skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I originally made my own app: compiled an OSS SOCKS proxy with a simple iOS wrapper, deployed with a free developer account. Later, I switched to using Pythonista (paid app available on the App Store) to run a SOCKS proxy written in Python. I should add - Pythonista is a pretty amazing app, given that it’s a proper App Store app that lets you write your own Python programs with full access to iOS APIs (including the ability to dlopen private frameworks via ctypes...).

The iOS app I “wrote” is up on GitHub: https://github.com/nneonneo/socks5-ios. It’s really barebones; I knocked it together in less than an hour since I rather desperately wanted a good internet connection at the time :)
Again, I request that you explain this. As a westerner my crude understanding may be skewed by biased presentation I read about.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak declared public health emergency
What's an EM? Engineering Manager?
What was "turned down"? You mean during team-matching?

You described one (long) interview cycle, with apparently an offer (since you seem to know the compensation) that you declined.
Worth reading the whole series and other Strong Towns pieces too.

Chuck is not anti-market, he's just going into a lot of the details about how this stuff works out in practice.
In the past when I was using a rasppi (v1) as my media player, I used the SD card only for booting off of. The media files themselves were persisted on my nas, served over nfs. Using network storage really seems like the way to go, particularly now that the shared bus issue has been resolved. At the very least, real hard drives are much more efficient (byte/dollar) than SD cards.
Facebook's David Marcus testifies on Libra Cryptocurrency (Live)
Great podcast about the TurboTax ProPublica articles: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol/144-dark-patt...
There is a service called "OneHash" I think... where impartial 3rd Parties can be the judge of bets like these for a small fee on the transaction.

I might be confused on the name, and can't look up Crypto stuff at work. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Climate change is not real science because it is not falsifiable.
> If you look at /system/Applications/ that's what you see, right? Is the application a file? No, the file is a part of the hpkg

As I said in my previous comment, that really is a file. So how is this an illusion?
Self-governed sovereignty. You and the American entities mentioned believe this. And seek to protect it. Including trademark violators, for example (who threaten Apple's 'kingdom' so to speak).
Ah, sorry "hire talented engineers, invest in marketing, and raise capital." was actually more in reference to the 20% fee.

Although we think impact investors and potentially even VCs can help fund this which is why we haven't become a nonprofit. We are looking at Benefit Corporation as the best legal structure for this, but it will take some time for us to transfer over.
Probably worth holding out on them until the "productized" version then. :)
This is a super interesting series, but I'm failing to see how most of the issues he covers are market failures. I love the way he explains infrastructure as an investment, but it seems like most of these infrastructure projects would... not be pursued by someone who was responsible for the full cost (naturally, negative externalities can be market failures, but are they in this case?)?

I suppose it's some sort of market failure that municipalities are allowed to basically kick the can down the road, building ever more infrastructure without the revenue to sustain it, but that's generally not at all what people mean when they talk about market failures, is it?

As I said, I love this series, and he sounds right about everything, but calling it a journey from free market ideology seems odd, since most of the issues he has are with governments making bad investment decisions (unless I'm completely misreading this). If they were companies they would have gone out of business and lost their ability to make such bad decisions (hopefully, if not, that would also be a market failure). It just seems odd to describe actions by governments as actions by market participants when the line is usually drawn between government actors and market participants.
Interesting, I used Republic a few years ago during their beta period. Back then they were very upfront about routing calls/data over wifi whenever possible, even marketing it as a feature on their home page. Now I can't find any mention of routing over wifi on their main pages.

edit: Here's their page from 2012, they were marketing it as "Hybrid Calling" https://web.archive.org/web/20120103104716/http://republicwi...
Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia
It's interesting how there are so many different solutions and even entire companies focused on "fixing" parts of the hiring funnel. Byteboard looks to be targeting the technical validation part of the funnel which means they overlap with companies like Triplebyte. However, the approach is vastly different and seeks to tackle different pain points.

What I wonder though is whose pain points are being alleviated: job seekers or employers?

While it sounds like this is better for job seekers than technical interviews, it actually sounds like it will compound the pain. Specifically because this is yet another method of validation one must pass to even be considered for a job. Take the various hurdles a typical job seeker must overcome:

1. Get through the initial filter.

Referrals, networking, and recruitment companies are potential solutions. Byteboard just tacks on another item to this list that must be checked off. It does not replace having to do any of these other things.

2. Pass the technical screen.

Crack open those college textbooks, cram leetcode, shore up your portfolio, and now, also pass the Byteboard test. Unless every company uses Byteboard or Byteboard guarantees eventually getting you a job, this again doesn't replace anything.

3. Pass the onsite.

Culture fit is culture fit. That one is unavoidable and reasonable. However, everyone knows that onsites still contain a technical portion. Sometimes a significant one. Byteboard only replaces the pre-onsite screening portion of the interview process. That means GOTO Step 2. You still need to study and pass the onsite technical interview.

The copy reads well initially. Digging deeper though, it starts skewing much more heavily towards employers:

* employers get a better technical screen (filters better)

* employers save time (no resume filtering + technical screening)

* employers save a lot of time (fewer, higher quality onsites means fewer hours spent by the team interviewing candidates)

Which all leaves me wondering, what is the value proposition to a job seeker?
The question is not whether they would do the same - but whether they would the practice to other regions. Did Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, and Nortel?

Well AOL, Skype, and Nortel don't really exist as independent entities anymore. Microsoft already censors Skype globally (for profanity) the last I checked. Unfortunately censorship in other countries outside of China doesn't seem to get as much attention, but none of those tinpot dictatorship seem to have any trouble getting their hands on censorship technology from the west.

That Google already went down the road of developing a censorship platform with Dragonfly reveals their willingness to aid in government censorship.
The parent did not make an assessment. The parent made a value judgement and commented not on the article but on the author in absolute terms. I assume good faith, and my comment pointed out that the parent commenter in fact was being arrogant, as it is arrogant to make value judgements about someone else's situation from a position of relative ignorance.
Egyptian ‘bent’ pyramid dating back 4,600 years opens to public
This is a great book, btw. I own it in hardback.
Not only crowded but if you noticed the trains are mega long. Like really long if you are in the middle you can't see the front or the back.
I'm suggesting that the bad effects are usually from scale. So the only real effective way imo is to reduce the scale by breaking the companies both horizontally and vertically. Maybe each vertical has two or more companies created from it idk. But if there are more actors smaller populations can have a larger effect on policy because now the companies don't have many revenue streams to hold out until people forget. They would be subject to immediate public demands and people would have competitors they could flock to. Additionally many actors competing with data at smaller scales I think reduces the harmful effects of singular bad influence pointing society in the wrong direction.

But I agree I don't think there is much we can do about data ownership. The most we can do is make laws saying you have to inform them when you collect their data and that's already being done. Users just need to be conscious about their activity and sites they go to. But there needs to be real competitive alternatives to switch to if that is going to be effective.
iMessage and OS-level security/malware-resistance, primarily.

The product can still be good and useful even if the product managers are carrier-bootlicking shitheads who place a third party’s interest above that of their actual paying customers.
Consider your half example, how do you propose to do that?
OP is bringing the taxes in an unrelated topic.
I agree the solution is to pass laws to close all this loopholes.
I can't agree with that conclusion. Where has the "low power" goal come from (as if 15W wasn't low power anyway). And as has been said already, you 100% do not need to actively cool a RPi 4 to teach kids to code with it!
I’ll put it here again specifically because this thing comes from Mountain View.

Employers should be required, by law, to compensate interviewees for their time at a rate equivalent to the job for which they are interviewing.

(Macdonald’s, Goldman Sachs, line cook, VP legal, same law, everyone, everywhere)
1. Many retail agreements are much closer to Amazon Fulfillment than you might realize. I know Best Buy, for instance, starts new relationships with a "pay as you go" scheme. Meaning we would ship them a pallet, they would literally charge us a warehouse fee, and then pay us as the product sold, and refund us the warehouse fee upon a complete sellout within a certain time frame. We had to sell our way into a classic wholesale to retail relationship.

2. I am aware of how store brands work, thanks. Amazon does this with Amazon Basics brand, which is a point of contention in the monopoly. It is identical to a store brand.

If a retailer buys whole-sale white labeled products to compete against yours at a competitive rate, that is competition. Please try again at hand-waving that away.

3. Walmart, Kroger, Trader Joe's, Whole foods, all use data they have gathered from selling products to determine which white label brands it wants to create and compete with other products. There is a competitive concern here because these retailers control shelf space and promotional material and uses their physical retail space and sales data to compete against brands. Walmart more-so than all the others.

I think I am building a pretty good comparison here.
I miss TetherMe. Is JB even still possible (has anyone done it/which ver?) on modern iOS?
I guess my hurdle with these kinds of things, whether they are "outsourced" to a third party or done in-house, is that they tend to still focus on the "trick", quiz or algorithms parts of engineering. It's a personal bias, as I've never been particularly strong with that area, but I can build products. So, for me, I find it hard to have these kinds of interviews. I really do enjoy "take home" interviews, but it seems that Byteboard is at least trying to key in on that in same way: "focusing on engineering skills that are actually used on the job, Byteboard allows candidates to confidently show off their role-related skills in an environment that is less performative and more similar to how they typically work as engineers. "
Hey, thanks for this!

I've added my email to my bio :)
It's slow. I kind of suspect the graphics chip may be dying; raw compute tasks like compiling code are usable enough (not great, but usable), but browsing the web is just egregiously sluggish, especially when there are images on a page.
Vertical scrolling, and emulating the weird side-effects of the registers being written to, was the hardest part of recreating the NES using 3D meshes. It took me a few weekends to get Zelda 2's intro working reliably. I wrote about it a bit myself (probably got a few details wrong or simplified them) here:

http://n3s.io/index.php?title=How_It_Works
FYI, that's what the US does already and big time. They racket companies with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it has always been applied to foreign and strategic companies.

The FCPA just bans bribes and other crimes that are also illegal in the US. Most foreign companies do not get hit with FCPA violations. Just the ones that use bribes as a part of doing business.

Alstrom's not a great example, since they were also charged by the UK over their corrupt business practices.

The FPCA violations weren't levied on Alstrom to push through a US acquisition; the FCPA investigation began years before. And ultimately, GE only acquired a part of Alstrom, after competing bids from EU companies were blocked by the French government.
Can you please not post flamey rants to HN? They only lead to flamey flamewars, and there's no new information in them.

Keep in mind this site exists to gratify curiosity, and we can't do both.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
It's very common for racism to be replaced by slightly less terrible racism! The most obvious example is how slavery was replaced by Jim Crow laws, segregation, and later the prison system.
Yeah sure, I use it in a news app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaziir.and...) to analyze a set of headlines and determine what topics are mentioned most (trending). It works well enough, so I figured out someone might find it useful too.
My experience is that this sort of approach (pre-empting people who are explaining their point) often results in a "solution" being reached quickly that fails to take into account the nuance that the speaker was trying to explain.
iProxy for iOS (FOSS) used to work over WiFi if you setup a peer network and manual IP on endpoints and phone.
Why do we - developers fall into this trap?

The models for installation, security, privacy and updates on the desktop platforms have barely improved in twenty years, and they really needed some improvement.

The models for installation, updates, payment, portability and development tools on the mobile native platforms all have major downsides as well.

If you build and distribute your software as a web app, you can still do everything that matters for many purposes, you retain complete control of your own software, infrastructure and business model, and your app can work well with relatively little effort on a much wider variety of target platforms.
Things has certainly changed... Here's a 5 MB (!) hard disk from back in the days: http://i.imgur.com/7iGch3c.jpg
Looks like at nice replacement for my current solution of a shellscript/cron combo (for monitoring a handful of internal endpoints)
There are two justifications, all coming from the Republican side of things. 1) Tax filing being difficult makes people pay more attention to what they pay in taxes. 2) Tax filing being difficult makes people hate taxes, which will make them vote against raising taxes and or supporting socialism.

This is all covered in an excellent podcast by Planet Money

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
Ask HN: Is there an emulator that could run the code available for Apollo 11
Honestly, what's wrong with being well rounded in your entertainment? So frequently there are articles plasters about how you must "give up" things like television.

I'm listening to an episode of How I Built This at work, will read some Game of Thrones on the way home, will watch Love Island with dinner and probably throw on a record as I get ready for bed. It's not an all or nothing game here, you can just enjoy life.
You'd have to go back farther than the intro of WASM to see a time that wasn't the case.
Search for Pwned Passwords k-anonymity for a description of how this works technically.

No, only you (well, your computer) knows if your password was found.
How do the results compare to openstreetmaps?
Because I'd be there on business? You seem weirdly upset that I'd want to see my family after work.
Ask HN: Do you invest stocks? What tools do you use for analysis?
Somehow an entirely proprietary Adobe platform was preferable to a mostly open source Google platform?

I’d rather an open source standard exist than a proprietary one.
I'm suggesting that the Yubikey experience isn't exactly flawless. I use Qubes too, but I don't think everyone should have it as a daily driver. If you want to use Yubikeys for SSH, that's fine. IF you want to use Yubikeys for GPG, you have many of the problems outlined in the post. Does that clarify?
But a mission like that is going to be executed best by taking volunteers. So yes, in theory, they were under command authority, but in practice what happened was exquisite teamwork, with some members of the team accepting exceptional risk because of the stakes. The fire chief is an excellent leader to be able to quickly weigh the stakes and accept the risk, because the consequences of failure would have landed on him in a crushing way (professional ruin, personal guilt for the suffering of survivors, etc).

Thankfully the stakes are very rarely so high, and courage of this calibre is rarely called upon.
In this comment, you're expressing concern that Google would be implicated by participating in the censorship, but you're not expressing any concern for the welfare of the 1.6B Chinese who would gain access to Google.

I'm not OP but I'd consider that a very 'sticking your nose up' take on the situation. It seems to consider westerners' self-image as more important than Chinese access.
Kroger and Walmart are certainly leading grocery store chains.

I would argue that Amazon is also not near a monopoly. Google, Ali Express, eBay, NewEgg, Overstock, and so many direct to consumer brands and marketplaces also are healthy competition.
Here is part of what I told Paul Graham after he tweeted you last week:

"How about instead of directing people to pay a middle man to take 20% off the top to pay others to plant trees" which, correct me if I'm wrong, is exactly what you are doing, while some of may be going to non-tree planting activities - the most effective thing you can do with that money right now, unless you are sitting on a miraculous new technology, is to pay people to actively plant new trees and/or protect existing forest.

Per your website for those that haven't looked

>Wren takes 20% of each subscription and puts it toward growing the company.

Also like I told Paul, and Sam Altman,

"Planting trees isn't even a bandaid, it's like cutting your arm off and then gently blowing in the gaping wound. To offset our current CO2 production you need to add more than 31 million square miles, nearly 16% of the earth's land, of new forest assuming a healthy density of 40-60 trees per acre."

That figure above is actually really conservative. Add to that the fact we're losing forest at an estimated 28,125 square miles annually... do you realize how many customers you'll have to get to even combat 28,125 square miles annually? The best trees can manage about 48lbs of CO2 per year, and healthy forest is 40-60 trees per acre, that means you're going to need to plant a billion plus trees a year to even hope to combat current forest loss, a BILLION trees... and I'm not talking twigs, I'm talking 10ft+ trees, in healthy soil, with healthy fungal networks (the fungi that work in symbiosis with trees aid considerably in the carbon sequestration and overall tree health).

Seriously, do the math yourselves and then try and justify your business model. Not to me, but to each other.

I think you need to cease operations immediately, I think you need to do a lot more math, and then I think you need to come back with a strategy to help people personally minimize their carbon impact. You're selling people a fantasy, you're selling them nothing more than an uniformed "I'm helping save the world" feeling because they joined a subscription service while you take 20% off the top to hire more employees.

I honestly have no idea whatsoever why YC selected your company and chose to fund it, other than the 20% off the top of every subscription and perhaps banking on the fact that people will feel guilty about climate change and happily fork over money on a subscription model.
Exactly. You usually gotta "color outside the lines" if you want anything cool, i.e., jailbreaking (jb) or hackintoshing. I'm surprised no one's tried hackiosing on custom hardware, although it would take a pile of enginerding and gnidrenigne.
Pause and Resume WebAssembly with Binaryen's Asyncify
I got flashbacks of 2000s with this comment
I like this analogy but they should just give me the compact car rate of gas for my Hummer.
I was wary myself before commiting to a techy job, decided to get into sys admin shit. Haven't felt passion doing anything tech-related in a long time, so probably wouldn't recommend. Software development might be different, though.
Oh, you don't need special hardware to do y-scrolling correctly. It's just a strange set of writes: $2006, $2005, $2005, $2006. MMC3 is for the scanline counter, which allowed SMB3 to have the score bar on the bottom of the screen.
In some contexts, exceptions are just cleaner and easier.

Definitely. The question is, are the benefits in those contexts worth the cost of the potential abuses? As a codebase and company get larger and larger, the higher the probability that a problem will get into the codebase.

There is an analogy here with C++ templates and with method_missing meta-programming. There are some contexts where they make things a lot easier. However, in a large codebase, the probability that some programmer, somewhere is going to cause a costly problem with a bit of nifty overreach goes up and up.
Are you seriously citing an opinion piece written by one of the executives that admitted to bribing foreign officials as evidence that the US applied pressure to push through a partial acquisition of the executive's former employer?

Most importantly--the details of the article cited in relation to the GE deal (i.e., the claims that the CEO pushed through the GE deal due to US pressure) ignore the fact that the French government was the one that ultimately blocked the competing EU bids, even though the company itself favored the Siemens bid.
No they don't. The browser hashes the password, then sends the first 5 hex digits of the hash to haveibeenpwned. HIBP replies with all the hashes of leaked passwords that start with these 5 digits and the browser then checks to see if the hash is in the list.
As a sometime hardware engineer, my rule of...er...thumb was that if it was difficult to keep your finger on the device for 5 seconds then it was overheating.

Damage to devices certainly doesn't happen at 100C but you might be talking about case temp under some assumptions about how that relates to junction temp for some specific setup. In general its junction temp that decides if the device suffers permanent damage.
Because he doesn't want it to happen to him?