skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Principles page has a section under “Technology” titled “We reluctantly operate some infrastructure” where it describes your own notification system (instead of CloudKit).

But later on in the same page, the following promise is made under the “Harm Reduction” section:

> Straight to Apple servers. Tact does not store your messages, files, photos, or any other data. They are stored only on Apple servers, and we as the makers of Tact have no access to them. We cannot provide your data to anybody even when requested or forced — we just don’t have it.

This part should have an asterisk and a link to the notifications section, since your systems will be able to see some metadata and data of the messages, and we don’t know how long that’s retained and what kind of backup systems those might end up in for a long duration.
Giving Up: Informational Learned Helplessness
It’s called progress.
Also vehicle stability assist and automatic emergency braking. I would call those two lifesaving features.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/life-saving-benefits-of-esc...

Lane keeping assist and adaptive cruise control could be considered safety features also. I would rate them lower than the first two things I mentioned though, in terms of positive safety impact.
The problem is in the variation of what people mean by "race". In popular culture, people generally use it as a synonym for ethnicity. In genetics, it means the same as "breed" does when referring to animals. The first is a social construct. The second is a grouping of heritable traits.
Exactly. Don’t ask about it or collect it. Yes race existed but it should but be the detriment of anything else.
It’s a nonsense standard to demand “examples” of science not being done, which would be impossible to know precisely, and OP didn’t even claim specifically. The point is that our prominent scientific institutions are occupying themselves with nonsense woke red herrings. That constitutes a corruption of their telos (rigorous pursuit of the rational truth) in principle and the consequences are predictable, “examples” are beside the point.
Ain't that the truth.

It hit me like a brick when I walked into a Toyota dealership to get some transmission oil from the parts department recently.

The saleroom was luxurious. You could eat off of the floor and check your teeth in it afterward, it was so shiny.

All of the sales people looked tip top.

I felt like I had just walked into a casino.

Then I found the parts desk... a dingy, tiny window in a cramped area in the back of the dealership where I had to stand (no chairs) for literally 10 minutes until somebody was able to even notice I was there.

Seemed pretty clear what their main goal was.
I think the OP is adding equity compensation, which with the current bull market, is hugely inflating that number.

If you only count take home pay in cash, it's nowhere near $500k! Closer to 200k for a senior engineer imho. Vesting of shares takes a few years, so the extra $200k that you "get" is because 2 years ago, you were paid $150k in equity, and it grew to $200k (or more).
Alexa is going to get unplugged and put in a box if it doesn't stop trying to upsell me stuff. I ask a question, I expect it to be fire and forget.

I do NOT expect it to offer me something else, and make me think about some random BS.

It's worse than clippy.
A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell.

A good book regardless of what you think of Sowell’s politics.
I really thought that one of the worst technological advances was the Smart TV. When my 10 year old Sharp died, the search for a Dumb TV with the same quality as a corresponding Smart TV came up empty. It seems like maybe not connecting a Smart TV and hopefully having vestigial parts inside is the best I can hope for … but it’s just a TV.

Dumb cars might be ridiculously hard to come by, and sooner — maybe — than anticipated; but this seems like a space just waiting for innovation.

All I have to offer is an idea for branding:

LobotomizeMyDevice
I spent winter break in 2011 reading Zen Garden and learning CSS! It was so useful in the next seven years of my career to be able to write CSS as easily as English.
Launch Countdown James Webb Telescope - NASA
From a company like Google, this is shameful. I don't think it ever would have happened under Marissa Mayer's watch.
https://acme.com/jef/netgems/scratch_monkey.html
I've got a 2016 Honda Accord. The Apple Car Play sometimes freezes up completely and the whole system becomes unresponsive. I wish there were a hidden reset button though - if there is, I haven't found it. The only fix is restarting (rebooting?) the car.

Sometimes the whole stereo just freezes up even when I'm not using Car Play, or the FM radio just stops with some Android error message.

Generally I find the Bluetooth is more reliable than Car Play so I just use that. I now keep my old iPhone around and tether it to my new iPhone and use the old one for navigation.

Unfortunately the car does not have an aux jack, so Bluetooth is the next best thing.

I've thought about replacing it but Crutchfield flatly says they don't recommend replacing it at all, which makes sense - the backup camera displays on there and the whole unit has controls on the steering wheel, which I doubt would work with a third-party replacement. If a company that sells car stereos recommends that I don't buy one, I'd be a fool not to listen.

I have rented newer cars that have better infotainment systems but they make other changes I'm not crazy about - they now have entertainment information in the main instrument panel, leading them to shrink the speedometer to make space for it. Speed is the most important thing I need to know when driving, so don't shrink the speedometer. So I'm just not convinced a new car will be any better on the whole (and it's hard to get a new car now anyway) so I'll just keep driving this one.
Last I checked, it looked like the difference was entirely in the installer, with the program just checking for a registration file at run time. Has that changed? Was my assessment wrong?
It is both a social construct as well as a physically real thing. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive, and more people need to understand that. Most of the debate in this area is language games.

Consider running a PCA on a matrix of everyone's alleles < actually, this is legit interesting, has anyone done it? >. Hypothesis: A bunch of the top few components will correspond to commonly understood racial groups that people have created based on observable phenotypic clusters. In this sense, it's a real physical thing. Duh.

However, at the same time, the components are an abstraction, and the common conceptualization of what these components mean and how they relate to reality is somewhat of a mental construction. There will be other high variance components that don't relate to racial categories. We probably don't even notice them. And our racial categories probably don't map that cleanly to the actual underlying components.
People googling Google, which is a lot.
wasn't sure if it broke the rules to post, thanks!
Check this out: https://firejail.wordpress.com/features-3/
Yeah I agree with this, it gets more into the sci-fi horror genre which some people might like and others not. I would say though that it’s still a very good book and if you liked the first I would definitely recommend.
Yes, my original statement was incomplete. More accurately I should have said that truely deadly viruses don't kill people _quickly_.

Ebola for example gets you sick, and you die quickly. This results in it not spreading well.

AIDS kills you very slowly (over multiple years) so it has lots of time to spread (fortunately for us it's hard to catch).

So the perfect virus would have the transmisabilty of Omicron, but with no symptoms for years - then by the time the first person dies we all have it already.

Fortunately we haven't seen that one yet (in my lifetime anyway) and to some extent worrying about it is fruitless because there will be pretty much nothing we can do about it.

You may as well be worried about every other ELE - asteroids, alien invasions etc.
good point... I'm not sure why we never made the youtube video public. Thanks for bringing it up! This is why I feel like making that first game was good practice, I won't make these mistakes for the second one.
I do. Google is not my default search engine. In the rare case I want to use it, I must visit the google website to search.
‘The Magus’, by John Fowles. Masterful.

I have only read a few chapters but I highly recommend ‘The Beginning of Infinity’ by David Deutsch, it’s just so interesting!
I refuse to believe that you’re not trolling.
Is this a joke? Why is this a revelation?
Agreed, and SO thrilled that Yahoo hasn’t changed one iota since her departure—imagine what’s the world would be like today has she been at lycos or alta vista!
That the precise cutoffs are socially constructed does not imply the categorization itself is not biological. It's simply a coarse clustering based on kinship, that can be reproduced without reference to any society.

Edit: To the replies claiming the categorization is arbitrary and mostly cultural - that does not appear to be the case. In fact, it almost perfectly corresponds to genotype principal component plot clusters, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29669918 noted:

https://youtu.be/iegYpOG6mQI

I.e. the categorization corresponds to what you get when you consider all/many genes, and not a few arbitrarily chosen ones, like those that determine eye or hair color.
Yea as a biologists who's done some genetic research this isn't about wokeness (though I don't think that's necessarily bad anyway).

Race is a cultural term, not scientific. No one doing this research thinks there's no difference in genetic makeup between groups, it's that how we use and thinK about the word race doesn't line up with those groups and differences.

It's just not accurate for scientific publications, not just the cultural and historical baggage it has.
Like down anyone thing that white, black, or asian describe narrowly defined genetic groupings?
> You've misrepresented what is on that website a few times in this thread now. Ctrl+F for "image" returns 4 results, and 1 result for "picture".

I think the conversation is a bit confused about what website we are referring to here. Ctrl+F for "image" or "picture" yields zero results at https://opensea.io/collection/non-fungible-olive-gardens?tab..., which is the website that this HN post links to, and where a potential consumer would buy the NFTs. Do you disagree?

It seems to yield the results you mention at https://nonfungibleolivegardens.com/, which is a separate website linked by you and someone else elsewhere in thread that purports to provide information about these NFTs. As far as I can tell, it is not linked anywhere from the OpenSea page; and moreover is not the website that this HN post links to.
Emphatically no.

HTML can be responsive, like an electronic document should.

PDF was designed to faithfully represent paper, and it has all the fluidity and customizability of a stack of printed paper. It's also completely anti-semantic: it has no document structure beside pages, and each page just describes how to put ink onto paper.

I think that the principal application area of PDF is just that: to represent paper, for printing purposes. For everything else, it's not exactly great.
Any idea how it compares to Empire of the Summer Moon?

My library has that one not, your suggestion.
Foundation- this book blew my mind. What I found fascinating about it is that it’s a science fiction book but at its core it’s about how to resolve Geopolitical issues using diplomacy. It feels like this should be a primer for anyone who wants to understand and improve modern geopolitics.
It’s also not real. This is civil law. One claimant has nothing to do with the other.
Don't trust this source but that might be fake: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/busted-cnn-reports-...
> It is mind blowing that people thought it reduces transmission more than a little bit.

It's official: Vaccinated people don't transmit COVID-19 https://fortune.com/2021/04/01/its-official-vaccinated-peopl...

> "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real-world data," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Rachel Maddow on Monday, March 29.
Thank you. Yes, quite similar to modern art. We may be in a bubble now, but in the future some pieces will retain their value. I hope no one loses too much from this.
So they’re moving from overly-broad, archaic, and imprecise terms to more precise terms that better reflect the human gene pool? That’s great! Not understanding why some have issue with this.
Mine would be "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". Illuminating to say the least.
what do you plan on doing to all the people you won't need anymore as workers.
General purpose build automation server written in GNU Guile
The Overstory by Richard Powers. A few touching stories about trees and Americans. One of the best things I've read this decade, perhaps this lifetime.
Anything is "straightforward" after doing it for 20+ years. Just ask a COBOL programmer.
One of those books that if you just told me what it was about, I wouldn't care, but reading it was a very enthralling journey and a positive experience.
Separation of content and presentation was one of the biggest lies that we (web developers) used to tell ourselves for years.
It seems to me that several powerful entities are working right now to convince people to get rid of their gas-burners and buy electric cars.

That's quite a bit different than what the article describes (eliminating cars).

I think even the push to get people to move to electric cars is difficult enough. I'd love to have a fast electric car, but I know a lot of people that don't want one.
> suddenly feeling really fucking alone on the plane of authority.

Maybe you are in fact alone on a plane you call authority.
Are you saying Google is, on it’s on volition, protecting the interests of some unknown red-state police chief?
That's not the problem, but thanks!
Plus race is malleable, and the definition of ‘whiteness’ has shifted over time. https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/noel-ignatievs-lon...
"Race" when referring to humans is equivalent to "breed" when referring to animals. Both terms, as used in biology, refer to groupings of heritable traits. Is "breed" an invalid concept because a Poodle can mate with a Labrador?
> HTML and CSS alone are really powerful

https://html.energy/
nonfiction: Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams. I re-read it for the third or fourth time this year. It's probably the most important book to me.

Some excerpts:

- "Making photographs has to be, then, a personal matter; when it is not, the results are not persuasive. Only the artist's presence in the work can convince us that its affirmation resulted from and has been tested by human experience."

- The best criticism comes from "the deepest commitment to sharing the picture with others. Anything less than that means defeat, calling attention not to the picture but to the critic."

- "When we are young, we want art that is filled with the bitter facts, because we believe that evil can be overcome if we face it; when we grow older and begin to doubt this optimistic belief, we want art that does not simply reinforce the pain of our disillusionment. In pictures like those by Hine the requirements of young and old are both met; the photographs urge reform, but seem to suggest that the need for it is not the most important thing to be said of life."

- "Contrary to popular expectations, many of the best nature pictures – often the truest and finally most reassuring – do contain people and their works."

fiction: Slaughterhouse-Five. I love repetition, and Vonnegut uses to great effect. I read most of it in an evening.
To Craunch the Marmoset (2016)
Feature.

The dimensioning problem isn't PDFs. The dimensioning problem is computer displays.

Get yourself an e-ink display of 10" or 13" (standard dimensions offered by the patent-monopoly vendor across multiple OEMs), and discover that online reading of PDFs is 1) quite pleasant (so long as the underlying PDF formatting itself is sane) and 2) vastly preferable to either HTML or "fluid" ePub or Mobi file formats.

Book formats developed over about 500 years largely guided by the capabilities and limitations of human eyes and hands. Typical mass-market books range in size from roughly 6" to 12" diagonal measure. Yes, there are smaller and larger formats, these are deviations from the norm and impose compromises for other concerns (portability for smaller formats, resolution for larger ones, typically pictoral or graphical in nature).

A 5" or 6" mobile device presents less display area than an index card. Laptop displays are too short to display a portrait-mode document one page at a time, and in almost all cases too small to present a 2-page up display.

(You can verify this yourself trivially at the Internet Archive using its BookReader, e.g., https://archive.org/details/UnderstandingPhotoTypesetting/pa...)

When wedding PDFs with an appropriate display technology, the frustrations fixed-proportion PDF display disappear.

This does rely on the PDF being dimensioned for a typical book size, though there's considerable flexibility here, and any dimensions from ~6" to well over 12" will tend to be readable, there's no need for precisely matching device to document size.

I'm saying this as someone who's long railed against PDFs for documentation. My mind's been changed.
Likely even a little bit more narrow than Python-only since it seems to be Poetry-only. Most Python projects probably work okay with Poetry, but it's still a relatively new tool compared to the other options.
Interestingly enough, the stats here are that the double vaxxed shrug it off, unless they have immunity problems. According to our healthcare folks, most of the dying ones are unvaxxed. We're assured that even if efficacy is low, you're about 99% less likely to be hospitalized.

But I personally know plenty of single vaxxed people who died. And my symptoms from the second vaccine (pfizer) were nasty enough for a fake virus, I can't really imagine it being light for the real thing. I feel like there's some missing context.
Maybe the greatest company of the last 30 years, all said.

That doesn't mean perfect, but hard to name a greater company.
Link please to your setup
Oh that's so cool, I used this app a few years ago! Amazing work!
I thought epub files were basically zip archives of all the required files
Isn't this one of the prominent showcases for the "magical realism" genre?

The amazing video game "Kentucky Route Zero" is impossible to describe, but it touches on this genre in video game form and poverty in America with many references to this novel with characters named "Marquez" and so on. What an experience.
Does anyone have a link to this story? I remember it as:

Way back when, a Google dev started to receive frequent cryptic emails. Each email contained a single number. They struggled to figure out what it represented, if anything. Somehow, it was realized the number represented the word count on their homepage.

This story comes to mind when I see promotions, statements and other things there. Perhaps someone should start emailing a byte count.
> What they do go on to say is that you can mint an NFT that represents a franchise, but what you're misunderstanding is the word "represent". Anything can represent anything - the pancake I just made (hooray, breakfast for dinner!) can represent the White House. The bicycle in my garage can represent the International Space Station while I'm out playing with my kids.

My view is that convoluted arguments like this are fine for winning an argument with your friends, and maybe even on an orange website.

They are unlikely to cut ice with the legal system when you get hauled up for accepting money for some "representation" of a trademarked franchise. But I guess time will tell. A good experiment for the authors of this would be go on to offer NFT pictures of Disney characters next, and then go on to explain to Disney's lawyers how they aren't actually Finding Dory, just a token that is a representation of Finding Dory.
I started learning to play the banjo. (It's not for everybody, but I love it.)

I got some books (with music or digital download.) Those were helpful, but YouTube song lessons are probably the most effective.

I play probably 30 minutes most days. I find it relaxing and entertaining-- occasionally even for others!
Dan Davies "Lying For Money".
But does this really matter? When I pull-up google.com on mobile the search bar is instantaneous; what isn’t instantaneous, is all the superfluous junk that nobody visits google.com for…
Almost done with it, but my favorite thus far: Allen Mandelbaum's translation of Virgil's Aeneid.
I really enjoyed Piranesi as well. Easy to read and a lot of fun.
They had many fingers in many pies, and many failed. Jeff is first to admit this.

It's survivorship bias to assume they had no real plans but lucked out - the gamble was part of the plan.
I haven't seen these mentioned, so:
- The WEIRDest people in the world: on why societies evolved differently, and why the renaissance happened where it did. A completely new (for me) framework of thought
- The Anomaly: ideal for people on Hacker News!

My complete list of what I read this year is here: http://shrirang.karandikar.org/reading-in-2021/
I read snowcrash as a teen but Cryptonomicon was my reintroduction to Neal Stevenson as an adult and it got me hooked.
I agree with you. It's not a bad thing for companies to pay dividends until they can't, and then die.
When I was a pd in a genomics lab, I took notice of these debates on twitter. I was curious to understand why "race" was a term some people were adamant should be recognized in almost all contexts except for genetics. From what I've gleaned, it's because people loath the idea of biological factors setting constraints on personal identity. I get it. The same debate has transformed scientific vernacular wrt. sex/gender. And I'm ok with changing the verbiage to whatever people are comfortable with, and if it adds more precision to what scientists are referencing. The terms do not change what is observed in the lab- People with certain genotypes tend to cluster into very distinct observable phenotypes, with regard to ancestry and sex. For example, here are the first 3 principal components plotted from one of the largest genomic data repos available...

https://youtu.be/iegYpOG6mQI
> It is totally incredible, impossible, not remotely plausible and a poorly conceived joke that China's confirmed COVID number represents the number of people in China who had COVID.

Why is it so hard for you to accept? China is easily the least individualistic, and most collectivist, of the major Asian economies. Chinese people, and its government, generally value social harmony over individual freedoms. This makes dealing with transmissible disease outbreaks a no-brainer -- you quarantine and do whatever it takes to prevent things from spreading. Of course, executing this correctly is only possible because the CCP is the most effective bureaucracy in human history (enabled by technology, of course).
The part about contacting their new employer may be illegal, so tread with caution.
What's weird is no one really notices/cares about this type of behavior. I sometimes wonder if this is seen as a feature: institutional sociopathy shields powerful sociopathic people from their consequences.

A few possibilities:

* people generally cannot discern moral realities within complex systems, instead preferring simpler narratives ("he made a lot of money, he must be a decent chap")

* people can see it on occasion, but insist that the problem is the single bad actor rather than the system enabling them

* people realize they can't do much about it, as they're implicitly bound up in this system run amok