skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have pointed out that this is fallacious -- even on big services sometimes employees are creepy stalkers, sometimes they're malicious actors of other sorts -- but even if you ignore that on twitter you are a target of advertising and if you think they aren't slurping up all the data they can about you and storing it in a database somewhere, you're fooling yourself.

Anyways, down this logic path is an internet where we somehow put all our trust in megacorporations and absolutely none in our fellow human beings and I dunno about you but one of those sounds a lot more dystopian to me than the other.
Agreed about the wording. I understand adapting reporting to appeal to a wider, younger audience, but it also cheapens and lessens the importance of the reporting.
Also, consider that a reading habit is affordable to most of us, but not to everyone in the world. Books, specially educational books, shouldn't be a luxury.
I'm intensely curious to know what you are thinking Twitter could do that would either be compelling enough to convince their active users to suddenly start spending an average of $6/mo in return for it, or somehow cause them become $6/mo more valuable as advertising targets.
Do we know if any animals are interested in doing this kind of migration?

Or am I missing the point?
I think you can ask the mods to fix it via email
hn@ycombinator.com
Can someone give more context here? It's a cool 3D map, but this submission is at almost 100 points and I have no idea what it's about. Is this submission about...

- A private or open-source map visualization engine that's doing something new? (And if so, what?)

- A demonstration of all the 3D data already in OpenSourceMap? (Has it made a leap forwards or something? How complete is it?)

- Something else?

Is this something new and newsworthy or just somebody re-posting something that's been around for a decade? I'm just totally lost here.
In fact, climate models going back over fifty years have performed quite well; surprisingly so:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Meta’s meltdown has a lot to do with terrible decision making at the top and too many yes-people blindly agreeing because the king set up the company where nobody can disagree with his decisions.

Facebook could have pursued other social network ideas and found a way to keep things steady. Even a twitter competitor would have been interesting. More focus on competing with LinkedIn?
> You don't know what it means probably because you don't have experience with C++.

I started developing in C++ in 1992, so I have a few years with it. I've never run into the problems you seem to be experiencing.

> Type errors that happen at runtime or compile time contain the same error message.

Yes. But for the runtime error to occur, you need to trigger it by passing the wrong object. Unless you have a test case for every possible wrong object in every possible call sequence (approximately nobody has such thorough test coverage) then you have untested combinations and some day someone will modify some seemingly unrelated code in a way that ends up calling some distant function with the wrong object and now you have a production outage to deal with.

If you had been catching these during compile time, like a static type system allows, that can never happen.
A few issues with welding: One of the benefits of profile extrusion is the ability to work and rework it by just adding/removing/cutting pieces. Welding may interfere with this. Welding aluminum is also tough (though obviously not impossible). The heat also can lead to warping of the pieces, which probably isn't a big deal in van life, I was trying to use it as part of making good flat planes for a workbench.
Could we build a bike path along this corridor while we’re at it?
> Wasn't this the subject of millions of dollars of litigation between Oracle and Google?

That was a very different case. That case was about whether an API/interface was considered copyrightable. The outcome of the case was that the implementation was obviously copyrightable however the interface was not. The background being google creating their own custom implementation of the JVM.
I'm not sure I could bring myself to vote for a party that did this.
Common American (and online) slang meaning calling out someone. I believe it originates from Chicago or the Midwest but it got popularized on social media like a lot of other slang in the 2010s and now is pretty much used everywhere especially among Gen Z.
Publishing or selling the photo can get tricky, though, and that's why model releases exist.
We never called them "gender benders" because that term had already been in use in the real world of gender ideology.

Real techs knew them as "gender changers" which was different enough to be recognizable as only a technical term for cable connectors.
I'm not sure I buy your definitions for errors and exceptions. In practice, many errors are rare cases and are essentially unexpected. They are exceptions in terms of being exceptional results compared to most results.

The biggest challenge with error -- or exception -- handling is that most callers are not prepared to deal with something other than success. So the safest thing for them to do is push the failure up, with the expectation that somewhere higher will be equipped to deal with it.

If you take TFA's CopyFile as an example, there are plenty of scenarios where copying a file would be part of some complex process. If the file copy fails, it probably indicates either a logic problem (bad path, empty filename, something) or an OS level failure. Either of those cases cannot be dealt with at layers close to the CopyFile call.

From TFA example, the guard only eliminates the if err != nil { return err }.

This is a bigger problem than can be solved with syntactic sugar. And from my perspective, it is why exceptions exist. If you merrily go on your way in some other languages and try to copy, but that fails, it will generate an exception. If you don't explicitly handle that exception in your calling function, then it will bubble up. If somewhere upstream expects this possibility, it can be designed to respond to a specific type of exception and do something reasonable about it. But your calling function, down here at a low level, will not have any clue what the business logic behavior should be if the CopyFile() fails.
"Capitalism is a system dependent on perpetual GDP growth" is it? If it is, why does GDP matter - GDP is a highly abstract metric, so what is the underlying thing that capitalism needs? And to the extent that it exists, is it unique in that?

I am not sure why you are claiming that in particular, that's why I'm asking.

Also planned obsolescence doesn't have anything to do with
a goal to increase GDP, it is an example of a somewhat perverse incentive, not a systemic issue. I mean people wouldn't buy a phone that breaks in a week, but they are indifferent between the one that breaks in 2 years or 10 years - there's a balance. It again has to do more with material success - my grandma used to constantly tell us to not throw away any glass jars - not out of high moral impulse to reuse/reduce/recycle, because she lived in the USSR where they apparently were hard to come by for pickling and making jams. I on the other hand just yesterday couldn't find my paint brushes, so to touch up a wall, instead of reorganizing the shed I ordered new ones on Amazon for $15. I can afford the waste. The way to make me care about preserving my paint brush instead of obsoleting it, or jars for jam, is to make me poor. Same is apparently true for most people.
San Onofre Nuclear Power Fuel Pool and Spent Fuel Storage
> Admins of <service> can read data on <service>" is just a tautology.

Huh? This is certainly not true for Signal and Matrix, heck even whatsapp and telegram sounds better than some random instance operator.

That said, truly private messages aren't always necessary, as long as the platform is crystal clear about this.
An informal definition of "blast" is a severe verbal reprimand, and it is unlikely you've never heard it used that way because it originates in the US in the late 19th century. "Put on blast" means to embarrass publicly by admonishing, and also originates in the US, but is much more recent. Compare to "put on full blast," (sound familiar?) which has a different but related meaning, but like all these uses originate from Old English blæst "a blowing, a breeze, puff of wind," and later, blast furnace, the idea of forcing air to increase combustion for smelting iron.
One thing to note: if you are getting this quantity of profile, aliexpress can save you a bundle. Shipping is expensive and slow, but the cost savings on the profile can make it worth it.

edit: Went back and looked at my quote, looked like 2040 was $1 per 200mm. Shipping cost around another $1.30. 8020 Inc, the supplier used in the article, is more like $1 per 50mm, so even with the shipping it was a huge savings.
> because that's not actually a thing that makes sense.

No for micro-blogging, but Mastodon supports direct messaging, and if you support direct messaging, you should support end-to-end.

> If you don't own the key exchange ...

Sure, but I trust https://letsencrypt.org/ more than I trust some random running a server.
They're closed-source, closed-hardware devices with microphones that are publicly acknowledged to send recordings they make to remote servers for processing. There's no non-testimonial evidence that they aren't eavesdropping. I'm not even aware of any testimonial evidence that was collected under oath (penalty of perjury or similar)!

They don't really need to eavesdrop for advertising. They'd certainly end up facing some substantial regulatory scrutiny if they did. They could be required to eavesdrop by a national security warrant (or similar) which wouldn't be subject to regulatory scrutiny in the same way advertising would be.
Misspell your name next time you pay for something via credit card. The results may surprise.
This is already the plot of - spoilers - Don't Look Up.
Seems like he's making it more of a "verified human" mark as a bot-farm is not going to pay for 1000 marks that can get banned. Not to mention backend protections such as 1 mark per creditcard, or checking the name of the holder against the account etc. might be somewhat effective at reducing spam..
Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds
The question is what will replace the insatiable need for some section of the population to communicate to the masses.

Youtube is useless and its audience is highly fragmented.

Twitter is with Elon now, so who knows.

Facebook is doomed. Its a cesspool of endless ads.

Instagram perhaps.

Pinterest and Snap are not that mainstream as Twitter was.

Mastodon is a bunch of blumbs with some nerps that kerfufle with munk.
No. Encryption that is "not provably quantum-insecure" is available. I doubt this will ever extend to "provably quantum-resistant".
It sounds orthogonal because it is orthogonal. But it's true and I provided the original source to back up my claim. Hospice and palliative medicine is an accepted by all major faiths.

Physician assisted suicide is another seperate issue - and "pulling the plug" on a comatose patient is NOT euthanasia. That is hospice and palliative care.

You're beating the straw man my friend...
Isn't it possible to put an empty ballot?

We use envelopes here to hide the ballot from the people in charge of the voting slot. We can put an empty envelope, or with ballots of two different parties that make it void, or with a nasty letter about the policianos, or like in Brazil where they "elected" a rhino for major https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacareco
Solution - gotta give NASA and other government agencies money. That is the only solution
I’d disagree. The old ground game empowered political machines.

It sucks that successful “grassroots“ candidates tend to be… really awful today. But the parties, particularly the Democratic Party will eventually figure out how to actually appeal to people.
Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age
10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator
I use it willingly, but I feel bad. I hate that Microsoft owns it. But it's essentially a social network (at least in the way that I use it), and network effect dictates that I use it (as opposed to, say, GitLab). :c
Couldn't the state just compel the county elections to delay this until 1 hour after the last polling place closes?
> Mastodon is like the 1990’s internet came back.

Don't you threaten me with a good time!
Self-Hosting Vaultwarden on an RPi
The call to "Guardf" isn't great, and the fact you have to call it at sites that use it regardless if an error was generated or not offers the opportunity for plenty of "behind the scenes" subterfuge.

It's all an incredible amount of effort to avoid what boils down to a basic nil pointer check. I agree the blocks are unsightly, but they're as plain and flat as you could possibly hope for. I almost think you'd be better off using syntax highlighting to obscure them if they're that painful to have to look at.
I’m pretty sure the “target list” is called the “projection” amongst the tweed-wearing academics. And the “restrictions” would be the “selection”
Windows Executables. For applications not touching hardware, they should still run on any newer version of Windows provided the Windows build still supports that instruction set. i.e. the original Windows 1.0 Hello World demo (16-bit exe compiled in Win 1.0) still runs on Windows 10 x32 [1].

1. https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/05/22/examining-windows-1-0-he...
Not in the long term, because as soon as quantum computers can practically break RSA, it would cease to be used and thus breaking RSA would become commercially irrelevant.

Currently the choice of replacements is taking its time e.g. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces... but if tonight we'd find out that people do have sufficiently powerful quantum computers, we'd just start using one of the candidates in a jiffy)
There's a near universal knee-jerk reaction to public accountability that is going to be the end of this republic...
I have very many doubts digital nomads are good for any community except a community they are prevalent in.

Nomads, by definition, don’t meaningfully contribute to a community. They don’t create deep relationships, families, or traditions. Instead, they bring outside perceptions and traditions that may either invigorate or destroy the community they are visiting.

Is it good for the community’s economy, probably. Is it good for anything else? Probably not unless the culture is at least adjacent to one you’ve lived in before. (IOW, if you come from one strong religious community to another one, or an artistic community to another one, you would be able to recognize what you’re experiencing and fit into your worldview; thus being able to more easily meaningfully contribute to the community)
I can mainly think of companies and projects from my professional experience, and it wouldn't be my place to publicly speak about these things. But I believe that many engineers like me have worked on death march projects where their critical problems have been brought up with management and thoroughly ignored.

Still, to try and give you some examples, Google Glass was known to be a failed product early on due to technical and practical problems voiced by engineers. But there was a culture of optimism or wilful ignorance at Google about Glass, so the project continued until it died due to these problems. And there are some articles on Hacker News about it. Right now there are murmurs online that Meta engineers are very aware that the metaverse is not engaging and VR efforts should pivot elsewhere. Yet the management seems to ignore this, even at tremendous cost to the company value. The whole VR effort at Meta could die because of this.

The interesting aspect of this culture is that it's not a "hindsight is 20-20" situation. In complete contrast, it's that engineers bring up problems that will significantly harm a project or a company in the future, but are ignored.
> No for micro-blogging, but Mastodon supports direct messaging, and if you support direct messaging, you should support end-to-end.

No other microblogging service with DM support has e2e anything. Because they're websites. To have meaningful e2e you need to have key exchange and device keys, and if you have a website you can look at your DMs on then the website has to have a key. If the website has a key the owner of the website can look at your DMs. This is just fundamental to hosted web services, and it's why if you use icloud messaging with imessage you're no longer guaranteed e2e, and why signal just doesn't even have a website for you to use.

> Sure, but I trust https://letsencrypt.org/ more than I trust some random running a server.

LE has nothing to do with this? The key exchange I'm talking about is the end keys. User keys. LE doesn't provide those. For e2e IM systems a server has to manage user/device:key mappings, and are a central point of trust. They can potentially inject a "listening key" into your recipient list without you knowing and tap you or even impersonate you (but only in a forward way).

E2E is not a panacea, but it's also largely irrelevant to websites.
I'll be bold enough to make the contrarian prediction. The approach of throwing ever more parameters in the model and ever more transistors on the chip is at best a brute force approach to AI and will likely plateau in effectiveness long before we get to "general purpose AI". We do not need 1nm neurons running at GHZ rates and training on a corpus of everything ever said just to comprehend language. There needs to be an algorithmic breakthrough. There is likely already more than enough processing power.

Even bolder prediction: When we finally understand how the brain actually does it, the algorithmic improvement will be so enormous that the machine learning tasks which run on massive servers today will be able to run on the phone currently in your pocket.
I don't know much about Mastodon, but I know that it's main selling point is that it's decentralized, and it's pretty easy to assume that decentralized means there isn't anybody with special privileges who can read private messages. The same way decentralized finance (blockchain) means there isn't anybody with special privileges who can take your money.

And I would certainly assume that in 2022, any service would be built using encryption for the parts that are private, and aren't DM's private? Why would admins be able to read them? Is there a justification for that?
> scroll to the bottom and expand the "Moderated servers" section

Wow. As much as I disliked Twitter deciding who I can and can’t follow (via bans), and what people can and can’t say, at least they put some rigor into it. I don’t think I’d ever want some self anointed little server god king banning so many peers for such soft reasons. I thought it would be csam, armed groups - this has reasons like “Trump fanbase”, “offensive content”, and over and over again “a-holes”.

No thanks.
Manhattan metric maybe? In that case a diagonal line isn't shorter than an L-shaped route.
Sure. I used it for about twenty minutes before I turned it off because it seemed clear to me that it wasn't much different than copying code from open source repositories.
If you're ok with a bit of DIY, I recently got some Qwiic I2C sensors combined with an ESP32 running ESPHome. The Qwiic connectors made the hardware part really plug and play.

I have SGP40 for VOC - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4829
For True CO2 I have a SCD40 - https://www.adafruit.com/product/5187
For dust I have a PMSA003I - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4632

You can buy 1 of these, and add the other if/when you want to measure something else.

This is an ESP32, although I don't have this exact one - https://www.adafruit.com/product/5337

And then ESPHome - https://esphome.io/

ESPHome publishes the data on MQTT, which I then read in Home Assistant.
That would not be O(1), but O(n) per insert.
Yes keep going! It is hard to see one and have it covered under your insurance, but in America (if you are in the US) you can just pay out of pocket if your insurance doesn't cover it, or requires several hoops to jump through in order to get a referral.

You can also ask your primary care doctor to give you a referral. Most will oblige.

Out of pocket, the fee is probably a few hundred dollars for an hour consultation.

Best of luck!
> Today, even though the five stocks still make up over 13% of the market value of the S&P 500, the FAANG narrative seems like it’s over for good.

Let me save you ten minutes. It is a zero information article. Gives no backing for this central claim, instead randomly rambles about Meta without saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before.
Integer factorization is relevant only because integer factorization is currently considered to be computationally difficult and effectively impossible. If this ceases to be the case (effective QC hardware, or perhaps some math breakthrough), the effect is simply that integer factorization stops being a valid security or proof-of-work measure and thus it ceases to be used, not that breaking integer factorization becomes a viable commercial industry.
People have written whole books on how to use twitter. There's a whole generation that needed this kind of introduction to make sense of it, when it was relatively new.

Every time a twitter thread gets posted on HN, there's at least one comment on how difficult it is to read it, for one reason or another.
> This whole article is bizarre. Imagine an article saying “UK government set to extract hospital data to ... “Microsoft 365” or “Google Sheets”

Or to Yandex or another system controlled by a foreign government. What gives you the impression someone else is at liberty to take my data ant put into a place where it will be stolen>?
I agree but I'm saying that attribution would be all that's missing from compliance in most cases.
That doesn't help if my host instance decides to relay from a questionable source, without my explicit consent.
You do not need Mr. Musk for that - there is already 4chan.
You didn't answer my question - are you a Starlink customer, and are you impacted by this policy change?

> You strongly implied that any household that uses a terabyte per month outside of late night hours is "abusing" the service.

This is at best incomplete, or at worst incorrect.

I said that for the Starlink service people consuming excessive network bandwidth are abusing the service - because they're impacting the performance for 'normal' users -- a set that includes me.

If you're consuming more than 1TB on a service that isn't as physically restricted as a LEO satellite service, well good for you.

This story is about Starlink changing their terms and conditions to limit the impact of inconsiderate users.

Aside - my gut feel is that they're actually targeting the >10TB / month users, or some other relatively high threshold of really heavy & persistent users, but by simply stating a ceiling they're tacitly saying anything up to that volume is okay - and they don't want to normalise really large volumes, hence picking a 1TB figure.
Rental Arbitrage Is TikTok’s Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
If they ever wanted to fix that, it seems like it'd be pretty easy to do by having a wireless IMU and gryo you could attach to the vehicle itself, then subtract that from whatever the headset feels.
It could easily be remote controlled, but you lose the whole mecha appeal. Also, the damage needs to be controlled, otherwise the repairs would be too expensive. Feels more like entertainment wrestling than mecha fights.