skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got pretty tired of seeing political news/discussion on my facebook so I made a dedicated site for it that aggregates news headlines, inspired by hacker news. Lemme know what you think or if there are any features you think would be useful on a site like this.
Sid Meier: “I don’t think I could make Civilisation today”
No cryptographic system can be resistant to this by itself, but the attack can be trivially defeated by keeping the existing concept of polling stations and having people cast their cryptographically-verifiable votes there.
Mmmm, pizza!

https://youtu.be/okVM0sSwmNQ
The reason apple lost a lawsuit is that they didn't tell people they had a bad battery. They quietly slowed the battery and then when people asked for help they said it was a bad phone that needed replacement. words in italics were the shady parts.
You can absolutely make appointments to speak to your representatives (Senators included). You're more likely to get someone discussing an issue they're working on, or that one of their committees is working on, but they'll see you for anything.

You can ambush them in a hallway or at a fundraiser, and they'll talk to you, but you'll have just as much luck making an appointment.
There are "smart" pill bottles for that purpose, that record what time they are opened.
You better believe the interior was dangerous before railroads and highways and air conditioning, especially the mountains and deserts of the American southwest. It's only comparatively recently that many of these places have been able to support large populations
Except all the proprietary lock-in tools they add to Git like the issue tracker, PR's, discussion, wiki, released binaries, container registry, access control settings, etc.
What's the point of your belief if you know it can't happen?
PUBG takes over Tencent’s publishing rights in India
Well, by contrast I took it to show how much of a non-event this story really was. At least for the rich folks in this story.

If the person is sleeping 9 hours and dining on smoked salmon and mussels, is it really the "escape" from danger they made it out to be?
Mozilla's slogan used to say "putting users in control", which was then silently(?) replaced with "individuals":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040344

It's a very convenient phrasing, because these "individuals" certainly are doing what they say; it's just that they are not you. I trust Mozilla only slightly more than Google.
I still think it is important to try to observe what can be observed.

For example, thanks to the independent observers we know that the number of ballots reported by the voting place were greater than the total number of people who visited the place during early elections days. Even pushed outside of the building, observers can count number of people walking in and compare to protocols published.
I just linked the State department's actual list of sanctions and their stance on sanctions and you call me wrong and link the daily frick'n beast and "The hates Trump more than cancer Guardian" to refute original sources?

I mean I'm sure their opinions are good representation for how they feel, but should they refute facts as reported by the bureaucrats which actually enforce the sanctions? I mean come on, this is ridiculous levels of gas lighting.
There is, because we live in a finite world. Everything is about trade-offs. In the case of ACA, it’s benefits on one hand, and the taxes (and the mandate) that pay for those benefits on the other hand.
It becomes a problem when Google decides to keep those security fixes to themselves. I can very much see microG (a GMS reimplementation) provide the same service using their own compiled patches, kind of like Linux distributions provide packages and kernel updates developed by Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc, which end up publicly available.
If they have access to such power were toast anyways.
"Furthermore, event organizers ... warned attendees that some “South Dakota tribal lands may be restricted with checkpoints to protect residents from COVID-19 exposure”"

I bet that was fun.

"Using a synthetic control approach, ... [f]or the state of South Dakota as a whole we find that the Sturgis event increase COVID-19 cases by 3.6 to 3.9 cases per 1,000 population as of September 2nd 2020. This represents an increase of over 35 percent relative to the 9.7 cases per 1,000 population in South Dakota on July 31, 2020 (South Dakota Department of Health 2020)."

That's pretty substantial.
This is due to the rule of antifragility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility
Looks like the pmOS folks are working on mainline support for this device, so it might be able to run non-Android OS's in the future, as well. That's quite nice. Though I'm not sure how the latest mobile stack (phosh, and the like) would run on a 2GB RAM device. (I do know that 2GB is a bit tight for the usual gnome-shell environment, so there's that.)
It's not easy to root most phones and when you do a lot of apps such as bank apps refuse to run and can be considered broken.

It does exist as an option for very tech savvy people but the downsides are very real and not palatable to the majority of people.
Bandwidth is expensive, the only way you get hosting like this for free is that a company makes profits other ways. We cannot afford to self host.
Both phones have slots for microSD cards up to 2 TB.
the blue bubble is iMessage the green one that always slowly receive messages and no typing indicator, images, videos , gifs, payments thats your rare android friend :)
Writing a Ractor-based web server
More companies would adopt WFH if they see the success (primarily economically) of other companies who adopt it. Its really as simple as that. Why would any company want to rent expensive commercial real-estate and other overhead if the end result was _worse_ for their bottom line.

Personally, I believe that WFO is still the better way to function. Human collaboration is tied in closely with pre-existing conventions, using multiple modes of communication, and building camaraderie. I think its clear that conventions and ritualistic practices help a ton with social cohesion. Also we use multiple methods to communicate our ideas and feelings - verbal, non-verbal, physical, non-physical, facial expressions, tone of voice, etc. Someone punching the air when they've solved a hard problem, or some co-worker who isn't on your team that you only occasionally meet, excitedly telling you a fun story about their vacation or whatever. There is tons of communication that happens between humans in an office that is difficult if not impossible to replicate in a WFH environment. As a society, I think we'd be poorer for that if we lose it.
> I know Us citizens pay their home tax regardless where they live but this could be a huge issue for them in the long term.

If you stay gone long enough (330 days/year IIRC) then the income you make abroad is tax-free (up to $80k also IIRC).

I got hit with a $30k tax bill because of leaving Iraq early (too dangerous for even my crazy ex-paratrooper self) though I should've gone down to Mexico and hung out on the beach for a few months or something -- in 20/20 hindsight...
Every big tech company got at a minimum their biggest brands as TLDs (e.g. Microsoft has .microsoft, .windows, .xbox, etc.). Some got many more besides.
>> "...is still uninhabited wilderness."

Again, lots of people don't see that sort of development as inevitable. There is even a movement in Alberta specifically to return land from a developed to a more natural wild state, particularly the tar sands. Alberta is is not "still uninhabited", rather other parts of the planet still have yet to protect their wild areas. "Development" and progress can mean reducing human impact on the land.
That wasn't it at all. They weren't blocked at multiple turns by fire closing in on them and cutting off escape routes.

They had a clear way out right back from where they came in. And they took it, but made it seem much more dramatic than it was.
Anyone security conscious would run a VPN client on the client device, not the tether.
Despite the criticism, I think you’re asking a great question. These figures do appear surprising and I think a lot of people will feel the same skepticism. I’d hope that someone can help us understand the paper rather than chastise you for being impertinent. Thanks for reading past the headline and provoking some discussion on the details.
But it’s also not guaranteed to be consistent. What if you don’t delete the content but just change it? (I.e. what if your opinions change or you’re pressured to edit information by a third party?).
1. E2E is a nice to have, not a strict need for me.

2. SMS is miserably useless on some carriers (notably when I had T-Mobile and for my friends still on T-Mobile).

3. MMS is miserably useless, period.

4. International SMS/MMS can be expensive, is more unreliable than domestic, and often unavailable.

Given 2-4, I avoid SMS/MMS as much as possible. Given that E2E is available (WhatsApp, Signal, others), and those services are reliable, available, and useful, I may as well use an E2E system.

The privacy aspects are a great additional feature that they offer.
This is a strikingly low price for a company I had thought of as very successful in its space.
3rd Grade is a nightmare in our district where the apparent idea was to settle for the worst possible online experience.

It's a google slides deck that the kids have to edit. They've been assigning the same work accidentally day after day. We've contacted the principal countless times, and although she's sympathetic, the quality has not improved as it's a curriculum from the district.

We just stopped logging in completely and are doing a home school curriculum.

If the school reaches out, I'll deal with it then, but so far there's no indication that they've ever reviewed an assignment to begin with.
You're making a lot of assumptions here.
I see your other posts here, about tackiness.

You've gotta be trolling.. Apple is well known to have some of the highest sales-per-sq-foot among retailers.
> Sometimes it's just priced in.

Agreed. The real losers are the genuine content creators, as the adcash isn’t flowing to them. They can’t just average it out.
> Because everything major has already been implemented, and what they should implement are not being implemented because they go against their incentives, such as actual privacy features. I think.

That's a strange statement considering the main features of both Android 10 and 11 are extensive new privacy features and related changes.
Simply repeating your disagreement is no substitute for a counter-proposal.
> Android 11 will begin rolling out today on select Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, OPPO and realme phones, with more partners launching and upgrading devices over the coming months.

Apart from Pixel all other brands receiving the update immediately are Chinese brands. This really shows how much the Chinese manufacturers software has improved and how much the heavy customizations brands like Samsung do to Android blocks them from providing easy OS updates.
I think you mean Github, those features are not part of git.
I refuse to develop for Apple, I'm already part of the solution.
Ask HN: How to sell HTML/CSS/JS design assets?
I've always worked on low level C++ applications where it is pretty difficult for someone to reverse engineer the compiled binaries.

I was thinking about selling UI components, but I have this notion that anyone can just look at the source and copy it without paying.

What are some of the ways HTML/CSS/JS assets can be sold?

I was also looking at Tailwind UI and access to the actual components is only granted after paying for it. They simply show the pictures of the UI components.

Another idea I had was to create a full SaaS app that lets people customize components and view source. Access to the website can be a subscription... but again, one can just pay for a monthly fee, copy all components and cancel subscription - there is no incentive to keep it going.

Any other ideas? I come from a traditional closed software background so perhaps my way of thinking is too limited.
Common for business to have an account and net-30 terms meaning that every 30 days you pay off whatever you owe them. Such terms are never offered to consumers only businesses as far as I can tell (but if you pay be credit card you get what amounts to the same thing). Note that the account is setup before you can order, though I have no idea how they verify that it is a real account.
I too have some good memories about windows 95. I was stunned back then with all the goodies in there after running dos and win 3.1. Little did I know what other operating windows ripped off. I in turn had a pirated copy, I was only 12 years old and sharing was caring back then
Scientists develop ‘light tweezers’ that are small enough to move DNA
You know all those recent posts here on HN about amateur radio and hams? A lot of those guys are still using Win95.
Entirely depends on how much. Bandwidth is not very expensive, and once you're at-scale it goes to 0.
In my chart, the record holder is iPhone 3G after iOS 4 update. I don't remember any Android device being so slow.
Right now there's only BMWs that support wireless Android Auto, so your Subaru unfortunately almost certanly doesn't have the required wireless capability in infotainment.
Thinking about the extreme distances and time spans that entails makes it difficult, and of course relativity has its own "unreasonable" results. Still, they do exist in your past, and they also can assign coordinates in space-time to your current position, even though they are outside your light-cone. On the other hand, you can't meaningfully speak of them existing "now" in relativity, as there is no consistent definition of what "now" means for observers that are space-like separated.

I guess the best answers about MWI is that the other versions of these particles continue to exist at different coordinates in Hilbert space, and that they do interact with each other in observable ways, such as the interference patterns in double-slit experiments.
I did something similar for an organisation that had a strange music licensing setup for pub jukebox machines. A significant portion of their business hinged on this one ancient DOS pc with custom hardware and a licensing dongle.

Ultimately it comes down to whether you can get the inputs and outputs you need replicated/attached to the virtual machine and and exact copy of the machine itself into virtual form - the latter challenge can include having to do risky stuff like physically removing the source HDD to plug it into various interface converters and then taking an image from it using an intermediate machine that can read it.

Depending on how your setup works you may run into issues with things like time precision within a VM - if high time accuracy is important in the work it’s doing you’ll need to put attention into ensuring VM time = real world time.
I would add that when it’s not a revolving door it’s frequently someone who used to be technical and still fancies themselves as an elite coder. That in turn leads to low level decisions (how and not what) being made at the top. As a result, you’re chasing “cool” rather than “best long term decision” in service of the ego of someone who is already being appropriately compensated monetarily.
Who said masks removes all risk?

The data and official guidance I have seen supports the idea that masks (and being outdoors) significantly reduces risk.
My nephew lives in a very isolated rural area on the east coast and I think you're overselling the "people in the community learn emergency medicine" part - he has no idea how to handle much more than stopping bleeding for a cut (his answer to any size cut is to slather it with antibiotic ointment, which the doctors then have to scrub out before they can suture) or maybe stabilizing a broken leg enough to move someone to the pickup truck.

Likewise, while he does repair things, I wouldn't say they are done well -- his electrical panel is a mess, I spent a couple weekends trying to help bring things up to code (and I'm not even an electrician), like replacing taped hand-twisted wire splices with junction boxes - the tape was melted on one of them from overheating.

He does own an impressive set of guns, but his car has a hole in it after accidentally shooting it while cleaning a loaded gun, so gun safety is not his strong suit.

He has a 4WD, but it's been a 2WD for the past couple years because he can't afford the parts needed to fix it, he cruises junkyards when he can to try to find what he needs.

His closest neighbor is a half mile away and lives in a glorified shed where the water comes in on a hose and electricity comes from a generator when he can afford to fuel it.

I can believe that there are well trained survival handymen out there who are well equipped to survive on their own, but I doubt that most isolated rural people are that well trained.
Apple is an interesting one. They definitely have a consumer hardware division, but there's also the app store where they take a big cut of everything sold through it. Other than reviewing apps, they built it once and get to reap profits off of it indefinitely. Same for music, tv, iCloud backups, etc.
So let's simplify the numbers a bit compared to the actual system:

The tax rates for a single person will be:

30000 @ 20%

remainder @ 50%

You earn 40000. Your spouse earns 20000.

Example 1:

You are taxed seperately. Your employer takes 11000 of your gross and sends it to the government. Your spouse's employer takes 4000 of their gross and sends it to the government. Your total tax payment is 15000.

Example 2:

You opt in to join taxation. Your employers have no idea you are married, but the tax office does (because you sent them documentation to opt in for joint taxation). The government then assesses your tax as a couple and realises your joint income falls into the lower tax bound, and your tax should only be 12000, but you paid 15000. You get a refund of 3000.

Example 3:

Same as above, but you tell your employer. You can add up to min(26300, spouse's income) to your standard rate tax bracket. Your spouse needs to inform their employer to deduct the same from theirs. You tell your employer you are transferring 10000 from your spouse's tax bracket to yours.

Your employer's payroll now works out your tax as 40000 * 20% = 8000. Your spouse's employer works out their tax as 20000 * 20% = 4000. You pay 12000 exactly.

Example 4:

Same as above, but only one of you informed your employer, you committed tax fraud, your employer filled out the form wrong, whatever. You get a tax bill for however much under your tax liability as a pair that your combined tax payments were.

Example 5:

Your income is 25000, your spouse's income is 25000. Regardless of whether you are assessed individually or seperately, your tax is 10000. Your employers deduct 5000 each.

Of course, there's various tax credits you can apply for and you can inform your employer to deduct them from your payments or apply for them at end of year from the government. These can only decrease your tax bill, not increase it, so I'm not sure how you'd end up with an unexpected bill. There's also a higher base standard rate for married person to compensate for not being able to completely share your tax bands for the year (a measure intended to gain some extra tax income from couples with one high earning person and one person with a very small income, I guess).
I think you can probably use PayPal Key for for the same purpose and get the best of both worlds (points + virtual card).

As an owner of a small SaaS business I can say that our payment processor has fairly strict requirements to allow recurring charges:

- Product description has to be very clear that it's a recurring payment

- Terms and conditions have to have a section with details on how to cancel the subscription

- We have to send email notifications in advance before every recurring charge
Neither of which are in stock now.

I have a Pinebook Pro and love it, but the Pinephone's camera is woefully underspec'd. Put a better camera on it and let me pre-order ffs and I'll buy one in a heart beat.
That's because you evaluate "good vs bad" on a single dimension only. There are other things that are at least as important as the freedom to express political dissent. Such as freedom from hunger, freedom from poverty, freedom from being robbed, freedom to travel where you want.

If you compare China from 40 years ago to China today, then these are literally the best 40 years in 4000 years. Yes not everything is perfect, yes there is limited ability to dissent. But come on, when your children were starving, your house was run down, the streets were polluted and dirty, your children and belongings were always at risk of being abducted by criminals, you couldn't choose what clothes to wear; and then flash forward 40 years later, ALL of that has changed, is it so hard to imagine that some people could be grateful for the progress even if not everything is perfect?

When your country has been at war and revolution for 100 years, due to different factions that kept fighting each other until the end of days, is it so hard to imagine that one day you're tired of that, and desire unity over conflict?

Live and let live. I don't say you have to value that. It's fine for western countries to value the ability to politically dissent, as a primary value. But why do you have to force that value down the throat of others, that have had a very different history?
The maths is the same whether we interpret it as many worlds, wave function collapse, and others.
Then why did Windows take hours to fsck after a hard reset until Windows 8? That's the actual problem, even though I admittedly might have made a mistake in attributing it to a lack of journaling.

I was using Windows on a daily basis across multiple computers and this wasn't a subtle thing. In fact, I still regularly use Windows 7 (oscilloscope, can't update) and occasionally get "reminded" about this, even though I also remember a number of gnarly examples from my everyday computer use.

Most people just skipped it, and I did too, until one time it got into a state where no programs would run...
Other OEMs show you app suggestions based on apps you use. Those suggestions are typically prompts to install them. I thought Google was bringing that to all devices.

Thankfully, it looks like that is not the case.
Heh, I always find it funny when I buy a non-recurring thing, but keep seeing ads for it.

Best was when I kept seeing ads for a thing I was selling. I visited some big box sites about it to copy the specs on it.
> If not, then it is a surprising and huge blunder.

Ya, no disagreements there. The Chinese government has zero PR capabilities. Every response from their foreign ministry's spokesperson to a leading question sounds like a painful mea culpa.

> No matter what is happening there, even what officials have officially shown western media, crosses our moral boundaries.

Who is "our" in this case? It doesn't seem to include the U.N. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/china-say... or Organization of Islamic Cooperation https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refID=1250. Not that any of them have more PR power than China either.
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