skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to read this without knowing more details. It just said the senator was targeted because they were a target of foreign spies, but crossed lines in doing so. No names or specifics.

I guess in another sense it may be better that the public doesn't know, because that information could sway voters unjustly.
Best of luck with that plan.

Almost no users want to be digital hermits. This protest approach has nobody following you up that mountain to the hermitage.
The market makers do understand why they are trading and understand it has nothing to do with fundamental value. That may be your reason for trading. They are there to rapidly and correctly assess short term supply and demand so they can extract compensation for providing liquidity. And that’s a good thing. A market made of heterogenous actors with different objectives and time scales is far more robust.
Yup. I’ve eaten all sorts of freshly grown delicious tomatoes (my favorite fruit or vegetable) both regular and heirloom. Cherry tomatoes are something I can pop in my mouth like candy. If given the choice I want the smash burger. It’s like the burger competition from Parks and Rec: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVkV2oGPM2k.
Is there a chance for an Everything alternative? That's the awesome tool that would allow you to ignore the depth/breadth completely find any file literally instantly (the power of instant feedback is unapralleled)
Do non-NTFS systems (even the modern ones) not offer this?
Hmm I thought meta had demoed multiple apps at once, but I also find they show a lot of simulated content that they don’t deliver on so I’m not surprised either. That’s actually one thing I admire from the Vision Pro announcement is that it was all real. I own a Quest but I honestly haven’t been interested by the Quest Pro as a result.

I agree with you that Meta could make a deal with Google. Though at the same time, they want to own their platform and I can see their desire for that get in the way of true Android app compatibility.

And yeah, I liken the Quest to a console whereas the Vision Pro seems like a computer. It’s a good console but Meta clearly want to make it more than that but I’m doubtful they can.
^ *not* in the Top 15 that year. Gun violence as a cause of death.
You don't have to kill them. This reusable live trap works very good: https://www.hagglezon.com/en/s/frubby
It seems like violations that used to be rare and unique, and a huge deal like Watergate when they blew up, have become completely routine.

Seems like we get such stories every week now.
Developer Signals: Extremely Negative
It'll be radical and minority.

Most users are more comfortable with computers that are toasters, not (hackable) general purpose machines.

The flexibility to hack implies the flexibility to be owned. Users don't want to get owned. They hate that so much they'd voluntary choose an owner
so true! and I'm glad I've finally reached the point in my career where I was will never have to fix a printer again... printers are the worst!
I've been thinking about this lately.

I would think that a fully automatable browser might be an accessibility need, and therefore the viable use whose free access may be protected via ADA regulation. Of course, you might need someone with a disability to push a legal threat in the direction of one of the offending companies in order to get them to play nicely.

I admit I don't like that approach. I would rather just find a solution that works (or perhaps build one and market it).
Being random within each shard is still bad for write performance. Going fully random seems like a bad way to accomplish this goal.

Why not keep the timestamp bits to use when appropriate, but use some of the random bits for shard selection?
> think these are consistent views

they are consistent, if they believe themselves to be "special" and deserves special treatment!
This is a false barrier to critique of the scientific establishment. Many foundational questions can always be asked about the claims that scientists make, such as, how is research funded, where are the moral hazards, who benefits from certain conclusions, is the data open sourced, how are dissenting opinions treated, has repeatability been demonstrated, why is fraud not a concern, etc.

Simple and rational questions can go a long way here.
For more in that "goofy behavior" line, it is mind boggling that the Netflix exclusives of Daredevil and other Marvel shows are no longer viewable on Netflix.
No, you'll need to extract the TPM secureboot keys from Microsoft headquarters. Good luck with that
Huh? Sub-prime no-doc, interest only loans were handed out like Costco samples, repacked as mortgage backed securities and dumped on the market .
This is incredibly financially unsound advice. A mortgage is the cheapest, most secure debt most people will have. Even today, with current interest rates, if your goal is to buy a home, it is far more financially sound to take out a mortgage and invest your liquid cash.

Of course the more fundamental question is, should you buy a home at all? And that's a complex decision. But if you do make that decision, sinking significant liquid funds into property instead of using relatively inexpensive leverage is, as a general rule, a terrible financial decision.
The case can be made, and there is no shortage of articles from the US that purport to make that case, it's a subject still hotly contested.

Also, I carefully wrote a turn for the worse as there has been many twists and turns on the path between past and present.

I admire your gumption in insisting upon the turn for the worse as if there has been only one and that Roe V. Wade was that moment.

Popular opinion by the numbers within the USofA appears to disagree with your assessment.
Wrong guess. "Bittersweet" is a clear negative and ofc not well coordinated assessment of his off-boarding to a 300K audience. Or writing a farewell all in small caps. Life is too short to feel bitter.

Meta couldn't care less but all future employers or affiliates did notice this.
Metals have been known to have a kind of memory. If you bend a cable out of shape, it will bend itself right back. I have to think that this self-healing is an instance of the same principle.
What motivates you to continue volunteering your time to moderate a Reddit forum when the host has demonstrated a clear and repeated lack of respect or care for the time and concerns of moderation staff?
It was auction-rate mortgage backed securities that triggered everything. If you see those start showing up again, know we're heading for an awful place.
There is so much more money in the economy since COVID. A pullback to 2019 prices seems very unlikely.
I guess it depends which portion you look at. If you solely look at the time based portion you do indeed still have a function which never decreases but that is true even in the case of reading the raw counter whole on its own anyways. If you look at the whole value, including the hashed portion, it's no longer monotonic.

In the cycle based case looking at the whole value is the same thing as looking at a relative time stamp which has more precision that the system clock. In this way, it's "truly" monotonic across the entire value, not just monotonic on a part and unique in another.

Side topic: It also comes with an even stronger guarantee of always increasing instead of just "not changing direction". Is there a name for that?
Added to that, the Guardian has an (online-only) Australian edition, with staff based in Australia to help produce it. Decent chance this article was originally written for their Australian edition.

They have four online editions (UK, US, Australia, International). All four contain the same articles; the difference is basically in which articles are on the front page, and the hierarchy of their categorisation system (e.g. “UK Politics” is a top-level category for the UK edition, but buried deeper for the other three.) Certainly all three of the UK, US and Australia editions commission original content from local journalists designed to appeal to the interests of that country’s readers.
Add "integrity" to the list of adjectives used for obfuscating the rise of authoritarian dystopia...

It all started with "trusted computing", where "trusted" means "not under the owner's control". Then they tried to spin it as a "security" thing with TPMs, and created the impression that those speaking out against them were either malicious actors or insane conspiracy theorists.

Now it is actually happening. They want to control exactly what hardware and software you use, and they're doing it by ostracisation, which makes this even more sinister: you're still technically allowed to use software and hardware of your choosing, but you'll be blocked from participating.

I still remember when Intel was forced to revert adding a unique serial number to its processors because of widespread outrage, so it is possible for the public to make a difference; they just need to be educated about the coming dystopia and agitated enough to care and act upon it.

Perhaps we can start by spreading instructions on how to disable TPMs and "secure" boot along with all the advantages that come with doing so (custom drivers, running whatever OS you want, hardware you actually own, etc.) Of course the corporate-owned "security" lobby is going to start screaming that it's "insecure", but we need to make it clear that this is not the "security" we want because it is inherently hostile to freedom.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
To a lesser extent I agree. But I don't think it's far behind.
But you have a place to live and you don’t have to worry about unforeseen displacement or rent hikes.

I’ve always believed that if you want to buy a home and can afford it you should buy it. Timing the market is too hard.

Will it make you house poor? Possibly, especially in a place like the Bay Area where many people will risk being house poor to own a home.
ahh man that audio track in the middle of the article really kicked off some nostalgia for me.
In the SF bay area people are throwing $4, 5, 6 million at houses in cash all over the place. No contingencies, 7 day closing. The high end of the market has slowed a lot, though, and houses are having to repeatedly lower prices to get bids. The market up to about $4M has not slowed noticeably, possibly because supply has slowed more quickly than demand; people are still bidding hundreds of thousands over asking.
Shame they don’t give you any extra certification or recognition for more than two years of learning about the care and maintenance of cryogenic high vacuum systems… that’s a whole persons job in some places!

I’m not looking forward to thermal vacuum testing for my robots… because I don’t think there’s a big enough chamber in Australia… option one is (assuming funding) building a thermal vacuum chamber that can get down to GEO level vacuum with all the fun a large volume vacuum system entails… option two is shipping the entire thing to a friendly country with larger chambers (ESA in EU or NASA in the USA) but then there’s the space technology export paperwork … and I don’t know which would be worse.
Rust has stand the test of time and gaining momentum, I think, in wide area of services from machinery to even daily life?!
Population wide taste change can take years.

I am just looking around at the differences in how I the people I know spend their time.

I have 8 to 13 year old nieces and nephews that have zero interest in watching movies or tv shows when they come over. You would literally be punishing them by taking their YouTube or video games or TikTok away and forcing them to watch a 100min movie with you.
GNU PSPP
Does that mean that these blueberries don’t need 400+ hours of frost to fruit?

That’s the primary obstacle to growing them here in California and I’m really curious if they bred the frost requirement out of the Eureka blueberries, or if Australia is colder than I thought. I’d kill to experiment with growing my own because the blueberries sold here are nothing like the wild blueberries from my childhood
In case this helps anyone who’s been in this boat: I found that Monotype, who owns a LOT of fonts, offers far better terms for web and app licenses on fonts dot com, compared to myfonts dot com, which they also own. I licensed a bunch a couple years back that would have cost a fortune in recurring license fees at myfonts, which has great SEO so it’s always the first place you find.

One-time purchase from fonts dot com. Yes, it was still scaled based on monthly impressions, but at least you could pay and use it forever.

The other thing I found was that, on the corporate scale, Adobe Fonts (aka Typekit) is a bargain. Basically an unlimited web and app license for everything.
Why aren't banking sites gone already? Because users expect to be able to use their desktop to do their banking. But if they can simply require you to use Chrome, suddenly you can get both birds with one stone! This is a bad thing for the web.
Fair enough. But I still can't seeing them committing the resources to build an emulator from scratch. It would take ages to achieve stability and work out all the bugs. Anyone doing this would go find a platform that's already 85% of the way there and tailor to fit.
Here in Australia, the regulator requires banks to assess your ability to make repayments at an interest rate three percentage points higher than the actual rate. A few years ago it was a floor of 7% rather than a buffer, and they'll probably go back to something like a 2% buffer and a 7% floor (rates increased by more than 3 percentage points in recent times, so looks like a three percent buffer alone isn't enough).

But yeah, mostly what happens if rates go up is that you begrudgingly pay it, because most in that situation can afford it (those who have changed circumstances may not be able to, but most can).

Edit: also, the fact that mortgage holders are more sensitive to rate increases means (it is thought that) the central bank doesn't need to change rates by as much to get the same effect. If there would be widespread mortgage defaults given a certain sized rate increase, then that probably means the central bank can stop short of an increase that large.

So the problem is sort of self-limiting. Rate hikes are designed to induce financial strain, but too much isn't desirable, so central banks don't hike too much on purpose (they sometimes do by accident).
>I admire your gumption in insisting upon the turn for the worse as if there has been only one and that Roe V. Wade was that moment.

>Popular opinion by the numbers within the USofA appears to disagree with your assessment.

The full quote from you was:

>The case can be made that the US took a turn for the worse when the Supreme Court was allowed to go outside its remit of "do the least required" and wrote policy

You seem to be claiming that the supreme court "took a turn for the worse" when it engaged in judicial activism (ie. "Supreme Court was allowed [...] to [write] policy"). Given that, I fail to see how "popular opinion" is a relevant factor in this, unless you think that judicial activism is only bad when it doesn't align with "popular opinion"?
How about they take on no debt because otherwise Sapporo is going to shut this down and simply take a big loss?

When did "market clearing price" quit being a thing? When did we forget that market forces also work downward?

This is like the "labor shortage"--there is no "labor shortage". There are simply companies unwilling to pay market rates.

The real problem here, however, is political, not economic. If a Sapporo exec signs off on ... say, a $10 million deal ... and suddenly Anchor Steam suddenly starts pulling good profits it will make some Sapporo executives look really bad. And that is really bad for your career.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you”

- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Would love to see how bfs compares to fdir[0] for directory traversal. Even though fdir is using Node.js underneath, the comparisons I have done with fd & find are pretty close. Of course, bfs would probably be quite a bit faster...but how much faster exactly?

Disclaimer: I am the developer of fdir.

[0] https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir
Have you tried getting out a piece of paper and a pencil and making your own map? Or do you need a developer to do everything for you?
Yes, which means downsizing. Need to downsize will put people off selling. People being put off selling reduces supply. Small supply keeps prices high.
Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought
Constraint programming with MiniZinc is great for some problems. There is a good Coursera class on MiniZinc. I also had a simple Python+MiniZinc example in my last Python book.
I don't know why people just pretend there hasn't been any ultra costly nuclear incidents.

Personally, I think nuclear could be fantastic, humans just cannot be trusted to manage it. Fukushima was a case of negligence, it wasn't caused by the Tsunami. The operators did not implement the recommended safety improvements because they didn't respect Murphy's law.

So when a case is made like this, "just spam nuclear reactors", you're glossing over the details that we've fucked up a lot of nuclear reactors?

The cleanup operation hasn't only costed hundreds of billions of dollars, it's severely damaged, and will continue to damage Japans' reputation and desire for exported foods and seafood.

I'm not trying to attack you or your views, but if nuclear was easier and cheaper, it would've already proliferated in the same way that solar has. Can you imagine how much solar will exist in 30 years compared to nuclear? it will be absolutely everywhere.
Yes, and the policies enacted since then have heavily contributed to the insane growth in the cost of housing.
Yes, you're right. It's also easier to run a business where payroll is the last supplier, and if there's no cash we all just get short paid, instead of the case where employees are paid first.

And I get the MBA effect especially as we see that segment in the business news all the time.

But most businesses aren't big. Most don't have so MBA. Most don't make wild profits. Most are happy if they make it through the month, build up sufficient reserves, grow production over time and so on.

Profit is not just "extra money for owners", its also the part that provides income security in tough times, that buys new machines, that covers over the slow seasons, that secures cheaper supply lines and a million other things.

It creates resilience against the ever changing nature of the world. A business that runs at break-even are one tiny event away from closing their doors.

Squeezing every penny is not always about wild profits. Sometimes it's just keeping the lights on.
Indeed, the reason I switched to 2 spaces decades ago is for density - to fit more on the screen at a time, particularly if there's lots of nesting (which is often the case in the code I read). BTW I haven't seen code that diligently sticks to 80-character lines since the days of dot matrix printers :-).
The clockwork of the web is tainted more orange by the minute
But aren't those the places being most damaged by the end of free money?
Idunno, Microsoft jumped through hoops to get folks ported to Windows Mobile. The problem was that WinCE was just vastly... more. At some point it essentially just looked like Windows. App development was quite straightforward. Mobile, on the other hand, was powerful but complex. And Mobile also had a really high bar for certification.

We definitely used Mobile in industrial use cases but WinCE was much, much easier to certify and much cheaper to keep around on old SKUs and LTS contracts.
PHP is native in the same way Python, Red, Java, etc are native. They have a VM, but otherwise interface directly with the OS.

It is in no way similar to JS/HTML in a browser (or Electron).
How about 0.99 patch level 15g kernel? That's what was shipped with the first version of Slackware that I used (I was upgrading from an SLS distro).
> Are breweries typically insanely profitable? My understanding is they are like a commodity/staples business with tight margins.

I own a bit of a brewery and have learned a bit about the business in the past 7 years.

No, breweries are not insanely profitable. You might think that they are if you simply look at grain to glass and forget about everything in between.

Those in between parts are real estate/rent, equipment, chemicals, packaging costs (equipment, labor, consumables), employees, taproom expenses, marketing, and finally, the worst, distribution expenses.

It's been a fun ride and I'm glad I'm involved, but insanely profitable just isn't the case.
> Don't assume a hidden agenda

We're talking about googles mandatory tracking API proposal: "Web Environment Integrity".

It's a nice a glib step to say "Don't assume a hidden agenda", but that's a social contract: I won't assume a hidden agenda, if you aren't being overtly disingenuous or demonstrably acting in bad faith.

The opening paragraph of this proposal states that the primary use case is advertiser (Google) who want to track users and prevent content blockers. It does this by having the user's browser create a cryptographic key that is used to identify that user, I mean "verify ... something?". This is the use case, and the specified behavior. Obviously that isn't going to fly, so the authors then spend a bunch of time making fairly inconsistent arguments, that all boil down to "this specification doesn't explicitly do anything other prove unaltered content and identity" and the refusal to acknowledge the obvious use case that they themselves started with indicates that they have no intention of present this in good faith.

Demonstrating the lack of good faith, other things they talk about isolating keys between domains, while being very clearly aware that google is one of the main driver of existing systems in non-google browsers to block tracking, and more over the authors are aware that they represent one of the companies that are most aggressive about defeating such user protections.

If the authors truly believed that these outcomes weren't intentional, rather than deliberately obfuscating the issues or hand waving them away, they would have spent time saying "here are the potentially harmful problems with our specification, and we have developed a number of methods to limit that harm, and would appreciate input on how to prevent these entirely".

Given their actual behavior, the intent is clear, though from the opening paragraphs I would argue it's not hidden, just papered over with cynical dishonesty.
The person who wrote the proposal[0] is from Google. All the authors of the proposal are from Google[1].

It astounds me that people would actually associate their real identities with stuff like this publicly.

how do we protest this?

The same way we protest politicians doing things against our desires? We know exactly who the perpetrators are, so perhaps we should all give them a piece of our mind. I absolutely don't condone violence, but exercising our right to free speech is always a good idea.
Could you hear the indium scream as it was being squeezed out?

https://youtu.be/mjiP5Q6g_aM?t=153
It's actually very well suited to low level extremely low power embedded systems. The toolkit and dev experience targeting these platforms is actually pretty good DX.

32 bit 4mhz processor with ~64kb of nvram all running off of an induction charge!