skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait, if all western governments have this (I doubt it's just germany) and are using it, and it works as advertised, then aren't the politicians worried about all being hacked themselves by each other's governments? Isn't there one sane operator who would like to instead report these zero days and then have a (more) secure device them self?
Its probably the opposite, it sucks out air. It does stop smells from this apartment going into neighboring spaces.
No. They should avoid activities that are majority negative value to themselves, their freedom and their liberty.

If you use social media, you are a fool. You are completing your own STASI dossier for FREE and WILLINGLY. You are aiding and abetting in your own enslavement and oppression! You are an idiot.
Crunchbase shows only $150k investment in automate.io [1].

If this is true, it is a great success for the Automate founders.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automate-io/company_...
I was pretty disappointed when I realized how much of this was just funnelling through one company, Infura to actually function at all.

Always assumed Metamask and web3.js was interfacing with the network directly in a decentralized way until I dug in and started coding with it myself.

Still think the promise of an identity you can truly own and authenticate with that has finance built in is important in taking the web back from the megacorps.
Ask HN: Feedback on a product comparison tool mockup
I spend a lot of time comparing similar products and reading reviews. The trouble for me is that Google is full of listicles that I can’t trust, and Amazon reviews aren’t reliable, so I usually search Reddit for product recommendations.

To save time, I’m thinking of building a product comparison tool that will scrape reddit and recommend the top products / most mentioned products in a given category.
Here’s a quick mockup: https://imgur.com/a/pY2G279

What do you think - useful? Not trustworthy?
Any recommendations for how else I can find products without spending too much time?
"Thinks of self as some sort of hacker, but is really just pretender. Hasn't even changed topcolor"
Voting got us here, but more voting is a solution?
RSS is just an XML format, and I don't think in-browser support was what was holding it together. There's still plenty of readers, and there's nothing stopping other readers from popping up.

It'd be like saying Firefox is deprecating JSON because it doesn't have a nice viewer for it...
Obstruction of justice. Alternatively, suspicion of intoxication.

The list isn't short.
You claim the original $100 has been devalued. But has it? Person X, person X+1, etc. all owe money to the bank to pay back their loan. So it's not like we're all suddenly swimming in cash in this new $1000 economy and nobody cares about your little $100 anymore. When you sum the value in everybody's account, including debts, you still get $100 total. And cash looks pretty desirable to all those debtors.
This is a proposal to replace the gas tax, which doesn't give you that information today. So I don't see how it's required?

We could divide the money how we do today, or could sample road usage to estimate an appropriate division. We don't need per-car level data.
I was curious about how much more Toyota could fit in that same volume if using state of the art batteries.

The 2021 Tesla Model 3 LR has a pack volumetric energy density of roughly 240Wh/l.

The 2017 Prius Prime has a pack volumetric energy density of roughly 150Wh/l.

So ignoring Toyota's poor battery placement, you could fit ~14kWh in that same space in the Prime using a better pack design with more modern batteries.

If Toyota pulled their heads out of their asses and actually designed a car to be an EV, they could match Tesla's battery pack sizes and still have reasonable trunk space.

I say this as someone who owns two Priuses and do not understand why they didn't capitalize on their advantage to design a decent EV years ago.

The number of Priuses sold per year in the US tells a story of Toyota absolutely failing to capitalize on new technology when they had the lead: https://motorandwheels.com/10-toyota-prius-statistics-facts/
What the police can ask for legally and what they ask for based on a credible threat are rather different.

If 99.99% of the people comply and .001% of the people refuse and the cop involved slugs the non-complying person, giving them a life changing injure. and even if that cop "doesn't get away with it" - gets filmed, get drummed out of the force and the city pays a million dollar settlement, the cops, collectively, will still get away with it and keep doing it since it nearly always works. And the one cop being caught is extremely optimistic.

Even with suspicion, it's unlikely that they can forcefully demand social media information.

How can a cop request information in fashion that isn't forceful? The softest, most polite question is backed by the threat of both violence and arrest.
A small amount of inflation (single digits per year), is a feature, not a bug. It prevents the boom-bust of people hoarding currency, and forces the currency itself to be used efficiently.

If the gov't can maintain a bond rate below that of the inflation rate, it also acts as a small tax to help fund the gov't - which also isn't a bad thing.

Not that any of this matters at the moment, because the real limitation of cryptocurrencies is the tiny transaction throughput.
No OP, but I'm aware of a few:

- scandit: https://www.scandit.com/developers/

- cognex: https://cmbdn.cognex.com/

- aspose: https://products.aspose.com/barcode/

In open source, I heard of libdmtx[0], but not much happens on it these days.
I also saw html5-qrcode[1]

[0]: https://github.com/dmtx

[1]: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode, which directly depends on a port of zxing to javascript.
Good point. I can't prove it, I am assuming you have it given I have it.

I agree consciousness is an emergent property of matter, although I didn't always think that way. Panpsychism appears attractive at first glance (it makes it fundamental, and that is after all our lived experience). But that only seems to move the problem of what it actually is somewhere else, to some mysterious "mind stuff".
The current outcome is a mistake, no one specific law, but perpetuated by fear that paycheck to paycheck people will get scammed

It is an overfitted system that has created more and more compliance in response to rare scams that occurred within the rules of their system anyway! If companies didnt find it too expensive to go public earlier nobody would be trying to have this conversation. People wouldnt be getting ripped off in massive SPAC deals because the target companies would be public already.
> Without individualized suspicion

That is an illusion, or just words on paper. Look into geofenced cell phone requests by law enforcement for everybody within x boundary at x time of a crime being committed. Look into law enforcement using "predictive policing" software from companies like Palantir. All of those people are individually under suspicion? No one cares anymore. We are slowly becoming a police state, but as long as we're not as bad as x country's police state, it's ok, right?
Silanano launches the first new commercial battery chemistry since 1991
How in the WORLD does this type of article even make sense? Do you realize how many traffic and other stops there are?

JUST based off the headline I can guess that this headline is total BS.

When social media makes a lot of sense. If you are doing any kind of investigation - social media would be a goldmine. Someone filing a complaint but social media tells a story - you should be getting that. Prosecutor, defense attorneys will be for sure.

So what WOULD make sense is not to do a social media thing for every stop (of which there are tons and tons), but focus on investigations and interviews. They should already be collecting contact info like email / phone and address etc, so you would add it there.

Anyways, someone else can read and summarize for us, because this headline looks like absolute trash and even if you are a conspiracy nut, the idea that every stop is getting social media written down is fantastical.

Journalism is basically crap at this point. Can we stop rewarding this outraging clickbait stories?
Pardon my ignorance.
Couldn’t those websites use other data (IP/geo) with your wallet address to figure out who you are?
Signing and notarizing an Electron app for distribution using GitHub Actions
You are such a dishonest participant in these discussions that you should be banned from HN.
I'm not sure why you think government is easier to oppose. Or what it has to do with the core principles of Libertarianism.

In any case, of cause, the reality is much more complicated, if there is a dispute over property rights or a form of coercion you go to court to decide who is right and who is wrong. Libertarianism is not anarchism.
At the same time, in spite of all the complications of the real world, there is a clear difference in ideology between libertarianism and social democracy, for example. And one can claim the difference stems from the core principle where the two worldviews differ in certain values.
Tangerang Prison Fire
And many people install adblockerz. Soon they will install blockchain blockers?
Thanks for the advice, but that's already exactly what I'm doing.

One downside of this though, is that ICU beds are full. I'll also hope I don't need one. I very rarely have before, so I'll probably be ok.
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We'd be better off just forcing everyone to do the hand swabs. One airport I went through had some kind of machine that purportedly could detect trace explosives coming off your clothing or skin. Those would be way better, if they work.

I've gone through that machine six times, in one trip.

Something in my backpack set it off, so they kept running swabs over and over again until the light went green.

It was an utter waste of time for everyone involved. The fools patted me down five times, looked through all my things, ran them through the x-ray machines, and can clearly see that all I have is the clothes on my back, a laptop, and two changes of clothes. But they won't let me through the security line until their magical explosive scanning oracle shows a green light.

As if anything about the risk I pose to a flight fundamentally changed between the first swab and search, and the sixth.

The best part is they were asking me what is causing it to go off. Why are you asking me? I don't know a god-damned thing about your magical black box.
It's the same as how a burglar "can't" rob your house. Of course they can, and then you get to attempt legal recourse afterward, which sometimes works.
Sorry, got a chuckle at that. Liberal Progressive is a pretty big oxymoron.

Neoliberals downvote anything that disagrees with their superior worldview and are identity politics proponents because it's an effective way to disrupt class and labor movements.

Progressives are the ones who want things like universal healthcare, a federal voting holiday, an end to private prisons, and for their taxes to go towards safety nets for their neighbors and communities instead of corporate bailouts and forever wars.

Neolibs want global trade agreements, stable monopsonies, and to have wage workers pay for their own healthcare, benefits and retirement on top of all of their taxes out of the same paycheck. They're largely coastal elites and other class signalers that punch hard left against any platform that might benefit their idea of a "deplorable" even if it helps other people.
Anyone remember a fews ago, one of their LAPD police officer went rogue and started shooting at them. It took a few days to hunt him him down. In the process ended up shooting two totally innocent people through a back car window. I totally forget the names of the people involved, its been a few years. It seemed like something a mafia movie more than real life. Made me wonder why the guy turned against them.
I can imagine why honestly as a local. Recently there have been a LOT of street races and especially takeovers, where 300 people with drugs and alcohol gather at a random intersection in LA and watch some dumb people do donuts until the cops show up and clear it out. There have been a lot of injuries and deaths from both innocent pedestrians walking by, and people bringing guns to these events and getting into shootouts with other people who bring guns. Where do I see these videos of people getting hit by cars at these takeovers and sideshows? On instagram, on the public account of one of the assholes who owns these cars and does this stuff every single weekend.

This is 2021, people live stream themselves on social media committing crimes like illegal racing, flaunting unregistered guns, and breaking into federal buildings in D.C.. If a cop is able to connect these accounts to individuals and make arrests, all the better. A lot of people are reckless idiots that just put others in danger constantly, and they rarely are stopped before they put someone else in harms way.
One day, some crypto somewhere will figure out a way to implement a distributed mechanism to dynamically adjust the money supply to maintain a reasonable 0.5%-1% inflation rate per year.
I am not sure. almost 80% of the customer we talk to have troubles with kubernetes. They might be too small to operate it or something.
This could only be said by someone who is completely disregarding the coercive power of a police "interview".

There is always, always, a subtext of "if you don't wish to cooperate, I may need to exercise my discretion to ...", with the ellipsis being anything from literally tearing your car apart in a "reasonable suspicion" drug search, to some made-up traffic infraction, to anything else that police are trained to use as coercion.

Just because you have some theoretical rights that a judge may at some point months later grant you, doesn't mean the officer can't violate the hell out of you right now and probably get away with it - and end up getting a baseless conviction, or a paper trail in police records, or just make you late for your job interview.
> There are historical aspects that the US must contend with, even some 150+ years on after the official end of slavery (the American Civil War) and 50+ years on after the practical end of slavery (Civil Rights bill). Many injustices will take generations to work through.

One timeline I like to refer to is how long it took France to transform from an absolute monarchy to a stable republic; by my count 81 years, from the French revolution of 1789 to the Third Republic of 1870. Yeah, these things take time.

I suspect some things could be done more proactively, just not easily or cheaply. Suppose state schools got some really beefy funding, to attract better teachers, have less kids per teacher, had more fun activities for kids to keep them out of trouble. Would that tip the scales in favour of poor kids, many of whom are, I believe, Black?

Maybe that's not the best use of the money for the cause, who knows, but it's doable. You "just" need the money and the political will to make it happen.
I may be taking crazy pills, but an alternative solution which doesn’t require legislative approval, is to restrict intercourse to only those whom you trust.
If not being able to say the N-word impedes your ability to articulate your political worldview, you should probably reflect on that.
Being near the area of a crime when it happened is individualized suspicion.
> Their 'channels' are netflix, amazon and disney. When I had the choice and they were pre-school then sure, we watched things like Alphablocks on iplayer. I can force them to watch Attenborough or Blue Peter, and they enjoy it, just not enough to want to watch them over things on disney. There's so much competition of things to do.

> This itself might not say a lot, and I still have a TV license despite the limited direct value I get (listen to a lot of BBC radio, and the news website), but what's interesting is I actually work for the BBC. If my household barely watches it, where does the future lie.

The entertainment sector is one of the most profitable on Earth. Marvel, Disney made billions making content that people want to watch and are willing to pay for. I'm not getting the reason why there should be government sponsored entertainment, especially seeing that people aren't even interested in watching it.

Why not simply compete and let the consumer decide?
NetworkSolutions has an interesting history of having been fortunate enough to be issued a monopoly by the US Government in the early days of the internet. This placed them firmly into the defense industrial complex, and for a time they were a subsidiary of major defense contractor SAIC/Leidos. Ultimately, though, NS cranked up rates so high that complaints from industry were a big factor in precipitating the formation of ICANN. NS reacted to the loss of their monopoly by going almost comically far in the direction of the villain, and has spent the better part of 30 years desperately trying to entrap their customers due to their general failure to innovate.

Of course that's a very critical take on the company, but I don't think I'm anywhere near alone in finding it frankly astounding that NetworkSolutions still exists as a major concern. The writing was on the wall for NetworkSolutions, as far as technical leadership, by the time they went public. Despite this investors have seen them as a milkable cow and the cash grab continues to the present.
How much were they acquired for that we know this was great success?
- can't cache on tags [0]

Caching is a joke. But then again, comparing GHA to GitLab CI is like comparing a pogo stick to a bicycle. Sure, both can be used to get there, but one ride is a bit... bumpy.

(I use both and I am not affiliated to either.)

[0] https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/556
> Democracy should not be entertainment. Democracy should not be for profit.

But why?

If "democracy" isn't profitable or entertaining (and FWIW I agree those shouldn't be preconditions for quality democracy), then it will have to be subsidized by someone. Who will do that? What is their reason for putting up that money? And - most importantly - who decides whether the end product is "good enough", and what changes can they demand for the subsidy to continue?
Most working astronomers doing original work (often looking for "something weird) do their own coding. That always impresses me. I have hard enough time with code but these guys not only code but do hard science. "Damn" I say under my breath, "that rules".
Here's some relevant reading [1]:

> If zig cc is built on top of Clang, why doesn't Clang just do this? What exactly is Zig doing on top of Clang to make this work?

> The answer is, a lot, actually. I'll go over how it works here.

[1]: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
I don't think adding new infrastructure is even necessary anymore. In fact, in many places, we're seeing natural gas lines intentionally not being built for new homes. Why? Electric is enough. Heat pumps for your home, modern electric appliances are arguably better than natural gas, no need to maintain electric lines AND gas lines. Adding hydrogen into the mix means a whole parallel set of infrastructure. Look into what happened in Lawrence Massachusetts (hardly the sticks) when the gas company made a mistake -- the town quite literally burst into flames.
Netflix have a "watch something" button. I've never used it, but I assume it's there to match the serendipity aspect.

Amazon I think have a "watch party" feature, but that's not the same as 10 million people all watching Mr Blobby get gunged. There seemed to be a small amount of cultural "togetherness" with the guy doing the PE (Joe Someone?) during lockdown, not sure as I didn't watch it (too busy working).

But yes, events (sport, moon landings, etc) are great on linear tv. I suspect that even after most of the spectrum gets removed, there will remain a BBC linear TV channel for events for some time, and most households will have a working antenna for a long time to come.
You're asking the wrong question. On what basis could you stop police from arresting you, let alone jailing you, for any reason they see fit?

The answer involves a lawyer, a lot of time, a lot of money, and low expectations.
Don’t let Sweden off the hook that easily:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...

They were completely complicit in human rights violating, american extraditions.

Still, it doesn't change anything about China kidnapping a Swedish citizen and torturing him into a confession because he dared to criticize China.
I believe there is historical reasons. When they started iPlayer they were told they coudln't just put up everything the BBC had produced in it's history as it would be "an unfair commercial advantage" or some other bullshit.
> It's the same with roofers. They have no idea what galvanic corrosion is, and will invariably use the wrong nails for anything metal.

Maybe, they don't need to? These trades should have cheatsheets where they can check for certain scenarios - like the 2 described, and it would provide Do's and Don'ts?
Making something that other people are freely willing to pay for is a very good proxy for doing good.
Sibling comments have the canonical video, but there's also this short one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0i6EzWLT8
The words to use are "Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

If being detained, the words to use are "Of what crime am I suspected?"
Does any one know what's up with all the different domains for archive.is?

The blog is at blog.archive.today, it calls itself the "archive.is blog", but when I visit archive.is or archive.today, I'm brought to archive.vn. When I click the "archive.today" logo in the header, I'm taken to archive.ph
If getting the BBC more money is the issue, do what Canada does with Foreign Movie/TV Productions, and tax the revenue to return back to its state-owned production company, the ONF/NFB. They can't get by on TV licenses and their deal with AMC Networks forever.
Why? I'm way more excited to get an EV -- no oil changes, transmission problems, way better acceleration, quieter, etc. Combustion is going to be obsolete soon.
The guy they were chasing was named Christopher Dorner.
Every now and again I'll talk to someone who uses kilobuck for various things. It's not common, but it's common enough that informal dictionaries have definitions for it.
I started with Network Solutions some 20 years ago and left about 10 years ago after they failed to informed me that one of my prized five-letter domain name had actually expired then.

Yeah, never looked back since then.
I've used zenity to do the same kind of thing. If you're writing a simple shell script & need some simplistic local GUI interaction, zenity is great; it's easy to create / read / modify the code.
This is the core of my problem with utilitarian metrics like this, as they rely on quantifying the unquantifiable.

What is truly scary about it, though, are the people who are certain they can quantify those things, and convince others of it, too.
It's about time. At the current Munich Auto Show, I don't think there's even one single old-style oil burning car presented. In Europe (and China), it's complete game over starting now.