skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of a legal name not existing is quite interesting as someone who has never gone by the name on their various legal documents.

One thing that I couldn’t stop thinking as I read is that the review doesn’t get into what the “thing” is that a name refers to.

There’s this assumption that a human is a single unitary object but in reality we are composed of billions of cells, all with slightly different genetic code (in the case of regular mutation) or completely different genetic code (in the case of biome and virome). Which of those cells does my name refer to? What if I have cancer or am pregnant? Are those cells also using the same name…until they aren’t?

The world is so multifaceted and fractal in nature but we sometimes have to put things into boxes with names to make sense of them and their relationship to the rest of the world. Those boxes aren’t facts or truths so much as they are generally agreed upon simplifications that make existing in a society possible. They can also change.
I faced similar issues with the Swiss keyboard layout. I suggest switching to the “US International“ layout and use the dead keys to obtain the umlauts. There’s also a keyboard option that enables a umlaut menu with a long press on the keyboard- if you really want to avoid the dead keys (this might help: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/254094/character-a...).

The Apple “English International“ keyboard has a big enter key - if you dislike the small enter key of the US keyboard layout.
To the Grave: Secrets, Sins, and Nuclear Insecurity
I'm always interested in these setup stories and comments on HN.

This one seems to be lacking the obligatory XKCD 1806. So here it is.

https://xkcd.com/1806/
Do you mind checking l̶i̶c̶h̶e̶s̶s̶.̶c̶o̶m̶ lichess.org? It's a popular online chess website, as the name suggests. A Reddit post from a month ago claims it is also blocked. [1] I think that would be hilarious.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/r0r2jh/tmobile_blo...
sciter is pretty successful already - https://sciter.com/ lists a number of recognisable commercial users and estimates 340 million installs over its lifetime. i very much doubt it will go mainstream without being open sourced though; closed source is simply a mindshare killer for this kind of developer-focused project.
> Ideally we’d want neutralizing vaccines wouldn’t we? ... I just want vaccines that aren’t subscription services.

I think you're mixing up concepts here. What kind of immune response a vaccine elicits (neutralizing antibodies vs. immunoglobulins vs. B-/T-cell response or some combination of the above) and how long it remains efficacious needn't have anything to do with one another, and vaccines that confer non-sterilizing immunity can still very effectively prevent disease spread. Lots of vaccines don't confer sterilizing immunity and still work very well. Unrelatedly, lots of vaccines' efficacy also fades with time (e.g., MMR, TDaP, varicella, both Hep vaccines, etc.), and those can also be very effective and valuable.

Obviously ideally you'd have a one-and-done, totally sterilizing vaccine for every ailment, but we take what we can get.

> I think Salk did an excellent job at testing it’s effects without forcing participants and there’s a great deal of historical data to prove it

The one that sometimes causes polio isn't the Salk vaccine (that's IPV), it's the Sabin vaccine (OPV), which uses a live attenuated virus -- see https://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/poliomyelitis/endg... for more info. But the Sabin vaccine is still widely used, because it's easier to administer (no needles), this particular issue is rare, and it generally works better than IPV does, because it elicits a gut-tissue response instead of a serum response, and polio is a fecal-oral route pathogen. Like I said: tradeoffs.
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but honestly, both "disinformation" and "honest" are terms which are interpreted quite differently by different people, such that I'm honestly (see what I did there) not quite sure what you're asking. Can you be more specific?
where would the simplified webview come from though? that is precisely the value sciter delivers - a roughly web-compatible view that is much lighter weight than a full-fledged browser engine.
The practical problem with this idea is that you would essentially need to remove the ability of JavaScript to track all human input (mouse movement, clicks, etc.) since that could already be used to figure out what they’re selecting. Sure, browsers could try to hide this info with clever rules like not reporting mouse movements while the mouse button is being held and text is being selected, but it would be pretty hard to get right (and would probably break a lot of sites that aren’t doing anything nefarious, like any rich text editor).
CCGrass, the world’s leading artificial grass manufacturer, is dedicated to providing the best artificial turf for both sports and landscape purposes. CCGrass has become FIFA Preferred Provider (FPP) since 2013 and now has over 300 FIFA certified fields worldwide. We provide solutions for football played at every level and all ages.

Recently, the CCGrass football field of Dingyuan County Sports Center, Anhui has obtained FIFA Quality Pro certification. This is the first FIFA certified field in Dingyuan County.

In pursuit of upgrading a high level football field, the local government chose our high-end Max series. As a FIFA Preferred Provider, CCGrass has extensive experience in the production and installation of professional artificial football pitches. This field has successfully passed FIFA test and obtained FIFA Quality Pro certification. It will serve for the men's football matches for the 15th Sports Games of Anhui Province, which will surly boost the games, allowing the players to enjoy the ultimate sports experience.

FIFA Quality Pro certification is the highest level of field certification, which allows pitches to be used in the highest level of international football matches. Let’s look forward to the success of the Games next year, and wish the athletes a good result!
> Can anyone recommend a basic android camera? Preferably one that doesn't distort the world too much or replace faces with leaves.

Everyone's been complaining about the Fairphone not doing enough image processing and giving you basically the raw sensor output, making the pictures look bland compared to bigger-brand phones with worse sensors. So there's that option if you want a true-to-sensor picture and they also have a great open source community so you can also know what effects the camera app is applying.

Or install an open source camera on any android and at least that aspect of the picture-taking chain is covered.

If you want a terrible UX experience but reasonable amount of features, there's Open Camera: https://opencamera.org.uk/ | https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/

If you prefer better UX with just basic features (point and shoot, no knobs to turn), Simple Mobile Tools has an app for that: http://simplemobiletools.com/ | https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.camera...
I believe Epstein is the instrument of extortion in their scenario, not the victim.

>And I have just as much evidence to back up my theory as you have.

So you have evidence of other telepathic dog mind control schemes having happened through history?
The same thing happened to .win sites including a popular one, post election.

I posted proof here (using another account) but it was immediately flagged because nobody cared. In fact many were happy about it.
These are some good insights, and I'm glad you're doing this work. And part of putting yourself in the mindset of the user is understanding that in many cases they are not using your software by choice, but because it stands between them and something that they need, such as a job, health care, personal finances, use of their car, and so forth. Often these things happen under moderately stressful circumstances.
That's a terrible plot.
No. It's true. I have T-Mobile, and I cannot send .xyz links over SMS.
If you have T-Mobile, this is easy to verify: text yourself "abc.xyz" (or any other .xyz link) The message will show as sent but not received. If you text yourself any uncensored link, it will show as sent and received.
What you say may be true, but that’s not a dichotomy we’re presented with.
From the article:

> "My current assumption is that the videotoolbox hardware decoding support doesn’t support the same codecs in mpv yet as it does in Firefox"

mpv supports videotoolbox hardware decoding of h264/h265, it's just not enabled by default. It prevents the use of most filters and has slightly lower quality decoding in my experience.

To get hardware decoding in mpv and hopefully get the same minimal CPU usage as Firefox just call mpv with `--hwdec=videotoolbox` or add `hwdec=videotoolbox` to your `~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf` file.

Also from the article:

> "here I noticed a major difference in how Homebrew seems to work compared to Arch Linux for example. On Arch Linux applications are built from source code centrally instead of relying on binaries from a vendor."

This is true for Homebrew formula as well, like the mpv formula, just not Homebrew casks. Most casks are proprietary closed source applications.
This whole thing is predicated on the notion that there's an "ugly mass of humanity". And yet people, as a whole, are generally nice more often than not.
Same. I import with beets and then serve it up via Mopidy-MPD with the Iris plugin for UI and snapcast for sending it around to different devices in the house. Super nice.
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but vaccination won't prevent the virus from ripping through everyone. The primary benefit is reducing severe symptoms.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

The current thinking is that mutations are most likely to occur in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. Vaccines aren't very effective for them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
You shouldn’t feel negative about it, the article doesn’t say anywhere that you should feel negative about it, where are you getting that?

Instead of asking you to feel guilty about who you are, we’re asking you to consider the differences in the way society as a whole treats people of your identity compared to other identities. It’s not about which groups are better or worse, though I agree some of the rhetoric can come across that way.
Probably meant to link their most recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29733051
My point is that you can't override what equality implementation groupByToMap will use, which makes it much less useful.

See for example https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/NonEmptyArray.ts.html..., where you can supply your own equality function…
For Pearson, Spearman, and Kendall's tau: (i) neither one of them could detect complex (nonlinear/non-monotone) dependence; (ii) they are clearly very powerful in detecting linear/monotone dependence. All these results have been documented in textbooks and repeatedly talked in classes for over 50 years.
Some doctors are certainly corrupt, but usually they have no way of knowing how much a particular medication costs since many do not buy or handle medication beyond what they would stock in their office.

Your post lacks information such as whether or not the specialty medicine would’ve been approved with the proper paperwork from the doctor, but what likely happened is that someone at the pharmacy put in the effort to find a manufacturer coupon for the medicine for you.

Interestingly the pharmacy doing that is generally forbidden in agreements with the insurance companies. That’s corruption imo.

The insurance PBMs forcing you to use their designated specialty pharmacies is part of the massive healthcare consolidation over the last couple of decades and it’s full of corruption as well.
> I adjusted my headlamps down…

I was told that the headlight adjustment in some large vehicles are meant to accomodate for weight (2 people in front vs 5 people in vehicle), but it seems that most people simply adjust this as high as it goes because they can see further. Even in Australia, which doesn’t have quite as much of a large-car problem, it’s becoming incredibly difficult to drive on the highway at night in a small car due to incredibly bright lights from behind.
A military robot designed for US - the country that has more troops in war zones around the world than anybody else (indeed, than everybody else combined!) - is practically guaranteed to be used for something inherently evil.
The push back on the Kreuzberg campus was much more about housing affordability than perceived privacy and data abuse.

“Konstantin Sergiou, a member of one of the neighborhood campaign groups, told the Guardian in May that the Google campus signaled the kind of urban change “that has proven to be so problematic elsewhere, such as in San Francisco.” He noted that a several different tenants’ groups and activists had been working to halt gentrification in Kreuzberg. “When Google decided to move into the area, we were already organized.””[0]

[0] https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/qz.com/1435550/google-abando...
This is interesting, but the linked article doesn’t delve into the potential effects that decreasing gas prices might have on either the supply or demand sides, nor does it inform the reader about potential knock-on effects of such a move.

How does this affect an alleged move to a greener energy economy?

Are there deleterious effects for oil producers in the US? Or internationally?

Is the US energy reserve in a potentially worse position by releasing this amount?

I appreciate the statement of fact, but this particular article leaves me with more questions than answers.

Perhaps I’m just not well-versed enough in this particular area of the global economy.
"Surveillance Capitalism" by Zuboff is far from an elevator pitch, but goes into some great detail on how Google more or less singlehandedly developed modern surveillance capitalism (the art of turning behavioral surplus from users of your product into predictive models and products you can sell to others, or, roughly, "Why everyone hoovers up everything they possibly can and tries to big data learn it for advertising").

The argument is that nothing inherent in our technology requires this particular outcome - that the techniques of surveillance capitalism were developed, by specific people, at a specific point in time (when Google needed money desperately), and turn out to be exceedingly profitable.

Unfortunately, that also turns out to be exceedingly human-toxic. Machine learning flips the usual quality/quantity tradeoffs, and in order to get the highest quality, requires the most quantity. It's not that Google/Facebook/Twitter want to know a lot about you. It's that their profits are based on them knowing everything about you.

And that then leads to the whole "engagement" problem that is most of the modern internet. Google... collects a lot of what it needs by nature of mostly being "the internet." YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and affiliated companies gather what they need by trying to ensure, by hook or by crook, that you spend as much time as at all possible on their platforms. Your time is literally their money. So out of this you get all the nasty little human psychology exploits that modern platforms use to "drive their users nuts" and keep them coming back, and the nature of the content, and what it's doing to their brains. Drive them down some crazy conspiracy theory rabbit hole? Great, they'll spend more time on your platform looking for more stuff (cough YouTube cough). Genocide in some exotic foreign language you don't care enough to learn to moderate? Whatever, it's engaging (Facebook?). And so on.

So the "elevator pitch" I'd use is that the reason the modern internet (and as a result most of consumer tech) is so rabidly human-toxic in most of the commonly used forms is a direct result of Google inventing the technologies that require that sort of engagement as a feed into the profit engines they've decided to use.
I thought they were almost throwaway items in the case of a collision these days anyway? You hear a lot about Teslas being written off even for minor cosmetic damage.
I thought .org was more expensive than .xyz for the name I was looking for. Could be wrong.
Your web browser is your operating system. It needs to have access to your peripherals and lower-level things like your clipboard and filesystem.
> Putting the display to sleep easily by moving the mouse cursor in the corner is nice (I’d still prefer a keyboard shortcut), and can be enabled in the system preferences:

You can lock the screen with cmd+ctrl q.

Control–Shift–Power button* or Control–Shift–Media Eject : Put your displays to sleep.

Here are some other keyboard shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
"AltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS."

brew install alt-tab

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app

Not a user or the developer, but happened across this recently.
Their mission petered out because it was founded upon a null conclusion. There was no greater purpose to strive for.
> I strongly suspect that a socialized medical program in the US would not actually cost individuals any more than they're paying now

The definition of progressive taxation means this is not the case for anyone making more than 100-150k, given current tax brackets.

Medicare already is 1/3 of the federal budget and I can assure you someone making low 6 figures definitely pays more in tax than 3x $900.
The Reuters story linked in the Reddit thread has the FCC reassuring us this authority is for bulk messages only.
You can buy a $2000 Android loaded with crapware.
Picard is amazingly powerful and I've used it for many years to manage my Music directory. I've done many tweaks to my file naming script over the years and I'm sure I'm not done. My current one looks like this:

$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/%album%
$if(%originaldate%,\($left(%originaldate%,4)\))/
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),Disc %discnumber%
$if(%discsubtitle%,: %discsubtitle%,)/,)
$num(%tracknumber%,$if($lt(%totaltracks%,10),1,$if($lt(%totaltracks%,100),2,3)))
%title%

I have "Replace non-ASCII characters" and "Windows compatibility" both unchecked. At present I'm kind of 50/50 on single-digit track numbers for albums that have less than 10 tracks, kind of just used to everything being two digits (though I have a handful with greater than 99 tracks, so there's the concession there for triple-digit track numbers).

It's also very much optimized for my own use of the file system being my library management. I just change directory and play. ;)
> The thread wasn’t about voting. It was about Thiel’s active involvement. Which is the comment you directly responded to.

We've moved on from that.

> I don’t disagree some do that. However with you repeating this “many”. Any one can call themselves anything. It doesn’t make it so. OTOH I see no issue if the statement was “Many people who say they are libertarian support Republicans”

Well you're just wrong about that.

https://www.cato.org/blog/how-many-libertarians-are-there-an...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/25/in-search-o...

Roughly 10-20% of people are libertarians not only how they identify but their stance on various issues. And yet votes, political donations, lobbying, party membership, etc. is far more skewed to the two big parties. Which means they are pragmatic and send their votes and support to where it might make the best difference. Like most people.

Many libertarians support Republicans. I'm really quite astounded you're having such a big problem coping with that.
Most likely machine learning gone wrong where enough people report messages with the same link as spam to cause anti-spam systems to auto-block it. Makes sense that the links are all political, these are the most likely type of domains someone would want to perform an ideologically-motivated confused-deputy attack on.

I doubt it's nefarious purposeful censorship. But the anti-spam system does need to be fixed to prevent this sort of abuse.
She is a ghost! Duh.
As far as window management, tiling, etc., I use BetterSnapTool. No relation to the developer, just a user for many years.

https://folivora.ai/bettersnaptool
NextStep was available for PCs as well as NextCubes. When do you think Apple might release their Intel MacOS code for PCs? It could give Windows 11 a run for its money.
Conversely, I never had gun-related stuff censored in FB messenger, but links to some websites about weed would be blocked. Looked very weird, too - no message, no error, the (web) app just hangs.

I think they have some kind of blocklist that is, shall we say, "dynamic" wrt the current political environment.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but what is export and backup in the context of an OTP application.

Per my understanding, if I have Authy on my Phone, the one on my PC/laptop is the backup, and vice versa - in the sense that if one dies I can use another.

Could you elaborate on the use case.
I’d imagine if you’d just spent $$$$ on fancy robots ups probably fork out for nicer boxes if required to make the robots useful. ;)
Sure it does, doesn't mean it needs to report back to a website what it's doing with it.
Also: https://barnhardt.biz

A friend tried to send me a link to that blog back in June in regards to investing in cattle, and T-Mobile blocked it. Only noticed the missing message because the conversation didn't read right.
Would you please provide a screenshot? I don't notice any changes.
Do you gave S3 buckets? They’re just as easy to bulk-delete, and then they’re… gone.
I follow a handful of people playing with this and the results are incredible.
A Christmas Poem – From AppCheck
TMBG was a cover; It was The Four Lads originally I believe
I had a hospital call me recently and inform me that the cash price for an upcoming procedure would be much lower than the price they would bill the insurance company. Since I wasn't going to meet my deductible this year, they suggested I accepted the cash price to save money.

I asked them if the insurance price was the price billed to the insurance company or the negotiated price that actually gets paid. They could not give me a straight answer. I had them stay on the line while I added my insurance company to the call. The agent at the hospital communicated the necessary information to the insurance company (there's a ton of stuff that effects the price, down to which radiologist happens to be scheduled that day). And of course, the negotiated price for the insurance company was lower than the cash price the hospital was offering.

I really don't think this attempt at getting me to pay the cash price was some accidental mix up. I think someone at the business side has figured out not only can they convince people to pay a higher rate, but that then they don't need to deal with billing the insurance. A double savings. I wonder what percentage of people they successfully scam with these calls.

To anyone outside the US reading this who is really confused, I'll see if I can start a GoFundMe to explain the US healthcare system to foreigners
Stop spreading doubt about it being nefarious. AI is trained. And if this is the future it’s still censorship regardless of if there’s an algorithm to blame or a human.
I think people need to donate money to Duckduckgo to make alternatives to Google software and services. Ones that don't spy on you and serve you ads.
That doesn't mean I want a camera to do it. With a bigger sensor I can get a nice crisp image, and that should be the target for what a phone makes.