skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in the history of Bolinas, I recommend reading The Town That Fought To Save Itself.

For a broader history of how Marin is able to uniquely exist as parkland/farmland adjacent to a major metropolitan area, I recommend watching Rebels with a Cause.

For anyone interested in helping to preserve low-cost housing availability in Bolinas, I strongly encourage donating to the Bolinas Community Land Trust.

And as a final note on culture: for anyone considering purchasing in Bolinas, it's important to be mindful that it is important to actually _live_ there. There is a limited supply of housing, and vacation homes/rentals have a serious, negative, cultural impact on the town compared to full-time residents who will participate in the community over time.

https://www.amazon.com/Town-That-Fought-Save-Itself/dp/03944...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2231578/

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Apple Claims Progress in Supply Chain, No Child Labor Cases
> "and no government can stop me"

"Myanmar’s government shuts down internet indefinitely" - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22362767/myanmar-military-...

"Bangladeshi government shuts down callphone/internet access in Rohingya camps" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/13/bangladesh-internet-blac...

"Democratic Republic of the Congo shuts down internet and SMS" - https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

"Indian government shuts down internet in Kashmir" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/28/india-restore-kashmirs-i...

"Iranian authorities shut down internet" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/27/iran-deliberate-coverup-...

"Independent group observes 'near-total' shutdown of Iraqi internet access" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/08/iraq-teargas-cartridges-...

"Sudan's ongoing internet shutdown" - https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/12/sudan-end-network-shutdo...

"China bans ICOs, shuts down domestic exchanges, and uses great firewall to block foreign exchanges and crypto websites" - https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-enlists-apos-great-firewall...
US government would never balance its budget even if tax compliance was 100% and the tax rate was 100%.

The math does not check out and the taxes fund nothing except the interest payments on international debt.

The things that were going to get funded will still get funded, because they are funded by the debt issuance and the continued market tolerance for US government debt issuances.

So, no, tax avoidance has practically nothing to do with this. The "roads and schools [and innovations]" argument is particularly weak, because whatever wasn't funded was never going to get funded. The only limit to budget allocations is the market tolerance of the debt and currency. So again - since that market tolerance is extremely vast and expansive given the lack of liquid alternatives - if it wasn't funded, it wasn't going to get funded.
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Belarus has a worse covid situation than Australia. So Lukashenko just has to say he did it because of corona, then how is it not fair and justified, since that is apparently an acceptable reason? If your country has less stable politics then you arent allowed to manage your public health emergency?
> The only unions I have ever interacted with have been good ones.

Well, that's what I would expect to see in US too, but it's a survivorship bias at work. Obviously, in country which is (quite commendably, in my opinion) anti-union, only capable unions would be able to survive.

> that's an inversion of the power dynamics a union is meant to promote

Power dynamics that you are talking about are pieces of fiction, which oversimplify reality in order to boost one or another political viewpoint. It's a very popular piece of fiction, too: paint one side as "the ordinary people", the underdog, morally superior, and thus taken advantage of. And the other side is, obviously, the devil.

Anyone sees these stories quite for what they are when it's the story from the other side of political spectrum. For example, if anyone would come here to HN and tell the story of immigrants taking "our jobs", it would be dead in 5 minutes, and all the logical inconsistencies and fallacies in it would be split open. And, just to be clear about my personal political opinions — this takedown would be completely correct.

But it works for both sides. "The people" are often not much of an underdog, as are "the workers". I know quite a lot of real businesses, even in IT, where "the man", the business owner, takes home less money than he pays his senior engineers. The situation with police unions just highlights this disparity between the story in a way that you can't just sweep under the rug — but it's always there, even if less apparent.
Thanks! I am actually subscribed to his channel. And while I respect and enjoy the great lengths he goes in his analysis, again, it's just a single point of view, that leaves us with all the other questions open.
The capricious and hypocritical nature of masking policy is surely frustrating but I fail to see how that is relevant to whether or not they are effective.

We're talking about the science, not the public perception of the science, right?
Title of this post when I posted it: "Apple Claims Progress in Supply Chain, No Child Labor Cases"
Advertisers want to divide the population into smaller and smaller and more and more specific groups. Given the technology they absolutely would target individuals.
It's very unlikely that you have title to amazon's software. You may have a license to use their device and the related software subject to their terms, but that is VERY different than classical ownership.

All the megacorps have gone this direction.

Amazon is going to give you a constantly improving Alexa system and ecosystem and in return you are going to let them use sidewalk in most cases.
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Seems like China did fine with more conventional vaccine technologies. I'm glad we have another tool in the toolbox, but I am missing why the mRNA vaccine tech was necessary for COVID.
Yes, I agree.

What you say reminds me of synchronous-asynchronous analogy I just made in another branch of this thread.
I do both. The problem with asking only about experience is - as surprising as it may seem - people are often not prepared for this question. This often means they just talk about a highly specific mundane technical task they're currently working on (for example, I've had answers like "implement redux reducers for my project") and when pressed about challenges, they can't come up with anything and just wing it with some generic canned response (e.g. "the challenge was using APIs from backend team to make the product work" or some other mundane aspect that one typically would expect to be present in every such job). Another variation is that they can't organize their thoughts quickly enough to summarize effectively, so they ramble semi-incoherently for 10 minutes about the specifics of their tech debt.

Mind you, while answers can be highly uninspiring, they often help contextualize where a candidate is in the spectrum. It's easy to spot ticket-closers with this question for example, and conversely you can quickly spot highly opinionated individuals. But like in scientific studies, there's different value in self-reported data vs data you collect from your own observation. There's plenty of "talk-the-talk" people that can articulate prose extremely well, but struggle with the most basic of technical tasks when it comes to actually writing some code. This is surprisingly common with people pivoting from startup jack-of-all-trade roles to highly specialized roles in bigcos.
It is my understanding that Show HN is reserved for demos, isn't that right?
You could host software yourself and communicate within your circle only.
It seems like this may be the future - someone just has to make it easy for people to create groups that will deploy the server and generate the app.
But that would be a matter of time when governments will start to regulate hosting providers and e.g. banning hosting of communication servers.
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That happens by confiscating the phone. The US fifth amendment doesn't apply in India. Anything on a device isn't safe from a police search.
But I don't want to use the cookies, I used youtube-dl exactly to watch age-restricted videos without signing-in. I don't want YouTube to track which videos I watch and make history-based suggestions so I never sign-in and reset cookies often. I occasionally stumble upon age-restricted videos and feel curious what's there but I don't want any of them to influence what does YouTube believe my interests are so I just use youtube-dl INSTEAD of signing-in.

And by the way, I always mostly used random birth dates whenever registering anywhere because I consider that personal information and don't want to share it. I don't even know what birth date did I set when I got my GMail back in the days it required invitations.

I don't feel like watching an age-restricted video ever again if this actually requires identification and leaves no workaround.

UPDATE: I'm actually surprised this gets down-voted.
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From the article -- "Ads were based on context, and on inferring the audience from the context."

This is incorrect. Since the beginning of advertising there have been people who survey those who read a particular magazine, newspaper, watch a particular show. And for those who are willing to share those habits with advertisers PAY THEM MONEY for that. Ever heard the term "Neilson family"? That was a family that agreed to put a special box on their television which recorded which channels you watched, when, and for how long. It would then aggregate that information and send it to advertisers and broadcasters alike. Based on who the "audience" was, they would negotiate advertising rights. And from the very beginning broadcasters try to "game" the results with known desirable content during "sweeps weeks" which were the weeks where the statistics were gathered.

Nearly every periodical I ever subscribed too occasionally sent a "marketing survey" with some compensation for filling it out like an extra year of subscription or a branded bag or something. There were, and ARE, periodicals today where the only "subscription price" you pay is giving up your personal data about why you want to read that periodical.

So the "apocolypse" here, is that these platform owners found a tasty revenue stream by disintermediating all of the surveyors and poll takers and returning statistics with 100% participation. No modelling necessary, here are the exact characteristics of your readers.

They didn't give their users a choice, they just took that private data and sold it.

And now they are whining, loudly, that OMG that value we were stealing? They want us to pay for that? That could ruin us!

Newsflash, it won't ruin you. Does this mean the end of "free" journalism? Maybe, but it was never free to begin with, it only felt free.
As many have already said in this thread, a simple plain text TODO list is one of the best solutions.

In similar fashion, I also have my week schedule as text file.

RSS reader is also helpful: updates, news, new content - always in chronological order and clearly visible.

Thanks to DuckDuckGo's !bangs I only need to keep only a few bookmarks in my browser, so beside those few, I know every other bookmark is something to-read. Although sometimes I use also Pocket since it's build in Firefox either way.

I regularly check e-mails and delete unneeded ones right away.

Same with files. Not needed = deleted. And I keep them in clear and hierarchical directory structure.
> free tools to people who don't have the discretionary budget to pay for things like premium news.

Is there evidence that blasting even very targeted ads at people without discretionary income yields conversion?
> The border between Belarus and Poland is the former border between Soviet Union and Poland, its infrastructure beats whatever Trump wanted to do with the Wall. Crossing it illegally is close to impossible.

Interesting, it mostly runs along arbitrary forest paths etc, not major rivers or mountain ranges - not naturally easy to police.

I once stayed in a cottage in the Bialowieza forest (one of few bits of primeval forest in Europe). The cottage was at a clearing, and the other side of the clearing was in Belarus.

We never got any trouble for it, but it wasn’t rare to have border patrol appear out of nowhere and kindly enquire what you’re doing.
Playing devil's advocate here... aren't those same two things true of Sidewalk? If you purchase an Apple tag, then you benefit from other users who have this feature enabled. If you buy a device that uses Sidewalk, same situation. Both can be disabled.
It seems to be. It can use up to 500mb/month of data, and is more than just for tracking something with tiny payloads of anonymized data.

But it doesn’t seem to be sharing your internet like a lot of people seem to claim. I guess the fear is that there’s some security vulnerability that makes that more possible?
london_explore "The HOA president shall sit a maximum term of 1 year, after which they shall be barred from all roles within the HOA for 3 years"

To do this would be foolish. It take years to fully understand what can happen in any HOA. A one year term limit would create problems that allow other parties to manipulate the HOA. This would also encourage the use of a "management association(MA)", an outside contractor who signs a contract with the HOA giving all HOA control to the MA.

Having an MA does allow "things to get done" but also increases costs radically and usually removes control from the HOA officers. So your choice is:

a ) Have an HOA - you must deal with crazy people (about 1/3 of your membership - seriously), or

b) Have an MA - you will have to pay more because you have given up HOA control.

The modern condominium agreement is a well-examined standard document that almost works. There is one problem with most condominium agreements: they allow owners to rent their units. Once this begins to happen, then entrepreneurs move in and work to take over the condominium, drive the condominium value down, buy everyone out at a low price and resell at a high price. This may also involve tearing down and rebuilding/repurposing land.

Altering the condominium agreement to disallow owners from renting units would correct this weakness. But most people find this an offense against ownership. Nonetheless condominium unit rental is a weakness that should be eliminated from most condominium agreements.
As a small manufacturing company we're really struggling to replace Google Ads now that it no longer works.

We've had to start doing horrific things like searching potential customers through the directory and sending unsolicited emails
The FSF only needs some of the code to litigate though. It is better own everything, but that only is a factor after the case is done, if the FSF owns 20% of the code, then they get 20% of the total possible value of the infringement. (likely after lawyer fees, and class-action can apply)

It is easier if they own all the code, but it isn't required.
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I honestly don't know; I'm not as familiar with AMD.
> Doesn't this break the terms of service for most ISPs?

Probably.

Amazon is operating on the premise that it's easier to ask forgiveness than obtain permission.
I worked for a US health insurance company for a while, and they were almost this strict.

People got away with breaking some of the rules, but it was definitely a risk - it was theoretically grounds for dismissal to bring in your own hardware, IIRC, let alone to run unapproved software.

The concern in that case was a PHI (personal health information) breach, which could bring the wrath of the US judicial system down on the company.

So, not top-secret or anything like that, but still very conservative and with decent reasons to be so.
> retroactively being turned into yet another internet surveillance device.

Oh, and an ad-delivery mechanism. Ask Alexa to set a timer, and sometimes she'll rebut with "while you wait why not try Amazon Music!" It's absolutely infuriating.

I emailed jeff@amazon.com (VIP support team) and they confirmed it could not be disabled by normal means. They disabled it on their end but then had to do it again when somehow it got unset.

The "start with the customer and work backward" mantra that used to be strong in the company is now completely ignored for Alexa it seems. The first domino has fallen. I suspect we'll see many more fall as a result.
How do you think Facebook discovered the niches you are interested in?
Stuff like this is good while it lasts, then it quickly becomes apparent why modern cities exist like they do today. Sanitation, housing built to code, fire protection, permits, inspections, real construction materials, garbage disposal and pickup, official mail delivery, tenant protections etc. aren't all done just for kicks. Solutions like this should be seen as a complete failure of the system rather than celebrated. In any other country this would be called a slum.
This is exactly the argument made by Mariana Mazzucato in The Entrepreneurial State. It argues that the state is a major driver of innovation. DARPA is a great example of that. It argues that governments should be receiving some of the returns that private companies make because of this innovation. E.g. Apple makes enormous amounts of money selling iPhones that is full of technology like GPS, Internet, etc. that wouldn't be possible without the state as a driver of innovation. It seems fair that they get a share of those earnings in return.
I am from Belarus and I've always been impressed by the story of the Berlin Wall. And it's my dream that our wall will fall too. It is impossible to take it anymore...
Tax avoidance is a moral responsibility, because violence or threat of violence is morally wrong regardless of the outcome.
> JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. -- which altogether handle 22,500 cattle a day -- have halted processing following a weekend attack on the company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labor unions and employees.

It wasn't clear to me from the headlines that this is about meat plants.
> China did fine with more conventional vaccine technologies

China's Covid vaccine is far less effective than the mRNA vaccines, a fact that's been recognized by its own leaders [1]. It's also less extensible--we have covered most of the parameter space conventional methods offer. A new platform allows us to target e.g. HIV anew [2].

[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n969

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/moderna-is-working-...
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IIUC, this article highlights the importance of dynamic dispatch, but implicitly restricts itself to single dispatch (OOP) completely eliding any mention of multiple dispatch.

Single dispatch is great/sufficient for modeling process encapsulated by a “single agent” but multiple dispatch feels far more elegant to encode interactions between multiple agents.

Eg: Neither a.sum(b) nor b.sum(a) is as cleanly extensible as sum(a,b)
This reminds me of the earlier cyber attacks on a pipelines.

One could speculate that those are climate activist attacks.
Yet Opera still gets a column, despite how no one should be using it under any circumstance.
Tried it on my Mac since there was where the improvements appear to be centered. I use dark mode there.

I like the context menu update.

Dark mode about:preferences seem to be darker and bluer. Highlight color is hardcoded to light blue, even though I have orange set in Mac prefs. Don't like, but can't remember highlight color was however.

Also don't like how the tabs are disconnected from the rest of the toolbar. I want OS standard tabs. Who has ever asked for this? Just a year or two ago they finally reverted the round tab fashion and I hoped that would be the end of it. :-(
There were multiple reports of Lithuanian citizens with Belarusian residence permits being denied passage by Belarusian border guards. So yes, the situation is that bad. And I wonder why NATO says nothing about it. After all, it's their citizens.

Also check this summary if you want more details [0]

[0] https://telegra.ph/Kak-belorusu-vyehat-iz-strany-nazemnym-pu...
I think the problem of PE is 1) They need some quick return, 2) They don't necessarily understand the details of the tech (although they probably have access to some talents who do, or claim to do. So usually they just cut cost and make profit from it.
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