skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In a technical analysis shared with ZDNet, AdGuard said all extensions loaded malicious code from the fly-analytics.com domain, and then proceeded to quietly inject ads inside Google and Bing search results."

The original post has some details and recommendations:

https://adguard.com/en/blog/fake-ad-blockers-part-3.html

What I don't quite understand is how do people make money from these things without getting caught? Is it not obvious where the money goes as people are getting paid from the fraud? Or is it more like no one cares?
Ask HN: Have you ever built an app just for yourself
I recently built myself a news app. This isn't an app that I plan to market or anything like that, it's strictly an app for me to check the news. When building i started to wonder. Has anyone else built an app that is just for them / thier fiends / family / etc.
Can you get even darker? Streetlights in Berlin (for example) are already uncomfortably dim.
> Is there any way to realistically and gradually reduce the prevalence and thickness of these filter bubbles, so that people can be encouraged to practice critical thinking in a sustainable way? Will this have to necessarily be a governmental effort, or can there be business value in such practices? Will there ever be sufficient incentives for any government to work on this?

The problem that I see is that filter bubbles keep people happy, so the effort to fix it has to be an effort that's going to make people unhappy—and what business or democratic government is going to do that? To me, it's like being a teacher (my profession); there are ample studies that show that teaching effectiveness is in many ways inversely correlated with student satisfaction (because true learning is often uncomfortable), and yet the incentives for teachers are all in the direction of encouraging student satisfaction even when everyone knows it can be at the expense of learning.
A company I worked for decided one day to purchase budget fingerprint readers for door access. They were installed with much fanfare.

Unfortunately it turned out that the fingerprint readers were racist, and refused to allow black people into the building.

They were swiftly removed.
This cleans up the assembly and gives you access to many more compilers.
There might actually be room for a lawsuit there, if that regulation has a demonstrable impact on people with darker skin
New additions don't mean the old capabilities will go away (without breaking backwards compatibility).

This is something any popular programming language has to wrestle with. There is a lot of merit in Python's philosophy of having one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do something. Otherwise, even if each different way is perfectly good in its own right, you still have more for anyone learning the language to know, and you get different representations of the same idea appearing in the same code base for no particular reason.

I do think JavaScript has more of a problem with this than most languages because of its rapid changes and ambiguous standardisation (the de jure of annual ES standards vs. the realities of what is supported in real time in each browser, or Node version, or Babel preset).

Does anyone really have time to check whether some new function on Array's prototype or some new syntax like the examples in this article is available in every target they need to support yet? I'm guessing most of us still use Babel in our build process for front-end code, even if the relatively new parts of JS we're using are supported natively everywhere we need them by now.

But then you get things like modules and imports, and you still find Node's story with these is a muddle. Things we've taken for granted for years now on the front end don't always work out of the box as you might expect on the back end, and there are at least two competing styles. And this is arguably the most important and fundamental tool a programming language needs for building larger applications!
for page in enumerate(pages,start=xiv):
page.read()
Show HN: Virtual Conferencing Software from Times Internet
My friend Amit Gupta and his team made this product. I couldn't resist posting it as it was pretty neat

Here is the URL: https://vconfex.com/
C doesn't have an exponentiation operator, and instead uses `^` to mean XOR. Other languages have copied that meaning of `^` and hence need to use something different for exponentiation.

However, Lua is one language that does use `^` for exponentiation (its XOR operator is `~`).
If the same machine can do it without hanging with better coded software, the hardware obviously isn't the problem.
to be fair, every country i've visited/lived in pales in comparison to Germany when it comes to environmental friendliness.
There is actually a gamepad-type keyboard as a real product.
It doesn't work with gestures but with dedicated buttons.
From the looks of it, you can type pretty fast on it, too.

It's called AlphaGrip http://www.alphagrips.com/

Never used one, though.
Dresden. Don’t get me wrong the gardens are neat but ppl keep longer grass, bushes, lots of flowers. Don’t know much about the laws in Germany (only recently moved here) but I can see that ppl care about their environment.
I don't see as pitiful that these non-technical* people can only use Excel.

I see as glorious that I'm able to get something close to real database tables out of non-technical people as long as they're in Excel.

I once populated a pretty sophisticated database by giving a bunch of computer semi-literate people Excel tables with only headers and simple instructions. They respected foreign key constraints, etc. that I could never have directly explained.

*in the software engineering way
It was incredibly worth it for me to turn my gaming PC into a hackintosh, if only for the experience of running macOS on strong hardware without needing to spend thousands of dollars. Unfortunately, I can't upgrade higher than High Sierra, since I'm using an Nvidia GPU. So I'll have to switch to AMD GPUs at some point down the road. I suppose that's what I get for using proprietary software.
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
Yes, it's often used for a XOR operation (bitwise exclusive or).
This thread because it has race as a secondary theme will be rife with such statements dismissing the premise.
This issue is common in the oil and gas industry. Wells are typically identified with a 14-digit number that Excel likes to convert to scientific notation and then truncate digits when saving to CSV.
What's your source on it not being difficult to find biologists who are adept at using python, R, or C? Most biologists operating in private industry or academia have many years of training in their fields and many have learned their computational tools as they've gone on, meaning they've never received proper training. It seems dubious to claim that there's this neverending source of well trained biologists who are also adept at programming.
The GP is referencing the Holocaust since the story is about Germany. Though I don't know what that has to do with this article or the comment he is replying to.
Check out investment joy on YouTube. He is very transparent on costs and revenue. It's not a huge profit center, but with tax incentives, write offs, vending machines and a quarter pusher he makes a profit.

He is upfront on how he makes a lot more money via the YouTube channel talking about running a coin laundry them from the laundry business itself.

If you go through his videos, he talks about the risks he is taking, other business ventures he has in real estate, it's interesting. This guy is running Landry mats and trailer parks in the midwest. Its not the normal Instagram get rich quick lifestyle blog.

https://youtu.be/Wzrn9tvPI14
Hackintoshes are very stable if:

- You buy the right hardware. Intel CPU and AMD GPU. Choose Ryzen if you like those and like tinkering and hacking on your OS a lot. And no, it's very unlikely your Nvidia GPU will ever work with a recent macOS.

- You use the vanilla method of macOS install. The dortania guides along with /r/hackintosh are all you need. Avoid tonymacx86, insanelymac, and any software with the word "beast" in the name. Run screaming from them. Do not mess with the OS install, do not put any kexts into the OS install. Put everything into EFI.

- You set aside the occasional day for OS updates (and possibly updating OpenCore). You do not want to update willy-nilly and you definitely want to wait a day or few for the more brave to guinea pig any issues.

I've been using a 8700K/RX580 hackintosh for years now, and in many ways, it's been more stable than my actual Macs -- and certainly more modular and expandable.
The security (e.g. passwords, 2FA, etc.) is roughly equivalent between Slack and Discord. In both cases you're hosting your messages on someone else's server.

For privacy, Discord has a bad track record, so as a business, I'd choose Slack over Discord. But I definitely prefer self-hosting communications infrastructure.
I speculate that ^ is used for xor in many languages for psychological compatibility with C, which is a very old language.

In SageMath, which uses a lightweight preparser on top of Python, I made it automatically convert ^ to , since otherwise mathematicians, who are used to LaTeX, would be very confused (I remember realizing this during a tutorial at Pycon in 2005).
if you don't have to expect a thug with a gun around the corner like in the US, maybe it's completely ok?
This is good; we've badly underestimated the cost of excess light pollution.

Also good is using more LED street lamps that focus the light where we need it, rather than all over the place. Light pollution is bad, and street lights are very power hungry, with the old sodium lights consuming up to 0.25kWh per hour.
This would be great for amateur astronomers too.
>It doesn't seem fair to look at modern news conglomerates (which typically combine news and opinion) and complain that the non-news content bismirches the journalism.

And it's just this attitude that has caused the era of fake news.

> A fair shot would be saying "I do not feel like this article is appropriately declared as opinion." Which, maybe. But I think that's debatable, and the NYT certainly differentiates a helluva lot better than Fox News and MSNBC.

This is exactly the point. Fox News and MSNBC are some of the worst offenders - this does not excuse the NYT from it.

Also I remind people that journalism is not just reporting of facts. If it was all newspapers would be lists of factoids.

"Journalism, the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary"

This is very clearly journalism.
"A Google support page states that “up to 100 people with view, edit, or comment permissions can work on a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file at the same time” and has a section devoted to troubleshooting files that become unresponsive after being shared with many people, recognizing the common pitfall."

That's a big number, but it's not as big as I'd expect from something from Google. I'd assume the average number of people working on any Sheet is 1 or 2, but I'm surprised that haven't been able to scale it up to 1000 or more by now.
Keep out the bad apples: How to moderate a marketplace
And not so good if you want to do O(1) indexing
Oh, THAT'S why entrance barriers at supermarkets only occasionally fail, but fail consistently on a given day...

Wait. Would this happen to PIR-based systems?
> What are the costs to people by mandating dimming the light?

It makes it harder to see at night.
Exactly my story. Had this with my retina MBP from 2015 and couldn't understand how this is supposed to be usable.

Tried everything, even resetting the OS.

Have a new MPB since Monday, tried Firefox again, no issues at all.
GSoC NetBSD Reports: Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 2
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into OpenBSD-current
I use Launchpad frequently. I rearranged my most common apps to be on one screen. I four finger swipe down on my MBP, and there's my apps. I still use Spotlight search too so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

Cmd-tab allows to switch to an app, but the Dashboard view lets me get to a specific window within an app directly from whatever view I'm currently in. 4 finger swipe up, and clickity click, I'm in the document I'm wanting
Big cloud figured out how to monetize the tendency of most programmers to overthink, over-architect, and over-engineer everything. It's as if the authors of the old design patterns book found a way to charge for every singleton and factory. Brilliant!

Bucking this trend and building an "Internet-style architecture" is a competitive advantage. You can save multiple orders of magnitude on your hosting and bandwidth costs.
It sounds like you are suffering from anxiety over the phrase "darker skin".
Maakyo – Contactless Menus for Restaurants
A lot of the Russian people didn't have much love for the Russian regime (ie. Stalin). The Nazi's were in a lot of places in Russia initially greeted as liberators. If the Nazi's hadn't turned out to be even more brutal then Stalin history might have taken a different path.

See for example sources like: https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/news-and-events/...
As someone who's had difficulty publishing open-source software into the Google and Apple ecosystem I get super angry when bunch of malicious crap-ware is found.

Why do I have to go through a dozen iterations and emails and phone calls yet garbage seems to get through w/o issue.

Insert rant about their respective approval processes. I've read others on HN, so use one of them. The sentiment is the same.
I often hear Europeans make sweeping judgements about the US that reflect a lack of understanding of the country and continent. In part I think this is because most visitors from abroad only travel to NYC, SF, or LA, which are great cities, but not representative of the majority of the country.

Incredible as this may sound, around half of the US land area is completely uninhabited. Fully 1/3 of the land is owned by the federal government, and most of this is managed with environmental considerations at the forefront. The only part of the US that is even vaguely like European population density is the northeast corridor from Boston to DC, which represents a small percentage of the country.

People in the US care a lot about the environment, but the issue has been politicized of course and pits different factions against each other. We also have a housing crisis, and it’s very difficult to get humans to worry about saving anything else when they can’t get a roof over their head.

The US has myriad environmental problems and needs to do better, but it also has a very different situation on the ground compared to Europe, and thus requires different approaches in some areas.
Yes, that's definitely part of it. But wouldn't you say that such MBA's are bad MBA's?

Isn't a good MBA supposed to not just understand business, but also everything that enables business to exist (i.e. product development, research, etc)?
Yes it happened two days ago.
Author of the post here, let me know if there's any feedback or suggestions for new tools!
Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
I think, compared to twenty years ago, the main factor is the higher color temperature of modern lighting systems. There are numerous studies on cold light attracting insects significantly more than the traditional incandescent light sources.
this is fan fiction
Yap, this is the saddest thing. After a month long road trip around Europe the windshield & front air vent were almost clean.
Part II: Creating an Addiction
I think that’s totally fair. I have a personal project that I’m getting started on and I’m having trouble picking a stack to use. I hear a lot of conflicting opinions on here. I’ve looked through the documentation for newer frameworks like React and they seem really easy to get started with.
I gave up on Hackintosh when Apple made Nvidia irrelevant.
"01/02" does not translate to Jan 2nd in most of the world, because DMY is much more popular than MDY.

Excel is biased for US users.
Glad you liked it. Look forward to you using it. Reach out to us a eng [at] muzejs.org if you need any help.
This isn't a criticism of a particular movie or book.

> For decades, the notion of the lone genius in the kitchen has fostered culinary creativity — and restaurants marred by abuse and unfairness. This may be the time for change.

This is the first paragraph - it is clearly making claims and an argument for something.

Most people reading this would view this as an argument with evidence as such which it presents - it is not a criticism of a book.
any directions?
I have seen this graph many times before on HN. I'm not sure how accurate it is. Maybe the investments in fusion have recently ramped up (the graph ends in 2012), but the end point of the "actual" fusion investment shows something a little less than half a billion dollars. Is this supposed to be worldwide investment, only US, only US Department of Energy, or what?

Anyway, just in 2019 the US DoE got a budget allocation of more than half a billion dollars ($564 MM to be precise, see [1] page 162). ITER's financial statements for 2019 ([2], page 43) shows member contributions of € 400 MM, which is again about half a billion dollars.

If we could manage to add up all the various research budgets for fusion, we would probably be quite a bit above the "never fusion" line, we could maybe reach the "moderate level" in the graph (the orange line).

But the question is: is this needed? MIT alone has a fusion project (SPARC [3]) that appears to be ahead of ITER. A spin-off of that project is the Commonwealth Fusion Systems [4], which managed to raise about $200 MM of funding entirely from private organizations.

Is it possible that we'll see a repeat of the Human Genome Project scenario, where the US Government invested $10 BN and more than a decade of reasearch, only to see a private company (Celera [5]) come in an steal the thunder at the finish line, with only a 20th of their budget?

My point is that as society progresses, there is a time when a certain thing becomes achievable on a medium budget, which only 50 years before would be impossible on an infinite budget. Just think about sending a rocket to the Moon in 1920 or creating an mRNA-based vaccine for the coronavirus in 1970. It is very, very likely that if the US government had allocated $50-100 BN for fusion research in 1970, we would not be any closer to fusion today. However, today, 50 years later, we are at a point where fusion appears achievable only based on private investments.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/05/f62/fy-2020-...

[2] http://e.issuu.com/embed.html?d=2019_iter_annual_report&u=it...

[3] https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Fusion_Systems

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celera_Corporation
Maybe there should't be residents near heavily trafficked roads at all.
Excel also clobbers long numbers, which has caused all manner of confusion for serial number audits.

To prevent this, set your whole sheet to Text before any other steps.
Ok so what is your lockdown plan then?

We lock down until what condition is met?
Why wouldn't you dual boot with the more powerful computer? Or alternatively just use Linux, with Proton the number of games available is already quite impressive.
I think you are in the wrong comment section.
Affiliation with the UN doesn't make someone credible. There were UN human rights officials claiming the George Floyd killing was an indication of widespread "racial violence" in the US, a claim for which zero evidence exists. There is absolutely no evidence that even Floyd's killing was motivated by anti-black bias.

Alston's statement doesn't provide any substantive criticism of the statistics. He points out that the cutoff for extreme poverty used by the UN is extremely low, as if that is in itself a moral failing.

The point of any poverty line is to measure progress, not to imply that the line is a sufficient standard of living.

Alston also points out that the number living with a wage below $5.50 a day has declined very little since 1990, which omits how much smaller this cohort's share of the global population is today than it was in 1990, due to population growth that has occurred since then.
On Windows, it's just 'Win+R 'CMD' [Enter]' and you have a terminal/console. Presumably, if the agents were monitoring the perp properly, they would know what OS they would be targeting.

I type the above SO often every day, it should be on my gravestone. :D
The Importance of Reliability Engineering
Most people don't write novels or poetry for a living either, but we still need some grasp of basic writing skills like grammar and structuring. We're already moving towards a future where a lot of people have coding as part of their job, and we should expect them to know a few things.
Any chance of sponsoring canadian work permit or hiring only in SF/US?
My backyard in Louisiana has quite a few of them at night. I see probably 20 - 50 a night back there.
Remember the rules on YC. You appear to either project or push ad-hominems. Thanks
> the US did not choose to replace the Shah with Khomeini.

The US (and UK) replaced Mosaddegh with the Shah. Then the Shah and SAVAK (with CIA help) launched a decades long attack on the secular, parliamentary oriented forces in the country. Initially the Shah supported the ayatollahs, and in turn was himself tacitly (sometimes openly) supported by them. Eventually they turned against the dictator under the spell of a foreign power.

Also, Iran had a large communist movement, and it is obvious in 1978 and early 1979 that the US, UK and France saw the communists as the enemy, Khomeini as someone to disempower but not destroy, and the Shah as who to support as long as they could. So that stance helped Khomeini on some level. France would not have allowed communists to sit in France and work successfully to undermine a friendly power (even Indochina, although that stance loosened in the 1950s).
My insurance company didn't authorize a full sleep study because my overnight pulse oximeter results were normal, so it took me an extra couple of years to find out I needed a CPAP machine. It might have helped to know that my skin color could cause inaccurate results.
Assuming 4 shuffles per second, 3000 shuffles would take about 12.5 minutes, while 10000 shuffles would take more than 40 minutes. One of those sounds feasible during a break on a casual game night.

Of course, those numbers apply only if the shuffle is done literally—I personally try to mix individual cards by letting one hand’s batch cut in-between the other’s (and I think I’m not the only one)—but I’m still curious where did those 10000 come from.
How mature.
Add

0.0.0.0 fly-analytics.com

to /etc/hosts
I think it'll be a while (if ever) before the Mac Pro moves to an ARM CPU. It's not that I think Apple can't build a CPU to compete in that space, it's that I don't know that there's a large enough market to justify building that CPU. ECC memory, lots and lots of PCIe lanes, dual CPU capable, etc. etc.

You can take the iPhone CPU and make it into an ARM CPU for a laptop that can compete with Intel and AMD (somewhat) easily. That same architecture is in no way reflective of what people expect out of a workstation. Unless Apple is going to start running all of their own internal workloads ("Apple Cloud") on their own CPUs, I don't see it happening. And in order to do that, they're going to have to get mainline OS support for it, which again is a very different path to market than doing everything in-house with OSX.
This is such a great idea. I hope the insecticide regulations go far to restrict some of the worst offenders. Insects, arachnids, and all of our invertebrate, carapace flaunting friends are essential to our health and survival.

I hope my country will follow suit...