skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say I'm normally on Facebook's side (it's not the toxic, fair election destroying, divisive hole Twitter is) but this document is junk.

The Social Dilemma explains how the stupid 'you are the product' meme is incorrect, for instance.

It also explains the emergent behaviours are not planned, so equally they are hard to stop from planned actions.
I don't think that's true and history has shown it isn't true. The US couldn't stop alcohol consumption during prohibition even using all of its power and a full conditional amendment at its back. The war on drugs has also similarly failed. China has the most power of any country in the world and they cannot stop capital flight or transactions they don't approve of. If the two most powerful countries can't do it then what chance do the rest of them have?
Bandwidth is likely the largest hurdle.
I doubt https://www.manufactum.com carries anything as downmarket as TV's, but since their schtick is grandma-style at high prices, if they ever do that'll be a place to look for spendy dumb TV panels. (1 EUR = 1,17 USD)
I've heard "the tallest blade of grass gets cut first" in the US, although Google says it's either a Russian or Assyrian proverb originally.
Yeah, this was my experience as well. My phone was pretty distracting, but I was really able to cut down on the notifications I got on the watch and they were only the important ones, so now I'm more engaged than I was previously.
I stopped wearing watches 30 years ago and I won't do it again for a smart watch unless my doctor tells me so and there are really no alternatives. So, no Apple, no Samsung, no anything. It's a product category dead on arrival for me.

I can consider smart glasses because I'm wearing them anyway. But they must be light and survive sport activities, including sweat (cycling in summer with a helmet.) Finally, given the widespread concerns with privacy, tracking, advertising etc (yesterday's discussion about smart TVs) the less smart they are the better.
I wasn't planning on watching Social Dilemma, but seeing that it rattled FB enough to issue a "wait, let us explain why they're wrong" statement I think I will watch it.

Also, fuck you Facebook. You had multiple chances to redeem yourself and start being not-so-corrosive for the society and you intentionally went out of your way to make the wrong choice every single time.
I've never had a YubiKey, but lots of other places use smart cards (ISO 7816) for secure authentication. I suspect they are far more common than YubiKeys or newer tech, especially in the financial industries.
Energy drinks may contain harmful levels of hydrogen peroxide, study warns
Not so much. That's why, as a bunch of other comments mentioned, there's commercial displays available with equivalent specs to smart tvs that are essentially dumb terminals with no smart functionality that cost more than twice the price.

Your data is subsidizing the low hardware costs.
Technically the author is using of their fingers. Wasn’t the model Creative Commons?
Crumbling Case Against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges
So what do you do to fend off the accounts created this year to get around this rule next year?
Big tech should die!
Recommending a 4k TV at 50" is really weird. You can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080 at that size until you get closer than 7 feet, and if you're the kind of person who lives in a place with enough room for a couch and a TV, you're not putting only 6 feet between them. Either it's a small room and your couch is up against one wall and the TV up against the other, or you have a large room, and the couch is still more than 6 feet away from the TV.

If you want a dumb TV, get a 50" or even 55" 1080p TV and save yourself hundreds of dollars that you can spend on literally anything else that'll make your "TV" (but who are we kidding: netflix and youtube) watching more enjoyable. But a popcorn maker and 10lbs of popcorn. Get a reasonable sound bar. Get many nights of take-out for in-home movie dates with your SO. Hundreds of dollars go a long way.
Is anyone else annoyed by the amount of built in magic character strings in bash? There are times where I know a task is possible in a bash script but make it in Python (with no dependencies required and compatible with 2 and 3) because it's easier than looking up every random gotcha and running into issues later on when someone runs it in a directory with a space.
WTF Is Proof of Transfer (and Why Should Anyone Care)?
During brainstorming sessions, I often think about why/how medieval artists couldn't quite grasp how to depict depth in their paintings (as a lateral thinking technique). Being humans living in the world, they obviously experienced and understood that depth existed all around them, but had a hard time grasping the concept as a whole. I feel like we're kind of in a "medieval depth" phase of gravity/spacetime understanding...it's literally all around us, we know something is there, but we can't quite grasp what it even is we're looking for.
My microwave also has those two dials, which I use a lot. Plus a whole array of other buttons and functions I've never used.
Yes it is. If you haven't stood for 1 minute in the last hour then at 50 minutes into the hour you get a notification telling you that. I, too, work in an office of iOS users, and this frequently happens in our meetings. Everyone's watch goes off at the same time at the end of the hour.
I have an Apple Watch and iPhone and use all the health tracking stuff. I’m a little bit suspicious of the accuracy of sleep tracking, but so far I haven’t had any experiences to suggest that it’s not reasonably accurate.

And there’s no reason to believe that heart rate and step counting isn’t extremely accurate—seems fairly trivial to measure.
Google and Apple have gotten too big. They're harming our industry. It's time to break them up.

Besides, our devices are computers. The next evolution of laptops for most people. We should be able to run whatever software we want on them. Google and Apple purposefully acted like mafia to keep them as locked down as they could, while they both benefited from the web and open source to rise to and ultimately cement their position.

Fuck them both.
It's normal in the USA as well, only the vocal micro minority on twitter get enraged at everything. I really hope it's just a decade long trend that will go away. Social justice warriors get mocked for a reason.
This comment is insanely wrong about resolution, assuming you have 20/20 vision.
you’re free to post it on sqwok.im, it’s def conversation worthy
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Every mw I’ve ever owned or used turns the magnetron on and off. If it’s a 1000W unit and you set it to 300W, it’ll only heat 30% of the time. You can hear it from the noise it makes, it’s slightly louder when the magnetron is on.
How to get promoted (A guide for engineering managers)
If they made the uri SSL with fixed certs it’s still a “something I have” factor IMO.
In the age of the internet, I would hope even schools would be pointing their students at primary sources, but I'm an incurable optimist.

Plato complaining about doxophiles, "lovers of opinion" (ca -375): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
One of the only things I miss from deleting my Twitter is the feed of images from Archillect
I thought the article was going to be about how there was a serious real vulnerability in the hardware and some remote attacker could spoof the Yubikey being touched.

Then the article turned into a joke.
Radix sort and counting sort are what ppl should be using.
Does Government Crowds Out the Family? (2017)
The whoop strap tracks breaths per min as well
>Google and Apple have gotten too big. They're harming our industry. It's time to break them up.
Besides, our devices are computers. The next evolution of laptops for most people. We should be able to run whatever software we want on them. Google and Apple purposefully acted like mafia to keep them as locked down as they could, while they both benefited from the web and open source to rise to and ultimately cement their position.

Fuck them both.

Now this is the kind of well-informed intelligent debate we need more of around here.
At a reasonable price Loewe make the best TVs that have the ‘good’ parts of smart, and none of the intrusive and privacy-invading parts. The interface is minimal, the sound and picture are amazing, and the units themselves look beautiful[1]

Bang&Olufsen do all the above, at an unreasonable price[2]

[1] https://www.loewe.tv/int

[2] https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/televisions
I speak German, and I really enjoy using words like this, but they don't seem that special. I don't quite understand the (mostly American) obsession with them. If any language did away with their conventions and allowed compound words, they could build similar ones.

For example, in English we could use the following as replacements for "schadenfreude":

- Demisejoy

- Damageglee

- Paindelight

- Hurtmirth
If those were the only factors they shouldn't be forced to open it up. But there are other factors. Such as consumer choice, pricing and competition.

You also seem to assume vertical integration is the only way to provide a stable, secure and private computing platform. That is not obvious to me and I don't believe regulators could (or should!) arrive at such a conclusion.

The question for regulators is simply if the market is operating with sufficient competition.

Apple for example is not completely vertically integrated. They buy glass from someone else, and screens. I don't think they mine aluminum. Clearly it is possible to deliver their product by working with other companies they do not own. This means it may be possible for them to deliver a product with similar capabilities even after spinning off the app store as "apple apps co" which provides apps for "apple device co" but they may occasionally also make apps for "Samsung Device Co". This is further reinforced by the fact that the vast majority of apps on Apple's (and Google's) platform are not written by Apple.

Kinda like how Boeing and Airbus both buy engines from Rolls Royce and Pratt & Whitney (which used to be part of the same company as Boeing). Or even like how Apple buys processors from Intel but also used to buy IBM processors.
The article does not mention gut bacteria. Does anyone know roughly how much of our food and water intake goes into supporting our gut biome and excreted?

Tapeworms were an early weight loss miracle cure (no idea how effective though), and I'm sure someone will be working on a modern version without the side effects.
Relevant tweet: https://twitter.com/stahnma/status/634849376343429120

"Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in."
Landau Genius Scale ranking of the smartest physicists ever
But the “wattages” just pulse the thing on and off right? I’ve never heard of a home microwave that can apply true variable power. If you have one I’ll buy it.
Lots of companies have tried, and none have attained the level of popularity that Fortnite has.
I was excited for a minute thinking this was a strap for the Apple Watch that also tracks respiratory data.
energy output per unit time
They mean via an explicit permission dialog. Not something hidden in the TOS/Privacy policy
Excellent. Reading the PR notes on how it'll now work, this sounds imminently sensible:

- projects can opt in by adding a keyword to their project description on github for a month. That's barely any effort for projects that care, and

- PRs that are merged won't count unless the project maintainers welcome hacktober contributions and are willing to add a label that marks a PR as "this one counts".

And if "not getting a $20 T-shirt for free" is the only thing making a difference between you contributing a meaningful PR to a project, and not contributing a PR at all, then let's face it: the open source world really isn't worse off.
That depends on what the kidnappers do with their copy of the brain. I wouldn’t be happy if there was a copy of me forced to listen to Coldplay 24/7.
Samsung TVs are an extreme example though. They’re the most obnoxious and the most disrespectful of your privacy by implementing all these dark patterns. Not to mention their QLED bullshit, it’s just LED but it’s meant to make you think it’s OLED and pay extra.

I despise Samsung and their junk.
Your savings and income is enough to get a small yacht and not stay anywhere really. That said getting tourist visas for most of the countries probably isn’t easy...
It's next to impossible to have good or even decent speakers in a flat TV and keep the price at a sane price point.

My advice is just to ignore the speakers and get any soundbar, literally anything will be better than the built-in ones.

I went all-in on Sonos because it's wireless and the sound quality/UX are excellent. Just got their soundbar (the Beam) first and went up from there to a full 5.1 setup.
I read a lot of those huge and ungainly scanned PDFs, even when the text is available as HTML, because I prefer my reference material to be properly typeset and paginated. It’s much more convenient than visiting my local library and handling physical books, which I wouldn’t use at all if a scanned PDF was always available.

I’m with the grandparent here – the problem isn’t the amount of work required to republish a book in a digital-first format like EPUB. It’s the fact that sharing books electronically in any format is a copyright violation, so the scans that exist already aren’t publicly accessible in DRM-free formats. That being the case, recreating those books in digital-first formats requires even more effort (because you have to find and scan the book first), for almost no reward (because you can’t publish the results).
Ransomware is similar to computerized mugging, and it indeed has a much greater penalty than actual mugging.
"Tobacco companies say cigarettes are good for you"
Ha, I just finished watching the movie an hour ago with a friend. Of course its obvious how the debate was going to be framed from the beginning: Facebook is supposed to be "unbiased" and from this point of view political inaction is the high-minded route over traditional low-minded autocratic rule. Instead of possibly curating a high-quality news feed for users to consume, users get to pick what they want to listen to because to force a user to watch something they created would be biased against the individual "news" organizations that operate on it. So Facebook does have smart leadership and have been proving themselves to more resemble an unbiased company compared than an autocratic government with some fake news initiatives.

However, our individual news feeds are not biased. By letting individuals control what they see, increases their bias. From this perspective, Facebook is now inherently biased towards extremism (our sad reality proves this point)

The way out of this situation is confusing and neither Facebook nor the movie talk of any real action. How about, instead of trying to clutch our unbiased pearls, we collectively learn to appreciate and understand inherent biases in everything because everything involving humans and our psyche is inherently biased and there is no end objective truth to the big issues surrounding our differences in values.

Now the question becomes not of bias vs facts, but of better and worse bias. If we could create a Facebook news stream that is inherently biased towards bringing people together rather than splitting us apart, it rather appears to solve this new question quite cleanly and as a plus fixes our pathetic situation. This isn't a radical new idea created in my head 2 hours ago, its a rather established view on this important issue: https://youtu.be/ZbPt66TYsFM

The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media and how do we convince everyone everything is biased literally no point in finding unbiased sources of anything to reframe the debate to be on good versus bad bias.
Thanks for writing this. I do agree that the idea of resources being constrained and the mentality to do the minimum required to meet bar is quite prevalent — and the educated & well-paid aren't immune at all.

I can't generalize it, but I see a subtler version of this in the corporate spaces as well – lack of care towards accessibility, missing attention to details in PRs, focus on "getting things done" with the current knowledge set, not worrying too much about the "commons" .

I do hope though that this is a just a phase a developing nation has to go through — because we've seen more than enough exceptional talent originate from here as well.
> Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust.

Seems like a vague question, are you looking for inspiration for your own CLI application?

If so, I recommend leveraging libraries like [1] commander. Which allows you to intuitively wire up your CLI app with --option and --help on every command.

One of my favourite CLI apps is [2] httpie. It has a simple, easy to use API, which is intuitive and fast too.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/commander-rust/1.2.1

[2] https://httpie.org/
I'm not drawing any kind of line - I'm explaining why Microsoft and Sony need to treat their game platform developers better than Apple/Google needs to treat their paid app developers.
ISPs charge onerous prices already and they often have local monopolies enforced by local governments and public utilities (which create artificially high regulatory barriers to entry to eliminate competition [0]) as opposed to dominant market positions in a virtual space as a result of network effects and consumer choice. The government and regulatory bodies are so thoroughly captured that the government has actually made it illegal for municipalities to provide broadband across much of the U.S. [1]. The situation is similar, and in some cases worse, for power companies which are often granted local monopolies, immune from antitrust laws through their relations with local government, and guaranteed insane profits despite awful performance [2]. Using ISPs and power companies as an example for why more government intervention in more open virtual markets would be advisable is probably not a winning argument.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...

[1] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9287719/utilities-monopoly
Even if you're not getting a dumb one, I think LG has the best "smart" TVs around.

Just don't give them access to the internet and they'll do the job of displaying anything you give them via a HDMI port. Integrates nicely with home automation with an API too.

Oh, and they don't have ads in the menus like Samsung does.
What about higher level manipulation. Are these made by hand? What does the tooling look like? Can you modify the "maps" using editors, or code? I remember even early on there were Python libraries for manipulating Minecraft chunks.
Glad I completed my Hacktoberfest requirements earlier; a little bummed that the shirt will invariably = low quality contributors.

A better way to do this IMO would be to kick off a year long contest; for example: you sign up, every week you need to average +7 lines of code on your own repo. Bonus points if the repo actually does something useful. After a year of that, you get a Tshirt.

Weeds out the lazy, encourages people to actually build something.
My only defense of this is that software is intended to amplify work.

Just like you could do bookkeeping 1,000x faster with a computer vs. paper, you can commit election-related crimes 1,000x faster if the computer does the calling for you.
Aah, I see what you did there. :-)
Well I still have mine.
>Who is the court, or any of us, to say what should be the charge for selling a game on a marketplace?

This comes down to what I call competitive capitalism VS Hobson's Choice capitalism. Android doesn't really have any competitors - Amazon, Samsung, they have zero legal access to the apps on the Google Play store unless they go through Android. As such, if they refuse to allow competitors to force them to compete, they have a responsibility to compete despite the lack of competition and if they refuse to do that it's the government's job to beat them until they comply.

Again: the problem here isn't "freedom", it's competition. Your next product probably doesn't have a major captive sub-market.

But let's address the " freedom" argument: what I call Hobson's Choice capitalism. "If you don't like it, you're free to rewrite the OS from scratch, then convince every single app on the app store to switch over while starting with no hardware support and no app support. This is a Hobson's Choice - it's not about making an improvement on Android, it's about making a unilateral improvement on the entire universe just to push Android forward. It's absurd and not a real choice.

But more importantly, if you consider Hobson's Choice capitalism to be capitalism, then technically the government is equivalent to a private corporation as long as you can forfeit your citizenship and move to Somalia to be free of your country's obligations on you. This basically contradicts the standard definition of the free market, but that's the point - everyone rejects the Hobson's choice out of hand, because it's just so absurdly irrelevant to competition.

So let's talk about competition: would Google rather take a lower cut, or legally permit Amazon and Tizen to access Google Play apps from their non-Android OSes?

Because right now, they're not competing. They're just sitting on their chicken-egg problem based laurels.

As for Epic: I sort of agree with your pejorative - copyright is intended to provide funding, but the right it actually grants is the right to deny a copy. Some companies simply sit on copyright they never actually intend to monetize, and others keep hold of it far longer than they need to make a healthy profit proportionate to its success. The notion that all copyright needs the exact sake period is also absurd, as some industries are much more fast-moving than others. I think we need to take a long, hard look at copyright monopolies, starting with the absurd "lifetime plus 70 years" duration.