skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes one wonder what the software world would like if the whole notion of 'premature optimization is the root of all evil' never existed. Because that advice, well intentioned and perfectly reasonable when applied thoughtfully, gradually morphed into 'optimization is the root of all evil' contributing to this ongoing race between computers speeding up and software slowing down.

And that's a scenario which a cynic would observe was almost certainly anything but undesired by the top players on either side. It's much easier to require what would be considered a supercomputer not long ago, to run a word processor, than it is to create scenarios where such power is meaningfully applied in a mass market product.
it would be neat to have animatronic autonomous velociraptors wandering the streets of my neighborhood halloween night!
https://www.ivpn.net/ see "Do you really need a VPN?" - not affiliated with them, but tell me any other VPN-service that is actually this upfront... most are marketing the hell out of their apparent magic effects...

since we're on the topic: how is it still a thing that vpn services are actively pitching content-block/copyright circumvention? Seems weird to pitch something as shady this loud and publicly? Reminds me of how weird I find it that trackers and illegal hosting sites have twitter accounts...
Will Prowse has DETAILED answers and breakdowns for you: https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse
Sure, but "Pay $502 for the privilege of running code on other people's machines" doesn't seem like a big improvement?

At least to get a driver's license you need to pass a driving test, and return periodically to update the photo and pass an eye exam.
>Just use Firefox.
No.
Well, I'm not so rude, so "No, thank you".

>It works just as well as Chrome ()
Not on anything* I use, it doesn't, so "No....thank you".

Tbf, I do keep trying ff, but...clunky, jeepers!
'Fraid I'll hang on until my Brave jumps it's particular shark and then maybe I'll hop over to something else, but for now, and as long as I can still use UblockO, Brave it is.

Even Opera is looking interesting again....
It's security by consolidation.
<network> Of Things is great.

<Internet> of things isn't.
Https is among the most broken ideas in the history of CS. I remember the first time I really learned about it and I went like it can't be this stupid.

Most Internet traffic today between A and B is decrypted by C because of this.
Elon Musk's Private Texts with Joe Rogan, Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison
>> Wanna bet [Broad Company Wifi Networks] are or will be used by your smart TV
> What makes me think this will never happen...

The comment suggests that the behavior of auto-connecting to wifi is infeasible for technical reasons. My comment and the one below it show that this is technically feasible.
He's 19. He cheated and then lied about it, and continued lying about it until very very recently, and credibly allegedly is still lying about it. His coach is also an unapologetic cheater in a Titled tournament.
He deserves to still be on probation, not playing with world champions.
I wasn’t referring to dystopia being any of those, I was making the point that requesting certain words not be used is fine and common.
We showed Matrix to Jack and Parag last year - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/ was the demo. I think Jack might have been wanting with more BTC tho(?)
I love Poetry. It's better than pipenv. Both are better UX than manually creating virtual environments. It's also more than just a dependency management system. It does packaging and publishing. It's better than setup.py and twine and such at that.

I'm always baffled when people say the opposite. There's the matter of pure personal preference, which I accept. The bigger issue I have is with people who have been doing it their own way and will find any number of little reasons to reject anything new.

This guy finds three bugs when he first used it, but all of them look like minor things to me. Complaining about 50 dependencies in 2022 seems silly. Caret versioning as default is personal preference and not an unreasonable choice.

His argument about the 5% chance of failure is the only thing that I find as a strong point. I don't agree with the developer's decision, but it's a deprecated way to install poetry, so I understand.
I’m honestly surprised you were able to secure an honorable discharge, especially at that time. I was an 11A later in the wars and the guy in my platoon who went AWOL to avoid deploying was sent to RCF before being allowed to exit the Army.

Anyway, good luck to you.
I’ve written a lot of software that made a lot of other people lots of money, basically… initially in social media and now the healthcare industry.

I ‘learned to program’ when I was a kid back in the 90’s from books that my mom’s boyfriend had gotten me, trying to steer me that way. I didn’t like it much and it wasn’t until many years later that I picked it up again and got good, mostly driven by a desire to understand how old video games worked.

The thing that took me from a dude who knows how to do basic stuff to a senior engineer at a big company was having a mentor. My real programming job came with a fantastic one and he taught me pretty much everything I needed to know… he spent a lot of time distilling many years of acquired experience into something I could consume alongside him and I’ll forever be grateful.
I'm one of these people. I'm quite fat and got fatter in the pandemic.

I'm looking for a way for me and my family to lose weight. And it looks like we have to look seriously at a workout regiment and cutting out many foods... I don't know if we will succeed.

Does anyone have advice? Thank you.
Well, with the timeframes here, there exist only two options: "never" and "very soon".

So, yeah, if you want to argue for "never", it's valid. It's just talking about delays that isn't.

(But somehow the "no large enough group - and it means 100 or 200 people - will ever want this" argument doesn't look reasonable either. We are talking about an empty ecological niche and a timeframe large enough for biologic kingdoms to appear.)
This assumes the bad actor only put one thing there. If they put multiple things there they don't know what was detected unless told.
it's silly to compare Ukraine with Afghanistan. Ukraine was an important part of USSR. so they were once the nr. 2 super power in the world. morale helps but it's far from the deciding factor. they were preparing for some time, it's easier to defend, they get huge help from tens of countries. Russia went it too weak. they assembled a force equal in size to Ukraine but you need much more if you're the attacker.
Nah, US incarcerated is due to deep-seated racism and profit motive.
Why must we continually revisit the pragma for why to treat people as innocent until proven guilty?? Yes, it takes more effort and, yes, there is more apparent/immediate risk, but the rationale is sound, given dynamics of any system needing generalized governance.
It doesn't matter that it's lawful for these corporations to circumvent and entirely go against the patriotic creed of the country where they're founded and operate - the matter is still relevant - the principle exists for very good reason, and is applicable to more than just government. What happened to "doing the right thing" regardless of shortsighted, incomplete rationale being applied and (unfathomably) acceptable to people whose very livelihood hinges on this ongoing presumption of innocence?
California is the most populous and economically significant state in the United States, which alone could stand to be the 5th largest economy in the world. California subsidizes other states, including those much much more prone to flooding, while the reverse isn't true in regards to earthquake damage.

A lot of federal disaster aid is just Californian's own money being used to help them when needed. This is true for other states like NY.

Lastly, California does indeed offer a very high deductible form of earthquake insurance, and it isn't federally subsidized like FEMA is.
Our minds haven't changed. What has changed are external factors (e.g. culture and economic forces). So a causal sociological analysis would see those as the crucial factors here.

It's best, if possible, to attack causes or mechanisms behind problems.

I mean if we assume that we are impotent to change society (e.g. to regulate food companies and advertising companies from encouraging worse diets), then what you say is true. But we are only impotent if we make ourselves impotent, or fail to organize against such external forces.
Relatively cheap rents for a city of that size.
We showed Matrix to Jack via https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean/ last year. We’re still hoping he may revisit it :)
Firefox is my daily driver but if something "works best in Chrome" I (assuming I'm interested enough) open it in Brave.
The statistical probability is a deep depression, the "k-wave" is about time to crash now in its fifth cycle. Making a profit is probably unlikely, but getting rid of all your personal debt and stocking up or investing in stuff people cant be without like food, medicine or energy might be a good bet.
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How high can the debris loft after a particularly nasty collision?

Two satellites hitting at an acute angle should produce a cone of debris in front of them, of which about a third deorbits and a third goes up into a higher orbit that's an average of the two.

Two satellites that hit at an obtuse angle, well, they pancake and produce a donut of debris. The stuff headed straight up is on a parabolic orbit that will hit the atmosphere on the way back down, but in the meantime any other satellite that crosses paths with it is effectively hitting a wall of stationary debris, creating a new cone that ladders up higher. Is there enough space that the ladder stops, or does it just keep building?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the behavior of LEA is to wrap, but it does not set the overflow flag
I once worked at a greentech firm. Someone's hackathon project one year used energy usage data to predict customers' stock prices.

Will it work on the micro level of an individual home? Maybe, maybe not, but the potential for that data to be used to model behavior is definitely there.
Who is banned? Your first @gmail.com address?

If you weren't 18, how did they know who you were?
Not just turning a blind eye, but actually helping the americans in wars in syria, afghanistan, libya etc.
Definitely not paranoid. This is the time to get ahead of this.

For distributed energy scenarios in which various sites operated by different administrators (my_neighborhood_solar, big utility, your_personal_site) may exchange energy, then how do we securely design the communication between the smart meters?

For example, perhaps dedicated SIMs would get the traffic off our home networks, but the resultant network would need security.
I mean, you can say whatever you want - you only diminish your own argument by doing so. It's like the boy who cried wolf - if you keep shouting "spyware" with no true evidence of spyware, then by the time that "spyware" actually is happening, no one is going to care.

> what it either does now

Spyware is defined (Google) as "a form of malware that hides on your device, monitors your activity, and steals sensitive information like bank details and passwords." Please furnish any example of Microsoft stealing sensitive information like bank details and passwords via VSCode.

> perhaps is reasonably likely to do at some time in the future

An imagined hypothetical does not help your argument.
That's cool.

One would think mine's cleaner, but it's got its own problems involving it not recognizing a new image as different if the filename is unchanged, and even if I do staggered updates the only way to reliably make sure it takes every single time is to quit the Finder, which I of course refuse to do. It will, at times, decide it doesn't want to take for hours on end, with an image that updates every ~10-15 minutes, and then will later decide to start updating again, with no other state change having apparently happened to instigate it (e.g., rebooting, logging the session out, etc.).

It may just be my experience, but over time macOS is behaving more and more irregularly in more and more ways, for completely inscrutable reasons.
Its so easy, even a dummy like myself can grab a cert for my self hosted services. I dont give any HTTP only sites any slack
Donatj is on point. I'm wary of government power and want to destroy tools that can be used to oppress people.
Browser lowered timer resolution to mitigate most speculative execution attacks. Probably why there aren't useful exploits. I remember a js payload when the first spectre appeared.
I said this to someone else, but spyware is defined (Google) as "a form of malware that hides on your device, monitors your activity, and steals sensitive information like bank details and passwords." Please furnish any example of Microsoft stealing sensitive information like bank details and passwords via VSCode.
> But the lock-in is there regardless of whether they intended it or not.

Are you familiar with these systems at all? You can't lock someone into an inverter brand. If you don't like your current inverter, you just buy a new one and plug it into your system.

> If they go out of business in 5 or 10 years, and your system stops working, you are screwed.

I work in the industry. I can assure you that won't happen. These are not fly by night VC funded IOT companies selling $100 trinkets. The industry went through a rough patch ~5 years ago, a fair number of restructuring. Literally zero incidents where products were EOL'ed due to remote servers turning off. There are a number of reasons for this, I can go into more detail if you really want me to. But the gist of it is that these are revenue generating assets many of which have large financial institutions holding the bag. They have the leverage to make sure that these types of systems never turn off.
It sometimes failed to load reaction icons on Linkedin. This was happening for a long time, but seems that either Firefox or Linkedin fixed it. I didn't stumble upon it recently.

Firefox don't play MKV videos, I use some site that has embed MKVs.

Slack calls didn't work on it (they workaround it). But I had trouble with other sites that use WebRTC in Firefox.

This is things I recall at this moment, but I don't want to have to use backup browser when something like this happens, so I use Chromium based browser and get on with my life.
If they actually cared I'm sure there would be a way to report these kind of issues. I got physical mail about submitting review for a product that I bought from Amazon (sold by company X, shipped by Amazon) in exchange for Amazon Gift card. The mail did contain name of the product. I tried to report it and

* there was no obvious way to do it. Closest thing was by reporting issue on product.

* there was no way to show the customer service agent a picture of the mail. Chat did not support sending pictures & they were unable to open imgur link.

* agent recommended me to leave a report it by leaving review to the seller page. I did that and next day review was deleted.
> e.g.RAV4, CR-V, Rouge)

The Nissan Rouge, a smart SUV at a reasonable price point. The SUV can also be used as make up - to bring out a robust blush on cheeks and lips.
The problem is that people want to talk about fully-loaded life-cycle costs; and depending on who is doing the talking you get wildly different numbers.
Possibly, yes. Hadn’t considered that.
Maddening. Rant is about all I can do with this. A small goon mob of GoP operatives dressed in blazers intimidating Florida election officials in Nov. of 2000 stops the vote recount leading to a genuine stolen Presidential election, which leads to exceptional political shenanigans to leverage pain and anguish with false intelligence and lies to justify a war killing hundreds of thousands for the sole purposes of remaining in power in order to keep the richest or the rich the richest of the rich. The Republican Party should be banned, and if everyone would just vote in their personal economic interests and stop being distracted by irrelevant issues, we'd never see anything like this or Trump again. Nearly everyone, excepting the uber rich, the multi-hundred millionaires and billionaires, would be economically better off with a long-sustained liberal government, and the uber rich certainly wouldn't be slumming it. Anyone voting Republican without an income of at least $350K/yr is sinking their own tiny boat and taking everyone down with them, except, of course, the uber rich. They should put a cap on wealth of $150M and appropriate all wealth gains above that for even distribution. Who has a problem with this? How many are going to bitch about only being able to have $150M? Seriously, billionaires and half-billionaires really, legitimately and provably, are the source of all problems, which fundamentally are economic problems, that inevitably make their way down to everyone else. End rant... and fallacious but, I think, still somewhat compelling argument.
> don't want to serve as an oracle for the people whose malware they are trying to block

Those people don't have a registered business; The people contacting Microsoft do.

There are probably a bunch of excuses we can come up with that would make sense... but I think most people know the real reason, it's the same as with Google and Apple... they don't do customer support, and they don't take responsibility for any negative effects their services might have on others, at least not until someone big enough makes a fuss or lawyers get involved.
I don't really understand why people are so obsessed with Nate Silver (particularly negatively). I listen to the 538 podcast and I'm interested in what he has to say about polling (and the discussions are always interesting, even if I don't always agree with them), but that's about it. I also listen to dozens of other podcasts where they talk about other things they know a lot about. It's also not like Nate is the word of god on polling. He's just another source of information. You can take or leave it. It doesn't matter. But why complain about him?
Large counter deposits, cashier's checks. And my parents go in the bank to socialize with the tellers
It's also a way to front run ISPs in the data market. Then these vendors can sell the data on the data broker market and pocket the cash the ISPs are getting by selling whatever browsing history data they can infer (from DNS and traffic).

I suspect this is the corporate motivation. The increased state surveillance and control is a side effect.
I think it is plausible that a "public radio" type funding model could work, but only after you have a working news source that people find worth supporting. This is a chicken-and-egg problem (aka a bootstrapping problem).

But, my earlier statement was only intended to describe the current state of things, and is no way an endorsement of that state. I agree a greater focus on local news would be preferable, for many reasons.
You're correct, this seems like a terrible idea. Why not just make a cheap, repairable device? It would be better for everyone.
I’m an ex navy nuke (I did the whole thing, school through startups, sea trials, refuel, operations, maintenance, was nuke mechanic). I think some of the main impediments to adoption of navy-style training, operations, and maintenance in the civilian world are that the work is challenging and high stress. The school is very mentally and spiritually challenging to most people. When you get to the fleet the work is very challenging both mentally and physically. You are taking weekly technical short answer tests, operating the thing in 100F degrees doing legit physical work, responding to emergency stuff at 2 am before a 6 am shift. It’s nuts. The navy selects smart people through asvab test requirements. Most students are still challenged by the coursework. When you stay in by reenlisting it gets a little easier because you have less physical work to do but you still have to maintain excellence and train the junior people to the required competency level. Combine this with the fact that the pay is shitty compared to other jobs in industry available and the incentives just aren’t there. Where do we find these highly motivated, fit, young, intelligent people to work like dogs? They don’t exist in sufficient quantity to do this. The navy doesn’t have superior technology; most of the ships are old and maintained. The secret sauce is the personnel and their desperation. You aren’t going to contract people in the civillian world to do this stuff. I really don’t think it’s feasible.
Then charge peak price for peak demand.
<grin>

Every day is an anniversary of some event or another. If you keep thinking about what event happened on this day many years ago and what parallels it portends in today's world, you'd go gaga.

1551 – Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.

Yep. Japan's government gonna collapse today.
For reference, Belgium is roughly the size of Maryland, which is the 42nd largest U.S. state (out of 50). The U.S. is big and is mostly empty.
When I set up my Fronius inverters, I did connect them to Ethernet, but disabled any cloud features and set up a simple script that fetches the stats I'm interested in and stores them to a local influx database.

I didn't go as far as isolating them from internet/rest of my network- I am mainly concerned about them losing my data/going bankrupt/trying to charge for "cloud" features.
Similar story here. I often liken it to a musician with their instrument, or a master blacksmith with their hammer - at some point the tool stops being a separate entity and becomes an extension of the person wielding it. I think the ability to have this comes from the fact the fundamentals of the tool are stable across decades.
web interface to what? the inverter, right? and to monitor voltage and current of the input(s) and output (s) of an inverter you need to know how to connect up the sensors, keep them protected in whatever environment, and make sure they're reading correctly.

a person that knows how to "DIY" these things correctly already knows how to use a microcontroller to log the data and either present it or send it somewhere that can present it.
To spell it out clearer, though you were pointed this multiple times:

OpenStreetMap is a database, not a website.

Its purpose is to reference stuff that you can see in the street, not to provide a sleek map website.

OpenStreetMap provides map data. They are not a provider of satellite data. You would have to go look elsewhere, and pay someone else.

Now, the openstreetmap.org website still does a decent job at showing a map, though its geocoder is lacking. The website also lacks several features, some are provided by overpass (https://overpass-turbo.eu) for instance, https://brouter.de, etc.
OpenStreetMap data is integrated with satellite data and much more on a lot of websites.

For instance, https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte has aerial photography imagery for France, plus a few map overlays, including OSM. French national geography institute (IGN) releases free aerial photography, there are other sources for other countries.
If you go to "edit" mode on the openstreetmap.org website, you'll see aerial/satellite imagery too, licensed for free from bing and others. AFAIK, that license is only for editors, thus they can't have it on the main website (and that wouldn't be a showcase of OSM data anyway).

I agree it's a bit of a shame that the openstreetmap.org doesn't do a better job of showcasing the wealth of data, and it could be more user friendly. There are a lot of other websites that provide the same data, represented differently. https://osmand.net/map for instance. https://www.qwant.com/maps has vector maps and is quite good too!
That could be another missing piece to videogame generational art, sfx sounds and soon soundtracks.