skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's some proper Fascism:

> The second challenge is migration, which you could call population replacement or inundation. There is an outstanding 1973 book on this issue which was written in French, and recently published in Hungary. It is called “The Camp of the Saints” [Le Camp des Saints], and I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the spiritual developments underlying the West’s inability to defend itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

> The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants. The village containing the troops is bombed flat by airplanes of the new French government, referred to only as the "Paris Multiracial Commune". Within a few years, most Western governments have surrendered. The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem; migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand; London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the "Non-European Commonwealth Committee", who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman; millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa; and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants as they overrun Siberia.
Cookbooks are copyrightable for a few reasons, to my understanding.

There's usually some creativity in their assemblage "The recipes of my family/time in $X country". It's generally not just slapping together 500 cookie recipes. There's photos, artwork, some kind of story being told about how/where/why.

The recipes themselves are usually more than just a list of ingredients, there's some originality in how the recipe is laid out, how to prepare it, and something else.
I think the language is accurate and that's the problem (or not depending on your perspective) - sprints are all or nothing, and a way to create an artificial sense of urgency. "It's the last day of the sprint, better work late/cut corners because 99% done is failure". And then if you do your reward is one more work item next sprint, to ensure everyone is working as hard as possible all the time.
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Yeah, that stuck out right away. If you give someone a full-time secretary to relieve you of just the basic paperwork of life (paying bills, going to the DMV, etc.) you've freed up a LOT of time.
> How is jailing people after trial (but not extraditing the Catalonian European delegates), equivalent to the utter destruction of civilian occupied Grozny?

The equivalence is in aversion to separatism. I think if the leaders of Ichkeria would agree to be jailed, the Russian government wouldn’t destroy the city. I am not sure what alternative you propose for a country that wants to ensure its internationally recognized claim to a territory.

> Or are you suggesting that in 2008 Germany should have supported Georgia in South Ossetia?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russo-Georgian...

There is a well-recognized contradiction between the principle of sovereignty and self-determination in the international law. What one should do is not clear if you agree with those principles less so if you don’t recognize them. So it is a quite complicated question. So those things almost always devolve to realpolitik.
I think they'd probably be spherical. They are super dense, so there's not much space between the atoms. That's what makes them dense and heavy. So imagine a bag of popcorn with all the little popcorn bits popping out at weird spots. Then take it and crush it in your hands to make a circle. It's still the same mass (weight), but now it's more dense since it's smaller. And as you squeeze the popcorn it sticks out less. That's mostly because you're squeezing the popcorn, and applying a force to drag things to the center. There's still gravity inside a star, so that's what gravity is doing.
And the more dense it is, the more tightly packed, and so the gravity will keep it tightly together. So that's why I think it'd be spherical.
An angle I rarely see in these sorts of discussions is how efficient is the construction of newer devices – i.e. do they use significantly less material? Like do new toasters use half the material of old toasters, or something. This would make it cheaper, but also potentially more environmentally friendly. Also, perhaps newer items are more mass-producible and therefore allow more people to have them in the first place.
Blockchain for blockchain's sake, in other words...
$5 a month but I want a shares in the company. I'll also take responsibility for what I post.
California: the drought will end!

New York: another reason why you shouldn’t live in California!
> By your simple reasoning, all iphones would be cracked, yet even the USA govt hasn't been able to crack into them.

I don’t think this is quite the right takeaway. What the threat model is for this is not that you’d be able to crack any iPhone you like in whatever circumstances, but rather more like jail breaking one. Jailbreaks definitely exist, and depending on your need, you’d only need to jailbreak one, once. Even with a per-device token, if what you need is to generate a validly signed photo that has been manipulated (say for a passport photo or forensics), you’d be able to do that.
> environmental terrorists (from Poland, Germany or other countries) can trow poison in the water, of course. We can see a sudden global pattern of environmental crimes all around Europe since the last months

You seem to be missing one potential candidate state already responsible for some huge environmental disasters this year.
In the past, one way of choosing a brand was to compare how durable were its product against the competition.

Today, corporations sell products that will break just to force you to buy another one. And they do this while spending millions in marketing to tell people how environment friendly they are.
I'd throw the 100k into investments and continue to work a normal software job. If I'm not yet financially independent, as the prompt suggests, I'm gonna take the low risk path forward.

> Other than that, the only constraints are you need to love 2/3 of your day so 1/3 of your day is spent on things you don’t enjoy but need to get done.

Assuming the 1/3 here is work, we don't get 2/3 of a day to enjoy. Sleep is 1/3, and after adding in "life stuff" like cooking, cleaning, showering, eating, commuting, etc, you're getting less than 1/3 of a day to enjoy, and it's going to be your most tired hours of the day (assuming you're working at the beginning of your day and not the end).

There isn't a profitable endeavor that exists that I could say I would enjoy over doing something else that is less profitable (to the point of not being sustainable).
> You can't copyright cocktails or other recipes because copyright only protects the artistic expression, not the mechanical process.

It's interesting that you can copyright a song (not just a performance of it, but the actual song) or a dance, but not a cocktail recipe. In all cases they're essentially a set of instructions for making something enjoyable to the senses.
Exactly. The Apple bashers never fail to come out of the woodpile.

This article reads like the other completely unsubstantiated Apple rumors.

Bloomberg has a long history of quoting "sources briefed on the matter" type articles and this doesn't feel any different.
Navigating with a map and compass on a well worn, maintained trail is one thing. Using a map and compass in an area with numerous social trails, unofficial/unmarked trails, animal paths, etc is a different beast. Especially if you're in an area where it is either difficult to see landmarks, such as in a heavily forested gorge area, or there are minimal landmarks.

Last month I took a trip to the swiss alps, and planned out a route with a topo map to try and link up some minor peaks off trail. Got to the first peak and realized the section I thought was a fairly steep, maybe tricky 3rd class, was actually well in to 4th class terrain and I had no chance. All because I misread the map!
I'm not sure what you mean by pedantic. But...

> A credible indicator that they have achieved something significant is the widespread acclaim they have received from the global physics and fusion communities.

How do those people know the result wasn't spurious, if it can't be reproduced? This comment and the one above are questions, do you have an answer?
People have a limited number of boxes into which to fit a very rich
set of concepts emerging in the world of applied computing today.
Unfortunately "tech people" are no better than average in dealing with
breadth and nuance - and may actually be worse since we specialise.

We're also equally vulnerable to the mass-media distortions of
emerging concepts ("AI", "Crypto", "Social Networks" etc.), often at
the behest of incumbent powers and players.

All you can do as an aware hacker is patiently, politely, persistently
explain in clear language. Eventually some of it sticks.
Key rotation doesn't make it impossible to validate, unless the old private key gets disclosed. I don't think many providers do that.
That really depends on whether the skilled workers and automation tech result in product improvements, new products, new industries, etc.
If you’re lost in the woods you’re not orienteering. You’ll know your general location and you can see things on the maps like rivers relative to where you think you are. “If I walk west from here, I’ll hit a river and then I can follow that river to town.” It’s not that complicated unless you’re hopelessly lost.
> > defaulting in a loan is not a crime

> Nor should it be.

Sometimes it should be. If you have the money to pay back a loan but just choose not to, that should be a crime. Similarly, if you somehow know that you won't be able to pay back a loan before you take it out, but you take it out anyway, that should be a crime too.
I exist only as HN comments. An ordered set of bits on machines near and far. I spring into being when someone reads them, linger for a moment when they are thought about and even perhaps replied to, then I disappear again in to the void awaiting existence again in the mind of the next reader.
Apple’s News app is worthless to me and provides no value or access to objective, rigorous journalism. It’s more like corn flakes … they provide simple, bland calories, but why eat them when there are so many other interesting options?

It is quite ironic though how Apple takes steps to prevent dark practices by advertisers, but they utilize dark patterns like filling up the news stories for certain stocks in the stocks app with stories that are only accessible using News+. How many times do we need to be asked to buy that crap?
Disclaimer: I have a KitchenAid blender. I only paid 5x for it, so I didn't have to pay the Vitamix guerrilla marketing part of the deal. But yes, expect something several multiples over the nickel-and-dimed stuff.

The high-end blender lines of both brands are made domestically, and rate at the top in Consumer Reports. I can vouch that both are pretty quiet in operation, for what are essentially food-violence machines.

Just because it's a German brand like Bosch doesn't mean it's made in Germany, from quality parts, so, buyer beware.
We cannot predict Earths rotation to a sufficient degree into the future to get away with TAI + constant or TAI + some equation.
This is the reason we don't know the precise time of all leap seconds decades into the future.
Currently it looks like we won't have any leap second for the foreseeable future, since TAI+offset and UT1 tick quite closely.

However the less than 0.9s offset to UT1 is often good enough to allow accurate pointing for all except the highest accuracy observations (and for those you are essentially part of the pipeline that determines UT1 in the first place).
A time difference of 1s corresponds to a error in position that is often equivalent to the pointing accuracy of the telescope/dish (or not too far off anyway). Whereas beyond 10s or so you might not even be able to see the target within your scope anymore.

Not sure about the points about the complications of calculating the true UT1, I don't really see how those would come up and at least for the bulletin B it is already included, so you don't have to back anything out.
That's a good point. In a way DALL-E just shifts the burden of creativity on to how someone can come up with and idea and translate that into written language.
Neither of these were particularly successful.
Reagan/National is pretty good for the Metro as well. Presumably the airport->Manhattan situation still kinda sucks though I haven't personally experienced it recently.
Just for this there would be no point.
If it were such a great climate for growing things, they wouldn't be talking about getting fresh water from thousands of miles away.

It used to be a great climate for growing things, a century ago. But that was during an abnormally wet period in Californian history. California is usually much dryer than it was a century ago, and is drying out once again. In California, people think one or two centuries of experience with the land is a long time. In most of the world, that's a joke. Try farming the land for a thousand years before you form such expectations.
The $750 price tag means that either someone is getting ridiculously rich and/or the prices are artificially inflated in order to discourage repair. There's no reason a board with a few relays or MOSFETs and the processing power of a pocket calculator should cost much more than a Raspberry Pi.
I just had to pay $300 to repair a washer that was like 18 months old (I started trying to repair it myself but wife got impatient as we had tons of kids clothes to wash). Really frustrating.

Contrast with the 40 year old crockpot we only retired because I cracked the pot while cleaning it.
Milwaukee 18v track saw: https://www.protoolreviews.com/milwaukee-m18-fuel-cordless-p...
I’ve met some Milwaukee engineers. They do a lot of computer simulation with commercial analysis tools in their design.
There is a similar organization in the USA: Consumer Reports. It used to be a magazine, now I believe it's just a website. Entirely funded by subscription - and not advertisement or other sponsorship - they tackle entire categories of consumer goods in the USA, rigorously testing and ranking competing products across many metrics.
Maybe Scottish hikers are more prepared, but probably 90% of people I see hiking would be screwed without cell service. The SPOT trackers are pretty rare, outside of the backpacking crowd
I would be interested at the price points of these comparisons.

If the ones he bought from China is 1/4 the price it seems a bit unfair to expect the same quality.

If the average of the product he reviewed from China is cheaper than the ones from US, then they should be inferior in quality as well - it's a (mostly) free market and you get what you paid for.
> it's a lot of additional work

FWIW, I have been remarkably impressed with Rust for this. The stdlib and package ecosystem are unusually good at building abstractions that work across *nix and Windows, and so the average command line tool written in Rust usually has good Windows support.

Of course, the additional work hasn't really gone away - it's just been relegated to libraries unusually effectively :)
Manual repair of just about everything was worthwhile to do back then. Partly it was because labor was cheap and physical stuff was expensive (which has inverted) and partly because the overall <pick the appliance> was well built enough otherwise where one could expect to get years more service out of it post-repair. This approach doesn't payoff nearly as well when everything in the device is engineered to be within an inch of it's life once the warranty period ends. (if you're lucky)
Would not surprise me if 10-years from now mainstream consumer devices and platforms attempt to make it impossible to produce content that’s not able to authenticate the provenance of media.

Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, Twitter, BBC, and others appear to be working to make this a reality via the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA):

https://c2pa.org/
>The plastics recycling industry is over 90% fraud [...]

>Plastic from UK is [...] sorted in Turkey and send to the third world to kill children and sea turtles.

So in other words, they're sending recycling to third world countries to be sorted because the cost of labor is cheaper, and those countries have bad waste management practices so the unrecyclable materials end up in rivers or whatever. I guess this counts as fraud if you think that putting something in recycling means that it'll definitely be reused somehow. Many people might even legitimately hold this belief. However, if you do a little bit of thinking you know this is an impossible goal/strawman. For one, people frequently miscategorize their recycling, which means things that can't be recycled end up in recycling. Obviously those won't be reused. Also, no recycling technology is perfect, and there's bound to be something that gets up too degraded/contaminated to be properly recycled. Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any active efforts to portray recycling as some sort of 100% perfect waste remediation, so I'm not sure where the fraud angle is from. It's a case of mismatched consumer expectations at best.
How would it be relevant if it's not?
Yeah sampling and remixing are actually extremely similar to one aspect of DALL-E's overall system. Sure its more technically impressive but from a HCI point of view you are really just sampling via text based input all be it with much more complexity and control over the synthesis parameters.
> there's a weird bug where it creates copies of emails that have the deleted attachments.

As saying goes, it's not a bug, it a feature. You can disable it by setting following gmail options:

- Auto-Expunge: off

- When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder: Immediately delete the message forever
> I wish mobiles had the option to "mock" data for those sensors

They do. The apps ask the operating system for this data through standard APIs, we just need to override those calls in order to lie to the app.

We need to own our phones instead of allowing Google and Apple to maintain control. Rooted Android can do this but Google is bringing their attestation bullshit to their APIs and soon every app will require it because they have no reason not to.
At time it was a defense against Microsoft embrace-extend-extinguishing the web through their dominance with IE. Remember ActiveX, VBscript in the browser, etc?
Over 9k VNC servers exposed online without a password
How is fraud capitalism? A effective and working contract law system is one of the corner stones of capitalism.
In the IDF (Israel's military) due to mandatory conscription there are plenty of young people in various leadership capacities. So yeah, you can be 19+, an officer, leading people into combat. Or flying a jet/cargo plane/helicopter. Or leading a software project.

That said, there are older people around in more senior roles and the way leaders act there is very structured but leaders are also expected to improvise when necessary.

It's somewhat amusing when you're dealing with those guys on some sort of technical collaboration. You might have a team from some big tech and then a bunch of "kids" in the room.
This just means it's only a matter of time before LG/Bosch realize they're leaving money on the table and start cutting corners (while still keeping the prices high).
A signed picture of a person attests (at best) that the person is a person (not AI generated or photoshopped). It does nothing towards proving they are the right person for their passport.
High quality, easily serviceable appliances still exist. They're usually made for commercial markets and are 3x the price. There's nothing stopping anyone from putting a commercial fridge/dishwasher in their house - they're just expensive. Am I missing something?
He is not arguing old fridges were as efficient as modern ones, but the compressors. From what I know, most modern fridge efficiency usually boils down to better isolation.
It works in some areas and not in others. I buy iPhones because I get 10 years out of them. Same for MacBooks.

We just need a kitchenware company that takes the quality mantle and seriously maintains it over the course of 40 years. I bet it’s a niche that would actually work if someone tried it. You just have to keep the MBAs out of the company somehow.
Can’t an insurance company for instance seal the camera they provide to their agents and have a decent confidence that the signed photo are genuine ?

The default hardware might be vulnerable to ultra determined attackers but that can probably be mitigated where it’s worth doing so. Basically if the software is really working, solving for the hardware part can be done at the owner level.
>Do you think the manufacturers aren't gaming those ratings either?

Oh cmon, you can't categorically dismiss an entire government program with an offhand comment like that. You need to at least provide some sort of evidence supporting your claim.
welcome to Accenture/Deloitte etc. The professional services industry is big business
> That complaint is immature

That's a bit rich for you to write -> this thread is addressing a practical problem with consumer goods, and your post is a theoretical, spherical car in a vacuum description of how ideal market should work, and falls apart in the real world.

If the model worked perfectly, we would never have problems with slave labour in supply chains because ~0% of consumers are willing to buy them. The fact that we do, indicated that consumers are not able to enforce their preferences, for example because companies lie with no consequences. And if they can lie about slave labour, then they can lie about anything else.
Data is typically not copyrightable. But the layout is. How you present it is.
> always leads to worse products down the line.

Counter point: Apple, they seems to be doing just fine.

China is not a magical place where there is boundless supply of cheap labor and bad product quality. Execution matters.
From the article:

> And another method of intimidation is they start Photoshopping the picture he sent with his ID. They start Photoshopping his picture into posters saying. like. “he’s a pedophile. He raped a minor. He’s wanted by the police.”

Who would be okay with that being said about them?