skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Sweden where we've been having similar problems for a long time. I used to look at the US as a flawed (but not flawed beyond repair) example of a state where the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression worked as a bulwark against the oppressive political climate we've become known for in Sweden. I would never have thought that in just a few years time the USA would overtake Sweden on this front. Where the 'åsiktskorridor' (literally 'opinion corridor', more or less comparable to the Overton window) in Sweden is gradually opening up, the opposite seems to be happening in the USA and those constitutional guarantees don't guarantee anything since they only apply to interactions between the state and the individual while the oppression comes from non-governmental groups.

This oppressive climate where opinions are not shared has no positives at all, zero, nada, zip, zilch. All it does is create suspicion, doubt and division where in other circumstances a few words would have broken the ice and allowed understanding and trust to grow. In a society where the meaning of words keeps on being changed so as to weaponise them and the wrong word at the wrong moment can get you fired, where the common history is being demonised, where shared culture is divided into ethnic enclaves which are only deemed appropriate for those of the 'correct' ethnicity... the outlook is bleak. This type of activism used to be limited to the most extreme corners of academia but it has escaped into the wild and is spreading like wildfire. The more it spreads, the more violent the reaction will be.

In Sweden we will eventually overcome our difficulties now that it has become so obvious that those who pushed the agenda were wrong. These people will not be held accountable, they will keep their jobs, most of them will act as if they had no part in the suppression of those with differing opinions even when confronted with hard evidence of their complicity. This is the way things work here, it is the way things have worked here for a long time - at least since WWII. What will happen in the USA when those who use Orwell's 1984 as a user manual lose momentum is up for grabs. The response better be measured and civilised or the gains of decades of civil rights work stands to be undone. The sooner those of sane mind of all ethnicities get together to call a halt to this madness, the better.

Get at it before it is too late.
That makes the current state of our humanity kind of sad, doesn’t it.

It is also not true. There are numerous innovations targeted for the betterment of us all. The three-point seat-belt is a quick one that comes to mind. The field of medicine has tax funded research innovating at a remarkable frequency, where the target beneficiaries is all humans who need it. Expensive infrastructures like roads, train networks, electric grids, and trash disposal systems are build around the world for everyone who needs, not just the once who can afford it.

But we do lament things that are target at rich people, because these rich people are literally destroying the world with their over-consumption. They certainly don’t deserve more nice things that the rest of the world is paying for.
I think that is just a story of the past... Sure touchpad sucked on laptops from 2012 and earlier (gaming laptops), and the battery got drained by the Debian 6 and sleep mode flew away on to fast rotating fans... but as I said it is just the story of the past
I can't imagine you become director of the hubble telescope without having a significant, long-running track record of astronomical science behind you. The odds of such a person picking something interesting to observe are high.
Show HN: Real Time Sketch Recognition
Hype: this document

Shower: Out-of-date sources
Ask HN: Ideal place and way to track non-critical data for later processing
Hi HN - I am a self-taught developer with just 2 years of web dev experience.

I (along with my co-founder) have a small local e-commerce mobile app and web app which is growing rapidly. Close to 1K daily orders now, up from 60~ just 3 months ago.

We do not track or store most of the user behaviour or actions that are non-critical - like product page views, home-page views, cart abandonment, cart removal, reviews view, views on special pages, search page and search result item clicks, etc.

We would like to track that info for later analytics and probably generating recommendations based on that in future - like people who viewed item X ended up buying item Y. But how and where do we store these data?

- Just storing them in separate logs, backing them up in S3, and later doing some processing?
- Any 3rd party service to which we push our data to?
- Pushing to Kinesis to be later dumped to Redshift or some other service?
- Something else?
Oh ok. I'll delete if I can figure out how!
"The Rise of Fake Gurus - The Dark Truth Behind Making MILLIONS from Online Courses."

https://youtu.be/L9Gpr7PEnbs
The problem that I see is: what's the alternative?

Average people don't really have any political power in America so what alternative do they have?

I agree with you that some of the more extreme parts of the social justice movement (for lack of a better term) worry me, but the alternative seems to be to do nothing.
Singapore is a fairly good example of a (mostly) benign dictator - built a modern developed city-state out of what was basically a swamp.
Yeah, the internal DC/DC board is known to die if you load the machine up with a CPU/GPU upgrade, even worse if you use the ADC monitor too. It's not cheap, but Artmix makes an upgraded replacement. I promise if you get into modding the Cube it will be a million times more fun than turning such a rare machine into Yet Another Intel Box ;) https://artmix.com/products/product/stratos-technology-power...
I think we have different mindsets here: !every! company in aviation, the automotive or transportation industry is worried about the “I” for the R&D.

If there is a factor 10 whatever uncertainty in this equation - you are essentially just gambling like an Options-Day-Trader on Reddit. I understand that investors see “the hockeystick” unlimited revenue upside and justify everything around that.

But I personally would not want to so business in the most over-regulated, slow-growing and low-margin industry with a “factor 10 investment uncertainty”; that uncertainty btw renders your investment null, void and lost if your plane doesn’t get certified. And you don’t even have certification guidelines.
I would certainly be interested to see this.
Exactly. developer time lot more expensive. most people want to look cool & do cool things so they drink these cool aids.

it sounds lot cooler to say that " i made geolocation service using serverless/lamba" than "i made geolocation service using boring monolithic technology". where the former takes 150 hours to get it right and painful to add/manage features. where the later is very easy to maintain and very predictable priced.
Was it a 5.25" brick or a 3.5" brick?
No citation for the illustration of the mechanism of action, maybe JAMA or NEJM?
It seems to me that we don't actually have a legal and social framework for affecting longterm change since its been co-opted by corporations and the ultra-rich. I just don't see any good alternatives.
Signing/verification speed are both important on things like TLS/SSH/etc and sadly SPHINCS+ can not compete in either, see page 55 in https://sphincs.org/data/sphincs+-round2-specification.pdf

But I agree that it can be used in the OpenPGP use-case. Anyway, Rainbow seems quite solid for TLS.

> McEliece's slow key generation is a big problem when you're creating 1000 connections per second and want good perfect forward secrecy

I personally think that if you want forward secrecy you should derive the session key from both the static McEliece key and the ephemeral ntru/whatever key.
Unless they are all rabid Yelpers, it's a party of people going out of their way to be cruel. If you had an off day at work for an understandable reason, and 20 customers went out of your way to publicly shame you for it, would you consider that to be cruel or would you feel like you deserved it?
You're right that the real estate and policy situation in San Francisco is so bad the supply is pretty inelastic. But I don't think it's perfectly inelastic. I think if the price of housing went up 10x in San Francisco you'd have more buildings being built.

But luckily for us very little of the U.S. is as screwed up as San Francisco.
I now use Foam, an open-source version of Roam. It has a Visual Studio Code extension for linking Markdown files and tracing backlinks. So the files are all on your local file system, with version control via git/GitHub/etc.

Web site: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

GitHub template to clone: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-template

To get started:

* Clone the GitHub template.

* Open that directory in Visual Studio Code.

* Install the extensions that VSC suggests (Foam, Markdown, etc).
The reference was to shrink wrapped(unopened) returns. If it’s open, employees could do a manual inspection.
choosing EC2 was probably mistake, may be linode would have been better choice here.
Yes. The screenshots of the dark pattern dialogs from the "anal probe as a service" site are great.
Totally respect what they have achieved, one thing to keep in mind is to structure the incentives so that researchers don't just focus on h-scores and the like but also ship features that can transform user's experiences.
Aaron Christophel has a YouTube channel in which he shows how to replace the firmware of P8 smartwatches with custom firmware, over the air.

If you like his work .... you could support him by subscribing to his channel perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/user/12002230

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbPz3WWBuJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjKaSETY8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFDjymXjOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFwQUxhCxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqulnz1nJM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVEz-pxhgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KMUe6GVLw
I took my Fitbit off when Google announced the acquisition. Kinda hoping PineTime will be a good alternative when a more polished version becomes available.

I still have my Fitbit data and even my old Google location history backed up. I wish more projects focused on importing from takeouts of proprietary services.
For a list of various utilities that work with fitness trackers: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/tools
Multiple reasons come to mind.

1. Germany doesn't have TLDs like ".edu", and it became a de-facto standard to construct higher education domains by abbreviation of type of school and location: www.[uni|fh|...]-[location].de

2. Dashes in a URL emulate spaces, and in German, without spaces a phrase is often ambiguous. Example: "Gehweg" = sidewalk, "Geh weg" = get lost! Even in English, I often think a domain name would be easier to parse with dashes, e.g. "calstatela.edu" vs "cal-state-la.edu".

3. There's a strong compulsion ingrained in almost every German to be orthographically correct, and delimiting words correctly is a big part of that.
I guess they would take away the commission for this sale and maybe question past sales?
Haha that's a funny image. I can't imagine that freelance philosophy pays much better now, so from now on I'll consider a professional philosopher to be another "death tenant"...
Ask HN: What’s the cheapest touch screen based hardware prototyping kit?
They were not studying people with depression and anxiety, it was a general population. So this might work for people in general, but not with people with depression and anxiety.

Participants were 3,294 community-dwelling adults ages 45.62 years
> It swoops local money and hides it in coffers of unrelated countries.

It absolutely does not. Tax revenues (“local money”) are based on the law and the law alone.

It’s simply not “local money” if the law does not describe it belonging to that local jurisdiction. The concept of ownership and rights to money are legal ones, and the cash flows are flowing according to the law.

You may argue that it goes against the spirit of the idea of tax, but that is simply not documented anywhere and thus could not be complied with precisely even if someone wanted to.

Don’t criticize people for obeying the law as written, and certainly don’t criticize them for not voluntarily donating to organizations that like to use their resources to run torture camps and bomb children.
Lovely story! That said, lord of the flies had at least 20-30 boys involved, whereas this group was six boys who were already friends. More is different.

(Not arguing reality would go the way of lord of the flies, merely that the example above is not definitive. But boy would I like to see the movie they made!)
I think you need to spend less time attacking people who bring issues to light, and more time recognizing and agreeing that there is a problem in the industry that needs to be solved.

Attacking the person who is bringing the issue to light makes it seem like one is trying to distract from the issue being brought up, and put blame on the individual for talking about the problem.
> "Woke" is too limited. It may be the current form of "aggressively conventional", but there were others before it, there will be others after it, and there are others than it right now.

But then where you place ‘woke’ in PG’s quadrant in itself is open to debate. Are trans rights activists ‘aggressively conventional’ for supporting the right to self-identify (in the UK at least a broadly popular position), or are they bold and independent minded for taking on more contentious positions, such as using the bathrooms of their identified gender without having undergone reassignment or take place in the sports of their chosen gender?

And if you can say someone can be both ‘aggressively conventional’ and ‘bold and independent’ where does that leave the tidy classification of the quadrant?
"Since Garmin at least made money on the hardware, collecting my health data is just icing on the cake; for Strava, my health data is the cake."

I dont see a difference between what Garmin and Strava do to your data. Ultimately, Strava is trying to provide you some more insights using your health data. It ultimately depends whether you want it or not. Isn't this the same with all the services these days?
> If you can't swim, this is a self-evidently bad idea.

Except it's not really. You'd generally trust these things to be safe and in reality they kind of are. Now much more than then, but even back then the risk was low enough for most people to take, I assume.

The same thing (albeit with a lower risk) is true of planes today.
While I agree that Peter's suggestion is the safe thing to do, based on the following tweet from the official account, if you were in the country legally on 06/24, the proclamation doesn't seem to apply.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TravelGov/status/1285331446232743...
Would you like to propose an alternative? I think it's a great term.
This is standard practice at Amazon and it's very annoying. Even defective items just get sent out until someone doesn't return them and items that were clearly used get sold again as new without even being cleaned.
Because that person believes their point of view must be taken as truth and cannot be questioned because of the color of their skin. We used to call this "racist".
Well, as for that particular point, https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/incapacity-being-unable-t... makes it appear that spouses and common-law partners and parents are all equally able to submit a request to a court for protective supervision if the person in question hasn't prepared a protection mandate (formerly known as mandate in case of incapacity). And you and your wife were just as able to override that by giving protection mandates to each other before you married as you are now. Do you know otherwise?

In our case, there are strong financial reasons not to get married yet: she's a student receiving Quebec financial aid, and since we're unmarried and childless at the moment, Quebec doesn't consider my income or assets in student aid decisions (unlike how e.g. Ontario treats common-law partners). Once that changes, we may reconsider.
I'm definitely no physicist or cosmologist, but my understanding is that we can't detect expansion at the scale of molecules, humans, earth, etc. We only know about it at cosmological scales because we can observe redshifted light over huge distances (millions of light-years). Gravity is postulated to bind matter together strongly enough at smaller distances that expansion does not occur. In other words, it pretty much only happens between galaxy clusters, where gravity is too weak to overpower it.
Back when I looked at the netflix challenge, the baseline above which improvement was barely possible was:

Per person find their average rating, and score movies not by ratings, but by how far the rating deviated from that person's average.

I think that approach got me to 92% accuracy. More advanced math gave me like another 2 percent, with the winner of the challenge having gotten 96% accuracy.

My point being. A very basic recommendation engine system should correct for your 4star is pretty good habit.
It really is not an extraordinary claim to say that companies often have systemic issues that hurt certain groups disproportionately.
There is already a certification process for helicopters and autogyros, so VTOL capability alone is no reason for a different certification process. Helicopters require a 20 minute fuel reserve in VFR conditions and 30 minutes in IFR conditions.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.151
Interesting. Here's what he wrote about that in 2004:

"When you find something you can't say, what do you do with it? My advice is, don't say it. Or at least, pick your battles...The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. And if you feel you have to say everything you think, it may inhibit you from thinking improper thoughts. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy. Draw a sharp line between your thoughts and your speech. Inside your head, anything is allowed. Within my head I make a point of encouraging the most outrageous thoughts I can imagine. But, as in a secret society, nothing that happens within the building should be told to outsiders."

http://paulgraham.com/say.html
I struggle a bit with this on my team. I work with some people who have impressively strong work ethics, and they devote a lot of time into their arguments with examples, PoC's. Might just be signs of burn out, but it can feel "futile" to even try to make the argument in the first place.
I have just begun exploring this question in depth, I'll share my half-baked understanding here. Please provide corrections, new insights and alternate explanations - it'll help me learn.

A question that's asked very early when thinking about a new product is the average selling price for the product (ASP). I believe that there are teams who specialize in generating various permutations of brand, product name, feature sets and price. This is fed to a study group and the choices made by the study group can be analyzed to make accurate predictions like "We can sell 12% more units if we drop the ASP from 899 to 849".

Because the ASP constrained to a very narrow range early in the product development process, all other costs are also constrained to a very narrow range even before real development begins. Important to my answer are BOM (bill of materials) and assembly costs.

The assembly costs are easy to understand: because of minimum wage requirements, healthcare costs and all that (can someone please link me to a full list of costs?), American labor is several times more expensive than competing labor in China or India. However, in the context of assembling a phone, improved training/skills/language abilities in America does not make American labor that much more productive. American labor's productivity can also not benefit from better tooling/automation - China can easily replicate similar tooling/automation improvements and cancel out American labor's advantages.

The BOM costs are a little more interesting. A single factory in China is probably manufacturing products for several American firms simultaneously. Imagine a factory manufacturing various types of phone chargers. They all likely source the same components (screws, capacitors, glue, packaging materials) from the same vendors - so a screw manufacturer (for example) who has a factory 2 miles away can send a shipment of screws to this assembly plant every day, and the screws will get used by all the American brand products being manufactured in that factory. Chinese factories have built up an incredible network of such suppliers around them. Often, if you are manufacturing a product, you can go ask the Chinese factory who will assemble your product for advice on which suppliers/vendors to use to save on BOM costs. They are happy to help.

If Apple were to make iPhones in America, the first and second challenges they will face will be the cost of labor and having to build up a deep supply chain that will feed into their American factories.

At such high costs, apple (or anyone) will conclude that they can not meet their profit margins at the desired ASP and scrap the entire product.
Does this take data from the Garmin web API or directly from the watch hardware, without uploading it to Garmin?
Hold on. So how does one go about retrieving the data from a Garmin watch?

Garmin app's insistence on always needing a connection to their servers has always been bothersome, but now that the servers are fubared, it turns out that I can't even get the data off the tracker and onto an iPhone, because that too somehow needs a server connection. Finding an alternative had suddenly became a high priority task.
> Copyright doesn't work like that - the party who makes the copy is the one who does the infringing.

Yes I know. It definitely makes sense in most cases. If I'm handing out books in a park then people should be able to assume they aren't breaking the law by taking a copy.

Maybe the law needs an update for this concept of a repository. Where they can keep a catalogue of everything regardless of copyright but the requester bears the clearly marked and advertised burden of satisfying the copyright rules once they ask.
Ice-forth: A self-hosted Forth on the 6502 for creating NES cartridges
My understanding is that inequality is much worse now than in the 60s. It also seems like back then it was much easier to have a good quality of life with a non-skilled job than it is today. However, I haven't looked into it too much so I could be mistaken.
I bought gilette razors from Amazon and really was convinced Gilette was going downhill. Nope. They were probably counterfeits.
Hello, I just got informed that I passed the interviews at google and got accepted by the hiring committee. I am a Mexican and I went to college and passed all my courses but I don't have my title yet (a very common situation here in Mexico), it might take a year or 2 to do the paperwork to get my college degree. The recruiter told me I will start working remotely and then after covid move to the us, what are my options? I have been working as a software engineer in Mexico for two years. I know the TN visa from nafta would be an option for me but I am not very informed, could you help me?