skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should probably fix SIM swapping / jacking for a lot of reasons but can we also maybe up the seriousness of the legal frameworks at play? It’s almost unconscionable that a Bay Area police department has no real idea / interest in understanding that you’re being SWATed. It’s definitely beyond crazy that the only way this guy got 5 years was because of further crimes committed while on bail. The criminals think the laws are lax _even in the midst of being prosecuted under them_
Great coffee is one of those things that doesn't scale. It requires labor at every stage. Expensive and slow.

Getting OK coffee scales wonderfully. Easy and cheap.

You can still get tired of great coffee, or at least start to feel like it's routine rather than pleasant.

I just feel like there are vetter things to spend time on that are more intellectually rewarding. Learning an old craft, or music, or reading a book. Or cooking. At least with cooking there is a real difference in the nutritional quality... I doubt that's true of fine coffee vs bad coffee.
Car-based subscriptions are evil
> We know there’s zero chance Google will overnight exit the lucrative personal data business. And frankly, Congress has been asleep at the wheel on protecting our data rights for decades.

Google is part of the state apparatus. Congress is not asleep, it is lobbied by this and other companies. This naive idea that you can just ask Big Tech companies to find two cents in their moral bank is old and tiresome. Control of Congress must be taken back before any real change can be effected.
> After 10 stars, gets a toy

Tip: the Dollar Stores have a toy aisle with toys little kids love. Go nuts at $1.25 each. Some of them they may only play with once.
There's a performance that's happening during a meeting with cameras that I find really draining and unnatural. I go into high alert for how I am presenting on camera. As the number of participants increases it gets worse.
Software devs should work for free. Servers should also be free. Electricity, free. Computer hardware, free. Anything that I pay for is a tax.

...I won't work for free though.
I use an espresso machine that cost me $0 (because my housemate bought it). Prior to that I used a $0 rescued moka pot with the handle melted off, or an aeropress + porlex grinder. I bought the latter two because someone at work had both and recommended them, and I thought they would be good for camping. I have no idea if these things are "good" or not, but I enjoy the process of using them and like the way the coffee tastes.

Anything older that a week or two tastes a little weaker and is missing some (usually nice) flavours, but it's still damp and caffeinated and tasty. It's not bad in the sense that a stubbed toe is bad, only in the sense that a car snob might call your Toyota Camry bad ("common, suboptimal, plebian, old model, everyone has one"). Darker roasts are missing some flavours too, but they're often the exact ones I don't want. I trust coffee roasters to work out what suits a particular bean and know which flavours they want to keep.

I think coffee is one of those things like wine or whiskey or steak where the best way to enjoy it is to keep your mind open. That lets you work out what you, personally, enjoy. Try over- or under-extracting an espresso shot, and see how it tastes sour or bitter. Try packing the basket differently. Experiment with letting ground coffee sit for a few hours, or with freezing, or with similar beans at different ages. It's fun! You don't have to just believe someone on the internet when they tell you a dark roast is missing flavours, you can go roast your own coffee and see, or ask a roaster to do it.

If you work out what you enjoy, it lets you do enjoyment arbitrage, where you can buy a less popular bean/wine/whiskey/cut for less money and get more enjoyment out of it. If you listen to other people, you're just getting told what the fair market value of the thing is, which means you'll miss any opportunity to get a good (personal) deal.
From Oxford, no less (Queen's College).

Not too shabby.

Tom Lehrer used to teach mathematics at MIT. I think he went back to that, after his musical career.
Opera from twenty years ago was so ahead of its time.
Weird to think someone (or a team, really) built this. Why?
I like my steaks borderline completely raw, but I’ll admit it’s because I’ve been around steak snobs and a voice in the back of my mind won’t allow it any other way.

But I’ll also admit that heavily browned beef has a distinctive flavor and quality very different from barely cooked steak. Imagine a sandwich with slightly crispy, well cooked beef and all its drippings. Now imagine one with a slice of meat that’s rare and soggy.

Coffee is similar. Different roasts for different desires and uses. There is a point where it is objectively burnt, but not all dark roasts are burnt.
Why can't I as a user have a browser that's privacy-enabled out of the box without any extensions?
Ancient Egyptian art was intentionally abstract. It has been called "conceptual" rather than "perceptual" in style. Figures were flattened to provide an abstraction of their most salient features, not because the artists didn't understand perspective.

Incidentally, this style came back into fashion for a few centuries in Middle Ages Europe. You can see many examples in tapestries and illuminated manuscripts.

If you are curious about Ancient Egyptian culture, these two books have mostly excellent articles.

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17073753-a-companion-to-...)

A Companion to Ancient Egypt (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8561459-a-companion-to-a...)
I’m missing out on having a cup of coffee that I want. It’s something I could easily do before I got into espresso and it’s something I can do again now that I figured out that wanting better coffee was making my life worse.
After he gave up on conquering Britain, which is kinda 'out of the picture' I guess
These authors are a joke
Likewise I have no fewer than three people trying to use a gmail address I've had since 2003 as their own. It's extremely frustrating - one even sent me $45,000 in a mistaken paypal transfer and then when I reversed the charges I was hit with an overdraft since I had made a Paypal purchase (which would ordinarily come from my direct bank funds) not knowing the money had been sent to me in error.

It shouldn't be this easy to use someone else's email address.
Creator of Bear Blog here. Both Jan and Joseph (mentioned in the README) contacted me prior to publishing to get my permission to use the Bear theme and chat through the project :)
The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
I feel the same way about restaurants. I realized a few years ago that I don’t crave Enoteca’s rigatoni; I crave the feeling of unwinding with some friends after a failed attempt at going to an ice cream festival. We were hot. Annoyed. Tired. And had a great time laughing about it at this tiny bistro as the sun set. The food and the restaurant was a setting, and essential, but it was second place behind the social connection of commiserating with friends and laughing about the million little things that went wrong with that day.

Going back, the food is good. It’s definitely worth a visit. But nothing will be as tasty as that night. Now that to realize that, I try and seek out those chances to “make a memory” where I can.
I’ve gone on a similar journey (though lower price tags - I couldn’t justify the $10k espresso machine and its maintenance but used the ones at Netflix daily) and ended up in a similar place. Now, for my cup of choice, I’m picky about my beans and use a Bunn to do the pour over.

Consumer Bunn machines are pretty solid, my grandma’s lasted for over 20 years. Looking inside mine, I suspect mine will do the same. This is the one on my counter: https://retail.bunn.com/38300.0066
Man. The Sunday Post has the worst interface for selecting which cookies you want to allow. I think they're just hoping people will get tired of having to click through so many screens and in desperation click the "allow all" button.
Yeah, that's become my go-to for summer. I make one batch for the week - it doesn't seem to drop in quality over that time. Only equipment needed is a grinder (optional, really), a jar and a filter.
I highly recommend Kidpower [0] as a resource for how to have these kinds of conversations - they're really good at making things really specific and understandable for kids without going into details that are not age-appropriate.

They also have good advice for how to teach and equip kids to be independent while maintaining appropriate safety boundaries at each stage along the way to full independence. [1]

Discussion and trust are important but I think there is a phase where kids do not yet have the maturity for discussion and trust to be enough to keep them safe. In the meantime, they also need supervision and physical boundaries to be safe.

As an analogy, no amount of verbal instruction will allow a toddler to walk safely by themselves near traffic. Until they reach a certain maturity level, children need an adult who is paying attention and is ready to physically intervene if they start heading for the street.

I think there's a similar dynamic at play when it comes to internet safety. We need to teach our kids so that they will be ready for independence but we also need to recognize that they will not be ready for full independence for quite a while, given the complexity of the risks involved.

[0] https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/online-safety-for-y...

[1] https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/preparing-independe...
For the uninitiated (like me):

https://darknetdiaries.com/
I've come to this conclusion. Growing up in an italian-american household, the moka pot was a major part of that experience. Loved it as a kid (mainly adding milk and sugar in my younger years, now adding a little sambuca). But it was more the ritual - you would have it with others.

Since then I've gone down the espresso rabbit hole, and my set up makes some fantastic espresso, way better than the bitter lavazza moka pot coffee. but somehow, it doesn't replace those memories I made as a kid. Mostly because the ones who I drank espresso with have passed on.
it supports tags (multiple per note) and you can search with #tag
Especially if it’s someone posing as the opposite sex.
Bear Blog users can optionally add Fathom as an analytics tool. It's a fair criticism that this adds JS, but Fathom is arguably the best choice for analytics (maybe Plausible as well).
lmfao that guy got the perfect "npr voice" going on
They are not forced to do that work at a gunpoint, and as software engineers who managed to land jobs at FB, they most certainly have plenty of other options - even within FB.
Another one like the OP. Addicted to subscriptions. Terrible.

Only subscription here is my cell phone plan.

Unless you plan on living to infinity too, I don't think the cost of a subscription is infinite.
(Meanwhile, Google flags every log-in from my daily Linux driver as a potential security issue. Madness.)
That was nice of you, you probably could've kept the money and there isn't much they could've done.

Ask me how I know :( PP money was not recoverable that one time my ex sent it to the wrong email address.
The danger is that by calling upon Google to solve these issues, we concede more and more power to them. Google is a tech company with about 140k employees, about 1/5 the population of San Francisco. Do we want this tiny minority of people to have such a huge influence on which laws get enforced (eg Google giving police data about people selling weed over Gmail) and which laws don't (eg Google deleting data about visits to abortion clinics).

Laws should be determined by lawmakers, not tech companies.
You’re making an interesting point here.

I’m resistant to it because some analysis I do (say, inferring atmospheric composition from the spectra of light you shine through the atmosphere) does fit rather well in the Bayesian setup. In a very real sense, if you are doing a bunch of these inversions and not using Bayesian methods, you are leaving RMSE on the table.

Here, the “features” are the spectra you sense and you add some basic prior information based on historical expectations. You don’t have that much wiggle room to invent new variables to confuse the analysis.

But the situation changes if you have woolier problems with human judgement in finding “features” — the variables in the prior or likelihood in the spam example you give. And you can fool yourself badly!

E.g., to go with your market example, I have two models for the stock market, and 1 month of historical data strongly favors model 1 over model 2, so I bet heavily on model 1 as if that’s the only possibility. But it wasn’t, and I lose.

The area of causal inference uses a slightly different set of tools that gets outside the Bayesian setup, including the Do() operator, which allows for manual intervention to probe the linkages in systems like these. There’s a lot of activity there as we’re looking for systems that learn reliably.

I don’t know if you listen to podcasts, but Judea Pearl was recently on Sean Carroll’s (excellent) Mindscape podcast. They discuss this at some length, it was very nice.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/09/196-...

PS: it’s enjoyable to see your comments here.
> A lot of people lose money in the stock market this way.

This sounds extremely plausible to me. I'd like to use it as an example in something, any data to back it up?
Perhaps under the “mental capacity” loophole?

> Mental Incapacity. Either spouse was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the marriage and was unable to make informed consent

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/whats-the-legal-differenc...
1. System assigns each user a random visually unique (no lookalikes) ID, and assigns a visually unique colorblind-friendly abstract image generated from user's ID (like you say) as default avatar.

2. User is free to change avatar and username, except there must be no visually similar avatar-username combinations across userbase. The restriction is enforced any time the user changes avatar or username.

3. System ID is shown to screen readers in place of avatar.

4. Whenever user interacts with another, if they have not communicated before, profile image or system ID is made more prominent for validation.
Order of magnitude more? Or less? Back home, they had centuries worth of physical plant to rely on. Colonists have to make do with what can be cobbled up on the spot.
That's not how markets work. People will still clean the toilets, but the supply of toilet cleaners will fall, while demand stays the same or even increases, meaning that prices will increase. The result is not that nobody will clean toilets. It's that those who do will be paid more.

(And other effects: There will be increased demand for technological alternatives to hiring toilet cleaners and innovation in that area, for example. Or alternatives to toilets might become more popular. Etc.)

You are correct, things will become more expensive. But so what? It doesn't really matter, because everyone in this hypothetical society is wealthier. For example, the price of hiring a janitor in San Francisco is outrageously expensive compared to hiring someone to clean in, say, a poor township in South Africa. But the people in SF are wealthier, so it doesn't matter.

And the janitors are wealthier, too: They make $40k/year in SF, $4.5k/year in Cape Town. Similarly, the average janitor in SF possesses much more wealth not only than their counterpart in South Africa, but also more than almost anyone living 100 years ago. Because society has created more wealth.

Your model of how things work is subtly based on the fixed pie fallacy, which assumes that total wealth cannot increase, and that if there are gains in one area, there must be tradeoffs elsewhere. Which is not true.

Rich people don't have strong incentives to keep poor people poor.
Do you know by any chance - Is this feature available only in US, or for the Canadian customers too?
I think enough simulations have been run and nuclear tests to determine it's a little more real and consequential than a hypothesis or simple idea as you seem to imply.
There’s something I’ve never quite understood and I wondered if someone who knows this history might be able to explain it.

I’m used to Java and Maven. My package manager (mvn) downloads 3rd party packages into my local repo, and all my Java projects have access to it. So I only have to download a specific version of a specific package once.

Node and NPM came along, and I think were written by a former Java developer. But NPM puts a full (unzipped!) copy of every package in each of my projects. This leads to pointless duplication of files, and in Windows is slow as dirt due to how NTFS works.

Yarn’s PNP mode sort of solves this, and it seems like recent versions of NPM may be changing things. I’m not sure.

But why did it start that way? Does anyone know?
Godot without console support is a hard pass for most pro game developers.
A dozen years ago when people started using them I thought those were rather odd fellows. Fast forward to the point where after 20+ years of coding lower back pain is quite common unless I work at a standing desk a lot.
I use a popcorn maker (air popper) to roast coffee and do it in our yard. No one complains about smoke or the chaff.
On the pourover side of things, coffee can tend towards a tea-like substance, with some degree of translucency and delicate flavours, the kinds of flavours that you need light roasting to preserve.

It's in part exploring different kinds of drinks that can be made from coffee beans.

You can also get a different kind of espresso, but it's wasted if it's going to be mixed into a milk and sugar concoction.
It’s funny, my lab in grad school had a reasonably nice coffee shop on the first floor. So I have a lot of pleasant memories with my lab mates and supervisor while drinking pretty good coffee (sometimes with flat whites or single source light roasts).

I remember once waiting in line while a new student in my lab was complaining about how Reddit coffee snobs said anything besides a light roast coffee with a splash of milk “killed the flavour of the beans”. So a postdoc and I each ordered light roast and put a splash of milk in it, originally planning on spending the next twenty minutes talking about how he had killed the flavour coffee with a dark roast, but then finding we both quite liked getting our coffee that way.
The kids are not smart enough yet to understand the threats that face them even when I try to explain. I have Pfsense setup on the house with pfblockerng and several firewall rules and other settings. I gave them Linux computers and GrapheneOS phones with VOIP and burner SIMs. They are pretty happy with them. I also have a Nextcloud, XMPP, email, and other server apps setup for them. People get locked into the first tech they use which Apple and others are well aware of. It is your duty to set them right from the beginning.
Big fan of Bear Blog. I'm just starting my own, and decided to modify some of the default Bear styles/web components by using Cloudflare Workers: https://blog.willswire.com
How many surveillance-state abuses have we said this about in the last 21 years? Always the answer is “yes in theory, but in practice the state does it anyway and courts usually defer to its judgment”.
Has this been tested with silencers specifically? Seems like it’s nasty both directions; if you usually run a silencer on your home defense gun, they’d get you for that. If you don’t, and you take the time to put one on, it undermines your self defense claim.
Paypal has a "reverse charge" button. You should be able to cancel any payment within a reasonable timeframe.
Firefox is great. I couldn’t ever go back to a browser without multi-account containers -> container tabs + temporary containers.

I do notice that as time goes on I seem to be having more issues with sites breaking under uBlock Origin, but to be fair I think I’m using all the blocklists, not just the defaults, so I think breakage is expected. It’s easy to turn off for particular sites, so it’s not a huge issue for me.

Somewhat related - I’m really enjoying the new Thunderbird. It feels way more polished than the previous version.
Not if 'profitable' is not deemed enough, which is the problem. It's simply never enough (hence the many references to unrealistic infinite growth), so what is most likely to happen is some way to 'restart' the growth count, so we can have a pretend-infinite-growth party again. Maybe a merger, maybe a spinoff, maybe a some other construction.
The article mentions Instagram DMs. I don’t think those could be spoofed. Law enforcement would have to care and Instagram would need to get a subpoena, but they should be able to provide a lot of info on the account that sent the message (geoip, behavior, etc).
This is an absolutely fantastic article that gives me a much better sense of how and why an extraterrestial city would emerge, and what form it would eventually take.
I did that and then my 10-year-old installed a vpn extension on his Chromebook.
A Blog Driven by GitHub Discussion
For programmers, Github is a very familiar site, and it would be very interesting to use Github's features to create blogs.

Project Name: Hakuba
How Does It Work: Hakuba fetches the contents on GitHub Discussions with GitHub GraphQL API and webhooks. Then renders the actual blog pages from them.
The company we're talking about here is, if not an outright monopoly, a dominant market player that actively abuses their dominance to the detriment of both competitors and customers. The correct way to fight that is to make such a thing not exist anymore.
I don't think the whisk technique would work to make mayo. Or you must be much, much stronger than I am.
> google's server and loads their JS which fingerprints your browser they have your device logged

This is a big claim. Do Google’s ad-serving scripts really engage in fingerprinting? If yes, then there should be proof. Is there proof? I don’t think it’s possible for Google to do this covertly using JavaScript, so either Google does this and we have proof, or Google doesn’t do this.
>You’re their parent, not their friend. You can’t be both.

Sure you can. And the only reason you are saying otherwise is you don't know how to do both.
5 years in jail only? How is this fair? He caused a death. By choice. By design.
Out of curiosity, what's your policy in these situations?
Creator here. You can technically self-host it, you'd just be self-hosting a blogging platform instead of a blog. There are options to self-host other tools with the same theme as other commenters have stated.

Also, "privacy-first" and "self-hosted" are not mutually exclusive concepts. By your logic all software you don't host yourself isn't privacy respecting, which is a fair belief on your part, but opinionated at best.
USSR is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

I'm not sure what you mean by "word plays on social theory and what stateless means". Both are perfectly descriptive labels; they just lie.
Had he attempted to conquer Britan before turning to Russia?
You're the one sealioning. My question was simple.

Have you been polled?

Have you not?

I am tired of people hiding behind pollsters imagined legitimacy, particularly when we have the technology today to literally ask everyone what they think.

And yet... Never do I seem to run into anyone who responded to one of these polls.

Have you?

Easy answer. Yes or no.
I know, i was agreeing with you. The long covid numbers are what makes COVID worse. I was pointing out that there is no way around those.
No comment on the leaked transcripts showing our meddling in Ukraine prior to the coup? No comment on the invasion of Crimea literally happening the day after our preferred leaders took control after the coup?

These are unrelated coincidences in your mind?
Money put into synthetic hydrocarbon production is extremely premature when we don't have enough renewable generating capacity yet to displace current CO2 emissions.