skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Google be recording your mic and using it for ads where they would just be caught for doing it? I mean it's completely possible. But more likely just confirmation bias. Speaking of Occam's razor, we should just dump modern "technology" (smart phones, smart TVs, the web, IoT, even feature phones were no good).

There's actually nothing hard about the concept of a mobile phone, it's just a computer (or could even be a simple PCB) with a mic and speaker. No need for "secret sauce" standards such that nobody can tell if it's secure (I mean it isn't, the bugs just get patched every week, day, nanosecond, whatever). Hell, you can even make a completely open and simple (even more important than open) phone communication standard and charge 1 billion people tens of dollars per month to use your network and become the richest person on earth.

edit: I mean facebook, or whatever (also facebook would have to gain access to the mic [maybe facebook has mic permission i guess, i am unfamiliar with smart phones])
Partly they probably just want people to be able to use different languages on their OS. They have similar guides for Go and Java for example.
That's my point; it's treated as property, not currency, which sucks.
Great job on your progress. I have a question for people who drink a lot of soda: is this something that started in your household growing up and was carried into adulthood?
The more open source hardware we have the more innovation we can expect if the open source softens movement is any indicator.

Financially supporting a nascent open source hardware movement seems like a good thing.
Does it though? I’d assume that if supply is restricted. Demand goes down. Keeping prices relatively in check.

E.g. if Greece is the same price as south of France. People would just go to France.
I wouldn't say zero. He works there, he gets the feel there.

You have to wonder why did he said all of those specific things. Do you think he made them all up on the spot?

Those things he said line up with their programming (the death toll counters, etc.).
It is pretty shocking how common this incel ideology shown here is. Instead of making man responsible for their own actions, they are made into poor victims that suffer terrible from the lack of sexual satisfaction that is apparently their birthright. They have no other choice but to act out. No, they do.

Nobody ever died from lack of sexual satisfaction. You can always pleasure yourself. Rape is not sex. People with violent tendencies need to get therapy not some outlet.
IANAL, but my understanding is that this is not in line with GDPR. You are not allowed to force the customer into tracking, which effectively happens in the scenario you describe since the user can't use the browser without accepting the ToS. Also, you have to be quite explicit: simply burying tracking in 52 pages of unrelated legalese is not compliant with GDPR.

Someone please chime in if I'm wrong here. I'm no lawyer but do take these things seriously (I'm trying my best to provide a tracking-free website.)
This paper is dated November 2020, but I don't think anything has changed. In the past 48 hours, the local paper ran a story about everybody needing a third booster shot, a story about all the things it's still not safe to do if you're fully vaccinated, and finally a story that the city was immediately moving to full general eligibility because vaccine providers couldn't fill appointments. Nowhere did they provide links to any of the providers with open slots. You had to work that out for yourself.
Fatal Tesla Crash in Texas Believed to Be Driverless
LevelsIO on Twitter: It's quite how bad Namecheap has become
Full-throated agreement. I'm actively interviewing elsewhere.

The $600 I got in my employers recent "equity event" felt like a slap in the face for 4 years of service.
Exactly. A big part of the WordPress community are publishers, bloggers, affiliate marketers, etc who rely on ads to generate revenue. I'm not sure they'd be too thrilled with this proposal.
Can someone explain how FLoC works like I am five ?
re 2., this is a Bad Thing. I fully agree that neither Google nor anyone at the drugstore 'knows' about the purchase, but the basic problem is that we've built a commercial marketplace that spies on people, but the information about people is treated as privileged commercial data in an automated and unaccountable marketplace.
Look up e.g. VISA corporate responsibility report for 2019. It’s been some time since I’ve seen that, but iirc Bitcoin hash power takes like 120 TWh, “Big Tech” combined is like 50 TWh, and VISA with all the nuts and bolts (and people) is like 0.2 TWh - with proven consumption of renewable energy.
This relates to a preference for owner-controlled computing (as opposed to vendor-controlled hardware). See:

https://libreboot.org/
https://coreboot.org/
https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Clubhouse Series C
It's 2021 and there are still people that think Bitcoin is anonymous. It's not. It's pseudonym ous.
As another idea, since all the changes are described in an AST, I could offer a "undo" in the query log for INSERT action. The UPDATE action would require a bit more work as I don't track the previous data (and it could be changed in another system as well).
They will lose that case under GDPR, you can't hide the details in ToS and hope the user doesn't see it. You must get informed and freely given consent. Google is violating both, because I can't click "No" and the information is so hidden you can't expect a normal consumer to find it.

It will take a few years but they're going to get hit very very hard by EU privacy regulators.
A very large amount (something about 25-47% [1]) of homes use electricity without getting any computation for their electricity to heat conversion. Those homes could use computing devices (albeit at a high capital cost) with 0 marginal energy or environmental cost. Especially if their device is a sunk cost. Yes heat pumps are better than 100% efficient, but they're inappropriate in many circumstances, and can be as expensive as ASIC miners, but it seems that miners also have a much better ROI (~1-2yrs payback) than the energy savings a heat pump would give (~5-10yrs payback).

This ROI could be then funneled into carbon offset projects, renewables, and research.

[1]: A quick google brought up a few results spanning those ranges
It’s not quite the same story but https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware builds elixir releases into distributable executables.
The page does seem to be the official wordpress development blog, linked from wordpress.org's "get involved" page.

"The WordPress core development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate."
Wikipedia mentions the 80/50 problem. At some point the Hikkomori will be 50, and their parents, their sole means of support, will be 80. The Hikkomori are not capable of supporting themselves and will run into trouble.

I also expect there are health effects to lifelong withdrawal from all social contact and from not leaving one’s room. We’re not meant to totally avoid touch and eye contact and movement.
Drag it behind you?
And... does any of those addons actually matter? I have yet to see why the average person should care. If I was a drug dealer or trying to side step customs or hiding wealth in general, dude, I'm going crypto. But I do none of that. It's just extra layers of hassle for me to go buy a bottle of rum, pack of chicken breasts, and pay for my electric bill.

There was an article on HN regarding money laundering in the past week. Lots of people were surprised and denounced how easy it is to launder money... so... with Bitcoin's features making it a beautiful means of money laundering... if it becomes truly adopted as a currency, those features are going to go bye-bye. Stealing bitcoin hasn't been rare either. Search engine of choice look up, "bitcoin stolen". It doesn't really seem that much better that current systems. There's always a way to steal from someone. That xkcd comic on security makes a good joke on it. The best hash doesn't protect you from someone hitting you with a $5 wrench.

So what visa isnt responsible for securing the stability of the dollar? Who in their right mind thinks they are responsible for shit other than skimming off the top when communicating between two banks? Seriously? You think a mainstream bitcoin transaction service is going to be a non-profit? Visa is simply part of the network. If they go down, there are other services that still function. Best part, if all telecom goes down, paper money still works. Crypto doesn't. Anything that affects visa, Mastercard or any other high or low level merchant service, affects crypto too. Generally, crypto is just another merchant service using it's own chucky cheese tokens instead of an multi organization agreed upon one.

Most of the "benefits" are either rare, extremely niche or just brute forcing a wall that just requires stepping around it.
The article, while correct, is just a restatement of banning NSFW content on apple version of Discord. But with a more clickbaity title.
> The bans were not popular with many South Africans. Tobella says it felt like collective punishment, even against people like him, who just wanted a drink after a long overnight shift.

I think it would be a good idea for states to issue a “license to drink”.

Often, when people abuse their right to drink alcohol, the state will take away their license to drive, which makes very little sense to me. By doing that, you’re potentially taking away their ability to commute to work and make a living, but leave intact their ability to go to a bar and get wasted and start a fight.

Issuing a license to drink would allow states to sanction violations of alcohol laws with punishments specific to one’s ability to procure alcohol.
Growing up in India, I had quite a few of these Soviet gems on my bookstand. The only thing I had that originated from the West were a pair of Levi jeans. I was shocked to find out that a system that could make those jeans would win against one that made those books. In the early 2000s I was working in SV and repeated this remark to a Russian colleague. He told me of course the system that made the jeans is superior - he did not get his first pair of jeans till he got to the US and the trousers that he wore in Russia were absolutely horrible when compared to the jeans. Jeans to him were a marvel of engineering. The fact that a system could produce affordable jeans that would last for years, which people could buy whenever they wanted by strolling into their neighborhood shop was a much bigger achievement than state sponsored STEM books
This is stupid. As everybody else, I prefer concise explanations of complex problems, but sometimes, you're better of writing fewer descriptive and long sentences, rather than writing a fuckload of paragraphs.
Travel less affordable to some, housing more affordable to others.
Popper is abused by the woke. No one who actually read philosophy believes that Popper is in any way an apologist for the woke movement.
On the contrary, pervasive targeted marketing is exactly a legitimate business reason in the context of increasing revenue efficiently, as most corporations want to do.
Made $1 off this free product - surreal! thanks to everyone who checked out curated!
It's legal, but not necessarily legitimate. Informally, people use the latter terms to articulate their view of what the law should be, rather than what it is.
Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
Hey HN,

I've been using AWS lambda a bit recently, mostly as a way to glue together various bits and pieces.

Maybe I'm doing this wrong but does anyone else find the experience to be really frustrating?

I can unit test bits of the code just fine, but at some point I always end up stuck in a slow feedback loop where I deploy the code, do some manual invoking, go and dig through the logs in CloudWatch, add another print statement in my lambda... and so on.

What I want is to run the lambdas locally, ideally more than one, and then exercise them with streams of test events (perhaps captured from a real environment). It would be quite cool if I could define BDD style tests around them too.

Anyone have any suggestions or share my frustrations?

I have heard localstack is quite good although I haven't given it a go yet. Would that work for me? I did try SAM but I was a bit underwhelmed and I don't want to use a separate IaC tool for these.

Alternatively, do other FaaS providers solve this problem?

Thanks for any help.
A friendly reminder that PoW runs just fine on 100% renewables. It's the job of regulators to make sure all PoW runs this way. Just like it's the job of regulators to mandate renewable energy for literally all other industries.
Perhaps. As someone who travels relatively infrequently, I'm pretty price insensitive. Like I'm traveling. Who cares if one of those locations is 20% cheaper? I wonder of many people are like me. I doubt that people are very price sensitive when visiting landmark cities.
Ask HN: What developer tool would you like to build?
I have a lot of interest in dev tools and wonder what other fellow HN'ers think about dev tools in 2021. For example, I would love a better version of web based database admin tool (I am aware of tableplus, sequelpro, dbbeaver etc) with audit log etc. I would also love to build my own wrapper around server management (tools like cockpit etc are a good start). I recently did an internal project where we provided devs ability to download a database for debugging. They cannot do anything else but just download the db over ssh. Everything gets logged (who did it, when etc).
cities with strong tourism economy want to impose anti-tourism measures? how could this possibly play out
I have a similar story. Many friends asked me how I lost weight. Did I join a gym? Start running? Keto? The answer is boring but I cut out sugar.

I stopped adding it to drinks. I stopped drinking soda and fruit juices and smoothies (fruit juices/smoothies are as bad as soda imho as they all try and pretend they are healthy). Stopped having dessert (unless out for a meal for a special occasion), no biscuits, chocolate, crisps and snacks.

Plus I started viewing my calorie intake over a 7 day period rather than daily. This way I didn't 'feel bad' if I went out for a meal or had a movie and pizza night with the family. I found that 'feed bad' mindset made me quit many times as I felt I had 'failed'. So by removing it and viewing intake over a whole week I could easily reduce a bit over 3 or 4 days and still break even. A simple change of perspective really worked for me.

It took a while but now I don't like how sweet many things are. Like a mars bar is disgusting to me now. Two bites and I feel kind of sick from how much sugar is in it. It shocks me how desensitised I was to sugar as it is added to literally everything.

Also an added bonus to the weight loss was that I also saved a lot as my appetite changed and I was naturally less hungry than I used to be. Smaller meals and less processed crap meant my shopping bill was much lower than before.
Yes, interesting idea, reminds me of fluid filled glasses - https://www.wired.com/2009/02/20-self-adjusta/

Am I missing something? Why isn't there a clear example of the lens in action?

Some technology will make this cheap and with enough granular control to become a staple lens technology.
And then on charge cards (NOT credit cards) like American Express, you don't even have the option to carry a balence. Full balence must be paid every month in it's entirety.
I've never been to France or Greece, but are they comparable destinations for a vacation? I was under the impression that a vacation in Athens will be warm and sunny, whereas Paris will likely be cloudy.
Light X11 Herbe Notifications without D-Bus
Has Airbnb driven down the cost of hostels? Anyone looking for cheap travel would be making a mistake if they're using Airbnb IME.
Hotels have to hold up hygiene, pay taxes and are regulated as to where and how many beds.

Now people bought lifing flats and converted them to girls.

Home > travel
That's a straw man argument. I wont necessarily dispute the axe to grind, but can you provide proof when "deceptive editing" occurred?

Currently Project Veritas is in multiple lawsuits disputing that claim.

Most recently, in Project Veritas vs New York Times, the NYT claimed their articles contain journalistic "opinions" without notifying readers. Meaning they made claims they can't back up:

https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/maEy58HDFCR7qdtFOb...

I don't think it's fair to dismiss the content of their videos out of hand. While I disagree with the tactics, this is essentially undercover journalism and you can hear longs stretches of the CNN technical director discussing the mood / methods on set.
The basic needs of a man until his late 30s are quite straightforward. If there is no chance for sex, and professional endeavours deliver more stress than anything else, then why bother with the rest? Saying this from completely different perspective - of a native citizen of less developed EU country, the pandemic measures and shutdowns almost haven't changed my lifestyle.
Again and again this claim... I fail to imagine how anyonr believes that the US or China could be stopped from going to war by not having enough BTC of all things... In a BTC world they would simply borrow BTC (if they wluldnt control 50% of hashpower anyway) and that would be it.

If you imagine that people wouldn't lend BTC to the US, remember that, when Standard&Poor's reduced America's credit rating, US bonds shot up in price (even though technically they were the one asset that S&P's rating was about the most).
I've spent the last 6 months doing airbnb hopping and I really need to find a way to share my experience. In a few words: it was amazing. We spent some time in San Diego, Hawaii, Arizona, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara. If the vaccine wasn't here, we probably would have kept going east.

I think the future will have a place for people who do not want to buy or rent a place long-term. #vanlife is already starting to spread throughout the world, but I think airbnb hopping will become much more prevalent as well.

While there were downsides: we often didn't have friends in the places we visited, and we couldn't travel with all of our stuff -- the experiences and memories we've had made this a worthy thing to do.

This is really something that I don't think would have been possible before AirBnB, the same way travelling the world wouldn't have been possible without the B2C'ization of flying.
> The cities' mayors call for all rentals for a period under 30 days to be classed as touristic accommodation.

But they could also be used by business travelers.
Google Play: Join – meetings and money
This is the easiest way to meet a person in any city, make friends to collaborate or have fun, or start meeting others yourself and get some cash just by meeting someone you like.
I'm surprised noone mentioned under-desk treadmills, you can walk and work at the same time, not to mention use meetings for something productive.
> A majority of the google image results for "treadmill" don't have an obvious guard, so the Peloton one doesn't seem uniquely dangerous.

Seem being the key word.

Please look at the consumer report[1], section "Unique Hazards".

The TL;DR is that height off the ground, belt design, and other factors form a uniquely unsafe combination that results in Peloton causing injuries that other treadmills don't cause.

[1]https://www.consumerreports.org/product-safety/peloton-plus-...
Do we not take off our shoes inside in the US?

I…guess we don’t

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

Strange. I was raised to take my shoes off, and it feels commonplace to me to take your shoes off when you go into someone else’s place. Perhaps this is a regional thing.
In my (limited) experience with people who tried to learn Rust with a predominantly C++ background mostly struggle with trying to shoehorn some OOP design, when the language has other idioms better auite to it.

Rust does have a lot of nice ideas borrowed (hehe) from functional programming, but it's far from being FP!

On a tangent: you're comment about learning a FP before learning Rust is great advice, but not for the reasons you initially intended perhaps. Learning FP in general is great, since it teaches you a different way of thinking from the "classical" way programmers think. So, it's great to learn FP for anyone, regardless of whether it's for Rust's sake (it will help a bit with reasoning about some Rust concepts and idioms, though), or not.
Prioritizing local vs temporary residents seems like the opposite of NIMBYism.
To be fair, most "news" of any sort on any topic is bad news.
14? Hah.... a mere youngster. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92176 was close to 20 years old when it recently got fixed.

(Pretty sure I've seen even older issues eventually get fixed, but don't recall details offhand.)
> This ROI _could_ be funneled into carbon offset projects, renewables, and research.

They could also just take the costs that would go to ASICs and instead put that into the investments in the first place. What actual utility is there in some mathematical computations for society as a whole?
Huge amounts of it, yes -- particularly since the anti-floc people (which, to be blunt, I'm not in love with, particularly Google just deciding to do this on their own) tend to also be in the break 3rd party cookies camp.

With respect to eg brand advertising: even if you get past an inability to measure impact, once you break most of the ad infra, ad buyers simply aren't going to negotiate / buy with small sites. It's not worth their time or money. Small here is probably less than millions of uniques per day.

With respect to direct response advertising, you've mostly lost the ability to track a conversion. So it becomes pointless.

The advertising before extensive tracking was a different time: way way less money, way fewer ads, way less ad blindness amongst viewers, way way way fewer publishers, etc.

Will some advertising persist? Absolutely. eg the branded / source trackable referral codes that podcast advertising uses. But there will be an enormous falloff in dollars pointed at publishers.

And to be clear, I'm not a fan of 3rd party tracking. But we should be deliberate before we end the ad-supported internet.
I'm a bit late to the reply, but I wanted to thank you for the succinct reponse. This is the exact sort of thing I was looking for when I made my comment.
I have never understood the practice of using a verb phrase ("get") for functions with no side-effects. To me it makes more sense to name the function after the result, i.e. Instances, InstanceIds, AllInstanceIds etc.