skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that is because the government has come to accept that the US will be required to rely on fossil fuels for decades to come

no state or federal goals for renewables are even remotely achievable, particularly as energy demands grow over time

and NYT readers can pound sand, they are in the 1% of global energy consumers
What is it that conservatives are not able to say on Twitter due to restrictions?
They bought instagram long before they were a proven success. They were instrumental in making instagram a successful business. its not clear that insta would be what it is today without fb.

> But why didn't the FTC intervene

The US did review the case, and determine that insta was not a risk. Its easy in hindsight to say that its obviously a miss, but again, we don't actually know that insta would be big today if it wasn't for the fb resources and industry knowledge they brought.

> Which gave them MUCH more control in the advertising market.

What market share do they have in advertising? Like a number, because between Google, and Amazon, and all the other major networks (oracle, adobe, msft, apple, etc) i can't imagine its so high they can exert a dominating force.

> I expect boomers and the like to not understand this

I'm young and love to disparage old people and the internet, but really age is not an indicator of people understanding things, even the internet. Plenty of boomers "get it", and maybe get business more than some hn commenters... ;)

> but to hear "facebook isn't a monopoly" on HN is fascinating

Review the source linked. It explains clearly that fb doesn't have a dominant market share. Thats what a monopoly is. Its a very HN source.

> How else do you describe the centralisation of the internet via Google and Facebook? Innovation? Really? Despite all the evidence in leaks and statements?

1 ) this is quite an emotional response, that does nothing for the legal basis of a monopoly. Emotional responses are fine, centralization can be scary, but its not a legal response.

2) I wouldn't call it innovation per se, nor would i call it good, per se. BUT i wouldn't call it monopoly either.

aside, i wonder if the internet is really "centralizing" resulting in fewer locations online, or if some locations have just grown so much bigger than others - are there fewer nodes in the graph over time, or did some nodes just grow a lot more.

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Also, not to nit-pick but...

1. Whats app does not collect much user data, so it doesn't really help the "we make money off your data" argument.

2. Using a fb site does not mean you can't use other social networks. They don't compete in a "rivalrous" way - meaning using insta doesn't stop you from using tikTok or youtube or any other network in addition to fb.
Dependency inference: Fine-grained caching and concurrent builds for the JVM
Nice! I'm trying to "solve" the game in my own way (using the minimum amount of buildings necessary) and this will come in handy.

I've been in need of a diagram app, where you can calculate resources, but they're all outdated now, if anyone has one to recommend.
Vizio, as a public company, now has to share their ad revenue data:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/11/10/22773073/vi...
How the Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer
Is there any published information available yet about what the major differences are from the third edition?
I couldn't find much so I posed the question on quora:
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-major-differen...
Only showing people code and compile might be sad, but what about the drama that ensues when it happens in a team of diverse individuals …
Hard to put a price on safety of your family.

Hank Williams’ daughter died in a Tahoe and my thought at the time was: someone like that, why weren’t they in a Model Y?

Later found out they were towing a boat. Choices.
"at a time when the world is becoming less reliant on coal"

No, we aren't becoming less reliant on coal. We should be but we aren't. Look at [1]. We actually consume more coal, oil and gas each and every year.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
I think the important idea is that with the British gone English is a neutral language not owned by any one group within India
Bitcoin. He's not a crypto supporter
My theory is that companies that manufacture soil amendments are the prime mover behind all of the room and gloom of climate change, specifically the need to reduce atmospheric carbon.

Plants used to be heavier and squatter, and usable material would have been greater, back when the atmosphere was closer to 2000ppm CO2. That is, realistically, and actually, plants get all of their food from the air, and soil amendments make it easier for the plants to grow tall/wide enough to get more usable sun and surface area to get their food out of the air.

Ask anyone who's ever tried CO2 with plants what happens to their fertilizer budget. It goes down, because plants are carbohydrate factories, and more carbon means more carbohydrates.

I'm off in the weeds, but cui Bono is something I ask of nearly everything and other than the carbon credit companies and all the people employed therein, who benefits from less CO2 financially? The Bayer/Monsanto and Dow of the world. Not me or you, not the oil companies, not a Rockefeller or whoever.
You can just pump it back into the municipal water supply from the comfort of your own home (or better yet, someone else’s). You may need to work around a backflow preventer but that’s not too difficult.
I have an LG NanoCell. It has "smart" features, but you don't have to set any of it up and it doesn't nag you to do so. It runs WebOS because that's how it runs the UI for the remote, which you need to change inputs. Yeah, it has a bunch of other whiz-bang features but like I said, I don't have any of that setup. I'm happy that it's content to let me use it as a dumb TV and stay out of my way.
Or numactl, the latter is where this really starts to make a lot of sense. The perf improvements of keeping individual threads/processes pinned to a small core group (say sharing a L2 cache on Arm machines) tend to be fairly trivial in comparison to what happens when something gets migrated to a different numa node with a large latency to the memory/resident cache data.
Well, I suppose you can examine gun crime statistics in the rest of the world and see that the US gun death numbers per capita cause of death are higher than anywhere except failed states and war zones. Do I need to cite this obvious state of affairs? I can if this part is really in doubt.

Control is largely possible where there is a political will, case in point being Australia and their rather sudden shift and it’s rather obvious results. Deaths from all guns, legal and otherwise, are down, due to concerted efforts to remove guns from circulation.

I propose that groups like the NRA have fetishized an absurd interpretation of the second amendment.

Here is the second amendment in its entirety:

“ A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”

This in no way establishes a uncontrollable right for every citizen to own an arm. The phrase “well regulated militia” can be argued to death but there is no denying the well regulated part.

We live in a time where fancy legal experts and corrupt Supreme Court justices feel inclined to ignore the literal text of our constitution and insist upon erudite legal interpretations that make a mockery of language itself. That some dare to call themselves conservative is a slap in the face to our heritage.

What to say, legalese was always intended first and foremost as clear precise language, not as a gatekeeper hurdle or occupational shibboleth.
Spending potentially a couple hundred dollars to grow a couple dollars worth of spices is a big ask.
According to current roadmap, they will remain independent of core. This is partly because it allows for experimentation and competition and partly because different rollups may have unique features and tradeoffs. For example, one could imagine a privacy focused rollup or even a corporate rollup (maybe VISA could operate its own rollup) which might have additional requirements to participate. The tech is also very new at this stage, in particular with regards to zero knowledge rollups that operate on zkProofs. We don't really know what the limits of zk technology are, and it's best to allow for multiple competitors to experiment and try different approaches out.

The nice thing about rollups is that although they trade-off some centralization for scale, you can always escape hatch to layer 1 by posting a fraud proof of validity proof and your funds are secured by L1.

Eventually rollups will begin to decentralize themselves, as is the plan for some of the most promising rollups such as StarkNet and zkSync. Right now the sequencers and provers are operated by the founders of these organizations, but they will split these off into a federated network over the next year.
Well, that's obviously a comment made in "bad faith". People who advocate for censorship should not be tolerated in the public square.
Apple doesn't have the technical imagination to spend the cash it has on hand in the fashion Elon Musk and his talented C-suite teams have. Give Apple the last 10-years todo-over and they still fail to achieve half a Tesla or a quarter SpaceX or an eighth Starlink. The three combined? No frickin way. Apple's billions and billions of dollars will likely get spreadsheeted to the legal and accounting departments.
The system in my apartment specifically calls out cooling recovery, but maybe that's not standard
How is that different from "web1"? Do you think that the internet became a mainstream thing just because the suits looked at what the nerds were doing and thought "oh, this is cool!" or do you think that they were attracted to it when they saw the chance of making big money?

How is that different from "web2.0"? Do you think that "the web as an application platform" and "freemium SaaS" because of the technical superiority of the web, or because all the money in Silicon Valley needed a place to go, and it ended going to repackage every already-existing utility as a web application, and later on as a mobile app?

Yeah, so a bunch of people now are hyping "web3" and quite likely they are doing it as an attempt to make money out of it. Just like every other industry from our modern globalized society.
>Never enter menus. Never update the OS. Never agree to anything. Never let the TV "phone home." Never set up wifi. Never connect a CAT5 to it. Set the input using the remote and forget it. Treat it as a dumb monitor. Computer is connected to the net, TV is not and has no way to access it.

so, are there any TVs where this is not possible? For example as part of turning on there is a setup procedure that makes it phone home and connect to wifi? If so (I wouldn't know but I would expect because natural cynicism) then the question naturally becomes what TVs is what you suggest actually possible on.

on edit: I see jiveturkey just posted that in fact what I suspect would be the case of difficulty to keep it from connecting is often the case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29383963
Anything that requires a network connection should be returned, period.
For users in the US, Sceptre.com has a good catalog of "dumb" TVs; unfortunately it seems we don't have anything similar in the EU.

Look also for used signage monitors; they're built for heavy work, from 18/7 to 24/7, and used ones would last more than new consumer TVs anyway. Be aware however that some of them have already been plagued by Android and other "smart" features.
Samsung has however some smart models using the Tizen OS, which is Linux based and potentially more open to hacking if compared to Android.
Totally valid. Don’t buy a keyboard for someone who likes keyboards unless you REALLY know what they want. Don’t buy technology for a technologist unless you really get where they are and want to be next.

I agree on non tech things. I really enjoy the physical hobbies that need focus but not thought. Tasks my body can just do with finger knowledge. (Making ammo for example requires total focus but no decision making)

Tools:
I recently encountered a really nice 1/4” mini driver from Felo. Someone should make a novelty gift socket set containing only 10mm sockets.

Gearwrench wrenches are very nice, flexhead if you’re feeling flush (make sure you know if your geek needs metric or imperial)
I'm extremely skeptical, because I've heard claims of silicon lasers for a long time but it never materialized.

Also the article seems to plug unrelated scientists with vague affiliations to the University and a weird political spin to the whole thing regarding the author's home country's relationship with the US... despite it not being a US university.

Weird.
Does the author realize that the “Trump as god emperor” thing is itself a satirical leaning-into of the left’s belief that Trump was fascist dictator?
Metrics for the Unmeasurable
Anyone who has ever actually worked on OSS or just hangs out in ANY support channel/forum for open source will see that users are endlessly demanding, need lots of support, but will never, ever pay for anything if a free alternative exists.

Linus and the “gamers” will compare and try distros, point out tiny flaws, judge developer team strength but the one thing they will almost never, ever do is _pay money_. Even the nicest folks try their best, ask for support politely but they typically will not or cannot pay, and cannot contribute to a project beyond a solid bug report in most cases.

Linux OSS fanboys also are allergic to paying for software. God forbid someone charges a dollar for a useful application on a linux distro. Elementary OS is trying to inch towards payment with a “pay what you want” model because developers and teams actually charging for their labor would piss off 99% of the users. They may talk about the virtues of open source but what 95% of (non-technical) users love about open source is the fact that its FREE.

Kovid Goyal, creator of Calibre & Kitty gets ~$3000/month on Patreon for software used by millions that he’s built and supported for a decade now. How much does Amazon make on the Kindle instead? Tens or hundreds of millions? This isn’t a case of an evil corporate company not paying for OSS either, its just people who like to read.

We could end the Chrome hegemony tomorrow if Firefox was realistically able to charge for a browser, hire folks and not get completely dropped by their userbase. I hang out in the Firefox chats and fixed a bug once. Like most OSS, “community driven” basically means ~1000 people are actually willing and able to contribute to the project in some capacity. The rest is freeloaders, even if they happen to have good intentions. Google figured out an indirect way to get compensated for what they build because they too know users will not pay for a browser, or a search engine, or maps, or cloud storage, or photos, or news or everything else Google just gives us for free. As developers we could help solve this problem too - simply work for Mozilla negotiate a lower salary if you feel so strongly.
Do you have examples to share? From what I've seen of posts taken down and/or accounts banned it seems to be people spewing severe vitriol - and that's on both sides.
Here's the original full text study link.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/11/4047/htm

It looks interesting but I'm concerned that they describe hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as "anti-virals". While some doctors attempted to use those medications to treat COVID-19, they were never confirmed to have any significant anti-viral effect. So that leads me to question the quality of the peer review process.

This other site has a fairly complete index of other studies on vitamin D and COVID-19. Taken as a whole there's pretty strong evidence that vitamin D deficiency is a serious risk factor. There's a real causative relationship; it's more than just a correlation with other risk factors like advanced age and obesity.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
That's in the latest version.

It's an inefficient use of computing resources, but necessary for security, mostly because of Spectre.
A stadium?
The big issue is that it literally knows nothing - there is no reference to a model of the real world such as humans use when thinking about the real world. It is a very advanced pattern matching parrot, and in using words like a parrot, knows nothing about what those words mean.
Hi! I did a lot of the work in Pants that enabled this, and I'm happy to take any questions about the post, or about how it works so far.
The 1918 flu epidemic arguably still persists to this day:

> What’s even more remarkable about the 1918 flu, say infectious disease experts, is that it never really went away. After infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919 (a third of the global population), the H1N1 strain that caused the Spanish flu receded into the background and stuck around as the regular seasonal flu.

> But every so often, direct descendants of the 1918 flu combined with bird flu or swine flu to create powerful new pandemic strains, which is exactly what happened in 1957, 1968 and 2009. Those later flu outbreaks, all created in part by the 1918 virus, claimed millions of additional lives, earning the 1918 flu the odious title of “the mother of all pandemics.”

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/1918-...
Share your insight.
The difference for me has always beem that Twitter is organized by person rather than by topic. In some ways that's good if I'm following someone because I care about them personally, but usually I follow people because I'm interested in a particular aspect of their work like art or announcements. In those cases, I don't want to hear about their political opinions or what their child did that week. I know you can follow topics as well, but that often seems overwhelming and imprecise. Social media as a platform is just incredibly confusing in the way it blurs the line between performer and audience.
Yes, they must have! Or perhaps they converted automatically somehow.
Choosing a board game is different than choosing a beverage, because you need opponents to play. If the places you would go to find other players are full of people you don't want to interact with, this may mean you have to give up on the game.
the tweet came a few hours after CNBC leaked it, what I had posted on HN was the original article, it was changed with the tweet after the fact by some mod here.

My comment dates from when we didn't have a tweet or any info, no one knew who the next ceo of twitter was, simply the rumour (not even confirmed news) that jack had left. no one knew, Twitter PR was refusing reporter questions and NYSE had to stop trading until the situation settled
How the Art Market Shows Us to Ourselves in All Our Staggering Greed
Cars have too many features.

And I don't mean this in a, "I'm a luddite and wish cars were simple" type of way. I seriously think the number of controls on a vehicle (and burden of the owners manual) is so great that it is causing safety issues.

My car has more controls for the lights alone than my first vehicle had for everything. Literally.

"Automatic" features like headlights were supposed to make us safer, but I think that is backfiring as it is causing cognitive overload and making people complacent.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can also try searching for "please by:dang"
12,638 km - Distance from Johannesburg to Boston

13,558 km - Distance from Johannesburg to Atlanta

I had to look it up to believe it
The problem is of course, he won't ever do that consistently. Instead he will simply decide that people he doesn't personally like a "lying" and "spreading misinformation", whilst people who are powerful or who he does like, never do.

Consider that if Twitter censored everyone who believed a lie or fabrication, every public health person who claimed masks didn't work and then that they did, would all lose their Twitter accounts or be hidden. Guess what, they will never do that.

Thus it is reasonable to interpret their use of the word "healthy" to be "heavily left wing biased".
Billionaires are toxic to democracy.

How are we supposed to stand up to these people? They can out-spend everyone to buy all the news organizations they want, and then pay them to pump out propaganda.

While we are arguing about pronouns they continue to pump out carbon emissions and make sure the money keeps flowing for oil companies.
Lots of things will need to happen, I agree.

One thing that is happening is that social media is escalating the problem so much that its becoming visible to everyone, which in turn will increase the demand to do something about information quality (including defining what it is or is not). This seems to be already in progress.

Another thing I'm hoping for is that we can get NLU that is advanced enough to detect and elevate great quality material (both from research but also from educational perspective) that can successfully counteract "yellow journalism" and misinformation. We could combine this with NLU that can detect common techniques that take advantage of flaws in our reasoning abilities.

I'm actually optimistic this may be possible now. I also suspect it won't be necessary to go against free speach to achieve this.
Any press release that evokes a response of "oh yeah, my master he already has one and it's very nice-ahhh" is probably heavy on hype and light on substance.
Using the footer Contact link lets the mods know about these things much sooner than they might notice otherwise. I see they’ve already found this anyways, but duly noted.
Regarding playtime, rats love to be tickled. There are many videos available out there showing it. It really opened my eyes to what was going on in a rat's brain that they would enjoy "pretend goring" by their caretaker and found it enjoyable.
I believe that this is a new version of Winamp, there have been some talks about a relaunch https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329258-winamp-prepares...

Considering there are some references to cloud https://web.archive.org/web/20210418220750/https://github.co... I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's new.
> Instead of fiddling with options and themes, your focus is strictly on writing and publishing content.

> FAQ (e.g. themes, command line options, support)

Just saying.

In the long term I suspect Md2blog will evolve to be little different to Jekyll.
Hoover dam & Central Valley aqueducts come to mind…
The statement, "just don't connect it to the network" still stands. If something requires a connection, return it. It's clearly anti-consumer and will do nefarious things (which we already know Samsung does).
This isn't an AEAD, it's just AE.

AEAD implies the support for additional Authenticated Data (AD); this is just Encrypt-them-MAC, which is a good construction for authenticated encryption, but it's not AEAD (by definition).

If you want an AEAD, I designed one based on ChaCha20 and BLAKE3 as a proof-of-concept a while ago: https://github.com/soatok/experimental-caead

The important details:

1. You need to split a single key into 2 distinct keys (1 for [X]ChaCha, 1 for BLAKE3).

2. You need a canonical way to feed the ciphertext and AAD into BLAKE3.

3. You need to ensure your MACs are compared in constant-time.

The GitHub repository I linked above does all this.
Hackers Steal FIFA 21 Source Code, Tools in EA Breach
Some people think that a self driving car needs to perform just well enough to meet some average metric at which point its shortcomings are considered justified. Would you drive with a human that could fail so spectacularly? As least they can rationalize their decision. My opinion is this: we're missing something big. Current weak AI strategies may be sufficient in some domains, but until the essence of consciousness can be defined, general AI (and AI I would trust my life with) is out of the question.
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