skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately for me coffee and tea are some of the completely harmless/fine foods, at least to my body. I can even use heavy cream and sucralose with no issues.

I live on espresso/tea, heavy cream, protein/nutrition shakes, zero-cal flavor syrups, and grilled beef. It's sort of crazy how much healthier I am eating this than if I ate, say, even healthy sandwiches. My body just seems to dig being primarily a carnivore. If I personally liked vegetables and leafy greens more I would probably do vegan keto, as I don't like how unsustainable western meat production is, but I simply can't get into the idea of leafs as food.
You should be much more concerned about bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. While fungi are undoubtedly evolving quickly and may one day pose a risk to us, the devil we know is already working very quickly to overwhelm our best medications. And we know that without those medications millions per year will die.

But I'm not that worried about antibiotic resistance, because there are many ways to skin a cat. MRNA vaccines, bacteriophages, targeted antibiotics, nanotech, etc all offer us ways to break free from the natural arms race that we're in right now.
A competitor would be a password-protected Zoom meeting with a Ko-fi button.
I'll likely get flack for this but it's white people. Out of touch white people specifically.
> perhaps decision makers at Visa invested in Stripe and at USAA invested in Coinbase to hedge downside of disruption,

PS - Those are examples of CVC. Which IMHO have very different goals than traditional VCs.
The popularity of such security services in Brazil and South Africa is the first thing I thought about when I heard "defund the police" last summer. I then told everyone that people will start spending a lot more money on increasing their security, be it fencing or private security forces. It's not a complicated concept.
In the physical world you can't just ignore safety and accessibility requirements because "hey, it's expensive and if I don't open then no one will be able to visit my business at all. Might as well serve some percent of the population." Websites shouldn't be any different.
> It’s like the aesthetics of a pickup truck is offensive to some people. Kind of bizarre and not something I’m used to seeing but I guess I live in Ohio so that probably has something to do with it.

The vehicles are gigantic and are capable of carrying thousands of pounds but are operated by people who may not be able to handle something considerably smaller without getting into an accident. Suburban neighborhoods are plagued with tailgating road warriors in consumer tanks that endanger people for the sake of having an adventure on the road. The aesthetics of a truck are as much a problem as the drivers operating them.
Rule of force.

But for all of the highly visible things wrong with certain police forces, they do at least theoretically have carefully considered constraints and a duty to the public rather than just their subscribers.
That's pretty interesting. Are there any guesses as to why body temperature is declining?
Yes, it can be used.

Yes, it is crazy inefficient.

At Wunderlist, we launched WL3 with something like 1K rails boxes on AWS, running a few services. During the launch, my fun was tracking when we reached user/box parity :-)

But it did work.

After a while, we replaced each of the hundred+ rails boxes per service with 2 Scala instances per service.

Also worked. No change for users.

The FP folks should be forever grateful to Ruby for making their languages seem fast in comparison.

At another company where I consulted, for a web content management system, the rails devs were super excited to get the performance up to slightly below one second per request.

We got much better than that 2 decades earlier, running a CGI-Bin (no fast-cgi, so complete restart on every request) that completely re-initalised its Oracle DB connection every time etc. On hardware that was a small fraction of the performance of today's boxes.
There's more involved in than just raw CPU cycles. It's not something that is easily adapted to BOINC, but trying to offload things to BOINC to free up clusters better suited to training models might make sense.
Yes, the CEO has certainly "wisened up to" vigilante justice, and that's why he offered to fund a manhunt of an innocent person less than a week ago.

Are we living in the same reality?
I know enough about the debugging terminals in Chrome and Firefox to just "save-as" the .mp4 file itself. So I personally haven't had any problems with saving or sharing .mp4s. (Most commonly: grabbing some animated .mp4 meme and copy/pasting it into Discord)

But yes: its weird that Chrome / Firefox don't have easy-to-use "save as" buttons on .mp4s. But just grab the .mp4 and share the .mp4 on whatever services you use.

Increasingly, it seems like .mp4 is becoming the new gif. Its not quite as user friendly yet, but there's all sorts of advantages compared to .gif.
I’m about 5 months into my first big break (after 10 years without one) and I didn’t really start to recover until about 3 months in. I’m still not quite recovered but have recently started coding again, which I think is great progress.

Doing this during Covid sucks because it limits everything, but, I wouldn’t have done it otherwise too so I am a bit thankful.

I think the one biggest thing that’s been helpful is to set aside free time every day with nothing planned. Just let yourself get bored for a bit! It’s amazing!
I agree -- the tone of this article doesn't help, and it is mostly aimed at the wrong people.

In reality, I was always told to hustle hustle hustle on the design. FUCK accessibility.

I would have to counter to my masters with a stick (that Target ADA complaint) and a carrot (almost all accessibility is a medium-grade form of whitehat SEO that will increase rankings). The stick wasn't usually taken as being important, but that carrot ... whoo! Nibble nibble.

In my web design days, I would love for the chance to linger, to tweak, to test on browser after browser, to poll people at random. Breaking the design, then repairing it. However, we're all so busy, aren't we?
It's easy to use templates to convert some given knowledge graph node or maybe subgraph into a paragraph that could maybe serve as a Wikipedia intro paragraph.

It's much harder to generate answers to questions. This calls for jointly choosing what knowledge to use in the answer and synthesizing text that presents that knowledge in a way that actually answers the question. This work is about this more dynamic problem.
those things you're adjusting for are part of the problem! If you're going to adjust away all possible explanations of the problem, then of course you won't see the problem anymore!
I definitely think lack of reporting is at least partially to blame. It's even become an extremely common trope for cop/law enforcement in shows to have jokes and bits that riff off how useless they are with preventing and solving property and theft/robbery crimes.

Anecdotally I had my bike stolen a few months ago and last year my car was broken into and my laptop/dashcam/wallet stolen, and didn't call the cops because as you said I know exactly how useless they are for that kind of stuff.
>>Protect also advertises "Instant emergency response to your exact location,"

Seems like a bit of overselling here. "Rapid emergency response..." would be more like it. Although the request and communication to initiate response may take only seconds, the actual arrival time is unlikely to resemble "instant".

Marketing getting ahead of the ability to deliver...
The source package does have installation instructions and appears to use Autotools: https://voice2json.org/install.html#from-source. Hopefully at least building from source works.
If he's American he should take into account that we have no safety net, so he has to be careful how he does this.
Was with you up to:

> If fungi are killing more people, it's because people have changed, not the fungi.

That's an overreach. It could be either or both. Obviously fungi are evolving rapidly as you yourself point out.
This is usually a sign of some perceived failure of the public option.

Public schools in NY not delivering education some folks expect -> market starts for private schools.

Existing delivery service not able to do guaranteed same or next day delivery -> merchants and others will build out their own capacity.

My guess is that as police are defunded (Minneapolis is getting rid of police department entirely) folks who can pay and see a role for security will probably contract for it. In the bay area this is already happening to a small degree.

It used to be you could walk into a lot of office buildings freely, now pretty tight security in some downtown areas (ie, public security option / service options are very poor and not maintained). So we get elevator passes and lockouts, security person downstairs, turnstiles, bathrooms all got doors with RFID door locks.
The rationale is obvious. Ultimately, the ability to exercise physical force decides every dispute. Before you can even have such a thing as currency to exchange for goods and services, you need to have enough rule of law to prevent people with guns from just taking whatever goods and services they want without your consent. So how do you maintain rule of law? Government—which is defined as a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

Right now, legal tender laws rely on proof of gun. If you owe me a debt and I try to collect on that debt by showing up at your house with a gun to take your gold or bitcoins or whatever, that’s not going to work. More men with more guns will show up and throw me in a cage. So instead of using my gun, I ask the government to use their guns. I sue you, and if I win, the court decides you should pay me, and through a complicated process they end up helping me to your money that you owe me. But the government has a condition: all debts can be paid in USD. I can’t take your gold or bitcoins, unless I have more guns than the government, which kind of makes me the government in the long run.
> Any attempts in suggesting that I would favour one side over the other is entirely false.

fortunately no-one has suggested such a thing
Statistics for the entirety of the US are largely meaningless. In places like SF and Seattle, property crime has been on the rise.
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I'm not at all saying that the latter half (police defining, tech regulation, gun control) are not part of the platform. I'm merely pointing out that the other things ("progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody") are definitely part of the platform. Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda.
Yes and no? As I understand it, they weren't supposed to be involved in the day to day operation of the network in general, but back in 2016 Private Internet Access' logo (then Andrew Lee's current company) was added to the corner of the main Freenode website and as I recall it was widely discussed at the time that this was part of the deal which funded Freenode Live. Most people didn't care and it remained there until 2021. The Shells logo which was supposedly such an outrageous, unprecedented corporate intrusion into areas of the site sponsors never were never allowed before that everyone needed to jump ship was a direct replacement of that PIA logo. Same location, same overall prominence.

While the details are still a bit fuzzy, a far as I can tell from the outside someone on the Freenode staff seems to have used that logo switch as a pretext to try and upset the status quo and seize more power through a bogus narrative about unprecedented corporate intrusion and a logo suddenly appearing in 2021 where one would never be allowed before, likely including kicking out the then head of staff of the actual IRC network, whilst insisting that it was the other side that was trying to seize more control by obstructing them.
Eh, maybe, but at the same time, I kind of got the feeling that the researchers were treating the IRB as one more layer of security to get around.

The IRB is a gatekeeper, yes, but it is also a resource. You should be working with the IRB to make sure everything you are doing is above the board, because ultimately, if you do something unethical or harmful to individuals or society, that's still on you, even if you got your plan stamped by the IRB. You shouldn't have an antagonistic relationship where you use the vague and technically accurate but misleading descriptions of your research an an attempt to get a "get out of consequences free" card.
Let's work from this as an assumption for now.

Next step: Hard to tell if people gave up on reporting stuff because they don't think the police will try or because the police are unable to solve most of the incidents even if they did try.

Seriously though, how are the police supposed to solve most random break-in smash-and-grabs or stolen bike cases? What's the ask here? Constant surveillance of everywhere? Something close-to but less than that? Batman?
It's David Attenborough.
Are they really risks though? Are there any examples of say, YC-stage startups who got sued into oblivion over accessibility?

It just kind of feels like a joke, when almost any webapp in existence is not compliant and there is no enforcement.

It also goes against the hacker ethos that we should be free to build and share without credentialing or licensing.

Imagine if you couldn't Show HN without thinking about accessibility and actually taking on serious legal risk.
If one key use case for this is detecting leaks, there might be an even better market for people who have their own wells. While the water is "free" when you run your own well, the pump and pressure equipment is not, and excess water leakage can burn out your pump, which is costly. A device that warns of leaks could add life to the system.
It’s getting harder and harder for him recently to come up with conventional explications. I think the biggest problem will be when data from multiple systems is declassified as it will really challenge various debunking theories.
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I've seen this debate happening for so many years, and people will not stop using gifs until other solution works exactly as a gif for the end user. APNG or WEBP would be a better solution, as they are images in the end.

You say they had decent compatibility 10 years ago, but no. At least a couple years ago you still needed many fallbacks and it was a hassle to guarantee the video would show properly. Not to say that you wouldn't be able to share it as image to tumblr/pinterest for example.
Fusion: Ten Times More Expensive Than Nuclear Power
It will be the new COVID?
> Why "app"? These are services.

Yes, but I was using my initial post's parent's terminology. But I agree, in my mind, the subject was one single "service", as in process (or a process hierarchy, like say with gunicorn for python deployments).

> This is an argument for unikernels.

It is. And I'm also very interested in the developments around Firecraker and similar technologies. If we'd be able to have the kind of isolation AWS promises between ec2 instances on a single physical machine, while at the same time being able to launch a process in an isolated container as easy as with docker right now, I'd consider that really great. And all the other "infrastructure" services you talk about could just live their lives in their dedicated containers.

Not sure how all this would compare, performance-wise, with just enabling the mitigations.
Like strapping a safety blanket to your face when you're vaccinated.
If rich people can hire private security why can’t other people have that ability as well? As evidenced from this years riot’s lots of businesses weren’t protected by the police, I’m sure plenty of people would have needed this.
Sure, I have no problem with there being a walled garden as long as users who want to have a way to opt out. Curated app stores do have value and I don't think they should disappear. I even think it is fine for niche platforms to exclusively have walled gardens.

> I don’t want an open platform.

Do you think the state of the world would be better if desktops were not open platforms? I'm genuinely curious because this is something I just can't relate to.
Citizen shareholders should see a massive opportunity in a "Protect" product offering which cuts down on neighbors spuriously using the service against other customers. The addition of protection money to the revenue stream would benefit them greatly.
> ...as a side note, I was wrong, door handles were invented first. It's because the mechanism is easer and relies on gravity, instead of a mechanism doing it for you.

I was about to comment on this, having grown up in a house with latches that relied upon gravity to do their work. I currently live in a home which has handles on most of the doors, including the exterior doors. It's actually problematic for us because activating the handle also unlocks the deadbolt from the inside. Our dog has figured out how to open the handles, but he can't work a door knob. We rely upon a baby gate to keep him upstairs and away from the exterior door he can operate. He could easily jump the gate if he so desired (he's done it a few times without thinking while chasing one of our cats).
Mammals are much more resistant to parasites though - we have better immune systems, a high internal body temperature, and don't use pheromones. All of those are essentially there to prevent fungi from mind controlling us.
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We use our minivan for a lot of these things, but I’d love to buy bulk mulch / topsoil instead of the bags. But loose mulch doesn’t play well with the van.

I’ve always considered myself a GM//Chevy guy, but I’m strongly considering this truck.

And I love that it doubles as a Powerwall...

Eliminates the need for a generator (I work from home so if the power is out I can just take the ICE for errands and have the truck power the house — you don’t have to be a truck person to find that pretty nifty!)
Took 1.5 years off. As others have said -- got bored, was expensive, was worth it. I would take stock of your finances before you take time off and play out a few scenarios of how long you can afford to not work. I would also advise getting a therapist or another specific life-advisor person with whom you can have scheduled time to dish -- I found it invaluable to have someone with whom I could process the disconnect that came from being unemployed when most of my friends were still on the grind. I would also advise finding time-locked habits to ground you -- e.g., always going to a farmer's market on specific days, always going to a certain gym class or other meetup. Things that you commit to doing, which are somewhat social, where the schedule is out of your control.

I did not have many goal-style plans and have some regrets about things not done, but (shrug) I think that's all of life. In my mind it's not so important to have specific goals as to have broader intentions -- e.g., following your gut, or heart, or pursuing something that's been in the back of your mind for a while.

Good luck!
probably because kebab is basically taco. Tacos with weat tortillas and the meat prepared in a cylinder were introduced by lebanese immigrants.
This is partly confirmation bias. Millions of officers, we’re gonna have bad ones. Obviously we need to improve, but to think that officers who have at least some amount of vetting are going to do worse than a security force is utter denial of the human condition.

Look at South Africa, they have security forces. Or look at India, they too have a police force. But in South Africa, their security force is only available for the wealthy, while in India, they’re actually corrupt police are paid off daily. You don’t want to leave your house without cash to bribe a cop. And if you don’t, you get beat.

I’d rather be in the US with their policing than have a citizens army of security, or almost any police force.
People have been offering rewards for 'information about' or 'arrest of' forever. But as soon as a tech company does it, it's evil.

The question we should be asking isn't 'what happens if they get it wrong' but 'what happens if they got it right'?
For those wondering why some people move to trucks as a commuter vehicle, I moved to a 4 door Tacoma because I don't fit in cars. I'm 6'1' with a highly athletic, broad shoulder based build. I tried all kinds of cars in 2015 looking for one that was easy to get in an out of, had comfortable seating where my head didn't hit the roof, and I wasn't squashed in there like airplane seating. Good luck.
Double-spends should be the least of your worries.
The real crime is that they prohibit developers from itemizing this fee for the consumer. That's what Epic et al should be focusing on. Customers would be aghast at the extractive abuse of monopoly power after having already paid (in many cases) an exorbitant sum for their device. Let the free market deal with the problem.
How does it work on the web? Would developers get an opportunity to fix the issues, or would the company randomly get slapped with a massive fine?

It seems like it would be a good way for a company to suppress competitors to a field, they could trigger these kinds of laws in up-and-coming companies.
You're actually really on to something there.
> Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11.

> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.

> I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.

Ironically, this reads like someone in a well-off neighborhood with no idea what happens in other neighborhoods in their non-SV city.

Everyone "knew" growing up in middle-of-TX town which parts of town you didn't want to park overnight on the street in, or where you didn't want to leave a bike. Even beyond just reputation, you could often tell by the houses - people didn't put chain link around the front yard and bars over the window just for fun.
I still can't believe a diesel-electric, "train-locomotive-on-tires" hybrid concept has never been attempted stateside.

Electrical motor torque (from rest) screams to be marketed to American truck buyers. It's the one EV market that probably didn't ever need environmentalism as a boost to be successful.
We need to re-evaluate what "rights" mean in a digital age. In the case of widely deployed personal computing devices, the users should have the right to install an application without first seeking permission from the OEM. "Apple made it so they can do anything they want. Take it or leave it" - is not an acceptable position (in my opinion).
What is the business value of accessibility?
From TFA:

> So why hasn’t the military given any of these explanations?

> Well, the Department of Defense’s policy is to report even “incursions that are initially reported as UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] when the observer cannot immediately [emphasis added] identify what he or she is observing.” It is entirely possible that these examples were all identified after the initial report, but still bureaucratically classified as UAPs. The Pentagon has confirmed the footage is real, but has said nothing about the content of the footage.
I've made reasonably large crypto profits and returned them to the existing banking system and no questions were asked to the source of the profits although they knew who I was naturally.

If you go to say Kraken, change fiat to Bitcoin, send it to say Bitmex, speculate and reverse the process it's quite hard for them to say if you got luck speculating or topped up your account with dirty money. And I imagine the criminals use places much less fussy than Kraken which is US regulated.