skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basic self protection of the interent is don't click on suspicious links.

You still haven't explained why you think it's suspicious. You keep getting close and then avoiding actually explaining; is it PDFs that are suspicious? Raw IPs? Unencrypted HTTP? Describing it as "manga"?
There is absolutely no reason to assume that nuclear energy will be cheaper than wind and solar. For hydrogen production the "base load!!" argument doesn't apply either. You can just produce hydrogen when power is plentiful.
Here is one way to disable "FLoC"

chrome://settings/privacySandbox

Evolution from FLoC

FLoC ended its experiment in July of 2021. We've received valuable feedback from the community^1 and integrated it into the Topics API design. A highlight of the changes, and why they were made, are listed below:

FLoC didn't actually use Federated learning, so why was it named Federated Learning of Cohorts?

This is true. The intent had been to integrate federated learning into FLOC but we found that on-device computation offered enough utility and better privacy.

FLoC added too much fingerprinting data to the ecosystem

The Topics API significantly reduces the amount of cross-site identifiable information. The coarseness of the topics makes each topic a very weak signal; different sites receiving different topics further dilutes its utility for fingerprinting.

Stakeholders wanted the API to provide more user transparency

The Topics API uses a human-readable taxonomy which allows users to recognize which topics are being sent (e.g., in UX).

Stakeholders wanted the API to provide more user controls

With a topic taxonomy, browsers can offer a way (though browser UX may vary) for users to control which topics they want to include

The Topics API will have a user opt-out mechanism

FLoC cohorts might be sensitive

FLoC cohorts had unknown meaning. The Topics API, unlike FLoC, exposes a curated list of topics that are chosen to avoid sensitive topics. It may be possible that topics, or groups of topics, are statistically correlatable with sensitive categories. This is not ideal, but it's a statistical inference and considerably less than what can be learned from cookies (e.g., cross-site user identifier and full-context of the visited sites which includes the full url and the contents of the pages).

FLoC shouldn't automatically include browsing activity from sites with ads on them (as FLoC did in its initial experiment)

To be eligible for generating users' topics, sites wil have to use the API.

https://github.com/jkarlin/topics

It is remarkable to me that Google can freely experiment on whomever they wish. If the experiments demonstrate negative effects, e.g., generation of execssive amounts of fingerprinting, it's unfortunate for those who were swept up in these "experiments".

Why not ask users if they want to volunteer to particpate in a trial/experiment.

Imagine if drug companies did not obtain permission to test their compounds on new patients. Instead they just substituted the new drug into what they sold on the market. Same label. Chrome is Chrome, right. Nevermind all the undisclosed variations and experiments. For example, "field trials" identified by only a number. This is hardly informed disclosure and consent.

1. This is amusing. What users were solicited for feedback. Perhaps they are referring to some surveillance they conducted, looking for mentions of FLoC.
A small school district removed a book because it contained some profanity that made some parents uncomfortable.

Is this supposed to be more important than the massive changes that states like California have quietly pushed through over the last year? How am I supposed to take this incident seriously?
Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. It obfuscates transactions while keeping the technical perks of a decentralized ledger.
I interviewed a few years ago for a contract position. After the interview the recruiter was talking to me and said this was a contract to hire. After six months or so, when I felt ready to be hired, I could switch (don't remember the process) but once I become full-time they would immediately expect me to work at least 60 hours per week.
something being used for massive financial speculation doesn't make it a store of value or a trusted unit of account.
The only book you need to get a solid foundation in Linear Algebra is Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler. Not only a very good book on LinAlg, but a very good book on any topic.
My friend first moved to Hong Kong since they had a strong crypto community and something to do with regulations. After the recent issues with China in HK he moved base to Dubai . He told me it’s something to do with regulations of crypto - I don’t understand too much of it tbh.
The analogy I like is that you have a net and you need to catch luck in that net to succeed. Naturally, you want the area of your net to be as large as possible to have the most chance of catching luck. There are a lot of things that can increase the size your net. One of them being working hard.
I realize this is specific to having an interface that makes it easy, but I find it valuable to step through each commit in a larger merge review. I'm not a fan of how e.g. bitbucket doesn't make it easy to browse the commit contents .
It wasn't banned. It's just no longer mandatory to read.
The biggest performance trap they had was copying all their strings in a really hot loop to a vector of characters. I'm not sure what we could do to steer people away from that...
I am fully vaccinated and, as I'm typing this, recovering from COVID.

Do tell me more about this vaccine/disease exclusivity. I must be doing something wrong.
Rich Hickey, the creator of the programming language Clojure, once talked about the human capacity for juggling and how that actual physical limitation is something that cannot be overcome. Someone can juggle 3, 4, or 20 or more objects, but there is a finite limit to it. https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?t=735

And in that same vein, the actual physical limitations of what we can juggle in our minds is fallible. So with the leverage that we get with digital note-taking tools, we think that we may be able to cross that chasm with this technology.

Then there's this elusive HOLY GRAIL, which we all think can actually be realized if we find the right tools to solve this problem of off-loading our thinking — so we can do more thinking. Basically, if the notes can be remembered for us, almost automatically, then we can go deeper in ways we never could have imagined, because we're not the ones doing the juggling. We've made use of the digital tools, that are leaps and bounds more powerful than the scattered and siloed, handwritten notes of yesterday.

So as new ways of connecting our thinking through digital writing, such as bi-directional linking and transclusion become commonplace, we get glimmers that maybe it's possible now. And the hunting down of just the right mixture of this primitive, and that feature-set, may turn over the right stones to help us juggle that which used to be impossible.

And in my experience leading and coaching people through implementing a digital Zettelkasten (simple, lightweight note-taking system) it doesn't take a genius to see a pattern from the response to "what do you want?"

The answers all circle around this idea of "leaving something behind."
Isn't that just as risky as relying on Facebook? What if Telegram one day decides to nuke your channel?
Homegrown developers: better than shop bought
Yes, PSU is the Power Supply Unit. They are known for failing when they are turned back on after a power is lost.
The Quest 2 largely eliminated the screen door effect. I think what you’re seeing in Netflix is that the stream is only 480P because Netflix refuses to update their app.

The big issue is that VR is meant to be social. I find multiplayer VR a lot more enjoyable than single player VR or multiplayer on other video game platforms.
How good is their 50 euro package? I wanna try it just for fun and dicking around.
you need to take the cost/benefit. Computers may use a lot of energy but they're essentially the nervous system of collective humanity now - they're eminently useful. Cryptocurrencies on the other hand - their primary utility is taking person A's money and giving it to person B without producing any beneficial side effects.
Essentially, at the moment, over-collateralized loans. Deposit $100 and borrow $90, if you pay back $95 by tomorrow you get your original $100 back. There's actually some really cool and complex financial instruments you can build by combining these and the nature of atomic transactions on the blockchain (you can take a loan and pay it back in the same transaction while using the money in other txs to get a profit, it's really weird HFT).
> Why be afraid of fraud on blockchain? In the case of DeFi the contracts are technically readable (though EVM is not a good platform for readability; if you can't name projects which have fixed this you don't have the right to make fun of "its early"), and those that cannot read contracts for whatever reason are fully aware of the risk they take - when more versed people agree in unison there are no inbuilt scams the laymen can remove their risk.

Being readable will not stop bugs. This is the history of software engineering. Heartbleed went unnoticed for years, for instance. Putting the onus on the participants to verify a bug-free smart contract is kind of absurd if you ask me. It's just not possible and definitely won't scale.
Amidst this positive news, note that Wire does not allow you to export your chat data, if you ever decide it’s not for you. I recall that this was an explicit decision by the company. Its backups are also platform specific. So if you switch from one mobile platform to another (or between desktop platforms or any other combination), you can’t restore your chats from a backup.

I still like that Wire doesn’t require a phone number, is multi platform and syncs conversations across all devices. But the above caveats meant that I had to stop using it.
Who says disabled people can't be productive? That's awful.

Who says only the disabled have poor output? That's silly.
> People on here love promoting dedicated servers over cloud VMs, but it’s so much easier for this sort of thing to go wrong with dedicated hosting.

Well yeah, different tradeoffs; many people believe that dedicated has more advantages than disadvantages. That doesn't mean zero disadvantages.
Formal methods doesn't necessarily mean that you're building the right thing which catches quite a few projects out. I do really enjoy getting to work with them though :D
If you don't have another provider option, you stand to lose Internet as a utility for your residence, which many would consider a pretty poor situation.
But the cloud is...full of crap that wastes ton of my time. Simple ass server saves a lot of time.

The cloud is also too damn expensive.

People are getting ripped off big time and don't want to be embarrassed by the truth, plane and simple.
I think every company talks about how much better it is to work there compared to Amazon.

The sample is obviously very biased, since I mostly hear from people who left, but after listening to ex-employees talk about being there, I'm inclined to believe them.
> It is as rare as being 7 feet tall, sadly.

Objectively not true? Not even close to true.

I guarantee you there are many orders of magnitude more people in the world who understand recursion and that understand pointers than there are people who are 7 feet tall. Being 7 feet tall is extremely rare, and building a functioning C app is not.

The average height of an NBA player at the highest level of the sport is under 7 feet.

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I don't understand why we're all commenting under this thread accepting the premise that good programmers are rare. They're not, look at the size of the industry and the output. The only way this argument makes sense is if you redefine "good" to mean something incredibly exclusionary, and even if you do it's impossible to argue that none of the software coming out of the industry is producing any value for users or solving any problems that they have.

> And without understanding indirection and recursion, the most you'll ever do is ...well..not much...

How do you think we have a software industry at all if you're claiming that both:

A) only an extreme minority of the population (<1 in a million) is capable of understanding very basic concepts like pointers, and also

B) it's impossible to build useful tools without them.

One of those two things has to be false, or you have to explain to me why the entire software industry hasn't collapsed by now from lack of talent and lack of output.
Like what games?
My first thought was "MAN... that's a lot of PSUs"
When starting, yes it's easy to replace code, even with a shitty design. If it had to take more than ten hundred thousands lines of code to realize that the design is wrong, then it means the author lacks enough awareness or foresight to plan ahead, and no amount of planning will fix that. Code should be replaced/rewritten if the earliest signs faulty design show up, which should be trivial if the code was and remains "disposable".
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I'm not in the US, I'm in Australia. My wife & I, we own a house. If you trace back the legal chain of title, eventually it originates in a land grant issued by the colonial Governor of New South Wales in the name of the British monarch – and the British monarch's claim of ownership is based on Captain James Cook claiming the east coast of Australia in 1770 in the name of King George III. But, it wasn't unoccupied land – the indigenous peoples lived here, and they saw the land as theirs. In some other places (such as New Zealand or parts of North America), the British negotiated treaties with the indigenous inhabitants to acquire land from them – the fairness of those treaties is often contested, and the British having acquired the land often ignored and violated the other provisions of the treaty – but, in Australia, there were never any treaties with the indigenous peoples, the British saw them as too uncivilised for that, the British Empire just moved in and took over. So, if legal title based on theft is invalid, and our own legal title ultimately originates in the British Empire's theft of land from the indigenous – does it follow that my wife & I don't actually own this house (or at least not the land it is built on), even though we've paid several hundred thousand dollars for it?

Wherever you are in South America, isn't it the same story? The Europeans (the Spanish or Portuguese or whoever) moved in, stole the land from the indigenous peoples, then divided it up and gave or sold it to European colonists, and it has been on-sold and repeatedly subdivided since – so if land titles founded on theft are invalid, land titles where you are must be just as invalid as those over here.
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What if the author said something slightly problematic on Twitter 14 years ago, would that be a good justification for banning their book?

Rednecks stopped being the biggest laughing stock in this country years ago.
These kinds of educational manga have been quite common in where I grew up in and I devoured them one after the other. Never though I was “studying” but still got a good broad picture of the topic. I think that’s how education should be! I get so annoyed at how utterly boring my school was.

I’ve been thinking about drawing something similar for software engineering and have a draft for introducing Apache Kafka that I want to publish some day.
> has any idea of what Twitter is detecting as spam and what not, and thus can't actually judge how good a job is being done.

That's wrong. Results can be seen even if the process is not transparent. If every bridge the engineer builds collapses, I can judge him without looking into all the drawings. If every business the entrepreneur runs collapses I can make conclusions from that, even without seeing the books. If there's a lot of garbage on Twitter, I can judge it's doing a bad job even if I don't get to see its algorithms.
Youtube proposed me that one, which was really nice too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR80Huxp4y8
Curve.finance just executed a $280M swap with 0.0443904% slippage
> Eventually, the driver called back and claimed he was with his girlfriend. He told McNulty that he didn't know that she could track her while he was going to "see my lady." He told her that he could make it the next day if he hustled, and she suggested that he did.

I wonder if his own iPhone ratted him out, not that it wasn't coming his way.
Only half way through and this is epic. Written beautifully. Thank you.
That’s not how probability works
Time loops are a weird genre for an anxious time
I’m going to disagree about VR being “more limiting than pancake games”. Even formerly mundane things such as hitting or shooting an opponent become eye opening because the player is now actually performing those actions as opposed to directing an avatar to do the same with buttons and a joystick. Immersion is just much better. Also VR players still have access to joysticks and buttons, so you’re not limited to what VR players can do physically.

As for low res screens, looking at tech history it’s only a matter of time before it gets “faster, better, and cheaper”.
What I meant in my initial comment was progressive as in the more you own, the more you pay. Say, 0% on a primary dwelling, and an extra 5% every new dwelling. The point is to punish hoarders, not to punish homebuyers.
Sometimes a change of perspective, or a new piece of information can revitalize a song that was 100% dead to you. For example, I would ALWAYS turn the station / hit skip when I heard Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel, since I overdosed on it as a teen in the late 80s. I lately found out that Cecelia is the patron saint of musicians, which completely changed the song for me and it is new again.

Likewise as an adult I found out about the romantic drama within Fleetwood Mac, and the Rumors album was resurrected for me. I really hope something like this happens to me again, it's a great feeling.
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> If an oracle relies on a single source of truth (centralized), that can lead to issues: the data source can be hacked in a man-in-the-middle attack, or altered by its owner, in order to sway smart contracts. Decentralized oracles (consensus oracles) increase the reliability of the information provided to smart contracts by querying multiple data sources, thus distributing trust between participants. However, this does not achieve trustlessness, since oracles are not part of the main blockchain consensus, and thus not part of the security mechanisms of public blockchains.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Blockchain_oracle
True, there are many metrics for intelligence. Humans also couldn’t do multiplication or division until we collectively had free time and a need to figure it out. Multiplication and division is not innate to our species, it’s something we learned and then wrote down.

Our species also knows how to make glass and refined metals and styrofoam and various concrete/mortar/brick formations. I doubt that anyone is an expert in all of the above and that most people in the developed world can only hope to obtain these things by going out and purchasing it from a store.

Furthermore, putting a bunch of intelligent but completely uneducated humans on an island is unlikely to result in a colony that understands multiplication and division in the next 100 or maybe even 1000 years.

Once humans are put into that setting (zero education), we are no longer comfortably at the top of the food-chain.
I like this concept. Why don’t you just use README.md as the content? Then a lot of awesome list can easily be imported to Encycla.
> Corporate ownership of SFHs is so small to not matter

People keep saying this and quoting total ownership figures, which is probably what Blackrock and co wanted. Look at actual purchases in the last 2 years instead. Blackrock has bought nearly 50% of all SFH sales in my area in the last year.

It's no coincidence that corporate buying percentages shot up with the prices.
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One important thing to understand is the "metaverse" these companies are trying to build for is both VR and AR. Not solely VR.
The loss of local journalism is definitely a contributing factor to this. Politicians are much more willing get away with stuff if they know there's not a reporter in the back of the city council meeting taking notes.
I found the password to my teacher's eBoard[1] in 4th grade (a five digit code) and started changing things as a practical joke. Then I started seeing more five digit codes just written on Post-it notes…

[1] https://www.eboard.com
Everyone knows you measure PSU life in dog years. 154 years is a damn good run!
How do you differentiate between a datastore and database?
Because it has already made several orders of magnitude more money than an amount it would know what to do with?

I don't understand this whole idea of keeping on increasing your profits when you already make enough money thousand times over.
No one has to take it seriously if they don't want to, they just have to avoid chiding people for jumping to baseless conclusions while they simultaneously describe the situation in a way that is entirely fictional.

"Okay, the explanation of events given was completely wrong, but nevertheless it fits the general theme of overreaction" is not really avoiding a narrative.
Both are exact disciplines that rely on making tools and abstractions as a away to solve problems, knowing how to combine your skills to form new skills, because you are often in a novel situation that doesn't match experience.
Toyota sales grow 10.6% as firm retains global best-seller title
The argument you're presenting is an inherently political one but you're talking about it as though these ideas are new and haven't been debated already.

Yes, we're aware that capitalism has a lot of things that look a lot like crypto. Do you know what? Those are the worst parts of capitalism. You're describing artificial scarcity. You're seeing large sums of money go to things you don't personally value and that probably don't deserve as much as more noble efforts. Is it fair? Fuck no. Does that somehow merit _more_ of it? Absolutely not.

Arguing against these inherently political notions with regard to crypto is _exhausting_. You are basically implying that other people who don't get on board are hypocrites when the fact is that reality is so much more nuanced than these low-effort reactionary whataboutisms and many people see that as clear as day.
More States Are Banning Legally Imported Cars and Nobody Will Say Why
How are you seeing ads in Brave? I don't see anything. I believe you have to turn them on, no?
The IRS Should Stop Using Facial Recognition
Which high performance game engine is single threaded? To my knowledge they're all multithreaded and heavily pipelined.
How can the EU break up a US company?
Does anyone not have trouble navigating Jira? I play Europa Universalis 4[0], and I feel like Jira is more complicated.

0: https://external-preview.redd.it/at0EwQpHU6A3xyU0KW80bc3aVMZ...
Is the font rendering awful for anyone else? Firefox on Windows fwiw
My mom taught programming in the 80s, and the first thing she told students was: "Computers are stupid. They only do exactly what you tell them to do." People have to get over the misconception that computers can think.

Maybe it was easier in the days of DOS, because merely using a computer required the same precision.
It's not Elon Musk, but a funny read nonetheless!
However, you acquired three identical items. The lump sum changes each time. You are not sure which of five different purchases these items belong to. How do you determine how much was paid?