skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently completed the initial build of a similar contraption, a 9 foot long recumbent trike with lots of cargo capacity. Picture here:

https://imgur.com/a/WrViRKD

Shaky YouTube walkaround here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SEndDnVXg

I've been giving thought to how far I want to go with the electronics. LED lighting is a no brainer of course. I have red LED strips for the rear that will blink in patterns of my making. PWM will make it cool. But a Pi Zero W is just SO powerful as a bike computer- how far do I want to go with that? Wifi to a smart phone as a bike comuter display? Could work. Rear facing camera to check on traffic? Why not? Current gear and gear inches for three stage transmission?

A smart phone largely surpasses what Steve had available to him and what was used on his bike, and miniaturization means no need for a trailer unless you want the real estate for solar.

I don't know how far I'll go with mine. My main goal is to ride it and have fun. Maybe for the next build, I'll become a hardware developer and start writing code. Who knows?

And being an Amateur Radio operator, there are many battery operated portable QRP rigs that would be a lot of fun to operate from a bike- if you stop and set up a quick antenna, which is no big deal. There are even mobile HF antennas available, but those present a major compromise, and QRP (less than 10w power) is already a compromise.

So the real question to answer is: How geeky do I wanna be? I don't think I want to be as geeky as Steve was, but I also don't think I need to be. I don't expect to ride across the nation, just around the region ;)
What about biodegradable plastics?
Regarding beverages, things changed a lot when I learned that for most of human existence, after weaning, our ancestors drank only water. I've come to see how I used to look at other beverages as entitled, the result of marketing. I drink some other beverages, but mostly water, and I've found my total joy from drinking higher. Sort of like how in college I drank a lot of beer. Now I sip whiskey sometimes -- less alcohol, more total appreciation.

That said, I read someone write about soy milk makers and did my usual practice of checking Craig's List until I saw someone selling one for $15. I make a batch or two a week from dried bulk soybeans.

For food, note that a few years ago I never cooked from scratch and ate out maybe five nights a week, so all that follows I learned by doing.

I buy what's in season at the farmers market, what the CSA delivers, and from the bulk section. I buy from the same farmers so we've become friendly and they give me a lot of free vegetables -- the ugly ones they take back to compost or the greens others decline when they buy beets or radishes and don't know they're edible. My impression is that my variety has gone up since I'm always buying something that hasn't been in season for ten months, but my friends probably think it's gone down since I make my famous no-packaging vegetable stews https://joshuaspodek.com/food-world-reviews so much.

I rarely eat out of season or non-local foods at home. In the winter after the last cabbages, that means a lot of beets, parsnips, rutabagas, sweet potatoes, etc. I'm fermenting more and started sprouting dried beans, which should increase my greens in the winter.

Frankly, I've never eaten more delicious, while saving money and connecting with farmers, friends, and family more. What started as trying to pollute less ended up giving a lot more than I expected.
Leave it to Gene Parmesan to school me. Can't believe I missed that. :)
None of the constraints you provided are useful in any way. That’s the problem - for some reason people get addicted to the machinery of types, but fail to use them for anything of substance in a real system.
All we know is that Substack is willing to make a lot of promises to Scott. Scott probably lacks (as I do) the expertise to negotiate a contract that would actually hold Substack to those promises.

But maybe I am being too cynical.
For anyone who didn't believe above and wanted to verify: https://www.americansabroad.org/us-taxes-abroad-for-dummies-...

And US isn't alone nation in this.
Why would court opinions matter here? Seriously, private stores have always had the choice of what products they sell, the alternative is being able to force people to sell your product against their will.

No, anything here has to be purely a question of whether Apple or Google are acting unfairly, and everything I’ve seen says that the commissions involved match other hardware manufacturers.
The US and state governments have long done controlled burns as well; this isn't some lost native american art. It's just that in more recent years, homeowners and tourism boards and the like really, really didn't want any fires at all, no matter the consequence.
with their sandbagged browser that they only bother to update once a year? Firefox is the competition for Chrome, Safari is just a sandbag to hold open the gap between web apps and native apps.
I see this a lot, but do they really? I'm sure the technical Apple users knew what they were getting themselves into but most average Joe users I've run into that have iPhones for other reasons like: needing iMessage to talk with family, liking the UI, wanting to sync with their Mac, etc.

None of which require Apple to have a monopoly on app distribution.

Saying Apple users knew what they were getting into is kinda like saying Apple users agreed to the ToS, so they shouldn't complain.
I don’t really buy that argument. I doubt that there are lots of skilled engineers out in rural places just waiting to be tapped by remote work. Skilled talent clusters around the jobs.

I suppose there’s the international aspect, but that isn’t what is going on here.
Suburban guys do their version of WAP(video)
Hope this brings you all joy as much as it was for us making it.
> market forces that create these problems can be marshaled to solve them. For example, if the wealthiest countries implemented a carbon tax including a border adjustment (accounting for goods from countries with a laxer carbon policy) would give governments a single, simple dial that the could turn to lower carbon emissions.

Taxes are not market forces, they are exogenous interventions on markets. Which means having wealthiest countries implement a carbon tax is not riding market dynamics for free, but a difficult multi-agent cooperation problem that makes defecting competitively very advantageous. This includes for example requiring cooperation with India (5th in GDP) and China (2nd in GDP) who have been enjoying high, multi-year economic growth, whose de-carbonization would hurt their economies disproportionately, unlike other rich countries. Unfortunately exports only account for ~20% of their GDPs so there is only so much leverage to apply there either.
Christ, what is with people thinking Tencent is behind Epic? They don't have a majority stake in Epic - Tim Sweeney does. There's zero evidence that anything Epic has done and is doing is driven by Tencent.

Maybe argue about what Epic is doing based on its own merits, rather than some baseless conspiracy about Tencent.
Elections seem to be the most obvious answer for me.
Views make it trivial to decouple what a query returns from the underlying schema
I think his point here is that the effect in replication is closer to 0 than to the original claim. It might be more obvious if he chose an order of magnitude difference as an example - going from the dominant factor to technically-not-nothing might be replication but it's not vindication.
Interesting, thanks. I've never heard this perspective before. So you'd say that anyone building an elaborate homebrew quad -- e.g., the TechIngredients guy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPvZiJLbvI , who generally seems to know what he's doing -- would be better off putting comparable effort (and comparable cash) into a single-rotor aircraft instead?
>You, uh, do know who you're replying to, right? https://sockpuppet.org/me/ if not

This means nothing to me? I see a shitty website from probably a has-been "security researcher".

>I don't mention this to go "lol he must be right because of who he is", but calling a well respected security researcher with plenty of real world street cred ignorant is a bit much.

That's sad. Speaks volumes about how meaningless that term has become.

>SPA port knocking doesn't suffer from passive replay attacks, but it does suffer from block and replay attacks. An active MITM can still get you.

Wrong. SPA does not suffer from any MITM attacks.

>His suggestion hasn't been "if you care about security just don't do port knocking", his suggestion has been

No one suggests otherwise.

>"if you care about security just throw up a VPN it'll be more secure and just as much work"

Not the same amount of work, so no, wrong. If I had a dollar for every billion dollar unicorn that that didn't have a corporate VPN, I'd have a lot of dollars.
> "It seemed like a lost opportunity for them to get to know something about me"

Don't know the policy at Google but lunch is usually intentionally supposed to be a break from the interview process. Having somebody grilling the candidate while they are trying to eat defeats that purpose.

> "I am 59 years old, I've been working with code since I was 21 and worked out how to program a significant embedded application on an Intel 8085 CPU using nothing but the manufacturer's data sheets and a simple hex keyboard and display breadboard target."

At a FAANG, nearly everybody has similar stories, so that's not particularly distinguishing.
... the goal of controlled regular burns is to prevent large scale wild fires.

You’re not comparing no-CO2 to some CO2 (and CO, and everything else, etc). You’re comparing some co2 to unbelievably large amounts of CO2 (etc)
And the second mistake was assuming Apple’s customers care at all about app developers fights over transaction fees or commissions.

It’s no surprise a lot on HN readers/posters care here, because there’s “free money” on the table for them if Epic win. Money they knew Apple was gonna take if they’d looked at AppStore guidelines any time in the last 12 years or so, since the AppStore first debuted. Nobody has _ever_ developed an iPhone app, without knowing the rules to get into the AppStore include a 30% cut to Apple. IAP is newer, but it’s still the same deal, in my opinion.

Non HN reading iPhone owners, largely, don’t give a fuck about developers feeling hard done by paying a 30% cut to Apple. A non technical friend of mine explained to her son why he can’t install Fortnite on a new phone right now, saying “They’re fighting with Apple over the rules to be allowed to have apps on iPhones.”

This is totally not customer or customer PR problem for Apple, and they know it. Epic haven’t worked that out yet.
I think the really tough part about it is that the same task can be a thick marsh of ugh I either never get around to wading through or somehow get myself through it one day, then the next day it's no problem. And it fluctuates day in day out depending on so many variables.

The toughest thing is the ughness of every task is predominantly dominated by how much Im just dying to do something I wanna do. Mostly all I want to do is just what I want to do, and I'm sure the ADHDers get what I mean when I say that, but there are some days or periods rather where even the easiest tasks I usually am okay at just go right out the window because today I've just learned about the existence of X and I'm totally off in my own little world utterly absorbed by it.

I just have no way to predict when that's going to be either.
I think of it as the legal version of the observation from psychology that some tasks (e.g. recognition of images) are performed by the brain without conscious understanding of the process.
I’d argue remote work means that folks can “walk down the street and find a job” quicker. Remote work means companies like those in say Chattanooga, TN can now source and hire workers from San Francisco. If they’re willing to pay for them and/or compensate/entice them otherwise.

It also means workers can be free to leave San Francisco without affecting their salaries as much. I live in a small city, that’s not a huge tech hub, and I make equivalent salary to someone in SF or in Seattle. I’ve done so for numerous years.

I’d also argue that much of these salary reductions have other means. Such as stock implications in a Covid world, an attempt to curb a runaway burn rate, or even a veiled attempt at reducing the workforce slowly without severance packages or legal issues.
Burning wood and plant matter in a non destructive way is carbon neutral as that carbon will grow back as trees. It’s part of a natural cycle, like a carbon bank.

The problem is that we’ve been pulling up buried and fossilised trees and burning them, which introduces excessive amounts of CO2 and ruins the natural balance of the carbon bank.
What about the common trope of a person with wealth and/or power reclining while a servant or slave feeds them grapes or fans them with palm fronds [1]? Is Djambi actually higher status than Hedonism bot [2]?

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrapesOfLuxury

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYMzQ3Vfq0
Scarcity of workforce is artificially created by rich countries, where talent can be discriminated due to location and citizenship. Now that you can hire internationally and remotely, talent is no longer confined to rich locations, thus democratizing opportunities for workers from poorer countries. A lose from the rich is a gain for the poor.
I agree with you if that escape hatch requires explicit permission, warnings and a bunch of precautions.

Hot links, such as reddit.com launching App Store to download their app should not be allowed because some uninformed user might just download bogus apps from 3rd party stores.

Again, I support the idea of an escape hatch, but I feel like that applies to an imposssibly small slice of the total iPhone userbase. People like you and me. I feel like I should write it out: 0.00000001% people.

Do you think executives at Apple look at this feature request and spin the entire ship around so that you and I can hack a phone?
For what it's worth I think that's way more exciting than being in charge. I was recently involved (not as a moderator) in a community that burned itself to the ground due almost entirely to poor communication and lack of discussion between the moderators and the members themselves. This lead directly from, I think, the moderators having exactly the opinion you criticize - they viewed themselves as leading and ruling the users rather than supporting them. I've been thinking a lot about how that could have been prevented. Maybe the community could have survived if the system was structured in a way that gave users themselves enough power to hold moderators to account. Or maybe there's some other way the issues could have been mitigated.

That's exactly why people who collect stamps should care. The community I mentioned is gone specifically because the very invested members couldn't do anything about the self-destruction. And we knew we were powerless as it was all falling apart. At this point many would be happy to move to a new platform simply if it provided some type of guarantees against a repeat. (Which I think could be accomplished by giving the moderators less power without compromising their ability to moderate. Somehow.)

As to your final point about joining and contributing, I've done that. I'm here asking about the general guidelines because there are people here who have walked the path of fostering a community, or know people who have.
Use an intermediary like google wallet or a one time virtual cc?
I totally would if it didn’t involve hacking mail on my Mac, and having apps that are only good for a week.
Options, Not Roadmaps
There is a footnote for that claim - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459209196... - but basically "things that are hard to believe" and "things that barely passed statistical analysis" (high p-values).
I agree more than I can express in words.

In one of those scenarios I am writing code, working anticipating the needs of my users, and solving tough problems. In the other scenario I am mindlessly pushing buttons on top of some slow crappy framework while watching the slow motion train wreck of emotional insecurity all around me like a lake of syrup.
The non-burning natural decomposition of wood also releases the carbon into the atmosphere, as CO2, methane, etc. It's a neutral cycle, as plants are recently grown from atmospherically-sourced carbon.

Deforestation and pulling old oil & coal out of the ground and into the atmosphere is what tips the balance.
Yep. Just like relocating between cities while at the same company will cause your payscale to adjust.

Look at the US Federal Government, or most state governments. There is X Pay for the position, and then that pay has a modifier based on location & cost of living. A GS 8 makes $41,310. That's their base Salary. Now in Seattle, that comes out to $52,472. In Albany, NY it's $48,696 due to locality.

Not controversial at all.
This is a wealth transfer from landlords to companies and doesn't really have a lot to do with the workers.
And the aborigines in Australia - I don’t know what The US education about native Americans is like, but the Aussie one apparently still talked about controlled burns as being backwards nonsense by brown people into the 90s.

I’m not sure that the US education system gets even that far as I know many state education systems say that many slaves enjoyed being slaves...
My B12 supplement is derived from plant sources, which I find far preferable to secondary B12 consumption from injected grain-fed animal tissue which is the modern status quo.

[1]: https://www.gardenoflife.com/content/product/mykind-organics...
Seems like that would be a fine compromise.

This is a frequent paradox of industrialization: it makes certain things too cheap and that turns out to actually not be good for us. Corn Syrup, as one case in point. Plastic packaging as another. Traffic congestion on roads. Carbon in general.

If we were more comfortable pricing in externalities we could accomplish massive societal change in a quick and easy manner without most people even noticing too much. This was done all over the west to mostly eliminate smoking, and I'm surprised it isn't used more often.

So, to take your point, pass regulatory reform that only pasture raised cattle with appropriate limits on density etc. to be actually regenerative, and then the price of meat would go up quite a bit, and naturally most people would start to see it as a delicacy and eat less of it (and more importantly, expect less of it).
Why would mind on demand be used for personalized ads?
Sure it would. Some major developer only offers their app as a side load and suddenly your Aunt Edna is giving system level permissions to some developer without any realization that they just gave away keys to their house.

Perhaps Apple could sell a developer edition of the phone that allows side loading.. come to think of it, they do. If you are an Apple developer you can side load apps. Any developer that wants to can post their code on github and let other developers install it on their phone.

Really, if you don’t like the rules, you have an alternative.
> defined ... as “explicit descriptions or displays of sexual organs or activities intended to ...

wait, is this going to be a basis for pixelated/black bar’d porn on App Store
Seems reasonable. I wonder what would be consequences for this? and how significant will it be when more companies do this.

Will services that are based entirely on Silicon Valley charge less?
Real Estate will be lower?
Less trafic
You're going to be shocked when you realize the number of people who don't want to move to San Francisco. There's a smaller but still substantial number of people who don't want to deal with living in any dense metro area. There are even plenty of people who don't want to move very far from their friends and family at all.
Companies to landlords, but yes.
It’s not just off brand AliExpress Android devices that already show all those problems, it’s top line Samsung devices as well. As well as GooglePlay, I need to deal with Samsung’s shitty App Store, and the Oculus one if I want to use the GearVR.
I read one guess that 2/3 of the published results in social science are wrong. Suppose you tried to develop a deeper theory of these things and derived consequences from these “results” as one does in math and physics. If your corollary depends on 4 prior results, each with a 1/3 chance of actually being true — assuming no logical errors on your part — then the chance your result really is correct is (1/3)^4 <0.01. With results like this it’s not going to be easy to get much depth that holds water.
Nope. Those kinds of things are almost entirely related to control and power, not real security.

If you're legitimately concerned about internal adversaries you start by finding and catching them. Once you've set up effective mechanisms for doing that you can start to introduce stricter controls around sensitive data/operations based on what you've learned about how your internal adversaries operate. You use a light touch when doing this, because you understand that every extra control you put in place introduces inefficiency into the organization.
In my city we can buy milk in glass bottles for a $2 deposit that’s credited when the bottles are returned to the place of purchase. This program is available at virtually every mainstream supermarket here.
How? They had to pay more because the employees had higher housing costs, because of artificially scarce housing in SF. Now the employee gets the same pay net of housing, the landlords (as a class) get less, and the company keeps the difference.
Short answer is no. I'm not really sure why so many try to hate on bluetooth audio. But don't take my word for it, hear for yourself. You can first read up some on it[0] Then get the needed tools to encode audio into the exact same format that your headphones would see [1]

Hopefully, you have an uncompressed wav file to test with. Unfortunately, the sbcenc command wants the wav in the uncommon big-endian format. Not worries, just do: "ffmpeg -i test.wav test.au" and it will convert it for you. Now feed that .au file into sbcenc:

"sbcenc -B 16 -s 8 -j -b 51 test.au >test.sbc"

That is the default scheme for "bluetooth high quality". Personally I have not found a difference in the sound. Of course note that the audio encoding is adaptive, so if you put on your bluetooth headphones and walk 50 ft away, yea it might sound bad...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/buster/sbc-tools
I rue the day they remove audio jacks from desktop motherboards. Presumably to improve water resistance.
This is not true for complex software. The complexity of modern infra systems (like vmware vm) is so high, that there are very few people (regarding of the location) capable of understanding and creating such software on time and in budget.

I will be surprised if the salary cut includes good engineers.
The sound quality is much better after exporting, I assume this is likely due performance issues when creating sounds on real time using JS, so maybe one could use most of the same exporting logic to internally save a cached version of the sound (instead of always generating it on real time) to avoid such issues.
In the interest of value equivalence, do you believe COL adjustments in the Bay area are unfair?
'The unfortunate reality is that mankind as we know it'

The only was I can read that quote is mankind as we know it is the grain society that was enforced you point out.
Two or three cycles in, people hiring will see serial 3 month stints as a red flag.