skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about being anon, but I don't want all my info sitting in databases, so I've made done the following and trying to evolve over time and fix gaps that I currently have. This is things I've done...

* Use Brave browser with ublock origins and privacy badger

* Use pihole + unbound to resolve my own DNS and do not use google

* Run wireguard on my home network that I connect to when I'm out and need to use wifi

* Be anti-google as much as possible. I'm still in the process of this, i'll switch my domain based email off of google soon

* Be anti-facebook and delete all accounts (whatsapp and insta included)

* Be anti-reddit

* Be anti-cloud and host everything internally as much as possible (except for encrypted backups, say for video cam footage)

* All of my home automation is local and blocked from the internet. If I want access, I'll connect to my VPN.

* Use signal with disappearing chats to communicate with my friends.

Still a lot to do, but it's a start...
I only run about 3.5 miles, so that should be good! I didn't know this, thanks for the tip.

(I'd rather have foot pain than knee pain.)
Finally, that semester of topology has paid out.
As careful as some of the things he suggests are...if you're truly wanted by a state-level actor or sufficiently motivated attacker, you won't be able to hide by simply using VPN and Tor. Especially if you're running something with many transactions like AlphaBay. You would need to obfuscate quite a bit more:

- if you're using VPN traffic but most people "around" you aren't, you're a suspicious node; your ISP could easily flag you to your government. If you use wifi at a common point you're likely to be flagged and there isn't an easy way other than keeping on the move. But moving often is another anomalous event, and it's very difficult to do even for Drug Lords ( El Chapo ) or Terrorists that it behooves to do. This puts you in a sort of Zugzwang, to borrow a chess term.

- there's always leakage, for instance, in the way you talk with people in the real world. At some point you send enough communication for sophisticated frequency analysis.

- and there are other patterns of usage that could be used to identify you, like searches or even keyboard frequency on anonymized accounts can be de-anonymized by very specific markers ( ML works! ).

- off ramps for crypto aren't very good. If you're in e.g. Brazil, haha, yeah, good luck spending bitcoin or any other crypto and going unnoticed. Mixers and tumblers will eventually leak and you'll be caught.

- you're very vulnerable to social engineering by people you do business with. one slip where you stop communicating in a transactional mode of communication and that's a weak link in your armor.

In the end, the FBI only has to be right once, and you have to be right every time.
Why Bloomberg engineers wrote Embracing Modern C++ Safely
This reminds me of a time I was having a yelling match with a guy on reddit and he started calling me names. I google searched his username and he had used it across multiple sites, several being porn sites, and he also posted his reddit user name on his Facebook and a Facebook search I found his real name and pictures of him. When I called him by his real name and linked a picture of him he immediately changed his tune. In the end he and I both laughed and thought it was funny and he was more curious how I found all those thing. I told him he used the same username across multiple sites including Facebook. He said he was a lot younger and didn’t think of those things when he originally did it. I removed any post where I used his name and tried not to dox him for others to see.
If you can turn one into the other with a single reflection, then you can't rotate them. Two reflections, and you can.
OP account is primarily generating clickbait for this fringe idea here on HN. wish they'd suspend it for a bit until they stop reposting this garbage. They are conspiracy theory level into it or trying to orchestrate one
Even that didn't work for John McAfee
I have four, two of which are in easy reach. I mostly use on-line dictionaries for quick look-ups, but I use the physical ones perhaps two or three times a month.
Surely you mean Mudhoney's "In 'n' Out of Grace" (or even The Wild Angels, since that's where both sampled it from).
It's only in the last 5 years that .NET was open sourced and made available officially for Linux systems. Up until then most C# use was strictly on Windows, and OSS especially for Windows server side stuff (IIS, SQL server, etc.) was (and still is) pretty rare. I've seen windows server places (Microsoft) implement everything from redis, memcached, queue systems, prometheus, lucene, DNS servers, to reverse proxies, etc. entirely from scratch out of necessity. Years and years of man hours going into building and supporting something that would be a simple debian package install on Linux.

I have no insight into it but my gut tells me windows server exclusive shops are probably dwindling and have long ago realized they needed to start moving to Linux, especially now that .NET is officially supported there. I think the days of reinventing everything in C#/.NET/windows are coming to an end fast.
50% slower than nginx and haproxy
EA Executives Blame Halo, Covid for Battlefield 2042's Failures
> And what Ukraine will be – it is up to its citizens to decide.

Given the current situation, that sounds like a threat.
The sentiment is Canada/west use to be golden ticket/easy mode for privileged immigrants who were top of their respective societies, i.e. one was better off driving taxis in Canada than be a doctor in China. But over the last 10-20 years, QoL of even high-income in west is feeling more and more inferior than staying in the "old country". Caveat being which "old country". If your from Italy that's stuck in it's own western devolution cycle, you won't feel it. But if you're Chinese, Indian, or from some other rapidly developing economy, and see their peers get wealthy back home, live like kings due to purchase power and income disparity, without all the racial drama of multicultural societies - there is serious FOMO. Meanwhile 2nd gen PoC kids raised in western societies are grinding through 6 figure jobs like a chump while dealing with intersectional drama * . Right now, the feeling is being top in PRC or India affords better life on multi-generational scale than being high-income (6 figure) in the west which still won't guarantee your kids won't be grinding.

* It's hard to emphasis the value of not dealing with being a PoC / feeling like an outsider. It's a kind of "freedom" available back home that for many outweighs western liberal values like free speech etc.
The people who say it might be slightly conscious are just appealing to a functional, substrate-independent requirement for consciousness. I happen to agree with them that it's feasible and plausible.

Let me ask you. If we invented an AGI that was as smart as us based on much larger nets (perhaps with one or two algorithmic tweaks on current approaches) trained on much more data, running on commodity hardware, would it be conscious? If yes, why can't our current nets be slightly conscious?
You've basically described recommendation engines generally and they tend to deliver mediocre to awful results for a bunch of different reasons. I remember hearing talks on the topic over a decade ago and things haven't really gotten much better--and my sense is that most people have given up on actually creating a good engine.
There are actual living things we have difficulty proving are "conscious" and you get into really tricky territory trying to establish what might be "conscious" (or even "alive") in the world even without bringing AI into the mix. Even the people around us we can't prove to be conscious except in that we are also human and assume they have a similar first-person (subjective) view of the world and aren't just a biological robot running equations. Yes, you could literally be the only conscious being in the universe and the universe would indistinguishable from one with many consciousnesses.
Just delete the cookies
yes the C64 had some very cool features, I tried to develop some basic games on it using sprites. but it felt like an uphill struggle. I remember making cool music was easy tho

maybe it was the school I went to and the information the collection of kids had
I've definitely noticed that being busy reduces the distraction factor of hunger or the munchies.

I'll have a conscious effort at minimising carbs as your description of how the body works through energy types seems to make logical sense. Cheers.
The only person that I trust to understand async/await is Stephen Cleary. He has a blog and written a book. Maybe try that. Official MSFT documentation became hand-waving or non-existent very quickly, back when i tried. Back then plenty other blog/tutorial/SO anwser on the internet has had fatal flaws such as making one thread per task or even mixing up the terms.
I can get 1.02065e-11 lightyears per hour in my Prius.
'slightly conscious' is just word salad, it doesn't actually mean anything.
I'm building a graphics framework based on polygons set into a honeycomb (doesn't have to be a hexagonal honeycomb [0]) - basically you specify a coordinate system, then describe polygons as paths along those coordinates, and then embed text and media within those polygons (flowing the text, clipping the media) -- especially excited about flowing text around arbitrary paths (like you can do in Inkscape/Illustrator but in 3D)

I'm targeting HTML/CSS because it's what I understand, but always imagined I could use the same markup to render in VR / game engines. It would be valuable to me if you described what primitives you expect Unity to give you, and how you wish it worked. Sorry if this is hijacking the thread since I don't have the answer, but I would love to have the answer eventually :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_uniform_honeycomb
Interesting article that suggests the context in which you smell the same scent is almost entirely determinant of your response to it:

Moreover, motivational responses were entirely different as a function of label. For example, when isovaleric + butyric acid was called “parmesan cheese” it inspired participants to say they would like to eat it, while when it was given the negative label (“vomit”) it provoked the wish to escape from it. The effect was so strong for certain odors, that participants could not believe that the same odorant had been presented to them at both sessions

https://web.archive.org/web/20090203043112/http://www.senseo...
Here is the initial version before it was modified.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220220150536if_/https://jvns.c...

"Building fast programs, with Go/Rust"
This idea exists but doesn't always work.

Example A: Apparent Nazi sympathizers planted inside the Canadian protests- some people thought they were provocateurs, others assumed they were legit and cast a negative light on the protests overall

Example B: Hunter Biden's laptop (before it was acknowledged to be real). Saying he was a target for disinformation campaigns mostly worked
I am slightly conscious when I am extremely drunk and can barely think and feel, but yet still have some modicum of conscious experience. That's what it means.

If you don't agree that consciousness exists on a spectrum, and instead think that something is either conscious or not, then simply replace the words 'slightly conscious' with 'conscious'.
Right, for a simple crud app?. What is your domain?

Also, since everything is hidden, when a time come that you need to debug, it is much harder.
Yup. I just buy bare drives, and have a SATA-to-USB adapter, and away we go. Although I did write my own rsync clone program to do the work (it only copies changed files).
holy cow!
I literally laughed out loud when i read the rainforest remark. Chill out dude, you're reading something called 'Thoughts' by some random dude on the internet lol
Laundry list of terrible stuff.

Let's Encrypt is a headache and roots your box.

Concurrency was solved eons ago with common libraries widely used today. Erlang has had it as a design requirement since the beginning.

Centering in CSS! Heck isn't that just an HTML tag?

Building fast programs... with a certain language. Admitting it's slow? I don't get it.

I could go through the whole little list like this.
Very cool indeed. One can get quite lucky from time to time when some forms are not rotated quite too far from each other or other forms are simply too different. Very nice idea!
I believe Brave browser has fallen out of favor but I'm not an expert on why
They are still democracies, they just have some legacy celebrities they call King/Queen.
Yes and large tech startup (where ML engineering and DA are separate roles).
Meting out "justice" sounds like imposing government ownership.
I used to use the same notebooks just to log things that I had accomplished throughout the day. It was neat to look back at, but ultimately I missed a few days that turned into missing even longer periods of time. It's neat to read about it in the extreme. I definitely understand the interest.
What has worked for me is shifting to hunter gatherer mode when feeling lethargic. I force my body to do stuff just so that my primal needs are completed. For example, If I don't get a task done, then I won't get dinner today. Procastinate another task and my body doesn't get access to air conditioning/fan. Not feeling like doing a very important task, no water for the entire day. It might sound a bit extreme and counterproductive, but it works wonders cause that's exactly how we have lived for majority of human existence.
Does anyone know when eInk patents will expire and it becomes far less expensive?
For many people, making notes is useful in and of itself. It forces you to bring ideas to the surface, and making a note of a thought helps to link it to other thoughts and other memories. As such, even if the notes are never referenced, the act of taking the note is of value.

But having made these notes, and gained the benefit of actually taking the note, do you ever reference them again? Using digital note-taking systems means that notes can be cross-referenced, searched, and used again in the future. These are additional potential benefits beyond the initial act of bringing it to the surface.

Do you ever refer to the notes again?

I ask this because I take notes, although not as comprehensively, and I'm intending to ramp up my efforts. But I'm converging to a system where I don't just take the notes, but have them migrate into a system where I can find them again, where I can pull them out and synthesise articles, papers, and other forms of output, so I'm interested to know about your context, and how you use your notebooks, beyond the initial creation.
A lot of people here are saying they resent that they're being treated like toddlers. It's not a prospective slippery slope, it's one we've already slid down.

In considering whether it's overprotective, you need to account for the products and industries that never came to exist, and not just the ones that were destroyed, like https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/02/av... (first paragraph).
One issue I found with computer based setup when working is that... there are 2 of them.

When I was in college I had folders of notes and it's read and updated regularly. Once I got issued a work laptop; the personal one sometimes don't get turned on in days... and rapidly became outdated.
Interesting. Please let me know if you have a better alternative. Ideally I'd like to just run chromium but then I have to build it myself or use some build by some untrusted person so I've decided I'll trust Brave for now...
I’ve found much better results using your lists to find people with some overlap, and then looking at what they have.

Which is basically what HN is.
As you dive deeper into Unity, you realize more and more flaws. They promise the world, but only deliver marketable features rather than improving what they've got. The UI Framework is just one of those things.
First game

- I briefly go through each shapes

- Anchor on a particular shape

- Check other shapes based on that shapes

- Realize the number of cubes is the distinguishing factor not the shape itself

- Exclude the first focused shape from future comparison

- Try to compare 2 shapes randomly

- And after 4 clicks of match attempts I find a match

2nd Game

- Go through the first 2 rounds with ease as they were essentially in the same row or the same column

- Second game I get confused as the obvious matches aren't obvious

- I time out

- I didn't even notice how the timing worked in the first game

3rd game

- I try to count the number of blocks between each 'lines' of shapes

- But for shapes that have 3 or more turn of these lines matching them is very difficult
>We are sadly seeing the return of might equals right

Seeing its return? It never went away.
> That's a bit like complaining about a language without types not having interfaces

Totally agree. I wouldn't make the mistake I see often of saying "for this reason JavaScript is objectively bad" -- but it's bad for me.

> you're not really embracing the paradigm of the language you're using

That's true, and related to the problem. I don't want to learn another paradigm, I want to get my work done. JavaScript's paradigm isn't intuitive to me, and at this point I assume will never click since I've been using it fairly consistently for 25 years and it still makes me uncomfortable.

> Not sure what this has to do with OOP vs prototypes, or even Objects

It doesn't. It's an example where JS often doesn't behave the way I expect it to. Some examples of this unpredictability have been fixed with newer versions over the last 25 years but this just illustrates the problem I often have where I make what I feel are reasonable assumptions about how its scoping or execution model works and have to trial-and-error my way into getting it to work right. This is after countless time spent reading JS books and posts over the years.

I accept that this may just be a personal issue, but I also don't think I'm the only one.
The benchmarks seem to show YARP doing around 35% more requests per second, having around 25% less mean latency, 20% less 90th-percentile latency, and 10% less 99th-percentile latency for http-http. Moving to https-https, it's around 10% more RPS, 10% less mean latency, 15% less 90th-percentile latency, while Envoy has 10% better 99th-percentile latency.

I'm not sure where you're seeing 2x, but it might be the scale of one of the charts you're looking at being deceiving or I'm not looking at the same test you're looking at.
As I said to the other commenter, if the QoL is rising in other nations, bully for them! Quite sincerely. No one is twisting your arm to move anywhere, and I think it's wonderful if you're born in a country you don't feel an obligation need to move from to evade poverty or oppression. That's the case for me and I would love if it was for everyone.

The "drama" of multicultural societies as you state it, however, is known as freedom to many others. Ask any Uyghur. If you're indifferent to this, then your values are fundamentally different to those of Canadians as laid out by our Charter of Human Rights, and you might not enjoy living here by our laws.
For Intel, yes. It demonstrates that Intel is a general purpose silicon company which is important for their future endeavours.
Probably need a higher clearance to be reminded of that embarrassing little story.

But I admit, I was looking for it as well:)
Putin is smart as hell, most probably sociopath on top. You don't get to be long term successful KGB apparatchik for nothing. The problem is, nobody who wants all that juicy freedom, democracy and other perks of good western life wants strong Russia, these things are exact opposites. Its by far the biggest actual threat to European democracy.

I come from country who was invaded by them in 1968 when we showed we may head towards democracy, and the Russian mentality remained the same since then.

Its sad germans as a nation are still heavily traumatized by what their ancestors did during WWII, and probably hell will freeze sooner than german army fighting, well anything. This leaves Europe severely weakened in eyes of nearby machos like Putin or Erdogan.

He could have built a fine prosperous empire that people are actually happy to live in. Instead, everything is worse and he just siphons tens of billions to same banks as discussed here via his buddies (UBS cough cough). It may be the Wag the Dog situation, but all above is still valid.
> Then you can decide whether to have _some_ accounts ultimately link back to your legal name,

No, you don't. Someone else could, if there is one with high enough affection to you. I think you'll have to think of bulk ingestion and on-prem processing to be sure your activities won't trace back to you.
You could say that a religion is a special case of an ideology.
Thats interesting to me since i cant for the life of me write anything down while being so organized. Most of my notes are sporadic writings whenever i cant sleep because my brain is stuck chugging out ideas.

If i had digital notebook that i could write by hand, and it all went to my nextcloud, i think i would use that more than typing things down with onscreen keyboard.
Makes sense, you have to wait to see enogh information to be able to actually submit choices, vs being able to start brute forcing immediately
I don't think "conscious" as a binary or scalar variable will ever be a coherent concept. "Raw" consciousness without content has never been demonstrated or even sensibly theorized. At the very least, we should add another term, that which the entity is conscious of. Then, I don't see why you would so vehemently deny that an image recognition net is conscious of the images it recognizes.

Last I heard lobsters are supposed to be conscious and they only have about 100k neurons.
That's because Congress and the Senate out of pure self interest have chosen to restrict the IRS funding for decades. If they had the balls to increase funding I have little doubt they would have found and retrieved taxes rightfully due to the government.
It's not common, and these days it's basically exclusively Chinese brands that offer it, but yes, some do.
There are thousands of Java accounting apps and thousands of shitty medical billing websites.

I think most devs are definitely reinventing the wheel for the ten thousandth time
"Something that'll take your name, email, and other things and put it all over the internet in questionable and plausibly denial ways."

What if instead of spamming the correct information out, spam slightly incorrect information out.

Correct address, incorrect middle initial, wrong birth month, and a machine generated SSN would be from the right time period, area number, but with an incorrect group and serial number.
Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store
This is essentially the premise of Neal Stephenson's Fall or Dodge in Hell.
For the user the proposition is the opposite. The value of the technically superior formats isn't worth the increased use complexity.
This is an old article from the early 90s and I believe it may have been the first public mention of this fact about the x86 encoding, although no doubt many have independently "discovered" it before --- especially in the times when microcomputer programming consisted largely of writing down Asm on paper and then hand-assembling the bytes into memory using something like a hex keypad.

All of these are features inherited from the 8080/8085/Z80.

Here are the corresponding opcode tables in octal:

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/8080-opcode-map.html

http://www.righto.com/2013/02/8085-instruction-set-octal-tab...

http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm