skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm talking about youtubes censorship campaign much more broadly. I was hoping that was much more obvious. I am saying that I have been paying attention to this trend for years, and I very often have seen both creators on youtube and youtube use the AI did it excuse, often without evidence that its true, and I posit if someone wanted to, it would be possible to prove.

I can't prove it myself, but I can offer a plethora of inductive evidence that builds up the probability that I am right to a high enough probability range to be correct.

More than just a pattern on youtube itself, but just read the kind of doublespeak Susan Wojcicki puts on on the topic.
It's not too bad. I'd get a small case for the stuff if I wanted to move it around regularly. It's a little pricy and might be delicate, so I leave it at my desk. Watch today's livestream to hear it in action:
https://www.facebook.com/events/303545994740352

In my bag, I keep a USB lavalier mic, which is smaller, but not quite as good quality.
I didn't think of that and didn't know that's not possible. Thanks.
Warning: nobody is authoritative on bitcoin.

You do not speak for the bitcoin community on who is and is not speaking for bitcoin.
>Ray Dalio at no point in his life ever believed he should be keeping his wealth in "cash".

I'm not saying that. His recent "cash is trash" was talking about staying away from investments like US government bonds because of negative yields and money printing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZyWVxGXPHo&t=24s

(Because in the past, reasonable people did believe that buying and holding US Treasuries was a semi-decent way of investing. To be clear, we're not talking about just leaving pure cash in a $250k FDIC-insure bank savings account.)

>the US has at various points been able to issue them with negative interest rates - taking a loss has been less of a loss then just holding currency and no better options existed.

And this is the part I was responding to in your first comment. It's not just speculators. Another narrative for crypto's rising price is that some investors believe a better option now exists for preserving purchasing power. This is the defensive financial perspective that can simultaneously exist with other market participants who are only in bitcoin for the casino gambling speculation.

Yes, some people buy real estate and just leave the houses empty for "speculation". But some others also buy houses to live in them and many buyers bid up prices with competing offers because of desirable location closer to the office. If there can be 2 or more different narratives for rising real estate prices, why can't there be multiple narratives to explain crypto?
The overpopulation crowd is like a meta-NIMBY. People with high income, “concern” for various problems, and who are amused by their toys and aren’t family oriented usually fall into that position.

Of course, like all NIMBY types, their consumption of air and Brazilian hardwoods is just fine.
Notwithstanding the other issues mentioned, but the MacBook Air is not exactly user repairable. IIRC, it is a SOC. So any part that breaks the entire thing needs to be replaced. I got a MacBook Pro 2018 and though it works it still makes wary.
This is my problem. In order to get a decent sound in my untreated office (reverberant bare walls, hardwood floor, etc) I need to have my dynamic mic with a low gain setting and I have to be right up on it, which makes me look like I'm on Joe Rogan's podcast or something. For Zoom I'd prefer if you couldn't see the mic.
If they claimed to take returns but always found an excuse not to take them, I'd call that anti-consumer.

Maybe Apple could just give a discount if you give up your return option at the point of sale.
I use Firefox almost exclusively and have never encountered this.

Whatever capabilities SQLLite has to recover corrupted or inconsistent storage, it certainly exceeds what you get with flat files (none, unless you implement it yourself).
Equating all 'appeasement' and point to WW2 is tiered old argument.

Arguably the US the aggressor anyway. The US made a number of promises to first Soviet Union to end Cold War and then to Russia. Pretty much all of them have been broken by the US or not renewed after promises. The US took major advantage Russian weakness.

The US extend the boarder of its nuclear weapon protect zone to a few 100 miles of one of the major Russian cities. And realistically had Russia not acted, Georgia might be part of NATO now.

And almost certainty the US is constantly 'cyber-attacking' Russia as well.

Not to mention that punishing the whole Russian population is immoral way of response.

What the US has done to Iraq the last 70 years isbeyond inexcusable
...and only for models sold in a specific time period. The rest of the customers have to sue again.
Real time? No. The legislators have to report their trades a couple months after they make them, IIRC.
> Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, and Fentanyl should never be legal. They are too addicting.

These drugs should be legal precisely because they are so dangerous. The key is adequate regulation appropriate for the potential danger.
> I think this is partly to avoid price arbitrage such as going to buy an iPhone in a cheaper country.

There isn't much arbitrage for new Apple products: if anything, iPhones are more expensive in other countries, especially LEDC countries due to import tariffs (e.g. Brazil and India) and VAT.

That said, I can understand phone companies, in general, not having worldwide warranties because localized phones will have different radio hardware (well, prior to LTE...).

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I just found Apple's current warranty doc for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod and it does mention international coverage ( https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/ios-warranty-d... ). It would be bad PR for Apple if tourists and businesspeople in foreign countries couldn't get their phones repaired on holiday or during a critical business trip.
Both can be true.

It’s a plane reserved for near-peer conflicts where the high performance and stealth are critical deciders due to unavoidably high costs of those technologies.

So the military would also like to have lower cost, cheaper to operate planes for other missions — eg, support ground troops in low threat areas.
President Biden declares national emergency
Because its not about Cyber attacks.
China becomes world’s top semiconductor equipment market
Is this different than the historical imagery feature that was introduced in 2009?

I played around with it a bit. Timelapse seems to only exist at large scales. I can't seem to resolve anything more detailed than a highway. Previously Google had higher resolution historical data. I used this to see how my house, neighborhood, and city changed over decades. There was black and white photography at the far end of the data. This was in the desktop version of Google Earth.

I just downloaded the desktop version of Google Earth and was happy to find out the historical data is still available there. :) Hope that makes it to the web version.
Dell spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company
This is an incredible tool. I know there are other ways to look at timelapses of aerial views but this is just so easy and useable.

Watching the change of specific suburban areas in the US brings a lot of negative emotions for me. Seeing what used to be green areas slowly transform into more suburban sprawl, I can't help but think of the number of species who experienced their ecosystem's walls closing in on them.

As someone who builds a lot of data visualizations, this would be in my top experiences for the category. It's in a way... an art piece.
It's probably just related to crappy laptop hardware. Macbook speakers/mics are great and I never hear any feedback from them. When it happens, and you can hear your voice echoing on everything you say, it gets quite annoying.
All trade is speculative. Prices are a result of speculation between buyers and sellers.
My general impression is that zwift caters to the "serious cyclist" crowd and peloton caters to the more typical (upper middle class) consumer. It's a bit silly to spend $3K (and space!) on a standing exercise bike when you already have at least one bike in the $3K range and often a second in the $10K+ range, both of which you'd probably prefer riding on trainer over Peloton anyways.
All in One Slack App Suite
differential privacy is good for answering population questions like "how many people in my dataset have property x?". it's a lot less clear how to apply it to something as granular as serving personalized ads. and as the example demonstrates, this compounds if you're doing it repeatedly with data that keeps getting updated. to the best of my knowledge, "differentially private personalized ads" is a hard problem, and maybe just a contradiction in terms.
It also depends on positioning and configuration; having it directly in front of your mouth and/or having the gain too high are common problems I've run into.

As an aside, it's been interesting as someone who knows things about audio to realize how much I've unconsciously internalized that most people apparently don't know. Like more gain != more better or what a plosive is.
AppleCare+ covered two incidents of Theft, Loss and accidents.

Third party resellers essentially activated an iphone and marked it as lost. Then, after getting a new replacement iPhone from Apple, they would go on and sell it to customers.

Nowadays, you can only get AppleCare (not the plus) in India which does not cover theft or accidental damage.
I mean in terms of bugs, rather than a 'rogue' client, i.e. not a deliberate attempt to cause a chain divergence.

If a 'broken' transaction gets accepted by a buggy client, and that buggy client has a majority of hash power, then that transaction is, by definition, not actually broken at all and everyone will be forced to accept it (because it will take too long to write a bug fix and re-write the blockchain history)
Canadian here, can confirm. Every time I've ever won any prize of any kind in an official way, we have to do stupid basic algebra problems. Very odd.
Rust is absolutely a technical improvement on some of the listed languages (C, C++, maybe FORTRAN and COBOL). The borrow checker is truly novel outside of some research languages that precede Rust. The other languages you list are sufficiently different from Rust that it’s hard to make a comparison.

Of course Rust is a technical improvement over substantially older languages. To claim otherwise is basically to claim that the twin fields of programming language theory and language design have discovered and achieved nothing in the last 40 years, which is an strange thing to believe.
Why is it so hard to review the Johnson and Johnson vaccine? Data
Is this sarcasm? In the sense that our political democracy is also sold to the highest bidder?
Not under-population, per se, but low rates of growth.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'd be interested in experimenting a hybrid approach in which the microcontroller takes MIDI in then generates basic waves (saw, square, sine etc) to keep resource consumption as low as possible while maximizing poliphony (layering with detune, etc), then leaving to analog circuitry noise generation, filtering, enevelopes etc. It would make things more complicated hardware-wise but I'm sure the sound would improve significantly, at least for us old beards who still love analog synths from the 70s.
I have the bluetooth version. I like it. I have learnt enough to use it reasonably well, but not well enough to use it as a daily driver. There is a significant hump to get over, and it's not easy to force yourself to practice with it. My latest problem with it has been that one of the keys has got reluctant to register presses, which makes it a lot more frustrating to use.
I don’t think any country has laws mandating that people are allowed to return products after owning them for 3 months.

It depends on the circumstances, but in the UK and most of Europe, consumer rights are much stronger than in some other parts of the world.

Here in the UK, the basic rule is that the vendor who sold a product to a private individual is on the hook for anything that goes wrong -- that is, they can't just pass the buck to a manufacturer under warranty or some other fall guy, they have to deal with the problem or be held responsible. Whether the vendor can in turn recover any losses from the manufacturer or reseller who supplied them is then that vendor's problem, not the end customer's.

Usually if a product is defective, the next step will be to repair, replace or refund. The legal position tends to be based on both sides being reasonable. For example, if you have a product that fails earlier than you might reasonably expect but still after a couple of years of use, you might get a refund for part of the original purchase price but you probably wouldn't be entitled to all of it. On the other hand, if a product fails in the first few months and the vendor can't repair or replace it, you're probably entitled to a full refund and there is a presumption that the product was defective unless the vendor can prove otherwise. In some cases, rights to a partial refund might last as long as 6 years, if the product purchased might reasonably be expected to last that long but that one didn't.

Several other shenanigans that vendors try to pull elsewhere also don't hold up here. You can't rely on dubious arbitration terms in sale contracts to override statutory consumer rights. A vendor also must not mislead consumers over their rights, for example putting up a sign saying "no refunds" when the buyer might have a legal right to a refund for a defective product. In fact, it's actually illegal for merchants to mislead in that kind of way, which is why you'll see often notices up at the tills that say something like "your statutory rights are not affected" to make it clear that they're not trying to illegally misrepresent anything about those rights.

This is all in addition to any more generous policy a merchant might voluntarily offer or any warranty a manufacturer might offer on its products regardless of where someone buys them.
How do you mean? Just curious because my wife, who always hated running, is killing it with a NordicTrack treadmill and iFit. She bought a shirt to support her favorite instructor, she is part of some Facebook groups, and talks quite a bit about the "experience" of each run.

I don't quite get it myself, so I am not advocating for one or the other. But it seems to be working for her.
Have a look at mortality and poverty rates globally. There is good news, as well as bad.
It talks about that pretty high up on the site that is linked. Just go read it.
Unsurprisingly, vast majority of $ traded in Energy and Industrials is by GOP, and in tech is by Dems.

Then there's this:

> Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Mark Green, alone, accounts for 99% of the stock purchases in oil and gas companies like USA Compression and Energy Transfer.

Look this guy up [1]:

> Green rejects the scientific consensus that human activity plays a key role in climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Green#Climate_change
I guess so? I'm not sure if the intent is there or if they realize that the holidays cost too much and need to return some.
> Like the US Senate, elected members in the US House of Representatives must disclose financial activity they or their spouse or their dependent children conduct while in office. These financial disclosures can be found here.

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/data

Looks like the report gets filed shortly after the trade.
> Heck, it is not even too unreasonable to compile SQLite to webasm and include it on a web page if for some reason you need client side SQL on the web.

With the deprecation of Web SQL, I highly doubt this is a use-case anyone cares for anymore.

Anyhow, I see your main point: SQLite is indeed "Lite", so it makes sense to use in embedded or small single-consumer cases. I just don't think those are very interesting tools to make in 2021, we expect collaboration and concurrency, so PostgreSQL wins in my imagination-space. I am a web developer though, so I am inherently biased.

I also am not the person you were just discussing with
Sometimes people who complain are right. I don't think European researchers necessarily get the credit they deserve in CS.
There's also https://earthtime.org/explore which is based off the same satellite imagery, but in the browser. And, it has a lot more available data layers with social, economic, and environmental data on a global scale.
How to Hire a Product Manager: The classic essay that defined the PM role
This is right on the money.

I worked at a startup catering to Indian consumers. It was a typical transactional product coupled with offers. The time and energy we spent on fighting different kinds of abuse was outright insane. The fraudsters would come up with a new trick each week to abuse offers. No matter what check we placed (based on e-mail, phone number, IP etc., etc.,) they would beat it.

Based on my experience I can think of a few contributing factors.

1. Indian population. Lot of businesses underestimate this. They are used to reason in terms of %. But when you have a population of 1300 the % could still be within a threshold but absolute number would be larger than entire nations.

2. Outright incompetent cyber policing. The Indian consumers getting access to cheaper smartphone and internet exploded in the 2nd half of last decade. Naturally the country's police have just been unable to scale up to deal with new age crimes.

3. Poverty. It's super lucrative for young poor people to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities and abuse goodwill policies. The return policy is a good example. E-commerce companies in India are riddled with fraudulent return of goods. The modus operandi is simple enough. Order a smart phone, return a faulty/old one of the same model, sell the new one. Profit.

4. Extreme levels of corruption and vast geography. There are some well known cybercrime hotspot PIN codes but chasing the fraudsters is mostly futile. The police are mostly lethargic and more often than not are happy to work with the criminals to collect a weekly payment. It's more lucrative that way, why kill the golden goose?

5. Cheap internet, cheaper SIM connection. The country is awash with cheap bandwidth and SIM connection. To an extent you'll find new SIM packets lying on the sidewalk. This makes it extremely hard to tackle online frauds.
Hyperview – hypermedia driven mobile development
I thought the article is really missing any details, which could be briefly summarized. Then I read the executive order and found that too doesn't mention any names - whatever an appropriate department decides according to stated rules is okay.

Considering that geopolitics can be interesting to HN, we don't discuss enough some topics here. In case with Russia we have something that looks like a violation - in US and by US authorities - of US laws against corruption and some international agreements. We also see conversion of Russia into a more autocratic state, which is both step back from "old times" of 1990-2000 and different from Cold War, when USSR had a different structure of goals than the Russia now.
The problem is the capital. Poor people don't have capital, they live paycheck to paycheck. Nobody is buying any mortgages without a down payment.
Google earth also works in the browser. A few years back, they made that the default way of accessing it.
Any suggestion for someone interested in the same stuff (Zwift, open platforms, etc), but who doesn't have a dedicated bike to hook up with a Wahoo Kickr? The Concept 2 Bikeerg[0] had my eye.

[0] https://www.concept2.com/bikeerg/concept2-bikeerg
Probably because it's not worth the time/money training someone when everybody switches jobs every 2-4 years. By the time they're as productive as a fulltimer, it'll be time to switch jobs
them buying fancier furniture to impress their guests would be my guess but yours is very likely as well
Can anyone tell me if this is due to cultural differences where abusing a refund policy is common place and accepted, so having something that is generally intended as a "good faith" policy simply doesn't work?

Or is this that there are small groups of very organized individuals abusing it and ruining it for the rest of the country?
Democracy is the principle of equal representation, one vote per person. Money is not equally distributed. Voting with money is inherently not democratic. Therefore, I would agree with ouid that "democratization" and "paying for X" are entirely separate things.
20 years ago in the US I had friends in college that would shop for clearance items at places like Office Depot and return them to Walmart for full price (no receipt needed). In one situation there was like a $20 ancient keyboard that Walmart still had in their system for ~$100.
> within 14 days for any online purchases

Almost. It does not apply to custom-made products. Apple resellers consider BTO models to be custom-made and thus not eligible for this protection. But at least they warn you upfront.
I personally think that SQL and tabular data should be built into languages in a manner similar to text and regular expressions. I get his (partially) in python by using pandas and pandasql, which (to my understanding) initiates sqlite in the background. There are a few other modules that do this as well.

Recreating relational table query operations as a set of operations unique to a specific programming language instead of integrating SQL makes, to me, as much conceptual sense as recreating a unique text pattern matching search for each language rather than integrating regular expressions.

This is only a small sliver of the topic here, but I do think that SQLite is probably a good backend for this.
I'm assuming this is using 'modern' Javanese orthography - how different would it be with the orthography for Sanskrit texts?
People downvoting this are sadly demonstrating their ignorance
It's a little bit more complexity, but cheesy 'multitasking' can be achieved with interrupts on HW timers. The main loop sets the synth 'state' and the interrupts act on it.

In DuinoTune [1] the song playback had a per song 'tick' timer interrupt at 12 per beat which handles note on/off, envelope, pitch/audio glides. And a per-sample timer interrupt which does a mixdown of the voices and updates the hardware PWM duty-cycle to generate the waveform.

[1] https://github.com/blakelivingston/DuinoTune
Unless they have Mark Rippetoe doing the strength workouts, it's no sale.
Privacy invasion and tracking is built into everything Google does. It's part of their DNA. No real need to look for details, if their name is on it, you know it's in there somewhere.
> Why not call your retirement fund managers and let them know you really don't need _that_ much of a pension after all.

I'll take the lower pension, will you pass on the message for me? For some reason, the fund managers won't take calls from individual participants.

I'm just noting there's multiple dials here, and it's weird that it's often totally forgotten that "less profits" is just as reasonable as "higher consumer prices." Also you'll note that there are some people who profit extraordinarily from capital and have extraordinary control, and there are some people who profit much less and have even less control than that (and have little choice but to participate in the system as it exists). It's a false equivalency to equate the two.
I have done this with the twiddler3 paired with my phone in my pocket (you can also use it in recording mode, but I didn't). I don't do it a lot, but I enjoyed it for what I did with it.

I'd quite like some sort of audio feedback while doing it, but I was accurate enough that it could still work as notes fairly well.
If I had to guess I'd say they're probably using EDGAR - https://www.sec.gov/edgar