skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The signal is showing your open palm with the thumb tucked and then closing into a fist, not just the fist on its own. It would be a very weird motion to do unintentionally.

This particular signal was also created during Covid lockdowns and was intended to be something you do to a camera, because you don't have any opportunity to see people in person and ask for help. So you raise your palm towards the camera and then close it into a fist.
Strobe Data's site reminds me of Berkshire Hathaway's:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

I think neither business needs to convince anybody of anything. If you need what Strobe is selling and can afford it, they probably made the sale.
if OAuth had really succeeded at its goals and really federated authentication I'd be more interested in it, but no I'm not really comfy attaching my google account to random shitty things either because then we get into real name disclosure and such.

There's effectively only a few SSO providers that are viable to use on most of the internet (google, github, microsoft mostly) and they're all attached to more personal information than the forums were to begin with.

I do really wish federated identity had gotten off the ground the way it was promised though. That would be a better world.
What are you on about? All you'd need to do is find the place where your target is going and either bribe the teenager behind the counter or, depending on the value of the target, compromise the distributor from wherever the parts are coming. This is neither expensive nor difficult to do.
My experience with printers was always that Brother ones were a bit of a standout in the consumer space, so your experience might not be representative of the whole consumer market! I haven't bought any printers in years though so maybe things in general have got better.
Effective altruist after trying various drugs: "ensuring a steady supply of cocaine for everyone seems like a high priority..."
I don't get the hope for ramping up production capacity for wind turbines and solar panels 'fast enough'.

Supposedly this is all about climate change and limiting or even stopping emissions, to counter climate change, yes?

While these emissions can be especially annoying when they are near you, they work globally because they give a shit about borders. Supposedly, Yes?

So, from a global ecosystem point of view, considering 'cradle
to cradle' without any externalizations, what exactly is won by that, considering the emissions from producing and transporting all that stuff?

Wind turbines require large concrete foundations, you can't put them into the ground like a toothpick into a piece of cheese.

If not in some flat desert, stable roads for the construction and transport, requiring cutting down parts of the forest.

Same for the cables, no matter if over land, or underground transmission.

At Sea it's even more complicated and material intensive.

Solar is requiring large areas to be effective, similar considerations apply.

The production and transport of all that stuff, and the mining and refining of the necessary raw materials is causing emissions.

While of intermittent use, without storage, which again requires mining, refining, transport, production, transport, construction, maintenance, causing more emissions again.

Whose intermittency could be lessened by large HVDC super smart grid, but again, 'this doesn't grow on trees'!

One order of magnitude increase in production capacity would do the trick. At which magnitude of more emissions, counted over the whole lifecycle from mining raw materials, refining, producing, transporting, constructing, decommissioning?

Compared to a few 100(0) reactors, be they modular/small/gen-whatever/fast breeder/liquid salt/traveling wave/fusion/I don't care.

If the goal is to reduce emissions globally, nuclear it is!

If need be maybe implemented in a Hyman Rickover way, not some crazy lowest bidder contractors. That worked for the US-Navy, so far. Why shouldn't it for the world?

If this is The Emergency as it's supposed to be, it needs an emergency answer.

Solar/Wind it isn't.
> Yes. It's great for making maintainable code, but what I want is hackable code.

Java can be very hackable. Fluent Java, lambdas, generics provide opportunities.

> It's also really verbose. Kotlin rips out all the verbosity at no cost. Why would I want "@Nullable" when "?" does the trick?

Just omit it altogether. If you really want, you can prevent nulls on another level.

> I think it's more a problem with the habits that have grown around Java.

Yes. Java was nearly dead, but 8th version significantly improved things. But the biggest problem is frameworks and dragged baggage of EE-style development from early 2000. Lightweight Java is very different, while with its own set of issues.
Your affiliate might be able to make a deal with a judge in exchange for you. How confident are the ringleaders in their anonymity?
Very true. A family of 5 with 3 toddlers making $50k/yr got $19,300 in stimulus and expanded child tax credit, whereas that same family would have gotten considerably less if they had a $200k/yr income. It would seem that the benefit of the economic stimulus was rather intentionally concentrated at the bottom and middle of the income curve, obviating the need for private charitable contributions. Let's also not forget that those in the top 20% already pay nearly 80% of the taxes, kinda seems like they're already doing more than their share.
But that's the whole point. The display and the FaceID sensor are cryptographically signed. That's the entire complaint now. Before, it was the FaceID assembly that was part of the display assembly. Now they're separated but instead of just the FaceID sensor being serialized, they both are.
Exactly, this is what a functional economy that is not crippled by financial logjams looks like. It's possible to overdo it but that is much less damaging than under doing it like in the 2010s.
> I'm not sure I got that from his, this needless insult did make me feel that way about yours though.

Just a little joke, didn't mean it in a bad way.

> No, it's not, but in my experience, about 50% of the people who contribute code I want to merge avoid proprietary garbage whenever they can. Why increase the friction for them?

PR critical discussions stay on PR. Would be silly to have that discussion off platform if it pertains to an open PR. My point was more aimed at the claim that the historical record should be of any concern to the maintainer.

> There are plenty of options that aren't actively user hostile if you're of the opinion that real time chat is that important.

Discord without verification and without overzealous rules is a good in between. I make sure to not require verification for my project's discord because verification is needless friction when somebody wants to ask a question/advice. The off-platform chat needs to be as frictionless as possible. Other than that I don't see how else a discord can be user hostile.
This is definitely rare: It happens only ten times a month (2020)
The first article of this series of two explains the vote itself : https://lacampagne.substack.com/p/a-vote

It's simple, safe and efficient. I don't understand why USA are not doing something similar. All this voting machines, mail votes, counting/recounting where ballots are manipulated by so many people seems strange, inefficient and prone to fraud.
> [1]: https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/metro-tunnel/about/tech...

This video was great thanks!

My naive assumption was that as trains operate in a relatively controlled environment a headway much smaller than 120s would've been easy to achieve. Cars regularly drive sub one second from each other! Is it just about minimizing the chance of catastrophe or is there more to it?
Paying workers a higher hourly wage to tipping them a lot more I believe is the good, fair and right thing to do. Reward those who are out there working the low level jobs most affected by the worker shortage.
8km is bad if the rider has to wait at a lot of stoplights or cross a lot of roads. But if there's a good cycle path, 8km is a comfortable and easy cruise. Even easier on an e-bike. I did a 9km commute down the west side bike path of Manhattan and I found it to be easy and relaxing compared to much shorter commutes through SF, for example.
I agree with the premise of the article but there’s also some survivorship bias at play. We know about (and don’t knock down) the particularly beautiful older buildings. If you go to New York City there’s beautiful stuff from the early 20th century (think Chrysler Building) and plenty of unremarkable stuff still standing (think pre-war walk ups). Maybe one in a hundred of the older buildings is remarkably beautiful.

Still, there don’t seem to be many large scale projects built to last today. Nothing on the scale of Grand Central for a public building has been attempted in a long time, and it’s a shame because it’s quite awe inspiring to commute through there.
ACX had some good commentary on this in recent posts:

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-co...

Lots of potential discussions on why we're stuck with "ugly" modern architecture (is it due to materials/construction costs, environmental/safety regulation, architect's desires to be different...), and generally a more enjoyable piece than this one.

Plus there's a brief discussion on a hilarious conspiracy theory.
> Please don't ask people to run non-free software to participate in your open source community.

Doesn't that imply the end of all macOS related projects? Not that I'm complaining, I'm actually very surprised by the amount of effort individuals put in to open source efforts (such as homebrew) to support a proprietary closed platform like macOS.
And knowing is half the battle.
Organic certification is shockingly rigorous. So I’m sure it’s true that if you falsify documents or paper chains, or suborn an inspector, you can probably get away with some fraud.

But I think it’s a misunderstanding to think that farmers have an easy path to unverifiable fraud. Those inspectors want to see your books, along with your entire operation. It’s rough to get certified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

> The Signal for Help was introduced by the Canadian Women's Foundation on April 14, 2020.

Behavior change & language development take time.
The British empire was extractive and exploitative in nature. They didn't just rule over these people, they ruled with the aim of extracting as much wealth and resources as possible.

Many people wouldn't mind living under an oppressor who only imposes their ideologies/religion/way of living on you. e.g. the Mughal empire in the subcontinent might have imposed their religion in many instances but they treated the country like their own home. It is the stunted growth and several famines under the British empire that made many regions more prone to extreme poverty and conflicts.
Israeli here. I don’t want to get into an argument here about the six NGOs, Israel and NSO group. I personally don’t have enough information to make an informed decision on it.

There is one thing I want to clarify though. Hasbara is Hebrew for “explaining” - so when Israelis or any Hebrew speaker say hasbara it literally means “explaining” their point of view.
Now more often or not, Israelis and Hebrew speakers actually complain that “our governments Hasbara/explanation was garbage” or “wow, we did a really poor job explaining ourselves there”.

When you put it into that context, you need to understand from an Israeli/Hebrew speaker point of view “hasbara” is not a bad thing at all - it’s a necessity regardless of if you are pro or anti Israel.

Unfortunately people who don’t understand Hebrew have turned a common Hebrew term into a derogatory attack against any Israeli or pro Israeli individual and this extremely problematic for so many reasons I won’t get into now.

Regardless, every time you accuse someone of “hasbara” you are actually just accusing them of explaining themselves or their point of view and since it is everyone’s right to be allowed to explain their point of view - you really aren’t accusing them of anything bad at all.
Last time I tried it, single-file binaries were super slow on first load. It was one of the reasons we went back to .NET framework. Has this improved?
Microsoft's Brad Smith outlines sustainability plans at COP26
I think just putting g some effort I to keeping a FAQ on the repo up to date with things people run into and post on discord is a great solution.
> I was absolutely floored by how bad the game had become with cheaters.

i think there's actually value in a game server which allows _all_ cheats (that does not crash or disable the game from being playable).

Like 2b2t (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2b2t) minecraft server, the gameplay advances is amazing when cheaters are allowed full creativity. It changes the game in a whole new dimension. It also solves the problem of cheaters - in the sense, cheating is basically part of the game in 2b2t.
I wonder what is the optimal balance between being so obscure that the bad guys probably don't know it but the victims and potential rescuers do.
Calling 911 by that logic is self defeating because it's easily recognizable and can easily be preventable, but it's not, because these things aren't about being fool-proof, but giving people a means to communicate if the opportunity arises to do so. A silent hand gesture is perfect, can be easily made when someone turns their back, or is distracted and if recognized, can potentially save your life. But yes, it depends on IF the opportunity arises to do so, even if the attacker knows the hand signal. And a silent hand signal is incredibly easy to pull off in a situation like what occurred to this poor girl.
Yes, although you could argue that money that was transferred from a checking account to a brokerage account has « flowed into » a market, at least for the time it takes to settle any trades and for the counter party to withdraw theirs (since it will not be used for consumption)
Nothing like a country crumbling under the interests of its most powerful corporations to make one at least consider the viability of Marxist-Leninism. I definitely lean a lot more libertarian than most MLs, but when it comes to an existential crisis, I'll probably take survival over my personal freedoms.

I am interested to see where China ends up in the next few decades. They promise socialism (as in, a socialist mode of production) by 2050. I wish them success, and in the meantime, maybe they can lead the charge on not being complete morons when it comes to energy generation.
Yeah, those look pretty cool. Not sure if they could go on every bike path but would cover almost all use cases.
Publishers have watered down their communities in a way that encourages delinquent behavior, both cheating and toxicity. In old school, communities formed around dedicated servers. There were servers that were really competitive, and others more casual. Now everyone is just disconnected random people.

I'm surprised we haven't seen discord server integration into matchmaking. Always play with the same discord community that enforces their own community standards and where reputation follows you.
It is a basic fact that the virtual entirety of North America was ethnically-cleansed and settled by Europeans in the last 500 years.
More details in the linked PDF of the software used. https://webinfo.uk/webdocssl/irse-kbase/ref-viewer.aspx?refn...
Not really if the penalty of money laundering is far smaller than the profit. Just look at HSBC. Penalty for it is just the cost of doing business.
When clock travel faster than speed of light it catches up with the previous light showing clock earlier time. That is time travel as observed (assuming observable anyway). For observable the clock will stay fixed and then disappear as no light will ever bounce back from the clock to observer.
Wealthy? No. Flush with rapidly devaluing cash? Yes. A family of 5 with with 2 parents and 3 kids under 6 years old got a total of $19,300 (counting the monthly child credit payments), provided they didn't go over any of the arbitrary income thresholds.
Perhaps those contracts already signed
Ask HN: Full-stack mobile app development firms?
Hi HN,

My non-technical friend would like to create a social-media-like mobile MVP/alpha which should be reasonably functional but doesn’t have to be super-slick. Are there well-established developers or companies (including international) that will do full-stack development for something like this at a budget of around ~$250K?
> How does this affect you?

Are you kidding? The original iPhone was a revolutionary product. iOS was a revolution in user experience. Steve Jobs showed the world that you can build a complex, sophisticated product and still make it simple to use, intuitive and breathtakingly beautiful. That amazing creation has been severely crippled, and Jony is the person that did it. Of course there is a lot of disappointment in the tech community.
Given your apparent intended meaning, “propaganda” seems most appropriate.
Thanks for the explanation, and love your videos BTW!
Except normal entrepreneurs can sleep easy at night and not worry about going to jail for life. Or at least right now, political situations can change and even conducting legal business can be dicey.
I had this problem this week too. I have a secondary Gmail account that is forwarded to my main one. I tried to login to it, they demanded a phone number (even though I do have access to the backup email), and wouldn't let me in because the only number I have is one that's already in use on my main account. I guess now you need one unique fully-functional phone number for ever Google account you have?!
Yes, but the marginal propensity to consume matters here. If it’s an average person buying Bitcoin from a millionaire (or many such average people), it acts as a liquidity sink (since the millionaire has lower marginal propensity for consumption)
> And a 'perpetual energy machine' is trivial, punch a hole through to another universe and siphon their energy out. That's probably what black holes are, another universe has punched a hole through to ours and is sucking the energy out.

I also sometimes smoke too much weed.
If these claims are true, this intelligence gathering might save lives by preventing terrorist attacks.
I did some security work for a bank that was running a software-emulated HP3000 for their core banking platform to run on. They were so scared of us breaking something that they had us write in the contract we wouldn't touch the production unit whatsoever. In retrospect it was a good idea because we killed one of their dev boxes with a scan and it took a couple of days for them to get it back online.
How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread Covid?
It's surprising that humans can beat machines at complex trace routing, especially given modern ML techniques. Thanks for the explanation!
Most commercial flights operate in a small number of fairly narrow corridors. Is there really a billion dollar market for aerial imagery of those flight corridors? Seems unlikely.
If they do thorium then I am all for it. If not (so can feed their nuclear weaponizations) we all pray for the people over there. Their track records of industry accidents aren't that proud of.
I've had a logitech trackman marble connected to every desktop/laptop I've used for over the past 20 years. I find it much easier on my wrist/arm to scroll the ball instead of physically moving the mouse and its a good fit for cramped spaces and glass top desks.
That's some A-Grade media bullshit.

I wonder what they're trying to hide from the media by sending out that press release?
I actually do want input into features rtc...

Happy to pay for it and will provide bug reports etc..

I don't work on Linux desktops as a day job and won't have the bandwidth to contribute code but I'd like features, hardware support etc...

Happy to pay a higher subscription fee for it.
This doesn't generalize to most cities though. In my Rust Belt city, the government has put a lot of effort into making cycling safer on the road. The people cycling from one neighborhood to the next are a diverse bunch. Kids are using cheap hand-me-down bikes to go to school. College kids are commuting to campus. Adults of all ages are riding to work at a service job or downtown office.

What it took was a focus on good quality bike lanes outside the affluent white neighborhoods, bike accessibility at transit stations/on busses, and expansion of bikeshare to poorer neighborhoods.

The rich lycra-wearing stereotype won't go away until we invest in equitable access to bike infrastructure.
> Seems like unless you are the elite, which by definition is a minority, the only winning move is not to play.

aint this a metaphor for life? :D

The misconception you have is that pvp is meant to be fun. It's not. It's meant to be painful. It's meant to suck. But winning has meaning in pvp games, because of the above.

If you want fun, the games to play is single player experiences. They are designed to give enjoyment, and happiness.
Looks interesting...how does this compare to something like Zapier?
Show HN: The Open Source Alternative to Twilio
> and Louis XV were better leaders

Not sure losing a lot of money and giving up on most of your North American settlement is an example of good leadership.
The elite Canadian pilot who'll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space
You don’t have to have intercourse with everything you love.

Love is a big term for a wide variety of feelings.
It’s an never ending endeavour to explore it.
Real world CRUD is a bit different though, you want to send the log to somewhere else, use Sentry to try catch error in your CRUD endpoint. Or publishing a message to Kafka after u created an object. How to integrate "real world components" into this ?
I thank you for the reply and I don't dispute the deterioration of of local journalism and its negative effects. I thank you for the links and I will read them. (Some of this research I am familiar with is pretty iffy, the civic engagement -> local journalism link feels very compelling but the actual research is pretty thin, but it is a very hard area to study!)

I do dispute the notion expressed by the parent to my reply that there "used to be a thing called "investigative journalism", largely snuffed out now" which I stand by my position is a baffling statement. You can look at the homepage of ProPublica every day and read things that would never have any hope of seeing the light of day 15 or more years ago and are important stories.

And I really do think the fact remains that the ethical standards of the "days of yore" were garbage, modern reporters would break the shit out of news that the good ole boys would let go from the 50's all the way well into the 80's.
This reminds of Seinfeld scene when Newman is interrogating Jerry [1]

Newman: Don't you find it interesting that your friend had the foresight of buying postal insurance? Parcels are rarely damaged during shipping

Jerry: Define rarely

Newman: Frequently

[1] https://youtu.be/jDmA2xoIoFU?t=39
I've heard it expressed as, "This is not a supply chain, it's a supply line." meaning the US is not receiving components to build with or assemble, but finished goods to consume.

It's a sign of weakness.