skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nintendo Wins $2.1M Judgment Against Pirate Site Operator
0th dimension: a point in space

1st dimension: a line in space

2nd dimension: a plane in space

3rd dimension: an object with mass (width, height and length), represented as a point in time

4th dimension: a time line, where the third dimension can travel on

5th dimension: a time plane, representing the events of infinite time lines.

6th dimension: third dimensional time space, which, honestly, gets kinda confusing, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the infinite possibilities of time planes. As in, time planes have time lines that actually happen, but 3d time space are what could happen? I'm not entirely sure.

And on and on. My visualization of dimensions is that it infinitely repeats itself based on point, line, and plane.
Yeah. I think there's a lot of startups who are sort of emulating the FAANGs because it is "norm". I personally think that's good because I'd rather have everyone have a similar process than have very different processes across companies. Makes it much easier to interview and prepare for one.
I believe the black PCB trend started with Apple.

It won't slow down anyone seriously trying to copy your product, since they'll just depopulate the board and use "bed of nails" or "fly wire" scanning technology to recover the netlist automatically. It does frustrate repair attempts, however.

High-end server-oriented stuff still tends to be "boring" green.
Both of us had good-to-great health insurance in the US thanks to our employers. But there's the rub: it's tied to employment, and if you lose your job for any reason, you either do without or pay (very expensive) COBRA. In Australia, everyone has Medicare (public health for all ages), and we currently also have supplemental insurance ("gap coverage") from my employer.
Hong Kong got that weird breakfast cuisine that looks like it’s made out of wartime rations— among other things condensed milk spread on toast and that coffee/tea mix.
Do you mean the "xfinitywifi" ssid? Afaik you don't get the customer's IP address when you use that. And you definitely need to enter your Comcast credentials to use it, so law enforcement could probably trace who is really using it.

They probably remember your login based on wifi MAC, so it's probably easy to fake being somebody else, however.
Yes they're that shitty. Example: I got jumped by a group of ~30 kids in 8th grade for, IIRC, they didn't tell me why they just felt like it?? A teacher witnessed the end of it, off duty but saw what happened. She was nice enough to drive me home then never spoke of it again. It was just... normal that there was violence? Not an unusual school that had a reputation, no big stories of extreme incidents or measures taken, adjacent to (and eventually enveloped by) new affluent schools. Just... people being hideous to each other and nothing being done about it.
House Hunters Are Leaving the City, and Builders Can’t Keep Up
I give it less than a year until someone develops an exploit that lets you piggy back off this sidewalk for free internet access so longnas the sidewalk device hasn't been patched. and we know often people update their iot...

just sit tight and wait, it will come soon.
> Maybe I am just being cynical, but I could see Oregon refusing this to prevent the state from losing an electoral vote (maybe more than one?). That electoral vote would almost certainly switch from the Democratic nominee to the Republican one.

I think quite a few more counties would have to move in order to shift an electoral vote, but they may be closer to the threshold needed for Idaho to (eventually) gain a congresscritter and Oregon to lose one.
You're correct. The key thing to understand is when people talk about "internet" and "connectivity" in the context of LoRa, we're talking about very small packets (like a few bytes), transmitted using "chirp encoding" which is a clever hack to send small packets reliably over long distances). You're not going to be watching youtube on this, and probably not even checking email.

Previous discussion about this:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115809&p=2

The wireless tech behind this is called LoRa (Long Range) radio
https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20201208/channels/news/lor...

Most use cases I have head about base don LoRa radio are for tracking (clients send GPS coordinates once every 10 mins), transmitted packets are caught by one (or more?) gateway, which FWDs the packet to a server on the internet. I think ACKs can be sent back from the server, but not required.

Further reading
- Physical layer = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
- network layer LoRaWAN = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa#LoRaWAN
- helium network is also based on LoRa, see https://www.helium.com/lorawan and https://docs.helium.com/lorawan-on-helium/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp_spread_spectrum
Why does every article on mis- and dis-information I see on HN these days starts with some primer that encourages the audience to assume that it's predominantly the product of the political right? In this case the primer takes the following form:

> The utterance emerged in February 2019 from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth

This is in the first paragraph. Before the subject is properly introduced and defined, before the reader even begins processing what the article says about it, the author encourages the audience to think about how barbarous and primitive Fox News is, which is guaranteed to tint everything that follows.

This is a propaganda technique and it's becoming ubiquitous in modern writing.
To who? The crime police? They're the people who go around randomly punching people, a few years older.
I liked Dr Bloodmoney, but I don't remember how much.. so, no I wouldn't rank it in the first tier. But it was a book I enjoyed, so it wouldn't be in the bottom of my list of PKD books I read. Somewhere in the middle.
4x ¾" plywood sheets screwed together on 12x sturdy 10" legs + 50x 1x1" 8' sticks on top for ventilation => 8x8' bed + 5" custom 95D memory foam mattress + 10lbs buckwheat "main" pillow + memory foam "between the knees" pillow. Absolute darkness with 3M blackout film on the windows. I've always struggled to find a big enough bed so I can "starfish" in the middle. Building a custom one helped!
Great metaphor for how to create an innovative, collaborative culture.
A fair point, though the data of interest to marketers, and others making use of targeted influencing and/or surveillance, is.
It's true that house prices in Australia, especially Sydney, are so high right now they are on par with the Bay Area. Other financial details are harder to calculate: Your lifetime medical costs, for example. And also a lack of bonuses or pay raises. A number of times my US-citizen colleagues were offered money to stay in jobs when I, as a visa worker, was offered none. Companies believe that visa workers are unable to quit, and abuse it (regardless of who you are). (Disclaimer: not Netflix, they truly treat their visa workers well.)
Hmm. It is not a big story and it is misleading, but it is not a non-story. If Amazon grants itself a right to my bandwidth without compensating me that is not insubstantial. Not all of us ride on fiber with unlimited everything. Giant corp skimming resources off of little guy. And we don't even know if that is all they are doing yet.
that's giving them access to your network. there is no guarantee except through Amazons 'good word' that these device and connections cannot in any way ever be exploited to do something other than connect to awass.

the intern may have coded it to only communicate with awass but the exploit that will undoubtedly drop soon will not care.
Ah, but the weather... yes, I know it doesn't rain as much as people think (I've been there at all times of year) but it is awfully dark for awfully many hours in the winter.
I would imagine that if the death is even remotely suspicious, the beneficiary is going to be murder suspect #1.
Time is the only dimension we can’t control travel on - we’re stuck at 60 minutes an hour. So it doesn’t exactly map the same way the others do (though arguably all the first three are only analogous to the real world, as points and lines and planes don’t exist as non-3D objects we can interact with).
Does not show up in my Amazon Alexa app on android, which is up to date per Google Play.
love this comment. this is so true, not just with Amazon, but with all the major tech garbage out there. I wish there were other options, I'd pay significantly more for a phone that isn't a tap that walks with me everywhere I go.
Could you be referring to the masseters? Those are the muscles you use for chewing.
Doesn't GPL seem more palatable now?

All the big companies have their own private fork resulting in zero contributions to the main project.
> Many Europeans and Asians I’ve spoken to went to classes each day and then left school to do other things with other people

In China those things would often be cram schools. In Korea that’s even more common, practically universal. If you think the college rat race and obsession with prestige in the US is bad it’s nothing like as bad as in developed East Asia. (Japan may be slightly less awful but still much worse than anywhere in the cultural as opposed to political West.)
being honest and competent would be enough...
Transcendental Number
I see it on the list here, and I know it’s not the most universally malicious of dark patterns, but Amazon defaulting users to a “subscription” on things like vitamins, diapers, toilet paper, etc. is so annoying.

Reminds me of a time I was in their Seattle book store maybe six months ago and overheard the person at the register telling every customer they “qualified for a free audiobook” and that he’d get them all set up.

At no point did he mention that the customer was being subscribed to Audible or that they’d be eventually charged for the service. I can only imagine the discussions up the food chain that made this retail employee feel like this was alright. I shudder thinking about how many people are probably being charged to this day because they simply never noticed (I doubt I would!)

Gross gross gross.
> The best-known problem with PGP is its poor usability, but that's not its biggest problem.

I don't know - if the design were more sounds from a crypto perspective, but it was still as easy to fuck up as the current interface, would it really be better?
PolarDB, yet another open source database system based on PostgreSQL
You cannot be serious with this line of thinking.
And I am very sorry to hear of yours as well :(

I can relate so much to your comment. The waiting game... just awful. Toward the end of the ordeal, when my wife had taken her last turn for the worse, a friend called and asked how I was doing.

My response: "I feel like a prisoner who's staring at the guillotine while the executioner is on the phone ordering lunch."

I thought I'd share it not for a laugh, but you might be able to relate to the feeling.
Your disagreement doesn't hold up in terms of false advertising in that the device advertised being able to play music with your voice, not 'granular control over the wifi and other RF waves emitted!'.

> Contracts that allow one side to unendingly damage the other side without consideration have no merit, no matter what anyone says.

You'd probably have a hard time convincing a judge of damages given you have the option to turn this off and Amazon gave warning to customers about this functionality well in advance (November 24, 2020 is when I received the email https://i.judge.sh/right/Armor/chrome_lbf9jmauwR.png ).

> The TV does it whether you're streaming or not. You can't disable it, there is no setting to turn it off. The TV is hardwired to the router and isn't streaming anything. Even if I was streaming to the TV, it would be on my own wifi network, on theirs. There's no reason for them to control a wifi network in my house, period.

Probably just faulty engineering then, ie

if !wifi.connected:
wifi.enable_wifi_direct()

And bad engineering isn't usually tackled by local consumer protection agencies when they can just let the market sort itself out.

And this is what I mean by direct play:

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-direct
The Golden Ratio
(Huge disclaimer that I may be wrong in my understanding here)

> Wasn't Detroit's problem that it was too dependent a small set of labor-intensive businesses in one industry that have been in a long term secular decline (as foreign competition as increased) while simultaneously becoming more automated?

From my understanding, the Strong Towns folks would say that because Detroit spent years going into maintenance debt, and replacing it's financially productive areas with unproductive areas, it was unable to survive a downturn. In contrast, New York, suffered several different financial downturns, but was able to constantly reinvent itself as some other industry town. Though I think Strong Towns would also say that single reliance on any one industry is not considered "strong" either.
These are feelings, not facts.

Homeschooling is not largely populated by people with "extremist" beliefs. Such people are too low in number to be largely populating anything.

5 million parents in the US were officially homeschooling their kids as of the latest Pulse survey (done during COVID pandemic to see changes in families). [1]

There are about 56 million students attending school in the US right now [2]

So about 10% of kids are homeschooled. That's not mainstream but it's not such a small minority to be discounted, nor is it small enough to be largely populated by extremists.

1 https://hslda.org/post/census-data-shows-phenomenal-homescho...

2 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
If not you dentist, then who would do the root canal?
You're free to be wrong.

I'm simply not willing to spend effort digging up a reference for someone who won't read it. Literally all you had to say was "I'd like the reference please, so I can read it," but you did not. So, it seems I was right. Given your attitude, I don't even believe you intended to do what you said you were going to do in good faith.

Have a nice day.
I trust Novara Media, and they're openly partisan.

https://youtube.com/user/NovaraMedia
Yes, moving to Byron for Australia is similar to Hawaii/Maui for California.
In 1999 I was earning $135k from a US-based job while I lived in Italy. Thanks to the tax treaty, I did not pay US income tax on the first $85k of that, but I paid Italy for it. I paid BOTH COUNTRIES on the remainder. Lost over 55% of my income to taxes that year. I was not thrilled that a lot of it was going to the Berlusconi government.
You are entirely correct about how time should be thought of as just another point of reference. The reason I think it is viewed as the "4th dimension" is because it's something we can naturally observe without any tools.
I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm going to write about you may feel in the future, maybe it will help just a bit, just that one time, the hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel.

What helped me after losing my baby daughter was protecting my sleep, as sadness and depression seem to be way stronger when I'm tired. Before being able to do that, I was sinking, and today it's always a risk.

Ten years after, I 'm still amazed I can smile and be happy, and this is such a joyful discovery every time: joy has become extraordinary. I felt like I would never have a real smile on my face.

Finding a few rituals helped a lot: we bought a flower I'm tending to every other day, and there's a small tree above her grave where I go sit and talk to her.

To this day, being angry at the thoughtless sentences people say is somehow helpful, like a reprieve from the sadness. No, my others kids do not "replace" my daughter. No, the fact she was a baby do not mean she was worth less than an older child. No, repeating me to get over it will not magically work, and anyway, why should I be ok with my child death?

A beautiful discovery I made is that this situation will trigger discussions, gestures, moments that will become memorable : that one time where a remote friend said two sentences that got you through the day, that nasty grandma suddenly speaking so nicely for 5mn, that touch of sun on your skin while you were looking on the place she died, the new friends you make through communities of people suffering from the same thing, etc.

Again, I'm sorry for your loss, it's not right, it's common but it's not right. For now, just one step at a the time, going through each day. At some point, hopefully, you'll see a light in the distance.
Yes, but with something like a pension plan you're pretty much always dealing with a pool of people on both sides of the transaction. In the situation in the article you can have a single person on each side so a particular individual is making a financial bet on another specific individual dying sooner rather than later.
I wouldn't use Trino if you are looking to ONLY query a single database like Clickhouse or Postgres etc (unless you want an ANSI SQL abstraction over your choice of database). Obviously ClickHouse and Postgres will have lower latency when hit directly because you can bypass the analysis, planning, optimization and scheudling that Trino does.

It does federation better than ClickHouse and that's where it shines. Joins across disparate systems - even between relational and non-relational systems.
And obviously for the MPP queries on distributed filesystems.
To the right state, I think it is less of such a pit, yes.
I'm told (by tax specialists) that nowadays the situation is that you pay the taxes in whichever country has the higher taxation rate, but nothing in the other country. That will be fine - I'm ok with paying higher taxes when I'm getting better services, like a good public health system that works for everyone.
Yes. Sort of. MAD was a well-specified and widely-used language. There are manuals and such for that, and I'd be surprised if there wasn't an emulator around someplace. SLIP is also well specified in papers and documentation, and there's even a recent C++ SLIP! Some resources are linked to the above-linked page, and others are easy to find around the web.
Correct link (PDF): https://fosshost.org/Fosshost_Donations.pdf
The “hard problem of consciousness” is not essentially about consciousness. It’s just the most obvious form of the problem to conscious beings.

The “hard problem of applesauce” is the same essential problem. While it is true that we will one day fully understand the molecular, atomic, and quantum composition of applesauce, and thus be able to create artificial applesauce without a single apple, we still won’t be able to explain the existence of existence.

Consciousness, applesauce, electrons, and existence itself have no reason to exist, and yet they do. That’s the hard problem.

Consciousness is simply the closest we get to that mystery, insofar as we only get close to anything through consciousness itself.
Or use an Amazon device but opt-out of this shared service.
You can disable this feature. Problem solved.
If you do a surface level reading of text, you're going to get a surface level understanding of it.

From here[1]:

> In political/economic theory, notably socialist, Marxist, and most anarchist philosophies, the distinction between private and personal property is extremely important. Which items of property constitute which is open to debate. In some economic systems, such as capitalism, private and personal property are considered to be exactly equivalent.

> Personal property or possessions includes "items intended for personal use" (e.g., one's toothbrush, clothes, and vehicles, and sometimes rarely money).[3] It must be gained in a socially fair manner, and the owner has a distributive right to exclude others.

> Private property is a social relationship between the owner and persons deprived, i.e. not a relationship between person and thing. Private property may include artifacts, factories, mines, dams, infrastructure, natural vegetation, mountains, deserts and seas—these generate capital for the owner without the owner having to perform any labour. Conversely, those who perform labour using somebody else's private property are deprived of the value of their work, and are instead given a salary that is disjointed from the value generated by the worker.

> In Marxist theory, the term private property typically refers to capital or the means of production, while personal property refers to consumer and non-capital goods and services

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
... and NASA has never admitted to the failings identified by Tufte (or Feynman in the Challenger investigation, for that matter). I own the pamphlet this PDF is the electronic version of, because I thought Tufte earned that copyright (not a sentiment I have about many works, in general I think the terms of both copyright and patent should be reduced to 5 years -- in the interests of replenishing the commons that was the explicit goal of the US intellectual property system).
Maybe, but I could also see it deterring would-be contributors.
'bog-standard'?
No one. You made a personal reproductive choice, that should rightly be enough, shouldn't it?
Sounds like a good rubber ducky for explaining my startup idea to. It might even talk me out of it.
> feeling good despite taking a depressant

Worth noting that "depressant" in the drug sense is anything which slows down the action of the central nervous system, it doesn't have anything to do with the mental state of depression.

Some of the drugs most known for bringing on a state of euphoria are depressants (eg; opiates).
I think things written in Rust are better than things written in C. I think modern AEAD cryptography is better than the 90s cryptography that GPG uses. I think the PGP installed base mires the whole ecosystem in C code that accidentally goes quadratic just trying to parse keys, no matter what happens with Sequoia. It's a good project --- this TUI is probably a good project too --- but in a doomed ecosystem.
I'm not sure what the minimum age here is, but it never came up for me. The one thing I know was somewhat unique to Oregon at the time was making all public universities accept the GED
> Your disagreement doesn't hold up in terms of false advertising in that the device advertised being able to play music with your voice, not 'granular control over the wifi and other RF waves emitted!'.

I bought the device just as much for what it didn't do as what it did. It did not create its own wifi network against my wishes. Now it does. I am damaged because I have lost the ability to control the wifi networks in my home, unless I choose to take a loss on this TV and replace it.

>You'd probably have a hard time convincing a judge of damages

Again, the damages come from the cost of replacing this device with one that doesn't do what it was updated to do against my wishes. My TV isn't made by amazon, and has nothing to do with amazon, so your point about amazon warning users to 'opt-out' of being damaged by amazon doesn't matter. Amazon knows the great majority of old folks and idiots who buy their devices won't turn it off because they can't be bothered to read and 'AMAZON SIDEWALK' doesn't raise alarm bells like 'AMAZON STEAL YOUR INTERNET'.

>Probably just faulty engineering then, ie

Alternately, as you say, I'm unlikely to convince a judge that it's damage so they have no reason not to do it. They can do whatever they want and as long it wasn't disabling a feature, it's kosher. They could sell my location and browsing habits, they could check the network to see what other devices are on it and when they log in, the could do anything at all apparently.

> And this is what I mean by direct play:

My idea of direct play is an hdmi cable - its much more secure and doesnt' require any wifi at all.
Don't use encrypted email. Encrypted email is deeply problematic, for many reasons having little to do with PGP.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....