skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put this in context, the trivial example of a user with a 15gb account, say you happened to be using s3 for storage. They buy a new phone, that costs you ~$1.50 that month, or 50% of your revenue at current pricing. They buy a new iPad and a new laptop? You’re 50% in the red.

Similarly you’ll have some users who are, say, content creators. They shove a 10gb video in their drive. Let’s say they have a laptop, a workstation, a phone and an iPad. Their upload is downloaded at least 3 times, costing you ~$4.50.
https://archive.is/gcSv2
What economic model would you like to supplant the one which is currently serving a whole load of websites to us all for free?
PreTeXt: Write Once Read Anywhere Authoring and Publishing System
Portmaster open-source application firewall
Yes, I think that this title should be changed to reflect that this is the intended behavior. Like "AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork that automatically click ads on behalf of users"
Mathematicians commonly refer to two objects by the same name if they are equivalent in the given context. In this context, topology, any space that is homeomorphic to a sphere might be referred to as “a sphere” even if literally speaking it’s not a sphere. For instance a topologist would might point at a cube and call it a sphere. In their domain there is no important difference between them so why not?

Also, n-spheres are commonly just called spheres for brevity. So when I say “the fundamental problem of homotopy theory is to compute the homotopy groups of spheres,” I am referring to all homotopy groups of all (n-)spheres simultaneously.

> I don’t see how any of this is limited to spheres.

In fact you’re right, homotopy theory is not just limited to spheres! However, if we could readily compute the homotopy groups of spheres, then we would be able to compute the homotopy groups of any “reasonable space.” Here I’m referring to CW complexes [1] which are a very broad class of spaces that, up to homotopy equivalence, probably includes any space you care to think of. It is for this reason that the problem of computing the homotopy groups of spheres is so fundamental to homotopy theory more broadly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW_complex
Definitely. Whatever one may think of "How to Solve It," Polya was a renowned mathematician. The book is like the Richard Hamming lectures that often come up on HN: Great thoughts from a great mind but not easily applied by the average or even above average Joe.
To chime in, I use both cloud. There's still many cases where uploading a document or having to deal with the online version is not great.
I like to step through stuff on the debugger when I'm testing stuff, even if it appears to work, so that I can see if every intermediate step looks as I might expect, and if I notice anything new with the enforced line by line checking.
Pretty good list of companies to target on your next job search
By global standards, it is still a high amount of living space.
Mounted my iPhone to the handlebars of an Indian Springfield motorcycle, which certainly had some vibration from the motor ("111 cu in (1,811 cc)"), and the camera is now partly FUBAR. The phone says, "Unknown Part. Unable to determine if your iPhone camera is a genuine Apple part." Some features no longer work, some work improperly or poorly, etc.

Tsk.
Ah! I misunderstood your comment. I thought you meant the original post(s) on discourse were disrespectful.

Totally agree that “go touch grass” is a disrespectful take.

These are a bunch of O.G. hackers who’ve invested a portion of their life into a significantly underfunded problem statement in our industry.

They deserve respect and our industry is better for them spending their time the way they did.

I’m personally very thankful these folks exist and are as passionate as they are. It gives me hope that one day I’ll work with a package manager in production that does more than just YOLO unpack an archive file into a global namespace followed by some hopefully deterministic shell scripts.
It looks like the site itself is a tool, to figure out what kind of lock you want to use / debug.
The problem is it does not destroy the model of annoying ads, it jsut makes it less profitable for publishers. It works like an auction, which is that advertisers place bids. assuming there are lots of fraudulent clicks, advertisers would notice a lower conversion rate, which would hurt ROI and advertisers would adjust by lowering bids, so the problem sorta corrects itself by adjusting to a new equilibrium of profitability. the only one hurt are the publishers and ad networks like meta/alphabet who earn less. but the evidence only shows higher ad rates despite this, not less.
I agree. It makes me feel weird, too. Google famously says "Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." I can cynically add "So they can monetize it." However idealistically a company's mission might be framed, in the end survival via being profitable is a core unstated goal. A company dedicated to bringing stress relief to the world participates in the same dynamic. It's a bit like hearing how psychopaths can emulate empathy because they know it will get them what they want. Eek/shiver.
Apple deliberately broke DSC 1.4 to support the Pro Display XDR. Thousands of people happily using 4K HDR10 high refresh monitors under Catalina all of a sudden couldn’t under Big Sur with the release of the Pro Display, and people wondering how they were managing the resolution.

And demonstrably so - “downgrading” to DSC 1.2 actually improves those other users refresh rates and HDR support.

This is still “broken” as of Ventura.
> Surely the difference is that F1 is a sport, and Monster Trucks are entertainment ? Not better, just different.

There is a middle ground, called super truck, which is (predictably, and perfectly) most popular in Australia that is about both spectacle and sport. It's an intensive race (requiring the shutdown of urban areas, like F1) but it also seems like pure uninhibited childish joy, ala monster truck. I would not be surprised if in 10 years it is a staple of childish fun in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkiV59cdR3M
The nix PhD is titled "The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model", which suggests that deployment was very much in mind with Nix. https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
I've had laptop batteries do that after nothing but sitting on a desk for a couple years. It's probably not from vibration.
No, they don't care to own most people's weekend projects. They wouldn't have any claim on that anyways.

But when someone is spending the time Google pays for to work on a startup, I would THINK they would care about that. Or maybe Google's internal processes is okay with them doing 1 hr/day of work "as long as they're getting done whats expected of them."
While rsync does incremental backups fine, it doesn't offer deduplication. If you want that, have a look around at newer options like restic or others such as borg (see a comprehensive list at https://github.com/restic/others)
https://archive.is/2H0tY
https://www.winehq.org/news/ is a lot more helpful. It tells you two things:

* 8.0.2 is just a patch release; the 8.x branch has been running forward for 8 months to reach 8.14

* the real 8.0 feature list is in https://www.winehq.org/news/2022120901, the 8.0-rc1 article from Nov 2022
LLMs and even weapons and nuclear bombs are harmless by themselves. It’s about who ends up in control of something that has the potential to do more harm than good then I could imagine it’s downhill from there.
The gossipy narrative style of the article is kind of jarring for an article on a topic like this. It took several paragraphs before it touched on the matter.
> I don't think being able to reverse engineer your project is actually a good qualification for hiring you,

Ask Mark Russinovich, now Azure CTO
USB-C now allows 240W
I look forward to the forthcoming documentary regarding this iteration of the debacle.
Not an adapter?
Worth noting that Google does not do what you're describing. Google has never literally "sold" data from Gmail and stopped using it for their own ads ~6 years ago.
How could I backup using incremental atomic snapshots on Windows?
bupstash.io was my favored option other than ZFS. It's a beautiful and performant solution. Being filesystem agnostic is an advantage in many contexts.

In the end I chose ZFS for the efficiency of snapshots (vs. a full disk scan) and atomicity. Both enable more frequent, smaller syncs, which is perfect for a laptop.
It's amazing what you can do without an ID in the States.
FIRST was one of my favorite parts of high school and taught me skills and solidified friendships that would really define my life. would def recommend.
> dubious reasoning like “carrying a gun can demonstrate that you are a law-abiding citizen.”

This is an objectively correct argument in favor of gun ownership.

It is very illegal to own a gun if you are using drugs or engaged in criminal activity. Every time you pick up a firearm, you self-certify you are not a drug user or habitual criminal.

If you “lie” about this, you get five years in federal prison.

Obviously this is a quirk of the US legal system. We could replace firearms with a piece of pink cloth, or go full out second amendment and let school shooters keep their guns while in prison.

But as it stands, that’s probably the best argument in favor of gun ownership.
Linux is a great fantastic experience, and I have no qualms or ill will about it. I simply had no use for it anymore, and I needed to simplify. I've said before, I'm not a sysadmin anymore, I don't tinker with systems, I need stuff to be operational and in production.

I still love Linux and I'd use it for any given server or Raspi if that were part of my job. I do use it daily in my job, but to a very minimal extent.
But would freezing your credit in any way help with the problem identified in the article? (sale of your credit header data)

Specifically:

1. Would it prevent any future occurrences?

2. Would it do anything to help with the leaks that have already occurred?
In this case the author had to do arcane magick to restore his zfs snapshot. This wasn’t a routine raw dd restore.
That wasn't the main reason though - UIKit v1.0 was pretty barebones not because they needed more time, but Jobs vetoed work on it for so long because he genuinely thought native apps were a bad idea.
Display ads. No tracking, no JavaScript, no analytics.

Ad-supported media existed before the Internet. They would target based on content rather than reader.

That would be fine.
Ubuntu ships with ZFS support, as well as TrueNAS.

I personally run my nas with Ubuntu and ZFS and love it.
https://archive.is/kaG50
What a miserable process. Worst thing is that these functions will increasingly be black boxes. You'll just get a negative result from the seller or buyer or landlord or bank and have no recourse. And that's especially unfair when we're talking about something as vital as shelter for decent citizens.
I thought VW lied about emissions not miles to the gallon, and the numbers I've said are what my dashboard shows for avg consumption when I'm driving, they ain't the testing numbers (which do tend to be ridiculously high)
As someone who's been interested in tracker defeating since that became a thing around 25 years ago, I'm just a little concerned that something like this AdNauseum -- if ever adopted significantly -- could invite blowback that also hits more conventional tracker blocking, or other current liberties.

Not making certain HTTP requests seems to be protected right now. However, click fraud, with which this might be conflated, seems to be a very different matter.

Imagine this being used to justify hamfisted legal restrictions on how everyone's browsers may behave. Or used as a reason or pretext to effectively force even more invasive user identity requirements or device attestation. (Which, history suggests, will then be abused for more nefarious and societally dangerous purposes.)
How good is wine these days? I remember it from its earliest days and haven’t used it much since. But so grateful it exists.
Just out of college and in my first job as a software engineer, I was excited to reduce the conditions in a piece of code using the K map reduction technique and then implement the resulting truth table with a switch case block. It was shot down pretty quickly by the reviewer because it was inscrutable and unverifiable to anyone without significant effort. Since then I've realised that such optimizations are the compiler's job :)
Signal's servers can't backdoor the Signal Client. From what I understand of Skiff, Skiff's servers are the client.
And wear it properly.

The cheap foam earplugs work very well, but they have to go surprisingly far up inside your ear, and be held in place for longer than you think while they expand.
But if only a few people install it then it's just a little bit more money taken from advertisers and given to ad companies. The tiny number of people who would actually consider installing an extension like this aren't going to substantially impact the perceived value of online advertising.
We have all been there.
I’ve given up on Time Machine. It never seems to work past a month or two for me on my Synology w/ atalk etc.
Why? You'd use Matrix to distribute keys for encrypted blobs. That's how systems like these work anyways.
This has basically never been even slightly true. Look at Bush Jr normalizing torture and mass surveillance while starting a war based on false presences that killed a half million people and cost trillions.

Basically you threw away your vote because you didn't understand any of the stakes.
Depends what else the machines are doing, and how much ram, and the rsync settings.

If you read all the files on both sides, every time and don't have more ram than disk, it's going to be a lot of work. If you're just looking at directory entries most of the time, there's a good chance that's all cached and it's no disk load, other than the small changes.

I ageee with you though that atomicity is a big difference, if it matters, and in most cases, it probably doesn't.

Personally, I've mostly stopped doing rsync backups in favor of zfs send, but I've still got one I need to get around to changing. Sanoid/syncoid is pretty decent for less effort snapshotting and syncing snapshots; but I haven't done anything with encrypted datasets. For most of my systems, I'd prefer recovery over security. For the one system in iffy hosting, it runs full disk encryption as a layer below zfs, so it's zfs sends are cleartext, too. (The hosting facility has given me other customer's unwiped disks; better for me to assume my disks won't be wiped)
I would describe them as blister-inducing and creaky. But relatively dependable (to a point).
This is about understanding something about what goes on as you go rightward on the table at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_groups_of_spheres (under General Theory)

There's an applications section in the Wikipedia article, but it's all to other parts of pure math. It's hard to summarize, but they've got to do with obstructions to untangling, unwrapping, or otherwise solving things to do with spaces.
rumor has it aphex twin is gonna perform the classics during the ceremonial tyre fyre to commemorate the first festival. shit is gonna be lit!
Kudos. You're probably safer than most people who are only one theft, fire, flood, or other disast
FTC is something I learned a lot from and enjoyed immensely in high school. I'm glad you had a great time at competitions, and I have no doubt you'll have some fantastic takeaways for next year!

The level of competition in high school robotics is remarkable these days. I truly believe that the average level of competition is way higher than when I was in high school. I don't envy FIRST's task of trying to make FTC at once accessible (or at least, moreso than FRC) while also raising the ceiling for these talented kids to show off their skills.
> Unless the sirens can produce different sounds that are easily distinguishable

Sounds like something that would have to be done when installing (well, really speccing and buying) them.
I always wonder what a popular science/math magazine would look like if it were oriented towards hackers. In this I mean people who have little background in the field but also the type of person who is used to bluntness and knows to RTFM.

I would subscribe to one. Journal articles are often opaque to people who aren't already in the field, and popular science falls too often into the storytelling trap seen here.
I used this for a while. It generates a gallery of all the ads that you “click” on which is quite entertaining. It’s interesting to see what ads come up based on what it clicks.
I really don’t remember. But I kept getting people creating different accounts that I wouldnt know about until it went to collections and dinged my credit. Took me a couple years to finally get it locked down. After 5ish police reports and ftc identity theft reports that all these energy/cell phone companies require for you to dispute.

It’s maddening that these companies give out service with wrong variations of my name and no ID but then want me to jump through hours of hoops to get it removed from collections.

Luckily I got it all resolved prior to rates shooting up so I was able to refi at all time low rates or this would have cost me a lot of money.
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Yes, yes. I get it. We should all invest in your "LLM, but for Ride-Sharing" startup.
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Seriously thought... the pattern matching vs. rational directed approaches to general problem seem to have analogs to CNNs vs. Constraint Programming approaches to GAI. Maybe, in the same way that neural-networking solves certain types of problems brilliantly but not so much with other problems, rational directed problem solving and "work a lot of problems" / pattern matching have different problem domains in which they excel.
Yup. The best bet is the handlebar bag with clear pouch and a cheap $100 android phone with offline google maps. I am personally using a Samsung Galaxy which I bought it from fb marketplace.
It raises the cost per conversion, but whether that will translate to fewer ad-spend dollars isn’t clear to me. Maybe they will increase their budgets to maintain the same conversion numbers.

There was also an interesting Freakonomics episode on whether ads work at all. The incentives for advertising aren’t exactly rational. What’s good for a company isn’t always good for an individual working in the ads department of that company. Plus, the money is often there whether it works or not, and advertising departments will always insist that they do.
> Just like Windows.

And just like with Windows Valve is trying to build on an open platform instead.
Richard hamming lectures? I'd google, but I wouldn't know if I'd found the ones you meant.
One that has us pay for websites would be far better. Including services like Gmail and such. We would be paying customers, not eyeballs for sale, and only websites deemed worthy of that level of loyalty would survive.

Any websites that prefer it could still be free then, but the costs to host them would have to be paid by their owner (like most personal or business websites today), not sponsored by ads.
https://archive.is/6gQQb
An n-sphere is an n-dimensional manifold that can be translated, via various means such as diffeomorphisms, to other shapes like an n-dimensional egg. Since it's the "base" shape, that's what it's called. Note that an n-sphere has no holes.
I read somewhere that snapshots are actually around 5 MB. Still not a lot, but a lot more than a few KB. A year's worth of hourly snapshots comes to over 40 GB just in snapshot overhead.
Which truth, and which morality, will future LLMs adhere to? There are so many from which to choose!
> force even more invasive user identity requirements or device attestation

I think those are both coming. All the major forces are aligned against users: governments, content holders, advertisers, police, and authoritarians everywhere. It's inevitable unless we take the power back.
Isn't it simply a more mature language replacement for VBA scripting?
Personally, I like pay-per-use and subscription models.

And I'm not entirely opposed to advertising; TV and radio have been ad supported for generations, but we've now added surveillance which is unacceptable. (The ads themselves are also more intrusive, but that's my secondary concern.)
rsync does have --link-dest which you can sometimes use to get a (file level) dedup effect.

zfs dedupe is pretty expensive and doesn't often work out like people might expect...
I'd recommend some of the 2-player games, like Combat.
SemVer is partly social and partly technical. -- Socially, with semver you're promising that the software (especially its interface) won't change too much. Technically, if function signatures change, or if implementation behaviour significantly changes (in ways that'd break old code), you want semver to indicate that.

Nix's hashing of inputs solves a different problem. It wants to make sure you can have slightly different builds of packages available to the system.

> ...since `patch` updates do not change observable behavior...

Sure, the social guarantee of semver isn't enough to guarantee reproducible packages the same way Nix does, sure. But that doesn't mean that someone depending on v1.1.1 of a package would be happy to suddenly see v2.0.0, or that they'd be unhappy to see v1.1.2.
There seem to be stories in these comments that leave consumers as victims without there being any intentional imitation. e.g., the five year old child getting mortgage payment demands. Or the person struggling to get a mortgage because of someone else with the same name but different age.
First was the elimination of TGIF, a weekly meeting where Larry and Sergei would come out in the flesh and answer some of the most politically sensitive questions you could imagine right there at 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, second was the rule of CFO Ruth Porat who eliminated many bets and turned Google into a lean mean ad selling machine. Sundar Pichai seemed too distant or disinterested to fully engage with Googlers or fight for their interests. For example, his first order of business was to take over one of the three buildings off Charleston and make it off limits to mere mortals. Maybe that is good for share holders, but it wasn't the Google I ever signed up for.
I mount mine on a mountain bike. While this isn't "high-amplitude vibrations," there are certainly lots of bumps and jolts. Fingers crossed as I really need to have my phone visible for directions, etc...
TransUnion is broken for me, has been for years. I have to reset my password every single time.
I don't personally run this extension (because I've read that the fraudulent clicks are easy to detect) but supposing that the clicks from this extension were both pervasive and indistinguishable from real clicks, it would seem to me that that would cause ROI to asymptotically approach zero which would result in the collapse of ad networks as a viable business model.
Surprising, considering mounting your iPhone to a motorcycle was central to the main ad for the iPhone 13:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn50z2PEDEA
Ok, I see you are trolling. I tip my top hat to you, good day.

> Your failure to banish my suspicions despite effort makes me that much more confident in my original conclusion.

Side note: I've never considered this phenomenon in my life, and suddenly other people digging in in the face of evidence makes sense. A dubious "thank you" to you.
For me its because they sucked: they had come to depend on a large Google ecosystem and were disruptively process oriented, occasionally "this is how we do it at Google." The expensive thing was also annoying, although we do have ICs making $300k.

For director level staffing and people management Google guys were too abrasive, and didn't have their hands in the code - but that is a different story.

But anyways can wax poetically about why to avoid folks from Google for days...