skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The death of antitrust law in the US can be tied directly to a bunch of federal judges that practically nullified it with the "consumer welfare" excuse decades ago. Modern tech companies are constructed to maximally exploit this loophole.

The CIA also has In-Q-Tel to fund tech companies and develop surveillance tech. I believe Facebook got some seed money off them early on but their Wikipedia article doesn't list them.

Neither of these are tied together in an obvious way, though. Like, the government doesn't directly create monopolies to obfuscate surveillance; in the world where we had hundreds of viable tech platforms and maximum ownership caps, we'd still have surveillance. Because the government is itself a monopoly. But they prefer working with monopolies because they're easier to regulate and comply with the law more. And monopolies also improve the economy, the failure of which is the number one killer of politicians.
I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how it has changed my life. I'm only in my early 30's, but I think many others my age grew up online and when the internet felt smaller, but in a different way. I made life long friends through these means. But something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends. What I personally miss is the small niche communities. These don't seem to exist anymore. I made several friends on sites like What.cd and found many artists I would have never come into contact otherwise (even speaking with many). Even friends on sites like Imgur when it was smaller, but never once it grew. The global social media is cool and has aspects that are nice to it (e.g. being able to talk to power), but its same power is its greatest downfall (you can't speak to your audience when your audience is everyone, filled with different priors (how we interpret words), and different willingness to act in good faith).

I see everyone talking about Twitter and how it needs to be replaced. But I want to know how we remake these smaller communities. That's what I miss about the internet. There are clearly size thresholds for these. Finding them is often hard and word of mouth. But what I want to know is how we make these flourish and bring personhood back to the internet. We should have both types of communities. But I don't think methods like Mastadon or Reddit really facilitate this. I think many even have seen this change as HN has grown. There are several people that I recognize their names but as the community has grown we have too seen a change in content, culture, and how we speak to one another. For good or bad. But I do think it is nice to have small communities as well that do develop their own cultures. Maybe I'm just old now though.
Also “ The Princess and the Frog “ and “ Mary Poppins “ (1964)
The delusion of efficient central planning is maybe one of the most poignant problems in civilization, because free markets are completely counter intuitive.

The 'reading' that needs to be done here is Adam Smith.

It is extremely difficult to know what a 'productive asset' is.

Luxury items: feels like a waste? But this is a way for rich people to spend stupid amounts of money on something that only they value in their heads, but which nobody else values, and money spreads into the hands of working people. And there are a lot of intangibles that come out of that. Rich guys spending billions on race car teams is where a lot of automotive innovation comes from.

Education: feels productive? Show me millions and millions of papers that nobody else reads, that nobody will ever read and where the 'value' in that is. It would be more 'productive' to send them into Nursing in many cases. But who is going to decide which 'Scientists' are worthy and which one's are not? Tough job!

It goes on and on.
I don't think meat would double it. But yes teenagers eat more than young kids, but there are economies of scale.

My weekly shop is dominated by alcohol, and I'm a meat eater and I struggle to spend that much.
>It's uncomfortable but no more uncomfortable than any other... rectal insertion....

What? What other... rectal insertion extends FIVE FEET, the length of the colon?

I'm an anesthesiologist (x 38 years; retired) present for scores of colonoscopies during my career. Occasionally patients requested zero sedation and I ALWAYS agreed.

I asked each time, explicitly: if you're so uncomfortable the procedure can't be completed — which happens, including to me the each time I've had a colonoscopy — do you want it to stop so you can return another day after a new prep, or do you agree to being sedated enough to proceed? 100% of patients (including me) agreed to sedation if needed.

You would have been my very first patient EVER to have had the procedure cancelled.

Note that every time I have a colonoscopy (I've had four, every five years, and have #5 scheduled on February 3, 2023 [I'm 74 years old and if this one is negative it will be my last one ever, as risks after age 75-80 exceed benefits]) I request zero sedation — heck, I know the risks better than anyone, after all — and every time I simply can't take the discomfort/pain.
Then, if I finally try to render a 5 second click I get:

“There's high demand on the servers currently. Sorry for any inconvenience. I am trying to scale up the servers.”

RIP
> In work published in the Annals of Mathematics in 2016, Ellenberg, along with Akshay Venkatesh and Craig Westerland, used moments to study the statistics of class groups in a slightly different setting than Cohen and Lenstra had considered. This idea was reused several times. But each time researchers used the moments, they would lean on the quirks of their particular problem to prove that the infinite set of equations had a solution. That meant their techniques were not transferable. The next mathematician who needed to use moments would have to solve the moment problem all over again.

Are you suggesting that this need to solve the moment problem all over again could have been avoided by searching Category Theory developments?
I’m not on the same server as all my Twitter friends and I cannot get my timeline to reliably update with everyone’s Toots and Goots.

It works if I catch up the next morning. But there is no reliable ability for real-time Toot Blooting.

In all fairness I took two weeks off. Maybe it’s better. Or maybe I need to try another server (three tries so far.)

Figuring out what server to pick was ridiculous. I eventually decided “just find a really popular one.” But they were all just crashing out when making an account or were closed to new accounts.

I misunderstood what “federated” meant because I also learned that it really matters what server you’re on. It’s not like email. The length of your Toot is different, rules of what you Toot is different. The stuff on your server is a bit more first class than what’s on other servers. And my Toot Boots didn’t Doot Doot or Bloot Flute.
They’re also somewhat successful at keeping people paying around the world.

It’s not about creating masterpieces. It’s about maintaining consistent production pipelines at scale. This is really a return to the 30’s 40’s style Hollywood studio system.

Also makes sense to be making investments like this when selling advertisers on that new ad streaming tier. You want to send a message that you will be reliable in the long term.
see also:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/impl...
> 1) Google maps style directions input by air traffic control showing as well as telling the pilot what runway/path to runway to take.

Now you've added one more thing for the pilot to look at instead of actually looking out the windows.
Not sure what your beef is.

A month ago I signed up for a marathon that is in the fall. I then told my family, friends and coworkers. This puts a bit of pressure on me to get results. I did not strictly have to do this but, in my experience ,it makes it more likely I will complete my training.

See, most people need a little pressure to be successful because we are naturally lazy. And yes, this includes me.

If you want to work in an environment that puts absolutely no pressure on you, sure, do your own thing. There are places where nobody cares for results.

But ask anybody who knows anything and they will tell you these are not good places for people who want to be successful.
This is what happens when you rely on a service you have no control over. It'll happen now, it'll happen later, but at some point, somebody is going to decide they make more money turning the thing you rely on off.
IP can get banned for days even using user directory & timing seems to be an average over an unknown window. The HN big query db is also appeared to be lacking user entries for users without comments or submissions in addition to synchronization delay.
Have been a long time KDE user from the 3.x days through to 2019 when a long standing itch to try a tiling window manager moved me to Awesomewm. I still use Dolphin, Konsole and a few other bits though.

I also seem to remember using the Suse distro in those early times as it was the only one I could find that treated KDE as a first-class citizen and not a bolt-on. (Think I was Redhat before that. This is before the Opensuse and Fedora days.)
This is definitely not a thing.
put it in a Kubernetes cluster and I'm sold
OK, I have to ask- What exactly was your argument against MP3's? They literally let you transfer music with an order of magnitude less data than it took on the CD! Was it an audiophile argument, or...?

I was lucky enough to live in a freshman college dorm (a music-focused dorm, no less!) circa 1997-1998 when Napster was still a thing right after MP3's were a thing, and that shit was amaaaaazing

I mean given how much people love music, I never had any doubt that MP3's would be revolutionary
I have been hearing about this for a number of months now, and it feels more like entitled people boasting than poor people trying to survive. It isn't really in the interest of either party to see shoplifting rise. Shoplifters only benefit when the grocery stores turn a blind eye and grocery stores are only willing to write off so much in losses due to their behaviour (e.g. until it is more profitable to pay for better security).
Per https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/13/how-to-bypass-the-microsof..., you can type Shift-F10 to break into a command prompt during OOBE and run this command: OOBE\BYPASSNRO. Or you can try logging in with a banned email address like no@thankyou.com.
To me debating whether AI really understands anything is as irrelevant as asking whether submarines can swim.

It performs tasks, and does them in its own way.
High likelihood of eventual bankruptcy.
If you create the bootable Windows 11 media with Rufus, it "allows to bypass the mandatory requirement for a Microsoft account on Windows 11 22H2. (NB: Network MUST be temporarily disabled for the local account creation to be proposed). Also add an option to skip all collection questions (Sets all answers to "Don't allow")".
they still exist on the fringes, there are forums from early web, new forums, new types of tech (defi and crypto has a lot of that)
Tweetbot partially works because they're using new API keys:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter...

It's a temporary workaround at best. The new API access is rate limited and Tweetbot will likely be banned again.
Hahah indeed. Hence my ridiculous reply.

Yeah I’m not sure I feel strongly about my own opinion. I think I’m just worried that a bunch of engineers, in absence of designers and product, are going to do what engineers do best: find fun technical problems to solve.
I wrote an awk script to rip through supposedly ascii text files to deal with CP1252 extended ascii characters that would creep in. Those characters played havoc with the output of our bindery’s commercial inkjet print heads. That stuff was fast on ancient equipment
This could be precisely the reason various groups seek representation not just in parliament, but in important three-letter agencies as well.

In the end, the amount of power in the world is finite, and natural power-strivers participate in exercises in game theory over it.
> It also didn't need a bluetooth chip but they added one anyway.

It uses the same IC for both functions -- BCM43458.
The biggest thing missing from records that Lombok provides is withers.
It is coming on Tuesday with the release of Firefox 109.
Looks like mods have taken down this thread
The paper is absolutely a construction on categories.
Also interested in homekit. wondering about homekit secure video compatibility and whether this could be set up in an E2EE way.
Unfortunately, from what I've heard, for your book to be on Kindle Unlimited it cannot be available elsewhere, so many smaller authors won't be available on other stores. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't gotten scrutiny for it.
> Is it really true that you can't access the router's dashboard and configure things without associating an online account to your router?

That might be true for their UniFi line, but EdgeMAX devices work fine without an online account. EdgeRouters run a fork of Vyatta, with configuration files and command line operations that are fairly easy to work with. They also have a web UI for common configurations, though I have little experience with it.

A bit of warning: EdgeMAX support has been declining in recent years. Security updates are still published, but bugs don't seem to be addressed as quickly or consistently as they were in the past, and some forum users have expressed doubts about what kind of support will exist in the future. That said, my equipment is still doing fine.

I think OpenWRT has been ported to at least one Ubiquiti router, so that might be a good fallback if EdgeOS support ever ends. I wonder if anyone here has tried it.
USDTs have significant overhead per active probe. I would not call that minimal. They are very cheap when inactive, but inactive probes can't do this.
> Societies don't need to ask citizens to choose a given mean of transport; they can route their choices them by making some means more convenient and other ones less.

I'm reading that as, "we don't need to ask, we can just make them do it." Which to me is pretty arrogant.
Same thoughts. Someone's got to get emotions under control
Every open source license will by definition allow packaging and selling the code or reposting it on a site with advertising, permitting to do that is one of the key freedoms; if you're forbidden to use the code for commercial purposes, then that's not an open source license. See https://opensource.org/osd

MIT will allow that, Apache/BSD/Mozilla licenses will allow that, GPL and LGPL will allow that, Creative commons CC-BY and CC-BY-SA will allow that - the only difference is extra conditions e.g. GPL will require the seller/redistributor of the code to keep the same license, CC-BY will require leaving attribution to the author, etc, but all of them will allow someone else to redistribute the code for commercial purposes.
A few weeks ago, I was attempting to help introduce someone to Python. I felt embarrassed at trying to paper-over how complicated and confusing the initial configuration is for a newbie. No officially endorsed best-practices to which I could point. Half a dozen tribes with their own competing solutions and guidance.

A definitive statement from Python.org as to The Way would go so far.
I've been using Mastodon for the past couple of months for most of the people I follow, but prior to that I had been using Twitterific for Twitter because it was so much better for how I used it.

Up until a couple of days ago I was still using Twitterific to keep up with those who hadn't yet made the jump (mostly non-tech-adjacent people/communities), but with the iOS version now being dead my usage has seen a nosedive. For now I still check every so often with the Mac version since it's still functional, and if that dies then I'm going to try to figure out alternatives for aforementioned communities (probably Discord, but we'll see) and drop Twitter altogether. I have no interest in the stock client/site whatsoever.
OpenBSD doesn't have jails. Jails take effort to setup. It's much easier to just run the malware instead of going through the effort of making a jail for it.
Can you elaborate on the scheduling updates part? Does it just make a api request every x hours to google's api?
What's extreme is having to connect a peripheral directly to the internet because you need to eke out every last millisecond of latency. The fact that they felt this was necessary is directly related to the reason it failed; because the whole system was inherently susceptible to latency unless you lived very near to one of their data-centers. The product failed mostly for this reason. Everybody responding to me is acting like it was an obvious solution to the problem, but it wasn't a solution to the problem at all. It was an absurd bandaid placed over a gaping wound.
It should absolutely work now. Doesn't it?
Jesus just use Kotlin.
Yeah turns out an electric drive train is much lighter than a gasoline one which offsets the battery weight somewhat. Gasoline engines aren't light, nor are the transmissions. Currently I think the weigh penalty is about 15-20%.

My guesstimate is if they can increase the energy density of batteries by 30-50% the weight penalty will disappear. Some of the reduction is the weight reduction of the battery and some is due to cascading effects on the rest of the car.
Everyone should be a cold emotionless machine that pumps out code, just like me.
You’re the one derailing from the actual topic, which was broadly can we trust our devices and specifically can we trust iOS, by muddying the water with what-about-android. The question wasn’t which we can trust more, the question was whether and how much we can trust Apple.

You can’t verify that iOS is doing what Apple says that it’s doing, because you can’t read the code. You can’t trust that Apple perfectly understands their product, because it’s extremely complicated, and therefore you can’t just take their word for it. I’ll state that the check here, although it’s painfully obvious, is that exploits happen. Researcher opinions are fine, but facts are better.

None of this is in any way contentious or new, it’s the exact debate about open-vs-closed that we’ve been having since the beginning of software.
Barriers to entry are quite high right now. Property prices are up, transportation costs are just coming down lately, wages are up on average. When costs went up, the ones most willing to raise prices were able to build capital and buy out the rest.
I’m 100% confident that there will be elections in Russia which will result in another term for Putin. They may alter the course of action to address the internal political goals, either prolonging the war or finishing it with an outcome satisfactory for Ukraine. This war is just a projection of internal policy now with the only goal of putinist oligarchy to stay in power.
It's problematic for a company if they have to announce their EOL plans on product announcement to get interest from customers. Might as well not exist as a company at that point
I think the underlying paper is: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112472...

Cell Rep

. 2022 Dec 20;41(12):111853.
doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111853.
Nail-associated mesenchymal cells contribute to and are essential for dorsal digit tip regeneration

Abstract:

Here, we ask why the nail base is essential for mammalian digit tip regeneration, focusing on the inductive nail mesenchyme. We identify a transcriptional signature for these cells that includes Lmx1b and show that the Lmx1b-expressing nail mesenchyme is essential for blastema formation. We use a combination of Lmx1bCreERT2-based lineage-tracing and single-cell transcriptional analyses to show that the nail mesenchyme contributes cells for two pro-regenerative mechanisms. One group of cells maintains their identity and regenerates the new nail mesenchyme. A second group contributes specifically to the dorsal blastema, loses their nail mesenchyme phenotype, acquires a blastema transcriptional state that is highly similar to blastema cells of other origins, and ultimately contributes to regeneration of the dorsal but not ventral dermis and bone. Thus, the regenerative necessity for an intact nail base is explained, at least in part, by a requirement for the inductive nail mesenchyme.
> If the call quality is poor, it is appropriate to ask to reschedule the interview.

Spot on. I know how tough it can be when you're an interviewer dealing with somebody who has a bad connection - it takes so much mental energy to just understand what they're saying that it's tough to process whether you want to hire them. As a result, when I'm a candidate, I always make sure the audio and video are working well when I start. I have a Jabra conference room speakerphone that I use, and on the off chance that's not working, I have a headset I can grab. As a backup to my backup, I've got another laptop nearby.

If a candidate is told they have a bad connection and given the opportunity to fix it but refuses, it's at the very least poor judgement about the importance of communicating clearly at work. I don't want to work in a remote environment with someone who doesn't think it's a problem to be staticky/jittery/etc. in meetings.
Cause they were selling stadia.

It didn't need to support general purpose, they were not looking to sell the controller for general use (google terrible at hardware support).

People buying it knew it only worked with stadia.

For stadia use, it made sense and connectivity over Bluetooth would have increased latency and complexity to the cloud service.

Moot point now, but atleast they opening it up so you don't have to throw the hardware in the trash
Why is the Gimp website so useless. I wanted to see if they still have the strange UI with floating windows but couldn't find a screenshot of the actual software on the site.
This is what I’m super pumped about. Because of the fundamentals of the technology, big actors with resources to do it properly can make Mastodon awesome, without completely capturing the social network.
I’ve had the Mastodon client downloaded for a while now but haven’t really got round to switching over to it.

I think this is the push I really need. Space Karen has done me a favour.

I sure as shit won’t be going back to Twitter’s dumpster fire of a native client.

Edited timelines, promoted tweets and user preferences that randomly reset themselves to the most annoying settings.

Nope.
I made a list of all ChatGPT alternatives (+ features and release info)
The connection between cold weather and catching a cold [video]
Thanks for posting this. I submitted his tweets and was flagged to oblivion. I'm seriously scared of what's happening in this country and this is the only place I feel safe enough to post anything.
They both segmented all their real estate into REITs (Choice and Crombie), so a lot of the margin has been pushed there for tax reasons (and to keep the retail operations from tanking the capital, which I think will one day happen, but I'm anti-retail).

But it's also true that prices jumped, but margins were unchanged, so they were making more money for the same work. In an efficient market, you'd expect margins to drop. (Unless it can all be explained by inflation of course and that extra money gets you as far as it used to).
As I said in another comment, this research isn't about category theory. [Edit: Well, not about the foundations anyway.]

The use of moments as a method for understanding probability distributions isn't particularly new. What is new, is the introduction and adaptation of this framework for trying to understand the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics -- a smaller-scope problem in number theory that has seen a lot of attention recently.

The people quoted are among the world's leading experts in this topic, and I would say that Melanie Wood is the foremost expert. This is definitely novel.