skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the problem here. It has an RSS feed so you can easily use an podcatcher you want https://anchor.fm/s/7735d924/podcast/rss

Really the main concern I would say is that the author doesn't own the domain so they are locked in, but I don't see how this affects listeners.
The irony is that I have to verify my age on YouTube, but I heard that people don't need this on any porn site for example.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/postal-se...

> The agency is burdened by hundreds of billions of dollars in debt and falling revenue, and Congress and the White House have signaled an unwillingness to grant more funding without major restructuring, lawmakers say.

> The law envisioned the Postal Service as a self-sustaining agency whose revenue could cover the expenses associated with an aging workforce involved in a physical occupation: delivering packages and parcels to every address in the country.

> Not even two decades later, it can’t. The Postal Service has racked up $160.9 billion in debt from what’s owed prepaying retiree benefits. On top of that, it has many years’ worth of operating deficits, as its top revenue generators no longer covered the costs of delivering the mail.

Then why do they need bailouts? Are these bailouts self funding? What money gave them that credit when they were long unsustainable? This is an unnatural monopoly that doesn’t allow competitors and also is a failure who mostly delivers worthless physical spam you cannot escape.
I think an ISP is a bad example. The relationship between the user (content creators) and Youtube very different than that of a consumer.
If you've lost the key then the manufacturer can presumably issue a new one once you prove you own the car.
>[Hayden] served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006-2009 and as Director of the National Security Agency from 1999-2005.

Hell of a track record to be whining about misinformation.

By the way, Paul Graham tweeted this shameless flamebait: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1466772296857706499
The comparison to Covid - pretty sure if it had happened a couple of decades ago, without PCR tests, nobody would have noticed that there was a pandemic going on. Just a couple of old people dying, why would they have considered it unusual? Not comparable to something like the plague at all.
The photo in the article is of a pickup with the trailer light cover circled in red. That only makes me question its veracity.

The OBD-II port “locks” I could find with a quick search are >$100, and most are made of thin plastic. Oh, and there is often a second OBD-II port under the hood of modern vehicles.

If you’re actually worried about this, the best solution would be a hidden “kill switch” that prevents the vehicle from starting or driving away. Either a toggle switch that shuts off the electric fuel pump (in which case they’ll get it started and move it a few feet at most before it dies) or a momentary switch that prevents it from starting. Either of those can be installed by someone with basic electrical ability for <$10 in parts.
I may not have conveyed my point effectively. What I was implying is that the EF may have inadvertedly gave the impression that the DAO had its blessing. If something is presented as part of the official protocol, then people will assume that a hack will lead to a rollback.

In general, I think given how ambitious the DAO was, the rollback can be excused.

It's hard to stress how new a universal smart contract execution environment were at the time. Until outside of a few extremely niche communities, the idea had never been discussed, let alone experimented on, before Ethereum was introduced.

And the DAO was a very complex smart contract, that every one jumped in with intuition about the vulnerabilities of smart contracts.
Probably off topic:

I wish we talk more about those difficult topics, parenting, or in this case aging parents, sex, childhood, or right to die over certain age. All the things we are all too afraid to ask and no one told us what to do. ( But as with every thing in life I do think not knowing has its own sets of benefits ) And Even in the example above, we are suppose to be adult and over 40, and we are just as hopeless as a child.

And on the subject it also offer different set of lens and views on aging population, instead of mostly an economics angle. Personally I have no idea because I fall out with my parents a long time ago. It is sad.
This is a very good write up. I love the concept of integrating the future into the current moment, so that you do get immediate gratification for something that doesn't normally offer it.
I have an easy method to keep my car safe even if I have to go in some of the worst neighborhoods: I own a cheap old car.
They've always had both types of blocks, the custom stuff and the standard array.

If you're in stores often you catch the 50 piece standard piece sets for $10 or whatever. Lego stuff lasts generations.
I know a guy, just builds stairs. Every significant house builder in the area has him in, all the work he wants. Heard him say on the phone "I have so much work, If I don't want to do a job I don't have to do it. And I don't want to do that. Thanks!"
No, that would require moving your arm, which seems unnecessary. A figurative one will have to suffice \s
I don’t know. I’ve been in the position of being an “X-builder” (I’m a dyed-in-the-wool compiler engineer), and I’ve been through something like what she describes, and nothing about the decisions involved seemed as obvious (or as malicious/egotistical) as she makes it sound.

Like, maybe I don’t quite want to build an X, but other engineers and managers have their own reasons why we should, and after we discuss/argue for a little while, I decide that, OK, fine, I don’t entirely agree but I’m willing to concede that maybe I’m wrong and give it a shot.

The thing we end up building is OK, but not stellar. We have an outage or two but they’re minor and not an ongoing headache. We have a few wins but it’s not the runaway success we hoped. Maybe we should have gone with Y instead of building our own X? Would it have been better that way? Am I a charlatan? I don’t know.
It never ceases to amaze me how much free engineering effort is expended to work around Apple's resistance to open source and power user hostility.
Yes, he directly credits the book in the talk.
There is a fun little esoteric/new age youtube video* about reality glitches that explain how reality is (in loose terms) more "mathematical" in nature than "material" (as we mostly perceive it). These are the reasons mentioned:

1) speed of light is an absolute cosmic speed limit

2) wave/particle duality

3) conservation of energy - everything is eternal, nothing can be truly created or destroyed

4) quantum entanglement shows that reality is non-local

5) singularities at center of black holes where seemingly all physical laws break down

[*] https://youtu.be/zcb_9j8KKdg
Why would you say that? (Honest question)
Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products.

Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and AdSense were all born out of people's 20% time and Google just swooped in and turned them into full on products.

It might be worth staying #3 in cloud if they could pull off products like that again. I can't help but notice that those products are all old, though.
These Creator Expert models certainly are.

I'm not the greatest fan of the explosion in use of small tiles and cheese wedges in recent years. It's kind of like AAA videogames that have a billion vertices but are empty
The image used to illustrate the article shows something that looks like it could be one a dozen different Android GPS trackers for sale on Alibaba.

Totally gratuitous clickbait finger-pointing at Apple.
I admire the sentiment but I doubt many books or paintings have been created by active duty soldiers or people currently mining coal
I have wondered to what degree they have been used to recover stolen devices as well.

I wished I had AirTagged the bike I bought for my youngest daughter before she left for college. It was stolen within weeks of her arriving. (Made more painful because the bicycle I bought for her older sister a few years earlier too was stolen her first semester in college...)
I’m NOT excusing bad management, I’ve been burned too many times for that. What I’m doing is NOT excusing bad engineering and blaming it strictly on bad management.
Lego is really a shadow of what it once was. Brand partnerships seem more important than the quality and fun/playability of the products. It's becoming more and more a collectors toy rather than something for kids to play with.
From the featured article:

> The average inbreeding based on genetic analysis across 227 breeds was close to 25%, or the equivalent of sharing the same genetic material with a full sibling

Full siblings would actual share approximately 50%.
Absolutely not. We can pay HAProxy for support.
The ;; is similar to the space, in that it separates elements in the second dimension. But they are not quite equivalent, because you cannot write [1;;2;3;;4]. With semicolons you have to start with the innermost dimension and work outwards. The space notation is there so that you can write the array in row-order, since that is very common.
To add to those points, one day you (the person with self-hosted email) would die and your family will be left without emails sometime soon and no way to get their widely used addresses back. Choosing a medium or large third party provider means you just need to document “go to <this site> and manage payments to pay <this much> <this often> to retain your address; this is how you contact customer support in case something isn’t working”.
Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
That solves nothing for this failure mode. Thieves are programming new keys on the spot.
When I bought my first car, during months my usual routine when parking it for an extended period of time was opening the engine compartment and removing either a fuse or a relay from a essential circuit like starter, ignition or fuel pump.
After some six months of endless ridicule from friends and dirty fingers I eventually relaxed.
This looks new-ish, but I remember seeing something about OSX on KVM years ago. The author's name seems familiar for some reason, however.

Found it, the same repo linked in August 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763855

And September 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556609

Apparently the version control model of the repo is ‘scrap everything once in a while’.
I haven't read the license of course, but what I have read from others is that Apple has a perpetual license that gives them access to all future architectures as long as they fulfill their side of the deal (fees, etc.). That deal is with ARM, so if someone buys ARM the purchaser is still bound by the terms of existing deals.
"Utopia of Rules - our culture thinks that if we just had the right set of rules and everyone fallowed them then everything would work well."
I hate to be pedantic, but your typo fallowed is literally the opposite of your intended followed.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/fallow
adjective Characterized by inactivity.

However, you have got my interest. What is the flaw in the reasoning?
> Do you have a source for these claims?

No. There are no products in this space that can compete with the midrange LCD displays.

> So I think, that market you think of, exists only for you.

I'm sure Boox would be happy to be able to sell a 24" 1920x1200 display for $200, if they had an adequate supply of panels.

> That's not how yealds work here.

If you increase feature size, you, usually, have fewer defects. A 20" 200 dpi panel has 4 times more places where something could go wrong than a 100 dpi one, and its features would be more prone to fail for defects the same size. Lower resolution should decrease the areal density of detectable defects because the defects would be less likely to disable the pixel. Unless I'm completely wrong and the kind of defect on e-ink panels is completely different than defects on ICs and PCBs.

Yield for smaller displays works differently - areal density of defects being the same, a smaller panel has a smaller chance of having a defect.

> That's why large e-ink displays, like the remarkable tablet, are so expensive.

The Remarkable is a high density display and they sell it for the price people are willing to pay.
So you are stating that the release of the "X is ours" email that started all this was deliberate corporate misconduct by the CEO? I don't even think the SEC insinuated that.

And that the SEC finding a small accounting discrepancy so as to justify the time they put into this investigation is actually an Enron level event?

Got it. We see things differently. You think I'm downplaying what happened. I think you're overstating it just like the media compared them to Enron.
"Mission" is a euphemism for a non-monetary reward. There are lots of these in many businesses. Which is fine until mission becomes an excuse to keep down wages, and expressing belief in the mission becomes a piece of flair.

The latter situation is rampant in the so-called helping professions.
Binary Diagnostic: Day 3: Advent of Code 2021
This appears to be unintentional, but it does remind me a bit of the somewhat recent trend of "Legacy" board games, where you make permanent changes to core pieces, like putting stickers on the game board or tearing up cards.

That's interesting to me, because "replayability" has always been one of the core considerations in game design, but with a Legacy product, locked-in choices and permanent consequences are one of the selling points.
This is 100% trolling, right? Teams is so painfully slow and inefficient compared to almost everything out there.
It's definitely tough to juggle these roles. A few things that helped me and my partner -

* find local help for parents to do chores like groceries,meal prep, help with personal care if they need it, etc.

* make sure there's a way to pay their bills, manage their finances. You may have to do some of this for them by making sure they have access to their money, pay their bills, etc.

* if you are able to connect with their doctor, this would be great to keep a pulse on their medical needs. If you aren't able to drive them to doctor appointments, etc, funding help to do so would also be good.

* be prepared to drop everything and help them for emergencies. This meant letting managers know a bit about our situation.

If you have siblings, see if you can share responsibility for these things.

There is no single correct way to handle these situations so do what works for you and your family. Remember to take care of yourself and your family in the midst of this! Talk to a therapist if it helps.

I also suggest reading the book _Being Mortal_ by Atul Gawande that goes into some ageing related issues, which I found helpful.

Good luck and take care!
This is normally handled at the dealer level. Both because the dealer is the point of contact for the customer but also for speed and scalability.

So, somehow dealers need the ability to reset keys. This means there are devices are kind that can do this. And with a device at every dealer, a few going missing isn’t going to uncommon.

But, to me, this is the more interesting device. Using trackers (Apple or tile or whatever) isn’t what is making this possible. They might make it easier to find a target car when it’s more secluded, but a tracker isn’t the primary tech that makes the theft possible.
You might have been on to something. Today it's a $30B company.
I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content.

It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages.

The results so far have been really promising:
- building websites is extremely rapid
- very little debugging or verification is needed
- it's easy to create beautiful content

Techniques that were trivially easy for me 30 years ago in print are still impossible in HTML. With SVG, I can just design the page without worrying about interlocking invisible boxes.

You can try it yourself — it's free, but you'll need to create an account for the hosting part.

The only tool I could find to create the SVG's was Adobe Illustrator, because it enables linked images and fonts, like regular HTML pages.

As far as I know, no other SVG editor except for Inkscape does this.

For now it's Mac only.
This site is so thick with ads that I cannot stand to read it on my phone. I made it through a paragraph several times and weird reload-like stuff keeps happing, making me lose my place so that the obnoxious video ad stuck to the top of the viewport can replay. And that’s after solving two captcha challenges to find all the busses. The internet is terrible now.
Antisemitism is definitely a thing, a very bad thing with a very long history and lots of horrific things done to semitic peoples in many places over that long history. For sake of discussion, I will stipulate that it is a branch of racism/xenophobia.

Lots of ethnic groups/races in lots of countries have been victims of racism and xenophobia by lots of other groups in their own countries and in other countries.

Israel, as a country, has been very effective at weaponizing its "victim of racism/xenophobia." The ubitquity of the term "antisemitism" and the staunch defenders of the term are part of this weaponization. I have difficulty identifying other words that represent "a specific group that is a victim of racism/xenophobia" as well as antisemitism does.
This is becoming a common quandary for GenX(ish) folks - how to care for both parents and children at the same time. Especially hard when so many of the former didn't plan well.

My suggestion would be to seek out an elder-care specialist. They not only know what kinds of support are available - including issues or options you might not have thought of - but they have contacts with all the different sorts of service providers. My brother and I engaged one briefly when we needed to find a nursing home for our mother. Both of us had already tried and mostly struck out on finding anything decent; she was able to get us a spot at a much nicer facility than anything we had even been able to look at. This was especially valuable when COVID hit; the peace of mind from knowing that they were on top of things was invaluable. Money very well spent IMO, and not even all that much.

From what I hear, quality in-home care can be even harder to find, so those contacts become even more valuable. If you can't find such a specialist on your own, your parents' doctor(s) might be able to give you a referral.
This varies by jurisdiction, your anecdote is 1 data point but driving with a suspended license is a severe punishment in some places.
We have a 100 year old grand piano, and our piano tech commented that the lid had previously been removed. He knew this because on this brand of piano, the screws would have been aligned horizontally when they left the factory, and the ones on our piano on this one hinge weren't.

Once he'd pointed it out, it was obvious to see, and every other screw on the piano is horizontal.
At 30 switches per second for video playback (which this device supports), a lifetime of 10m switches would be gone in around 93 hours.
Maybe driving becomes tiered where a person's ability to access overrides are based on tests and their driving record. Not saying it is a good idea, but with computer controlled driving systems, it becomes plausible. For example, if you had a DUI in the last year, no overrides for you.
Twitter's New 'Privacy' Policy Destroys Its Value for Decentralized Journalism
It looks powerful, however since it doesn't seem to include any results for Ryanair or Easyjet it's pretty much useless for short/medium haul trips in Europe.

I use azair.com for that, although it seems to be quite technologically primitive behind the scenes(complex searches take a long time).
I think this is one of those studies where you didn't really need to do a study.
I was driving a Citroen in rural Ireland that had an active lane correction if it thought you were drifting out of the lane. The thing is that in rural Ireland many roads are one lane and have no marking at all so the thing was constantly forcing the car into directions that were actively dangerous. Towards other cars on narrow roads in the center. Towards shoulders with steep drop offs. I have deep skepticism about this sort of technology and remember that a 0.001% failure rate is someone's kid, husband, wife, brother, sister, mom, dad, etc not just some statistic. I'll be buying older cars that don't have this for as long as possible.
I'm under the impression that a lot of tech / 'rational' people are utilitarian consequentialists, and if you tell a good utilitarian story, a lot of them will sign up. Like, liberty and privacy sound nice, but how many lives do they save? I also have a theory that a lot of programmers think it's natural to fix bugs in society by writing (U.S.) code.
Laws (de jure) that are not enforced, do not exist (de facto). For example, Massachusetts may have similarly tough laws but 85% of Massachusetts' drunk driving cases are dismissed. And that's 85% of the ones that actually make it to court.
Not sure I agree. I'm sure there's plenty of innocents who've been forcefully convinced by some crypto zelot, or FOMOed their way into the crypto world.

In terms of normal bank clients moving to a DAO bank or something silly like that, you're right, nobody in their right minds is doing this.
Chrome is "fast"?
Yes I had the correct password and no 2FA... yet they require some form of second-factor that I am not really aware of.
This is sort of a variation of the tradeoff if someone loses access to their Google (or whatever) account because they've lost their password, don't have access to a backup email, phone number, etc.

They can either make it a fairly easy and flexible process online--in which case it's also fairly easy to game--or they can tell you to show up in Mountain View with multiple forms of identification during office hours on every other Friday.
1 lego, 2 laygo
Yeah, I think the best thing for this situation is to pay someone to stop by for an hour a day. Probably around breakfast time or lunch. They can make sure they are eating and taking their pills. They can be someone to talk to and something to look forward to. That person can also be someone who can notice if someone is limping a bit or looks "off". Obviously this is expensive but could be a reasonable middle ground to a facility.
You might need to wait for something to happen, and then force the issue.

One things you can try: Did one of your parents' friends enter a retirement home? What about one of your childhood friends parents'? Start visiting them, with your parents, occasionally. Sometimes, just visiting a retirement home for a social visit (and no agenda on your part) can plant the seed that older people are very happy in retirement homes.

My grandfather lived alone after my grandmother died. He had a stroke a few months before his 100th birthday. Instead of calling 911, he called my uncle, who fortunately was only a few minutes away.

That was when my dad and his siblings forced the issue and placed him into a retirement home. He was quite social, so after a few weeks, he made a lot of friends and adjusted. The vibe was kind of like freshman year at college, only for geriatrics. (Among his children and my cousins someone checked in every few days. This was how we were sure the retirement home took good care of him.)

Even when we had to move him to a nursing home, he was very happy. Again, he made friends.
The twentieth century and its experiments in alternative resource allocation and community building are not propaganda, it happened.

It wasn’t live tweeted, but we do, actually, have records. Some people were even there!