skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for elaborating. I know there are a ton of details I don't know about for why the phone system is the way it is. It's over 100 years old and I'm sure there's a lot of cruft.

I'd be happy to pay a local carrier for a data connection using their infrastructure. What I'm imagining is an app that lets me get a local phone number anywhere. Calls and texts to that number ring and show up in the app. If I move to a new place, I just get a new SIM card for data and create a new local phone number in the app.

WhatsApp is almost this, except it doesn't manage any of the phone numbers, and I'd really prefer to use something that I can pay for that isn't owned by Facebook. I've taken to giving people in Hong Kong my US number as well since that's what is tied to my WhatsApp account and there is a 90% chance that if anyone here is going to try to contact you, they'll do it through WhatsApp.
Is it [IBM] or is it Memorex?
I visited a nursing home a few years ago and they had televisions on the wall playing crappy broadcast tv and periodically blaring advertisements at high decibel levels. it was awful.

And some folks just didn't move out of bed much because it was so labor intensive.

We need robots and lots of other tech.

That said, there are some cool hospital beds that are like Transformers. For example, you can get hospital beds that not only tilt and let you sit up in bed - but they can basically turn into a chair or help you get out.

(do an image search for "hil rom p1900")
misinformed take

Blockstream has almost no say at this point

some of the top contributors are either independent or work with Chaincode labs

over the last 10 years, Bitcoin is the most resilient to protocol changes and centralization

Ethereum, Bitcoin cash and Monero are all either centralized or bad implementations
Apple had rack-mount servers. They got rid of them. I don’t know the exact reasons why, but I assume it’s because there weren’t enough people buying them and they couldn’t make enough profit on building and supporting them.

I did find it interesting that Apple took the entire last run of that hardware for themselves, so that they could run their own internal VMware clusters on real Apple hardware for their developers.

There’s no way that Apple could build an AMI to run on hardware designed and built by someone else. Apple has a small number of people who really know what they’re doing, and they get shifted around to whatever project Apple thinks is most important — whether that’s hardware or software.

Apple needs to own the whole enchilada here, for multiple reasons. So, they can sell Apple hardware to AWS for inclusion inside of AWS data centers. But it has to be real-deal Apple hardware, running real-deal Apple OS, even if it is under a hyper visor like VMWare.
Stronger Permanent Magnets, Flow Batteries, Fuel cells.

Phones that don't copy all of Apple's dumb decisions.
Reminds me of when Boyd Coddington went to Bonneville Salt Flats one year. Got his RV stuck, then got a tow truck stuck, then a 2nd and 3rd tow truck got stuck trying to recover them. Might have even taken a 4th tow truck to get them all out...

http://www.saltflats.com/stuck.htm
Type Theory for All: Bringing Programming Languages Research Outside Academia
Yay, 4 downvotes and 2 flags so far from racist and sexist trash! Let’s keep it coming!
I agree, the effort is just not there.
Very interesting. Thanks for the pointer. LWN has a nice textual introduction: https://lwn.net/Articles/835930/
The closest thing I've found to what you're asking for is the Huawei Matebook Pro that I rock. Everything I like about Macbooks, plus USB-A, plus 3000x2000 screen.
I’m surprised, because I don’t see how it contributes to the market.
From my experience they're a world apart, but your mileage may vary. You can also tell just by doing image searches for "Japanese bookstore". Or looking at how often US bookstores shelve their books sideways. But I agree that there are exceptions in Japan (including specific shelves for oversized books, like coffee table photo albums), and in the US there are some sizes that books sometimes converge to.
Louise: A machine learning system that learns Prolog programs
China jails citizen-journalist for four years over Wuhan virus reporting
I left out some context in the README. It's opinionated, but it's also sort of a self-deprecating joke, i.e. "why am I writing another Lisp"
Voice recognition general is half baked. Voice recognition has been pushed on consumers for 10 years. Siri barely knows what I am saying. The voice recognition on customer service is always broken.

The technology is in its infancy. Yet, being built into more and more devices and services daily.

Not to mention, I don’t want to talk to my television remote. I want to use muscle memory to press a button.

Voice recognition is a mess.
Americans are, as a rule, highly authoritarian. You'll see it online as people use pseudo-bureaucratic corpo-speak to justify state violence: "refusal to obey a lawful order", "did not comply with a lawful request", "in violation of state regulation" etc.

Having lived elsewhere and in the US (a country I practically adore), I suspect it is because Americans have not really had true authoritarianism in any sense at any point in their history. Every time they stray close to the darkness and walk away unscathed and it convinces them that they can never really be consumed by it so they're willing to walk its very edge. Perhaps the UK having a monarch and a state religion is a visible reminder of what a monstrosity the state can be.

It's funny that both nations have populations that support the massive expansion of the state into human affairs: it's just that the Americans want it to enforce behaviour and the British want it to redistribute wealth.

The most amusing manifestation of the American comfort with violence is the difference in how streakers are handled in British football games and American football games. The former have overweight stewards lumber after naked people, failing repeatedly to apprehend, eventually accompanying them off the field. The latter have large, muscular guards catch up to and violently tackle the streaker to the ground.
It says more about bcash than bitcoin that it’s supporters feel the need to push a (false) narrative anywhere they can.
It's funny, but I am also serious. Historically speaking, the idea that computational devices could have internal stored programs that could be used to drive any function, rather than humans putting in effort every time to program, had to invented.

Some of this historical progression is discussed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njwQgz63rIs
I don't remember the timeline, but Mozilla has worked on this in the past with ActiveState. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/PyD...
I think this predates Firefox, and was abandoned more than 10 years ago.
This is interesting. My mother has been doing essentially the same thing for nearly 25 years.

It’s better than most nursing homes. My siblings and I grew up with the residents and were quite attached to them when we were younger. It’s a hard job though and the systems aren’t set up to support you. Full commercial fire systems are required for what is otherwise residential housing. Of course to my mother it’s more of a mission than anything else.
> This would not have been a subplot in a Le Carre novel.

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Are you claiming your (b) is more likely than your (a)? And it is so because of something to do with the Nord Stream pipeline? That's quite some conspiracy theory.

I don't find this likely. Why? I watched the youtube clip where Navalny dupes one of the members of the team assigned to assassinate him. And what struck me is how charismatic Navalny is. He is a formidable political opponent to Putin. I can certainly see Putin preferring to live in a Navalny-less world.

Aside from his charisma, is it possible that everything Navalny puts on Youtube is fabrication? How difficult can it be to get a prop to answer a phone call and read some lines emailed to him ahead of time? It probably wouldn't be, but you'd see people pointing at various inconsistencies.

I just found an older youtube documentary created by Navalny about Medvedev [1]. Could it also be a fabrication? I seriously doubt that: New York Times covered this, as well as other prestigious publications, and they don't suspect any shenanigans.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/qrwlk7_GF9g?hl=en&cc_lang_pref...
Small typo: `fdaa:net:net::48` should be `fdaa:net:net::/48`
I'm not sure why you would think that my suggestion is "suspiciously good". Your suggestions included rubber boot or keeping one hand behind your back, which are what a grandpa would tell you as precautions when working on a potential live circuit. And my suggestion to double check whether a circuit is really dead before working under such a "deadly" assumption is arguably more important.

> Personally, I take a radically different approach to household wiring: hire folks who know better than gramps.

I never suggested otherwise. In a qualified household wiring, all switches are correctly wired, thus turning off a light switch and touching an exposed wire is as safe as turning off the breaker. And there won't be hidden junctions in the walls waiting to be burned up. And a single earth leakage doesn't kill the power of an entire home... - these properties are what you definitely want.

My point is not to assume anything while working on an existing system. I test live voltage even before I replace a lightbulb - you don't have to mess up the entire wiring of your house, a single miswired light socket can be just as dangerous. Fortunately, so far I've never encountered a single case where the light socket is live after opening the light switch, nor a single case where the metal thread of the light socket is live, which gives me confidence that the wiring at my home was probably in compliance. I simply don't assume.
Check out https://play.battlesnake.com/

Can quickly spin up a Snake using an AWS lambda. It can be a lot of fun.
> “I belong to the school of thought that believes that spacefaring life is relatively rare.”

I wonder why you believe that. From the next sentence it sounds like you consider humanity spacefaring life. We barelly poked our toes out from our planet. We have less than a hundred individuals who visited a different gravity well and they each only spent a relatively short amount of time there. The physical signatures of our “spacefaring-ness” is practicaly undetectable from interstellar distances. How do you know that there arent like tons of us out there?
Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet
Read Scott Aaronson's take at https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5122

To answer your question:

> Is BosonSampling at least a step toward universal quantum computing? I think so! In 2000, Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn (KLM) famously showed that pure, non-interacting photons, passing through a network of beamsplitters, are capable of universal QC, provided we assume one extra thing: namely, the ability to measure the photons at intermediate times, and change which beamsplitters to apply to the remaining photons depending on the outcome. In other words, “BosonSampling plus adaptive measurements equals universality.” Basically, KLM is the holy grail that experimental optics groups around the world have been working toward for 20 years, with BosonSampling just a more achievable pit stop along the way.

So this is at least possibly on track to universality.
This is the kind of thing a company does when something becomes a financial and legal liability.
I've owned a domain for 20 years and always had my mail hosted by one of the web hosting companies. I've used a couple hosting providers, but to be honest, I'm not certain how they've handled my mail in terms of privacy. It never seemed "non-optimal" to own the domain. I still think using gmail or other free services is a bad idea, but i don't generally say it out loud much anymore. People react negatively because they don't want to consider whether the services they depend on are misusing their personal information.
taken to the extreme, I would wonder wether kitchenless apartments would become popular in SF, NYC, or LA given the opportunity. In a studio or 1-bedroom, you could offer 20-30% more space for living rooms or other activities.
I think that's unique to the mac UK layout? # is usually on shift-3, so to accommodate £ on the same, they moved # to alt-3. Yuck.

For me - There's another layout named "ABC - Extended", which reverses the two - so £ is on alt-3, but # is back where it belongs. It has a very different compose set behind the alt modifier though, so might be jarring if you frequently use them.
Just because you don't doesn't mean other people don't. May as well condemn someone for following a sport you don't like.
This seems a bit different than clickjacking to me. In CJ, the victim performs sensitive actions because the UI is obscured. Here the UI is unobscured, and the user performs actions that should be fairly unsensitive.
This provides clarity on what constitutes a security. The SEC have been telegraphing this move for several years, ever since the crackdowns on ICOs and STOs. Bitstamp said they would delist XRP several days ago so coinbase are hardly unique in their response to the SEC's announcement.
Last time this came up on HN, I believe it was $5000
Yyyyup. Wish I saw this a few weeks ago when I was choosing a new mail provider to get off Gmail.
You can tell it's a road racing crowd and not an off road crowd based on the fact that the entire ground around the stuck vehicles isn't carpeted in tire tracks from other vehicles trying to get it unstuck and empty beer cans.
But that also makes them poor methods of identification, no? If your fingerprint could be replicated off of a glass, than the person that possesses it may or may not be you, but they sure do have your fingerprint. Something you have!
Aside from a few blocks north of downtown on the west side of the Willamette River, Portland is entirely suburban, by my definition at least. Single family houses dominate outside of that small urban core.

Outside of Portland you could say there are suburbs, but many of them are just towns themselves that blend into Portland as the area has grown. E.g. Oregon City, which is older than Portland but might now be considered a suburb.
I still say "themselves" with singular "they", in western Canada
I just wish there were better UIs for much of this stuff. Most code editors have a regex search and replace figuring out the regex requires too much regex expertise. I can't think of a good example off the top of my head but for example, being able to search for things that match multiple rules. It would be much easier for many users to be able to say "starts with x", "ends with y", "has abc in the middle" as 3 separate statements than to have to derive the regex that does it.

Similarly being able to search easily for balanced parens, brackets, quotes. And being able to search programming language aware as in "only in strings", "only in comments", etc...

All of those seem like they'd be useful features but I know of no editor that do any more than just a single regex with no context
Back in 2015 FinCEN (US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) issued guidance that an administrator of a digital virtual currency had to be a Money Services Business and file Suspicious Activity Reports, perform Know Your Customer and comply with Anti-Money Laundering regulations.
So Ripple filed and became an MSB in the 50 US States. So far so good.

But Crypto is more than a payment method. Obviously it is purchased in hopes of capital appreciation and that makes it a Security.

Accordingly, Ripple should have filed a S-1 security disclosure application with the SEC BEFORE issuing XRP.

Failure to register XRP as a security should lead to big fines.

So why does the US SEC leave Bitcoin and Ethereum alone?

Because there is no central administrator that issues and redeems the tokens.

Ideally, crypto tokens should file with the US SEC and their exchanges should be MSBs - like Coinbase.

Meanwhile Coinbase is pursuing becoming a dealer in registered securities because crypto tokens are both payment tokens and securities. In addition to filing suspicious activity reports to FinCEN, Coinbase will file insider trading reports to the SEC.

Fully regulated Crypto is not a bad thing - unless you are an anarchist or criminal. Fully regulated crypto plugs easily into the existing payment and security networks, bringing huge efficiencies and trust.

Sad for Ripple but a good lesson on how not to launch and run a token.
Depends. Inner city may offer quicker/easier access to favored activities. When I had a car, I found that a ten-mile drive in from the burbs (and back) can become a barrier. Mass transit, much moreso.

Socializing, there can be a substantial difference between interaction and meaningful interaction. Both can require time away from favored/necessary activities; both can have multiple consequences (desirable or not). A perceived need for constant contact may be unhealthy.

Tech is a crappy substitute for the real thing (as E. M. Forster famously noted), so has some destructive potential.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126063/facebook-clearvie...

https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/youtube-linkedin-and-ot...

* "Twitter sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company ordering it to stop mining the social media platform’s data and delete anything it had already collected."

* "YouTube, and Venmo sent their own cease-and-desist letters"

* "Here’s a LinkedIn spokesperson on Clearview AI: “We are sending a cease & desist letter to Clearview AI. The scraping of member information is not allowed under our terms of service and we take action to protect our members.”"

* "Facebook notably has not sent a formal cease-and-desist letter but claims to have sent other letters to Clearview to request more detail on its practices and then eventually “demanded” that it stop scraping user data. Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist and notable surveillance enthusiast who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, invested $200,000 in Clearview’s first round of funding."
Having driven someone to the ER from a drone accident, just because they're not "sharp" doesn't mean they won't cut straight through your arms, hands, or wrist if you touch them while they're landing. When the blades are going at ~10k RPM, it doesn't matter that they're made of plastic or whatever.
> What kind of unhinged philosophy are you smoking? Objectivism? Marxism? Freebasing Solipsism?

Not OP but I assumed this was a version of nihilistic error theory that led to the "no such thing as morality" and then from there erases all idea of ownership or rights or anything. From there it's all just a dog eat dog jungle view of all of the world and maybe you sprinkle in some Hobbesian views of the social contract.

I'll pass but there's at least potential consistency in this morbid view of the world!
The drone’s blades would likely still be spinning during a parachute descent... albeit at lower revolutions per minute. I’d imagine drones operate like a helicopter: in the event of an engine failure, the helicopter goes into “autorotation” in which the now unpowered rotor blades move due to the air going through the blades as the helicopter descends, thus braking the fall. However, if drones have locking rotors, then in that case the blades would not be rotating during a parachute descent.

Regardless of whether the blades are locked or spinning at lower RPMs, still better than powered drones falling from the sky!
Reading books can be either a shared experience, or a solitary one
Joking on HN without being teared to pieces is AI-hard.
Adding https://www.migadu.com/privacy/ to the list (migrated after trying to use Tutanota and Protonmail for a short while but they did not fit into my workflow). Full GDPR compliance and:

> Beyond technical requirements for establishing a working session on our website and webmail, we do not use cookies or any form of tracking.

> We do not collect data for the purpose of user behavior and do not integrate any website analytics.

The only 2 parties they give data to are Stripe or Paypal.
I don't follow the logic here. Cryptos biggest battle (and thus Coinabse's battle by proxy) has been legitimacy. A listed coin coming under SEC ire and Coinbase banning said coin actively harms their IPO, not assists it.
Nope! In both blend scenarios I still had a personal desk: either a cube or a section of long table.

Good point, as I imagine my satisfaction in both scenarios would have decreased with a mandatory shared space.

Although, for a while we were "homeless", leading to ~30 minutes a day trying to find an office / conference room to squat in.
Wall Street doesn't want Bitcoin to serve its intended purpose of removing their control over the money supply. They did this by co-opting the software project with venture capital money and making technical decisions that make Bitcoin ecommerce economically infeasible due to high fees. Initially they intended to replace Bitcoin with an alt-coin whose issuance was controlled by the Blockstream corporate entity. That project failed, and wall street investors pivoted to another alt-coin called Lightning that has failed to produce a reliable payment network after 7 years of investment, all the while the BTC fork remains unusable, which they are just fine with.

EDIT: The Lightning network markets itself as an improvement to Bitcoin, but it is a completely alternative settlement network that just happens to denominate in BTC. I don't think debating the use of the term "alt-coin" is material.
It seems like there may be a market there.

Every 10 to 15 years, you send in your archived (and new/interim) personal data and get it back on the current top-tech storage medium. That way it's not stored in the cloud and you can keep moving the stored data forward without having to deal with it all yourself.
I found the Surface Book had a wonderful premium feel; I went into the shop with a list of specs in mind, and Microsoft was the last manufacturer I'd imagine going with, but it's a powerful machine and also just a beautiful object. Metal case, relatively subtle/classy logo, absolutely beautiful screen, nothing else was compromised for the sake of touch, clean baseline first-party OS. If you really want a premium feel from anyone-but-Apple and are willing to pay more-than-Apple prices for it, I'd very much recommend it.
After being on Zoho for over five years, I recently migrated to Outlook 365. O365 is much better, in my experience.
1. Regeneration of teeth. Maybe with stem cell biotech? I don’t know what is relevant but it’s a damn pity we have to have root canals and screw nuts and bolts for fallen teeth.
2. Nanobots that get into your bloodstream and dissolve plaque and repairs old cells/regenerates tissues.
Last remaining ferry on Potomac river shuts down amid legal dispute
Deep Dive into Site Isolation (Part 2)
Yeah, and that’s why we need universal basic income for all the young people without jobs. That’s why education takes up half of our employable years. That’s why over half of employed people say that their own job could be eliminated without consequence. That’s why unions protest against job cuts. That’s why real wages keep dropping. That’s why the trend toward industrial automation has been dwarfed by the trend toward outsourcing to cheap human labor.
I like/ even prefer straight HTML pages, but this is one of the ugliest sites I've seen in a long time.