skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be fascinating to see how regulation deals with trying to regulate anonymous cryptocurrency payments. It leads to innocent people suffering from bitcoin's lack of fungibility; this is already happening. I don't know how it will turn out in the end. I believe it is one of the most important issues of our time, given that physical cash seems to be in danger of being phased out and several countries are working on Central Bank Digital Currency in some form.

It is not so simple as "ban Monero". People can swap trustlessly from Monero to BTC. There are 'privacy features' on other chains too, like CoinJoin on bitcoin. Making these activities illegal means there are coins with acceptable history, and tainted coins that have been used for anonymous transactions.

Businesses can use subscriptions to blockchain analysis companies to check if funds are acceptable or tained, then choose to reject payments if necessary. People doing peer-to-peer payments cannot do this, they can't check other peer's coins are tainted. Even if chain analysis software was publicly available, you need access to valuable, sensitive data from exchanges and merchants etc updated on the fly. If "criminals" have access to the chain analysis results then it also helps them to find a way to evade it.

The bitcoin whitepaper is titled 'A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' but it really doesn't work for that.

Interesting example case where an innocent user suffered because they ended up with coins that someone else mixed: https://old.reddit.com/r/blockfi/comments/skxiei/blockfi_hor...
There was news recently that the environmental survey was not done as thoroughly as it should have been and that they were building (or planning to build) through areas where actually so far undiscovered reefs are. A court awarded an injunction to hold work there for now if I recall correctly. I can't image that it is that popular.
One curious question.

No names or details, but in hindsight was there ever news or review points that you felt should have been reported, but wasn't because of publishing / relationship concerns? (Read: actual, factual details... discounting pique at counterparties / PR being assholes from time to time and deserving to be blasted)

I've always been curious how that balances. Would hope the type of stuff AnandTech covers has more natural immunity (vs something like games journalism).

PS: Thanks for all your work over the years! Between you and Anand, you guided years of PC builds, starting with a Pentium IV on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe to get my university fiber-to-the-room traffic off the PCI bus. ;)
Of course I do what I can to adapt things on my end, but I will also publically complain that the "ad experience" is not a benevolent one.
Wow, that's pretty dark.

On the plus side, pedophiles working at Facebook will have a great time. /s
Is there a Wordpress plugin?
What does this have to do with the evidence supporting criminal convictions?
Yes, that register patch may be needed on some Linux systems; I'll add this to the documentation.

Redbean can't use the system Lua, so it comes bundled with its own Lua interpreter (Lua 5.4; there is also work being done to allow LuaJIT or Luau to be embedded instead).

The modules need to be put in the .lua directory within redbean archive; redbean searches within its archive, so you don't need to set LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH. I have instructions on how to get examples working included in the examples (https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon/tree/more-links#examp...) section.

In terms of the size, this includes MbedTLS and SQLite, so if you don't need those modules, you can compile redbean without them, which should reduce the size considerably.
Maybe two years ago I wanted to use LXD on a fresh Ubuntu server (after testing it locally).

First they had just moved it to Snap which was not a great install experience compared to good old apt-get, and then all my containers had no IPv4 because of systemd for a reason I can't remember.

After two or three tries I just gave up, installed CapRover (still in use today) and have not tried again since.
FBI specialty. Illegally survail criminals and then tempt them with a big deal. The entire deal is an orchestrated play by the FBI, the perp did not approach them, the FBI initiates everything from zero to 100% and eggs them on: entrapment.

The entrapment aspect is always left out of the shows/documentaries/news. The media reports only about what the perp did...showing zero FBI context.

Despite them doing this to criminals, I find it disgusting. Rarely mentioned are the innocent lives they trash in the process.
"Her intention was to sink her teeth into my throat and with this grip and her forepaws hang to me while with her hind claws she dug out my stomach, for this pleasant practice is the way of leopard".
OCaml from the Beginning
It's not quite right to portray it entirely as "ideological purity bullshit".

Mozilla's trademark policy forbade using their trademarks with custom builds that weren't Mozilla binaries, or at least with ones that might contain non-Mozilla modifications. (I can't remember the exact details of what was allowed.) In addition to that kind of creating a bit of a conundrum with the idea of free or open source software, it would also have forbidden Debian from custom-patching Firefox with their own security fixes.

The Debian policy was to keep stable releases static and only make security and bug fixes to packages in the stable release. Firefox didn't have extended support releases at the time, so the only ways of keeping the browser patched were to constantly update to new releases or to backport patches to older releases, so Debian was still patching Firefox by themselves. The Mozilla trademark policy made it impossible for them to keep doing that, or to even maintain their freedom to do that, and keep using the Firefox trademarks.

Debian is just generally very strict about licensing and playing by the rules. (They're also strict about adhering to their free software guidelines, which might be considered ideological. And yes, the distribution is opinionated, but that doesn't mean the rationale is always ideological.)

Some other distributions, especially smaller and less formal ones, might have just ignored the entire trademark policy and kept doing whatever they wanted despite it being potentially in violation of the conditions of Mozilla trademark use. Or they might have just shrugged and decided they didn't care about being able to patch the browser themselves anyway, especially if they were a rolling distro.
not OP but I respect the apology
I'm glad you used old.reddit.com as your example and you also almost nailed my age group (45+). As a user, I'd point to Reddit as the quintessential example of unnecessary change for the sake of change. To my elderly sensibilities, old.reddit.com is better in every single way than the new travesty. Loads faster, less janky, nothing jumping around as content loads, no autoplaying, denser presentation, fills the browser window as I maximize it--by the way this is my #1 bugaboo with "modern" web design: stop constraining content to a tiny vertical strip in the center of the damn browser!!! I have a 27" monitor and I want to use the whole thing goddamnit.

So from the point of view of an end user like me, they took something great and ruined everything. I can't imagine that a 25 year old likes the new design better, but then again I can't put myself into the shoes of a 25 year old, so maybe they love jank, autoplaying videos, and constant pop-ups begging them to log in or use the app.

I'm sure from the point of view of Reddit however, the new design is awesome in all ways they measure. Probably revenue, "engagement" (ugggghhhh I hate that word), time on site (thanks to infinite scrolling), whatever it is they find important and prioritize. I can tell you they don't prioritize "usable by a 45 year old with disposable income".
I think lart of the problem is RSS is sort of orthogonal to hyper targeted marketing and tracking.

With email, you can track who reads the mail, how often, what times, etc. You can tailor recommendations and content to the specific person

RSS is just a generic feed that's the same for everyone. Great for consumers--less useful for people trying to optimize monetization
What good is "freedom of speech" if you can only talk to yourself?
I’ve never had that problem in 25 years of doing this.
This.

Every single technical book I own is full of markers, annotations and references between pages in the same book and to other books, as well as notes written down and jammed between the pages.

btw. this is why it really annoys me when publishers print textbooks with insufficient whitespace around the text columns. Where the hell am I supposed to write then? :D
Too late. And even if did that. that could likely be deanonyimized with little effort.

For those who don't already know, it takes very few data points to deanonyimize someone's data.

With greater effort and efficiency you can have even less data points.
I've always wondered how this works with CCPA. I attempted to exercise my right to data deletion and was directed to log in. Do those with shadow accounts not have the right to have their data deleted?
You're right, if the bitcoin is mined anyway. I'd argue that things like cryptocurrency, social media, Youtube, government spying, are best shutoff and the carbon kept underground.
It is good that people are doing studies, but at this point adding one more study isn't really headline news so I'm not sure what the up-voters think this will show. There isn't really a need for more evidence as far as I'm aware.

What is far more interesting and useful is explanations of why there are a bunch of studies showing great COVID outcomes when patients are paired with Ivermectin (eg, https://ivmmeta.com/). The best answer I've heard is the geographic distribution of successful studies lines up with parasite-prone countries, so they are actually an interesting example of the base-rate effect.
Hey. Yes, I've done dark mode but have to fix some quirks before pushing to production. Mobile app is in the pipeline, unfortunately not something I have time to develop at the moment. I've accepted your !wave suggestions. Thank you!
Yes it is wanting money. Especially since I already own multiple device capable to do exact same thing.

I prefer to set example of not buying all the available crap. That one is more important all I all.
Yes, good catch! The time matches the story, however the date isn't even close.
To my, trociny!
We'll have to agree to disagree. I can't square the logic that it's unconstitutional for the NSA to do this and legal for Facebook and yet somehow it makes sense to argue that it's ok for the NSA but not Facebook.
I can imagine believing this before the internet, but it really isn't hard to find women online talking about how they are upset their partner doesn't want to have sex with them as much as they want to have sex.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494444624630403083.html
YouTube is HN taken to the extreme: nobody asks for credentials if you present content with infinite confidence.
Can't you just deactivate the Home license and then install Pro? Or just try installing Pro then deactivating the Home license? I only have Pro keys attached to my account but I've shuffled them about between different computers.
A fan going to their star’s house with a weapon is rare.

A man stalking and becoming obsessed with a specific woman, spending time and effort for sex and attention despite the woman clearly not being interested, is surprisingly common.

Many, many woman have real-life incidents of men literally stalking them, men repeatedly trying to get their attention / ask them out despite blatant “stop talking to me” rejection, and men getting really aggressive when they get rejected or “emasculated”. On games and social media it’s much worse, to the point where basically anyone who reveals themselves to be female gets creepy messages. You just don’t realize because relatively this stuff almost never happens to men, even attractive men.

Go on a sub like r/NiceGuys, r/TwoXChromosomes and you will see a ton of examples. But even random subs like r/AskReddit and my college’s sub have multiple stories because it’s so common. It’s actually a very serious issue in nearly every society, and this incident is an (albeit extreme) example of the persistence and aggressiveness most semi-attractive women experience.
>Heck you could even say the Amazon Whole Foods Acquisition was a loser -- they haven't leveraged the store network like Walmart has.

As someone who was a regular at Whole Foods even before the Amazon acquisition, from my viewpoint, it has been a win-win.

1. The online shopping experience has been amazing from the Amazon site/app. Target comes close.
1.a. The free delivery for Prime members was an awesome perk while it lasted and definitely made me buy from WF more than the alternatives I have.

2. I get 5% from the Prime card, I actually am incentivized to shop more at WF.

3. Amazon wise I can safely pick up my packages from the nearest store.
Two things:

1. It's just "buy me a coffee" but for TikTok, it's not weird until creepy adults make it weird. One creator I follow gets a bunch of people sending her $0.69 for the memes. Lots of people use Amazon wishlists for this too. People with artistic talent will sell merch on Etsy/Redbubble.

2. Oh honey, I will make no claims about anyone but myself but I did this kinda shit when I was that age. I realized I was hot, I was a sponge for attention, and too stupid to realize that having older guys hitting on me and buying me stuff wasn't as cool as I thought. Amazing in hindsight that nothing bad ever came of it.
If you want to do any sort of pc gaming, then you don't really have a choice unfortunately.
This is also the most difficult fix.
Pauses happens when using Rc types with a cascade deletion of deeply nested data structures, and if Drop are incorrectly written, even a possible stack overflow might occur.
They need to study deeper, why these young men engage in criminal activities in the first place, only to find themselves arrested and later ineligible for any job.

Do they think that benefits from criminal activities outweigh the risks of being caught and not being able to pass any background check for entire life?

First step if to stop young men from engaging in criminal behavior, to stop feeding jails with fresh blood so to speak.

Next step is rehabilitation program for previously convicted felons, does the current program work or not, how it can be improved?

You can’t just ask businesses to stop doing background checks and employ convicted felons and hope they will not embezzle funds from their new employer. The risk is too high.
it really depends on what you're trying to do.

gstreamer and ffmpeg can both fill the same niche, but not completely. gstreamer is plugin based while ffmpeg is monolithic. gstreamer has a plugin for ffmpeg, while the reverse is (or wasn't last i checked) isn't true.

You need pipewire, pulse, or plain alsa to actually play the audio streams. Not a lot of overlap most of the time with gstreamer or ffmpeg unless you're dealing with raw streams.
My bad. I thought you were saying you had issues with getting vaapi to work on Firefox. Tough luck getting any hw video acceleration in Linux outside of x86_64 and vaapi capable chips.
I don’t think this is quite true. The main reason Google did well was because their search results were reliably good. The clean homepage wasn’t so much a contributing factor as a boast, saying that they were confident search could replace the “directory” style others like Yahoo provided at the time. And, at the time, they were right. I have little doubt that they would’ve failed if they had the same interface with today’s search results.
systemd respects the users freedoms:

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute and make copies so you can help your neighbour.
Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

As such it is impossible for systemd to make the user do anything. If it did, the user could simply modify the code and share his improvements with similarly minded individuals.
You may regret that one day. I try to live my life mitigating regrets. Good cryptographic key hygiene will pay dividends.

Also trust people, systems and corporations less.
Oh yeah she's all for spying on everyone but herself.
I think most of those simply require that you send a picture. I'm not sure that they validate that the scooter is parked correctly, and I have seen people submit pictures of other scooters parked correctly.
I highlight sentences that summarises different ideas of the book. Afterwards, I create flash card for each highlight to review these them regularly.

Currently using readwise with highlights exported from kindle (when possible). I also use Anki for all other flashcards.
People will misinterpret you, but if something is bad for you at any age, then the parent should be taking their own advice. "If you can't do it with self-control, then don't do it, or find a way to make it work..." applies to everyone, regardless of roles. No, you don't have to wear pajamas and sleep the same times they do, but you cant tell them how healthy it is to get a full night's sleep with the screen down if you're (frivously) harming your own sleep.
That's a common misconception. What it would do was when indexing a folder with DRM'd music files, it would automatically try to add the rights to the store on your local computer. They weren't using that specific functionality to scan and report. And, it was opt in (when you first started wmp)

Getting track titles automatically (gracenote, etc) might be what you're mixing in - and that was also opt in, and even open source software has that functionality now (VLC, for example)
Freedom is speech isn't the freedom to make people listen.
> A fan going to their star’s house with a weapon is rare.

> A man stalking and becoming obsessed with a specific woman [is common] . . .

I recognize the truth of what you're saying, but I also just want to point out that the discussion is about the former situation, not the latter one. Otherwise there wouldn't be these vague intimations that something is wrong with Tiktok in the NYTimes piece.
Get ready for downvotes from metamate haters, but if the project is cool and compensation is not on your mind - it is a win!
I think requiring physical presence in an office justifies differing salaries based on geographic location. I think remote employees are the only reasonable scenario for same work, same pay.

There are real quality of life implications for living in an expensive city. Companies that want a physical presence there should pay a premium for it because employees should have the option to live close to their office as a default option.
I'm a bit baffled as to why not.

The government can kill me; Facebook cannot. The government can imprison me; Facebook cannot. The government can require I pay taxes; Facebook can not.

It shouldn't be surprising when similar disparities exist on surveillance. The NSA's program has yet to be deemed unconstitutional by the courts, which is what matters.
Again, if it's an option, it's more like violence would have been used to get the password, and further violence against your family/loved ones if you were antagonistic.

Real life scenario:

https://www.yahoo.com/now/dutch-bitcoin-trader-suffers-bruta...
Don't be. I just want to provide a fair warning, but some of my other projects (wxlua and ZeroBrane Studio already mentioned in other comments) maintain compatibility with dependency versions released 8 years ago. The API is also more stable than it was at v0.10 when the warning was added, even though I do expect changes, as both Fullmoon and redbean continue to be developed and new features are being added.
I think OP is referring to using the interior space of the segment for buoyancy rather than hauling it on a barge, not prefabrication in general.
Thanks for all these options. That gives me another topic I can dive in to over the weekend.
and how is the bulkhead removed?
I get where you're coming from, and it's a nice thought that you could simply "go nuclear" and forbid a teenager from using social media to avoid this kind of thing.

But if you did this you would also be denying your kid access to virtually their entire cultural universe. How would you feel if as a kid you weren't allow to see any of your friends outside of school? Watch any of the same movies, music, or play any of the same games as your peers? It would almost be another form of abuse in and of itself. Unfortunately your suggestion isn't really tenable, just ask any actual parents of teenagers if they could imagine taking this route.
> I'm probably the tiny minority here, but I think this is a great thing.

Maybe it's uncharitable, but one could interpret that as you thinking it's a great thing that Google gets to keep more of its profits rather than sharing them with its employees. Is the solution to tech worker entitlement really to let big tech companies have the advantageous position in salary negotiations?
Don't forget lack of morals/ethics
How do they join the tunnel segments to each other? How do they properly seal it? The video glosses over that part.
Upvoted both you.

Ask yourself: "If you're asking yourself this question, can you excel two years working for an employer you appear to despise?"

Me, no. My wife, definitely.
> Are there any Metamates

I can't be the only one who laughed at this!
Science of Happiness students beat lockdown blues
Yes? Even if it's a sinking ship that will not matter in the least as an intern. For a company of Facebook's size, that will be a problem on a 10 year time horizon.

Meta has solid engineering reputation. You'll learn a lot and have a good mark on your resume from there on, even if you don’t take a return offer.
Just like any previous windows “locks” of this type, search google for “windows 11 pro activation patch”.
I deleted Facebook years ago, when it was still fairly easy to do so. I still have a Twitter account, but I only regularly follow three or four people, and get their tweets via my Feedbin account. I also see new posts to BoingBoing and Metafilter via Feedbin, and log in here once or twice a day to browse. I check in on Reddit once every day or two, but the subreddits I follow are very carefully curated.

I'm one of those who remembers the world before the Internet. I was about 30 and married when I got my first computer in the mid-1980s. I did a lot of reading back then, and some writing as well, though I didn't get serious about writing until I discovered word processing.

I've been thinking about writing my own essay about tech minimalism, just because I've seen so many articles like this one over the past couple of years. In some ways it's something I aspire to, if only because I sometimes enjoy making things difficult, to test myself a little. But with a few exceptions, I like the digital life I've built. I'm happy to be able to get online every day. I've managed to mostly break the doomscrolling habit, to be able to close the laptop and put down the phone and read a book (on my Kindle, because I can make the type any size I want).
You clearly listened to me. I didn't spend any money on that. Case in point.
I bought 3m and longer cables for myself and kids. Best purchase ever.

One is 6m, but that one is truly excessive.
https://www.protondb.com/ has been around for a while and provides all of this. I consult it before buying titles.
It's more intimidating. (IIRC, they can be remotely controlled by an operator and have loudspeakers and such for the operator to yell at people.)
You only run ClamAV on your friends' computers, but don't consider it necessary to run on your own machine?