skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all of these, I appreciated the one from 05/11/2016 the most. It felt the least shady because they were very up front with the scope and the data collected (which was narrowly focused), and left the implementation up to the developer (along with an optional script they could use).

They also provided several options for sending the data, just to guarantee that the extension couldn't be compromised by their code. This one stood out from the rest for me. Curious though if I'm missing some way that this could be used for nefarious purposes though. Full text of the proposal below:

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I’m sure you get business proposals all the time, so I’ll get straight to the point. I hope what I’m proposing is a little different and might actually interest you. I like Hover Zoom+ as a great alternative to it’s bigger brother Hover Zoom that lost its glamour over the last couple of months.

We're conducting a DNS error research and we’re interested in small amounts of anonymous data that you might be able to provide via your Chrome extension. Our research has been going on for years and Google has never had the slightest problem with it.

Compatible with Google’s strict policies
No personal user data
No ads, no malware
The data we’re interested in are basically just DNS errors:

NXD – Non Existent Domain - the domain that a user entered that resulted in a DNS error.
A time stamp – when it happened.
GEO – where it happened (USA, UK, RU etc.).
A unique randomly generated user ID (can be hashed, not traceable back to the user). Please, don’t confuse this with the user IP address.
And that’s all. You can either use our script or collect the data on your own and send it to us via an FTP server, API etc. There’s a lot of different ways we can do this. We pay on a monthly basis. The payments depend on user GEOs, but it would be in thousands of dollars per year.

Is this worth at least a brief discussion? Looking forward to hearing from you.

A while back I reached out to you regarding a DNS error research our company conducts. Hover Zoom+ would be an ideal medium for our research. In return, this could become a solid new revenue stream for you.

Our method has been going on for years and we’ve never had the slightest problem with Google. We pay regularly on a monthly basis. For you it would be in tens of thousands of dollars per year - the amount depends on your users base and data quality.

If you’re concerned about including third party scripts, there’s still a lot of ways we can make this work.

Please let me know if this is worth a brief discussion to you.
Personally I find it more enjoyable to code in than Java. There’s also maybe an argument to be made around Kotlin Native, KotlinJS too.
Turns out Satoshi was a time traveler who tried to distract humanity from building AIs for at least a decade longer, in order to prevent the extinction of mankind that happened in his timeline.

The last remaining human scientists spent their final years hiding from AI patrols, devising a viral idea that could be implemented on 2010 technology and that would suck up the maximum amount of programmer brainpower and silicon resources without delivering any progress towards AI. Cryptocurrency was the solution they came up with. A man who looks surprisingly like Bruce Willis was sent back to seed the idea…
I'd be interested to hear hypotheses for why this program did not reach its intended effect. I'm also curious what the effect would be if teenage boys were included. It seems like a major missing element.
Two-column layout in Microsoft Word, large header, smaller footer, with appropriate font choices would get you basically all the way there.
You make some good points. I agree, any census done after Russia took Ukraine in 2014 can't be used and I don't doubt people who once considered themselves Russian started to consider themselves Ukrainian after Russia attacked Ukraine, but this was before all that so I don't think that's a problem.

And I'm not saying considering yourself Russian means you have allegiance to Russia, but I think there is a strong correlation between the two. Even if there's less of a correlation than I think, the percentage which considers themselves Russian is over twice that of the percentage which considers themselves Ukrainian. Maybe the Tatars align more with Ukraine than Russia, improving the balance, but idk.
Its not substantial improvement, but another invariant which need to be learned and adds more brain load.

I hope someone will design some jvm SimpleLang eventually, which will have very few syntactic constructions but cover all/most of use cases.
> Bitcoin has provided many positive things for many users, and blockchain/consensus has many promising applications beyond finance.

Sorry but no it hasn’t; and no it doesn’t. 15 years now and nothing concrete for many reasons that have been eloquently expounded on many times. If that changes let me know.
Published: November 1, 2022 8.45am EDT Updated: January 2, 2023 11.05am EST

> In the United States, the 10% earning the highest incomes take home nearly half of all income and the richest 10% of all households own more than 70% of all the wealth.

> Inequality tends to be greater in developing countries than wealthier ones. The United States is an exception.

> The rich tend to spend less of their money than the poor. As a result, the extreme concentration of wealth can slow the pace of economic growth.

> Extreme inequality can also exacerbate political dysfunction and undermine faith in political and economic systems. It can also erode principles of fairness and democratic norms of sharing power and resources.
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Directly? Not a lot.

Indirectly, it kickstarted global CBDCs research, blockchain-integration research across major financial institutions, tokenisation efforts, etc.

Would all these things have happened anyway? Yeah, maybe. I don’t know if blockchains in the form we got them were necessary, but they surely are this possible world’s ignition.

Will this all be beneficial in the long run? TBD. But, the story isn’t over yet.

Crypto was possibly a net fuck up though
So instead they buy that data from the fly-by-night operators and carry on as usual. That's the key problem here, this data only needs to be collected by one shady operator, "the market" will handle the rest.
Can anyone name at least one positive effect Money has had?
8 major versions, that is surely less than 5% of the Android population. I'm sure the security flaws in those non-updated phones is far more serious than the lack of microphone indicator.
> But it was apparent that large swaths of native vegetation were cleared for colonization.

Even before settlers, the land on Maui wasn't just unkempt wilderness. They had enormous Taro and fish farms. They also thinned out forests regularly. Like most agricultural societies, they actively managed their landscape.

But part of the issue (besides global warming) is that nearly all of the land is going derelict for the first time. These areas have been under active management for thousands of years up until 40 years ago. And free-falling Ag revenue means that there is less money to manage it today - either subsidize new agriculture or even properly re-wild it.

It would be easy enough to try to go back to pre-plantation agriculture, but Native Hawaiians today are no more interested to take up subsistence Taro farming than we would be. So there is not much of a solution either than grin and increase tourism, or get more federal subsidies and repeal the Jones Act.
*USA only
"Those who would trade freedom for temporary security shall inevitably lose both. (and deserve neither)"

Corollary:

"Those who would trade privacy for token freebies shall inevitably lose both. (and deserve neither)"
sorry, I should have included Kotlin in that part of my comment. IntelliJ Kotlin is quite incredible. Every time I've needed to use it, my expectations have been met.

Makes switching to vscode feeling going from an framing nailer to beating in rusty iron nails with a rock.
I don't disagree, but from what I see, it could be executed faster with just a good database query. It's not clear what is AI about this, or what benefit AI actually gives it as a tool.
Taking storage marketing at face value is also a serious mistake that you'll eventually regret.
Which platform?

For Android? Kotlin all the way.

Servers? Java is much closer to the JVM and Kotlin is an abstraction over it which honestly does not provide much extra compared to Java 21.

Kotlin has several design decisions which are neater 80% of time, but Java is the better general purpose language for those 20%. OC, much is a matter of taste. And in Kotlin will find yourself in awkward positions where you have to use Java Collections and you lose all the advantages of Kotlin (HashMaps not having non-nullable values is one of them).
Lots of people refinanced at a low rate in 2021 (at pre-2021 prices) and are not buying new cars... those people are doing just fine. Given the fact that the housing market is frozen, there's a lot more of them than there are people who bought in the last couple of years. This drags the average down.

There's a bifurcation, with some people (mostly homeowners who owned pre-2020) getting a giant handout from the government (record low interest rates, ability to refinance, etc - due to the FED buying mortgage backed securities en masse), and the rest of the people getting shafted.
On Moq and Our Part in the OSS Sustainability Social Contract
Bitcoin was invented 15 years ago, shouldn't we be beyond "promising" by now?
The article says that they use both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints, and the exchanges using HTTPS are secure (as expected). My guess is they had to build their own encryption scheme paired with plain HTTP for older devices or those that for some reason weren't compatible with the latest TLS standards (which are a lot of them).
"A disagreement between two highly qualified groups of doctors seems valid."

Well... if we're talking psychiatrists, they choose the thing they wanted to be highly qualified in. So, any potential "expert" that would disagree with their research methods was selected out so as to not become an expert in the first place.

I guess if I have a point it's that I don't think shouting "trust the science" or "trust the experts" and beating one's chest is contributing much to the conversation.
I wish there was someone I could trust to host for me. I use fastmail for email after giving up self hosting 15 years ago. I like that they take care of applying security updates and everything has just worked. They are also big enough that everybody accepts email from them so I don't end up in automatic spam land. Unfortunately they do email well, but they don't do a lot of other services I'd like - backup all my pictures as I take them for example.

Google wants me to use them, but they have earn my lack of trust - between deprecating services that look useful, the algorithm locking a few people out with no way to get back in, random changes that make useful workflows break I'm not interested.
Congrats on the launch. I used Refine a couple of months ago to spin up an interview exercise for a SDET position. Working with the tool was admittedly a bit bumpy due to the somewhat sparse documentation (for portions), but I was pleased with the overall experience and felt that it allowed me to do in a matter of days what may have taken me a week or two in the past.
I'm not joking, and if you live in a democracy then yes, I do get to dictate the laws where you live.
This reminds me of a dirty plan I had as a kid in middle school.

1. Make a legitimately useful Minecraft Bukkit plugin.

2. Wait for lots of installs.

3. Add a well-hidden backdoor that makes me "op" (admin) on any server I choose.

4. Surprise some mean op on a public server by suddenly banning him.

I got through step 2 then decided to stop there.
Yes, they could, and they'd have people lined up around the block to sign up.

But that's vastly different from just dumping a bunch of garbage on someone's porch.
There are plenty of people who are not ideologically vegan who might still buy something like a beyond burger based on cost, flavor, the belief that it is “healthy”, “green”, etc.

Ecologist Howard T. Odum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_T._Odum

developed a (flawed) system of ecological accounting (they are all are) which tried to track back the environmental impact of everything back to the energy content of sunlight (water, for instance, needs sunlight to fall somewhere to evaporate water, drive winds to blow it around, so it falls in the form of rain) where the currency is called “embodied energy” or “emergy”.

When you do such an accounting you are able to directly account for certain things but not for other things and you take the dollar value of what you can’t account for and convert it to emergy by multiplying it against some factor.

Odum’s original sin is that you can’t really compare different impacts with the same currency (how do you compare 1 ton of PFAS to 1 ton of CO2 to an endangered species?) but I think the “money for what you can’t itemize” bit is important and has the corollary that crazy expensive things aren’t green. The money goes somewhere and if means a well-paid employee can afford a big SUV or an investor flies business class to South Africa, it has an impact.

The person who is a vegan has a wide range of choices too such as old generation fake meat (I still like Boca Burgers and Quorn) not to mention less processed alternatives like chick peas, tofu, tempeh, etc.

My wife laments that our food co-op went from offering bulk lightly processed foods (nuts, teff, brown rice, …) to an increasing panoply of crazy-expensive vegan and organic foods that often not even that healthy when you consider they are loaded with added sugar, oils and similar ingredients as well as ultra-processed in various ways.
> Indirectly, it kickstarted global CBDCs research, blockchain-integration research across major financial institutions, tokenisation efforts, etc.

These are also all negatives. Profound wastes of time.
How is it misleading exactly?

> Vulnerability disclosed to IMETS@tencent.com.

> Vulnerability disclosed again via Tencent Security Response Centre (TSRC) web portal.

> Tencent: “Thank you for your interest in Tencent security. There is no low or low security risk for this issue. We look forward to your next more exciting report.”

> Tencent: “Sorry, my previous reply was wrong, we are dealing with this vulnerability, please do not make it public, thank you very much for your report.”

> Tencent’s initial rejection of our disclosure and subsequent about-face served as inspiration for the title of this report.

It's a direct quote from a Tencent reply.
Theory, the simulation is a poor reflection of reality; Accurately simulating what it would be like to care for a baby is beyond our current technology.
Just publish an open and fully documented API so folks can build their own clients (or use those written by folks they share UX opinions with) and these constant redesigns that will inevitably break folks' muscle memories and piss people off won't be necessary, come on, Slack!

Anyway, can't wait to have to re-learn a bunch of stuff for Glossy IRC yet again...
The food portion is likely quite off for very high cost of living areas. It uses the national average and applies an adjustment factor based on 4 regions: East (1.08), Midwest (0.95), South (0.93), and West (1.11). So, every area within said region has the exact same food costs.

Either that, or food costs really are similar within a region if you cook your own food and shop frugally.
This is one of the series of bugs I'm referring to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1981... . I'm too lazy to search for all of them. But if you pull by this thread, you should be able to find more.

Don't be skeptical. It just sounds like you think you know better, when you actually have no clue.
> union ... and

Unions are (by and large) 'inclusive or's, for an 'and' you're thinking of intersections.
Beyond definitely pitched investors early on that it was about cost.
My point was that it is ontologically opposed to its purpose and inception. It was on track and sent off the rails. It required a start, it changed its direction, and is no longer the same project in spirit. Urbit as the original idea which was not supposed to change has changed and more specifically Tlon is responsible for the change of direction which they’ve even forked into multiple teams now.

There existed at some point progress towards the vision of Urbit, and as of now it is so far beyond that scope it has retreated from a static namespace of computational vapor ware into perpetual “non-maxwellian” ever-growing “ball of mud” bolted onto the status-quo of today with ever increasing complexity.

\(-.-)/
> These documents are illegal and have no meaning.

"No meaning"? That seems like a meaningless statement.

> And then you are trying to legitimise the Russian invasion.

Not everyone is a soldier in your ideological (and literal in this case) war. People can have nuanced views for nuanced reasons.
>This complaint seems odd. First complicated is obviously not in the original text, it's in Greek. I guess what you mean is "No words I would translate as complicated are in the text" but then your complaint just becomes a tautology.

The parent's complaint is neither a tautology not odd in any way.

"Neither complicated nor straying husband appear in the original text" obviousy means "the meanings conveyed by those words are not the meanings found in the original text", not that the English words aren't in the original (I mean, duh!).

They translator is bizarrely translating a word that means "resourceful" to "complicated".

It's about Ulysses being like MacGyver, not like Dan Draper.
It'anymore that Greek for fish ("ichthus") would make sense to translate as "
The syntax for the string template surprised me. Are there other languages that use a `STR.` prefix to indicate string formatting?
Disney says it will crack down on password sharing, following Netflix’s lead
How to move a Parisian piano (2014)
> We had a perfectly happy, frugal, life at around $36k.

There's a tendency for people to think that anyone not living in a house with a white picket fence in Queen Anne must be insufferable.

It seems like there's a large group of people that is simply miserable if they don't have as much as others - regardless of if that thing is going to actually bring them any joy or not.

It seems like half my friends are killing themselves to buy a boat - and they don't even go out boating more than a couple times a year. I'll never get it.
The idea would be to cherry pick simpler cases, such as crowds and "background" actors. Hero shots and closeups would evolve over time as the techniques improved.

One advantage of authoring cinematics as opposed to games is the lack of a requirement for real-time interaction. The cinematic sequence can take a few seconds and analyze/plan accordingly.
I looked at the PDF, and can confidently say I could typeset that in a word processor, using a stylesheet to sustain it.

That's not what they did, apparently.

The document properties call out https://cairographics.org
Gravity tractors would also work, with just a couple of years of lead time.
As someone who lives in the PNW and has to be aware of fire, I've recommended (and implemented) a lot of the advice outlined here:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
Exactly. Or if for some reason they need the social bit Mastodon is an option. Additionally it has RSS output feeds for everything.
A side effect of Bitcoin is a huge amount of wasted electricity. (Though not always. "Stranded" electrical power would have gone unused anyway.)

A side effect of Worldcoin seems to be sending money to people in African countries. If that were the only real-world effect, that's pretty good! It's unintentional charity work. The retina scan ensures that the money will be widely distributed.

The question is, what do people actually lose by getting a retina scan? It sounds creepy, sure, but it seems they're unharmed? What can Worldcoin even do with a hash of a retina scan for some random person?
Money allows for economic specialization, leading to greater productivity. You don't build an economy that produces cell phones when you're stuck bartering goats for wheat.
A 192gb Mac Studio should be able to run an unquantized 70B and I think would cost less than running a multi gpu setup made up of nvidia cards. I haven’t actually done the math, though.
If you factor in electricity costs over a certain time period it might make the Mac even cheaper!
hm, indeed. thanks! interesting, i need to investigate. i just redeployed the same code to the cloudflare worker and it worked.
About $1,000,000,000,000 opposes your viewpoint.
Blockchains per se are just a signed distributed data structure though.
I don't like cryptocurrencies and all the greedy hype. Just wanting to say that blockchains still might be useful data structures for some use cases.
Developer ignorance rather than hubris. People who don't really know anything about cryptography has the naive and wrong impression that encryption renders your secret completely safe against anything and that only by getting the key or a major cipher vulnerability would the plaintext be revealed. They treat it like a blackbox because they don't know anything. In recent years, some of the crypto libraries have methods (i.e. Fernet) that are much safer and takes care of these issues for you but it's still very possible to make mistakes. I've seen engineers use a static IV for AES because they didn't know how they would be able to search for the encrypted data other than making the ciphertext the same for a given key and plaintext. Basically they severely weakened it because they didn't understand the purpose of a random IV. Again, they thought key + plaintext -> encrypt = super secure.
Use our suite of eBPF libraries
Alternatively, the enormous increase in GPU production for crypto seems to have translated directly into enormous gains in AI right around the time that crypto hype imploded.

For a while there all the dumped mining GPUs were super cheap, and GPU manufacturers had scaled up their manufacturing capabilities to be able to easily meet increased demand as AI ramped up. It's possible AI would have developed more slowly had we not had so many GPUs lying around and nothing to use them for.
I lose focus when editing messages in Slack because their input box does not respect things like the keyboard's home and end keys which turns simple changes into confusing chores. Unfortunately, their support staff told me that basic editing is not a priority and will never be addressed
Please note that this response and the whole reasoning is absolutely ridiculous. But thank you for it anyway, I’ll make sure to keep away from your services in the future.
Ask HN: Shared messages, chat, task tracking, calendar for family
The tracking of everything that needs to be done for family starts to feel very disjointed. We use facebook messenger for chat, google calendar for calendar, asana (free) for tasks.

Asana is too expensive to justify it's cost for family.

Any suggestions on something more integrated, suited for family needs? It can be paid, but I cannot justify $11/seat for family things that asana asks.

We can easily move from FB for messaging, if we will need to, but google calendar integration is a must.
> Java collections don’t have a type representing an ordered sequence of elements, Java 21 fills this gap by introducing the SequencedCollection, SequencedSet and SequencedMap interfaces. These interfaces provide methods for adding, modifying or deleting elements at the beginning or end of the collection, as well as for iterating over a collection in reverse order.

That sounds like a deque, and it's been in Java for a long time. (No set or map implementations though.)

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/docs/api/java.base...