skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a Marshall Rosenberg event I attended, he was asked about the unnatural speaking style. His reponse was that it was like "training wheels" for learning the process and, like you say, it doesn't sound like that once you learn to practice NVC natually.

And that may be, but my experience with various NVC teachers and practitioners is that they don't know the training wheel analogy and they do speak in an unnatural way for the most part.

Got a link for that YouTube lecture? (There are many.)
> but that often doesn't constrain policymakers.

Why don't we see more people with basic technical knowlege in policy making
That is hilarious.

"A review might consider whether it is befitting for the world's sixth largest economy to manage critical national infrastructure via a Yahoo group but we would hope that is obvious."
Not true. In San Francisco, 35% of homeless residents in the last point-in-time count identified as female, and another six percent identified as another non-male gender.
44 states have minimum tread depth specified in the law. Almost nobody has the tool necessary to replace a tire anyway, so nobody does that themselves. So what’s your point?

Not sure why you would assume that prohibiting people from working on their cars would increase the level of maintenance.
I think it is crazy. Why would 90% of new apps need to feature microservice architectures for any other reason beside padding out resumes?
As is often the case, this is some very interesting technology, but for now, we’ll only see it used in some novelty applications.

An increased level of spatial awareness for phones will be huge in the coming decade. However, it will almost certainly be a result of sensor fusion between a Soli-like radar sensor, a FaceID-like ToF sensor, enhanced positioning and pose detection, RGB cameras, microphones, and a lot of ML to assemble a comprehensive picture of environmental context and user intent.

Radar is one more piece of the puzzle in building products that can read the same cues we naturally use to communicate with other humans: Imagine, instead of telling a voice assistant “Alexa, turn down the volume,” where you have to use a phonetic trigger, and all the system has to go on is audio, something more natural: You look in the direction of the hardware, say “turn it down a bit,” and make a pinching gesture with your hand. The system can assemble all these pieces (you were looking at it, you spoke in its direction, you gestured) and, with a sufficiently-trained neural network, make a more conclusive determination of your intent.
The page you linked to lists activities that are forbidden if you use Google payments.

> Any individual or business processing transactions with Google payments must adhere to these policies.
That's like telling a convenience store owner that they're "independent" of Visa and Mastercard. Yeah sure, good luck with that.
It's really quite hard to explain as anybody who's had psychedelic experiences will probably tell you - but for me it was something like this:

A major reason for my depressions where my fathers early death, which i hadn't really processed up to that point. In my first ever trip, some hours in i fell into a state where all that sadness and regret just overpowered my conscience, quite literally myself. Yet at the same time i was calmly observing myself, and i was able to reflect quite deeply onto my emotional state, ironically all whilst beeing utterly unable to control it.

This "loss of ego", i could maybe describe it as an "out of body experience" made it incredibly obvious to me how to put my regular emotional state into context and understanding how rejecting the process of grief and feeding my fears of loss had created the state i was living in.

Afterwards all those things that had an unshakeable grip on me started to become understandable in a way you'd understand ANOTHER person going through this, reasoning wasn't clouded anymore from my affection. I think that was the tipping point
I've met people who were more or less knowledgeable in certain areas, yes. I've met people who were more or less skilled in certain areas, yes.

But for people who I would consider as intelligent, it's not a result of just knowledge. Or just skills.

I would trust their ability to "get" concepts they've been previously ignorant of relatively quickly. The wheels just spin faster.

And a lot like height, there's diminishing returns and what not. I can get a step ladder, then being tall is just a fact. Being intelligent can help you get a concept quicker, but once we both understand it, there's no effective difference.

But no one gets defensive about height. Or strength. Or anything with visible qualifiers. Which is funny, because intelligent people are better at thinking in the abstract and intelligence and the results of it are abstract.
Just to add clarity these were two different apps that were taken down: Wireguard and AndOTP (among others mentioned in this thread)

Wireguard had 50k+ installs according to its (now dead) playstore page: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kSsZsb...

AndOTP had 10k+ installs: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:buaKcF...
Good thought experiment, though I do think Soli still makes sense. There is no reason Soli doesn't work exactly the same as a remote - there is no need to unlock the phone if the chip is always on, and can even detect when a user is engaged prior to an action.

In my mind the only difference between a button on a remote and a "button" that sits in the air above my coffee table is reliability, which will be solved in the future. I know pressing button x does y, it makes equal sense that moving my hand like x does y. Feedback could be anything from a puff of air, tiny light flash, small 'ding' sound, etc.
> basic literacy that would obviate the excuse for tight, walled gardens and locked down devices

You can do whatever you want on a platform like Windows because they make their money off of selling support for their platform, and selling their own products for it.

Google and Apple do not make money selling support for their platform, and only Apple really focuses on selling products for it. But they both make money by tightly controlling their platforms, in order to to squeeze money from developers, [in the case of Google] from manufacturers, from carriers, from users' payments, and from all the data they collect about it all. They don't have to care about the customer at all, and they can just focus on engineering. It's the programmer's dream.

Their business model is a walled garden, and they pick the fruits of that garden. In the case of Google, they run the Android platform so they have a way to still make ad money if Apple denied them access to that platform. In the case of Apple, they run the Apple platform so they can make money from expensive consumer devices, and also use it to control more of the services/products we use.

So, it really doesn't have anything to do with literacy. Even if everyone were a genius, their choice is still A) don't use a smartphone, or B) use a walled-garden smartphone.
Tragedy of the commons is a major factor here. Any city that looks 'homeless friendly' will get people shipped to it from other cities, sometimes as part of explicit 'bus ticket' programs.

Really solving this will take work at the national level. There's more than enough wealth around to fund it, given how much goes into the pockets of opioid manufacturers alone.
The interest of an American corporation is definitionally beneficial to at least some Americans, namely themselves.

The interest of a Russian dictator is untied to the interests of any Americans.

As for how much influence Russia had, read the Mueller report. Volume One is full of examples.

Corporate influence is bad, sure, but corporations have nowhere near the amount of resources to bear on influence operations as states have. Avengers: Endgame, the most expensive movie ever made, cost about as much as one F35 fighter jet, of which the USAF has purchased 1,783 units. When a state decides to use popular media for public influence, they can wield multiple orders of magnitude more influence than any of the world's great media monopolies can.
Courses on discrete and convex optimization should be required in every CS program. I don't know why they aren't.

Most of modern ML just extends convex optimization techniques anyway.
Yes it is really cumbersome to use. Set-<tab> is pretty useless since you have to tab through dozens of entries if you don't know the noun you are looking for.
But they are innovating. New products all the time.

They just aren't staying around to collect the (relative to Google) meager profits. I wish more companies knew when to call it quits.
Yahoo missed the boat in terms of their real asset, which was identity.

Microsoft, Google and Facebook ran with it. The rest of Yahoo is just an irrelevant husk.
I meant that they didn't catch on in the same way say webcams or wireless headphones caught on among consumers.

I have personally built stuff with KinectFusion before so I do know how powerful it is.
Could you expand on the result of said innovation? Where would I see Kinect driven innovation in everyday life?
Your DNA and the composition of your bones has no effect on whether a place "feels familiar" or not. This article is entertainment based on science, but without a clear distinction.
39% of homeless are female

20% of all homeless are under 18

Source: https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-P... Page 11.
Oh man, I can totally relate to that. I was working as a line-cook, and my direct manager was talking to me in private about how proud he was of progressing to management in a short period of time. I said something like, "yeah, but at the end of the day you're a manager at a shitty taco place." I meant it in a dark, lighthearted, joking-not-joking sort of way. He brought that interaction up for months, saying that I gave him an existential crisis. He actually thanked me for the "wake up call" and started saving some money as a result of it, but I still felt bad.
Some would say 75% is the majority.
Linux security hole: Much sudo about nothing
Yesterday I wrote a blog post about an interesting company, I couldn't find the URL even though I knew exactly what they did and where they were located. It took forver - and DuckDuckGo - to finally find the website. I'd forgotten their name and had put of writing that blog post for long enough that it had slipped my mind.

That isn't the first time this happens either. It's extremely frustrating to not be able to locate a page that you know is out there.
You're an awesome moderator :D
Maybe someone else was unaware of the other's desired gender. Maybe they don't accept the idea that people get to choose their own gender. The expression of different cultural norms is not necessarily harassment.
If I can run workflows for free, how are you making money?
10k listings seems like way to little data for this.
It is unlikely that any actual outcome of climate change is going to be popular.

In terms of making choices, though, it is likely that taking vacations in a place that is close enough not to fly there will be more popular than not having heat in winter, not feeding your kids or abandoning the idea of getting medics.
65%, unable to edit my comment for some reason.
> archiving all of Imgur and Reddit’s image hosting system

that's a huge task? where do you have funding for that?
This is not as much a housing issue as it is a mental health and substance abuse issue.

See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless...
Few would say 65% is "Nearly all"
I'm an American that prefers YYYYMMDD and has used it exclusively in my career. As a developer with a lengthy deployment background and it's simply the superior way to go for dates for readability and sorting. Many like myself have 2 modes of operation, the 2nd being what business owners and executives are expecting. We couldn't force it on them if we wanted to. This often extends into English vs metric as well. I default on metric for everything I can. It may not be the American developer to blame but the average person around him. It's very surprising to me that after the American Revolution, we weren't eager and early adopters of the Metric system considering animosity towards the British was still lingering for some time.
I know a lot of people who have 6 months of practice, repeated dozens of times. Most drivers for example have about that much, and it shows in how they drive.
Sure, but why? If the rules clearly said "no chess games", one could say "that ends the discussion of why chess games are denied", or you could further ask "but why are no chess games allowed?". Is it because Google plans on having their own Google-Chess someday and thus is preemptively preventing competition? Is there a technical or regulatory reason chess games aren't allowed?

That's the question (at least for me) here: why are (non-tax-exempt) donations not allowed, beyond the tautological response of "because the rules say so"? I'm not familiar with the regulations around this area, so for all I know there's a great non-Google reason for this and Google just wants to avoid the hassle of conforming to some law. Or maybe donations is a feature they want to eventually support in Google Play and they don't want to have to force a bunch of apps in the future to switch once they add it (which would be a more disappointing reason). Perhaps they're afraid that it would create a loophole where people could get around the 30% cut since psychologically it feels shitty for someone to middle-man a donation, but then if they made donations Google-tax free, everyone would just choose "donation" and they'd have to police this.
This is not always the case. Some of these people cannot function in regular society and actually find living on the streets to be easier.
Shift Happens: A Book in Progress
You don't have to take on any of the risk if anything breaks by forcing them to have renter's insurance. It's something that a lot of newer apartment buildings are doing these days.
i would assume it's an anti-spam effort
I'm sorry, you think not wanting to hit a large number of extra keys to go different app => desired window, or to have to navigate a chaotic mission control view with a mouse is just a "not exactly the same as windows" complaint?

This entire thread exists because of people who want mac os to have a better window switching pattern.
Tldr; it quite literally "killed my ego" for a short time and allowed for an unclouded view onto what was going on with me. And that way of reflecting my emotional state stayed with me ever since
Nothing. If your kid actively seeks out porn then chances are that he is already mature enough for it. Thus the problem does not exist.

Edit: and the things you should watch out for is not porn, but have you kid joined some weird religious cult or a gang - that can cause a LOT more trouble than having an awkward conversation about sex.
Agreed - but those are software problems that can be solved with training or good ux. iPhone has no indication of what can be down (How do you know you can swipe your homescreen up, down, left, and right?). Discover-ability is a challenge that has been overcome previously and can be overcome again.

Part of that is the two games on the announcement page which show you examples of gestures. Doing gesture x accomplished y in the game, so maybe in the next app you open doing gesture x will accomplish something.
Going back a ways. The US Navy was a leading founding backer of MIT.
The article says 1,000 - 2,000 homeless in Boise, but at 2,000, a little quick MATH shows that Boise's homelessness rate may be a tad higher than LA's:

Boise: 2,000 homeless in population of 227,000 = 1:113

LA: 36,000 homeless in population of 4,000,000 = 1:111

Given the difference in annual weather, it's not clear that Boise policy is effective in reducing homelessness.
I had this sentiment quit often in the beginning of my career. Now, I simply realize that my lack of understanding crosses every single piece of technology there is. Fridge? No idea. Cars? Well, I can drive it almost as well as I can open a fridge, everything else is magic. How about bicycle? That's easy, right? Well, I challenge you to just now sit down and write a detailed schematic, describing everything that is needed to make a bicycle what it is. Extra points if you can explain why driving on two wheels actually works out.

I know nothing about anything and almost don´t care anymore. The last bit of wanting to understand is bathed the absurdity of it all.

Thanks for the links, sounds interesting.
Because it's very non-habit forming, and has a positive effect on my mental well-being, as well as having been correlated to longer life.

I formed a vaping habit during a stressful period at work, which is much more nicotine (a pipe gives you the amount of nicotine as about a quarter of a cigarette, delivered over about a half hour), and I plan to go back to my occasional enjoyment of a pipe at home, refraining from using vaping as a coping mechanism.
I personally end every meeting I can with "time is a construct and we're all going to die".
That's interesting — not a donation page, but an F-Droid page (which as far as I know doesn't accept donations)? When did this happen?
Hi you've found me. 11 years working in London without taking a black cab. Taken an Uber once in those 11 years.
Because in a constitutional form of government there are lots of things that cities are not allowed to do, and judicial relief from those unconstitutional, or otherwise illegal actions is expected and by design.
Not unless your entity is 503(c) tax-exempt which is explicitly allowed by Google.

These “donations” are more like tips, which are treated as taxable income.

I don’t see the problem here. The outrage in this thread seems more about people wanting a different set of rules for OSS and possibly avoiding income tax than anything else. If there are a different set of rules for OSS, then that just makes it easier to abuse the platform. Google’s policy seems fair to me.
That is basically how consul connect works: https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/native/go.html
While reddit probably works well for very large groups, their 6-months-and-the-thread-is-locked policy is very bad for small ones... not to mention that it violates netiquette !
Because when you do that nothing ever needs tweaked on the fly? Because issues of load and scale aren't often times emergent?

I am not making an argument against what you are saying. I am saying that a common interface between the two would be the sane and rational decision. It should be trivial to use the console and turn that back into your new behavior for committing back to your repository.
Awesome, thank you dang!
That was indeed cool, but it also belongs to the "pet" phase of computing and this is the "cattle" age.
Tencent - pretty rockstar in China.
Sounds like a tool for devops. As a developer I would rather do extra work but on a mainstream cloud using a favourite language. Then again I am not in start-ups.
A lot of early 3d scanners were just repurposed Kinects: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOUSSlKUJ-A
> So the devices aren’t the center of the system, you are. That’s our vision for ambient computing.

The vision is correct but the naming is off. Something like “embodied computing” would convey the key difference better than “ambient”, namely that the user is at the center. And yes this is a fancypants way of saying wearables.

But this is a nice attempt from google to paint the future as an extension of something it is good at (managing lots of ambient cloud-like things) while downplaying that what we’re really talking about is wearables (not really a strong suit for Big G).
I hate it. It means that I'll never be able to trust some new service they launch because (1) if I adopt it it will likely get killed and (2) even if they don't they are going to let it suffer a slow death.

I'm more than happy to wait for years if I have to in case something develops accidental mass market traction in which case Google will likely support it long term.

I wonder if Google realizes how much this works against them, without 'early adopters' you don't have much chance of success, even at Google's scale. Burn your early adopters often enough and you'll end up with unused new services.
Google neutered F-Droid's ability to do automatic updates.
Same here. Except for one or two functions, I would always end up squinting at a remote in the dark to try and read the labels.

I like remotes like the Apple TV remote and the Roku remote (except for the fact that the Roku remote is a piece of utter garbage and I want to have strong words with the designer) because they focus on the essentials and let you do everything else through menus.

(The Roku remote is an utter piece of trash for a couple reasons. First, it chews through AA batteries like it’s going out of style. Second, it is not responsive—there is a agonizing delay between when you press a button for the first time and when the action takes effect. My guess is that these defects are because it uses WiFi to communicate with the device, and I can’t understand why anybody thought that was a reasonable technology to choose.)
If you don't want to be rehabilitated, you will not be rehabilitated.
About a decade ago I archived many Yahoo Groups I liked with yahoo2mbox. No idea if there are any similar scripts now.

I tried using hypermail to convert some of the mbox files into HTML so I could post them online, but for some reason hypermail doesn't seem to work on any of them. Thunderbird reads the files fine, though. If anyone has any ideas about why, let me know. I could even provide a sample mbox file if you email me (address at website linked in my HN profile).

The worst part is that there's one private Yahoo Group that I never was able to get access to that apparently was important in a hobby I've participated in. I guess that one's going to the bit bucket...

Edit: Archiveteam has information about other archiving programs: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
Thank you for sharing! Wider resource:

http://timroughgarden.org/w16/w16.html
I don't like the always-on surveillance either.

But if people choose these products because the convenience is worth it in their estimation, revealed preferences and all that.

Maybe this suggests a counter-product? An offline, all data is local, product opportunity. Who will build it?
Intersections aren't as much of a factor when the majority of travel is on a freeway.
And we still think it's not good enough!
Just link to:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wireguard+donate

Problem solved.
I went to a talk last week by Robin carhart-harris who does deep research in this area. The talk itself was pretty complicated but he was saying (I think!) that they believe these drugs cause the brain to go into a state where it becomes more susceptible to change. The same thing happens under extreme stress / trauma. The context of the experience itself then determines how that’s encoded. It’s like it opens the brain up to change.
> Of course all urban centers are so starved of entry level housing that anything good enough to minimally get a homeless person off the street (bathroom, place to sleep, maybe kitchenette) would also be swamped by everyone from the poor and working, college students, immigrants, etc.

I doubt it; one of the reasons that homelessness is a difficult problem is that some homeless people are very unpleasant to live with, which means other homeless people prefer to remain on the street rather than share housing with them.