skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are still people... many people... that deny the existence of places outside of the United States of America.

Two fun anecdotes my mother has recounted when we were all in Denver for ~5 months in Denver 1996:

1. Asked where we were from on one occasion (after hearing an Australian accent): “Australia.” Response: “Oh, did you come by bus?” Now it is possible that there was a misunderstanding there, but mum doesn’t think so.

2. Of those that didn’t already know, only one person successfully identified where we were from, and that person was deaf. (It’s fascinating to try something like this on video without audio where there’s nothing obvious static to identify nationality: I find I can identify both Australian and American correctly at a rate considerably better than random, without ever having made a study of it.)
I can't acces it either from Switzerland, doesn't matter if I connect to it normally or via US/German VPN...

PR hug of death?
You can also do this with NFC tags, though I've had mixed success with iPhones.
Are you in china? That looks like Canton-ese.
Congratulations to the team.

I wish theives would use sophisticated methods like this.

Instead I have to pay the decutable for broken car windows or replace it out of pocket.

If a thief is caught stealing (unlikely) the consequences are minimal. So little insensitive to use sophisticated methods.

Of course there are those that want undetected access to a vehicle for reasons other than stealing. But I'm not worried about that personally because I'm not important enough to be targeted.

Keep shedding light on these issues.
Amazon launches cancer vaccine clinical trial partnership with Fred Hutchinson
Then say goodbye to the internet and hello to a mesh of country-specific networks.

Finally, true decentralisation!
It's a pretty terrible situation for folks that build their livelihood curating a channel to have to accept the risk that their channel could be taken down at any moment due to a false positive regarding copyright violation. Making matters worse, it sounds like there's no real recourse beyond taking your grievance onto social media and hoping your channel has enough clout to get Youtube's attention.

In this case, it sounds like it was a malicious action by an actual human being, but I've seen a lot of great content creators say things like, "I'm only going to play you 3 seconds of this song to avoid having my channel removed." Seems like there's gotta be a better way.
Counterpoint: Inside Out, Soul
Is there an easy way to just scroll through the images?
Well I mean, that's what we all say, but then we start accumulating yet more cars on our chicken farms.
If I understand what cross-realm means (code security), then I'm not sure that can be done at all.
I saw this site YEARSSS ago, brings back memories of bunking class to play games xD

really cool!
Tropicana was also owned by Pepsi at the time.
I think you’re way off on the psychology of participants. Lots play poker. Bluffing is normal.
> Obviously there are reasons for them choosing the split that they did, but we don't need to pretend that $100k is some upper end that cannot be surpassed

But it was their right to choose for to split it. The conversation is about not castigating someone for charity, no matter how small. The flip side is also not touting it. Ironically, maybe Dominos would have been better off keeping their heads down and spending $0 on charity.
The Sony Rx-100 Was released in 2012. That's 10 years ago already and that still beats hands down the best phones out there in terms of image quality.
> First, my neighborhood pizza place offers free delivery. And it’s really good pizza.

Do they have a mobile app to order from, shows real time order status, coupons, and rewards? And, as you said in your second point, the delivery isn't free. The cost is built in to the pizza. So if you dine in, or pick up, you're paying a premium to subsidize the cost of delivery.

> Extra mental labor to work out true price instead of advertised price.

The final price is shown before checking out. This is no different than purchasing from Amazon, booking a flight on Expedia, or getting a hotel room on Booking.com.

> Third, dominos used to charge $0 for delivery even though margins were the same back then.

Yes, back before domino's had to compete against other national fast food chains' technology strategies.
> They could have made 10x more of a donation and hardly touched the budget they had for their ads. Or 100x more and only slightly reduced the ads. All while increasing the advertising power of the donation they were showcasing in the ads themselves, so it's not like they'd simply be losing the money to charity.

That $50m is the amount decided to reach their audience. Increasing the donation won't increase the reach...

I remember recently a pizza chain in my province decided to stop all their ad campaign for a month and give the amount they would have spend otherwise to people. Hey if it works for Mr. Beast, it could work for them right? I saw it on Tiktok so a good platform to allow organic sharing, well a week later I started to see ads about it on Facebook... they didn't reach their audience.

So yeah that spending is for their ads, they are going to spend it, it's there for a reason. Believe me, if they could lower it in some way, they would... that's called business. Is there really anyone in the world happy to pay ads and that doesn't do anything to try to lower that cost?

At best they could avoid the bad press from r/antiwork (does it really matters? how many views did that get versus that $50m ads?), but I got a feeling that they would still complains about the fact that they spend more in ads than in the actual donation.
The downvotes are only proving you right. This is what HN has become, pretty much 4chan.
This happens all the time. It is essentially the business strategy of many (not all!) conglomerates. Scoop up successful companies and let them keep running as they are, sometimes with even greater success due to things like access to money and peers. I've worked for a few subsidiaries through the acquisition process, and aside from some accountants showing up once a year, everything remained the same.
I have lots of examples where they ruined it.
Yes, but a servicing mission for replacing the memory would still be an unlikely operation to be able to do. The most likely use for the docking port is if the electronics onboard exceed their design life, but JWST is running out fuel (to maintain its position at the Lagrange point) so they basically strap a "jet pack" on to the satellite to keep in operation. This has been the business case of some companies trying to do this for GEO satellites:

https://astroscale.com/astroscale-u-s-enters-the-geo-satelli...
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OP - Of your 5 criteria, 2 will change by the very nature of what it is to be acquired. The other 3 are essentially 1 (how excited are we about this change?)

Culture: there's different people around, now. So culture necessarily changes.

Flexibility: bigger companies are less flexible because there are simply more people. Even if every individual is more flexible, it doesn't matter.

Enthusiasm, spirit, and happiness - are these not synonyms, in this context? And if they are, are they not reactions to external factors (culture & flexibility)?

I would suggest your question may be tautological: big companies will always ruin small companies from the perspective of someone who likes small companies because the small company became big.
The HTML source code has a canonical link that points to http://pr-newsroom-wp.appspot.com/2022-07-12/spotify-to-acqu... and which does HTTP/301 to HTTPS version. Weird indeed, and it might need fixing.
It uses the form of:

WIFI:T:WPA;S:{ssid};P:{password};;

Can generate these on Linux with the qrencode program.

Wikipedia has information on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Joining_a_Wi%E2%80%91F...

Section of the Wikipedia article:

Joining a Wi‑Fi network

By specifying the SSID, encryption type, password/passphrase, and if the SSID is hidden or not, mobile device users can quickly scan and join networks without having to manually enter the data. Note that this technique is valid for specifying only static SSID passwords (i.e. PSK); dynamic user credentials (i.e. Enterprise/802.1x) cannot be encoded in this manner.

The format of the encoded string is:

WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP|>;P:<password>;H:<true|false|>;

Order of fields does not matter. Special characters """ (quotation mark), ";" (semicolon), "," (comma), ":" (colon) and "\" (backslash) should be escaped with a backslash ("\") as in MECARD encoding. For example, if an SSID were "foo;bar\baz", with quotation marks part of the literal SSID name itself, this would be encoded as: WIFI:S:\"foo\;bar\\baz\";;
The random string I use for my IoT devices' wifi password showed up on haveibeenpwned, so some IoT device cared enough about it to leak it.
While not answering the question, I think a lot of companies are acquired in a state of immaturity and then comes the problem of succeeding as actual grownups. Everyone blames the acquirer but it's not that simple. I work with a group that still has leftover ego-execution mismatch and it's tiresome.
If 100 people in suits walk past a homeless man, and one of them hands the homeless man a $100 bill, do you berate him for only giving 500:1 his disposable income? What about the 99 who gave nothing?
How do you know margins are the same? That statement is extremely unlikely. Food prices have surged, yet Domino's Pizza still runs some of the same specials... $5.99 medium pizzas, tons of coupons, etc. Secondly, the market for delivery drivers has gotten enormously more competitive. Used to be pizza and Chinese food were the only places likely to deliver. Now GrubHub, Uber, Door dash, etc. It's just harder to find people willing to drive (oh, gas prices are higher too,maybe you've noticed) your food to you.
I think this is the most fundamental driver of everything going to cloud. The cloud is DRM, and it's the only kind of DRM that really works.

It also lets companies play both sides by releasing clients open source but keeping the real value back in the cloud. They can be considered "FOSS" while at the same time being even more closed than closed-source software.

You could say the industry has found a way to comply with the letter of FOSS licenses while avoiding the spirit, namely the idea of empowering the user.
This is anecdotal at best but I went to my big camera store last weekend. The last time I went was around 2011. Back then it was 48% Nikon, 48% Canon, and the rest being the other makers, think pentax, fuji, sony, etc. Now it's 30% Canon, 30% Sony, 20% Nikon, 20% Fuji. I think Nikon is dying. Sony ate everyone's lunch, now Canon is coming back big with the R mirrorless cams, and Fuji is also making one hell of a comeback. The Leica, Panasonic, Sigma alliance is also working to their advantage.
Purposefully dumb I suspect, because BMW has a strong modding enthusiast following.
Well, he names himself Common Self Skeptic, but he has only videos about Elon Musk rather than videos about skepticism. And he just blatantly lies about facts - for example, speed test numbers, service prices, and so on.

The thing that makes it really easy to distinguish though is that facts are entangled. That ends up making lies contagious.

So when he starts talking about a government conspiracy and my surprise goes way up, it becomes pretty easy to check his facts, and realize the reason I'm so surprised is because he is lying.

As another example of the contagious nature of lies, when he lies about the projected cost of Starlink, the natural result is that anyone who thinks Starlink could be profitable is insane - it costs more than the economy, according to him, since he gave an estimate that was three orders magnitude higher than reasonable estimates. Therefore, when he moves forward to talk about Shotwell, he gets put in a situation where making his claims seem reasonable requires he continue to keep up the lies. So instead of calling her a good executive he makes sexists arguments as to to why she is so stupid. His previous lies were contagious and so he was forced into sexism in order to cover them up, because the entangled fact of a good executive having been involved in the business decisions would cast a lot of doubt on his claims.

And... it isn't that hard to criticize Elon Musk without lying? He isn't perfect, at all. I don't think its necessary for a critic to invent things to criticize rather than to just tell the truth?
> The people who fall for it of course never ask where the money is coming from, because if they did they'd figure out it was suckers like them.

This is the case with all forms of gambling. I think that they know that the money is from others less fortunate. However, human nature seems to make us believe that somehow, we will be the lucky one.
I thought the alt-text for that used to cite a book about pizza marketing budget breakdowns.

This is why I don't trust XKCD as a primary source: No edit history or permalinks.
How do you know that you didn't just leave the door unlocked?
If you're a pregnant woman in the US South that wants to get an abortion, should you not get that abortion if the people around you wouldn't be pleased?

Or should you be free to do whatever the fuck you want, because it's your choice?
Cybernetics Within Us (1966)
If you have a high deductible, then insurance is not going to reimburse you for losses anyway, so what is the point of cataloguing it for insurance?

I can live without a TV/speakers/other Knick knacks in case I fall on hard times. I just need enough cash/insurance to be able to buy a phone/laptop/car/clothes/shelter/food.

So you set the deductible to $25k and just roll with the risk of losing a few unnecessary possessions that you might have to repurchase.
I don't know if this is a European wide problem or just a UK one.
I hope you go through fundamentals first. You can't understand C without them[0].

Nothing explains systems programming like C[1], including Rust. Godspeed.

[0] Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond 3rd Edition
by Yale Patt (Author), Sanjay Patel (Author)

[1] Books by Robert C. Seacord and/or Noam Nisan
Here's the thing I wonder though. If you sat each one down and explained that the whole thing was basically a ponzi scheme, or like a lottery where everyone loses except one person who wins big, I'm not certain you wouldn't see a majority of them say "Yeah, I know," or just keep "playing" after hearing the explanation. To borrow the cliche, you can't really use logic to change someone's mind when they didn't use logic to make up their mind in the first place. Also, gambling is powerfully addictive to a lot of people.
Because Microsoft doesn't trust it more, and they know better what's good for you.
This is something that bothers me as well, implementation decisions are what drives this a lot. I have a nest thermostat and it seems like the app decides to log me out randomly every once in a while and I have to go through the whole login/2fa process, sometimes in the middle of the night when trying to adjust the temp! There is no need for internet connected thermostat most of the time, I would much prefer Bluetooth with no login needed ever.
> Email marketing in general blows my mind

My favorite thing is when the companies outsource the email marketing, so that it has absolutely zero relevance. I've been using the same online tax preparer for 10 years, and I've had exactly zero refunds, yet their emails during tax season always let me know that "my refund is waiting".
> Really the biggest thing is that Nikon is just brutally behind in tech compared to Sony and even Canon.

I don't see how that is true in the slightest. The Z9 is a true flagship that stacks up well against the competition. Cameras lower down on the segment stack can also hold their own, albeit some would argue the autofocus is lacking. Autofocus is just one piece of the tech in a camera.
I agree that there are real logistical issues. that is why I really would love to hear someone more honest dig into the details. I think there are real logistical issues here.

My problem is that I know that CSS just starts with a narrative and lies about facts as he moves through his narrative. I'd like to know the places where the planning fallacy is likely to be blinding people working on these problems.

His estimate of Starlink projected costs is three orders of magnitude higher than reasonable estimates I've seen. You don't get three orders of magnitude off by accident. If someone asks you to estimate the cost of a car for example and its true cost is $10,000 and you guess $10,000,000 that is really surprising - so surprising that I find it be an error term, not a surprise term to correct on. I'd like to hear more from the people that guess $10,000, not someone whose error term is being maximized because surprising things are more engaging.

This is actually material relevant to the question of his helping us to reason about these issues, because clearly funding for the travel ought to be up there as one of the single most important issues. But he's giving us three orders of magnitude of error in this central issue. Elon Musk claims one year and than it takes like five. Three orders of magnitude is different. Three orders of magnitude would be someone saying it takes one year, but then it takes 1000 years. The difference between "honest planning fallacy" and "making stuff up" seems kind of easy to discern to me. I don't know, maybe others disagree, but it doesn't feel so hard to tell the difference.

I also hold very different standards for claims about the future than I do for claims about the present and past made after research on the subject. I don't consider people who don't claim to be prophets to be required to meet the always predicts the future successfully bar; it seems kind of silly to expect that. However, it does seem pretty important that someone reporting on say, the price of a service, to give an honest price after months of research - which CSS doesn't. I'd hold a different standard for CSS if these were off the cuff videos or sharing - more like tweets - because then getting some stuff off would be reasonable. But lying about stuff that is so easily verified and photoshopping evidence to preserve the lies? Just reeks malice to me. If he was actually honest - why does he try to hide the lies?
> MS actually keeps a copy of _your_ PC's recovery key on their servers when you install Windows

Do you have a reference for this? I didn't realize this was the case. Is it part of their "pluton" stuff?
same goes for copyright atleast imo. when the revolution comes, let's do away with them
I too run my own, but for ingoing and outgoing. I did my due diligence and selected a host with good IP reputation, warmed up the domain and IP manually, and have good deliverability to Gmail and outlook and other big players as far as I can tell.

Happy to test with anyone from hn. Email address is in my HN profile.
Try this https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images
If you're a billionaire you don't even have to buy the billboards. You just get invited onto SNL.
These are much newer references than 1966. The first reference is for a Chinese study (China, not US) published in 2020.

"Compared with group 1 (30·7 %, low baseline intake and slight increase), both group 2 (62·2 %, medium baseline intake and increase) and group 3 (7·1 %, high baseline intake and decrease) were associated with an increased OR for diabetes. The results suggested that higher egg consumption was positively associated with the risk of diabetes in Chinese adults."

Here's the publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33028452/
App jeopardizing livelihood of 82 mil Indian rural workers
Not really a huge problem imo - their bodies are superior when it comes to having manual controls close to your fingers and their glass is amazing.
That's the thing you fail to understands, your math is wrong.

Here's the correction

> How about $50m in ads with $1m in donation?

> Perhaps $50m in ads with $5m in donation?

> Or maybe $50m in ads with $10m in donation?

The $50m is how many they are going to spend in ads, it's fixed. They want to reach theses eye balls, and increasing the amount donated won't increase the amount of eye balls. They are going to spend $50m in ads. They want theses minutes of airtime... donating more won't pay for more airtime (unless it become news worthy but that's a whole other level).
Predicting the flight will be cancelled in 3.. 2.. 1..
But then the newsletter will haunt you for far far longer..

Not a burnt WizzAir customer at all! /s
Ok smart guy.
At least for me - This is pretty spot on.

Is Uber horrible? Probably. But at least they provide the service they claim to.

The taxi companies in my area before Uber (and frankly still, after Uber) are literally rage inducing. You can call them and confirm that a cab has been dispatched - and it will NEVER show up. Call them back and confirm again? Same thing.

Need to schedule a ride to the airport? Cab won't show.

Need someone to take you home after a house party? Cab won't show.

Literally flag down a cab on the side of the road? They will hassle you over card usage, intentionally drive out of the way (like - seriously, bitch I've lived in ATL for 33 years, I know this is the long route you fucker), and have terrible safety standards (oh, none of the seat belts in the back of your cab work? fun!).

So Uber might be horrible, and I would really, really love to see cities increase spending on public transit.

But I FUCKING HATE the cab companies. They can fucking rot for all I care. If Uber puts them all into chapter 11, I will cheer them on.

Would I still prefer to see investment in public transit instead of dealing with Uber? Of course. But we weren't seeing that with cabs, and at least Uber will god-damned show up when called.
The crazy thing is that Disney -> Pixar was also pretty much a reverse acquisition, so Steve was involved in 2 of those. At the time of acquisition his wife was the largest Disney shareholder, so she had more shares than anyone in the Disney family

Seems like Pixar is doing well and Disney is taking influence from them
Minimum wage arguments are a red herring in this economy. No one except the young, disabled, and felons are getting paid minimum wage now. Looking at prevailing "low skill" wages, they more than doubled for starting positions in my area since 2010. From something like $8 in 2010 to something like $16-17 today.
The whole point of the Z9 is that it achieved auto-focus parity with the D6 for sports and wildlife, it was really obvious that the D6 would be the last D camera, just like the F6 was obviously the last F camera. The re-designed ultra-teles (as opposed to "take existing optical and mechanical design of the EF version and integrate a flange extension" like Canon did) slot into this strategy by offering a real benefit over the preceding F lenses.

Nikon has a pretty long history (in Western memory going back to the Nikon S) of executing well and consistently. They're often not the first mover: Nikon S was a "best of" Zeiss-Leica body (pretty much all Zeiss, but using the Leitz shutter - this is why Nikon lenses mount, focus and zoom to the left), became quite popular. Nikon F wasn't the first SLR system, either, but well executed and became the benchmark.
Live demo - VDP for Comparing YOLOv4 and YOLOv7
GM Requires a Mandatory 3 Year Subscription If You Buy a New Car
I moved back to iPhone in the 2015s onwards (I think) because of the crap quality of devices available, and the bloatware atop if android.

In many cases the hardware was so poor it was hard to make a call due to the touchscreen.

Since the primary thing I want the phone to do is make a call I switched to the “it just works” camp and haven’t regretted it.

Except getting photos off the phone.
Until I realised the best tool for that is … Ubuntu!