skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really bad analogy. If ads in the places you've mentioned physically slowed me down, interrupted what i was trying to do, and tracked my movements across the city, I absolutely would go to great lengths to avoid them. There would be major public outrage over it.

Case in point, magazines are more ads than content these days and I don't read them.
I still can't see how anyone would want to wear a headset for 8 hours a day to do their job like their promo videos show. Especially an office based job where their promotional videos show someone working with "large virtual screens" in an "ideal workspace setup". Surely most users would prefer actual screens and work without the headset on all day. Maybe the next hot thing is actually bigger and cheaper screens, not VR headsets.
You're not replying to a comment saying "poor people are the biggest contributors of CO2 emissions", you're replying to a comment saying "driving people into poverty is the biggest contributor of CO2"

So the thing to look at isn't poor people's emissions, it's rich people's emissions, given that (relatively speaking, bc increasing money supply just decreases its worth) the richer rich people are, the more poor people there are (or the poorer the poor people are). This is well-known, you can google and find tons of articles, but here's one from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211025-climate-how-to-m...

The poorer you are, the less you can individually consume, and the more you must go for things that are cheap at the expense of other things (e.g. buying single-use goods over and over is cheaper short-term than buying something made to last). I think the idea is that if more people were middle-class, we'd see consumers make better choices (personally, I don't see that happening without government intervention of some kind, but that could hurt poor people even more if it happened before poor people got more money to afford more eco-friendly choices). And on the opposite side of the spectrum, if rich people weren't quite as rich, they wouldn't consume quite as much in excess, and would lead to less emissions.
That's a good argument. However, good adblockers also modify the page (for e.g. some websites don't render at all if the ad is not fetched and displayed, or to ensure the webpage shows properly when trackers and advertisements are blocked). We can still argue fair use, as websites can have malwares and we have the right to protect ourselves from it.
>this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets.

This sentence irks me on so many levels...

"Voting with a wallet" doesn't work, doesn't exist and is never taken into account anywhere, except in the mind of the American Consumer. Not buying a Remarkable when the subscription was added means your opinion on the matter just never showed up during product decisions, planning or analysis.

Instead, it got changed because Remarkable listen to what its users say and EXISTING users actively disliked that subscription. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with potential buyers avoiding it.

Returns, on that matter, are active users expressing their opinions. Not imaginary buyers "voting with their wallet".
Think sony had something similar to this in the ps3 era? Or I am remembering it wrong.
Facebook Segments Ads by Race and Age Whether Advertisers Want It or Not
Using sensors in the robotic competition was unreliable. A simple change in lighting from your development set to the competition board would screw everything up. I thought FLL was great, but as a robotics competition it's actually harder in some ways than the higher FIRST competitions because lego's are small and very finnicky.
https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2022/08/bruce-schneie...
What they really want is to be the iOS and the App Store. They don't want to live under Apple and Google's roofs anymore. They want control. And they want to be the one taxing apps 30% instead of Apple and Google.
I switched to AdGuard because uBlock Origin doesn't work with older versions of Safari (<13). It works pretty well on desktop and mobile. I like the ux (simple, but customisable if I need to tweak things).

I use Chrome only for work-related stuff and for compatibility tests (I don't want to contribute turning Chrome into another IE^2). I use uBlock Origin with Chromium-based browsers.
that's pretty much the only thing the quest is capable of running
Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;)

I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool.
- For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo.
- As a e-reader, it is absolute dog shit. period.
- If you are not artistic, this will not change that
- The subscription model is terrible, I've cancelled my 'grandfathered' account and tried to sell my rm2 over it.
- Currently using it as exceedingly expensive notepad, no cloud crap etc.
- Battery life is kinda meh, either you have it go to standby and have to wait a few second to use it. Or it is constantly empty when you want to use it. Not the eInk experience I had expected.

You can install custom software, as it is not locked down, that might solve some of these issues. I haven't tried. For me, this is just a notepad. And not a great one at that. I use it mainly because I paid for it tbh.

I have several friend that have one too and enjoy it much more, but this how I experienced it, ymmv obviously.
Unfortunately, space ships filled with water are even harder to drag out of the gravity well...
> Apparently if a buyshoesxyz.com shares with Google the fact that you bought shoes, and Google later uses that information to let you through ReCAPTCHA v3, that's "not safe"

It's not safe when the third-party the data is shared with has a global view of the internet, spyware in the vast majority of websites and even some mobile apps, and has a business incentive to use this data to stalk you for ad-targeting purposes.

The author seems to be quite clear as to what kinds of data are sent to Google:

> Since reCAPTCHA v3 scripts must be loaded on every page of a site, you must send Google your browsing history and detailed data about how you interact with sites in order to access basic services on the internet, such as paying your bills, or accessing healthcare services.

> It's needless to say that the kind of data that is collected by reCAPTCHA v3 is extremely sensitive. Those requests contain data about your motor skills, health issues, and your interests and desires based on how you interact with content. Everything about you that can be inferred or extracted from a website visit is collected and sent to Google.

Maybe that's a thing some users like you would be fine with, but in this case it should be laid out explicitly and (at least as per the EU GDPR) it should be opt-in. Buying shoes on a shoe retailer's website shouldn't require being stalked by a multinational spyware operator, and especially not without disclosure.
I don't feel that way. I will go this far. The negative emotion from having to swap out plants because they are technically not shrubs is far worse than the positive emotion I get from having nice parks and neighbors who have nice grass.
It is no surprise, the problem is betting on when this would happen. The Metaverse is far outside their competency. And renaming their company to Meta makes acquiring another company with a Metaverse product impossible, without being a laughing stock, unlike with the Instagram purchase.
One thing to add.. the version that blackblaze used direct cables the reason was that the backplanes they were using where the most unreliable part.

this is something you can handle when all the servers are in your own DC like in blackblaze case.

For netflix that need to built the server and ship it to someone else it makes more sense to go with direct cables as it would be more reliable and a cable problem would only affect a single driver, while the backplane will take 5 drivers out.

also an regular sata cable is a easier part to source then a specific backplane..
I've had namecheap do some "shenanigans" where a domain will be listed for once price when searching and suddenly jumps up significantly when you try to register it.
Most of these mass daytime raids are done by people from the East Bay. Fixing inequality just in SF won’t address that.
I run a website, most people do not want to pay directly. Ads allow it to grow and help more people.

Ads are showing relevant items people want/need.

Who are you to tell others what they need?

There is no manipulation, that is such a weird POV. It is awareness, are you so easily convinced you buy everything from every ad you see?

I dont love ads but they pay for a lot of sites i love.
In theory you should be able to do this, but I expect in practice it is such a complex system that you couldn't faithfully model the tides by looking at the bathymetry.

It's one of those problems where everything affects everything. It's a gigantic pool of liquid, so you'd have to model the entire ocean. For many areas you'd need to be taking into account how the shape of the coastline itself changes with the tide as well. Computationally extremely complex to do it this way.
Lowest point since 2016, not adjusting for inflation. Damn.
Hum... You are claiming the GP's claim that the reported numbers are higher than the real ones is false because you once on your lifetime got evidence that the real number is non-zero?
201 instances != widely used by multiple projects. Thank you for playing.

There are many ways to approach this type of problem, and–while I understand that some may want to lean on this approach, based on their experiences with another language–this is an academic comparison, and far less useful than one might believe when building performant code.

To each their own.
I read a quote saying managers at Facebook were struggling to get their own employees to want to have meetings on Metaverse. It’s not a good sign when the very product they’re pushing currently sucks where people don’t even want to use it.
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And it has some mistakes: for example, in Postgres TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE doesn't store the time zone. It's more like Oracle's TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE: it converts the timestamp to UTC when storing and converts it to the session's time zone when retrieving.
well said.

To add a less convincing, but imo just as important point: It's insane to think that an individual should need to justify their use to the government before ingesting a substance for medical purposes(or any purpose, for that matter) just because it has psychoactive properties, which we've decided is an inherently bad thing for some reason
they should focus on the B2B use cases, the Metaverse is cringeworthy but the virtual desktop stuff I've seen actually makes me consider buying.

They just need to show the ROI vs buying multiple monitors, maybe put out some studies showing their VR meetings are more effective than Zoom, show the productivity boost of being able to use VR to tune out distractions in open offices. Get enterprise customers to buy fleets of VR for their employees and then launch some sort of SaaS marketplace for Meta devices and take a cut. Facebook now has their app platform they've wanted

Zuck's focus on social is what's ruining it, plus just the optics of him. He needs to disappear for awhile
would this be a good device to read tabletop RPG rulebook/scenario PDFs on? I'm in the market for such a device and this looks interesting
AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
I've done many support calls, but I was always the last choice because I was extremely candid with the customer. When something was a bad bug, I'd say "Wow, that's bad. We'll try to fix it as soon as we can"

Apparently that's frowned upon since the goal is to beat around the bush with "hmm.. that's not supposed to happen, so sorry" as a means to absolve us of as much accountability to the customer as possible.

I have a philosophy that simply doesn't align with how most businesses want to run customer support, so while I wouldn't mind doing it, I am probably only making it worse in their mind.
If a person is standing in public space and talking, while at the same time having a bunch of advertisement signs around him, and you had the technology (say, AR glasses) to block out said advertisements from your view, would you consider it immoral to block out the advertisements, while listening to what the person is saying?
No, this is not known with "very high certainty".

The most recent IPCC report (AR6) gives the "very likely" (90% probability) range for "equilibrium climate sensitivity" - the eventual effect on temperature of doubling CO2 - as between 2C and 5C. Current CO2 levels are less than double pre-industrial levels, so the "baked in" warming could well be less than 2C. Also note that reaching the equilibrium temperature takes more like centuries than decades, making the concept somewhat academic, since lots of other things will change over that time period.

Also note that 2C warming over pre-industrial temperatures would just take us back to about what the temperature was 8000 years ago, when conditions were good enough for agriculture and civilization to start.
If you have to resort to "threatening" or "begging", isn't that a strong indicator of independence?
I’ve done this at my current company.

They ask us to join sales calls or support engineer calls and read the filed ticket before hand.

It is very useful to understand how a customer thinks and how they view features vs bugs.

Sometimes you can help them distinguish that something is working as intended (due to time constraints or scope creep).

The one part that I didn’t like is that some customers are just assholes, plain and simple. You will inevitably meet customers who say some obtuse things over an email as if it’s Facebook and there’s no accountability to their words. I’ve even heard it over video calls but much less frequent. After a few calls I asked to no longer do it because it made me lose empathy for the customers. Thank God for infrastructure work is all I can say.
Not sure that hurts Google anywhere near as much as it does Facebook?
It's because people started putting "always use strings.Compare" in their style guides.
I mean you could just pay and use R2 directly.
I think it would still be much cheaper.
I've been in the market for a home since summer 2021 and learned a lot. I've gone through multiple agents, realizing how useless most of them are. The one I do find useful said the buyers disappeared around April of this year. Which lines up with your stories.

I think buying around April is not the worst possible situation. You at least got the good rates, even if you got peak pricing. I've been grinding on sellers so hard that we either backed out or lost our deals. I'm flush with cash so other than not having a home, happy I'm still in the market as I expect sellers to get the message on the state of the market by January. 2023 is the year for anyone that has cash and has been waiting.

My deal won't be perfect either. It may require years of waiting to hit the bottom of the market. I am expecting 2019 pricing soon in my market in 2023, which is all that I'm aiming for.
I think Valve will get the best hw award.

They've been consistently the best since the beginning
> "Into the classrooms, into the boardrooms, into the voting booth, over the dinner table. We cannot let go of climate change."

I wonder if this is the right approach. It certainly is the approach we have been following for years. But I think that has just lead to empathy fatigue.

Edit: added empathy
>Getting into a top 5 school would have definitely been a surprise, but I also doubt the top 20 or even top 50 schools have equal levels of talent.

I tend to think that that outside of like the top tiers of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and MIT/Caltech that the top 20 have student bodies that are basically interchangeable and it's a coin flip whether someone gets into UPenn but not Columbia or UChicago but not Vanderbilt.

>This tracks but as mentioned elsewhere it's probably a longer journey all around. There very much is an in-crowd of connection pooling when you're an alumni of an elite school, from my experience of going to some meetups with heavy membership from them.

You can short circuit this by doing a graduate degree. MBA from HBS is at least as good if not better than an AB from the College. But like I said outside of a few industries those connections aren't as valuable as you may think. Is getting a job in a VC firm easier as a Harvard/Stanford Alum? Sure, but least in theory though getting startup funding from a VC as a Harvard vs Michigan alum should be roughly equivalent in difficulty(lest we break the illusion of meritocracy in the tech world).
Under GDPR and other privacy legislation then people in the EU have the right to refuse personalised ads
> Signal never used SMS as a transport.

Signal is a merge of the TextSecure and RedPhone applications; back when it was still called TextSecure, it did use SMS as a transport for encrypted messages.
Certainly seems that way with their entry into the advertising market. Watched and learnt from DoubleClick, Google and Facebook. Cut them off and now it's time to strike.
Pretty much. Though you can play anything if you have a link, which is my case. There are other alternatives like the Index, but they are way more expensive.
The deck we used to raise our Seed round after YC W21
What interest does a state government have other than the interests of the people of the state.

Your assertions about the role of the federal government represent one view of that role, and a very historical one at that. That doesn't make it wrong, but it would probably be more useful to say something like "I continue to believe that the view of the some of the framers, and many of the land owning class in the 1700's, that the federal government's role should be very small, continues to be correct even in the 2020s".

More useful because lots of people don't agree with that perspective.
I don't. I don't even own a VR headset. I tried the Quest Go or whatever it was called back in 2018. It was awful. I returned it immediately.

But I can see GenZ or the generation after GenZ embrace VR/AR. It doesn't have to be wearing a headset. It could be glasses when you're not wearing VR. It could be your phone when you're not wearing VR.
The Remarkable is intended to primarily be a digital notebook and their advertising is very clear on that. It's not intended to run apps, it's not intended as e-book reader (though it has some limited capabilities), it doesn't have a browser, etc., nor do they intend to add such things.

The parent is correct that people who are looking for those things should not be considering the Remarkable, but that is not a demerit of the device.
> So we should just put you in charge and then you'll sort it out?

Have you considered this is exactly the kind of narrow-mindedness they're probably talking about? If I had written the parent post, that's what I would mean by that. This simple-minded paranoia that any proposal from anyone else is secretly an evil plot to take over the world is ridiculous.
Oh wow, thank you for doing this. I’ll probably never be able to go to the real thing and this has been a fascination since childhood! I’ve got every part memorized from a book I had that had line drawings of the chambers.
This is so weird I just bought some today and it's usually right after I buy that shares plummet. I guess brace yourselves.
I like the idea and the end goal in theory. Based on my experience with how systemd was implemented I would be concerned that some use cases may not be thought through prior to this being mandatory e.g. keep it opt-in until kernel 7.x. I would hope that the first several iterations of this are opt-in so that people can discover blocking use cases they did not think of, such as PXE and iPXE booted systems, live kernel patching which is used heavily in some datacenters and especially in many VPS providers. The tooling around initrd image creation, enumeration and validation should be a first class priority in this effort in my opinion. This tooling should make it stupid-simple to enumerate the entire boot chain from UEFI to Initrd onward. i.e. walk through a simulation of the boot process and display missing dependencies prior to rebooting similar to the systemd dependency visualization and display cryptographic signatures through the entire chain.

Another concern that is ping-ponging around in my head is the potential risk for abuse of this system. I could envision some Linux distributions combined with specific hardware models finding themselves one day locked into using Redhat/IBM approved boot loaders and images.
I make around 20 per thousand visitors, it helps pay for a pt dev, pt designer, and small team.

Where is wasted time? Do you find yourself mesmerized by ads and find yourself staring at them for hours :)?
What do you use to do that?
This was priced in last year when facebook said it would cost them $10 billion a year. Google has next to no presence in mobile apps/non-browser ads so I dont think they care much.
I think the normal expectation would be that the advertiser pays for the ads being shown together with the content you're really interested in, and it's the advertisers' problem if the ads produce any value for them.
Do you mean it is rare?

Man, it is the key to do binary-searching.

> ... based on their experiences with another language ...

Sorry, this is language independent.
Controversial opinion: If you can't make money from your website without shoving ads in my face, perhaps you should seek either:

* another monetisation scheme for your website, or

* a different line of business than a website.

The race-to-the-bottom that is ad-supported websites is nothing more than a massive failure of imagination; pure laziness; a grift of the first magnitude.
See "Crockford Objects" here for example: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/crockford-objects-in-javasc...
Isn't it common sense that the wealthy are the ones who produce / emit the most CO2? Maybe I'm missing the point here, but I can't understand how poverty is the worst thing for the environment seeing that it restricts consumption.
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You're right about apple. Focusing on execution rather than bleeding edge innovation has certainly been a winning strategy.
I've never seen 「同志」 used in real life. It seems to be a specialized term comparable to English's "comrade". Wikipedia thinks the Turkish equivalent is "yoldaş".

For the differences between two Japanese words with the same pronunciation and similar meaning, Yahoo Answers is a surprisingly good resource. You can also do web searches like [[ 「同志」と「同士」の違い ]] to find explanation pages. In general homophonic kanji is an area that even native speakers struggle with sometimes, so there's lots of non-English coverage available.

https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q10...

"「同志」と「同士」の意味の違いについて教えてください。"
Fix the bug:

Is the matrix row major or column major?

https://bugfix-66.com/e74dcfb6a10cb71404f495922533d947e39fd7...
Oh awesome, thank you for posting this. It's a bit disappointing that they still use Android 11.. I hope they're working on porting their devices to at least Android 12.
I'm rich and live in a Western country. This won't affect me so I don't care.
Your last point is very illuminating - If we didn't create a society that required stormtroopers to keep order, we wouldn't have this kind of crime or need stormtroopers.
I’m curious to see it but FYI it doesn’t work on an iPhone with Firefox (you can never get past the first screen).
There are edge cases to that, Mostly if the document was government related (Money, Official Documents)
It certainly helps that they’re already a hardware company.