skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder if it's due to a warm cache. I never use Google (hence it won't have google.com cached) and accessing it from Firefox on my high-end Android S21 takes a few seconds to load via my NZ fibre connection. Certainty not instant. DuckDuckGo on the other hand loads nearly instantly (although it's probably a warm cache on my part). To be more fair I tried Bing (which I also never use) which seems to be on par with Google, I suspect due to Bing loading a photogenic but ultimately useless background image.
I'm one of the people with dumb phones and laptops. It is a much simpler life.
This is a common opinion but I think many miss the purpose of proof of work. You get compensated for making the network more resilient. Other systems do this to a lesser extent with a combination of proof of stake and validated, but at a tradeoff of being less decentralized. Ultimately this is a necessary cost for developing the technology, and cryptocurrency & tokenization are necessary to facilitate a more decentralized internet. It’s unfortunate this has begun to take off while we are still in the process of transitioning to green energy, but that will happen soon and generally speaking miners are doing it faster than the rest of the economy. Negative environmental impacts of crypto are because of bad government energy policy, not the technology itself.

As far as it being “Monopoly money”, >40% of US dollars were created since the start of the pandemic. Yes, there’s a lot of technical details there and most of that money isn’t “in circulation” and many would argue that the way this is being done shouldn’t be inflationary, but it’s never been done at this scale and we do have the worst inflation in 40 years so it may be a contributing factor. Contrast this with Bitcoin which has a fixed known supply, or other crypto currencies or tokens which may exist primarily for their utility, and IMO “Monopoly money” isn’t a fair characterization. Even BTC which has little in terms of “utility” can be used to move money equivalent to billions of dollars a far lower cost than the traditional financial system so it has its advantages.

At least blockchain related technologies enable new use cases, IMO it would be more fair to blame something like Electron and inefficient web technology replacements for native apps for being inefficient and wasting energy. But I wouldn’t do that either, it’s silly. The people making software don’t control energy policy and that’s the real issue.
I used data identical to the Cambridge Analytica stuff in 2014 for a project on behalf of the Florida Democratic party (voter mobilization for midterms).

I remember being shocked at the level of detail, and asking the Dem strategist running the project where he got it from. He wouldn't say at first, but eventually he explained about the ecosystem of companies like Cambridge aggregating the graph data.

Nobody cared in the media until 2016, when social media was scapegoated to cover for Hillary's gross underperformance. I was pretty annoyed at the breathless faux outrage I witnessed from people who literally were using the same exact data for their own purposes.

The spineless CEOs is right. Board members too. Silicon Valley players are desperate to maintain their reputations among the pious peers in their social circles, and also are terrified of the media/activist complex killing their ESG scores and bumping them off of certain millennial/genz targeted "socially responsible" investment products. See Tesla having a lower ESG score than Nike if you want an example of how pissing activists off kills your ESG score.
Anything creative such as game sprites, recorded music, clicked pictures, fashion items and prominent accounts or everything you can think of could be NFT. NFTs are made over blockchain-based smart contracts that verify the ownership of digital assets. Our experts compile a complete guide to create your own NFT, their work process, and how can create saleable digital asset tokens.
I didn’t read it this year, but can confirm 10/10 would read again.
Two mostly anthropology books

#1 Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America (1943)
by John Roy Carlson

Long out of print but relatively easy to find, this book is an incredible history of a populist split off of something called "the old right" (pre-JBS/Hayek/Russell Kirk) and hauntingly describes the modern populist right in a way that you check the copyright date and wonder if he's a time traveler.

I stopped about every page and went over to Wikipedia, Proquest, archive.org or LOC to find out more about the fascinating things the author was talking about. It took me months to work through and I probably read 10 or so books along with it (mostly books by the 1930s equivalent of qanon).

Seeing the through lines to the modern era is really stunning.

If someone is interested in the history of non-highbrow populist right, it's highly recommended.

#2 Weinberg's "The psychology of computer programming" (1971) Also mostly out of print but easy to find. This guy is also a time traveler in his insights
What about the idea that, as a customer who bought and owns something, you should have control over that thing, not the other way around?

I am not saying this is the stronger argument. It's still an argument, though, and it surprised me to find this sentiment missing from the comments (granted, we're at only 7 comments right now). Why would something we want applied to smartphones and PCs not apply to cars?
I had mostly stopped using Amazon by early 2020 due to the counterfeits and fake reviews, and swore off the platform entirely when they decided to play politics in the 2020 election.
U.S. Domestic Migration During Covid – July 2020 to July 2021
I'd like to take up a different view on this issue, in the hope that this discussion helps to understand this issue from a different vantage point. Neither of us make any rules for anyone else, so this is an academic discussion anyway. I hope you're not offended by the disagreement, as it's driven only by an interest in moving toward a better position on this issue, not internet points or personal malice (& you're using a pseudonym anyway). At the moment, I don't read in this comment what seems like the right answer, but it's also a short version, and maybe my own thoughts on this are wrong - thank you at the very least for posting this, as it's given me an opportunity to think more about a different position. Below is a different point of view.

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Many people do not even do the "bare minimum" as a member of society, and they should be treated, to the greatest degree possible, like the people who do the maximum, or even just the usual. High-tax paying people, beloved teachers, famous artists, despised criminals - they should all be treated as humans, with the appropriate medical treatment according to their human needs, not their moral failures or victories.

People are the product of society, and a component in it, and they should not be judged by stereotypes, or even judged at all, when it comes to responding to their medical needs. Ideally, we'd take this approach in every area of life, but this is especially justified when applied to injured and sick people. "Misguided" is a more useful frame for many people than "evil".

Triage by prior behaviour is a poor basis for healthcare. Everyone has their own group of people they like less or more, according to their prior experiences. More importantly, the time to judge someone's moral behaviour is not at the point of healthcare delivery. Even if mistakes never happened, and your moral views are correct and correctly applied, it wouldn't be right to apply this rule because it would be the first step away from neutrality.

The status quo of neutrality is a good rule, even if on rare occasions it results in seriously injured violent criminals receiving medical treatment ahead of sick nuns. Because almost all of the time it's the rule that is the most human, on our best behaviour. And especially so when we consider that many of our own views are not solely attributable to our individual choice but are in fact strongly influenced by our place in society. Once immoral individual behaviour is the yardstick for medical behaviour, perhaps based on views about groups, it's difficult to know when you've strayed off the moral path.
WebP improvements, “New Storyboarding Tools and Workflow“ and new Timeline Docker all look amazing. Brava to you and the team. Thanks

https://krita.org/en/krita-5-0-release-notes/
I tried playing a game while in FSD and the cabin camera is super sensitive when a game is open, when I reach my hand for the screen the car starts beeping and flashing warnings for me to pay attention to the road.
> Adobe didn't invest much time or money into making them interactive with a scripting language.

yes they did. JavaScript, though I have no idea if there is a DOM or anything like it. pdf is kinda messed up in ways like that.
It shouldn’t really matter, my understanding is that generally you’re running software that automatically mines the most profitable coin for a pool and get your profits in BTC. So as long as there is demand for GPU miners for something there’s profit to be made.
I thought "the real" NFT is determined by what people decide "the real" one is. This is not actually a problem. NFTs are (or at least can be) a certificate of authenticity within a cryptographic framework. You can forge any physical certificate of authenticity with enough time and effort, but if you manage to forge a cryptographic one in our lifetime then congratulations! You just broke encryption.

Tangentially related: It amazes me how poorly people seem to understand anything in this space but especially cryptocurrency. In maybe one out of hundred discussions on cryptocurrency do I see any mention of a ledger, which is the entire point. If you use Venmo or any similar cash exchange app then you automatically stand to benefit from the use of a cryptocurrency. Venmo is a ledger. The only reason you are able to send $1 a thousand times a day to your friend with no transaction fee is because you're not actually sending any money to anyone (as most people would understand it). You're changing values in Venmo's database which is an implementation of a digital ledger. Only when you "square up" with Venmo by transferring money out of Venmo into your own bank account does any money move anywhere (in a way that would cost Venmo a non negligible amount of money themselves).

Cryptocurrencies are digital ledgers that, unlike Venmo, are decentralized and cryptographically backed. This means its physically impossible for Venmo (or anyone) to freeze or seize your assets, and impossible for your balances to be hacked or manipulated by a bad actor with too much authority (although your private keys can certainly still be hacked through side channels). Is that worth the energy cost of supporting a system like Bitcoin for every transaction? Not in my opinion, but I wish people would at least make an attempt at understanding what they hell they're talking about.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

EDIT: a certificate of authenticity with proof of ownership included and modifiable only by the owner.
There have been some experiments with effective tactile feedback provided by touch screens, but they're complicated to produce and expensive. Most of the research seems to be aimed at providing touch screens to the visually impaired.

It's possible to get some kind of tactile response mimicking the edges of buttons well enough. I'd say a good implementation of this technology would be safe IF the position and availability of the controls would be static. I'm not sure what you'd get out of a touch screen with those constraints (less parts?), especially with the added cost and research, but that's the only way I can see a touch screen in a car that should ever be legal.

A Tesla driver in Germany already got fined for using the touch screen of his car while driving. It's strange how this obvious flaw of a car design has ever been allowed onto the roads.
I was recently looking for an email forwarding service to use for a few months, initially I was searching Github for a decent OSS project that could do this for me, which is when I found your repo for Forward Email.
The repo code was exactly what I was looking for, but after browsing your site and noticing how open and transparent it all was, I was instantly sold and bought the Enhanced package.

So ultimately, your open source code and business transparency[0] is what convinced me to pay instead of self-host.

Thank you for making it.

[0] https://forwardemail.net/en/open-startup
> They're effectively just pointers to a lookup table and it's the lookup table that changes.

What makes you think this is the case? Pointers to objects are direct, and garbage collectors freely change pointer values whenever it decides to relocate objects. Some collectors might use temporary forwarding pointers, to support concurrent collection.
Does the color of an organism fall under the study of morphology?
I don't believe it does. Nor do I believe race is a good term for anyone to use, partially because its entirely subjective. A good example of this is that in the US, a person can be considered black if they have African (or otherwise considered black) ancestry anywhere in their genetic history, even if the rest of their ancestors would have been considered "white"

On top of this subjectivity we have the historical baggage and oppression, so it would be best to move away from race as currently used. We are all part of one race, the human race. We need to stop splitting ourselves into in/out groups because that only holds us back.
It depends on the place you live, but in California there's a law that explicitly allows side hustles aka moonlighting: https://www.mossbollinger.com/my-employer-prohibits-me-from-... (conditions and restrictions apply, as usual)
a reminder that automobiles in the united states kill 36 thousand people a year (~6k being pedestrians), cause >3 million medically consulted injuries, and >10m property damages/non-disabling injuries.

i have a hard time with this issue of what is permitted in a car. personally i feel like a good driver, like i will handle things fine. but i also once was going up an icy highway late at night & ended up spinning 360 around (thankfully with no one around me & staying on the road) because i spent about 1 second going for some last fries in a take out bag & couldn't re-stabilize. it had just so happened to be the wrong moment.

in driving, mostly things are boring & unexciting. but secretly we are surrounded by just the wrong moments, dotted here & there amid the boring. typically there's enough slack to navigate & avoid the little hazards, to prevent catastrophe or damage. but a little compounding factor can matters a lot. it's hard to impress onto drivers- who typically see such boring, easy, unassuming tasks, endlessly playing out- that this is serious work, that it requires vigilance. eternal, unrelenting, persistent vigilance. to believe in the hazardousness of the situation, especially whenever there is another human soul anywhere in a couple hundred meters. human's aren't built for hyper-vigilance, for attentiveness in such fast moving, high energy situations.

so i don't know what we can do, but keep locking down on driving. anyone in charge of over 0.5kg of moving mass: sorry, but society has a moral obligation to clamp down on, to restrict potential distractions. whether it's your passenger playing a game or them just futzing with bluetooth. there's so so so many hours lost to driving, and having such a spartan existence at the wheel, having machines that refuse to interact (be it passenger or driver) or distract, that monitor the driver conditions... it just seems mandatory. i don't like it, don't want it for myself, it feels stupid. but i don't see that we have any other choices to pick from, given what absurd catastrophe driving enacts, every single second on this planet.
I have always seen greek tragedy as the precursor technology to the scientific method. If you didn’t know how the world worked you would advance confidently on a determined path, protected by the gods. If the gods turned their face from you…tragedy. But to me that’s another way of describing hypothesis and (failed) experiments. But before the scientific method was established, failure was related to the god’s scorn. Failures of Heroes are the most confusing and interesting, so they are retold. And, related, Christian forgiveness was critical technological advance to making scientific failures acceptable.
Calculator is allowed and almost required in school. Phones aren’t.
I have lots of hope for the new Twitter API v2. They've standardized formats, added a new developer portal, and improved documentation. The really positive part is that they're openly reaching out to developers for input. They've even lifted restrictions on what you can build. e.g. new Twitter clients are allowed. I've been working with the Twitter API since 2008 and have never seen this level of engagement.
Now I want to read the second!
… because it’s really hard for me to misuse my smartphone to the point where it kills someone/myself.
Teens often like Atlas Shrugged. Then most people grow out of that. Beware if you are not.
hey, where did you go now? Care to offer any opinion about reviews in the space?
> ...safe IF the position and availability of the controls would be static

Agreed -- this was also why the Apple Touchbar failed, IMO.

Typically keyboard use relies on a lot of muscle memory, and so the touchbar's "you get a different set of controls with different shapes and sizes that do different things depending on which app you're using" design ethos didn't really fit with how people actually use keyboards.
Surprised that much of Europe is green, considering that a lot of their forests have been cut down for centuries.
Well, there's another thing Firefox is doing wrong, it's got a tiny little feature sparse walled garden, when it should be using open standards.

Question: I have never bothered syncing anything between browsers on different machines. What benefit would I get out of it if I decided to start? What all do you sync?
This is exactly what I've done with several TVs over the past 5 years.

Skip the internet setup, plug in a chromecast, and never utilize any of the built in "features" of the TV. It's worked great for me so far.
If your eyes aren't on the road, you aren't driving. I have zero sympathy for any of the edge cases people tend to bring up except checking your speed. Just drive the car. Take your tech-addled brains out of dopamine acquisition mode for the duration of the drive, then have a big 'ol binge at the end if you must.

It's such trivial things that people risk their lives for too. A sort of trashy naivety. Like smoking at the gas pump.
Capital One to Pay Out $190M After Hacker Breached Millions of Customers' Data
C++, a more complex language in all dimensions managed to produce C code via the first C++ compiler, Cfront.

Dlang has its own native code generator? You have amazing chops, I am sure you could have emitted C code.

What are your thoughts on producing Wasm instead of C? Maybe Scheme is the perfect compiler target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. It's a masterpiece.
(I) think of the baroque cycle as fictionalized history rather than historical fiction
How long has it been since you did it? Have the effects waned?
First of all, nuclear weapons are by far more dangerous than some random asteroid with probability of zero. The question should be: if there will be a nuclear mistake launch, will the other side believe that this was a mistake?

Second, the question is pointless. Lets say that we all believe the scientists. And...?
Doing anything too complex there would be pretty surprising to me. if they are it seems they didn't do too good a job since the test is emulating a old phone that should probably get a simple/smaller page
… if you’re in a 3 or a Y. The S and X both have instrument cluster screens.
Claude Shannon had quite the mind.

"A Mind at Play" is a good book on Shannon's life and "The Bit Player" is a good partner movie to watch :)

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" and "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" paved the way for much of modern computing.
Grass is also green, lots of agricultural land come up as green as well. Actually, Europe is still fairly forested (45%) on average, so I'm not sure what other color it could be seen as.
The problem with infectious disease is that incidence rates vary tremendously over time. Growth is initially exponential. In the case of the Covid Omicron variant, doubling times are 2.3 days, giving 10x growth in 1 week, 100x growth in 2. Any reasonable capacity is immediately overwhelmed.

With uncontrolled spread, major fractions of the population are infected at the same time, and even with "mild" variants of a disease, a small fraction of a very large number remains a large number.

The excess capacity required to serve a severe outbreak is necessary only for those periods of peak outbreaks. China saw emergency treatment facilities built within two weeks, and demolished several months later.

Structures can be scaled with some efficacy. Staff and equipment (remember the ventilator shortages) not so much. And again, the peak loads are far above any long-term maintenance level.

Graphically represented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic#/media/File%...
The main use case of generics is collections, and if my memory serves me right, in .NET they simply created a new collections library (System.Collections.Generics) leaving the original intact (System.Collections) allowing old programs to work as before. It lacked 100% compatibility because you couldn't freely interchange the classes (without writing adapters) but from what I gathered, it was a small price to pay compared to type erasure (in my opinion) which prevented more aggressive runtime optimizations/evolution. Today you usually find the old collections in ancient software which hasn't been updated for years.
Brian Goetz's take on generics: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/erasure.html
Not a fan of Harari’s pop science books. Lots of theories and opinion presented as fact.
The difference is that it's very hard to accidentally kill a family by messing with your PC or smartphone, assuming you're not doing it while driving. Your own safety is your own responsibility and if you want to try for a Darwin award you should be allowed to, but you're not the likely victim of something goes wrong.

Cars are inherently dangerous, mostly to the people around you. Modern car safety makes sure you can practically drive into a wall and come out fine, but any people you might hit on the way won't share your fate.

You should have control over the stuff you buy, but to use that stuff on public roads you'll have to get it certified for safety. If you want to build your own race track to play video games on, be my guest, but keep your mods off the streets.
I remember reading an interview where Asimov is asked why the books of the Foundation trilogy are so different.

The short answer is that the first book was inspired by an idea he had while talking to a professor about the rise and fall of civilizations.

The others were inspired by pressure by publishers to repeat success, and so he tried to improve and continue the story. This lead him to try and carry the story with characters, which was ironically not why people liked the first book.

The Mule was alright though, even if a little forced.
The difference is quantitative finance uses mathematical models where-as when 'technical analysis' is talked about in the (youtube)stock market it generally refers to opening up mspaint and using the line draw tool to 'find patterns.'