skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not scared of them, but very rarely use them and believe that is generally true for others. Basic arithmetic operators that operate on numbers (as opposed to bitwise) are used much more frequently, so I feel very differently about them.
It does depend on the game, but it's a good point. We do this 'cache everything at the start and avoid creation/destruction' during runtime thing that can lead to slower startup times.

After initial startup though, it depends a lot on the game itself how much loading you will wait for. I think SPAs are sort of the equivalent of zero-loading-screen games in some ways: both are trying to eliminate that loading pause.
i've been using streetcomplete for a long time now, i just keep the mobile data on and it keeps uploading fixes and stuff as we go.
> Given that we're in a thread underneath someone endorsing Bing as a good option, that sounds like a plus.

Yeah, but why not just cut out the middleman?

> As... Opposed to Google or Bing? This is your argument?

I'm half kidding, but seriously "duck duck go"? What kinda goofy ass name is that? No wonder nobody takes it seriously.

The equivalent there would be GoGoBaby for Google or RingADingDing for Bing. I guess GoDaddy is a thing, but that doesn't make it any less weird.
Except you get a pay cut when the market goes down
Actual bad guys, hosting $Evil on purpose, are extremely unlikely to need any "change the URL" hints.
Very interesting. I noticed that too, in part because I always remove it from the Twitter links I copy; even though I'm not entirely sure what/how it tracks, I know enough to know it's not needed to load the tweet in question.
In the announcement Google said the tech will continue to be in operation for 3rd party partners - this suggests to me many aspects of the projects will continue even though it will no longer be available to public consumers.
Get a lawyer. Ask for an injunction by a court. Make smartscreen liable for the damage they do to you.
https://archive.ph/uehg2
It's also the simplest use case of INSERT imaginable and fails to be applicable with a slightly more complex one:

INSERT INTO table1 (col_1, col_2, col3)
SELECT COUNT(col_6), col_4, col_5 FROM table2 INNER JOIN...
Interesting; I suppose it's like the those who said Stadia would be shutdown as soon as it was announced in 2019.
As a generally happy Cloudflare customer, a Cloudflare VPN makes me deeply uneasy. (Yes, I know Warp has been around for a while.) Using it means Cloudflare owns a huge chunk of your Internet traffic end to end and decrypted, a uniquely powerful position to be in. And this is going to be default on in Edge according to TFA, even though it’s only applied to plain HTTP sites by default at the moment.
> "However, the VPN will not run while you’re streaming or watching videos — so that you can save up on traffic which is capped at a modest 1 GB per month."

OK? And what happens after that? After you go over your 1 GB cap? You're cut off from the internet?
Medical expenses was (is?) the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US.

Housing is a mixed bag. Some areas are cheap. Some are extremely expensive (all the big west coast cities included). You can find a balance in some second or third tier cities.

Education is a racket. This is a relatively new problem. Costs outpace inflation and wage growth by a massive margin.

If I was in my twenties, and looking to start a family, I’d seriously consider renewing my UK passport or getting and IE passport (via parents) and moving to Europe.
M2 MacBook Air Review (Linus Tech Tips)
> Too many Microsoft shills here.

Can you quote one of the shills? I see people saying that OP should verify that it's a false flag. Are those the shills to whom you're referring?
Blind gives you a tag based on your verified work email address. Except this poster does not have a verified Meta work address.

Call it a joke, call it an attempt to manipulate META stock (down 15% this month, maybe the OP is hoping their rumor will bump the stock up?). It's definitely not a leak in terms of how Blind works to verify users
Twitter tests its first editable tweet.
It’s wild thinking how they missed the boat during a time when billions of people were looking for online entertainment and GPUs were hard to get. They could have done some kind of pandemic promo if they didn’t want to commit to friendlier terms forever.
As someone who belongs to the OSM community, I am sorry that you had this experience. Gatekeeping is an unfortunate byproduct of a crowdsourcing project, it seems.

I hope you reconsider and try again. Many of us are actually here to help.
Adding background jobs to Next.js with QStash
My ISP actively lobbied to be able to harvest (steal) my data. Who do I trust more: the guy who says that they aren't selling my data, or the guy who corrupted my government so that they can actively sell me out (not to mention their monopoly)?

Sure, the first guy could be a liar, but I know that the second guy is a thief.

I don't care about geo-blocking - my only threat model is to keep a scumbag ISP at bay.

Edit: I should add that keeping sites I browse from knowing my IP is also part of my threat model.
When trying to ascertain the intents of large organizations, I find it useful to examine previous actions. In the case of Microsoft, their willingness/intent to add ads and telemetry (including keylogging) into their OS seem to indicate they are doing this for serving ads better to their larger (paying) customers.

If you're not paying for the (specific) service, you are the product.
That's a separate issue, the difference in the social safety net is hardly relevant to the people who work at the data jobs that the article talks about.
That second one is seriously hysterical
I'm no rocket scientist, but could there be a service which knocks satellites out of orbit for people? I wonder how cost effective such a service could get. Could one mission knock 10 satellites out of orbit?
I think the more urgent question is 50 years from now when we might have general AIs that are smarter and faster than us. Maybe they'll figure something out for us. From there to the end of the solar system and eventually the universe will be quite a bit of a journey that may or may not feature some of the more wacky stuff that Ian Banks and other authors have already imagined. Given how we struggle to foresee even the very near future, I'd say all bets are off that far out.
> I am not the type of person that will ever strap one to my hip to go about my daily business.

I do strap on my pistol to go about my daily business, which could mean grocery shopping, going to the bookstore, walking the dogs. I know roughly what my capabilities are and set my ROE accordingly. I did take safety courses, concealed carry course, and practice occasionally. IMHO going about armed is functionally equivalent to wearing a seatbelt.

Oh, and I did have to draw my pistol just a few days ago - while walking the dogs got into a tense situation with hazardous wildlife. Fortunately backing off and shouting/barking was all we needed to do...but it doesn’t always go that way.
> Has anyone tried taking large numbers of Fox citations, counting whether they are good or bad, and comparing that to baselines?

Not necessarily a bad idea, but it suffers from some amount of bias in that "bad stories" are less likely to be used as references, so it doesn't necessarily say all that much about "when should or shouldn't you use Fox News as a reference" in general. It might be better to use a random sample of Fox News stories from the last few years.
I don't think the response should have been flagged. Sources are directly from CDC. They've changed the definition of what a vaccine is regardless of your position on vaccination.
If you really care about security, it would make sense to 'zero-out' or shred the drives rather than leaving them with Apple's recovery tools and the previous owner's files. Doing this is simple, just live-boot a Unix of your choice, run something like `cat /dev/random | dd -o /dev/nvme0` or the `shred` utility. This process will take a while (especially for larger disks) but if you run them all in parallel then it shouldn't take long.
There are at least three errors in the article:

(1) This is adaptation, not evolution, but it may be merely selection of a pre-existing color variant that already widely found in nature. We have the same exact variation of melanistic toads & frogs found in the US.

(2) They really don't know how many generations this occurred over, they have a measurement, and a measurement.

(3) The baseline wasn't built before the Cherynobyl event. As a person that has caught a great number of frogs and toads, their coloration in normal areas varies greatly based on the local Flora and sun conditions. The very dark / black frogs which are already found in nature, may have just reproduced better, instead of coloring adaptation being introduced. Frogs that live near asphalt and post-wildfire conditions would be expected to have better survival characteristics due to decreased visibility.
Yes but that’s a tiny fraction of STEM employees and an even smaller fraction of the total workforce.
This post was made from someone at Google.
True, no new carbon is added to the atmosphere. Methane as a GHG is worse for the environment though afaik.
While the details are confidential here's what can be considered public knowledge: Stadia instances run some Linux distribution and use Vulkan as graphics API. You are given a proprietary library (SDK) from which you get inputs (mouse/keyboard and controller) among a few other things. Executables are created using a clang-based cross-compilation toolchain.
I also feel like part of the staying power of SQL is because it's the lingua franca of the database. I wonder if it's time to build and popularize some lower level language that could be targeted by ORMs and others to speak to DB engines. If we had a more flexible assembly language we might get more freedom at the programmer language level.
Boot the system with a live usb and overwrite the entire disk device with noise, shred will do that.

Warning I do not know if there is anything specific with macs that would brick it if you overwrote the entire disk device, so be a bit cautious read around before you do it.
> VPNs don’t help privacy at all

Or course they do, I'm so tired of seeing posts like this when really what you mean is that it's not perfect privacy and therefore you don't like it.
> Also, we must be aware of the risks associated with using the built-in VPN services of Microsoft, Apple, and the like. The tools they so generously offer might protect you from being tracked by your Internet Service Provider (ISP),

It seems using a VPN from your browser vendor does not increase your risk. I don’t think a VPN would have any information that your browser did not.
It seems to be a good argument for Lamarckism. Some kind of "genetic intelligence". I wonder how the probability weighs out.
Are European engineers undervalued, or are American engineers overvalued?
Serious question - is there a legitimate use case for Edge when a Chrome Stable build is available?
Sorry Europe. Our religious disease is contagious. Kicking the Puritans out didn't work after all, it only incubated the problem.
Child porn is the ultimate justification for increasing authoritarianism these days, particularly out of the US.

Porn shared of participants without their consent is also a big one.
It means you can let the database engine determine the best way to get you what you are after. If you write imperative code, you are telling the DB exactly what to do and you don't really give it much ability to optimize your queries. Before SQL most DB engine queries were imperative and it was terrible... which is why we don't do it anymore.
What are some of the others?
I don't see how ignoring the majority of a persons income is more reasonable than estimating based on reasonable extrapolations.

Not to mention that the article literally says "work for Netflix, get rich" based entirely on the fact that they are ignoring non-salary compesation. It's an outright idiotic conclusion to be drawn.
I considered that but it didn't seem logical. If it's on purpose, it would be trivial to change the URL and then go "ok it's clean now please remove the flag"

How does keeping secret (from the bad guys) where the malware is thwart the bad guys?
Chrome’s “Manifest V3” attack on ad-blocker extensions launches in 2023
Cue VPNs being banned
> bike lanes are in now way special in this context

If there will always be a shortage of space, we should encourage the activity that uses that space more efficiently. That means bikes over cars.
Well, for starters... dictionary hashing is too slow to be ideal. We don't swear off dictionaries, but we try to get our constant-time lookups without needing a hashing step when possible. The dictionaries can also lead to extra cache misses, since the memory often won't be compacted as you step through your data.

In most games this doesn't matter, but occasionally you have a frame time target and you need to take extra steps like that. Those extra steps can be hard work when they come up!
The ability to send a TCP packet to any destination on the internet is basically the definition of the internet. There's no minimum speed limit for the internet :) what is its own thing is the physical layer.

Wikipedia agrees:

> ... LoRa and LoRaWAN define a Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) networking protocol designed to wirelessly connect battery operated devices to the internet in regional, national or global networks ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
Which executive order is this?
A man's cancer vanished after he was injected with a weakened herpes virus
Solar power where I am gets used to charge batteries true but excess goes into the grid where it can be used for better things than mining coinz.
If you find yourself wanting any of this, just use a language with algebraic data types and save everyone (especially yourself) some pain.
In this case, Microsoft "SmartScreen" is a big culprit. Just google "microsoft smartscreen false positive". Tons of support forums on this including even some product companies explaining to their users on how to unblock because of false positives. It happened to some of our customers as well and it is very difficult to explain why we cannot do much except them asking to whitelist somehow or turning off this stupid thing.
But that money you’re putting towards the mortgage belongs to future-you (minus interest, and assuming property prices at least stay the same). It’s a savings account.
How does this FFC rule work in an international market?
I assume it applies for US companies with US based launches.

Does it apply to US satellite companies with ex-US launches?

Are US companies free to purchase service/bandwidth from ex-US launched satellites which are not compliant?
any activity that places a burden on our servers, where that burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users (for example, don't use Actions as a content delivery network or *as part of a serverless application*, but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden); or

Not a lawyer but pretty sure that is a violation of their ToS
cloudflare is nasty, its worse giving them all your data then spreading it around.
It would cost more than reserving some propellant.
In Mexico is standard practice too.
Just built it from source on a beta of macOS Ventura… everything went smoothly. These guys have done a great job.
If you're using Windows, what's the point of using Chrome if you already have Edge?

You're already sending data to MS anyway
Because every recent development in the evolution of Windows has been hostile to privacy.
Why is a fun activity toxic? Do you just avoid TV/movies too since they don't result in a valuable set of useful skills?

You don't have to be productive 24/7, you don't need a value justification for everything you do, and you don't need every expense (whether money or time) to result in a net positive cashflow or whatever.
A 45 Minute Ride in San Francisco with No Driver (Waymo Autonomous Drive)
Pretty cool stuff -- I am not a Google/Waymo employee, but it's amazing to see how this technology is progressing.
There's plenty of improvement to be had while still keeping it declarative.
> I don't read their comment as rooting for anything like WWIII: simply stating a fact that an action as stupid as using nukes there will have military consequences from the West.

So, a nuclear war would be the consequence of NATO nuking Russia as a consequence of Russia nuking Ukraine.

How do you read NATO "neutralizing" all nuclear threats, other than a direct attack on Russian nuclear assets? A direct attack on Russian nuclear assets will start WWIII.

Unless NATO can neutralize every single Russian nuclear sub all over the world all at once, then how can we prevent Russia from firing nuclear weapons at our cities, or at least our military assets?

Russia has more advanced hyper-sonic missiles than NATO, and they have already used them with conventional warheads in Ukraine. We don't even have the capacity to effectively track Russian hyper-sonic missiles. Russia has a clear advantage with nuclear first strikes. And it is profoundly stupid and irresponsible for NATO to risk those consequences.
So I can pay $10/mo for a VPN for use when I'm on public wifi, or I can run WireGuard on my Raspberry Pi at home and get one for free
government, FANG, it's all the same, the same group of lobby talking and coordinating with each other, hiring CIA agents and bunch of 'friends'

https://mronline.org/2022/07/27/national-security-search-eng...

that's why the US wants to ban TikTok asap, because they don't want china to be able to do what they are doing for decades too

> it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful variable when predicting someone's creditworthiness.

people get fired and arrested already for posting stuff on twitter, in both the US and Europe, so no, it's not just just a "twitter moderation" thing

Ask yourself why they are allowed to exist and still operate despite unable to grow and are loosing money for years, talk about anti-competitive practices, unless it's in reality a government body in disguise
Make a separate Show HN post for it. Otherwise I am afraid this will get lost in shadows of the main discussion.
Literally last fall.
I don't really know how many users I have, so I don't know how "meaningful" my projects are, but I have found some of them posted on French, Chinese, Greek, Russian blogs etc., so hopefully they fill some people's needs besides my own.

https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet

https://cloaker.mobi

https://github.com/spieglt/cloaker

https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles

https://github.com/spieglt/winage

I learned to program because I was frustrated that after working in IT consulting for several years, I still had no idea how computers worked. I started with "Learn Python the Hard Way" and "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python". Then got a job doing some Windows consulting stuff, and they said they'd hire me as a software engineer if I learned Go, which was a pretty easy step from Python. I'd tried to learn programming as a kid several times and always found it too frustrating. I started working on side projects as a way to learn new languages, improve my resume, and scratch my own itches. The hardest part was coming up with ideas for useful/worthwhile projects. I was super frustrated one day that the easiest way to get a file between two machines that were right beside each other was sending them out to the internet via Google Drive or Dropbox, which made me want to write "cross-platform AirDrop", which became Flying Carpet. If you find yourself wanting a simple piece of software that seems like it should already exist, that's a great project idea.
They're already checking where the malware is when reviewing a report or unlisting request. The email template would need exactly one value: the URL they found.

Likely they already store this info somewhere so that the next time anyone reviews the domain, the reviewer cannot overlook it. In that case, the system could be completely automated, sending the info to the hostmaster or tech-c of the domain or something.
Difference Between Stem vs. the Humanities
Here's my hot take: Math, cs, engineering, etc is about the technicalities, while the humanities/"softer" social sciences is about the big picture/point of it all.

Discussions like these inevitably devolve into "STEM is better than the humanities, humanities is better than STEM". Both have worth in their own ways, so that's a silly debate. The biggest proof for the above is that in STEM, people get more specialized the more experience they have (a specific proof in number theory, for example), while in the humanities, people grapple with bigger and bigger questions through their chosen medium (using the topic of feminism in America to comment on the ways we all grapple with identity, for example).

Does that sound right or is this dichotomy trivial and nonexistent?
That seems cheap? Like incredible cheap for the size of the storm.
I think it’s revealing that the founder and operator of WordPress.com openly admits he makes content decisions based on the values of executives at Apple and at credit card companies.

Another way to word this is that he is making a business decisions base on the financial viability of the company.

I doubt many of their employees would fight for those values enough to consider working unpaid for an extended period of time. Would you?
I think this is generally a good thing to do, with some caveats that I hope the FCC considers.

For most satellites below ~450km, this is really a non-issue. Atmospheric drag will generally be sufficient to deorbit the satellite in a few years. For big Earth-observing constellations, Starlink and friends, and many small missions, this doesn't change anything. Debris don't really accumulate dangerously in this zone and collision avoidance is a well-studied problem with a lot of people doing great work. The 18th SDS with the US Space Force, LeoLabs, Starlink/SpaceX, and a lot of other constellation operators take this very seriously and do a good job.

For satellites in the 800km+ range, this is also not a meaningful change. The 25-year rule meant that these satellites needed a deorbit plan anyway. 800km is a rough estimate, in real life it depends on the satellite mass + geometry and the solar cycle.

For satellites in the 450-800km range (again - hand waving here) this is actually a big deal. Satellites that would decay naturally between 5 and 25 years now need an active deorbit plan or need to launch lower and keep themselves up with propellant. Small satellite propulsion is becoming cheaper and more available, so this isn't that onerous for commercial operators. But I do worry a little about educational and non-profit launchers of satellites. They'd be excluded from using launches to this orbital range unless the FCC allows waivers (which I'm hopeful they will).

Overall I don't think this has a particularly big impact. It's a sensible revision of an old rule that was a little too lax. But there aren't that many satellites launching at the high end of the 450-800km range without propulsion. The 1000km-2000km area is a more important area for debris mitigation and that was really already covered.

As for the FCC having this jurisdiction vs. the FAA or the USSF, as Spock would say - "it is not logical, but it is true."
To add to that: in Sweden (which is generally pretty ok in regards to privacy and rights) ISPs are required to store traffic for 6 months, while VPN providers are not.
And often you're paying a nontrivial amount of money to the ISP for the "privilege" of getting injecting ads and tracking injected. This really rubs people the wrong way, justifiably so I think.
Modern TLS is enough to prevent others from eavesdropping everything except domain names when on public WiFi. Domain names are sent in clear text if your client supports SNI.
The CIA is not an independent agency, they do as the ametican public tell them.