skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you're accusing me of spinning here. I want UBI to work, and I want it to be affordable. But more than that, I want the underlying problem solved, which is income and wealth inequality.

What I don't want, is to see a bunch of half-baked policies rushed out the door, only to be shuttered a few years later and tossed onto the pile of "lol communism always fails" just-so stories, with the door to change closed for another generation.

Going into these kinds of major efforts with a "better vs perfect" attitude has a high risk of alienating those for whom it may well not be "better", especially if they are members of a vulnerable group that has a high reliance on the present system.
In today’s SV mantra, standing still means falling behind, and waiting until you either get disrupted by other startups, copied by big tech, or both.

No, something must be done, and trying to force themselves deeper into their customers’ workflows is something. So they did it.
I'd recommend Khan Academy - the videos there are always succinct and clear, and it's free, an incredible resource imo.

Introduction to Financial Accounting on Coursera is also great, will help to understand business valuation, read a balance sheet, etc.

The Plain Bagel on Youtube is a good investment channel, no bs.
I'm an engineer at Illustrative Mathematics. Here's what I know: Eureka Math is derived from EngageNY. Illustrative Mathematics is an openly licensed, freely available curriculum which was developed independently from EngageNY. You can learn more about it at http://curriculum.illustrativemathematics.org.
At least in my experience you plant cover crops there and plow them under at the end. My relatives used field peas. And the four-field system is considered a strict upgrade over the three-field system last I heard, basically just 3 productive fields and 1 planted in cover crops.

https://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Building-Soils-fo...
I think there are plenty of people who don't have a fixed Internet connection and just have a 4G base station at their home. I know that at least my grandparents and my dad have both gone that route.
I agree that historically it’s been a bit complicated. On OSX you should be able to install using `brew install clojure/tools/clojure, the typing `clj` on the command line
Or just use repl.it
https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started
> Strange, I'm from Europe and I'm proud of this decision.

Maybe you should colonize them again and enlighten them of your correct perspective.
dear god who cares move on with your lives
They do seem to be taking it seriously, but their history of poor security well predates the recent influx of users.

Before covid, all i knew about Zoom was "That video chat with all the exploits"
China also has a population of ~1.4B people compared to about 330M in the US. 4.2x the difference.
I reasonable position is to trust nothing originating from China that can't be dependently verified. I don't think any system can be said to be fully proof against malicious software which could be reintroduced at any given time.

The logical position is to throw out the bathwater and the baby its not like there aren't enough sources of short pointless videos to waste our time on.
Fake kelp walls to prevent shark attacks
Thanks. A question occurs to me shouldn't such sanitation be its own step in order to be generalized to anything that the user wants to run?
It's simple Math, Great number of Indian users, even if ad dollars per person is not as much as in US, overall it is bound to exceed in the long run.
>This is an excerpt of a longer article about the Harper’s letter

I guess that makes sense then why I felt like I didn't get anything out of it.

>To read the entire post and get full access to the archives, you can subscribe for $5 a month or $50 a year.

Oh I see... that's disappointing. At least with the WSJ right up front I know I'm not going to get anything out of it without a subscription.
It's accountability culture.
Indeed, I got

Counter({
(1, 'baz'): 12525,
(1, 'KeyError'): 12552,
(2, 'foo'): 12255,
(2, 'bar'): 25282,
(2, 'baz'): 37386
})

from running

import random

class C:
def __hash__(self):
# return 0 or 1, with equal probability
return random.randint(0, 1)

def output():
x = C()
d = {}
d[x] = "foo"
d[x] = "bar"
d[x] = "baz"
try:
return len(d), d[x]
except Exception as e:
return len(d), type(e).__name__

from collections import Counter
Counter(output() for i in range(100000))
Amazon says it will not ban TikTok from employee phones
PreK-12th grade. And try Torchlight for inquiry-based learning https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/torchlight
This is exactly what Sun thought. They looked at their licensing bill for using MS Office and thought they could develop an Office suite for less than that themselves. They bought this little German company which made "Star Office" and started developing it for their own use and also selling it. Turns out, it didn't work. So they Open Sourced it, called it OO.org... it still didn't work. 20 years, many rebrands and many changes of ownership later, that same piece is software is still struggling to find a way to exist. Turns out, developing a competitor to MS Office is not that easy or cheap.
The Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College
It is undoubtedly cancel culture. But some people will deny it because they benefit from it and/or agree with it. It is a trend that must be stopped before we irreparably damage the free movement of ideas that has enabled America and the rest of the world to flourish. If you cannot speak against the orthodoxy without fear of being forced into poverty, then the orthodoxy will grow unchallenged into a monster that eats even the people who helped create it.
Real implosion will happen if US bans it.
If it were 100% -> 25% I could see the value/justification. Even if it were 100% -> 90% there's value there. But these restrictions will not have any impact whatsoever. Anyone who wants access will have it regardless of age verification measures.

I remember when cigarette vending machines were banned. I'm sure it had 0.000000 (repeating of course) percent effect on the availability of cigarettes to kids who were motivated to get them. Same with alcohol regulations. Same with weed. Anyone with even an ounce of motivation can and will bypass.
Why is this article on ycombinator? It's not nuanced or inciteful in anyway. It's yet another "our generation did it better" article with different words.
Smugmug.. I love those guys..
Even though you could get far more information by hacking the built in microphone.....
>How many people out there have workloads that can't be met by LibreOffice Calc?

Irrelevant. We're dealing with industry wide network effects here.

Excel has complete dominance and will keep it unless they release a version where 1+1=3
Apple: Not even in your dreams pal.
For the other non U.S. readers:

> The act of canceling, also referred to as cancel culture (a variant on the term "callout culture"), describes a form of boycott in which an individual (usually a celebrity) who has acted or spoken in a questionable or controversial manner is boycotted. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Call-outs_and_c...
It doesn’t need to be a switch. My current work laptop is an HP. It has a little plastic camera cover that slides back and forth to cover the camera.
I'd guesstimate the average redditor is somewhere in their late 20s to mid 30s. Compared to Congress, that's certainly young. But that's about twice the age of what I imagine the average tiktok user to be (teens.)
> The Chief Justice doesn't agree with you there.

I know. I don't find his claims compelling, for much the same reasons that the court majority doesn't, as discussed in some detail in the court's opinion.
This post from Taibbi is in my opinion also worth a read:

On “White Fragility”, A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
Have you looked at OpenGL api's, they are a strange legacy beast. I think Apple does what's best for it's users, even if it has to create a new standard. How about other companies adapting to modern Metal API's instead?
Pathologist found blood clots in 'almost every organ' during Covid autopsies
> This defeats the point of 2FA

that's not true. You need to think of a threat model. 2FA still successfully prevents attackers that do not yet have a session to connect to your account.

So it is still a clear net benefit.

What it does not prevent, is attackers downgrading your account from a session that already exist. At this point it is easy to argue that if an attacker has this kind of access then the only thing you can do is add 2FA to all critical actions, not just removing 2FA (that would be the least of your issue), but every critical action you can do in the app.

For example if the app is a bank, and wants to protect against these kind of attacks, then they have to prompt 2FA every time you want to want to send money (at least).
basically. there's no argument here other than some platitudes.

Definitely not worth a post on HN
I went in search of a connection between Quantum Physics and the Brain
As per the guidelines:

If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Give them a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The backhaul can be wireless too.
Some mandatory mentions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux - linux on top of the mach microkernel, I think it was sponsored by Apple (especially its book was great)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4Linux
Conversely in the US, you can grab an unlimited plan for something like $30. The first 2GB to 15GB (depending on carrier) will have full 4G-LTE speeds. After that, you're throttled. 480p videos can have significant startup buffer with potential buffering throughout the video. That's very different from "premium" unlimited plans of full 4G-LTE regardless of usage.
If you think linking to a paper obscures the fact that you're calling me out on 'bullshit', it doesn't. It's rude and in this case just shows your lack of education in a field. Just so you know, there's a whole section of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste, you're free to think it's all bullshit of course, but I hope less people would do so.
> Rogers, unprompted, added 5GB to our data plan, for free

'nother Canuck here... that very same Rogers you speak of added, then canceled a 12mo term option onto my service when I called to cancel. They then sent me a bill for over $400 for an early cancellation charge!!

I actually laughed when I saw it... the unmitigated thievery from this company is appalling!
This might be true for yourself as a technical savvy person. Camera covers are particularly important to people who are self-aware enough to realize they don't have the tech skills to keep bad actors from gaining access to their camera
So the payload would be some corrupted video file sent to Bezo's phone. Would the attack look something like:

1) Discover/buy/steal Bezo's Whatsapp number (how did they do that...)

2) Discover/buy/steal a 0-day bug in Whatsapp.

3) Write and compile a program that reads SMS from the OS and beacons it to some server you control.

4) Create a corrupted video file that would trigger the video parsing bug, and within that video file place the compiled program from the previous step in the correct place so that it gets executed.

5) Send to Bezos.
It really does feel like there are bigger problems these days than if there's _too much_ accountability for op-ed writers.

Anyways, this article doesn't even try to say anything other than that Kids These Days are different than they used to be.
Countrepoint: I get more creative when I hear other people's ideas. Alone with paper I have harder time come up with creative ideas.

Also, large reason is that with paper I second guess myself more and anticipate or prepare for possible negative reaction.

When I see that the group dynamic is good right now, I have less reason to be careful and get more free.
I get what you mean, but people still made a living selling software without monthly subscriptions before. If I had to use Office more, I'd pay the monthly price, but not for 2 hours a year. It being continuously developed still doesn't justify the price.

I can afford it, but if I had to pay £7.99 x 6 = £47.94 for every hour of productivity I extract from a piece of software, I'd go bankrupt very quickly. That's why I called subscription plans stupid: it's unreasonably expensive for the amateur (like me) slice of the market.

And being such a small time user, I don't care about the super new features of Office $CURRENT_YEAR. If I could buy Office for Linux 2020 for 100 pounds, I would, and it would be enough for me for the next decade, unless I'll move out of software engineering and go work as a lawyer or something.
> It [the woke revolution] spends most of its time constructing an impenetrable vocabulary of oppression and seething at the lumpen proles who either don’t get it or don’t like it.

Man, does this resonate. The woke message is just uninspiring and the word play and circular reasoning are just tedious. I've never met a philosophy that depended so strongly on appropriating existing, morally-weighty words.
My advice is just don't do this, the chances of getting any return are slim at best. If it is a friend and you are wanting to help him/her out but trying to get some upside that's different. With the friend in mind, just go into it saying I'll never see any money but I want to help so I am going to do it anyway. But if this is a stranger and they want you to work for stock, just don't do it. This is how devs get taken advantage of so easily and so often.

If you still go through with it, have an attorney create/review any agreement to prevent tax and legal problems for you, stock grants can be taxable immediately to you, and restricted stock will likely never be worth anything to you. The "best" way to do this is not to take ownership (unless you are going to be a founder or paid employee and you get grants), and instead to invoice the company and hold the debt contractually for invoiced services. You can finance your work for them this way but the moment you take stock things become a pain in the ass, and your chances of getting paid will be even less then doing invoice debt. Also, the stock they grant you will be so diluted and after preferences etc you'll never see a dime, unless you force non-diluting and take a preference yourself but then investors might be hard on the founder for raising money which again, means you won't get paid. Also, don't forget you will have to wait years for the stock to have a private or public market, or you will need provisions for the founders to be forced to buy you out at a minimum price by a specific date etc, it is a mess.

So again, the "best" way is to finance the work for them contractually and you still may want to file a UCC lien to indicate you hold a lien on their software asset until they pay. This way when investors or creditors go through due-diligence they will see the company owes you money for the product and so they will force the founder to pay you. To be fair, some investors get turned off by liens, but the reality is most IME don't care as long as the founder doesn't try to hide it and is up front.

I can share plenty of stories about doing these types of deals when I was younger and getting hosed by people who I felt would always be stand up.
You're missing something... sort of. Yes, these authors are aware of Apuleus. They might even be aware of day the Tale of Genji, or Dream of the Red Chamber, or Njall's Saga, or even say the book of Samuel in the Bible, all of which are earlier examples of novel like things! If you define the novel as a long prose story then obviously there are many examples before Don Quijote or Robinson Crusoe!
The question that the article asks is the history of the modern western novel, in all its particularity.
Overall I think you might be on to something. I have a nice set of bose noise cancelling headphones but I don't like to wear them for the entire day.

My particular challenge: my home office is pretty quiet except when my extremely high-pitched-voice retired lady neighbor is scratching around in her garden while bossing her henpecked husband around. In that case she is just on the other side of my exterior wall and is basically 9 feet away. I've tried to deal with it by putting some small bluetooth speakers against the window but, as you pointed out, that music has to be pretty loud to drown out her whine.

If your solution would help in this scenario you would have a customer!
The speed shouldn't be bad, since he got 1.5 gigs per day.
I wish Freud was alive today. I can't help but think that the hysterics manifested in mainstream or social media are not actually real, that people wouldn't make such illogical steps if they were alone in an island. Instead they seem to be reactions , rooted in something deeper somewhere that's causing mass hysterias and delusions. It does manifest in the shifting ways of life too, the lack of sex, the lack of humor and the limited ambition shown by the 1-2 latest generations.

I do love Taibbi's writing, even though i think he spends too much time criticising things that soon won't matter
Changing the wavelength like this is called
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
and is the basis of fluorescent lights.
Are you telling me that Facebook Inc. has no capacity or ability to test their own, one of the most popular SDKs in the world, in the wild? Like have a single phone connected by USB and open spotify app and simply login after they make a backend change?
I agree with pretty much all you said.

Mainly, I do not find it very genuine that they only implemented this policy, likely with extra effort, in one territory. This feels like a play to capture market share and increase growth, even if it doesn't match their existing business model.
Yes I understand that but that is the same in many places as well. People who cant get Cable / fibre and are stuck with DSL / 4-8Mbps connection decide to use 4G as their Internet. ( I used to do that in my apartment ) Those numbers would need to be a large enough percentage to have a signification effect on the total average.
Pueblo+Asante+o+ashanti+Cap.+II+Gobierno++Piramidal
Those too. You put enough extra length in the anchor chain to make sure of it. Did you think that moored boats all sank when the tide came in?
Came here to say this. Have been using the EFF stickers for years and everyone always asks about them vs the kludgey plastic ones everyone wedges in there that Apple is making note of. I've used them in the past on my phones as well, but given the advent of multiple front facing cameras this has become more of a pain. I purchased some of this sticker material a while ago with the intent to try and laser cut some specific designs. This was a good reminder!
Implementation would be simpler, but only by a small degree. To be honest, HM is relatively straightforward to actually implement.
I wonder if something more like a smooth probability map would make more sense, rather than overlapping borders. The hard lines can give an unreasonable sense of certainty, even if the intent is to indicate uncertainty.
That's what I find striking. With all their experience & expertise, the major studios spend a tremendous amount of money and consistently produce a surprising number of failures. Personally, I like the wider seeding creatively in general (as you describe with Netflix.)
>> it would take us 8-10 months to get our product to a place where it wouldn’t require significant manual work to send quality job recommendations

Really wondering what's going into these recommendations? Seems it shouldn't be that hard. A job board with even a shard of understanding of technical preferences would be an improvement over the current status quo.
Yes, the analogy extends more than initially apparent :)
what type of double speak is this? They literally sell data integration products with a specific focus on defense and police departments.

What you're implying is that someone that sells uranium to people that build bombs is just "a chemical supplier" .... like yeah the essence of what they are doing is the same, but the implications are totally different.
Making a Future
My thoughts exactly. On my phone, I have to trust Apple. On my laptop, I have to trust everyone who wrote code I downloaded. That’s two quite different crowds.
New Google Research Incorporates Societal Context in ML Systems
You should watch this excellent video by Dr Stanfield (actually, entire channel is excellent) in which he goes into Cochrane Medical Reviews among other research channels to dig into the science around all this stuff.

This video is his analysis of CoQ10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UYRWLpXz8

Dr Stanfield recommends sulforaphane over C0Q10 and the science/medical evidence he presents is compelling; he has a few videos specifically on sulforaphane as well.

I would highly recommend anyone that is doubtful of vitamins and suppliments, particularly relating to aging/longevity - really give this YouTube channel a thorough review. It's hard to discount Cochrane Reviewed[0] backed data.

[0] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/
If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances.

Doesn't this sound like an engineering oversight and not a user error? Why are camera covers not just part of the design? My phone camera physically retracts when not in use.
Maybe, but

>So in effect the government is already funding google docs

Is just purely incorrect currently.
If it was up to me I'd never "upgrade" beyond Windows 7. Same thing with OS X, I'd like to stick with the version I have pretty much indefinitely. Not only OSes but most software in general are adding more and more features I don't care about & don't want, while adding onerous, user-hostile patterns that detract from both my freedom and the convenience that I usually expect from the software I use.

Frankly, as time goes by I'm finding it harder and harder to keep using Windows/Mac as my primary computing OS because every new update adds things like forced (or extremely-hard-to-avoid) updates, nagware, analytics I don't agree with and is difficult to remove, more-prevalent DRM, UX regressions (IMO) and "change for the sake of change" that provides no measurable or perceivable benefit to the user. I could honestly keep going on and on about this.

It's like software companies never heard the idiom "don't fix what isn't broken", and they are interminably obsessed with reinventing the wheel on a biannual basis.

Re-reading what I wrote, it's interesting & telling that I started with "if it was up to me", and that's really the problem: it's basically NOT up to me what I run on my computer. Want to play the latest award-winning game that is revolutionary, life-changingly awesome? Hope you have absolute latest [whatever] OS with all the updates and whatever other stuff that is required to run it (anti-cheat spyware is my favorite). Heck, how about stuff required for your business, non-optional software (like Zoom)? You're just forced into it. If this stuff you're forced into has problems like, say, wiping your entire hard drive because of a bug in a forced Windows update?? Too bad I guess? That's what you get for using a computer? There are so many glaring problems with this situation, it boggles my mind that people seem completely fine with it.
Wow, how complex and fascinating. I am further confused (although not surprised) that the states are all over the map (hah) in terms of duration of adverse possession taking effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adverse_possession_US.pdf

Are you in real estate law?
Sure, but this isn't intellectual, lol. It's trite and shallow
> WHAT THE FUCK

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.