for greater Congressional transparency while simultaneously trying to get more corporate privacy, creating more info asymmetry.

Also, with more congressional transparency, while citizens can theoretically lobby as well, these big lobby orgs seem to do it much much better, sitting in committee meetings, tracking every committee vote, etc.

This is what I've gleaned from the research at CRI and conversations with James D'Angelo but you may read it differently. Regardless, I highly recommend checking out their work.

Congressionalresearch.org
Then you're much better at Weinsteinese than I am because I don't know what "perseveration" even means and how it applies to "gated institutions" and their narratives. Does he have examples of institutions without gates, i.e. "ungated" institutions? Is he talking about any specific institution in particular or just abstractly and he's divided them all in some taxonomy that only he and his followers understand? Is he in favor of "ungated institutions" and their narratives?

You can see how any sane person when they decide to analyze the statement would think the man is going senile. There is no real substance in the statement other than whatever the reader is willing to imbue into it, i.e. it is nonsensical. This is all before we even get to the part where he is claiming to have created a grand unified theory of everything which solves economic problems better than existing economics but is also just purely for entertainment purposes. The man is practically asking to not be taken seriously.
So I just googled to see if my keyboard (Realforce 88u) has customisable firmware and apparently it has internal dip switches to configure the behaviour of ctrl and Windows keys!
I’m with you. I bought the HHKB and thought I’d love it but I didn’t. I also found the keys too “heavy” but I did buy the quieter model, so it never felt loud to me. I have gone back to an old cherry brown switch keyboard and have preferred it.
If you want to see some examples of crypto scams go to /r/cryptomoonshots on Reddit. Almost everything posted there is some sort of rug pull scam with fake upvotes.
Ally's message does.

> Ally: As Security measure, we will never ask for this number over the phone. Security code: xxyyzz. Call 1-877-247-2559 if you did not request a code.
> All the other times, it's causing me frustration and pain. It signals a collision as I am avoiding potholes in a tight one-way street and cars parked on both sides of the road (yep, I am going to slam into that parked car for sure — at least it did not forcibly brake which would definitely cause cars behind me to slam into me).

The only time I've gotten false positives on the collision avoidance was when I was going too fast for the situation. Now it's gotten me to drive slower on these narrow lane situations, which is a good thing!

> It brakes when I am backing out of a parking spot into a street and vehicles appear from the other direction (a lane I was not getting into) — this happens so frequently that I am tempted to turn it off.

I haven't experienced this personally, but a false positive here doesn't really have any downsides. Ideally every driver would be skilled enough to not back up so far and go into the other lane, but I do see drivers that back out further than necessary and get a corner of the car across the divide of the road. The cross traffic avoidance when backing up is one of my favorites, it's saved me plenty of times when somebody is going way too fast in a parking lot and I'm backing up slowly.

> Pilot Assist on the highway seems to wait too long to slow down as I approach a car in front of me and then it abruptly slows down, yet it requires me to use the turn signal way too early if I want to overtake someone I caught up with: my drive was much more fluid with a simple stay-at-this-speed cruise control of my previous car.

This situation sounds like you may be driving faster than the flow of traffic, or the follow distance is not set far enough. You can also do the simple stay-at-this-speed cruise control, or adaptive cruise control without the automatic steering capabilities.

I am on the west coast of the US so the roads here are well planned and well marked, so maybe that helps.

> Edit: and blind spot monitoring — the sales guy was so high on it, yet I don't see the purpose: it's right there flashing on your side mirrors so you have to look at them, yet side mirrors are large enough and concave (like on all modern cars) that if you set them up properly, there's really no blind spot a car or bike can fit in. And I still prefer to look over my shoulder to top it off.

Depending on the car, the driver, and how seating position and mirrors are setup, there can still be blind spots despite your best efforts, or have a driver in the next lane in a dark car at night with their lights off accidentally. Nothing wrong with looking at your mirror and still checking over your shoulder, but the blind spot monitoring is still very helpful. That's why the indicator is on the mirror anyways, because they know we are already going to look there before changing lanes.

From my experience the safety features are all supplemental to also having good driving habits, they don't replace the need for good habits entirely.
Definitely the former, although I suppose the latter would also be an improvement...
There are some PSTN gateway providers that you can basically makeup your outgoing CID on. Les.net used to let me do that for example - no validation.

Twilio is doing their own enforcement to help their reputation.
I helped manage dedicated servers in colo for a small company for a few years, and I don't have very good memories about it.

We had a cabinets with inter-connected machines, so we had our own routers, load balancers, two uplinks, etc. It's a lot of stuff to manage for maybe 25 servers (which ran VMs).

Currently I use OVH and Hetzner and find it to be the best of both worlds. Hardware isn't my problem, and the costs are low. We run ZFS and KVM, so moving a VM around is easy.

On another project though, we split $5k of hardware for a server with 20TB of disks, 4U. The server has been running for over 5 years without issues. For a single, special-use server, colo can be nice.
> Darwin, Newton and Aristotle

I agree that the top 2 scientists in history were Newton and Darwin. But what's up with Aristotle? I don't really think he was a scientist at all.
Fine, except the era of expendable launch vehicles is already drawing to a close.
Current communication platforms are so massive (sms, whatsapp, e-mail, messenger etc.) that it feels like such a huge fight to get some form of network effect, that's why I was thinking of a way of integrating with them instead of creating a completely alternative channel. But it might be possible in some niches/ influencers way.

Anyway to better clarify my initial comment. There are chrome extensions, allowing you to schedule emails at certain times. You could do a similar things were you extend chrome with an extension for Pony Gmail, where you send email on the pony time scheduled. The sending part is solvable.

Receiving however, 2 problems:
- Organise receiving; not sure if it can be done, but probably its somehow possible to create a service that saves all incoming meessages and then once a day serves it to a seperate inbox

- Senders probably sometimes need sn autoresponder, that's a problem already solved.

Anyway, just brainstorming out loud. Wish you all the best.
> I can't think of a community problem where a market-based solution even helped, let alone solved the problem.

While I agree that the market isn't the panacea and God it's portrayed to be, I didn't understand the GP that way.

Your point goes much too far the other way. Most of most community problems are solved by 'free' markets, including food (most food is bought and sold in the market), much of transportation (cars, planes), shelter (most homes are owned by private parties), etc.

I think the interesting question is, where is the market good at, and what are other tools good at?
I've also heard this was an unanticipated consequence of increased transparency. I'm not ready to give up my faith in the wisdom "the solution to democracy's problems is more democracy". But do try to be mindful that there's always tradeoffs.
They run a system that literally breaks up people they consider ideologically impure for parts. Look at what happened to tank man.
I can confirm, numerous times I've seen cows grazing or even running with barbed wire and fence posts dragging behind them. When they've decided they want to do something, it's pretty hard to stop them.
And it's a good model I think, to take some responsibility for public property. Not just "your sidewalk", as in the sidewalk that touches your private yard, but also "your street", "your town center", and "your local parks". I'm not interested in hearing about if it's "your job" or "your trash", if there's a situation you are unhappy about, and you can directly impact it, why not do so?

I live in Oakland, CA, just off a major street. When I moved into this place I got annoyed at the litter on the street, until I eventually just started picking it up. The first day, I filled a trash bag travelling just 100ft along the sidewalk. A week later I would fill a trash bag every two or three laps of the entire street. Now I think I fill one trash bag per week. And I just feel better looking at, walking, or biking down my street, and I've gotten good conversations with neighbours to boot.

Culturally, right now, people will keep on littering on American city streets, and you and I aren't equipped to change that. It takes surprisingly little effort to carve out a considerably improved space though, and I find that when I consider it a gift to my neighbourhood and a constant task fighting against entropy (rather than something that can be "finished"), it's easier.

("you" in this context is a general "you", and not meant to be singling another_story out, of course)
Computational geometry is hard. Let's go shopping!

If I'm being less un-charitable, the reason is that this bug is way down the list of priorities and fixing it with a proper solution is a lot of code and work that won't result in any new revenue.
likely people used to search "site:archive.ph something weird" just before you.
Isn't that what privacy-oriented search engines are for?
The Amazing Secrets of The Yogi
Not telco, so I hope there will be better answers.

Phone numbers are basically identical to IP numbers in their use, and they are declared by the emitting party. Just as you can spoof IPs in the packet headers, you can spoof the telephone number at the tranport level.

We could upgrade to more secure connections, but the whole point of using the telephone network is because of the legacy. I can't imagine a telco putting significant money into improving the network when no customer will pay more for that (right now arguably, spammers are their first class customers ).
Yep! From that exact perspective I went back and forth a lot trying to figure out whether Pony should support multiple deliveries a day. Ultimately I settled on one. I think the post used to deliver multiple times a day because instantaneous communication wasn't pervasive. Now that everything is instantaneous, I decided ultimately that one delivery a day would add more value to people's lives by offsetting all that instantaneity. It was a tough decision though...
Suspiciously absent is info on the battery life of these collars. How does one go about changing them? Do you line up 100+ cows every few days and just sit there for a couple of hours changing batteries every time?
> stick-and-rudder

Right? What would Wolfgang Langewiesche drive? Saab 9-5 Aero would be my guess.
A made-up problem, clearly requiring enormous resources to solve.
iPhone SoCs have had hardware JPEG decoding since basically forever. However, I'd be surprised if that hardware block suddenly got updated to support AC.

If I had to guess, A14 devices aren't using the hardware decoder any more for some reason, and that's why it works.
Borg has been working great for me with zstd.
But for IPs, don't we at least have reverse path filtering available?
Yes, but it might make sense to do a very well structured case-control study using mouse or rat models.

There are well over 200 highly diverse lines of mice that could be split into isogenic cases and controls by sex, age, and any other instrumental variable (diet, enrichment).

We have many objective ways to quantify rodent health and behavior. Admittedly, there is no “happiness” metric that is translationally relevant to humans, but at least with rodents we can critically evaluate what goes on in the CNS at molecular and synaptic levels with and without drug X.

Mice and rats are in the same Supraprimate superoder (the euarchonta) with monkeys and apes. They are also fine for rigorous case-control studies of drug effects, IF and ONLY IF the study includes a high level of genetic variation among the rodents that will model hunan genetic and biochemical diversity. Unfortunately, typical rodent studies of just a single inbred type of mouse or rat are of modest translational relevance to humans.
that's a fine paperweight
Why do people still care about the App Store ecosystem?

Apple has made it profitable only for mobile games. Since 2015, 99% of large successful companies have started on web.
> Consumers who suffer unauthorized transactions are entitled to Regulation E protection, and banks are required to refund the stolen money. This isn’t a controversial opinion, and it was recently affirmed by the CFPB here [0]. If you are reading this story and fighting with your bank, start by providing that link to the financial institution.

Props for including this in the article! All too often the basic legal situation is never explained, leaving victims to believe that blatantly illegal crap is "just the way it is". For example, "identity theft" and fraudulent medical bills.

[0] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/compliance-resour...
Except you can't really get good quality. Netflix 4k bitrates are atrociously bad. Compression artifacts are super noticeable especially in dark scenes. I think they use around 10mbps for 4k, which is just a joke. Blu-ray is around 50mbps, cinema is around 250. You can't actually get decent quality without buying physical media or pirating.
I am pretty sure that Etherium switching to PoS will happen in the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
If Snowden had simply spoken out against abuse and criticised leaders he'd be fine. People do that in the US in social media and on TV every day.
How do you efficiently compute the bounding circle, especially in the presence of curves?
Is ten years really that old for a keyboard?

My father still uses a generic Dell keyboard he got with a PC in 2002 because he didn’t like all the media keys on the keyboards that came with new computers.
Yep, despite being big fan of serverless I feel like most useful? (for lack of a better word) Serverless deployments are predicated on locking you in while decreasing the cost for the platform operator. Take serverless DBs for example. If you’re using a managed db you generally don’t care whether it’s serverless or not, but the platform operator does, as it becomes easier for them to offer you a free tier to get you too put your critical data into their platform.
My dad recorded many made-for-TV movies in the 1980s. These movies exist on IMDB, but nowhere else. I wonder why TV networks don't make their back catalog available.

After all, TCM seems to do well running their back catalog of movies.
Nobody else thinks this reads like an ad?
I recently had a weird issue: some random dude sent me $1.xx over PayPal. Naturally I refunded it and thought matter closed.

Then, some days later I got 3 more payments in similar $1.xx amounts. I refunded 2, but for the 3rd one PayPal wanted to charge some fees. At which point I just blocked the dude.

No idea if this was a genuine mistake or a scam. Anyone knows??
There is an effort underway to fix this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

There is not much motivation to fix PSTN (and cell networks that rely on or emulate PSTN) as it's being phased out. So things move slowly.
Absolutely agree. Think about how LBJ pushed through civil rights and voting rights act, as a Senator of the “solid south” that kept anti-lynching legislation in committee for a half century.

It wouldn’t be possible today.

The situation in state legislatures is even worse.
They are solar-powered, according to the article and company website.
Wells Fargo has a warning in their SMS - for Zelle and non-Zelle things.
I was about to suggest the same solution.

The same approach can be applied to any service that requires regular intervention to avoid service interruption. If you pay someone every time the service is interrupted, then they’ll be incentivized to do a bad job so it gets interrupted more frequently (e.g. contractors tasked with ensuring traffic lights or electricity supply works all year round in all weather conditions).

Pay a flat rate for continual service. Beyond a certain reasonable/acceptable level of interruption, reduce what you pay them. Eventually if they do enough poor quality work they’ll go out of business - as opposed to the current conventional approach that incentivizes them to do poor quality work.

If this applied to certain goods as well (like electronics) we’d probably be able to get rid of planned obsolescence.
The aerospike itself maybe? It's 3D printed in a fancy copper alloy, and copper burns green...
Yes, herd immunity will happen through both natural infection or vaccine induced infection. People will adjust and come back to work, school and economic activities.
Makes sense now with all the UFOs showing up on radar as very cold objects!

:O
> Or the doctor only takes on healthy patients, and refuses to take on anyone with pre-existing conditions.

Only if they cannot help you. In which case you have the same medical outcome but save your cash.
What makes you think this NFT skin is going to be any better supported than a normal skin, in the event of Civilization changing hands or its publisher going out of business? Why would the creators of the 2042 edition of Civ bother supporting what will no doubt be a terrible-looking, low-res skin by their standards?
It launched in 2016