skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sucks that developers only crack down on cheating when it hurts a revenue stream. I'm sure if people figured out how to clone hats, valve would hire an entire independent team to come in and work overtime for a blank check until its fixed.

Rockstar only cared about cheating in GTA5 because people were duplicating in game money that Rockstar was trying to sell you for real money. They didn't care about cheating in GTA4 because it didn't affect any potential revenue since it only affected people who had already bought the game.
I've been using pass for several years now and I recommend it to my friends, but I usually get weird looks when I say I store my passwords in a git repo (it's not as bad as it sounds!). Here's why:

- I host my git repo on my desktop computer (through SSH), so it's not exposed anywhere except if you have SSH access to my computer. (A lot of people seem to think git = GitHub which is not true). So if your git repo is not exposed to the public, you don't leak any of the site names/usernames you use.

- The passwords are GPG encrypted so even if it were leaked that would be okay as long as my secret key remains secure.

As far as usability goes, I usually use the -c option to copy/paste my passwords. I used a browser extension for awhile, but I haven't gotten around to reinstalling since the copy/paste works fine for me. Syncing with my phone and Linux devices works perfectly (since it's just git).

The Windows client seems to be no longer maintained [1], so I would like better support here for my Surface. But this is still okay since I can SSH to my desktop computer from Windows and copy/paste the passwords from there.

[1] https://github.com/mbos/Pass4Win#readme
They have nothing to do with what you would call “tacos” in the US.

Also, there is nothing wrong with peanut butter. It’s just not very common, in the same way as Roquefort might not be very common in the US. Nobody ever spends time not eating something just to feel superior, and French people are perfectly happy to copy foreign street food.
As someone who has used too many distributions and window managers to count (over the course of many years), I've settled on Ubuntu and whatever their default UI. And I quite liked Unity as well after a while.

Of course if there was a major reason to switch away from Ubuntu or their default DE, I would, but it's the pragmatic choice. The constant "finding" of the perfect fit gets in the way of actually doing stuff. Once you adjust expectations towards a system, I'm still far happier with Ubuntu I could ever be with macOS or Windows, and don't waste time having a different system to work with every two weeks (slightly exaggerating).

Is it perfect? No. Is it good enough? Yes. Is it great compared to alternatives (factoring in speed of deployment and productivity from the get to)? Definitely yes.

I'm glad popOS uses Ubuntu and Gnome as backbone and tries to give you a customized experience rather than completely reinventing everything. Though for me, as long as Canonical doesn't screw it up in a major way, stock Ubuntu it is.
AWS API failures in us-east-1
There are two options to improve our model:

We can include nose picking rate as an independent variable, or we can recommend that everyone pick the same amount of nose.
Leaking to where?
Get their arses handed to them by Hezbollah every time, and even by Hamas in Gaza in 2014.

Really, the marketing far exceeds the implementation.
I'm not looking forward to when I lose all my productivity with Node.js because the industry collectively agrees to move on to Deno and rebuild or port things that have been working just fine for the past decade, but OK, here we go.

Maybe I should just hedge my bets and get on the train now even though I don't want to.
You're equating contract terms with general reciprocity. Many, perhaps most other businesses pro-rate subscription services and understand that customers may need to cancel, if only because they don't want the sort of bad publicity Adobe is receiving right now. Tough contracts with significant breaching penalties are generally made between peers (two individuals or two businesses) rather than producers and consumers.

There is a doctrine of unconscionability in contract law that says just because you secure agreement to highly unfavorable terms doesn't mean the contract is beyond review of a court, if there is a significant asymmetry between the contract parties.
I'm a PayPal merchant. First of all, I'm sure the choice of a payment service depends a lot on the specific nature of your business. I run a completely analog business, selling a gadget that I make at home, to a relatively small niche of enthusiasts, strictly in the US.

I do look around once in a while, for what the alternatives are, but so far PayPal is the only service that lets me run my business from a passive web page. I don't even have my own URL. Every other service seems to have a tutorial showing me what code to install on my server, but frankly hosting and maintaining a server (at home or in the cloud) seems like it would add a dimension of complexity to my business that I don't want to deal with. I certainly don't want to be responsible for handling and storing my customers' credit card numbers and similar data.

I also think that the customer protections are beneficial, since they give people the confidence to buy from a relatively unknown seller.

On top of that, they have a deal with the USPS that lets me generate a first class shipping label, which isn't even available at the USPS website. What I save on postage more than covers the PayPal fee.
Coinbase gets reference price of $250 per share
There is a rub to this too however. In a pay to upgrade model you are incentivised to stuff your application with features and also need to support old versions indefinitely if they have network components.

Granted in 1Pssword case, their classic app would not have stopped working without upgrades. And to my knowledge it should also still work? I have since switched to the subscription model but I have used the old paid app years after they have switched models.
Hello, I’m Meng Xu, a co-founder of Ark7, a democratized real estate investment platform that lets users invest in fractional shares of properties of their choices for as low as $5. On the Ark7 platform you can choose which properties you want to invest in while our team handles property management so you can focus on earning monthly passive income and future appreciation. We welcome any questions and feedback on the platform.
Will it have a spatial file manager?
AWS Documentation Is Narrated by AWS Polly AI
I love the hot corner. In some distributions this behaviour is disabled and I always turn it back on to the point that I automatically make the gesture on other operating systems as well. When I'm browsing on my laptop, I often end up with my finger on the touchpad. A quick swipe to the top left is quicker than moving my hand to the super key. On desktop, a low-precision swing of the mouse is also quicker than moving my fingers to the super key. I don't get the hate the hot corner gets.

All in all, I honestly don't really care about the changes they made to the dock. As long as my shortcut buttons work, I can deal with some small changes if they improve the polish of the system overall. I like the Gnome aesthetics that improve with every version, so I'm open to the tweaks made in Gnome 40.
Every day, 300 people in USA get a blood clot. It's not wanted, but it's expected.

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/features/blood-clot-risk.html
Yes, it is a pain to implement user-hostile “features” that GDPR was designed against. It’s working as intended!
You wouldn't happen to have a write-up about your modified algorithm somewhere?
Yeah, it is just so impersonal and appears tone deaf.
> Why should Iran hold up their side of a broken agreement?

Because - and correct me if I'm misunderstanding things - so far as I can tell it wasn't really an "agreement" to begin with. The US essentially just said they would tolerate an Iranian nuclear program so long as it adhered to a set of guidelines which assured Iran was being honest about their goal of pursuing a peaceful nuclear energy program. The US was providing Iran an incentive to keep its word.

For better or for worse, that incentive was removed. But that doesn't mean Iran is incentivized to go against its word. Continuing to adhere to those guidelines would help build trust from the rest of the world that Iran really just wanted a nuclear energy program. Instead, their recent actions only continue to build distrust.
Seems like a deal with Intel to carve out some reason to buy an Intel model. AMDs are much faster, cheaper and consume less power, so the conspiratorial explanation is that Intel bought the high-spec exclusivity. It's been the same with other laptop manufacturers too.
As technology propagates into everything one would be wise to comprehend the management of such devices that are connected regardless of the function. Significant home automation adoption is coming and some have decades of experience in building those changes. Where there is smoke usually fire leads.
> There are probably other solutions.

For moderated deliberation to achieve consensus in decision making, here's a write-up for a system that combines ideas from StackOverflow, Reddit, and Wikipedia:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/raw/master/docs...
> We’ve given the mRNA vaccines to enough people to be highly confident that your fears are ungrounded.

Wasn't that the case with J&J also, till they decided to not ignore the clots.
We used to have editors at newspapers who did this. They had an opinion, tried to be objective, but called out excesses.

Sometimes this went wrong, see yellow journalism. One thing that is different now is that you no longer have a say in who edits your newsfeed. You can't very easily switch news-feed.

I feel like the variation in opinions in modern-day editors is much smaller than the variation in opinions in society. Or maybe it isn't but the editing, being done more implicitly, is not convincing the wider populace that this is the way. That is, content moderators have much less authority (in the sense of respect) than old newspaper editors.
Steam is terrible software. It's been losing track of my games lately, so every time I want to play something I have to wait around for 5 minutes or so for steam to rediscover the local game files it had already installed. Download management is terrible too, frequently coming to a crawl or stopping entirely. It's not my ISP throttling me, either, because this only happens with steam and not when I am downloading other massive things from other places.
A Retrospective on Textspark.ai
Can you launder dirty cash with those?

At least with the App Store you can buy gift cards with cash or even get a mark from a scam to buy you gift cards that you can then launder.
Similar to sanderj reply. It's the longest I've been anywhere. I got to work on a team that traveled the world, got to work on features used by billions of people, work on advanced hardware products, on advanced software products that use ML for Speech and Natural Language. It's not possible to work on some of these problems at other companies. So you deal with the operational overhead, sometimes long hours, the uncomfortableness when a mistake from your company causes real harm, etc.

The compensation is also something that is not as clear to someone who had a career arc like me. I've always been able to make money to take care of myself and immediate family, but making consistent FAANG money changes the way you plan and help people. I've been able to help one family member go to school, another go to med school, multiple members to move closer, allowed my parents to retire early so they didn't have to work customer facing jobs during the pandemic, donated tens of thousands of dollars to local organizations, etc

If I was single I might've left and worked at startups or smaller companies, but I wouldn't now that I see how much impact I can have on those around me by just going to work and working hard.
Blinken’s Winking and Nodding to the Neocons
Vivaldi and Brave both have built-in ad blockers. FLoC is a feature specifically designed to support advertising. Regardless of the privacy qualities of FLoC, it would be kind of pointless in these browsers anyway?

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
How did he lose what he had, if I may ask? Was it the startup investments? What is a land clearing company?
I'm curious - why do you think shorthand isn't useful for long-term use? It stays perfectly readable. It's not "I made up this abbreviation, and now I don't know what it means". :)
That's why the call it anti-racism. Like how anti-matter shares all the features of matter.
:wave: I'm the author of the post! Anyone have any IAM horror stories of their own? Or examples of amazing IAM policies that really show their power?
Considering this is a tiling window manager, rather high Id say.

Im a power user, so to say, and Ive been using pop shell for about 6-9 months now. I love not having to write my own scripts to do the most basic tasks in sway anymore.

Things like my calendar works throughout the desktop without me having to wrangle various things.
Take a look at https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/ . Full boot environment support for Linux, along with the ability to create a new environment from a snapshot in your bootloader, live-diff snapshots to see _when_ something changed, and even chroot into a boot environment to fix things.
Currently using System76 with Pop_OS! as my daily driver.

Love it. No regrats.
I'm all over the place on this one, flipping between wanting to type everything and wanting to write everything.

What I like about writing is the ability to jump around on a page. I don't have to conform to a particular layout. Adding columns, tables, drawings, or whatever, happens at the speed of thought.

Typing or using any sort of digital notetaking invariably leads to some sort of slow down in just getting it down. Or on waiting on the pen to catch up to what I'm doing.

Ultimately, what I wind up doing is to start on paper, get the big bulky ideas out of the way, then refine that in some sort of digital format.
I think you’re the one navel gazing. Plenty of proof that it fails and you dismiss it with no proof of your own. Sounds about right.

Meanwhile most countries are happily democratic. Nothing is perfect but democracy is about as close as you can get.
On one hand, you're probably right. On the other hand, Hanlon's razor[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
> there are issues with escaping command line parameters with invoke-command and ForEach-Object that prevent parallelizing older cmd-style command line applications.

Can you tell me more? So I know what to expect when I hit such issue myself.

> The work around is to write a wrapper in a compiled language and use PowerShell to invoke the wrapper...

Wonder if you need to really break out of PowerShell for this.

Recently when doing some scripting at work, I ended up writing .NET code straight in the script. It looks like this:

$someCSharp = @"
using System;
//...
public class Foo : Bar {
public override object Baz(Quux arg) {
//...
}
}
"@

Add-Type $someCSharp -ReferencedAssemblies C:\Path\To\Some\dependency-I-need.dll

This makes PowerShell compile your code into an in-memory assembly and make it available in the session, just as if it was an external .NET type. You could probably make a module out of it. Hell, cmdlets are .NET types underneath, you can make new ones from C#, so you could probably make such ad-hoc .NET classes available as PowerShell cmdlets.

I suppose using a proper .NET development environment for this would be more kosher; I arrived at the solution described above because my needs were simple, like binding .NET regex engine to SQLite (to get REGEXP operator in queries), or convincing Invoke-RestMethod to stop checking certificate validity.

Still, I love the capability, the fact that I can just drop into C# in the middle of the script. It's one of those things that make me think of Lisp machines and Common Lisp the experience of being able to deeply interact with your environment, and the joy of writing "scripts" that are automatically AOT-compiled (like with SBCL implementation of Common Lisp).
I definitely prefer the decision of whether to sacrifice for an upfront cost than to be hit with an unexpected one.
The selling point was being able to write server code in Javascript and potentially share code between UI and server.

Node never implemented any of the essential browser APIs like XMLHttpRequest or later fetch, localStorage, etc.
Yup, completely agree with this!! (I was also quoted in the article)

One thing I do see having the potential to change things is https://appsco.pe, it's a really nicely designed 'PWA store'. If it (and PWAs) became more mainstream, I can see that being another place that people would go to search your thing.

However, it looks like it hasn't been actively developed for a while. I wish they would add a reviews feature, as that would make them a well known 'brand' (think about all the PWA developers asking people for a review on Appscope like native devs do with the App Store)
Error, mismatched units. The 30 year odds of HIV due to unprotected sex is far higher.
The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years
The phase 3 trial for JnJ/Janseen had only ~44k participants whereas here we are talking on the order of ~1 per million (that are reported as of today)
Unfortunately in reality this is considered wishful thinking by every competent intelligence agency (not just Israel, and not just western).

I suppose you could say North Koreas pursuit of nuclear weapons is likely a deterrence strategy. Kim Jong-un and the ayatollahs are afraid primarily of their own oppressed citizens, it is not a difficult concept to grasp.

Certainly the threat of terrorism and refugees is a global one as Europe is slowly coming to realize. So is the threat of nuclear proliferation, especially when it comes to unstable regimes.
> Please, just be a chat app.

Chat apps used to be just: send text.

Over time the standard expectation for a chat app has become send text + online status + image + gifs + video + link previews + typing indicators + @ mentions + emoji reactions + stickers

Fundamentally I don't see why adding "send money" violates it being just a chat app.
"Now, your risk of dying either from vaccination or Covid19 depends on various demographic factors not accounted for in my math above. But, nonetheless, the risk of dying from the J&J vaccine is really, really, really tiny."

Unless this is a repeat of AstraZeneca, where many were lamenting the interruption of vaccination and calculating the risk for the entire population of people injected with AZ. Meanwhile, in some countries, the risk of dying from the vaccine for young women was higher than the risk of dying from the virus.

After the concerns about AZ turned out to be justified and AZ being banned for certain age groups you'd think that people would get a clue about unconditional vaccine cheerleading.
https://archive.is/pjFzY
> based on shared values and context.

That's exactly the point GP was trying to make. That people should be able to organize in groups of shared values and context. Rather than there being a rather large rough mono-culture of moderation policies.
Now think about this... Steam is running on nearly every gamer's PC. That's what I'm more worried about than exploits in individual games.
> Why would we want a private entity, not elected by the people, to decide our morality?

i got the impression from the separation of church and state that we don't generally want elected officials deciding what is or is not moral.

merely what is legal.
Yes, we ended up doing both native Android and iOS, which has been manageable but we're looking to try and push PWA again for the next project to reduce the overhead of dual platform support.
That's not really a workaround, just put the fact that you edited the comment in the original comment. Better yet, add the new info as an edit and leave the original comment text as was so people can follow the conversation
Ask Dang: HN API without Google credentials? Is there a way?
Dang,
Is there a way to access HN API without having to signup for firebase.io (which is owned by google?). I tried a few queries, and they are all redirecting to Google login

Example: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/26795505
Elite philanthropy created vaccine apartheid
Where is it? I don't see what key it is. Or is it only on the accessories?
> Aren't the efficacy numbers from the phase 3 trials based on giving periodic PCR tests to everyone that was participating in the trials?

For most trials, no. You have to look at each individual study, but most commonly, they only test after people show specific symptoms.
I think the difference with this exploit is that according to the people who found the exploit, it affects all Valve games that use the Source engine, not just CS:GO like the article says. Trying to fix it could end up breaking multiple games if it's done incorrectly.
Read the post by timr above. The studies are very limited and can't reliably detect problems that occur with small part of population. This can be hundreds of thousands of people.

The worst case for vaccination isn't that you get the illness. It is that you are one of the unlucky ones that gets some severe reaction and gets killed.
In the default settings the names of the websites are stored unencrypted, in the filenames.
As someone who’s done the same (although I’m still using FreeBSD on my NAS) I missed decent documentation the most. I felt most at home on Arch because the wiki is pretty decent.
> Sketch is a normal desktop app which works offline. Updates require a subscription, but you can keep using your last version forever.

Until the next version changes the file format again, and it's incompatible with the version you're using.

IIRC this happened in Sketch 2 -> Sketch 3.
Public health is complex, and it's a bit tough for us to "agree" that it's "okay" to have different, looser perspectives on how to manage a pandemic. If 50% of the population decides that COVID-19 is fake and that nobody is actually affected at all, then we would have no power as a society to do anything about pandemics.
The third slide of Ryan Dahl's 2009 JSConf.eu presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY) covers most of the reasons for why it was made: "I/O needs to be done differently". Evented I/O via event loops wasn't really that much of a thing back then, and many server-side web frameworks were simply sitting idle whilst waiting on I/O. Node changed this, and thereby enabled a kind of concurrency that was easy to achieve and there by default, often without the programmer really realizing it, because they didn't have to do anything too special to get it done other than write JavaScript with callbacks.

I don't think JavaScript was really the point of it.

(EDIT: but JavaScript having functions as a first-class citizen, and closures, makes it a very good candidate for something that leverages event loops for this kind of thing)
What app are they talking about? Am I the only one confused??
and 3 weeks later they created the Deno company so they wouldn't need Cloudflare or Fly... Their offering "Deno Deploy" is in beta (I don't know if they are dog-fooding it yet).
> but I can understand why they don't.

And why is that? I don't know of any good reason besides not wanting to spend a trivial amount of money.

I sometimes like to leave my phone at home when I go to work because I want to separate work from personal life. I would probably leave a job that required me to have my phone on me for work.