skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am correcting your misapprehension that the parent is equating gig work with indentured servitude. They are not. And I am reiterating the point the parent makes regarding the error both the grandparent and you make, in inferring from the willful entrance into a contract the non-exploitative nature of that contract and its execution. To repeat: indentured servants entered willfully into their contracts, yet those contracts were manifestly exploitative. Hence the willful nature of one’s entrance into a contract says nothing about whether it is exploitative in character or execution.
jakey_bakey to a homeless person: "Why so down? I absolutely relish the chance to go camping, sleep outdoors, cook a meal over a real fire. Isn't it interesting the disparity in our experiences?"
I have a Sony android tv and with almost every setting (eg. brightness, motion blurr processing, etc) I change I get a warning it might “increase power consumption”. So it might just be it is testen under the bare minimum functionality. But as soon as you enable any of the advertised features it exceeds that.

For the record mine mostly has 1-2W standby consumption. With some spikes to 10 or 20W for a few seconds sometimes. And once in a while it never enters deep sleep and gets stuck on 20W. Enabling HomeKit (Apple TV) on standby is a sure-fire way to have it standby on 20W permanently. I can’t disable it after unless with a factory reset. I’ve not touched Chromecast settings at all so can’t say if it has the same effect.
'Overall, the UK has 6,192 armed police officers ... that’s 4.3 percent of the country’s total 142,526 police.'
One bad substantive harm from ad id tracking on iOS?

Making zuck and google richer.
> people should not only create content for you, but they should pay you for the privilege of having you enjoy it?

I was specifically referring to "free" services from the likes of Google and Meta. The value they extract from user data is worth much more than the value users are getting from their services. Tech companies paying users isn't a novel idea[1].

For content providers I'm arguing that there should be new business models they can rely on that doesn't detract from the user experience. Patreon is also a good alternative.

> BAT isn't the right direction; they just tack on a crypto grift to make other people rich.

That's the cynical take, and, sure, I don't trust Brave Inc. either. That said, funding a crypto wallet from which I can selectively pay for the content I consume is a sound model, even if this specific implementation isn't ideal.

> I'd argue services like Netflix and Disney+ are the type of business models that work without ads, its just that people dont want to pay for content.

People are definitely paying for it. For a short while there a few years back, there was probably a reduction in pirated content. But large studios got greedy, enforced region locking even more, the market split up into dozens of similar services, and now consumers are expected to subscribe to many different streaming services to access content, which is exactly what we were trying to escape from TV by cord cutting.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/30/sh...
Aren't such long phrases horrible writing, kind of by default?
Well be paying the pole tax in perpetuity for yearly “aerosol treatment.”
I don't know about damage to the hull but at the official investigation they did mention the fire was bad enough they needed to cut holes in a bulkhead for the smoke to escape. And those two sections, if flooded, would be enough to sink the ship.

I'm not sure if that's the theory on how it was supposed to happen.
If it were $1, you still wouldn't buy it.

The customers who are this price sensitive are always the worst. They're the most needy, and the most likely to churn.

When a contract is $50,000 all you ever hear from the client is "Invoice paid. Thanks!".
Wow, this is fascinating. Do you know how many examiners are using this tool? Why did you choose to make the default configuration more nitpicky than yourself, and is this the config you use when running the tool?
I heard of notmuch, but I remember I dismissed it for whatever reason. Perhaps as it's a text UI, rather than command line.

However, mblaze looks very promising. Thanks for that. It's almost literally what I had in my minds eye. It's light on dependencies and also packaged for Alpine Linux which is a good sign, and means I'm already trying it! :)
> Most other needs are covered by Sketch/Figma.

Hoo boy, do I have some bad news for you!

> Haven’t found a good Illustrator alternative yet, but didn’t look much.

I’m very happy with Affinity Designer
> While the parties are usually laypeople, the drafters and readers of significance are almost always lawyers.

I disagree. First, many contracts are not drafted by lawyers. Mortgage notes, which you mention, usually are; but, for example, a real estate sales contract in most states is standard boilerplate language that was drafted by realtors, not lawyers.

Second, saying that lawyers have to read the contract if a dispute goes to court doesn't mean lawyers "almost always" are the readers of significance, since most contracts never result in a dispute that goes to court. If a dispute goes to court, then of course it is prudent to hire a lawyer to represent your interests. But if contract language has done its job properly, there will never be a dispute that needs to go to court, because both parties--lay people--will have had a common understanding of what the contract says and will act in good faith to fulfill it.
Mourning Figma: The End of a Chapter
Are you talking about someone else like Scott Young?
I'm not sure about that. It’s relatively easy to make and doesn’t require any particularly scarce materials. It just takes some time to ferment. But the alcohol industry is very good at supplying as much as people will buy. Seems more equilibritory than either deflationary or inflationary.
YouTube is barely break even according to most reports and GSuite is really not that big in the enterprise.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637079/as-google-move...

> Google grew its share of the productivity software market to 10.3% in 2020, according to research from Gartner, taking about 2% from Microsoft. Microsoft is still the clear leader however, with 89.2%. Overall, the productivity software suite market grew 18.2% during 2020.
I did mean incentives (typo), but obscuration seems fitting: "the action of hiding or concealing something", even if obfuscation might be a better fit.
Green storage at scale does not exist yet because the equipment to do it has not been built yet.

The equipment has not been built yet because the factories to build it are still under construction, and because money is still overwhelmingly better spent building out renewable generating capacity needed to charge it from. Storage you cannot fill up is wasted money.

People responsible for keeping the grid operating are not at all worried about their ability to continue, using renewables and storage that will be built.

In places and times where renewable generation falls short for longer than local storage can cover, energy will be imported from places with an excess, via transmission lines or shipments of synthetic fuel, most likely liquified anhydrous ammonia. Until that is available in sufficient quantity, they will burn NG during those shortfalls. The amount burnt will be much, much less than is today.

Producing and then storing hydrogen underground takes very little of "hydrogen infrastructure". H2 may be generated, stored, and drawn down all within a single facility built over or near the underground storage cavity. The power involved may be moved in or out by transmission lines.
Unfortunately not much in the way of performance measurements :(
https://archive.ph/hxTBv
You don't, but that's what's being sold. Not the old transaction, but instead the boarder awareness from the network of the market to create and deliver an audience.

Put another way, the book would argue that with the traditional way "relevance" was a reactive guess. Going forward the ability to create the desired behaviour is less of a guess and more predictable.
I have a Sony OLED TV from 2020 with Android TV and Chromecast, and power usage on my UPS is reporting as 0W when off (probably rounding down). I never had to disable it, but I also never setup network connectivity or the Android TV features in the first place.
Revolut Hit by ‘Phishing’ Cyberattack
That's funny. Whatever happened to vision and innovation? Improving the world and people's lives? Achieving great things through technology? Empowering people? I guess founders only talk about this stuff in the startup stage.

If all these corporations will concern themselves with is "line go up" then it's time for society to step in and seriously constrain what they're allowed to do in order to drive that line up. Frankly, corporations making line go up by shoving advertising into everything everywhere aren't adding a lot of value. They're just increasing audiovisual pollution and that's an extremely charitable interpretation of their activities. What I actually think is they're violating my mind every single time they show me an advertisement. My attention is mine, it's not theirs to sell off to the highest bidder. I couldn't care less how much money it costs them, it should be illegal for them to do it.
That happens all the time on HN if you click "too quickly".
Apply on USAJOBS: https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?k=patent+examiner

Looks like the USPTO is hiring in multiple areas right now.

It might take a couple attempts to get hired. I was rejected the first time I applied.

The USPTO doesn't care much about an applicant's background aside from whether the applicant has a technical degree. New examiners with expertise in particular areas probably won't be assigned to their areas of expertise, even if there's a strong demand for examiners in those areas. Yes, this makes no sense, but it's how the USPTO operates at the moment. I had zero experience with the areas I was assigned before I became an examiner.

(Again, this is all just my opinion, not that of the USPTO, US govt., etc.)
This is how everyone outside the US thinks as well. We do the same sort of rough maths for Fahrenheit (double and add 32) and pounds (about 500g).
> How would you prove that?

You don't. Once you sign a written contract, the presumption is that there was a successful meeting of the minds between the parties. If you later want to claim that you didn't have a meeting of the minds with the other party, the burden of proof is on you to show that. The other party does not have to prove that you did understand the contract.
>I challenge the blowhards here to like, name one substantive harm someone has experienced from ad ID tracking on an iPhone.

How quickly we forget/forgot this proof of concept:

http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
I don’t do botany but aquascapes (underwater gardening) I generally learn from:

- books, just search it on amazon

- youtube tutorials

Then I try to practice it, trial and error while subscribing to various forums like Reddit, plantedtank, barreport, facebook groups for troubleshootings
Well it's gnu/linux, a multiuser unix that is not usable as a multiuser system (read the sdf.org story). It's a cheap hw-framework to run more or less reliable...but no problem we have kubernetes and containers to cover/perfume the stinking parts.
> I wonder if there is a way to use an iPhone or Android as a Yubikey. Oops, I mean Fido device. Anyone have an idea of how to do that? It seems like getting this to run on an Android would be significantly more functional (no extra device) and cheaper.

Krypt.co. It's been bought and turned into a commercial service but their free platform continues to work without issue. Obviously you shouldn't use this as your own way to authenticate and newer standards aren't supported, but I use it every day for my self hosted services (put everything behind Apache OIDC + Keycloak so I don't even need to set a separate password on my self hosted stuff anymore!)
Creating hardware at scale is hard. What company do you think will be able to duplicate Apple’s infrastructure, manufacturing, chip design, retail, etc?

Not to mention that even with “great design” any Android phone is still stuck with being Android and the lack of integration between software, hardware and ecosystem.
Ok so... Why would you ask this question? Can you convert them using another chromecasted device?
Somebody always brings this point up so it might as well be me this time - but does advertising work at all, particularly online advertising?

I refuse to believe I'm some kind of one of a kind special snowflake, but whenever I wanna buy something cheap or disposable, like food, socks etc. I just see it and buy it.

On the other hand when I'm looking for something I'm planning to get a bit more mileage out of, like a laptop, a pair of headphones or a cordless drill, I usually read the reviews and buy the product I think is most appropriate for me, not what the ads show.
A normative statement - which I declare to point out that you could also share what should be the case.

What might be more helpful is that ballot initiatives should have a stricter template based on type. If you're changing tax code it could be:

- Initiative Type: Taxes

- Affects: The homesteads of elders in X, Y, for Z

- Results: Taxes are raised

- Description: As stated above

- Definitions: Homesteads - X, Elders - Y, ad valorem - etc

Of course this is essentially making the same conclusions as the title which is that standard writing/legalese is really no longer acceptable given the complexity of many modern laws and incentivized parties.
Intel and AMD are no longer dominant.
Yes it's hard to imagine today, but Italian immigrants in America dealt with a lot of prejudice.

Columbus Day, for example, exists largely because it functioned as a reaction to anti-Italian-immigrant sentiment:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769688161/columbus-days-meani...
This is very pretty!
I just can't focus as easily on e-books. I always end up feeling like I need to be doing something more productive if I'm in front of the computer.
Well I was almost finished designing the base note featuring a florid faced, beaming Nixon for the obverse and parachuting dodo bird clutching a bundle of wilting tulips on the reverse.

If not alcohol, what then?
> This is in a sense totally factual, and I challenge the blowhards here to like, name one substantive harm someone has experienced from ad ID tracking on an iPhone.

Things don't have to cause obvious harm to still be inappropriate.
No, the only way to not be the product is to not provide PII to big tech, or their downstreams that immediately shuttle your PII to big tech.
Love it! I refer to these kinds of puzzles as "state mazes", but maybe that's not quite the right term. Many variations are explored in "logic maze" books like Mad Mazes (https://smile.amazon.com/Mad-Mazes-Intriguing-Twisters-Puzzl...). Most of them use simpler mechanics and look more like mazes, but some toward the end start looking like your puzzle.
I'm curious how surprising this really is. I mean I imagine most of the documented anythings have happened in the last 100 years, because documentation of everything has gotten so much better over the last 100 years.

Not to mention, how do you have hyperinflation with gold bars and barter?
I got a bunch of TP-Link Kasa devices of that sort. Awesome.
Fun, but alas not new: conditional movement of entities through a graph towards a win-state configuration is a decades-old staple of game puzzles. For someone with the relevant experience, less than 90s to clear.

I did like the presentation, however! I think it has potential for a series of escalating difficulty.
Except the small detail it isn't POSIX, and the C compiler is somehow special in its ways.
I did borrow it from the library but eventually found more up to date knowledge on internet.
I prefer book.
The upstream water used to keep Lake Powell afloat is running out
This could only come from someone who doesn’t understand the enterprise.

How is a luxury good affordable by over 50% of the US market?
I'm not entirely disagreeing, but this is a disgusting mindset when applied to mathematics, and programming is applied mathematics. I've seen it so often. The incompetent spend so much of their time dredging up excuses for mediocrity, rather than improving.
Fingers crossed FTC will block the acquisition.
I'm in the eu.
What would not count as remote, where you are (added for all the USAians that think it's actually one [socialistic] country)?

*where i am at the moment, if i buy something in a shop i have 7 days to return it as i could have 'examined' the item there.
Online, delivered, i get 30 days.

Empty shops, retailers, empty shops...I 'remote' purchase. But i do go looking first in your store...
If there isn't a free PDF of it online then yeah
Storm lashes Alaskan shore, bringing severe flooding prompting evacuations
> So what's the solution to this problem?

There’s no problem; Costco is an intermediary that brings value and so it takes its cut. Why do people buy from Amazon, who is also "just" an intermediary? Because you can buy millions of different products from one single place instead of having to go see each manufacturer where you wouldn’t be able to buy individual items anyway.

This situation is a lot more effective than forcing each manufacturer to develop its own customer-facing business with all the costs and logistics that go with it.
Usually it goes directly too loo reads except maybe the first evening where I'm "excited" of the new toy and read it outside, or if I need it as a reference for some reason.

If I don't have a basic understanding of the topic I read the first few chapters sequentially before starting the random picking, though.
I believe it's possible to get a fixed rate "jumbo" loan for even more than that, but since they're "non-conforming" they can't be sold to fanny/freddy, and so the banks take on the full risk of these loans. For conforming loans, the limit in most areas is $647k [1], which has risen substantially in recent years (along with broader housing cost inflation). Not adjusting for HCOL areas would effectively be blocking lower income people from moving into these (arguably) "higher-mobility" areas.

[1] https://www.fhfa.gov/mobile/Pages/public-affairs-detail.aspx...
Unless the firmware is code-signed.
Another poster shared the Java memory model, and C++ and C have them as well. The article we're discussing shows another kind of formal model for multithreaded code in TLA+, and actually uses it to investigate this bug. There is also Tony Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes formal model, first presented in 1978; and an entire field of CS research called process calculus.

So, pick a formal model and use it - though note that formal methods tend to add significant extra effort to use, and may or may not pay off depednig on your domain and desired outcomes.
> Netflix and Disney+ are the type of business models that work without ads, its just that people dont want to pay for content

You don’t see an issue with that statement?
Ah, so that’s why German websites often have a “impressium” section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum
I have some ebooks (on general, steady, topics like "domain driven development" and "event sourcing" and the like), and I am still grabbing some nice bundles on Humble every now and then but I source most of my reading material from Safari / O'Reilly since a few years.

My main reason to do this is because tech is moving extremely fast and you do not longer have to throw books away on topics which are no longer relevant.

And a yearly sub at O'Reilly also prevents buying e-books on [enter the latest version of your favorite programming language/database/other tool here] over and over again...
> Then what hope is there for a layperson to do anything of significance without first having a lawyer vet the EULA?

I think this focuses attention on the wrong thing.

A counterparty that is acting in good faith will not put absurdly long legalese in a contract, because if they are acting in good faith, it is in their interest to reach a genuine meeting of the minds with you, because fulfilling the contract will benefit both of you.

So the first question to ask is, is your counterparty acting in good faith? Are they genuinely trying to reach a win-win agreement with you, where both sides benefit? Or are they just trying to get whatever they can out of you, by hook or by crook, without caring whether you benefit?

If the answer to that is the latter, your best option is to avoid dealing with that counterparty at all. If a counterparty is not acting in good faith, no amount of legal analysis of contract language can protect you. (And that is why I avoid using products and services that have those absurdly long EULAs whenever possible.) And if a counterparty is acting in good faith, you should be able to reach agreement on reasonably simple contract language that a lay person can understand.
When you know what module and functions you will need to work on for the next feature, pointing out what lines of code you will need to work with isn't hard. Making people look around where in the code they are supposed to work on shows lack of preparation, which is against what this article is about.
https://libgen.is/ is good for sampling books
Why Adobe Wants Figma and Why Some Investors Are Worried
I wonder how much the misapprehension that FPGAs somehow emulate is due to the fact that the way we configure them looks so much like code. VHDL is ghastly, but I prefer it over verilog bc verilog seems to actually try to look like C. I think especially for beginners it's too easy to lose sight of the fact that while you may "read through" your VHDL/verilog, that when it hits the FPGA fabric it's all going to happen in parallel. Maybe if the source matter were made to resemble data more than code, we could simultaneously ditch the verbosity of VHDL and the imperative algorithm appearances of verilog. I'm thinking maybe JSON at the moment. =P
Could also be interesting in a world where most PCs ran anti-virus tools of various different vendors.

Imagine Microsoft adding a magic “we’re the good guys” handshake to their OS that would all those anti-virus tool say “go ahead and do whatever you want”.
I think they forgot to google translate the disadvantages of JEB Decompiler

I haven't used JEB to comment, but I've gotten a lot of mileage out of https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar#readme and then feed the normal Java jars it produces into https://github.com/mstrobel/procyon#readme and (of course) one shouldn't overlook picking your favorite tool for dealing with AndroidManifest.xml which often has fun things hiding in it

While digging up those links, I was reminded that some folks enjoy https://github.com/Konloch/bytecode-viewer#is-there-a-demo because it can be easier to "try out" a few of the decompilation engines, but I don't use it because it's hard to do batch things with it, versus dex2jar into procyon is automation friendly
The problem with what you're advocating every idea or comment either have a reasonably in-depth response or none at all. That reduces the poster's toolbox and lets the naive observer think the fundamentally unsupportable ideas might not be being noticed.

A reply that says "this is obviously wrong" may seem contentless but it's just "minimal content". You should be able to respond like this for the same reason you should be able to down vote things without comment. It's like a professor giving comment on an exam. Some questions they will just mark wrong, some they might write "makes no sense" to get the person thinking or clarifying and others they'd go into detail with.