skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works with mobile apps that use Bluetooth, I would be very happy to just write one app in the browser if that was available. However we are not there yet, so two native apps it is.
Yes, please. My god.
The reactionaries have a strategy that’s like the old “embrace, extend, extinguish”… “deny, rationalize, accept”.

Post-Al Gore, it was “don’t believe your lying eyes”. That gradually pivoted to “climate change is happening, but it’s a natural cycle”. Eventually it will pivot to “meh” or “it’s gods will”.

It’s a pattern applied to lots of issues by the reactionary elements. It works because it’s easy to deny and subsequently concede small points. We’ve trained a generation to be adept at this online.
Reduced cost.

Yeah, we’ll see there. This is the federal government, not a startup.
Imagine any other engineering field complaining about safety being a mental drain.
This isn't as clear-cut as you might like if you're interpreting it as climate evidence. Warm-weather crops were grown in cold areas in the past by setting up artificial environments such as walls built close to the plants to absorb sunlight and radiate heat. We have many ways of modifying the climate to suit our needs, and even if that's not economical today (with cheap international shipping), that doesn't mean it wasn't economical in the past.
> How is this any different than that?

Well, were the Library recordings stored on hardware that you owned?
After some scoffing I’ve updated my thinking to “this isn’t terribly non-sensical.” Perhaps small or medium business. A few chargers for your EV panel vans w/access control in a public lot…or maybe to capture a green tax credit. YMMV in the extreme w/Ubiquiti early access.

I prefer my EV charger to be as simple as possible, but that’s a home use case. (https://grizzl-e.com/home-products/)
> One significant case the LBRY ruling could impact is the SEC’s suit against Ripple Labs and two of its executives, who have been charged with selling $1.3 billion in unregistered securities. Much like LBRY, Ripple Labs’ defense has hinged on its claim that its native token XRP is not a security.

The precedents being set with these cases will have an enormous ripple effect on crypto and web3 companies.
This is also my perception. There's a cynicism that permeates this industry about what people are capable of understanding or using if given a little time and some motivation, to the point that listening to a forum like HN you'd think no one who sits in front of a computer can even type, let alone aim a mouse at a button.

Twitter was once considered pretty obtuse compared to facebook, at any rate. Once upon a time people didn't know what a retweet was or how to "at" someone. They didn't learn because twitter was "so easy" they learned because the people they wanted to talk to were there.

Network effects always trump all on these things.
>Personally I like Interlingua which is basically a cleaned-up latin.

I on the other hand like it messy and stick with good old fashioned Latin (as an added bonus, the language of my ancient and noble church). Et numquam mutabo, irrumo Interlinguam!
The controversial site you mentioned is currently being blackholed by one of the major transit providers in the US, who are supposed to be neutral when it comes to internet traffic. This is the level of political interference from certain identity groups, disrupting the internet in a way that would usually only get done via the courts.
Same here. I tried setting up a "system" for my family, with Raspberry Pi, etc. It always required futzing, and rebooting, and never just worked. Also, everybody in the family already had something that they wanted use, ranging from Spotify to physical CDs. So I made a little box with a 20-Watt amplifier board from Ali Express, a potentiometer for a volume control, and a cord with an 1/8 inch plug. Heaven.
Damn that's a very pleasent to read specification, step by step and easy to follow.
> Solutions, that don't involve someone being an unpaid 24/7 infrastructure support tech, on a postcard please!

One step at a time!

1. Back up your data.

2. Test restoring your data.

3. Automate your backups.

4. Automate your test restores.

5. Now you are ready for full-disk encryption.

It is okay if you do not complete all steps. More steps is better. Do not skip ahead.
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> I don't think bitcoin was even a recognized currency until 2014..

It is not legally a “recognized currency” now (“virtual currencies” are essentially treated as non-currency properties), and it was both property and had value before 2014.
> It's unix.

Unix has ads?
> “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

> This should be posted absolutely everywhere with this as the hook. This type of request and the admittance that companies give even more than that all the time is headline news worthy.

It's pretty well know, but it should be even more well known. IIRC, what's left of foursquare basically does that, lots of "free" apps do it (like weather, calculators, flashlights, etc.). It's the whole reason the "only allow location access when using the app," was invented.
Chemical and electrical orders
Not really - there are certainly more of them, but - and this is extremely important - Mozilla, Apple, Google, and even MS spent the best part of a decade essentially rewriting the specifications that made up the web platform.

The DOM, etc through the work that eventually got labeled HTML5 made it possible to follow the spec and, as a super simple and "obvious" example, parse URLs in a way that worked. The existing specs of the era were often incomplete, semi-frequently what they did say did not match how browsers actually worked, and frequently ambiguous which meant that implementing anything required exhaustively testing what everyone else did to try and match it.

TC39 eventually recognized that the same issues existed in the ECMAScript spec, and recognized that ES4 did nothing to resolve those issues, while adding considerable complexity and more of the same issues. That's how we ended up with ES3.1 - it was an attempt to actually correctly and completely specify the language and runtime, ES5 continued/finished that catchup (ES3.1 did not resolve all the issues) while adding a few important features, but was still in the "make it possible for someone to implement the spec and be confident that they could run anything any other engine could run".

So in the modern browser there are many more specs, but those specs are much easier to confidently implement as you can get basic working behaviour by essentially translating the spec language into your environment.

Making the resulting engine fast, memory efficient, etc is of course another thing entirely (although even that is aided by removing ambiguity in the specs as the lack of ambiguity means that you can actually write tests now).
For XP, being on 64-bit was weird. Vista was transitional. By 7, 64-bit was the expectation for non-junk new hardware.
I am sitting on a 12TB array after my move I just can't come up with the combination...

However, there are better options for users - how about Smartcards? You know, like yubikey / U2F before the web?

You can even use it with LUKS
It was already the case when Bush Jr was elected.
If you think Twitter can get away with selling location data to 3rd parties and it not immediately leaking out is silly. Everyone is hunting for negative Musk stories.

That would be highly risky for Twitter to do and would seriously harm their reputation and therefore their business. So I'm personally doubtful.

This isn't as simple as make more money or not by pulling a lever.
Huh? I see one article about Twitter on the front page right now and one article that might be tangentially related. New is getting spammed with that stuff but not a lot is floating to the top. It’s like that quote from the movie The China Syndrome: “the system worked”
Certain patent types are required by law to be submit via facsimile. It’s in the code of federal regulations.

This comes up almost immediately when studying to be a parent examiner.
Her post was clearly marked @kathygriffin. This isn't anywhere close to the borderline cases you're elaborating here.
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Volkswagen Group: How It Both Owns Porsche and Is Owned by Porsche (2021)
If you want to pick up a new language purely for fun, I wholeheartedly recommend toki pona[1]. Its small vocabulary (<200 words) and simple grammar force you to break down complex thoughts into simple ideas. This feels limiting at first, but because there isn't a prescribed way to express certain ideas, it can provide an interesting look at how you see the world compared to others.

As a quick example, there is no word for "child" in toki pona, many speakers say "jan lili" (small person), while others choose to say "jan sin" (new person).

It's shockingly easy to learn and one can become pretty proficient in very little time. There's a great community to learn from on Discord[2], along with plenty of great online resources like /dev/urandom's toki pona page[3].

[1]: https://tokipona.org
[2]: https://discord.gg/nbgXCC6
[3]: https://devurandom.xyz/tokipona/
I think this is a kneejerk take -- the study of literature generally encompasses an intersection of the study of the society, culture, economy, history that produced that literature. In other words, if you study Medieval English Literature, you also study the historical context that surrounds that subject.
My opinion: I would consider his friend well-educated and curious enough about the world that she got a Masters degree in a specialized field.
>While the tech bodyshops (TCS, Infosys, etc.) might have a poor reputation in the US, these companies have been absolutely critical in helping move tens of millions into middle-class respectability.

At the cost of Americans dealing with poorer tech support, buggier software (sometimes critical software that leads to million dollar losses), and employment fraud (like lip syncing in interviews where someone else answers the questions connected to the mic).
Which encourages investment and spending, stimulating the economy, rather than letting money sit idle.
You typically don't have to write any unsafe Rust as an end user. The unsafe stuff is contained in very small and very rigorously analyzed standard library types. Which then provides you a safe interface to do all the stuff you normally do.
I hate that protocols became so tightly bundled to client implementations. It's like if the WWW could only be browsed by Chrome. Really unfortunate (for the public) that IM protocol standardizations died over time (FB and Google dropping XMPP for example). Matrix shows some promise with larger adopters like the French government. I'm rooting for them to succeed even more.
Sorry, you lost me at PHP on MySQL for financial transactions. That's hilarious.
I didn't have the neuro event or symptoms, but the dinner plate and cardio helping sounds awfully familiar.

As far as I know I did not contract COVID, however I was part of the early response team for isolation after travel for the US Military so was exposed on several occasions early on and could have been asymptomatic.

My first vaccine was a non-event; the second fostered a reaction so bad I almost went to the hospital. 103F fever, rigor (shivering so bad you lock up), etc. for about 8 hours, then the fever broke and I recovered fine.

I had an anxiety induced possible cardiac event about a year after that (March 22), but I went to the ER and there was no EKG evidence and no troponin. Was monitored for 12 hours to be sure.

I have had a weird vertigo issue crop up; I actually managed to have exactly what causes it diagnosed! One of the inner ear canals has dropped it's output signal about 75%; no evidence to why the nerves were damaged. I am slowly adjusting. I have no idea if it's related.
He first talked about this breakthrough in a Peking Univ alumni meeting, and a preprint circulating in the field before he submitted to arXiv (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vTLoh_Cpw6Zr436rD7FnjzND6ng...). It's a 111 pages long proof.
Of course my first reaction was "I hate this" but then I thought about it and whatever I don't care at all. I downloaded the update and it's a new tab. They don't force it on you at all. They very very clearly state that you can opt-out and how to do it. This was tastefully done, which is fresh air in the world of social media crapware.
If you can own it, it is property; if people are paying money, or exchanging goods or services with value, for it, it is valuable property. Enforcement agencies publishing a ruling or opinion as go what kind of property it is (and isn’t) isn’t what makes it property.
Not fire but waves. Here’s the book: https://www.manning.com/books/modern-fortran. This is the resource I used while learning.

The author of the book is very active on github: https://github.com/milancurcic.
I don't understand how relative poverty can improve.
Just went to check my apps and Instagram had given itself GPS access.... That's reassuring...
As of this week, Twitter will release the new verified/blue where "verified" means "payment for $8/mo authorized". No actual verification of identity [0].

If this wasn't enough, Musk has confirmed the timeline will essentially shadowban non-verified accounts [1].

So anyone can take anyone's else's name as "verified" and the non-verified will not be seen.

Essentially this means if you have the money you can run dozens or thousands of verified accounts that claim to be anyone.

[0] https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1588304086792667136

[1] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...
My guess is it's due to her actually being a figurehead for her parents social media efforts. It annoys people.
CUDA-Fortran is actually great. The added bits of syntax fit very well in the language, much better than standard CUDA in C or C++.

It’s a shame I never really was in a situation to use it in a real program (also, you had to use PGI, which I have always found sub par), but I have tinkered with it over the years and it is very pleasant to use.
You mean the Dems? Here's 12min of Dems doing what you're trying to blame GOP for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA

China controls the Bidens, not the GOP. You have your parties mixed up.
It could be worse, but for the long-term evolution of computing, we should be working towards convergent systems. There's enough subtlety and imprecision in the C spec that it's not well suited to convergence.

Among type issues, it also has the infamous "Macros" that are really just unanalyzable text replacements.
You mistake "they" referring to Apple with Steve Jobs.

Yes it's cliche. That doesn't make it wrong. Steve Jobs was responsible for keeping Apple pure.

I really feel like an inflection point in human history will be Steve Jobs dying in 2011, right after releasing revolutionary products (iPhone and iPad), but not being able to be around to steer the ship and be the voice of reason and ethics as the products became more influential.

Steve Jobs once said (in the D8 interview I believe) that apps which defamed people were not allowed on the App Store. I wonder how he would feel about social media today, Twitter in particular.

He would have had the courage, power, and conviction to fight against some of the things happening today, in terms of widespread outrage culture, slandering and libel, cancel culture, etc.

I guess we'll never know.
How can there be no RCS API? Eww.
Well to be fair the article is more of a rant than it is an RFC.
There is no need for a corporation purely to enable trade. The entire point is to limit liability of the investors. Otherwise we could just ban them wholesale.
Companies intensely track the percentage of catalogs mailed out that result in an order. They call this number the "order rate," and it's a very important stat for catalogs. You know what's generally seen as a very good order rate? Two percent. Even within that genre, actually deriving any enjoyment or finding a useful product is the exception rather than the rule, and in a time when anyone who wants to see what that company has to offer can check the website, they're effectively useless now.

There are a very small number of catalogs that people are excited to get because the contents are neat. The Sears Holiday Wishbook. Hobbyist magazines. Insane ads for 3D glasses and plans to convert a vacuum cleaner into a hovercraft in Boy Scout magazines. But these are needles in a haystack of recycled paper.
It doesn’t matter since Obama passed the America invents act. America is now a first to file country, not first to invent.
Thanks this is great, it would be nice to have one to compare with LS just for the sake of features similiar too.
Sounds good to me. Hopefully this action against a largely benign organization will scare the bad actors into doing the right thing.
Saw this mentioned earlier today. They are rightfully being downweighted as long as they don't actually contain anything materially new:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33507986#33509084
I was saying something else. If you mix latin text and Chinese text in a monospaced font, the character boundaries no longer line up.
Great stuff making the switch! And yeah a lot of the time you will at least need access to a proprietary environment for That One Program.
Sure. The same goes for email, Twitter, Telegram, Nextcloud and any other service that is not end-to-end encrypted per default. However, I see the least danger with Mastondon, since the discussions usually take place in public anyway.

And: I don't know if this is only the case with the instance on which i am, but Mastodon is even transparent and displays the following hint when you want to send a PM.

> Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.
Roughly that’s number of unique crate owners of reverse dependencies that have been updated within the last couple of years, plus some other factors like downranking crates that lose popularity.
I disagree, perhaps I was a little too blunt in my response. But while I am a fairly active person, I still do gain weight if I find myself eating too much junk or if I've been lax on exercising. Especially after starting an office job.

The problem I see (from my small world) is that some people when they go into "diet mode" they go to extremes. They start counting calories, eating super healthy food that they wouldn't normally eat and in fact don't really enjoy. They might even start exercising a lot more than normal which makes then even hungrier, especially if they're also trying to cut calories.

To me, people shouldn't be dieting, unless they have an intolerance to a particular type of food or have diseases such as Diabetes. Otherwise, the best "diet" is everything in moderation, but the majority of which should be wholefoods. You should be maintaining a slight calorie deficit, of which can be adjusted based on your life circumstances. But cutting gluten, cutting sugar, going keto, going paleo, cutting fat, these type of restricted diets are unsustainable.

I agree that losing weight is really hard and keeping it off requires you to maintain a combination of eating a suitable amount of calories, in line with the amount of exercise you do. Even having the odd dessert a few too many times a week can throw off the scales over time. I'm not saying that people aren't trying, but I do think many people try too hard in a way that is unsustainable, where they bite off more than they can chew.

Having said all of this, there are absolutely going to be edge cases where people's bodies whether genetically or otherwise make it more challenging for them to lose weight. For that, then only certain interventions will work. Otherwise, most of us aren't an edge case.
I had a vertigo issue crop up recently and was able to get it diagnosed (working in military aviation they take this stuff pretty seriously); I don't know that it will help but it's one avenue to look down:

One of my inner ear canal output signals dropped by about 75%. There is a diagnostic test they can do; more basic tests showed nothing but this more sensitive one showed it clear as day. No-one can tall me WHY the nerves are outputting a weaker signal and I couldn't tell you if it's related but it's something that doesn't get checked much.
What do you mean by harder to support? Supporting - in the sense that it works - canvas rendering is much simpler than even minor amounts of the DOM. The problem of course is that you're replacing compiled C++ that is doing the normal DOM/CSS layout and rendering with someone implementing the layout and rendering in JS (sans actual bitblitting, etc).
> He's got money and Aspergers, so he's not 'normal', but he seems sane and not-evil to me.

It's very easy to underestimate by 1000x the number of people who have an irrational hatred of Asperger's/other ND people. Only ND are in a position to really notice (for the same reason a white person in the US saying "I just don't see much racism" means nothing) but ND are uniquely deficient in identifying who has such a hatred for them.

With 30 yrs experience I have determined that at least 2% of my casual acquaintances casually harbor this particular brand of bigotry. This is likely an underestimate for the aforementioned reason. I have no idea where this stands relative to racism, etc. but it seems pretty significant.

Case in point: sibling comment asserts that Elon is "cruel, psychotic, and childish" when in fact he exhibits nothing but perfectly harmless ND-typical behavior.
Canonical has ads in the terminal MOTD now
> instead of me seeing what I want and leaving they can hook me on some Youtube journey they'll make more money

This sounds so stupid, but it makes a lot of sense and explains so many issues. Why make you click on the video X that you were looking for instead of sending you on a 1 hour rabbit-hole, bonus points if at the end you even had forgotten what you were looking for.
Musk's first major company was essentially online yellow pages and extremely ad focused.

You can see them advertising selling ads on their website here: https://loopinput.com/this-is-what-elon-musks-first-website-...

Here's an article from '99 that even quotes Musk on it: https://www.clickz.com/zip2-launches-ad-program-to-aid-newsp...

>“In today’s market, traditional local businesses need to be online to participate in the electronic commerce revolution,” said Elon Musk, founder and executive vice president of Zip2. “With Zip2’s Internet Start Program, our newspaper partners can offer their print advertisers an easy, low-cost way to take that first critical step.”

And now he's spent $44 billion buying a company that he knew primarily made its money from advertising and then spent his first week as owner complaining about advertisers leaving -- not something one who doesn't want to be in the advertising business normally does.
Seems a bit bold to call Twitter a startup. I'm sure there's older companies on the list as well.
I'm still extremely disappointed in Signal's choice to drop SMS support, which feels like a key adoption vector to me. However, I'm glad to see that they're still building privacy-first versions of popular social networking features. This does the double-duty of giving privacy conscious folks access to those features and showing that there's no need to invade users' privacy to offer these things - instead when others offer them it is in order to capture more attention and personal information.
It was the right call.