skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fraud is a key part of the business model.

Check the FTC filling against Match.

The fake profiles get you engaged, and then you get a notification of your match. By the time you actually view it the other account is disabled. But you already paid.

One needs to think of the ideal consumer of this stuff. Let's create a character , Dave.

Dave logs on, gets a match the first week. He goes out with Sarah . They hit it off and he cancels his subscription.

Very bad for dating apps. That's lost revenue.

Let's play it back. Sarah was actually a bot which got disabled before Dave could even chat. But as Dave has no way of knowing this, it motivates him to stay subscribed.

Which one of these two scenarios is more beneficial to Match / Bumble , etc ?

In my experience I actually went out with a good amount of people. All were 30ish , unemployed and constantly complaining about their parents. Since I'm not interested in people like that I only date in real life.

The results have been tremendous. I went out with several six-figure earners in 2019, including one special girl who was making 200k. Plus I don't really trust bumble or whoever to not sell my private information to make a few extra bucks.

Life is a journey not a destination
If tether started crashing people would buy Bitcoin/eth like crazy to avoid holding tether. What would that do to the price of tether?
Hey, who let the Signal devs write their backend in Ruby on Rails? :-p
> Its now a money-making device... a financial instrument.

Even worse. It has been taken over by MLM moguls/scammers who migrated from classic MLM products/scams.

They now often pollute Real Estate, Stock Exchange, etc. forums trying to convert others (which is a red flag).

Which is sad because, like TOR, it was created as the right answer to a real problem but is being perverted/spoiled.

Sad...
Waiting for the American Khrushchev
Re: 2 - It'd be kind of interesting if the UBI was tied to a 30 hour work week or 4 day work week. A bit like ok we want to give you money to pursue your dreams but we also want to make sure you have your act together with some cadence so you don't drift off into nowhere-ville.

And before you downvote - I'm coming off reading this story which is on the HN front-page where the guy basically created his own UBI and then fell off the map:

https://www.wired.com/story/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless...
Hell yeah. Magsafe has saved my old MacBook several times already.
Absolutely not. I'm not sure why programming is the one field people make a joke of. It doesn't happen in any other field that I'm aware of. Hear me out.

Do you ever see ads for 'become a doctor in 6 weeks, land a job'? Or plumber? Or electrician? Or anything else? No, but you do for programming.

Do you ever see people whining that being a medical doctor is too hard and confusing, and demand that everyone should just have a handheld with webmd?

Programming as a field requires many years to really understand. And even when you understand, it's just some niche, not -everything-. Nobody knows everything. And that's not completely dissimilar from other trades/professions.

I'm not trying to gatekeep here. I encourage everyone to learn to program, -if- they take the time to learn. If they don't, they do not belong doing it as a profession for others. Just as people can toy around with wood in their garage, so long as they don't call themselves a professional carpenter. That's how you end up with glaring security and privacy problems that we read about nearly daily. Imagine if anyone could call themselves a doctor, and constantly read stories of people dying from horribly botched practices.

I think the only real solution here is for the profession to be certified somehow, as other countries do.
>People who have unemployment don't want to work because they'll loose unemployment

It's not all people do this or all people do that. It 100% happens that a non-trivial percentage of people on government benefits (unemployment, etc.) choose to stay on these benefits for their entire duration and only then pursue work opportunities.
This, plus you could place isolation pads underneath the speakers to prevent the low frequencies from causing resonance in the desk or other platform they're on if they aren't already. You can find some pretty cheap options these days that should do the trick.
And with two nics, so you could build a home router and server with freebsd and jails serving all your needs.

One can dream...
I was educated in Britain and didn't read it for school (but did read it during that time in my life) but I always took the point of it to be that the "American Dream" wasn't ever real - it still mattered (at least in the 20s) where you were from, how you grew up and whether you were "old money" or "new money" and moreover the idea of the rags to riches story was in reality a fiction, in contradiction to the ideal Americans told/tell themselves about their country and society. This is, I think, why it's said by some to be an exemplar of "the Great American Novel" - a novel which says something meaningful about America as a country and society.
I wonder how someone who receives an order is expected to determine if it's lawful or not, especially within 60 seconds? Doesn't that require a court of law to decide?
What I'm familiar with is that you would write into any business contracts signed with that vendor that all of the [insert scoping modifier here] representations the vendor has made are truthful or else the customer may cancel the contract and seek [consequences of contract violation]. Just make sure the scope includes that security questionnaire.
>People who have unemployment don't want to work because they'll loose unemployment

It's not all people do this or all people do that. It 100% happens that some people on government benefits (unemployment, etc.) choose to stay on these benefits for their entire duration and then pursue work opportunities.
Handy. My application melts strong, my web-server does not.

Now I get why reverse-proxying is a thing.
Wear a sweater.
People who have used this app, which kind of situations have you helped with? I want to help but am a bit nervous
Right on the first example,

fn main() -> void {
gl_FragColor = vec4<f32>(0.4, 0.4, 0.8, 1.0);
}

There are more thorough the documentation.
Seriously? Occupied territories?

It’s very frustrating that people are so vocal with extreme opinions such as this one. Whenever the topic of Spain comes up, someone will try to make it as if they have been conquered 10 years ago, trying hard to distort history that’s quite similar to most of the other countries.
Does anybody have good overview/resources to learn more about how the internet "pipes" are configured at a national level? I can understand conceptually how a government could disable internet connectivity to _outside_ the country by having some control over the connections that cross borders. _Inside_ the country you would need to have control over the internal routing mechanisms as well, assuming the DNS lookups could all happen in-country? (this is not my field/I don't know the correct terminology).

How would people with satellite internet connectivity be impacted (I assume there is some government entity able to turn off a satellite, but that probably only applies to a few countries in the world?)?

EDIT: I should have thought about this for a few more minutes before posting the original question - the shutting down ISPs is glaringly obvious in hindsight... I am still interested in hearing people's thoughts on satellite internet, though. HN occasionally talks about initiatives to have LEO satellites provide internet access. If the people running the satellite were outside of your jurisdiction, it would seem like these instances would be mitigated for many places in the world?
If you remember, the Parliament added some kind of stuff in the atmosphere, and everyone just lay down and died.

When I was working through my stuff, I often would have loved to do that.

It's really a special kind of hell. We can't stand being ourselves. I grew a beard, because I couldn't stand looking in the mirror. Shaving it was actually a watershed, for me.
AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara
Sounds like he wants Wikipedia to move away from a centrist/neutral position more towards the right.
Startup fund Y Combinator increases global reach, diversity of entrepreneurs
We have no info as to how much money they need or how much they currently have. For all we know, this was just an area of oversight and not related to funding at all.

I’d prefer to pay yearly than to feel the spectre of guilt for using a “free” app.
There is also this interesting article about app like these sharing data directly to the employer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/10/trackin...

"Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss? As apps to help moms monitor their health proliferate, employers and insurers pay to keep tabs on the vast and valuable data"
Yes, if they pick up, but you can disable p2p in the settings.
Lots of commenters here are failing to see past the snarky (in my opinion, tongue-in-cheek) tone and missing the greater point, which isn't a fundamentally new idea, but is always worth revisiting for discussion:

How can we remove as much yak-shaving as possible, so that a person who can understand logic can use it to make computers do things without first learning a bunch of esoteric knowledge required to get the ball rolling? How can we make more Excels?

I think the idea of including a real, accessible, coding environment in a popular web browser is a pretty neat one, if for no other reason than the fact that everyone has a web browser and generally knows how to use it. It would open things up for a very large number of people. Like the author, I doubt Google would ever do this, but it's fun to think about.
I doubt we’ll get much info about it out of Signal / OWS. I’ve asked about their tech stack and ability to scale in AMAs before and got fairly vague responses.
House prices are absolutely included and are the single largest item in CPI. It's Owner's Equivalent Rent. Overall, shelter represents 33% of CPI.
It's not quite what you're asking for, but I looked into something like that for a while and didn't really find any I liked and wanted to carry around with me, so I ended up just installing retroarch on my phone and bringing along an 8bitdo sn30 controller.

I don't have a high end phone or anything but it's capable of playing everything up to the DS pretty well. I even got metroid prime to boot up on dolphin...though the framerate was far too low to play.

The sn30's pretty light and easy to carry around and feels pretty darn close to an actual snes controller. Battery life's pretty decent too.
Some woman. Is the reason the gender skew was realized on Tinder. Paving the way for the dating situation (and large vs. normal pool of incels) among youths today.

Then Bumble. By the same woman. Targeting women (first), but then better for males actually. As the skew is less via attracting more women.

Funny.
Centralized servers for the lose
I highly doubt the pattern was as you put it man/woman. That pattern seems to indicate that he was more abusive to people who were closer to him.
Not the same person here, but evaluated on-prem Slack-replacements recently.

They're very similar in most respects. I found Mattermost much simpler on the operations side, and easier to write plugins for. We ended up choosing it and has generally been happy with it.

If you find this kind of telemetry suspect, you are probably better off looking at Matrix. It is a functioning open source project, as opposed to open source-as-entry-level. The functionality is mostly there, the drawback we found was high resource usage.

For friends-and-family type usage the ecosystem around Matrix, and the huge number of clients being worked on, will probably make it the better choice in the long run.
I think they charge for SMS pretty much anywhere outside the US.
> If tether crashed I would expect bitcoins price to go up not down.

Bitcoin’s price in what reference currency? USDT? Clearly.

USDC? Actual USD (probably measured indirectly via intermediary currencies)? Something else? For anything but USDT, the reason for such an expectation could use some explanation.
William J Perry Project: Working to end the nuclear threat
Time to jump ship! Use element / matrix an open, decentralized, end-to-end encrypted chat protocol with slick clients for Android, iOS, Desktop & Web: https://element.io/

Also easy to self-host a server, if you need full control:

$ mkdir -p ~/synapse

$ pip3.6 install --user jinja2 matrix-synapse

$ cd ~/synapse

$ python3.6 -m synapse.app.homeserver \
--server-name my.domain.name \
--config-path homeserver.yaml \
--generate-config \
--report-stats=no
Thanks for making Webflow and pulling through. Even though I'm software engineer and could have built a ecommerce store myself, we decided to use Webflow and it's just been a delight.
> They are going to be the next Facebook

> I just don't get what's so bad about Telegram.

Pick one.
> old-age, disability, and unemployment

These are all groups of people that aren't working so there isn't any extra money available for people to raise prices on them.

If everyone makes $X more dollars than normal I don't understand why prices wouldn't go up to take advantage of that. Would it just be because taxes would go up as well so any extra profits would end up being fed straight back into the system?
I think the word 'track' is misleading in this context. The proposal outlines various methods to detect the use of a third-party keyboard, whereas the term 'track' commonly denotes corporate surveillance.

They could do that, but it would have a maintenance cost. I do think we need to find a solution to this, however, as these personalised keyboards actually _track_ what people type. That could have real-world implications.
We use Onedrive at my work. It's a little annoying because OneDrive reads through your Word documents and tells you that you actually can't save that file here, because it has some external font or macro inside it. I like that Dropbox and Box don't look inside your files and I really hope Microsoft copies that feature soon.
> However, some women (due to men spamming them) don't have notifications turned on

That's why I wrote "if the other person is active on the dating app and isn't responding to you, just unmatch the pair say after"

> anything that can be used as a "measure of cool" will be used as just that.

Agreed. I have been guilty of this as well, though I also do realize that it is still a human being at the other end and giving a closure by unmatching is much better than leaving it hanging.

> It can be tiresome to have to periodically clean out matches every so often

I think more than cleaning out the matches, if you were interested in someone and were having a conversation with them and suddenly they disappear, you don't know if that's just because of being busy. The delay might be just anxiousness for the other person.
Not that I agree with the post or anything, but slippery slope being a fallacy is a fallacy. Key fact is the idea of precedent which is by definition is quite similar to the slippery slope idea (assuming you disagree with the precedent in question).
> whenever I read something like "stretch or later" I always have to Google to find out if the servers I have qualify or not

This is exactly my problem as well.

Oh well, luxury problem in the grand scheme of things.
Tips for an Interactive Sales Demo
See my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793668

Basically any other answer would be a violation of a whole bunch of conservation laws. In short: It's easy to convert velocity energy to rest energy, rest energy obviously has gravity, so velocity energy must as well.
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Everyone using CUDA on Linux are usually using Ubuntu + Nvidia drivers, so no it doesn't sucks. The only down side is that its closed source and does not work with Wayland. Overall Nvidia has just more people working on those drivers than AMD.
Headphones artificially increase the size of the stereo soundstage, that is one reason why it is preferred to mix audio on speakers
It tells you that there’s a sustainable business model. Less ambiguity often translates to more comfort.
This stuff is disturbing. These articles read like hit pieces. The guy can't even defend himself and you have all these wild claims from supposed ex-girlfriends. It's just bizarre. Let the guy lie in peace.
Vision Big, Progress Small
Well first off Telegram doesn't actually do end to end encryption unless you manually opt in. They don't allow end to end encrypted voice or video calls. They don't allow end to end encrypted group chats. Telegram is also a for-profit company that has no guarantees that they'll continue to not harvest your data because they're a pre-profit startup company.
April Fools' arrived early this year.

I'm in the minority here on hn, but I prefer the touch bar over function keys and I don't miss MagSafe at all.
William J. Perry Project: Working to End the Nuclear Threat
https://www.wjperryproject.org/
Very cool thank you!
This still gets played on a weekly basis in our house https://youtu.be/qwCr9QRNMc4

To save a click... It’s the garage track largely credited as the birth of dubstep
me too. just donated. please comment below if you also donated. let's keep this thing running! Its personal interest now, because I moved bunch of groups from whatsapp and its not working now! but at the same I love these guys for what they do.
>I will wait for more clarity before jumping back in.

Probably wise given how correlated ETH and BTC prices are.

>It is kinda sad that in this technology there are so many frauds like that.

It is, but it is also unavoidable.

As the author correctly points at towards the end, many of the properties of cryptos (high liquidity, non-reversible, pseudo-anonymous), while very useful to legitimate users, are a wet dream for crooks.

As a matter of fact, Bitcoin has been used to scam people for its entire existence, e.g.[1][2], sometimes even in new and innovative ways.

There is one aspect of Bitcoin that many people entirely overlook, especially newcomers: [3]

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trendon_Shavers

[2] https://archive.is/PZdxu

[3] http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/
> Once people get a taste of UBI, how do we prevent voters and politicians from pushing it to unsustainable levels? It seems like the incentive on both sides will be to always push it higher and higher.

You're forgetting the other side of the coin. The money comes from somewhere.

Suppose you can fund a $12,000 UBI with a flat 25% tax rate. So now the breakeven point is at $48,000 in income. If you make more than that you don't want to increase the UBI amount because it'll cost you more than it gets you.

Whereas you could fund a $15,000 UBI with a flat 35% tax rate. The rate has to be more than proportionally higher because of the negative impact of higher tax rates on economic activity. Now the breakeven point is at ~$43,000 in income. It's lower, so fewer people want to increase it more than that.

When the breakeven point has more than half of the population on the other side, you don't have the votes to raise the amount any more.

> Imagining a world with UBI, widespread automation, and general or close-to-general AI, what percent of humanity will be able to meaningfully contribute?

Imagine a world with widespread automation and general or close-to-general AI without a UBI.
Yeah. You might be court martialed afterwards, but there are plenty of links in the chain, down to the guys in the silos saying “but really?”.

I also find it an odd standard to treat nukes differently than any other military action. You think we don’t have enough traditional options to level London on a Tuesday afternoon? It seems like the President is either the CinC or he isn’t...
Coinbase users can now report their crypto taxes using CoinTracker
I remember a few days ago there was a post on hackernews to stop being mean to the people that worked at signal. The Twitter user linked in that article is railing into signal devs and she calls them assholes that don’t care about what happens outside of western society.

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/119769537620088012...
How does that work, though? You need to have some central database of user IDs, or can you just never have a user ID and will you need to add people by full public key. As soon as you try to map big public keys to a phone number, username, or some other short ID, you need some registration system, probably on a FCFS basis. How does that work in this "you can run but not manage your own server" type decentralized system? And who prevents message spam / abuse handling?

It sounds like these must be centralized systems presented as decentralization, similar to how Keybase marketed themselves as end to end encrypted and nobody noticed that you can't actually verify peer's keys thus making it TOFU (similar to blindly accepting ssh keys). (And when you asked people about their claims about Keybase, they'd tell you to RTFM regardless of whether you already said you did that... A marketing department can be very powerful even on HN.)
>House prices aren't included and we've seen prices balloon over the last decade

Depending on exactly what you mean, this is not a great criticism of the CPI.

House prices are excluded on purpose. Housing costs are included (including for housing equivalent to what an owner owns).

CPI does include housing expenses: "The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population (U or W). BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, *housing*, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services)." [1]

Furthermore, it includes housing expenses for owner-occupied housing as follows: "The [owners' equivalent rent] index is designed to measure the change in the rental value of owner occupied housing change. In essence, OER measures the changes in the amount a homeowner would pay to rent, or would earn from renting, his or her home in a competitive market." [see p. 107 of [2]]

As the BLS notes, the primary service provided by houses is to shelter the inhabitants. The house itself may be held as an investment. See [3]

So the CPI explicitly captures the cost of providing shelter, though it excludes the investment value of the property.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#:~:text=BL...).

[2] https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/cpi-20180214.pdf

[3] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
Just donated.
It's an interesting anecdotal-metric. I've seen Telegram to Signal signups at about 5:1 for my contacts.
The monospace font used has a ligature for “fl” making the keyword “float” look weird.
Lua and Python (2020)
Same here!

Last night a friend from India popped up on signal. I told him "Welcome!" and he said "You finally wore me down, I've left WhatsApp and I'm trying to move my family off of it..."
How does this change things for the user though. E.g. in email it doesn't matter if your email is down or everyones email is down, you're not switching to a new email host every time yours goes down and you don't particularly care if someone else can communicate while you cant.
I chose to highlight the Chinese aspect, but you're absolutely right: any keyboard with personalisation puts Signal users at risk.
Turning a Days Worth of Blood Glucose Data into Sound
It depends, what metrics are you worried about?
It’s an FOSS teaM working around the clock to support... let’s not be mean I’m sure they are doing all they can to get this resolved
CVE-2021-24122 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure
lol it was already bought by PE and now going public

Blackstone owns it.
Facebook and NYU trained an AI to estimate Covid outcomes
Well, kinda.

https://hackaday.com/2016/11/23/zx81-connects-to-the-network...