skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears we have a trifecta of evil materials in our environment:

1. Diesel/Petrol/Thermal Coal - air pollution

2. Plastics and Phthalates - hormone disruption, land and sea pollution

3. Sugar - obesity

If anyone has any surplus energy, money, or political power, we would strongly benefit from these ingredients being removed as much as possible from human environments.
It's crazy that only 120 years elapsed between these two events. It's a short time to go from flying on earth for the first time to flying on Mars for the first time.
We were still importing cases on airplanes after mandatory pre-boarding PCR tests to fly to Canada so the notion that lower specificity at-home test kits were the key to unlocking the pandemic needs a lot of evidence to be compelling.

Looking at the definition of "essential" most places in the West, it was nearly everyone!
Because they're cdevs.
Yeah, there's nuance here that so many miss. We can understand humans through a social lens when discussing psychology or anthropology. However, we might consider humans through another lens when discussing political theory. It would be entirely consistent to be an ardent individualist politically whilst also believing that humans are social animals who prefer close-knit units. I think the root of the problem is the naturalistic fallacy.
I'm not sure why this is being shared if the site is wholly incomplete. Outside of the TODO links and bogus videos, two of the listed libraries point to invalid or archived repos in GitHub.
This blog has some info on Apple and privacy.

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

https://sneak.berlin/20201204/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware...

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/

Two comments from the same author on M1 Macs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25958422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778750
A government needs to be efficient so that instead of spending $2 billion on a bridge to nowhere, or a bureaucracy that spends millions of hours pushing papers but accomplishes nothing of merit by doing so, or a public housing authority that pays its workers to sleep on the job rather than inspect or repair the boilers, or a public employee pension program that gives away millions when you game the system with excessive overtime your last year, or any other myriad ways to waste society’s resources achieving nothing and worse than nothing - instead of that, it gets something valuable done, and society can benefit from that something.

Waste is not virtuous and you cannot prosper by continually breaking and repairing the same windows.
This is the thing I don't understand. People say they want this, but...

You can already do that with PinePhone, right now. All that's needed for this use case is already there. (since 8 months ago, really)

The drivers are all there if you really want this, and it's a few weekends project to write a bunch of scripts that will make PinePhone do exactly what you want just by using common Linux tools.

You can use fbkeyboard and write a bunch of shell scripts. Calling is no more than a few AT commands that you can wrap in a shell functions or whatever. If you really want to be fancy, you can write something that will allow you to queue AT commands and call your scripts on unsolicited indications from the modem. You don't even need a modem manager or any other complicated SW like that, if you don't like complexity.

Mobile data can be entirely handled by the kernel too, with just some generic configuration commands to set it up. No complicated usersapce needed, no daemons needed, not even pppd, like with older GPRS modems.

Audio is solved at this point, and I documented all the controls and have a suggested setup for the very flexible calling setup where you can monitor, playback, record, modem audio, your mic/earphone, in whatever combination you want. There's even a tool that can do the setup based on some config flags, no need to mess with individual controls or ALSA tools. No audio daemon is necessary for basic use cases.

I even have this documented on my website: https://xnux.eu/devices/pine64-pinephone.html if you click through various links in the features table.

All you need is just start and implement your ideas. No kernel hacking needed, or any complicated stuff like that. It's just there for the taking.

People who actually did something like this can probably be counted on one hand. There's sxmo, and there are 1 or 2 people I remember writing to me personally, that seemed to have some similar low-tech but extremely flexible and hackable custom setup.
A despot may also pack the Supreme Court to change the rules, although the existing Supreme Court may prevent the court from being packed. I am curious what would happen if all the members of the existing Supreme Court were to suffer an unfortunate accident in this situation. edit: Of course you still need Congress to approve the nominees.
An issue with just focusing on problems is that sometimes it’s not clear what the problem is.

Say you create a fun little app that a hundred people download, that you just had a good time making.

What problem did it solve for them? Boredom? Did it solve the same problem for everyone?

That being said, I like the article, and I like the idea of focusing on problems more than solutions, to define a career.
That makes sense to me, but as a reader, I'd still value such a link for a few reasons.

- It helps me believe the website is aware of the source material (vs re-reporting some other news site's content)

- In cases where there are multiple stories over time, it makes it easier to disambiguate which story is about which event. This happens often with legal cases, where there are different judgments from different motions or even from different trials about the same underlying thing. As a lay person, I don't need to understand the source document to be able to understand that three different media outlets are discussing the same document, provided that they each link to the same document

- It decreases the effort for an authority to vet the news story. This sends a signal to me that the organization welcomes such vetting, or at least thinks they'd stand up well to it
Neither did Vue, or Django, or Rails or dozens of other successful and widely adopted technologies. Svelte's issue is probably that it came out a little too late: companies have adopted React, Vue or Angular, and have sufficient inertia (existing codebases and hard-won experience) that there is little incentive to switch just for a slightly nicer syntax or state management model.
> According to Rand, every comment on this forum is pointless because it doesn't gain us dollars, therefore we are doing nothing of value

Go on, you're almost there.
It's more often a progression from authoritarianism to representative government and back to authoritarianism.

"Law is what should happen. Politics is what does happen."
I'm also discounting this position based on the fact that the prime directive of government is not efficiency.

Do you have a source for your numbers?
I agree a compositional/coordination cli tool is needed. However here are a few options:

- FreeBSD style jails already offer docker config, but here is an article showing a few basic things going on, notably the Network Access section has a FIXME by it: https://bsdwatch.net/articles/jails-as-virtual-servers

- For network isolation it looks like this package could help: https://klarasystems.com/articles/virtualize-your-network-on...

- For reproducibility you can use the FreeBSD package builder: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-poud...

- FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer. FreeBSD running Docker: https://www.gamsjager.nl/2019/01/11/How-to-run-Docker-on-Fre...

- This thread is interesting: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/docker-is-dead.69955/page...

I am going to explore this more in the coming weeks as I play around with FreeBSD.
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Greek, for one, also has 2nd declension feminine nouns, e.g. παρθένος.
You can't minimize the role of the producer/promoter. Someone has to manage the business and financing aspects of signing up the venue. RoadPony should also provide this service and enable venues to sign up and possibly promote the show. You've got to take tickets, provide security, housekeeping, etc. It's actually a key element in automating this approach to live music.

Bands that can do a one night show can fill in gaps in venue calendars.
HI!

What it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/PaHExsp

Here's Fossil 2.15 running on EC2: http://54.79.202.57/register - this link will allow you to create a new account.

Alternatively, the "chat" user (password "chat") can be used if you don't want to make an account. [It used to have the ability to create additional users (with admin privs), with the result that the fossil instance rapidly began spouting SQL errors and I had to reset it, twice. That was fun...]

The instance is completely ephemeral. If this comment is more than a week or so old, expect the above IP to be dead (I'll be cycling the VM).

And yes - note that it's going over HTTP, not HTTPS :P (that would have taken an extra, uhh, while)

--

If you're using 'chat': once you've opened the above link, go to "login", login, then locate the new "chat" tab. You can optionally go to Admin > Users and make yourself a new account (the "Add" link is a little hard to see, it's to the far left immediately under the tab bar; also be sure to select "Chatroom" from the far right in the permissions list).
I've heard this rumor, but I've been using Google Fi outside of the US for three years. I haven't even set foot in the US for a year and a half. No issues at all, and I use 10-20 GB a month. A few weeks ago, worried about the rumors, I went through the terms of the contract looking for anything about international usage limits or being cut off, and I talked to customer support and asked them about this, and they assured me that there are no limits on how much or how long I can use data internationally, and they will not cut me off. My guess is that these rumors come from people who are not US citizens/residents who try to hack the system and get Google Fi through a third party or with an address/bank that isn't really theirs. I know a lot of Europeans who have tried to get Google Fi by jumping on an American's family plan. I wouldn't be surprised if those people had their accounts cut off.
...do we all have telemetry in our cars, really? I mean, we have data that can be read via ODBII, but it's not exactly connecting via the cell network, it has to be retrieved with a plug.

I can't think of anyone I know who has a car that needs to phone home. But that's a very limited sample size, so you know. Also, I'm most likely in a different market to you, we've never had anything like OnStar make inroads here into domestic vehicles - some commercial operators are using telemetry on their trucks etc.

But rest assured, if all our cars were phoning home, I'd be making a massive fuss.

For example, an insurance company in my country has recently launched an app that will "measure" your driving and offer lower premiums if your driving is "safe" according to their algorithms. It's obviously opt-in, but at some point, the difference between a discount for opting in, and a penalty for opting out, becomes hard to differentiate.

You don't have any rights to review their algorithms if you feel that they got it wrong, it's a combination of Hail Corporate and Hail AI, and context is lost because it's impossible to capture that. E.g., does heavy braking indicate you were driving poorly, or did you encounter a situation where heavy braking was necessary, such as the damn cat down the road that thinks it's invincible deciding to make a sprint for it in front of you? Is acceleration in excess of their defined limit unsafe? Or were you accelerating more than you normally would, because someone gave you space to turn into the road and you didn't want to needlessly hold them up, given their courtesy?

And given what I've seen of the FAANG algorithms, I don't want algorithms from companies nowhere near FAANG level making decisions about me. A personal favourite of mine was FB removing a comment of mine, because my sister said she'd totally marry my wife, on account of how, well, pretty damn awesome my wife is, and I'd replied "Haha, I'll fight you" - and FB had flagged that as "hate speech/incitement to violence".

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED rant.
> Why isn't Deliveroo innovating so much on the technical side that the gas/delivery time savings aren't making everyone satisfied?

I'm not convinced it's tractable to satisfy everybody.

1. Customers (broadly speaking), want to minimize time between order and delivery, and between pickup and delivery (fresh, hot food).

2. Drivers want to maximize number of jobs and minimize down time.

These utilities seem in obvious tension -- if a driver goes to restaurant A, B, C and delivers to customer X, Y before Z, then Z is getting a worse product than A -> Z.

Deliveroo, itself, presumably wants to find a blend between customer satisfaction (1) and reducing marginal costs (2).
Excessive collectivism leads to war, death, and genocide because all political groups must always be oriented against something.

Excessive individualism leads to an unhappy, isolated, dilapidated society and ironically almost always presages excessive collectivism.

This is just one more area where we need to search for the golden mean.
Her father is a convicted child rapist and her husband is a self confessed paedophile.
I consider myself a pretty advanced JS developer, and I still don't understand how "this" works in JS. I avoid using it whenever I can.
This is what private branches are for - when you merge them and sync they show up as a single commit on the mainline branch - not too different from git merge --squash.
Weird, opposite experience: of the few people I've worked with IRL that proclaimed they didn’t use soap, none had an awkward smell and I would have not even known if they didn’t tell me.
A Port of LevelDB to Go
That's a good heuristic, but in this case the article is garbage and the author a troll.

There is a valid, honest conversation to be had about FSF, free software, and RMS, but this article isn't it.
Fossil is offline. You sync up when connected and then you have code, issues, wiki, chat that work offline, and sync when connected again.

It's not an instant messenger, more like a mail box or a bulletin board. Which works when network is down.
To keep the rover in the news during a fairly boring period of checking everything out post-landing.

NASA's press strategy has gotten dramatically more competent in the last 20 years or so.
This is the standard way calculators have operated since forever. They don't evaluate a whole expression, they simply have an accumulator and you operate on it one step at a time.
If we want to talk about individuals, the top wealthiest individuals pay less in taxes proportional to their individual wealth now than they did in the 1980s and 1970s.

It seems weird to want to pivot to individuals being taxed and then comment on how much those individuals pay as a group, and not look at whether or not individuals being taxed are being taxed at a fair rate over time.
Wouldn't excessive collectivism be consensus?
This is in essence the core of intersectionality, which is very popular in academia right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Nice read. I find these personal recollections from close friends to be way more illuminating than mere biography. William Feaver's "lives of Lucian Freud" is also in this vein ;)

An influential predecessor to much of Barzun's cultural history was John Erskine's Moral Obligation to be Intelligent. It's a short read. But the quality of prose and clarity of argument is unrivaled!

https://archive.org/details/moralobligation00erskgoog
> Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought

But... Remember that the lifestyle improvements from fossil fuels greatly extend life. We (currently) need fossil fuels for our food and medicine supply. Just think of how many people would die if there were no fossil fuel ambulances or electricity to run hospitals.

That, IMO, is the real reason why we're in the climate change mess. The lifestyle that fossil fuels enables is irresistible and too lucrative to accelerate the change to clean energy.
> Academic freedom has been weaponized, cut loose from its traditional mooring in intellectual expertise (as has been argued by intellectuals expert in the subject, such as Robert Post and Joan Scott),

Huh. This phrasing suggests to me that the response article (OP) is pretty on point, maybe even more than the author explicitly mentions: rather than there being ideologies that are beyond reproach or criticism, "experts" are not to be questioned.
Grady's integrity during this video is inspiring. He ignores opinion and sticks to the facts, which means the information given is really trustworthy.

I've been subscribed to his channel for a while now, and his content is always excellent.
Imo, if you know what all of that means and what to do, it is fast and easy. If you are new to it all, it can be frustrating.
>That all aside, the sheer amount of angst and hatred thrown toward Rand is interesting in itself. As MLK said, the opposite of love isn't hate, it is indifference, and boy do people love to hate Rand.

Yeah it's quite interesting. I don't think I have ever seen another book or people who like it get so much hate, completely unprovoked.

Being honest, her books are not that good. The writing is bad to put it kindly; it is obvious the whole story is just a canvas used to paint her ideas onto. However, the ideas they present are really unique, which makes the works very memorable.
Oh hell, I didn't need to know that. Now I'll be noticing it every time I see the new Windows calc...
yeah sorry I had retracted the specifics in (brackets) for the reason you stated after not finding proper sources. apologies you were still left with the original version of my comment.

I did meet him in person back in the day and we had dinner. I'm a lot younger than him still and was just breaking into programming back then. He treated most "less experienced" people on the table like shit including myself and the evening ended with me calling him out on various things and turning him into a joke where even the people who invited him couldn't help giggling (I used to work behind a bar as a kid and am pretty good at reducing somebody to rubble with humor if needed. so in a way I did to him what he did to others and he absolutely hated it.)
That'd explain it. The science reporters at the BBC almost always link to original studies, but I guess the sport team haven't faced that issue.
I don't see how it is a hypocrisy. You can be an individualist and still use benefits of a group.
Which might be correct, and those group memberships are different for every one - making it a gasp individual-individual!
What is the path to contractor work? How did you bootstrap your professional network, if I may ask?
Still, it's surprising that this behavior changes when you switch to "scientific" mode. The UI doesn't communicate it well.
Unsure whether they're using a different fee model for the "Fund" payments. But they're open about the fees for payments from individuals (each transaction on a collective's page shows the fee breakdown).

> Open Collective takes 10% + credit card fees (usually 3% + $0.30/transaction) [0]

A few concrete examples (dependent upon payment processor chosen)

For $1, a collective got ~$0.56

For $100, a collective got ~$86.60

I was getting very close to the inter-bank exchange rate for payouts.

[0] https://medium.com/open-collective/what-is-open-collective-h....
SatelliteToolbox.jl[0] (one of the packages developed by the post author) is one of my most-used Julia packages! It's great for (among many other things) working with TLE orbits and presents a really nice interface for converting between all the different Earth-fixed and Earth-centered-inertial frames, which is generally a huge hassle. Ronan has also been very friendly to PRs on Github which is always nice. Awesome to see this mission come together!

[0] - https://github.com/JuliaSpace/SatelliteToolbox.jl
Yeah that's one of them. If you don't like the RHEL desktop you can choose another vendor.
Very cool thread, and encouraging to see that they could open-source a good bit of the satellite code.
I wouldn't call a population of 170k people a "small town" but it does look nice.
This is a solid point, and doesn't deserve to be dismissed out of hand for wordplay reasons due to the apparent contradiction.

Obviously a team made up of self-reliant individuals is stronger than a team made up of not-self-reliant individuals.

Inidividuals who don't neglect the resources of the collective (which is impossible), but need them as little as possible, seem pretty clearly preferable to the alternative.
Some of the original ideas might have been achieved, but they are constantly under attack one way or the other -- some more brutal, some more indirect.

There is a war going on against General Purpose Computing, and walled gardens have become the norm. We need the FSF -- or something like it -- more than ever.
Its not just about death with Covid- one of my coworkers- who on the brief times he came to the office since this started last March- wore a mask at all times, even at his desk- caught covid in early November. He is a long hauler and now has what appears to be chronic leg pains that he goes to doctors weekly for to get properly diagnosed. This is a guy in his 20s.

If a "really small risk" is 545k people dead in a year in the US, even with all the precautions we have taken, I think we fundamentally disagree on what a really small risk is. There are now more dead from Covid in a year than the entire durations of both World Wars combined and in about a month or so, we can lump in Vietnam in there as well.
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The last one is facsinating... the sheer amount of stuff that can go wrong on a mission like this is mind-boggling.

Also the frustration they must've felt seeing the same lens cap malfunction over and over.
You only need 1 witness for that. The first two are the parties.

3 is an enhancement for redundancy. Habit an odd number is a false confidence. Think about it: what happens if you have 4 witnesses? They could tie? How is that worse, as it adds more information that maybe 2 of the first 3 are lying or wrong?
> Safe participation and representation are necessary ingredients, along with inclusivity. Richard Stallman’s conduct and the actions of the FSF board of directors have been harmful to all of them.

"Safe participation and representation are necessary ingredients, along with inclusivity. So to show how commited we are, we are going to destroy someone's else life just because he is weird." Really inclusive...