skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really expect the government to pass laws that force companies to allow porn?

Did you miss this part?

> There are lots of new rules around verifying consent and age in adult content. The rise of smartphones also means that everyone has a camera that can capture pictures and video at any time. Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub – and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared. Tumblr has no way to go back and identify the featured persons or the legality of every piece of adult content that was shared on the platform and taken down in 2018, nor does it have the resources or expertise to do that for new uploads.
Yes but arguably, Ben Franklin invented the Faraday cage. :-)
You get to wash your hands of any bitcoin mining you do, because it's everyone else's problem to figure out a green grid. I can load as much shit onto the grid as I want, and that's fine, it doesn't matter what I'm doing with it as long as I pay for it. It doesn't matter if the demand I induce causes us to need peaker plants.

That's an interesting world you're living in.
Google Stadia is shutting down in January 2023
I've had the misfortune of watching Windows 11's Notepad crash on opening a specific text file I was taking notes in.
From my read of Levine's explanation, it was really the promise of a greater pension outcome for a given amount of contribution. Whether the contribution was smaller or the outcome larger is kinda immaterial -- the managers were chasing yield.
The reality of celebratory gunfire
Recording audio clips on the iPhone 11 I have is similar. Why the heck is this thing laggier from when I press "record" than a 386 running Windows 3.11?
Video games as mainstream entertainment have been around for a few decades now, and I don't think they're anything much different than movies, TV, and other games like board games.
Can people use a steganography app to communicate via innocuous images?

1. Take a picture.

2. Use app to insert message into picture, encrypt with passphrase.

3. SMS picture to friend or upload to Iranian equivalent of imgur (if any is up).

4. Friend loads picture into app and types passphrase to get message.

I'm not sure what a good choice of app would be, but something good must exist?
> The abusive part is instead of apologizing and making up for their stupid mistake they openly stated they stand behind their decision and that it was the right thing to do. I haven't seen such a condescending attitude from any company in years.

They do not want to set a precedent. Unfortunately, the only option is to have a zero tolerance policy (regardless of outcome) that results in account closure.
...think about this for a second. There's supply, and then there's demand.

I live in Appletown, where there are two orchards and three cider-making operations. I run one of the orchards and make X apples per year, it's a fixe amount. My competitor makes ~X apples per year.

Now a giant bomb is dropped on my competitor's orchard. I can still only sell X apples per year, as that's all I can currently make. However, do you think the price of my apples will go up or down?
What about this violates the guidelines?
Haha what a joke. First, Azure is around as long as GCP. As someone in tech I can tell you that GCP and AWS are used everywhere and no one is talking about Azure. I think their fast growth as reported in their earnings is due to their office cloud services and not "core" cloud services.
re: unexpected shutdowns, don't forget thunderbolt hotplug/hot-unplug failures. they happen even on Apple silicon. I've had at least a couple on my M1, I had them with my work Dell, my work MBP i9 (lolrip) actually has been probably the most stable tbh, but even still it happens occasionally.
Why not look at bare HVAC sensors used for office building air quality monitoring?

- https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/buildings/hvac/se...

- https://buildings.honeywell.com/us/en/brands/our-brands/bms/...

Granted, they're not meant for standalone use but at least you're not wondering whether the vendor is reputable or whether the sensor does what it says it does. For example, at a casual glance, the Siemens QPA2002D VOC and CO2 sensor seems to be available for <$500 and comes with a fairly comprehensive datasheet.
Here in Norway, the gov't is using it the same role[1], where they have a single agency (Digdir) handling authorization, so that the other agencies don't have to deal with that and can just implement their APIs.

[1]: https://docs.digdir.no/docs/Maskinporten/maskinporten_summar...
Obligatory Raymond Chen reference: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=98...
> For most software, functionality, signing up for a subscription, platform availability etc are usually prioritized higher than response times and keyboard shortcuts.

This is why I love working in fintech. The engineering is paramount. Customers will not accept slow or buggy software.

I get to solve hard problems, and really build systems from the ground up. My managers understand that it is better to push back a deadline than to ship something that isn't up to standard.
Nothing to waiting for contemporary versions of Word to collect the fonts list…
> However any look at generational wealth dynamics quickly dispels that idea

Generational wealth statistics, as well as heritability research, are consistent with the idea that expected wealth is causally preceded by genetically heritable factors.

Wealth is mean-reverting along genetic lines on multi-generational timescales. The idea that wealth is self-perpetuating per se fails to explain the degree to which e.g. poor lottery winners do not kick off dynasties, why children of moderately wealthy parents also tend to be moderately wealthy (not explainable by direct inheritance), etc.

The one domain where your model works better is perhaps for extremely wealthy families like the Rockefellers, but I'm hesitant to say that the model generalizes - that sort of thing might be a rare exception.
I was writing an NMEA parser today. (NMEA 0183 is a common serial GPS data protocol) My serial port reads returned an IOvec-like type which exposed limited operations. I spent probably an hour making helper functions and doing various verification and parsing operations on the IOvec type because it saved having to copy the data into a contiguous buffer. Midway through I stopped and realized that I would only need to copy when the ~50B message straddled the end of the ~64kB buffer. It takes a few nanoseconds to copy 50B. I spent an hour on an optimization that would never do anything but complicate the code. If I had just written the simple and obvious code, and spent that hour profiling the application to optimize what would actually make a difference, I'd be much better off.

That is what the quote is talking about. I don't think you can blame the quote if people are just ignoring the first word, and I'm not convinced that's actually a common thing.
Someone once explained that MS hires a lot of short-term contractors who then don't own the consequences of the code they write. I wonder if this is still true and responsible for this.
Oh, wow. We might have one in our neighborhood (in upstate SC). I always assumed it was an albino, but it doesn’t have pink eyes.
If I were Bill Gates it would probably be miserable to take normal flights, can't walk two steps before someone gawks. If anything just reinforces that being famous sucks.
That stack trace says it all --- the bloat known as COM rears its ugly head again. I also suspect there's a quadratic or even worse algorithm in there, hidden away amongst all that useless abstraction. The fundamental way of scanning for files with the Win32 API is an iterator (FindFirstFile/FindNextFile). It looks like they put some sort of array/indexing abstraction on top of that ("GetRowsAt", "FetchResultAt") which probably gets the N'th entry by stepping the iterator N times, and from there it's not hard to imagine someone doing

for(int i = 0; i < obj->GetNumItems(); i++)
doSomething(obj->GetItemAt(i));
The Roman punishment of “decimation” was to make each ten-man team in an army murder one of their number (the whole team being killed if they refused).

Practically “Saw”, in real life.
1. what? i thought the idea was that the v6 space be based on the legacy ip space? how would you “drop this” if that was what you were using?

2. that’s what ipv6-only w/ nat64 is for (thank goodness)

3. i’m not sure this is the flex you think it is: https://twitter.com/noipv6/status/1575662492063174656

4. okay?

5. okay

6. that people are “used to” dotted decimal ip addresses just means ppl can learn arbitrary things. there’s nothing inherently more natural about legacy ip addresses than ipv6 addresses.

7. enterprises that need/want ipv6 are deploying ipv6. source: my job

8. okay

9. this almost sounds like 6rd fwiw

=D
If we look to colonize another planet as a solution to climate change, we will need to adapt to the atmospheric differences. Why don’t we just adapt to the future different climate here on earth?
Heres what happened: The Bank of England (BoE) suppressed interest rates for 2 decades, driving government bonds from 6% to 2%. Pension funds typically had a high percentage of bonds, so they decided to borrow money (again, made artificially cheap by the BoE) to buy 2-3x the amount of bonds on leverage to be able to pay out the same as one 6% bond. Now the BoE is slowly raising rates to 'fight' the inflation it created over the past 20 years, which is causing these house of cards pension funds to start to tremble. The fund directors are relaxed though as have already paid themselves large bonuses every year, and after 2008 they realised they could rely on the government to come in and socialise the loses stemming from their financial recklessness.
How do evergreens do it, then?
Highlights from the Comments on Unpredictable Reward
While looking over my GitHub account settings just now, I noticed that you can now designate a successor:

> By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to transfer content within that account to my GitHub Successor, designated below, in the event of my death. I understand that..."

https://github.com/settings/admin
I'm looking for a comprehensive air quality measurement gadget for different rooms in my home.

What devices are people using that aren't a _complete_ sham?
5G will take care of that or like a smart meter it will eke by on 4G
Why would they want to walk back these changes? My take on the situations is they are doing exactly what they want to do - help their rich pals make more money. Kwarteng's background [1] especially seems very interesting (worked at a hedge fund, friends with oil industry, etc).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasi_Kwarteng
https://theforest.link, which takes me to a random site
Sounds like places Id love. May I ask what company youre working for?
If you found that AND you had no Samoans on your research team.

You don't think that maybe we should make sure there's one person on the research team who can be like, "so, you aren't accounting for this variable, which is cultural but also probably hidden from those who don't come from the culture"?
It’s a dangerous game.

That it is. When their society has reached a tipping point where women are burning their hijabs in the street in front of massive groups and cameras I think they have decided to not hide in the shadows and are willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believe in. Many of them are likely to have unspeakable things done to them. I suspect they know the sacrifices they are making and willing to take risks. Godspeed to them.
It's a great maxim but it's misapplied.

What's ironic is premature optimization is not just code, using K8s or expensive cloud solutions when a bare metal dedi will suffice. etc.

Instead it's just parroted by people who want to churn out MVP quality code in prod.
Speaking of Windows: the software gets slower faster than the hardware gets faster.

In around 1990, I gave my dad my old 286 machine, with Win 3.1. He never upgraded it.

About 2000, when I was accustomed to much newer software & hardware, I used his old machine. I was amazed how much faster everything was.
I am a one man shop running a news site and put my site through webpagetest every Monday morning. I find it crazy that big companies apparently don’t do this.
You've got to turn the lemons into lemonade. Take advantage of the fact that they are likely to close things.

I got to play Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia when that was the best and most reliable way to play that game. Now I'm getting a full refund. I should have bought more games!
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> Mostly the European microstates and several Caribbean and Pacific islands, but if you don't count a gendarmerie as armed forces, you could include Costa Rica and Panama--two not-tiny countries--in the list. (If you do count them, the largest is the Solomon Islands).

None of these places have a currency that is widely used. They may be offshore banking havens, but people keep their money there in US dollars.

The only possible exception might be the Swiss Franc and they do have a military as well as the leverage of holding everyone's money.

Many of those small countries don't even have their own currencies. Andorra uses the Euro, Kiribati uses the Australian dollar, Panama uses the US dollar in addition to its own currency and so on. The countries are able to exist without a military because they're under the protection of a country like the US with one.
> Our eyes only ever see 2D images and we learn 3D structure from that

I think that would be an oversimplification. We do have some 3D information from focus and eye convergence.
The problem is really that they are doing it extremely fast while ignoring the very financial plumbing they made everyone around the world rely on for two decades. It’s quite shortsighted to keep USD at extremes to soften inflationary pressures in the US while letting the RoW and developing countries burn. It’s 2022 and everything is connected. There’s no such thing as a decoupled economy.
Are you positing that had the Fed raised rates earlier that the dollar wouldn’t have strengthened?

The US dollar strengthens when (1) the world goes into downturn, and/or (2) when US interest rates rise.

In what scenario would the US dollar not have strengthened? It was inevitable regardless of what the Fed does because of the greenback’s dominance in world reserves and trade. It’s a currency of last resort in times of busts and booms. The dollar smiles.
I would never subscribe to Google Stadia (2019)
It's a fundamental of social interaction.
“Length of tenure at time of severance”

That is such a better metric, why is this not used more often
War is indeed horrible, but this invasion is entirely on Russia and is entirely unrelated to Ukrainian corruption.
I mean at the end of the day payment processors are private businesses, they can do business with who they want. If you don't like the alternative, then you're free to give your business to the entrenched power.
Xbox Game Pass/Cloud Gaming seems reasonably popular on mobile, and it has a nice collection of Xbox games like Halo, Forza and Sea of Thieves. And Minecraft. ;-)

Stadia is weak on platform exclusives, but I wouldn't mind if every PC game announced at E3 (for example) had a demo you could stream via Stadia or some other cloud gaming service.

Edit: I didn't realize Google was shutting down Stadia. Unsurprising but also sad because it was cool and a lot of people put a lot of work into it. It clearly died before finding its feet, although it's not clear that it would.
Hahaha, fair. I (personally) find them evil but in like a creeping sort of way. But on the flip side I just think of Liz Truss bragging about opening new pork markets and I cannot imagine anything more banal.
Your sibling comment has a link with several theories: The color might be a fluke from a small founding population of squirrels that was just genetically more fit in unrelated ways. Or the biggest threat to squirrels might not be predators but automobiles and the white color increases their visibility especially contrasted against asphalt.

The most interesting theory is that predators like hawks simply don't recognize white animals as prey, which is pretty crazy in my opinion. The page shares an anecdote that sometimes visiting dogs would chase gray squirrels but not the white ones.
Fewer advertisers than users? I think they know they'll lose users, but new users are coming in all the time and so every time they push the site father into restrictive censorship a group comes in who never knew it was anything else.
None of those movements required any degradation of the living standards of the majority of people but at most just the elites or a particular class and then not substantially. Climate is a very different fight.
phrack was definitely not mainstream. It felt like getting let in on a secret when you found out about it and figured out where to get it. Back in the day. This was before the web (or the web before google searchability of it), and before most people had heard about the internet.

There was a brief period at the dawn of the web when things were both more accessible and wilder, it's true. It was in retrospect a transitionary period.
"large portions of the residents were forced out by the war, especially the residents inclined towards Ukraine"

This is the first sensible answer to a question I asked elsewhere (only to be down-voted for asking a question) about why the insistence on the referendums being a sham. Much of the Ukraine-inclined population fled. Much of the Russia-inclined remained. So the post-invasion vote is heavily pro-Russian.
It means 'by chance' and no worries. I am not a native speaker so it is a reasonable question to ask.

"<<I struggle to see how that's a bad thing. Most people don't need to be coincidentally picking up bomb-making information.

I might be misreading this, but to me this sentence reads as 'this information does not belong anywhere where normal people roam'. It is possible that "shoulnd't be available" is making me read it this way. "

I will attempt to translate your argument and hopefully clarify mine. Please correct me as needed.

You seem to be arguing that while no one is arguing that the information should not be 'somewhere', one should not be able to simply stumble on it. To that my obvious question is 'why not', because we sure seem to have a lot of otherwise offensive items that one could stumble upon by chance ( for example, some would object to a tattoo magazine being readily available in public view ). Why is personal mutilation ok and applied chemistry is taboo? Why one can be picked up coincidentally and the other not? Can you give me the line that allows for that decision to take place?

And although the question is qualified with "most" and "coincidentally", the verb 'need' clearly indicates that you do not believe it is information that should be available. The previous sentence indicating struggle how this could be a bad thing only reinforces that impression. This forces me to interpret this message as "I do not believe it is a valid need that should be available, say, at a local kiosk."

Hence my real question: who gets to decide what is kosher ( and if it is not kosher )?

I would not dream of suggesting it is me, because my tastes are not that of the general population.
A mystery for the ages.
‘Should’ doesn’t pay the rent
Agreed.

I'm in Michigan. This map seems to change all of Michigan to Peak at the same time, which absolutely does not happen.

It varies as you move south in the state, typically a couple weeks apart from way northern Michigan to down by Detroit. Heck, I've been in the Upper Peninsula at peak leaves and then they started falling, gone south a few days later to the northern Lower Peninsula and things were just starting to pop, then home down near Detroit almost everything was still green.

That's... just how it works in Michigan. But that's not what this map shows. And therefore I've no reason to believe it.
In this hypothetical, the individual is choosing between possible homelessness and making Microsoft look bad by following Microsoft’s orders and releasing bad software.

And they should choose possible homelessness?
Spammers are always coming up with ways of getting 'round spam filters. It happens with every email provider. It takes a little while for the providers to adapt to the new tactics. So, keep marking what's spam as spam. Every little bit helps.
I rather like the environment devices for Raspberry Pi. Surely they aren't "professional level," but for things like CO2 and other particles and gases, you can generate scrolling graphs. That lets you always know whether things are going up or down at any given moment.

Most of the store-bought devices just beep if too high etc, but having a visible graph certainly tells you if it is measuring anything at all, and if you need to crack open a window or blow out the novel candle you just bought from the dollar store.
Did you mean rate hikes? Isn't US Fed raising?
The power of decent product with massive hipster appeal

I wouldn't be surprised if it was something like 400%+ on everything but maybe the pocket operators. Even those probably have healthy margin, as it is just PCB + some buttons. custom LCDs in tens of thousands are also insanely cheap (in ballpark of $1 for something like that).
Insert “I’m in Danger” meme here.

But seriously, GCP could absolutely be on the chopping block. It loses a stupefying amount of money, nearly a billion dollars last year. How mind boggling that Google can’t sell its own data center tech for a profit after 10 years in the market. Google no doubt thinks it is not gaining the expected traction. There’s going to be a lot of collateral damage when that ones goes to the G graveyard.
My insurance company should be, imo, unable to get rich off me. Insurance should be nationalized, imo.

But it's the only game in town. I'm a socialist, but until there's a world where we're all taking care of each other and running worker co-ops, I'm going to have to operate in the existing structures.
Google acquired HTC mobile development team to develop Pixel, after they sold Motorola. It's weird.
The "NOT do that thing" is the questionable part, lots of devices that measure things can claim to do so when they aren't "accurate". The difference is how inaccurate is the device and is the margin of error something that should be communicated.

The classic example are scales, you can buy scales and weigh yourself on them and they might not be 100% accurate. But you can still sell a product that claims you can weigh yourself. Should we require standards that require companies to provide a +/- variance against exact measurements? Some products do such as power meters.

If a product is outside of a particular variance then could we call those scam products?
Your circle of trust will become smaller and smaller, until you can only trust yourself. Even then, you'll have the occasional nagging doubt.
Well, this blog post specifically seems like MS is doing 95% idiotic things.

But you look at something like Linux where obviously the Linux of 2022 is going to lag on 2002 hardware the answer is definitely that it's prettier and does more in general.
How about the Qingping Air Quality Monitor on amazon. I have one and it does all of that.