skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good parallel is the recent Peloton Treadmill update (as a result of the CPSC suit). You used to be able to use the treadmill without video content, it worked as a treadmill; you only had to pay for a subscription if you wanted Peloton content on the screen. This seems fairly obvious to anyone buying the device, and makes sense. I buy a treadmill, I can use the treadmill forever, but if i want content, I pay a monthly fee.

When they push a software update that makes the treadmill unusable without the subscription, now you're tied to not only paying for the service (at whatever price they decide that week), but you're also tied to the company itself continuing to exist and OFFER content.

A bunch of lawsuits have been filed, I'm sure it'll be reverted to 'the way it was' soon. (I honestly believe it was a largely clumsy move in trying to quickly tie a PIN code to the software to keep kids/unauthorized users from turning it on).

But it's a parallel here. My Google TV device might show ads on the TV network, but you pay for the device to not get ads on the home screen like the awful Fire Stick I have. (every time you hit 'play' to try to unpause a program, you are actually hitting 'play' on the terrible ad they gave you).
LG WebOS has all this, except Spotify which was there but is gone now.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that there are implicit expectations during a purchase that shouldn't ideally be violated. But I'm curious if you truly believe this, or if it's just hyperbole.

In this "fully my property, not a service I'm using" framework, would an update that patches a security vulnerability be "altruism"? Would refusal on Google's part to patch vulnerabilities be a completely acceptable refusal to futz with someone's property?

This is a serious question; my perspective is that "I thought I was buying unchanging property" is disingenuous unless you're similarly surprised by app updates and maintenance (let alone feature development). The expectation of these updates makes it pretty clear to me that this resembles a service more than a static product that Google has ability to "vandalize" (or responsibility to maintain).
FYI, Ctrl+Shift+V works as a paste without formatting shortcut in Teams. But for some reason I can't work out, they chose not to put it in the right-click UI.
I'm not sure if Cootch is federated, like Matrix, or peer-to-peer. I assume the first, if Tor is being used?

Berry also sounds similar, although it is not released yet: https://berty.tech/
Same problem with CL. But I can think of a better way to fix it :)
Of course there is. Pirating streaming media isn’t like stealing bread to feed your starving family, it’s entirely optional. If you don’t agree with the terms of service (i.e. DRM) then don’t use the service. Deciding on your own terms of service is just entitlement. I personally don’t care either way but you can’t say there is no argument against it.
An Expert Called Lindy — Nassim Taleb (2017)
This $10 replacement GE remote is somehow 500x better. My Apple TV experience was dramatically improved.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HSSAZX8
You can install VLC and enter arbitrary stream URLs to watch.

You can also use Plex to access a media server with whatever you want to put on it.
"But Bitcoin, the scientists say, is something different — and a worry. The efficiency trends elsewhere in tech are blunted because Bitcoin’s specialized software churns through ever more computing cycles as more people try to create, buy and sell digital currency."

No, increased Bitcoin usage does not increase the amount of energy needed to process transactions.

More people are mining (and thus burning more power), because it is a profitable venture if you can get best prices on hardware and lowest costs of electricity.

The least expensive electricity in the world happens to be either stolen, stranded, or hydro / geothermal.
>Doctors do want the least number of deaths in the community.

Like how they won the Nobel prize for lobotomies in the seventies?

Doctors would take out sections of women's and kids brains to make them quieter so your house wife talked back less and unruly kids would calm down. And it had a 14% mortality rate

That's not a conspiracy that's documented fact.

It's logical fallacy called 'appeal to authority' that Doctors/Experts are these angels that have no agenda and just want what's best for us. They can be wrong and are quite often.

There's absolutely no evidence for either of the points you're making. If what you're saying wasn't a mainstream narrative it could be considered a conspiracy theory. The only difference between religion and a cult is mainstream acceptance.

Most of the country has lifted covid restrictions fully and we're only at 40%ish vaccination rate.

If you were correct and mask usage was effective we would see infection surges instead of RECORD LOW numbers of covid cases all over the country.

All of it was medical theater and was never necessary to begin with there's no proof otherwise.

It's okay to admit you were wrong and light of new evidence.
> Also, what school teaches QA These days?

Interesting question! INSA Lyon in France, but that was in 2005, you could mock that the Old Continent does a lot of V-Cycle waterfall projects and had missed the Agile turn of 2001.

BUT learning how processes help is, instead, a very important step to judge what exactly we give up with Agile.

The irony is I went on creating software for requirements, and I can testify that all of the hardware industry does QA more diligently than ever!
Logged in YouTube works fine. I use both (android and Kodi) and honestly it's not so much worse on Kodi. Plus you don't need to sideload apks to disable the current ad flood
Doesn't make any sense, especially since they created https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

Can we stop using document formatting as applications? We're also not using Word with OLE/COM/ActiveX objects to do video conferencing.
You’re late to the game, Ford is working on that already.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I am getting very tired of academics thinking they can comment cross discipline and journalists somehow think it is worthy of writing an article about. This scientist isn't bringing any interesting, new ideas to the table, they are just repeating the same talking points pushed by mainstream "liberal" politicians.

> My sense is that social media in particular — as well as a broader range of internet technologies, including algorithmically driven search and click-based advertising — have changed the way that people get information and form opinions about the world. And they seem to have done so in a manner that makes people particularly vulnerable to the spread of misinformation and disinformation.

This is such an unbelievably shallow take. Much of the "truth" mainstream liberals have been pushing in the past year has turned out to be false. In the past, before the internet and social media, the media lied to the public all the time. It was probably easier because regular people didn't have a good way to spread primary information quickly. The media got most of their information from government press conferences and, if the government didn't like what an organization was saying, the government would stop inviting those journalists to those press conferences. There's a whole book about it, it's called Manufacturing Consent. That type of information control is no longer possible now that everyone can livestream from their phones to millions of people and the establishment is mad about it. Now they are trying to wrestle back control of information by writing think pieces about the dangers of "algorithms" and threatening tech giants with anti-trust action.

Its ironic because I feel like these people are the reason social media is a threat to society. They want to use it to manipulate the public like they always have and are willing to go to great lengths to do so.
I'm skeptical. We used to have Beam telepresence robots in the office when I worked at Square. They were a novelty and people would try them soon after joining, but nobody used them. It was easier and more natural just to use Slack or video chat.
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LG WebOs does the same thing. I haven’t accepted the eula and stream from my Apple TV. However, a friend of mines wife did and now he has ads everywhere on it. I don’t understand how this is so normalized?

You actively have to work in order to block ads and trackers today. Its getting harder everyday. It’s so sad we have some of our worlds best engineers working on how to send ads to people. Our priorities are whack.
Which version of RPI is that?
I've worked on large scale projects for a long time. A large portion of the kind of code I've written is impractical or impossible to actually "unit test" e.g. Unity3D components or frontend JS that interacts with a million things. When something weird is going on I'll have to dig in with console logs and breakpoints.

On certain backend code where I am able to do unit tests, they do catch the occasional edge case logic error but not at a rate that makes me concerned about only checking them in some time after the original code, which I'll have already tested myself in real use as I went along.
Is it possible to think of.. the roundness on the front disrupting the airflow over the top causing air to become turbulent and less dense on the top. Where as the air flow under the wing high higher relative density and the wing will rise to the less dense position?
API rates can be found here: https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/troubles...
This is a badly uninformed opinion
Your last paragraph is a huge source of frustration for me. Such a boner move.
I hear this from people all the time.However the media forgets to mention (and obviously people wouldn't know most of the times without them) that Wikileaks released a ton of info on Russia, FSB, and other countries aswell.(Almost all parties involved in european geopolitics)

The situation is very simple: some truth got spoiled out, people try to cover it. The Swedish charges were BS and a pretext to keep him from fleeing to early somewhere, and the rest is just classical silence the messenger.
Wikileaks didn't had a lot of dirt on asian & east-asian countries, because obviously there are less whistleblowers and information is very hard to acquire.Other than that I really struggle to see how he's(or WL as an org) supposedly the villain and damaged the society.

People focus on the fact that the material was acquired illegally, as that is somehow a good reason to ignore what we've learned from them.I feel kind of pathetic being in the 'western world' right now.
Thanks for the correction! :)

Re: kahoots, it feels like the answer to "What's the easiest way to generate returns?" has one obvious answer: increase leverage.

And what prevents leverage? Regulation.

So wouldn't it be great if you could create an unregulated instrument via which you could balloon the amount of funds you had to play with?
> This might be an unpopular opinion but I am getting very tired of academics thinking they can comment cross discipline

If academics can't comment cross discipline, no one else can comment at all.
>public System.Threading.Tasks.Task<string> ExecuteScriptAsync (string javaScript);

That's what I mean by sending JSON messages, but I'm asking if there is a way of directly calling native code from the JavaScript interpreter, synchronously passing pointers to JavaScript data structures back and forth, not just copying strings back and forth between separate processes through an asynchronous message queue.

Like Microsoft's deprecated COM/OLE/ActiveX, or Apple's Objective C / JavaScript bridge, or what SWIG does for JavaScriptCore, for example:

https://steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javasc...

http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/Javascript.html

For example, how can I get direct read/write access to the pixels of an html canvas or the memory of a JavaScript byte or float array, instead of serializing images as png files or base 64 encoded strings, or buffers of numbers as decimal text json arrays?
> If the US gov is a healthy, democratic, open gov, how and why can Wikileaks be so damaging?

Because we are still humans and fallible. No matter how healthy, open gov or democratic our governing bodies are I suppose there will always be something going off rails at some points and it's much easier to spot it in transparent governing structures (which usually means democracies) than in non-transparent ones (which usually means dictatorships).

> > You will always find more dirt and problems in public/accessible records than in dictatorships.

> Wikileaks isn't some sort Wikipedia of public/accessible records, it's a platform to publish confidential information.

Yes, yes. But it's easier to feed wikileaks with information from democracies than from dictatorships.

> I believe the reason you are getting down voted isn't because you don't cite your source, but because the reasoning is absurd.

I am okay with downvotes ^^ as long as it's not a flamewar.
So no porn streaming at all?

Does VLC on Apple TV support all VLC codecs?
I agree but guardrails are pretty awesome. And if people were saying "don't use guardrails, just drive properly", I'd ask why they think guardrails and driving properly are mutually exclusive.
Why'd he kill himself though? Unless
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Teams is what made me learn to hate Electron and web apps masquerading as desktop apps.

They also seem to have learned little from Slack, Discord, etc..
- "Smart" alarm clock requires micropayment to use snooze.

And they say:

"Why not? We indicated in the TOS (on page 4) our ability to 'modify the program as needed to better support our customers or our services.'

"Also please note that our TOS, which incorporates our Privacy Policy, allows us to sell your wake-up time to third parties in real-time.

"And before you say you never agreed to our TOS, we say you did when you plugged the SuperSmartestAlarm into a power outlet (as clearly indicated on page 22 of the aforementioned TOS, which can be conveniently viewed in a 6" x 2" frame with vertical and horizontal scrollbars)."

[Since this is too close to the truth to be obvious satire: no, this is not happening AFAIK (right now).]
You can specify a file with of such commits with --ignore-revs-file, and of course check in that file. Naming that file .git-blame-ignore-revs seems to be a convention I've seen more than once.

Still need to specify the file yourself, so hopefully someone can point out the missing magic to have git pull in .git-blame-ignore-revs on its own.
You can AirPlay whatever you'd like from your iOS, iPadOS, or macOS device.
In my experience, OOP is taught to basically everyone in schools (AP CS is usually in Java, and so was my DSA class) which makes the jump into FP hard to wrap your head around: I've tried a few things in Haskell, and I kept trying to use weird facsimiles of objects in places they should not go.

And then Rust came along and wrapped a ton of FP concepts into easy to conceptualize OOP packages, and that reduced my motivation to actually learn FP properly.

Still slowly trying to learn these things, though, I don't think Rust really managed to capture all the advantages.
A type system is sound when:

for all expressions e:
if e type checks with type t, then one of the following holds:
- e evaluates to a value v of type t; or
- e does not halt; or
- e hits an "unavoidable error"
like division by 0 or null deref
(what counts as "unavoidable" varies from lang to lang)

Notice anything interesting about this definition? It uses the word "evaluate"! Type soundness is not just a statement about the type checker. It relates type checking to run time (and thus to compilation too). That is, if you muck with Java's runtime or compiler, you can break type soundness, even if you don't change its type system in the slightest.
Measuring Event Success; Entering the Matrix
Monero solves this with cryptographic methods which are beyond me. But it works. Bitcoin indeed not so much - as soon as you can link a bitcoin address to somebody's identity it's over for them.
Isn't the answer to just buy a product explicitly marketed as ad-free? I used to watch enough YouTube that it was worth it for me to pay $10/mo to disable ads (and stream music). It never occurred to me that I was owed as a human right limitless free content with no implicit or explicit cost.

Similarly, if ads partially fund a toaster, just....pay more for the toaster without ads? The expansion of ads to every product category doesn't warrant the assumption that it will _consume_ every product category, leaving no ad-free alternatives.
California’s drought and wildfire dangers rising at stunning pace
> There's a lot of games out there, way more than there are web browsers.

Maybe this should tell you something about the relative complexity of the two problems. And frankly, features in a game are non-comparable to browser features.
Argh. Some of us just hate this traditional controller design. It’s huge but the buttons are small, wiggly, there are too many and it gets dirty as hell. I’d rather use a PlayStation controller as remote, all you needs is two buttons and a directional pad anyway.
IMHO this is atrocious waste of computer resources. Especially if the stage gets big and must survive the duration of application. To me it looks like crusade for the sake of idea anything else be damned.

There are multiple better ways to deal with the state. For example more sane approach would involve single owner of the main state which can serve / update particular slices of said state and has the ability to broadcast state change events to subscribers.
I didn’t know that being concerned about the impact of social media was strictly a liberal position.
You're absolutely right. I guess I mentioned pattern matching in particular because of the cited sentence from OP "I'm still waiting for pattern matching + algebraic data types".

> The same is true for the rest of the things you've mentioned: none are specific to static typing!

Sure, I could be wrong here. I frequently am. But could you point out why do you think that?
The competitors found that "Riot" was too controversial a name for popular adoption... good luck to "Cootch"...
I mean, it's been the new hotness at gas stations for a minute now. Which is something childhood me never would have expected.

"Once screens and connectivity costs fall below a threshold, advertising is guaranteed to follow."
Lol no. The reason there is not as much damaging information leaked from dictatorships, is because any leakers are guaranteed to be executed. Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning would have been executed after a 30 minute show trial in a dictatorship.
Owning reddit allows ypu to own public opinion through censorship,thats a pretty important bit of value and im sure tencent would agree
Which do not have porn apps either. But I can over complicate everything by streaming my safari session I guess?

I guess safari supports porn
> Your ring buffer is your allocator: copy (or inplace-construct) your messages direcly in your ring buffer.

Then you will need a lock. There's no way to atomically copy data in place without locking.

>each producer thread has a freed-memory lock free queue so that consumers can return memory.

Variations of this is how lock free allocators work and the latency penalty for this strategy is very significant, anywhere from 3-5x the latency penalty of a blocking allocator. Certainly lock free allocators have their use cases and if you have a system that needs bandwidth over latency you go for it, but the point is that unless you have hard real time needs for your system, then you're usually better off going for a blocking data structure.
Who was that constituent?

What evidence do you have that he had any influence on Harry Reid?
> Getting some of them to actually attend and pay attention has been impossible.

The solution then is obviously to lock students in a room that they can't escape!

Might not help with the attention part though (based on my own observation and experience.)

Kids are curious and natural learners - I think we have to ask ourselves: how can we nurture this instinct rather than killing it?
The latest version of the Apple remote has ditched the touch pad, and has buttons again.
It's less about transparency and more about the culture. Developers sell deliverables and marketing consultants sell attempts. As the GP said very few are actually willing to charge based on conversions, because they know they won't make many. Smoke and mirrors.
Android and desktop only, so most people I know won't be able to use it on the only device they message on.
Doing something that affects the suicide rate in very complicated ways is not being "fine" with kids killing themselves.

And if you're going to compare potential covid deaths to car deaths then you should compare suicide to car deaths too.
Hi Sarah from Open Privacy / Cwtch team here - the main major difference is that Cwtch servers are completely untrusted under the risk model - they don't learn anything about the groups they are hosting, who is a member of which group, or who each message is for.

The design for groups is still in flux, and they are marked experimental but there are a few more details in our Secure Development Handbook https://docs.openprivacy.ca/cwtch-security-handbook/groups.h...

Metadata resistant group comms is still a fairly large open research problem, and we are also working on the research side to reduce some of the bandwidth requirements that are currently required by our group protocol: https://git.openprivacy.ca/openprivacy/niwl
> Educated people are a lot harder to exploit.

If you're trying to talk someone into something, sure. But if all you really mean to do is get someone's compliance where you want it and silence otherwise, I would think a realistic threat of thuggery trumps education an overwhelming majority of the time. I also wouldn't be surprised if education was limited to those that were considered "reliable", with vested interests in perpetuating the system.
> was preceded by Romans beating up their enemies

Case in point, the aftermath of Trajan's Dacian Wars [1]:

> One hundred thousand male slaves were sent back to Rome

Prior to that (think 1st century AD) they had most probably ethnically cleansed the entire area 50-to-100 kms North of the Danube, because for that period and area there are very few material/archeological remains.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Dacian_Wars#Conclus...
That's only the second immutability (also from 2016) thread on first page.

What are the chances?

Is immutability a new religion?
Perverse incentives, indeed.
I think Richard Dawkins answered it in the most profound way in his book "The Blind Watchmaker". I don't want to do it unjust by explaining it here with my broken English.
The fates of many american useful idiots in USSR are quite gloom - serving tens of years in siberian camps.
Mike should've read the black book of communism instead of bible.
Ask HN: Any US companies who offer less than 40 hour weeks
This came up on a slack of which I'm a member. I've heard of some companies here and there who have less than 40 hour weeks for their entire staff (googling for them reveals a few).

And I know individuals who have been at a company who have done it for a short time or a while.

But is there a list of US based companies that offer a 4 day work week or less? I did some googling and didn't find much.