skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Google had Stadia so... they actually can do that. I mean it, they actually can stream web-pages over VNC to millions of ChromeVNC (nee Chrome) users at bearable costs. Just throw in some YouTube integration as a performance tweak and voila, most people wouldn't even notice.
Leaving probably means not having offices there, not selling ads there, not recruiting users there, and not hosting anywhere near dutch jurisdiction,

But they can't play it both ways.

They have an office in Amsterdamm, they control a large part of the ad market in the Netherlands, and probably host there or nearby on EU soil.

They can't seriously expect to not be subject to dutch law.
So, Russian anime cat girl seems to have cooked a sample and demonstrated some of the claimed properties, although she's explicit that it shouldn't be considered a "replication".

https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685731177523449856
Many years ago, I almost completed Spacechem (only didn't do the sillicon optional level). But I can't really come back to it, because I don't have the problem-solving chops I got during the playthrough anymore.

Puzzle games (although it's true for other games as well) are hard to return to.
No matter how many lawsuits are brought against Microsoft, they will keep doing this kind of thing.

Stopping them permanently is going to take stronger action. Maybe breaking up the company.
Going with this version.
Linux and Debian, just to name a few, which are way more complicated than Chrome. Chrome or Chromium will easily survive past Google demise.
I use it at work for a script that parses and analyzes some log files in an unusual format. Wrote a naive parser with a parsing combinator library. It was too slow to be usable with CPython. Tried PyPy and got a 50x speed increase (yes, 50 times faster). Very happy with the results, actually =)
For me there was a fork in the round around age 30 when I was pushed to take on managerial tasks/roles. This was at a company in traditional industry with basically no technical ladder, developers were line-work and the only way to climb was management.
I stuck through it as an IC and at 45 I’m still not in management. I enjoy being an IC and hope to be for another 20 or 25 years.
My only fear is that I have grown stuck in the company because seeking a developer job at 45 or 50 is probably subject to ageism more than a program/product manager job would.
How to Pick Your Price
My copy of X-Plane with photogrammetric scenery is several terabytes
If you're definitely going to lose a lawsuit, it generally makes sense to settle; saves wear and tear in lawyers. I assume his lawyers told him he had no hope. Persisting past the point where he had no hope would be particularly silly in this case, as that would not only raise his legal bills, but also _Twitter's_ legal bills, which he was about to inherit. (Note that he's trying to sue Twitter's lawyers over those bills now...)

> It's kind of an odd outcome.

It's really not. Civil stuff rarely goes to trial, in the scheme of things. If there's no doubt of the outcome, anyone even vaguely sensible will settle.
I wouldn't be surprised if synthetic clothes are illegal in the future for this reason (or water lines are forced to have filters that catch all the micro plastics, although I'm not sure that's even feasible)
If you don't want a snoozefest but rather something engrossing, see Emil Cioran's On the Heights of Despair, a discourse on skepticism.
I can add some to this list, not into emo, I am more into hardcore but I liked a few emo albums nonetheless.

• Thursday - Full Collapse

• Student Rick - Soundtrack for a Generation

• Saves the Day - Stay What You Are

• Dashboard Confessional - The Places you have come to fear the most

• Armor for Sleep - Dream to make believe

• Silverstein - When broken is easily fixed
Google keeps asking for my age to "verify that I'm over 18" on an account that at this point is over 19 years old, all just to get more data on me.

Maybe we'll all just have everyone login with a few accredited providers and that's it (OAuth with email and date of birth).

It's incredibly stupid, but I've stopped believing that intelligence wins in the long-run.
A lot of folks in the data processing areas of Yellow were folks on the autistic spectrum, at least in the local branch here, because ASD service organizations helped with interviews and hiring. Because of the nature of the data processing, it fits well with many of the employees lifestyles and comfort, ie: my brother was able to come into work with headphones, he could focus on the data entry and verification, and people in the office were aware of his situation. It took our family a long time to help get my brother into a place like that. Not because he wasn't qualified, but it's hard to find places with reasonable accessibility and understanding about people living with autism.

The Teamsters worked hard to keep everyone employed with good benefits - I had over a decade of relief knowing my brother had a job that gave him independence and a pension. The Teamsters saved Yellow around a decade ago by renegotiating salaries so no layoffs had to occur, which also saved my brother's job at the time.

Like the other comments mentioned I can vouch firsthand that it wasn't the Teamsters that botched the business, it was absolutely executive mismanagement. The union kept that place going for a long time.
The hedge is still a signal of the degree of risk you ascribe to the possibility your technology won’t work.
I'm not trying to steamroll you, I just disagree.

I can't find a source defining free markets as requiring government intervention, I'd be really curious to e one of you have it.

Adam Smith didn't think government intervention was necessary, as best I recall. He described what he called the invisible hand, but that is the natural market forces of self-interested parties not government control.

I copy/paste a quote from Investopedia right now for some reason, but Smith described his opinion of the tiles of government and it specifically didn't include controlling the free market

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/adam-smith-wealth-of-na...
No, damn, you're now the third person to read it that way. It's a (lame? and possibly outdated) contraction of Black And Silver. I just thought it sounded cool once, and it stuck for 10 years and counting.

Like MSTRKRFT

I'd like to think that my ability to communicate via the written word would imply a healthy functioning ability to think critically, which I further hope would imply that I'm able to think past base, lizard brain reactions that are so irrationally toxic in a global society context.
Now the question is, could this be done for stuff like marine immune genomes?
"Real capitalism has never been tried."
We all do, andersa. We all do. I can feel the disappointment brewing. Deep down, I'm almost ready for the archetypal "measurement error".
Dude has a BS/MS in computer science from Stanford:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinebuhler

Don’t blame the writing teachers for this one.
Defending the company's goals is not necessarily an adversarial thing. Many teams have a very local observable area, and giving them context for the company's decisions and facilitating their alignment to these decisions, if well done, is enough. Not every company has a sketchy business model or anti-social ethics (hello Google), so in many companies, alignment issues are not quintessential, and solving them can be done pacifically.

In other words, sure, management is about authority, but there are many things from which authority can be derived: the authority of a respected teacher is very different from the authority of a coercitive cop.

Also, from a sociologic perspective, values are an outcome. If someone has to defend "the company's values", that means they are wishes, not values.
I can't speak for anyone else besides myself, so I can't answer the question "what is HNs obsession".

But I can share my thoughts on NoScript:

An ad-blocker acts as a blacklist of sites/domains which are not allowed to run JavaScript in your browser. So basically everything is allowed by default - and the plugin downloads a list of known sites/domains that serve ads, track you, serve malware etc. That list is curated by someone else - and with the goal of disabling as many ads as possible while breaking as little site functionality as possible.

NoScript allows you to manage a whitelist of sites/domains which are allowed to run JavaScript in your browser. So by default everything is forbidden - and only sites/domains explicitly added to that list can run JS. And you have to curate that list yourself - so it's up to you to add sites/domains to those you want to trust permanently/temporarily. This is more involved, requires more effort, and many sites will break - loosing legit features, sometimes even breaking static content.

So, there are some parallels in there - one is a general blacklist that's remotely managed for you - and the other is a whitelist that you have to manage on your own.

You get more control and more security - at the cost of increased hassle, as many sites will just be broken out of the gate, and some will still be broken even after you (temporarily) allow first-party scripts a CDN or two. Some less recommendable sites need JS from 20+ domains (some of which dynamically load in even more domains) to work, while other sites work perfectly fine with just first-party scripts allowed and nothing else. For me that's interesting to know.

But you also get to see and learn a lot about what's going on under the hood, which might be interesting too, if you work in the field.

It's up to everyone to decide for themselves, whether that's worth the hassle - for most people it's probably not. But if you are technically minded and have already gained a little bit of experience with NoScript - the hassle isn't actually that great.

All pages you use regularly will be permanently whitelisted - many other pages can deliver you their static content fine even without JS - lots of pages are pretty easy to whitelist temporarily in just a few clicks - and the rest are often best to stay away from anyway.
Near me there is a preserved section of forest (in the middle of a suburban sprawl). It connects a senior-living apartment building to a Walgreens, nothing more. It's one block wide and two blocks long, just enough forest for a winding walkway to never see the roads on either side.

When you step into the walkway you immediately feel the cool and moisture. It feels magical.
You need a few million and some vacations to ignore the law. $100k is just the initial fee and timeslot for potentially pulling out of said country (or do what Apple is doing with the UK)
We don't. To be honest, I didn't realize PyPy supported Python 3. I thought it was eternally stuck on Python 2.7.

So the good: It apparently now supports Python 3.9? Might want to update your front page, it only mentions Python 3.7.

The bad: It only supports Python 3.9, we use newer features throughout our code, so it'd be painful to even try it out.
Yes, the earliest publication of those three is from almost a year ago. Random sample of papers. There exist studies / results / observations with actionable information older than that. (There’s probably something in the references sections of those papers, for instance.)

I of course accept the fact that information takes time to propagate, but the fact remains that I have been to specialist doctors for serious issues which have stated flat out that “nothing is known” – where they literally meant ”nothing is known”, which was completely contradicted by papers. Ten year old papers. Twenty year old papers. Fifty year old papers.

Again and again.

Certainly not all doctors are part of this culture. More than one time I have been present when a doctor who reads academic papers makes a decision based on that information which effectively saved a life.

Nonetheless, this hazard is a very real part of medical practicioner culture.

I certainly wouldn’t want a neurologist to treat last week’s news as gospel either. Absolutely not.

I just don’t know yet how to tell people how big this gulf can be between existing knowledge – established, proven, actionable knowledge – and what a given doctor acknowledges and/or doesn’t flat out deny the existence of.

Maybe this:

Anyone can read academic papers. In biology and medicine. Anyone. Really. And it is the minority of doctors who actually do so. I suggest that people verify doctors’ statements about the complete non-existence of knowledge about any given thing, should they make such statements. Read. Read as if lives were at stake.

—

Part of the reason doctors don’t read is that they are often overworked. They really, really are. (It’s not the only reason though.)

And: Of course!, reading science papers online IS NOT a substitute for medical training.

What I suggest people do is this: Help your doctors to help you.

With the utmost humility. As if lives were at stake.
> How do you know this?

Experience

> Also, I downvoted your comment because 'virtue signalling' is non-sense phrase.

Might want to let Oxford know, they'll have to do a reprint
Regarding VNC, Mighty was trying to do this but couldn't make it work.

As for the DRM, an open web is clearly important, but we already have plenty of DRM on the web for content – Netflix/Prime/etc won't stream you video unless you're a trusted player, right down to the screen you're viewing it on.

This is a business model problem, not a technical or moral one at its root. If the business model didn't require exclusive distribution of expensive to produce content, or if it didn't require viewing of ads to pay for the content, then these wouldn't be issues.

Until those business models change, an open standard for how browsers proved they are operating in a trusted way seems reasonable, and would have many security benefits outside of DRM/ads that would benefit users. It's already hard enough to build a browser that there are only ~3, so let's not pretend that adding more browser API surface is suddenly going to make it impossible for an indie browser to exist, they functionally don't already.
Any number of the many, many, negative externalities[0], where market transactions are unable or unwilling to capture the often serious negative effects of an activity in its price, that have been documented and researched by economists over the years? Air pollution and greenhouse gases are just two of the biggest examples, with absolutely massive external costs that are not captured in the price. There are even positive externalities with various activities where societal benefits can't be captured in the price.

Regulatory capture[1] and rent-seeking are also examples where markets can fail. There are plenty of others.

Markets are just tools for the exchange of economic activity. Nothing more, nothing less. But as a society, we tend to ascribe all sorts of greater meaning to them that make it harder to recognize where they come up short and actually do something about it. If knee-jerk anti-market reactions are bad, then might I propose that knee-jerk pro-market reactions are just as bad, insofar as they gloss over or outright ignore the negative aspects of markets as we've implemented them?

Imagine a screwdriver. It does one job: turn a screw. If you have the right one, matched with the corresponding screw drive--let's just assume a Philips screw--at the right size, it does its job perfectly. But it'll get less effective as the tip and screw sizes diverge. What about other screw drives? There are a bunch of types where a Philips will sort of fit, and you'll probably be able to turn the screw, albeit with more effort and a greater likelihood of camming out and damaging the screw or your screwdriver. A flat-head screwdriver gets used and abused in all sorts of fun and interesting ways. You can use a flat-head screwdriver to pry open a can of paint, but an actual paint can opener is still less likely to distort or damage the lid or slip and injure you. At some point, you open the tool box and grab another tool. Maybe it's another screwdriver, because you're turning another screw. Or maybe it's a different tool altogether, one designed for the specific task at hand.

Markets aren't so different, if not quite as narrowly-defined as a screwdriver. They work well in some areas, less well in others, and in some, they simply can't function. All to varying degrees. Recognizing their failures and limitations allows us try and develop policies that address their worst parts while maintaining their more desirable parts.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Ultimately I thought this would be the value of Mighty Browser: control the browser runtime on a server and ban the use of add-ons, ad-blockers, etc. for complete and total control over what your users see.
No, I meant that the screen could mess up the video stream shown so that it would look "fine" for the human eye but as a completely scrambled mess to a camera. You know how hard it was to film a CRT-monitor and AFAIK there have been some (abandoned) research on how to put something like that into LED specifically do defy the screen-capturing.
I think the Ice age came before the stone age - can't imagine those tools lasted very long - so Stone tools would have been a big advance :-)
To be fair a video could also be faked and they explain why they're not doing videos and that if you want a replication just wait for the big labs.
Could caltech upscale audio and video to HD with help from the comp sci dept?

I do love the current old school videos tho - genuinely wish i had a CRT monitor to watch them on!
Using Rust and PostgreSQL to build CRUD applications
I don't actually but i've heard it said by a fair few experts in autism and such as being one of the big things they focus on as it is the main reason for early mortality.
Based on how it is implemented, it probably should've been called `trace` because it is one level below debug.
> so easily be coerced

It's a court order!
The camera DSP might shut off if it detects a watermarked signal.
I'd say it's more like grow hobbies that kids can join as soon as possible...otherwise it's going to be years and years of waiting.
Yes and with Bing too. I own some stock so have incentive to root for them, but the products are frankly just meh. Bing Chat is cool but worse than ChatGPT. Edge is cool but worse than Firefox. And Bing is cool but worse than Google.
You aren't the only graybeard in the room. What you're describing isn't the original intent or usage of the web, but the very beginnings of the ongoing process of enshitification of the web writ large. Yes, from jump there were folks that refused to meet the media on its terms . Table based layouts, JavaScript googly eyes, "jello mold" layouts, flash-based fonts, etc. This trend has culminated in usability issues, page weights, and browser feature creep that can best be described as abusive bordering on sociopathic.
I don't know about Obsidian, but delay before search prevents a bunch of useless queries to the prefixes of your search terms. If search is slow, adding a delay to prevent extra searches might make searching feel faster.

Alternatively, you could get near-zero delay and no spurious queries by requiring the user type Enter or click a button... but that design is much less common these days.
Yeah a friend of mine was into spacechem and tbh it sounded tougher than TIS-100 from how he described it. I really like this kind of game, I just wish I had more time for them :)
Their set in TIHC 2022 was one of the best I have listened to.
Beaming ads directly to your skull is obviously the next step. Then we can get rid of the expensive to produce content for padding space between ads.
I set up a new media PC and used Windows 11 because it works best with the chipset / graphics card. Wow was I surprised when modern Windows is like malware - just endless dark patterns, nags, pop ups, it’s like a Buzzfeed blog post in terms of stuff I ignore and ads in my face. Unbelievable!
A real shame they didn't put into law the findings of the Leveson inquiry. Shadowy figures in the establishment clearly didn't like the implications of the inquiry and sat on it. Eventually they will have to - look at what's happened already.

There needs to be far more transparent accountability for wayward ministers and prime ministers - otherwise what's the point?
Can't watch video now. Could anyone post a summary?
No weapon in the history of mankind has ever been perfect.
I don't know; vitamin D supplements may be mostly advised in places where there just isn't enough sun.

In Scotland we get insufficient sunshine to produce natural vitamin D for around 6 months of the year, and there's discussion about whether everyone should be supplementing to the point it's been mooted as an addition to the water supply.

That's relevant because nobody uses sun screen during those months. I wouldn't expect any kind of correlation through sheer lack of use.
I find it hilarious that they're refering to the speed of the spacecraft.
No. They wouldn't do that. They will buy Neuralink and download ads directly to your subconscious.

Maybe tie them to dopamine triggers so each time you view and buy an ad you get a hit like you are doing meth.
"Voyager 2's trajectory is expected to remain unchanged" - I should hope so! There can't be any fuel left on board that would budge it, even if they wanted to.
How many careers and lives were ruined by the anonymous "Shitty Men in Media" list?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ugly-battle-over-shtty-media-m...

Some cases were probably well desreved, but anonymity allows easy score settling and revenge.

There's no recourse against an anonymous accusation, there's no way to defend yourself, and there's no way to prove you are innocent.
As it turns out, HN is not your office and HR isn’t here to “get involved.”. Thankfully.

I would agree there is a line, but disagree that the original poster stepped over it. Disagreement, even vigorous disagreement is important.

Calling out bad technical decisions is important.

Calling out oversensitive people who want to censor online discourse to their personal tastes is also important.
The reason public health refers to “men who have sex with men” or MSM is because it was discovered very early on in the HIV/AIDS crisis that the phrase “gay men” missed a significant portion of those at risk. Some straight men really do have sex with other men, sometimes.
Yes. And I think anyone who thinks 10 IP6 addresses in a DNS response is useful for anything is making a huge mistake, let alone cramming 20+ on a long domain name to smash the response limit, but I am fully prepared to be convinced I was wrong if you had a compelling use-case.

Once upon a time, the DNS spec required requests come from port 53. This was terribly insecure, so many sysadmins patched their DNS server to not do this-- most servers at the time didn't care (including the incumbent), and the few that did were easy to convince of the error of their ways with a simple demonstration.

Then one day, a DNS server became quite popular that didn't do this by default, and perhaps because the DNS spec was written by a company that sold consulting for their (buggy) DNS server, they used this exact argument: that it was wrong because the spec said it was wrong. They patched their server to reject these messages and encouraged users to block this traffic.

That was wrong of them, and eventually, due to enough pressure they eventually caved. That's because the reality of good engineering doesn't give two fucks what the spec says.

So what's your use-case?