skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair it’s a far worse problem on Windows (although I guess a lot of my Linux machines are running from ram now so maybe I wouldn’t notice if it weren’t.)
I work for Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit; this is my personal experience. If you get a Fitbit with heart rate tracking, which nearly all have now, it won't rely just on motion. For me it's worked great, showing an awake period at the beginning or end of my time in bed. More on how it works: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163#Aut...

If you buy directly from Fitbit's website, the satisfaction guarantee is 45 days so you have plenty of time to try it out and see how well it works for you.
On Linux, that information is privileged, IIRC. so since most people use htop as an ordinary user, they wouldn't see that anyway.
Then we have very different ideas of why QR codes are bad. I think they’re bad because they waste space with something that is completely useless to human senses. They should be replaced with good OCR, not with manual typing.

Teach machines to make use of human language instead of teaching humans to make use of machine language.
At max 44kilobits per second, or 5.5KB/second.
If it happens enough it can be 90% fixed by plopping an ATM out front and only accepting cash at almost no cost (the customers you lose will be made up for by the lack of processing fees).

Edit: I'm genuinely curious why is this such an unacceptable opinion.
Because nations make it harder to do business.

They have different sets of regulations, taxes, etc.
you're overthinking

we digest the nutrient, it's all below the level of structural appletreeness
Yeah, but the original point was about FOSS projects. Just don't let managers into your FOSS project.
Everyone gets their twitter account suspended if they don't confirm their email address. It is not some conspiracy against you.
While I agree that watching a movie in the original intended speed will be a better experience in most cases I don't see how this feature justifies such an outrage.

The consumer should have the choice how they experience it, they may have valid reasons to modify that experience for their own preferences. People are free to read books however they like, listen to audiobooks in whatever speed they set the playback to, YouTube allows speeding up slow talk recordings and now Netflix lets you change the speed of movies as well. Sure, some elitists and purists will say it's not the "true way" of experiencing that content, but to put it simply: it's none of their business how someone else watches a movie.

Every decent video player has that feature and nobody complained, so why not. In the end it is an optional choice and not forced.
I will say, htop is a lot more efficient than GNU top, despite its functionality. I do not use it in the (default?) mode where it lists all the threads, because that is nuts.
I read this as Asterix and got excited about a new book. Alas it’s not.
Amazon Super URLs Exposed (2015)
Possibly privacy. If I host a copy of a popular site's Js, I can watch download patterns and have a pretty reliable "has this user logged into site X" detector.
https://www.vaultproject.io/

Fairly easy to integrate with Kubernetes too.
>> The problem is when candidates have to take money from special interests just in order to buy enough advertising to cause anyone to have even heard of them. Provide enough public money so that candidates don't have to do that, and then candidates won't have to do that.

You forget that there is never enough money or enough advertising. All the money comes from "special interest groups" except if is provided by the government. Of course people "hear" the candidates...it's just that the candidates want a 24/7 audience, lately they have whole media corporations delivering the message for them. As we know most of the media organisations are now partisan (either by choice or by obligation). Maybe little regulation wouldn't hurt to give a chance to the little guy who can't afford to buy a media corporation?
China Rolls Out One of the World's Largest 5G Networks
> "We had a guy come in the other day who took a selfie, ordered a pizza, cancelled it and left. Is it really that hard to order a $2 pizza?"

I feel like there’s more to the story here. If I ordered a pizza and I cancel it, something happened. I probably didn’t suddenly get not hungry or find an investment opportunity that I was $2 short for.

Maybe the shop told me “that’ll be ready in 45 minutes” and I canceled over the service not meeting my needs.
This would make good lorem ipsum material.
My two cents - psychedelics can open your mind to a new way of processing information and thinking about your daily existence. Anecdotally, it's happened to me over the last 11+ years (not through psychedelics, but through other spiritual practices like meditation). The result is that I'm less angry, less judgmental, less likely to fly off the handle. Much better at processing information, removing clutter (bullshit), and disassociating from perceptions and feelings that used to define me.

In a very practical manner, this has made my interactions with everyone around me much..."better" doesn't feel like the right word but I'll use it here anyway. This is very simple - I'm "happier" (again, not the right word, but it'll do for now), I end up treating others better, which in turn has positive impacts on their lives and hopefully the lives of others that they engage with.
Yeah the thing with reddit is you always have to take everything there with a huge grain of salt.

Especially because every non-expert thinks they are an expert, and if you aren't familiar with the subject matter, it can be difficult to spot
Not really. Laws come from what that group of people thinks.

See Arab countries having the death penalty for gay people, for instance. It's not the State that does that, but the group of people that want it done that way and the State passes laws.
One of the things that's keeping liberal democracy safe is the inefficiencies of governments and businesses, with "not invented here" being one of the biggest ones. What makes Palantir scary is not necessarily that they work with ICE but that they're probably delivering something that adds value.
As we get better at machine learning and data engineering, these solutions will not only get much more powerful but also plug and play. That's what I'm really afraid of, at that point they can be rolled out over night.
Anti viruses are typical bundleware installed when installing 'free' software. If you don't look carefully, when you click, 'i agree,' you'll get a bunch of other software you don't want.

Some crazy software companies then used a dark pattern - clicking 'I don't agree,' meant you agreed to install unwanted crap.

Adobe flash, Java runtime, utorrent and any installer from cnet.com are examples. That's why I installed Unchecky to protect me from bundleware and automatically uncheck, skip 'offerings' when installing new software.

Edit: As mentioned below, the Chrome team used bundleware extensively in its early days.
I think there's also a cultural shift underway.

> a new economic model based on social behavior.

this reminds me of China's social credit scores. It seems to me that this is (in a way) automatic-money. Imagine if instead of having to manage your own balance your "wallet" does it for you. One just shows up at the store and they tell you what you get. No "visible" transaction takes place.
I've often thought that the internet is like a global version of a small-town gossip network. Vital to proper functioning, but something to be minimized when possible.
Then its the misuse itself that need to be fixed.

Its like knife can be used to kill people, lets get rid of knife instead.
Twitter and Facebook, without government intervention have naturally become the influencing platforms of choice for those with the most lucre. Having enemies banned is such an opaque process that nobody can tell if there was a payoff for a ban or not. Changes are never well explained. If either was a government system, complete suspension would be required to take place with a forensic analysis showing inadequacies, vulnerabilities, and hacks. Then after those were addressed the systems would be restored with documented and known procedures and processes for these things.

But for Twitter and Facebook, it's all business as usual. Everyone knows they are both corrupt to the core.
If tomorrow the Spanish state disappears and we just become one big European country, I would not mind at all.

I have unfortunate news for you.

People hating larger governmental forces that control them isn't something weirdly unique to Spain or European nations. It is a part of the universal human condition.

If all existing European nations were abolished and merged into a new EU "country", guess what? The "nationalists" would hate the EU instead. This already happens in fact. Why do you think Brexit won? It won because so many people really don't like the EU and the way it works. The entire British population was threatened by its own government with ruination and told anyone who voted Leave was thick and racist, and Leave still won. Imagine how much bigger the result would have been if the government hadn't relied on such aggressive tactics.

Worse still, people who think they aren't "nationalist" would also be filled with hate, but towards imaginary external enemies instead. Go listen to the people who run the EU. Listen to people like Juncker, Verhofstadt and Merkel. They can't stop talking about the EU empire and the threats posed by "China, Russia and the United States". The USA is rather different to China but to the new Europeans, it's just another foreign enemy.

The way to stop people hating on each other is to help them resolve their differences amicably. Lots of votes, lots of tiny nation-states or even city states, and yes lots of borders, ideally of the smartest possible type to ensure they're hardly noticeable. In the end, forcing everyone to comply with one small group's set of preferences will always create big tensions. The solution is thus not fewer countries, but more.
> On some LCD monitors this page will cause the screen to emit a tone that varies in pitch with the bar height. Maximize window for best results.

Looks like any noise is the by-product of the electronics within the device, rather than anything playing through the speakers. Coil whine (or something to that effect), I imagine.
Is that a screenshot from iPhone where it says "5G"? I thought no iPhones supported 5G at all yet. What's going on?
Mattermost is open core, please avoid.
Yeah I thought I was in for a battle. I’m not sure if it’s their larger policy or just a good rep. Can’t claim it’s a pattern as it’s only happened to me once.

She explained to me pretty thoroughly that the ticket change required higher approval to switch ticket classes and she seemed to do a bunch of back and forth with United. In all I was probably on the phone for 2 hours but on hold for 110 minutes of that while I was working.

I had no idea what would happen. I expected Expedia to punt me off to United to sort it out. But no, almost totally painless to my and my partner’s great relief.

Mind you I wonder if the order made a difference as we booked the flight, a vacation rental, and a car all at once through them and paid up front so the onus was sort of on them to make sure we could even check into our rental on time. And we’re heading to Kona so there’s not really an alternative mode of transportation available...
The noise should be generated by your LCD screen and is usually faint but exant. The larger the area it occupies the louder it is, so it's recommended to maximize it. You might also have an LCD screen that doesn't emit sound, but I don't know the details.
> IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right?

That is correct, although there is a free tier, which my wife used for a while. The only major downside to the free tier is that IRC Cloud disconnects after two hours of idle activity.

> Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected.

The former. I have a weechat instance (it is a terminal IRC client) on a VPS (the same one also running my wife's instance of thelounge) that I normally use when I'm on my laptop. On my phone, I use Weechat-Android as a relay client to the weechat instance. So the websocket connection on my phone talks to my weechat relay. Fortunately, Weechat-Android handles connecting and disconnecting seemlessly, and I don't have a problem with notifications.
Ask HN: What are we doing here?
I'm not trying to give any answers or make any demands, but I'd really like to hear what you all think.

HACKER <-- News has changed a lot over the past few years. Todays top stories include a failing Pizza place, Alzheimers insights, a great story about psycadelics and an odd link to millionshort.com.

Its no secret that you can buy positions on hacker news, various websites sell upvotes for cheap, but Im confident this community could gain a lot by narrowing its focus and speaking openly about what that is.

Personally, I love it when I come on here and someone's written/shared a cool paper on a new algorithm (or a new take on an old one, like the 3d Ken Burns), some ground breaking developments (like Googles quantum leap), but especially when someones opensourced some massively helpful project.

I dislike all the company props, the lengthy articles written by non-technical people and especially the content thats already floating around in the mainstream, like anything Elon Musk does. I hate all the content thats strictly irrelevant as my function as a hacker/entrepreneur, like some lady dying from eating Wasabi in a 1000000000000000:1 freak accident.

What do you love to see here, and how do we get more of it?
I think that crypto was just emulating the stock market. Robinhood came out and forced other stock brokers to do the same with a zero fee otherwise they would lose too many customers is my take on the article.

>It’s been almost five years since Robinhood debuted zero-fee stock trading, but the approach has finally cracked the mass market. Charles Schwab cut its online stock-trading commissions to zero in early October, and the announcement immediately sent waves throughout the US financial industry. Schwab’s pronouncement was closely followed by equivalent moves from TD Ameritrade, E*Trade, and Fidelity, much to the delight of investors.

My guess is after 5 years they were looking to see if they were losing customers over to robinhood and adjusted their strategy accordingly.

Now if an exchange came out promising literally zero fee or some small amount that literally only covers operating cost and is 90% or more cheaper than other exchanges, and people started migrating to said exchange in mass numbers it would force other exchanges to follow suit or lose customers.

I mean I would rather have 1000 customers paying .01 than trying to keep 100 customers paying .1 per trade. (numbers are just made up)
Have you looked at matrix.org/riot.im?
According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private.

This is a surprisingly common sentiment in HN when it relates to financial privacy.

Laws that criminalize financial privacy, aka KYC/AML laws, are justified with precisely this "nothing to hide" argument geared to money laundering and other financial crimes, and said laws are quite popular with the tech intelligentsia.
I think the main point here is that sideloaded add-ons cannot be removed through the add-on manager. Malicious software can still install add-ons silently and without explicit consent, but now the user can view and remove those much more easily.
Corporate-Owned City
Ongoing jinja2 implementation in non-modern C++ (german repo)
It's not really 5G; just an AT&T marketing gimmick. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/5ge-explained,news-29329.html
It's a marketing ploy by AT&T to label some kind of slightly better (maybe?) 4G as 5G, kinda like when phones started to say 4G which didn't mean 4G LTE.
Halfnarp
The title is pure click bait.
crap, I read this
Does anyone know if this guy was actually genuinely debunking Tesla myths? Or was this just another guy crazily fighting on one side of a seemingly ridiculous twitter fight?
It is not clear what is best for the general public.

You can aim for the "safest" choice, which seems to be what you are advocating. If so, it needs to be said explicitly and the implications of functionality reduction (that safety increases always brings) openly discussed and debated.

The model of claiming "we will do what is best for users" with a freedom to replace "best" by "X" has been thoroughly compromised by googles and facebooks of this world. We need to be explicit about goals and tradeoffs. Not attacking your post, just arguing for being clear and honest on goals of non-commercial software.

My 2c.
I don't think that's right. I think, for the most part, we're familiar with nation states, so we've changed the meaning of nation to mean "the people of a nation state". But in other parts of the world, for instance in Eastern Europe, you have people who are clearly Russians but citizens of other post Soviet states. There, you have a question about a nation and a state that do not correspond.

States speak of administration; nations speak of common bonds. States seek to turn their diverse populations into a common nation because it will create stability. But when some of the people who are subject to your administration feel a common bond with hundreds of millions of people on the other side of a somewhat arbitrary line, this may be an impossible or undesireable task.
You get suspended for simply not giving up your phone number.

You get demoted / get the checkmark removed for being a popular right wing individual.

You get suspended for saying the scientific truth that there is only two human genders.

You get suspended for basically everything that is not what Twitter / classic woke culture believe.

Why would you assume they would not suspend you? Just realize Twitter is a garbage company and move on to another service.
To save some people the read, it's the same leetcode bs performance as anywhere else.
That sounds a lot like claiming planned economies will obsolete capitalism once they solve the valuation problem. Only this time they have that precedent and fail to address it.

Propaganda has always had large societal influence and I am not denying that better data could in theory be used to make it worse. But just as in practice targetted advertising works about as well as trying to seduce someone with information gathered by digging through their garbage practice seems highly dubious.

Dictatorships are kind of dysfunctional shitholes because the concern is holding onto power for the few over advancement for many as loyalty trumps competence. The succession lines are intentionally horrible just toand vagur just to reduce odds of assassination. Overcoming that with "data" isn't even a plan - especially since the dystopian vague data tools can be jacked or dismantled by the successors.

Not to mention the arguement ad inevitability. Disclaimer - not having read beyond the initial pitch page: To be frank this seems like an attempt to tap into the zeitgeist to sell alarmist books on topics they know little about that will have less shelf life than Y2K books in 1999. Not exactly the best impression.
polm23 mentioned that this is from a talk by Maciej (idlewords on HN), I think the particular talk is this one:

https://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm
I'm working in a project for my local fire station to receive GPS data via VHF radio (widely used by emergency services in my country). We are trying with DTMF, this seems interesting.
Right, and the shift gets even deeper.

Few people know this but money was invented to keep track of debt. In fact, what most economic textbooks say is that money comes from barter. It turns out there's no single evidence that this ever happened in history! (David Graeber has a phenomenal book call Debt that explains all of this.)

Now, the shift we're seeing is that social credit system--or as I call them Social Debt Systems--are going to be "the new money."

Lots of people talk about the data economy and the fact that we need a way to put a dollar value on information.

And what we're seeing with social credit systems is that that value is not 'on' information. It's 'in' information. And that's creating a new economic logic we're not able even to conceive yet
AFAIK this is deceptive marketing from AT&T:
https://www.businessinsider.com/iphones-on-att-now-show-5g-e...
For those who want to know more about the Speak N Spell, check out this book, "The Speak N Spell" by Gene Frantz [1]

[1] https://cnx.org/contents/swFM2W46@5.12:6sbZNcLi@4/Speak-N-Sp...
Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)
Thank you!

Yes, I think this has legs.

Maximizing "bang per bit" (a) seems truly a new idea, as opposed to some minor tweak on the same old thing, and (b) the evidence so far shows it works better than previous methods.

(FWIW, we've been using this algorithm internally at work with similar outperformance over other methods, in yet another domain that is neither vision nor language... but I cannot share those results publicly.)

Before submitting this anywhere, I'd like to get more informal feedback from other AI researchers. I've reached out to people at Google Brain, Facebook AI, DeepMind, OpenAI, and a handful of top academic institutions and research groups. So far, the response has been positive, but I expect it will take everyone at least a couple of weeks, and probably longer, to read and understand the draft paper in sufficient detail to give me more than superficial comments.

New things often look like toys at first. :-)
>neighbours' blinds every night, just to ensure they're doing well

What harm does it cause ?
In practice, most states recognize all other states. There are exceptions (Israel lacking recognition from some states, a few edge cases owing to long-ago treaties etc) even if they don't have good relations. The US and Iran, for example, might not have diplomatic relations but they both recognize the other as existing.

In some ways it is a little arbitrary. A new state like East Timor or South Sudan can be declared and immediately recognized by most everyone, and then admitted to the UN. Kosovo can déclaré itself a state, be recognized by a lot of other states, but lack a seat at the UN and 'real' statehood. And then there's a case like Taiwan which does more or less everything a state would or could do...but is recognized by almost nobody.

While it's not perfect, a good rule of thumb as to whether a state is really a state is if they are full members of the UN. It's not perfect - the Holy See and Switzerland were non-member states for a long time - but it's close.
I guess distributions may be able to build a Firefox version that would load extensions installed using the package manager without prompt.
I think you misunderstood my comment (being honest, it was not very well redacted). I do not disagree with anything you said at all, on the contrary. What I mean is precisely that a lack of personal reasons to keep your privacy is not a good reason to not push for privacy policies. I am totally against screen capturing, as I am against surveillance using laptop cameras or phone microphones, or public cameras capturing my face.

However, even although I care about this and actively oppose these practices, I don't cover my face when I live my home, for example, and I don't think (some people may disagree) that I should. Of course, once this affect more people, it is not my choice to not care, and I will do everything possible to keep other people privacy.