skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not a lot there for me. Just some generic whether I want to see alcohol and gambling ads on youtube.
> But I also do not feel LocalStorage is really a good way to ensure you have control of your data: It's very unlikely you (or most anyone else) are auditing the code of a site to ensure it maintains your data locally, much less ensure that doesn't change over time.

There's nothing in this critique that doesn't also apply to hosted (server-based) storage.

If anything, it's harder to do those things with servers, because (a) if you the user are truly paranoid, it's trivial to throw a switch and make sure that no data is getting out—by shutting off your network connection entirely, whereas with server-based storage for user data the user has to do some form of whitelisting or blacklisting, and (b) it's pretty straightforward to get all your data at any given time, esp. since the localStorage API is well-defined, whereas if the application author had started with a server-based approach, it probably would have been a server under their control and not yours, which means your best shot involves either intercepting all communications from the beginning (instead of after the fact, once you realize you're interested in it) or doing the legwork to figure out the protocol and issue the appropriate request(s) to get all of it (rather than just a view), if that's even possible.

Overall, I don't think this post makes a very forceful argument that localStorage is bad, only that there might be a better experience for users if all the following conditions hold true:

1. they're playing across multiple devices

2. they're willing to take the time to connect to remote storage

3. the developer behind the app is sympathetic to the cause of data portability and/or user-controlled data, and is therefore willing to implement the necessary integration to enable #2

Failing that, a world where developers are defaulting to localStorage is still a much better state of affairs than what's typical of application authors today.
The second-generation Worms games (2, Armageddon, WWP) use the same approach (here called "Deterministic action propagation method"). It was implemented by Karl Morton, and we also use it for replay files (which is why the game logic is meticulously versioned).

The solution we used for managing secret state, when the state is from a random source, is to delay generating the secret information for as long as possible (so, e.g., if a card is drawn, the drawn card is decided at that moment, as opposed to pre-shuffling the deck at the start of the game). We experimented with some designs in which the secret is revealed only to the player who owns it, and the rest only see a verifiable hash of the secret until the player performs an action which reveals the secret; however, it doesn't solve the general problem that any time the game must immediately (without network latency) make a random choice, the design must compromise between either allowing a hacked client to predict the result (when the RNG output is stable) or manipulate it (when the RNG output changes very often, e.g. every frame).

Sadly, the newer games went for a simpler synchronization algorithm, in which if a discrepancy is detected, the entire state is simply copied over from one player's game to another. This does allow blatant cheating; I'm guessing it was a concession due to the new engine lacking in robustness or portability.
I use DO and have no plans of moving away from there, because on a technical and cost level I am happy with their offering, but I can agree that their customer service is not at all good.
The principle of a decaying memory register requiring a refresh on a regular basis is actually not too far distant from how MOSFET DRAM memory works, to the extent I understand it (poorly).

Or, on a broader basis, education within a human population (we spend 15 years sinking information into the infosponges of children and hope that enough of that keeps over a lifetime to sink it into the next generation of infosponges).

Or of manuscript documents, rewritten by hand by scribes. Or palimpsests.

All data storage is ultimately a palimpsest, I'm increasingly convinced.

See also, BTW, delay-line memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
Their Calendar is exactly like any other caldav icalendar, works fine on iOS and any other platform using the calendar standard protocol.

Been using Zoho for many years, switched from my free grandfathered Google Apps account to Zoho around 2014.
Imagine the same game being played on different platform ( different CPU... ) with different compiler etc ... it's possible that the physics does not behave exacly the same everywhere.

It used to be the case not so long ago.
I get the sentiment that smartphone innovation is fading, and we're really dealing in the last 5 to 1% of capability (for the near future). The difference between iPhones and flagship Pixel or Galaxy devices is really the OS with some nuance, everything else seems to remain the same.

Maybe I'm removed from the rumor mill, but is there really anything to look forward to in next generation phones?
Yeah, keeping stat sharing outside of the app serves as user-generated marketing. I think that counts more as a feature for the dev than the user, though.
And somehow, the "external link" icon is outside the scope of Unicode.
Great video, adds a lot of details that were new to me even though I knew the basic story. Highly recommend 1.5x playback speed to save your sanity, though.
>All rocket technology is based on German WWII rocket technology.

No. While von Braun and other German engineers received a lot of attention, his team at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was one of three competing US efforts to launch a satellite in the late 1950s. The Navy's Project Vanguard was the second to launch a US satellite (and would have been the first had its December 1957 attempt succeeded). The formation of NASA brought the three efforts together; Project Mercury used ABMA's Redstone and Air Force's Atlas rockets.

The Soviets took German scientists, too, but returned them to Germany in the 1950s. Sergei Korolev and other Chief Designers of the various USSR rocket-design bureaus (which, unlike NASA, did not come and continued competing against each other) were all native Soviets.
I'm not the one to ask, but if I had to guess, it seems like investors would want to see that you're already full time.
Same works for urls.
My advice is to get it in front of others as soon as possible. Even if it's just mock flows, it's fantastic getting feedback and even lining up real customers who are ready to onboard when you first launch.

We've been doing a lot of outreach on social media platforms like Twitter. It's been pretty easy finding people who are part of our target audience, and asking them if they'd be happy jumping on a 15 minute zoom call to help give us some feedback.
This analogy breaks down easily.

What do you propose is special about human-level intelligence? If anything, it is in constant struggle with biological and emotional needs. Yes, of course, human brains are amazing, the declaration of independence is great, but the entire human project is the push for progress.
Musk Foundation
I wonder how many individuals were buying beanie babies compared to nfts?

I suspect far more beanie baby buying individuals.
I'm not sure what to do. If I had an idea I would run with it but all of my ideas are either pipe-dream "if I had $10,000,000 to get started" or are small scale, "Don't know if I could pay my bills while it gets off the ground" kinds of ideas.
Check out https://www.hey.com/. I've found once I categorized the majority of my regular senders to either go to paper trail or feed, I get so little actual mail. Then when I want to go see my feed for Patagonia's latest marketing mail, I can. No number says how many are there, nothing is bold. Just a click or two and I'm looking at my feed. It can even auto-delete after 30 days if you want.

Despite the fact that it may sound like it, I am not affiliated with Hey, just a happy user.
Sure, I'm not contesting that there's a market for it. Going along that line of reasoning, there's also a market for a group of experts you can phone and get an answer from at $100 / hour, and so on. But let's not push the goalposts too much :) My personal calculus says it's not worth $10 for me (I don't rely on search much for my work).
"Collectibles" bubbles have been a feature of (at least) American society for many decades. The tendency of some people to fall for marketing that describes some mass-market junk as an "investment" or "collectible" and to think they're really getting in on something good, is documented in Fussell's Class, so it was already a recognizable trend by 1983.

[EDIT] This is distinct from, or a useful subcategory of, some other "manias" or bubbles chiefly because the effect is often deliberately cultivated by a manufacturer or trade group, and the goods are mass-market in price and quality and lacking in (meaningful) natural constraints on supply. Think Franklin Mint junk on the Shopping Channel, or Precious Moments, or early '90s Topps cards. Pop-culture themed dinner plates intended only for display. Or Beanie Babies.
>Kagi

I looked into this, but you have to sign up for an invite, and they first demand you give them a bunch of information. I bailed at the second question. "what do you want in a search engine". How about not making me answer questions to use it?
I try to mentally amend these kind of headlines that seem to be making confidentially broad declarations:

> [Some] Americans are retiring from Vietnam, for healthcare and standard living
Sure an owner can also work in the business, the skimming of marginal labor is what makes them the owner in contrast to the worker.

Your example is absolutely possible in a co-op too, the only difference is you would be making the full value of your labor less expenses, not the amount of that that your boss thinks you deserve.
He could sell NFTs of it and burn it, and double his money!
This is sure to be a laughing stock and provide endless jokes among team members, who will continue referring to themselves as team members/mates.
Leave a one star review. Nothing changes behavior like bad reviews with legitimate criticism.
It's difficult for public figures to prove libel. That shouldn't change.
It seems so crazy to me that no major mail app has figured this out. Why can't I mute my work email after work hours?
I'm trying to think of an Akamai acquisition that has worked out but coming up blank.
Facebook/Meta employees, if this still isn't your cue to resign, I don't know what is.
Yeah- that’s the only reason I suggested the automatic tracking of visits by domain, despite the obvious privacy complications there
So frustrating to find background Information to a big current event. Google will aggressively show the same news articles over and over.
I would love if you or anyone who ever has this happen can share an example, if you're comfortable doing so. We'll debug. But if you quote something, we shouldn't show anything but that which matches the quoted material.

Now, if you quote something and put in other non-quoted words, then we'll look for stuff that matches the quoted part and the other things are optional. So when you see that strikeout message, it means basically "We found this page that has the exact words you quoted, and it probably has one or more of the other words or related words you didn't quote, but heads-up, it doesn't have one of those non-quoted words at all."

And we do this because sometimes there might be a useful page that doesn't contain all of your optional non-quoted words.

Totally agree it would help if we did a better job bolding the sections of a page where the quoted terms apply. Often we do, but sometimes the snippeting won't include them if there's better text to describe the page overall. But we're looking at maybe improving here.
I see an opportunity for tandem takeoffs, take risks you'd never take in real life!
One that isn’t a matter it’s convection currents in a closed vessel between two plates of different temperatures.

At low differentials there’s no convection just conduction, as you raise the temperature difference you get a stable single circulation loop which is well behaved, continue further and you get a tempest of circulations coming and going in an entirely unpredictable manner.

There are distinct phase transitions between each of these states.

Another one is a forced double pendulum. With just a little periodic force they swing gently back and forth, with a lot they do constant crazy unpredictable loops around each other.
I think perhaps what counts as toxic varies. If you lay out an argument of say why NFTs are great you might not just be met with negativity. Perhaps by dozens of replies. But is that toxic? With actual toxic behavior I mean what goes on in a Call of Duty game chat, or most YouTube comment threads . The actually toxic behavior is completely destroying conversations, not just filling them with negative responses. To see exchanges of (say) three messages without one being homophobic/racist
/spammy/.. is really common on HN. That immediately puts even the worst HN discussions in the top percentiles of online discussion.

> If you do have opinions that are very different from the norm, the toxicity is rampant.

In that there is disagreement or that the disagreement is presented in an especially toxic way? Because obviously arguing something that is way outside the norm will see most people disagree strongly (by definition) so one would expect negative and dismissive responses. That though doesn’t make for “toxic” discussions so long as everyone argues in good faith and is civil?
True, though a small fraction of their total R&D budgets.
I search Reddit because real people answer.
Someone please make a search engine that actually searches Reddit well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol#Uses Wikipedia claims its about 1.5:1, terrible compared to other sources of energy.
Only really rare cool limited edition collectible shit is worth it. Like cars that Jay Leno collects.
It's interesting that we can measure, quantiatively, what the dynamical operating mode of a system is. It's interesting, to me anyway, because it's a high-level characteristic that describes most (all?) information processing systems.
Europe. And he's probably lying, given his post history
I have found firebase to be a pretty good provider if you want something to get going quickly with. There are lots of others too, but it's probably got one of the more generous free tiers. But something to beware of is potential lock-in and loss of user privacy. Also, some of the free tiers are pretty generous, but then they hit a cliff and it can be expensive quickly. That could be a bad thing if you want to build a free app that goes viral. Also, not all of the providers also provide the cloud storage, so you might have to build/pay for that. Lots of drawbacks to this design choice that would not be suitable for a high user, free app run by an indie developer.
What would be nice is if you could toggle this behaviour. Sometimes I know exactly what I'm looking for, sometimes I don't. Assuming I never do is at least as silly as assuming I always do. Just give me the option.

I am frankly baffled that after all this focus on "personalised search", they still don't actually allow you to personalise your search like that.
I strongly disagree. This is a necessary part to shared content text and pushing this type of functionality into another layer makes a lot of content non accessible in basic text format. This is precisely the type of control character that makes Unicode such a powerful and successful system.
Yes, and what you said is not novel. It was widely known at least 20 years ago when I was working in the business.

From quick skimming, maybe it's some more subtle point in the publication.
What if it's not google results that suck, what if it's the internet? Reddit is (in theory) what we wish the internet still was: a bunch of loose communities with people sharing and discussing content, both original and not. The internet at large has become primarily different forms of ads. There was a time when the internet was littered with ads in popups, then they became banners on the side, now they are the content itself.

It's feels silly to wish there could be an open version of reddit because that's what the internet is. It's just that there's so much noise now that it's impossible to find the signal. At one time google was that filter to find the diamonds in the rough. But now they have no incentive to filter that stuff out, because 9/10 times, the rough is THEIR ads. We need a new filter that's not funded by advertising.
I always find it interesting drawing the determinism line on chaotic systems.

For example, is a chaotic system that depends on initial conditions so precise that having adequate measurement to predict the outcome would violate the uncertainty principle still deterministic?
What kind of database do you want to run on EFS? Have you considered built-for-purpose managed services instead, such as RDS?
iirc Starship was conceived before Falcon Heavy was finished as well. So, to me, Falcon Heavy would seem like a solution in search of a problem. There are some commercial flights for Falcon Heavy planned but as soon as Starship comes online it's obsolete. I don't know how much money the Falcon Heavy program will make but I would consider it paying for the R/D before being retired (just breaking even) a success.
reddit is absolutely a walled garden. They'll instaban you for wrongthink at the drop of a hat. Powermods will ban you from many subs for participating in one they think is guilty of wrongthink. And if you create multiple accounts ('throwaways' are encouraged in many subs) but then fail to track which subs have banned you which of your accounts for wrongthink reddit will ban all of your accounts for "ban evasion" even though their own help page tells you how to copy subs from one account to another: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205243365--How-...

And most subs won't let you talk on a new or low karma account.

Peak reddit was 2015. Giving moderators the power to lock posts was a sign of authoritarianism to come and it's only gotten much worse.
Cloudflare Tunnel is now licensed under Apache
please don't blacklist U+202D and U+202E or the Private Use Area. my conlang has a right-to-left cursive script, and it's not in Unicode. the characters live in the PUA and my font renders them as a fallback. there's no mechanism for fonts to ask for RTL, so I have to use bidi override.
Or from any nearby hotel phone or from a DECT phone if I am at home.
Efficiency isn't the key: Appetite is. Industry didn't have the appetite for this until very, very recently. To get anything done, gov had to create a market for space exploration technologies and hope for efficiency to pick up in the industry. For the longest time, NASA existed almost exclusively to demonstrate technology and to create an environment where talent and tech could mature in the US.

Blanket statements like "It'd have gone better with Industry" are potentially true, but miss the issue entirely: No highly-funded market for pictures of Mars, Neptune, Venus existed, essentially ever, including today.
Agreed.

19.94B locked up in NFTs atm

https://defillama.com/nfts
511 keV and 938 MeV would have been much clearer than a distinction via comma/point like in 510,998 -> . <- 950 eV and 938,272 -> , <- 088 eV.
Well, I'm very connected to the living world, I go out of my way to be. To draw that conclusion from a simple question is a bit of a stretch. It couldn't be farther from the truth.

It would be one thing to try to restore a species that went extinct recently, something that maybe played a crucial role in a dying ecosystem. But something that's been extinct for so long that it's only documentation is in ancient text, something which has living descendants right now by the billions, and in a place where the landscape has long since adapted to the current biodiversity and is already largely a human influenced landscape, it doesn't make sense to me. Bringing back extinct rhino species, or bird species, or reptile species in places where they flourished recently enough that their presence is missed by the biome, that makes a lot of sense. To me this is like bringing back the wooly mammoth, it's rationalized with practicality but in reality it's just a novelty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt:

The total mass of the asteroid belt is about 4% that of the Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#Size_and_mass:

The Moon's mass is 1/81 of Earth's

So, the total mass of the asteroid belt is about 1/2000 that of earth. Assuming (slightly incorrectly) an even distribution of mass throughout earth, thats’s about as much as in the outermost 1/6000 of the radius of earth, or the top km.

That’s a lot of material, but there also is the complication that asteroids are far away, and far away from each other.

⇒ I wouldn’t count on asteroid mining making our resources orders of magnitude larger.
Law enforcement definitely oversteps their boundaries a lot, there is misconduct etc., But there is a difference between mass surveillance, laws that force companies to provide access to information while at the same time not being allowed to reveal this has happened, and legitimate requests for information relevant to solving a crime. I had a case in my broader circle of relatives that made me think about if or rather how access to such information should be available to law enforcement, and how that could reliably work internationally.

It was a French woman who used some app to track her running habits that also had a social component, where you could interact with people in your area, compare stats, message them etc. There was someone on there who messaged her a couple times asking if they could run together some time, but apparently in a really creepy way, so she declined and later ignored it. She'd run in the evenings along the Rhine river, and one evening she hears someone catching up to her from behind, and next thing she remembers is she's lying in some bushes, a guy standing next to her saying he already called the cops as he saw from a distance someone knock her out from behind, then pulling her off the walkway. The guy started shouting like crazy that he'd already called the cops, and the attacker ran away immediately. When she made her statement a couple hours later at the police station, the suspicious profile on that running app was deleted. The French cops then contacted the company behind the app to get any information possible about that user, some US startup, which denied the request due to privacy concerns. And that's the end of the investigation. It's the closest they ever got to that guy.
If I want to remove the airbags from my car and strap a gigantic bomb in there instead, this particular method of doing it makes sense.

I mean, yes, that's true, but it's still a bad idea.

> Balance between security and usability, as usual. If you want more, use pgp, but loose most users.

They could just have a local client. Thunderbird/Outlook/whatever isn't exactly difficult to use, even for non-technical people.
I posted around 3 years ago how Google search results had become extremely unreliable. Searching for thugs like “Reddit best hand mixer” and setting the date filter to be for example “last year” would give me results from 8 years ago. This wasn’t exclusive to Reddit. Plus this used to work perfectly fine around 4 years ago. I remember when it stopped working.

Also programming related searches have now started giving me results of random shady websites which are copying results from stackoverflow and Google puts them at the top for some reason.
The Mystery of Palantir’s CEO and the Sponsored Norwegian Ski Clothes
The current admins are so deep in the authleft cult that ousting them is the only way to save the site.