skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker News is also not in the business of selling products. A marketplace operator has different duties than a link aggregator - and calling someone names is different than posting evidence.
I had a very similar experience last month. I ordered this toaster[1]. When I received it I noticed that in their user manual they were offering a "gift" in return for an Amazon review. Although to be fair they didn't explicitly demand that the review had to be positive. I submitted this 4-star review [2] to Amazon:

I received the toaster not too long ago. It looks just like in the advertised pictures and works fine. But the language on the last page of the user manual (see picture) makes it clear that LOFTER is offering customers a "gift" in return for leaving a review. Perhaps they're within their right to do that but it makes me not trust the rest of the reviews on this product.

A few days later I got an email from Amazon identical to the one in the submitted blog post[3]. I've stopped trusting positive reviews on Amazon. These days I only look at the negative reviews to see if there's a consistent complaint about the product.

[1] www.amazon.com/dp/B07S3TXD9H/
[2] https://cutt.ly/lhLZQ5o
[3] https://cutt.ly/JhLZTjZ
The government isn't suing apple for antitrust because someone else decided to do it for them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/10/cydia-a...

The timing of this case, the Google case, and the FTC facebook investigation is interesting.
I don't know German but there is also "brushing" where the products are bought and sent to an unrelated party so that the seller can leave verified reviews (as opposed to as a method of disposing of unwanted inventory).
"Getting AWSd" reminds me of "please don't put me out of business during the next re:invent keynote clause" [0] that come with open core licenses.

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...
They did trickle down, to the highest valuations of companies, leading edge technology, and high stock prices.

If you're a middle class american without a brokerage / investment account. You are getting shafted.

Immigrants in the USA are especially risk averse when it comes to investing in the stock market, because the countries they come from are corrupt and they have been screwed in the past. It's amazing how many Americans with the means to invest in the market, would rather eat out every day, buy a new car and iphone every 1-2 years, drown in debt, and fail to reap the rewards of capitalism. Not investing in companies through the stock market is the very definition of not taking advantage of the capitalistic society we live in.

K-12 education in the US should have a mandatory course on the financial market and educate people about the tax advantaged accounts available to them. Of course, this is like the government pouring gasoline on its own fire, so it will never happen. Why? Because the govt has no incentive to help you reduce your tax burden, while reducing their tax revenue.

People don't have a clue about 401k, HSA, Roth IRA, Back-door Roth IRA, 529 college savings accounts, student interest deductions, brokerage accounts and capital gains tax, and the advantages of each.

Credit is horrible to the financially illiterate consumer, but is empowering to those that understand economics and capitalism, avoid consumerism, and understand how to invest capital and make a return.
I had no problems parsing the title, storm in a teacup that takes away from the talent and dedication of the poster. Perhaps others could try writing it in their second language of choice?
Sure the rich hold some gold & BTC but most of their wealth is in investments (stocks, bonds, infrastructure etc.) to generate positive real returns - given inflation. This is far from hoarding
The answer is always the same: a gradual tax on his income. So the first, say, 40k he pays is taxed at, say 10%. The next 60k at 15%. And so on. Don't concentrate on the numbers, concentrate on the concept: As brackets go up, the higher the taxed percentage. It never comes to 100% but it should be quite high after the first million.

Why I think this is fair?

Because it is no longer possible for people to "put themselves over" University by "college working". The group that Wealthy Person X belongs to has managed to extract a lot of wealth from the society, making it worse for everyone else. It's time to give back.
I've heard these called unpaired words, and the wiki has a bunch more examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word
Sure, having a few million bucks kicking around lets a small class of people contribute to the commercial development of some types of products.

Having a few billion dollars kicking around does not yield such benefits.
EU's Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade
Isn't it great when somebody's ethics are seen as an arbitrage opportunity by somebody else? It's almost like that whole "voting with your wallet" idea is incorrect.
Its probably to prevent hackintoshs..
Why Bitcoin is the new Gold
If you find graphics breakdowns like this one interesting, you can find several more in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/search?q=frame&res... and https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/search?q=graphics&...
Precisely. That's what the Planck length is: the wavelength of a photon that would be its own black hole. We can't know what happens there without applying both general relativity and quantum mechanics simultaneously, but when you try, you get divide-by-zero errors (singularities).

So it's not a limit of the universe, exactly, but it is a limit to what we can know about the universe with our current theories.
My specific need is passwordless login (via email currently) to issue private keys for multi device end to end encryption. If you can do that, I'm in!
The link in the article is to discussion & documentation, not the destination for the code. In the big picture file[1] it says:

> We'll self-host the git repo and manage the first layer of mirrors ourselves. We'll publish the repository to github, gitlab and other places that are useful for our developers, users and contributors.

1: https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/big-pic...
I don’t have that problem with WSL2 and Cisco AnyConnect. Maybe something’s up with your company’s configuration?
Tim Cook and Craig Federighi Ordered to Testify in Apple vs. Epic Battle
Very good.. by newsrepoter.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440832
Detached LUKS full disk encryption with encrypted keyfile (2018)
Most startups are not at liberty to time the market over said horizons and are generally in no position to take on debt.

It's more like 'our chances at IPO are always scary, if there ever comes a clear window to do it then DO IT'.

It's hot, so strike now. That's mostly it.
This has not been my experience at all. It is quirky, but very usable none the less.
Twitter is now testing its Clubhouse-like voice chat rooms
Esther Crawford Built, Grew, and Sold Her Startup, Squad, to Twitter
I went to a HN meetup many years ago and one of the engineers from Mindgeek was presenting. It was one of the better attended events (standing room only) and he was quite candid about the technology they were using. Cloud was still nascent and with TB databases and PB of videos AWS wasn't an option a serious option.

It's porn, it's not exactly illegal but from what I understand they were very careful about managing transactions. Always moving card processors, and they had to tell users the transaction was coming from different names simply because buyers didn't want Pornhub.com showing up on the credit statement.
It’s doing something called back-formation, to create new words and phrases by removing parts of other words and phrases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

Examples from the article:

- Disgruntled -> gruntled.

- Nonchalant -> chalant.

- Make no bones about it -> make bones about it.

- Traveling incognito -> traveling cognito.

- There were no two ways about it -> there were two ways about it.

- Inadvertently -> advertently.

- Misnomer -> nomer.

- Unrequited -> requited.

In general, these words and phrases formed by back-formation are not recognized as standard English. A native English speaker will see “gruntled”, have to pause for a moment, and consider that it must mean the opposite of “disgruntled”. Native English speakers will not use the world “gruntled” in conversation or writing unless they are doing it for comedic effect.
> because they are poor

Not necessarily so... they definitely aren't rich, otherwise it wouldn't be a draw. But that doesn't mean they are "poor". They could be middle class and want to live on the island. The house could be worth a lot more than anything they could afford - even if they aren't poor. The area could be attractive and otherwise unobtainable...

And more importantly... "poor" is subjective... Someone in America who is poor is still more than likely in the top percentile of those alive today around the world.

Edit: And... looking deeper because your comment actually got me interested...

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/02/last-laugh-m...

"To wit, Millar bequeathed (for their lifetimes) his Jamaican summer house to three lawyers, T.F. Galt, J.D. Montgomery, and James Newerson, he knew hated each other, but would now be forced to share a common vacation home. He noted that “upon the death of the last survivor of them I direct my Executors… to sell the same and give the proceeds to the council of the city of Kingston, Jamaica, for distribution among the poor of that city…”

So 3 lawyers had to share a vacation home? Which was later sold for charity?

Without editing my previous comment... I seriously doubt 3 lawyers that have to share a vacation home are "poor" by any stretch of the imagination.

So yes... I stand by my original comment that first world problems are funny.
Sounds like you should be a VC!
What do you mean by liquid? Is that cash in a savings account?

Inflation eats cash so I have been reading about Financial Independence and the 4% SWR.
>All it has to do is conduct an investigation to confirm the complaint, which is as easy as ordering the item in question and confirming it contains the offer reported by a single customer.

The number of humans available to perform daily investigations versus the total number of products sold makes this most decidedly not "easy".

The easiest thing to do here would be to simply return the item because the seller crossed your personal ethical line, and state that as the reason. A large number of returns on an item will definitely get the sellers and Amazon's attention.
Is Stripe planning to support additional crypto currencies like ETH, Nano, Monero etc in addition to Bitcoin?

It seems like the same user initiated payment flow and merchant to validate receipt in their blockchain account would apply to other cryto currency payment methods as well.
You seem to be mixing gendered nouns with something that's actually referring to actual people. Two different things.

In German for example every job ad title need to be suffixed with (m/w). It would be handy if it was gender neutral. I don't understand how the grammatical gender of a random noun e.g. wine, that happens to be masculine in German, is comparable to something that's referring to actual persons.

In Swedish for example there are the pronouns "han" (he) and "hon" (she), and now there's a gender neutral "hen". The latter being very handy when you don't know the gender of the person that's being talked about. But of course this addition has made culture warring people (a.k.a right-wing folks) very upset in Sweden too.
Unfortunately, it only makes sense to use with this type of crowd. I can't imagine it'd be that useful for spoilers in other groups that don't have easy access to a ROT13 encoder.

EDIT: BTW, is there another ROT13 encoder in a typical linux installation besides vim's g? command or emacs's rot13* commands?

EDIT2: Looks like the most practical one is:

tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
Uploaded this photo

https://i.imgur.com/jhoPqhP.jpg

This is what your tool produced:

https://i.imgur.com/bGZSDwL.png

This is what Remini produced:

https://i.imgur.com/nrSDLM8.jpg
Based on the migration docs, looks like they are hosting themselves. GitHub/GitLab will have mirrors.
What’s wrong with BastilleBSD?
Except that they are only recording and transmitting data for a limited number of areas. Still a challenge though, I agree.
Ok, we've added nanopores above.
Sure, but I’m talking the era around 2005, when CPAN was way ahead of everyone
Where did Bezos' wealth come from? He isn't sitting on billions in cash that he stole from people and can easily just trickle down to his employees (that's not how companies work). The free market decided that the company he formed and ran was worth X and X changes on a daily basis depending on how it's being run. That money came from people who gave it to him freely. He isn't exploiting workers that can't leave at any time...they aren't slaves. Bezos' wealth comes because he created Amazon and I think many people are helped by Amazon and use it frequently (myself included)...including millions of people during COVID that would have otherwise not been able to go out and get the goods they need.

Amazon employs a ton of employees that make a lot of money (higher level than the warehouse or delivery drivers). What better conditions do you suggest? Safety or compensation?
Google also currently prevents OEMs from installing competitors' stores by threatening to withhold access to Google's services. This is one of the points in Epic's lawsuit.
Mapple, or Maple?
Naive question:

When talking about taxes on the wealthy, the metrics people seem to really care about are employment rates and wages for people the wealthy employ.

So why not increase tax rates on the wealthy significantly, close loopholes, and then introduce big tax credits for every head employed and every dollar spent on employee salaries? i.e. Instead of slashing taxes so the rich have more money and then hoping that they will spend it on their employees, incentivize the desired behaviour directly.
You won't get 2 days delivery but you can probably buy two dozens for the same price.
GOG walks back release of controversial horror game Devotion
1. Taxes are not theft.

2. No man/woman is an island. They did not create their success on their own.

3. Marginal utility of dollars. Taking 90 cents from that person and giving it to someone that is not as well off is better for the economy and our society.

4. Marginal propensity to spend. Again, that $.90 is far more valuable being spent today than in capital investment. Capital is no longer a scarce resource.

5. These levels of tax rates don't in any way make that person worst off because everyone making that amount of money are subject to the same tax levels.
> For many people, the idea of cooking a meal has been elevated to a special occasion event, as a treat or a date night. This is partially due to the fact that boring, everyday meal recipes just aren't as flashy as a 15-ingredient, hour long recipe that results in a stunning picture for someone's blog or instagram.

I think the root is that everyone's rents and other costs are way higher. Many folks are barely getting by. I don't think it's Instagram or vanity - I think that might reveal your personal privilege and position in society. That isn't meant in a demeaning or derogatory way, it's just that it surprises me how today people from different classes do not often 'meet' each other anymore, in their day to day lives. Propably due to rising inequity. I think a lot of working class people buy quick meals because they have so little time.

> Everyone should learn how to cook some boring, staple meals using basic ingredients from the store.

100% agree. Shame we're still letting corporations brainwash the general population, not to mention kids.
The GDPR isn't about "3rd party analytics". It's about collection of personal data as qualified by the purpose of that collection, regardless of who collects it.
Be curious and read the docs. At some point everything will become similar.

Things I do (it might not work for everybody)

- Watch conferences talks Coding Tech, ConfFreaks, ElixirConf even CppConf
- Read issue tracker of projects I like: Typescript, webpack, node.js
- Side projects and open source contributions
- Hacker News and email subscriptions: React Status, Dev.to

It is harder to find time when you have family but still doable.
They do. Light still has a massive regulatory effect on the circadian rhythm, whether it's shifted slightly forward or back. Before the advent of the industrial revolution and electricity in homes no one was staying up all night unless they had to work through it.

Take a night owl and move them several time zones away, they'll end up shifting forward again in a week's time.
I would personally love to see a writeup on that which shows some data on how big the market is for these illegal bitcoin transactions.
I don’t know about Facebook, but Google is reasonably customer friendly, at least with big accounts. I worked at a large firm, Google assigned a very competent and dedicated account executive to look after us.

Unless you’re talking about end-users? In which case that’s like asking if McDonalds look after their cows well :)
There is something about how the human brain works that makes us hate this. It happens in games a lot; the community will complain that a certain character is broken and that they hate playing against it... but won't actually go play the character themselves to exploit the brokenness for their own gain. Seems silly to me.

(Buying reviews might actually be illegal though, so that's a strong argument to not do it.)
Isn't "trickle down" just a politicized label for supply-side economics?
Even if there were laws would they bother to comply? I’m still shocked by how little people understand what Snowden exposed about what the NSA is already doing - if you are concerned about these satellites you should be even more concerned about the other crap already going on that we KNOW the NSA has been lying about.
I watched Andrew Yang's proposal on UBI with great interest. Not necessarily for the UBI section on it, which I wasn't sold on at the time, though I have mostly come around on, but more for how he intended to pay for it.

While cutting social security and welfare by the same amount that the UBI that goes out, there would be an even amount there. I didn't realize how much that would cut down the cost off the top. He went into more specifics and I don't want to butcher it, so I'll link it. As he is no longer trying for any government position, I don't feel like I'm stumping for anyone:

https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
Almost hard to believe it's finally happening! Couldn't we have gone with Git all along, without Subversion as an intermediary step for about a decade?

Anyhow, per https://wiki.freebsd.org/git, looks like GitHub/GitLab will have the new stuff on Tuesday, 2020-12-22T10:00Z; this'll likely require manual actions if you're exporting Git from GitHub. Personally, I'll probably be switching over to exporting directly from FreeBSD.org at that time, because GitHub still doesn't even support IPv6.
Mobile Penetration Testing: xamarin-antiroot
This is a stand-alone script for bypassing anti-root detection on Android apps.
https://codeshare.frida.re/@Gand3lf/xamarin-antiroot/
It can bypass some famous antiroot detection products.Moreover, it is strongly extensible and can be easily modified in order to fit with the target application.
Is this actually happening? A bunch of people buying something for cheap and then immediately selling it for what the market can bear isn't cornering the market. For that you need a cartel (or a group of people acting in unison) buying the goods up, then hoarding it to drive up the price.
Amazon shows the reviews, it should be accountable for them.
These are not comments from users, this is used to promote sales.

> Every "literate consumer" should already know this!

So, it is my fault that Amazon promotes false advertising? Should I be punished for not seeing thru the lies that Amazon shows in their website? I don't think so. Don't blame the victim, blame the scammer.
It is a component of a deferred shading rendering pipeline.

"A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading rendering pipelines."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading

As an aside, I worked in visual effects for film for years and never heard the term g-buffer. I am sure we had some other term that we thought was common, but was only used inside our studio.
It took two or three reads for it to become telligable.
What the paper shows is that the increment in potential investments by the wealthiest don't seem to improve growth, but does worsen inequality.

The individually wealthy are not required for the aggregation and allocation of capital. Governments and financial systems are typically more capable at achieving this requirement in a welfare-maximising manner.
I spent few years along the most average developers you could find. They didn't care about their work outside their work hours, didn't care about anything other than Java and EJB and their hourly rate. I am okay with it, it's not like a less able programmer/gamer/cook/... would anger me, but these people indeed are distinct, and there is a lot of them
Interesting. Either HN is controlled by russian money or there are people who support bail-ins on HN? (re: my parent comment was downvoted?)
few months
No. That does seem to be a common myth though. I would give you a citation, but I cannot prove a negative.
From other posts in the thread, I understand IB Pro forgoes payment for order flow, but does that also mean you're forgoing price improvement?
Before Fabian cashed out of Manwin/MindGeek, I spent a short time writing code for him in the early days. It is for sure a very deep, shady network of people and entities.

At the same time he ran Manwin, he also owned several file hosting websites (some of which I wrote code for) he would directly promote on piracy & porn forums under alias. Most of these were filled with child abuse and his policy was to remove the links but not the files when receiving takedown notices (as he paid out through an affiliate system for promoting these links). He cashed out on most of these when people started digging, but kept hold of some of the torrent trackers he ran.

About time people like this are revealed for who they really are. The piracy, not so bad. Turning a blind eye to child abuse, pretty bad.
We had actually implemented email passwordless for our own website earlier. We havent launched it yet but are hoping to do so. i'd love to update you when we launch it. Please share your email ID or drop me an email at advait at supertokens.io and I'd be happy to let you know when we have it.
Anecdotal, but I am much more motivated to cook a nice meal when my partner is staying over. When I’m alone I find it easy to slip into grabbing fast food on the drive home from work.
Will government still have the nerve to propose backdoor encryption after this? I mean, of course they will but will it still have the same effect over regulators?
You're looking in the wrong place. It's proponents call it "supply side economics". It is a discredited theory, but it is still popular idea among many serious people in public policy.

If you want want a name of one (in)famous proponent, I'll give Arthur Laffer, inventor of the Laffer Curve. The curve says that as tax rates fall, government income goes up due to economic growth. You may have heard of this as, "Tax cuts pay for themselves." He famously invented the curve while drawing on a napkin. The napkin is now housed at the Smithsonian.
> Then I discovered a reddit subgroup where hosts tell each other tips to easily get reviews removed.

What subreddit is that?