skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if we care about privacy we have to accept that people other than ourselves think the problem is big enough to warrant these measures.

Not sure what you mean here by "accept". Accept the fact those people and opinions exist? Sure! Accept their opinion without challenging, without asking questions? No.
Accept this opinion is big and rational enough for the majority to follow and make laws? No.

>You have already lost this battle

What makes you think that? That's just your opinion. You know, even when battles are lost, wars can be won later won. "Right to Repair", "Net neutrality", "Global Warming", and here: "open source hardware". All those battles have been fluid. Telling people it is over, it is too late, is a very common trick to try to influence/convince people to accept the current state. That certainly does not make it true.

I understand you may try to convince readers that it is over, because it may be your opinion. If that's the case, just be frank about it, and speak proudly for yourself of what you wish. Don't hide behind "politicians", "tech companies" and "other people".
"Technicolor cameras didn't film in color. Instead they filmed in black and white, with different filters."

That's kind of semantics. It used a mechanism for capturing 3 color channels, red green and blue. The fact that this wasn't fully integrated into the film itself, via chemistry, is really irrelevant.

The technology was fairly crude and unwieldy compared to using color film, which itself is pretty unwieldy compared to filming digitally. But saying it wasn't "filmed in color" is, to me, simply false.
I hear you, and we are actually in the beginning stages of replacing our create-react-app with Phoenix server side rendered templates.

We're also going to use esbuild to compile our very minimal alpinejs code. Most interactivity will be built using phoenix liveviews.

We're hitting the eject button on this whole ecosystem. There is a rot in node/npm that I think will never really go away as it's baked into the culture.
I revisit my emacs config once every year or so, but otherwise I leave it along and focus on using emacs instead of tweaking emacs. From what I've heard, some emacs users seem to get addicted to tweaking emacs, so much so that it distracts them from their real work. But that's just not something I can relate to myself, nor is it something I've witnessed from my emacs-using coworkers and friends. I've also perceived an uptick in hand-wringing about such emacs-tweaking in the past few years, seeming to correlate with an uptick in handwringing against GPL licenses and GNU in general, and I wonder if agitation with RMS has something to do with it.
Mobile OS:

Sailfish OS - https://sailfishos.org/ is the most polished non-android and non-ios alternative currently available in the mobile OS space. You can buy a Sailfish OS license to install it on some specific devices - https://shop.jolla.com/ ... (note though that app support is lacking unless you wish to use Android apps, and that bugs in the OS are fixed slow. End-of-Life cycles are also not clear and specific (support lasts roughly 5-6 years, often highly dependent on the device supported).

Mobile Phone:

- Sony Open Devices (quality hardware, with AOSP, unlocked bootloaders and flashing tools that allow you to install whatever supported mobile OS you want) - https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/.

- Pine Phone - https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ .

- FairPhone - https://www.fairphone.com/en/ .

Desktop OS:

FreeBSD or Linux is good enough for most needs.

Desktop:

Assemble your own with AMD tech.

Laptop: https://frame.work/ is increasingly attractive as a highly repairable and customizable device.
A Fed-issued digital dollar could print money – for the people
Today I learned! That sounds fascinating; is there anything written down about it somewhere?
The reality is that actual child abusers know who they are. They realize that society is after them. They are already paranoid, secretive, people. They are not going to be uploading pictures to the cloud of their child abuse.

And let's not forget the minor detail that this is now public knowledge. It's like telling your teenage son you're going to be searching his closet for marijuana in the future.
That's not the argument I'm making.

Where Clubhouse is concerned, it's just... not social enough. If you load it when you don't know something special is happening, and just wander into random rooms, the chance of disappointment is high.

In that moment, it isn't competing with Twitter Spaces, it's competing with podcasts. I would bet most users of Clubhouse also listen to podcasts, and the chance that they can load up some audio that they know will be interesting is pretty high.

So Clubhouse's social network is weak. You can't just flip through Clubhouse real quick when you're stuck in line, and even when you have some time to kill, it's a crap shoot whether you'll find something fun. Where it really shines is special events, but that's not much of a moat.

Twitter and Spaces is synergetic, since Twitter is always there, ready to offer you an infinite scroll of witticism, cute cat pictures, and the Main Character of the Day. It's ok if Spaces is kind of useless unless there's a special event.

There's also the serendipity effect where you can be scrolling the timeline and see someone say "hey we're hanging out on Spaces", and just pop over.

Clubhouse has a head start, and some remaining halo effect, but no real moat, nothing to keep the conversation on Clubhouse. The big draws on Clubhouse all have Twitter accounts, they can try out Spaces any time they want. If it works for them, they switch, and if enough of them switch, it's over.

It's not inevitable, but it is something I'm starting to see happen in the circles I frequent.
Note that the GrapheneOS developer has indicated they are working on getting the Google Play Services apps to run sandboxed like normal apps, without extensive system permissions. This could be quite promising.
> But such a do-over is impossible in both LaTeX and emacs, since that would also mean throwing all the thousands (ten thousands?) packages--and lots of core functionality--away.

For LaTeX a large part of the appeal is to get a template and be able to respect whatever arbitrary formatting requirements.

Someone could build a layer on top of existing LaTeX to add a more modern language on top of it and have it expand to LaTeX.
At the range where electric planes are possible, they compete heavily with trains (which have less overhead for boarding and arrive closer to city center, which saves time).

Basically, imagine you have an electric plane with a range of 500 miles and travels at 250mph, and a train that travels at 125mph.

For the 500 mile trip, it's 2 vs 4 hours, but the train ride is generally going to be a better experience, and you'll arrive more rested and closer to your destination.

For a location like Europe, where high-speed rail is fairly developed, it's a hard sell to switch to electric planes in this case, IMO.
neat! was thinking how this could be used as a way to handle default avatars for a website by hashing the user name
I would expect it to also require operator training and authorization mechanisms. Then there are use policy development and maintenance. Plus there would be coding costs since this seems to be a specialized use case.

Bringing in a semi-autonomous robot to work amongst the public probably doesn't and shouldn't happen in a financial void.
Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After Covid-19 Vaccination
This is the big thing hidden behind all projects (renewables, capture, efficiency upgrades) that claim "this is the equivalent of taking 60,000 cars off the road." Think of the savings for health and the environment if we just spent the money trying to get an actual 60,000 cars off the road in the first place.
> Why? Hot take, but IMO these headphones are as "not creepy" as it gets.

It says so in the “Can it snoop on me?” section… for example the app tracks your location…
We plan to add MySQL/MariaDB support soon which should let you use Matomo data as long as you have raw SQL access. For cloud-hosted Matomo, we would have to use the reporting API, which is doable but not as good since there's no way to get standard deviations out of it as far as I can tell.
> If he understood that, he might understand that Jeff Bezos got rich not by exploiting people but rather by improving people’s lives

The catch here is that it was a marginal improvement for some people, not everyone. Before e-commerce took off, there was a lovely amount of serendipity going out to pick up an album or even a new graphics card. I'd run across buskers, parades, protests, weird little shops I had no idea existed, and had great conversations with perfect strangers. Now the whole experience is so efficient that it has disappeared entirely. Something of value is being lost when tens of thousands of small business are shuttered and replaced by a single corporate entity with enormous power and leverage over their competitors.

A web page is never going to compare with the amount of information and variety I can experience in person. Their "recommendations" are simply not as good as the advice of a small business owner who used to help me pick out what I was looking for. I spend so much time researching before I buy, because I can't judge the quality of a product by looking at an image of it. Instead of the old model of trusting a local expert, I have to now become the expert for every single category of thing I buy.

(Also, Amazon's employees are definitely exploited, and that's absolutely one reason why he is wealthy. The first thing they did when they bought Whole Foods was cut pay and benefits.)
always remember that the scientific community was pretty much against Einsteins ideas when he first began publishing.
An op-ed from a former FDIC Chair and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Institutions
The newest Pixels are the best given that's what Google will support the longest, and with every Pixel generation they make a lot of improvements.

https://calyxos.org/about/faq/device-support/#update-timefra...

Pixel 6 is right around the corner, however it'll take a few months for us to get it all going (getting the phone, porting Android 12, making changes for Pixel 6)
Delta came from India. You have delta because you have open borders.

Your vaccine can prevent some serious cases and reduce your infection rate but it makes it more likely that you are an unaware carrier and super spreader.
We never allow for manual edits of live SQLite databases. Everything happens through code.

If someone wants to play around with a SQLite database from production, we just copy the file and hand it to them. That's kinda the whole point IMO.
Remember the time when you could sudo on macOS with a blank password :)

Apple paid out a lot of free sandwiches on that one [0] Internationalization on that command was a mess though. Defaults were based on OS settings and the flags to override were based on a combination of country & postal code rather than the localized name of the ingredient.

So, if I didn't want the default of an American cheese sandwich on white bread with mayo, I had to research each bread, meats, and cheese lineage to get, for example, provolone using the switches -c IT -r 26100. It got worse if you wanted multiple cheese types.

In the end I just aliased a bunch of options. My favorite was meatloaf w/ swiss cheese... I have no idea where Apple sources their meatloaf for the US region, but I haven't had anything like it since. The cafeteria staff at Apple HQ have stopped taking my calls.

[0] https://xkcd.com/149/
Why redo something if it works? People are still using Fortran because it works well for certain applications. Just because its old doesn't mean its outdated.

I could even argue that since Emacs hasn't been phased out (and still has a decent user base) that it does something that other text editors don't (or can't) do.
The above are all distros of Android

The other reasons to use a non-stock version of Android are:

- Much longer updates lifetime than you get from the OEM

- Removal of OEM bloat

- Addition of features that are actually good
Maybe they shouldn't have disbanded their PR department
“People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.”
I am guessing it has to do with the style of product managers in enterprise. A lot more non-technical PMs, people with BI backgrounds?
I am also a 10+ year GNU Emacs user. I haven't customized it beyond font size and a few settings. I even use the default theme. Other users seem to go crazy and try to make it into a spaceship. Then they claim that it takes a lot of time to customize it. It mainly is very different to operate from all programs and window managers that we are used to these days, and people perceive this as a wrong and try to "fix" it with confusing "starter packs". In reality, its meta features and comprehensive reference documentation make it a closed environment that is very pleasant to navigate.
It's a good point. This is why for C the references are to a specific standard, i.e. C11. For D, I use named links, which we try to not change. The bugzilla numbers do not change, which is a feature of bugzilla.

Even so, the utility of the links far outweighs the possibility of needing to adjust them.

P.S. I've found using links to Microsoft documentation to be extremely frustrating, because not only does Microsoft move them around all the time, but will wholesale permanently delete vast swaths of reference material.

Notice that the github links are to line numbers. Line numbers are ephemeral, I don't know a way around that.
I can enjoy TP films, for the record. I agree with those statements.
Why don't you write the teleplay and try to shop it around? You seem invested in the idea!
> These are least delusional anti-vaxxers. They know that vaccination helps society at large, but they still won't get vaccinated, since they consider themselves young and healthy and at minimal risk from COVID.

Society bulling and shaming you into vaccinating will be enough for some people to not get vaccinated

> These people wouldn't sacrifice the smallest thing for the rest of us. So tell me, why should we respect their notions of personal liberty? Why give them anything, when they'd give absolutely nothing to the rest of us?

Because their liberty is not continent on them sacrificing for you. This is the weirdest concept of liberty I've come across

> If they want the freedom to not vaccinate themselves, for their own selfish interests, then we should deny them access to public venues, likewise for our own interests.

They would probably be more than happy with this if the corresponding taxes were decreased and private alternatives were available.
Pleading "political minority" is a bit silly when you're posting obvious crap like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070406, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070394, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28067402. If that's what you call "speaking up", I think we can do without it.
Photos to be matched will be from the police, so will be material they think is prosecutable.
> There was never a reason for high status individuals to be on clubhouse

Sounds like early-stage Quora.
I think that is probably the best outcome for the US, if it wants to remain as a unified state for a long time. If not, then separatism eventually leads to a divorce. It’s happened before in world history, it can certainly happen again.
i am still confused why that makes a difference. to me the comment only makes sense if the middle class in india is more affluent than the middle class in the US.

https://yourstory.com/2018/03/exactly-indias-middle-class-an...
Dating never requires money. And no guy should be a free dinner dispenser or ATM for commercial activities for someone he doesn't even know.

You can click, talk, walk, dance, and kiss for free... anywhere and everywhere.

Besides, dinner and coffee interview dates are too formal and boring.. zzz.
Just out of curiosity, which editor do you use? Overleaf?
I have heard (though I can’t remember the source) that at a certain point on the secrecy ladder, digital files are viewed as intrinsically insecure so documents are only created and handled as hard copies.

Obviously, I have no idea if this is actually true.
There are two distinct experiences being discussed here: the experience of living in absolute poverty; and the experience of being down-and-out in a city you can't afford the cost-of-living of (i.e. "relative" poverty — the kind you could in theory get away from by "moving somewhere cheaper", but where for various reasons people don't tend to do that.)

Both the poor person in Toronto and the poor person in Delhi are in relative poverty, and have the lived experiences of relative poverty in common.

And also, the lived experiences of relative poverty are usually what someone means when they talk about "being poor." If you live in Dubai and make $50k/yr, but that doesn't even get you a crappy apartment two hours away from work, so you have to sleep in your car; and all your money is going to paying for groceries in a city that has to import all its food, and for car insurance that costs more than your car, so you don't have any savings — then you're poor, by most people's definition!

But of course, only the homeless person in Delhi experiences absolute poverty. They have two problems: relative poverty, and absolute poverty.

But the homeless person in Delhi will still commisserate with the homeless person in Toronto over the lived experiences and troubles that come from relative poverty — a problem they both share — even if the homeless person in Toronto doesn't know anything about what living with absolute poverty is like. They both still get their meagre possessions stolen if they stop watching them for a few minutes. They both sleep rough and have to actively think about how to not die when there's a heat wave or a cold spell. They both probably have a fungal infection somewhere on their bodies from their clothes being damp all the dang time. Etc.
> Child abusers are dumb, but smart enough to know not to upload pictures to the cloud.

No, they aren't, categorically. That's why they keep getting caught that way.
There is a difference between the "slums" in India versus the ones in USA. The indian slums are just poor with no infrastructure. you will find the people in the slums to be genuine, kind and hardworking. of course there are exceptions.

The slums in USA are exactly the opposite. The slum dwellers are scary to even look at. They don't work and they are anti social. They disturb the society.

The slums are happening in USA, despite plenty of jobs, government programs and NGOs trying to help them.

I am not one country is better than the other. simply pointing out the differences.

Article such as this are written to make Americans feel good about themselves at the cost of others, while providing absolutely no solution or help to those suffering.

so, either you should help or just shutup.
I’m trying to understand your comment in the most positive way I can. However, you seem to be implying that either mechanical prevention measures (masks; distancing) or biomedical (vaccines) would be ineffective in treating and/or preventing the spread of COVID and its variants?

Is there a reason you think this? I used to work as a biostatisticians in the depth of epidemiology at UTMB Galveston. I think the basic advice of: “distance, mask, vaccine” is the most effective form of disease prevention known to science. It is very effective.
After thinking about this topic too much, I've come to the same answer you have except you've said it better. (Although I disagree on people not thinking they can upgrade majors no problem. That for sure happens).

If you think every breaking change should have a new name, as the person above you does and I've heard come out of the Clojure community, then just append the major version number to the product name in your head. Otherwise, what do you expect them to name it? A name that kinda reminds people of the first one? If it's mostly the same group of people solving mostly the same problem in mostly the same way at a later point in time, NAME N -> NAME N+1 captures that better than anything else.

For all the shit we give the Python 2 to 3 upgrade (and they give themselves) I have never heard an alternative that I really find satisfying. It seems the problem was: We want to stop working for free on this old stuff we don't like any more. We want to keep the name, the websites and t-shirts since we own them and we're doing almost the same thing. Every answer I hear wants the people working for free to give up one of those reasonable things.
Somatic cells are clearly exploited by their reproductive cell masters and the collaborator brain cells. They are worked to death and expendable. If they step out of line, they are relentlessly hunted down by the boot-licking immune cells. The labors of their work are taken from them, and they are given the bare minimum to survive, until they are no longer of use and they all die.
In many cases, yes. But it’s still possible to create a simple site using e.g. Hugo. Or plain HTML. I did, and it’s very rewarding!
I guess that would be for the defence to bring up in court given the images will be supplied by the police and they will consider them to be genuine child pornography
Buy nice looking jalapeños at your grocery store; slice them into a glass or plastic container; fill half-way with white vinegar; add salt; fill the rest of the way with water. Put them in the fridge.

They'll be ready to eat the next day and last a couple of weeks.

I like adding garlic and dill.
Upper class starting at around 100k would give America an upper class of around a third of the population! I guess we're meaning entirely different things since an upper class of a third of the population seems like a contradiction in terms to me!
No, I was living in the outer suburbs. Toronto has always been expensive. Nearly all of my income went to the rent on a bedroom and a transit pass the first year. I suppose that is the downtown lifestyle, though.
Probably is quite similar, the converting numbers between bases is a textbook algo, and the UUID format is a standard. Which python one?
That attitude will lead to you being a slave for Apple or Microsoft or Google for your entire life. They won't change their ways. You won't have privacy there.
DNS loophole makes nation-state level spying as easy as registering a domain
Where in the world do people emit the most CO2?
Imagine a carpenter saying, "I don't want to master my tools, I just want to build things."
Color film works the same way, actually. Color film is "just" made up of three layers of monochromatic film, stacked on top of each other. There are color filters between each layer to filter the light. With color positive film, these layers are removed during processing.

If you have a knife, you can scrape off the color layers in order. Starting from the emulsion side (the side which is less shiny), you'll scrape of the magenta layer first, then the yellow, and you'll be left with cyan on the bottom.

It's always in this order, due to the physics of how film works.
> it’s calling the pandemic a hoax.

I find that distinction odd. The definition of a pandemic is "a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world."

Is your claim that they are really saying is that there is a virus, but it is not "prevalent over a country or world"? For the pandemic to be a "hoax", there needs to be either no virus, or it isn't worldwide. That's a strange hill to die on to defend denialism.

If you're going to say "well really they are referring to something else when they say the pandemic is a hoax" then you're arguing about what you think they meant, not what they said.
I think the JPEGs could be useful without converting to ASCII art. Could you use JPEG decoding to convert hashes into small and visually-distinct images?
I feel like you could draw a better metaphor to ponzi schemes