skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like when they put ads on ad-free paid for cable?

I don't think todays generation are more activist than those that came before. They fall far short in fact.
> What do you think byzantine-fault-tolerant networks are? With redundancies built in, so your data is guaranteed to be online regardless of any third party, and so on?

as for data availability, bittorrent works stupidly well today without any monetization. it turns out that upload/download ratio works as a pretty decent metric to combat tragedy of the commons for larger torrent communities that really want to protect against it. for websites, i've been surprised in the past when i let a domain expire, and then it pops up a month later because somebody who enjoyed it had archived it and brought it back online themselves. that's more satisfying to me than if it had been kept available because i paid some distant/dispassionate person $1 to do so.

point is, the future i want is largely one of reciprocity. decrease hierarchy and encourage participants to act as both consumer and producer. financialization doesn't do this: it encourages large, efficient producers to compete with each other to serve consumers. i don't want my 20,000-person retro-arcade community to be served by 5 people who've provisioned 4x10Gbps uplinks charging us for BW. then it's just some extractive thing (these producers are likely directing their proceeds to things unrelated to the community) and the magic's gone.

financialization helps when the capital cost of entry is otherwise too high. say, using loans that are repaid by usage-based micropayments as a way to get mesh power/data networks off the ground since these require costly physical equipment. such networks would be beneficial both from the redundancy/fault-tolerance perspective you care about and also from the social angle i care about of being able to participate in more of the things around me. but after deployment, continued monetization works against that latter aspect.

the one crypto project which financialized data networks (Helium) completely failed at the participatory aspect. its users (gateway operators) are merely providers for a different set of consumers (LoRa users). you may have good intentions, and you may build something better than FB/AWS, but if it's built around monetization it will only ever be a stopgap. stopgaps are fine and often good, but the places we need them are already shrinking. federated chat/social networks and peer-based media/streaming applications are developed and advancing rapidly enough for me to take them seriously today. another "big tech" alternative -- open SW/HW stacks for mobile phones as an alternative to Apple -- is in a similar state and crypto hasn't even started any parallel project that i know of. search alternatives are the furthest behind, but is anyone using crypto to build an alternative to Google? my understanding of search is that it's a tough problem to solve because of the money incentives (if a click results in profit via commerce or ads, then there's an incentive to pay for more clicks, either via backchannel payments or SEO), and that social ranking of search results is one of the only ways to overcome this.
Seems like common problem. Some retarded React App developer gets hired. And now business is no longer making some solid, long lasting blenders but "Connected Healthy Solutions"®

I am sure some next generation developers are already demanding to install VSCode on fridges so one can code on Samsung Smart refrigerators screens.

Wouldn't it be great that while fridge telling about running short on Kale green also download a gigabyte of NPM garbage to display image of Kale green in a bag?
Sounds like rogaining. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogaining
Definitely. I was likely being too glib in my response here, and wasn't trying to say to throw all the nukes into the trash.

I think that it is possible to maintain an existing set of weapons without trying to continue pushing the envelope towards even more destructive weapons, and that 5000 is a lot/enough.
>You're making an unnecessary distinction between intra-brand survivorship bias and inter-brand survivorship bias.

No, I am not. A $10k fridge from a premium manufacturer that makes no budget models will last decades. A $1k fridge from a budget manufacturer that produces no premium fridges will last a few years.

There are very few manufacturers that make models spanning the entire reliability (and thus price) gamut.

>Does any party have access to these data, realistically?

Probably not. Which is why we cannot assert with any solid evidence that appliance reliability has declined over the years—we have no way of conclusively ruling out survivorship bias.
>A musical performance is copyrightable

A recording of a musical performance is copyrightable. But I believe the copyright would belong to whoever made the recording, not the performing musicians (assuming the work being performed is public domain, like Beethoven)

> Choreography instructions are also likely uncopyrightable, but the performances of one would be.

As far as I know, this is almost exactly wrong. Choreography instructions may be copyrightable. A performance of a dance is not subject to copyright, but a video recording of that performance may be.

> To qualify for registration, a choreographic work or pantomime must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression [1]

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ52.pdf
When I was a kid Taiwan was the place they made junk tools that broke. 40 some years later they have figured out quality. I expect China to figure it out, and in some places they have.
Compare it to something like voting. There's a vanishingly small chance that your personal vote is going to sway any issue. The benefits of voting are only felt at a societal level rather than a personal one.

Lotto also has societal benefits, like funding schools and keeping organized crime out of the casual gambling market. Plus it's fun, on the order of, say, eating a mini bag of Doritos while you're stuck for three hours in a train station (but without the calories).

So why does the "I know math" crowd deplore the lottery but not voting? I'm guessing the real answer is that one is looked at as a low-class activity and one a high-class activity.

Edit: Just to be clear, my point isn't that voting is bad, it's that lotto isn't a pure math problem.
> Docker

It's strange when an app is packaged with its own private copy of all of the "shared" libraries that it uses.

Many apps that could be a single static binary seem to be packaged as docker images largely for dependency inclusion and some cgroup/namespace isolation.
How to Pronounce JSON According to Douglas Crockford [video]
Isn’t that what happens when it goes into sleep mode?
You've got them mixed up. DeWalt is Stanley Black & Decker, which also makes modern, non-Sears Craftsman tools, along with a bunch of others--Bostitch nailers, Irwin, whatever's left of the Porter-Cable line, and upscale stuff like MAC (uses DeWalt batteries, as it happens) or Proto.

Milwaukee is TTI, which owns Home Depot's exclusive Ryobi and Ridgid brands, along with Empire (measuring devices), Hart (Ryobi but for Wal-Mart), and AEG (Ridgid but for Europe).

The other "big" one worth mentioning is Chervon, who own Flex, Skil (aside: their 12V stuff is surprisingly good!), and make Lowe's Kobalt tools.
A few weeks ago I was fooling around to see if my phone's navigation could adjust if I decided on a different route. I didn't even get that far: it usually placed me several streets over and gave wrong directions.
> It is slow as molasses on hardware where even Windows 10 and Gnome are both fast...

I haven't had that problem. There's no GPU acceleration, so anything heavy on the GPU is a problem, but in terms of general use, I don't find it slower than Linux on the iron.

> and to make it usable you have to keep relaxing the security to the point where it is probably less secure than regular OS.

How so? What settings? I don't run with a USB Qube all the time for just my HID devices, but I light it up when I'm doing anything else on USB. I haven't had issues with having to turn down a bunch of security settings either.

> And don't even bother if you have to use scaling other than 100%, sure you can scale the DOM0 but the rest of the VMs are not scaled and there is no documentation on how to do it.

Yes there is. https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs...

> What we need are simple sandboxes that isolate GUI applications into chroot environment and keep them away from other applications and documents.

The history of local root exploits ("Cheap and easy!") would argue that doing such a thing and relying on the kernel is just security theater.
> How do Coca-Cola get around having to list all ingredients when they sell a bottled product? They just list 'flavourings' don't they

Per the FDA[1], "some ingredients can be listed collectively as "flavors," "spices," "artificial flavoring," or in the case of color additives exempt from certification, "artificial colors", without naming each one. Declaration of an allergenic ingredient in a collective or single color, flavor, or spice could be accomplished by simply naming the allergenic ingredient in the ingredient list."

> what if you're allergic to one of the anonymous ingredients? Are they just not allergens?

Basically the only regulated allergens in the US are[2] milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/overview...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/food/food-allergensgluten-free-guidance-...
Quality of life is an interesting frame, though through that lens, some research tends to show that many (but not all) lottery winners actually are worse off in terms of life quality after winning.

From The Washington Post [1] (the links to the source studies are unfortunately broken): "When a team of economists tracked the fortunes of financially distressed people in Florida who had won the lottery, they found that within three to five years, the winners of big prizes (between $50,000 and $150,000) were equally likely to have filed for bankruptcy as the small winners, and the groups had similarly low savings and levels of debt. According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about 70 percent of people who win a lottery or receive a large windfall go bankrupt within a few years."

However, I concede that if you win the lottery and spend it wisely (e.g. maybe invest virtually all of it and live off the interest spent reasonably), it's plausible it can greatly improve quality of life. So, assuming one acts carefully when receiving the large windfall, I agree with you now that buying lottery tickets is plausibly a good idea.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths...
I try not to be too much of a fan of tools, as for corded stuff I mostly buy what's cheap, but the DeWalt DW735 planer is a tool that really makes me happy. I've had to take it apart to put in an upgraded cutting head and the process of doing so was a really pleasurable education in how mechanical tools (which I don't know much about) actually work.
that seems like it's outside of the scope of "extremely incapable hikers who just want to go 1 route from A to B with no danger" unless there's a super chill trail or something
> I find it hard to justify this

What would you have done instead to reduce their civilian casualties, under the constraints that the Allies still win the war and that Allied casualties don't increase?
Cool!

I also have an experimental (GNU) makefile auditor called "make-audit", available here: https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-audit

Per its README: "It will report when an execution of make reads or changes files in ways that are inconsistent with its Makefile. It requires an "auditor" tool named pmaudit in your PATH. It also requires GNU make to be installed and run as make."

Note that these tools are looking for different things and taking different approaches. My make-audit tool is a dynamic analysis tool - you run make and it watches what is done. This "checkmake" tool appears to use static analysis to check against various rules (e.g., there should be an "all"), which is fine but it's a different kind of check.

Sadly, my make-audit tool is also rather experimental. As I say in its README, "This is an extremely early version. Much needs fixing." For example:

* This doesn't properly handle grouped targets or empty commands. It should handle makefiles with their own SHELL and .ONESHELL values.

* I don't think it handles multi-line make commands exactly correctly (it's close but not quite right).

* Lots more options are needed.

* It needs a better internal test suite.

Still, make-audit does do some useful things, and it'd be awesome if others would be willing to work with me to make it reliably useful.
The law is a veil hiding all those lords, earls, dukes and other freeloaders from the public sight.
The sport comes from doing it better than the competitors. It says nothing about how difficult it is to do well enough. Running is a sport.
Running a casino
Not if you were trying to decide between the Samurai and the other vehicles CR was "evaluating" (a Wrangler and the Bronco II). Internally, CR's testers praised the Samurai as having the best handling of the bunch, but their editor made sure the public never heard this.
Who said our universe is euclidean? We just make this assumption for convenience.
They're so "made in america" that you have to put qualifiers on that statement ...

not buying it, sorry.
You most likely meant to ask any questions about deep lore Apple internals to the sibling, who is a super well-known expert on the topic. I barely know my way around XCode. :)
Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch
They are, but nothing prevents you from deleting old email and creating a new one with all the same attributes, but without attachments. And that's exactly what happens, according to the quote from the page:

> we can see the message “1 deleted message in this conversation. View message or delete forever.” at the bottom. By default, Unattach puts the original email (the one with attachments) into Gmail’s Bin.
Dewalt seems to have at least as good a catalog of battery powered stuff. Things change all the time, a few years ago I settled on dewalt because I needed a chainsaw and Milwaukee didn't have one: now they do, but too late as i'm invested in dewalt batteries.
I had to get the shingles vax just before I got on O due to reactivation risk despite being way too young.

I got COVID vaccine and while I had a symptomatic reaction, the results of my antibody tests were concerning. I had my antibodies checked at LabCorp (forget exactly which protein they checked for) and my antibody count was something like 20, while my wife (as the control) had around 12,000.

Some of the most recent research suggests even though the antibody levels are low, there is a good T Cell response still.

You don't lose any immunity you already had, but any potential future immunity is likely blunted.
I almost feel like it should be deemed fraud or false advertising, although I have no idea how we should draw the line and ultimately we probably shouldn't.
> I can still remember reading about memes in a Richard Dawkins book and a few years later the concept was coerced wholesale by the internets.

You and I both! It's fascinating.
Please show me a single person who is both strongly anti-racist and strongly against free community college in the USA.
special plastics that degrade rapidly after 5 or 6 years

...so the company making parts with them can then extoll the virtues of "biodegradable" in their marketing...?

Also, for those who doubt the claim about the Honeywell thermostat having a battery, I did some further research, and it does appear to be true:

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/128526/honeywell-th...

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3V5R0MJGEFNXH

But then this video shows that it is relatively easy to replace, it's not soldered in place, although the comments there do mention that the presence of the battery isn't documented anywhere in the original instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKowLXfERo
> I find it thought provoking that there are no natural analogues to a capitalist system. In nature, unimpeded, continual growth is typically a malady. Ecosystems, species, and even individual biological units at most experience a growth spurt to bring the system to a viable state for steady-state continuity.

My impression was that constant growth is the normal state of nature, not a malady. Biological systems don't stop growing because they think that they've reached a maintainable steady state; they stop growing because they run into resource constraints.

For example, the balance between predator and prey populations is maintained via a feedback loop, not via assessments of "sustainability": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...
The original comment offered no such exclusions. If we want to say only that the free market will provide whatever it wants and we can like it or lump it suddenly that's not very attractive is it?
LG and Samsung both have this problem. I suffered from it for years - like clockwork every three months the fan would stop spinning and the fridge would stop working until I took a hair dryer to the built up ice behind the rear panel.

Good news was it encouraged us to clean out our fridge on a regular basis!

I eventually fixed it by ordering a new thermistor and relocating it on the line (I read about it in a service bulletin somewhere)

I also replaced the warming probe at the bottom just in case it was blocking up but I don’t think that was the root cause.

Once I took those actions, the fridge worked great. Unfortunately we now no longer have a clean refrigerator, however.
>> why buy the cheap tv company's refrigerator

I've now decided to buy the very cheapest possible fridge in the future.

Expensive still seems to be shit, so it may as well be cheap and shit.
Perhaps the "Close windows when quitting an app" setting in System Preferences -> General may do it?
Introducing Horizon Linux!
>The history of local root exploits ("Cheap and easy!") would argue that doing such a thing and relying on the kernel is just security theater.

it may not be perfect but surely its better than nothing. it wouldn't protect you from a sophisticated nation state attacker, but most people don't have that in their threat model. surely it would be good enough to prevent google chrome from snooping through your home directory and other such things.
I have a script to auto-delete all attachments in emails more than one month old. I think it is the only sane way to keep emails around for long-term: There is no point to keep something unsearchable and greatly bloat up your mailbox.
I took all the articles that they shared and liked on Twitter and aggregated it into a list. I send this out every week in a newsletter. They always like super high-quality articles.
>There are very few manufacturers that make models spanning the... gamut.

How does that relate to survivorship bias?

>Probably not. Which is why we cannot assert with any solid evidence...

...anything.

If you crank the standards for "solid" high enough, you can make literally anything become unknowable.

You can always ask for better evidence, in any situation! Historically this has been exploited in denial campaigns (tobacco, climate change, etc), so there should be some wariness surrounding this rhetoric.

That said, N=1 here. Let's not make more (or less) of it than there is.

>we have no way of conclusively ruling out survivorship bias.

Is the corollary that we have no way of detecting planned obsolescence?

I hope I'm misunderstanding. If not, it's the fox guarding the henhouse.
Why the Market Is Bouncing
A good no-code solution is https://simplescraper.io. Leans towards non-developers but there's an API too.
Not in our case. We’re breaking work into small stories that are self-contained improvements that can (usually) move into production independently of anything else. Typically an individual or team can complete more than one in a two week period. But either way, we won’t break them any smaller than that atomic “completeness” to fit into an arbitrary time interval. The sprint is just for automatic estimating of when we’ll get to a story, how often to demo progress to interested parties, etc.
About the ozone, you might want to replace the brushes and/or polish the commutator. Blenders of that design use brushed motors, and the brushes are a wear part (although they can last a long time).
It's fortunate if the ISP already has enough IPv4 addresses even for CGNAT. Probably it's not the case for ISP in developing country.
> Good job I didn't say it seriously then, or at all, for that matter.

Awesome! So then you agree that having 50k$ of equivalent value, outside of the lebanon bank would not be worthless, and would instead be worth a lot! Glad you agree with me.

> I still don't see how owning crypto or any sort of global currency would have helped him

Well, it would be because now they have 50k$ of equivalent value, in a place that is not the Lebanon bank. Therefore the Lebanon bank can't take it from them.

That is how it would have helped. Having that money, outside of a local collapsing banking system, would mean that any of those people would now have 50k$ of value, in a place that the Lebanon bank can't take it.

And you agree with me on this, because you are not saying "yep! Having 50k in an offshore account is worthless!".

You aren't saying that. Which means that you agree with me completely, that it would not be worthless to have that money, or equivalent value of that money, in an offshore account.
Let me make it 2v2 then.

But I'll also note that I only know a handful of people that drive around without putting on their GPS. The people that use GPS tend to be bad at navigating without it. The people that don't use GPS tend to be better.

I'm not sure why this is controversial, given that we could rewrite the headline as "Study shows that those that practice spacial skills are better at spacial skills." The fact that everyone is arguing here seems a bit silly to me.
You think a 5k car is going to last you 10 years?
Some countries prescribe Rituximab as quasi off-label for MS. Basically same drug for all intents and purposes as Ocrevus.

I think Sweden uses Rituximab openly for MS. In the US I've heard some neuros prescribe Rituximab if insurance won't cover O.
This is great, I'm watching the video on YouTube now...

Are exhausts/mufflers modelled?

For ages I've wanted to simulate different designs for exhaust headers and systems, to be able to possibly create different/interesting sounds from certain engines - i.e. can you add some additional headers with a different length and make an I4 sound like an I6?
I've read the text of the lawsuit. As you mention, this is a press release, so I'm highly skeptical of it. Video documentation of CR's manipulation of the tests is on YouTube. It's wild stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Bv9WL3vpY
The history of free software is the history of the GPL and the power struggles around it. Free software developers neglecting binary interfaces in favor of source code, refusing to support plugins because it enables proprietary applications, new compilers arising to challenge GCC as a result, hardware makers using cryptography to prevent users from running their own code...

And now we have this "hybrid linking" thing: static image containing dynamically linked libraries.
They can't compete with the big ad players and they know it. They tried. It's another classic example of "if you can't beat them, use your other enormous industry leverage to change the game to your advantage." Truth is, I don't think Apple realizes yet how critical that tracking data is to keep advertisers happy and informed. I predict that they will enter the ad market in full 3 years from now, and the existing players will push for an antitrust lawsuit in 5. If they survive that is.
You are on a Malwarebytes blacklist, just FYI.

It says: "Website blocked due to phishing"