skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other countries, the government (and the wealthy) subsidize services used by all to a much greater extent and are considered "public industries". In America, everyone is much more on their own and industries like healthcare are expected to turn a profit.

Should people like Martin Shkreli have control over medicines? Most in the world would say no, in America it's yes.

That's the difference. The American people are treated as a cash cow and industries that they use are businesses without any expectation of contributing to the public good. So while we are rich, we are nickle and dimed for everything from healthcare to education.
Alright kinda of link–baity, but the custom scrolling on the site, is unbearable.
Because we totally use MRIs to detect wrist fractures.
And an IQ/aptitude at least a std deviation from the mean.
Don’t be overheard mentioning ‘hacker news’, sounds dangerous enough to be on the list perhaps.
Besides for a few facts thrown around in the beginning, this is entirely an opinion piece. Even the facts in the beginning are presented in a misleading manner IMHO:

> The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare. Healthcare for a family now costs $28k — about half of median income, which is $60k.

The "source" in the first statement links to a google search for "american 500 emergency". Not a compelling source IMHO.

The source for the second statement seems to be legitimate, but the author claims that 'a third of Americans can't afford food, shelter, and healthcare', when in fact the source only claims that a third of americans may struggle to afford those things. There is a difference.

The final statement is conflating employer-paid healthcare costs with median income, as if that $28k is coming out of the $60k - when it is not - most of it is being paid by an employer.

And then the rest of the article is an opinion piece full of assertions and little evidence. Pretty low quality article for HN in my opinion.
Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline
Where did you travel in the states?
au contrair -- people who control financial contracts get paid to pay others less.. people who monitor and exert management on others, get paid to monitor them more.. and, there is always someone in this Big Big World that is willing to work for less money.. people get paid to find those people
France's contentious speed-limit reduction is a model for others
As noted elsewhere, this would cause sites with models or menus to appear broken, when the menus or models are stuck behind the iframe.
Yes I know, don’t make sited with iframes and litghtboxes or whatever then, but people do, and the option they chose won’t break those people.
That's kinda the root of the problem with this article. It's not about the physical particles, it's about our sense of self (which yes, is probably an artifact of some crazy particle interactions). The distinction is that your self doesn't magically get redefined just because you touch something else, or because you shed some skin, or anything like that.
Having a well-annotated edition like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Shakespeare can mitigate somewhat.
My GDPR-Inspired Rant: Privacy, WTF
It's not really open to anyone. You have to be pretty smart to do well in IT. Not a genius by any means, but definitely in the top half of the IQ distribution.
In regards to both your's as well as u/returnUD 's comments, i never cease to be amazed at the insidious spread of the thoroughly debunked Dependency Theory. For a primer on how the developing world can get stuck in a poverty cycle, look into the history of Ghana and the utter moron Nkrumah. More damage is done by humanities majors pretending to understand economics than ebbil capitalists stealing magical resources from noble savages.
> Microsoft is not known for innovation

um, okay.
Wix Offers Brand New Tools for Web Development
It looks like at least some projects got bugs imported. Maybe this is still ongoing?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues
it probably does have a certain degree of astro-turfing
PostScript is indeed a Turing-complete language.

It's a common misconception that PDF is an extension of PostScript. PDF is only loosely based on PostScript. In particular, it doesn't support any control flow, like conditions or loops. It is not a programming language, unless you count embedded JavaScript.
China talks of building a “digital Silk Road”
That doesn't solve the issue of clickjacking attempts on pages meant to be in iframes (FB like buttons are in iframes)
Somebody should write an article about this.
187 Things Blochchain Is Supposed to Fix
It shows that Google is behind... I think most systems (iPhone, even Windows with TPM and Bitlocker) had this stuff for many years.
"GitHub is not Free Software, of course, which makes it unacceptable to many in the GNOME community."
There is also https://www.fakespot.com/ . I wonder if fake review generators are already working around these fake review detectors or if the detectors are not utilized enough for it to be worth the effort. Either way, some sort of arms race will ensue leading to a Touring-complete trans-human post-life review AI extolling the virtues of some generic USB hub.
Nothing has identity, but it might be possible to write down an identity function that gives a set of things distinct identities. The more interesting question then becomes how those identity functions fail and under what circumstances.
You can run PiVPN (via, say, OpenVPN) to tunnel back to your PiHole. Just tell PiVPN to use your PiHole DNS. You can VPN into the same rPi as PiHole and get an ad-free experience when you are not at your home.
If you have read the law or this linked github page you have seen that security was considered, search for this text

The processing of personal data to the extent strictly necessary and proportionate for the purposes of ensuring network and information security, i.e. the ability of a network or an information system to resist, at a given level of confidence, accidental events or unlawful or malicious actions that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal data, and the security of the related services offered by, or accessible via, those networks and systems, […] by providers of electronic communications networks and services and by providers of security technologies and services, constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned.

Did you read this and it was not enough for you,
Btw is DDOS and not DOS attacks (in case it was not a typo)
I prefer Carolingian minuscule.
As measured how?
While it's not the same, one of the best development setups I've worked with was really low tech, literally ssh-ing into commodity pc's running our app in a closet (production and staging were cloud hosted).

Because everyone was comfortable on the command like and connected via tmux sessions, we could attach to that session from any computer we brought our keys to.

We also had a couple pairing stations with one pc but two keyboard/mice and monitors so each person could take turns driving. The upshot of the tmux thing was that if we wanted to hop onto a pairing station it was as simple as taking a usb stick with your keys and then attaching to the tmux session you had at your desk.

Same went for interviews, we'd just have a candidate attach to a tmux session and we had an interactive collaborative editor.

There's some pretty obvious problems with this, but I think it's relevant since our setup used standard unix utils to achieve a modern 'pc anywhere' type setup, and if there's one thing I'll always think about when it comes to Doug Engelbart is how many of our new and shiny tools aren't really as new as we think. He really had it down with The Mother of All Demos way back in '68.
> creating a market for certified reviewers or something like consumer reports.

I'd argue that is exactly what The Wirecutter is. https://thewirecutter.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecutter_(website)

They solve the reviewer problem by having in house staff write the recommendations (reviews). Those staff then find and bring in experts. Virtually every page has a "Why you should trust us" section listing experience of those who contributed to the article. It does mean you get credible opinions, but also that you don't get the "wisdom of the masses" such as at Amazon.
Do you ever go to any Marvel films?
”They claim that their cost analysis resulted in materials and logistics costs of $18,000 and labor costs of $10,000 for a total cost potential cost of $28,000.”

If a factory worker costs $10,000 a month, that would be a person-month of labor per car, or 4 persons to produce a single car in a week, or 20,000 to produce the 5,000 each week that Tesla aims for.

Because of that, I doubt that $10,000 labor costs number is correct.

Reading the referenced https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/mobilitaet/elektroauto-zerle..., it talks of production rather than labor costs, so I think my suspicion is right.
There is no misinformation about it. Apple has made it clear to the system-wide blockers developers that this was happening because of ad blocking.

There are still a lot of apps using the VPN API for additional purposes. For instance, AdGuard Pro for iOS is still there, and it lets users use DNSCrypt or block domains manually. The difference is that it does not do system-wide ad blocking by default.
Does a developer license get you more than 7 days?
Since we are just speculating, I hypothesize that not sharing a land border with relatively poor countries has something to do with it. Australia does take in immigrants, but since most of them come legally they can pick and choose. They don't get the huge number of illegal immigrants USA deals with. This is not a diatribe against immigration, I'm an immigrant myself.
Telegram says Apple has prevented it from updating since April
Good to hear. Could use box to get around the static stuff, but given the power of lifetimes, would much rather be able to use lifetimes correctly to not have to box everything.

One other thing that wasn't really apparent but would have made my life easier is a way to use an actor to handle a request, so I could have access to a context for thread related activities (e.g. tokio handles). It feels wrong to just use Arbiter::handle there, especially for testable code.
So who audited pidgin and libOTR?

>Because they had a code exec vuln in 2017?

No. Look at the code, it’s scary! Pidgin and libPurple were not built with security in mind.

Coyim is being built ground up in an effort to avoid the numerous issues surrounding Pidgin/libOTR.

I think you absolutely should not use either, but if you’re going to use one at least use Coyim.
I come to this site for articles like this.
> For a week at temperatures between -20 and -30 C, the 6D (and iPhones kept warm) operated normally while friends with mirrorless cameras suffered shutdowns.

This is clearly not due to the nature of mirrorless technology though, so I don't think it's fair to criticize the technology based on that.
This is why I will never own an Apple phone. No one should have the power to decide what can and can't be installed on your devices.
Honestly, this means nothing to me. Not even trying to be mean, I just don't at all understand what you are saying.
Thanks! No UI library—I just wrote the CSS from scratch.
Because they own so many things. ESPN, Marvel (movies and comics), Photobucket, the History channel, 8 local TV stations, a documentary The Trial of Adolf Eichmann which aired on PBS, Vice Media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Disney and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_production_companies_o...
They were (probably are) and they did. One becomes smarter and more effective through learning and application, not whining and recrimination. S. Korea was demonstrably worse off than Ethiopia as well as many other sub-Saharan countries in the 1950s and look at them now. Did they achieve this through colonization, exploitation, and slavery?
It's arbitrary if you make it arbitrary. Depending on the data you might target various time intervals to find the optimal way to trade on that information just like any hyperparameter and the bins are a function of that time, on average in a 30 minute period bitcoin moves by 0.2% on high liquidity exchanges.
Population growth necessitates a proportional drop in poverty rate just for things to stay the same.

Looking at poverty through a lens which normalizes for population growth paints a completely different picture from what one will see in real life on the streets. When the rate stays constant and the population grows, the situation on the ground is worse, period.
Try "what is a nickle worth?" on Google. I get an answer that is mostly about pennies.
Brave (browser) is even worse.

Except they get bonus points for inventing their own coin which only exists to make the creator money, along with replacing ads with their ads.
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Show HN: Should Have Been an Email
news.yc has job ads for YC portfolio companies
* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wVIlaJB...

* http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700398 - Structural variants in genes associated with human Williams-Beuren syndrome underlie stereotypical hypersociability in domestic dogs

2017
Site's not handling traffic very well, I failed to capture an archive link. Here's a pastebin of the text: https://pastebin.com/raw/XjhNSfTs

Does MQTT have any sort of future? I played with it about six months ago and it felt like a half-baked thing with no momentum.
Well it has those risks too. Tainted copies of messaging apps shipped by hostile governments. If you download from the App Store you know you're getting the app that was signed by the developer.
I'd rather use the WAMP protocol (not the stack...): https://wamp-proto.org/

Not only does it works well for iot, but it also is very nice for the web and micro-service oriented architectures.

It's based on websocket, so it kinda works out of the box on most networks without bugging your local sysadmin, and has a bonus benefit of TLS support. And it's open standard with lots of open source clients, like MQTT.

It's also higher level, so you get (routed) RPC and PUB/SUB, with transparent result and error propagation accross language (you JS code in the browser can call you Java code on android discussing with your C# code in the cloud and your python code on the raspi).

The main implementation for the router, crossbar.io, works very well, with plenty of knobs for introspection, security, performance, etc. And you get authentication backed in.

No really, MQTT is very low level to my taste compared to WAMP.
"US high schools lag significantly behind international averages"

This is a red herring - to the point where it is misleading.

A) Start with US 'students students' are behind maybe instead of schools. Because the comparison scores are PISA and they measure people not institutions.

But more importantly:

B) It's ethnicity. (And I'm not attributing anything to race here).

'European Americans' have been doing the same for the last 40 years. They are doing a little bit better than Europeans from Europe.

'Asian Americans' have been doing the same since we've measured them as a group, they do a little bit better than European Americans, and tend to do a little bit better than Asians from Asia.

African Americans fare the worst, Latino Americans fare better, but both groups have been doing a little bit better over time. They do a little bit better respectively than Latinos from South America and Africans from Africa.

Demographically, there are considerably more Latinos, and a few more Asian and African Americans in the country - which tilts the data.

So you see: any group from anywhere in the world actually fares better in America than they would in their place of origin. Which is really a different way of looking at it, no?

Because of the social and economic disparity between these groups, it lends well to the notion that it's about the students and not the schools.

Small but slightly less relevant note: the top American students tie the top UK students as being among the best in the world. The US/UK have a little bit of an elitist function going on.

So consider this: I'm Canadian, always proud that 'we fare better than the US' on PISA testing, but really, once you normalize for ethnicity (we don't have large groups of Latinos and African Americans) - then we do about the same.

And of course I should add I don't think this is racial issue at all, however I do think that the social + economic status of any group is tied to things like outlook on education, history of literacy in the family yada yada.

All of this is based on PISA scoring which is available on their site and other places.
It's still down, shall we let Cloudflare know .. ;-)
But the parent said "bag of parts" which implies only the cost of materials, not the full per-car cost of production, and I can't tell if that also includes things like R&D, marketing, insurance, etc.
>You can be a 17 year old Javascript expert a get a $200k job without going to college.

Please elaborate on what companies hire 17 year "javascript experts with no degree" starting at 200k
I wonder what kind of Car his donors are likely to purchase.
Can't speak for him, but long ago I took the wrong exit from the highway, ending up in North Philly. Merthyr Tydfil has nothing on North Philadelphia.
I think the most important thing is that the recurring revenue products actually doesn't suck. I think it's because it's operating in a competitive market, where switching is easier so it has to work well and also integrate well with other software. This is different from just leveraging lock in and just bringing out updates with less tangible benefits to force people to upgrade.
There are two modern web views in iOS. The SFSafariViewController is an out of process view. The hosting app doesn't have access to the DOM or what the user enters. The user has access to all of the same cookies, saved passwords, and ad blockers that they would have in Safari. The other (WKviewController?) is your standard embedded web view. It doesn't share cookies, passwords, etc and the embedded app has more access to the web view.
A full background fade is an aesthetic thing at best, and it would be disingenuous to fully fade a page if some parts are not in fact blocked (i.e. remain clickable). So I think it would require no changes, it would just look different.

Having said that, I see no reason to support Like buttons OR modals and I would be fine with millions of sites being forced never to use them. We know Facebook Like buttons are over-engineered trackers whose domains are best blocked at your router. And when modals are not being abused for things users don’t want, the remaining “good” uses for modals would still be better implemented as less-intrusive and more-asynchronous things (display a modeless background message with buttons, for example).
RV's are essentially mobile homes with the driving unit built in, so I wouldn't really call that homeless.

Illegally parked, but not homeless
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says
I see about 14k issues: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
The one they tore down has a price of at least $49,000. They haven’t started producing the $35,000 version yet.
Google and lots of companies continued to use brain teasers even when they realized it made no sense. Sure they wish to say this after using it for a long time. What I’ve realized sometimes there are barriers to prevent certain people and give a sense of meritocracy while justifying discrimination. It’s like when looking for an apartment, some landlords will only check some people’s backgrounds and not others. The same is true for credit card companies offering some people much lower apr than others for no reason other than prejudice. We could go on and on with examples, but that’s just a few.

In the end every company becomes average because there is only so many people they can hire. This has nothing to do with brain teasers per se.

I’ve worked in tech for over 10 years and I have to say the places I did the best work are interviews I somewhat bombed. Not a surprise!
The answer is obvious: they want to freeload.

Everyone basically wants to exert just enough elbow grease to get something for free rather than contribute to the world they say they believe in.

"If you need ads to make money then your business should fail" is a common thing you'll hear among people who continue using sites/apps that depend on ads instead of investing in ones that don't.

If HNers can't even be bothered, then how is anyone else? We're going to be stuck in this status quo for a long time and the only survivors will be the large businesses that can afford it until the main websites people use are about as varied as our ISPs, maybe even the same.
Are your bazillion bugs not in the ~14k issues that are on their gnome project page?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
No. Fixing the housing problem will take overriding the NIMBYs that are limiting housing density, which the mayor doesn't have the power to do.
Probably because Github is a closed-source company that can remove you, your repo, or your group at any time, for any reason. Committing to a hosted service is a bad idea (see: Sourceforge). That sort of thing isn't acceptable to a project like Gnome.
It made my router lockup for some reason, even changing DNS locally on PC seemed to give some routing issues. Router reboot seemed to sort out.
Who watchlists the watchlistmen?
Wayne State University: Re-enroll, we'll forgive your debt
IMO there's a moral problem with ad blocking, which is that it's basically stealing.

Like it or not, many popular websites and services online gain income from advertising. By using them while blocking their ads you're basically getting something for nothing by gaming the system. It's probably against their ToS (but who reads that right?). It probably says: We serve ads. If you don't like that don't use this site.

One might say that ads are distracting, annoying, resource heavy, and sometimes downright malicious. I think so too. However that is essentially the "price" of ads, and this price is known in advance. Blocking ads for these reasons while continuing to use the sites is not unlike eating at a restaurant and leaving without paying because you think their prices are exorbitant: It might seem morally justified but it's theft because the prices were known in advance.

I think one of the main reason people don't dine-and-run (yet install adblockers) is that it's hard to do a moral wrong so close to the source, e.g seeing the waiters, being there in person, risking an unpleasantness drama, etc. (This is well known psychological phenomenon which name I can't recall.) In contract installing an adblocker is fast and feels totally unrelated to the 2nd party. It makes it easy to feel like you're fighting the bad guys (ads and the terrible ad-tech) and forget whose revenue you are withholding for your own benefit.

Personally I resisted installing adblockers for a long time though eventually I caved in (ad-tech got really bad). I honestly don't know what the solution is.
ask dang!
The problem there is you pretty much get no reviews at that point. Almost nobody is going to go through all that trouble to leave a review of a product if it means having to film yourself doing so. Meanwhile, paid reviewers will happily do so.