skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's pretend his passion was Nascar driving...

Christopher McCandless sets off, from California in an old car he rebuilt himself (he replaced the fenders and painted it), on a trip to the Daytona 500. He only gets across the state line when he runs out of fuel because he forgot to fill it up. Instead of simply walking to the nearest gas station or flagging down help he decides to push his car over an embankment and set it on fire. He then proceeds to walk on foot to the nearest car lot (which happens to be in Mexico for some reason, mostly because he burned up his map in the car and he's been taking backroads.) He finds an old bicycle in a garbage dump and uses that.

He finally gets to the car lot and buys a fixer-upper for $50. Before leaving the car lot he has to change a tire, which he replaces with the solid rubber donut. He buys fuel and heads off to the Daytona 500 again. Only he's heading deeper into Mexico and eventually ends up broken down in front of, "Autodromo Internacional de la Jolla" due to no water in the radiator. The engine block has seized up. Luckily, there's a race about to start. Christopher...er "Alexander Superspeeder", who changed his name, pays the $125 entry fee for the race.

Unfortunately, Alexander Superspeeder doesn't have a race car. He does however have an old bicycle still. He uses the bicycle to race. He makes it only 3 laps before he is too tired to steer straight and veers off into a race car and is killed.

Some Jew picks up his story and writes a book about his life and how he followed his dreams. Another Jew makes a movie about it. Armchair racers around the world adore him.

The End.
>That computer mices are retarded and trackballs are the way to go.

I really like mice and I find them to be much faster and much more precise. However, I recently switched to using a trackball for work and general use and I now only use a mouse when I'm gaming. My wrist feels better than it has in years.

> That the tilted keyboard (its top tilted) is one of the worst ideas ever. It should be exactly the opposite.

I have a split keyboard with adjustable tenting. Can you explain or post a picture of what proper tilting looks like? I would like to give it a try and see if it helps.
If goldielocks-zone planets are common, but the ones with a large moon are not, it might not matter that they start out with oceans if they turn into Venus too quickly.

As I understand it, Earth is not like Venus in large part because the moon has kept tidal friction from nearly halting its rotation. Rotation might be necessary for tectonic activity, and tectonic activity for various other essential processes. Rotation might be necessary to maintain reasonable temperature or weather.

Earth's moon is considered a very rare fluke. If one in a million earths has a serviceable moon, that might cut the odds of eukaryotic life enough to make us unique in the galaxy.

Unless there are other fertile circumstances.
Indian Intelligence agencies red-flag use of 53 mobile apps with links to China
From my point reducing electronics while adding more mechanical parts will most likely lead to both cost and size increase which will make product less attractive. Fast FPGAs are getting cheaper daily.
Before the rise of index investing, mom and pop didn't invest in stocks at all. They had a defined-benefit pension and kept their savings in a portfolio of CDs and government bonds.
...that it's a utopian ideology, a false idea which can ultimately never be fulfilled, but which develops a "false consciousness in people about the world, how it works, and their place in it".

> As an example, in Medieval Europe, religion was used as an ideology to support the structure of society. Serfs were told that the people in charge were put there by God and that the way the world worked was the only divinely ordained way it could work. No wonder people who were essentially slaves didn't rise up; they were told God wanted them at the bottom.

> According to Marx, other ideologies like capitalism or liberalism work the same way. They are created, work to help sustain a particular social structure, and ultimately fall out of favor when a new idea comes to force. When this happens, the whole structure of society can change in a hurry as a new ideology fills the void.

Source: https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/slavoj-zizek-ideology
> He survived for 113 days in the wilderness, not too bad.

That's one way to frame it. The other way is simply to say that it took him 113 days to starve to death. Lest anyone have the wrong impressions from the book/movie, he didn't die because he ate poisonous berries that messed up his digestive system. He simply burned more calories than he consumed.

I'm not one of those who think negatively of him. He himself wrote something to the effect of not having regrets and being grateful he went on this journey when he knew he was probably going to starve to death. Who am I to criticize him for it? He lived the way he wanted to, and when it was clear it was leading to his death, he was at peace with that.
Is this safe (no spoilers) to read if I'm still in the first chapters of "Masters of Doom' ?
I think both of you have valid points. While I have a Vive Pro, I'm rooting for Quest and PSVR to gain for traction. While nothing beats PC VR in performance, quality, and tracking; the price of entry alone is bad enough for PC VR. Then you have to add the complexity of base station setup. With procrastination, it took me weeks before I had the right PC VR setup vs instant plug and play with the Quest. That said, you can't beat the refresh rate, resolution, and tracking on the PC (especially when you count emerging full body tracking support).

I'll probably jump into Quest if wireless to PC gets an official solution and if they fix the low refresh rate. VR sickness is not fun.
Well no civilians are killed by constructing the collider, for one.
Why do you think "researchers" meant professors? That seems like a leap.
“ Increasing the BaFIN budget and making their salary structure comparable to industry salaries would do a lot of good in this respect.”

Alternatively, it might just bump up the salary and bonus of existing employees while truly smart people avoid it due to structural issues.

I am wary of the default line that “Thing that sucks is due to poor funding.” Sometimes that is true. But I would like to see more support for that line of reasoning to better understand.

I don’t think money is the only motivator and I’ve worked with organizations that claimed that money was the cause for poor morale and poor performance. But when I dug into it more, even the areas where money was the same as other orgs the morale and performance off.
If you are only using torrents for "stolen archives", then you don't know about OS distribution via torrents and archive.org? And we use it internally to distribute large files.
Everything you mentioned makes sense - video streaming is far from my area of expertise.

But you may have missed what I think is the major point in the OP: for the majority of customers, Zoom appears to have far better audio quality out-of-the-box versus other major players in the market.

You mentioned optimizing for MacBooks with built-in microphones and speakers, and I think that is exactly the point.

The number of users that have a fully equipped setup will be a tiny minority.

I think the best things about Zoom are the optimized UX in terms of getting into a call, and then the decent quality. They have definitely converted our company into paying customers. I only have anecdotal evidence, but we're continually asking our staff and all the clients we call with how the quality is, and everyone has mentioned Zoom is much better than the alternative we have been trying.

Do you have any thoughts on why/how Zoom appears to have much higher quality than say Skype/Google Hangouts without the need for additional equipment?

For us, the major use case is getting a random client on a call easily, with a reliable signal and clear audio, using their current equipment - they are never going to buy additional equipment or configure peripherals .
Sounds like the next wave of startup opportunities to me. "Obeying The Law And Not Being An Asshole As A Service."
> This is just begging the question: why does it become everyone’s business?

Generally speaking, this assistance doesn't come as a big lump sum payment, they're usually structured as ongoing payments (or other benefits with a cash value).

Because of the nature of this structure, money must be continually appropriated. The appropriation of resources by the government is something that, at least in democracies, the populace expects to have some input on.
When I say ignorant I mean in legislation. Just now Germany's drug safety representative presented a new campaign to keep teenagers from smoking weed (roughly translated "toking is uncool"). I'm not aware that there's a similar campaign to keep kids away from alcohol (or adults for that matter). Although it's by far the most deadly drug.
It's a good thing for Apple that WWDC isn't in-person this year. I wouldn't trust the developers in the audience to stay quiet and applause at the announcements this year...
It just says the person has a low paying job, it doesn't say they are struggling financially. People know that food is more important, but if you already have enough for food the $100 grocery gift card just becomes a $100 you can spend on "luxury" goods.
I yearn for the day when our god-awful telecommunications industry finely catches up to the rest of the world. I just moved back from France, and its better keeping my French number’s international plan (18 euros a month for 30 gigs of data) then any competing canadian offer. Since I have a phone supporting dual sim, ill probably get the cheapest canadian plan I can just so that I have a canadian number.

If spacex wants to do this, I’m all for it

Edit: I know the article isnt targeting this, I just cant help but rant
Awesome! I'll have to watch this!
I'm assuming people are at least reasonably well prepared (while understanding that many aren't). But there is a level of danger in any case.
Translucent Procedures: Abstraction without Opacity (1993) [pdf]
Above you blame America's not building on the "motive to get rich above all else", contrasting China. I'm saying only that this seems a strange and unsupported place to pin the blame, going by what actually changed in China and in America. I didn't say that more greed causes more building; I'm saying that more greed for profits, as a candidate cause for less building, is not a relevant thing that has changed in the relevant way. It seems closer to the opposite in what I know about China's history.

Are you saying you think China went from too-low profit motive to the Goldilocks zone, while America went from Goldilocks to too high? Or is this really about something other than profit motive?
> They do? I live in northern New England an hour so from the border and have some Canadian friends who complain that they have at best the same sort of mediocre 5-10/1-2 ADSL I did up until a year or two ago

People are often better at complaining than at remedying their situation.

Some years ago now I was at a friend's flat. He lamented that ASDL was poor. "They'll never offer anything better here" he said. I thought that was odd because I thought I'd seen a cabinet for his section of the district where we both live. So I suggested he check. He waved me off, no need to bother right because he's sure it isn't an option. So I typed his address into the checker and it said he could buy 80Mbps vDSL.

As a result of course he has 80Mbps vDSL. Now, if I'd just agreed "Yeah, it sucks" how long do you think he would have taken to realise he could buy faster service? A year? Five years? Maybe he'd still be moaning now on our Friday Jitsi call instead of complaining that the terrible webcam setup he cobbled together back in late March sucks?
The point is that would be more and better houses and other things that would benefit more people if some of that net worth were redirected toward building them.
When you are forced to choose one side, you lose the other side.

Go with the States, you lose China. Go with China, you lose the States. Either way, you lose.
In most countries with a welfare state, "low income" means using government money. Joe spending $200 on a TV means the state kicked in an extra $200 for rent/food that he didn't truly need.
I’ve noticed that, in defending your previous claim that affirmative action is as racist as it’s possible to be, you’ve chosen to dispute that police killings of black people are racist, but you’ve chosen to ignore legalized slavery. genocide, lynchings, Jim Crow, the Trail of Tears, WW2 interment, etc.

Affirmative action absolutely could be construed as racist, and one can reasonably debate whether it’s ethical or effective, but regardless, it’s nowhere near as racist as it’s possible to be.

(I left the Holocaust out of the list above because I bet you’d reply either that there is insufficient evidence that it happened or that it wasn’t racist per se.)
> "wait I thought we were going to talk about something routine my language skills are not good enough for something this sensitive".

On the international whistleblower hotline of the financial regulatory agency? At least they could have connected them with somebody, or tell them to send an email somewhere, but hanging up doesn't sound shady to me, it just sounds lazy :P
Tools[1] like this have existed for at least 6 years. Don't know if the older tools still work though.

[1] https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount
I kind of just left it alone... it was intended to be sarcasm, but figured there's three ways it could be taken. Sarcasm/humor, genuine or false-flag.

The reality is that companies aren't people, and despite the concept of corporate personhood shouldn't be treated like it. Nobody working in or managing a corporation today was likely a part of said company during WWII.

Beyond the above, Sometimes "companies" have no choice. If your company, and its' resources, employees, etc. exist in a totalitarian regime, you're kind of stuck. If the country's leaders are willing to kill and replace you, then most people would simply comply. Many that worked in these companies during WWII passively resisted by slowing things down and hindering projects. Not enough to get them killed, but enough to keep things from going as bad as quickly as they otherwise would have.

A company is made up of its' people, from the leadership down... and that changes over time. Trying to hold a company to something done 80 years before is kind of meaningless. If it was called for and/or done at the time, or nearer the time that's different. Like many things, at some point you need to get over things that happened before you were born and concentrate on the now.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/868001948
Could someone point out where the "you download the app and it doesn't work" [1] and the "the criteria is different for apps that are targeted at businesses instead of consumers" [2] rules are actually listed for developers to read?

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/18/phil-schiller-apple-hey...

[2] https://daringfireball.net/2020/06/hey_app_store_rejection_f...
If your phone supports wifi calling, it should work with a StarLink ground terminal (or if StarLink partners with an OEM who can build them voice terminals with a satellite-capable antenna Iridium style).
> And 2/3 of the things all academics hate the most are the things that involve having to work closely with others and bureaucratic organizations (faculty meetings/service and grant writing. The third, incidentally, is grading.)

"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers" --Randal, Clerks
$21bn would buy a lot of blue sky PhDs who could consider new kinds of theory - actually new metaphors - which could suggest new kinds of experiments which might not need gigantic hardware or impossible energies.

At this point, spending more money on banging very small rocks together is unlikely to be useful. It might work, but a pause for creative and original thought seems like a more productive idea.
I remember using Rain too.
Apple shouldn't be dictating this.

However, even if apps/companies have sign up in the app I still use the web browser to sign up. I like the security of the browser more for personal info and set up than an app full of unnecessary permissions.

I personally truly do not mind, and even prefer, opening up a browser to sign up. Overall for liability reasons it might even be better to just have one endpoint for signing up, the web.
> "That’s not what we want on the store" -- Apple Vice President of Worldwide Marketing

What if I own an iPhone and HEY is what I want on my phone? How can I override Apple's decision? If I can't, who really owns this device?
Couldn’t someone find all the leaks from your email and deduce a trend?

Wouldn’t work for driveby hackers, but anyone specifically interested in targeting you could get a long way with this technique.
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I'm pretty surprised they haven't just Maliciously Complied by offering an in-app signup buried somewhere obscure in the app, with lots of big flashing warning signs saying "don't click this, it's only for compliance reasons" - and a nice discoverable easily-followable link to the browser-based sign-up.

They could be continuing to make the (justified and correct!) stink about Apple's terrible practices, while also having their app on the store (or forcing Apple to further highlight how arbitrarily-applied their standards are). Win-win.
It's still useful if you want to run Windows 95 in a VM.
We use this library on https://team.video for panning and zooming around in screenshares.

It can be really useful if you have situation where a colleague is sharing their hi-res screen, when meanwhile you're on a laptop with a lower-res screen, and you want to zoom in on their terminal or some part of the screenshare so that the text there can be easier to read.
128 Doom demos, obvs.
even 10-100mbps down and up with that latency would be a game changer for remote areas
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And what's the solution? Do you propose killing everyone that worked for the companies in question during WWII? What about those not in Germany or occupied terretories? Since most of those people are long since dead, do you propose killing their children and grandchildren?

Anything done today for crimes 80 years ago will only serve to hurt those that weren't even around, and not really help those that were harmed.
> How can I override Apple's decision? If I can't, who really owns this device?

I know you're not, but - anyone earnestly asking this question hasn't been paying attention to Apple since, well, ever.
I'm sure that there are more than 66 million people in the world that have need of those for their original purpose.
> Purchases possible without Apple?

> $99/year email service, of which Apple is rent-seeking $30

I'm wholly on Hey's side here, but I think this is a misleading way of putting it. Apple only wants 30% of in-app purchases, not purchases made outside of the app. The contention is that Hey thinks they shouldn't be required to accept in-app purchases, which given that either Hey or the user pays Apple an expensive tax on those purchases, makes sense to me.
Most people have a blind spot in poker. They think they won simply because they took the pot, when in reality they lost because the pot odds were too low to give them a positive expected value. The problem extends to analyzing hands after the fact. It's too easy to see the final outcome, and say, oh, I knew I should have folded, when the reality might be, no calling was the right thing to do given the information you had at the time. Playing a lot of poker taught me to ignore the feeling that I played wrong simply because I lost the pot, and instead analyze what happened, and whether or not I missed some key piece of information, or misinterpreted some behavior.

I would say, based on the information you had at the time. You made the smart play. Don't second guess based on possibly being closer than you realized, you were far enough that you couldn't see the end, that means (and most people don't realize this) that without any other information, you had even odds that you were at no more than the half way point (in terms of either time or distance). Maybe you can look back, and can say, "oh, I knew x at the time, I just forgot to take that into account, and it would have been enough to change the risk/reward equation. But any other analysis is dangerous to dwell on.
That’s a good point, I mostly would just want a canadian number for all the bureaucracy that requires it, unfortunately
That sounds like a great idea, those are causing all sorts of market inefficiencies.
They mentioned WinDbg and OllyDbg but both are quirks of the past (except WinDbg usage for kernel debugging), and there's a better tool for this - x32dbg/x64dbg[1]. It's open-source, unlike WinDbg and actively developed, unlike OllyDbg. Moreover, recently we worked a lot on improving Windows support in radare2 [2] and Cutter[3]. Most of our fixes should land in the upcoming 4.5.0[4] release. This summer one of our GSoC students works on improving reversible debugging [5] feature as well. And of course, both integrated with Frida as well - see r2frida plugin[6].

[1] https://x64dbg.com/

[2] https://github.com/radareorg/radare2

[3] https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

[4] https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/milestone/51

[5] https://www.radare.org/gsoc/2020/ideas.html#title_10

[6] https://github.com/nowsecure/r2frida
I have been on a low income, had a wife and child when my wife was unable to work and we saved as much money as possible. We had a cheap phone and internet package, made do with a second hand a TV set and microwave. When we had enough money to get a car, we bought a low end car seat and I got my first iPod when I won it in a competition.

Now we have a lot more money, so we can afford better goods. When we were less well of, a better internet package, child car seat, electronic goods were less necessary COMPARED TO OTHER FINANCIAL PRIORITIES. We had other things to use that money for, like saving up for a deposit on our first house. if you’re not saying necessary compared to what, you’re not evaluating necessity.
Hardest part these days is finding the rss feed. It used to be $url/rss, and gold. Then people moved on to fakebook and twitting, and it was forgotten.

I use theoldreader.com for news since google reader died, so long as I find decent content and an actually rss feed, I tend to add here.
Cool technology, does their lead program perform better than Secukinumab?
Here are the App Store Review Guidelines, section 3 is about in-app purchases: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Good start with compiling the list .. a couple more .. AirBnb, All airline apps. Maybe they have contracts with the big guys for some lump sum deal, or maybe they are just letting them go as they have to ... We developers already pay for the subscription, WWDC, a shiny iPhone / MBP every couple of years (to test and develop the new features :(, learn a language and sdks just for the Apple world - We Devs need Apple for sure, but hey they need us too (!) .. high time for a push back .. Apple makes tons on the devices, they need to stop robbing from us little guy developers. Apple do the right thing and drop this 30% altogether .. you will not miss it :)