skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly support Big Brother Watch, an anti-surveillance and pro-privacy campaign group in the UK. They send every MP lengthly reports that detail the follies and costs associated with these measures.

I've also heard Conservative MPs say that "lockdown measures were against our freedom-loving sensitivities" or something similar, so they at least acknowledge the value of freedom to the population.

Our ruling class cannot plead ignorance as an excuse.
I would send the second copy to a relative in another country. Wars and Natural disasters happen and if the relative is not far from you, most likely both copies will be gone.
Ideological language like this just makes it easy to dismiss you and your arguments.
At least on the side of Blizzard, almost all of the original creators and developers are gone by now, surely some will follow after the merge.
Section 230 has nothing to do with the whole "cancellation" stuff. You still haven't mentioned anything that would result in less "cancellation" if Republicans were in power.

Also, I don't know why you are so eager to prevent platforms from performing moderation. Section 230 is quite simple, it means that social media companies can moderate without being responsible for their user's content. No free social media company can feasibly moderate all of their user's content, the math simply doesn't work out in terms of moderation effort per dollar in advertising revenue. Companies would have to stop moderating. The removal of 230 would lead to the total destruction of social media in the tech industry as consumers don't want to go on unmoderated platforms like 4chan.

A lot of this anti-230 stuff feels like 4chan users angry that the general public doesn't like 4chan and are thus demanding that the government ban all of 4chan's competitors.
There are numerous videos of robots traversing rough ground now. None of them can approximate a human athlete doing the same, yet. But I remember when the same was true of the best chess programs versus humans, and now the one on my phone can beat an international grand master.
I have my photos on my personal computer and some of them on my external hdd. I manage and edit them with lightroom.
I backup everything from time to time on two external hdds with rustic.
I export albums to google photos and personal (mine and my gf) stuff on onedrive. But it's only exports - lower resolution and after-edit jpgs.

[edit] only time I lost some image was because I have waited too long to copy it from my camera to the computer :)
how many elections have you voted in? they're all like that.
I think no chance that Tim Sweeney sells Epic.

Unity is a public company and I think would benefit immensely from being acquired by Microsoft.
Out of all the physical phenomena we know about, EM (various aspects of it, radio or lasers or whatever) is the best way to transmit information across space.

Tachyons are fictional, there's no reason to assume they exist. Gravitational waves require exceptionally large amounts of energy to generate; we can't transmit with them, and for a more advanced civilization which does have that capability, using the same amount of energy for a focused/directional EM transmission would be much easier to detect; because gravitational waves (unlike EM) radiate equally in all directions but EM can be directed to a particular recipient. Neutrinos are similar to EM but worse, as their transmission/power characteristics are pretty much the same but it's very difficult to detect them.
I think it's strange how realized accidents (i.e. that actually happened) are not factored in at all when people discuss FSD beta. Though FSD beta has been out for over a year I can't find much about for example people dying as a result of FSD beta.
Believe it or not Lamborghini for instance does make a tractor that is pretty beefy https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu/ I would not be surprised to see Tesla enter that market some time down the road
I hope they clean up Blizzard. It's been sad to hear everything - my best friend growing up got a dream job there a few years ago, and it's sad to hear how his childhood dream got crushed by a toxic management team (he loved just about everyone he directly worked with, including his boss).
I had parsnip ice cream at an upscale place in Dublin once. Not too bad. Same place had a sumac sorbet that was divine.
Thanks for the questions!

- If you'd enable E2EE for the Matrix client that you pass to Matrix-CRDT, key management is covered in the same way that Matrix does it normally. If key sharing with a particular user is broken, then you won't see updates from that user anymore and v.v. Basically, the transport between you and that user is broken. As CRDTs such as Yjs are designed specifically to work Local-first, at the core there is no assumption that all clients should always be connected to each other. Once the clients are able to communicate again, potential conflicts would be "resolved" according to the CRDT design.

- Redacting: yes, basically you need to trust clients not to fiddle with messages (I think this is fair as you trust them to work with you on the same data already)

- UX / communication: good question! Technically would be possible to purge old (deleted data), but I think this is still something we need to explore together while we start to see more mature software built on these technologies.

- Kevin already answered your performance questions. Matrix-CRDT makes an additional optimization so that not the entire history of the Matrix room needs to be retrieved (see "Snapshots" in the readme)
> (BTW, all benchmarks in all languages appear to be running on 4 cores, so it's not that weird for Julia to set NUM_THREADS to 4.)

Yeah, every language is using 4 threads: Java, C++, etc. The odd one out is Python not multithreading because GIL. Getting mad at Julia because Python is an outlier in a benchmark that's not maintained by Julia people is a very weird response to say the least.
Let's hope their lawyers don't read HN. :-)
I have about 1 TB of family photos and videos.

Copy 1: Desktop Computer

Copy 2: Backup 8 TB USB Hard Disk, always online

Copy 3: Backup 1 TB USB Hard Disk #1, always unplugged, rotated with #2

Copy 4: Backup 1 TB USB Hard Disk #2, always unplugged, rotated with #1

Copy 5: Microsoft Onedrive (Pay for 1.2 TB Storage)

Copy 6: Amazon Photos (unlimited photo storage for free with Prime)

Main purpose of the unplugged offline storage is in case of ransomware attack which could conceivably wipe out my online and cloud backups.
> This strategy is shameless expediency on the behalf of "society"

Sure, but the forces pushing this anti-science sentiment are doing it based on shameless expediency on behalf of themselves as owners or their shareholders.

What’s completely bewildering to me is the strange idea that ignoring the provably present virus, would in any way whatsoever improve society, least of all from a business perspective!?!

Like, obviously from an extremely naive and ignorant perspective, you would defend your revenue stream in the absolutely immediate short term, far above actual human lives, the real question is why the hell are people actually defending and even espousing this kind of textbook fascism???

It’s absolutely ludicrous…
> It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

I haven't "got mine" yet and tend to disagree when people propose to lock me out of upper-middle class lifestyle by taxing the hell out of my income. It is more like people like you who "got theirs" want to pull the ladder up.
How to see the results?
"Think of the children" is often abused, but that doesn't mean everyone claiming to want to protect child welfare is acting in bad faith, regardless of thought-terminating cliches like "think of the children" and "pearl clutching". It's entirely likely many of the politicans who support this move have genuine concerns. They are probably misguided, but not, I think, malicious.
It was [flagged] it was [dead] which sometimes happens on new accounts for reasons I don’t quite understand.

I thought it was to discourage throwaways, but others have noted they’ve created throwaways without the “auto-dead” behavior.
Halo is probably the closest thing they have to a Marioesque IP.
It wouldn't be the first time that something indefensibly stupid is afforded legal protection, see DRM.
Would be nice to be able to see it in action to get a better sense of it.

Belgium has had smartcard-based e-ID for nearly two decades now (and they've recently added alternative forms of authentication for some services). It hasn't been a terribly great success. People do use it, if reluctantly.

My biggest gripe with it is that whenever I have to authenticate or sign anything, I have no way of verifying what exactly I'm signing. I'm asked to enter a PIN, after which something is signed on the eID. But did I really just authenticate to the VAT service? Or did I agree to sell my first born child to Satan? I have no way to tell.
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I'm not sure if it's as much a bottleneck in Postgres as it is in MySQL, but I've just written a tome[1] on more effective offset/limit pagination by using something called a deferred join.

The main problem with offset / limit pagination is that the database is forced to fetch and discard more and more rows as you get deeper into the pages.

The trick to getting offset / limit to be faster is to reduce the amount of data that the database has to inspect.

Using a "deferred join" defers the expensive data access until after the pagination has been calculated.

So instead of

select * from contacts order by updated_at desc limit 15 offset 10000

you'd do

select * from contacts inner join (
select id from contacts order by updated_at desc limit 15 offset 10000
) as tmp using(id)
order by updated_at desc

That way the inner query can use a covering index to pull everything it needs (in some cases) and the expensive selecting is done on fewer rows.

This works especially well when you intend to select a lot of data and when you're filtering / sorting on more than just the primary key.

[1] https://aaronfrancis.com/2022/efficient-pagination-using-def...
Twitter expands misinformation reporting feature to more international markets
It is officially one "team" now https://eyeo.com/teaming-up-for-new-products-the-teams-behin...

Historically, it always seemed like it was one company though as Adblock codebase has been based on Adblock plus codebase for years, and they both use Acceptable ads.

Edit to avoid confusion: Fake "uBlock" (not to be confused with uBlock Origin) is owned by AdBlock https://www.ublock.org/blog/an-update-on-ublock/
I'm Canadian so judge my opinion accordingly. If you're employed / well off, the US has a world class healthcare system. Canada's public healthcare is not very good, and we have no real private options. People who can afford to routinely go the the US for tests and treatment. We (canadians) like to gloat about our great system, and maybe it's ok for some things, but bottom line, no matter your personal priorities or ability to pay, you're in the same line for government run services as everyone else. Some people may agree with that, but probably less so when they can't get the help they need.

I know there are lots of insurance shenanigans I'm probably glossing over, but I still wouldn't rule out the US on the grounds of healthcare if you have a good job / career
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I think the defence is the market speaking. I'm not going to regularly use a browser that I can't do ad-blocking in (or, indeed, other extensions), and I'm not going to recommend it to other people. The browsers technically-minded people install for their family and friends do really make a difference.
Iirc Lamborghini started as a tractor company
To each their own, but starting with FM synthesis over subtractive synthesis (particularly when it's an $800 box in question) seems to me like a good way to frustrate the average person. Now, the Digitone is no DX7 when it comes to complexity, but I've always felt like additive/FM synthesis just completely went over the layman's head. I love FM synthesis for the outright insane stuff that you can build with it, but subtractive synths have always filled the knob-twiddling hole in my heart. Once you know the basic components, you can dial in pretty much anything you can think of with a good degree of confidence.

My recommended beginners synth would probably be the Behringer Neutron [0]. You can often find it used/on sale for less than a third of the price of a Digitone, and it's a design that "grows" pretty well for the average learner. You can already get a ton of mileage out of default configuration, but then it also has a patch bay that would make your Mother-32 turn green with jealousy.

[0] https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0CM5
Yes. Because most of us on HN are not their target demographic. You have to understand the average Netflix viewer is not a hacker nerd but a middle aged mom who watches Emily in Paris (their most popular show of 2020). :D
hah I love the brightly colored loud-ass bird point. That is spot on.
Regarding your either/or line of reasoning in your first paragraph. Are you sure these are the only two possibilities? Could there be partial dependence on the current state of one’s mind and environment? Does the same exact state always lead to the same exact decision? That is, if a universe began exactly as ours did and everything was the same up until time t when a decision is made by someone is that decision always the same? It seems to be to yes and that would support your view but does it have to be yes.

Also, I wonder if your either/or line of reasoning depends on the Law of the Excluded middle. What happens to your reasoning if that law is not true?
But is it a good deal?

Wrt Blizzard specifically, where is the amazing company that designed Warcraft, Starcraft, WoW, ...

I find their recent offering ... bland.
> this would be enough to forever turn me off the ruling Conservative party

Welcome to every conservative party in every country. They're all terrible humans
I dont think anyone is saying that crypto is a bigger problem than those things. Just that its also not the solution to those things that we keep being promised it is (or will be).

Maybe in time, crypto will die out as a fad and come back again, and then it might stand a chance. I highly doubt it'll fix all those problems, but it could be a legitimate decentralised currency (for good or for bad, thats up to you to decide). But right now, its seen pretty much seen as a vehicle for investment, a get-rich-quick scheme, which is completely at odds with its use as a legitimate currency
Ah yes I don't buy a ton of games, and I see sales all the time for Steam, like seeing $40 games for $10.
We do so because money is artificially scarce. There are plenty of games (like minecraft or prosperous universe) where you have everything you could possibly want at the end which then marks the start of a sandbox mode within the survival mode. Humanity is kinda like that, but once we are in sandbox mode, we don't like it and destroy the sandbox. It's like starting a new game.
The needle has been moved massively in NYC, California, Hawaii, all places where you need a permit just to exercise a right. The supreme court hasn't struck down the need for a permit to exercise a right (just to buy pistol in NYC or Hawaii).

Nowhere in the country can you just drill the third hole in an AR and go at it without asking for permission.

Nowhere in the country can someone with a federal felony [except some white collar trading crimes] exercise their second amendment right, even if all tehy did was illegally import a lobster.

Nowhere in the country can you saw a 16 inch barrel down one inch without asking daddy for permission.

Several states now require universal background check just to exercise a right (own a firearm). None of this has been strucken by supreme court.

2A is dead, now we just have a legacy of fairly liberal gun laws in certain circumstances and states.
Yes, the problem is that the reliance on these few engines is a worrying form of concentration in itself. Especially for the Unreal engine, which is used aggressively to push the Epic games store. How independent are they really when they're so dependent on a single software vendor?

And, to my eyes, Epic uses openly monopolistic practices: they drop the license fee for the engine if you use their game store.
> Intel's internal manufacturing operations must earn Intel's business, in competition against every other fab-as-a-service provider in the world, including TSMC.

I think this might be an interesting retrospective application of The Innovator's Solution's 'be willing to cannibalize revenue streams in-order to avoid disruption.'
If you made software that took a legally obtained copy of "The Hobbit", modified it locally according to a scripted patch, then displayed that to the user, then that would be similar. Adblocking happens locally. This is similar to game mods.
The UK under its current government is unfortunately a failed state..
but docs website is literally in the menu in 1 click and at the end of the landing page you have all the FAQ and one more time the link to docs - cant see any hamburgers or other noises to get needed info
Sure, but does it sound more challenging to invest in a spin off company than an integrated arm that will deliver revenue from inside and outside business? I am sure the shareholders would be more agreeable to the latter. Especially when there is enough demand for chip making to be almost certain that it will not be a huge money loser.

To invest Intel's money in a spinoff fab company while losing strategic control over its direction and have little to gain from its success doesn't feel all that attractive to me.
This will be interesting to see. If Steam Deck becomes a successful device, I believe the Xbox division will release a mobile device to compete with Nintendo.
I own two older Teslas, so I don't have FSD, only the previous gen autopilot. I am still a big fan of Tesla in general and hope they continue to push forward with FSD, but I will point out one very big hole in the statistics quoted above.

The 1 in 4.31m statistic counts only actual crashes. To get a better sense of the actual risk, I believe you need to consider how many incidents would have resulted in a crash if the driver did not take over and correct for the FSD's mistake.
DirectX, too.
Afer a scheduled datacenter migration enom has still issues with their DNS services. It's now more than 3 days and counting. It took them more than 2 days to even acknowledge the issues. For those two days DNS wasn't resolving for some domains using their DNS servers. For some customers it wasn't possible to login to their DNS management console to change the primary DNS servers.

I would never do business with them voluntary but I got an domain registered with them through Google Workspace (back then called Google Apps) almost ten years ago. My guess would be that the affected Google customers alone may be in the thousands. It took them more than two days to get the DNS resolving again, which meant not even email was working since the MX records just vanished.

It's just a total shitshow. I'm now waiting for getting an Auth Code to transfer my domain to another registrar.
> But then that isn't interproccess communication.

It is. It may not be _generic_ IPC, but it is IPC all the same. E.g., this is how postgres does IPC across its processes.

> that is local to the process tree and won't work

Isn't that what SHM is for? But, oh I see, you're willfully ignoring the fact that SHM keys _are not file paths_. So, yeah, I guess in _your_ world, non-file-backed IPC can't work.

> If your boss said ...

Sucks to be your boss, since _you_ don't get the fact that SHM keys and the filesystem are entirely separate namespaces.
Indian man started walking again after Covid vaccine
The only way to generate a significant EMP is with a nuclear weapon, at which point you have bigger problems than drone swarms. Non-nuclear EMP weapons do exist but the effects don't extend very far.
Well, to be blunt, my sister in law definitely explained to her 11-year-old daughter that sending pictures of her vagina to strangers wasn't a good idea. Kids don't listen.
I wonder if we could make it backfire by setting up a similar campaign "No Place to Hide for MPs" for them to stop using WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted systems[1]. Demanding total transparency in their communications, in an effort to avoid them dodging their own rules.

If done quickly and sent to the newspapers this could maybe discredit that campaign?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
DBD doesn't really have any solutions to any of this other than "free software"
Also rds caps out around 20k IOPS. You can hit 1 million IOPS on a large machine with a bunch of SSDs. Imagine running 50 rds databases instead of 1.

It's a huge bummer that EBS is the only durable block storage in aws since the performance is so bad. Has anyone had luck using instance storage? The aws white papers make it seem like you could lose data there for any number of reasons, but the performance is so much better. Maybe a synchronous replica in a different AZ?
Is it possible to transfer a nft without divulging the underlying content to anyone but the buyer?
I think dehumanizing people is harmful regardless of the reason. And I agree, the holocaust equivalencies are just as harmful.
You can get better performance than an M1, but you are not getting anything else with the performance and battery life. Except maybe the M2.

If you want an actual ultra portable, you are getting a Mac.
I guess my point, and my issue with this take, is that "you gamers" is kind of a useless identifier. Most people who play games are going to stick to the blockbusters, like most people who go to the movies stick to the blockbusters.

And the same complaints hold true in film, where people argue that studios are just taking the safer, more profitable path. But the people who make those complaints aren't the audience that the studios/publishers are targeting, and they are a minority in the larger market as a whole.

I mean, don't get me wrong, there are indie games or whatever that break out or break the mold; Stardew Valley has sold 15 million copies since it launched in early access in 2016, and though I think the CoD game from that year sold more, I guarantee you there are more people still playing SV than CoD: Infinite Warfare. But Activision made their buck and moved on, and that strategy continues to work for them.
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Free will implies agency, and isn't disproved by predictability. I love pizza and hamburgers, and just because you can predict that I will eat either pizza or hamburgers with 95+% likelihood, that does not imply that I did not actively choose one of the two. I had the freedom to choose tofu, I just decided not to because I hate it.
Can't wait for an Overwatch 2 Developer Update that starts with "Hi, I'm Jeff from the Microsoft team."
Germany has copyright laws like virtually all countries do, and it was party to the Berne Convention.

Its copyright laws are in the Gesetz über Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte. It just doesn't call them that. The main difference I believe is that they're not totally transferable and it doesn't have the work for hire doctrine, but it gives the author of a work the exclusive right to reproduce that work, i.e., the right to copy it and to delegate that right.
I'm already wondering why these trillion dollar companies are allowed to make pretty much any acquisitions at all, let alone ones pretty clearly aimed at vertical integration.
The high-end Alder Lake parts - particularly the 12900K - are terrible energy hogs. But as you move down the stack, efficiency improves a lot while performance remains very competitive with AMD parts in the same price bracket.
Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb