skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a specious (ha!) argument because the total amount of effort required to safeguard precious metals is so small, because the metals themselves are so small. Gold currently costs US$55.92 per gram. Gross world product is US$80 trillion per year over 7.9 billion people; this works out to US$10.1k per person per year, or US$770k per person per 76-year lifetime. The lifetime earnings of an average person are thus 14 kg of gold, less than a liter.

It does not require a significant fraction of your lifetime to dig enough of a vault to protect a liter of gold from thieves, nor to mine it. The impact on overall economic productivity is probably similar to that of spelling "through" as "through" rather than "thru".

You can easily wear a year's wages as jewelry, or a lifetime's wages with more difficulty, which has historically often been useful when you're fleeing famine-stricken areas. Stocks have usually been less useful; protecting a stock portfolio from disaster requires active investment management and is generally infeasible during wars and famines.

It is true that collectively we need to store food, not gold, to prepare for famines. It is a mistake to leap from this fact to the conclusion that everyday people should not be allowed to save money. You might or might not be aware that until roughly the transition to fiat currency in 01971 saving money was a canonical example of responsible adult behavior in the US, much like doing your tax returns, separating your recycling, or investing in an index fund today.

I've presented a better argument for why being able to store value as currency is harmful in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258546. I'm not completely convinced by it but it's at least not completely specious.
Shareholders think they own the company – they are wrong
Okay that’s an interesting one, at least UC Law SF will make more sense as how it’s a part of the UC system? Never got why Hastings didn’t have UC in the “name”
Haha came here to say the same thing. My stupid dog barks at everything. The wind, the sun, the rain, ants, if he thinks im home, if he thinks im leaving, if he sees me, if he doesnt see me, he even barks in his friggin sleep. Does he bark when he needs to take a piss or a shit and needs to go outside? Nope. Prick.
ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology
This is an audio surveillance company which sells itself to cities as a gunshot detection system. Based on how they appear to be acting in court, it would be reasonable to assume that either:

(1) Their methodology is about to be debunked, or;

(2) It's about to be revealed that they were working with police to allow them to manufacture reasons to arrest people.
I don’t own a car at all, by choice.
Google would probably face legal issues if they did this too fast, other ad networks depends a lot more on these tracking cookies than Google does so they would sue Google for using their browser dominance to hurt their advertising competitors.
Not a video pro, but a counterpoint: "lossy encode, then process" is inferior to "process, then lossy encode". Reasoning: Some processing steps may amplify the noise introduced by lossy encoding. Other processing steps may be sensitive to SNR. Such steps chained together in a pipeline can make the otherwise small extra noise unacceptably big.
I was going to write a rebuttal, but instead I focus on an amusing byproduct of your points and points above:

1) low inflation good because long-period storage bad

2) Government mishandling of fiat policies also bad

3) 3rd party custody is expensive

The solution: radioactive commodity money of high enough density for self-custody. Maybe one with a half-life of like 20 years. Tritium is a close candidate. Keep your life's wealth in tritium in one pocket and your gat in the other.
Of course, in MS’s case the backtracking happened primarily because after years of court battle and endless millions of dollars they were told they’re very much not allowed to deeply integrate the browser to the OS. There never was any technical or usability merit in marrying the two Explorers, it was 100% Microsoft’s attempt to own the web.
What I mean is I suspect upstream resolvers (google, cloud flare, etc) blocked my domain from resolving any cache misses.
The corporate income tax rate is already much lower than the top federal rates so you can already benefit from this.

Except that you still owe taxes when your corporation gives the money to you (the individual).
Disagree

Linux desktop hasn't been a thing because running anything other than FOSS on linux is an absolute nightmare. If SOMEONE hasn't compiled your gui for your specific linux flavor, you're in for a bad time.

Heck, if you are looking to distribute a binary, it is often EASIER to target windows and use WINE instead of trying to get binaries working for the 5 million platforms on linux.

There's a reason 30 different containerization package distribution systems (flatpak, snap, et all) have cropped up.

In addition to all that, there's simply the fact that the Linux GFX backend is a complicated mess. XFree86? X11? Xorg? Wayland? Y11?

All of those + the fact that windows management is a DIFFERENT problem from the actual rendering so now you have concepts like "Window" strewn across 20 different systems.

The Linux desktop is a lovable freakshow. The reason it hasn't caught on is because it's far too common to need to grab the man pages, pull up vim, and tweak 30 config files to get it just right for your specific set of hardware.

That isn't to say that OSes like Ubuntu, Redhat, or Debian haven't made herculean efforts to make things appear simple. However, it's far from "Well, microsoft bad therefore this didn't happen."
At the end of the video, the config he settled on doesn't have 40TB of useable space. He only has 16TB of useable. Essentially, a RAID-10 with a hot swap. He's only getting the speed of striping 2 drives together. Sounds like he's playing it safe choosing a bit of redundancy rather than just straight speed.
Scammers Are Selling ‘Blood and Saliva from a Covid Survivor on the Dark Web (2020)
This suggest that Carbon itself won't support exceptions: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
Not only is it nonsense, you can look at GNOME's own wiki and various blog posts for its (publicly stated) design history: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/DesignHistory

The TLDR is that nothing was ever said about implied threats to sue, and it was all about "windows/virtual desktops are hard, let's _simplify_ everything!" Also, netbooks/iPhones were all the rage then, so you see where the modal design (for small screens) and giant padding (for touch input) came from in order to accommodate any possible convergence in the future or whatnot.
They benefitted from all of the good PR they got for pretending to phase out ad cookies in the past. Now they can kick the can down the road and do it again.
Needs a Ross Perot.

Maybe McAfee can run again. Betya the Dead Presidents would license their music free to the campaign.
AFAIK, Gnome2 was the only foss desktop to receive extensive user testing. (Sun dogfooded it with their employees.) Lots of little workflow issues were identified and resolved.
That’s pretty unexpected (by me at least).

I remember their River North office was super generic office space.

Their current space used to be a cold storage warehouse that took over a year to defrost, and it was insulated with horsehair! They spent plenty of money to do it right.

This building is an iconic design but during construction they cheaped-out on the windows and HVAC, and then they didn’t do a whole lot of required maintenance. If Google does it right this time too, they are going to get a lot of goodwill from the architecture crowd.
Same experience, so this history must be told from a very specific perspective. I've had over two decades of Linux use on the desktop and remember something similar to you guys.
> Some of them being Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, Machu Pichu, Petra, etc.

See:

> Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Longevity implies a resistance to change, obsolescence or competition and greater odds of continued existence into the future.[2] Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases with time.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Before making moral evaluations, it's really useful to look at these situations, and try to automatically reverse the "polarity" of the actors involved. If you see people doing something and you think they're on your side, imagine a similar scenario in which people are taking the same actions for a cause you are violently opposed to, or on behalf of a group you find deplorable. And vice versa. This helps reduce the chances you'll get confused and take a hypocritical position.
If you encode auth token in the URL then a shared URL accidental or otherwise means being authenticated. There is a lot of existing infrastructure that assumes the URL is public knowledge while cookies are not.

If you do this through hidden forms then page navigation can no longer be done through hyperlinks and must now all be form submissions, which means a malfunctioning back button and logout when refreshing or opening a link in a new tab.

Please do not do this.

First party cookies are very useful and it's bad enough that people keep trying to replace them with javascript+localstorage despite the decades of security best practices that have been built into them.

I do agree that we can do away with third party cookies however.
After covering Twitter, Meta, Redit, and Google, I am looking forward to the next report from MintPressNews that I expect to be on Apple.
No one believes a standalone "meta" account won't be linked (behind their back) by Meta to their Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts.

No company or CEO deserves less trust than Meta and Zuckerberg.
point is: vr headsets are barely used by vr headesets owners.

Them being ubiquitous or not doesn't change how inconvenient it is to not have vision of the surroundings. It's also not practical to use them.
Fiduciary duty to shareholders often is misinterpreted that way, but no, companies are not forced to maximize shareholder value above all else.
I'm not sure if the author of the linked post was being sarcastic but, as one of the rare Macintosh users of the era, I feel like I have to jump in here and point out that a lot of those original features weren't particularly original. The old-school macOS of the time (System 7, which was not based on BSD) had a lot of similar features in its UI. Those included things like the desktop hard disk icon (called "Untitled" by default I think?), "Trash", the Apple icon menu, maximize buttons on windows, and others. Windows 95 definitely had some unique stuff and was a nice OS to use. But I remember at the time it seemed pretty derivative.
Wait, meaning the third derivative of the what is already the second derivative of position - so snap = 5th derivative of position? Is there an intuitive explanation for this?

Just checking my understanding.
I came from the vtwm/otherwise highly customized xwindows world and could never really understand Unity (also can’t really figure out TikTok or Snapchat UX, so maybe I’m a dumb dinosaur). Windows, Mac, Motif, etc all were pretty easy.
If you're paranoid about data security and availability (not a bad thing IMO!), using both NAS and some kind of off-site backup would be ideal.
Yes, I frankly find this blog quite dubious. I have followed the Linux landscape very keenly for over 20 years and never before heard the claim that the infamous new UI paradigms in Gnome 3 & Unity had anything to do with Microsoft patents. It was instead framed as open source taking the design initiative for next generation "convergent" UIs, which was all the rave back then (one design/OS for workstation, laptop, tablet, phone, TV, etc.)

Microsoft's interpretation of the same trend was Windows 8 and later Universal Windows Platform (UWP). They almost all seem to have fallen flat on the face, and especially on the open source side the "bold new direction" seemed to alienate many users. But blaming Microsoft for this sounds like an odd attempt at historical revisionism.
That diff in [2] is pretty egregious, and given the timing seems to be exactly what sparked the controversy. I think regardless of one's opinion on the outcome here, it's very odd that the author doesn't mention that Bruce Faulconer made a large edit to his own Wikipedia 19 days ago.

FWIW I personally am in the camp that Bruce Faulconer is probably sufficiently recognizable that a small stub article is justified and better than the redirect they added. However, this article skips over a lot of the story, possible disingenuously so.

OTOH, similarly small articles like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Godfree are all over wikipedia, the backlash seems completely unjustified.
So, in other words...never.

Got it.
In 2010, it's expected that Android will take majority market share of smartphone. I think Google no longer needed to collect such data for wifi geolocation from vehicle .
OK, looking at the timst4's other comments, I see the phrase "... before wet bulb temperatures reach 50C". So I'll believe that 50C in the post I replied to is not meant to be an increase, but a level. But it seems that "wet bulb" got omitted here. That explains the illogic of saying we'll soon see 50C when that has occurred at numerous times and places in the past. 50C web bulb temperatures would much more unusual. (I'm not sure if they've ever occurred or not.)

But there's no reason to think people are going to commonly experience 50C wet bulb temperatures. That's far beyond anything predicted by conventional science.
Love to see Meteor still out there in the wild. We migrated about six years ago to Node/Express/Typescript/Postgres + React/Mobx and never looked back, but have fond memories w/ the Meteor magic - not so much of Mongo :)
They could have chosen not to do it at all unless we believe people were switching to alternatives that pushed them to. That argument is poorly supported, so I'm not as cynical about their intentions here.
They killed McAfee
Of course every country prefers their own companies etc., but countries like France just take it to another level. The USA is not going to force a radio station focused on Japanese anime music to play music made in America at least 40% of the time.
At this point I cannot read with any sympathy words like “give marketers more time”. Same goes for real estate professionals.
I imagine this as a sign of things to come, and that in some 10 years people will detest those professions.
Windows is perfectly usable, unfortunately. Microsoft's packaging isn't terrible, and web browsers support it just fine, which makes it good enough for the majority of users. While I haven't used Windows in quite some time, I totally get why people still use it. It really does "just work" on most hardware.

The parent comment was on the right track, I think. The Linux desktop constantly sabotages itself, and things like the x11/Wayland rift, the Snap/Flatpak vs Native Packaging battle, and all of the new abstractions do not lend themselves well to usability. Pretty much every open source project has made this mistake at some point, but I think the most consistent party that works against it's community is GNOME. Not only do they ignore the feedback from their users (a problem so pathological it's a meme by now), but they don't ask for help when they make new changes. Inevitably, this leads to worse UI (like the GNOME 40+ dock, the worse GTK widgets, the ugliness that is Adwaita, etc.), which leads to Linux being seen as neckbeard software again.

If you enjoy Linux, I encourage you to use it; I use it too, and it's great for a lot of stuff. Everyone responsible for marketing Linux to a wider audience has failed though, and the effort to replace Windows with OSS is looking increasingly Sisyphean.
> I love home automation, not a single component of my home automation is cloud connected, if more people would accept, learn and support non-cloud systems, services and protocols everyone would be better off

• better if you could please provide links to how-to starter guides on how to do this

• I share your concerns, but one obvious huge drawback to a home system that's 100% off-cloud is security camera footage: how do you prevent a violent home invasion or burglary where the first thing they do is at gunpoint force you to show them where your server is so they can disconnect/destroy it? Not having a solution could easily be a $50,000 mistake or worse. Perhaps you just live in an area where violent home invasions are not a regular occurrence. It's not just about porch pirates stealing packages, or thermostats.
As far as I understand, no; but, ITP has already taken care of this so it’s effectively a 7-day cap anyway.

Most vendors are moving to server-side technologies and workarounds (especially FB) so a lot of this will be nullified, if it ever even happens.
Those are locales. I've never heard them referred to as "codecs."

In any case, I'd still like to see a grep whose inner loop is written in Assembly. :-)
If it's possible to model those diffractive materials they use for those diffractive neural networks, it would be entertaining to do an inverse rendering on a digit recognition and see what if anything it can do.
Exactly. Minecraft, Fortnite, and Roblox have shown that there is customer demand for Metaverse content. I.e., UGC in 3D.
If they execute like Microsoft with the XBOX they will succeed in the long run.
But it's a long road.
I like that, Bandcamp lets artists do something similar in that they can suggested albums/tracks ahead of the payment algorithmically selected suggestions.

In the early 2000s I remember lots of blogs about music where they just posted links to mp3s because there didn't seem to be a better way to embed tracks. I appreciate people based suggestions.
JavaScript there are some serious discussions to be had, but cookies are a very nice way of adding state to HTTP.
Agreed. I think there a few key observations I've developed working in BigTech for many years now, that I don't think are necessarily obvious from the outside:

- You retain engineers by giving them money/stock, and by giving them a well-defined system towards advancing within the company. Typically in BigTech advancement into the senior ranks is defined largely by ability to lead major efforts that require significantly-sized teams to build out. You need a steady pipeline of junior engineers in order to keep more senior engineers on the advancement track. Orgs that stop growing have their engineers' career advancements slow/freeze and will eventually suffer attrition for it. If your org isn't growing, it's shrinking.

- You retain management by giving them more reports. Power and influence within the company is largely correlated with the number of people you manage. This is both for stupid signaling reasons, but also for real practical reasons - the more resources a manager has the more they are able to take on initiatives that move their org (and themselves) forward.

Everything from management to IC is aligned around continuously growing orgs. It takes a massive external shock to undo this dynamic.
Meta's revenue shrank for the first time in its history
In this instance though, the majority's 'political goals' are textualism and originalism- where the intent of the written words is paramount. This at least has the virtue of limiting the power of their unelected personal policy outcomes- which we see much more often with the putative conservatives voting with the liberals against their presumed personal opinions on what they'd like the outcome to be.

You see that quite often from Gorsuch and Alito- you'll not once see that from Sotomayor.

Thomas is consistent, though conveniently for him his policy and political preference's and how he reads the Constitution seem to align nearly perfectly.
There is another way this is true: any directly useful core feature in a language exposes a weakness in the language design. If it could have been coded as a library feature, because the language was expressive enough to enable that, there would have been no need for the finished core language feature.

But the feature might not actually be in the standard library for your actually-powerful language, yet.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258546 for why 4% inflation over decades is relevant to average people. Dollar inflation over the past year has been I think 9%, higher than at any time since Volcker supposedly vanquished it. It's anybody's guess whether the vanquished inflation will be 0% or 15% over the next year.
> In the abstract

There is nothing abstract in politics and that's just plain old "begging the question".

> especially one as cut and dry as this one, which is don’t let your nation’s semiconductor supply fall under the control of a hostile foreign country

Cut and dry to whom? And were it so cut and dry why is a subsidy the solution rather than any number of other legislative actions?

> than it is to get alignment on a much more ideological and philosophical question about how to solve poverty

Free lunch for students is hardly an attempt to "solve poverty".

On one subject you are asking to do politics in a vacuum because it is the status quo and on the other imply a heavy ideological weight.

In reality both things are equally ideological, the only difference you're asserting is that a nationalistic defense ideology should be taken for granted and perhaps that it is popular.
How do we capture wasted human intellect value from an addictive internet?
Having people mindlessly scrolling on social media represents a real economic loss.
There is perhaps some short-term gain from allowing or manipulating more purchases, and perhaps some purchases will be "socially good". But for the most part people learn nothing and develop mental health problems from social media habits.

This is a waste, and therefore a business opportunity. Can productive intellectual activity be made as enjoyable as cat videos?
Exactly. Unless you use SD cards exclusively on PCs and Raspberry Pis, formatting them with ext4 is as bad as changing the edge connector pinout.
Gotcha. Good luck on the search :)
> A lot of these Cathedrals managed to survive long period of neglect with minimal to no maintenance.

If by "minimal maintenance" you mean frequent rebuilding after fires, refurnishing, extension of the building and stylistic changes, and almost continuous restoration effort, they you're right, of course.
People with power wanting to retain that power is not as insightful or surprising as you think it is.
40% of Mullvad's servers are located in the United States, which gives them a US nexus and makes them subject to US law. Sweden and the US have a bilateral extradition treaty, so the operators could be arrested and brought to the US to face charges.

The whole "based in X country" is just a gimmick.
You do need microservices because when when parts of you system are badly written or the requirements change, etc, etc..

You can just shoot a couple of the offending microservices dead and replace them with better implemented versions.

[Assuming there are at least 6 developers]
And worrisome because random person = intentionally malicious actors can also be a reality
> A limitation of the study was that cases of dementia were determined by looking at hospital records and death registries rather than primary care data, so milder cases may have been overlooked.

I'd bet they'd find the same association with every other disease of metabolic syndrome, including obesity, diabetes, stroke, heart disease, neuropathy, alzheimer's, etc.

Hopefully someday soon they can disentangle the contribution to this of ultra-processing versus nutritional content. And, the contribution of increased palatability versus digestive differences.