skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember Mac became cool 15 - 20 or so years ago?

I'm at least old enough to remember it and I have a very strong feeling that the same is happening these days with Linux on the desktop.

Also on phones the alternatives are shaping up nicely so do talk well about them, don't say people should swith now but say you are considering a switch next time you upgrade etc.
beat me to it.

Thanks
I think the problem is that a federal minimum wage needs to be the minimum for the cheapest cost of living state, or it causes massive problems in that state. Having state-level minimum wages allows them to be tailored to cost of living in that state.
How many people have long Covid?
Thanks for suggesting Unlauncher! I'm giving it a try now.
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If a specific journalist has an axe to grind they don't need to be part of a larger conspiracy to ask damaging questions.

There are some people that enjoy the power trip of forcing the hand of large companies, and there are others that will get behind a cause dogmatically and are capable of inflicting extreme damage -- no conspiracy required.

That is what I suspect happened with that NYT piece, because its depictions of PornHub were distorted and off-base. And the damage stretches far and wide.

And judging by the Twitter thread this seems to be the case.
Who thinks this will happen before cars can drive themselves?
you know, one surefire way to signal to apple that deployment of such technology is detrimental to their bottom line is to just not buy apple products anymore.
> I would like to stop making ourselves superior from them

Alright then, if humans are not permitted to consider themselves superior to animals, I have one question for you.

What is your view on the veterinarian profession ?
It is when that search engine has been telling you for 20+ years to let them collect all your data because in exchange you get personalized search results.
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and as others have pointed out many timeshares say this exact same thing.
This should be easy to prove by reverse engineering the WhatsApp application.

If someone could come up with proof of this, they'd probably be set for life in one way or another. Perhaps they could monetize the information by collaborating with short-sellers, or simply kickstart a career using the massive media attention.
If you have a Kobo e-reader, you can sync the articles to read them offline on an eInk display.

It keeps track of what you read.

It has more context when browsing, instead of just the website's title.

There's more to it.

I don't use it these days, but when I was heavily commuting on the London tube I used it a lot.
before component models, everything was a global

Before react and vue everyone could create a mess, but it was not mandatory. Desktop frameworks always used sorts of controller hierarchy vs view hierarchy separation and didn’t store global data. There was decent ui before web/react (though it may sound crazy to react guys).

I don't think anyone understood that for the first 5 years of React

I bet that millions of developers who were not on the ~awesome hype train~ would look at this statement with a great confusion.

I’m not a react guy though, can someone explain where the data usually resides now? Right in a component state, I guess?
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Was introduced to this concept some years ago, and have found since that challenging a thought-terminating cliché is seldom welcome. In group settings and often on teams, most people are content to be aligned to the perception of what represents power, with no thought as to whether it is moored to reality, truth, or has consistency with anything external. These clichés are a mechanism that facilitates that non-relationship to the world.

A friend recently observed that he had more in common with people in his opposite political tribe than he did with ostensible centerists, and he said it was because the people on the other team also believed something, where the ones in the middle were in-effect, nihilists, or believing nothing. I mention it because when I thought of nihilisim, I always interpreted it as an active kind of anti-belief, or against all belief, instead of a bland passivity, detached from a moral anchor or foundation. For this kind of nihilist, the thought-terminating cliché is the necessary boundary of their ontology about the world. It's the person saying, "it is what it is," as they do horrible things. If you have ever spent time in bureaucracies, it is easy to see how a bunch of people trained to accept small injustices passively can be mobilized into an atrocity machine. They're "de-moralized," which we misuse to describe frustrated efforts, when what it means is that by lacking roots to beliefs and replacing them with this thought-termination, they do not exercise moral agency. They're just following orders.

I've concluded the clichés are worse than thought terminating, they are jingoistic slogans of nihilism people repeat to justify and release themselves from moral agency.
All this is to say, it's an important concept. Thought-terminating clichés are the mental reference points for the origins of what we understand now as the banality of evil.
> A family PC has more than one user.

Do these really still exist[0]? As far as I can tell, they only ever existed during the window between when internet access became ubiquitous and when smartphones became ubiquitous and laptops got really cheap.

Besides which, I think there are better ways to accomplish that goal without user accounts. User accounts exist to protect the system and users from other users in a shared system or network, which doesn't really apply in a Desktop use case. Instead I would say what you want is switchable user profiles, plus encryption to actually protect your documents if that's important to you, because it is trivial to bypass filesystem permissions for local users anyway.

[0] I'm sure somebody is doing it, but I have to imagine that within the vanishingly small Desktop PC market this use case is itself vanishingly small.
Read that but it didn't go into what that really meant? is pressure being put on banks and payment processors? Is it AML type regulatory issues?
I grew up in the Deep South. Stupidity is a weapon of malice.

There is no mutual exclusivity. They are interdependent in many ways.
Bloody loses its place atop swearing lexicon as British use of expletives falls
As a co-owner, you get access to the property based on your ownership %. So if you own 1/4 of the property, you can use it for 1/4 of the year. This ownership model provides flexibility to book stays throughout the year vs. being locked into 1-2 week windows annually. You don't have to take all 3 months at the same time. In fact our scheduling platform does not allow for stays this long to ensure all co-owners get equitable access to the property on the dates that are important to them.

All prices are per share and based on the ownership %. Even still, the US housing market is bananas
> The exact details of the algorithm are not public,

The relevant parts are.

> but based on the technical summary that Apple provided, it almost certainly goes something like this.

It doesn’t go like that. You are simply wrong.
> I entirely understand where you're coming from. I've always been the one to fall asleep hours before my partner, and it causes friction.

Nice to hear I'm not alone here.

> I had a bunch of other words here that can really be boiled down to ; there's a very very good chance that something health/physical related is causing or amplifying those mental health balance struggles. I speak from experience, not just rando internet advice :)

I believe it.

I'm actively trying to improve my health, but results come in the medium-/long-term, and I'm feeling the struggle in the day-to-day.
What's interesting is water management historically was a huge area of research and work for cultures.

But if you look at a place like CA, despite supposed water shortages - there are very very few water projects to increase for example storage capacity. I'd be curious in last 10 years how much capacity has come online vs population growth. I mention supposed shortages because it's really a shortage of free or near free water.

We have passed a lot of bonds for water projects - with little to show for some reason. Not at all close to the details, but would be curious to know what is going on.
Is it though? No recruiters would use the site if there were no job seekers.
I guess that website admins dont really care as it is a sufficiently good measure to reduce spam/spam accounts/new registrations.

Yes, I am a pessimist and I believe that. Why should website x care that there is a probability that the ISP is going to be hacked.
FWIW While your "every three months ssh to the VPS and check" approach can work, I'd commend finding a service (many free ones out there for a small project) that will notify you in a way you're happy with about certificates that are expired or soon-to-expire on your servers.
IDEA and company have pretty decent DB tools.
This feels like a weird slippery slope fallacy.
This is why diagnosis equipment always tracks voltage. Most sensors rely on voltage tied to some sort of variable resistor. If your battery/alternator is sending high/low voltages then those sensors will send false readings, leading to any number of random error codes. Put a multimeter on your system and check for any departure from the 12v standard (actually 13.8v) during operation. If so, replacing the battery is a good first step.

If your voltage is steadily above 13.8, then your regulator/rectifier is fried. Swap it out before it starts cooking your battery.
How often do swollen batteries lead to ... violent exothermic reactions?
How the Apple lobbying machine took on Georgia, and won
If you punish individuals for the actions of their government, what punishment do you deserve? Should you suffer for every Iranian who loses their life because of US sanctions?
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So... Why did you give permission for a washer/dryer to talk online?

And, since you did the bad thing, have you revoked/changed passwords/locked this piece of shit hardware out from the internet?

Rather than begging HN or yelling at a cloud (LG), what have YOU done to remedy this on your side?
I used an iPod 5th generation for a few years as a phone (it's basically an iPhone 5 without a baseband chip). I used the Skype app to ring people and send messages.

Whatsapp is not compatible with iPods which I always found annoying. This is because Whatsapp requires a SIM, which iPods don't support.

Skype nagged me to update, which I couldn't since 5th generation iPods are tied to iOS 9.3.5 forever and can't update. The 7th generation iPods however have a later version of iOS and support more apps.

Currently I have two phones. One is a dumbphone for normal calls and SMS (You would be surprised at how much business is conducted with SMS and calls). Then a smartphone which I NEVER use for calls, just use it as a mini 'tablet' for surfing the web and using Maps etc
it's also the exact name of a famous brand of footwear
Harvard's 3D-printed eardrum repair patch is ready for market
“I personally have a lot of challenges with Travis. And I think there are a lot of examples of where he could have been a much better manager,” Sacca says, prefacing an unexpected defense of the Uber co-founder. “But I also think him being tarred and feathered for life is ridiculous. He didn’t commit any biblical crimes. The guy was just guilty of being a bro-y asshole,” Sacca says.

...

“If you go all the way back to that first New Year’s where they turned on surge pricing. Everyone is bitching and moaning about it on Twitter, right? Twitter blew up. And the next day, we had a call,” Sacca remembers.

“And Travis had been out giving press interviews basically — the theme was ‘users need to suck it up.’ You know, ‘get over it.’ He’d say, ‘It’s a feature that’s here to stay.’”

“We knew it was here to stay. It made sense,” Sacca says. “That was one of the core innovations of Uber: It was a fluid market for driver supply and rider demand.”

“Well, what happened was, we were like, Travis, you can’t talk like that. You can’t say that,” Sacca says. “And then he would show us the data.”

After the surge pricing announcement, Sacca remembers Kalanick telling him, “Look at this Twitter user who’s yelling about it and saying they’re done. The next day, they use Uber again. Fuck them.”
I am assuming Marcus is a “housekeeping manager” getting paid $36k to $50k per year, and he cannot easily quit and find another job that pays a steady wage of that much for a 8am to 5pm type position. The other jobs might pay more, but they might be evening/night jobs, and/or he does not trust they will reliably get sufficient hours.

And cleaning 40 rooms in a day is disgusting, no way a hotel room gets properly cleaned in 15 min or less and laundry gets properly washed or protocols are followed.

Edit: nevermind, I read more of the article and Marcus is a $15 per hour employee, not a salaried “manager”.

> While Marcus used to complete “every single step” while cleaning rooms, they now sometimes skip dusting and mopping. But they worry that slacking off too much will only backfire on their colleagues, who would be the ones left to clean up the mess. “That’s the only thing that holds me back,” they say.
The Stupid Bit of Cognitive Science That Means Boris Johnson Gets Away with It
The hackers selling the info are well known for providing fresh data, to the point that they’ve given away old data for free. I doubt they’d risk their reputation on reselling a different leak.
We're in an interglacial, awaiting a new ice age. If history [1] is anything to go by we're at the trailing end of the warmest period of the Holocene epoch [2]. Depending on how this interglacial develops the temperature will either gradually decrease into a new ice age (i.e. follow the same pattern as the Pleistocene) or rebound for a second peak (like the Pliocene, Eocene and Paleocene interglacials). At the end of the Holocene interglacial the ice will return for the remainder of the epoch.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Co2_glac...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Holocene...
Effects of Excessive Screen Time on Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration
This is stupid. Reformat your personal device every week as a habitual practice. Keep multiple personal devices. Use voice when possible so that wiretap laws protect you.

Company should have no right to your family communications.

I never use text.
Why not use F# then? While being less flexible than OCaml, it is still a huge level up from C# while retaining the ability to use the same libraries.
Yes but a practical new Android phone with reasonable spec (I don't mean cheap Chinese oems with 1gb ram) can be had for $100 and can run WhatsApp/signal fine. The cheapest iphone is $399 iirc, the high entry costs that disqualifies a lot of people even in the US and certainly abroad where apple tax difference compare to base currency of usd399 exceeds regional sales tax differences (mexico for example)
Definitely. We've seen a lot of interest from people looking at these homes as remote offices. We're optimistic this trend will continue as people take advantage of no longer being tied down to a certain geography
I see other GETs like this one:

216.99.127.196 - - [20/Aug/2021:16:25:42 +0000] "GET /validate/email/2591b346e5b8b435bdde54d797fe23a9 HTTP/1.1" 200 811 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"
> Hackable is the default for any test imposed by an authority. The reason the tests you're given are so consistently bad — so consistently far from measuring what they're supposed to measure — is simply that the people creating them haven't made much effort to prevent them from being hacked.

In proof-based math classes in college, there really was no hacking them. You had to build up an intuitive understanding of the concepts and think on the fly to come up with a proof for a test.

Sure, you could try to seek out "all relevant questions" and memorize the proofs but there's such a large universe of possible problems to ask you'd never have enough time to study this way.
> In the case where actual prosecution was conducted, as you suggest - what would be the opening price on the Monday morning for the share price? Bear Sterns peak valuation was 20billion, Facebook sits at 1,000billion.

The stock market is mot the same as the synthetic derivatives market. One of the main reasons we had such a problem with synthetic derivatives, is that it hid the fact that a lot of these instruments were worth much less than thought, so when it was realized the extremely troubles housing market was linked in a way that wasn't quite understood previously, a whole bunch of losses were realized after the fact. There's a huge difference to that than any other sort of news.

The biggest difference is that in the case of Facebook at an announcement of a prosecution, the stocks of Facebook have the exact same value immediately after, and only start dropping as people start selling, and respond to how people react. Unlike synthetic derivatives, there is no inherent value backing it (which normally you would think is worse, but when that inherent value is made of or mortgages and a large chunk have used legal means to wipe out their debt, that value is forever eroded).

The simple answer to the price is it would drop, but over some time. Some people would wait for more info, or think they could beat the case. Those people that laft would invest their money somewhere else. Some would put it in non-tech stocks, others would choose tech stocks they thought immune from the coming shift in privacy (if that's what the prosecution seemed to foretell). The important thing is that most wealth would not be destroyed, but just shifted to somewhere else.

For synthetic derivatives, what's not what would have happened. Bear Sterns failing entirely would have meant that any of their repackaged derivatives would have also had problems. Everyone was sitting on investments (CDOs) where they couldn't easily tell if they had lost 5% or 10% or 50% of the value because it was repackaged so many times, and there was a real concern that other companies would fall like dominoes as the few percent worse the Bear Sterns/Lehman Brothers situations made it, which in turn exacerbate others.

As for Facebook and the NASDAQ, I think you'd see a far lower impact. Even if the equivalent of 5% of NASDAQ's cap was lost from Facebook, I think a large chunk of that would flow to other stocks on NASDAQ. Facebook's loss is other company's gain. Probably Apple's, I would think, for people that still want that portion of investment in tech but want something less likely to be negatively impacted because of more stringent privacy requirements.
Well there are solutions out there already for this, a base pay of x but a variable pay tied to employee performance (whatever metric they use e.g. tables waited on etc.) and a variable component tied to the company performance (profit sharing), perhaps even add an element of how long the employee worked there into this.

Make the data about what multiplier of base pay you paid out in the company performance variable component in the past few years and the upper and lower bounds of employee performance variable component and one gets the idea of how much they can make for sure and how much more they can potentially make it all goes well.
Is it, though? To me, part of what qualifies advice as solid is that it has to help people who take it achieve the desired outcome. My understanding is that there's a staggering lack of evidence that that is the case. And not for lack of people looking for it.

Which leaves me thinking that this is an idea whose memetic fitness far exceeds its practical value.

The elephant in the room here is the article itself. The basic premise here is that internal bodily processes can increase your energy expenditure by as much as several thousand calories over the course of the day, even when you're being physically sedentary. And if it can autonomically increase the burn rate, surely it can also autonomically decrease it.

I've certainly noticed that I have a more difficult time thinking clearly on days when I'm not eating as much as usual. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar thing happens if I take a long bike ride without eating any extra food. Though this isn't something I've paid attention to in the past, so I suppose I don't really know. But still, if the body increases calorie expenditure during periods of higher brain activity, then it is certainly just as capable of reducing brain activity in response to a reduction in readily available energy.
Okay, the article references "Potential contributions of pre-Inca infiltration infrastructure to Andean water security" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0307-1 , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0307-1 )

The problem is it could just be used just to extract more water rather than be part of a broader reforestation effort & cultural change around it's relationship to water. Joe Brewer criticized this a couple years ago: https://twitter.com/cognitivepolicy/status/12125332029649264...
Perfection is indeed impossible, but a better equilibrium most likely is. You can't teach kids so that learning is pure joy every minute for everyone. But you can teach kids so that their kmowledge is more interconnected, less of it is forgotten, more of it is applied in later life. Even more importantly, you can teach kids how to learn, and why to learn.
I received the exact same thing. I was also a customer of AT&T around 4 or so years ago.

The odd thing to me was the phishing text said to CALL ATT's very own number. No links or anything.
> These were largely junior employees who saw the exodus of senior employees as an opportunity to move up fill in the new vacancies.

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun-Tzu
A few years ago, about 5-6 years ago now actually, I wrote a time tracking utility that I used for a while. The main challenge with using that one is the amount of time and effort it took to keep track of what I was spending time on, because I was tracking the time of everything I was doing.

I replaced my web app for time tracking with a Google Sheet that I tracked time in for a couple of years, and limited myself to only tracking time that I was working that I billed others for. And stopped tracking time of personal things that is not billed to anyone.

Last summer I took another shot at implementing my own time tracker, this time as a native iOS application and still, like the Google Sheet, being specifically for billable hours of work.

Already before I wrote the first time tracker I was thinking about how it would be nice to actually automatically report on which applications you are using, when you are tracking time spent on the computer specifically.

The idea of using plugins into the IDE and into the web browser like WakaTime is doing here is a genius idea and I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. That’s how you know it’s a good idea - when someone thought of something you didn’t, and as soon as they say it it seems “obvious”.

I have some ideas for how I can integrate these WakaTime plugins into my own stuff.

This is super cool, thanks for posting this link OP.
OnlyFans is still a pornsite and should comply. Pornhub has the same producer/subscribers model and is doing fine.
I don't believe this answers the question that was asked.

They are asking about upkeep not default
Just start doing it, be the change and all that. I do it. Sometimes they answer, sometimes they don’t. Everyone here is overthinking it.
Agree.

Remember, Google was so nice and held in so high esteem that even valid criticism could be downvoted mercilessly.

Today you can run a karma farm on criticizing Google here on HN.

Google had mountains of goodwill, but with smart people, dedication and hard work one can burn true it like they did.

I'm afraid Apple can manage this too...