skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's more than security theater. With mandatory TLS, i.e., encryption plus third party-mediated authentication, the ability to publish a website comes under the control of third parties, so-called "Certificate Authorities" (CAs).

The source of this third party "authority" is unclear. If a CA uses DNS for verification, then the "authority" is ultimately ICANN. And we know that ICANN's "authority" is completely faked up. It has no legal basis. These pseudo regulatory bodies have no democratic process to ensure they represent www users paying for internet subscriptions. As it happens, these organisations generally answer only to so-called "tech" companies.

Effectively, CAs and browser vendors end up gatekeeping who can have a website on the public internet and who cannot. Not to mention who can be an "authority" for what is a trustowrthy website and what is not (CA/Browser Forum).

The hoops that the browser vendors make a www user jump through in order to trust a website without the assistance of a third party are substantial and unreasonable. It seems that no www user can be expected to make their own decisions about what they trust and what they don't. The decision is pre-made, certificates are pre-installed, autonomy is pre-sacrificed, delegated to so-called "tech" companies.

Meanwhile these so-called "tech" companies, who are also the browser vendors, are commercial entities engaged in data collection for online advertising purposes. For more informed users, these actors are perhaps the greatest eavesdropping threat that they face. The largest and most influential of them has been sued for wiretapping www users on multiple occassions.

There are conflict of interest issues all over the place.

tl;dr Even if the contents of the transmission are not sensitive and perfectly suited to plain text, the system put in place by so-called "tech" companies, to benefit themselves at the expense of every www users' privacy, ensures that TLS must be used as a means of identifying what is an "acceptable" website and what is not. Absence of a certificate from a self-appointed, third party certificate authority means "not acceptable". Presence of certificates from first party authorities, i.e., ordinary www users, means "not acceptable".
Sounds like micro-scale MHHC. A press release isn't going to reveal their secret sauce and I didn't come across specifics in a quick review of the research literature, but I'm curious which materials and processes go into manufacturing the substrate.
I read Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in my undergraduate ethics class, and that was tough to read 200 years after it was written.

He takes it as axiomatic that we cannot use empiricism to determine universal rules, which is something that seemed pretty well established as false by the time between when it was written and when I read it.
Louis Rossmann video. He mentions AdBlocker paid version is still apparently blocking ads on YouTube and that people are experimenting a lot more with different extensions and browsers to get around YouTube ads. Basically, he's claiming that YouTube has significantly raised awareness about the existence of ad blockers to a much wider audience who previously didn't know about or didn't use blockers.
Because everything is tied to the stock price now, most especially the execs’ salaries and bonuses. It’s not good enough to just make money, you have to make money at an ever-increasing rate which is impossible.

https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
Great App! Whats your usecase for this?
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I don't get the point of this, seems super niche.

There is no config file support, only way to define processes is via API. The function set is pretty bare it seems, I could not even find force-kill code or process termination detection; nor there is process output logging support.

I guess I can see it as a part of larger melang-based app, launching cooperative processes only, but I don't see any value in using as a standalone service.
Is there a better/more balanced article that describes this company's technology more accurately? This device does not use "solid hydrogen", and that absurd misnomer made me discount most of this article. They did say elsewhere that it is instead a solid-oxide fuel cell [1], but I have no idea if this is in any way. significantly better/cheaper option than batteries.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_oxide_fuel_cell
Sounds right. I remember seeing "1M Triangles" in the performance HUD and thinking, that's crazy, a million triangles. Probably very few shared vertices once you account for edge splits, billboards, etc.
Except everyone knows it is true. Especially Meta, but a brave whistleblower made sure we all know. Well, at least I thought everyone know.
There are commercial-scale MHHC storage options already. The difference here, post vaporware, would be seeing a residential-scale one deployed and in use.
I was both a ReplayTV and TiVo owner for many years. It was better than cable but sucked compared to streaming. Yes, you could record a show, but you still had to wait for it to air. There was nothing like an entire season being dropped at once for new shows. And for syndicated shows, again, you had to wait for them. You had to setup a season pass. You had to juggle drive space. You could only watch in front of the one TV you had the TiVo/ReplayTV hooked up you (later TiVo had an overpriced option to watch over the network within the home). Plus, you had to pay for your TiVo (or buy a lifetime pass) on top of the cost of your cable or satellite subscription.
The size difference between a Leaf and a RAV4 is negligible.
Despite the original post talking about DOTS rough edges, I didn't see anything in that article that actually suggested DOTS was the cause: that would cause CPU overhead, but it seems like they simply have a bunch of massively over-detailed geometry, and never implemented any LOD system.

Maybe they could have gotten away with this with UE5's Nanite, but that much excessive geometry would have brought everything else to its knees.
Thanks for answering the question.

So it seems that it takes 80 years for the American government to do something about it. Well past the golden age of profit of the tobacco industry.

Now please explain to me again how this is the justice system suddenly genuinely caring about people's health instead of a strategic case to kill European competitors and extort money out of them?

Chemical companies like Dow, 3M and DuPont are in the same basket and don't seem to get fined much.
I am very interested to know how this works under the hood.

I am assuming that landlords are "warehouse-ing" empty units, and then jacking up the price for the remaining units so high that it makes up for the existing vacancy. Basically, this algorithm is turning participating landlords into an effective monopoly. Super grey area, but I think that should be illegal.

That would explain why NYC remained persistently high even after pandemic.
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Do you have a better idea? The service isn't worth paying for and they'll STILL spy on you and serve ads, after taking your money.

Ads do nothing but waste the viewer's time and piss them off. Sponsorships are fine, but what moral or ethical right does ANY business have to force any terms on visitors?

Sure, use whatever technical means you want to control your site, but it's not a moral failing of others that a business can't put together a healthy and mutually beneficial business model.

It turns out modern tech businesses are just shit. I wouldn't buy basically anything on offer in this market due to the total obliteration of trust in the market.

You literally cannot trust a Western or US tech company to not try dragging a net over everything you do to gleam some psych data to manipulate.

The best way to get my money is offering a solid product to me that you cannot take away after the fact with cheap parlor tricks like DRM.
Oh man, when I spent 3 days in bed with covid earlier this year I managed to kill a great deal of time getting deeply into Uncle Roger's rice cooker based comedy. It's only funny because it's all true!
It's weird that you think that you're "empowering" yourself when you carry a device that you don't control and which records everything about you.

Keeping a cell phone involves massive trade offs where you have to give up a lot and expose yourself to tons of new risks in exchange for connectivity. There are other abilities you get with a phone but for most of those it would be better to use a device like a laptop which would be a little more cumbersome but less harmful and more powerful.

A cell phone gives you some things while also taking many things from you. Sometimes the most empowering thing you can do is leave it at home.
I just smoked a batch of salmon, skin-on. When we eat some, some very happy dogs get the skin. I would be curious if there was a good prep for human consumption though.
I notice a big difference in behaviour between even old games (think SNES, PS1) and modern games. There's definitely something in the new ones.
> You can’t do banking, communication with friends and family, looking knowledge up without a phone.

And this is the proof of why people need to use smartphones less - you actually believe this, don't you?

You can do banking through mail or at a bank office, you can communicate with family and friends a variety of ways without a phone, and you definitely do not need a phone to look up knowledge. Sheesh.
Here are some links to research on using Wolbachia in Malaysia and Singapore:

[1] Wolbachia Malaysia [ https://imr.nih.gov.my/wolbachia/ ]

[2] Singapore NEA Wolbachia info [ https://www.nea.gov.sg/corporate-functions/resources/researc... ]

[3] A 2021 news article on Wolbachia in Malaysia [ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-fight-dengue-m... ]
This is exactly what I used it for last time; downloading videos before boarding a flight.
A good article on this top might have mentioned N.E.D.
Note that while a lot of people do it this way, my blog post this discussion is notionally about on expressly argues that that’s exactly what not to do!
Also note https://www.nu42.com/2014/12/https-everywhere-and-hr4681.htm...
I like the strategy of only hashing the first part of a file as a multiphase approach of deduping in order to quickly eliminate unique files, I wish I had done it that way with my util. Maybe for v2!
I was literally just hammering a thing back into shape, and I'm glad the hammer doesn't have an interactive feature suggesting other things I might like to hit.
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Gadzooks! The Chrono-Embezzelator works! Citizens of 2018, please take me to your nearest Bitcoin ATM!
What is being stolen in the case of a Youtube stream without an ad?
eh.. there wasn't much of a punchline. Just a lot of humble bragging.
Check out Nebula/Defined.net
> Experience? Last time I made that optimization it was 100x faster, ballpark. I don't feel like benchmarking it right now, try yourself.

I have. Many times. There's definitely not a 100x difference given that normal file I/O can easily saturate NVMe throughput. I'm sure it's possible to build a repro showing a 100x difference, but you have to be doing something intentionally to cause that (e.g. using a very small read buffer so that you're doing enough syscalls that it shows up in a profile).

> The latency comes from the fact you need to have the whole file

That's a whole other matter. But again, if you're pulling it off the network, you usually can't mmap it anyway unless you're using a remote-mounted filesystem (which will add more overhead than mmap vs buffered I/O).
I feel like Python is getting ever farther away from "Explicit is better than implicit."
You need the host (whatever it is) to provide the capabilities to WASM. On the web, the host environment is JS. Browser engines are free to optimize well-known imports with or without any new proposals. I guess I just don't really see the issue...
I don’t think you can easily move money with an API but if you’re willing to write code to solve a problem, you could use the Plaid API and Google Docs API (or msft word or whatever) to handle the account tracking and graphing.
Does anyone here know or develop RealPage Revenue Management software and want to comment on it?

Edit: In business, I try to do something productive for others and earn a return on that. Our business culture seems to have taken our worst instincts and made them religion: Squeeze every drop of blood out of everyone. What is RealPage producing for our society?
Yes, that's what I intend. To keep the schema and sync the objects via AAD connect or what ever microsoft wants to call AAD now.
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Fascinating, I'd never heard of synchrotron light sources before and had to pull myself out of a rabbit hole to write this. Thanks for taking the time to write a nuanced response.

I wonder if particle and laser physicists tend to be excepted from this trend, since these depend on specialized equipment.

Would you be working with different faculty, besides your advisor? Would your postdoc research feel like a distinct research project, or would it feel like malingering continuation of PhD research?

I think the preference for moving institutions is to avoid seeming "stuck." Some PhD students malinger on postdoc work at their home institution, making it seem like they don't know how to finish a project or know when it's time to scope/start a new project.

So, it might prove beneficial to ensure your projects do not fit the stuck/malingering narrative.

I think this bias is unfair, because there are plenty of reasons someone might want to stay in one place: house, family, etc. But like any bias, you can meet it head-on by controlling the narrative instead of letting the biased narrative play out.
You obviously don't need to serve your static blog over HTTPS, but I think it would be nice of you to serve it over HTTPS anyway!
Stealing, ie theft, requires that you deprive another person of the benefit of their property.

This is precisely why we cannot compare copying to stealing.
Solar electric (ion drive) would work fine here, a few kg of xenon would last for a long time. And you could feed the tractor beam with the electrons stripped from the xenon atoms…
"How the War Must End"

This is wishful thinking.

Talk is cheap and maybe well paid for Nataliya Bugayova, Kateryna Stepanenko, and Frederick W. Kagan. Dying is for the plebs.
https://archive.ph/Ko7s6
>So in the end you have capitalism without the free market part.

This is what “capitalism without the free market part” looks like:

>it would make sense to create rules to democratize smartphones

You seem to be arguing against what you argue for? I wholeheartedly agree with you that we need to create rules to democratize smartphones, and that is because I'm against a free market. And Capitalism.
Most(most) JSON payloads are probably much smaller than many buffer sizes so just end up all in memory anyway.
it's a stop along the way from infinity to forever

stretch your legs :)
Please don't do this on HN. People come here to read what other people think; any HN reader who wants an LLM summary can do that themselves. It's unhelpful in the same way as posting a list of search engine results in response to a query.
sad world
This is smart that there is an attempt in the DC Superior Court as well.

There are a couple other lawsuits against Realpage with a similar premise as we speak at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

I think the federal district lawsuits were all merged and moved to United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee a couple days ago, so a number of state level litigations will be a good backup.

Essentially, it looks like there is a coordinated attempt to define algorithmic antitrust at the Supreme Court level. If the DC Superior Court and the Federal Court have a conflicting interpretation, this needs to be reconciled and seems like the type of case that would end up in the Supreme Court.

This has massive implications for AdTech, FinTech, and multiple other industries, probably way more impactful than the Google FTC suit.

Edit: My Interpretation from my comment below

If a subset of companies use the exact same algorithm for price discovery, is there a form of price-fixing? This is the key question being argued.

If the courts rule against Realpage, then any form of algorithmic price discovery en-masse could be found to be anti-competitive.

This might mean you can't use TheTradeDesk and Google Adsense en-masse for example.
Basically, as of today, a lot of price discovery is now automated by a majority of companies using a handful of vendors for this.

Lawyers of HN (looking at your raynier) please hold me accountable for my explanation.
That's speculation based on nothing but vibes.
In large markets, the ordering in advance is because there’s enough drivers to guarantee availability. If you just automate the API call, you might discover that no one answers fast enough and you end up late anyways.
Where is he going to get his porn from? The woods?
Mmm. That presupposes infinite linear time. By most accounts, "this life" bookends about 13.7 billion years of linear time, but how do we understand the state of things before that?

How could we understand the state of things once the heat death of the universe is a distant cosmic memory, and entropy no longer provides an "arrow of time"?
Out of the box, it only has manual LOD support for meshes: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/importing-lod-meshes.html (where you create the models yourself)

They played around with the idea of automatic LOD, but the repo they had hasn't gotten updated in a while: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD

The closest to that would be looking at assets on the Asset Store, for example: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/poly-f...

An exception to that is something like the terrain, which generates the model on the fly and decreases detail for further away chunks as necessary, but that's pretty much the same with the other engines (except for Godot, which doesn't have a terrain solution built in, but the terrain plugins do have that functionality). I guess in Unity's case you can still get that functionality with bought assets, which won't be an issue for most studios (provided that the assets get updated and aren't a liability in that way), but might be for someone who just wants that functionality for free.
> He takes it as axiomatic that we cannot use empiricism to determine universal rules, which is something that seemed pretty well established as false by the time between when it was written and when I read it.

I don't think this is true, at least with respect to the last ~80 years of the philosophy of science: the current "central dogma" of scientific inquiry is that all inferences must be falsifiable in order to be scientific.

In other words: good science generates inductive and parsimonious explanations, not universal rules. To be universal would be to discharge falsifiability.

Edit: For what it's worth, I think Kant's contemporaries also found him ponderous and difficult to read.
"Every thing is the same because I made an analogy"
I think you misunderstood my point, which was to highlight exactly when mmap won't work....
Evil is not a 100% settled matter. For example, some people believe that saving another person's life if you can is a moral obligation and to not do so would be an evil act. I gather from your refusal to even consider stealing something in order to save the planet you are in the other camp.
RealPage is an aggressive, powerful organization, the lawsuit alledges:

> RealPage's software has set the rent at more than 30% of apartments in multifamily buildings in D.C. and 60% of units in large multifamily buildings, per the lawsuit. The percentages are even higher for the broader D.C. metro area.

> The software company actively "polices" landlords to ensure that they comply with the rent cost it generates, the lawsuit alleges. Failure to impose the RealPage rents could lead to landlords being expelled from the organization, according to the suit.

And nationwide:

> There were 49.5 million rental units in the U.S. as of 2022, according to data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

> RealPage in 2020 said its software served 19.7 million rental units of all types in the U.S. — more than a third of all rental units nationwide.
It's also known as Hua Guan or Huaguan. I guess I'd check at a Chinese grocery?
I think this is a good summary of Kant. For full context it's good to get a picture of the philosophical movement around him during his era which was attacking rationalism and promoting a sort of extereme form of empiricism.

(Ie science and the visible world being all that exist, and rational concepts like numbers or math is just an extrapolation from the material world.)

Kant sort of puts that idea to rest somewhat (although it remained popular well into the 20th century).

But the way he did so was unsettling. The conclusion we are left with after reading this is there is a sort of human perspective that shapes our understanding of reality and there is an underlying reality apart from that which we can never know.

I don't like it, I think when Einstein or Newton make statements they are making statements about reality and not just sense impressions. I don't like the idea that reality is something foreign and unknowable to humans.

Maybe time isn't real in the way we perceive it but I don't think the underlying nature of time is something undiscoverable.

What's my reasoning. I don't know I just don't like the idea I guess. Plus I don't think the attack on rationalism and reason was as warranted as it may have seemed to Kant in his time.
Ask HN: Are You Religious?
A “Yes/No/Maybe” would do.

If you’d like to: share what religion it is!

For me: Maybe Christian.
Maps are overriding my selected navigation directions – any way to prevent it?
You can also turn it into a bomb. That would be neat.
The US spending money to fund Ukraine has got to be close to the best defense investment ever.

The US got a direct proxy war that appears to be breaking Russia and didn't spend the life of a single US soldier. It collapsed Wagner which was a threat to all manner of developing nations. It fixed NATO unity practically overnight. And China got a glimpse of what would happen if they invaded Taiwan and probably set back the plans of Comrade Pooh by a decade or more.

By contrast, the US blew how much in Afghanistan and got not a damn thing?
A history of American collapse in science fiction
so recently crypto is trying to make a fake pump so whales dump their remaining bags. Cannot believe how easily is to rip off people in this market.
"its a nice warm fall day, I think I'll open my windows"

-- you

"its a nice warm fall day, I think I'll go blow some leaves"

-- your neighborhood
Downvote = disagree, for some of the readership here.
TIL, thank you! Yup, DNS delisting would be an even greater impact than Google delisting.

> Do you remember, like 3 or 4 years ago when CF CEO was bragging all over the internet with "oh, today I woke up, and decided to kick off x and y from the internet, lol"?

I do not! And if I did, I would have had a much better idea what you were talking about :)
It's clearly slavery. The just response would be to confiscate the residence and/or bank accounts to immediately compensate the former slave if possible, then put the slave owner in prison.
Youtube is not entitled to money. If they want money, they can provide a service worth paying for.

Are you guys sure you understand business and economics? So much entitlement among corporations. The money doesn't belong to them.
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