skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (I don't carry a window breaker/seatbelt cutter but it is a reasonable suggestion for everyone I think.)

You can get keychain breaker/cutters if you want to be on the safe side. But be aware that many of the cars you ride in will have laminated side glass and the breaker won't work. If I'm reading the regs correctly, it may have become law in 2020 that all new cars use laminated side glass for at least the front row.
Found some of their pencils on Amazon. A pack of 14 standard HB pencils is ¥565 ($3.94) [1]. I'm kind of tempted to get this set of colored pencils after watching the video [2]. Looks like their best selling product is a mechanical pencil that comes with a 2mm thick graphite core that can be sharpened into a point [3]... never seen that before and actually kind of a cool idea.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00CB700UK/

[2] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00AHA3BGS/

[3] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B005N3NQHS/
Yes because these companies just do the math… hmm being truly environmentally friendly is tough for maximizing profits… hmm okay let’s just do a bunch of corporate safe political progressive posturing and marketing on everything else to off-set the E score.

So a non-union mega corp that exploits labor in third world countries gets a decent overall ESG score by making a big show of support of gay/trans or “diversity” goals.

It’s math .. and the bottom line and honestly nonsense.
> How would you know consent was given by a sex worker?

How would you know consent was given by a McDonald's cashier?
This will always be an issue, but we don't run around shutting down and suing Monster.com because they allowed ads for unsafe construction jobs or financial firms that engaged in illegal activity.

You want to encourage this stuff to all run through the same site, and to give police carte blanche to poke around that site wherever they want (as long as their customers civil liberties are preserved, due process, etc.). A site that would keep good records (and inform their customers what records would be kept.) That sort of thing.

Instead, it just got driven back underground. Nobody is checking IDs underground.
As someone who's on the other side of the planet please explain what you mean.
Salty downvotes are delicious. Tears from people who can't explain how a power could have developed and deployed the bomb first but not won the war.
Especially in light of the fact that the product was originally called the "beepberry".
One gains a lot of benefits by building with libre or permissive software. Proprietary software comes with licensing fees and sometimes complex DRM systems that need maintenance. There are totally situations where both are the better tool for the job, though generally the proprietary "solutions" are often just short-term "let's get this done now" stuff, that then later has an increased cost. Leaning on a proprietary solution also means you're downstream of any decision the makers of the tool make, including choosing to nuke your (and/or your business's) use case.

I can't comment on the LDAP thing on a technical level, but if the focus is on libre software, why is it apropos to list proprietary things that it's compatible with? Software that boasts this compatibility doesn't always keep it, or sometimes loses it due to deliberate action from the proprietary party. I don't think I'd list Active Directory either. It's not something one can vouch for unless they're literally Microsoft.
The doping agents used in synthesis seem like interesting pathways towards finding something more stable and reproducible in their cook
In a corporate setting, I've experienced many problems with Microsoft and their services.

Just off the top of my head, we had a ms forms, a couple actually, that as soon as they hit 50k entries, broke in weird ways. Not accepting new entrys, dropping entries, etc..

That's just one example I immediately recall where I could code up a better solution in a short amount of time, that just shouldn't be a thing with a large cloud/service provider like Ms.
How was COVID unemployment an experiment in 15 hour work weeks?
We're a fairly large , publicly traded org that no one has ever heard of but almost everyone interacts with our products. All our frontend products are entirely web-components (Lit). I like them. Used stencil before this at another job and it was also just fine.
Vasa (Ship) Built in 1628
RIAA and others in general sued a lot of people including bar owners for playing their songs etc , there were also some enforcement via private companies with three strike policies and so on especially in Europe .

They went after ISPs and torrent sites which only hosted magnet links and many others who shouldn’t have been really sued

The goal was to create a very hostile environment for downloading songs to protect their interests - “you wouldn’t download a car!”

It was never the goal nor ever realistic to actually pursue enforcement action against every offender , the idea was to change behavior with all the related actions .

They did end up changing behavior, people just didn’t want the hassle, or be in fear so paying for streaming for access had a stronger value proposition, it was not what the RIAA planned , but benefits enormously today.
Ask HN: Is there any hopeful news about climate change?
I would love to follow something online that can supplement what is a 100% bad news stream of climate change information. Can it really be that absolutely nothing is going well?
Piracy is a punishable offense, Citizen!

However, you could avoid the troubles such charges could cause you in your employment, banking, family, and other connections, if you'd agree to help us out with our investigations of another person...

What convenience for the lawmen, when everyone they meet can be held guilty of having broken some law or another.
MRI machines work using superconducting magnets as does the LHC. So you better believe it buddy.
Hi, are you the author? Nicely done I think, unusual feeling reading this, makes you believe in it :)

What is the status of VYBE? I tried creating an event and even configured tickets, but I don’t see what can I do next. Only tried from mobile so far.
It depends on how you define the free speech and how free it is.

You can say anything you want "in the public square" or "with a free press".

For example, go to the public library, or a government building, and they will have a little patch of land designated as the "Free Speech Z0ne" where Jehovah's witnesses and PETA fanatics camp out and hold up signs and vie for your attention.

You can go on Facebook and say stuff, but that's not "First Amendment Free Speech", that's a "private platform" and Facebook's standards control your speech there, not the First Amendment.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
Give TeXmacs a shot.
More people die of cold related causes than heat related ones, by orders of magnitude.
This sort of ruthless pragmatism is sadly missing from today's politics. Recently people are more focused on imposing their will on the others instead of compromising, however unsavory the other side may be.
Wall Text Warning: It's so fucking expensive being poor
How did this process rate the relative security of the clouds? How much does security matter to your business?

A common bureaucratic failure mode when evaluating competitors is to make a bunch of categories:

Performance: 4/5
Ease of use: 4/5
Cost: 3/5
Security: 0/5

and then average them. When for these categories, you probably should compare the minimum rather than average.
I would have said latex gatekeepers are the worst, but now I know eMacs geeks so no. Or was it vim? Can never tell!
OP isn't talking about that. The IRS rules require you to depreciate real estate over 27.5 years.
Whatever the equivalent is of your "the authority" in Australia is just a government office that records documents and has nothing to do with title insurance. You (the purchaser) get your title insurance from a private insurer and if it turns out the title is defective, they pay out.

My experience is that title companies a) would not allow this to happen, by accomplishing a legitimate title search and b) they pay out when this happens.
It doesn’t though, that’s what’s so tantalizing about it. It’s counterintuitive but as I understand it, the current best theory of superconductor behavior properly conserves mass and energy and the math says a room temperature one should be perfectly possible. It’s just not been found. And yes, it’s truly zero resistance as far as we understand the concept of “resistance”.
Surprisingly not available on jetpens !
Amazing story. It tells one solid truth: culture is a construct, like a piece of garment can be, like an ornament. It can be burrowed, changed, adapted, created, dumpted, matched, merged, whatever.

Theses guys have one culture too many to learn about and get richer from. That's a gift.
If Meta continue investing for this, I believe it can be like a Microsoft Gaming.
And guess what audible exclusivity means: no libraries.

Audible is literally locking away culture from the public and it's a god damned disgrace.
They’re shipping pancake lenses, color pass through, and depth sensors on the Quest Pro and Quest 3. Those were features on the last batch of prototypes a few years ago. Some features from prototypes haven’t shipped yet like their ultra high brightness display or varifocal lenses but I doubt they’ve canned them. I’m glad they’re being so open about this research, along with the release cadence they’re building up for new headsets it inspires a lot of confidence.
Take a simplified system: two players, both with $10. Flip a coin. Let’s say one comes up heads, the other tails. Total is now $15 + $6 = $21. A $1 increase for the whole system.

I agree the distinction is not at all between individual and collective, but rather between one-off and repeated games.
> treat a Chromebook as a regular laptop, install any Linux distro you wish to

Apparently this is via a VM, with limitations (no hardware acceleration, for example); presumably the original commenter wants to be able to run Linux binaries natively.

> ChromeOS isn't a general purpose Linux distro

But based on the article, it seems Google is taking steps towards making it one (switching to Wayland, using standard Chrome for Linux, etc.).
Why do MRIs need zero resistance vs incredibly low resistance?
I'll go against 99% of the commenters here and say that the jobs are not pointless at all. It's just that people doing the job don't have the bird's eye view (or experience) to understand their usefulness.

Here's a simple example: for the entire 19th century (the 1800's), the British empire was at least 20 years ahead of anyone else. Part of this was due to their formidable Royal Navy. But most of this was due to their financial system. All European governments, princes, aristocrats, people with money, kept their cash parked in British banks. Why? They trusted the British banks more than the banks in their own countries. As a consequence, British businessmen had better access to credit, scratch that, infinitely better access to credit, than their continental counterparts. Which meant that more enterprise was happening in Britain, and so, by some form of law of large numbers, more innovation, hence technological advantage, hence higher GDP, and more tax money to fund expensive cutting edge ships for the Navy, and round and round in virtuous cycles.

Finance is fairly unintuitive, and it's easy to perceive it as a waste of people's time and talent. But it's finance and the rule of law (and the Royal Navy) that made a tiny island nation lend its name to the phrase "Pax Britannica", a period of stability and prosperity that humanity had not seen since the Pax Romana, almost two millennia prior.

If you work in finance, don't sell yourself cheap. Your work is meaningful.
> Every single worker at, say, a McDonald's is doing a job that could be automated with some capital investment.

I think you underestimate how difficult something like this would be.

I mean, I agree that as long as you have someone/something supplying the food gloop packets to the store, taking out the waste, and fixing the machines, pretty much everything in a McDonalds could be automated as a closed system.

But we're talking about billions to trillions of dollars of investment.

Just maintaining the frosty machines is outrageously expensive.
There's been essays written around that framing, such as this one ('ESG Data is Like Less Wife Beating ', 2019): https://www.blorrainesmith.com/single-post/esg-data-is-like-...

The same author has moved towards proposing 'matereality' assessments in a different way: https://www.blorrainesmith.com/single-post/when-materiality-...

There's also groups advocating for alternatives to ESG, such as https://www.r3-0.org/
Gates must have been quite Edgy back in the day
Noticed that, did you?
> In the given game, the collective loses money just as the individual does.

No, they don't. If 100 people starts with $100 (i.e. a total wealth of $10,000), and half of them win as expected, the total wealth at the end of first round will be $10,500.

Granted it won't be a 5% increase for the next round, and eventually collective wealth will also approach 0, but that's the point. 100 people playing 1 round is not the same as 1 person playing 100 rounds.
I would not count on immediate price drops. Typically cheaper devices like iBook or iPhone SE were years down the line.

Apple picks a price point and sticks to it (first generation iPhone was a one-off). People with too much money pay for early development on exclusive feature poor devices. As the technology becomes more functional inflation drops prices into affordable ranges.

Given the tolerances needed for head mounted quality and comfort Apple will never have a comparable cheap model. Meta has the edge here and will have Android levels of market share while Apple has Apple shares of profit.
It's a thinly veiled signal that a corporation will not act out against the status quo, and in return they will have protection from their corporate media and regulatory attack dogs.

The sad thing is they have scientifically captured and subverted mainstream activism, which for a while around 50-60 years ago emerged as what appeared to be their biggest threat. You can "resist" the state of things all you like, but you're not allowed to say anything about corporations that traffic arms to 3rd world countries because they tweet out BLM logos and rainbow flags now and again. And you have to resist by supporting mainstream political parties and politicians who have been around for decades and are definitely not complicit or responsible for what you are resisting.
Even if this perfect magical cure exists, it doesn't guarantee that we can witness or access it.

Dr. Carl June, leading a charity and publicly funded program, developed CAR T cell gene therapy, which successfully cured leukemia. However, it somehow ended up in the hands of Novartis. The cost of a single therapy was $20,000, but now it is being sold at price of $475,000, making it unaffordable for the majority of people. Have you ever heard about this?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/30/149399/the-fda-h...

https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/08/big-pharma-novart...
> Because they are?

that's just a tautological argument. They are useless because the are useless?

IMHO, if a job gets pay, it is not useless, because the person paying is implicitly agreeing that the payment is worth the job being done - esp. if it's a private job, rather than a publicly funded job.
I'm confused by this, Apple does sell audio books? Right?
I think India went with their indigenous vaccine for a few reasons.

* They could not get enough foreign vaccines quickly enough.

* They have lots of biotech, relatively speaking.
Last time I checked with some lefty people, you wouldn't, since the worker would be too scared to possibly lose job/pay over critiquing their employer, so they would be heavily incentivized to say anything keep the status quo.

So how DO you know consent was given by the sex worker?
Yeah, that's after 1 round. Both the individuals and the collective expect to gain if they only play 1 round.

The interesting part is that they expect to lose money over time even though they expect to gain money if they only play once. But that holds for both the individuals and the collective.

A less confusing game with the same mechanism is "flip a coin, if it's heads I give you 1000x your initial investment, if it's tails I wipe you out completely" - you expect to make a massive gain on any given turn, but if you play enough rounds you'll eventually lose everything.
Musk was fired for digging in and spending months insisting a working MVP written in Java on Solaris be rewritten in Classic ASP on Windows because he knew the latter and not the former, not because of any intrinsic failing of the latter.
When the heat generation (inefficiency) is the main limiter in the technology, increasing the efficiency improves performance, rather than just saving power.

The electric motor limitations come from heat, so increased efficiency = increased strength. That 5-15% + work is what melts the motor when going beyond the rated load. I'm not familiar with the superconductors/electrical engineering but I think if no work is performed (motor is stalled), the motor will not get hot, basically just acting as a magnet.

From what I understand it is the same with computer chips, the biggest obstacle the chip companies have is heat generation; the chip gets too hot with the smaller designs. So less heat generation = faster chip.

Autonomous drones (for delivery and stuff) are extremely limited by the very low battery life. They fly around for 20 minutes and are done. Any complication and the battery runs out. So higher efficiency = longer battery life = more capabilities.

Nuclear fusion reactors also apparently benefit from higher temperature superconductors because it is hard to keep them so cold in a reactor. I know nothing about that though. To me it seems like 100 K or 300 K are very different from 100m K regardless but idk lol.
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> A sealed, signed, and immutable OS is already a reality on Apple's platforms.

Until I turn SIP/AMFI off and mess with the OS as I wish, which Apple lets me do. I'm not looking forward to random websites deciding that is grounds to denying me access or giving me 10x more captchas.
More cooks ensures you get the same terrible burger in triplicate.
Fitch Downgrades US Debt
What's an "update"? Don't you mean a helper?

I come back from lunch and my MacBook sounds like a jet turbine and is nearly on fire. Something needs a whole CPU just to show me a freaking dialog.
When I was a couple years into my actual math education (about midway through vector calculus) I had a crazy moment when I was really struggling to understand some problem that required more manipulation than the 3 dimensional problems I'd been used to up until that point. My roommate was a postdoc and he told me the simplest, dumbest thing, which was, roughly "the math is a separate thing than the picture. You have to actually think about the math"

That one sentence blew my mind. Until then I had relied almost entirely on the geometric representation of a concept or a problem, and never knew to reach for the the actual concept.

I think about 75% of people check out of math completely super early; of the 25% that remain, 75% of those never quite "get" that math is a separate thing from graphs and charts. The rest are usually successful scientists, engineers, and similarly technical folk. (I won't venture my opinion on the difference between mere number manipulators vs. actual prov-ers of mathematics, but I think it's probably a similar ratio)
> i've spent many minutes arguing with NYC bodega owners about how "99 Cent" Arizona cans only cost 99 cents (I was even willing to pay an entire dollar for it!)

"But the price is on the can though!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMUZ2sVjLfY
Ah, I get your point now. True, there is no need to consider multiple people, the expectation is the same for a single person, too.

The collective wealth calculation just makes it easier to visualise.
From their FAQ:

> Can I record a Jitsi conference?
> Yes. The easiest way to record is to live stream your conference to YouTube and access the recording there. You can try this now on meet.jit.si. Self-installed Jitsi Meet deployments will need to setup [Jibri](https://github.com/jitsi/jibri) to do this.
> Facebook seems now to be something like the company whose former HQ it inhabits: Xerox PARC.

did you mean sun microsystems?
Good at least I would be safe.
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Quest 2 outsold Xbox X/S. That's not bad for literally the only general consumer product they've released so far.
Having experimented with a ton of content on VR, I've concluded:

- Being able to "walk inside" theatrical musical performances (musicals, concerts) is incredibly amazing. Like blows-you-away amazing

- Being able to "walk inside" traditional movie/TV doesn't work at all. You can't do framing/cuts/editing so it feels like you're awkwardly sitting next to actors who don't acknowledge you and you never know what to look at and you miss an important facial reaction because you were too busy noticing what a beautiful oriental rug you're standing on

You don't realize how important framing/cuts/editing is to the TV/movie experience until they disappear, so it doesn't work at all -- they turn into weird theater plays in a way, which they're not meant to be.

Whereas theatrical plays/musicals/shows are meant for you to observe action all over the stage, so it translates extremely well to VR -- and because you can be on stage, it's immersive like dinner theater and just amazing.
>On top of that we have to deal with ever-evolving ideas about what consent even means. That one cannot properly give consent if one party is more powerful than the other (and how could that ever not be the case, when one is a man and the other a woman... does not plain strength count as power in that scenario?)

This is essentially the problem. There is no positive definition of what consent is - only an arguments about what consent isn't.

People posit that consent cant co-exist with power imbalance. Because no two people are identical, nobody is perfect, and nobody is omnipotent, consent can not exist at all.

The term has been reduced to meaningless and eventually a new word will be coined for sober choices made free from threat of violence and deceit
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