skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long it will be before someone truly cannot be anonymous in this country (or the world)

This is why my favorite Max Headroom character was Blank Reg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)#Blank...

I have several relatives who live off the grid in remote places. They're not survivalists or militia folk or anything like that. They just like to maximize their privacy.

The keys to survival appear to be: Generate your own power (so you aren't beholden to a utility company), have a well drilled for water, have a boss who will cash your paycheck for you on payday, and live near a town where paying by cash isn't considered strange.

They still pay taxes, though, so they can't be totally anonymous.

One goes a step farther. He builds his own motorcycles to get around. According to him, the law in his state says that if your conveyance is home-built to a certain percentage (51%, maybe?), then you don't have to register it with the state. I have no idea if that's true, but to my knowledge he hasn't had any trouble with it in the 20 years I've known him.
A little bit off topic, but this thing looks suspiciously a lot like https://lunchmoney.app/ and as far as I can tell is totally unrelated. Even the Lunch Money logo is used under the pricing section... Is this just a coincidence / did Lunch Money also use some stock illustrations that’re used here? Or is just good old fashioned copying?
$5,000 and 5 months? Why in the world is the DNA matching going so slow?

My cousin mailed fifty bucks and some spit in an envelope on Monday and Wednesday I get an email from 23andMe saying "Hey! We think this is your cousin's spit!". And neither of us is missing!
Don't do passive aggressive comment. It's both obnoxious and against the site guideline. State what you have to state.

I just thought your comment was top-level. It's unobvious on mobile.
But they have tiny wings (arms) and if they were airfoil shaped then it would give some lift in straight and level flight. Then at start/landing/low speed, they would just do nothing.

Perhaps the air is so turbulent around the wings due to the propellers that wings just don't get any airflow to create lift, or would need to be much longer to be out of the way of the propellers, that it's not worth it?
yes, hip "projects" like as facebook, airbnb, walmart, nytimes, netflix use react
i'm sure someone out there as stuck ardupilot inside an R/C V-22 Osprey. Seems like that would be the best of both... or worst of both hah
The DSL providers have already neglected their maintenance and upgrades.

I was the last one in my neighborhood to be allowed 12Mbps download. All new accounts are maximum of 6Mbps.

I would like to see reform in the CATV franchise laws.
I understand now, that is reasonable.

One question is how you know the time watched? Does this mean that every video sends analytics to your server to analyze time watched per video?
As Apple have spent the 21st century demonstrating time and time again, a more usable form of a well-established idea is better.
Indeed, but that isn't what developers get to play with in userspace.
Pretty sure I found him in like ten seconds. I just searched NAMUS for people matching his characteristics, and I found a Joseph Wayne McCartan from Louisiana. MH claimed to be from there. They also look strikingly similar. Further, JWC was suspected to have been a cancer survivor. This could explain the large abdominal scar—and, if the cancer recurred, the wasting. Check this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MostlyHarmlessHiker/comments/jnixu7...
Any idea how suburbs fit into that? The last mile isn't prohibitively expensive, but enough that you don't get any kind of competition, either, and the space isn't extremely crowded.

By the time Starlink goes wide it probably won't be any cheaper than I'm currently paying, but what I am paying is quite absurd given that it's not a network of satellites. It's just a fiber optic cable that was long since amortized to zero.
> For probably under 1k.
1. Fly out to Anchorage, Alaska

You are greatly underestimating that cost
It's Indo-European, but it's relatively unique in that no closer connection than that has been demonstrated to any other known language.

It's basically a pseudo-isolate.
That's why you test predictions. Silver says 10% is enough uncertainty, Taleb says it's not. From the article: "Premise 1: If you give a probability, you must be willing to wager on it". Unless they're willing to publish and make a friendly bet on their predictions, it's just bloviating.

Every day/year/election is unique, but only to a certain magnitude. Some elections have had active wars, some health crises, some criminal scandals, some terrorist attacks, etc. In the end, the polls attempt to account for those uncertainties and historically that's been a much better predictor than a coin flip.

For example, Washington DC has never voted Republican since it won electoral votes in 1962. Polls have Biden winning 80-90% of the vote there. Even Taleb would agree there's a near 100% chance of Biden winning there, pandemic or not. Silver's methodology is just extrapolating that out to each state. When it gets to some tipping point states it's closer to 60/40 Biden or 70/30.

If Taleb wants to create his own forecast, it would be interesting to track it's performance over time. I have a hard time believing that model closer to a coin-flip is going to outperform weighted polling data and historical precedent over multiple predictions.
DISCLAIMER: It's been some time since I used to read release notes for every new api level

Well... IIRC there was never an official call recording API, and in fact on some phones it was physically impossible to snoop on the telephony audio.

Most recording apps used to either work only on some qualcomm single chip phones where baseband exposed audio path to application processor, or enabled microphone recording in hopes of catching the audio from speakers (and not all phones allowed simultaneous mic use like that).
Stay with React, don't go with the newest shiniest JS framework. React has a 3rd party solution for nearly everything so you can piece all these well-developed and well-tested modules together to make your app.

Others may suggest using Hooks right from the start, so I'll act as the counterpoint. Starting with Class components is easier to understand and less is happening magically. Almost everything can be accomplished using only 3 lifecycle methods - constructor, render() and componentDidMount. Once you're comfortable with how that all comes together, start to pick up Hooks
It happens in Australia and New Zealand, which don't have wild pigs.
My understanding is that in the past decade or so costs to recycle have exceeded costs to landfill for most cities, since the value of the plastic has dropped and China became unwilling to accept it.
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> I want to mention how off-putting this rhetoric is to me

I'm not sure your emotions are important to others. Maybe it would be better to address what you think is the flaw in the characterization rather than leading with how it impacts your personal emotional state.
This post breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't do that. I realize that not every company behaves well, but there are two sides to every story, and Who Is Hiring threads are no place to litigate or adjudicate this kind of thing.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24971921.
I haven't heard of the plastic bag issue. I'd think industrial equipment would be able to rip them up, which is what would need to be done to recycle them anyway.

Only having a single bin to worry about - all garbage goes into it - would be a huge win for the environment. It's one of the few areas I'd actually be OK with significant government subsidies to help companies/municipalities acquire the equipment.
You can convey unpopular opinions on Reddit without getting downvoted. It just takes good wording and replying to the right post-- essentially what's required in real life: timing and tactfulness.
Obviously some enterprises have used either. This is not about subjective experience.

Regardless, it should be obvious to anybody that has ever worked in a massive corporation that a DIY approach with react will not be opted for. Talking about the corps where most people get jobs, not the ones that publish blog posts on hacker news
Is your github workflow source available?
Same, but miss a real browser with devtools so much. Everything's great apart from that.
UserLand is ok but the VNC mode messes with a proper environment with alt-tab.
I found this comment deep in an unrelated thread [0] a couple months ago. It describes someone who created his own ISP for his neighborhood using fiber and links to a good video [1] about it. It's worth using youtube-dl to archive it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410506

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg
Violentmonkey script to clearly mark watched YouTube subscription videos
Just updated it again as YouTube changed a bit making it even less clear what video is watched... Thought it may be useful for any userscript users out there.
And also partly by Austria-Hungary and the Soviet Union who all left their marks.
Well, I still think sometimes my AdBlocker is the issue when a site is not working, but when I disable it it still doesn't work so even for power-user is hard to know if an extension is breaking the site or not. This gets a lot harder when you use multiple such extensions.
C machine code quality was just as slow as anything else on 16 bit computers, lets not pretend otherwise.

Modula-2 and Pascal compilers had the necessary switches to make the languages just as unsafe as C, and anything related to ultimate performance out of 8086 and 68000 required Assembly anyway.
This. It was buy a new iMac time earlier this year for me and I ended up with a Ryzen custom build.

The crate itself, a 3700X w/ 64GB of RAM, 1TiB NVMe, 1660 GTX didn't cost much more than the 64GB of RAM for the iMac was going to cost on its own...
Their spelling bee competitions must be boring then.
> In ex-Yugoslavia there is a rather pronounced distinction between citizenship and nationality.

As a Yugoslav war refugee, this is spot on.

Small sidenote: Even if all of these languages are effectively one big "super-Balkan" language it is a _very_ divisive point from an ethnicity perspective given the number of conflicts this region has had over the centuries. While it's not my cup of tea, the reality is that people from the Balkans will often judge others from that region (both positively and negatively) based on these almost-imperceptible language differences since they signal to the listener some degree of ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic level, and education level.
Coming from Germany to the US that's my impression as well, here churches, especially non-catholic are free to market to various demographics. In Germany people are mostly either Catholic or Protestant but generally stay home on Sunday (at least when I left 30 years ago).

What's interesting is that a lot of Germans happily pay "church tax", the two churches take in billions, which they spend on social services in addition to their own overhead. So in Germany churches are regarded as a mix of service providers (for the eldery, daycare, etc.) with a preaching service most everyone ignores.
Alibaba stock is down >8% today, and a bunch of people must have known about this issue in advance. Smells bad.
Batteries are recyclable. Cars are currently recycled at end of life more than just about anything else. Ever notice the cars towed free signs all over the US? Every tow truck driver in the country knows where to sell a junk car for a few hundred dollars - more if it is running (meaning they can take useful parts off of it instead of just the metal). Between the volume of cars in the country, and the amount of valuable metals in it, it is worth getting equipment to do this.
I tried with vlc years ago and wasn't impressed with results. Maybe it has gotten better. But I had thought, wouldn't a process be needed that would prescan the entire file to determine the highs and lows of the audio?
There is a reason El Chapo had 2 Billion in cash stashed away in his mansions. Cash is still king.

Converting millions/billions into cash from bitcoin is WAY too easy to see. And the time it takes to get the billions out would give you a big problems with liquidity and volatility of assets.
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I disagree with this statement. The last 3 projects I've been on, all huge enterprise level projects, have all been React. Angular was purposefully not picked on the first project because it gets hard to maintain on huge projects, and the last 2 projects were moving existing Angular apps to React for that same reason.
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I have a defamation case against Apple Inc, that includes slander, backdooring, setup, and concept theft.

I'm willing to take a polygraph and my old manager can testify Apple called him.

All of this started happening after I started emailing Steve in 2010.

I have a real case and I'm looking for a lawyer to file a lawsuit. Let me know if any of you out there are interested. I can email additional details.
One thing I noticed in the US compared to other countries is that its media is very much focused inward, at least from my experience in travelling to the US on business trips in the late 1990s and onward. It was very jarring the first time I experienced it. International news that was being covered by mainstream media in Canada and Europe was barely even a footnote in many US news broadcasts. My theory is that other countries rely much more on interactions with their neighbours, but that's just a guess.
I attended a friendly get together there with someone who was a caretaker of the home briefly. It’s weird drinking margaritas in a historical landmark. Especially in its garage.
IANAS but from what I understand, the speed is constant, but it appears to travel more slowly due to the atoms found along the way, which absorb and reemit the photon.

In the case of the fibers, the light just bounces on the walls of the tube, effectively lengthening the distance it has to travel.

It's like saying that I did not drive a 50 mph simply because I took a longer detour: I still drove 50 mph, but I did not go in a straight line.
The HP-11C (which I bought ~ 30 years ago to replace a HP-15C that took one too many drops) is still going strong on the ORIGINAL battery from the factory.

I marvel frequently that while CPUs, storage, and displays are unphantomly better, the physical design and feel of the keys on the 30+ year old calculator is still unsurpassed.
When mentioning alternatives to Google search, 99% of people suggest DDG. But there are lot of good alternatives now, Qwant, SearX for example.
If Android had a real browser with devtools (Firefox or Chrom*), with Termux and a command line editor like vim, Web developpement would be completely doable with Samsung Dex or a tablet.
React is indeed very steep, but it is very productive if your application is complex enough. If you are going to use Static Site generation (react-static) and GraphQl (relay), then React quickly pays off.

My experience with Vuejs/React is that Vue is easy to start with and good enough. But once you need more integration with the ecosystem, you realize that React has better support.
Actually it did. And it wasn't the first but 3rd such deal
The only solution I have found to this is to have accounts for which I never give out the account number to anyone and only leave a little bit of cash in the accounts I transfer money out of.
Sinohagen Interpretation.
>What do we do about all this?

Don't recycle for the sake of recycling. Tax any externalities associated with virgin plastic manufacturing and plastic recycling. Let the market figure out what's the most efficient. This weird obsession of recycling-for-the-sake-of-recycling is what led to this problem in the first place.
I certainly hope I never tweak the screw that is loose in someones head to harass me on a daily basis like this nutjob.
Bit rich to call it "low pollution" in their list of benefits. Depends what you put in it and what you compare it to I suppose, but per kilo transported if using fossil fuels, I doubt it compares well to an electric (assuming electric means renewable, which obviously also varies).
You’d be wrong.

It’s pretty easy to find prime plots of land in the Tahoe area for less than $250k.

The problem is building: there is a shortage of construction labor (they can’t afford to live in the area anymore), and the building season is short.

Building cost per square footage is higher than in the Bay Area, often exceeding $600/sq.ft.
Aggregation theory is nonsense. Not all costs are technological, and similarly not all customer costs are direct. While aggregators exist, you can't understand the market-distorting effects of monopoly without appreciating the entire picture of capital flows within the system from surrounding businesses to the monopolist.

The second order effects are at the heart of antitrust action. Monopolists distort markets in ways that force everyone to pay extra even if they do not pay the monopolist directly.

For a trivial example, consider that dealing with SEO is a huge and expensive problem for any startup. If you don't appear in listings - preferably by buying ad spend - you may as well not exist.

Someone has to pay for that, and those costs will be passed on to customers in most Internet transactions. How much they pay is strongly influenced by Google's choices.

If search wasn't a monopoly those costs would be lower because there would be competition.

This is far from the only example of a market-distorting effect that generates extra costs for businesses and customers because of an online monopoly.
It feels like .NET focuses primarily on the library and language side of things. In C# you can write surprisingly low-level optimized code. See the introduction of Span<T> for instance: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2018/.... Or huge lists of improvements such as https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen....

This is in contrast to the JVM where Java is showing its age, but mountains of work poured into the JVM keep it performant: OpenJ9 and Hotspot, Project Loom, Zero GC, as well as big non-Oracle investment such as Shenandoah GC contributed by Redhat, etc.
The phone company is giving you a phone number, it doesn't want to be responsible for providing security for your financial and private life.
It’s the 21st century prisoners dilemma.

You and your partner stole a bunch of Bitcoin via SIM swapping.
If you split it, you each get half.
If you don’t split it, the other one will SWAT you and you both go to jail.
Let's choose a very similar example then.

If you use a Comcast email address -- is it ok for them to scan emails you send to your friends, and quietly delete them if they contain links to newspapers they don't approve of?

This would be illegal under net neutrality, and is identical to what Twitter and Facebook are doing regularly.
The US is orders of magnitude more homogeneous than Europe, though.
Some Instagram users see 'Tomorrow is Election Day' reminder on Election Day
Is there a guarantee that Google won't add this feature in the future? What if people lost their phones etc.?

I think the risk is too big. Use U2F, or something similar.
Why is it a natural monopoly?

The DSL that is my second option is garbage (slow, expensive).

Redundant connections to homes are a lot cheaper when you are talking about cable vs water or power, and the hardware required to provide ISP presence isn't particularly comparable to things like water or power plants (it's considerably cheaper).
If i go to China, and i'm white, will my white privilege stay with me? I doubt. Because if there is a majority of people that is homogeneous and shares common history/views/culture etc, and this group might look inwards, not outwards and respect their own traditions and other things more than those of foreigners, do they have a privilege over me? Of course they do. Is it not fair? It is fair. And im okay with that. Maybe that's a privilege of majority?

How about Asian privilege? Why so many Asian in STEM in western universities? Is it unfair? I think it is absolutely fair as long as the administration doesn't judge them by their skin color or other irrelevant to study qualities.

But abstract administration may want to look at the skin and help those who they consider are lower on the victimhood hierarchy, but there are many many problems that arise when an administration starts doing this.
We do the same at our small company. We recently gave all the developers a budget to use to build a custom workstation. The only requirement was being able to do the work we need to do effectively. We also provided a few template configurations with Ryzens for those who didn't want to have to think about this. But many of us really enjoyed the opportunity to create a custom configuration using whatever internals we preferred, as well as monitors, keyboards, mice, headphones, etc. that fit our preferences.
IP Address geolocation lookup and plotting tool
The mythology around the American Constitution is another example of deeply ingrained magical thinking.

A group of holy men came together to produce a perfect piece of secular scripture whose meaning "originalists" try to extract from outdated verbiage. Anywhere else in the world, having to rely on 250-year-old legal code for important present-day judicial decisions would be considered a deep failure of lawmaking.
>People hate this line of argument, they hate it a lot more than recycling, like who’s going to go and buy oil futures, take delivery and not burn the oil?

wouldn't it be more efficient to just buy the mineral rights to those oil, and leave it in the ground?
Having unempowered customer support agents may mean customer support agents can't take over your account, and can't be social engineered into taking over your account. But it also means people who only have a phone and lose it with the sim and also don't remember their password (perhaps because it's never prompted for) are going to have a hell of a time getting their account back.
Related threads from recent months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283
The index of refraction of materials is caused by differences of the speed of light in those materials. However, according to the theory of relativity, the speed of light in a _vacuum_ is constant in all reference frames.

There is a neat web page where you can see the speed of light in different materials:

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/speedoflight/index.....
Perhaps some unexpected context: at least some authors of long-form pieces write with the objective of selling the rights to their works in mind. The more it feels like a screenplay, the more likely it is to attract a buyer who feels it has potential as one.

I don't have numbers from you, just that bit of context and some supporting quotes off the record.

Qualification: I tech-consult producers and writers on screenplays.
Sun offered intel based workstations and servers.
How to get an instant ROI on your podcast (if you have one)
20 years ago maybe. Today Comcast has indeed migrated to IPTV and has bought out those media companies. You remember NBC and Universal are now owned by Comcast, right? Do you remember Comcast before it had Xfinity? I do.
Part germanic, part normandic, part latin and frankish is what has contributed it to be evolved into lingua franca of today. At one point in history of US formation they probably considered to have german and french to be official languages as well.
No, there is no such paragraph. The German constitution guarantees freedom of opinion - not speech.

So you can’t get prosecuted for disliking someone (and saying so) but you can for saying insulting or untrue (e.g. holocaust denial) things - those are not opinions.