skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a personal experience story regarding crows. This is completely anecdotal of course but, to me, compelling.
I live on an island near Seattle, very quiet and rural. We have a lot of wild life. One morning I was woke by persistent crowing by... well crows. Black Crows (not the band).

Having been awoke from wonderful REM sleep I was understandably annoyed. So I went out to the street in front of my house and grabbed a handful of pebbles to throw at these poor little creatures.

I went out on my upper deck and these crows seemed very upset and were circling in a crazy pattern. I looked around, realizing that something was making them crazy, and they were making me crazy. Then I saw, I am not completely sure if it was a racoon or a badger but it was a small animal of some sort that was edging his way out on the limb of a tree where what appeared to be perhaps the little home of the crows and there babies or eggs or something.

So... in my groggy state, I reasoned that if I were to; instead of tossing my pebbles at the crows, I were to toss them at whatever that thing was, then the crows would shut up and let me go back to sleep. I admit, not the most altruistic of motives but, I had a goal.

So I tossed my pebbles at this thing (I am an engineer not a biologist so excuse my ignorance) but the little cat like creature scampered off and left the crows little home in the tree next to my house, alone.

I am completely fine with having crows as neighbors as long as they do not wake me at pre-dawn hours.

The very interesting thing is that since then, it really seems like they have become my little friends. Like little neighbors. OK, I could be a kook, if this had not happened I would think I was a Kook. But when I see them they bob their head. I crow back at them.

They were sitting on the ledge of my roof, and I went out on my deck and they scared me and I screamed. Then I waved at them like... OK it is you. Hi.

They were leaving some sort of bone fragments on my upper deck like a gift of some sort. I didn't know what to do, so I would pick it up and throw it in the trash. But it kept happening. So I eventually would leave it out there and just waive at them.

I have no idea if we are actually communicating but.. they seem highly intelligent to me.
Maybe some games on a tablet are not fun like reading a good book but rather fun like a slot machine.
I clicked on this really hoping it was related to the Fermi Paradox.
if it's "results", the dinosaurs "ruled the world" much longer than people, and likely that record will stand.
I used to eat bags of it. It's my favorite.
A theory is that dophins communicate by transmitting 3D information. They see with sonar and can use the same mechanisms to transfer 3D information. Probably vastly superior to the grunts of us apes for many tasks.
I was one of those people. Yes, he should have turned himself in to Sweden instead of sentencing himself to several years of confinement in the UK.

The conspiracy theories were about the US seeking to extradite Assange using the rape case as pretext. This was dismissed as lunacy because US authorities didn't need the rape case as pretext; they could have simply sought his extradition on the charges they are now seeking to extradite him for. If anything, the rape case would have made extradition more complicated because Sweden is less willingly to extradite to the US than the UK, the UK would have prioritized extradition to Sweden over extradition to the US.
Wasn’t that whole Kon Tiki book/movie about this discussion. That Vikings somehow made it all the way to the Pacific Islands via the Americas?
Right after Area 120 released a product that we’re supposed to integrate into our core business work flows.

Is google completely oblivious to the fact that nobody trusts them?
Two choices for something as complex as a smartphone does not make a free market.
Dogs can catch all kinds of things mid-air. Mine has started doing so with rocks (sigh)...
I'm sorry but saying it's not censorship unless a goon is putting gun to your head is sinply retarded.
It makes their data more accurate, and they can better train their models to identify data unstructured data on all sorts of sites.
Yup, it's why the NES beat out Atari. They had strict control over the quality of games published for their console and so everyone bought NESs over Ataris.
https://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2019/07/dont-cite-no-fr...
I think in 100 years this general thought will be something we look back on as obvious and the denial of it barbaric.
I think that a bigger concern than subscription software (although, that’s a big concern) is that consolidation and the long game for control of the market is centralizing almost all of these major services into the hands of organizations that are large military vendors, fully integrated members of the military-industrial complex.

Microsoft is about as far up in there as anyone could get with the possible exceptions of Lockheed or Boeing, and they now own GitHub, NPM, LinkedIn, and others. Go into the concentration camps down in Texas and they’re running Exchange on Windows, happily provided by Microsoft. One day they’ll be regarded as IBM is today for so eagerly participating in the holocaust. (Or, hopefully, moreso, as IBM seems to have recovered and is even branding things Watson after their founder who met personally with Hitler.)

Amazon, operators of Twitch and now Luna (and of course AWS) actually built and maintain a custom, airgapped, on-prem AWS region for the CIA, on CIA property, to hold their spying data (and presumably drone videos and the like). They run a whole special AWS internet-connected region just for the US government, too, with the associated dictated-by-federal-regulation racist hiring policies for staff that can enter the building.

I see zillions of people happily using Twitch, and I wonder what percentage of them know that they’re giving money and brand awareness to an organization that helps the US military conduct mass murder by drone, or run a global network of torture prisons where anyone the CIA likes can be held forever without trial.

I’m super angry about the subscriptionization of software, to be sure, and I’ll cosign your rant. I’m making a point of switching to Davinci Resolve (Blackmagic) from Premiere because they specifically reject Adobe’s bullshit “pay for this FOREVER” model and let you buy it outright up front.

I’m far more worried, though, about what happens when a majority of people are necessarily furnishing their data wholesale to companies who will happily provide all of their user data to their largest customer, the US military, on demand, without oversight. I think that’s a far bigger danger to a society that already appears in many respects to have become a military dictatorship.

I sure hope I’m wrong about where all of this is headed, because it looks really, really bad.

Apologies for jumping on board the rant thread.
We have already been through the multiple "app stores" model and it was fucking awful. Back before the iPhone and Android there were dozens of different stores for PalmOS, Symbian, and PocketPC/Windows Mobile, even boxed software sold on CDs.

There were no guarantees with any of the stores. Many didn't even host stuff they sold. So you'd buy from the "App Store", download from the developer's site, and then deal with whatever license system the developer used. Since there was no standard way to work with the store there was no standard mechanism of distributing licenses. Signing was also a joke as there was no good way to let end users validate, in a usable way, the signatures of apps or even that the signing entity was who they claimed to be.

Piracy was rampant because stores sucked, prices were onerous, and cracking the software or just sharing licenses was too easy. The current App Store model developed as a response to a broken market for mobile apps.

Hate on the App Store model all you want but it solved significant problems that plagued the industry for years.
Originally, it was supposed to be to minimize meetings and make them more efficient when they do happen.
Why UseLocalStorage Is Wrong
> Don't listen to me if you want, just ask Steve Jobs.

Jobs is not someone I would take physical or mental health advice from even if he was around to give it.
Using Postgres and pgRouting to explore the smooth waves of yacht rock (2020)
Yet another way to dominate over the animal kingdom... lifting them up with tech increases their reliance on us, all while we reserve the right to take it away again
Crows on HN, for the curious to see also:

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598939

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21769575

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486368

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789631

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086105

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470840

Pretty sure there have been other good threads too...
It obviates the need for many more 'project planning' meetings and forces everyone to be present and answer questions. If done right they are excellent. Easily ruined by those with no discipline.
pretty hilarious considering how quick these companies would be to sell data at the drop of a hat. virtue signaling pieces of ...
It will be free of concurrency bugs including deadlocks. This is the promise of CSP. The requirement is data is shared only via blocking IPC and never directly using a lock. (and similarly one must not share a pointer to private data, as another poster has pointed out)

You can compose small systems, even with multiple parties, prove they cannot deadlock, then make them a 'black box' with defined IO, and build larger, more complex systems with equal properties.

The downside is you must guard every piece of shared data with a separate thread, but there may be ways to reduce the performance penalty.
Exactly. There are species that have been successful for millions of years.

Modern humanity has certainly impacted the ecology dramatically over the past couple hundred-thousand, but calling us successful is premature. When we're as old as bluegreen algae (or hell, even Araucaria araucana), I'll happily revise my position.
Migrating from Redux to Pullstate
In the tradition, the article shares a lot of tantalizing speculation. For example, did the Mayans really trade with Chaco for turquoise (the mineral)? Found one reference that said the Mayans did make the color.

Conceivably the Norse 'penny' reached Maine as a trade object. Etc. fun stuff to think about.
A bit off topic but interesting nonetheless, I'll take a crack at it.

I see an important distinction between pseudoscientific crankery and just bad/refuted science. I've read some of the 5g corona stuff; it's batshit insane, like I'm fairly sure the primary sources on it have serious mental illnesses.

Any physicist with a mailing address can tell you all about cranks. Refuting cranks is not a part of their job, if they do that, they won't have time for anything else.

I don't think the gain-of-function paper has been comprehensively refuted, yet. It's certainly been dismissed, dissed, and evidence is strongly pointing in the direction of it being refuted.

But it was written by a credentialed virologist, and more importantly, it is in the process of being submitted through channels.

Will it survive peer review and be published? Probably not, and that's what peer review is for. As far as I'm able to determine, it's just a bad paper, but it's real science, not a parody of science.

Banning such people sends the wrong message. We rationally should update our priors in the direction of a conspiracy to suppress the truth.

I'm no virologist, but I've spend enough time in genetics labs to be able to follow along with their conversations. What I can't do, is tell the difference between a shadowy ChiCom conspiracy to suppress the truth, and overzealous enforcement of a vague mandate to ban disinformation about the novel coronavirus.

I mean. I know some people who work for Twitter; it's the latter, you'll never go broke presuming institutional dysfunction as the cause of any malaise on the birdsite.

And yeah, I don't think the 5g whackjobs should be banned either, but for a different reason: they'll just go find another forum where people like me won't be around to tell them how full of shit they are. The only think worse than a weird cult of people who believe schizo stuff is a weird isolated cult of people who believe schizo stuff.
This is incorrect. Google's own statistics (https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_S...) indicate that devices that use side-loading have an 8x relative higher incidence of malware compared to devices that only install apps from the Google Play Store.

(Note: I believe Google's absolute numbers are significantly underestimated due to the poor performance of Google Play Protect compared to other malware detection tools, but so far they are the only source I have found that publishes relative numbers between the Play Store vs side-loading.)

As some high profile examples:

- HummingBad infected 85 million devices primarily via direct-download on malicious adult websites. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-android-malware-has-infec...)

- Agent Smith infected 25 million devices primarily via a third-party app store. (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20688885/agent-smith-andr...)
And that's why to me the issue isn't Apple's App Store, but rather Apple App Store's monopoly on iOS apps. I'm not asking for those apps to be on the App Store, but I think as an owner of the device, I should be able to get whatever app I want on MY device.
The core problem is that Google has absolutely destroyed their good will. Most people seem to assume that new Google services will either be awful, or be awesome and then immediately cancelled.

Google needs to focus on rebuilding trust. Nothing else matters.
All these comments suggesting Apple Arcade make me sad that Apple chose to fix their problem with garbage store discoverability with a subscription games service rather than you know, actually fixing the garbage discoverability problem.
These are all excellent (and were needed just as much literally 10 years ago but better late than never).

I would greatly expand the last point on filters: I want lots of knobs so that I can permanently banish from view all the schemes that I hate. It would instantly make the Store much more valuable to me. Incidentally it would also increase value for store-runners, since I would actually start buying things again instead of closing the Store in disgust because I couldn’t find anything I wanted after an hour of scrolling through trash.
My body naturally tells me when I'm not thirsty anymore. I'm not sure my body would tell me when I'm reaching toxic levels of glycyrrhizic acid if I'm snacking on licorice all day.

Just a label like "Licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid. Do not consume more than 10 mg glycyrrhizic acid per day."

Or even just "Licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid." would be enough for people to google it.
A+Fictional+Story+written+from+my+own+Imagination
Not every case is exploitable, but people are bad at reasoning about which cases are exploitable; a lot of DoS bugs that are initially thought to be harmless turn out to be exploitable. So I think it's important to treat any UB as exploitable until proven otherwise.
Don’t care. It’s got the Google name attached to it, the negative association accumulates to google itself.

“But it’s an internal incubator” is meaningless to both me, and end consumers.
I sit down if people keep me too long. If they ask me to stand up I'll just say my feet hurt.
It happens quite often around me too. They like to heckle a fox. Crows are the neighborhood predator alarm.
Emotional Harm should not be the basis of Public Policy, and that is what people generally talk about with "hurts their family" it is emotional harm of their loved one physically harming themselves.

That is a very dangerous path to start making public policy because of emotional harm.

One should only punish physical harm to person (i.e battery) or property (i.e theft)
Bacon tastes good, porkchops taste good...
They called it "Vinland" after the wild grape vines they apparently found... but the most northernmost species of wild grape (vitis riparia) in North America stops in the northeast at around latitude 46.

That makes me think they made it up the St Lawrence to at least where Quebec City is now, or south of the gulf of St Lawrence down the coast Nova Scotia or further to Maine, etc.

FWIW Vinland is a great name for the eastern half of North America. We have dozens of wild grape species and it is the centre of diversity for the genus and so probably its place of evolutionary origin. Take that Bordeaux wine snobs!
Any system in equilibrium will tend to keep its shape or deform predictably if viscosity is high. I exploit that in a rapid printing method I've developed. It prints directly into a stable volume using various methods such as focused energy or a moving planar array. The potential active printing speed is limited only by the data transfer speed into the volume. A secondary locking step is passive and allows the system to lock (cure or cool etc) in place without further input.

Relating my process to the linked technique, some of the parts could have been made of plastic powder placed precisely in the salt. The baking step could still be performed and the parts would be almost identical.

Imagine 10,000 tiny hourglasses in an array that can switch between depositing plastic or salt. They switch on the fly to leave plastic in the salt matrix. You can see how the speed could go up dramatically.
Not my experience, they seem like proud Americans, but i'm an outsider. It was during the Obama era and they seemed quite chuffed to tell me Obama was born in hawaii.

I wonder what they'd say if you asked them if they'd like to leave the USA?
Is that the best worst thing or the worst best thing to happen to your company?
Please refrain from breaking the site guidelines by complaining about good faith.

Are you saying that nobody can ever successfully sell a handheld gaming device again?

People in fact do buy handheld devices that play games, and there is no reason Epic cannot enter the handheld gaming market.

If they can sell a handheld gaming device, they can make that device cellular, and they can add an App Store. People won’t buy it as a phone or to run app initially, but if they sell it successfully as a gaming device, they can use that success to attract more apps to the store.
Dolphins do have a versatile mouth. Even seals have been trained to do fancy things with their mouths. But staying on the dolphin theme, check out these dolphins blowing air rings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE
Panasonic.
I think that it is telling that the only times I seem to hear about "The Semantic Web," either Tim Berners-Lee or the ACM are attached to it.
Immortan knew his Wittfogel.
What happens when you text Obama on the phone number he shared
Lawrence Weiner and Kim Gordon on the Ins and Outs of Making Stuff
No equivalent of something like F-Droid on iOS makes it a no-go in all circumstances. I trust F-Droid far more than I'd trust Apple or Google.

No opportunity to replace things like the system browser on iOS makes it a no-go in all circumstances. I want my device to run software I approved, I want to be able to choose important system components like the web renderer, I want to be able to install an ingress/egress firewall, I want to be able to build software for the device without needing some signing key from the vendor. I want to be able to build software for the device on any of the devices I use which have the required memory, CPU and build infrastructure. This build infrastructure should not be dependent on a single closed operating system since I don't run closed operating systems.

The simple conclusion here is that iOS is not for me nor for those who share my preferences.
I would argue that this is a perspective of someone with power in the job market, and perhaps that perspective is limited to a small portion of workers' experiences.

I also find "don't like it, leave" to be a very unaware oversimplification of the situation many American workers are in.
I guess that would have to define "abuse", which to me and my statement means you are abusing others to feed your addiction, i.e your are stealing, assaulting, or commiting other crimes against other persons.

Use would not involve that, as if you maintain your use with out abusing others than i would not classify that as abuse.

Of course to some people any Use is abuse but then why have 2 terms
But that would require more reviewers, and big tech's whole existence seems to rely on hiring as few people as possible
In this demo there is only one microphone on the phone. But we're working on stereo (2) microphones now. That will help make it more reliable, lower latency, and give you spatial awareness (awareness of the direction of sound).

Glad you're excited about it!
[Source/disclaimer: I was working on a number of these markup parsing & unstructured data mining projects at Google in the 2009-2014 timeframe, and also wrote an HTML5 parser with the cooperation of the WHATWG. I left for about 6 years during the time period when Google began to be seen as this evil goliath, but I'm back now.
My views are my own and don't represent my employer.]

You've got the cause & effect backwards. Google invested heavily in existing standards-based microformats (RDF, schema.org, OpenSocial, various rel= standards) before ultimately concluding that web developers cannot be trusted to get markup right, and most don't want to do it in the first place. It was only after this failure that we threw out all the markup parsing and went to machine-learning & algorithmic approaches, and then eventually to just owning a bunch of the content platforms where people write content.

Customer desires - in the form of what people will actually do, not what they claim they want to do - ultimately decide the structure of a market. If a large number of competing publishers all decide they want to publish content and users divide their attention evenly among them, you get open standards, protocols, and aggregators. If users decide they all want to view the most popular content, then the dominant firms become more dominant, you get silos and walled gardens (and eventually paywalls), and power shifts from an open ecosystem to a few dominant players. Google was built on the open web and embraced the philosophy of it for longer than any other major company, but people there are very pragmatic. When it became clear that there would be a few dominant companies, the priority shifted to being one of them rather than investing in (and getting screwed by) an open ecosystem that was disappearing.
One interesting thing I’ve learned about the Viking settlers is that they didn’t come to Iceland and Greenland as conquerors, like Columbus did- in fact when they arrived in both places, they were the first inhabitants. Iceland is one of the few places anywhere in the world that never went through waves of immigration or displacement or ethnic cleansing or what have you. The Greenland settlement was abandoned, but that was for economic reasons- the market for ivory was flooded by cheap elephant ivory, so the trade in walrus ivory became worthless. But there was no starvation or donner party scenario- they just packed everything onto ships, locked the doors and moved back to Denmark. Pretty peaceful overall for people who have a reputation for being barbarians.
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"

It is precisely at this beginning point where most "Agile" teams fall flat on their faces. Instead, it is all about process, rather than said individuals/interactions. Scrum rituals are done because, well, everyone else does them, so that's considered "correct". Whether or not there is any value in the process is secondary.
Is it alright if the telemetry itself is sent over Tor? ;-)