skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing friendly or helpful or optimistic about digital identity schemes, they are domestic passports for movement, and a pervasive, specific and ongoing threat against you as an individual for giving the appearance of non-compliance, or even a lack of enthusiasm for compliance. It's dominion. Honestly, a digital ID scheme is what the next global, multi year or even decade long land war will be fought over. I know we have a convention about avoiding discussions of violence, but digital ID, just like the ID schemes of early 20th c Europe and Russia, is the thing that you either nip in the bud in the present, or the number of lives that will be lost over it just grows every single day as the cancer of these systems establishes itself in our societies.

There is zero hyperbole in this. I've worked on digital identity solutions, and fundamentally, they are not a consumer product anybody actually wants because their use cases are all about enforcing rules against the identity subject. The only way the tech survives is it must be mandated, and then it's a question of whose problem does it solve?

The only people that a global digital identity solves a problem for are the people administering it, literally against the whole world. The survivors will ask, "how did it all happen so fast, what were the warnings?" and this obscure comment will be the hunger stone and harbinger. I'm literally saying millions of people will die, partially because of my inability to be persuasive, but mostly because of your misunderstanding of what this technology does and of what it is the effect.
I've said it a million times before but I'll say it again:

You cannot pay for an experience that rivals Plex (or in this case Jellyfin).

It's not about being cheaper, that ship sailed for me a long time ago, I've easily spent over $10K on hardware alone over the years but being in total control of your media is amazing. Want to share a clip? Just cut it and share it. Want to watch media on any device online or offline? No problem. Want to share with friends/family? Easy.

I buy all my audiobooks on Audible but I rip the DRM off them, put them in Plex, and then listen to them through Prologue (amazing iOS audiobook app) because it gives me full control.

I know this method is not for everyone (it does require a non-zero amount of technical knowledge, though I have set up systems for others that have worked with nearly no issues for years) but it's by far the best watching experience. No ads ever, instant playback, 1 UI/UX to learn, never asking "What service was that show on?", etc.

If there was 1 streaming service that had literally everything and I could pay $300+/mo or so for then I'd probably jump at the chance. Instead you have to piecemeal together a slew of services that all have different UIs/paradigms and they remove/shift around content. I had high hopes for Amazon's "Channels" and Apple TV (The app, not the device, not the service, come on Apple....) but neither really got all the way there for me. I'd even pay each individual company if they gave me (aka Plex) an API to suck down the content without using their apps/websites.
Piracy. Specifically a bittorrent back-end that grabs torrents from a curated or auto-generated list then combined with data from a service like TVDB to make a nice front-end.
You may not like my comparison, but advocating for killing protestors is still not ok. We live in a democracy. You can be mad people blocked a street, but to say they deserve death for that is undemocratic, the kind of logic that has tanks rolling out.

Roads get blocked for all kinds of reasons: Construction of roads i don’t support, accidents because people drive instead of taking transit, cargo i didn’t buy falling off trucks, parades, concerts, etc. should whoever was behind all those causes die?
Levi’s used to have a Commuter 511 model designed for cycling. It had reinforced panels in the crotch where the bike seat goes, reflective Scotchlite piping on the seam where selvedge would normally go. They discontinued them AFAIK but you might be able to find secondhand.
It's extremely common for SSS implementations to contain grave weaknesses. The readme at the github there is good news because it clearly shows that the author is aware of these problems, making it much more likely to be secure.

I have not reviewed it (beyond a glance), but based on the readme I'm confident that this one has a good chance of being secure, which is a vast improvement over most.

I still think in general SSS has very limited real use (except embedded into a larger cryptosystem), but if you're going to use it at least use a version that doesn't introduce vulnerabilities!
Isn't awk that thing that has different versions with entirely different features and syntaxes? I think one of them ships with mac and the other with, uh, everything I've ever used anyway (maybe not *bsd or something). Or was that sed?

I only ever use it on my own systems so awk works fine for me and I use it regularly, but iirc it's not true that you don't have to worry about versions.

Python is where I don't worry about versions. Everyone's got python3 by now (word got round) and most basics, like print(), works just fine in 2.7 (the main py2 backwards compatibility thing I run into is bytes vs unicode strings; if the script needs to work with raw bytes, you'll just need any python3 version). The issue I run into is with Windows people not having python installed, and (worse) not being able to install it in 30 seconds with one command, but that would be the same with awk.
The current nomenclature is Microsoft-Apple-Google-Amazon (MAGA).
I bought a pair for my kids and they have been absolutely wonderful school computers. I don't even carry a personal laptop any more, and I personally don't like Mac OS X, and I really don't like Apple's RAM pricing, but the hardware design is truly hard to beat.
You are far too optimistic. The issue is not this or that corporation, even corporate activity is at this point meaningless.
Clearly China is gambling on climate change having little effect and so are many others, especially if you are a developing nation that stance is very enticing.

You are not trying to get some corporation to "go green", you are trying to influence nation state policy. Assasinating some CEO is as meaningless as vandalizing a museum.
The only way to meet any "climate goal" is if most nations purposefully hinder their economies, organized boycots against offenders.
But lets face it: life without "Made in China", is quite difficult. For an individual as well as a nation.
Sweet. Bought a year.
While I wholeheartedly agree with where you're coming from (most rights listed in the Bill of Rights are being violated in some blatant manner), the problem is that vein of thought has now been claimed by an authoritarian movement idolizing an empty huckster who wears a diaper. Something similar happens to every good political critique - when it finally starts getting traction in the wider sphere, it's taken over by opportunists leading morons, and the whole thing just goes sideways.

I've reacted by becoming much more conservative, voting for deep state supporting candidates because at least they're the devil we know. I guess I'll just keep my head down politically and keep working on communications technology that might extricate us from the state gradually. Because replacing the state top-down with fascist madmen certainly isn't going to lead anywhere good.
The modern DOOM 1/2 releases on Android/iOS/Switch/Xbox/PS does something similar: it is using the original renderer but uses Unity to handle input and output for easier portability.
What you lose then is the auto-update.
You can of course make the app nag about installing a new version when available, but it works much, much worse.
And they say money doesn’t grow on trees.
Refinery Disaster in Philadelphia
It wouldn't get to trial. Cease and desist letter with the threat of legal action would likely do the trick, as charmbracelet likely have insufficient funds to defend themselves, and it simply wouldn't be worth the money to defend a small project name. At the very least it would be easy to force them to remove any use of VHS in relation to video tapes: they have a giant picture of a VHS video tape on their homepage!

If the trademark owner discovers this, they would be legally obliged to defend their trademark if they want to keep it.

JVC/Kenwood has previously successfully defended their mark when used in artworks/apparel (which are not in the same domains).
Meta revenue YoY: -25%

Apple revenue YoY: +25%
I was born in 1979.
The reason people care about $7 gas is because often they can't afford it. People who can barely pay bills can end up losing their home, their car, getting their power shut off when expenses go way up. Poor people often have to commute long distances for work because they can't afford to live near their jobs. $7/gallon may not be asking a lot of you, but it is for them. I would submit that the people most willing to make sacrifices, the people quickest to condemn others for not being willing, are only making sacrifices they can afford, that are fun, that fit into their lifestyle, that enhance their self image.
lolol, "There was a three or four month window, right when the vaccines were first released, when a 95+% implementation of the initial vaccine shot could have produced a reasonably close facsimile of herd immunity, such that it would have made it several orders more difficult for the virus to effectively mutate. It could have conceivably cut the subsequent death toll in half, if not more."

This is a statement that has many claims:
1. 95% implementation (whatever that means) in a specified time window of initial vaccine could've produced herd immunity
2. This herd immunity would've made it "several orders of more difficult" for the virus to mutate
3 The estimate of a 50% reduction in death toll.

I certainly can't remember something that didn't happen, herd immunity that *would've made mutation more difficult" or a "50% reduction" that didn't happen.

Your memory must be better than mine, it remembers statistics and estimates from counterfactual events.
True. However this doesn’t mean as much as pre-covid when Apple did provide their own estimates.
YouTube is very easy to cancel and not at all scummy, you just need to click one button and it works. Easy 4$ saved per month. I cancelled and then resubscribed at least 5 times this year and it was never an issue (I'm trying to cut down on YouTube which is why I cancelled so many times).
Smells like quackery, but then something does feel strangely good about laying on soil. Not necessarily with bare skin, but always supposed it's psychological. That intuitive feeling that something about it feels right is probably why the grift works.

Maybe one day we'll conclusively find some mechanism at work for that, but this paper doesn't bring us any closer to that day.

See: "Disclosure: G. Chevalier, S. T. Sinatra, and J. L. Oschman are independent contractors for Earthx L. Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research, and own a small percentage of shares in the company."
wow, these look amazing.

The way the images of the cards are compressed is very good, they look absolutely crisp and load super fast. In fact, so crisp that I've wondered whether they aren't images at all but recreations of the cards in CSS as well.
No one technology is accelerating fast enough. But I think battery storage has amazing potential for scalability. It is very suitable for mass production in a factory and produces small components that are relatively fungible. Battery storage sites can be built anywhere, require little civils works, have tiny environmental impact and are very quick to install. And they have the benefit of research and production for cell phones and cars. Massive scalability is hard to predict in advance but is definitely possible. Look at how many billions of arm chips are shipped every year.

We definitely do need pumped storage. Although big civil engineering projects tend to be slow and expensive in most developed economies. And how much of the world actually had the right terrain? My guess is that we will see a few massive projects at one end of a HVDC link rather than scaling up.
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> It’s a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place.

Yow. What a high quality article.
For uranium, there is 510 million square km of surface area on earth, what's the issue with "destroying" (a lot of the mines are in pretty uninhabitable places) a few sq km out of 510 million to power the human race?
In my experience AppStore Review is usually pretty direct. They tell me I violate this and that because of these things, and even include screenshots where the violation is
What are you using in place of Google Maps?

I migrated from Gmail to mailbox.org about a year ago, but Google Maps is the one Google app I can't seem to replace.
I do not consider the CEO knowing the janitor’s name or cleaning toilets a “positive thing”. It is a vacuous action explicitly made for virtue signaling. No CEO ever quietly plunges toilets and actually thinks this is helping him stay in touch with the business.

Not knowing the janitor’s name != not knowing your employees’ name; this is false equivalency. The janitor is not part of your employment or business. “Rolling your sleeves” in a 50 person warehouse might look like keeping up with your forklift skills to evaluate new equipment or whatever, not cleaning the toilets.
You can't go from 0 to 1 without doing so. Faster horses and all.
I hadn’t even thought of that until I read this. I had thought thunderstorms after hot weather were just a fact of life. I guess in places near German latitudes that get thunderstorms the hot weather is caused by high pressure systems but maybe that isn’t really the cause in California.
First it was MySpace, and now this.
Apple’s financial year runs September to September.
Science Pretends to Be Meritocratic
Are these cutscenes? If they wanted to make an effort to make the game work for offline play, they could just provide lower quality (say 720p) videos on the BluRay, and let the player know that if they have an Internet connection with no bandwith caps, the game would stream these videos in glorious 4K from their servers. And if the player has the disk space, the game could also offer to store (or pre-download) those videos on their disk.

Then again, game cutscenes nowadays use their rendering engine, don't they...
Quick, someone build a $hitcoin escrow service to fix the GPU-brick problem.
Wouldn’t it be relatively straightforward to link this helicopter thing to another app on the side of the ground officer? The camera knows the point on the map wherever the crosshairs is, just ping a GPS point from the camera interface and transmit the lat/lon to the ground unit’s GPS.
I knew Chinese made cars are coming. I thought it will be Chinese companies selling Chinese cars in Europe not Tesla. 29,367 Model Y cars were registered, Berlin factory makes 8,000 a month, the rest comes from China.
They spent $9,000,000,000 on the Metaverse in the first 9 months of this year.

That’s $1 billion a month.

They are currently peaking at 200k monthly users (who may only spend 5m a month). Honestly that’s way higher than I’d have guessed. I wonder what the number would be if you filtered to people who spent over 5 hours or logged on at least twice a week?

Anyway that’s $5,000 per user per month. $60,000 per user per year.

You could easily find people who would sit in the Metaverse all day every day for less than that because it would pay more than their job.

What an insane burn rate. On a product even the product’s developers don’t want to use.

And this is the future of the company?
If it's your first payment, you're pretty much done for. One of their targets is any operation where an entire business/yt account/paypal account is made to launder a single transaction and then left to rot.
Last time I read it, it wasn't actually all that long. It was just full of qualified language like "in some circumstances such and such could be collected" and "Some Google services may do this". At the end of it, it was entirely unclear to me what Google actually did collect, but "services may do this" is really no different from "services can do this" and the result was essentially little more than "we can collect every bit of information you send to us, which we may or may not do". The qualified language was engineered very carefully to make it sound not like that.
I'm curious how strongly Deno matters to the developers in this space. Honestly, I just don't care. I really, really don't care. When Node.js succeeded PHP in industrial practice, it was enough then to get me to move since everyone had already jumped onboard quickly.

Now, it's gotta take a LOT for me to want to move. I'm already too productive with Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and Node.js w/ Express, and React on the front-end. I have little to no reason to try anything out.

On a similar note, while people are switching from Webpack to Turbopack, I'm kicking back writing actual product features with a near buildless process. Because I simply don't care. I use the "Run JSX Preprocessor" straight out of the docs as I work and commit the output.

Screwing around with switching back and forth and changing build configurations every few years reminds me of when back in the day people would supercustomize their desktop environments instead of just accepting them as they are.

Is anyone really working up a sweat over security theatre like passing in args to flip permissions flags?

Could you imagine how ridiculous that would sound in literally any other programming environment? That you can't trust your own software and its dependencies--that YOU built?
Yes, that is the whole concept.

The question is, is this something that has been re-evaluated? Are there more site locations available than previously thought? Have the economics changed significantly? Was this a known-wrong assumption 15 years ago? Has the public perception changed re: the environmental costs vs benefits of this land use?

I would much rather we build a bunch of pumped hydro than a bunch of chemical batteries, on the belief that it is a much more sustainable technology. But I have seen a lot of online discussion about pumped hydro that treat siting, operational, economic, and land use concerns as if they don't exist, when often they are the primary reasons these projects don't get built.
I think all that evidence you gave of her being a bullshitter is actually relevant work experience and a top-tier education.

I could never pass a FAANG interview, or get into UCLA, or run a startup. She’s clearly extremely talented.

Let's be honest - all anyone really has against this person is they don’t like that a conventionally attractive confident young woman with a social life and goals is doing better than they are. Good for her - I hope she keeps making them angry.
I have to wonder, when will a company just say, No. Your citizens like our products more than they trust you, we can force their hand by immediately pulling products specifically to spite them while being “compliant”
Some scissors are more ambidextrous than others. If the blades are curved towards each other enough then you may not need sideways pressure from your thumb and fingers, and even sideways pressure in the wrong direction may not matter. I have some scissors like this and some not.

Alternatively, it's possible to apply the sideways pressure in the opposite direction to the "natural" one, and thereby use scissors with the hand they're not intended for (you may even be doing that without realising - I do). My dad is left-handed but struggles to use left-handed scissors as he didn't have access to them until later in life and is just used to applying sideways pressure in the "wrong" direction.
You can disagree, but there are lots of reasons listed in this thread to like it.
In my opinion there hasn’t been enough nu metal production since early 00s, I think we should manufacture more black bowling shirts with flames on them to incentivise uptake.
Yes! I felt the same and I was going to write a separate comment on that before I found this conversation. I don't know how you managed to crawl(?) through all those tunnels but it just made me sick following through the guided tour. Besides this personal note, I think this is an amazing work! Very informative, the transitions are well-thought and smooth. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Not me, no. Only a tenuous connection to the writer.

Genuinely surprised by your use of the word "fear" and how that fits
into our little battle pro, and anti Big Tech.

You see, if you're not frightened yourself, then isn't it a vicarious
comment on what you project onto other people (those helpless little
people who aren't intelligent enough to make up their own minds or
reason about complicated things like the internet)? On the other hand
if you found it genuinely unsettling then I couldn't understand your
apparent support of it. That's all.
The thing I heard was that it was easy to hire Java devs, maybe that availability has been consumed and there aren't competent Java devs in the market like there used to be. So effectively the hiring pool doesn't know Java.
I think it was even 4 DVD's.
You could try re-reading something that you enjoyed in the past.
I really really enjoyed this and the information. Thank you so much for putting the time in to make it. I doubt I will ever see the Pyramids but I always wanted to and this was the closest I will likely get. My mind is blown by the whole topic.
"Every single tonne of steel manufactured by humans from prehistory until about a century ago -- the entire output of the industrial revolution -- amounts to less than one year at current production."

The real questions are:

Does that include recycling?

If not, how do we see this being sustainable?
I was a Windows dev (now retired) and from the late '90s that's exactly how I kept a daily log: a Notepad file with .LOG as the first line gets date & time appended every time its opened. Notepad used to have a rather small filesize limit, so I'd just make a new file every month or two. Later I used TextPad [0] a commercial Windows editor which also supports the .LOG-as-first-line system, as TextPad can handle arbitrarily long files.

[0] https://www.textpad.com/home
It doesn’t prevent “ewaste” if phone makers (mostly low end Android phone makers) still bundle shoddy cables, stores are still allowed to sell shoddy cables, etc.

And USB C is not free of licensing requirements

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/450494/are-u...

A “good” USB C cable that supports all of the things I said - high speed data, video over USB, etc - costs around $15. The same price as an Anker Lightning cable.

A random USB C cable doesn’t support video over USB - something I need for my portable secondary display.

The iPads with USB C already support this. I have no reason to believe that the next iPhone won’t.
Then you haven't learned it, or you need it no more than once a year for 15 minutes maybe?

My girlfriend complained about Firefox aalllways needing updates every time she starts it. Yeah, because she used Chrome most of the time, if you start Firefox once every other month, of course that's going to happen every time. This sounds like a similar issue: the software may not be the friendliest, but you can't really expect another outcome if you never use it because you don't like it because you never use it.
that's not the comparison in this text, as I cited earlier - the text claims a 100x difference between the best and the average.
A distraction from what?

China still has lockdowns and COVID is still all over the map in the US.

Aside from a few exceptions, most of the world seems to have suffered multiple failures in various areas in handling a pandemic.
Thank you summerlight; updated.