skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate it here. I use a ton of wikis that are on Fandom, and it takes a lot of custom uBlock rules to enforce a bare minimum of usability. The worst victim, IMO, is Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki), which has a huge user base, relatively speaking, and used to be run independently.
> They also moved all of my recurring charges to my new card (somehow.)

If you're curious about how this works, read up on "Visa Account Updater".
Solar panels gain efficiency in the cold. In winter there is less sunlight so they produce less power overall (40-60%), but you could double up the panels or add alternative energy generating methods.
really interesting approach! if it works - it works, no questions asked!
The absolute amount of effort we spend fighting nature instead of just guiding and living with it is frightening.
Apple has astutely observed that they don't need a bunch of tracking cookies to track you across sites and services if they already have your account on your phone and access to everything directly.

Google has something like this moat within their search engine dominance, likewise Facebook does for social, but both of them are rather limited slices in comparison with the OS itself.

So, we arrive at this junction - Apple lobbies, for the consumer of course, to prevent tracking across the web, and conveniently limits their number of competitors to one, that being Microsoft which seems rather inept at this advertising thing anyway.

It's hard to root for Google or Facebook here, but it's also pretty obvious that our friends in Cupertino don't have our best interests in mind.
PoW doesn't directly emit greenhouse gases anymore than electric cars or toasters do. Unclean sources of energy are the real issue.
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Failures while communicating to the external systems (the kv store and elastic in your example) are usually where this falls down. It's easy to build a system that's consistent ~90% of the time, but if you want to build a system where things like failures during snapshot write or failures during export to elastic are handled properly it starts getting complex (you will need to find ways to recover and retract data, or build smarts into the consumer to query around aborts, or find a way to do a 2PC-esque dance with the external system a la Kafka's transaction support, etc.). Getting to full consistency isn't easy.
I mean, you see who it’s attributed to…
The acronym was defined in the post to which they were replying (two levels above your reply), so it would have been a bit redundant for them to define it yet again.
I absolutely despise the ancient traditional ways they practice: referring to their techniques of 'mystery', secrecy, and occultation of knowledge (which they do in order to construct knowledge as authority and then wield it as power)

they've overdone it. by this point they have made it way to fucking difficult for people to truly come to grips with the complexity of modern life mostly becuase in their zealous protection of 'technical knowledge' they've made a life such as my own impossible to realize (this in turn, stunts the advancement and development of ways to cope with the consequences of modernity and high-technology in the culture at large, becuase people cannot learn to undesrtand enough that they can figure it out; they move us to a scenario in which only their own chosen selected few are in a position from which something could be done; but they select for obedience and dullness; not for spark)

Maybe my reasoning is leaping a lot; but as I see things, this attitude towards knowledge and understanding is the cause of the now troubling distrust in the academic-scientific apparatus by a largely ignorant public (an ignorance which is somebody's profit).

this attitude has stunted my own personal pursuit of happiness. that I cannot easily come to understand their 'propietary' techniques (higher-order logical systems, advanced litography, etc) that they use to do what they do is just frustrating.

I'll end by adding that there are many more instances of this attitude around knowledge in other subjects I've studied... even some which are no longer considered 'sacred' (in more 'developed' countries) but which were still making people act all mysterious and in awe of 'the knowledge' in my own famously ignorant native country.
Because a lot of people want to buy a farm and grow their own food and cattle, live with nature in nature yada yada. But they realize they either can't afford it or it's too difficult physically. Games offer an alternative. It's not the real deal but the brain makes it sort of real and that's good enough for some. They can live the fantasy without any of the cow dodo
I'm sure 90+% percent of posts here aren't what you are looking for.

4DWW are a benefit that is growing in popularity, much like remote work.
Curious as to what has kept you motivated to continue working on the project this long? So many open source developers don't last nearly as long or jump to something new once the novelty of the project wears off.
It's hard to over look the horrendous work place culture and history of Uber.

Seems like newer generations are okay with it.
What I mean is that I can sharpen my knives (traditional Zwilling or Wuesthofs) on a stone until they are nice and sharp and when I run them along a towel nothing catches.

I noticed that when I got a new knife recently it didn't feel smooth at all, more like it had lots of microscopic burrs. That knife cut through (thickish garden) tomato skins more readily, even after weeks of knife use. Eventually I had to resharpen that knife and I just find that even though I can get it nice and sharp the type of edge I put on the knife doesn't last as long.

And yes, when I cut a lot of tomatoes I might use a serrated knife but in normal use I don't like to switch so much so I do almost everything with a 8 or 9" chef knife.
I would think they meant that their current job is suitable but requires they be in at a specific time
Precisely because so many people would like to farm, small-scale farming is a brutal economic environment. In that respect, it isn't terribly different from academia -- people are doing it for love and the experience, not for money.

Simulating the farming experience without the massive financial risk (and the back-breaking work/unforgiving hours) gives some of that joy without most of the downside.

If you're willing to volunteer to cover night-time calving for cattle in snowstorms in February, you can probably get the real experience for free.
Do you have kids or otherwise responsible for anyone? If not, one or two hours of chores per day is insane. Take a step back and examine if the chores you are doing are actually worth doing.

Obviously if you have kids or are a carer that probably does not apply.
Rate limiting access to the enclave? Somewhat related, I fear this is where we are going to end up with secure attestation, limiting web access to approved devices.
Until it's easier to add bloated animations to details/summary the designers will never let us use em
>...and creating a new distro (with a bad case of NIH) that no one asked for

Eh, after suffering through many Gnome We-Know-Best design decisions, I would be happy for a new entrant in the space that was user focused on creating the best possible experience. An immensely tall order, but I think the demand is there.
I'm guessing No/Low-Code platforms and PWA's. AI and robotics will make a real showing at some point but I'm not sure when.
Cold climates are often at high latitudes. The sun is oblique at those latitudes. So solar is at it's most inefficient there. An argument can be made that solar is not a good choice in 'cold climates'
The acronym was defined in the comment to which they were replying (thus two levels above your own reply); it would have been redundant to again define it yet again.
The differences can be explained by context and marketing.

The place I went to had many signs saying that flu shots were available, while the person who administered it referred to it as a vaccine.
> In today’s “supposed” modern life, almost everybody is being forced, by himself, to be locked into his phone’s camera. At any moment he picks the camera to take a shot, its not a problem, but when he/she continuously post on social media and keeps refreshing to see the number of impressions they got, that’s a problem. Being happy and feeling valued.. that’s a disaster.

"Almost everybody" is clearly overblown. Out of dozens people I know, two are like that. I'm guessing most aren't even on social media.
The majority of HN users are rich, single, city dwellers. It's a pretty severe bubble IMO.
Definitely not a fork of WPE (which is primarily tied to *nix), Ultralight is built on a platform-agnostic fork of WebCore/JavaScriptCore I started back in 2015.

The goal is actually more ambitious than WPE since we run on every platform and in environments where embedders may provide custom platform functionality (such as games).
Podcast on (Massive) Ad-Fraud
This came from another thread (and is by user iamacyborg interviewing Augustine Fou) but it is a great listen - clearly explaining the ad (fraud) market. I feel Inhave a better grasp of the mechanics now and will never ever buy online ads again...
I think the difference is in what the two are trying to manipulate you to do.

His comment is trying to manipulate the reader into believing something that he believes is better for mankind. He doesn't materially benefit, and the reader doesn't lose anything.

Ads and advertisers are not trying to manipulate the viewers into buying a product. They are manipulating viewers into becoming the type of person that buys products impulsively and with little research. The product of the advertiser is not an ad; the product of the advertiser is you. This is not to your benefit.

So, trying to reduce gp's comment and ads in general to equivalence is misguided imo.
This was a fun one: https://jezenthomas.com/you-think-css-in-js-is-bad/
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> Advertising often just seeks to make a consumer aware of a certain product. If that is manipulation, so is pretty much any content that seeks to change what people know.

That's what advertising used to do before tracking was a thing. When this was introduced the industry realized that targeting and manipulation is far more profitable and this made ad campaigns that don't do this unviable. Because nobody ever wants to go back to a lower profit margin.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/30/nord-stream...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/01/truss-nord-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-formally-blames-sabotage-f...
Can't wait to see it one the blockchain.
A huge difference between a game and a job is that you can quit the game at any time without consequences. That creates an entirely different state of mind.
In my preferred alternate reality, Keybase was (somehow) purchased by the feds instead of Zoom and used for exactly this purpose.
Inheritance does not sustain wealth.

> A staggering 70 percent of wealthy families lose their wealth by the next generation, with 90 percent losing it the generation after that.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
I have huge concerns about this, I think it's really hard for any publicly traded company who gets into ad-tech not to end up making some questionable choices. The incentive structure in the ad business is such that no matter how strong a core org you think you have, it likely corrupts over time. While Apple's track record on privacy is commendable, Tim loves (and needs to keep shareholders happy) a good Services growth story.

It's also clear at this point, the most profitable ads in the industry are the ones that most take advantage of personal data - this isn't a secret. The difference in profitability can be stark too, which is why I worry so much about the incentive structure.
It does feel like an odd complaint. I have had mismatched desktop elements for a very long time now. What's another oddball entry on the list?
We've also been going for a while on night charging to help the grid - usage is (used to be?) lower at night, so you can start charging a bunch of electric cars and not notice too much. For now at least. I wonder if/when we'll start feeling some pain from the grid or specific buildings/areas not being able to keep up with the power demand of charging so many cars.
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This is science news reporting based on a conference presentation.

It appears that the work was published in a couple papers following the analysis. I recommend checking them out for the actual results and informative figures.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02397046/file/CatDomest...

Figure 5A shows the dispersion of cat genotypes over time.

Figure 7 shows some great illustrations of Tabby cat coat patterns drawn by the author, also demonstrating how serious science doesn't need to be dry and stuffy. I love the faces on the illustrated cats

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03661986/document

This paper builds on the prior work and clarifies a lot of the questions of historical context asked in this thread regarding Vikings, ect.
Ah ha! It was Java applets that makes me dread seeing <object>/<embed> tags again. Gotta support IE, you know. Netscape will crash anyway.
> The lack of imagination around what is possible and the supposed paradox posited by Fermi is disheartening.

I think similar reasoning could apply though. If advanced civilizations escape into a different dimension or state of being where they are undetectable, we’d need all of them to do that to explain the Fermi paradox.
Nice, I wonder if anyone has got Django with postgres working in this environment?
> Most consoles are sold at a loss, with revenue being made up largely through title sales.

This is only the case for when the console gets released. The hardware stays fixed through it's life span and the cost of old tech either gets more efficient, the manufacturing process becomes more efficient, or the parts get cheaper. (With exceptions to disasters that spike ram production or halt chip production)

Hardware Refreshes: I'm sure someone is going to mention that.
Those are pretty much entirely new console releases .. but you rarely ever get to take advantage of the new performance improvements.
I struggle to understand wasm, though I'm interested. What does this part mean?

> Internally, it uses the wasmtime runtime to configure, initialize, and run the Wasm modules.

What is wasmtime? I looked at its page and couldn't figure out what they mean by a wasm runtime. I thought the runtime was in the browser. Wouldn't a user just need to compile and just a binary?
You might be surprised to know that Apple has been doing ads for over a decade. [0] They‘ve had ads for a long time, and still do - App Store search ads[1] and Apple News ads, to my knowledge.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd
[1]: https://searchads.apple.com/
> buying Russian gas cheaply the last 30 years

This is what people miss. What is the opportunity cost of over-paying for gas for 30 years? By not over-paying, Germany was able to invest in its own economy, and it is now in a position to help Ukraine and complete its transition to renewables.

Germany's strategy is currently unpopular because the costs all happen at once, whereas people generally put up with small costs spread over a long time, but it would have been foolish to harm German economic growth while Putin could just sell his gas somewhere else and grow the Russian economy at a faster rate than Germany's.
That telemetry could easily -- more easily in fact -- have been done in a privacy protecting way: have your machine ship with a signature database and then have it randomly and frequently download deltas. Then check the signature database locally. It would be faster too. Especially on the mac we're not talking about an enormous database.

Rather disappointed that Apple didn't take this route. They do do something similar with their virus database (XProtect).
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Thanks, those are specific requirements I could definitely see WASM struggling to meet.

In my experience in a large+mature enough codebase (particularly one that is already multi-platform, like Postgres appears to be) many of those requirements are wrapped in an abstraction layer to allow targeting new platforms, but some requirements (like memory mapping) could definitely be dealbreakers if the target platform doesn't naturally support them.

This solution still seems awfully complex (and probably not very efficient) but I certainly see why it's probably the "easiest" option.
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You seem surprised by this.

I have worked for years and made great efforts to get to a point in life where I have a say in what time I do my work. Most jobs I have had I did not have a choice. In the United States.
Global warming or not, I like seeing optimizations like this.
Nuts! I knew I was leaving something out!
Actually that’s perfectly in line with it “staying on your iPhone” that they were proposing to do content scanning on your phone. Not that I agree with it. But it is consistent.
It'll load detailed pages based on the location of the image you click. It might not be interactive in the modern CSS-animated way but it does provide interaction with what would otherwise be a static image.
On a laptop not on WiFi what happens?
>what is creating this boundary? is it merely the withdrawing of the self

My armchair answer is that this is creating the boundary. There is no 'merely'. People want to interact with a self.

>within your sense of self, as it’s building, you are being told to take apart, to dismantle, as it is being inappropriately build to their standards.

That's how society works. People have adjusted their self to fit in, they expect the same from everybody else.
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It sounds like the company is private. If so, a very relevant question to ask is the plan and timescale to reach IPO.

But in any case, 6 years before the first batch vests... you should discount the current value of these options to 0.
CLIP was recently upgraded by Stability.ai with more training:

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I really dislike the Google Cloud way of doing things, for example Projects, Folders and Orgs. There's a dozen different weird paradigms that you have to consider to securely and reliably manage a large number of different projects, accounts, tenants, business units, etc in Google Cloud; if you don't do things "The Google Cloud Way" you are screwed.

AWS is much simpler and more straightforward. You don't have to think about anything to segregate infrastructure, networks, applications, users, data, etc. Just put it in a different account. If someone needs access, you need to explicitly add extra connections/grant that access. You can't just accidentally create one user that implicitly has access to hundreds of accounts.

Honestly the entire security model of Google Cloud is frightening. It's like they wanted to make it easy to expose everything.
"Advertising often just seeks to make a consumer aware of a certain product."

And this is why shiny new product is often placed along a half naked beatiful women or alike? Sex sells?

Some marketing indeed exists, that just tries to make a consumer aware of a product. But most marketing campaigns try to associate a certain product with certain attractive person/livestyle/object.

The Malboro Man, the Taste of freedom. Etc.

It is highly manipulative to its core. And with targeted ads, you can play with the target persons fears and desires in a automated way. So far this likely not happening (very well), but the potential is very real and dark.
> Kendi thinks any difference in outcome between racial groups proves racism and thus must be fixed.

that's a bold claim, if Kendi is as explicit about this as you say, can you please find a quote on this?

this whole thread is about radicalist dude is radical, because ABC; okay, please show me where in his radical writings he says ABC; and then nothing.
The article made it pretty clear that the company was lying about nearly everything.

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Drax told the BBC it had not cut down the forests itself and said it transferred the logging licences to other companies.

But Panorama checked and the authorities in British Columbia confirmed that Drax still holds the licences.

The company says it does use some logs - in general - to make wood pellets. It claims it only uses ones that are small, twisted, or rotten. Felled trees in British Columbia

But documents on a Canadian forestry database show that only 11% of the logs delivered to the two Drax plants in the past year were classified as the lowest quality, which cannot be used for wood products.
>-------------------------------------------

So the very first issue is that its leadership ought to be fired for same. People adjacent to the burning wood might as well take up smoking as far as health effects and it should no way no how profit from any credit for "green" energy.