skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any reason not to recommend TunnelBear, which is Wirecutter's #1 recommendation? I don't use either of them so I don't have a horse in this race, just curious why you picked the #2 recommendation and not the #1.
To bad, my old heater had opentherm, with the OTGW I could intercept the packets between the heater and thermostat, change values (eg: date/time), issue commands (set room temperature) and add missing functionality (outside temperature for heating curve), it was ideal in every way.
But I moved and my current heater has a proprietary protocol over rs485 so its a no-go for the OTGW.
These tech companies aren't direct buyers any more than you or me. Ore is sold to smelting companies, who sell ingots to sheet metal companies, who sell it to electronics component manufacturers, who sell it to contract manufacturers, who sell it to the giants. And that's the legal supply chain - add in some shell companies, forged documents, and resellers and it gets more complicated.
The largest corporations have been more powerful than small states for centuries. The Dutch East India company, the United Fruit Company, various mining conglomerates. DEI was straight up put in charge of nations, complete with a military force. UFC had governments overthrown and didn't even try to hide it. They're better at PR now so their machinations aren't as proudly displayed, but if a major natural resource company wants to operate in a small, less-powerful nation, they're going to get their way, just as they have for centuries.
Id say yes. I just switched from google and feel like google was too buggy and slightly too hard to trigger. Alexa is too easy to trigger and has too many notifications.
A couple of notes to add:

* https://hamstudy.org/ is the go-to place to study for your license, and it's free. Use it, love it, thank the devs after you get your license.

* Don't listen to the naysayers (which aren't as loud these days), a Baofeng radio is a perfectly acceptable first radio, and it's impossible to beat the price.

* If your interests tend towards the tinkering with electronics side, you can pick up inexpensive/generic RTL-SDR dongles cheaply (less than $10) and modify them to receive HF. Or use them as-is.

* For zero dollars, you can use someone else's web-connected SDR, such as https://websdr.org/

* Look around at the various digital modes (there are many, with FT8 and WSPR being the most popular at the moment), especially if you're into computers. Many allow a structured way to get familiar with things without worrying about messing up on the etiquette front.

* For an HF rig, the uBitx (https://ubitx.net/ & https://www.hfsignals.com/) is hard to beat, and they just introduced a new version (v6). $199 with a case ($150 without) will get you a full-band, all mode, dual VFO 10 watt radio. That's unbelievable value for an HF rig. Add an amp later on for more power.

* For HF especially focus on making/buying good antennas before you go spend a bunch of money on radios.
As long as those companies are the ones designing the spec I'm totally disengaging from smart home devices.
All-caps seems like a good way to disambiguate
If they did open source the server, is there any way to verify that they're actually running that open source server in production?
I mean, it's not just one company, is it? But it is less than than millions, so your point probably still stands.

Forcing anyone to do anything is pretty hard though. The U.S. government can lean on U.S. companies, but will that really save the child miners? Will they all suddenly not be forced into this type of labor if the U.S. companies stop using their services? Those kids will suddenly all be enrolled in school and grow up to be business owners, doctors, nurses, engineers, all using cell phones powered by some much more ethically obtained energy storage device?

I must be feeling down today. Sorry about that.
California law gives everyone that second option as I understand it.
While you're certainly welcome to that opinion, it's incompatible with the origins and philosophy of the US Constitution at the very least. Your rights still exist even if someone hasn't told you they do.
I’m more talking about what people are actually aware of. Yes, most systems have IPv6 enabled and use it when possible, but it’s mostly invisible. When you login to a device to setup the IP address, it’s still almost always IPv4. That’s just for the internal networks, which is what most home users are thinking about on this topic.
Genociding multiple continents isn't exactly a model I want to follow. "Population control" will continue to be Nazi-speak as long as it applies primarily to post-colonial countries, which while having high birth rates, also contributed minimally to CO2 emissions.
They were built with that in mind, yes. But since then they've been raised several times already and there is continuous maintenance on weak points.

The real problem is the rivers, keeping water out from the seaside is actually a simpler problem than preventing the interior from being flooded once the rivers are substantially below sea level themselves.

Sea dikes and fortifications can be raised (at a cost), but river dikes can't really be raised easily and besides that the water needs to go somewhere. And I did write that on larger time scales there is a real risk, and I believe that anything over several meters rise sustained would be a serious problem and would cause some of the land to revert back to the sea.

But long before then you'll see the same in other countries, Italy, the UK, the USA, France, Germany and Spain all have areas that would be much harder and earlier hit than NL because they have no fortifications whatsoever as a starting point and it would take decades to plan and construct them.
> I don't think this makes much sense. The mineral supply chain in that part of the world is ridiculously hard to track.

It's been designed to be hard to track. Just because the infrastructure is a little hit and miss and the people are overall poorer doesn't mean it's impossible to reliably manage supply lines. The problem is corporations from the "West" don't want to know where the stuff is coming from because they know damn well it's sweatshop labor, minors, political prisoners, and who knows what else. That's why it's so fucking cheap.

Google knows my fucking shoe size at this point: if they, or Apple, or Samsung, or any other company wanted to know, they would know. The problem is they don't know because when people ask uncomfortable questions, they just shrug their shoulders and go "well we aren't responsible." Fuck that. They should be responsible.
I'll tell you this. You already have a hub, it's called WiFi router.

I see zero reasons to rationalise the need to buy yet another white box for the buyer.
It seems Nixon's and Erdogan's motivations were similar.

The war on drugs was created by the Nixon regime as a way to neutralize threatening political movements like Black Power and the Hippie Peace movement.
The following link also works for me in Chrome on Windows:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3457802
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Just to be clear, I still enjoy and plan on living in the west for a long time. But there are quite a few theoretically possible regime changes that I am aware of (and probably even more that I am unaware of) to make me concerned about it. Any significant regime change (break with historic trends) will automatically invalidate all models/predictions/assumptions about our safety levels. Current design criterion is we should be safe for 1/10.000 year conditions.

And if all goes wrong, you better be in a low population density rich country that can handle a little warming (thinking of Sweden and Norway in particular) Better move there before everyone else does ;)
BT v1 to v3 maybe, but BTLE/v4 solved a lot of the problems afaik.
How is "addiction" to their resources driving injustices? I live in Australia, where we export plenty of minerals (including cobalt, incidentally). We don't have children working (and dying) in mines, AFAIK.

So clearly it's not an issue of cobalt, it's a problem within the Congo.
The 'Influence' section of Scalia's wikipedia bio is interesting and relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia#Influence

> "Since his death in February of 2016, Scalia’s influence of course continues through his three decades of judicial opinions. But he still exerts great influence in another, less-discussed way. In 2012, he co-authored the book Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts with Bryan A. Garner. This work describes numerous “canons,” or rules regarding how to interpret legal documents ... A mere seven years since its publication, Reading Law has been cited in over 1,000 state and federal cases. Just this spring, for instance, Supreme Court justices referenced the work in 10 cases."

Note that Garner is the same co-author as for the linked PDF.
That liability will be on the importer though, in the same way that making the indicators and emissions systems compliant to EU standards would be
We have seen exactly this scenario before, only this time the expected water levels are a few decimeter to a few meter higher (depending on the time scale). It's not like the delta works are the technological limit to what we can do. At the time, they were designed to meet the expected requirements and no further.

If the requirements change, we will rebuild them to the new requirements.
According to freedomonthemove.org, there are 22,236 advertisements. If I search (registration required) for transcribed ads, I get 6,920 results. Transcriptions are not visible in the default view. Select the icon on the right to see images and transcriptions side by side.
Should you annotate or let TypeScript infer the types?
The article links to the original source:

https://freedomonthemove.org

Scrolling down, one sees an ad from none other than Thomas Jefferson:

> In Alberale, a Mulatto slave called Sandy, about 35 years of age, his stature is rather low, including to corpulence, and his complexion light; he is a shoemaker by trade, in which he uses his left hand principally, and is something of a horse jockey; ... Whoever conveys the said slave to me, in Albermarle, shall have 40 s. reward ...

One of the histories of the US that I read mentioned the ridicule that the British heaped on the Americans for their hypocrisy, a copy of the Declaration of Independence in one hand and a whip in the other.

It's striking to consider the self-delusion that must have been necessary for people at the time to believe in such wildly inconsistent notions as "inalienable rights" and slavery.

On the other hand, culture is a powerful reality distortion field. Scratch just a little below the surface and you'll find the most bizarre creatures scuttling for cover.
Consider your ability to automate tasks on your farm (watering, checking soil health, product QA). All of those tasks being automated potentially increase your output.
I interviewed at Twilio. My resume and phone chats made it abundantly clear that my professional experience was 95% backend in languages like Java and Go.

I looked at their Glassdoor where people wrote they were heavily biased to the algorithm type questions, for better or worse.

In reality I was given only a single coding interview my whole onsite, and it was to build a JavaScript SPA, including routing/linking, without the use of any framework, just vanilla JS.

I was allowed to Google whatever but 50 minutes is still a crazy time crunch to figure out a lot of the stuff that needed to be figured out.

It felt like a massively unfair way to evaluate me. I have honestly never felt more screwed over and time wasted by an interview than at Twilio and I would highly recommend avoiding interviewing there.

My overall point being, is there’s no silver bullet. It’s not necessarily about this magical process will work well and this one will not. It’s about the small details, especially things like making sure all of your interviewers actually read the candidates resume and that everyone knows what type of role they are interviewing for, and that the interview is designed to discover both the candidates strength and weakness. I’ve been on both sides of the process and I know too often shortcuts are taken and churning the pipeline forward takes priority over doing a diligent job and respecting the time of every candidate you engage with.

The very fact that the foundation of tech recruiting is inexperienced recruiters, with minimal tech knowledge, who are incentivized by sales type numbers, and churned through themselves at a comical rate, speaks to how the industry views recruiting. College athletes get recruited, top law school graduates get recruited, engineers aren’t recruited but relentlessly spammed in hopes of finding more bodies to feed into a process straight from a Kafka short story, the problem starts there and no a-ha process improvement will fix that.
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Interesting they don't sue diesel producers, consumers, or makers of diesel vehicles. One of the largest uses of cobalt is desulphurisation of diesel: https://www.cobaltinstitute.org/desulphurisation.html

Also interesting they included Tesla who has consistently used ethically sourced Cobalt (and others who have campaigned for ethical cobalt have acknowledged this).

I suspect folks commenting here are right that this is a publicity stunt.

EDIT: One good that could come from this publicity stunt, though, is more focus on the legitimate problem of child labor in Africa.
In other news, "Wolves, Lions, Tigers and Leopards develop Open Standard for Sheep Housing."
Get back to me when someone gets an arm amputated and forgets math.
No, it’s not. We didn’t give Microsoft a free pass when they did monopolistic moves. Google should not be treated differently.
Mega-corps have a) broader domains of "what's relevant" and b) more lawyers to actually take action on this stuff. Those are the only real differences. I've turned down jobs with even smaller companies over this.
> Highly recommend everyone watch/read about the dam they built in the North Sea.

Watch what?
Let's list some stuff that doesn't look good.

Guantanamo - detention and physiological torture without trial.
Hounding of whistler blowers of illegal activity - Snowdon, Manning, Assange etc.

Destabilizing countries around the world - many with democratically elected governments. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...)

Now, of course, this is largely directed at other countries citizens rather than US citizens - so that makes it ok.....

In terms of internal US politics - how do you explain George W Bush as president if the US is a meritocracy and not a oligarchy?

Let's be clear - I'd prefer to live in the US over turkey, but it's not all rosy.
What's really funny to me is Google trying to claim copyright on a GPL project.
This video “8 Facts About the Circle of Fifths You May Not Already Know” has a click-baity title and the most clear, simple, understandable description of why the Circle is like the periodic table of music. Highly recommend watching it. Even just see the guy’s circle of fifths tattoo.

https://youtu.be/50CpDZvTWks
I'd hire someone qualified, motivated, and hungry to improve over someone who barely scrapes by without wasting a single cycle worrying about their word choice on an internet forum.

Perhaps we have a different understanding of what constitutes "character".
I'm not convinced that punishing the end consumer would be all that bad. Maybe it would generate actual participation in the market and send a message that they're the ones that fuel it.
When it was still two guys in a garage?
>Maybe they sold the rights for that particular episode to a broadcaster in Canada, like the CBC?

Also possible, and something I hadn't thought of.
Physical indeterminacy is extremely important in modern day many-core computation because of essential reliance on arbiters with physical indeterminacy. The following for an axiomatization:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566
The problem in the Netherlands is that the Natura2000 areas are too small. So any activity next to such areas immediately affects rare species.

The other problem is that the government, in cooperation with many sectors, has created paper realities. One by one, those realities go down when people start measuring and then a sector is in trouble.
I mean. You can just always ignore what lawyers say, and just work on open source projects under a pseudonym while you're employed there, which is what the OP did anyways. The worst thing that happened to the OP is that he pissed off some lawyers, and got into an argument with a guy. Also, Google can't own any of your code you did before you're employed there, just any new code from when you're employed by them.
> By contrast, NextDNS shot up in reliability over past couple months across all kinds of connections

I'm sure they've improved but I was bit by downtime as recently as a week ago. Due to their custom proxy-layer that enables the blacklisting magic, on top what seems like a multi-tenant DNS resolver backed by unbound, their anycast setup, redundant network paths, multi-region server deployments are not going to mitigate downtime due to software bugs. Imo, DNS resolvers must be low latency and zero-downtime, by design.

Adguard, I'm speculating, do not have the complexity that NextDNS does (no multi-tenant smart proxy fronting the actual DNS resolver), and so do have a better chance at getting availability and latency fixed sooner?

> I personally had to give up on Warp+ and even 1.1.1.1 ... due to instability with enterprise, airline, and hotel portals.

I'm curious, what instability? I have faced issues with (free) Warp where it can't / won't bypass government imposed censorship. And streaming apps like Netflix refuse to work.
I've never found anything of actual use on StackOverflow in my ~decade of doing this professionally. The only time StackOverflow provided useful answers to my questions was during my first year of programming courses in university.
If you offer them a better margin to mine in a more ethically palettable way, and any up-front resources to do so, then it's reasonable to assume that they will.

I think this quickly gets into the details though. How much safety is required and what does it cost? Are there alternative materials that cost less than ethical cobalt? What age restrictions should be put on the labour involved and what will those children do instead (both with their time and to earn money)? Where will the adult workers come from to replace those kids and what training do they need?
Product Hunt isn't a real community as it's a very explicit marketing platform, hence the pats on the back, astroturfing, etc.
Well, that's Google brand power for you: when one of their services has support that isn't shitty, nobody believes it anyway.
I don't mean to be derisivs but at that point - testing for reasoning, understanding, personality -
Why stick with a software tool?

You'd be better off arranging to play a strategy, preferrably collaborative, boardgame.

One day I'll use Pandemic as an interviewing tool. I wonder of it'd work as a pre-formal interview stage
Maybe it’s not appropriate for the official cpython but would be appropriate for something like pypy?
Yep. My creative life is my lifeblood. Signing it away would be literally selling my soul.
There's a permanent reminder above 4chan's most notorious board that "only a fool would take anything posted here as a fact." (or something along those lines).

To respond to the entirety of you ludicrous idea: No thanks.

This story is an example of why existing regulation already seems to do the job.
I'm partially unclear on how this affects either party. Recipes are explicitly not copyrightable. "Ideas" also seem like an unprotected asset outside of specific NDAs.
Actually the battery in those phones is lithium cobalt oxide. Whether or not they claim that it is ethically sourced won't matter with cobalt.

I'm not sure if you noticed but these are warlords running their country. They simply get resold to an ethically compromised supply chain, relabelled, and sold for a premium. And no one is really accountable and none the wiser. Metals fraud is a huge global problem. Also, happens in every industry.

That being said, the Fairphone looks really cool seems less wasteful than the competitors.
you could probably get a lot more done on arduino by writing a tiny forth in arduino C and then writing your applications in _that_
Sweden and Norway are attractive for many reasons, but I don't think any of this will happen soon enough to impact my life in a meaningful way. I'm 54, I haven't exactly been too careful with this body and if I live to 80 it would highly surprise me.

But my children likely will see this in full force and I sincerely hope that by then humanity will have come its collective senses.
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I mentioned it elsewhere, but a Baofeng or other inexpensive dual band (2 meter (144Mhz) & 70 cm (440MHz)) radio plus something like a uBitx (https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx-v6/) full-band (0.5Mhz - 30Mhz) HF radio, plus a copy of the ARRL's Antenna Book (http://www.arrl.org/arrl-antenna-book) and some wire will see you far less than $500 and get you on most bands.

If you prefer to buy not build your antennas, you can still do that for less than $500 all in, you just might have to look at used antennas.
I mean, I’m using Z-wave too, but you’re describing the same level of complexity. Either you set up a dedicated WiFi network and check that to see the status of IoT devices, or set up a dedicated Z-wave network and check that for the status of devices.
Congo has been independent for 60 years. How long do you expect to hold Belgium responsible for whatever happens there?
See also Kobayashi Maru

"a test of one's character or a solution that involves redefining the problem and managing an insurmountable scenario gracefully"
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That’s not my understanding based on conversations with an attorney for a project I was involved with for medical research. As always, consult an attorney; don’t take comments in an online forum as gospel, and get whatever sign off you need in writing.
How would that even be possible? Plus another router in an NAT everything behind it.
People would prefer

1. Their lightbulbs to not be co-opted into DDoS attacks
2. That their cameras are only used by them
3. That others can't control their devices
4. That their devices receive security updates
5. That their devices don't contain back-doors
6. That their devices can be used when isolated from the Internet

... I imagine.
Country of origin maybe?
No strong reason. Both good candidates, and both are better than PIA.

I liked the e-mail-free sign-up and WireGuard support. It also seems marketed to moderately-technical users (setting up WireGuard on iOS is trivial). That makes it less likely to get acquired by scammers.
What use case is there for getting your blood tested without getting a doctor involved?
Microsoft's ONNX.js is giving hard time to Google's Tensorflow.js
Only used ones? I'm serious here. How? How are you going to live in today's world and keep that promise?
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>but would be interested in seeing PBS extend its reach into Canada for others to benefit from.

I'm with you. But I think you'd run into the 1-2 combination of the American public not wanting to fund free TV for Canadians (though obviously the marginal cost is ~$0) and the Canadian public not wanting to "pollute" our air waves with American media.