skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RTL language users expect everything, not just the text, to be mirrored. But is that a neccessity or just a weird convention due to path dependence? Cars aren't right hand drive in arabic speaking countries, things like scissors are still made predominantly for right handed people. The cursor keys are on the right hand side of the keyboard, and so on. Why would you swap the navigation of a website from the left to the right side, or the window controls on Windows from the right to the left? Where "we" English speakers put these things is arbitrary, too. It's more related to the position of the mouse hand than the reading direction, if anything.

Personally, I think the convention to flip almost everything is due to old technological constraints. In old windows versions, there was no primary support for right-to-left. Instead, you had a "mirrored" arabic font, you would draw to the window as usual (without changing coordinates), and then mirror the whole window [1]. That is why the highlights on buttons seem to come from the top right on RTL windows! Some things like the folder icons or pictures are mirrored again so they have the correct orientation.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/localizabilit...
I'd like a way to filter out the Netflix Originals too.
Show HN: One-on-one calls with your followers on Twitter
I use it for tethering when Comcast goes down. You also need ipheth-utils.
See also: it's quite likely that no red dwarf anywhere in existence has run out of fuel, yet - some are estimated to last as long as 10 trillion years.
EU Parliament lets companies look for child abuse on their platforms
Usually 100-150mm wide. You don't do it yourself, you get a company with a drilling rig to come out and do it. Costs around 5k€.
Best part is, they know blanket surveillance illegal in the EU: “We really need targeted solutions when dealing with these private communications; otherwise this won't hold up before national or European courts,” said Sippel.
For the past year and a half I have mostly been staring at a computer and typing a lot. I went from a "road warrior" who used a tiny laptop to do all of my work to someone who sits in a chair all day and works exclusively on a desktop. I only need to walk from my bed to my desk, with most of my exercise coming from going downstairs (I live in an apartment where the bedrooms are over the living room and kitchen) to make food or pick up deliveries (which then involves climbing back up the stairs: the real challenge). I go outside to take out the trash (at night: the day is feeling stranger and stranger of a time to be outside). I have gained 80 pounds ("and counting"). I dunno: other than that I expect to die soon from this lifestyle :/, it isn't hard or particularly boring? ...and again: this is coming from someone who used to spend most of his time traveling to convergences giving talks in front of large audiences and swimming through crowds; there are truly an infinite number of things that one can do without ever having to even leave bed (and that's even if you ignore sleeping, which is like holding down the fast forward button on life ;P).
Hey Sumit. Would love to have a chat (in general) about India's markets and what you've built in the past.

I'm building a "Team Collaboration" app for SMEs. I run a few small businesses in Kerala, mostly in wholesale and retail. The product I'm building is to address the problems I'm facing as a small business owner.

Will email you.
a) I said "fairly large swathe"

b) Elites exert control by persuasion; they control the discourse, they organize larger movements, &c. There are still limits to what popular opinion will go along with.

c) Intelligence agencies are, in most rich democratic countries, not a major lever of political power. Government economic institutions, police, courts, and the like are much more influential in both day-to-day lives and in shaping popular conceptions of the "rules of the game".
> Belief is the only thing holding together a lot of the things that we rely on to keep society functioning the way it does.

Which is why alot of people feel threatened by the ever shifting sands in the global financial landscape
Sounds like an online [bucket shop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) ). And seems like it's a much worse proposition than the actual stock-market.

With real stocks, shareholders buy/sell in a manner that might be compared to gambling for some. And if those were the only cash-flows, then the stock-market would be a zero-sum game. But they're not; the stocks entitle holders to other cash-flows, e.g. dividends or asset-distribution to shareholders -- so the stock-market isn't zero-sum.

By contrast, such gambling platforms would seem to have cash-inflows only from other gamblers. And additional cash-outflows to cover incentives to miners, etc., to keep the block-chain operating. So while the real stock-market might be better-than-zero-sum, seems like these would be worse-than-zero-sum.

So.. why? I mean, even if someone just wants to gamble, why not gamble in a net-positive system rather than a net-negative system?

(Also this sounds like it might be illegal in the US and perhaps elsewhere.)

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To sketch a simple example:

Alice starts a company with $1,000 of her own money, creating 100 shares (valued at about $10/share). She sells some of her shares to others for ~$10/share.. let's say she sells half, so she gets back $500 while retaining a 50% stake in the $1,000 pot.

As CEO, Alice invests all $1,000 in US bonds, getting some interest. After 10 years of operation, Alice liquidates the company, which now has $1,000+(10 years of interest).

Now everyone who bought a share from Alice at the start (for ~$10) would get about ~$10+(10 years of interest), much like if they had invested $10 in bonds themself.

And Alice herself gets back $500+interest (in addition to the $500 she got from selling shares earlier).

Now what about people who gambled on Alice's company? This is, now that Alice's company has dissolved and the real shareholders got their cash+interest, what do the people with "synthetic shares" get?
How to Start a SaaS Company: A Beginner's Guide
A former boss used to be a higher up at Kaseya before I worked with him. From his description of their development process, and his general lack of respect for developers, I’m not surprised.

According to him, they outsourced the majority of their development, and he had no clue that there could be any downside to this.

Within a few months of taking over, every single developer in the company left.
Could this be useful for adding iOS support to Syncthing?
Imagine being an adult and having to submit to that just to play some game at night...
Helsinki too has district cooling in addition to district heating: https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2018/cooling-demand-in-helsinki...
Another thing Northern Europe has going for it is that we generally go all-in on insulation. 300mm of insulation are norm in newly built house, meaning you can heat a whole house above the Arctic line with less than 5000 kWh a year.

Insulation is _dirt cheap_ compared to lifetime heating costs AND it also keeps the house cool during the summer. Such a no-brainer.
The original author of that comment is still active and reflects on it from time to time when it pops up.
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Here is a little project I made recently: https://twixy.live/
Twixy is a service where people can have an instant 1on1 call with a follower on twitter.

It only takes 4 steps to begin your call: (1) Login to Twixy, (2) Create a room on Twixy, (3) Share room link on twitter, (4) Have a chat with your follower!

I have made this service because I wanted to give people a totally new way to get connected with fans on twitter. Especially in this time, I felt like we needed more time to get connected easily with people.

Try this service and any comment/feedback would be appreciated. If you like this service please share it on your own twitter as well! That would great.

Thanks,

Shinji
Also limits monthly microtransactions from $28 to $57 depending on age. Knowing Chinese chicken (helicopter) parents, these restrictions are overwhelmingly government listening to public opinion. Sucks for the kids, but really only affects always online products from domestic services. Infinite amount of offline DRM free options to still waste time on, much less gacha/gambly than what's being pushed these days. Kids grew up on gameboys and emulators fine - I know folks with strict parents that that gamed exclusively on a TI83. This is far from an effective ban on video games.
The problem is that the site does not even render all the errors.

From the site:

> Arabic is Right-to-Left. There are about 19 Arabic-speaking

> countries in the world with combined population close

> to 350 million speakers.

What happens in practice:

> Arabic-speaking 19 Arabic is Right-to-Left. There are about

> countries in the world with combined population close

> million speakers. 350 to
Impossible Cryptanalysis and Skipjack (1998)
I'm a full-time photographer. I know about it now and am already planning to start playing around with it.
You should never be taxed out of a paid off house. I’m in Texas and our property tax system was built for 2-3% annual appreciation. It’s been running 3x that or more in many places, for many years now.

Also, people living in their home for years, being a part of the community, raising families, etc is not random at all. What’s random is the guy who just shows up one day from another state and decides houses are cheaper here so he can pay $100K over ask.
That is such nonsense.

Looking doesn't equal finding. Like, I've been looking to get laid... for quite some time now.

As indirect "benefits" of the crazy monetary and fiscal policies in the US have started to reach those still willing to work, many think they can negotiate better terms of employment. Some can, as they've always could, but it's 5-10%, not 60%, of workforce.
Streaming only replaces the machine that runs the game (instead of the local computer).

If you need servers for a massive multiplayer game, game streaming services won't help you.
Men will make $300k/y as FAANG SWE and their apartments still look like this
What did C Plus Plus ever do to you?
Tencent works with/for the CCP
We've benchmarked this framework on very heavy interactive video and content creation webapps with minimal overhead.

When a user is opted out of tracking, we can actually observe negative overhead due to performance gains from blocking certain requests.

Performance (and security) is something that we always keep in mind with our consent manager.
> Airflow based heat pumps are less efficient, and more noisy outside, of course.

This is only true when the ambient temperature dips below the geothermal temperature which depending on your location should make you prefer one over the other.
> By contrast, apps like Headspace are selling themselves like "feeling anxious? Try our app!" and getting corporate sponsorships for employers to give subscriptions to their employees, like a commodity to pacify a stressed out workforce.

These don't sound like complaints about anything the app itself lacks, they sound like complaints that it is successful at marketing.
AI bot posting distracted politicians on there phone during daily livestreams
He seems to live in Germany, near Heidelberg (as the German federal police, BKA, of Heidelberg are investigating). The town has a large university, and used to have one of the largest US Military presences in Germany though I think they've all withdrawn now.
This input shaper can clean up a lot of the resonant ghosting or ringing seen in prints on common FDM printers especially when printing at higher speeds. I found example prints on YouTube, here are a couple I found informative:

https://youtu.be/eNraKK7ukzU
https://youtu.be/er7q-CJL1lc
Feel free to name at least one government or society which has no such rules.

All societies have them, and many such rules are widely accepted by the societies that have them as beneficial. E.g. such laws are the reason parents are not allowed to expose their children to obscene images, even if the parents really are convinced that doing so would benefit their children.
They're around in the US as well. Worked on one in downtown Austin in a previous life.
Interesting example, had no idea what to expect when I clicked.
We were using this for test automation to install, launch and terminate apps on 50+ devices.
Cheating with editing video/paying stooges would be one way, but far as I know he never does/did that, in any of his TV or live shows. He worked for years in restaurants, going from table to table doing magic, without assistants or any props but those in his pockets etc, and developed a lot of his tricks and skills then. He explained this trick in one of his books:

1. the deck has only (from memory) 8 different cards, enough to appear a full deck. He has 8 different card-cigarettes in his pockets for the later part of the trick.

2. You can hear him "forcing" the K of diamonds before Fry picks it.. burn the image of the card (red picture card) .. burn that into your mind..don't go for the 3 of hearts (red but not a heart). He's highly skilled in this kind of suggestion, with years of practice, guiding your choice without your noticing. This doesn't guarantee K of diamonds, but vastly increases the odds, which a lot of Brown's stuff, and other mind readers, involves—increasing the odds, by various means. Then,

3. to me the most interesting part, the framing. When he says repeat that over and over in your mind, like K of Diamonds, K of Diamonds - Fry picked that card, and it seems even more impressive than if Derren had correctly guessed his card at that point and ended the trick, more casual and witty, pretending he didn't know it when he did. It seems as if Derren knew the card, but he didn't know for certain. There was just a fair chance it was right, maybe 30-50% or more. If he was wrong, as in many other times he performed it, the trick would continue naturally, no harm done, and he's learnt it's not the K of Diamonds. The trick will always end in success, but this bonus mind reading miracle along the way has a fair chance of success, maybe much more than 50% in Derren's hands.

I've heard magicians say the best possible magic trick is to get someone to shuffle a proper deck of cards, then you announce the top card before they turn it over. 1/52 times you will be right, and they will never believe it was just chance, but forever believe you can do miracles. This is a version of that, but with much greater odds, and a very natural, invisible "out" if you are wrong.
Oh yeah, I remember when they started advertising with 'encrypted' cordless phones.
I find the concept of a black dwarf to be fascinating. Like you said - none have existed yet, and any absorption of matter as it floats through space will prolong its radiant heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf
How can Microsoft be less trendy if they publish way more research?
> Sadly I didn't grow up in an economic class where I just happen to know people with large amounts of land.

Rich city person?

The hermits in these stories advertised in the paper. Do what they did, they were not acquaintances with the owners.

Can you type with long finger nails?

"Mr. Hamilton agreed to pay his hermit £700 provided he lived in the hermitage seven years. His only equipment during this period must be a Bible, optical glasses, a mat for his feet, a has sock for his pillow and an hourglass to tell the time.

In addition, he had to wear a camlet robe and never under any circumstances cut his hair, beard or nails, stray from the grounds or speak to anyone."
The poor need an environment that isn't drained by, milked by and/or owned by the rich.

The poor need an environment where those with more wealth cannot influence the outcome of political processes irproportionally.

The poor need an environment where the invisible hand of the market is not the fiscal equivalent of a one-way-valve, where the "free" market is praised as long as the employee wont use their work as a bargaining chip.
Oh and how about contracts for difference, equity swaps, futures on stocks, etc?

Of course when traditional players do it's totally fine, but the moment the same thing is done on crypto rails, that's when we raise our value signalling pitch forks.
I wonder if there's space for a proper, quality recommendation engine for Netflix. In my books, it would do exactly what you described here, plus provide way for user to input persistent constraints (e.g. "Don't show me movies from 'Horror' genre") and queries (e.g. "genre: sci-fi, after: 2010").

How could it work with Netflix without their explicit support? For the movie database, I assume there's some data source somewhere that lists all the movies and series Netflix currently has in any given region. As for ingesting watching history, it could parse Content Interaction History exported from Netflix via their GDPR Subject Access Request flow. Sure, they have up to 30 days to process such request, but I'd happily accept a recommendation system I have to manually update every month, over the disaster Netflix has been offering to its users.
A snippet of data from myself (year: steps/day)

2018: 9411

2019: 9250

2020: 9933

2021: 9277

In my case, pandemic changed absolutely nothing in my lifestyle. I live in major North American city FYI.
If an extension can modify getRandomValues, then all your other code is also untrusted, you can't work around it by using other methods to generate randomness.
A crazy idea: our brain is a fungi-like plant and even uses same chemicals in neurotransmitters.
I used to have a camping water purifier from MSR that they developed with a company called MIOX. It ran on batteries and had a little catalyst and you put salt solution in and it fizzed and produced chlorine that you poured into your water bottles. It smelled like a pool. As long as you had batteries and salt you could make an infinite amount of chlorine.

It looks like MIOX is still around [0], they make portable units for the military and for temporary installation but I imagine this approach isn't cost effective for a permanent facility.

[0] https://www.miox.com/
I might be mistaken, but the geofencing might be based on the specific satellite you were connecting to, correlated with the time of day. And very likely verified/audit-logged on the satellite side too.
By the author’s definition, medicine is quite elvish as intervention is typically done to help the body heal itself (consider “setting” a bone).
I have to actively choose to go for a long walk in order to reach the 10k mark.

Taking a bus, riding a bike, going into the subway. It doesn’t add up to a lot.
i wish they would expand out their browsing and browsing by genre too!
Study: A quarter of adults don't want children and they're still happy
Namaskaram, I don't know of many part time engineering positions, but the trend is growing, e.g. [1]. However I'm confident that you could find a position that would pay you that salary for a more common 35-40 (and balanced compared to 48 hours, 6 days per week). Are you on LinkedIn? It can be helpful in my experience. Feel free to email me, maybe I can find someone to help (no guarantee though)

[1] 4dayweek.io
If that's the case, then where is the crackdown on rampant underage drinking?

My college gives a presentation to freshman that essentially says "we know you're going to drink, so please drink responsibly and take care of yourself." And I personally think this is much better than telling kids to not drink underage.

It reminds me of parents who teach their kids abstinence and then are shocked to find them pregnant.
They always do; it's a marketing statement.
Here's an article with lessons from Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, and Simon Sinek:

https://optimizemy.life/sell/
The #1 Reason Snowflake is Different (vs Redshift and co)
Would apple/google be able to comb through that data though? WhatsApp backups are not e2e encrypted, but they're still encrypted with a key generated by Facebook the moment you login to your account, and probably refreshed periodically. Technically, Facebook would be the only one capable of turning the encrypted backup into plaintext, so if google wanted to do something with your messages backup it would have to knock at Facebook's door first.

This kind of cooperation is definitely illegal in this moment and I'm nut sure future legislation will require services to set up persistent encryption keys exchange among services so that a backup file that is supposed to be encrypted on a cloud storage can be continually scanned for harmful/unlawful content by another service. If the EU or any government wanted to set up such kind of monitoring, they will require these services to adapt in a way that these kind of gimmicks with backups and encryption keys are not needed
From the original Onion article:

> "The U.S. told us they cared and that they had our best interests at heart, and I really thought this time might be different, but they were just as selfish as the Soviets and the British," said Pashtun tribal leader Ashraf Rahman Durrani, referring to Afghanistan's history of abusive relationships. "We're a strong, proud nation, though. We've been through a lot, and we'll find a way to get through this, too."

https://www.theonion.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanista...
I hope Xi has a lovely trip to The Hague one of these days.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-c...
Out of curiosity, what is the effect of this thick insulation on indoor CO₂ levels? Do these houses usually have ventilation systems that can compensate?
There’s not enough content for completely new listings every time, and people do watch things repeatedly, especially TV shows.
The pinout of that ESP32 board says 3.3V but the author feeds 5V into it. But apparently it works :)

Something else I didn't quite understand: they write "NodeMCU ESP32 which is a small IoT device with a USB port and is programmable in ESPHome". Does that mean that the little board itself does not need to be flashed? That, out of the box, it's controllable/programmable in ESPHome, which is webbased?

Looks like a fun little project, all in all. Kudos for documenting and sharing it!
You don't need meditation apps (or to build one). You need meditation. But that hinges on realizing you're a junkie.
Yes you can provide liquidity for eur-usd if you jump through all the hoops.

A quick google search will show you that lots of savings accounts have positive yields. Rates have been low cause of fed action but banks have provided positive returns in savings accounts since like forever ago.
So, saying to an insurance company that you feel has wronged you - I am registering a complaint with the state insurance commission- is equivalent to physical violence? I’m sorry but that strains credulity.
cpp isn't C++, it's the c preprocessor. Go type it in a Linux terminal if you don't believe me.
The article is a book review. The book is reviewing Seven Habits. The article is reviewing - criticising, in the sense of expanding and commenting on, if you read the details - the book. So that section is a mix of opinion.

It's unfortunate you missed this rather relevant fact, and chose instead to write a diatribe about how "woke" is very bad and people on HN only ever comment on articles without really reading them.

Of course if you believe that public criticism of books like Seven Habits in obscure journals is somehow corrosively 'un-American' you're going to need to explain why you have that rather exotic view.
I can help with UX too
Hello! Im Federico a Senior Designer at Google working on FuchsiaOS and Ambient computing. I also teach as a Professor of Interaction Design at CCA.

Im open to helping give any UX feedback to anything you are all building! feel free to email me directly at federicovillaw@gmail.com.
What is wrong with "handouts?"
You're saying we should have kept giving placebos to a bunch of people after the trial has calculated 90%+ protection for a widespread infectious disease? Would any review board actually clear such a study?