skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That experience isn't true in my experience. I was in college pre-Uber in an area unserved by public transportation and it was common knowledge that you cannot schedule a cab and expect them to actually come, and when they did you could expect a very tense price negotiation accompanied by indignation about where you wanted to go.

To push back on taxi apologia elsewhere -- Years later I lived in Philadelphia during the cab era and the city passed a law that the cabs needed to accept credit cards, but the cabs wouldn't unlock their doors unless you promised to pay cash. Even still, they'd often ask where you wanted to go and speed away if you said the wrong thing. Around the same time, in D.C., there was a "zone system" where cab fares were set around how many zones the cab traveled through, and so every rider got used to knowing the tricks cabs would play to go out of their ways to enter and exit unnecessary zones and surprise you with a high bill. They also had the right to pick up additional passengers whether you liked it or not. In NYC it was common knowledge that you just can't expect a cab to take you to the outer boroughs.
On the other hand, how do teach someone handwriting skills? Writing down a passage is better than random blabery IMO. I'll take the must dull passage any day over several pages of synthetic exercises.

For the record - my handwriting sucks.
> If a government will not do anything that might harm the economy

There's no such thing; anthropomorphizing “the economy” — which is an arbitrary abstraction and any measure of its health is even more arbitrary — is just a cover for protecting the interests of particular elites; economic concerns are prioritized as essential to the degree they are key interests of the relevant elites.

A government that acts this way isn't a pawn of the invisible hand of the market, but of the hand (often quite visible if you don’t get taken in by the “the economy” misdirection) of the people with cozy personal and business relationships with politicians.
Even sticking to "just" SQL without a true ORM, using a well-designed query builder instead of writing raw strings will save you from inevitable "oops, forgot a comma" bugs.
Not really. They have become way worse as a direct result of climate change because of the way we run our civilization. It's systemic things like this (a cultural affectation for working in an office) that influence this. It's a societal problem that can't be fixed with individual action. We've tried to neoliberal our way out of it for 40 years ever since the bottling industry made the crying indian ad to blame the individual and it hasn't helped.
Congrats Elementary team! The focus on accessibility and inclusivity (gender neutral iconography too!) is awesome! Not a fan of Debian-based distros, but still tempted to take it for a spin.
The case this 2016 letter is about was not a request to break phone encryption in general. The government asked Apple to assist only in getting into a few specific phones for a specific reason, under the authority of a valid warrant. And many folks thought Apple had a strong legal case to say no.

Apple can’t search phones under the technology they announced, so the government can’t ask Apple for information about what is on people’s phones.

The government could only ask Apple to add hashes to an operating system that Apple runs. Structurally, this is the same as asking them to add functionality, which is what they objected to in 2016.

There is also a scope issue; if every iPhone has the same hash list, then the government is essentially fishing in everyone’s phone for a file. This is typically illegal. The government has to be specific about why they think a certain person/people have a piece of data before they can get a warrant to go get it.

Remember that (as the Twitter thread reminds us) the entire CSAM scanning effort is voluntary. The government is not forcing Apple to scan for CSAM, so how would they force Apple to scan for anything else?
Putting them in Earth orbit would allow for local variation, but would be much less efficient overall. Firstly because they would only be between the Earth and the sun for a very small fraction of their orbital period, and also because they would be so close to the earth they would only shade a relatively small multiple of the area of the satellites.

This is why most proposals put the sun shade(s) in sun synchronous orbit between the earth and the sun. They would be a lot closer to the sun, and so intercept a lot more sunlight per area of satellite, and they would be blocking it all the time, or for as long as you wanted.
Probably people not aware of exposing their routers to the Internet.
One interesting tidbit toward the end is that the author thinks building this ship is feasible within 200 years of the writing, with a cost estimate of $10^11 in 1968 dollars, assuming a 4% GNP growth rate. I haven't calculated what $10^11 would become in 2021 dollars, but growth hasn't been that high since the 90s, and it wasn't sustained growth, even then.
At least in the case of LA Metro, using public transit suppresses demand for public transit.
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I have a bit of subjective personal and professional experience with all of this (design, policy, politics, zoning, economics, etc etc etc...

It ALL comes to one thing: ECONOMICS.

And I don't mean a balanced budget - I am referring to greed and corruption.

One may thing that greed and corruption is rampant on a federal level; no just look locally: HOS and Municipal governments (city councils etc)

Did you know that many municipal government agents have been paid off by telco industry to literally write laws against a municipality installing their own data infra?

Alameda California is just one.

Did you know that a single family home must sit on no-less than a 2,000 S.F. lot regardless of size, and all homes (defined by the actual front-door-entrance), must have zero shared infra? (Sewer, water, power, etc)

The zoning laws are working actively against the building of smaller home-facilities -- and all the hedge funds are swooping in with dark money, dark legal and dark politics to fuck everyone over and in ten years we will see the actual impact - but it will be too late.
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It doesn't really moot the point. If they did stuff as egregious as that, we can make inferences about the company, their goals, and other stuff that they could be doing.
I suspect that's based on what amount section 8 will pay, not what working people can afford.
It’s pretty typical for recent immigrants to be exploited with grifty gigs like that.
> with an accent

Apps can be so much more accessible for people
This is a good point.

I do believe we should be skeptical of these companies stated positions unless we can see a profit motive. The previous stance that Apple said they had was "we value your privacy and you should pay us for that".

They also demonstrated in the case in 2016 with terrorists and the FBI that they meant it.

In this case, they have flipped entirely, and are now adding features without being compelled that subvert that stated goal.

Apple will scan your phone/data without a warrant AND report to the government now. This is their public opinion now. Forget their compelled and forced actions. Now they are proud to be the bad guys.
Spoke to the founder recently chasing a job there, great team and a great attitude. Talented people should reach out!
Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
They can't be profitable even after taking 50% of the driver's earnings! They deserve to die.
Your description in the beginning, sounds a lot like Europe. Hopefully planners start to reduce the footprint of future construction, so they are walkable.
In this case it looks like it wasn't a smart contract hack, but instead a traditional key compromise [0]. From what I can gather it looks like it was essentially a custodial provider that allowed users to easily swap between different crypto networks.

[0] https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1425115177771405312
Thanks. How do I make sure I'm not on this list?
I don't think the concern is scanning and uploading images. This could be justified in some cases. But once you open this door, it can easily expand to scan for other things. And people don't always read the notices for every update.
The postmortem was a great read too: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.69...
Lack of demarcation makes things safer by raising the awareness of the people around you. Making things 'safer' actually reduces safety.

I've posted this video on another thread, but it really needs to be spread out more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
> I wonder if DeFi has some kind of option for an Oracle to a human verification step over a set amount.

Sometimes I feel like crypto doesn’t stop to ask if the institutions and processes they seek to deprecate exist for a reason?

I absolutely believe that blockchain/DLT have some very promising use cases. But so much in crypto land just screams out that people don’t truly understand the systems they oppose so strongly.

Tether just froze a bunch of funds. Like a bank. Or PayPal. One of the most repeated slams against TradFi is the “PayPal locked my funds! Money belongs to the people! Self sovereignty!” But we’ve seen time and time again with the ETH fork, Tether freezings (they’ve had multiple), that we end up right back at these processes. People will claim that if everyone in a decentralized network decides to do something (like hard fork), that doesn’t violate the decentralization. But what do you think society is? We’ve all come together and decided on a bunch of rules we want to live by. Hack by hack we are seeing these same functions replicated in crypto.
The only inhaled insulin I can find is Afrezza, and WebMD says:

> It's not for diabetes emergencies such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

So probably not great for this. Seems more like something you take during a meal to keep from going hyperglycemic and not something you take when you're having problems.

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/inhaled-insulin
Is that really practical considering the already high velocity of the particles? If you matched the downwind particle velocity (>100km/s?) it seems unlikely any mechanical motion compensator could move fast enough to make any significant gain to be worthwhile... but I'm no expert, maybe I'm missing something obvious.
I tried that approach and found that even in my niche interest subreddits that I subscribe too that somehow politics always found a way in, and became a top post for some cheeky reason.

Moderators also often selectively enforce the “no politics” rule either by only removing political things that conflict with their personal political views or by defining things that are political as not political so they can continue or vice versa.

I think a big part of the problem of Reddit is that there’s a handful of mods who just moderate everything

I wish there was a Reddit without all that crap, I’d pay money to use it
> A local mafioso, is getting more than half of each fare.

I mean, at least it’s staying local.
There are legit reasons to have a router be publicly accessible. How else would one remotely manage a router (top results in Google are businesses and universities, for example).

Since the default configuration of these routers is not to expose the router on the WAN interface, manually overriding this configuration usually demonstrates a sufficient enough understanding that the default credentials have likely also been changed.

The only real issue would be using a default password, which none of the top results shown on Google seem to have (thankfully). So, little-to-no issue here.
Fun increasingly off topic facts: a lot of those patterns were originally noticed and compiled by the Brothers Grimm (noted assemblers of fairy tales from across Germany) as they got caught up in the pattern of differences between Low German (the language families that include Dutch and Old English) and High German (what today we think of as the German language) as they assembled all the local fairy tales they could find. High German went through a consonant shift [1] that Low German did not. A lot of the pattern you can see when learning German and knowing a lot of older words in English is applying exactly that consonant shift, plus or minus English's own interesting Great Vowel Shift [2] and large influx of latinate words from French and other languages. (The Brothers Grimm even traced some of the shifts as far back as they could to proto-Germanic, making them some of the first explorers of Proto-Indo-European [PIE] sound shifts and Grimm's Law is named after them. [3])

The evolution of languages is fascinating. Circling somewhat back to the topic above: the difference between "dialect" and "language" is a complex subject just as most "speciation" debates in other evolutionary fields have a lot of hidden complexity. "Language" versus "dialect" versus "creole" doesn't have a lot of simple answers though historically that joke that "a language is a dialect with an army" tracks more than it doesn't which is why it is a good joke.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law
This whole this is complicated. Trying to do right for people on privacy while also doing right by endangered children. I like what Alex Stamos had to say about it... https://mobile.twitter.com/alexstamos/status/142405454287900...
They can only block if you are moving around centralized assets, which really isn't that shocking to anyone. There is a reason the hacker quickly tried to convert it to ETH, etc.
I think the key question here is profitable in what way. Can they be profitable in the sense of they made more money this year than they burned? For sure, turn down spending and turn up the prices. Can they be profitable in the sense of being in the green over the whole lifetime of the company, making a total profit over the large sums of money poured into the company? I'm not certain.
They recently added playlists (they show up as yellow text with a gray highlight in the description) but the ability to make them may not have rolled out to everyone. They have notoriously slow roll outs (like with new TTS voices and the captions).
Right, which begs the question: if processing includes ostensibly beneficial (or at least neutral) processing as well, how important is the 70% in TFA? My intuition is that it’s still pretty important (since most people are probably eating Frosted Flakes, not grape nuts, for breakfast), but that we need a better way to talk about healthy eating habits and proportions than “most of our foodstuffs are processed.”
The question is whether TikTok will continue to be as popular as they start onboarding more advertisers and showing more ads. Most apps tend to get worse when they start attempting to make money. Also, TikTok can't be cheap to operate unless they have somehow convinced all music labels to behave in a way they have never behaved before.
At least disclose your conflicts of interest when writing spam like this.
No, it’s not really liveable without a car.
I use this extension

- https://github.com/blaise-io/forget-about-this-site

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forget-about-...
Funny this crops up today: I was in line just a couple of hours ago behind a 20-ish lady who was using TikTok on her phone, and I got to watch her use it for a good 10mn.

This was both frightening and sad.

Specifically, the speed at which she was switching from content to content without ever (in the span of 10mn) actually settling on one piece to actually watch it.

The longest she stuck to one piece of content was on the order of 10 seconds.

Besides the fact that her brain didn't (couldn't possibly) register anything useful out of the whole usage stretch, the only think I could think of after witnessing this was pavlov's dog.

TV zapping on steroids.

Ugh.
I see a lot of criticism for eOS “copying” the Mac, and yet never see any criticism of Cinnamon for copying Windows.

If anything, the Linux community seems to cite it as a strength.
>guess they are hoping to lock everyone into just doing most of their eating and shopping onsite. Is that actually desirable?

I am sure it would be desirable for the owners of the community, since they can charge the stores more money since they are basically giving them a monopoly within the community.
I'm the same age as you. I remember downloading Snapchat years ago and and thinking "I don't get this, you take pictures and add ugly stickers to it and send it to people?".

With TikTok, I've seen some good videos, so I get the appeal. At the same time, no app has turned me off the way TT has.

- The Grammarly voiceover is like nails on a chalkboard.

- Your feed will always have some fixed % of videos which are nothing but bandwagoning on some contrived trend (usually a dance, but could be style of video too).

- Samples of popular songs, autotuned and pitched up to within an inch of its life.
I might be wrong here.
Waking up to the GCM an hour before the alarm every morning is horrible. While maybe not the worst thing about being a T1, I'm still loathe to do it =P

I will say this, though. The CGM (continuous glucose monitor) was one of the best things to help me regulate my blood sugars - even though insurance hates to cover it from time to time (not always - it's weird). As a person who has a tendency to suffer from extreme lows, I'm excited for this new "hinged" insulin, should it make it to market.
OK, in that case the answer is "Uber can be profitable". Probably true that their valuation would be lower but that's not the argument I hear people making.
But the zeppelin must be much larger for the same mass (and remember buoyancy is ALSO lower in Mars’ gravity).
These social media companies are so young, and most of them had to topple the previously largest company in their space to obtain their position now. I think with a little time that the social media giants will start bleeding market share, any monopoly regulation will be wildly out of touch by the time it makes it through the courts.
I'm interested in this. I'm curious if you have any comments or thoughts on how a team would react it I just show up one day and say "hey guys, we're going to start using Clarity now". It may sound silly but I don't want to SaaS startup fatigue my team and as we are already trying another product (in an unrelated space) I'm curious about best practices for getting a team on board.

Also curious about pricing, and if you have any ancillary business model I should know about, like selling or otherwise using data or some other derived metrics based on user's activity.
In Accelerando [1], humanity becomes a Type II civilization and builds a Matrioshka swarm. But it shines sunlight on Earth by opening up a hole in the swarm so that the sun is visible to Earth. That would allow harnessing almost all of the Sun's energy but would let Earth remain as a stable nature preserve for nostalgia purposes.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
> Which social network would you trust not to do that?

Well step 1 is to see what country the social network was made in, and see if that government has had a strong history of using the law to force companies to silence criticism.
>Watching a sunset is a privilege. A kid in a dense urban setting isn’t going to see a sunset.

I've seen many sunsets that people like to call "the best" sunset (sunsets at sea on a boat, on mountaintops, in deserts) and some of my favorite sunsets I've seen have actually been in urban areas. The reflections of glass and the sharp angles of the buildings can combine in beautiful ways. Obviously there are popular things like "Manhattanhenge" but if you just walk around and look for a nice angle, you can find something special in many cities. The haze and rough angles of poorer, industrial areas can play with the setting sun in beautiful ways.

>Not everyone Can afford to camp or trek or take a break year

I've hosted travelers on Couchsurfing and many of my guests had an income, when they were working, of a few dollars per day. They'd budget a pittance for food and plan to couchsurf and hitchhike their way through Europe - and they seem to have a great time doing it. Now, sure, I was in the Netherlands, so not everyone could visit if poor (visa issues keep out many poor countries, but not all - Ukranine, Venezuela, etc can visit visa free.) Even if a visa or a plane ticket is beyond prohibitive, you can travel in your local region. If you're Russian you have access to all the CIS countries, if you're Chinese you have access to most of Asia. Visit those areas and you'll see people traveling en masse on tiny budgets. In Russia especially I've seen many people travel with only money for food - couchsurfing and hitchhiking to get around otherwise. Sure, there are people living hand to mouth and people with dependents that can't do this, but billions can.
That’s all great and all but Google hasn’t been touting privacy features as a selling point. With Apples decision to move forward with this I’m not beholden to any company for my phone. At least with android I can side load and do what I want.
> lets you fully erase your browser history for any website

I just want a button to whitelist a domain and an option to automatically clear 100% of everything outside the whitelisted domains on every restart.

And always clean the cache, perhaps even for whitelisted domains unless the system is on a metered/slow connection.

Also, every website should always be opened in a separate "container" so cross-site tracking won't work.

If Chrome did that today this would trigger a cascade of consequences. If Firefox did that today it would just improve Firefox popularity and cause no problems.
If carbon capture can get up & running on the scale required, it would not incidentally set a benchmark price for a carbon tax.
what marketplace? Didn't the invent it? Taxis are only available in a few places and not cheaply.

I lived in Cleveland and i tried a taxi once. It was $100 to get to airport from within city limits. It was a 2 hour wait.

Uber basically invented usable taxis there.
For fresh grads yes, assuming they don't work for another US-based company.
I have a friend whose mother suffers from hypoglycemia and she suffers the same ill effects as it how 1 diabetics commonly experience.

I'm guessing reactive hypoglycaemia? That's caused by the body overproducing insulin in response to meals; it's also believed to be a common prologue to T2D since it "trains" the body to be less sensitive to the (over)produced insulin.

No surprise that hypoglycaemia resulting from an excess of insulin is similar to hypoglycaemia resulting from an excess of insulin!
I want this but a few thousand feet up in elevation, surrounded by trees, and preferably near a lake. Can't take the heat.
I dont think a Dog could do the connecting of the several tasks. What about this one?

"Smart Crow uses cars to crack nuts in Akita, Japan near Senshu Park"

https://youtu.be/NenEdSuL7QU
Taxi companies are not in the ride-sharing industry. They are in the vehicle leasing industry.