skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you suddenly need a document and you have been out for some work, and you don't have mobile to receive it ?

That’s an easy one: my personal phone = no work use whatsoever. And if they offer to pay for it (they won’t), then I’ll decline so it stays my phone rather than my work’s whistle.
I admit that, yes, it's more common for me.

I felt comfortable calling it the "most common" on a wider scale based on a quick search for "helm" using the HN Search. At quick glance ~90% of "Helm" mentions are the Kubernetes tool.
It’s almost a requirement of modern city living To have one.

Paying parking meters, not having to deal with rolls of quarters.

Also 2 factor logins at work from home require a smart phone.

Filling out forms for pandemic related info to get into
Work requires a app. (For those that work in labs and not from
Home)

I don’t love being plugged in all the time, but having lived my life without one (cell phones weren’t around in early 90s
College) I’m not going back. Dumb phones were a pain to type on.

Apart from being always connected there is anxiety about my phone breaking which is another downside.
For what my anecdote is worth, I’ve rented a half-dozen apartments, and I’ve never paid cash for rent, nor had a landlord suggest cash payment.

And I don’t know anyone else who has either.

If I were to rent another apartment, I would expect to pay by check.
> Keeping software well maintained involves a lot of saying no, unfortunately.

Right... and the youtube-dl maintainers aren't doing that.
Since the raise of smartphones I have not turned on or not taking with me my phone for days or weeks at a time. Especially during traveling I find it a nicer experience to have to interact more with locals, stroll around and getting lost at times, instead of just ubering from one tripadviser location to the next.

On a day to day what I think helped me most is:

- Do not disturb mode on all the time.

- Keep apps to a minimum that is actually useful. I think I never had more than like 5 installed.

- Turn off most if not all notifications.

- If its a personal phone, do not set up all the work related stuff (email, slack, calendar, etc.) on it, or make sure notifications are turned off.

- And maybe most importantly, "train" your social or work circles, that not immediately responding does not mean you are dead or hold a grudge on them and if they want something from you they might have to think ahead.

With this I'm happy with having a device in the pocket or bag that does come in handy often enough, but does not need to be the most recent expensive flagship and is not a tamagotchi needing constant attention.
This is exactly the type of claim that makes me read rust comments from a very uncharitable position.

> You manage memory in Rust about as manually as you manage memory in Python
"France has destroyed practically all of its forest in recent centuries." It's false, it's the opposite: over the period of 1000/1500 there was much less forest in France than today because wood was the only energy for heating.
Just to augment the story: Kuba is not an internet nickname.
It is a shorter form of given name Jakub (Jacob).
I use Jakub only in documents and during formal events.
For everyone else I'm Kuba.
It's bugging me enough to reply to myself - the author is also throwing shade at LibraryThing passive-agressively by using the association fallacy. AbeBooks owned 40% of LT and Amazon acquired AbeBooks - but that's all the author had to say, no critical comparison of LT on it's merits as a book website. I find this to be disingenuous.
On and off, over the years, due to remote locations. So, not exactly what you are asking for.

Longest period was about 3 months, during which time I was able to voice chat via sat a few times a week. On many other occasions I've been off the phone grid for a few days to a couple weeks.

Message apps are a big one for me because I am rarely near people with whom I have close relationships. Months without that were quite lonely.

On the other hand, I (almost) never use maps, never use social media, and do not use my phone for watching videos. All of that by early choice. I survive fine that way.

Ive found that without my phone the first couple days have lots of frustrated moments of "oh...I cannot look up the thing I do not know," but after that I adapt.
Why the negativity? Helm has served me really well for pretty much every day for the last 10 years. I'm extremely thankful for it.
pure speculation: youtube app on those platforms is just an embedded webview (or otherwise allows arbitrary code execution).
As far as I understand it's applicable to all platforms be it chineese, western or even indian. These days these internet platforms are a lot used for spreading political propaganda. Simplest example is ones like quora, reddit etc. It's these days filled with right wing(from all nations) accounts spreading propaganda. The amount of reach they have in these platforms and the amount of control they have to suppress opinions is massive. I was astonished that there was an answer justifying european colonisations and when a comment was made how it was not great for colonised and how the colonisers as a whole benefited a lot form these actions immediately the comment was reported and removed. These platforms are all owned for spreading each other's political propoganda in the information warfare that's there. It's not exclusive to chineese but as you said since government control over companies are more there it's thousands times worse; but it's not exclusive to chineese it is for platforms from west too.
Have No Time and Always Procrastinate? You Form a Bad Habit Nobody Talking About
That's actually the opposite of how real world currencies work. They do not start with marginal cases and expand. In almost all cases they start with the most important cases -- the government says "you must pay taxes in currency X or suffer consequences".

This is pretty well established in the history of currencies.
The difference is that China is an enemy of democracy. Whether you hate or love the US, I’m sure you’d rather live in a free world.
Propping up China vis a vis the Soviet Union and Japan was a smart move. The State Department should have dropped them like a hot potato after the Japanese economy stalled in the 80s and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Seconded. "youtube-dlc" might give an initial brand recognition boost from being similar to "youtube-dl", but it's the community that will make it or break it. Giving it a bad name (as argued by parent comment, and I agree) is not a good start.
It's also done to avoid payment processing charges.
Our six month old was on the list. It was a shock when we went to the airport, and they asked that he be taken aside for an interview with a TSA agent. We wrote a letter explaining the situation, and got a letter back acknowledging that our information had been received. They stopped asking 3-4 years later.
I mean, you can still have an old phone that you can use for rendezvous - it is mostly an attention issue.
Another possibility is that a forced sale could uncover links to Chinese government surveillance in technical assets, and that's a risk they don't want to take.
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Could you share your reasoning as to why this is Apple abusing its market position?

To me it appears that Apple is simply giving users control and transparency in what data is being used. I understand your point to be that because Apple is so large and controls a large market, they can't make changes like this? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if that is your point, then I would have to disagree. By this reasoning, what could Apple do that wouldn't count as accusing I its market position?
This is why I love it when offices have showers at work. Commute in, shower, show up for work fresh. No need to do cardio outside of my ride in and out, so it’s saving me time in a way because it’s built into something I’m already doing.

I know not all offices have showers, but it was something I looked for when I was deciding on a coworking space a couple of years ago.
I think the point was more about the attitude- instead of walking in and going "my teeth are screwed up, help!" - they're walking in thinking it's a good thing they haven't brushed their teeth. The lack of recognition that there is a problem is the problem there.
Ask HN: What are the mundane work you faced in your company? What did you do?
> it will kill C/C++

There is no such thing as a "C/C++", so how can you kill something that doesn't exist?
Citing a paper needn't be a celebration of it, you can cite a paper to say "these guys find X but..."
US: My landlords accept checks and money orders, I have my banks bill pay service send my landlord a check every month, so I never actually have to mail or write a check myself.
Maybe the rule should be: no phone while at home? Lock it on arrival or something. All the practical/non-attention-sucking benefits of phones happen outdoors I reckon
The genetic engineering genie is out of the bottle
Who doesn't know anyone who owns a TV?
Which paper was this?
Security by obscurity is harder to reason about. Heavily obfuscated code is always more insecure once the obfuscation is reversed. The other big difference is you can incrementally break it; you are not going to be privy to if someone is selling your deobfuscated code online. Lastly, the example of randomising the presidential car i’d likely not call security by obscurity. Security by obscurity does not mean that there are secrets inherent to the protocol (or private keys would be obscurity!) if it was the same car every time, and they relied on nobody telling anybody, that’d be security by obscurity for me, otherwise it’s just a random value with a low keyspace
No. If Apple would be using the data and deny others access to it, then it would be abuse. I don't think that is happening. Apple is just improving their product.
Not committing genocide is a good way to be better than a country committing genocide, jmho.
Taken from https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...

"There are whole websites for this: How To Convince Your Shrink You Have ADHD [0], How To Get Your Doctor To Prescribe You Adderall In Five Easy Steps [1], et cetera. But I can’t imagine most people need them. Just talk about all the times in your life that you had attention and concentration problems, and if your doctor asks you a more specific question (“Do you often lose things?”) you give the obvious right answer (“Wow, it’s like you’ve known me my whole life!”).

Aren’t psychiatrists creepy wizards who can see through your deceptions? There are people like that. They’re called forensicists, they have special training in dealing with patients who might be lying to them, and they tend to get brought in for things like evaluating a murderer pleading the insanity defense. They have a toolbox of fascinating and frequently hilarious techniques to ascertain the truth, and they’re really good at their jobs.

But me? At best, I can have a vague suspicion you’re not telling the truth. And how many patients genuinely in need of treatment do I want to risk accidentally rejecting just so I can be sure of thwarting you? A lot of 100% honest psychiatric patients’ stories are pretty unbelievable, really, and I don’t want to have to treat every patient like a convicted murderer. Unless you give me some specific reason to doubt you, I start with the assumption that you’re telling the truth.

Think about how wasteful all of this is. We throw people in jail for using Adderall without a prescription. We expel them from colleges. We fight an expensive and bloody War on Drugs to prevent non-prescription-holders from getting Adderall. We create a system in which poor people need to stretch their limited resources to make it to a psychiatrist so they can be prescribed Adderall, in which people without health insurance can never get it at all, in which DEA agents occasionally bust down the doors of medical practices giving out Adderall illegally. All to preserve a sham in which psychiatrists ask their patients “Do you have ADD symptoms?” and the patients say “Oh, yeah, definitely,” and then the psychiatrists give them Adderall. It’s like adding twenty layers of super-reinforced concrete to a bunker with a wide-open front door.

(Also, if by some chance a psychiatrist doesn’t give a patient Adderall, that patient practically always goes to another psychiatrist, and that next psychiatrist does. Trust me, no matter how unsuitable a candidate you are, no matter how bad a liar you are, somewhere there is a psychiatrist who will give you Adderall. And by “somewhere”, I mean it will take you three tries, tops.)"

[0] - http://exiledonline.com/adderall-tips-how-to-convince-your-s...

[1] - https://thoughtcatalog.com/sarah-miller/2015/03/how-to-get-y...
OpenBSD on the Desktop. GUI Tweaks Etcetera
I don't think anything like this exists in Canada (the closest thing would be an e-bike). I wonder if it would work there.

Con: On main arteries vehicles definitely move faster than its speed limit. I'm thinking University Ave or Spadina in Toronto.

Pro: 50 km/h (30 mph for Americans) is already the speed limit in most neighborhood streets. It would be interesting to see an Ami cut across 4 lanes to turn left on a multilane boulevard. :) But then again, Paris has tons of these multilane boulevards (like the Champs Elysee) and it seems to work there.

Con: An Ami would be treated like a bicycle except one that takes up the full width of the lane, which might annoy drivers who can't pass it.

Pro: ... which the regulatory framework technically already allows for (bike riders can take up the full lane, and motorists are supposed to allow a 3 ft buffer if passing).

Con: Canadian winters. In Southern Ontario, winter temperatures hover around -10 to -15°C (-30°C wind chill on some days).

Pro: There is a heater, and since it's an enclosed space, it should be fine if one bundles up.

Maybe it could work in denser cities like Toronto and Montréal...
> so we don't sound like idiots.

I'm fine sounding like an idiot so long as my slope is increasing :)

Right, Judea Pearl covers this in [i]The Book of Why[/i].
I know that kind of vehicle all too well (I'm Greek and we have them here also :). It's not that.
It’ll be added to your lease. They don’t break out your rent payment into “sidewalks, hallways, carpet, walls, sink, faucet, fixtures...” but those costs are there. They’ll bury meth detection in the rent payment, and that’s that.
Part of why PayPal got big is that at the time it was new the incumbent banks had transactions that tended to be slow and crappy and sometimes expensive on top of that. I remember when I was younger that there was this "mysterious" clearing time with my bank where you'd send money and the other party wouldn't get it for a number of days (and that number of days wasn't even reliable either). And with international transfers it was worse than the domestic ones.

Now that people have got used to better payment processing the banks have had to improve, I think it's easy to forget just how bad things used to be.
Nope. This is only true for gridpower "production", which is only a small part of the total energy production (about 25%), and there are other (non energy-related) sources CO2 emissions.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374697
the statement isn't that Mediterranean climates burn. The statement is that a Mediterranean climate, California's climate, is a climate that is designed to burn. If you are going to be pedantic, do it right.
Thanks for the additional info, I didnt know (but probably should have assumed) that finance was the primary motivator. I just had to implement CAC authentication for a webapp and they still use their own CAs for client-side certs aka cac’s so it seems like it was a pretty savy investment at the time that’s not going away anytime soon
Inspiring set up. This is basically what I am gravitating towards.
We’ve Gotta Stop Using “Lifestyle Business” as a Pejorative
quote:

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of arguably the worst congressional vote in this century.

On that day in 2000, the Senate approved Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with the People’s Republic of China by a vote of 83-15. President Bill Clinton signed the legislation into law, declaring: “China will open its markets to American products from wheat to cars to consulting services, and our companies will be far more able to sell goods without moving factories or investments there.”

Republican Rep. Bill Archer of Texas, the lead sponsor of the bill, remarked, “The American people support this agreement because they know it’s good for jobs in America and good for human rights and the development of democracy in China.”

quote.end

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/11/normalizing...

Call me cycnical but review above quotes, multiply by N over 3 decades, and we have a general sense of the type of smoke blown in our face by the representatives of Big Money and Big Business (and possibly some Globalist ideologues) that were elected by "us" to represent "us".

Two possibilities, based on a working memory of what was said and when, regarding China and more broadly "free trade" and Globalism, here and abroad:

option 1: "The West" (which c.f. above regarding "our" representatives) assumed that Chinese greed will exceed Chinese ideological zeal/control, and CCP would ultimately lose its grip over the Chinese nation.

option 2: No such thoughts "clouded" "our" decision makers' decisions. The idea was always and in essence contrary to option 1 - how to evolve from sole Superpower order to a global elite order. China was deemed as large enough, significant enough, and strategic enough to be used as the instrument to evolve post WWII order to a global governance model, as the platform to dethrone USA from its superpower perch. Recently, it appears a sub-set of the US capitalist class has rediscovered a love of homeland or something like that, while another sub-set (with the better sort of propanda organs) is vehemently opposing them. I think the former didn't get the original memo. Sucks not to be in the uber-in circle.
Where I live they are mainly banned as well and if you don’t bring your own bags then you have to pay a small tax for paper bags. I’m mainly ok with this since we drive to the store and can plan ahead. It’s a bit annoying when you go somewhere on the way home though and don’t have them with you. If the money was being used to actually fund proper recycling I wouldn’t care but it’s probably being used to pay off interest on government bonds.
Stopping gun rights being taken away from No Fly people is the one time the NRA seems to potentially be of any use
https://www.auto-infos.fr/Bilan-2019-le-marche-VO-etablit-un...

In France in 2019 2.61 used cars were sold for each new car.
That is incredible! Where I live, the bike lane will exist for a mile or so, then suddenly disappear. I’m also jealous of the public transportation in a lot of places. I’d never drive a day in my life if I didn’t have to.
anyone bothered by these early in the morning should already be up making breakfast
Show HN: Commodore 64 users had fun with this pattern. Now JavaScript coders too
John Adams and George Washington believed a two-party system was also an enemy of democracy. It's not really so black and white. Free vs. non-free.

Both sides really do have mass surveillance, China's being a bit further along and a bit more omniscient.

I don't think TikTok, a collection of six-second clips of teens messing around represents a real, material, meaningful threat to freedom and democracy. Even if they collected all the footage and ran it all through their national security apparatus. The signal to noise ratio on this content is incomprehensibly low.

This is grandstanding and showmanship on the part of two strongmen leaders, one totalitarian overlord and one wannabe, and really, I don't think there's a clear right side and wrong side here.
I see what you are saying, but the notification is actually a big deal. The notification is the 'trigger' to set us off to 'read the thing' which gives us our little dopamine hit. It's hard to resist, and it takes up a lot of mental noise.

Even the possibility of getting notifications is stressfull.

The difference between having a phone on, where people can contact you - vs - phone dead or 'no phone' is definitely noticeable. 'Knowing you don't have to check' is an extra level of peace.
Then their apartment would be $50/month over the competition, so I wouldn't move there. If they could charge that, they'd already be doing it. You can't just "offload costs," it's not how pricing works.
Book Controller Using Tensorflow.js
I'd be way more interested in actually reading this if the headline didn't contain pointless profanities. Like this, I tag it Fanboi-ism and move on.
True. I might be misremembering the number of wheels.

Unfortunately Covid-19 kept me from going to Bologna this year, bloody thing, so it's been a year since I last saw the vehicle I'm talking about.
That they even requested that a 6 month old be taken aside is absolutely insane
by the point we leave the ice age, there's no guarantee that there'll be anything left to burn - the whole place could undergo desertification well before the ice caps melt.
It gets you hooked so quickly. I have no FB and a pretty tame Twitter. But it is so mindless that it gets me every now and then.
> ...but it tought people what can be done with a thorough design.

Lazy-by-default is clearly wrong and clearly a broken design. If that is 'thorough', I fail to see any advantages to 'thoroughness' compared to just making it up as we go along.
For some inspiration. These are UK Calculators but they work with Javascript, live updates. (well Laravel Livewire).

https://cyborg.finance/mortgage-tools/buy-to-let-mortgage-ca...

https://cyborg.finance/mortgage-tools/loan-to-value-calculat...

https://cyborg.finance/guide/types-of-mortgages
- Don't complain if shit is shitty. Either change it, try to change it, accept it, or quit. Stop telling others thats it shitty and do nothing.

Thank you.
Why do so many people want us back in the office?
I lived without a cell phone until I was in my late 30s (2016). It made going out, meeting friends, navigation, taking photos, and dating much more difficult. Other people will expect you to have one and not having one makes you harder to communicate with; think about how many people you regularly text instead of call. My current relationship relies heavily on a cellphone; we use our phones to identify restaurants, get directions, and have brief text conversations. There are many things I dislike about cellphones but I would never go back.
Yup all great points for mitigation strategies. Sometimes admins think DDoS = Traffic overload and forget to consider that slow connections can be just as effective as flooding if the configuration allows.