skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At about the 3:00 minute mark in that clip he claims that we don't have a set of values in place that makes it acceptable for a person to simply be someone of integrity. I.e. our culture demands that you be rich, famous, thin and good-looking.

This is a ridiculous claim. While our culture certainly places an outsized (IMO) emphasis on celebrity and wealth most people, most of the time, aren't fixated on becoming the next Musk or Kardashian and are able to lead exceedingly satisfying lives.

If the the conditions of the hikikomori - or the West's version of them - are rooted in their anxiety about living up to what they see on TV and in celebrity media then a healthy dose of Buddhism or Stoicism is probably called for.
>doesn't mean they should freely cede privacy. //

Because... slippery slope? Or do you have something else?
It is more then that.

Many java-relate patent grant require passing the TCK.
And even if you run the “experiment” on a global scale for ten years, that’s no guarantee that the next ten years will work out the same.

It’s really very simple: at our current stage of technological evolution, if everyone stops working, we all die.
If you have kids and work either the kids can get to school without you needing to drive them and pick them up, or you need to have some sort of childcare.
This is the first paragraph from the Wikipedia article on undecidable problems: “In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is proved to be impossible to construct an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. The halting problem is an example: there is no algorithm that correctly determines whether arbitrary programs eventually halt when run.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
Your crossover comment is a good one - especially the "private Pinterest" angle. I attach a pic to every card, because I find it much easier to scan a home page that way instead of trying to read every card's title tag. (Of course I'm killing my page loads, but I guess that's the price I pay.)

And I'm always in a browser context too. Thanks.
'Ultron is designed with OOP in mind and has not failed to live up to the promise at all possible places.'

Would that more professional programmers had this humility. :)
Har har. I do appreciate that this whole area is a rich vein to mine for humor, but I think remote updates will continue to be installed only when cars are in park.
>Actually we do. Under both common law, and statute via the Human Rights Act.

Then why was a man fined for telling an officer to piss off for invading his privacy?
I believe that is the same audio in the linked article. They said it’s an Ars podcast but it’s After On.
often it's just the pleasure of being ignored, or downvoted, or insulted by a newbie who wants you to do some additional free coding work. so, yeah, it's a pretty good deal
> what is dark matter? is it the opposite of matter? how can it be called matter when it doesn't exist?

Dark matter is what we call the discrepancy between our observations of how galaxies and galaxy clusters move, and how our theories tell us they should move based on our best estimates for how much normal matter is in those galaxies.

We call it "dark matter" because our formulas give the right prediction if we add a lot of mass where we see none, that is, if we assume there is some matter there that does not emit or interact with light.

AFAIK, the difference between general relativity with 3 spatial dimensions and one with additional spatial dimensions show up on the small scale, and not large scale like galaxies[1].

> could it not be the space-time curvature from the mass itself but from the encapsulating dark matter around it

If dark matter is indeed some kind of matter, then it would indeed affect the space-time curvature. That's in fact the entire point behind calling it dark _matter_, as mentioned above.

Of course there is the possibility that our theories needs to change. There have been proposed alternatives that does not require additional matter in the form of new particles. The problem is that it's very difficult to get the theories to match non-dark matter observations, all the "normal stuff", as well as dark matter observations.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/04/26/looki...
Diffing results in different behavior if components have internal state.
“Please place the item in the bag.”

“Please remove the last scanned item from the bag and scan it before placing it in the bag.”

“Please wait, help is on the way.”
I would go for a PWA! Easy sharing & collaboriation for notes without having to install an app would awesome!

I also think all the available APIs would be enough for a note-taking app. iOS improved it's support massivly in the latest beta.

You just need to keep it snappy! I take notes quickly and often.
V for Vendetta's due for a watch, I reckon.
Converting a single gas car to a plug in hybrid has three times the impact of converting a hybrid to pure BEV, and the former is cheaper.

All of the economies of scale you get from BEVs you get from hybrids. If every car were a hybrid, an immense amount of lithium batteries would be required, vastly more than we use today.

It's hard to see the $7500 tax credit as little more than a gift to the rich, who can buy a Tesla because it's cool and virtue signal about being environmental. It's certainly not an example of thoughtful legislation.

I live in Australia, where I use public transport almost exclusively (Ubers filling the gaps). We don't subsidize Teslas here, which I've heard friends bemoan, but it makes me happy. The money is better off being spent elsewhere.

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-e...
How the brain forgets
There are already lots of non-Oracle distributions of OpenJDK: Azul's Zulu, AdoptOpenJDK, Amazon's Corretto and I'm not aware of any aggression towards those projects. The lawsuit against Google targets an implementation that didn't derive from OpenJDK and is thus not covered by any of the patent grants.

Furthermore, OpenJDK is licensed under the GPL. Even if Oracle stopped contributing to OpenJDK the GPL license would ensure that OpenJDK and all derivative works can still be freely distributed and are still subject to Oracle's original implicit patent grant.
It is a defence for the accused to prove—

that he had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress, or [...] that his conduct was reasonable.

The police aren't going to get involved if you use robust language at 10pm in a pub. They may well get involved if you start screaming obscenities in the supermarket.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Adoor, Kerala, India
It is true that the best place to fund UBI is not from a pure income tax. In the same way raising the minimum wage inflates the general cost of goods, but at a lesser rate than the poorest earners see their incomes rise, having a UBI with a (preferably progressive with annual per-capita credit) generalized transnational / sales / exchange tax across the whole economy would work better. That would include income, but it wouldn't exclude capital gains, trade, consumer purchase, etc.
May I ask why not? In my opinion 2 years is plenty of time to validate a business and see if it's ramen aka UBI amount profitable.
It's one of the situations that have been proscribed. In this case by the Public Order Act 1986.

Personally I think this provision in law an overreach, but the general point stands. Say anything you like unless it's been specifically prohibited.
What features and improvements currently lacking in keep are key deliverables for you?
Passive income is not starting a SAAS. That's "starting a SAAS." If you are able to build it and market it in a way that later on you dont have to do as much work THEN it can be passive income. But the idea of "I'll build a saas and make some easy money" is a terrible idea in almost every case.
Colliding Blocks Act Like a Beam of Light [video]
A bank account is a system where the entire society decides how much it's worth. Your government does not control the contents of your bank account.
One thing is that you can put one note only into 1 category. There is no "tag" system that allows multiple tags per note.

It also only supports text notes, so if you use drawings, etc in Keep a lot that might be a problem.

What I really like about it though is its simplicity and that I can easily run my own instance (of Nextcloud which I use anyways).
Offline-first PWA using React/Vue + PouchDB

What features do you want Google to add to Keep?

I'm not satisfied with existing note-taking apps myself, and I'm currently researching/prototyping alternatives. My current prototype focuses on eliminating input friction, and I use it as my Android launcher.
why to glorify facebook technology ?
A place to live is one of those examples i think, just not in the regions which are in demand. With a declining population and a push to live in more urban environments, there is quite a lot of living space in regions where its not attractive to live. You can witness the trend in Germany where alot of villages are dying out, as there are no jobs in the region and they are to far off for people to drive every day to work.

I see, that the trend to increased rent prices balancing out UBI would apply to in demand regions, but not at all in areas that would otherwise go unused. Most countries do have an extreme oversupply of living space, even before a population decline.
Progressive Web Applications

(It means web pages that use JavaScript to gain access to some “app” features, like offline-functionality and the device sensors as shown in the blog post.)
Scientists cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%
I route all traffic, including DNS, through my VPN when I'm not at home. I was just commenting on the leakiness of DNS to preempt people saying "HTTPS means you're safe!"

I used to run my own DNS server when I was on Comcast. Now that I have a real ISP run by people I trust who have the same opinions on privacy that I do, it's no longer worth the hassle.
The hope is that the hegemony of the S.J-W unicorns, with their filtering algorithms to provide a "safe space" that avoids and blocks dissenting voices, get overtaken by companies that provide content platforms for general society, not just the SV left.
Is that a dig at america?
Wow I never thought of that! Here I thought barricading the roads would solve everything! But you're right, people could actually still get where they're going but use bikes, buses, trains etc.
Correct, not directly. My point is that the 3D engine feel seems to have some sort of wider appeal even if you haven't done 3D engine development. It was direct for me because I am in that small slice. Like I said, this part is very subjective.
Those who say this is more about bravery than raw skill or intellect have momentarily forgotten that OS's have to not only be coded, but debugged.
"[FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson] said broadband is an information service because Internet providers offer DNS (Domain Name System) services and caching as part of the broadband package."

"For broadband itself to be an information service, ISPs have to offer something more than a pure transmission service."

DNS is integral to the utility of the web as an "information system"--not really a user friendly service to have to enter the IP address to order on Grubhub. Yet, DNS can be provided by a third party. It's the sort of thing you add to your service to make it easier for users to adopt. But if you take it away, then don't we just have a telecommunication service?
Plane crash analysis of last 100 years
And? One sees it a lot in our town, some groups when they walk past police pull hoods down over their faces, scarves up, turn their faces away -- we have a lot of drug selling, these people match the look of those you see dealing/running (deliveries); or those who do the organised shoplifting.

Whilst the rest of us may have lots to hide, our physical appearance isn't one of those things because we don't expect to be subjects of active investigations.

Maybe that'll change?
>And for that you need money, tons of it, which you have to spend like water to undercut incumbent firms that you plan to disrupt and eliminate. In that quest, you need to be both ruthless and profligate, because those incumbents are normal firms that have to make profits – a tiresome obligation that does not trouble you. So the deal you offer to investors is this: you give us shedloads of money and stick with us until we get to be the winner that takes all. And then you can cash out.

Reading between the lines: after the cash-out, the company is now vulnerable to exactly the same tactics. However, not mentioned is that the "predatory" pricing is a combination of (a) burning VC money to operate at a loss and (b) operating more efficiently than the competition.

The market seems to be wisening up to startups that are only gaining market share due to (a)[1]. Valuations and the payday from the cash-outs should reflect this. Rather than a rupturing bubble, I expect a contraction, especially as rates rise and VC cash flows less freely.

Some startups will end up being worthless, but a bunch will just end up being worth less. As long as a startup has some benefit from (b), its raison d'etre remains. And the ones with the strongest cases-- tech companies that bring efficiency gains to the market-- will be absolutely fine.

[1]https://www.moviepass.com/
Sure, Civ has a lot of buttons to press and things to choose but is it much more complicated than StarCraft II? Never played SC2 but it sure seems there's a lot of buttons to press and things to choose.
> - to generate income you need to either provide something valuable, scam people or get extremely lucky

This isn't always true. If you're famous and/or important, you can get paid a high salary to sit on corporate boards and put in a few dozen hours/year.

I guess maybe that falls under "get extremely lucky"?
It also discounts how much companies like Uber and Airbnb have changed the way people live their lives in big-dollar ways. Uber might be overvalued, but there's still tremendous value in the leading global taxi company. Compare it to what Amazon did; it's that level of impact.
GPS is susceptible to atmospheric conditions, obstructed views (4 satellites minimum required for positioning) and a number of other factors, most of which are undetectable at the device level. Car speedos are done with over-read deliberately as a safety measure. Better overestimating than under. As a driver you can make conscious decisions about what speed you're driving based on all evidence available, including an understanding of how over/under your speedometer returns results. With a GPS based speedometer you can't realistically do that, you can have no idea what the accuracy percentage is at any particular moment in time. It might be over, it might be under. No one can make good decisions based on junk data.
Yes but my point (above) was that in the past these people gravitated to various lifestyles that were then very acceptable. Today those lifestyles are not available. So this isn't a new illness, rather changes have occurred in our society so that these people are no longer well accommodated.
None of those licenses are copyleft, a company can pick any of those projects listed by you, sell a closed source product with their improvements, without giving even a semicolon back to upstream.
A six minute video of two anecdotes cannot possibly (and did not) answer the question in this title. This is click bait garbage.
I think that's true, but, in some ways "work" is in the eye of the beholder.

I mean, long ago, before the invention of the department store or grocery store, the customer wasn't allowed to just roam around in the aisles grabbing products. A clerk had to go and fetch the inventory from the shelves for the customer.

Shoppers today do a tremendous amount of shadow work for the grocery store but think little of it. We actually like it.
Kotlin ️Loves Data Science? (Part 1)
The problem with passive income is someone else will be prepared to do the same (i.e. not much!) for very little money.

The market is likely to eventually price stuff that requires no effort to make, very cheaply.

You may be able to get quite a lot of money out of it before that happens, depending on how brilliant your idea is.
React gives you pure functions of tree-shaped state. Nesting and recursion got a lot easier with React and we built more complicated stuff.

But I think we are learning learned that complex state is graph shaped. There aren't any good answers here. You need a real graph "database" in the UI
There is a kernel of truth here, as not every IPO becomes an Amazon or Google - just see Snapchat and Blue Apron. Some of these companies are overvalued based on expected future profits that never materialize - in which case the markets will stop pricing them at a premium.

What is different this time is that private companies can raise huge amounts of capital that previously required being public. Early investors often cash out their shares in new equity rounds, keeping pressure off the company to IPO.

The deflation of Snapchat and Blue Apron stock is proof that the markets eventually become rational. I don't see the need to be concerned.
I theory (feel free to e skeptical), it works like this:

Higher taxes mean that it's harder for rich people to consume a lot. So they would no longer be able to afford a mansion, and the building manager would convert it into 10 apartments and one luxury apartment. The rich person would still be able to afford the luxury apartment, but there would also be 10 more "normal" units available to people relying on basic income.

The problem is that rich people don't consume in proportion to their wealth... most is usually invested. So high taxes don't necessarily free up consumable resources very effectively, and could have consequences for future tax revenue.
Alice and Bobbie and Sharleen and Dyck
Muscovites would probably be sympathetic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Blue_Buckets
I don't see it mentioned so I wonder if that 'aging out' effect takes into account people just dying. I.E: On average these addictions are either dealt with by 4/10/15 years or it's deteriorated bad enough for the person do die.
The stormwater surcharge also help to nudge people whose property may contribute to excess runoff: large driveways, paved yards, larger houses, etc. This is currently a big problem in Toronto where flooding often occurs downtown (closer to the lake) during and after storms, largely due to houses further out and in the suburbs that have paved their front and back yards to make driveways.
Gambling is a great way to generate passive income so long as you always win.

Personally, I've found side-projects to be valuable even if they're not profitable. You gain experience, knowledge and you might even enjoy yourself too.
Show HN: SiriControl - Add Siri Voice Control to Any Project
It seems to me that the frontend is pretty simple and most stacks will be fine. I would worry more about how the data is stored, backed up and other backend parts. My expectation is that most work will be done on the backend side.

Another consideration that’s independent from your frontend stack is how the user interacts with the UI. I guess that’s called UX these days. Making the right or wrong choices there will have much bigger impact on success than the framework choice.
I indirectly contribute to Flutter (via one of their dependencies), but I would still say to make a web app first, so you can always access your app from a desktop.
The cast of the new Dune film is the Avengers of talent
Makes sense. Many of my best memories as a child started off with me being bored. My mother only let me have 30 minutes of screen time per day, computer and television combined, so the rest of the time I was forced to run around bored looking for things to do.
When you drive to work you’re saving your company money by providing free labor since they don’t have to hire someone to drive you to work.
Some F-35s Could Become Unflyable by 2026
I love Civ V (and loved Civ 2 back then), somehow I never played Col. Just installed Civ IV Colonization and the weekly build of FreeCol :)
And Snap. I still have anxiety that we're in a bubble (VC investment is up 200%+ since the 2008 peak), but seeing markets behave rationally around stagnant and unsustainable businesses makes me think we've just gotten used to looking at rapid growth and saying "bubble."
That was my point about failure of pure open source, the money needs to come from somewhere and the ideals of GPL don't work across all business domains.
Disagree. Most people are much slower at scanning things than an actual cashier. Things like produce are especially annoying because you have to search for the item (of which there could be multiple I.e. organic vs non organic bananas). And the error rate is high (will lock up if you don’t immediately put a scanned item in the bag area).
How Uber Makes Money
I believe they may really be trying to show that the complaint about congestion pricing being unfair is silly by giving some other, equally silly, examples.
just a footnote: boric acid, which is a common cockroach poison taken back to the nests, is that it's toxic to human kidneys
And what’s wrong with that? I’m definitely not young - I’m in my 40s. You don’t need a superstar,ninja, 10x developer do yet another software as a service CRUD app. Either you adjust your expenses so you can charge an amount competitive with the younger crowd or you go up market - management, consulting, etc.
If it gets me out of the shop more quickly it’s a no brainer!
But I’m probably an outsider given than north of 95% of my grocery shopping is happily done online.
This is what we chose to use after surveying what is by far most deployed in the wild:

https://qbix.com/platform/welcome/stack
Can I just mention how mind-bogglingly stupid a milage tax on car registration would be? No matter how efficient your new car is, it's less polluting to repair the old one and keep it on the road, than to manufacture a new car.
The TCK is a different project licensed separately.

As to GPLv2 and patents, see http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents

But note that patents are unrelated to copyright, and licesors may only grant their own patents. Third-party licenses always apply (e.g. see how Microsoft was able to extract billions from Android vendors through patents).
The legal documents reveal that they are pretty terrible people. It's not that oxi doesn't work; it's that they pushed doctors to get their legit patients to be on higher doses for longer times, making addicts and overdose victms.

It's precisely because this was directed at legit pain patients that it is worse. The opioid crisis wasn't caused by recreational drug users stealing grandma's pills. It was caused by the very rich people who ran Perdue and their never-ending quest to increase people's dose and number of refills.
This article primes my confirmation bias. I used to think it was up to me to keep my son entertained or otherwise 'engaged'. One day it hit me that letting him experience boredom is probably a net positive since I won't always be around to keep things interesting and the boredom might force him to explore pursuits he otherwise wouldn't have.

As he's grown older I've restricted screen time for the same reasons (although I could probably do more in that department).

Having just read the other HN topic regarding the hikikomori, I wonder if a/the root cause isn't their use of technology to treat boredom. Perhaps not a blanket condemnation of technology - if I discover a new hobby online and can parlay that into a job/career that's a net positive - but there's certainly some aspects of tech that are going to keep someone isolated and socially atrophied.
Hamburger smuggling is half the fun of theaters
dont believe the hype please