skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A six year old student also isn't someone who's at risk of losing a business deal because they can't get their IT team to let them install one of the client's suggested alternative webconferencing systems to do the demo at a particular point in time.

Of the many potential problems six year olds accessing education primarily through webconferencing may face, I'm not sure inability to choose their own preferred videoconferencing service is high up the list, and I doubt Zoom servers have more outages than their home internet and wifi...
I hope you're not thinking about that weird study trying to prove the "decide subconsciously, then backfill rationalizations" hypothesis by "demonstrating" it with fMRI; AFAIR that made about as much sense as saying that a CPU isn't actually working, but measuring potential on output pins and backfilling "computation" because you can measure voltage on the pins faster than you can measure temperature increase in the CPU...
There's a ton of people using BaoFeng radios without a license. Every once in a while, some ignorant middle manager at a larger company buys a bunch and the FCC cites them.
It also wouldn't stand. Something like this would be too contradictory to the moral concept of free speech.

I don't know. If Google decided to censor "hate speech" in GMail, could anyone stop them? Some people would applaud. Machine learning is good enough now that misspellings and euphemisms can be caught. So topic-based censorship could really work. Especially for Google, which has so much history on each sender, and so much experience with spam filtering.
Neuralink product demo webcast (3pm PST)
Agreed. Good decision on their part.
Right, and my feeling is that any feature that requires you to mess around with about:config is inherently an alpha/beta feature. Expecting it to work properly on every setup is expecting too much; once it's enabled by default, then you should expect it to work out of the box, unless your hardware/OS/driver combo has been explicitly blocked due to issues.
Isn't Google's Duo available for iOS?
It's not a disconnect, you are simply not understanding because you are clearly very authoritarian minded.

The right to free speech is a God given right that the Constitution is the highest law of the land that prohibits the government from infringing on. Through the legal supremacy clause, the laws of the Constitution apply and supersede all other inferior laws and jurisdictions.

I actually agree though that the tech tyrants should be allowed to censor if they wish … once they built a private internet that is not using or funded by public resources. Problem solved, censor away. That would be akin to censoring someone in your own home, but you cannot censor someone outside of the home, because you are infringing on other's right to free speech. What you are actually doing is rationalizing that Google and all the other tech tyrants have the right to censor what you say in public … because the internet is public … it is not private unless it is operating solely on private resources … which NONE of them are. You are advocating to control others, what they want to say to others, regardless of whether you want to hear it. You are not only trying to control the speaker, but you are also trying to control the listener. It's not healthy.

As to your other authoritarian and tyrannical point; you are literally trying to force someone to do something against their will and yet you still cannot see anything wrong with that. It is not healthy, you are not healthy. You are in fact dangerous and evil in your desire to spread and impose harm on others and want to control others.
The Fed takes collateral, usually treasuries or bonds, and then gives dollars, these are borrowed dollars, backed by an asset. They carry an interest rate and will be paid back to the Fed. Once a dollar is paid back, the borrowed dollar is destroyed.

Inflationary dollars, which the US generally does not use this a lot, are dollars that the Fed would print and then give away. One way this is done is by paying interest on reserves, but this is not really a significant amount of money. In fact, I'd argue that we don't have enough inflationary dollars right now.

If the US was printing to pay back our debt; we don't do this, we borrow more, hence the increasing national debt, and also the reason that people keep giving the US money; we would see consumer inflationary effects. If the Fed just printed money and sent checks to people, again we'd see consumer inflationary effects. We generally don't do these things, instead we either borrow money or we take collateral and provide loans.

This doesn't mean that there aren't other effects in the economy by creating cheap borrowed money, but day-to-day hyper-inflation is not it.
This would be a large inconvenience and a disruption, but that doesn't justify one private company being considered critical infrastructure.

This view is generally antithetical to innovation. Even if everyone already knows how to use Microsoft Office, it can and should be replaced if better software comes along.
I am convinced someone with a gmail address similar to mine is causing me issues. I think at one time gmail may have considered dots differently. Because I was getting emails for an account that was clearly not mine. But the email address had a dot and the domain was not .com.
Awesome, I really like that it works on mobile, the controls are cool. Well almost the text flows out of the screen. I'm using Firefox mobile.
Definitely agree with you here. It's insane to see one country sell all its energy providers —and communications, and infrastructure— to foreign interests. Some European countries have an unhealthy disdain for state control (and state ownership), which contaminated too many levels of the EU. So they end up playing by the rules when their competitors most definitely aren't.
Then explain the ~five year period where the bulk of their revenue came from Yahoo. Just a ridiculous idea.
>it’s not censorship if it’s not mandated by the government

Censorship can be conducted by private institutions, governments and other controlling bodies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Taiwan was not stolen from China by colonial powers. You might have a point on Hong Kong, but not on Taiwan.
I think that companies' failure to verify their users' email addresses during signup is a serious problem that goes beyond any dot confusion.

When John Smith signs up for an account using JohnSmith@gmail.com (or John.Smith@gmail.com), and the company trusts John Smith to have provided the email address accurately, three parties are affected: Both John Smiths and the company itself. Yes, verifying email address creates a bit more signup friction, but the consequences of getting it wrong way outweigh that friction for the privacy risk and confusion it causes (unless all the company cares about is a meaningless sign-up metric).
I'd call it Sudo
Apple’s Epic retaliation: Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac in jeopardy

https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/17/apples-epic-retaliation-u...
Yeah, I think if Apple launches their own search engine, it will take the form of a change that results in Apple handling more searches from Apple devices themselves.

Kind of like Apple Maps, which "competes" with Google Maps but only on Apple devices. You can't just point any web browser at an Apple Maps website the way you can with Google Maps. I doubt that Apple would launch a search engine that you can just browse to from anywhere like Google or Bing.
I don't understand that point of view. Being homeless is awful; it will kill you, after years of suffering from hunger, sores, achy joints, dysentery, loneliness, etc. And once you are homeless, it takes a huge stroke of luck, and a massive amount of work to capitalize on that luck, to pull yourself out of homeless, and back onto the brink of being homeless again. Where you'll most likely stay, because you haven't built up wealth or savings, and haven't been developing yourself along a career path that will be profitable to do so.
Might be good to update the link to https://neuralink.com/ when the time comes
Not just that - in general, Zoom is just a videochat; Teams is an office productivity tool. It's pretty good at its function (I'm using it at work and I don't really have much to complain about, except the weird handling of code blocks in chat).
They have done exactly that multiple times. For example, the app Tusky has a hardcoded list of hate-speech instances for which the login is blocked, to just give you one example.

Other than that, the instances themselves simply choose not to federate with questionable instances. This happens in an almost organic way where if an instance refuses to block federation with another questionable instance, other instances will then also refuse to federate with that instance.

The result is a network where hate-speech and undesirable content has been almost organically filtered out.

But keep in mind that the (client) apps themselves are more like web browsers. Anyone can host their own website and access its content through one of these apps. This also means that instances which are blocked by an app can very easily circumvent that as well.

(Sorry for my bad english and repeatedly using the word "instances")
Whether or not you agree with the action taken here, Gab has provoked this behavior for years, by calling itself uncensorable and asking its users to fork and resubmit fediverse apps with minimal changes to explicitly circumvent the Play Store Guidelines (even apps that did not implement a block of Gab to begin with), so it is hard for me to feel bad for Gab.

That a few app developers have now been put in a position where they must implement the block is unfortunate. I always thought it was a good indicator of the developer's morals, but not much more.
BS, people use what works, it's just video calls.

What I find most bizarre is why zoom is on top, this is probably a lesson in how powerful marketing and timing can be for some types of products... But as a counter example: everyone at my company has ended up using google meets, just because through trial and error it fails the least and is the easiest for everyone to get into.

The last time I tried zoom for an external meeting and it was a nightmare, it felt like I had to jump through 10 hoops just to get into the frickin meeting, and even then 4/5 people couldn't get it to pick up their microphone through the browser API.
That’s starting to sound like an exoskeleton
Ask HN: EU) Moving UK Company to Ireland?
I have been running my company in the UK for almost a decade now, living there for most of that time. With the world going through kind of a rough patch at the moment, and the UK in particular, I am trying to prepare for what's next. We're hoping to move away soon (still unclear where to, however), but it will most likely be within the EU (I have an EU passport). My home country (not the UK) is a bit of a disaster for small companies, and I don't trust the UK gov enough to figure a way out of the situation anytime soon. So... seeing all the big corps have (for tax and EU reasons mostly) incorporated in Ireland, I wondered what the status quo is for non-resident company formation there. I've heard many things over the years, and apparently a lot has changed (improved) recently, too. I've also had a company incorporated with Stripe Atlas before in the US, but managing the whole Delaware tax/franchise thing remotely was a bit much for a one-man-contract-shop kind of operation. Ideally I'd like to be as close as possible to what the UK limited format was, as that allowed me to keep myself separate from the company, legally, and it helped tremendously in managing taxes so that a super large short-term project won't take me out financially.

Long story short: anyone (non-resident) recently incorporated in Ireland, perhaps even doing contract work for (mostly) EU companies and/or having revenue come in from SaaS subscription products? Anything I need to watch out for? I have been digging through the company formation websites, but it's been a bit of a mess to be honest. In the UK it took 15 minutes to get rolling and that was it.

Either way, thanks for reading and would love to hear how you guys are working through similar things (in the EU specifically). I've heard of the digital citizen thing in Estonia, but while that sounded great, I did a bit of research on it and it turned out not to be very practical.
The really short answer is that you should not have an expectation of privacy when sending public transfers. Even in the best case that mixers protect your privacy, your transactions will be flagged by exchanges and services as relating to mixing or another privacy feature. The really only way to have privacy without drawing suspicion is Monero. It sounds like shilling but it's true.
Taiwan was ceded from China to Japan, becoming Japan's first overseas colony, as a result of the first Sino-Japanese war. [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule?old...
Solving the issue of climbing on stairs seems to be much more simple than a robot with legs, there are already solutions in the market, most of them based on wheels or tracks
Then there's the history of the Tennessee-Kentucky border (and that weird jog in the otherwise straight line). https://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/surveyor.html
Arguing about this is absolutely pointless. The US Department of Defense is not going to suddenly give up on Starlink, no matter how many complaints a vocal minority sends out. And neither will all of the underserved people in rural areas that need the connectivity.

Also, increased access to space means that astronomers will have access to far more powerful space-based telescopes. Obviously that's not an immediate thing, but it will happen. Look at what the Hubble deep field images did for astronomy!

If you don't know what I'm talking about regarding the military, just read this:

"Last month, the Army announced plans to experiment with SpaceX Starlink satellites on its own networks.

Meanwhile, Air Force officials have touted the satellites' potential to be used in a hypersonic-missile defense system."

https://www.investors.com/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-ma...
> (I only disagree with the "try to turn positive sum games into zero sum"; zero-sum games also require perceiving the feedback loops involved. And then there are negative-sum games.)

This is an often snipe I make to people talking about economics (I do agree with the lack of mention of negative sum games, but they also tend to be less common, at least in what people are about). Like the whole point of the economic game is to create new value where it didn't previously exist (tangent).

> Yup. Basic probability is taught to schoolchildren, but as a toy (or just another math oddity) rather than a tool for perceiving the world.

I think this is where we get a lot of "I'm not good at math" and "what is it useful for" discussion. Ironically everyone hates word problems, but at the heart of it that's what it is about.
After I left high school I signed up with a temp agency, filled out all the paperwork, never heard anything. Twelve years later, I received a phone call. I explained I had been employed full time for over a decade. They said that if I refused the assignment I might not be eligible for future opportunities. I told them I was ok with that. ;)

Along the same vein, a few years ago I had an employer that wanted proof I graduated high school. Blink. "You realize that I graduated almost forty years ago?" Didn't matter. Believe it or not I actually found the school system and they were able to produce a copy. I'm sure they had to climb over Jimmy Hoffa's cryotube and the Ark of the Covenant to get to it.
Hopefully it will. Although, Google engages in anticompetitive behavior by hindering 3rd party apps' abilities to autoupgrade, install in the background or batch install apps.

Those intentional limitations mean that F-Droid will never have feature parity with the Play Store.
Is it every time you paste something, or every time you leave the program and focus on another to copy something?

If the latter, and you're using X, it should be possible to write a program that takes the selection buffer and provides a different response to each SelectionRequest in turn, letting you walk through a script pasting a command at a time without having to leave the current window. I don't know whether such a thing already exists.
Now if someone would just make a large lego type kit with all the robot parts, so you can plug and play and make robots using smart phones for the control unit.

Buy some wheel cubes, a couple basic cubes for a base, plug them together, plug in the cell phone via usb, go.

Instant robots everywhere. Offer arm cubes, sensor cubes, lidar cubes, all plug and play.
> it's quite the jump to say republican ads are "hate speech."

It is not a jump when they have used Nazi symbols in their campaign ads, promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories in their campaign ads, made transparently racist statements about their opponents, etc. It is not that "hate speech" is being weaponized to censor political position (the Republican party is not even promoting a specific policy agency in this election cycle), but rather that the term "censorship" is being weaponized to legitimize the extremist ideologies of domestic terrorist groups (classified as such by the FBI).

To put it another way, if one of your coworkers was carrying on about how wealthy Jews were conspiring to spread civil unrest as part of a broad plot to destroy the United States, you would call it "hate speech" and you would be right to report them to HR. Yet that is just one of the many extremist conspiracy theories the Republican party has promoted in this election cycle, which follows the previous two cycles that featured similar antisemitism and other expressions of racism. Some Republican politicians have publicly stated that George Floyd was killed in order to start a race war in America, which only a few years ago is a statement that you would have only found on a website like "the daily stormer." The current Republican president has endorsed a candidate who said Muslims marry their siblings, and another candidate who said Muslims are a cancer on humanity and should be forbidden from holding office. None of that is "political opinion," it is extremist ideology that is on par with the kind of things that ISIS claimed about the Yazidis.
Wow that's a wonderful idea. I suggest we take it one step further and require users of the "safe" internet to include their age, height, weight BMI, gender, and race. Any posts made by cisgendered white men should be muted, flagged, and labeled as offensive. Posts made by weight-priviledged people should also be prefaced by a trigger warning. We should give any and all people of color and lgbt the ability to dox and flag users they don't like.

If we can come together as people and make this system a reality maybe it can eventually replace the old and "savage" internet. Then we can start banning any groups we don't like from the internet all together. SEIG HEIL!
Exactly, people freak out when companies look at public data on an open, permissionless network. What did you expect?
I'm part of a TARPN and the main thing we do is chat. There is a simple chat program that runs on the network so we can do realtime multi-user chat. It's pretty fun.

BBS is also a pretty common application.
Ham radio, the way boomers practice it, is very expensive and gatekeepey. I don't have money for some fancy expensive SDR. Also, I'm sorry, but the ham radio community these days is not actually that technically savvy. Most largely know enough to get their license. There's a weird crossover between the free energy community and preppers and ham radio. A lot just get their license and get expensive rigs and compare them. If I wanna get at the good engineers and have good technical chats, I just go to the extra-only bands but that's even more gatekeepey.
Thanks for the feedback. We are incorporating as we speak. On Monday deploying our new landing page. Will share with you further to get your feedback again than. Appreciate your candid feedback again.
Kind of but without spoiling anything that was mostly conjecture by the general populace. A lot of the scenes where Motoko is on the VR-esque message boards are other people speculating on the Laughing Man's motives.

Edit: Though on quick second thought I think there is at least one instance where he does contact her in that space.
Cost was a big factor at ~$400k. Also, it was heavy (~100 kg IIRC) so it shook the whole house going up stairs. Also, it was too wide for stairways in older houses.

And, if anything went wrong halfway up the stairs, you'd be going down ass-over-teakettle strapped to something metal weighing more than you.

All those things could be improved on. Maybe Mobius will succeed.
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From what I can gather, they're using an Intel card, which I don't think supports VA-API on MPEG-4 videos. Further, I can't tell which distro they use but I'm not sure when the Intel work was added. Their distro provided version would likely iron out some of these issues.
That's just why workers' unions are useful though. Workers need breaks, especially more experienced (older) workers, managers don't want to provide those breaks. The union can work with the workers to determine how many breaks they need, and have the negotiating ability to back up workers whose breaks are being violated like above.
You have a quote at the end of your link that's breaking it
13 years after Apple introduced their groundbreaking trackpads, I still haven't seen a worthy alternative.

It's the single most important reason for me to stay with a MacBook.
Whoever wrote this didn't live through the rise and demise of Skype.
This is a great read. If I understand correctly they basically built an analog computer into the front of the missile.
Apple launches AI/ML residency program to attract niche experts
And it burns you or the desk in the process. I hate Docker based workflows on macOS although loving the tool.
I would try this out tomorrow if it had a C FFI. I've been working more with Rust, but I have a lot of existing work in other languages, and a C FFI would make it so much easier to consider this as an alternative.
I believe the federal circuit there has a much more limited interpretation of the ADA too, which can benefit employers in certain situations.
>With that said, you have to still make an effort to filter out people with no empathy or low emotional IQ from management roles. Having authority over another human being is serious business.

yeah but their resume, they went to "insert super important college here"!
If you are referring to what I think you are, I agree. All of this abusive and manipulative argumentation about these things comes down to the fact that freedom is being curtailed more and more with every passing day, with people arguing more and more how "we just need to do one more thing to curtail people's freedom and then we are done" … but it's never enough and they are never done. There is always some other argument and reason to further add shackles to people's minds and ankles.

In the end, all of this only adds immense amounts of volatility and instability and totally unsustainable risk that will invariably blow up.

The Constitution was developed to allow people to live and associate and speak freely … that has been chipped away at for decades and even centuries now. It's sad and sick, and will only ever result in calamity as the USA, the only place on the planet where you used to at least be free, is being shackled by useful idiots who have no idea they are doing the will of the world dominating global ruling class.
Yes, just allowing the keys to be remapped is simpler and would serve all users with non-standard setups, not just the handful that use alternative keyboard layouts.