skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As this builds up there will be a wide open market opportunity for a privacy-conscious appliance manufacturer. Maybe combined with good/minimalist design like Nest - minus the forced cloud stuff. Plus some design work on the internals to make them easy to repair/replace parts.

Shenzhen and other places is full of talent capable of fulfilling this niche.

All it takes is a brave soul to go out and try it.
then here's another just for you!

;;from https://github.com/m2ym/popwin-el
;; prevents annoying popup buffers/windows
(require 'popwin)
(popwin-mode 1)
The amazing part of about json-ld is you can make up your own terms when you have missing terminology! And, if you care enough, you can push for them in Schema.org and get them introduced.
That's why the message from Fahrenheit 451 was more apt to 2020: It's not the government that creates a dystopian future, it's us.
Even if there were, should it matter? You could fill your car with moonshine and attempt to run it. It might explode, sure, but the car doesn't detect that the fuel is not the specified quality and decide to not run entirely.
If you don't live near cold water, I find that taking an ice-cold shower has a similar physiological effect.
There's a lot of comments here about Signal being better than Wickr, but little information on why yet. A quick Google search didn't give me any decent answers, so can anyone fill in why Signal is better?
I like the image previews/thumbnails that appear in the threads from the actual site. I assume you're rendering/screenshotting the site for mobile/desktop in order to generate the previews.

Is there a particular tool you're using/that you'd recommend? Headless Chrome, PhantomJS, NightmareJS? Do you just wait an arbitrary amount of time to assume the necessary visuals have loaded/rendered, or is there a feedback mechanism to indicate when it's ready to be captured?
What's a shadetree porogammer?
Five now.

China virus: five cities locked down and Beijing festivities scrapped

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/coronavirus-pa...
Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act prohibits this behavior. This is what allowed a competitive market for affordable replacement car parts to exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
World's First Tech Ambassador Resigns
The developers of pihole (at least some) don't use anything but the defaults
First advice is "Visit Dribbble" Oh no, no, no.
I have one of these, it's trivial to cut the RFID off of the "passthrough" plug and use non-branded filters. Honestly it's hard for me to get too worked up about easily circumvented rent seeking like this. I would probably return the fridge if it wasn't possible though.
You can't trust that the endpoint of a call is on a secure network. If you need to interact with multiple stakeholders from an organizational POV, you may not trust identity of the other parties either, so a traditional Skype/Teams/Jabber type thing won't get it. Signal lets you do that ad-hoc, at least for low trust level validation.

The VPN provides security for the LTE or Wifi connection. The network that the VPN terminates on may not be a "trusted" network either. Think of an office LAN. You usually don't require a VPN to join the office Wifi or wired ethernet. The LAN provides a level of trust sufficient to access the printer or something similar, but you still secure a connection to your server with SSH.
If you are from or live in the USA you should check out this thing called the "overton window."
You don't HAVE any major left-wing political party, only a hard (and growing harder every day, as the John Birchers have taken over Eisenhowers party, but I digress) right wing party and a corporate centrist party, that would be considered center-right by most of the rest of the world (Democrats)

I literally am quite convinced that all evil actions emanate from the right wing, good intentions of some notwithstanding.

I see absolute evil and a shocking lack of introspection in today's Repugnant party. They teach that environmental stewardship is for suckers, that Donald Trump is God King and above all laws, that laws are for other people, that money SHOULD be in politics (THANK YOU SUPREME COURT citizens united decision, thank you Bush Jr and Trump! Thank you McConnell you filthy scumbag.)

I personally feel that hanging is too good for Donald Trump and that he should be publically drawn-and-quartered on live TV, and I'm happy to discuss the reasons why his treasonous contempt for our Republic merits such and how it will bring a cathartic closure to our violent era of empire.

I doubt it, however.
I would personally love to hear a Republican't whisper "sic semper tyrannus" into Chumps ear while he twists the knife.
That disdainful orange blob who poops on all that is good (and cheats at golf) and raises up the wicked for praise and exhaltation should be cast into the lake of fire, forever. However I doubt it. He will probably get away with it, and you fools who support him and pretend you still have a brain cell left in your sycophantic short-sighted heads will nod and say he is a great leader, because you are mean and want to watch the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty and watch the world burn....

The thing is, you probably feel strongly about your views also (even though you are WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, lol)
So, where does this leave us?
I switched because Personal Capital has much nicer UI and tools for understanding your investments. As my income increased over my career I found that budgeting was becoming the least complex part of my financial life compared to managing retirement, brokerage, stock grants, etc. funds.
As someone who spent a good chunk of their childhood and young adulthood just thinking I was garbage and morally weak this article really spoke to me. Going on medication meant the difference between being an effective human, partner, and worker, and being a depressed ball of goo stuck in a retail job.
Starting off with a stupid story made me close this instantly, get to the point faster.
Quote is about beating not matching. If the FLOSS software matches all of their requirements then there isn't a way to beat it and it's already made.
I've mostly been able to solve this problem (unless I'm really frazzled and have a lot of other things on my mind) by adjusting the audiobook's playback speed.

Too slow and I'll be bored and my mind will wander a lot, and too fast and I'll miss chunks even with the smallest mind wandering. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.

For reading written material, I found a trick that worked for me in college, when I had mountains of assigned books to read. Whenever I noticed my mind wandering, I'd make an arbitrary mark (like a simple checkmark) on a piece of paper and immediately go back to reading. This kept my focus and I was able to barrel through a ton of reading.
I bought one of these as part of an appliance packaged when I remodeled my kitchen. 6 months later I learned about all of this and did the filter bypass ‘hack’ mentioned elsewhere. This single act of stupidity by GE has solidified I will never buy an appliance from them ever again. This act of requiring ‘authentic’ filters is intentionally and without question anti-consumer to chase a few dollars but as long as the others don’t follow suit they’re shooting themselves in the foot because consumers will flee.

How long before we see an article about consumers repairing and chasing down ancient refrigerators that are sadly inefficient but at least repairable?
Opt-in and non-dark patterns is all we ask [1]. That plus a clean option to opt-out without breaking some wider integration.

[1] Assuming it provides legitimate business value in the first case
Why is Tesla (or any car manufacturer) allowed to keep the code secret?
That's not Coke. I mean, Coke provides the technology to enable it, maybe. But Universal Orlando is the one responsible for requesting and implementing the feature. Though I wasn't aware of any use for paper cups... Last time I visited, it was only for the free refill periods of souvenir cups. You pay for refills for the entire day, and it enables your chip to then use those machines all day. The alternative was that you carry around the dated receipt and get refills from vendors. So overall it was a UX win; the economics are all the same, but users get better service.

Cruise lines were the first place I saw this used, years before UO implemented it. They would have a couple FreeStyle machines scattered around the ship, that would work with the cup they would give you when you bought the beverages package. Again, overall a UX win, because they had the same packages before, but you would have to go to one of the bars or whatever to use it.

EDIT: I also feel like saying that in both instances, the machines would still happily dispense plain water. So that's a nice thing.
> You're claiming that if a piece of information has an identity that makes it reachable, then that makes it censorable too, but you left out what would be required to make that censorship happen. The gov't would have to require the IPFS codebase to support a 'blacklist table' of hashes

No, it only has to take down servers hosting its content.

> all I'd have to do is add one bit or byte to the end of it, and the hash would change completely.

This is unrelated to my point, but a nitpick: IPFS uses a rolling/chunking hash, so one could blacklist chunks of a file; so it's not as easy as adding a byte at the end.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22128462

Alternate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127274
Given how much of that $700B is likely to go towards developing such a system - likely somewhat less than all of it - and the general care towards usability in DoD-built systems? I think it might not be a wildly unreasonable position to take. Doubly so when you consider that DoD procurement and development practices are not widely renowned for being quick.

With those in mind, and that Signal already exists, it's worth considering if there's actually something for the DoD to gain by sinking millions of dollars and years of time into developing and maintaining something new that might not be an improvement. The answer might legitimately be "No, that's not worth it".
I condensed most of my budget categories just to check if my total monthly spending is normal bounds and nothing unusual is happening.
This is more like you buying your house outright. Then after 20 years the registry of deeds decides to start demanding a stiff yearly maintenance fee, without which they'll remove your deed from their books and allow new registrants to substitute their own in its place.
In general? Yes. I attend a weekly men's group and helps immensely. It helps me navigate my life. People of all types can benefit from small groups where they can spitball and discuss life. This is how knowledge exchange happens.

Professionally... there is no benefit to separate men from women for me. I don't need to know how to be a good male developer, I need to work on being a good developer, period.

That said, I'm not going to fight against a group or organization like this. I think that as the internet connects us, it's harder to find small groups. Additionally, I think some people have experiences they need to discuss, positive and negative, that are of social relevance for them and others. So, if women feel a certain way in the workplace and need to make a place for discussion, that is totally fine. It shouldn't be seen as a slight to others. I think it's just part of what makes us human. That's why we naturally separate into groups, tribes, families, nations, etc.

This isn't some argument for men vs women or nationalism, please don't take it that way.

I'm only saying that a space where you can iterate/discuss/be heard is important. More often than not, the size of the group is a primary factor.
I expect most are better given that "In 2009 it was voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain."
Mostly this:
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
1. Using REPLs: The tool or the principle.

REPL means Read-Eval-Print-Loop and its a place where you can run code immediately and get immediate feedback. For example F12 in your browser and use the console to do 1+1. But you can also use that console to interact with your code in the browser, the DOM and make http requests.

But I also see REPL as a principle - to get as quick feedback from the code you write as possible, and things that help this are:

* Quick compile times

* Unit tests

* Continuous integration

So that each stage is as quick as possible. I write code and within as second or two know if it failed a test. Within a few seconds maybe I can play with the product locally to test it manually. Once committed, I can see it in production or a staging environment at least pretty quickly.

You can then have bigger REPL loops where a product manager can see your initial code fairly quickly, give you feedback and you can get stated on that right away and get it out again for review quickly.

I don't think there is any excuse not to work like this given the explosion of tooling in the last 20 years to help.

2. YAGNI

Writing over elaborate code because it is fun! That's fun at first but you soon learn it's better to write what is needed now. There is a balance and writing absolutely shit code is not an excuse, but adding too generic code because of stuff that might happen is also a problem.
>privacy-conscious appliance manufacturer.... like Nest

Nest is now owned by Google. Nest also had installed microphones in their units without telling consumers prior to being purchased by Google.
Heh. Brave downloads 10Mb less of data but still takes just as long to render
> Who knows?

I know a little about it from a previous employer.

Even the narrow slice I saw was all of "a lot of compute, a lot of ingestion, a lot of output, and a ton of networking", and more.

I think that the internal inefficiencies in the DOD datacenters are so enormous that any kind move to something more 'standardized', no matter what company it is, even with all of the artificial overhead, etc, will likely be a big win.
However, "ranked choice voting"... pretty simple and good idea, yeah?
I keep it very closely that I am on any sort of medication because of the stigma. At this point in my life I refuse to allow someone else to have an opinion of what my doctor and I decide I need to be healthy.
Is this the same Edge team which forces a Bing search bar on your New Tab page, even if you've removed Bing as a search provider in the settings?
Anyway, how's that GLONASS going?
Keybase is miserable to use currently and its only generally gotten worse. Was an early user and have continued to be disappointed.
You can’t even really get genuine warranty claims addressed. There’s always a catch: labor not included, part in order, no fridge for 4 days until tech can return.
Look at all that "innovation" being stifled...
Source? I didn’t know that.
Is an ad blocker alone not enough? What's the difference between that an a "pi-hole server"?

Ah I see it's for mobile, because you can't install ad blockers there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-hole

Yeah I imagine it must save incredible amounts of bandwidth.
There's a CG video of the last 24 hours of Pompeii[0] which shows how the city was completely wiped off the map. It's probably one of the best ways to visualize the disaster and aftermath.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc
Brave New World is probably a better dystopian comparison than 1984.

More "oppression-by-comfort" than "boot-on-face-forever".
One party rule is working great in Baltimore.
I was diagnosed in 2019 after a long series of conversations with a therapist following a work disaster that nearly cost me my job. Getting diagnosed was like finding the missing piece of the puzzle regarding my life. My schooling history suddenly made sense, the poor financial decisions, etc. everything became clear.

The biggest thing I realized is how tightening feedback loops is the key to my productivity, I gravitated towards python because it's interpreted nature meant I could get feedback on my code in 20 seconds max as opposed to 3-5 minutes waiting for my code to build.

Adderall is a help but is not a cure all, it took me months to learn how to use it right, at first Adderall just fueled my ADHD and made everything worse. It's a constant struggle and maladaptive perfectionism is still the one thing I struggle with the most. I can't count the times of I've completed reverted my git sandbox to start from scratch after reaching a certain frustration level with code.
the acquisitions procedure to do that would be a nightmare
or factory reset the fridge
Thanks for mentioning that not everybody responds well to Ritalin. I was medicated with it while in grade school, and it was not pleasant; the school nurse would check my mouth to make sure I took the pills each morning, because I would spit them out otherwise. To this day, I am not interested in taking medication for my mental health.
Visualizing a Fibonacci Sequence
I'm confused - wouldn't that mean the vote isn't secret?
Eh, ability to restrain oneself (and keep those hyperactive thoughts internal) comes with age. I don’t think the impulsivity associated with ADHD in children disappears when those children become adults; they just learn to control the outward behaviors. I tend to interrupt people mid-discussion often; I’m guessing it’s related somehow.
It's difficult for me to describe tech workers as "rich" when the majority of them don't own any significant assets, like houses. They're a perpetual renter class with high income, the majority of which immediately goes to paying taxes, rent, and services that are more expensive where they need to live in order to earn those high incomes.
fwiw RHEL is all over Army systems under the hood
FWIW, I have this same BoA issue and have been trying for months to escalate it to someone who can actually do something about it. It's frustrating, to say the least.
Sounds like a quick fix from hackaday.com
Not once has that ever stopped an RFP from being put out or a contract from being awarded.
>Imagine if there was a pill to reduce risk of cardiac arrest, with some increased risk of something relatively minor.

(Some?) Antihypertensive drugs can contribute to harm to the liver. They're unlikely to cause anything on their own, but if your liver is already not the healthiest it can make things worse.

>Yes, I get that "lifestyle changes" could help, but I don't want to change my lifestyle.

As far as I've read about ADHD, nothing comes close to the effect that medication has in treating the issue.
Because their job doesn't buy them a secondary device that is strictly a thing for the elites while peasants pay out of pocket. Im sure mandatory apple watch for 2FA isnt far off.
> Yes, I get that "lifestyle changes" could help

No. Just don't entertain this idea. You can go 20 years since the first time someone told you you may be ADHD or depressed with subsequent diagnoses. Then tell yourself it's all in behavior no one needs drugs. But twenty years on you'll still find yourself in the same cyclical patterns of periodic depression or chronic inability to select your attention to a task. "Lifestyle changes" could help with the right crutch. But if you need Ritalin or another drug to learn those lifestyle changes so be it.

In your (not quite perfect) comparison. It's as if the pill will reduce cardiac arrest and improve peoples aptitude to learn to run for 30 minutes daily.
I was trying to avoid hyperbole.

Trench warfare is certainly applicable to the situation here as well. We might be lagging behind the US, but polarization is steadily increasing. Nobody seems willing to address the real issues at hand. Instead people are arguing semantics and calling each other nazis, and it's getting increasingly hard to gather a majority for passing a budget, not to mention actually forming a government.

I honestly don't think a handful more political parties will do that much of a difference to combat the current zeitgeist.
I have ADHD and OCD. I take medication. This post on ADHD hits hope with me on how people treat OCD.

"My OCD is kicking in, it needs to be aligned!"

OCD is not wanting things straight. That's human nature.

OCD can be crippling. It can take over your thoughts and your life. That's the compulsion. It takes you over. It's doesn't help with programming, it doesn't make your code neat.
Yes... which I mentioned in the very next sentence. Way to take the Nest part completely out of context, which I was referencing only in regards to offering a clean/minimal designed home appliances.

I'm convinced privacy-conscious smart products which keep things as local as possible combined with good simple design is applicable to so many niches. Including routers.
Same here. My brother has it much worse, and it manifested in him with outward hyperactivity so he got treated and I did not. I got by, but when I finally got into grad school I realized I had a problem that will power couldn't fix.
use-package would be an improvement upon most of the code snippets in the blog post. Loading packages without it these days feels like a sin.
It's not about cost, it's about profit. It doesn't matter that it's dirt cheap, it matters that they can sell it for >>>dirt cheap.
I'm sure many do, others in the thread have noted USAA and PNC. Doesn't seem like a hard thing to implement.
I realize I am going off topic here. But

> It has no real impact on anything beyond scale, which may make a practical difference but makes no fundamental difference to any arguments about surveillance.

Scale makes a huge difference: The obvious example, discussing this on HN, is computers. Fundamentally, the massive network of computers making up the internet is no different from the original Zuse computer - both are just number crunching machines. But in the same way that AI surveillance will allow you to control everyone, not just a few individuals, the difference the scale makes is just so huge that the two aren't even remotely comparable.
Personal Capital does a really good job in squeezing out analytics from your Cashflow. Great tool.
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For anyone diagnosed with ADHD, taking stimulants is associated with 8+x increase of being diagnosed with a basal ganglia and cerebellum disease later in life.

I believe this is NOT causative, but is instead a correlation between other diseases associated with Dopamine production and ADHD. I take and have continued to take stimulants for ADHD.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-018-0207-5

In my family's case, we likely have something called Dopa Responsive Dystonia (DRD), and what the author is describing sounds to me like what I experienced prior to being diagnosed with ADHD, and later with DRD.

Having said that, I'm not a doctor, so please go see an experienced movement disorder specialist if you are reading this and have any concerns.

DRD is very hard to diagnose, but easy to treat. Because the stimulants (Adderall and Ritalin) made the DRD symptoms worse, my mother happened to get early onset Parkinson's, and my grandmother also responded to carbodopa/levodopa (carbo/levo), it was fairly obvious in retrospect, but if we didn't have a family member with early onset Parkinson's I doubt it would have been picked up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine-responsive_dystonia

My sense is that anyone with ADHD who uses stimulants should see an experienced movement disorder neurologist or few about basal ganglia and cerebellum diseases and try out medications based on their assessment. From personal experience, it became extremely clear I had DRD after taking carbo/levo, but there's no way I would have really known without trying it. It also helps with some of the stimulant side effects, which I still continue to take because they are very effective.

My family has seen maybe six neurologists total, and only one really knew about DRD. The Dystonia Foundation has a decent doctor locator.

https://dystonia-foundation.org/living-dystonia/find-a-docto...
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