skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the blurring of lines that some users are objecting to. Instagram is a perfect example where yes, important communication happens via Instagram messages, but the problem is that once the app is open, it's exceedingly easy to accidentally spend minutes/hours listlessly scrolling. In order to avoid listlessly scrolling, users will uninstall the app or set time limits on it, or other techniques to avoid it sucking up so much time. Compare this to a 'plain' messaging app without a broadcast stories feature - there isn't the same distraction factor and for those that abhor the algorithmic-feed and distraction factor, it's a huge turn-off to add that feature.

Go into Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/Snapchat/Facebook and try and turn off the stories/feed. You can't, that's the main engagement loop for the app!
Sure, if they are arguing to apply to things that are mostly psychologically addictive. It's smoking is a physical addiction and a really hard one to break.
Yup! If the universe's age were a single year, we're looking back to January 6th. Truly remarkable. :)
> “Norton should be DETECTING and killing off crypto mining hijacking, not installing their own,” reads a Dec. 28 thread on Norton’s forum titled “Absolutely furious.”

That is fucking infuriating. Imagine if the "my body, my choice" redirected to a "my computer, my choice" idea.
I find that startpage(google) tends to do a bit better with very specific warnings, serial numbers for chips, etc. I get SEO spammers aren't really looking for people who are looking for why an obscure arm processor has just failed.
Bitcoin's at the same price today as it was on this date last year. Wen moon?

Srsly: $40.8K on 8th Jan 2021 and 2022 https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/bitcoin+price+jan+2021
from a friend: They have a shot version too. The pill will work if you don't cheat. But taking the shot takes out all the guessing. I would do this your first few months.
Going forward, we will be doing a curated This Month In Bevy newsletter. We've had templates in draft mode for awhile, but getting 0.6 out the door has taken precedence. I'd like to release our first newsletter this month!
It avoids the “money laundering” problem to the extent that it gets introduced by privacy-preserving transactions.
> Fun fact: the L5 and the M1 Macs use the same line of USB-PD controllers and share a driver, so it is very likely that some of our work on that front will benefit L5 users. The existing driver is very bare-bones and definitely needs more work.

For the record - we have some changes for this driver in our downstream tree waiting to get upstreamed (some may need to be reworked though): https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/-/commits/next/byz...
Sort of bubble... if we look at other countries like Zimbabwe that had hyperinflation, their stock market inflated along with the currency, more or less keeping the same values. At least until the government in Zimbabwe shut down the market. Here in the US, the Fed controls the money supply, and it's widely believed that the Fed won't choke the money growth any further if the market falls by 20% to 30%, depending on your pessimism. Of course, if the actual economy collapses due to Covid and supply chain problems, there is no bottom.
Have a look at https://c9x.me/compile/ and https://c9x.me/compile/bib/
You may be confusing a joke with a WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Port from keynav to Windows:
https://github.com/lesderid/keynavish
Corruption of some form usually exists in every society but this form is something a bit special.

r > g means that the power accumulates at a geometric rate without countervailing forces.

What this means is that capitalism requires an exceptionally tight leash to not spin out of control. The mere presence of voting isnt enough.
Clojure Kit Framework
I presume that you are also in Germany as well. The insurance rates here are straight up highway robbery. I wanted to get a Tesla, but the insurance quoted me more than 2000 euros.
Ffs! Just have cross platform backup/restore and migration, accounts not tied to phones and multi-device accounts already! I have heard others complain about this for years now.

I can code but I don't code for a living, these things seem like they would take at most two weeks dev time, is there a complexity I am missing here? Or do they just not care? I have all but abandoned secure mobile messanging at this point. They either die from lack of adoption or live long enough to become the villain.
I'd be extremely curious to hear about any the money management apps (even if you're not sure which one is dominant, or the information out of date). I'm guessing the main apps in the US (Venmo and Paypal) don't even operate in East Africa.
Wow, now that's some tech support :)
Technical Analysis of an Office RCE Exploit
I think it would be funny for those HODLing their mined BTC but not those whom are HODLing their bought BTC. :)
This represents a milestone for higher education.

Just from that sentence, you know the paper is suspect.

Whatever the merits of the algorithm -- there's no reason to be believe that what it produces (a set of random auto-generated questions) will be useful for actual education in any way.

There are more red flags -- see autogen question U9, for example:

If f(x) = (x^2 - x) / (x^2 + x), what is f(2)?

When was the last time your human teacher (at university level) handed you a rational polynomial that was not in reduced terms?

And my favorite, X7:

Find the smallest prime number that is divisible by 7 and 13.
I added this to

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Progr...

although there are a lot of whitespace and comments to get up to ~3800 lines.

The biggest shell scripts in the world seem to be about 10x bigger, around ~30K lines. Feel free to add any "program" that's more than 10K lines, and smaller ones if they are "interesting". (That's subjective, but I think a Forth qualifies.)
Brake fluid is one of the last somewhat frequent maintenance items. It looks like newer Tesla's have all electric breaks so technically there's very little reason you would need a mechanic since replacing the air filter is easy (at least compared to brake fluid changes).
I would have been so heavily punished financially for going to college vs taking that first tech industry job at 19 that I would have been an idiot for waiting 4 more years and end up in the same place. If society wants more college graduates for reasons, we need to reward students with industry level wages scholarships. Of course this will could only ever happen in Europe, progressive latin America and so on.
> Am I the only one who feels like loosing old conversations is just fine?

I find text based instant messaging to be shallow and vapid and I have very little interest in them. Texting is best used (for me at least) to coordinate real life plans (I'll be in front of X at Y o'clock) or quick task-oriented notes (Hey babe, can you grab some sliced turkey if you're still at the store). If you want to actually talk to me, call me or let's meet in person.

This attachment to one's messaging archive is IMO a symptom of data hoarding. 99.9% of text conversations won't be interesting in the future because they weren't interesting when they were happening.

That said I do like enjoy the feature where all of the photos from a given conversation are easily accessible.
If the music is on the blockchain, and the uploader didn't own the rights to distribute the music, isn't every blockchain host commiting copywriter infringement by distributing the music to anyone that reads the blockchain?

Don't you still have the ability to listen to the cd post sale because you can always load up an older version of the blockchain where you did own it?
The first 3 or 4 a always ads usually. I look for a lot of "best of" and I just automatically click past the first page or two because I know they are going to be SEO spam with some semi honest reviews about something, and another blurb that says the product I'm looking for is thte best.
Thanks! https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-6/#what-s-next-for-bevy
People ought to realize they're talking to other people, as well, not cardboard cutouts with names like "mynameisvlad".

It's not hard to have a personality without being condescending.
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With 3 month release cadence one question becomes more pressing: will it be 1.0 or 0.10?
It’s a short-lived (usually 1 day), short length video or photo on your account that any of your connections can view as part of a carousel of other stories. You can post yours and/or view your connections’ stories in sequence.

I.e. You go into the app. 10/100 friends have posted stories. You watch them one after another (without needing to go to each friends account) to see what they were up to for the day.
This idea reminded me of reading this post series on brain evolution:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/jbt562/what_is_...

According to that, the current best-supported theory is that the human brain evolved the ability to think and reason in in a modern way long before they started actually doing it. The ability to actually think like that is only latent, and needs to be exposed to "recursive language" at the right point in the brain's development to actually have it. So if only under the correct stimulus does the brain develop the ability to think, it stands to reason that they don't all work in exactly the same way at a biological level.
It wasn't condescending. It was bewildered.

I have never even noticed the ability to log in with my AppleID (as opposed to local authentication), but GP is arguing that Apple actively makes it difficult to avoid doing so. Something about that is wildly incongruent with my own personal experience and I am truly, genuinely confused.
> PSA do not opt to login with your apple ID, it's an option when setting up the computer, you should never ever accept it.

It makes me sad that we now have to treat a MacOS initial setup as a hostile experience, the same way as setting up Windows 10 for an offline user account and intentionally not creating a microsoft account. The number of steps and dark pattern UI things a Windows 10 Home or Pro user has to jump through in the initial install to create a local-only account is really quite amazing. I just did a fresh install of a win10 home VM recently and ran into this.

Two of the reasons I switched from a FreeBSD desktop environment to MacOS back in the 10.4 days (Tiger?) was because of the switch to the Intel CPUs with the first gen Macbook Pro, and that MacOS had become a fairly refined, polished desktop environment with a CLI, macports, and a decent selection of applications.

Not only is apple now hostile but it's actively dangerous and harmful to its users' data, as shown in the example linked in this post, because if you go with the "online" apple account you risk getting locked out of everything you were using on a regular day-to-day basis.

Now if we have to think of Apple as a hostile entity that is doing the same shit as microsoft, it makes me very disappointed.
Pg does not cluster, so the only impact of a uuid is that you’re inserting in a random location location of the index, which is not great but not the end of the world (probably).

InnoDB clusters on the PK by default, so when you're inserting a UUID you're not only inserting in the middle of the index (on average) you're also inserting in the middle of the table.

And I don't know how much the on-disk storage has been optimised for this sort of things, but if the answer is "not" and sparse pages are not really a thing, you might need to rewrite half the table in order to do so.
Congratulations to cart and the core Bevy contributors! This release was a long time coming, and their efforts are greatly appreciated.

If you use this project and you can afford to donate, you definitely should!

Having paid close attention to the Bevy Discord this past year, the sheer amount of work that's happened on this release is mind-boggling.
Given the wild popularity of Advent of Code, I think it's safe to say that many people have different priorities.
It’s not just technical, but regulatory challenges that come with issuing a new kind of prepaid-instrument (it is akin to a Casino Chip that can be accepted by _any person with a bank account_).

Central Banks are not known for speedily approving such proposals.
>People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their own home.

AFAIK that "expectation of privacy" doesn't include things that you can see from the street.

>In addition, the right to privacy is not limited by arbitrary definitions of shamefulness.

What makes you think I suggested otherwise? I suggest you read more carefully next time. Obviously the "shameful" part was added to make an example. The "that's on you" won't make any sense if it was a innocuous activity, eg. watching TV.

>That’s a whataboutism logical fallacy. Just because some people do it and get away with it doesn’t make it acceptable.

it's not a whataboutism fallacy because the fact that it happens on a frequent basis and doesn't provoke action from law enforcement suggests that it is acceptable, at least from a legal point of view.

I suppose you could claim that people being annoyed at them makes it unacceptable from a social/moral point of view, but I'm still skeptical whether that has any implications from a privacy point of view. People are annoyed because it disturbs them, not because of the privacy implications. Furthermore, there are many ways of determining whether someone's home that doesn't involve knocking on doors, eg. checking whether the lights are on, or the cars on the driveway.

>That’s kind of a straw man IMO.

No, it's not. It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum. A strawman is when you replace your opponents argument with a false one. I fail to see how I did that. There's nothing in that paragraph that suggests that "going around and recording the coordinates of every street address" is something that you proposed. You really need to lay off responding to everything with "fallacy", even when it isn't.

>An IP address is public information and is transmitted by every IP packet.

This seems baffling to me. Your IP address should get additional privacy protections because it's public?

>You can’t compare it to someone’s home address which is normally private by default.

Given how much I buy stuff online, it's not "private" by any means.

>By associating a location with an IP address, you are effectively transmitting your location with every IP packet.

1. the location is very coarse. Realistically speaking it's accurate down to the city you're in.

2. you realize that's how phone numbers worked, at least one or two decades ago? it has almost the same properties. It's transmitted with every call (caller ID) and it's vaguely correlated with your neighborhood (the middle 3 digits are the central office code). should we ban databases of central office code locations as well?
Would this be useful for space travel?
To those people bitcoin going down is cause for celebration. It's a sale and they get to buy more for cheap.

The real joke is the fact there are far better coins out there that nobody cares about just because they're not BTC.
> I suggest looking at Forth implementations, which is where I think most interpreter innovation has happened.

Fortunately the Forth community write about their techniques, so you don't have to just eyeball gforth's source-code. A handful of links for those interested:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/papers/

https://github.com/ForthPapersMirror/Papers

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/

http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/jfar/vol7.html

http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/fd/

http://www.forth.org/literature.html

http://www.forth.org/fd/contents.html
I’ve seen this question posted here or the others forums I visit - multiple times per year, and every year since at least 2012.

I don’t know if the market is in a bubble. I do know, if I pulled out of the market at any point since 2012, my net worth wouldn’t be anywhere close to what it is today.

2022 could very well have the mother of all crashes. On the other hand, every year since at least 2012 has brought new highs. I do believe that time in the market beats timing the market. Even Dr. Michael Burry had to hold credit default swaps for 2-3 years before the mortgage bonds and the underlying loans proved to be garbage.
Not sure about the points of failure, but according to [1] only four deployment stages remain. So the large majority of point of failure should have been passed already.

[1] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer....
You are reversing the argument.
I remember considering BookStack while looking for a (surprise) replacement for Confluence.

The main thing that led me to stop considering it pretty quickly is precisely the concept of books - I find it both unnecessarily complicated and unnecessarily limiting.

My Org now uses DokuWiki. It has a lot of issues (the prosemirror visual editor is a good start, but in beta and out of development, for example). But it's also the least sucking option I've found. Most Wiki software severely screws up the editing experience, which may not be such a good idea when you want to get people to document things. I'm glad Bookstack does this right.
The title is actually "Wtf is web3".

Quick PSA for anyone who likes using the word "exist(s)" or "there are/is" indiscriminately. In English, use like this serves as shorthand or as a recommendation about how we should better use language.

If you position is that something doesn't exist—whatever that means—then you don't understand your own position enough to write about it.
Hmmm

YOU HAVE

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0.10!
Give my SICMUtils computer algebra system a look as well, if you like Lisp / Clojure: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils

Works on the web too, which is a big boost for sharing work.
Fair enough. By mass hydrogen is rare, but by accessibility easily obtained. But prising it away from Oxygen would probably make it uneconomical, not that space mining is much better.
LOL, top headline right now on text.npr.org is classic clickbait style:

"Congress may change this arcane law to avoid another Jan. 6"
Well ... This is a landing page with only some examples.

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As much as people complain about patents, maybe patenting things like stories and stickers in social media / messaging would've kept them from being playbook items that we see in the journey of every single online product. It's tedious and rather lazy compared to developing new ideas.
So are addresses.
Given this, what are the ecological oppositions to things like keystone XL?

I've also wondered if it is feasible for renewable sources like offshore windfarms and very remote nuke powerplants to charge continually flowing battery trains to populated areas.
Looking further, it is even worse than that. For example, this question:

> Calculate the probability of getting a two-pair poker hand.

Was rewritten to, this, close to code translated to human text:

> A hand is a set of 5 cards that are drawn randomly from a standard 52 card deck with 13 ranks of 4 cards each. A two-pair poker hand is a hand that contains 3 unique ranks, where no more than 2 cards in the hand can share the same rank. That is, 3 or more cards cannot share the same rank. Write a program that generates simulations for calculating the average probability of getting a twopair poker hand.

They even changed the question to allow simulations and not just exact answers. So then the AI is "correct" here when it generates 1000 random samples of taking 5 elements from a set of 52 elements and seeing how many are two pairs.

Not sure what the point of this paper is then. It doesn't do anything novel with the mathematics as it either just uses libraries or it doesn't really solve the problem, nor does it to anything novel with text recognition.
Maybe I'm just dense but it wasn't clear the motivation for keeping the info secret. It seems implied that fear of spousal conflict was involved.
A corollary to the Gibson quote is "The past is still here - it's just not evenly distributed". I can't help but think of this any time I see talk of "antivirus software" in 2022 (among other things).

If you're reading this article and thinking that antivirus software is a sensible thing to be running and thus wondering how they could betray users, you need to seriously revamp your computing environment. For most tasks that you need a trustable environment for, you want a modern OS that isn't based around agglomerating random binaries from arbitrary sources, whether that's something Free or just proprietary+curated+isolated (eg Apple/Android). And sure you can still keep MS Windows around for whatever purposes, but since it's no longer handling your sensitive activities you don't have to be hyperactive about the Sisyphean task of "securing" it.
A brief history of slavery that you didn't learn in school (2019)
> I think downplaying non-chemical addictions as "bad habits" is an unfair characterization as well.

Fair enough. I didn't feel that was appropriate, either, as I am quite aware that these types of addictions can be very destructive.

I can assure you, though, that considering them to be in the same category as a chronic alcoholic or drug addict is just as inaccurate, with the added caveat that calling it by the same name, "cheapens" the more serious type of addiction. That's one of the reasons that some folks get upset over calling people "Nazis," for doing things like being anal about the rules. They feel that it waters down the true horror of what the Nazis were really all about.

Also, "Bad Habits" was a great album by The Monks (2.0 -UK- Version).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBtGNHkLt4E
Where are you that ICUs are not filling up right now? Here in Ontario we’ve more than doubled ICU occupancy since December 18 and the rate is currently accelerating
That has not been my experience. As a state employee in California, my salary is a matter of public record and has been for years. I have no idea who has looked up my salary, so I don't know what impact it's had on my friendships, etc.
> It is much easier to rehabilitate a disabled ICE vehicle. Rescuers can deliver gallons of gas in convenient jugs; gas stations are still far more numerous than EV charging stations; and ICE car batteries can be jump-started in minutes.

I think this is the only useful point in the article.
Yeah, but the majority of new cars on the road are leased or on finance. A lot of people/companies really do get new cars every three years or so.
I'm sorry, since when is "location sharing" a "basic feature" of a messaging application? Can't you just send them a maps link to your location? Or your GPS coordinates?
Blumentals Surfblocker security bypass using memory loader
Hello all,

Here is the another approach to bypass Blumentals Surfblocker security using memory loader.

https://github.com/revengsmK/ciloader

Demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkx2jdAZMI
This essentially the same argument that Judson Brewer makes using insights from behavioral + buddhist psychology – https://drjud.com/book/

The insight is also to use mindfulness to understand the "true" experience of the addictive behavior and come to internalize that it is no longer valuable.

Ezra Klein has a nice interview on the subject:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-anxiety-youre-fee...
Question on VM snapshotting: what’s the purpose/point in even having such an ability? What does it allow you to do?

I only know of snapshotting perhaps being necessary to support coroutine based context switching.

Thanks and very cool project!
Same here, I don't get that insistence on backups at all but I get that others might feel differently. I wouldn't be surprised that this is more prevalent in us techie types than the average user of chat apps.
That's interesting, thank you. It is different to what I would have expected of myself in that position.