skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over regulation is a big part of how this mess was created in the first place. Go read about Stockholm’s housing U̶t̶o̶p̶i̶a̶ hellscape to see the future you’d create.
I think it's a suite of dev tools for making metaverses. At least that's my impression.
> FSD/Autopilot does not stay on or prevent human interaction.

I'm not aware of Tesla specifics, but i've previously read several stories on HN of car computers who wouldn't let the driver be in control. As a computer person who has moderate understanding of mechanics/electronics, i believe unless you have a physical kill switch to take control back from the computer, there is literally no way software can be safe enough that even in a crash you can regain control.

I mean apparently you've been around for a while on these forums. You're surely educated that software can never be trusted, especially with life-endangering situations.
My Rocket Experiments
Burning ethanol from syringe and fan from solder iron. Video at the bottom of the page.
I don't believe it has to be about rote memory or repeating any questions verbatim, necessarily. Rather, as with learning from converstation, from the half-conversations in this book one's imagination and knowledge of another person's perspective will already have been sparked to some degree. That, plus having some hint of what is of open interest in different fields, is part of the value.
I feel this practice makes code review a lot easier, not just authoring.
> I can't remember who it was - maybe Stratechery - that theorized that Zuckerberg thanks to his experience running Facebook had a really good intuition for when Social media where going to go far and thus was able to make deals that at first looked wildly overpriced but in the end seemed to be a steal.

It kind of helps when you use a VPN called Onavo to spy on what apps people are using...
Government had a heavy hand in causing the issue and your solution is more government to fix the problem? We need reform.

In general, food in the US is not heavily regulated and that's why we have some of the cheapest and most varied foods in the world.
You could potentially build a cheaper home, but it is extremely unlikely. Individuals almost never have access to small enough plots of land for this to be feasible.

This really only works in the exurbs or rural areas.
> VR gaming sucks.

Someone who spends 1-2 hours a day using Oculus, I wholeheartedly disagree.
Find someone who owns an oversized lot and offer to buy their yard or buy a tear down.
The 7512R at SIX can handle 12. Arista has a 7516R that can hold 16 cards, for a total of 576 100GbE ports.

That's not even Arista's highest capacity switch; the 7816R3 can handle 576x400G:

* https://www.arista.com/en/products/platforms

(I'm sure other vendors have similar product offerings.)
> What I can I do with 100's of millions of dollars worth of tainted ETH ?

You wash them through different coin swap contracts. Even losing $10 million worth, in gas/processing fees, is just 3.125% at the current estimated value.
There is zero significance: it's just expensive cables.
If you're on Linux you will need three things - a copy of the FFVI ROM file (it's left up to the reader to find a copy); a patching program that supports IPS patches, which almost all general web or desktop patchers will; and a SNES emulator. There are several for Linux, but I personally recommend bsnes. It is a very accurate emulator with some nice features, such as displaying Mode7 graphics in higher fidelity (which this game utilizes).
> Try signing up to Coinbase and funnel $320M worth of ETH via that account. They will 100% lock your account and ask for proof of where it comes from. If it comes from after doing a bunch of tumbling, they will go harder against you to prove where it comes from. Any big exchange will do the same diligence as otherwise they themselves will get into trouble with the law.

So cryptocurrencies are decentralized and free of regulation ... right until they aren't?

To be fair, if I walked into my local bank with $320M in cash I'd face the same problem.
I mostly agree, but I'm not convinced they're going to fail at the VR thing. When my mom (she's a grandma) got a headset and loved it. It made me think twice about it being irrelevant.
I think you and GP are talking about different things.

You're saying a lot of so-called technological breakthrough is more hype than substance. The GP is saying that people tend to dismiss actual breakthroughs as mundane stuff. Once $method is published that solves $hardproblem, people comment as if $hardproblem was never hard in the first place, and moves the goalposts a bit saying "if $harderproblem can be solved, then that would be profound".

I think the truth is (obviously) somewhere in between. Btw, I dare you go back to a 1980s programming environment and tell me that the programming paradigm shifts are just hype :D My one-liner python scripts can probably do much more than an average coder writing assembly... and given modern hardware my code runs faster too!
Whoops: The COVID-19-associated mortality rates per 100,000 person-weeks during the first wave of the pandemic were 0.3 in Norway and 2.9 in Sweden
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34609261/
Being a halfway decent landlord is a miserable pain in the ass unless you live or work very close to your rental property. And even then, it's pretty easy to see several months income go up in smoke with even a modest renovation or repair.

The income is nice, but it's anything but "passive" unless your rents are so high that you can afford to pay a management company, and/or you are comfortable being a slumlord.
And still today, with all the advances, Minecraft is a stuttery mess, even with optimisation mods like Optifine
Good luck with that! Plenty of honest people would blink when hearing about that kind of money, let alone all the dishonest ones that would try to persuade you that they're honest.

It's life-changing money.
A bar willing to accept BTC is not "using it as a currency". Some people get paid in BTC too. Or Tesla accepted BTC for a while. They're just investing in BTC automatically. It's not being used as a currency until the same entities are both buying and selling with BTC.

And that assumes they aren't using one of those services that accepts BTC and automatically converts it to USD at the time of the sale.
"money"

We're still talking magical beans here.
For a non-native speaker, this is quite stressful. I imagine my Wordle games take longer than for English-native speakers, but it's still very enjoyable. This... I won't try again.
I'm not even pro cannabis - I recently decided to go completely cold turkey since I realised I was essentially self medicating for other deeper issues and cannabis just gives me brain fog - but I think your comment is pretty nonsensical.

If your brother in law transitioned from marijuana all the way to heroine, chances are his drug abuse was a symptom of deeper underlying problems, not the cause. The solution is education, not criminalisation.
It's heavily regulated and subsidized in NZ and it's also lot more un-affordable here. Since a few years ago we've been allowed to withdraw our version of a 401k to buy houses, to give you an idea of how much the govt has been trying to prop things up.
Nit: Docker runs just fine in WSL on Windows.
Is it just me, or has crypto massively increased the number of "digital bank robberies" taking place? Or did stuff like this commonly happen previously as well, but we just never heard about it?
Because VR is expensive and the value of the experience is limited.

Decent VR experiences require space. Room scale requires, well, pretty much a whole room to play it in. A room free from obstacles. An entire empty room just to play a game. I have one such room, and several times I've found that games still insist on placing objects outside the designated walkable area. Most people do not have an entire room to dedicate to VR.

And most VR experiences really aren't worth it. They're largely novelties rather than something you want to interact with every day. The only exception I've experienced so far is Beat Saber, but even that with it's minimal around-the-room movement frequently has to throw up the guardian because I swung my fist too close to a wall.
Google got interested in crypto because Sergey Brin's son introduced him to Ethereum and Ethereum mining believe it or not.
> 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.

And the fact that the Fed could just QE a bailout is why there's no will to properly regulate or enforce.

It's a double edged sword.

I would have liked to see what would happen in a pandemic if Bitcoin were the world's reserve currency; if no QE were possible to help the suddenly unemployed etc. If / when Bitcoin fails in such a situation, we could see an increase in trust for fiat currencies and government monetary policy. It's a purely hypothetical situation though.
Bring back mid-century urban planning? While we're ignoring history of utopian policies, perhaps we should give eugenics a second chance?
What is "normal"?

What if the everyday person, as a result of now having access to far more information than they did before (post Internet boom), acts in a different way?
I've never been that interested in Bitcoin (save for buying drugs a couple of times) but seeing products named things like "Value4Value" make me actively want to run away from anything that even smells of blockchain.
Misleading graphs: in the results section, figure 1, the y-axis for the first graph ("Score of reading test") starts at 6, which makes it look like the paper medium has double the comprehension score of the smartphone medium -- actually it's only about 9 vs 7.5. A difference for sure, but not nearly as big as it visually appears.
I suspect that a TikTok VR/AR play could push VR usage ahead by quite a bit. Creators could use Kinect cameras to capture their space in 3D, and viewers could project them into their house. VR Chat is already very popular with people who have headsets, but it’s also not a very good experience and is low fidelity.
RIRs have fees:

* https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/

* https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-744

* https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/corporate-documents/docume...
At least in London, this has been a problem for 20-30 years. For most young people, buying a house is becoming an impossibility.

Supply is increasing, but slowly, and there's a limit on how dense people want to have the city.

Demand side looks like the better area to focus. Reducing population would help significantly, combined with taxes/disincentives on second home ownership and vacant properties.

Unfortunately these policies are unpopular with governing parties because:

a) the politicians own property (and often more than one)
b) older people vote, and they tend to be doing well out of the situation

I see a lot of right wing VC folk on twitter calling for massive derugulation of the housing market to grow supply. However, I think there's a strong case to be made that housing and land are different from other parts of the market. People want green space, they don't want high rise everywhere. You cannot (for the most part) make new land.

So, I agree that this problem won't be solved for 20+ years. Declining population is probably our best bet to improve the situation. And of course, young people will move to cheaper areas, particularly when they start families.
Why are you doing a clean build? You can't complain about the difference against binary dependencies if you're manually flushing the cache of built dependencies.

And if you're not doing that, you're either wrong, or have a terrible project structure (comparable to including literally every header in every source file in C++)
Seems a bit overdue, given the US Government has been growing Cannabis in Mississippi FOR OVER 50+ YEARS NOW.

https://news.olemiss.edu/federally-funded-marijuana-turns-50...
I think we’re just going to become mole people tbh. Servants of our above ground geriatric overlords.
Reminds me of when I would frequently get 1 star reviews with the subject “Amazing app! Highly recommended”. So, so frustrating especially when the reviews can have such a big impact.
Yes and no - depending on how strictly you want to define "like Facebook".

Churn (loss of existing users) is normal, and happens all the time to all online platforms. To keep growing overall, any platform needs to acquire more new users than they are loosing old ones in the same time-span.

Facebook has always been loosing large numbers of users - but they've also been acquiring even larger number of users at the same time. In western countries their losses already were larger than their new acquisitions for a while - but they were able to make up for that, by tapping into new markets on other continents.

Also young people are generally unlikely to sign up to the same network that their parents are active in. At a certain age, you just don't think it's cool to have your mom or dad read your postings.

Facebook is running out of new markets to tap into, and is also increasingly surrounded by ever more image damaging controversies. Thus they finally reached the point, where their user churn is higher than their new acquisitions.

All those different factors that play into this - and none of those factors are unique to Facebook. That exact combination of factors might be, though. Most competitors still have new user segments they can expand into, for example.

There is no such thing as infinite growth. You can't just get bigger forever.
Hmm. Does that make the Metaverse the equivalent of THC + Nicotine vape juice?
An Internet eXchange Point (IXP, or IX in some languages) is a physical room or building where network operators meet and exchange trafic. The internet flows on physical cables, but depending on where the data goes different tariffs apply.

As an ISP, you will pay a transit company to transport your traffic to areas/operators you don't have connection to (very expensive, especially for small ISPs who get charged >1€/Mbit/s). So there's an incentive to establish direct connection with other operators your traffic may need to reach: that's what an IXP is for. Typically, you pay a membership fee to pay for services (electricity, network cabling), and then you can exchange traffic with everyone there for free (peering).

So there's really nothing new, unexpected or exciting about this announcement. It's just an ISP getting ready to exchange more traffic with other ISPs.
So?

Facebook is free to pull its app from the App Store if they don't like Apple's policies.
In this case they had publicly posted the bug fix on GitHub hours before the attack.
cheers mate! your work is killer btw :) go hard
> Most people are not nerds like us and prefer to interact with people in person.

People are also glued to phones. Children are making TikTok videos. My point is that people do interact online. The issue with VR is fidelity. It just doesn’t live up to what people imagined yet. Compare what we have to TV series like “Upload” from Amazon.
Apple and Google together can tank just about any mobile platform they wish though, see Parler. If you're off both app stores, you'll have a stupidly hard time growing even if the demand's there in principle.
Have you heard of social engineering?

"Hey, grandma, run this command and press enter and I'll send you the Fountain of Youth™ creme tomorrow."
> more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development

That is shortsighted. Email, which is standards based, has been around for 50 years.

I have a strong sense that Signal won't be around in 2064.
"Over regulation" is an absurd concept: laws are not simply "not enough" or "too much".

What really matters is *what* is allowed and prohibited and who benefits from it.

In many countries regulatory capture led to building and zoning laws that serve to the interest of large investors groups as well as small speculators.

People who have a home as necessity rather than an investment are put at a disadvantage.
I thought that as well before reading.

Now I'm thinking the two things are more complementary.

This project seems like a domain specific web scraper, targeted at common usages found on Wikipedia.

There's so much data in Wikipedia that it's a good target for this.

So one combined use would be scrape Wikipedia to find mentions of e.g. tour de France cyclists and then ensure that they are correctly tagged in wikidata.

The author talks more about wikidata in earlier post in the series about this.
110-160 EUR / hour. cybersecurity for ICS.
Food production is extremely subsidized and that is why it is cheap.
Most of this is false:

1. With a lease and/or two years of prior landlord experience you can use rental income both for existing and projected for new property.

2. For multi unit, if you’re owner occupied you qualify for FHA and therefore can put down as little as 3%

3. You only have to stay in your home for 6 months for refinance and 1 year for initial purchase. The guidelines are loose, and can relocate earlier depending.

That being said, it doesn’t really make sense since most properties in high cost of living areas don’t cash flow well to begin with.
SnapFuzz: New fuzzing tool speeds up testing of network applications
Can Riots Be Just?
> Why is no one ever like “ByteDance is a drug cartel”?

For the same reason that anti-tobacco advocates focus on Phillip Morris and not pipe smokers- its the more well known incarnation of the product. And, frankly, I don't think a lot of people realize that TikTok is a social network. I think a lot of people see a few videos out of context and think it's like YouTube (or at least the older, less big production of Youtube from back in the day)
What is iowait? (Linux/Mac)
What do you mean by "re-tooled"? What changed in 2008?
Not sure why anyone would want to specify a font for content like a blog. To think your taste is more important than peoples preferences and settings seems incredibly self centered, or dare I say narcissistic.
I wasn't paying a lot of attention back then, but from what I've read about it, it was far from the worst decision in the world despite the fact it went against the most basic ideology.

I give it a bit of a free pass because it was a new thing built on top of a new thing, so somewhat of a beta test, which failed, so roll back to a working state.

Not sure what would happen now, although there are regular hacks that no longer see rollbacks.

Also, Ethereum Classic still exists, so that path is still available to those who want to follow it.
Magical beans or not, the market pays for them.
This is incredibly cool. The research video showing the little "robots" placing drops of glue to assemble carbon fibers is AWESOME! I haven't been this excited by an internet video in months.

My immediate thought: how could this be used to make a really cheap desktop pick-and-place system?
Markor + Syncthing are the way!
How can they ever solve the fundamental problem of slow worldwide, globalized, decentralized consensus?

Have I missed some Turing Award discoveries while I was away?
Linkedin does the same thing with email subscriptions every six months. I wish it was made illegal and companies got fined for pulling this crap.
>"I say illusory because writing down notes and tasks feels like you're being productive"

I find tagged notes insanely useful. I can't count enough times when I remember I read something about the subject but have no clue how to find that particular article. Luckily all those end up in whole, clipping and / or link form in my note keeper.
> Apple controls 50+% of American computing.

Do you have a source for this assertion?

That Apple controls more than 50% of American computing seems, well, a bit on the high side.
Exact same story with me. For years the Apple Podcast app was fine and I had no issues with it. One day I didn’t understand the redesign, switched to Overcast and I have been happy ever since.
>This is where philosophy comes in and helps the situation. You find the employees who wouldn't steal because they believe that money isn't everything.

Yes, those mythical spherical virgin monks in a vacuum. Apple has been very vocal about their moral and just employees superiority.

Apple paid millions to woman after repair workers stole nude images of her from her phone and posted them on her Facebook https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-settled-lawsuit-womans...

Authorized repair caught using knockoff screens in customers phones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETVJDUfZ5TM

And the end of the day we are all humans.
> even those were balking at having to have FB accounts

It's been like what, 3 years? that I've been patiently waiting for the UE (or someone, in general) to mandate Facebook to remove mandatory account signup and tie-in, before buying an Oculus Quest (now 2). I don't care if this means I end up not buying and enjoying it at all in the end.

Sadly I guess just a minority have such firm positions when it comes to "vote with your wallet", so in the end the vote ends up being nothing more than a self-imposed punishment. But thankfully VR is just a very superfluous experience for now to be missing it, so I am fine with that.
My suspicion is that it’s the watch that drove the redesign. It only synchronizes podcasts while charging. The watch is also impossible to listen to podcasts with for this reason.
Very cool. Might make for a fun chess board or model train/model city layout.

Edit: Glad he mentioned Carl Bugeja's youtube channel, this instantly brought Carl's work to mind.
Bitcoin, or better, the lightning network on top of bitcoin, simply allows micropayments at a large scale for (almost) free. Breez is a podcast app that also happens to be a bitcoin lightning wallet, but there are others (like Fountain.FM [2]).

The Value 4 Value initiative [1] incentives podcasters by paying an x amount for every second that you listed to a podcast. You can also donate an arbitrary extra amount if you wish.

[1] https://podcastindex.org/podcast/value4value

[2] https://www.fountain.fm/
Not necessarily. Apple tried to push small phones (for various reasons). People refused, and Apple had to cave.
And how many spies Chinese have in US? Probably a lot because you can not stop spies infiltrating your country if you have multicultural society.
And it stops that one important thing being forgotten.

E.g. You having a busy day with 12 fires to fight, you remember 11 but forget that 1 someone text chatted you and you said yes right before person 2 came to your desk and added another etc.

Also I quite like writing a list at the end of the day for tomorrow. For me anyway get the day going well as its laid out there for you fresh, until the new fires arrive!
Roseman Labs | C++ engineer and front-end/UX specialist | Utrecht, The Netherlands (EU work permit required)

We build a software product that enables parties that manage privacy-sensitive data to collaborate and jointly extract insights without having to mutually share the underlying data. Our product is based on secure multiparty computation (MPC), a mature academic subfield of cryptography; MPC is among the most promising privacy enhancing technologies (PETs).

Roseman Labs was founded in March 2020; meanwhile we have a growing customer base and our team consists of 11 people (+ 1 pet).

We are looking for talent to help us further develop the core of this product (C++20 & Computer Science / Math knowledge), as well as intuitive web-based GUIs (JavaScript, Svelte, etc.) tailored to different user roles (privacy officer, data scientist, business owner, etc.).

Core:

- C++20 development on Linux (gcc, clang, concepts, coroutines, etc.)

- asynchronous networking & disk I/O, cooperative multitasking, multi-core

- high performance networking (zero-copy, RSS, ...)

- cryptographic protocols, finite-ring / finite-field arithmetic

- performance benchmarking & optimization

GUI layer:

- Javascript/Typescript

- Svelte

- CSS

- UX

- interaction design

https://www.rosemanlabs.com
jobs@rosemanlabs.com