skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the last few years the Real has dropped about 50% compared to gold and the dollar.
Serious question:

We know Snowden took a LOT of documents related to spying on US citizens. I only remember seeing a few things that were released publicly. Is there still a lot more stuff he's going to release, or has released, just without much fanfare?

I'm genuinely curious because I remember people on both sides really freaked out about what he was going to release and I just haven't seen the supposed troves of information he was going to release.

Is it mainly just because its irrelevant so many years on now?
Really depends on the company, as others have said.

I've been remote for a couple of years and for last year, I got an extremely good performance rating - which gets harder the more senior you are. I also made sure my manager knew of my efforts, did lots of demos throughout the year, and led efforts with visibility.

Part of this is just knowing the management system, knowing your own manager, and saying the right stuff. The soft skills.

It may also be helpful if the company you work for is already distributed across the globe. It increases the chance that everyone is remote to each other, especially due to the pandemic.
Ontario court freezes access to donations for truckers' protest from GiveSendGo
The data is compartmentalized, he probably did not have an easy way to exfiltrate it. He had a good portion of NSA data available without too much suspicion, due to his position. Most CIA or NSA employees did not ever get that much access. There's probably a motivation factor as well.
Is it my imagination or has France lately been trying hard to be more noticeable on the world stage? I feel as if the soured sub deal pissed them off. Now they seem to be wanting to be seen as a bigger world power.
Death of Bilibili content auditor revives debate on China’s overwork culture
Ask HN: Is Twitter Space a better choice for community engagement?
We used to host Zoom meetings for open office hours with the open-source contributors and end-users. I notice more and more people start to hold audio chats on Twitter Spaces. Do you think it is a better choice for community engagement?
It only lasts as long as the battery does, plus 24 hours (as in, the location will be visible for 24 hours but won't update after the battery is dead; after 24 hours Apple hides the last known location).

Even then, it is unreliable. The last time my son misplaced his iPad (a week ago), after I put it back on the charger it didn't start beeping (I had told it to make a sound via Find My) until about 12 hours after it was turned back on. Simultaneously I got the notification that it had been found. Not too impressive, IMO.

An AirTag, though, would have its own rechargeable battery and would be able to locate the iPad for a year after it got lost. In my ideal implementation it would work just like a regular AirTag, the only difference being a circuit to keep the battery charged, and being embedded inside the case of the iPad.
Ha looks like there's a drone flying around watching the thing get stacked at night

Twin launch music composed by Vangelis /s

Wow, hope they keep succeeding as they have
Wouldn’t be that the %96 should be doing their counter intelligence? I don’t see how CIA has an obligation over non-US citizens.

I tend to believe that EU’s privacy stance is primarily to do that. They are trying to forge a framework where free market can operate but keep the Europeans data in EU, under the EU jurisdiction.

Europe and US are allies but they are also competitors. It’s not wise to let foreign entities run you communications.

When the US fir the first time encountered that with TikTok, the first instinct was to ban it, I.e. the China way.

I like the EU way better.
German woman uses an AirTag to find a government arm that doesn't exist
Surely the creator could have made more money by serving ads or something. I doubt the NYT paid them the full lifetime value of the site.

And anyway, isn't the NYT supposed to be reporting news or something? Since when has the most prestigious newspaper become a hub for fooling around?
Agreed, and I hope they don't lose too much of that as they continue to grow.

My personal experience - I found an issue with a certain DNS query type returning incorrect results and opened a ticket. The first reply was a confirmation of the bug with dig output and then passing it on to the DNS team who fixed it in a matter of days. At most other companies you'd need a personal contact to get that kind of response.
Me and my peer group seem to be using Twitter more than anything these days (early 30s) - but not how you'd think.

We seem to all browse it to find interesting news/articles and then share them on WhatsApp groups. Having said that we all follow politics pretty closely so maybe we are a bit niche?

I actually get a lot of value out of twitter. Way more than I used to do with Facebook, which is just total trash now and my habit of checking it all the time has actually stopped simply because the content was so poor I seem to have inadvertently trained my brain out of expecting a dopamine hit scrolling through it.
Why do we need to fly 3 months to some inhospitable planet that is in worse condition than Earth would be (even after nuclear wars and global warming) to make progress?

I suppose there's an idea we could apply everything done on Mars to Earth, but like... seriously, what we just took all the prep for mars and just put it in the middle of the Empty Quarter, the Saraha, Antarctica?

People barely want to live in the arctic circle, yet believe that our salvation comes in Mars? I would love to see all the energy put into space exploration to simply be put in rehabilitating existing land.
I wrote this tool[1] to help me create a CA, generate certificates, and automatically renew them

https://github.com/galenguyer/hancock
Or maybe because the people who ordered delivery ordered first. Why shouldn't they be served first?

I would be pissed off if my order got delayed because they prioritized someone in the restaurant who came in after I ordered.

FIFO/queue has been around forever in F & B.
That's... all my projects. I learned a long time ago that I don't want to build anything for anyone other than myself, or if someone has already paid me. I open source them because it doesn't cost me anything and I want to cooperate with others and share as general principle. Is that weird now?
Improved market segmentation is never to the consumer's benefit.
Table 2: Words known better by males than by females, and vice versa
My former employer did coding assessments for roles of that type, although the expectations were very different than for a software development role. For these kinds of roles, the coding test was on the level of fizzbuzz, is a string a palindrome, or a fairly routine scripting task.
My biggest hold-out for using C# at a medium-sized company would still be how awful Projects and Solutions are, when working with a big team.

I'd have to develop my own tooling, first.
I think by now it is pretty well known that content moderators working for platforms like Facebook suffer burnout, PTSD, and other mental illnesses due to their work[0]. This article is superficial but presents a look at similar workers in China, which I think is probably outside the consciousness of many HNers. It's interesting that the article only mentions overwork, not the mental toll of content moderation.

[0]: way too many sources to cite; example: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/2/25/18229714/cog...
My project Globemallow.io.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/globemallow/jibhio...

A few years ago I learned about how large of a CO2 pollutant the Internet is, and I became extremely fascinated with that concept because I had never thought about it before. In fact, a lot of people haven't it seems.

I researched sustainable methodologies for internet development, and created the Chrome Extensions listed under Globemallow.io. To help people become more aware.

It shows users a rough estimation of their internet browsing energy usage, and CO2 emissions emitted.

Globemallow Dev view shows sustainable development best practices, and how a page has implemented them.

Check it out, and give any feedback. Thanks in advance!
This is an illusion of control.
Once someone doesn’t follow some guideline or makes a mistake somewhere.
Would you come again with an article saying: oh it’s safe, if only we didn’t do X or Y or Z…
Yes if only…

Elevation of sea levels (and rivers), elevation of temperature lead to plants downtimes because either the plants can’t be cooled down or the water level is too high for safe operations.
So it has its own intermittences.

The other issue is nuclear waste. A small one.

I would prefer them to put a higher effort on the Tokamak iter and develop orbital plants with microwave lenses.
https://theconversation.com/cubas-covid-vaccines-the-limited... makes me think if they can do it under economic pressure due to sanctions, so anybody without these constraints should do even better. If not they are just scammers, trying to ride the wave until it breaks.
That seems to be a clone of OG Wordle
Kickit.dev – handle app version upgrades with ease
KickIt allows app developers to target specific versions when integrated with the SDK or via the API. This is particularly useful because it allows developers to focus on building features and not worry about handling operational matters.
> I think he said launch windows only come around every 2 years. He is either planning on building thousands of Starships or taking many years.

The window to Mars opens every two years or so, but it doesn't need to start at the ground. You can park the payloads in orbit over months or years waiting for the chance to boost to mars. The vehicles themselves are intended to be just shuttles (in the way that the actual Space Shuttle, ironically, was not).
Most apps charge <5% for pickup orders and that includes stuff like credit card commissions. Unless the restaurant has a team of software engineers on staff full time they aren't getting anything for cheaper than that. I don't know of any restaurant in my area that even takes orders over the phone or through their own site. They will simply say "order on Doordash".
Don’t you have to seed the PAYG account with a non-zero amount of money to initially get the number? Even a few dollars multiplied out becomes a significant spend if it’s a unique number per bot.
> A nuclear power plant that comes online in 5 years

The article says 6 facilities, of which just one is expected to be operational in 15 years. I think this is the reason nobody except France is pushing nuclear. Starting today, by the time your first nuclear plant comes online, you will have been forced to deploy an alternative making it redundant. People make the case for nuclear being cost effective today, but I don't see any predictions about it being cost effective in 15+ years either.
This always blows my mind, "Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than"

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
Your quotation can't be extolled enough.

As a mere undergraduate in the early '90s, reading about Omnivore (and later Carnivore and later Total Information Awareness and its subsequent refinements) and the ineffectual vituperations against them, I thought that the retrenchment was only apparent, a moving back to take yet another run at the dream of omniscient preemption and thereby control.

Today, nothing dies. Everything simply becomes more subtle. There is no single head to urge into the guillotine. Is there a way out, or be there no exit?

What's left to do? Knock over one's king man on the board? How's that for cynicism?

edit: for the down-voting Panglosians: give me your reason rather than mouse-clicks.
Apparently GiveSendGo tweeted:

> Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.

but it seems the Superior Court of Justice disagrees with that legal theory.
Do relational models support sum types? I find them an essential feature in programming languages, nearly as important as structs or rows.
It absolutely doesn’t imply grow at all costs.

And, you seem to think GDP is consumer goods, but GDP is what pays for social safety nets, healthcare, etc.
It would attract too much attention carrying an axe around for no reason and Dilbert Grady's family massacre might be the largest ever where only an axe was used and using the axe was mostly for theatrical effect. with a gun, an 8-year-old can probably easily murder a dozen adults. I am not for gun banning anywhere but I don't like likening guns to knives or sticks or stones. It seems no different from likening riding an aircrafts to walking on one's legs.
I would also like to know that.
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You’re right.

It’s so frustrating to see this kind of thoughtless Apple criticism based on brand only when they so many things that are actually bad.

AirTags are better in nearly every way to the competition. They have considered design factors, like privacy, that no one else has. Yet, they are the bad guys that should never have released this product.

Apple should be releasing products like this. They offer significant improvements over their competitors because they consider more than pure profit seeking. AirTags without privacy protection is the same as everything else available, is cheaper to make and easier to design.

I like Apple pushing the bar here. Because their products are perfect, and balance different trade offs, they encourage other manufacturers to fill those gaps. This is a win that wasn’t happening when Tile was the dominant player.
I'm working on a programming puzzle game with 2D sprite graphics where every object in the game has an API and can be interacted with programmatically. Every level can be completed either autonomously (i.e. scripting player movement/actions) or non-autonomously (using i.e. WASD to manually move around and perform actions). It's a game where you work smarter, not harder - if a level seems tedious at first blush, it means you haven't thought about how to automate the tedium with programming:

https://www.bryanpg.com/games/pragma_twice

I plan on doing a Kickstarter this year just for fun, but even if it doesn't get funded I'll still continue to work on it.
This concept of "used to" vs "understand" reminds me of an interview with Feynman where IIRC he explains how can magnetism work at a distance to a layman person. He discusses about the "why" questions and how you keep getting deeper and deeper each time you ask "why". He concludes that his explanations won’t be satisfying for the other person, saying "I can’t explain this to you in terms you are more familiar with". I thought it was interesting and related. I’ll try to find that video.
Interestingly enough, Brits used to also have right to own and bear arms, but they lost it in early 20th century. That’s what happens with freedom, if you don’t watch it.
Gave me good cause to pivot from finance to technology in 2012, resulted in making literally 5x more than I would have likely made.

Got me a strong introduction to multiple jobs. One of which really transformed my career. (Twitter is a much better LinkedIn than LinkedIn)

Exposed me to really interesting thinkers which fundamentally altered what I pursue in life.

Told my COVID was coming in early 2020, shorted the US market and made ~$35k.

Got me off mainstream media and made me deeply pessimistic about both political parties but really optimistic about the future.
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I dunno man... I think that giving an entity the ability to perform operations upon itself and thereby changing it, looks neat in these examples but scales poorly in a sufficiently commplex codebase. You could express exactly the same thing but get a lot more bullet proof code if you separate out the thing doing the action from the thing you are acting upon. You could have the thing doing the action return the updated version of the thing you wanted to do said operation upon and its unambiguous what has happened. So something like (psuedocode):

transferredEmployee = employeeService.transfer(employee, department);

IMO this forces a certain style of coding that ages better and requires keeping less stuff in your head.

My two cents. Have a good one!
From my reading of his biography by Ashlee Vance, with imperfect recollection, Musk has always stuttered/struggled with his speech.
magit alone is almost worth the price of admission.
The middle man I'm talking about is the one operating in mutiple jurisdictions, so that the "true" seller or buyer doesn't have to (like a importer usually works, buy stuff in a place and brings it to another), what you are talking about is like the shipping company, storage facility owner that rents it out to the importer and stuff like that and those people do get in trouble if they try to get in the middle of the investigation (it would be the same if eg aws did not comply with a judge order of providing the name of who is operating a site so they can get a notice about the illegal stuff they are hosting/providing to users in Germany).
I wouldn't bother with journals unless you really need it on your resume to get a research gig
"Right wing violence and extremism are the real world threat in America..." let me just ask you can you tell us how many people died in 2021 due to right wing violence and extremism? Meanwhile, in Chicago, "According to the department, 2021 ended with 797 homicides. That is 25 more than were recorded 2020, 299 more than in 2019 and the most since 1996. And there were 3,561 shooting incidents in 2021, which is just over 300 more than were recorded in 2020 and a staggering 1,415 more shooting incidents than were recorded in the city in 2019." https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2021-ends-as-chicagos-...
I’ve been doing public speaking for many years, and I’ve never gotten particularly good at it.

Not my strong suit. My writing is fairly decent, though.
You cannot make both criticisms and remain internally consistent in your argument. Either you do know what is in the data or you can't know what's in the data.

You cannot argue both, and yet you continue to try. Nothing else in your comment follows, since this does not follow.
It’s helpful to remember it’s not a zero sum game. We can do all of that too. The tech for Mars would make it that much easier.

No one wants to live in those places because currently they have a choice. But if our planet becomes irradiated, or hit by a meteor, or suffers a sun burst — all very realistic concerns — then those choices become more limited. And it’s good to have options.
From a government standpoint it's better to control the release of this kind of information rather than a Snowden type disclosure. Reminds me of how the Obama administration CIA disclosed they had secret assassination kill-lists which included American citizens. This was done through a Friday release of a NYT page 6 article that casually mentioned this in a single sentence buried in text.
I'm curious about how sponsorblock works - how does it prevent malicious users from submitting fake segments to skip?
Inflation was an example, and "the nonsense I'm bringing into the discussion because I don't feel listened to" is the statement I made in the first comment that you replied to that started this thread.

Anyway, unless you're going to reply to a statement I made, answer a question I asked or actually state your disagreement with anything I've said there's not a discussion here to be had.
It’s honestly pretty silly to expect to track down thieves because they stole something with a tracking device in it. Are you really going to chase a thief and confront them? Do you really think the police are going to do it for you?
There are many more fun details to the whole story. For example the judge had taken the case files to her house to keep them hidden there, in one panel decision a singular judge voted twice because he could only find one other judge willing to go along, the way I obtained certain info from court staffers was by showing up in person walking in crutches which I actually didn't need, some legal filings had appropriate chess endgame problems for a cover page, and so on.

Nobody expects you to handle your cases like a tech venture, where we only really care for high-variance outcomes and not the simple wins...
https://feelings.earth/

Visualization of what the people of Twitter are feeling right now across the globe (or at least the ones who have geolocation enabled :)). It's fun to have it up on a monitor in the background to periodically gaze at.

I'm an Engineering Director and can rarely justify finding time to code anything significant during my day job these days, so this was my cut-loose-and-have-fun project over ~a weekend. Had a blast doing it, and then rewriting it half a dozen "cool" frameworks ranging from NextJS to RemixRun.

(It works on mobile, but much nicer on desktop)
I have a friend who works in the energy sector and has a strong focus on solar. He's talked about this as a major issue for a few years. I don't know if it's inevitable, but would influence a lot of industry policy.

https://www.energynetworks.com.au/news/energy-insider/the-de...

Early adopters of solar here had very strong feed-in tariffs, but these are non-existent now for new sign-ups because otherwise energy companies were paying out more and more, while still having the same grid/maintenance costs. It disincentivises people from upgrading their solar capacity too. If you got 3-5kW way back, but upgrade to 10kW now, you lose your lucrative feed-in tariff.

Going back many years, I remember my grandfather risking his health because he was scared of unpredictable electricity bills should he run his A/C. That's probably an argument against smart metering, at least for the elderly.

There's often talk of distributed battery systems. e.g., trial programs where houses with solar and batteries pool efforts.

Regardless, for every household that effectively goes offgrid, it leaves the fewer, remaining customers paying for the same powerlines and facilities. Solar uptake is about 30-40% here, from memory.
Killing someone with a nuclear bomb is illegal too but it’s also illegal for you to buy a nuclear bomb.
Not C# itself, but I'd love to see XNA come back, or Monogame get support from Microsoft, or something.
It might not be better, but at least i don't need a dictionary to understand what it is all about, I just need to read it again and sort out the words in my head.
There's a 2,000 year old document that claims we're in a recreation of a long dead world from within a world to come by a being that self-established in light and everything we see around us is just that creator's light in the images of what existed before.

It says souls that depended on bodies were screwed and it's better to be a recreation - that the whole point of the recreation is to provide an afterlife for the dead.

At the time it was written, it went over everyone's heads and eventually even devolved into Gnosticism.

But it seems very pertinent in an age where we stand on the cusp of having AI self-evolve and are heavily investing into photonics for AI, and are then employing our nacent AI to bring photos of great grandparents "to life" and Microsoft was even granted a patent on resurrecting the dead using social media data and AI.

Even the best software authors tend to put in Easter Eggs. I see no reason why the creator of a simulation wouldn't have put in some obscure lore that breaks the 4th wall on the nature of it.
The average voter prefers to base his/her opinion on a soundbyte. And I don't blame them people have actual lives and loved ones nobody has time to waste on democracy.
Difficult? Not so much. Demanding a yet another great firewall on the other hand sounds absolutely atrocious to me.