skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot more people support action than support any given outcome. I worry that the majority will be disappointed by the outcome because of this.

Take the big tech action: some people support it because they want less censorship (that's me), others because they want more. The same applies in other aspects of peoples' issues with big tech (fake news, hate groups, grooming and CP, privacy, foreign election meddling etc). We can't all be happy with whatever the FTC does to social media sites can we, given we mostly want different things.
Thanks for the clarification.

I'm confused too. That text has been there for a long time. The repo show this text is unchanged since at least 1.14 from 2004 - see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/doc/tar.texi?...

The next section adds:

> The reason tar does not overwrite the older file when updating it is that writing to the middle of a section of tape is a difficult process. Tapes are not designed to go backward. See section Tapes and Other Archive Media, for more information about tapes.

Hee-hee! That section mentions EXEBYTE tapes, which I last used in 1992, and was the last time I did an actual tape backup.

hasheddan ? Why did you decide to post this?
$850 each and as of a month or so ago only available in 3 states.

At Costco you can get what seem to be high end hearing aids for $699 each. The current generation are rechargeable and support bluetooth. This includes the free hearing test free fitting ("real ear", which is current best practice) and followup so long as you have a membership.

The key thing that is lacking is a decent app or api for me to write my own. Oh, that and phone conversations using the hearing aid's bluetooth is pretty bad.
> These contracts between seller and merchant were voluntary.

I'm guessing you've never been placed on an involuntary psych hold, or woken up at a hospital after an accident left you incapacitated.
Nothing has been solved because of corporational. Things are more complicated, Netflix made it more complicated, then HBO/Sky, Disney+, Amazon came and it's all nightmare again.

Geolocking, lack of standardised translation service, very different pricing models per country. From all services I use or hear about, Steam is still the best value per money. Steam is 18 years old this year.
> which is made worse by EVs due to their weight?

What a ridiculous supposition.

First the weight difference is not that huge, second EV's use regenerative breaking for a huge portion of their breaking spectrum bypassing break pads entirely.
The entire centralized model is dying and shifting towards individual journalists with a personal brand and a degree of perceived authenticity. We are still in the early stages but I find it likely these big brands will fade away one funeral at a time.
Not 100% but petty close. For a mostly static website like a blog it could easily serve 95%+ of the traffic.

And yes, it's where you leave it checked to use Cloudflare for your traffic.
Netflix offering different movies to different countries is going to be inevitable with the protectionist legal landscape that's shoring up. Even if they own 100% of their content, it won't be tenable.

The EU is requiring 30% of the content from streaming services to be from Europe. France requires 60%. They're discussing not counting UK films as part of this. It's certainly easier to geolock content than to produce extra content, but even if Netflix et al. produce more content, what happens if/when other countries follow suit? The Canadian senate may have killed Bill C-10 for now, but Trudeau still seems likely to win in the fall, so there's a good chance it still passes in the next couple of years. So France requires 60% in the EU, Canada requires 30% in Canada, and what happens if other countries get in the game? If those percentages add up to over 100%, there is no possible way to make all your content available in all countries, no matter how much content you produce in these countries. Geolocking is the only possibility.
Probably redeploy the advanced manufacturing capital into other highly desirable state-of-the art biotech.
I used to buy a few CDs a year, $20 for one good song?? Then Napster came along, and I found all sorts of good stuff, and I started buying a few CDs/week because I knew they had good songs on them, and were better quality audio that the stuff on Napster. I bought a few hundred CDs at full Best Buy Retail prices!, then the record companies started suing their customers, and I've never bought a new CD since.

I've given up on music in general. I'll listen to the radio in the car, but that's it. If I really want to here a song, its on Youtube somewhere.
Whaaat? Very much disagree. I think you are forgetting packages. Where I live, the postal service delivers packages every day of the week. Sundays included. The mail is a critical service, done efficiently and with a smile. The world would end if people could not get their packages.
Wow the mental gymnastics in this one.
You cannot vote for those people. Come back until I can.
I recall reading that the effect on gender has been documented in classical musician auditions (women were selected more frequently with the introduction of blind auditions)
That's a good point. Now that I think about it, the Indonesians from whom I heard "bahasa" were actually also native Javanese speakers. Bahasa Indonesia is of course a lingua franca, and an increasingly imposing one for minority languages, so maybe that could be a possible source for your point that there are different connotations for insiders and outsiders.

I didn't get your point about "this country". The only thing I know is how it's inappropriate outside the USA, or in a global context, to use America to mean the USA, as of course the rest of the Americas also exist.
That is not my argument on the other link. My argument on link is that they are worth nothing.
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
3. Quality of service in your country is so bad that you wouldn't watch it legally for free.

If I remember correctly, in some EU countries GoT was available only with reader - no native English and subtitles, all episodes destroyed by a reader. In another country GoT was available in max resolution 480p, in another... you had to be subscribed to one particular ISP AND have HBO subscription. GoT was the most pirated content on torrents for quite some time.
Unfortunately that's not practical. When you download from a uni gateway, pdfs are often auto-watermarked with the source. That way the authors have no idea what checksum you see. And the places which don't do that yet could easily start padding the end of the pdf with a random number of spaces to stop verification efforts.
PRADO: Public Register of Authentic Identity and Travel Documents Online
> The second is that it's all about negotiation. Companies by and large have the upper hand here, and would pay much lower wages if they could.

Employee wages are roughly bounded below by the cost to keep them alive, and roughly bounded above by the profit they produce. As for leveling the playing field between labor employers, there are known strategies for pooling labor's leverage. The gap is in convincing labor that those strategies are a net positive from them. For people who think that when they are hired that they are going into negotiations on equal footing, this is easier said than done.
>"That's just the way it is"?

How many sins of the past have used that as an excuse? It's just a very immature way of looking at life.

>It's up to businesses to provide that entertainment to us

And that doesn't sound entitled??? Wow. Not that we are lucky for someone providing us entertainment (within the confines of how they choose to share it)?

>The music industry learned this in 2008 or so.

Did they though? Really learned it? Seems like they got what the wanted where nobody actually owns anything and is only able to rent the content from them.
It's almost like the author of this project didn't spend 3 years on this for you, but for themselves...
All I can say is that GNOME 3 seems to take Havoc Pennington's famous essay about as far as it can go, considering configurability a bug. I don't know exactly when it started, but it definitely came to my attention bigtime with the infamous gnome-screensaver.

Useful links:
1. https://ometer.com/preferences.html, the subset of Mr. P's original essay that the original contains a link to.
2. https://www.derstandard.at/story/1313024283546/gnome-designe..., an interview with Jon McCann.
What is the value of such a prediction?
My country, the Netherlands, has been struggling with water for its entire existence. A large part of it is below sea level.

In most parts we have two different drainage systems, one for rain water and one for sewage. All sewage is processed in treatment plants before it is released into open water. We don't use open water directly as drinking water. Either we use ground water or use river water that has been infiltrated into our dunes.

There are probably some things that the US could learn from this, but it will probably come with a very high cost.
GPA doesn’t have anything to do with being a good student
MetaFilter held that niche for some time. I don't know how it fairs today. The moderation was a bit much for me, so I went elsewhere. You might like it. I might revisit it again myself.

https://www.metafilter.com/
If there is no viable alternative then it’s censorship. Put the power of moderation in the hands of people, create a market for it, that’s a winning strategy.
Do you mean a lack of documentation on syntax or lack of documentation on statistical methods?

If it’s statistical methods, then you’ll need to look outside of R because R documentation isn’t trying to teach statistical methods.

You can try [1] the series of books teaching statistical methods using R.

In my stats degree we learned R methods alongside the statistical methods. R, to us at the undergrad level, is a fancy calculator. Yes it has functions and can do some “programming,” but it’s purpose is to facilitate using statistical methods and writing up reports.

If the audience of your IDE is programmers who want to do data analysis, then I think that’s a different audience than statisticians, who I think are the majority of users of R. R studio is already a decent IDE that statisticians are familiar with, so it might be a hard group to get to switch.

The syntax in R isn’t great. There are multiple ways of sub setting that depend on the data type you're subsetting.

Many of the top stats programs have notes on R or courses designed to teach R that are freely accessible on the internet.

[1] https://www.routledge.com/Chapman--HallCRC-The-R-Series/book...
- flat fee per organization ($20 per month)

- bands per users ($free from 0-10 people, $50 from 10-20, $500 from 20-100...)

Yes, and this does imply that you will make less per user than if you charged each individual user per the pricing on your website. The other half of my comment is that this tool is a convenience thing, as an add-on feature to an existing chat tool and should be priced very low. The low price will disincentivize people from doing alternatives (such as any type of free poll, or building it themselves/FOSS), so the lower prices will end up in a higher value for you overall.
For triathlons: the slowtwitch.com triathlon forum.
Irceline publishes PM2.5 stats for Belgium. Here's [1] a pretty little chart with the annual mean PM2.5 concentration. If you switch between 2020 and 2019, the difference seems pretty small. Same for PM10 and Black Carbon. If the pandemic had a big impact on air quality, that effect seems to have skipped Belgium at least. It's a shame there's no similar dashboard for viruses and allergens.

[1] https://www.irceline.be/en/air-quality/measurements/particul...
Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity.

Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.
That's directly under

> Cross-platform, online and offline

> Work directly online in the browser or install the PWA (progressive web application) and enjoy a fully offline experience.

Chrome and Edge support PWAs, while Firefox does not.

Of course, I could be interpreting this wrong, as saving and loading does not work in Firefox.
It almost certainly wouldn't have been legal in the U.S. to dock
an exempt employee's pay, but I've seen plenty of U.S. startups with absolutely no understanding of wage and salary laws.

The $100 / month thing was for an internship, and I've seen plenty of U.S. startups straight up assume they can treat interns as unpaid labor.
Content-aware fill
Suppose you have a long password for your WiFi and want an easier way for friends to connect to your network without having to type a complex password.
App Video - https://youtu.be/EEvWJC0sLGI
As someone with a relative who install these: yeah, it can be a thing.

The gap between "too soft, doesn't help you hear" and "too loud, damages your hearing" can be narrow.

Usually it's more of a problem in the other direction, with doctors playing it safe and tamping down the aid to the point of uselessness.
"Seriously though, why is this even necessary? What are you doing that can't be done in FF or Safari?"

Do you really think this is a helpful suggestion?

You are simply suggesting more work for the dev. That is not really helpful.
Thanks for the response and info!
What? Driving with headphones is forbidden where I am. And at minimum you need to be able to hear a carhorn.
linkedin. if you ever hear "thought leader" in a sentence you should default to "virtue signaling gas bag", the majority of which congregate on LinkedIn, trying to attain a weird sort of guru status and build a following. Sometimes you get people with a good point a view, like this guy. Most times not.
Most people I've been advocating Keybase to, just assumed it's yet another place where you create an account and hence you must trust them (now owned by zoom, boo-hoo).

I found it well explained etc, but it's hard to reach everybody.
The hospital you end up in is not a free market and usually it's not even a choice. Anyone who who gets in a car accident, falls off a roof, has a heart attack will be lucky to still be conscious when the ambulance picks them up, much less in a state of mind to be considering the relative merits.
I've used an old phone with kerberos. You'll need an "IP cam" app that runs an mjpg or RTSP stream from the phone, then put the stream url in kerberos. I run kerberos on a Pi.
> It took me like 15min to get it going on a droplet

Don't know much about writefreely in general, but static website hosting is free with Github Pages (or extremely cheap on something like S3).

You mentioning a droplet sounds you're running a full VM to host a static site, which sounds too expensive if that's the only use case for the VM.
The memes destroyed a large part of reddit's intellectualism. Not that it descended to the depths of youtube comments, but it was still a fall.
Despite the deluge of downvotes, recent grads and dropouts formed many of the worlds largest companies, and many you work for them or for their successors. Linux was started by Linus while in school as well. I don’t know why this is getting so much hostility

Bill gates
Michael dell
Zuckerberg
Jobs
Dorsey
(Many others)

I’m sorry this makes so many people mad but… stop looking down on people

Also, why are people conflating high gpa with being a top student? Top student means “the best at creating software”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
> Bose’s hearing aids were recently approved by the FDA, and they’re only $850.

Only $850? That is a new use of the word only as far as I'm concerned. These things, which are in many ways similar to if not identical with bluetooth earbuds should not cost more than those - and given the fact that Apple managed to convince people that $200 is a normal price for these things that should leave more than enough margin for an unhealthy profit margin seeing as how the ones I'm using cost ⅐ of that while achieving a longer battery life.
Do you think this is a big number? $8mm across a huge industry is barely enough to get a legal team out of bed. This is really pocket change.
a QR generator which will magically connect me to the WiFi with my password embedded in the QR somehow.

This is indeed what it does, but it also includes the plaintext password in case you want to connect a device that doesn't have a camera, like a PC. There's an open issue for adding a "hide password" option. You could also just cut off or scribble out the password on the print out.
Not calling you out, but where did you get the number deaths > 100 from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
Idk if you tried looking at any evidence when making your claim, but this clearly supports the gp and contradicts your statement [1] [2].

[1]https://www.ridef2.com/blog-del-direttore-ridef/will-electri...

[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...
Minecraft: Java Edition is what you're after. Depending on your child's ability or familiarity with programming, I'd also look at CodeKingdoms. I've found it's been an excellent way to introduce young children to programming. And with its structured "projects", there are clearly defined objectives with guidance on how to achieve. Likewise, they take care of hosting a Minecraft server and mod deployment. I was skeptical at first, but it's proven to be an amazing tool for my children.
It depends on the qr-code scanner you have on your phone. The one on my android shows a button 'connect to this network'.

In regards to security, you are completely correct. But this is to be used in cases where one would put a paper with the password on the wall, think of coffee shops. Saves some typing. Or you can put a card on your coffee table to help out your house guests.
estimating battery life is hard, it might be due to that.
The artisan bread niche is here: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/
To be slightly snarky, because the author wants to record your WiFi and Password.

That it was a learning project, ok. I guess.
NY Based Startup Hiring
Agreed? Patents are being misused. We should fix that. Patents fixed gross injustices when they were created, and we shouldn't forget that, either. Software is probably the worst example of a field for patents and I think the case for patenting algorithms or design is dicey. But if you sink 100M into drug R&D, a novel type of medical device, or a new type of semiconductor CVD process you should have some protection against reverse engineering from competition for a period of time.

Since the problem seems to come a lot, maybe the problem is the role of money in politics and we should address the root cause. Just a thought.
I'm planning to buy one. Afghanistan and the war has been a constant element in my life since I was a child. They are interesting artefacts connected to the war, but not from the viewpoint of the west. A good reminder of the cruelty and folly of imperialism.
Traditionally, the cost for hearing aids runs in the thousands of dollars. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, progress takes time.
I’m guessing the whole point behind the “standard” is to allow quick and easy access to protected networks. It’s an alternative / compliment to verbally telling someone the passphrase, or having it printed in clear text on a paper.

Think of hotels / offices with guest networks. I use it for my wifi, my home network is not secretive enough to not let friends / family join it when at my place.
Elon Musk reserves a ticket on a Virgin Galactic space flight
and how does it affect programmers?

it'd mean that programmers have to work >8h day and everything is ASAP?
NYTimes has very cheap subscriptions internationally. At least for me, it's €2 a month. Doesn't include cooking though.
It’s quite possible that billionaires are doing low-cost, low-profile activities that fly under the radar. But for the expensive ones that leave behind accessible evidence we see them owning sports teams, sailing and yachts and purchasing art.
It's not their job, but in my experience they are pretty dependable, one way or another.
Ask HN: Does anyone here have a contact at a gel-cap manufacturer?
I am trying to find a manufacturer of gel-caps (e.g. http://soft-gel.com/) who would be willing to work with me on an unusual product spec. I need a set of placebo gel-caps (i.e. no active ingredients) made in various sizes. If anyone here on HN has a contact at such a company I would very much appreciate an introduction. If you want to know more details please contact me directly. Contact info is in my profile.
I’d gladly pay for 5-6 digital news subscriptions for $10 per month each. What’s harder to justify for me are the multiple 30-40$ per month subscriptions for sites like FT, Bloomberg and the Information.
Environmental permits apply both to the construction of a facility and to their use.

So yes, it matters that Tesla went ahead and constructed some tanks without having the environmental permit first. It's irrelevant that they aren't going to actually use those tanks, as that's a separate provision of the environmental permit.
Are you doing anything else interesting? Genuine question out of curiosity.
I wonder what the PM1 and under figures would look like. I recall seeing some analysis stating that the bulk of car related PM was smaller than PM1.
You can "hide" a websocket connection behind a shared worker and that won't show up in the network connection tab.

I do that on a site of mine, but for a less nefarious reason: sharing a websocket connection between multiple tabs.
Thanks for that link, I've read something about that before but haven't thought about it since I've been prescribed it myself since March.

For me since then most of the symptoms in the list on that page have actually improved. The only thing my doctor (in The Netherlands) warned me about was the bad/vivid dream part, before Montelukast I could hardly remember dreaming but now I do almost daily (but I am also sleeping much better).
People tend to assume that gasoline engines don't produce PM2.5, but that's apparently wrong. I saw some seemingly legit report that claims tire and brakes create about 10% of the PM2.5 pollution.

EV and Hybrid cars have regen braking which reduces brake pad wear. I don't know about PM2.5 but hybrids also emit much less NOx than straight gasoline cars.
Quoting: 'Markets have traits'

[sings] ♪♫ IN REAL LIFE WE ARE ALL ZONED IN SPACES ♫♪ (-:
How does the interest deduction work? I thought mortgage interest was the only interest people can write off their taxes.
You could probably get to single passenger VTVL flights in Armadillo / XCOR style with a few million and starting from scratch.
I think I listened to the podcast in question biking last week.

https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/michael-pollan

For what it's worth, I came away with a completely positive view of Harper's, though maybe I didn't pick up on every word of it.
This seems way too conveniently dismissive of the environmental issue. Apple is the 800 lb gorilla that sets industry expectations. They have been gluing batteries and making repair difficult across their product line for a decade. This leads to higher consumer costs and manufactured goods filling landfills prematurely. As one of the most visible companies in the world making repair difficult, the criticism is well-deserved. The airpods are perhaps the height of unrepairable apple tech.

Sure any valid criticism of Apple is going to invite a pile-on from the apple haters but it does not follow that the original criticism is invalid.
I've seen worse. Other than some missing images, this one works fine for me.
No sane compiler would optimize atomics (2015)
Their FAQ is pretty clear that they actually replace the batteries somehow. I'm glad someone figured out how to do that, but I agree with you that the airpod batteries (like the batteries in everything else) should have been replaceable in the first place.
Not to mention the fragile state of supply chains for food, the food deserts, absurd water usage.