skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trawling the legal system for loopholes to Pull One Over on mega-corporations is kind of like throwing a bunch of marbles in front of someone with a rocket launcher pointed at you. Quite fun to see it work in movies, not so much a strategy for solving the issues at hand in reality
Yes, they're collectibles, but at least with collectibles, you have authorized distribution of these.

Here with NFTs, only authorized ones would have kind of a reason to reasonably have a market value, which means, trademark law has to apply too, which means, the blockchain purpose is lost here.
Mail on the way!
Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco
To me predictive power must be actionable. Is there something in 2018 that would have made you think "I have got to buy Zoom stock"?
Actually that's a great idea - actively feeling pain every time you interact - whats more effective limiting consumption than that.
Persistent clotting protein pathology in Long Covid
No one's asking for a free car.

They're asking for a stop to major companies lying to the public. To stop harvesting people's data under false pretenses.

I think citizens can and should demand those things from companies that choose to incorporate in their country. That avail themselves of the legal systems and protections. That take advantage of the workforce present.

Companies are free to choose where they operate and incorporate.
Would be great if someone added these to homebrew.
Here's my thinking:

1. There is a lot of complexity in building, deploying and maintaining software

2. There is a lot of complexity in understanding a domain and figuring out precise business logic

Often, (1) and (2) are known by different people, from technology and business functions. There is a communication overhead.

We can eliminate the communication overhead if (1) and (2) are known by the same person. But learning to code is hard... so if we make the programming easier (or even "no code") then people who know (2) can easily pick up (1)!

Ultimately though, I'm not convinced that (1) will ever be easy...
> It feels heavy enough that the word "option" often no longer applies.

Maybe, but the article omits any details about what was offered, so we can't tell if it was a fair or transparent offer to the convict. All we can do is say "We FEEL that it is unfair", because there are no facts for us to say "We KNOW this is unfair".

The article is just too biased.
Trying to get that done now. Thanks for the suggestion!
Why don't airlines give you the option when you buy your ticket of saying if you are going to recline or not? Then seat "going to recline" people in front of other "going to recline" people, and seat "not going to recline" people in front of other "not going to recline" people.
Buying one of 6 town houses (aka "row houses") constructed by razing an existing SFR is like Space-Division Multiplexing.

Buying into one of these "1/8 ownership" deals sounds like Time-Division Multiplexing... aka a time-share.
Do you have any evidence about what does work?
Yes, Lorenzo! I remember talking to my friend Lorenzo back in 2013-14 when he was just starting this. So proud to finally see someone I know as the top story on HN :-)
Yes, I think animals play a vital role in ecosystems and the way we are treating them (both in nature and in our factory farms) is abhorent. That said, a Food Forest could feed many humans and just as many hogs, sheep, goats, and chickens and the closed loop nature of their manure cycles helps the plants regenerate and thrive. Keeping the animals separate from their inputs in absurd once you get to know animals. They don't want to be treated that way.

As for figs, YES. I eat a lot of processed figs via "Cereal Bars" but I'm slowly growing my army of Hardy Chicago Figs, I have 10 or so 1 foot tall clones in their own pots, and a single treeform with two tiny figs on it. I'm looking forward to trying a fresh one but apparently collecting fig varieties is a sport for more well established growers. Worth learning how to grow a fig for anyone who isn't at their "forever" home, figs are fine to grow in pots! They are one of the few trees you can do that with because they tolerate swings of drought between watering and thrive in well draining soils having most of their roots very shallow and close to the surface.

Have a great day:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1L3BxBiUQg | Pot up a rooted fig tree cutting into a bigger pot - my best cloning method
This is a twisted form of whatabboutism. Every lineage of humans has a sordid history. None of those people are alive now; what matters is what the people who are alive today do.

The crusades a thousand years ago do not justify jihad today. "The West" has come a long way. It's not hypocritical to want the rest of the world to catch up.
They might not be therapists, but they are filling a similar role as therapy.

Sometimes people just need to vent towards an 'objective' (external) listener who will provide feedback of some sort.
Thanks for the links, I will take a proper look later. However, I have to repeat my point about scientific convergence because your links, in contrast to what you said earlier, demonstrates it is yet to happen. Popp et al. acknowledges the presence of the meta-analysis I linked above, and that it has a different conclusion to itself. It acknowledges that the approaches were broadly different, and that the criteria for inclusion of various studies in the meta-analyses were different. Future papers are going to have to continue to refine and agree on biases in individual studies that rule them in or out of subsequent meta-analysis.

Or, to put it more succinctly, science has not yet converged.

Yet, COVID is killing people, so we can't wait for science to converge before doing something about it. It therefore makes most sense to use educated guesses and conduct evidence based medicine with appropriate weighing of risks versus rewards. What ivermectin has going for it is that it is an extremely safe drug with a long history of use as an antiviral. Repurposing existing drugs is also far easier (and quicker) to get approval for than new vaccines. Even if the papers you linked are eventually proved right, and ivermectin is not beneficial, the evidence from ivermectin's use over 40 years suggests that it does very little harm - deaths caused by ivermectin intervention are essentially in the noise. What's more, it's out of patent so we're not paying $20-40 a pop like we are with the vaccines. It's got so much going for it that any level headed risk versus reward calculation should include it in the arsenal to fight against COVID.
Whoa! That's where my question arose from, lol
Tesla lost the right to call it Autopilot in Germany. So even courts agree that it is confusing.
Does Twitter have to pay to use Google or MS's translate API?
I've thought about encoding the params, but that would make it harder for humans to read and edit.
Wait — you mean "Sanitized for your protection" on glasses at cheap motels isn't true?
This reminds me when we were working on a business push notification app, much like WhatsApp business but back in 2015. Apple required users to allow push notifications for the app when installing. If a user disabled push notifications then it effectively stopped the app from working as it's sole purpose was to send push notifications. So to try combat users turning off push notifications without realizing what they had done, we would prompt them to say that turning off push notifications would stop the app from working. We submitted the app to the app store and Apple rejected the new version saying that we were forcing users to enable push notifications.

I remember being so frustrated with this process of trying to convince someone in Apple who just didn't seem to understand why this would make sense. They cited that it was a poor user experience but I can't imagine a worse experience than a messaging app that never received push notifications.
With Banksy, you can get certificates - which are, centralized.

With brand t-shirts, you have also trademark/brand permissions (unless you go for copies, but then the value isn't the same either).

And, with the two above examples, say you go with copies only, you still have something tangible to start with. NFTs are all but tangible.
I prefer to just steal keys by reverse engineering mobile apps. So easy to get keys for just about anything and charge someone else for it that way.
$100k isn't what it used to be. Original conception of the H1B program was for extremely specialized labor, not "I need a software developer" labor.
So there was some kind of agreement and it wasn't supposed to be an unconditional capitulation?
> I was being sarcastic, but whoooosh.

Your "whoooosh" here is a clear violation of the guidelines.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

edit: snark deleted, you're welcome
The law isn’t written by machines. Obviously that would be okay.
I have also had similarly large raises. Also had a manager who's willing to fight for it. I have between 5 to 10 yrs of experience.
Financial shenanigans and gambling aren't really productive.
> It is a clear case of the 'tragedy of the commons'. The only way to escape the tragedy of the commons (when there are large numbers of people who don't know each other) is regulation. However regulation has proved very hard to do at an international level.

All of Ostrom's work was to disprove this argument -- she showed that it is possible (not always, but frequently) to avoid the tragedy of the commons without regulation or privatization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Research
WeWork is proof that people making multi-billion dollar decisions aren’t always smart, and that’s even in a somewhat less volatile sector. When it comes to tech and the cloud hype I bet it’s even worse.
Because they are...

Have you ever had to haggle about the cost of your trip with a taxi driver?

Have you ever ordered a taxi and one never showed up?

Have you ever missed your flight, because a taxi - that was scheduled to pick you up at 5AM just didn't arrive?

I used to do consulting work all over Europe and literally spent 5 years of my life flying every single week. Pre-Uber taxis were horrible! In fact, they still are!
How We Use Pseudo-R² to Automate Analysis Suggestions at Heap
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions
Maybe I have an old laptop that still works and still has Windows XP on it, I fucking own it more then an iOS user owns his device. iOS can be at any moment "owned" by NSO, or by some infected app or malware in the Apple blessed store.

It is a shame that security is a popular fetish now, not all bugs are exploitable and there are mitigation, you don't need to kill my device unless it was 100% exploited and it causes problems.
For me Visual Studio Code and Emacs for terminal. Emacs does not have the investment to keep up right now. The single threadedness of causes an unbearable latency.
Why do people need to meld their ego with some nebulous "classification"?
Like yo I'm black. Yo I'm white. Yo I'm asian.

In reality, all humans are a continuous spectrum based off of groups of people that evolved in certain conditions over thousands of years.

What does a "white" person from Ireland have in common with a "white" person from the Caucuses?

What does a "black" person from Sierra Leone have in common with a "black" person from the deserts in the northeast of Africa?

Why does the media make us segregate ego formation based off of these shallow descriptors? Black white etc.
I wonder how do the people here upvote stuff.

Considering that probably the entire HN community has never even heard about control theory before, let alone have the background to understand the abstract of the book, how did this submission receive almost 100 points? Do fancy-looking titles get the most attention?

Same with any math-heavy submission. Do the submitters really expect the average DevOps person, which probably makes up something like 90% of HN, be able to understand and comment on such advanced subjects?

These are legitimate questions and by no means do I intend to foster a gatekeeping mentality.
Waiting for my Librem 5, ordered a few weeks ago. If all goes well, I’ll have it next spring.
SCMP was acquired by Alibaba and has become more supportive of Chinese Communist Party: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/
. I can't vouch for this analysis. I think they are not what they used to be.
It's technically interesting to distinguish "labor" from "(more) time in prison", but both are a form of slavery -- loss of major freedom to choose how and where to spend one's time.
Jeremy Jackson gives a number of eye-opening examples of this in oceanography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRPiNcikOU
jd is nowhere as flexible as youtube-dl is, especially format selection.
It's not intended to replace your feed reader if you already have one, but even then it's still useful to discover and share feeds.
Afghanistan’s Precarious Networks: Will the Taliban, Once Again, Go Dark?
If HN can look past the usual tropes, there's something interesting here. Lewis is trying to solve a problem a lot of other people are trying to solve: how can you have a normal community in US culture? Let me list a few solutions and you will see why his is better than average.

1. Religion.

Pros: Going to church has tied communities together for millennia, and if you could just find some better pastors, it could continue for several millennia more.

Cons: Secularly administering religion like a drug to treat social ills is against the precepts of every known religion, due to the fact that we'd all expect missionaries to believe what they're preaching. People who go around saying "I believe because it helps me" but who do not actually believe anything notwithstanding, we all know that's not self-consistent.

2. An amalgamation of historical myths and power structures that tie people together on the basis of perceived brotherhood.

Pros: People love being tied together on the basis of perceived brotherhood, tribal identity has been around a long time, and there is no debating with the idea that it works.

Cons: This is a description of every supremacist organization.

3. You talk to the guy at the barbershop.

Pros: You like to talk to the guy at the barbershop.

Cons: You can't go if you don't have the money for a haircut.

None of these options are perfect... but the barbershop plan is not that bad.
Wasn’t there a show HN for a YC startup with the same idea earlier this week?
True, but it’s also the kind of product that’s instantly useful and itch-scratchy. Youtube-dl not working on the video you’re downloading today? Well if you’re a maintainer you can just patch it yourself. (Non-maintainers can too of course, but I imagine the maintainers have the know-how to actually fix things)
EU, is a great trading lock, the most prosperous successful trading bloc. No doubt about it. But it's a trading bloc, not a country.
Tesla compares themselves against all vehicles on the street, including motorcycles, and on all kinds of road where Autopilot would not even work. It's incredibly misleading and pure marketing.
> Why does the media make us segregate ego formation based off of these shallow descriptors? Black white etc.

Because it mases us fight eachother, and not the ones that we should be fighting.
I used to love reddit, it was my favourite social media but I can't use it since they redesigned it, they really need to look at hacker news for inspiration.
This is a positive change for world mental health, bravo.
Not my experience at all. I’ve always had different recommendations based on the condition of the parts and the costs of repair vs. replace.

There are plenty of other things that need work beyond frames.
And this is likely because there were a few years of "insert your own API key" third party clients after Twitter limited their max user count.

This from the site that used to indicate on every tweet the client used
We are loosing words to describe nature. I recommend reading "Landmarks" from Robert Macfarlane. The audiobook is excellent.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/thelostwords
Practically speaking, transaction fees are interest, you just pay it in a roundabout way.
standardnotes.com ticks a lot of those boxes.

apps for most devices and os flavors, syncs across them all

end to end encryption

add-on editors which allow note taking in markdown and attaching / embedding files

basic search functionality built-in
> The jail time is almost always higher than it would have been under normal circumstances in order to make the choice "forced" without actually being forced. It's an age old trick of plea deals and prosecution perversion.

Yes it is, and I already said that, but that still doesn't make it forced labour.
This is common with cosmetology and all people regardless of background, my mother has been in that business for her entire working life and it’s surprising how much therapy she has to do outside of just cutting hair.
> using software that uses it responsibly.

So using it solely in ways Apple approves of - Since they're the arbiter of "responsible" here.

So how do I own this device again?

Who the fuck is Apple to tell me what responsible use looks like on a device that I own, on a network that I own, in my own damn home.
Slavery as punishment for a crime is specifically allowed in the Constitution. The high incarceration rate for former slaves is not a coincidence. Former slaveowners retained their positions of power after the civil war and have worked tirelessly to bring back what they see as the natural order of things.
That's a good heuristic, thanks.

Ironically, not only nothing made me think "I have got to buy Zoom stock" in 2018, IIRC around 2019 there were plenty of reasons to short Zoom. I wonder if they'd have survived if not for the pandemic.
Summer brake?
We have fixed interest rate mortgages in Canada, but the fixed rate is only valid for a specific period (typically 5 years). After this, the mortgage needs to be either renewed for another term at then-current rates, or transferred to a new lender.
It is like the ship of Theseus. Aggregates exist because that's how we abstract, even though calling it identity would be wrong. I don't know what a good solution is.
> you don't need a VC backed startup to organize and manage it for you

You do, if the company's business plan is to blatantly ignore laws about timeshares and short-term rentals being illegal in areas where they're acquiring real estate.
Requiring phone numbers for what is for the majority of their user base a consumption activity seems like completely over stepping the relationship. Gmail doesn't even require that.
I'm interested and understand the topic. Also, I'm interested in many mathematical topics.
These "articles" have one single purpose: to create more racial disparity.*

Reference: https://imgur.com/a/uycJp3E

Time to wake up.
Ends up being slow for no reason other than a fetishism for FP.

Take a look at LLVM. Its C++.
I was born in East Berlin, under what the West likes to call the "horrific Soviet dictatorship". But what I know of the country back then, it was often naive, ineffective at being horrible. People's lives were actyally kind of simple, with fewer pressures. Like if you worked against the state and it's ideals you could get into real trouble, or if you were born to the wrong kind of intellectuals, life could be difficult.

But being poor in the US seems so much more horrible. Having the wrong skin color, or being involved with the wrong herb, the State may treat you so much worse.
Well, apparently you won't read this but thanks nonetheless for engaging with the arguments from the supposed "other side" further than most people do. I still respectfully disagree, and hope you find time to reexamine the claims being made here and elsewhere. Rejecting claims out of hand is not the way we get out of this mess.
Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
LLCs and contracts don't solve the complexity of coordinating a large group of people especially as in this case when the season for using the house as a group family vacation place was really less than three months.
It's arguably the monied interests who promote strong copyright at the expense of users. The same folks who said.

> I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

https://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm
My work computer is an i5 laptop with 8gigs of RAM and I run Linux in VirtualBox.

Needless to say, my productivity could be better...
Every country within Europe is different in some capacity so it's difficult to say with absolute certainty that he is breaking the law -- the language in my comment was vague because I'm mostly addressing the spirit of his behaviour, rather than the law. That said, certainly in my European country he would be open to issues with the tax authority if he were to attract their attention.

The United States is very permissive when it comes to employment, the majority of states could be described as "anything goes" (relative to Europe) and so dodging employment taxes is pretty much fair game... whereas in Europe a lot of regulation exist very specifically to address companies organising their business in this way. I'd be very surprised if he didn't face significant fines (I don't know of any examples of this behaviour leading to prison terms, but significant fines are very common and serve as a deterrent).
I'm building a tool that lets creators build a website with no code, engage with their audience, monetize content, and own their data.
By "Own their data" I mean creators can export all their data and self-host it on their servers.
Trying to act as a bridge between Web2 and Web3 technologies by getting non-tech savvy creators on board now and gradually move all their data (like articles) on a blockchain.
“ What does a "black" person from Sierra Leone have in common with a "black" person from the deserts in the northeast of Africa?”

They face the same discrimination in America and in that they find companionship
I have a mortgage that is fixed interest and not backed by the government in anyway... So I think you might be wrong on how the risk is calculated.

I can't see how any new risk is added in a fixed rate. In fact I can't see how a non fixed rate would really be good for anybody, and would keep the risk fluctuating for all parties involved.
Sexual Abuser Ex-Governor Cuomo Commutes Sentence of Terrorist Father of SF DA
I don't doubt your experience, but I would expect you to be an outlier and that more technologists would prefer a device they can program with the same APIs as the manufacturer without any gatekeeping and non-buggy web access most of all. Having better photo sharing and phone call capabilities, less device restarts, notification filtering, the ability to caption audio for times when having the speaker on is inconvenient or not loud enough, and supporting restricted guest accounts are also features that most people who don't worry as much about fashion would not want to give up.
All democrats are alike.

Sexual abusers, terrorists, etc.
I recall an HN comment a year ago that went into some detail about how Twitter botched their webworker implementation, leading to these errors.

But at this point it's safe to say that it's another intentional way of getting to drive users to create an account. It has been too horrendously broken for too long for it to be explained by incompetence.
> You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms.

It's funny that all those companies are trying to get so big and so central to our lives, to the point many news (including from police precincts or first responders) are only posted on twitter or fb, yet when you point out they shouldn't ask you a phone number to access them it's "they owe you nothing".
That is stupid, old computers don't die when the OS gets out of date, I still have an XP laptop around and it works, also old Apple computers still work and nobody demanded Apple to provide security updates for old stuff.