skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone here has Credit Karma: get off it. Use free monitoring services from Discover/Chase/Experian/etc.
Check out the demos at https://www.descript.com/overdub

I wouldn’t call the voices unconvincing. They used to have a better demo though where it would impersonate celebrities like Trump. It was very interesting to demo it.
He is right in a sense, and cases like this give him proof, but on the other hand, most people don't see the point in patching their software. They'd just keep it around unpatched, while connecting it to the network. Is millions of vulnerable devices better than giving vendors of some software the ability to remotely patch their software?
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I distinctly remember seeing "Foo was here" graffiti drawings on walls (and in school kid's exercise books) over 60 years ago in Australia.
There should be some kind of tool that tracks how much of people's time each department uses, simple (attendees from other departments) * (hours), and then each quarter the departments have to justify their use of resources and the goal should be to reduce that number. Wonder what effect that would have on company culture.
What we don't need are 160-column punched cards.

The proper response to "640K ought to be enough for anybody" is virtual memory, not 1280K.

People used to complain about Macromedia Director only having 24 layers, so they increased it to 48. But then what are you supposed to do if you want to make a map of the United States: leave out Alaska and Hawaii?
I got downvoted for upvoting you, the plot thickens...
The effect of money on campaign outcomes is what he was speaking in reference to - a lot of lobbying money ends up getting funneled directly into candidates pockets through advantageous deals and future employment promises as well as undercharged services (like renoing someone's house for a few dollars) and that money can be quite significant.

America has an insane bribery problem.
Apple does not let you back out an update you made and regret.

Apple does not block apps from using the network or give you any way to find out what they are doing and who they are talking to.

In fact, apple does the opposite - it blocks apps that let you firewall your phone.
Ex-pat American living in Germany. Unless you have some slightly less common situation, you don't have to worry about taxe filing here.
2022 according to the timeline
They weren't the good guys. They ate up ridiculous amounts of reconstruction money meant for southerners, and the south didn't truly recover for a century. There were other reasons too, but the carpetbaggers were among them.

They were the civil war's equivalent of Haliburton in Iraq.
How many people that do their own calculations actually come up with a lower number than the government would have charged them in the first place?
I have to always do this to pass those hotel wifi login portals.

What I will do is spoof my mac address to match my laptop, and then pass the login wall to create a session. Then restore the original mac address, and then I can finally use my apple tv on the hotel wifi...

I wish they had a web browser on the apple tv.
While technically rich people consume more than the poor in absolute numbers, they consume a smaller percentage of their income than the poor, so a consumption tax is inherently regressive, taxing rich people less.
I wonder how relevant "long" TTLs (5min, 30min, etc.) still are in an age of massive multi-gigabit fiber links? DNS was invented long ago, a very simple protocol with a handful of bytes per packet - a trickle amid the torrent. Waiting an hour or more for a 4-byte change (an IPv4 address) to be committed to a distributed database seems incredibly antiquated.
This year I've begun to put down all my todos in my calendar as blockers. It has reduced the time I spend in meetings drastically.
I'm not sure what causes gcc to emit the builtin setjmp/longjmp, but I tried compiling this:

#include <setjmp.h>

void __attribute__((noinline)) test(jmp_buf buf)
{
__builtin_longjmp(buf, 1);
}

int main()
{
jmp_buf buf;
if (__builtin_setjmp(buf) == 0)
test(buf);
return 0;
}

and ran it on a non-CET machine. It works fine. It does contain a CET fixup, but that CET fixup is smart enough to work regardless of whether CET is enabled.

However, gcc does generate non-working code if the setjmp and the longjmp are in different files and only one is compiled with -fcf-protection=full. Ouch. I'll file a bug.

edit: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98997
Its kind of amazing that there isnt an official qr code scanner app preinstalled on phones given how ubiquitous QR codes are.
Something my brother and I enjoyed was to switch to the ballistic mortar / grenade launcher instagib weapon and then play. You could instagib but the weapon had a massive gravity effect so it was hard to aim. Deliciously fun in the air.
Sometimes it's just depressing to be sold out so... cheaply.
Linux is bad doesn t tell us why we should use BSD
>It almost feels like you're being misunderstanding and misquoting on purpose.

Says the guy who responds to a fraction of the arguments and makes absurd arguments expecting to be taken seriously.

>Genuinely voluntary apostasy, punished by death, happens. And it's clearly 'not succumbing to social pressure' to do it in countries that criminalize it and punish it by death.[1]

What the hell are you even on about? You make 0 sense. You were talking about apostasy and I merely explained that it's nothing out of the ordinary that people can succumb to social pressure and change their identity, this was very specific in the context of french society. So spare me your islamophobic rants.

>And then you replace 'integral part of your identity' by merely 'part of your identity', however that's the important word you're omitting.

So? You clearly don't understand the english language very well. Integral merely means "important, essential..." and leaving it out doesn't change the essence of the statement.
Keep hairsplitting tho.

>However, particular musical genres were never an integral part of my identity the same way people are gay or not, or have a particular ethnical background.

Terrible comparison. A taste in music is not the same thing as a religion which encompasses almost every aspect of your life.
Again, terrible terrible comparison.

>Attributing some special powers to a class of mere opinions is wrong, misguided and often used as a tool of oppression.

Yea, you just perfectly described France's abuse and misuse of 'satire' and 'free speech' to discriminate against minorities.
France has its own blasphemy laws, although they don't label them as such, they are functionally and consequentially, the exact same. Not to mention what secular France has done in its colonial past, murdering and torturing millions of Algerians and Africans for resisting occupation and opposing secularism. Learn your own history and present before you try to lecture others.
It was a fine simple solution until DoH. In some internal environments the internal traffic volume can be much higher than the few services that might be publicly exposed.

Sure lots of ways you could do it - get a fat edge firewall to hairpin the traffic + support Internet access but you end up paying a lot more for all the threat licenses on the oversized edge. Could add many more tiers, maybe more translations or overlays... but why bother with a lot more complexity or especially more cost just because someone saw a threat in another country and are trying to solve a problem that does not apply to most.

Further more there can be internal only host names that are now getting probed and exposed externally. Exfiltration to a US company in the name of "security"
I have had bad experience with RSUs and ESPP through TurboTax. Do any competitors handle it better? Should I just seek out a professional?
How would your ISP even know unless they are spying on data only available on your wifi network with an ISP provided router?
The conclusion you made may be wrong. You imply that all these $9 apps convert more than a handful of people.
But if they convert the same your friend already applied successfully the „charge more“ concept as (s)he is getting more from every subscriber. The $9 app needs to have 34 times more subscribers to be more successfull.

It‘s a very niche product, it‘s not easy to say which one is selling for better the value.
I would have expected that these media have primarily left/right leaning audiences, but having the proportion be 95% of so is a bit surprising and even extreme.
I think if we changed the way we talk about meetings, schedules, work etc we could improve a lot of things.

https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/02/06/meetings-ugh-lets-c...
There was no era without free or open source software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...

> In the 1950s and into the 1960s almost all software was produced by academics and corporate researchers working in collaboration, often shared as public-domain software. ...

> The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953,[5] which was released to customers with its source code. ...

> Some free software which was developed in the 1970s continues to be developed and used, such as TeX (developed by Donald Knuth)[8] and SPICE.[9]

You should also recall that software wasn't considered copyrightable before the 1974:

> Therefore, software had no licenses attached and was shared as public-domain software, typically with source code. The CONTU decision plus later court decisions such as Apple v. Franklin in 1983 for object code, gave computer programs the copyright status of literary works and started the licensing of software and the shrink-wrap closed source software business model.
Or just use this utility. Been around for years and you can randomize the MAC to make it look like it came from other manufacturers

https://technitium.com/tmac/
> So, publishers (in non-yellow segments) compete on the ability to create well-researched informative content that will be relevant to a large group of readers. You want your readers to trust you as a reputable source, so they will keep buying your issues.

That is true to some extent, but it forgets the second half of the revenue of all newspapers, which has always been advertising, or direct injections of capital by a rich owner looking for a mouthpiece.

Which is to say, newspapers have always needed to be advertiser friendly, even if it meant avoiding certain topics. But you're right that this has become even worse in the move to the internet.
Writing a few is super simple. But distros have tens of thousands of packages. Most people use it or a derivative of Ubuntu, RedHat, or Arch. All provide packages with systemd files. Heck, even most upstream packages are.
When the Apple App Store contained malware compiled by unsuspected Chinese developers using a local cache of Xcode [1], Apple emailed the developers to prompt them to update their application immediately and removed them from sale.

Apple also contacted users directly to alert them of whatever apps they had purchased on the App Store were compromised so they could monitor for updates, or remove the app entirely.

Has Google done the same? Neither Apple or Google have the ability to directly remove apps on a users device, but simply removing it from the store and then having users rely on a solution like MalwareBytes seems like Google is abnegating their responsibility of a safe marketplace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost
there was a startup called freebase that crowd sourced a knowledge graph. they got bought by google and shut down. some of the remanants are at wikidata and the google knowlege graph.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317521
Partially. Most of the funding comes from corporate sponsors and individual donors and those tend to be on a station by station or program level. The funding sources for NewsHour, probably the most relevant part of PBS, are listed here for example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Which leads to hilarious results like the Koch Brothers funding NOVA.

That said, Sinclair and the like excluded, the splintering of television networks into individual markets and restrictions on O-and-O stations are world-class exemplary parts of the US media landscape.

Also, what I meant is that put it funding somewhere out of reach of the general taxation pool. Tie it to property taxes, have a licence fee, a foundation with an endowment, a levy on something or other, individual sponsorships, that kind of thing.

Tying the funding and thus existence of your media to a healthy democracy is like giving a horse its own rope, they'll trot off into the sunset never to be seen again.
My boring AndroidOne phone does. If there's a clear QR code in the field of view of the camera app it'll recognize it.
The important thing to note is that the significance of this study goes beyond the AZ vaccine. Please correct me if I've missed one, but from what I've seen there aren't any other vaccines that have completed similar trials in South Africa. The "good news" about the other vaccines' effectiveness against the variant have been based on in vitro immune response[1], not real-world trials. What would be good to know though is what response the AZ vaccine had in tests similar to the ones performed with other vaccines.

[1]And we know the issues with that standard https://xkcd.com/1217/
If you think you can beat the system you have the option of a voluntary self-assessment for under 100k, over 100k you have to file one anyway and it offers plenty of wiggle room. Self assessment is such a non-event the entire procedure always feels new by the following year.
One thing I’ve never understood is how network-manager relates to all this brokenness: on every single Linux distribution I’ve run, I’ve had to hack around network-manager to avoid random broken stuff. Similarly, whatever was wrong with ifconfig and friends? ip might be “better”, but its documentation has been horrible and it obsoletes my 20 or so years of experience with Linux networking for no real gains
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Prana Air provides highly accurate air quality sensor for pm and gases monitoring devices.

https://www.pranaair.com/air-quality-sensor/
Even still, there is no sales tax rate that ends up charging wealthy people anything meaningful. Roughly speaking, the savings rate of wealthy people is so high (and therefore 1-that as spending rate) and everyone else basically spends all their money, such that you need exorbitant taxes on “stuff only rich people would buy”.

Zucman and Saez have a decent figure for this, which this article in the Atlantic includes as a high resolution version [1] or a non paywall one at [2]. People quibble with the details here (particularly post taxes and transfers like social security), but much of the income and much of the wealth is in the top 10%. The bottom 90% basically saves nothing,
and while many at the true bottom decile / quintile spend it only on the goods you would exclude, you still end up with “we can’t tax wealthier people, without being regressive” for most of the middle.

For example, car payments, home sales, electronics. These are all “normal” things for most people, so unless you want to raise taxes on the bottom 50% or so (who currently do not pay much in income taxes), you have to exempt a much wider variety of goods.

What does that leave you with? Yachts? Cars over a certain amount? Houses over a certain amount? It’s not impossible to figure out how to do it, but you then get to pile on import taxes (“Fine. I’ll buy my yacht in the Bahamas and sail it here rather than pay 10x in taxes”) and so on.

Fundamentally, in designing a taxation system, you’re deciding how to fund the government and redistribute wealth. It turns out that spending, even of non basic goods, isn’t a good proxy of what an individual can afford to contribute without noticing. Income isn’t perfect, but spending is actually pretty bad.

1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...

[2] https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-average-savings-rates-b...
Robinhood has stopped limiting GameStop shares
> to achieve 10% one must in general consciously malnutitrion and avoid eating food that the body can use to synthesize fat.

No, no! If you are eating foods that humans should eat and exercising about an hour a day, you will naturally fall below 10% no matter what else you do.

I never limit the amount of food I eat and in no sense am I "malnourished". I am 80 kilos at around 8% body fat and I still have a lot to spare before it would start to affect my athletic performance as a sprinter. Go take a look at the typical 100m sprinter physique and tell me that any of them are malnourished!
Ask HN: Why are most comments on this account downvoted?
Why are most of HN user [steve76](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steve76) comments banned ? Is it because its a bot ?
Applications like Charles [1] allow you monitor network connections and data closely. Apple do not actively prevent this.

You can also setup a VPN to route traffic and strictly firewall.

[1] https://www.charlesproxy.com
I discovered this week when fooling around with QR code makers that the Android camera app, at least the one released on Samsung phones, does not read QR codes. That was very surprising to me.
This is a nice NPR episode about how a professor tried fighting back against Intuit in California and almost won.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
Cost savings for tesla. It's cellular service for lots of cars.

Or put another way, they don't pay global telecom providers, and instead they pay themselves, which helps fund space travel.

It's also possible they could do some fancy multicast updates of software/maps or some other fancy thing.
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I don’t think increasing compliance costs and complexity is part of any mainstream political ideology. It seems a lot more like a perverse special interest to me.
They benefit by preventing easy access to an export of the user’s data that could then be importied into a competitor’s software, thereby (presumably) locking in a non-trivial number of their own user base who don’t want to deal with the hassle of re-entering all of their financial data in a new product.
Interestingly, I just checked the QR code scanner app I have on one of my Android devices (A Samsung S6Edge abandoned and unupdateable from Android7 - without jumping through some hoops I've not been inclined to do yet).

As soon as I opened it, it popped up a dialog box with non ascii text in it (Arabic or maybe Thai script?) with yes/no options, for all I know asking fro permission to steal my contact list... I just closed the app and uninstalled it.

It was "QR code scanner free" by Application4u. It does disclose "Contains ads". 4.5 stars, 10million+ downloads. Has some expected permissions (camera) and a few less expected ones (storage/sd card) and a few very suspicious ones (full network access, prevent phone from sleeping, connect and disconnect from wifi, view wifi connections - I guess maybe these are needed for the ad serving in the free version? Seems like over reach to me...)
I think their point is more generally against the "you can buy anything in politics with money" idea in this thread. They're saying there's evidence to the contrary in the big elections, and that the weak points in the political system are in specific places for specific reasons, and companies like Intuit are exploiting those places, not subverting the entire political system just because they have money. I'm not sure I 100% agree with the argument, but it's a decent case to be made.

(Unfortunately, mentioning Trump and the election quickly triggers people's defense mechanisms and attracts downvotes like here, even if the comment is using it as just supporting data in their argument.)
That's a band-stop (notch) filter. The inductor lets through low frequencies, and the capacitor lets through the highs. Stuff in between gets blocked.
Your comment appeared to be complaining about downvotes (as does this one). Even if not that though, it's at least commenting about voting, which the guidelines discourage.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I expect a comment more likely to be well received would be something discussing and/or reinforcing the specific points the parent made. In that context it would probably be fine to say something like, "I don't think you should have been downvoted." But without context or reasoning it doesn't have much substance.
> America has an insane bribery problem.

I wonder if this is more or less applicable to Politics in general, and not specifically American Politics.
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Ha, didn't think of that. There's a fusion reactor we all see every day.
I've been using Tampermonkey in Safari 14 on my M1 based MacBook with no problems. All the scripts I use with Violentmonkey in Chrome on my desktop work here. Tampermonkey from the App Store[0] does cost a couple of bucks though.

[0]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tampermonkey/id1482490089?mt=1...
Not sure to laugh or cry as this goes off topic, but from what I understand COVID transmission is caused by person to person contact of water droplets from breathing, coughing blah blah blah. No ctonact, no transmission. But we live in a half-assed world so we don't actual suffocate the spread we just make it pass out for a bit and let it start back up. This crap of "oh the things are getting better so lets loosen up" just gets it going again. But now with so much spread it will would likely have to be too aggressive for too long for reasons that would get us further off-topic from the shitty article on disinformation. But really what does Fauci have to do with this when it's only as bad as the flu and we have a plan?
Stallman is almost always right but nothing he says is particularly surprising or useful.

Yes auto updates allow delivery of malware but its not like manual updating was any better. No user was auditing changes before hitting the update.
What's your use case for the "one time fee"? Is this a barrier to prevent bad actors?

I can easily see use cases where someone without buying power can get a 50, maybe even 100 USD bond or 'license' of some sort PROVIDED that there's either only one or even more ideally a set of competitors who's "not a bad actor" licenses are interoperable; and work on the whole Internet for that task (without expiring until bad karma is dinged).

However no, nickle and dime-d to death, as well as those 'free but remember to cancel' plans, are the exact reason I'd never hand over real billing info until I'm serious about being billed.
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Someone needs to start a non-profit competitor to TurboTax that uses its fees to advocate for simplifying tax policy.
Nice story (first paragraph; third paragraph rings all too true). I don't think being told you have beautiful eyes is necessarily objectifying, though.
Never have I been more proud a South African.
Thank you for your insight.
See you on the other side.
This excludes
- Businesses that have not yet built a product they want to charge for
- Businesses that have not yet decided who to charge (individual users vs advertisers vs 3rd party sellers)
- Businesses that have other money making products that benefit from free parts of the ecosystem
It's easy to get cynical here, but Google/Facebook/Twitter are free for end users. Are you going to make all the sacrifices of toiling in a startup and not even dream of making it big?