skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden’s Government Forced to Return $1.5M in Bitcoin to Drug Dealer: Report
Airline flights for the day are a frequent part of my book [1] which takes place in roughly the same time frame and geography. It wasn't really 400 air miles from LA to SF, but chalk that up to hyperbole. I used to leave the house in Hawthorne at 7:15 for an 8:00 flight from LAX, believe it or not.

The other poster mentions that you could smoke on the plane (in the back rows) and that was true, disgustingly enough.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io
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That may be, but US sanctions and blockades are famously uselesss --- hell they probably helped the survival of the Cuban government, for example, since globalized trade tends to dominate small open economies which Cuba was until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Iran has an actual civil society unlike the gulf oil slave states we've sucked up to for ages, so they way we've picked sides with that regional rivalry in particular is also a pointless mockery of good planning.

This seems to be a like pointless tradgedy that will in no way benefit the citizens of the United States.
I added "exclusively" to clarify.

I am vegan, so yes I do understand that some people only eat vegetables. But there's not many of us!
the #1 thought-terminating cliche I see amongst reasonably intelligent people: conspiracy theory

it's amazing how this phrase will shut down critical thought in otherwise smart folks
Wasn’t Uber the company that would manipulate pricing if you were looking for a ride in front of the local government taxing authority?

Obviously the capability to do shady shit exists.
It depends on what kind of APIs we're talking about. There's APIs in the sense of protobuf microservices, which are deployed individually and talk to live systems, but there's also APIs in the sense of libraries.

In my company the former is handled by never deprecating any field (and then clients just get to deal with picking and choosing the ones they want). If a major schema change is required, spin up an entirely new service and tell people to migrate over and eventually turn off the old one when nobody's using it anymore.

Library changes can be done atomically: change the API, change the call sites, if tests pass you're done. One may opt to use the same strategy as w/ microservices here too.

Regardless, the dynamics for interacting w/ microservice API changes doesn't change based on whether you're on a monorepo or not. But a monorepo can help in the sense that some aspects of a service are version-controllable (namely the schema definition files) and it's in the clients' best interest to have those always up-to-date rather than having to remember to run some out-of-band syncing command all the time.
Feels like switching to crypto payments would be far more likely to keep the site alive than whatever it is they are planning on doing.
Yeah, every time I post about this somebody on here comes and tells me the Battery Health monitor can’t possibly be lying and that my lived experience must be wrong.

The Battery menu didn’t even present the togggle in the first place because it assessed my battery as healthy. Just like with Rachel here, the Battery menu seems to miss a lot of fucked up batteries. It’s not immaculate.

But if the voltage is not being supplied correctly I would consider that to be degraded “Battery Health”.
It's only on book 1 of N, but Krout is one of the modern machine authors who puts a book out in some ongoing series or another two or three times a year. Not the artisan wordsmith of your Rothfuss or Martin, but an enjoyable storyteller who gets the job done.
> sing the virtues of .NET core or whatever its called now

I think this is the only criticisms I can level at Microsoft, their branding is just a complete mess!

Core has been dropped from .NET naming but we still have ASP.NET Core MVC (I think?) and we still have EF Core.

"ASP.NET Core MVC" is such a mouthful.
Before you wrote this manifesto, did you read the entire article by Kristof? I didn't think it came off as anti-sex, and I disagree with some of the points made by the OP.

I think that the MC and Visa duopoly that effectively governs what kinds of goods and services are permitted in society is immoral and concerning. I think the Kristof article and the Visa/MC issues need to be talked about separately.
Or possibly any FVEY nation? But I have the "naive hacker" view that software should be able to transcend this sort of thing, in a cyberspace orthogonal to the space of nation-states. Ahmad's experience shows we are clearly not there.
The usual argument relies on:

"On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows."[1]

The increased demand for sex work in the wake of legalization results in more people forced into involuntary sex work, despite the presence of legally-protected sex workers.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.co/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986065
Good opportunity to mention this niche subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/. I'm guessing her old battery wasn't spicy enough to merit a picture, the one pictured looks fine.
You can try sanctioning leadership, but that only works if you're able to sanction something they care about.
They are not legal in Spain, and probably neither in most of the civilized world (YMMV!). Over here a contract change needs to be approved by both parties at the time and with the specifics of the change, so a blanket "we might change this at any time" prior to it would also not be valid.

I'm pretty sure (again in Spain) you could sue them and win, but you'd have to carry the cost of suing them AND the benefit would probably be small so not many individuals do. Some nice consumer defense groups do sue these companies and win again and again, which is amazing IMHO. Specially with the last ~10 years new data protection laws these shady practices are more and more illegal.

> And I can't use the app unless I accept the new terms and services.

For example Whatsapp keeps asking me to accept the new terms and I keep closing the popup, and still can use the app. We'll see how things end up, but for now they do not "force you" to accept them (though I'd say asking for it N times/day everyday might be considered harassment).
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I really enjoy YouTube Premium. It’s nice to have the option to pay for an ad free experience, which is particularly useful on iOS mobile as uBlock origin doesn’t work. Having the ability to easily download videos for offline viewing and turn off auto play (which I think is also available without premium) is nice, too.

I am sure they are still hoovering up all my data but I hope they at least heed the signal that some people will pay for ad-free alternatives!
People here regularly recommend a brand of dumb tv that is very reasonable in terms of image quality.
Would they though? I very rarely consider which credit card processor I'm using - it's what card has the best interest/rewards/whatever, or what logo does my personal bank use on their debit cards. It's not like I can go to my bank and say "I'm done with the mastercard debit card, give me your visa debit card please"
Also things like disabling complex animations, canceling high-CPU background jobs, doing more work on the server side rather than client (trading off latency for battery life), using less complex but less accurate algorithms, etc.

There's a lot of reasons why an app might want to know the battery status, and most of them are for the user's benefit.
I sympathize with the author, but I don't agree with the framing.

> I am talking about free and open source projects that are increasingly restricting the access of Iranian users and in the most ridiculous case, they are blocking all Iranian IPs! which, as far as I know, is not mandatory, and US law does not force companies to block IPs, but only prohibits them from providing services and trading with Iran

OK. I guess these companies have lawyers telling them that to be safe they should block Iranian IPs, and they take their word over that of some Iranian programmer.

And what is the alternative? To make a special version of your website for Iran, minus everything that could be thought of as providing a service?

The blame for this should fall squarely on the sanctions.
All these efforts are less important that global survival of organised civilisation, to which fusion research is key.

Also what kind of argument is
"an intelligence agency that employs tens of thousands of people"?

Does headcount mean its okay to spend money on NSA and not ITER? Has NSA born more fruit than ITER has in some tangiable way, besides violating our privacy and freedom?

You seem to be encouraging the largest possible and least efficient bureocracy.
I feel like the better comparison is what happened with Craigslist and Backpage. Their elevator pitch business model sounded legit but anyone that sniffed around knew what the site was predominantly focused on. CL was more diversified in terms of site usage, revenue, etc and could easily just ban adult services when the heat turned up. Backpage was just a front for sex work. There was no material classifieds business beyond adult services. A small percentage which could potentially be of the trafficked variety that brought on the heat. They made some dumb choices that contributed to their demise but only because of the bullseye that was put on them by the trafficking rhetoric. It feels to me like OF has either been told an investigation is occurring/likely to occur and is trying to soften any future blows -or- they are just being proactive knowing that this risk is present and would kill their company if it came down to it.
Hypothermia overnight may have taken the child if it was waiting for the parents to wake up.
It's not pointless. The people are the power of any government and the US is saying that they don't want to interact with this government or people until they change certain things.

It is selfish and demanding and bullying, but it's not pointless. Iran and its people can change things to pursue further interaction with the US sphere of business influence or they can choose to go their own way. It is nonviolent pressure towards one of two outcomes where either is acceptable to the US.
How to Take Crypto Payments?
I'm trying to create a website where users can exchange goods/services and pay each other in crypto, where the platform takes a small % of the transaction. How is a platform like this supposed to take crypto payments (say DOGE/BTC/VTC/ETH/ADA), ideally without a payment processor like BitPay?

Secondly, is it possible to do subscriptions as well?
Is there anything that sets FaceTime apart from cheaper competitors like WhatsApp / Signal video calling in this aspect of ease of use?

(I say cheaper because you don't need to buy an iDevice to use those)
I did not think they were. I do think the Q types are a moral-religious movement, or moral reference framework, of some kind in many ways. Perhaps sucked up by the void caused by the decline of mainstream Christianity in America. Just as the far-left progressive equality crowd (antifa, if you will) can be at times. That's why I made the comparisons.
My theory is different from yours but only slightly. Companies have no use for recording your voice.

1. Audio streaming is expensive and requires lots of storage, even if ephemeral, to be done widely.

2. Natural Language Parsing and transcription is fraught with errors. Go read your visual voicemail sometime.

This, to me, is enough to close the book on this theory.

What is entirely possible is this:

Two individuals have a discussion. This discussion results is one of the individuals searching for a product in a store or online (some stores, like a famous hardware store) can detect proximity to certain items. If they can correlate interest based on a linked (or brokered) profile then they have ascertained that person A is engaged with said item. Targeted advertising is such that it is possible for you to be shown items based on your own interests, but it's also possible you're part of a larger network. Again, all a hypothesis and one hard to prove at that.
I wonder when Apple will “invent” having an overlapping window manager on a smartphone like what many people are doing on the Pinephone.
Sanctions can be done in a way that targets specific individuals instead of entire populations. See US sanctions against Russia a few years ago.
Because they are the ones imposing the sanctions.
"If a journalist blows a story out of proportion, then usually nothing happens and the story is forgotten after a few months."

This heavily depends on the audience. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
To play the devil's advocate. Let's say a columnist in the WSJ wrote a piece with a bunch of first hand stories of people who were murdered by ex-cons who had been released early. And as a result the decarceration movement was stalled. Would you be okay with that? Anecdote focused reporting is very manipulative. Aggregate statistics matter. Context matters. Knock on effects matter.
> They all take insulin to burn it, which is the open secret inside that community.

Insulin is a hormone that puts the body into an anabolic (growth) state.

The reason body builders use insulin is partly the reason they consume so many calories, they are trying to eat at a surplus so they build mass…the insulin helps build that mass because it enlarges cells and allows them to store the excess calories. Body builders have notoriously gotten larger once they began using insulin. In particular their stomachs have changed significantly from the pre-insulin days, it’s because the insulin doesn’t just effect muscle growth it also enlarges the organs giving the cartoonishly distended stomach.

The second reason they use insulin is to promoted recovery (anabolism), after a strenuous workout you have broken down the muscle tissue and after a workout when amino acids/protein is consumed to begin repairing the muscle insulin is used with the idea the insulin will force the amino acids into the muscle tissue faster promoting a quicker anabolic effect (recovery).
Representative quote from the rant: "using some dumb language like NodeJS or Python suddenly is no problem anymore".

So, you're entitled to your opinion. You're even entitled to think you're right and everyone else is wrong, but convincing anyone else will require a great deal more clarity, better polish, more well-thought out arguments and less glaring errors and omissions.

There is so much wrong here it doesn't feel like it's worth addressing point by point.

While there is some value in suggesting that it's worth optimizing bandwidth and resource usage in the docker ecosystem I'm unmoved.
I agree, actually. I guess what I mean is that it’s outside the intended purpose of the site and makes the site owner look a bit more brothelesque which has seedy undertones.

I was mainly pointing at the fact it’s “more obviously” illegal than, say, facesitting or spanking.
You can do stuff like listing top K trending anti gov memes past day and blacklisting them. Thats definitely a content.
Facebook’s “Metaverse” gets a bit closer today with Horizon Workrooms
Why didn’t they compete with each other to bring costs down?

You mean they had a cartel for decades, kept prices artificially high, didn’t compete and the government did nothing?

Yeah sounds like the cablecompanies…
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Technology moves faster than law. I agree that we need to do something about it. It's getting ridiculous.
I do eat chicken a few times a week, so this is good to know, especially the ability to cook from frozen. Could I just throw some frozen chicken breasts in there with whatever else I want to eat it with, and pressure cook it for say 30 mins?
https://archive.is/dkvt2
If true, genius level asshole design.
Once the photos are flagged they're subject to manual review.
It depends on how large you want your TV, but I know a couple of people who've purchased monitors instead of TVs and used them as TVs.
>a massive fine (probably larger than the hacker's ransom) awaits you. ... maybe Verizon has something to hide?

If we're just making stuff up, then maybe Verizon is the hacker trying to take down the competition? It's as likely as ATT being fined anything significant
I don't think it should be legal, but Congress unfortunately doesn't give me a whole lot of say in what becomes law.

Your best bet is probably to just not use the app from now on. Go ahead and accept the new terms, then disenroll in however you need to. I have an LG dryer/washer pair, but never downloaded the app, didn't register the equipment, and it's not on my network but still works fine. You can't remotely trigger a wash, but you can set a delayed start from the onboard control panel, and as long as you're reasonably accurate in your prediction of when you'll be coming home, it'll have the same effect as what you're doing with a remote trigger.
For sure, they need to last longer which means more supplies and more reliability. But we also got 50 years of progress since Apollo 11, and we wouldn't don't need to pack a return vehicle and its propellant.
That’s quite the axe to grind against journalists. Especially since their job is to ask questions. To think they’re a part of this mass conspiracy to take powerful entities down is laughable.

My partner, a journalist, has gotten death threats just by being at peaceful protests against certain groups that have wealth and pull in the community - just because members of that org were certain the journalist was the main provocateur. It’s just absolute paranoia. But it is a tell isn’t it? Maybe the rich and powerful should be worried about the common people learning about some truth that they invest a lot of resources to keep secret?

Also I think you may have to look and see how much journalists make. To be so entrenched in a mass conspiracy that takes down whole networks of industry, I’d negotiate a better salary then the equivalent of $20/hour.
Haha wow this is an excellent point. I'd never thought about it this way before.
Someone / something has to build the cities on Mars.
Those are good selling points but all but the last applies equally to a tablet (e.g. there’s no law requiring you to use a tablet on battery).

The key point is the single function: a general purpose computing device has more UI & management than some people want to deal with. This is something the industry really hasn’t done a great job with, especially since it overlaps with the problem of treating things as disposable because the revenue model for single purpose devices is mostly broken and so people are often forced to churn them because the device they’re used to has been discontinued or no longer works with their WiFi.
The article is largely about domestication and as far as I know, animals don’t widely domesticate other animals. So the title here is apt.

Plus your point doesn’t even make sense on a more general level. There’s stacks of evidence that proves humans have changed nature from global deforestation, climate change, mining, farming and war, to even the innocent act of building towns on what used to be green spaces or flood plains full of wildlife.
There are dumb TVs; they're for digital signage. My impression from investigating these is that you get a $100 TV quality panel for $10,000, so not really an option.

I have a smart TV and it's simply never been connected to the Internet. That makes it pretty dumb.
Is the idea behind this recommendation that these algae blooms have a harder time to grow on moving water? Or that moving water upstream will dilute any concentration of toxins?

Thanks!
1 day ago .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28227500
> There is no good reason why reason and deliberation should be unable to close over itself, let alone as "separate" a component as emotional state.

It can be done, but most rationalists never achieve this, in that it requires understanding the cause of emotion as it relates to one's own subjectivity. This often involves admitting hard truths about oneself, and is the process that psychoanalysis is intended to support. Instead they "rationalize", and come up with explanations like that one that follows, which don't understand the emotion so much as "explain it away" through what amounts to, as I said earlier, a metaphysical argument about the causal origins of the species.

> Reason is a strategy that rose to some prominence in human evolutionary history because it is extraordinarily effective at making sense of the natural world.

This sort of causal argument is why I tend to cringe at rationalist theory, because not only is it not necessarily true, there's no way to even tell if it were true.

> The emotions are part of and arose from within the world. Without looking at the historical context in which they evolved, you may not be able to even understand what they're trying to tell you.

Ironically I fully agree with this statement, except what I would mean by "historical context" is "the events in your own specific life that influenced your current sentiments", rather than history viewed as a totality. Again, a reference to the totality and causal origin of life; do you see why I describe it as theological or metaphysical? This is very similar in structure to Christian theories on the topic of e.g. original sin.
Yep. Bazel has a visibility feature that indicates what projects are allowed to consume a given thing. This is used by the owner of the library to indicate to what extent they are willing to support the library. Some libraries are only meant to be used by the immediate team, some are designed to be useful to other teams.

In the same vein, at my company we have a mechanism to specify package ownership, and the owners may opt to make themselves mandatory code reviewers for any incoming change.

IMHO, this is nicer than multi-repo because you get a lot more visibility into who's actually using what and you can enforce some level of accountability, which means you don't get into awkward situations where A made a breaking change, B uses A but never upgraded and now C is trying to deal with a newly discovered vulnerability affecting A and B.
It’s all fun and games until Naomi Wu shows up to get GPLv2 compliance
I think you're agreeing with OP, namely that it's not battery usage that is causing the price hike, it's time of day that's causing it and the battery life is correlated.
1 day ago ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28236851
I’m not even a fan of Python or JavaScript from a language perspective, but I shudder at imagining what languages the author considers to be “not dumb”.
Maybe you misread the headline? It specifically talks about which animals and what behaviors they observed that were changed by human<->animal interactions.
Open source Pocket code
Nuclear proliferation tends to do that. Especially nuclear proliferation to countries where the cultural norm promoted by the government is to profess to love death more than life.

I do realize technology is just a tool. And not all technology is nuclear. Sanctions are a tool as well. Not perfect, very blunt. While the author isn’t interested in politics, the underlying concerns driving the politics are real.
As someone who doesn't want to take the vaccine: I would prefer this. Let us make the decision and deal with the consequences.
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DNA is only mostly founded in science. There's the interpretive element in saying: Oh, this DNA matches the suspect, even though it's mixed with the victim's blood.

Nice big clean sample? It probably actually matches. Small sample? Mixed with other people's DNA? Especially in a place they tend to visit (or live in?)?