skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, "too big to fail" - some of them almost certainly should have, though I would have expected the FDIC to work as intended then (instead of using public funds to prop up the banks themselves, it could have covered our deposits).
> I've also seen several examples of incredibly racist CRT books in classrooms.

You mean to tell me that high-level academic critical theory is being taught to children? Please, name the books.
From what I understand there are already 3 antiviral treatments being introduced right now in pill form. That being set they can help if they are taken early on after symptoms appear and again aren't 100% effective. In addition they cannot be used by pregnant women. As with every disease prevention is always the better approach and vaccines offer that.
With respect to the distinction between books that are part of the curriculum and books in the school library, I think it's worth raising that kids are just reading less overall over time (perhaps 2020 being an exception). The proportion of kids who are going to the library and finding something unrelated to their classwork is shrinking. I suspect that the impulse to ban books is caused by the same cultural incuriousness that ironically makes book banning less impactful than proponents would hope. This is _especially_ true for most of the books on those banned lists. Those one of the linked lists includes such barn-burner titles as "The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine", "Medical Ethics: Moral and Legal Conflicts in Health Care", "Race and the Media in Modern America". Kids aren't casually stumbling across these in the school library and deciding they're worth perusing. If some kid _is_ reading about medical ethics in high school, I'm guessing they're gonna find information about their topics of interest regardless. There are a bunch of books about teen pregnancy and abortion -- but I'm gonna guess that most of the time the teen pregnancies don't happen because someone first read a book literally titled "Teen Pregnancy" and decided they liked it. Similarly "A Baby Doesn't Make the Man: Alternative Sources of Power and Manhood for Young Men" probably isn't actually changing teen behavior. What ever intern in some state legislator's office drummed up suggestions for books to ban must have been pretty lazy.

I'm not saying we shouldn't care about these efforts. But arguing over which books should be ignored in the library reference section is probably less important than figuring out how to get the kids to actually enjoy reading despite being raised in an environment with tiktok etc. And when you get it figured out for kids, tell me, b/c these days I mostly only get through a novel while traveling.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/29/children-r...

https://openlibrary.org/collections/texas-challenged
Blinds which close themselves after sundown is nice. Motion controlled lights for the stairs are also nice, especially if you don't always have your hands free.

But I'm enjoying messing with Home Assistant anyways, so maybe that's not enough to convince you (and that's okay!). I did need to two two different zigbee integrations, but now it's working and I can buy the ikea stuff and I know it will work.
Sounds like a sweet corporate office buy at that price unfortunately. Cool tech art though!
Find me one place where Microsoft officially documented that there would be no version of Windows past 10.
The value of the dollar has a floor in that the US government requires that you remit your taxes in dollars. Sure, the US could cease to exist, but that is far less likely than any scenario where bitcoin goes to zero.
Who is "they" in your comment? Open Library is part of the Internet Archive which has generally been pretty effective at limiting censorship rather than promoting it..
That just quantifies the costs of their political beliefs then.
It's not bogus. It really is as simple as supply and demand. Yes, SF and NYC etc. are super expensive despite their density, however, what you're missing is that 1: Supply hasn't kept up with demand, and 2: SF/NYC would be even more expensive if they weren't as dense as they are now, and continuing to build (however slowly).
Average Joe will be brought to his knees if house prices should fall

I'm not so sure - it depends on how heavily leveraged buyers are and what % of them have used price increases to secure more capital. If your home has significantly appreciated in value but you haven't taken equity out of it, it could be said that you were leaving money on the table but only if you knew of a better investing opportunity. If you just let the property appreciate and didn't securitize that gain, a decline from peak values doesn't hurt because you have no loan to service.
The new (.NET Core then .NET 5 onwards) runtimes aren't installed automatically.

But when you install them manually, they are serviced for security updates through Windows Update, so that you don't have to do that manually.
I like how when this happens to poor black people, we don't care because we middle-class white people deserve to live wherever we want. When it happens to middle-class white people, suddenly it's unfair.
In recent versions of (maybe only GNU?) `tar` you can leave off the `z` flag and it will still decompress based on the filename.
Are you saying that because it is an amalgamation of various writers from different periods in history, therefore no one should be interested in reading it?

I've read very little, but I've quite liked the portions I've read.
The point though is that the current state of things is neither surprising nor unexpected, which is what you were originally saying.

There is a spectrum of use between "private display" and "purely for commercial benefit" that is nearly impossible to legislate effectively. The acceptable use of photography equipment and fair use of the resulting photos can't be boiled down to privacy vs. profit, and that's why this particular subject is so controversial and difficult to resolve.
[1] is awesome!
Postgres seems to signal an error, which is preferable IMHO.
Is household infection the dominant form of transmission?

Also, I see you dismiss my speculation but stay mute on what you meant by "only slightly".
Because the NSO group definitely used iMessage to communicate with one another...
Next year we'll also see the winter Olympics being hosted by a regime currently torturing Uyghurs in concentration camps. Which will allow only spectators who live in Mainland China. Great for the CCP, no pesky protesters when they're not even allowed in.
Not street photography but I'm bringing up a different context, which I think is perhaps an even more important ethical conversation to have.

Consent of photographic subjects, specifically BIPOC, being used by for profit companies in marketing.

My recent example is in Climbing. gyms require waivers that also contain text granting the company rights to take your photo and use it however they want throughout the universe in perpetuity lol.

Now, there are BIPOC speaking out because they feel used.

Context: BIPOC are very underrepresented in the sport.

There was a recent IG post (sorry I can't find) from a women of color who climbs (I think at Brooklyn boulders). She had her photo taken, she didn't notice it was. Then she saw it used to promote the gym.

One complaint is mentioned in the article: not being approached or asked about taking photos and feeling this invisible, targeted white male gaze.

With corporations it goes further than public space art photography:
- giving away of rights - for free with zero compensation - hidden in legal docs
- then being used in marketing to sell stuff
- companies are just doing 'woke slacktivism marketing' without doing anything to support these communities. Remember all those black squares on IG?! Then going back to buy this shoe without taking any action whatsoever

Props to the gym which did actually take action, changed their waiver, said they wouldn't take photos without permission AND provide compensation/recognition in any marketing.

This article says:
- The people who get the most worked up over the ethics of certain images are NOT themselves the subjects of the photo.
- This example did care and spoke out. Many other examples across industries too.
- "palpable, real-world harm resulting from it."
- A bit more nuanced. But she argued that the gym was pretending to be a safe space with more climbers of color. Even though it's still like almost every other gym, super white, with a history of loud male chauvinism/racism.
- "intention" is important I agree.

I think the intention of a lot of these companies is to make money on the backs of creators & communities without giving compensation or even just basic support.

Outside of climbing there is also a huge history of stealing art, imagery, creativity from minority cultures without giving any compensation or even mention/nod to the original creators.

In art & fashion you can find some specific incidents that have been called out by Diet Prada on IG.
They also have really questionable business ethics. At one startup, I caught them grabbing an unauthorized copy of our customer's source code when we were on-site at the Emerald City to tune it. It wasn't a rogue engineer, either; it was an order at least from their manager and probably higher. At another startup, we pitched a shared-cache idea to take advantage of our hardware. They declined to work with us, then included exactly that feature as a marquee element of their next major release. Then I worked at Red Hat, where anger over their re-badging of RHEL as OEL (among other deeds) ran deep. Over and over again, they've abused partners and customers and even employees. They were the most evil company in the industry before Facebook and others even existed.

See also: Bryan Cantrill's "lawnmower" talk about what happened to Solaris after the Oracle acquisition. https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc
Who do you think is the aggressor? China or the US?
AP1 is almost the same as rec.2020? I'm not sure what you mean by 'working space' but if preserving all colors was a primary or even secondary goal I definitely wouldn't cut myself down that far.
Surely if someone had severe reaction to the first 2 he shouldn't get a 3rd. Tbh I haven't read anywhere about long term side effects from the vaccination for covid. I assume you must have researched it, can you please share some information?
AI Dungeon is amusing but it's not a game, it's a toy. Text adventures are actual games with rules and objectives and (usually) a final goal. AI Dungeon is more like lucid dreaming in that you can do anything you want, there are no consequences, and reality is essentially putty in your hands. For people who want to play a game and challenge themselves to solve puzzles figure out the plot I think they will be very disappointed with AI Dungeon.
Does this include US-sponsored threats?
I think I set an alert recently on AWS emailing me if I surpass a limit that I set.

Have you checked out AWS console recently?
Is Java GC (“the best”) really that much better than something with immutable heap ie Haskell?
Because that's the nature of those systems. If you wrote them in golang they'd almost surely run into similar issues.
"We interview the chairman at length after a ceremony, and return to our
hotel at noon to fetch our equipment. We are then approached by 5 or 6 men
who identify themselves as police and take us to the station," reporter
Halvor Ekeland says. "We are questioned for eight hours in separate rooms,
one at a time."

Questioned 8 hours for trespassing? Right after the interview?
I think it's weird how the US put offloads most of the responsibility for preventing diseases to the supply chain and buyer, and not closer to the source. Lack of refrigerated trucks and unreliable power supply means we cannot rely on temperature being kept below specific temperatures. As a result, the regulations, processing and packaging are all work in tandem for safe food these conditions,e.g. regulations on how animals are reared, transported slaughtered, pasteurization and vacuum packaging. As an example, there are multiple brands of milk that's shelf-stable for months at room temperature.

> What are your thoughts when you hear Westerners talking about the danger of leaving a meat out of the fridge for a couple of hours and stuff like that?

It's not any different from the anywhere in the world, you have to be careful about how you handle food, or you will have a bad time.
Investing can also include making new buildings and structures (e.g. new apt building) which increases amount of shelter available.
> I put wi-fi, at least the earlier generations, up there are the list of consumer technology that will always be supported somehow

I agree with you about wifi. In fact, as you were posting, I was writing my reply (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29335111) saying much the same. I've been observing the evolution of tech professionally now for over 40 years and as a serial entrepreneur making risky bets on uncertain outcomes with the harsh (yet instructive) feedback of putting my own money and livelihood on the line each time. There are a few tech standards that become so ubiquitous and accepted that they reach the longevity and influence of Roman chariot wheel widths (which many anthropologists believe influenced the gauge of modern railroads). Various forms of early wifi (ie 802.11b) and various flavors and bitrates of RS-232-type serial signaling are two examples. I still have a couple of 802.11b wifi devices running on a sub-net that are ~20 years old and I still network with devices over 20 years old through Cat5 signaling with / RJ45 connectors.
Classic HN bubble thinking from OP. I only hear these IoT complaints on HN and Twitter. I'm in the same boat as you, most devs I know have smart home devices and don't give two shits about any privacy issues.

There is a huge disconnect between what you read about online and the real world. Even my conspiracy friends that talk endlessly about Big Tech and their harvesting of data use all the Big Tech things without putting in even the minimal amount of effort to protect their data.
In case anyone else was confused about the multiple comments on this post talking about "books banned from Amazon", it's about Amazon choosing not to sell books that characterize gender identities and sexual orientation as mental illness.
But since 2017* is smaller than even the leftmost date it's still false, isn't it?
Is there something Python specific about the Oso project or just seemed like a good fit?
Beginning with "I think" is a strong indication that they understand alternatives such as "other people think" and therefore "other people exist". Someone unaware of such a thing would leave that part out, because why specify "I do X" if there is nobody else? (Indeed, why write a comment at all if one believes nobody else exists?)
Comparing Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Combinations (Moderna, Pfizer, J&J)
I still giggle at how McD tried to market itself as the "healthy" option, especially targeting "girls and women", at least here in Germany, with Heidi Klum and some of her Germany's Next Topmodels as the advertisement figures. They even changed their logo from red + gold to green + gold. That was a few years back.

Right... I am convinced now :P
Thoughts on Art
I am remodeling my house and opted to go without any smart outlets, lights, or even USB A or C outlets. The premium that is charged for these devices are not worth the very limited benefit and I imagine they will very quickly reach obsolescence unlike the simple outlet and light switch. I had some plug in smart outlets and switches which were a necessity at my last apartment - there were no lights in some rooms so you needed a way to turn things on and off. It worked fine but I realized that speaking to your lights has no meaningful advantage and one color is good enough.

That said I am interested in doing things with home assistant with a raspberry pi - but building it permanently into my home is not in the cards. I doubt a future home owner is going to love my cobbled together security system, but they also would not love a house that comes with a service contract or sends videos of their family to the cloud.
Pentagon to study UFO sightings in restricted US airspace
Hi!

Yes I did! It was one of 3 in the greater orlando area. AI Computer Center.

I have since heard from other new friends that were also kids back then dumpster diving at the store. Apparently a lof treasures found new homes in the local area. Very neat!

Did you know a Brian, Jonathan, Rob or Kevin perhaps?
While a Bayern München can have players of all nationalities the German national team consists of players with a German citizenship. At least that's my understanding.
This is a fine example why nobody should rely on SMS "2FA" for anything.

SMS "2FA" is not actual 2FA

SS7/PSTN are horribly broken. People need to stop using them entirely, whenever possible, and stick to that as a firm principle. For the same reason why scam calls and fake caller ID are epidemic. Just disregard the existence of the PSTN, even if your phone has a DID, never give it to anyone or use it for anything. I say this as someone who's worked in telecom for 20 years.

Social engineering mobile phone operator customer service departments to execute a SIM swap attack is trivially easy if you already possess some basic personal info about the target.

You should never rely on having something important that's only protected behind a SMS-based password reset/login authentication module.
Sorry, I don't think what you're saying makes sense. A key strength of AWS is that they don't use a "black box" approach when thinking about customer needs, and provide documentation and good defaults to help customers achieve their goals.
To be fair, wasn’t the fancy-car abandonment thing just a result of people taking on crazy debt in a country that still has debtors prison, and then bailing out when they were predictably close to that jeopardy?

Seems like rational behavior from both sides in the end.
That's true except for cash out refinancing. Lots of middle class folks take out home equity loans to pay down credit card debt. This was a big component of the 2008 financial crisis. That and banks leveraging 40-1 and betting big that housing would never decrease in value.
> It's very surprising that exposing oneself to the public ... warrants a loss of freedom to privacy.

Again, I understand your personal desire for privacy (and even share it), but this argument doesn't make sense. "Public" is literally an antonym of "Private" - the reason one loses privacy in public is baked into the very definition of the words we're using to describe the situation.
Wonder is Backblaze will follow suit. They're part of the bandwidth alliance with Cloudflare and that's great, but if you're using B2 for personal use and want to get data from a private bucket, you're still paying $0.01/GB egress after the first gigabyte.
It remains to be seen if shifting the cost to taxpayers is harmful to the economy or not.
>I don't mind someone taking a photo of me if they get permission afterwards to post it and I'm able to ask them to take it down. However, I don't like losing control over my image.

Perhaps you do not like loosing control over photographer and art expression of others? Perhaps 'control over image' is just an excuse for that?

Would you like to control all forms of arts? Just imagine the possibilities... They will publish what you allow. They would draw what you permit. They will beg you to forgive them if they did not satisfy your taste. You will have complete control over you image and not only photo image the public image too. Think about press. If they have something critical to say about you they would need your permission before they publish. Would you like all that?
You are correct; buying a stock with cash is impractical but not illegal or impossible.

You cannot transact with an exchange, you cannot transact with a broker or a broker/dealer, using cash -- your cash must be deposited somewhere in order for it to be used.

You can do a private sale of stock where you give someone cash and they transfer stock that they own to your name, either through a broker or by signing the transfer form on the back of an actual stock certificate. To actually claim ownership of the stock (to receive proxy and dividends) you must transact with a broker dealer or the issuing agent, which will almost certainly mean that you have to deal with AML and KYC regulations.
Wall Street banks posted record profit and revenue during the pandemic, as government stimulus supported consumers stuck at home and companies sought to do deals, proving to bankers and traders that they have little need to work out of the office the way they used to. The attendance numbers are low. The financial industry employs 332,100 people in New York City. In October, only 27 percent of those people came in daily.

That says it doesn't make economic sense to bring people back to the office.

The executives pushing for that may be the ones on the way out.
It's better to give than to receive.
Founder Led Companies
My eye started twitching when I saw this linked to Buzzfeed and I had to check out.
So cool you were able to do that! Big congratulations on taking it to the next level and making your own games! Love it!
He wrote an article a while back insulting the morals of a few colleagues in the Haskell world. When I went to share it with said colleagues I realised he had an account on our internal slack. He had previously worked there on said technologies that he was then slandering, something he hadn't made public.
My grandma used to say that and added "que lo demás, todo se arregla" (that everything else can be fixed).

I'm not from Spain but from a Spanish speaking country
Given the American ethos, I bet the USA will be one of the last countries to introduce the 4-day work week.
So you are saying, the swiss have no morals beside money?

Sounds strange to me, given their history. Sure, they are engaged in banking, but also not in invading other countries, unlike most of the rest of the world. In either case, nationalistic stereotypes are seldom helpful for any debate.
book burning is just one manifestation of restricting the freedom of thought and expression, and it sounds you aren't against that.
We use it too, but doesn't change the fact the the employer needs to tell the PEO where the employee is located. PEO also have limits, like MA example, the company still needs to open the unemployment accounts directly with the state. Sales tax is another thing that you have to do directly.

My point was that main reason companies need to know where the employee is compliance, employment law, taxes and potentially IP protection. While the employer wouldn't care about the location because of pay scale, they still need to know for other reasons.

Until we can all live in some United Kingdom of the Internet, the unfortunate fact is that local laws apply to companies and employees when the employee resides in the jurisdiction.
They’re probably referring to the attack surfaces of the extensions you have loaded in your normal configuration, as opposed to the probably empty environment of root.
Imagine if this level of corporate welfare went towards social care, the environment or education. What a racket.
> Remind me what country has China annexed in the last decade?

They’ve been annexing parts of Nepal for the last decade. They are attempting to claim parts of the South China Sea that belong to multiple neighbors.

Violating the agreement they made with the UK is essentially annexing Hong Kong.

The Marshall Plan was absolutely nothing like what China is doing and to claim so is utter ignorance of what is happening whether intentional or not. Given your responses so far I’ll assume it’s intentional.

You still have not provided a single example of what you’re accusing the US of.
Banning as a marketing ploy.
I primarily meant software, computer manufacturing (chips, etc. ) style jobs but the fact that you went with wind tunnels is awesome :) You will always be cool in my books for this comment.
There's the makings of a science fiction novel in there, somewhere.