skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chrome exists solely so that Google can more effectively sell ads on every page you visit and track everything you do.

No Chrome exists because Google didn't have a desktop OS at the time and they needed a platform. They developed things like V8 to make the browser a better platform for things like Maps.

And FF is an example of a browser that exists solely to sell ads. Mozilla has no other revenue stream. That's why they shove ads into your start screen.

At least Google has some non-ad revenue. Diverse, useful products. And I can trust that my data will only be used to match ads to me via algorithm, they're not going to sell my actual data, unlike most other players out there. And there's no ads in the Google products I pay for. MS puts ads in paid products, Samsung puts ads in paid products, most OEMs actually. Google keeps the ads on their webpages, they don't creep into things you pay for.
TbDEX: A Liquidity Protocol v0.1 [pdf]
>It also seems odd that mandatory groping never received as much pushback as, say, mandatory facemasks.

Not really? Mandatory groping is an infrequent experience reserved only for those who travel by air, while mandatory face masks affect everyone, all the time. I don't know why you'd be surprised.
> The energy usage (due to air resistance) is non-linear with speed. Driving at 85 mph could use twice as much energy as driving at 65 mph.

Does this mean I'll use twice as much gas when driving an ICE car at 85 vs 65? Or do gas cars have a higher constant factor or something that makes air resistance relatively less important?
Remind of bencoding used in torrents
There is a solution to this even if you're on Windows, isn't there?

Never create a Microsoft account. At all.

At least until they stop allowing that for products you're already using, which will probably be tomorrow, if it hasn't already happened.
I left cybersecurity and went back to software development due to the difference in wages.
Blockchains are also perfect for hacking: use someone like NGO’s spyware package or bribe their maid, and the blockchain community will line up to say it was the victim’s fault and there’s no way the community can do anything but recognize the thief as the legitimate owner.
There's a lot of research that contradicts these notions, and also practical advice on how to remedy through food choices, if one is inclined to look into it. As with anything, it's a controversial subject, probably due to the severity of autism and the real difficulties of changing one's diet radically.

http://www.doctor-natasha.com/gaps-book.php

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325046

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/978904.Gut_and_Psycho...
Show HN: RaF a Telegram bot for creating referral-based contests written in Rust
I'm not convinced that laziness is really a thing. It seems to me that what we call laziness is more often depression, adhd, fear of failure, or something else.
This article offers nothing of value IMO... because what it's saying is basically that experts will, at some point, fail to see that circumstances have changed and advice that was good in their own "time" is no longer good... however, that's an obvious remark: as another commenter pointed out, people almost always tend to think "this time it will be different" and choose to ignore the experts... I would say more useful advice would be that you do that at your own peril: most of the time, nearly always, the experts will be right... the occasions where things really will be different are rare and far between. Eventually, a lucky kid will do well by ignoring the experts, but only after thousands before them failed doing the same thing.
I sometimes wonder whether your job is to be a full-time dick about Elixir.

It's been years of this nonsense. Let it go.
No, the argument is about the pragmatic criteria used to implement agreed upon principles. Bringing this back to concrete discussion, here is a quote from the Libreboot KGPE page:

> AMD Opteron 6200 series (Fam15h, with full IOMMU support in libreboot - highly recommended - fast, and works well without microcode updates, including virtualization)

> AMD Opteron 6300 series (Fam15h, with full IOMMU support in libreboot. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE - virtualization is broken without microcode updates.

"Avoid like the plague", yet there is little philosophical difference between compromising to trust AMD's 6200 masked microcode, and compromising to trust AMD's microcode update that fixed Spectre on 6300. The main possible distinction is if you want to argue that AMD became less trustworthy in the time between those two releases.

Obviously if AMD releases new microcode for the 6300 going forward, it's a software freedom/security question of whether that microcode should be installed (automatically or even after review). But as it stands, slow changing microcode updates are in the same security/freedom realm as new CPU releases.
A nation is a loosely defined concept popularised at the end of the nineteenth century by the French and German with each a different definitions relating to a mostly fantasied shared history and vague appeal to a common identity and whose usefulness diminishes quickly when it’s not about justifying war and persecution.

Meanwhile what you are talking about is a country: a sovereign legal entity which actually exists.
The Power Grid Is Just Another Casino for Energy Traders
Yes, that's exactly the case. As I previously commented, I used an terms generator, until I get a lawyer, which can write specifically what I do with the data.
Divide and rule. Oldest trick in the book and still works well.
It’s annoying for sure. But, in fairness to those SAAS apps, ”tech”, as recognized by the mass audience, is short for information technology. Meaning conveying knowledge to another person as efficiently as possible. So that lame-sounding SAAS app might really be a small leap forward in transfer of knowledge. Even if the underlying implementation is something a high school student could figure out.
I think we look at this all wrong. Cybersecurity is not only a technology problem but a human problem. We need to spend a lot more resources tracking down the sources of these attacks from a human perspective and treating it like a military/diplomatic issue if stonewalled by foreign governments.

Domestically we need to really increase the punishments for these and other computer crimes and step up enforcement significantly.
Sony used to make a nice mini version of the Xperia, but I guess they discontinued it due to lack of market demand.
> what is dead obvious to anyone who belongs to the group being studied.

I'm in the group and I don't think the specific explanation is obviously true. But I also think that any particular individual in the group may be part of a _particular_ gay community which isn't necessarily representative of all gay men.

I think one could even have reasonably guessed that the opposite effect would dominate; if gay men on average have somewhat less support from their families, both because of actual homophobia, and just because they on average have more older brothers, that it might be harder for them to get to college.

Aside from the "best little boy in the world" hypothesis of overcompensating achievement, I think another one which rings true anecdotally is gay men realizing that they have to find a way to move out of whatever community they were raised in to find an environment which is less repressive or confining.
The "hundreds to bridge" is a worst case figure that most folks would only do if they had to bridge in the midst of a crash and needed to add capital to avoid liquidation on an L2 position.

If you time it right it's more like $40-50. Not great, obviously, but it isn't "hundreds".

And ultimately, the problem goes away when centralized exchanges provide direct on-ramps to L2's -- which is already happening with some smaller exchanges.
> This is not how it works.

That's exactly how it works. That's not how you want it to work, but that's how it plays out in practice. You might want to ideally live in a world where a frictionless public debate occurs and people assess the value of a law and decide democratically whether to follow it, and then follow it whether they like it or nor and adhere to the rule of majority, and ideally I'd agree a democracy should work like this. But how it actually works is people disobey laws they don't like. People smoke weed if they want to, regardless of the legality. That is how it works.

And the reason is because changing laws is not in practice frictionless and the result of majority sentiment. There's inertia, there's entrenched interest, there are deliberate roadblocks to the will of the people put in place by the powerful. Democracy doesn't work as well as you are imagining it should, and people deal with that by giving up on it just a little and making decisions for themselves.

The only convincing argument I require is that if people want to use it they will. I don't need your permission, and frankly I don't care if people take me seriously. I understand this means that democracy will fall apart, but if democracy were working for people as the sales pitch said it would it wouldn't be falling apart in the first place.
Sorry to hear that. :/ I hope you can find help.
I like to say "You never fail, you simply stop attempting to succeed," which is as valid a cat poster phrase as most of them.

The point that it takes courage to admit you've failed and go on to a more likely to succeed effort is one i should recall more often. Perhaps amend the poster.

Of course, some doomed efforts go beyond the pitiful, to the ludicrous, and into the beautiful, inspirational insane category; and those always need nurturing and help, because they often benefit the world.

Someday I'll manage to sneak a stepladder into the giraffe pen.
They haven't recalled them, but fire concerns are real.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/04/tesla-f...
There seems to be no price cap on AD components! Solid stuff at a range of prices. It's sometimes tough to tell what makes the super-expensive ones different. Might be a little extra precision (etc) that's justified in niche cases.
> It is expensive and difficult to protect against security breaches,

No it isn't, it's super cheap and dead simple. What's expensive and difficult is fixing security problems super late in the game. Undoing bad security is hard. Doing it right is really simple.

For example, we have 2FA everywhere at my company. It's 10 people, so that's easy, and it always will be. If we were 2,000 people I'd have to go through hoops and it'd be a whole mess to roll out 2FA everywhere. By using U2F 2FA from day one we've more or less eliminated credential theft as a threat. By disabling app execution we've eliminated malware as a threat.

Right off the bat the vast majority of attacks just don't work, and those were trivial to implement. We do way more than that, and it was all dead simple.

> One small fuckup is sufficient to have the whole thing compromised

It definitely shouldn't be.

Companies flat out do not care, in part because there aren't consequences for not caring. Otherwise they'd do something about it. Even if you're on an older network where you've got AD and garbage like that you can do a lot to improve things.
Glad SOMEONE rolled out the "Gay guys always just be fucking!" canard as a reason for checks notes higher reporting of college degrees. I mean we were all thinking it, right?

Also, you're very much failing to control here: Everyone in your example was in college! Even those hetero dudes you're talking about were likely going to wind up with college degrees.

Also, why wouldn't the gay men be having sex with other gay men? This call out seems weird. Who else would they have sex with? What does this detail provide to your story other than a sense that you seemed to have mentally noted how much sex, and with whom, other people were having?

Assuming your hypothesis is right (and not just a continuation of a stereotype the gay community is constantly dealing with), you have any links to studies that show that people who have more sex get more college degrees? I've got this from 2 seconds of google that would point in literally the opposite direction: https://www.chronicle.com/article/study-finds-more-educated-...
> a right wing hack

He votes for Bernie Sanders.
Also I wonder what happens when a moving part fails and they get stuck with nobody at home ... seems like all it would take is a rat to chew on that cord for a catastrophic failure.
> Failure to pick problems that are relevant for both will result in increased decision making complexity at all levels of the organisation: do we optimise for impact (the environmental problem) or for revenue (the customer’s problem)?

I've been an climate tech entrepreneur for the past 7+ years, and the most reliable way I've found to accomplish the combo viable-business + climate-impact:

1. Get a job at a revenue generating climate-change-fighting company (solar, EVs, policy/regulatory consulting, etc.).

2. Keep your eyes open for pain points that your company (or especially you in your position) would pay money to solve.

3. Quit and start a company solving that pain point (or if you're not the founder-type, go work for a company trying to solve that pain point).

I suppose this kind of strategy would work in many other industries, but it's especially effective in climate tech, because:

(a) As OP mentions, the pain points are very hidden to the general public, so you really need to be actually working inside the industry to find and understand them (since energy often has very complex business models and regulatory constructs).

(b) By focusing on finding pain points for already climate-change-fighting companies and solving them, your impact goals are already built-in, since you're enabling more impact by default. So you don't have to worry as much about finding the magical combo of viable-business + impact.

(c) The climate-change-fighting sector is so young that many of the pain points are still major issues and don't have many viable solutions yet. In other more mature industries, many pain points already have established companies solving them, so there's less of green field for new companies.

Anyway, for people looking to fight climate change, by far the biggest thing you can do is join the industry and make a career out of it. There's so much ceiling here!
That's why I'm pre-committing against the death penalty. Even murderers shouldn't be killed by the state. [1] I invite anyone on the right to join me in this stance - It puts a cap on how bad the consequences for our political positions can get.

[1] There's a bunch of edge cases for self-defense and how to apprehend people. I don't have the time to get into these. Most people know what I mean by "Abolish the death penalty".
> For many people, "Just stop using Microsoft" is about as useful as "Just stop using computers"

For many people, it isn't. All of those people should "just stop using Microsoft."

That not only helps them, it's an act of solidarity with the people who are still stuck. Because then alternatives have more market share and vendors have to support platforms that aren't Microsoft, which helps the stuck people extricate themselves tomorrow.

Do it if you can. Even if it's a little bit of work.
Presumably, people who use Buy Now Pay Later do not qualify for credit cards. Hence the extremely high effective interest rates (referred to as some type of “fee” instead of interest).
Rails 7 Adds from option to ActiveSupport:TestCase#assert_no_changes
We model human attackers all the time, it's probably one of the core components of the role.
This may sound very simplistic but I block all calls that are not in my contacts list on my iPhone.

It directly goes to voicemail and they can leave a message if it's important. Should the message involves anything that I might consider important, I simply call my bank and ask for a follow up.

If it's an absolutely critical matter and I don't call or follow up, the bank will send a letter instead which I can then either call or go to the bank for further inquiries

I do the same thing if I get a suspicious email / text from my bank.

Finally, I never really click the links in the emails because I have my bank's website as a bookmark so I'll just use that.
That "20 pounds" is certainly their base weight--not counting whatever food and water they are carrying. Quite possible with ultralight gear, although a little light in the safety department for my tastes.

26 pairs of shoes between the two of them I actually find surprising--that they used that few.

I'm surprised at the mold--you don't have it sit around all that long, you update whoever is sending them with your location so they know when to send them. There's a limit to how long a post office will hold a package for pickup. And that sort of fare doesn't sound that perishable. I can't imagine beans on the trail, though--they take too much cooking time. Fuel is weight!

(And, no, I've never done any of the great trails, but they certainly sound like an experience. Section hiked in decent weather, not a speedrun like these guys did. I don't think I could handle any of them, though.)
Betting on things that never change (2017)
PFOF is one of those things that sounds obviously sketchy, but in reality it's just a simple consequence of "information is worth money". You're not losing money from payment for order flow—Robinhood can provide both price improvement over the national exchanges and get paid for it. PFOF isn't "coming out of" the bid/ask spread, it's a reflection of the fact that getting more retail users onto the stock market is valuable for those who want to bid against them.
That won’t add pressure to get rid of the TSA. I don’t know what will. I’d support an actually libertarian party at this point. One that did not consider women and black/brown people inferior and did not defer to megacorporations and multibillionaires.
I will say that I'm a huge fan of SlateStarCodex's epistemic status system, where before posts where he is unsure of he will clearly state how far he has gone down the rabbit hole, and such a status would have made for a better blog post, and that such a status would have made your argument less required or more pointed depending on what he put as his status.

At the very least we need to be asking these questions...

1. What has global positive or negative externalities?

2. What has country-level positive or negative externalities?

3. What has local positive or negative externalities?

If you aren't at least asking those questions, you are never going to arrive at the correct level of abstraction. Should we have a World Government? We have global externalities, so probably. What should that government do? As little as required.
> that if it goes wrong it's the end of the friendship, so people seek out people from other circles so as not to ruin a long friendship

This is indeed true, and acrimonious splits aren't that uncommon, but folks also tend to move on, seek other partnerships and look to do better than before.
Nobody chooses software based on reputation.

I guess you didn't live through the "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" era, which later became the "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft" era that seems to be ending.
The Mini has the same cameras as the regular non-Pro iPhones. The extra camera is only part of the Pro lineup
That was the first thing I thought of! Big fan of transit. Seems very similar.
I have both and Touch ID is much more dependable than Face ID. Face ID is convenient but it’s not dependable. There is one case where Face ID is better and that’s when you wear gloves, but often times if it’s cold enough for gloves you may have a scarf or head winter wear on as well which would defeat Face ID.

I feel they are complementary and both should be present so you can decide take my glove off or take my face coverings off.
AMD CDNA 2 Architecture Whitepaper (Instinct Server GPUs) [pdf]
Apple cares about profit margins, not absolute reach
It would be a huge engineering endeavour, which I wouldn't be capable of doing.
That said, things like background noise and some sounds can be removed. See Krisp.ai
If you're paying $40-$50 dollars per trade, how is that "solving the problem of expensive transfers"?
It is neither and it seems appropriate to stick up for the comment you are replying to. It's about as simple of an expression of empathy as can be expressed, to treat it as otherwise reinforces the point.

Take care.
Literally from the linked article: "Hyundai and Kia have the same parent company, however the Kia Niro EV has completely different batteries on board—sourced by a different South Korea–based supplier...". So nothing about Kia's having a recall.

Also Tesla's have caught fire. It's a risk with all EV's.
I used to think the same before I got a car with trinkets. Heated/cooled seats (and heated starting wheel) are very nice on cold/hot days. Safety features like auto-braking and blind spot warnings actually do make you safer. Apple Carplay is great for Google Maps, podcasts, etc. Backup cameras are sooooo nice for parking, as are the audio beeps letting you know how close you are to objects (beeps faster as you get closer) - I can reliably get a few inches from other cars while parallel parking in tight spots, and never hit them.

None of these features are necessary, but they’re really nice.
And this yesterday/today:

Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliability list

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-ranks-almost-dead-...

"issues with “heat pumps, air conditioning” and notoriously, misaligned panels. It’s also worth noting that Tesla’s Model X ranked dead-last among all cars for reliability, scoring a 5 out of 100."

I'm wondering if Elon will lash out on twitter or be mean to elderly folks with all this bad news coming his way.
Nice read, thanks for sharing
The rise and fall of the oligarch-maker
Scientific Aspects of Juggling by Claude Shannon [pdf]
I love the cover of this song on the Repo Man soundtrack
The idea is not that people have their own keys to transfer ownership. The idea is for the registrar have the keys, but not be able to change ownership without public documentation. And there's a big gap between corrupt officials and roving militias.

Here are two more recent articles from The Economist, the first on the general problem (not all of which can be solved with a blockchain) and the second specifically on applying blockchains to the problem.

https://archive.md/9afqO

https://archive.md/yetMv

And if you don't mind a link from Reason, here's one with a specific example of the issue I'm talking about:

> Currently, Honduras stores its title records in a room at the bottom of "dusty stairs" in a "nasty old government building," Factom CEO Peter Kirby said in an interview last year with Reason. Until recently, the room had no door.

> "Anybody could go in, pull down a book, open up the spine, and replace a title record with a new title record," Kirby said. Some government bureaucrats have altered the records to assign themselves beachfront property.

https://reason.com/2016/04/30/bitfury-desoto-blockchain-land...
In the Eastern Europe, in the Carpathian mountains, you can camp almost anywhere on public land and, with the owner's permission, on private land. At least in Romania I never had trouble camping and in the past several campers put their tent in my grandma's yard when I was a kid (it is a mountain region up north). The only problem camping in the wild in Romania is the big number of beasts that can kill you: bears, boars, wolves.

In the Balkans people camp regularly on the side of the road on public lands. I have friends that did it in almost every country in the region on motorcycle tours, so they were camping quite close to roads.