skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reading your emails for ads" [and search]: Even though that term was popularized by lots of MS negative campaigns (remember Scroogled?) but it makes as much sense as saying "Excel is reading your private financial records on your spreadsheets to give you its auto complete" or "Photoshop looking at your most private photos to let you change their saturation/brightness".

Obviously some are more useful to the user than others but they're all computer programs taking your data, running some code and returning a response. There is no human in the loop "reading" things
> We already produce enough food to feed the world and likely won't have trouble producing enough food to feed the coming extra billions, but if we can focus on increasing yeilds and moving away from raising animals for consumption we can also reduce our footprint on the world.

If we want to release cropland back to the wild, then by far the cheapest way to do it is improve farming infrastructure and practice in low income countries, which is where yields lag so far behind the state of the art.

Not a technical problem, a social one.
Right, that's my point. Then you aren't close.

If you were, you'd have his imessage / whatsapp. Facebook is a 3rd tier form of communication for a reason.
When there were talks about $1200 Stimulas Check, the first one, my Car Loan Bank sent series of emails saying We Care For You in this Difficult Times, so we are informing you You might be eligible for $1200 check, Please make sure you are on top of Car Loan Payments.
We had a dispute between employees of a coffee shop and the owners spill over onto our neighborhood mailing list.

The owners wanted all employees to be available to work 8-10 hours/week. Employees were understandably not thrilled about a few hours of work (even at $13.25, Portland minimum wage as of 7/1/20) knocking out the $600/week federal plus whatever state unemployment they were getting.

Employee who posted said that the owners would report anyone who wouldn't work as having quit. Much discussion followed.
>iPhone does not allow you to have privacy due to its blackbox nature

This is a stupid argument. My mobile banking app isn't open source either but I'm pretty sure it's reasonably private. Privacy <> open source. Two entirely separate topics than aren't mutually exclusive (or inclusive).

Besides I own & use both iOS & Android. My privacy worries are disproportionately on the android side. The respective pi-hole logs alone give me pause for thought. Canonical android seems OK, but the stuff that actually ships on specific manufacturers is infested for lack of better word. (Why did the pi-hole average block rate shoot up 400%? oh right friend with her android phone visited).
Not sure if this counts, had a crush on a girl, did her maths and physics homework for her so she could spend more time at dance practice.

Never quite hung out but liked the attention she gave me. In hindsight felt like she used me but meh, can’t deny it felt good to get those complements from someone who was way out of my league.
>I mean it's pretty easy to prove that's not true. Just stick it on a network and check the network traffic.

It's pretty easy to hide that network traffic too. Just save/compress everything to the local device and pipe it over when the phone/app is being used. (ever wonder why those apps take up so much memory and use up so much battery?).
“TikTok is unique...” might be true, but then why is TikTok not the only company targeted by this royal edict?

When 17 year olds can “own Twitter” and Facebook just budgets 9 figures for data collection compliance fines, are you sure there’s a bright line distinction in the world that’s not “let’s all agree we’re not the terrible/hated/untrustworthy other”? Is the problem that another sovereign country could coerce a company to provide a service that Facebook provides for money?
With rockets like the Atlas 5 (flown by ULA), the rocket is assembled vertically in a tall "hanger", and is then rolled out to the launch pad, remaining in the vertical position.

The Falcon 9 is assembled rolled out to the pad horizontally, then it raised into the vertical position in preparation for launch.

It can be more complicated to design satellites (esp satellites that have large optics in them) to deal with gravity in two different orientations.

Atlas 5 "roll out": https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/28/photos-atlas-5-rolled-...

Falcon 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJuHuhPxGU

Bonus video, Smarter Every Day chatting w/ the CEO of ULA while watching a Delta IV Heavy roll out to the launch pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPoVi_h0r0
not loading at the moment: https://web.archive.org/web/20200808231030/https://www.fiegg...
Always ask for proof of the debt before paying. If they can't provide proof, you can contest it on your credit report and you don't have to pay.

I keep having debt collectors call me for a fake debt. I've been an AT&T customer for 25 years. About a decade ago I upgraded my broadband, and instead of upgrading my account they closed my old one and opened a new one. I got a final bill on the old one and that was that.

About two years later I got a debt collector trying to collect on the old account. At first I thought it might be legit, maybe I missed the final bill. So I asked for a copy of the records. They stopped calling.

A couple years later a new debt collector called on the same debt. Again I asked for proof, again they stopped calling.

I think my name was finally deleted from the spreadsheets they pass around, but who knows. Maybe one day someone will call again.
It’s not all bad. We still have HN as it is now. Status quo is its own kind of success. HN is essentially feature complete, so I don’t blame them for not trying to fix what ain’t broke.
Are you trying to argue that they are inhaling pollution at an extremely high rate by running downtown or do you just not like the fact that I pointed this out?
Interferon
> And if you're bad, which is also not uncommon, you just give it the broadest permissions possible and call it a day.

Whether this is "bad" depends on what you're targeting... it's bad for security, but good for getting things done. And from an economic standpoint, right now, unfortunately the "good" approach is often the "bad" one.

The $80M file may be less than the cost of doing it right. And until that changes, "good" managers will incentivize the bad approach.
> Wouldn't a smart competitor wait to see what's working from a bootstrapped pioneer then pass them by with tons of VC cash as rocket fuel?

Sure, but 1) not all businesses are VC-worthy - there are a lot of things that only make sense if you bootstrap or raise little money, 2) even if you raise VC money from the start, others can come along, copy and use your learning experience to their advantage, for example Lyft/Uber, and the great number of their copycats all over the world in different geographical markets. There are companies that base their whole business in this model, like RocketInternet (they see who's growing fast then copy in a different market, then maybe even sell to the original company). Groupon even turned it around and used it to fuel their international growth by buying all their copycats and integrating them into their main organization.
I hate this kind of vile bosses! They're less than human. That's why I enjoy being freelancer: if I got a customer scurvy customer, I just give up and go away.
Does anyone have an opinion about how that happens in the UK?
it would literally be genocide to go biodynamic for billions of people. Outcompete conventional processes and prices then it will solve itself. Until then conventional production has provided us food enough to feed the entire worl (but not logistically yet)
>You'd be able to detect it by sniffing the network traffic,

How? I can very easily come up with a compression/local storage + stream when app is being used mechanism to record whatever the app is hearing and sending it back to the mothership. Why is everyone assuming that the transmission is happening in realtime and not scheduled/hidden with usage?
I always tell them that I dispute the charges and that they should sue me if they have proof and most importantly I tell them to never contact me again or I will sue
In some circumstances, yes.
TikTok and Twitter are starting to talk about a possible combination
> It's definitely not about saving the taxpayer money.

Nonsense. And two of your baseline costs (barracks and prisons) are silly because the cost includes total control over the lives of the people in the facility.

Take an annual cost of stimulus as $600/mo/person, and the cost of a homeless shelter as $2,000/mo/person (and that is probably an overestimate). Article says ~40M people at risk of eviction. That means a shelter plan would have to absorb more than 14 million people (the population of a large city) without rents collapsing to an affordable level. Even ignoring the fact that the renters will be out trying to find profitable ways to contribute to society, or looking for more rational living arrangements where they can afford it. There is no way the shelter plan would end up costing more.

The major issues are logistical in nature. I can imagine good arguments that it is a plan that can't be implemented if it actually turned out 10 million people needed new homes - but until it becomes impossible to find alternative shelters it is better to leave the landlords out of pocket. As a starting point the original alternative of "something has gone wrong, lets pump unearned money towards landlords" is worse.

> people should be made to suffer if the "market wants"

That is an attack that you cannot support. I've helpfully offered a bunch of suggestions where nobody has to suffer. Moving home isn't so bad it counts as suffering.
Funny you say that, cause apple has had to pay a $53m fine precisely because those oh-so-friendly apple store employees won't even go a normal mile in honoring their warranty, let alone an extra mile. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/apple-poised-to-pay-...
Random anecdote - I sat as a juror on a felony trial where the defendant was represented by a public defender. Before it started I pictured a bumbling public defender with bags under their eyes from lack of sleep.

I was surprised when the public defender ran circles around the prosecutor. It was actually the prosecutor who I had some sympathy for. She seemed overworked and unprepared.

Albeit it was a big case for the city, so I assume the public defenders office decided it was a case worth winning, but damn, that changed my opinion of public defenders.
In 2005, boyfriend (now hubby) and I were driving to spend the holidays with his family. Lots of siblings, and spouses, no kids, and everyone was buying gifts for eachother. The wishlist sites at the time were rudimentary - I remember wishing we could filter to unreserved items, and gift partial amounts towards bigger gifts, instead of trying to filter to trinkets on a budget. At the time I told myself, surely Amazon would do this soon enough and being pestered by the problem every giving occasion. Fast forward 10 years later, and nobody had done anything about it still. Wishlists were done by retailers in a way that benefits retailers and not even the least bit the wisher. On one occasion, my husband’s wishlist link on a major online retailer was showing feminine products ?!?! It turned out that the retailer had decided to default everyone’s wishlists to a “recommended products” list with high margin trinkets from that retailer. To top it off our baby registry was showing off on google results. Look it up now - google a retail brand and your first name and see how many people’s registries you will be able to see - many with their address showing up too (especially for baby registries).

So I’d had enough and decided to build https://www.dreamlist.com for our baby shower and beyond. Now I’m adding all kinds of features for families and features for love, and partial contributions to larger gifts, and collaborative shopping. The sky is the limit. Competitors become stores and pummel you with ads, but I’m thinking of doing SAAS for Love instead - from personal memories preservation for loved ones to personal CRM, etc. The more my kids grow the more value I see in this kind of differentiation - having a product of a different caliber ready for them to use when they become of age, without advertising and the manipulative crud that comes with it. Ping me if you are interested in this space or have ideas.
Just look at how much benefit the economy is getting from a relatively modest boost to the lowest incomes, which gets spent immediately or goes to reducing crippling debt, versus tax breaks and subsidies for the wealthy, which get plowed into asset bubbles and expensive wine.
Then they ignore evidence to believe what they want to, not what is most logical.

Internet or no, those people were always going to be misinformed. Because they choose to be.
The other thing that amazes me is how quickly people will jump to defend the US' hodge-podge of third-party walled garden options. I've been able to send near-instant account-to-account transfers for a decade, for a stamp charge capped at the equivalent of about thirteen cents, via a first-party platform that every bank or bank-like institution is required to be part of. So yeah, "options" like "join Facebook" or "wait a couple business days for your transaction to be complete" or "pay (comparatively) exorbitant fees" will always sound inherently ridiculous to me.

To my knowledge the situation in the US is getting better with the rise of Zelle, but that's still a half-assed solution - not all institutions participate, and customers have to opt in to it. Quite a few (older) people I've talked to don't even know it exists.

> India is a completely different market.

Ironically you are quite close to getting the point here, which is that India (and many other developing nations) are able to build and push the cutting edge of national fintech precisely because they don't have decades if not centuries of cruft and technical debt weighing them down. They can skip the inefficient stages of development that developed nations went through and go straight to creating banking systems for the 21st century.
I can't speak to the merits of the family relations, but telling people to "keep an open mind" to continuous monitoring is quite the ask. The right to privacy isn't some kind of pizza topping to be "open-minded" about just because some company happens to make a product that violates the norm. (And to be clear, my statement isn't isn't Google-specific in any way.)
Inflation had almost stopped for several years. We’re still below the fed mandate. Inflation encourages people to work as opposed to living off assets they already own.
To be double-blind, they should talk about both lists of products, but a third-party should make a (hidden) gadget present for one conversation and not for the other conversation.
Bill Gates Calls Microsoft's TikTok Deal a Poisoned Chalice
Norway Urges All to Avoid Int. Travel as Norwegian Passenger Numbers Plunge 90%
that's so sad :(
Exactly the same for me
Complicated and less weight-efficient. Designing a structure for gravity/g/force in one axis is wasteful enough. That strength is useless once in space. Horizontal integration means the structure must be strong in two axis: double waste. It might not matter when you are launching cubesats, but in a spy satellite the size/weight of a bus that extra reinforcement means sacrifices in many other areas.
He is acting within the law, which is called the IEEPA and was passed by the legislative branch.
> 1 acre/acre

I’m pretty sure that will always be the ratio, and there’s nothing anyone can do to improve it.
> if we allow energy costs to come down by orders of magnitude by continuing to make advances in nuclear energy

I can see perhaps one order of magnitude from scaled-up manufacturing, but where do the others come from?
Yes, that's decent. I also like services that allow you register multiple 2FA devices for an account. e.g. my back up phone not only serves as my back up phone, but also my back up 2FA device. I believe rackspace allows this.
Let's say this startup subsequently adds a new line of services / products under another fruit name. Likewise Apple doesn't object because it has zero confusion with Apple. Perhaps they acquire BlackBerry now to add another fruit theme to their lineup. Now they want to add an Apple-themed subbrand as well, and when Apple objects, they have to fight it out because the company is just trying to complete its fruit branding and Apple didn't previously object while it was building out the fruit branding.

Yes, it's a stretch but likely by registering its objecting to the trademark application (with the USPTO granting this trademark anyway), Apple can ensure that down the road there is no risk of the company (or any other company) being able to justify entering Apple's trademark turf.
Don't forget https://github.com/swc-project/swc
That certainly doesn't help things does it?
Along the same lines as "Scientists consider crossing Ebola with Influenza to create the most deadly and most contagious disease ever!"
>Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.

New Zealand is a counterexample. They locked down tighter than a radioactive waste storage drum, stopped new cases which led to practically no strain on their health system, people actually (SHOCK! SUPRISE!) listened and wore masks to reduce local transmission, and now movie and television studios are flying personnel there en-masse and putting them through the mandatory quarantine in order to restart production.

Geographic or demographic size differences are irrelevant-- the actions can be scaled to a quadrillion people if needed.

In the US at least, closures were necessary because a great proportion of Americans are so self-centered, selfish, and stupid that they think that wearing a mask is a conspiracy to steal their rights.

They would lick each other's tonsils just to "stick it to the gubmint". They would squeeze together into a single pair of sweatpants and rub their bodies up and down on each other saying "how's this for social distancing, STALIN!"

That is literally, in the literal traditional dictionary definition of the word literally, happening before our very eyes-- the statement is immediately self-evident based on any rational person's visual first-person observation of his or her community.

Edit: like this https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/i67279/w...
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Reminds me of a time I had already paid a hospital bill a few years back. About a year later some guy calls about another $1000+ I owe. "Ok, I paid it, but send an itemized bill," I said as I was curious as to what it was.

Got a plain paper print-out in the mail with "medical services ----- 1,234.56." He called again I said, "you're gonna have to do better than that. He never called again, it was BS. Wonder how he even got my details?
Beyond Mantel: Historical novels
hahaha i loved your comment. really unbelievable shits.
This. You have to call a bully's possible bluff when you can do so on a shoestring.

They may seem to have unlimited resources, but a legal dept doesn't actually have a bottomless budget, and it has to demonstrate ROI to the CFO's office.

Many attorneys you might consult won't realize this, because they can't conceive of a scenario where you don't need maximal legal representation. When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like... :-)
String performance is also so-so with Elixir unless you happen to be an expert with the language (ie. fully understand the inner workings of everything, including meta-programming and macros).

Usually the intuitive way to use strings ends up being multiple orders of magnitude slower than using a combination of macros and IO lists.

I've had some implementations of things go from taking 700ms down to < 10ms by doing nothing except replace using the String and Enum modules with an IO list and macros to remove an Enum.reduce call. Problem is, I had to ask for help to get there because it wasn't in the realm of possible for me otherwise.

This was to solve very easy problems like generating a bunch of random discount codes with a custom charset. The Python solution was really fast, super straight forward and less lines of code. I run into a lot of things like this with Elixir.

I want to use Elixir so bad for anything web based, but I find it really hard to write it, both at understanding it and having to typically deal with writing a lot more code vs Python / Ruby.
Your mouth will water when you’re hungry enough.
> 'Where we go one, we go all'

I never understood that as a moto. Right wingers are known for being hyper-individualistic, WWGOWGA seems like some quasi-socialist slogan.

But you are right, there are multiple crises of poverty, loneliness and poor education in the US. The thing that really baffles me are the "Q" followers that are none of these things, and aren't American.
And being back to the office can't match having a family life such that you actually enjoy being in the house around your spouce (and kids)

Or having a well coordinated, no fluff remote team, that doesn't require physical presence to coordinate and to avoid staying behind and getting backstabbed..
An alternate strategy for seating -

For our rehearsal dinner, we had maybe ~30 people, and did a 4-course meal.

For each course, everyone was assigned different tables, such that over the evening, everyone would get at least one course with everyone else
Itanium seems to me a demonstration that Intel learned absolutely nothing from the i860: high theoretical peak performance, but absolutely useless in practice. (I still think BiiN / i960MX was relatively nice, and the i960CA showed that a modern implementation would work.)
The HN post title is a click bait.

TLDR: The google home device also listens for the sound of glass shattering and smoke alarms which is very useful. In fact I wish it would listen for dog barks too. I hope they add that.
The introduction to OpenType options is awesome! Sounds like we could set up a font to display smart quotes while still copy-pasting code snippets as dumb quotes!