skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance, food, cell service, and mattresses all have a fair amount of competition and lower prices. Airlines and medical are heavily regulated industries and regulation drives industries toward monopolies, not away from them. Search engines and social networks are different animals--they're already "free" to use and there aren't more of them in Europe (or the rest of the world) than in the US, so to the extent that those industries are monopolized, it's not because of some American cultural or political artifact.
So although there might be “waste”, emergency preparedness shouldn’t be forgotten about. It’s safer and better to have blood available when it’s needed than to be begging for it.
Perhaps. It seems that this option is enabled by default, though. I imagine something about this is buried in the pile of agreements you have to click through when installing Windows. What's the status of current legal understanding of the reality that EULAs are bullshit and nobody ever reads them? Maybe I could win something from Europe via GDPR complaint if I compiled an executable containing my PII only for it to be exfilled by Microsoft?
I have gained some fluency in three foreign languages and I can now say I'm not surprised by the long tail anymore. Gendered nouns or inconsistent prepositions are only the start of it. If you get angry at arcane pronounciation rules, what are you going to make of the huge body of phrases found in every language? Learning any language well takes a lot of effort. And initial tribulations like pronounciation don't affect the overall effort much.

The international version of English is shaping up even without a governing body. And I do expect children in traditionally English-speaking countries having to take classes in it to make themselves understood. It would be nice if some warts could be removed in the process. But no authority with enough pull exists. We'd need a WEO setting standards and nobody wants that badly enough.
Maybe it has worked out for you, but I don't know all that much about cars and my experience is that dealers usually talk their way out of covering something or add one extra crap they say is not covered that costs a lot anyway.
I understand Perl is still very popular, but I have always hate Perl with a passion. I felt it was just a bunch of arbitrary rules that you had to memorize vs a more naturally intuitive language. For example, if I remember correctly, Perl supported both "&&" and "and", with 2 different precedences. And the line of code that broke me was something similar to

$a = $src[$src]

At first I thought it was a bug, but then I realized that there must be two different variables called src, one was a scalar and the other was an array (I think that's what it's called it's been 15 years since I've used it).

Anyway at that point, I decided I hated Perl and would never use it again.
I get the frustration, I really do.

But I think part of the issue here is the idea that time is fungible like money. That saving time by looking at Trello cards instead of meeting face to face is somehow more effective.

It might be. It might not be. But simply saving a few minutes of time doesn’t necessarily equate to “more productive.”

This kind of optimization of behavior assumes everyone will consume information uniformly.

Ever sent up a smoke signal for help on a blocker in slack, only for the comment to be lost in a bunch of messages and you stay blocked?

Again, in a perfect world, we could just record everything and do it all asynchronously. Wonderful ideal.

But the stand up, in my experience, accomplished more than just cold task management.

It gives a point for each person to consider what they’ve done, compose it, and to raise in a higher resolution environment the blockers they have.

It’s silly to think that we can replace every interaction with an async version of the same interaction, at least on my team.

At the same time, I don’t recommend dogma in either direction. Don’t find value in the standup? Do something different.
I was comparing the US DC (401k) vs say the UK (A Group Personal Pension or a SIPP).
Copyright infringement. It is unlikely to apply. Particularly as the infringement has no "effect [...] upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Meaning Microsoft hasn't hurt anyone else's bottom line.

There's several fair usage arguments you can make. At least three strong arguments. But to be honest this would need to be tested in the courts one way or the other.

I don't really think copyright conceptually is a very fruitful argument here. CFAA is likely stronger.
The Deepfake ‘Arms Race’
My long-term hobby is building a home museum with a tri-fold emphasis on natural history, the history of mankind, and pop culture. I try to avoid the obvious artifacts and look for specific and obscure objects that highlight thought-provoking moments in life & history.

A few examples: Fulgurite, Manhattan project glass, Japanese Pesos, Nazi-Occupied Polish stamps, 1996 Olympic medal, bone records, DEA task force patches.

Also plenty of fossils, meteorites, international currency, memorabilia, etc. Inspired by a childhood spent exploring museums and, in recent years, Mini Museum on Kickstarter.

Edit: (Also many other less cool hobbies with tech & art)
Why does my string consist of this Korean character repeated over and over?
Probably not. The "rejuvenating effects" come from the body of young donors, so I don't think the artificial blood contains most of the components that human blood contains.
Right, signed apps will requires to be notarized.
Unsigned apps will run like before with either right-click open or by clicking open in System Preferences -> Security.
Citation needed.

Name a place in any USA city where you will be detained and your equipment confiscated for taking pictures from a public thoroughfare.
If the package has been labelled "bomb", I would blame them.
And that's the point here, they know what it's going to be invested in.

Yes, it's commercially imperative to trade, unless it doesn't. And people getting aware of it and complaining is one way, it becomes more of a liability.
> because “we want free software” doesn't really translate to pay for hard work and dedication.

That is one hell of a hot take. RedHat, SUSE, Canonical, would all probably disagree. (also, fwiw, so would I - I have been working on Open Source software for 5+ years, and have been paid for it for the entire time)

> as most are either contract workers or just volunteers

The linux kernel called, said something about having a large amount of fully paid, long term staff.

I get it, you don't like free software - but there is plenty of free software that people are paid to maintain and develop, and it has been a great benefit to software development as a result. Even paid for software is probably using some open source components, (runtimes, languages, compilers, libraries to name a few of them).
I wonder how to position this type of service. As a competitor to "big clouds" or as a service that fills a certain niche?
While I don't think people born in the same time are all the same, the fact is a lot of Baby Boomers had at least a shared experience in having a father who came back from the war. I don't think there is anything comparable for us GenXers (who were basically defined as "not Baby Boomers") and the Millennials when the marketers realized the GenX term was going on for too long.
I find the this whole wage debate rather interesting, because it is not only an extremely misunderstood issue, at the same times as it is a core measure of the condition of society (Please do not confuse that with a notion of "health", but rather the objective "condition" of the society, also not just the economy)

The ideal state of any economy is one in which balance of opportunities exists to the point where an equilibrium is created between employers and employees, or even the transmutation of employees into employers; where you are paid what an efficient profit seeking employer is able to pay and what you ask for as you sell your labor (encompassing all manner of work).

What we unfortunately today have, most notably in the USA, is not only a distorted, but also a deliberately and intentionally distorted labor market in which the ruling class puts immense pressure on the scales against the working class in order to manipulate the system and market, which amounts to fraud. It comes in various forms, but one of them is relevant to this issue, that being the importation of subversive labor to artificially drive down wages in order to turn the delta into profits.

That's what this story is about, as much as the immigration issue that the ruling class has convinced the "liberal" side of the political spectrum to champion, against the interest of the working people they claim to champion, and for the profit of the ruling class, whether by corporate profit or personal savings when they hire nannies, cooks, maids, landscapers, etc. about their homes.

As interesting as I find this issue in a general sense, it is also sad watching what amounts to the ruling class manipulating and deceiving and defrauding the ordinary people no differently than they have for hundreds of years, including things like convincing regular people that "immigration" is wonderful, while not explaining the fact that without immigration people would be far far better off.

Immigration is a ruling class con job, on both the origin and destination end. On the destination end it leads to things like this subject article where workers are desperately trying ad hoc procedures to untangle the gordian knot that could easily be undone by ceasing immigration, and on the originating end the destination ruling class are syphoning off human resources that could have led to the development of the originating country, while also sabotaging destination workers and people; while the origin ruling class is happy to be rid o the motivated and driven people who could likely organize and demand changes that would see their rule challenged.

I got a bit off track, but as much as I find that people have a hard time understanding that this subject issue is directly related to the exploitative and fraudulent and manipulative practice of "immigration", aka, shifting human resources around globally to serve the ruling class; I also wish I could understand why people do not seem to want to accept that reality as they fawn over the ruling class that sabotages them for personal profit, while at the same time lamenting the ruling class' exploitative nature otherwise. It's quite an odd phenomenon.
One where vampires come out of hiding? :P
Baseless claims. Doesn't matter how good your lifestyle was, by 80 it's genetics. Science will continue to progress despite what you believe. There are biological organisms who don't age like we do or even go back and forth; young to old then young.
VLC - though it doesn't cure cancer or anything , its a cure for video player industry(if one exist).. cant think of any other open source video players with billions of installs, and FREE.. calling someone who does opensource as idiot is just ridiculous..
No, just using plain QML. Basically, it's a C++ application with application logic written in JS (using a rather bad JIT), and where we went wrong was writing a lot of application logic in JS rather than just writing the UI specific application logic in JS and the remaining part of the application logic in C++. OTOH, we already had huge parts of the system in C++ and the JS access was mainly small data transformations, but even this turned out to be too slow.
Why would one ignore "the human problems"? It's the very reason defined benefit pensions don't work outside of a population and economic boom.

Pretty much every developed nation is raising retirement ages and reducing benefits to grapple with the fact that there is less wealth being created in their countries. No one can "manage" automation and labor from China/India/etc taking out a huge portion of your middle class.
Notarization is an automated process. It's not a human-made review.
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I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing. Run them in a virtual environment, see what they do to the environment and what internet communications they make. When it's done destroy the environment.

If it tried to do something like a DDoS it would be identified as doing so and marked as malware, end of test.
Response time. The time between clicking the mouse and seeing a change on screen feels instantaneous; there's just no hesitation or lag for the most part. Compute-intensive tasks can't compete of course, but response time has gotten much worse in modern operating systems, especially mobile ones. It's quite common on a modern Mac for a scroll of a Finder window to put up a spinning beachball. Wristwatch cursors happened on classic Macs too, but never for something as trivial as a scroll. Part of the problem is that we're still using O[n] algorithms where n is a lot bigger than it used to be, but another part is that we no longer write UI code with an emphasis on quick response time.
>Letting people set up private companies with competitive options I think would probably drive the best results.

Hello, please call

* 910 if you think your fire is not urgent, and can wait 10 minutes to come for free

* 911 if you think your fire is getting hotter, and can only way 5 minutes to come for $500

* 912 if you would like the fire department to come as soon as they possible can, and skip the queue of 910 callers for $10000
Should people be required to own a Mac to release desktop software for the Mac? It is - or at least was - quite possible to make an application in Electron or Java or some other tool and release it cross-platform, having beta testers handle platforms specific testing.

Now, Apple is making that impossible, which hurts developers who can't afford to go all-in on the mac platform.
Aside, but another annoying thing about Spotify's native macOS client does not use the Apple API for "Open on login" toggle (that is exposed when you right-click on the app icon in the Dock) and instead has it buried in their own preferences. I uninstalled it yesterday because their web player is decent enough and I didn't have the patience to figure out how to disable this open on startup option.
By 2025, WARC estimates that 3.7 billion people, or over 72% of projected internet users, will be smartphone-only internet users.

Things will get so much worse, it's frightening!
> Tangentially it seems crazy they're not required to pay for the time spent going through security. If they're paid hourly and not free to go they're still on the job.

It’s an asshole move for sure. I hope they are forced to pay up, and then they will invest in streamlining the process.
My 'apartment' when I was at university was 100 sq ft with 3 apartments sharing a bathroom and kitchen area. Sure I wouldn't have wanted to live there forever, but for the 2.5 years I was there it offered everything i needed, and it was 5 minute walk from campus and a ~20 minute walk to downtown. I also had the choice of a real 500+ sq ft apartment 30 minutes by bus from the campus, but I never even seriously considered swapping.
While Kimball was kind of pompous, I like him much better as the host. Bridget and Julia just don't seem as fluid, and everything about the show feels more scripted. Although, I've watched milk Street as well, and bought the cookbook. I have to say, the quality of milk Street recipes is nowhere near that of America's test kitchen. I found the recipes to be bland and flavorless.
There are. But I think you're hearing a lot of people not liking the cost associated with significantly de-risking a future annual income stream.

Annuities can certainly make sense, including ones that, for example, you can get by donating appreciated assets.
Using the spctl disable command on the computers of unwary non-tech relatives is irresponsible. Your personal convenience is no excuse for increasing the attack surface of their computer and the risk that they could download and run malware without knowing any better.
Sorry, that was a typo. The link I cited is on DHEA. DEHA is an organic compound, not a hormone.
First meat grown in space lab 248 miles from Earth
It would be very difficult for Generation X and Y to experience moral panic over younger generations' music, considering that we grew up listening to music with explicit sex, violence, and depictions of drug use.

Music these days is tame by comparison.
> Unlike writing, speech doesn’t require multiple drafts before it “works.” Uncertainty,
anxiety, dread, and mental fatigue all attend writing; talking, on the other hand, is easy, often pleasant, and feels mostly unconscious.

While I like the article, this distinction feels overly anecdotal and subjective to me.
> You can't even install them without having to chase down esoteric instructions.

You literally just run the installer like anywhere else, what on earth are you talking about? How is that an esoteric instruction?
The only time I have ever seen value in a daily standup meeting is when I worked in a blue-collar industrial job.

Everybody had to clock in by 6:30 AM, so there was none of this shit where it is time for the standup, and two or three people haven't dragged in yet, so you delay and waste time.

The foreman told each person what they were doing that day. And that was what they needed to get done.

If there was a blocker or a safety issue, you threw the shutoff switch and jumped on the radio right away.
U.S. Agency Reviews Claims Tesla Should Have Recalled 2000 Cars
248 miles = 339 km
Most of the people I know who got Tesla instead of similarly priced Audi/Bmw/Mercedes did that for “auto pilot” and being electric for some of them was actually a downside.
Did they have a choice or is that a form of mandated happiness?

Look at this guy, he is clearly smiling on that photo:

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/comment-08062019130629.html

Sorry for the sleight, but I cannot take these articles seriously. They probably don't even get security and the data can probably show it. But yes, the regime might actually be more protected from early dissidents.
Better yet, K - it's even more cryptical than Perl :)
Turns out this is part of a trend of luxury car owners switching to Tesla and its driving down costs of pre-owned luxury cars:

https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/...
Yes? Spotify dropped their support for libspotify a long time ago so the community had to develop their own replacement.

https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
I think that is a lazy business model, selling cars at a very low margin just so that you could make money by planned obsolescence and high cost replacement parts.

I would rather buy a car for more money that's engineered to the best possible attainable engineering perfection than one that is not.

Often, those more reliable cars are even cheaper and made in massive production. Given Teslas goal of accelerating the change to sustainable energy, it would be in their best interest to make the best possible and reliable car they could at the highest possible production numbers, instead of leaving a competitive advantage for toyota to take over reliable scalable production. Besides I would argue the purpose of the model 3 is a mass market vehicle that is really nice, and not just a niche "luxury" vehicle as is often implied.
> but this is definitely why I think the 401k/private saving model is the best.

Not sure if it made outside just the Houston news cycle at the time but as an employee of a competitor I heard from friends at Enron that their employer froze all sales of their stock in employee 401ks before going under. Lou Pai managed to cash out as part of a divorce settlement as documented here https://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Ex-Enron-exec-P... but most employees were not able to divest themselves and protect their retirement.
You can download prebuilt images for supported devices. Installation is not always a smooth ride, but once you spend 30 minutes you generally forget about it.

Plus you get updates.
It's nice to see somebody taking risks in interior design; it's definitely not for everybody but it's nice to see a design that doesn't feel like they're trying to copy German luxury cars.

Of course I don't want companies innovating on design at the expense of safety but it does appear that Tesla has a fairly well thought out set of physical controls. Is it enough? Good question.
This is my preferred method as well when leading a team.

Standups as intended are too brief to discuss the important details. This is why they end up ballooning to 30+ minutes at most companies, because anything shorter is of little value.

They also end up as a catch-all meeting for any topics that require the team's input; I dislike this because people are expected to provide input on the spot without really making any thoughtful considerations. If we want to have a discussion on a UI component, that should be done in a dedicated, prepared meeting, not at 8:30 in the morning when people are unprepared and said developer can take advantage of unpreparedness to obtain the consensus they want.

When I provide up-stream status reports, I like to have the developer's notes in front of me for a quick refresher. Plus, they serve as a good reminder on topics that need followup.
Extremely freaking cool.

Any idea how this stuff is manufactured? Can it be produced cheaply enough to potentially replace the entire blood donation system?
Like how the Tesla is an amazing computer? Besides the ML chip.
The Inuit agree on a common writing system
Uuuh no. Real blood unfortunately does more than transport oxygen. So "hook them up to the tank" isn't a solution, and isn't a problem only in a surgeon's mind.
I have a Chevy Bolt and a Model 3 in my household. Of course I much prefer to drive the Model 3, but the Chevy bolt is also all electric , goes about 240 miles on a single charge and costs about $20k less than the Model 3.
Why more people don't get a Chevy Bolt, is a mystery to me.
You could just use location data (either from Google, or from signal triangulation) to see if their owners were out or at home last night. Add data from the accelerometer and you'd see how drunk they were.

Yeah, I'm glad there are laws against that kind of data collection. Or are the laws just there to keep me fooled?

Interestingly, Facebook probably can already tell who's in a relationship with whom and how far they are in it: how often do they talk to each other on the messaging apps, how often they check each other's profiles (FB, IG), were both their phones connected to the same WiFi network last night after their third date?
Legally bound doesn't mean much if it doesn't have the power to print money. If it affects enough voters, the government usually steps in with a bailout for part of the benefit.
Modern bands have it easy in every way. They have more music history available, collaboration is easier due to internet (no longer requires physical space or snailmail), electronics made music production a lot easier in many ways, and autotune makes it difficult to sing false.
Sure that's how people think about it now. They were talking about how it was seen then.
>I have trouble squaring this ostensibly fantastic news with the constant dire predictions about the stock.

The problem isn't the "stock". It's the financials of the company that are an issue.

>simply overpriced

If you think they'll have half a million self-driving, appreciating robo-taxis on the road next year, it's probably cheap. I happen to think that ain't gonna happen.

>is Tesla the company in danger of going bankrupt?

16 years of losses so far. But they've been able to continue to find financing for now. That (We)works until it doesn't.