skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where "poor people should subsist on only rice and beans" became a valid idea. Sure, I mean, it's a cheap meal. But it's also boring and soulcrushing to have everyday.

You're also aside the fact that rice and beans takes a good amount of time to prepare, which is a problem if you're working 16 hours a day - making rice takes 30 minutes and that is coming out of your sleep.

But most importantly, only having $4 at a time is how a lot of poor people have to shop. They have $4 today. Maybe they have $4 every work day as a day laborer. But they don't necessarily have $100 at the start of the week to plan everything out.
Not open-source, 3rd-party trackers in the android app, no easily accessible 3rd-party audits (that I can find), an unintuitive UI (no easy 1-button copy, clunky item entry*, etc.), and roughly 1 security incident every 1.5 years.

Are they the worst? No. Are there better ones? Yes.

*The number of people at work which put their username in the URL field is astounding. We also have people saving personal passwords into shared folders without realizing it. This speaks to UI issues.
Privileged access to powerful people probably matters more than the $. I recall Bill Gates got trusted access to IBM decision makers. A recent example is Elizabeth Holmes, where the $ amounts were probably low hundreds of thousands:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/holmes-parents-s...

“The family’s wealth, power and political connections date to the 1890s, when Christian Rasmus Holmes, a Danish immigrant and physician, married Bettie Fleischmann, heiress to the namesake yeast fortune and a Cincinnati socialite with a fondness for Chinese bronzes.” - from NYT article: https://archive.vn/aMCpe

The interesting thing is that the future fortune depended on a “yeast fortune”, i.e. while you might not be born into wealth and power, perhaps your grandchildren or descendants can be.
I’ve seen ads on Facebook for Etizolam ( and other thienodiazepines which are nearly identical in effect to Xanax ) as well as ads for products that contain 4-fluoromethamphetamine and other amphetamines analogs. I took screenshots if anyone is interested. So honestly this doesn’t really shock me at all. Back then it was at least paraphernalia. Now you can find drug suppliers through mainstream ads. Not to mention the plethora of ads for SARMs and other performance enhancing drugs ( to which some of them are actually non regulated anabolic steroids, not SARMs )
Sad to be doing that on the same week that a BLM terrorist killed 5 people with a car.
are there any other working examples of web3 except torrents?
How can I get his traffic for free
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>That's because I feel that it's a deliberate mischaracterization of reality

As I already said before and explained at length, it's a hypothetical example intended to illustrate a principle pertinent to the question of speciesm, in direct response to a comment that was about speciesm. I am not sure what "reality" you feel is being mischaracterized by directly speaking to an issue raised by the commenter. I honestly can't make heads or tails of what you are trying to say is being mischaracterized here.

>when the topic of harmful farming practices is the primary focus, why did we deflect to "well, what about if a building was on fire?" Where are you getting that?

There was no "deflection" from one topic to another. "The topic" was not one thing, but a couple of different things that are intertwined: farming that segued into a monolog on speciesm, and I was responding to the latter piece, although my response has implications for both. In direct response to that, I have put forward a hypothetical that illustrates a case that runs contrary to the idea of speciesm as being about creatures "deserving suffering". All I can say is that I am sorry that something that speaks directly to that question confuses you.

I'll repeat my question to you: how did you read "save humans from fire before mice" and take that to mean something along the lines of "therefore, disregard harms of farming practices?"

>your conflation of giving animals a higher moral value than humans; that still stands.

This is pretty incoherent to me. I would love to at least be able to understand and express a disagreement here, but I don't know what conflation you think has occurred.

So yeah, you haven't engaged with the point I've raised despite it being perfectly relevant, and you've expressed surprise, feeling that my point is off topic, which I feel is spurious. And you're saying a few things are being "mischaracterized" or "conflated" and I'm not sure what specifically you are talking about.
I used to use quite a few plugins in Winamp, as well. In particular, I always needed a gapless playback plugin in 2.x. Been so long since I've regularly used Winamp, I don't recall what other kinds I used, but I do know I typically used several. I probably had several visualization plugins, as well, particularly back when I was in college and would have friends over in the dorm. Music on in the background, visualization full screen.
Clash is not HLS. You have full control of register placement and pipelining just like VHDL and Verilog. Clash in that sense is not "higher level" then VHDL or Verilog. In some respects you could even say that Clash is "lower level" because you don't write things just right to be inferred correctly. You actually specify what hardware you want. E.g. you write I want a blockram with this size here, and not if I write this specific Verilog the tools will infer a blockram.

What Clash gives you is the power and tooling of Haskell.
Offtopic, but learnings is such a weird word. It reads like a plural noun and if it is, then what would the singular version be?
> How hard is it to do a quick google search before declaring obvious falsehoods?

Where did you find a falsehood? In my statement that Metal runs on iOS devices? Or in my jab (not a fact) that it's probably more than devices that support Vulkan?

> How is it that you have time to write all this but not time to even bother reading the linked comment?

Let me quote that comment for you and split it into byte-sized chunks

--- start quote ---

...you can't just have a Vulkan-only implementation.

There's plenty of old computers that don't support Vulkan.

PlayStation doesn't support Vulkan - better use GNM, GNMX, and PSSL.

Xbox only uses DirectX, which has both high and low-level variants, no Vulkan there.

iOS is Metal only again.

You could use Vulkan on the Nintendo Switch, but NVN is faster and the preferred method.

You might get away with just Vulkan if you were targeting only Windows, Linux, and Android on hardware that isn't more than roughly 5-6 years old.

Outside of the PC, Vulkan isn't really that broadly-supported.

--- end quote ---

Now. Who of us read the comment, and who of us read and understood the comment?

Edit:

So:

- About 3 billion consumer devices that don't have and will never have Vulkan support (Apple devices, Playstations, Xboxes)

- Another billion or so that run Windows where the main graphics API is DirectX, and Vulkan is provided not by the OS manufacturer, but by third parties (GPU vendors). And a large chunk of those are also PCs that will never get Viulkan support (because hardware doesn't support it, or the OS is out fo date etc.)

- A full third of Android devices don't support Vulkan, and never will

But yeah. Apple must support Vulkan because ... reasons?
The cheapest grid for the last two decades has been renewables for when the weather is optimal and fossil fuels when it is not. It is significant cheaper compared to renewables + storage or nuclear. A climate conferences doesn't really effects the conclusion unless governments start to add enough costs on the fossil fuel side so that one of the other solutions becomes economical viable, and clearly most countries are not willing to do that yet.

Pledges doesn't mean anything.
Generally yes. The people I've hung out with while they were doing coke were pushy, mildly aggressive, and would just. not. shut. the. fuck. up. Being sober around cokeheads is not a pleasant experience.

That said, I did coke once(well, twice, but I'm pretty sure the second time was foot powder). It was absolutely serene. I felt crystal clear, dialed in, and perfectly zen. I didn't have a desire to talk, but to just observe. I felt like I had the hearing of a cat. Then again, I probably have unmedicated ADHD. No commercial stimulants have ever made me feel like that though.
The question by winrid on scaling authz would be interesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323287
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Indeed, we all have to prioritize, based on carefully-chosen values and purpose for life. I linked to some details and previous discussions in a previous cmt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266094#29269429
JSON is too “lossy” to use automatically.
thanks a lot for the info!
> It's not like you need very much of it very often

You never drove an old hooptie, like I did in my early years!
I also share this doubt, however I can believe that people who are wealthy but not wall street types, have moved on to pills like MDMA etc.

There's a difference between wealthy-wealthy and wealthy-enough to retire early and live like a 19-year-old until they "retire" properly: The latter category I would imagine is not the kind to do Coke on holiday versus some pills.
If you find this interesting, I cannot recommend Philip Hoare's "Albert and the Whale" (mentioned in the article as well) highly enough -- the best work yet by a great writer: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Albert-and-the-Whale/...
There is nothing wrong with literally conspiracy theories when literal conspiracies are likely.
QuickDraw from ElevationLab
>lab-leak or not - Covid is China's fuckup?

If lab leak is confirmed, depending on how deep you want to root out those who are responsible, then much of the virology community from US and those who fund them are equally to blame, if not more. There is no "Chinese Science" or any country-specific brand of science in the world nowadays, there is just Science. And in both methodologies/techniques and funding, much Science leads back to the US.
It seems many laws are written in the hopes everyone just agrees, but secretly hoping it is never challenged in court. The easiest hurdle put in place is standing in legal terms. That's one bit I have trouble with how laws are challenged is that if a bad law is enacted, it should be able to be challenged immediately through courts to knock it back vs having to wait for the first person to be directly affected by the law to also have the means to mount the legal challenge.
Not necessarily. Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary Project' describes a way you can get the best of both worlds: don't make a full ring, but spin two objects separated by cables.

Split the initial station into two stations with a large number of cables connecting them securely. Now on your calculator, put in a 70m radius and a gravity of only 0.3g. All green dots.

But how do you get between the halves?" you ask? I think there's a simple answer to that: have cables complete the circle. A small car riding those cables can carry you around the radius. Then over time, you add more cells until the circle is complete!
Could you explain more? Because this sounds like it should be very illegal. My understand is that shares represent partial ownership of the company. So what gives one set of shareholders the right to reduce others' ownership share?

In fact, why don't the boards of all companies do this? Devalue everyone else's shares so they become the sole owners?
What advantage would this have over a middleware that implements this logic as a lambda?
Assuming there was a lab leak, the root cause to me would seem to be organizations overestimating the benefit from GOF research compared to the risks. Why that happened is a bit harder to answer. A couple potential explanations are a leak was actually a one in a million chance (this seems unlikely given past issues)[1], there is some extreme benefit we just haven't seen yet (also seems somewhat unlikely) or organizations are likely to accept risks if it means everyone gets to keep their jobs and grants keep coming in.

How to fix that problem is difficult, as gain of function research is complicated and obscure enough to be off the radar of most people until something goes wrong, so questioning scientific orthodoxy is somewhat impossible for the average person. I'm not sure what can be done about it, other than those with respectable credentials advocating for transparency and and regular people maintaining a healthy sense of curiosity.

[1]https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=837679
Pretty sure the idea of financing groceries, or common daily/weekly expendables isn't a very good one.
I need this data, too. My 71-year-old father had a mild case last year and is refusing the vaccine.
I don't understand the problem with affiliate links, esp in this case. Wirecutter's recommendations, budget pick, and also great items are often all through Amazon, which as the largest online retailer isn't suprising.

It isn't like they're recommending some brand over another because Amazon pays them for the click-through traffic. I don't see the kickback connection here.

That said, I largely like Wirecutter recs - but also do external research. When those things align I've almost always been very happy with my purchase.
> Put another way, if it was someone HN liked,

I'm sure no one reads TSLA EULAs either.
I think that's what's interesting about "blockchains" versus on specific chain.

1. polygon is a cheap(as in transaction fees) knock off of Ethereum, competition good. bad from the perspective of capture value in the protocol.

2. as far as I can tell as long as one oracle doesn't become dominate that provides competition

3. Defi is enabling users value across other networks. uniswap, etc.

4. On a side note, not sure why there's not an api that encrypts an nft on ipfs and only returns the watermarked version unless you send it a fee. or your the owner.
This is amazing and creepy at the same time!
This is a part of crypto I do not fully grasp. How much power do the developers vs the miners have over the direction of the project?

What happens if the devs go crazy and decide to eg. Ban transactions smaller than $1M worth of coins in code.

Someone made the point the other day that miners might not fancy this PoS change because they’re heavily invested in equipment.
> 50 years from now if someone is doing software archaeology and they go to install some software from a long gone company, who does clicking the button form an agreement with? Will it be legal to try that software? Can existing software companies list people they have click-through agreements with? These things seem like a bad joke in practical terms.

I mean, this seems pretty easily addressed:

I can't sign a contract with a dead company, can I? Well, literally I can, but the agreement wouldn't be binding.

Same applies here. Unless the entity still exists, in which case congratulations, you're in a binding agreement lol
They may not have the space for a barrel of Pine-sol either.
If this is ruled in Apple's favor, can that be a stepping stone to allow NSO to be charged with aiding in murder?
Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

I'm quite cynical about this press release. The key point in the title is that Apple are cool with state-sponsored spyware, it's just abuse of it that bothers them. Also why did they wait so long to file this. I don't think it's because they lacked evidence until now. Perhaps they think such a lawsuit will is now expected of them otherwise they will lose face, and that they have the general backing of the public now. I remember some months ago showed that Apple already had grounds to sue for copyright infringement. Either way, Apple is stepping into a political minefield. Buy popcorn and expect fireworks. Big ones.
Looking at "India's first crypto Unicorn" you wouldn't know that government is planning to block anything.

https://coindcx.com
Great job with this. Very nice overview.
Because people get polarized and are incapable of nuance.

It's important to remember what some of the lab leak theories have said:

- that it is a engineered bioweapon

- that it is genetically altered to contain parts of HIV

- that it was intentionally released during the 2019 military games

Once in a camp it is difficult to accept nuance.
There's also the time cost and, in the case of Costco, membership cost. Plus the general lack of knowledge of all of the above.

With $100 perhaps I could walk into Costco and get huge quantities of maybe 1/4 of what I need in a given week, and because I bought it at Costco instead of Dollar Tree those items will last me two months instead of a week. But now I have to go to Dollar Tree anyway and that's hard because I work 6 days a week and Costco is really far away because I live in a rural town where even a Walmart is at least 20 minutes away.

It's of course smarter to take the 20 minute drive to Walmart and save even there, but if I'm rural and uneducated I probably don't know that and assume that the per unit price at Dollar Tree is roughly the same as Walmart.
Amazon's never-ending fake reviews problem, explained
N.L. justice minister confirms health-care employee info stolen in cyberattack
Indeed, we all have to prioritize, based on carefully-chosen values and purpose for life. I linked to some details and previous discussions in a previous cmt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266094#29269429

Edit: I think the coach John Wooden said like "The trouble with all the good new books, is they keep us from reading all the good old books." Value and newness are orthogonal. I wrote more about that too, at my web site about maturity models (in profile, then under "life lessons" etc. Nothing for sale.
It’s mostly the prospect of being a poor grad student for 6 years that’s disheartening
>When do we fork Firefox because Mozilla is a failure at their job?

You mean like https://www.palemoon.org/ , https://www.waterfox.net/ , https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ , etc, or something different?
I know the UK has "Poundland" from watching Big Clive videos.
Or you can do the real deal.

Aren't futures dependent on storage capacity anyway?

Like at some point at scale, it's got to be better to do the physical rather than contract equivalent.
I am not a native speaker, so this definitely might not even be a proper word :). Some discussion about it here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/396140/is-there-...
Very unfortunate. I've appreciated Lockwise for syncing between desktop and mobile. The FF mobile Android app has been a hot mess since at least last summer when their UX update rolled out.

I so want to support Mozilla but their moves always seem to be anti-power user. Oh well.

Any recommendations? I'm looking at NordPass but would love to hear about other alternatives.
Painters painted the textures. There's some simple lighting on top when necessary, but it's mostly old school hand painted textures. People have gotten used to viewing productions that use math (shaders) to emulate paintings and/or reality, which are incredible in their own right. But this is simply a team of extremely talented painters, who are masters of light, tasked with painting 3D models and tweaking textures per scene.
Of course dollar store socks don't last as long as nicer ones but (I haven't run the numbers) they may very well still be the cheapest (or damn close) on a per day of use basis.

The cheapest things being the most cost effective uncommon for goods that are consumable due to long term wear and tear. You need to actually run the analysis for any given class of product.
You are extrapolating very tight Israeli state control of the Israeli arms industry (very true) to very tight US state control of the Israeli arms industry, which is not actually how the relationship works.

The US has influence over Israeli sales of Israeli-made arms, but this is costly to exert and only used sparingly. Historically, it's restricted to preventing Israeli arms sales to direct US rivals like China or Russia. When Israel sells guns to dictatorships in Africa or Southeast Asia that the US doesn't like, the Americans are perfectly willing to agree to disagree.

EULAs and other civilian contractual arrangements are important here because these weapons were used against US civilians and US civilian property. When Soltam howitzers kill villagers in Myanmar, the US executive branch doesn't give a damn; but as soon as a US corporation (Apple) has to pay for warranty returns the courts wake up and pay attention.
> I don't know of any legitimate security research group that hacks user accounts they don't own.

nit: "user accounts to which they're not authorized"

I work with friends' accounts all the time provided they authorized me to do so and provided I'm permitted to do so as part of the vuln disclosure program terms and rules of engagement, though I usually split the bounty with them in a meaningful way to make it worth their while.
"We have no clue how our software works, so we will sue you".

It's a disaster from any point of view. Also ineffective.

They could easily designate not 10M, but 100M for bug bounties and simply solve their problems.
I always kept mine under {first letter}/{artist}/{album}/ Where "first letter" in, say, "the Beatles" would be "B", not "T". I had a separate folder where artists that started with a digit would go. Another folder for the occasional glyph. e.g. µ-Ziq.
It's usually a greater-than decade old vehicle, common in the early-mid 2000's. Luxury cars (especially American luxury cars) have a trend of being extremely inexpensive to purchase compared to other vehicles when the age vs. their original price.

For example, a similar year Toyota, Subaru, or pre-CVT Nissans will hold higher values than equivalent American brand vehicles, with some exceptions.
Completely off topic but as someone who had to do something equivalent in an European country you can eat well for less than 40$ a week if you know how to cook.

Buying a whole chicken is far less expensive that buying cuts and is a cheap source of meat. You can make good stock from the bones. Vegetables at the end of their shelf life are often substantially marked down and you can often freeze what you cook with them (sauce and curry for exemple). Rice is very cheap, polenta too. Fresh pasta are easy to make and delicious as are homemade tortillas. Eggs are only 16c a piece. Fresh garlic and ginger are not too expensive and with a small selection of spices and soy sauce they will go a long way in making things better. Then, you can somewhat easily grow basil, parsley, thymes and cilantro on a window sill.

Olive oil and butter were the only expensive product I used to buy but a little goes a long way.
From Facts(C),

"60. Defendants force Apple to engage in a continual arms race: Even as Apple develops solutions and enhances the security of its devices, Defendants are constantly updating their malware and exploits to overcome Apple’s own security upgrades.

61. These constant recovery and prevention efforts require significant resources and impose huge costs on Apple. Defendants’ unlawful malware activities have caused and continue to cause Apple significant damages in excess of $75,000 and in an amount to be proven at trial."

Hopefully the judgement is able to split the hairs between reputational and development harm to a company for security vulnerabilities, and harm to users for organized exploitation of those vulnerabilities.

The former feels like it should be free speech -- statement of facts related to the company's product(s). The latter is an obvious wrong.