skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although with how crazy the real estate was getting in Hong Kong, I remember each visit that it seemed like each mall was slowly turning into the same chains and whatnot in every one.

That's just normal for the rest of China as well. HK still has much more retail diversity than say Shenzhen, but the gap is closing quickly.
I wonder how much of an impact the printing of additional money to fund this experiment had on inflation.
Just note that for now, most of those bridges are custodian. AFAIK at the moment the only trustless one is RenBTC. The more popular WBTC and others are essentially just some trusted entity issuing IOUs when you give them your BTC.
Well, as they say, "past performance is no guarantee of future returns".
> The thing I'm trying to address is your claim that it's just fine and dandy for them to redirect all the money to charities because that's equivalent to what the original organizers were going to do anyway. It's not.

Not just any charities, charities that were going to be chosen by the organizers, which is in line with the agreement the organizers accepted. I honestly don't understand how you can believe something nefarious was going on when they were following the agreement that was made with the organizers.

> It's so obviously not appropriate that GFM immediately realized they could never get away with that and changed their minds and decided to refund all of the money instead. So I don't know why you're even bothering to defend their original plan.

That's one interpretation. A much simpler interpretation is that they realized it's 100x easier to just refund the money instead of having to vet every charity chosen by the organizers to make sure the money wasn't being embezzled or used for actual nefarious purposes. Go head and look into the organizers of this protest. They're overt white supremacists.
We have to give them something for CSAM, or they'll keep coming at free speech in general using CSAM as cover.

I strongly recommend considering the invention of a sticky, client-side program that scans all images passing through your network interfaces. It is also allowed to send red flagged images to a jury that will be a first hurdle to doing anything: determining it's really a CSAM matter.

I've proposed this before, and got shouted down. Partly because its client side and can be theoretically disabled. But I think it can be made as difficult as black box baseband firmware to undermine. I do not believe the argument that consumers are sophisticated enough to disable this scan, if implemented well. We have demonstrated the ability to force-run processes at every level of abstraction for general compute hardware.

Our best hope is to implement something that has a reasonable chance of catching actual CSAM without generating false positives and without being exploited to prosecute people deemed problematic for arbitrary reasons. Otherwise we get what is probably happening now, which is the secretive scanning of all messages, prosecution limited only by the cost of parallel construction.
I live in Ottawa. This is not simply unpleasant noise that the residents downtown are being forced to live through. This is a large number of transport trucks and various general trucks blowing their horns throughout the day and night. There are multiple trucks driving around with train horns which are extremely loud. A lawsuit has been filed against this tactic being used by the protesters (https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/class-action-suit-...)

Nor is it limited to auditory harassment. Some examples:
- Convoy protesters harass local shelter for free food. It's not that big a stretch to characterize this as stealing from the homeless since that's specifically who the food is meant for.
https://twitter.com/sghottawa/status/1487854425368633344

- Rocks thrown at ambulance as well as anti-asian slurs towards the paramedic
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/rocks-hurled-at-ottawa...

- Protester dances atop national monument "Tomb of the Fallen Soldier"
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/police-look-to-identify-suspect-in...
Explanation for the monument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tomb_of_the_Unknown_S...

Protesters refusing to wear masks within hotels and subjecting employees of said hotels who have given no consent to this behaviour
- https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-polic...

Protesters flying Nazi flags
- https://twitter.com/yonifreedhoff/status/1487517973422223374...

Downtown mall forced to close as protesters enter and refuse to wear masks
- https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/rideau-centre-clos...

I personally know people who have been verbally intimidated for wearing a mask, one who was screamed at and pushed to the ground for wearing a mask, and another who was threatened with rape as she walked into her place of work.

A number of businesses have closed for the weekend due to safety concerns and have subsequently been brigaded with negative comment and reviews on their google listings.

Of course, you can make the claim that the participants are not actually protesters but could be false flag, paid actors, antifa or whatever. I personally think that's reaching. I've lived here for many years, seeing many large protests come and go, and I've never seen such an influx of hateful incidents.

I fully agree with their right to protest and sympathize with some of their complaints but these tactics are in no way acceptable or peaceful. People need rest and these protesters are denying this to a huge amount of people. People should feel safe walking through the streets of their city and people absolutely do not feel safe walking close to the protests because of the many examples of harassment.

Apologies for the length of the reply but, as you can imagine, it's very disappointing to see these events minimized.

Edit: Fireworks now being launched from a downtown street with many residential buildings close by
https://twitter.com/berkley33/status/1490136109061484545
Are We About to Witness a Super-Massive Black Hole Merger?
First rule of Begich Towers is... we don't talk about March 2007...
as much as the MBA is maligned in tech/startup circles, ~90% of startup "learnings" is taught in business school, mostly in marketing classes, because business is mostly marketing (and the 4 P's are the pillars of marketing).
Nobody said anything about above the government..

If my city sets up a school board, that isn't a replacement government or above the power of the government.

Governments delegate power to panels and empowers them to make decisions on their behalf every day.

Asking a government to set up a group to make decisions is not Revolution
But children are at very low risk of getting sick from covid19. According to David Zweig, a mainstream journalist, writing on Bari Weiss's substack, the risk of getting the virus in the <20 population is much smaller than the risk of myocarditis from the vaccine.
I may have misspoke when I said "bad" flu-like symptoms: they were on par with symptoms from the flu, not relatively worse (although, unpleasant), and they were all expected side effects and began the night I got the vaccine. The several months of lethargy accompanied with random pains was the unexpected part.

I was quarantining at the time and hadn't gone anywhere except the place where I got the vaccine. It would be ironic if I wound up getting COVID there, which lengthened and intensified my side effects. I hadn't considered that before.
Getting the flu shot one year can have negative net efficacy in the following year[1]. Its not necessarily going to be more shots == better for Covid shots either.

1) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/02/studies-...
If you made a list off the lunatic safetyism that kids have to put up with these days, I don’t think wearing masks would even make the short list. There’s a lot.
Astronomers Find First Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
> home cable+internet providers. They seem to have gotten the message and cleaned up thier acts.

By blocking outbound connection to port 25 outright. I don't want my VPS hosting company to "clean up" this way.
I guess the effectiveness is related to an individual's overall online habits and interests and I would be quite surprised if it did "not work at all" at scale. Besides, if it did not work they would know by now...

For example, maybe you do not browse a lot before spending money because you know what you want more or less?

I have the habit of clearing my browsing data often, all the tracking options in my Google account are off, and the ads I get seem pretty generic in general, but I sure get ads related to my Google searches if there is something concrete to purchase, like hardware parts.
> Coding, on the other hand, is basically just English

This is not a very meaningful or accurate statement. Perhaps one can better rephrase it as "coding is just logical reasoning", and it might turn out that exposing kids to coding does a better job of teaching logical reasoning than, e.g. the existing math curriculum.
Yes. Brands, third parties, google, etc have all ran incremental sales lift tests, brand lift studies, customer lifetime value tests, etc and determined how successful tactics are and moved budget accordingly. There is a reason google/etc are worth billions.

I’ve posted this comment before, but:

1. It’s hard to tell when someone has bought a product. You buy it at a reseller and the brand will never know. Or you buy it on mobile, but have researched the brand on desktop. Or you purchased it at work, but were researching it at home. Advertisers suppress known buyers but they don’t perfectly match you to all of your devices.

2. Just like there are not so good developers and not so good code, there are not so good marketers who aren’t that great at their job. Or they have too much work and didn’t set it up correctly. DSPs are extremely extremely complicated, so it’s to make mistakes.

3. Retention and advertising to previous purchasers drives more additional purchases. Maybe you only purchased blinds for the main floor of your house but not the basement.
As well as bitcoin not being practically fungible as others have pointed out, traceability is actually a big part of that.

Bills are not traceable like bitcoin is. They have a serial number so they are identifiable, but only at the point you receive it so not very traceable and in practice impractical to identify in most cases. You can bet if the feds could feasibly blacklist bills that were stolen from a bank or held by a cartel or terrorist group, they would. But they can't. This non-traceability and difficulty to identify is what underpins their fungibility. Bitcoin's traceability is what causes its non-fungibility.

Bills are not traceable like bitcoin is.
It's invisible on Gmail at least. When you paste it to non-email situations it's not got the same formatting I assume.
Sure, I've definitely bought stuff before from targeted ads.
Of course an article saying Rogan himself decided to take the episodes down generates no comments here, while yesterday's article first reporting the take down attracted hundred of conspiratorial and reactionary comments claiming corporate or government censorship.
You probably pasted it as plain text, which indeed breaks it. If you paste it as rich text or HTML it will be invisible.
...for certain relative values of "already"...
Checkout https://kinopio.club a flexible graph based browser tool which supports mindmap, bookmark, image, link, notes etc. Personally I like it a lot.
Anti mandate movements in general have something closer to what you said, but everyone I know that isn't right wing is embarrassed or angry at the convoy, even those who don't like mandates.
> there was this common saying:

> "If the first version of your shell script is more than five lines long, you should have written it in Python."

Seriously, these kind of "common knowledge", "universal truth in a sentence" sayings are often the mark of wannabe guru mid career engineers that have no clue what they are talking about.
I have worked on technology related to the proximity sensors on phones (the thing that’s supposed to detect when your phone is at your ear while on a call) and have known people who have worked on several proximity sensors on several different phones and other devices.

These are generally simple sensors but they are sort of hard to quality control in the factory and tuning them generally takes some significant amount of work.

The problem for phones without a “notch” like what the iPhone does is that the OEMs tried to put the proximity sensor below the screen. It generally works - but the problem is that the IR pulses emitted by the sensor excite the display and will turn on pixels and create a grey or white spot over the sensor. Product managers later decided that they don’t like this spot, so engineers had to put in all sorts of software mitigation, mostly involving turning off the sensors and making them less sensitive.

An expensive phone generally has a larger team of engineers who will tune these sensors, work on the factory quality control problems and generally make things reliable. Apple, with their strong engineering culture has generally refused to deal with the white dot on screen thing entirely by putting the sensor on the notch.

Unfortunately with lower end phones, you can’t get the same quality that you will get with a $800 phone. There are people who work really really hard to make things better, but its mostly underfunded engineering teams trying to fix problems in software that honestly should be fixed in the sensor hardware by the vendors.
Reminds me of that Nathan For You episode where he created a way for party planners to “accidentally” get invitations lost in spam:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9KeopXHcf8

EDIT: As elektor pointed out, this was already mentioned in the footnote on the site. :-)
Yeah, I've not been to the mainland so I can't say much about that part.

At least in HK it's particularly bad in the new town areas like Tsueng Kwan O and Ma On Shan, since there isn't really much traditional non-mall retail to begin with in those areas.
Yet to experience proper work life, but really enjoyed Brook's The Mythical Man-Month
Confession. This vaguely reminded me of something (now admittedly, terrible) I did way back in highschool to give myself a bit more time on an assignment: submit a corrupted docx by putting in some random bytes in the file.

This would give you time until the teacher would get to grading (and opening) the file at which point you’d hopefully have finished.

Learning not to procrastinate as much turned out to be the better life skill.
The Azure Portal. Every tab I have open eventually uses upwards of 500 mb of memory, and the crazy blade interface makes navigation treacherous.
> By definition, this is forced. Force means to make someone do something against their will.

Yes, but they aren't required to get the vaccine against their will. They have the choice to quit. That's what makes it a choice. If they had no choice to quit, then you would be correct.

> In this case the choice is be fired or take the vaccine.

Exactly.

> They obviously don't want to be fired, so they are being forced to take the vaccine.

Some choices are hard. That's life. As you wrote in the previous sentence, it is a choice.

> Yes, it isn't physical force, but it is forced none the less

No more forced than any other condition of employment.
Usb-c stick
I'm curious -- since monetization depends on ads, and youtubers also derive income from sponsored segments, doesn't a blocker deprive them of income? Or is the blocker undetected?
Interesting thought. I also love most of the devices I've shelled out "big bucks" for -- similarly, I'd never even think of subscribing to bike or scooter rentals in my city because I like riding my own bike so much. This is a great "gotcha" to consider with subscription models.
Monero isn't designed to be deflationary. This makes it better for real world use but worse for speculation.
That’s a true fact but why does it make traditional policing impossible?
HTML - The language that lets you do everything except markup hypertext documents.

Seriously, why can't you add a markup layer to a hypertext document without copying it and embedding said markup? This exposes you to the dangers of copyright law, and the trolls that exploit it.

Talk about false advertising.
Unless you're specifically paying someone to engage in arson and murder, which isn't the case, it's not illegal. Funding terrorists is illegal in a way that funding someone who happens to be a felon isn't.
I've heard not having enough CSF is supposed to be one of the most painful headaches there are. How bad was it?
“Software Engineering at Google” has been eye opening for me. It hits what you are looking for in its first chapter and then goes into details of different aspects in later chapters.

https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
If you look down at the footnotes of the OP submission, that’s exactly the episode that inspired this idea.
These companies are providing critical infrastructure. If I run a business that's dependent on the phone lines and they cut me off, I'm entitled to a hell of a lot more than the monthly fee for my line. There's many businesses that are solely reliant on Facebook to earn a living. Should Facebook own them?
I think by "invisible message" they mean it's invisible to the receiver because it's in their spam folder. I also thought this was a way to send a normal email to the spam folder, but looks like it is assuming the spam filter removes the email based on content. I wonder if there is a way to use this method with a tracker pixel, so that it gets filtered out because of the content, but the reader can't see it.

edit: I tried it in gmail and it was invisible.
> The rule about kids not playing with toys in hallways seems a bit authoritarian but was probably prompted by parents not sufficiently supervising their kids and toys getting left around and stepped/tripped on.

When I was a little kid growing up in Whittier, my neighbor across the hall would come out and scream and threaten us for playing there. He'd yell, "You don't live on this floor!" to my friends. It was winter outside, and dark and snowy, so there was really no other common area we could play in. I remember getting a big slot-car race track for xmas and setting it up in the common laundry room so we could play without getting in trouble.
You're exactly wrong.

The Constitution Of the United States, which I believe in unswervingly-- was written at a time when privacy was the DEFAULT. Any person could walk into any building or any field and speak, anonymously to another person. It cost quite a bit to spy on someone and that was a natural limit to how much spying could be done.

The argument from the other side is always-- the framers didn't imagine a world where everyone is carrying around a device that spies on them and they didn't happen to imagine a dystopian future where people are paying corporations to spy on them with unimaginable devices, so, we should be allowed to do that.

Politely, fudge that.
I'm in the exact same position. I wish they posted more regular updates... I am not very confident this service will be around in 5 years as a result.
> Needless to say, I opted not to get a booster.

You're lucky if opting out is a practical choice for you. For a lot of people now, opting out means being expelled from your school or fired from your job.
I made an HUGE edit to my running but I lost it:

I was running 5 miles early AM, Lunch then Dinner... I did a 5 mile loop 3 times a day...

It was during the downturn, and I was at home 18 months playing games, traveling, and running... I was 25 years old, had been working as an IT manager in SV for ~6 years at that point.

(started at 17 at an Architecture firm as a drafter, and worked up from there)

--

I had a party that summer of ~2001/2002 (cant recall if 911 was before or not - but 75 people came to the BBQ... like 15 had jobs... (ALL devs and Tech (some jobs that dont really exist anymore (SGI Devs, MIPS procs devs, SUNSPARC/SUN devs... A lot of hardware people)
Lets say I wanted to be employable-- what would I study?
I got dogpiled on here a couple weeks ago for the temerity to suggest that "spam" is, by definition, unsolicited. Unreasonable people like this put companies in no-win situations.
It has to be capitalized. 1.5MM is 1.5 million. 1.5mm is 1.5 millimeters.
OK I should have changed 'some politicians' to 'most of those politicians proposing this law'
Alright, it turns out that you're missing out. You're just dead wrong. I know this because I used to feel the exact same way. Many tomatos are garbage. Mealy, yet also slimy, and no flavor except for an acidic aftertaste so you don't forget it too soon.

As it turns out though not all tomatos are created equal. Your grocery store is going to have a hard time having good ones, my understanding is that breeding pressures have selected for prettier but not tastier varieties. You will likely only find a tomato worth eating in a friends garden or in a farmers market. There is a huge variety out there, if you get curious I'd recommend just picking a couple at random, maybe one that has "beef streak" in the name. I personally enjoy these little dark ones called "black krim" because they are delicious and the name sounds like drugs in a sci-fi setting or currency in an illegal underground bazaar in a fantasy setting.

The way you eat them is to slice and salt. Or, take a portion of burrata, place in a bowl with slices/chunks of tomato, add olive oil and liberally sprinkle with salt, then eat. Or, I guess other ways too. The point is that tomatos can be authentically good.
Tldr anyone? I’m afraid I’m not even nearly smart enough for the abstract..
Sites hosted behind Tor do not reveal your external IP address.
You're still not going to get a year of battery life.
Two techniques I’ve found that are helpful…

1. Make sure to find a launch customer. It’s easy to get stuck in endless trade studies without a real customer. Real customers bring real constraints that make decisions easier.

2. Focus on improving upon the baseline rather than achieving perfection. It’s still important to ask if the improvement is big enough to warrant the investment, but don’t get trapped into rejecting better solutions simply because they aren’t perfect solutions.
I have never listened to Rogan until a few days ago when this whole Spotify controversy popped up on my radar. Today I listened to an interview with a former Navy SEAL that had nothing to do with controversial issues, vaccines, etc. It was an interesting conversation about life, about learning to deal with balancing family and work (especially when your line of work involved heavy travel and military engagement in foreign lands). Didn't seem "alex jones"-like at all. Maybe best to just pick and choose which topics interest you, and ignore the controversies?
Isn't it exactly that then? You were shoved into a snowbank once and put this forward as an example of people not being peaceful.

Unsuspecting and uninvolved people are being shoved by protesters. Therefore, this is not a peaceful protest.
I read it in a a private tab in Firefox on Android, works a treat, no need for extraordinary measures.
That 90% of truckers aren't the ones in the convoy. Many of them are quite embarrassed at it.
They have that power specifically people people outsource vetting of whether someone's worth dealing with.

People outsource that vetting? What choice did those people have?

If there is a small cabal of tech giants dominating email distribution, and a user's choices are between some of those giants that are essentially as bad as each other and some smaller competitors that might be better in terms of delivering incoming mail reliably but are frozen out by the cabal in terms of delivering outgoing mail reliably instead, there is no meaningful choice or consent about having this filtering done to their incoming mail. It is a situation imposed upon them by the tech firms.