skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an offline weekend, shouldn't be that transcendent. There are places where you can take a vacation mostly offline, and a week or two like that should be enough to detoxify you of online addiction. Unfortunately, a week or two back can be enough to retoxify you.
Right, we need to share the space and not just take it over with electronics. Respect is a two-way street. I did not call for banning anything, I called for scooters and robots to be good citizens.
I have a similar problem: I'd love to have all of my Patreon posts in my RSS reader instead of their shitty app or website. That's sadly not possible. So I'm automatically redirecting all of my Patreon emails to my RSS hosted - which does provide an "email to RSS" feature. It's not perfect, but it works fairly well
> That's more true of Saudi Arabia, than UAE

It was in UEA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Gali
There are open source web mail clients if you want though - I vaguely remember rainloop (https://www.rainloop.net/) and roundcube (https://roundcube.net/) being ones I looked at back in the day.
Let me ask you the converse: would you be comfortable playing a game that roleplays racism? If not, why?
You're reducing the point to fit a specific narrative so you can counter the entire argument with a shallow statement like "helicopter parents bad."

I'm not talking about helicopter parenting, I'm talking about combating multi-billion dollar companies with full-time psychologists on staff that are making concentrated efforts to get children addicted to their platforms, sometimes at the cost of their mental health.

"Let them play the freaking game" isn't a counter-point to the concept of children losing sleep and failing classes because they're up at 3am doom-scrolling instagram and falling into depression about the way they look. A phenomenon that the company is aware of and has done nothing about[1].

Large social media companies are creating social dynamics that they barely understand to generate ad revenue, and to opt-out of these networks can lead to social isolation amongst peers. This isn't a simple matter of having more conversations with your kids or instilling specific values. The cards are so stacked against parents this is akin to telling your kids that all the feedback the world gives them (peers, popular media) is wrong. Many adults are even ill-equipped to handle this for themselves.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-tox...
But is it a fair choice?

In the thread on Twitter Adam Waltham stated (imho quite correctly):

'This is the point, they want to make “show the ads separately from your mail” sound like a bad option, because they make more money when the ads are disguised as emails in your inbox.'

So this very dark pattern is designed to make you not click to see bigger ads. They want you to have ads disguised as emails in your inbox. And because you choose the are legally in the clear in the EU because there new regulation (as stated other places in this thread already) requires them to.
I assume that as your company scales your chances of hiring criminals are about the same as their presence in the population.
A weird example of false equivalency, as no one would in their right mind compare helping a human being doing their job with helping a robot assist in increasing profit margins for <insert random corporation>.

Jebus...
Tell me that when I trip over them in the dark, or when they're buried under a foot of snow.
It smells of Web Dev doing Web Dev things.

It works now, it'll be fine.

Sure a Docker or VM can be easy to rebuild from scratch. But a Database is not.

I learned years ago when a failed HDD took 2TB of data I will never get back.
Do you mean they “would have“?
The Last Time Always Happens Now
It's an annoying that you can only make snapshots on a stopped container. With VMs it works in a running VM.
Laws/regulations are a function of, in part, public opinion. Public opinion is a function of, in part, greenwashing.
There is an inherent disconnect in your argument. Concrete implementations of software deserve protection sure, and do under copyright law. Software patents are attempting to reserve concepts and generally only hurt innovation by restricting other unrelated ideas from using a technique even if they came up with the algorithm entirely in a white box. History has shown time after time of simultaneous development of ideas once all the pieces are available (just look at Calculus).

This algorithm is a great example as its a general use encoding mechanism. If I develop software to encode and decode radio transmissions to a satellite using it, patenting it will prevent it from being using for say image encoding and decoding across the web. That use has zero impact on my concrete implementation or my commercial sector.

Even for overlapping industries, if there are zero patents, and two competing companies independently come to the same technological solution what is the justification for being able to patent that? If they didn't come to it independently because its available publicly on the web, then its prior art and shouldn't be patent-able anyway. If one reversed engineered the other solution and reproduced it, that's perfectly legal for other industries under certain circumstances and is explicitly allowed under the DMCA. I'm not arguing its right, but if that is supposed to be illegal patents as designed are the wrong tool for enforcement.

This isn't a patent covering a specific use of a specific algorithm for a specific industry (which even then I don't think should be patent-able) but the general algorithm itself restricting ALL uses of it. This is an existing concept that was intended to be open, already exists in the real world, and is on route to becoming part of international standards being gobbled up by Microsoft. There does not appear to be a significant or meaningful contribution to the work in this patent and should really have been rejected due to prior art.

Saying the original author should have patented this is also facile as that takes an enormous amount of resources that isn't available to most lone developers, or researchers, especially when the intent is to give it away freely to world.
> it's a working strategy across nearly a half-century.

I don't believe it's working, at all, when all these teams end up building GUI with Elektron (ironically owned by Microsoft now). It means that developers have very little confidence in all these MSFT technologies.
In this guy's online research he never came across a firewall? He could easily block the Internet for his kids with a pfsense fw.
Not a problem, appreciate it
I've dual-booted Linux for many years now but I can never get fully comfortable. I always get the creeping sensation that there's too many layers between what I'm seeing and what the computer is doing, like some button will just stop working and there's no way for me to ever figure out why, or I'll hit some truly baffling design choice and the only way to change it is to throw out my whole configuration and use a different distro.
When you get pulled over by a cop and the cop pulls the cash out of your wallet and says "you know I can keep this, right?", that's what we're talking about, not whatever you are droning on about.
I'm not the parent, but I think patents for drugs are a good thing. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but the ease of copying them (once a chemical is known) combined with the cost of finding the drugs seem to fit very well with the spirit of patents, where new knowledge development is rewarded with a temporary monopoly.

I do grant that the practice of patenting small incremental changes to existing patented things ("this drug, with slower release!") does seem a bit questionable, but overall it still seems like a good thing. I'd be interested in hearing your argument for why it's not a good fit.
I often demonize pharma because my partner works in that field. People in that field are often blind to its faults, like perverse incentive structures and Byzantine regulatory processes that often harm more than help. Pharma companies' R&D budget is dwarfed by its marketing and expenditures on financial games like stock buybacks, so this talk of recouping costs doesn't hold much water in my opinion.

If something is necessary but unprofitable in the near term, the early research is often already publically funded, like the mRNA vaccines.
> Without some protection for original research being published, genuine inventors are forced to keep their ideas secret and/or find other ways to protect them.

Publication of "secrets" and general know-how can be incented via post-facto prize awards. Unlike patents, these don't forbid anyone from making use of the innovation unless they pay up. They replace a focus on enforcement - with publication often a mere afterthought in practice - with one on publication itself.
I think as a parent it's also important to set the standard for your kids by doing the same thing. If they need to charge their phones overnight in the kitchen, then you should do the same too.

I think leading by example is a good parenting technique in general, kids figure out when their parents are being hypocritical pretty fast.
> I hadn't even considered that it would be possible to assign partitions to the vdevs instead of the entirety of the drive.

You can even use files[1]! Mostly available for testing though.

It would be nice with a bit more flexibility with regards to the underlying storage, hence this concept. I tested it in a VM and it works fine, just slow when the underlying disks gets trashed. Mostly noticeable on heavy writes and scrubs.

Should work fine on SSDs though, and might possibly even be a boon to very fast NVMe drives (increasing concurrency).

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/7/zpoolconcepts.7...
Try and make something and give it away for free
My guess is:

a) First, the company be forced to give raises to all employees so that they match they level of the highest paid.

b) Not wanting to repeat this experience, the company will stop competing for valuable candidates and will no longer reward high performers financially.
Wow, entertaining content is orders of magnitude more popular and profitable than in depth analysis.

Doesn’t mean that entertainment doesn’t benefit from rigorous science and methodology.
Or how much companies and govt workers care about twitter!

A friend ordered a moto phone from an ecommerce site that's now as good as shut down in India

Moto said phone was duplicate or something so they can't do repair

site said phone was sold 1yr ago we can't redund or replace. Issue is there was no IMEI number inside the phone. And the inly way of knowing it was to open the phone in a moto store

I tweeted cust support twitter and the ceo daily for a week

A week later he got an email saying they will refund but will use obscure 11th century mechanism and he'll get money in 15days

I tweet harassed said CEO again mocking him for using antique tech when he runs a tech firm.

Refund done within a few hours.

Coming to govt. I got 10x electricity bill. Called helpline they didn't pickup when in rare case calls were connected. This happened for 1 month and I almost gave up and decided to pay the money

Decided to rage tweet expecting 0 result as govt don't care like corporate

Posted 1 tweet looping in all state local and federal ministers. Forgot all about it and went to work. Imagine my surprise when I read an email that they found and fixed the issu3, apparently it was their mistake. Email was sent less than 30min after my tweet which amazingly had 0 likes 0 retweets and 0 indication that anyone has read it. Email subject: Twitter complaint regarding customer xyz.
Cryptocurrencies could trigger a financial crisis
Do Dogs Play with Rulers and Compasses? (2015) [pdf]
The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.
A Child’s TikTok Stardom Opens Doors. Then a Gunman Arrives
Windows 7/8 are the last good versions of Windows IMHO. Yeah they have security issues, but I run them in a virtual machine not connected to the Internet where I need things like iTunes and MS Office. Some games don't run in a VM very well because of the overhead and abstraction (unless they're lightweight or not resource intensive). I have a separate Alienware laptop for gaming on Windows however.

My hypervisor OS is a Linux Mint install, with Virtualbox. I use Mint as a daily driver. I also use Cloudready[0] for interacting with the Google ecosystem. I can't recommend Cloudready enough, although I think Google bought out[1] Cloudready and it's now called Flex[2]

[0] https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

[1] https://cloudreadykb.neverware.com/s/article/Neverware-is-no...

[2] https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/products/chromebooks/chro...
I wish I'd been wise enough to see this solution on my own, but in our case what happened is that charging cables kept disappearing, and it came down to the fact that when the kids broke a cable, they would throw it away and take another one without telling anybody. This same pattern was how I ended up having to put stickers on all of my laptop chargers because I had posession of 1-2 despite having 3 laptops and bought 2 extras when I dropped below 3. Shit just walks off.

And the reason the cables broke is that the distance from their bed to the nearest outlet was 2m, and they would lay in bed on their screens, with the cable stretched to its limits.

Eventually you'd reach crisis mode when we simply couldn't find a cable anywhere and someone was trying to call a plumber or talk to grandma with a dying phone. Anker charging stations came to a partial rescue, The Rules were that the cables in that charger should stay there. But kids (and sometimes my partner) rationalize 'needing' things and eventually I had to zip tie a daisy chain across all of the cables to make it easier to ask for a new cable than to try to take one.

It wasn't perfect, but about half of the devices ended up living at that charging station, because spare chargers [were] still in short supply.
Concept Map V/S Mind Map: What to Use for Your Project
I would feel bad seeing the construction workers in the Middle Eastern countries (I have only been outside the airport in one of those countries once, for a few hours), but I'll be honest, I know my electronics and clothes are probably made by someone underpaid and overworked, but I don't feel very guilty about it. And I would hazard a guess that you have similar electronics and clothes, and you're not worried about it.

And whataboutism is also whataboutism, if I understand Wikipedia correctly. If I can call you out, you think being waited on by slaves is bad but give it a few thousand miles, then there's no mental gymnastics going on? Yeah we in the West^W capitalist world can pull the mental gymnastics and say "Well, it's the evil capitalist system, what can we do", oh hey, welcome to the class!

> Some commentators have defended the usage of whataboutism and tu quoque in certain contexts. Whataboutism can provide necessary context into whether or not a particular line of critique is relevant or fair. In international relations, behavior that may be imperfect by international standards may be quite good for a given geopolitical neighborhood, and deserves to be recognized as such.[12]

> Christian Christensen, Professor of Journalism in Stockholm, argues that the accusation of whataboutism is itself a form of the tu quoque fallacy, as it dismisses criticisms of one's own behavior to focus instead on the actions of another, thus creating a double standard. Those who use whataboutism are not necessarily engaging in an empty or cynical deflection of responsibility: whataboutism can be a useful tool to expose contradictions, double standards, and hypocrisy.[82][83]
Sure but in this case, the person was there 10 years, so (2) doesn't seem to apply.
Your email can be saved as html and viewable in all browsers.

If you are asking if you can login to a webpage you want webmail: horde, squirrelmail, roundcube.. rainloop looks like gmail, Zimbra, mailspring (has undo send), Cypht, mailpile...
In NFT land, "which country" is seldom specified.
Using an illegal device was the mistake. A lower power level would have taken longer to notice.
The kids were using cellular data, not his Wi-Fi.
If people are spending a few years to prepare, that’s probably enough time to self educate to actual competence.
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/politics/tiktok-ava-ma...
Building a Live-Updating List of Patreon Sponsors
No, it's not. Frozen funds aren't forfeited. Normally they are automatically unfrozen once the investigation is over.
So, Starship will be really cheap because they are reusable. Also, Starship will commit a larger fleet than all the planes that Boeing and Airbus combined make in a year to a more two decade long mission.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it does mean SpaceX will really have to scale up. Where is that capital going to come from? I'm not even sure even with all of Musk's personal assets and selling out on launches they'll get there for decades.
You have something wrong with your set up. I've had it set for years and it works fine. Maybe you have some strict cookie settings or tracking blocker interfering with it. Try with an unadorned browser (read no-plugins) and you'll find it works great.
Thanks for introducing Zerobrane, really looks fantastic. Also by extension introduced me to https://makeself.io/ for making Linux installations.
Might be a good time to take some affordable evening classes at your local community college wink wink nudge nudge
I had something similar when I first came across PC, internet and online gaming. Growing up I didn't have any access to these things and I came across them during university, and I kind of got addicted to them and my grades suffered badly. It did help me later in life to adjust my habit around any online gaming. I don't do it at all but sometimes I would install some games, play for few days, and then uninstall them.
But this looks like the free Outlook email service, not the client. In other words, an ad-supported service.
Agreed, it's nice to have the number right there and they don't make claims beyond what it actually can do (and arguably, when you're up at 10GB+ your router and your switch shouldn't be the same hardware anymore).
> Cat5 and cat5e are different though.

Yes, for sure. 99% of the time, based on personal experience, the person either doesn’t realize the difference or is just incorrectly using the term Cat5 to mean Cat5e. It’s pretty rare you’ll find the former even in older homes (again, my experience based on living in the US). This is why I intentionally used the term Cat5e in my reply. Cat5 was deprecated by Cat5e back 20+ years ago, long before the average US home began getting wired with Ethernet. Further, many (majority?) of Cat5 cables older than 10 years old actually meet the 5e requirements, just weren’t certified specifically.

> Cat5 struggles with 1gbps.

Like with my original point, that depends on the length and the quality of the connections. Inaccurate blanket statements mislead or worse, so I encourage you to avoid it.
Depends what you are comparing it to, but often listed are features of a modern language & type system: expressive generics, pattern matching, sum & product types, iterator chaining, etc
Funny, I often had the experience that code is done faster with a lot higher quality when people pair up.
Your criticism didn't address any of the points made by the white paper (in fact you ignored them). I am more than willing to engage outside of my bubble (I'm seeking it out to be honest), but we have to be discussing the same thing in good faith.

My bubble: Bitcoin's energy consumption (which is high) has interesting properties which we believe will encourage and support clean energy development for reasons X,Y,Z

You: Wrong. Bitcoin uses too much energy.

My Bubble: But our points are directly addressing that energy usage...

You: Nope. Wasteful.
That’s the point… pay transparency encodes a worldview wherein it is unjust for employees with ostensibly similar responsibilities to have different pay.
When I was young (late eighties, early nineties), we had a device that controlled power to the TV. You had to type in a code to be able to turn it on; each kid in our family had a code, and each code had a certain amount of time allowed per week. Sounds similar -- but for a different era!
We keep asking for wireless charging but if we ever actually get it then we are going to discover all the ways we made a liability into an asset. This being prime amongst them.

I could also see a black market of kids selling each other their old phones so that the kid can have a 'prison phone' they use at night.
Why Coinbase Admitted Apple Calls the Shots
> Not even the CFO, CTO, COO, CxO knows benefits and comp the CEO (or each other)

> unless they share with each other

Is that the only way? Because the method we use is we spy on the CEO and steal their documents and then we show each other so that we... know what you make
Are there any simple domain server emulators out there which I could just run on a Raspberry Pi or whatever, like the fake KMS servers? That would be a decent workaround.
My wife and I both have ADHD and we couldn’t recommend this enough. So far, it’s helped us cut down on our weed habit and now I’m throwing the Xbox controllers in there because of my terrible impulse control.
For me personally, moving back to Linux has been a huge improvement. Absolutely the only thing I miss from my mbp was having out-of-the-box keymapping of Control to Control and Command to Super, giving me readline throughout the system. I'm sure there's a straightforward way to produce this in KDE, but it'd be nice not to have to monkey with it. Readline is amazing.
I remember seeing "Windows is a service" update popups in my Windows 10 VM. That was the last straw before I went out of my way and disabled the deliberate RCE^W^W Windows Update services completely.
Unfortunately it is in German, but I have learned this thing of ordering math twitter threads that can be very nice. Thanks!
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...

If I understand correctly, $185.000 and the costs to keep the infrastructure running.
Do you have any recommendations for finding capable lawyers with cryptocurrency expertise (and not just using them as buzzwords)?
> absent this patent, would this technology have been invented anyway (within a reasonable timeframe)?

This would be the criteria of non-obviousness that already exists in US patent law. The problem is it seems like lots of patent agents seem to approve what lots of people "skilled in the art" would consider obvious (one-click checkout? shopping cart? really?!). Which then requires some level of litigation to have a lot of people "skilled in the art" to testify of the obviousness of the patent.

IMO a lot of these patent issues we see today could be solved if we had more patent agents and more skilled patent agents, but then we've got a ton of otherwise smart engineers and other kinds of people spending their days reviewing patents instead of actually making new things.
Dave, your behavior indicates a possible existential crisis in the next hours.
How about watching people making food in the most ridiculous way on TikTok?

To be fair, being alone with your thoughts can be scary. That's why even before the Internet we read cereal boxes during breakfast, or shampoo bottles in the toilet.
> We can debate whether that's a feature or bug of capitalism

I wonder how different things were before Jack Welch became chair of General Electric and the deregulation of the ‘80s.