skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife said much the same thing; and we're so rural no one actually drives past our trash cans but us. We put ours out a couple hours before they come by; can't leave trash by the road overnight cuz the coyotes will scatter it all over.

Civil society vanished quick, apparently. I once knew the kind of people who would steal cars or anything else because they could; and those people would've found the notion of stealing tips low.
Yes, I’m in that minority too. I’ve always had poor handwriting and always hated writing by hand.

After introspecting about it, I realized that, for me, it’s because of low grade stress during handwriting, as my attention is constantly churned between thinking about the content and about legibility.
The majority of Americans aren't in a position to cut a $1,500 check like that. That's one of the major issues here.
To be fair, they aren't using your WiFi. The SSID is like your house number. Claiming Google using your Wifi when it reads your SSID is like claiming someone is using your toilet because they read your house number off the front of your house.
In fact, it is way easier to spot fraud in Open Source projects than in government subsidies literally in any other sector.
I'm not sure how "associating a publicly broadcast BSSID with coordinates" is tracking a person.
Yes it's typical. Our healthcare is basically the equivalent of Moroccan rug shopping. It's great.
In some countries, if your startup fails you're legally obliged to pay back all money that was invested in it, and you won't be able to start another until you've done so.
I remember doing house rental vacations with my family in something like 1987. Why do so many people seem to think Airbnb invented this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
The RM2 pen latency (20 ms) is double the iPad's (9 ms).

I wouldn't call the RM2 interactive paper. It's digital paper. Remarkable has focused their device to that niche and I think that was very smart of them. It's all about e-ink, crazy battery life, no distractions. I know a lot of people want more functionality - especially in the reader area, drawing apps, and calendar functions. So far Remarkable has managed to stay focused on the core functionality and I think the longer they can remain focused, the better off the company is. Every feature they add is something they have to test and maintain forever and that's a lot for a small company to do and still sell the device for about $400 (which is a bargain IMHO).

What I'd like to see is a bigger option. It would be nice to have at least a full A4/letter size screen. It would make dealing with PDFs a much better experience.
I wonder if they recognized you were from out of country and so they’d have no way to collect if you just left, and that’s why they offered the cash deal up front.
They dont need to fine tune it for better results, they only need to fine tune it to give different results and sell it for $5 less than you are.
> Well, apart from the whole WW2 business.

Let's be clear. By the time the last bullet was fired in WW2, Europe was basically destroyed, rumble, from the North Sea cross to Moscow. Brittan, although not occupied, was also hopelessly broke after the war. This weakness in Europe was one of the prime reasons why the colonies could break away from their European overlords. Europe was in no condition to do much about it either. They had more important things to worry about like food, and hoping that the Americans would come through with their Marshall Plan.

That's just counting the western half of Europe which wasn't under new (communist) management.

The loot and plunder was truly gone.
The "tremendous implication" is that it forces developers to test on two browsers (mobile Safari, Chrome) rather than just one. It's the only reason Google is just mostly, rather than entirely, dictating the direction of the Web.
The US went all in on vaccines. I'm disappointed but not surprised that the US didn't fund more academic R&D; that's the MO I expected during that administration.
On CPU issues, at my 4-year, we did a bunch of projects with 68HC11s, which stop branching when voltage is low. After a few episodes of this, I eventually figured out when it started running straight through everything, it was time to recharge the batteries (and probably take a break anyway)
Each use case is going to be different but my experience with containerization and managed Kubernetes has been fantastic.

We have a small team (5 people) and have over time managed physical servers, virtual servers in the cloud, and some solutions like Azure's "web app" hosting.

Using a managed Kubernetes solution (AKS for us) along with containerization has made everything vastly easier to manage. We now use terraform to setup new deployments and GitHub Actions to run the builds/deployments. At this point everything we need is managed in source control and the amount of time we spend on DevOps related tasks gone down.
Have you thought about how the things you like out of AirBnB come at the expense of those things for actual residents of the city? Each home that's in AirBnB is one that's not on the long term market for locals, pushing them further and further out for tourists' convenience.
Their standard of living is going up.
I would love to use Firefox, but for some years now Firefox on the Mac (when I have a few dozen tabs open) causes multi-tens-of-seconds pauses whenever I do anything with the mouse like click or scroll. Some of these throw up a rainbow cursor; some just silently do nothing. And yes, I'm using the latest version of everything, including hardware.

While Mozilla obsesses about eye candy, they lose market share because they cannot be bothered to fix decades-old memory management problems in Firefox such that:

1. Memory leaks don't happen,

2. Garbage collection happens silently in the background, and

3. Garbage collection actually frees up memory for new allocations.

This seems like pretty basic stuff; Chrome figured out how to make tabs scale at close to O[1] a long time ago, but in Firefox tabs still feel like they scale as O[n^2].
You’ve just imposed a set of legal constraints on an entire industry there.

You genuinely can’t see how this might stifle creativity and add costs in a small, fast moving company? I can already hear the jaded developer conversations -

“Oh god, no don’t change that, we’ll be stuck with another ‘version 3 ‘ we have to support forever”.

And the managerial equivalent - “delivering X new feature will break existing APIs and as a result of the regulations we have to keep those running, adding time to the dev cycle for back/forward porting and increasing support costs, maybe hosting costs too, best shelve it”

It’s fine for slow-moving enterprise stuff, for everyone else it’s a crazy imposition. You can’t drop a feature you don’t want to support any more, you can’t completely change how one works, you’re constrained.

Of course it’s possible to work that way, but it adds load. In the context of “Europe doesn’t have enough fast moving home-grown tech”, legislating that would be precisely the wrong move.
There are a couple of self-driving and blockchain companies in Europe, but curiously enough they don't find it as difficult as some random internet commenter

"killed by regulation and data privacy rules"

Funny to see the same people that bemoan the privacy rules being now forced to follow them due to Apple and Google. Seems like they'll have to actually sit and think how to do instead of complaining.
Stitches 0.2.0
No offense but yes. Excel can be any arbitrary code. So it can be arbitrarily big/complex.
MacRumors does this for Apple predictions.
This software phenomenon has led me to feel the "reverse" of this in real life, and to start assuming some wild things, e.g., (a) I know someone was recently in the room with me; (b) they have not left through the doors or the window; (c) there are no good hiding places in the room; (d) they've >> temporarily left my field of vision and when I turn back around I don't see them << ... I immediately ponder the possibility they have disappeared (or been raptured) rather than just quietly walking to remain outside my field of vision as I turn around.

So I start thinking that maybe impossible-in-real-life things actually have happened.
Okay, now how do users set their devices to transfer this non-standard information in the beacon?
Tetris. I come back to it every once in a while.
I measure the result. Mobile devices leak much more data compared to desktop, although that is also due to simple misbehavior of apps and some compromises that we talk about phones.
Do you have SSH-exploiting self-replicating worms running on your main network?
There’s no incentive for hospitals to provide transparency, and less formal doctors to worry about it. For now everyone is getting paid, and the only way to fix the system will be to stop paying many of the middle people that exist just to raise costs. It’s like trying to change the car buying industry, there’s simply too much money for it to improve without significant regulatory change. I think The transparency idea is just not going to hold water and will eventually be ignored or diluted.
Close, but no cigar! Microsoft has "_optout", but it can appear anywhere in the SSID. See https://superuser.com/questions/1005235/wi-fi-opt-out-micros...

Mozilla Location Services (and Combain which I think they collaborate with), WiGLE and others use "_nomap", though, so MS seems to walk their own path on this one.
Hi,do you want to discover your online footprint?
Hi, we're building a beta in Barcelona to discover how many companies hold your personal data.
We'd really appreciate if somebody can do the survey to see if they're interested.
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Opinions and help are welcome!
I’m doing this right now with a bug in the Linux kernel. It takes something like 5 hours to repro with a very specific condition because it’s a SMP race / ordering bug.

I literally haven’t slept properly since I hit the bug because once I find something like this I have to find a fix. lol.
The leader in transparent pricing is the Surgery Center of Oklahoma.

Their price list: https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/
I think it's more than 4, there are definitely more companies with similar compensation (eg. I would consider Microsoft part of FANGs).

Thanks a lot for the info about this being something exceptional!
I would believe that could be the case, at least in some states. But on that front, all of these articles about terrible hospital bills are doing a grace disservice by failing to mention those laws, so that public support can build against them. If anyone were given the power to create legally valid debts out of thin air, they would of course abuse it. Preventing that is one of the main purposes of contract law.
Basically the same boat here, good modern cad software is still a windows only thing.

I've used freecad and and it.. works for simple stuff, but it has a really long way to go.
Do we need to hear about every Google propaganda article published on web.dev?
Same thing any one does with money.

The point is that bitcoin exited before there where institutions built around it, you can ban those institutions you can ban coal power plants you can ban whatever you want people will still continue to use it the way they currently do.

Mine bitcoin on renewable energy not connected to the grid and transact with each other not large institutions, if you want to ban bitcoin you need to prevent the core value of bitcoin not just show off your fud.
AirBnB should just implement its own social scoring system. Apply it to everyone so they already have data for future hosts and guests.

/s but I kinda want to see such a tech and head-explosions of the announcement.
> The more you have a small amount of centralised points you can target, the lower the costs to implement sweeping measures against all traffic and the higher the technical possibility.

I don't buy it. The points are already pretty centralized. We only have, like, 4 big telecom companies and they already make usuriously fat margins that can absorb the cost. You also don't really need to cut things off at the App Store level, as SESTA/FOSTA has shown, to push activity too deep underground to be found on mainstream services. Just ad hoc enforcement and a pervasive climate of fear is enough.
https://turquoise.health/ is one notable example.
Skiatron
As I got better at coding, more and more of my bugs were check-the-plug situations. And it’s just the worst because your brain excludes the easy stuff as a possibility.
WW2 could be taken as a benefit for Europe in the macro sense.

* Influx of funding and loans from the US to rebuild

* Able to rebuild legacy systems that were destroyed in the world (roads, buildings, new code standards, etc)

* Reduced population means each individual is more valuable (See rising wages after plagues in the middle ages)

* Increased interdependency to combat Russian and US pressures

* The UN, NATO, etc
Frankly, given the primacy of EU law it's strange to me that EU members feel like they really are countries anymore.
Yes it's crazy how hard they work to hide the local account option.
If the news is that three people died in a shooting, would you not be better informed by knowing the context that they were drug dealers in a conflict over territory?
Have you started your research? Because you seem to pin ignorance on OP due to various failings (youth, privilege, lack of empathy) while assuming your own position is ultimately correct.

I would assume you (and anyone else) are better placed to describe your own virtues (to support your correctness), than some strangers vices (to support their incorrectness).
What's cooking on Sourcehut? June 2021
The British media's coverage of the Covid-19 crisis was and still is really blatant. For example, there have been a lot of decisions which involved tradeoffs, with each option having both upsides and downsides, and the press has pretty consistently focused on the downsides - you could pretty much pinpoint the moment the government decided to put off the latest loosening of restrictions based just on when the BBC switched from pushing the reasons to delay it to focusing heavily on the downsides of doing so.
So by writing code? ;)
We already have a society that identifies people when doing business. The burden of proof is on an anonymity advocate to demonstrate why that is harmful and should be changed. I may mot have convinced you that having strong identity enables strong security and reduces spam (that is my argument). But it’s also not my problem if you aren’t aware of the nuances surrounding how security, privacy and anonymity work. You haven’t made any compelling argument as to why we don't need identity in cyberspace beyond a naive axiomatic assertion that “businesses don’t need them so they shouldn’t collect them” and some FUD level fear that strong identity is an Orwellian technology hell bent on ruining your life. There is so much nuance I don't feel like we’re doing the topic justice. There is a huge spectrum between “ad tech tracking everything you do” and “everyone looks like a spam bot”. The mindshare is heavily skewed toward spam bot because ad tech is abusive. You can have strong identity and privacy without invoking anonymity. You can be anonymous and still fall victim to fishing attempts and scams. Anonymity is not synonymous with security or privacy. Security means you know who you’re communicating with online so you can establish trust. Privacy means you don't need to share invasive personal details in the regular course of existing in society. Anonymity means nobody knows who you are. I want a society where my digital communication with other people is authenticated and a baseline of trust is established. Do you use a secure messenger app that has E2E encryption? Guess what, that depends on strong identity. You are not anonymous but you are private. I would take a secure and private society every time over an anonymous one that offers weak, if any, guarantees of security and/or privacy.

I work on a product that doesn't collect any PII. We made the decision very early on not to collect any information we don’t need because that’s literally not our business. I am deeply aware of the landscape on these topics. However, as a society we cannot run in a “normal meatspace anonymous cyberspace” mode. We need to bridge civil identity in a secure and private (those are fundamental human rights) way into the online era. That is the core focus of the product I’ve been working on. In reality people have identities whether they use them offline or online. The goal is to protect those identities so they cannot be abused, not remove them altogether.
>4500 deaths were reported in VAERS as potentially having any sort of a connection:

This number is useless without also stating the estimated percentage of the actual adverse events are actually reported. It would be great if authors such as these would try to gather information about it and try to include it in their articles promoting vaccines.

It seems that COVID vaccines are not even in the list of vaccines that are to be reported by law, at least as per this document

https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_...

Had a strange talk with other user about this here [1]

So without actually enforcing that all doctors (and only doctors) are reporting, to the best of their judgement, all the adverse events following vaccines, the numbers from VAERS cannot be trusted, one way or another.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513984
> there’s really no debate over whether getting the degree is causal

Is there no debate in the sense of "this is completely settled science that getting a degree causes a doubling of income on an aptitude-independent, statistically-sound, population-wide basis"? Or "it's not being debated because that debate is uncomfortable"? Or in some other sense of that phrase?
Yes. That is precisely what you're being told. The Google evidence is linked upthread. Although, I've just done a search and it looks like the Microsoft feature that required the "_optout" substring was removed at some point. I'm going to leave it in my SSID for posterity.
I see it's being downvoted already, with no comment, like most posts on this topic lately. Why?
I think using the average wages is a bit unhelpful for an individual debating between going to college and going to a trade school. They should just compare the specific career paths they’re interested in. And not just wages, job availability is also crucially important. The earnings potential of a vocational school may not have a huge high end, but there are more than a couple college degrees programs with very little job prospects.

By all means, education is great, and people should seek knowledge even when it isn’t profitable. But let’s stop telling white lies to high school seniors about the disconnect between the goals of academics and the realities of the job market.
I think perf and valgrind is a fantastic combination. While valgrind has a big overhead, it can make a lot of things visible without instrumenting the code.

I also think Perf is phenomenal for its scope. It's showing performance metrics of the code without any processor dependency and instrumentation.
I don't think that characterization tells the whole picture. Yes there's some nice engineering that went into it, and it's probably a nice machine for a lot of people, but those extra features aren't anywhere close to a free lunch.

Apple themselves don't rate it at 20h even for web browsing, and when you use a real workload like compiling 100ksloc the XPS 15 will handily beat it in battery life. Not to mention you cap out at 16GB of memory.
> I get what you're saying, but expecting police officers to stand-up to their colleagues when they are breaking the law in their presence is not unreasonable.

Okay. Lets say hypothetically, a fellow police officer Alice breaks the law in a municipality that doesn't have a citizen's review board.

Bob witnesses this lawbreaking behavior. Who does Bob go to?

That's why a citizen review board is necessary. To empower Bob to do the right thing in the hypothetical. You can't expect someone to work within the hierarchy (if Alice's boss is on Alice's side, then "rocking the boat" within the hierarchy would just result in Bob's termination).

Its like expecting a pitcher's teammate to report on ball doctoring (making a baseball stickier to result in a more chaotic, harder to hit baseball). Nah man, you need a 3rd party, someone outside the team if you want to manage to catch that. And anyone inside the team who wishes to report on the behavior needs assurances that their identity is kept safe and anonymous.
This article is a "top 5":
1. Amazon has been churning through employees. - 3% of hourly associates/week.
2. Buggy and patchwork systems caused some workers to lose their benefits, and even their jobs, in error.
3. Amazon’s strict monitoring of workers has stoked a culture of fear.
4. There is rising concern over racial inequity.
5. Many of Amazon’s most contentious policies go back to Jeff Bezos’ original vision.

The deep dive is : https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513430

On Bezos' vision, quoting:
[Some of the practices that most frustrate employees — the short-term-employment model, with little opportunity for advancement, and the use of technology to hire, monitor and manage workers — come from Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive."

He believed that an entrenched work force created a “march to mediocrity,” said David Niekerk, a former long-serving vice president who built the company’s original human resources operations in the warehouses.

Company data showed that most employees became less eager over time, he said, and Mr. Bezos believed that people were inherently lazy. “What he would say is that our nature as humans is to expend as little energy as possible to get what we want or need,” Mr. Niekerk said. That conviction was embedded throughout the business, from the ease of instant ordering to the pervasive use of data to get the most out of employees.
Mr. Bezos recently made startling concessions about the system he invented. In a letter to shareholders, he said the union effort in Alabama had shown that “we need a better vision for how we create value for employees — a vision for their success” — and vowed to become “Earth’s best employer.”]
People are the same. China is very well known for its extreme nationalistic tendencies. The Party to stay in power must be really, really to the right in terms on nationalism. Without nationalism the Party has no chance staying in power. Read up on the topic. And yes, they treat their minorities extremely bad. Including concentration camps for Ughurs. US compared to them is a pure equality heaven.