skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to try designing the app with as much culturally-neutral iconography as possible (difficult). ISO icons are useful (although many designers hate them). I also try to leave as much as possible to the platform (Apple platforms). Again, designers tend to hate that. The problem is that every custom element requires both a visible string, and at least one "invisible" one (voiceover). It can get a bit dense. It's nice, if I can rely on the built-in Apple versions.

I've also been caught out by choosing culturally-biased icons and visual elements.

I've used ibabbleon.com, in the past, and I'm told they do a good job. Not too expensive, fast, and technically correct.

Nothing beats having the end-users do the translations, though. I have been able to do this, with some of the open-source stuff that I've done. It can be an ... iterative ... process, though, as they can do things like send you translations with illegal characters, or in formats like UTF-8(BOM).
I don't disagree with you but doing so can really hurt any chances you might have for advancement at the company. So, in my opinion, you are shooting yourself in the foot to accept the counter offer. Yes, in the short term it might work well but except to have all routes to advancement (or even new/cool/interesting/etc projects) closed to you and eventually you'll have to get a new job to continue to grow/move up. Better to take the new job you have now and roll the dice on how well the new company will reward your hard work. At worst you are in the same situation in a few years but with new experiences.
First thing I thought of as well. The hypocrisy is a bother to say the least
It's not really the same ad revenue. Sponsorships are completely different campaigns and budgets from typical programmatic video or companion ads run on Youtube.

As far as YT is concerned, their ads pay for the hosting and delivery of the content, but it's the creators who actually create the content and they can include whatever they want (as long as its legal, etc) with their audience deciding if they want to deal with it or not.
The Google Glass feature no one is talking about (2013)
Yeah, it was about the thread in general. Apologies.
> Unless it's explicitly about slaves and outcasts, it's about the at most 10% of the society that wasn't.

This is absolutely not true. Pretty much no other society in history actually held more than 80% of the population enslaved like Sparta did. Rome certainly never did, nor did the other Greek states of the era.
Thanks for that! I was really happy to see that Snapchat didn't give up after the first Spectacles. I think tech has a huge amount of room to grow there, and I'm pretty sure the next iteration of that tech will be AR. Both FB and Snapchat are investing heavily in AR.
MPLv2 is a fine weak copyleft license, but I'm not really sure it prevents people from not contributing back if that's what they want: just put your proprietary code in a different file, add minimal API's to the MPL code so you can use it.

So in that sense it's only very marginally 'better' than a fully permissive license.
That's a very specific definition for service. What's going to happen to that definition when technology eventually moves past using REST APIs?

A program running on your school's mainframe that you access via some sort of terminal is a computing service from before the Internet.

Plenty of people use a Unix prompt to access both local and remote computers. That its not your preferred method is fine, but there are people out there that prefer it! If those command line tools are hitting the same API (eg using curl), what then?
> In the UK, parliament is sovereign and can ultimately do anything so they could vote to change this arrangement.

So tomorrow morning they could threaten the BBC with a massive funding cut unless they don't publish things they don't like... and there's nothing stopping them from doing so.

Interesting.
The Zoroastrians and Buddhists as well. Perhaps the Yazidis should be counted in that number as well. And certain elements of aboriginal cultures -- I'm thinking of the Rainbow Serpent -- go back tens of thousands of years.
> Yet something about Sparta seemed worse.

Very few other slave societies _had kids ritualistically kill the slaves as part of their education_ (there's maybe some wiggle room on whether this actually happened or was mythical, but it's _definitely_ part of the popular view), so there's that.

Sparta was also an oddity just in the sheer size of the slave class; under 5% of the population was fully free. Few if any other slave societies had that sort of ratio.

> That is, did the Spartan ruling class look down on the helots as not just inferior but alien?

Yes; they were 'foreigners' (they were originally, at least mythically, inhabitants of a neighboring city state). They also had a separate discriminated class for Spartans who'd been stripped of civil rights; these weren't viewed as the same.
Amazon Unveils First of Its Own Smart TVs, Will Bring TikTok to Fire TV
30s video limit makes it fairy non competitive with a go pro.
I think most influencers openly communicate that they are sponsored. A shill intentionally obscures it.

In this sense it's not a euphemism, it's just a different thing altogether.
It is odd that it specifically only applies to "Warehouse Distribution Centers". I imagine the same problems exist in other industries.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
> becoming an indentured servant for Amazon or Starbucks takes the place of what should be a public education service.

We already have a public education system, and any employee working at Amazon or Starbucks for minimum wage should qualify for Pell Grants that would make community college free anyways.
I didn't really understand the bathroom objection when it was Google Glass, and I don't really follow it now. I've got plenty of problems with the general idea of camera glasses, but in terms of bathrooms...

The wearer can't really record anything he/she can't directly see already. Is the concern that the guy at the next urinal might crane his neck over the divider and film your junk? Would you consider that acceptable behavior if he didn't have camera glasses on?

Is the worry that someone might capture you entering or leaving a bathroom stall, or record your back as you stand at a urinal? It seems like a regular old cell phone would be a more effective way to take sneaky pictures or videos, since it doesn't involve popping your whole head under the stall...

It just feels like doing anything truly unpleasant with camera glasses would require a serious breach of standard bathroom etiquette, and even considering how shitty the general public can be, I've never experienced that level of bad behavior in a public bathroom in all my years.
Death to facebook. No one really wants crap like this, and facebook needs to die like myspace.
If you chopped your leg off, they perfectly reattached it, are you dead?

How about heart? What if you removed part of your brain.

What if you grew a replacement part instead of reattaching? When does Theseus become a new person?

Alternatively can you prove you were alive yesterday? Or do you just have the memories, and others have memories of an indistinguishable copy?

How much of your body existed 20 years ago? Are you the same person?
The rate of wounded-but-not dead is about 9x the death rate - if 1/100 get wounded, and of those about 10% die of those wounds. There are lots of available statistics.

So the rate of major injuries falls between those, but the rate of severe PTSD is probably independent.
Donald Knuth (Lex Fridman #219)
Probably. I'm using the technical, scientific definition.
If I understand this article, it’s about a 500-page book that is devoted to one proof of one theorem in topology. I find that amazing.

And cheers to Quantum Magazine for regularly publishing popularizations of research mathematics. I know many, at times, take issue with their simplifications and framing, but they’re trying, where almost no one else with their reach covers these areas at all.
Batteries That Charge in Seconds?
SPDX Becomes Internationally Recognized Standard for Software Bill of Materials
I've been expecting a product like this for some time. I don't trust Facebook enough to buy their example, but if a more open equivalent that isn't tied in to someone's service and is a bit less "smart" came around I would consider it.
Yes, that is why I pointed out that "email" is also an API. Do you think a person reads the email in the OP's note? (not being sarcastic) I'm pretty sure it triggers an update through an IFTTT-like flow / post-hook on receive.
They tried in Alabama, but it didn't get enough votes.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/982139494/its-a-no-amazon-war...
There's no logical reason why connecting the three steps of the process make sense, unless you start with the premise that you really want to bury post consumer plastic and work back from there.

It would only possibly make sense if recycling was fundamentally a dirty process but since we've got enough zero carbon energy available to suck carbon out of the air we've got enough to recycle. We can then use that energy saved by recycling to suck carbon out of the air.

Unless there's some weird process or catalyst that makes atmospheric CO2 to consumer grade plastic the absolutely cheapest way to extract CO2 it'll always make sense to save energy and redirect that energy to the most effective method of getting CO2 out of the air whatever that is. I have no reason to believe plastic production will be that and it seems unlikely.
A modern approach of styling React Native apps
As a bitcoin fan, I think that's missing the point.

Bitcoin is about ending US monetary hegemony over the world. That dominance allows the US to grossly abuse its own citizens (future generations in particular) and people around the world (e.g. borrowing and throwing away trillions of dollars on unjust foreign wars).

Bitcoin is about hard money. It's about eliminating the Fed, but it's not about ending banking middlemen like Visa. Those will always exist, but they are "small fry."
> the rant was about using an interface on another website

oh, i see. i overlooked that. thanks.
How did you come to that idea?

Pull request is common feature for maintainers in the Linux world, and they don't use github to send them to Linus.

And on top of that they are secure (signed tags) and decentralized (maintainer can publish them anywhere)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-violated-labor...

> The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon violated labor law after workers at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse tried to join a union, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union said Monday.

> The director who presided over the NLRB hearing will recommend whether a new election is conducted, the union said in a statement, but the final decision whether workers will be allowed to cast new ballots and form a union ultimately lies with the director of the regional NLRB office based in Atlanta.
Back when Google released Glass I remember bars banning them to keep the perverts out. I’m sure the same thing will happen with these.
Also, often the country and language settings need to be independently modifiable, e.g. for pricing vs. product description.
New Zealand’s key institutions under attack
By claiming that using dlopen to load some code makes your program a derivative work of the library it's using, but shelling out to it doesn't, they're implicitly making a claim as to the distinction of the mechanics.
Even moderately successful YouTubers rely on sponsorship and because there's competition for creators between platforms it would take illegal coordination to present a united front and ban it
It's infuriating to me that people like you keep perpetuating this myth. Pizza boxes, even contaminated with some oil and cheese are recyclable (just take any leftover pizza/crusts out). I have family in the recycling industry, here's research on the matter: https://www.westrock.com/greasecheesestudy
New Mēris botnet breaks DDoS record with 21.8M RPS attack
I didn't: "CipherTrace" definitely made me think this was cryptography related. Mastercard has some pretty large investments into cybersecurity because of their position on the global money market, so I thought this company would be about trying to break encryption or something similar.

I consider crypto to only refer to cryptocurrency in an informal, non-technical context, or in the middle of a paragraph talking about cryptocurrencies. On HN I kind of expect crypto to refer to cryptography with the amount of programming and computer science posts that get discussed here
The problem with unions is that skilled workers don't need them and unskilled workers have no power even in a union.

Skilled workers are scarce, so they already have negotiating power at the individual level and collective bargaining is just overhead and another bureaucracy to take a vig that could have gone into your paycheck.

Unskilled workers aren't scarce, so what happens if they unionize? The union strikes, the company hires a different set of unskilled workers and all the union workers get is laid off.

This is especially true for an Amazon warehouse because there are thousands of them all over the world. If the workers at a warehouse near San Francisco strike, not only can they easily hire different workers, they can just send everybody their stuff from another warehouse in Nevada or any of a thousand other places.

What unskilled workers need isn't a union, it's some way to make unskilled labor more scarce, e.g. a UBI so that people aren't so desperate for a job and can hold out for better pay and working conditions.
> What would you think if you discovered that a new messaging software claiming to be decentralized is sending lots of your private data and metadata to their central servers despite you installed your own instance?

It's funny that the article links an early version[1] of the matrix.org website. In the beginnings they didn't even claim Matrix was decentralized, but wanted to be a federated network of servers, similar to how email works now. It's only recently with the new plans for fully p2p clients that they switched to the "decentralized" design. In fact in the pages linked the world "decentralized" never appears.

> Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.
> On the Internet we find many pieces information connecting Amdocs with Israel’s Intelligence [02][03][04].

Tor was built by the US navy and the NSA gave us SELinux and Ghidra, so what? If it's an open standard who cares who built it?

> Riot, the Matrix client, was created with Electron

Riot (now Element) is a web client: you don't need electron to use it as much as you need it for any other web application. Moreover there are a dozen[2] of independently developed clients, including native clients built with Qt (Nheko, Quaternion, Neochat), GTK (Fractal), Flutter (FluffyChat), etc.

> Matrix arrived with this plan to interconnect every existing IM and VoIP network through what they call Bridges [10], which could be seen as a centralizing hub where metadata could be analyzed, as well as the right place to try Person In The Middle Attacks.

Agreed, but you can run your own server: it's in fact encouraged, unlike other actually centralized services like Signal. If you're using something like NixOS[3] it's actually relatively easy to configure a homeserver and bridges. Also, if they manage to migrate to decentralized identisies and p2p clients, most of these concerns will be addressed.

> Summary of the Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org

- Matrix IDs are actually intended to be removed from the protocol messages to make identities portable[4];
- email addresses and phone numbers are optional if you don't want to use the identity server (allow people to find you using email, phone etc.)
- IP address: yeah, try to write a networked application that doesn't use them
- Room IDs and other servers are other essential data for the protocol to work
- user devices and system information: I don't know about this, is this collected by some crash reporter?
- Profile name avatars: this is public information, really.

Again, most of this is not a concern if you run your own server now, or with p2p in the future. matrix.org is just a reference homeserver, you are not forced to use it in any way, you don't loose any feature.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141217141653/http://matrix.org...

[2]: https://matrix.org/clients/

[3]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-serv...

[4]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787
Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today
A few days ago we got an email from HN user thehodge (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thehodge), aka Dom Hodgson, telling us that HN's SSL cert was about to expire—as indeed it was. All the renewal notices had been going to Scott's old YC email, which no longer works.

Dom runs https://littlewarden.com/, which monitors sites for upcoming issues and lets you know when you're about to publicly embarrass yourself. In a twist on eat-your-own-dog-food (eat someone else's dog food as a service?), he had set up alerts for HN in their system. Lo and behold, it delivered the goods, and that is why you're reading HN as usual today instead of certificate scoldings, and therefore also why my ass is in a saved state, which is how I like it.

I figure the least we can do is proclaim our thanks, so all hail Dom and Little Warden! Yes, I know most of you can do this in 3 lines of Python and a cron job, and yes yes, there are other alert services—but only one has personally helped you waste time unimpeded on the internet. That is all.
> Then Google bought SageTV[0] and they stopped producing software/products.

Man I remember when that happened. I was happy for the SageTV devs but I knew that was the end of a great run. SageTV was our DVR for years... It was such a cool product!
it seems pretty trivial to just have some kind of "begin/end atomic section" flag or function rather than jamming in a whole special purpose scripting enviroment.
> That just means they're shadowbanned, as I understand it.

And for good reason, judging by their other comments.
>But, yes, cryptocurrency is an immature alternative market, so the myriad potential opportunities to deflower its purity are many a long year from being discovered and exploited.

Strange, the vast majority of complementary currencies simply work and have no existential crisis. Nobody dreams of a day when they live up to their full potential. People simply use them. Even stranger, the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are not designed to be complementary currencies and are subsequently never used for that purpose.

Here is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank
So, the same as SnapChat's creepglasses?
In the interview Mark says you can turn them off physically, and there's also a light that turns on when you're taking a video (he mentions that this is already more that what smart phones do)
Or, why isn't it leveraging ebpf? Seems like that would be a better fit here than lua.
I would love to see something similar to commercial new stories. Have stories written by PR firms written as such. Have opinions labeled as such. Have speculation labeled as such.
Apple’s iPhone 13 Event Is Set to Take Place on September 14
no. but often does.
Wasn't there some rule-breaking on that vote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28053144
All of its interpretations of QBist "Core Position" on the wikipedia page.

Most importantly, nothing I can see in the QBist pages has anything to do with actual experimental work. It's a framework for viewing what the mathematics of human theories of QM "mean" and how to interpret that. However, nothing of what they propose is required to explain what we observe, experimentally.

More generally, no "interpretation" of QM is required to apply the theory in generalizable, predictive ways, so all this work isn't really helping us move science or engineering forward.
> When a foreigner made advances in a mild and leisurely way, she pushed him aside, saying, "Get away from here, you who cannot play a woman's part either!"

This, on the other hand, would offend a lot of contemporary sensibilities.
Microsoft delays employees' return to offices indefinitely
Or (as a wildlife photographer) why bother changing from a supertelephoto lens to a wide-angle lens and risk getting dust in the sensor when you carry a smartphone capable of taking good wide-angle photos anyway? Having something to get gopro-like footage without the bulk of a gopro could certainly be handy on occasion.
> Be it government, or union - the effect is the same.

I agree with your desire for oversight and accountability for either, but there is a difference of at least institutional momentum. I don't think anyone would consider institutional momentum of the US government to be aligned with the interests of workers. I think unions have an opportunity to be better and more explicitly aligned with those interests. As an employee previously part of a union, the adversarial relationship between unions and businesses seems to, at the end, strike a balance between the competing interests of the workers and the business. A business without unions can be like a courtroom without public defenders: not a great place to be the little guy.
Interesting, but also a combination of never-true and no-longer-true. They wrote a blogpost in 2019 that covers the situation & fixes well: https://www.matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-...
I will have my chuckle when we finally see Apple's iGlasses.

But as far as I know from chitchat going around Shenzhen, they don't have a camera or anything, and they are just making simple video goggles.
Interesting! Indeed that looks pretty nice: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/598695067967180/?__cft_...
> it's some way to make unskilled labor more scarce

Maybe don't allow employers to hire 10's of millions of illegal immigrants under the table?
I don't know the answer, but regardless, any non-technical user will simply not understand the implications of using "the cloud". They don't know that there is no cloud, just other people's computers and that Apple has access to all photos. I really doubt it's explained well during the setup.
The implications of 80% enslaved people are indeed very harsh.

Which makes this

"painting a portrait of a grim, evil empire."

quite accurate.

I cannot find much noble ideals in the "glorious" spartans.
The one in the video is like a caricature of the Wikipedia photo. Easily 45-50 feet tall with tires that individually seem taller than the TC-487.
If you are not harnessed while on the roof, experiencing fear is completely natural. Understanding your limits and risk factors are a key factor.
The backing material is also insulation. The R-value is low but the objective is to reduce the heat transfer so it doesn't reach the ignition point, not to actually keep it cool.