skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally did not say XKEYSCORE was used for wiretapping. Find a mirror and contemplate your last sentence.
The big insight of the PageRank paper is that you can use MC integration to approximate PR, not PR itself. Hence making the problem much easier to distribute.
AFAIK bun is VC backed, so they need to make money at some point, therefore a speculation:

They want to make bun an all in one runner in order to vendor lock you in somehow. But I might be wrong. It indeed does not make sense to put such dependencies in the core/std lib
Hi Nirav, any plans to start Framework in India?
Anonymization with μ-Argus (2021)
The Dutch national office of statistics has open source tools that can de-identify 'microdata' (not aggregated data) such that k-anonimity is achieved. K-anonimity means that for any given property it can never be traced back to less than K individuals, e.g. number of people in a ZIP code with a certain combination of attributes, even though information on a more detailed level is available.
General purpose robots don’t make sense - humans are infinitely better for this purpose and way cheaper to produce.

Sure the robots could do very dangerous or tedious work that would be “inhuman”, but I would argue that for this kind of work a specialised robot will always be more efficient and way cheaper to produce.

Apart from how science fiction this all is - we can’t even produce a general purpose robot don’t make that does the most basic things like walking or picking up objects in real life (outside of special test environments)
So, I’m real, and just trying to offer constructive feedback for a few errors I believe I noticed.

I could be wrong though —- could you be specific? I don’t want to misinform anyone…
Google Fiber has been in existence since 2012.
> CNBC Africa TV host Ran Neuner accused the presidential family of “grifting at the expense of the entire crypto community.”

The entire crypto community is one big grift.

What coin did not financially benefit its creators?
Most likely the logic is at least similar. Yes, line by line, each line is encoded in bytes where each bit is a pixel. I had to "invert" the image as the printer will print the "white" pixels (those with a value >0).

The printer has an internal buffer so you can send multiple lines at the same time, but on the bear this starts to break down after 200 lines or so (consider that the bear has a higher 300 dpi resolution, so 576 pixel per line). Also pay attention to overheating, I put 1 or 2 seconds of pause every 400 lines just in case.
I'm about to order a bunch of PCBs to substitute overhead lights on my car and some of my friends for something around 3000K and high CRI.

Not only the color temperature is so cold, but usually the spectrum is terrible, and the quality of the light is awful.

I just have to finish choosing the led driver :P
This is a gold mine, too:

https://www.unoptimal.com/automated-ragequit

Love it! Now needed more than ever.
Europe is back into its historical power dynamics, e.g. Catherine II was Prussian and also the Russian emperor. National states in Central and Eastern Europe were an anomaly lasting 80 years. Once US accepted the return of ruling dynasties, Europe has no other choice than to follow. People will quarrel over any scraps and ideologies the elites throw at them. Nothing will stop the gravitation of German industry towards Russian resources.
If you do well then Meta buys you and sells my data.
> I might want to move to the US in the future.

> (…) (who knows what the mainstream politics will look like, things that are very innocent today might be punishable by death in 10 years).

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think I’d ever consider moving to a country where I believed politics to be so unstable that an action could go from “very innocent” to “punishable by death” in the span of a decade.
What people say on such platforms would be down to charters, democratically agreed. Everything is in principle open to design so as to prevent abuse. So is the possibility of checks and balances, observers etc.

People abandoning their civic responsibilities is what delivered "government" (and practically everything else) to the oligarchs.
Revolut is specifically banning GrapheneOS
While Trafalgar is known as the official centre of London, you’d have trouble convincing anyone that Vauxhall is more central than Spitalfields.
Yeah I did some crazy things when I was in school. Had so much time.
But this will democratize it!
That (managing the env "from the outside) is and always has been the "supposed" way of using it.

Modifying _your own_ environment _at runtime_ is not. The corresponding functions - setenv/getenv - and state - envp/environ - have in the UNIX standards "always" (since threads exist, really) been marked non-MT. "way back when" people were happy to accept that stated restrictions on use don't make bugs. Today, general sense of overentitlement makes (some) people say "but since whatever-trickery can remove this restriction... you're wrong and I'm entitled to my bugfix". I agree the damage is done, though.
I get what you're saying, but I'm referring strictly to the task of nutrient tracking. I'm doing it right now while _not_ trying to lose weight (or gain it, or necessarily stay the same weight) and it's a big game of eyeballing stuff where it's incredibly hard to get it right
Media consumption on airplanes.

Headsets are too heavy. Compute and battery needs to be somewhere else.

AR is better than VR. Passthrough with overlay opens up lots of interesting opportunities for AI learning about mechanical tasks, and AI feedback about what you're doing.
put your monitor in front of a nice bland white wall, put a led strip at the back of your monitor that lights up the wall; this is reduces the contrast between the lightening from your monitor vs what's around, reducing eye strain a lot

no lights shining into your monitor , those just create reflections and make the screen harder to see

use the same for your TV, Philips Hue TVs are a good example on how to make the screen bigger and reduce eye strain, similmar things can be accomplished with that led strip
I kind of want to see this with Pokemon gen 1 games now.
First, a small bit of optimism :). People hate inflation; I don't think there has been an election this year that hasn't ended with the party-in-power losing the election. Given how small the election was won by in the USA I wouldn't see that as a mandate.

Background: https://www.marketplace.org/2024/11/14/incumbents-are-losing...

Second, the USA has some fundamental rot at its core that both parties have ignored for the last 30 to 50 years (housing, monopolies, health care, ports, etc). This is finally coming to a head as people have grown more and more dissatisfied with the status quo. This is going to result in a fair bit of political choppiness as the masses try to find someone who will fix their pain. Historically, these types of periods give rise to fascism, popularism, and other worries. Hopefully, that won't be the case with democracies, and peaceful transfers of power will stay the norm. Democracies must deliver results to their people or people will turn on them.

Third, you have this massive move to social media, podcasts, and influencers for news/truth. That is a bit terrifying, and there is no stopping it. You could say it is like the transition from newspaper to radio to TV, and it is going to produce similar carnage. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out. Will the government pass strict reforms (see what they did with TV to prohibit monopolies in TV ownership and equal airtime rules - both of which were upturned recently)? I agree with you that there is a lack of humility and kindness. I don't have any answers and feel equally frustrated. I think people are tired of slick answers that don't say anything, and for now, they are fine with raw outbursts because they are frustrated.

I've interviewed some historians, experts, and authors lately. Here is what they recommended on a few subjects that you are talking about:

https://shepherd.com/best-books/where-the-republican-party-m...

https://shepherd.com/best-books/saving-democracy-from-populi...

https://shepherd.com/best-books/radicalization-and-extremism

https://shepherd.com/best-books/talking-to-people-who-dont-a...

Two books I've read recently that I found illuminating are:

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 by Ann Hagedorn

This was a fantastic day-by-day account of 1919 (right after WWI as the world tried to clean up). It really helped me see the chaos and politics of that year at a slower pace, and it makes the last 10 years feel a bit less crazy. Reading about the Spanish flu, bombs going off across the country, and everything else just reminded me that stuff is always crazy. You still have to fight it, but this isn't anything new.

M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati

This isn't an easy read. It is historical fiction about Mussolini's rise to power. It was an illuminating look at his rise to power, using historical records and some guesses. It shows what a bunch of clowns they were and what luck was involved in it happening.
If this is rage bait it’s definitely working
DNOs in the UK decline lots of supply fuse upgrades and higher-rate domestic solar installations because local infrastructure capacity issues.

This stuff all needs a bit of an upgrade anyway, but we can defer that if design houses/developments to smooth their own load spikes.
There is a lot of usage: Video games, workout, 3D modeling, adult content, ... But most of them are pretty niche. Maybe they will one day explode to the mainstream, but, even as a VR enthusiast, I doubt it will happen as long as you have to strap a weird looking bulky machine on your face.
This is fair and I think reflects my personal opinions on keeping children out of politics.

My point is more to do with seeing little kids being dressed up in CCP uniforms, handed a bayonette, and told to charge at the Japanese. I also agree we see this around the world "including movies and video games, which are also accessible to children" but I draw the line where it's being encouraged by the government to do these actions in person. Combine this with the anti-japanese rhetoric taught in primary education and it's a nasty combination*. [1]

Another thing to consider is that children are generally not given access to games/movies/whatever that have such mature themes by their parents.

I'd make this same argument if I saw US children being dressed up as US soldiers and asked to charge at Nazi "soldiers". Even though we can both (hopefully) agree that Nazi ideologies are/were disgusting and deserve to be bayonetted.

> If anything, Chinese content guidelines usually prohibit graphical display of violence, so it's much more of a milquetoast thing than e.g. South Park.

Not when the Japanese or another of China's enemies are involved. Then it's gloves off.

* Also I do want to give some slack here too, the Japanese have never acknowledged or apologised for their attrocities in WW2.

[1] https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/china-scrambling-to-unplug-ant...
Diffused bright light from a white wall behind you is not any better. Learned this the hard way when I started WFH in Anno Covidi 1.
I dunno. I only succeeded as a kid academically because of literally my IQ not because I had grit learnt from my projects. I pathologically hated being told what to do so the determination to do my own projects did not translate into anything assigned to me.
Boxing.

I love boxing, but having proper sparrings multiple times a week is insanely hard on the body and recovery.

Putting on my Quest 3 lets me enjoy a boxing match or two without any damage to my body and need for recovery.
>Note that Java, and the JVM, doesn't allow changing environment variables. It was the right choice, even if painful at times.

Not sure why would it be considered painful. Imo, use of setenv to modify your own variable, the definition of setenv is thread unsafe. So unless running a single threaded application it'd never make sense to call it.

Java does support running child processes with a designated env space (ProcessBuilder.environment is a modifiable map, copied from the current process), so inability to modify its own doesn't matter.

Personally I have never needed to change env variables. I consider them the same as the command line parameters.
It doesn't require linear algebra to understand the paper or how the algorithm works, but it does require linear algebra to understand why the algorithm works. In general, since the induced 1-norm of a stochastic matrix S is exactly equal to 1 but not smaller than 1, the mapping x↦Sx is NOT a contraction. Neither convergence of the power method nor uniqueness of fixed point are guaranteed. (If there are multiple fixed points, there are multiple inconsistent rankings.)

In the paper, the significance of the so-called "damping factor" is not clear. However, with linear algebra, we know that the damping factor makes the stochastic matrix positive rather than merely nonnegative. Hence the Perron eigenvalue is "simple" (i.e. of multiplicity one), the Perron vector is unique and the power iteration must converge to it.
I am biased since we are developing it but fitness is one of the strongest segments in VR, that plus social experiences for the younger generations.
> If you're convicted of a crime, let's say selling drugs, that carries a penalty of up to life in prison even though most people get 5-10 years, and then you're sentenced to life in prison

you can appeal the sentence as being "too harsh" or out of the normal bounds. That's fair game and quite common.

However, if you are convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and criminal enterprise, and you are appealing the length of the sentence, its very difficult to appeal if your system/company organisaiton to which you admit to being the head honcho of, uses a very traceable currency to launder money, and therefore can reasonably prove spectacularly large amount of drug trafficking.

The criminal enterprise charge has a minimum of 20 years, adding in drugs to the mix adds an additional 10.

the whole "judge was biased because of unfounded ordered assassination" is plainly wrong.

Sure you can argue that drugs should be legal (but you need support and money to help people escape, see opioid explosion)

but thats not the same as Roos Ulbricht got the wrong sentence. What he did was really obviously illegal, and at industrial scale. industrial scale illegality is going to get you a long sentence.[1]

[1] yes rich people manage to escape justice, this is an affront to justice, but arguing that Ulbricht was wrongly convicted only enables rich people to get off more, because it wrongly states that the law was wrong in this isntance.

Mark my words, the US legal system is going to get a huge shakeup. most constitutional checks and balances for the executive have been dismantled, because of a failure of congress. You don't want that new legal system, as thats going to be injustice for many, control for the few. A central plank of libertarianism is a fair and equitable legal system, we are straying further from that.
Not only that, but when the new hot JS runtime inevitably drops, it's going to be a pain to move to that.
CVSS Is Dead to Us
EA Origin is shutting down
Not on standalone VR, there it's more like Gorilla Tag, Horizon Worlds, etc.
In addition to all the other recommendations, Trail Sense is pretty great, and BRouter is quite useful for finding alternative routes if you use OsmAnd and cycle a lot.

I also use Etar and DAVx⁵ for calendar and contacts sync.

Rethink is useful if you don't already have another VPN setup for ad blocking etc.
Not OP but I think it can be either. Great for the safety of one driver who can see the road perfectly can be awful for the safety of another who is blinded.

LED bulbs exacerbate an already existing problem caused by vehicle noses being too tall such that the headlight is exactly eye-height for other drivers. Sometimes they're poorly calibrated too, aiming too high. Many drivers also retrofit super bright LED lights on older cars that do a very bad job at properly focusing the beam on the ground (same thing was happening with drivers modding their old mirror reflector headlights with xenon lamps and giving everyone on the road an artists impression of a supernova up-close).

I've seen cars with lights that were obviously very bright but very well calibrated to point as much as possible to the road instead of my eyes. Those are maybe marginally more tiring than the warmer and much dimmer lights used in the past, but this is more than compensated in safety so probably a worthwhile trade. Proper calibration and sensible placing make all the difference.
3rd world country or not - I hope you appreciate that you are incredibly fortunate for "ancient culture" and "history" to be 2 of your top 3 considerations for where to live and the quality of life that would give you.

Perhaps revalidate the "thriving economy" assertion before taking the plunge though (and be mindful of how hyper-localised that is).
> and offer them to their own residents as local tax funded service. Its an entirely plausible scenario

It sadly isn't, if by this you mean that residents can create their profiles there and use it to post stuff. Because now every city is a social network operator that has to police the server.

But even if the city only had a server with accounts for the city admin and only posting city stuff, that by itself would be great.

> We have the cesspool social media that we have because society is forgeting what democracy and sovereignty even mean.

Maybe, but more specifically it's because social network operators refuse to police them properly. I have seen that scenario play out on a small non-commercial social network in the 00's and then countless times again: well-meaning people are too pacifist (at least online) and the rest is hands-off. Not very good people are always going to exploit weaknesses like that. And then it's too late, you can't put the cat back into the bag, the whole network is gone. And if the society as a whole doesn't act, well we are seeing what happens.

> One just hopes that the in-your-face possibility of better alternatives will tip the balance somewhere in the world and start the revolution that will help us out of this sorry period.

I don't think there will be a revolution. What I hope for is there will at least be a slow trickle of people into stuff like Mastodon, so that we leave behind the era where 99% of value was captured by facebook/instagram/tiktok/twitter.
Ask HN: Is Cloudflare domain registration/renewal broken?
I wonder if cloudflare domain registration/renewal broken for some users, and they don't care much? there were no proper response to the issue, when I tried to prevent losing my domain. Anyone else having this issue?
When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep".
Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the city before you're in the English countryside surrounded by sheep and the best cities have a low (but not too low) "time to sheep" metric. It helped explain one of the reasons we loved living in Bristol so much when we had such a hard time living in London.

Could also have been that Bristol is just a crazy beautiful city to live in, but where's the fun in that, right?
So young men shouldn’t be cared about, and aren’t socially beneficial to discuss?

If that’s the approach, historically that’s how you end up with violent street gangs, out of control criminal behavior, or massive numbers of NEETs.
Especially the Codd paper (what if Codd had died in World War 2?) makes me wonder: What are the non-obvious (kind of arbitrary even) yet extremely helpful concepts that no one has thought of or that didn't find the resonance that they should have?
If you understand that it’s limiting, then I guess you need to try to go to the Linux meetups and if that doesn’t suit you, find new ways of being happy?

You’re not giving anyone much to work with. I honestly can’t imagine only having 2 interests that are related.

Hope you find some joy!
Please, please, stop the AI IDEs...
> You express this concern as if we haven't had decades of relentless - and insanely disproportionate - demonization of these meds.

I don't think it's disproportionate at all. These drugs can be extremely helpful for some, and they can be life ruining for others. There were > 80,000 deaths in the USA from opioids in 2022, including > 14,000 from prescription opioids. Those numbers are specifically for deaths, but many more are struggling with addiction as a result of their usage. If we can invent a superior class of pain relievers in the future with a lower potential for dependency, and perhaps less recreational appeal as well, it would save quite a lot of lives.

> It ignores the med is consistently effective and enables functionality. Omitting those details increases the alarm factor in your presentation and it sacrifices the nuances of our actual reality.

I never ignored effectiveness. I have no doubt that taking the ambien helps your friend sleep, or that opiates treat your other friend's pain well. For some, the benefits certainly outweigh the negatives, and as I said previously, I wish all the best for your friends.

> You keep mischaracterizing my points, severely. This could be reasonably interpreted as bad faith on your part. However, I don't believe you're acting in bad faith.

I'm not acting in bad faith. I genuinely believe that doctors should be cautious when prescribing those drugs, and that the public should be well educated about the risks of those medications. I think that if you take a step back and remember that hundreds of thousands of people have died from these drugs in a completely preventable tragedy, you might concede that it's not an "insanely disproportionate demonization" but rather an understandable reaction to a public danger.
I wonder how fast Advent of Code leaderboard regulars can outdo them with their choice of language.
Many changes require multiple smaller changes, so this is not always possible.

For me the commit message should tell me the what/why and the diff is the how. It's great to understand if, for example, a change was intentional or a bug.

Many times when searching for the source of a bug I could not tell if the line changed was intentional or a mistake because the commit message was simply repeating what was on the diff. If you say your intention was to add something and the diff shows a subtraction, you can easily tell it was a mistake. Contrived example but I think it demonstrates my point.

This only really works if commits are meaningful though. Most people are careless and half their commits are 'fix this', 'fix again', 'wip', etc. At that point the only place that can contain useful information on the intentions are the pull requests/issues around it.

Take a single commit from the Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08bd5b7c9a2401faabd...
It doesn't tell me "add function X, Y and boolean flag Z". It tells us what/why it was done, and the diff shows us how.
That would be so much wasted engineering effort. The actual solution is simple: read what you need from env, and pass it as parameters to the functions you want to. The values of what you have read can be changed... and if you really, really want start a child process with a modified env.
I can see your point of view, but I gently disagree. This is based on my own experience.

Being able to see, react and change based on changing business goals was the key to my career success. Being able to talk to decision makers and get something in place to mitigate risk/take advantage is a key thing in buisness.

Going from being able to do that, to not even knowing what the business goals are, much less getting access to any kind of decision maker is a tough change. Its like having the scope of a CTO and then going to a scope of an intern. You feel infantalised.