skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ofc, it should be. Android quality both on soft and hardware is not on par with Apples now. Google should step up their game with better phones and software.
This is a great idea, because I'll be able to snag a free Apple watch ;)

I regularly have phone watches left at our house by my children's friends and if you walk through the school after hours you'll occasionally find one lying on the floor (in amongst all the discarded clothes). They're too big for active children to want to keep on all day.

I can see why this would benefit some people, if their children have long solo commutes, and I'd trust Apple's privacy features more than most other phone watch manufacturers. But in general I'm more in favour of free-range children and not being able to track where my 9 year old is or have them message me every 10 minutes.
The "obsession" is a practicality.

I lived for 7 years without a car in a big city. I finally moved to a place where cars were practical and will never go back.

No bus is point to point. Generally you need to walk, wait for the bus, take the bus (which is slower than driving because it makes multiple stops), get off the bus, wait for the next bus, and then repeat two or three times.

It can turn in 30 minute journey into a 90 minute one. Then you have to pay for the driver and the gas. If you live in a place where it is freezing cold or constantly raining that 15 minute walk to or from the bus could be a nightmare.

What about transporting things, like groceries? I couldn't carry both a gallon of milk and hardly anything else, let alone any small appliance. I relied heavily on Amazon and peapod, which is really wasteful and expensive.

We need to stop this obsession with public transportation.
Ask HN: What Happens to an MFN, No Cap, No Discount Safe in Early Liquidity?
I recognize that the scenario described here is extremely unlikely, but I want to understand all possibilities.

Under the SAFE: MFN, No Valuation Cap, No Discount (https://www.ycombinator.com/documents) there is the possibility for a liquidity event after having the safe in place but before any other type of equity event - liquidity, equity, dissolution, or other. In this case, the agreement says the SAFE investor is entitled to their money back or “the as-converted proceeds it is entitled to in connection with a Liquidity Event (here, the proceeds it would be entitled to had its Purchase Amount been converted into common stock at a price per share equal to the fair market value of the common stock)” [The Post Money SAFE User Guide].

I don’t understand the second provision. If I took $100k in this MFN SAFE, then sold the company for $10M, then would the $100k of common stock that they’d be granted just be worth $100k? What would the investor get in this liquidity event ($10M)?
GNOME by far the most supported and mature desktop environment for Linux. KDE et al might look and feel better, but you have annoyances like bad multi monitor support, bad dock support, etc... So while I agree with many feeling others have expressed, I'm happy to use a distro that ships a DE that just works.
I'd say "defund the police" went real fast as well, but it was pretty poor marketing if it should have said "reform the police".

I think the Tang Ping movement in China really nailed it - lay flat probably captures the feeling best.
https://archive.ph/l0UvK
I’m looking at going back now,
Probably older than the average student, and on one hand I don’t have any of the typical temptations/distractions and no exactly what I want Tom get from it.

Unfortunately, everything about the institution assumes you’re a barely out of high school kid who’s groomed themselves for university life.
The table omits the fine print that says that you just get bigger pins with the more expensive plans.
3. Don't assume everyone is using a tablet.
If they do, it hasn't been used in history.

There might be some multi step exploit that requires me to download an app from an external source, but nothing like the 0 clicks.
I'm not sure I agree.

You certainly shouldn't sneakily make the substitution. However, making a "client" aware of options and the associated trade-offs is very reasonable. Heck, I'd say it's the most professional approach to this problem!

It may be that Mary just needed some measure of central tendency, and would be happier with the mean now versus the median in a week. Alternately, she might need the median specifically for some legally-mandated reporting, and only that will do. You'll never know if you don't ask.
The problem is nice but the solution proposed at the website is too convoluted. The straight solution is simple. The mid door must say the truth, so left and right doors must lie. Taking these three simple facts into account, the exit is on the right door.
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Electronics design, simulation, schematic capture and PCB layout skills are a must. Ideally you'd be comfortable coding in embedded C and writing gateware in VHDL. Experience is a must - our instrumentation is complex and requires a good understanding of sensor physics, signal conditioning and processing, digital systems and design for extreme environments.

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Title is accurate, but this quote is more telling of what's happened:

> "The AWS access tokens could be traced to a shared library, third-party SDK, or other shared component used in developing the apps"
What's the job? What's the pay?
I hate to use the word 'privilege' but it applies the other way as well. Like someone is probably in a privileged position to demand immediate refund and a handsome EU compensation on top of that, many people in more unprivileged parts of the world wouldn't be so lucky to get any of that at all. Privilege arguments can go so many ways.
Yes, it's very fishy.

All those identifiers prefixed by "ez", in the HTML as well as in the scripts, is it some kind of signature?
Why narcissists are more likely than others to believe in conspiracy theories
People not understanding the duck curve is a pet peeve of mine and I thought it had died out over time but that article is only months old and full of misinformation.

The duck curve "problem" is that the gas plants need to ramp up fast. If they can't ramp fast enough, you need to start them slightly early and turn some other more easily adjustable source down, usually wasting solar.

The fix, apart from just asking gas plants to ramp faster, is battery storage. When the duck curve was first discussed you couldn't even get cheap solar, never mind cheap battery storage and they thought that this small waste of solar might prevent it being cost competitive. This did not turn out to be a problem anyway, but batteries also fixed it.

You can see the batteries charging and discharging on the CAISO live graphs.

But, it is not about the height of the peak. We have more than enough capacity to meet the peak because we build enough for the yearly peak which is higher than the other peaks. We just didn't have stuff that could ramp fast enough. Now we do. Batteries.

Building coal or nuclear as that proposes does nothing to solve this problem.
It’s always the seemingly normal people with the weird hobbies
I read the headline and thought, is this a change of heart from the Gnome team, then I read the article. Yes, it was too good to be true.
That's not the argument. The very opening paragraph says:

> [extroverts] may not be responsible for all the evil in the world, but they did give us such pernicious results as Enron, Hollywood, the financial crisis, Washington, infomercials and Harvard Business School.

A better summary of the article is contained within the article itself:

> Susman noted that the qualities most often lauded in the advice manuals of the 19th century were “citizenship, duty, work, golden deeds, honor, reputation, morals, manners and integrity.” In the post-Carnegie era, these concepts were replaced by words such as “magnetic, fascinating, stunning, attractive, glowing, dominant, forceful and energetic.” Substance, then, was being replaced with surface, and the era of B.S. had begun. Fast-forward a hundred years and you can see Carnegie’s descendants trained in the highest BS — HBS, or Harvard Business School.

So a fairer reading of the argument is, tongue in cheek, "not all extroverts are harmful bullshitters, but most bullshitters causing systemic problems are (at least trying to be) extroverts".
Copy+paste from my comment three weeks ago in another thread on here. It got 24 points at the time[1], so I think other people thought it was an example of an enjoyable interview as well. This was for a job for a game development studio that had about 30 employees at the time:

"They asked me to bring in a code sample, we discussed what it did and various details around it, then he showed me an actual class in their codebase (printed out), asked me to explain figure out and explain everything it did, and there was also a couple mistakes included in the code for me to find as well.
The guy also asked me a few relatively simple technical questions, then said "Okay I know you can handle the job, let's see what you really know," asked me some really difficult questions, when I said "I don't know" to some he actually spent a few minutes teaching me the concepts.

That same guy was the lead programmer on some famous arcade games, btw. Did a lot of assembly programming back in the day. He had serious technical chops.

Got a job offer the next day. 1 interview, 1 interviewer, a little over 30 minutes spent.

Best interview experience I ever had. If more interviews were like that I wouldn't feel dread every time I felt the urge to switch jobs."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437818
The concept of tracking is interesting, when my 7yo daughter went on her last school trip we stuck an AirTag in her bag so that we could see if the bus back (about 2.5 hours) was going to be on time. It was super useful and we would do it again, but we wouldn't use one all the time.
I think they mean WWW shutdowns? Or are governments killing VOIP, newsgroups, email, etc?

Somehow I doubt that governments are successful in completely shutting down a network of networks that is designed specifically to resist shutdown attacks from internal or external. Maybe I'm naive.

edit: Maybe they're referring to the ability to order ISPs to kill access at the router level. So yeah maybe the concept of centralizing access to the internet via service providers is the problem worth discussing.

We don't have dialup anymore, we can't just simply point our comcast / verizon / whatever router to a new provider and have our access again. Not only do we not have dialup anymore, we don't even have landlines anymore in quite a lot of households. If the routers died, many houses would in fact be cut off.
going from one to the other will always be confusing but as a long time android user I have to say UX has really been going downhill quite a bit. the same could be true for ios but I wouldn't know and neither would other android users so from that perspective a switch might seem like a reasonable idea
I like this very much, especially because I love Audacity, but lately Audacity seems to be somewhat buggy as a native app on (Arch) Linux. With some versions I had rendering problems and buttons that didn't work (probably related to the widgets), with other version the whole sound system didn't work.
> Do you know who isn't working? Do you know who refuse to learn the language?

I have my suspicions yes. And if you're trying to point how Americans (and sometimes the English) are the rudest tourists, most of Europe knows that already. (I mean, even your tone on the comment is proof of that)

> there is the USA (EUA: Estados Unidos da América) right there in second place.

With 100 applicants.

> They're also 25% of new arrivals

Yes, but most of those are visitors (and some Schengen connections)

> understand you have no idea what you're saying just fine in English

Eu sou responsável pelo que eu falo, não pelo outras pessoas entendem. Não preciso de google translate pois sou falante nativo, ao contrário de certos "expats". Eu não estou defendendo americanos, nem falando que não estão se mudando para Portugal, mas uma andorinha só não faz verão. Passar bem.
That's certainly a thing. Sometimes it's just lazy coding.

Conversely, Firefox is the only app that lets me clean up bad site practices (eg: by using Kill Sticky). Conversely to that, in Android I have browse on FFx 68 because newer FFx (still!) has mostly non-existent extension support.
Relevant talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
https://archive.ph/dLKkb
Math does not work here: 8h x 2kW = 16kWh. Tesla has 60 or 100 kWh batteries. It only works if you take only short trips (like commuting to work) and never go below 70% of charge.
Electric Vehicles Cause More Expensive Collisions, Do More Damage
AXA Research (in German): https://www.axa.ch/de/ueber-axa/medien/medienmitteilungen/ak...
> Yes. I don't see how answering 39 is any better in that case.

Fair enough. I think 39 would show there's no bias towards younger or older employees. I think 39 is better but I can see both sides of the argument, and can ultimately see that it boils down to a question of personal preference as to which of two wrong answers is 'less wrong'.
I don't have a subscription, so I haven't read any arguments in favor. But I can tell you pretty definitively that this parent (of a 5 year-old, no less) is saying "No".
My additional opinion is that his long life as a player is related to his partner. Tom Brady's partner is Gisele Bündchen aka a super model. He and his partner has a common incentive for their health. This is the reason why Tom Brady has less injuries, I believe.
Because currency markets are generally negative towards government intervention and economic protectionism. You can say that's reasonable or unreasonable, but it's unquestionably true. The UK has suffered over the last six months for example from not increasing interest rates faster. An increase in interest rates would have been unpleasant for homeowners (I know, I am one), but it would have strengthened the value of the pound against the dollar, and that would have helped with energy costs significantly as it would have increased the UK's ability to buy.

I'm not really sure the Irish Potato Famine is relevant, given Ireland barely had it's own currency at the time (British pounds were in widespread use, and the value of the Irish pound was fixed to the British one).
I searched in German and Italian about the Swissair, Air Berlin and Alitalia debacles, and I did not find any news articles that said that credit card customers had received their money back.

Come to think of it, there might also be a press release or ad-hoc exchange notice saying "banks had to refund x billions due to visa chargebacks", I could have searched for it, so why not now? I found https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/chargeback_rep... now, which appears to imply that if you win the dispute (should be easy), your chargeback becomes a claim against the bankrupt airline and you'll get something or nothing, depending on how much is left in the airline.
Unlimited holidays is a scam!
Housing is only “affordable” if it’s subsidized. This is because construction and maintenance are out of reach for most people. New housing stock is expensive. Even if you use cheap materials, they need to be replaced in 10 years.

So even if you build multi-family dwellings, the crisis isn’t resolved because the cost of construction, maintenance, and property taxes are out of reach. Unless it is subsidized. The UK is evidence of this. Almost all their housing is multi-family and dense and unit size is small even by European standards. But it’s expensive still. And they keep building.

Japan is a good example of a place where there isn’t a housing crisis and it’s because homes are mainly disposable and very small.
I'm really bad at calc, it took me 6mn, but without using the 8. :)
This is like the interface version of Hyrum's law:

With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody.
Can whole buildings be blurred out on street view? I randomly found this building and I thought it was a deep fog from down the road.

https://goo.gl/maps/QKsUTSTTy3yv6ezTA
I've always used my Android phones one-handed. So, certainly not zero.
Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?
This guy is an excellent communicator. For a modern HN audience an explanation of virtual memory paging is not exactly necessary, but he does a great job of it and I'm sure this video would be really interesting for a much more general audience.
Fascinating data on how many of us (geeks) are there in the world
were surprised by the number. hope the number is higher by now...
>This is how passive USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongles work

From what I've read, this isn't exactly reliable. Maybe we can blame the device IC, but it gives me Bluetooth vibes where everyone blames each other.

Anyway, happy to see there is demand for it. I'll still be optimistic.
Meet HN: Bangalore (3rd September) confirmed
Hello folks, we now have final venue & time for HN meetup.

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It would take some kind of complete revolution. It’s not happening.

These batteries have very poor power density and are very inefficient. The advantages of nuclear-powered batteries are:

- They generate power over a long time, decades,

- They generate some heat.

They don’t generate much power. If you have a building, you would definitely think of a nuclear RTG as a “very shitty battery”, and that’s even if you don’t care at all about radioactivity.

Thinking of these as a “battery” is also a bit misleading, IMO. These are really just small power plants, which generate heat and turn the heat into electricity. The heat is powered by radioactive decay of Pu-238, and then turned into electricity with the extremely inefficient Seebeck effect. If you had a source of heat you wanted to turn into electricity, it’s much more efficient to use that heat to turn a turbine which is connected to a generator. And if you want an efficient, cost-effictive turbine, you make it big. At that point, you have a power plant.
Well, question of taste. I use Fedora 36 with Gnome precisely because I like the provided vanilla experience. I enjoy its simplicity, minimalism and it is nice looking enough for me for not having to spend time on tuning anything.
MECSA is nice as well https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/
There is a giant chasm between “Twitter gets to decide what it wants to host on its own web site” and “government censorship of speech”. It’s not in the same ballpark. It’s not even the same sport. Nobody has the obligation to publish, broadcast, or amplify someone else’s speech. If you don’t like one particular social media’s content policy, choose from one of the dozens of others or one of the thousands of web forums, or post in your own blog, or use one of hundreds of chat apps, the telephone, newsletters, or the (real) public square.
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Not just China and Russia, though. Lots of weirdness from Turkey, Viet Nam and even Netherlands.
> Maybe people really do have fundamentally different brains from each other

I think this is a big thing. People have vastly different approaches to interacting with a UI, especially one they use everyday, and it's foolish to think there's a good one-size-fits-all approach. See this article for a good example of bad data-driven thinking of this sort which can happen in a field we can objectively measure (or the 80/20 rule, where 80% of users only use 20% of features in a product. Problem being they all use a different 20% of features):

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
And that is why hackers tend to make poor cooks.

Look, you can reject Received Wisdom and do your own thing in the interests of rigor, or you can cook the way your grandmother did. We all know which produces better food.

Of course stoves are different. But trying to normalize things as an a priori goal (in this case by dropping cold eggs into boiling water!) only makes things worse. Traditional recipes are traditional precisely because they're tolerant of situational slop and occasional misinterpretation.
As I understand it, once you have already joined a guerilla organization like the Taliban, you have generally made peace with the fact that the drones are there. Watching someone die by hellfire missile strike further confirms that the evil people who are oppressing you by drone need to be stopped. Also, showing other people the aftermath of a strike helps to convince them to support you because they think they might get caught in the friendly fire.

It's a little like surrounding an army on an open field: If you give the losing side in a pitched battle an escape route, many of them will run, but if you surround them, they will fight to the death because there's nothing else they can do.