skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the substantive meaning behind "fuckn suck"? As an example, most exchanges and processors have both BTC and BCH so if you're not a speculator there isn't much functional difference. (I know there are technical differences, but those differences don't change the fact that they are fungible blockchain tokens)
> Brady Gaulke, a 26-year-old Nashville man, was killed in a collision with an S.U.V. while riding a scooter. His grieving parents have launched a petition to ban the devices in Nashville. “[E]-scooters are unsafe at any speed, and we are calling on Mayor David Briley and the Metro Council to ban them from the streets immediately,” the petition reads, arguing that Mr. Gaulke should be “the last victim of an epidemic that the e-scooter companies and local government both refuse to acknowledge.”

A much more sane response would be to acknowledge the personal responsibility of a single individual who chose to take risks, and suffered the consequences.

Personal e-vehicles are one of the rays of hope in the fight against climate change - getting people out of cars, reducing congestion / load on transit. It is the most shortsighted thing to try and ban them.
yet it costs me $10 to send $500 to the UK and $39 to send to the US. And even more to receive.
We could even do reusable plastic bottles. I saw it a lot in Chile. They'd have a deposit on 3-liter coke bottles with a thick plastic. You'd exchange the old bottle when you bought a new one to avoid the deposit. Then they'd take those, clean them, and refill them. Often the bottom would even be a bit banged up from multiple uses.
Wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind? (2015)
My needs are pretty modest. I mostly just want to stream video, and play media files.
Slightly tangential, but a good opportunity to mention the NS Savannah, probably the closest we've ever come to nuclear cruise ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
California tests mental health app which tracks patients' usage of their phones
> And while there is no question that this country needs a micro-mobility revolution,

Is there no question? Maybe we need to build fewer car dependent neighborhoods. Maybe the revolution is called "walking".

The article starts from a position that we have giant hunks of metal going at high speeds and anything that stands in their path must be banned or be destroyed. But car to pedestrian deaths happen with or without scooters. So why is there no talk of getting rid of the cars? Or at least creating a culture where drivers are more careful.
There is this strange belief that landfills are taking up a ton of space and we need to reduce landfill usage because of it.

This is simply not true. Landfills don't take up much space, we have plenty.
At this point, don't most people primarily use their dumb-TVs either by hooking up a cable box, game console, etc? A quick look a Newegg suggests that plain old LCD monitors can be had up to 43" for quick reasonable prices.
> are those things denominated in fiat currency or in bitcoin

By your logic if I exchange dollars for euros to spend on a vacation somewhere that means the dollar has failed ?
Imagine being gaslighted by the scooter industry so hard you think that cars are the problem here, not the scooter rider that made an illegal turn in front of an SUV which tried but failed to break in time to avoid hitting him.

https://www.wsmv.com/news/bird-responds-after-scooter-rider-...
https://www.chattanoogan.com/2019/5/20/390590/Brady-Gaulke-D...

All of the problems with scooters are artifacts of a startup culture that disregards safety, and business plans designed around scale, period. [https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197713/the-inventor-rev...]
There are plenty of TOTP apps (besides Authy) that support backing up the code generation keys. I use andOTP, for example, which supports backing up locally to the phone's internal storage (and optionally encrypting that backup with either AES + a passphrase or a PGP key if you've setup an OpenPGP provider on your device). 1Password's iOS (and Android?) app also supports TOTP.
> These days for proper navigational planning it is all ECDIS (or WECDIS for really fun stuff) and electronic.

Its not strictly true that 'proper' navigational planning happens entirely on ECDIS, especially on smaller vessels. My preference while working on offshore tugs was to work out the rough voyage on paper first, before transferring them to ECDIS; the 2nd mates I worked with in training had a similar preference.

That said, paperless navigation is becoming more and more common (and saves a ton of time on chart corrections), and in that case you don't have a choice.
I'm ~45 years old. When I was a child this was the case. As a side note Milk came in plastic bags even then. But all carbonated beverages came in multiple sized glass bottles. In the Mid-80's (IIRC) there was an attempt to sell Coke-a-Cola in 2L size bottles but the glass couldn't handle the pressures and were apt to explode easily.

2L plastic bottles don't have this limitation.
"Maybe the anti-Semitism will go away if we ignore it." That was the false hope of many broadly decent-minded people who were taken in by Hitler in the 1930s. I can't really think of a single instance historically where bigotry has gone away because people ignored it.

Also, saying that the swastika is "just a symbol" with an account you created less than an hour ago is pretty trollish. Looks like you don't have the stomach to associate that statement even with your regular online handle?
Whatever you (justifiably) think of the guy, Martin Shkreli is insanely good with Excel. He uploaded quite a few videos of himself doing stock analysis. For example: https://youtu.be/jFSf5YhYQbw?t=211

I have a few decades of experience writing software, but I still aspire to one day be as good with my tools as he is with his.
Definitely makes sense for me. With physical buttons i can keep watching at the road all time. kudos.
Fair enough - if it's done well and with competence. My experience was nearly the exact opposite. In terms of 80-20 it was really on 20% of the people doing _any_ of the work.
Huh? "Qui" and "vult" are both classical.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qui#Latin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vult#Latin

And "decipi" is the passive infinitive ('to be deceived') and "decipiatur" is the passive subjunctive ('let him be deceived').
y, it should be required for all airliners to have a tracking system that can not be disabled from inside the plane, and has a backup power system. For situations like this, hijackings, etc.

Also seems like streaming black box data and even cock pit recordings would already be something that is standard. As a backup/additional data to the physical black boxes. That could be accessed right away or even in real time.
Interesting - and fascinating that the oil shock of 73 turned out to be just a blip.

I think it leaves the picture unclear without the associated parts trade, which aren't normally picked out when I've seen news pieces on the auto trade here in Europe. So we get stories and graphs of producing more cars than ever despite the industry employing few. Also leaves me wondering what those staff are doing when car factories themselves have lost such a huge proportion of their workforce.
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Isn't this basically a monitor (with built-in speakers)? A quick look at Newegg suggests you can get a 43" monitor for pretty a pretty reasonable price.
It wasn't the driver of the car, either.

It was the guy on the scooter that made an illegal turn in front of the SUV, disregarding traffic laws put into place precisely to prevent the type of accident that occurred.
InfluxDays 2019 London Recap and InfluxDB 2.0
The real story, is not that China is simply refusing waste, what nobody is really talking about is how the omnipresent dogma we've been indoctrinated with since childhood, that all this recycling is doing all this good is a flatout lie. And its mostly just been going to dumps in China.

I mean it would be as if the whole world suddenly discovered one day that Santa wasn't real. At the bare minimum this angle deserved a few months at frontpage billing but it just passed by without any notice in favor of continuing 24hr coverage of the latest mean Trump Tweet.
So you can remotely cause a kernel panic on basically any system with kernel newer than 2.6.28? The doesn't sound great
Thank god. Can you imagine how far behind our current technology we would be if people had patented fundamental concepts in computer? That would have been financially ruinous.
Nah, I just remember what it used to be like. Most of the stuff that's valuable's not that expensive to run. Some of it's fairly decentralizable. The part that makes it difficult and expensive is centralization and control. File distribution's solved and practically free to the distributor if you just want to publish and don't care about retaining control, counting views, and so on. Anyway the sites with the highest costs (video and audio files) tend to be the ones that could probably survive on subscriptions and "native" ads.
I used to do SEO (long time ago) and half of potential customers would perceive any SEO service as almost fraud and the other half would perceive it as hype.

So i'd describe business value (generate sales, leads) vs. specific method you use to achieve business value.
What makes this a cryptocurrency? It should be called facebook giftcard.
If you read Square's filings, in 2018 they generated $166M in revenue from Bitcoin sales (though nearly 0% profit). In Q1 2019, the YoY volume was nearly double. Very bullish on BTC -- I wonder how it compares to Coinbase?
The model is incomplete in the details (as most models are).

The actual effect is that capital in the companies that are taking advantage of the new globoticized future does great. FANG does great. Upwork does great. AirBnB and Stripe do great, once they go public.

Labor and capital of old-line companies do terribly. This type of economic transformation doesn't just result in layoffs, it results in whole companies going out of business. Their value-networks are adopted to the cost structure of the old world; as that cost structure changes, they have no reason to exist as a firm.

When you buy an index fund, you're buying both of these types of companies. You should probably do okay, because the public market is actually pricing a lot of this phenomena in already: multiples on old-line companies are severely depressed while FANG shares are soaring, and the capitalization-weighting of the index is taking this into account. But you're leaving money on the table: many of the biggest winners will be new fast-growing startups that aren't public yet.
> a significant portion of their population still believes in God, and in US specifically, people believe in Creationism.

They believe Creationism because the US/west offers the freedom of choice. There is no government regulation forcing you to believe in one way or the other - you choose based on your own beliefs and experience.
Gas mileage is a very marginal improvement in any of the vehicles I'm interested in, on the order of 16 mpg then to maybe 20, now. Bodywork is plastic or aluminum, so it is less repairable, but there's the anti-corrosion factor.

Everything else listed I would want to actively avoid in my next vehicle.
> To your eyes it's one thing. To mine it might be another. I have a strong feeling the government is to blame for creating this.

I actually agree the government is to blame for the ability of gangs to control the drug market, by making them illegal. However, I choose to pursue policy decisions based on the situation right now, not the situation that could have been. Decriminalization will not magically make this issue go away, anymore than withdrawing from the Middle East will mean America never has to deal with that part of the world again.

> Yep. I would like to buy from a source that is well regulated and does not feed crime. We agree.

Certainly, and in the absence of a legal, moral way to acquire them, you should probably abstain, independent of what you think the government ought to do. Because the alternative is heinous.
The linked Alan Kay answer is worth a read: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-last-breakthrough-in-comp...
"I, a doctor in a position of authority don't think that it would be valuable to admit this patient. But please Nurse who I have a semi-managerial relationship with, feel free to admit this patient if you think it would be valuable."
Specially if you work with reactive HTMl, like VUE or React. It's a win. Even with old MVC frameworks you can work confortably and have inmeasurable performance and development speed. The CSS becomes so easy to read, mantain. Changing things is way faster. Back then I needed to watch so many things to do the job. That's why I lost my OO CSS bias.
You can pick a NM right off the latitude scale on a marine chart with a pair of dividers. Its an eminently practical measurement for navigation.

edit: of course you could pick off distance with any kind of measurement; but my point is that it converts directly into minutes of latitude
Heck, all I want is a decent panel, one HDMI port, and no speakers. Let me do all the inputs and audio myself with an AV receiver.
I find it strange that there is no procedure for the following situation:

* all emergency/account recovery info changed

* Person contacts shortly thereafter claiming account hack

I lost a legacy skype account recently. It had had no email attached to it, so the hacker was able to add theirs and get notified whenever I got back into the account. There was no way to remove their email or add new security mechanisms without waiting 24 hours, so I had no way to keep them from resetting the password.

The account was shut down for spam not long after. As far as I could tell there was no way to effectively reach microsoft about this, despite being a paying office 365 customer. They had a security chat but it was a deadend, and slow.
LSD can literally induce schizophrenia which is IMO worse than the effects of nail polish.
The NP did the right thing in a sense though - she went up the chain of command. The person up the chain, however, did the wrong thing.

edit to add: possibly the NP went up the chain of command precisely because the doctors there wanted veto power on hospital admissions. they didn't want pesky underlings getting in the way of whatever motivated their decisions.
Before making final judgment on how to think about this case, I suggest readers also read the comments in this article.

They from Dr.'s with personal knowledge on the case, and it's not as simple as made out in the article.
Engineering Analytics API with HBase, Phoenix and SQL at Helpshift
Norway island wants to be world's first time-free zone
All of those things are collaborative. Project managers aren't going to learn how to edit those documents. Sales guys aren't going to start including their bits with markdown and the marketing team isn't going to fiddle with images in markdown.

Its a solved problem, I don't see why you would want to engineer so much around such simple tasks for the only reason seemingly to be not using Microsoft.
If the smart features can be turned off, then they won't be able to force ads onto you [1,2], or spy on you [3]. They are antifeatures, taking control of your TV so they may extract more money from you, one way or another. Being able to turn them off would completely defeat that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201561

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202138

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-smart-tvs-send-viewing-habi...
> somewhere between the not-ashtray and the backside of the moon.

This makes me crazy. I used to drive a '99 Mazda b2500 (basically a Ford Ranger). I could reach any of the controls without even leaning forward. In a newer f150 that I used to drive for work the reach for the volume knob seems to be about the same distance as the reach to the passenger window crank in my old truck.
Yeah, I absolutely agree that there is tension in the hacker community and that the aims of many self-proclaimed hackers is basically getting rich. I’ve seen a number of “Ask HN” posts essentially asking, “How can I get money fast using tech?”

At one time, I used to think the tech community was largely egalitarian-minded and that it actually believed in making the world a better place through technology. But it seems that a lot of tech entrepreneurs have basically become run-of-the-mill capitalists (if they weren’t from the beginning) who push for privatization of parts of government and oppose any kind of sane regulations on their companies.

Maybe hacker culture is just the juvenile stage in a tech entrepreneur’s quest to buy a big house on West Egg.
Don't buy a smart TV, don't let your family/friends buy smart TVs. Buy a dumb screen and hook it up to an Apple TV, Chromecast etc. The 'smart' software is a privacy nightmare over which you have very little control. And sure, so is the Chromecast, but I at least have more faith that wherever that data's going it's going there securely and is relatively unlikely to be breached. Also, the software on your smart TV will age much faster than the screen itself.
> I have countless PR folks, friends, family, and others who are in my long Gmail history and am currently unable to access any of that information

I have all this in my gmail also, but my mail downloads to my computer (I use Mail on my Mac). My Mail application data in turn backs up to a few backup drives, so I have this data in several places.

Do people use gmail without having a copy stored anywhere else? I totally get that this guy has been screwed many different ways, including by Google, but it seems unwise to not have a backup copy of your mail anywhere.
I would hope it is not a new VM each time?
Absolutely! Always fails. I didn't know about the alternative you mention...thanks....
This is what drove me off Windows (in the 1990s* ): having to spend too large a proportion of time managing my computer rather than using it (AV, disk optimizers etc). Although I love writing code and designing hardware I didn't like the "computer" experience.

Nowadays nobody sysadmins their phone and barely their tablet. And TV users want to do even less maintenance. In the quest to "add value" these TV guys have lost the plot.

* I assume things have improved dramatically since then. No slur against Windows implied by my comment, it's merely how things were.
A professor typically isn't working full-time on research either.
The patient could have been admitted over the objection of the hospitalist by going to the emergency room and being admitted after evaluation there. This is how most patients are admitted.
Bitcoin is just a shitcoin that happens to be popular right now. All the other altcoins make the same "immutable, decentralized and failure-proof" claims.
I don't want to spam the thread by posting my comment all over it, so I'll ask you to read it downthread. The article highly mis-represents appropriate and routine procedure; the statement that the hospitalist here had the "power to decide on treatment and admission" is factually incorrect, though it's an incorrect impression the article very much tried to leave you with.
> They absolutely should give up. You can't compete with an OS and ecosystem into which billions of dollars have been sunk.

I agree, but I think the people building these systems are working under basically impossible conditions.

I am just speculating here, but in a car company I would think the people are mostly going to be passionate about "car stuff" (engine, driving experience, aesthetics, drive train, etc), and so the infotainment system considerations are going to take a back seat to all the things car enthusiasts care more about. This doesn't necessarily mean the people in the infotainment team themselves, but would definitely be whoever they report to, up the chain to whatever the 'product owner' equivalent is for the entire car (eg: responsible for allocating the budget). I would expect to find an attitude less like "let's make sure people buy this car because of the infotainment system" than "infotainment is tolerated as a necessary feature to sell the car to the masses".

On top of that, they have to build software that is going to be around for a couple decades with (ideally) no updates, and that basically doesn't ever crash. This means extensive testing -- maybe for over a year. For sake of discussion let's say it takes only another year to build the software: this means by the time the car is released, the platform (both hardware and any underlying software/frameworks) it's built on is basically already two years old -- and there's a good chance when the platform was picked it already wasn't cutting-edge.

This isn't meant to be a defense of bad infotainment software -- it's still bad. Give up, and focus your time on making a great CarPlay/Android Auto experience (at probably a fraction of the time currently spent). Make the FM radio and maybe bluetooth audio work standalone, then just rely on the phone integration for everything else (maps, text messages, phone dialing, contacts, etc).
Bottle and can deposit has been going on in Massachusetts since at least the 80's (when I was growing up there) - https://www.mass.gov/deposit-bottle-can-recycling
What sort of export does the tool have? Would be great if this exported to a json file Lottie could use, or something that could be converted into a GSAP timeline easily
Cryptocurrency only gives you more reliability if you actually run a full node. That's impossible at facebook scale, so facebook's giftcard is what they're stuck with.
Ask HN: What problems are podcasters facing?
Hey, HN

I'm the founder of Castup, a startup that provides professional podcast editing services to indie podcasts and networks, starting at 40 cents per published minute.

Since it has been a while we've been successfully running this startup, I wanted to expand a bit and see if we could help Podcasters in other ways.

For example, a problem that I think a lot of Podcasters have is they don't want to spend $20-$30 each month for a website, and my team and I are currently studying whether we can provide mini website that costs $29 per year (we are currently working out on economies, how will things work etc.) but I'm sure there are other problems that we can attempt to solve with good design and code. So, let's hear them?

Our website: https://www.useCastup.com
Having just gotten back from Nashville, their implementation is not really working. The sidewalks are now stressful to walk on as scooters fly above 20 MPH in all directions, with the rider often yelling "Sorry! I don't know how to drive this thing."
I totally agree with your map/territory analogy. When I’m referring to a corporation I’m not talking about all the physical things in the world (the company) but what you’re calling a legal entity.

I would also bet good money that most corporations in the world do not map directly to a business-process-in-action. Most corporations are a layer of abstraction of ownership. There are many more of these than real businesses in the physical world.
The 2019 mazda 3 without the touchscreen still has carplay and android auto. You can still do all of that. You control it with the "commmander switch" instead of a touch screen, and more often with the volume knob or buttons on the wheel for the most common tasks.
Found. Did get some coverage in the end. PoC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOJ_8QHX6OA

DVB standards updated their specification after the disclosure too. [1] DVB announcement: https://www.dvb.org/resources/public/pressreleases/dvb_pr263...

Someone found another vulnerability using the same vector - will post if I can find it.
But then it can self-update and install crapware without any interaction anyway.