skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just more protection stuff afaict, in the case of sports around sex-based physical differences leading to unfair advantage and possible physical harm.

To be clear, women have been asking conservatives for specific changes to the law that would better protect themselves. Conservatives have been largely deaf to these requests, and instead have just completed their 50 year political project of gutting Roe v. Wade, which has been a huge step back for women's health and rights. So the idea that conservatives who are championing bathroom bans and sports bans are doing so to protect women doesn't pass the laugh test. In 2022, conservative politicians and SCOTUS justices are far more dangerous to women's health than anything else.

The bathroom and sports bans being made into law by conservatives are not to help women; they are to hurt trans people as a signal to their political base, because they can't signal with gay people anymore. Indeed, they tried the same thing in the decades past with gay people, labeling them a danger to society, the army, public health -- anything. Now being gay is more acceptable in society writ large, but the political animus against them still exists in conservatives circles. So just dusted off the old playbook, crossed out "gay", replaced it with "trans", and they ran it again like it's 1985. Saddest part is that is that it works so well.
If you are an Indiana University alumni, the uni credit union now allows TOTP.
Okay, cool, it tells me exactly what I need to know. But part of the reason I use search is that I want to know what other real people have said on the subject. ChatGPT would be perfect if it gave me all of those things and then cited a reference. Documentation, a blog post, or even a StackOverflow answer would do. I don't see it in the output of ChatGPT on this article, so I assume that's not in its repertoire? I suppose including it as part of the prompt might work.
Depends on how much they have. Bulk used clothes can be had for incredibly cheap, to the point where it can be cheaper than wood. And after decades of people building up old worn out clothes you will have a lot of relatively worthless cloth material. There are places in the world where burning clothes isn't uncommon at all because they receive so much clothing waste from the rest of the world attempting and failing to not throw them into landfills.
https://archive.today/EcN43
Theres also the possibility of self hosting the sync server. Though it won't necessarily mean more secure, someone may sleep better at night.
>Yes, why aren't these people self sufficient after we took away all their means of self sufficiency?

This sounds very much like "racism of low expectations". "These people" are just as self-sufficient as any other group of modern people of similar socioeconomic background. It's been 100+ years since they were mistreated in any serious fashion.

I come from eastern Europe and 150 years ago most of my ancestors were serfs, only a rung or two above chattel slaves on the ladder of human condition. If someone seriously suggested that well, what do you expect of these poor chaps, serfdom and all, I think I'd get quite upset.

Just food for thought about how both your phrasing and implications of what you're saying might seem to people who aren't from your background.
Economist article on HN front page, https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/24/how-techs-defi...

> Nasdaq composite, a tech-heavy index, losing a third of its value. Tech’s five giants have collectively lost a dizzying $3trn in market value ... These difficulties mean that the year ahead will be a lean one in techland. Most have made a resolution to trim their costs.

This article:

> Funding rounds created a cash cushion that allowed all the players in the private market, in complete contrast to the public market, to simply not look in the mirror.. With the end of the age of valuation, the spotlight was turned in the direction of revenues and profits.. growth of high-tech companies was based on sales of software to other high-tech companies. Now they are all re-examining the budgets.. After personnel, the biggest expense in a high-tech company is computer infrastructure and software.. many SaaS companies starting to receive cancellation notices as quickly and easily as they received.. subscribers just a year ago. A company whose product is not sufficiently unique or critical for the user, may suffer a severe hit in revenue..
So long as the workers are paid fairly and treated reasonably (which of course these Arise employees were not), why does it matter if they are actual employees? Actual employees can be treated poorly too.
This is why spectrum in many countries requires users and/or devices to be licensed.
The whole world being a couple degrees hotter is not guaranteed to be equally distributed. The reason why Latvia, and most of "Northern" Europe is livable instead of a frozen wasteland is due to climate mechanisms that we're not entirely sure how sensitive they are to climate change

It might get a bit warmer, it might get a lot hotter or it might even get a whole lot colder

Climate change is a better term because the change itself is unpredictable and likely damaging in the short term
Really enjoyed this read, but also couldn't help but feel sorry for the author still trapped in the labyrinth. "Just one more CMS and I'll be free..."

The jewel in the post is the rejection of Vannevar's acolytes and their hand-wrought memexen. Biology already gave me a perfectly good memex in my skull. If its shortcomings give you anxiety, take 2 YAGNI until productivity resumes.
I honestly wonder if the native Americans were (destined to be) screwed even before Europeans set foot in Americas. They were behind a formidable technology curve and I truly wonder would they have fared better if Japanese or Russian (or possibly even Chinese) colonists (the closest geographic candidate colonists) showed up.

Consider it as a thought experiment - something that's been popping in my head lately:

under what sort of ideal conditions would have the native civilizations and peoples of Americas been left unmolested by anyone? An entire continent left in isolation while the more technologically advanced societies reached the way station of 'universal human rights'?

[typically don't mention downvotes but a difficult question does not merit it. If you so strongly disagree, discuss it.]
On angular, we use ngrx (Reactive State for Angular)
https://ngrx.io/
Umm, that’s my point?

Apple and Facebook’s competitors don’t just give the entire market to them insisting their products don’t work even after they’ve proved the business model.

They would be dreaming of competing in an industry where the competitors simply unilaterally disarm themselves, which is what the auto industry looks like.

And the most likely reason the auto industry looks like this is because the people who work in it, including the engineers, are largely auto heads who love the sound of a roaring engine, etc.

That’s why it took an outsider like Tesla to show them that people actually prefer silent cars, for example. And yet Tesla’s competitors are still unwilling to heed the evidence of their own eyes.
...Yes
I adore that movie! Doesn’t get enough love.
> My point is that users freely choose different types of batteries for different applications.

Where is the choice when all manufacturers arrive at the same conclusion: it's better for profits not to offer replaceable batteries?
Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy
not familiar with that - what is it?
> all the 2020 references (Covid, Among Us, Zoom, Twitch), and the barrage of celebrity name-drops

Today's mystery, tomorrow's "beach blanket?" Haven't seen it, but if it's campy enough, it could have staying power.
> We are not cows to be milked for upsells, telemetry and ad revenue. We are also not caged animals to experiment on.

Microsoft would like to disagree. They don't care about fixing bugs or ensuring consistency. They only care that telemetry keeps flowing.
In recent years, you may have noticed that the scientific consensus around covid, starting at the beginning with lab leak vs. "seafood market" and continuing on to the present moment, changes frequently and drastically. Sometimes accompanied by revelations of fraud and dishonesty on the part of trusted public servants and domain experts. Congratulations to you on staving off psychological whiplash amidst all of the consensus-flipping.

If your response to being shown government-announced covid deaths with details of the vaccination levels of the deceased (available on a daily basis from that and other news outlets) and, for comparison, age-bracketed vaccination levels reported by the same government is that you want to be shown a study, then I suspect what you truly want is reassurance or reaffirmation of your current set of beliefs rather than a grasp of what's currently going on.
Reading the piece it seems like the author is upset they weren’t able to guess the suspect, and blamed the movie for it.

I watched it twice over the weekend, and the second viewing showed how many details were in plain view the whole time. Which was the central gag of the movie.

Up front, I’ve liked every Johnson film, except for Looper. Not that Looper was poorly crafted, just that I didn’t connect with it.

I thought Last Jedi was the best SW movie since Empire, especially among the sequels, since it had actual things to say. The other two seemed to be more about fan service. Andor is the only other SW media I’ve seen that I’ve enjoyed as much as LJ.

So I’m clearly in Johnson’s audience.
This claim has been made, but it turned out not to be true (so far). I.e. everyone without AC did not die when the wet bulb temperature exceeded the apparent limit: https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/the-mysteriously-low-death...
> What I’ve found is that if you want it to work you’re stuck on Raspberry Pi OS, a bastardized Debian distro, anyway.

Ambian, Dietpi, and Alpine all support it, along with many other boards that are not just easier to find these days but also cheaper and sometimes more powerful than the Raspberry Pi.

https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported

https://dietpi.com/#downloadinfo

https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/
Much of the backlash to these tools seems to assume that they require significant devotion and time.

I just use it to store my stuff. I don't spend much time organising it.

I had trouble organising my data in folders, so I tried Bear Notes, and it helped.

From there, I just came up with a few conventions to deal with the problems that emerged over time - similarly to how someone would define their personal folder-hierarchy.
For example, having a page for every contact helped, because I often find myself looking for "that thing that Tom showed me".

But the biggest advantage is that whatever I'm looking for is in one location, only a short full-text search away.

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> Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt. Every link doubly so.

I have 5000 notes - most of them are useless. But it costs me nothing to keep them.
> In the usa it's more likely you'll be shot while congregating in places known to serve LGBT people. I don't get why you're like... Downplaying that there's violence against LGBT people in the usa?

To be flippant (and gay): I'm also likely to be shot at a Walmart, a parade, or any other place just going about my business.

Luckily I'm not a teacher, so I don't spend a ton of time in schools.

I'm pretty sure I'm more at risk statistically in going grocery shopping, to the movies, etc.
Given that at least, in part, the enthusiasm for EV by legacy car manufacturers seems driven out by wall-street. I wonder if a kind of course-correction is possible as it seems to have happened for media companies in streaming, where there were incited by wall street to be all-in in streaming, until past spring, and now a more balanced (at least in the short term) approach seems prefered.
> We reached a point at which most of our problems are distribution problems.

That's not true at all. The world's average household income is estimated to be about $10,000 a year, meaning that even if you magically solved the distribution problem, people would still only live off of $800 a month. A vast improvement for the global poor that live on a few bucks a day, but certainly not luxurious living.

I want everyone in the world to be able to live the life that the average Texan or Swiss does now; I want everyone to be able to feed their families, enjoy a comfortable house with enough room for a garden, go on a vacation or two a year, save for retirement, develop a hobby that might take time and money, and more. I want everyone to be able to live it up every now and then, if they wanted to. I want everyone to enjoy secure property rights and rule of law. I want everyone to be able to have as many children as would make them happy, and for those children to live even better lives. There is nowhere near enough wealth produced yet that this is possible for everybody on the planet. We are very, very far away from no longer having production problems and only having distribution problems.
Let's say that tomorrow you literally find out (beyond doubt) that you are one of these lifeforms that lives inside a simulation, along with everyone else in this world.

Would you kill yourself? Would you prefer to never have lived?

What if life were extremely boring unless you were being toyed with? I.e. what if being toyed with actually makes life more fun and worth living.

It seems to me that the criteria for whether it's ethical to create conscious life is not whether someone plays with it, but rather whether the created creature experiences extreme and/or very prolonged suffering.

Even then it's questionable how real and problematic those experiences are, depending on context.

Perhaps suffering is just a trick the mind plays on you to motivate you to achieve something (mental health problems notwithstanding). Perhaps suffering can be relative and/or the mind can adapt to it, depending on how the mind in question works.

Perhaps it can be more ethical to create life, even if it can only live inside a simulation.
This isn't the forum for Q/A type posts. Try https://forums.fast.ai/ or StackOverflow.
China to scrap Covid quarantine rule for inbound travellers
Just tried it, it works pretty well but some elements are rendered in a weird way. It also seems to not save the mobile version of sites you might see on your screen but adjusts the render size to a more paper-like aspect ratio and size. Still, cool feature!
Moreover, the way fireplaces work is that the fire heats up some kind of heavy construction (cast iron, brick, etc) and that then radiates heat. Not every fireplace is built that way - some of them are decorative and will actually make you colder.

Quite a few people found out in not a nice way last time Texas has winter storm.
Capture now, fast. Organize on the fly with searches and filters.

I have this whole app sketched up where the idea is you just focus on writing notes and thoughts in one continuous stream, jumping around topics as you go like most professionals do, and then use searches and filters you can save to render different contexts easily from the single stream.

So you can switch between reviewing your work 1 on 1 history and your Christmas gift ideas with a change of a filter. You don’t have to worry about organizing anything, it’s all just a single stream of content and then searches.

I’ll likely never build it, but I’m convinced that would be the way I want to write notes. I don’t want a knowledge graph, I want a stream of consciousness capture tool with a way to use tags searches and filters to make sense of it.

Oh also: I want to write some notes in handwriting on my iPad, and then ocr and clean up those notes to be liked I typed them, but still preserve the original handwriting. I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

One day.
Bitwarden has a free service that I've been using fine for a few years.
“Can be worked around in this application?” I know folks that do maintenance on the plant that produces ammonia among other things at the BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. They don’t shut this plant down. Maintenance is mostly done during production. If one stage fails, the products of the predecessor stages are usually burned - makes for a pretty spectacular evening sky.

It’s likely possible to re-engineer those plants to use an intermittent power source, but it’s far from trivial.
> We did it to them on purpose to wipe them out.

"we"? I wouldn't be so presumptuous.
Keychain on iOS does support OATH TOTP out of the box.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/automatically-fill-in...
This is not my experience at all.

I had senior developers, who have worked with RTK before, misusing simple features such as the "createSlice" API.

By contrast, I have never once sat down with a junior to walk through React's Context. I assume, they just read the docs and were good to go.
This is an interesting idea with a good-hearted vision of privacy, so I’m glad someone is thinking about it and proposing something. The most valuable idea here is that you originate your data, not the company you’re interacting with just because they implemented a form. The laws currently let them frame themselves as owners of the data, so the number one thing we could use is a law that views personal data as owned by each person regardless of who collects it or how they collect it.

I’m a bit skeptical that the shape of this concept as outlined will come to be, though maybe the framework and ideas can be used. It feels like they dove into the implementation, describing how it can be done, but haven’t addressed how to get companies on board nor provided incentives for them. We already have the technology for privacy and data control, what we really lack is the legal environment and proper incentives. In that sense I’d guess what we need is the strategy for how to pass these laws and establish incentives more than a description of the tech pipeline, no?
Another thing we can spell out is that the rising average temperature is an average over the whole year, over the whole planet. I.e any particular location or country could have a sinking average temperature.
Cool - extend this to just be a new browser that supports Content-Type: text/html and Content-Type: text/hyperview or something rendering either using a Web View or a Hyperview. Allow links between Hyperview documents within and across domains. Add user-driver permissions per domain for native APIs. It's been time to have a better alternative to HTML/JS for building rich applications on the web that still fit as web technologies.
Whatever I achive professionally, it's always dwarfed by a smile or some new silly thing my child does or says

Especially after quitting a job, you realize the time spent on the job the past few years were nothing compared to that little thing running after you, that you can create a meaningful lasting relationship

Of course it is also a balance, sometimes I also need to focus, and I will look to be away in silence
Most furnaces require electricity to run even if the heat isn’t generated by electricity.
Reluctant Philosopher Kings? Leadership in Academia
I will add another voice in favour of Bitwarden. It even has some nice visual polish after many years. I pay the 10$ per year because that's basically free and the value prop is obvious (to me). YMMV
Old newspaper used to work well for kindling. But fewer people get their newspapers delivered in print. Used paper grocery bags could work.
About once every year or two, I remember something I read maybe 15 years ago and realize it would be absolutely perfect for some reason, but I can't find it. And being an engineer and an HN poster, my brain immediately leaps to "Oh, if only I ran a system that archived everything I browsed so I could build my own personal search engine that could search on just what I've ever looked at."

Then I smack it down, because that is a crap-load of effort to recall a link every year or two. And let's be honest, the marginal value of that link isn't all that great either... in the moment the need may seem large, but sitting here typing about this I couldn't tell you even a single such thing I've forgotten about, because that's how important they are... just more ephemera in the stream themselves.

My MP3 collection is a bit of a mess. I've cleaned up the worst instances of "Band, The" "The Band" "Band" "Band - The" sorts of duplication, but that's about it. My book collection is similarly messy. Heck, even my family photos are basically sorted only by year and not much else. So what? I can fix it. I can fix it all. But it's hard to even so much as recover the time I'd put into it once over, let alone in multiples.

(Much more important, especially for the family photos, is not losing them. So I've got a backup solution. But it's just a fire-at-directory solution, not all gloriously organized by type either.)

So I've learned to just sort of let the desire to have greater organization pass over me, Litany-against-Fear style. It's just a siren call.
Seems consistent, greed on both ends.

On the customer end Rogers attempts to maximize ARPU (average revenue per user) by being as cheap to upgrade, and charge the most they can for their often sub-par service.

I had a corporate Rogers cell phone, near-zero coverage where i live and where i spent a lot of my time and had to move to Telus.

On the Customer service side, we see them doing everything they possibly can to get people as cheaply as possible.

I'm sure rogers execs were "excited" at the idea the CSR's would pay for the training costs.
> Pretty much every country that tried to tax wealth had to back up exactly because of wealthy and capital flight.

No, mainly because of the risk of capital flight.

> It's exactly this kind of people that you will alienate and drive away with these of wealth-hostile policies.

I disagree. If a good or service is truly valuable, someone will provide it. The value of an unmet need will increase until it becomes attractive, and if it never meets that bar, then by definition it wasn't valuable enough.

The only exceptions are goods or services that capitalism isn't effective at solving anyway, either because they are common goods that capitalism would exploit to exhaustion, or because they would yield only natural monopolies that are rife with abuse. A state-run corporation is a good option here, and wealth flight isn't an issue.
I don't think one should be angry at people that are wrong. I mean, unless he asked and someone told him he might have gone around thinking they choose to let the baby starve etc.
Used to use Password Safe early on before switching to KeePassXC. Have the KDBX file synced across my phone and desktop with Syncthing
Well, depends if the commenter meant anything that is something we currently not only can't do, but are fairly sure isn't possible.

Terminator, BTTF: time travel. Star Trek: depends on the episode (e.g. Q, or the Daud, or time travel).

Gravity is arguably contemporary.

But yeah, like I said there's a whole category called hard scifi, so no shortage. I just took the ones off the top of my head that definitely were not supernatural.
I think it’s because “all” is a singular noun and the subject of the verb “is.” I would use “is” even with a list of items at the end of the sentence.