skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super simple:

* Pay still not kept pace (~4-5%) that that's just averages, catch up may still take years.
* Personal debt skyrocketing [1] and compounding the personal prices of things
* Rent and Electricity are skyrocketing.

Personal anecdote: I live in CA, the CPI numbers don't match up here... cheese 8oz = $7.50, $10/lb chicken, bacon=mortgage, electricity 3 times national average ($0.44 and up), rent & housing = insane. Your typical non-organic choices at Safeway are like you're purchasing ultra-luxury Organic expensive shit at Whole foods in 2019.

Some job markets are... falling apart 15% average layoffs in 2023

Many companies are filled with employees carrying heavy negative attitudes

1 https://www.statista.com/chart/19955/household-debt-balance-...
For me, I generally prefer dedicated apps to a browser if possible. They tend to be more functional and less burdened down by being general-purpose software.

It's also a more controlled environment. I tend to run a lot of custom browser settings, mountains of addons, etc. I know that my desktop mail app won't be affected by those.
AI systems are trained against private, PII, copyrighted data all the time without explicit consent. For example, consider the spellcheck in Google search. Every query you make will go into the training for that system, along with your preferred language and country of origin.

You can certainly argue that generative AI systems are different than previous AI systems and should be treated differently. But the current situation is basically that you are allowed to train an AI on any data you have, regardless of copyright or consent. I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being considered legally and ethically okay, because it's the status quo, and because it's hard to define "what counts as AI".
honest question, who do you trust that provides either high end residential or SMB type networking gear that works well? The average residential stuff is all garbage and I was looking into unifi because seems to work better but I'm open to suggestions.
My position is “not everything has political undertones”, and being coerced to act because you force me into a political spectrum for being neutral otherwise is not the liberal or tolerant ideology you think it is.

I am not saying that I will not take on the worlds issues, I am saying that I am not always making a statement with action or inaction.

characterising everyone who doesn't toe the line to your ideology with every single action is a very easy way to see the entire world as your enemy. Let me know how that goes.
Dropbox issued this statement literally yesterday:

"If you’ve used any of Dropbox’s AI tools, some of your documents and files may have been temporarily shared with OpenAI."

Good luck thinking a cloud provider has YOUR best interest at heart. This is Hacker News, I feel like trust should be earned, never implied.
That seems to me to be the wrong way to think about this. I don't think that we have any evidence that a particle stores its position in the same way we might do in a physics simulation, it just sits at some position in space time. What would its position even be, where would the origin of the coordinate system be?

And even you could always just pick a coordinate system with the origin right where the particle is, then its coordinates would trivially be zero. If you have several or moving particles and you want to keep the coordinate system fixed, then this will of course no longer work.
Those of us who had to endure CGA and EGA screens will understand. For me, legibility was all-important.
I don't know how much sense it makes to be "sovereign" in a system designed around interaction with others but if it helps, my maildir is held on a disk I control and no one else is scanning it for marketing insights.
Chrome decided to make the worst UI changes
centrists are probably generally less fearful as retreating to one extreme of a polarized dynamic is a common fear response. But I think the point is more, everyone is partially motivated by fear, sometimes governments use that fear as a lever.
Value is subjective, not intrinsic. It is guarenteed to rise like everything else of limited supply; the value of fiat currencies must necessarily decrease over time in their operation, because the base monetary unit can only be issued as credit which must be paid back at interest. Were the value of fiat currencies to increase in any meaningful sense, it will result in widespread defaults in the banking sector.
> I feel like family will either be technical enough to understand OPNSense, or not technical at all at which point even Unifi is not something they'll manage themselves.

Agreed. Major ISPs in the US (and I presume many other places) offer routers that work well enough to satisfy the requirements of any non-technical household and often come with provisioning/troubleshooting features that enable the ISP to provide technical support if necessary.

In the old days, ISP-provided devices often lagged behind other consumer or prosumer network offerings, and it made sense to swap them out... but that's not really the case today. Today, swapping out the ISPs router is probably going to make a non-technical user's life harder, unless they have someone technical to manage it for them.
Because they didn't implement the entire ASCII set?

Case in point would be Apple integer BASIC.

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why...
Weird - bridge has worked flawlessly for me for the last couple of years. I use Thunderbird with it. They had clear instructions on how to configure it in just a couple of clicks and I haven't had to mess with it since then.

My ONLY complaint is that if I launch Thunderbird before Bridge has finished, it won't connect. That can be fixed by waiting first, or opening the app on a schedule, or just closing and re-opening it. (I choose to use a scheduled app open)
Alternatively, if you're going to break the law, don't do that (break the law).
All the people who managed to buy drugs safely without risking being robbed by some shady street dealer?
Did you get what you wanted from Brexit?

(I had been under the impression that the choice on offer was between being a rather weighty part of the EU and, under the guise of "independence", playing Airstrip One to the US' Oceania, but perhaps I am mistaken?

China is playing Eastasia, of course. Not bad for 1949 speculation, even if it was based on 1920's-1930's nonfiction.

In a different fictional universe: "Always two there are")
You didn’t read what I wrote
That seems like a slippery slope.

We also require age verification for online gambling, and that hasn't had bad consequences either.
On the basis of what the hell else could you reasonably use to establish someone's age? A copy of their birth certificate?
Since you don’t seem to be aware, propaganda could have negative real world impact influencing (not even mind control!) a small group of people. Imagine the impact is only a group of 5 people “defect” to North Korea under the belief it is some paradise. Thats harms.
Is it true the failed FrontRow hardware was repurposed into the Unifi door fob scanning thing/product ("Access Reader Pro")? I recall reading this somewhere, and the hardware appears to be identical:

> https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/8/15/16146354/f...

> https://c3aero.com/products/ua-pro

I was absolutely floored when I saw the announcement of the FrontRow device - what a bizarre thing to have brought to market for a network hardware company. I can only imagine someone somewhere got far too caught up in the "wearable" hype a few years ago.
Yes, it works on iOS [0]. Personally I’m still using the standalone mode of Boxcryptor (the iOS app is still receiving updates), which unfortunately was bought up by Dropbox, and in the past there were opinions that it worked better than Cryptomator, but many people seem to be happy with Cryptomator now, so I’d give it a shot.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cryptomator-2/id1560822163
Seems like 2fa for cars. If the 2 factors are:

1. Something you have
2. Something you know

For the web, "something we know" is a password, so we've implemented something you have (e.g., a shared secret stored on a physical device).

For cars, "something you have" is a key. This system seems to implement the "something you know" part via entering a startup sequence (afaict).
Given that a dehumidifier is doing the opposite of a swamp (evaporative) cooler, this makes sense.
Yeah, these giant balls of biary code like GNU & Systemd are terrible. There should be a new project & legal foundation for every tool, organizations need to follow the UNIX philosophy.
In humans no birth control at all is about 80% successful in preventing pregnancy, so if they normally got pregnant in just one try that is amazingly higher than normal. More likely he meant first month of daily unprotected sex, which is likely to result in pregnancy, and a common plan for those trying to have kids.
They have a way to run thunderbird by running a local bridge. I don't really want their desktop client anyway. I do use their android app which is decent.

I only use Linux and I am happy with proton.
Self-driving electric vehicles are the future of public transportation: safer, faster, cheaper, and less environmental impact than trains. Additionally, nothing is better for pedestrians and cyclists of the future than self-driving electric vehicles.
> It is guarenteed to rise like everything else of limited supply

They aren't making any more VHS copies of Toy Story, which IIRC was estimated to be ~21 Million copies of tape.
I've been using unix and linux since the 90's and linux full-time on every system of mine, and Tik's still seemed entirely counterintuitive to me. I'd rather just deal with iptables and linux directly without the wonky cli.
If it’s such an infinitesimally small portion then why defend the position instead of just shedding the assets? I don’t trust their whitewashing at all.

Blackfund should sell but they won’t until they’ve extracted the blood they think they deserve.
https://archive.vn/ztbXV
That sounds terrific! I really appreciate your effort. It's amazing work and so great of you to share it.
I never realized how influential King Kong was until I read Console Wars (https://amzn.to/3TnSFws)

The game essentially saved Nintendo
of America and introduced some of the most valuable characters of all time.
CPI has typically not been keeping pace with the amount of money creation afoot [0]; attempting to index against the CPI seems like a way to end up with low quality investments. IMO if an asset isn't comparable to the M2 it is quite questionable; I'd expect inflation hedges to act more like gold, on average showing "real" returns.

Seems likely the time horizon you're talking about is too short in this case. The last few years have been a bit weird by the metrics - it looks like something has changed in the financial plumbing. But the USD has a policy of being an unreliable measure of value and Bitcoin does not, so there is a pretty good chance that Bitcoin will hold its value over time. The price hasn't been trending down (yet?).

Although I'd advise people not to choose their investments based on advertising. People don't really advertise good financial deals. They use the ad budget to get in on the deal.

[0] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
Awesome!

I started the original in an emulator in the meantime, which reminded me that it had a quite slow simulation rate, which is also tied to responding to keyboard commands.
How else would you verify age?

If I buy alcohol I also need a "government ID"
You're right https://openparliament.ca/votes/44-1/609/
I think you are missing the point. the point is this should never ever happen in whats considered to be SMB enterprise products. Peoples businesses and livelihoods are at stake. The fact that it did happen is bad enough, the rest is just the icing on the cake. you made the point about a 1 hour response, howewver 18 hours after that response there is still no update anywhere for lots of worried customers.

If Ubiquiti was my company and this post was posted on my forum, I would be having status messages/emails out to all my customers, updates on status pages, warnings on website logins etc. Hiding this in a private DM with a single customer is terrible, and they even told the world thats what they were doing which was a kick in the nuts.
I just cannot imagine investing the energy, time and resources, especially when you're a kid, with limited spending money, into these games that will just beat you down and take all of your money for weeks on end before you get even a moderate level of competitive skill.

I understand the attraction of mastering a difficult challenge for the sake of the challenge itself, but there's just too strong of a pragmatic streak in me to justify that challenge being something that doesn't generalize into any other aspect of life, and is almost completely a time sink. Plus a massive dose of what feels like an intoxicating and gratuitous level of violence and aggression, which I suppose one gets desensitized to after a while but I'm not sure that makes it any better. Always baffled me to see my otherwise quiet, good natured friends stand in front of these machines for hours when there were so many other, to my mind, more curiosity- inspiring games available at the time. To each their own I guess.

I chose to take up dance instead, and in addition to satisfying the need to master a difficult challenge, have greatly enjoyed the actual full body contact with one's erm, "sparring partners," that comes with it as well.
Initially because teletypes only had uppercase, and those were the only tty devices available. And then when early CRT terminals became available, RAM was expensive, and you could save a whole chip by not storing one more bit per screen character.
> Newag has said that "any remote intervention" is "virtually impossible."

That’s a very bold statement right there! Also, from my experience, most if not all companies who build automation/robotic systems they maintain “backdoors” of some sort, not to disable them remotely, but to quickly and efficiently access the software remotely upon request to troubleshoot or fix issues, it doesn’t make sense to fly to the client and sometimes the other half of the planet just find out it was a local IP mismatch or a system service is down, so saying “impossible” is not true.
> The non-technical reasons are even stronger:
> Facebook say they aren’t doing this. The risk to their reputation if they are caught in a lie is astronomical.

Ah, bullshit. They've lied about other things, repeatedly and constantly. It's a risk, sure - but a calculated one, and one they've taken before.
Ha! I was tricked by this too. Was in the middle of linking to the wiki page when I noticed your comment.

For further reason to click on the link, it's a consumer grade long range spread spectrum wireless communication technology that's been gaining prominence in recent years.
In what way would AI deserve our trust? To date data hungry companies have proven to NOT have consumers interest in mind. Why should AI companies be any different?

In dubio pro reo? I don't think so.
> (I realize that this may elicit strong reactions from some, but please
give it some careful thought before giving voice to those reactions.)

Really? Over a language feature proposal? That would make it more expressive?
Do you have a link to the other data?

I’m looking at Lambert’s data, but aside from the problem of sample size, it seems to support the FCC’s reading of the situation.

There are barely any samples that hit the required >= 20Mbps up and while it’s easier to spot >= 100Mbps down, it’s far from consistent and seems to be more of a “once a day” occurrence.
This comes down to a combination of security and provenance. You have to protect the data, of course, but you also have to keep track of the use rights. Identifying all use rights upfront seems tricky, are the Creative Commons licenses sufficient?
Ideas are dime-a-dozen.

I independently arrived at[0] something close to Max Tegmark's idea of the Mathematical Universe, almost nobody noticed and fewer still cared because I published it as a LiveJournal blog post whereas he fleshed it out into a whole book.

I didn't get credit because I didn't do the hard work that deserves credit, I had the flash of inspiration and stopped after a few paragraphs of mediocre student philosophy.

[0] and possibly predated, but I lost track of the date format when shifting from LJ to WP: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/mathematica...
Autonomous driving is not a core business for Google at this point: almost all profits come from ads, some good chunk of revenues from GSuite and cloud, but autonomous driving is orthogonal to the rest of their business.

They have achieved great things, and kept a steady pace, but my point was there is no urgency to "deliver" -- it doesn't really reflect in any way on core business, is not necessary for their survival, but is a moonshot that could really pay off. For Tesla and Cruise, it is much more existential that they are not left behind in self driving.
Wow, I always wondered why the Access Reader Pro had such a weird design - it was just a repurposed product from a completely different catagory.
How many years now has it been since Unifi implemented broken VPN and won't fix it?

5, by my count and still climbing.
Ilya is still around.
That word, "temporarily", is doing a lot of heavy lifting in a digital world where things can be duplicated for free.
Nah. Guilty Gear is cool but I mean fundamentally a fighting game with no hitstun.
This was a breath of fresh air. I've been on a very similar burnout/recovery path in the last year. Building useful personal software let me enjoy my work again.

The other main benefit for me is also being able to play and use any "unconventional" tech I care for. Building new-fangled single-binary PHP executables, using sqlite in prod, deploying WITHOUT Docker: these make it enjoyable for me.

What I've noticed is that this also has a knock-on effect on the main work for me - personal use repos often have new techniques & optimisations I can add in.
Java becoming Scala gets more real everyday.
Just realized: “late stage enshittification of capitalism” is essentially “verelendung” as prophesized by Marx
Inflation is a lagging indicator. Bitcoin gained in 2020 and early 2021 when debasement happened and the supply of money increased. That debasement takes time to show up in price data, and then even longer to show up in headline inflation, which is a 12 month average.

TIPS and i-bonds are limited in their role as a hedge. Sure, you are exactly compensated for inflation on the capital you invest. However, without the ability to have any leverage, you can't actually use this as a hedge against other capital which has exposure to inflation but which couldn't be converted.
Facts speak, brother. People with your point of view are more likely to get a severe infection, more likely to die as a result of a COVID infection. If you want to be a 30 year old with the expected outcome of an 80 year old, you’re free to make that choice. I wish you well.

I prefer to keep stupid reactionary politics out of my medical care. I’d rather have my wife alive and for my son to have a mother. Fortunately, others will have that opportunity.
When will they ever stop? The moment we (=the people) have fought one surveillance law, they (=politicians) simply come up with another. Until we are too tired to fight anymore...
Read the article. Wrong country
The Facebook Mobile apps teams have thousands of engineers. They have access to the source code for the apps.

Is there a big black binary blob of source-not-available functionality in there that they are told to include in their builds without question, and for which a competent iOS or Android engineer wouldn't be able to tell if it has access to the microphone?
AGPLv3 https://github.com/Kharacternyk/klunok/blob/v1.0.2/LICENSE

but also

> Klunok uses the Linux kernel fanotify API, which as of now requires root privileges. Therefore, Klunok should be invoked, for example, with sudo
Same,fyi, chrome's --app combined with --user-data-dir is amazing for this without having to install a bunch of different electon apps.
Ah yes the typical engineer response of "just <insert system>".
Thanks! I would use iCloud, but I have a few windows devices I need for work unfortunately. It doesn't let me use the advanced security and maintain a windows device. Ironically, like many of these services I already have an Apple One subscription and am paying for it anyways.
Same. This film made me believe that it was possible to be cool and find a social group that were all in to tech. I grew up in a really rural area so this revelation of possibility, whether actually practical or not, heavily influenced my trajectory in life and in tech. It’s still one of my most sentimentally favorite movies of all time.
> nothing else is required than a C89 compatible toolchain

Fair enough. A "pure C89" program should be expected to work in Turbo C on MS-DOS.
> It is the same market. The entertainment market.

That's a bit like saying that dildos aren't so popular because people chose to watch porn online.

The "entertainment market", expressed as "anything to do in your free time", is unquantifiable, because it would include anything, from drinking alcohol to traveling to the Philippines, to driving around in circles. And if you cannot define its boundaries, the movement of goods and services cannot be calculated either.

In this case, physical toys aren't that popular anymore, because a change in societal preferences in a certain age range. People "in the market" for physical toys are "less". Hasbro wouldn't be competing with videogames, because people buying videogames would have no interest at all in physical toys.

Competition to Hasbro toy products is coming mostly from generic manufacturers. Go to a Target store, and take a look at how many parents choose random crap, instead of branded toys.
The current Goverment voted against this and is not the ones trying to pass it.
What about consenting women who've not been coerced or pressured in any way? You want to take people's free will away, seems to be another perspective to your belief.
> Sure it's a lot to me and you (and her) but its less important to fb than a $1 is to you.

That is almost surely wrong, even after taking into account the declining marginal utility of money. FB's net income for 2022 was $23.1B. $1M is 1 part in 23100 for them.

$1 for most any SWE in the US is ~4-20x less concentrated when compared by annual income.
"Why does the argument receive much attention despite that?"

Because government national security secrets and dumb corporate secrets are different.
These chips matter to that 80%, just not this year.
> now that one doesn't actually need math to draw 3D stuff.

Even for camera movements/projection stuff? News to me, haven't messed with 3d since around 2010.
In my layman's opinion, conflict is always about territory and resources - often territories exist as the containers of certain resources.
One would think (or just I imagine) that hunters/gatherers would be nomads (honestly I didn't read TFA), so no territory and then less conflicts, and you don't need static defenses such as fortresses.
For instance, chimps are sedentary while bonobos are nomadic.
> non-stop attacks on Jews from 1929 until today

Jews, Christians and Muslims in the area were coexisting peacefully under Ottoman rule. I wonder what happened to result in this situation? Possibly illegal settlements? Ever heard of The Nakba?

Also, zionist Jews view even Americans less than human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq28ZFNzaWM
I didn't do all of them because I found them on the job.

Submitted one bug report for the thing I didn't know how to fix.
Phobias Good and Bad
How's that value created by bitcoin? Cash also creates that value.