skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPI is not nice.

1) UPI is unreliable. Based on my experience, it doesn't work many times per day. I once needed to beg my friend to pay for me after realizing that it didn't work when i purchased something in shop but had no money(only upi account)

2) It is closed source. UPI forces every App that uses UPI to use it's closed source code.

3) I find Bank transfer like IMPS/NEFT more reliable than UPI.

4) One advantage of UPI is it's id which led to discovery of account (through qr code) . This is also the reason it got adopted by people.
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> What about it? That was over a century ago.

...and more than a century before, the UK successfully sent a spy to China to smuggle out tea seedlings (which was illegal in China). It's the circle of (IP) life: upstart plays fast & loose with IP laws until they grow into the incumbent, then they get really conservative on IP laws to stay on top. In a hundred years, China will be just as rigid as the US is now.

Pointing out patterns is intellectually interesting by itself - I think those who say "It's different this time: we are civilized now" are the ones who are being less than honest with themselves; the laws and morals didn't change in 100 years, only the side certain countries occupy on the upstart/incumbent fence flipped.
It sounds like he's saying that depending on the Referer header for a loaded comments section, HN may or may not generate upvote buttons that are duds.

Looks like there's an auth parameter in the upvote GET request, so sounds entirely plausible.
That makes sense. That’s the current limiting resistor. It protects the protection. See page 12 of this deck.

http://www.eng.biu.ac.il/temanad/files/2017/02/Lecture-9-IO....
IMO, you can't just trust Pelosi's opinion:

> But if you trust Pelosi‘s sentiment, which I do, then the article doesn’t seem like propaganda

I tend not to trust any of my politicians on the onset, I need evidence. Without evidence, it's just political theater.

Even the rest of your statements, are reiterating (in my opinion) propaganda. I've listened to a massive amount of republicans and democrats. It's a game, both are trying to rile up their base.

Full thoughts here: https://austingwalters.com/on-committing-suicide/

(wrote that so I wouldn't have to explain every time).
India's largest state bank (SBI) has somewhat moved away from just using SMS, their debit card now supports 2FA using their app and their credit cards now support 2FA over app, E-mail and SMS. Though I think RBI regulation still require a 2FA for all online domestic transactions.
This is great, and I'm developing a static type system for my programming language (for board games), and I've messed up the type system so many times.

The challenge beyond the math is then making the error messages useful, and also being able to make progress beyond the first error in a useful way.
If the DoD wants it, they will pay well for the changes and it will simply happen
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Definitely share this sentiment.

Even if it somehow manages to succeed at its mission and become the defacto toolchain for all of frontend, I feel its improvements over the status quo will be short lived, and over the long run having a monolithic toolchain dominate will prove to be a net-negative for the frontend tooling ecosystem.

Having a single defacto monolithic toolchain greatly raises the barrier to entry for new competing tools, as they'd no longer be able to just compete on the merits of doing any individual task better than its direct competition to gain adoption.

Having different single purpose tools that can people can pick and choose from independently of each other is a crucial part of what has enabled rapid innovation in the JS tooling ecosystem up till now, since it keeps implementation/switching costs for any individual tool as low as it can reasonably be for that specific use-case.

This comes at the cost of making it harder for any individual to keep up with all the latest innovations (as critics of the JS tooling ecosystem are often quick to point out), but projects like create-react-app have been fairly successful at addressing this through sourcing collective wisdom from the community to create a collection of best-in-class tools configured to work effectively together out of the box.

I can also totally emphasize that there are many low-hanging fruits in terms of efficiencies to be gained through unifying tooling to avoid wasted work and maintenance overhead, but I'm of the opinion that the gains in efficiency isn't going to be worth the cost in potential for stifled innovation, and that those efficiencies are better achieved through shared specs and shared low-level libraries that individual tools can choose to adopt if they become compelling enough.

I'm personally still going to be rooting for single purpose tools + curated collections over any monolithic toolchain.
If not advanced certainly rote and tedious.
The Vulcan rocket has transitioned to using Blue Origins thrusters instead of inhouse development.

The first stage will be reusable (The Blue Shepherd launch vehicle from Blue Origin has now flown over 12 times, as of December using their BE-4 thrusters).

Vulcan is to be flown early next year.
Open a pdf in preview.
Select pages, press Copy, then Cmd + N.

You get a new PDF with the pages you copied.
>Also, there is no way anyone would ever be permitted to run the type of conversation analysis that the GP proposes.

I flatly disagree with this statement. I have experienced first-hand how conversation analysis can turn into targeted advertising... and there are many others who have shared similar experiences.
The qemu linux userspace implementation for hexagon is recently available and open source, yes. Not sure whether it would've been any harder to do fuzzing with the closed-source simulator that's been available for a long time. But the fuzzer doesn't need the libraries' source, it just makes it easier for the fuzzer if it has access to the source. And the availability of emulator or simulator code is probably independent of this too.

The 400 distinct bugs are the uniquely faulting instructions or paths uncovered by the fuzzer.
Sibling comment pretty much covers my feelings on this but I want stress the main point and add a couple minor notes.

My main point is that a window is a window. The app to which that window belongs means essentially nothing to me, I don't think there needs to be a separate hot-key for cycling windows-per-application, I do not find it to be a usefull organizational tool for switching between windows. I am aware of ctrl+tab but that seems to be a generally accepted program-level control not something from the operating system level.

Minor annoyances:

MacOS's cmd+tab visualization has a slight delay before appearing. This seems to be intentional and provides a nice experience when you know for certain that the selected window of the previously selected application is what you want to switch to; quickly tapping cmd+tab switches directly to that window without the visualization. On windows, the alt+tab visualization always renders immediately. I prefer the windows way because frequently the window I want is maybe 2 or 3 back. So I can more quickly locate it visually through the visualization that pops up on alt+tab.

On MacOS, that visualization I just mentioned does not have separate selection for mouse/keyboard in the cmd+tab menu. What this means is that if an errant mouse cursor passes the visualization while you are cmd+tab'ing to some application, the mouse will scramble your selection. On Windows, there are two separate selectors, one for alt+tab (confirmed by releasing alt) and one for mouse selection (standard point + click). MacOS does support both mouse and keyboard but they share the same selection and interfere with eachother. I know this sounds like an unlikely case but I actually find it quite common -- moving the cursor towards the anticipated area of interest in the soon-to-be-focused window while alt+tabbing will frequently pass through the area of the screen where the alt+tab visualization renders.

Why doesn't MacOS have an intuitve way to maximize a window? This drives me insane. It really feels very reasonable to me to want to see the system clock/tray/etc but have a window take up all other available space. This really feels like a fundamental window-control interaction to me and it is not the same as full screen. I do not understand why MacOS does not have this and why it does not seem to bother other people.
It might be more difficult to collect, but there is an undue burden on the individual when the court tries to determine the truth of the matter.
What that first link claimed was "By 1965, large-scale power plants were being sold commercially at costs competitive with fossil fuel plants."

And I explained why that was misleading. They were being sold at a loss. The PRICE was competitive with coal, but the cost was not. This was even before changes in regulations.
Secrets now? How did anyone ever develop in the first place if secrets were a dead end? Anyway, even if you saddle them with a presumption of stupidity, they can still do the stuff that isn't secret. You can make money on commodities and low quality products in a developing country with low costs. Whereas people in developed countries need to chase after the bleeding edge because they can't survive without the higher margins there.

Why are you discounting very small countries exactly?

No one would take your deal because the government is the problem holding countries back in the first place. China is an ancient civilization, not some new child that was just born and needs to grow up yet. This analogy is overly reductionist. Things that work in silicon valley right now also work everywhere else in the world. It is not magic ground. And I'm no fan of IP, but the system using it is clearly able to work here.
What browser are you going to use now? Any tips?
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Why so hostile? Can't stand even a tiny bit of criticism of Google?
SpaceX don’t have vertical integration just now, but they will soon due to this contract.
Nuclear payload certs sounds like paperwork after they’ve put already put humans up
That's true. I appreciate your advice!
If the past four years have taught us anything, is that just about every aspect of our government is ripe for fraud when the party in charge doesn't care about the well-being of the institutions they supposedly hold dear.

It seems like you're trying to make the case that we should listen to the man telling us mail-in votes are fraudulent... because his administration is exhibiting signs of committing said fraud?

For what its worth, we've been mail-in voting in Colorado for a while. Works great when the government isn't actively trying to undermine democracy.
"UPI is unreliable"

Not saying it is 100% reliable, but there's a good possibility the aggregator you are using (GPay / PhonePay / etc.) might have issues on the whole or with the account.
Who is “our” in this case?
At the core of the problem is that society is not allowed to not accept this behavior. The systems by which Apple et al abuse their positions to harm small businesses and "the little" guy are literally enshrined in our legal and administrative code. Government decisions of the last 30 years, often regardless of party, have resulted in the single largest consolidation of corporate power under six umbrellas (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix) in Silicon Valley history.

Extraordinarily lax antitrust laws (in both Republican and Democratic administrations, you'd expect the Dems to be tougher on this but follow the money trail and it's simple to see why), a general disdain for shareholder activism, and corporate culture in all of the aforementioned companies prioritizing the needs of advertisers over the needs of the end user.

> The media we are sold and consume should reflect what is important to us. If cases like this were blasted across the twitter verse and people actually cared, it would stop

I would have agreed with you fifteen, maybe ten years ago. The point of no return has been passed. Apple and Amazon alone are worth enough combined for public opinion to matter nil in terms of their actual business practices. They could suffer millions of dollars in bad press and shareholders would continue to invest and consumers would continue to buy product. Look at TSLA as a fantastic example -- Elon consistently sticks his foot in his mouth and makes a mockery of himself but TSLA short sellers continue to lose big time.

The only solution at this point in my view is a fundamental overhaul of antitrust law and safeguards to ensure competition in cutting edge industries, and collectivization of essentials like public internet and public utilities so the profit incentive doesn't get in the way of service. We're already seeing how terrible the outcome is with the Post Office, we don't need any additional privatization in the world of tech.
When you borrow money, you make a commitment to repaying it under the terms of the lending agreement. If you don't pay it back according to that agreement, you're breaking your word. What definition of 'moral' doesn't intersect with 'keeping your word'?
After the city of LA released 31% of its prison population, crime did not spike
Yet somehow they haven't allocated 1/N engineers to fix a 3 year old accessibility bug.
All good! I chuckled at the concept of YComb being a front for a plan to become skynet, or a bunch of diabolical money nerds who want to invest into making it happen.
Where do argc and argv come from?
Also, a way for the intestinal flora of frogs to be spread to other frogs.

Which may be fairly unique in itself?

That could have all kinds of other weird and wonderful follow on effects for the frog population.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.

So I have to work 9 hour days, come home and cook dinner, do family time, put kids to bed and then go shame random corporations for not following the spirit of the law?

I think that’s unreasonable. Ain’t nobody got time for that, and we have a lot of people who can get paid to do that if we just change the laws.
This is a story worth documenting if there's a paper trail.
How long until Apple kicks them off the App Store?

Hey Tim, try to remember what you said at the hearing.

Also, there isn’t much leadership when you allow the company lawyers to bully small developers. Doesn’t really seem like you’re in control of the ship.
Appointed, not elected, and this was the plan. I just sort of hoped that there was a layer of bureaucracy at USPS that might be able to resist this kind of blatant sabotage, but I guess not..
Isn’t the idea here that every city would have a vertical farm close to it, decentralizing the production of food? And if for various economic reasons food does tend to be grown in clustered vertical farms, I imagine the know how to do so would be widely disseminated and cities in particular would keep aside dormant vertical farms as a measure of food security, to quickly scale up in harder times.

I am not able to see how a network of distributed vertical food farms would be less resilient to political disasters than growing everything in the Midwest. Food production has been the foundation of every successful civilization, this technology would potentially allow us to grow food without wrecking Earths environment.
Came here to post this. The guide has nothing to do with actual hardening. Recommending those apps is borderline idiot's assumption of what security is.

I'd rather recommend to check the postmarketos wiki for supported devices, check what's the latest upstream aosp builds (like omnirom builds) and upstream supported kernel versions and recommend to buy based on that information.

Turned out for my case that there aren't many "real" aosp compatible devices.

The ones I tried out and confirmed were Nexus 4/5P (not 5X!), sony xperia x and compact variant aka kugo, xiaomi redmi note 4 and 8/8T (mido and willow or gingko) and some older, very very outdated devices.

Owned a kugo for a while but android 10 builds became super unstable and caused a lot of crashes and reboots.

Went for xiaomi redmi note 8 (ginkgo) and ignoring the shitty needing-windows-and-168h to unlock bootloader problem it's a very nice device.

Compiled LineageOS from sources, and together with the official releases for Magisk, Blokada, Appwarden, Oeffi, OsmAnd+ and Orbot/TOR browser with ublock0 and umatrix it's pretty much as tracker free as possible.

I also would never recommend any android lower than 10, due to the privacyguard integration that is missing in older versions (privacyguard aka app rights management for location, wifi access, storage access etc).

Sidenote here: TOR browser includes mozilla telemetry service, but you can disable that with appwarden. Reported it upstream, didn't have the time to fix it yet.

The only tracker regarding exodus' list is actually the crashdump reporting feature in Telegram which I disabled with Appwarden.

I also would recommend to use f-droid or the github releases of apps you want to install. A lot of builds on f-droid are outdated for years, so it's better to check the source directly to be sure.

Additionally, never install gapps, never install firefox for android, never install chrome, never install whatsapp or any fb product, never install apps that require admob or play services.

Check spywarewatchdog's blog or do mitmproxy audits yourself.

[1] https://omnirom.org

[2] https://wiki.postmarketos.org

[3] https://f-droid.org/packages

[4] https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org

[...] probably forgot a hundred links...but textareas on smartphones are unusable.
Switched over to Brave, as they have extensions on mobile cooking with POC videos on twitter. Hopefully they can accelerate it a bit. I think the HN crowd doesn't like brave though, idk, I do. IMO a lot of shit they get flak for are people not actually understanding. Like no, they don't replace ads on websites without their consent, or at least that's what they say.
Over my head, but I'd like to get Don Hoffman and Chetan Prakash to review this paper. Link discussing their work if you are not familiar, which no doubt I found here on HN.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057...
Why would companies want "low-education hoard of manual labors with no advanced industry"? There would be no way they could buy American products.
Why would you declare the same type in 2 different files in the same project?
How convenient. They still don't agree after you've evidently informed them? "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the parents who are wrong" /s
I did a lot of homework trying to score a few points! I didn't though
Look up crop rotation. Before we had modern mass produced synthetic fertilizers, crop rotation was essential in restoring nutrients in soil that would be depleted by monocultural farms. I believe the reason it’s not practiced today (at least on industrial farms) is simply because it’s much cheaper simply to use fertilizers and grow more of the same kind of crops.
The water in the Apollo samples have been dismissed by scientists as being contamination from Earth. Besides, the water discovery being referred to here is in orders of magnitude more quantity, at the lunar poles. The reason the discovery of lunar water is credited to Chandrayaan 1 is because it confirmed it beyond any doubt via two instruments.
Not movies, but documentaries about space, universe, and our existence are what made me truly open my eyes.

I watched a bunch of those - Cosmos, The Universe, How the Universe Works, and a bunch of other PBS Nova and Discovery content.

Seriously, we don't know why we are here. Why we are so alone, and why we have so many problems in the world. Our lives are short, insignificant, and petty, yet we have so many problems from racism to hunger to wars and international affairs. To be frank, we're no special compared to the other animals around us. We just have the most powerful brain that gives us thinking capability, but it also comes with overflowing emotions all the time.

I keep pondering over these thoughts on why we exist, and that while we do, we need to make sure others around us are happy. Money is just a materialistic medium we introduced to make our lives way too complex.
It makes perfect sense exactly if you start thinking about energy as something that will eventually become dirt cheap and plentiful. Current market prices for electricity are have been coming down steadily for some time now. Mostly consumer prices are lagging this because we're still paying off obsolete energy infrastructure put in place decades ago. But basically, there hardly is any variable cost with wind or solar (+battery); just fixed cost for putting the infrastructure in place. Economies of scale, improved production processes, innovations in using cheaper materials, improvements in efficiency, etc. are driving prices per kwh down.

So when it comes to vertical farming crops like wheat, it's worth looking at when that price drops to "low enough". Really what we are talking about is the cost of the infrastructure needed to perpetually produce enough energy for the life time of the indoor farm.

And you are right that cheap, plentiful, clean energy will have lots of other interesting applications. IMHO, that's going to be the story of this century. Solving this will produce a new economic boom very much like oil/coal caused last century. We can solve a lot of issues with cheap energy. There are a lot of things bottle-necked on energy cost. Improvements on that front unlock new applications.
> Also, a way for the intestinal flora of frogs to be spread to other frogs.

> Which may be fairly unique in itself?

Considering the number of diseases that are spread, human to human, by oral consumption of feces - probably not.
Whether they are non-profit or not, they still run like a business, and the business decision to allocate resources are likely to use the same metrics as any other businesses - maximize profit protential (however you define it).

It may just be that fixing accessibility bugs just doesn't produce much "profit".
This article has reduced the argument for staging, calling it unnecessary. Its upto the devops to use staging effectively. It you have a waterflow like deployment and useless e2e tests running in staging, then it wont be helpful. Instead, if you use staging as another prod (Blue Green deployment cough cough.. ) then, it would be a lot more useful.

Than blaming staging env as a whole, I would blame archaic devops practices for SaaS.
Then why do the Democrats oppose a presidential debate?
I'd do that too but it would be cached and updated hourly. Why hit the Twitter api on each request?
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Tim Cook might not be able to produce a product category on the same level of iPhone, but very innovative products have come out of Apple during his time as CEO. Apple Watch and Airpods are really popular products that have redefined entire categorizes.
> why not use that as the unique ID

Maybe I don't want to give people my phone number

Maybe I have multiple phones

Maybe I anticipate changing my phone number (maybe I hate my current carrier)

Maybe I want something easy for people to remember, or catchy "mybusinessname@mybank"

Forcing people to use a particular naming regime should only be done if there is a very compelling case for limiting your users
And UPI names are easier to remember than phone numbers. And you can change your phone numbers without any worries
The butterfly keyboard is such a classic Apple thing todo.

To push form well beyond the limits of current manufacturing capabilities just because of an ideology.

How many big companies try something that ambitious?
Got it. So it sounds like this post is more for people looking to build products and choosing which FPGA to base them on.