skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
previous submissions from different url:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335261 (2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872364 (2019)
Silex was ok but to be fair you can get almost the same thing with the Symfony micro-kernel trait.
Can’t you have the blobs that would let you go back? I think only iOS 14 won’t let you go back. Not sure if you already need to be jail broken or not to allow this.
I think he was making a joke. :)
My partner once received a toothbrush like this. I enjoyed the instruction manual's image showing someone using their phone instead of the mirror: https://imgur.com/a/VfT2WEl
Most people don't live on islands, uninhabitable continents or space stations.
Indeed, but why do you assume that would require or even involve government?
> One thing I don't understand is why do those condemn China's treatment of Uyghurs have to add the (likely dubious) claim of China invaded Xinjiang in 1949.

The best-organized Uyghur groups outside China are various separatist organizations, so they have a natural advantage at getting journalists together with eyewitnesses while putting their own spin on things.

So it's not like they're adding a dubious claim to their legitimate claim, rather they've been making the same dubious claims all along and it's just now that a legitimate claim has been added that people are finally listening to them.
Gyro/accelerometer measurements alone can't tell you how well you cleaned your teeth, only how you moved the toothbrush. A simpler and more effective solution is plaque-staining dye:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosing_tablets
Starling Bank boss Anne Boden: how Monzo’s Tom Blomfield tried to oust me
How does this stuff get funding?

Why do humans use their brains for this?
Yes, it is crazy how expensive it is.
Lotteries. Government monopolies aside, the problems with lotteries is trust. How can you be sure the organizer really pays out the winnings to the ticket holder who bought the winning number. In a public ledger you could verify all that and still keep the winner anonymous.
We need to do a lot better than UBI for FOSS to keep advancing. A caste of code monks who forgo a comfortable life to write free software from their Mom's basement, or a cabin in the woods, isn't nearly good enough.

Might not be able to pay out a quarter million a year like the FAAAM crew does, but we need a bunch of jobs paying half that to write and maintain open source. If it isn't competitive with the other options, it won't attract the best people.

I don't have a plan here. I found my niche but, like most of them, it isn't scalable. But we have to keep plotting if we want something sustainable.
You need some trusted source of time to make this work. So it won’t be completely trust less system.
I just had a weird realization that we are probably actually only 10-20 years away from people starting to use a webcam monitor combination instead of mirrors as a mainstream (albeit high-end) option.
Thanks for sharing. I can empathize with the readers of your previous story. I haven't made peace and often when I see stories of people younger than me dying I reach in every direction for an explanation for why that wouldn't happen to me. "Oh they must have done a lot of drugs. They must have not exercised." etc.

What I think I want to know about from older individuals (like 80+): are you afraid of dying? My grandma went last year (92) and her and I had long wonderful conversations knowing she was weeks out. She talked about how much of a wonderful life she had and that she was not in the slightest scared.

That's a mental gap for me. I can't grok the concept of not being afraid to death like that. I would love to learn that the overwhelming majority of older people don't fear it, suggesting that it's very likely I won't fear it either if I make it to old age.

As for dying early... I think it's best not to think about it any more than to build a sufficient motivation to live life well.
DQExtensions, the Missing Parts
> His wife had sent endless letters to the UN and Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan, where he was previously naturalised. She had also sat for an interview with Free Asia Radio, all of which pressured two Kazakh Ambassadors to finally visit him and soon after the Chinese authorities to free him.
There will never be a hot war between China and the US. Or if there is, it'll be the end of the world so it doesn't matter. Two nuclear triad powers simply can't fight directly.
Again, take it up with Tyson and others with doctoral-level credentials who've made a career out of explaining these subjects to the unwashed laity. I'm not one of those people. Nobody posting on Hacker News is, as far as can be discerned.

If you and others in the thread feel that these popular authorities are spreading misinformation or using inappropriate analogies, doesn't it behoove you to raise an objection with them directly? Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?
Presumably, the first person who hands off the car (in a “known good” state) would also insert a photo of the odometer into the blockchain.
Interview: Flask Creator Armin Ronacher
Long-term damage is fortunately a myth. There is no evidence for it -- people may need more than a few weeks to recover, but ultimately they do.

Whereas herd immunity is inevitable. Either we reach it naturally or we wait for a working vaccine. If people couldn't develop immunity against Covid, developing a vaccine would be impossible.

> Also, elderly folks will still be left in social isolation with your solution, so it's not like it's a real win.

Only for a limited time, and only them. That is clearly better than forcing everyone to isolate themselves for months.
A couple years ago I saw a version of this talk from the chaos computer club on youtube and really loved it. I think its an important issue.

So I emailed Cory and asked if I could interview him for a podcast. He responded almost immediately and said yes. At the time he was doing interviews on major network programs about a new book, and I figured he would never respond.

He was basically like you would expect Cory Doctorow to be in person, smart and well spoken, friendly and fired up about computing freedom type issues. We need more public intellectuals like him.
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Hey HN, looking to get some demographics data on social apps like Fb, Insta, Whatsapp and messenger. Please let me know if you could help :)

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It's kinda like the nuclear power industry. There was a huge investment by the government with an interest to build weapons. Some of it spilled over to energy plants. Once the government got what it wanted and had enough bombs funding was pulled. Nuclear power plants did ok for a while. Then decades passed and just a skeleton crew remains. Restarting the momentum is only possible through massive cost overruns.
Been using it to download uTorrent 1.7.2 for what seems like at least a decade.
> I challenge everyone to name a single person (or country, or continent) who’s done more than him.

Kublai Khan. For your education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China . To respond to your hyperbole, he actually conquered China rather than issue some decrees which you're counting as "winning".

Obviously (from my point of view; I could be wrong...) you're a deluded Trump supporter and there's no point in trying to convince you what a terrible president he is and to show you how he hadn't even considered how his policies (domestic as well as foreign) could (and did) backfire and disadvantage American businesses and consumers, but maybe I can convince you to consider this, written about Primary Candidate Trump in December 2015: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/the-donald-and-...

> Bear in mind that embarrassment, and the desire to avoid it, are enormously important sources of motivation. [...]. Nobody likes looking like a chump, and most people will go to great lengths to convince themselves that they weren’t.

> Now think about someone who has been supporting Trump since the summer. For the Trump bubble to burst, many people like that would have to slap their foreheads and say, “Wow, he’s not a serious person! What was I thinking?”

> And very few people ever do that sort of thing. Someone who has spent months supporting Trump despite establishment denunciations — which means something like a third of Republicans — will go to great lengths to avoid conceding that he has been foolish. At this point such people will insist that any negative reports about Trump are the product of hostile mainstream media; Trump’s very durability so far is likely to make him highly resilient looking forward.

But who knows, maybe I (and the Not-Trump voting folk) are the chumps, eh? To quote Orwell (full essay: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...):

> [W]e are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
Not an Amazon engineer (I work at AWS). But how would that be workable at Amazon's scale?

Who declares the country of origin? Who ensures compliance for item? How is compliance done? Do you review every single item?

How do you ensure that manufacturers update their country of origin declaration if/wehen they change downstream procurement? If you the raw materials are sourced in China and assembled in Vietnam, does that count as a Vietnamese product?

Amazon still has trouble with fake reviews, brushing scams, and straight-up counterfeits. Adding another system that needs to be policed doesn't seem like a very good idea. Especially when that system (country of origin flag on every product) has questionable upside.
>Really seems like a "hey nurse did this patient have their fentanyl yet?" would have resolved this issue.

i somehow think that a medical doctor should be able to tell whether a person has an opioid [at least in a pain relieving dose] in their system.
This is a problem I've noticed especially with some of the collections of Solarpunk short stories. I really wanted to like them and couldn't

Walkaway was way better than most of it and as you said the writing is, pretty awkward at times. But some of the ideas (reclaiming and rebuilding bad areas, sharing how to do brain uploads) were evocative enough to stick with me. That being said DM me if you ever run a bookclub on it

Also avoid Radicalized it's the worst part of Walkaway
I've spoken to refugees who fled from the Khmer Rouge and they tell me that they do not believe there is genocide happening in Xinjiang right now. The simple reason? There isn't a mass exodus of Uighurs as we've seen in previous history of mass genocides (Jews during ww2, Khmer Rouge and recently the Rohingya). Yes, there are small pockets of them here and there that claim torture and abuse, but most of them either keep on changing their stories or that they are funded by the US government, so I don't see a difference in this story here.

Let's also not forget that Xinjiang shares a land border with Afghanistan, where the US has bombed Uighur terrorists. Would you guys suggest bombing Uighurs being the better solution here?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-targets-chinese-uighu...
> not addicted, not acquisitive, not narcissistic, not "dark and edgy", not alienated is the ultimate narrative taboo.

And the curious thing is that being "wholesome" - at least in the 1950s kind of way - is just the narrative that the addicted acquisitive narcissists of today appeal to.

Topsy turvy times indeed.
It adds 100 milliseconds of latency for no benefit, but it only costs $1000!
I tend to agree, except with the tone of your message, or the tone as it arrived at my end at least.

I think there is a lot of value in the ideas there, we desperately need them, and they are very clearly formulated. Just a bit^Wlot too clearly. He should have chosen a different format, although I can't really think of a good one either. World building needs plot to give it any credibility, and tee point was to give these ideas exactly that.

So I don't want to trash talk Doctorowh in general here.
I have thought about this a lot. I think there exists a finite set of properties your problem needs for blockchain to be an effective solution.

First of all, you need multiple sources of truth. i.e. Everyone can make transactions with money, therefore everyone is a source of truth.

Second, you want to solve your problem in a distributed fashion and you need to figure out the incentives for each node that contributes. i.e. Everyone wants to participate in the economy and is okay with giving a small commission for a transaction.

On top of all this, you also want to maintain some invariant. i.e. Transactions do not create money.

I have thought of more properties, but they are much more boring. These are enough to throw away pretty much all the hype around blockchain. Every time someone suggests blockchain to solve a problem ask yourself if these properties apply to the problem at hand.

Example: Someone suggests logistic company x could use blockchain in order to keep a log of their distribution. But then, you astute reader ask yourself: If a single company essentially holds all the information, there are no multiple sources of truth. How would this instance of blockchain be different from a centralized database? What values does it add?
The world where Buddhism and hundreds of related practices have existed for thousands of years, which allow anyone (who puts in the work), to detach themselves from suffering.

In a more western-mainstream note, we also have therapy, pain killers and anti-depressants, all tools that allow us to avoid pain and suffering. Maybe not forever, but definitely at least temporarily.

Which of the above do you consider fantasies?
Have you tried fluent forever? their app uses a similar concept except you pick your own photos to help you remember. I finally found a use for many of the random photos of my dogs I’ve been saving in my phone for years!
No need for your little perspective. The US had started numerous wars that had killed, crippled, impoverished etc countless people.
If they were to give me access to the Linux system running on my Sonos devices, I'd be rather more inclined to buy the idea that Sonos is a supporter of open source. There are many things in need of fixing there, and their customers would be most inclined to help, but no such luck.
It doesn't take 20 years, billions of dollars, and thousands of specialized workers to build each car.
Lionel Barber’s diaries – encounters with Merkel, Fuld and a piano-playing Putin
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are not related to each other? Modern dogs and wolves are not related to each other? This makes no sense given what I know of biology. What are you trying to say?
(Oh and you want to source your .bashrc from your .bash_profile so you start out with both env vars and everything else.)
Urbit has been using Ethereum to distribute scarce identities for its peer to peer personal-server network.

There have been some growing pains, but it works.

Note: not interested in explaining what Urbit is, let alone fielding tedious political commentary about its departed founder. Just highlighting a successful non-currency use of a blockchain.
Show HN MowUr – Marketplace app for on demand lawn mowing
Your grass cut on demand. Get your lawn mowed in 24 hours or less. Then spend all the time and money you saved on other things you love.
What's your point? All events either do or do not happen. Are you suggesting that risk management only applies to events that are not boolean?
I like the Snapchat text box on top of it.
well benefit is that the fancy mirror can add filters to make you feel better about yourself :)
The issue is here: "I have no problem solving most of algebra or calculus problems, but if you asked me to explain what I'm doing I wouldn't be able to tell you, at least not using mathematical constructs/words." This is slightly unclear; there are two possible problems here from what I can see, and they're totally different problems to have.

Either you cannot do maths, and you're only good at solving repetitive problems of the same genre from school textbooks. Or you can do maths, and you struggle to follow the generally accepted set of notation.

If your problem is the first, you need to explore a wider range of mathematical problems, which will fundamentally require you to think, apply your skills to the problem in various new ways. Maths is a subject where learning to think and learning to solve a specific set of problems are two very different things. Good resources for this are the Art of Problem Solving, and various Olympiad questions. You can also just try to apply your mathematical knowledge to real life examples.

If your problem is the second, I don't know a solution, but this is a far better problem to have than the first. I'd rather have the problem solving ability and use my own set of notation that nobody else understands, than have less problem solving ability and understand the notation. But, in short, that'll just come down to practice, seeing the general notation, and somehow forcing yourself to use it. Alternatively, just try to define your own set of notation at the start of your solutions. It may depend on what kind of professor you have as to how many credits you'll get, though. A good professor will not penalise you that much for making up your own notation, if your solutions are correct, but may try to encourage you to use standard notation (as this is required for any kind of collaborative mathematics).
Nobody is advocating for more coal. Quite the opposite.
No More Bold Visions of the Future
Sears... Amazon and the likes not only ate, but stole their breakfast lunch and dinner.

Blockbuster... Could have invested in their David but didn't, I'm sure they're still regretting that.

To name a couple fairly obvious and well known examples of large incumbents being knocked down.
Thanks for the reply! I hadn't thought of that this might drive down costs due to making competition way easier, censorship is definitely another consideration, and smart contracts for liability could also totally work with deposits. I'm not switching just yet because it's not solving a problem I'm having, but fair is fair: you've convinced me this is another legitimate use case for blockchain technology. That's very rare so I'm happy :)
I hadn't thought of it in terms of "no apparent means of support", but didn't pick up on that. There was Gil the ARM; a belter; and later Elephant (whose great^n grandmother invented the displacement booth - that qualifies!)

I feel I know the stories well, so it's disconcerting that maybe I missed something. I'll keep an eye out if I read them again.
In your last sentence are you admitting these camps exist as described and the only alternative solution is bombing them? How about a third option- neither bomb nor enslave.
What does get_brush_payload() do?
Thanks so much for the reminder about disclosing tablets!

We had them when I was a kid in the 1970's. I've wanted a way to check the quality of my brushing, and my kids' brushing as well. I totally forgot about these.
> What a defeatist attitude...but I expect nothing less from weak people that vote for/support a weak man.

Not sure what makes you think this has anything to do with Trump, per se. I don't care about Trump. This is about fixating on the wrong things, which is at the heart of how the problem has become so severe.
MQTT is also very big in mobile and IoT messaging. Perhaps as an (e) option in your list.
I'm not sure if it counts as a "block" "chain", but I'm using a chain of hashes to verify integrity of an online message board, so that you can more easily verify that you are all seeing the same conversation thread.

And if any messages are deleted, everyone can see that something was there, and when it was deleted, and who deleted it.
Timestamping can be accomplished cheaply by piggy backing on a secure blockchain that’s already being used for the purpose of money (Bitcoin). No need to start from scratch for each use case.
Go parachuting. The split second before the chute catches is something else.. terrifying. Especially if you tandem jump. I imagine bungee jumping is similar.
I'm not.

Imagine yourself in the shoes of the person who was killed by a bombing. Imagine yourself knowing family members or your kids getting slaughtered by these terrorist attacks.

Let me put it to you clearly. The situation is complex, no side is right, but to bury the action of one side and justify the actions of another because it's convenient for some stupid US-China rivalry is the wrong way to view it.

I'm not saying either side was right. I'm saying it's wrong to comment on how this is disgusting. It is a valid opposing perspective, just like how your perspective is valid.

What isn't valid is insults and a mass mob mentality.
If a self-driving car needs data from other self-driving cars on the road, how's it going to work in the early stages, when only 0.1% of cars on the road have the feature?

IMHO it'd be much easier to sell people a $10,000 self-driving option that worked immediately, than a $2,000 self-driving option and a promise it would start working at some point in the future, when xx% of vehicles on the road had deployed it.
Australia and Japan and a number of Asia-Pacific nations have joined the CPTPP - the reality is that the main driving force has been a mission to build a trading coalition in which the participating states can extricate themselves (and the supply chains of their businesses) from what has become a dependency on cheap Chinese goods/manufacture. Hot take - embracing the trans-pacific partnership is the best thing we can do to contain the rising influence and ambitions of Xi Jinping's China.
I am open to additional data points to expand my world view.
But it appears to have been there for a while, as per the FBI itself (not saying I place faith in them):

https://apnews.com/article/8eb942adcbcb45820e164dd03be4e7d0

Bizarre development of events.
Neither in Iraq. Nor in Iran.
I am saying that the US is shedding crocodile tears. The US in the past 30 or so years have killed countless Muslim civilians, yet for some reason, cares so much about Uighurs in China (whom they chose to bomb in Afghanistan). Hence I find all of these reportings incredibly dubious.
> Can compile Javascript sources to executables with no external dependency.

Is QuickJS a viable way to write command-line apps in JavaScript? In particular, does it have enough of a standard library to work with, or would it be a struggle because (I assume) it can’t use packages from NPM?

I know there’s the alternative of bundling Node.js and V8 into an executable, but the resulting binaries are large - it feels like the command-line equivalent of using Electron.
This comment is like the one person in the room at <startup company> trying to say an idea is bad who is drowned out by others foaming at the mouth with reasons to build complexity for the sake of it
Why, yes people do live to be over 100 in certain groups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think we’ll figure out how to extend this to more people.

Sure, if you don’t take care of yourself, science can only do so much.
Instead of crying "fake news"! Why don't you share more information to counter my arguments? I'd prefer sources that's not from either Adrian Zenz or ASPI. Thanks.
As a layman in physics, whenever I look at anything quantum, I'm certain there is something fundamental that we're missing. When we've figured something out about nature for good, the explanation is usually surprisingly simple and just makes sense. You know you're most probably wrong when your model produces more questions than it answers.

That said, I like Stephen Wolfram's theory of everything. It just feels like a step in the right direction.