skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t a legal product a better one than an illegal counterpart?
I think the best classes are about inspiration for self learning.
I personally think password managers are positioned best for web3.

Just add crypto wallet functionality (similar encryption skills) and then facilitate both web2 and web3 login.
As someone who definitely agrees that people shouldn't have to work in poor conditions, I still cant help but feel that the anti-work stuff on reddit seems coordinated. Does anyone else get that feeling?
> Even if the censorship implications are a bit obvious, it's good that:

LOL, sure, we better at the mercy of the american censorship and 'tracking' system
Bitter divorcees probably. Having a marriage like that is a luxury though. Let's be honest: marriage is not the same as it was 40-80 years ago, and that's because society is not the same it was. Long term commitment to your spouse seems to be an idea left to the past now.
I think when people have this big game changing ideas around VR, what they're generally imagining is actually is still not there. Low friction experiences that still allow freedom of movement. It is possible that VR tech evolves to the point that it can be a low friction experience (this is a bit debatable, but from my experiences I'd still call it a pretty big hassle).

Freedom of movement is the large one. Omni treadmills are one way of dealing with this, but anyone that has tried them knows that they are an awkward experience on their own (you can definitely get used to it, but you'll never mistake it for walking normally). They also massively increase the friction in using a VR headset.

If the virtual environment you were in was able to be dynamically projected over real world obstacles, then you'd be able to move freely... and you'd no longer be using VR but AR. The one thing I think VR is really accomplishing right now is pushing technology development that will allow AR in the future.

I do think that AR is going to be a defining breakout period for these technologies and VR is effectively dead in the water. Even a small whiff of AR in the form of Pokemon Go got people seriously jazzed and met those basic requirements I set out... Just without the immersion people are looking for out of VR.
I can tell you first-hand that either it does, or some people are naturally immune.

My family of 4 including me just spent 10 days in a hotel room. One(A) was too young to be vaccinated, one(B) was too young to be boosted but was vaccinated earlier in 2021. One(C) was vaccinated also earlier in 2021 but was unable to get a booster due to scheduling issues. One(D) got a booster in December.

3 of us(A,B,C) tested positive via antigen for Covid. The youngest(A) was asymptomatic. The one(D) that was boosted had several negative tests including PCR and never exhibited symptoms. (B) and (C) were symptomatic and (C) still has a sore throat going on 21 days now.

The booster works and COVID-19 is not something you want to take your chances with.
That is not how teams work. I recommend this book to learn more on how teams work: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Teams-Creating-High-Performanc...
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I think the negative reaction is that the OP was talking about a baby tracking app. To extrapolate some kind of larger lesson about someone's parenting from their use of an app that tracks how often their baby poops is... a stretch, to say the least.
It's not the same, because the GDPR only concerns itself with EU citizens ( based on which it claims jurisdiction). The US doesn't pretend to bother itself with such trivialities.

The same way that US sanctions are applied by the US and everyone everywhere should follow them or risk fines and sanctions. No other country does this - when France sanctions Iran, only French citizens and companies are concerned.
Same. Works great for my wife and I.
Previous discussion about a similar situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
I once saw a presentation from a man who build entire products this way. He automates hiring contractor devs based on their review scores, sends them to a huge Trello board that they use to self-onboard and then take on tasks, and automatically tracks of their progress by Trello cards completed and amount of code written.

He said he just spends 10 minutes a day firing contractors that aren't doing good enough, and maybe adding a new card to Trello now and then. This presentation was almost a decade ago so this automation might be a full product of its own by now. No saying if his product was any good or still exists, though
Bitwarden has free hosted accounts, they just don't have all features enabled. Most notably, you can't store attachments.
There's such a thing as being too ahead of the game. 20 years ago is an eternity in tech; there's nothing to say it might not work now.
Oh yes. This is a good lesson in complexity for the whole society. Instead of a binary works/doesn't work people have learned that there are different kinds of vaccines, that not all vaccines prevent the spread of a disease, that some vaccines need more than one shot to increase efficiency, that vaccinated people can still die from the disease they were vaccinated against, that some vaccines need to be taken seasonally to be effective and so on.

(This is from someone who is taking a vaccine orally everyday (that doesn't "block transmission and infection" as it is allergy-related.)
You can DIY it, though. A lot of options on ali/ebay
> Can you really not think of any examples where VC capital has improved a company, product, or service?

I honestly can’t, do you mind sharing a few examples to prove your point?

I have a long list of “stopped using because went to shit after VC was injected”

1. WhatsApp and Facebook relation

2. Twitter and the loss of control over my feed

3. Spotify and the podcasts shenanigans

4. Dropbox and their assholery against free users

5. Evernote and their assholery against free user, increasingly useless redesigns and lack of improvement on the basics

Etc.
Whether or not the original story is made up, I did this a long time ago at my first sweng job. Because some of the leads hated me, I got transferred to what was effectively a punishment team - officially I was hired as a game designer and then officially moved to the programming department, but then I was moved onto "cinematics", which meant setting up shots, camera transitions, and dialogue timing. Naturally I had zero qualifications to do this. Another person moved onto the punishment team was a QA tester that a lead had actively tried to block hiring. The supposed justification for this was that cinematics were behind schedule (this did seem to be true, at least).

Anyway, within a couple weeks me and the QA tester (who also knew how to code) had written a set of tools to make our work 3-4x faster and improve quality, so the three of us got our work done in a couple hours a day and spent the rest of it doing whatever we wanted - watching tv, working on side projects, reading programming books, etc.

To me the best part was that if I hadn't automated this the rest of the project would have fallen behind, because at that point the entire design department relied on my unauthorized side project (a comprehensive set of authoring and debugging tools for the design team) and I spent some of my spare time maintaining it. Game dev is wild.
24,000 years of climate change, mapped
So Burning Man is right wing now? That explains a lot. The Burning Man ethos was originally a rebellion against corporate ethos but is now corporate itself complaining about lefies mucking things up with their woke virtue signaling.

I want Burning Man to grow up an act responsibly by blazing another trail towards a better future, not continue to act like a rebellious teenager
They're also common in southern Brazil and Australia. There's an entire region in Brazil known as "Araucaria forest".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_moist_forests

I love their flavor, by the way.
Nature seems to make computations that allow for a balance because, usually, breaking out of that balance has detrimental effects. Humanity's technological progress has broken us out of balance, since we're able to steal more energy than we need from our environment.

So yes, humans are obviously part of nature. That's of course where we get our primordial emotions from. But it's misleading to say we're just like other parts of nature, when that's clearly not the case. Our problem is technological progress greatly outpaces emotional development, which may or may not even be progressing. In many ways, technological progress degrades emotional development.
Hopefully though, this will make the otherwise so risk aware management layers think again, before they demand adding GA to websites from their developers. Hopefully will even make them avoid it, as an unnecessary risk.
I don't know. Her statement about normal distribution having expectations about humans is not worthy of a high-schooler.
Point, though given the present significance of both the broader class of flowering plants, and the specific case of grasses, it's worth noting each individually.
Secrets was my favourite out of every password manager I tested, it's like 1Password before they started removing core functionality and implementing useless features requested by someone in marketing. It's only missing the ability to have shared vaults which sadly is key to my needs.
Technology evolved, and we faced a change: Now it's easy to commit a crime through the internet!

We teach kids "you should not steal" but not "you should not launch DDoS." I think the latter should be equally educated.
Sure, it most certainly does not.

But it also doesn't mean that the fact the I can use similar terminology to describe the Cultural Revolution and today (because of the broad meaning of various words in most human languages) implies that they are in fact meaningfully related, either.
> academic politics

You see, Wilson, like Gallant in Highlights magazine cartoons, was someone who looked at the evidence, and used logic and the scientific method to lead him to his conclusions. He only sought the truth. Which in his case, was that the white race is superior to the black race.

Gould and Lewontin were like Goofus. They were just engaging in academic politics.

Easy case to win when one side is all science and logic and the other is "political". Not sure why everyone hasn't come around.
Without government intervention, a completely free market would quickly cause the world to revert to feudalism. There should be a balance between freedom of enterprise and common sense.
This will help you: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts
HN really lives in a some sort of wealthy bubble. $90k is plenty of money to save for retirement in most of the country. If it's not, then the majority of people in the US will never be able to retire.
You're right, but inflation continues to outpace wages, so without some, albeit extreme, push from the workers' side, this will continue to get worse.
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In fact the opposite is true.

1) The label was overbroad, since the attacks were on East Asians, not south Asians.

2) The whole thing was manipulated by white liberals for their own purposes. They blamed Trump and “white supremacy” for the attacks, when in reality the attacks where happening in liberal cities like SF and NYC, and most of the attackers were non-white themselves.

In fact, the “Asian” label and identity was used to undermine the interests of Asians. Progressive identity activists used it as an opportunity to attack white conservatives, while reaffirming the need for reduced policing. But that’s not what actual Asian voters in these cities wanted: https://www.slowboring.com/p/yang-gang. They wanted more policing and measures to control the homeless. In NYC, for example, Asians overwhelmingly supported Andrew Yang, who was attacked for expressing moderately law and order views. And in the general election, heavily Asian communities in NYC voted in significant numbers for the Republican candidate, even though the Democrat also ran on a law and order platform: https://www.thecity.nyc/politics/2021/11/11/22777346/chinese.... The Republican candidate was otherwise a complete joke (even the NY Post endorsed the Democrat). But he got 46% of the vote in Brooklyn’s 70% Asian China town.

Sometimes these broad, politically constructed group labels are unavoidable. But labeling a group and getting people to identify with that label is also a tool for manipulating people. Indeed the term “Asian” to refer to a bunch of unrelated nationalities—who often have deep animosity towards each other—was coined by Berkeley political activists: https://time.com/5837805/asian-american-history/
UK gov backs away proposal to remove individuals' right to challenge AI decision
There's a python "app" called subliminal (with a simple CLI) that handles the whole enchilada for you - identify the movie, contact several subtitle dbs to download the appropriate subtitles.

Not sure how up-to-date it is kept, but for me it works reasonably well, except for obscure films.

https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal
Agreed. I have attempted to contact them multiple times and asked them to stop this. They never reply. They've turned 180 degrees from what they used to be. I've not researched this but I assume they must have been acquired by somebody.
Allow me to geek out a little. I love this stuff.

According to [1] Kirby uses the Nintendo MMC-3 mapper [2], which brings some nifty
features like a scanline counter. This can be used for finer control of scrolling regions/screen splitting (horizontal only). The scanline counter, alongside the swappable PRG banks and a theoretical max ROM size of 3216 CHR + 328 PRG = 768Kb enabled developers to really push the system to its limits, with advanced scroll tricks, providing for impressive parallax scrolling (while also presenting a status bar).

The CPU was still a limitation though. Some late NES games were at least partially written in C (at least you can see C format strings in some of the Koei strategy games), but it was mostly fine tuned, hand coded, 100% organic 6502 assembly.

As for mappers, there are more advanced ones, like the MMC5 (which enables things like 8x8 color regions, scanline IRQs and expandable memory), but no game ever really took advantage of it. Maybe a matter of keeping optins open in case they had to switch to another mapper for cost cutting measures, dunno.

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[1] https://nesdir.github.io/D7794AFC_USA.html
[2] https://wiki.nesdev.org/w/index.php/MMC3
Thanks! All good suggestions!
Emphatically agreed.

Not saying there aren't potential deficiencies with this technology that was more or less completely untried until recently and still hasn't been evaluated long term, but if people insist on trying to make the wrong action work by doing lots of it, what's to expect.

I was hoping this would be about results from clinical trials using the updated sequences. That will be interesting, not least whether a broad cocktail can defend against all the major strains simultaneously.
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Efficiently finding registered accounts from emails
Literally data coming out of Denmark and UK on their government websites says this but your provax mind will find a way to make it political
This is seriously gross AF.
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Nobody asks to be born and society is setup to extract as much as possible from you until you die. Fuck society, fuck humanity, fuck productivity, and fuck work. It can all burn for all I care.

I'm saving as much money as I can to escape wage slavery then just coasting the rest of my life without living another productive second.
Thank fuck someone said this.

Most users don't want to tweak anything related to their phones, tablets, computers, watches. If everything your app does, isn't reachable within 1-3 clicks/swipes/presses, then forget it.

Someone suggested using two versions KeePass files...one for shared passwords, one for not shared passwords. This is NOT a substitute for clicking Share Password and literally not doing anything else.

Someone suggested storing all your passwords in the browser. This is NOT a substitute for having all of your passwords available at the app level on your iPhone. This is NOT a substitute for sharing passwords with your whole family.

UI/UX is EVERYTHING
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I use ttsmp3.net to convert text to mp3 files for Tik Tok videos. And I don't want to spread my voice to the internet. Then I set up this website. But it may be useful for you. Totally free.Enjoy~
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> Maybe you can't. Everybody has their own risk tolerance, but at some point, everybody's going to have to draw a line.

I'm in agreement with parent, I think putting your passwords in the cloud is a wild single point of failure. Even if you can tell a compelling story about how they carefully encrypt everything right now, you're always a silent update away from it all being dumped on the internet.

I think people (in aggregate) just don't care about the risk and will take the path of least resistance. They don't have to draw the line there, but they will.

> My password manager being compromised would indeed be a huge time suck, but I don't think the long-term consequences would be any more severe than a few key individual accounts that are probably even more vulnerable.

Having your main email account compromised seems like an absolute nightmare where you potentially lose control of every single service that you subscribe to (banking, utilities, cell phone (so maybe 2fa is even broken), medical portals, social media, etc).

Having your entire set of passwords compromised is like that on steroids. Rather than your attacker having to use your email to get to each of those services one at a time, they just have them immediately. And who says you'll even know that your stuff was compromised?

I'm a bit of a crank though. I don't do any of the smart home stuff. I see my phone as a necessary evil. If some company shoehorned an app or a WiFi connection into their product, I don't buy it. After being in tech long enough, I just want things that work for me, not for the company I bought them from.
This people have lost their minds.
> Nerds continue to fail to grasp the value of UI/UX.

Or perhaps nerds do grasp the negative value of anti-patterns in UI/UX, and reject attempts to create interfaces and usage models that remove control from the user, create vendor lock-in, or compromise privacy and security.
If not that it must have been the Russians.
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It's actually a funny story here. If you look at specifics, most of those things (like 8 hour workday and so on) were getting to be standard practice in the industry before they were regulated. But anyways, I'm definitely not an anarcho-libertarian - regulations are pretty important, and externalities are a real thing.

But accepting for a second the premise that crypto has negative externalities - isn't it kinda stupid to focus on a very small slice of power usage and regulating it literally out of existence, instead of making sure externalities are really included in the price of electricity? Which not only doesn't destroy anything, but, you know, actually solves the problem. Instead of using the problem as a sledgehammer to do something else entirely.

This reminds me of people fighting tooth and nail to ban plastic straws. Is plastic pollution a problem? Well, yes. Is banning plastic straws helping it? Sure. Is it even remotely a sane option when considering the cost benefit of all other things you could do to fight plastic pollution?

Yeah.
> $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money

what? $90k is plenty for a frugal person to have a reasonable retirement. they're not gonna be able to do it at 35, but mid fifties is very viable.
I think it's pretty clear that it is malice.

But to your question - I suppose I agree. I don't think society usually tries to help malignant people whether or not it stems from mental health issues or not. We tend to focus more on punitive measures than rehabilitation if someone does something out of line.
> Yet if computing probabilities is such an integral part of how we perceive and think about the world, why have humans gained a reputation for being bad at probability?

Maybe we are able to grasp probabilities at the most fundamental parts of our physiology, but layers and layers of cognition on top of it add estimators with noise (all our guesses around the world and ourselves) which pretty much hide entirely the probabilistic foundation (perhaps due to limits in cognition & memory degradation). Guessing that something is "a red car turning left" is a hell of a lot more complicated than guessing whether a singular line is at a 45-degree angle. For the latter maybe we can tap into neuronal activity almost 1-to-1, for the former you have to add estimators around red, car, turning, left, and language assumptions.
Which is why, like most things posted on that subreddit (and online communities in general) should be approached with a bunch of skepticism.

The post reeks of "yeah, that happened" vibes.
Yeah, fight with whatever tool you have including going negative.

I don’t for a second think Google would hold back if their own behemoth was in under mortal threat and their main competitor had been found guilty of illegal acts.

The invisible hand of the market (fwiw) relies on free flow of information. Educating the public about Google’s illegal acts is an act of service, though self serving.
Have a look at https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/1password for a list.
> Also transmitting PII data unencrypted to GA us (but GA does forbid that in their TOS as well).

There is a BIG issue here which is usually splitting hairs, but in this case is super-relevant.

Google's TOS forbids storing PII. GDPR forbids transferring Personal Data (PD). These are nowhere near the same thing. Pseudonymous identifiers are not PII, but are often PD.

Google Analytics requires a pseudonymous identifier to work (the "client ID," by default randomly generated value stored in a cookie). This may on its own constitute a GDPR violation, despite not counting as PII for Google's ToS or any other American law.
How thoroughly has Halloween candy permeated British society as a replacement?
Even the quote on their homepage is made me roll my eyes

> PostHog is what I always wanted a Product Analytics SaaS to be. Private cloud option so GDPR becomes way more manageable, features built based on direct community feedback, focus on simplicity and usefulness over vanity features...Great job people!

Mmm I dream of [Private cloud options] to make [needlessly complicated government legislation] easy!

Yay privacy, I guess? Just add 3 more needlessly complicated middlemen.
That's right! Because there are just 1 or maybe 2 steps from Scientific American publishing a godawful article about Wilson & refusing to print a rebuttal (+), to peole being actually beaten to death. We need to take action, right now.

(+) and let's not overlook that UPenn is actively considering changing tenure rules just because a poor law professor made some actually racist remarks. Labor camps could be here by 2023!
>The initiative being rolled out by the NCA to over 2,000 primary and secondary schools in the UK, ahead of going live at further schools and colleges across the country, will see students who search for terms associated with cybercrime greeted with an access denied "block page."

Because telling adolescents that they aren't allowed to learn about something has an astounding success rate.
I always use Bitwarden as my password manager, it didn't let me down.
No, guns are more expensive, but they are reusable. You can fire north of 10000 rounds with a gun. The individual rounds are very cheap in the dollar range.

A drone that carries and explosive and meets another drone and blows up is quite an expensive solution. You'd prefer a gun any day.