skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even Apple and Google have both figured out that screwing around with UX every release is a recipe for making your customers HATE you.

No they haven't. I hate Windows and love my Mac, but being forced into an upgrade from High Sierra to Big Sur sucks... a ton of the features I used all the time got buried behind click-and-hold etc.
Conscious processing of narrative stimuli synchronizes heart rate between people
Is Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) just a user data vacuum now?
A friend wanted to watch a movie together and suggested I sign up for a free service called Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) and being the conscious consumer I brought up their privacy policy and had a read.. https://www.teleparty.com/privacy/

> Aggregate Data. We may anonymize and aggregate data collected through the Service and use it for any purpose.

> We may share any information that we receive through the Service with vendors and service providers retained in connection with the provision of the Service,

> If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.

Alarm bells were going off for me, apparently they have a Patreon to fund development (https://www.teleparty.com/support)

original author appears to be stepchowfun on GitHub with both a repo and a blog post about the weekend project (https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/105/netflix-party-synchronize-netflix-video-playback).

But nowhere can I find any information on it being sold/given to the 'WP Interactive Media, Inc' as mentioned in the top of the privacy policy (which has no information about itself what so ever on the web other than owning the trademark https://uspto.report/TM/90110448 and being some foreign stock company
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C4596372

With over 10M downloads on the chrome extension store, is it really just maintained by a single guy now or am I running with too many layers of tinfoil?
I don’t like Japan’s default number of days off, but I do like their policy, which is that it is up to the employee when they take time off. The only situation in which a manager could reject it is if it would materially affect the company.

In larger companies that’s obviously never the case for any individual person.

Of course, that’s not quite how people use it, but the law as written is very nice.
While it may be true that your country is the result
of your ancestors having fought and killed people
for the land it's on and the wealth and privilege it has today,
that argument doesn't support what you think it does.
very few people understand the primary market in the crypto space, as they only know the speculation side and don't like that.

many of the people with the capacity to understand the primary market or revenue generating side are too busy hating that "crypto" gained an additional context that is more widely used than their enthusiast obscure cryptography interest and they use every comment section to let everyone know that when they aren't busy weeping under their Alan Turing shrines before they have flashbacks of boarding the bus at 7am to work for an ad conglomerate, a life they ironically respect more.
and god help you if you're trying to read a thread in reverse order, any images popping in via infinite scroll will make what you're reading jump out of place
This makes me think of the spate of mental health initiatives I've been seeing in workplaces over the last few years. It's a cynical opinion, but I can't believe anyone actually cares. Things like team "check in" calls and higher ups saying you can approach them about anything. But outside of maybe direct colleagues I trust on a personal level, I wouldn't tell anyone anything. I imagine if you went to someone higher up the chain and said you were depressed and anxious, or, god forbid, approaching suicidal, they would hand you off and put as much distance between you and them as possible. Maybe not care at all isn't right, but rather the care is reserved for non-complex, easy to solve issues, and anything beyond that carries stigma and poses some level of risk for your employer.

I'm skeptical that this person's initiative will lead to positive outcomes, but all the best to them and I hope their wife recovers fully.
It might be worth talking to these folks: https://ruralinnovation.us/

This won't answer your immediate questions, but they've been heavily involved in getting startups to move to small communities. Municipal broadband is a big part of that, and I believe some of them worked on those efforts in Vermont.
Actual Title: Governor Newsom Signs Historic Legislation to Boost California’s Housing Supply and Fight the Housing Crisis
Interesting... seems like he owns it now but no updates yet. Pinboard seems to be pretty dormant as well.
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Someone else smoking largely doesn't affect me, and I would hope Japan has also aggressively (like the US) curtailed smoking in public places like restaurants and other public accommodations.

Someone else defying lockdown, test & trace, mask, or vaccine mandates can affect me, especially prior to when I was able to get the vaccine.

That's the difference.
This is great. I never understood why we allow people who don't own the land dictating the terms of the housing that gets built when we need more of every kind of housing in California. The fetishization of single story mid-century construction is especially confusing. Land is expensive, build up, not out.
Thanks for the link. I'm part way through part-ii. It's a good read.
There's good reasons to use a custom TLD aside from being a smartass, or disdain for Google policies. It's portable and if you have a very common name, unless you were one of those early Gmail adopters buying invites off eBay, you won't have a reasonable and short alias.
Another way of looking at it is proximity to the United States, its massive supply of guns and "war on drugs", which somehow seems to be correlated to an increased homicide rate.
This is a particular hot button for me, since when I started working, I got separate banks of vacation and sick time. It took me years to build up to a decent amount of vacation time; I rarely took sick time, but that was time when I truly couldn’t work and needed to recover from something.

My last job was a fixed bank of PTO- that had to account for everything; vacation, sick. I was constantly anxious if I woke up feeling unwell because that was some number of days I wouldn’t be able to take as vacation.

If a company wants to have a limited amount of time off, they really need vacation and sick time as separate banks, treated differently for different reasons-vacation for planned, sick time for unplanned.
* Stronger regulation of company acquisitions

* Weaken IP

* Hold executives accountable for company actions (put them in jail if warranted)

* Rework the tax system to avoid the offshoring of profits and other tax loopholes

All the usual stuff that won't happen with regulatory capture
It is indeed a human right to spread disease and death to other human beings. Dying by drowning in an abundance of oxygen being pumped into one's body is the peak of freedom. No one can restrict one's rights after they're dead.
I just tested example.xyz and spot.xyz between my Google Fi and Voice numbers and both were fine.
Because there are limited resources surrounding those homes. Like streets, schools, sewage, etc. You can’t just magically scale up the housing without also scaling up infrastructure.
>where do they think the power goes?

Private companies competing each other to provide the best service?
Same as it was in my original comment, the author is not describing abstract ideology, except as minor background -- he's describing real people doing real things in real situations. He's speaking of lowercase-ell libertarians in the political sphere, and what ideological adaptations they've made for personal gain.

Hacking away at the state's budget, but with an extreme focus on the welfare and regulatory side, all while seeking contracts from the military industrial complex for tasks that have nothing to do with capital-ell Libertarian tasks like enforcing the NAP.
‘ There have been very few cases in my lifetime.’ There ought not to be any cases in the ideal world. But of course given human nature, etc., a small rate, say a 0.1% insubordination rate seems quite reasonable. (which even still may be too ambitious unless the new recruits can maintain a very noble character)

There will always be people with less than virtuous intentions climbing up the ranks at any given point in time, at any given organization.

So the military certainly seems to be doing better at separating the wheat from the chaff than the federal bureaucracy or any private organization even 1/10 as large.
Including people's right to life, right?
It’s not a coincidence he waited till the day after the recall to sign this.
If you want self-reliance, then get a medical degree. This will bring you further than owning a gun, especially in the US.
I use Linux for most things and only boot into Windows for games. Wintendo is a real thing.

I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar.

At this point I would settle for a deny-then-allow solution involving dropping any and every packet that's not from the servers of the small handful of online games I play, any well-known wikis that cover the games I play, or any relevant modding sites.
Those plans are much better than plans that are strict cap and then no data, which are better than no limits but if you use more than your quota it costs a ton and by the way the usage information is delayed at least 7 days.

I do remember seeing the plans that said unlimited (tiny print slow after 30Gb) and that's misleading... better to put the 30gb in big letters, but I just want like 1 or 2 gb fast... Just switched to a hard capped plan cause it was half the price though and a higher cap and I haven't hit the cap in a long time.
No seat belts, either. They drive safely, therefore they won't get in a car accident.
More than 30k women in UK report irregular periods after getting Covid jab
The UI war predates WinRT - remember Silverlight? Or, for that matter, WPF itself. So why would you expect it to be over?
>Windows Search being objectively worse than the Power Toys Run

'Everything' is a freeware tool that should be installed by every Windows user.

https://www.voidtools.com/
A built-in X for WSL
> When did being against lockdowns become harmful?

Exactly at the point where lockdowns became profitable for special interests.
This doesn't end single family zoning. It allows cities to end single family zoning in what looks like fairly narrow circumstances. The title should be changed because it's misleading to the point of being incorrect.

> SB 10 by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) creates a voluntary process for local governments to access a streamlined zoning process for new multi-unit housing near transit or in urban infill areas, with up to 10 units per parcel. The legislation simplifies the CEQA requirements for upzoning, giving local leaders another tool to voluntarily increase density and provide affordable rental opportunities to more Californians.
The parent and the government ones are similar because the censored individual can’t easily switch government or switch parents.

(And when the social media platform (google) owns not just the video site but also the search engine and the browser - it starts to move closer to the government/parent example.)
If they're that capable of moderating their platform then maybe they no longer require Section 230 protection. They should now be held liable for failures of that moderation, as many other types of businesses would be.
Touché.

This is the danger of these kinds of discussions. As humans, our rhetoric normally veers precariously close to:

"We should get rid of [insert troublesome thing here]. But not my [insert troublesome thing here]. My [insert troublesome thing here] is good."
Windows 2000 was not a consumer edition of Windows. I also didn't list server versions either. Up until Vista I don't recall any truly awful NT versions.

As for 10, I liked 7 more. But 10 was still and improvement over 8, so I think the pattern still holds.
Yes, in the same way that nothing wrong happened during Cultural Revolution when armed factions of Red Guard fight with each other. Also, I'm not sure how you imagine small militia fighting with worlds biggest army.
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The cinematic mode is done by recording a depth map (calculated using the ISP and Neural Engine?) alongside the regular video. On older phones you could do this using the SDK, but iirc it was a much lower resolution depth map (like 480p or less?).

Given that they've also added ProRes encode/decode, it's likely fair to assume that they've redone the entire codec hardware.

So yeah, this is my long-winded way of agreeing with you that it is indeed more efficient.
My understanding is that they put a cap on property taxes that fund the infrastructure and then turned around and said there is no money for infrastructure.
Why? Has there not continued to be considerable movement in the LGBT arena since Facebook and Twitter gained prominence?
CDC says ~ 60,000 to 2.5 million[1] which is a massive range spanning nearly 2 orders of magnitude. It's likely on the higher side because who calls the cops when they had to brandish a firearm to scare someone away... Brandishing is illegal in many states.

That changes the calculus even more.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...
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The section on investments in technology and chemical recycling is probably most relevant to our discussion:

https://assets.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/nl/pdf/2021/sectoren/gr...

Anecdotally, those that are leading these investments and innovations are aggressive about it.
I don't think you can draw causation between "strict gun laws" and "higher crime" at all.
what good is a blue line of what it’s planning, if the blue line changes the instant a new plan is made, such that the driver is surprised their car is making a right turn?
Facebook to develop tools to track coordination across accounts in all matters
Were you alive in the 80s? I literally heard this complaint multiple times from multiple people. The point is is that calling someone a “f_____ f__” would be considered a “micro aggression” by some in the 80s that only the “radical left” would get upset about.

The point is that if you’ve lived long enough you’ve seen people complain about culture changing enough times to know that it’s always changing and always uncomfortable for those that don’t like it.*
So ideas counter to government policy are "dangerous ideas"? You can't get more Soviet and CCP-like with that kind of rhetoric and thinking.

We're in dark times.

In fact, I see that my comments are shadow-banned. Very classy HN!

Fuck you, the little twerp, "dang"! Just ban this fucking account, seriously. You can have your little echo chamber.

Shadow banning is such a weaselly action -- like a high schooler's prank. If I'm banned then man-up and fucking say so.
Security is an illusion we must maintain for our mental health.
cmd as admin, sfc /scannow followed by chkdsk /f C: then reboot the PC and try the update again. Works every time for me.
Yep, and I'm also 100% in support of legislation aiming at reducing tobacco consumption, such as plain packaging laws and advertising bans. I'm not sure if Japan are already doing those or not though.
Love it! Searched for Shigeru Miyamoto and this was the third result: https://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/miyamoto-h...
Or with current copyright crap, you could also record a whole bunch of common noises you hear in public, nature ect, upload to YouTube as ambient sound effects then go after “infringers” who have a sound clip in their video which is more than 90% similar to yours.
Just because in a technical sense they are free to do it doesn’t mean they should do it. This is a very pessimistic view of the world.

If everything operated in the very edges of law “because they can” we would have never made any progress. There are countless negative things you could do with your time on this planet but that isn’t a justification.

We can always strive to be better and push others to do so. Laws and hard rules should be the absolute last resort fallback option, not the operating procedure.
Cigarettes are available to every adult. Imagine if every adult in Japan was exposed to covid before vaccinations. Use that number of estimated deaths, not 17k. Why do people always use real death numbers after all the lockdowns, masking and social distancing is applied, for comparison to other death causes, including flu? It's extremely misleading.

Death toll would be way higher than 17k especially with the more older population in Japan compared to other countries. Not to mention hospital overcrowding leading to higher fatality rates compared to now and even highet non covid deaths due to lack of emergency medical care.
We may be too small, but I think we have a good utility department that provides electricity, gas, water and waste water service. We certainly need a manager as a first step. I agree that "Cisco advanced certification" may not describe what we need.
The Liberal Party of Canada is focused on gun bans during our election because too many men and women are getting into the sport for the first time. Anti-gun politicians know the time for gun confiscation is now or never.

For those focused on the theoretical inability of the American populace to fight their government with small arms, I present the Taliban. They just won a 20 year war against the US government with Kalashnikovs. Perhaps the Vietcong were on to something?
At this point, WPF won't die, either.
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Off topic, but I'm curious, how do you feel about the death of Secoriea Turner?
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> We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever been found to have a matching set.

Maybe that's true or not, but that's never been conclusive.

What has happened was that after the 3/11 attacks in Madrid , an American was suspected because his fingerprint was misidentified, partially because of this reasoning.

http://www.latent-prints.com/images/Final%20OIG%20Executive%...
Just crazy to kill so many Americans and still got some money in exchange and immunity.
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Very true, Borland didn't pivot, they found a buyer (Embarcadero) and the top executives got paid. Then Embarcadero had to get their money, so Delphi prices kept getting raised higher. Totally out of the price range of normal users or independent developers.

Arguably what saved Pascal/Object Pascal was the open-source projects of Free Pascal/Lazarus and PascalABC (popular in Russia). Plus there were huge fans of Turbo Pascal, who got it released as freeware, as Borland had switched to selling the Delphi IDE.

This combination (Free Pascal/Lazarus, freeware Turbo Pascal, PascalABC, etc...) of open-source freeware Pascal eventually put pressure on Embarcadero to release the free Delphi Community Edition (2018). That was 5 to 10 years late in the game. A lot of user base and previous strong fans had significantly diminished.

However, it does appear that Object Pascal has found a decent level, at presently between the top 15 to 20 programming languages (were it was between top 1 to 10 in the 80s and 90s). It is possible for Object Pascal to see a bit of a resurgence, based around the free open-source dialects of Pascal and Embarcadero's strong push to put Delphi in schools (example- Turkey bought 1 million licenses for their schools or South Africa replacing Java with Delphi).
"The COVID vaccines were rushed through the approval process and have more health risks than the government will admit."

"Ivermectin makes you immune to COVID and will prevent you from spreading the disease to others if you get it."

"You can cure your child of autism by having them drink diluted bleach."

The President of the United States stated that Facebook is "killing people" by not suppressing the discussion of ideas like this (at least, the first two) on their platform.

What do you think of these ideas? Should Facebook allow them to be expressed at all? Should Facebook make it easy for people who believe these ideas to discuss them with other like-minded individuals? Should Facebook permit these ideas to be expressed, but specifically design their product to suppress them so that they are harder to find?

If Facebook shows an ad on a page that also contains a post from a user expressing an idea like this, is Facebook profiting from spreading dangerous ideas? Is that reprehensible? Should they be prohibited from doing so? Does that mean they should, in fact, suppress these ideas?

I said Facebook is accused no matter what they do - I didn't say I agree with the accusers. Regardless, it is clear that mainstream political thought in the US actually doesn't respect free speech all that much these days when it conflicts with their own values.
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Talk about an unforced error.
https://emojipedia.org/bacon/

https://emojipedia.org/pig/

https://emojipedia.org/pig-nose/
I was thinking of this too when watching one of the videos testing whether their car would weave through concrete pillars. if you record yourself colliding with a concrete wall because you were testing beta software, does insurance pay out?
Exactly. I read this as a much broader critique of the scientific community. As YouTube is seen as a mass media company, it's not hard to accept their content decisions. He didn't fight it. I also believe any company that markets themselves as tech industry should not be this cagey about their relationship to science. It's an ethical question not a legal one. Jumping to the legal aspect seems like a big misunderstanding of the piece.

Also funny to question whether the guy is acting on financial incentives to promote his ideas. Of course he does.
All we know is that you are certain that the CCP would have crushed the Uighurs no matter how well armed they were. That’s all well and good.

My point is that a society which trusted all of its civilians to be armed would be very different from the communist China of today.
> Especially among people willing to buy an iPhone.

I'm intensely curious about your explanation for this. Don't disappoint me with a "they're stupid"!
> ...isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government?

No, it isn't.

> They are mostly right wing, and the right wing in the US increasingly leans authoritarian.

No, it doesn't.
I'm not sure why this has made it to the front page today, but I spent a few hours yesterday pulling them out of my lawn. (I don't like using weed and feed)
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