skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are killing each other for very concrete things - territory, access to raw goods and the goods themselves, control of other people etc.

Wether you remove flags or not, destroy states or not, that won't change. Just a wishful thinking like Fukuyama's end of history or countries with mcdonalds never going to war against each other.
The basic idea of Critical Thinking has already been provided by the Stoics, here is Epictetus' Discourses;

In the first place, do not allow yourself to be carried away by [the] intensity [of your impression]: but say, ‘Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are, and what you represent. Let me test you.’ Then, afterwards, do not allow it to draw you on by picturing what may come next, for if you do, it will lead you wherever it pleases. (Discourses 2.18.24–5, trans. Hard)

The third area of study has to do with assent, and what is plausible and attractive. For, just as Socrates used to say that we are not to lead an unexamined life, so neither are we to accept an unexamined impression, but to say, ‘Stop, let me see what you are, and where you come from’, just as the night-watch say, ‘Show me your token.’ (Discourses 3.12.14–15, trans. Hard)

Make it your study then to confront every harsh impression with the words, ‘You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be’. Then test it by those rules that you possess; and first by this–the chief test of all–’Is it concerned with what is in our power or with what is not in our power?’ And if it is concerned with what is not in our power, be ready with the answer that it is nothing to you. (Handbook 1.5, trans. Matheson)

Reference: https://iep.utm.edu/epictetu/
New York, $85, 1Gb/1GB over fiber (Verizon FiOS).

Quality is excellent, extremely reliable, consistently in the 800-920 Mbps range up/down.

(Fun fact: my first modem was a 300bps in mid-80s. Clearly we've come a long way since those early days...)
People spend more than 23 hours per day in RL, making me doubt the blame that "cyberspace dwarfs" it.
I would guess that they're arguing that the first-sale doctrine of 17 U.S.C. § 109 does not apply since it was stolen, i.e., since they didn't legally acquire the hardware, they have no right to use any software thereon.
I actually (for once) agree with Gruber that Apple is doing the right thing by sending the proper tools to do the job.

However, i am also really tired of watching the "waterproofing is hard" argument trotted out as a reason to make these things so hard and glued together.

O-rings and other simple gaskets protect things exposed to much harsher environments, and last much longer.
You don't have to literally glue everything together to make it waterproof.
Nor does the fact that it has a a port or two (literally one most of the time) change that.

To give an example:
Dive computers and other devices are waterproofed to hundreds of meters (IE at invasive positive water pressure/immersion many times what the iphone is subject to), contain usb ports, and are waterproofed successfully using o-rings and other replaceable gaskets.

They contain multitudes of sensitive sensors these days (though often not cameras)

Heck, some of them even now run android with high-quality oled screens, and run plenty of apps :)

Most are literally built to be disassembled by home folks and dive shops so they can be serviced and repaired. They are rarely sent to the manufacturer for repair.

This is just one product example. There are plenty of others.

We know how to do this. It is possible to do this. Let's not pretend it's about function.

There may be other reasons (aesthetics, cost, etc) that they want to glue them like this, and make them non-serviceable. But it's definitely not because it's the only way to waterproof them.
You consider media to be something that is "consumed" once and then forgotten about, like food. That's fine, it's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but please don't imply that others should think the same way or that it in any way justifies situations like these. New media doesn't just replace old media unless you see it as nothing but a mindless waste of time.
So Wikipedia, just like the real world, is filled with staggering quantities of different types of bugs.
"violent separatist?" wow. i will repeat his statement before the sentence was handed to him.

"what evidence do you have on me that i have been engaged in these activities in the last 20 years? why did 2 prime ministers of india meet me during this time? why was i allowed to visit foreign countries on an indian passport till now? where were those charges then?"

so according to you, "once a violent separatist is always a violent separatist" right? is it just me or has the average indian been brainwashed by the government to make "heroes" out of terrorists like mangal pandey or even baghat singh? those individuals were charged with same crimes yet you call them your heroes but our people are "violent separatists". right. fuck you
Yeah so basically none of this is true? "Caching" is not considered basic rudimentary politeness, and what they did is not at all like putting up an "open exploitable DNS resolver" (also: putting up an "open exploitable DNS resolver" is pretty much still an industry norm). The "money generating machines" stuff doesn't add to the credibility of this argument.

I get that you feel like you could design a better Go module proxy. It would be weird if you couldn't, because you have the benefit of seeing what happened when we deployed this one†. Congratulations? It's an achievement, I guess?

For my part, I'd be thrilled if just a single person could articulate exactly what the impact to DeVault's code hosting service would be if he took the Go project's offer up on just not having them clone modules hosted on his service so often. Anybody at all, if you could just explain what the problem would be here, I'd be forever grateful.

† (to wit: Go got a lot better, and apparently just 2 source hosts on the entire Internet had a problem with it, one of whom was fixed directly and the other of whom is apparently still mulling whether they want to burn the extra bandwidth for a cacheing benefit that literally nobody on the Internet seems to be able to describe).
I suppose you could have. Personally I wouldn’t check on the world back home at all, except to send the occasion postcard (or email when that became possible).

I’d learn about it all after getting home. Or sometimes not. I remember there being big movies that had come and gone while I was away that I only learned about years later.

It’s hard to imagine, watching the current crop spending every evening on their phones instead of talking to other travelers.
I am thinking about wearing a Dutch flag when abroad to avoid being considered a German.

And I am German.
Pay for it my dude. Software developers are perfectly able and willing to develop efficient and snappy software if given enough time to do it.

The reason it is not happening is because market forces don’t favour those solutions. But since you seem to care enough to threaten, fire, and backlist them surely you care enough to pay for the craftmanship required to get what you desire.
I think it's significantly more likely that these people's game saves will be restored than if their local saves were lost. People are woefully uninformed, and often quite lazy, about backup strategies, especially if they play games on consoles. When you use a cloud service backups and restore becomes someone else's problem that they're paid to do well.

The main problem for these people will be whether Google and Ubisoft consider it a big enough problem to bother fixing.
Beanfield is a total joy. You can even email them and a human will respond with an answer.
Going off the beaten path in my experience requires genuine friendships with locals. I guess if you're super outgoing and adventurous you don't need that, but in my experience it has helped immensely to have locals (again, as friends, so they're not trying to scam you or at least mislead you) take me to cool things.

I suppose it's not realistic to do this for a lot of destinations, but where it works it works well.
There are multiple aspects but this is one aspect I see not being put into practice much.

For almost every topic there are nuances/exceptions/gotchas/angles and they apply as much to the person communicating to you on the topic as much as the topic itself.

Details. So many details. Seek them out because the nuances always exist and they shape how you take what people say.
> How many times does stuff like this have to happen before people stop trusting the cloud (i.e., someone else's computer) as the only place where data they care about lives?

Most of the people don't have viable alternatives to this.

I've actually written about some ways how you supposedly can do backups of your own data in relatively simple ways: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/simple-ways-to-do-backups

And yet, almost all of my IRL friends don't do backups. They don't care, or don't have the time/knowledge for redundancy of their data. So, for most of them, using Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever is going to be a far more reliable way of storing their data, seeing as very few people get banned from these platforms and lose everything.

I am yet to meet someone else in person who has their own Nextcloud or ownCloud instance running. Even if they cared to do that, once again, for the majority of average people out there working with servers is out of the question, somehow everyone knows how to use a smartphone but not how to install Debian on an old PC and run a Docker image (at least without setting a bad password for the database and accidentally exposing it to the world).
it's a link to a thread of many posts in the Stadia community forum. all of them echoing that they, too, lost their save game data in the game mentioned in the title. some folks said they lost 700+ hours of gameplay.

an (employee?) replied and said it's been escalated.
If you apply the same optimizations to the binary protocol it will be much faster than JSON.

Even comparing common deserializarion libraries like gson and thrift, thrift is faster despite being much older than protobufs.
“per se”, which I guess is Latin for “by itself”.
It is not so much about efficency but about size. Galliumnitride generates less heat than silicon, so you can make much smaller power supplies.
Yes, you can view this and other results at https://compliance.conversations.im/tests/
And when tether is frozen on the reference for the future settlement?
If you told me that, I'd give you the +1. But Karabiner Elements doesn't work on my Arch box.

I have a udev rule that does the ESC mapping, but will have to try harder to see if I can make it do that on Linux.
> It is a fact of life that everything, if it isn't destroyed, unceremoniously self-destructs.

Not, statistically, on a meaningful time scale. All my data will probably one day be gone... But I have enough backups and replicas and remote repos that it's unlikely to happen before my own death.
No. That is NOT what it does at all.

Here's a quick explainable in this thread for what it does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31489463

If you gave 100 well read, English speaking humans the following (very commonly found) sentence and asked them to predict the next character what would they do?

"four score and s"

Most would predict "e", then "v" etc until you get "seven". That's what a language model does.

So if you give it (or humans!) a prompt that is less common or has more variation:

"that is no" and ask for the most likely next character you will get a lot of variation from both humans and machines. The heat parameter in language models tune how random it will be. Both will produce English, because English words are more common than gibberish, but which works will be produced is randomish.

In neither case is it doing something that one would really characterise as "reposting partially disguised sentences combining the writtings of several human authors".

It is creating sentences that have never been seen before.
Personally fine with that. Plenty of land on this big blue ball, you want to live like that, go for it!

That said, I do like to live in a city, and right now my city is designed for you. I’m excited for cities to cater to pedestrians!
Thanks for subtly implicating my by use of that one word, "cherry-picked". Immediately after my quote comes

Then what happens to them? Some – perhaps most – wash off the soil and into the rivers: in other words, whether sewage is screened or not, the microplastics it contains end up in the same place. Others accumulate in the soil.

Which, I don't know, is an accurate picture of what happens? We do know that sizable quantities of what is put onto the land—be it littered plastic bags or fertilizer spread on fields—does end up in the water ways. This is in no way hand-wavy. No hard figures or references to peer-reviewed literature is given, but then this is the Guardian, not the Lancet. It is also not a long read, more of a short reminder.

I don't know what you're up against, but we do put lots and lots of forever chemicals into the environment, compounds that do not occur in nature, that are hardly affect by any processes that would break them down, compounds of which many have been shown to be harmful to organisms, including people. This article highlights one particular aspect of it: how chemicals that are put into paints, into fertilizers, into many products make their way from their one-time useful application into the soil and the seas to stay there, essentially forever.

A constructive criticism of this would be to show research that demonstrates this is not a bad thing, instead all you do is accusations of hand-waving.
Not that unusual: https://lee-phillips.org/music/whoIsTheDick/
What I find telling about all of the critiques of CEO pay, billionaire taxation, etc. is that there is almost no discussion of how to get maximum impact for the monies taxed. People don't want to tax Jeff Bezos because they have really great ideas on how to spend public money to achieve great ends -- if they did, they'd be more interested in how to better spend the entire government budget rather than increasing it by fractions of a percentage point.
Installshield as a product had... (has?) absolutely incredible incidental complexity. It's really hard to communicate the scars, if you never dealt with it, you dodged a bullet.

Under the next -> next -> finish you saw, was basically a fountain of tears. That software directly relished and consumed the salty tears of engineers. It demanded them as sacrifice, to make the installs keep happening.

You would think that a product which did nothing but facilitate that workflow would hide, or somehow ease your pain but somehow it made it so that it never worked by default and it was your problem as "installer engineer" (aka short-straw-haver) to fix it.
Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) – 2022-Outbreak
I Hate the Word Culture
> having to deal with ISA incompatibility across active cores is not reasonable at all

If the OS would give me the tools to deal with it, I would find it completely reasonable to write (eg) both avx2 and avx512 kernels to be run concurrently on the same machine.
Hackintoshes did not necessarily steal MacOS, you could buy legit copies of MacOS.
But the right to keep and bear arms applies to the people rather than the "regulated" militia.
The amusing thing is that most states in the USA actually incorporate all English law, usually prior to about 1600. So all those English statutes from say, 1100, like the Magna Carta, are still on the law books in the USA.

Here is Illinois:

(5 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 801)
Sec. 1. That the common law of England, so far as the same is applicable and of a general nature, and all statutes or acts of the British parliament made in aid of, and to supply the defects of the common law, prior to the fourth year of James the First, excepting the second section of the sixth chapter of 43d Elizabeth, the eighth chapter of 13th Elizabeth, and ninth chapter of 37th Henry Eighth, and which are of a general nature and not local to that kingdom, shall be the rule of decision, and shall be considered as of full force until repealed by legislative authority.
I’m more surprised that many people are still using stadia to be honest. I thought Google have been winding it down for some time.
<pats NAS and DVD and blu-ray backups of every movie and TV show i've ever bought>

This bad boy right here!
Aren't OEMs already able to do pretty much what they want?

I have a desktop HP that has a standard-sized PSU but has a weird connector that only plugs into the motherboard. The drives are powered from a separate connector that also plugs into the motherboard. And the PSU - MB connector is much smaller than standard ATX.
I can't believe I've never seen this before, and it has 1.7k stars on github too! It looks very promising, especially all the sync options.

A while back I saw an effort to create an orgmode syntax standard called orgdown, I hope some sort of standard can be agreed on other than whatever the current orgmode package supports. I think orgmode is a beautiful syntax that has nice advantages over markup, and I'm excited to see it venture beyond desktop emacs.

[0] https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown
Indeed. Trading floors. ATM networks. Primary and secondary data centres. Sky scapers in the financial district. Etc etc.

That shit all needs power too. For as long as that shit is actually needed.
sure it's not harmful directly, but indirectly if you're treating yourself with a headband that plays sounds you might neglect to get actual treatment.
Pros and cons. You can still selectively investigate things without looking them up. And sometimes you run across things you can't really find online.

I think the way we relate to people in other countries has changed somewhat due to contemporary technology. We've gone from "encountering the Other" to "encountering distant cousins" - having additional slices of shared modernity. It's not entirely bad, and people and outlooks and cultural norms are still be very different around the world.

(When I first went to Japan, I could barely communicate there and everything was mysterious and exciting a la Lost In Translation, but with my current language level and familiarity, there's still fun in wandering slightly less touristed areas and chatting with the locals. Whether they're familiar with foreigners or not, it's generally an interesting exchange to learn about their experiences, like with the Hokkaido man who singlehandedly built Japan's northernmost lotus pond to try to improve the tourism potential of his hometown, or the Sasebo jazz bar owner who took me to a tiny bar in a cave-like bomb shelter.)
There’s a “revealed preference” thing going on among backpackers these days.

Everybody says they want to see the unspoiled remote village, but they actually go to Vang Vieng. The rough and ready backpacker accommodation of the past with a cheap bed and nothing else can’t compete with the place up the road with the pool and air conditioning.

There is remarkably little option to travel today like we did in the 90s. Because kids today don’t want that. You can spend £20/night on the place that would have been £20/night back then. But the £5/night place has been torn down and replaced with another £20 one.
this is fear mongering. this has nothing to do with renting. many multiplayer games for decades have had your data saved server side only. ghost recon breakpoint is online only on all platforms. this has nothing to do with gaming as a service
You are not alone.

Infrastructure in my home city is at least a decade behind, and every new road isn't intended to alleviate the ever increasing commute and toll road bill, but instead trampoline new high density developments, even along the city's periphery!

Our cities are getting more and more crowded and even environmentally conscious mainstream media is busy shilling for developers to tear up parks, even schools, for new high rise developments.
Plus it's been marked as "Solved" with no update after the "we have escalated..." comment in ~2 days
"sharing the outcome" in fiddle apps often just means reproducing the input text expecting a reproducible output given consistent input, nothing more. This can be seen through the fact that sometimes the share feature doesn't use any server side storage (link shortener) at all and instead stores the entire text of the fiddle in the url itself, e.g. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

This is just to clarify GP's perspective, I understand that you may be going more for "instant local sqlite repl environment" than "playground to develop shareable snippets of sqlite commands".
To be fair he invokes water-proofness as just one of many properties that when combined make repairability difficult: "If it were possible for iPhones to be more easily repairable, without sacrificing their appearance, dimensions, performance, water-and-dust resistance, and cost, Apple would make them more easily repairable."
Note that page view data is also available at https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&plat...

(I didn't see this linked in the post. Apologies if I missed it)
I actually kinda like the style but maybe thats just the nostalgia talking!
I love Databricks, we can consider it as the Data Engineer's heaven. Everything makes sense, works smoothly and delta tables are truly revolutionary.
Now that they are open sourcing even Delta table optimizations they will really become the n1 solution as a Data Engineering platform.

The only downside is their marketing team. Sadly it's full of passive/aggressive people that won't let your company's engineers work because they'll bury you with hundreds of business questions just to resell a cool story internally.

I've seen projects and deals going down for this. I really can't understand why they're trying so desperately to waste their customer's time.
> or tickets, payments, menus are on phones now

I see you've never been to developing country. Good luck with your online menu in street restaurant or same with buying shady overpriced ticket where even locals dunno what's real price and you end up paying less than locals (Indonesian buses in general).
The most interesting thing here is that all of the 6 million articles on Wikipedia have been seen by 1 person at least once. So if we take all humans and ask them to search 1 unique thing on Wikipedia, would there be any articles that would get 0 hits?
I agree with your perspective.

However, I don't think it justifies the artificial loss that happens with renting software. There is no logical reason why would a program stop working on my computer if my computer has not changed. Software on my computer must not depend on any third-party-anything.

Of course, that computer will break one day, and the software will stop working on it eventually. But it will happen when it is natural to happen - not when some CEO decides to pull the plug.
Out of curiosity:

Does org-mode have encryption mode? Where all the files and maybe their names get encrypted on disk?

That's a must have for me for the multiple devices scenario with storing data on 3rd party service.

Right now I'm using obsidian because it has client side encryption, but it's not open source so not optimal.
> Your insistence & persistence in both being cruel to consumers & also personally insulting me at the same time is remarkable.

As far as I can see the only think I'm saying here is that creators should be able to create things as they see fit. I did not say a word about consumers or what they should be doing. I would love to know what gives you the impression that I'm being cruel to consumers here.

You did insult me first, why are you surprised that I would defend myself? You are even doing it in this post to.
What does the blogger do for a job I wonder?