skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deeds speak more than the words, so I'm highly skeptical of their stance on privacy and attitude toward their users in general. I fail to see how it's any better than your average corporate "we highly value your privacy here at $corpName". Yes, of course, they aren't as obnoxious as Google or Facebook - spam and big data hoarding is not their business. But it's not that they're any particularly good, the world-wide enshittificaton just made us move the plank so much lower, that anyone not blatantly trying to make buck from anything they can touch is considered "good" those days.

Heck, modern Mozilla seem to be very comparable to Apple - both use the same themes of "oh look we're so pro-privacy (when it makes sense to us)", while becoming increasingly user-hostile and "knowing better". Apple aren't my friends, so aren't Mozilla - yet I'm practically forced to use and trust them, because the competition is no better or, typically, even worse (and tech is too convenient to forgo entirely).

The most obvious example - and my favorite pet peeve - is how they dealt with sync. They went the most typical corporate road - made their own unique system, extremely poorly designed (I've mentioned this a few times, it's exceptionally bad engineering), requiring an account with them, somewhat documented but with zero practical chances of being interoperable. And the ability to self-host and have a separate account wasn't anything more than an afterthought - I'm 99% sure it's there only because they needed to test against non-production servers, not because anyone cared about end users the slightest tiniest bit. If someone would've cared, and their voice would've been heard, the world would've been a somewhat better place - most likely, we would've had a simple (or, at least, sane) interoperable standard on storing and synchronizing browser data, and praised Mozilla for it, like in the old good days. That hadn't happened.

They sure had some ideals, but they lost the sight of them, yet they pretend they didn't.

And I'm sorry for those folks at Mozilla who have those ideals. I'm sure there are decent, good people there, who care and are passionate about what they do. But talking about the company as a whole, I can't say I'm happy to trust Mozilla - I do so begrudgingly. Their interests are certainly not aligned with mine.
> it is arrogant and willful ignorance to pretend that adult content consumption is not a major part of the VR/MR story.

Wilful ignorance - or sensible marketing?

Apple's ability to get celebrities and subway riders using their product in public depends on completely denying that it's a $3500 masturbation aid.
I use this pattern but I'm starting to move away from it. Some things just don't work (ex. linking accounts between companies) and it also throws customer service agents into a panic when they see their own company name in the e-mail address.

I'm also not sure it gets me that much. I do get to see how was compromised or sold my data, but most of that just goes to spam anyway. I also usually find out about the compromises from other sources anyway.
Hey! Thanks for the heads up, signed up and now I'm going to do what I did when I signed up to Twitter in the deep past... lurk.
This is such a poorly disguised effort at saying “NOOO, STUPID”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick It's a joke.
> I guess you'd notice a change in light frequency based on the light in front/behind. Redder behind, bluer in front.

The light in question is not uniform like white noise; the spectral power distribution has relatively light and dark lines in them as a result of the physics of the bright sources and intervening gas and dust. Those features also get redshifted.

If one is moving relative to the sun, one would pay attention to the sun's Fraunhofer lines <https://physics.weber.edu/palen/clearinghouse/labs/Solarspec...>, which would be Doppler shifted to different wavelengths. These lines also appear in reflected light from bodies in the solar system; if you were flying towards Pluto you would see a corresponding blueshift of the reflected Fraunhofer lines (plus some additional structure related to the chemistry of Pluto; it has some luminescence, as does our moon, as do the leaves of plants, and luminescence tends to impinge on the narrower Fraunhofer lines).

Indeed, measuring the Doppler shifts of multiple known-chemistry light sources is a useful technique in navigation of spacecraft within our solar system; it can in principle do better than precision measurement of angles to multiple light sources.

The spectral distortions of the CMB are certainly interesting, but it's hard to imagine their utility for spacecraft navigation within the Milky Way, rather than helping to physical cosmologists understand why there even is a Milky Way.

In the solar system we have kind-of the opposite problem: in order to get reliable anisotropy data of the Milky Way, probes like WMAP need excellent almanac data for the ephemeris of Jupiter (it's a bright reflector of sunlight and its cloud-tops at ~70 kPa are ~22 GHz microwave-bright; I gather other outer planets are used too, but the details are beyond me) to check its 22-GHz-band detection of the CMB Doppler shift in the directions it looks.
I had a similar experience in the mid-90s. Worked for a small studio with a successful franchise (IndyCar and NASCAR Racing). Shipped a Playstation title and contributed to some of the Mac and PC titles and the nextgen codebase that became Grand Prix Legends. (Much of the founding team of iRacing came from this studio.)

Ultimately, that place was enormously engaging, but I was never going to buy a house and retire on what I was making there, so I left for a better paying gig. Our users really loved the product and eagerly engaged with us. I got several trips to races, including pit and garage access passes, several drivers visited our studio while in town for the NH race, and I learned a ton about both coding and racing.

I'm really glad I did it, but I'm also glad I quit it.
I'm also a Tiller user. It's much better to edit incoming transactions in an offline spreadsheet than a web tool like Mint as well as create custom reports. The daily email snapshot is also useful.
Yes, it was. Individualism is the last thing you want if you want people to act as though their lives are worth less than the king's / emperor's / state. You don't want people valuing themselves and having legal and economic standing, free to make agreements between themselves. You want them to do what you want them to do.
The reduction of sulfur dioxide pollution from shipping in 2020 has had a pro-warming effect.
Moore's Law for Intelligence
Confessions of a(n) [something] is a common title form. Its not even new.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opiu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Mask

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Confessions_of_a_Fr...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Confessions_of_a_Drunka...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Book_Reviewer

etc.
The basic premise is flawed. This needs to go higher up and regulated by countries and that api implemented by website authors.
Having written a small, bespoke query engine (why? long story not for today, but mainly it was super-optimized for a very particular type of query, and very fast, with 10-50us average query times), I don't ever want to do it again except if -and only if- the performance we can wring out of it is absolutely essential and otherwise unobtainable. I'd rather use an off-the-shelf query engine any day and every day.

I would happily work on query engines, it's just I don't recommend using bespoke ones unless absolutely necessary.

I think you'll come around eventually.
Yea I’d love to. If you know of some concrete sources please link them!
I think it was mispriced, but not necessarily by a lot. I bought an ex-library copy of Greene’s withdrawn third novel a couple years ago (rebound as was a common practice with library books in the first part of the twentieth century) for $300 so I’d guess that the book should have been at least $100 back then (collectable editions of the book typically sell in the thousands).
Your framing is designed to make that outcome inevitable. Of course if the proposal is keeping everything else the same but raising prices people would vote against it. Mitigating the catastrophic biome collapse we are already experiencing requires infrastructural changes, not just tweaking the economy a little
The Case Against Neo-Isolationism
Life on earth has adapted to climate change for billions of years.
I use lite salt to make my own electrolyte mix, for when I'm exercising outdoors in the summer for 3-8 hours at a time. I add lemonade powder for flavor, and whatever amount of carbohydrates I need.
The inverse has also been suggested over the years: people who pirated at some point are more likely to pay for content now, whether or not they continue to pirate content
Most Indian Banking services, Payment endpoints, OTT platforms have adapted phone numbers as identity.

Your phone number is your identity. You can receive or send money only through your phone if the SIM is installed and validated by sending an SMS.

Getting a replacement SIM card requires physical verification using Aadhar (Identity service) with One Time Password validation (Email/SMS). Once the new SIM is active, you will not receive any SMS for the first 24 hours after getting a replacement SIM card. This is to reduce the attack surface of SIM Swap attacks.
A racial discrepancy exists in the demographics of those convicted of murder. Furthermore, most of the black men in prison for murder were convicted of killing another black person (most murders are intraracial). Do you mean to suggest that the laws against murder, which put black murderers away for killing other black people, were created to systematically target black men?
How do you get people to vote for this given that it will increase prices/lower their standard of living today?
"We tag trolls so you don't have to."
I disagree. Lots of people are perfectly happy to ignore externalities that happen to others. Just try to get a bike lane put in and you'll see it for yourself.

Or as a lovely neighbor put it: "if you die, why is that my problem?"
I work at Plaid. The basic, non-discounted rate for the Transactions API is like 30 cents per connected account per month (or 45 cents per month if you're buying some optional add-ons to go with it), and any customer the size of Intuit would definitely be getting some kind of huge volume discount. I can't speak for other companies in this space, but I assume they have similar pricing.
I'm confused. I first read an article along these lines over 20 years ago and it seemed a fairly intuitively solid argument with lots of evidential support.

Has it still not become official policy?
I think "partnership" seems like too strong a word for what appears to be the simple use of an affiliate program. Why would OneRep know or care about an individual affiliate and the content of their site, as long as their behavior with regards to the affiliate program is above-board?
Thanks! The biggest advantage is probably the 1:1 content builder when using it as a non-headless CMS with Nuxt. You can create Vue components in the blocks folder and drag and nest them in the content builder wherever you want. While it's user-friendly for content managers, it makes your life as a dev easier when building modular websites, and no extra styling is required to display the components correctly in the dashboard. Other than that, it provides standard features like automatic API route generation for your collections, fields, validation, query builder, etc.
AI makes deepfake pornography more accessible, Canadian laws play catch-up
Just because a lot of people are too delicate for the conversation, we are experiencing a human apocalypse. It's really the end for us, but the oil execs have to pay down the yacht bill and we can't have people angry at the diner counter in Peoria over gas prices.

This happens all the time in the natural world, it would be funny if it wasn't tragic. We developed tools that let us transition from a S to J population type, without time for cultural adaptation to that new reality. People here don't know enough about the topic, and are swayed by "LOL look at Malthus" type gotcha discourse due to the normalcy cognitive bias.

The ideas here about 'democratic support' are absolutely laughable. Who cares what various locusts think or feel when they have swarmed and eaten all the available plant matter? They just starve and die because they overshot their environment's carrying capacity.

Mars is entirely unviable and thinking otherwise is deluding yourself with science fiction.

This will be the defining realization of the next 1-10 years.
TikTok is, first and foremost, a deplatform American tech play. Thats it, and it is hyper aggressive about getting there. Anyone who works there and thinks otherwise doesn't know whats up.
30 ng of botulinum toxin can kill you. What's your point?
There are a bunch of jobs that people (may) like being in but are widely recognized as not paying very well--at least unless you get very lucky.

I was in a role for quite a few years that I mostly enjoyed, but even if the company hadn't had a downward turn, compensation was probably half that of my next job (at best).
>ChatGPT gets progressively worse

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar..., In blinded human comparisons, newer models perform better than older ones.
PoC||GTFO 22 - reversing / security zine [pdf]
It'd be kind of interesting if they added a rear view camera. Then in some ways you'd have more awareness of the world around than normal.
There are sponsored posts dispersed through your feed.

Writing this, I've realized that TikTok hasn't made the terms for it's posts/feed obvious. Twitter has Tweets/Timeline, Facebook has Feed, I don't know what I would say to describe a post from TikTok outside of calling the video itself a 'TikTok'
From what I understand Framework is hoping to basically open source the hardware schematics eventually for the ports and such
I was puzzled as to whether you were agreeing with me or not, but you seem to be thinking that a huge war that would see no military fighting taking place on continental Americas (yet again) would not be considered a "World War" (or even weaker, a "hot war") ? If so, I disagree with that.
That's fascinating. In a way a gold smuggled coin like that seems more rare than the genuine article? That would have an effect of its own on the value? Or maybe the problem is such coins are impossible to identify with certainty because they weren't made by an "official" mint?
And yet, they mostly stopped happening since DDT and a few other pesticides stopped being used.
The point of limiting people's freedom of movement is to prevent them from being a danger to others (what's sometimes called 'incapacitation'). It's pretty much the same logic as what used to be called "shelter in place", except a lot more extreme because the level of risk is correspondingly higher. Of course once you're going to keep prisoners, it makes sense to try and offer them some kind of rehabilitation. The punishment, deterrence and retaliation aspect is not totally absent but is pretty much incidental; prison is never going to be somewhere people want to be, regardless of whether we happen to think of it as some sort of punishment.
Ask HN: What are your top 3 coolest software engineering tools?
Let's start a discussion about cool tools we use in software engineering that others might not know about, here's my top 3.

1) BitBucket's CI/CD pipelines - For running various tests and checks on code when a commit is made. [1]
2) CTest - Automated C/C++ testing. [2]
3) Arduino-CLI - For Arduino testing. [3]

What's yours?

Links:

1) https://cmake.org/cmake/help/book/masteringcmake/chapter/Testing%20With%20CMake%20and%20CTest.html
2) https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines.
3) https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli
I mean, I used it about 30 mins/day before, now it’s like 10 or less. Personally haven’t felt the need to find a Twitter-replacement, you just do other stuff more, I guess? It’s like dropping a hobby. You don’t replace it with an exact replica, it just wears off.
I get the occasional call or message from numbers with the same area code and exchange as my number, and they're universally spam. If I saw one that was one number off mine I wouldn't think "oh, somebody's having fun, I'll answer / text back", I'd think "huh they're bothering to fake more digits now."
You said: "However, I have used several startups options of AI document review and they all fall apart with any sort of prodding for specific answers. "

I think you will find that this is because they "outsource" the AI contract document review "final check" to real lawyers based in Utah ... so, it's actually a person, not really a wholy-AI based solution (which is what the company I am thinking of suggests in their marketing material)
BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained
What happened in France was not just "because they tried to tax gas more heavily".

What the government did was textbook "let them eat cake". They suddenly decided to significantly increase taxes on diesel "for the environment" when people, especially trades people and people outside big cities, had no choice.

Therefore, predictably, the people rebelled.

As long as governments refuse to understand that, we won't get anywhere, indeed.
Yes, it’s really awesome. The split-dns feature has all the options you would imagine.

I thought i would need a second dns server behind it, but i could add all the rules I need right into adguard home. It even supports DoT and DoH upstreams, which is still not a thing with many home routers.

Edit: here are the docs: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Configuratio...
Change in the fuels cargo ships use. Previous fuels where high in sulfur which is all kinds of nasty, but has the benefit if seeding clouds. More warming this year is due to fewer clouds, at least partially.
Local food makes basically no difference unless you're talking about crops that have a shelf life of a day or so. For everything else, distribution is well under 10% of the carbon footprint.

Shorter showers make basically no difference to carbon footprint unless your water is heated by an antique. Our electric water heater is less than 10% our power bill, and most of that goes into standby mode.

Smaller cars matter more than the above, but are basically just pissing into the wind. Halving transportation CO2 per mile won't be anywhere close enough to keep us under 2.5C.

Taking public transit a bit more often also doesn't matter. What percentage of your CO2 footprint is it reducing?

Avoiding fast-fashion mostly matters for microplastics (the clothing industry's carbon footprint isn't that big), but I doubt clothes were ever a significant fraction of the plastic you throw away.

Summarizing, if everyone did everything you said, we'd still be completely screwed. We need infrastructure level fixes instead:

- ban power plants that emit CO2

- set up international protections for timberland, and sanction / bomb any country that ignores them (cutting down rainforests should be treated in the same way as terrorist attacks)

- add a $2 per gallon atmospheric carbon capture tax to gasoline. This means that, for every gallon of gas sold, we'd sequester the emissions of two gallons worth of gas. It also means EVs and hybrids, hydrogen fuel cell, and other technologies will rapidly become more popular

- fund public transit (busses and trains) at the same level as the road network

- tax the crap out of plastic so that natural fibers (and paper bags) are economically viable. This'd less than double the price of stuff.

No individual can pull any of those levers except via political means or via technological innovation.
It is free to try. But may not be free for commercial use. Some random blog post says check it with Oracle if you want to sell your products/services with it.
You haven't been following the recent developments in renewable energy and the deployment of clean tech then. We don't need new technological advancements. We just need to continue to produce more solar, batteries, wind and keeping existing nuclear plants afloat.

We have all we need. It is just a matter of upgrading the grid and building enough to transition.
heating up knives may also be drug slang for hot knifing cannabis (or other drugs).
Retire Big Oil – Virtual AI generated march down Wall Street for the planet
"You all"
There is a good analysis here: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111885148573895886
Absolute vs relative numbers.

If you want to judge the shift in quality in a thing that grew in quantity, then you should look at percentages — otherwise you end up creating statements that are true, but don't say anything meaningful.

E.g. there are probably more absolute listeners of Jazz music today than back at the height of the cultural bloom of the genre. But that isn't because Jazz is more popular today than it once was, but because there are more absolute listeners of any kind of music. Would you say that Jazz in the US is now more important, influential etc. than it was at its peak?
Scalable config files? I'm confused. What needs to scale?
On the one hand, one of the values our country was founded on was maintaining the right to own slaves. On the other hand, the values that our country was founded on that I still care about, like free speech and privacy, have been eroded far more severely than a draft would erode them.

I'm definitely ethically opposed to a draft, but it's a bit naive to think that the US has ethical values or even ever has.
> in a democracy leaders can't do deeply unpopular things.

Oh, you sweet summer child.
You could just say "that doesn't jibe" because that's the actual phrase and "jive" in this context is an "eggcorn" [1]. It also may be more common than the correct usage at this point so I'm probably fighting a battle that's already been lost [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology
Acid rain kills trees and other plant-life long term. This is bad for global warming... it's not an "either or".
Yes, SO2 falls out of the atmosphere after about one year. We already have proof of this in the form of volcanic eruptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio....

SO2 is a short-term, fast-acting, and reversible cooling option. That is why we need to massively adopt it ASAP.
Honestly mastodon was never a replacement for Twitter and it's not even close to the variety Twitter has.On Twitter you can delve into pretty much anything and get the real time events about it whether its, sports, politics, economics or even tech and it's own niche cultures

Nothing come even close to that, mastodon is just a couple of small niches within tech and some news organizations, you won't find anything near to how Twitter works and you won't find anything even close to being relevant as it is.

I personally think most of the complaints that hacker News writes about Twitter, stem from who you follow.It really depends on who you follow, if you find the right people it's going to be your source for what's going on in anything you're interested in.

And unfortunately Elon doesn't seem to be interested in keeping that, he is just interested in milking every last dollar out of it and the result is the platform fighting against its own users.

Unfortunately he also proved something very dystopian while he's doing this:The network effect is so strong that even if you fight against your users، nothing is going to change.

This article explains it fully:
https://stratechery.com/2023/threads-and-the-social-communic...

My comment on it is also relevant here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36684443
In many places across the world it took herculean effort to force that change. But it did not happen because some abstract group of something did cause it to happen. It required major concerted actions, sometimes violent, of many individuals willing to take personal responsibility to change the situation.