jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fact that someone in Ubuntu marketing thought this was even remotely an acceptable or good idea is a sign of someone deeply out of touch with reality and far too invested in tracking/marketing ecosystems.
> my wife isn't going to let me put a cobbled together box fan in the library

Perhaps https://smartairfilters.com/en/product/sqair-air-purifier/ ? It's simply a fan + filter in an attractive box.
I don't think it is fair to consider this unit to have been designed by a "major car company" as, at the time the design decision was made, Tesla was still a startup.

That said, the response is fairly puzzling.

It seems to me to be quite reasonable to consider the EMMC a wear item if they have determined that they don't want to make it survive the expected lifetime of the car. However, if they are going to make that call, then they absolutely should be replacing these boards with ones where the EMMC component is on a field replaceable module that a dealer can swap out and a "hours of operation" metric for swapping it out.

I used to joke that GM would put specific wear items in their vehicles, not because they couldn't design something that lasted, but instead so they could sell you the $500 GM specific tool you had to use to replace it periodically. A way of keeping "amateurs" from fixing the cars and pushing service calls to the dealers. That is what a "major car company" does in situations like this :-)

On the plus side, many people didn't think Tesla would make it this far to have vehicles that had been on the road long enough to wear out. So there is that.
I would hazard that very few people think about what an underlying String is at all.

String encoding is something I encountered as a problem in college, but is up there with implementing a homemade red-black tree in terms of “things that are asked in interviews but have little to no bearing on my day-to-day.”
Yes, and hopefully it would spur the political will to streamline it so that it doesn’t take up valuable time and mental capacity.
"Mickey Mouse" isn't copyrighted, it's trademarked. There is, I believe, pretty wide consensus that trademarks remain valid as long as they're in use.

"Steamboat Willie" is copyrighted, but I don't know if Disney actually makes any money off of it at all (even if there were a good way to account that). What Disney wants is for you to not be using it.

You might have a better case for, say, Cinderella, a film that they actually do make some money off of. Again, I'm not sure how they'd account for it -- it's available on streaming, and how much of that revenue is due to Cinderella?

Even if you were taking a percentage of their DVD sales, I suspect they'd be happy to pay it. As with Steamboat Willie, their intention is for you not to be using it more than their actual use.
>that there is some amount of labour that is unpaid

What is unpaid labor? If I employ a carpenter, and pay him $10 for a chair I later sell for $15, is this labor paid?
Hell, get a clipboard and a vest that says INSPECTOR on the back of it and go to a construction site and people will actively avoid you.
I know it's a very private question, but would you be able to describe the trip and the long lasting effects more?
It then becomes much easier for the bank to deny transactions that don't use the chip. Swiped transactions become suspicious.
Validating them in the sense of using the ideas as a model to understand our own psychology, and the origins of our moralities. Showing that certain ideas that Nietzsche held around free will and the nature/nurture debate hold up to scientific scrutiny.
When you have W2 employees, there are additional taxes you have to pay, which you don't have to worry about if they are 1099. At a certain size, you are also mandated to provide Health Care benefits etc
> According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers [...]"

I find this very hard to believe. Could it be that unpaid overtime work was not always declared?
Yes, and your local computer must be on, the software must be running, etc. Want that email delivered to your phone, your work computer, etc.? My example is hardly the best one, but it was simple and commonly understood.
> "freedom from government regulation"

Or the average person is easily brainwashed by propaganda and can be easily manipulated to vote against their own interests.

I like how "death panels" became a favorite PR slogan during the healthcare debate, while the same people don't realize their employers and the insurance companies are already functioning as the effectively the same "death panels".

There is also another element to it: everyone seems to be wondering how come we are "coming out of the recession", profits are up, and yet the unemployment is so high !? The economists are just baffled and writing long essays discussing this phenomenon. To me it seems that Americans are seeing their co-workers laid off, they have their health insurance tied with their employment, they have large mortgages that they cannot afford (yes, it is their fault for taking on those depts), large credit card bills, no savings -- these are not people who will protest and demand more vacation time and higher pay. They will be working 60 hour weeks doing the work of their laid off co-workers, trying not to be next. If they lose their job, most will end up losing their home and health insurance for their children.

I understand this probably doesn't affect the average HN-ers, who are running successful startups, or would have 2 job offers the minute they walk out of their work place. But unfortunately that is not true for most Americans.
I've never had the wrong app launch. It sounds like you have a faulty phone.
I think you've misunderstood what he's proposing. He's talking about getting rid of server processing of client data, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, schedules, and so on. Things where the data is all yours.

Your bank balance is not your data. That's the bank's data. All you have is a cache of its recent value. If you want to set that cached value to a million dollars that is fine. The bank will still have the correct amount, and that is what determines how much money you actually have.
The reason it is a left wing article is that it complains about the lack of government regulations over private agreements between willing partners.
Good point. The Slumtube creator's site is even worse. Housing design hackers could learn much from the open hardware movement.
Thanks for the tips! I really appreciate it. I'll check these out. All getting very exciting for my Christmas project!
"Off the record" is meant strictly in a journalistic sense there (ignoring questions of whether Gizmodo constitutes journalism). He's saying that any response Jobs gives cannot be quoted or referenced by Gizmodo in an article. He doesn't mean "this e-mail will self-destruct in 60 seconds. "
The FBI does have a history of finding impressionable people, encouraging them to misbehave, getting a few to be informants and arresting the rest. While definitely misguided it seems to me that the heart of what many of them are trying to do is in the right place.

One example of many: http://nypost.com/2014/07/20/newburgh-four-terrorism-case-wa...
and pps: nobody wants idea persons. Being an idea person is just another way of saying you have no skills. Having ideas is not a skill, and thinking your ideas are great isn't a skill either :) ok that was too harsh but you know what I mean?
ps: why is hitting 30 a problem? You seem to be doing just fine?
You can start heaps of successful startups and program all the code without knowing polymorphism. You don't need OO programming. You don't need MVC. Check out Rasmus Lerdorf's blog, the creator of PHP. He doesn't use MVC, objects or any of that stuff :)

But it sounds like you don't enjoy programming, which is a problem. Outsourcing is NOT the way to go, a major pain. You'll get more leverage out of getting a good technical cofounder. But then again, outsourcing might work if you're great at project management (but very few non-technical people truly are).
No my assumption is that for free, I can build something on my own and retain 100% of the value. Which is a better deal than they are offering.
well, if your organizations are going to assume liability, they are going to need to charge more than an ordinary rental. One wild party can screw up an apt. as much as six months of living, and if you are there for 6 months, well, the damage can be amortised over a whole lot more rent.
So by "better female representation" you mean "less than 100% male". And the team is 50% white, and 100% straight (I assume you'd have mentioned otherwise). And you admit they pressure you to drink with them. So it sounds like you agree with almost everything I said about the makeup of the workforce at these places.
I strongly agree. Limerance has never been a "great feeling" for me, especially because it pushes one to take important decisions that they would have never taken otherwise. What's best for your genes is not necessarily what's best for you.
Disappointed they use a Flash player to share it. Audacity will rip that to an MP3. I'd like to hear those other recordings. I hope someone clues them into the Internet Archive! [edited for typo]
Don't worry about MVC just yet. Just start coding, get domething up and running ASAP. At some point you will start writing some code and think, "there must be a better way to do this". At that moment, research a few design patterns and other solutions.

It is more difficult to learn the solution to a problem if you have not encountered the problem yet.
The Belgian government is highly incompetent in all matters related to cyber security (amongst many other things).

There was a case a few years back, where apparently some of their more important systems were infected by an unknown trojan or a piece of spyware - can't exactly remember what it was.

I believe, at the time, they assumed that it came from the NSA. Guess who they called to fix it? The NSA.

What a disgrace.
OK, thanks.

FWIW, I entered the (newer one) in 2010 and I have experienced zero power fluctuations in these 12 years.
I saw Jaron Lanier speak about VRML at my school in about 1997. It sounded so futuristic and so far out of reach for day-to-day. Then I forgot about it for a few decades and, well, here we are.
What languages in common use in 2022 support a Hindley-Milner type system? This sounds a bit like pointless academic gatekeeping…
Ah, we have that in the US as a yield sign. The problem is a huge portion of stop signs have horrible visibility so you have to stop and creep up to see if you need to yield first.
I know you're joking, but everything being determined by genes would support a socialist "each according to his ability" type narrative wouldn't it? Capitalism says you can make whatever you want of yourself.
Having the dollar tied to oil allows the US to run up more "debt" and operate in a way that wouldn't otherwise be possible. See "Understanding the Modern Monetary System" (http://pragcap.com/resources/understanding-modern-monetary-s...).
Meta-question: How do you include two different links (pdf/scribd) in the submission URL?
Curiously enough, if there were secret cabal(s) running the world, it would clearly be in their interest to marginalize "conspiracy theories". Either way, it's classic a priori.
JavaScript is incredibly different from Lisp, at least syntactically. Here are some legal JavaScript expressions:

++x+x++
x >> 6 > y >> 6
5 % 2 / 5 * 5 + 1
Triply redundant hosting providers is really setting the bar high. Lot of 20/20 hindsight being put into play the last few days!

In my experience, small companies typically have one hosting provider, off-site backups, and the probable but untested ability to bring up a fresh installation in a few hours. That's both common in the real world and good enough for most situations. It would get you through an outage like this.
Obviously keeping oil flowing from the middle east is a cornerstone of US policy, and it is important for our allies in Asia and Europe too. But the currency wars concept is silly and unsubstantiated; in today's global forex markets it is trivial to shift from dollars to euros or whatever you want before or after trading for oil. There are a lot of reasons the dollar is the global reserve currency, and if US policymakers were truly concerned about the dollar you'd see different fiscal and monetary policy in Washington-- instead we are doing everything in our power to debase the dollar and increase the dollar price of oil.
Mainline flights? Nope. But there are various airlines that let you do this.

One time, I was in Seattle and needed to be in Portland. I could have taken the train, but the schedule was very inconvenient. I then discovered SeaPort airlines, which operates single-engine aircraft out of Boeing field and flies to PDX. It was $80. I showed up 20 minutes before the flight. The check-in agent greeted me by name (since I was the only person on that flight), and we walked out onto the tarmac and into the plane. No baggage X-ray. No TSA. No metal detectors. I don't think I even showed anyone ID!

I believe US Airways operates a similar service out of LGA, although they probably have more security since their planes are more expensive and seat more than 12 people. But it can definitely be done, and it's a lot cheaper than a high-speed rail line that nobody is going to ride.

Look, I'm the biggest railfan there is. But in a country where the most of the major cities are very far apart, and where everyone owns a car and pays for the interstate system, high speed rail is a hard sell. I'm completely in favor of it, but I expect it to be a gift from the government: it will never pay for itself, and most people won't even think to use it.
unless it is part of an assignment statement, a conditional, or a loop, it will have the same effect.
Phew. good to know future generations will still be able to find out how babby is made.
Ugh, I find dired incredibly annoying and avoid it at all costs in Emacs. You use it once and suddenly have a gazillion buffers open, it's just the worst! They don't even go away when you deliberately close them with q!
Mainly the OS has security options to prevent IME network connections that aren't always on by default, but users can enable them. (They might be off because it disables some features that need internet access.)

IIRC there was also some Android API that could be used in the app to help, but I don't remember what it actually did atm.
What complexity is being simplified here?
> if the problem is systemic, the company folds.

Why do you think that? Imagine we have two similar companies, and one of them has mediocre deadline estimates, while the other would be mediocre except they also underestimate everything by 50%. Shouldn't both companies have similar success in the market?
i.e. use the Linux binary on WSL
The problem with the article is that it thinks Wireless is simply a better chip ( Apple Silicon ) and that is it. It is not. It is the combination of Software, Chip and Antenna.

Apple could sell W1 or W2. But they will have to provide firmware update ( as they do now to AirPod ) to third party which Apple will definitely not provide the source code. And since Apple does not own or understand third party implementation of their design it makes debugging and quality control of MFi literally impossible. ( They tried that with HomeKit )

And with that, the whole point of the article was moot.
Last year, the "TBA" talks covered products/APIs that were announced during that day's keynote. Some of these included the Android push notification service, prediction web API, and storage API.
Only in comments, or should we apply that to submissions also? If it weren't for using social proof to decide which stories should be highlighted, why do we have a voting-based front page?
Why should Facebook care? They should care because they need that content (obviously not individually, but in aggregate).

There's an implicit agreement here - the user puts time and effort into providing content to Facebook that Facebook users want to see, and Facebook puts that content in front of lots of people. If the risk of Facebook reneging on the deal becomes seen as too high, fewer content creators are going to take up the offer.
I read that slightly differently. I read that as meaning there is a greater disparity between the high voted comments and the low comments.

I don't see it addressing the quantity of highly voted comments vs quantity of lower voted comments.

Good point though. It does definitely question my assertion that the herd mentality has negatively affected the value of upvotes. But I don't believe it disproves it.
Which governors ran on imposing lockdowns?
"Wondering why it's hot" doesn't necessarily imply "worrying whether whatever makes it hot could be dangerous".

If you didn't know that radioactivity can cause heat, and you found a magic hot rock, do you think you'd go "I don't understand this, must be dangerous" or "I have now clue how this thing works but it's really useful, I'm gonna keep that thing"?
high prison sentences dont deter crime, people just assume they can get away with it
which wouldn't be the case with Windows or OSX

I don't think this is true.
I'm annoyed by this trend of having posts with 0 context or analysis on the top of the frontpage. Yesterday we had a link to some bitcoin chart showing a sudden drop in price (why? I still don't know). A few days ago it was a gif of a flowchart for some brainfuck interpreter (I had to dig into the comments to find the link to the source code). And now... Vine?!

The problem with that kind of submissions (images, short videos...) is that they're quick to overtake more in depth articles because people upload it in seconds without 2nd thought. I don't want the front page of HN be overtaken by imgur posts, if you see what I mean.
I'd never claim to be normal, but I'm neither a bitcoin millionaire nor a criminal.

If Bitcoin is "too hard" to figure out for someone, they probably shouldn't use it.
Unfortunately, Firefox ESR already doesn't have TabMixPlus support.

I'm on Waterfox Classic on desktop, but that's probably not gonna last forever either. And when that eventually drops support, I'll just stay on the last version until some browser vendor brings multi row tabs back. On mobile, I visit maybe five websites, and the three most common ones don't have ads, so I'm happy with my pinned old Firefox Beta version. And no matter what happens, I'm not upgrading to current Firefox on Android - well, unless the thing that happens is they take that abomination of a UI back behind the shed and put it out of its misery...

The way I look at it, it's unfortunate that the one single browser actually worth using sadly no longer gets security updates. That sucks for me, but I'm also not gonna stop using the browser.
When I watched YouTube regularly I would often have multiple videos going. Some people talk slowly and YouTube encourages filler in order to hit the 10 minute mark. When most of the videos are like this you can definitely have a couple monologues, some music, and something to read just fine.
I think it's an interesting question to consider how much of that is due to corporations being legally constrained from the sorts of violence governments engage in, particularly in a thread discussing relaxing legal constraints on corporations.

If corporations were sovereign, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they participated in comparable levels of violence.
See also; the sons-of-the-soil racial benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumiputera_(Malaysia)#Contenti...
Like many people, our house is on a time-of-use plan. This kind of monitoring is useful to determine if there are loads that could be cheaper to shift to a different time of day.
Thanks for the detailed response. It looks like I've still got a lot to learn - I've just lately been playing with LXC to get more familiarised with containers. I've previously looked at Helm apps and they seemed to be very similar to Puppet manifests.
From what you said it seems like the approach is to have immutable containers for each application, set up via Dockerfiles, which somehow also simplifies the upgrade process? Does that mean you just deploy a new version/container of an application linked to the same underlying database (for example) when you need to run an upgrade?

So if you had a fleet of ten containers running the same application in a load balanced config, I'm guessing you'd need to upgrade all of them at once (with downtime) rather than upgrading them one by one (because then the database would be inconsistent)? I'm assuming that since the containers are immutable the data is stored elsewhere.
I mean, i keep reading it as the letters themselves; really the only two that bothered me were delta ~ d and not o, and mu is m and not u
Because the tech oligarchs have been so good with paying their taxes under current tax codes when governed by an outside body. They'll do even better in a tech governed county.

I forsee Dystopia County's tax collection office will be led by Santa since he's so good at maintaining lists.
Sure, I was mostly comparing Signal to proprietary centralized messengers here, not to FOSS decentralized messengers. Indeed they could do better.
The author of this article should consider following their own advice, since they have a woefully outdated RSA-1024 ssh key securing their GitHub account.

$ curl -s https://github.com/apenwarr.keys > blah

$ ssh-keygen -l -f blah

1024 SHA256:1IWAUSXOcCKLcmOdAec8JbDt3T75udA4KSpRosEWUaU no comment (RSA)

(update: they have now replaced it with an RSA 2048 bit key. progress.)
Me too... That really sucks.
tldr;

My eye captured the 3rd row which shows google.fr is the 3rd (nearly 7%, while others are jut a bit more than 8%).

Wonder what are French habits in the subject which makes google.fr claiming that high.
Regarding the tariffs. These are usually country of origin based, so shipping to a third country first doesn't help.
The Eiffle Tower is the best example of this as it was derided as an eyesore allowed for the World Fair.
> the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents

> which cost about $12,000 on average in tuition and fees per year.

> The fake university is believed to have collected millions of dollars from the unsuspecting students.

Between that and half of the current US gov being corrupt to an unprecedented level I wonder were all the "A well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free State" guys are. This is 1970s eastern europe level of power abuse.
Perhaps, but the point is that the value-added statistics that have been used (in trials, I don't know if this was ever into a formal metric with consequence) to measure how much students' grades or test scores are improved by a particular teacher's performance show almost as large of a supposed effect of the teacher on height, not height on grades.
Agreed. I'm all for pitting AIs against each other to see who is better, but putting AIs vs humans is futile in a ridiculous way. Games aren't fun if there isn't a level playing field.
> This is for video conferencing users that are not tech literate.

So why does it increasingly feel like privacy and security are reserved for those who can afford it and/or know how to do it themselves? Why is every poor person who doesn't have the time to learn technology basically hung out to dry in terms of data protection?
The way that AI is used in chess might hopefully imply otherwise. IIRC most popular chess services like chess.com use AI to help train players.
A question to the HN crowd reporting with app development: what are the benefits of using the Facebook SDK? Do you consider these outweigh the privacy concerns?

To everyone else: be sure to watch the CCC presentation by Privacy International
That's unfortunate. I wonder if we'll need a new term for this kind of "chilling effect". What else won't people explore or further themselves in due to the presence AI?