skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that I think about it I get zero pleasure from buying cycling gear. The best bike is one that is light and functional enough that it kind of disappears out from under me and I don’t have to think about it, just enjoy the scenery. So I’m all about doing the thing.

On the otherhand I love tinkering with motorcycles. Not buying gear so much but researching and restoring them in my shop. Maybe its that engines are so much more technical or maybe its the slight spectre of death or serious bodily injury that keeps me from enjoying riding them as much. But I always feel a little disappointed when its all fixed and back together.
>While it's possible to cultivate a friendship via remote work, it's a lot harder.

One of the problems that I feel is only going to get worse, is how remote work is entirely on record. To make real connections you have to be able to talk somewhat freely. With Microsoft going full steam ahead with AI built in to teams for auditing and summarizing, you just wont be able to talk and build friendships like you can irl for fear of being flagged for inappropriate speech.
It's weird because you're asking people to do work for you, when you haven't done any work yourself.

Commenting without reading leads to poor quality discussions, where one side has no intention of changing their mind.

I will not reply to this thread anymore.
The Internet suggests he speaks English and French, which seems plausible since he lived in Montreal.
As much as so many hate how Apple acts, they’ve gotten better since day 1.

They let developers choose more price points. They offer only a 15% cut of subscriptions in a number of circumstances instead of always taking 30%. IAPs and subscriptions have given developers more choices of how to monetize their apps.

At no point did they ever use their position to squeeze more money from developers. Even the yearly developer fee is still $99 despite the HUGE increase in App Store revenue.

It’s understandable people want Apple’s cut to shrink, but that doesn’t appear to be legally required. They didn’t make things worse so it seems they’re in the clear.

(They still lost on the alternate payment method thing)
Canada used to have a Manufacturer's Tax that was hidden to consumers in the price of goods they purchased.

A Prime Minister came along with a Finance Minister who strongly believed that Canadians should see where their money was going. So they took that Manufacturer's Tax and turned it into a highly visible revenue neutral replacement called the Goods and Services Tax.

People were furious about the GST. His government lost the next election by a landslide. All because someone thought people should see where their money was going.
In the old days we used to call community colleges "Junior Colleges." The first time I came out to the valley I noticed a university there called "Leland Stanford Junior University" and assumed it must be a Junior College associated with Stanford University.

So yes, they need all the help they can get with naming things.
Still plenty of examples.
All those important papers have recovery processes. It might involve a judge or signing documents in front of stern officials or having friends and family vouch for you, but governments and financial institutions and telcos can do it because they have to. Because life happens, and we can't always control it. But for online services, with no responsibility of care, it is easier to just lose customers than provide robust processes and accept the responsibility of letting you prove who you are. You can be homeless and ID less and still bootstrap all the important stuff, except your email and all the things that require email for recovery.
So here's the paradox: if more open platforms promote innovation that benefits everyone, why is Apple so dominant, and why aren't the more innovative, open platforms running circles around Apple?
Google previously had problems with Google Photos categorizing dark-skinned people as “gorillas” or something like that. This would show up when you were searching for photos in your personal Google Photos account. Everyone talked about it. Nobody wants to release a product like that. Removing bias is hard; you can’t just decide to get an unbiased training set or something magical like that.

It is NOT surprising that larger companies would behave with an abundance of caution. Leave it to the startups to rush in head-first, cause a bunch of problems, make a cool product, get a consent decree, and capture the market. Large companies that act that way get PR problems and lawsuits.
It's easier to surround your bed with diatomaceous earth
Ask HN: What would you work on over a summer?
I want to create a tech startup (currently a CS major), but have no ideas.
> registered technician will enter each job performed into a lottery

One difference between trades and medicine is paperwork. I have hired for jobs without contracts being signed or receipts produced.

Why not make it optional? Registered work gets randomly inspected. Unregistered work is not. The customer pays up for the privilege. Perhaps include an adjudication framework if the inspected work is found lacking.
Fly paper on bed posts and pull the bed away from the wall. This’ll let you get a good nights sleep while you prepare for treatments.
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Epic here.

They basically are whining and complaining they have to pay the 30% fee for making more than $1 million sales, even though other stores are already doing that.

To me, this was never about consumer freedom. This was about lost revenue to Epic.
Why are ya'll even blowing stuff around in the first place?
First Republic Bank saw deposits fall by over $100B
The answer to that really is as many hours as they want. If they want to work more hours, they can lower their rate and advertise it as such.

But if we're talking peak season for HVAC (e.g. May through September) then they have no problem working literally as much as they want at their full rate. Everyone is booked 4-5 days out during this period.
I think it's pretty critical information if there's a collective group of dissenting views on measurable outcomes that correlate with downvotes.

It means they're almost certainly beliefs drawn from a convenient collection of wedge issues used to fight for votes in difficult voting districts (e.g. Battleground States but can be more localized or Federal) in the U.S.

Otherwise you'd expect people to complain that their pet theory of gravity is getting downvotes, or that their pet theory of which editor is better was downvoted. But no, it's collectively the ideas propagated as the major planks of party politics and used to shoehorn voters by district into the cohorts needed to maximize the chances for winning seats for particular party candidates. Individually truth-seeking people don't naturally gravitate towards whole sets of beliefs that just end up mutually incompatible with the set of beliefs of the other half of the country; it requires nudges in specific directions to achieve that. Large groups of people also don't collectively go off into falsehood-seeking together; again it takes specific nudges to achieve the perception that literally the other half of the country is intentionally deluding themselves.

This is a generic argument: imagine if your preferred political party was firmly established at your county, state, and federal level. How much would you really care or feel the need to argue for these most-downvoted dissenting views? Would they take lower precedence to practical things like, say, infrastructure and healthcare and small businesses (both parties love those) and R&D? Would the news cycle fixate on them to the point that they kept coming up for discussion on HN?

The parties don't even care which issues they own so long as they can wield them. Witness the flip-flop of territory (plank and physical land) between Democrats and Republicans beginning in the 1950s with civil rights. They will individually tend toward roughly compatible planks but it's by no means guaranteed. Also, unfortunately, it means that one party is almost guaranteed to drift out of the facts zone and into some weird twilight ideology zone over time; they have to keep the planks in place for utilitarian means (winning elections) so long as they are still effective even if it means actively reinforcing beliefs that are pretty obviously and objectively wrong, while the opposing party can double down on science where needed (but, still, certainly not required or even desired; better to have the flexibility to move back toward ideology if necessary).
Not exactly the question you asked but one reason FIDO/Ubikey provides more protection than TOTP is that it won't send codes to the wrong website. If you're being phished skillfully, and don't notice the URL is wrong, you're protected in that way. If you use TOTP you have to verify the URL manually.
A 'recommended option'? Eek. Recommended by who? I don't believe any country in the world condones suicide, and I doubt that any will any time soon.

I had some friends who were in serious financial difficulties a number of years ago. They were destitute, but they were nice people, and stayed with friends for free. Creative solutions are often available even in the worst of times for people that are not abusively over-using friends and relatives.

Sadly in America, the homeless are often mentally ill, and in this Liberal's opinion should be provided food and shelter, not a recommendation that they off themselves.

I think our identities are often very tied to what we do at work. So being out of work is extremely painful.

Suicide is strongly coupled to wanting to end pain. Usually emotional pain. Dealing with that pain in other ways should certainly be the first recommendation from any outsider. From the inside, it's IMHO "the right choice", though not an easy road, I admit.
> That we should punish success?

That is a great bullshit whataboutism argument.

Nobody speaks about punishing success here.

Apple and Google de facto Monopoly on the app store gives them a 30% tax on everything that wants to live on the mobile ecosystem.

This is the problem here. And this is what Epic was fighting against.
It’s all just about money. Epic wants more money.
I'm reminded how anyone with industrial capacity during war2 was pressed into service making weapons. If you look hard enough, you can find M1 Carbines with IBM and NPR (National Post Register) head-stamps.
I have been using ForScore for a very long time. Since the iPad 1. (still works).

A neighbor used MuseScore, and Audacity is the simplest audio editor. (both open source)

IMSLP works for scores off copyright. But TBH, you can find scores in thrift stores for pennies, and from the usual stores when you need something like MusicMinusOne (printed score plus orchestral audio less piano or other instrument ... namely YOU) or other copyrighted work. You may get something different than what you ordered. I got one MusicMinusOne with an online key to download the audio rather than a CD like my earlier ones. I go back to cassette and vinyl in that regard.

A LOT of scores are poorly scanned. Light and dark pages, some pages are crooked. The best solution I've found is simply to "crop" each offending page inside ForScore. Crop also means rotate. If the edits are few, I split the PDF, make edits and merge the image files (apps on MacOS).

Would be much nicer if people scanned stuff straight, and with appropriate lighting and contrast.
Some Apple fans here seem to assume that Android, Windows, and MacOS must be full of malware, since they allow side-loading.
How refreshing to see mutual aid here.

I’m not sure what else humans should be doing, but this seems to encompass at least the ethos we should promote above all.
Yeah, but also keep in mind the previous quarter announcement about the complete revamp of performance evaluation, and bonus payout. They have setup a situation where it's much easier for managers to under-evaluate employees. They are creating the future where it's much easier to layoff so-called "under performing" associates, while making it much easier to label average folks as under performing, or performing folks as average.

The 4% figure they have given is a very low figure compared to other tech firms doing 10% ~ 20%, and while one might optimistically say the progressive nature of Red Hat trying to keep the percentage low, while the pessimist might say this is just the first round. So it's possible that during Q2 performance is being looked at closely, and now is the time to shine.

As usual, all opinions are my own personal.
> a broom would be a welcome change. And honestly not much slower

Having used both brooms and a blower to sweep out my garage, a blower is exponentially faster.
I'm in my 40's and want to go for a ride. I suspect I'd appreciate it for reasons different than a small child, but I'd appreciate it all the same.

Just.... wow.
Former SpaceX Engineer Raised $40M to Build Portable Nuclear Reactors
I'm thankful I still have it installed, and that Android does not yet expunge things that one cannot install any longer. But, you'll be sad to know that it only speaks to the 1P 7 app, and thus is becoming less and less relevant toward when they eventually nuke the v7 android app

I did actually consider trying to PR a change to one of the open source keyboards in F-Droid but ... TBH, the new 1P feels less and less like team players so until they start to open up some of their own stuff, I shouldn't throw good glucose after bad
> Sony has a monopoly on PlayStation games, Xbox has a monopoly on Xbox games, Nintendo has a monopoly on Nintendo games, Apple has a monopoly on iOS apps. What's to separate Apple from the game consoles?

This is a very important point because Epic doesn’t like that either. There was very reasonable speculation that if they won this lawsuit they would immediately turn around and use it to sue the console makers.
Iran isn’t Persian only and that distinction needs to be always made.
Persian as a language has been used by various people to do science and literature in, and same goes for Arabic, but they were majority neither Arabs nor Persian by ethnicity.
Snap started sharing location data with a new third party, OpenAI, for what should be an optional feature without asking users if they wanted to share location data with OpenAI.
I think a lot of it was just that I got a company that overcharges for that particular service.

Their rates for other stuff (e.g. refill refrigerant, service AC, replace compressor) were much more reasonable.

They actually connected all the wiring after I ran it for 1/10th of the cost of running it, despite taking the same amount of time as I did to run it.

But I also don't doubt that many people (high COL area) will just end up paying the price.
Technically it was at the ARC (Augmentation Research Center), but the ARC was at SRI.
@reddit contributed to my learned helplessness. Big tech has engaged in a gnarly pattern of dossier-building rumor-perpetuating algorithmic-targeting abuse practices. @google, @reddit, @twitter and others have all participated. They all maintain secret dossiers that the end citizen never gets to see.

People will handle this differently. Some love the attention. Others find the presence of cameras on the front of every cell phone unsettling. I find the current state of affairs to be a new form of natural selection, a new filter to see who can adapt to the impending ubiquitous technical surveillance society towards which we're headed.
Isn't Teams built into Windows 11?
This is like saying the sky is green because Hitler said the sky is blue.
The donors behind a growing misinformation campaign to stop offshore wind
this is no paradox, it’s merely that if you, “in the words of Martin Buber, replace the ‘I, Thou’ relationship with the ‘I, It’ relationship, you relegate persons to the status of things”, and that’s alienation and it’s bad.

“I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible. But the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And I say to any creature who may be listening, there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.”

Your rules and procedures have escape hatches and loopholes because the world is more complicated and person-ful than they are. Or you have rules that will be used as weapons.
> Moreover, Google indisputably has a monopoly over web search: ~93% market share. (I'll never understand why we've done nothing legally about this.)

There are other free search engines. Also Google makes money as an advertiser, not as a search service. Search itself has always been free, even before Google existed.
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Use natural language to execute tasks like running Unix commands, processing input, and creating scripts.

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Physical copies of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor require a digital download
It’s an elaborate ploy to make us believe they never canceled Google Reader.
Similar here, switched from LastPass to Bitwarden a few years ago and have been very happy with it. It's less than perfect UX, and sometimes have to manually sync when switching between devices to get a new/changed password. Relatively low cost or self-hosting options, with extensions everywhere I'd need one. I do wish the experience was better for content other than passwords (notes/cards, etc).
I don't consider scrapping for manual labor jobs for food money (certainly not rent) to be any form of recovery.

For those who are currently unemployable (in a professional setting making a living wage), they are either prepared for this financially, or their survival is threatened.

Are you out of work? What's the longest you've been out of work, in years?
> It relates to a long history

No it doesn't.

> but I think you're unfairly smearing the opposition perspective

"My ignorance entitles me to free stuff" is a pretty good summary.

> of the overthrow of Hawaii and native people not having a say in how the place they have previously claimed as home is being used.

Native Hawaiians used Mauna Kea to mine stone tools ( https://www.nps.gov/places/mauna-kea-adz-quarry.htm ). There is no evidence that the summit of the mountain was used for cultural practices.
The last time I did a take home exercise for a position I wrote something that was beyond the team's skillset. That was awkward.
My brother, ever the cheapskate, decided to buy a used couch. I guess you know where this is going...

The $500 or so he saved didn't come close to the cost of full apartment treatments, the headaches, and being basically outcast by the family for a month.

Protip: Unless you're really hard up, don't buy a used couch or mattress. And if you have to, figure out a way to deep cleanse it first.
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Well business and tech are not a dichotomy, we're talking about tech companies after all.

I'm not asking how to look for "pure tech" positions that _contradict_ business values, but rather positions where working on tech problems as a senior engineer happens to align with business values.
,,To us, that's obvious''

I'm not so sure. I'm completely unable to keep in mind the amount of companies that get my data and what data they are getting, when they are getting / using it, and how.

It's not just out of control, but impossible to even imagine.
GitHub has a similar problem, where the GitHub mobile app can’t be disabled as an 2FA factor. They implemented an option to make other factors as the “default” without the ability to completely disable mobile, and then falsely closed the discussion [1].

If such insecure factor can’t be disabled, what’s the point in setting up TOTP and / or hardware keys?

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10861
Likewise here. IMO, Teams is a good place for information to go to die. I can file emails that I may want to refer to in my own filing system, and in some cases I've gone back to emails I filed ten years ago to discover the answer to some company question. With Teams, I can find on Monday posts that were sent on Friday. They're probably still there, I just can't find them.

Similarly for files that are stored on Teams/Sharepoint; it's hard to create a useable link (at least there's no obvious way to do it), and everyone is forced to use one person's directory structure, which as often as not doesn't make any sense to the rest of us.

What's the right way to store files? Store a single copy in some database-like structure, and let me create my personal "directory structure" to point to it. Then I can find it, and if anyone else uses their own personal directory structure, they can find it too. This could be a Linux file system where I'm allowed to create simlinks, but not copy a file, or it could be my Outlook folder structure. (I'm assuming that when Outlook sends an email to multiple recipients on the same email server, there's really only one copy of the email, and everyone has links to it, at least until they reply to it.)
Maybe walk outside and touch grass for a little? How's that for an idea?
the n+1 problem is pernicious!

but i too have this “solution”
Personally, it's par for the course. $largeplatformcompany thinks they don't have to accomodate corner cases, and the world allows them to continue doing so. Sad, but true. Nothing will change on this front until there is sufficient public outrage to result in new government regulations.

Yeah, I don't think that will happen any time soon.
Anti gun politicians are also known to make personal exceptions.
I think the android bits and some of the staff formed Kuato after Apple bought Siri. I interviewed for a gig there back in the day, but I landed at Linden Lab instead.
I'd work a job first. Life is plenty long enough to build a company in
your 30s or 40s so long as you avoid getting yourself killed.
Exactly, standards should be durable and predictable. They need slow, lumbering curators.

When it comes to overbroad laws like the cookies thing, lazy malicious adherence is the name of the game. Simply block JavaScript from domains like "cookielaw.org", and you'll never see the dialogs.

Is it legal that the website doesn't ask for your consent if you block random third parties from executing code on your machine? Who cares!
It can until there's hard hardware chain-of-trust enforcement (like UEFI) with signed images.

Without signed executables, and if someone is willing to spend the time to look for the exact spots in a disassembler in non-verified executables, they can either negate the condition or skip over the license check. This assumes it only happens in 1 location. Every upgrade of that particular file would likely need to be re-patched each time.

The least work semi-automated way to find it is through tracing a initial failure run and then binary search inverting logic of branch instructions.
He wasn’t Persian. This is a daylight robbery from the people of Central Asia. Look at his last name. Khwarazm is in Central Asia and it has no ethnic Persians(ethnic Tajiks don’t count).
Well dang, now I just want to spend a day fishing with you.
My hypothesis are/is that many people don't see mobile gaming as gaming and that people lie.
+1 on the complementary potential of the MouthPad^.

As you mention, the MouthPad^ would serve as an awesome tool in tandem with gaze-based cursor control. I’d like to point out that there are also other interface combinations that could work well, too. For example, we have tested using our device in tandem with voice-assistant systems and found preliminary success as our device does not prevent speech. In the end, everyone has different needs and preferences, and each interface has their quirks, so we aim to create a better option by leveraging the power of the tongue (comprised of 8 different muscles, and intrinsically dexterous).
The better part of a billion dollars a year to run and its only use case is spam. A bigger boondoggle than crypto, if such a thing was possible.