skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the power to do it exists, it’ll get used, whether you know it or not. That’s why something as cryptography is so powerful. We can prove mathematically what can and cannot be done, essentially partitioning the universe of possibilities and granting you the privilege of not having to worry about some of those partitions.
You can still go the DIY kit car option or have a professional do it for you.
I keep thinking that if encryption was an actual weapon, and keys actual ammunitions¹, they would be much easier to defend than they actually are. Funny that: cryptography is relatively harmless, making it all the more immoral to restrict it. But that same harmlessness make it that much harder to defend. I mean, just try to take away nukes from a nuclear capable nation, or guns from a Texan village. Maybe you can, but the costs of doing so tend to give pause.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
It's domestic terrorism abetted by the media. Sometimes instigated by the media.
Whenever I use TurboCAD it has all the feature check boxes and they seem to function reasonably well. It just feels like they invested a ton of time, research and money into figuring out the worst possible way to expose those features in the UI/UX.

Edit: I posted because I was curious about your opinion, but now I realize it just looks like I stopped by to insult TurboCAD for no reason.
An awful lot of PC laptop manufacturers have accomplished this by slamming a standard 4K panel into a 14"-16" laptop. While it does exceed the ppi of Apple displays, I've never found it very satisfying - between the short aspect ratio and the questionable handling of high-DPI displays in a lot of Windows applications, it's a bit of a mess.

In practice, Hauwei seems to be about the only manufacturer shipping 3:2 aspect high-DPI displays (which are really, really nice panels).
On the other hand, I sure won't finance the economy's stability to my detriment.
Take it from a sailor, there are 4 knots you need to know:
Bowline (most important knot),
Reef Knot,
Clove Hitch,
Figure of Eight.

That's it. Everything else is needless complexity. You could even cut out those bottom 2 and never find yourself in a situation where you couldn't fashion something that worked.
> He drew some surprising conclusions: the writers were less likely to carry on, whereas some of the greatest artists, Michelangelo, Titian [etc.], became, if anything, more productive and liberated from convention as they went into old age

This seems pretty arbitrary and anecdotal, and there are famous counterexamples.

In French, Saint-Simon (the memorialist, not the economist) wrote his masterpiece of over 3 million words between age 65 and 75, in the middle of the 18th century (he died at 80).

Victor Hugo, born in 1802, published four enormous novels after the age of 60 (Les Misérables, 1862; Les Travailleurs de la Mer, 1866; L'Homme qui rit, 1869; Quatrevingt-treize, 1874), and his most famous poetry books after age 54 (Les Contemplations, 1856; La Légende des siècles, 1859).

Chateaubriand finished writing his masterpiece, his memoirs, aged 73.

I could go on.
I live in Germany next to the border and often go to France on the weekend for food shopping etc. - it's really remarkable that you can buy a perfect Parisian baguette, then go 5 miles to the east, buy a baguette at a German bakery and it will be a completely different, worse thing.
And it's vice-versa for whole grain or sourdough bread. Extremely tasty and well put together texture wise at the German bakery, but bland and almost tasteless if you go 5 miles to the west. Exceptions apply.
I think it is safe to assume nobody would like to start a nuclear war because of ensured mutual partial or total destruction; intervention in Ukraine with conventional weapons only would send a clear message that there is no will to reach that level.
> It's horrible, and I bet all well informed Russians will agree that it is.

One of the heavy pregnant woman photographed there has her instagram full of hundreds of Russians calling her a crisis actor, wishing her and her (yet unborn) child death and being raped. [0]

That's also the position of Russia MFA [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/ComeGentleNight/status/15019005935977185...

[1] https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/150192182043753676...
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> or remove the opt out option from 'your' phone

This is why we need viable open source phone OSes. Refuse to “just install the app”!
> They also make a (as they claim) zero telemetry browser called Orion

Would be easier to trust them if they didn't want an email ID to download their browser. Seeing that they also want to create a search engine, I suspect that your search and browsing history could be linked to it to profile you.
No batches there. And only simple queries...

> For more complicated filters you will have to create a new view in the database, or use a stored procedure
I think that's debatable when it comes to WW2, especially the years when the
Germans were on Soviet soil, roughly 1941-1943, otherwise you are of course correct.

What I found very interesting about Stalin is that he knew what people to choose. For example he got rid of Budyonny [1] pretty fast after the disaster in Kyiv, even though Budyonny had been one of his protégées and had helped him (Stalin) get rid of Tukhachevsky in the Great Purge.

Not only that, but pretty soon Budyonny's place was taken by Rokossovsky [2], who in early 1940 was still actually in the Gulag but by late 1941 had successfully defended Moscow against the Germans, was there when von Paulus surrendered at Stalingrad and was in this famous photo [3] walking triumphantly near the Brandenburg gate in July 1945.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Budyonny

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Rokossovsky

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Rokossovsky#/media/...
Harvard Canceled Its Best Black Professor. Why?
Similar analogy would be, anything you say to anyone should be recorded, which can be subpoenaed.

EDIT: What happens when I send someone an email in a made-up language which only we both know?
In the context of the book, it announces that this will be an utterly brazen exploration of a taboo subject.
There is no butter in baguettes in France. It's actually forbidden by law.
San Francisco has about 400,000 homes. Suppose they are each worth $100k.

Only about 5,000 of them sell in a given year. Suppose Facebook shows up all at once, with >5,000 new millionaires from the Midwest. They run an auction with each other for those 5,000 homes. The price they settle on is $1.5 million. This becomes the comparable for every existing home.

So the system started with $40bn in home equity value. We injected $7.5bn worth of tech money. And we wound up with $600 billion in home equity value. 395,000 people got $1.4 million in home equity out of thin air. And they can use it to trade with each other, generating many more than 5,000 transactions at the "Facebook millionaire" price.
He's never had "ad deals".
How to read non-fiction and retain more
In case anyone is curious, this is a pretty good comparison between AVIF and JPEG XL:

https://avif.io/blog/comparisons/avif-vs-jpegxl/#speed

And here is the current state for Safari:

https://jpegxl.io/tutorials/safari/
There are many more countries than the US and Japan, my friend. And many with much better cuisines than those two.
> And with the data they will collect, share and collate, and use against us, they will effectively enslave us.

This is the point where we in Europe smugly point to the GDPR.
Illegal or prohibitly expensive in quite a few parts of the world. Even simple things like converting a car to run on biofuel can be difficult.
I'm with you. The glorification of all things Japanese is simply a reactionary, ultra-nationalist state of mind which has been adopted by Japanophiles from the US.
This has aged pretty poorly. Turns out there really are a lot of dollar bills lying in the street if you can code at all. Turns out you can make a huge amount of money by doing something easy and just not fucking it up (e.g. Slack). A lot of the time you look at the existing solutions and assume there must be some reason why they're so awful - and a lot of the time there isn't one, the makers really have just been dumb.
Doing so you would only identify Tor exit nodes.
It's not Linux, it's Unix ...
Google offer(ed?) an in-house search appliance that you could host yourself - they solved many of the configuration problems by selling you the hardware it runs on so they still had control of the whole stack.

Other providers solve (well, limit) the configuration problems by selling an in-house solution with very tightly locked down environment specs and they won't support anything else. If you want it in-house you have to follow their lead.

Solving a gnarly problem doesn't have to mean doing all of the work yourself. Very often a customer will put some effort in to meet you in the middle.
Hmmm… three accounts that are newer than 6 months all recommend mullvad…
"Konbini" is the type of store, a childish abbreviation of the word "Convenience Store" which is too hard to say for Japanese people.
someone pointed out the percentage of US house sales due to private equity. A nation of renters.
Totally. When I’m searching for the best option for some random thing, I’ll often add 2021 or 2022 to make sure the results are recent. And, inevitably, when I need to add “Reddit” to the search query, adding the year is still helpful to avoid showing 10 year old posts. I’m looking for recent recommendations in these types of searches, normally,
That's interesting but what I reacted to was this paragraph;

>According to census data, this block—and hence this house—had 14 residents in 2020: one Hispanic person, seven white people, three biracial people (white and black), two multi-racial people (white, black, and American Indian), and one person of “some other race.” There were supposedly eight adults and six children living in the house.

Why is this important? I love how they trail off at the end there. So if you don't qualify for bi-racial you're "some other race". What if your grandparents were biracial? Does that make you some other race? Where does this end?

Don't mistake this for me trying to make a point about "woke". I'm a Swede who truly finds it fascinating how the United States emphasize people's "race" instead of their heritage (nationality).
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I only read Twitter through Tweetbot on my phone and have been doing so for like forever. I get a reversed chronological timeline, no ads and no recommendations. I hear people talk about how useless Twitter has become, but for me Twitter has been more or less the same since 2006.
Yes! Also, you can make your own ebike from a regular bike, a motor and a battery, and that gives you maximum freedom. It's also cheaper.
As an American with a toaster oven, I still call it a toaster colloquially. (As do others I know with toaster ovens.)
A DIY car is a difficult thing to do, but a DIY ebike is easy and relatively cheap.
> The French were very suspicious of Soviet intentions (far more so then they used to be of Imperial Russia) and that is why the French never came even close to such an agreement.

The USSR were also pretty close to signing a treaty with Romania (from where I'm from) in around 1936 if I'm not mistaken, had that happened they would have probably not taken Bessarabia (present-day Republic of Moldova), Northern Bukovina and the county of Herza from us in June 1940. Our Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Titulescu, was very against it so unfortunately that didn't happen.

It also didn't help that the Soviets were, for all intents and purposes, a Bolshevik State and were seen by everyone else as a Bolshevik State first and foremost. For all the attacks drawn against the author I think Ernst Nolte's book The European Civil War [1] best describes that mindset, this part of Europe was really divided into Bolshevism vs anti-Bolshevism back at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Nolte#Der_europ%C3%A4isc...
This thread is literally about something that is a solved problem since 1991 in c++ (generic lists and data structures) and apparently still an issue in the kernel in 2022
The article tries to make this about EVs, but really this seems to be more about modern cars in general.
I appreciate your cynicism, but history has shown that slavery is unsustainable and that humans resist and succeed against it time and time again. In this same future you've described, we will value and own the corporations instead of things directly. The reason we will remain under the illusion that we have autonomy and freedom will be, despite having lost the ability to hack everything we own, we will have the ability to choose from many competitors who operate much differently and cater to specific types of users. No longer will we need to be lone islands of hackers to get our use-case working great, we will collectively organize around our use-cases to develop the most compatible products. The wealth of open-source software and specifications will be a foundation for these new businesses to operate from. It's inevitable because the pressure from consumers must be relieved in one way or another. The founding of companies like Framework seem to exhibit this principle at work.

Squeezing on one side inflates the other side.
This isn't the right thread to have this argument and I imagine dang will remove your post, but I just want to note: Trump and his supporters aren't merely alleging that there were some irregularities in the election (which may be true), or that the media was overwhelmingly biased towards Biden (which is definitely true.) They allege that there was enormous, widespread fraud that stole millions of votes and handed the election to Biden despite Trump being the rightful winner - and also that the evidence for this fraud is mounting and damning and there's a huge conspiracy by the media, big tech, etc to cover it up. That's a much stronger claim than anything you say and I'm yet to see good evidence for it.

I'm not sure why you're talking about COVID, Russia, oil prices etc because none of that was mentioned; I actually agree with most of what you wrote in your latter paragraphs. But this isn't the place to have this kind of flamewar.
> Once things started going to multi-layer PCBs it was the end of reparability.

Very true, however having full documentation would help nonetheless. My water heater electronic board cost over €250 to replace, although it contains less than €20 parts; a preprogrammed uC makes it impossible to replicate it. If it had public hardware and firmware documentation, someone could repurpose a similar but cheaper board or replicate the functions using a different rugged enough uC board, which would also likely bring down the retail price of the original spare part.
"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy.", and some likely say: we will own everything and we'll be happier /s.
The difference between hackers and our enemies is that we value
reason, logic and consistency whereas the political classes deal in
emotion, and expedient affect (truth and consistency are irrelevant).
Trump and Putin use the same play-book, and other leaders are learning
from them [1]

Many comments here declare voting as irrelevant and ineffectual. This
leaves a sense of learned helplessness in challenging dangerous
political forces.

But hackers seem to be overlooking important ideas that we should know
better about. Voting may not work on the individual level, but it
works at scale, and we are really good at scaling things. Emotion is
a much more powerful tool than reason, and influence is really just
social engineering at scale. We are good at social engineering.
Modern propaganda is as much technical craft as a creative one. We
are great at both.

The British Saatchi campaign is a flop, almost a laughable example of
how disconnected from people they really are. What makes information
war interesting is that highly polished short documentaries and video
clips are not expensive or difficult to produce. The EFF already tried
their hand with "The Corruptibles", which I think was very promising.

The EFF are wasting their time writing blog posts that preach to the
choir and only a handful of regular readers will see. I know because
that's what I do, and as a writer I am realising that I speak almost
entirely to those whose minds don't need changing.

What's needed is a fight with the politicians on their own ground with
funny, viral, highly emotive, slickly produced influence materials
that show how ridiculous any attack on E2E technologies really is at
this time in history. I think the EFF could better use their resources
this way.

[1] read about Vladislav Surkov and the tactics of discombobulation.
It would be nice if Apple recorded some visible metric on how much this is “costing” the user.

Eg how much energy or how much bandwidth.

Then we could make an informed decision.
Why do you want to watch me take a dump so bad?
> How does the design of a rechargeable mouse encourage you to forget to charge it. It makes no sense.

If the charge port was not on the bottom I would not be able to forget to charge it. Therefore by putting the charge port on the bottom they have raised the probability that I forget to charge the mouse.

> The original whine fest is about not being able to use the mouse while it’s wired. That’s because Apple wants you to enjoy using it wirelessly. It’s not hard and if you make a mistake, you can charge it to last a day in the time it takes to make coffee. No big deal. If you forget to charge it overnight, there’s a new chance tomorrow.

Sure, it may not be a big deal. But it's something that can be improved.

> Oh and the Magic Mouse 2 features a 1986 mAh battery at 4.2v which really is quite a bit more energy than your pair of batteries of 2500 mAh at 1.2v. Unsurprisingly of course, otherwise we’d all have cellphones running on aaa batteries.

The iFixit teardown says that it runs at 3.67V? Did they change it recently? Here's where I found it: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Magic+Mouse+2+Battery+Replaceme...

> You’re not the target audience, you don’t need to tell Apple you’d want the charging port to be somewhere else, it’s a pretty obvious choice they can think of themselves. Clearly they purposefully made the different choice. And between you and Apple it’s probably also clear who is selling a ton of mice and who is not.

Hmm, does Apple sell a ton of mice though? Certainly not more than Logitech, which is the brand I currently use (and I have quite a few gripes with their mice too).

I criticize Apple because I really want to buy their products. Their products offer features that other companies cannot dream of developing. I believe it makes total sense for a consumer to wish for products that better cater to their preferences. I can't force them to listen to me though, and obviously they shouldn't just do everything I tell them to do.
> "there's a Russian army invading my city, we should set up an ambush"

I believe a zero tolerance policy on incitement to violence is the only tenable approach. No matter the cause. Replace "Russian" with "US" and you are on CIA's shitlist.

Actual planning of armed resistance should not be done on Facebook or Twitter anyway.
As a third generation hoarder I have to say that the number one thing preventing me from doing projects such as home automation is that since I struggle with throwing stuff out, failed/deprecated devices would just pile up and I don't want that.
Whenever this comes up I recommend: The real relationship between your age and your chance of success, which summarises a few statistics on this topic.

https://www.ted.com/talks/albert_laszlo_barabasi_the_real_re...

"... it created the impression to us that creativity equals youth, which is painful, right?"

"... is it really true that creativity vanishes as we age?"

Relevant to HN, there's also a segment on startup success.
From an environmental problem there is an interesting perspective on lending appliances.

Let's look at washing machines: (or any other appliance) If you buy a washing machine there is limited incentive for the manufacturer to make it repairable or easy to dismantle and recycle the parts. Also for the owners there are incentives to run it as long as they can, while new, resource (energy, water, ...) efficient replacements will come out.

If you turn this around and make it a rental system where you buy 1000 runs or so the producer for one is incentived to make sure they have as little service cases as possible, so the machine has to be robust enough for that. And then when taking it back they have an interest to recycle the parts as good as they can since it's suddenly their problem and people get new or refurbished machines regularly which reduces resource usage.

Switching to such a model ain't easy, but interesting to me nonetheless.
https://pockit.ai/ – for those who prefer text/images instead of video.
That's ingenious, because everyone did not bother strip searching since they made their explicit conclusions about what was between your legs by the external appearance and behavior alone :)
>The fraudulent story of Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators during the occupation of Kuwait in 1990 is depicted as if it were true in Live from Baghdad, the HBO film premiering on the cable network this Saturday that purports to tell the story behind CNN’s coverage of the Gulf War. HBO and CNN are both owned by the AOL Time Warner media conglomerate.

https://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/hbo-recycling-gul...

"When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators" (2002)

https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html
> "All problems start with a solution process, that leads to a better process, that leads to a better process and on and on, with each advancement providing a more productive solution. Unless something gets in the way that stops the advancement of this process by putting in a much less productive process based on politics or vested interest. This is a story of how politics and vested interest made a decision that caused Boeing to make a Billion-dollar 3D CAD mistake."

A drop of process in your process? Or perhaps you prefer process. This is unreadable, couldn't make it past the intro :/ (there's also "solution" and "politics").
I think this is a case of grass is greener. A few years ago a Japanese friend visited Denmark and was blown away by the 7-11 food and described it as much better than Japan.
Good point. It could also become a stepping stone to starting a larger project.
It's a beta now but it'll become a paid search. That you aren't willing to pay for search means it isn't very important to you.
> esp if you have an easy out?

You seem to think that Ukraine "declaring neutrality" would actually change something in the current situation. I doubt Ukraine would "live happily ever after" after being occupied. Being neutral hasn't stopped invasions in the past. Belgium is one example of many.
those were amazing! (and pretty rare to spot btw)
The problem now is that Netflix doesn't have a large catalog. So all their fancy ML and algorithms can only suggest the same handful of Netflix movies and shows on repeat. With a handful of 10-year old movies they could get licenses to thrown into the mix.
> When I recently Googled “best toaster”...

Well if you google "best toaster" then yes, Google will (and should) show you ads and sponsored posts and articles that have been seo-ed to death, because it's a meaningless search.

Google isn't in the business of assessing toasters' quality. Google is in the business of finding information relevant to your search.

But relevancy goes both ways: you need to search for something specific to find it.

"When will I die" will not point to anything interesting. "Pancreatic cancer symptoms" might.
Hopefully. Safari is the new IE, that's for sure.
I wish math would land, so people would say "a quarter to a third the size", which is what I guess they really mean.