skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore they betray a Northist bias that I find disappointing in an Astronomy article, when they say, "In the Fall of 2022..." For half the terraqueous globe it will, in fact, be Spring. And anyway, I think they really meant "Autumn", dammit! </curmudgeonly>
The porn banner makes a little more sense when you realize that there is a small but growing number of Internet users that need to use VPNs to bypass nanny state restrictions on access to pornography.

Obviously, they’re against Google's Terms of Service and should be removed, but that’s the market that the VPN company is targeting - people looking for porn on YouTube.
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How do you know the AdSense ads do that?
Yes, completely. Running on a t-mobile world flat. None of the people I talk to has any clue where I am. I tend to not show video.
No I didn't, I see now.

Don't really use Twitter on a mobile browser as the experience is too rough, just use a thin Android web client instead.

This looks really cool, I like the layout. Will check it out on a desktop later. Good luck with it.
I don't think a freezer draws anywhere close to 1000W when running. Perhaps you are talking about a startup transient?
And your circles account for how much of the population would you guess?
Do what gives you more energy – Simple rule for a fulfilling life
> This on-chain voter ID would never have to be "mapped" directly to a voter

The government will generate these IDs and then mail them to people. Who’s stopping them from recording the mappings?
Researchers overturn hypothesis underlying mammalian auditory system sensitivity
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The website gets money from the ads too. Why would they care more than Google?
These are all emerging countries. Not my definition of "advanced economies".
It's not just small pesky shops that screw the consumer. You step out of the EU/NA and consumer protections quickly disappear.

Reliance is one of India's largest companies, they have a consumer electronics brand like Best Buy. The worst return experience I've EVER had was trying to return a DOA pair of Bluetooth headphones to them.

Their literal return policy is that you don't, unless it's defective, then you can exchange. It was only after opening two more pairs of Sony crappy-developing-market-special-models that were also defective that they refunded me and sent me on my way.

I have no doubt that the only reason they did that for me in the end was because I was a tall white foreigner.
I mean, you could say the same thing about current electronic voting or even about how aggregate paper voting is counted behind the scenes. Those things involve some level of trust.

I don’t think what I wrote is that difficult to understand. I think you’re underestimating people when you say “the overwhelming majority of the people do not have the capacity to understand what you said.” Really? Not even the capacity to understand?

In any case, the trust involved for a blockchain-based voting system with pseudonymity is much less than the other systems, because they can be 3rd-party audited, or even open source. And that auditing only needs to happen once rather than for each local vote collection method.

Explaining to the end-user is just a matter of communication. That’s not a “major problem.” People don't need to know how a blockchain works just like they don't need to know how UPS works. They just need to know that they're able to place a vote anonymously and verify themselves later if they want to.
Sure. But it’s better to disable it upstream. Otherwise you get hotshots and people with bad habits joining your company and doing naughty things.
In college we had a professor who went over some of the things these guys did in their spare time. This article sums it up a bit. Really helps to put a face to the name... =P

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-11-most-depraved-things-the-roma...
With our implicit mass approval, the 'Constitution' of the modern Web is being authored by a few giant tech companies.

This 'Constitution' will give us the Web of a few giant tech companies, for those few giant tech companies, by those few giant tech companies.

Many here on HN, including me, wish we could have a Web of the people, for the people, by the people.
I recommend saving time and energy and go to ray-ban.com
I respectfully disagree. The entire point of having a comments section on HN is so that the breadth of conversation can be expanded to encompass more than what just the article linked alone can provide.
If you’d like to discuss on Twitter, here’s my tweet announcing The.Rip yesterday :)

https://twitter.com/benzguo/status/1294832715049517058?s=21
Or if they are forced to reveal it under duress, or they choose to reveal it to get paid for the result, etc.
>Decades-old model of slow adaptation in sensory hair cells is not supported in mammals

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eabb4922
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See also https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/java-lowercase-...
Thanks for trying it out! Will definitely try to make that req clearer :)
I'm supposed to be represented by my government, which we collectively give power to through the constitution. There's no constitution for Google. We don't talk about centralization of government because we figured it out ~250 years ago. We are just figuring out how to curtail the power of internet giants today. There is no inconsistency.
Right. It's not that anonymity is impossible, but that anonymity is one requirement we can remove and make the problem tractable again.

There may be other such "straws that broke the camels back", but IMO anonymity is one property that makes a cryptosystem far less intuitive even to me. It's the bridge I never advocate crossing unless people with more security knowledge than me go to great lengths to demonstrate otherwise.
That sounds like a terrible idea. Why visit a side that has asked you not to visit?
I’m currently saving towards an MPC One. I’m glad that Akai went back to making stand-alone MPCs (previously they had switched from stand-alone instruments to models that had to be used while connected to a laptop). I can’t put my finger on why, but making music on a general purpose device like a laptop is just not as enjoyable as with a single purpose device like a stand-alone groovebox or synth.
I enjoy learning every day. And -generally- I'd like to know, where my knowledge has limits.

You seem to care, and claim to be wise, so please, do enlighten me, where I'm wrong. We may be misinterpreting, what the other one is trying to say.

I'll try to re-word what I mean: If your "system" uses standard off-the-shelf parts (CPU/SOC/Mem/...), then the fact, that you can go out to the shop, and buy standard replacements, means that you can be reasonably sure to be able to thwart/detect a targeted attack on your supply-chain easier, than if your device contains a e.g. custom, specific CPU for that device, that could contain god knows what extensions to the instruction set, and that you can only get a replacement for from that one specific vendor.

Or where do I have dent in my logic?
As an end-user, AMP sites load faster and with less clutter. The only downside is a clunky URL, but I rarely care about that. AMP improved my mobile search experience.

The main AMP concerns seem philosophical, which I don't think OP was asking about.
The key point here is the perverse incentives of regulated monopolies. If the monopoly can get the regulators to agree, then the more capital intensive something is, the more money the utility makes. They do not have an incentive to keep costs down.
> Are there statistics on the browser usage on HN? Just for a good laugh.

Here is a screenshot of my Cloudfront dashboard showing the breakdown of user agents into particular browsers when an article of mine reached the top of HN about two months ago:

https://imgur.com/a/gQ2mxOM

Looking at the number of distinct IP addresses in Athena for that day, about 20,200 of those hits were distinct viewers:

https://imgur.com/a/aEtU7AB

This is not definitive, but it's something I guess. Here are a few observations based on that data:

1. On the desktop, it looks like Chrome and Firefox are at about parity for HN users. I kind of doubt this actually, and think it's more likely that Chrome still beats Firefox by a sizable margin. But even if this is off, it looks like HN users actually do use Firefox significantly more than the general population, which means the evangelization here isn't just a vocal minority among HN users.

2. On desktop Safari is a distant third. It would appear more people browse HN in any mobile category than browse HN on desktop using Safari.

3. On mobile, mobile Safari dominates. Then mobile Chrome has about half as many users as mobile Safari, and mobile Firefox again half as many as mobile Chrome.

EDIT: I pulled an Athena report of the referrer breakdown as well, if anyone's curious:

https://imgur.com/a/1dworVj
> In a merger of this scale all the big powers (US, EU, China, and I assume also UK now) have basically veto right.

> There are countless examples where country 1 has stopped a merger between a company from country 2 and one from country 3.

From what I've seen, the only method of enforcement for a third-party country is to ban the sale of goods in their respective markets following the merger (like GE/Honeywell in the early 2000s). Would that even be possible in this case?
Interestingly, they've gone ARM in their latest generation of hardware, e.g. the UDM-Pro uses a Quad ARM Cortex-A57 Core at 1.7 GHz: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switc...

So their MIPS stuff might be consigned to the past at this point.
Not only slow, it also makes CPU usage skyrocket. it's especially painful on underpowered boxes like ARM SBCs or Atom portables etc.
That's exactly what has been done in Madrid. Council organized free meals for vulnerable people, but there were many individuals that just volunteered for their neighbours.

My mother and his husband received several offers from young couples in the block to go buying groceries or make any other errands and leave them outside the door.

The vitamin D and C were sent by me through Amazon :)
There’s something off about this comment, and simultaneously I’m aware that my response is reading way too far into it.

The last phrase you use continues to perpetuate the odd perception that Californians are weird extreme hippie aliens that Middle America should avoid at all costs.

And then, your comment simultaneously envies California’s strong worker and consumer protections.

It’s almost as if Californians aren’t weirdo hippies and they’re just normal people who have demanded and received robust environmental, safety, labor, and privacy protection.

I’d love to live in California right next to those weird Californians and be able to make CCPA requests. I’d also love for non-competes to be illegal.

It’s almost as if other states’ citizens have been failed by their governments in comparison, and/or their citizens are too unaware of these issues to have lobbied for data protection laws.

It has astonished me that a certain political party has just gotten away with labeling an entire state in our country as a bad place, especially one as big and diverse as California.

Maybe that certain political party would have a chance to win California if Joe from Texas didn’t think California was a Mad Max liberal wasteland and considered taking a new job there.
That too, but I meant actual cases when it is possible to make things go faster than light in a given medium, see also Cherenkov radiation.
There is no hardcore porn on YouTube.
a better link to the changes in this ver than what the entry provides: https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_33_0.html
> Only the owner knows, unless they choose to reveal to others.

Which means the owner can be forced to reveal their vote to a spouse/boss/warlord.

I could have been clearer that that is what I meant.
A 'Violent Clash of Opposing Wills': How the U.S. Is Defining Space Warfare
Reach for your backups?
For a similar reason, Java on Mac and Linux was briefly broken for anyone using it in the Turkish locale. It was because in the Turkish locale, !“POSIX”.toLowerCase().equals(“posix”).

Relevant bug report here: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8047340
Math is the formal study of patterns. The universe is built on patterns. The universe is beautiful. Math is beautiful.

Maybe we don't know today if there's an application, but notice that proof mentioned using Fourier Transforms to study a set, the same way you might use it to study a radio signal. There was probably a time when people asked what use is FT?
> Antitrust regulators power is determined by the size of the market, not the location of the company HQ.

> Antitrust regulators for big markets like the US, EU can effectively block mergers from any internationally operating company. Both AMD and Nvidia need access to EU - their customers certainly do.

They could block the merger and if the companies decided to go ahead with it anyway, the EU would ban imports. But, wouldn't that further consolidate the market?
Amazon is hardly “cheap” even for things they sell directly these days. it’s either outrageously overpriced (most often in categories they don’t sell and is all third party sellers) or it’s in line with other retailers.
if you can verify your vote after it has been counted, you can be induced by a third party to vote for a specific candidate
That just seems to be a parameter for locale-dependent functions. Very useful, but no, I'm talking about splitting the unicode-string datatype in two: "user-facing unicode string" vs "internal unicode string".

Example: logging.log("INFO", i"This is a localizable string")

In the i18n world, we could gather i-strings just like gettext does (where it looks like `logging.log("INFO", _("This is a localizable string")`). The language could then have other useful hooks/behaviours into that datatype, and definitely one of them would be whether various methods have i18n behaviour enabled on them, versus using a C locale.
The cloud is just someone else's computer in a data center in North Virgina. You can sometimes rent software from them too.
The Week QAnon Went Mainstream. Social platforms have some soul-searching to do
Really, 10% body fat with 30+ BMI? Without steroids, that sounds completely bonkers to me..
Can you link me a picture of a natural body that looks like yours, i'm pretty intrigued.
>People can take a picture of their ballot in the booth.

This is insufficient. In-person paper voting allows the voter to toss out their marked ballot and get a fresh one. You can take a photo of your ballot, but it's hard to prove that's what you actually casted. Poll workers will tell you to put your camera away near the ballot box, to protect other voters' privacy as they submit their completed ballots.
Ask HN: Need advice – I can't decide on a side project to work on
I have a full-time job as a software engineer. I'm in my 20s, and my eventual goal is to create something of my own (a software project) on the side which can earn me money, so that I can focus on it full-time and quit my full-time job.

When selecting a project I focus on the following criteria:
1. There is an actual need for it
- Since it's something that I want to bring me decent income one day, it should be marketable. I can't just create something and hope people will like it. Also, not in an over-saturated market. The world doesn't really need another dating app, or another todo-list app.
2. It is fun to implement
- It should be exciting to work on. For example, finance-related software can be a money-maker, but I find it utterly boring. I don't want to dread working on my own side project.
3. I can work on it on my own
- I want it to be something I can create the foundations of on my own - not something I need partners from the start. I would only involve more people when the project reaches maturity.

All of the ideas I've had so far cover only 2 of the 3 criteria.

When I start working on a project that covers only 1 or 2 of the 3 criteria, I immediately give up on it and start searching for another one.

My current job involves work on Android, but it's not something I'm particularly passioinate, so that fails criteria 2.

In terms of my interests, there's entertainment (movies and video games), healthy living (workouts, gym, diets), travelling, educational videos, MOOCs, 3D printing, 3D graphics. I believe all of those are over-saturated in terms of software solutions, but I'm happy to hear your thoughts on this.

I've also read several past posts on HN on the same topic, including PG's essays. But I just can't notice any obvious problem that is not already solved.

Is there any advice you could give me? Or a framework I should follow? Or perhaps ideas that come to mind?
I myself only build websites with Google Authentication I don't see any other competitor in this space everyone has a Google account and I don't have to deal with Infosec. Who doesn't have a Google account? Yes Google rules the web and there's not much we can do but live with it, I also like the fact that Google gives us a bunch of things for free and many people don't take this into account. Think about all the free things Google is giving you at this moment? Do you use Gmail? Do you search in Google? Do you want a paid alternative to Gmail or to searching? Come on let us not be children.
Ask HN: Can you share some non biz, non tech podcasts that you love?
Looking through my list, most are biz or tech related. Looking for a change in scenery.
The individual (and so also teams of individuals) have never had more powerful technology available to build websites and web apps, and access to be able to put amazing things online than right now. We _should_ be able to do all kinds of things previously unimaginable. When people start caring about competition and a healthier ecosystem more, I don't think it will take long for good competition to arise, the issue right now is that some people don't care because they don't understand why they should care (these people can be educated) and some people just don't care (not sure what we can do about these people except give them time).
Does it apply at the same level? I could see some ransomware that says if your vote doesn’t appear on the blockchain you are not getting your files back. Meanwhile to achieve intimidation with absentee voting, wouldn’t you have to check the physical ballot in person?
Amazon does not make it easy to know, not as a consumer do I even know what the difference is between those three options. I'm a pretty savvy shopper and world wide web surfer but from looking at a product page I have no idea which one of those it is not what the implications even are.

What on earth is "3P" and how does a consumer know? What is the difference between "sold by Amazon" and "fulfilled by Amazon"? Isn't anything sold by Amazon also fulfilled by Amazon? Do they not fulfill some products they sell? Do they fulfill some things they don't sell? I've never seen an item on Amazon that they didn't take your money for. Everything I've ever bought there Amazon has charged my card for.

As a consumer, the nature of the business relationship between Amazon and its suppliers shouldn't be my concern.
Hmm is there an asymptotic statement underlying this? The powers of 2 are exponentially sparse (N integers contain at most 1/logN powers of 2), whereas primes are polynomially sparse (N integers contains N/LogN primes)
There are reforms that would fix the problems. But they are politically impossible to enact.

Moving to a city that already has a functioning society is something one person can do without permission. So people do.
Usually I disable Javascript for such websites (using browser addon which allows enabling/disabling Javascipt on per-domain basis). Usually such websites strive for Google indexability, so their content is perfectly viewable without JS. If it isn't, then I just move on.
I'm not so sure this will hurt Amazon. I'd imagine if this decision holds (for more regions), Amazon will decide to stop acting as a platform for individual smaller businesses and focus on its own assortment. And since this decision is most probably not limited to Amazon itself, competitors would face the same problem.
This sounds familiar, eg https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
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CfA may have more employees per shop.

The only difference I've noticed is the CfA employees are more fake-perky and managers are more nitpicky.

CfA is a bit like Apple -- a smaller company that only operates in high-revenue areas so can spend more on the offering.
Innovators are shaping Africa’s ‘informal economy’
Let's do Antifa next.
Yeah, I don't really get that either; I don't understand the value of these denormalizing domain names to XSS.
Interesting, seems to be Mozilla's version of Flattr ?
One is fantastic but you have to be aware of it’s limitations - particularly around network connectivity, something that even OG MPC Live is better at.

Of course if it’s not a factor for you (it’s not for me, I like my One) - then it’s indeed amazing.
"Some anti-virus products may falsely report OpenRCT2 being unsafe"

nothing against this software, just pondering over this ... what would prevent a malicious software to make a similar claim, and if we always trust the software we download, wouldnt that reduce the amount of reasons to use anti virus software in the first place?
That is a result of how Homebrew built and packaged it. There are downloads at https://osquery.io/downloads, and for a Homebrew installation that page recommends installing the Cask.

$ brew cask info osquery
osquery: 4.4.0
https://osquery.io/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/osquery.rb
==> Name
osquery
==> Artifacts
osquery-4.4.0.pkg (Pkg)
==> Analytics
install: 120 (30 days), 198 (90 days), 206 (365 days)
I use Claws, never ever sent an HTML email, and nobody complained so far.
302 Redirect: Just an observation that whenever there is something critical of Google here, the leading comments always are talking about something besides Google. There is sort of a redirection at work.
So if propert tax went up 50% you think rent wouldn’t change at all? C’mon, you’re making a silly argument.
Problems with the postal service are getting worse
Looks like it's no longer the case in Python 3:

Python 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from locale import *
>>> setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR.UTF-8')
'tr_TR.UTF-8'
>>> 'INFO'.lower()
'info'
Used by Gaijin Entertainment and compiled and run on Nintendo Switch are two things that caught my eye. I will have to check it out for use in place of LuaJit.
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Maybe a better wording would be disorganized =)
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The generated face seems a little wider. Also the eyes of all of them seem very calm. I expected more on the wild side.
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You don't think it's just that much-smaller chains are easier to run? They pick off the low-hanging fruit of the industry.
I actually posted a very similar comment before I saw yours. I totally agree that there's always this sort of redirection going on whenever there's something critical of Google here. And there's so much about Google I like. I just wish we could have more discussion about the original topic.
As a data point, the nightly builds of DB Browser for SQLite now include SQLite 3.33:

https://nightlies.sqlitebrowser.org/latest/
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