skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a wonderfully simple scheme to split up keys between parties, but this still involves a party (the one that made the key) at some point knowing the key. This scheme implies you trust this distributor not to make copies of the key for himself (queue sauron references...). I've wondered if there's a scheme that does NOT trust the distributor of the key. What if the only time they key was known was when the parties reached quorum after the fact?
For those concerned about distinguishing 'natural' from 'synthetic' diamonds (not really that meaningful IMO other than maintaining artificial scarcity of a luxury/status item), there's a simple fix: use atmospheric carbon as the building material. Atmospheric CO2 has trace amounts of carbon-14 (~1 per 10^12 C atoms) and the resulting beta-decay-mode emissions can be easily easily detected.

Practically, this means the methane fed into the chemical vapor deposition process has to be extracted from biogas (say, a chicken manure digester) or directly synthesized from air and hydrogen (Sabatier process). This feedstock will contain the same trace amount of carbon-14 as the atmosphere and will be incorporated into the resulting diamond.

This seems like such an obvious thing to do for various reasons. It allows the (increasingly irrelevant) natural diamond industry to easily distinguish between their product and synthetic products. Not only that, there's probably a huge market for such 'atmospheric diamonds' among the people interested in green products, or tech products. Finally, while the cost of synthesizing methane feedstock is still quite a bit higher than just using natural gas, that's negligible relative to the cost of the final product and shouldn't be a factor.

Time to go write up a business plan, isn't it?

P.S. full paper here:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/srep44462
> 4. The ebook/pdf reading capability was not a first class citizen.

I can't overstate how disappointing this is. It's an e-ink device that enables users to annotate PDFs. The fact that this is not a killer feature of RM2 is just missed potential.
Also an extension will prevent execution from cron.d on Debian-based systems.
And I will still likely never use it unless it brings back SMS support in the app.
Beautiful! Thanks for doing this work.

Can you explain a bit on the process that was used to create this? How do you determine your position inside the pyramid precisely?

(would make for a great dungeon-style game :)
Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur
Brave and DDG are the only search engine that seem to have timer widgets.
A website chooses to show ads, but I have not agreed to view them. HTTP does not force me to make requests, the law doesn’t force my computer to make requests, and not making requests is not immoral. There is no agreement my computer will request any particular resource on a server, I am the one with control in this particular situation.

When ads are blocked the protocol is working exactly as designed. If you don’t like me blocking your ads, you should block me. When I encounter sites that block adblock users, I simply write them off and never return. If you don’t block me? Clearly you see the ads as optional too.

Remember that just like I don’t have to make a request to a server, that server doesn’t have to respond to my requests.
> Signal is rapid on its way to a billion users

The last number I could find is 40 million in 2021
It seems like they could declare that the time would change on dates that are safely before Ramadan starts / after Ramadan ends.
RSUs are refreshed annually. So if the stock price is now in the doldrums, at least you can hope to get the refresher at a good price in February (or whenever).
There's always The Ur-Quan masters: https://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Apple's advantage in silicon will win the AR/VR war. Meta is out there talking about 1-2 hours of battery life for the Quest Pro. I'm very curious to see what performance Apple's headset/glasses/whatever provides on their own chips.
> similar focus … as the allies devoted to winning ww2

Given a choice between diverting attention & resources to alleviate a 1943 famine in Bengal and keeping transport ships available for the war, Britain chose to allow the famine. As a result, an estimated 2.1 to 3.8 million Bengalis perished.

If you want people to take your vision seriously enough to follow it, you’ll need to engage seriously with the horrors of what you praise. Please consider reading the book Slaughterhouse Five.

Governments across the globe are run by people whom I hope remember to be humble about their intelligence and moral wisdom.
I'm not sure it's appropriate to call it an "approach". These are just the things a human does when they care about a society-scale issue that seems important. Yes, there surely may be a reason to modify this attitude as part of a strategy based on a somewhat pessimistic/realistic view of human psychology, but that modification is probably not a realistic goal.
> criminals still needs to be charged and convicted. There was a reason SF recalled their DA.

It’s impossible to charge someone who wasn’t arrested or, in the rare occasion they are arrested, with shoddy evidence work.

The police even had their own catalytic converters stolen
In the context of this article it would be useful to see stats on the number of shops closing due to police/DA inaction. It’s a very specific issue.
The problem with social media is that it is not a real place
https://archive.ph/UiE4B
> It's foss, you can fork it

And people did, twice! Some distros are offered in two main variants: a fork of Gnome 2, and a fork of Gnome 3. I believe this should give Gnome developers some food for thought.
This reminds me of how people don't do the most effective actions to protect the environment like:

- have one fewer child (60 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents)

- live car free (2.5 tons)

- avoid one round-trip trans-Atlantic flight (1.5 tons)

- Buy green energy (1.3 tons)

- Buy a more efficient car (1.2 tons)

The source lists a chart with more actions:

https://www.science.org/content/article/best-way-reduce-your...

But instead people focus on recycling and replacing lightbulbs while paying no attention to the 20 flights they took last year.

Perhaps even making inaccurate value judgements on those that didn't recycle that year but also took 0 flights.
Dirt/grass _absolutely_ compress. Easy way to see - take a large hammer outside and hit the dirt real hard. It'll leave a dent. You want to leave that dent, because that's force transferred into the dirt, not you.

But also, it makes sense when you think about it a bit, too. Dirt is a mostly heterogeneous mixture of _stuff_ that tends to clump, which leaves great pockets of air in between that can get compressed out. Water, on the other hand, is a homogeneous liquid with _no_ air in between. There's practically nothing to compress!
The study that produced the "10x engineer" finding was not about an abstract sort of business value, it was about programming.

The claim that 10x engineers exist is: Given a group of programmers who are capable of planning and executing some project, the most effective member will be approximately 10x "better" (at speed / correctness) than the least effective member.

I've been on both ends of that 10x, but have never experienced a situation where all the programmers were approximately the same. There's always someone who is clearly more capable, and someone who is not.
I get that, HOAs wouldn’t survive without people like you, I think the US wouldn’t be what it is either. The feeling I get from having all so manicured is like I’m living in a fake world with no creativity, where everything is made of the same cookie cutter, where a small group dictates minuscule details like what blinds you can have or what plants. It feels very oppressive and constricting to me.
Of course there are whites that act in racist ways, but it is a very significant accusation that all white act in racist ways, are driven by racist motives, or even that a significant fraction of whites are (poor whites).

When you make such a significant claim denigrating an entire people, you better have evidence. For example, in recent studies I’ve seen, whites have the LEAST in group bias (bias towards their own race), and blacks have the most BY FAR. Whites were the only group that even showed net out group bias (white liberals). At a glance, that suggests to me that whites are the least likely to be racist across the board, often to the point of racism towards their own race.
Yeah that's crazy talk. Mobile search has represented over 50% of ad revenue for a while, hasn't it?
> ad blocking is unethical

It is as ethical as:

1. politely declining a marketing leaflet

2. switching to a different TV channel when there is a commercial

3. looking away from the newspaper ads or roadside billboards

etc.
> It is awareness, are you so easily convinced you buy everything from every ad you see?

I don't want to be aware of which company has the biggest advertising budget.

If I want to be aware of products, it is because of their quality.

Anyway, I don't want to be distracted while working, so implement a different payment method for your website or accept that adblockers exist.
Meta seems to be trading the capital they have built up to advance a new era of 3D immersive computing. If the talk of creating a more open system is genuine, and the hardware itself becomes ubiquitous and cheap, Apple's closed system dependent on expensive marked-up hardware will eventually collapse.
1.5*C ? What kind of fictional reality are living in? We are way past 2.4*C projection and are actually on track for 2.9*C or so.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/09/cop26-se...
from what i can tell, the only things here not supported by CL's LOOP is "continue", and there being named exit points with parameters, though I fail to see the usefulness of that when you could just use return.
> The 'C' way is very efficient for computing Ax which presumes vector x to be a Column vector. When you want to compute xA instead which presumes vector x to be a row vector, you want column-major ordering for efficiency.

You have this the wrong way around. The C row-major ordering is better for A^Tx, the Fortran column-major format is better for Ax.

If you do Ax in row-major, you end up multiplying a row of A by x as your simd vector op. This then leaves you needing to horizontally reduce the result, which you avoid by using a column-major layout that instead accumulates multiple different results.
Just happened to me this morning. An automatic update of iOS for some reason switched off AdGuard-- I'd forgotten just how bad the ads are. Anyway, easily fixed by switching the parts back on.
All you need to do is learn that cmd | awk '{ $5 }' will print out the 5th word as delimited by one or more whitespace characters. Regexes support this easily but are cumbersome to write on the command line.
I was extremely bullish on Meta’s VR effort. The Quest 2 is extremely impressive and you really feel like peering into the future of computing.

I’m starting to realize that it may be the far future. The $1500 Quest Pro was just released to scathing reviews. The AR color passthrough feature sounds like a low quality joke. The headset is heavier and the battery lasts a hour or 2. The screen fidelity is still too low for productivity computing. The eye and face tracking result in extremely underwhelming animation that I can’t imagine adds any value to the social proposition. The primary Meta dream of all your social interactions in VR with friends, family and coworkers around the world is starting to seem more than a decade away.

And on top of all that, Apple looks like it may have a serious entrant into this market and might easily beat Meta to the finish line to the next computing platform.
Even if I am blocking ads, I am still paying for the content. Every product that I buy has a fraction of the ad budget in its price, the ad budget gets spend on various web sites. At least to a first approximation it does not really matter whether I see ads or block them. One could do a more careful analysis, how seeing the ads would change my spending behavior, how blocking ads changes ad prices and what not. But I do not think that blocking ads means that I am not paying my share for the content I am consuming. [1]

[1] Admittedly it could be the case, the people using ad blockers could be a very special group of people that would also see very special ads and buy very special products. But even then, the ad budget in the products I buy has to go somewhere. Therefore I would assume that at worst there will be some distortion in the prices of ads, how ad budgets are allocated and so on when I am blocking ads but no complete freeloading on the backs of others.
I never understood why Google did the cardboard thing and ... didn't keep fiddling with it. It got so much attention and was a lot of fun.
If you want upside, you can get paid almost entirely in options. The upside is huge.
> Maybe it's different where ever you live, but in my neck of the woods "using Adderall to stay on top of things" seem virtually unheard of.

The tone you're using here seems quite judgemental to me. If I had to, I'd bet anyone working near you detects the same and is not going to be open with you about their use of such things.
> Why don't big cities in Texas have the same problems with crime?

Well. for one thing, for all the complaints from housing advocates about SF’s inadequate housing density, there are no big, dense cities in Texas, while SF is one of the densest in the US. (The combined city and county is the 5th densest county in the US, the top four all being boroughs of NYC.)

The issues of large agglomerations of suburbia that happen to be in the same political unit aren’t the same as a dense urban core.
Agreed - especially when it is potentially unknown what might follow the first three numerals. Any performance hit would be mitigated by the corresponding reduction of the downstream logic.
I'm using adguard on an ipad, where I can't install uBlock origin. Also on macOS with Safari (no uBlock origin).
Roku dives into smart home market
>> Have you considered the possibility that it's not about morals or intelligence but that it's actually an intractable problem?

I don't think they're saying, "this person is secretly plotting to take over the world".

I think they're saying, "have you considered that this is actually a hard problem and not as simple as you make it out to be?"
I really can't find any substance in this argument. You're just saying "capitalism isn't the problem, it's the solution!" without offering anything that would convince someone who doesn't already believe that.
apple's changes made it harder to use a users profile from one app to target them on another app. All of google's ads are served on a browser so they weren't affected.
ads on Whatsapp?? PLEASE NO!!
There is risk involved for both parties. It's not cash, even if it has been treated like it in the past.
I think you're right. On top of that, Apple isn't afraid to ignore the low end. Meta and Microsoft can have that market.
Most companies give cash bonuses when the stock tanks. I remember Microsoft doing this and I think I read recently Amazon was doing it too, or at least adjusting the mix of stock vs cash compensation.
This is really really cool! I enjoyed the explanations as well as the fantastic images
Yeah we're along for the ride at this point. The time to organize and get it together has long past.
Hololens may give Microsoft a headstart into entering AR/VR for businesses.
>But really it's not next years profit that investors are scared about, it's their lack of control over mark.

Yeah, when things were booming no one cared about their class C shares that left control of these massive corporations in few hands. STONKS!

I sense that will change.
That hasn't been my experience. RSUs are taxed at vesting in the US.
Steam VR doesn’t count? I had to do some hackiness but now it works wirelessly for me, no link cable needed.
I went from

Cardboard -> Note 4 with Gear VR -> S8+ with newer Gear VR -> Oculus Rift CV1 -> Oculus Quest 2 -> Selling my Quest 2 (and CV1) because Facebook (temporarily) made Facebook accounts mandatory to use it.

I doubt I'll ever purchase another VR headset from them in the future.

Cardboard blew my mind at the time, I was so excited to get a taste of VR.
Where are the puzzles that open the door to the linking book?
$102 dollars to go.

Sorry if you work at this place and can mentally handle making the world a worse place but it needs to die.
The best way forward is to reject parts of the consensus Green approach. In particular, investment in nuclear, and a plan to augment wind+solar expansion with a large nuclear (and later fusion) buildout is the way to go.

The rationale for this is that only by raising the living standard of the third world can the world’s population be stabilized without a major die-off (not to mention a reduced quality of life for just about everyone going forward). Further, only with massive amounts of clean energy can we clean up the ecosphere and effectively fight atmospheric CO2 buildup as needed.

There are plenty of resources on Earth if they’re managed well. Only with plentiful energy can we afford to have treat the Earth as the precious resource it is - as we begin to inhabit the rest of the Solar System!
Thank you for the link. Another Simon quote from the panel discussion:

> In an information-rich world, most of the cost of information is the
cost incurred by the recipient. It is not enough to know how much it costs
to produce and transmit information; we must also know how much it
costs, in terms of scarce attention, to receive it.
Shell pays no UK windfall tax despite profits jump
This isn't true for RSUs in the USA. You're taxed on the value at the time when you receive them.
Forcing me to sign up with my IRL account was the no.1 reason I avoided the oculus.

I don't want fb tracking me roleplaying as a catgirl or doing some other degenerate activity with my 3D avatar and "accidentally" leaking data to advertisers or worse, family and friends.

With their track record, Facebook is the last company I'll trust with my data. No wonder they had no issue rebranding with such a lousy reputation.
The because seems wrong. I would argue vectors are columns because systems of linear equations are sentences which take up a row in a math paper.

the matrix is simply the layout and so R^n is column on the other side of the equals. It's arbitrary.
Imagine if everyone made a little more money, except for rich people who made considerably more money. Prices would go up and pretty much everyone would struggle to consume as much (or, consume things of as high quality, or perhaps as eco-friendly), but rich people wouldn't really see much of a change in their spending power, since there's few of them and they're making considerably more. I'd argue that idea counters your argument.

Unfortunately, that idea is more than just an idea: https://www.epi.org/blog/inflation-minimum-wages-and-profits...
This doesn't sound right. You pay taxes when they vest, not when they are granted.
As ridiculous as this sounds, it makes sense. We tried the business model and it just didn't work out. We need to innovate ways to support content explicitly with some form of payment. The elusive micro-transactions that economists have been begging for for decades now.

Maybe it is too late?
Inflation already cut my salary by 12% a year lol.
Sega confirms pioneering developer Rieko Kodama has passed away
I'm not sure how you got "unable to perform their work" from what I was suggesting. A/B testing, analytics, CRUD, etc, are all features that are ancillary to any products that need to be made.

Imagine if a language had A/B testing baked right into it. You define a couple of functions annotated for A/B testing and they are automatically A/B tested. Putting all of this inline with product functionality is generally what causes these balls of mud in the first place.
Sure, but options are not RSUs. Shopifys system is little different than all cash and an employee stock purchase plan. For better or worse.
People buy you books because they think you might enjoy the words on the pages, not because they think the book will dignify your meticulous collection.
I don't understand the Apple Metaverse advertisements are even about... and I consider myself technical.
Yeah, that the key problem - all current "green" or "zero" tech is simply a trick, with shuffling emissions to other countries, selling-buying quotas, maybe reducing emissions a little in the best case. Until we have a working industrial scale CO2 sequestration factories we are essentially doing nothing, or close to nothing.
The Unbearable Stability of Bitcoin
https://archive.ph/wip/U0zds
One can only hope there will be a great awakening of some kind and it will go to 0.
The page crashes for me on iOS.
He's a bridge between the two.
There's square, stripe and others that aren't really any harder to integrate than paypal. The sign up process is slightly longer though
This is either absurd or sorely uninformed. That the Bill of Rights was added later is essentially a procedural technicality.

The (lack of a) Bill of Rights was a major concern when the Constitution was drafted. It was passed with the promise that amending it with a Bill of Rights would be the first priority.

The Constitution was only passed without it so the convention wouldn't keep dragging on.
Mark going rogue was not priced in. That's why the stock dropped 21%, not because their revenue was down 4%.
> while somebody comfortable is shell writes a parallelized one liner, rips through GBs of data, and delivers the answer in 15 minutes.

This also works up to a point where those GBs turn into hundreds of GBs, or even PBs, and a proper distributed setup can return results in seconds.
If Zuck had never embarked on his VR adventure, and Apple today came out with a device exactly like the Quest Pro but with no advance leaks about what it’s like, people would be stunned.

But the VR excitement pool has been poisoned by Meta’s image and a decade of overpromise.
It seems they succeeded in the challenge to steal the car.
The online advertising party is over. It’s going to hit all advertising platforms badly.

Facebook has been hit particularly hard by the iOS changes, but that’s not the cause. If Apple hadn’t made that change themselves, government regulations would have been brought in that implemented it.

I also don’t believe the increase in AI is a solution to the regulations around tracking.

Advertising online is increasingly a black box, you put money in one side and the algorithm sends you traffic. The control and insight that used to be there is gone. I don’t believe advertisers will continue to trust this AI based future, I certainly don’t (have run an e-commerce store for 10 years).

I don’t want “deep tracking” and profile building. I just want manual controls and visible conversion tracking. But we are never getting that back.
As much as I don't like Facebook I'm glad there is a large corp with a lot of money investing in VR. They're the only one really trying something.
*AR device
No one wants VR because in its current state it simply sucks and is quite expensive for general adoption.

In the early days no one wanted computers either.
Tangential, but not exactly from Ghandi https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/first-they-ignore-you/
> With RSUs, you are taxed when you receive the shares. Your taxable income is the market value of the shares at vesting.

You pay taxes at date of vest not grant. Small terminology difference, but important - if you sell your RSUs immediately, you never lose $ after taxes.

https://www.schwab.com/public/eac/resources/articles/rsu_fac...
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
It was public it would be bad, but it was not public it would be this bad. However it was "known" aka a group of people "had the same dream" before today that it would be REALLY bad.