skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a point in the pandemic (very early) where saying people should be wearing masks would have been considered misinformation compared to official statements from the CDC. That should be the only argument against this required.

Also early on, for way too long, human to human transmission was officially not happening per the WHO.
I liked groovy bot and it replaced what people would do manually by just streaming their machine watching YouTube.

It seems stupid that Google didn’t work something out as the main problem was that it didn’t play ads. So just play ads.

I dislike the trend of shutting down APIs as groovy should be able to use any user’s license to YouTube to play music into a channel (or Spotify or Apple Music or whatever).

This is the equivalent of playing a record over the phones to my friends and should cost me any extra money.

I’ve never used groovy in a channel with more than 5 people anyway.
There is the Blitzortung.org site - https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php - which has some interesting information.
There are many examples of that. Hungarian paprika made of peppers that are originally from the Americas. Same for Indian cuisine. Read The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby

My understanding is that pizza maybe originally from Italy, but it was popularized in the US by Italian-Americans. When American tourists started traveling in Europe in large numbers, they wanted "authentic" pizza, so Italians obliged by serving them a reinvented pizza.
Are you sure you don’t have predisposition to that conclusion?
> if we can trust the dogs (of course we can, only monsters and terrorists don't trust dogs)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418016
The article is as partisan as the title suggests, and it does not belong on HN.
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Does it still take 1l of (subsidized) fossil fuel to produce 1l of biofuel?
More relevant details here than the entire Mozilla article.
Ideologically it troubles me that political opponents are censored in USA (Trump) even though I vehemently disagree with every thing he has to say and I understand it’s damaging to the society through incitement of violence.
- you want to make sure that people respect the importance of your app by not running it along with everything else because it needs 10x the amount of resources a native app would
This is what Mozilla says about data collection.

> By default, Mozilla collects limited data from Firefox to help us understand how people are using the browser, such as information about the number of open tabs and windows or number of webpages visited. This does not include data that can reveal sensitive information about users’ activity online, such as search queries or the websites users visit.

I think you are defining the term spyware too broadly.
What makes you say this? Nigeria, a country with a currency that loses purchasing parity power every year, has the highest per capita usage of Bitcoin in the world.

Sounds like the people that need it ARE using it...
Isn't that true of a lot of old world cuisines? Potatoes, tomatoes, and chiles are native to the Americas so a lot of it didn't get introduced to Europe and Asia until the 1600/1700s.
> I don’t see that anywhere in the post to which I replied

Try again.

They said "Squatters are absolute scum of the earth", and proceeded to prove that with an anecdote specifically about meth [manufacturing] destroying a house.
It comes as no surprise to me, they were monetizing streaming music from YouTube to millions of people, once you get to that scale you can't pretend it's just a hobby project, it's a business that's freeloading on YT content.

If you want a music bot that won't succumb to the same fate, you are better off self hosting something on a small VPS.
But why? Why does it matter if a user is authenticated or not? This is just some moron PM’s arbitrary metric they’re chasing, and it serves no value to anyone.
That was a particular hue called “non-photo blue”. It photographed as white when using the common photo-offset printing process. So you could make comments, on the camera-ready copy, that people could read, but that wouldn’t reproduce. I’m old and had proofreading jobs in high school.
Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants’ Off-Nets
> OK, but those exact same places could power servers instead of miners, taking a load off of wherever the servers are currently hosted.

They don't have good internet. Which I wrote earlier. Crypto mining don't need good internet, it barely needs any good internet speed and barely needs decent latency - by design (blockchains allow anything from 2 seconds - 2000 milliseconds - to 10 minutes - 600000 milliseconds - for the majority of miners on the whole planet to reach the same state together, under the assumption that some nodes will have slow data and low latency. So a 500-900ms latency connection in the middle of nowhere is quite fine, not optimal but good enough for consistent average earnings). Other data heavy computational uses require the opposite of that, these remote sites are not going to get the plumbing for good internet or prioritize it. The main issue is that they won't prioritize it because they aren't interested in it, they are technophobic oil guys that are slowly being convinced by crypto investors to solve their pollution problem. The crypto people don't need anything except a little space.

The issue with imagining that everyone else could do it, is that everyone else doesn't need to do it. A data center can set up in the middle of the desert along any fiber line like they already do. Go ahead and tell them "hey instead of using this readily available property can you go set up at the oil refinery after making an unnecessary partnership with that unrelated business because I don't like that crypto people are doing it, you also need to invest in laying some pipes out there" if you really think that is practical or necessary, be my guest.
These sound great but are quite tame in terms of pizza.

South Korea takes the idea of pizza into downright absurdity. Imagine corn, squid, blueberry, garlic, sweet potato, and mayonnaise on a single pie together.
If this person had 1 BTC, I suddenly think they would not find it so useless. I think they would find a use for it rather quickly.
> Bankrupting your competitor might become as easy as paying a few bitcoins to a foreign mercenary.

This would result in insurance policies to guarantee against that outcome. Those policies in turn would introduce both costs and practices across industries that would improve the security of all the insured (and indirectly, their customers).

Unlike hiring a Rainmaker to look nice for the C-suite, imposing these costs would make sure that there's effective mitigations. Just like safety matters for your car, it would start to matter for your software.
It's certainly not just status and influence.

Sometimes you watch a group descend into being a cesspool of awfulness. The light stuff is death by boring memes, insults galore, "just an opinion" that are high-emotion crazy rants.

But the heavy stuff is worse. Watching individuals be egregiously insulted and threatened. Watching people delete their informative and well-meaning posts and never come back, because the first comment was some evil asshole having another content-free belittling attack because that's just what they do, no reason. Watching people be told they are incompetent, useless, should die, are the wrong gender, that sort of thing.

It is perhaps worse on locality-specific forums. Because then you are in view of people you know in your area, or are likely to interact with in future. Assholes don't care, and seem to enjoy the "status" that comes from putting down other people in the local area.

It does not help that such interactions seem to act like magnets in local forums, where putting people down through petty and unjustified insults attracts more of the same, and substantive interactions are lost. I guess that's because easy putdowns are low effort entertainment for some people.

But people finding themselves on the "unwinnable debate" receiving end of that sort of thing, end up leaving forums to get away from it, or are highly stressed whenever they have something to say, and may spend hours trying to carefully word everything just to avoid petty flamage from assholes and get substantive replies instead.

So some people are motivated to try to keep community areas a little gentler and cleaner. To protect and welcome others who appear to be joining in good faith, from the occasional blast of shitty replies. Like another commenter said, it's like clearing up litter when you go for a walk. Would be nice if it wasn't necessary, but because some people litter, others want to clear it up.

That's enough of a motivation for some. I've seen people spend hours moderating out of nothing more than a sense of civic duty and a desire to protect other people and encourage them to stay and feel welcomed and defended, to grow the community in a more friendly directionm, and to try to make the forum a less stressful place for new participants who have doing nothing wrong.

Like any volunteer working for something they feel is a good cause.
Apple still cares heavily about user experience, and relies on their brand equity to charge a premium for hardware.

Hard to be the quality leader in the market when your customers find your software inferior.
216 = 6 * 6 * 6 -- That's a "Color Cube": a 6x6x6 3D cube of 216 equally spaced colors. Not necessarily the colors you'd actually want, though, just mathematically convenient. Figuring out the closest color in the cube to any color is quick and easy (so you can do a quick 24=>8 error diffusion dither, for example, which needs to do that every pixel), but lots of the colors suck.

Web-Safe Colors (a Color Cube)

https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=23671&seqNu...

Not to be confused with a Time Cube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
I had to manually change the urls in their site to opt-out of some data sharing a couple months ago.

Something like that getting shipped to prod... yeah, you have the D team building tech at tmobile. So we should collectively be shocked if their codebase isn't a leaky sieve.
Advances in the ZIO 2.0 Scheduler
CCP publication calls Tibet policy a template for other ethnic minority regions
Fine. What would that have changed? You can blame denialism all you want but a much more powerful motive is economic. For most of their history, fossil fuels have been the cheapest source of energy.

It's not as if I see half of the US (Democrats) driving EVs, installing solar on their roofs, eating plant based diets, etc. Blaming Republican denial is just dishonest.
I also disagreed with,

> Here Microsoft uses the “hyperlink blue” for active states when a user clicks on different drives, folders and icons.

Hyperlink blue was a much brighter blue (pure blue, on the interfaces I used, but I was a litter later in the timeline) than Window's blue, which was a (noticeably) darker blue.
Building a good search engine requires 3 things:

1) A large index
2) Clickstream data
3) Distribution

It’s a circular scaling product, as #3 increases it increases #2 which in turn improves results and leads to more #3.

Google is buying distribution here which keeps their competitors from getting the valuable clickstream data that can improve their product. Thus they are reinforcing the idea that their product is the “best” while simultaneously preventing any competitor from matching them.
You're absolutely right that (many? all?) cities need to get way more serious about housing supply. It's a difficult topic, and it seems to be a divisive one as well.

Any property that is empty (and not actively being renovated etc) should be taxed to death. There is really no room for empty, abandoned buildings in urban areas. It's a huge waste of space and resources, and it's disgraceful that homelessness and abandoned buildings can coexist within the same city.

There's a disturbing amount of negativity towards squatters in this entire discussion, calling them "scum" and whatnot. I hope none of these posters ever have the misfortune of becoming homeless. A squat is a damn sight better than living under a bridge somewhere.
> I'm very happy to see that Sailfish keeps shipping because more alternatives are always good.

If you are searching for actually user-respecting alternatives based on FLOSS, have a look at Librem 5 and Pinephone.
What do you consider a background in compsci? A few years in the industry?

Because my degree is in Management Information Systems (MIS), but I've done troubleshooting on both performance problems of the O(n^5) variety and problems of the "not covered in the requirements document" variety... Not sure what else I need to understand, say, memory bounds-checking problems or firewall/ACL configuration problems.

EDIT: expanded acronym
Deming is talking about repeatable manufacturing processes. The point of Statistical Process Control is that you sample metrics that tell you if the process will produce products reliably within tolerances.

Software is completely different, it is hardly ever a repeatable process to create software. Making the same software over and over is nonsensical, but making a billion identical contact lenses is exactly what you want.

There are forms of software "inspection," like pair programming, that amount to what Deming says you should not do in manufacturing: Inspect everything. But pair programming is pretty rare. Other practices like code review have been called into question. So it may still be true that you can't inspect your way to quality in software, but not for the same reasons that it is a bad idea in many cases in manufacturing.
Under the current circumstances, sure they do. But just like skipping landlines for cellphones, if the incentives were such that developing countries could leapfrog over dirty industry without a development penalty (which could be possible had we taken a different path the last 50+ years) - they very well might.
You may be able to find out more information, including instructions on assembling your own ground station, at Flightaware - https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build/
Could bats hold the secret to healthy ageing
Blaming supply or demand when you have an unpriced negative externality doesn't make sense. Tax carbon, and use the funds to pay for decarbonization. We'll get better and cheaper alternatives and carbon sinks.

Many quote $100 to $1000/tCO2e. But if we get down to $10, getting to net zero and negative won't break the bank.
> Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone.

Sight Piracy as the reason, but get better conversion tracking for those sweet Ad clicks. We all know which companies would be drooling at the prospects of this.

Sadly this isn't hypothetical, Card companies have colluded with the data hoarders in the past for this exact purpose.
TSMC is building a $12b manufacturing facility in Arizona that will be able to produce the 5nm chips used in Apple products. They are fully aware of the geopolitical risks and are taking responsible steps to mitigate them.

To the extent that the higher unit prices help them cover those investments, I'm more than happy to pay whatever portion of the increase gets passed on to consumers.
1: True

2: Big oil did push to keep the plane fuel low (or rather inexistant) worldwide though. But true.

3: What? No. Unless recently is everything after the 70s. Heat pump was more efficient than gas heating since the 50s (at least), but was hard to control, that was the main issue. My friend grandad learned to work with heat pumps during the Franco-Algerian war (54 i think) and installed one in his home (on Oleron Island) in the 70s (first that were home-sized). I think they were built in Sweden. His career was made on this tech.
Our consent is cloaked because even when we democratically elect a ruler, they then say see we have the consent of the people to do xyz, even though they were elected saying they would do abc.

Most people just say well next time I’ll elect my other side and they’ll do abc that I would consent to. And the process repeats.

Still in some sense if there is true consent by an individual then it isn’t necessarily coercive though it could be manipulative.

Also the consent of two saying I don’t mind if you take/abuse from the one can be totalitarian.

If we think Trump was bad, I think people might be horrified at how hard the pendulum swings back the other way. Many people hate much of the policies going on under Biden (even if just out of partisan reasons and not principles), and one party acting like they can do whatever they want because they have the presidency and a tie in a senate doesn’t change there are like 50 million people who feel like they’re being “oppressed”.

Just as dubya seemed less bad once we had Trump, the next guy might make Trump look the same in comparison.

All done with “consent of the ruled”
The real thing to gauge is human suffering, which isn’t easy to measure so it often isn’t measured.
It's a consideration.
Why do you think it is not a lock?
How I Made $80k On Side Projects In 2020
I was just talking with someone today about how Fetch API is now 10 years old and still isn't a complete replacement for XmlHTTPRequest (or is it XMLHttpRequest? I can never remember) because it can't do file upload progress tracking. It's been a decade of "the spec doesn't support that yet". Yet? Will it ever? At what point do you admit you're just not going to do it?
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I'm not equipped to evaluate, but a quick Google seems to suggest this result is against the majority of other papers. That's not to say it's wrong, just that reading most other papers on the subject would suggest something else
How does this breakthrough even happen in a self-isolating country? Business travel? Animal reservoirs?
> New, but doesn’t mention Apple’s photo scanning. Forced Windows upgrades and telemetry buried.

Those two things are different issues, the article is about software that makes it difficult to perform the actual task you are using the product for.

Apple's photo scanning doesn't make my camera difficult to use. Windows telemetry doesn't make Windows difficult to use. Yes, they are user hostile, just not in the way you wish the article was written.
If you have disposable income to spend $30 on an internet service, it's likely you also have a mortgage. Mortgage search ads alone are around $10 a click IIRC.
> simply providing metadata about what you are listening to

scrobbling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm#Scrobbling

edit: I had to go just a bit further into this rabbit hole. Apparently the term "scrobble" is still a registered trademark of Last.fm, a company owned by ViacomCBS.

There's the open source ListenBrainz project, which uses "listen" instead:

https://listenbrainz.org/faq/
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> a big "fuck you" to google

Ehh, I'll be the devil's advocate, google makes money via tracking and ads. Both were avoided by using the bot. big brother is just protecting their business model.
TikTok owner Bytance is acquiring Pico VR, makers of a Quest 2 competitor
This your comment has some well reasons, and I thank you despite that I disagree. It contribute to the exchange of ideas. The top comment does not so, this is my objection.
No, they can't. This isn't my opinion. This is opinion of the US legal system.
Cryptocurrency chips are less than 5% of TSMCs total production, it's not the major driving force in the shortage.
The FBI is selling a surveillance plane it used on Black Lives Matter protests
One problem with high tax based on capital gains at sale is that it needs the sale to happen and you start running into issues where people never sell and houses will get inherited. This still doesn’t tackle the problem head on.
Both, because different organizations prioritize different things. In some places, developers can run the show, in others, it is the marketing team calling the shots.

I think the early startup area is driven by developers, but once a product gets some traction they transition into the product manager/marketer driven mode where dark patterns start to show up.
Thanks for responding! I guess I was mainly reacting to your claim about the move to subscriptions. It costs $10/mo to make software these days. $0.33/mo (your stated price) isn’t tenable.

I expect the added costs apply similarly for other portions of the supply chain. Apple hardware provides similar quality to what you’re asking for. It is 2-4x more expensive and that’s with the advantage of scale.
Equifax agreed to pay 600 million, but still saw profits up 20% for the year... Sure they could have made 600 million MORE in profit, but that's still just 15% of their profits for the year.. sure they'll spend a few million in the area they need to shore up one time and wait for the next incident... It's just good for business... Invest enough to keep these incidents down to one every 5 years, pay fine, repeat.
Even small doses of fear and pessimism is enough to make the majority of people accept mass surveillance.

In Denmark in 2017 we had a summer of daily gang shootings. That fear was enough for the government to fly military SIGINT and surveillance planes above Copenhagen for weeks. There was almost no opposition to this level of mass surveillance.

https://www.berlingske.dk/samfund/politiet-tager-nye-vaaben-...
> In real life people are looking for escalation of privilege exploits that enable them to exploit iOS to allow for installation of arbitrary software on it. This is what jailbreaking is.

"Unjust imprisonment is fine because you can hire a black ops team to break you out."

So you jailbreak your iPhone. Then an iOS update comes out patching a security vulnerability. If you install it, it removes your jailbreak (or bricks your phone). If you don't, your device has an unpatched security vulnerability.

And at any given time there may not be a jailbreak for the current version of iOS.

This is not a reasonable state of affairs.

> At what point did I ever state any of this or even imply this? I am simply stating that licenses affect all the software we run and places restrictions from the creators of said software on the users of it. This has nothing to do with Apple surveilling its users with its new tech.

The problem is that Apple is imposing license restrictions you don't want. Your response was that all licenses impose restrictions. That ignores the important distinction between restrictions you actually care about and restrictions that don't really affect you.

> Hypothetically it is possible to run whatever software you want on an iPhone, including installing another OS.

Hypothetically you can make your own iPhone out of sand and crude oil. In practice no third party operating systems for iPhones exist because Apple doesn't document their hardware and so there are no drivers for third party operating systems.

> In real life almost no one gives a shit about running arbitrary code on their devices and just use it to get access to the applications that are readily available in official app stores.

In real life most people unjustly imprisoned by a government don't have the wherewithal to break out of prison. That doesn't mean they like being in incarcerated, or having Apple scan their devices.

What it means is that they're structurally bound into a position where their true preferences can't be expressed. Which is the problem.

> You can dislike their software licensing terms and still use your iPhone.

Yes, exactly. But you can't refuse to accept their software licensing terms and still use your iPhone, which means that your choice is between having something imposed on you that you dislike, or your iPhone is a brick because you can't in practice use it under any other terms.
That's great news... so how do I opt-out of the CO₂ that BTC is generating?
Some people might interpret that as taking a stand in the politics of language.
Re>> "I suspect @nsxwolf understood that, though."

You're probably right. I still struggle with tone sometimes. I'm still getting used to this whole "Internet" thing... ;-)