skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd prefer it be treated like passwords - upon installation, you should change the default immediately.

I refuse to use a service that requires me to say its globally recognized name so often I will probably become brainwashed to it. And then there's the older hacks with TV commercials that took advantage of those defaults, and the (cooler) hypersonic transmitted voice command attacks, or the ones delivered by vibrating the device's microphone with a laser, etc.

None of these attacks would have worked if the product trigger wasn't so predictable from the get-go.

Eventually even Raspberry Pi stopped using the default pi/raspberry default combination. How we invoke our voice-activated programs should be treated with equal care.
I admire that and wish more employees looked after their interests, too, so that the commons weren't so poisoned with corporation-morality rather than humanity-morality.

Practically speaking, I think giving The Guardian or some pro-union think tank/lobbyist a copy of internal corporate policies would move the needle a lot more than a personal stand, but the personal stand is admirable nonetheless. Currently my financial freedom supersedes that level of moral freedom and agency.
That’s not necessarily accurate if you are already operating in probability per year in this case. It just means 7.75 occurrences per time.
Ask HN: Would you pay to warm your CDN cache?
We use a CDN so that our users can get our content faster. However, CDNs face a cold start problem. CDNs have POPs all over the world, and it takes time for all these POPs to cache your content. Depending upon how busy the POPs are and how often your content is requested, it may even get ejected from your CDN's cache. I have an idea for a service that will keep your content in your CDN's cache at POPs all over the world. Would you pay for a service like that?

I have learned from HN that one must talk to customers before building a product. In this case, I have already built a system for my own use case but to convert it into a proper product for others will require some effort.
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It does (as do other companies). It's part of the onboarding, along with what kind of desktop, laptop, etc. You can decline the phone and use your own (with the software installed). Many people choose to do this out of convenience.

I expect the employers would actually prefer to just give everyone a phone the companies owns. They are doing the work profile on a personal device because many workers strongly prefer that.
When cancelling my YouTube Premium subscription one of the exit survey questions for "reason for cancellation" was "Unhappy with the YouTube Music App." So clearly there's some awareness of the unpopularity of YTM out there. However while it specifically asked about the app, whereas the real problem is the whole YTM service/experience on all platforms -- in particular the web app. Hopefully the cancellations and the survey results percolate to the right people.
I was planning to argue with this, but I only feel sorry that you see something as historically useful as unionising in such a light.
> I myself drink milk and eat meat while acknowledging the obvious moral superiority of veganism.

There's no moral superiority of veganism. Vegans eat more animals than someone drinking milk or eating a steak. They just eat parts smaller animals like insects, rodents, etc ground up during harvesting.

Instead of getting your information from silly "documentaries" or vegans who've lived their privileged lives in cities, try going out to a farm.

Is it moral to spray insecticide to kill a gazillion insects? Set up traps to kill/hurt/shock animals from your vegetation? Is it moral to kill a gazillion rodents, insects, etc to harvest vegetation? Keep in mind that no vegan meal is devoid of animals. Everything from spaghetti to salads have animals parts in it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in...

I know it's counterintuitive, but a person eating a steak is eating less animals than a vegan eating a salad. A salad contains thousands of animals parts in it.

> Our eating habits are deep cultural traditions that don't budge in the face of even the most agreeable arguments to change them.

Our eating habits are derived from our biology and environment.

> "But it just feels too good to give up! XD" or "But if I stop, everyone else is still going to do it, so why stop!" aren't arguments we'd level at the carnal pleasures of rap

It's not only that it feels good, it's that it's the optimal diet for humans. A vegan diet is a suicide diet. No human being can survive, let alone thrive on it. That's why all vegan diets is supplemented by pills.

The best diet for humans, animals and the environment is the hunterer gatherer diet. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with modern civilization. So the current industrialized omnivore diet is the best we can do. If you truly want to destroy the environment and animals, then industrialized veganism will do that.
That's true of Winamp 2, which was the most popular major version. Its skins were, as you say, basically just bundles of image files that were used to override the built-in assets.

On the other hand, Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite, with a much more flexible theming system based on a custom-designed GUI framework, complete with its own XML-based layout engine and scripting language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi_(software)

Unfortunately, it never really caught on, mainly due to the combination of performance problems and a lack of feature parity.
I also don’t take my work phone with me outside of work hours unless I’m oncall.
I am certain many reported cases here are false, or "with COVID-19" cases as the other guy has said. I know, because a family member works at the hospital and we know what is going on there. They make up lies about the cause of death for funds they get after COVID-19 patients. This is our reality, sad but it is what it is.
Is there a word for waiting-for-a-twist-that-never-comes? I keep thinking that the Australia Project was really a front for Manna "leveling up" and secretly turning the Terraform dwellers into Vites to further keep them easier to control and out of sight.
Phages could also be a good way to fight very specific bacteria. But no reason we can’t try both.

You can also do a similar search into the genomes of the natural enemies of bacteria like fungi and probably turn up some good options.
What we know is one person said that's what happened.

I certainly know of people who have suggested and gotten changes to agreements like this. But you need to be professional about it.
> Would be nice if flaggers had to provide a short sentence of why...

Yes, and same for up and downvotes: I'd like to require a selection from a small set of required tags, and for the aggregates to be visible (perhaps with a delay). I'd actually like up and down values to be applied to individual tags - for example, I might add +1 to the "correct" score of a story, but -1 for "rude / unkind" (we could bikeshed the names all day, but I don't think any realistic set would be worse than the zero info you get today when your comment goes grey but no-one has taken the time to explain why)

I'm pretty sure this is what Slashdot used to do?
> (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)

It has for at least the past couple years now.
You can (and should!) read the PKGBUILDs, they're very small and should always be manually inspected before install.

The -bin suffix is an AUR convention to let you know that it's downloading a precompiled binary rather than building from source.
> Politicians often claim to follow the science, but that is a misleading oversimplification. Science is rarely absolute. It rarely applies to every setting or every population. It doesn’t make sense to slavishly follow science or evidence.

You can pretty much find a study or experiment that validates whatever opinion you have. It's not common for our society to immediately react to the result of one study or very few studies by applying them directly to the real world. Science takes time. Yet here we are.

Somehow we went from "masks for the general public are ineffective against fighting covid and most other diseases" to "any piece of garbage you put over your face is effective" almost instantly. I tried finding studies that proved that covid transmission is reduced when people put any piece of material over their face. I couldn't find any and still have yet to find one. They all show that things that may imply masks are effective but not of them show masks are actually effective.

They all seem to be based on the effectiveness of blocking droplets. To the best of my understanding we don't even know if it's airborne yet. Also, why aren't there any older studies? Droplets and masks have been around forever. Why did it take a few new studies to figure this out?

There are also so many other variables that are completely neglected such as the way people handle and wear their masks, how the masks fit, the material used (some studies cover multiple materials but are far from comprehensive), the social aspects like not being able to read someones expression, etc.

Cloth masks are all the rage these days but when you go to buy one none are approved by the FDA and say "not for medical use". Yet we are mandating that people where these things for medical use even though they haven't been proved by the FDA. They have been approved by this magical thing called "science" though. Why even have these government regulatory agencies if we can just bypass them in certain circumstances?

> Governments and industry must also stop announcing critical science policy by press release. Such ill judged moves leave science, the media, and stock markets vulnerable to manipulation. Clear, open, and advance publication of the scientific basis for policy, procurements, and wonder drugs is a fundamental requirement

They way covid policies are communicated is awful. When they change policies they always site science but never link to exact studies. They imply that this is the science they used is the "real" science and that all that matters.

I live in California and we have a site dedicated to covid (like I'm sure most other places do). A couple months ago they put up a "blueprint for reopening" that was supposedly based on science. There are arbitrary tiers that counties go through to determine what's banned. However, just recently, Newsom introduced a 10pm "curfew" and threatened another stay at home order. That wasn't part of the "blueprint". Where is the science for that?
Nope. Bad maths. Average of 7.75 per year !== >100% of it happening at least once in one year.

There’s still some chance it doesn’t happen in one year.
Germany started in the year 2000 with guaranteed, high prices to providers of solar/wind energy and that their feeding into the electrical grid has preference over other providers. Additionally they employed grants for citizens deploying solar on their roofs.

That massively raised the electricity prices, resulting in the world's costliest electricity.

Around 24% (!) of the German electricity price is a Renewable Surcharge[1]. With a >$350 billion/year power industry revenue it is easy to see that Germany's contribution to kickstart large scale solar and wind power generation can hardly be overstated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_German...
As a former union employee, the idea of tech unionizing is completely unnecessary and unthinkably dumb in my opinion. I suspect advocates of this idea have very little real world experience with unions.
I'm trying to imagine something more revolutionary than the automobile, and I'm having trouble!

Barring the legal/political hurdles, I could theoretically drive from my home in Texas to Alaska, then cross to Russia, and on to Paris in around 250~ driving hours. Throw in another day or two for a private boat across the Bering Strait/North Pacific.

9 days to basically drive around the entire world. 15000 miles. Just for giggles, my 2012 Honda CRV will get around 350-400 miles per tank of gas. We'll drive conservatively at 60 mph to hit the full range. Depending on the cost of gasoline, I could drive around the entire world for about $1200. Maybe $1500 once I get into Europe. Insane!

Before cars, that same journey would take months moving non stop. A solo trip can now be done in about 2 weeks with an experienced driver.

Absolutely insane the cool stuff we can do with modern technology :)
cool, the skin I made in high school made it in the archive
good memories
https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Apogee
I think this is a great additional solution. Another one in a similar vein is to include testing for sickle cell and other major genetic diseases prior to birth, perhaps in parallel to downs syndrome testing.

The capability to perform these tests already exists, but it would be necessary to make them cheap and available. For those with money, embryonic screening already exists for most monogenic and many polygenic traits, including IQ, height, ect.
> It means that countries which rely on fossil fuels for their economy, are going to see the same kind of crushing economic decline that, say, the UK coal industry has.

> What do you suppose happens when, for example, Saudi Arabia can no longer feed itself? It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

First, I think you have to segregate between different kinds of fossil fuels.

Coal is the worst. From what I understand, it's mostly used in industry, power generation and heating. The main problem is: it's really dirty.

Natural gas probably has a much longer period of future usability. Tesla has shown quite readily that batteries are probably better than peaker plants for most cases. But for home heating and cooking, natural gas will probably have utility for quite some time. Yes - it does release greenhouse glasses, but the immediate health concerns in terms of the pm2.5 released by burning it are relatively minor.

Petroleum is in a similar boat. The main use for petroleum - automotive transport will probably be gradually phased out over the next 20 years (a reasonable approximation of how long used cars last), but it's used for more than just that. Plastic production and aviation fuel are probably two of the uses that will probably have some real longevity to them. In theory, naval propulsion is more amenable to electrification than aviation, but that'll be tricky to do economically; that is another area that petroleum could have a long useful life in.

In short, while there will be a dramatic drop in the consumption of fossil fuels, I have serious doubts that it will get anywhere close to zero in less than 40 years. I do think it is likely that coal burning will probably go away completely and both natural gas and petroleum use will decrease by over 90%. What that will do to the price is hard to say.
How to Turn Your Smartphone into a Robot
The original discovery request may be something along the lines of "please submit all communications that occurred in an electronic format via printed copies, blah blah leaglese". You then wait until the last day allowed in the discovery request, and then send over what ever print outs you have decided to release. If opposing counsel feels you've left something out (intentionally or otherwise), they can/will go to a judge to get a warrant. That warrant will not state "collect print outs of communications from personal devices". It will state "collect any personal electronic devices".
The paywall hid the second part of the article... but, if the exams are the same for all, and graded the same, and top X students get accepted, just by looking at exam scores, any demographic irregularities are to be blamed on previous education of students with bad scores, and not the selective school, which only accepts the best students.
Fortunately in my line of work it's not that uncommon to have anything other than a burner phone and even then a lot of people don't even have that. I went completely without one for about 2 years and then decided to get a burner when I had to walk back to my house to get some tools to fix an issue with my truck. Figured I at least needed one for those kind of situations.
Why would you bring a personal laptop to work?
That's entirely dependent on the company. Google grants RSUs based on a dollar value when the grant is approved.
> Tokyo is an amazing city, though it can be very lonely for an expat.

Could you expand upon this? I've been thinking of moving there for a year or two to focus on my language skills and work on my startup.

I spent a lot of time in Obihiro, Hokkaido in my late teens and had a blast hanging out at the university. Everyone was super friendly.

When I traveled to even more remote towns like Hobetsu / Mukawa, Makubetsu, Ashoro, and Honbetsu, the children would run up to meet me and want to take photos. (They don't see foreigners often.)

I never spent much time in Tokyo, but I did spend a lot of time in Shanghai, Changsha, and other big Chinese cities and almost want to consider that a proxy.

Why is Tokyo lonely? Is it this city in particular? Is it a certain age range?

Post-college and into adulthood does it become lonelier?

Also, what's the startup scene like in Tokyo? I'm considering something a few steps beyond VTuber streaming and think Japan would be a great environment to pull talent from.
the point isn't to go back to hunter-gatherer society. Go visit the South-West of Germany were family-owned businesses going back hundreds of years are at the forefront of their respective industries. Israel and Switzerland have similar ecosystems. You can find places that have shunned 'hypergrowth' and VC money in favour of sustainability and craftsmanship all over the world.

The point is not to be backwards, is to be accountable to the community one exists in, be small and not indebted to foreign entities, and put communal interest ahead of profits.

If everyone acted that way we wouldn't have to interface with unaccountable industrial behemoths which can cut you off from your entire existence in a second and will do so without any second thought.
That link was 404 for me. Maybe this will work better?

https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-store-community-prici...
The issue for me is that it doesn't matter how cheap they are.

Australian government approach is largely to subsidize homeowners to put solar panels on their roof. (They do do other things too! But billions in home owner subsidies...) The main incentive of course is they then have cheaper power bills for not much outlay.

If you rent, nearly nothing. You'd have to have a generous landlord or luck out on a house someone has already done and then moved from. The latter will admittedly will become more common over time.

If you live in an apartment, nearly nothing. While it is technically possible to put solar on the roof the extra complications of body corporate make it largely a non-starter. Besides, in truely large apartment buildings the roof top space is tiny compared to the number of apartments so the benefit is minimal anyway.

So for now, only standalone homeowners get this benefit. And while I am not sure, I suspect reducing homeowners customer costs shifts the cost burden for the grid slightly more to others.

I just want the government to fund society wide infrastructure to benefit everyone in society...
There's also a very small probability that the atoms inside the cards will spontanously shift so that every single card is an ace of spades
If you call that “collectively organizing”, I guess that proves we don’t need unions. The labor law was all that we needed and it worked as expected. Problem solved!
> Alcohol is quite chemically reactive:

All food is quite chemically reactive; that is one of the main points of eating.
The US seems determined to prove it can be exceptional: we can have both the negative economic impacts and worse health outcomes.
Thanks for sharing your position in any case. Historic anti-immigrant stances by America's biggest unions are close to why I feel this way.
Apparently the first German law was introduced in 2000 [0]. I see the argument that is made, Germany pushing the sector and I remember a lot of folks investing into solar in the 2000s.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Sour...
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The land itself isn't going anywhere. The sands of Saudi Arabia won't sink below the sea. The physical country will still exist. But what kind of government, what kind of state, can afford to govern that space and provide for its people, without oil revenue?
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Look, I know for a fact that I was positive before. I was asymptomatic. I have an autoimmune disease. I do not want the vaccine for myself. Does the vaccine actually stop the spreading of COVID-19? Because according to other posts, we do not know that it does, all we know is that people would take it for their own safety, but do not know if it actually stops transmission, in which case we are just talking about whether or not I decide to risk my own health. I would risk it, considering I have been asymptomatic positive before, and I do not know what this vaccine would do to me given that I have an autoimmune disease. The vaccine seems much riskier to me, than COVID-19. That, plus I barely leave the house.
The higher salaries are the result of getting multiple offers and the companies bidding against each other.

They say they don't do it, and of course they all in fact do it (to some extent).
They don't here. Turn on "showdead" in your profile.
Balls drawn in any order, without replacement.

The probability of guessing all 6 balls in a single lottery is 1 in (50 ncr 6). So, the probability of losing is 1 - 1/(50 ncr 6). The probability of losing every time is (1 - 1/(50 ncr 6)^(n_games), where n_games = 365 * 1000. Therefore, the probability of winning at least one game is (1 - (1 - 1/(50 ncr 6)^(n_games)).
"OK Google"/"hey Google" is one of the reasons I went with Amazon's products instead! (other reasons include that they seem to understand my voice more reliably than Google or Microsoft's systems). I get to call it Computer instead of Alexa too, though if I were stuck with Alexa it would still be preferable to Google (or Amazon for that matter).

It's isn't just branding though, if I'm right. The wake word needs to be something that is easy to pick out from a complex audio environment and not be a regular part of common speech so cause confusion (computer fails a bit in that regard) so allowing completely custom wake words might cause reliability issues. Also some might choose wake words that the brands don't want to be seen listening for: I might choose "slave" as a Blake's 7 reference for instance but that could easily offend some if they overhear, and there are many other epithets, slurs, and swears, that would not be deemed suitable either.
We also get LAL from horseshoe crab blood which is used for a bunch of research.
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NB: ROI isn't measured in years, it's a ratio.

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

Payback period is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_period
You know what's amazing? Farmers in rural Pakistan choosing to prefer solar to irrigate their crops (panels + VFD/inverter + 10 HP 3-phase motor):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNgF0WTeCM

Or grinding wheat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G2evJOiU9I

The comments in these video are all about how much does it cost, what is your contact number, etc. Clearly this is a sea-change.

Also amazing that they all have cell phones :-)

The old system included 80+ year old hand-started diesel engines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuqT7dgM08

These are very cool, but solar requires less man-power.