skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Absolutely (the cynics would never admit this point, but it's true, e.g. the amount of resources and cross-company efforts thrown at improving privacy is incredible).

I would have to disagree there. Their core ethos has been pretty bad on this front. I quit Facebook around the time edu addresses were first no longer required. Things like the wall were the major features.

The main reason I quit though was because they were routinely reverting and NOT respecting my privacy options. It got to the point where I was taking screenshots of my privacy options to make sure it wasn’t just something I was missing.

I reactivated about 2009 but quickly disabled against because of the same reasons. And rather than regularly combing through my options I chose to opt out entirely.

Multiple people I have spoke with since, many of whom aren’t tech savvy have said the same over the years, even recently.
Adding to the previous comment, slaves also work much less effectively than employees because slaves have no incentive to try hard, since either way they will stay slaves.
Maybe they should ask themselves _why_ someone would take a flight instead of a 2.5 hour train ride?

There's really no reason a human would try to fly instead of take a train, if the trains were functioning at high efficiency. Flying sucks. And yet...
Can you explain more about your setup, in particular the iPad part? What apps are you running on your iPad to facilitate dev work? And when talking remote instances, do you mean something like a droplet/vps?

My dream is to code web apps from my iPad from the couch/bed as I sit at a big desk and monitor all day for work and I just want to chill in the evenings on something smaller and more comfortable.
Unfortunately, this discounts apps folks depend on made by a company that they need, and that company won't build an app like that.

One example could be like a banking app.

One that really annoyed me was my school forced Duo Mobile on us. Duo Mobile uses HOTP, but they do not officially support third party 2FA.

I was lucky some folks already reverse engineered the protocol so I could use a third party 2FA app.
I understand and hope that vaccination/natural immunity will prevent virus from spreading. But currently we only have evidence of decreased risk of sickness. Virus may still live in respiratory system and spread asymptomatically. BTW, vaccination strengthens lymph/blood system immunity, but not nose/throat lining, where viral aerosol producing.
I just tested it out with uMatrix and uBlock Origin in Firefox and it works fine. I wonder what ad blockers you were using that made you think it was "incredibly hostile"? I only work on Photoshop files once a year or so, but next time I do, I'll gladly pay to support the ad-free version of the app.
Why would you go to Wyoming, and not Nevada?
I'm personally waiting for the next PinePhone iteration with a better chipset, since the CPU is pretty slow for even budget phone standards.

Combined with software improvements that will hopefully give a relatively smooth experience.

Then again, the PinePhone is so cheap that it's not a big risk either way.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....
Dunno, I got in relatively early without any leet-coding at all. To be fair though, I work in DS and was in the greater sales org, so there was more of a focus on what I could actually do.

That being said, I think that it was that they (used to) hire people with drive, give them autonomy and a choice of what to work on from the large set of hard problems, and watch the money roll in.
now you have two languages in your codebase that your team has to maintain :/
LeetCode Reverse Integer
Or decide not to use chromium, it's better for the web if we bring more balance in browser usage.
Is this also an attempt to shore up the train system finances, and reduce the money it’s hemorrhaging?
Given the extent of the issue they got off quite easy, in my estimation.

Immutable distributed histories are all susceptible to the “encoded illegal content” and I don’t know how they’ll end up resolving it.
Meh, signing by Apple really doesn't mean more than Apple looked (visually) at a running instance of the app and said "eh it doesn't look like it's breaking the rules."

They don't do any instrumentation and often the developers themselves don't even understand what all the binary dylibs they're including do.
Could you explain O&O more? Surely all sites where ads appear are owned and operated by someone, that sounds kind of tautological. Or do you mean, the ad infrastructure itself is owned and operated by the site owner - in which case, what is there for Google to do?
Interestingly, there's nothing particularly novel about investing in a person's early career to reap late-career rewards.

In America, it used to be that parents and employers would invest a lot of money in raising and training young adults, respectively. But more and more, there's less money available to support these programs.

Given this situation, it makes sense that early-career people would have to look elsewhere for people willing and able to invest in them.
Standardized contracts trade all day every day on exchanges all over the world. That’s how everyone doing legitimate business has agreed to do it. That’s where the existing infrastructure is. That’s where serious capital is.

Tokens, on the other hand, are the favorite tool of scammers.
Coronavirus work at the WIV was treated as BSL2/3. Not BSL4. Very different biosecurity protocol in play.
And why wouldn't you order Librem 5 now?
> Why do people always want to run all their Android apps?

Android already has a complete set of phone-ready apps available.

> Why not iOS and Windows apps too??

We already have Wine for running Windows apps.
RTFM - if you don't specify type, it is infered.

[bool] $x = "true"
MetadataError: Cannot convert value "System.String" to type "System.Boolean". Boolean parameters accept only Boolean values and numbers, such as $True, $False, 1 or 0.
There is no reason to fly short distance if you want to go from city center to city center. However, if you're already arriving or leaving on a long distance flight, the whole overhead of getting to/from/through the airport disappears and those 1.5 hours start making a difference.

I think forcing companies to advertise more honest flight durations and prices could make a huge difference. If the airline tells you that you need to be at the airport 90 minutes before the flight, add it to the flight time. Require airlines to prominently show total time and cost from city center to city center with luggage.

If you're comparing a 59 EUR, 2.5 hour train ticket with a 29 EUR, 1 hour flight, the choice seems obvious, even though the flight will likely cost you more time and money in the end.

UX matters, and I believe this would be a very powerful nudge. I bet many people would take the train if the flight had to be advertised as "typically 3.5 hours, 82 EUR from city center to city center (fine print: 29 EUR flight, 29 EUR baggage fee unless you fly with hand baggage only, 12 EUR ticket to the airport, 12 EUR ticket from the airport at the destination; 1 hour flight duration, 45 minutes for getting from airport entrance to the gate, 20 minutes boarding, 30 minutes to get to the airport with an average 7 minute wait, 10 min to get out of the airport, 30 minutes to get from the airport with an average 8 minute wait)"
Putting the contract on the blockchain allows it to be traded like, but not as, a security while the SEC et al. drag their feet on classifying crypto-tokens as securities. Something like that.
I thought the canal's own pilot was at the helm when this happened. It's hard to get facts on what really occurred.
I have precisely one teaspoon which actually measures a teaspoon. The rest of my teaspoons are spoons used for making tea, but don't actually measure a teaspoon.

However, none of my cups are actually cups. they're just cups.

It amuses me that these are actual (and accurate) sentences.
I've run into that with doctors now and again.

You'll meet a younger doctor who complains heavily about student debt and how impossible life in the US is. I'll offer to write a check for the debt in return for a negotiated percentage of their income from now on. Silence ensues.
There are a large number of specialized devices that used to have custom touchscreens - and many MANY of them are much more reliable now that they just have an iPad stuck in there instead.

Seeing it done with a GBA is not surprising.
Being able to outsource the decision about what is or isn't an "untrusted source" to a security expert is valuable.

Platforms that only run signed code permit that.
Is short domestic flights in France that much of a carbon producers? I mean is the measure just a fig leaf or is it a real step in the right direction?

Checking French sources, the only lines are apparently between Paris and Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux.
Of course. The curfew being imposed in January also came with harsh restrictions on schools and with workplace closures, and at the same coincided with the wrapping up of the vaccination of the healthcare system, which together account for 80-90% of cases.

Montréal is also the only place that kept many, many other other restrictions and that had accelerated vaccination before cases popping off everywhere.

So we really have to limit observation to curfew only changes.
> Working keyboard. And the feature of not having a touch bar is not only included but it’s the cheaper option — I would have paid money for that!

I've been using Linux development laptops for the past decade and have had all of these benefits!
Ask HN: Is it possible to immigrate after 40? Are the doors closed?
Specifically looking at Australia or Western Europe. Is it possible at all? Or is it too late? I don't have a "nice" passport, so I don't qualify for special immigration programs. So, what now?
You can't compare performance on the pinephone to Android phones because the OSes and app ecosystems are completely different: You just run Linux desktop environments and apps that are designed to run without hardware acceleration.

I run FVWM and Firefox on mine and it works very well.
Thank you. That is a much clearer explanation than in the article itself.

Aren't ad auctions second-price though? I thought the magic formula for ppc ads was that the winner pays whatever the second highest bid was.
No, by definition it is not, because the person is still earning a salary.
> Sure you can do it all old school, but that takes a ton of effort and makes your situation a unique snowflake.

Many of the situations required in this article still require real-world contracts to make them work. The crypto tokens are additive on top of the contracts, but they don't replace contracts.

Someone could sell you an NFT that represents 15% of their future earnings over the next 3 years, but the blockchain can't enforce that. Even if we had all payments occurring on the blockchain, the person could simply create a new blockchain wallet and give their new address to future employers, claiming $0 earnings for their original blockchain address. The NFT itself is only valuable if supported by the weight of real contracts in the real world with real enforceability.

Crypto tokens only stand alone when the crypto token itself is being traded. Actual value still requires consensus that the token is worth something (Bitcoin, Ethereum) or a real-world contract that stipulates that whoever holds the token has a claim to some actual rights or asset.

It's likely that most of the real-world contracts for something of actual value have stipulations that the crypto tokens are null and void if determined to be lost or stolen. The crypto tokens are largely a distraction.
There is nothing to adapt to. We need to just live with this thing. These restrictions and non stop panic are not sustainable human practices. We need to accept covid is here to stay and return back to pre-pandemic 2019 normal. Full stop.

There is vastly more problems in the world than exactly one very specific disease.

People have become hypersensitive to COVID-19 and we are monitoring it to a level never seen before in human history. I have little doubt if we tracked other viruses the same we we are tracking this one, there would be just as many fear inducing variants and oddities.

I see this same behavior with server monitoring. If your log levels are too high, you lose the signal in the noise. We have our covid logs cranked up to verbose... most of what we see is just noise.
Their cheating is exactly as you think it is, but the last example is not how this market works. It's a second price auction, so after 10 other bidders the highest bid is $1 it wouldn't matter whether you bid $1.50 or $10, you would always pay $1.01

But the rest of it is true, Google has access to the data on all sides and is abusing it. The acquisition of DoubleClick should have never been approved and the earlier we break them up the better.
Everyone knows the joke version of Delaware’s moniker “the first state” is “the worst state”
That is simply not true. RTFM - $ErrorLevel is for native apps $? is for cmdlets
This is the cherry on the top for their policy that requires real names. People never learn.
You may follow Sergey Slyusarev (dev of 'fiziko) on Twitter to see some WIP works.[0]

Also, take a look on Kristof Dedene's procedural hatching and manga shaders in Blender.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/cphlmy/status/1153433765072576520

[1] https://twitter.com/KDedeneArt/status/1332063491218399232
The article itself mentions:

"This extreme concentration of revenue in the ocean economy mirrors the structure of the global economy as a whole. For many land-based industries, a relatively small number of transnational corporations control a huge market share of output."

But I agree with you re: tech -- this ocean economy is way less concentrated than search engines or social networks.
I would say "Yes", but I also have two Pinephones and have a Librem 5 order in the queue. One pinephone is my "dev" phone (since mmsd tinkers with core mobile networking stuff, I don't want developing to interfere with my normal usage).

I do not think either the Pinephone nor Librem 5 will have any more significant hardware changes, so the Pinephone/Librem 5 you buy now will be the same one you buy in a year.

If you're unsure, I think buying a Pinephone is a safe bet since its $150 for you to try, and if its not for you, you can probably get your money back by selling it.

What do you want to use it for?

For me, Mobian/Pinephone does everything I need it to do for typical daily usage except for Chatty supporting MMS (and hopefully this will be fixed within a month or so).
At least in the version that existed in early America indentured servitude allowed for coercion and there was no bankruptcy option. Whereas in modern law specific performance for personal service contracts are strictly forbidden and bankruptcy is out there.
For international LLC owners, Wyoming has lower ongoing annual fees! $50/yr in Wyoming vs $350/yr in Wyoming!

Also I call out international above because if you are a US resident you should form an LLC in your "home state" aka the state you do business in!
all the domestic flights in questions have also high-speed train alternatives
Because light rail/bus to airport is cheap, and $25 fares are cheap. And the trains are expensive.

Now, why is flying so cheap vs a train? The whole the US government essentially gives away 737s at a loss to employ people might be one part of it? Nobody is giving away free trains that I know of.
why is alloca on this list? is it really that cursed?
Spotting trends in a fast-changing world
The subgenre of cyberpunk has always drawn me into the myriad of plausible, social issues (if done right), and paints a vivid, sometimes disturbing vision of the future. I don't know exactly why it is I'm drawn to this subgenre specifically, but even in the more grandiose space operas, I tend to get drawn towards the detailed descriptions of planetary mega cities, social division, and other themes, more so than space technology and intergalactic travel.

Maybe because these 'ground-level' ideas are closer to home, which tend to have a bigger influence on the imagination.
A large proportion of the carbon emissions from flights come from takeoff (you have to haul the plane, full of fuel, up through the gravitational potential)
100% not worth the headache so better to file in the state you "do business in" = home state!

But as an international resident world is your oyster and you can choose any state :)
And yet, the train could be more expensive
France has one of the best and fastest train systems in the world. There's really no reason for people to fly, but they still do.
No. It's more along the lines of:

It doesn't make sense to give conspiracy theorists any space for the sake of neutrality.
API Improvement Proposals at Google
Exactly. That's why money is a proxy, not equivalent to power.
I am curious whether it is easier for a startup looking to get into this space to do their ISAs via traditional contracts or Ethereum.
>Out of the top 10 mutual fund holders only FNCMX is a passive index fund

Uh... KOMP is the 3rd largest holder of NNDM and a passive fund. But regardless, whether these are passive/active is besides the point. Which is that most investment activity nowadays happen through vehicles that act as a basket of equities, and because of this, some of this money ends up flowing into bad equities given the vast majority of them don't trade on any sound fundamentals. I mean ARK surely doesn't, despite being actively managed.
> Platforms that only run signed code permit that.

Like GNU/Linux repositories?
I see. It seems as though the price tag has gone up compared to the dev versions. With that price I imagine they’d want things to be stable. I haven’t looked to see if they have a vcs or chats to see what types of issues are being addressed.
>ponzi

It's become increasingly common to see the word "ponzi" applied to what is just really a "speculative investment".

Its a shame this is continually being done, because its a real destruction of language meaning. A "ponzi scheme" is an intentional act to defraud...using a portion of investor funds to pay other investors in hopes of attracting more and more investors. The conman then times his exit appropriately once some critical mass of investors rush in.

A risky or speculative investment is just that. There is no intent to defraud. The continual lazy use of "ponzi" does lots of harm since it unfairly implies 'an intentional act to defraud'.
PCs are commodities, so what would you expect. Apple’s entire selling point is that their products are not commodities. Apple’s business is not like Dell’s or Lenovo’s.

What you have shown is that there is no reason to force Apple to do anything because anyone who wants a PC that can be repaired by a street corner repairman, can buy a Dell or Lenovo.
This is an outstanding Gish gallop, and I salute you for it.
All those gaggling facts are just being used to obscure.

Really all you're saying here is that the data is noisy (duh). So we can't refute your argument with local data about Scandinavia because that's "cherry picking". But when your argument is about a SINGLE DATA POINT IN ISOLATION (Sweden's results) then... that's totally valid analysis that needs to be accepted without question or worry about confounding noise?

No, that's bad science. It's quite clear that nations with both good mitigation strategies and good compliance (Finland, Germany, Japan) had low case counts, and those that didn't (everywhere else) had bad outbreaks. It's true you can find outliers, but so what?
> Some apps package their own crypto helpers

Didn't even know that mobile OSes have APIs for cert validation, since that's not a part of the OS in my books. Though the motivation for shared libs is understandable (Facebook being an example of what not to do).

I guess one drunken evening I'm gonna read through lists of the APIs just to see what kinds of stuff are crammed there.
Being 48 it feels like nothing is possible over 40 the discrimination is absolutely intense.
I open few hundred terminals each day. There is something seriously wrong with your machines. Pwsh is not a king of speed but 10-15 is local problem. Anything more then 2 seconds is a local problem. You can maybe get to 5 with lots of modules in your profile.
Steps to stop Apple from tracking your iPhone
Search Bernake Helicopter Money, so it could imply that Google thinks this project is so profitable that money will be falling from the sky or maybe Google thinks it is a license to print money, like the the 'Fed and the money printers go brrrrrrrr' meme.
For C Corps, correct! But for LLCs my candid thoughts are form in Delaware only if you have plans to in the future convert your LLC to a C Corp (to raise venture capital from U.S. investors) or you really want the "prestige" of saying your company is from Delaware. Some people say this matters to them and if it does, it is your business, your choice!
Otherwise, I recommend Wyoming. Why? Wyoming is the most popular state for non-residents who are online businesses, e-commerce businesses, or business owners who want an easy and simple way to form and manage their company. It's the most popular state among https://startpack.io customers, has lower annual fees ($50 vs $300 in Delaware), a low filing fee ($100), and was the first state to ever create the LLC. Also don't sleep on Wyoming's prestige as well :) It has a friendly business environment, also allows you to protect your personal info when filing with the state (use the registered agents info) and has even been called "The Switzerland of the Rocky Mountains" (I don't know who coined this term though haha)
Ask HN: Faster and cheaper cloud service to build MVP WebApp
I have always avoided using cloud services to create personal projects or web apps for clients.
I've always been afraid of getting too attached to a vendor and, if the application grows in terms of audience, of incurring exorbitant costs.

I have used AWS in the past for server provisioning and it has been very convenient to use all the features of the cloud. In the end, however, the costs remained too high compared to a baremetal solution and, in the end, I am using servers from OVH and Hetzner.

As far as application development is concerned, however, I have realized that re-creating a full stack takes a long time and the vast majority of web applications will never go beyond a certain number of users connected at the same time. So it could definitely be interesting to use the services.

I'm curious about your experiences using only cloud services (Firebase style) including lambda services:

What is the cheapest and fastest cloud stack to implement to create an MVP webapp that includes some or all of the following features:
- Authentication
- Authorization (ACL) and user management
- Database for CRUD operations
- High level CRUD functions already implemented (framework style)
- Sending mail / messages
- Queues and programming
- K/W store
- Logs
I would like to know your experience also in terms of costs for, for example, 1000 or 10000 users who use the APP daily. Also any notable downside.
I realize that the question is very general but any opinion and experience can be useful. Thanks a lot and I apologize for my English. It is not my mother tongue.

Thank you very much for your reply.
It's not always a rational choice. Among other things, there's some social status associated to flying compared to taking a train. So the professionals tend to take the plane even when it's neither cheaper, nor faster, nor more reliable.
Tesla FSD broke my marriage
Deeply, fundamentally true. If we want to touch the stars, we will need a lot of energy. Hopefully it’s clean energy! Fighting energy is a foolish quest, it’s like fighting to use less air for a growing population.
Humm remember when Google's confidential commercial information about Android "accidentally" leaked most likely through the opposing council that time https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-leaked-android-numbers...