skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've posted this in a reply comment but here's a top level comment as well.

The main reason I dislike Postman is not actually the web based interface, but the fact it keeps its data files to itself to try and push teams to using their cloud offerings.

If a HTTP client stores its requests and configuration as a plain text file, it becomes really easy to manage it alongside a codebase and share between teams. But alas.

That said, I have seen a paid version of postman be used in a company and it worked really well. But it's an expense.

An alternative is what is mentioned in the top comment at this time, VS Code's Rest Client or Intellij's built-in rest client, which use plain text files (.http files) with plain text based HTTP request definitions. Those can be executed directly, without hidden functionality, and stored / updated / diffed in git.

Another alternative - but this is restricted to HTTP based APIs - is Swagger/OpenAPI combined with Swagger-UI, which is both a documentation page and a demo page. The UX isn't the best, but it works very well imo.
I agree with most of what you wrote up to this point:

> He's a super smart and prescient thinker, so he can see VR is a good play

He made a school yearbook on the internet and copied some features from existing social networks like MySpace. Facebook was just in the right place at the right time and executed well.

The jury is very much still out on whether "VR is a good play", too. It might turn out to be a gigantic over-marketed gimmick like blockchain has.
It appears to actually be setting cookies in order to work. I turned off uBlock and it worked after refresh. Then I turned back on uBlock and refreshed, and it continued to work. Then I cleared my cookies and it stopped working again.
You may think you've deleted your FB account, but its probably still there...

I "deleted" my FB after they acquired FriendFeed (still the best social network I've ever come across) back in 2009.

I was puzzled, then, to receive an email in November last year asking if I had tried to log in. "Impossible", I thought, "that account was deleted!". So, I visited Facebook, and because my old username/password were still in my password manager, I was able to log in! Imagine my shock to find my old profile, still there with it's old profile pic, my old connections, etc.

When will "delete my account" actually mean my account is deleted?

(The final kick in the nuts to this story is that within 2 minutes of logging in, I get a chirpy, "Welcome back to Facebook!" email. Fuckers.)
Surveillance capitalism and privacy will always be at odds.
Without being facesious just don't use Brave. If I was going to use anything other than Firefox it would probably Vivaldi.
I don't think it's going to die as quickly as you think - it's a pretty sticky product. The network effects that made it attractive might kill it pretty fast when they evaporate, but it's going to be a major player in adtech for at least a decade, which might just give it time to be "saved" by some of the plays they're now pivoting towards.

On the ethics thing: they introduced some mechanisms around this, but the appointment of Nick Clegg to drive this as head of "Global Affairs" was always an eyebrow-raiser for those even slightly politically aware in the UK, and predictably less effective than FB management needed him to be (note: I voted Lib Dem in 2010 because I believed in his leadership - it's what he did next that showed the warning signs).

I think another quarter of decline and we might see a major shake-up, and I wouldn't be amazed to see Whatsapp getting payment (including crypto) functionality as a bit of Hail Mary to build another social network moat.
Your experience depends on the bank issuing CC, there are good and bad ones. The cheaper / no annual fees ones also generally have poorest service, the best experience I have had is with AMEX. Even without any actual thefts I have had rollbacks go through smoothly no questions asked, the onus is on seller to prove service was rendered.

Crypto world has little recourse for any sort of fraud, people rarely keep money on their own wallet, it is usually a wallet managed by the exchange which are vulnerable to technical hacks, frauds and scams and are just as bad or worse than a bank when it comes to service. Even if you keep your money in your own cold private wallet, the private key can be easily lost, so many stories about millions of dollars in BTC locked forever with private keys misplaced.
I agree, once I had that time with my only apple device I was constantly looking for settings/tweaks/hacks to disable most of default annoyances. Most of them required hacking through the system files as there is almost none of available options to configure
3mm is about a third of total tread depth, and 1% of the tire's radius. Why wouldn't this be detectable? ABS sensors tend to have 48-tooth tone rings and there's no reason why you couldn't vastly increase this number if you wanted.

Longitudinal tire slip is caused by thrust in excess of the tire's grip, which is a function of slip speed among many other things. Grip peaks with a mild amount of slip, but slip isn't the norm outside of racing. Mild acceleration produces zero slip.

Lateral slip angle is a different story.
The CGI got better for each movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2v8atzt5c

I don't think there's anything wrong with how he looks but the subtle over-fluidity of his movement. It's especially bad in the first shot when he's just swaying around most unnaturally. He's completely out of focus so there's nothing the rendering is doing wrong but the motion immediately alerts the brain that this isn't real.
IDK, in countries where industrial growing of (low-THC) hemp is a thing and hemp gets used for manufacturing products, it is not "higher quality paper at a lower price", it's still a niche product for specific uses (e.g. as cigarette paper) because it's not cheaper. IIRC growing/harvesting/processing of the fiber is quite similar to linen, and so the resulting product costs are comparable to linen cloth, not wood pulp paper; industrial hemp gets used in ropes and bags but gets only limited application as paper even if it's fully legal to try.
There is no stamp system but relatively recently some cool people in Romania have also launched a hiking trail that I found quite interesting, Via Transilvanica. The guide can be downloaded from here [1] and the trail in its entirety looks something like this: [2]. I highly recommend it for those who are into hiking/long walking and who are in this general area.

[1] https://www.viatransilvanica.com/ghid

[2] https://www.mesagerulhunedorean.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...
Even though it isn't entirely open source?
RIP the meaning of the word "protocol", which died after a long illness in February 2022.
> Find some Category Theorists to talk to instead.

Most mathematicians are also category theorists today. They were the ones who invented category theory in the first place and today it is a basic topic most takes in grad school and then used just about everywhere.
DeFi is “decentralized” in that saying so increases its price.
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Doesn't seem to work... It depends on odd bits and even bits having the same distribution, which in many cases they won't.
It also came at a bad time, in that there was froth in the market and a phase transition in sentiment was triggered.
> serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family

This is outrageously absurd a human has been put in prison, let alone for 25 years, for such a bullshit reason. Many murderers and rapists in many countries get less.
> Netflix has somehow attracted a lot of really good ones

$400k+ cash and no junior engineers can’t hurt.
If there only was a way to monetize users without getting into ever-shadier ad-tech and dark patterns...

I was really sad the day that WhatsApp stopped charging money.
Yes, but you insisted that the loans were profitable, not that they had "a couple billion dollars in opportunity cost". There is a difference between profit and loss.
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> Admittedly, it's hard to kill another person by voting

I'm not so sure about that.
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I use protonmail for email

Mullvlad for VPN

Brave as my browser

Odysee for deplatformed content

and Yandex as my search engine
What percentage you think that speculative wealth would be sitting in hedge funds if crypto was not a thing?
Anyone remember that Next
Big Thing was supposed to be 3D TVs? I think VR is similarly misguided (ie, will never go mainstream but will have a healthy niche).
If you live in Europe, you can contact the facebook DPO and request a (legally mandated) hard delete.

They're then allowed to keep data for legal reasons (tax, legal intercept, etc) but not beyond.
You also get to specialize harder. You’ll be able to move into more advanced programming styles.
I’m thinking of formally verifiable C/C++ programs for safety critical applications, and code using advanced concepts from programming language theory.

The programming languages of the future are going to make Rust look like Python. That’ll be in part because you as an individual programmer aren’t weighed down by as much boilerplate as you were pre-copilot, pre-alphacode and pre- the more advanced coding assistants of the future.
I'm getting "You are blocked" banner! I'm trying to access from CHN, India.
That seems irrelevant for the statistics, though? It doesn‘t give the Tesla driver an advantage.
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> All my lights have a physical switch or button.

Maybe it's just the UK, but I struggle to find any suitable physical switches that both look like a normal light switch but also function with smart devices.

I understand the benefits of some automation, but if there isn't a 'normal' switch that works completely 'as expected' for the family to use, it's not worth the trouble.
Wouldn't it be possible to have a binary containing multiple versions of your program compiled optimized for various CPU configuration and have a switch at runtime which would select depending on your CPUid. I think intel have a compiler for that.
Bingo. In enterprise environments audio is vastly more valuable than video for searching internal meeting and discussion recordings.

Often a recording title is not enough.
Fuck ads anyway
> I don't see any settings or buttons to push related to this.

Yes, there is. Just don't turn on the ad rewards.

The ad matching is anonymized, so it can't really tell where jamesdwilson is really connecting from. All it can know is that there is one device that connected from one place but wants to claim that is has seen an ad intended for another country.

Imagine if you are responsible for the "ad confirmation" service and your job is to ensure that there is no abuse of the ad delivery. Do you think it would be okay for it to issue the ad confirmation to your device? How would you design a system that could avoid fake viewers?
There are trains that transport cars.
Thank you. This was well explanined. Once again thanks for this. I am learning and will continue learning Python and Js. However, when I decide to pick a static language I will definielty be going for Go.
> I also came back married

That's indeed a sore spot that doesn't go away :)
Speaking as someone who deleted his Facebook account years ago, a positive that FB brings to the world is ubiquitous and easy sharing of personal information with the public. With an FB account, you can keep in touch with even casual acquaintances, perhaps forming a connection. That's pretty deep, and a net positive for humanity, and fulfills the promise of the internet.

I predict that what we call "social media" today - this specific aspect of ubiquitous human connection - will continue long after FB is gone and forgotten. I foresee that the ultimate successor will likely be more of a protocol like RSS or FOAF that various platforms can plug into, rather than another web app you log into, owned by yet another monetizing corporation.
Misleading title.
They don't want you to use a VPN if you plan on watching ads to earn money, which is widely accepted as the norm, and absolutely necessary to fight ad fraud.

It's way too easy to fire up 1000's of cloud instances with brave browsers watching ads automatically all day.

If you don't care about earning a few bucks a months then use a vpn.
They were profitable. They collected more money than they lent out on a dollar to dollar basis.
I should also add... when I was young, music from the 50s was dated. When I was starting a company, startups from the 90s felt dated. Yet we are all recycling the same concepts and emotions and hooks and human longing, in a marketing sense, just using one generation's innocence after another, so they all feel like they're new and they're the first. You can't build on a platform like that. In a pissant way that's why facebook doesn't matter, but in a bigger way it's why you need to teach children to see patterns, not just objects of good and bad.
> which is something you should be terrified of

The use of that word "terrified" in American journalism is mildly annoying, and baffling to me (Slate is also a big culprit). What's with this?

If someone threatens me with a deadly weapon I may get terrified (IDK, never happened yet), but I'm not "terrified" of any future event regarding society, the world, or my life.

Terror is clear and present danger; it's unclear to me how any hypothetical event placed in the future could ever induce terror today.
Both Cruise and Waymo have remote operators who can direct the cars when they phone home.

Here's an example Vogt discusses a bit:
https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8?t=202

...of course this brings up many other problems, like network connectivity and inter-city transport, which the companies have as far as I know not commented on. IMO the sensible solution is obviously to just require passengers be able to take over if given plenty of warning, but for whatever reason Cruise isn't doing this.
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I don't understand the recent Brave hype to be honest. Shut third party ad and data companies out, try to capture the entire stack, with some BAT tokens slapped on top to monetize. It's like the crypto street-dealer version of Apple.
Don't worry, it's trash on Windows too. From weird bugs like the Play/Pause media keys stopping/resuming the Teams call tune (even after meetings), to crap like clicking on images requiring a reload.
I think you’re missing the point that…
Damn, I got nothing
I don't mean to sound like a smartarse here but there would be if more ppl stopped using FB (which seems to be the trend anyway).
The timeline for consumer level glasses with ar + vr will begin shipping 2023. "Apple" level ones 2025. These devices will be as ubiquitious as the smartphone or earbuds.
This is Interesting. I have Ads. But I dont see any Sponsored or Suggested Post. I suspect this is specific to certain demographics or Americans?
Hi romzmr

It looks like a interesting concept, and website looking good !

I played a bit with it, and I often have no results it that normal?
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I just tried, it sounded like Klingon. If you can pronounce it easily, then all I can say is

“Glory to you and your house”
I like letting the user pick a webpage's font. But I've noticed that most users don't customize their default fonts, resulting in sans-serif mapping to Arial (unstylish), and monospace mapping to Courier New on Firefox (painfully thin to read). And on Android you can't install fonts to your browser, though it's less of a problem because the default Roboto font is actually decent.
I think opening their video amounts to asking for their content.
Clickbaity title, it implies that the browser itself somehow doesn’t want users to use VPN. That’s untrue.

This is just about Brave Ads, an optional component some users opt in to. VPNs are used for ad fraud and may reduce traffic quality, so it’s understandable that they turn off ads for some VPN users.

I’ve been using Brave for over a year and always use VPN.
I've tried just asking for zip instead of city and state but then watch people as they type their city and state into the address line. Also theoretically people may mistype their zip and you'll have no way to validate it against what they typed in the city/state. The best is the auto-fill from some list of all valid addresses I'd say.
Don't understand why you are being downvoted. Your answer describes the issue perfectly.
Full (way to long) title: Inside Microsoft's mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company's metaverse strategy

side-note: I'm kind of annoyed how all the media now pretends "metaverse" is a thing and the label to use, just because meta is pushing it.
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The problem with accumulating ever more money is that it becomes ever harder to invest properly and try and beat the market.
As someone who actually hiked that trail: I think the author is just missing the point: yes the whole system could be improved, that´s correct, but that´s not IMPORTANT!
Collecting the stamps is just to motivate people, give them a feeling of accomplishment. You can opt for not getting a single stamp, but collecting them is just part of a tradition, which has it´s roots way back before the socialist era. Also note: this is whole thing is jut run by a bunch of volunteers in their free time, and they for sure spend their own money to do so.
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I never thought about that. Like soros’ market reflexivity, but for science.

Makes a lot of sense.
I did student journalism and had to submit all my articles in 11pt Garamond. Not because the editors couldn’t just convert before typesetting, but because they could at a glance know if your article would fit the assigned column space.

This in turn would affect how the story was edited and written. Sentences reworded or sometimes entirely cut to fit the given space.

Writing in Garamond to begin with made sure you didn’t go over that limit in the first place.
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[spoilers for puzzle number 2]

Got it in 2 today after getting only a green × for ab×c+d. I thought the solution was the only other thing that matched, although my friends found another one.

It feels really harsh that if the answer includes ab×c and you type c×ab it doesn't count - they're the same sum!
They don't transmit between satellites right now, and even if they did they'd still want to minimize that bandwidth and keep any transmissions that they can one hop.

One station feeds about one state on average, and I doubt they're feeding everything through that one connection.
> The best aspect is seeing pics of people's kids. You can't fault that.

I can. I think it's unfair of parents to post their children's images on the web, which are then being stockpiled by FB in perpetuity.
You just deactivated your FB account.

Deleting FB account is slightly more complicated. After you have deleted it, don't try to login for months to check out if it's gone.

To permanently delete your account:

1. From your main profile, click account in the top right of Facebook.

2. Select Settings & Privacy, then click Settings.

3. Click Your Facebook Information in the left column. If you have Facebook access to a page in the new Pages experience: Click Privacy, then click Your Facebook Information.

4. Click Deactivation and Deletion.

6. Choose Delete Account, then click Continue to Account Deletion.

7. Click Delete Account, enter your password and then click Continue.
The acquisition strategy could have worked going forwards, seeing as there's not much anti-trust will in the U.S. against M&A, but the problem is that they missed the chance to buy musical.ly (bought for $1 billion by ByteDance in 2017) which became TikTok. If they had made this acquisition they would be in a very different position.

Looking at my teenage kids and their friends, they barely use Instagram (let alone Facebook), it's all about TikTok.
What are you thinking makes them consumer level? Just cheaper? Because price isn’t the main problem.
Yes, the draws from the random distribution must be uncorrelated. But the mentioned algorithm does indeed a "flat" output in this case.
" so that "banks getting a bailout" isn't possible since the currency control of Bitcoin doesn't allow printing it out of thin air for"

?

What part of 'the economy would crash and burn' do people not understand?

The banks would have gone down like dominoes and taken the entire system with it. This isn't 'fear mongering' it's basically just math, you can see how the system is connected and what will happen.

That's what happens when systems are tightly intertwined. We could entirely firewall them, but then they wouldn't be remotely as efficient.

The fallacy of 'Hard Currency' is that people think we can avoid these problems with some extant construct, like 'Gold' or 'Digital Proof' but that doesn't solve the problem at all.

Economies are integrated systems that have to be regulated as best we can there is just no way around it.

'Hard Currency' is an 'instinct' that develops into an ideology that just doesn't hold up.

Far from 'weakly enforced regulations' most Western nations have very well and strongly enforced regulatory regimes. There are rules upon rules about what is allowed and what is not.

Securities Regulation are maybe a bit iffy, particularly insider trading, but that's only one thing.

The only way to avoid the problems we saw in 2008 would be to have more effective regulation of the parts of that system that failed, crypto won't save us there.

Finally, the banks were bailed out mostly with loans which they paid back, not free money. If there was a big funny business bailout, it was the mortgages that the Fed accepted as collateral at face value, which was more or less a bailout of homeowners, related to the fact the issue was with homes, not so much currency.
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I believe the first and most crucial step was Brad asking his wife if she was ok with it.
Does a FedEx package transfer to the other country's Post Office? My experience is that a package sent by FedEx arrives with FedEx. Standard Post would be the equivalent to SMS in that it's everywhere, and private companies would be the other apps, right?

Then the equivalent to your identifiable address would be your phone number. Except if you want something more anonymous, which is then more complicated. Just the same with the Post example...
And perhaps as ubiquitous as Google Glass.
Hi,

I am a senior scientiste and I faced the same problem until I discovered zettelkasten method.

Several tools implement this method. A famous web based one is Roam Research, but I personally use an emacs mode called org-roam. It allows for structuring notes with links and back -links, bibliographic or web references, web pages or images capture and a graphical notes constellation navigation. As it based on org-mode, it is also possible to insert code blocks (with a lot of accessible programming langages) which can be interpreted directly within emacs (there is a lot of documentation about this feature that toi could fond through a web Research on 'reproducible research').
Some people use a complementary mode wich works like Anki cards in order visit and memorize your notes on a daily basis.

I hope it could correspond to your needs.
Also, math is universal. A study can be true in one place and false in another; a proof cannot. This is another barrier to replication.
VR seems more interactive and way stickier, I don’t think you can necessarily compare it to 3D TVs, in the same way a computer and TV are very different.

Having said that, I’m also skeptical of the whole metaverse thing, as we had that stuff a long time ago already (Second Life) and it was a flop. VR needs to become extremely ubiquitous and hassle-free for such a thing to work.