skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Nothing wrong with that in itself. The issue I have is that he associates the choice of a white man with 'substantial lack of awareness of recent cultural history and the coming of age our institutions'.

And in case you were not sure, he makes it quite clear that be it isn't about his comments or statements. But is actually a 'deeper issue'.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Seriously, can you imagine if someone suggested that choosing a black woman was somehow opposing 'knowledge and intelligence'? People would explode and justifiably!
That wasn't my experience. The janitorial duties were nice, but some users made our life hell. They would hound some of us around over perceived slights and even spread false rumours about us. Throwaway accounts made rules unenforceable.

There are frequent calls for a change of mods, and a long list of grievances about the current moderators. However, nobody ever volunteers their own efforts to fix anything.

I still see such drama spring up here and there. I'm just glad I'm not the target of it anymore.

"Moderation wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fucking users"
It really is. I’ve played for years. I came so close to beating it last year, I needed a break after that.
> I did that with 9gag a decade ago and never went back since...

Other than HN, 9gag is the only place on the internet that I still regularly visit. Most people posting and commenting have stuck around for a decade and it has been really nice to age together with an online community.
Discovery of fastest ever magnetic wave propagation
Why wouldn't the passengers survive? Even though they will reach terrifying speeds, at no point will their acceleration exceed a relatively gentle 9.8ms^-2
I use it here in the US. As for the devices, the ones you listed are the ones licensed. There are a lot more community ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS#Community_enthusia...
That’s why I use basecamp - they’re explicit and clear about staying small and profitable enough, with zero ambition for infinite growth.
> 1TW is around 20% of global energy production.

It's estimated all of the U.S. is ~17% of global energy. [1]

"According to the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Bitcoin currently consumes around 110 Terawatt Hours per year — 0.55% of global electricity production, or roughly equivalent to the annual energy draw of small countries like Malaysia or Sweden." [2]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=87&t=1
[2] https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
> And unless you print photos very regularly or sometimes need them right-this-instant-gods-damn-it, you are usually better off going to a local shop and having them printed there on better paper with better equipment, cheaper.

If I had any need for colour prints, it would be a viable option since there is a shop a block away. For many people who regularly print in colour, the cost of the printer could be justified by the time it takes to stop off at the shop to pick up the prints. That being said, I don't see consumer grade colour printers fitting this role.

Convenience is why I maintain a relatively inexpensive laser printer. I could easily print off 10 pages per week of work related documents at work, but racing across the building only to discover the printer isn't working (which it isn't about 10% of the time) and having to work around that problem for a good chunk of the day isn't worth the trouble of saving about $50/year.
Most of the "free and open" internet is centrally controlled.

HN quickly shadow bans anybody who goes against the dominant ideology.
>considering natural levels of testosterone vary considerably between humans, couldn't it be considered fairer to allow steroid use provided total levels are below a particular level?

People have varying natural levels of testosterone. What might be low for some might be normal for others. Just making all the numbers match won't equalize the way everyone's unique bodies work
The chemistry part of making steel requires something to remove oxygen from iron oxide (unrusting it, so to speak). For conventional steel that's carbon, in the process I'm referring to hydrogen fills that role.
Right, but using Lightsail as an example to keep things simple, you're picking between scaling at 3x the cost of the server vs db service or a set $5 per database.

I would still trust the AWS service with something mission critical though. Hippobase might be good for stuff which isn't mission critical but otherwise wouldn't have anything the service offers because you don't want to throw the resources at.
If the outlier has >100x as much market share as the rest of the other unixes combined, is Linux really still the outlier?
And I always switch it to something else... $15B wasted as far as I matter. :-)
The EU's upcoming ePrivacy Regulation[1] proposes, among other suggestions, to move cookie consent into the browser:

"Simpler rules on cookies: the cookie provision, which has resulted in an overload of consent requests for internet users, will be streamlined. The new rule will be more user-friendly as browser settings will provide an easy way to accept or refuse tracking cookies and other identifiers. The proposal also clarifies that no consent is needed for non-privacy intrusive cookies that improve internet experience, such as cookies to remember shopping-cart history or to count the number of website visitors."

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/proposal-epriv...
I don't see any ties with the Russian government, just that they are getting investment from a Russian telecom.
The real question is how do you create a pool of voters who is 'representative' of the users.

One way is you could look to some historic list of people (like for example, everyone who had a US passport issued in 1992), and say they are the voters.

An evil actor subverting more than half of those people would be very hard.
Ask HN: Resources for someone with a medical test device idea?
I have an idea for an at-home medical test device.

Does anyone have links or advice that would be helpful?

Like I don't know if I should try to sell the idea, build a company for it, or what. I think the best thing to do might be to partner with or sell the idea to an existing company that prices things reasonably (for patient benefit) and is already established in the medical device market (has experience with testing, approval, and marketing).
Nonresponse bias due to instilled fear of deviating from the reigning orthodoxy excluded as usual.

The article links here[1] for details of the poll, but that seems to refer to a different one. ... Hmmm, here is the PDF for topline numbers[2]. Some interesting things in there:

>> CUR1. Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the...

>> Right direction ... 39% / Wrong direction 61%

Turning back to the AP article:

> Remote workers especially likely to favor requiring vaccines for in-person workers.

A lot of people have been caught in a vicious cycle of isolation. They are now too scared to venture out of their bubbles, so they try to come up with more conditions to delay the prospect of working in the same space with others.

Monk was supposed to be a comedy with some Columbo thrown in. The reaction to SARS-Cov2 and Covid19 have been dominated by people who seem to consider him a role model[3]. Politicians have realized harnessing people's anxiety is good for control.

[1]: https://apnorc.org/projects/support-for-mask-and-vaccine-man...

[2]: https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Covid-schools_...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YkyH2rN0tA
What competitors lol? You can't exactly make chips in a basement.
I personally want open discussion within boundaries. So does the law.

Regarding the rest, do you realise that HN is worse in this regard since the flag mechanism can be abused by much fewer participants?
So is GPUs for crypto mining demand, though. GPU makers don't hate it because they have a conscience, they hate it because it can collapse any moment when a bubble unrelated to their product bursts (or someone makes an ASIC, for some of them).
> A recent Typhoon (one of the half dozen that hammered China) refilled all their reservoirs about a month or so ago.

Yes I should have phrased that better, sorry. The thing is, making one wafer of chips takes roughly 3 months, and everything else has even more terrible lead times. So there's a delay in the impact of events.
Analyzing Einstein’s Handwriting
But are they only required to get you stabilized and send you home? Or are they going to provide your cancer treatment, diabetes supplies, etc?
>The anti-mask, anti-vax, the_donald, and so much more all incubated in Reddit under the watch of the mods, the admins

Those subs are by far in the minority and are always on the line of getting quarantined or outright shutdown.

r/politics is the poster child of what 90% of Reddit is. Reddit is by FAR an echo chamber for leftist ideas than it is for "alt-right" anything.
2052 karma right now. I don't have the heart to downvote them back into 2048.
If there is ever a good excuse to use fossil fuels its to build something which will deprecate them.
It is a function of time. During the trials, it was a 95% reduction, Israel last reported a 39% reduction.
I've not used this particular image myself but I have installed glibc in an alpine image, then compiled some code and copied that over to run on the scratch image as part of a multi-stage build.

Super useful as alpine is a small image and with none of the drawbacks mentioned in the blog post.
> Thesis project for the Interaction Design master’s at Malmö University

Having to enter the start by a name (or your location) and destination by a 2d grid while neither can be selected on the globe as far as I can tell certainly is a choice you can make for "Interaction Design". A good one though?
Vaccines are for healthy people, so it's a larger market.
And it's additional $15B R&D fund for Apple to improve its own search system that I can't imagine it's been developing for many years now behind the scenes.
The jq creator.
Depends how much you interact with the site.

Additionally, if you ever log in, correlation can be made with older stored logs, thus even if surf anonymously afterwards, the same IP range can be mapped to you, even if it isn't guaranteed to be correct.
You really may be waiting a good while. And if a desirable used model is ever a decent price, it’ll be a unit burnt out from mining fake money that’s only used to buy real money or a mail order of LSD.
When a website hijacks the scroll behaviour of the browser, then I'm not interested in what they offer.
There were even two apps, Mittäkuuluu by coderus, and Whatsup from older Symbian and Meego times. Both worked fine and were lovely to use, untill the company Whatsapp sent threatening letters from their lawyers to the developers.

Whatsapp also often blocked users using those apps (I had it happen multiple times) and you could reactivate your account if you logged in with the official whatsapp.apk again. A few days later the Sailfish apps were updated and I would switch to one of those again :)

So now there is no other option then use the whatsapp.apk, or just not use it and switch completely to Signal.
The drought was over months ago. Taiwan is well into typhoon season (they've had two already). The water reservoirs are full[1].

And TSMC was never really affected. They were not forced to save water, unlike every other company on the island.

[1] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/07/05/200...
It isn't extreme at all, it's the basic contract of the web. If something works today and is standardized, it should keep working forever.

The main reason is the gigantic size of the web and the state most of the web is in. Unmaintained. There's no team to update anything, so you're purposefully breaking the web.
The underlying cause here is unbound and often unregulated profit motive with the farse that competition self regulates. At some scales competition self regulates but at scale we see now, it simply doesn't. There are too many barriers and too strong of foothold in markets.

As a result it trickles down, how can we improve our revenue stream. More data, more ads, more nickel and diming consumers, how can we lockdown control of this product/service, charge more for the same and even more for less.

Developers are, in my opinion, just along for the ride and not making these decisions so much as allowing and enabling them to happen. In the world of professions software engineering pays quite well and it pays well for a variety of reasons. People take lucrative positions and decide, reasonably, that what they're being told or pressured to do isn't that bad. It's not like the holocaust where they're turning a blind eye to genocide, they're turning a blind eye to corporate, monopolistic, and oligopic market abuses because at the end of they day they get to live comfortably.

I develop garbage I don't agree with often. I reduced my comp level to have more leverage to haggle against questionable practices but even then I still have to do some questionable things. For developers it's a choice of following along and being paid well or taking a hit and working somewhere that comps a hit less but doesn't product hostile products. I have nothing against those who choose to enable these business practices because they're building financial security in a world we've created that says these practices are OK. Businesses are sort of doing the same but they're more proactive in shaping the policy that allows these practices, so they have real responsibility here. Consumers have a responsibility as well by continuing to buy garbage they don't need that uses these practices. Voters have some responsibility for pushing politicians in who bend to the will of businesses to allow deregulation or prevent regulation for these practices. Politicians have blame for the ethical flexibility to let lobbyists and businesses incentivize them to represent businesses more than their voter base.

We have a mess on our hands with everyone having a little bit of blame here but the biggest responsibility I believe falls on large businesses and the capital holders behind them setting most of this in motion.
Cryptocurrency miners are handing TSMCs boatloads of money that they are using to grow their R&D efforts. Cryptocurrency, in the long term, will be amazing for the advancement of GPU technology.

(though we should still move crypto away from GPU mining for environmental and security reasons)
Isn't that more because of what they are optimizing for than the fact that they are optimizing? To continue the food analogy engagement is blood sugar levels and they are seeing how high they can crank it. If they optimized for "happier and healthier in the long run" then they would probably loose short term engagement spikes, but have fewer people quitting for health reasons. Basically they could be broccoli if they wanted to be but they choose to be soda.
A little off topic, but the article mentions:

> There are three reasons to use dataclasses over attrs:

Another, not in this list, is that since it is in the standard library, co-workers/contributors are significantly more likely to have heard of dataclasses and already know its interface. Another reason, sort of along similar lines, is the fact that that dataclasses has fewer features than attrs - the author mentions this as a disadvantage, but actually it's a benefit if it has the features you need, because a simpler library is less cognative overhead to write and maintain code against.
> I didn't think the cookie law is actually an intrinsic part of GDPR

Because it is not. [1] It was part of the ePrivacy directive, it has been amended since. The TL;DR is: today, if you don't use cookies for tracking and/or ads, you're fine. Just put a cookie consent checkbox on the user login form, and your website will have a much nicer user experience.

If you show a cookies consent modal before your visitors can access anything, either:

* you have personalised ads with global tracking. (~= criteo, amazon ads, or google adsense)

* you're using a globalised analytic tool. (~= Google Analytics)

* you're following an outdated version of the ePrivacy/GDPR directives.

But it's easier to blame it on the EU.

[1] https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
This hits too close to home.

I used to be able to learn new tech quickly, bang out tons of work, and be able to context switch / multi-task with ease.

I can't bring myself to do my taxes. I feel it's only a matter of time until I get fired. I try hard to get back into work, but my brain just won't let me. I'll then spend more time in front of the computer to try and catch up which just makes it worse. Doing any type of work is like pulling teeth just to get started. Don't know what I'm going to do. The worst part is I get angry about it.
isn't the flu vaccine just a cocktail of existing vaccines tailored to the strains we predict will be active?
This will partly depend on whether the EU also decide to change regulations around cookie consent.

You might be interested to follow the EU's ePrivacy Regulation proposals, described here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eprivacy-r... (and in particular, the top-level item related to cookies).
Tuna raises $3M to address complexity of e-commerce payments in Latin America
That'd be a massive list. I easily find useful subreddits for my interests in bicycling, rowing, climbing, and harmonica playing. My local subreddits are not exactly useful but they're ok for what they are.
Startup equity: Who, what, where and when?
To save you from reading to answer the clickbait title: insufficient supply combined with people abusing the system to sublet for profit or gift rent controlled apartments to friends and family.
You should feed your own ego a bit more and make their devices vote for Trump on next election because you seem to know better what they need. DDG is cool and usable but to go that far and change my family's or friends default SE with something else which is inferior, unexpected and uncalled for is just..rude to say the least. A tool is a tool and people should use the best there is otherwise you're just putting them on a competitive disadvantage in life since we use a SE for almost anything these days.
Building a new factory is a 10+ year effort for a competitor. (They have to do the R&D to get on-par with performance, and physically build the factory).

The shortage won't last that long.

But in the meantime, anyone who owns a suitable factory can pretty much set the prices as high as they like. I'm really surprised the price hike is only 20%, rather than 10% per month for the next 3 years.
Your source doesn’t claim that Citigroup wanted to maintain the societal status quo, though.
There’s definitely going to be a market opportunity in publishing the James Joyce’s Ulysses in a limited edition shampoo bottle format. The perfect vanity gift for that special someone who already has everything, but tends to forget their phone when heading to the ministry of magic :-)
Silent change in this concept means there is no way to identify P2 from P, and both are sold under the same product name, product code, product specifications, and same product reviews. The later is the key aspect as selling products with the intent to trick the consumer is a defining aspect of fraud when done intentionally for profit purpose.

While shrinkflation often also intend to trick the consumer, the details are usually defined. The packet weight or volume number is changed, the weight cost is change (a list requirement for many products where I live), the number of items has changed. With silent changes however there is no such information available and the consumer just will have to hope that their P is not P2.
Actually Bitcoin and a lot of other coins have a coin limit (to prevent hyperinflation) and once the limit is set than the miners would make money on the transaction fee.
I think the entire argument falls apart at the Flowchart presented:

"Would any user benefit from this?"

Why? Because its trivially easy to say those shitty additions help a user, satisfying the check and throwing you into "Build It" territory.

Do users know how to navigate their local network to upload data to a folder? Not all of them, hook it into a cloud service. Do all users know how to download the right BIOS for their mobo and execute the update? No, make an app. Do users even know what version of OS they're on? Nope, better make something platform agnostic so electron it is!

I'm not all in on FOSS, but I do try to support them when appropriate. I think that ecosystem does a decent job of giving the user control over what's happening, but that comes with the obvious drawbacks of having a higher barrier to entry. I can figure these things out, but my wife can't... my mom can't.

At the same time some of the examples given live in two different realms. A calculator accessing your contacts & location is a different case than your dashcam wanting to ease the backup process. A mobo bios update is different than ads in your video driver installer.

I don't pretend to offer realistic solutions. I think I'm a bit pessimistic that our hacker culture will collectively decide we need to focus on user-first features and oust malicious developers looking to exploit the tech-illiterate. I've seen it too many times on hackernews that people will justify any action because it simplifies things now. I've never favored "move fast and break things" culture and butted heads with hackers who think regulation à la engineering code of ethics is detrimental to our profession.
Amateur Radio at fault for reportedly causing interference to insulin pumps
> And with AI, it's going to get worse.

Cynical prediction: AI influencers, possibly with a hybrid components. Accounts powered by some GPT-esque generator, acting like a real human, shilling various widgets in a naturalistic way. Use humans-in-the-loop to add randomness and natural-ness. Or just AI extending how much marketers can generate.

And/or microinfluencers. Platforms benefitting (otherwise regular) users in some way to adopt some stance. Oh, you said good things about Brawndo, and our fingerprinting was able to trace your social media to your amazon wishlist, which happens to have Brawndo in it? Free pack of brawndo shipped to you from a "mystery admirer". Post a selfie with a logo prominently, CV bots pic it up, get swag. Gossip quickly spreads that if you say nice things about X, or take pics of Y, you get free swag. Suddenly your feed is full of your friends giving a lot of organic-seeming attention to corporate products. It'll put the Sunoco bumper sticker campaign to shame.
Implementing GDPR and CCPA is a huge pain for publishers now; here we have a new standard to understand and comply with. Nobody stopped setting cookies, they just added CMP vendors which set their own cookies. I can’t think of a single thing a regulator has done to make the web more private. Browsers and extensions are the beginning and end of what stops tracking and abuse.
If you want to change someone’s behavior/strategy, give them an easier and more pleasant one achieving the same result / meeting their needs.

Give the PM something that makes it even easier - than excel - for them.

What’s easier for data entry, sorting, filtering? Maybe a google spreadsheet providing effortless updates for everyone?

Anything with more friction than a spreadsheet will be a tough sell.
Some of them speak German as well!

It's pretty clear that they are Nazis, and use the cover of a group about software to plan the invasion of Poland.
No. If there's fear of a shortage and prices don't rise adequately in response, then shortages happen.
The bottom line is, Reddit has value — and not just a little. Whenever I’m trying to figure something out, I can always find a sub that has the answer, or will help.

Most recent example was California drivers safety course. Googled: “Reddit drivers safety course California” and found a class that was entirely self-paced, $10, and got me through it with a letter off to court in under an hour.

Maybe I would’ve found it anyway, but dammit, I was over the moon.