skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to me like it's setting a bad precedent. I totally understand the motivation behind something like this, but privatizing it and selling it to the highest bidder not only raises ethical concerns, but also ones around how this service will be used in the first place. According to citizen it seems like these forces will respond to "disturbances", which are incredibly vaguely worded. Do I need to be in danger to call them? Or do I just need to be "disturbed"?

It seems to me like this will be used by the upper-middle class to pester their neighbors over minor annoyances, because they can afford a Citizen subscription. Imagine the poor family across the street, who gets visited by a black SUV and a group of burly looking suited security guards, likely telling them something vague about a "disturbance" that was reported.
yeah some of them seemed to be previous ops.
When I was in college and I was in the Ultimate Frisbee club we played with a group of young Christians and it seemed very much to me like meditation (something I was more familiar with) and prayer were very similar. The concept of God may just make it more pointed, or more like a conversation.

Thanks for the share. You may want to check out Anthony De Mello if these are things you enjoy, I've been enjoying his meditations very much lately. Found out about him on HackerNews. He does Christian meditations with an Eastern style. But there's very little that is preachy about them.
Thanks. I updated the spelling. English as a second language has created a weird discrepancy in my brain for words that sound the same, but are written differently.

not - knot

where - were

...and now peak - pique

At least I don't confuse "you are" vs "your".

Now explain plurals to me:

cat - cats

dog - dogs

bird - birds

mouse - mice <--- why?

goose - geese

moose - moose <--- why not meese?
You are the one being emotional, and obnoxiously toxic at that.

Everything I said is factual. Many of us have built successful startups on rails. I'm a very pragmatic person in general and abhor the cheering and jeering dynamic you're actively courting in this thread.
Not doing his due diligence in the transaction with Christel as to what she was selling or had to sell appears to be the big one.
What indicates the the current semantics won't change next week? After all, it is completely up to the compiler, no?
If you boil this story down to its simplest form it has pretty dystopian implications. A rich tech CEO used his wealth and lynch-mob-as-a-service platform to personally issue a $30,000 bounty on a complete stranger based on nothing more than a picture. It sounds like something an ill-tempered feudal lord might have done 600 years ago. Imagine being on the receiving end of something like this.
The Largest Iceberg on Earth Has Just Broken Off of Antarctica
This 100%. There's the tree view and tools to make sure tags are there. Some tools to check that the site is keyboard navigable. But I still find I have to go through with a janky screen reader plugin to make sure (the best I can) that the site really works for screen readers.

The main problem is that as a sighted user, I'm used to scanning a site and discarding tons of superfluous information. If all that is read to someone it is tedious and very hard to navigate with. In many ways, the developer needs to think of an entirely new UX for a user on a screen reader. Hiding repeated elements is one of the biggest things to be done. Do the items for the screen reader have context is another. On a graphical page a button with the word "GO" might make complete sense. It makes a lot less sense when being read to a non-sighted user after listening to a bunch of other elements.
Thanks, good idea to share this link in the comments.
Took 3 months off. Amazing stay-cation, I already have a laundry list of things that I wanted to do, so I did not have too much time to get board. Great for mental health, as I was getting close to burnout after a number of person live issues.

Now I am just going to be working part time, as I loved the balance that doing non-computer related work gave me. With proper budgeting, and a decent industry you will be surprised how little work one needs to do to live a happy and humble life.
The recent resurgence in Ram is a bit mind-boggling to me, not because they are good or bad, but because the lack of historical brand power has always seemed so arbitrary to me, and it's resurgence even more-so.

Whereas Toyota approaching Tier-1 makes a bit more sense. If nothing else, based on the fact that they're now more ”American" built than the three "domestic" truck companies.
I don't believe the author is talking about something like double-spending. They're describing a situation where major holders want to change something about the protocol, especially a change that is to their advantage.
>If you mean just 'thinking on things', pretty much all the time

I'm a very outgoing person, but I also crave alone time. I also require time before bed to let the thoughts in my brain run their course, and it does make it hard to actually fall asleep sometimes. I make sure to take time each day to simply sit and ponder.
>Animals evolved warm-bloodedness partly to improve resistance to environmental fungi

I was listening to a podcast recently that discussed how human average body temperature has been declining in recent years while heat tolerance of fungi has been rising (thanks to the climate). The result is that our bodies are less capable of preventing fungal infections through heat and fungi can be pretty deadly if unchecked.
The Deliberate English channel has a couple videos on pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/c/DeliberateEnglish/videos

I am not affiliated, but know of it because of past participation in the "Deliberate Spanish" program.
Not all validators will run their node on the fork. As seen with the 2016 fork, many will sell their forked token to buy more of the real thing.
This obviously depends on how forward-looking the manager is at a particular location.
it's easy to argue that accessibility is your job if you're billing yourself as a ui engineer, but i fear a lot of these poor saps are being paid to use js for a lot more than just ui
> 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.

Not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Excellent! I just installed MyCroft the other day to play around with it; while it looks like a great start, two odd things. The first is obvious, which is the online/offline thing.

The second was a little surprising (and maybe I missed it?) There was not much in the way of easily accessing transcribed output to and from shell scripts?
Yes let’s fuck up nature even more, what could ever go wrong
> People just took the text claims at face value despite the video showing nothing that it claimed, because they were upset by the claim in the text.

It seems like a lot of content on reddit is like this.
I hate centered text blocks.
Makes me unnecessary scroll vertically for longer texts.
Gets worse for code listings and the center column layout.
Had to deal with websites where I needed to scroll horizontally to view the right most part of the code and at the same time the page was two thirds blank.
This info seems a little out of date at this point. This is a map of 120 kW+ Electrify America charging stations from PlugShare: https://i.imgur.com/1dcM6UX.png. I agree we need more, but I don't know if it feels right to say there are "very few", when they line most of the major interstates.

> These typically charge at 50kW until the battery is at 80% capacity, then slow down to 10kW or so.

I'm not sure where you're getting this number, but according to this data [1] about the Mach-E, it charges at 150 kW until about 10%, then 100 kW until 35%, then 70 kW until 80%. This is much faster than what you are saying. They have a chart showing that depending on your starting SoC, you can get an average of up to 90 kW. If you start at a reasonable 10-15% state of charge, your average charge rate up to 80% will be 80 kW, not 50kW.

> So, let's say your F-150 is down to 20% capacity, and you need to charge up to 80%. 60% of that 150kWh is battery is 90kWh- that will take nearly two hours ($36) on that fast charger.

The F-150 has a larger battery than the Mach-E, but assuming the rates stay the same, it would take a bit over an hour to charge this much, not two hours.

The pricing varies on Electrify America, but looking at a few stations here [2], as long as you have a membership, it looks like this would cost somewhere from $10-30. Some stations charge by the minute, and others by the kWh.

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/492727/ford-mustang-mache-fast-ch...

[2]: https://www.electrifyamerica.com/pricing/
Also “Text Rendering Hates You”, referenced by this post, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105625
Seems Jeff has launched a malicious attack on proof-of-stake, been unsuccessful, and has lost his stake. In this case his reputation.

You can't hand-wave over "complexity" and then call it "opaque" and self referential using a bunch of vague and imprecise analogies. The "step 2 complexity" is where the system justifies itself. It's where it's proven sound. Just because you're too lazy to get into the weeds and technicals of it does not make the system flawed. A casual read of the overview of Ethereum 2's proof-of-stake mechanism[1] would have helped Jeff save his reputation staked on his blog post.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
If you "stake" you invest and you are a stakeholder if you do not "stake" you are simply a user of Ethereum and all investments, stakes and stakeholders need to be regulated in order to protect investors and market. Cryptocurrencies and crypto tokens are not outside the law in particular not outside of financial and capital market regulation laws.
There are some important points here. I would add these.
1) have a plan. what are you going to do? This is important as you may find yourself 'done' with whatever it was you were going to do. What is plan B?

2) have a budget. what can you spend per day? What is your current burn rate vs your new one vs liquid assets on hand? Are you OK with the difference?

3) when you start looking again what are your expectations? You now have put a hole in your resume. Remember companies like the idea of you can 'hit the ground running' so have a story for this. From their side of the desk you look like someone who can not get hired. They will use it as a filter. They have 200 resumes to look at and 199 have to go. Any dumb thing they can to kick you off that pile is one they will do.

4) do you have other obligations? For example car payments? Spouse? Parents who need help? etc? These may consume your time/money faster than you think or plan. As they will all say the same thing 'you are not working why dont you ....' Set boundaries.

I personally would not do it again. It was enjoyable enough. But the money anxiety I got was bad. Even not really having any debts or anything to worry about. It was just too much for me personally. I was not bored as I have plenty of projects I like to piddle with.
In related news, there has been a recent outbreak in India of deadly "Black Fungus" in Covid patients.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/may/11/what-is-the-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucormycosis
Did you not read the link I posted in my first comment in this chain? Two of the cars in the fuel economy comparison are the Subaru Outback and the Volvo V60. The most efficient Outback has 29 mpg (26/33) and the most efficient F150 has 25 mpg (25/26). Almost identical in city, and in the same ballpark for highway. Numbers are similar for the Audi A4 Allroad (though you'll have the same concern as the E-Class as only the higher worldwide trims are available) and for the V60.
What is your definition of healthy?
If you have the time and are wiling to put in some effort, I would write a book in the domain you are doing your freelancing in and self publish it(you could even try ghost writers if you want to burn the $$$ and save yourself some time) Then spend the rest of the money on marketing the book. This could bring in some income and also act as a promotional tool for you. 3k isn't a huge amount of money to do this though.
> visited by a black SUV and a group of burly looking suited security guards

Not very different than getting visited by a burly looking neighbor. Except some people can look weaker, or be afraid to approach their neighbor because their small stature

When I had an upstairs neighbor having parties at all hours of the night, I wished there was a service where a bigger / more intimidating person would knock on their door and ask them to cut it out, instead of small and fragile looking me
I am not a libertarian, but do I have many libertarian friends.

I always wondered why they smirked quietly at calls to defund the police...
It's financed by debt.
I haven't been employed or sponsored by any of rasengan projects or companies for some time. I have no plans to be involved with any despite offers since then (and not related to this or any other drama related issues). I consider myself equal friends with ex-freenode staff and rasengan. I have also ties with freenode(now libera staff) in closely supporting them with webchat related projects and closely with their former director, Christel.

I had attempted to mediate between both sides because I respected and could see both points of view and thought I could try to help bring both view points inline which almost happened.. until it didn't.

Any attempts in suggesting that I would favour one side over the other is entirely false.
I've done it several times.

Yes, totally worth it.

Yes, totally got bored. That's a good thing, it's the polar opposite of creativity and we need to live there some of the time or we lose track of the value of creativity and come to think of it as the day-to-day grind instead of the fun adventure it can be.

It was not more expensive. With all that time I could make my own food and minimize the monetary friction of convenience to save time. Everything went much slower and more thoughtful.

Helpful prep? Have ideas for a project, something to accomplish on a day to day habit kind of process and another long term. Not stressful projects, nor necessarily productive projects. Maybe learning? Maybe more physicality? Me, I did more yoga and took classes at a local maker space. Worst thing you can do is leave all your time open and free. You won't value it. Well, 2nd worst thing is to expect you can do too much and kick yourself for not living up to your potential.

Relax.
It seems like in the startup world, accessibility is about the last priority.

After all, if you're in the business of shipping half-finished software and rushing from one feature to the next in a mountain of tech debt, how on earth are you going to find the time to think about accessibility?

Internet shaming aside, ignoring accessibility for a while seems like good business sense.
I believe it stands for "Multi-User Dungeon" [0]

[0] https://www.allacronyms.com/MUD
Getting agreement on a genesis block is a theoretically difficult problem... But practically it's as hard as agreeing if it was George Washington who was the first president of the USA or Bill Gates.
This is exactly how gangs and mob enforcement happens. Organization of people whom are more than willing to create their own physical enforcement outside of the restrictions of the law go out and "protect" for money. And then organize to become both the perpetrator and the defender.

Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are - evidence obtained in violation of the constitution cannot be admitted in court if an officer is the one that does it. But if a private citizens does it can be acceptable.

If people want rule of law, and not rule of force, then they should become officers not 'security force'. But I have a feeling that the reason they want to be 'securoty force' is to avoid the responsibility.
Took 9 months off after I quit my first job. I was working on a startup, pitched it around town, and it failed pretty miserably. Even so, it was probably the happiest time of my life.

The immense focus, waking up and working on my thing. No pointless meetings, standups, or sucking up to people. I feel that I got a taste of what people that are financially independent always rave about. I started frequenting a local coffee shop, got to meet a ton of people from all walks of life.

Totally worth it.
In the case of a question or topic of research that does not yet have a consensus answer among experts, the answer usually lies near the median of reasonable expert positions.

Most "news" stories of Carrington Event-type catastrophes are not reasonable but sensationalist. Pure speculation to get ad revenue. Comments on reddit or various internet fora are about as good as Amazon reviews. So your first order of business, save becoming an expert yourself, is to discard all commentary on Carrington events not produced by those with sufficient expertise to illuminate beyond speculation - electrical engineers, space weather physicists, etc. That will eliminate 99% of page hits on Google, probably.

From what remains you'll find a much smaller range of answers. Usually much more boring.
It is a Children's Book about Urban Living. [0]

[0] https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/08/the-rocket-book-pet...
I took a three month leave of absence at the end of a six year run of 7x24 days in the dot com era, totally burned out. I extended it another three months as I entered the initial last month as I didn't feel "ready" to return.

I think the experience completely broke my willingness to return to a "normal" tech role again and I've bounced between short bursts of employment and long bursts of not working or semi–employment as a consultant.

I think it also saved my life.

Mistakes I made:

I didn't have a plan to structure my time off.
I didn't have any goals to accomplish in my time off.
I didn't arrange ahead of time for a role to return to.

What I did do: learned basic Mandarin, established a relationship that has lasted 20+ years, read many non CS / non-technical books, focused on getting healthier and fitter.

Specific advice: structure your time off, set goals, try to accomplish them but don't punish yourself if you fail. Arrange ahead of time for a role to return to, even if it's time limited or isn't what you "really want to do".

I wrote longer about this previously but can't find it in my first few pages of comments.
> Get a powerful router

Any guide on how to do this properly? My ISP's hardware is garbage but I'm not sure how to replace it. Feels like it was easier in the DSL days.
How exactly does Citizen have any money? Is it all VC funding? There doesn't seem to be any way for a consumer to pay them anything and the app doesn't have ads.
I am trying to learn.

In both cases, user A has to invest some amount of money.

In PoS, user A stakes money to make more money but gets penalized for breaking trust. Overall, user A makes say 10 coins over a 1000 staked coins ending up with 1010 coins.

In PoW, user A loses some money to make more money. User spends 3 coins to make 13 coins, so user ends up with 1010 coins

I don't see the difference yet.
This flavor of sniffy nothing-to-see-here dismissal stands a fair chance of aging exceedingly poorly.

It reflects most of all how successful the US's long-term project to inculcate dismissive ridicule around UAP has been,

but fails to yet understand that there is a pronounced pivot in tone in how official sources are discussing these things.

That pivot is much more interesting and significant than any particular video, regardless of the weakness of Follett's criticisms.

Part of that pivot which is significant is the change in terminology, from UFO to UAP. This may be simple bureaucratic bike shedding. It is also consistent with a change of framing motivated by aspects of the phenomenon which have not been reconciled with the conventional equation of them with "flying saucers" aka spaceships containing extraterrestrials.

Those of us who watch these things over time are genuinely astonished at the rapid and comprehensive change in tone here, and the tea leaf reading going on is sometimes quite interesting. It is plausible that the decision to found a Space Force was one more childish impulse by Trump. It is also plausible that that founding and its continued build out under Biden is not unrelated to this pivot.

As with much of the secret history of our times, those of us on the outside can only watch the outlines of the blacked out and redacted spaces, and infer what we can from their changes.

This dismissal is understandable in a historical moment offering no shortage of profound quotidian crises.

It also partakes of a world-weary cynicism which was taught, not learned; and IMO it misses the real story here.

Note that Obama added comments to this fire this week. If this is disinformation and long con, e.g. by a spooked aerospace industry and military industrial complex looking for a new line of revenue, it is a very long con and one with a scale of duplicity, or complicity, inconsistent with the professionalism and careers and understood integrity of a lot of increasingly highly ranked people.

That doesn't mean it's not a disinformation campaign. It does mean that if it is, it's unprecedented in potential impact in a way we haven't seen since the days of yellow cake Uranium.

Either it's a story to be watched closely, not scoffed at because that's what you have always done in "serious" company.
Some people in the US do not consider vigilantism to be antisocial behavior.

For example, in my neighborhood a few people freaked out over a guy going through people's trash cans (trash cans are located in the alley, so not on anyone's property). This involved lots of internet sturm und drang, with people arguing whether or not it's legal to shoot someone going through your trash.
Fitbit for Your Water Meter Started as a DIY Project
> If you’re a web developer, accessibility is literally your job. If you ignore it, you’re just a hobbyist.

Just as if you ignore security, privacy, responsiveness and performance of the site, you’re just a hobbyist. Enterprises usually hide behind budgets and quarterly numbers not to do most of these things.

Accessibility is not for “other people” or “disabled people”. There are people who tend to think that way. It’s actually for yourself and everyone else. Without accessibility features, even the average normie would have a much tougher life.
I think to take the name of an app and extrapolate that it means mob justice (and not just community watch style activities) is another example of reading into it too much. It sounds like they wanted a catchy name (and its a much better name than the bland 'citizen').

I suppose you can argue that it reveals a true motive that they have since wisened up to.

Although I agree it looks bad.
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I needed to pick up a bunk bed I bought on Facebook Marketplace, so I rented a small U-Haul in my neighborhood last year to make the whole process simpler. I downloaded the U-Haul app to schedule the rental, used the truck for about an hour and was pleased that the return process took about five minutes. There may be lots of horror stories about renting a U-Haul in a big city, but the process of renting a U-Haul in the suburbs — the place where the truck got lots of its stigma over MAGA owners rolling coal down Main Street — has only been incredibly easy for me, so much so that owning a truck seems rather pointless. I've also rented a U-Haul for most of the times I've moved, either across-city or interstate, and each of those processes have been simple and not time-consuming.
what keyboard do you use? And do you feel it's optimized for Vim?
Aha, interesting. Thanks.
In-app purchase news at Google I/O
I also have contemplated doorknobs. I hate that the choice is between slippery round ones and hook-like ones. I'd like a slightly rounded dodecahedron, icosahedron, or 5 to 12 sided prism.