skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "I'd be curious to know what fraction of NFT enthusiasts had previously commissioned a piece of art, and of those how many were truly aghast at the dire state of payment systems without NFTs or at their inability to assert ownership via a blockchain. I suspect both are quite small."

The main complaint I hear from actual commission-taking artists is that even something fun and innocuous but potentially readable as suggesting banned uses, like "fuck yeah," in the comment field on the paying side will make PayPal suspend your account. The artists I know are universally opposed to NFTs with more artists I know of coming out against every time a new NFT site launches with stolen art.
Whats the tech stack for the iOS app?
I'm reminded of the quote:

"The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others; who claim that if such things are to be allowed, their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty."
The Find My network can be opted out of in the settings [1]. And if I remember correctly, it asks you to opt in (but I might be remembering wrong)

I have somewhat the opposite opinion though that there are way too many settings in iOS now and it does get difficult to dive through all the menus. Best thing I can recommend is to use the search in the settings.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/725664/how-to-opt-out-of-apples-fi...
It is simply a common phrase to refer to a naive and innocent person, it has nothing to do with Game of Thrones. Although I like how he used it, it immediately makes its meaning clear.
Reminded me of: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.

Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtO4DsSazc
Apple should separate the settings for FindMy the device / FindMy other devices.
The Final Speech from the Great Dictator
Sure. I think it's reasonable to ask DuckDuckGo to apply more rigorous standards across the board.

I'll offer a weak note in their defense that I suspect part of the reason they don't is specifically to avoid sliding down a slippery slope and breaking this balance between neutrality and editorial decisions about content. I suspect that DuckDuckGo would say that there is a volume and kind of misinformation happening here that they are willing to address, but that applying the standards too broadly would result in them making decisions in other contexts where they feel less confident and in pushing their editorial line too far.

However, I don't think it's unreasonable at all to disagree with them on that assessment, and I think it's extremely reasonable to ask why DuckDuckGo feels safer about downranking certain kinds of misinformation and feels nervous about taking stances about other misinformation.

My hope is that if it's somehow possible for anything positive at all to come out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's in part that people become more conscientious and critical about other conflicts (and narratives about conflicts) that we tend to take for granted or ignore.
I wonder if a large body passed through the solar system around that time? Enough to disturb gravitational forces to trigger massive volcanic activity like that.
Controversial take.

"Nazis who travel to Ukraine to fight Russians are less bad people doing morally and ethically ambiguous things. Once they leave Ukraine, the actions they performed involving Russians are both unethical (because they willingly travelled there to murder conscripted teenagers) and ethical (because they willingly travelled there, presumably to defend the sovereignty of a nation they have tenuous cultural links with)"

Just wait 'til the Ukrainian Foreign Legion starts to be accused of things like massacres (whether legitimate or false reports for propaganda), then guys who were marching in BLM counter protests who went to Ukraine (again, running with the bad nazis doing good things) will have their social media histories paraded about to defame the entire foreign legion.
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Thanks, I'm asking about the former.

Does that work even for paid subscriptions? I was thinking it would require some sort of separate URL.
John here, one of the app engineers at Substack. Our team has lots of experience with Swift and values the level of polish you can achieve natively, so went with that. We try to avoid third-party dependencies so native implementation and customization of UIKit, URLSession, and CoreData are important to us.

Cross platform frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, etc are super interesting but in our experience can hold an app back long term. As you're able to dedicate more resources to the product, it's more likely that you'll want custom UI (animations, transitions, etc) and functionality that require full access to native APIs. It's a tough decision to make for early stage start-ups but we also went with native at Cocoon (our last startup which was acquired by Substack). I think some important factors that should go into the decision are 1) how important you think both Android and iOS support are out of the gate 2) how soon you'd expect to be able to hire native engineers for both platforms 3) your long term vision for the product and its desired complexity. We love Android (I've got some Kotlin experience myself) and will have it out ASAP, but with the existing email/web product there is less pressure for cross platform in our case.
There are some battery draining tricks you can do with Bluetooth apps on a phone to drain the device batteries.

Essentially if you did a ton of device queries to every BLE device visible, you could drain the batteries of every device in range. Transmission is probably a heavier battery drain so just making them talk to your phone creates drain.

It’s a single device example, but in a bar once I was showing a co-worker once how you could see and interrogate a lot of BLE devices. I pinged someone’s Fitbit, and read that it only had 3% battery left. Then it vanished. I’m pretty sure in the process of asking it to give me the info, it drained the battery.
We read fear and loathing to each other in a tent hunkered down in a 48hr long storm in Iceland. I don't think I've laughed as hard since. What a blinder of a novel.
As someone who used to drive electric in the HOV lane through Emeryville CA, I've seen many people get busted.

Conversely, driving the same through the peninsula I never saw any. It seems to be up to the discretion of the county/local cops to enforce, which isn't a conviction of the rule itself but really the enforcing authority.
Putin's Road to War: Julia Ioffe [video]
See also The Official Rules and Explanations, compiled by Paul Dickson.

https://www.bookfinder.com/book/The_Official_Rules_and_Expla...
However, do most wireless protocols cause listening devices to start using significantly more CPU and thus battery power? I'd expect DoS in most authenticated protocols to be impossible and essentially rejected at the hardware level (just like interference would be) with very minimal power impact.
For some reason the Linux community became enamored of the `container_of` construct, which eases typecasting across related structures, and built all their quasi-generic data structures around it. Whereas the traditional BSD implementations (substantially unchanged since 4.4BSD) never needed that bit of black magic; developers simply learned to avoid playing fast-and-loose with struct types in the first place.

In general the BSD implementations are more type-safe (just plain type-safe, actually), and IMO easier to use and much simpler to understand.
I've never in my life driven a car with cruise control. Including rentals.

I'm not even 100% sure how they work...
About fuckin' time!

I've been a subscriber and spend about $2K/yr on Substack subscriptions thanks to a generous Enterprise educational budget/policy (and then cheat/steal all my other media/news content).

This is great news.
I do not think he would give a flying fuck about zone. And if planes will be downed he will have to answer and the war starts. Russia's army can not hope to win conventional conflict with NATO and is ruled by a rabid man at the top. the only thing it can do in response is to use nukes. After that say goodbye to a world.
Cor yeh, requires some staying power but what an amazing, life changing read.
> but I guess it would be easy to find volunteers.

I don't know, in my experience people are sure picky about procreating with random strangers (and the ethical concerns regarding the output of the study are... significant).

From people I've known undergoing fertility treatments (and from my own limited research), the issue is frequently traceable to a specific cause in one or both partners (although it appears to be unexplained in about 20% of couples who seek treatment, which would be a small subset of the general population).
Actually it's not hate speech because "hate speech" is actually "hate or encourages violence towards a person or group" + power/oppression. Because Russians are the oppressors in this case, such speech against them can't be considered hate speech.

/s
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> Okay, let's use your wording then. Would you say that in the hypothetical described above, that Islamophobia would be "all insignificant" and "least of people's worries"?

My bad, I didn't know Islam was a country with a government that decided to send tanks and jets to invade and bomb a foreign country... /s

That's the absurd parallel you are proudly are making as a sophist. Perhaps you should focus on making the Russian armies get the fuck out of Ukraine instead.
It's 2003, the US and UK invade Iraq claiming that they have WMD(which later was proven to be false).

Is it O.K. for Facebook to allow call for violence against Americans and the British? Should Facebook provide secure channel for the organisation of the assassination of T. Blair?

Zuckerberg moved by the struggle of the Palestinians, starts allowing Hamas to organize attacks through E2E encrypted channel on Israeli soldiers and politicians. Maybe when he is on it, should also provide them with historical location data of the person of interest? Is that alright?
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Just a kindly reminder about filtering out FB/Instagram/Whatsapp on your device or even home network:

https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA
(I'm just a random person)

While I agree with the overall message of web over app (and have bugged some of my colleagues for going "App First", locking themselves into particular ecosystems before gaining audience), for consuming content, there are benefits to Apps, when done properly .

Most pertinently, offline content - I will always use Prime/Netflix/Disney in app form rather than Web form.

Offering an app as an option is a brilliant way to meet everybody's needs.

(nagging/pushing an app and deprecating web, however, is devil's work:)
I'm a little bit confused by the wording "This happens transparently to the user," I assume they mean that the user is unaware of this workaround? Or do they mean it's obvious how it works (transparent) to the user?
> It sounds like you're advocating for pushing censorship responsibility to the user.

It is really irresponsible to be phrasing censorship as a "responsibility". Censorship is a tool of the weak and simple-minded so that they can maintain the illusions of a shared reality promulgated by whoever is in charge. The only responsibility should be towards the free and unadulterated flow of information, and yes, it is the individual's responsibility to make sense of that in a civilized fashion.

My only exception to this rule is for things that are irrelevant to seeker's intent to acquire more information, advertising falls into this bucket.
I didn't say they are equally bad, but they are both, objectively, quite bad. They can also both be worth reading, but you need to both know the history, and think about what you are reading, why it was written, and who it was written for.
Are you going to pay Tim Dillon his 20 milly?
I don't think finger-wagging is going to stop determined hackers. This is something we will just have to accept in future wars.
Even more of a massive difference calling for the death of Vladimir Putin in Russia...
https://archive.ph/VwCIi
None of your numbers are correct. Buses will be more than a million per bus, plus the cost of hiring drivers. You would be lucky to get 10 buses.
China have done it because they have superpower ambition, and because they can. There are areas where they still haven’t been able to do the same such as jet engine.

Also, not everyone can build their own. Most of the world will continue to use the current one. Some other like Russia will use China’s one. Do you think China will be less aggressive than the US in weaponizing everything against you as they see fit? Russia will be a lesser partner to China. The dream of Russia Empire glory will still be a dream only.
what is EU4? what is WC?
"By choosing to only have an EC card"

That was the standard normal card, I had ever since with that account - which is what all the people around me have - but it does work all across europe, in every shop I went.

Paypal is fine with it, so is coinbase. And every other online service I used.

(while backpacking international, I indeed had a credit card at that time)

So I recently only got a credit card(again), to be able to use Stripe. But most won't bother to do this, unless they have to.
None of those activities pose the same risks as soldering using leaded solder, for the reasons given above. You are unlikely to end up ingesting significant quantities of the lead.

It's probably worth emphasizing that this is risk with home soldering, where you're likely to eat and solder in relatively close proximity, and without being completely rigorous about changing your clothes and vacuuming up every last spec of dust.

Lead free solder works fine, so there is really no reason to take even a small risk if you are soldering as a hobbyist.

(And yeah, it's probably a small risk. By all means use leaded solder if you think the slight additional convenience outweighs the small risk of significant lead exposure.)
I'm concerned about the reliability of Googles offers, but the Office 365 might be the best option for me, since i'm already using the personal version of it, it shouldn't be a much bigger expense.
So the entire (original) purpose of carpool lanes is to reduce the number of cars on the road. The idea is that if three people are driving in one car instead of in three separate cars, that is two less cars on the road. In aggregate, this should speed up the commute for everyone, even people who don't use the carpool lane. Sure, you are giving up a lane, but in return you are removing 3x the number of vehicles from the remaining lanes for every car in the carpool lane.

As for your speed difference issue, at least in Southern California, the carpool lane has a double yellow separating it from the regular lanes, hopefully giving some added safety since cars shouldn't move back and forth except at designated entry and exit sections.

A lot of people think the purpose is to reduce pollution from the cars removed from the road (i.e. only one car's pollution instead of three), but in reality it should reduce pollution even MORE than that (because fewer cars on the road means everyone can drive faster, reducing the time spent with your car polluting while stuck in traffic).

However, they messed this up by adding these other ways to drive in the carpool lane. Sure, an electric vehicle pollutes less, but letting them drive in the carpool lane eliminates the benefit of fewer cars on the road; three electric vehicles still take up the same amount of space on the road and cause the same traffic as three gas guzzlers.

Then they added paying a toll, which does nothing to reduce pollution at all, and is simply a way to generate revenue. This is completely counter to the original purpose.

So if they stuck to the original idea, I think it is worthwhile. In the original form, converting the carpool lane to a regular lane would not actually reduce the congestion for everyone, because while you are adding a lane, you are also increasing the number of cars on the road (of course there are a lot of factors that go into this... how many cars would carpool anyway, and how many cars are using the carpool lane at any one time).

Here in Southern California, however, the carpool lanes are almost pointless. During high traffic times, they are just as congested as the regular lanes. In fact, they are often times slower than the regular lanes when congestion is medium... since they are only one lane and you can't switch lanes during most sections, you can end up with one slower car holding back everyone.
Does anybody from Germany know where I can still buy leaded solder? Unfortunately I forgot to order a lifetime supply while it was still available
Hi there.

Not at this level.

My idea was more like building it as a tower of intermediate languages or representations.
Eg. You start with a core and pure language of primitives (for drawing and constraint solving), that should be easy to optimise and build sugared versions/higher level language that will translate/reduce into that core language.

It means at the end that we could have a higher level, declarative language/DSL that will generate the right underlying core representation (and you’ll compile that core language to webassembly or llvm ir for instance).

That’s how the latest advanced FP programming languages are built. Eg. you can check Idris2[1] or Formality[2] (small enough to understand the construction).

The analogy with llvm was to emphasise that you’d have a backend where your optimisation efforts should go, and your frontend(s) where your “ux” and ergonomics efforts should go.

Or put another way: build a “low level virtual machine” tailored for your specific topic, then the set of higher level languages that compile to its ir/bytecode.

[1]: https://idris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/implementation/overv...
[2]: https://github.com/Kindelia/Kind https://github.com/VictorTaelin/Elementary-Affine-Type-Theor...
Sounds like you could just navigate to those sites and skip the search all together?
Yeh, The Crow Road. I met him once working a book signing. He was brilliant, incredibly down to earth, very very funny and an all round good bloke. His books have kept me enthralled, especially Dead Air and Complicity. Helluva read.
"Fiat" does not mean "real-world money" as any money you consider "real" is "real". "Fiat" refers to money not backed by something physical, and it is not a new term that appeared from the cryptocurrency space (as many believe).

The search trend, https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Fiat%20M..., seems to be relative stable since start of collecting trend data (2004), with slightly increasing volume as we get closer to today, but generally stable.

More information: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
John here, one of the iOS engineers. We're 100% UIKit but keeping a close eye on SwiftUI. It's certainly beautiful
They break off if they get too long and will run out of material at some point.
A monetized lane is a godsend when you're late and need to get where you're going as fast as possible.
bless is also a unix tool https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/8/BLESS/
The difference in the costs of the solutions you're talking about are to the order of many magnitudes.

Congestion pricing is a quick fix that is not a punishment, because everyone would be waiting in traffic anyways. Opening up the extra lanes to all would only increase wait times for all with induced demand.

But like GP said, the fix especially angers people.
With a microservices architecture, it's still possible to locally optimize each microservice but then end up with a global architecture that is far from ideal. It seems to me that Tim's starting point was exactly that.
Yes?

Firecracker could be equally well done in many languages. It happened that the people assigned it at the time wanted production Rust experience, and were senior enough to be allowed to, despite the predictable risk of staffing difficulty after some other language steals away Rust's hipster cred. (Which one will, in time, as sure as seasons turn.)

It is a common experience for systems written in the a fad language to end up being re-implemented in a language easier to hire for. E.g. I see remarks on HN about this being a principal driver of Erlang hiring, lately.
Ask HN: How to be a software engineer who works on challenging problems?
I've been a software engineer in a midsized Canadian company for the past 2.5 years. I mainly do application level CRUD work. This work is pretty easy and we're mostly solving business problems, and never really get involved with technically challenging work. I always wanted to work on harder problems that deal with things lower in the stack. However, I'm not sure the process to go about this. My undergraduate degree isn't in CS, nor did I do any research in undergrad. Past few years I've been rigorously teaching myself CS fundamentals. I've read multiple books about databases and distributed systems. I've played around with these technologies in small side projects. But I have no idea how to pursue a career exploring these concepts in a lower level. Any advice for someone like me?
Do not breathe pure oxygen unless it's administered by a medical professional for legitimate reasons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

There's a story that's relevant to this thread, and I wish I could remember the original author. It goes something like this: It's easy to dismiss naive writing when it's on a subject you understand. But when reading subjects outside your expertise, that naivety is difficult to detect, so much more seems plausible.

HN often seems extremely naive regarding pop-science topics like nutrition, weight loss, and exercise.
I've had no luck finding any of these aside from antiques in poor condition and costs too much. The closest I can find in good condition is the CARB certified Midwest knock-off that has some of the nice features but still has a plastic nozzle. I can not find any of the Jerry cans with the compression lid. I would love to get a bunch of the original ones in good condition.
Seems kind of ridiculous that in order to opt out of Apple's airtag network you essentially have to give up the ability to find your phone if it gets lost.
They still have to buy their hardware in China, or from suppliers who buy in China.
Please include an option to increase the font size. I love Substack. I typically read articles through the web in Safari's reader view which allows you to increase the font size. The app looks great. Love the dark theme. Just a larger font would be more comfortable to read.