skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I reading that correctly or is it saying you can unmute people on the call? That should never be able to happen. A moderator should be able to mute people but never unmute them.
Yeah, a big bill is just bundling all the favors into the same legislation.
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Kind of the definition of a 'dog breed'?
The latest season of the Great British Baking Show/Bakeoff had a contestant that was very difficult to understand, both with pronunciation and slang (Lizzie). Ended up turning on subtitles just to more clearly understand what she meant. Love the broader spectrum of people they get on there though, not just Londoners.
Is it possible they've created a new device to separate them, similar to the existing brick separator?
Is it not possible to determine the identities of the thieves (or at least a lot of information about them) from the associated Apple account? I don't understand why they wouldn't use a less consumer-oriented tracking device that is easier to use anonymously.
Kill switch, or pull the fuse for the fuel pump. One requires adding parts, while the other is removing required pieces. Id suggest considering the frequency of risky parking to determine which approach is needed. The fuel pump fuse is usually listed on the fuse box cover or manual.
Losing autonomy to a machine concerned at fulfilling your goals is completely different from losing it to one build for judging and automatically punishing you (as reasonable the punishment part may be).
I believe this bill has already passed and been signed into law.
And then there's closely related Venn diagram of any-color-will-work-lego-house people vs. single-color-walls people

EDIT: the current two child comments are of parts in that diagram, great. No judgement, I just wonder what type my son is going to be :-)
> Out of interest, with regards to Huber and Grosskreutz, do you believe that they were also justified in trying to defend against what seemed at the time to be an active shooter?

Grosskreutz stated outright during the trial that he had no reason to believe Rittenhouse had shot anyone. Despite this, there is video of him pulling his gun while he was chasing Rittenhouse down. Maybe this was just mob mentality Maybe this is because he was associated with violent revolutionary groups to the point that he was invited to speak at their rallies.

If going to a riot with a gun is stupid, chasing a guy with a gun is at least as stupid. The fact that he was running toward where EVERYONE knew the police were lined up makes this even more strange. Why risk your life when you can corral the shooter into the police?
The Ethics of an Arms Race
You're still putting words in my mouth, please stop.

I did not write that, thus they are not "contained in (my) comment."
A Brief History on Economic Theory (a.k.a. no one ever knew what was going on)
Dutch say “large majority” of 62 flight passengers with Covid were vaccinated
> At some point the classical ones are available that are not vector or mRNA vaccinations.

So you say that at some stage there will be vaccines for COVID-19 that are not nMRA (Pfizer, Moderna) or Viral vector (AstraZeneca)

Why? The people who are happy with vaccines are fairly happy with these vaccines and might refine them, but not about to dump them entirely for a different technique. in fact mRNA vaccines are the new hot thing.

And the people who really aren't happy with these vaccines, will never be happy. They'll find a way to object.

So what's the incentive for such a classical vaccine? Who's going to root for it?
This probably moves it out of the realm of an "everyone can do this" thing, but there are also a couple of other approaches that the more advanced and decently funded militaries could use to deal with atmospheric correction. I first heard of tests of these in the late '70s or early '80s.

1. They made a laser that included a phase conjugate mirror such that if you hit the system with some incoming laser light it would greatly amplify it and send it back the way it came.

To use this as a weapon, you'd point it at your target, hit the target with a guide laser, some of that light reflects off the target and enters your phase conjugate laser, and your phase conjugate laser sends a much stronger beam back.

As long as your target is near enough that atmospheric conditions between your weapon and the target have not had a chance to change over the time of a speed of light round trip, all the atmospheric distortions that dispersed the guide laser's reflection to the weapon serve to concentrate the weapon's beam on the target.

2. You can make an energy weapon that uses a phased array of radiators to direct the beam. You aim it in the general direction of your target.

Then you can start varying the phase of each radiator, and you analyze the reflections from the target. If a given radiator happens to be at the right phase so that it is contributing toward producing a maximum or a minimum at the target you won't see much variation in the reflection at the frequency you are varying that radiator's phase. If the phase of the radiator is such that it is in between, you'll see more variation at that frequency in the reflection. (A graph of the radiator's contribution versus phase looks like a sine wave. When it is maximally contributing it is at the peak, when not it is near a zero. Near a peak wiggling side to side doesn't change much because a sine wave is flatter there. When near a zero the sine wave is steep so a little side to side wiggle changes a lot).

Use a different frequency for the phase variation of each radiator, feed what you see reflected into a Fourier analyzer, and use the relative strengths of what you see at the variation frequencies as feedback to adjust the radiator phases, and you can get the array to quickly adjust to by focused on and stay on the target.

They were playing around with a small one of these at Hughes Research Laboratories in the late '70s. I know because the professor [1] who taught APh 23 (Demonstration Lectures in Optics) at Caltech when I took it in the '79-80 school year was also a researcher at Hughes working on it, and one class he showed us a video of a test.

It was pretty cool. It started with a black background and a bunch of blobs of light moving around as the system has nothing to focus on. Then someone dangled a small metal model of the starship Enterprise in front of the background, and all the blobs instantly converged on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Bridges
This. I genuinely think that a China (CCP)-dominated world means the end of free thought, forget about free expression.
Reading with javascript off (UBlock Origion in default deny all JS) resulted in zero ad, and the ability to read the full article without interruption.
Do the "Lego bucket" people buy $500+ kits?
Do the "Lego shelf" people ever disassemble the $500+ kits?
Silver Lining in this trend: The beginning of the end of Amazon may be at hand.

The other day, I really really needed to get in touch with a human at Amazon to resolve an issue (Amazon issued me a refund, apparently in error). After an hour of researching how, I gave up.

The last time I needed to get in touch with a human there was 15 years or so ago. I was able to send an email to an actual human there, who responded! And was able to resolve the issue after 3 or 4 emails back and forth.

Now, all you get is a "Chat AI" who can't help you.

It's the beginning of their end folks. And that's a good thing (Martha Stewart voice).

(The other canary in the Amazon coal mine: their search engine results seem manipulated.)
At some point these companies have to be on the wrong side of negligence.
It's good, then, that the measures we took to contain COVID also reduced the incidence of influenza.

COVID is still new, while flu has been with us for millenia. Give it time and opportunities and it'll perfect itself.
It's an automated bureaucracy (bureaucrazy). It's tyrannical, in that it has power over you and it's unjust and cruel in how it disregards you. You can lump those words together however you like. Tyrannical automated bureaucracy, autotyranny, bureautyranny. You could put the word tech or technological somewhere in there, but I don't think there's much technology in this form of oppression. After all, bureaucracy in itself is a technology (a tool).

That's all from the point of view that this tyranny is external. I'd actually prefer to look at it as something we're subjecting ourselves to. We're half-knowingly turning our tools against us; painting ourselves into a corner; becoming increasingly entangled by our conflicting goals. We're not the victim, but the fool.
> You can not just store bitcoin.

So, what else are you going to store there?

> you also have to think of it in terms of insurance.

Ah yes. Insurance. With bitcoin's price fluctuating as much as 300% over the course of the year.

> When pressure increases and more and more people get cancelled

There are 9 billion people in the world. How many "got canceled", for whatever the term "canceled" means to you. 10? 100? This will definitely make Bitcoin a global means of payment, surely.

> A quick google claims 2 Billion unbanked people in the world. People who can't get a bank account for some reason or other.

Ah. "For some reason or another". Could you tell me those "some reasons"?

Let me help you.

--- start quote ---

[In the US] the majority of the unbanked and underbanked are American-born while a growing number are immigrants where the two groups have low income as a commonality and lack the minimum balance to open checking and savings accounts

--- end quote ---

Wells Fargo requires you to have 25 dollars to open a checking account. People who don't have 25 dollars to open a checking account will surely flock to Bitcoin, where such a simple thing as a transaction can cost anywhere from 3 to 60 dollars per transaction over the course of the year.

Same goes for other unbanked populations across the world, the vast majority of whom live in developing countries.

> With Bitcoin, nobody can prevent you from having a bank account.

There are exactly two kinds of people who peddle bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies: scammers who know exactly what they are doing, and gullible fools with a very tenuous understanding of reality.
You can't just assign random semantics to "consistency", "availability" and "partition tolerance" if you want to apply the CAP theorem.
More charitably, those brand partnerships and $700 collector sets is the thing that let them avoid bankruptcy, become profitable, and still be able to also sell toys for kids to play with.
If the owner has an iPhone, aren’t they notified that somebody’s placed an AirTag near them that’s following them? I thought this was one of the anti-stalking measures.
Scientists discover link between AstraZeneca vaccine and lethal blood clots
The Wire & understandable dialogue? Sheeeeeiiit.

In all seriousness, Baltimore has a pretty heavy accent, especially in the inner city & Dundalk. It's rather comical to say that they got English actors because they were more understandable, to then turn around and make them less understandable.
What’s the deal with leading with AirTags? It’s the least interesting part of the process. I can also use my eyes driving around neighbourhoods looking for high end cars. Or any other tracking device that’s existed since the 70s.

Is it supposed to create FUD around the dangerous world we live in now that we have AirTags?

Other scary technology listed in the article:

- the device used to factory reset the car
- blank keys
- a screw driver
The ads placed inside user comments, as if they are content the user included in their message themselves, is particularly obnoxious.
Because this is HN, I don't know if this is sarcasm or not.
I had that thought but a quick test suggested it didn't work all that well. But, as I say, it was just a quick test.

The other thing I found was useful was throwing one in checked luggage. Not that I check luggage very often but it did tell me my luggage got transferred at a connection.

(Of course, the airlines' own tracking systems are increasingly making it easier to check directly.)
I think it depends on your skillset, experience, and overall repertoire. There will be many hiring managers trying to get in contact with you. Well, this depends on what type of job or niche you're in.
Airbnb's customer experience team used Hipmunk as a fallback for a long time. The last resort before just hanging up and promising a check was HotelTonight, until Airbnb acquired that.

How did Hipmunk mess it up so bad? It was seriously one of the most pleasing web apps to use, even under time pressure.
Yep. He is the youngest living member, though.
I see this kind of thing happening all the time, facilitated by third parties.

For example, a few months ago I found this funny video of some trombonists playing Bruchner in unusual situations[1] that had been uploaded on 14th September 2015 and noticed it had an obviously-bogus copyright claim for the music ("Song: Calling You (Live), Artist: FUN, Licensed to YouTube by (on behalf of FUN); Songtrust, Sony ATV Publishing, and 2 music rights societies"), with a link to where this bogus "song" had been uploaded[2].

The "song" proved to be a video consisting of the original trombone video's soundtrack played twice, over an unrelated static image, that had been uploaded on 13th May 2021—six years after the video it was ripping off.

There was enough information on the "song" video to find out that it had been supplied to YouTube by a company called TuneCore[3] who according to their website offer to "SELL YOUR MUSIC WORLDWIDE: Get your music on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, TikTok, Tencent & more".

I contacted TuneCore in July to point out that their service was being abused, but got a semi-automated reply to the effect that unless it was _my_ copyright that was being infringed they weren't interested. I replied, and also responded to their automated did-Jira-help-you-today survey, in both cases pointing out that they were (however inadvertently) involved in fraudulent activity but (unsurprisingly) never heard back.

I see now that the TuneCore 'song' video has been made private, but the original trombone video still carries the false copyright claim.

So frustrating.

[1] https://youtu.be/rY0m2cLH1m8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-577Wp8yBQ - now private

[3] https://www.tunecore.com/
They'll be disassembled when they want to resell the kit.
It's indeed something to be wary* of, but that's true of any suggestion. There are pros and cons to every approach, and they should be considered within the context of the specific circumstances.
How you could pay less if your internet is too slow in Germany
Not OP. Dogs are pack animals, so less bright are kept in order by pack. They are still usable for guarding, but can not be used for herding or hunting.

"Psychopat" dogs have to be put down. Risk they attack something is too big. But they are rare.
You can get around the youtube restrictions using yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) There are video players such as mpv that integrate with youtube-dl/yt-dlp so you can watch videos without saving them.
What was the outcome of your trial?
Wow! Seems like an awesome community
> The workers are still there as you say, why don't they just produce value? They could organize, create a worker led company, and just produce value without the capital class. Why don't they do that?

Did you seriously just invoke Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" logic as applies to capital access? I'm fairly sure you couldn't have meant it, but God bless, that rang across loud and clear on my end, as someone whose been deep in startup culture for a while, and spends many hours trying to help places pull things off workably on shoestring budgets.

Workers have been resigning and making startups. They still have to raise capital to pay the overhead costs of getting stuff done. Traditional Capital tends to be more concerned with growth hacking rather than solving problems that society really needs solved, which means access to Capital is typically of the VC or philanthropic type, which both have deleterious consequences on how one has to treat the people they hire to make sure the spigots stay on. The meat grinder, in that sense, is real, and an omni-present threat threat to any workplace daring to deign to raise the bar on Quality.

The central gall of the Capital class is that just because of the happy accident of being located astride yesterday's money Hoovers that that means their job is done, and they aren't responsible for keeping that wealth moving, solving problems, and making riskier investments. I'm not saying go play helicopter money, but if you aren't making money move, you're part of the issue.
I don't understand your post. First you state that you don't understand how there isn't a market for a laptop using this screen, then you underline that there is a huge market out there (somehow "typical ThinkPad users", who apparently don't care about color or anything else, and just want to read and write), and then you ask why these things don't sell much and if the problem is that the device is lackluster compared to a normal cheap LCD display.

Have you looked at these displays in use? They're slow, flickery, have low contrast, and cost absurd money. They're still desperately trying to crawl out of the "enthusiast / early adopter" stage. I really want one. Everyone really wants one. But nobody wants the overpriced rubbish the current generation is.
Awesome! Sounds like a great system
Aren't AirTags clones/copies of Tile?
I have a Boox Note and the excessive screen refreshes are really annoying there as well. But I'm impressed by the part in the demo where they show the playing of a video, this works pretty smoothly and I don't see any flickering.

Now I'm wondering why those screen refreshes in 'normal' apps are needed? Is this just some artifact because the apps were written for normal displays and haven't been adjusted for e-ink?
Didi Begins Plan for U.S. Delisting, Hong Kong Share Sale
So metal: Newly discovered exoplanet is likely over 80 percent iron
Interesting all this hand wringing - my mom's Apple computer is almost constant in it's interrupts to promote Apple's paid icloud service. Seems we're already way past an OS getting in your way to promote affiliate services. Bing seems more harmless to me.
I should post the transcripts as well, actually :P

Here's that one: https://www.pastery.net/fsbjzc/
Something to factor in here is if you're sleep deprived. I can normally nap for 20 minutes and get said boost, but not when I'm sleep deprived. In that case, it feels way harder to wake up at the 20-minute mark, I also wake up groggy and I feel like napping longer (and that's what normally ends up happening).
The problem is that the police probably aren't going to do anything and, assuming it's a serious/professional thief as opposed to just another student in this situation, it's likely best to just let it go.
Didn't work for me. Had a 14 year old Subaru Forester with 180k miles, I did manage to scare them off, and was shocked they bothered to try.
Not worth it to me. I was casually curious, but not curious enough to work around the fact that they’ve made their content almost inaccessible.
The main problem is giving out the anchor.fm domain for your RSS feed, as it marries you to Anchor forever. In theory, you can get anchor to 301 redirect your subscribers somewhere else, but I've found that podcast clients tend to keep the old URL.

You can use Anchor to generate your RSS feed and host your content while still sharing the RSS URL on a domain you own. So you'd give out a URL like feeds.deepdreams.com/rss, and it would proxy the response from Anchor's RSS feed

I wrote a simple Go cloud function that can proxy your Anchor RSS URL for you:

https://github.com/mtlynch/rss-proxy
https://archive.md/eeSO0
I think there's probably a difference between specialist terminology (i.e. jargon) and the type of bullshit that they're talking about (although the distinction isn't always obvious). If I say "I couldn't SSH into the host - which I thought was because of a rule change on the firewall. Turns out that the IP I had been using was the reverse proxy address and not the backend server itself." that might sound like bullshit to a non-tech but if you're familiar with those terms/concepts then the sentence is fairly easy to understand. Not so with some of the bullshit this paper is talking about.

It's also about the target audience. This is an academic paper written for an audience who will understand immediately what speech community means. A lot of the more irritating forms of corporate bullshit are distributed quite widely.
Neither, it's a 30-line script I wrote yesterday. There are no secrets in the code, so here you go: https://www.pastery.net/vafgxn/
The Growing Complexity of Kubernetes – and What’s Being Done to Fix It
If the 500+ price kit is a huge bucket of random pieces, then I guess the bucket people would. =)
There's also a few TTS systems which are pretty natural sounding too. Maybe one of those if they wanted to make a subscription for this, that way they could offset the price of the TTS service
Licorice Pizza – The Last Duel – Lost in Space Season 3 – Harlem – The Rescue
If you move into a new house and find there are people tied up in the basement, then let them go, that isn't your fault. If you move into a house, find people tied up in the basement and proceed to keep them there for 8 years until you are evicted, you are a kidnapper.
I think he meant the dealer can give you a new copy of your old key, then you wouldn't need to reset the car.
Pi-hole, my brotha
This is actually a great read that helps me understand and appreciate the importance of rest.
The UK kennel club allows you to calculate the inbreeding coefficient for either a registered (pedigree) dog or for future puppies of two potential mates:

https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/search/inbreeding-co-effici...

This kind of information is used by responsible breeders and buyers, thus my dachshund has 0% inbreeding going back 5 generations.
Works if all you need are Gmail and Docs.

It's a very bad idea if you want to use the account as a Google account. i.e. smart home does not work, lots of user features do not work, there is no workaround to this other than "don't use a Google Workplace account for personal life things, get a Gmail account".

Example of the pain to try and migrate from Workplace to Gmail just to get the workaround working: https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...
Sets like this are clearly designed for adult collectors, but they they still have lots of fun kits for kids. I’d argue that some branded sets like the Mario series are more interesting and fun than almost any sets from the past (other than technic and mindstorms).
There is a Frankfurt-based toy store owner who has been very vocal on Youtube about the quality and value problems in recent Lego sets. Lego has sued him multiple times but Streisand effect set in and he has gained a large audience.

If anybody who understands German langauge is up for some great irony from a charismatic toy professional on this topic, you should have a look.

WARNING: You will waste some hours on this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9OKWm_x2RI&t=1504s
Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797129