skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But Rossmann hopes to raise it. As a repair technician slash right to repair advocate slash YouTube personality, he has expertise and clout that he’s looking to leverage in his latest endeavor: trying to put the right to repair for consumer electronics on the ballot in Massachusetts.

To do so, Rossmann started the Repair Group Preservation Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, and launched a fundraiser on March 30. So far, he has raised more than $700,000 toward his $6 million goal, which by all accounts isn’t nearly enough, given his potential opponents could be tech and telecom giants like Apple, Verizon and T-Mobile.

“It’s not that we’re against it,” said Gordon-Byrne. “God bless him for trying. But I think our ability to sponsor that is very limited. We gotta find some friendly billionaires.”

The move is risky, even if Rossmann can raise $6 million.

“If you lose on the ballot, that really makes it tough to get other people to pick it up again, because it’s kind of like you’ve lost your proof of concept,” said Nathan Proctor, director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s right to repair campaign.5"

1. I hope Louis succeeds for his state's sake.

2. My fear is what the big companies did CA. A few legislators introduced bills aimed at ending E-waste, or Right to Repair. The big boys used their money to squash the bills, and succeeded stupendously. All it took was a few scare commercials.

3. The big pocketed companies made these rediculious commercials. They featured a thief, or rapist, gaining access to your vechicle in a dark parking lot. This was supposedly due to the bad guy having access to schematics.

California has had 2, or 3 bills over (E-waste) Right to Repair Bills; and they all failed.

Failed-----------. This is beyond frustrating to me.

Corporations own Sacramento. Be it tech, insurance, or Realator's, they are making our lives more expensive. I won't even get started on the Insurance industry Lobbiests. (My blood pressure is climbing)

We Californians need to smarten up.

If we get another shot at Right to Repair, I guarantee you won't be raped in a parking garage because someone reverse engineered a gadget to take over your vechicle, or you.

If you main concern is someone taking control of your vehicle I would allow all security schematics exempt from Right to Repair.

Now let's the next bill passed.

I would like a Proposition, but they would Uber us?

(I'm not angry over just Right to Repair. It a lot. It mandatory vechicle insurance, smog checks that are pricey, and too frequent, Insurance rates that I guarantee are price colluded, outrageous traffic fines for infractions, driving past 10 pm, and being pulled over for no reason. Cops think we all get hammered like they do?, harassing homeless for sleeping, etc.)
Possibly GitHub could make video more accessible by OCRring videos for search.
It's just a different type of enthusiasm. Some places need/want people really enthused for computer science. Other places want people really enthused for whatever domain they are in. Other places want people really enthused for solving customers pain. Other places want people really enthused for a cause. Being enthused for x when a company wants enthusiasm for y just makes it a bad fit. It doesn't make either party wrong/bad/whatever.
Too many mind!

Too many mind?

Hai, mind the ball, mind the players, watch goalie -- too many mind. NO MIND!

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> don’t buy Apple if you want to tinker with your hardware

Apple makes good hardware. I should be able to buy an Apple device and use my own software on it.
Intriguing Properties of Vision Transformers
But if you do know what you're doing - like myself and many other engineers - you don't need hand holding.

I would not consider SES "shit" because it does not baby-sit you throughout the setup process. The documentation was solid, and I had a lot of freedom to customize a solution specific to my use case. Overall working SES has been an enjoyable experience.

But maybe my mind will change 1 billion emails later haha we'll see.
This doesn't really go back in time much. What about Usenet? And why did it die?

Last mile was always in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies. In New York, Andrew Cuomo (currently governor) strong-armed the last mile carriers into blocking Usenet for "think of the children" reasons. So how was the peer to peer Usenet killed off? Monopoly big business and big government.

These things don't exist in a vacuum - big business and the government work together to kill off decentralization and work towards centralization. Cuomo is a Democrat, but someone like Mitch McConnell is no different.

> My statement that email can be used without involving Google

I run my own mail server, and have kept compliant with what they want in terms of SPF and whatnot. They have an influence, but if they made Gmail a complete walled garden it would be self-defeating at this point.

Linux ran for years via e-mail and patch - huge Linux companies were IPO'ing in the 1990s and Linus was still using e-mails and patches to keep the system together.

I also still communicate via IRC. I'm sure a decentralized Slack-like IRC could be done if anyone cared to do so.

Git is a good example - it's a thing that is decentralized newer than other things mentioned.

Decentralization works just fine for me. Guess what decentralized in 2019? IT being centered in San Francisco.

IBM (and the seven dwarves) dominated centralized computing until the MOS microcomputers started selling like hotcakes in the 1970s. I have an Android phone in my pocket, and have futzed around with LineageOS (although did not put it on my phone yet). Who knew in 1974 that people could walk around with phones/computers in their pocket that was many times more powerful that an IBM S/360, that the people would have the source code to and could modify at will? That's a decentralization you aren't even aware was a decentralization if you're too young to have heard of white shirted IBM technicians shuffling punch cards.
Why is the chain's liveness and resiliency to server failures dependent on where people happen to be keeping their validators? This isn't a problem in Ethereum 1.0.
^ KORG's software is fantastic. Killer apps for the iPad as far as I'm concerned. Gadget is one of my favorite DAWs.
Raising multiple young children with their own individual bedrooms in one of the most expensive cities in the country is an edge case.

That said, it's entirely doable, especially in an age where FAANG companies are paying huge compensation in that area anyway.

Obviously, it doesn't make sense for someone with a median non-tech salary to try to raise multiple kids in one of the most expensive areas in the country. For tech people working tech jobs, it still works out fine though.
At what point does a tool become a motor? Are hand crank tools allowed? oxen cranked? electrics? If I put it all in a sled, am I carrying it?
The Ouachita Trail is an absolute treasure for backpacking, too. 200+ miles of uncrowded trails with well-maintained AT-style shelters along most of the way.
I thought the same thing as you, but many students use their personal devices. I can't imagine the pain of trying to get all the students to set that up correctly, and the security implications of managing certificate stores is not something I would want to hand over to a lowest-bidder contractor for a school district. I don't really love that Microsoft/Linux distros manage them as is (although I'm admittedly too lazy to manage them manually).
You should submit that link as a new post.
Well with regard to your Blockchain view I simply answer kadena.io . Things have moved forward since your were a graduate. We need to donate more to these open source projects that help keep our privacy private.
An important lesson for me was that doing side projects during my free time didn't make me a better developer at work. Writing a video game or even a webapp without the constraints of working on a team and having business needs that you don't get to choose.
Partitioning "work programming" and "home programming" as two separate skills in my mind has been very useful.
Huh... sorry your whole post is borderline racist and denies science, please refrain from posting from on similar topics in cyberspace.

Regards,
Ministry of Truth
It's interesting that this mentions the Signal fiasco and specifically the scamcoin that is MobileCoin. Is that the fate of all messaging apps? Once they get some traction, they sell out their users? I can see things like Matrix as a good alternative, but then what happens when that gains traction? MatrixCoin anyone? When does it end?
> It’s still unclear to me why Apple should have any limits in what rules they set for their store.

It's an exploitative monopoly. That's more than enough reason to place severe limits on it.
$12 an hour is barley enough to live on in most of the country. In many places, it’s not enough to cover rent.

The average cost of community college tuition is around $3.5k a year. Add in books, fees, transportation, lost income from not being available for shifts etc..., and that’s just not realistic unless you can live with your parents or someone else is supporting you.
Planetside 2 has taught me a lot about leadership.

In the game, which is an MMOFPS that plays a little like the Battlefield series, most people don't play as leaders. However, you can lead either a squad of up to 12 players, or a platoon of 4 squads, meaning up to 48 players. You fight in a 3-way conflict with up to thousand players on a given map.

Staying positive is incredibly important. You can't always win, but you can usually find a way to have fun and leave your players happy even after a loss. This is equally true of real life: winning the fight immediately in front of you might not be possible, but in the long term it's better to find an objective you can achieve than to keep forcing your team to attack a problem they can't solve.

Team-mates who have a microphone and communicate with you are incredibly important because they give feedback on your choices and call out things you've missed, but you might only have a few in your platoon, or even none at all. People won't always communicate problems or opportunities to you unless you've carefully nurtured an environment where they feel safe and get rewarded with social approval for speaking up.

If you keep throwing your platoon into fights they lose, they'll become disengaged, and either check out and stop following orders, get upset and play worse, or just leave. You. deal with this by giving them some easy fights where they outnumber, outflank, or outskill the enemy. In real life, after a tough few weeks, throw in a day off or a sprint that's deliberately light on cards.

Speed and agility are incredibly important, as is planning a couple of steps ahead. If you have players who are just a bit faster than others, who have just a bit more initiative, you can go straight from fight to fight with no downtime and without time for the enemy to respond. If you pre-empt enemy manouvers, you can create options for yourself at very little cost that save you significant time in the future. Similarly, adding kill switches to new features, or refactoring your error handling to give more info, can save you hours of downtime. Already having feature X under development when a competitor announces they're working on it can let you quickly respond to market demand.

You should remove actively disruptive players as soon as possible to protect your well behaved players. Trolls, racists, those with anger management issues, or just extremely negative players should be immediately told off, and kicked out if they don't stop. If you don't do this, you'll lose your best players trying to retain your worst.
> I don't personally have the time to watch a 20-minute video to see what the hell he's talking about,

I personally find your reply in bad faith because both Greek0 and 8bitsrule took the time to find and share the video with you as well as explain the context around it.

That's not even considering the time that Louis Rossman went through to make that "20 minute video" because it takes much longer to film, edit and publish the damn thing.

This is like an extreme form of trolling to derail the conversation, usually it's "please provide a source", which someone did but you hand waved it away with "I don't have time to watch it". It legitimately upset me.
While the post-9/11 security “theatre” was mostly window dressing, it’s an undeniable fact that the lockdowns and masking has saved many, many lives.
I look at it like any skill worth mastering is worth training until doing without conscious effort.

Like walking, talking, riding a bicycle, dancing, BJJ, MMA, witty-banter, or chatting-up one's preferred amorous demographic: conscious thinking is nervous, insecure, self-doubting, clumsy, ungraceful... and just plain bad.
Great article! I have been meaning to write an article like this and the author raises a lot of points that I would make. But my assessment of why we don't have more centralization is pretty simple:

"Consumers don't care"

The concept in the real world is simple: "If I want something I go to store x and buy it". Translating that concept in the digital world is super easy with centralization:

- Want to watch a video: go to YouTube
- Want to buy something: go on Amazon
- Want to host large amounts of files, buy S3 space

Even podcast, a technology I love and have been using for is in danger of becoming more proprietary. If you look at promotional material podcasts you'll often find statements like "listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts" as if they are the providers of podcast. But Apple doesn't even host podcasts (yet)

We could have all of these things without centralization but just imagine the sales pitch for a RSS/BitTorrent backed video service with an open API and multiple competing frontends.

And in the example of YouTube centralizing everything (hosting, distribution and presentation) has great benefits for them (YouTube) so why would they not do it?
Centralized exchanges are a necessary evil for now. DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is where code is law. Services like Uniswap, Curve, Aave etc are all just code that you interact with on Ethereum. Once you've onboarded into the decentralized world you can use them at will and eventually you'll be able to live your life without having to use centralized services again.
Pts helps you connect the dots in the vastness of conceptual spaces
I think Sony also published ACID Pro for a while.
Any recommendation of Avant versus Wegner?
I don’t live in America? So maybe that’s why. I was advertised 1000/100 and I get that.
Voice Cloning Makes Dubbing and Localization Easier: Benefits for Studios
Lenovo has done something interesting in recent generations of laptop power supplies that made them a lot smaller and lighter.

The 170W power supply for my old ThinkPad W520 measures about 17cm x 8cm x 3cm and weighs about 580g.

The 170W supply for my new X1 Extreme measures about 14cm x 8cm x 2cm and weighs about 320g.

Does anyone know what technology let them make the power supply so much smaller and lighter?
Everyone has limitations. Refusing to accept them can cause all kinds of long term harm. (This would be me.)

Keeping a positive attitude and knowing where you are and where you want to be is important but lying to yourself is a long, slow descent into self-destruction.
The intrinsic urge to create. That and the fact that the creation is taking place outside of any coercive or exploitative relationship.
Tailscale? Or did you mean FOSS?
Shape-shifting computer chip thwarts an army of hackers
This is the important part that gets missed. The decentralized service (or open service, etc) needs to be significantly better than the alternatives to get traction.
You are right to question all of this. The science thus far backs up what you are claiming and the public narrative is shifting.
Had looked at this space years ago, and had built something - initially for myself, but had tried to get others to use it.

It was a weird scenario - people who probably needed it most either were too overwhelmed (and possibly jobless at that moment in time) with various application processes and "didn't have time" to learn something "new", or... tried it and "meh, I only apply to a couple places, I don't need to keep that much info".

An 'integrated' process would be great, but even ... 7-8 years ago, a lot of places were moving to automated candidate/submission HR systems, and doing email submissions was already locking you out of many applications. That was another piece of feedback - I have to put all this info in to job site ABC - duplicating it is too much work.

I was considering trying to monetize - but again, the people who seemed to need it most also had the least money (jobless, etc). Unsure how to get past that dynamic.

I learned far more about oauth/email integration than I wanted to (and half of that is probably useless now). I remember coming to the conclusion that, while google/gmail was a pain to use, they did at least let you do useful stuff. Yahoo and Outlook web mail integration stuff was painful to use and was extremely limited in comparison.

Mid 2000's time period, I ended up doing a job search that took me well over 100 outreaches, and took 3-4 weeks to get anything remotely close to fruitful. It was, essentially, a full time job for those weeks. The next time I was thinking I would have to go through that again, I built the version of what referenced above - initially for myself, then opened it up and solicited some feedback.

I was focusing more on the sending of the emails directly, with open tracking, email templates (search/replace with custom cv links, etc). Broader status tracking was there but not as visualized as what it seems this project is doing (and it looks nice from the screenshots).

Best of luck to you.
But really what were the possibilities? If you were unemployed with no assets and no savings the debt collectors wouldn’t really get anything from you. And once you got back on your feet you’d start making payments.

I don’t think there’s that much difference between making $12/hr and making $12/hr with $200k debt that you make no effort to pay off.
Being "faith-based" is more of a marketing gimmick. The advice just has random Bible verses stuck into it. It's a way to convince churches to offer the courses with an endorsement. Which is kinda icky, but different icky.
The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (2017)
^^^ This
It's more than open standards. XMPP is open but doesn't mean google will federate with you.
If these schemes with inherent MLM-Ponzi structures crash, how long will mining be lucrative enough? Perhaps then mining will distribute to the holders to try to maintain some value or use?

But you conclude with your worry that there are real costs, and zero pitch decks or white papers I've seen include arguably the most important competitive factor: cost of "how people do it now" vs. cost doing it "this new way;" and in-person, real life networks of trust networks has been how we've become as successful as we have as a society - and so works quite well - and doesn't inherently lineup with "trustless" propaganda of these popular blockchains; if blockchain is a valuable tool, say for legal institutions, they could create their own and run it themselves under agreement.
Probably GaN
Inner game mastery seems like staying focused on not thinking about the mechanical aspects... "in the zone."

Like, do you even know your ATM PIN? Could you think of it consciously without pressing in the air? How about your computer password? Has it become "muscle-memory," learned subconsciously as motions while semantic symbols are discarded?
> which you can easily afford out of your $12 / hour wages.

...unless you live one of the many places where the average cost of an even a studio apartment is high enough to immediately eat most of your wages.
Agreed and I will add that a huge reason Google is used by so many was very effective spam filtering. A huge reason why hosting your own email is hard? Getting filtered by Google because of the massive amount of spam they are blocking.

Spam filtering is a a very difficult thing to do well and Google's implementation was very good, very advanced, and trained on huge amounts of data. Something a normal person could never do on their own server and those who could would be spending a lot of time training the blocker which those using Google never even needed to think of.
Seems like they should work together and find some equitable way to split the profits. Perhaps 30/70?
> I don't want to install the NYT store to download the nyt cooking app so they can take a bigger cut on their subscription.

Then don't. Nobody is forcing you. That's what this is all about, not forcing people.
how do you arrive at this conclusion?
GTM = Go To Market?
Not really, there is still a minimum of 3 minute latency (at its closest to Earth.)
Yes. They should have data rights. It very quickly becomes false economy.

On a similar topic, a lot of LRUs (Line Replaceable Unit) in aircraft such as the F-35, the front-line maintainers, or even squadron/wing level avionics shops, can't even do basic diagnostics on the LRU. They either have to get a manufacturer tech representative to do it, or send the box back to the manufacture for repair. They are routinely returned "No fault found" with a significant cost attached.
Everyone is downvoting you cause it makes zero sense to use blockchain to do IOT. IoTA is also largely a scam, the technology doesn't work
The thing about raising children is that the sky is the limit when it comes to spending money, time, and resources on them. It's not hard to find stories about people who spend their entire incomes on child raising. The catch is that these stories can be seen at every level of income, from $30K to $300K or more. Expenses can and will balloon to exorbitant amounts if you're not careful.

It helps to know parents with more traditional income levels to see how they function. If you're only surrounded by people spending $80K/year on their kids, it starts to feel like spending that much is the only option. It's not.
OPs point still stands, but World of Warcraft famously uses Bittorrent to distribute patches.
It's not a lie, if you believe it. (I'm talking about statements about one's self only).

I'm not talking about saying "I can fly" and jumping out the window. It's within the limits and confounds of what is possible from one's own perspective.
Definitely incredibly influential, but I would say that Roland, KORG, Yamaha, etc. are matched by the likes of Moog, Sequential, Oberheim, Access, and many others (from E-mu to Linn to modern Eurorack) on the hardware side, and on the software side by DAWs such as Reason, Live, FL Studio, Logic and myriad plugins. Definitely a fair amount of US and Europe as well as Japan.
> Why? Who are these people accountable to? This has real world consequences to this child, is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what?

It's possible; personally I think they're just massively uncomfortable saying to parents "anyone on the internet has access to your children via online classes, they're using it to broadcast objectionable content to your children, and we don't have an idea of how to solve it". It's possible they're just ignorant. It's also possible that they're awful people and are using him as a scapegoat because "a classmate said horrible things" probably worries parents a lot less than "some random stranger is breaking into online classrooms and saying horrible things". It also lets them imply that suspending him will make the Zoom bombing stop.