skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would take some time to see how it goes. It's possible to run on browsers without being a member of WebRTC codec family. The codec can be deployed as a WebAssemble module and WebRTC acts as a data channel for it. Zoom used to deploy a similar approach while staying on its proprietary codec.
If you want to see some messed up voting rights, look at Palantir.

It's super complicated and I'm glazing over a lot of the details, but my understanding is that the founders have "founder's shares" and no matter how many of these they have, whether it be one or one million, these shares control 49.9999% of the votes. They are allowed to designate which of their shares are and are not "founder's shares" and alter this pretty much on a whim.

Because it's so complicated, and because the amount of common shares changes depending on how many shares are designated as "founder's shares", they also don't ever have to tell people how much voting power common shares have, even as a vote is happening.

It's actually funny reading all the legalese that just boils down to, "we're can do whatever we want".

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/21/palantir-is-not-a-democrac...
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That’s the stupidest argument I’ve ever heard from someone attempting to be a physicist.

The gear experiment is the simplest answer. With a gear whose diameter spans the distance between the light source and receiver, and where the speed of rotation is controlled by an atomic clock, the gear could have a small hole through it. If light sent from one side to the other while the gear is spinning is too slow, it will not make it through the gear.

The size of the bike through the gear will dictate the speed, because the gear itself measures duration and distance in a single direction.
I disagree, partially. We, (and I mean you guys as I'm an amateur here), can help build tools to inform and help spread information.

Parse information in a way which helps people fighting climate change is helpful.
We’re not talking about the intricacies, though. We’re talking about the basics of it.

Every Christian worships Jesus as God. No Muslim will. It’s that simple.

When Muhammad says that Jesus is a prophet, it is a rejection of what Jesus claimed about Himself. “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me.”

Many of course have tried to act as though the two are compatible, but when you come right down to it, I believe what Jesus said, and Muhammad didn’t.
Sounds like the RIAA or similar would still be all over them, if they become aware of the practice.

Not sure if that's good, bad, or something else, though. :)
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The bells merging was really quite reasonable as the market is vastly different. Breaking AT&T into local monopolies plus long distance backbone still left local monopolies in place. Today however VOIP, cellphones, and even internet has brought real competition to the local phone companies. And fiber has largely gutted the long distance call pricing.

Long distance calls where crazy expensive. During weekdays in 1980 AT&T charged $2.17 ($6 in today's money) for a five minute call from NYC to LA. Nights and weekends the same call cost $0.87 ($2.40). Today you can get unlimited nationwide for 34$ per month or pay 3$/month for service and get 10c/minute long distance calls anytime. https://www.att.com/home-phone/landline/long-distance.html
There’s value because if enough people take it then covid won’t spread. 500k people died from something that could have been stopped had we had the vaccine at the start (obviously that wasn’t going to happen), but we can prevent more transmission and more deaths.

Just because you feel confident that you won’t be in the 2% doesn’t mean you have no responsibility to reduce the likelihood that you’ll give it to others
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Why don't we address the root of the problem? Who controls computer? If user of computer (with phone features) doesn't have a full control over it then this situation can and will be abused by some one who does. It seems a logical consequence of not having full control over your own computer.

Why we discuss mostly the degree of such abuse and not the core of the problem ?

Another core of the problem is dealing with communist regimes. We never learn? Communists are literally responsible for millions of deaths in the 20th century.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDTbNmUgeXk) They have a good record of disrespecting human rights. Why someone sane would expect them to respect any of his rights now?
"you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“

For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.
Yes that’s what I meant: it isn’t mRNA (my reflexive presumption for something quick these days) and, as a nasal spray, is presumably something conventional, quick amd stable. Seems crazy to have ignored it, based only on what I see in this article.
But how will you distinguish the well qualified female applications from the large number of under-qualified men? Surely not by their sex which is probably illegal and certainly unethical.
I've been wondering the same thing too! Maybe if there is a way to share indexes, or some way to put out a call for searches through the DHT, and then the requestor aggregates the results.

A couple examples:

Web crawler -- seeded through a curated or personal bookmark list.

Knowledge base -- the permaculture community have amassed a knowledge base on growing plants: USDA hardiness zones, heat zones, humidity, soil requirements, companion planting relationships, etc. That's something I can see people adding on to, particularly with non-standardized homegrown cultivars and how well they do in their local area.
As someone who has done a lot of work in MS Access since the 90s, this looks really interesting. I may be able to move forward on some things I abandoned. Thanks for sharing!
It's new and bad that unknown authors can face massive backlash while they're still unknown. You can sell twenty copies of your first book and get twenty million calls for a boycott in response, if someone photographs a page and tweets a hot take.

That was technically possible before social media, but only if someone powerful decided to make an example of you. Now it can happen because a random person was bored or in a bad mood.

That's specifically what Ishiguro was complaining about. He even said he wasn't worried about influential people like himself (or all the examples you gave). I don't think he used the phrase "cancel culture," either.

> Apparently now that folks aren't just being cancelled for supporting gay marriage, the free exchange of ideas is suddenly important.

Some people suddenly started caring about the free exchange of ideas and others suddenly stopped, but you might be surprised how many just continued. To me, the ones who suddenly stopped are the biggest hypocrites of all.
It feels as if certain blocs are solidifying their grip for an upcoming event.

Events seems to be accelerating and it's beginning to make me nervous.
Because there is a lot more money to be made when you don't control the computer.

We are in the middle of a data gold rush. Business types can't resist.
There is a mention of an Apple trade-in. My Apple experiences are generally amazing but my wife recently did a trade-in on her old watch through Apple. It was handled by an outside company and they screwed up like 4 times. Total nightmare -- do not do a trade-in unless it's in person. You will have very little recourse if something goes wrong.
It sounds like you are not aware of all the 'innovation' UK has explored in 16-18th century, where people had to pay for being in jail, were charged for being judged, we had debt prisons and people ran their business from them! Also we gave cocaine to kids when their teeth hurt.

These ideas are preposterous by modern standards, but people can and have come up with arrangements where a person works from jail without becoming a slave.

Can a 'free man' survive 'however he sees fit'?

You can't even walk around 'freely', some guy in Uk was trying to cross the country naked and spent 2 years in prison.

Build a house in the woods, plow the land, hunt without a license, and someone will show up to deal with you. Sing a song in the street? You are breaking copyright and some public nuisance or antisocial behaviour laws. You built something with your own hands and sold it? Might have broken some patents.

About the only thing a free man may do is work for a man freer than him. I appreciate we have a civilised society, but compared to free day of olde, it's a total straigh jacket.

So no, these situations are not equivalent but they are comparable enough that I don't buy the categorical moral judgement you are casting.
> and an FPGA eval platform with eval board transceiver

Know of any vendors providing these offhand? The Ettus radios are very cool, but sadly a bit out of my price range.
Well, to play devils advocate, as a random Irish guy it seems like my choice is between Chinese companies spying on me or US companies spying on me. I don't see that huge a difference - although I do acknowledge there's a difference in freedom of speech and culture in the US, that applies to US citizens and when it comes to spying on people outside the US the difference is much smaller.
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Have this problem with
16” MBP. I blame Intel. What a clusterf*k.
There's no case to be made that "super control" inherently leads to unethical behavior. It may, however, negatively impact the stock price, since less investors will likely want to invest in a company with limited controls on governance. Most companies aren't Facebook and don't have Facebook growth, so ignoring them is an option.
A nice recent profile of Compass’ rise: https://marker.medium.com/how-compass-became-the-bane-of-rea...

Don’t miss the part where they do a huge, splashy, expensive electronic redesign of the classic realtor For Sale sign only to trash the whole concept.
Because the people there are far right. When you go to a website and the first thing you see is calls to murder jewish people and the n-word repeated ad nauseam, all but the far right decide to just leave. The end result is that gab/parler/etc don't become places where all speech exists but instead places where extreme racism, homophobia, and sexism suck the oxygen away from everything else.
That's not what happened at all.

"But the trade-in kit never arrived."

Apple was supposed to send him a trade-in kit for the old MacBook Pro. Apple failed to do so. Then Apple added an unexpected charge to the card for the amount of the trade-in credit.
The pentaprism finder, though, was an absolute bargoon, and there were probably more Kiev prisms on Hasselblads than there were on Kievs in my day. You could buy an awful lot of film with the literally hundreds of dollars you'd save over what 'Blad wanted for theirs. The only wedding photographers I knew who didn't have the Kiev finder were waist-level purists (who'd probably forgotten how to pan unflipped by that point).
Any way to try this without a Pi?
Looks like a cascade of minor mistakes and overlooked details that escalated too quickly perhaps. IMO the only real problem I see here is the poor resolution options on Apple's side. Hard to entirely fault them for taking action given that it appeared to be a fraud situation, but they should make it straightforward for real, paying customers to rectify mistakes and get everything worked out.
I appreciate the comment, and you're right. It doesn't make any sense for me to worry about this type of stuff, and it does likely spring from my own self-centeredness. It's certainly easy to get caught up in the negative headlines these days, which is why I try to stick to HN - every once in a while, an article like this slips through and triggers me, I guess. Maybe step one towards changing my outlook would be changing my HN username...
I used Windows Hello for about a year with a Razer Stargazer (IR Camera) and was always impressed with how quickly it was able to auth me, no matter if I was wearing glasses or not. Less than a second for me too, and that camera does not have the fastest start time, from camera init to capturing from both RGB and IR cameras.

At first I was skeptical about the usefulness of such a feature given my password doesn't take long to type, but it turned it to be a feature I really enjoyed.
I also agree. Sometimes I speak to work colleagues who are on BT headsets and it must add what feels like 100ms to the call. I can sometimes hear the end of my sentence as I speak. Infuriating.
This is a really interesting article because the author clearly figured out some stuff but also hasn't filled in all the missing pieces or learned the terms yet.

They are absolutely correct that the thing that makes different instruments playing the same pitch sound different is additional higher-frequency components.

In particular, frequencies that are integer multiples of the lowest fundamental frequency are called harmonics. The set of harmonics and their relative amplitudes determines an instrument's timbre (usually prounounce "tamber" in English) or its characteristic sound.

There are also inharmonics—frequencies that aren't multiples of the fundamental. Those tend to die out quickly because they don't form standing waves in the resonating body. These transient sounds form an important part of the very beginning of the sound. Some instruments, like bells, have more or longer-lasting inharmonics.
I went straight to the Author's Wikipedia page to get the tl;dr version of what he allegedly did. The Wikipedia article has the n-word in it. And I don't mean "n-word", I mean the actual word.

From Wikipedia (censorship mine) "The Daily Beast reported that multiple participants accused McNeil of repeatedly making racist and sexist remarks, including the use of the word "n-----" in the context of discussing racist language,"

There's something very bizarre about the state of things when he is punished for asking someone "Did you say n-----?", but then using the word in its fullness when reporting on what he said is permissible.

[Edit: Spelling/grammar]
It looks like they're treating failed auto-payments dramatically differently than "normal" missed payments

I wonder if this is standard in the industry. A few years ago I accidentally selected the wrong checking account to pay my Bank of America card, and because that payment failed, BoA will no longer let me pay online.
> Companies also want their employees to be as productive as possible[...] I don't think any IT department worth their while would ban worthwhile software

This shows a disconnect / bubble. Lots of IT departments require permission to install any software, i.e., a whitelist, rather than the blacklist being proposed (and which is fine in this instance). Granted, many of those places don't care about their employees being as productive as possible (even if they tell themselves they do), and their IT departments aren't worth their salt, and this tends to be norm, unfortunately.
Curious how you disable clipboard events? I always go into the dev console and do $0.value = '<my password>'
This is mind-bendingly nice, wow. Thanks a lot.
I think the inward-lookingness of cancellation is key here. Regarding attempts at totality, in the past, if you were cancelled, it was because you were group A masquerading in a group B world, and group B found out and kicked you out of B-world. But, importantly, Group B couldn't cancel you in the eyes of Group A, only in their own eyes. So if you were found out, your direct life got cancelled but there was frequently another segment of society welcoming you with open arms.

But now with the inward-lookingness of cancellation, you have people from group B who are cancelled by group B, and have no one to fall back on.

An example would be a teacher arguing for the support of gay marriage getting cancelled by a catholic school they work for. That person, in the past, could pick up their bags and move in with the liberals next door. Yes, they lost their job, and maybe half of their associates, but they still have the other half who would be more than welcoming of them for the plight they've been through.

But what happens when a group cancels their own? For example, the Peru N-word journo. By all appearances, he is a liberal-minded person, who worked for a liberal-minded newspaper, in one of the most liberal-minded cities in the nation. But now he got cancelled by his colleagues. What is he supposed to do - go hang out with white supremacists? Neither side would find that appealing. So instead he has to...not partake in society at all?
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I suspect that it is used 1000x more often by black “folks” committing crimes against other black “folks”. Also, black is not a proper noun.
How does that make it better? What if she had published under her real name? Do you think she could have published again after? Do we all have to publish under pseudonym's now for our own safety?
His studies compared private hospitals in AU/NZ to public hospitals in AU/NZ, and showed that private patients are more likely to survive cancer than public patients.

The studies weren't causal, though.
Seems to be descended from northeastern craft brewers.
Same reason a ceiling light does.

I know, I know, you're thinking that doesn't either, but you can control it remotely through an app or website, and automate certain actions. You might want your air cleaner to start running when you leave your office, for example so that your air is dust-free when you get home.

I've actually used a Xiaomi light remote-controlled over the internet to simulate being home while on another continent so that anyone casing the place for a burglary might be dissuaded. I disabled its internet connectivity when I was done with that.
C++'s problem is that it still silently supports non-Modern style code, so the safety is opt-in. And you have to check everywhere for it. It's not as bad as C where the safety just doesn't exist, but it's not much better. As you noticed yourself, it's not actually used safely!
I'm also a heavy Fastmail user and just wanted to recommend Harmonizely for integration with it. It's a service like Calendly that works directly with Fastmail. This is important as while you can kind of hack together a Calendly -> GCal -> Fastmail loop you still end up with every meeting have extraneous Google Meet links in it, etc.
You haven't read my comment at all.
Thanks, we are doing well - never did get into YC but it was a valuable process every time we applied - gave us time when we're not occupied with the day-to-day operating to think about our strategy.

We're back in NZ and focusing solely on the education market which really accelerated our growth. Not sure when we'll be able to travel to the US again but would be great to catch up when that happens!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26308271

"Disabling iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts". This is very strange and worth complaining about. If the iCloud subscription is up-to-date, being less than 14 days late on a credit card payment shouldn't disable it.

Edit: wait, this seems to be contradicted by the blog post. I'm following up on Twitter.

Edit2: "It's policy, but not in the agreement." https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/1366579647564181507
You would be surprised how long this sort of thing can hold. To paraphrase a bit, societies can remain irrational longer than citizens can remain sane...
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> The Martian atmosphere isn’t thick enough for this kind of aerobraking especially if want to get there within a relatively short period during the transit window.

Nonsense, once you've made your capture transit is over, you can take as long as you like aerobraking to circularise the orbit.

Even if you don't aerobrake at all, delta-V from a Mars intercept trajectory to even a low Mars orbit is about 1.4 km/s. Delta-V from that low orbit to the surface is 3.8 km/s. So the idea that direct descent vs descent from orbit is what makes the difference between parachutes being usable or not is total bollocks.
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I love Earley's algorithm! I wonder why it's so rare. Nearley is the only implementation I know. Why? It handles every possible grammar and yet it is a relatively simple algorithm. Would make an excellent choice for a standard library parse(grammar, input) function.

Is it because the papers are hard to understand? All those symbols make no sense to the uninitiated. I definitely struggled to gain an understanding of how it works.
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Or, you could just install Debian. Then install all the windowing environments you find interesting. No "swap to Kubuntu" required, just start a different window manager. Hell, run all of them simultaneously on the same install using a VNC server.
Yeah, I’m very skeptical of who is the “majority” here. If you read Twitter and the NYT, you’d think that my minority group (American Muslim immigrants) is full of people like Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour. And it’s not. I literally know more Bangladeshi Trump supporters than super-progressive Bangladeshis. Plenty more Democrats, sure, but not particularly liberal ones.

One thing that’s important to keep in mind is that most people of color largely don’t even read the NYT, or NPR. Fox News is a far more popular news source among people of color, even Democrats: https://www.journalism.org/2020/03/11/black-and-white-democr...
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