skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't stand most modern media, the only way it's tolerable is by watching at 2x speed.
The monopolization of the market has been much worse here in Germany.

Delivery Hero controls everything, and you can tell. Nonexisting support, double charges if you happen to break their frontend (no nonces here), addresses, phone numbers and emails leaking to spammers without any consequences or even acknowledgement. (I only know this because I use unique data)

Please consider cutting these services out of your transactions, or at least the ones that are too big to care about consumers or providers having a good experience.
30%. Thirty freakin percent. Plus a delivery fee. And they can't turn a profit? That's not a business model that can be fixed by optimizing some conversion rate or efficiency factor by any reasonable percentage.
Nit: the preferred abbreviation is Fx or fx, instead of ff. See FAQ 8 on https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
Some people like clicking on Google shopping links etc.
There are plenty of people in Mexico that have that kind of disposable income. Fewer than in the US, sure, but Mexico is a rich country by global standards and its wealth is very unequally distributed.
In this context it means listening to music and writing it down in music notation.
What standards are pawnshops held to?
Genuinely interesting observation.

From a design perspective, that's probably the case. E.g., the other objectives cannot be otherwise achieved.

From a moral primacy perspective, though, I'd say not. Serving the interests of the owner/operator first would be the initial moral requirement, the others follow from that.

I'd suggest that Aral might also want to consider another famous set of Three Laws proposed by I.A. (not to be confused with A.I).

There are some additional suggestions in the Mastodon thread:

https://ar.al/2021/12/18/the-three-laws-of-personal-devices/
I found this a good overview of the history/current status of Java logger libraries https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2020-06-12-logging-in-clojure-...
> anything that might be relevant to analyzing news in general

I am curious to know what you mean by that ?
Most news (geopolitics, economic indicators, natural disasters, etc.), no. Read it only if you enjoy it.

However, I think one type of news is essential: that about what your government is doing. Are legislators being led by lobbyists? Are regulators captured by big business? Are politicians breaking promises without good reasons?

Following this, and voting accordingly, is necessary for democracy to function.
"killer robots will be programmed with geographic areas within which they are allowed to kill things."

What about sensor jamming or confusing? How to make sure, it is in the right "kill" area?

And if you designate a zone as free to kill everything, you might as well nuke the area.
Typically the beam has to fit where it needs to go. A lighter beam doesn’t mean you have room for a bigger one.
> Observe yourself a bit more.

This sounds really condescending, Please lets don't do this here. Everybody is free to have exactly the dog that they want. Period.

I can't see the need to invoke the dusty ghost of Freud all the time with those dumb clichés. In the real life, not all is always related with penises.
Stripe did something very similar as part of a programming challenge several years back.

https://abiusx.com/stripe-ctf-v3-writeup/
Good. I've noticed more job opportunities that stress a remote(/hybrid) nature the past couple of months, and I greatly appreciate it. As long as there are options for those who need them (being in the office because the home situation is too distracting vs needing to WFH because someone's coming to fix a pipe), I think it works.

Employees have shown they get the work done (and are working more hours with the lack of a commute + water cooler time which is its own issue). There are reasons that being on-site job necessary of course, but if the only one is the employer is paranoid and wants to hover over their employees, that says more about them.

Granted, all the landlords who have or are building massive office blocks might be in trouble, but frankly they can deal with it.
Nobody trusts a single SQL database or any single developer or company. The advantage is that you have a trust less, decentralised database no one can alter and has thousands of people hosting it.

This is a common fallacy I’ve seen among developers - the idea that because the technical solution is inferior it’s social value must be inferior. Blockchain is not a technical solution, it’s a social solution. At least as far as NFTs it has solved an insoluble problem, which was no one trusted anyone in particular with a ledger about digital art ownership - but they do trust everyone/a a large group that’s incentivised to keep hosting it, and has problem to be tampering resistant.
Same for coffee. It’s now a socially accepted drug and I’m wondering if there’ll be a future where it’s badly seen to work without drinking coffee (“how can you even be productive?”)
>Knowing this information is critical for your general safety as an adult human. OP might as well have burnt themselves on an ovenproof dish on the counter that they forgot was hot.

You are, with a straight face, saying that headphones are in the same danger category as ovenproof dishes straight out of the oven.

This analogy is flawed. Eating out of a dish which is room-temperature initially won't make it burning-hot.

Headphones have never been a fire hazard until very recently. At the very least, the potentially-self-immolating headphones should be distinguished from the regular-not-gonna-kill-you ones.

Additionally, the labels that indicate a lithium battery inside should be clearly visible, and not removable. There is no way for me to know if someone else's headphones pose a risk to me otherwise.
> Without a published chain of transactions, there is no guarantee that the artist hasn't sold the same item multiple times.

> Without a verified on-chain transaction, there is a risk that either the buyer or the seller may be lying about the transaction price.

I mean, this is kind of the whole point - the published record on the chain is what actually matters. I don't like NFTs, but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating. People value status signaling tools. A lot. Image 99 of 1000 isn't a status signaling tool, showing you paid for the image is, the verifiable receipt is what matters.

This article is like suggesting the signature on art is what matters, but what matters is the actual provenance.
There's an interesting connection between this and edge-notched punched cards (a special interest of mine), via a 1936 article in Nature (See https://www.nature.com/articles/137535a0 .)

Quoting Kilgour's "Origins of Coordinate Searching" at https://books.google.se/books?hl=sv&lr=&id=4crkFsx73msC&oi=f... .

> In 1936, S. H. Clarke, of Britain’s Forest Products Research Laboratory at Princes Risborough, published a brief note in Nature reporting on an unexpected observation: Detection of relations of ‘‘recorded features’’ on edge notched punched cards with a particular feature already sorted.

> He had sorted a file of several hundred cards each listing a specimen of timber, by increases in specific gravity, and noticed ‘‘by glancing at the arrangement of the other notches . . . a distinct tendency for strength to increase with specific gravity’’ (Clarke, 1936, p. 535). He added that it was easy to recognize unusual correlations among notches.

The spreadsheet plot in this video is essentially the same as the image in the 1936 Nature publication!
I received a different bike light than I ordered on Amazon (a literal Chinese knockoff) and submitted it for a replacement because it worked poorly. What I got back was another Chinese not-what-I-ordered knockoff, but it worked well... So I kept it.

Even though I came out happy it further inched me to my current position of "never buy from Amazon".
On the other hand, 65 bucks a month is more expensive than my local Comcast package with the premium sports channels (which yttv doesn't even have the option for), plus Comcast has 4k live channels and surround sound. I think their feeds are also less compressed.
Bernard Rollin was a pioneer in animal rights, left with a scalding interview
They don't choose their targets and until relatively recently couldn't be retargeted after deployment.
I wish I could be confident that Perl 7 was actually going to see the light of day. Honestly, I was extremely excited when they announced it, and hoped it could make a real difference. The lack of real status information since then (even past the proposed initial release date) along with the implosion of the a lot of the core community and steering, is honestly what finally broke me from thinking anything could be salvaged for the future.

If Perl 7 is actually still coming and there's real progress there, then there's a spectacular messaging fail going on.

Perl's been my go-to language for well over 20 years, and it's the first thing I reach for when writing anything new. The problem is I'm having a harder and harder time justifying that decision. I built something small with Deno for the first time a few months back because I both wanted to try out typescript and I wanted something that I could easily turn into an executable on windows. The built in features (compile to an executable, limited security exposure based on runtime flags) and the ability to go far past JS because it as TypeScript built in all put a lot of stuff with Perl in stark relief. These are features you get when you have people actively trying to solve people's problems, iterating on substantial new and better things, and you have users (or potential users) with problems to solve. Perl 7 is/was possibly Perl's last chance to pull itself out of the ashes and try to offer something new to pull new people in and bring old users back, and I'm just not sure there's enough of a community left to pull it off. That's extremely sad, but ignoring it won't make it any less true as I see it. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Do 5g cell towers or carriers have any tech that would stop these stingrays? Or is there anything consumers can do, maybe a whitelist app or something to authenticate real towers?

need to force law enforcement to get warrants.
How would people validate ownership of an NFT when there could be hundreds of blockchains in the future? Would I have to go and verify each one of them to make sure my NFT hasn't been sold multiple times already?
My first impression was that it might be serious (would sort of make sense for Radioshack to pivot), then I saw Tai Lopez listed on the team and assumed it was a joke.

But it appears to be "serious" (inasmuch as anything involving the anthropomorphic joke named Tai Lopez can be)

I work in the crypto space and am generally pretty bullish, but this is the biggest sell signal I've seen. I wonder if Tai took out a big short position and is now using his name to crash the market.
This is not the RadioShack we need, but maybe it's the RadioShack we deserve. :(
'A Scam': Fans Who Bought Tekashi 6ix9ine-Backed NFTs Are Pissed
> That's not a business model that can be fixed by optimizing some conversion rate or efficiency factor by any reasonable percentage.

Many, many people made this exact case during the heyday of gig economy companies. Many a VCs and investors (including those who run this illustrious site) mocked this criticism as that of know-nothing haters who simply could not understand the brilliance of the minds behind these operations.
Being a new and highly visible Target, maybe AWS sent out for positive emails when it saw an attempt on your VM? Or maybe one of AWS's DNS servers was listed by AWS as being used by hackers, and your own VM happened to use AWS DNS resolution?

Just some thoughts. Sucks to lose time, but the notices probably helped more than it hurt? Part of the price of modern defense to get false positives...

If I get a suspicious instance, I usually snapshot the disk and blow it away. We don't have a lot of resources for investigation, but we'd probably look at what we can get from logs, check scope of damage, and likely move on... We only run instances when we have no other choice, so they generally are pushed data, with no real pull access.
Live BART status in LED hardware
Fire Ants Form Rafts (2017)
China was the only major economy to grow in 2020.

The Chinese economy did well because of the zero-CoVID policy. The policy allowed China to reopen businesses in March-April 2020, and to avoid widespread lockdowns since.
It is silly to try to save money on the mechanism for NFTs. That defeats the entire purpose. The entire purpose of of an NFT is to publicly demonstrate that you wasted money on it. This is the case for all status symbols; if you are saving money on it, it loses its value as a status symbol.
The piece goes on to say that the same can be true for NFTs.

An artist could just sell an identical work multiple times.

I like this idea, it has the exact amount of usefulness of NFTs without the ecological issues.
I wonder if guile[1][2] would be competitive to the other Lisp (Scheme) implementations. It was significantly faster than Python at numerical tasks in my experience.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

[2] https://web-artanis.com/scheme.html
Re: Flexible Function Naming
>After WWI, the mass horror caused by certain types of weapons like chemical weapons were enough to get all powerful countries to agree we didn't want to see them on the planet.

They were banned because nobody liked them and they weren't tactically useful.

If they were useful they wouldn't have been "banned".
It's like the author has absolutely 0 idea what the reason for blockchain is
> Go after the food that’s actually killing us.

Did I say anything that was in contradiction to this? Actual solutions isn't exclusive to medical remedies.

> This type of thinking fares much better on Twitter. Good luck.

Maybe you should care more about the mental wellbeing of people.

> Sure let’s continue to further subsidize the ill-effects of processed food. Save money on cheap food today, spend it on healthcare later. Makes sense.

Again. You're assuming that I said we shouldn't do full solutions to this problem. However, there are also people who are sick and need help right now.

Maybe you don't care about people, I do.
They did not threat anything, they were just asking information regarding their personal data.
And therefor they were in their right.
Right but which chain and which NFT? NFTs on the blockchain suffer the same problems which is the point made in the article. There are multiple blockchains and no guarantee that a particular NFT is unique or even published by the actual author.
That is a red herring and has nothing to do with what I said. It is also a highly controversial decision.
Are they claiming new glass that is tougher than existing glass, or is this 'just' a way to embed very tough LEDs into glass? As long as there's still glass in front, then it doesn't really matter how tough the LEDs/LCDs are. We don't need those to be tougher, we need the glass to be tougher.

Edit: Did I say something wrong? I legitimately don't know what the article is claiming, and is there something I'm overlooking?
You missed the point of my argument, but something tells me that debating with you is pointless and you're one of those people who will semantically and syntactically pick apart someone's entire statement if you don't agree with a single part of it. You've made over 40 comments in this thread, what's your angle?

> Also, given the above, I hope you heed your own advice.

I'm not the one in need of a lawyer.
Sorry, I absolutely meant to include NOT in that sentence. No, I do not believe they are criminals. I am guilty of not double checking my post to make sure it says what I meant to say.
The default isolation level in postgres is read committed.
Well, if you want to do it right, you don't just "not discuss" the orthodoxy, you go out of your way to make discussing the orthodoxy very clearly forbidden on the research circle. You put "we won't allow anybody to talk about lightning" on the first paragraph of your institution's code of conduct. You actively censor people discussing it, and do all you can to erase it from their history.

On a related matter, people actively insisting that you discuss the lightning issue may be consciously trying to do the exact opposite, and get you in trouble. And, of course, if discussing the orthodoxy gets people in trouble, that's a different issue from the orthodoxy itself and you may be more or free to talk about it, or maybe less, it has to be independently evaluated.
Strictly speaking it's meaningless, since a language is a set of syntax and semantics. Pragmatically though, when people talk about the speed of a language they actually mean the typical performance of processes defined by programs written in that language, which of course depends on the code generator and runtime, among other things.

There's nothing stopping anyone from writing a fully standards compliant C interpreter that will have considerably slower process execution after all. In fact, a quick search shows that it's been done many times, for example this[1].

[1] https://github.com/jpoirier/picoc
I had a similar issue with GrubHub. I ordered a pizza from a local shop. Got charged for it, drove there to pick it up and the pizza shop was closed.

I opened a support ticket but GrubHub kicked me out of the support chat claiming my issue had been solved, and I couldn't open a new one.

I meant to file a charge-back but never got around to it.
They have, but a bunch of their assets track cash - cash, cash equivalents, loans (e.g other people's mortgages, esp. those with fixed interest rates)
I was here just to say this - seeing this comment at the top of the thread restores my faith in people.
Artificial scarcity is artificial.

Nothing prevents someone from making copies and selling each "unique" one.

Since it is decentralized, there is no centralized authority to take down the copies (that is, a DMCA-style take down).

The "no one can censor you" upsides of decentralization are not without downsides: you cannot censor or take down others, even in cases of copyright breach.
Dependency management in C is absolutely awful, that's why "no dependencies" is a "feature"
Show HN: Battling the Red Notification Badge (Chrome Extension)
TL;DR I made a Chrome extension that changes the color of the notification badge on popular social media websites from red to gray: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notification-badge-desens/egihgffagcmekfdhcfckaaknpckokajp?hl=en

The social media companies have a taken a page from the casino's playbooks, specifically the slot machine.

The slot machine doesn't let you win every time, but it lets you win just often enough to keep you engaged, to keep you wanting more.

The notification bell on pages like Facebook, Youtube, and now even Netflix has one (what could Netflix possibly need to "notify" me about?), behaves exactly like a slot machine. It offers you a list of "personalized" notifications. At first it's only relevant things, like when someone comments on your status. Just like a good slot machine will let you win a little more often at first. Then it starts getting filled with vacuous notifications while the ones you "crave" are interspersed, just like the slot machine again.

All the while the little red circle on that notification bell calls your attention. It's red for a reason: we're wired to respond to red. Maybe it's because it's the color of blood, maybe it's because it's the color of berries, I don't know, but I do know that the red icon won't leave me alone! I sometimes find myself clicking on it just to make it go away, even though I know there can't possibly be any valuable notification there.

It's time to fight back against the house. With the Chrome extension I linked above the color of this badge will go from red to gray on many popular social media websites. I've noticed this simple change has had a big impact. I no longer feel the need to check the bell. It's still there, I mean it's still occasionally useful, but it no longer demands my attention. The urgency is gone, and I can browse in peace.

If a site you visit is not supported by the app (currently supported are LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix) please mention it in the comments below and we'll add it to our list.
How would you gain consensus on which git repo is the original? How do you distinguish between the original repo and a fork?

Crypto is git + a way to determine who is a fork
This is good, but I'd love to see this headline be commonplace:

"The Five-Day Work Week Isn't Coming Back"
Reincarnation is a fascinating topic, and one I would recommend the author and everybody reading this to investigate Edgar Cayce and others who really looked into it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_S...

It doesn't appear to be a thing in quite a few states, and where it is, it seems quite limited. Thus, the only legal remedy is lawsuits, which is why qualified immunity is such an injustice.
Wanting to be given things for Christmas is a little silly when you're an adult, I think. I anticipate my parents will buy me the clothing I never bother to buy for myself because I just couldn't care less about clothes.

I'm pretty weird about gifts though I guess. I feel like the concept of giving gifts on certain days is largely a product of cultural manipulation by the wider corporate sphere, so I just don't ever feel obligated, and make it clear to others that they not feel obligated, to give gifts on Christmas or birthdays. I buy gifts for people when they need something and won't or can't buy it themselves regardless of the time of year. Or sometimes just if I know they'll like it. I'm privileged enough to have more money than I need, so I don't really need or expect others to buy me anything.
Lex Fridman Podcast with Pfizer CEO
Fortunately Firefox has a shim to deal with this[1].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637329
We'll have to create a centralised registry of all tokens on all chains‽
So you never browse the web?
Generally (with NFTs), the supposed 1-1 mapping of art piece (or other artifact) and token happens on meta-level, right? So for sure, an artist can issue many tokens that represent the same art piece (and don't tell me the token is a hash of the image or whatever; it still can be sold on a different technology, or noise can be added to the image, et cetera). Because of this object-/meta-level mix up, it seems that NFTs guarantee pretty much nothing, they are just great at facilitating speculation, because the whole thing takes so little effort...
> I mean, this is kind of the whole point - the published record on the chain is what actually matters.

Sure, but you don't need a blockchain for that. It could be published anywhere.

When it comes to publishing information, a blockchain is one of the least efficient ways of doing that.

The blockchain doesn't change much in the equation here.
> Ethereum is the only one that has this problem and it’s working on ending it through an upgrade.

It might decline in popularity, but it's unlikely to actually end just because PoS is deployed. Someone will almost certainly rebrand the current PoW-based Ethereum chain+software and continue to maintain and promote it. This already happened once because the Ethereum principals rewrote history after their favorite smart contract turned out to have a major exploit [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t there open source licenses that don’t permit unauthorized distribution? If so, couldn’t they safely release the source code without worrying about competition from forks?

They would still be faced with knock-offs that either copy code or violate the license; Paint.net (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.net#History) is an example of this happening for an open source project.