skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do I find real GPS data to test with?
I am developing tools that works with gps data on mobile devices. I would like more data to test with and I wonder if there is any good resource out there to fetch such data. It could be gpx-files, geojson or any other format.

In my experience the gps data from mobile phones are much more varying in quality than what I get from an iOS or android simulator and I would like to have more realistic data to work with. Real recordings would be the best.
I wanted to get people's feedback on a community I'm thinking of building. A community for people who are building one-person businesses (also accepting solo-founders).
Being a solopreneur is hard. You face problems no one else seems to understand. We don't all live in the SF bubble and often we don't have people to emotionally resonate with who understand what we're trying to do. Usually - you have to do it all.
I searched online and it looks like solopreneurs are a growing category and while they often might find co-founders later on - starting out as a solopreneur is often also a good way to get the ball rolling.
We can figure out game-tips and plans for people running these businesses (e.g. VAs that are amazing + how to screen for great VAs in seconds).

For those interested, I have a link for a form for people to fill in if there's interest - https://tally.so/r/3xaxlE
You can host your own LLM - something like Mixtral for example - then you have full control over the information you submit to it.
> RAM is meant to be used

Sure, and when applications hog it, it prevents me from putting it to better use.
Everything is energy from the big bang, including you and me. But the photons of the CMB don’t represent anything that already existed immediately after the big bang. Protons and neutrons and hydrogen and helium were created in between, and inflation (probably) happened in between. The universe at the time of last scattering was a whole different world than a split-second after the big bang.
On some sense yes... but aren't there still more people working in it than pre-Covid (taking into account population growth) ?
I don't think that outside of a religious perspective, that a reading of the Bible as any sort of coherent overall narrative makes any sense at all, given the circumstances of it's composition. Different books of the bible were written by different people at different times, many of them were almost certainly edited by others at different times, and then it was all collected at a later time by other people for their own purposes. In particular, reading any kind of redemption narrative into the Hebrew bible is basically a christian viewpoint.
What's your source on even high, rugged country like that being logged out by the 1930ies at an industrial scale?
A few things:

- I think the revenue streams you all have from a Federated EU make an actually federated Matrix ecosystem much more likely :).

- It's a pity that EU economic policy is so terrible, and constitutionally so. I bet Matrix's finances would be a in a much better position if European countries could run healthy deficits like the US does.

- AFIAK their excuse was that Matrix didn't have account migration. I wonder if Matrix having had that would have made them use it, or they were looking for an excuse for NiH anyways.

- Conversely, now that they *do* have it, it does make Matrix at some point getting it a bit more important.
Conflicting regulations when it comes to cars, and for WiFi refrigerators (meaning any gadget that runs some sort of OS) I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think it makes sense to make different regulation for general-purpose computing devices and purpose-specific devices.

Though if you ask me, software should be covered by right-to-repair. I should have everything I need to technically be able to support my own device when the manufacturer throws in the towel. Unlockable bootloader, source code for device bring-up, drivers, but not necessarily an OS, just the device specific stuff.
Makes sense! That would align pretty well with my personal experience too.
Resident investors are a big part of the problem, however.
Crime networks may have laundered $1B+ through Vancouver homes in 2016 (2018)
Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms. Try to open an mp4 file you downloaded on your iPhone or iPad and you will be presented with one of the most atrocious "players" ever.

But that's because Apple has never cared to support on-device video viewing on their mobile devices outside the gallery app. They think people only use streaming apps and websites to consume videos so they haven't bothered with it.

I'm sure we will get VLC on the Vision Pro or something similar that will take care of it. Platforms that publish 360 content will have to distribute their own custom solutions
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/992/402/c35...
It is not enabled by default.

https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-vision-pro/tips/how-to...
That's why it has to be lightweight. The thing that would drive prices down and keep ads at bay is competition. Since setting up a new streaming service is difficult-bordering-on-impossible, the players are protected from competition and can squeeze their customers. In other markets, if you had a lightweight payment system that isn't just a component of a walled garden (ala Medium or YouTube), you could see actual competition. Then, if some player started showing ads or raising prices, people could just up and move elsewhere.

Imagine the early internet if we didn't have HTTP & HTML. It would have been a bunch of specialized AOL- or CompuServ-type walled-garden services, each of which could have wrung their customers dry. That's the world we ended up with in streaming. But the WWW doesn't have a mechanism for simple payments, so payment infrastructure can be used to lure and trap content creators. That's why we need a simple, lightweight, portable and open payment mechanism, to complement open web protocols.
What’s wrong with simply displaying/linking to a list of supported countries?
This is why you'd 'charge up' some prepaid store.
> If, in this example, the US government can't repurpose it or use it for propaganda, can it really have insane oversight over it?

Yes. Much in the same way that the IRS has oversight over a company's financial records but doesn't have much of a say in how the company carries out its business.

> What does oversight mean here by your definition?

Having access to the data, having access to the content moderation policies, as well as having legal jurisdiction over TikTok's executive team.

> Are youth always correct in their worldview and never put at odds with their own societies by external or internal propaganda tools?

Their political positions are usually a lot more extremely conservative or extremely liberal. Although some of their opinions might be formed in the shape intended by propaganda, a lot of the opinions are exclusively rebellion (see: young people drinking, smoking, whatever).

Ultimately youth on TikTok don't think Tiananmen square was a hoax or have deluded views about China's social policies. In fact they meme about China's social credit concept and would rather visit Japan or Korea. This on its own ends the idea of it being a Chinese propaganda tool -- if it really is, the Chinese are failing as miserably as the US at trying to weaponize it.

Beyond this, however, TikTok is essentially giving itself up to the full control of the US government[0] so we might be on the verge on having Twitter-esque style[1] controls.

But pretending that China is the reason that TikTok isn't enough pro-Israeli, or the reason why conservative views are making a resurgence in the younger demographics, or that it's 'dumbing down the Western world' (just as the radio, TV and video games did before) is just a mixture of old people yelling at clouds and propagandists not being able to manipulate a new generation.

It's actually funny how the same voices complaining about it now weren't complaining when TikTok was pushing covid vaccine conspiracies a couple of years ago -- it might have something to do with their viewpoint no longer being represented.

The real solution for TikTok might be to add an age limit. That is, no old people. Let kids be kids -- which is how it started when they were just singing and dancing before it was politicized. Something that republicans take issue with, of course, who want TikTok to push nationalist propaganda instead like they do on the Chinese version.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/21/dra...

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...
Adam Neumann is trying to buy WeWork
You know that on the Apple Vision Pro, you can't even reorder the homescreen apps, and everything is forced to be alphabetical right? Clearly some corners were cut getting the v1 release shipped. Personas (which are still in beta) are clearly a higher priority than this for Apple.
Do they have a license to practice law?
It could be real Chinese income backed by fake paper work (money laundering) or fake income backed by fake paper work (fraud). You can take out $50k per year, a lot more via exemptions, so you don’t need money laundering to get money out of china into the USA (I had to move a few hundred K before, all the paper work was legit).
Most governments would do anything for foreign direct investment.

From many points of view, having foreign investors buy property without immigrating is a best case scenario for governments.
Just be careful not to fall into the trap of equating "being served" with "being able to access".

One is sinister and gives pearl clutchers new talking points. The other describes what should be a basic aspect of owning a computer.
Assuming Apple allows 3rd party video players in Vision.
Given orders of magnitude better cost efficiency, they will have plenty of funds to lure in any insurance firm in existence. And then replace insurance firms too.
it's free but you don't get consultants visiting you and taking your team for drinks so there's that
Those of you who use Anki for learning advanced math, what is your workflow?
I am interested in learning advanced math using Anki. Would love to hear about your workflows if you are using Anki for such.
Restitution is not borrowed money. That's a pretty important distinction. Calling it debt may be strictly correct but it comparing it to consumer debt is disingenuous.
I am over social media just like I was over trying to become a mayor of something on FourSquare, wasting time on useless virtual accolades.

There IS a way to use this to develop your online professional brand, but it is so hard not to get bogged down in the swamp full of below-average intelligence, bots, and now AI garbage.
Working over SSH is not the only TUI advantage: IMHO one of the greatest benefits of TUIs is the usage of characters to display the UI. This way, the font size is always equal (no unreadably small fonts).

When designing TUIs I found this to be limiting in a creative sense -- I have to really think about how I arrange the TUI elements and information because I cannot put as many elements as I can on a GUI in the same screen space.

Also, TUIs seem to be mostely unaffected by the trend to make every GUI element “touch-friendly” large which is an advantage for me as a Desktop user.

Full rant here: <https://masysma.net/37/why_terminal.xhtml>
I incline towards you on the subject but if you call it guessing you open yourself up to all sorts of rebuttals.
My theory is that every technology goes through a period of experimentation before it’s clear how it should be employed.

That’s why we had project plowshare for the bomb and now internet connectivity for every imaginable device, even ones that only need an on-off switch.

I am a bit mystified why we need connected toothbrushes, but I very much applaud the spirit of experimentation, even if it sometimes gives us toothbrush-powered botnets.
Right, but if the Vision Pro supported webXR you would be able to use one of the existing web based video players
i installed fedora (asahi) on an apple silicon laptop, and it's super useful, and might be an exception to your point.
Blaming foreign investors for a housing crisis is a smokescreen. It's not the demand from investors that's the issue; it's the government's stifling regulations that choke new construction. The mess is because of state failure, not market failure. When sellers freely sell their homes to foreign buyers, they're making choices that benefit them. Why should we deny them that right? The real absurdity is ignoring the elephant in the room: a bureaucratic quagmire that prevents building enough homes to meet demand. Instead of scapegoating investors, slash the red tape and let the market work.
Optery founder here. We did a deep dive comparison between DeleteMe and Optery (https://www.optery.com/deleteme-review/). The biggest takeaway is you have to scroll to the bottom of the DeleteMe Sites We Remove From page and read the fine print on what is covered by the plan you are purchasing. The "750+ Data Brokers" written across the top of the page is misleading. The standard plan covers about ~90 sites.
So what do you call it when the wealthy and corporations exploit their opponent's inability to afford legal representation? A normal Tuesday in Amerika. Yes, the banality of tuesday terrorism.
Finding causality is hard and this study has so many hidden confounders that even implying causality from weed to anxiety disorder is bullshit.

Anecdotally, the only people I know that ended up in ED due to weed either took it unknowingly or have Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome from heavy heavy usage. Surely someone with a tendency for anxiety is more likely to seek medical help.

I know cannabis smokers who have anxiety issues, but it isn't obvious whether their tendency for anxiety leads them to smoking. I'm ignoring temporary anxiety. Disclosure: not a pot smoker.
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It's funny how any conversation ends with this question unanswered.
Anxiety is an evolutionary mechanism to alert the individual that something is wrong and must be dealt with. That should tell you most of you need to know about whether the it is good for you or not. If you have intolerable pain or no appetite and it solves those issues, then maybe that is worth it. In most cases and for most people, it's likely not worth it.

Cannabis lowers blood pressure and can cause tachycardia and has a statistically significant association with the development of heart failure in some users. In my own personal life, I had an episode of moderate autonomic dysfunction after taking it several times with seemingly no issue. While in the hospital the attending ER doctor told me I should probably stay away from it. That was the last time I had it. He was lighthearted and put a joke diagnosis of toxic encephalopathy on the discharge notes.
Also agree it's 100% the responsibilities/feeling guilty syndrome. But I'm basing this on my personal experience only.

I suffer from bouts of anxiety and depression. I also like to partake in cannabis. If I'm feeling depressed, anxious, sad - WARNING - don't do cannabis!! It amplifies the feeling. I would never use it for an escape from bad stuff. If I'm feeling good, then go for it!

It's a mind altering substance. If your mind isn't in a great place to begin with, what do people think cannabis is going to do?

And yeah, cut down on caffeine and sleep some more.
I'm not sure it's so much scorn as a recognition that there are fields and sub-fields where it's just hard to rearn a good living unless you have some combination of being really really good, lucky, astute, willing to do pretty pedestrian stuff for the most part, etc.--and still probably not make a lot of money. Hardly limited to game development. See also photographers, journalists, musicians, film-makers, et.
Some consequences of illegal substances are things like "lack of standard dosage" and "lack of consumer education."

Someone who has never taken cannabis before, accidentally not realizing they've consumed too much, not knowing how to handle it, and wondering if they're okay, and calling 911 or going to the ER, is not an unfamiliar story.
General-purpose computing on devices marketed as general-purpose computing devices should be a no-brainer for regulators.

Cars, electric scooters, boats, anything where there's other conflicting safety regulations I fully agree that a manufacturer doesn't need to provide the general public with full software access. I still think even in those cases there needs to be some regulation that ensures manufacturers allow independent, qualified, repair shops to effectively repair broken tech.
It’s not about porn, but rather about Apple’s insistence that it’s not a VR headset.

They’ll likely not allow any apps that take over the entire user surroundings, especially if they don’t allow six degrees of freedom.
Have a look at http://unstract.com/
Don't "go" that far!

Jokes aside tho, I agree—the "anything goes" (pun intended) approach in dynamic programming languages is so annoying. Using "any" in a typed language is like "go"ing back to dynamic style, which many already are trying to escape.

Enough puns for today!
Do they send email marketing?
Doesn't look like there is a place to enter past addresses. In the last 15 years I've moved ~10 times. Would be nice to have a way to check those as well.
What is the reason for someone in the network to not want the filtering? Does this break some websites?

My own devices are covered, I definitely want full filtering even when not at home and my devices are completely hackable, but I'm wondering if such a tool would be a convenience for other people using the network in particular with less hackable devices, and people likely to use my network are likely totally uninterested in ads, but I don't want this to be a pain.
I'm not sure its neglibile, I suppose once you know what you're doing.

But postgres setup, at least the package managers on Linux, will by default, create a user called postgres, and lock out anyone else who isn't this user from doing anything. Yeah you can sudo to get psql etc. easily, but that doesn't help your programs which are running as different users. You have to edit a config file to get to work, and I never figured out how to get to work with domain sockets and not TCP
The Oracle GraalVM JIT compiler performs the same optimization as the Oracle GraalVM JIT compiler.

Makes sense.
That's surprising. Before I left twitter I had probably came across more than ten accounts that were openly white supremacist or explicitly calling for the extermination of the Jewish race
The irony is that anyone who was going to do those things isn't going to care about a license anyway.
Right... so far this has happened to 3 sites in the top 10 of this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

2 of the sites in the top 10 of that list have been criticized for hosting hate speech.

The 3 sites which have had trouble receiving payments don't overlap with the 2 which have been criticized for hosting hate speech.

And notably, many sites which are more hateful than those and have experienced deplatforming efforts, are still thriving, such as KiwiFarms and 4Chan. As it turns out, there are enough hateful people out there that they can manage technical/financial solutions to deplatforming efforts.

Hate speech is becoming a go-to justification for policing the internet, but the reality is that those policies are more effective in harming user privacy and freedom than they are in curbing hate speech.
Any company over about 200 employees is not going to perform layoffs this way. They will perform layoffs by strategic function and job role, not by a descending sort on the payroll database. R&D roles tend to be more stable than most other role types, as long as the company is on a general growth trajectory for the overall strategy. Once a company stagnates, R&D roles tend to be the least stable. What roles are the biggest target for layoffs generally has more to do with the industry the company is in and where it is on the maturity cycle than whether or not an individual person is being paid +20% over their cohort. In any sufficiently larger company they don't even look at salary outliers, because it's irrelevant at that scale first of all, and because salary outliers usually exists for a reason secondly.

Also, people should just stop expecting job stability. The evidence is blatant and public that this simply isn't a thing for anyone. Instead, you should work on maximizing successful outcomes in your life and career regardless of which employer's logo is on your paycheck/badge. Having a budget, having an investment plan, and actively building up and managing your savings are just important life skills for success irrespective of how much you get paid and where you work. The more money you make, though, makes everything else easier. It is a fruitless and misguided plan to try to make /less/ just so you can "stay under the radar". Not only does it not work, but it's actually self-sabotaging.
Forget CVEs. The App Store itself is a hive of scum and villainy[1]. How this stuff gets past review while email and calendar apps have to raise a public stink[2] to get in is beyond me.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/in-app_purchase_scams_in_...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/apples-response-hey-sh...
It doesn't take that many hours, you are over-estimating by 2.5 order of magnitude
> Apple's default video players are severly lacking in almost all of their platforms

Try opening the TV app on a multi monitor Mac. It is nearly god damn impossible to make it full screen on the monitor you want rather than the one it happened to open up on originally (I think based on app bar placement which annoyingly cannot be tied to a specific monitor or made to appear on all monitors)
Can't those cases simply be exempted from the requirement?
Isn’t that rather splitting hairs as they’d have equivalent degrees?
The root causes of all this is the fact that way back in like the 1990s in order to balance the budget the Fed Liberals under Chretien did big time austerity and cut transfers to the Provinces, and then the Provinces reacted by doing big time austerity and cutting budgets to post secondary education. Then post secondary education reacted to that budget hole by increasing the amount of foreign students they brought in to cover the shortfall.

This continued on and on and at some point folks really started to realize these high foreign student tuitions were an exploitable, profitable business, and we started seeing more and more private for-profit diploma mill style schools bringing in foreign students. The students paid a high price for useless hotel management degrees but in exchange got a boosted chance at permanent residency.

At some point the current government realized that they had a labour shortage and that all these foreign students milling about getting useless degrees were a source of cheap labour. Accordingly they relaxed rules and allowed them to work more hours.

Really poor and gross decision making all around dating back decades.

In 2014 the current PM, when he was in third place in the polls, wrote a scathing op-ed against the related Temporary Foreign Worker program but after being elected did nothing but make everything worse.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/justin-trudeau-...

Given that the Conservatives were the ones that kick started the abuses of the TFW program. It's hard to believe either Liberals or Conservatives are credible on this file.
Not if those devices aren't marketed as "being able to install new software".