skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, some of these predictions are outright comical. "has covid ended handshakes forever" or "will we ever go back to bars?".

Bars and handshakes have survived thousands of years of pandemics. I get that people always tend to think their moment in history is particularly special, but I'm just gonna say if the black death didn't do something in this won't either
EU has their unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. US has their unelected oligarchs in Seattle Palo Alto, and New York.
Whoa wait what..is it really E2E if they can analyse the content before putting it through their network?
Set alarms, for starting work, stopping work, lunch, end of lunch, etc. Keep strictly to the schedule. Block out your working hours on your calendars, both work and personal. Set up things like Slack to automatically mark you as AFK outside working hours. Never use personal devices for work, or work devices for personal stuff. Basically create strict domain separation, to prevent this blending.
>you would ever find in your company VCS.

But why so offensively?

He raised good concerns
Is that really true? Malaysia has official policies to give preference to the ethnic Malay majority in education, government jobs, business licensing, etc. Singapore's formal policies on those matters are, to the best of my knowledge, ethnically and racially neutral. I'm sure ethnic minorities in Singapore suffer from some degree of informal discrimination (as they do in many other countries), but I don't believe they suffer from anything like the active discrimination as an official policy which the Malaysian government imposes.
People being discharged early is a result of coronavirus, not "the lockdown".

Seriously, the problem with pandemics isn't just large numbers of people dying due to coronavirus, it's large numbers of people not being able to receive medical care because pandemic cases have already overwhelmed health services.

When there are no ICU rooms left, people who would otherwise survive (car accidents, heart attacks, strokes, etc) end up dying because the necessary level of care isn't possible.

When calculating the number of people who have died as a result of a pandemic you need to look at the excess death tally - e.g. how many people died during the pandemic, vs average death rate in prior years.

The other thing the article fails to acknowledge is that many of the people who died through not going the hospital may well have died anyway. So again, excess deaths is what matters.

Finally, if a hard lock down were actually enforced (like NZ), you bring the numbers down sufficiently rapidly to decrease the length of time of the lockdown, get the immediate load off the health care system, and then because you have a harsh lockdown, you can reopen more afterwards, and not immediately return to lockdown.

The various half assed lockdowns in the US demonstrate that "saving the economy" by not actually locking down has only served to damage the economy more by killing more people and increasing the length of time that those half assed lockdowns will need to hang around disrupting the economy.
US high-skill jobs optimize exclusively for high numeric salary while the culture in other developed countries allows high-skill people to have a subjectively higher quality of life while earning less money.

The US can't be beat if what you want out of life is a big house, a big SUV, and as much money invested as possible. If you want things like a lot of paid vacation time, the option to live in a walkable community, working public transit, more psychological and economic security in the face of major illness or injury, etc, then you'll get a better deal elsewhere. Most places other than Japan also offer a much better work-life balance. Which is better really depends on what kind of lifestyle you want.
Really wanted to mention here that the Parsi's have contributed so much to the industrial development of India, there are so many of them but here are a few notable ones of the top of my head:

- Jamsetji Tata - Founder of Tata Group (yes the Tata Group)

- Ardeshir Burjorji Sorabji Godrej - Founder of Godrej Group.

- Homi J. Bhabha - Founder of Atomic Energy Establishment

- Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla - Founded Serum Institute of India which is the largest provider of vaccines in the world.

Hope this community is well and prospers.
What is OpenWebRX? I can’t watch a video (not in a private area)
Will this be anything like SEPA and the easy, cheap, fast, ubiquitous interbank transfers allowed in Europe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
Maybe 5G will provide much needed and true home broadband competition to the Comcast's and Charters we have now. Some ppl are lucky and have two options to choose from while most only have one which is terrible.
Lukashenko's claim of landslide victory sparks widespread protests
Belarusians finally are feeling hope united and continue peacefully resisting brutal riot police and military, which is using flash grenades and rubber bullets. Lukashenko's personal unofficial plane left Belarus for Turkey but it's unknown who was on board. Lukashenko had been running the country for 26 years.

More on BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53717834?xtor=AL-72-%5...
This always seemed like an odd conspiracy theory to me. It supposes that the U.S. is one the one hand so cavalier about dropping atom bombs that they're willing to destroy Japanese cities merely as a show of force to a potential rival, but on the other hand that they're so reserved about using it that they wouldn't use it to gain victory against the country they're engaged in a destructive war with.
If you're interested in async I/O, keep an eye on the io_uring changes.
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Because they are good commits.
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Think of it this way: how many people were as well off and well connected, and lucky as Bill Gates when he started out? let's say 100,000 people, conservatively? How many of those are as successful as he is?
This is also very common with DDG. And the strange thing is that many times, DDG will even ignore if you are using parenthesis. The parenthesis seem to add weight but I will still get tons of results that don't contain the required words at all.
When I run that query, it returns

`No results found for "the SERP should stay the same".`

Then defaults to providing the SERP for the fallback query:

`Results for the SERP should stay the same (without quotes):`

That SERP should change when this HN thread is indexed though
>The rapid expenditure of COVID emergency relief payments highlighted the critical importance of having a resilient instant payments infrastructure with nationwide reach, especially for households and small businesses with cash flow constraints,"

The main issue with releasing cash as I understand it wasn’t that it wasn’t arriving fast enough; rather it was verifying the recipient was eligible and was who they say they were.

The only way to solve that as I see it is with a national ID which I am more against the more I hear about the abuses that both democrats and republicans do with what little power they have to identify political enemies.

Obviously ACH could be faster but when it comes to getting gov money back I just don’t see how the 2 extra days was the issue.
> pathetic
What if it's 790000 lines of new/updated tests and 10000 of new functionality?
Easily 5-10 years before most of us can expect to use that in a work context.
It’s not a group. It doesn’t have members. These protests have upward of 20,000 people marching on a single day. What does an antifa flag even look like?

Furthermore, AG and POTUS are not calling Nazis terrorists, they are calling people who march in protests and can be loosely tied to individuals who burn garbage terrorists. They are using this as legal justification to violate the privacy of American citizens.
We will still need banks’ mobile apps to support this kind of transfer (FedNow).

Considering that I’ve never been able to do wire transfers by mobile app with two major US banks (but Zelle transfer by mobile app? Of course!), I’m not confident this will replace Zelle, Venmo, etc for some time.

Sure, in 10 years or so... but don’t hold your breath.
I still wish people would give meaningful names to their merge commits. Together with `git log --first-parent` and the alligator [1] workflow, it can filter out the less interesting patch series to focus on the bigger picture (the fact that you added a functionality, not that it took you 53 commits changing very specific parts to do so).

[1]: https://euroquis.nl/blabla/2019/08/09/git-alligator.html
He didn't raise good concerns, he got outraged after reading a HN comment and labeled "pathetic" something he knows nothing about, has no context in, and didn't even spend 5 minutes researching.
Back when I was a teenager,I had a book titled "hacking with Google" by Johny long that was basically all specific searching tips and terms (oriented to find open vulnerabilities and the like, but still very useful in general despite the tacky name).

I wonder how much of it is still valid after all this time.
you only know the IP not the MAC of the server you are communicating with over the internet.
> how else do you plan to interface with FB if you don't use their SDK?

FB's API is HTTP-based over the public web. You could interface with it using any HTTP client, even if they didn't document the basic APIs.

In this case, the "Facebook SDK" refers to a library in whatever language you're using to connect to their API, which replaces a generic HTTP client in your code.
>I think you've just claimed it again?

I see. Not even trying to make an argument because you disrespect the conversation or because you are out of arguments? Either way it does not seem to be going anywhere.

>If you learned you were paid %30 less than everyone else at your level, wouldn't you go for a renegotiation with your manager or go back to the labor market?

I don't have "a level", my job is unique as well as other people in my org. Hence I get a salary and not a hourly rate because I do not produce a well measured labor at constant rate. But if I decide that my negotiated salary is not to my satisfaction anymore it's not going to be because I learned other people salary but because I feel that my value has increased. As I said above: your reasoning only applies to hourly laborers whose labor is already openly priced at "levels" and there is not much room for negotiation.

> You are claiming the knowledge of the competing price points to have zero value in price setting, and it is a strong claim that requires matching evidence.

Nope, you proposed that there is some strong relation between one's negotiated salary and other people's salary without any evidence and when I asked how this is supposed to work you claimed I made a strong claim. You are not even trying to defend your argument, are you?

>Your personal sample is hardly representative because we are trying to establish existence of transparently priced positions that are not low-skilled

I see where confusion is coming from: you think that positions that require some skills are not low-skilled. I used low-skilled in the sense that US DOL uses to distinguish between salaried and hourly workers.
That is against Facebook’s platform policies.

https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
Too early, we're still in the middle of the pandemic. Who knows how numbers are going to be in October
> ... you haven't offered any counterexamples...

I used $2,000/month/person sheltered for my back-of-the-envelope calculation. What more do you want?

I'm not disagreeing, the issue is ~75% of your examples are bunk. You havn't really thought about what you are saying.
I assume you mean because of the time it'll take to trickle down to production kernels? Does that take 5-10 years?
I've just read the ARS article and comments, but it's a bug in the DSP library call Hexagon that somehow allows you to screw with the libraries being used. Apple uses Hexagon too.

I continually see these comments that security in Android is crap or Apple is so much better. Right now I find it hard to pick the difference between the two. There is almost none in terms of blow me away "how the fuck can we stop continually doing this to ourselves" type exploits - like the drive by total takeover of iOS China was using to target Uighurs. That is as bad as it gets, and both Android and Apple have had their share.

There is a superficial difference in how tightly they curate their app stores. Obviously, iTunes is better policed, but hyper vigilant police always inject their own opinions into what is allowed and isn't. Some people are happy to forgo a little functionality for peace of mind. But since both iOS and Android provide guaranteed to work (if there are no bloody bugs this week) [Uninstall] button, and both have been known and delete apps they've taking a disliking to without asking or informing you, security wise the outcome is is pretty similar regardless of the app store policy.
Only if you need to use Facebook login.

I think the point is that lots of non-facebook apps could implement non-facebook login and avoid Facebook all together but they don't for various non-technical reasons.
The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer – BBC Future
One reason is incentives. He is an expert who is spending money. Most experts are asking for money. Thus, he is incentivized to find the most effective solutions.
A direct ethernet port is more about wired connectivity on the go, which is much more of a niche than wired connectivity in general.

At work/home you can have a docking station. Or a $20 USB hub that has a builtin ethernet adapter. Ethernet for fixed use is easy.

And it's legitimately difficult to fit an ethernet port on a typical laptop (or fragile, if you make it fold).
A Bolognese sauce (and I'm sure a proper chef would tell you all the ways I'm getting this wrong) is one of those things you can make a big old pot and freeze down for multiple meals.

Brown some ground meat. I'm a fan of some spicy pork sausage and beef. Figure a pound or so. Drain and set aside. Dice up some bacon - figure a quarter of the pack or so. Peel a couple carrots and drop them in with the bacon. Peel and cut an onion in half, toss it in. Do a couple stalks of celery too as the bacon cooks.

Once the bacon starts to crisp up, drain the fat if you need to. Add the meat back in and leave in the veg. Add a can of diced tomatoes. Add a cup of chicken stock. Add a small can of tomato sauce. Stir and cover, and let it sit on the stove for 3-4 hours at a simmer - just making the occasional bubble.

Dice an onion, a few carrots, and some celery. Smash/dice a few garlic cloves. Grab another pan, drop in a 1/4-1/2" chunk of butter, and saute up the onion for a couple minutes, add the carrots, garlic, and celery. When the chucks of garlic start turning brown, throw a half a cup or so of wine (red, white, whatever you've been drinking while you cook) into the pan and scrap up all the good stuff. Take it off heat.

Fish out the original veg you added in a few hours ago, and dump in the fresh stuff you just cooked up. Add some basil and oregano (fresh if you have it) if you have any and let it simmer for another 30 minutes.

Add a cup of milk or cream and let it simmer uncovered for another 15 minutes or so.
It might not be trust or customer service... it might be that americans have rights afforded to them via credit card laws. You can initiate a chargeback against the vendor and get your money back.

And for fraud... in the US you can lose max $50 to a credit card fraud incident ($500 if you are really negligent) by law.

So I think americans enjoy protections not available in other parts of the world.

I actually think this makes good sense. It eliminates the need for people "to take things into their own hands", or be overly cautious, so spending is increased.

I think it was matt ridley's book the rational optimist (?) that said that trust correlates with trade.
Key brain region was “recycled” as humans developed the ability to read
ACH could still be expedited even with the need to verifying identity. Technically it only need to demonstrate that the identity of receiver and the identity of the referred bank account are consistent, a national id won't be necessary. Fed is not technically a branch of the government.
Can we agree that Tor picked up a stone no one thought could be moved, and carries it around the world all the time, everyday? And despite and maybe because of that, there’s gotta be a better way. The people clearly see the value in the product, but it’s a shame there’s so little competition in this software space, especially because for some, Tor access is a matter of life or death.

Is Tor written in a memory-safe language? Are its builds reproducible?
Yea, almost all existing Dorking content is around either SEO or offensive/defensive security scanning.

The broader OSINT has used dorking for a decade plus (e.g. exploit-db.com goes back to 2003).

The goal in writing this was to democratize access beyond those who use it regularly for work
> willing to destroy Japanese cities merely as a show of force

We had already destroyed most Japanese cities with fire bombs. Hiroshima was one of the few cities specifically spared from fire bombs
Nuclear power is the safest form of power delivery.

Fukushima is a good lesson, but nuclear power can clearly be engineered to work safely at sea level and below. The US Navy submarine corps has demonstrated it for decades.

Singapore is a technologically advanced society, they could pull it off if they gave it the attention it deserves.
Digital signatures are so far away from a solution for this problem they might as well be in a different universe.

One of the main ways people share content is by screenshotting it on their phone, or literally taking a photo of a computer screen with their mobile. Good luck using a digital signature to solve that.
The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 and Beyond Possible
How is a national ID still a thread with all the data on voters which is already out there?

You could have verified voters accounted this way too which would probably raise the amount of voters. You could even establish mail voting properly sending the documents to everybody who's eligible without a need to register.

I don't understand that fear of a national ID in the US. It works in other countries and you have stuff like the Social Security Number too.
I hadn’t heard of nMigen before. It is great to hear of new stuff in the HDL language space.
I have not heard of that project before, so that is the main reason. It looks very cool!

From some brief review of their docs it looks like the implementation requires an agent on the host. Llama Logs does not, making it as simple as possible to get started.
We have this in the UK. It's called Faster Payments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service

Never had a problem with it. I use a few banks that are technically good, and I can send a payment from one to the other & get a push notification a couple of seconds after sending cash from one account to another. It's great!
Yes, but so is Hollywood’s, for example. The algorithm is geared around imitation style creative proliferation. It shows you videos similar to others you've liked. It simply seems like lots of people like to watch other people dance to catchy tunes. And even watch people react to watching other TikTok videos. The top videos on the platform get hundreds of millions of views, far more than what you’d expect if this content was supported by pockets of underground “pedophiles”. On one hand TikTok is an amazing and disruptive tool for creative expression. On the other hand, it simply reiterates our timeless cultural desire for sexualized female-gendered expression. If you find this aspect of human nature problematic we have also developed tools and institutions to combat it: religion. But those seem to have pedophile problems too. Joke aside they have fallen out of popularity of late.
In a sense, the quibbling over whether or not it was a war crime is meaningless. If atomic weapons hadn't been available, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki would've undergone ordinary firebombing, likely resulting in immediate casualties just as high. See, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/world/tokyo-journal-10000... for a description of the effects of firebombing elsewhere in Japan.

One might argue that the lingering radiation effects made atomic weapons worse but, on the other hand, the firebombing would've been done more than once. Really six of one, half a dozen of the other, except you don't see that many people bringing up firebombings as a war crime.
Is there much evidence that this funding will do anything more than previous rounds of rural internet funding? Previous funding has simply disappeared into the pockets of incumbent players without any hardware being built.

Technology isn't a solution for graft.
We already have a national ID. It is called social security, and it is bad at its job because it was explicitly not supposed to be a national ID when it was created.
> how else do you plan to interface with FB if you don't use their SDK?

It's standard web-based OAuth under the hood. You can (on a technological level) use the web flow that's intended for websites in a webview, but Facebook forbids it on a policy level.
Just to be pedantic, 2023 is less than 2½ years away, so not "4 years at least".
If you can't be formalize it is is unfair.
Surely Paris and Hong Kong would be drowning in COVID compared to the US if that was the case :-)
What do you see following, or are you heralding the Coming Age of Formal Sweatpants?