skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the exact complexity here

There are hundreds of standards spanning thens of thousands of pages. Some of them are obsolete, some of them are not, most of them interact with each other in complex and non-obvious ways.

An attempt to measure the scope is here: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....

And that's before we get to things like Javascript or WASM.

Another measure is the count of WebAPIs. A modern browser ships six to seven thousand APIs: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence All these APIs are available via Javascript
it just takes AAs or AAAs for the smoke evaporator, the ring function is simple enough-

cylindrical chamber at front of device is where the magic happens- rubber diaphragm at the back, small-ish hole at the front (hole is roughly half the radius of the chamber)

holding the handletrigger fills the chamber with smoke, so that you can see the ring at all..

pulling the trigger results in a flat piece of plastic lightly thunking against a rubber diaphragm (black plastic and green diaphram in the image), sending forward the ring

you can also find much larger air vortex cannon 'bazookas' that lack the smoke function but are large enough to send farts and disturb paperwork across the room
I don't agree.

The hackers are criminals and extortionists. No more. The impact of the crime is embarrassment to businesses, time and money recovering from data loss, and an inconvenience to workers across all industries.

NPR played up an angle that doesn't exist in any meaningful or significant way. Why? More clicks.

I expect criminals to be assholes.

I expect more from NPR. They used to have more integrity and objectivity than they do today.
This is very feel good but falls short of making an actual point.

> The hypothetical homogeneous group 'they' you refer to doesn't exist

They do exist. Making wrong statements with conviction doesn't make it true.

You can look Chromebook sales figures, you can look at the best selling laptops at major retailers, you can look at what's driving record laptop sales, look at price points that are soaring, look at the mobile space...

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> It's billions of people and 'they' feel many ways.

Which is why we draw conclusions based on a large sample size like I did above. You're never going to be able to consider billions of points of view, so yes, you need to try and find the common thread in their preferences and usages.

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> By painting with a common brush, you shut down discussions of what could be and encourage fence sitters to give up.

No, by painting with a common brush, you can have actual useful discussions about the reality of things, rather than espousing your own personal whims.

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> Let's talk about why it's possible, easy to do, and how to do it.

a) Where did my comment say it's impossible?

b) It's not easy to do or it wouldn't have existed in the first place. The whole point of my comment is saying that you need to figure out how to do it taking the current reality of things into context.

If the world thought how HN does we'd already have bills banning IME and PSB. So it doesn't. You can't pretend that people actually are a little nudge away from caring about this, or you'll quickly find that you're wrong and nothing will have actually changed.

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> The more fence sitters you convince that things are possible, pushes the fence further and further towards the other side.

Again, what you could do if you believed that fence sitters were some large portion of laptop buyers is do what I've done, show some indications of this. Show us how niche efforts aimed at power users aren't the only rumblings about how awful locked down computing is.

What you're doing is still painting a group with a large brush, except you're not even showing us where you got the paint.
Is the monthly support agreement tied to an hourly rate? e.g. 25 hours of prepaid support each month?
Yes you did. When you open a relationship with a company (by signing up to use their services), they are allowed to market to you, send you newsletters, and so forth, until such time as you terminate that relationship.

It isn't spam because you don't want it. If you actually don't want it, then click 'unsubscribe' - and if they continue to bother you afterwards (which, FWIW, I've seen a reputable company do a grand total of once in years), then and only then, is it spam.
If you find this concept intriguing, and also have a fondness for horror novels, Nick Cutter's The Troop[0] might be your cup of tea.

[0] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571466-the-troop
> Unless Coinbase and binance release stats on their customers

And even then, I'd argue there's a lot of incentive to lie about it.
The downside is that you're normally a small fish in a big pond as opposed to a big fish in a small pond somewhere else. The perks seem like the pay, the scale at which you work generally, and the quality of your coworkers is higher than normal.

If you like hacking on features, not having to do robust A/B testing or walk through tons of leadership / management hoops, and having a wider role in the development of something, then a smaller company or startup would be better.

TLDR: as with any thing in life, it depends on the person, and what makes you happy at work.
Monoprice has been my go to for over a decade. Really easy return policy just in case, but I haven’t gotten a bad cable from them, very good pricing too.
Some context:

https://dawnproject.com/full-self-driving-cars-software-at-i...
I still don’t understand the point of the race angle. Insofar as “urban” is undesirable because it’s a euphemism for “brown,” why would “brown” people be striving to move out of urban areas themselves? Bangladeshi immigrants don’t mind that Queens is full of other Bangladeshis. They mind that it’s crowded, you don’t have a big back yard, you have to walk everywhere, etc. The things you mention—shared housing, non-residents traveling though, aren’t things that “brown” people like any more than white people.

I think you’ve got the causality reversed. Most people, regardless of race, find suburban living more pleasant and more convenient. Urban areas tend to be more “brown” because that’s often where immigrants start out, because “brown” people tend to be younger and lower income, etc. Thus, whites are more able to attain the goal of suburban living. But it’s misleading to make it sound like the suburban preference arises out of white dislike for “brown” people, because the preference seems pretty uniform between races. (If anything, affluent people who prefer urban living are more likely to be white, judging from the demographics of gentrification.)

Urbanists have a good point that the suburban preference might be different if people in the suburbs were forced to bear the externalities of their lifestyle. But that has nothing to do with race.
Space anemia: World-first study shows space travel destroys red blood cells
I see this code and all I can think is that you’re going to be spending the rest of your life debugging threadsafety issues. I can contrive a case where this is useful, but where in the real world?
> But you tell me. Assuming you vote for Republicans: what do you believe they stand for beyond white nationalism? And how do you reconcile your support with their efforts to undo legislation that Martin Luther King Jr fought for?

I'm not American and there is even a fair chance I wouldn't vote for the Republicans if I were, I'd likely be trying to split the right wing vote for the libertarian party to force the Republicans to adopt more acceptable policies.

Political parties are large and complex beasts. If you want some aspects of the Republicans that could define them, probably the obvious one is a heavy focus on individual identity over group identity when assigning credit/blame. They also tend to adopt more aggressive policies of individual liberty, and are more oriented towards rules and order.

> And how do you reconcile your support with their efforts to undo legislation that Martin Luther King Jr fought for?

They think it is likely to hurt their chances in an election. That is why I'm telling you it isn't white nationalism; white nationalists don't get especially excited about the details around how close elections get decided. If it was white nationalism you'd be leading with policies where they wanted to expel non-white people. Which you aren't so I assume they don't have any that you think would stand up to scrutiny.
From the same article, while rail thefts are up 160%,

“According to LAPD data through Nov. 27, property crime was up 2.6% over the same period last year but is down 6.6% from 2019.”
Fine, you don't have to provide your real email and can use a forwarding service. I'm gonna need you to verify your non-voip phone number, submit a picture of your government issued ID and a photo of yourself in a specific random pose as a liveliness check, or register a valid credit card in order to activate your account.

Services use emails from well-known providers specifically because they're "good enough" signal in terms of spam/bot avoidance. It's not like the need for those signals go away and "real emails" are one of the most privacy preserving because they're pseudoanonymous. The alternative is Real Name policies.
The reason that they needed to set up such a complicated analogy is because they needed a way to justify a hand-wavey fitness function of "extensibility/modularity" instead of the much simpler and more useful "does this thing actually survive?"

Despite (or, as you argue, because of) its adaptibility, the answer to that question is empirically "no."
No it's a custom Grafana setup I use to monitor this and a few other things in my home.
How does that work? Salt is literally just NaCl, how does that "lose taste" under heat? I'm curious about the mechanism if that's true, some chemical reaction where the ions bind to something else?

EDIT: Asked my wife who is a biologist, and her hypothesis, if that’s true, is just that salt added later (independently of heat) just tends to still float and cluster together. So you might get more from an individual bite, especially the first few? Very different from actual spices which do break down under heat of course.
It will never stop annoying me that US citizens are always ready to state that non-US citizens should have fewer rights.

The US already has vaccination requirements, finger print and photo biometric requirements, and a stated belief that if you're a non-us citizen various parts of the constitution don't apply to you.

But if another country ever does something similar it becomes an attack on freedom.

Seriously, if you want to be an idiot and ignore basic science, then you do you. Just don't be a plague rat.
> Mails landing in your inbox that you'd rather not get, but which are not unsolicited (say, by you signing up for an account and confirming your address),

This itself is a redefinition of “spam” to exclude the types of spam businesses want to send.

There’s a two-part test I use to define “spam”, which I think is aligned with both the historic definition, and how most users perceive it:

1) An e-mail is a marketing e-mail if, on the balance, the e-mail primarily benefits the sender, not the recipient.

2) A marketing e-mail is spam if the user did not explicitly opt-in to receiving them.
> What is the rationale for the state to keep track of the religious preferences of its citizens in this manner?

It's a system for employee information gathered relevant to fulfilling the DC Pretrial Services Agency’s responsibility for health and safety for “individuals who are occupying PSA facilities, attending PSA-sponsored events, or otherwise engaged in official business on behalf of the Agency.”
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Comté. Note that it is very interesting that to make good Swiss Gruyère, you need Montbéliarde cow milk. At the turn of the last century, farmers from France effectively passed calves across the border by carrying them on the back and doing very dangerous mountain climbing[0].

[0]: https://www.sac-cas.ch/fr/cabanes-et-courses/portail-des-cou...
The study author on that page says:

> ... there’s no evidence that the vaccine has any impact on menstruation, fertility, any of these reproductive outcomes.

This is an interesting read, and the folks interviewed run the PRESTO NIH-funded study which tracks all aspects of pregnancy and menstruation. They say they heard a bunch of anecdotes, have some theories on what could cause this (if it in fact exists) - but that there is insufficient data to claim any adverse outcomes at all.

The reality is, to the best of my knowledge (I am a man, so keep that in mind) menstrual cycles are highly variable and do not follow a fixed predictable 28 day cycle. If I had to guess, these menstrual changes were completely uncorrelated but that the women nervous about vaccination self-selected to make these reports.

The PRESTO folks will collect and analyze data via PRESTO and share the results in due time.
I think OP's referring to nausea.

VR triggers migraines for me. Playing games on PSVR that is. I think there's some hope for you (potentially) that better tech will make you less nauseous.

For me, it's highly unlikely that new tech will bring any improvements as I'd think it's the bright light shining right into my retina (when I'd love nothing more than a e-ink monitor without any backlight for my daily work).

Nevertheless, I'm keen to try. I'm super keen on something like glasses, with some AR displayed on top of the glass rather than the light shining into my eyes.
That happens quite frequently to our SaaS where people need free access to a new API key. We try to block multiple registrations but there are people who also invest into proxies to circumvent this protection...
Imagine if somebody said you were required to take an injection which infected you with omicron, else you would be prohibited from participating in society.

I'd be okay with the option, but not the requirement.
> The argument for requiring a seat belt isn't about protecting people from their own choices. It's because it's very easy to lose control when things get exciting if you're not belted into the seat. Now you're throwing around a two ton projectile and everyone else's lives are at risk.

This can't be the complete argument, because then it would only apply to drivers. If you're not wearing a seat belt and you're in an accident, you might become a projectile which can cause harm to others in the same vehicle.
How does this affect the 2nd hand market? Will the buyer not be able to use the desktop?
> There is no such thing as a legitimate or illegitimate religious belief, assuming there is separation of church and state.

I don't understand the conjunction you're creating between these. The separation of church and state protects the state's independence and autonomy from the church, not vice versa. The state is under no particular obligation to protect or enshrine as religious any ridiculous thing you can dream up.
No

It's a branch of finance, which is intrinsically amoral, and outside of what lay people think of as ethics.
Not comparable :-).

There weren't other "Tarrares" around "surviving."
Recent related discussion, 2 days ago, 598 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29930970

Twitter thread with video of package litter and opened containers on rail cars.

LA Times does add significant detail and context to the story, and mentions John Schreiber's Twitter posts.
Gold is expensive because of scarcity, that does not make it valuable. In fact, people are wasting their time on this planet, digging up gold which is merely supposed to represent wealth but not be wealth in itself.

If you think of gold as a speculative accounting system then it really is just a very resource inefficient way of book keeping. Digging up gold and going to war for gold mines makes you poorer, not richer. Yet people believe that this system is infallible.
Are you aware of BCH, BSV and ETC?
> Let's hope Verizon doesn't fuck it up.

The owner is now Automattic

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804894/tumblr-acquisiti...
For some additional context, when the original NeRF paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08934.pdf) was published 2 years ago, it reportedly took at least 12 hours (depending on hardware used of course) to train on the scene with the bulldozer. This has now been reduced to about 5 seconds (!), with realtime rendering of the result.
The way this question is worded makes it seem like it's so easy to go into agriculture / homesteading...there is a wealth of knowledge you have to have to have to do it right, it's not just buying land, plants and watering them. And more often than not, that knowledge is not readily available online, and comes with time and immersion.

Source: from a rural area
> Did you read the bit where he was suspected of snacking on an 14 month old toddler because his stomach got the better of him?

People suspect all kinds of things, particularly when they're suspecting them about someone they think is weird.

> Also... do you feast on corpses when you're hungry?!

Of course, everybody does. You must have heard about the Donner Party? They're not unique.
Well, this post has nothing to do with Linux though, nor Plummer's views on it, and is strictly to do with a subject he has incredible knowledge in. His credibility on-topic seems beyond question, so isn't this just off-topic griping? Hopefully we're not trying to encourage a comment culture where every time a person is involved, the thread is a list of exceptions taken in everything else they've ever done.
I saw this when my wifi was spotty in my bedroom and it spent all night switching between wifi and cellular, suspect handshake is expensive on connection change.
> I can't defend the state tracking this info,

You can't defend a public employer tracking employee exemption information?
Thanks, the first idea is a really good one for our use case. (the other ideas won't work unfortunately)

And yes, it is not a meaningful number of people that do so, but over time this is very ugly and frustrating (as it requires manual intervention) and you block the disposable Email provider they used ...
> Tesla's FSD does not exist yet.

Someone should tell Telsa!

"The complimentary FSD computer upgrade for owners with Full Self-Driving capability is now available."

https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer
> You do consent, by driving on the roads with them.

That’s not how consent works. Implied consent doesn’t override explicit refusal of consent.

> Did I just make large SUVs illegal?

No, but you could reasonably infer that you want them to be made so.
Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages from UPS,FEDE,AMZ
Bodily autonomy applies to more than just vaccines.
> Also... do you feast on corpses when you're hungry?!

There are many recorded cases of parents eating their child's when hungry such as Bengal famine, holomodor, Armenian genocide and other Tsarist Russia famines, so yeah, when driven people can eat not only corpses, but their own children corpses

There's also the case of the Uruguayans stuck in the Andes after their plane fell and facing starvation they ate the bodies of dead friends whom where on the plane
If this meets their condition of being from a Fortune 500 company (?) then their non-responding website is eligible to win. I wonder what OS they use to host it.
Is there any reason why even right now you can't put all the tech in a pair of glasses and have all the processing in a power bank sized device you put in your pocket, connected via USB-C or other cord?
Booze is much cheaper.
Right -- this discovery is about identical states extending into the past, not into the future.

A Conway's Life pattern that has to stay the same into the indefinite future would be an impenetrable wall, and we don't know of any such thing in the Life rule. It hasn't exactly been proved impossible, but nobody seriously thinks that such a thing exists.

I think it _can_ easily be proven that a finite stable (period 1) impenetrable wall can't exist. It's trivial to find a way to attack the corners, and almost equally trivial to find something that makes a change at any edge.
No, this discussion isn't a comparison of implementations it's a question/discussion of why "the latest implementation" is tied to a new extensible protocol instead of a new baseline of the existing extensible protocol. There may well be reasons but "the first implementation was on the new protocol" explains the current state not how things got there.
It’s likely hard to quantify and would require an in-depth survey of people over the course of 5-10 years with extreme diligence.

There is another quality that is missed out in these discussions too - which is the quality of life improvement. If you’ve ever driven on a nice road - you know it and you feel it. It’s pure bliss compared to most of the roads out there. Your car might go from feeling cheap and unbearable to luxurious - and if you have a nice car already then it feels sublime.

That aspect is one part where I’d gladly pay more for roads. The other aspect is prevention. I see very little emphasis put on the prevention of deterioration of roads. I think road quality could be improved if there were crews working all the time to keep the roads in shape and if people felt like their city would listen when they issue a complaint about the road. I figure this might save money and improve QOL over the long run.
Right, I had completely forgotten about that!
Harmful according to other ideologies conlficting in the mind of the same person.

You think murder is morally wrong. You think some govt policy is so important that when govt kills people while it is carrying out the policy, the ends justify the means. Ideology is what killed those people.
When people know property crimes will not be prosecuted, they are less likely to report it. When the police know that people who commit such crimes will be released without charges, they are less likely to arrest such criminals.
> According to LAPD

This is a trustworthy source of information?
I really dislike services that require payment or telephone numbers for verification just to try out a service. And we are unsure if this increases friction for normal users.
> For instance, for starters, go search through all of your email for any email sent from Google servers where the "Reply to:" doesn't match the "Mail from:", and tell me if there are any legitimate instances. We could all benefit by starting to reject all Google sourced email with a different "Reply to:".

Yes. Very common. Sorry but you have a very limited view of realistic mail traffic.
On the contrary - everything in systemd is much easier than before.

Consider a situation, where your sh-backed SysV init was missing some function you required. Something between start-stop-daemon() or ifup(). You could throw a bunch of shell commands (note: most shell "programmers" are not capable of doing it properly; they do some '==' comparisons in /bin/sh shebang, don't handle errors, ignore fact that variables might contain "funny" characters etc. - but in general most of the scripts I've seen during my 24 years in Linux was simply badly written, meaning at least using bashizms). And then ...you watch out for every single package update that would overwrite your changes. Or you could polish them and try to push upstream.

Now the situation seems to be worse - you can't just edit some random file to add missing function, you need to write it in source C files and recompile. Not a way for quick and dirty solution.

But instead, you can simply write the same (s)hell commands in a script and call it from appropriate unit. No messing with thousand-lines scripts, no risk of overwrites, no need for upstreaming.
This news report from a month ago has a golden response from the sheriff https://youtube.com/watch?v=zN0CXUEMwjg

It’s remarkable to me that he didn’t have any awareness of this issue. But then again, who has jurisdiction over the railways?