skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, I do think its a good example. Immigration has its pros and cons and smart policies can boost the pros and lessen the cons. Its very clear that immigrants can bring enormous value but its also clear that they can lower the wages of unskilled work, as they have done in the US, and also increase serious crime, as has happened in Sweden and other European countries. The well to do elites that argue taking in immigrants is either always good or a moral imperative, would very quickly change their minds if they were either victimized or out-competed by an immigrant. But since does not happen - problematic immigrants live far away in poor communities and are not able to pursue high paying jobs - they can keep spouting sanctimonious bullshit.
>The screenshot shows a request, not a demand. The tweet’s headline is clearly clickbait

And amazon will stop offering free devices for their journalism and their AWS services will be flaky if they don't comply with the "request". Pretending like there is no leverage here from Amazon is a bit obtuse.
My biggest problem with this thinking is that it seems to consider "books" a unit of measure rather than distinct objects. Surely there are those among us who use the amount of books we've read as a sort of decoration for our intellect, but that's not really the point of reading books.The point is to make the knowledge in the books a part of us so we can live a better life. For that end some books are clearly better than others.

However I agree with the idea that it's impossible, and I would argue undesirable, to keep up with the "parade of new titles" put out by publishers.

So if we can't keep up but reading is still worth it, then the question becomes "How do we decide what to read?".

For my part I've found that the more old books I read the more I realize that many modern books are ful of old ideas with a slight (sometimes very slight) twist. So now I'm working through classics and only reading things sparingly. The criteria I've picked up is:

1. The book must have been around for at least a few generations

2. The book must have had a significant impact on how the world, or a field, is viewed

3. The book must be highly regarded by those who study it, even if they disagree with it

4. The book must deal with topics that are relevant to today (love, leadership, etc.)

This naturally leads to many so-called "classics". In reading them I've found that I rarely feel my time has been wasted, I feel I have a broader perspective, and I feel I've been able to elevate a bit above the frothy front end of new pop psychology/business/hero worship titles.
How does it differ from the CDK/CDK8s/terraform-cdk?
Restoring from a backup absolutely leaves traces. The folders under /var/mobile/Library store configuration files for apps that are under /Applications[a]. As Cydia puts itself and other apps in here, it’s configuration files aren’t stored alongside them.[b] The consequence of this is that a backup backs up roughly the entire /var/mobile folder. So when a restore from backup is done, Cydia’s (and other apps’) config files are put back.

In theory, Apple could detect this (previously jailbroken state) when they plug in your device at the store to do diagnostics, but (at least 5 years ago) I’ve brought a few “restored from backup” devices in for service and they don’t say anything. I guess as long as it isn’t currently jailbroken, they don’t care.[c]

[a]: /Applications contains apps that come with the device and can’t be removed (such as Settings, etc.); Cydia installs itself and any apps you install through it into this folder. OTOH, apps installed through the App Store go under /var/mobile/Containers.

[b]: The reason being: pre-jailbreak, / is mounted read-only, but /var/mobile is read-write. So iOS works on the assumption that any app installed to /Applications can’t keep its config files with it, so they’re put in /var/mobile/Library.

[c]: Simply hiding the icons of Cydia and apps wouldn’t be enough to convince them as jailbreaking involves disabling a few daemons (the biggest is the OTA update checker; they don’t work well with a jailbroken device), so Apple’s diagnostics would probably show that some daemons aren’t running (that normally would be).
I did both.

I partnered with large do-it-everything firms when I was at a small, woman-owned shop because the big firms didn't have our expertise in house; needed to meet a woman-owned-business checkbox; or both.

On my own, I would almost always chase business out of my local market (out-of-town solutions are generally deemed to be smarter, unfair as that seems) and find a local partner (so the client -- often a gov agency -- could feel like they were spending money in the community.

Sometimes, a bunch of small fry would team up for a large group proposal, but that had iffy results. If it was a big-enough project for that, it was big enough that the client likely wanted one of the larger firms and subbing to them was a better strategy.
> If student loan debt was treated like any other debt then few if any students would get loans, unless their parents had assets to put up as collateral. So long as the financial burden of education falls on the student first then this is unlikely to change.

Right, and an investment in the public school systems and community colleges would make them more affordable. If what the government wants is more lower income families in higher education there are many ways to achieve it. The current system encourages the astronomical increase in inflation adjusted cost of education.

> From a financial perspective it’s a terrible product to sell... tons of money to someone with little to no financial assets, iffy prospects of sufficient future income and no underlying assets that the bank can put a lien against in case of default. The problem is not the loans, it’s the whole higher education system that needs a total overhaul including the utility and price of higher education. The current system is based on the idea that many people’s parents encountered where a good summer job and maybe a bit of savings was more than enough to pay for a decent college degree!

This is literally what governments and regulation are for -- do things that are not profitable in the short term (ex. inventing GPS, the internet, etc) for strategic advantage.

In 10/20/30 years, the countries that do the best will be the ones with more intelligent/flexible lower and middle classes -- we can already see rapid cannibalization of industries happening on a large scale.
Sounds like the ether in physics around 1900 or the four elements in Greek philosophy.

Non-falsifiable dreams.
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> server rendered content and sprinkles of JavaScript where needed.

Nice. We need more of this.
E-bikes are the revolution in transportation that was originally promised with "Ginger"/Segway.

They are still too expensive, but the price will drop as batteries, motors, and production scales. Once it gets down to 200-300 bucks for a foldable bike with a 25mph top speed and a 50-100 mile range, IMO things will take off.

Pedestrian infrastructure is still a waste in America unfortunately. Americans are simply too sessile. What should probably be optimized is the ebike infrastructure, and pedestrians can be a fairly safe afterthought in that type of infrastructure.

I really hope Boring company takes off, it would be great to move most major "stroads" into tunnels.
That is exactly what I look for as judge decision.

It has been legal since ever, game consoles have 40 years of history by now.

And back in the 16 bit days, one would need to pay for SDKs.

PCs only became open due to IBM's failure to keep ownership of their creation, and Compaq's cleverness in clean room reverse engineering.

Since Windows 8 I am a big fan of Windows store app.
I get the principle of the point you’re making but I don’t see how it can work if (and maybe this is the key bit) a state is allowed to have secrets.

Perhaps I’m blinkered, but I can’t see how a modern state can function without them in some form. To offer an extreme example, nuclear launch codes must remain secret. (Separate argument obvs about the merits for and against nuclear weapons).

If the state is going to have some secrets, I don’t see how they can work in practice if everyone is allowed to know them.

Separately I’m not sure I buy the slippery slope argument as an absolute given. It’s a clear risk yes, but I see good journalism as one of the safeguards against all forms of government malpractice, corruption or straight incompetence.
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There is no difference in incentives on the market itself. They just make the companies which are traded on their platform sign an agreement before they are allowed to be traded.

I think in practice this means that no one will use this exchange...
> And AWS started because they already had the servers for holiday surge capacity.

That doesn't seem very likely. There's a limit to how much server work you need to handle one online shopping website.
"Hey bro, awesome that you decided to store this expensive item X, I think I'm going to take it for myself, and you can't prove that you stored it or that you yourself didn't take it out".
How to improve data quality in healthcare?
this article feels like when one person at a bar tells me about their startup that has like 0 progress.

lmk when this materializes I guess.
There's a good documentary on Vue.js and it's creator Evan You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrxmtDw4pVI
I thought that at some point smart meant self regulating, followed by TVs being "smart" by having apps and an always on network connection. Neither of these implied a microphone.
As I've grown older I've noticed this, though at a slower pace than described in the article.

When I was younger and lived in the appalachians, there were countless of waterfalls, overlooks, and camping spots isolated and away from everyone. But as time went by, these places became less isolated and full of litter, even the more remote spots.

As much as I dislike Instagram and its effect on natural areas, I think another large factor is the population count. The US has 46 million more people than 20 years ago, and that's more people looking to get out and have fun in nature.

One hope is for state and federal conservation agencies to buy more private land and enter into more conservation land trusts. We need more public space for people to enjoy, hopefully with fewer ATVs and campsite garbage.
Ah - so we can measure the specific capacity of a battery in kilometres of altitude. e = mgh, so h = e/mg.

Lead-acid = 0.14 MJ/kg = 14.3 km

LiFePO4 = 0.58 MJ/kg = 59.1 km

LiNiMnCoO2 = 0.74 MJ/kg = 75.5 km
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The Fed provides stability around the USD market. It deploys a wide variety of polices that attempt to manage inflation, deflation, liquidity, and overall confidence in the USD. Without this stability the USD would be significantly less valuable as a medium of trade, a store of value, and as a tool for reconciling debts.
> I don't know what child porn is called by pedophiles.

There's a rabbit hole.

<SFW> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/child-sexual-abuse-keywords-...
The answer you want is "Yes, of course," of course. That's why "AFAIK" prefaces something that would be answered by an audit. But audits aside, the internet isn't a lawyer. Pay one if it's important. If it isn't important, then it isn't important.

In practical terms, a business that can't afford necessary legal advice isn't really viable as an ongoing concern. Good luck.
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It isn't. The diff between Planet Debian and the "uncensored" fork feeds looks like this:

+Debian Community News
+Daniel Pocock
+Free Software Fellowship
+Iain Lane
-Andrej Shadura
-Christian Kastner
-Daniel Lange
-Debian GSoC Kotlin project blog
-Debian Project Leader
-Giovanni Mascellani
-Reproducible Builds (diffoscope)
-Simon Quigley

• The first 3 "blogs" are run by the same person who runs the fork. He's been expelled from Debian, so it shouldn't surprise you that he's not welcome on Planet Debian.

• Iain Lane has removed his blog from Planet Debian recently, and the fork is simply lagging behind.

• Most of the items that are missing from the fork are new additions, so again the fork is lagging behind.

• I can't explain why Andrej Shadura's blog is missing from the fork.
Consider Baltimore. There's some tech work in the city + a good chunk between Baltimore & DC. Areas like Locust Point, Roland Park, Hampden, Fells Point, etc.
This line made me laugh out loud: "Believe me, being omnipotent doesn’t get me anywhere."

I hear Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". So much truth. So few words.
That's what FHA is for, allows you to put 5% down. When I bought my first home, I put down 2000 in 2015 using FHA + state grants.
High voltage power lines already exist. They are part of the landscape, and connect large parts of the country together. Case in point: a solar panel is Missouri could be providing power to Iowa.

Bonus points: if you want to build a big battery in Iowa, you can take advantage of excess power in Iowa or Missouri. Building tiny batteries here and there will only lower your efficiency.

There's a reason why a lot of discussion here is on large 100s of MW proposals: because anything smaller won't really be a big win economically. And it shouldn't be too hard to fill up 100s of MW capacity because of the nature of our large and reliable power grids here in the USA.
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The newsroom layoffs, furloughs and closures caused by the coronavirus
Norwegian far-Right politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde
made the nomination following a “historic peace agreement”
between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

The leader also praised Mr Trump for resolving other
protracted conflicts worldwide and said he has made
"tremendous efforts" in brokering peace.

“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create
peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,”
Mr Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.

Oh... this is all about dunking on Obama, now it makes sense.
I'm curious if Svelte is headed in this direction.
The objective was to create a public market designed for trading the stocks of companies organized to sustain long-term thinking

How are they defining long-term thinking? Is Walmart thinking long-term? Is Uber?
About time somebody did that. I am interested in doing something similar as well.
> 4. Brand loyalty, in fact, gives substantial benefits to the consumer, contrary to your assertion. Greater integration of devices and ease of use is the most obvious one.

No, it's the other way around. I don't get updates on my 3 year old phone because I'm loyal to Apple, I'm loyal to Apple because I get updates on my 3 year old phone.
Link to the celebritynetworth.com discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105465
>The insinuation that some ill-defined-but-terrifying future retribution against the publisher (Vice, a substantial owner of which is the Walt Disney Company; so not exactly a tiny defenseless organization) will occur as the result of ignoring a suggested correction from a PR flack is a bit ridiculous.

You're right. It's ridiculous to insinuate such things. Almost as ridiculous as ebay executives harassing a small mom and pop news website with bloody pigs masks, roaches, and other psychological torture.
Competition is good for the customer when the goods are commodities. Media - books, songs, videogames - are mostly non-substitutable goods: if you want to watch Star Wars, you won't settle for an episode of Friends instead. As soon as exclusive releases are allowed, customer benefits from competition evaporate.
This reminded me;
People seem way too comfortable / in the dark when it comes to voice-cloning, which, with the added data of general speech-patterns, is likely to become a major issue wrt political/legal issues.

see: https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning (think it made its rounds here on HN before)

Conceptually, even though it currently is a market-strategy where the benefits are as you point out. In the longer term this could be argued as an uncomfortable seat of power to whoever sits on the user-data. (without bringing up too much of that issue here... might be time to generate obfuscation of voice similarly to the obfuscation of google-searching which I've seen on here earlier=)
exactly, he's assuming everyone will declare bankruptcy if they can, which is untrue. Most people declare bankruptcy way later then they should have and suffer accordingly. People don't want to walk away from debt, they just don't have the money.

Student loans are stupid anyway. Why build this system that is basically a shadow tax. We should be able to figure out a way to pay for this and collect the funds with regular taxes.
It's in like the seventh paragraph of the article - I think people have figured out that they're talking about Echo and Alexa. And the salient point for the sentence (which ends "we should also be critical about where the data extracted from us ends up") is the microphone part of the product and not the rest of it. It's more specific, not more confusing.
I wonder what the actual business model for the company is and how the incentives from this will affect the LTSE vision behind "long-term investing". As far as I have seen on the website the company runs various freemium SaaS products like captable.io, startuprunway.io and hiringplan.io. They obviously want or need to monetize on that.

edit links:
- https://captable.io
- https://startuprunway.io
- https://hiringplan.io
- https://fast409a.io
- https://startupdisclosure.io
- https://notegenie.io
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No, it's not a feature. It's a massive problem.

1) Pumps that can pump water 150 meters or a kilometer high are very expensive and require constant expensive maintenance.

2) Where will you pump the water to? Now you have to build huge storage tanks.

3) The water never stops flowing in. Sooner or later you will run out of storage space and your expensive hole will fill up with water.
What's life without a smartphone, tablet or laptop like these days? Are landlines still usable?
How is NYC subway OMNY able to take payment while phone is locked?
Apple Pay requires confirmation with the double click and Face ID, but OMNY is able to take payment merely by device proximity. Guessing this is NFC-based. But without confirmation? Aren’t there dangerous security implications to the mechanism behind whatever technique is being used here? Thanks
Yeah... I quickly revised my opinion after continuing through the comments of this thread.

Apparently there ARE people who are that angry? It doesn't really make sense to me.

I saw one poster compare it to smokers who get to take quick smoke breaks. I don't have a habit that forces me to take breaks every 30 minutes to an hour or I go into withdrawal, doesn't make me smell like a smoker, and doesn't inherently put me at risk of cancer. Isn't that in itself a reward for not smoking? Instead you have to get pissed at someone who smokes? Do you REALLY want to be out there inhaling that smoke with the other smokers?

It just makes no sense to me, but I've also never viewed working hours as a zero-sum game.
It prevents capital being mis-allocated.

It turns out that is one of the most important things to do in modern, capital intensive, economies.

It also means people can invest for shorter periods and that means more capital is available for investment. This has a double bonus where it reduces the risk of investments again making more capital available...
I've been a developer for a while, starting from QBasic, then Pascal, Delphi, C/C++, Flash, Qt, etc. happily switching from one technology to the next when it makes sense.

Today I use Electron and React Native, which needless to say are not very popular, but for sure I could never have developed the kind of cross-platform software I write today with the technologies I used many years ago. Partly for lack of skills, but also of time (cross-platform development was way more difficult), or simply because computers back them were not powerful enough.

I don't have any special nostalgia for old technologies, some stuff were good, some not so much. And as OP is showing you're still free to use old software if you don't like what's being done today.
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Would they really? How many of these people do you think would be happy to open their homes, or at least their neighborhoods, to a substantial number of poor, unskilled, uneducated and culturally alien people? The world would work a lot better if we all learned to ignore opinions when they come from people with no skin in the game.
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Is everyone here missing the point?

Amazon aren't going to "request" just any old correction, the news is that they don't want an internet connected microphone and speaker to have any mental connection to the "m" word. Because it would have negative connotations for most people.
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You are completely mixing up MWh and MW which are two different things.
I personally don’t have an opinion on what follows (the Peace Prize is kindof a joke nowadays), but:

Quite a few people (on both sides of the political spectrum; mostly right wingers though) don’t think Obama should’ve gotten one, and that he only got it because he was the first black President (among a few other things). Granted, he did do things to help with world peace, but he also did many things involving war.
As others mentioned, it is a good habit to request the page to be archived. You don't have to link to the archive, but you would have the option to if the page were to disappear in the future.

I wish I had done this 15 years ago for a small project/website. Nowadays, my website is there, with all of its content, but most of the awesome references which I had linked to are unavailable. I wrote "most", but it is close to all of them.
Second this comment - this sounds more like super small startup then at a the larger sized operations. Also sounds pretty terrible of the employer
Is the product I'm buying a genuine product or a rip-off with the same logo on the outside?

Has something been done to it to void the warranty?

Is this a cheaply done "refurbished" version which will die in 3 months?

Is it stolen?

Seems pretty gray to me.
What abuses? They are doing nothing that game consoles haven't been doing for 40 years now, or mobile stores since J2ME, Brew, Windows CE/Pocket PC locked to the mobile operator.
Won't switching to WASM do away with the ability to web scrape?
To save time, feed these strategem names to GPT-3 as prompts, and let it write you the contents of your blog articles!
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I think they should be called "active audio monitoring devices" because microphone is somewhat missing something... or maybe "smart microphone".
I wanted to make a comment about military being a military and not wanting to expose their identity, but this is using a civilian identity to disguise themselves and not simply turning a transponder off
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This seems at first unlikely yet ATVs (even where not permitted) have made attractive places close to trailheads accessible. I used to think 10 miles in was enough to get away from most people, but like the author I have found some of those places colonized by modern life.

Fortunately the world is still large and a lot of places are only accessible by foot. But a lot of those ecosystems done recover quickly.

A few weeks ago I was up in the emigrant wilderness and it looked like a majority of the visitors were using brand new gear. I hope what this really means is we’ll have a greater appreciation of backpacking and more support.