skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this concern doesn't apply to the main contingent of unvaccinated, either.

> The sheer majority of the vaccine hesitant have had their head pumped full of nonsense by the anti-American narratives of Fox News and its ilk, then validated by Facebook

I believe that you honestly believe this, but as a living counter example of what you describe (don't watch infotainment style news for anything but entertainment, made my decision based on available studies), I wonder how you have gone about validating that perception?

Is there a chance that you're assuming the loud cartoon characters you see on social media, or a few of your friends/family/coworkers are representative of the wider population? Does this "main contingent" really make up the bulk of this group? Or are they just the most offensive, and therefore most noticeable?
most pre-built home PCs, office machines, virtuals, etc.
> Tying login credentials to a hardware device

The article specifically states (about passkeys as opposed to Yubikeys):

> They’re different because Platform created passkeys will be copyable by default using the credentials for the underlying cloud account (plus maybe an additional password manager sync passphrase), whereas passkeys in YubiKeys are bound to the YubiKey’s physical hardware where they can’t be copied.

That brings its own challenges of course (e.g. you have to trust the Cloud syncing and E2EE by the vendors).
Maybe it was set by someone has bought projectors and chair in the past but has no idea how fricking expensive is a large fridge
I think that people dying for a football stadium, then having their death be compared to dying in their sleep (a luxury for people in a lot of dangerous work) should generate some emotion.

What’s the point of anything if we’re going to turn every person into a number? We can’t care about everything all the time, but if we do care about something, it’s probably for valid reasons.
But they don't use it the same way.

Twitter allows you to soapbox on any current issue and communicate directly with people.

You could in theory do something similar through your own subreddit but then you'd need to manage it, it's not the same thing.
I'm guessing Apple would have investigated more had a reporter asked them.
I think one takeaway from Theranos should be this: People are willing to rent their names for large sums of money to be listed as board members.

What exactly did the Theranos board accomplish? How much did they make?

Much as "Long Term Capital Management" used the fame/prestige of its members as a marketing tool, Theranos did the same with her board of directors.
The idea of a new free cross-platform remote access product sounds great if it can be trusted. That "if" is however a very big if.

The website says HopToDesk is Open Source but there is no link to any repos that I can find on the website. GitLab has a recently opened HopToDesk account with just 5 stars and no obvious traceability on first look from my phone to any real identifiable human contributors.

HopToDesk says it's an American company based in the US but LinkedIn is not showing me any evidence of the company existing and no employees associated with it. Neither does the preliminary googling I've done. My searches are far from exhaustive and certainly not authoritative but normally when someone builds a company that solves an important problem the people involved are proud of having done so and are easily findable. The first 5 other remote access software companies I looked up on LinkedIn all had obvious search results with easily discoverable employees, founders, and etc.

The License file in the GitLab repo is a generic AGPL file with no mention of any corporate entity or individual holding any copyrights. Again, this is a quick look from my phone so not authoritative, but again it's not at all confidence inspiring.

Commercial remote access products are quite expensive to subscribe to and typically have real costs to operate in the form of connectivity charges. If customers are not paying for the service, are the customers (and their machines) the real product being sold here?

I'm not finding anything in a quick search that gives me any confidence I should trust this app, and I'm seeing lots of things that are not confidence inspiring.
I love the video. I'm not into whisky, but you would have got me if I was. That's fantastic!
Again, this is not about you and your personal experience. You do not know what kind of day someone else has had, and when Slack has 25+ notifications and you have deadlines, little failures to be considerate DO take a toll, just like when someone honks their car horn at you for no reason or refuses to hold the elevator for you. Sure, it's not genocide, but it's inconsiderate. Just because littering isn't murder doesn't mean it's fine.
Almost automated code reviews
I gotta that say by email 2, I'd be like "I don't work for people who send corporate emails from gmail" and ghosted them.
This article is written by an American. Given the immigration rates, you have a damn good chance of finding people who speak the target language you're trying to learn quite well, and Spanish in particular can be quite easy depending on where you live, given a quarter of the country, including the two most heavily-populated states, were formerly Spanish colonies and once part of Mexico. The third-most populated state was never part of Mexico but was also a Spanish colony, and is full of Cubans.

Do you have a maid, landscaper, janitors at your office, kitchen staff at your favorite restaurant? Talk to them.
Yes, that's the downside.
Riffing on nearby comments: (2022+n): I don't think living somewhere a language was spoken could ever have been a replacement for living _in_ the language. Contrast the oh so limited and scattered signage of legacy RL, versus the ubiquitous object tagging, with text and audio and interactives, of Apple's newest glasses. The moment-by-moment narrated-life apps. The chatbot making up funny stories and cartoons about things you see, and bantering variations with you. Teaming, both meetups and improv - versus what, constantly starting new conversations with people walking near you?? And I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but for me, learning pronunciation without echo would be like, like learning dance steps without overlays, with just a metal mirror or someone's kibitzing. Living learning versus a legacy call-and-response classroom or paper book - yuck. There's a reason kids historically took so many years to learn language, and so poorly, even with adult focus and peer support. Immersion is just really really essential for learning well. And unaugmented RL doesn't support it.
> That's wild. It's untaxed comp...

So tax evasion?
Group chats have a problem with "diffusion of responsibility" [1], and sometimes you have reasons for not wanting to broadcast whatever it is you're about to say (e.g. you're in a toxic culture where your bosses will use the fact that you need help from others against you).

I wouldn't round-robin my way through 10 people, but with 3 people it kind of seems fine to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Poem about family
We wanted to have kids, changed country and had 2!

We are very frugal compared to the average people in Canada, so we are still able to save for college and retirement.

Having kids pushed to take ownership of my finances, plan ahead and so many benefits.

Yeah, I lost a lot of sleep too.

Overall, having a child helped me grow enormously, but I think owning a company with employees might end up with some overlap in what you learn (pure theory). So if the goal is growing, you could skip the child.

The affection a child gives you "for free" is invaluable though. You don't experience that without children. If you are a physical person be aware, children are the first time when all your hug needs will be satisfied!

One thing that I'm still processing is the following: my parents (one if them) fucked up their retirement even though they started life way ahead of me (millions ahead of me) and I will be faced with the question "should I help them".
While the answer seems obvious, it's not now: it means that due to my parent failure, my children may need to do the same, because I would be wasting my retirement.

I'm still fighting with this,hard to process.
By some bizarre coincidence they hold exactly enough energy to move the water down the hill to its destination at the pressure specified whenthe tower was built. So weird how that happens. Almost as if heating and transporting water have been trivially dispatchable loads for centuries before electricity was used to do them at all.
Ah i see. Thank you for explaining
> assert() is still broken if it's disabled in php.ini.

Care to explain what you mean it's broken if disabled? That it is disabled (noop in runtime) so you're missing it? AFAIK that's the production setting. You should be able to enable it in build/test/ci/development, just how you want it.
I think with JS frameworks, it's more a case of moving house using the hatchback parked in your driveway, instead of going out and buying a brand new truck. Or hammering tent pegs with the side of a rock instead of bringing a hammer with you. There's a cost to buying and learning new tools.
An English equivalent is “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idle_hands_are_the_devil%27s_...
> can’t imagine a car dealer who would do anything but laugh if I bought a car north of €10k and suggested I wanted to pay in cash.

Doesn't sound like how any car salesman, or any commission salesman I've ever met thinks.

Car ownership is registered with government anyway, so it's not as if anyone can get away with pretending to be poor and owning a bunch of fancy cars anyway.

In my personal experience cash is how used car sales are done between individuals. There is sales tax on used car sales where I'm from. When the sale is agreed the seller and the buyer go to the registry. Say I'm selling you my car for 20k. You don't own the car until I sign ownership to you. I don't get any money until you hand me the cash. So safe thing to do is seller requires buyer to hand cash over and count it in front of the goverment agent. Buyer would prefer seller lie and understate sale price, but seller has no incentive to do that unless buyer gives that cash upfront. Buyer risks seller just saying "nah" and walking away with that cash. So it either requires trust, in which case no scheme the government comes up with can stop us anyway, or one party takes a serious risk, which there is strong disincentive to do.

Car has book value government agent knows anyway. Also, goverment exempts tax when seller and buyer are related. Government: "lol, you have trust, our despicable cash grab will not work here anyway so let's not bother"

So who cares here? Most big ticket property (eg. Real estate) works like this.

Some things like jewlery can slide through, but without receipts is risky crossing borders, which puts a serious damper status/utility of it, and those industries already get higher scruitiny anyway. And anyway, is it worth giving up our liberty over some tax revenue related to stuff like this?

So why prevent cash payments? The only purpose it serves it to keep the everyman under total control and open him to even more theft of savings via negative interest rates or transaction fees by financial middlemen.

Criminalizing cash is totalatarian in my view.
Musk said publicly the free food was rarely eaten. They had more people cooking breakfast than eating it. That’s probably exaggeration, but it’s probably true that it had little utilization.
You can't exactly generate a game and the fame from just your little inclination that to be considered a successful indie game developer would be nice. That's too easy.
My youngest (step)son had his own debit card through Bank of America when he was nine. We were on his account. He had his own login when he was 13.
Not trying to make a point here I’m genuinely curious.
My view is that having a "small identity" is basically impossible in any practical sense. Many issues are inherently subjective, and even for issues that are (philosophically speaking) objective, actual human individuals rarely have the time or the access to data to form a genuinely objective view. We all use heuristic thinking, all the time, which is inevitably massively biased by all kinds of things related to our dispositions and prior experiences (aka identity).

The danger is when you make the fiction of "not having an identity" a big part of your actual identity, which can make you even more blind to your biases than everyone else.

I think a much more productive route to being a more effective thinker is to accept you have an identity just the same as everyone else - and invest time and effort into interrogating what that identity is and what biases and blind-spots it might lead to. This is still far from perfect, of course.
ICANN allows anyone to create a domain. You need to pay a bunch of fees to register it and service it but it is not that much. In this case I believe Google created these domains for internal tools and they have owned them ever since.
It's a general comment about governments and bureaucracy.
> How many times per day would it take for an authority to issue a statement like the above before such statements begin to seem trite and meaningless?

Nobody asks them to issue a statement every time a worker was killed. This was what he said when was asked specifically about the incident. Still think it's trite and meaningless?
I've tried multiple times to work YubiKeys into my workflow and failed each time. The key needs to be with me all the time from room to room, building to building, location to location, not get lost, from change of clothes to change of clothes, and not end up in the laundry, and this is hard, hard, hard.

Who has managed to do this successfully and without losing their minds?

I hate passwords and would love to complement them with better security factors than my phone alone or find a way to move away from them entirely, but YubiKeys et al do not seem consumer viable to me. And I've tried.
Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft’s Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge
Yes, that's fully true, but does specifically assert() falls into that category?
“I am observing from an objective position” is the surest sign of a deeply compromised thinker.
Yeah, yikes. Those are clear and dangerous symptoms. Literally worked himself to death. I find the conspiracies a little hard to swallow knowing how severe his symptoms were, and I love a good conspiracy. I would not entirely discount murder, but that was really not smart of him to keep working through such severe medical condition.
I made a similar post [0], hoping to 'replace myself', but being really underwhelmed with the results. And this is after a few full days of prompt hacking, Dreambooth training on different base models, etc. It's clearly not at a level where you can easily replace even low-tier artists in even semi-pro environments.

It's not the case however for things like one-off illustrations (books, music albums) where it's easy to see that indies have totally embraced it over commissions already. It doesn't require general consistency, nor to be very specific, nor to have a very unique design.

http://woolion.art/2022/11/16/SDDB.html
Well yes they leveraged the enormous brand recognition of Coca-Cola, tho it took them 20 years to figure out they were not diluting it as the product line was previously branded as Tab [1].

The first ever ad, AFAICT, for Diet Coke introduces it as "you're gonna drink it just for the taste of it", implying it's different than Coca-Cola [2].

Also, notice how it's branded as "Diet Coke" (initially "diet Coke"), not "Diet Coca-Cola", and has a distinct packaging. Whereas the zero variant is branded as "Coca-Cola Zero", with the same packaging but inverted colors or black font.

But they all taste like delicious over-sweetened fizzy drinks to me :)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(drink)

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRfcbkBmxo
I was always crap a languages. Top class for everything. Rock bottom for German. Tried lots of language learning things to learn Spanish, including Duolingo - but they just teach you vocabulary - and mostly weird stuff you don’t need initially.

Then I stumbled upon Michel Thomas. I listened to the basic course and 2 weeks later I was in Spain speaking to people - even managed to talk my way onto a bus when I got lost and had no ticket. It’s a completely different way of learning. Speaking sentences from the first 5 minutes. You’re learning grammar from the beginning and how to actually express yourself. It’s more like a conversion course from English to Spanish (but also there’s Portuguese, French, German, some others)

He’s such an interesting guy - emigrated to the USA after the war and set up his school. Invented a whole new way of teaching languages but wouldn’t let anyone know about it because he was so mistrusting (he was a nazi hunter in the war). Only when he was 70 something did someone convince him to record the language method. The tapes when you listen have a perfect learning curve - there’s always 2 students, one is good the other not so good so you feel better than them. I assumed he must have recorded many versions and then extensively edited - NOPE - they’re all recorded in a one time session. He was just that good.

BBC has made a documentary about him where he goes into a school and teaches the 6 worst pupils French in like 2 weeks.

He’s a genuine legend and the only reason I speak Spanish.

If you want to learn a language please try this out. It is just on a different level to anything else, especially the BS repetition of duolingo type sites - although they are useful later when you want to just learn vocabulary.

Anyway, as you may be able to tell, I am always very excited to pass on Michel Thomas. What a dude. RIP.
To be fair, Twitter is also employing a lot of robots.
The only way to detain someone with parliamentary immunity is if they are caught in the act, so they must have caught her with the 600k.
It’s quite indicative to me that project culture in Germany has even more foot-draggers than in other places.

But when push comes to shove, real speed is achievable, even with the culture of bureaucratic process.

It gives me some real optimism about where I work!
We recently learnt that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has meetings with the DHS as well. What really surprised me was when someone in a position to know mentioned in a related discussion on Wikipedia that "The WMF has also worked regarding disinformation regarding Indian and Iranian elections, and this work is not limited to the English Wikipedia (e.g. the main target of many disinformation actors relating to Iran is likely to be the Farsi Wikipedia) which is why they recruited people with knowledge of those languages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#M.....

In related news, the Wikimedia Foundation recently banned about a quarter of all its Arabic Wikipedia admins for conflict-of-interest editing advancing the agendas of "external parties" (mostly related to the Saudi government, judging from a look at the accounts' contributions histories):

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...
New to me, had a quick check, Android is not yet supported, and it focuses on peer-to-peer(via bluetooth?). again using webview to do html-ui on desktops is feasible(tauri,wails,webview-c++), the interesting part is how to do that on mobile phone(without using flutter, or ionic)?

if you don't want to learn yet another new framework (flutter), or write native apps, the only option seems to be ionic, how is socket different, is the selling point here p2p instead of client-server otherwise it works just like ionic?
Sounds like an adverticle for you-know-who
Rules for thee but not for me. Anti-tracking except Mozilla which has its browser, even will telemetry off, phoning home tons of user data in the background, especially when launching and closing FF.

It’s still the best choice but I find these defaults so upsetting because Mozilla is almost an organization I can believe in, in a world where that’s sadly so rare.
Why do you consider it to be vandalism? I think the posts are interesting enough to be left untouched.
For context, this person was part of PASOK[0], one of the two political parties that created the Greek debt crisis and is rife with corruption scandals [1][2][3][4][5]. She was removed from the party some days ago.

The other political party is in power today. They both plundered the Greek public sector, privatized public owned industries and subsequently cooked the numbers to let Greece in the Eurozone even with the massive debt they had caused.

Vote abstention is around 40-45% in Greece, and higher among the youth.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASOK

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Papandreou#%22Koskotas...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akis_Tsochatzopoulos#Corruptio...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagarde_list

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis#Corruption

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Greek_bribery_scandal
Long before covid and wfh, Dyson moved its manufacturing to low cost countries in Asia. This was driven by profit, of course. Thus anything’s Dyson says about uk conditions is irrelevant unless he’s talking about money managers or other finance types.

Yeah, if you’re going to run a plant it makes sense to have people working in said plant. If, however, you’re creating non physical items such as software, why does it matter where the people work? It’s possible the design stage profits from contact but that a small group performing a limited task. There are sufficient tools to develop in any possible topology so “getting the best group” or “getting the cheapest group” can be pursued.

And there’s good reason to develop a distributed system in a distributed way, eating one’s own dog food as it were.
Tesla begins installing Dojo supercomputer cabinets, trips local substation
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but if you absolutely need to use an app and can't take in-person classes or talk to actual people, Camino is the best I've encountered (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/camino-spanish/id1461459420, Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studylangu...).

I believe it was developed for the US Department of State to crash train people who were going to work overseas. It isn't silly vocab drills. It has you reading entire literary passages and holding minutes-long conversations also immediately. None of the "get it right before you move on" stuff, either. You're absolutely going to fail, just like if you were really in the other country trying to talk and listen and not getting anything, but keep at it, and you will eventually get it. You can't get true immersion from an app, but this is as close as you'll get.

It's not freemium, though. You have to pay.
Is there any evidence that there have been a meaningful number of them posted here?

I’ll agree that in general I’ve become more suspicious of general comments everywhere, but it would be good to have a larger study dedicated to how pervasive they are.
> We also benefited from another major strength of America: You cannot get arrested, jailed, or shot for publishing true facts, even if those facts happen to embarrass people in positions of power. Many funders wanted us to expand the model to a particular nation. In early talks with contacts there in civil society, it was explained repeatedly and at length that a local team that embarrassed the government’s vaccination rollout would be arrested and beaten by people carrying guns. This made it ethically challenging to take charitable donations and try to recruit that team.
I'm sure Web4 will solve that.
I guess Amazon executives have been playing a lot of Death Stranding lately.
Reddit has hundreds (maybe even thousands?) freelance devs working remote, full time. You’re only counting FTEs.
Maybe if all company data was in git(hub) it could help check who adds a company, and from which source come the jobs https://github.com/joblisttoday/data