skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert in this, but I think that it basically starts with the political concept of legitimacy [0] - government, with the consent of the governed - which leads to the monopolisation of force (police, army etc), which provides a concrete means of enforcement for the collective belief of "property".

That is, the reason that you can call the cops when strangers take over your kitchen is because we have a very real police force, whose are permitted (even required) to use force in order to protect your property. Property may have started out as a collective belief, but the processes put in place over the last few centuries - especially the concept of Rule of Law [3] - have made it very real.

But ISTM that crypto works outside of these norms. From what I can see, it has no effective rule of law; no possibility for the creation of an effective enforcement body. There appear to be no consistently applied consequences of cheating, either intentional (eg, rug-pulls) or not. People seem to steal money using crypto scams all the time [1]; from what I've seen of it, the world of crypto seems to pretty much embody my personal, nightmare interpretation of anarcho-capitalism [2].

So while I agree that property is a collective belief in theory, in practice it has the rule of law, the legitimacy of the state, and the monopolisation of force supporting it. Crypto seems to have none of these things supporting it; I'm yet to be convinced that it is even, actually, property.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political)

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
> The Mozilla focus on privacy

Ah, that explains the telemetry and experiemnts that are enabled by default without explicit user consent.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

So far they are being transparent. If you were a DDG user, you should keep supporting them for now and see where it takes us. There aren’t many tech companies that are privacy focused. And so far I think it’s in our best interest that privacy first becomes mainstream.
I think there are a few factors, but the biggest one I see is it's now so popular that every large sub has become an echochamber, you cannot disagree with the echochamber.

But, at the same time I think this has always been a problem, even 10 years ago the 'Reddit Hivemind' was a thing people spoke about. It's just worse now (because there are even more people using it, more bots reposting the same clickbait, more conglomeration of a few moderators owning several large subs)
I would say more precisely it was a major variable in our ability to have huge economic growth, huge money printing all while having low inflation and a very low volatility in the amount of inflation. Of course, anything in this domain is going to have many dimensions but exporting our inflation was a major variable.

It is tough being mid 40s and realizing my entire adult life was a golden age that is gone forever.
Business Value, Soccer Canteens, Engineer Retention, and the Bricklayer Fallacy
The problem with using this data is that the data itself is quite raw. You'll have to calculate the routes, potentially merge bus stations/train stations/etc. together for a clean experience and take certain details into account (when you can and can't use international trains for national travels without getting a special ticket, for example: you can often take the ICE to Germany without weird reservations, but don't even try that with the Thalys!).

I'm sure someone knowledgeable in this area will be able to figure that stuff out, but I've been happily using the NS API for my silly side projects because it just kind of works.

The 9292 API was never open as far as I know, though there are several reverse engineered API libraries available for it on Github.
This is more or less the case with most labor and service industry jobs.

If you were to say, "I'll let you out of this concentration camp if a week from now you become a top-1% waiter, a top-1% bus-boy, a top-1% heavy thing mover", etc then at least half of all (healthy) people could do it.

As a result the work is commoditized, doesn't pay much, and doesn't come with much social respect.

Employers hire agencies to hire laborers to fill quotas. They don't much care whom they're hiring as long as they show up on time, sober, and don't cause trouble while working. The employee's thoughts on process optimization are to be kept to themselves.
Why is this an inevitability? I'm almost 50 and I have every such notebook I've ever had since I was ~12. After approximately 20 moves. Know what I don't have? Most of my digital files going back that far.

Who steals people's used notebooks? Or new ones?
> light is apparently racist for not reflecting equally off of different skin colors.

Excuse me?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197137/amazon-rekogniti...
I was just watching the news and a deafblind medical student was talking about her hope to become a doctor. I was inspired by her spirit but wondered how this would work in practical terms. There seems to be a cultural shift towards supporting the hopes and dreams of individuals and a fear of causing offence.If anyone has a framework for how they think through this issue I would love to hear it?
You what I would practically kill for? Continuous monitoring of blood cholesterol. Then I could do experiments with diet, exercise, etc. Unfortunately I think this has the Theranos "drop-of-blood" problem and you just need a giant blood draw every time.
good call editing out "I'm sorry you feel that way."
Hey Miguel, I got my first web developer job right after reading you Flask Web Development book in the summer of 2015. Thanks!
Would it work for Mac?
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What would that imply actually?
It's kind of interesting that this happens given how relatively old robot vacuums are nowdays. The robot getting wedged into high or low obstacles is a pretty common issue.

The expensive robots added lidar sensors for better navigation, but the basic obstacle sensing mechanisms hasn't really improved: front/side sensor, bumper, + cliff sensors for falling (and these last ones aren't 100% foolproof either).

A front camera doesn't really help these robots IMHO (roomba, cough). Nice gimmick, but unless you reach 99% reliability, you'll still see your robot squishing dog poop, falling, wedging itself into the sofa..

I guess it's a nasty tradeoff between robustness, service lifetime, and cost.

I bought a cleaning robot a year ago (totally recommended btw), and I also went the route to adapt the furniture and placement of things to help the robot.
I think this article is a must read for any and every person who participated in surveillance advertising.

So much of our present internet metaverse is based on these dogmas that any valid challenge to them should be taken seriously. And like many dogmas, people who rely on these as "obvious truths" will be unable to examine them. Read the comments: shoot the messenger, shoot the message and we can't do anything about it anyway.
Imagine you're out in town and your decide to go home, so you start walking to your car. Suddenly a guy comes up and blocks your path while rambling about how he cares about your privacy. He says he won't let you through until you tell him to go away or ask to learn more. By telling him to go away, you just consented to him putting a GPS tracker on your car and looking through your windows at night.

Anyway, GDPR in its current state is broken and needs to be updated.
Sadly, Joplin doesn't support synchronizing files with iCloud, and i'm not about to go out and purchase yet another cloud synchronization option just for notes :)
Isn't housing most people's single biggest outlay?
I don't think it's "this is inevitable" as much as "losing small items like notebooks happens not infrequently to many people and is therefore statistically something to consider as a risk factor".
Or they feel threatened.
you might be on to something
The energy bill difference is probably a lot less than you might think, at least for a lot of people. Anyone running a dehumidifier or air conditioner is going to be paying a large chunk of the cost anyways in recondensing the moisture back out of the air.
On France nobody is checked when they but alcohol. It is off course forbidden but we just trust people.
I wish it wasn't so buggy and glitchy. I tried to use it for notes for a semester and it kind of worked ... With lots and lots of hiccups.
The frontpage is pretty bad. In my experience smaller subreddits are still good quality. There's a reason why people add 'reddit' to their search queries after all.
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Are we doing the job to better our lives, or to earn the money (or other material) to survive?
Admittedly, it can be worse than sitting down and reading the manual front to back, but I did it the hard (or simple) way.

I used the simple template generated during nixos-install and kept adding packages I needed. Configured them manually as usual and went about my business. It works out more often than people would realize. For services, development toolchains etc just google and copy-paste from other people's config. Simply add 'ext:nix' to google query and you should be good.

I'm at almost 3 years, know just enough Nix to write some custom stuff, but nowhere close to the Wizard title. Its not as bad as people make it out.

Remember, your target is not to master it on day 1. Target is to get VLC to play the media file (or some equivalent for you).
Things would look roughly the same or possibly worse.

Some things are just due to luck. That luck would compound over the years, like it already does. All the skill in the world will do you no good if you don't have the resources to capitalize on it.

We would also begin to discriminate on things other than pure skill. Since skill is flat, you could hire based on hair length, whether you like the person, etc.
Nice, will bookmark this. Could you change the reddit-links to point to old.reddit.com instead? Or would this break something else?
I'd guess the places where this is relevant will have plenty of rich-enough people who can self-fund. If if they can't, then the amount is definitely not trivial. $200 that you don't have is still $200 you don't have.
Is this something related to the religious practices or it is just that the store happens to have such process?
But it's kind of a problem that TFA tries to "prove" otherwise without a big disclaimer about the limits of his model in the real world...
For a long time I felt like keeping on top of the laundry was a constant struggle because we would generate a new porch-load of wets almost as fast as it took the load on the porch lines to dry. If we had one or two days of rain, or were too busy to swap the loads, we'd get behind and it would take a few days to catch back up.

Finally I bought more clothesline and doubled the amount of hanging space on the porch. Now we have plenty of margin - but why didn't I try this years ago? The extra hooks were out there the whole time.

At least it only took me a few months with our tiny washing machine to realize that I could collect several wet loads in one laundry basket and hang them all up on the porch in one big batch, instead of waiting for the first load to be hung up before starting the next one in the washer.
Pretty much. You'd use Direnv to support this UX. https://direnv.net/

I think the nice thing about project-specific tooling like this is it allows getting started with the project very easily. (Rather than copy-pasting "apt-get <whatever>").
"literally every other global search engine that wants to offer a search product competitive with Google for mainstream users, needs to bootstrap with one or both of them."

I don't want to read too far into the specific wording, but you mentioned "bootstrap" and this feels like a good opportunity to ask the question. Is DDG planning or thinking about how it might move towards it's own index for general results? I feel like most of the criticism DDG receives these days is because it's backed by another, less privacy concerned, mega-corp. While it may not be something that's feasible today, and not in it's entirety, are there moves being made towards building an independent global web link index?
I have my router hand out NextDNS resolvers per subnet, so that each VLAN uses a different NextDNS configuration. I use the NextDNS CLI[1], so i can take advantage of local DNS caching while at the same time using NextDNS.

[1]: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki
Build robots to do labor since everyone is capable of building robots.
The real question is even higher.
Why should we measure knowledge?

If it's learning for the joy of learning you don't need a test.
If it's to get a piece of paper you need for a job, then schools are just shitty interviews mostly uncorrelated to real world tasks.

I think we should move to learning for the sake of learning (free, open door lessons or pick your own on the internet at your own time - no frontal lessons but still provide a space for students to socialise) and give the chance to students to work on projects that can prove they know something. Workplaces can look at these projects and find someone who fit with them.

You built a robot? I can reasonably expect you to know something about electrical engineering and math.
Minting consists of spending money (hardware, energy, human work...) to obtain some cryptocurrency units, basically the same as buying them from someone and an influx of actual money into the crypto scheme (which might or might not compensate the risk takers as delineated in the article).
Yeah, I don't know why modern UIs are so laggy. I have a 2-year-old Sony TV that keeps freezing (won't even turn off), Netflix UIs have a 1 second lag, etc.

A fucking TV! This is not the future I was promised.
A Beautiful bit of coding.
Primarily being Devil's advocate here, but where exactly was one granted the right to disconnect? All of these tools require you to accept a EULA to use them in the first place (to varying enforceability [1]), so you are opting in to their terms when you start using the device. If you want to opt out or disconnect, stop using it. Likewise, if they change terms, you have to be notified and can stop using it at that time. I don't think the system is great or fair, and it's definitely tipped in favor of the corporations, but the I also don't think it's fair to get mad at a refrigerator for working in a way you don't like after you made the informed decision to buy it. I don't want a wifi refrigerator, so I won't buy one, then I don't want to worry about what data it's collecting about me.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enf...
I just do that manually. Whenever I open one of my notes, I'm immediately greeted with a couple of key bullet points that summarize it, and if I need to dig deeper, all I have to do is scroll further down.
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This was a big part of my start into flask. Great tutorial.
It doesn't just stop the pulse from being detected, it stops the blood from passing into the limb where the cuff is applied.

That's going to mostly depend on how much pressure is behind the blood.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/
Shouldn't the old supply-and-demand sort that out?
Will bookmark this. I yearn for some type of Fairlight based OS with a distinct audio engine that can be installed on a homebrew mishmash of cpu and midi architecture. Rather than an open source pro-tools but something different using circuits and chips not currently used for generating DAW based audio
Unless you're suggesting that a person can have at most one associated agent, I don't see how that accomplishes anything.
Well, yeah, if you source the file (for which `.` is a shortcut) it runs in the current shell so the environment is intact.

If you just run it it won't work.

So instead of running `boop` you would always have to `source boop` or `. boop`. A function or alias you could just run like normal.

(and `export ?` complains about ? being an invalid identifier in bash, in zsh `export "?"` apparently "works", but will reset it before you get a chance to print it in another process)
Get an old TV and make it? Though I guess you'd still need the touch interactions.
I understand why people are upset with us on this, and we will do better. I know we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust, and I also understand that will not happen overnight. Our goal remains though to provide the most privacy we can in one download.

(For anyone wanting full context and a more detailed explanation, please see linked comment mentioned above -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557587.
> or speculative execution

This isn't actually taking advantage of speculative execution that much. The only speculation here would be in the predicting the loop repeats, which loop unrolling would mostly negate for CPUs that don't do speculative execution.

The data dependency issue, however, would still be a punishing factor. You'd need a CPU that isn't superscalar, which does exist but is increasingly less common (even 2014's Cortex-M7 was superscalar, although it kinda sounds like ARM backed off on that for later Cortex M's?)

Also many low-end / embedded CPUs that are in-order will still do branch prediction.
I have tried again and again to switch to a stylus+app solution, and I've reverted to paper and pencil every time. Unbeatable latency, totally predictable UX, and no UI to argue with over anything. I've been a programmer for 35 years, and I hate software. All software, probably. I actually hate it. Sometimes I hate the way I make it, but I definitely hate the way everyone else makes it.
Quest 1 was standalone too.
>The time to bikeshed whether it's a good idea was at IETF when HTTP/2 has been designed.

that's not at all how this works in practice. plenty of bad ideas leave the IETF all the time, and it's up to future standard revisions to follow up with how those are being dealt with in implementations.
> If you lose your primary method you have to remember the password to unlock your secondary software ssh key..

The post I was replying to was talking about 2FA in general, not just for SSH keys. Many people take the advertisements of Facebook, Google, Twitter et al. to push for 2FA as pure gospel, but completely neglect "worst case recovery" scenarios - and then run into stone walls when it inevitably happens, because FB/GOOG/TWTR don't offer any sort of customer support (other than raising threads on HN, and even that is similar to winning the lottery) and Amazon AWS doesn't offer multiple 2FA keys at all.

The laws of statistics mean that even if something happens only for 0.001% of all users, at the scale of the big tech companies it still hits tens to hundreds of thousands of people, who have no recourse at all and are now completely and forever locked out of their online identity. Simply because they have not known about the failure modes.

We here, who debate on HN, know about the dangers and how to prevent them. But our parents? Our siblings? They do not, and companies push them to extremely irresponsible practices nevertheless. We can't go and claim on the one side (when fighting against surveillance, backdoors etc.) that our online identities and presences are extensions of our minds and should be protected, and at the same time make it so extremely easy for people to lose access to them!
There's a much better location to do continuous 24/7 blood pressure monitoring with a much smaller sensor that could eventually be made unobtrusive with development: the earlobe

Must be some kind of stigma for American market or unwilling investment into "not inventing anything new" attitude.
> It's not Google.

It's still almost exclusively funded by Google though.
Which would still make it faster than previous number one machine, no?
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They are not transparent. Show me where they indicated that their policies did not apply to Microsoft cookies before journalists highlighted the issue.
this only works because you are sourcing the file, and not just executing it:

$(exit 5)
./show_error.sh

outputs 0.

Sourcing the file is the same as copying and pasting its content into the current shell. It is designed to allow this kind of things (accessing the caller execution context). But it is not what we usually call a script precisely because of this.
The Microsoft .NET site is so much noise. Maybe it’s all relevant. Maybe all the information I need Is on that page. But shit there’s a point where simple IS better. If I’m going to Java.com it’s for 2 reasons: to download the JDK or look at documentation. The simplicity of the site gets out of my way to do just that.
Why stop there? What makes an asset exist at all if not someone’s belief? Persistence is not a physical property as much as a phenomenon of perception. We believe that what we see is what we saw - and we believe that who we are is who we were. Etc.
A bit over a year ago I took the time for little experiment and made practically simultaneous heart rate measurements using a fairly recent FitBit model, another smart watch (forgot which one), the heart rate reading from a medical arm cuff blood pressure monitor and manual counting over a minute. In a rested state, repeated five times.

The arm cuff and manual measurements showed very limited variablity over different measurements and were in very good agreement with each other (like +/- 4 beats per minute). The smart watches were all over the place, showing deviations of up to twenty beats per minute from the former two methods / each other, varying by over 20 beats per minute over consecutive measurements, and not even showing signs of convergence over repeated measurements.

My conclusion (at least for my skin type, which does affect accuracy for watch-based measurements): smartwatch-based heart rate measurements are probably best used as slightly biased random number generators. If tracking blood pressure is much harder than the heart rate, as they say in the article, I don't even want to know.
There really ought to be a filter there to ignore the most mainstream subreddits. AskReddit's value is below zero. (same questions and answers being posted over and over)
What processes are you planning to change or put in place to prevent a similar incident from happening again?
I suspect those pop-ups aren't really compliant. Bur it will probably take years for a test case. "Go away/confirm my choices" should mean "I don't consent".
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IDK why .NET site is also extremely... Microsofty. A lot of buttons that I never want to click.

Rust or Go sites are more appealing.
https://www.rust-lang.org/
https://go.dev/

Python one seems more dated.
https://www.python.org/
I think that we're basically there now. 90% of people could do my job if they were trained and interested. And I could do 90% of jobs if I had to and could get trained.

There are a tiny number of jobs that require a special physical skills (steady handed surgeons). But they're rare. And a certain number of people couldn't do certain tasks physically or physiologically (most people could learn to dissect a body correctly, some people would never stop vomiting).
Imagine an in-wall oven that requires the use of an active blower to keep the surrounding area from getting too hot.

I've also had an electric oven where the element was damaged and started melting/deforming. Not sure how far this would have gone if left alone.
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