skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same way that Iraqi was freed from Saddam, it's all his governments fault for having weapons of mass destruction.

Speaking of information manipulation, just because people have the freedom to access all information, doesn't mean they won't be manipulated, you're seeing this happen in front of your very eyes.

At least in China people know they're not seeing the full story from the media. They know they can't access certain website because of censorship. In the US people just swallow whatever that they happen to see and believe, the results are comical.

In many ways, Chinese people are less manipulated than certain set of people in America. There were genuine anger when Li Wenliang died. But then eventually they realized that shits so much worse elsewhere - meanwhile in the US people still believe that disease China is worse because - manipulation? Or inability to overcome cognitive dissonance.
For people with simple tax returns, aren't they already using the 1040 EZ? Doesn't seem like you'd use TurboTax unless you were itemizing or had a Sched. D to fill out.
My previous employer prioritized shipping, won the market while having both more features and more technical debt than competitors, bought those competitors out as they started failing, and then migrated their clients over and threw their beautiful (but less featured) systems right into the garbage. To this day, I sometimes think back to how a particular competitor had the right schema for solving current problems, but they didn't even survive to the current day, which takes precedence.
If you are interested in stories like this, and how people make life or death decisions in difficult situations, I recommend Laurence Gonzales's book Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Well the coastal cities at least had a steady source of food for the poor as long as they were willing to dig for it [0].

[0]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oysters-new-york-city-...
Heroin's Hidden Ingredient Is a Chemical Made by U.S. Companies
Kudos for doing what you do.
Why in the hell I get downvoted for this comment?

The world is full of freaks.
There's some important distinctions that come up with every single time we talk about Chinese apps, so I want to lay them out (disclosure: American). And can we just stop going through this literally every single time?

1) FAANG does this too:

- I complain about that and so do many others here. Expect these people to also be upset about WeChat and TikTok. Anything else would be hypocritical. It is the same fight. We know. Stop the whataboutism.

- While FAANG often willingly shares data with the government and the many eyes, it is not unfettered. We've been making gains in the privacy regime and some of these companies are starting to say no (i.e. come back with a warrant).

- There is a difference, although slight (but meaningful), between a distribution of companies having my data vs a centralized body that controls all regulation.

2) They're just going after China:

- There's a difference between your own government having your data and a foreign government. Especially when tensions are escalating between them.

- See above where gov doesn't have unfettered access (not true in China).

- We're complaining about FAANG too, it just isn't relevant in a conversation about TikTok and WeChat and derails the conversation with whataboutism.

3) What about xyz app?

- Same reason we complain about Facebook over other apps. Scale matters. Of course we're going after the app with a billion users before we go for an app with 100k users.

4) Zuckerberg just wants to make a WeChat (super app) alternative:

- See 1.1. I'll complain about that too. Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot poll. No way.

5) Something about government involvement ipso facto bias.

- If you aren't looking for bias in every source that you read, what are you doing? Read, analyze, internalize. Every source has a bias. They define specific interests. Bias does not mean false. It is not a coup de ta. Yes, we should be aware, but people aren't bringing it up for the same reason we don't bring it up in literally every conversation: because we're aware and it often doesn't serve as a meaningful contribution to the discussion.

Can we actually discuss the article now?
I just checked. It seems I deleted it from my phone. A chat app that is tied to an OS? Why not just use Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp etc
> But sounds like they're trying to scale up credit card fraud using the layers as buffer

Yes, and also discourage law enforcement. AFAIK, $800 is a relatively small potatoes theft. New York is across state lines, and I reported it to the local police (who said the jurisdictional issues would make it a lot more complicated). The only person who's involved that I know of was is a little fish likely was there to take most of the risk to protect the masterminds (and likely doesn't know anything about them, anyway), so going after him probably won't accomplish much, anyway.

My guess is they'll get away with this until the feds get involved.
- Duo is integrated into default dialer on non-Skinned and Samsung OneUI phones so I'm not sure what better integration could be possible. It's on par with FaceTime already.

- Nearby Sharing has already started rollout across even older Android devices as a feature equivalent to Airdrop.
Code and Data on OSF: https://osf.io/y2mdw/

It's a bit funny that this is "open science framework"...when the code sets the wd with absolute paths, and the R packages are not explicitly versioned. I wish more scientists would start using Docker to make their work environments reproducible.
Preorders for Pinephone will open in about a week. You can preorder Librem 5 with a better camera now (but you won't get it very soon due to a large queue).
Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki Testing Swappable Electric Batteries
Apple countersues Epic Games for damages
I like the look of this. It's amazing how nothing ever really grew to fill the void Access/FileMaker pro left - yeah I know they're still around but barely used.

Also, and off-topic, but I wish PostgreSQL had some official 'test' databases that people could download to learn SQL with, Northwind-style.
Depending on your model, region and carrier, somewhere between 3-12 months and never.
We did not write a 1:1 replacement for docker. We made technology choices which allowed for us to completely sidestep the conversation.

See: .NET Core Self-Contained Deployments and the inherent advantages of SQLite.

Just because we don't use a particular vendor's product does not mean that we have made the decision to re-implement 100% of their feature sets.
In my opinion, Donald Trump isn't making anything better by criticizing news sources as "fake news" whenever they carry a story he finds critical of himself, his administration or simple inconvenient. On the contrary, this appears to have pushed all sorts of weird, marginal news sources into the limelight. Many of these carry stories far more dangerous to the establishment than the New York Times or CNN (the whole Q-Anon thing comes to mind).
If you "install" a PWA, then that autowipe is turned off. So PWAs still work and you get enhanced privacy in Safari. That sounds like a win-win to me.
Was Osama Bin Laden Sending Coded Messages in Porn?
Sending Slack Notifications from Your Laravel Application
If you're a Russian autocrat, you're probably terrified of a "color revolution" challenging your control over what you view as Russian territory. If people there get to make their own choices, they might do what the Baltic states did and align with the West.

The very idea of democracy threatens the power structure.
If I had to pick a solution from what's available right now technology wise I'd pick something that links based on content hashes. And then pulls the content from decentralized hosting.

I don't think I like IPFS as an organization, but tech wise it's probably what I'd go with.
The Arbitrariness of Elite College Admissions
Do Google Censor Content on COVID 19?

If not, why are Google Search Apps still on the Apps store [1]?

Do Feed and RSS Reader get rejected as well? Along with New Publishing and Wordpress Reader which may contain COVID 19 information?

And Apple just banned EPIC games for a whole year.

I really dislike this Tim Cook's Apple. Which is in many way much worst than Steve Jobs's Apple.

I think developers needs to gather and start considering actions together.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942
You don't take the UK government at it's word. You take the leaked cables at their word that cover renditions in Sweden and other countries, but not the UK.
Why not check every tracking number when the cost to do so is so low?
> Will they submit it through FDA/CE approval ?

I find that extremely doubtful.
That's what they said - 'add to Git'.

> proprietary lock-in tools they add to Git

Git + their other stuff = GitHub.
Rubiksolve, a website to help you solve a rubiks cube in less than 20 steps
Usually if you're making that much, you're fairly mid to late career. That means you probably have kids. Which means you probably want a house in an area with good schools.

That house will cost $2M at least if you want to be near the office, which means, assuming you can collect the $400,000 down payment, will leave with a mortgage/tax/insurance payment of about $9,000 a month, or $108,000 a year. The tax man will also take about 1/2 of your earnings.

That leaves you with less than $200,000 a year. You'll spend probably at least $50,000 on food, clothes, activities, etc for the kids and yourself.

So now you're saving $150,000 a year, if you're super frugal.

Let's assume you're ok with retiring out of the Bay Area. You'll still need a couple million to retire on. At that rate, it will still take you decade to do it.

All that being said, I have a friend who did exactly that. He worked as a senior/principal engineer for about a decade, was single the whole time, lived super frugal, and retired back to Kansas. I hear he just sits at home working on open source, going to the bars every night.
The history of modern Alberta doesn't go back much further than about 150-200 years. When you compare it with all the civilizations that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years it is certainly still in its early stages.
Given how much our system taxes based on brackets and deductions, etc that are only apparent at the end of a year, that is probably not possible for the bulk of tax revenue. Also, people have many, many different thoughts on VAT, etc.
Dos was my first command line environment on a 8086 with 640kb of ram and a whooping 20Mb harddrive. I had on that hd so many games and software including win 3.1, it embarrasses me to think how much bloat there is in a modern OS. I wouldn't use DOS now, I'd rather go with a barebones linux distribution.
This is such a fundamental problem that I'd like to be able to solve it at the HTML level.

An anchor type which allows several URLs, to be tried in order, would go a long way. Then we could add automatic archiving and backup links to a CMS.

It isn't real content-centric networking, which is a pity, but it's achievable with what we have.
Show HN: Old-school graphics browser MMORPG
AVIF has landed
As long as it's not connected to a network I guess. I wonder though is someone still scanning for Win95 machines? Maybe it's safer to use it these days than it ever was during it's active period.
>model prevents any attacker who gains access to one of our servers from...

If an attacker gains access to your server, they can just inject javascript to gain access to whatever they want on the client's browser. I'm a big fan of Proton* products, and pay for a variety of their services.

However, I can't really get behind this method of data storage. But, it is the best option I've seen for centralized file storage. Syncthing is what I currently use for distributed storage, and I share encrypted files over that. Anyone have a better idea?
Very nice App OP: https://apps.apple.com/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491

Your app should be considered a “reader” app for a web service. Just explain that in your message for the reviewer.

Try explaining what HN is and how links are posted etc.

After all, not everyone is familiar with every website and it is possible that the reviewer who is reviewed your app did not understood HN.

Yes it is frustrating but at least you have a human being that you can reason with.

People in youtube who depend on it for living have their videos removed by an algorithm and have no recourse. I don’t say this in defense of Apple but in defense of human involved review process. I suggest taking advantage of it by being nice and articulate and have the reviewer on your side.
stepping back, im wondering what would motivate the CEO of netflix to write on article like this on CNBC?

Anyone have any ideas? It's essentially a blog post.
AMD was already free of meltdown style issues, with or without SEV. However AMD is susceptible to Spectre style issues.

SEV can not protect against Rowhammer style issues because there is no cryptographic integrity protection on these implementations. That said, exploiting one or several bit flips in a cache line’s worth of encrypted memory is not trivial.
My initial reaction was that IT were correct but actually, as long as it’s sitting behind an appropriately configured firewall on an isolated network segment, this can be done safely.
Ok, but you aren't special in this regard.

I work in a red state, in a red county. My boss regularly praises Trump at work. Another claimed that his personal hero is George W Bush and said so in published interview in the biggest trade mag for our industry a few years ago.

There are still office debates about the existence of WMDs in Iraq.

Most try to shovel their conservative bullshit down my throat.

And we haven't even touched on the religious bullshit that gets thrown around.

But I don't give a fuck what these people think and i don't "allow" them to exert that type of influence over me. And if they fire me, I'll just go be a liberal atheist somewhere else (where I will also not give a fuck)
For some reason that link doesn't work foe me (may be a DNS issue on my part). Appears to be here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/

And it does seem to have a few states, at least in text form.
> How is that even possible? They barely have anything!

For people like myself or my partner, this is kind of a perk. People who want Disney-style stuff have multiple platforms for it and those still exist, but the long-tail of Netflix can be great to dive into. My social bubble has gotten quite into the variety of Korean drama, including a few who'd never (normally) watch a subtitled show.
How many subsequent infections are caused by an asymptomatic infection? How much effort is expended to prevent those infections, by the asymptomatic individual and others?

"We first use the Department of Transportation (2016) guidance on value per statistical life (VSL) and severity/injury estimates as a basis for our non-fatal valuations by category. After updating the figures for earnings and inflation the DOT guidance recommends using a VSL of about $11 million in 2019 dollars. We use the severity classifications in the DOT guidance as a basis for our non-fatal valuations. DOT (2016) recommends using six different severity categories in benefit-cost analyses including Level 1 (minor), which corresponds to using a 0.3 percent amount of the VSL, Level 2 (moderate), which uses about a 5 percent amount,Level 3 (serious), which uses about a10 percent amount,Level 4 (severe), which uses about a 27 percent amount fraction,Level 5 (critical), which uses about a 59 percent amount,and Level 6 (unsurvivable) which uses a 100 percent amount(the full VSL). We therefore value asymptomatic cases at about $11,000 (in 2019 dollars) each which corresponds to using a 0.1 percent amount of the VSL in DOT (2016)."

0.1% of a statistical life is about a month? It's also a third of the "minor" classification.

How would you value it? $0? Clearly, that's not right.[1] Less than $11,000? More?

[1] Consider a new infectious disease which has only minor symptoms immediately, but may have unknown health consequences in the future.
I’m not an expert, but couldn’t you keep a link between your public key and your vote while the election is open. Allow subsequent votes that will nullify votes associated with your public key. And when the polls close, this link gets deleted.

This way you can be intimidated to vote and verify a certain way, then after your intimidator leaves you alone, you simply cast another vote. And after the deadline passes any record that you personally casted a ballot have been erased.

Maybe as a further safeguard keep traditional in-person polling open, wherein showing up to you automatically nullify you previous crypto vote, and only your paper ballot counts.
> Having used Android and iOS devices, old and new, on average my experience is that the iOS devices perform well for years longer.

The main reason for this is hardware though - there's always plenty of conspiracy theories around that, but the biggest issues we've seen across Android ecosystem are due to flash.

Cheap eMMC flash with lowend controllers degrades pretty quickly (within 3-4 years) and you suddenly start seeing like 20-3000ms read times of a single settings file. Since a lot of apps just read those files on UI thread, this results in a lot of stuttering because developers expect < 16ms response times for those reads. Writes get even worse - it's not rare to see 500ms+ times for writes to configuration files of < 1KB in size, especially if there are multiple parallel writes queued (common in browsers when they cache webpages for example).

Apple and higher end Android devices tend to use better SSD quality flash which tends to last years longer than eMMC one and thus the devices don't slow down that much.
Well, you can't, because of defined enrolment periods and coverage delay periods, and that it's impossible to tell ahead of time whether given insurance covers a given condition.

In addition, medical insurance makes no sense as a risk-pooling strategy, as everybody consumes some medical care annually, and the average cost of care consumed is greater than the amount most people can pay. There has to be something else going on.
Uber for Software Engineers
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By being simple does not mean that it is not insightful
I wish the market would begin to shift towards rich-functionality, mobile-optimized, websites on our cellphones, instead of mobile apps. The Apple/Google censorship is just getting too much. If we could use websites on our desktops/laptops, we could use websites on the our cellphones as well. I think this could be done, right?
I’ve had phones with card expansion. Never worked seamlessly to the point where I gave up on them. Does anyone have experience with using cards on these phones? Can you for example store all images and media there as if it was the main storage without ever needing to think about it again?
"82% of Democrats and 72% of Republicans expressed concern that the Covid-19 vaccine approval process would be driven more by politics than by science.

More than 80% of independents, Republicans, and Democrats said they would worry about the safety of a vaccine that was approved quickly."

Wow.

And lest you think this is a Trump thing, the figures are similar in European countries.

A bad COVID vaccine (one that doesn't work), or heaven help us, one that causes harm, could set public healthcare back decades.
which was violent, to be fair.
Also, https://oui.sncf for the main trains operator in France.
Yup, a friend of mine has a repeater he needed to reprogram but the software has been out of support since 1999. I ended up setting up a Windows 3.11 VM for him but Win 95 would have worked too.
Stereotype Accuracy is One of the Largest and Most Replicable Effects in All of Social Psychology:

http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...
Boosting stop-motion animation from 15 to 60 FPS using AI
that's why the authors of these studies have been using anonymized cellphone data to study concentrations of people and subsequent changes (if any) in case loads.
This is so much better than INSTEAD.

Not for the sole reason that it leaves some control to the content owner while ultimately leaving the choice to the user, but also because things like updates and erratums (eg. retracted papers) can't be found in archives. When you have both, it's the best of both world: you have the original version, the updated version, and you can somehow have the diff between them. IMHO, this is especially relevant in when the purpose is reference.
GStreamer 1.18.0 major new stable release
I have a Pinephone. It boots from the microSD by default, if it's bootable. Works flawlessly.
I'm pretty sure payroll taxes are things taxed at the source: I'm not sure there is a less painful way to tax for, say, social security or military spending. I'd honestly be happy changing some things into payroll taxes, honestly: Gasoline taxes, for example, aren't going to fund roads as much in the future (and efficient cars are already causing issues). Folks that work use roads in most cases, though, even if they use public transportation.

We (Americans) still, in general, don't need to file taxes like we do, though. The US has tons of paperwork: Norway sends me an electronic document to look over and unless I want to file, I owe money, or something is wrong, I don't have to do anything. They will automatically pay out refunds. Sure, I still "file taxes", but realistically, I just look over some electronic paperwork.

This method of "filing taxes" makes it easy to comply with filing and I'm guessing it makes collection rates better with less work.
People realize these devices are just extensions of a limited subset of human actions.

Call, text, look stuff up, watch a video, listen to music, navigate, track, take a picture or video...

What else is there that these smartphones need to do?

Prob the next thing, since the processing power of the latest A14 and snapdragon is insanely good... just have one device be ubiquitous for everything besides poweruser stuff. Come in from a run and do work on your phone, etc. Seamlessly connects to monitor and keyboard. Do any heavy compiling on the cloud, etc.

That's pretty much it. They accomplished their goal.
Social media is forcing Iran to address the taboo topic of sexual violence
> Preorders for Pinephone will open in about a week

That's great! Now if only I could get some kind of email notification about that. Oh. I can't.
It's impossible to know since Apple users are extremely subjective.

It's better to just avoid them IMO. It's well documented the anti-consumer policies done by Apple. It's easy to see them poor money into massive advertising campaigns.

Consider the highly likely situation where someone bought a multi hundred dollar device, is disappointed, and need to justify it to themselves.
> 'Wild West' mentality

Not to be confused with a set of beliefs (some false) about a mythologized period of history that was almost propagandized by early television media.
you sure you setup your campaign correctly? from what it sounds like, you didn't limit your campaign to search. also it would be VERY interesting to see how you not only setup your ad group but also what keywords you used for each group. typically when we see people complain about ad fraud we see alot of basic mistakes that they made when setting up their campaign. i hate to say it, but 99% of the people out that claim they know how to setup and manage a google ads campaign are amateurs at best and don't know the basic foundations of the way google ads works.
Containerization reduced the value proposition of configuration management.