skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with automating 'every day stuff' is that processes aren't formalized in most cases. So there isn't an interface to implement against. There are no clear or reliable sources of data. Management needs to understand the issue, and if it doesn't there isn't much you can do as a single individual. So I more and more often tend to ask myself, if it is really feasible to automate task X.
I see the Redux devs defending their tool in every comment thread around Redux and I have to say to them: it's not your fault and there's not a lot you can do to fix it by yourselves. The problem is every tutorial and training and boot camp and video I've ever seen around Redux treats Redux like heavyweight boilerplate and teaches you that you need five files with Redux where you only needed one with plain React and every function you add needs to touch all five of those files, including a file that only exists to write the name of the function you've added.

What I hear from the Redux devs does not in any way line up with what I heard from Brad Traversy or Stephen Grider, who have taught tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people on Udemy that the simplest React projects must be used with Redux and Redux turns beautiful React code into dotcom-era Enterprise Java.
4-year-old article already proven wrong. Tesla as a company is healthy and making a profit, battery prices coming down rapidly.
I really dislike how OpenCV handles reading frames from a video file, leaving up to the developer the responsibility of checking if it's None or not (or the status) -- the whole thing feels wrong in Python.

It's actually super simple to write a wrapper around it that lets you do:

for frame in video:
# your processing comes here and you forget
# having to check for None, while True s and things
# that should've stayed in the stone age

And I'm a little disappointed the posted library doesn't do it.
There is a privacy statement on the bottom of the page that covers this. Let me know if you feel this is not thorough enough or not prominent enough.
> You need to tax monopolies and not call it tax but a 'privilege fee'

Probably better to just get rid of the monopolies, e.g. by relaxing zoning restrictions on density so that housing supply can respond to demand.
If the study just studied YOUR tap water, then yes, a counter-experiment of the sort will refute it.

Else you could be the unscientific outlier, thinking you've shot a study down with a sample of one -- whereas you could e.g. be on one fortunate district with really clean water supply.
for the love of God don't disable updates for WebView
Even more basic than that, why do we think radio/photons are the most efficient/effective way to communicate for an advanced civilization? Why would they be using them in the first place?

We already know neutrinos can travel through most mass, so modulating those would let you transmit through the Earth and Sun with lower latency and without a repeater constellation routing around the object.

Whatever aliens might be using to transmit information is likely more advanced than we're able to detect.
We already have that ability. It's just that this travel is insanely slow and requires the energy levels that we can't easily produce in those timescales. It is quite possible (I would even say likely) that any faster travel is not very viable, and it might never be possible to make any kind of FTL engine.
At this point we're relying almost exclusively on radio waves to detect any traces of intelligent life out there. So whether they're building moon stations in their neighborhood, or sending rockets here and there, we'd still look for their transmissions to identify their existence and to tell them apart from a random natural event.

And while intelligent life may exist on a planet for millions of years, their window of actually emitting something into the void in a manner we can detect with our tech today [0] will probably be a lot shorter than that.

This gives us a relatively tiny and limited visibility window into the history of life out there. Unless we manage to sync our window perfectly with theirs we'll never know they existed.

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/638/
Which brings up his quality of life stance.

It honestly feels like we're paid slaves waiting until we have enough to buy ourselves from our owners.
Perhaps, but even tiny variances could cause shifts in the timeline of thousands or millions of years, which would be a blink compared to the age of the universe. Look how far we’ve come in the last 200 years. Imagine a civilization that is only 10,000 years ahead of us.
IIRC, you can't use uBO on Firefox on iOS, only on Android.
This is right, and the other mistake people make is measuring just the context switch, and not the many hundreds of thousands of cycles after the context switch spent repopulating the cache.
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why did he consent to the search when he knew he had contraband in the vehicle?
You really mean anything at least comet/asteroid sized, passing within the inner Solar System with a speed and an albedo that would make it stand out against the background of stars (reaching at least say, apparent magnitude 8-10). Also, note that it should be found near the ecliptic plane, to improve the chances of detection.

Now, exchange that for a black-ish ship a few hundred meters sized, quietly coming from Vega to visit say, Saturn. Nobody would probably notice it coming and going, despite Saturn being one of the most popular targets of the entire sky.
That's an interesting statement. Why not?
Do you have a dedicated server provider you can recommend?
1) quality pillow (upping my sleep game has been a life changer)
2) password manager
3) office365 instead of google docs
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They don't have to "collapse," merely remain at a point of stability that doesn't allow for the energy expenditure and infrastructure of interstellar travel. That's not an unlikely scenario.
If your business is selling data or access to customer eyeballs, anything and everything is fair game, unless there is some law or other obstacle in the way.
Not sure if this is a statement or question. Assuming it's a question: Me and my team uses npm, but we're careful about what we pull in. If the dependency has too many dependencies themselves, we either find a alternative, fork it to remove bunch of stuff we don't care about or write something ourselves.
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You'd be surprised how much stuff there is just in our neighborhood that we're unable to catch, yet. We mostly track dangerous stuff, the big enough - fast enough to destroy us, and we now have probably in the 6-7 figures objects tracked in the inner solar system. That's it. Elusive 9th planets and other major 'quests' are shots in the dark so far, mostly — read accounts on why they target some region of the sky, how narrow our observational capabilities are as we can only point to a very specific direction at a time with each telescope, etc.

So, some alien unmanned probe the likes of Voyager in large orbit around the Sun? Yeah, no chance in hell we'd detect that by random chance, we'd have to seriously upgrade our space infrastructure to even pretend 'monitoring' our close vicinity, let alone post-Jovian space. And we have virtually no knowledge of about half the distance between interstellar medium and the Sun, that's how limited we are to even modeling the closest star systems.

Edit: apparently double-post with aruggirello; I agree with him.
They claim that they did not create the incorrect logo and state that it was created by a third party. Doesn't that entirely invalidate their claim to own copyright over it?
I am intrigued by the simulation theory. That we as a species has reached a certain level of advancement to simulate a reality and experience it; or we may just be npcs or temporary programs for another intelligent race in this simulation.

We could also be a zoo/prison planet far into enemy territory. Currently being experimented and observed. Hybridization in order to infiltrate our actual civilization that’s located elsewhere.
> How does UBI even work? Won't it just lead to rampant inflation where the basic income is spread thin, eaten up almost entirely by the rising cost of goods?

In the long run UBI promotes innovation and competition. Therefore those industries with competition would not suffer from rampant inflation.

Businesses without competition (monopolies) would on the other hand experience huge inflation simply because there is no pressure to keep the price down. This would be the case of natural monopolies (eg. banks or networks such as telecommunication, railroads, water systems) and government guaranteed monopolies (pharma, US healthcare, various overregulated industries).
More to the point, none of this matters when you’re continuously polling Google’s API endpoints for your email.
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> How to stay private when using Android

1. Stop using Android.

FTFY

> How to stay private in general

1. Stop using the smartphone - some of its tracking features are near impossible to disable

2. Use VPN or/and TOR

3. Enable either DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS

4. Never login anywhere

5. Use the most common OS (Windows 10 at the moment) + the most common web browser (Chrome at the moment)

6. Make sure your web browser locale is set to English

7. Set your system timezone to US

8. Make sure your desktop resolution is 1920x1080 and your Chrome and Windows are as default as possible

9. Do not install any additional fonts

10. Install a single extension which hides your WebGL vendor string e.g. WebGL Fingerprint Defender

11. Do NOT visit websites from your country (it's quite easy to match your VPN traffic patterns with local websites visits and de-anonimize you)

12. for each site that you visit: * Clean all web browser data before visiting it * Close the browser * Open the browser again * Open your website

I've probably missed something like canvas fingerprinting protection, JS timings detection, CPU concurrency detection, etc. etc. etc.

TLDR: It's near impossible to browse the web without being tracked if the company which wants to track you has the resources for that. Web browsers and the web were not designed this way.
> Other devices require some kind of trigger, such as touching the screen or pressing a physical button, as with the iPhone ($900 at Amazon) when activating FaceID.

I mean not really, getting a notification or an alarm activating will also wake the screen and FaceID will start scanning.
Fascinating theory, but we aren't Pitcairn Island.

> Why, then, have we found no irrefutable evidence of aliens visiting Earth?

We have evidence, it just gets "refuted" for psychological reasons. The Fermi Paradox is a Rorschach test, and has nothing to do with reality.

In reality, humans in every culture have recorded incidents of communications with non-human intelligences.[0]

In reality, the Brazilian Military has gotten much less coy about UFO phenomenon in recent years and has started declassifying documents. Their overall conclusion is that, whatever they are, UFOs are real, pose no national security threat, and should be researched and discussed by society at large, with some urgency.

Here's a fascinating lecture by a Brazilian UFO researcher about the overall situation in Brazil and he describes three encounters that are known to have government involvement (so the researchers know what to ask about, in these cases.)

"Operation Saucer - UFO military encounters in the Brazilian jungle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkmRsEBOY0

> In 1977, numerous UFOs were seen in the Brazilian city of Colares, Pará. The UFOs fired light beams at people, causing injuries and sucking blood from 400 witnesses. After a rise in local concern, the mayor of the city requested help from the Air Force. Operation Saucer started, during which numerous photos were taken and testimonies collected. Operation Saucer is just one of the compelling cases which A. J. Gevaerd, editor of Brazilian UFO magazine, talked about in his latest lecture in Copenhagen, paving the way for complete Disclosure in his country. Kudos to Exopolitics Denmark for setting up their excellent annual conference at the Danish National Museum on September 26 in Copenhagen!

The first case involves thousands of people, living on an island in the Amazon, who were attacked by UFOs over a period of several years (1975-1977 IIRC). Flying cans with visible pilots were shooting people with bending "light" beams and sucking up their blood. It got so bad that thousands of people evacuated and the Brazilian Army sent in a unit to find out what was going on and try to make contact. I won't spoil the rest of the story here.

To me, the strangest thing I can see is the question: Why would people (aliens or humans) who have evidently advanced technology go around attacking poor villagers to suck their blood!? WTF?

[0] (I myself once attended a event at an airport hotel at which some purple telepathic space dolphins were guest lecturers. FWIW, their basic TL;DR: was "Be nice to each other." Aliens were attending underground raves in Seattle in the 90's.)
Everything on the Internet has to be "free," so that's the business model.
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1. Google tracked user location even when location history was turned off.

2. Most people don't understand the full extent of Web and App Activity permissions -- they don't understand that this will allow Google to do things like parse search queries out of DuckDuckGo searches on Chrome.

3. Similarly (until recently) most people didn't realize that Google was using email info for advertising, including purchases made at competitors. This is the reason why none of your Amazon purchase confirmations list the items you purchased any more. They didn't want Google to be able to read them. Also no way to opt out until enterprise pressure forced Google to eventually promise to stop using the data... for ads.

4. On the subject of Siri, Google's voice assistant was also responsible for giving recordings to 3rd party contractors without the ability to disable it, and most users weren't aware this was happening.

5. Until consumer backlash forced them to stop, Google Maps also aggregated user wifi network names. This would open the door to determine location information based purely on what Wifi networks were stored on your device.

> I'm sure it'll be easy, easier than downvotes.

The reason you're getting downvotes is because this stuff is really easy to research[0], and other commenters don't believe you're engaging in good faith -- they think you're just trying to waste their time by asking them to list out examples that are common knowledge. A downvote is much easier and faster for them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo...
It’s not hard to imagine in the near future that having a PhD in biology and access to a moderately equipped lab would grant a person the ability to create super plagues capable of killing most humans.

Couple that with the wide spread nihilism that wants to destroy the world because they can’t stand the injustice of life, and it’s a pretty good bet our time as a species is limited here.

If I were king for a day I’d do everything I could to get the message out that things are getting better, injustice is shrinking every year, and there is hope.
I’d love to see what the iPhone 10,000 ends up looking like
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This looks great!

I'm curious about extensibility - would it be possible integrate with a C# app running on Windows, for example?

I'm particularly interested for accessibility reasons, looking for ways to control tools like JetBrains Rider without shifting my hands from keyboard to mouse.
Could you clarify what is meant by "enters text over one chunk at a time" and "basic building blocks very evident"? I use tmux & vim but ... unsure if I follow.

Edit: Do you mean, personal, local notes on tasks, as the notes evolve into scripts? I also keep a lot of personal notes which I can export into a web site (similarly to putting into a wiki, in a very loose comparison, an example being my site at http://lukecall.net or the other at http://onemodel.org), using something like a big, efficient, outline of all my notes. (I would probably put it in org-vim like org-mode, or maybe taskwarrior, if I didn't have http://onemodel.org, which I hope to make much easier to install, sometime.)

Thanks.
+ in C advances pointers in sizeof-pointed-to thing increments. It's why ++ works too. Similarly - on pointers returns a difference in units of sizeof-pointed-to thing.
Mediation, obviously. Also being physically active; jogging, swimming, or running, at least a few minutes everyday.
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What’s the point of settling on planets if you can sustainably develop anywhere in space, which I think is within the reach of any typical space-faring civilization?
This is the meat of the article:

> Do Google and the others store my facial data in the cloud?
Sort of. Although Google is quick to point out that face profiles are stored and processed on the Nest Hub Max itself, it admits that it occasionally pulls facial data to the cloud to help improve "product experience." Google insists any facial data that winds up in the cloud is deleted after it's finished processing it.

So I went digging around for a source to this claim, and found this[0]:

> Do Nest Hub Max’s camera sensing features ever send video or images from my home to Google? Yes, but only as part of the Face Match setup process, and not after you've completed setup.

So this is a no to "occasionally" pulling facial data.

0: https://store.google.com/us/category/google_nest_privacy
Yeah I really like that you could support what you want as it gives more control to the citizens.
Hetzner offers dedicated servers that basically have unrestricted traffic amounts. You can see the pricing here: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver

This is what they write about their "unlimited traffic":

> Traffic usage is unlimited and free of charge. Please note that our unlimited traffic policy does not apply to servers that have the 10G uplink addon.
A random person's dismissive comment offering nothing besides negativity
http://lambdaway.free.fr/

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=whitepage

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=lambda

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=prime_pattern
While it is undeniably true that Android, just as any other networked product by Google, is a nightmare with respect to privacy, I hardly believe that Apple doesn't collect any user data. They very likely want to remain the #1 solution for wealthy people who don't want their communications to be bugged, and they're surely much much better than Google in that context, still I don't trust them because their product is even more closed than Android, therefore impossible to audit just as Android.
Well you're a saint. The average desktop app repaints with stuttering, hangs for seconds, and has all modal controls. So few care about these things any more.

Is 'performance' the right word for this? Its more like user experience or latency - the controls/graphics should be run on a different thread than the data processing.
It's been proposed before, see: International Fixed Calendar
It's nice if the environment lets one have a (replicated?) shell account so you can have some place to put things (but I don't pretend at all to know if that is wise in the environment you work in). I have at times done copy/paste, or, if it seems likely to save enough time in a given situation, something like a script full of aliases that I can quickly scp over and source (". someScript") to make them available in the environment. ((or again, paste)

The other comment in this discussion (do Ctrl+F for "most wizardly of the wizards") might have a good idea, but I don't understand it yet.
It’s already named the International Fixed Calendar :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
State Capacity Libertarianism
A key question is "will this task benefit from formalization". If the answer is Yes, one can begin to structure it and gain benefits quite quickly. Clear and relatively quick gains, and helping out the people that do these tasks today, is key to buy-in. Then once a structure is in place, one can consider automating it.
That's the proper comparison.

Investing into startups and unicorns should provide significant yield over diversified and less risky investment. Getting the same result from taking more risk is not a good investment.

from the end of March 30, 2015

+56% SP500 Price index

+70% SP500 Total return index

+83% Nasdaq price index

Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and SpaceX doubling their valuations would give only +3.2% annualized return over Nasdaq. I don't see the risk/reward ratio of a good investment if the price just doubles in that period.

(FAANG is another good comparison).
Well, if you combine these advances even with basic artificial habitat building at reasonable scale(Oneil cylinders, world houses, covered craters, cavern cities, asteroid habitats, etc.) you should be able to house all these people quite easily.

If all these long living people dont have to much new children (and might not be able to ? eq. if fully digitized or with body fully replaced with mechanical parts), it might be even easier.
OTOH, any sufficiently complicated React app contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Redux.
The IRS will intentionally not give you any deductions and the cost basis for any capital gains will be $0 regardless of what you paid. The intent of the "return" they file for you is to get you to file a real once since their version will say you owe a lot of money.

This is all explained in the letter they send you should you fail to file.
But you need to destroy democracy in order to be able to do that? Isn't that a too high price to pay? Also it will mean leaving tens of millions of largely elderly or at least 55+ people, bankrupt and destitute, and having to deal with the problem of feeding like 50M+ elderly people, instead of the same amount of young people who now can't afford rents? Is that REALLY worth the trouble? See it's not some imaginary "world jewry" or someone like that who owns all the apartments, it's the same ordinary American people, just older ones. Why forcibly taking money from one large demographic to another - from one who can't really change things for themselves much anymore to those who can - by destroying democracy in the process - is supposed to change anything at all for the better? And how is it even basically 'fair'?

To me it feels both politically impossible, morally unjustifiable, and socially bullshit. "Get too many people very angry for no benefit at all".
uBlock Origin is not on iOS.

There is FF Focus, but not sure how much more secure that is.
Android is awful regardless of device you buy. Google's control is an absolute disaster for an OS.

If Google is involved, expect 0 privacy.
Again, that's speculation. With not a lot of evidence behind it.
Folks have been using plastics for what? 100 years now? Where's the epidemiological evidence from that period? Where's the public health crisis?

No, I think this is overblown.
Interesting this requires ‘jq’ when JMESpath is built into AWS CLI already.

http://jmespath.org/
Happy new year 2020!!
I've always wondered why Australia doesn't use the UK
layout. Generally the same as the US one plus you
gain two currency symbols that you wouldn't otherwise
(without resorting to alt codes or whatever).
Vanilla magic! :P
I don't understand what the point of this is, can't you just use the webroot method?
Apple's incentives as a product business align much better with user privacy than Google's incentives as an ad business though.
It boggles to imagine which of those words you found fancy

Yang’s website says the plan will rely on poor people electing not to get other social safety net benefits. People will end up without healthcare and without food if there are not programs in place to address those problems specifically.