skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're not NIMBYs but don't come around here with your time share house!

Do they claim not to be NIMBYs? Seems like they are absolutely making that claim and they are happy about it.
3. Hacker News comments have been vehemently anti-cryptocurrency for a decade. I remember being shocked how out of touch with actual hackers this place is.

Reminds me of punks who'd shop at Hot Topic.
Just turn JavaScript off for Twitter to “solve” the issue.
Intolerance in Popper's sense has a different connotation than we might be used to today. The thinking of Karl Popper is heavily influenced by the horrors of the holocaust where people where denied rights, quartered up, shot or gassed based on being in the oposition, having the wrong ideology, religion, skin color, relatives, friends, gender identity, sexuality, etc. So for Popper this was not some vague undecidable "what is intolerance anyways"-kind of word, but bound to really harsh existential inhumane cruelties.

I guess we can agree that people who want others killed or at least surpressed like that do count pretty much as intolerant under regular free society standards. So in other words: intolerant people are people who can't be bothered to tolerate sharing their existance with other people who mind their own bussiness.

So: the definition of the word "intolerance" decides who is intolerant. And of course intolerant people will argue that they aren't (because that is not a nice attribute to get branded with, even if it is true) and therefore they try to change the meaning of "tolerance" in their image. And of course some people will claim intolerance where the definition won't justify it, because they feel it gives them an advantage in a given situation and therefore try to change the definition of "tolerance" into their direction. Ultimately like any codified law it would be a matter of presedence etc.
Im just curious, what are the motivations for a company to make this move? It seems like a death sentence to me but I cant think of any examples off-hand.
HN is pretty good at identifying trends. I generally read some comment here way before I hear about it somewhere else. Does HN accurately predict where the trend goes? Not necessarily. But if something actually does trend, I will have heard low-level chatter about it on HN for a long time.

Remote work trended because of the pandemic, for example, but there was constant chatter about remote work anytime the topic of employment came up, and the monthly job match-making posts even post whether the job / worker is open to remote. Functional programming has had low-level chatter from the beginning (given that PG viewed it as one of the reasons for the success of his company), and indeed, functional programming has grown more mainstream. I started exploring Python for my Perl-type tasks because it kept getting good mentions on HN.

I don't think any of the above ever got to the point where it got so many mentions it would hit a strong 100 in his methodology compared to Google trends. I'm also not sure you could identify successful trends early on, but I think you hear chatter on HN long before other places.
We leaked the upcoming IPCC report
Yeah because in many "regulated" markets the market was fixed so that taxis can have limited supply and hence insane prices. In Croatia they changed the law after Uber came to deregulate taxis and it's way better now than it was before while other countries protected the insane taxi mafias
I deleted my Twitter account years ago. This won't motivate me to make a new one; it will just ensure that I spend even less time on their site than I already do ("ugh, paywall" close tab) and give them fewer ad impressions.
The infection rate is highly arguable, because it relies on extrapolations of PCR test results, which are unreliable for detecting number of infected. PCR detects remains of the virus, not active infections.
> Because there are legitimate reasons why Facebook might need access to your network for streaming videos to a TV or similar uses cases.

If you want Facebook on your iPhone to call someone then Apple provides a Phone API.

If you want Facebook on your iPhone to stream to your TV then Apple should provide an Apple TV API for Facebook to use.

There is no reason whatsoever for Facebook to have any direct access to anything on your phone whether its your sensors, your microphone, your video, your network.
I just got a Razer Kiyo webcam, excellent stuff, but I had to open regedit to get it to stop asking me if I want to install additional software every time I plugged it in or rebooted.

It works fine without it, but whoever programmed this thing has never heard of a "No, and Don't Ask Me Again" Button.

In regedit, F3 for razerinstaller and add a DWORD key "Start" with value "4" .

Yea that's how far they went XD
So, so much suffering. The worst part is that we all support this global system of inequality with every purchase and every vote. It is the inescapable consequence of "more for me."
Funny, I got downvoted for mentioning the same thing in a post about a Tweet.
Somewhere a Twitter employee is patching this now!
> 3) There is no recompense for people hurt by the vaccine - even if that number is 0.

There are a couple of government funds, but they rarely pay out. They require you to prove your issues are the result of a vaccine, which is extremely difficult to do. Did this person have a thrombosis because of COVID or because of some other genetic or environmental reason? It's really hard to rule out "everything that isn't the vaccine".
The modern era provides individual humans with greater access to information and ability to publish information than has ever existed before.

If “regular users” aren’t taking the same stance as you, maybe it’s not because they aren’t aware, maybe it’s because they have different use cases and priorities.
Which Planet is the Closest? [video]
Your battery would last 10 minutes.
Not to be controversial or incendiary, but why would a country with public healthcare accept immigrants that will put a bigger strain on its system? Socialized healthcare does not work if we accept people that never contributed to it with known previous disabilities.
If you bought a car without a key it would still be yours.
In the event of a forest fire, does the land owner have to pay back the carbon-offset buyers?
Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
I don't think you are an an outlier. There are cases where timeshares probably make sense. I knew someone who had one up by a ski area and it sort of served as a convenient known-quantity forcing function to head up for the weekend on a regular basis.

But this? Spend $600K for 1/8 use of a house that you can't personalize in any way or, as you say, just use when you want to? Oh, and want to go somewhere else on vacation? Well, you already have this paid for property. Better go there.
That's their objective, to get rid of users who they can't monetize. Including veteran users with ad blockers who refuse to use the new site or any of its features.
IMHO mainstream consumers are clearly voting with their wallets that the benefits of hw/sw integration are more important to them than the drawbacks of hw/sw integration.
Chasing metrics.
Residential homes need to be left to the locals, not for vacation rentals, nor timeshares, nor hotels.

A house next to me was a popular AirBnb for two years, being rented out 6-8 times a month. It was awful to essentially be living next to a hotel. You can have all the rules you want, but vacationers never care about the rules as they will be out of there before they face any consequences.

I wonder how these people would feel if the homes next to them suddenly became hotels with new strange people living there every week.
No, it makes no sense. There are libraries like DataTables in .NET that do this far more robustly than you could.

You could also get the full power of Excel as an API via Office's or Google's spreadsheet APIs.

There are also things like AirTable that overlap as well.

You seem to have thought of a solution but not a problem. What problem would this solve?

(I have built a few products that simulate Excel calculations for reporting automation, so this topic is very familiar to me.)
Reversing DOS Functions: LDIV and LMOD
It's a subscription to a service, not a natural human right.

But in any case, even if it was fully paid for, those idiots do not have the right to put others at risk through their reckless irresponsibility.
Standards patents must be made available to license. Apple tried really hard to invest in a competing cellular modem provider (Intel) and gave up. Turns out, they’re really hard to build, and that’s why you can’t build one. Not patents.
Generated the animations from the repo linked in the paper: https://imgur.com/a/SJcAvHF

The specific tricks with their matrices are here: https://github.com/holomorpheus/topological-flips/blob/main/...
Other languages have similar problems, although not as striking. It does not make sense to special-case Azeri, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, Turkish, Tatar as you propose.

The real problem is giving in to the notion that having an unknown mix of languages in a text is an acceptable state of affairs. It's not; we should recognise the problem for what it is and work towards a future where it occurs less. Documents carry metadata about the language content, e.g. HTML and OpenDocument, precisely so that the algorithms which depend on a language like case-folding or word matching work correctly.

The situation is analogous to having a document with an unknown/undeclared text encoding: rely on the metadata where supplied, otherwise make a guess, perhaps informed by statistical properties of the text (e.g. uchardet) rather than system locale. It's not ideal, but works more often than not.
Thank you, that's lovely. Many of them are reminiscent of the covers of 50s scifi novels.

Converted to a direct download link:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1EJofIqhvHhh2...
I still remember rooting for the Ubuntu Edge phone and watching it fail and get cancelled.

The issue here is that "we" are not many people.

https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/software/why-did-the-ubun...
Why I Became Trans
IBM’s Z Processor: 7nm Process, 22.5 B Transistors, 8 Cores, Clocks over 5 GHz
> has predominantly been from the hands of men.

That should probably read "rich people", because while, yes, it was usually men doing the dirty work of enslaving other men, it was usually rich families who reaped the rewards.
Plenty of people are up for that, until they decide they'd like some variety. That's usually when they discover the secondary market for them is weak.
MemCoin that uses proof of Memory.
Me too! I find myself deleting posts as often as I write them. In that case I go back and read some of what you have written, to remind me how to be calm and considerate.
I only bother viewing tweets through Nitter instances nowadays.
It absolutely does. Republicans have a distrust of large institutions/corporations because of the above.
You've been able to get some interesting output! I've been playing with the following notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1oA1fZP7N1uPBxwbGIvO... but my results are not quite so well put together as yours. What are some tweaks you've made to the model? I'd like to better understand what is going on under the hood.
It’s not just about the end user here. It’s about not empowering the device to become a hacking tool in the hands of any random hacker with Xcode. I think the author could have done a better job acknowledging this.

Apple is seeing that they are in a position of responsibility here if they don’t draw lines in certain places.
It needs a handful of libraries. I generated the animations here: https://imgur.com/a/SJcAvHF
There is always a point at which you don't control the stack, that's been the case for decades now. Just look at the CPU and how you can't change the code that interprets microcode (I think I'm using that term right) or, even more insidious, the Intel ME. Yes, Apple has moved their control up the stack but some people pretend the world was an open source utopia before Apple created the iPhone. As someone who has to provide tech support to my family/friends I can tell you I couldn't be happier that they can't screw up their phones like they do their computers.
OWASP helped me quit Facebook
> That's not an option, it is a threat. And it fits the definition of forced labour.

If you take away the option, they're going to jail anyway, right?

They're convicts so they aren't going to escape the punitive measure unless the court allows it. You're literally arguing that, for a convict, putting them in jail if they refuse the alternative is forced labour, but that's ridiculous, because if all the abusive places referenced in the article didn't exist, they'd be in jail anyway.

Convicts (i.e. people found guilty of a crime and sentenced to imprisonment) aren't going to go free just because the "rehab" places don't exist.

In most jurisdictions convicts get no option - they get the punitive measure whether they like it or not. Giving them an alternative to the punitive measure is not "forced labour" no matter how you try to interpret it.
Except of course for the Trillion worth of mineral wealth found in 2010[0], that the Afghan government has been spending $300 million per year on(probably to US contractors)[1].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.htm...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-taliban-to-reap-1-trillion...
this is not a great idea. Even though you might get immunity to ticks, you can still get lime disease.
>Bill Gates' famous quip about no-one ever needing more than 640kb

He never said that.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
That’s true. But this one had already hit.
Avoid these common alt-text mistakes
It's being spreadsheeted to death. When, as a manager, all you look at is some Excel spreadsheet that tracks the numbers you think are important, you get reactionary management.
> There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certain Reddit content.

My first thought when I saw the headline was, how long until the front page features this:

Reddit starts to require login to view posts (twitter.com)

Then I realized this has probably already happened a while ago.

Such is the treadmill of social media platforms.
> Japanese law which forbids taking photos without a shutter sound?

Why???
Had a two 20% increase over a 6 month period at the same company by just asking to "be at the same rate as other positions in the market".
> neither voting nor web of trust on their own will address the problems of sock puppets online versus real human beings, cooperative manipulation by groups of abusers

That's definitely what WoTs are about, because a group of harassers trying to boost one another's reputation will not be part of your social graph (or at least not closely) so their scheme would be useless.

The main reason WoTs have turned out of fashion is they leak an incredible about of metadata about interpersonal relationships, which can lead to imprisonment or outright death ("We kill based on metadata" - NSA). However there's active research as part of the GNU/Net project on Fog Of Trust, a zero-knowledge implementation of a WoT which preserves the social graph. I hope more serious cryptographers give this approach a look because from my non-cryptographer's perspective it looks like it would offer the best from both worlds of decentralized WoTs and centralized anti-abuse systems.

> how to select among all possible codes of conducts

The problem with CoCs is they're abstract constructs often disconnected from actual moderation practices. You can have the worst CoC or no COC at all and very friendly/respectful admins who will go to lengths to protect their users, or on the contrary a very good-looking CoC that will never be respected in practice because admins will find a loophole in there or threaten you for your outstanding hysteria when pointing out that you've been receiving hundreds of death/rape threats in the past hours.

It's the same as with any legal system. Of course a more respectful legal code is better than a bad legal code, but that's not what's actually solving problems. Legal tools cannot solve human (political) problems, only we collectively can do it. The same can be said about the law in most countries, it's just on paper but however it gets applied/interpreted is up to the cops and judges who are happy to make your life as a victim more miserable.

> I appreciate the invite, but my day job takes priority, and I'm not able to allocate time for side projects this year.

Good luck for the day job! If by any chance you can still find time to collect a few links you find would give us important perspective on the topic, or even to write down your own reflections, consider us interested.
Does multicast have other uses outside of local network device communication? I’ve seen several apps trigger alerts that they want to access devices on the network if I grant permission and I’ve been saying no since I don’t understand why those apps would even be trying to connect to another device since they’re things like food delivery and other service related stuff.
Banned RSA SecurID certificate causing issues for Mac enterprise users
Another workaround for Android users is the FOSS app Fritter:

https://fritter.cc

Fritter is much more lightweight than Twitter's web app.

Also, if you are using a browser that supports extensions (such as a desktop browser or Fennec F-Droid[1]), the Privacy Redirect extension will redirect all Twitter requests to Nitter:

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

[1] Instructions for enabling custom extensions on Firefox Nightly or forks of Firefox on Android: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
When a login is required to view content, how do Google, Bing, and the others crawl the site?
I agree. I think The Great Recession of 2007 created an ongoing paranoid that marketing folks capitalize on.
Or, there was a massive, orchestrated PR campaign of lies that held us back. And one of their repeated motifs was that without fossil fuels we'd be living in the dark ages. And you bought into it for some reason.
Continue the erosion of laws and regulations in the name of tech. I wonder what the world will look like in twenty years.
One of the two major components of marijuana (the other being THC).
Last year, I tried to put together some sane information about the statistics of testing[1] plus a simple app that allows you to play with the arithmetic[2].

It took very little time to put it together. Everything on it is factually accurate. However, it took me three months to get all the bans on it removed by which point I had given up on the notion of providing sober commentary instead of constant breathless panic mode. At this point, I do not know if it still appears in any blacklists.

The simple fact was that with 5% of the population infected, a 2.5% false positive probability, and 10% false negative probability, fully 34.5% of all positive test results will be false. So, a lot of resources will be wasted in tracking, restraining, and constraining people who don't need to be and their absence from the labor market will have further repercussions. Sure, if 95% of the population is infected, the false positive rate will be really low, but then there is really no point to a massive testing infrastructure: Just assume everyone is infected instead of dealing with the fact that 33.9% of the negative results will be false.

Testing asymptomatic people repeatedly will likely not provide a net benefit beyond assuaging the fears of the perpetually panicked.

This is a recent example I am comfortable discussing in public.

[1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...

[2]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...
Well, a very good way to not accomplish something is to not try at all.
The distinction seems to be that there are two flavors of timeshare: shared deeded ownership and shared lease ownership interest [1].

The second one (leasing) is just the "right to time" and a separate company owns the property.

Pacaso is more like the first variant, except the company argues that they don't sell time (they sell 1/8th shares, while a regular time share might have split up deeded ownership into 52 shares where each gets you a week).

I would assume the law in St Helena deals with both classes of timeshare structure. Pacaso's argument then boils down to 8 != 52 (loosely). That's not a convincing argument for "we're not a timeshare".

Edit to add: the one wrinkle is that many buildings in San Francisco and New York are co-ops with a similar "you actually buy shares not the unit" structure. But even then, a single housing unit isn't divided.

(And to be clear, I'm not taking a position on the rights or wrongs here, I was just curious to remind myself what the "definition" of a timeshare was)

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/buying-timeshare-pro...
Given that this kind of stories are each time more frequent: why are we still buying Apple? Its not like the hardware is super special or the Unix compatibility (that we already have in Linux or even Windows).
I was at the exact same site, and I was listing one shot statistics. Right now, it shows for Portugal: 67% two shots, 81% one shot. Israel: 63% two shots, 68% one shot.

I guess it's possible that the same site shows different numbers depending on what view you use, so I include the link below.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Hand-feeding is important for kittens and feral cats, but once they are grown and domesticated it is less so. They do like you to be involved, but there's quite a bit of annoying behavior once the cat learns that you feed them the first thing in the morning. I guess if I wake you up early ...
One of the problems of recycling (glass, plastics, etc.) is that each container uses a different type of material, and shape.

We should mandate an international standard size container for food and beverages, so that eg. glass bottles can be reused by multiple brands, just with a different paper logo glued on.
Because remote work isn’t new and was on an uptrend before the pandemic.
I deactivated my account the other day in frustration over this. They would send me emails and I would sometimes click a tweet, only to be prompted to log in, which I didn't want to do because I wanted to avoid being sucked in. Okay, fine, I get that I wanted to use the site in a way that the site doesn't want me using it and that's their business decision. It still seems hard to believe that it's better for them to have someone completely off Twitter rather than receiving and occasionally clicking through emails to use the site.
Surely at this point our embassies have installed ultrasonic/ microwave detectors?
Honda isn't part of that decision, and the laws apply equally to vehicles of all makes. As long as you don't modify emissions, you actually get quite a bit of leeway.