skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common theme in technological optimists seems to be a total dismissal of global warming.

I see so many people in tech discuss how interruptive COVID-19 has been on humanity, but they see it as a sort of temporary problem to get over, where once dealt with, they can then go back to thinking about AGI or some other lofty technological goal. In reality, COVID-19 should be seen more as a "taste" of things to come. I don't know why more action, or at least discourse, regarding climate collapse exists in tech communites about this subject. Is it because it isn't as interesting to think about, when compared to working on self-driving cars, VR, human longevity, etc?

Edit: I'm looking at you Lex Fridman and 90% of his guests.
Unfortunately if/when people do speak out or rise up about abuses of/from authority they are countered by bootlickers, or people who genuinely believe 'it could never happen here'.
What Are Digital Gardens?
Both sides on the spectrum are on the same thing.
That depends entirely on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to move beyond self satisfaction and actually effect change, you need to be concerned with how your message is conveyed.

What are your beliefs for?
I agree with you.

I think in a world where people made enough money to eat and we didn't outlaw the stupid penny, we could keep all the pennies and offer them to people as tokens of our appreciation, then it's operating as a symbol and the emotional purpose is served without people who don't want to tip feeling expected to support people's lives all of the sudden at the end of the meal.

Our current system makes thoughtful, considerate people feel guilty if they don't want to tip deep down but feel they ought to.

Steve Martin's My Blue Heaven deals with the problem of wanting to express gratitude and joy to people in a world where everything is officious and transactional
What do smart tvs and tv boxes use?
My takeaway as the real lesson here is don't get too caught up in idealism.
10-20$ a year, compared to just D which comes down closer to 2-3$ a year. And again considering the other vitamins are much easier to come by. D is usually the ones that's more commonly lacking, especially in northern places.
>...buy Sealand in order to host trackers out of the reach of authorities?

Sealand is within the territorial waters of the UK. No sovereign nation has recognized Sealand's independence from the UK. Even if one did, according to international law, artificial islands and structures don't possess the status of islands.
> That kind of throws the whole study into question.

Well, that turns it into a study that checks if extra vitamin will have an effect, even when there is no deficiency. It doesn't throw the study into question, but it may not apply to what the people on this thread are talking about (what's never clear).
Three rogue orcas causing havoc in the Atlantic
Just watched The Sound of Music again a few weeks ago. As a kid I just knew the bad guys come and the heroes outsmart them.

These days, I see more and more the acting chops of Christopher Plummer - the bad guys are already here and all that's left is hope and trying to maintain a bubble for your children. From scene one he is a goose on a pond. Serene above the waterline but roiling below.
No, that was the Derg's fault:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%931985_famine_in_Et...

There's a lot of it about:

https://progressive.org/dispatches/amartya-sen-barsamian-110...
Not sure about Trinidad and Tobago. Antigua was the one given the right to violate US copyrights to pressure the US to abandon it's illegal gambling restrictions. It was given that right by the WTO.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21...

Keep in mind, there is a big difference between being allowed to violate US copyrights and waiving IP enforcement.
Safeway is sort of extreme. Many grocery chains do have some sort of loyalty card discount. But Safeway has huge discounts all over the place to the point where I make a point of slipping a loyalty card in my travel folder when I go somewhre that Safeways are common.
I think the title of most toxic should go to Twitter.
How come it's bad for activists to try to "cancel" her book, when the thesis of her book is to "cancel" trans folks?

Or maybe "cancel" is just a word people use to try to claim the moral high ground when they are criticized?
Trump Coup
They're excluded from revenue - i.e. $40 order that is $5 discounted is $35 revenue.
"Seems faster" definitely isn't the level of proof required to justify recommending that people butcher their OS's security.
Is there any kind of standard file format describing lens internals, or database of different lens designs or actual commercially available lenses? I'm interested in this kind of simulation for some machine vision applications that may need to cope with not all of the image being in perfect focus at once.
The lower the cost the higher it is in the grand scheme of things. I’d like people to understand food is expensive and should treat it as such: reduce food waste and stop taking shortcuts via long routes, aka importing non seasonal food from the other side of the planet. I support locally grown food and local farms as much as I can!
The Wobble Dog 9003i hot dog wobbler by Atomic Shrimp
> Trying to kick the Republicans while they are down , chastising them them for using legal means to fight the outcome of the election, or engaging in grievance politics just further reinforces the perception that the left isn't operating in good faith.

You're getting this backwards. The legal means are not there to fight the outcome of the election, they are there to make sure every vote is counted properly. This is a subtle but important difference: nobody denies that there may be minor and insignificant improprieties in this election, as there are whenever a country of 300 million people votes. What is being denied is that there was whole-scale interference with the election system. I'm fairly confident that they will not be able to convince a court that there was, but that doesn't make it ok that they are filing lawsuits on no evidence. People being upset about an election outcome is no reason to ignore the reality of this situation.
You omit, from the very article there:

"Although the Mueller Report does not squarely address these questions of “collusion” that fall outside the scope of potential criminal liability, it can be mined for substantive information that provides some meaningful answers." Which precedes all the claims.

So even there it's written as scare quotes "collusion" while admitting that that "falls outside the scope of potential criminal liability."

In short, Trump's yes men behaved then as stupid as they continued to behave later, including now, but being stupid wasn't a crime. Sadly, the obsession of Democrats with all that wasn't less stupid (obviously, I'm writing completely non-partisan).
> I hope for a new wave of optimistic idealism to swallow up tech again, bringing about a new era of amateurism. But with the professionalisation of even the free software community I have, I must admit, all but given up hope.

This wave exists, we’re just old. Go talk to 16 year olds who are building virtual reality machine learning apps in their bedroom.

Web is no longer the frontier. We’re old and out of touch. The kids no longer hang out with us. Hence you see a lack of youthful idealism.
Check out u/munificent's post on writing "Crafting Interpreters"

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...

HN discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738

His Show HN thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406081
Learn to Accept the Weeds in Your Life
And then he woke up ...
A lot of the summer spikes were in hot places with a lot of air conditioning where people tend to stay inside a lot during the summer. When I have looked at infection maps in the EU and USA, they seem very clearly connected to season. I think there is a process where people adjust their lifestyles to the current risk of infection, but then the goalposts get moved and the infection rate goes up due to environmental factors. Then there is a period of behavior adjustment again until the infection rates level off.
I understood this thread to be about running Linux bare metal natively on the M1, so there's no emulation there & new instructions don't matter. Drivers & secure boot are always the biggest problem. It sounds like you can sign your own kernel & add it so in theory secure boot may not be a problem. Then the question is which driver support are missing & need implementation & how close that lines up with existing ARM device trees.
Enough with the "You obviously don't live in Seattle." The event described by _iyig really did happen and was described accurately (except the "high on pills" part, I haven't seen any report of that, news I saw said he took a field sobriety test and was found to be unimpaired).

Unless you directly witnessed these events (which few people did, even amongst Seattleites), then you're getting your information second-hand just like everyone else.
Good on you for getting healthy but I feel compelled to point out that if you had 50 lbs to lose (without becoming severely underweight) you were pretty much by definition not "slightly" overweight.
That's fine, but we just got through removing hot water tanks from people's house because they're so inefficient. So again, you're gonna need a lot of renewables to power all this extra demand.
> I think in a lot of ways, UI ebbs and flows; a lot of modern UI feels pretty terrible and non-intuitive, and re-designed for the sake of being re-designed.

I think we're still figuring out UIs. As someone who sucks at them myself, I often wonder where are the modern Bruce Tognazzini's. I'm still reminded of a point on UI design he made that the corners of the desktop in a WIMP are special because they are infinitely large targets - you just fling the mouse pointer there and hit them. This point was of particular interest to me as an early Linux desktop (FVWM) user with virtual desktops (3x3) that you could configure to flip between when the mouse got near the edge, so it broke the infinite corners convention.

I'd like to find people who are thinking about UI's as deeply as the AskTog articles used to.
Haha, what you said made me think: sagemath!

And sure enough it has something to tie in R too, truly connecting everything in a big nest: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/interfaces/sage/i...
This is like saying water makes trees grow. Yes, loosing weight means consuming less calories. The body moves calories around as glucose. High glucose = weight gain (and above a certain limit you can't gain weight faster and then you look like type 2 diabetes). Keeping your glucose near floor (there's a lot of biological controls that keep glucose above 80) = weight loss.
Just a heads up; I haven't tried using my DTK in a while but... development was still VERY rough last time I checked. I was pretty much forced to write code on an x86 machine and schlep it over via ssh to then run it.

Also, be real careful you don't accidentally build for x86 when installing libraries or it all goes to shit. I got bitten by this by using iTerm (building it from source was fine though) and not realizing it was the x86 variant. That is to say, make sure your terminal is the system terminal or built for ARM-- otherwise when you install things using package managers they'll be the x86 variant.

Like, I'm super stoked for the M1, but also just totally fucking irritated about the toolchain changes and MacOS in general... They've not been the best stewards of their software and developer communities as of late, and they're pushing a totally proprietary architecture onto them expecting them to foot the bill (hours spent fixing/debugging) to make their platform usable.

Truly, I get paid to write software that runs on Linux not on Macs. In fact, I've never gotten paid to write software for Macs, because no production systems use Macs. Now it is harder for me to do primary development on a Mac; because I must fix MacOS or live with MacOS only bugs... bugs which only exist on a platform I do not intend to deploy my code to... these aren't just some config bugs either they're going to be a fucking mess of irritating, show-stopping, moving targets with a negative ROI.

I still can't believe they didn't incorporate containers into the OS before switching platforms to keep developers around but that's a totally different rant.
> coming up with Kafka-esque processes to introduce to the community

Is there an example of public crowdsourced resource of the comparable to Wikipedia size which managed to generate meaningful content without such kind of processes/bureaucracy?
So I suppose the question is, what is that best way to actually get the stability/performance increase? Is blackhole-ing the DNS request the best way?
Was it the weight loss that lowered your risk of diabetes? Or did the changes you made reduce both?
Ask HN: What would happen if Elon Musk died now?
This is much better stepped pricing than Dropbox'
Admitting fault is against individualism.
Probably the idea that you can pretend the truth is whatever you say it is, say whatever you want, never admit a mistake, and hundreds of millions of people will still back you up and continue to trust you. As seen by the president of the US ignoring election results, and countless other things done and said by that administration and their allies.
I don't understand how this controls for GP's concerns. You'd need something much more precise, like "how many hours per week do you spend using the computer in an active creative pursuit such as writing, drawing etc."
> Device requests are based on device identifiers such as Apple serial number, IMEI or MEID.

At least for the device part, if you use an open source OS like LineageOS, you can fake all of these things so that it's not even a question. One of the biggest privacy disadvantages of iOS is that Apple maintains total control over the system and therefore they can be compelled by governments to serve these requests, whereas on my "Google" phone I can actually prevent Google from being able to serve them. Sure, the default OS Google supplies may track the hell out of you, but at least you have the option to load your own OS onto the device.

I find it extremely annoying that Apple continues to play the "we're the good guys" card while there is absolutely no data on how Apple themselves track and use your personal data. I would much prefer the system itself were designed such that you have the ability to restrict data collection from even Apple themselves, and that there is clear proof of that fact.
Only been a pleasant place for me. They're very anal about some rules (copyright, for instance) and that's annoying to me sometimes but overall I can't say I've been upset with any contribution experience.
This is probably the worst article I've read on the internet, and on the topic of the internet. You know those listicles that require you to click through each element of the list even though it's usually only a paragraph on each page? This article takes its design cues from that. Don't bother.
> Both the left and the right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys).

If you believe this, you are severely misinformed; if you don't believe this, you are a liar. Either way, it is nefarious.

I've been to every single counter-protest of the proud boys in Portland.

Who brings guns? Proud boys, 3%ers, PatPrayer, and Trump supporters.

Who doesn't bring guns? Counter protestors.

Who gets arrested from bringing guns to a protest? No one.

Who protects the proud boys? The police.

Who gets shot at by police? Counter protestors.

I had a gun pointed at me by a Proud Boy amongst his militia several months ago. I've been bear-sprayed but thugs with ARs strapped to their bloated bellies. Don't for one instant try to pull this "both sides have mililitias" bullshit.

It is so clearly right-wing propaganda.

P.S. And I know what you are about to say next, "But a Trump supporter got shot in portland..." YEs, he did, and it was awful, and then the Feds shot the perp w/o due process, while Rittenhouse gets a pat on the back. There were NOT heavily-armed groups of counter protestors on the left, but there sure as hell are from the right, all the time.
The full-size photos are still compressed, unfortunately. And Google Photos turns Live Photos into 2-3 sec video files, which destroyed a huge chunk of my photo library when I made the switch to iCloud Photo Library.
This website is terrible. I almost didn't catch that the paragraph text, itself, is a link to the next page.
That sounds like we are indeed talking across each other, then. I'm not talking about this year.
There are other tools available as well to collect 'cloud' data. Such as Magnet AXIOM Cloud[1] and Cellebrite UFED Cloud[2]. These still require legal process in most cases.

[1] https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-axiom/cloud/

[2] https://www.cellebrite.com/en/ufed-cloud/
Yes, and also Matrix. But WhatsApp is very popular in my family's country and everyone was already using it.
I guess that as screens become ubiquitous lumping everything into “screen time” will become increasingly meaningless. I imagine that in medieval times illiterate tribes who came across writing would see it as a kind of technology and be surprised how much “paper time” scribes or monks spend, without regard for the content of the information or the actual task being accomplished.
Yes, if you put your facility in the middle of San Francisco you give the enemy two targets for one bomb. Better make them work for it (and have a slightly higher chance that either your facility or part of San Francisco survives)
"Government and private entities are required to follow applicable laws and statutes when requesting customer information and data from Apple."

A Transparency Report is still no substitute to Encrypted backup [1] because it made the assumption that every country 's law enforcement system are just.

If Apple cant provide encrypted backup due to pressure from Government, an iOS Time Capsule would surely be a great product. But that would go against the goal of increasing its Services Revenue from iCloud.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
ITT: people claiming DoorDash has no path to profitability - the numbers in the S-1 tell a different story. On page 112, there's a chart of how much profit they make per order based on how long the user has been on the platform. In the first year, the value is negative because DoorDash spends money on sales and marketing to acquire the customer. By the third year, DoorDash is making a consistent profit of 8% on each order placed.

When you look at the numbers in aggregate, it appears they are massively unprofitable. When you look at the numbers by cohort, it's clear they are investing money in sales and marketing and based on their metrics, they will generate a significant return on their investment over the next few years. Over time, as a larger and larger percentage of their users become recurring users, their profit on each order will approach 8%.
Yeah honestly given the title of the book, I expected much different content than what was described in the article.
"If you're still buying Apple products, then you're simply unforgivable."

What does this even mean? Are you unable to forgive me for buying an Apple product? Why exactly should that matter to me?
> Autonomous vehicles and flying cars will redefine human travel

The flying cars were supposed to happen 20 years ago. Even if the tech would be possible, their massive energy consumption and loud noise would severely limit them to a small elite being able to afford using them (like helicopters really).

We're not going to a world with cheap and abundant energy, quite the opposite actually.

The article reads like the dreams of the author, not something based on reality.
The probability of a frivolous lawsuit succeeding in such a way that it could overturn the results is literally zero. Frivolous suits are not legal, the courts have identified and nullified all frivolous lawsuit attempts so far, and they have signaled that they will not be tolerated. If Trump wants to bring frivolous suits then it only makes him look less legitimate in the eyes of everyone and bolsters the case for forced removal if need be. These events really don't pose any danger to our democracy. The danger to our democracy occurs when you allow one side to build a narrative that the election isn't legitimate and that one side (the left) is refusing to even hear out the right when they claim a lack of legitimacy.

Give them their time and then we can all move on.
Why the Future of Online Work Shouldn't Be Searched for in a Browser
A possible explanation for the tactic of sending so many emails is that the subject header of Donald Trump's emails contained the message he wished to transmit, acting like an alternative news feed, similar to RSS or Twitter, bypassing the restrictions of the latter. In other words, recipients would not be required to open the email to get the message.
Question is.. can they get your bitcoin?
It's a lot nicer importing and exporting photos with Amazon Prime Photos. Google Takeout is a nightmare to use.
Hmm. My picks would be very different, aside from 'The Pragmatic Programmer', which is worth reading early in your career.

Leo Brodie, 'Thinking Forth'

Roland, 'Program Construction'

Ullman, 'Elements of ML Programming'

De Marco, 'The Deadline'

Brooks, 'The Mythical Man-Month'

Skiena, 'The Algorithm Design Manual'

Hunt, 'The Pragmatic Programmer'

Stevens, 'Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment'

Stevens, 'TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1'

Ross Anderson, 'Security Engineering'

Also, the Phoenix Project is a ripoff of Goldratt's 'The Goal.' I suggest reading Goldratt instead, and then think very carefully about what transfers from manufacturing to software.
it is not true that you don't have to worry, that there's no risk of mortality or morbidity

For young healthy people, it's true in the same sense that you don't have to worry about getting struck by lightning or attacked by a shark. These things happen, but they're so rare that it's silly to go through your life in constant fear.

besides being incredibly selfish

It is not selfish to consider whether it's possible to protect vulnerable people without demanding that everyone give up their social lives, children's education, and jobs for a year.

just like the "kids can't get or spread covid" MYTH that people have been grasping to for dear life in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary

What evidence? Schools haven't been significant drivers of infection or deaths anywhere in the world. Yes, the risk is not literally zero, but if that's your criterion then you'd never leave your bedroom.

this "only old people die of it" myth needs to be squashed

If everyone had the risk factor of a healthy 30 year old (say, 1 in 10,000 chance of death and 1 in 2500 chance of serious complications), would you still support shutting everything down?
> Personally, I would prefer tipping in general to be banned because it's a clunky, inefficient system. It's much more transparent and straightforward to just have a fair wage without all the game theory that comes along with a convoluted system of tipping.

100% agree with this.
Sealand is a bad storm away from not existing.