skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The customer rules” continues to be the ultimate mantra for businesses, be it large conglomerates or smaller ones. Analyzing consumer behavior has become an imperative function of marketing because it is important on several levels. Here, the Internet of Behavior comes in handy as it alleviates businesses to maintain their positive standing in the market.
From the same page:

> some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary.

> We keep some data for the life of your Google Account if it’s useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services. For example, after you delete a specific Google search from My Activity, we might keep information about how often you search for things, but not what you searched for. When you delete your Google Account, the information about how often you search for things is also removed.

Incredibly vague, there is no reason email purchases couldn't be included in this category.

> Sometimes business and legal requirements oblige us to retain certain information, for specific purposes, for an extended period of time.

Again, "business requirements" can mean anything at all.
Analysis claiming that beef production at large is not the major source of CO2 emissions among livestock is ignoring the supply chain CO2 of beef production - ignoring the CO2 emissions of the food produced to feed the cows.

This is pretty well documented:

http://www.fao.org/gleam/results/en/

Also, whether one is a vegan or not is irrelevant to the question. These are systemic issues based on, as you yourself say, the lack of price put on CO2 emissions to account for their externalities.

However, the lack of political will to do so up to this point doesn't mean we can or should end industrial society and return to the land. There are less dramatic solution paths, but they will need time to acculturate.
The status quo is the continued existence of IrfanView, which is probably as close as it gets to the ideal. Hasn't changed much since the 1990s, and looks like it, but supports about everything via plugins.
It's not [yet] republishing the subscribed feeds into an amalgamated one
How does it hurt Amazon's business? Google might recommend an ad for a competitor with similar products?
The reason we are dealing with lots of little echo chambers is because we are in the middle of a war.

Our echo-chamber-keepers were replaced, and the new ones are leading us to our deaths.

Many different groups of people realize this and are trying to build replacements, but the current keepers are still dominant and there are many candidate replacements, all competing.
Or just have the flat developer fee cover it unless your app hits like 100k plus download or something.
These are all great questions, but I am out of my element here. Microplastics & land usage aren’t my areas of expertise (just a casual interest) so I'm hoping someone else can come along and give you informative answers.
> It almost feels like trying to make a car cheaper by not having tires and a windshield (and no substitute).

The way I see it, it's like people were buying cars only to hook stuff up to the alternator to power it, and someone figured maybe we should just build a combustion engine in a box, optimized for electricity generation, so we don't have to deal with the rest of the car.
The thing is, I don't even know if you're paying Apple 100-200 bucks to replace the battery, or if you're paying them that much to replace the entire top case assembly, along with the battery, since it's so damn difficult to replace just the battery, I don't know if they even try. This is at least what they used to do.[1] I tried to research and find if this is still their practice but it was proving difficult. Very wasteful if so, and all likely just to make it difficult for the user to repair their own machine. (For what it's worth, recent MacBook Airs reportedly have Apple-replaceable batteries.)

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/07/2018-macbook-air-batter...
Surely you do not work at Purina.
> but I don't think there's a way out any more.

The poster wasn't just complaining about "most phones" but claiming there was no solution.

It seems perfectly reasonable to point out that there is a solution that works at both the individual and global levels. If you want to control your own android devices, there are several good options and if more people start making those choices then the overall situation will also improve.
That really questionable. Yes city layouts have large importance and getting the right bonus for important buildings does matter.

However, if you want, you can play very war like, or avoid war quite well. Snowballing early with a push is a viable strategy.

Rushing tech to get the first cannon and pushing then as well.

It depends on what civilization and what special units and buildings you have.
I feel like Meteor lost a lot of ground to Firebase.

I think what we are seeing with these tools to make data synchronization in the frontend more invisible will continue to proliferate.

I am looking forward to the next, rich landscape of interactivity on the web powered by WASM, WebGL, etc.
To be fair though, being able to MITM the DNS is kind of a massive security hole. One you are abusing in a productive way but one that many others abuse in very non-productive ways.
I'm more in favor of expiration dates with legally-defined minimums.

Why? For many of these devices, the developers and teams have long since moved on. If the code was good, it might be possible for an outsider to figure out how to update it. BUT, if the code was poorly-written, it might take a prohibitively long time for an outsider to figure out how to update it.

Requiring infinite updates forever just isn't practical. No one will remember how to maintain software forever. But, a clearly communicated (and legally-enforced) expiration date where a company has an obligation to provide updates is practical.
Because they mean price for normal people, not price for international traders. Money can be exchanged for goods and services; the value of your money is not how much rice it can buy in Uganda or how much paper it can buy in Kazakhstan if you live in Denmark.
So more like Liveview for Phoenix / Elixir is what this kind of sounds like to me, and less so back-end mainly language like PHP.
In Investigations Wittgenstein realized that he went perhaps too far in Tractatus, and that words can be meaningful also “by consensus” not only “from first principles”.
> Jitsi is eating that cost. Nothing is free.

Brave is eating that cost. Nothing is free.

btw. thanks for the circular conversation. utterly pointless.
George Is Hiring Enterprise Account Execs with Backgrounds in AI/ML/RPA
Base – $150k OTE - $300k
Looking for Enterprise Sales Executives in the Chicago, Texas, New York City, Boston, DC, and Charlotte areas.

This company really need someone who understands the value of data solutions, RPA, AI/ML model production, etc specifically.
A couple of details that might be interesting....this is a venture funded, private company with a solution that allows companies to deploy machine learning more quickly. They have several major customers (Ford, Capital One, J&J, Nationwide Insurance, Astra Zeneca, to name a few) and strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and more. Lots of very positive things!

I do find it easier to cut to the chase. If you are open to the potential of making a change and a start-up is interesting to you, I’d be interested in learning more about you to see if we have a fit or something of interest.

Please shoot me your resume at gr@valorpartners.com and I’ll get back to you quickly, or schedule a phone call if you’re qualified.
It might be a large step up. Not devoting calories to systems that aren't needed because of symbiosis could yield a large gain, and depending on the calorie input feedstock and waste output, carbon emissions might look very different. What does the carbon output of a whale or large fish look like in comparison to cattle?

Ultimately, with an approach like this it might be best bit to think of it as "modified cow/chicken/pig" but instead survey different animals to find some that already have fast and/or efficient growth phases that might already have some benefits.

I understand this is a hard sell for a lot of people, even if you just look at swapping out staple meats which this might require. Ultimately, we're probably served better by a bunch of different options than one giant monoculture of meat production, so there may be a place for everything.
'sell all your data to third parties' is an interesting claim for Edison as their marketing is very privacy conscious. Do you have sources for it?

edit: ignore, I just read their privacy policy. God damn it. Can't trust anyone.
Unmanned, 98 feet long, and mach 6 sounds like a lot could go wrong. Lot of kinetic energy there. I know we already have (close to) this with missiles, but they tend to have A->B missions.
It would change at the same time, midnight, every day.

Amount of light might be different, but geez, timezones are silly.
I wish I could pay $20/month for Gmail without the spying and data collection, actual customer support, with a guarantee that my account wouldn't get locked because of one of their fucking mistakes.
Could fake/phishing emails be used to poison your profile? "Thanks for your constipation medication order"
> It's another example of how the modern economy has many consumer-hostile incentives that have actually led to regressions rather than improvements.

To be honest, I actually think it's probably more privacy-conscious to eliminate as much information as possible (but no more) from these kinds of emails. While I suppose Amazon is concerned with competitive behaviors from Google, I'm more concerned that Google or any other actor with access to my email could look through my purchasing list, or my library reading list, or...

Email is an insecure and non-private medium, but we often use it for items that require some level of security or privacy. I'd prefer if more companies held that information closely.
Just go to your order history in Amazon, it's all there and much more searchable than trying to rifle through emails.
Try the Moonlander keyboard!
How is a magic url really any different from a magic login cookie in this case? Yeah, I guess you can't revoke it, but what's the difference if the new cookie/url is equally unguessable?
> I would reply that your numbers are way off, since in an economy where by far the biggest borrowers are state owned enteprises, then you must count the debt of these enterprises as government debt even though according to NIPA data as cited it is considered private debt.

It would seem to me that the amount of additional debt you could consider the government as having taken on by virtue of these being SOEs would however be compensated by the fact that they're SOEs... i.e. the government also has equity ownership in them. The asset would somewhat or entirely cancel out the liability as it where.

The equivalent enterprises in the US aren't owned by the governemnt. Less debt, for sure, but less equity too.
Perhaps because many people, like me, have a primary non gmail address that is forwarded to my gmail address. That, and businesses with custom domains that use Google apps and thus have gmail as the UI.
Twitter rolls out Bitcoin tipping for iOS users, looks to NFTs for the future
Cutting Pkgsrc-2021Q3
Jailbreaking, by definition, is using exploits and vulnerabilities in the security of the device to bypass said security. Of course Apple is going to try and stop that. If they didn't, they'd be admitting that they don't care about the security of their devices which is a major factor in why people and companies buy their devices.
European Union announces plans to require all mobile devices to use USB-C
> That system, by design, has conquered the boom/bust cycle

Gordon Brown made this claim about the UK back in 1997. 10 years later he became Prime Minister just in time to see this claim put to the test.
I cannot tell this if this is sarcasm or a misunderstanding of evolution, but I’m imaging a dystopian future where humans genetically modify themselves to consume plastic but are no longer able to eat the foods we eat today. Now that’s a good novel
I would argue that has more knowledge threat than a technical threat though.
Google has a poor record on GDPR requirements. And in fact, common themes among the issues that they have are undisclosed secondary uses and unreasonable data retention.
The split wireless keyboard from FalbaTech dramatically decreased back pain, headaches, and migraines. My keyboards are kept at a minimum 50cm apart, and I can move them freely depending on comfort (because they are split AND wireless!). Highly recommend them!
The amount of units in Total war has basically not been going up, because they value animated units to much.

You are still playing with low 1000s of units, and this has been the case for a decade. The AI is also not really much better.

Even on strategy map level it has been simplified.
Oh, totally agree, just because we can stream and display the content in HDR, it doesn't mean that the production was really worth it. However, content quality in HDR just increases every day, there is so much competition for great content right now that we will just see more great things. Even normal user generated content can now be created with the iphone and dolby vision, which is really crazy and cool. I think we are just at the beginning, maybe HDR will be the standard in a few years from now
I made the jump from dual keyboards to a Kinesis Freestyle (2) almost a decade ago. Honestly sometimes I think about going back.

I had dual MS Sculpt keyboards for a while, & loved the curve. It's easier to spread the keyboards out far wider than with the pretty short cable Kinesis keyboards usually come with (some keyboards have an XL option). Also Kinesis seems allergic to build a regular-plain-old function-key row, and it seriously hampers usability, even after years of use on this keyboard.

The best part is definitely being in an office, and people thinking I was working on multiple things at once.
Once you try the 21" separation Kinesis freestyle you won't go back (assuming you know how to touch-type). Being able to keep your arms at shoulder length apart releases a lot of tension you'd otherwise have by brining your arms literally together to type.

That being said, the keyboard is hardly perfect.
Incredible, congratulations!!
I'm kinda watching China now for this. If they take a hit to their numbers, but use this as an opportunity to cut the deadwood and zombie companies, then they are going to be outshining the rest of the world in relatively short order, because nobody else in the world is willing to take the pain in the short term for the long-term advantage of forcing their economy to be productive.

If they, like everyone else in the world, paper over the problem, bail out their financial industry, and kick the can down the road, well, they may still become #1 but it will be much less threatening to anyone else, and it will be much less certain, and depending on how deep they go, yeah, seeing the sort of stagnation Japan did is on the table.

Which way will they go? I have no idea. They seem to lie as big as any other country in the world about their economic progress, which would suggest covering over the problems and propping up zombies just like the West is doing. But they might have leadership that can see the advantages in the long term of letting the economy actually experience the pain it needs to align itself properly.

Eventually you end up in a place like we are in America, where we've kicked the can down the road so many times that the requisite short-term pain to fix the economy would be almost terminal, if not outright terminal.
But if they had had a static website they wouldn't have had funding.
Another big problem was that you rarely want exactly the same code on client and server.
> You can see the information it has already collected if you use Google, by visiting: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

The weird thing is that page doesn't even list the purchases I've made from google itself. Does it even work?
> I tried a few of those Kinesis split keyboards. Too squishy for me. Not far enough apart. The CherryMX Kinesis split keyboard was is too clickey for calls and screenshares. Muscle memory made it difficult to switch.

This is a really cool hack, and I’m happy that the author found a solution for their pain that works for them, but this bit confused me.

Kinesis are keyboards with separated key clusters, but not split keyboards. When one says split keyboard I think they are normally talking about things like the Ergodox EZ/Moonlander which have two physically separate bodies, one for each hand. There are many different models of these with various shapes and sizes, and you can separate them as much as you like. The normal advice is to set them up around shoulder width apart so you aren’t rounding your back to bring your arms together.

Most of these kinds of keyboards also support whatever key switches you prefer, and there are plenty of options that are sufficiently quiet for zoom (pretty much anything linear should do the trick)

I have been using a Moonlander for a couple of years now, and an EZ before that. They are expensive at around $400 but I don’t think I can ever go back. Most of these split keyboards also run QMK so you can setup binds, layers, and generally configure them however you like.
If a company has to provide software updates forever for no revenue, eventually its business model will go upside down.

I instead prefer a model where a tax is applied to all IoT sales. Then the manufacturer gets paid monthly out of a fund created by that tax. Then various abuses can be taken out of that fund: appliance support less than 30 years, electronics support less than 15, security or privacy violations, etc.

Essentially, IoT companies need to earn their sale price over time.
The general problem I have (personally) with these type of complaints is that there is no real way for any of these companies to act on it further. In the case of Google, they already have acted on it. It's just noise to them at this point.

If you believe something else is being snuffed out, it would help to mention what it is so people can help you. Because making that statement without context doesn't really stand alone, it's also just noise.
Dark Pool Sold Some Order Flow
CCP being a more or less reasonable ruling body: where does the Genocide of the Uighurs fit in with them being "reasonable"?
Interestingly, no.

I had recently finished reading both books by Robert Mason, who started out flying helicopters for the Army in Vietnam and ended up smuggling literal tons of weed and got caught and did federal time. Pretty interesting autobiography. Anyway my comments fit pretty well with his description contained in his second book.

Mr Mason got caught by bad luck. There will always be small timers who do things small timer style who get caught by being verbose and oversharing, and to catch those we'll have "encrypted" smartphones.
Incorrect, you shoot down something else afterwards.
The easiest way is to get a Lazy Newb Pack
https://www.dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Utility:Lazy_New...
I mean, for a company eagerly (and correctly) removing the headphone jack for phones, it's the least surprising thing to remove GPU options. All that's left is RAM and HDD.
My pet theory is that they went over the top with comedy aspects in S1 only to establish The Orville as a parody, to avoid being accused of IP misuse/plagiarism. S2 toned down the jokes a lot, and it feels more like a lighter TNG, which I believe was the goal all along.
Ask HN: Who are your favorite SaaS people on Twitter?
A release like this has to be a chess move or entirely made up. You don’t just share weapons platform plans for no reason. You underpromise, overpromise, lie, brag, or misdirect in order to achieve some outcome.

You see it and ask yourself “why?” and “how much is BS?”
> I'm really happy to hear Steam's push to get all games working on Linux.

Word on the street is that the TPM 2.0 requirements for Windows 11 are, in part, to provide a common DRM platform for all Windows applications including games. Meaning that instead of custom DRM software like Denuvo, antipiracy measures will be implemented as common Windows APIs that take advantage of the TPM to provide secure attestation of genuine, nonpirated binaries. Remember Palladium? Yeah, it's that again, quietly implemented piecemeal beginning with Secure Boot.

Linux will have to implement this DRM down to the kernel level, or it will be simply locked out of many Windows games.

Forget it. Linux gaming is over. Proton for me has been busted enough to have spotty support from release to release anyway.
No, Google's policies say they delete some things when you ask them to, but they won't say which things. Maybe email purchases are in this category, or maybe they're in the category of data they keep "for the life of your Google Account", or "for extended time periods".
I can almost guarantee Amazon dropped the item details from their emails in order to get you to click back into the store.
Show HN: I Made a Goodreads and Reddit and Pirate Bay
But the real question is, did you ever use the new interface instead of old.reddit.com?
We have these in Maine too. I’ve always known them as indian pipeweed, although I suspect they aren’t called that anymore as it’s a bit culturally insensitive.
> I'm happy if they just provide the source code

I agree with you, but I figure it's worth mentioning that—OSS license aside—it's often possible to get source code from the original programmers many years after EOL.

I got my hands on the DEC VTStar source code a few years ago just by doing some digging on LinkedIn and messaging the right people.
I have this great idea about doing blood assays for all of the common tests out there out of a little pinprick worth of blood from your fingertip. It's exactly what people want to hear today. How about some funding?
A paragraph can be crafted to have a centrepiece. That's not something I'd considered before so I'll be keeping an eye out. Could be a sentence, a word, or a punctuation mark; whatever's needed to make it linger.

And, true to form in any writing about writing, just when you think it's about to be too late, the author finds a way to abuse the language in exactly the way they're commenting on.

Some simple but enjoyable insights.
Move it mid-way and forget about it.
Metadata includes file names. If you have a file on your computer called proof_nsa_is_doing_illegal_stuff.pdf, that would significantly help a prosecutor trying to convict a wistleblower even if they can't get the file.
I religiously keep mine to 1 page, and even shorter if possible. Imagine your potential interviewer. He or she is booked in back-to-back meetings all day. Has not a lot of time to prepare. In the 2 minutes between his last meeting and your interview, he scrambles to print off a copy of your resume and give it a quick review. His eyeballs scan the top of the page for interesting "headline" material, and then maybe look at the first two or three bullet points from your most recent employer. That might be it! All that labor you put into that detailed technical info on page 4 might not even make it out of the printer, let alone get into your interviewer's head. The only person who is likely to read all four pages is your hiring manager, and if by page 3 it's just a bunch of technologies you used in a now-defunct company back in 1996, it's not going to impress anyone.

Additionally, the ability to summarize a highly technical and detailed topic down to a very short "executive review" is an important and sought-after job skill. Keep it short and include only the best results of your work.
> If some public money had to be spent to fund an alternative to Google Maps / Maps.me / etc.

Very nitpicky, but Maps.me is/uses OpenStreetMap.