skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Amazon uses (used? it might have stopped) its influence to prevent sellers from selling things cheaper off Amazon, meaning the Amazon tax gets applied to the product everywhere – reducing consumer incentives to buy things without Amazon. This is neither exploitation of labour nor delivering value to consumers.
It's ironic that the only devices this can be installed on are Google phones and one Xiaomi phone.
What I've seen is a loss in the ability to architect solutions that are simple. There seems to be a feeling that if doesn't include every technology available that it's missing something.

Good architectures (think both software and construction, both) only use what they need. They are complete not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away. Good architectures make changes and extensions effortless.

Instead, as Alan Kay says, "Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." He said that a while ago and it's getting worse.
There’s two things going on I thought the iMessage stuff was on device but maybe I’m misreading things. It’s unfortunately cloaked in secrecy…
I think there was some proceeding/preceding confusion in GP. I misread it at first, too.
That is not to say you can't get rich without improving lives, or that that you can't get rich explicitly by harming people's quality of life.

There are countless cognitive exploits such as short term thinking that people can take advantage of, in addition to outright fraud and abuse.

These are valid questions to ask, but my personal view is most of those making the claims aren't showing their work, just positing they are true.

When the claim is that a millions amazon workers and contractors plus hundreds of millions of customers are acting against their best interests, you need strong evidence.
In Canada where this trip took place it’s currently illegal to sell electricity via DC fast charger because Measurement Canada has not defined the standard to which your charger has to measure against to ensure fair dispensing. They are really dragging their heels and it’s super annoying. Even utility like BC or Quebec Hydro can’t sell by the kWh and either have to give it away from free or charge by time.

https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/mc-mc.nsf/eng/lm04949.html
>It is a bit pricey. If that opinion on the price ends up being the consumer norm they will have to lower the price eventually.

Normally I'd agree. But this is George's ego we're talking about. He'll never lower prices ever.
> If you reached 1/3 of the total stake on the network, you would be able to screw up consensus and make conflicting blocks both appear to be finalized, just as a 51% attack on a PoW currency

And if you did that then all your stake would be automatically destroyed. It's as if a 51% attack on PoW caused your mining rig to burn down.
We do, https://calyxos.org/features/ (Look for "Trusted Agent" to see a screenshot)

The code for this was already present in AOSP, Google simply had it disabled / reverted in their builds. We just bring it back like many other Android ROMs.
If the objective is to get the maximum 'visual' difference for two hashes, why not re-hash both of them first? That results in any small changes causing a huge difference in the final outputs.
I didn't understand your viewpoint. What exactly are you angry at in believing the author is "dishing hate" - that the author pointed out that marrying within gotras is frowned upon or that people are sometimes killed over it (honour killing)? Both are facts.
What’s their lead in that space? I saw some quite impressive filters there, although it’s just filters, and there are the snapchat spectacles which are interesting and I’m happy they iterating on that. Am I missing something?
Interesting study. After 12 years of ownership, I sold my car in 2017 and haven’t replaced it. At the time of sale my levelized cost of ownership was $9600/year or $1/mile. One benefit of not owning a car not mentioned in this study is the opportunity cost (and frustration) associated with car ownership. I no longer spend time looking for parking spots, doing maintenance tasks, getting inspections done, etc. if possible, I hope not to ever own a car again.
You Don’t Own the Digital Movies You Buy
Except that cost of living is also pretty high in Indian metros (especially Delhi). This is why most of the residents live in slums: they can't afford permanent/legal housing. From the article:

> But nearly half of the city’s population lives in slums without basic services and facilities like drinking water, garbage disposal or a proper drainage system.
My concern is especially for those people already in places that will be destroyed. Barring that, gaining citizenship to a large country with a diversity of biomes and latitudes might be prudent.
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> ultimately Clubhouse's biggest problem is content quality

lol, that's not even the biggest problem. This is a service known to send identifiers as cleartext[0], among other privacy and security flaws[1].

[0] https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubhouse-china

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/clubhouse-privacy-security-growt...
I think some of this is because even package maintainers have a hard time deciphering what is potentially "breaking". There was a great talk at GopherCon about an ambitious project whose goal was to be able to detect if you made backwards incompatible changes, which on the facade seems easy (to some folks, apparently) but is in fact not.
LOL. I'm going to explain this for myself and then never look at this cursed thread again.

What is important is to clearly communicate the intent of code to the next developer (incl., yourself) who comes across it. Comments are one tool provided to do this. I write comments. I approve pull requests containing comments. But comments are not the only tool, and they're not the best one.

Now most of the time there's no particular difficulty establishing the intent of code. Sometimes, though, there's something weird, something that looks "wrong" but isn't. In those cases, I isolate the weird change using abstractions (at least a variable, but probably a function, a method, a class); I name it and any components well -- long, descriptive, using appropriate conventions; I put automated tests around it, which will fail if anyone changes it without understanding it, providing helpful and explicit error messages (where tools allow); and I write a developed, full explanation in a commit message (which IME will not be too hard to track down, if you've isolated the "weird" change using an abstraction).

That will almost always communicate the the intent. If it doesn't, I (reluctantly) comment it up.
> there's also other issues, such as people claiming there's more homeless in LA than in Delhi, not realizing that a lot of effectively homeless people in India aren't classified as such - it'd be like saying you're not homeless in LA if you have a tent or a sleeping bag

Sorry, I really cannot avoid going on a tangent because of this.

We seem to talk quite differently about informal housing if it's in the US or west vs. in a poorer country. We have non-profits push for sanitation in "slums" to improve health outcomes. Yet nobody is pushing for bathroom access or garbage removal in "homeless camps". I recently read about a homeless camp in a park in Oregon where the inhabitants cut down trees for materials and fire wood. When does it become a slum and we start treating it like we'd expect poorer countries to treat their slums?
You can't check what's in the database. Someone could extend it to other things.
Defunctionalization: Everybody does it, nobody talks about it (2019)
My personal experience is almost entirely with stills.

> I went to a slide presentation and someone was showing slides

Different slide emulsions definitely had different looks. I always found Kodachrome very naturalistic and it was my go to until good ISO 100 Ektachromes came out, especially the warmish ones. Many nature photographers really liked Fuji Velvia for its somewhat exaggerated saturation--it and KC25 had about the same working film speed--but I never liked the look of Fuji film myself.
Study: Neanderthals Sexed Themselves to Death with Humans
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How is isolation important to use SQLite?

Edge does not provide safety to every database modifications like manually editing data and you're screwed already.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28042750.
Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000?

Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
Your comment seems to imply that the majority of apps on F-droid are malware. I don't think that's the case.

Also, F-droid does not require root.
‘ White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the invited companies "are the three largest key players of the United Auto Workers.“ ‘

Sometimes politics is more important…
Yes, there are "portable" dehumidifiers:

* https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/g27192069/best-d...

It's a matter of volume: one of the portable ones could be useful in a small apartment/condo, or (if you close the door) a bedroom. But if you have something that is 1000 sq. ft. / 100 sq. m. or larger, you may need multiple portable units. It may be simpler to just install a fixed unit and patch it into your existing ducts.

There's also the fact that you have to empty the portables, so they may stop at 'random' times until you do so. Not sure about their efficiency, given that have space-volume and weight constraints compared to a fixed whole house unit. Plus you have the noise of the unit running in your living space, compared to having it in your mechanical area.
Yes, I personally find developer or programmer more accurate, although neither is without its own connotations and baggage.

As a designer I’m a bit embarrassed by the trend to describe ourselves as product designers. To me a product designer makes chairs and coffee tables.
It has been years since I have used Android (and F-Droid), but I always thought F-Droid was pretty heavily curated and had a sane security model [1]. Why do you say it is for distributing viruses?

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/
That's the maximum and for some reason they always take that long.

For no competition I'm not sure, but that would help.
Sure, and I look forward to it. The quote was "everyone... now" but I agree with your modified sentiment.
This is not far from one step "pre packaged" artificial insemination for livestock. make the film soluble (at the right time; that's the trick) and it removes the technical retail handling step that currently requires often challenging cleanliness, among other issues.
Same with Facebook.
FWIW the linked RFC's "Background" section is really easy to understand even for people who aren't well versed in dist-sys concepts. I suggest giving it a read - it's quite well written.
Yes. The "invisible hand" reference in Wealth of Nations is probably the most egregiously misused term in history. It's only mentioned once in the entire work, and as you point out, the context is completely different from that to which it is usually (and incorrectly) applied.

The phrase is commonly used to promote the idea that markets are self-regulating, requiring no state oversight, because they supposedly trend toward some form of equilibrium. In reality they do no such thing, for there is no equilibrium to trend towards.
I'm aware of your posts and I stand by my assertion.
Brake and tire wear is the pollution that harms humans, EVs are worse. Greenhouse emissions harm the environment and EVs are far superior.
Well it depends on 1) the local price and 2) the ability of the mother to pay. She may not be able to afford help with an American minimum wage.
So, this is an unencrypted (not end-to-end at least), intercept-ready chat network that was popular among (a) people with social status in the US, who might be of intelligence interest (sc. Elon Musk), and (b) people in a nation state that is definitely of interest to US intelligence? Is that right?
That’s funny, because on the face of it, detecting breaking changes seems impossible to me, not easy.
I can appreciate that but option A actors are now in full dictator mode with respect to how they are willing to breach privacy and monetize their users.

How did Linux keep up with security updates?
Yeah, I'm a bit torn on this security-wise. On the one hand, their only real security-relevant ambition here is to avoid leaking MAC address info, a classic UUID foot-gun, and they do achieve this. Probably a much better set of defaults! On the other hand, yeah, the mere presence of some random bits could lull people into a false sense of safety, especially as the RFC doesn't say anything about where those bits should come from except that it should have enough entropy to make collisions minimal. On the third hand, anybody who thinks that 48 random bits of unspecified provenance are enough for a secure token was probably always going to mess up somehow, so I'm not sure how much difference this makes on the margin.
Hey, in case you're unaware -- the Coles have released a all-but-in-name sequel to quest for glory

https://store.steampowered.com/app/375440/HeroU_Rogue_to_Red...
And you don't need different app for different databases as it supports quite plenty of them.
> was Clubhouse ever all that popular?

I remember, a few years ago, the entire tech press being unabatedly abuzz about Bloom Energy. It confused me until I realized it was a press pool coördinated by Sequoia. The gushing about Clubhouse may be organic. But Andreessen Horowitz bet big on the company. They're one of the media savvier shops on Sand Hill.
Well, it's a lot more than a waste.

Recall that mRNA vaccines work by forcing your cells to produce spike protein, which is then detected as an infection leading to those cells being damaged or destroyed by the immune system. If you have already fought off COVID then being injected with the vaccine can only damage your body. It cannot help because you are already immune. And it's not the case that your pre-existing immunity means less damage: it means more, because when your body has never seen the spike protein before it has to build its own immune response in parallel to the mRNA particles degrading and the spike protein manufacturing falling away. The effect of the vaccine doesn't last long so by the time the immune system is fully ramped up the spikes aren't being made much anymore anyway. But if you are fully immune already, then your immune system can start destroying the mRNA 'infected' cells immediately, so far more will end up being attacked.

The more you investigate exactly how these mRNA vaccines work, the more questions are raised. And unfortunately there are remarkably few answers out there in the literature.
> most of their added value is lost when running a custom rom

Could you please explain?
In the US, one would hope Apple could be forced to reveal which images were reported in court. That would be a good check on misuse.

Like a lot of things, this sounds fairly reasonable but is likely to be corrupted over time. In other countries you may not be allowed to see the evidence against you. In the US there would certainly be pressure to suppress the evidence but that probably won't fly in a normal criminal court. IANAL.
It doesn't need everyone to follow it; it just needs library maintainers to declare when they do follow it, actually mean it when they do, and check their own dependencies for breaking changes.

ie a library that declares it uses semver should create an abstraction barrier around all of its dependencies, such that the user should only need to care about declared breakages in their direct dependencies.
It seems like it would be a lot of work to keep up with the annual deluge of new APIs and OS features in MacOS that application developers will incorporate pretty quickly.

To really keep the promise of source-code compatibility, it seems like you'd need to quickly absorb all of the new APIs, plus, figure out how to implement them at the lower levels, on a different OS (MacOS is mach-based.)

Of course, the project has doubtless thought much more about this than I have, and maybe have an awesome plan, too.
Thanks for the info! The limited supported hardware and kernel updates has me hesitant still but I'll give it another look, it's been years since I did last.
Once again, the only place I've ever even heard of this site Clubhouse is HN. As an early adopter of crypto the first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Many people didn't get the memo.

Talk about something and evangelize it, you're participating in a pyramid scheme or maybe your persona makes you a natural salesperson and shill for whatever the cause. Crypto(currency), OTOH, is something that through network effect and social media echo chambers has come to fruition - for better or for worse.

Let the market discover itself has been my mantra for 9 years, going back to G+ early days is when I promoted, shared, and prophesized about crypto. I came to the realization that any information shared runs against my personal goals to capitalize on markets.

The first time I mined crypto in 2011 I documented all the steps on my blog for Ubuntu 8 with all the AMD and opencl goodies. Eventually I 410'd the whole blog and decided "don't talk about it"

Another almost billionaire who doesn't tweet or join social audio apps. But I do read the commentary and according to sentiment, act accordingly.
In march, I discussed with my wife why Clubhouse became so boring. We decided that it is because it is so February.
From what I understand it absolutely does for US teenagers, if not anyone else. You don't want to be the "green bubble".
What's better with Postico over TablePlus?
> Rooms are smaller and driven by interests or topics, rather than the people involved

And this is a good thing. I recently did a room with an optics engineer from NASA who made the optics for Cassini’s Composite IR Spectrometer. And now the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and the Vera Rubin Observatory. The conversation went into exacting depth, with all of us enjoying it a lot and learning along the way. It felt like a salon, not a club.

Earlier I was doing a room with the discoverer of 2014 UN271, the largest comet discovered so far. The Chief Scientist of NASA joined in and we spent an hour discussing possible missions through this ancient comet’s plume.

The discoverer of the object got to meet NASA’s Chief Scientist to talk about his baby, and NASA’s Chief Scientist got to nerd out with us on the largest comet ever found.

We also talked about algorithms etc for better finds.

These conversations exist. They often happen in private. Or in clubs like Small Steps & Giant Leaps. There weren’t more than 40 people in the “room” and if you’d had raised your hand, we’d have pulled you up to nerd out with us.
i would not consider someone who can spend $100 on average in an afternoon to be middle class.
That's incredibly fucked up. The .com contract needs to go out to tender.
v7 allows to you trade time precision for randomness. Adding time precision allows the surface area for conflicts to decrease, so the loss of random bits to higher time precision is worth it if you are generating a lot of ids. Unless it is a security application, I would use v7 for most things.
If Apple broadcasts their surveillance strategy so publicly, wouldn't criminals stop using Apple products and delete their iCloud data immediately? Who will be left to "catch" at that point? The most incompetent criminals?

I'm missing how this will actually work if perpetrators knew Apple was going to analyze their data beforehand. Could someone explain?
I wasn't trying to imply racism ended in the 60s, to be clear!

I intentionally avoided discussing modern politics in order to make a stronger (albeit more limited) argument, by emphasizing explicit legal discrimination. Even if someone doesn't believe in systemic racism, it's not a point of debate that black people alive today were explicitly persecuted under the law based on the color of their skin.
Luca isn't an Apple app is it? And I thought the system Apple developed with Google had much better privacy guarantees? Although I don't think it was ever actually deployed.
NSO/Pegasus: 17 journalists from 7 countries join RSF’s complaint in Paris
From what I recall, some temples / priests / elders keep a record of this within a community. And yeah, that is one of the reasons why marrying outside your community, with or without your parent's consent, is such a big deal in India (not just with the Hindus who subscribe to gotras but also among other communities, as the emphasis on arranged marriages are often on "shared values" between the families. It's harder to determine what values an "outsider" or their family has, as it becomes harder to use your social circles to investigate them. )
> In addition we seem to be grabbing the PDFs from the server, converting to Base64 and then rendering as an object in the react app (rather than just linking to the pdf file directly).

> What benefit do we get from this complexity compared to just having static HTML pages that someone would update manually?

In the good old days, HTML was simple because it was just text + <h1>, <p>, <b>, etc markup and HTML forms, and web authors were ok / expected that the web browser would do the heavy lifting and render it appropriately for the client OS using native toolkits / widgets.

These days, the publisher wants 100% control over everything, so all that rendering / toolkit that was previously left to the browser is re-invented in JS.

Ask your superiors why you need to embed a PDF viewer in your page instead of just linking the to PDFs and letting the client open it in their local browser / Acrobat / PDF-viewer of choice. They'll probably mumble something about a consistent experience, what if the user doesn't have acrobat installed, etc.
Snark aside, were I in the market for such a device, I would absolutely want to know how privacy focused it was. I appreciate that Mozilla includes the category in the list. They exist, people will buy them. There's no sense in acting like CES and plugging their ears whenever they're brought up.
> So either Westerners don't realize that people in these places are making less money in a month than the middle class person can expect to spend in an average afternoon

You are making a comparison between two sums of money (the amount middle class people spend in an afternoon, and the amount poor people make in a month).

Obviously I misinterpreted who the middle class people were, but I doubt I'm the only one. I thought you meant middle class Westerners.