skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read conflicting accounts around this. Some link "time outdoors" to exposure to "natural" light, which 99% of the time is brighter light. But others link time outdoors to a wider variety of focal distances. Someone walking in the woods is constantly refocusing from close to far, whereas someone sitting indoors is probably just staring at a fixed distance (computers/books etc). So the answer may be brighter indoor lighting (brighter computer screens) or maybe we need to continuously change our focal distances, something far more complicated to implement indoors.
To someone not in USA, this somehow resembles Second-ammendment type discussions.

We have an apologist for why it shouldn't be so bad. It should be getting better soon. And the law allows it. And please protect yourself.

From elsewhere in the world: it is nowhere near so bad where I am. This is probably something largely unique to USA.
Oh wow, that sounds extremely awful.

My bank kept spamming me multiple times... I didn't know the number and was working on another project.

Later I checked and blocked the number.

Happened a few times, now they seem to have given up.

But that's about the only occasion, apart from useless polls where they first ask me a lot of questions and then at the end, my age... And then tell me they can't use my answers, so just have wasted my time. (Happened once, I refuse to do them nowadays)
A law that says "you are responsible for the business practices of the people you contract to generate leads for you" would be great. But how does the lead-generation ecosystem work? I'm imagining some sort of open lead-generation system, where the legitimate company doesn't have an ongoing relationship with the spammers, but is willing to pay out if they show up with bunch of leads.

So, I could see a law where we say, "well, if you accept the bundle of leads, you, legitimate company, are responsible for the business practices of the lead-generator."

But would it be possible to launder these things?

Shady company uses illegitimate means to gather leads.

"Sells" only the successful leads to third party that's just popped up for this transaction and, as a result, hasn't really engaged in any practices at all...

I dunno. Seems like a big headache for regulators, although I guess they sort out this kind of stuff all the time (or at least try to).
Website crashes Safari on iPhone while scrolling.
I reverse engineered a sketchy link I got in an SMS. I opened up Tor, then went to a URL
'de-shortener' service. Furthermore, I saw an interstitial page with a JavaScript payload in it, and it was all obfuscated and obviously coded to hide what it was doing.

I could have gone further and unpacked the code, beautifying it to see what 0 day it was leveraging, but I didn't proceed further. Obviously, this was designed to take over my device. Luckily, my default browser is Firefox with JavaScript turned off, so it wouldn't have been able to execute if I did click on the link.
Does anyone know why the author renamed the website? Well, I guess because they are now preferring to use the term "deceptive design", which is new to me... So anyone know why the author suddenly switched terms?

I personally preferred 'dark patterns'.
If they work in a firm that's all taken care of.
DeFi Project Beanstalk Loses $182M in Flash Loan Attack
Alternatively Apple is not standards compliant. Or it could just be a bug in their driver or controller. Not sure why it makes more sense to assume Apple is doing it right and everyone else wrong.
This person seems to have some sort of problem or emptiness that they are trying to fill with media. I wonder if they could sit in silence with their own thoughts for 30 minutes without losing their mind.
Indeed, that particular implementation is very fast. One of the goals of the C++ language is to leave no space for a lower level language than C++. A motivated person could just re-implement those algorithms in C++, in the absolute worst case using inline Assembly and at the very worst exactly match their performance. One of the nice things about Julia is you get good performance without going through a huge amount of effort. However you could always do as good or better in C++(with maybe more effort).
If started at 16 young people would be much better voters at 18 than current 18 year old voters are and so on. There are examples of uninformed voters at all age groups (voting across party lines is one example). Young people should have a chance to participate in our democracy and should be able to vote, if not in general, at least in municipal elections.
spammers strip the + and some websites refuse them. I switched to other symbols on my own server to go around that.
Protecting drivers from predatory companies like Uber is a good thing
Old Playstation forces evacuation of Boston airport terminal
What I mean is, if they want to sell you a service (as BS as it is) they have a legal entity in the US
I for one am excited to see Jones get his reckoning. Not for his theories, but for his blatant extortion of people's fears and miseries for his own personal gain. He is an aweful human being
I wouldn't be shocked if at some point we end up with a small number of large ecosystems overlaying the Internet which largely solve the underlying problem. You might be in Apple's ecosystem, and everything you do filters through that -- your voice communication, email, instant message, etc. Or you can have the Google equivalent. Or some other very large provider. They will agree to some kind of interoperability at their interface points, and then all the individuals and tiny Internet participants will be pushed into irrelevancy because they have no way to communicate. If there are enough, maybe they get together and build another ecosystem so they have enough clout to negotiate access to the others.

It's possible we'll figure out how to keep our idealized anyone-can-get-on-it Internet, but I'm not counting on it.
Does this include catch-all / unlimited aliases?
Evolving Cumulative Layout Shift in web tooling
Potentially, but then there would be the paper trail to show conspiracy, etc if a company made false leads to their competitors.

This may also be a choice of whether I want to get 35 calls a day from spammers or assassinate all shady car warranty companies. The companies are already shitty as they allow these spam-generated leads, so I don’t have much sympathy for their continued existence.
Pretty much every other CHM viewer than the original one has multiple issues displaying CHM files properly or at all.

Even Free Pascal and Lazarus that use their own tools to both produce and view CHM files (Lazarus has its own cross-platform CHM implementation) have their own CHM files working better with the Microsoft CHM viewer than their own viewer.
I absolutely agree with the premise but for the same reason it's a valuable skill it's also really hard to time box. I'm assuming you picked this particular task but you had already scoped it out and knew memcached didn't have any particular bear traps that a decent programmer would step in and lose 2 days?
There are degrees to it. Slices of all mortgages are less risky than a single mortgage. Slices of all tech stocks are less risky than individual tech stocks. Slices of all American stocks is less risky than slices of one industry in America. And slices of all equities trades across the world is less risky than slices of America

Bet on humanity :)
More like I'm not really interested in hearing another quack talk about their opinion as though it were fact, chipping away at my very limited time.
They haven't published an explicit list of the rejected books but unless I'm mistaken we can figure that out from the difference of these two lists.
"Texas had a population in 2017 of 28.32 million. On a per capita basis then, the percent of people leaving Texas was 0.016. California lost just over 661,000 people to domestic migration in the 12 months ended in July 2017. Given California’s population in 2017 of 39.4 million, the per capita basis of people leaving California was 0.016, approximately the same rate as in Texas."

https://drgregmaguire.org/2020/02/06/why-are-so-many-people-...
Why are so many afraid of "negative energy"? Let the man be weird. He doesn't exist to serve your opinion. Open your mind, dude
Try sending someone money in the US.
Yeah, exactly--I spent some time thinking before asking the question, and that was about all I could come up with, too. And that felt so obviously silly that that can't be it, right?
Same. I lived in Chicago and NYC before living in Seattle for a couple years and found the weather to be gorgeous almost year round. Weather-wise it was significantly better than both.

Lots of sun and plenty clear days and so much to do and see when the weather was right. When it did rain it was just a little mist or the occasional drizzle.

What's funny is that every time I see Seattle in a movie or tv show, it's constantly pouring. Weather I've almost never seen there for longer than a couple hours.
It's the credit reporting agencies. They already have your SSN/TIN, and use it to identify you in their database.
Why did they have to add the super slow scroll lag? That ruined the whole site.
A thousand paper cuts. For one, if I click on any of the text, anywhere, it takes me out of context to somewhere else. Another: It can use up to ~20% of my screen space to show content I care about. Most of the rest goes to menus and trending nonsense.
How (and how much) are these spammers profiting?

I'd expect that with time the cost/risk would increase as governments and infrastructure providers intervene and the reward would decrease and people wise up to spam/scams. But the problem just keeps getting worse.

Is the decreasing in technological cost/difficulty just out-pacing the decreasing ROI?
The difference is that I have no control what Russia does with my information but I have some control over what my country is doing with it.
Texas has wanted to secede far before Russian influence was a thing. Similar movements are present in California (mainly to split it rather than secede, but same mechanics)
Not just the Pixel, I have that on a a couple other brands too.
One should never stop pointing out egregiously bad things. If you stop complaining about something you start accepting it, and eventually it becomes one of those extremely stupid things everyone just takes for granted.
True, but what's needed is not to make the calls illegal but to compel the carriers to make changes.
He used the term not in reference to the actual balkan geographical area.

In the real world there are world powers that benefit from a unified Europe with strong central authority and those that don't. Brexit serves the interests of the later. Scottish independence would further those interests still.

Catalan independence weakens Spain and by extension NATO.

This is not a statement on the morality of such movements or whether they might be a good idea in the narrow sense for Scots, Catalans, the people of Flanders and so forth. Rather it is a look at the larger map and unintended consequences.

Finally, as to what is actually happening in the Balkans - the state of affairs between Kosovo and Albania (ironically they might form a union) and Bosnia is.. not fantastic to say the least.

Sadly memories are short and attitudes are cavalier.
the means advocated for here seem kind of strange though. He correctly points out that the biggest advantage social media incumbents have is their users data and network effects.

His "comcom" methodology consisting of "reverse engineering, scraping, bots, and other improvisational techniques", is not exactly something I want near my personal information because unlikely the old days you're not reverse engineering hardware schematics, you'd be scraping people's private information.
This is on full display in Canada today.
Mercury Thrusters: A Worldwide Disaster Averted Just in Time
>It does keep a log… of caller IDs. The problem isn’t the volume of data, it is that the system isn’t setup to authenticate callers so you can’t tie a spam call to any persistent identity to block

Except the system is set up to authenticate callers[0] and that's been in place (at least in the US) for almost a year.

That it hasn't been as effective as it should be is another issue, but the technology exists and is (or should be) in place as specified by the law.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication
Honestly I feel like the failing is one of media literacy and critical thinking, as opposed to trust in institutions, as you propose. On the side of the media, it's a sortof cynical appraisal of their readers/viewers ("It's too complicated").

Take the Hunter Biden laptop thing, for example. I don't know too much about it, but my understanding is that it revealed nepotism/influence peddling, which I totally agree should be prohibited. I mean most people are in favor of preventing members of Congress from trading stocks, for example. It's something pretty much all of us can agree on.

But instead of the story of the laptop being used as a jumping off point to talk about these issues, the news organizations decided to squash the story, thinking its readers/viewers were not sophisticated enough to be able to digest it, and that it would simply be used as a weapon by the Republicans (sad to say with, I agree).

Personally I feel like they should have fully covered the story. I also believe that Trump would have been re-elected, and that this would have been a bad thing for the entire world. Squashing the story might have led to a short-term win, but maybe perpetuate the problem longer.

I really hope things turn around. I want to have hope for the future. It's pretty hard though, I don't have much trust that we are up to the challenge.
So I need to pack up and move my entire family history across the US because some Bozo got 54% of the vote?

Ridiculous
Ask HN: What's a good platform for engaging with an audience/community?
With all the constructive feedback I've been getting from you folks lately, I'm starting to build some confidence in my own abilities while learning about the things that I may not be so good at [1]. Specifically, other than the writing that I will be posting on my personal website, I think I will very much enjoy building a community around my work, where I will get to engage regularly with like-minded people, exchange advice and perspectives, maybe do some AMAs etc.

So the question is, what's a good platform for engaging with an audience/community?

Right now I'm thinking Discord as my primary choice, as it's very low-barrier and super chill, and it doesn't place too much pressure on me to have to continually produce content (I work slowly). I can just take in people's comments and stories and rants etc etc and offer my take on it all. It'll also be nice to see the whole community in one place! (In fact I've already set one up if anyone's interested! [2]).

I'm also curious about using Twitch for live-streams. The people I know in real life seem to like my positive-presence, so maybe this is a good place to show my face and be more friendly and personal. But I've never used Twitch ever (aside from seeing them on youtube), so I'm completely unfamiliar with how to set things up there, how much learning curve there is (eg do I need to edit videos?), whether the audience expect regular content, what types of features are available, etc.. If anyone's familiar with this I'd love to hear all about it!

Other options include Substack/newsletters, but these aren't so interactive, and definitely puts pressure on me having to produce often. Then there's Youtube in general, which is an interesting place to upload more cleaned up material (eg a video essay), but I'm also worried about it taking more work as I'm not a video-maker.

Anyway, would love to get some feedback from you awesome smart people!!

Thank you so much in advance!

Sam

[1]: Just last night I posted a thread about giving people advice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065876), but after trying to help several people, I realized I'm not very good at giving people specific advice tailored to their unique situations (even though I would love to!). I'm much better at sharing general/philosophical advice or insights from observing general phenomena -- hence why I have enjoyed writing so far. Sorry folks!

[2]: Discord invite link! https://discord.gg/ZZN3v7Usdx
>> Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race.

I'm reminded of this aphorism: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.".

Similarly, while cops might arrest/stop the people they see breaking the law, if they're disproportionately patrolling minority-majority neighborhoods there will be an unequal effect.
If the feature is there, it's better hidden than others. Some time ago when I was shopping for a TV, it looked like every brand's demo mode hurt my eyes (Samsung was the worst but not only one). On Sony I was able to find the "Cinema Pro" mode that looks quite nice under a minute. And no, I couldn't figure out how to disable microphone or SambaTV so the Sony will never be connected to Internet.
I'm guessing people who pay for a gym subscription but don't use it are similar to people who smoke but intend to quit some time very soon?
>I'm inclined to believe Florida until shown otherwise.

That Florida made the active decision to not release the names of the books is a bit strange, don't you think?

Seems like an open government would want to provide their citizens with the details of their decisions instead of hiding it.
It's a technical field of legal scholarship that isn't taught outside of law school. It's not designed for "the citizenry," but it's been scapegoated and demonized by folks on the right. That they never define what it is should be a red flag for any critical thinker. The easiest boogeyman to construct is completely amorphous. It requires zero evidence, just a constant onslaught of fearmongering.
I went to UW, and lived in Seattle for 6 years. It was miserable. The city's natural surroundings are gorgeous, but it's always cold and damp so you can't really enjoy it (unless you particularly like that kind of weather).

For about a year there was a fantastic hiking trail that started about 50 feet off my front yard. I think I walked it once...

Like you, I moved to California. Night and day difference.
> they have a less corrupt government than the other

Yeah, sure.

"In July 2014, Jordi Pujol confessed that for 34 years, including 23 as the President of Catalonia, he had maintained secret foreign bank accounts inherited from his father".

"His children have amassed a fortune in private businesses that frequently did business and received contracts from the Catalan government" (The infamous 3% scandal).

"They have investments in the tens of millions of dollars in Mexico, Panama and Argentina. Financial records show the movement of money between foreign banks in Andorra, Switzerland, Jersey, Cayman Islands and other tax havens in excess of €100 million".

He and his seven children face charges for illicit association, money laundering, falsification of documents and seven different tax crimes. the prosecutor asks between that could compris between 28 and 7 years of jail. The wife has been recorded laundering money but has been exonerated by her problems of health.

Totally not a godfather figure, for sure.
>The sender has to pay for return postage, so that will get you dropped off their lists right quick.

Actually, returning an unopened USPS-shipped letter or package doesn't cost postage at all. They probably removed you since you essentially took the time to communicate that they're not going to succeed with any future mail.
> You keep dancing around my arguments.

No, not really. Feel free to point out exactly which argument you feel was ignored.

> The issue isn't that things have changed; it's that they've changed in a way that makes things confusing for consumers.

That seems to be the source of your confusion: nothing has changed. Each USB spec is backwards compatible and specifies the same data transfer modes.

And there is no confusion: if you pick up a USB2 data storage device you know beforehand it won't support SuperSpeed. If you pick up a USB3.0 device you know beforehand it won't support SuperSpeed+. If you pick up a USB3.1 device you know beforehand it won't support SuperSpeed+ 2x or 4x.

The whole point of the submission is to call out that M1 macs don't support USB3.1 unlike the new Mac Studio.

The article also clearly states that Apple doesn't actually advertise USB3.1, just USB3.
> I would say the public trust is not so much dying as actively being killed.

I feel that we agree aside from semantics. I still would choose dying over killed because it looks like a gradual year over year trend rather than a giant, sudden change.

> Also the word mainstream has lost its meaning.

To be clear, I wanted to differentiate sane & plausible media outlets from the fringe outlets like Infowars or upstarts like The Intercept

> The idea of leaving "mainstream" outlets to seek truth on sites like InfoWars is more about people just wanting to hear their biases and not really interested in news per se.

This was true in decades prior. However, it's starting to snowball with continued polarization of the both left and right, eventually resulting in political moderates being a minority. Isn't it strange that Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone are now covering stories on both COVID-19 and Wall Street? imo it's out of necessity because the media outlets, who traditionally cover these topics, refuse to cover the stories with the same depth.
To me it's daemon as in encyclopaedia, or paediatric
A lot of my old colleagues actually balked at the thought of creating a report, preferring mostly to be told what to do, or doing it their own way. Actually justifying their arguments in writing with cons and pros was a no-go.

These days, as I'm working as a freelancer, I try to get much of my thinking in writing. These makes sharing information a bliss as I have a trove of documentation to support whatever discussion we're having
The only non-work communication channel I use that has a better than 50% SNR is WhatsApp. And that's been getting worse lately—I think I've had about ten spam messages on that in years and years of use, and all but one's been in the last ~3 weeks.

Mail? Probably 90+% ads. Email? Hahaha, I only even bother to check it anymore when I know a messages is coming in, and that's usually from a machine. Phone? Ignore-if-not-in-contacts, probably 2x as many spam calls as real calls in a week. Text might be close to 50% but only because transactional texts (lazy 2FA implementations and prescription pick-up reminders, mostly) count as signal.
Catalan is spoken by 9.2 million people in Spain, Andorra, France, Italy (one town in Sardinia).
SMTP isn't authenticated either, and is by many measures way looser than the telephone system (which was built around managing physical wires for almost a century), and yet spam filtering has gotten pretty good?
I read through the sample, thank you for referring it to me. I am somewhat familiar with keto/low-carb diets.

In reviewing Gary’s work, I did come across the study he did under Nutrition Science Initiative, and how the results didn’t support his claims. Have you had a chance to look into this?

(Aside: my dad is around your age, and has not yet quit smoking despite science since he doesn’t have any adverse effects. Be well!)