skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is always sad and funny watching the world churn through inferior plain-text-structured-data solutions, while studiously ignoring s-expressions.
I would love to see a picture of one.
Sceptre TVs.

They are not "smart", but less is better, so in terms of OS functionaliry, privacy, and user experience; they top the charts.
Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings from the Big Bang
> The likes of Amnesty International was involved in proselytizing him as revolutionary hero and that was totally uncalled for.

Source? The Amnesty International link upthread about his execution does nothing like that, but is criticism of a) the law under which he was sentenced and b) that and how the execution was done (which AI is strongly opposed to and criticizing everywhere)

FWIW, this sounds quite similar to criticism of orgs like them in the west when people also can't understand why they'd defend bad people
Not GP, but this is not exactly correct. Epic has been buying up releases to sell exclusively (just like consoles do in their walled garden monopolies).
I am in this box too. When I first started using ddg, I added !g to programming queries because it was better. Nowadays, I try ddg first and I'm disappointed, so I append !g and I still get sfa.

It would be nice if some decent entrepreneurial academics could create a web browser that was better than the SEOers and would aim to do no evil. Sigh. One can dream.
I dont even know how this is a rebuttal.

The body does not have the capability to create mass out of nothing. If you consume fewer calories than the body uses, you will lose weight. It literally doesn't matter what you eat as long as Calories In < Calories Out

Losing weight on the Fast Food Diet
https://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/05/teacher-loses-37-pounds...

Twinkie Diet
https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor...

Beer Diet
https://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/a19532411/the-beer-di...
I think this is a good example of how pro-privacy arguments should be framed. It is takes the varied aspects and complex implications of tracking users across the web (or even in the real world), and distills it down into an easy to understand concept.

When you think privacy of in in the terms of 'social cooling', or consider things like China's 'social credit' system, I can't help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.
At least my Samsung TV had several EULAs that were optional. I accepted the basic one that allowed me to use the onboard Netflix and then opted out of data collection via CCPA and installed a Pi-Hole. I didn’t accept the one for voice control or other “smart” features.
Ask HN: Has the world always been this bad?
It seems like every day I read about deepening corruption, expanding nationalism, or new violent conflict happening somewhere on the world. It feels like there's a global trend of humanity devolving to its worst impulses.

What I'm trying to figure out is: how new is this? Have things always been this way and I've just started paying more attention? Is the media spinning things as bleaker than they are so it can sell headlines? Or is the world really taking a dark turn? Are these simply lessons that humanity has to re-learn every few generations? Was democracy a brief experiment that's starting to fail? Is internet connectedness killing it through polarization, or was it always doomed to fail?

Obviously nobody can answer these questions with certainty, but I'm curious what people think.
Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any sort of demo I can check out (even in some limited form) without signing up. That's kind of a bummer since I've played around with various applications like this in the past but don't particularly want yet another account signup just to see how this one works.
Anybody have any sample Notion templates that outline this structure of Goal -> System -> Measurement?
From the looks of their alternative pages, they're everyone's competitor! ;)
I've taken a liking to UBI lately but I think you hit the nail on the head. It's easy to assert all the benefits or problems with UBI at face value and argue over them but it's much more difficult to judge the relative scale of each and tease out all the interwoven systems that are affected by such a sweeping program.

I'd like to see more experiments, trials and studies but ultimately they'll all fall flat because they're not the real deal (still useful, just not 100% accurate). The 'Universal' part is what makes it so interesting to me and also happens to be impossible to test without actually implementing it at a massive scale. Any data gathered from not-truly-universal sources will always be fundamentally flawed from the perspective of what the impacts actually would be in the real economy.

There are lots of open questions around UBI but IMO that just means it needs further debate and discourse.
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My college used mid air finger print scanners. It scanned all 4 finger prints and would let you pass even if you had a bandaid over one.
The only thing I see in the list that takes time is doing due diligence when buying a used car, which isn't really a reason not to buy a car. You should be doing a little research for any $10k+ purchase, I would think.
> they really only effect low information consumers.

I have a feeling that's about 95+% of consumers.
PL Notation is a Barrier to Entry
You can, if you wipe the content-specific platform.
Artificial Intelligence for Medical Evacuation in Great-Power Conflict
Don't sites like reddit, stackoverflow and twitter have an equivalent effect? (And I recall Google coming about before blogs. How did Google kill them?)
Gotta be honest: I don't have to spend more than 5 minutes on Facebook to dissuade myself of the hypothesis that, on average, people are feeling constrained about what they're saying.
Did you consider that people might have different goals?
I guess its only limited to some regions. I'm using Airtel for my home connection as well mobile and get redirected to https everytime I visit the http version of ddg on both connections.
Finland’s new parliament is dominated by women under 35 (2019)
But that's not inherent to the mode of transportation. In germany (and generally in Europe) taking the train is often a bit faster (~20%) than by car - assuming no traffic. Of course this doesn't apply to rural regions, but between most cities trains run every 1h.

And the train network in germany isn't even very good.
Could you explain this in more detail? I read about this case, and my understanding is that the Independent Service Organizations ("ISOs") didn't actually have a direct contractual relationship with Kodak. They were truly independent, and thus there were no terms to change.
If you're the American Federal government, you don't need to trim military spending. You can just print more money. We've been doing it for quite a while now with hardly any ill effect.
I was going to suggest the set Great Books of the Western World.

I have a set from more than 20 years ago, but I just checked and it is quite expensive now.

However, that being said, it has all of the classics.
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Fantastic, I'm glad to hear the insights in the piece were helpful to you, Jonathan.
I don't think it is on purpose to get people on their phone. Most people just don't use the keyboard much, I would guess. I never do, except for signing up for new apps.

So I would agree with their design decision: make an elegant remote, use voice dictation for search and the like, if you need a keyboard, use your iPhone, and if you are not happy with that, get a dedicated keyboard. If you are not happy with THAT, well ...
Why do we use hexadecimal?
Yes. And then you end up with a domain-model that is badly designed because XML is not capable of expressing rich and nice-to-use data structures (as is possible both in OOP and in FP languages). You end up with lowest-common-denominator stuff, at which point you might just as well use JSON and parse it into something type-safe yourself (or not, and just use it as a [String: Any] dict).
The calculation depends on the specific configuration of the vehicle, but yes, friction-reduction can be a better use of (some amount of) energy, rather than increased thrust.

E.g. hovercraft.

Edit: This concern is also addressed int he article.

>> He pointed out that efficiency is key to energy depositions for drag reduction, as the levels of drag reduction must be weighed against the added weight and power requirements. “The drag reduction system has to be more efficient than what you could get out of an engine or it doesn’t make sense to use drag reduction; you’d just build a bigger engine.”
The difference was that AT&T had a monopoly because of the government. They had a real monopoly. They were the only game in town.
White supremacy is a minority view in the US and seems to have gained huge amounts of traction in spite of these believed effects. White supremacists have lost jobs for being caught out attending rallies; it doesn't seem to stop the rallies.
Linking a belligerent expat being arrested for defamation to systemic racial discrimination and murder-by-cop is a pretty ridiculous stretch.
Laundering money through banks is risky. The better option is to find private sources who are their own banks and not really scrutinized to a high degree. If Trump (idiot) can do this and get away with it, I can only imagine this is a common business model for billionaires that he's simply copied.
> Probably zero, because absent a search warrant they aren't ever revealed to anyone but you.

Are you unaware of parallel construction or do you think it poses no real danger?
Rich immigrants and poor immigrants are seen often as totally different categories.
911 services went down in multiple US states
I don't see the need to plan for inflation until a future point arrives that demonstrates there might be inflation. Looking at evidence from developed countries and their central banks, they are unable to generate an appreciable amount of inflation from monetary policy (significant quantitive easing operations). Maybe generous fiscal policy causes it (UBI, "helicopter money", and the like), it just seems a bit disingenuous to argue what we'll do about a hurdle that seems unlikely to present itself (many developed country central banks are near zero, at zero [ZIPR], or below zero interest rates [NIRP] [1] [2] and you're still not generating inflation [3] so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).

Spain is experimenting with something not quite UBI [4] (but close enough for this comment I will refer to it as such), and their inflation rate is currently negative [5]. Something to follow.

EDIT: jcranmer said it better in a sibling comment ("To me, it seems a case of economists clinging to models that predict the opposite of reality, and it contributes to my general impression that economists prefer mathematical models even if their correlation to reality is poor.") [6].

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-the-downward-spiral-i...

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/...

[3] https://voxeu.org/article/great-disinflation-emerging-and-de...

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01993-3

[5] https://tradingeconomics.com/spain/inflation-cpi

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629128
How much of this is effectively making a custom compression scheme? Would you get better compression by using the gzip compression of HTTP?
Presumably a dual flush siphon doesn't have this problem, for example:

https://www.vivasanitary.co.uk/news/how-a-dual-flush-syphon-...
D-Wave’s most powerful quantum computer is limited, but ready
What’s the most reliable non-NVME SSD for consumers?
One big breakthrough behind this is super-high field strength superconducting magnets based on high temperature superconductors.

Engineering samples of the superconductive tape you'd use to make a magnet for a tokamak like that have been going around for a decade, it is nice to see somebody to put it together.
Unfortunately, showing ads probably does increase long-term profit. Take a look at the randomized experiments measuring long-term retention & profit with various ad loads: https://www.gwern.net/Ads#replication

Often, despite the ~10% user/activity loss, profit is increased by increasing ad load. And this is in tech contexts like web browser/smartphone/music-streaming where switches and upgrades are pretty easy and often done anyway. The loss from equivalent ad burdens on TVs is probably much less. (People replace their smartphones more often than their TVs!) The ad revenue also lets them discount the upfront price of TVs (I think I saw an article on HN that the discount due to advertising is at least $50/set?). And then there's the time-value of money: $1 up front in exchange for $1.10 of lost sales 10 years from now when they (maybe) buy an alternative brand is a pretty sweet deal for the seller.

Some consumers may hate ads like poison. But most of them are just fine with it, and prefer the micropayments to the macropayments, as it were.
This article links at the bottom to similarly-styled piece about "mathwashing", the idea that it's morally wrong for an algorithm to notice true facts about reality. That idea is utter bunk, and so likely is "Social Cooling" as well. Both pushes are really about unelected activists trying to limit other people's technology to bring about their peculiar idea of Utopia.

In all human history, efforts to hold back the tide of technological progress have never worked. Instead of adopting a Luddite fear of data and math, we should use both for all useful ends as soon as possible.
Take off requires a cliff or small runway depending on wind conditions, but you can do a pinpoint landing just like a parachute, which seems to be the concern. I suspect they are going to be walking back either way to keep an eye on the injured person.
No but the government which took this decision won 60%+ seats in last election. So I speak for democracy.
But Walmart does offer a discount, Walmart sells most new Nintendo Switch games for $49.99 rather than $59.99.
You don't need commercial signage. Sceptre TVs come with stands, Walmart sells them, price is average, has standard TV connectors and remote.
It is "Simple" in contrast to things like CORBA and DCOM. Which it accomplishes by not solving the main problem that these distributed object protocols try to solve at all and instead being overly complex RPC protocol with completely unnecessary "object orientation".

On a similar note, the L in LDAP stands for lightweight, which was accomplished by removing advanced authentication features from X.500 DAP and then gradually reimplementing the same functionality with significantly more complex "simple" "framework" that in theory allows usage of any conceivable authentication mechanism, or something like that.
I'm not saying there weren't riots/rioters/looters.

But you said that the media was misrepresenting cases of this as peaceful protests and I said I haven't seen anything like that.

The links you posted are mostly them being called rioters (and one super-cut of something that's not a protest or a riot).
Yes, this is something I've wanted to check out for a while now, I just don't think I could convince other people on any team to look at it. :D
Wikipedia is not a good source for anything remotely controversial at this time. One of the founders did a great post on it:

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

If you do read Wikipedia, always do two things:

1) Read the Talk page

2) Go to the history and read the same article from 2005 ~ 2010
That’s a little like saying since the facts of how the people at Apple arrived at the original 30% disagree with your philosophical views on this matter, it seizes to be relevant. A personalized reality, with personalized facts. Alleged fact, much as it may not make sense to some in hindsight, is they used the Nintendo-Hudson Soft price model and it doesn’t change how they decided that because of anyone’s preferences. It’s totally different than to accept, it’s been this way - for too long - it’s time to change for a more equitable price model. But then that’s the crux about bringing this suit to court in a country whose judicial system is based on precedents.
It's a difference of degree and monopoly on violence.

... and even degree of monopoly on violence. Uber can do quite a bit of damage to a person by choosing to refuse service if someone needs to urgently be somewhere (or away from somewhere). Airbnb is controlling access to safe shelter. If Amazon grocery stores took off, having a bad Amazon account could deny a person access to food.

I don't think it would take more than a handful of gig-economy service corporations unifying under one umbrella of data-sharing for the average American to start experiencing something a bit similar to the Chinese experience of social score. For now, there's no incentive for them to do so.
Commercial TVs (and video/signage displays, if you don't actually care about the TV tuner) are out there from most of the major brands including Samsung, but they tend to cost a fair bit more than the equivalent consumer TV.
Regarding the 30% app store charge, if you were giving 100% of the sale, wouldn't you then be personally liable to collect VAT and country specific tax yourself to sell worldwide? I feel this is glossed over as the admin + complexity for this is a real burden if you have to deal with it yourself.
yeah but not secure is regular http. on https they cannot do that without triggering a browser warning.
Is this design more common on UK toilets? Seems like the dual flush toilets I have seen in the US are the same siphon design as the non-dual flush systems... I am no expert on toilets, though :)
As someone else said, it's a fun bit of trivia.

You can pull up the seed at any time after creating a world, and can manually set whatever seed you want when creating a new world.
UV Light Might Keep the World Safe from the Coronavirus–and Whatever Comes Next
Its pretty much evident from woke publications of western media
innovation is the main driver of economic liftoff and when folks are punished for deviating from accepted norms they are squashing those same fountainhead people who sprout breakthroughs ... a smothering government is killing the golden goose ... such short leash monitoring and punishment may sound good in the short run however china elite know their authoritarian approach is doomed and are scrambling to forestall their downfall
Lessons Learned in the Mountains
And yet money laundering through banks has led to many high-profile scandals in the last couple of years and is quite common.
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These folks combine Intel 3D XPoint + QLC to deliver a two-tiered cheep storage solution: https://vastdata.com/
I'm not sure how you gathered that this is what they meant. Do people not review services outside of the US? (hint: they do)
Any idea what "venture-backed" means in this case? It would seem to mean "already received venture capital, but not too much of it", but that doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm guessing it means something closer to "not some big corporation pretending that one project is a separate company", which would make a kind of sense. But "venture backed" makes it seem as if my garage startup doesn't count because I'm doing it part time.
Hey, I don't have to be logical here. I am just saying that Apples actions here are what have made me emotionally decide to not buy an iPhone as my next phone.
Our society used to have a suitably resilient structure for this. Bring back home ec and civics courses, and require both of every student.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India
The Colorful Future of E-Reading Is Finally Here
XML's verbosity is solved with compression. Your webserver is configured to compress text-based formats, right?
Couldn’t read the full article, paywall. But I’m homeless and have 2 years of receipts. Cash is all I need, $750/2wk. Almost saved enough to get housing twice but faced setbacks. As an educated professional, there is no expression for how frustrating this is. How many relationships died because I had to borrow $20 or $100 for food while I waited for payment, etc, and it just made them cringe. Being homeless categorically makes people “feel bad” and avoid you, 99% of people. I could have finessed better, but when you’re starving and greasy things don’t come out the same and common smalltalk/shibboleths are gone. From $200k/yr, speaking at confs, big network, to alone on the street. Just need money to sail through a round of interviews (hotel nights, the kicker).

I know this is totally anecdotal, but I also have a pretty distinct platform so this is what I can do for the situation. Concretely I can share the whole process, wisdom, etc... intending to write an Urban Camping category book with notes I’ve been keeping. Vegan, leave no trace, behavior, operations, interviewing for jobs, resources, etc. (to be published after I am housed, not prior).

And I do already have IG, a YT channel and Twitter, engage there (I think shadow banned or de-ranked on YT).

I've earned money by gig jobs, a couple retail jobs, anywhere that'll hire me with the clothes on my back. I have tons of tech opportunity but do not have logistics to present myself well/get multiple offers—I’m pretty senior, willing to take entry level or anything but not if I have to face a hiring panel or can only get one offer. I’ve tried going in in my best clothes, but nope, too homeless looking... and now I only have a broken old phone and broken old laptop so remote is out.

I am dying to express all of this, it gets better with time. I always feel “one email away” from getting off the street, landing a client. Cash would simplify everything, and my end goal is only to get a good job. Until then, just trying to get as much wisdom as possible. Email in profile.
Many European countries pay for their citizens’ university education, and from experience I can confirm that there is none of the sort of indoctrination that you are concerned about.

If anything I’d say more college-educated citizens is a shield against tyranny, as it trains you to be more intellectually critical, and therefore (one would hope)c , inoculated somewhat against anti-factual biases.