skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked if the OP was the same person that was posting on Twitter, as what was posted there was a different tone from what was posted on HN. He answered in the affirmative.

I did not spend much time “digging into his background”, I clicked a link and read a few posts.

Why do you care? Be as direct as possible, please :)
Android 13 arrives for Pixel phones starting today
It isn't too much because that's what the market will bear. Why would anyone work for less than their market rate?
Well, head moves quite a lot as well. Out of all wireless things, the headphones have been the biggest revolution for me.
The default should be shrinkwrap, like `yarn`, with the ability to upgrade packages manually when you decide that it's a good time to upgrade packages. I don't like things changes at all without explicit interaction. Services like Snyk will let me know if there's a specific security concern with a package version I'm relying on.

Which is why I use `yarn`, I guess.
I think ultimately a lot of people really don't care as much about the privacy angle as they let on. And they just use it as a talking point to justify supporting Apple despite its bad behavior regarding platform lock-in and walled gardens (something that the hacker ethos has historically despised). Apple's current walled garden would have made Bill Gates blush in the 90s and we know how hacker types reacted to 90s era Microsoft.

So how do you keep your hacker card while stilling buying Macbooks and iPhones? Well, its because the "other side" isn't just worse than Apple. They are actually evil. And while Apple is a dictator, they are benevolent. And so thats actually a good thing because Apple is using the immense unilateral power bestowed upon them to protect us from the evils of non-Apple Big Tech.

What we learned about Apple over the weekend was pretty incredible.

Apple tried to extort Facebook for a portion of its ad revenue (arguing that boosted posts paid for by iOS users were IAP).

Facebook didn't relent. Apple couldn't bully Facebook like it did Tumblr (by rejecting app updates until boosted posts were implemented as IAP) so instead they eventually crushed its core business with ATT. Does anyone actually think that Apple would have done that if it were getting a cut?

Now, we see that Apple is expanding its own advertising business.

Its really sort of remarkable when you think about it. They are acting exactly like the mob. Pay us or we'll crush you. And after we burn your laundromat down, we might just build our own to replace it. No doubt that if this were Google, people would be screaming for the DOJ to break the company apart on anti-trust grounds and it would be justified.
Hi @steveBK123 , would you kindly define briefly what the "BLUF form of email" is? I don't think I have ever heard of that.
My understanding is that one of BT's big problems is that it's underspecified, so every implementation is slightly incompatible. Only having to deal with one implementation is therefore probably enough magic, but the BT SIG can't just copy it without changing the spec.
We do. Maybe too many alternatives. USB with some non Bluetooth radio connection, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Fiber, and more. I was setting up a shared connection recently, and there was the option to use FireWire.
I don't think so? Most game engines for instance implement quaternions for ie slerp, but wouldn't mention dual quaternions, which are much more niche (used for translation + rotation at the same time).
> and that technological innovation in the housing space to facilitate both social cohesion and affordability

My gut reaction to the news is totally negative. I agree with your above point, but I see that innovation coming from outside Silicon Valley-VC bubble. We need communities to organize and modernize zoning. We need modular housing to drive down the cost of construction. We need to focus on the basic economics (supply & demand) of housing.

If I had to guess, a16z & Adam are going to throw money into being shitty landlords. They are going to get their cut. I'm very skeptical they will make the world a better place.
If you want to be serious about your individual impact, use a personal carbon footprint calculator. It could be that there are other actions you can take that have a lesser impact on your lifestyle. I see many people wasting their energy on cosmetic changes. Also, don’t forget that you have a limited power on the lifestyle you have. Many decisions that destroy the environment are outside of our control.
You're right that other users broke the site guidelines as well, and I've scolded a couple of them now.

Putting the blame on others, though, is not an appropriate response. When the same commenter who started the flamewar is also the one who most perpetuated it, that commenter is the one primarily at fault. Moderating that is nothing personal and certainly not "picking on you".

Please don't do this on HN again. We've already had to ask you many times in the past not to break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd guess that, for general purpose companies, it's an area full of legal ambiguity and potential for media outrage, so just not worth the risk. However, given the evidence of human history, it's certain that someone with an appetite for exploiting this niche will develop exactly that kind of tool.
> just for the sin of purchasing something

Ah: prior commercial relationship. That's not spam, unless they ignore your unsubscribe request.

I hope you're not notifying the world that your preferred supplier of [X] is a spammer. I like to stay on good terms with my preferred suppliers.
This stood out as the weakest part of the thesis to me as well, but I think in general it's true that apartment living trends towards atomized, low-community existence. Even classics of modern high-density architecture like Unite d'habitation with its multi-floor, windowed interior hallways don't really function in their stated intent of building social spaces. Not that Adam Neumann is the person to solve it, but creating vertical communities that are as deeply integrated as horizontal ones has been a central open question in architecture and urban planning for nearly a century.
I also use email aliases to identify companies who sell my data. A few did it, and keep doing it, despite my many complaints. Definitely will continue doing so.
This is ultimately the conclusion I've come to: if you want walkability, good transit, good weather, and a couple other things, you basically have zero options in the US, and dozens of options in Europe. It's sad, but the US is built around a car-centric lifestyle that just isn't for me.
https://pudding.cool/projects/heat-records/
> As a Japanese speaking programmer I basically don’t have any competition in the job market.

does this actually come up in the hiring anywhere? you tell google you speak japanese fluently and you're just in the door?

in my limited experience everyone seems content to pretend that the asian staff's english is good enough, even when it is a constant comedy of errors.
Very nice, looks like these open phones are moving forward. Would love to have a new Nokia N900.
Real estate already generating revenue that may have solar added without reducing that revenue is not expensive. It has, instead, negative cost.

Solar panels do not need to be "near major metropolitan centers". Modern transmission lines move power efficiently, silently, and reliably.

It would be impressive for your orbital panels to get out 4x as much energy as the light they intercept carries, but getting a patent on your perpetual-motion apparatus might be difficult.

Maybe do some elementary cost analysis. All the numbers are easy to find. Don't forget to figure in conversion loss from electric power on orbit to laser light emitted, losses scattering in the atmosphere, and conversion again from laser light received to electricity on the ground.

You would better loft many-square-km aluminized-mylar mirrors to reflect sunlight to solar farms on the ground. Keeping them pointing the right direction would be tricky.
Right; though Smalltalk-80 is very like Smalltalk-76.
Give people the option to pay. I would gladly pay $100 one time fee if it meant I could avoid having a phone number associated. https://jmp.chat is a great work around but I would rather just have an email address or ideally nothing but a receipt directly associated with my signal account.
I've had issues where every other time I connect my Sony XM5 to Ubuntu 22.04, it decides to use HFP instead of A2DP which has significantly worse audio quality for music. I need to reset Bluetooth to fix it. None of the solutions online for disabling this "helpful" feature work.
That’s a good point and something I could look into (very) locally in my setup. Not many non-Apple devices around except a couple of cars and one mouse but yeah they could be causing problems.
They're not practical, no point! As this article alludes to, `bivectors` are the useful abstraction of rotation to higher dimensions, not octonions/sedenions.
can I ask how you did the custom emails, did you use a password manager to keep track? I have been doing this recently (in the last year) and I'm very happy to see a post about this!
yes, $4k/year doesn't seem that bad for a company that's going to be producing a commercial product

(and of course if you're just hacking locally you can do whatever you want as it's an open standard)
You can use wi-fi direct for that now with decent speeds. The only issue is it is so hard to discover!

On Android you find a file and then Share -> Nearby. The recipient might need to fiddle in settings to enable it.
>> My experience is that better quality Bluetooth headsets can handle being paired to multiple devices, cheaper ones will drive you crazy. I have these on my head right now at the office

My experience as well-- just gonna put a little plug here in for the Jabra Elite bluetooth headset, that works really well for me.
I have npm fatigue.

Just use the language people!

Writing 3 LOC instead of 1 call to an external package is OKAY.
Machine learning, concluded: Did no-code tools beat manual analysis?
One option could be to not be able to send unsolicited messages in the first place. Make it required for everyone to "accept interaction" before messages can actually be sent between two parties. Add in rate limiting so you can only have N open "invitations" and spamming should be very limited.
It's unsafe. They could lock you out from your Signal account and impersonate you. Someone who does not know you changed your number, forgot about it or does not think about this could then send a message to the person who has your old phone number thinking it's you at the other end. Most people don't bother with the warning about the security number having changed. I also personally assume that the phone number of a contact in Signal is theirs and that I can send an SMS or call them with this phone number. This not being true is at best confusing even if you are not locked out.

It'd also be nice to let the current user of your old number to be able to join Signal without issues.

I'd say don't play with fire and migrate as soon as possible before having issues.

You probably could follow https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007062012-Ch...

Then the people with who you discussed on Signal will be notified of your number change. If you can't follow this, better decide to handle it the best way you can instead of having to deal with this when you have lost access.
New systematic meta-analysis of Vitamin D and Covid (Jul'22), 4th since Dec'21
4 big systematic meta-analyses since Dec'21. Consistent results from all 4: Low D levels or not supplementing D has 1.5x-3x worse Covid risk at all stages (infection to mortality).
> Shkreli was jailed for scamming investors, not extorting the sick.

Because one action robs poor, for which we don't jail and the other action robs money from rich, for which we jail.
Because its their job and there are other VC that made a killing off this guy.
Deno runs both JS and TS. It still uses V8 internally, but with a rust wrapper around it that does TS conversion and more.
I'd love a wall of shame that collected all these bad examples.

It would have to somehow be protected against bad actors scrubbing themselves by any other means than no longer being bad actors.
Speaking as someone who has been writing forever and blogging-as-we-currently-know-it since 2004...

It always depends on what you want out of it. Some people are outcome-oriented. They want reputation and/or the affirmation of crowds, and for them, writing is a process of reverse-engineering what people want to read. At a deep level, they don't want to write, they want to have written something popular.

Others are journey-oriented. They write to work ideas out. paulg championed this o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶ almost twenty years ago when he wrote an essay explaining that the word "essay" is not just a noun, but also a verb suggesting an attempt or experiment: http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html.

For some ideas, trying to explain them forces us to confront the idea cheaply and identify areas where we haven't thought things through all the way.

And of course, sometimes it's a little of column A, a little of column B. Speaking for myself, my taste is almost entirely for column B: http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2014/10/30/write.html. But this is a big world, and if someone wants what's in column A or to sprinkle some column A on their column B essay, well, this post provides some hints.
Memory bandwidth can be managed by all manner of microarchitectural methods. The issue in the modern world is that doing any kind of register renaming that would allow issuing 4 or more instructions at a time gets convoluted very quickly. If you could crack that, the code density would be great. But in the end giving the compiler 32 or so architectural registers and adding a renaming backend with 100+ micro architectural registers is probably a good trade off and avoids gnarly logic long-paths.
The suggestion that renting is bad is wrong and insulting.

The US has made a series of poor choices to try to treat housing as a means wealth generation.

Housing can be affordable or a good investment it cannot be both. Ownership incentivize's NIMBYism, which has huge detrimental effects. Renting does not.
You are telling me that a single purpose spec/software/hardware stack works better than a complicated multi use case/OS/hardware standard? Call me shocked.

My cordless phone in the 90s dropped less calls than my cell phone today, how have cell phone companies not managed to copy it?
I have a bash function I use to checkout a git branch based on a search string:

function git-checkout-branch-by-search-string() {
local maybe_branch_name
maybe_branch_name=$(git branch --sort=-committerdate | grep $1 | head -n 1)
if [ -n "$maybe_branch_name" ]; then
git checkout "${maybe_branch_name:2}"
else
echo "Could not find branch matching $1"
fi
}
alias gcos="git-checkout-branch-by-search-string"

Branches often include things like ticket numbers and project keys, so you can do

$ gcos 1234

and save some typing.

I have a pair of fixup commit functions, which make it faster to target fixup commits prior to rebasing:

function git-commit-fixup() {
git commit --fixup ":/$*"
}
function git-add-all-then-git-commit-fixup() {
git add .
git commit --fixup ":/$*"
}

Long function names that are then assigned to an alias can make it easier to find them later if you forget rarely used ones. That is you can do:

$ alias | grep fixup

to see the list of relevant aliases and the functions they call.

I also have two functions I use like a linear git bisect:

function git-checkout-parent-commit() {
local prev
prev=$(git rev-parse HEAD~1)
git checkout "$prev"
}
function git-checkout-child-commit() {
local forward
forward=$(git-children-of HEAD | tail -1)
git checkout "$forward"
}
function git-children-of() {
for arg in "$@"; do
for commit in $(git rev-parse $arg^0); do
for child in $(git log --format='%H %P' --all | grep -F " $commit" | cut -f1 -d' '); do
echo $child
done
done
done
}
IKEA Shoppers Panic After Security Locks Down Store on Covid Risk
Because it's a lot more annoying for your innocuous content to be rendered as porn when the ai happens to interpret it that way than it is for you to be unable to render your pervy desires intentionally.

A porn model should really be it's own thing.
They'll create a new key and your contacts will be notified that your key has changed.
Yes, that could potentially be a source. There could be another source as well, since you’re experiencing this multiple times.

I personally pay cash if they can’t bring the POS Terminal to my table.
> Mathematica dates to the late 80s

It's pretty similar to Wolfram's early-80s math language which he abandoned after a rights dispute with Caltech, where he'd been employed at the time.
Mexico City is at 2200 meters. High altitude is going to be cooler.
We still don't have a free software feature phone that has the same polish as bottom of the barrel flip phones from 20 years ago.
I have a PinePhone and I'm seriously asking myself how much time it will take to get an experience remotely comparable with even the first iPhone, both in terms of ease of use and features.
I believe people are rushing down this road with no real vision of what such a device needs to feel useable. I am planning to start developing something for the PinePhone in foreseeable the future, but just the difficulty in retrieving resources about understanding how the Linux kernel is patched to run on that ARM board, the necessary drivers and how all the various sensors and interfaces communicate really lets me down
Threema seems to manage just well. I guess payment is the natural limiter for spam there.
I have constant issues the single bluetooth device in myhouse - my Bose bluetooth QC-35s, and a google produced phone and google produced laptop which it connects to. Both of those groups should be able to get bluetooth right.
I’m not avoiding it. There’s nuance. A piece of software that is specifically designed to enable a behaviour that is core to money laundering is different from a piece of software that can be used to engage in money laundering.

A web browser can be used to access a banking website through which you might engage in money laundering, sure, but that’s very different to a piece of software that can be used to hide the origin of funds.

The difference is like a kitchen utensil manufacturer vs. a gun manufacturer. A kitchen knife can be used to kill, a gun can be used to kill, but we hold gun manufacturers and kitchen utensil manufacturers to different standards because intent is an important aspect.

Your argument is predicated on the idea that intent doesn’t matter, but intent does matter, intent is a significant component of criminal law.
The oil industry DGAF in this case (or any F they G is a rounding error compared to other parties). It's the electrician lobbying groups that want it because it's drives "their people" some additional amount of work.
I wouldn't bet against a regular package manager existing in the near future. We've seen this story with Go :P
Huh. Lost my part-written comment somehow.

Anyway, hi, author/submitter here.

I have heard several versions of this story. Most seem to be unsubstantiated AFAICT.

The one that seems to add up is that Dr Kildall claimed that only he knew why some DOS APIs took the exact parameters they did.

Which ISTM is fair enough, if they were written using DR documentation. As I said, DR intended the API docs to be for app writers, but that didn't stop people using them to write compatible OSes, and lots of companies did.

That's how come David Given's amazing CPMish OS was possible:

https://github.com/davidgiven/cpmish

CPMish combines existing BDOS and BIOS replacements and other components. It puts together so many existing replacement parts for parts of CP/M-80 that nothing of the original was left. Theseus' ship, in software:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

There was a code investigation that looked for any DR code in the early MS-DOS binaries:
https://www.embedded.com/was-dos-copied-from-cp-m/

It concluded that no, code was not copied, but APIs were.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309274064_Source_Co...
Is there a way to make money selling the model to people who want to use it to make porn? If so, it will trickle down relatively quickly. If not, it'll still eventually trickle down but will take longer.
It worked for me just now, so maybe it was temporary, or they already fixed it?
So that means for the duration of the attack active contacts and groups were exposed?
I could find a new partner? Or get a new job/career?
I see, nothing is obvious on the interwebs! :-D

The "rewrite the world" part is actually where such ideas obviously fall apart (as I said also in the sibling replies)…

So I'm very well aware of that "minor issue" regarding my idea.
Snapchat’s paid subscription is already a hit
Generally an outlier
Bottomline, as a former repeat WeWork customer for a number of products, this is true: 'In a blog post on a16z’s website today, Marc Andreessen described Neumann as a “visionary leader” and credits him with “revolutionizing” real estate.'
> Counties expected to experience heat indices above 125°F by 2053

Genuine question. How many climate predictions from 30 years ago came true today?
Who is dealing with the spam SMS messages I get all year round? Phone numbers do not stop spam, they are used to distribute it. I know I received no spam when I had Google Talk... It is a solvable problem that I guess benefits nobody in power to solve.
Neumann bought ownership stakes in properties which he then leased to WeWork. I don’t know if this meets the legal definition of fraud but it’s absurdly shady, a clear conflict of interest.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/we-company-ceo-in-hot-wate...
Good catch! Currently, we don't, and we rely on k8s to stop the old node. Technically speaking, if k8s and our control plane are always good at stopping the old primary, we don't need consensus at all. So that is more of a question of what set of problems we can see if there is a bug in our orchestration code. Split-brain seemed to be unacceptable. But with stale reads, we decided that we can only rely on k8s without double-checking that on our side.
As Elon said
"OpenAI should be more Open IMO"
I've collected the results from all 4 papers including the links to all 4 in a Google spreadsheet for easily lining up the results for each stage of Covid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5twV0x-TlHzd2AVr9e1...
1 tab for the links & underlying number of studies/patients & 1 tab for the results.
if free software is not your motivator, consider the light phone 2. it's a b&w e-ink phone that does 4g LTE calls/sms/hotspot, with apps for gps navigation and podcasts.
Been running new PEX supply lines to replace the leaking galvanized ones and it's been surprisingly easy.
Which God? Am seeing that leads to violent conflict every single time and undermines your argument a wee bit.
> due to greed and the inherent inefficiency of the capitalist system

Cartels, monopoly, and regulatory capture are not inherent to capitalism.
Similar experience here, although I have only been doing it for about a year or two.

I have received exactly one spam email where I could identify who sold the db (or maybe it was leaked and they haven't owned up yet).

Most of the spam I receive is to an address I used before that leaked in some hack a while ago, so that one is truly for sale everywhere at this point.
July also isn't the hottest part of the year there. April or May is.