skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In USA debit cards are a common way to receive benefits, but there's no bank account attached. A bank account wouldn't add much though, except perhaps a persistent long-lived account number which might be useful.
Frontier did this to me after they took over FIOS from Verizon. No recourse either...I tried several times to fight them. Ended up just dropping them and losing my purchased movies.
What JavaScript interpreter do you use for embedding? I know of MuJS [1] but it only supports ES5.

[1] https://mujs.com/
The clock jitter may get you. You can oversample and decimate to obtain the equivalent ENOB, but then the sample clock stability becomes more difficult and costly.
I got rid of my phone 3 years ago, I don't regret the decision. I find my self more involved in the hear and now.
The article is incredibly disingenuous.

The first paragraph is the typical goalpost of proving a negative. This is a common tactic of scare groups opposed to something. See also vaccine denialism demanding that it be proven that it is safe in all cases.

The second paragraph is just false and belays that they either do not have a technical understanding of the 5G framework or they are being intentionally misleading about it.

The third paragraph intentionally conflates 5G and IoT which are only tangentially related.

They spend a few paragraphs attacking researchers who published results contradicting theirs, but never address the methodology. They claim that anyone who has worked in or with either industry or the standards board cannot be trusted.

Finally, we look at the adverse health effects that they claim are caused by EMF. Brain cancer, heart cancer, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, negative impacts on general well-being in humans, Alzheimer's disease, male infertility, Common Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, headaches, concentration difficulties, sleep problems, depression, lack of energy, fatigue, and flu-like symptoms.
> Are your work parties dry?

They aren’t but it still ends up being the same people grouping up and talking to each other. Maybe it’s the company culture but it makes the whole affair feel pretty uninviting.
I remember installing some random utility (but safe source that I'd used umpteen times before - but not recently) and getting chromium installed - without my permission. I forget what is was, or indeed where I got it from, but this is fairly irrelevant.

The effort trying to remove this was immense. The crapware installer also managed to install a scheduled task to a randomly named executable that when I tested it with Microsoft security essentials said it was 'ok' but virus total told me it was some bag of shit malware.

WORSE STILL, Microsoft security essentials USED to pick this up as a quick google of this crapware update engine linked to a microsoft malware page, which no longer exists. Reading further I noted that MS stopped identifying some malware because "users might choose to use the applications that it installs"

No MS. If it's been sneakily installed with dark patterns consent has not been given, and it needs to be destroyed with fire.

Thankfully ClamAV picked it up, so I now regularly scan with that. sigh

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MICROSOFT?
Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check air quality
India's UIDAI explains the “enrollment machine exploit.”
Yep. I travel to China frequently and this is a huge pain. There are some moderately useful workarounds you can do, like floating money from a friend in your WeChat Pay. But at the end of the day, you are highly dependent upon people hooked into the native financial infrastructure.
Neither are parties are they?

I mean, I'm fine with them,I don't actively avoid them and I don't get anxious or have a terrible time. I just find them less appealing as I get older, especially when compared to having a good time with a small crowd of friends.
Both GDPR and this were intended to hurt American tech giants. However the people pushing this have very little understanding of how internet works so it would certainly have the opposite effect. The grim reality is that deregulation is the only sure way to help homegrown startups compete against the incumbents but you cannot push for deregulation without losing your entire political base in Europe.
Ask HN: How to deal with product managers slowing down product release cycle?
Every startup I've been at, when the company's in the 'growth stage', things get shipped nearly every day. It's great, and gives the team more control over the product and iterations. However, as always, once growth hits a certain point, people in charge of product are hired. After that, things slow down considerably. It drives me crazy. We go from shipping daily, to not releasing features for WEEKS because they nit pick every little damn thing. And of course, 'crunch time' happens more frequently because projects take forever to push forward, causing the arbitrary deadlines to be missed.

Is this normal for startups or have I simply been unlucky? Anything I can do to remedy?
> Business's who depend on the livelihood of free speech: Google, Facebook

Given this legislation virtually guarantees their hegemony over European content distribution, I don't expect too much complaining.
Robotics on the Battlefield Part II: The Coming Swarm (2014)
It's not really free if you are making me give you my email address.
This metric is over-simplified by a huge degree. I also agree with you completely. Made me laugh, too.
My JS-embedded apps only target macOS so I use Apple's builtin JavaScriptCore framework.
Well, of course the law applies to them too. But what happens in the instances that they don't comply? Laws are enforced by incentive structures, such as punishment. Who gets punished or otherwise incentivized to make PeerTube comply with the law, and what effect will that have on the functioning of PeerTube?
That just seems so arbitrary and dangerous.

SO there is no risk right now. But what happens if I make the wrong person mad? Now there's a trail of cash that I haven't paid tax on, and they've got me.

It just seems like a way to bake possible governmental control into an uncontrollable system like black money.
How is there a difference in the belief that stocks always go up and home price will always go up.

Once baby boomers start drawing down on assets won't that have an effect on asset prices? As we start having to pay for climate change won't that effect asset values.
>Also it’s almost impossible for private entities to compete with heavily subsidized public institutions on price, so they need to compete in other ways, like superior marketing, ease of financing, or “quality”

The entire argument is that they would be cheaper. You could argue they might be better but saying they can't compete on price just concedes the point.
Whoa! I didn't know `cd -` did that. Thanks.
On the one hand I see where you are going, but on the other hand, 100+ years ago there existed etiquette books and charm schools (aka finishing schools) and so on. In the middle ages noble children were sent off to be raised by allies and relatives where they would be trained in how to do court.

A staple plot of teen movies going back forever (to at least the 80s, but probably longer) is a kid who somehow makes friends with the cool kids and they actively teach the "loser" to be "cool".

Point being, sure there is maybe less chance of learning these skills organically, but I think that intentional learning of these skills is not a new thing that modern life has brought about.
> The issue is too much demand already.

Only those who already live there think there's too much demand. Everybody else on the planet recognizes that there's not enough supply.
I've used this program several times in the last few years after seeing a comment here on HN.

I started at 49, 55 now, no serious weight lifting experience prior, just basic exercises.

Worked up from the empty bar. My max on squat has been about 260, and deadlift about 310. Various injuries from prior to lifting keep that about as high as I go.

I supplement with swimming on non-lift days during the week, yoga and walking on most weekends.

Been a boon to overall fitness, have done long distance backpacking and canoeing (90 miles just this summer) with my oldest son's scout troop. Just last week did a one day 50 mile ride with my youngest son.

The app makes it a game that helps with the commitment, I get up at 4:30 to carve out the time each day.
But with computers it needn't be that way. Computers allow us the power to be the ultimate masters of our own data. There's no reason to relinquish that power.
Last night, on my new Windows 10 machine, I received a notification "You got a message on your phone; Want to see phone messages on this PC too?" I've never installed Microsoft's phone app, and there's no way it could possibly know I just got a message. In fact, I didn't just get a message at all, and hadn't for hours.

So, they're lying. They're straight-up, bold-faced, red-handed, lying to their customers to get us to install their spyware which reads and syncs your text messages.

I'm finished with Microsoft. They're such a garbage company and always have been.
> I'm lazy.

I am as well. And have parents enabling this behavior, with an career outcome as bad as you could expect. I can totally understand that part of the political spectrum doesn't want to encourage this at all (favorable interpretation of them), even though they IMO often overshoot that goal and advance less optimal outcomes.

> I will also assume you are talking about older children. Most 13-year olds just don't have a lot of maturity for what you describe.

Your phrasing makes this seem like a natural fact. Finding ways to deeply engrave important values (work hard, strive for greatness, delayed gratification, stuff like that) into future generations seems like a real challenge right now. And what makes stories like [0] so interesting. Evolution doesn't take care of that job for us anymore in a "work or starve" way. Religious "work or go to hell" probably did an ok job for a while, but comes with a lot of other baggage. A very capitalistic "work if you want a decent live" society over many generations leads to increasingly unequal starting conditions for offspring and thus seems especially incompatible with democracy, since it will lead to "the system is rigged, lets burn it down" votes, as recently observed all over the western world.

So what's next? As mentioned in my prior anecdote, mostly letting your children do what they want, thinking this will naturally make them strive for greatness, will probably not work. What are the necessary environmental factors parents and society should provide to shape future humans into productive members of society? I'm sure with all our knowledge, mankind can do better than the earlier simple carrot & stick systems.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905657
Interesting. I wonder how long it will take before currency exchange kiosks in the airport have a straightforward way for visitors to exchange their foreign currency for Chinese currency in an app that can be used for local payments. Definitely not a hard technical problem to solve, though maybe bound to get caught up in political and bureaucratic delays.
Already got you covered! The Internet Archive ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685682 ) & notabug.io (a P2P Reddit alternative, pushing terabytes traffic) have already moved to using our decentralized tools ( https://github.com/amark/gun ).

Coming up, we're also working on IP masking (onion layering), and we already have an option to do end-to-end encryption (which prevents middlemen from being able to read your data).

If you are passionate about this stuff, there are a lot of projects moving in this direction and all Open Source, and they/us/them could really use help/contribution! Political reasons only shorten the timeline on needing this.
I'm not so sure how to fix that. It's definitely a problem that I have- here I am having this conversation with you after all.
I agreed with you until the last paragraph. Parties "should" be relaxing and fun, but what if they aren't? Focusing on how you should feel a certain way when you don't isn't helpful, whereas making adjustments to how you act or think about things can be.
I can't believe people still recommend squats and bench presses to beginners. Great way to cause a life-changing back or shoulder injury.

Unilateral leg exercises and dumbbells are a much better starting point. They can work their way up to squats and bench presses if they decide to compete or want to impress people who ask "How much can you squat and bench?"
When I saw a doctor while visiting Hyderabad, it was pay-as-you-go. Walked in the door, paid a small fee to register as a patient. Consulted with a cardiologist, then paid for an EKG with my credit card. After that, consulted another cardiologist, who said let's do an echo. Paid for that, then had it done (by an actual cardiologist, no less, not just some technician), then visited an electrophysiologist. Got prescribed a beta blocker, went downstairs, paid for that, left. Total bill ended up 4500 INR, or about 75 USD.

Then I flew home to the US a few days later, got a Holter monitor for a day and a visit with my primary care physician and a cardiologist. Billed a couple weeks later, 1000 USD. After insurance.

For what it's worth, I could buy the Holter monitor and a bunch of disposable supplies for it for about half what I was charged for borrowing it for 24 hours.

Our system is so terribly broken.
You can look up the legal actions related to Usenet to see an example of US State Attorneys General banding together to attack a distributed system because a few people were posting bad stuff on it.
Makes you wonder how long it will be before software development drops below used car salesman and lawyer in public opinion.
If, say, you'd purchased and downloaded the movie on your iPhone 7 and then the movie was removed from Apple's store, could you then copy the movie to your iPhone 8 when you upgraded? If not, then this is about as far from "owning" a movie as you can get.

Remember, if there's cloud-based licensing involved, you're not "buying" anything, you're just leasing.
They're identical to dictionaries/hash tables in pretty much any language, unless I'm missing something. Besides C, every language I've worked in comes with one of these things built-in. It's surprising to me that so many people consider this noteworthy today. Would someone please enlighten me as to why it is?
Insanity? I can't begin to comprehend how extremely unimaginative someone's mind must be to call this insane. Is there really nothing in your world beyond value and usefulness?
I should imagine capacitance and inductance are going to hit the clock speed waaaay before theoretical speed of light barrier comes into play.

There were some pretty serious limitations on parallel buses and backplane designs back in the day. Hence everything went serial (USB, PCIe, etc).
Wait But Why has an excellent piece on Graham's number: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Animoto hack exposes personal information, location data
Ask HN: If you are recruiting, please add your company on StayInTech?
> It's not like housing would become more affordable anyway, Seattle only builds luxury housing for the rich (and they're having a hard time filling these units!).

They only build luxury housing because housing supply is restricted and the rich can outbid the poor for that restricted development.

And no, they aren't having a hard time filling units.
Sometimes it's okay to evolve in the sense that average people forget how to do (now) unnecessary things.

I.E. Standard/Manual Transmissions

Socially, maybe not, but my example still stands.
Lol, Google does this on every site they own since like 2008
Peter Molyneux's "Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?" is the paradigm of loot boxes gone bad, taken to an absurd extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity:_What%27s_Inside_the...

Curiosity - what's inside the cube winner video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU

>"I said there's something amazing inside. Something life changing inside. Well, this is what this video is about. After 25 BILLION cubelets have been destroyed, over 150 days, after 4 million people have downloaded it onto their various devices, and after hosting tens of thousands of simultaneous concurrent users, we have reached the end, and one lucky person has reached the rewards of their hard efforts. How can anything be worth all that effort?"

Well what was in the cube? A broken promise.

Curiosity Winner Has Received Nothing - 2 Years Later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SejMdncxbnk

>Curiosity Winner, Once Promised a "Life Changing" Prize by Peter Molyneux, Has Received Nothing:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/curiosity-winner-once-prom...

Peter Molyneux A Pathological Liar? | Feature Creep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efeq_9XwU7s

>"This week on Feature Creep I discuss the recent controversy about 22Cans head Peter Molyneux, the failure of the GODUS God of Gods plan and how Bryan Henderson, the winner of the Curiosity competition has been ignored."
You can vote _and_ participate in debates and activism to promote awareness
Yeah, you could
What does this do, exactly?
I think it’s more a result of lack of cohesion and direction. Open source companies with strong purposes and great lead produce good results. Projects that aggregate lot of contributors each with their goals wishlist and wants tend to be more disgregate not because love of complexity or because they look down good ux but because each coder work at the feature they need and cram it somewhere on the existing ux.

Doesn’t help that there are relatively few desiners that are contributing into open source projects compared to devs. It’s rare to find a designer contributing a cohesive ux to a project and when they do it’s hard to find someone that understand every piece of the program to actually swap out the interface.

Project with a good lead can at least mitigate that by gating new contributions and fixes to adhere to some general design, at least improving the app invrementally.
>It is perfectly ethical to use ideas for free?

Unequivocally, yes.
I thought it was an alternative to QT, GTK, Cocoa, Electron, etc, but no…

It's just another CSS framework ala Twitter Bootstrap, very misleading.
My wife had one of those “fun scans” when pregnant. That cost $150, lasted 45 minutes, and the machine (color 3D) was way more advanced than the diagnostic machine. The that was not a rip off.

Call it a medical procedure, and run it through a radiologist, and the cost shoots up 10x minimum. So where is all the money going?
I was being tongue and cheek for the most part.Is there really nothing in my previous comment that does not resonate with your juxtaposition on how the standard "party" has changed from previous generations.

Hell give me the 70s, at least the disco seemed fun. But I guess thats where the drugs started too.

Anyways I would appreciate just ignoring the comment instead of being snarky. This board has standard I hope it strives to keep.
The speed of light often seems so fast as to be infinite, or at least hard to comprehend, in daily life. I was surprised the first time I calculated the minimum possible round trip time from New York to San Francisco, as the crow flies: it's just under 28ms not counting any overhead whatsoever from switching, electronics, etc. It amazes me that an actual network ping is only about double that, considering all the overhead of switching, and that light doesn't travel at full speed in fiber optic cables.
If you are interested, join my newsletter for Lua:

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Difficult for Lua to reach the same momentum as other languages since it's mostly embedded but every bit helps.
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I think you have it backwards. In my experience, the "drinking culture" is the excuse to get together and even meet new people sometimes. Getting a beer at the bar is a cheap way to have a place to be and "activity" to do while talking freely. Same with the bottle and the living room at someone's place.

The actual alcoholics drink alone. (And that's essentially the problem.)

Some would say it's sad that we can't just gather around a table just to talk. But the advantage of the drink (not necessarily alcoholic), is you have to be there and not on the phone.
The way I look at it, the amount of effort required to change that terminology is less than the amount of community discomfort generated by keeping it.
No, I mean a super crazy conspiracy theory where Amazon changes the content of books to better fit some acquired set of political or ideological views
FDA considering ban on flavored e-cigarettes
It would help a lot if full-time meant <20hrs a week.

EDIT: As recommended by Keynes.
For most usable systems, sure. For a functionally correct but slow implementation, nope.
I'm surprised that Facebook does not have part time options or other accommodations that working mom's can use.

At my company you can work part time for reduced pay: ie. take Fridays off and be deduced 2 work days pay per check. A co-worker of mine works from home Fridays and Mondays to be with her daughter, I can't imagine the savings they've accumulated over the past 3-4 years by not having to pay for those days of preschool.
Once upon a time that agreement would've been "whenever the owner feels like it". Fortunately laws were passed for tenant rights. We've yet to do the same with abusive contracts of adhesion where you relinquish basic rights to lease a movie until the provider feels like removing it and provide you zero recourse.
I think a more analogous sequence would be:

* The store offered to keep a DVD in safe-custody while you moved addresses.

* You accepted the deal and shipped them the DVD.

* You arrive at the new address, and the store refuses to deliver the DVD.

Hence the rankle.

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This is fantastic for Google in Europe - they aren't making money from hobbyist publishing remixes and can easily filter it out with the infrastructure and training data they already have. They make money off Despacito and the likes with whom they already have a revshare in place.
In both languages objects double as arrays, although they do this slightly differently. But the differences are mostly superficial.
Interesting approach, but why do we need to predict the political affiliation of people? Won't this just divide us further?
I can't tell if you're joking or not but this is not close to being true. See for example the millions of obese parents in North America.

edit: to expand, it's unlikely you're getting your heart rate elevated to see much improvement in your cardiovascular system or doing much of any resistance training.
I've been trying to minimize my phone's intrusiveness into my life too. The biggest, most cost-effective change I made was get a shittier phone.

My previous phone died. Instead of getting the hot new thing, I got the cheapest one my plan still supported. It's perfectly adequate for texting, making phone calls, navigating, and taking photos. But it's not super great for skimming Reddit and Facebook.

Bonus: I saved a few hundred bucks.
" I don't even understand the appeal of wanting to play games that have this sort of predatory feature."

I mean, it's not like you get to choose between the version of the game that has this vs the one that doesn't.
Yeah that, only instead of removing it, they just spend a few decades turning it into an endorsement
This is why the low-end sports car market is slowly dying. Cars have improved so much that modern family sedans are faster than dedicated sports cars from a few decades ago.
Two things I've done:

1. Disable almost all notifications (as others here have already described).

2. Pick opportune moments to leave your phone at home (or, I guess, in the car). My girlfriend and I frequent a local diner and when we go neither of us brings our phones. It's wonderful.

Similarly, there's basically no reason to have your phone in a bar. Don't even take it inside. You should be dancing with the one who brought ya', so to speak.