skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously. Without a dedicated on/off/volume knob for the soundsystem, the driving experience is diminished drastically, no matter how nice the car.

And of course touch is way better than eyesight when you are supposed to be paying attention to the road. As someone else said, rough motor skills are safer and more appropriate in a car then controls needing fine motor skills.
Exactly this. Which is fine. What isn’t fine is when people pretend that the ownership is over the media itself.
but aren't they upstreaming those improvements?
Google maps did that with their pricing and a lot of people changed api's.

Yes, it's a simpler change. But other serverless tech does exists on mostly the same dev language.

Additionally, price changes should be warned way upfront.
A few thoughts in no particular order:

It's pretty standard for human ransom (aka kidnapping) policies to require the insured to deny they're covered to anyone who asks. So who is covered and how much for is never really public. I assume the same applies here.

Ransomware is a new threat. So there isn't a good data set to do statistical analysis on yet. Doubly so as these events aren't reportable etc.

Ransomware threat risk is quite client specific. How good is infosec etc? How much do you rely on these systems? Is your company an obvious target? And none of these factors can be easily assessed by an insurer.

There are national political concerns around both the general risk and specific ones. And insurers hate anything like that. They won't cover acts of war, what about "acts of cyberwar"?
Interesting, I didn't know that. Most of the clips I see of him online show him berating young people who aren't wrong IMHO.

A bit serendipitous, but his name popped up just now when I was searching for an article about regulation to make companies responsible for their own externalities:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-29/cop26-...

Big investors really do think of themselves as universal investors

The typical attitude is: “If we’re a big investor, we’re universal investors. We can’t say we’re going to divest fossil fuels companies; we have to stay invested.” Other companies in the portfolio will continue to use carbon. At the same time, a universal investor needs to look after the wellbeing of its clients. That means making sure they have a healthy climate to breathe when they retire, and not just that they have an adequate cash flow.

Put differently, the report says they believe that they “own” the negative externalities caused by the companies in their portfolio “due to the sheer depth and breadth of their holdings in all asset classes and regions.” As far as they are concerned: “Such ‘paper’ holdings do not negate their fiduciary responsibility to wider society.” This is a long way from the “shareholder value” philosophy associated with Milton Friedman that held sway for decades.

Right now I put the responsibility for environmental collapse squarely on the shoulders of corporations, their shareholders and fundamentally consumers who (due to tragedy of the commons) frankly don't know how to begin to be sustainable when it takes everything they got to make it in today's world.

To say that another way, I don't think that Friedman's views are fundamentally incorrect, I just think that they put attention in the wrong places. For example, capitalism is just economic evolution. It doesn't need to be defended as some alternative to social democracy. Capitalism isn't going anywhere, but it can be constrained by human will so that it doesn't make us slaves to it, toiling in the workaday world every day until we die as the earth burns around us.
I think the is_computer_on_fire function is far more useful
To make it even worse it's only interest free if the payments are made on time. I'm sure the business model expects a certain amount of people to miss a payment and end up owing credit card level interest amounts, on top of the initial fee.

This is extremely scummy.
I actually drove one for an extended test drive. Even the brand new car had stuff that wasn't on straight and already coming apart.
this discussion is about UC -- he's talking about the fact that the admission rate for many campuses and majors is actually higher for california CC transfers, with some UC campuses still offering guaranteed admission (TAG) under certain conditions.

i think the "semi-prestigious" refers to the fact that some bay area CCs are known as transfer feeders for Berkeley (which does not have TAG, so you have to be competitive among CC candidates).
Show HN: CommunityPlays lets you click and interact with Twitch streams
Hey folks, I've been working on a hobby project Chrome extension, inspired by TwitchPlaysPokemon, called CommunityPlays. CommunityPlays allows you to click and interact with Twitch streams instead of typing in chat commands. I'm starting small with MS Paint as a demo to gather feedback, eventually I'd like to move this to games like CIV 5 that can be played with only your mouse and really the dream is to have this work with OldSchoolRuneScape which is where the original project idea came from.

Extension link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/communityplays/faamecjhgpbjhklklcilclifoieclmlo/related

Stream will be live for the next few hours for testing, unless something crashes: https://www.twitch.tv/sadboifeverdreamz

Looking for feedback on next features/bugs. My list 1) Add allow list for the extension instead of always on 2) Add mouse drag functionality/other controls

Some more details/FAQ:
- Clicking the "Community play: on" button on the video turns the extension off and let's you interact with the Twitch player again

- Chrome extension: written in Typescript

- Desktop receiver: written in Electron/Typescript

- Uses OBS for streaming

- Running on Windows Server 2019

- Powered by Twitch chat, desktop receiver has a chatbot that listens for commands

- Chrome extension filters out all of the click commands from Twitch chat to remove the noise. Maybe in the future the chat bot will delete the messages from chat itself if that is a thing so you don't have to install the extension

- Runs on EC2 t3a.2xlarge instance. Might be overkill but other types were getting CPU pegged. Got frustrated and settled for this size. This will be the main budget constraint of this project.

- Green square in the top left is to allow the extension to work with the Twitch video letterboxing/black bars. Let me know if you have a better idea for this.

- Even though its running on a VM I have to keep a remote desktop connection alive otherwise the Windows GUI doesn't render and the stream turns to a black screen if I disconnect. Tried tsconn hacks to get around this but no luck.
Nah. Just bump that responsibility to the caller, and power supply manufacturer. Have the caller call power_on_computer() first always. This will ensure you always get defined state!

...What do you mean not every power supply manufacturer implements the power_on_computer() function as a NOOP if the computer is already on?!
They bug you to set up wallet, there's no way to opt out.
In Finland there is single big standardized test. (Actually there is also lower level tests, but those really don't matter). Different subjects have different weights in different programs. Still funnily enough math have two levels. But as the higher level has by far the largest number of class-hours it ends up giving lot of points in any subject.
write a function whose sig is like "boolean isOn()". call it. if it returns true, the computer is on. if it returns false, the computer is also on. done. ship it!

add a // TODO in v2: handle case if it never returns, or the process crashes, or caller times out waiting
Don't some OEMs include Chrome these days? Combined with Google services pushing Chrome and it's future is secure.
I actually looked at gray market importing of European vans (we don't have any of those in the US) but it was cost prohibitive or straight up impossible depending on the model.
All of the GNU tooling will be free, though it's not necessarily for the holiday. Doesn't mean they aren't worth checking out, though!
Old toaster oven took one action to change the temp - turn the knob. New toaster oven takes multiple actions to change the baking temperature. It's ridiculous.
The joke is also on people who have experienced career effects for (correctly) poo-pooh'ing it.
I remember using it. Some people were version controlling the win registry and system dll folders. Why did it die?
> Like there only was one Bitcoin that was indivisible. You can transfer it to other addresses, but there can only be one at a time. That's all there is to it.

Such a token is inherently worthless. The only value comes from rights that token can confer.

That’s why people are trying to associate them with objects of real-world value.
Looks as exactly the right phone for me. But the amazon comments say it would break after some month/weeks. I can imagine that happens when you treat is as a phone for a construction area, as it looks. But maybee it just dies because it's bad quality. Does anyone have experience with the phone?
Perhaps because “redistributive policies” is subconsciously understood as “theft”?
woah! i had no idea beos lived on in an oss project!
there's a convenient npm package to handle that for you
> I always find it fascinating when extremely well-respected university folks make write-ups that confirm what is dead obvious to anyone who belongs to the group being studied.

Is it? I'm a member of said group, but I always kind of assumed (without thinking about it too much) that the effect came largely from the fact that college is one of the easier places and contexts to come out.
Alien: Isolation Arrives on iOS and Android
While turning it into a heart may be clever branding, you've only slightly modified a ubiquitous icon representing audio, and countless startups used that before you.
But trust is currently easy online. I can initiate a chargeback through traditional currencies.

Bought source is available for download as soon as I buy something. So i have it in my possession on my drive when eg. Envato deletes the assets because of copyright infringement.

Also, i frequently visit https://rekt.news/ and trust seems to be far-fetched. Even the auditors sometimes keep the 0-days to themselves.
I don’t see why we have to compute all of reality to create an AI anyway. I’m intelligent, to a point, and I’m pretty sure I don’t compute all reality. My neurological processes simply model enough of reality for me to function more or less effectively, that’s all.

The article works from the absurd premise that an AI would have to perfectly model its environment, but no living creatures do this. It also decides that we can’t create general AI because we don’t know how to do it. Therefore it’s impossible. Seriously, it’s right there in the conclusion.
The corporate world isn't a bad analogy. But corporates are still by and large very profitable, some companies operate as they always have (although that isn't newsworthy, and it isn't a marketing point), and on this specific topic (testing) leetcode type questions are still ubiquitous.

If social trends seriously impaired companies' competitiveness I might expect to see the companies that are more on board underperform. But when I think of recent corporate failures (maybe Google failing to compete with FB on chat / VR / Google plus etc), garden variety mismanagement still seems like it has more impact.

So I also disagree with the policy, but worrying about "transforming the economy to third world status" like the OP seems like it is going overboard. If suboptimal policy choices or social trends destroyed society it would have been destroyed a long time ago many times over (and San Francisco wouldn't be a startup hub).
Title reminds me of a coworker I had that would rip up and throw away a newspaper after he was done reading it so others wouldn’t get for free what he had paid for.
Access, Visual FoxPro, Lotus Domino, and I am surprised no body mentioned FileMaker.

I still think Low-Code is a problem worth solving and it should start with spreadsheet like structure.

I am wondering if there are any Low-Code / No-Code solution for Web CRUD Apps? Something like Yahoo! Pipes...
> Webvan failed, but Instacart and UberEats are now thriving.

Instacart has been in business since 2013 and had its first profitable month last year during the height of the quarantine. It’s probably closer to Webvan than anywhere near Amazon.
I think it's interesting how surprised people are that voters might cast their ballot on the basis of principle rather than personal profit
Our two previous apartments had the same issue.

Even when it was -30 outside, our apartment was a warm 22-24 degrees with the radiators completely off.

Our current one is really refreshing, because we can actually get the heat under 20 degrees by turning off the radiators. Took about a month to get used to the lower indoor temp, but we feel and sleep much better now.
An option can have rules that cause it to expire. That doesn’t make it anything like an NFT, because an unexpired option is still a right to buy the media, whereas an NFT never gives you any rights to anything except itself.
This was my story as well, though I was out at the age of 13. Homophobia, for better or worse, has been a major driving force in my life. PhD student now. Also working toward second masters.
That's interesting. Anecdotally, I'm a gay guy from a working class town, and I'm one of only a few gay guys that ended up getting any sort of degree. My cousin is gay and he went into the Air Force, the rest of the gay guys I know of from my old hometown (all people I learned were gay later, being openly gay was not a safe thing there when I was in high school, but became less of an issue in the decade afterwards), all work at places like Dollar General or Family Dollar stocking shelves. I'm also the only guy from my graduating class to have gone to college at all, as opposed to three girls from my graduating class and a fourth whose gone to college in the years after. I wonder if other people's anecdotal observations match our own?
We got our ioniq 5 last week. My impression was that ioniq 5 is the family wagon and ev6 is if you're more footloose and want a sportier image.
Firstly, congratulations for escaping your background, getting through college, and making your way into tech.

Secondly, while I admire the drive never to want to retire because you'd be bored, I think it's a huge power-up to be able to have what Nassim Taleb calls f-you money (enough money to be able to tell your boss, "F-you, I'm leaving" if they make one too many unreasonable requests. For me, having something approximating that (initially just six months' worth of expenses in cash) has allowed me to make better decisions, take some risks which resulted in good payoffs, and just generally have more fun. I'd highly recommend aiming for this rather than just accepting that you'll be working forever.

So with that said I'm wondering if you can go into more detail on your financial situation. If you work in tech in my country, I'd suggest it's possible for most people in tech to earn 100k+ if they're not utterly incompetent. (I realise I might be in a bubble here, but where I am and what I'm seeing this is reasonable.) If you're on that salary, a savings rate of 50+% is completely achievable. To have a savings rate of 5-10% while working in tech suggests to me that something's off. Are you able to share a bit more info on that? Is it the repayments on your debt?
All the End of Year Cybersecurity Deals (Black Friday and Cyber Monday)
Not 451. I'm disappointed at the missed opportunity.
Not sure how that's related to art though. Of course a self-referential system is good for internal consistency. The issue comes with trying to use it for anything outside the system, such as monkey jpegs.
> The right-click download picture is completely meaningless as the true power is simply proof of ownership of the piece, having a copy of the image means nothing if you don't own the token and you will be denied access to the service.

Sure, fine. Why do I care? I can use said copy on any other service I want. If your argument is "ah yes, but someone out there believes that's not as valuable because it ignores their 'ownership'", and you can't see why that isn't persuasive, then I really am not sure we share enough of the same reality to discuss this rationally.
"this hypothesis proposes that gay men respond to societal homophobia by overcompensating in achievement-related domains..."

While it could be true, the obvious check on this would be to look at success in athletics. Do people who get an athletic scholarship, for example, turn out to be homosexual disproportionately often? Maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out not to be true. Athletics also offers well-defined methods of satisfying societal expectations, if that were the mechanism.
> when homophobia is practically nonexistent in academia

You are being... rather naive, or else hopelessly overoptimistic, here.
Apple has one profit and loss statement, that’s how.
Yes, window screens allow you to keep windows open when it’s snowing. However, if it’s very windy/stormy you’d still get a lot of water in and probably shutting a part of the window would be necessary.
I think you have to factor in transmission and conversion loss from converting carbon based fuels to electricity and powerline loss.
Very telling of the financial state of the average American. Everyone is hawking interest-free monthly payments, usually through Klarna (which Microsoft Store partnered with, making this especially strange). Great tool if used responsibly, but given companies advertising increasingly expensive crap and how most Americans can't save $1,000, you know this will just increase the class of the permanently-indebted
Only if you have bought into some ideology that elevates self-sovereign individuality above all other concerns. I don't know why you're getting downvoted, your question is valid. If people think "redistribution" is "theft" then they will definitely disagree with such policies. But the sensible interpretation of redistribution isn't theft, sane societies are composed of people that are willing to make sacrifices for the greater good and don't see such policies as theft.
Yes, you have to use the screen to change the wiper speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6lpSrIBar4
Check out the Palm Phone; android-ish.
Should we ever attain hardware, software and understanding of the human brain good enough to emulate a human brain, we have done it.

There is absolutely no reason why this shouldn‘t be possible. Actually, we could already do it if we understood the brain enough and could model it good enough, even if the emulation might not be real time.
>A pic won't ever provide you the same satisfaction as standing in front of a painting, that's an innate characteristic of paintings.

That seems a bit handwavy to me. Apparently some museums don't even put originals on display, only a replica (due to conservation/vandalism concerns). Maybe that means that the "satisfaction" you get is purely placebo? In other words, it's the same painting for all intents and purposes (to your amateur eye), and the "satisfaction" you're getting is some vague notion that this particular painting is the original. Does this start sounding like NFTs to you?
AWS recently (prematurely) announced lambda function URLs, which would make API Gateway unnecessary [1]. It will probably be officially launched in the next couple of weeks.

For our app, I'm in the process of removing API Gateway and calling lambdas directly from our back end servers instead, as it added a lot of complexity and the 30 seconds timeout imposed by API Gateway is causing issues.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qxrubv/lambda_function...
In the cloud
The most surprising thing to me was how deep mammals and even birds manage to get! The diving depths of emperor penguins, elephant seals, and narwhals are astonding.
It's a cycle. Car designers went a bit crazy with buttons about 10 years ago. This was when bluetooth/carkits was becoming the norm and touchscreens were nowhere near good (cheap) enough. Or expected. So slightly older dashboards will feature upwards of 40 buttons while super modern ones will have none. In a few years they will go back to normal. As for smartphones, they are unfixable. Maybe tactile touchscreens will help in the iPhone 16 (or possibly even the iPhone 15S?)
I'm immersed in this world all day and I've never seen this happen. I've never seen them do anything but laugh about it.
I think some of this could be automated.

The xrays show large radiopaque items. If TSA recorded the images of each scanner and collected a dataset then a real time object detector could be used to improve screening sensitivity and efficiency.
I think all the bugging can be skipped if you tap on it and initiate the setup flow then exit out of it or cancel it.

I’m not sure whether that applies to the wallet but it definitely works for Siri.
Correct. This isn't revealing. Norm conditions were worse originally (in factories and other industries) and had settled in a less worse condition recently. Now it's less worse again and people are happier. Unsurprising.
Asynchronous JavaScript browser DOM callback API:

<html
onon="alert('Computer turned on!')"
onoff="alert('Computer turned off!')"
>
Legally, there’s nothing stopping you. The only thing that would make “A” the canonical NFT for “X” is social convention. I imagine that where the original creator of the artwork is involved in the minting of X that convention can be pretty strong, but I also expect lots of boundary-testing. This is the art world after all, and a particularly weird slice of it at that.
A couple other comments here have said the same thing, and I strongly believe this is the actual reason. Queer people flock to cities to improve their dating pool and social acceptance. College is a legitimate way to move to a city (and meet other gay peers). Source: have a fair amount of gay friends.

On the other hand, if you already live in a liberal metropolitan area, it's potentially more likely that more of your peers go to college so you go too (no source here, just spitballin).
// power cycle computer

bool was_on = set_computer_on(true); // returns prior value

if (was_on) {
set_computer_on(false);
set_computer_on(true);
} else {
// was previously off, is now on: nothing to do!
}
Happy to update it. Better?

Again, if you don't like specific wording, I invite you to write a better explanation for regular folks which is simultaneously perfectly accurate in every sense in every phrase and word you use.
Should we infer zero off-cloud contingency plans, then?
The interesting thing from a primary graph in the article, is the endpoints of difference in the perspectives on various institutions.

It appears from the research, that republicans, more-so than democrats, generally believe churches have a positive impact on society.

At the opposite end, is colleges, where democrats much more than republicans believe that colleges are a positive impact on society.

The conclusions one can draw are interesting.
The Alleged Extortion of Michael Goguen (2020)
JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor
Tech billionaire allegedly kept spreadsheet of 5k women he had sex with
>This is a false statement. The NFT doesn’t make you the owner of ‘the work’. It makes you the owner of the NFT.

Doesn't the same logic apply to paintings/prints? If you buy a painting from an artist, is there anything preventing the artist from making a copy/replica? As for as I know, selling a painting does not constitute a transfer/assignment of copyright. The only difference here seems to be that paintings are analog, and take more effort to duplicate than right-clicking.
Theory of the leisure Class A status update
Cloudflare CEO sold $22M worth of stock