skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has sat through several of them (and has bought a few), this is exactly, almost word-for-word (right down to the references to the complaints about the rest of the industry) the elevator pitch for every timeshare/vacation ownership scheme ever.

> Unlike a timeshare, Ancana owners own a real asset (the property) versus a block of time.

Like literally every timeshare/vacation ownership scheme I’ve seen other than in places where there are legal constraints (like Mexico’s limits on foreign ownership of certain real property) that get in the way involves deeded fractional ownership of specific real property. This is, again, false differentiation.

The only thing somewhat novel here seems to ve the limitation to no less than eighth shares and the initial high-demand date guarantee (obviously the former being key to permitting the latter.)

Another real point of differentiation is that (at least from your pitch, and people that have these features tend to highlight them in their basic pitch) is you don't seem to have a relationship with a network of exchange properties besides the deeded property, which is great for people who want to spend 6+ weeks a year, every year, in the same vacation spot, but less so otherwise.
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Four years. It was three years over a year ago: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...
"you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized" Dozens of people were charges with conspiracy. What percentage of a mob does it take to steer the mob?

I don't think anyone should be taking much of a victory lap on this unless the thing you were opposing was the idea that everyone came to the capitol that day to burn the place to the ground. I think it's been pretty clear for months that that wasn't the case.

People came to the capitol to listen to a political speech and express their outrage with the outcome of the election. And "about 5%" of them came to the capitol to try and start a riot...
This is a comment that should be kept to the annals of reddit. You can say this about any company who does thing out of spec and to create and ecosystem to drive profits. Google, twitter, Ford, IBM.
Don't be. Science usually hours plateaus but if we've learned anything from history is that there's always mountains ahead. The problem is we're searching on the dark. A flat spot doesn't mean we're at the top. In fact, we even know there's a lot of mountains ahead, we just aren't sure how to climb them yet or what we'll find along the way. But that's no reason not to climb them.
> Especially since their job is to ask questions.

That's a stretch. What else will you have us believe? That the New York Times intends to be a politically neutral voice of reason? No, sir. Maybe in the 1950s, maybe before the Internet, in those halcyon days when newspapers had a good slice of the nation's ad money and lots of competitors and earned money by attracting from a broad swath of readers to earn money from ads — instead of reliably enticing specific kinds of readers to pay for their content. [2]

The job description of contemporary journalists, and especially journalists at the New York Times, is to build narratives™ and use them to influence the world. That's what you'll learn about pursuing a modern journalism degree, and that's what will get you career success at the Grey Lady — doubly so since the Trump election. This is not a conspiracy theory against "the media" or even a secret; the Times has overtly published opinion articles to this effect [1], declaring this approach to journalism righteous and good, the appropriate approach for our times.

Maybe they're even right, and even if they're not, at least they're not Fox! But we're a long way from just "ask[ing] questions."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness... to start with; one can find others, see also general coverage of the trends in pieces like https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-report...

[2] From the City Journal piece above: "The intent of post-journalism was never to represent reality or inform the public but to arouse enough political fervor in readers that they wished to enter the paywall in support of the cause. This was ideology by the numbers—and the numbers were striking. Digital subscriptions to the New York Times, which had been stagnant, nearly doubled in the first year of Trump’s presidency."
Media bias is an important discussion, but trying to present arguments in a mocking manner is not an effective means of starting that discussion.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> A strong public mental health system.

I think you missed this point maybe.
Nonsense. Sale of goods act 1979, and the consumer rights act 2015. If the terms of service are acceptable to you at the time you buy, but then they are changed to be unacceptable, then the device is not fit for purpose by design, and you can claim a full refund. There is no set time limit on this. Take them to the small claims court if they refuse.
Only Fans and Payment Processors in the Sex Industry
Hi everyone, the news of the OF decision to remove content of a sexual nature seems extreme, given the money they must be leaving on the table.

How is there not a Stripe for 'riskier' industries? There do seem to be some processors but their reviews are that they are expensive/poor UI/UX. Is it chargeback risk? Or lack of banking partners willing to work with this? Or the risk of child abuse material on the sites? Or is it a good area for sexy stripe to pop up?
Just this week, I had to sign into a service for a very large transaction I'm privy to. My password? The last 4 of my social. It's unbelievable how dumb so many of our systems are.
"It's possible that there is a constant decrease in standards, such that every generation is worse than the one before it. But I doubt it."

On the contrary, that has been my interpretation of these signals since I first started hearing them.

All living things (cats, societies, lizards, civilizations) are born, have an adolescence of growth and development, then decay and die.

So there must be some brief period in the adolescence of a civilization where "kids these days" cannot be applied. Society is growing, developing and integrating.

After that brief period it may then, indeed, be possible for each successive generation to correctly identify and decry the decay of their (society/civilization).
Yeah I have no idea why the government is this spineless that they cannot raise the minimum wage. Income gap is so disgusting, I'm tired of dealing with the reality that most people I meet are basically living in poverty and have very little freedom. Great, I'm comparatively rich, and this aspect of it is awful. I can barely connect with the average person because businesses are allowed to engorge their monstrous bellies on greed while paying peanuts.
It's a pithy rephrasing of an incorrect overgeneralization of the first law. Calories aren't the only thing that can affect weight. There are medical conditions, hormone levels, thermic effect of food, and at least one or two other things that are escaping me right now.

Is it going to explain 20 pounds of bodyfat? Absolutely not. But "calories in, calories out" isn't backed up by the science.
We need a lemon-like law for consumer electronics.

I wonder how this should apply to planned obsolescence of devices like smartphones.

On one hand, it's obscene that manufacturers expect us to routinely spend ~$1k on a device that will in the best case scenario last for three years. There's no inherent reason that a flagship Samsung from 2017 shouldn't be perfectly serviceable today, and likewise for a Pixel 6 or iPhone 13 in 2030. However, the discontinuation of security updates makes it so that for all practical purposes they are not.

On the other hand, we can't exactly compel speech or labor. It would be one thing if there were a kill switch triggered after N years, but in this case the obsolescence isn't caused by an active update, rather a lack thereof.

Here's a possible middle ground:

1. Block device manufacturers from arbitrarily deprecating hardware. We can't compel the release of new software, but we can block the release of new software. Require manufacturers to submit a filing with request for approval before the release of any new mobile OS update, which must include an exhaustive list of all supported devices. In the event that a device is dropped from the list in a subsequent filing, it must be explained to the satisfaction of regulators that a specific hardware limitation makes continued support for the device problematic or impractical. Given approval to drop support for a device from an OS release, there would be no obligation on the manufacturer to backport security updates to prior releases.

2. Block component manufacturers from arbitrarily deprecating hardware. Any hardware included in a publicly available consumer electronic device must have its manufacturer commit to providing up-to-date driver software with support for the latest OS for the lifetime of the device. Failure to provide this within a certain time frame (say, three months) following the request of a device manufacturer would open them up to a lawsuit, wherein they could be compelled to publish the most recent release of the driver as open source / public domain. #1 would provide the incentive for each device manufacturer to proactively enforce this, as their entire product roadmap would be effectively frozen if they allowed component manufacturers to drag their feet.

3. Ban irreversible bootloader locking in new devices. Maybe an initial bootloader lock would be acceptable, but power users should have some way to override the lock and install a custom ROM without relying on vulnerabilities in the software.
This is a recurring theme...the twitterverse clings to the notion that any oversight of the adult industry will drive sex workers underground. What's not being said is that the young, white male userbase of twitter are the primary consumers of onlyfans and are just hiding their prurient tastes behind the unassailable shield of civil liberties.
You seem so sure of yourself.
It will be interesting to see what the remote first movement does to this. You could certainly see someone from Seattle spending 3 months in Mexico between Jan 1 and April 1 as a "working vacation"
> Astro Slide

Oh wow, that's a very interesting option - I like the way that hinge works, but I fear that a mechanical part that complex in a smartphone is likely to become worn out quickly (source: I had both a Moto RAZR and a T-Mobile Sidekick back in the day and both would barely stay closed by the time I upgraded).

> the Pro 1 X is just a rebrand

This is very interesting to me, would you mind filling me in on what it's a rebrand of?
Feedback on the landing page: it's an animation engine but I can find no examples.
> I always though that one could make a markup (like markdown) based on regex . Then you could almost directly parse it in any language environment. I'm not sure what the major drawbacks would be though. I guess the expression could get hairy pretty fast as you handle edge cases :)

I'm pretty sure Gruber's original Markdown parser was just regex-based (which is why there are so many weird underspecifications and corner cases). Or do you mean that somehow the document itself is written in a flavor of regex? I'm intrigued but puzzled: what would that even look like?
I'm sceptical about the ability of cryptocurrencies to solve problems. I think in order to solve a problem, first you need to spend some time understanding the problem, then come up with a solution. The crypto community doesn't seem much interested in thinking about problems. They think they have a solution that will fix a whole lot of problems, but in this case, like in many others, I don't think the solution would work, or even make sense.
This all seems extremely hand-wavey to me.

> the bit about related suggestions sort of implies to a non-techie that Pornhub employees are generating these suggestions

They are, in a sense. They're not actively doing it in person but the code they wrote is generating those suggestions. Changing the code is within their power, yet they don't. If the code processing payments accidentally started charging everyone $0 you can bet it would get fixed pretty quickly. Why not fix the code that suggests rape videos?

> The reality isn't an evil mustache-twirling Pornhub employee sitting at a desk and brainstorming "Ah yes, if they searched for ‘Young Asian’ they probably want to search for 'young tiny teen. The reality is an algorithm detecting patterns in user searches, and some of those users are sick people, and there's basically no level of human moderation of videos or search terms happening at the scale of usage Pornhub gets.

"We created a feature that can be actively harmful, but there's no way for us to moderate it. Oh well!". Wouldn't it be better to just... not have that feature? Why isn't it an option to just turn it off?
I understand if the previous policy is wrong by a few words/legalese terms. But in this case they either oh we forgot to include that we're mining all this data or they recently found out they can and started doing so.

If a device was bought with privacy as a feature and then it flips 180 and you're locked out of using it with no recourse for returning it. To me it that seems as a clear violation of a consumer's rights.
https://archive.md/YqKQx
So kids are worse in some 'X Y, Z', but in any of hundreds of statistics we collect they are better. Except the fact that younger generation has less sex, but that seems to run contrary to the spirit of the complaint.

Whats the difference between elusive 'X, Y Z' we can't define or measure, and 'X, Y, Z' that doesn't exist?
Yeah. The country that ended a long and terrible war.

Fake moral high ground is aggravating.
data mining for advertisers
Not clear from TFA. I'm not sufficiently familiar with ice core research to know what if any patterns of liquid precip exist.

Those would be the questions an alert reporter would be asking of the team making this announcement though.
The Central Valley was the right place to start, for several reasons.

One: it's a very conservative part of the state; giving them part of the train line first might blunt criticisms of continuing the project.

Two: it's important to tie this part of the state into the two large conurbations (Bay Area and LA Basin) for resilience against changes in economic mix (e.g. perhaps water shortages cause agriculture to fall or conversely Silicon Valley burns out and people there need a more diverse set of job opportunities. Currently 5 and 99 run N/S through the valley while on the other side of the hills 880/101/280 (in Bay Area; dunno about LA) run N/S through the Bay Area. Crossing from one to the other isn't super convenient.
That doesn't seem quite true... the first comment here links to open pocket which links to a discussion in a github ticket with the previously closed source pocket team where they note they are a small team and just have not had a lot of bandwidth to cleanup the formerly closed source server. That discussion was last summer.

https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...

This comment in particular.
I understand the confusion, but we are definitely not a timeshare. With Ancana you own real property, not a block of time. You have the flexibility to book stays throughout the year vs. annual bookings with timeshares. And if you ever want to sell your interest in an Ancana home, you can do so just like a normal home. If the property has increased in value, you capture that appreciation. With timeshares you are forced to sell your "time" back to the resort at highly discounted rates, not at market value.
> This screwed with a lot of a/b testing analytics everywhere

My heart bleeds for the oh-so-poor marketing people whose data, consisting of unwitting human test subjects, has been poisoned.
Unfortunately, the technology to instantly charge your phone within milliseconds does not exist yet.
> a massive fine (probably larger than the hacker's ransom) awaits you.

If you mean, massive executive bonuses, and zero policy response by the government, then yes.
It might be Sceptre (https://www.sceptre.com/). They do make smart TV's (their Android TV line) but their other lines are basically panels.
I have a CPLAY2air and it has been great.
Digital nomads.
I've only seen on the author's website [0], but the explainables there are some of the best I've seen. [1,2]

[0] https://acko.net

[1] https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

[2] https://acko.net/blog/to-infinity-and-beyond/
As someone who lives nearby part of the year, I really think this story has taken on a life of its own. It's true that there is some gross algae in the South Fork Merced but from all of the public info, they didn't even make it that far. If you look at where they started and where they were recovered, you'll see that in between is a fully exposed descent down a series of switchbacks. It was extremely hot that day. They probably died of heat exhaustion. It's unusual for it to get the dog too, but if they didn't have water for themselves, they probably didn't for the dog. It's not hard to imagine getting to the bottom and realizing you're in serious trouble.

This family closely mirrors mine, so I've followed the story closely, and it seems like they just made a grievous error in judgment in an area they weren't familiar with.
That's how you sell timeshares, by describing your particular implementation as innovation, often by explicit misrepresentation of the existing ones or implicit misrepresentation of yours (describing others maintenance/management fees as expensive and/or hidden while you have and do not highlight your own fees of the same kind being a common example of the latter.)
You are asking the difference if my 18 year old daughter posts pics of her butthole that will be on the internet for life, versus making videos about video games?

I think she is more likely to potentially regret the butthole pics vs the video game videos being out there on the web for life.
Sceptre tvs are recommended alot, I have one of their moniters personally,it's really good
> I think you’re confusing “regular expression” (RE) for “deterministic finite-state automata” (DFA).

I think it's about descriptivism vs prescriptivism. "Regular expression" did start life with a technical meaning, according to which REs had equivalent expressive power to DFAs. The term has since been appropriated and diluted by other languages, and it is not entirely unreasonable to (though I prefer not to) take "regular expression" to mean "whatever programming languages present as regular expression"; but I think it's not quite right to say that someone is confused who believes in maintaining the original distinction.
My family owns 1/4 of a vacation house through an LLC. Some issues that come to mind are:

- Can an owner rent out their time? Who gets the rent money? How much is reserved for maintenance because renting will incur higher maintenance costs.

- What happens if one owner can’t carry their weight on taxes or insurance? Our house is beach house so insurance is ridiculous — we rent it out during the summer to cover it and use the house during the rest of the year.

- What if there are disagreements about how much to invest in the house for upgrades, maintenance, etc?

- Is there a system through which owners can buy or trade time with other owners?

- If you need to sell, how do you do that?

- What happens if one owner passes away and their share is now owned by multiple people?
Becourse one is an offense against the state, the other is an offense against the tax-milk cows, and who cares about them.
Tesla has multiple cameras looking out the front, with some offset. I believe that in past talks they did talk about using that parallax to achieve better depth.
To be clear, I don't "see" comments like this. It's pretty specific to engaging content that is apt to be visualized. i.e. I don't tend to visualize books or passages that aren't as engaging to me.
When dealing with addiction, more thinking often ends in better rationalizations for addictive behavior. For that reason, I'm not sure "Thought-Terminating" is inherently a bad thing.

Anecdotally, I've seen tons of people fight through different fad diets with no success. They spend tons of time talking about ways to trick their metabolisms, naturalistic arguments about what to eat and not eat, etc. Perhaps they would be more successful if they stopped over-thinking and focussed purely on reducing their portion sizes and increasing their exercise. Again anecdotally, it seems like usually exercise is emphasized along with diet at first, but quickly gets dropped. Within a couple weeks, the fad diet is forgotten as well.
If you follow what the parent is suggesting (open a page with a get request that has js which does a post request automatically with no user interaction), its probably impossible to not be susceptible to csrf
Love Storj...concept and execution are done extremely well.
I mean, of course, it is wrong to conquer land and to force its population to work for you, but if you don't, how do you get gold back to Spain?
That link is behind a paywall.
This report comes from The Movement for Black Lives (https://m4bl.org/), which is (according to their website) seeking to abolish police, prisons, and capitalism. To call this organization fringe or reactionary would be an understatement. Shame on NPR for this click-bait nonsense.
I still don't see the advantage of pocket over bookmarks.
Oops, you're right about SolarCity, sorry about that. However, you're glossing over some important details regarding the vote: Musk was supposed to recuse himself from the whole process, given the obvious conflict of interest, and he did not.

Related to what has been delivered: reusable rockets are not entirely new, the Space Shuttle was a reusable vehicle that flew many times; various versions of reusable rockets have been tried since the 1990s, though none achieved orbit before SpaceX. The M3 is a car, not sure why anyone believed it couldn't be delivered. It was delayed to some extent though.
Don’t like crypto currency? Stop making it necessary.
Anyone claiming to have no agenda and no bias is wrong. Maybe they're lying, maybe they just lack introspection, but anything more than a monkey with a typewriter will be written by a person with various pre-conceived notions, opinions, past experiences, value judgements, and aspirations which will bias whatever they create. Even if a person genuinely desires to be unbiased and actively takes steps to counteract their biases, their choice of steps to take and how far to take them are themselves biased.

At least with an institution that acknowledges its agenda you can reasonably take their biases into account. For most agendas, it is still in an institution's best interest to be generally accurate. You just need to know when to take things with a grain of salt. Unfortunately with no known agenda, there's no way to know when that is.
When someone rings my phone, I put my airpods in and tap to accept call.
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, not so much. Most of us aren't exceptional and live today in the same way as our ancestors have for centuries. Our needs and desires and behaviors across our lifetimes aren't so different from other large mammals. The exceptional things about us are largely provided by our civilization, but even including those things, it's the same song, different day.

The harm in "recognizing our superior differences" is in the unfortunate proclivity of humans to take that as justification for not recognizing any rights of the "inferior".
I feel like if they were really committed to the joke, they should have made it something to do with the Hairy Ball Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
How will you handle people who use text-only email?