skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some napkin math in this article[1].

User data is worth much, much more than the the value users extract from "free" services. Especially considering this data is sold continually and perpetually. It doesn't just get purged from the market when the user stops using the service, and it's even bought and sold if the user never signed up for the service (shadow profiles).

We should definitely receive a fraction of these profits, or at the very least have control over the price and terms of sale.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/30/sh...
Generally

1. Read a travel guide (like Lonely Planet or Rick Steves) for an idea of an itinerary

2. Read travel itineraries on Reddit or Google search

3. E-mail travel writers from the guide books and book a paid 1 hour zoom session to refine itinerary (I have found this to be extremely helpful)

4. Create a google docs and sheets of the itinerary

A new thing I've been playing with is ChatGPT to generate an itinerary
> soirée entertainment contraption rather than intended for actual mine use

Disturbing; and I seem to remember reading that people did use vacuum pumps for similar horrors. However, looking at the wear on the device in the first pic, I'm hoping that the story explained by the museum is true.
Well, that's why major TOS changes are accompanied by the option to discontinue using that service. Usually they say that continuing to use the service after a certain date constitutes your agreement to the new terms.

I think we're over here in our armchairs weirdly assuming that GitHub doesn't have any lawyers working for them. I think they know they're legally in the clear on CoPilot.

I'm not at all a lawyer, but in my opinion we observe that the non-automated version of AI-generated works (the act of making art and prose in the style of an existing copyright work based on the artist's observation of that work) is not illegal. The only thing that AI introduces is automation.
Well, yes. There are plenty of takes on this. The "Traveller" RPG has a nice one: distributed feudal confederation. There's a nominal emperor, but it's hugely important that he never do almost anything, because "his" empire is a lifetime across.

Nearly the only law is that you don't impede the mail system, and that you pay a small tax to support the fleet that will hammer you into the ground if you impede the mail.
Oh come on, Russian "oligarchs" have their property seized without so much as a trial or any kind of a criminal charge thrown to them
'Simple Tab Groups' Firefox Extension
Hardly. Volunteer positions come with responsibilities. No one is forcing them to waste their time on moderating an internet forum, but they chose to do it for whatever reason and then chose to be lazy and actively harmful.
The very top blurb is:

> A high-performance C++ Editor

> Smooth and fast editing

> Built to handle the largest C++ projects

Then right below that, the title of the first image is:

> Fast Workspace Load

Just a little bit further down is:

> Navigation

> Quickly navigate around the largest projects

> Instant Search

> Find what you want - fast!

Just which part of the page did you read, out of curiosity?
For reducing wealth concentration and thus better distribution, it's crucial that initial whales keep getting diluted, as they would be with a fixed reward.
Article is a little light on details with regards to why the author believes this effect exists. I have to imagine that their thinking is that application of force is limited to the distance you can travel one month instead of anything that would relate to the application of soft power (e.g. communication).

Supplying a ground based force follows more of a square-cube law. You need to feed your horses to transport your food to feed your soldiers. Going further means more food for the horses to carry the food for the horses to carry the food for the soldiers. There is an excellent post here that explains this far better than I ever could: https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-wago...

Any limitations on space based empires, while similar, are going to follow somewhat different rules depending on the tech involved. Unlike horses, once you launch you don't really have an opportunity to resupply a space based force going a long distance without inordinate energy expenditure. I'm not convinced force projection over a galaxy would be a problem for a civilization capable of travel at a significant fraction of the speed of light. Solving one problem (travel) necessarily solves the other (distribution of force).

I think the bigger question is more, why bother? What possible reason could a civilization have to go to war at that scale? Human civilization would need to change so much to get to that point that I'm not certain these are questions are explorable at our place in the timeline. We'd be like Romans dreaming about a better abacus.
All-Time Complete List of Discontinued Microsoft Products
You are anonymous as long as you have not used your wallet somewhere where you can be identified. Read about "welcome to video" child porn bust possible due to chainanalysis. From https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-v...

Chainalysis had combined these techniques for de-anonymizing Bitcoin users with methods that allowed it to “cluster” addresses, showing that anywhere from dozens to millions of addresses sometimes belonged to a single person or organization. When coins from two or more addresses were spent in a single transaction, for instance, it revealed that whoever created that “multi-input” transaction must have control of both spender addresses, allowing Chainalysis to lump them into a single identity. In other cases, Chainalysis and its users could follow a “peel chain”—a process analogous to tracking a single wad of cash as a user repeatedly pulled it out, peeled off a few bills, and put it back in a different pocket. In those peel chains, bitcoins would be moved out of one address as a fraction was paid to a recipient and then the remainder returned to the spender at a “change” address. Distinguishing those change addresses could allow an investigator to follow a sum of money as it hopped from one address to the next, charting its path through the noise of Bitcoin’s blockchain.
My solution is to shutdown my PCs every day.
Well I hope it wouldn't be too different in French then!
Don't forget "recycling" [plastics] - another fossil fuel industry PR campaign!
Two big lessons of GTD (and majorly influencing many many other systems like basb, ztd, etc):

- DO NOT read/peruse/etc on first inspection! Just add it to a list.

- Collecting these items is not processing them which is not organization!

Stop beating yourself up, and start running a system. You must set aside the time for the following:

- Collect everything into some list. Links on the web you'd like to read is great for this - just get the title and the link.

- Process that list into what it means to you! Is it a project? A task? A piece of reference material? Just fun stuff to read later that you don't want to commit to? etc

- Organize those now processed items to where things belong. Projects/tasks, into your task manager. Reference material, into your reference filings. Fun stuff to read later? Just throw it on a "hey, read this when you're bored later" list using something like Instapaper, or evernote, or even a text file of links.

Now you're cooking with gas. You get to peruse all these links that make you feel up to date, but you're spending maybe 5 mins just collecting them into a list to read whenever you have time later. "Do it tomorrow" is my mantra, and I can only be honest about that if I keep lists.

My list is excessively long, and normally I try to comment/read comment threads the day after the post is made. However I had to comment that the emotions around these desires can be inspected, introspected, dissected, etc... or you can change the basic behavior into what you'd like - and skip some of the emotions all together.

One of the most powerful things I learned with meditation: going through the "noticing and labeling" process, eventually leading to just noticing and labeling everything as "desires", and watching them float through the sky. Notice, label, and it'll slowly go away.
It means that poor choices and addiction can’t explain why San Francisco has so much higher homelessness than other places like West Virginia, which has much higher addiction rates.
Fair enough, the time around graduation can be pretty stressful for everyone!
That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted
I've seen studies relating hyperactivity to Neanderthal and older genes.

They persist because not enough time has passed to mutate them out.
Given that ChatGPT will lie with absolute conviction I don't think we should make a habit of posting article summaries it generates.
When I worked at a small prop shop, the cutoff was $400k TC, after which 50% would go into the fund for N years.

Currently I work at a large bank. My comp is all cash, but many of my colleagues get deferred stock compensation. Not sure what exactly the limit is but it's definitely much less than, say, $1m.
The commonality I believe they're pointing to is the suffering that is often caused for these things to exist / function.
Oh, I agree with you. People just love being technically correct (the best kind of correct) on the internet for some reason. Is an air fryer actually a convection oven, yes, but do I care, no.
The dexpan never existed as big pieces.
Should check the drug addiction rate among the street dwellers before drawing such conclusions.

In Seattle, 90% are addicted to drugs or alcohol, or are mentally ill.

https://komonews.com/news/local/komo-news-special-seattle-is...
This is basically impossible with a trackball mouse :)
The dexpan is not a huge concrete structure, it's just a cylinder the size of the hole it was poured in.
Apple AR/VR headset development behind schedule, expect late fall release
Both tech and VC are vastly more mobile than anything to do with the gold rush or even other 'technology' sectors with heavy physical assets, it's purely a coordination game.
Off the top, ORM all the way. I don't like SQL syntax, it makes my head hurt. Boooo.

I recently switched from RethinkDB to EdgeDB, and it uses SQL under the hood. I love it, it's awesome. I don't need raw SQL but I think EdgeDB allows you to write queries if you want.
lol my bad. I should read more carefully. I thought I saw $50.
After trying vertical mouses, I'll never go back to regular ones. Regular ones cause pain in my wrist after using them for some time, while with vertical ones there's no wrist pain.
I loved using dendrite implementation but people should be aware if it’s limitations. Since it’s basically a rewrite of synapse in go, they are currently playing catch up.

All features of synapse are currently not there. For example, most media APIs are not working, like URL preview. Before 2 months ago, I feel like they were making great strides with the project. They were pushing out weekly updates.

Development has definitely slowed down, and it doesn’t help one of the key contributors/maintainers has left the company/project.

Hopefully the project gets a few dedicated maintainers and people to manage and fund it. It really is a great implementation but I ended up switching back to synapse.
> Aren't you missing here that there's a certain threshold below which holders practically do not stake? All those people with low balances do not get this "same percentage".

If some percentage p of people cannot afford to stake, and the rest do, then the stakers can at most increase their share by 1/(1-p). Just a constant. Nothing exponential.
You don't add them up like this. I can make a car use 50% less fuel an infinite amount of times, not just twice.
You might be confusing the "Book of Lies" with the "Book of the Law". The latter was "channeled" and is the keystone of his system, where the former is authored by Crowley in the usual sense of the term.
Claude: AnthropicAI's Model with self-awareness about its own creation
Any application on linux where snapshots, resizable partitions, compression or deduplication is useful? Zfs on linux is still not ready for primetime on root partitions, and for most uses except raid5/6 (which isn't important for 99% of desktop users) btrfs is an excellent option

There's a reason the other major non-debian distros have switched to it by default.

I'm still waiting for ubuntu to allow installing using btrfs + fulldisk encryption by default, which is currently a massive issue.
I dont wear any safety gear, because (1) I dont speed, (2) I know and feel my board enough to be safe, (3) monitor battery and dont ride below 10-15%, (4) I can roll/run it out if anything happens.

but newbie riders should at least wear a helmet, and install fangs to protect themselves from nosediving. These are a must, I would say
M1 Macbook Air. I've been using a 2017 MBP that heats up easily, especially when plugged to an external monitor (apparently this requires use of the discrete GPU). The new MBA is always cool and the battery life is of course tremendous. I took it on a week-long vacation and charged it twice. It also has more ports (my MBP was a base model because I didn't want a TouchBar), which is very helpful.

I know the new MBPs are more powerful, and they have better connectivity. I'd love to have HDMI and SD slots, to be sure. But picked up my wife's new MBP, I'm happy to make the feature/weight tradeoff (and she's jealous of my featherlight MBA!).
I'll second this.

A common error people who love coffee frequently make is underestimating the value of a good grinder.

My first grinder was a regular bean chopper, and when I upgraded to a capresso I thought I was finally at a better place for fresh ground (at the time I though $100 for a grinder was insane).

I finally started looking for real high-end grinders (> $1k) because my espresso was still not up to snuff and all my barista friends kept telling me that the quality of my grinder was what was holding me back.

Funny thing was, even though I was willing to spend $2k on a grinder, supply chain issues had other plans.

Got the 1zpresso K-ultra and wow, each shot of espresso I pull now is a work of art.

Even if you're not an espresso person it will make any way you serve the coffee taste notably better.

Being manual is not even a big deal as it takes very little effort to grind coffee every morning. It's instantly replaced my capresso for not only espresso but pour over as well. I also have no plans to upgrade to a more expensive home option now.
The Spanish-American War was literally caused by journalists. It's always been an arm of propaganda. You're seeing this through rose-tinted glasses.
I really wanted you to get to sixthly, seventhly, eighthly, ninethly, tenthly...
I don't really know what to make of this satire... I find this confusing:

> In most contexts, it is self-evident when "white" is being used in an inclusive sense, in which case it subsumes members of the darker race just as much as fairskins.

That's definitely not how that works. "Black" and "white" are opposite in the dictionary. Looking up the term "man" in the dictionary [1][2], they all contain as one of the definitions of "a human being of either sex; a person" or something like it. It is at worst an unclear-but-possible construal to use the word "man" to imply "person," whereas construing "white" to mean "white or black" is not how any version of English works.

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/man

[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man

[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+man
Hi everybody,

As a consultant, I have got to work many times with non-technical customers who don't have access to the servers running their applications.

I ended up writing small notes on how I have been gaining access to EC2 instances.

In short, AWS allows running scripts after the instance boots, which can be leveraged to introduce a "backdoor", like authorizing a new ssh key.
> The problem is that ZFS basically can't move things.

The one killer feature for me with btrfs is offline deduping (and by extension not having de-duping require a super computer to run). My data has enough duplication that it'd be nice to have, but not worth requiring hundreds of gigs of ram. Being able to fire off a job after importing a large set of data (or maybe yearly-ish) would be awesome and give me a few extra years without having to update my hardware.
huh, why is that a problem? You can do it from Linux (or Windows) nowadays, with some Rust-based thing

edit: this

https://docs.rs/apple-codesign/latest/apple_codesign/
Oh, forgot to mention that 2Checkout and Verifone are the same product but still have different sites for some reason. Or at the very least, Verifone owns 2Checkout.
> Race doesn't belong in our pronoun system and neither does gender.

Neither do a lot of things: gender, irregular verbs and plurals don't need to be in the language at all. It's time to ditch English and force a switch to a wholly synthetic language, carefully engineered to be free of English's pervasive ungoodness.
2025 Lightyear 2 is sub-£40k solar-powered electric saloon
They made it easier/more profitable to develop land by driving prices up
>There is also reinforced concrete, which the Romans didn't have. While concrete by itself can in principle be moulded into any shape, this can sometimes fall apart, even after hardening. Reinforcement refers to putting a concrete around metal wiring, providing more versatility.

Not a correction per se, but some further explanation.

The reason for reinforcement is because concrete is strong in compression and weak in tension - in fact for design purposes we disregard its tensile capacity entirely. What reinforcement does is handle the tensile stresses in a structural member. When a beam, column, or slab bends it often (based on the load placed and structural design) creates tension on one side and compression on the other, so we put the rebar in the structural member close to the tension side, or on both sides if there may be tension on both sides.

In slabs reinforcing may also be used in some capacity just to limit cracking in an otherwise non structural capacity. In certain kinds of designs it may also provide confinement to the concrete which can be important for structural analysis reasons that are too technical to get into here (plastic hinging especially in earthquake design, etc).

We have different kinds of reinforcement, depending on the need of the project, but for the most part we use steel because its reasonably durable, has similar temperature expansion properties to concrete (imagine if your concrete got cold and shrunk more than things embedded in it, or grew so much the things embedded in it weren't attached anymore), its behaviour is well understood, and it is reasonably priced.

The design of steel reinforcing in concrete is also done in a way that reduces the likelihood of sudden failures, so that if something does happen, it happens slowly and with plenty of warning.

There are alternative reinforcing materials that may be appropriate in some very specific situations, but civil engineering moves very slowly and adoption is slow because risk is high. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) and Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) are examples of these. They may have much higher tensile stress capacity per unit of area, and also are less susceptible to corrosion, but they cost a lot, their failure modes are sudden, greater deflections under load, and each may have other tradeoffs like worse compressive behaviour, or worse fire resistance, etc.
OK, let's assume your argument is correct. (which I don't think is true, but let's go with that for now) Let's say that media depicting some kinds of sexual material warps what gives some people sexual satisfaction.

...so?

Should my preferences of what I find acceptable and not acceptable in that domain somehow influence what content others are allowed to consume? If the creation of that content actively causes harm, then sure. That content should be restricted. If we are restricting it because you think it's icky and it might lead to other things you find icky than we took a wrong turn somewhere.

That's like saying we should outlaw mozzarella cheese because it might lead to the consumption of triple cheese sausage pizza. Neither of those acts hurt me, so why should I care about people choosing to participate in either?
> Most people already own ovens that can do convection cooking.

[Citation needed]

I can’t find any data about penetrations, but IME it is very common for people not to have a convection oven.
I can't comment on Air Pods since I don't use them, but there are other high quality ear buds with ANC that work on any device. I'm particular to Bose ANC 700 which are over-ear and more comfortable for me, but definitely don't fit snugly under a hood. Jabra elites are excellent and similar form factor to Air Pods.
Google can generate code.

- Google: How do I ...
- visit stack overflow
- copy/paste
- code generated.

There's more steps, but how is this different? Chat GPT though will go the extra mile and actually EXPLAIN what each bit does usually. It's not always accurate but neither is stackoverflow.
If you're good enough (and you are!), sometimes requirements like these aren't as set in stone as they may appear and rules can be bent/positions created.

It'd be worth pinging over an email to someone senior there if you haven't already with a link to your portfolio (and maybe this post) if you're particularly interested.
https://jake.tl

I’ve used this site design for probably 6 years?

Today it’s a NextJS site on Vercel backed by markdown files (older pages) and Notion (newer pages). I’ve also built the same design with a Python SSG which was focused on one HTTP request per page, and before that a POSIX shell script I wrote focused on being as FreeBSD as possible.

I would like to share more knowledge on the site, but it’s in last place behind all my other life goals.
After all, the Battle of the Bulge did take place in the California desert. Medieval England looks like California, too. Even the alien worlds of Star Trek look suspiciously like California.
I've seen these, but have no idea how to acquire dry ice.
Yeah that's a good point. In our case, all smart systems can work independently (via their own app or physical controls) or be integrated with other smart home platforms. It's true that if they would ever move out, the HA instance might be gone, making the house loose a bit of its brains when it comes automation. But the base to build on is there, still has value I guess. And the rack with Ethernet in all rooms has some value too.

Edit: The only "problematic" part would be the cameras. Not sure if Unifi cams can work with other platforms than Ubiquiti's. But in any case, the wiring is there (Ethernet) and the cameras can be replaced or a new owner could bring their own Unifi surveillance console (or we could sell it with it).
Interestingly, the biggest bird of all, the ostrich, might also be the dumbest. Or at least ostriches are in the conversation with pigeons and turkeys.
Nice job so far!

One thing that would help onboarding, I think, may be an initial/sample/example/default workspace with some illustrative sections and tasks. It's a bit too empty/minimal up front, but I see some potential/promise here for sure.

Again, nice work!
What mass storage?
Yes, they are currently not mobile optimized. It's not a high priority because I think doing it once on a Desktop/Laptop is okay for now.
I....

Software Engineers are not better at making accurate historical claims than historians. I'd be fucking baffled if "new insights about history come from technologists" in any meaningful quantity. Like, it'd be among the most surprising thing involving human behavior I could imagine. Like, what software engineers do you know that have spent even a minute working in an archive?

I see no way that this comment could be made without just a complete ignorance of the profession of history.