skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I had to carry a bunch of crap with me.

I had to take time to check email instead of simply looking when I get the message on my phone.
I had to take a magazine to the toilet instead of reading on my phone.

I wore watches. They never lasted as long as the phone. I used to have alarm clocks too. The phones actually do better to wake me since a lot of alarm ringtones vary in sounds.

Gameboys and other portable gaming devices have been a thing for some time.

I actually carried around pen and paper when I went to the grocery store! When I was poor, I also took a calculator.

I used to have a portable television. It was black and white and possibly had a smaller screen than current phones. It definitely had poorer definition and one was lucky to pick up channels with the antennae.

Instead of arguing about who is correct about something, we can look it up in a restaurant. It is cool, and makes the conversation less about who is right and wrong and more about what is and could be.

Do you remember landlines? Wasn't it just wonderful that one couldn't have a private conversation at home? Would you seriously trade texting and/or having a private phone number for a house phone of old?

My niece carries my sister's phone around the house on video to talk to me. It dosn't matter that they are in Seattle and me in Norway.

I have a camera with me all the time and picture processing costs nothing! Do you have any clue how much I wanted that as a kid? I loved taking pictures, but couldn't afford film developing. As a bonus, my phone takes better pictures than many of the old cameras I've used. I happen to take pictures of manhole covers when I'm out, at least when I can make them interesting.

I share my artwork, that I make on paper, on the internet using my phone.

I have access to so many things. Lots of people can teach themselves "adulting" now, especially cooking. On their phone. Before I had my tablet, I used my phone in the kitchen.

Wasting life? No. You just aren't seeing the joy these piece of technology bring to others and disregarding the things the phone has replaced.
This is the same thought process used to discredit the moon landing, the effectiveness of vaccines and the roundness of the earth. Sometimes life doesn't provide you a smoking gun and you have to put the pieces together yourself. One thing I have found useful is to understand that if a group of people keeps lying about the same thing over-and-over again (like meeting with Russian representatives), they are likely hiding something nefarious (ask any parent). If not, why were they lying?

Why did they lie about the reasoning for the Trump Tower meeting if it was so innocuous? Why would the campaign manager share internal polling with a Russian oligarch? I haven't seen an answer to these questions that passes the smell test.

==I often reach out to people who seem to believe they have witnessed specific, concrete evidence, to share the specific information they have seen.==

Have you ever been on a Federal Grand Jury? They show you all types of evidence and ask you to indict people based on that evidence. One thing they don't do is share that evidence with the media or the public. The only concrete evidence the media/public has to go on (until a trial) is the indictment itself.
For most users in the Apple ecosystem, iCloud keychain is an excellent, extremely well-integrated solution. I recommend it to all of my friends and family.
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U2F/ WebAuthn credentials can't be passed through.

Or in more detail, the credentials aren't human readable and are per-FQDN, so when you visit badguy.example thinking it's goodguy.example, your Security Key will cheerfully hand over valid credentials for badguy.example, but there is no way to give them credentials for goodguy.example because that's not where you are.

Hence that 100% score on Google's page.
TL, taurus, model s, mazda 3, p100d, sure bud.
It's a thing when many car manufacturers want you to pay a monthly subscription just get simple map updates for their already very crappy maps application.

It's a thing when when all your music is already on your phone.
Probably not, but you don't need to give it your wifi password.
This question seems like just a promo for your company, but I'll bite.

Discoverability is by far the biggest problem any media company faces (and podcasters are a media company). Millions of minutes of viewing, listening, and reading content are created every day, and the barriers to creating content have never been lower. The biggest problem podcasters (or anyone else in media) face is that created content goes into the void never to be seen or listened to. No ideal solution exists for this, as people have a finite amount of attention, and more content is created than can be consumed in a day.
> I think without trying this opinion before a court, you have no idea.

But that's the point. Who is going to go to court with Samsung over a $1500 TV?

We don't actually own the devices we buy anymore. It's ... pathetic, but true.
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Adjunct is a way of designating an affiliation that is not on the tenure track, i.e. is not regular faculty (and will not be).

In my experience it's a professional affiliation that is flexible, designating that you are not a student, but not regular faculty. In some cases it designates a sessional lecturer (i.e. paid by the course, not full time, no job security), but it can also be used to associate someone in the department for the purposes of contributing to research or co-supervising a student. So you can end up being an adjunct for a department for a while without ever having been employed by them directly.

Originally it was much more the latter use, and not the former, but as the use of non-TT instructors grew some places used adjunct for this, others "lecturer", "sessional" etc.
Although troubling, I don't think this is something for which smart TV technology itself is at fault. Plenty of smart TVs exist without ads and they are apparently still profitable.
"Subtracting the fuel" is a bit weird. I think even with the fuel filed until the planned destination it would have not made it nowhere on that flight path.

Also we have the last ping + some rough estimate of additional flight time (but minutes of uncertainty are already enough to have hundreds of kms of search radius)
Just don't connect it to the internet. The Apple TV experience is way better anyway.
Which is the problem...
Could ports regulate what fuel the ship is carrying, even if it's not burning that fuel while in port? For instance, if a cruise ship is burning clean fuel because it's near port, but is carrying a great deal of dirty fuel for use when it gets back into international waters, could the port fine the operators of that ship for merely possessing the dirty fuel?
I’m assuming that developing country industry are buying the plastics waste for re-processing, not direct burning.

It’s re-processed there because it’s economically viable to do the sorting/cleaning that wouldn’t be with higher wages.

I don’t believe there’s wide-scale shipping of straight garbage trans-continentally, that’s cheaper to process locally/regionally.
What a great snippet of info to know, thanks for posting this. I often use that syllogism as an example for some visual logic software I'm writing.
> less emissions

Are you sure? Accounting for the fact that drivers pick them up with a car, drive them home, charge them, and then drive them again to a new location? And the fact that they can have as little as a 6 month life because of wear and tear?
China's social credit score system would be an easy place for them to look for "undesirables" to use for livestock, create an ever shifting minimal level of political servitude to avoid execution.
Mercedes solves this with non-touch screens with physical controls within natural reach
It's also amazing to read this piece in the same newspaper that has published perhaps thousands of articles about the (very real) threat of climate change.

The solution is to ban 30 pound scooters, which have zero point emissions, in favor of multi-ton cars, which carry around an entire internal-combustion rig, spewing CO2 out the entire way?

Talk about bizarre.
Well... not THE most aggressive of chemicals, fluoroantimonic acid (H2F[SbF6]), the acid designed by top chemists to be the best acid that ever forcibly protonated a carbon atom into pentavalent carbonium.

That will dissolve the glass. (It can only be stored in PTFE.) It doesn't even have a pH, as it can't exist in aqueous solution, because it explosively destroys water.

Strong bases, like 50% or higher NaOH, also attack silicate glass.

You can clean glass with less aggressive chemical solutions that can still dissolve all organic materials and salts on the surface, without damaging the glass, and then remove those solutions completely, if the glass geometry permits. Or you can clean it well enough for commerce by inverting the bottle and blowing steam into it, something that would alter the geometry of a polyethylene bottle.

But a glassblowing robot can easily make a completely new bottle, that isn't going to have any unknown contaminants in it. Recycling glass doesn't save enough money to make it good business.
Yup, agree 100%. We bought a 2014 Mazda 6, and while it has a touch screen, I find myself only using the control knob 99% of the time. It's vastly superior to any touchscreen interface I've ever used, and also far better than some of the mouse-like joysticks in some cars (think later 201X Lexus vehicles and such).
The next time someone like this is denied admission, and then commits suicide or murders a bunch of people at a school, religious / political gathering, etc, I hope the facility that denied admission is held financially responsible, and these policies are changed as a result.

This doesn't make any sense...

In California, the mentally ill can't be committed to a hospital against their wishes because they are deemed to have a constitutional right to be a stark, raving lunatic on public property. The hospital and family would have to show that the putative patient is a danger to themselves or others in order to get them committed to a hospital.

However, if they have insurance, there wouldn't be any issue with a mental ill person being admitted to a hospital of their own will (or with the permission of someone designated to make medical decisions on their behalf aka medical power of attorney).
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You quite consistently defend lock-in every opportunity you have, so I don't believe you are doing it for objective reasons. Quite naturally, usually those who benefit from such corrupt methods defend them. So it's a shill position, whether you like it or not.
> isn't it ultimately on the NP

No, because we don’t live in a world where only one person has to be responsible for every outcome.

Multiple people can share responsibility (and legal liability) for an outcome. In this case, the NP may bear some responsibility for the reasons you outlined. In fact the NP and her organization were sued and settled out of court already:

> At some point prior to that date, Justin Warren “sued Essentia Health for the alleged malpractice of its employees, Simon and Baldwin.” (p. 6) That case was settled out of court.

So, the NP may bear some responsibility, but there’s no reason why that should be the end of the investigation as to who else may bear some responsibility.
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>RC was still a bad pollutant, producing 4x the pollution of all the cars in Europe, but by comparison, Carnival is pumping out over twice as much.

Why is this? Does Carnival have many more ships, or less efficient ships, or run their ships more often?
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Does it? I can locate and adjust a knob without ever taking my eyes off the road. The same can't be said for a touchscreen.
When I was on the academic job market in 2017/2018, most of the CS faculty positions I was applying to paid between 95-115k as the 9 month salary. So with summary salary from your startup funds/grants it would pay a total salary of 115-140k (assuming 2 months summer salary, which is common).

That is not bad. The university/department ranking seemed to affect the salary only a little. The cost of living surprisingly affected the salary very little. This means you could make 130k while living in an extremely cheap area, but living in an expensive area you would not make much more.

Of course, many fields don't pay anywhere near that. Some pay quite a bit more (business!).

Disclaimer: I'm tenure-track faculty at a public R1 university.
Most aluminum packaging has plastic liner. Which has to be burned away in most cases.

Glass works if you bottle and reuse locally. Unfortunately infrastructure for this is long gone in the US.
How much can you sell it for? Really - let's say you have my entire viewing history for a year, let's say I'm from a valuable demographic, how much would that be worth? A dollar? 10 dollars?

I've just bought a tv for thousands of dollars from the company, selling my data doesn't seem very cost effective, especially considering the PR backlash of some scandal that could come out of it.
Right, the developing country buyer was being defrauded. Not unlike selling a PS4 on EBay and getting a brick in a shrink wrapped PS4 box.

If anything, this case just demonstrated the appetite for plastic waste. Buyers are willing to take risks to get their hands on it.
The scooters are the problems because they do not obey the traffic laws.

Atlanta just created scooter ordinances and the local news is showing announcements from APD with the new regulations. No riding on sidewalks or leaving scooters on sidewalks. You must act like a car and move with the flow of traffic like a car. Fines will be given out.

I used to walk over abandoned scooters on my commute every day when I worked downtown.
Oh how times have changed.

Behold, my Software Processes textbook in college (< 10 years ago):

https://imgur.com/a/IOibz79
We do this in a few states. Actually I grew up in one of them and just assumed it was nation wide.
When I bought my Kia it definitely was a problem to get the low end model. There was just one base model on the lot vs. many cars fully decked out. I guess not many people buy base model these days.
cryptocurrency is more SEO/Marketing friendly than giftcard. /s

Seriously, though... the whitepaper isn't out yet so we don't really know how this is supposed to work. It'm sure it will use some type of permissioned blockchain for convenience/ensure trust between all the partners and dissolve responsibility for all decisions the consortium takes.
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> Everybody who has ever typed a GOTO command can feel proud.

Oh gosh no.
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> An apartment is sadly pretty close to a loan, even more so with all the renter protection you get out of it.

A place to live is also a basic life necessity.

Something is very wrong in a society where a "bad credit rating", which can arise from many things (some of them having nothing to do with credit - agency malpractice comes to mind), threatens homelessness _even when you can afford to rent_.
People usually underestimate the capacity of the population to adapt. The changes described here have been operating for decades. Motivated, mentally-healthy people with strong community support can usually enter a new career in 2-4 years. You get a recession and lots of angsting as people mentally accept the new reality, and then they get jobs within that new reality (which just gets destroyed again in another 10-15 years).

When people haven't been able to adapt, results are every bit as tragic as people predicted. Think of the large swaths of Appalachia or the Midwest that are still smarting from our transition away from a coal & steel economy.
This was an American and not ethnically Chinese.

I have also met a few extremely left-leaning/socialist Americans that were part of my meetup group a few years back that loved China's system and praised it as better than the US in every way. All concerns about brutality, taking away rights, and an authoritarian regime were waved off as something beneficial and required to maintain a good society.

About 20 years ago, I worked for a computer store that regularly hired Chinese immigrants, because the owner was himself Chinese. One woman would not even allow me to mention the Chinese government in front of her. She was afraid that they were somehow listening to her and that her family back home would be punished. She had been in the US for at least 8 or 9 years at this point.
I've lost so many tubes from glass fragments. Sometimes the tire even shifts around when going flat and pokes several more holes nearby. Still not as bad as people who throw bottles in the creek though.
Facebook is trusted by billions of people every day. I would trust them with a crypto wallet more than any of the crypto exchanges that have been hacked in the past.
It used to be that the youngest child had an honest job, acting on voice commands and adjusting the controls. It seems like people won't be happy until this experience is fully replicated with automation...

More seriously, I've found that a bluetooth keyboard with built-in pointer is my favorite remote. I treat the TV as a monitor and operate MythTV or Firefox to go to Netflix or Pandora from the couch.

I confess, I do have a second remote to control the audio. I could never tolerate the sound of built-in speakers in any TV. My media computer sends the video to the TV via one HDMI connection and digital audio to the hifi receiver via another HDMI port. So, I change volume as well as other downmix or night-mode options on the receiver, leaving the PC audio settings constant.
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Are there external DVB-T receivers?
Where did they announce that? I still have that setting enabled, and I'm using it for backing up exactly the same way you described, so I really hope this doesn't just get magically turned off someday.
What happens if you teach multiple sections of the same course? Like a morning section and an evening section? Do you get paid double or once?
Facebook has been called 'the most Chinese' of the American software giants for a reason, the 'move fast and break things' attitude and the attitude towards privacy and capturing people's personal lives has been well documented for a long time.
Langewiesche's a great author but this article doesn't add much in the way of new information from all the writing of the past three years. One off the record source about the pilot's mental state, that's about it. I happen to agree with his speculative conclusion, deliberate action by the pilot, but there's not really anything significant and new here to support it.
That wasn't really Erdős' issue with the proof. Unsolved problems in mathematics are often not important merely because of other problems that depend on them; you can look at the Riemann hypothesis to see how much work has already been done just assuming its truth. We're interested in these problems because we hope that the proof will teach new tools and grant new insights, and possibly spark other problems and generalizations.

A proof that requires a computer to understand it is not helpful for these goals. The proof's veracity is not in question.
Like the comforting lie I tell myself when printing a long paper: you're sequestering carbon!
This conversation reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem .

I don't understand: "but the existence of the data structure implies that some operations must exist."

Grounding it out to a specific data structure, the existence of `List` implies that e.g. `sort` exists?

That direction makes less sense than `sort` implies the existence of e.g. `List`(something to be sorted).
I would like to know more about this bank!

What bank is it? How did you find it?

I've not heard of features similar to this, especially the last part about buying a house.
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As for the article, patent issues are certainly complex and ripe for reform. Patent trolls have poisoned the well so completely that I personally think a major course correction would be required to curb the problem.

However, it's annoying reading an article that uses emotionally charged phrases such as "patent snowflakes", in an effort to get their point across.
I think this type of information is desperately needed for all geographies and way more (smaller) companies. The one challenge is that the pay grades themselves are usually dependent on a common definition of certain roles, which is definitely also missing. It would be great to be able to have _some_ kind of standardized career track for Individual Contributors and Managers within software engineering so we could continue a healthy conversation about compensation, roles and responsibilities.
Should be okay now. There were several BIOS updates early on that made it possible to brick your machine by toggling seemingly innocuous settings, like discrete/hybrid graphics or thunderbolt support.

As far as the Linux experience goes, I’m not aware of any issues apart from the fingerprint reader. I have never attempted to use thunderbolt connectivity or charge anything over USB.
I was an adjunct for one semester, many years ago. I mentioned my experiences to my mom, who is a retired high school teacher. Her response: "Now you know why teachers have a union."
“This is rubbish that you know cannot be recycled, and it makes me really angry that our country has to endure this,” she said in an interview.

Were they ever forced to accept this with no say into this?

Or it's just change of mindset to stop selling their own country as a garbage dump?
It's even worse than you paint it, for a lot of adjuncts. Besides the lack of benefits and insurance, often they do not actually know their course allocations in advance, and can suddenly end up losing 1/2 their income or whatever, with a week or so's notice.

For comparison if you are full time faculty at a research (i.e. R1) oriented department, a 1-1 or 1-2 (e.g. 2 - 3 courses a year) is typically considered a full time teaching load on top of your research, although you often have a graduate seminar or two on top of that. If your department focuses on teaching, a 4-4 load is typical. "Teaching relief" is given to new and productive research faculty.
Summer courses are often taught for extra income, and/or can be applied to soft salary. Similar things mutatis mutandi if you aren't on a semester system.
From TFA:

> Less than 1 percent of the injured riders were wearing helmets.

I'm not sure why this statistic was included. All it could demonstrate is "people more likely to wear helmets are less likely to be injured". IE: cautious people are cautious.

This article reads like FUD. Along with scooters, people are currently free to go bungee jumping, skydiving, rock climbing, skin diving, and all other manner of activity which carries a higher-than-walking-around-the-block chance of injury. I don't want to live in a nerf-like society, where our available activities are dictated to us by...anyone.
His book The Outlaw Sea is also a great read if you enjoyed this article and might find nautical incidents equally interesting.