skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 5'4" and over the decades I've noticed occasionally that tall people think I'm smiling or happy when I'm not. The white boxes on the faces in the article obscure this but the girl appears to be frowning when her head is tilted up and smiling when it is tilted down. This is the natural result of end sides of the mouth curving back toward the cheeks. This is what I first thought of when I read the headline and was surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article or other comments here.
Corporations manipulate human agency at scale for their benefit. Film at 11.

Please father, may I have another? I’m afraid I did not learn my lesson last time, says public through apathy to adjust agency.

Plenty of impotent rage and frustration. Hardly any exceptional deviation from routine of it. Such grit.

Last I checked, nothing is stopping teachers, nurses, programmers, from quitting and signing up their community to take advantage of their services.

Give a minority of bean counters authority to count your beans, don’t be surprised when your allotment comes up short.

Corporatism is effectively quota based communism everyone is afraid of; “your skills earn you this much per annum! No more! Remember the fundamentals!”

Secular propaganda repeated over and over to make it stick. Advertising and marketing spawned from WW2 propaganda research. They’re intentionally targeting biology religion stumbled upon.
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I am on the same boat as well. Toying with various ideas and want to do something similar here in the UK in few years. Would be great to see some resources on this
I can totally relate to your lifestyle!

Totally agree, partner before.

Tarn is pretty young and dynamic though, lots of associations (permaculture, ecology, etc..).
In the world of "software defined x", a lot of software has to be verified and approved by a regulator of some kind.
I just ordered from http://miaomiao.cool
A developer in SF is not in the upper quintile.. they can't even afford a starter house. Big cities add huge costs that start making sense with home ownership but will leave a renter worse off.

Good advice on the other points.
Just think about this logically. Why does CCP run the largest censorship operation in the world? Why does a student get arrest and torutured for splashing ink on a Xi poster? Why do people get visited by the police for sharing a meme on Wechat? In the US we know that most people do not agree with the government and even there they don't resort to such extreme measures.

I have a hard time believing someone has lived in China for 10 years, has a Chinese wife and is still that naive when it comes to dictatorships. Not even the party member I know believe this.
Because incorporating storage into the story also means brining in the cost. Many of the solutions are not cheap, dependent on specific geology, and / or have their own large carbon footprint.

The only thing that solar and wind bring to the table is being very cheap, but you need to compare apples to oranges for them to stand up to other solutions.

Edit: this is regional specific, but wind and solar are worthless for one to two months a year where I live - rarely much sun or wind. There's simply not enough storage to power much of anything for that long, so even with cheap storage, it's worth having options that don't rely on weather.

Of course, we are nowhere even close to an ocean, so this tech isn't it, but keeping exploring options is nice.
>Would it be right to secretly inform our customers of the situation? Am I being overly dramatic?

You should just find another job. I wouldn't inform customers.

I've been on the other side of this as a customer and I think you might be assuming some standard of ethics/quality at the customer side that may not exist. I'll provide an example.

A few years ago I managed a Data Science team at a large public company. The division I was in had no real marketing strategy for social media. A new CMO (for the division, not the whole company) was hired who was very fixated on marketing on Facebook. So they built a social media marketing team.

Over the next year or so they spent >$1.5 million in various proof-of-concepts and bake-offs with various companies to find a vendor who could "move the needle" on Facebook. IMHO the whole thing was a pile of nonsense and all but 1 vendor (who got eliminated fairly early) was full of crap. The vendor who won was the one who had a bunch of PowerPoints showing how their strategy on Facebook had great results - I think it was all BS.

The social media team loved it took the charts to the CMO. The CMO took it higher up and used it to talk about how they had built the right team, how they had the right vision. Everybody was patting their own backs and probably polishing their resumes so they could say how they transformed the marketing strategy at the company. Nobody wanted the truth, they just wanted to show their bosses how great they were.

4-5 years later the whole division got a massive haircut and the marketing functions got moved back the parent company. But in those 4-5 years, if you said "This is all BS" in public you were likely to get slaughtered.

Just move on. I left pretty quick after realizing nobody cared what I thought unless I agreed with all of it.
The same can be said about humans. An enormous amount of heat is no longer hitting the ground due to man-made structures in general, way more than dedicated solar farms. Very likely putting solar on roofs is more beneficial than letting it just heat up tiles/shingles, while the building shades the ground. You're basically arguing against building civilization. However, I think human's effects on ecosystems is worthy of investigating, but the "solar panels blocking ground heat" concern seems very tangential and likely insignificant compared to the concerns of human's overall impacts on micro/macro environments.
Paying for compilers was very normal. In the early 80's I paid for the Realia COBOL compiler for MSDOS and paid for a screen library, ScreenIO, that generated full-screen (80 chars x 25 lines) applications. I had already written a film scheduling app for a client on a minicomputer and they were getting charged for time on the mini. Buying the PC and paying me $5K + annual maintenance was going to be cheaper than paying for minicomputer access.

I had to buy a dev PC: a PC-AT 286 with a toggle switch on the back that allowed it to run a 6MHz or 8MHz; a 60MB Priam hard drive - one of the fastest available; and I think it had 2MB of RAM, though of course you could only use 640K with the rest usable as a RAM disk or disk cache. I think it was around $2500. For reference, IBM's PC-AT system at the time (1984) was $4K-6K with a 20MB drive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer/AT

The Realia compiler was something like $1200 and the screen library was around $450 I think. They're apparently still selling ScreenIO, though now for Windows:

http://www.screenio.com/purchase.htm

Computer Associates bought the Realia company, abandoned the product, and focused on porting mainframe COBOL applications to the PC.

I didn't make much on the initial deal, but charged $500/year for maintenance and they ran the thing for over 15 years. My main goal was to get a fast PC: I had been reading Byte and PC Magazine for a few months and this was a way to get one without me plunking down a lot of cash.

I think it's kinda cool that a small company like Realia (out of Chicago) could create something like this and have a functioning company for many years with paid employees. Yeah, open source is great in some areas, but in some ways it is not so great. A few geniuses could not have a sustainable compiler business these days, no matter how great the software.
I feel the problem with the coastal commission and activists groups is a deep oppositional culture which is unhelpful when it comes to actually fixing things. And then there is the 'can't do' disease that's infected the American mind.
I'm happy with a metric that encourages people to do good, as opposed to a metric which describes how much power one has over others, or how many yachts they can afford. Hopefully the EA community isn't terribly concerned with how they measure up against others (though, as an outsider, maybe I don't understand how important that is). By thinking about how to do good, they're already leagues ahead of 90% of humanity.
This was the only post I read so far with a non sensationalized approach to the matter.
I'm not sure what you're saying, that we should make the same mistakes we did in Iraq with Ukraine as well? Why repeat the same mistakes?

Yes, we didn't sanction them, and you seem to argue we should have, and I agree. That's why I think with Ukraine this time we're doing the right thing, same thing we should have done with Iraq. Do you disagree?
You sound like the person I want to invite to join me in this startup business, you current company is the perfect fit.
I think this is mostly for westeners who have the habit of not using names correctly. Some countries already using correct name since the beginning.
Anodyne 2 has a unique enjoyable story and is not very violent.
The last time I looked at marketplace plans (in my state ymv). I couldn’t find a single one that had good enough coverage for this to be worth it. The person I was looking for hits their out of pocket max every year though, so it just depends on your usage. The best I could find was like 1k a month + a 12k out of pocket max, so 24k a year total. But ymmv
Spotify's UI is a nightmare to use. If someone from the UX team hangs out on HN, please pass the message to the right people - fix the menu and split podcasts from music.
Storage is kind of the major blocker for those technologies currently.
Last time I looked it's hard to use something like Wise as your bank for your payroll.

Wise has been great for managing my personal payments, but I still have personal bank accounts in a couple of countries where I hold property because it just makes things easier there.
Easy until you try to open a bank account in a French bank with US citizenship. Good luck with that.
Obvious classic is the Myst series, or rather, the first three of the series that were created by the Miller brothers. The less said about 4&5 the better.

Cyan, their company, has been producing new titles, Obduction was quite good.

Your character is in danger but you don't shoot or kill, at least not excessively.
That’s not nuanced enough. Information isn’t just information to a user, it’s information combined with purpose. A user would expect the USPS to use address data to deliver them mail. They would expect the USPS to sell their address data for the purpose of (gratuitous hyperbole) targeting a drone strike. In this case, I would doubt the user would expect their address data to be sold by the USPS for direct mail shots.

This is the essence of GDPR really. The legal basis of “legitimate interest” means you don’t have to seek consent because of course a user would expect you to process that data in the course of the provided service. To go outside of that service you need to get explicit and informed opt-in consent.
there used to be a lot of interesting, thought-provoking (?) talks at Google.

Yes it is a workplace, but also a community of curious and open-minded people

Or at least used to be
If your government is untrustworthy, then you're screwed in any case. Reasonable interpretation of data was never an authoritarian regime's strong point.
Commerzbank terminated my contract after 14 years as a loyal customer (and plenty of money in the account) — they refused to say why, but my best guess is they were culling Americans.

I think getting a German bank to open a business account for a U.S. startup would be a nightmare at best.
I will give Spotify UX one thing: the mobile version has a great feature where if I just double click the tab menu button that opens up search, it shoots me straight into my keyboard. That needs to be standard.
How do you convince your SV-based company that the 9h time difference will be fine?
if those legal avenues are implemented/neutered by the same people who implement the illegal programs for the purpose of mitigatingthe actions of whistleblowers can you really say that theyre legal avenues?

what would you do in this situation?
what position did you interview for? they are very definitely an algorithm interview company for technical roles.
> Realistically, what is the worst possible consequence of a supermarket being able to track you? At worst, I suppose you be could be charged more for purchasing a certain item at that particular chain.

The way it works in Norway at the moment is that you can get a membership at any of the grocery chains, download an app and what not. Then you register your debit card in that app, and it monitors what you buy, and you get discounted prices on stuff you buy the most of and/or benefits in general.

Personally I have no problem with this, because it's an opt-in thing.
Whistleblower POV : Reporter chose a strange meeting place in a strange town in a strange country in europe. When I got there it was full of FBI agents, so I walked away. Reporter set me up and then made up a story about a lawyer.
Howabout a Pilot Project to Demonstrate Feasibility of Fully Renewable Energy
This is not for Russians, they said not accept semi-solutions.

And for them really interest app for FPGA are radars, or something for weapons, all others are not considered value.
With very cheap FPGA, radar algorithms are not viable.
Is it really mugging if "wasabi" is really horseradish everywhere? At this point wasabi is just the name for horseradish paste.
Pretty much. As an examples, in deserts, there can be a modest increase in local IR radiation because of the change in albedo from PV panels compared to sand, but the overall decrease in IR from avoiding the CO2/etc emissions of fossil fuel generation is much, much larger than the local increase.
I wrote servers in Go as well, and I like the language. After Rust, I believe at some point, I enjoy to solve the "problems" Rust brings, not that it's rationally better than Go.
Call the target, screen turns on, ghosttouch to answer before it even rings
EU-style nazis that limit themselves to marching with offensive signs do seem rather harmless, don’t they?

At least I assume that Finland’s nazis don’t form militias and aren’t part of the armed forces and don’t receive military weapons from NATO.

This doesn’t excuse Russia’s war, but it does make one wonder why Western politicians condemn right-wing extremists so often and so thoroughly with not a peep about the nazis they’re literally sending weapons to.

Well, there was a bit of a scandal when an interview with an Azov neo-nazi was broadcasted in the Greek parliament, but even the Greeks were mostly criticizing themselves for allowing that to happen.
the famous french restaurants are cooking on electric, really?
> I wouldn't say that means Coinbase is healthy, or unhealthy

I’d say that a company that makes an offer today and reneges it tomorrow is not a healthy company. It’s certainly not a company I’d work for. We aren’t talking about contracts underwritten 3 years ago.
Yes, I remember Dice! I believe there was also a free version, with limited features?

I still look upon my "Amiga years" fondly. I moved to Linux in late 1994...
> Its [sic] way more valid than your opinion.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by valid? My only opinion was that the piece was poorly written.

There are several fact-based statements in my original comment. People do still die from bacterial illnesses. The original author basically said we should do away with doctors. That also means people who know when and which antibiotics to use. Also, I commented on acute conditions in only one paragraph. I specifically admitted that there are limitations to modern medicine. There are many chronic illnesses that we can’t diagnose or don’t understand. There are also illnesses that are chronic because we have ways to keep people alive, even if we can’t cure the disease (HIV, several cancers).

If we are going to discuss validity, let’s do it with facts.

Overall, just pointing out that not all physicians are arrogant jerks or uncaring idiots. Many really try to be helpful, but are overworked and constrained by administrators, insurance, etc.
For the trivia, GNU "true" is an abomination which even includes a cornercase that returns "false".

Meanwhile, its BSD version essentially sums up to "return 1".

Same for much of the GNU code:

- echo: https://gist.github.com/fogus/1094067

- cat: http://9front.org/img/longcat.png
It's made by a company that publishes niche games, in collaboration with a company that designs niche hardware. Finding an interested niche was the goal.
> Aka the more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior to our liking.

How about this phrasing instead?

_"The more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior to *YOUR* liking."_

Not all governments are unfriendly to their people. Or, should I say, not all people imagine their government is evil. I'm looking at you USA.
I just think bread is one of these things that are central to each European culture. Germans miss their bread even in France and vice versa.
> JP Morgan and Liink are quietly connecting hundreds of banks and using it to more robustly and quickly move payment-related information between banks.

At this point you're trusting JP Morgan and link to run the ledger. What if I disagree with a transaction and fork the ledger? How is this any different to JP Morgan running a SQL database and speaking a common protocol?
Why would a startup answer these questions honestly? The biggest part of what they offer is an illusion of future payout: they'll appeal to emotions, talk about the their mission and how they help the humanity and how you will play a critical role there.
Regarding the second point: I believe this is "sound check" a setting that normalizes audio volume between different songs. I think it takes a second to kick in (maybe it has to fill up some audio buffer to work?) and yes it's incredibly annoying. Afaik only solution is to disable sound check
I think Spiegel and Telegram use different definitions of "user data" here:

Telegram says with the E2E chats they had no data to share, but that only refers to the content of the chats, obviously not the IP address or the linked phone number, which Telegram says it can also share with governments.
When they mention later in the paragraph that they didn't share any data from unencrypted chats, that's with the caveat.

That Telegram has shared _more_ than just metadata I think is unlikely.
The gas price was 2€ a few days ago, the FDP introduced a tax cut on gasoline and the price is still 2€. Not very amusing.
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Waste is exactly right. https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/the-cost-of-junk-mai...
Can’t you do something similar currently using PostGIS? Granted, it’s ugly and you’ll see ST_ everywhere and it won’t be super readable, but it seems possible at least.
The USPS didn’t mess up. They are clearly using some sort of vendor to send out the mail.
Apple Music software on Mac is truly horrible, and I remember how bad iTunes used to be. It's the slowest UI I use (besides some Windows things), and it routinely goes catatonic if you
toggle a vpn or switch networks, etc. adding some things:

* the bar for scrubbing is what, 2 pixels wide?

* airplay is broken. it does. not. work. It takes about 5 iterations of pausing, restarting things, and prayer to get it to play through its speakers and a homepod. And god forbid you then pause it for a couple minutes or want to hear something from the browser for a second.

* If you want to mirror to an appletv and hear sound... good luck, be sure to designate a beneficiary before embarking because you'll probably want to kill yourself.

These aren't complicated things to identify or describe. They aren't edge cases. It's the basic functionality and it is absolute shit. How can anything get this bad? Do apple employees not listen to music? Is each feature made by a different siloed team? It doesn't take a silicon valley visionary to fix these things, but they are clearly missing something in their org
You have a point but not quite the same. Email is not a speculative instrument which makes Coinbase a very risky proposition for people who are using it for transactions. I can also change Email providers (can be painful sure but possible).
It's nice to be able to afford to not get angry. That's not an option for everyone.
You should probably check for "public land", which is found in almost all States but is very, very frequent west of Texas. See e.g. the map at:

https://vividmaps.com/non-private-land-in-united-states/

But you should check what you can do in it. It will be probably legal to park a vehicle there and very probably illegal to dig a moat around it (public means "of everyone", not just "free").
Here's the fun thing: I have opted out of blind mailers from the USPS, yet I got one of these Brave mailers last week with my name on it (I'm in the Atlanta area). Just one more reason of many for me to never, ever let Brave near any of my devices.
The way I see it, it would require the dirty work (and probably most non-dirty work) to be entirely automated. Up to and including repairing the automation.
Tangentially related:

"Why is your email in my car?"

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/02/16/why-is-your-email-in-...
Some sort of drm bug when multiple sources using drm are active at once?
That's true, though in my experience those quick solutions lead to more quick solutions, and in total that leads to a mess in the long run. But if that long run will never come, it may be better not to bother. These are all sensible choices.
Yes. Syria and Iran would likely be wastelands if it wasn't for Russian intervention and assistance allowing them to hold their own against Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey, which would have undoubtedly implemented much greater invasion or intervention plans in Syria than they already have. There is also Armenia that isn't Azerbaijan only because of Russian defence guarantees (that don't apply to Nagorno Karabakh), and the Stans would be greatly vulnerable to China if it wasn't for Russia as a counterbalance.

That's, by the way, a result of a 12 year period, compared to the list you gave that's over 80 years.

Those aren't great lives by any means, but avoiding Iran-Iraq V2, or Turkish invasion of most of Syria, a complete Azerbaijani victory, or complete subservience to China, is genuinely a positive. On the greater balance, simply existing as a counterbalance to the US is something that's useful for most of the world, which explains indifférence over Ukraine.
You make money from stocks by holding onto them and collecting the dividend.
The Intercept has burned sources before (Reality Winner and maybe others), so I don't see why any actual whistleblower would trust them at this point.
Information on paper can still be measured on bytes.. so maybe maybe
In my opinion, yes (regarding health records, as pointed out by others). Confidentiality is a core value in health care, it's even explicitly stated in the Geneva declaration:

> AS A MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION:
> ...
> I WILL RESPECT the secrets that are confided in me, even after the patient has died

To me, financial information seems less private. Furthermore, I can use cash or ask a friend to buy things for me, but I cannot have a friend seeing the psychologist or having an abortion in my place. If I was struggling with some taboo-ish condition (say, pedophilic thoughts), the idea that this information would be kept and possibly leaked in the future, would heighten the bar for seeking help. And although I will be dead, my health records may contain information about the living, say information about heritable conditions.