skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You will never gain the ability to pick and choose what your taxes fund

This is interesting to think about, though. Ideally people shouldn't be forced to pay for things they are opposed to, right? Or do we just take it for granted that is morally acceptable to be forced to do something if 51% of our representatives at some level of government say so?

What if wars were funded voluntarily? Perhaps we wouldn't have so many offensive wars. Wouldn't it be proper for drivers to pay all their associated costs, like a use tax? And property taxes if you want police and fire protection? Maybe opt-in for things like social security? Etc.

I understand this would be a significant change, and come with its own problems, and might not work for everything, given the way we currently govern ourselves. But doesn't the sentiment behind the idea has some merit, selling people on the idea of funding public works instead of forcing them? Maybe not everyone pays for everything, but does that need to be a deal breaker? If an idea doesn't have enough support to be voluntarily funded, perhaps it's not a good idea?

I guess that I like questioning assumptions...
> People should start using these apps as simple note-taking apps and extend/adapt them based on their needs

This. I'm a hardcore Obsidian user both at work and at home, and I started both vaults from absolutely nothing - no user scripts, no organisation, literally no plan at all. Since then, they've evolved and optimized in radically different ways. Taking someone else's "system" is just a way to fool yourself into thinking you can be more productive than you are; you have to find that for yourself and what works specifically for you.

My personal vault is geared much more toward organizing creativity, with a little bit of task-oriented stuff and technical documentation, while my corporate vault is heavily schedule based and contains mostly tactical information, meeting notes and thoughts, etc. For it to be a "second brain", you need it to model your brain - and I work very modally. I have a "work mode" and a "non-work mode" that order things pretty differently, and it shows in the hierarchies and organization of both vaults.
Sure but that’s not the point. Phony Stark acquired Twitter because he had concerns about erosion of free speech on the platform, and yet he is doing (and has done) more to erode free speech on the platform in the last month than has happened in the prior decade.

Rather ironic for a self-professed “free speech absolutist”.
I've been playing with Intel's "Implicitly Parallel SIMD Compiler" (ISPC) [0].

The ISPC User Guide was easy for me to work through, and there's a section on "Structure of Arrays" (SOA) programming [1].

This approach to vector-parallel programming was new to me, but got me to try some C code for the kernel transformation. My simple applications are probably fast enough in Python, but I thought it quite worthwhile to look at tiny kernels and the code the compiler generates.

- [0] https://ispc.github.io/index.html

- [1] https://ispc.github.io/ispc.html#structure-of-array-types
> Is this expected/known?

I expect that Google will use any data the can obtain to make themselves more money. So if could've imagined the situation you described.
From what I understand it's a scam. But you can't believe everything you read on the web...
If people actually looked at the machines and code doing the tracking, they would find out that advertising online is tied to complete electromagnetic surveillance of the entire globe, including people's inner speech and bodily actions.

The same people responsible for Havana Syndrome have coerced their way into the tech industry and, as you said, privacy will only be had with a fight.

Petty criminals are recruited online and given unfettered access to systems that have complete dossier and real-time tracking of anyone, enabling harassment, surveillance and sabotage.

Just disconnecting isn't enough, tinfoil won't shield against the advanced electromagnetic surveillance used and only a rebuild of our society, with housing that can absorb and nullify radiation, will bring privacy and security back.
> JPEG compression causes ringing artifacts that can extend out past the pixels you're trying to redact, up to the next block boundary.

This.

I made a response to the parent question that goes into the practical side of this in a bit more detail, but this is a much better one-sentence summary of /how/ the information leaks.
I was a little disappointed, as I thought it would be instructions on how to make actual, physical vault from obsidian.
I made a knife from obsidian. It’s brittle but very sharp. I only really use it to open envelopes.
It is for people who don't doxx. Elon's detractors who haven't are still there.
That's like your landlord handing the keys to your condo to the bully upstairs because you have a cockroach problem.
> For HTTP challenge, yes its true. But for DNS Challenge its not.

The query from LetsEncrypt to your authoritative DNS server is unencrypted. The method you use to make an update is irrelevant, since the response can be spoofed by a third party with backbone surveillance capabilities.
Tbh I have no idea who she is, but I can't see banning a journalist, which appears to be only due to some investigation into Musk, is good for free speech.
Zenfone looks good only on paper - horrible shutter speed (main disadvantage of Samsung), unreliable hardware compared to other brands, unoptimized software and no long updates guaranteed plus they ask more for it than Samsung with trade in bonuses. They could fix the software part, but I don't think more reliable hardware is realistic and what's the point of great phone if it breaks.

If someone doesn't mind slow shutter and mediocre battery life then S22 is good option for smaller phone with good camera, updates and good VFM with trade in bonus (could be had around 500€ with any phone from drawer).
This period also has the earliest (to my current knowledge) documented use of a gather-targeting-information-then-triangulate-the-social-graph-clique-by-clique propaganda campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...
Actually, it's a close tie with Sacha Chua, but anyway I appreciate David Wilson sharing all of his hard work with us
Author here.

If the sought action of the court case, and the outcome were, "the domain were taken down" that would be one thing. Domains get suspended by court cases all the time, that's not the issue.

What makes the no-ip.org case extraordinary is that Microsoft a) persuaded the court that the domain was being used for malware, and then b) persuaded the court that because of this, rather than doing something normal like compelling its operator to take down the afflicted subdomains, or failing that compelling a third party to suspend the domain, that they should be allowed to take over DNS service for the domain.

Microsoft is not the law and they have no special legal status. If a domain is being used for cybercrime it's one thing, it doesn't mean any random party should get to walk into court, complain about it, and then offer to "solve" the issue by randomly appointing itself DNS provider. Microsoft essentially hijacked and MitM'd the domain via court order, again demonstrating that the registries/registrars will always be a risk here.

The result I might add was a massive outage for a massive number of innocent no-ip.org users.
Doesn't appear she was doxxing anyone on twitter though.
> I've been exploring general purpose computing with both CUDA and Apple Silicon and am having a lot better luck using SIMD intrinsics instead

What sort of programs are you trying this with?
Every time people bring this project up, I have to say this again, so here goes:

The purpose of a naming system is to give users a common way to consistently reference specific things. Anyone should be able to mention a name for a thing, and know that any other user will be able to look up that name and resolve it to the same thing.

GNS missed this lesson. Under GNS, every user has their own, slightly different view of naming; a name which one user is able to resolve may not be resolvable for another user, or (even worse) other users might see it resolve to something completely different.

There are many ways of defining how a "decentralized" naming system should work. This is one of them, and I'm sure it sounds cool, but it is not a good idea. Try again.
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> Let’s say you’re covering a red pixel with a black pixel. There’s no way that red pixel will in any way “survive JPEG compression” because the compression happens on the raw pixel data; the raw pixel data no longer has a red pixel.

This is trivially untrue for JPEG; JPEG often stores chroma info as 4:2:0, that is at a quarter the resolution of luminance info. In this common case, covering a single red pixel in the decoded form only removes a quarter of the chroma information from its presence (and this is easy to not notice if, for example, the other three pixels that share its chrominance are nearly black).
And Elon will let you know his updated definition of doxxing as soon as he needs to come up with an excuse for his next high profile banning.
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Might consider using this if it supported org-mode, or the more recent orgdown that Karl Voit recently specified.
Read her history. She doxxed LibsOfTikTok.
> No, because land close to humans is limited

It's not that limited. Think how many roofs there are. Or car parks.

Also HVDC power transmission is a thing now. You don't even need to have your power source close to humans.
EU becomes the planet’s biggest NIMBY over US climate bill
Regardless of whether you think it's dishinest or not, his point still stands: tls mitm is not and cannot be mitigated via DNS.
This seems like dangerous advice if taken as "ignore customers".

Someone else said you should never believe customers who tell you what they want, but you should always pay close attention to what customers do.

The latter is a type of market research, isn't it?
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it's kinda weird how high Windows Firefox is on the list yet Firefox on mac doesn't make it in the top 50 at all... Do mac users just not use Firefox??
Nor with DNSSEC: the same government that gave Microsoft control over this zone has de jure control over DNSSEC key management for that zone.
Unsure if you're referring to me, but I assure you it's not the case. I've never even watched shorts!

I rarely use YouTube, mainly for tool reviews and an occasional song. When I open the app, I get one suggested video, then a strip of shorts.

Here's a screenshot:

https://i.postimg.cc/HLG4tFKF/Screenshot-20221217-232808-You...
How can you block this?
> ... so it isn't as good as DNSSEC for security.

And DNSSEC doesn't provide any privacy to the end user. Both mechanisms provide something of value, and ideally they'd both be used together.
> even though it isn't really necessary for anything.

It is one of the best, if not the best, way of letting users know what their action will lead to, and of letting them explore the range of available actions.

By behaving similarly to a well-know interface, it simplifies discovery, lowers friction and reduces frustration.

So when smartphones and touch interfaces were new to most people, behaviours such as this one were major, although nearly invisible, product features.

Now? Yes, it mostly isn’t necessary to anything, but it was nice.
Thanks for the examples.

I gather that zig "comptime" is somewhat like C++11 "constexpr".

https://www.hackingnote.com/en/cpp/const-vs-constexpr/index....
> Imagine they pointed to 1960s Lisbon or late 1950s Soviet Russia and insisted the government implement a sensible housing policy. It would be a bloodbath for investors and consequently cannot be allowed to happen.

Those buildings would be illegal in most of the US. If similar quality and floor space per inhabitant was legal to build you could indeed solve housing problems in short order. No need to have the state do it. If flophouses/SROs were legal developers would build them.
so fucking what? it's an equivalent of a corporation invading and seizing control of an entire country because some people living there are doing it harm
NTSC-CRT: NTSC video signal encoding/decoding emulation
It feels like this practice is becoming more common across the web in general.

I'm not sure which I'd prefer - not showing a price before putting in cart, or changing the price after putting in cart.
I saw this in a tweet or LinkedIn post (don’t remember anymore exactly) and it stuck with me ever since: “The best way to career success is to be easy to work with”.
Not sure if I understand, but the article gives a number of examples, such as:

> Mary knows that she could control her pain if she could take vitamin pills, eat a special diet, and go to physiotherapy. She can’t afford it. “Mary identifies poverty as the driver of her MAID request,” Gibb-Carsley writes on a slide accompanying her talk, emphasizing the. “She does not want to die, but she’s suffering terribly and she’s been maxing out her credit cards. She has no other options.”
From a quick search, it seems to be due the Radon gas.

Exposure to Radon is the #1 cause of lung cancer on non-smoker. Canada ranks third on indoor radon concentration worldwide.
He’s trolling, or alternatively pointing out that we live in societies where we rely on others doing their jobs to allow us to ok in the manner to which we have become accustomed.
I came away from reading the article wondering what context I was missing. What use-case is the author targeting? It feels like I need to read more about this author to understand the article.
HN discussions of Nostr:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 (11 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 (22 days ago)
They doxx people all the time, just the other day they posted someones place of work and address*. Elon seems fine with it, he unbanned them and interacts with the account.

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1603667771916795907...
Tried your website on Chrome 108.0.5359.125 (Win 64-bit), and it displayed nothing but a teal background, until I turned off the Decentraleyes 2.0.17 extension (which was reporting and blocking 542 locally-injected resources). FYI.
I don't want to be protected from myself. As the admin I should have full access to the stuff I buy.

Disabling it is ok but the problem with that is that you lose all security. There should be a way to add our own signing keys to persist changes to the SSV (Signed System Volume) and SIP protected folders. It shouldn't be trust only Apple or nothing.
He was also much more mellow then. Jobs in 1984 with Twitter might have been a different story.
Received a plea via a new browser window for donations when opening Thunderbird yesterday. It worked, I donated a few bucks. I thought it may have been mentioned on HN before now.
> So again: Why isn't the take that Thousands are dying to soon to save money?

You relayed a handful of stories that, even assuming they're all broadly correct, still don't add up to thousands.
He's allowed to be ironic. Before he bought it nobody seemed to care about "free speech" on Twitter. Journalists and sitting presidents were banned and people cheered. Why the sudden concern now? Just because people you like are getting banned?

I've been consistent. I support a private company's right to do business with whoever they want, and not with anybody they don't. It doesn't change just because they ban people I agree with.
A Trekkie's Tale
I think the fundamental issue here is that the court actually granted Microsoft's rediculus request. The only valid ruling here was for the court to order the suspension of the domain.

Seeing that Microsoft are an unrelated third-party, what was the judge's reasoning for granting them specifically ownership of the defendant's property? Wouldn't it have made more sense to assign ownership to a government organization instead?

Did Microsoft reimburse the domain owner the value of the domain or did they just steal it without payment?
I love how Obsidian has evolved and grown to such an extent that merely showing off what you do with it is enough in itself.e
EU regulations require the final price to be displayed. Eventually they'll take notice.
Wow. Thank you so much too!
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Seems like you would want to run the power reactor especially 3He-rich, so the 2H can mostly find a 3He. Presumably 3He is hard to make fuse with itself or with waste He4 or tritium. But 2H is much more eager to fuse with 3H than anything else, so it would be important to get the 3H product out quickly. Separating waste 3H and H from the 2H/3He mix cannot be easy.

I have encountered an assertion that 3He eagerly turns into tritium, I guess when struck by a stray hot electron, which will certainly be milling about. Wondering how much of the 3He they breed will be lost to this.
I haven't laughed this much in a long time. Thank you!
That's already what happens for gas and petrol anyways
A bit pricey for people not in US.
Golf of what sort? It's hard to beat RLE or RLE+palette for minimal code size. I'd expect either one of those to be a tenth the size of a QOI decoder.
There were a lot of Ford models before the model T, as you might guess if you heard that they started with "A" and went through the alphabet (skipping some).

More than one of them really looked like a "horseless carriage". For example:
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...

That apparently came to an end after the model T.

And Ford's first car company failed.

Maybe you could draw a parallel between Steve Jobs and his "second act".
Disable “coarse location” option in settings. Might not work though.

If you want coarse location to work but don't want Google to know it, try microG with a non-Google location provider (I use Apple and Mozilla and it's pretty good).
I believe if you're logged in it will miraculously know what language to use. Mind you I don't actually know because I stay logged out
It all got reversed eventually after massive negative press coverage. I don't think Microsoft took "ownership" of the domain, but simply got the court to make them the nameservers, though I may be wrong.

I do feel like the only way this request was granted was due to total ignorance on the part of the court of anything about how the internet works.
I'm going to say some hard truth here that nobody really plans for it (as seen as what's happening in Europe this month) and the companies really don't care as long as the renewables are sold, it's not even counted in the price per kwh either.
Not nobody. I had a touchscreen phone for years before the iPhone appeared. All Windows Mobile platform, but there were Palm devices at the same time. The iPhone improved usability and stability, and its capacitive touch surface was a vast improvement over even the best resistive screens, but it was by no means at the vanguard. Its marketing was, though.
I don't think Apple does, but I've noticed stuff like the touch bar and the finger print reader prompting to automatically sign in on certain sites only work on Safari. It makes sense that Safari would be better integrated with the OS. Not sure if it's a matter of Apple not making the API available to other browsers or them not taking advantage of it though
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Replacing std:lock_guard with a factory function
i’m curious how they get the low latency performance they need when using a language like ocaml.
Don't Use Stripe
I used Stripe for about 2 years to run a fashion brand in the uk. In the case of my business, I never had an issue processing my small payments for dresses, ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to $1000. All of a sudden, we start getting attention we get payments of $3300 and more. We had around 50000$ dollars on stripe. Stripe flagged the account and is now holding the money from me for "at least 120 days"

It is one thing to say this is a red flag, fine... I hear you... no problem. a transaction multiple times the size... sure. I get it. However, A normal payment processor would then query you for documents authorizing the charge, bank statements, financial statements, some sort of procedure to remedy the issue. Stripe provides NO SUCH METHOD TO RESOLVE these issues.

There are reports of Stripe continuing to add "30 days" to the reserve hold past the initial 120 days, indefinitely. Stripe is taking advantage of a lack of regulation in this space to steal small merchant's large transactions. They see a big, outlier transaction and lick their chops, hiding behind KYC and "Fraud prevention" To hold your money indefinitely.

You cannot call Stripe. They do not have a phone number. Their support page on their website has Phone call and messaging grayed out. You can only email. If you email, you get robots. Even in the same email thread, a different "agent" (with a different name and everything) answers each time with not prior knowledge of your history. There are no ticket numbers to your support request; nothing tracking it. The robots respond with what is quite obviously a template response.

If you do a little bit of research about this topic, you immediately see this is a prevailing issue. Reports of Stripe taking up to $31,000 are all over the internet! Again, Stripe gives no manner to remedy this. There is NO ONE you can call. NO ONE you can talk to. More disconcerting, it seems that anyone who posts about this issue on reddit gets downvoted and teamed up against by established Reddit accounts, that I have to imagine are owned by Stripe. These account have some established reddit history on them, mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.

In my case, I sent my EIN letter, Sales Tax Receipt, Articles of Org, Statement of Trade Name, Certificate of Good Standing, Bank Statements, Website links, Signed transaction receipts, and anything I could think of to Stripe to review. I just received robot-responses.

I challenge anyone here to connect me to a human being at Stripe that can tell me how to resolve the issue. It can't be done. This is a big problem and should be brought to the attention of small business owners, and regulators!

TL;DR: Stripe is a faceless enterprise with no humans you can talk to, no publicly listed phone number, and will allow your small account to operate just fine for a while. As soon as they see that you are growing (and thus your chances of leaving Stripe for a larger, more favorable processor) they will Freeze your account, disallow you to issue refunds, and hold your money indefinitely. You've been warned!!!
> NIL is an empty list.... It isn't. It has none of the mechanics of an empty list in Python etc.

I can see how NIL is confusing when coming from Python, but I think this comment has it backwards. The idea of lists as chains or trees of pointers with a distinguished termination value predates LISP by a few years. Moreover, this kind of list predates Python's use of the term by more than 35 years. If you treat lists as just a particularly useful subclass of trees of CONS cells, then they and NIL make perfect sense. Python's lists are fine too, they're just a different kind of thing.
If Spider Robinson used that quote, I presume my text searches of archive.org would have found it. Yet across the different search combinations, I only found a dozen-odd books, none by an SF author.

Why do you associate it with something written by a famous author?

I don't see anything which suggests its a well-known phrase. Google and DDG together found fewer than 100 pages using that quote. Most appear to have been spontaneous creation. One attributed it to "a Norwegian friend."

(This all assumes my search terms were meaningful.)