skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want a sobering realization, how about Ted Kaczynski calling all of this out earlier than that in his infamous manifesto. Not to say the Unabomber was noble, but he turned out to be prescient if nothing else.
I spent a couple of decades in big-tech, and of-that did adtech for about 5yrs - we captured, aggregated, cooked out activity streams from billions of toolbar, browser, and beacon events per day, for real-time, long and short-term user profiles for around a couple of hundred million people - primarily for feeding the ad-exchange behavioral targeted ads. Back then about 80% of the active internet users. This was a huge business even back then - billions.

Since then the world and his wife have captured data and inserted telemetry beacons everywhere. Consider how many services you use that are today subsidized by “anonymized” selling/trading/sharing/merging user event streams - the TV your watching, your cellphone provider selling user behaviour data, even your ISP is selling your DNS lookups - they’re all at it now. Worse, mobile has made it much easier to install platform frameworks that offer developer features in return for data-collection such as location, user profile etc.

I don’t think it’s overblown - that “anonymity” isn’t that anonymous when you add enough dimensions - you just haven’t seen how massive the data broker business is.
You mean, everybody prefers FTP to HTTP?
Yeah it's kinda funny that I can legally have sex but not look at porn or send nudes, both of which are arguably less risky.
Wait, I don't understand. They pay you if you get a hole in one?!
In most of the world, CCTV is gaining facial and number plate recognition so that might not save you.
1. Sit in a dark room.
2. Stare at a screen.
3. ???
4. Reconnect with nature!
Hey that's one way of reusing water. Two birds with one stone. Somebody has to deal with that shit.
I think telemedicine abortion provider startups (e.g. https://heyjane.co) have the potential to be seriously disruptive and allow women to access abortion care even as their rights are under attack.

Also, I thought the "Creative ways to access pills" section that shows up when you select a state where telemedicine abortion isn't currently officially available was interesting:

> Rosa lives in Texas where the law makes it hard to find pills by mail. Here is how she used a telemedicine service in another state and a mail forwarding service to get pills mailed to her home.

https://www.plancpills.org/states/texas#results-anchor
>Religion works on faith. Scientists bring facts.

What does religion have to do with this? I didn't say to to rely on faith, rely on the scientific institution that already came to a concensus a long time ago. The studies are out there, if you want to see proof. Just because I don't have them on hand doesn't mean they don't exist and need to be taken on faith
Why not just downloading that library source and building it yourself, then?

Hare makes this process painless.
My bigger concern with credentials in environment variables is that environment variables are broadly accessed through may different frameworks, libraries, etc. If you can convince a library to give you an arbitrary (or all) environment variables, your credentials are leaked. The developer of that particular library may have never even considered that environment variables might contain sensitive data.

PHP's phpinfo() function comes to mind immediately: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.phpinfo.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell

We definitely need to regulate it.
lefal is a perfectly cromulent word and nothing to do with f and g being quite close on a keyboard.

I am personally, barely, three sheets to the wind - I've only guzzled two bottles of red!
In January 2013, President Barack Obama issued 23 executive orders directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearm violence, what might help prevent it, and how to minimize its burden on public health. One of these orders directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to, along with other federal agencies, immediately begin identifying the most pressing problems in firearm violence research.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18319/priorities-f...
Someone who builds something like this in form of an Excel plugin will have a real winner. And if you do, and when you make your millions, please send me a check as a show of gratitude :)
>Those horrors in history were created through the combination of good intentions (also integral to the best of human history), and the dehumanization of subgroups

The CDC has a historical record of such things. What makes you think human beings are incapabale of repeating such crimes against humanity?
I tend to put that in the stupid bucket too.
Hacking on my Commodore 64 in the 80s was much more fun than the web app of the week I'm doing now.
Thanks, that seems like what the tweet is implying to me too.

...And it's ridiculous. I very much doubt that there are any people living in a red state (where abortion could in theory soon be illegal), and are also on twitter to read this tweet, and also use a smartphone period tracker.
He was just paraphrasing a famous quote.
I think that is (was) the idea, just 50 pieces.
I saw that too, but the amount of stuff that can go wrong is crazy. Thanks though
My bad, it’s been a while since algorithms class. I had my orders mixed up.
Japanese people don't call it that. If you say "boku no hero" to a Japanese person they will either go "oh, My Hero" or they won't know what you're talking about. It's an over-literalization.

Similar cases happen in Western video games where they get "completely translated" including all UI elements; JP players actually expect those to be in English.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/games-with-famous-bad-tran...
The ideal would be a format that avoids characters that are common in data, but still allows a way to encode rare characters that are part of data.

I think that was the motivation for multi-character delimiters like <% %> or {{ }} in templating languages.
I have not had the time to read the paper and see how the authors address this, but the biggest flaw of this study is relying on subjective reports by the owners. Almost all dog owners I know are used to playing down the severity of their dog's aggressiveness.
HeyJane, another provider: https://www.heyjane.co/

Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline, many resources: https://www.mahotline.org/
25, across a wide range of job titles. Source: I am an engineer at Intel.
Deathlord Relorded
Better order fast.
You can’t run only one of the tput commands! You need to run both of them, as in the shell function; i.e. both tsl and fsl needs to be sent to the terminal!

If you want to see what bytes it would output, use “od”:

tput -T xterm+sl tsl | od -t c
> I want to listen to what I want to listen to

If you mean streaming services like Spotify or Deezer, is that not exactly what they allow you to do?
> Is this design tool being actively developed or does the company want to phase it out eventually?

The tool is called Meta [1] and it was originally developed at a startup called Barefoot Networks which was recently acquired by Intel [2]. Whether Intel keeps it or not is still TBD.

> Also sorry to ask as it may not be in this spirit of this thread but are there any open roles for a CL developer on this project?

Possibly. Drop me a line if you're interested.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQd-suLvzQ

[2] https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquire-barefoot...
I normally ride my bike to work every day. When the lockdown started, I missed my ride. I heard about the "fake commute" where you pretend to be commuting but end up at home again. I made it a habit to go on a long walk every morning at the same time, to get my blood flowing and clear my mind. During the winter, while I do continue riding to work, I prefer walking if I don't have to cover any kind of real distance.
> [PHP] is highly accessible to people who don't know how to program

The commitment to this claim is the source of contention.

On "technical enough to write PHP" vs "technical enough to drive a car": there's a much lower barrier to entry for the latter than the former. The latter is about the same as merely operating a computer. Derping around in PHP is def a level above that.
I used to mock panspermia but since I've seen abiogenesis is facing many theoretical problems, it seems not that unlikely in retrospect.
Although the true mystery is why has life appeared only once on Earth?
If it was because of panspermia one could say because the event is very rare, except its wrong. We know that life has appeared on earth extremely extremely shortly after the formation of the oceans. Basically as soon as life was possible (and still hardcore extremophiles conditions), life appeared.

The only sound theory is that the thing precluding life from appearing a second time, is.. life.
Primitive proto-life forms or even life precursors, are probably uncompetitive in a world where soil is saturared with bacteria/archae and they must be eaten as soon as those new life forms comes to existence. Because of the rareness of the event, it would still be undetectable for humans.
Pluricellular life has appeared multiple time independently though. Another theory is that life has appeared multiple time on earth out of dead matter, however the only possible design on earth would be identical (classic cell with a membrane and more strikingly, with the same base gene PGCD). It's true that some genes are universally shared and while a base 2 coding scheme can encode a functionally equivalent algorithm in many different ways, the efficiency constraints of having the shortest (accelerate division time) or most stable solution would explain the uniformity. Except this explanation is weak if we assume (to be verified) there is a consistent universal DNA pgcd that is bit perfect. And the time to divide seems like a weak argument considering the amount of dark non coding DNA, except if those constraints would only apply to primitive single celler organisms.
The treason and sedition act contradicts your idea.
If your concern is a patchwork of local rules, that isn’t on the CDC they set consistent national rules.

If your concern is changing rules over time that seems more optimal than maintaining the most draconian rules both from a freedom standpoint and a public health one. Essentially you want enough exposure to push herd immunity or lockdown never ends, but not excessive exposure or the health system collapses. If you track the number of people in hospitals over time especially in terms of local hotspots it explains the CDC’s behavior quite well.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend
I wonder if there is some hacky way around that. For example, an LF (line feed) directly after a RS character is not considered data (but will break the line when shown in a text editor).
No mention of absurdle:

https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
Docker-openvpn-client, lets containers use VPN
How can they find out who leaked it? Here's to hoping they don't, what a bunch of gestapo totalitarians.
You are getting the replies because though unintentional your prior wording implies that MMORPG was some niche experimental, concept type genre until 2004 which just doesn’t jive with history. EverQuest was out for years already and was immensely successful as was UO. That WoW became dominant is a different point. And as you have already stated - WoW didn’t do too much new in terms of genre defining.
Minus the bombs and potential mental disorder, living in a cabin away from most people sounds pretty right about now.
>Unless someone can prove that no one involved in the tuskegee "incident"[0] is no longer employed or influential at the CDC I will just resign myself to thinking that THEY are the conspiracy theorist,

The Tuskegee Experiment started 90 years ago and ended 50 years ago. I don't know what proof you need, but the simple facts of human biology basically guarantee that anyone who had any power during that timeframe is no longer working at the CDC.
I suspect even a company that claims to 'insure anything' would balk at things needing a $200 billion payout.
I'm going to preface my argument here with a statement that I think this kind of use by the CDC is appropriate given their mission and stated goals. It will absolutely help them figure out possible future models of population compliance with types of orders and restrictions.

That said, this kind of thing does seem like it has the potential to effectively be an end run around needing a warrant to do this kind of tracking on an individual basis. If it's not allowed for the government to track any particular person without a warrant but they can just buy the tracking data from a brokerage and claim "we didn't do the tracking" - that's a bit problematic to say the least.

I do agree with other posters though that the real crux of it here is that this kind of data should be illegal to have on its own anyways UNLESS ordered by a court to collect it for the purposes of a warrant.
Odd. I thought UK doesn't have citizens, it has subjects. Maybe that changed when they got the vote?
Hah. Looks great. This is fourth or fifth Rust WASM entry making the main page in the last 2 days. Is it time to rename Rust to Wust?
Dopamine Involved in Recognizing Emotions
source: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2022/04/26/JNEUROSCI...
That's why I love it when people find their weird media niche. You're a big fan of serialized LitRPG stories? Cool, I'm glad you found your thing out there! You like visual novels games? Neat. It's kind of sad that some obscure media interests are considered classy (ooo, old French art films!) and some are considered deeply embarrassing (eww, Harry Potter fanfic).

The system is so laser focused on very specific bits of media (these movies, these songs, these books, and that's it there is no other form of entertainment), that when people find something they really like in the big long tail of content, it's a cause for celebration.
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Btw, when an anime is officially called by a short name in English it's because the Japanese side knows the real name is embarrassing because the author is a pervert and are trying to hide it. Case in point "Oreimo" which is a romantic comedy except in the last chapter it ends with the MC marrying his own sister.

Or "Mahouka" whose author is a Japanese nationalist, at one point in the story has them nuke China, and the MC's sister is also in love with him. Huh, kind of a trend there.

"Danmachi" is too bad because the Japanese title is actually a pretty good joke, but it's hard to translate. It's like a pun on deai meaning "random encounter" in a video game but also "encountering" someone in a bar/on a dating app.
That's like saying I should use a steam engine today because the electric motor will be superseded someday.
You should be able to reconfigure the controls to use the dpad instead of the joystick. The menu is behind the settings dropdown (click to see): https://imgur.com/a/hQEEVTt

Might make sense to have dpad be the default.
I want my cake and eat it too, of course! I'd like framework to be better than Apple!
No word of it a lie, one reason I bought a Switch was to have access to Zelda again.

I am 52 years old.
> The CDC wants a say in how people live their lives and thinks they know better than individuals about risk tolerance and decisions.

Their charter is disease control. How you 'live your life' is orthogonal to that mission - they're responsible for stopping you from infecting other people with communicable diseases. That is also your own responsibility, and just because responsibilities aren't always things you want to do doesn't mean they're oppression.
In a world where being the wrong kind of skin colour can consistently get you pulled over and harassed for a 'broken tail light' and 'smelling weed in the car', it takes a lot of social privilege to think that driving around with an unreadable license plate is a workable solution.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243569

Spoiler: It's not really free unless you're manually vetted and whitelisted by fb.
Same. A few years ago was my first Ilea trip. I was excited to try their meatballs. They were terrible. As was their coffee (but I’m admittedly a bit of a coffee snob).
That’s a pretty funny stance. The library has a gigantic developer share and is supported by a tech giant. A world where React isn’t used and remembered is one where the web isn’t based on the same primitive. The idea of a thin layer on top of JS offering composition is not complex, and the execution by react is still trend setting. Remember when they introduced hooks and now tons of libraries have the same thing? That’s not because React is behind the times and possible to supplant as a small team
Ask HN: What's the shelf life?
Rendering only one large triangle can be faster than two. First one triangle needs less memory, less vertex processing, etc.

Second, modern GPUs render pixels in groups of 2x2 up to 8x8 "tiles". If only one pixel from this group is part of a triangle, the entire group will be rendered. When two triangles form a quad, the entire area along the diagonal "seam" will be rendered twice. The smaller quads you have, the more overhead.

Also see https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2016/08/13/vulkan-tutorial...
osteoarthritis correlates to all the walking?
I’d like to steelman this. Let me know if this adequately summarises your arguments:

1. Steelmanning is a practice in arrogance and egotism because it makes the assumption you already know all of your interlocutor’s arguments.

2. Some arguments are not worth steelmanning (eg flat earth) because it can be refuted without having to sympathise with your interlocutor’s position.

I just want to make sure I have a clear understanding of your points.
You don't understand the context since Polymer and Lit Element do not solve the same problem space as Angular and React aim to solve.
My phone won't even connect to cellular data until I log on after boot.
I stick to free software whenever possible, so I wouldn't seriously consider using macOS. I even run Guix System (one of the FSF-approved distros) on my current main machine (ThinkPad T440p).
Ask HN: Best ways to minimize internet usage?
As we all know there are limitless temptations on the internet. And more is added every day.

Conversely, the real thought provoking, life enhancing, stuff is buried under layers of noise, cynicism, even misdirection. The signal to noise ratio is definitely decreasing after implementing most of the useful filtering tricks I’ve seen on HN.

I’ve found this applies even for places that ought to be high quality, such as dedicated online libraries of academic research papers, there’s ever more crud being pushed out.

Given that neither the average behaviour of people, nor the organization of the internet, will likely change for the forseeable future, the best alternative will be to spend time on other activities.

So what have you found that works in minimizing total internet usage?

It could be as simple as doing computer work offline wherever possible or as complicated as getting a personal coach… feel free to share!

I’ll start:
I got some physical CDs for music instead of purely relying on a streaming service. I find it helps as an alternative, in case I get frustrated by some bug in the player apps or some surprisingly low quality source for a song. The side effect is reducing the time I spend online.
DRM enforced at an internet level. We look at Russia and think they’re bad, but the rest of the world is just around the corner. Mass surveillance and censorship are easy to achieve once you control access to the undersea cables.
I completely agree, specifically a middle management problem that bubbles up.
Who is typing out CSVs anyway. You’d either use a spreadsheet tool or do it in code.
I search the job posts. I don't think full remote is a good fit for me right now. My geographic area gets very few posts, like just 1-3 per month (Philly area). So I haven't found anything I would be interested (or qualified) to do.
> Translation really is a major problem with Anime/manga. The unfortunate thing is the pirated versions often have better translations and translation notes vs the official release. Why? Because it's mostly just a bunch of nerds trying to share what they love.

This is rarely actually true; what happens is that fans learn a little Japanese, but only enough to be dangerous, so they start complaining that the translation doesn't include the few words they hear and ignore all the reasons it's good. That's why translations end up including a few honorifics like "-san", but rather than being literal, they actually end up translating other rarer honorifics into "-san" because it's better than actually explaining them.

I do think a valid complaint is when translators include modern slang which is being correctly used, but ESL speakers don't understand it. "Badly translated Japanese" is kind of a universal language they do understand.
I think it feels that way because it’s a bit of a paradigm shift in terms of the way we think about building user interfaces, but the reality is its just javascript running in a browser. I’ve been writing react over 10 years and used to devtools just a handful of times. They’re by no means necessary. I used to use an extension for jQuery to quickly find css selectors. Nobody was saying we weren’t using the platform then. It’s just a strange form of posturing from web component enthusiasts who are frustrated they aren’t taking off. And these enthusiasts are 99% Google employees who work on web components.
I last ate at an IKEA about a week ago. It was as-expected, on regular porcelain plates with metal utensils. The mashed potatoes were hot, but I didn't have their normal veggie mix or mac-n-cheese -- I always get the "veggie medallion" substituted in from their salmon plate.

I suppose that the most we can draw from our mutual experiences is that different IKEA restaurants are running at very different levels of quality right now. Hopefully yours was just having a bad day.

(To be fair, most cafeteria-style mac-n-cheese is disgusting. Or I just have weirdly high standards for this specific food.)
You’re arguing chrome dev tools were built with vanilla JS and didn’t require their own bespoke framework? That doesn’t track for me
I am wondering how Costco is doing with their chickens and hot dogs.
Does your library also use other apps? For example mine subscribes to Hoopla so I have access to a lot more content above and beyond Overdrive content.

With Overdrive / Libby I tend to sort by what's available, rather than searching for what I want. (It's similar to going to the library to browse shelves, in that way)

Anyway usually the local librarians know the smartest ways to combine apps and such.
What is the effect of NMN on the lipid/glucose mitochondria consumption ratio?
Honestly I'm not sure.

I don't think that at 200k or 400k level will matter much. Math is probably easier on humans if you think about the sprites as rectangular (so two triangles), but you could in principle make each sprite a triangle, and texture map in a shader a rectangular area of the triangle.