skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a very similar position. Right now I'm working on tryhackme.com's junior pentester learning path. It's OK, but I think I'd be more excited to find a project or goal to focus on instead of a shallow overview of lots of topics (even though the context feels valuable). I'll finish the course, but I think I'll be done with tryhackme after that and go back to looking for something more specific the dive in to.
This isn't just market segmentation. It's a frustrating, recurring theme among Japanese hardware manufacturers where great products are negatively impacted or outright hamstrung by shit software support. I run into it in embedded firmware and industrial controls all the time. I think it's a side effect of the corporate culture there, which is how it manages to cut into multiple market segments. Having to pass on good offerings because the software is too bad to stomach feels bad.
Your experiences only tell you that those were like switching the memory recorder off. It's unclear to me yet how you are able to compare it negatively to the experience of dying.
They use a VPN since Hulu isn’t available outside of the US.

Hulu and 20CF content on Disney+ is available via their Star branding internationally.
I’d argue that’s being contrarian - taking an opposing stance just for attention seeking.

This is more like “the trough of disillusionment” on the hype cycle. You’ve suffered so much at the hands of microservices, you want to convince everyone else not to use them. Lots of others have suffered similarly, so thanks to confirmation bias, your post gets lots of likes based on the sentiment.
There's a lot of goodies in the comments. I like this one about how POSIX locks are broken: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/os_unix.c#L...
Thanks for that, perfect for my porch light.
Then you get the opposite problem: users are more likely to see multiple versions of the same profile.
>handing over their data to a trusted (well, trusted enough) corporation with a reputation to lose and money on the line

Not sure how anyone who understands how Internet works could claim Google is in any way trusted, or trustworthy. Or has any reputation it could lose by a mere data leak.
We already have that tradeoff. It’s called a warrant. If the police get one, you are forced to give them access to your otherwise-private affects.

This is a step beyond that. Warrants are granted at the discretion of a judge, the bar is high, the scope is narrow and you (theoretically) have recourse if it’s abused. Here, the discretion is Google’s, the bar is nonexistent, the scope is unlimited and you have zero recourse if you think you’ve been wronged.

This wouldn’t be an issue if people trusted Google or the police. But they don’t, and it’s pretty easy to imagine ways in which this could be abused to harm people.

Let’s say you live in Texas and get abortion pills in the mail. If the police have a warrant to search your house for something unrelated, they (theoretically) can’t see the pills and decide to charge you with an unlawful abortion (unless they were “in plain view”, etc). But if Google gives police access to footage of your house extrajudicially, police can use anything they see as evidence against you. And make no mistake — things like that will happen as a result of this policy.
I’ve had two dejavu moments. Both times I decided to act upon them because it just felt so damn freaky, kinda felt like I should just try it out and see what happens, yolo lol.

Both of these moments happened in new places I was visiting which I would end up moving to and prospering.

Over the weekend I had such a moment again. I guess I’m just gonna yolo and move there.
Mark was my college roommate! Ted Nelson was an earlier Swarthmore graduate whose visions for information anticipated the internet, and remain somewhat contrary to how the internet evolved. Mark took all this to heart. I had a brief influence on Tinderbox, when Mark got interested in hyperbolic geometry as one view of information.

Mind mapping is a critical application of computers, still in its infancy. I have thousands of math articles in digital form that are beyond my ability to track from memory.

My primary need isn't note-taking. I want a "Finder" alternative for managing digital assets, my own folder structure that I independently store and sync. I want to wander through old papers and open them in readers on both MacOS and iOS, at the speed of daydreaming. The timing of my herd paths, and some deliberate annotations, should be my gardening influence on a largely automated process for discovering proximities. I'm still not sure what tools to use, so I slowly write my own.
What do the logicians among us conclude? Occam's Razor? I am not smart enough to deduce the truth of all this nonsense.
J Bull Electrical in England used to sell "Big Trak Gearboxes", the little plastic gearboxes with two motors, for a few pounds for *years*. For all I know they still do. Their website is as full of bizarre stuff as their magazine ads used to be - from random bags of components to Sinclair C5 motors to the aforementioned gearboxes to Chinese Army air rifles which were so powerful you needed a firearms cert for them even back in the comparatively lax 1980s!

I'm glad to see they're still on the go. Their adverts in Wireless World and Television were a great source of wonder for my geeky friends and I when I was at school some 30-odd years ago, and finding they're still as batshit as ever has cheered me up no end.

Now I wonder if Display Electronics ever shifted those 9" bare chassis Microvitec colour monitors from National Air Traffic Control, or indeed their deactivated heat-seeking missiles?
Any hypothesis as to why China usage spiked since late 2021?
FWIW, a framing I like is: Each person wields their taste, skills, character, communities, resources, etc, in the crafting of three great improv art projects: themselves, their life, and their ripples spreading through others and the world.
If you're using the cloud service directly, it's possible. But with the edge agent, all access checks will continue to function even if the cloud service is hard-down.

And as others have mentioned, we're also planning to offer on-prem/private cloud deployments in which case the entire stack would live on customer infra.
Some people will make an incoherent mess out of anything.

A garbled knot of interdependent microservices with timing issues, bad extensibility, and unpredictable flow.

An ornate matroyshka set of wrapper functions calling each other spreading over multiple directories making any modification a large error prone effort.

Event systems, probably multiple, without any real difference between just a function call other than your debugger getting very confused by it.

Database schemas with table names that exude the narcissism of small differences with nitpicky rules that make it explode if any flexibility is demanded

Aws bill that's 10x more than any reasonable expectation given the problem set.

An object oriented design that looks like some kind of fetishized exercise of every feature possible, where defects cascade to action at a distance and unintended consequences with tight coupling that can't be extricated leading to a rewrite, just like it did last time

They are the people who create the waterfall of dozens of levels of div tags for no functional reason other than to accommodate their incompetency

They are the ones that want to pollute your entire day with needless meetings over irrelevant things that will not be acted upon.

Of course there's no useful comments or tests or documentation. The git comment messages are single words like "fix" and "rewrite".
There's no versions in the deploy or a reasonable approach to logging that allows a successful audit and the thing is too state dependent to reproduce bugs.

Then there's dependencies, loads of them just picked seemingly at random, written by people who think like them with the same disregard for documentation, compatibility or testing. But they have very pretty websites which says they're painless, simple and easy, so I guess it's all ok right?

The problem with microservices is the same problem with anything else and changing paradigms won't fix it. The approach needs to change, not the technique. It's a different kind of budo.
Are you saying police issued a warrant but a large tech company ignored the warrant?
Kind of cruel of them to leave that part out..
The classic post on Deferred Texturing is MJP's, if you want to learn more about the technique: https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/bindless-texturing-for-de...

Also see the recent post here which covers more benchmarks and details: http://filmicworlds.com/blog/visibility-buffer-rendering-wit...
I had one of these! Have not thought about it much since then, before today.
"Generally, MAU [monthly active users] fluctuates over the course of a year, dropping in the summer months and during holidays"

That seems to fit what's happening here. Longer term, firefox seems to have lost 15-20% of users in the past 3 years, which is substantial but not catastrophic. On the other hand, that probably means a much steeper decline in market share.
Can confirm. My 1 year old Golden got extremely protective of my wife when she was pregnant and is now protective of my son to the same degree. Large loud barking, defensive stance until we either greet the person or tell him its ok. Otherwise a normal dopey and chill golden.
It's not just that they want you to buy new cameras (of course they do), but they also do it to protect different verticals within their company. If a stills camera can shoot video of the same quality but much lower price, then that takes sales from the provideo cameras.
I'll never believe that this wasn't leaked from the Wuhan virology lab. There was way too much done to suppress any coverage and the people involved in the investigation had conflicts of interest since they were the ones who funded the lab. All the behavior from China was extremely guilty. It seems naive to believe that this came from a seafood market.
I used to work for a stealth agriculture robotics startup.

I feel that it's difficult to argue that our robotic solution (unmanned) is really more effective than the current agriculture automation technologies (human + specialized machines) unless we are at the human level of precision .

The profit margin of the farming business is also very very thin, there is little room for making mistakes. Hence, unless our solution can boost efficiency by a lot, it will be a hard sell.
It seems like you're debating the meaning of "obvious" -- "What is obvious? And to whom?" My meaning was, "obvious to a skilled, attentive, unimpaired human."

> Shouldn't the goal be that the computer considers more obstacles obvious than the human?

That would be excellent, as long as it's correct :)
All of the companies that created the mRNA vaccines for COVID had already a few years of life, and those few years were all spent testing their vaccines.

It wasn't enough testing, and a large scale test wasn't economically viable. But they also weren't completely untested. (And guess what the world spent 6 months doing at some high death rate times? Yep, large scale testing them.)
I stopped using Firefox because of the poor text rendering compared to Chrome.

A lot of people here dismissed me, didn't believe me, or just said that I shouldn't care.

I can't help but think that the Firefox "community" is just kinda like that. They don't really care about things that regular users are bothered by.

Culture dictates priorities, right?
But they have to communicate this to the advertisers in the RTB bidstream, in a way that advertisers can decode to a unique subscriber identifier (or at least unique enough)

Sending just the IP would be useless, as the publisher already has the IP address (and sends it to bidstream, although it is truncated for privacy) so there would be little incentive to pay for the carrier data.

I worked in adtech for a while, and designed a system similar to this for a large UK carrier, although it never ended up being implemented as carrier was worried about optics.
I'll be the last !
> Paying a developer based on their cost of living or based on what their neighbors are earning is nonsense.

I agree it "looks" like nonsense... but it's not. It's reality.
Different countries, even neighbouring countries, can have completely different salaries while doing the same thing... and things can cost completely differently too...
Just check the border between the USA and Mexico.
The difference is clear. For anesthesia, it's the same brain waking up. That's not the case with death.

The sense of identity should by default be associated with the brain, not with consciousness, etc.
I don't like burglars, but a death penalty without trial is a bit much. And what about accidents and misunderstandings?
I'm not saying they are, just that consumers are giving up privacy for some sort of return. It's not required, as there are E2E HomeKit alternatives, but it's inaccurate that 'all you do is give up privacy'.
That is exactly what pfas manufacturers like 3M and others are doing to gaslight residents of towns all over America, right now
https://www.capitoltrades.com/
This is a brilliant idea. Feel like it should work since this is already done for YouTube. The same mechanism is used to A/B test thumbnails and automatically choose one to be the winning candidate.

Congrats on making this.
I'd recommend going back and rewatching STNG. I did a couple years ago and was shocked by how preachy and sacarine it was. Not at all the way my nostalgia remembered it.

I was disappointed in the latest season of Picard, but I don't think calling the unsubtle preaching a departure from the classic series is a fair critism. It was always there.
See also Magpie Audio for high audio quality recordings of Holmes and others (eg Pride and Prejudice) by professional actors. (They have been put on YouTube by the main reader Greg Wayland for free - though I think he retains copyright)
Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again
NASA prepares to award SLS launch services contract to Boeing-Northrop venture
Show HN: Online Statistics in Rust
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
Maybe I'm just plain ignorant but I thought charitable organizations wrote off salaries on their taxes (as long as they are reasonable for the position). Churches do it all the time. Most "professional" preachers get paid and often get their houses and other expenses paid by the church. I'm not saying it's lucrative but it doesn't keep them from losing charitable status.
The Internet options available in the city can be surprisingly awful. And not just on speed/capacity basis, but on customer service as well. I have lived in many places where what Starlink is offering now is better than any service available for purchase.
Thanks for the information.

> Knowledge of the legal environment in every country for a global operation makes programming in assembly seem trivial by comparison.

That may be so but they still need to comply.

I've just signed up with the same email address I had on my old account. I can't say for certain whether my data has been permanently deleted but I can't find any of it.

I'll try to get in touch with others who have had access to my old posts and comments and see if they are still there.

Edit to add:

The deletion option on Facebook states:

Delete account
This is permanent.
When you delete your Facebook account, you won't be able to retrieve the content or information that you've shared on Facebook. Your Messenger and all of your messages will also be deleted.

Hopefully this means everything does get deleted.
He is saying that the police weren't interested investigating crimes.
My favourite IOS exploit was from 2010 that targeted version 3.1.2 to 4.0.1

It allowed to jailbreak with nothing more than a pdf with a corrupted font.

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/ios-vulnerability-a...
I think StarLink could stand to build terrestrial "Not-Satellites" in areas that are very densely built, if they could get it past the FCC. Something similar to 5g microcells that users could switch to if they want better bandwidth.

I mean, why go to the Satellite network if you are less than 10 miles from a city center. Then you could leave the satellite uplinks to surrounding rural areas and users looking for ultra low latency.
Fix your mobile app first!
RIP James Lovelock. A true radical centrist, he was not the New Age person people mistakenly believed him and Gaia theory to be (e.g. he was a proponent of nuclear energy), but equally he was an enemy of many conservative scientists.
I like it. I think this is a good approach to take.

We don’t have to convince someone to change their worldviews. Its not that useful, especially in work context.

This goes on both ways, left or right.

Just say “we don’t do that here”, like “we don’t discuss politics here in the workplace”.
>If you’ve ever awoken from general anesthesia, you know what death will be like.

Death will be like waking up somewhere else with no sense of time having passed?
They grow garlic with sewer water and the air is polluted because they're cranking out everything the world buys in suicide netted factories. China is a developing country, do you think government officials are going to go all around regulating wild life markets along with every other threat? They have the environmental and mental health concern of 1960's America.
I don't understand what point you're making. It seems like you're redoing GoldenRacer's math and coming to the same conclusion (100 miles = ~30kg co2) but framing it as a rebuttal?
Interesting article. When I implemented a no-sql database using the sqlite backend for https://github.com/rochus-keller/DoorScope and https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine 15 years ago there was little literature about it (actually also the referenced article is rather light on the pages and b-tree implementation, but e.g. section 9 of https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-SQLite-Experts-Sourc... was helpful). There was no lmdb or leveldb yet; though there was bekreley db and I did prototypes with it, but the sqlite backend turned out to be much leaner and faster for the task at hand.
War in Europe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Europe_(game)

A couple of times I watched friends play a game that had been going on for a few years at that point. Some of the various charts were pinned to 4x8ft sheets of insulation board.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but from the graphs it seems like there's been barely a change in the last few years? I wouldn't call that fast.
Also 50; I remember this going around my Los Angeles high school.

As a socially inept kid, I just found the whole thing perplexing.

There is, however, a class of comedy where you can make anything "funny" if you push hard enough on some specific edge of the "joke", where eventually people laugh at/from some combination discomfort and absurdity.

You can say that again.
Is this basically an Effect System?

Either way I'm excited to be able to generalize over asyncness.

*EDIT*: I now see that they explicitly address this question in the post:

> The short answer is: kind of, but not really. "Effect systems" or "algebraic effect systems" generally have a lot of surface area. A common example of what effects allow you to do is implement your own try/catch mechanism. What we're working on is intentionally limited to built-in keywords only, and wouldn't allow you to implement anything like that at all.

> What we do share with effect systems is that we're integrating modifier keywords more directly into the type system. Modifier keywords like async are often referred to as "effects", so being able to be conditional over them in composable ways effectively gives us an "effect algebra". But that's very different from "generalized effect systems" in other languages.
Actually yes. 30 years ago I was 8 and the first home CCTV setups were just coming out. People loved that shit. But then Im a brit and we're all nosey neighbours...
Correct it for seasonality and try the analysis again
Your comment made me remember another handy rule:

"if stuff doesn't cut both ways, find out why it doesn't"
If you're like me, and probably also like you and the author, you pick your battles. "We don't write tests here" is probably a more worthy use of your time than "we don't talk about the receptionist's boobs here."
Boston Dynamics pupper: I’m behind you

Or it’s already locked in a precision drone strike on your location.
While I'm probably responding to a joke, intelligibility isn't simply a binary. It's how we're able to have interesting connections between dialects or Danish, Swedish, Norwegian for example.

The first rule of communication is knowing your audience and if one's language can be adapted in simplicity, complexity, lexicon, grammar, content, style, voice, medium &c to be more readily understood, then it's in the speaker's benefit to do so. If GP's teacher could not earnestly understand vulgar English then by all means adapt, but the sense that I'm getting is that they were being obstinate on purpose and those sort of people should live in the communicative bubble of isolation they put themselves in.
The government has an implicit return on investment for the entire economy, through the power to levy taxes. Why should the government own stock in specific companies? The only likely outcome for that route is the government playing favorites even more so than at present
If they focused more on the browser and spent less time and effort on these weird side projects they'd probably be in a better spot.

Some data points if anyone from FF sees this:
I try and proselyte users to Firefox as often as I can. The biggest selling point I've had success with so far is the containers feature.

The big place I see people going is Brave under the idea it is more private or secure.

I'd also love to donate money to help the FF browser development but I have no guarantee that money will actually go to FF instead of some other crazy thing I don't really care for/about.

Please FF is the only place still not under the Chromium dictates, please save Firefox Mozilla.
Moving from a simple, browser-based, git-backed model to something that requires bash scripts and git hooks and still has chronic sync errors and requires installing apps (that may not be available for a platform or installable for security reasons)? I mean, I respect that not every use case is the same and I'm glad many people find logseq useful (as I still do), but, from my perspective, they have significantly increased the friction of using what was an almost magical tool for capturing transient thoughts at high speed anywhere. I do like the features they are adding, which is why I continue to use it, but it's definitely not the magic tool it used to be.
> ...or why Disney might decide it's a good business move to let them.

There's also the angle where Disney's decision-makers might be sympathetic to the people in the campaign committees for personal, non-business reasons.
Yeah you think they would simply have a "donations" page on their website like 99% of the other nonprofits do?
Likewise. Lovelock shaped my approach to science as he was an independent worker in his field and that resonated with me when I read for my own science degree. I find Gaia compelling and beautiful. Sad day. BBC documentary;

https://youtu.be/QqwZJDEZ9Ng
For context: there are ~6 deaths per billion miles driven in the US[1].

According to this article, Tesla autopilot has killed 19 people since June 2016. That means it would need to have been used for 3 billion miles of travel in order to just be as safe as the average driver.

1. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
US consumer watchdog to scrutinize crypto payments, Big Tech moves into finance
Firefox is on mobile, and I much prefer it to Chrome. Just an FYI.
Even that's wrong: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01792-y
from 2011 to 2021: https://backlinko.com/browser-market-share
How do GPS/Galileo work and how the galmon.eu monitors it
The earthquake that changed the course of history