skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
voicecode.io looked particularly interesting in this regard -- essentially creating a language to describe keypresses and mouseclicks (using some headtracking gear for mouse movement).

It sounds like gibberish:

SENSLAM tiny test DOT add PREN BING CAMEL example test that fails SWIPE function PREN test

but it renders as

Tinytest.add('exampleTestThatFails', function(test))

due to where the cursor is placed between punctuation. There's also commands for cursor movement and selection modification (expand to containing bracket/quotes, deselect the last word)

There's presumably some underlying scheme to what they're using, but it's not entirely obvious. It's also not obvious how available this is, with a "send an email for further info" link. :(
It all depends on your 'hunter-gatherer' personality type. The age-old Apple vs. Android war illustrates this fairly well. One group wants simplicity and predictability and can't understand why someone would waste time on fiddling around. The other group wants personalized and specific features and can't understand why someone who choose something with so many limitations.
I have a feeling that 'expected hours' would suddenly and magically stop including 1am-6am, if the parent company were on the hook for the operating losses the franchises are suffering.

But as long as they can make other people pay for their business decisions, that will, of course, not happen.
Okay, to be fair, I'm definitely talking about big downtown areas exactly like Shinjuku or Shibuya. But I'm also talking about places like すき家 and 松屋 which are pretty good late night drunk eats and we never failed to find a late night pub with crazy hours no matter where we were.
This is bad for US companies because it will likely result in the rise of a Chinese worldwide Fedex/UPS competitor - you're already sort of seeing this happening in the bulk mail services that are used to ship stuff form Aliexpress
fuck when are you opening up tours in nyc? this is just fascinating for a west coaster that has no ties here
It’s not clear no one wants them, since there is little data available to an ex-salaryman looking to open one in a particular neighborhood and if you do an unsophisticated “just watch a store all day” competitive analysis both a thriving store and a struggling store appear busy at all hours of day and night.

The franchisor is basically uniformly in favor of more locations since the franchisee bears most startup costs and the franchisor gets an effective call option on their cash flow.

(It’s also not clear to me that convenience stores are oversupplied relative to demand; there are probably some geographic mismatches but in e.g. this neighborhood in Tokyo you can find 3 in a Us city block and they’re self-evidently very viable. Which you might ask “How is that self-evident?” and I’m left to say “Trust me.”)
Huston has re-set the bar at "real-time", and implies that DANE would provide such real-time assurance, when in fact even DANE advocates acknowledge that, were DANE to see wide use, we'd need to develop a DANE equivalent of CT.
Maciej, do you consider the built in keychain functionality of iOS/MacOS to be a "password manager"? I only ask because I typically have found that when setting up non-technical people with iPhones or new laptops, that it has recently passed the bar of 'easy enough for non technical people'.

True, it can be hard to get to the stored passwords for manual entry and it doesn't work with a few sites, but generally speaking it picks random passwords, saves them fairly reliably and prompts to use them with biometric protection.
That one of two reasons why I switched to Iphone from Android. Ability to turn off all notifications from one screen. Focus from distraction is paramount
3p sellers must have a return policy at least as good as amazon themselves. I.e. they must offer free return shipping on defective products. If not Amazon will step in and refund you.
Multi-Hop Phishing Attack
If you think the market is crazy because of mindless investing, you go and put your money on the clear winners.

That's how equilibrium is reached. We don't get to know if you are a genius or an idiot, not even after the fact.
Constantius I (father of the more famous Constantine) led an expedition into Scotland and probably made it North of the Antonine Wall, though Severus was the last Emperor to try and permanently fortify it.
Last year or so they classified “gaming disorders” for people who spent too much time playing video games. FWIW
I’m in MN (not quite Wisconsin but we love our cheese too) and there’s a ton of cheddar both white and orange. Pretty much any cheddar producer up here that makes orange would also make white. I don’t think it’s as ubiquitous as you’d expect.
garlic is very easy to prep, just the method isn't intuitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5h1pDHhzs
If anyone finds a story like that I would be very interested.
> On the other hand, a multinational company can't be expected to fly its CEO to a legislative hearing in every country where it operates... you could spend an entire year doing that instead of actually running your company.

You don't get called out for a legislative hearing for running a company. You get called out for a legislative hearing when you are running your company poorly, and in opposition to public welfare.

If he doesn't want to meet the legal obligations for operating in Canada, Mark is more then welcome to close up shop.
That would entirely defeat the purpose of franchising agreements.

The point is to diffuse risk, standardize the brand, and allow local owners to decide the things which don't affect the brand, in the service of their own interests (including whether or not to continue operating the location).

A franchise where the owner bears a small minority of the risk might as well just be centrally owned.
I remember using Calendar as an intern at Intel in the 90s. What I liked was the ability to schedule conference rooms with it.

I find it very intuitive to use.

What part did you find most confusing?
I have great hope that the upcoming Web Authn standard (https://webauthn.io) will greatly improve server-side security and make phishing a thing of the past but I worry about how the threat model will then turn towards securing access to the user's personal devices. Endpoint security is going to get even harder. People double-click and blindly run whatever on their devices all the time.
This instance from 2012 that I bookmarked had 80 replies. Many of the replies provided several, or many, links. I wonder how many still work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928762
Personally, I think even without Internet Explorer ruining Do-Not-Track (which I also think Microsoft torpedoed on purpose by making it the default), the tracking companies wouldn't have respected it. They were looking for an excuse not to comply with DNT after promising Congress they would self-regulate, and IE gave them a fig-leaf to go back on their word.
Single user mode on a Mac will let anyone with physical access to the machine create a new admin account.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201573
Mosaic, gopher and text based one. Use the text to play go (WeiQi) and lost as refreshed under 19.2k modem is too slow.
You live in a country with franchises, right? What would you articulate as the brand promise of a McDonalds? McDonalds has a very clear internal understanding of that brand promise: it includes clean bathrooms, a smile, extremely low prices available, and very consistent food.

7/11 also has a brand promise. It includes, prominently, “If you need it, 7/11 is open.”

The LTV of a conbini regular is very, very, very high and the brand does not want you to sour on it for reasons specific to Store 6548 in May 2019.
I think you can take each one on a case by case basis.

If health insurance companies lobbied the government to require that all citizens have health insurance, I'd take a ton of issue. But if health insurance companies lobbied to require doctors to get consent if they want to harvest tissue or organ samples from patients for personal research, I'd support that change.

It's all grey area but as of yet I don't think DDG is at all in the wrong.
This is a false dichotomy. I'm not advocating for living in the woods, but just taking a hard look at the choices you make everyday and how much actual utility and satisfaction you get from them. Are those expensive clothes and cars worth it to you? Maybe they are. But you have to compare them to the months or years of labor you could avoid if you saved that money instead, or perhaps even invested it.

Perhaps our world is extremely proficient at generating insane amounts of envy, but that doesn't mean you are completely powerless to respond in a life-affirming way.
The benefits of the JVM still stand out to me personally. Run anywhere, generate machine code at run time most place, world class optimizing compiler, battle tested & ready to deploy, integration with existing code base for gradual rewrites, etc.

Wasm is a good idea but it's going to need to reimplement a lot of existing code (optimizing + jit).

Doable and maybe it will convince people to do what has been a great idea first widely deployed by Java: compiled language in an abstract machine.
I think it would depend on the age. If you could walk them through different bad things that have happened to kids and relate it to them, they might be more cautious.

My kids are still too young to be online. I know with YouTube if your letting them watch, you have to be very careful about the sidebar
No one would partake in something they don’t like if they’re made aware of it and have a choice... well, good?
Strenuous activity at altitudes above 8,000 m often leads to fatal brain swelling, even among those who are physically fit and have spent time acclimating.

There have been several studies indicating that mountain climbing leads to brain damage, even among world-class climbers. Similarly, there is evidence that scuba diving to depths below 40 m or so damages the brain.

We didn't evolve at extreme altitudes or depths. It's probably best to stay away from them if you value your mental fitness or life.
I understand if those places seem amenable to you, but I (and pretty much everyone I know who lived there long term) wouldn't set foot in one of those past their college years. They're horrible for your body. I'd sooner eat conbini food and pass out.

The late night pubs do exist, sure, but a lot of them stay open to capture any foot traffic from people missing their last train around midnight. Most don't serve full menus at that hour and it's usually a skeleton staff (short of, say, a HUB or something... but those aren't going to be open past 2, short of Roppongi & co generally).

Japan (really Tokyo, I guess) stopped being truly 24-hours post 2011 earthquake. After the power issues around the country, I noticed a lot of places never returned to their same livelihood. It's a shame, was fun while it lasted.

I'm mostly commenting at this point because the misconception of Japan being this constantly-on always-good-food crazy ass heaven is really tiring to see these days.
Ultimately your way asks people to change their innate behavior.
I think one other major factor is that if you (as the technical nerd who can figure this stuff out) give a non-technical user a fully updated secured Android phone today and then come back to that user in 6 months, it's way less likely to still be secure. Apple does a much better job of maintaining security over the lifetime of the device by pushing updates out.
Matt Klein: Crash early and crash often for more reliable software
I was just in Japan two weeks ago, and convenience stores were omnipresent. I'll admit, it was incredibly convenient, as I never went for lack of food or water, and I got into habit of grabbing a beer and a snack every night to take back to my hotel room before bed. I was relying on them (and vending machines) pretty heavily for coffee and green tea throughout the day as well.

There were way too many convenience stores that were open in the middle of the night, though (and apparently this is a requirement on the franchisees). There was a 24/7 convenience store on the first floor of my hotel, and then another one down the block, and then several more within a two block radius. There's no reason they couldn't all coordinate better so that each individual store is only open through the night a couple times per week. That would make a lot more sense. Most customers would still be able to reach an open convenience store, even in the middle of the night, within a few blocks walk. It'd be nice if stores had posted the hours of nearby stores so you'd know where else to go if the one you wanted was closed, but that's probably unnecessary now in the age of apps (I had no problem finding opening times for places on Google Maps).
The world is getting dumber at an alarming rate.
Putting a name on things helps.

There is little reason to doubt that problem-gaming exists, sure, it is a manifestation of something more general (à la Behavioral-Addiction/OCD) but having a name for it helps to talk about it more precisely, and being able to talk about a problem is the first step to finding a solution or way out.
well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noVEsJy8-_g
I think this is point of infliction. I highly suspect that there is probably a mathamatical theorem here which might state that index funds are efficient only when they occupy less than 50% of the asset share. One of the byproduct of this distribution is that many bad companies which wants to do IPO and they will get auto-funded by small-cap, mid-cap index funds. Also, now there are smaller number of players who are moving knobs and index funds are simply the followers to these small players. In 10 years the effects of this would become quite apparent. If Buffet was going to bet on index funds for next 10 years, he would most likely lose.
Thanks for that. Is often true that the quickest way to find out something correct on the internet is to write something incorrect, with conviction. :)
Yeah, for sure. If people were already using it, I gave them a thumbs up. In my mind it occupies some middle ground between a password manager and "I keep my passwords in this note app", but only because it doesn't tie in to Chrome.
If you work in the field it gives perspective.

Also reading reviews of software, FAQs, issues etc will help you identify potential opportunities
Cheddar and Colby are both yellow cheeses in Australia. I only associate orange with "American" cheese, and what Subway calls "old English" which I suspect is also just American cheese rebranded for an Australian market.
Depending on who you follow, it's one of the best link aggregation sites around. Care deeply about refugee rights in Myanmar? Follow a few folks and you'll gain insight into the kinds of things like-minded folks are thinking about. There is the on-Twitter conversation, too, but the best thing about the site is what people are linking to out of it.
Mackerel in particular is far superior to salmon in my opinion, but few seem to even give it a chance. There seems to be a widespread public bias against canned fish in general, and small canned fish in particular (larger canned fish such as tuna or salmon seem to be more accepted.)

If anybody hasn't tried canned mackerel, I strongly recommend it. A can of mackerel and some crackers makes a super convenient and tasty lunch.
Sure. A drug cartel launders a billion into your candidate and looses. They don't murder the police chief's family because it was all taxpayer dollars.
and where the franchise parent bears basically no risk at all is a pretty crappy deal for franchisees, who basically take what seems to be most of the risk (described in the article) for... 30% of the gross profit? maybe?

eventually, 7-11 will be known as a place where you're likely to encounter sick children lying on chairs at 10pm because the franchisee's family is living in the store. eventually that might actually damage the brand enough that they'd remove some of the stipulations.
To be clear, this isn’t that type of speculative but rather https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_execution
"Japan (really Tokyo, I guess) stopped being truly 24-hours post 2011 earthquake."

Really? This surprises me, given that the population of Tokyo has only continued to rise since then, and Tokyo wasn't nearly as badly affected as many other parts of Japan. How long did the power issues last following the earthquake, and why would they still continue to have effects so many years later?
Hmmm, I keep a list of things I want to do. Like poke lava with a stick, attend a rocket launch, visit meteor crater, write a tool used by a million people. I don't see it as necessarily bad to have a checklist. It helps manage time.
How does google compare when you get their updates ASAP with a pixel? Is it on par with iOS then?
I wonder if this matters less in the age of smartphone apps. I tend to check opening hours on Google Maps first before heading to a place when it's outside of obvious business hours (like the middle of the night).
The West defined the East, but the East also defined the West. How each side views the other is also a part of that power dynamic.

Power structures are bidirectional graphs. Examples, of this are college departments like Chinese Studies, South Asian Studies, European Studies, etc. These are methods of creating the history of the other and creating power over the other. I'm sure the Chinese, Europeans, Africans, etc. also have such histories.
Even in America there has been a recent troubling trend towards Department of Justice settlements being used to direct money to specific non-profits [0]. There was an effort to outlaw these settlements but it seems to have gone nowhere.

[0]: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/305055-refo...
This is garbage. And it points directly to an agenda baked into the dual pronged attack by medicine and education, starting in the 1990's, with the introduction of Ritalin to combat the very first of the "diseases of social inconvenience" which we know as attention deficit disorder.

It wasn't a real illness then, and it isn't now, but this push to "treat" the "disease" came at a time when public service announcements raised alarms on TV about how America was behind other countries in math and reading.

So, here we are, medicating people who find boring things boring. And that's both public schools and modern medicine at work. Compulsory attendance, and doctors orders come together to make America competitive on the global stage.

But it didn't stop with Ritalin and ADD. Like any program, there were advancements, and soon there was also ADHD. And notice that most of this is all a strategic approach to box obnoxious children into a corner, and make them behave in class?

With each advancement, we shed light on other defects that were previously outshined by the more obvious pains in the proverbial ass. Once the busy bodies were calmed down, other problem children needed attention.

And lo, autism became a spectrum. And with heightened deception, because now you could be seduced by the idea of the savant. Maybe it was a path to ...genius?

So, take a hard look at these illnesses of mild ineptitude. Because there's another reality behind them. That reality is one where the social fabric of familial bonds has been torn to shreds, and replaced with clinical metrics.

We used to have siblings, and mothers and fathers, and aunts and uncles, and cousins and nieces and nephews. People would put up with one another. But now there's nothing of the sort, and no one to rely on. With divorce and economics, it's lots of single mothers and families that can't afford to raise anything but a single only child. No more brothers and sisters, and mom and dad dehumanize each other with lawyers and custody battles, and a rotating cast of step relatives.

So these diseases of inconvenience arise from poor socialization, and abstract social demands that having nothing to do with simply being a human. School is boring and sucks. And being raised by selfish assholes as an only child is its own nightmare.

Maybe the United States has become slightly more competitive in STEM fields, but how? By plying kids with medication? By twisting the arm of any freak of nature that fails to comply with behavioral norms?

I don't have a solution, because, in part, there are some real problems, but there is no illness or disease, and medication and stigma aren't the way forward.

But without a doubt, this started in the 1990's and there's no end in sight.
>chain of moral responsibility

This sounds like an issue with the limitations of the philosophical framework of cause and effect, which breaks down in complex systems. Also your comment on applying a process oriented solution, which is also the key difference between responsibility and blame that the op referred to. Responsibility is process, or action, oriented. Blame tries to invert that process.

There was an interesting discussion posted on HN the other day where rodney broke was suggesting the programming paradigm of cause and effect, of discrete input and output, was limiting.

Can't help but to see a link between these ideas, however disparate they might be.
I bought a can of mackerel the other day at the suggestion of another HN poster. It was amazing, and I bought a whole case of 12 on Amazon. I don’t know why it tastes so good but I’m happy I tried it!
Old content in Slack is not available through search if you are not on a paid plan but I was more referring to the public open web and people trying to find answers through search engines.
Thanks, I didn't know that.

It's interesting that this is an actively managed fund. There are actually a few indices for this kind of thing but apparently Vanguard is not using them: https://www.msci.com/esg-indexes
Vision: A light weight tool in Golang for viewing remote resources
IMO, it depends whether the law is just and reasonable.

I'm pretty sure the legislature and judiciary of each country considers obeying their laws to be necessary, with or without your blessing.

National governments don't summon the leaders of major businesses without a good reason, and many national governments don't all end up doing so at almost the same time without a good reason that spans lots of countries. If there is an issue that big, maybe it should be the CEO's top priority anyway?

What you call a show trial, others might call demanding the person at the top because that way there is no deniability or passing the buck. The US might have run the Zuckerberg hearing as a show trial and had mostly token incompetent and ignorant representatives asking the questions in a format designed to be kind. That doesn't mean that other countries who want real answers to serious questions about Facebook's conduct under Zuckerberg's leadership need to do the same.
Being in the US, the whole idea that UK doesn't elect their leader directly always struck me as odd, until I realized that their PM's generally feel much more beholden to their party's platform than politicians in the US. In which case, it really is less relevant who the particular person is and more than the party you support is in power.
I have personally switched to a diet 100% composed of the flesh of the beyond beast. And I’ve never felt better!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyes wgah'nagl fhtagn
Gray is a color as good as any other.