skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a good tablet that's also decent for hackers get one with LineageOS and /e/ support. The best ones are probably:

Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Plus Wi-Fi (2016) - $380

Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e (Wi-Fi) - $400
Americans don’t like contactless payment?

Or (more Likely), unlike their Chinese counterparts, American banks are way more conservative with adopting new technologies. Hence why y’all still get paid with paper cheques :)
The US has a lot of democratic risk but I have more hope for the country than Europe or Africa, because our economic policy is so much better. Europeans love their post-WW2 welfare states, but in practice their current governments react to everything with more austerity, and they're really anti-immigration.
I'm nearly completion of a Bach Comp Sci that I've spent ~20 hours per week over 6 years (by the time I finish). I've done this while working full time as a single father who studies part time.

The time aspect is brutal. I'm ready to have regular hobbies. I'm ready to have a serious girlfriend. I'm ready to have regular social events. 6 years is a long time to just stop having a fulfilling life.

EDIT: I'm 1 grade in 1 unit off a perfect GPA. I'm at the point where I'm willing to have my GPA drop in order to free up some time to actually not be consumed by uni for the remainder of the time.
While I agree with the overall sentiment, crime is usually negative sum: the perpetrator gains less than the victim lost, thus some value is destroyed even before security spending.
It used to be.. Tron is almost 50% now of USDT issued.

https://wallet.tether.to/transparency

Also USDC is on several chains as well including Stellar.
If I am accosted by one of these things I see myself accidently knocking product onto the floor next to it, which will no doubt draw the attention of the other robots running around broadcasting finds of stuff on the floor. Others will be picked and put on inappropriate shelves, and subsequently need to be gathered up by staff.

Probably they will develop arms to gather in drop accidents, providing opportunities to slip in ringers.

The amusements multiply.
At least Apple does. I'm not sure if other companies use it as well.
Is there a security comparison somewhere of all the new fangled ways of getting up to date desktop software on Linux? snaps etc too?

I suppose the real answer may always have been backports on debian distros - which is to say, trusted sources over technical solutions.
It's almost as if the people riding the "sandbox everything" wave have realized that an operating system is more than a set of disconnected pieces of software. And that to make it an operating system, those pieces must interact, and not be isolated from each other. Go figure.

Soon they'll reinvent the classical Linux distro. Poorly. But with a cool name.
> and made it in a viable business practice to undermine competition in the most dirty way

No, that predates Microsoft by well over a hundred years in the corporate sphere just in the US. They're not remotely close to being the dirtiest at it historically.

If anyone doesn't understand that, go read the history of Standard Oil, US Steel, GM & Ford, or a dozen other giants that have ruled the US economic landscape at one time or another. Walmart has competed as dirty as anything Microsoft has ever done, the same goes for Amazon, Google and Facebook more recently.
I think its more of a one step at a time thing. There is nothing about the design of flatpak which prevents permission popups. The problem is that every desktop program must be rewritten to support this idea and most linux desktop app devs are only vaguely aware of flatpak, let alone ready to start designing specifically for it.

The current strategy seems to be having outsiders packaging all the desktop software in to flatpak while disabling any sandboxing that gets in the way. This brings you to the same state as traditional package managers with little security, but it boosts the flatpak ecosystem and makes it ready for the average person. At that point app devs will be more aware of it and can build their apps to tolerate missing access to things and prompting for access.
California doesn't have a high tax burden. If you manage to get a house you're actually set, it's a feudal system where you essentially never have to pay taxes again, since your property tax will be below inflation forever.
No, if you spend time with your kids, you are being exploited an oppressed. The government needs to offer childcare for everybody.
https://wallet.tether.to/transparency

Tron is growing ... USDC is multichain as well.
I did, i hadn't had the feeling to mention this in this wording on a forum like this.

Something like this goes very quickly in direction of pedophiles.
Gigabit internet, cheap hard drives, and cheap 36-bay SATA 4U servers.

It turns out I like having a private library and playing home librarian. It brings me a lot of joy.
The biggest problem for me would be to find enough good books to read.
Sooo fictional child molesting images are okay?

Rapefantasies written as books are also okay?
> Charitable giving is great but why as a society should we be subject to the whims of individual philanthropists -- often gross benneficiaries exisiting power structures.

This is an interesting framing. What form of social organization would make it so that altruistic behavior was not a result of the whims of people in extant power structures? It seems tautologous that if someone has the power to allocate funds, they are the current beneficiary of the extant power structure.
The criticism and response typically boils down to "Yes, but its actually not any worse than what we have now"

If you manually install a rpm, deb or add a new repo, your system is completely owned by the person who built that package or repo. The biggest problem is that flatpak advertises sandboxing when some apps disable it but I imagine in the future we will get better UI around showing the user exactly what gets exposed as well as less permissions being given to packages.
They voted for Bolsonaro. Go figure.

Anyway, $2M is peanuts to Apple and the fine is well deserved. They cheap out on a $19 charger on a $799 purchase, the consumers getting what is essentially a non functioning product, all in the name of reducing waste. Then sell the iPones with minimal packaging like a paper wrap and make them repairable instead of pushing updates that break older devices in order to force users to buy new ones.
The “classical Linux disto” got us into this mess, so I doubt it.
I never said Taiwan was part of China... in fact I mentioned them both separately by name... which would be weird if I was saying they were the same right? #strawman

>biggest creator of wealth in the world

Amazon you mean? Or do you mean Tesla? Or Microsoft?... oh wait... none of them are from SV.
You should check out options trading sometime. The subtle self-saves really add up over time until... the last calamity strikes

/s
> - 5G (still no SV grown solution there)

Is this a real thing that anyone cares about? There was a lot of marketing from Samsung and Supermicro for a few months about how everyone needed "5G AI cloud infrastructure", but it seemed like an especially bad strain of bullshit. I certainly haven't figured out what it was supposed to mean yet.

Selling infrastructure to ISPs is not an amazingly high margin business.
>The proper way to do this is to have the file/directory picker run in a separate process (managed by the sandboxing runtime), and the sandbox only grants access to files/directories explicitly picked by the user.

Flatpak has this already. They call it portals and it covers more than just file pickers. The problem I have seen is that shoving existing software in to flatpaks and making them use portals ends up buggy for unknown reasons. I think the app devs themselves need to make at least some conscious effort to make sure it works and not directly access files.
We have contactless payment with EMVpay/Apple Pay. There are some QR code systems like Venmo but I don't know what the value add of scanning a code is supposed to be.

Nobody gets paid with paper checks unless they want to, although if you're poor and have been blacklisted by the bank system you might take it so you can use a check cashing service.
Flatpak is a package manager which supports repos exactly like traditional package managers. The biggest repo is flathub and there is also one for fedora which is a little more vetted but contains less software.
Superconductors, buckyballs, artificial diamonds etc are all quite sexy and easy to grasp, so they have a big profile in popular news despite their comparative lack of utility, much more so than (until recently) incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo about mRNA, convoluted neural networks and whatnot.

That said, materials science is vital for incremental improvements like modern composite airplanes or SpaceX rockets etc, and if we ever do get to space elevators or room-temperature superconductors, the potential is life-changing.
Google for the Physical World
You are listing giants who are generaly state supported and largely copies of western tech. The thing is about having a rich ecosystem of small players innovating. That is what makes SV.
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Ahh, thanks for the correction! I knew I should have consulted that venn diagram[1] to double-check.

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2011/03/12/venn-diagram-illustr.html
> "bundling" Windows 95 with MS-DOS (Win95 was a DOS overlay, but installed Microsoft DOS by default, even though DR-DOS could very well have acted as a "shim").

It would be more accurate to say DOS is an overlay on Windows 95, once Windows 95 has booted. The DOS façade may be so convincing that the OS seems to be running on DOS, but that's the exact opposite of the truth: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...

Microsoft could have let people install DR-DOS on Windows 95; DR-DOS is similar enough to MS DOS for the magic to work. But it would have sucked for the end user if they had to buy a second OS to use old apps and drivers, and it's hard to say what the user would gain. The fancy multi-tasking features of DR-DOS presumably wouldn't work while Windows was running, for example.
Probably two things:

Intrastate travel. Main line of work (web) stalled but I picked up a solid amount of drone photography/videography work that allowed me to get paid travelling more than usual around the state. Australia has been in a good position with regard to COVID-19 which obviously helped, but I did get a few travel jobs during only-travel-for-work lockdowns.

In the last 12 months, I've visited every sub-region of the state, been paid to go on a 10 night cruise, worked on a TV commercial, made decent money camping with my kids a handful of times, etc. One of the best years of my life and I feel especially fortunate knowing how rough others around the globe have had it in comparison.

Perhaps bigger than that though: a solid relationship. It's so valuable that no matter what else is going on (heavy workload, dealing with the kids, etc) that your partner has your back and vice versa. Very reassuring coming home knowing that you are a team against everything you face.
In a non-euclidean, vaguely Lovecraftesque way, you mean?
I never actually ate this stuff, but I am sure it was not that type of catastrophe when it was released to the public.
Flatpak apps can not access root owned files. They run as the user and the typical linux permissions apply. They can only gain access to root if they have filesystem access so they can load malware in to bashrc. The thing is this is exactly the same as traditional packaged linux software. Flatpak only offers the ability for extra security.
> Cities are dominated by a new class of highly paid big-company employees driving up housing costs and forcing out lower wage workers

This is just an ignorant hot-take though that once again blames upper middle class tech employees for a housing problem caused solely by bad govern policies.

There is no “domination” here considering that tech employees are well. 21 percent [1] are now considered tech jobs and the FAANG employees clearing $500K+ to afford houses make up a small fraction of that.

> Governments are starved of revenue by giant companies that have mastered the art of tax avoidance.

SF tax revenue has been climbing the whole decade [2]. CA is the same [3]. The governments are absolutely not “starved of revenue”. They have been operating in a completely inept fashion for decades and the waste/corruption is eating everything up. Double the tax revenue in California and politicians will have it squandered in the year.

This is just another lame attempt to blame the tech boogeyman for a failed government. How much homelessness, high housing costs, high tax rates, failed public infrastructure, etc do we have to endure before we realize crying about one of the few major successful industries isn’t an answer?

1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/14/tech-employment-bay-a...
2. https://sftreasurer.org/annual-report-fiscal-year-2018-19
3. https://www.statista.com/statistics/313176/california-state-...
It's been running as well for me.

I'm 35 now and have never been much of a sports person. At the third lockdown, I felt I couldn't endure being in my home 24/7 anymore. (Was working from home then.) So I started to run, just to experience the outside. I saw physical fitness as a side effect.

My mood is so much better after running. It really does release endorphines.

Also, I go to the office at least for 2 days a week, in spite of a commute time of 1h one-way. Worth it. I need the physical seperation of work place to home.
It won't keep graying indefinitely, that's mathematically impossible.
Ah! Thanks :-)

But then I think I wasn't clear, I wasn't undervaluing the art (quite the contrary, I love demos). If anything, I was undervaluing the UNESCO list. :-)

But then I changed my mind because surely if some sceners think it's a list worth being on, then in my mind, it sort of by definition is.
Why use anything other than percentage for font size? The browser sets the font size based on user preference. If you want text twice as big as usual, you make it font-size: 200%;

Being able to supply any other units is a misfeature, in my opinion.
I had been watching Rambalac's videos since I got back from Japan in 2019. It's so comforting, it's difficult to explain exactly why, but I feel very content while watching them and they seem to occupy a part of my brain that usually wanders when I'm working.

Worthy of a mention is "Smarter Every Day" has a channel called The Sound Traveller, where Dustin explores places with a binaural audio setup.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0tq0g5u2bo-TErZt7SJM6w
FTA: “While the iPhone 12 mini costs $729 in the U.S., in Brazil the same phone is around $1,200. Back in 2019 when Apple introduced the iPhone 11, it started at $799, while in Brazil it also cost around $1,200.”

I see no evidence for “no price reduction” there. It’s “iPhone 11 with charger” versus “iPhone 12 without charger” (AFAIK, they never sold the 12 with a charger). Also, average top of the line smartphone prices have gone up world wide.

Also FTA: “The depreciation of the Brazilian Real and the pandemic helped to increase the U.S. dollar over Brazil’s currency.”

I guess that could easily explain why the 12 mini is cheaper than the 11 in the USA, but equally priced in Brazil.
US economic policy is a result of the dollar being a world reserve currency. This is a unique privilege (usd being overvalued and liquid) and also a curse (inequality).

Europe has quite a lot of internal migration and the US largely benefits from highly educated european and asian immigrants to SV. What makes europeans move is access to capital. It all comes down to the dollar.
Signing (or hashing), not encryption. Bitcoin doesn't use any encryption, only hashing and digital signatures.
It makes perfect sense with less humans though. There wouldn't be anything wrong with settling on a billion people.
Nokia 8. Over 2 years old. Battery getting a bit rubbish, used to last 2 days, now 1 day. Last security update was Oct 2020, Android 9.

Best phone I've owned. Always buy outright never on contract. I don't need the features (gimmicks) of the high priced (rip-off) phones.

Will attempt to replace battery when it becomes too bad and install third party Android if I can.
How is this relevant to the conversation?

To begin with, every company is more than welcome to produce their goods in the country and lower their costs, happens to the xbox for example. If Apple would produce their phones there and still not include the charger they would be fined the same way.

Trade restrictions are there both ways. Or do you think we can sell our planes cheaper in America? How about the billions the US gov dumps on Boeing propping up a company that is a safety risk for not only those who fly but those who are in the ground as well, or all the pork that goes to the soy farmers, the restrictions on dishwashers and so on and so forth. To name a few.

And, please, Brazil is on the G20 your mud slinging against "people marrying into a military pension" is just blowing things way out of proportion. Or do you want me to talk about the terrible state most of Alabama, Arkansas and Mississipi are? How about the opioid epidemic in many states? Is that solved?

Imagine if my country would have an armed mob storming congress to stop an election what would you say right? But fret not, thanks to a president aligned to your previous president we will most likely face the same situation.

But I digress, I think the fine is fair and any company that does not comply to local laws should be fined accordingly.
(This is how Powerbox on macOS works.)
Cybercrime will be properly addressed when companies realize: 1) it's not just a matter of insurance, "ticking boxes" and "buying solutions" and 2) law enforcement actually investigates and prosecutes those involved (even if it involves international action)
It's not the Apple scale though. I mean, it looks like it, but the details are different.
NostalgiaNerd did a good video breakdown of AARDCode: https://youtu.be/TIfNIWn2Ad4

Worth watching if you have 20 minutes.
This is probably quite hard to implement without modifying the packaged applications. Needs something like a mechanism of pausing, instead of denying, a system call in the kernel and calling back to userspace, which would then load new policy into the ruleset on the fly and resume execution. Oh and reverse engineer the high level intent of the user / application far enough to present an intelligible question to the potentially nontechnical user.

Maybe some antivirus etc products manage to seemingly do things like this on Windows platforms, but they have generous support from the platform developed over decades, are executing custom 3rd party kernel drivers, are unhindered by opinionated kernel developers blocking the feature due to their distaste for these hacks, and the resulting system is still unsound and rife with stuff like TOCTOU vulnerabilities, and the prompts are not intelligible to nontechnical users.
2.5 day work week. Peak performance on those days at a decent daily rate, then I get to fuck around on whatever for the rest of the week. Wednesdays are my fridays.
Walking and mountain biking. Now back to powerlifting since gyms are open.
> This brings you to the same state as traditional package managers with little security

Does it? From the flatpak state you have a far more clear path towards a sandboxed destination.
> But further accumulation of stupid wealth does have a damaging effect. Instead of the money sloshing around the system as it is supposed to, it will fester, trapped, in some offshore banking labyrinth somewhere, like a fatberg in a sewer. This has a negative impact on everybody else.

The author has confused money with the goods and services it is used to purchase.
Surprisingly - my burnout.

It came one day, out of the blue and broke me in two pieces. Thanks to the great human empathy in my company (and their support) I went through it without too much problems.

It taught me that I am not invincible and that I should listen to my body more. I am not 20 anymore.

I voluntarily scale down my professional scope and my title, to concentrate on the things I have an actual influence on. I am documented all the points that fell in the gray area (= I was "responsible" for, without any possibility to change things) and I will stubbornly go that way.

It will ultimately be a win for the company as well, forcing it to sort out loose ends (at least in my area).

I live in France so it was made easier by the socialist regulations (socialist as in "enhanced social protections"), as well as the real, human empathy of my management - beyond what is expected from a company.
Having video lunches with friends in other cities. As everybody is working from home, this has been an opportunity to reconnect with some old friends.
This is a genuine question: have the tech companies done much to help out with the homelessness and crime rate? For example, through funding homeless shelters?

I ask because I thought SF wasn’t a very nice city, due to the large scale of homelessness. Seeing how much money there was, I wondered why tech companies didn’t just throw money at the problem so that they’d have a nicer environment to live in.

I know that homelessness is a multifaceted problem, but (especially in the states) high housing costs and lack of public services are major, solvable, factors.

In my home city in the U.K. we have a major homelessness problem, but we don’t have the wealth to do much about it. Looking at SF it’s not clear that generating wealth helps. And my overriding impression of Americans is that they’re far more generous with their cash than the English.
I know this domain! Hi Stefan!
Yeah, 5G is a real thing. It’s really fast and awesome!

It involves both improvements in hardware and software. Huawei are the leaders in it. (Devastating to the narrative that China just copies everyone)
If you could easily break some basic widespread cryptographic primitives, you could mitm TLS and serve valid signature spoofed OS updates, basically giving you total control over the computers of just about any organization you like.

The first thing to target would be the network operators, so that you have the technical ability to observe and inject packets into connections from leaf nodes. Then, you could redirect those connections to yourself, proxy their TLS undetected, or serve replies that contain (valid signature) updates or malware.

This is one of the many reasons that a defense in depth strategy (that is, not solely/blindly trusting TLS or digital signatures to ensure that your computer doesn't run unauthorized code) is a good idea.

It is also probably another reason why so many state-level intel agencies target telecoms first and foremost.
You can control the permissions with flatpak, it just doesn't ask you about each one by default.

But if that's what you're asking for it isn't a major change. It could even be done by using a simple shell script for installation.