skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's mass downvoting and flagging in these sorts of threads, regardless of how well put or politely phrased a point is. HN isn't set up to handle political discussion well at all, so I wouldn't read anything into it.

I think it's a great question you raised there. I suspect it's for several reasons.

Firstly, it's probably more complicated than censorship being effective or ineffective. My guess it, how effective it is depends a lot on how rigorously it's implemented. If people have other ways to communicate about a topic, like word of mouth in a big community, then censorship just attracts attention and causes a Streisand effect. But if a system is totalitarian enough to shut down nearly all discussion of a topic, everywhere and in every sphere of public life, then it's probably a lot more effective.

Secondly, totalitarians act the way they do because of their beliefs, and one of those beliefs is that wisdom and virtue are highly concentrated in a few visionary people, whereas the "lumpenproletariat" are stupid, uneducated, practically cattle, and easily reprogrammed by speeches made by the few smart people. The idea that freedom of speech is good is predicated on the belief that wisdom and ideas are everywhere and can come from anyone, so, everyone must be allowed to speak and debate. If you don't believe that, if you believe wisdom and ideas only really originate in a tiny number of people just like yourself, then freedom of speech seems to have no value and censorship seems to be very effective at avoiding the people getting ideas (because they certainly can't generate ideas themselves).

You see this basic dispute over how widespread ideas are crop up all the time.
I had no idea pendulum existed, is there some way I should have looked it up? None of the code in tz-aware packages I've ever read used it, for example.
Yeah, well. A colleague of mine is an historian, in her early 50's I think.

For three years now she has been taking notes in her small notepad of the four same shortcuts: ctrl-A, alt-tab, etc. She still doesn't get attachments and doesn't understand the differences between a zip file and a folder (I blame windows but still...).

I think she's good at her job (research and producing articles) but she isn't catching up with the tech.

The struggle is real.
Yeah, but how many?
There’s a practical side to non-ethanol gas too: it’s much better on small engines like lawnmowers and generators. It’s in nearly every gas station here that’s remotely close to ATV trails.
> While you’re looking at the effort and cost of developing an app, also consider that not everybody has $4 coffees (like another commenter put it) or can afford to buy many apps that are each $5 or $10 or more. Getting an iPhone is one of the best things someone could do (on privacy and security), and it does cost a lot just to get the hardware. Lower priced apps are a boon to many in countries that are not the US or another developed country.

This is, again, a problem of perception. People will pay $1200 for their phone, whether they can afford it or not. The perception is that they will get a beautiful physical device and that it is "worth it". To make good use of that physical device one should expect to buy apps — but they are somehow not "worth it" anymore.

I realize that not everybody cares about contact photos, but my gripe was with the "too expensive" statement. My take on this is that when buying a computer (any computer: laptop, desktop, tablet, phone), you should expect to spend around 50% of its price on apps in the long run, and even more in niche business settings. That is the real price of your purchase. If that is too expensive, consider getting a less expensive device.
Agreed. I feel like the argument against in this thread is a poor strawman. I've never allowed any permissions for this app and have yet to have any functionality diminished. The app doesn't require any registration (which is not oft the case these days) and as others have pointed out most all functionality can be had via direct controls on the headphones. You can get away with not using this app for most everything except firmware updates and location specific features.
The fact that `sudo apt install anki` doesn't work out of the box is enough of a problem for me.

Ok, the install works, but the software never runs.

This is one of the reasons my laptop is booting into Windows more often than into Linux these days.
> And banks do not lend money they don't have.

Actually that is exactly what banks do. You go to the bank and take out a loan, they credit your account with $1000 and then you owe them $1000 and they owe you $1000. The thing balancing the cash in your account isn't some other customer's cash, it's the debt you owe them. The amount of physical cash in their vault as a result of you taking out the loan hasn't changed at all.

They're required to have a certain amount of cash in reserve to cover cash withdrawals, but that amount is not 100%.
Discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818682.
This is the text of the 13th Amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Clearly gives the government power to ban slavery. It does not enshrine any rights in citizens, and indeed notes that involuntary servitude may still be imposed as criminal sanction.
I more and more tend to believe the rumors (started by Semiaccurate) we will not see 10nm in mass quantities and 7nm is the next. We will see very, very soon: Intel said 10nm CPUs in client systems will be on shelves for the 2019 holiday season.
Benchmarking cpu firmwares is forbidden by the license (same thing for databases)
The only thing, I did for my mom was to install adblock plus in chrome/firefox and taught her a thing or two about 2FA. I set that up for her bank accounts. Most of her work gets done by Google products. Not that great for privacy, but keeps her relatively safe.
Do you already know how to program? If so, what languages and how proficient. It sounds like you've been thinking about this for awhile, but don't rush into anything.

There are some edx online courses for free and plenty of programming books to get you a little experience to see if you even like it. Bootcamps might be able to get you a job and they actually focus on more of the practical building of software, but a computer science degree still looks better to many employers from what I've heard. Having an advanced degree already might help fill that void though. If you haven't programmed before, you may not actually like it. I'd recommend doing some small to medium sized projects first to also get a feel for it.
I use unbound + dnscrypt-proxy + https://github.com/oznu/dns-zone-blacklist to do pretty much this. WireGuard also adds another layer & sets DNS easily per client. Hosted on a $5/month VPS, works very well.
"When you sleep, you feel like there's time."

The only way I have a sense of time from sleeping is if I can recall a dream when I wake up. Otherwise the experience is identical: I remember going to sleep, and I remember waking up, but the space in between is empty -- no sense of time or anything.

It's identical to being put under general anesthesia via propofol or other amnesia-inducing substances.
Tesla vs. Waymo
https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real
Up at 6AM, code to 3PM - 4PM, a 5k hike through the woods nearby (about 1 hour), then code until 10-11PM, hour of reading before bed.

I wouldn't be able to do 2 coding bursts without the hour of exercise, I find it very invigorating
This reminds me of an interesting personal anecdote about demographic realities vs perceptions.

It's 1996 and I'm attending an information session for University of Pennsylvania in my hometown.

The presented asks at the start of the session: "Do we have any UPenn alums in the room?" Several folks get up and say "I was class of '67", "I was class of '68" etc.

My first reaction was: "Wow, admissions rates at UPenn are something like 5%. These must have been some smart parents to get in back then."

Little did I know (and which I found out later), admissions rates at UPenn in the 60's was around 50%. Why? Because Johnson cut all of the Eisenhower funding from the 50's so universities had to admit a ton more students to help cover the drop in funding.

I bring up this story because it makes me stop and think about how young people today may be going through a totally different experience than I went through based on some factors totally outside of their control.
Personally, my team uses S3 to store state paired with DynamoDB to manage state locks. Translation, when someone applies a layer a remote lock is created for the duration of their interaction. It’s a fantastic system.

I imagine using git to store state would be mightily inconvenient.
> The move isn't good because Kasparov said it's good; Kasparov said it's good because it's a good move. Which means that if you asked him, "Why?" he would give you some reasoning, which is the real Y for why X is true.

Yes, if you have access to Kasparov, you can ask his reasoning and that will help you make a decision. Some moves in chess are only good moves if you get the next five moves exactly right, so they aren't suited to beginners.

But in real life, we don't usually get access to experts. I can look up Kasporovs games but I can't ask him his reasoning. I can look at code that Dennis Ritchie writes and see how he did something, but I don't have access to him to question him on his reasoning. But he's a very good programmer with deep knowledge and a body of work to show for it, so chances are that if he's doing something some way, it's probably not a bad way. On the other hand, if I'm writing something in C--and I'm no expert in C--I aught to give it serious thought if I'm torn between two options and I'm not choosing the one that Dennis Ritchie went with. There's a good chance that I'm not seeing something that he did.

And yes, even the best people make mistakes. But unless you have good reasoning to the contrary, you probably are not going to do better than experts in most decisions.
That means very little. As the saying goes, “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways: gradually, then all at once.”

In technology, downward swings of fate tend to come fast and hard. The camera world went from 100% film to 100% digital in the space of about five years, which extinguished Kodak. Or consider Palm/Nokia/ Blackberry, who went from collectively owning the entire mobile market to dead as doorknobs in even less time.

It’s easy to see how it happens to Intel too: AMD’s big-core-count chips start eating up server business, while ARM takes over PCs (at this point people consider it all but certain Apple is switching to ARM in the next few years, and Microsoft is building Windows on ARM as a hedge), and without another business for Intel to fall back on (they’ve shut down modems, mobile chips, and anything else that could’ve been a new source of revenue), that’s the end.

I’m not saying it’s certain, but I’m saying it’s totally possible and their current market share means nothing.
There is a button that cycles through high-low-no noise cancellation on mine
lustysocietyorg's post is dead, but it bears repeating:

https://fullfact.org/news/are-100-companies-causing-71-carbo...

Quote:

Claim: 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions.

Quote:

Conclusion: Of the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from human activity (excluding certain sources like agricultural methane) between 1988 and 2015, 71% originated from 100 fossil fuel producers. This includes the emissions released when the fossil fuels they sold were subsequently used by their customers.
I was just stating how it works in the US. My mother was accused by neighbors when I was a child (certainly a much weaker tie than parental). I was taken away by the state immediately while they investigated. The claim was determined to be founded and the state took permanent custody.
Alice has 2 seashells, and Bob had -1 seashells
does alice have 100% of all wealth

Yes. Bob has no buying power at all.
> Includes gas, oil, repairs, tires, insurance, registration fees, licenses, and depreciation (or lease payments) attributable to the portion of the total miles driven that are business miles.

"Attributable to the portion" sounds like you divide it by total miles, which is going to give you a number that's bigger than marginal cost, and possibly a lot bigger. For some cars, doubling the miles might only increase non-fuel costs 20%.
Samsung phones ship with ROMs that try to remove as much of the native Android experience as possible, and tend to eat battery life for no good reason. Swapping ROMs to AOSP-like experiences vastly improves battery life and performance on many Samsung phones.

Several Galaxy and Note devices also cannot ROM swap at all due to locked bootloaders, which makes that the most consumer hostile thing of all. I'm not sure which models this effects, but it is enough to put Samsung on my forever shitlist.
> diversity is good

It depends on what the cause is. If I have no option to update to a recent version and causing diversity that way, it is bad. If I can choose to install a custom version, it is good. So in Android's case, the diversity is just a symptom of the underlying fragmentation of responsibility for updates.

However, phone manufacturers might see this a bit differently.
I would setup a scenario where safety is a concern (V2V) so you could get court order to benchmark firmware.
I’m not saying that things aren’t bad in a lot of places (I mentioned that I’m originally from the East coast, and have seen different status quos in different places), and I tried to be as non-proscriptive in my comment as possible. I was just struck because one of the main subjects lived in Sacramento, and I feel like a lot of these services are “homegrown” to the state.
The thing with Iridium watchers is that there were a small number of them. Seeing one was exciting.

If all the Starlink satellites are this bright, the night sky will have more Starlink satellites than visible stars.
Can you make cloze deletions from the material? I watched the video haphazardly, and was unable to tell.
>gives you a BSOD, oops or panic at worst.

That's not too bad. I'd be much more worried about code silently doing the wrong thing .
I see ads for Brex all around SF for corporate credits cards w/ no personal guarantee.
That's incorrect. They will need permission from countries to transmit to its areas.
This is just a react hook wrapped around two.js
>If they're satisfied working gig jobs, why not go work at a local restaurant or as a bookkeeper or secretary at some local business?

Most likely because either they have specific hours they can't work or the hours they can work are un-predictable. Businesses like workers who will work the same hours or work shifts on demand without question. And in this economy there are plenty of workers willing to do that. Businesses also outsource things a lot now to save money, a secretary may be a call center in India if they need one full time and their bookkeeper may be a guy in Florida.
> The vast majority of iPhone users update to the latest version quite fast and flawlessly.

Has this person ever been around iPhone owners when a new update comes out? I seem to remember a ton of lamentation at every step of slower speed, worse battery, laggy UI, moved features, removed features, and the like.

Yeah, there's a lot of different Android versions out there. Who cares? Other than security updates, it's pretty much a non-issue. Developers target the version they want to support and publish their app online.
Something that doesn't get talked about as much is the differences between how manufacturers customize their OS. It has been talked about a fair bit on HN (https://dontkillmyapp.com/), but it really is a huge problem.

I can be listening to music on my phone and One+ will just kill Pandora, or Spotify. I have to manually "lock" music apps and workout apps in One+'s task switching UI to keep them from being randomly killed while in use.

Hilariously enough I have one game on my phone that will always run in the background and never be killed, sucking down a lot power. Somehow even when not in the foreground it consumes massive CPU. I don't think it is even malicious, just oddly programmed. I wish my music apps could pull off the same trick though!
IMO this is only a repeat of the AMD Athlon days and Intel will go back to their anticompetitive antics sooner than later.
I genuinely confused by people who can't find work when they're actively looking for it. Normalizing for all of the usual discriminators, such as race, gender, body weight, where you went to school, attractiveness, etc. I still don't understand how it's possible to not get a job in the field you desire, if you have the education and will to do it. I think the new generation of college graduates are lazy, and expect everything to be handed to them, and they give up when it gets tough.
> 5 Hz

> 1000 Hz

You must have meant to say 5 GHz and 1000 MHz...
> The American medical system acts like the smallest bit of discomfort warrants being knocked out.

There is a tremendous variation in both pain tolerance and anxiety. You sound like you’re in the minority.

The anesthetist still gets paid. His concern is if you freak out (this happens more often then you may think), he may at minimum have paperwork to do and worse you may sue him for malpractice (“well he didn’t clearly explain it would be that bad during the consent process).. again this problem happens more than you may think. Ie the negative ev for them if you do not do the typical protocol is considerable.
Also do some fun projects that are related to what you know (teeth) or another hobby. Often online tutorials have coding assignments that are in in no way interesting or relevant.
> I would have mentioned that e.g. camera apps are an exception : here hardware fragmentation can be a pain. I was half surprised to see that Google is also working on that one with the camera x library.

The irony, is that Android was originally designed to be a Camera OS. So its still fragmented in the thing it set out to do.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2034723/android-founder-we-a...
er, no
Good luck living in a world without pollinators or insectivores.
Think about how many satellites that would require. 12,000 satellites are a joke.
I'm not a professional app developer. A year ago I invested few months to develop an app I wanted to have. Today it has few thousand users.

Fragmentation doesn't bother me. Yes, on some devices the app crashes, on others the sound lag is unbearable. I don't really care, as long as it works fine on most devices. Two things infuriate me, though. Enough to never again spend another minute developing for android.

Every time I enter android studio, it wants to update. The studio wants to update. Suddenly it's incompatible with build system (yes, the build system has dependencies on IDE version!). Then gradle wants to update. Then SDK. Then IDE again. It's never-ending cycle of updates. Each update has 20% chance to cause build errors on this project (Love2D for Android). Each error has a cryptic message, and it's resolved by something completely unrelated to error message. Usually it's solved by bumping up the minimal SDK version and thus cutting off some percentage of potential users. I dread each and every attempt to re-build my app.

The second thing is recent requirement to provide 64-bit version of each app. My app depends on framework written in C++ with additional libraries in C. I can't and won't spend time to get the build for 64-bit version working. Google sent me a mail that "All new apps and app updates are required to provide 64-bit versions of any 32-bit native code they provide". So I won't be able to update existing app to existing users ever again, for non-technical reasons.

Fragmentation I can deal with. All web developers deal with it daily. But Google's treatment of development is horrible and I don't want any part of it. Because of this I've transitioned to web as platform. At least I can be safe that anything I build will be runnable in 10 or 20 years.
Given that most consumers run JavaScript unconditionally, yes. Browser vendors have basically declared Spectre/Meltdown/MDS unmitigatable at the browser level.
I was thinking about this the other day. My Kia Optima tells me I’ve averaged 25mph over the last 120k miles. That means I’ve gotten about 4800 hours of life out of the car. If I take care of the car, I have an easy 3200 more hours. This would give me ~8000 operating hours. Acquisition was 15k$ (used) and yearly maintenance will probably average to ~100$/300hrs. So total life cost of the car will be ~18k$/8000hrs. That gives me an amortized cost of 2.25$/hour.

Mind you, I drive a lot of easy 55mph, in central Texas.
Ask HN: As an introvert founder, how can I improve my sales and hiring skills?
I wonder how much of that power will be eaten by spectre et.al mitigations.
I am not interested in links that contain no text, and I am not alone.
I have a One+ and I can't really recommend Greenify (App) enough. Forces all apps to shutdown, even those running in the background.
How secure is the intelligence community’s IT supply chain?
Cdist – Usable Configuration Management
This is so true. Those books are basically the college course of a startup and you need to read past these to get diversity of ideas.
As someone learning React atm: Why is this developed as a hook, and not as a component?
I had considered this but I felt my comment was getting too long, and I still feel pretty opaque about it. And I might need to read the study itself to get a clearer picture - the article didn't quite answer all my questions.

Basically I feel some friction between distance and self-awareness. It seemed that this study was about choices and action, and that this technique is effective when you have a clear picture of what you want.

But to me, that's the catch: knowing the subjective part of finding out what I really want (beyond the immediate sense) is the hardest, and I feel that the critical self-reflection that requires is something you don't want to be distanced for (how can you understand yourself if you're thinking of yourself as someone else? You can understand your patterns of behavior this way, but that's a small piece of the puzzle). Hopefully this gets you to the point where you come out with exactly that set of emotional criteria, and then you can make well-reasoned decisions based on that, possibly using techniques like distancing.

So there's definitely potential for harmony between the two steps. Trouble is, it seems all too easy to skip or cut short that self-awareness part and go right to the decisions, which is usually what is prompting us to go about these efforts in the first place. So certainly, I can see how a technique like this can help people make objectively better decisions, by some objective criteria. But without that clear picture, applying distancing on its own seems like it would make someone even more prone to neglecting their desires, since they are separating themselves from the decision. But this is all conjecture of someone having only read the article with little background in psychology and being prone to making emotional short-term decisions all the time. Sorry for the post length; since I feel so conflicted about it it was hard to really distill my thoughts.
The article doesn’t provide any luminosity estimates. It is entirely possible that when they claim up to 70 satellites would be “visible” that they mean in a low light pollution area when you can see thousands of stars. On the other hand if they mean the satellites would be visible with high luminosity, I would be skeptical of that until they show their estimates of the size and matterial since these are very small and mostly under Earth’s shadow.
Good example, was that from Effective C++? Widely repeated, yet wrong.