skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your prognosis completely, and I think it will not just be Google, but all the big data troves out there, even NSA and such. It is just inevitable that on a long enough time scale, all data will either become public or fade away.

I think that there will be a new form of entertainment which will basically generate a soap opera-like experience from real lives based on aggregated camera data, recorded conversations, and the blanks filled in by guessing.

I've adapted a different strategy from you, however. I have accepted the new privacy terrain, and I lead my life as if someone is always watching, which means I try to be my best self at all times. :)
Yeah, also consider there have been no studies to ensure that we aren't destroying our pet's hearing by using these sorts of frequencies. It depends on the dB, but dogs for example have a much longer hearing range and distance than humans.
On Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks in Air (2013)
Well, it stands to reason if you make the rich wealthier and everyone else poorer, there is no one to buy goods and stimulate the economy.
> Do you really think that MS is naive enough to think that if the courts force Apple to change their policy with iOS devices, consoles won’t be next?

You seem pretty confident of the outcome. Are you a lawyer?

Seems to me that a lot of different things could happen. We certainly don’t regulate every mode of transportation the same just because they all transport people.

You are forcing an analogy between smart phones and consoles that is based on one facet of their operation. Someone could live their whole life without owning a game console. Meanwhile, smart phones are considered an absolute necessity by a vast, vast majority of people in the US.
"expected to be the same" is simply not true.

Even simple models like the one described at https://youtu.be/k6nLfCbAzgo?t=920 (I point to the relevant part) shows that reducing the infection rate can also lead to fewer overall deaths.
Forget art, they're a software developer working for a software company that produces software for other software developers. Zero physical items created. Sit around all day getting paid great money to produce nothing tangible and then thinks something dodgy must be happening for ebooks to be close to physical books in price. Very odd.
Ever since Edge dropped EPUB support, I've been trying to find a suitable "just open this EPUB file" replacement. Okular is janky and renders a lot of EPUBs incorrectly.

I've found Calibre's eBook Viewer the best I've installed as of yet, though I wish I could install just that part. Calibre feels a little heavyweight for what I want. But it does what it does pretty darn well, I think the lack of alternatives is because everyone has just decided to use Calibre.
Bogleheads (flashes the secret handsign) ... I'm in.
Douglas Hofstadter writes about intelligence being the reason behind his (almost) vegetarianism. If I recall correctly, he doesn't have any qualms about swatting a mosquito because on the sliding scale of intelligence they're somewhere near the bottom, being about as sophisticated as some software he could write himself. He doesn't think twice about deleting software, so why hold reservations about killing an insect? It makes you wonder at what point in sophistication we should think twice about deleting our software.
How is it awful? Can you give me a better analogy?
> But what is the business argument?

Complexity costs money.
The alternatives are really really bad and Calibre is really good at what it does.
My god, reading this makes me wish there was an alternative to Calibre. I already just tolerate it because it's the only ebook manager I know and there are a lot of things about the UI and how it works that bother me.
Yes, I picked a wild drop — I guess to exxagerate the diminished capital to the point the problem becomes obvious.
Static Analysis of Java Enterprise Applications: Frameworks and Caches, The
A couple of crows at our local railway station have apparently learned, possibly the hard way: The very carefully pick through the litter bins, making an obvious effort not to spill anything on the pavement.

A less conscientious mate of theirs has impressed me in a different way. Surveyed a bin, chose a papercup and threw it on the ground. Extracted crumpled plastic bag from cup. Straightened bag, went around to the bottom end, picked it up, and determinedly shook out remains of sandwich. All extremly controlled and clearly planned, no hint of trial and error.
Nice. Does it also have the mostly autogenerated admin component?

Django has a set of views where you can manage users and their permissions, plus any data of yours. You mostly just specify what classes and what fields are visible in the admin interface. There are extension points so you can override some behaviors with code. Eventually, you can replace parts with your own views.

The integrated nature is beautiful. You already have the ORM models. With a few lines of code, you now have a GUI for them.
Calibre is one of those pieces of software where you can "feel" the bad code base as an end user. It's obvious in the way that seemingly simple things are never improved, making changes is obviously hard. It is truly one of the jankiest software systems I have used.
humans are not yet beyond enslaving each other, which i do not feel bodes well for our treatment of an uplifted species; however, as concept fiction it allows exploration of ideas in interesting ways and i tend to like settings with “intelligent” animals.

all impossibly anthropocentric obviously. is being made more human even “up” or a “lift”? maybe things are supposed to be as thingy as possible (in a platonic sense) and this whole conversation is like looking at a fish and criticizing it for not being arboreal.
Why attend a meeting just to say that?
It's entirely rational behavior. Once a business adopts a technology, they will almost never switch to a different vendor, because the product gets deeply integrated into their business processes. Think about how often you switch your bank -- an enterprise switching vendors for any software that touches their core systems is much more complex.

So, if you're in a rapidly growing market where there are a lot of competitors, it makes sense to spend as much money as you need to to capture market share, because if your competitors get there first, you'll almost never be able to win a customer away from them. It's not a network effect -- getting GM as a customer doesn't help you get Ford as a customer, but once you're the software that GM uses for end-of-year performance reviews, for example, you've got that revenue for 10+ years.

In consumer, the dynamic is the same, but instead of switching costs that are high, it's attention costs. A business looking for PDF generation software will find and evaluate 10 vendors -- a consumer looking to play The Doobie Brothers will use whatever music app they heard about from their friends, so there is a superlinear bonus to being at the top of the market.
I sometimes enjoy taking psychedelics in a safe environment with good people and darknets are invaluable for sourcing them. I simply don't have enough contacts to be able to source them otherwise. I'm a tax paying and responsible citizen who knows how to use tor + tails + monero...and dang it...I'm going to. I have the right to control my consciousness as long as I don't harm others. If you are interested, start by searching for Dread in duckduckgo on the tor browser. Be careful. Measure 10x, cut once.
Who mentioned IPv4?
One YouTube channel that I think deserves more recognition for in-depth content is AppleProgramming. Here's a video from him on reverse engineering Cocoa controls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCKXTPUeqY&list=PLgTh9sDnKC....
Corvid Research: the science behind those charismatic and influential birds
Still a bit too much, at 500ug, but I’ve found the Trader Joe’s pills to work well, and are large and chewable, so should be relatively easy to divide.
Is this all of it, or just portions like many of the other leaks?
> The unforgivably outdated info is the part about mesoamerican nobles living in Chaco. That's a super old and kind of racist narrative you typically see from people writing in like the 30s-50s. You'd have to ignore half a century of exploration into the emergence of political complexity in the SW to believe it.

Wait what? You lost me here. The article clearly attributes the settlement of Chaco Canyon to the Ancestral Puebloans, which seems to be the current mainstream belief at least as Wikipedia presents it. It notes one skeleton with notched teeth, but doesn't seem to say anything about it being indicative nobility. With respect to that practice in Mayan culture, Wikipedia says "Overall, little evidence for the relationship between socioeconomic status and types of dental modification exists."
Huh, this is interesting. It's not directly related but I'm still thankful you commented.

Is this written in Delphi (as per your HN profile)?
When and if we are in the position to uplift species, it will be on their terms not ours (my opinion) and the exercise in doing so will uplift ourselves (metaphorically and literally - why would we help engineer higher consciousness in other animals and not ourselves? We haven't even begun to tap our own potential as a culture of living creatures on this planet)

edit: in pockets we are above enslavement, but just barely, and I think we need to really grit through to the next stage of our humanity, but there are a lot of road blocks before that happens, and as is the general sense, it's a razor's edge between advancement and annihilation.
Quoting myself from one comment above

> I am not talking about my choice as an end user here, I am talking about my choice as a developer. If 50% of my revenue is from iOS, I really can't afford to not be there.

and as I said even in comments above, US share is 50% of devices, much higher of app revenue. If I have a product/service targeted at US, that becomes my main market.

My position is about developers here as I have stated above several times, you are conflating it with my choice as an user.
Do you mind expanding on the `weakest link of P2P connection` on a LAN? I am really interested.

I was able to get stuff connecting without signaling via mDNS, and I am working on a RFC now to grow on that idea!

* https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication

* https://sean-der.github.io/webrtc-uri/draft-seaduboi-webrtc-...
I'm not going to assert actual malice, but I think that at Google's scale we can go further than incompetence to bare negligence.
In this demonstration of a simple infection model (the SIR model) you can see this worked out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nLfCbAzgo&feature=youtu.be... that "not only do you flatten the curve, you also stop everyone from getting the disease in the long run."

A bit later they point out that flattening the curve increases the chance of getting to a vaccine or viable treatment; which is another way to reduce the total number of infections.
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Just like anything else you can by "cheap" or you can pay more and get a better product 99% of the time. I find chinese tools and electronics are just fine if you aren't going bargain basement.
Before their debut on the stock market, I had very high hopes for Nikola. After they when public via a SPAC, the truth started to reveal itself. If you can’t prove the skeptics wrong then they will destroy your company (With evidence) and worse if you admit it after being caught in the act.

So what does the ex-CEO do? Plans for an exit scam.
My teams did Kanban, but we definitely had deadlines. It was wonderful to see continuous flows of work and individual developers empowered to work independently.
I can send them to you - where should I email?

I meant for the sidebar. Would love a promo code to use :)
Python 2 is EOL, which means the language (and worse: probably all non-standard dependencies you are using) are stuck in time unless everybody decides to go with Python 2 and ditch Python 3.

This would mean considerable dev time to track bugs in the language and dependencies that have been fixed by others in their Python 3 variants. And that means a dev that could have worked on new features now works to do (silly) maintenance work.
This clearly does have an impact in the long run.

I am working with Python myself. Everything I moves to Python 3 was a one-time effort, while the stuff where I had stayed with Python 2 means constant effort of making sure it is still safe and no major bug has been discovered in the deps.

I understand the annoyance people have with this, but there aren't to much rational arguments why to use Python 2 over Python 3. In fact it would be the other way around. Before it was minor differences, but the language evolved in a good way since ca. version 3.5 and some of the solutions are really useful (typing, dealing with encodings and unicode, not having to make sure you are using floats when dividing two numbers etc.)

In practise by far the biggest difference is that print foo becomes print(foo), and that is not a big deal if you ask me
I dont know why you dragging me into a different conversation, I have not comment about who facebook hires, I don't really care.
It's profitable for the footsoldiers, just not the taxpayer. Pro cops get paid bank.
If Nikola goes up in flames, GM might only get singed, analysts say
Everything I've read to this point seemed to describe sprints as chunking every task so that it takes no more than 1–2 weeks to complete (depending on the company's sprint length). I inferred that a dev would be expected to pick up and complete one of those task chunks each sprint. I have seen occasional references to tasks that last 2 sprints.

I was contrasting with that model, though it sounds like I might not be accurately characterizing sprints. We've had some features that have taken over a year to complete, such as a major rearchitecture. The (generally senior) dev assigned to that task has a lot of latitude to break it up according to their judgement, submit individual parts on their own timeline, etc., all while minimizing bookkeeping and coordination with others. As long as they're continuing to make forward progress according to an initially vague, sensible, iterative plan, we tend to leave our established devs to their own devices. For newer devs and where multiple devs are collaborating on a feature together, we encourage at least weekly check-ins.
From a pure engineering standpoint, you're correct. But after starting my own company I have a different opinion: The idea that any work is "Worth doing" more than 10 minutes ahead of time is kinda specious. Everything needs to be evaluated against what's going on RIGHT NOW. People aren't necessarily being unreasonable to interrupt, it's just that the whole picture might not be obvious. Of course there are those who interrupt when they know better, but no process will stop that.
What features do you use the most? I'm looking to extend a personal project for searching epubs to be more featureful when compared to calibre.
The idea of using this for WebRTC signaling is cool :)

Shameless plug: If you like this you might also like https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/
Thanks. It’s genuinely what I thought so glad to write it. I think I found you through Google it might have been an ad or organic result last last year.
Can't your doctor just write a long term prescription?

I need an asthma inhaler, which is prescription only. My doc writes out a prescription, which allows me to pick it up at any pharmacy for the duration of a year (can also be a shorter period). After that he writes a new one year prescription.

This is quite common here if you need a regular supply of specific prescription medication.

This is not allowed for controlled substances, which have specific prescriptions (multiple copies), which a doctor must obtain officially and is not allowed to copy. But for any other prescription medication, which is required over a longer period the prescription usually reflects that.

Is that illegal in other countries?
Why is that unfortunate? What would the US have to lose allowing (mostly) highly educated Dutch people into the US?
Sometimes, it’s not. But you’ll still need to go to court to fight it, and that makes it effective.
This appears to be a full list, but I cannot verify if its real.

https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/bb22b28ec4ddec0cb5f59df97...

Heres a list for 2080ti for comparison.

https://gist.github.com/binary1985/c8153c8ec44595fdabbf03157...
The Sacklers bought their own politicians and shared a part of the loot with the industry whereas small time crime never contributes into that pool and takes away profit from that. Think about it, people who buy drugs illegally could instead drop a few hundred dollars (without an insurance) on a doctors' visit to get the prescription prescription and a few hundred dollars on the actual drugs and they'd have the legal stamp on them - plus the warning not to operate any motorized vehicle on the label. :)
Even for most of the really dangerous drugs, both society overall and the addicts suffer more harm due to the war on drugs than they would have with a pure, cheap supply.

Experiments with e.g handing out heroin to addicts pretty consistently reduces both direct harm from overdoses and secondary effects such as crime. The latter in large part because the less harmful, because it is pure and consistent, medical grade heroin is cheap.

There are some drugs that serve no purpose if most drugs are legalised, because safer options with the same effects exists. E.g many opiates are pretty interchangeable for addicts - the reason why oxycodone has been a recruitment avenue to heroin abuse for example, and a reason for the use of fentanyl - and so some of the most dangerous analogues could remain restricted without retaining a black market demand.

But overall the war on drugs is immoral and unethical, and politicians maintaining it have blood on their hands.
How International Banks Pushed Venezuela to the Brink of Bankruptcy
Sure but soy beans are about 10x-20x more energy efficient than cattle at feeding humans so much less deforestation. Skip the middle man and eat your veggies and beans.
You sound pretty smart. Maybe you should consider doing a better Calibre. According to Patreon there’s a princely $1500 a month in it for you. I’m sure you could do much better for the same pay.
AWS to Azure: Making the Move
This exactly! All the stuff from Redis, Elastic and others whilst they have terrible 'cloud' offerings, of course I'd rather use Aws, they make it really simple, reliable and don't charge too much, meanwhile none of these have terraform plugins and the price is insane.
Well if they're just going to make up shit, I'd expect something like "Vikings met the Aztecs and taught them civilization and were then worshipped as gods", not "the Vikings got their asses kicked by Mayans and were never heard from again, except for this one mural where it shows Vikings as prisoners being drowned in the ocean."

The article seems highly suspect to me, a few hours ago I noted that it contains inaccurate statements about historical metalworking. That I caught that mistake makes me suspect there are other errors I didn't catch. But to insinuate some white supremacist motive without evidence doesn't make any sense to me.
Are we moving faster? How visualizing flow changed the way we work
Tesla's Better Cheaper Batteries
Figure out ways to make the person two levels above you to also understand and appreciate what you do.
No it isn’t. iOS have had malware problems as well as a result of people jailbreaking their device to install software from third-parties. Apple fortunately makes it increasingly difficult to jailbreak it.

We can also see that Apple were unable to protect their OSX devices as a result of allowing third-party app installations.
Alas, there exist photos of me wearing multicolored parachute pants back in my nightclubbing phase that I can never allow to come to light under any circumstances. So it's too late for me.
I understand what you mean, but still: it kinda works.

It feels like a vehicle that has been organically modified over the years by a person who only has a welding machine and a cutting torch and a changing taste in what looks good. But hey: it drives.

Of course you have to know the intricate of the machine to make it behave, but isn't that part of it's charms?
I'm hopefully waiting for a new and easier alternative way of version controlling. I don't have any idea how it should be, but git's approaches are so complicated, possibly because of it is designed for so complicated projects.
For those interested ubooquity is a nice simple alternative.
Great recommendations!

I would like to add Paul Tillich’s “The Courage to Be” to the list. Not only is it a good work on existentialism, it’s also a fascinating reminder that theology is not as one-dimensional as it is often portrayed.
> History is deep. Almost everything has been done before. The characters and scenes change, but the behaviors and outcomes rarely do.

I think about this multiple times in a day. Whenever I am presented with seemingly impossible tasks/deadlines, I ponder that the history must have witnessed atleast one person with the same circumstances as I am. Most of my problems are not so unique and there could be plenty of examples to emerge successfully. Sometimes that keeps me going.
> I was woke by persistent crowing by... well crows

actually, roosters crow and crows caw, so you were awakened by cawing, and now you are woke.
> On mobile, using Firefox, the page can remain running in the background even after closing the tab

Yikes! Sounds like a privacy nightmare if website can still be running regardless of whether the tab is dismissed or not.
you can always think of it this way: https://xkcd.com/2346/

(meet people outdoors?)
Why would I need to, when it’s already been done?

https://github.com/blanham/liballoc/

It’s not even uncommon, as liballoc is one of the top recommended allocators for hobby OSes.

I never mentioned inline assembler. Whilst any decent OS will most definitely fall back on assembler, and I never claimed otherwise, it’s not a requirement. It, or another of the aforementioned, would be within the realm of standard Golang.

You’re jumping through hoops to equate a language out of it’s intended use cases to ones completely within their’s. It’s not a knock on Go (or other GC’d languages), it’s just a reality of the compromise on specific features. You also couldn’t write an OS in a VM’d language without having a VM hypervisor; it doesn’t mean they’re bad languages.
Recycling Isn’t Enough to Tackle the World’s Worsening Plastic Pollution Crisis
https://web.archive.org/web/20200925052110if_/https://www.ec...
I am curious why this is being downvoted. The CDC reported this a couple weeks ago.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fb...

https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/new-cdc-report-shows-94-o...
> Sidewalk, which is somewhat akin to a mesh network that, with the right amount of access points, could easily cover a whole neighborhood, is now getting closer to launch

Doesn’t that make it the very definition of a mesh network?
Reminds me of this great Non Sequitur[0], and this one[1],

[0] https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2020/08/10

[1] https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2018/10/26
I really don't think so. We have processes that happen on a 4-week cadence, and about 10% of the engineering team rotates through duties in shepherding those processes. For all other devs, the experience is to pick up a feature, work on it for as long as it takes with periodic technical check-ins, complete the code review, and then pick up their next feature, completely independently of our 4-week release cycle. Is that still sprints?