skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t this when the leader (or group) demands “we must do something!” against something, anything they dislike, even if it’s not wise?

What’s happening in Florida is a good example. The state, which is dominated by the right, called a special legislative session to dissolve a management district overseen by Disney because the company spoke up against the state’s “don’t say gay” bill.

From the state’s standpoint, it doesn’t make sense, though; this action wiped out a tax revenue stream of hundreds of millions and dropped $1B to $2B in debt on the counties Disney property straddles.

Disney has been “punished” in the eyes of the far-right, but residents now have concerns about the long-term impacts of what this decision has wrought.
at least fix the spelling mistake: devolping -> developing
Ha, havent heard from that app in years!
DriveDroid's file-backed USB-thumbdrive emulation is marvellous.
Pick your .iso or whatever image, insert & boot your machines from it. No more searching for and fiddling with usb drives needed. It needs usb-gadget+mass storage module support in the Android kernel though. Miss it.
Reference to a plot element in Neal Stephensen's book, Cryptonomicon which included a startup for pinoy-grams enabled by a new submarine fiber-optic cable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
For the Saturn V rocket/Apollo as a whole, The Saturn V Story documentary is quite good. It's on Amazon but I'm sure can be found elsewhere.

The short answer is that, as you say, things were done in stages, problems were found and fixed, people did die (the Apollo 1 fire), and the Apollo 11 moon landing was a pretty close thing.
I don't think most bitcoin maxis would claim bitcoin can fix capitalism. Any more than gold could fix capitalism.

Hard money is the least bad option. The universe is still cruel, and life is unfair.

The irony is that communist states love gold, and bitcoin.

Venezuela, like usual for marxist states, confiscates valuables from individuals that manage to squirrel some. Bitcoin, bitcoin miners, whatever can be confiscated and operated to provide hard currency for the government.

Beware those who will help you, by denying you freedom.
SSD wear rate is not a concern
That’s the beauty of single mode fiber, you can use the same pair for something as slow as 10 Mbps to 800 Gbps. Makes a lot more sense from a data center perspective too, since you can continue to reuse the existing cable plant and just need to upgrade your NICs, transceivers, and switches.
Bless your heart for caring so much. I do not.
In principle yes, in practice Google makes it much too difficult and scary for typical users.
Direct action is an anarchist/autonomist idea of changing things directly rather than petitioning the government (see Graeber, Direct Action: an ethnography). It has literally nothing to do with fascist (particularly Nazi -- see Klemperer, Lingua Tertii Imperii) ideals of anti-intellectualism or action for action's sake beyond the word "action".
If you are coming from a place that covers everyone.. you may want to learn more than 'you are tech, don't worry' -
Many of the tech jobs I've seen are actually 1099 contract gigs, which means you are going to be paying for your own health insurance (if you can get it) and your own taxes and stuff as well.

Also, if you lose a job that was covering your health insurance, you have some interesting situations.. 'cobra' can temporarily keep you a float, but most people can not afford it when they are between jobs.

So I'd say it's comparable and not all that different.

Plenty of places here will refuse to take care of you if you have no insurance.

Some places will do the minimum to keep you from dieing, but not help you fix health problems.

Insurance 'lapse' could bankrupt you just trying to buy meds.

If your fam already needs meds in Canada, might want to call around the pharmacies and ask how much they cost here.

Even if you get insurance from a co, it may not cover the same drugs that you get elsewhere.
I really love the Racket discord. Very warm, welcoming, and helpful.

The Rust discord is also a nice place.
This is why finance professionals tend to use basis points. You can’t mix up a 6% growth vs. an increase of 600 basis points.
What does it cost to republish them?
Except the web actually has value.
Googler opinions are my own.

At least they fixed this with the pixel 6 with a 5 year upgrade plan.
He doesn't demonstrate their connection. He just says,

>But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

I want to emphasize "many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism". And as he notes before that quote, "fascism had no quintessence". So how is it a real thing? It has no quintessence and whatever properties it may or may not have are also properties of other despotic and fanatical systems. So how is it in any way a real thing that could be studied and reasoned about and compared to other systems that are not fascist?
Did you read the footnote? It noted exactly that CWV does not require AMP but AMP magically guarantees passing CWV score to win monopoly power search placement. Not a coincidence. Please read the whole footnote again and let me know if anything is unclear. If you think this CWV ploy is all fair-play by Google, I have a bridge 4 sale.
> the fed rate went from 0.25% to 0.5% hardly soaring

That's a 100% rise in interest rates, which many people would call "soaring".
> you have to graduate with an academic degree in order to work as a software engineer.

You don't need any degree to work as a software engineer.

Also, there is a lot of software engineering degrees that are much more focused on the "engineering" part.
allow/deny lists rather than any sort of realtime dynamic filtering
Just because the formal rate increase happened in March doesn't mean people didn't know about it already. Rate hikes are typically speculated on for several weeks (months?) before they actually happen. By the time it actually happens, the market has always priced it in.
The decrease in Jan/Feb was in anticipation of the March increase. And the current swings are in anticipation of the May/June increases.
> By that logic, you shouldn't believe in black holes / GR at all, right? In practice, we can always replace infinities with some arbitrarily large numbers that don't grow all the way to infinity because of yet-unknown physics (probably quantum gravity, in the case of black holes).

I don't see how this follows. The ultraviolet catastrophe (or other divergences) says we have to fix something, it doesn't say that we should choose a weird ad hoc fix.

> I don't think this would have been promising if the MM experiment seemed a hundred years away, and in general I don't think SR would have been as compelling in that case.

It probably wouldn't have been as compelling, I agree. Don't get me wrong; the gold standard is empirical evidence. But the invariance arguments and procession of mercury would be grounds for taking it seriously. Einstein's argument for the theory depends only weakly on MM.

> Sure, it's a difference in degree in the end. The plausibility of having an experiment "soon" is the degree here. I don't think that Hossenfelder would argue that if an experiment is only possible 2 years from now, or maybe even 20 years from now, you shouldn't work on some theoretical subject. But, when that time horizon stretches well beyond your lifetime and the lifetime of your students, it's perhaps time to reconsider.

This seems like an unnecessarily narrow view of what constitutes worthwhile physics. First, because the experimentalists are very clever, and there's no knowing what indirect tests they might propose. But mainly because, if we can make theoretical progress on an important question, why not do that (even if empirical data is not forthcoming)? This view suggests that a physicist in 1915 (or 1925, etc.) should not try to work out properties of gravitational waves, for example, which seems obviously ridiculous to me. (The direct confirmation came about 100 years later.) If the theoretical motivation for doing so is solid, why not?

I agree that BHILP paradox is probably a different case, one where we might really have no shot of saying something useful theoretically. But this requires getting into the specific details of BHILP. These general statements about what is and isn't good physics because of near-future testability all seem clearly suspect.
My googling for the sum of USD hasn't been fruitful if you don't mind providing a link.

I do take issue calling an anual arbitrary. It's a very common denominator used in finances. ie, you pay taxes anually. Don't attempt to tell the government it's arbitrary. To be pedantic, everything is arbitrary, even the value, the amount of, etc of USD, invadating this entire discussion.

As a society we agree upon things. A year is not an arbitrary unit of time.
It means all ad blocking rules must be compiled and then sent to Safari. You can't, for example, execute some JavaScript to find out what elements to block. The format of these precompiled rules isn't as flexible as, say, uBlock Origin, but works well enough in practice.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
Maybe a good follow-up post would be to compare the Apollo hardware to modern hardware. It would be nice to see the differences in size, complexity, etc.
But how do you "sync" music libraries with the phone storage? Dragging and dropping files is still not a great experience and doesn't scale.
I’ll contend your shallow dismissal. This is not a list of all possible sociopolitical properties a political movement may have, which is what you seem to be describing. It’s a list of the ones that, found together, characterize a particular political movement as being Ur-Facist.
I would say that what Cage added was indeed the statement (or maybe question) that those noises are music. And listening to music is a different thing than meditation. That said, one can definitely disagree with his perspective on it.
What do landlords learn in a background check? More than most renters realize
Indeed, mod_cloud_notify is high on our list of modules to merge for the next Prosody release, if not the highest.

A lot of effort went into Prosody 0.12, which we released recently. It's unfortunate that mod_cloud_notify didn't quite make the cut for that version, but it was better than delaying the long overdue release even further. The vast majority of work on Prosody is unpaid volunteer time, and as with most open-source work there are certain kinds of tasks which are hard to find funding for, leading to the old "it'll be done when it's done" because we (the developers) simultaneously need to pay our bills.

Also, in recognition of many desirable things being in community modules, one thing we did prioritize in 0.12 was the plugin installer, which should make it easier for people to add additional modules to their Prosody installation.
There's always going to be a fundamental tension between a publicly funded school and the ideals of a free society. The school will have 51% of the people deciding on what notions are taught, and the other 49% are forced to pay for it.

While that tension will always be there, the public schools should try to minimize teaching political opinions and stick to teaching skills like readin ritin and rithmetic.

History, too, although sadly history is very much politicized. I don't see a solution.
> The fact that the iPhone “just works” is worth it to me.

While I’m firmly entrenched in the iPhone/iPad ecosystem, nowadays there’s quite a lot of little things that don’t “just work”, but instead behave (or are designed) in quirky and inconsistent ways, or fail randomly. I’m not talking about third-party apps, but iOS functionality and essential built-in apps. I can only imagine it’s worse on Android.
Meanwhile, some of Apple's own apps haven't been updated for much longer than that – example: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id471966...

Rules for thee, but not for me!
I checked three libraries. The New York Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library. None have it.
Delphi's precursors were Pascal as a language and ObjectVision as the concept of the UI (released in 1991). Both products created by Borland. It did not need VB to "copy from". Borland tools of the time were superior to MS and drove Gates nuts.
When you say, paid actor, are you proposing that Cramer is being paid by some fund to pump a stock that they already have a position in? I don't know, but I believe it'd be highly unlikely given that he had a pretty good career as a fund manager himself, probably doesn't need more money.

The article mentions (or links somewhere to this info) that there's no longer a Cramer pump, although there definitely was a couple years back
Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. HTH.
There will never be a point of time when "everyone" will do it, viz /r/wallstreetbets.

It's been known that trying to pick individual stocks is generally a sucker's bet since (at least) 1973, but people still try to do it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Thoughts on Sony?
Hard drives don't go anywhere close, but SSD do. What is important to understand is that 25 Gbps Internet does not mean you copy from a server on Internet to your local SSD at that speed, that 25 Gbps is just the connection between your router and the ISP. On your side you may have multiple computers, on the ISP there are multiple peerings with other networks, you may reach and aggregate bandwidth of 25 Gbps but not really a point to point one, so your SSD performance is not the top factor.
Phone game ads are getting out of control
Hi Ken. Just wanted to say I've always found your blog superb. The quality of your articles is excellent and the subjects always fascinating.
I didn't suggest they avoid stocking anything. I said the government gets to decide what goes into the government school library.
Re: bonds - it's not that crazy to think that high inflation may be behind us, and things settle down soon. 8% YoY is the trailing number, we have no idea what the leading number will be.

It's also not that crazy to think that rising rates causes a deflationary crash in the next year or two and causes the fed to drop interest rates back to zero (and thus, bond prices to go up). Honestly if the US 10yr treasury goes over 4% I would probably buy some, though it seems unlikely to happen.
The website [1] is actually still up, so you can read and make your
own mind up. Alternatively there's a quite comprehensive Wikipedia
entry [2]. What do you think happened?

[1] http://groklaw.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw
AdGuard Pro and 1Blocker
AI 2041 is good book on future of AI written as short science fiction stories. The authors worked in VC and Google.
> Stop targeting the two largest mobile platforms to gain customers and revenue.

That’s my paraphrasing of your statements. If the customers are in the garden, you have to go to the garden. That’s easier than building your own.
Heck, scientific consensus used to be that airborne diseases were transmitted by droplets. Whoops.

The interesting thing about every single one of these examples is that consensus was able to change without anyone having to advertise on Twitter.
I do desperately miss this. I’ve tried hard to get as good an experience as possible, but there’s no denying that Android wins on this one. The total closed garden approach of Apple is way overkill and I dislike it.
It's basically a way to say 'third world' without the baggage of cold war politics embedded in it.
Is there any progress in computing real world applications of this paradox to improve traffic? E.g. are there more streets that can be closed to improve New York traffic?

Even though the results seem unintuitive to most, I assume it should be easy for Google Maps to compute this.
Well, elsewhere in Germany you can get 2.5GBit/s fiber...
How about using the carrot and not the stick?

If you say something like “apps that are recently updated and using all of the latest APIs should be ranked higher within Apple’s search algorithm and recommendations”, that would make quite a bit of sense to me as an incentive to keep development and progress moving forward with all of the updated tech.

But it makes no sense to force devs to expend the effort to recompile and update an App just for the sake of staying on a store if everything is already working perfectly as intended with no security issues. This is especially a crap deal for small developers without endless resources to continuously be working on rebuilding and retooling projects just for the sake of Apple’s inability to do search and discovery well.
They probably mean relatively, since there is no 'real' value for labor. we can only see a comparison between the price of labor today and the price of the same labor 20 years from now.

Due to inflation, today's labor would be far less valuable in $ terms.
Socratic method
This is it. The conclusions should match the weight of the evidence being written about, and that of existing papers. This can be seen with semi-recent FTL neutrino experiment… it was probably a faulty cable. There are often many reasons for counter evidence that explain it better than changing the current understandings. That has to be worked through first, and isn’t a headline grabbing process.
They're just on F-Droid, most of the apps theres have food changelogs
Savings accounts will pretty much never pay more than the Federal Funds (prime) rate. Back in 2019 when the prime rate was 2.25-2.50, the high yield online savings accts were paying 25 bps under the prime rate. As the Fed starts hiking the prime rate over the summer, high yield savings (Marcus, discover, etc) will start yielding more.
Some apps are feature-complete.
I use VLC, which works great.

I don't use iTunes, ever, anywhere; and I feel sorry for anyone who does.
Worth remembering the scientific method relies on some sense of repeatable phenomena for idealized "experiment". Social science, medicine, astronomy, geology, earth science, each have their own axioms for what that means. (E.g., assume the universe is isotropic).

I don't think each of these are as solid as the other. Climate science is certainly less testable than say particle physics. Not that we shouldn't work together as humans to model, understand and keep our (only) planet stable as best we can.. but "scientific consensus" is less meaningful in this field.. used as a political word to motivate people at the expense of more nuanced understanding.

But like vaccines, it's probably better to act now before we understand it all.. (on the day before we go extinct).
You can probably make the case for it being a triopoly today had Microsoft done some things differently. But that's different from saying that Microsoft could realistically start down the mobile phone path again today. You can be sure if they thought they had any realistic hope of making it, they would try.
please don't put words in my mouth. i said nothing about being friends with anyone. and you've fundamentally misinterpreted what i said.

you don't need to be friends with someone for them to be in your network.
> As long as AP cryptographically signs the outcome of the game (as they do for all HTTPS served content)

I looked into this use case before and came to the conclusion that it can't work because TLS is not non-repudiable. Once the initial public-key handshake is finished, the rest of the session uses a symmetric cipher. Because anyone with the symmetric cipher's key can encrypt their own data with it, you could encrypt your own spoofed response from the server in any transcript of the session.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/29751/are-https-w...

One solution to this is to use the site's public key to sign a Web Bundle instead of using TLS:

https://web.dev/web-bundles/

https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...

Web bundles can be served from any origin (and I'd imagine can be verified by oracles) as the data itself is signed. However, this requires the server to use web bundles in the first place, which likely isn't happening any time soon. Mozilla considers the proposal harmful: they expect Google will serve the majority of web bundles, allowing them to see what sites the user is visiting.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/264

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/30/google-proposed-web-bundle...
Oh no, quite the opposite actually - the most pissed off demographics is people like me, faint-hearted internet liberals. A coup is extremely unlikely, like less likely than an actual nuclear war

Another funny fact that I wanted to tell about is that a couple of years ago Google/Apple helped to derail opposition effort to consolidate and push people not from the ruling party to parlament. They banned apps offering vital information on voting patters. Now they are on the high moral horse, along with FB
I was so committed to android since my very first smartphone. I liked that it was a more open platform and that it was a bit more of a tinkerer's phone. I recently got an iPhone SE for just too good of a price and thought, "why not". The moment I started to really use the phone, I felt like a complete fool. Android was always a buggy, stuttery mess. Apple is miles ahead. The phone and OS is incredibly polished. everything fades into the background and it just works in a pleasant and perfect way. Android
There are good theoretical arguments against this in the comments, but I wonder whether in practice there have been occurrences where ads were useful in challenging the scientific status-quo and advancing science?

It seems like in practice, this policy is primarily designed to prevent stupid politicians that deny science to advance their agenda or maybe snake-oil vendors that use ads denying science to sell their shit. Both of those are a good thing to me.
Would the tracker blocking available on iOS at the OS level mostly suffice for this?
Do you have a specific example in mind?
It was a YouTuber, possibly inspired by a 2012 stunt

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKD3vPD6ZA

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey...
But it's different this time.
I have a few different comments that came to mind from this post.

The first one being ADSL/xDSL. ADSL is still very much alive in rural America. My sister pays about $50/mo for 6 Mbps ADSL.

Having worked as a telephone tech, I can tell you that many people would be pretty surprised by the speeds that DSL is capable of. With a a new/good condition cable, and a VDSL2, or the like modem, even without bonding, you can exceed 100 Mbps. With a shorter line, and bonding, you can go well beyond that.

The mention of PPPoE is interesting, because I recall having to use proprietary dialer software back in the day, before Windows and Linux baked in PPPoE, and home routers really weren't a thing. One would think PPPoE has gone by the wayside, but the aforementioned sister is forced to use it with Frontier. Trying to disable all the routing functions on the ISP-provided router, and get creds to setup PPPoE on a customer provided router, is somewhat of a pain.

You'd think we moved passed it all with fiber, but I can personally say that AT&T does not work this way. They actually use 802.1x authentication on their network, where their gateway they force you to use has the certificates built in. It really then comes down to being only able to set up a 1:1 NAT with a public IP, but then your traffic is still routed through their gateway, not a true network bridge.

Having AT&T even set generic PTR records for the /64 they assign you is unheard of, let alone getting them to delegate to you. It's a fact of life in the US, where few ISPs can actually operate in the broadband market, short of the megacorps.