skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Treating foreign media as a "national security issue" is extremely scary.

Not really. RT and Al Jazeera has (rightfully) suffered much of the same scrutiny. There's a fundamental difference between something extremely partisan (think Breitbart or HuffPo) and something state-sponsored. Let's not bury our heads in the sand here.
Good to know, thanks! I’ve always itemized in the past.
Looking from outside, the ability to act together as a society to achieve a socially desirable outcome seems to slipping in the West. There's a point where the balance in society between duties and entitlements seems to have flipped.
You greatly overestimate how many countries check all these boxes, or the relevance they have compared to the biggest actors.
I'm not sure of hify_hn's reasons why, but I've exited index funds recently due to:

- the overweight holdings in tech in many of them.

- those same tech companies are responsible for most of the growth in the past decade.

- retail investors are chasing the tail of growth which is pumping the price out of realistic prices. many more have entered the arena with robinhood, etc.

- there's too much cash being printed, feels like hyper inflation.

- the current bubbles and shift in funds (pharma desperate plays, gold safe havens) make me think everyone has a finger on the "exit" button.

- most every major indicator I see says a fall is near.

I'm no pro and this is only my opinion. Been doing this about 3 years with a mix of daytrade style plays (earnings, swings, cannabis bubbles, etc) that seed long term etf dca purchases.

I'm sitting on cash for now until near US election time. I think the robinhood retail passive crowd that's only recently started will be left holding the bag for the pros near election, much like the crypto newbies in that peak a while back who tried to get in at the top. Too many similarities of people that seem to have no basic understanding of how things work under the hood of things and just chasing a "really hot run in blackjack".

though I'm happy to admit I don't fully understand every nuance of ETF's I see/hear conversations with people clearly not understanding what they're getting into and it's just too similar to any bubble I've ever seen.

I've also considered it may just continue to go up and all this is unfounded and wont matter and I've accepted the possible loses of potentially new profit for the rest of this year. It's a cost I'm very happy to pay for peace of mind, and get back to my strategy when the world makes sense again.

In a nutshell it seems like the ETF has just become a raffle ticket that's being sold through making it easy to simply stick money into it without really looking at what you're buying and if it makes sense. Like the ETF is no longer an investment vehicle, but a product with a bunch of hype.
Yeah, I would not suggest DIY'ing anything that's directly connected to mains power unless you are super sure you know what you are doing. That's a really good way to cause you problems with your homeowner's insurance if you have a fire and it could be against your local building codes.

That said, there are devices out there that can be used on mains power that are UL certified. I have a ton of Z-Wave [0] switches and relays for various things all talking to Home Assistant. Z-Wave is an open [1] (or soon to be open) mesh networking communications protocol that is pretty widely used and supported, so you're not locked into a single vendor.

For low-power stuff, I'm a bit more willing to experiment, but not on mains power. But I am also not an EE. :P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21029661/zwave-open-stan...
Your post states that their approach is flawed in large part because it only works for sites which have been explicitly declared in the service’s config. Given how key that is to the case that the engineering approach is flawed, it seems very relevant that the majority of the service does work for any site, and there are specific features which require the site being included in the service config.

There’s a big difference between requiring explicit site inclusion for full functionality and requiring inclusion for any functionality, and your post claims the latter.
Maybe. It’s not like the Chinese aren’t rationale actors either. The US does something and China is no doubt brainstorming what they could do, without hurting themselves or jeopardizing their long term economic plan.

Could retaliation include kicking out Tesla? Sure. Would they? Who knows.
They grew DAUs in every region.

DHH said it well on twitter, the constraint to FB's growth is they are running out of people on earth.

[https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1288939549884743680]
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> over the next 6 months

My point is this is a very different situation from the Python 2->3 transition.

If you have 12 years' notice to make some changes, I don't consider that technical debt: that's the normal price of maintaining software in a changing world. It's not "debt" that costs "extra interest" to pay back for questionable choices made previously.
Wait, using the same tag as an existing project to maintain compatibility is proof that Google doesn't play nice and didn't take them into account?
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>Any place that executes people for minor crimes or non-crimes is pretty awful on human rights issues.

I am going to press you on this. Which non-crimes lead to capital punishment? And on what basis do you get to decide whether a crime is "minor" or "major"?

As for "whataboutism", that defense doesn't hold when you label something as "the scariest dystopia". When you use a superlative, that's exactly the point where even single counterexamples matter.

EDIT: You edited your comment to add more substance, so I will too.

>Couple that with its status as a single party state
Which just got dealt its biggest blow in 50 years.

>the fact that it is awful on LGBT issues
I raised this before you edited your comment.

>Also: Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew is a racist: https://lkyonrace.wordpress.com
Non-sequitur. We have mentioned Lee Kuan Yew in no part of the discussion thus far.

>The thing that bothers me is that it looks like it works and serves as an advertisement for better living through totalitarianism.
And you've not justified the label of "totalitarianism", just like you haven't justified your label of "dystopia".
And that's a problem because?
“You can’t do that. It’s insurance fraud for you to pay for our services once we know you have insurance.”
To be clear I'm not a physicist, but I'll try not to get out of my depth:

I would say that the unobserved hand is and always has been (post entanglement) in the handedness dictated by viewing the other and the superposition merely refers to the indeterminably of that state -- which is still indeterminable from the POV of the persons with the unobserved hand[0] despite the first hand being observed. The superposition of both particles however has collapsed from the POV of the observers.

[0] Until they get a phonecall at less then or equal to the speed of light from the observers of the observed hand.

You can also imagine this is a pair of entangled Schrodinger's cats - one alive and one dead. On observing the live one there isn't a force or mechanism[1] by which the other one is instantly killed; it was always dead.

[1]If there is, then it transcends space and time such that the cat dies in the past and so appears to have always been dead in the present.
It always felt to me that a lot of this kind of advice was coming from someone that could actually have their kids taken care of while doing the stuff that is unavoidable to survive (even cooking something involving oil and fire)...
Life's hard. Relationships are hard. The added burden makes having close relationships hard.

I don't think movies are correct that with struggles people come together. I think things happen out of necessity that better off people look at with rose colored glasses.

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The research doesn't seem to agree with this though.
>and there's very little change happening.

There's honestly a lot happening and changing. Obviously you won't see it by buying "HVAC" junk from a box store. What this person should have done is paid an actual HVAC tech to install a ductless mini-split [0]. It would have been a heck of a lot more efficient. He states his one unit is drawing 10 amps (110 volt I assume). Whereas my american standard 4 ton (48,000 btu) unit draws 10 amps as well (240 volt) and cools a 2200 square ft house in 100+ degree texas weather with an electric bill usually not higher than $120 per month (1200 - 1400 kwh or so).

By comparison, at my old house (which was half the size, 1100 sq ft) with a much older 12 Seer unit, my electric bill was regularly over $200. I measured that unit at drawing 18 amps (at 240 volt) and it was only a 3 ton 36,000 btu out door unit. The latest and greatest 21/22 seer units are even more efficient than my current one mentioned above (which is probably only 17 seer).

[0]: https://www.americanstandardair.com/products/heating-and-coo...
Two can play at that game. Why does the US so often have the mindset that nobody can retaliate?

Market size is important. I'd rather be locked out of a 350 million person market, than a 1500 million person market.
That’s true in general, but this strategy is basically set it and forget it (rebalance quarterly for best results), and it works because it’s been carefully balanced to offset decay.
> I don't have to explain the degree to which the feature is wrong in order to utilize the fact that it is wrong

Ehm, there is a massive difference between something not working at all and one feature not working. My car's headlights not working is not the same as my car not working. My laptop's trackpad not working is not the same as my laptop not working.

> And you've been misleading yourself: it's not a "single feature" - several features depend on this code.

I use pkg.go.dev almost daily (including for sr.ht repos on two occasions) and have never noticed this. It's fine to point out that there's a degraded feature-set and be angry about that (some people probably care about these features more than I do), but claiming that the entire thing isn't working is – and I feel like a broken record with this – just not true. It's just not. No matter what you say.

This is easily fixed by just changing a few words. I don't get how anyone can defend this. If someone would point out such a thing on my own website I would drop everything and promptly fix it, no matter how strongly I believed in the main point I was making (and I have actually done so) as I want to be as accurate as I can reasonably be.

You know, you actually inspired me to work on open source full-time last year? True story, that's what I do most days now, for almost a year to the day. This is what I wrote a year ago:

> Drew DeVault’s sourcehut in particular was inspirational in actually making the step. If Drew can do it, then why not me? [..] I know it’s a risk and that there’s a decent chance this will fail. That’s okay. I’d rather take a chance to try to achieve a goal and fail instead of always playing it on safe. Not doing anything is also a decision – which you can regret just as much as any other – and the worst thing that can happen is that I lose some money and end up taking a job again. Doesn’t strike me as so bad, in the grand scheme of things.

But with this like this – and this is not the first time I've seen you do it – you've lost a tremendous amount of respect. I don't care that you write rants (okay, it's not my preferred style, but whatever) but when you're being misleading and then defend that on account of "but my point was correct" then ... yeah nah... It's hard to be inspired by someone like that.

I don't expect that you'll care a great deal, but just so you know regardless. Do with it what you will.
My belief is absent some specific illegal behavior, he can't really 'suspend' an app or a company. He can say he will, he can make it difficult for them, but it's probably going to be stopped by a court.
The title seems a little bit misleading: he didn’t get pulled over for driving with the wrong window wiper speed, he crashed his car into an embankment and got his licence suspended for that.
It's interesting to see the discussion here focusing mainly on "open from the producer/manufacturer" side, when what I think is the really important point here is that "opening from the consumer/user" side can be easy and empowering: companies and services will come and go, but your ability to take control effectively depends only on your willingness to discover and explore.

I avoid a lot of "smart" products in general, but feel comfortable with working on the equipment I do have --- whether it's maintenance, repair, or modification --- and I think that's the most important thing to keep in mind; to not be scared of treating things as anything other than mysterious black boxes. It seems that a lot of people treat "reverse engineering" as some equally mysterious and imposing idea, when it's really just about problem solving or figuring out how something works.

Also, I don't think the RPi is necessary here; the bike is a Bluetooth device, so any computer with a Bluetooth interface can receive its data and process it. I'm not an RF expert, but rebroadcasting BT seems like it would create more interference.
What? godoc.org made up a new tag, and pkg.go.dev doesn't use it, breaking compatibility. They failed twice.
The question is, is the iPad set to erase all content if the code is entered wrong 10 times?
Very interesting video from Technology Connections <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc> "Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them".
But it's not, it's meant to be secure from rootkits!

A lot of secure boot implementations let you add your own keys. Some don't, and that's bad, but it's not the fault of secure boot!
I understand why but on the other hand, there is a sense these vaccines are being rushed and the obvious question is what corners have been cut (if any).

The last thing we would need is for anti-vaxxers to have a genuine concern and this raises many red flags.

So many governments have failed at every turn to deal with this virus it hardly inspires confidence that we should trust them on this especially as they are all desperate to get economies back on track so their own control procedures may be softened. And if there are significant side-effects I doubt there's globally any 'compensation' fund large enough.
"Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes."
How to use cognitive biases in the development of modern software products
Good day to all of you,

Recently I published a tool and the article which took me for about 2,5 years of research on cognitive science and behavioral economics. A tool called "UX CORE" consists of 105 hands-on examples of cognitive biases use in modern software development.

Tool link: https://keepsimple.io/en/uxcore.html

Also, I wrote an article that mainly focuses on how understanding brain errors and human behavior patterns can help to provide high-quality user experience (UX) in software production both for mobile and desktop.

Medium article link: https://medium.com/@alexanyanwolf/the-science-of-user-experi...

My idea was to lower the threshold for understanding cognitive biases, thereby allowing even non-specialists to know not only the fact of the error but also how this knowledge can be used.

At the moment, information on this topic is very much scattered across Wikipedia and various entertainment portals in the style of "5 brain mistakes that will make you wonder", however, I decided to move away from the idea of entertainment content, and focus my efforts on showing the topic from a different angle.

I am deeply convinced that in our time, when at every step people talk about "a thousand amazing possibilities", humanity greatly underestimates the importance of understanding our own mistakes in processing information, which are inherent and will be characteristic of all of us throughout our life.

Share this information with those who you think would find the topic interesting. Help me expand the discussion. Many thanks.
evil is not vim. some features are missing.
We've been hoping for politicians to easily find this good solution for at least 30 years now. At this point we can safely say that's not going to happen. The system we have does not "fix" itself. The fact that we can clearly see who is stealing most of our money makes the problem harder to solve, not easier. The moment a credible threat of improvement arises (e.g. Hillary in 1993 or Obama in 2009) the insurance industry pulls out all the stops, blasting Capitol Hill with the combined volume of a thousand wailing lobbyists. Even if we could somehow overpower the insurers, we shouldn't underestimate the usefulness of a completely insecure workforce and consumer base to other sectors of the capitalist cabal.

USA at its current size can't solve any of its real problems. There are too many brake levers installed within easy reach of too many cronyist assholes. Just look at this COVID-19 shitshow. After California leaves and takes a few other western states with them, New Mexico and half of Texas join "old" Mexico, much of New England tries to join Canada and then just go their own way when Canada won't take them, Florida is inundated, etc... perhaps the rest of us might have a chance to better arrange the crumbs with which we're left. We'll certainly be less of a danger to the Middle East...
I don't understand this claim. ARM won mobile with 32 bits. The 64-bit designs existed largely because they were keeping out of Intel's way.
Having weed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapor...

I live in a place that recently legalized marijuana. Nothing bad happened. The result proves quite conclusively that this is a non-crime.

While I'm not convinced on blanket drug legalization, especially of certain very dangerous drugs, I can't justify the death penalty for any drug crime. Of course I have a tough time with the death penalty in general, and can only ethically justify it for the crime of deliberate murder.

Singapore seems to believe quite emphatically that the ends justify the means. This is just a large scale political version of naked psychopathy: "if I get the outcome I want, it's okay." Any student of the 20th century knows where this goes. The fact that Singapore seems to exercise some restraint, refusing to follow this principle to its logical end, doesn't justify it.
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I’m not even that old (early 30s) and I curse at 99% of the tech I use. Especially tech that we use to build other tech.

I started my career as a software engineer writing C, then C++ working on desktop software. Things made sense back then, and that was just 10 years ago.

I’ve tried contributing features to two Electron-based apps. I gave up on both. I just can’t make sense of it.

I’ve sat down countless times over the last decade telling myself I’m going to teach myself this damn frontend web stuff. I gave up every time. It’s ridiculous.

Young folks who have only been exposed to modern garbage have no idea how good it was before the web took over.

I often wonder how this came to be. How we went from well-documented, efficient, sound APIs and libraries to the monstrosity that we have now. I have nothing to offer though.
If you want to learn a lot about startups and feel like meeting with a lot you could distribute it in multiple $20k-$30k bets in up and coming startups you believe in. If you aim at landing cash in 20-30 startups with that cash many of them will go to $0, some will be a break even or moderate success, and 1 or 2 might be a likely winner of the entire strategy. Angel investing isn't for everyone and also there are many better ways to see a "more guaranteed" return on investment but little as interesting as getting a front row seat to the future. If you are purely after risk adjusted returns then just make sure you are allocating to beat inflation, mitigate hyper inflation and into something you know or want to know a lot about. Many great investors out there to learn from but if you want the "starter" guide Angel by Jason Calacanis is a pretty decent book to read.
This looks like pretty clear trademark infringement to me, unless you work for Google and I think that's unlikely.

I'm surprised Google lets anyone post a Chrome extension with a title beginning with "Google".
It seems that you're presuming that I would have some sort if issue if Yandex were to try to start a FB competitor in the US, which I don't. So I really don't get your point.

FWIW, vk.com already freely operates in the US, and I don't see any problems with that either.
Is that an abuse of power? Probably yes. Do I agree with it? Absolutely yes, because it is for the greater good of the citizens of the country.

Do I like Trump in general? Absolutely not, but I also don't automatically start cursing any decision he makes just because its made by him without trying to use two brain cells to analyze it first.

I feel safer knowing US data can be accessed by US government entities than foreign ones, specially ones that have a documented track record of industrial espionage against the country. Can't imagine what good can come off the Chinese government having access to PII and potential backdoor capabilities (e.g. the clipboard scandal) of tens of millions of children of US engineers/politicians/workers.

Is there a single reason why that can be good for the US citizens?

The choice of the president wasn't about the "app" itself. It was about the data being stored in foreign lands. If the app didn't have copious amounts of data of US citizens, he wouldn't have cared, even if it had a 100% user base in the US.

Europe has very similar rules on EU data being stored in EU data centers. Germany is a good example of those policies and no one seems to critisize them, because no one "blanket-hates" European leaders like they do to Trump.

The decision to ban was because TikTok didn't seem to be willing to cooperate to fix the data locality problem. Had they promised and started moving their data centers to the US, I doubt this would have happened. The acquisition by MS if happens, would do just that and allow the app to continue being used.
This makes the most sense, and why Zoom is not being given the same attention.
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>They would have just sold a loan.

Yeah, that's what their books say, but that doesn't necessarily match reality. In reality they gave $1000 in cash to someone, and their expected return on that is a fraction of that. Same logic if you bought paid $800 for bonds with face value of $1000, but unknown to you, the bonds are actually junk bonds with a expected value (factoring in repayment and default) of $500. In that case your paper gains are $200, but in reality you actually lost $300.

>Can't they sell the defaulted loan to collections?

They gave the bad guy a loan for $1000. They're out $1000. They sell the loan to collections for $300, they're still out $700.

>Systemic, known, and long-standing negligence speaks to intention.

Security exists on a spectrum, and there are trade-offs to be made. Clearly the banks don't have an interest in selling fraudulent loans, and putting up too much barriers when it comes to authentication also has costs.
To be clear, the 4% rule assumes a 30 year retirement (i.e. retiring at ~50-60). For early retirement you should target a 3.5% annual withdrawal rate.

https://www.madfientist.com/safe-withdrawal-rate/