skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sounds manipulative to me

Amusingly, "would you only eat the food that you buy" was a suggestion by another person for a less manipulative suggestion. What most people took issue with wasn't the "only eat what you buy" part, but the "would you be willing to <actual request>?" part, which many people took as forcing the other party to answer "yes".

Again, if you're coming from the preconception that someone (normally the other person) is "wrong", you shouldn't use NVC. Earnest NVC requires that you not assign blame or fault. That's the entire reason that you speak only about your feelings and needs and perceived actions of the other party. Granted, "It upsets me when I get to lunch and don't have anything to eat, would you stop eating my food" is also fine in the NVC framework, as I understand it.

> "why did you eat my food?"

This doesn't begin to solve the problem, you're not yet addressing the conflict. In fact, you haven't necessarily signaled that there even is a conflict that needs to be addressed. And note that you're putting the other person on the defensive by not being open about what your goals are. You're acting from a position of uneven information instead of earnesty.
It is an awesome cool piece of technology which is also one of the best remote spying device people can bring into your home and map it. Also motion based identification is a nice thing, so they could tell, who is at home.

If you can give me an example of any cool tech which has been not used to kill or spy on people, I happy stop jumping on the hate train.
If anyone is interested in this type of thing I would recommend reading ‘Seeing Like a State’ by James C. Scott. It is one of those books that makes a point so definitively that many articles on the topic could just be appended as examples.

From Wikipedia:

> The book catalogues schemes which states impose upon populaces that are convenient for the state since they make societies "legible", but are not necessarily good for the people. For example, census data, standardized weights and measures, and uniform languages make it easier to tax and control the population.
The usual question, how they monetize the service?

It's answered here[1], along with limitations[2]:

- 100kb max body-size.

- Rate-limit at 10 requests per second

- 10 seconds per execution for HTTP triggers, and 30 seconds for cron triggers

- 192 MB of memory for your code and libraries during workflow execution

- 512 MB of disk in the /tmp directory.

[1]https://docs.pipedream.com/pricing/
[2]https://docs.pipedream.com/limits/#limits
As much as I hate on the old joint family system it definitely took care of this problem
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See also Steve Yegge’s Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006):

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
This is an engineering argument that's disguised as a business argument. In reality a monolith had way less overhead when starting a new product or business and makes a lot more sense than sinking resources into something that isn't even needed at the time. Not to mention that from an engineering standpoint you can't even know for certain which components need to be broken out onto a microservice without the evidence of traffic.

Following your logic to its ultimate conclusion, you may as well also over-hire on staff, get a super expensive office, crazy benefits packages, etc. Why not? You dont need that stuff if you think your business will eventually fail.
YC W20
Did anyone got interview invite.

It was supposed to be sent on 16th October 2019
> If any rule/law = "authoritarian regime" to you I think we can't stop the discussion now and save us both some time.

Can you quote where I said anything about a "regime"?

> Google is free to handle its playstore as it please as long as it follow the law,

Which is true, but completely besides the point? I am free to call you a clueless asshole. But if the discussion is about how to have a constructive dialog, me pointing out that I am free to call you a clueless asshole contributes exactly nothing to the conversation and at best shows that I have no clue what the discussion is about.

> I doubt google will pull a genocide anytime soon.

Your point being? Authoritarianism is good when it's not a genocide, because ... ?

> Setting boundaries/rules doesn't make you an authoritarian regime.

Again: Where did you pull that "regime" from? And also, no, "setting boundaries/rules" does not make for authoritarianism, that is correct. Why did you assume that I wasn't aware of that?

> If you want to pull the "this reminds me of the darkest hours of our history" card you better find something more important than an app removal from a mobile phone app store if you want to be taken seriously.

Why? And no, simply pointing out that one thing is worse than the other is not a relevant argument, that's simply straw manning, because noone claimed that one was as bad as the other.
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IMO that's mostly historical due to the input devices available.

Terminal games were played with a keyboard, so feature creep resulted in every damn key on keyboard being used.

Most games slowly evolved away from that when joysticks and mouses became the dominant input devices (although I remember flight simulators still using most of the keyboard) but there were lots of games were people were still using the keyboard because it was faster (like FPS games).

Nowadays, with touch screens, using a keyboard is no sensible option and you naturally land a "first select the object then what you want to do with it".

But with roguelikes, you still often have a Verb-Object interface with keyboard shortcuts unless you play roguelikes that were designed from the start with a mobile interface in mind.
I have a Google Home (Google Nest Home now?) in my kitchen and think soli would be a perfect fit for it. Between the noise of my stove and music, sometimes it's really hard to get the device to hear my voice commands. Being able to do gestures with my dirty hands would be great.
Yes. One pass only.
Ok, let's do the math:

Say app has 10MiB, 100,000 downloads is ~1TiB, 1 have a 1GiB/20GiB VPS with that monthly bandwidth which I pay $1/month.

So distributing 100,000 copies costs $1.

I'll give Google $1 for distribution of 100000 copies of my app. Fair?

Yeah, I'll give Google a bit more for payment processing, perhaps. But actual distribution costs nothing really, for most apps.
I tend to lean libertarian on most issues, but I am starting to think it just doesn't make very much sense for people to own land privately. it's one of the only things in the world that is truly scarce (ie, you can't make more plots in the upper east side), and the value of land tends to be based much more on improvements to the surrounding area than improvements to the land itself. also, land ownership seems to lead to all sorts of perverse incentives to lobby for laws that distort the housing market.

sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to take a snapshot of all property values at a certain point in time, pay out the owners at the current value, and switch land over exclusively to long term leases from the government (where the lessee is allowed to sublet).
you are an incredibly stupid person
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And if they work it is a whole lot safer than taking symptom management medication.
I think the property values directly near this area would dramatically increase. The development of this 50 square mile area would also take 10-20 years and be completed in many phases. Most large property developers manage lots this way in order to manage pricing.
I agree with your assessment for most of "flat". Apple does it OK but there are still dialogs and such that look entirely lacking design, in the worst way.

On the plus side the typical case of design along these trends looks indistinguishable from the sort of thing that used to make people shake their head and go "I see the developer made this UI, we'll send it over to design to make it look nice, typical developer, doesn't get design" which means you can match average modern design quality without... knowing anything. So that's nice. Just claim something design-related in your title or how you introduce yourself or something and people will accept it—they'll still say it's bad if your title and reputation is just as a developer.

[EDIT] for example—look at the "upcoming" for the Button element on the linked site. Yeesh.
Oh my god, extraordinary technical feat, but do not want. Seriously, someone go out there and charge $1000 for a dumb 50" television. Give me a phone that doesn't have an assistant or this Soli and I will give a premium for it.
While I tend to agree with you, it also depends on your region. In the US south you can take one look at the psychedelic mushroom picture that grows here and pretty readily identify it. It also only grows in cow poop, so if you see one that looks like the picture, and it's growing in cow poop it's a magic mushroom.

In other areas it may not be that simple, that being said, it's pretty sage advice to not just go out and pick mushrooms to eat.

Personally I never did them or any other hallucinogen, but helped gather them for my friends when I was a kid. My dad is slightly schizophrenic and everyone says he was never the same after they scored some LSD in the 60's. While I am fine, save some depression and ADD, I figured with the family history why risk it, and with the anxiety disorder that comes from depression the thought of having a panic attack while hallucinating pretty much guarantees that it would happen. The one time I tried pot, was an absolute nightmare and that's not even a true hallucinogenic, just has some properties.
>how society actually functions

You know a better answer to this question than a 91 year old philosopher, so .. lets hear it.
Is Steam a big vector? Gamers download hundreds of apps, all get installed as admin. You have to trust every dev of the game and the devs of every library they use. Not just trust that the devs weren't actively trying to be evil but also that their is no bugs in their networking code (https://momo5502.com/blog/?p=34) nor any bugs in their deserialization code for mods
Unless climate change kills the gulf stream...
You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free. Or to make it more apt. I can ask for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free.
Is this really verb-noun/noun-verb or verb-object/object-verb?
> The suit has a 100% oxygen environment

That can't be right, can it?

[edit]
Ok - I guess under low pressure it's not toxic.
But if the pressure is adjusted so that 100% has the effect of 21% O2 on the system, wouldn't the volume of gas be much less, making it a larger effort to breath?
I am really sorry but I genuinely am unable to understand what you said. Can you repeat that in english please?
I absolutely am. It would require others to understand World history in relation to the terms they, and I, are using in this discussion, for them to get that irony.

I have absolutely zero faith in the average HN user to understand, but why should I explicitly appease their ignorance? The downside is people like you, who obviously realise that it could be irony, might imagine the avg HNer would legit say it.
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> convenience for family

As a late-20s person living in the city, this is a thing I've been pondering. I grew up in typical suburban sprawl living "close" to school, soccer practice and friend's houses... but "close" still meant entirely dependent on my parents for rides to each place (less the 5-10 children my age within a 1-mile walk). It was a huge time sink for the family, and having to be driven everywhere felt isolating as a child (i.e. can't hang out because mom is too busy to drive me). Not every urban neighborhood is inherently walkable, but many cities have inner ring suburbs (usually within city limits) where all of those amenities are at most a 20 minute walk away. Would this type of neighborhood be livable with your requirements?
I think you are confusing several matters.

If I understand your comment right, you are saying that the opiod crisis shows that people do choose drugs if they can and if there was univ. healthcare, then the system would go down under the costs.

The problem with this, as I see it: A good chunk of people addicted in this opiod crisis didn't choose to get addicted. They were all too readily prescribed hard painkillers for ailments that did by no means require such a treatment (e.g. backpain of various degrees). This is fentanyl as a gateway drug, so to speak. Those people would not have been addicts otherwise. But they got hooked on the medication and when their prescriptions comes to an end, then they would seek a replacement.

That is why doctors and pharmaceutical companies are getting sued - and are losing.

Further: If psychedelic drugs are indeed this helpful with issues like smoking and depression, like recent research suggests, then controlled administration would surely be a great relief to an overwhelmed healthcare system: saving e.g. on expensive anti-depression drugs or on cancer treatments, where the cancer was caused by smoking.
This is the road in question:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/245-255+E+Boundary+Rd,+Lyn...

Now imagine a discussion with your wife, "Am I driving on the right side of the road", and ...

Given the consequences of crossing the border, and the expense they went through to install border cameras you'd THINK they'd put up a small fence, or at least SOME marker.

Nope.
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There are several I'm on (canard-aviators and gns480-users), and they've been active for something close to a decade. (And there are still emails every day!)

Frustratingly, both of these groups have great content (manuals, tips, documentation) uploaded to Yahoo Groups. It's going to be a real loss.
I have processing program I wrote that runs though hundred of thousand html-files on a Windows machine monthly and it is really slow unless I turn off defender, so I assume it's checking what my program does somehow.
>Go there on any Saturday night and it won't feel car-centric or cut off from the city.

Going there is the part that makes you feel cut off from the city.
I don't doubt your main point, but your main example does not support it. How much of Zuckerberg's money trickled down all the way to teachers? From what I remember seeing reported, most of it went to consulting and administration.
Ok... how did you notice this?
Yes, making Windows into a walled garden similar to Apple so they can exert more influence on their users than ever before.
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True. In fact, many of the discussions within the Tor community related to detection of colluding nodes even happen in public, so you could observe them on mailing lists and try not to repeat your mistake! This mechanism is very fragile.

By contrast, being marked as a BadExit due to tampering with content can be due to tests whose exact nature isn't disclosed and changes over time, and it doesn't happen instantly, so it might be hard for an individual deliberately malicious exit to deduce which action it took that resulted in the BadExit flag.

Determining whether nodes are secretly colluding (or, equivalently for some purposes, whether their communications can be closely observed by the same adversary!) is a mostly unsolvable problem, and that's an important limitation for Tor's security. There have been some papers that do a statistical analysis about the probability of an individual adversary winning against an individual user, given some assumptions about that adversary's capabilities (what fraction of nodes the adversary controls or observes). Tor has changed its path selection algorithms a bit based on ideas from these papers.
Note at the bottom:

> 1) Pixel 4’s Soli implementation does not include all capabilities and interactions described here
Sure! The olotrophic breathwork developed by Grof for example is a great substitute to LSD therapy.
Indeed!

Combine C. Alexander's Pattern Language and "Living Neighborhoods" with Permaculture.

Build arcologies.

Use biomimetic technology like the New Alchemy Institute's "Living Machines" bioreactors.

https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Alchemy_Institute

https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-new-alchemy-institut...

http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu16se/uu16se0d.ht...
The article is more about user experience than English language nuances.

Take one of your examples, you're much more likely to know you can "board" once you know there's a "ship." Without the ship as context first, only people who are already familiar with ships know that boarding is even an option.

This provides a poor experience in terms of discoverability.
At this point I have yet to work on something that absolutely needs a NoSQL database so I may be a bit biased, but my general impression is they're a solution looking for a problem- or rather, the wrong solution to the wrong problem. I have used things like key-value stores such as memcached but it's also the kind of tools you don't use liberally unless you absolutely must. Perhaps a bit of obscurity isn't that bad of a thing after all.

Doesn't help that people have been talking about the issues with NoSQL for quite a few years now [0]

[0] http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2015/07/19/why-you-should-ne... (although I do wonder how much of these points still apply)
That's an interesting take that I could completely see now.

When I watched it, I guess I took it more at face value, that in the future when everything is automated, only celebrities and 'power generators' will exist, and of course the rest of the stuff like unskippable ads and in-your-face pornography.
Build an NNTP server. Works great, easy to use, easy to backup, little resources, many web frontends available, even better used with a proper Usenet reader.
How are you identifying the object in the image?
If hypnosis is so effective for quitting smoking, how do you explain that studies fail to find much effect? E.g., this 2019 meta-analysis:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198991

From the conclusion: "If a benefit is present, current evidence suggests the benefit is small at most."

The effect size and certainty with mushrooms seem much greater.
Oh do come off it. This is bureaucratic bullshit at its' finest.

We're talking about a hyperlink in the app. Linking to wireguard.com would be fine.

How about if wireguard.com had a big donate button?

How about if wireguard.com has 'Donate' in bold?

I know you're not the person actually signing off on this - but to the one that is - fuck you. In bold.

No-one is getting sued because of one step being removed in a hyperlink chain to a donate button. If they are it's getting thrown out instantaneously.

Characterising a link to a donate button as being in _any way_ related to aiding money laundering is ridiculous.

Cease this insanity.
> > (1) all employees are trusted and unmeasured, but you have to tap people on the shoulder every once in a while to confirm that they're on track. Naturally, this is easier if everyone is on-site.

> I don't get it - shouldn't one-on-ones and regular progress check-ins (be those standups, metrics (This is your #2), whatever) give you that information? None of those are easier when on-site. In fact, given today's move towards open offices, any form of 1:1 collaboration is easier remotely where you don't have to fight for precious meeting room space.

This is not quite the case everywhere. We have agile 5-8 person offices and people are still supposed to walk out for longer phone calls occupying one of the smaller meeting rooms.

But I actually like that different teams can mix a lot easier.
"Working as intended" is often a euphemism for "broken as designed"
It is a nice piece of technology. It is a 60Ghz millimeter-wave radar. It is a privacy nightmare. It is already shipped.

Radar uses electromagnetic waves (like Wifi but higher frequency) so it can go through walls, and even typical range for gesture recognition is less than meter,
It probably can go at least 10 times as far by boosting the gain of the amplifier, it is not constrained like a theremin would be because it is already working in the far field region of the antenna.

Because it work at such high frequency (but not so high that it can still go through walls), it has many very small antennas arrays, and sense sub millimeter movements even from far away.
It also has beam-forming capabilities, meaning it can focus the direction in which to sense.
Because it is radar, things which moves are of interests and are filtered easily from the background.

Typically this piece of technology already can or will soon be able to : sense how many humans are around it, where they are, how fast they breath, how fast the heart is pulsating, who they are by computing some heart-base ID.

It is low-power and always-on, 360° with focus-able attention. It is cheap because it can be made on a chip.
(Edit: fixing typos)
I think this could be synergetic with voice commands. It wont be useful on its own but sometimes you dont want to say every command out loud, so doing a little annoyed wave feels more natural. Soli on its own is not going to sell phones in my opinion but maybe Google is building up to a larger more aware device that can ultimately guess your entire mood, behavior and position in the room and do various things based on that. Like a sort of virtual person that would detect if you look worried and then it asks you how you are feeling today. That's a futuristic direction that I can see this going towards.
For example, one usecase that I would probably like is a phone that tracks my posture during workouts and if it's really advanced, it could give me advice or fire me up on my last reps. Like a personal trainer. Right now it seems we aren't anywhere near that but this is my guess for their strategic direction.
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So basically, people are going to build on top of your service and if yall don't figure out a revenue model, you'll need to close down shop, leaving people scrambling to migrate somewhere else...

No thanks, I've been there before. You'd be better off just charging from the get-go. Otherwise, this should be 100% open source.
What's wrong with "standardized weights and measures"?
Isn't it time that Google grows up and becomes a true tech company? I consider products containing adware to be "half-broken" and I don't understand how Google engineers can feel proud of their work. As an engineer I want my work to be paid for because my users like my products, and I certainly wouldn't want any of my work to be used to serve anyone other than my users.
Many people were crying doom when Edge moved onto chromium. Would be interesting if Microsoft and Google joined forces to improve the browser.
Rivers have bridges. Seaside cities do not have an undriveable barrier down the middle of it.
> Rather than having some code call plane->yAxis() and other code call yAxis(plane), it might be nicer to have only one way.

One option is a linter/formatter that can warn and configurably push you in one way or the other.
As a percentage of offerings, how much of the AWS portfolio is portable between clouds? 5%? 1%?

Of course we could re-write on a different cloud, just like Amazon can move off Oracle, but it would take time and we would put up with a lot of abuse before it happened, just like Amazon no doubt did with Oracle.

Which is what you were just bragging about: your numbers show that your customers are locked in enough that you can abuse them plenty before they can effectively retaliate.

Congrats.
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