skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Equally, you can design something in A4 size on the computer, then print it on A3 paper without any changes. Then send it to the print shop for an A1 print, still with no changes.

My equivalent experience in academia is that you can design posters and print drafts on A4 sheets to see how they look and be confident that they won't be butchered when put on A0 at the print shop.
another one, seems like there was a git with some transparency stuff, its down unfortunately :https://web.archive.org/web/20220801104812/https://kiwifarms...
1. Some USB cables only support power up to 5W

2. Not all USB C cables support data some or power only.

3. But USB C is suppose to be a “standard”. I can’t just assume any USB C cable is going to work with either my portable USB monitor or an iPad Pro that has a USB port
Isn't that what paparazzi do every day? I hate the behavior but it's not like we haven't allowed it as a society for a long time.
But you were talking about fascist nations, not civil society. Defenestration seems to have more impact that deplatforming in such places. Russian police also have no issue with arresting people for holding completely blank sign, on the basis that the medium (a sign on which a message of protest could be included) is a sufficiently message-like reason to take someone off the street. Mind you, the same is true of the US to some extent.
Probably pretty well, as the content seems to be static HTML, any sensible apache2 or nginx configuration (And linux kernel storage-to-ram caching) will keep the frequently-accessed HTTP GET requests in RAM. And a raspberry pi with 4 or 8GB of RAM has enough resources for quite a lot of simultaneous threads.
An amish village is a laughable anachronism that only exist in the context of a much larger whole that is antithetical to the very values and way of life it practices because no larger scale society so constructed could exist or compete with other societies practicing opposing values.

It's not a healthier better way to build a city its a tiny park on a corner lot surrounded by pollution and traffic.
I enjoyed this series of interviews with engineers from other fields who switched to software development. Their broad conclusion is that software engineers are either already engineers, or are pretty close.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
>There was no government involved, so it's not a "free speech" issue.

Strong disagree. Free speech is a central tenet for the entire modern society. Without it, there is no scientific revolution, no Enlightenment.

Accept controversial, unpleasant, disruptive discussion and ideas or accept stagnation. That's it, there is no way around it.
You're running a mailing list with a web signup form that doesn't even use a captcha to filter out bots. That's going to result in a bad reputation for your mail server. At the bare minimum you need to put some barriers between pressing Subscribe and sending out an email. I've run mailing lists for decades without trouble, but the barrier to making my mail server send an email to someone has more friction, and therefore can't be abused quite so easily.
> What would be a modern audiophile setup?

What do you mean? What's the difference between an audiophile setup from the 80s GP was mentioning and one from today? Today you'd have a DAC, for a start. Maybe some DRC (Digital Room Correction software). Then amps have progressed tremendously. And so did speakers (newer materials).

As for the setup I listened to: I'm no pro, I don't remember the details. I know the speakers were Wilson Audio but I don't remember the DAC nor the amp(s) brands: all I know is it was high-end stuff costing money I'm personally not willing to put in an audio setup. But it did sound very good.
IDEA: Someone please make a "white noise" generator that play audio of old computer 'whirring' noises... like a dot matrix printer, a fax machine, a modem, etc... that plays low-key in the background...

I actually miss the sound of a dot-matrix.
He cooperates with the law in the country he resides and the site is hosted in. He told NZ to fuck off 'cause they had no say in whether or not he was allowed to host the video.
A view point that wants to kill me is by definition morally deficient.
Yes, and they actually already discussed such a possibility back when the Daily Stormer first moved to Tor[0].

They ultimately shot down the idea, and just put out a statement condemning them instead[1][2].

I think it's unlikely they would implement such a thing for KiwiFarms now that they've already set the precedent with a site that is arguably much worse.

[0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/issues/23270

[1] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/898256109789687808

[2] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-defends-human-rights...
How do you produce airplanes and silicon chips exactly?
If you think the western concept and practice of democracy is actual democracy, then your educational system has failed you. Which in the US it's not that difficult to happen...
Traveler's insurance likely won't cover any serious long-term diseases, if you get cancer in that time period, you are screwed.
I agree with you, but if you look at our current reality, plenty of it would've been unbelievable 100 years ago. 200 years ago and it's all magic. You have to dream a little big to innovate anything, and if it's feasible then it's a good idea, and if its not then let people try and fail.
>They don't line up nicely with the A4 stuff. They don't go gently in the A4 folders / sleeves / pockets / ring binders (files) / etc.

This statement, and the rest of the post, simply reads "I don't like different". However, the article is about the mathematical benefits of A4, the failures of 8.5x11, and the true benefit of A4 from a paper-size agnostic society.

This article convinced A4 is better (and the entire system) not because it doesn't fit in my folders, but because it makes practical sense.
Europe is big enough that the wind is always blowing somewhere
Asia is a big place. I'm in Eastern Europe, $100k is very possible when working remotely. Also, $100k is an outrageously good salary here - think 5 times the local average.
TikTok Denies Breach After Hacker Claims ‘2B Data Records’ Stolen
(In)finite Central Curve – blockchain as a way to ID multiverse realities
An idea that in an infinite multiverse, in an infinite subset of universes that share a common blockchain, the blocks would start to fork at relatively minor differences in the reality.

Funny enough, Hash collision universes would also exist.
Infinite hash collision universes with the same block hashes, block after block, but different block input.
There's an even larger picture than this, which is that the argumentation around speech is gamed by people who have no interest in preserving it overall.

What truly matters is which speech ends up being successful and adopted in the broader society. This is why the focus is placed on the availability of platforms rather than the presence of free speech on its own. The argument is never just to let people speak without arrest or restraint, but to let them speak AND give them access to a convenient platform that will help their speech be more successful. The next step is to force platforms to host them and give them an algorithmic pipeline of views.

If freedom of speech is the key ingredient on its own, why is the US on an steeper authoritarian slide compared to the rest of the West despite more robust speech protections? Largely because authoritarian elements there are extremely adept at using speech rules for their own ends, and will then be able to discard most freedoms of any type once they solidify their grip on the institutions.
Seems to be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722510
I am curious. Do you have an example of such ToS?
How do you prohibit something like that? "Disputes are solved through arbitration, unless a bunch of other people want to do it too, then..."?
How will gas power Europe when the Russians shut off the gas?

If you want to go nuclear: OK, sure, so what do we use for power in the decade before the first plant comes online?
Stable Diffusion: Prompt Enhancer Analysis
> I thought the GP comment was wild, but "I just got my welfare check, time to hire a lawyer" is an even stranger take.

I don't have any links on hand, but from what I recall they were all Pro Se. My understanding is that many of them were discovered by KF in the first place because they were vexatious litigants.

One of the vexatious litigants had previously sued Taylor Swift and threatened to abuse her lawyer's daughter, resulting in a high-profile lawyer representing Kiwi Farms Pro Bono against him.

The truth is wilder than fiction.
I think that this is seriously a great idea.

PAM should be a service that communicates over an UNIX socket. Upsides:

* You can completely isolate it from anything else. Lock it into a sandbox. Use SELinux to ensure it doesn't do anything weird.

* Much more secure -- you have a very narrow communication channel, and no exposure to stuff like LD_PRELOAD.

* You avoid the mess of the above for the applications using it. Apps using PAM execute PAM code, and that means that anything that uses PAM needs to be able to do any arbitrary thing a PAM module might want to do.

* Applications using PAM no longer need to have root access. Your screensaver/lock screen can be completely unprivileged.

* If it can be an UNIX socket, it probably can also be a TCP socket, so you can have it run remotely if such a thing makes sense.

* The protocol can be inspected

* Good opportunity for updating the API and fixing anything lacking.
Doxxing and swatting has always been frowned upon, but it continues to happen regardless. So the idea that it can be curbed through social stigma and criminalization is clearly false. The technology for surveillance and publishing has only improved over time.
It feels weird that so much old software from the 80's or even 90's and newer has to be reverse-engineered in order to be understood. The process almost seems like something an archeologist would perform on an artifact thousands of years old. But this software likely has people living who actually built the stuff and know how it works. I understand not everyone can be bothered in life to commit to a project, but surely a phone call could be answered occasionally. Is it just that knowing who these people are is too difficult or that existing copyright issues simply make it unsafe?
If the ship is sinking. Perhaps one shouldn’t buy tickets.
ELI5: What is preserved when it is "LOSSLESS" - what portion of a wave, or quality or (i dont know what term to ask) is dropped when "LOSS" occurs?
somewhat relevant, saw it today. Create an inexpensive bomber copter from scrap metal: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb6A-NxWQAMjTC7?format=jpg&name=...
Burning garbage in a furnace is an obsolete technology with serious GHG emissions.

The page you yourself link has a case study in Madeira island where garbage burning uses up 20% of funds for waste management but only deals with 1.4% of waste.

With cheap and easy to roll out Solar and Wind these furnaces are an evolutionary dead end in energy policy.
> stop the war and negotiate peace

How? And where (at what line of control)? It takes both parties to reach a peace.
Actually a good thing. This is the gig-economy version of the police.
SharkBot malware sneaks back on Google Play to steal your logins
>ie penalizing people in the name of atheism.

You'd be surprised. It has happened in revolutionary France, up to and including civil war Spain, USSR, China, and several other times and places besides...
"X times smaller/cheaper/etc" is a very common phrase in English with a very well understood meaning (1/Xth the size/price/etc). It doesn't really matter whether it makes sense to you.
Blackstone Single-Family Landlord to Halt Home Purchases in 38 Cities
Who said they were talking about Bluetooth. It sounds like they were talking about a proprietary system like Sonos Wifi.
A while back I read that the technology for small nuclear reactors exists. Seems like emergency production and distribution of these would work.
Free Speech is more complicated than that, at least in the US. The Supreme Court held in Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center that simply being private property does not by itself allow the owners to restrict speech.

> Over two decades ago, our state Supreme Court concluded that a privately owned shopping center that attracts large numbers of people to congregate in order to shop and take advantage of other amenities offered by the shopping center is the functional equivalent of the traditional town center, which historically is a public forum where persons can exercise the right to free speech. ( Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center (1979)

Further, the Supreme Court has found that putting a website on the internet grants a wide variety of privileges to the people using it. Specifically speaking, the Supreme Court held that if websites such as Linkedin make pages publicly accessible they can't use the legal system to stop access of those pages that they don't like- specifically, they can't stop bots from scraping by suing to get them to stop.

So if we're talking free speech I'm not sure we can count a website as private property in the sense you're talking about, and whether it would even matter if we could.
Qualcomm most likely will go this route (proprietary instructions) as this now officially blessed by Arm. I'd bet we'll see that in their 2023 chips.
TailwindCSS DevTools Extension
The saying I recall is: "You can't save yourself rich"
I think they mean different things to different people. From the problems I have faced with customer-controlled OS installations, the biggest thing that they offer is configuration isolation (or rather independence). I have seen some truly crazy shit done by customer's administrators and even crazier shit done by management software that they install. Taking away that autonomy is huge.
Completely agree. And also disagree with the research results to some extent. My anecdotal experience is quite the opposite. I have started grasping programming while at school specifically to be able to make games. And that helped me immensely to learn math and physics.
Well and the patch is like 4 plastic particles per cubic meter.
I can't comment on detailed economics, but but given this phrase
"In France and the UK, this is providing a natural hedge to power prices and helps keep retail prices down" the rest of the article seems dubious to me, given how high prices are in the UK.
the next level would be the A.I making "sense" of the interior spacing or the layout in general so it could generate more accurate houses
usually frequencies too high to be heard.
That too, but addressed by another response.
Yeah, kicking a website off the internet is just like not listening to racist rants.
Every bit of additional warming will mean even more flooding and catastrophe
Well Europe is already invested in LNG. I imagine there will be more LNG terminals being built despite it not being great for the environment.

Ex: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/germany-announces-new-...
> On the other hand, a person smoking 1 or 2 cigarettes near me is actively harmful to my health.

I think you have a strange way of placing responsibility, because I am nearly certain what is actively harmful to your health is choosing to remain in the proximity of someone that smoked not only one cigarette but more than one. We know why they're smoking: they're addicted to nicotine, and it's unlikely they chose to become addicted. Why would you linger near them? Is it peer pressure?
Also:

https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/
> who at some point mentioned the anecdote that as a young man he had coincidentally been involved as a junior officer in an experimental military convoy from coast to coast in the 1910s

Eisenhower whipped votes for the ‘56 Act on the basis of military mobilisation. It wasn’t a military project per se. And there were plenty of other motivations and votes. But the logic is far from urban myth. The 1910 convoys spurred the ‘21 Act, which was more limited and civil in nature.
Bizarre study that does not shed much light on anything.

Programming is most similar to algebra; anyone studying both at the same time can't help but see the obvious connection.

At least in the USA, algebra is typically taught in 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th grade, not 4th or 5th. Fourth graders are usually more concerned with more foundational topics as multiplication and division.

The same study in 8th or 9th grade would actually be interesting. Or on advanced fourth graders that are studying Algebra I. Or if you followed up years later to see if once the same children are in 8th grade, they have an easier time with Algebra I.
Look, I don't want to engage into discussions of statistics, flu comparisons and implications. It all boils down to an observation that most people are ready to make _some_ sacrifices for others, but also not too much, sort of "don't burn yourself trying to warm others". Some people didn't suffer too much during lockdowns and they perceived it as a minor sacrifice for the sake of society, old people and so on. Some even found it positive, they chilled out on furlough, they got new hobbies, they spent quality time with family and they don't understand why anyone is upset.

Some had it pretty bad and breached this altruism threshold. I personally flew past it very early. My life turned from "the best period of my life" in early 2020 into my worst nightmare pretty much overnight.

In early 2020 I barely drank at all. I had perhaps a glass of wine once a month or two. I remember I was horrified when I read a BBC article "try to have at least one sober day a week" early into the first lockdown. By the end of the third lockdown I realized I drank every single night for the last 3 weeks. While I feel hundred times better now than back then, I still find it difficult to not drink at all for a week. Alcohol isn't a cause of any problem, it is one of the most accessible coping mechanisms. It numbs emotional pain and distracts you from constantly thinking how much your existence sucks.
I have to say, just as a casual observation, that for the same money I can get a lot better sound now in 2022 than I could in 2002.
Most low to midrange headphones (€50-€100) sound very acceptable and even the lower range Bluetooth speakers (€50) sound decidedly not terrible. In 2002 this money would buy headphones with no bass, shrill highs and muddy mids.

Just compare the original earbuds included with the iPod to the wired EarPods that Apple sells now.

Or compare the AirPods Pro ($249) to what the same amount (inflation adjusted) could get you 20 years ago.

Of course there’s still plenty of space on the high end, and still the higher you go the more you need to spend to achieve 1% better sound.
Agreed. FYI, ffmpeg's hash testing format [0], and therefore my utility dano, allows the use of CRC32, etc., though.

> But I'm afraid we'll have to live with this shortcoming forever now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't believe there is a fundamental reason why a later version of FLAC couldn't/wouldn't allow different algos as I think the raw decoded bitstream is checksum-ed and is just stored as a FLAC tag[1]. So they could just version that tag.

[0]: http://underpop.online.fr/f/ffmpeg/help/hash.htm.gz
[1]: Language corrected. See comment.
Do you have proof of this like a large participant study or it is just intuition or your personal experience? I feel like lots of people who are good at maths are good at programming but they are not actually similar structurally.

To me it was always much more similar to some combination of learning a language and learning the linguistic rules of that language in great detail to the point where you have a metalinguistic understanding of it. Then, math would be an adjunct but very separate component that could be manipulated by the programming language.
The ACLU would fight for the Nazi marches against the government. These are private companies adjusting their priorities as a result of other people using their free speech rights.
Does it? I never heard of them before and I still haven't. I do know these lulzcow sites have been around for decades and honestly there are even some 'snark' subreddits that are beginning to amount to the same thing. Pure vitriol aimed at one minor celebrity, and occasional dozxing
Oh, here's some other, pretty useful-looking documentation from Home Assistant touching on multiple different scenarios: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/energy/electricity-grid/
Mandating roaming charges is completely different than mandating 4G and 5G protocols.

You keep focusing solely on “charging” when USB C powered phones and iPads that already support USB C also carry data and in the care of the iPad data using the “standard” for video over USB C. Seeing that the EU didn’t mandate any of they shows why the government has no business involved in technical standards.

The “goal” of the EU regulation was to reduce ewaste. The proposed regulation fails because you still have to replace your cable if you want your phone to transfer data.

Google and Facebook didn’t have to adapt their business at all because of the GDPR. You want to see what an effective policy for increasing privacy looks like? One private company - Apple - introduced a pop up that gives users the ability to opt out of tracking and everyone including Facebook that lives or dies by ads announced billions in reduced revenue.
But why would he? Bloviating about his love for free speech and then suppressing the speech that makes him trouble is much more convenient. And why should he worry how he looks to you? What you'd do, use another provider? Good luck with that, think they'd be any different?

The reality is, we're moving from an early pseudo-anarchic ideals of early internet free speech mode to the pseudo-feudal setups where if you want to have an internet presence you must have a liege lord and must live at their sufferance, or you'll quickly fall victim to one of the roving mobs that live to collect the scalps of the likes of you. It's not a fun place to be in, but that's where we're at. And as a vassal you don't have too much position to make demands on your lord. You can change the lord, for sure, but there aren't many and if none of them likes you, you're out of luck. Welcome to the Web 3.0, it's not what you thought it'd be.
If climate change is an existential threat, we should be engineering a rise in gas prices, and cheering when peoples' lifestyles take a hit. If you truly believe climate change is super serious, then logically government ought to put its thumb on the scale to ensure a lot of people get priced out of energy intensive products like air conditioning, leaving their computers on at night, meat, aluminum, and so on.

If you're a nationalist, it's even better if the people we're impoverishing are overseas, and therefore the poverty we create to save the planet is Somebody Else's Problem.

It's like people on the left have two conflicting goals, and haven't figured out how to deal with their mutual exclusivity:

- We have to Save the Planet, so we need to stop being Evil Greedy Capitalists and using a bunch of energy.

- We have to Help the Poor, so we need to stop the Evil Greedy Capitalists from making energy expensive and keeping it out of reach of the poor.

(Personally, I believe climate change is real and human-caused, but its worst effects will take place over many years, and we'll have enough time to adapt to it. If New York City will be underwater by 2080, so be it. Manhattanites will figure out that they need to relocate when the water is lapping at their ankles; they won't stick around until it's over their heads. I subscribe to the Millian view that technology and abundance generally helps human progress, so we ought to be focused on making energy as cheap as possible. For example, fusion research is woefully underfunded relative to its potential.)