skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re not talking about private correspondence or unpublished drafts here. Orwell clearly didn’t want these works to be secret, given he published them in the newspaper.

His widow wanted them forgotten because she wanted to control his image. He is a controversial figure whose ideas changed a lot over the course of his life. After her death, they were collected, presumably with permission from the family.

That they are not in wide circulation now is because they are voluminous and obscure, so there is no market to sell them. I certainly am not interested in reading all of his book reviews and political reporting. But many more people are interested in reading them than have the university connections required to do so.

There is nothing to be lost and everything to be gained by making the complete works available to anyone for free, or even for a normal amount of money. But no publisher is going to because it’s not profitable. That’s fine, they don’t have to, but that fact undermines any argument that a volunteer who does this archival work is somehow acting immorally.
I prefer to curl and perl
> Or do ISPs already have that access?

"In order to comply with DOCSIS4.2 regulations, we require anonymous WiFi telemetry for 5GhZ or higher due to safety. You can disable this at any time and use 2.4GhZ."

Or some such. Just give it time.
I sort of applaud the goals of projects like this, but I feel sorry for anybody who has to be compliant with them.

I'm involved with a data collection and archiving project right now. Occasionally I'll get distracted with ideas like "Maybe I should make it compliant with Dublin Core/OWL/DCAT/WhateverTripleFlavorOfTheMonth" and then I go down a rabbit hole of meta(meta(meta)) documents like this for two hours and come back feeling like I know less than when I started.

So I just make up some JSON thing that seems like it will probably make intuitive sense in 100 years, write programs to generate and read that, and get on with my day.

I'd love for there to be some kind of "get to the point" document (complete with examples!) that didn't require reading 10,000 pages of bureaucrat-ese before having any hope of understanding it.
Sounds like what Python 2 to 3 should have been.
While this story turned out to be false, I do remember installing the multiplayer game launcher for Half Life 1 back in 1999/2000. After clicking “install”, a dialog popped up and said something, “If the installer says the program failed to install, do not worry. The program installed correctly.”

I took a screenshot. I had it for years. I may have lost it, or maybe it’s sitting on some old computer at my parents, but I swear it’s true.

Sure enough, the error message popped up, and the program was installed correctly.

I told the story once on Twitter, and someone responded that this was known problem. It had something to do with Windows 97’s registry updates if I remember correctly.
Scary. What if it will keep doing what it does, but the rest will be the most common denominator of videos they push onto new people? That would actually be worse than it is, and I thank you for the lesson that "it could be worse"
1800 is bad for a computer but good for an amateur human
Conspiracy theory culture is a parody of itself. Sidewalks, safe ways to cross the street, and legalizing apartments increase freedom. It gives you the choice of not having to drive just to cross the street safely. Certain charlatans make money selling outrage culture, or harvest votes exploiting fear about a certain lifestyle coming under attack.
Don't write and prove to the world that all the things you didn't make made the world worse.
Which places?

I've lived without a car in London and San Francisco and it's been fantastic.

I lived without a car in Mountain View and it was pretty awful.
On the contrary, I'd say a self-evidently subjective policy like this one has a better chance of being enforced fairly than a legalistic code that usually ends up being twisted by whoever's in power to go after their political opponents.
Moving physical pages from user space
is Basic HTML Gmail free of JS? I had to use it recently I remember typing in the to/from fields and there were autocomplete pop-ups.
> It is actually a surprising that Russia is not the manufacturing capital of the world.

Why the USSR did not become a major industrial exporter has been the subject of some good historical studies. It's been a while, so I don't have any good references at hand, but I recall that the main problem was Soviet management policies. Companies had a very hard time implementing quality control, and the government was also reluctant to close obsolete plants, because their primary goal was to maintain full employment.
Is it not economically viable to melt the cars for steel? Or is there not enough demand for steel in Tonga that the steel would need to be shipped abroad anyways?
I think "Just about anything" within a 10 minute drive is probably not a carefully considered standard. Can you name a specific place in which you think this standard obtains?

I think the only way to think objectively about this sort of thing is with a very careful analytical framework. Think about the amenities you need, and how you acquire them, and then really -measure-, rather than just "think back" about the burden of acquiring them. Not many people live 10 minutes from their work, for instance. Google thinks the average is just under a half hour each way.

If you try to analyze the number of jobs within <x minutes> of a particular domicile, it's my expectation that you'll find more, not fewer, options in urban setting. I reccomend https://app.traveltime.com/ as a way to tinker with your expectations there. Toss a 10 minute drive around your town. You might be surprised at how modest that span is.
That's because most of those cities were built up before cars existed, and even horse-drawn carriages were a luxury for the few.

Many American cities on the other hand have grown up with the car, with wide streets dividing neighborhoods, and essential facilities scattered far away from one another. Reducing car usage in a typical American city (not downtown Manhattan) is not just a matter of banning cars or replacing them with public transportation. The city itself needs to be redesigned in a more compact way. Property values will skyrocket in the CBD, and crash everywhere else.
But CHERI would stop pointer owners from exploring nearby memory space, so the metadata would only be accessible from within the allocator itself regardless. AFAICT there should be no need for ASLR with CHERI. (I mean defense in depth is ok…)
Gwynne Shotwell on Aiming High and Taking Big Risks
But... that comes with a huge economic penalty in general system corruption, reduced cooperation, productivity, efficiency. Low morale/patriotism. And eventually the central powers fragment.

Really the USSR lasted as long as it did because the Great War had a lasting mass perception of survivalism, and the power vacuum bringing the Warsaw Pact under Russia's economic dominance. Eventually it fell apart.

Somehow Putin reversed that (likely because of oil revenues), but the oil age is coming to an end, and Putin is allegedly failing in health. When he dies or is deposed, Russia will fragment I think.

But this time, there is a military power that is greater than Russia, at least in conventional terms: Ukraine. It will have a trained, battle-hardened, motivated, fully NATO-supplied army, with deep NCO-deep ties to NATO militaries, equipment, officers, etc. It will have trust of its allies and a critical mission to NATO of being the new line of defense with Russia.

What will likely happen once Putin falls is that Belarus will effectively become allied with Poland, Ukraine, and the NATO-member Balkans. Ukraine will become a pivotal multi-decade military and diplomatic leverage over parts of crumbling Russia: George, Armenia, and/or Azerbaijan will align with them.

So what happens then? Kalingrad declares independence? What about the thin sliver of Russia between the Black and Caspian seas, isn't that where the oil fields are, or the Kalmyks decide the time is right? Bashkirs? Chechens of course?

What if post-putin results in separate power centers in Volgograd/St Petersburg, and Moscow all essentially dividing the spoils?
Yeah, I live in the Melbourne CBD and it's great. I don't even need to cross a street to access all essentials.
My (late) uncle Ralph is probably in that database. Can I get a copy of the ISO? I'll help in any way that I can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069

Eye-opening indeed..
We are giving more credit to humans than is due. We aren't capable of solving any arbitrary problem thrown our way. There are classes of problems we are good at solving due to us just being human and evolving to solve them, just as certain classes of problems are solveable by dogs. As referred to in this article, "common sense" is not some yet to be determined skill set, but rather the set of classes of problems humans are capable of solving that AI has not yet tackled.

Perhaps it's a matter of the AI connectome not being vast enough. Perhaps it's a deeper issue of AI architecture. Anyway it seems that that in this sense, "common sense" and "dark matter" are indeed analogous, in that it's just a place holder for yet to be understood (or at least emulated) phenomena. Perhaps that was intentional by the author, I can't tell.
He's turning China into North Korea. A great collapse and starvation is coming.
It’s a prisoner’s dilemma of having to buy ever bigger cars to keep up with the crash safety arms race. (Bigger cars fare worse in single car collisions).
> If the triune brain model was completely false (as stated by the caricature of "brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile"), it would not be straightforward to even identify the neocortex -- how do you know it is 'neo', what is it a 'neo' of and so on?

This is a sort of proof-by-etymology and it isn't very persuasive. We have all kinds of words that derive from misunderstandings that have stuck, even long after the original misunderstanding was resolved. The geographical equivalent of this would be to say "we call them Indians, so they must have originated from India at some point!"

It's entirely possible that as our understanding of the brain evolves, this layered-over-time model will be seen as a quaint misunderstanding, but we'll still use the original names for the sub-organs because there's too much inertia to change them.
They have the purchase records for the gun connecting it to the shooter, so how would the gun be there if the guy didn't bring it?
Similarly, being car-less in Chicago is the way to go. Even pre-Uber it was far better — it can take an hour to find a parking space in certain neighborhoods at certain times.
Yeah, I've lived in London and New York (not in the suburbs of either) without a car and there was multiple of everything within a short walk, and huge amounts of stuff (literally thousands upon thousands of things to do) everywhere in less than half an hour on the train. It was and is great.

Not sure which cities the person you're replying to is talking about. I imagine a lot of American cities just suck without a car, even if they "have" public transportation.
Like government built highways, and government mandated parking minimums around every single building.
> I prefer trees and grass over parking lots

I don't see a meaningful distinction between a consolidated parking lot and one that's distributed along the side of the road when it comes to tree and grass cover. For dense urban situations car parking buildings allow more than either surface lots or surface street parking.
I guess the point is to find opportunities to do better than the average, not that the average should not exist. That’s often where competitive advantages arise. Most people can’t identify or execute on them because rules.
It would be relevant if we were voting for/against him.

It's not that relevant for appreciating his work.
Looking at the source articles, this seems to require specialized equipment and large antennas that are fairly close to whatever is being imaged. So unless there's been some sort of breakthrough, this is not a case of "someone could hack your router and see you in your home".
Bash actually has this feature built in. Restricted shell they call it. Start it as rbash or bash -r.

It will lock down the shell to not allow cd, setting envvars, launching commands outside working directory and a lot more.

If you look at the full list of things they disable you realize how many obscure holes are available you never would have thought about.

Not that I would ever trust it enough to expose on a shared box. Likewise with a tailor made shellscript. I’d take a bespoke server in go any day.
It's generally difficult to say exactly why but Google did a core update on Aug 22, and also a helpful content update which added a new ranking signal

<https://searchengineland.com/library/platforms/google/google...>
I mean, if the argument is PTO should be better resources so that patents can undergo more rigorous evaluation, you won't get an argument from me.

You're not supposed to patent anything you haven't actually made, however, there is no validation of that and as a result patent applicants are incentivized to patent as broad a space as possible.

However, if we did move to a "single molecule, single patent" approach, the workload on the PTO would skyrocket. For pharmaceutical companies the cost of a patent and its preparation is infinitesimal compared to the cost of developing a drug - pharma companies wouldn't bat an eye at submitting 1000's of patents for each discovery program.

But, as I stated above, I don't disagree the process could be made better.
It is not just about trust.. on an oss project I expect other people to have already read the source code when I can't. People with no incentive to lie or hide whatever they find
DynDNS was big among some of my gaming friends way back in the 90s at one point, when it was a free, donation-supported tool. It was quite useful and relatively low hassle.

At the time it provided a real simple desktop tool that you would install, sign in to your account name, and it would auto-update a (very) short TTL DNS A record for you. (Generally in the form of username.dyndns.org, but as I recall donators could also bring their own top level domain.)

We've got mDNS today to fill some of that gap, but I still wonder if it would also still be nice to have a "no click" desktop tool in 2023 that could quickly update very short TTL DNS AAAA records for you on a subdomain of your choice, and sort of lament Dyn's many pivots (and eventual Oracle buy out) because that original idea still has legs even if it didn't survive the 90s. (Though maybe this time as a true non-profit internet service or operating system feature.)
How can that be used with Android TV?
Hey, that's Aziraphale! Good guy.
Why do you turn auto instrumentation off?
The corporate counter-offer is 20%. Clearly they’re fine still employing a US workforce with double digit employment cost inflation - over four years.
Americans have made no such trade off. The amount of street crime is quite low in most of the country. It's only a noticeable problem in a few large cities that have been wrecked by failed progressive policies. My city has literally zero murders most years, and those few that have occurred have been private disputes rather than street crime.
It’s way less intrusive and I’m more okay with dropping some change in the jar than getting a 15% add-on charge by way of card reader…
This is untrue. Most American cities were built before the car and even had wide streetcar networks. Buildings and (often poor and black) neighborhoods were torn down to make way for urban highways. Car manufacturers literally bought up streetcar companies just to rip out tracks and sell more cars.

Europe picked up on this trend too a little delayed in many places, but luckily not to the same degree and realized the bad direction more quickly.
Good for a human (but not best of the best). Bad for a dedicated chess computer.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Incorporated (2017) TV series, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eKEHhSw00 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series), includes thought experiments on future workplace surveillance.

> The series takes place in a dystopian Milwaukee in the year 2074, where many countries have gone bankrupt .. In the absence of effective government, powerful multinational corporations have become de facto governments, controlling areas called Green Zones. The remaining territories are called Red Zones, where governance is weak or non-existent.

Consumer Wi-Fi 7 Sensing routers (estimated to arrive in 2024 with IEEE 802.11bf) can generate 3D images of human activity through the walls/floor/ceiling of homes and business, profiling human position, movements, breathing, keystrokes, emotion and more, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480760.

After standardization by IEEE in consumer routers, which remote parties would be interested in WFH WiFi Sensing Analytics? How could regulators, employers, employees and home-builders respond? Remote, through-wall, X-Ray vision monitoring can be entirely passive when there is ambient WiFi traffic, e.g. reflections from routers inside targeted urban buildings of interest. This has been possible for more than a decade, using either expensive LE equipment or low-cost DIY/RF/hacker toolsets. Will IEEE standardization of Wi-Fi 7 Sensing give X-ray vision superpowers to every neighbor?

On a positive note, there is some commercial interest in Li-Fi for wireless data transfer via optical light, so that data transfers will stop at a perimeter established by traditional walls. Until then, aluminum radiant barrier, conductive paint, RF shielding drywall (e.g. QuietRock) or metal mesh can reduce unwanted inbound/outbound RF signals. For temporary shielding of a room, consider a Zipwall-like tension pole frame supporting a cube of aluminum radiant barrier (USD $0.25 per square foot), plus shielded air ventilation.
SimCLR and others are older than 2021, BYOL is even mentioned in the blogpost. But your link indeed points to a more comprehensive overview.
You might find histories of Fresno County, California interesting.

When settlers showed up, it was essentially river running through a desert landscape. They dug canals to support agriculture and the landscape greened up substantially.

A lot of water law and patented water development tech happened in Fresno County. It's essentially a modern "hanging gardens of Babylon" situation and no one seems to talk about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29696251
It's an island chain of 100,000 people, so no. Plus, electricity is extremely expensive, importing the fuel to melt down steel would be crazy.
Permanently losing one line worker vs one CEO? You don't have to be a disciple of Ayn Rand to think the latter would have a greater negative impact on productivity.
I was just listened to a podcast on this and they said planting a bunch of trees don't make a forest especially tropical ones. There's just too much going on there.
F-Zero 99
I've been using Soulver for a few years, wonder how this compares.
Islands with a total population of 100k. Lack of demand and probably no machinery to melt and process steel, expensive electricity/power to do that kind of processing, lack of other inputs, and a population without the expertise. Given how remote and small it is it's probably not economic to do anything about the problem.
How to make friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie - Learning how to talk to people in a way that make them feel validated has been the most important lesson I've learned for working effectively in teams.
Best-selling cars in the US are

• Ford F-series(F-150 being the most popular car in the US)

• Chevy Silverado

• RAM Pickup

• Tesla Model Y

• Toyota Rav4

• Honda CRV

• Toyota Camry

• GMC Sierra

• Nissan Rogue

• Jeep Grand Cherokee

So 6 out of 10 are American.
You're basically describing politics, where specific opinions are central to a group identity. So long as there is an innate human desire to belong, there will be plenty of people who are happy to live with any amount of cognitive dissonance.

Joining a gadfly swarm just gives them an opportunity to prove their worth to the group.
There are two answers here:

1) you should have started while you had a job. Because freelancing will be as slow as the side project you tried to start.

The same energy for sales, marketing and branding required for a startup, is the same for a freelancer.

2) You need to learn sales and marketing. Which are two different skills. Traffic --> lead gen --> lead handling --> sales.

The good news is that you do not need many clients. The bad news is they are new skills and will take time to get good at.

Like you, I went travelling, and Im now a freeelance programmer. But I built a business over the last decade where I learned these skills. So getting clients is just the same: sales and marketing.

By the way, upwork is a good way of practicing these skills. While it's a race to the bottom, getting responses and haveing sales convos is good practice.
IIUC:

- 'TR-069' is the name of a protocol by which (most) ISPs operate

- It gives ISPs the rights/ability to interact with your devices remotely (under the guise of maintenance and remote troubleshooting)

- This isn't something that's going to happen one day far in the future; it already applies to most(/all?) routers currently in use in countries whose ISPs abide by the protocol

So ISPs can already see inside customer homes?! (since they can already access the data necessary to use the WiFi device as a makeshift imaging system? - wowzers!
Well someone has to pay for the tech. Its not free. And that puts an automatic upper limit on what happens.

People have no idea how much debt Police depts (lets not even talk about the military) have racked up playing with high tech toys and paying off compensation every 2 days for people they accidentally harm or kill. So whats funny here as Big Bro gets access to more and more tools the more broke he gets.

And guess what the financiers of this debt will do when it cant be paid off. Raid police pension funds. Thats how financialization of public service works

No free lunch big bro. Have fun with all the "cool toys" while the good times last.
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia
DNSSEC is a great example of just how poorly committee designed crypto is. The government doesn't need to do anything to standards, they can just let them play out as-is.

We ended up with a huge mess that solves no actual problems, introduced problems that never existed before, and so confusing in what it does that people still blindly defend it.
Yeah, nah:

> The list includes dozens of suspected communists, “crypto-communists,” socialists, “fellow travelers,” and even LGBT people and Jews

The point is both Animal Farm and 1984 are about Stalin's Russia, not about a Western country, and the attempted proletarian revolution in 1984 is against communism.