skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If both are looting, then how is someone being "played" on social issues?

Look up "divide and conquer". The basic idea is, to avoid facing your enemies all at once, you seed division between them (splitting them in different groups) so they fight among themselves, leaving you alone. That's what the top 1% (or rather top 0.001%) is doing to the rest - all around the world, just particularly obvious (and important) in the US.
I really like ptpython. Just the right amount of helps-a-lot, just-works without a manual, and gets-outta-the-way.
good luck finding your cat after spinning up the beehive.
Competition is what drives progress.

Monocultures stagnate and deple resources as everyone is happy with good enough.
I'm curious about using this to transcode youtube videos in the browser. Wondering if CORS is going to be an issue. Looks like I found another rabbit hole to keep me occupied for a while.
I noted the use of the word "halt" in the article but not "reverse". Is it thought that remyelination would not reverse the effects of the disease?
Can I sell a non-physical item, like a ticket, which when you type its ID into the app, it unlocks a new level?
I doubt I can convince you, but yes, no cancer patient should have to beg for their treatment. And yes, I think it is good that the government takes money from its people to that end. The alternative is that the rich people decide who lives and dies, and I find that reprehensible.
How was parks refusal storytelling?
That's worth investigating. Horses do sometimes run around, because they're scared of just for fun, but that would be a good study anyway :)
More like 99.98% for the less than 70 crowd...

Correction: less than 50 crowd.
This was a _little_ more subtle, though. Mild and asymptomatic cases may be related to the amount of virus that you've inhaled. So not wearing a mask has a higher chance of killing you, and wearing a mask gives you a better chance of contracting a light or asymptomatic case that will make you immune.
Sure, some do. But that’s a choice one can make – or choose to do it another way.
> this is a common problem with documentation where if you follow it to the letter, there's still some other thing they failed to mention.

This makes sense but it seems like an enormous price to pay in return for the tutorial not having mistakes. "We'll use a really suboptical delivery mechanism because it forces us to check our steps as we go".
> This isn't some conspiracy of the MSN even though we in HN are interested in it and passionate about this.

Every news outlet that covered Wikileaks material when it came out but has not covered the trial against Assange are taking a political stance against freedom of information.

This isn’t a case of “the public just doesn’t care” the public by large doesn’t know what’s going on because mainstream media is staying quiet.
>Once again, one manages not to mention what was in the emails. Genuine emails not disinformation.

I don't believe that the comment to which you replied mentioned disinformation.

I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed if my email was splashed across the Internet, regardless of who did it or why they did so.

Why don't we image all your storage devices, then post everything you've written, every site you've browsed, everywhere you've been, etc., etc., etc.

It's not disinformation, so it's okay to do so right?
A (secret) way to bypass Chrome's security/privacy error
> Doesn’t reality suck the same ?

No. A hardware product like a car has predictable wear and tear governed mainly by the laws of physics. The fact that I can no longer use my smart speaker because the manufacturer decided to stop supporting it, went out of business, or got bought is not at all the same. My car will still work through all of those things in the exact same way. It also doesn't throw up random dialogs (or whatever a physical equivalent would be) that stop the product from working until I interact with it. Not the same at all.
So did this guy just revived a long declined market of "tough" mobile devices (rugged, EM shielded, thermoresistant etc.)?
I get that people have security concerns about the fact that it's internet connected (and is a ring/amazon product), but any $250 drone that can charge itself and perform indoor SLAM is pretty cool as a robotics platform! I wonder if they'll release an SDK for it.
Just curious - is there a chart on your site comparing you to Knightscope or other offerings?
In terms of California it actually needs to be voted on by people first.
Politics also play a role.
Playing GTO against a poor player will make you money. This isn't the case in every game (rock paper scissor is the canonical example), but it is true in poker.
Just adding a data point. I got into YC in 08 but didn’t do it because I sold my company before I had a chance to accept.

PG gave me advice during the negotiation with the acquirer anyway.
> The us school system was already split and I think after a year an a half of covid it will be completely segregated by economic class.

I agree, this "segregation by class" is also proxy for "segregation by color". I grew up going to public schools that were about 50% white. The AP classes were all at least 75% white, and 100% upper-middle class, or better. Part of the problem was that lower-class kids didn't have the resources at home to perform well in school. I think another part was that upper-class kids looked cleaner, and had parents that advocated for them to get into AP classes, whether they were more advanced or not. Full-disclosure, I wasn't in lower-class/non-AP group.
How much are you willing to spend, and how long are you spending in it without getting up? I just literally an hour ago got one of these:

https://wbmason.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ItemDesc=HON-Crio-Hig...

to replace a broken down piece of crap, and so far it's been a huge improvement. But they have 1400 chairs to choose from.
Origami Studio 3 lets develops prototype AI voice assistants and other apps
Wasn't Reddit just a slight iteration on Digg? If Digg hadn't self-destructed then we might all still be using it instead of Reddit.

It seems like a lot of YC's success comes down to luck. They happened to be in the right position at the right time.
I work for a residential IoT company.

The issue with remote access is you need a service in the middle to provide that remote access, and provide it securely. Otherwise you're just talking something in the home (BLE, etc).

If you don't have some type of service the average consumer will not be able to use it, people aren't going to setup NAS devices, or other servers in their house to collect video data. Even a wireless DVR system can be a pain (another box, likely another TV to see it, etc).

I know that this community is more on the side of the skepticism of collecting data, but keep in mind the total addressable market is mostly people who don't want to deal with these problems.

Now if you're talking about "if the cloud service is down my device doesn't work" then I completely agree, these devices need to have enough local functionality to operate/buffer without their service working for extended periods of time, or being removed.
you get most of the benefit out of a security camera before you even turn it on. past that, probably only useful to document the actions you take if someone breaks in while you're actually home.
Is it possible to not be elitist while also being highly educated and expert?
Ah that'd be neat, but we need to cover a lot of fields, and that's going to be real expensive real quick :(
It's probably not so cut and dried. Those with their own island fortresses can certainly ride out almost anything. But 'upper classes' is more often thought of as the top 10%, and I think a lot of them are quite vulnerable to a sudden change in the economy.
For the microwave I was focused on Whirlpool since they had gotten high reliability rankings from a well-known reviewal magazine. However I did look at other higher end brands too and they all seem to have issues in the smart appliance space. I ended up buying a basic model instead.

The washer/dryer is a Frigidaire laundry center. (Stacked washer/dryer)
Throw a dummy in a powered wheelchair. Surely the car isn't biased against wheelchairs. Or put a pendulating dummy in crutches. Or one that walks with a Duchenne Gait (as in muscular dystrophy) There are dozens of situations where humans don't "walk like humans" and your bias is showing if you only account for "normal" gaits.
Yes! This is definitely one of the types of problems this app is meant to solve. We just launched, but features like repeating tasks are on their way.
You can download a gzipped postscript version at https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/randomness...
It's all partly subsidized by the US government.

https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveil...

(Ex?) NSA is literally now on the Board https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426500
I don't think Americans want to help the world any more than Canadians, Europeans, or the Chinese want to help the world. I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. It's only natural people look out for their own self interests.
Yeah I’d really like to see some sort of systemic reform to prevent this. Really sucks how innovators have to pay this “toll” (to the trolls under the bridge) and have come to just resign themselves to the fact.

Musk had to wait 10 years and pay $11 million for Tesla.com —time and money that undoubtedly could’ve been better spent.
I don't know why it came to mind, but:

> One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them ...
The government deciding who lives and dies, however, is fine and OK?
SALT deduction was there so you weren't taxed on money that you never got (because it went to pay taxes).
We thought about tripwires, yes. But what are they exactly? Thin electric cables that break? Since we already have fencing, that could be a good solution
Yeah, the arguments the author made against it aren't that strong, either. I like the idea of being able to check on my older but self sufficient pet (via a loud drone that will scare her unfortunately). I like knowing that if an intruder gets into the house, they will have to look directly at the camera and get close to swat it down. Quite a bit more difficult than defeating a static camera in the corner of a room.
I consider soy unfit for human consumption unless specifically prepared, and even then it should not be a staple.

A cow can turn soy into highly nutritious and palatable food, so the resource usage is justified.

Having said that, if you want to eat like an antique slave, be my guest. Have a pint of Soylent(tm), it’s on me.
If you installed git on MacOS using Homebrew, the natural next step is to install the git-gui formula (gitk and friends).

I don't find gitk particularly useful, but it is right there.
I can't find a gap in my life that fits video.

Audio maybe as I can listen while walking/driving.

But video stops me multitasking, I can't skim at my own pace, the speed of information delivery is order of magnitude slower than reading and skipping back and forth is much harder than with text+images.

I just honestly can't find a role for video where it's not significantly worse than reading+images (+ allowing for small, embedded video snippets for things that need to move to be understood like complex UI interactions or animations)
They work well enough, but they don't work magically well.

The main issue is with the right pod not always turning on when I take it out of the case. The solution is to put it back in the case for 5 seconds and to try again.

The second most important issue is the airpods falling out of sync with each other. It seems like the signal from my Samsung S9 in my pocket is choppy. Looking left or right for too long will make the signal drop. Putting my hands in my pockets also will. If I put the phone in my backpack, it's okay.

This is still more pleasant than wired headphones, but it's far from a magical experience.
"Honor is a luxury". Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read that.
Thanks for the clarification! I had heard that Compute Engine ran on dedicated machines, but was under the impression that approach was unique to GCE.
Donating $1000 and getting $250-350 of credit on your taxes for that is still a net loss of $650-750. That it keeps the church you prefer to attend open is no worse to me (as an atheist) than supporting a museum, a university, or the orchestra.
Ultimately it boils down to an allocation problem. If you think that wealthy folks can better allocate surplus value into social programs than the government then you will support private donation schemes. If not, you support the "welfare state" and an expanded social safety net. This is a debate worth having, but I don't think HN is going to be a good venue for such a debate.

"forcibly take money" I assume refers to levying taxes. I think you'll find that governments that don't levy taxes generally produce less liveable societies than those that do.
Does it matter what's more important though? He's the only one who gets to decide what he spends his time on.
This was actually one of the first things along these lines that looked sorta interesting.

In normal times, I travel quite a bit. I do have one camera (RPi) looking outside along with a couple other sensors. And I don't really care enough to put cameras all over the house so I can look over things when I'm traveling. (Or, given where I live, enough to subscribe to a security service.)

But, for general peace of mind, to have a single device that lets me look in on things now and then? It actually seems reasonable.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding you, it seems like you’re implying that the JVM, as of today, isn’t the source of a lot of research or innovation. If that’s true, you’re incorrect. There’s a _gigantic_ amount of money, time and people involved with it, arguably more than there ever has been, and it’s only getting bigger.

While you’re correct that some of the knowledge that came out of building the implementation of the JVM has found its way into V8, there’s still cutting edge work being done into extremely sophisticated JIT complication (with graal, arguably the best in the world) and the recent work on GC is frankly stunning.

With recent JVM versions running zgc, it’s typical to see sub-millisecond GC pauses, and that’s only going to improve as they add more collection outside of safepoints and adding generational logic to it.

Net/net, while you’re correct that there’s a lot of innovation and resources behind v8 today and they’re doing fantastic work as well, don’t discount the JVM.

Yes, Java itself isn’t a hugely interesting language, but the JVM is still arguably one of the most impressive bits of software ever produced and continues to be so.
Forked recovery. As in 'we are forked'.
Sure, but that’s not really that aspect I was talking about
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I work for a B2B company. We're already on a road to diversify our customer base, and parts of our portfolio help reduce the amount of face-to-face time our customers need to have with their customers, so we saw an uptick in business.

Customer turnover requires our sales people to find new customers, and trade shows are off the table. Plus our customers are feeling the pinch. Some will file for bankruptcy, others will reduce spending, at which point we will feel the pinch.
Being played means being fooled. If I know both parties are looting from me, but one is also aiming to restrict my civil rights, then going with the less bad option is not being played.

Ranked choice voting is the only way to fix this (and getting rid of electoral college, increasing number of reps in house, and getting rid of gerrymandered districts), but that's all a pipe dream. I have to play with the cards I'm given.
Sorry to point out but you picked the weakest point of my argument which was my gut feeling about the what I see on HN, not sure how you can say that's disputable.
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These days I see far too many articles like this with everyone involved patting themselves on the back about how amazing they were (and are). If you take a closer look at what HN itself is: an ivory tower where uncomfortable truths are not allowed to be discussed, it also tells you something about what allowed PG and company to be so successful.

PG and company were and are undoubtedly very talented and with a unique set of values. But I'd far rather hear from someone more human who talks about failings and regrets. Even the most successful out there eventually seem to reach the point where they realize that society and culture have moved on and if they had to redo things, they would have done things differently. That once upon a time your hot takes were pretty useful, but that you're growing old and a bit out of touch and it's time for a deeper kind of reflection.

Those who keep blowing their own horn so loudly based on past successes so quickly fade into irrelevancy. Which is what I do see happening with PG and his like. HN is a fun place to hang out and learn some stuff. But if the cult around it had much to offer now I suspect there would be far fewer stories about how great things used to be and less of need to regularly insist it was.
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That's a good critique.

It's pure conjecture but I'd imagine that the compensation culture in this case started near the top of the company (given that it appears executive-centric) - perhaps based on conversations with potential hires, vendors, competitors, and so forth.

Given the nature of Firefox, I'd expect many of those third parties would have been anchored in the 'tech giant' world -- perhaps leading compensation policy astray.
The very first technical standards for slot machines in Nevada are ESD testing to confirm it’s safe for the player and that the integrity of the device is unimpacted by 27kV discharge to any point on the exterior of the machine while it’s being played (and the test labs really go to town finding gaps in panels and really trying to make something bad happen).

Given the absence of mechanical reels and the fact that the components likely to be susceptible to glitching aren’t remotely close to the outside of the machine this isn’t a viable attack method for machines in operation.

Source: NV Tech Standard 1 [1] also have zapped modern slot machines with an ESD gun.

[1]: https://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2...
No particular words of wisdom.

I was 26 and selling to a big company. It’s nice to have somebody experienced in your corner.
It's a full-time job. Expecting 40-60 hours a week in the chair. I guess I should start with budget. Haven't thought about it yet.
MP4 isn't limited in video codec or audio codec either, and it's quite common to have non-H.264 or non-AAC codecs in them. The only difference between MOV and MP4 are a few later created extensions, and the difference in every day use is negligble.
We thought about restraining the horses to a smaller parcel, but ultimately we decided against that, so they have more free space to run away. They won't be more than 100m away from us at anytime though
I think the best parts of society come from collaborative and social effort- where people agree to share resources in pursuit of a common goal.

I don't think the entire point of society is to force people to participate in your choice program under threat of jailing
Doesn't history generally ignore the contributions of legions of lower class to any of man's great achievements?
One of the most complete and cogent descriptions of G1GC that I’ve read and a nice description of mapping GC to portions of a service’s memory use.
For me, when I take melatonin, I feel sleepy within about half an hour, and if I don't go to sleep then, the sleepiness will pass and the melatonin would be ineffective. So I take it about half an hour before bedtime so that I am in bed within the effectiveness window.
It depends on what exactly you're looking for, I guess. There's a million ways to parse HEAD into a hash, if that's what you're after.
Several of those listservs are very obviously centered around protected classes. Could increased monitoring (or lack thereof, say, of @christians) be seen as discrimination under employment law?
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This does apply to everybody. The article has been updated.

edit: Wasn't this article that was updated, my bad. It's the 9to5mac article that says "[Update: Applies for all devs]" in the title.
That would seem like you just sold the level to the AppStore reviewers
This is a bit lazy. $60k doesn’t sound like “high” wage at all. They should break the demographics up on a regional basis and take the wage percentiles to see a more accurate picture.
Do you have any arguments to back that up?
if the quality of the images is anything like the Ring videos I used to see when I was on Nextdoor, the burglars have nothing to fear.
Also, I should have made this more clear: The Hoover Institute makes their "China's Influence & American Interests" book (ISBN-10: 0817922857
) available in PDF format, at this link: https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-influence-american-in...

Also, since i already started another post:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-e...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/huawei-can-sneak-into-tel...

"U.S. officials told the Journal that they have been aware of the backdoor access since 2009 but declined to say if the company actually used this access since it was discovered."

(again, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Huawei that details one such security incident/compromise, which U.S. officials declined to mention -- I suppose this puts their decision in context, if you read between the lines)

Does Huawei have ties to the CCP? While not stating this outright, it's hard to argue that $30 billion dollars' worth of funding comes with no strings attached:

Published in 2009: https://www.telecomasia.net/content/huawei-gets-30b-credit-l...

Then 2011: https://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/eu-huawei-and-zte-bene...

And: https://www.benton.org/headlines/eu-finds-china-gives-aid-hu...

On Huawei's links to the CCP: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/25/huawei-xi...

And finally, regarding the claims that Huawei is "employee owned" -- if you read nothing else, read at least this (meaning, the PDF): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669
Link to PDF: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3372669_cod...

The bottom line (tl;dr): " The Huawei operating company is 100% owned by a holding company, which is in turn approximately 1% owned by Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and 99% owned by an entity called a “trade union committee” for the holding company.
[...]
Given the public nature of trade unions in China, if the ownership stake of the trade union committee is genuine, and if the trade union and its committee function as trade unions generally function in China, then Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned."