skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DISCLAIMER: Haven't read the article, am intensely affected by post title, sharing a small personal story.

I come from a village of about 150 people. We had to drive 5 km even just to buy a loaf of bread. Everyone's grandmother and most people's mothers know how to make bread but, as is the case for a significant part of tradition, that knowledge is dying out. Nevertheless, we were self-sufficient enough to be growing some of our vegetables, eating our own chicken, making our own olive oil (and wine, not so long ago).

My parents were manual workers from childhood. They didn't want me to be an engineer. To be precise, they never demanded anything specific. "Just ensure a less painful living." That was all there had ever been. And I understood what they meant every time I followed them to the fields from early dawn, and during every summer job.

My father died of Lewy bodies dementia in late 2017. In three months I had graduated, finished an internship, buried my dad and joined the army (obligatory in my country). From a psychological/emotional perspective, it all went downhill for the next 3 years. But I did well, materialistically speaking.

Now I'm 27 years old, doing a PhD. For the last decade I've been constantly chasing financial independence in the real world, and a writing career in the ideal one. I've published some short stories here and there, attended a couple of workshops, read a bunch of the classics. Fancy as those may sound, they don't fit well with narcissistic tendencies, hard times and endlessly postponed gratification.

A joke I've been telling to myself recently is "there you go, your PhD is the book you've always wanted to write". But the truth is that I belong to those lucky fellas who could only dream of a full time artist's vocation. And I very reluctantly confess that letting that dream go was the key to a happier day-to-day life. If the book ever comes, I will welcome it with all of my heart. But until then, I'll be grinding on the Engineer's side.

By the way, my parents are the most astonishing people I've met, and my village is my favorite place in the universe.

Edit: submitted unfinished draft by mistake. Completed.
The thought that data monopolization will be a moat against competitors is actually argued against by VC firms specializing in AI companies, who claim that after a certain amount of data (which is accessible to most people) the additional data isn't going to improve the model much.

https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/

https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-i...
Just to clarify, GIMP definitely has issues, and I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. But they are not issues that can be solved with more UX research or what you would typically call "UX work." That's what I think the misunderstanding here is, please don't misinterpret what I'm saying. The UX issues that are there are already known, what's left is to do the (hard) work of fixing it.
I already am. Random interference will change the time on mine constantly.
Good work, soldier!

Thanks for the hilarious anecdote!
If locals are leaving a place and being replaced by international immigrants then it explains the anecdotes. Everyone is more likely to know more people that left a place than moved there.

Also it will show in other stats. People in other states tell me there is an exodus there from California or New England, and their reasoning is based on differences in truck rental prices going either direction, which international immigrants don't need but domestic migrants do.
Can't an ISP just respond with NXDOMAIN for use-application-dns.net and force Firefox to use their resolvers?
> In my personal experiment I lost weight while increasing total calories.

No you didn't, unless you increased exercise or were already losing weight. You can not lose weight without being at a calorie deficit. Did you even count those calories before and after?

> Keto is explicitly not a calorie-based approach.

Neither are most diets. They all try to do the same thing: hope the person ends up eating fewer calories than they burn.

Keto helps people stay full with fewer calories. Intermittent fasting hopes that the person doesn't eat more calories in the short period of time they're allowed to eat.
(old man shouting at the clouds) It's the Web's original source code, not the Internet's! The Internet is not the Web.

I suspect that, these days, they're not given initial caps either.
Some explanation of what is being sold should be given before expecting a signup. How does one mentor someone, is there a fee, etc.

I really don't like signing up blind.
Hurdles You'll Face (and Beat) as an Entrepreneur
There is a clinical trial investigating the ketogenic diet for prostate cancer: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03194516
It's not really up for debate whether or not vaping is healthier. It's a night and day difference. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking.
SF has been unaffordable long before the last two or three tech booms, and it's because of limited supply. People just don't go back to read the headlines from the 70s about how expensive it was.
How bout Odysee?

- People using it (not that many, but there's a sizable community)
- Decent recommendation algorithm (okay )
- Decent moderation (part of the whole appeal is "free speech", but it's pretty toned down compared to some others)

It's pretty okay on all fronts, but not the best. Still something to check out though!
> Is This Industry Trying to Punch Holes in the Ground or Virtue Signal?

What?
My banking info is the only thing Google/Chrome/etc. will never be trusted with.
That's really not true at all. Addictiveness in and of itself is not some hugely detrimental trait. Not to mention that nicotine delivered in vapor form is less addictive in the first place.
Has Home Assistant settled on what you can configure via YAML and what needs to be done via the web UI yet? I left the ecosystem last year after the split became too hard to mentally keep track of.
When I lived there a few years ago my ISP was frustratingly adversarial.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993831
(Opinion is my own)

It's very different between teams. My personal experience: everyone I've worked with is trying really hard to put me in a position where I can succeed. I've been put on very visible projects (from day one) and I'm getting constant help from my TL to keep me on a track to get promoted. Everyone I work with directly is amazing.

Google is a magical place but the standard deviation in experiences are large.

I've personally been very happy with my experience/team.
You can't sue Comcast; you signed away your right to do so, individually and as a class, when you signed up for their service[1]. Most ISPs have class action waivers and binding arbitration, these days. In fact, you explicitly agreed to let them aggregate your data and sell it to others for their profit[2], assist third-parties in targeting you for advertisements[3], and combine data they have on file with you from other companies databases[4].

So, no, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't trust Comcast at all.

[1]: Comcast Agreement for Residential Service, Section 13 and 14. https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/Subscri...

[2]: Xfinity Privacy Policy. https://www.xfinity.com/privacy/policy "Create measurement and analytics reports for us and others"

[3]: Ibid. "We use the information we collect to... deliver personalized marketing and advertising for our own and others’ products and services"

[4]: Ibid. "We may combine information across our systems, platforms, and databases. This includes combining information we receive from third parties and information about your use of our Services."
Once the Linux on M1 becomes available you could run it that way. Right now the issue is that Home Assistant relies on being on the same network (bridged into the container) as the rest of your devices so it can see the broadcasted messages from IoT devices.
That doesn't make any sense, the Oregon law works very well for the landlord in that case.
Tenant is locked in at $1000/mo. 6 months in, decides they want to move. Tenant pays $1500 to break lease, and landlord can charge $10000/mo immediately to the next tenant.
where does rent spike to $10,000 a month?
> Given Jeff Bezos success in growing a business from scratch…

One thing we have to remember, savant level of greatness in one area can often indicate deficiencies in other areas.

If I were starting an online retailer 20 years ago, I would absolutely take Bezos’ advice. There are also countless other areas where I would seek advice from those with different areas of experience.
Australians I know got Pfizer shots. I don't understand why they did though, none of them are from high risk populations or likely to be the source of spread. And it's not helping them to leave the country either - one of them just had to cancel an NZ trip.
> * Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits

This is missleading and is a straight up unnecessary disparagement of DHMO. Pure DHMO is perfectly safe to use around electricity. People have even built computers in an atmosphere of pure DHMO. Problems only arise if the DHMO is itself contaminated with something.

We should be placing the blame on the unseen actors and not the highly visible accessory.
I have no problem interpreting that as both humor/irony and also completely serious advice. It's potentially like saying "Make sure your priorities are in order. If you aren't actually adding value, you won't be a success. You can always be fired if you manage to get promoted and then can't actually deliver after tooting your own horn enough to get there."

It may be important to set a goal of getting promoted but you also need to qualify for the promotion and that's, at least in theory, about actually doing good work, not buttonholing the right people and having the perfect resume.
Refractory sino-orbital mucormycosis in an immunocompetent, non-diabetic patient
What are your thoughts on this *new* architecture. It's not what it sounds like.
Let's go through the possibilities here:

---

1) The maintainer is telling the truth, and I assume they're lying.

The maintainer's life is now even worse, because not only do they fear for their safety, but no one even believes it's happening!

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2) The maintainer is lying, and I believe them.

I guess I'll end up feeling unnecessarily sorry for someone? I'm having trouble seeing the negative consequences here.

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Suffice to say, I'd much rather just take their story at face value.
I live in Texas and I whenever I go to California, I find it super expensive too! I am a unifier site professor and my salary is not very different from the professors in CA (State university salaries are public). I don’t know what is keeping those professors there.
This has links to several of the original reports and surveys: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-studies...
The ability Google has to make the world better is significant, and folks like Manu were (are) excited to be a part of that. For example, Google came up with a privacy-conscious way to surface enough data to track and address the COVID-19 spread, which was huge for US state governments trying to handle the disease by giving them signal to shape outbreak mitigation strategy (https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-issues-2021-award-for-res...).

But there have been a lot of changes in recent years, and Google is playing with fire in its military and government support projects (as well as struggling with the increased union consciousness that is permeating white-collar Silicon Valley culture at the FAANGs). I'm not profoundly surprised he finally decided the balance had swung too far.
Perhaps you should stop looking on "realcovid19miracledrugproof.net" and "truthaboutivermectin.org/msm_lies.html".

I don't think any of those are good places to get a sense of the current scientific literature.
All that other stuff is a loss leader for selling ads.
The discoverability can come through community at some level. I have a large blog roll on my self-hosted TTRSS reader that I have curated over the years. I find new blogs when people mention them on a blog I follow or a friend sends me an article.
Then ask for a stake? This is why so many people are paid part of their salary in stock options.
I did just this, left San Francisco for Nashville. Anecdotally I’ve been seeing a huge uptick in California plates here in Nashville. Great, I did the same thing, welcome, but now don’t ruin it.
> In the past, it was possible for an aspiring camera repair technician to go to school for it, just as one would do to learn many other skilled trades. Unfortunately, that is no longer true. The trade schools that once trained workers for the photographic equipment repair industry have all closed down. Camera manufacturers still train their own service techs, but that training is only available to those who are hired to work for them.

In general it feels like the world is heading towards un-understanding. The human world has become so big that we have relinquished our knowledge.

Oh sure, there are the John Deeres's, Monsanto's, many many many of us programmers here, actively or passively reducing how knowable, how manipulable the real systems of the world are to end consumers. Computing for so long gave enormous powers, but lately it feels like it winnows & narrows down what is possible, what is understandable, what is visible.

But I also feel like this was part of the direction, part of what globalization does, part of what productization does. Talent & skill are no longer dispersed widely, but concentrated, in very large enterprises that make gobs & gobs & gobs of money, that own the seemingly ever complexifying means of production & supply chains behind it. We have lots of great means in the world, but as our consumer expectations rise & produce quality increases, there's less interest in what the small local shop can do, with it's couple camera gurus, who once would have been a formidable force.

Trying to articulate the values of knowability, of understandability, of systems that we can be involved with is very very hard, especially after access has already faded, especially as the visible, humanizing upsides have decayed. This was mentioned by @adamhjk in his recent thread on Copilot, & FOSS[1], and this is one of the prime things that keeps me up at night: the world is becoming manufactured, and it doesn't need us, but if we could be here, if our souls were given some self-determinism, I think the world & our souls would both be much richer places.

[1] https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1413173304014241793
Ecobee works with HomeKit, which works without an internet connection. You don’t need an Apple device either, as HA has a HomeKit bridge.
Unfortunately it uses cryptocurrency/blockchain nonsense. A better alternative is PeerTube, which is part of the Fediverse; people can share videos, comment, and post across Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others seamlessly.

Plus, you can pick (or host!) an instance that agrees with your moderation preferences, and block instances that don't (e.g. alt-right and troll havens). The distributed/federated approach to moderation and hosting scales well with a limited budget.
Almost certainly not.

Firstly, you're assuming that app store sales number would have been equally successful if iOS was a fully open platform. Apple did a damn good job of converting iPhone customers into iOS software customers when compared to Android. Without the App Store, rates of conversion wouldn't be as high.

Secondly, you're assuming that Apple would have put nearly as much effort into the iOS platform, developer tools, software support and encouraging its customers to buy apps, if Apple wasn't seeing a revenue stream from it. No revenue stream, no incentive to build that marketplace, fewer sales.

Third, you cannot make assumptions about how prevalent piracy would be on iOS if the platform was open like macOS, and how many sales would have been lost as a result of piracy being widespread. Historically, levels of piracy in PC games have been in the order of 85 and 95 percent.[1] On Android, piracy has been estimated anywhere between 50 and 90 percent.[2] Of course we know that the vast majority of pirates wouldn't have paid if that was the only option. But assuming a piracy rate of 85%, it doesn't take many pirates being turned into paying customers to net more revenue than Apple takes in App Store fees.

Scenario one, "fully open iOS":

85% Pirated
15% Purchased

Scenario two, "zero piracy iOS":

80% Didn't purchase
20% Purchased

Notice how only 5% of the user base had to shift from being a pirate to a purchaser, yet developer revenues go up by 33%, enough to fully offset the entire "cost" of Apple's margin and then some.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MIEVvv1QP0

[2] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/piracy-android-how-bad-is-it-r...
Perhaps too reductive, but it was not that long ago that poisoned dog food from china was mass killing pets.

Perhaps people should learn from the old adage:

stop feeding the animals... (with tainted bulk food you bought at lowes/homedepot mass produced in China)?
Great, let's get Google to stop silencing doctors from telling us this. There is no reason for a tech oligarchy to ban our medical community from having open dialogues, even if they're completely right on this, nothing good will come of it in the long term.
If the service is finding reasonable tenants as defined by a credit check/ maybe a reference check then the landlord may not be interested in turning down the new tenant and in some locales may not be able to.
I'm not much of a gamer but what you are describing doesn't seem to be relevant, for example there are simpler games where moving using numpad is perfectly usable and desired. There is not really anything specific you're designing for there, you just chose to make that type of game.

>the developers of GIMP didn't want to put into the work to make GIMP have good UX

From what I have heard from GIMP developers, this is not correct. There is plenty of desire to fix issues, the main issue is lack of contributors. Please help if that's what you're interested in.

You're talking about "getting away with the UX" but I'm also not sure what you're talking about there, GIMP is not a commercial product that is trying to get customers. It's an open source project driven by volunteers who improve it in their free time because they feel like it.
We all do. The aggressive politicization of the issue makes (made?) it impossible for reputable institutions to even consider running such studies.

The Ivermectin signal has been around since 07/2020. It's a shame it took more than a year for reputable institutions to even consider touching the subject. https://c19ivermectin.com. I thought we are in a world-wide emergency crisis, where we are tapping all available resources as soon as humanly possible.

There is some hope for reputable answers from https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-06-23-ivermectin-be-investiga..., yet to be completed.
I recently had to do this (oakland -> vegas) and was able to get a Budget truck a few weeks out. I paid a lot but it worked out at least.
On Linux there is systemd-resolved which is enabled installed and enabled on the most popular distros. It is a caching resolver that supports DoT (although it isn't enabled by default).

Having the pre-select a DNS resolver some of the same problems as having the application selecting the resolver. Specifically, it doesn't work as expected in networks with a local DNS server.
> software can solve this problem now.

Software can displace a middle man, and replace it with a monopoly. Once monopoly power is in place, Software will then become more and more expensive until it is as bad or worse than what it supplanted. Investors will get rich, there will be a brief bubble where some people will get a VC-funded good deal, and then nobody else wins.
We've known about the potential effectiveness of the drug for 1.5 years and In Vitro effectiveness for 1.2 years.

The lack of large completed trials for an off patent medicine should be a black eye for the NIH.
I found it funny for the “LED never die” claim. My new home’s living room has 11 Philips BR30 LED lights, within 2 years I have already replaced 4 of them, all died with a super dim glow.
Human body size shaped by climate, evolutionary study shows
> This is magical thinking.

Attitudes around smoking in general are grounded deeply in magical thinking. People have been raised on anti-smoking rhetoric so deep, with such little cultural push back toward sanity, that it's tough for most people to think let alone discuss the subject with any objectivity.
Ah, I now understand the latest comic.
I'm interested to read more about Phantom Secure's "dismantling" in the context of both HSBC's slap on the wrist and the FBI starting and running a company that did the exact same thing.

Edited to add: It's fairly obvious that Phantom Secure was setup specifically to cater to organised crime communications - it appears the CEO experssly admitted this. I wonder if the company would have been better off marketing to 'security and privacy' conscious individuals, rather than, specifically, drug cartels, leaving the door of plausible deniability open.
NFTs as a gateway for digital rights management
This is where iOS wins I think. According to Apple documentation, no app can override a systemwide DNS setting in iOS14. So if you were to apply a dns profile, it is guaranteed that apps cannot use their own dns resolver.
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> No, the article contains rather good advice, and from a range of opinions.

You must have read a different article than I did, because the one I read contains an assortment of exceptionally shit advice like "ignore them because they're going to die eventually" and "just lie" and "it's not like they're going to stop loving you" and "wear them down" and "don't worry about their blessing".
https://prudent.me/
Devices like that could just hardcode the IP addresses of their ad servers instead, so DoH isn't really the culprit there.
If your getting paid after the 20th makes you unable to pay on the 20th then you are illiquid. This may or may not be a big deal but it is strictly worse than the alternative.

For instance, what happens if you lose your income for whatever reason? Your paying irregularly might as well be proof that you will immediately be unable to pay rent in that case. Now, this may not in fact be true (perhaps you have lots of liquid assets but want the maximum amount of money invested at all times, and that was fine because your landlord didn't mind), but you can see why this is a red flag.
> So you would have to share an IP address with something "too important to block". The political problem with that tends to be that the operators of things that might be too important to block tend to think that those things are too important to expose to any risk of being blocked, say by sharing them with something that somebody might want to block.

I think that's part of the idea of having Cloudflare run it. I'm far from a fan of them in general, but the one thing in their favour for this case is that an ISP would have to be pretty ballsy to block all Cloudflare's IPs.
Nuclear Energy Will Not Be the Solution to Climate Change
That's pretty normal for the advertising industry.
DC is pretty brutal some of the time. $$$
Criminals and the porn industry, the two classic early adopters.
> did I write those lines or you

Neither. Someone else did, and published it. Copilot copied the dialog and suggested it.

> If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines?

It depends. Talking generalities isn't productive or interesting. Can you give an example and we can discuss specifics?

> Suggesting code is generating code

This isn't even superficially true
I remember that too, good times.
Anime series had A, B and C parts.