skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is contradictory

It's not. You're comparing apples and oranges and declaring that you've spotted a "gotcha" that doesn't exist.

> any mental gymnastics to prove otherwise are just moot.

Glad to see you're open to considering that you might simply be wrong.
As a line editor, it’s pretty much editing a deck of punch cards.

This metaphor, BTW, persists on a lot of mainframe related tasks where, while you see lines on a screen, the computer is reasoning about punch cards.
> let's say "InteretDude420" to a real name

For many targeted / personalized ads purposes you don't really care about the real name. You mostly care about linking hardware / software identifiers (IDFA etc.) to some kind of profile that you attached information to (Likes technology, fashion, classical music,...).

If you make 100 separate accounts and open a VR arcade you are probably just filtered out as an anomaly. It's not about having a 100% coverage, it's about having good enough coverage of most users. Just like filter out bot or ad blocker users as there's still enough regular people.
In case anyone is in doubt after reading your comment, I want to clarify that XMPP is "up to date" and has an active community and ecosystem of software projects, open-source and commercial.

Matrix is similar in many ways, and certainly younger, but also has a vastly different design at the protocol layer. It's more akin to a distributed JSON database/log, while XMPP is more focused on message routing and synchronization. Therefore each has different strengths/weaknesses for different use cases.

Despite these differences, both protocols indeed have IM apps and a whole lot of other software built on top of them.
Is no one talking about the valuation? OP says $38B, looks like about $20B today down from $60B in December [1].

Is this all potential upside from their token and service fees, or what?

1. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RBLX/key-statistics
California destroys the newborn's blood sample when the parents ask [0], but their privacy policy says that sometimes they don't do it [1]:

> You have a right to ask the Newborn Screening Program not to use or share your or your newborn’s information and/or specimen in the ways listed in this notice. However, we may not be able to comply with your request.

[0] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/Pages/nbs/MyBabysB...

[1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/Pages/nbs/nbsnpp.a...
State of the Unison 2022
I am the wrong person for this debate but I think we laymen refer to the virus as covid but in medical terms covid is the disease/symptoms caused by the virus, not the virus itself. So that statement may still be compatible with the vaccine stopping getting sick from it, not transmissions.
I think your example negates your point.

I don't read that as the speaker being forced to run, or that being pulled over was unjust.

It describes the order of operations. The fact that someone ran only after being pulled over could be very relevant.
Interestingly, they've picked up for me recently. I think they send one email to me before but now it's close to Amazon frequency.

As annoying as it is to get tons of emails or have an unsolicited recruiter message pop up while you're screen-sharing in a meeting, this is a very low price to pay for being in a high demand occupation.
They do try to fix it and in the vast majority of cases it's a bunch of hours. If it's longer than that, people have electric heaters, some use their gas stoves... you can kind of handle that for a short while.

And it's usually quite localized, some blocks don't have it, obviously if it affects large chunks of the population priority goes up.
>and is, effectively, a fiat to use Wayland if you want to continue using newer versions of GNOME.

Ok, I get what you're saying, but this is not different from looking at GNOME 2 (which only ran on X11) and saying they declared a fiat that you have to use X11. Any project gets to pick its dependencies.
Any rule in engineering "can be taken too far" in the sense that there are times when other considerations will win. SPOT (which actually seems equivalent to the intent of DRY, although I recognize that that use might not be well represented in the memepool) is something that is probably always a win on its own terms, but in some cases introduces other costs that exceed the actual benefit. I think that's meaningfully different than the overly syntactic (mis?)interpretation of DRY, where it's true that things looking similar might hint that there's something to factor out, but sometimes factoring that thing out is a bad idea simply because it is actually two separate "pieces of knowledge" that just happen to be the same at the moment.
Besides his work with Roxy Music, I think I see more discussion about Music for Airports than anything else he's done.

But maybe I exist in strange circles.
Many who have worked at AWS, Meta, Google, Apple, or Microsoft have had access to resources on that scale. That's hundreds of thousands of engineers by now, if not millions. You may be right that it's not most, but it's not rare either. And I personally think that running a supercluster for atmospheric modeling or whatever they intend to do with this thing is an ethically OK application of energy compared to hosting Cow Clicker or whatever.
I've had exactly one time where prop 65 notified me of lead in food. Everything else has been histrionic. I can't help but wonder if there was a concerted effort to make these warnings as useless as they are.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/EhFNM

(note: The quiz won't work on archive.is)
Ah. I misread. Thank you.
Yeah the OPEC model. Except you can't end it by threatening to "nuke their ass and take their gas."
Why not just ban the accounts of people you want to exclude and not open account registration to the public? The system you're proposing presupposes accounts, login, and some form of external trust anchor; I guess you can use the NFT issuer as the trust anchor, but that just pushes the problem of deciding who gets in from account registration to NFT issuance. Users would be able to delete/recreate their accounts without re-proving their in-group status, but that's the only advantage I'm seeing for using NFTs in this system.
Having worked very briefly at a company that survived on ad-sales, I can assure you that face/eye tracking will definitely be used as a way to sell more or charge more for ads on the platform. At the very least it will be a way for a marketing team to go back to their bosses about how sticky their ad was. Ie ‘People looked at our ad for an average of 10 seconds!’
> you made the purchase because the store removed any worries you had about whether it was the right decision or not.

No, I still have all of those worries. I still have to pay for the thing after all, so the consequences are entirely the same. The only difference is how much information I have at the point that I have to make that decision.

If I can return it, then I have first-hand experience before I decide to commit to the purchase. If I can't return it, I have to commit with less knowledge.
Yes, built-in sounds better. I'll update it.
“cAN yOu typE LikE tHIS”? A Python Script to Write a SpongeBob Mocking Converter
That red tape was installed (in North America) post-Five Mile Island however.

South Korea is also very capable at building these quickly, though I've heard concerns raised about their safety (grain of salt, I have no opinion myself).
1) The point isn't to launch one object the point is to launch a shotgun blast of 10 million objects each of which can destroy your satellite.

You need km/s delta V to deal with this kind of attack.

2) Lasers are much easier in atmosphere for a huge range of reasons. If something is approaching you at mach 4 you get 1/10th the time to deal with the situation as much 40. Further in space fragments are deadly, a 2.5 gram object at mach 40 has the about kenetic energy as 1 kg object at match 2. Blowing up the rocket aimed for your satellite might not actually help.

Anyway there are vastly better orbital weapons than I just described, the point is any nation that can get mass into orbit can absolutely anailate orbital infrastructure.
I think the reason is more prosaic. Oculus Quest is a complete nonstarter in business for many companies because Facebook-anything is simply a no-go.

And they need to penetrate into this market because that's where the money is, not in subsidized headset retail.

Now whether someone will buy this "no need for Facebook anymore but not really" shtick is another story.
I think this administration and the current Fed chair are very averse to the negative consequences, that's why I'm saying it.
Why not hosting it on some cheap hosting if you are already using PHP?

(I also build an app which is basically bookmark manager and it's based on PHP and SQLite.)
The reason they went away was cheap energy 24/7. Houses stopped being built to fit in with the local environment with the advent of cheap heat and A/C.
Windows Registry mods, advanced tweaking and more
Hi.
I am avid Linux user, but work is sending a powerful laptop with windows on it.
I wouldn't mind having a little windows pet to play with/use properly.

Other than registry changes, opensource privacy tools (such as https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows )
and a few cosmetic add-ons, what should I know about to change it the way I wish?

An example I am looking for is more advanced ways to make the installation footprint smaller.
It'll take the whole drive, how might i reduce it to single digit GB?

I'd prefer built-in tools or neat scripts if they're out there.
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So one way you can identify VPN traffic is to slow the vpn connection temporarily between the target and the VPN server, whilst observing the connections coming out of the VPN server, spot the slow connection coming out, you then its possible to identify where the VPN traffic is heading! Its just traffic shaping.

Think of it as just monitoring vehicle movements on a road network which cross borders, you cant see the contents of the vehicle, but you can see where they are heading back and forth multiple times, and thus work out what they are upto, even if the destination is a cloud server!

The article also shows that the network carriers, land line and mobile network carriers many of which are stock market listed dont monitor the networks to protect their users, thus do they fail in their duty of care? I think many victims of crime could have a case, it wouldnt be hard to spot whats going on for them, in much the same way the postal service can tell whats going on when people deliver drugs through the postal system, or supermarket loyalty card schemes can highlight changes in their customers which can indicate health issues. The lawyers and judges probably wouldnt be able to understand it, in much the same way people cant understand quantum physics, so is there a case to bring?

Everyone gives away metadata, if you know what to look for, the crime is the current setup of society benefits a privileged few!
Is it? Or are you letting perfect be the enemy of good?

Cryptocurrencies might not be perfectly immune to centralization, but even with their problems they're far less prone to centralization than any other sort of currency short of reverting to gold coins or seashells - and you can't exactly use gold coins and seashells for online payments.
http://twenex.org/
Blade (Laravel), Tailwind and, unless I need complex state management, jQuery.
If we stipulate that bad outcomes don't occur, then nothing is bad.
Only in the most abstract sense, if you're willing to ignore actual installed capacity (and thus reality to some degree).

There are around 350k heat pumps in Germany right now, of 40 million households (ignoring offices, ignoring multi family homes etc).

There is no way Germany could install enough heatpumps to counteract the Russia induced gas crisis, not even over a timeframe of a decade or more. Optimistically you could fix this by 2050.

So yes, there's a heating crisis, not an electricity crisis.
> To have any kind of concept of audio streams and routing, it has to be done in a daemon. It can't be added with just alsa plugins.

I really don't see why. Do note that dmix runs in user-space like any other sound server. Certainly it never had dynamic audio stream routing, but it is something that could have been added with a plugin...

I actually wrote a simple ALSA plugin for bluetooth audio back in the day (not the current one) and the biggest problem was that (as usual for the ALSA API)
plugins just cannot emulate all the functions of the ALSA API (e.g. mmap), not to mention that some closed source programs even banged the kernel directly anyway. Since these programs wouldn't work with the ALSA pulseaudio module, I'm assuming this is no longer a problem today.

I'm not advocating ALSA (it's a mess), it's just to say that again, PA did not bring much to the table at the time.

> Sorry, I thought you meant the API that allows you to queue buffers and allows applications to make use of that glitch-free feature

No, I specifically mean the use of large buffers and rewind usage compared to smaller buffers. See https://lwn.net/Articles/847412/ (just grep for rewind). Pipewire explicitly does not do this, and while it can result in increased CPU utilization due to more interrupts when lower latency is required (and the default latency is quite low), performance of Pipewire turned out to be still competitive.

> No, you're mixing this up. Applications should indeed probably use something like gstreamer, and then gstreamer targets the PA APIs.

What is it that I'm mixing up? Lennart himself said that most programs should not target the PA API. See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis (2008). Literally the only category where he recommends PA API is for a mixer program; for everything else he recommends ALSA or gstreamer.

The "proof" that I mention is that most programs ended up targeting the PA API _anyway_ , despite the recommendations of the author. Which forced Pipewire to implement the PA API in order to provide a smooth transition (otherwise it would break everyone's audio _again_). Likely people used PA API because it is the lesser evil if you compare it to ALSA, and because people generally are afraid of abstraction layers (same reason libao and friends get little love, perhaps with reason).
Facebook created value out of nothing; peoples boredom in-between doing all of the above. I am just saying people are treating facebook like it is stealing attention from everything else on the internet and I dont buy it.

I think it is a stretch to say any of the things you listed are competing with social media for your attention. The "attention" social media is taking from its users was previously spent on being bored, not taking care of other pre-existing needs. Social media becoming mainstream has created new "needs" for people to stay in touch with their online network. These new needs spawned economic incentives. Facebook is arguably the reason social media is mainstream at all. They have certainly earned the right to claim they are not stealing economic activity from those other pre-existing needs. You previously could not create an economic model out of people who were checking in with friends because they were bored. They created that
Interesting. So, in a way, by pulling the lever to save the majority, you’re making two sacrifices for the greater good⎯a life and your innocence.
say more? In what ways is it amazing
So how does this have any advantage over a regular ticket? (Other than “collectibles”)
Cameras can have physical shutters if needed
As someone who actually uses C I think the C standards committee needs to be taken on a one way to trip out behind the barn for the crime of being useless. They've had 30 years to fix things like C not having arrays, lack of modules and name spaces.

Purists can always use std=-c89.
Ok what’s the advantage of an NFT over a regular ticket then?
The reason people are skittish about nuclear is because when it does fail, it fails catastrophically. The biggest failures in memory are all failures that risked making a multi kilometer area potentially completely uninhabitable for decades. Even if the risk is only 1%, coal is a much less scary prospect.
IMO it's an interesting topic if the kings were in fact "generous" when they commissioned these things. I think there is an argument that these investments were mostly for their own legacy and that the resources could have been spent more efficiently to raise everyone's standard of living or reduce poverty. IMO just spending every cent possible on research to get non-terrible medicine would be far and away the highest priority. But of course I only say that because I know from today's perspective what is possible.
Why not use sed?
Apple Plans Extreme Sports Watch with Larger Screen, Metal Case
I'm not sure about Meshtastic, but in LoRaWAN, with the largest spreading factor (= maximum range) the maximum packet size is 11 bytes. And you get maybe one packet per second at most. Meshtastic is its own protocol and uses repeaters (and wider channels?), so I would expect them to do better, but not several orders of magnitude better.

I worked on LoRaWAN systems a couple years ago, and from what I found the biggest determinant of performance was what frequency band you're in. US915 has a 400ms dwell time limit for single transmissions, while EU868 has a 1% duty cycle limit. LoRa was designed for sending small amounts of data infrequently -- that's the "low-power" in LPWAN. Where I worked we were pushing it to the limits to get a couple hundred bytes per second at close range. LoRa does have some nice properties and I'm glad to see people using it outside of LoRaWAN, which is somewhat bulky for point-to-point communication.
Many BASIC interpreters worked exactly like that. On a TRS-80, for instance, you would type your program and, when you needed to edit a line, you’d use the “edit” command with a line number as the argument and drop into a line editor.
Excellent work as always! I like the humourous ending ;)
I believe one can say that it’s actual Git data, not just metadata.
How could it be done better?

I imagine for example, the protocol could be opensource and documented, and then the app-maker could be a different company than the server-owner.

The server-owner need not be trustworthy as long as the protocol is sufficiently reviewed.

The app-maker still needs to be trusted, but you can at least constrain the app to only communicating with the one allowed server and having no other network access.

Perhaps the server owner could also make a webpage showing all the people you have communicated with... That way a malicious client couldn't send your data astray.
I get you: anything already being done, of any magnitude whatsoever, is wholly negligible, but anything new, even of radically lesser magnitude, is "not practical", purely because it would need to, you know, be done.

But... Do you really believe that gigawatts are not delivered via gigawatt-scale transmission lines to wherever they terminate? Where does the power they carry go, instead?

Halving the material operating cost of civil aviation while eliminating its climate impact will require temporarily expensive and temporarily inconvenient changes. Like every substantial change, ever. Railway systems have been built. Highway systems have been built. Electrical power distribution systems have been built. Airports have been built. All cost, and all were inconvenient. That did not make them impractical.
I read recently (or heard in a podcast; can't find the source lamentably) that almost all people can be uniquely identified by the top three locations they spend most time at.
Yes, and there’s value to that. “Better avatars” is a central part of Zuck’s public sales pitch.

But the actual endgame is that Meta has been building a portfolio of patents that leverage eye and face tracking to better target you with ads and other content.

“The next patent really gets into it…It’s called ‘Techniques for emotion detection and content delivery’. This one is a straight up flowchart for capturing the user’s image via the camera to track your emotions when viewing different types of content. [Meta] could tie your emotional states when checking out videos, ads or baby pictures and serve up content in the future just by reading your initial state of emotion.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2017/06/08/how-fac...
The term pollution dates back to the 14th Century...
Maybe the vast majority of big companies listed on stock markets work for the govt, and the price of a CEO or board member keeping quiet is the income and wealth gained from these stock market listed entities?
> This is the prevailing theory but in practice I'm not sure it will work.

There are other proof-of-stake blockchains other than Ethereum, and for those it has indeed worked quite well in practice.
Seems to me that 1 user can store their data in 1 or N local or remote silos. classically each local app had its own data store, so 1:N. Web apps were the same except that each of the N providers could monetize your data and lock you out. Google and FB are using SSO to abstract the N behind one front door but really thats just so they can monetize the data instead of the N vendors.

Having 1:N but the user controlling where those N are stored, and that storage being portable between backends, seems like the right choice. Bonus points if apps can share data between themselves M:N style, although that is fearsomely hard to secure (exhibit A: windows registry).

A localized database stored in a non proprietary single file format that can be moved around and rsynced, dropboxed etc at will, plus a common, network independent access protocol so that open/read/write semantics work whether the thing is local, at a URL, etc just work would seem to be very desirable and possible with todays tech.
The kind of structure you build depends a lot on the snow conditions where you are building it. I don't spend a lot of time where the snow is stiff enough to make an igloo (unless I use an igloo tool, which is fun as a novelty but not something I want to drag around on a backpacking trip). Instead I like to make a structure from the softer, denser snow of the sierras, using a technique closer to carving out a cave.

Making a structure at all depends a lot on your plans. It takes time, but is worth it if you're going to spend a couple of days in one place, especially if there's a storm coming in (that you were foolish enough not to plan for, cough). If you're traveling, it's often easier to simply sleep out in the open (I dig a shallow trench about 500 mm deep to avoid convection cooling overnight). This probably sounds crazy but once you do it you'll find you sleep fine. I learned it on a camping trip in Minnesota where the overnight temps were below 0 Fahrenheit. I was quite dubious at first but my friends insisted it would be fine and they were right!

If you look at the Nanook of the North video, you'll see they make pretty solid and large igloos and then move into them for extended periods. In that case it's worth the time it takes to get the job done really well.

I teach my students to make emergency shelters in ways that are quick and temporary, using whatever is at hand (branches, skis, random tree wells, etc). If it's an emergency, you presumably don't have the time to making anything fancy. (I only once ever heard of a former student actually doing this).

Sadly, climate change has made the snow conditions in most of the sierras unsuitable for making shelters for the past few seasons.
I'm curious how folks who use this deal with that first upload on a “normal” ISP connection.

I tried rsync for this purpose in the past. Our main office gets 150 Mbps down / 20 up. I tried uploading the initial 1TB snapshot and after a week it had not finished. Meanwhile a fair amount of that original snapshot becomes stale during that time.

Are you just supposed to start up these hourly snapshots and hope everything catches up with itself eventually?
Germany Weighs Intervention in Energy Markets to Bring Back Coal