skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you visited any countries bordering Russia - Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan? If you do, you see quite odd things...

You see children's playgrounds that have a big sign saying 'Proudly sponsored by the USA development fund", or "This bus route is made possible by the EU funding.".

Why would the USA be using US taxpayer money to build children's playgrounds in Azerbaijan?

It's all about a long term battle for hearts and minds... Be the 'good guys' to a 5 year old child now, and in 30 years that child is a voter and you can have influence over the whole country.

Pretty smart moves... But I can see how Russia isn't happy about it.
The game is that good. But holistically speaking the GP is right. Nintendo's success as a company is due in major part to it's up and marketing.
Estrogen a more powerful breast cancer culprit than we realized
Also, from that site:

Developers can track their progress and showcase their accomplishments, while organizations can cultivate a thriving developer community around their projects. Organizations define how developers are recognized for their contributions.
Some routers can also double as a budget NAS by plugging a USB hard drive into it. I've seen some that also double as print servers.
20 Years of Gentoo
> You insert something (a facsimile of a coin), out comes a capsule with something random in it.

You don't add a facsimile of a coin—you add batteries and/or blades.

The article you posted clearly came out before the game, because it was incorrect about most of the stuff it stated.
For the benefit of innovation it actually pays off when some organizations work on alternatives to the dominant model.

What if LLMs become stagnant and some other approach is needed, perhaps in tandem with it? Work that seems irrelevant today may become useful then.

I’m not saying that their approach is this, just that failure to produce a LLM doesn’t necessarily equal an embarrassing failure.
Is this 1Password's first server-side product? I think of them only as having the consumer password agent (and related IT management stuff)
More technical source:

https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/aircraft-propulsion/rolls...

Notable: The fan is driven through gearing from the low-pressure turbine stage.

> ... with its power gearbox and Advance3-based core, represents a radical shift away from the traditional three-shaft designs that have been the hallmark of Rolls-Royce’s large engine configurations since the 1960s.
Why not advocate for general phone privacy laws? Why can't apps that require geo data use location then discard it? Why can't users decide?

Because these laws don't care about privacy if American companies and government reap the data.

I think TikTok is malware, and I think the reasons the US wants to ban it are self serving. Not how the RESTRICT act bans VPNs, for goodness sake.

I am highly skeptical of government making a coherent privacy bill that isn't a backdoor to more domestic surveillance.
It's also more than capable of running on other platforms via emulation, and there are visual tweak mods (increased draw distance, LOD tweaks, etc) that don't change the art style but make it far more beautiful than being limited to the underperformant Switch hardware.
I'd say a reason, not necessarily the reason. Taiwan rubbed China's face in it for decades, it seems like a long-held grudge:

> During the 1960s and 1970s, the National Palace Museum was used by the Kuomintang to support its claim that the Republic of China was the sole legitimate government of all China, in that it was the sole preserver of traditional Chinese culture amid social change and the Cultural Revolution in mainland China, and tended to emphasize Chinese nationalism.

Even though, if you read further down in the article, there's not as much acrimony about it in recent years. Still, China has had dreams to invade Taiwan for decades, mostly for nationalist reasons, and this is likely one of the reasons that's higher in the list.
As someone who knows nothing about commercial real estate business but lived in NYC for a long time. Why can't they convert to residential? Is the cost of conversation so prohibitive that it is a non-starter?
I'm not being flippant, and I think my meaning is clear. You're avoiding the original point, which is that if the majority of your factories are already in a potential war zone, the risk calculation doesn't change by adding another. What do you think happens to Honhai's Chinese facilities during this hypothetical invasion?

Arguing over US strategic ambiguity is probably too off topic for this thread. I live in Taiwan, so I guess I've put my money where my mouth is.
You can use the same argument to explain away homelessness. Personally I doubt _many_ is any big, or even most. Unfortunately, like you, I do not have any data.
It seems worse that that - they take video trim if the countries infra like ports to have a military build up.
Who said anything about static HTML pages? Keep beating that strawman though.
Annoyingly, I just got a new mobile contract as I was leaving BT and moved to EE.

I had agreed to a price of £x per month. After 2 weeks, I hadn't even had my first bill in, I got a letter saying the price was going up because of inflation...

2 weeks!
I'm pretty partial to that draw your countries flag [1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/g4aytv/tired_...
As a successor of Do Not Track, there is Global Privacy Control (GPC) [1]. Sites must respect it by law in California. An increasing number of other states ---Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, and hopefully more soon --- also have provisions in their new privacy laws for privacy preference signals like GPC. You can check if a site respects GPC [2]. For example, lego.com and nfl.com are two bigger ones I recently came across.

Disclosure: I am a privacy researcher and co-founder of GPC.

[1] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
[2] https://gpcsup.com/
Nice source:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/2020/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/ukraine/2020/

In 10 years demographic in both countries will be as bad as in Japan.
That's a shame because in a world of artificially inflated 10-minute youtube videos, I really enjoy tiktok's to the point short clips. If I want to see a review or a how-to or similar, I go to tiktok first because they are from normal dudes and not big channels that artificially pad their videos to 10 minutes for the ads.
The correct term for a member of a Roman legion is legionary. A "legionnaire" is a member of the French Foreign Legion.
And 3 million depend on food banks. Things are getting tough for lots of people and that's with extremely high levels of employment. Not sure this will go well if there is a recession that causes the jobless rate to increase.
The kind of microtargeted ad campaign you describe is something that's been available for a long time - especially on social networks like facebook, instagram, etc.
I am personally not switching to passkeys unless I see a clear description of all possible failure modes. I.e. Google blocks you, you loose your phone, you want to migrate from one provider to another, when passkeys offer more security and when less.

I feel with authentication, it's always those special cases that determine the usefulness and security, but when passkeys are discussed I never have seen a proper discussion a pros and cons and special cases. At least with regular passwords + 1password I kind'a understand what i am protected against and how to restore from disasters.
That the US is illegally spying on its own citizens is bad, but not as bad as allowing an explicitly hostile, autocratic foreign power to turn a massive propaganda and surveillance platform on US citizens.

The US has many problems, but I'd still rather live in its admittedly somewhat rough approximation to transparent liberal democracy than under a completely and explicitly unaccountable regime like the Chinese Communist Party.

It would be foolish to allow the CCP to abuse our liberal values in a way which undermines the security upon which liberal society depends.
Because there are legitimate uses for cookies etc. that do not require consent, like for example for shopping carts. But you can’t distinguish them from consent-requiring tracking in an automated fashion. In addition, there are finger-printing techniques that are virtually impossible to prevent, so websites would just start to rely more on those. It’s a bit like asking “why don’t we just block spam mails?”
I think the Switch form factor will remain, it just needs a chipset refresh. It clearly hit a sweet spot that would be silly to abandon, I would expect Nintendo to have learned that lesson with the Wii U.
> If I could enjoy my work 30% more that would be great. Is it worth making less than half income though?

If that’s the calculation—if you find yourself doing the calculation—probably not. However, if you can’t make yourself not do it (build software, build hardware, figure out maths or better ways to put maths into words, write fiction, ...), if you find yourself doing it even at your most busiest and staying up at night when every other minute of your day is occupied, then... Many such people have found they still need the income, and every one of them that I’ve seen is deeply unhappy because of it.
Why copying is good, quantity is better than quality, and excellence is mundane
Nintendo ip does have a weakness though. All their shit has a specific casual vibe to it. It's a very focused genre.

You'll never get anything like God of war, red dead redemption 2 or dead space out of Nintendo.
I mean the limit over time approached 0, but there was that one glorious frame.
I have 1.5gbps internet and the ISP modem has a multi-gig port on it (2.5G) so tplink deco series (X90) come with a 2.5G port on each unit, and the XE200's have 10G ports.

I used to run a full 10gb-t datacenter switch (dell) and put the fiber right into the sfp+ ports to do my own routing, but once the ISP started providing modems that could actually network at 2.5G it was overkill and I moved back to modem -> APs and modem->smaller 10G switch for PCs and Servers.
Seems like a limitation that will be solved as time goes on.
Though as a consumer it was easy to buy an optane card.

Not the dimms as much but those had horrible prices per gig, and SMR is supposedly a way to save money.

> Where you, as a consumer, can get them - don't. I don't think they're meant to be used by consumers. You're gonna have a bad time unless you write software specific to this weird type of drive. What you might find out there is some kind of a storage 'consumer NAS in a box' product that has tiered storage inside, with these drives and other ones. But stay away from drives on their own w/o that special software in front.

That would be a reasonable statement if they weren't selling SMR drives to customers without even labeling them as such. Just raw drives that sometimes have the performance go to hell. If you wanted fast you should have gotten an SSD, I guess.

It's not that I can't easily get an SMR drive, it's that I can't get the bigger models and I can't get the price savings.
LEDs tend to change emission wavelength when changing the current. This is quite an issue if you want to combine them in an RGB display, because the human eye is extremely sensitivty to relative color variation.
On that we can wholeheartedly agree.
They can't. The contract generally says the price rise will be inflation plus a specified percent. Otherwise, eg if they raise call costs, they have to tell you that you can cancel penalty free - which I have done multiple times.
I agree. I think in modern American vocabulary, "Friend" is thrown around quite loosely to mean "somebody who I know and I'm not adversarial with".

Personally, I have very few friends - people with whom I have an emotional investment, who I'd trust to call if I had a bad breakup or needed money or some sort of personal help. But I have tons of casual relationships with folks that I'm on friendly terms with.
Oh yes, it's definitely a good thing for the company. And presumably for the purchaser, otherwise why would they do it?

It is evidence that auth is sticky.
This. They made BotW to sell the Switch, and this sequel doesn't add any novel elements to it. This game deserves the success if BotW didn't exist, but as a sequel the hype is pure marketing.

If game of the year awards were reserved for new, non-sequel games, maybe franchises would be discouraged from selling the same game multiple times.
The original iPhone was an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator. It was a hard sell at $599, and didn't take off until the price was lowered and the App Store started proliferating. If it had an external battery pack or cost $3,000, nobody would have bought it.

If the big killer app for this headset is "calling people", then Mark Zuckerberg is probably doubled-over in hysterics right now.
>in direct sunlight on a hot California day you can see a world of difference between the contrast and glare of a high school graphing calculator and a Kindle.

Sharp Memory LCDs are reflective, not transreflective. They're easier to read outdoors than indoors, much like eink. (Sharp markets these screens for devices like bike computers and gas pumps.) Some of the optical properties are in the same ballpark as eink as well.
Exactly.

Within about a day of “two weeks to flatten the curve” a large amount of people predicted exactly what was about to happen to the entire country because they understood economics. If you pointed any these things out, routine accusations of wanting people to die were thrown your way.

It was a weird time.
This is not correct. The sinking is measured, not modeled.

As usual, ignore the article and go straight to the actual paper.[0]

"Geodetic measurements show a mean subsidence rate of 1–2 mm/year across the city that is consistent with regional post-glacial deformation, though we find some areas of significantly greater subsidence rates."

"Much of lower Manhattan lies between 1 and 2 m in elevation above sea level, and measured subsidence from Global Positioning System (GPS) there is 2.1 mm/year (Boretti, 2021)."

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF00...
Disclosure, I work for FusionAuth, an auth provider.

There are other options out there that let you self host WebAuthn. I was on a python podcast[0] and found some python libraries. It's public key management and a JS API that you need to carefully implement, not rocket science.

I've written elsewhere about the tradeoffs of using an in-house auth solution vs an outsource auth provider[1], so I won't say more about that here.

0: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/133/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814332
At the end of the day passkeys are a public/private key pair. While now they're new and it seems everybody's doing some sort of lock in, I would expect standards to emerge soon to export the private keys and reimport them in a different apps.

Unlike passwords, passkeys protect against phishing and are not shared with the server (the server knows the public key, not the private one).

Biometrics on phone are used to unlock password manager/passkeys, but they're not sent to the server (thanks god!) for verification. So they can't really be used for remote authentication.
Well assuming we don't find anything better than heatpumps then homes will have a heatpump forever, so while your current heatpump might not sequester its co2 permanently, your heatpumps and your childrens heatpumps will effectively sequester co2 permanently.

An LED bulb saves ~5kg of CO2 a year v an incandescent. Is switching to that led bulb worth it? or is it too small to matter and not worth doing?
American mortgages are also designed to pay out disproportionately more interest up front, and much of the cost of the loan is also paid directly at closing as up front fees.

Ex: closing costs for new mortgage in my area average around 5k.
> That graphics would not look out of place in a 2013 indie game from a well-established but not rich studio.

Sure. The WiiU was around in that year, BotW ran on it. Indie games for powerful platforms could definitely have better grafics.

> It would have not been ground-breaking in 2003

This is biggest bullshit I've heard. This is Xbox/GC/PS2 era. Not only there weren't any games with 720p or 900p resolution on those consoles, PC capable of those were very rare. Games were still very cubish. Even games like FF that spend most of their budget on visuals and were not very interactive were just so bad in comparision. You don't really know how expansive it is to have small details like hair, light small objects and things like that rendered. Also add all the particles the game generates for all its possibilities.

go to a top 2003 game list, and you will notice that there is nothing that comes close visually, specially with these resolutions, moving interactable objects, etc. None of them would require one tenth of the processing power a game like TotK.

BotW and TotK push the swith to its max potential. Obviously that is nothing compared to what can be done today, the switch is based on a nvidia shield which is a SoC for a portable for 2015, obviously it is not very powerful. But that doesn't mean that the game doesn't have a lot of effort to make it able to run on such a system. Sure the Switch can handle 1080p, there are nintendo games with 1080p 60fps on both switch and wiiu, and nowadays PC games aim to 4k and 120fps, but this is a Switch, and this is a beatfiful game with a level of interaction not easily seen, this is much harder to make than a lot of 4k/120fps games on PC.

Well, not TotK in particular as that's BotW 2.0, but BotW is out of the ordinary, expanding is still not an easy thing.
They already have cryptographic authentication for parts, they know it's a genuine part from a donor board, they just purposely reject it.

> Are those exclusive options? I don't know. Which one I think is more important? I don't know.

First they are indeed not exclusive options, locking parts when the phone is locked is a possible option.

And then we have to think what's the most common for most people, a dropped iPhone on the floor which needs a component change or somebody swapping touchid while you are sleeping. I have my own idea on that.
Librem 5 availability lead time quietly reduced from 52 to 20 weeks
Old snapshot from 2023-05-15: [0]

New snapshot from 2023-05-18: [1]

For the first time in years, availability lead time for the (non-USA) Librem 5 seems to have been quietly slashed from 52 weeks to 20 weeks.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515022643/https://puri.sm/p...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230518152612/https://puri.sm/p...
Yeah that's was what I suspected. Outside of space-based infrastructure or at massive crush-depths in the ocean the "naturally" cool places wouldn't really make a dent in the required temperatures.

I don't wonder then if, when the cost of build goes down and speed of transmission goes up, space based infra for these things will be a big industry.
>There are vanishingly few people who can bootstrap the infrastructure that will let a company grow to Facebook scale

Well, he didn't do that. He just wrote a crappy basic PHP backend. The "scaling at Facebook scale" part happened later, after people were hired and VC money flew in.

Same like early Twitter was a crap Rails app that they even had to restart a few times a day because of memory leaks. It still got them through to attract users (even though it crashed all the time) and money, so they eventually were able to fix that and grow to Twitter scale.

None of those things happened because of very talented hacker founders. Those kind of apps aren't even very technical or different to the average CRUD app - not until the scale/infrastructure people come in much later: those do the actual hard work.

Cloudflare, Redis, SQLlite, Nginx, ElasticSearch etc, on the other hand, are a different story. Those are absolutely apps/platforms made from scratch by seriously talented hackers, even if others were involved to improve them later on.
> Is the cost of conversation so prohibitive that it is a non-starter?

Having asked the same question of developers, it's a combination of cost and code. Many office buildings are old, with tiny windows surrounded by load-bearing walls. They're also laid out with an office, not home, in mind. (Think: plumbing.) This combination means extensive renovation, retrofitting and–if you find a previously-unseen problem–rebuilding.

That said, it's New York City. My first two apartments were illegally subdivided and subletted, the first having no window. There are people who will happily take an apartment with a tiny (or non-existent) window in exchange for cheaper rent. We just need to update the code to remove aesthetic requirements while ensuring that doesn't mean skimping on safety.
Can you expand on that? We are 1Password customers and have one had good experience.
Please be clear what you're talking about. There's a difference between "service providing targeted advertising based off what it knows about you" and "service that sells data it has collected about you". The former wouldn't sell that data, because it's their most valuable asset.
Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models with Minimal Supervision
I'm not speaking about the validity of their ideas or the cohesion of their group identity. Just pointing out that their reputation as being universally against top-down bans is not based on their actions when given the capacity to enact top-down bans.
I just want to make a meme by averaging his monologue waveforms to hopefully reveal his distinctly ridiculous manner of speaking where he alternates his pitch with a specific meter. ;) World domination of TuckGPT can come later.
That's a pretty simplistic view re: Turkey.

Turkey did become irrelevant after WWI, but is far more of a power today than it was 30 years ago, and given the relative dysfunction of the neighborhood, it's only going to get stronger.
This explains the RTW push.
Replication can be hard. Failure to replicate shouldn't lead to immediate rejection.

My understanding, though, is that this researcher has a very problematic track record. It may not be appropriate to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
The person who responded to you showed the obvious logic.

I’m a leftist in tech. HN is not the place where you can publicly behave as an assertive leftist otherwise would.
The point of censorship is not really to ban something outright. It's to show that a thing can be banned, that this thing is not safe from just doing whatever it wants. It is mostly to assert a dominance over a socio-cultural domain and to establish an identity by negation. The initiators of the ban probably do not believe the banning will work either. The main point of the ban is the enforcement of the ban, not the ban itself. It is also done out of fear, to undermine a disrupting element of the established order, which Tik Tok certainly is. I mean, it's pretty much brain poison lol
Yeah. In contrast to the creativity applied to Tears of the Kingdom that took the framework of Breath of the Wild and extended it majestically, KSP2 is a brazen & soulless cash grab that under delivers under the guise of "Early Access".