skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered what type of person it takes to create a presentation like that. Do they actually believe in the things they are putting on the slides, or do they know this is all BS but they're willing to do such soulless work for whatever they're getting paid to do so?
Can you have third-party Android app stores and access to all of Google services that have the same level of ease of access?

Nope. If adding a third party app store was so easy Epic wouldn't be suing Google the same as they are suing Apple.

I used to be a staunch supporter of Apple and Google as gatekeepers of their own respective ecosystems but the more I watch them botch the management of those ecosystems (from not stopping malware as promised, automation banning valid apps with days/weeks/months before resolution/restoration, app banning for political reasons that are questionable, etc) it's clear that an open marketplace is still the best solution.

Time to level the playing field and update antitrust laws to account for more modern times.
The problem with defining consensual sex as both parties saying yes explicitly and unambiguously is it ignores the world around us. An enormous amount of sex and sexual acts that are happening today without explicit affirmative verbal consent. Your definition classifies all of those sex acts as non-consensual. Should we prosecute people for rape? I imagine almost everyone has had at least one sexual act where they did not explicitly ask their partner if they wanted to have sex. This would make almost everyone a rapist.

Should we be teaching people to just lay their quietly if a sexual encounter is starting they don't want to be a part of and hopefully the other party will ask them for their consent at some point?

> I've moved to asking, "Can I kiss you?" or "Can I hug you?" before making a move like that. Simple, brief, and once you have an answer you forget it was even asked.

Can I kiss you, can I touch your thigh, I can tough your boob over the shirt, can I tough your genitals over the pants, you can touch my genital under my pants but over my underwear. If each sexual escalation requires consent that's a lot of question asking and responses for a typical sex act. And maybe that how the world should work, but it's definitely not how the world is working right now.
Value is never created in a vacuum. If you could implement an idea that leverages 0.01$ of value from 500,000,000 people, you have yourself at least a $1,000,000 company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8

There is a roadside vertical turbine concept which seems promising. It uses lampposts as a mounting point, reducing materials needed, reusing existing cables in the lamp, and scavenges energy from trucks thundering by. And since it's in a developed area, you don't affect existing views.
I think it's noteworthy, how little his choice of editor (or most other tools, including distribution) matters for the rest of us happily using Linux.
The Broadcom link in the posted tweet records [some of?] their reasoning. Things like very North America specific strings, activity happening M-F for certain things (compilation, etc), capability (access to zero days implying deep pockets to buy said zero days), and breadth of target, etc.

That said - it ABSOLUTELY BOGGLES MY MIND that, if these are not leaked, but rather recovered from attempted attacks, how are _any_ valid timestamps and strings not randomized as part of the build process!? I'm not saying it refutes or confirms, I'm just wondering - how difficult is it to read an ELF | PE and remove / change those things, and if it's as easy as I'm thinking, why would you not do so? Or replace with preprocessor directives that you could setup to random values for production builds to use strings and timestamps that indicate some other entity? All of this seems straightforward to me, like, could do via shell scripting or python. Is there a valid reason to leave this stuff in? Are we seeing some low priority work that the TLA wants to leak to show that they're out there and capable?
This falls under nationalistic flamebait according to HN's guidelines.
This sounds exactly like the residential situation in my city, minus the happy ending.
Rather than try to protect yourself from this, I personally would just live in a constant state of fear and paranoia. Maybe join a social group who can help you through it, like the Targeted Individuals club?
I had to create a small simulator[0] a few months ago to figure out my personal finances for my first job and to figure out how early I could move out without acquiring debt. I wanted to compare different options so I could weigh the impact of my decisions on how much money I could save.

I like the idea of plans but they feel a bit bulky to use and you can't compare them. If you could directly compare plans against each other I think I would find it more useful. Also making them faster to create could be nice. I can change all the defaults in the actual view so why force me to go through the pages?

I do like the stacked breakdown of each plan and the behind the scenes calculation of taxes, investing and inflation.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/Rafael09ED/61568afa8a2308b53917915ee...
Then you can buy a different car from the other company that doesn't have this policy.

You can even still hack the fins on your car despite the policy, but it might be difficult to do yourself and it'll void your warranty.
"Alphabet = Every phoneme (consonant and vowel) has a distinct glyph."

That's not really true of the Latin alphabet as used in English, is it?

"f" and "ph" could be pronounced the same, as in "fox" and "phone".

"c" and "k" could be pronounced the same, as in "cow" and "kiss".

So a multiple glyphs could represent the same phoneme.
Oops, it seems my attempt to add clarity on the current implementation only added more confusion. Sorry about that. Let me try to break down the status quo in more detail.

1. User arrives on the site, no google analytics activated unless user accepts cookie settings (which includes option to accept some types and not others).

2. User onboards and creates a plan for free, experiments with app -- no plan data or results are transmitted. Everything done client-side in JavaScript and goes away on page refresh.

3. User decides to upgrade to premium. If they do, the app asks if they would like to enable persistent data. If they enable this feature, only then is plan data saved.
My favorite part is the way how they recharge their batteries by sitting on power lines and harvesting energy via induction
Maybe a prosecutor wants to actually gather evidence on a crime? And it’s not a giant conspiracy against signal.
Without seeing the actual discussions themselves, I don't believe anyone's personal account of what happened. Every single person I've ever encountered that fit the bill of being politically obsessive/extreme seemed completely incapable of recognizing that fact, and always framed their conduct as completely unremarkable.
If third-party app stores with Google's version of Android (you know, the one everyone wants that has all the Google applications - not the open source version that you can't legally load Google's stuff on) were on an equal footing than why is Epic suing them the same as they are suing Apple?
Why Headless CMSs Are Replacing Legacy Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-bro...

Remember that Republicans tried to ban municipal broadband federally only two months ago! Just an absurdly, transparently corrupt move.
The "Just have think" youtube channel did an episode on VAWTs just last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8

Vawts are mechnically quite simple and compact. You can put them just about anywhere. And they can operate even at low wind speeds, regardless of where the wind comes from.

There's a company experimenting with these along highways to get energy from vehicles driving by. The idea here is to simply wrap them around existing street lights. Not a lot of energy per turbine obviously but it adds up if you do it along a few miles of highway. And they are cheap, small, lightweight, and easy to install.
Shakespeare's much easier to watch than to read as you can pick up context clues from the visual component and from the delivery of the lines, which aid greatly in understanding. Watching the plays performed makes the plays easier to read, over time, in my experience. Unlike, say, a film version of a novel, I don't think you're losing anything watching his plays instead of reading them. Arguably, watching them (or both watching and reading) is the superior way to experience them.
>COVID-19:5 new human truths that experiences need to address
>How organizations should respond to the never normal

This reads like those AI-generated documents.
I had a typing class way back in the day and I did terribly. Ended up just memorizing the line and blasting it out at X wpm to get through the thing and never to return.

Early on, when using computers, I would watch the keyboard and use that same skill. Compose, or memorize what I needed to input and then look down and do it.

This, frankly will get people a long way. Some never need more.

What really improved it all for me was:

Quit looking at the keyboard. Seriously. Just type and power through your mistakes. Correct those without looking at the keyboard too. In fact, the only time you need to look at the keyboard is for some odd combination that you are new to doing, or do not use very often.

An example might be the function+alt+whatever key that turns that spiffy device on or off on your laptop.

Otherwise, just quit looking at the keyboard.

From there, your skill will center on what you type a lot. For me, it's text as I do write a fair amount. When coding, I do peek at the keyboard, but I rarely need to input code fast.

Should that change, I'm using the same method: Do not look at the keyboard and power through.

It doesn't take long to improve. What happens fairly quickly is your brain makes a map, and begins to make use of it to the point where thought becomes typing action.

You just have to force that.
Or you can opt for throttled flushes.
How the Delayed Disconnect Phone Scam Works [video]
They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.
Yeah, I'm actually in Fort Collins, I was trying to be a little vague for anonymity but ya know. With Longmont Colorado having municipal broadband I think Comcast saw Fort Collins as a hill worth dying on. I've heard that Boulder and Denver are looking at putting municipal broadband on a ballot in the future. Certainly how things turn out in Fort Collins will be considered in other communities around the state. After 4 months on our community broadband I'm still fighting with Comcast over bills and charges.
Sad news. He was articulate and passionate, but very humble also. His book Carrying the Fire revived my interest in space as a 30-something adult who grew up dreaming of being an astronaut.
> Which part's ignorant?

Statements like: "In a typical transaction, no value is created."

> If I pay $10,000 for land and $50,000 in materials and pay $90,000 in labor to produce a building that I sell for $200,000, did I create $50,000 in value? $140,000 because for some reason my labor costs count as value creation?

In terms of production (value creation), we consider separately short-term inputs (e.g. materials) compared to long-term resources (capital, labor). In this example i would say that organization as a whole created $140000 in value using its capital and labour and used $90000 to compensate its labor (some other part to compensate capital, pay taxes and so on). This is essentially how GDP is computed, and also how VAT (value-added tax) is taxed.
Many, if not most, of threats to the Western countries are directly or indirectly consequences of US foreign policy.
and the nazis use it to hurt us, so we learn the lesson, never give technology to nazis
P.1 SARS-CoV-2 “Brazil” may be 1.7–2.4 more transmissible and can evade immunity
>>> If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant. We can’t create fruit by bartering with it. We can only do so by foraging or cultivating an orchard.

Isn't this principle the entire Financial industry?
Yes, I agree. For all the complaints, I think it is a much fairer system than the alternative.
I find it hugely suspicious that huge claims are made but the methodology behind the numbers presented in the first figure is not explained at all.

Further down, correlation plots are shown but no analysis of potential confounders that could affect life expectancy as well, like access to medical care, education, wealth.
> for example, deaths clustered mostly in either twenties or fifties

Which I think is the point. Very young riders are in fact crashing a lot - something parent claimed is a myth.
It's a interesting approach to accounting, except for the fact that the manager is not paid $10k when employers are paid $120k each.

And anyway, that's not the manager who produced that value: it's the sales team, without them the product is literally worthless. So what is manager paid for, again?

And even more interesting question now would be "what are shareholders are paid for anyway, after they've been repaid the initial investment with the interest on top?"
one thing I've seen recommended is setting the phone to greyscale mode (which is an accessibility setting)
If you like Graeber then you will also like Alfred Mitchell-Innes, a British diplomat, who in 1913-14 wrote two papers about money as credit. The first called "what is money?" [1] and the second called "the credit theory of money" [2]

Here are the opening paras from "what is money":

> The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these:

> That under primitive conditions men lived and live by barter;

> That as life becomes more complex barter no longer suffices as a method of exchanging commodities, and by common consent one particular commodity is fixed on which is generally acceptable, and which therefore, everyone will take in exchange for the things he produces or the services he renders and which each in turn can equally pass on to others in exchange for whatever he may want;

> That this commodity thus becomes a "medium of exchange and measure of value."

> That a sale is the exchange of a commodity for this intermediate commodity which is called "money;"

> That many different commodities have at various times and places served as this medium of exchange,—cattle, iron, salt, shells, dried cod, tobacco, sugar, nails, etc.;

> That gradually the metals, gold, silver, copper, and more especially the first two, came to be regarded as being by their inherent qualities more suitable for this purpose than any other commodities and these metals early became by common consent the only medium of exchange;

> That a certain fixed weight of one of these metals of a known fineness became a standard of value, and to guarantee this weight and quality it became incumbent on governments to issue pieces of metal stamped with their peculiar sign, the forging of which was punishable with severe penalties;

> That Emperors, Kings, Princes and their advisers vied with each other in the middle ages in swindling the people by debasing their coins, so that those who thought that they were obtaining a certain weight of gold or silver for their produce were, in reality, getting less, and that this situation produced serious evils among which were a depreciation of the value of money and a consequent rise of prices in proportion as the coinage became more and more debased in quality or light in weight;

> That to economize the use of the metals and to prevent their constant transport a machinery called "credit" has grown up in modern days, by means of which, instead of handing over a certain weight of metal at each transaction, a promise to do so is given, which under favorable circumstances has the same value as the metal itself. Credit is called a substitute for gold.

> So universal is the belief in these theories among economists that they have grown to be considered almost as axioms which hardly require proof, and nothing is more noticeable in economic works than the scant historical evidence on which they rest, and the absence of critical examination of their worth.

[1] https://www.newmoneyhub.com/www/money/mitchell-innes/what-is...

[2] https://www.newmoneyhub.com/www/money/mitchell-innes/the-cre...
"make sure it worked" is when the ads are displayed — unless you've accidentally disabled clicks or something..?
nyc has sued verizon multiple (?) times for failing to roll out fiber into the city and just keeping the money. Each time verizon does some update, or rolls out a little bit more, and the story repeats. Telecom is a utility, end of story.
FWIW, I don't think one needs to believe in capitalist conspiracies to feel repulsed by a situation in which stranded food is being buried in bulk to minimize losses, because there's not market mechanism to get it to people during a pandemic, while there are miles of lines at food banks, and record levels of food insecurity. Not everything needs to be couched in an ideological battle between capitalism and socialism, IMO.
The value the employer gets is double-counted later as part of the profit.

The value to employees is tricky. Without Amazon they might make more from a competitor with less market power. Without the industry, they might make more selling or transporting things directly.
headline: more harmful nazi technology

what a surprise, anyone notice a very strong and deliberate pattern here?
How many of those 41% are actually maintained and updated WordPress installs though
There's something fundamental about your first "keystroke shortcut" learning - I believe Excel supported Lotus 1-2-3 shortcuts long after 1-2-3 ceased being a force in the market.
This is just competition. Nothing anti-market about that
> I’m going to tacitly accept some of Bezos’ underlying assumptions [...] I’m just meeting the claims on their own terms [...]

> In a typical transaction, no value is created. If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant.

Right here he has already failed to abide by his assertions in the previous paragraph. The transaction in fruit does create value because it transfers fruit from people who want it less to people who want it more. Improving the distribution of fruit in the world is valuable even when the total amount of fruit does not change.

The value Bezos is talking about is not the same idea of "value" that this guy has in his head. Sure, maybe Bezos is overcounting his value. But arguments like the above are just missing the point.
How to improve API governance with distributed decision making
Launched my first AI startup
I just launched my first AI startup, HandX, which uses lets you control your computer mouse/keyboard with your hand and a webcam.
There is no hardware install, only software, and it uses AI and AR to show a virtual hand and use that to move the mouse, scroll, click, switch tabs, and teleport the cursor to where you are pointing. We are looking to develop it further to be a low compute way to do VR hand tracking for VR devices, and should have developed versions soon. We are also developing custom programmable gestures to have shortcuts work with frequently used Shell or Bash commands.
That's great. I recently started building something similar (although more rudimentary) for a community that I run in Austin. I'd love to connect and discuss more offline, if you're interested. What's a good way to reach you?
it's because the nazis paywalled EVERYTHING
Funny thing, that sounds precisely like what you'd do with shell companies and any other kind of alter-egos making you hard to find. Bonus points if the companies have different owners and formal directors.

Nice of Google to educate people how to do this stuff.
As pointed out in part 2, the 2nd Avenue stations are grotesquely large. Sure they are pretty but I’d rather have 4x ugly stations.
KDE on Linux is by far the best environment for development. Even comparing it against MacOS.
It would appear so. Although KDE Connect can apparently work with MacOS (you'd still need an android phone).
> I never seem to be able to share the clipboard when I want to.

It usually works for me, but the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal!

I absolutely love KDE Connect, though. Being able to copy text from a laptop to a desktop or use my phone to pause music if I happen to leave for a walk and forgot to stop it is great! I haven't used it yet, but they also have presentation controls for your phone including a pointer that uses the phone's instrumentation to move an animated circle across the screen. Love it!
I agree with this, just ask for consent, it's that simple.

Also, about removing features based on telemetry, of course people are going to disable or block data collection and you will make decisions based on incomplete data. If you must remove something, do it because it makes sense and it fits within your vision for the future of the project you maintain.
Depends. What if people lose all their money and become homeless? Ever wondered why governments save failing banks?

I am just not entirely convinced that when shit hits the fan people will quietly take responsibility for their actions.
people aren't really getting this, no one likes or cares about the nazis besides the nazis, and even that is very limited to generated nazibuxxx
"As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called him ‘the loneliest man in history’ – while his colleagues walked on the Moon for the first time, he helped our nation achieve a defining milestone."

In a way it was a bit disappointing. But it was also a big, huge responsibility. Remember, if something went wrong with the Eagle, he was going to return alone to Earth.
It's actually likely due to low minimum wages. Countries with high minimum wages do not have superfluous jobs. They still end up with similar employment rates overall as the increased spending power of the bottom 50% stimulates the economy overall but there are definitely fewer bullshit jobs.
I like skydiving and scuba diving. And in both cases I always prepare like a madman. The activity itself comes with plenty of risks, and I'm just there to enjoy it by reducing the risks best I can.

That means the blue hole can go screw itself. I'll stick to a maximum depth of 25 meters or so and my goal is to see shipwrecks (from a distance) and pretty fishies.

As for skydiving, I want a good view, no wind, a maximum of one tiny cloud, and a dropzone with good packers and craft beer.

There are plenty of people out there BASE jumping or deep-sea diving. There are plenty of them recording their own deaths. I plan to not be part of those people.
Looked for this in comments.

Here in SF our kids have some of this independence; but their school is still miles away. I walked to my suburban school in the 70's. SF has density to permit some independence but then undoes the benefit of that with its schooling model and chaos.

Pre-pandemic my kids could take MUNI. I biked with them. The bike ride is not bad but is too dangerous for kids who have not yet developed paranoid city road awareness. So my spouse or I got with them every time..

But this is already an unusual circumstance. Among urban friends in other places I can't think of more than a handful whose kids were independent in this fashion.

Here in the Bay Area places like Fairfax let you live the dream though... it seems plausible that if the ground shift to "hybrid" or full remote is real and sustained, there will be even more reordering of lifestyle and population in pursuit of this.

That would be a silver lining...