skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A buddy of mine funded a 6 month pan-European tour in the late 90s with a suitcase filled with US jeans.
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> Why anyone would pay these folks anything is beyond me.

Because they are worried about reputational damage from cheating. Even with tools like Proctorio, ProctorTrack, HonorLock, etc, the cheating rate is pretty high in programs like OMSCS.
The Self-Driving Car Is a Red Herring
IIRC, they don't turn everything off. they turn off the reactor and run the ship's systems off of battery power. against a nearly 0 K thermal backdrop, there's no way an object like this could completely evade detection.

they do actually address this in the show. you can infer from the dialogue that they don't expect to be "invisible"; rather, they are trying to be indistinguishable from space junk.

I do think people are being a bit harsh in this thread. the show isn't perfect, but it's about as hard sci-fi as you can be while still getting renewed each season.
Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
Is this even a provider issue? If an application asks for scopes=[profile] then the OAuth provider has two choices -- categorically deny it, or ask you to authorize it. They all ask you to authorize it, and you can say no, and then the app doesn't work because the developers decided that you can't use their app unless you give them your profile information.

The app could easily ask you to check a checkbox next to each scope, and then write separate code for each combination of checkboxes. They decided not to do that because it's probably not worth your business if you don't want to give them full access. (Honestly, I click a lot of things on HN that ask for way too many scopes, and then I close the window and forget what it was. But the calculation was done -- they don't need me as a user or customer. I can live with that.)

I guess what people want is an IDP that will give applications fake data when you deny a scope. But no application developer wants to deal with that complexity, so they'd never integrate a provider that does that. (They probably moved away from email+password because of all the fake emails that people provide.)

On the other hand, it's mandatory for iOS apps to use Apple's sign-in which auto-generates a fake email address for you. So I suppose some progress is being made. (I have an iPhone but I've never seen this supposedly mandatory OAuth provider. I only know about it from reading HN. So maybe it doesn't actually exist? I have no idea really.)
Man, I wish I knew.

Any language is a way of encoding the biases and preferences of a language designer. It makes some things easy and some things hard, so it nudges you do to things that fit their intended work flow. Learning a language is like getting inside the mind of the designer.

I've been completely unable to do that for CSS. Whoever designed CSS layout, they don't think like somebody who designs print pages (or we'd have had "grid" decades ago). They don't think like a programmer, or we'd have a rigorous algorithm we could study (and that browsers could implement consistently).

Of course it's designed by committee and evolved over time, so there's really multiple different paradigms within it. That just makes it harder, but even if I focus on one, I can't suss out what it was they were thinking. I'm guessing that each one was designed to be easy to implement on some extinct browser engine.

So my way of learning CSS is to take a first pass, and then stab manually at settings on the browser's inspector until it's close enough. Then I try to remember what worked until I can copy it into my CSS sheet, then re-render and repeat the process.
> There is nothing to extinghuish, except for the notion of Linux on the desktop

Thanks you proved my point
Those sites do have their uses.

I upgraded the firmware on a hardly-used Lexmark printer, which promptly blocked me from printing as my original cartridge was old — a DRM failure.

I think it was Softpedia where I found the older firmware and was able to downgrade.
Eh, I think it is just crazy to those of us in North America that import duties can be that high.
It's a very interesting discussion, thanks!
Imagine the client is actually two machines behind a NAT (corporate network or school) which each open 1 connection.

You can even reproduce this easily with two docker containers on the same host and curl using the "--local-port" option.
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I don't view privacy as attainable with cryptocurrency anyway.
May be government hasn't really caught up to phone import but if I bring in a brand new computer from outside India I have to pay custom duty on that.
I think your solution is better than what we currently have, but the real question is whether or not it's better than the DOJ's solution. To compare the two, it is necessary to understand what constitutes metadata and how the monetary value of that metadata would be determined.
Slow = “ we define slow breathing as any rate from 4 to 10 breaths per min (0.07–0.16 Hz). The typical respiratory rate in humans is within the range of 10–20 breaths per min (0.16–0.33 Hz).”
So to catalogue, your two issues are...

- DPI scaling turned on by default on high dpi displays even though compatibility isn't perfect. Well, GTK DPI scaling certainly isn't perfect either to say the least.

- Not sure where the settings are: Click "start" and click "settings". Forget about the legacy control panel as that is only there for compatibility with old software and for changing the settings of deprecated features used by old software. Forget about MMC unless you have been directed to use it by the documentation, like for example if you are administering Windows Server machines. And I'm sure it goes without saying that Linux systems are certainly no better when it comes to the diversity of methods for adjusting settings.

And these issues are so offensive that while you thought Win 7 was an "OK" OS, you "would never pay money for" Win 10?
"You're only ever 15 minutes away from peace" - a sticky note on my desk. I regularly slowly breathe in and count to 4 then out while counting to 4 for 15 minutes and find that it leaves me in a peaceful/content state.

If anyone is interested, I made an hour long mix of lots of waves and wind sounds, paying special attention to panning and levels to create a wide, enveloping, slow pulsing feeling that I use when doing heavy concentration work [0].

[0]: https://soundcloud.com/syn_nine/waves-and-wind-1-hour
This should be the top rated comment. Moreover, once you unpack the definition of "recognition," you see that it's largely an artificial exercise. A 0.5% improvement over a human baseline is not particularly meaningful, because we're measuring a pointless task that the humans weren't optimized for in the first place.
More like the government is incompetent for failing to use policy to move manufacturing to India and instead raising prices for the average consumer.
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. We don't know the "precise mechanism of action" of ANYTHING related to consciousness or subjective sensations. We don't even know why Tylenol works. That's not a reason to avoid it.

For the overwhelming majority of patients, you simply fall asleep, avoid discomfort, and then go on with your life. Weighing that against the risks of a traumatic or very painful wakeful experience is not trivial.
The article assumes you will not be paying the import duty charged in India i.e. you're bringing an open box/you own the iPhone you bring from Dubai. If you were to start a business bringing in phones in bulk you would have to pay the import duty after transportation and logistics cost which would leave a negligible margin for you. It can only be viable if you choose not to pay the import duty in which case it's smuggling (if you're bringing in with intention to sell).
> simply claim to customs that you had it already for a while?

You can also simply hold a knife to a stranger and ask them to empty their wallet.

Both happen to be illegal, however.
This is _precisely_ the sort of thought the company wishes to cultivate:

* That they don't care about Free Software (they do, it is a hated enemy).

* That they are ignoring the FOSS world (they're watching it closely and working out how to stealthily attack it).

* That they'll play nice and so should be welcomed (they are a merciless enemy to be constantly wary of).

In other words, their marketing team's message of "we've changed, we're nice and friendly now, trust us" is working perfectly.
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"However, despite the sky-rocketing prices"

Not despite.

People don't understand the Apple brand.
Thanks for sharing your story. This is the point I'm making.
I think the idea is good (there's a lot of stuff involved in running corporations that is crazy boring), but I don't like the "minimalist" interface. I suspect that I figured out who was behind this, but there's no way that I'll be recommending this to anyone without a lot more information.

So far, all I see is classic "new service" hype.
Well I know it may be cognitive bias as someone pointed out but I think it also had to do with the book Breath by James Nestor. Got pretty heavy press as it came out early in the pandemic. But mindfulness and meditation are being pushed pretty hard lately.
Make no mistake, all these alternative platforms do is optimize for a certain type of content and bury/hide some other kind of content. This will always be the case as long as there is an algorithmic feed and search—users will manipulate the system to try to get at the top.

Yes, technically it's not illegal to allow those kind of fringe statements but by doing so you implicitly allow that content to rise to the top and it can make your site unsafe for racial minorities and children.
It's a good deal for both
Why you talk first about C#/Java and then language of last decade? Both of those languages are >2 decades old.

I think it's very naive to think that COBOL will outlive Java or C#. Their presence is so huge. I bet that even Rust and Go will outlive COBOL, but I'm not so sure about Go.
I tried declaring a $3k server equipment once at Mumbai airport. Exceptionally difficult to pay the correct amount ($1k or so - it was 7 years ago so amount might be off) and get a receipt, they wanted me to pay $50.
> Not sure where it's got this name from, though.

It's right in the paragraph you linked: "It was named after an incidence of frequency illusion in which the Baader–Meinhof Group [0] was mentioned."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
Writing doesn’t need to be flashy or even good to express a point. Simple is better.
Property is theft from the commons - and here this is doubly untrue: the taxes are a reasonable level on a global mega-corporation with millions of people in near-slave conditions.
>But you have to try and explain the magic. If you didn't, your universe would break. Depending on the postulated mechanisms of action, the principles behind the magical invention will have vastly different impact on societies.

Star Trek goes into intricate detail trying to explain its warp drives and comes off looking far less grounded than the vast majority of sci-fi properties with FTL or jumpgates or whatnot that either don't explain anything, or just offer a few details. Whether it breaks your universe depends on the themes you're trying to explore, such as the nth order effects of radical technologies on society. Most of the time, the story isn't about the technology (in the same way that Westerns aren't always about animal husbandry and gun manufacturing), and it's sufficient that you push some buttons, pull a lever and spaceship go brrr.
The extreme politicization of the ACLU over the last 4 years has really been a big loss for civil liberties. They used to be the ones defending the civil rights of everyone, no matter how heinous the defendant or extreme the situation. These days they seem to just repeat hyper-partisan viewpoints ad infintum.

Does a nonpartisan, alternative organization exist?
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There can be a number of things covered by the phrase "gone bad", ranging from phlebitis (inflammation of the vein) to infiltration (where the catheter becomes dislodged from the vein (or pokes through it)) and the IV fluid leaks into the surrounding tissue.
I'd like to do this for my old Thinkpads since I don't trust the random brand replacements to either last a decent amount of time or not blow up. Is there a source of loose matched cells and the protection circuit? Ideally with a guide like the one in this post.
Public road is a crime!

what else...

Free oxygen is communism!
Just to be sure - you've cleared your bradycardia as healthy with a doctor, right? If you're not exceptionally fit as you say, that could also be a sign of something being wrong.
> Right, but the "specific type of device" is defined more broadly than that...

More broadly than what? I can't recall giving a specific definition for lie detector.

It sounds like what you are describing is basically a way to use mouse movements to detect psychological stress, which is more or less the same way a polygraph is designed to work. So it would be banned, because it's the same type of thing that a polygraph is.
I would tend to agree and would classify those reasons you stated as the "right technical risk" category.
Although I don't think it's quite as bad as anything not being explicitly allowed is deemed illegal. It's not quite that strict, project managers can modernize just within certain limits (e.g., you can't just host on any cloud, but must be on a government approved cloud service).

However, I have worked in some of those environments where programmers refused to change, admittedly due to their unwillingness to learn despite their customer wanting the change. Even at organizations with large risk-adverse datasets, there's a desire to change but an inability to execute. The VA for example, has struggled for decades to modernize their system despite sinking millions and millions of dollars into it.

>If it's running now, it'll most likely continue to run for the next 20 years of software and hardware updates.

This is fine if the system is expected to remain static. Problems often arise when hardware or software are expected to change and still run the same legacy code.
In that case, you using any publicly funded service or good - including education, roads and defence, is theft.
Spreadsheets are non-linear. I would rather be given the chance to explore first on my own, and then have a chance to ask questions. The forced walk-through might be helpful to some people, but that can also be documented in the spreadsheet.

Also, formulas are what they are. You can try to tell me what they do, but the formula speaks the truth and I don't want noise when reading formulas for the first time. Again, you can comment any non-obvious formula, but let me read the formula on my own.
There is indeed quite a lot of written evidence in palm scripts as well as books and works that are a few thousand years old.

Of the many Vedas, the Ayurveda and the Yajurveda cover many medical bodies of knowledge.

The various Wikipedia articles cover these.

I used to get disappointed at how various Indian bodies of knowledge are treated here at HN by some ( not all, no point in generalising). But I then remember that regardless of what a few unaware works like to claim as “spirit medicine”, millions of us Indians and others around the world enjoy the benefits of Ayurveda.
Well yeah, but that just makes the business rules even more complex. That makes it more like - reject the transaction if it would move the account balance below zero, unless the account has a flag to allow overdrafts (which is over on the accounts table), in which case we allow the transaction and also enter another transaction for the overdraft fee.

Probably need some more rules like max overdraft amount, max number of transactions etc. I've heard some places may also have the "let's be jerks" rule to reorder transactions to hit overdraft as soon as possible to maximize fees.
I think Quibi did a lot wrong, but I do think there's some truth that the ubiquitous "traditional" TV segment is just waiting to be disrupted.

I don't sit down to watch shows for 30 minutes. Sometimes I'll binge for 2 hours and get 4 different rising-action-falling-action cycles and 4 different cliffhangers trying to keep me on for the next episode, which I was planning on doing anyways.

Sometimes I'll watch for 45 minutes, get halfway through a second episode but have to shut it off for one reason or another, and when I come back the next day I feel disoriented because the plot cycle is built to assume an uninterrupted segment.

I don't think the solution here is 10 minute episodes per se, but I think the flow of storytelling in modern TV series is waiting for some innovation to bring it to the 21st century.

A great example of innovation in storytelling is the Witcher 3. Everytime I boot the game up, during the loading sequence I get a 15 second voiced over "recap" where Geralt informs me about where the main storyline is and what we need to do next, whereas in traditional TV segments I'm given a recap every 30 minutes of progress regardless of where in the show I start and stop watching.
If someone wants to sell their kidney for money, why should anybody step in to stop them? Advise them of the short-term benefits and the long-term drawbacks and let them make the decision.
After getting into drone racing (where you need to take good manual care of your batteries because they're basically a bunch of cells soldered together), I realized that every battery we have everywhere is just some standard cells in some standard configuration.

With that knowledge, you can replace the battery in any gadget (small ones are usually 3.7V, or 1S), if you know how to care for it. Replacing the battery in a MiniDisk like this, I would maybe not trust the internal MiniDisk charger and charge by hand, but it should otherwise work identically to the factory battery.
Core business profit, AKA excluding non-recurring items:

$331M GAAP - $397M credit sales + $280M Musk non-recurring non-cash option award => $214M core business profit.
Just like covid-19 ... if you do more testing, you will get more cases. Obviously.
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Do you have some citation on this? Why bring it up unless you do?
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Leave it to humans and they will give each other verbal advice on how to breathe. And then discuss that advice.

The socialiest species.
I think the french revolution turned republicanism and nationalism from fringe idea into mainstays of european political thought. I'm not sure if those trends led to democracy, but they certainly led to a democratization - even with the crackdowns and Metternich, if you count the number of states with e.g. a constitution, europe was more democratic after 1848 than it was before it, not less.

The revolutionary wars were devastating, but they also demonstrated the power of a republican state - a sort of power that even reactionaries (e.g. Bismark) wanted to harness.
> Kinda like a Harvard MBA sent weekly to your inbox.

This might be more offputting than you think (:
That's not a big deal. The main appeal of Firefox today is that it's not owned by Google and doesn't violate your privacy (as much, anyways). The browser itself is great, I use it all the time, and I vastly prefer the UI over Chrome.

However, I don't think many would care if the world ends up on a single common browser as long as it doesn't consolidate power to a single entity. Microsoft has their own fork of Chromium, and if the possibility of building a browser business makes a comeback (thanks to any changes in Google), I'm sure many other companies will follow suit.

Of course, this all depends on what actually happens to Google as a result of this lawsuit. So we'll have to wait and see.
Those batteries are generally 18650 cells welded together, but you do need a spot welder for that, and to figure out their voltage so you know how many to put in series. You may be able to just take the protection circuit out of the pack you have now.

Sony and Panasonic are good 18650 vendors.
If the govt reduces taxes, doesnt that incentivize apple to just make them elsewhere and ship to India?

I thought high taxes are the incentive to start manufacturing or assembly locally.
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This happened with the PS4 in Brazil.

I had a friend who was unemployed and really going through a shitty spell. Then the news that you could go to Miami buy a PS4 and resell here came up. He started doing this all the time, and then going to the parks and whatnot. Eventually he started living there and working in tourism. Finally, he arranged to bring the capital to open a tourism agency in Miami and stay there for good.

Last time there was a hurricane I texted him and he said "yeah, we boarded up the house; I'm living at a Disney hotel for the time being".

So that's what happens.
Nothing to assume.

Yoga and Ayurveda have proven benefits.
Mozilla has been on life support from Google since at least 2005. For years Google paid Mozilla $1 for every Firefox download in an attempt to break Internet Explorer dominance. That Mozilla would defend Google while being almost completely funded by Google for nearly two decades is.. well.. obvious.

That Mozilla needs Google's money is obvious, that Mozilla is beholden to Google because they need that money to survive is obvious, and this is exactly why we need antitrust intervention from government when large corporations are able to control not only their own resources, but remake entire industries to serve their own interests.
Censoring the Biden story: How social media becomes state media
So trump changes his password every year?
Red Dead Redemption 2 DRM cracked
Now how are you planning to return loyalty to the employees whom you’ve hired who work the same way as you?
Apple still does some ridiculous differential pricing cherades. As a developer, you don't get to set the price for your product and in app purchases for the global market, you give them a price in dollars for US, and Apple will adjust the price as they see fit for each market you pick.
Library of mobile user flows (Airbnb, Instagram, Gmail, etc.)
The only time I've ever encountered an API that used it extensively, it was done by a company that does all their implementation in Java.

My best guess at what happened, based on the shape of the API, is that they implemented it by taking their pre-existing domain model, which had a fairly deep subclassing hierarchy, liberally sprinkled some annotations from com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation, and dumped the result straight onto the wire.

You could absolutely do an object-oriented codebase where two different subclasses have fields with the same name and different types, and, depending on how you structure your code, it might not be too painful. And it's fairly easy to imagine someone serializing a structure like that to JSON without ever meditating on the fact that JSON won't retain the all the type information.

Ironically, the end result was an API that is nigh-impossible to consume from Java. I ended up writing a façade in Python.

I've also seen little bits of this happen in the internal APIs at my current company. Also a Java shop, also a result of trying to directly connect an internal object model to the API. I've never seen it done in an API implemented in a dynamic or functional language.
I didn't mean to exaggerate that badly but climbing is a sport where your ups and downs are very noticeable. If I don't have a solid lunch and climb in the evening, chances are I will get injured trying to do limit moves. I try to ensure I stabilise my diet and not risk that aspect, just no point for me to skip any.