skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox plus Ublock Origin

No ads's anywhere on the linked post.
If it was a really good app you made, why not also make your own backend and completely decouple from meta?

If you build an app using the meta platform in a way that is a clear violation of their tos, the app will obviously be killed the second it gets popular. If I was running a service and another company attempted to do this to my service (violated my TOS, built on top of my private API in a way that striped all my revenue and repackaged it under their name, etc) I would definitely ban them...
During my time in school, two kids died in traffic. One decided to run across an arterial, the other swerved his bike to cross the road. I once ran into the street, luckily the driver was alert and stopped on a dime. He was furious, I was ashamed.
That’s great. I would suggest you also look at a Google Takeout approach which is just a download from your servers rather than having to run a client. But I definitely appreciate the windows option more than what your competitors provide.
I played around with this a little with a friend thus afternoon. A couple impressions:

1. The voice chat / positional audio works very well. I was impressed.

2. The world is too vast for the current user base. It felt like a ghost town and before my friend joined I wondered if it was broken. There was a 60 on the screen, but there was no one in the rooms. Based on the chat history a lot of people had that experience.

3. Is this federated yet? I couldn't find an option to log in with my own homeserver account. If there was such an option is there a way to make it less scary - every matrix integrated game / tech demo I've seen that uses my account wants me to enter my password in their site and that feels wrong.
I don't know what definition of free market would exclude the idea that private companies can take actions to protect their property.
>I would personally be very interested in seeing what a Second Life experience looks like when reinvented for modern computer hardware. I think it will be a pretty compelling experience.

SL is fairly modern. It's happy to grow into just about any system you throw at it, but it loves bandwidth the best.

the jankiness is not really a hardware thing. SL chose certain concepts that will likely never be as performant as something like a traditional video game.

But, as someone who years and years ago migrated from There (TM) to Second Life, the things achieved with those concessions were amazing.

Let's take the example of a virtual t-shirt. A content creator on 'There' had to first send in a mockup of the t-shirt to the staff which gave a go-ahead to produce a model, the model then gets approved, the content creator then waits for a weekly update push (which contains the in-world assets), and then gets approval for the financial side of things like pricing and in-game sales locations.

This process often took months.

in Second Life -- due to the underlying streaming tech -- you make the tshirt, put it on, everyone in the world sees it.

The benefits to content creation of real-time modeling and easy revision was game-changing, literally. This was facilitated by the fact that Linden Labs decided to embrace the streaming concept.

This 1:1 real-time stuff opens Linden Labs up for lots of abuses -- pornography or things that took advantage of the system by tracking assets or third party stuff, whatever -- but the freedom that it gave the players and content creators was remarkable.

(also weird trivia, my SL avatar is old enough to be legal adult now. How time flies. I don't really play anymore, but I log in once in awhile to chat with some randoms.)
I don't know if it is a wiki proper, it's more of a note-taking app I suppose.

I use Joplin. It can be encrypted end-to-end, and it can sync with my for shopping lists and what have you.
I have some trouble with "telling a third party developer they can't replace parts of your server-driven app for their own profit is a dystopia."
This will replace my DXG, which is just too slow now.

I already have the Gen 11 Paperwhite (SE), and I'm blown away by the upgraded display quality even from the Gen 10. The warm colour is for me a night and day upgrade for, sorry, night time reading - also, the extra size really helps as well.

In addition to reading technical books (which is possible on the Gen 11 PW - much easier than on the 10) I really like the idea of being able to organise my thoughts in a more distraction free environment. 300ppi at that size will be pretty sensational.
> This was done not for any principled reason at all

In light of all my praise for it that's devastating to hear, haha. I still think it was a brilliant move but now I can't fawn over it.

Edit: on reading this I don't get it what they're taking about, we do get a heap allocation per lambda, identically to a record with the captured variables.

Thanks for filling me in on dinner of the history of all of this.
> There's no such thing as non-production/production systems imho

From a security point of view I agree - certainly my current employer makes no distinction and a vulnerability is a vulnerability no matter where it is.
Yup, it's not worth being dead right.
Also [ and ] adjust the playback speed by 10%, and backspace resets the playback speed to 1x.
Many university exams are adjudicated by proctors. What is, erm, the origin of that word?
They don't know where it crashed. Makes it hard to find.

Air France plane went down. They know where it went down and it still took them 2 years to locate it.

The ocean is a HUGE place.
Concrete paths to avert existential risk from AI
Humanity’s peak.
For those who don't know - coffee enemas are, sadly, a thing.

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/pancreatic-cancer/news/20000615...
Still, the proscription against tagging pyramids held, somehow.

The Valley of Kings tunnel tombs are lousy with texts, sealed in. So it can't have been meant for visitors.

I am always mystified at how there could be never any soot on the ceilings. We look at these things all brightly lit up, but people writing them were in a very deep hole in the ground.
Those sounds irritated me to no end when the disk was thrashing because it meant that the computer was about to or had just became unresponsive.

It also indicated insufficient caching. "Why is the disk spinning endlessly? I just clicked the open dialog! Did the OS suddenly forget about the 10 files that I have in my home folder?"
Their non-production system was connected to the internet.
Some have already.
At least one fits in 3 parking stalls. Renting them like Electrify America.
What it really needs is to be ported to a new, bespoke dialect of brainfuck... but what to name it...
A feature of the Scribe is "provides easy-to-adjust margins". Here's to hoping it'll also apply to PDF files.
I much prefer to borrow the Great Reset crowd's language:

Nothing is Built

Nothing is Back

Nothing is Better.
If you're helping violate Meta's ToS, do you have a legitimate reason why you think they should tolerate you?
Yes it was a pretty rhetorical q. Why should a dumb display cost more? Are they really subsidizing a "smart tv" with all their bloat/crap ware? Does that even make economic sense?
MDX or XHTML. It's simply way more expressive & clear & malleable. XHTML doesn't have a great API for manipulating content, but it has a better API than anything else (the DOM).
Who says we need JS?
I was just looking at the eink device market a few days ago. I have a dream e-ink product in mind. It's really just an iPad with a color e ink screen.

Boox seems to be the leader with tons of different products (looked at remarkable, supernote, kobo, Boox).

I wish apple would make an e ink tablet - I would buy that in an instant.

I want to be able to mark up anything and share it - epub, pdf, mobi, etc.

I'd also love a large, high refresh rate, color e ink monitor for coding.
There aren't many countries where you will get fired for supporting the wrong party, because in most countries you need to be fired for cause. USA is the odd one out here since employers can fire you for whatever reason they like, so managers are used to abusing that power while in other countries managers just learns to work with people instead of firing them at a whim.
you can buy physical media?
Yeah so far every place is like "it's not worth it to fix"... it's like... really? It's not worth getting a $4k+ fridge working again with a few $hundred of parts and a couple hours of labour? Let's just throw it in the trash and drop another $4k+ to replace it with a "similar" fridge (which then doesn't match the other appliances in the kitchen)! This mentality of "just buy a new one" is so prevalent everywhere :(
> I agree it’s petty

The pettiness isn't the problem, the extra-legal power that consolidation of capital and media enables is. Competition in the market ceases to be about the best product at the best price, and becomes a game of strategic alliances and power abuse instead.

Edit: To clarify once more: Facebook may have a legitimate interest in keeping this company off Instagram. What it does not have is a moral right to use unrelated properties for retaliation. This is what I meant by "extra-legal" - it's using its market power to punish a company, instead of the courts. If Instagram was independent, it could not engage in this sort of business-warfare.
The problem is that the only reason the app is getting press is because it's a ripoff.
Directors in Australia can be personally liable for unpaid tax. So the limited liability is limited when it suits the right people.
exactly - no place to land was counterpoint no1 lol
> Is it not this way in chrome too?

Afraid not. In Chrome and Safari the controls reappear in step 3. In Firefox step 4 is required.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an imgur thing but I have seen it in non-imgur embeds on reddit.

> Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

That could work. Thank you!
> WebAssembly seems to have stalled.

Can you elaborate?
Company politics is probably just as bad.

Politics per Wikipedia:

> the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

The problem is the reaction to covid19 has made virtually everything political. Can I go to the office? Am I forced to (illegally) share my medical records to do so? Am I skipped over for promotion because I’m not oppressed enough by society (so the company has to oppress me as retribution)?

These are political questions BECAUSE it’s how we govern the company. Imo it shouldn’t be the case, but this happened in every community, company, organization, etc.
Free market did enormous amount of terrible, short sighted choices. I am living in a (moderately) free market country, which isn't USA and government moderation is a never ending war with evolution of ways to circumvent regulations. These are only in place to try to keep food products from harming people eating them. I use food as an obvious example, but it applies to all branches of economy - electronics, insurance policies, gambling, clothing, meat, produce, etc.
All in pursuit of profit over humanitarian needs. Always trying to evade detection by means of misdirection, "accidental" omission; surely even bribery.
> I had the impression that it was held back by its proprietary license.

That was my impression, too. And then it got relicensed to a FOSS license... that was GPL-incompatible. And then it got relicensed again to GPLv2, and then it got relicensed yet again to its current MIT license.

In any case, each of these license changes was too little too late to really improve Plan 9's practicality from a "can I legally use this?" standpoint.
This is a fairly calm and well reasoned video, and I don't usually care for his content.
It's probably the most crowded market for an unproven market category.

There's literally a hundred across the globe.
Is it the question? No one's really asking it and it's obviously purely speculative.
here to say how much i love that headline :))
Anecdata, but I think for pre-paid services Optus never stored that information, and only used it for the required identification.

I had activated a pre-paid Optus service (in a store, using my drivers' licence as ID) but let it lapse a year ago, and allegedly my licence number was not in the breach.
I don't think there are any "leftist" social media platform. Maybe explicitly leftist subreddits if that counts? But overall, there are normal people platforms and right wing propaganda platforms. Is this the effect where anything left of fox news is "communism"?

I hadn't heard of Rumble until now. But I'm just seeing some putin defense, covid conspiracy, and joe biden is a terrorist videos. And the UX is early 2010's.
For developers, flow state starts with your finger tips
Just don't let them leave for 30 minutes?

For any tournament where it matters, they're being paid as a form of entertainer/athlete. It's not ideal, but it's also not unreasonable to put restrictions like that on them. It's already reasonably common to have things like interviews afterwards.
> It's better to assume that the data page of a passport is public information.

Unfortunately there's a disconnect here for what it's used for.

If that page is treated as public information, then information on it can't also be used for the 100 Points of ID that public and private organisations want.

The document number on my passport is enough to get a credit card with a high limit in my name, sent to an address that's never before been connected with my identity. Maybe some more conservative banks will want the address to match.

That information is precisely what was leaked by Optus.
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The way the underlying engine works is what's significant, not that it's a dynamic game design element. Descent levels are just a graph of cubes where a portal rendering algorithm runs per cube instance in a flood fill that spreads from the camera origin until there's no more unclipped portals visible on the screen. You could totally make a portal gun mechanic in that engine, they just didn't want to. Well beyond the hatches that open and close, which do case an end to the portal rendering cell walk when closed.

There's nothing particularly novel about Portal (the game) style portals in rendering. Racing simulators did the exact same thing for rear view mirrors for decades prior. It's just another transform in the scene graph clipped to a subscreen area.
Heh, on the FS-UAE Amiga Emulator you can get, by default, the faked noise from floppies and hard disks.
Remote work drove more than 60% of home price surge during pandemic: Fed study
I wonder if fan sounds are going to be nostalgiac to people 20 years from now
Listen, I really didn’t like the way your machine consumed your resources, so I built my own machine that consumes your resources. You should totally let me do this because it’s what your users want. Oh, and I also told your users to stop paying you because that’s anti consumer.

Meta is wrong in a lot of ways, but this isn’t the right way to fix the problem. Just remove Meta from the equation entirely.
The kind that realizes that government is not the only threat to a functional free market, that does not devolve into feudalism. I am pointing out the failure of lack of antitrust enforcement, not claiming that an unrestricted free market is the ideal, no matter where it leads.
Incredible re the missing privacy policy. Definitely not a group of people that should be responsible for anyone's private data.
The smart tv interfaces are abysmal across the board and it has mostly to do with the prioritization of ad space over functionality. I have an old Plasma with an Apple TV I use for most of my tv watching and then a modern new smart tv for games and the occasional movie in another room.

Roku is also a fine cheaper alternative to the built in interface of new TVs though it is also ad supported so you are just replacing one bad ad supported interface for a better, ad supported interface. And while it functions and is generally quick, it isn’t the most attractive UX.
origin_path is correct. US government money (i.e., defense spending) postwar largely went into directly military-applicable areas like aircraft and missiles. Bell Labs didn't create the transistor using defense money. TI and Intel didn't create the microprocessor using defense money. In turn, the major postwar defense advances—hydrogen bomb, nuclear submarine, ICBMs, satellite recon—were all developed pre-microprocessor; only stealth technology is a post-1970 development that would probably not be possible without massive computing power. ARPANET was one of many separate networking projects being designed around the US, and the others were corporate and/or academic.

That's not to say that US tech companies did not benefit from government spending; they did. But government was a big customer, and not the magic sugar daddy without which Silicon Valley and Route 128 and the Texas Triangle would not exist.
An app downloading on behalf of the user isn't a privacy issue.

Are their servers acting as a proxy? Whether that's a privacy issue depends on how they configure/limit/audit their servers.
if you (as a sales team) can get docusign recognized official in an enterprise, moving to another solution is going to be a difficult transition.
Would this apply to government run entities? Like should the person who headed the CovidSafe app do time or cop a fine? I'd be cool with getting Mr Morrison in front of a judge for pushing that.

Honestly I trust my data with Optus way more than a company that can't build a secure MyGov app where my tax and health info are stored.
People underestimate (total) transit time. Yes, flight from city A to B is only an hour. But you need another hour, each, for Ubering between home and terminal. And checking in. And waiting for everything in between. And delay. All that and 5 hours gone.

Personally, I prefer to get in a car, be a couch potato, and when I wake up, I've reached my destination.
It's an excellent resource for developer tooling. Use it for Lighthouse / Chromium all the time.
I find that reminding yourself to be charitable really helps.

We just had most of the West undergo 2 years of non-stop government psy-op. Propaganda was constant. Dissent was suppressed at every step.

It's only natural that this has obliterated some people's critical thinking skills and their ability to operate in reality without being told by Authorities what reality is.

As for the hotels, I've just chosen not to participate. If you want to charge me 2X to deliver .5X that's fine, I just chose not to accept that deal. We can go through a recession and when the conditions bring us back to the previous 1X for 1X, then I'll gladly book a room.
No, not except. That is a bad thing, and putting it in the TOS does not change whether it is a bad thing.
I was taking issue with the prevailing definition in this thread of literature as "high fiction." Not suggesting that those two examples are older than Gilgamesh.
On my old-ish laptop the website managed to lag like the browser tab is running at 15fps, impressive...
>I asked well, what about French and German Tech companies?

>Hauser looked at me and said : yes.

What does "Yes" mean?
Was it hiccup syntax that became cumbersome to write?
Not exactly. You can't deny baking someone a carrot cake because they are gay for example. But you can deny baking them a cake that represents a gay celebration, for example asking to have two male figured on top, or delivering it to a gay wedding.

I don't think you should be able to ban someone because you don't like them. If it's the case that you should, why doesn't Facebook scrape off and ban known sexual offenders list? Criminals? Should someone that beat their exwife in 1987 really be on Facebook, let alone be able to look up his victim?

I personally think people should be allowed on unless they break the actual rules of the platform on the platform.
Oh wow, this app got pulled from everything because it's an unofficial 3rd party client for Instagram? I'll say it again, companies should be legally forbidden from blocking 3rd party clients. They don't have to explicitly support them, but taking action to explicitly thwart them (and writing ToS that forbids them) should be outlawed. There's no reason I should have to be subjected to untold tracking, snooping and advertising functionality to be able to post or look at photos and comment on them. Tech companies get to exploit the public under the guise of something useful, while also getting to completely dictate the terms of that usage. The only thing that limits their exploitation of users is the laws applicable in the relevant jurisdictions (and sometimes not even that). Too bad looking out for the rights of users is apparently just a complete non-issue to anyone in power.
One of the big differences between the US and Europe in this regard is the much larger proportion of bicyclists in Europe. In Europe, the larger number of bicyclists trains you as a driver to always be on the lookout for them. Driving past a bicyclist in the US is a much rarer event. Drivers should of course always be vigilant for anything in their way, but as a practical matter it's easier to mentally drift off when bicyclists are much less common.
I get the joke but it's worth pointing out C# is actually memory safe and more flexible than Rust in that regard (with the downside of less control on GC).
I could totally understand blocking the app, but going after the developers' personal accounts is petty and weak. OGapp should lean into it and offer to make something better; Meta's behavior is the sign of a failing company that's ripe for disruption, and many people are just looking for an excuse to get off the platform.
Every company I've ever worked at has fake data in their non-production systems. If it can access customer data it's a production system.
> It's worth noting that the app received $1M in preseed funding

Guess the investors should have stuck to real estate
That's because, as far as it exists, America's nanny-state sucks, (the secondary drug ingredients have a dual purpose of treating some other ailment beyond cough, such as chest congestion, and dissuading from intentional medicative overdose), and you're probably D&U.
To put it simply: ignorance is bliss.

Many people are underpaid, but are happy. Telling them they are underpaid and broadcasting it to the world is a great way to destroy that happiness.

This becomes even worst when there are non-monetary benefits to a job (e.g. you highly value working outdoors, beautiful scenery, a fantastic commute).
Have you tried Lapce? It's way snappier than VSCode.
>Nothing "inevitable" about accidents.

Car accidents are a question of when, not if. Sooner or later you're going to be in one.

If you somehow get through life without ever being involved in one, you were a very lucky bastard.
"can" and "want" are very different things.
I've pushed back on it in individual situations.

A house booked and paid through booking.com wanted me to email them a copy of my passport. I said no, but they could see it in person when I arrived. When they arrived they wanted to take a photo of it. I said no, then, too.

They were really quite unhappy about that, and claimed they've had people stay on fraudulent cards before, and this was the only way to protect themselves.

Employers doing things like SOC2 are also wanting to go through third party background-check services. All of those also want things like selfies and scans of passports. They all claim the same "We delete it after the check is complete" thing, too, which I don't believe.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/thoughts-and-prayers-ke...