skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cultural norms changing

Like what? Greater acceptance of sirens, roosters, kids, dogs, and motorbikes in background while people talking?
The best thing, IMHO, about The Transactor as compared to other C64 magazines was that they published actual assembly source code instead of distributing stuff written in assembly as lengthy blocks of numbers with checksums. You could read it and see what was going on.
Vitalik's one of the founders of Ethereum, so I'd guess that "minimizing carbon footprint" isn't one of his primary goals.

(Yes, yes, proof-of-stake, claimed to finally be launching later this year. That's been "coming soon" for so many years that I'll believe it when it actually happens.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
I can't wait for Tether to fail. These 'stable coins' are just waiting for disaster; how many times have we tried to tie asset prices together, or tried to make a paper version of something else where there wasn't clear 1:1 relationship... it always ends in disaster. Better have that done away with sooner than later.

There is no way that will break Bitcoin; the network will keep running. And if bitcoin's fiat-price was too high because Tether existed, better to resolve that now as well.
As long as tech owners openly state that humanity should be reduced in quantity, it is pretty clear that they don't care, at best, if not contrary (create harmful tech on purpose).
Hi Ben!

Slightly off-topic: If you really want folks to click through to your job ad, you can't go wrong if you mention that the salary range is ~$150k - $200k :-)
I do this too, and lots of companies also don't allow you to use THEIR company name in the email address that you give them.

Sometimes their front-end is not aware of this restriction and will let you register, but then you'll have unresolvable issues. I've spent some time on tech support phone calls with companies that have this issue.

Occasionally a company will implement blocking their own name in a user-provided email after the user is already registered. I've had this happen a few times too. Suddenly the account will disappear without explanation.
All of your analogies forget one important thing. Capital One was storing other people's data and acting in the role of the bank or vault. They have a duty to store those things securely.

Or to put it another way, if someone breaks into the bank and steals your valuables from your deposit box, are you going to blame the thief, the bank, or both?
This is definitely not a conspiracy theory. Incentives affect reviews, which is why truly unbiased review sources exist.
I find an electric toothbrush is much better for busting plaque. I have a Goby.
From your link:

> Note: This proposal is currently inactive, with work having moved on to the component-model repo.

This is never getting done, is it... this is the fourth rewrite of such a feature.
Very little gets recycled, in reality. It mostly goes to landfill - e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-r...
So, what if the truth and reality and what people should really be talking about is sad and difficult and opaque and hard to talk about?
> The digital markets act is already almost guaranteed to pass in Europe, and once Europe has a law on this, the effects will go global.

Sort of. I think you are underestimating Apple's ability to get around these laws, or at least section off the worst aspects of them so that using an iPhone sucks only in Europe and not elsewhere. In the US we may see laws introduced, but such laws (thankfully!) will be neutered as they're bad for citizens anyway.

> Fortunately, you'll still have the choice to only install the iOS app store if you want.

Yes, but I'm not sure you understand how this affects the ecosystem. The benefits you think you will incur, will not come to fruition. Instead, everyone will just be worse off except other multi-national American and Chinese internet companies. Privacy benefits are the first that come to mind, and such benefits that Apple has effectively collectively bargained for on behalf of users will be lost. Unfortunately, this will disproportionately affect the less well-off too because they won't be able to afford to pay to avoid cryptoscams, OnlyFans, and insidious adware.

> You just won't be able to prevent other people from installing whatever app store they want on their phone.

That's a product feature. If you want multiple app stores you can already do that on Android. It's like buying an Android phone and asking where your iCloud subscription is and then demanding that Apple offer it. Totally different product.
Meta’s latest VR headset prototypes will help it pass the ‘Visual Turing test'
The top porper privacy focused VPNs are in no specific order:

- ProtonVPN
- Mullvad
- IVPN

More details here on why:
https://www.privacyguides.org/vpn

I personally picked Mullvad even though i use Proton Mail because they have a fully featured Linux app, unlike Proton's which is very very basic and they support IPv6.
If you ever been in a DAO, you would know vast majority of people including whales don't bother to vote at all even if you personally spam them to vote on matters that impact them.

Which is how many DAOs don't require many votes to pass as the limit gets lower until they are able to reach a conclusion at all.
Yeah +1. This is impressive and I would have used it in a heartbeat for a new project I'm involved in, but the inability to even consider commercialization means going this route is dead in the water. Will be looking elsewhere.
To the tech people who actually want to go to the office, I'm genuinely curious what sort of work you do that makes that useful. I would say that I get the same work done that I did while I was in the office but I spend about 25% of the time to do it. The other 75% was composed of commuting, random office conversations, getting coffee, sitting in my office waiting for a meeting, going to lunch, taking breaks, working not in flow state etc.

I'd really like to understand what it is that people actually do in offices that makes it worthwhile for them, the image I have in my mind is just the standard uncharitable "well my job is fake and an office helps me pretend it's not" manager/MBA person. Even doing hardware I find I get more done at home with occasional trips in to integrate things.
so that 3% of aviation is part of the 20% of transport or that transport is for cars?
It’s not about lying. People can just be mistaken
They Got Over – A Miraculous Documentary
What's wild is that the width of Switzerland is nearly the distance between SF and LA. We're still figuring out how to build one train line. On mostly flat ground. Maybe when I'm retired we'll have a better transit system
FastMail does something like this. Their Masked Emails are two random words plus a four digit number.
Minimalism as expressed on the web is mostly a well-off consumerist thing, oddly enough. It's largely about selling nice (or at least "premium-mediocre") stuff to people with money. Natural that it's tied up with expensive travel, too—that's the aspiration hook that gets people who really don't need the stuff to bust out the ol' credit card.
Personal anecdote about this:

My wisdom teeth grew in about 15 years ago and have sat comfortably behind my molars since.

I saw a new dentist for a routine cleaning “intro package” where she suggested that I have the wisdom teeth removed. I asked her why should I have a surgery for this since I never had problems with them. She said it was a good idea because they were “more likely to develop a cavity” because they are farther back and harder to brush.

So basically she was pushing me pay thousands of dollars to have a serious surgery to avoid the risk of developing a cavity because I might not know how to brush teeth that I have had for 15 years and never had a cavity on.

I wonder how many people just decide “guess I need this surgery”
> they only teach you how to write as at a level that a 8 years old reader would understand.

Many if not most modern writing advice will remind you to focus on your audience.
Most audiences aren't composed of eight year olds.
So it isn't true that most advice suggests writing for eight year olds.

> As a result, the level of reading and comprehension for most people has decreased to a level that is lower than in any other literate society.

We track statistics like reading comprehension and you can look them up.
I did.
The source I found showed that every state in the US I checked - with the exception of Michigan (??) - has reading comprehension improve relative to the year 2003.
In some cases this improvement is by a notable amount, in some cases not so notable.

It seems unlikely to me that people now are worse at reading and writing than people used to be.
Writing is more common now and reading is more common too.
Once, journalists wrote.
Now everyone does.
Although the article does mention this is supposed to be an organization trick for your eyes only:

> Not publishing one sentence per line, no. Write like this for your eyes only. HTML or Markdown combine separate lines into one paragraph.
Especially when they already have a proven track record of nastiness: https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
They break the practical solutions to content distribution and delivery that we've deployed. If everyone used a VPN, CDNs and caching would be rendered ineffective. Generally, VPN consumers use more bandwidth than necessary to acquire the same content which does impact the network.
For comparison, Google keyboard will allow you to have autocorrect fix to fuck, shit, etc but you must opt in.

You can of course install any keyboard you want with basically any behavior you want here.
I do something similar with my passwords, where I include the name of the website in there in some manner. Definitely not very secure, but probably better than simply using the same password everywhere.
Forward looking is subjective here. Humanitarian issues should be weighed heavier than technological development. It’s easy to relax rules later but you can’t take back human suffering.
"Transport" is for road transport. Sorry. I edited it now to make it more clear.

https://www.easa.europa.eu/eaer/system/files/usr_uploaded/21... section 7.3 for the citation on aviation (gah, is the europa.eu website slow).
Wirecutter really illustrates the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. Some of their recommendations are fine, but whenever they review something more niche than phone charger cables, I go to the comments/Reddit/forums to find out why their pick is overpriced/underperforming compared to whatever the community prefers.

Edit: also, I’m finding Reddit to be a less useful term to append to my google searches over time. Many Reddit communities seem to attract novices who quickly learn to parrot the same frequently-upvoted claims without context, and the experts flee to niche forums instead.
I think there are precisely two options.

Consciousness is a pure information process, and therefore computable.

Or consciousness is not an information process.

We only know of one thing that is not an information process, and that is entropy.

Given that entropy is precisely the creation of new information, and that this is a big part of most people's conception of free will, it seems reasonable to conclude that consciousness is much like a combination of self reference and entropy generation rather than some special other thing.
Back in the time when email was important, I considered doing something similar. Now, I just use one personal mail address that I share only with real-world friends, and one other for all my online accounts.

At this point, I don't even bother whether I receive spam on that email or not, since it's just something I'm probably not going to read. I mean, who cares about LinkedIn notification or Amazon receipts, if I need them, I know where to find them. The default spam filter of my mail provider and a few custom filters based on from domain names are enough to keep my inbox manageable.

And even private mail is not that important anymore, given that most of the communication with real people is now done through various messengers.
The reductionist argument seems to be “the brain is just a meat computer and is conscious, therefore a complex enough silicon computer will be conscious as well”.

I find this very similar to alchemy in the 15th century. The idea was “gold is heavy, malleable, lustery metal, and so is lead. We have observed substances can be converted others. Therefore with the right chemical process we can convert lead to gold”. The implicit assumption is that since the two things are similar, they can be made to exhibit the same properties with the right science. I.e. lead can become gold.

This is the same as the “meat brain/silicon brain” line of reasoning. But as we learned with more advanced chemistry, lead cannot be turned into gold (at least not in the chemical way they were expecting).

So the burden of proof does lie with those making the assertion that: “meat computer has consciousness”, therefore “silicon computer could have consciousness”. Lots of people assume this is just a given without any evidence. Just as alchemists assumed from the similarities between gold and lead meant they could be chemically converted. I would postulate chemistry is much simpler then consciousness.
> MX Ergo…remarkably excellent.

Great mouse but always am missing the scroll wheels from the MX Master. As soon as they release a new MX Ergo with upgraded wheels, I’ll be upgrading. Just smoosh the two together and it will be excellent.
Short shelf life. Hard to grow. Prone, ironically, to decomposition. Genetics are tricky. Specialized skillsets and knowledge and equipment often necessary for cultivation. Is it more efficient than raising tasty beef? Sure. Does it still taste great? Oh yes. Is it efficient? I guess it depends on what kind of efficiency you're aiming for. I've grown oyster mushrooms multiple times before at home, and it can be difficult, rewarding, frustrating, and fun. YMMV.
> I’d expect that to come with some comment about carbon footprint.

What would you expect him to say? Apologise in some way? Spin a tale of "carbon compensation", the indulgence [1] of this non-theistic religion?

I find it refreshing to hear people speak without constantly genuflecting towards The Current Issue. That does not mean I always (or even usually) agree but I prefer for people to be honest instead of hypocrites when it comes to their 'sins'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
I believe ZFS at least used to have an option to insert itself directly into a Linux source tree, in which case it would look just like a normal driver. I don't know if that still exists and I never tried it, but it was a thing. Note that you probably still need an initial ramdisk to get the userspace tools to actually bring a pool online if you're using it for root.

Edit: I'm having trouble finding it in the official documentation, but here's a page that describes how to do it on an old version: https://slackwiki.com/ZFS_root_(builtin) and here's what looks like a script to do that on the current tip of master: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/master/copy-builtin
If you can fit everything on a thumb-drive that is probably the most affordable option. Thumb-drives can fail so in that case I would have 1 thumb drive for each day of the week. That allows recovering from mistakes and allows for a thumb drive to fail or to be lost or eaten by the dog.
As in they power Mozilla's VPN:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2019/12/3/mullvad-partnerships-p...
A real full stack engineer doesn't subscribe to leaky and overcomplicated fanboy abstractions, but on the elegance of simplicity, and in doing so weaves the front and back ends together with consistency and grace.
This is awesome! I want to see other tools like this. I dream of a project management system that is text based and lives in your codebase seems we are pretty close with this. Planning (this), comments / descriptions (markdown), identity / people (??), tickets (??) Anyone know of something like this?
I don't hate myself enough to ever try to build a platform that could compete in the social networking space. But if I DID, I would definitely focus on getting niche communities in there

I need to be able to convince the social choice theory community,[0] banana growing hobbyists,[1] permaculturists,[2] etc why they should switch. Perhaps I could focus on fractured communities like all the drug forums[3][4][5][6] and have strong privacy protections. Or perhaps I could focus on up-and-coming communities like the different subcommunities in the generative art/cellular automata scenes. Or maybe even reviving communities in decline like the demoscene community.

Once you've become THE platform for one of these niches, you will already have a stable base. Serve them well! You just need to expand from there. Niche communities are the pillars of "alt" social networks

The other big part is definitely optimizing for SEO with tiny load times the way Reddit and HN have done

[0] https://www.votingtheory.org/forum/

[1] http://www.bananas.org/

[2] https://permies.com/

[3] https://bluelight.org/xf/

[4] https://www.shroomery.org/

[5] https://drugs-forum.com/

[6] https://www.erowid.org/
Apple should be able run it's ecosystem however they like, I just need to be able to leave when I want to. No Berlin Wall situations.
Are there any efforts to completely replace the firmware of TVs, much like dd-wrt for routers? I would gladly donate money toward such a project.
I've spend months at a time, e.g. Sicilian island hopping, with less than this. For me the critical issue, which drives all clothing choices, is being able to independently do laundry. That is easier in frequent small batches; I can't imagine traveling with eight T-shirts!

After washing clothes, layer them in a large wringable synthetic pack towel, roll, and twist. Then they can be hung without dripping, and will dry in a fraction of the time. Wring out the towel and repeat. Or, if one has just arrived at a hotel with towels for four, get busy before they clear three of them in the morning.

One needs an ample supply of travel-scaled clothesline and clothespin equivalents. I last traveled with tiny Nite Ize Gear Ties, and a few larger ties with loops for securing the clothesline ends. Be thoughtful about attachment points; foreign construction quality can often be surprising.

I can't praise highly enough merino wool T-shirts, even in the hottest weather. I found mine on closeout; they can be expensive.

The Aranet4 CO2 meter is an interesting pandemic choice. I own one for monitoring my classroom assignments; they're very well made.
yes, not that she would call it that, she just hits the app called "Text" on her smartphone.
> Given infinite monkeys, you'll get Shakespear.

That seems like an odd assertion. Just because you can produce and infinite number of something it doesn't mean that every variation will be produced. I can generate an infinite list of numbers that doesn't contain '3'.
China is growing mushrooms on boats in shipping containers perfectly timed to grow by the time they make it to maker. India is not catching up to that anytime soon.
HN, where marginal thinking comes to die.
I absolutely love doing this. I often write in LaTeX, where new lines don’t effect the typeset output. It is so much easier to see git diffs, comment sentences out, move sentences, identify a sentence by its line number, etc. as well.
SimpleLogin passes an independent security audit
Maybe I need to get myself a more progressive social circle, but the number of people around me who non-performatively care about their carbon footprint when travelling (and back the concern with actions, not words) is very very low.
I really don't think Reddit, especially in the time that the Tumblr ban happened, was actually more moderated than Tumblr. Tumblr was just the one that got their moderation found not to be up to Apple's standards first at a time Apple needed to make a statement that they're "not like those other big tech companies". Arguably this was also a warning shot to other social networks like Reddit who did up their moderation afterwards, for both good and bad.
Are those "more affordable options than San Francisco" affordable in a sense of raw dollar amounts or adjusted for compensation that software devs in London at those startups would get paid?

Because my gut feeling tells me it is the former (please correct me if I am wrong), and that wouldn't count as a proper comparison.

Pulling made up numbers out of thin air to illustrate what i mean: let's say median cost of living in San Francisco for a software dev annually is $X and their annual compensation is $4X. Sure, it is nice that London is cheaper to live in at $0.6X, but I wouldn't call it "more affordable than SF" or alluring at all if the annual comp is $1.2X or less.
I can't renew my plan. As I forgot my account number :(
It will help people learn image recognition ;)

I understand where you're coming from, though. A friend of mine is involved in Sign Language linguistics and everytime we meet she gripes about how much of her time is wasted by having to respond to AI companies who are supposedly inventing "revolutionary" technology to automate Sign Language translation.
I don't think they could have won. It wasn't as if CP was allowed to begin with.
The products he seems to recommend look like knockoffs and incredibly cheap. But often if something breaks while you are abroad you pay 2-3x the price to replace it. And even then the replacement might be of horrible quality too but you're desperate and suck it up.

Except his Anker brick. I love Anker.
also instagram chat and snapchat
He is getting bailed out by people who has interest in keeping SOL up.

There are a few individuals and firms invested in solana ecosystem bailing out companies in the background right now which is increasing the price for liquidation.

Even if he got liquidated, then he could just buy sol at cheap due to contagion from his relatively stable loan in stablecoins and many investors will still need to bail out to recoupe their sol investment. He also could have short positions.

It's the most optimal move for someone with that big stake.

Hilarious.
Glad to see some strong analysis backing up my decision to ignore wirecutter reviews for a couple of years now. Basically when they started publishing reviews for things they did not actually review.
Haha this page is very opinioned.
Great point.

It seems like we need everyone working together because it’s such a complicated game theory problem.

Is humanity’s goal to march forward with scientific discovery at the risk of inventing risky things?

Or is the goal to make people comfortable? (was going to say healthy, but I think that ship has sailed in the west where we are approaching 50% obesity with no foreseeable counter measure).

[insert other goals from key stakeholders]

E.g. if the civilian government said “we need the best X” but it also can’t by Y,Z,Q, etc. and the more qualifiers you add the less likely that there will ever be something new in the arena (which is good for corporations that rely regulatory capture).
How do you keep an application from taking an entitlement it shouldn't have (such as location or bluetooth access for fingerprinting) via code? Sandboxes can be enforced via entitlement checks in code, but the act of holding an entitlement is policy.
Unfinished and unwanted 9k-passenger cruise ship to be scrapped
It might be a nice business for someone to put together "eduTube" - a video platform for educational institutions. It would have a annual fee per organization based on size.

It would:
* allow archiving, or display with sunset on certain lectures
* be available to university libraries, lecturers and student projects.
* have less stringent content rules because educational
* allow each institution could dictate what their rules were
* allow institutions to determine who got what type of access

I would do it, but I am kinda soft on the video transcoding skills. Maybe UNL could work on expanding the service, with a fee, to other universities.