skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's cool about the history of helicopters is that people immediately recognized the ability of a helicopter to save lives, and then they promptly started doing so. The first helicopter flight was 1939,and the USCG's first life saved with a helo was 1944 with the delivery of blood plasma. So who knows, maybe this will pan out and with a few years folks with start saving lives with this technology.

I don't want to say that there isn't any application of this tool in a Sar role, but I don't think that this tool is any better than what organizations currently have available. It isn't a game changer, and it isn't going to save lives that would have otherwise been lost. If you wanted to save lives of hikers, you'd spend $400k on personal locator beacons and let people snag them at a ranger station for their hike. That would save more lives than a fancy suit I bet. While I can see there is a scenario where first responders say "wow I'm glad we had the jet pack in the back of the truck" I don't see it being worth the effort to get an agency to the point where every truck and crew has that capability without sacrificing any other capability.
I had to turn all the fancy features off and just use it for the app.
Sure, you don't mislead people like that. "An author of X" is the language I use.
ASP is meaningless because who had iPhone won't buy dirt cheap Android phone.
"would now be just as redundant and superseded by this new approach."

And this approach will be superceded by something else. And that will be superceded in turn. Should we wait forever? We'd still live in caves.

These new approaches don't just show up, they come from the knowledge and scientists trained in whatever the previous approaches were.

Lastly, if this approach results in having cheaper fusion power, but needs extra 20 years of R&D, thats time we don't have.
I am sick of people defending Apple
The user owns the device. They should be able load software without apples blessing.

The problem is simple.

- There is no way for a user to load their own signing keys for the boot ROM to load other OSes like linux, or even simpler disable signature checks.

- There is no way to give iOS your own signing keys or disable signing checks to run applications. As such there is no way for me to run Firefox's rendering engine. This is because the app store policies. Then there are other open source applications that don't want to bother with having a developer account with apple.

There also the fact proprietary software probably raises their prices. So the user eats the 30% instead. Unlike the case if that software were able to self distribute.
> at least in the short term until the market adjusts

This sounds like customers will eventually choose less shady brands in a year or two, when in reality all brands will actual race to the bottom together.
Ah! Thanks. I missed that implication :)
Ask HN: Help with BestBuy Scam?
Sorry if this is not the place but I don't know where else to share this.

In March I visited NYC (I am not from the USA) and I bought a notebook for my girlfriend. At the checkout, a woman asked me several times if I wanted Office and antivirus. I kept saying that no, because I was going to format it and install Ubuntu. I said several times I did not want it. I checked the receipt and I was getting charged only for the computer.

Fast forward to September, I got an email that my free six months of Webroot Internet Security Yearly Subscription ended and it got renewed automatically, so I was going to be charged 54 dollars. I opened quickly a chat on BestBuy website, first to ask for a refund of something I never asked, and secondly, ask for my credit card to be removed from their file. I never accepted or agreed on them to store my credit cards details (is that common in the USA?). A guy called Sahil told me he deleted my cc from file and that I was not going to be charged for the renewal.

Fast forward today: I found on my credit card summary that I was charged. I opened another chat support on BestBuy. Two agents ended the chat abruptaly when I asked my questions. The third one said that he cannot do anything online. That I must call the billing department. I dont feel comfortable speaking English over the phone, and also that would incurr me on an internatinoal phone call.

Is it legal for BestBuy to just allow cancellations over the phone? Is there anything I can do to stop them? I find it highly unfair for them to take advantage of people like me. I would love to have a recording of that conversation with the woman at the checkout, but it's impossible. I just want to have this cancelled and refunded. But it seems I won't get it refunded, but also I wont be able to cancel it, so I will be charged again in a year time.
You might want to look into Recursive which is probably the closest thing to what you describe.
https://www.recursive.design/
impossible, statistics show that 0% of customers chose "No" when not given a choice. Ergo you do not exist.
I don't know if this will help, but an idea. Take your posts, copy them, and paste them on your blog. Add a little bit of background to make it understandable outside of the context of a message thread.

Still feel like a ton of work?

I created my own blog as a "note to self" type work. I would write down anything I was working on so that I could reproduce it in the future. I now have hundreds of personal documents and hundreds of professional documents at work. They come in amazingly handy, to me, nearly every day.

I've now written a dozen very small books on subjects I care about. The books are just 20 pages or so and people seem to love them. An example is "Publish your eBook by Joel Dare" on Amazon. See also, Zines.
> PCs are availble from lots of different brands

Macs aren't.

> For PCs, there is no central developer shouldering all the R&D costs.

I'm not sure how R&D costs are even relevant, legally. PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads are all financed by hardware sales. That's how you repay R&D, not skimming money off of 3rd party developers. Somehow PCs and Macs have always paid for their own R&D without taking 3rd party developer revenue.
Another excellent talk for those interested is MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

He goes into detail about SPARC as well and why a higher magnetic field using HTS superconductors enables performance that can otherwise be obtained by greater size as ITER is trying.
Hilariously, Samsung Display has just invested over $10B in new plants to make next-generation RGB OLED displays, but Samsung Vision -- the subsidiary that makes the actual televisions -- has spent so much money touting their QLED technology as superior to OLED that they don't want to use the panels made by Samsung Display.

So I might end up buying a Samsung OLED panel, but not in the form of a Samsung Television.
Ah, that’s a good point.
A lot of UBI schemes do basically just say that UBI replaces all the other social programs. This is one of the ways UBI can deliver some efficiency, replacing dozens of programs with their staffs and their means testing with a simple flat payment. The administration of such a system is pretty straightforward, each person gets a check every period.

As a society there is a desire to provide people with a backstop for basic necessities because if someone can't earn a wage then they could starve to death and as a people we decided that citizens starving in the streets would be bad, or at least destabilizing. Similarly, people freezing to death or cooking to death in the elements, also bad, better provide some kind of shelter.

There is a real question about the transition period, if you gave people a UBI and they decided to blow it on drugs and were starving, should you give them additional assistance.

To the hypothetical person that would choose drugs over food and shelter, there are two ways of looking at it.

One way to look at it is as a public health issue. People that would willingly choose drugs / alcohol / etc over survival likely need some kind of substance abuse treatment, not food / shelter / etc. If you can't survive off of UBI the most likely reason is that something is wrong and instead of just providing more money (in whatever form) we should provide that person with the actual treatment they need to become a functioning member of society.

Another way to look at it is that it's personal choice. Society provides each person enough money to live. People can choose to live long simple lives or they can have a few drug-fueled months, it's not our place to tell people how they should experience their short time on Earth. Each citizen has the freedom to live whatever life they want, everyone has the means to live a reasonable life, and some will choose not to.

I fall into the first camp of thought. The person so addicted to drugs / alcohol / etc that they would choose to spend all their UBI on that over their own survival isn't actually being helped by giving them food and shelter. It just enabled them to continue existing with their substance abuse problem. UBI could free up the resources needed to meaningfully treat people that are incapable of caring for themselves by reducing the amount of time spent managing funds given to the vast majority of people that when given money use it in the expected fashion.

There will always be the people that want to blow all their money on their vice of choice and also refuse to get treatment because they like that lifestyle. To them I would say, good luck, it's not how I choose to live my life, but who am I to say what's right for you. There will likely still be private organization, churches, outreach groups, advocates, etc for these people.
Have you looked into Prototypo [1] before?

I was about to suggest you try it, but I just went on the website and it seems it has been sunsetted, which is a shame. It was a very interesting idea — you could create your own fonts by changing sliders which would change all the different features of the font.

I backed their Kickstarter project [2] in 2014, but never really used it after their development builds. I suppose I imagined myself being able to design all these different typefaces, but when I was actually given the ability to, I preferred to stick to ones other people had created.

[1] https://www.prototypo.io/
[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prototypoapp/prototypo-...
Oh, OK. Sorry if I misinterpreted. (Usually on CV publication lists people have a section for books and a separate one for book chapters.)
The ASP of an iPhone is around $700

But now are you saying that we need government intervention because of “lock in” when people are using their own free will to buy more expensive products when their are cheaper more “open” products available? Are people too dumb to make their own choices.
Possibly true, but I'd like to see this thinking applied to the welfare and misaligned incentives we grant big business FIRST before we apply it to the already disenfranchised.
This is true, I expect to be shafted unwillingly and the manufacturers will face no accountability or be required to show any transparency for a long time. Consumers need information symmetry guarantees.
That can turn out to be false economy. I had some cheap LED bulbs, and six failed in the first year. With some Amazon Basics bulbs, that were only 10-20% more expensive, none have failed in the first year (in the same light fitting and with the same supply).
I've been using some nodejs applications as tools to deploy other applications (for example serverless) and while it works it is the most trouble causing frameworks.

It absolutely has to created node_modules in center of your source code, and populate it with 120MB of files. If you want to just package it somehow so to make it more like cli tool (like you could do with awscli for example) then tough luck it will break in many weird ways.

It's like the nodejs people threw out everything we learned in decades and are reinventing the wheel. Yes it works great if you have your own project in a single directory and working on it, but any other use case is a horrible experience.
Presentation on the noa voxel game engine, made and presented in-engine (2015)
There are much more real-world use cases for reproducible builds than for IPFS. It saves time and money. It's not just academic.

Reproducible builds (as in bit-for-bit) means I can trust a (secure) checksum of a binary I downloaded somewhere, let's say from IPFS. This is defense-in-depth, adding another layer of security to prevent sabotage.

Reproducibility means the whole system can reliably be built from source and I don't need to manually make sure the system has the correct constellation of implicit dependencies and their version numbers. This saves time and money in deployment and will pay off in a very big way 10 years down the line when that code is still in use somewhere.
The Nix approach is any package-specific tricks are left to the plan writer, and Nix's job is to sandbox things. We ought to look things down further and further until build jobs can be deterministic by construction.

Until that ideal is reached, you could call "leaving it to the plan writer" a cop-out, but what else is there to do? It's the stop-gap.

The benefit of the new system is that all store paths can be content-addressed. That means the inputs of all build stems can be content-addressed, whereas before they might also be "input-addressed" paths whose contents are also a matter of trust. This means one takes "small step" rather than "big step" trust steps, and also that upstream non-determinism won't "pollute" downstream builds.
To be fair, we have known how to build a working nuclear fusion power generator (probably with less than 30 years of construction) since the 1950s (see Project Orion); it's just a ridiculously huge construction/engineering project (basically a internal combustion engine powered by thermonuclear bombs).
One of the reasons why OBS got so popular compared to Xsplit is that it is free.
I would love to see someone test the difference between a $35 a day vs $1000 a month UBI. The $35 a day approach seems like it would solve a lot of the problems people worry about with regard to misuse.
Yeah we noticed an interesting change in the hybrid Toyota's.
I've had two in my life so far, the Prius and the hybrid Camry. In both of those, the display that shows the battery charge can go from no bars to full bars.

In the NEW versions of the hybrids, they never go to no bars or full bars, and a toyota rep told us they made that software change because new owners were ringing up and asking if they need to do something to stop the car over charging (because it was showing full bars).

This sort of "presumptive tail wagging the dog" bullshit needs to stop. Manufacturers need to show us real data not the Fischer Price data.
Do you see them the second or third time you open the mail?
The nature of government is reactive, not pro-active. Except when they are stepping forward to propose a solution that won't work for a problem that doesn't exist for virtue/positioning points.

Star Trek is a great fantasy, but we are a long ways away from that. (Culturally, politically, legally, technologically and economically)
Yes -- I think Knuth's work is a great first draft of this.

In my mind, however, the concept is less about providing parameter values (like Computer Modern), but more about actually drawing the parts. In other words it's less about variable/multiple masters, but "here's what the end of a vertical serif looks like at this weight", "here's what a full vertical stem looks like". (Though if you're extrapolating from Latin to Arabic where virtually nothing is in common, then it might be closer to a multiple masters situation.)

Maybe it's too hard to do, I can't be sure. But I've also seen deep neural-network-generated fonts posted here that have intrigued me... and even if it's too hard to simply "assemble" fonts from pieces and get a good result, I can't help but wonder if deep learning applied to 10,000's of typefaces couldn't be a tool in making that happen effectively.
* Remember status messages? Available / away / idle? That you could set manually?*

Remember AIM away messages that would auto respond to friends with a custom message if you were logged in but AFK or even sitting at keyboard but wanted some quiet?

I miss it.

So much so that I’ve started writing an auto-responder for slack because despite having a “Presence”/Status feature that I use very judiciously (In a Meeting/On a call/Gone to Lunch/PTO) I’ve found-across multiple jobs-people barge right through them, then follow up with emails asking “are you available for a moment?” when I’m really trying and desiring focus (and also because I’m not signing up to someone else’s hosted SaaS service to do this).
got some downvotes, but I guess those people never experienced, you can close air circulation in your car and still smell it, it's that bad.
Genuinely curious: is this actually useful or just a cool thing that is useful simply for the fact that it can be done?
As with all things, this is a context where the important information was on-platform and the emails were opt-in subscriptions. YMMV.

> It seems like a low cost to maintain people who subscribed but never loaded a tracker image.

On the contrary. Each send costs. This adds up. It also adds cost to the overall processes involved due to unbounded growth in possible recipients.

Reputation with service providers is another concern. Google, for instance, will punish a sender's deliverability if enough recipients never open emails. Failing to clean your list impacts the ability to deliver to active users.

> What percentage of your addresses never phone home?

These were an extreme outlier. Such that it's simpler to send an email communicating the pending removal unless they opt-in.

> So pruning them from your list would remove potentially lucrative customers.

These decisions aren't made in a vacuum. Links themselves are also tracked. Those users also weren't actively clicking emails either.

On the system I was cleaning up, something like 20% of outbound emails had _zero_ engagement.
> going through two houses in four years

Huh? You make it sound like they wore out the first house and then disposed of it. Your comparison of moving to worrying about light bulbs seems totally misplaced.
Right and the 16" MacBook Pro has an AMD Radeon Pro GPU. So NVENC is not going to work.

AMD has an equivalent "Video Coding Engine" (VCE) which is supported through "Video Toolbox" (an apple API) as mentioned by another commentor although there is some talk of the quality not being as high no idea how relevant that is the current AMD cards in the MacBook Pro 16".
Also, here's a video from Adobe MAX 2015 where they show off a similar tool (called Project Faces) on an iPad. [1] As far as I know it never actually got released, though…?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUo9ULvVq4
NYT Releases post debate article early
2016 Campaign Allegations re Russia [pdf]
I think censorship resistance should be handled at a different abstraction layer. IPFS can focus on peer-to-peer immutable file sharing and some other tool can tunnel your traffic to avoid censorship. You could run IPFS over a VPN or something like that.
>Or, at least put it into a per-capita number

Ok. For comparison, Sri Lanka has had 13 total COVID deaths (0.599/1M). The US has had ~206,000 deaths (627.67/1M).

Alternatively: assuming Sri Lanka's death rate was applied to the US population, we would have 197 total deaths.
Pro tip take a photo of the receipt.
Considering Waylands history with lacking screen capture support and the amount of work that's gone into creating plugins like https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs to support screen capture for wlroots based Wayland compositors this really doesn't looked like something OBS can or should fix. Until there's a standard way for applications to actually do screen capture similarly to X, Wayland is going to continue to be stuck as the 2nd choice for a lot (most) people.

Not to mention all the other things that don't work on Wayland, like VM key capture and Peek's event passthrough.
Hey! someone else has that document saved. It is absolutely hilarious and tragic.

When it came out, I read the report and realized that it was a hack job, and sure enough - not one person knew its contents, despite the news channels and whatsapp declaring NGOs as enemy number 1.

I've commented elsewhere in this thread how that report says that writing hand written notes is an attempt to evade scanners, and that using google maps and adding pins to it is evidence of near super villain levels of plotting to end India's coal power dreams - by Greenpeace.
I mean, it kind of is. If Epic's theory is correct and they win their case, that essentially implies that the "walled garden" approach is illegal and will prohibit hardware manufacturers from tightly controlling what software can be distributed on its hardware.
> I like that iOS takes a heavy handed approach to the App Store and controls it completely.

This is fine, even good as you say, but the problem is there are no other options.

Apple can arbitrarily kill an app you rely on as a user, and you have no recourse. It'll stay on your device but you won't get updates or be able to reinstall later.

Any friction and costs applied to devs will flow on to costs for the customer.

So that's the harm to users, which is hard to quantify.

> anti trust law is to protect me as a user not you as a developer.

Are you sure? Standard Oil set good prices for consumers. The issue was they drove other businesses out of business. Restraint of trade was a big part of it.
Chances of rolling below 5 are 4x4/36 = 16/36, so above are 20/36

And here is the board:
https://www.edcollins.com/backgammon/diceprob.htm
The elementary school was called "Mark’s Meadow Elementary School" in Amherst, MA.
Your analogy was small towns vs. big cities. Now it's society vs. government? Are we even still talking about social cooling?

Both small towns and big cities have governments. Social norms can include being heterosexual or following a specific religion. Not conforming to those expectations can have physical consequences too.