skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is all we get, if there's no point of life outside of life, it's all the more important to treat it preciously. If someone ends your life or abuses you, you don't get a second round.
Matt Cutts’ tenure recently ended, and Mina Hsiang has assumed his role as head of USDS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28390511
I got there from "radical anti-abortionists," and the context of the rest of the comment.

edit: but apparently I misinterpreted the comment so mea culpa, my bar for "radical" is different than mc32's.
Sure but how many of those are actually comptition for Samsung Galaxy watches or Apple Watches? I have a Fenix 5 but wouldn't consider that to be competition for an Apple watch due to the terrible display and lack of apps. Easy to get a weeks worth of battery if the device doesn't run anything.
This is in effect stopping people from even going to a public place and speaking.

It boils down to this: if you think wrongly you aren't allowed to speak. We have all been down this rabbit hole before, none of this is new, it never works out well.
Ruby's influences are sometimes described as being both Perl and smalltalk, but I'd say Ruby's OO comes more from Smalltalk than Perl OO.

Things that came more from Perl to ruby include: Ruby's syntax; first-class regex support; some rarely used features like the Perl-ish global variables and command-line options; just the idea of being an interpreted unix-friendly language executed like `ruby file.rb`.

I do think Python and ruby are very similar languages, in the whole universe of languages. I think that's not really because either influenced each other, but instead because both were invented at approximately the same time, to meet similar needs -- both as interpreted-not-compiled, edit-with-a-text-editor, with C-like syntax, etc.

Them both being so similar, I wonder what's behind things like "ruby just didn't click for me but then I loved Python" -- but then, I'm the same just opposite. I don't know if I'd say it didn't "click", but I much prefer ruby to python, hugely (and sadly at this point, I feel like a betamax enthusiast), despite knowing that they are basically similar languages.
It's usually not even advantageous for the communist party. They'll get much richer running a corrupt mostly-capitalist state than they would running a centrally planned communist state.
Do those microphones apply to the open seas?

We don't even have geosync satellites that cover the seas today. Not enough travelers to make those areas worth it to cover the satellite launch costs.
Pebble Time Steel can last up to 12 days, with the screen always on.

Pebble is so good that I still keep 2 extra ones in their unopened boxes, for the day my current one fails.
Hi, this is fun! The Algolia HN search site has a list of "cool apps" that use their API.

https://hn.algolia.com/cool_apps

I submitted a pull request to add your site to the list.

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/214
Your tonnage argument is good for the short term, but they won't be behind for long.

And if they hit our aircraft carriers with the hypersonic missiles they've developed, our advantage disappears outright.
Yeah after looking at it closer. I was amused as I thought Wizard of Oz before I realize what the shapes were.
I’m surprised ACS hasn’t sued Delta Airlines… unless they have already and Delta licensed their name.
I've recently been playing with flutter and I like it more than react-native. React-native feels kind of a hack job, and the resulting program isn't really that well optimized (both performance and size wise). Flutter seems like more thought out solution where react-native was afterthought for react. Both are very productive environments however.
US banks have their own version of Venmo called Zelle that is integrated into banking apps/websites.
Looks like the US just lost a competitor.
> In the US it’s a meaningless opinion

A common opinion of a broad and disproportionately (because of systematically unequal representation) politically powerful faction is not “a meaningless opinion”.

But, more to the point, in the mix of pro-authoritarian cheerleading and anti-Communist denigration directed at China from the US Right, the accusation that China has a “dying culture” and grabbing on to any possible grounds to support this is a recurring part of the latter. So when the utterance to which that import is being ascribed is one about Chinese culture that is also a frequent refrain about US culture from the US Right...
I'm not aware of any meaningful policies that exist today to fend off growing Chinese dominance. In any case, I believe it would require a huge transformation of the US to turn around our decline to even begin to face off with China. There are 3 concerns I have:

1. We are deadlocked by domestic politics and our populous are divided.

2. We are completely dependent on China for critical goods and supply chain.

3. We are beholden to China via corporate and political interests.

Unless these things can be turned around, and I believe it is impossible at this stage, we will succumb to the Chinese in the next decade or so.
Satellites?
I discovered this yesterday to encrypt any message and file for any platform https://enigma-reloaded.github.io/enigma-reloaded/#/
Your words were stirring. Reminds me of the monologue scene in "Ghost Story" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bs2o5
Free speech is the concept, the human right. The first amendment is the government’s pinky promise to not violate that right. Swearsies. Unless you say something they’d rather be secret, of course.
> What?

I'm certain nowhere in Marx is the term "post scarcity". If that's what he really meant, then it should be easy to demonstrate that with a paragraph or so. Otherwise one could take any good outcome and insist that Marx already predicted it.
>>no one has a basis for saying what they chose is worse than anyone else's choice.

Of course they do! If your parents were killed by Stalin you probably have an opinion one way or the other. That is exactly what this thread is talking about.
A lot more companies make it difficult to manage subscriptions that those you happen to consider "shady".
The problem with identity politics is that no progress is made. You are never going to convince another identity that yours should get special treatment. Only when a group demands equal rights do we make progress, because there is never any good arguments why one group shouldn't have the same rights as others. Equality remains self evident.
Miro grew 3x, Twilio's PLG motion, PLG metrics
Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
You allocating a particular meaning to your life's actions does not mean that other's allocate that same meaning; you're making an unjustified logical leap.
I have an account and was not aware of any lawsuit so I am seeing this news only threw emails from Locast. Here is a brief rundown the emails I got:

August 31, 2021:

> Response to Summary Judgement

>

> In the big media companies' lawsuit against Locast, the court just issued a disappointing ruling. We are evaluating our options and will keep you posted as the situation develops.

September 1, 2021:

> Stopping the interrupt

>

> Locast is suspending immediately all programming interruptions to request donations.

> This means that anyone located in a market we serve who signs up for Locast will get the service without interruption, regardless of whether or not they donate.

> Of course, it is up to you whether or not to contribute to Locast. But if you currently contribute, we humbly request that you continue to do so. And if you don't contribute, we hope that you will do so if you can afford it.

September 2, 2021:

> Suspending Operations

>

> As a non-profit, Locast was designed from the very beginning to operate in accordance with the strict letter of the law, but in response to the court’s recent rulings, with which we respectfully disagree, we are hereby suspending operations, effective immediately.

It seems like removing ads was not enough for someone, they turned their attitude very quickly.
> Even on shorter timescales we all die and cease to matter.

If you really want to drive this home, genealogy very quickly shows you how entire families ends up reduced to at most a few lines in archives. The proportion of people who ends up leaving anything of note beyond birth, marriage and death record is minuscule. Even an obituary in a paper is rare at scale.

Even most of those who left something behind are all mostly forgotten. E.g. most old novels are rarely if ever read (most new novels are rarely read). The proportion of even the people who are famous today who will be remembered 100 years from now is tiny - if you go back and read old newspapers, the number of people who were famous in their day you'd recognise the names of are a tiny little fraction.

One can choose to be depressed about that, are accept that measuring our lives based on whether we'll be remembered is pointless.
Oh god, I am waiting for law enforcement to print this on their uniforms so they can't be photographed.
Amazon already knows, more or less, the real identity of someone leaving the review. They have information such as a postal address, credit card number and IP address. Whether that person goes by the name Bob or Sally or Anonymous really doesn't matter to anyone. Perhaps it really is Bob leaving the review, but he's accepted a "promotional offer" from the seller to be refunded or provided additional product(s) in return for a wink nudge honest review?[1] Or perhaps it really is Sally and she works for a competitor and has given it a 1 star review because she weights the colour choice of the product packaging extremely highly, and she hates the colour chosen.

If you were buying a microwave oven via Amazon, you could take a gamble and trust Amazon product reviews by people you don't know or have any real reason to trust. Or you could pay an independent party to review it on your behalf[2][3]. Or you could look for a random reviewer on YouTube that receives free samples from manufacturers and compares multiple models side by side, careful to only highlight positives of each product. In any of these cases, the real identity of the reviewers is largely irrelevant. The YouTube reviewer could be wearing a clown suit and go by the name 'SillyClown123' and the review could be far more trustworthy and helpful than other types of review. What you actually want to know, and may not be able to determine, is the motivations for conducting the review, whether the reviewer has manipulated and narrowed (possibly inadvertently) the field of products compared and whether their criteria and weightings for review align with your own expectations.

[1] https://www.modernretail.co/platforms/how-amazon-sellers-are...

[2] https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/kitchen/microwaves...

[3] https://www.consumerreports.org/products/microwave-ovens-289...
Relevant read for the curious: "The thermodynamic efficiency of computations made in cells across the range of life" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686401/
> I suspect humans are really bad when they only have to sorta pay attention and it results in just not paying attention a great deal of the time.

Exactly, there were some pretty good 99% Invisible podcasts on that topic:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/johnnycab-automation-...
> Your tonnage argument is good for the short term, but they won't be behind for long.

It takes years to build a carrier. There's no 100,000+ carrier being built by the Chinese at all. Its not their strategy.

> And if they hit our aircraft carriers with the hypersonic missiles they've developed, our advantage disappears outright.

How do those missiles hit a target they can't see? That's why the US has spent so much money shoving the most expensive radar suites on F35 fighters, so that those airplanes can radio-back to their ships about the position of enemies.

Basically: to have the same sight and stealth as the USA, China has to develop an F35 analog of their own.
I believe technically it will be Ireland collecting, since the case was started by the local authority (DPC) against a local company (WhatsApp Ireland). European authorities were only brought in to determine what the scale of the fine should be, since there was no clear consensus (initial suggestions were around E50m, which is why WA put aside a safer E77m). But yes, the fine was determined looking at the entire EU userbase, which makes it still peanuts in the great scheme of things.
You see this in the comments here too. Everyone has to add a disclaimer to every statement about how (they think) git works: “As far as I know”, etc.
‘Be exactly pi’ in what sense? is the point during the day when you’re .159265… of the way through 3/14 the relevant moment? Or is it at 1:59:26.5…?

But then, the 14th isn’t .14 of the way through March, and ‘months’ aren’t a consistent unit anyway so There’s no sense in which you can choose a moment in time ‘pi months’ into the year anyway.. so in what sense does ‘exactly pi’ occur during pi day at all?

It’s a very weird milestone to associate with pi, in general. The calendar is derived from a circle, after all, so pi can crop up in far more significant ways. Why not celebrate the moment when the earth has traveled 1 radian round the sun?
Glad they enjoy it I suppose! I don’t get it personally.
Well, no. No system that is unable to detect and map out a 3D maps of obstacles and plot a course through it without hitting stationary, well visible objects, is not suited to being used in a self-driving capacity. Whether it's from Tesla or anyone else.

If their approach fundamentally means they decided to work around mapping their surroundings in 3D correctly, as the GP suggested, there is a strong reason to admonish.
OpenWRT OpenWISP Monitoring – Monitor OpenWRT Device Metrics
Why? What would that tell us about the computational complexity of a neuron?
Back at the time of German reunification, P.J. O'Rourke wrote that West Germans were just like Americans, except that they could speak English.
Here is more evidence in that direction. NPR is now taking a position against freedom of speech and individual rights.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brie...
Similar experience here. Learning about astronomy was a psychologically traumatizing experience. After a few years of ceaseless low-key existential crises I think I finally ended up better off, with a healthy perspective of my place in the universe and an appreciation for what a miracle it is that we have the chance to observe anything at all. The writings of Carl Sagan helped greatly. But I fear I could have just as easily slipped off the knife's edge into either nihilism on one side or hedonism on the other.
There are similar restrictions being imposed without much pushback in many well armed countries around the world. I think it has more to do with everyone now getting so much of their information about the world from little handheld 24/7 psyop machines. There also wouldn't have been nearly so much acceptance of lockdowns if large swaths of people weren't able to continue earning a good living working entirely from home, something which really only became possible over the past 10 or 20 years.

On a deeper level, I think many people in our modern civilization are in the grip of a paralyzing denial and fear of death, which makes it easier to corral them in one direction or another by just gesturing at the possibility of it.
Satellites + AI and/or lots of people. That will get you in the vicinity. After that, it's a combination of drones and/or smart missiles.
For the things we can observe to be the way they are, the furthest things that can be observed by the furthest things we can observe must be more or less the same as well, and so on.
Do we really think that expansion is a constant thing in the far far future? We already have different expansion rates in the theory (Big Bang was explosively fast, and now there is a measured speed of expansion), but is that "constant"?

Does the redshift measurements assume a constant expansion, has someone looked at the redshifts data to show historical expansion rate differences somehow maybe with candles?

And... aren't most stars super-long-lived dwarfs anyway? The headline seems a bit misleading.
React native I believe is the right approach given the current constraints, but I’d prefer that it would be possible to access native device apis via the browser.

Does Twitter really benefit a native app? Perhaps, but it’s certainly not necessary.

Ideally iOS and Android would simply expose native apis via browser and allow one to toggle access to said apis per site.

My conspiracy theory is that the only reason this isn’t already possible is due to vendors wanting more control.
Average U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods are still approximately 20%. No it's not enough and the issues you've mentioned are pressing but to say there are "no meaningful policies", relative to U.S. policy pre-Trump, is not accurate.
Except this has nothing to do with communism, which is an economic and political theory. This is just social conservatism being implememted in a totalitarian state, clouded in the language of a past communist uprising.

Similarly, US conservatism is clouded in Christian language even when it has nothing to do with Christianity; Russian conservatism in a 'strong Russia' lingo eben when it's about Putin's enrichment, or western European conservatism clouded in social democracy language. All of these use old words and and a more or less mythical past to justify whatever they want to be the case.

CCP is a party of old men shouting at clouds, with the difference that they happen to have the power to actually implement their ideas quite radically without much consultation.
It's a good way to force yourself to disconnect from work email and social media for a bit, but still be reachable. Leave the phone at home, and just wear the watch. You can still take a call or reply to a text from the wife in a pinch, but doing email or checking twitter/Facebook/hacker news isn't an option.

I try and do this now when I go out with the kids to the park so I'm not tempted to be buried in my phone.
I can look at the code and see if anyone is doing:

Class cache = Integer.class.getDeclaredClasses()[0];
Field c = cache.getDeclaredField("cache");
c.setAccessible(true);

I can examine to see that java.lang.{something} class is getting reflected on. I can check to see if anything is calling getDeclaredField and flag that. I can see the setAccessible and really flag that.

This isn't about coding errors. This is about being able to analyze the code and see if the code is using prohibited methods.

Through static analysis, I can verify if anyone is trying to do something tricky with the String class.

Can I verify if a method is being modified added to an instance of a String in Ruby through static analysis?
RedBubble just today flagged a sticker I put up, which is art by me, of my fursona, whom I created and own the rights to.

Fortunately for me, according to the email, the "rightsholder decided it may remain for sale in the marketplace". The email doesn't even tell me who the supposed rightsholder is.

Supposedly things are "enrolled in the fan art partner program" based on the product tags... But these are only generic terms.

The listing in question: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/blob-gulfie-puffin-by-gu...
‘It looked apocalyptic’: Airmen describe Afghan departure
Extreme compatibility has a cost.

If you're willing to give up some compatibility, you could get faster code that can be checked statically by transpiling to one of the many great choices from a set of statically typed languages.

This is the approach taken by py14, pyrs and their successor py2many, on which I've been working for some months.
I assume it's the difference in what one felt like they had to lose from the perspective of any random person in 1918 and any random person in 2021?
Who is collecting isn't relevant to what the per-user cost to Facebook is though? The other EU countries won't fine for the same thing (as the poster suggested they would) is the point, so doesn't make much sense to relate it to the number of inhabitants of Ireland.
What would the universe be a simulation of? What is the practical difference between a simulation and the real world.
> Two is also typical.

Things are going to get spicy if we end up with more than 24 covid variants of concern.

Unless we start numbering them, which is what we should have done all along.
I'm saying that it's well worth taking a step back from the tree-level view,

e.g. celebrating and being inspired by the intellectual and technical details of a smart industrious individual attempt to reasonable degree insulate themselves from the abuses of surveillance capital,

and consider the forest-level view,

that while few were paying much attention,

our society in general, and the industry most HN readers contribute to in specific–in some cases, very very directly–is now profoundly, all but irredeemably broken, wrong, amoral, and bad, pick a word.

Articles of this type and fandom and advocacy of this or that open source solution to a tiny piece of the surveillance capitalism nightmare,

are in small way part of the problem; they normalize the experience well sketched here: https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/

But that article only approaches some sides of the problem.

The political and philosophical ones, which are implicit but not blown out, are deep, real, and corrosive.

The subtext, which is not so subterranean, is that readers here who are cashing a pay check accelerating total information awareness, dark patterns, and the abuse of users in exchange for calculatedly seductive or addictive services whose fine print all know no one ever reads,

are culpable, and that damage is real, and the costs real.

And they should do better.
This got me thinking. If they did bump it up from $1m to $100m, do we think the Riemann Hypothesis would be solved sooner?
"Excuse me, please don't pay any attention to me attaching this clip to your headphone wire. Next passenger, please?"
>In the end it doesn't matter what you do. What you accomplish or did not accomplish. What awards were won or lost, life goals achieved or not.

I tend to turn this type of thinking on its head. Nothing matters, so relax, it's a ride. Take a few gambles, risk whatever you're willing to lose and see what you can pull off! Life can be wild if you're not caught up in the stuffy pretense that we all have some grand purpose or destiny. Honestly, at this point I'm convinced that conventional thinking on this topic is more or less a trap to keep people from exploring and having adventures, so that they're better servants to the elites of our world.
Add a small portable DAC/amplifier and you get every benefit of wired plus superior sound quality. With one I started randomly telling apart new notes and passages from individual instruments in songs I heard tons of times before. This is with Ikko Zerda, picked up because it’s what was in stock, most likely this device isn’t special and anything is an improvement over built-in jack. (Lossless music and inexpensive SE215.)

Meanwhile, most popular audio codecs that work over BT cap bitrate, making lossless truly useless; most headsets and phones don’t support LDAC, and if you get a lucky combination that does music will likely stutter if you’re anywhere close to a busy area of the city or if your phone is in the wrong pocket.

(Where some wireless headsets do win is state of the art active noise cancellation, -30 dB when you’re in a really noisy place without an option to use IEMs or earplugs can be a bliss.)
I have honestly not listened to this interview yet, and I have only glanced at parts of the transcript; but, I am in charge of technology for Orchid--the product Brian is one of the other co-founders of and which he is apparently talking about extensively, that currently looks a lot like what people sometimes call (much to my chagrin ;P) a "decentralized VPN"--and so am watching here to potentially answer any questions (or provide clarifications and corrections).