skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important not to underestimate the intellectual life of ancient cultures. They were humans, with language, and probably had music, stories, traditions, religion, conflict, politics, and more. Methods of oral traditions have been identified that are essentially equivalent to modern memory athlete techniques, hundreds of thousands of factoids could be transferred with very little "bitrot" over generations. There are traditions in Australian aboriginal cultures that go back 40,000 years, and very sophisticated memory techniques that perpetuated their culture.

The relations between tribes near each other would have been as nuanced and varied and sophisticated and weird as any collectives of humans in relation to each other in modern life. "Those asshats downriver are rude, but they trade fair"

Modern life has given us profound advantages over previous generations, but we are basically the exact same kind of creature as plains walking humans from 300k years ago.

The notion of primitive simple hunter gatherer tribes doesn't account for the innate complexity of individuals. Their experience going through life would be the same as ours, we just have better (on most measures) tools and knowledge.
What employer when trying to hire high value people would use Equifax to verify resumes?
I'm making the argument or maybe just an observation that the current financial system has a basis in hard reality whereas blockchain/NFT/metaverse/digital ownership seem to break away from that.

The banks are obviously granted the limited right to create money by the government. Whether it's through regulation post facto or a charter a priori, by now virtually all modern states have a wide control over their banking systems, including setting required reserve rates.
This was the only sane decision they could come to. Google's evil practices are death to any free society and a threat to the national security of any country but the U.S. where the deep-state pimps are busy siphoning Google's data to use against its own citizens. Here in the US we live in what only appears to be a free country where sociopaths, pimps and whores rise to the top and are protected by the DOJ, DHS and the whole alphabet soup of criminal organizations that protect the wealthy and the powerful. The transformation of the country from 1970 to 2022 is stark. We are headed to a dystopia led by the whores at Google.
Everything that uses NAND flash, which ranges from computers to phones to TVs. WD and Kioxia supply chips to the commodity market, not just for their own branded products.

For example 40% of "Brand X" SSD drives might have WD chips, 40% Toshiba chips, and 20% Samsung chips so the manufacturer can get a better price and/or diversify supply. If WD can only supply 25% next quarter orders to Toshiba and Samsung will increase. That will naturally push prices up to some degree.
For my personal projects, I keep my setups simple. Node, React, Typescript. Basically use them with the out of the box builds. It works, I have no need to modify things, and it takes less than an hour to fully setup a new computer.

For work, yeah.... it's a grind. All the custom build tools. Multi-step set up processes. That stuff does take days. But corporate jobs are slow for other reasons too and they're valid reasons. It takes a week or two to make a change at work that would take a few hours at home, due to planning, testing, waiting, approvals, etc. So the build environment is just another annoyance of working in a company that I suck up and deal with.
I agree with you that most internet content and mobile apps could not exist without advertising because they would not be profitable.

But similar to D&D alignments, whether something is profitable is completely orthogonal to whether it is ethical. Human endeavors may be profitable but not ethical, ethical but not profitable, both profitable and ethical, or neither ethical nor profitable.

So I share the parent commenter's concern about people who seem to be claiming that a thing must be ethical because it is necessary to be profitable. It's perfectly possible for a profitable thing to be profitable-good, profitable-neutral, or profitable-evil.
That seems to me like a ridiculous consideration. There are a huge number of devices with similar hole patterns, speakers for example.
It gets worse when you realize that a lot of manufacturing demand is convincing people to feel bad about their current situation.
My only exposure to the word paracetamol in the US is from playing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. Think we looked it up in the dictionary the first time we played in back in the 80s.
This person is aggressively against being rewarded for their selfless desire to make the internet functional, nicer, quieter, and more about the users.

How many of you here instead spend your 40 hours a week making 6 digit salaries at a company that wants nothing more than to own the attention of everyone who connects to a network? How many of you have actively worked to create systems and technology to invade the screens and speakers of users who wanted nothing of the sort? How many of you have sat in meetings about "attribution" or "analytics" and lied to yourself about what you were building and what it would do to millions of people?
So you also think that website owners should not be allowed to block content if they think a particular country is worth their business? Because that is what is actually happening, not made up fantasies about "forcing them". Either you block or they block, and it's not a crime for one side to do it first (what should I bet that if Germany blocked Telegram it would be a similar outrage in the comment section???)
What is the point of this comment? We can and should do better than our progenitors.

Also, it's worth actually reading up on why we called it the Spanish Flu: our allies in WWI originally called it the "American Flu," but changed it to avoid offending us.

Edit: it's also worth nothing that (1) "Kung Flu" is significantly different in content from "Spanish Flu," and (2) it doesn't have to be the case for anyone to be offended for xenophobia to be wrong.
Solar System Pony Express (2021)
This conclusion feels like saying more CPU and memory are better. Seems obvious that more moves allows matching to have more nuance, but I guess cool that someone proved it.
Intelligence is also highly context-specific. Context today is not the same for the average human 200 years ago, even more different 2000 or 20k years ago.

I'm not sure high IQ people from today would make it far in more ancient times, and not because smarter or dumber, but only because they are unadapted.
Before Go 1.5, it would literally keep around an alternative port of Plan9 C compiler plus all core system libraries, and I think it still does for C ffi
So, if you make an App Store for each state, this wouldn’t apply?
As I said, just because most people don't want most apps to notify them doesn't mean that nobody wants any notifications from any app.

Here's a list I wrote elsewhere in this thread:

* todos
* reminders
* calendars
* chat
* phone

And the list goes on.

There are many others where the app might be possible, but for many people in many cases those apps are useless without notifications. Stocks, forum apps, etc.

Do I want stock notifications? No, I don't. But if I did decide to start day trading, I couldn't use a PWA unless it could notify me. I'm a member of a dozen forums, most of which I want no notifications from. But one of them I administer, and I need notifications. Another one, I need notifications from topics I'm following.

99% of apps on my phone aren't allowed to notify me, but I wouldn't call my phone a smart phone if it couldn't notify me when I want it. The same goes for apps, whether native or PWA.
As I said, to deal with multiple boards or vendors yocto might worth the pain, but the majority of users do not do 20 boards in parallel.

network gears, go openwrt, general spi-flash based boards, buildroot it, anything with a SD card and 256MB+ RAM, just use debian, if you're a BSP vendor like windriver, take on yocto then(which is why Intel 'owned' Yocto when they also bought windriver then)
Of course that does not make it any less messy or bloody. One sex for killing, one sex for continuity.
I gave myself three months to change my personality
I'd be interested to hear exactly what default configuration violates GDPR, as that wasn't something I'd heard before. However, even if that is the case, that would imply that the defaults should be changed.

Imagine that you run a workplace where floor space is relatively expensive. To avoid increasing the floor space, you determine exactly how wide each hallway must be, exactly how much space is required, and build everything to that specification. Your hiring decisions take the weight of an applicant into account, so that nobody will be too large for those hallways. Then a law comes along saying that your coal mine is dangerous, and your use of child labor is unethical. "But look at the cost!", you cry, "I can't afford to enlarge every tunnel to accommodate full-grown adults!" But there was no reason the tunnels couldn't have been built larger in the first place.

There was no reason why the web and the internet could not have chosen to respect privacy by default, and thereby avoid the current costs of changing their software and business models. If it is true that the default apache configurations violate privacy standards, just as any configuration of Google Analytics violates privacy standards, then that is a sign of just how much the regulation is needed.
Thanks! Some people consider jargon exclusionary, but really between two people in a field it is simply a way of saving time and removing ambiguity (as in this case).

So I don’t feel opressed by this jargon: it’s just extra domain-specific info that whooshed over my head.
the EU is shrinking in importance in terms of the world economy [1]

another 20 years and companies simply won't bother with it at all

[1]: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-less-important-world-economy/
Are you sure?

Just checked the link and the only arguments against 1blocker is the subscription model and paid upgrades.

Nothing significant against adguard or wipr.

The do not recommend list only have:

-Adblock plus

-Ublock

-Adblock for safari

Anyway, as I said, nothing comes close to ublock origin but it is what it is.
> There must be some reasonable middle ground before we fragment and destroy the entire Internet.

Elsewhere "fragmentation" is called diversity and competition. It's sad that it has to come about due to regulation, but it's a good outcome nonetheless.

The familiarity and precedence of current offerings becomes a kind of Stockholm syndrome for people. More options mean more chance of valuable improvements, and geographical diversity means different mentalities and points of view, instead of more "me too" options.
I find that the alphabet soup of technologies they use on the DE/ETL/warehouse side of things is so alien it's like they come from an alternate timeline. That alone narrows the field considerably.
It really depends on what we assume about "natural" data. If it looks "positively curved", e.g. the uniform measure on the boundary of a convex body, or the a gaussian, or something, this holds. But if the distribution exhibits a strong hierarchical structure that's not so good. I think it's a plausible if not obviously true assumption.
> You know this because you did not have an established mask mandate or legal requirements for facilities to validate that patrons were not ill.

A COVID test before entering every facility would probably not be a reasonable accommodation. I'm of the opinion that a Federal mask mandate in public spaces could probably have been justified under the ADA - anywhere that can be forced to have an accessible bathroom, access ramps, etc.

> Like it or not, there are established groups of people who are unable to wear masks.

Balancing that would similarly be an ADA question. A lot of people claimed to be in this category, but attempts to use the ADA to bypass state-level mask mandates tended to flop.
> you seem to be OK with this and more worried she was being asked for it

Again with the silly strawmen...
Nuclear weapons is humanities biggest existential threat, and few people talk about it in popular culture. At any given point in time, we're 30 minutes away from the complete destruction of civilizations we know it today. I highly recommend diving into the movies & books below to begin understanding the issue and simply be in awe that humanity is capable of creating such horrific and destructive weapons.

First, watch "Trinity And Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114728/]. It gives a great overview of the nuclear weapons program history and his incredible video footage of tests.

Next watch "Threads" [https://archive.org/details/threads_202007]. Be warned, it's depressing, but it does a great job dramatizing what a nuclear attack might look like, including its generational impacts.

Finally, read "Command and Control" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)]. The book discusses how nuclear weapons are actually secured and designed to prevent accidental use. A movie was created if you prefer to watch that [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598206/].

When you get through these three pieces of material, you'll have a much better understanding of the history behind this weapons, how destructive they are, and hopefully think critically about whether or not they're worth the risk.

The thing I worry the most about is unintentional or accidental use of a nuclear weapon quickly snowballing into something that ends humanity within 30 minutes. That's what's at stake.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_coating

It's a common process used to coat all sorts of objects. But you don't buy "powder coating paint" and use it yourself, it is done in purpose built facilities.
AFAIK, Microsoft moves most of it's cloud services to Europe by the end of this year for their European clients [1]
So I guess where's a will there's a way - they just need a "little" nudge.
Should be good for datacenter redundancy anyway, no?
But: some datacenters are in fact crappier/slower than others - German datacenters take way longer to implement some new features compared to US datacenters or even those in Holland/Irland. But that's due to slower german regulatory processes

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2021/12/16/eu-data-boun...
I'd say obfuscated JavaScript is more obfuscated than stripped Wasm. In cases where you don't have meaningful symbol names either way, wasm's code flow is required to be significantly more structured than what you can get a JavaScript VM to accept and run. Those invariants that help the VM make sure the code is safe to run at close to native speed also halos automated tooling deobfuscate it.
This, got one for $45, no wifi, no Bluetooth, no firmware updates, no app, just regular batteries with a keypad and was able to rekey with my existing key. Amazon basics has one for $50.

Not to say this project isn't cool and fun.
Especially since you tend to interview for your next role. You don’t earn it through good job performance.

Beyond learning new technical skills, how I perform in my current role probably will not impact what comes next.

I’m considered by many to be a clear writer. I would happily trade that skill for leetcode.
To my knowledge to get naturalization in the Netherlands you must have stayed there for ~5 years and the required language level is A2, which is beginner level.

This doesn't sound like a crazy requirement to me. The giving up other nationalities would be a deal breaker for me thought.
exactly!!

i would rather pay less for the house.
You can rent 2 to 3 dedicated servers at affordable rates.
> the second group has managed to compile more-and-more of it's langs to JS and WASM

The second group is incentivized to do so, because they still have value to bring.

JavaScript 2022 has sucked all the air out of the room in terms of dynamic dispatch, untyped PLs. Compared to Python, Ruby, and Lua, it has better startup time and throughput, and at the end of seven years of pilfering every good idea any of those languages ever had* (and a few bad ones**), it is by now equally or more expressive by every metric. It's also the most popular PL in history, with a variety of maintained and opinionated libraries for every conceivable task.

Given that JavaScript is already the ultimate flavor Objective-Blub, it makes no sense to write a JS-targeting transpiler for your favorite minor flavor of Blub. And since you're already targeting a browser, Lua's embedability and Python's C FFI are no advantages. The only remaining language in this family with interesting features that JavaScript hasn't (and may never) co-opt is Racket, with its powerful hygienic macros.

To a lesser extent, this is also becoming true for the statically typed languages, where TypeScript*** offers a better developer experience than, and has made significant inroads against the faster but similarly expressive SML/OCaml/F#/Bucklescript/Reason/ReScript family (to say nothing of Java!).

On the other hand, the camp of "I prefer to use strong typing and proofs to ensure it does not break at runtime" still has concrete advantages to bring to the world of FE dev, namely:

• Non-GC memory management strategies suitable for latency sensitive applications (C, C++, Rust)
• Static member lookup & method dispatch (C++, Rust)
• SIMD (Rust)
• Higher-kinded types (Haskell, PureScript)

* block scope, destructuring assignment, default parameters, safe navigation, modules, iterators, generators, async/await, template strings, regexp named matches and lookarounds, BigInts

** classes

*** While TypeScript is technically a compile-to-JS language, it is such a thin layer on top of JS that there is essentially no impedance mismatch between TS in an IDE and interactive debugging, which makes it unique within that category.
Square is experiencing a major outage
We don't even need autonomous vehicles, the route from LA to SF is mostly only 2 lanes. Add 2 more lanes and raise the speed limits.
Not sure about the US but in Europe it kinda does.

If you have a bunch of GA active, odds are that 95% of the pilots are only SEP rated and PPLs. I think US pilots are generally a lot more experienced. GA is so expensive here and GA is often banned from busy areas so there's not many ways to get this experience. I saw some vids of people just flying up to LAX in their 172.. In Europe this would be unthinkable. They'll refuse and reroute you to a local small airport.

In our area they were really strict on announcing all intent to traffic, but it was probably because we did have a tower at certain hours so that kept it on our minds.
Doesn't seem like a very sound theory, it's just more "Neanderthals were more stupid" with a backwards reasoning why they lasted so long.

It's more likely they were successful but slowly bred into the larger Homo Sapien population over time, judging from everyone's genetics today. Caucasians have way too high of a percentage of Neanderthal for them to have been killed off. Most of their population bred in.
Separate user for untrusted apps is the proven way to do that in UNIX. :-/
The baggage is assumed, whether or not it exists, and regardless of whether you bring it.

Of course, that’s true for any argument held between strangers, for both participants.
An Osquery Field Guide for Log4j Defenders
So you launch and the you add (dependent) types. That works and is quite a good way imho: when you start writing you miss a lot of details so you want to freely experiment and when parts get clearer and become stable you can rewrite, reactor, add types and proofs.
We did in fact interbreed. Some modern human populations are as much as 5% neanderthal in their DNA. That much gene content to me suggest that this population was absorbed; a one off breeding here or there would not persist to 5% of the genetic material millions of years ago today unless hybridization was occurring frequently.
Can we perhaps draw a distinction between "selling" and "advertising"?

"Selling" is simply informing people of the availability of one half of an economic exchange. Putting a notice up that says "Sofa, $50 ONO" is no different than putting a notice up saying "will pay 50$ for sofa".

"Advertising", on the other hand, attempts to persuade. It endeavours to use psychology to create a transaction when one would otherwise not have taken place. It's a sign that says "Sofa, $50. Incredible value!!". This is not ethical because if we assume that the market would have converged on the correct price in the absence of advertising, then advertising distorts the market and makes it less efficient.

Note that unadorned "buying" and "selling" are mirror counterparts, but there's no buyer's counterpart to "advertising". This is because the value of money is well known and non-negotiable, while the value of the good or service is subject to influence. This is an inherent bias that always works in favor of the selling party.
It's also the brand name for peanut butter and jelly swirled in the same jar.
Here's the link to the section:

https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b#web-push-notifications-on-ios－wit...

> 1- It's a disabled-by-default experiment at this time

> 2- The APIs are there, but they are not working
I am not a fan of these things. Much like big JavaScript frameworks whenever you need to do something outside of the mechanisms they provide things become very difficult very quickly and you still need to use JavaScript, HTML and CSS anyway as others have pointed out.
The film packs included the (flat) battery, and the (non-rechargeable) battery always had plenty of charge left after the film pack ran out. I salvaged those batteries and used them in many electronic projects.
> Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.

This entire piece just feels like someone trying to rationalize their choice to do something they previously considered yucky, because that thing turns out to be lucrative.

> In particular, attention is a form of micropayment with low friction.

This is an interesting way of framing it, one I am surprised I actually like.

When framed this way, it's easier for me to coherently say "I don't agree to use this payment method". I say that by using an ad blocker. And if you still give me the content of your site, despite the presence of the ad blocker, that's on you.

This framing does have flaws. A traditional payment goes through some kind of order and confirmation flow. "Taking my payment" -- i.e. foisting ads upon me -- before confirming I am ok paying that way, is not ok. I'd be fine with a page that popped up a modal saying "This site requires payment in the form of attention (advertisements). Click 'Accept' if you agree to these terms." I would be happy to see sites being up-front with that, so I can choose to close the browser tab rather than waste my attention. (Sites with ad-blocker blockers more or less do this, and I'm fine not consuming their content.)

I get that cash micropayments have all sorts of problems, but I do wish that was at least a viable option.

> This doesn't address more salient concerns with advertising, like sharing data with 3rd parties or the question of if it pushes companies to maximize for engagement more than they otherwise would.

While I agree those are big problems, for me, the problem is that I see advertising as a form of mental and emotional manipulation. I don't want to be treated like someone who must be manipulated into purchasing something, even if it is something that I need or would find genuinely useful.

Having said that, I'm not sure how our economic system would look if all advertising (not just online) were banned. Our economic system depends on consumerism, and no advertising would severely damage sellers' ability to get consumers to open their wallets. Not saying that would be a bad thing, but it would certainly cause a huge upheaval, which could be painful for a lot of people, at least for a time.