skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are forced also to be a tax collector, collect money from your clients, keep it safe and pay it to the mobs... to the government before 100 days, either you have it or not.

Well, you raise an invoice with VAT on it, you get paid, you put the VAT money on the side because it is NOT YOUR money and you pay the VAT to the financial system. Your invoice goes into accounting only when it's paid. Can you explain what's wrong with that?

> Your customers, of course, hate it. Will hate YOU for that.

160 countries around the world have VAT / GST. Haven't seen widespread "HATE" anywhere.
That's not cheap. Ebay bulk buys are cheap. And they come with the free surprise factor too. Why not recycle?
I see your point but even when I was a kid 30 years ago Lego had specialized kits (castle with horses, space modules, car races) and even today they sell "just bricks" boxes.

There's certainly been a shift in marketing (e.g. Ninjago) but if you want the raw build your own experience it's still there, the offer has just expanded.
The best use I have found for DDG is when on mobile I use chrome and when a website says you have reached your max articles per month just share to DDG and and read away
Does anyone have pointers to info/articles about the countries that are on the "no VPN" capability list?

Some of them make sense to me, i.e. China which has a long history of censoring their citizens.

But in particular, I'm trying to find out why South Africa is on that list seeing as I live there.

Edit: In [1], Apple is quoted as saying, "We respect national laws wherever we operate" but did not elaborate further.

[1] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/400893-apple-will-no...
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The Market for Cookies That Lets Hackers Pretend to Be You
Building a webhook system using Ruby on Rails and Sidekiq
The Free Speech flag is kind of clunky with the "+C0". (despite the "Crime 0" explanation)
You could have put a sixth stripe with the colour C00000, but only in the top 1/3rd (with black in the bottom 2/3rds) to say only take the first byte, perhaps.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs - Next Generation Shell

Compared to other modern alternatives, NGS is "programming language first".

Repository of scripts written in NGS, aptly named "NGS Scripts Dumpster" - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd
Watching this show about the FBI profilers on Netflix qualifies me to respond here :-)
In a sense even the serial killer can be seen/understood as a victim of the society. What made him into what he is is the unwanted part of the society.
I still see the crime as his doing/fault though.
Related thread earlier this week, on how these cookies were used to hack EA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473038
Yes, it's still FHE, because the physical locations (e.g. RAM addresses, disk block indexes) don't reveal which logical index (in the FHE encrypted array) you are looking up. The encrypted data isn't just shuffled in memory with a secret permutation, it's encoded in a way that's analogous to a hologram but with cryptographic operations.
Show HN: MyRoom App - Explore interest timelines and make common friends!
A new type of social app where users view timelines of their favorite topics, and connect with friends that have similar interests.

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Third-Generation Semiconductors Enter Rapid Growth
Ah I'm not the only one who sees that as a Lettera 32! (which I own, and is still awesome)
What would the logs contain?

I believe everything is encrypted on device before being sent to Apple.
Another reason could also be that the servers operate in the same nation that you are from. If Apple or no suitable partner has servers in South Africa, that could also be a reason.

And, of course it could be politics. The South African government, I wouldn’t know, but it could be possible that they wouldn’t let tech companies from the US build servers in their nation.
Maybe I don't get something, but isn't that obvious?

Information can be encoded as numbers. If possessing that information is illegal, then possessing the number is illegal.

Should child porn be legal when encoded as a decimal number?
I will sometimes upvote something without comment if I found it interesting, don't really have anything useful to say myself, but would be interesting in seeing what other people have to say.
> one of the comments on the article site: "I have yet to see a convincing argument why advanced civilizations would need to constantly expand like bacteria in a petri dish."

E.g. to escape from violence, conflict and war.
You seem intent on telling me what I'm arguing while being demonstrably wrong about it.
How to Write an Intro Like Paul Graham
<Hat tip!> I didn't know about Lupin until I saw this profile of Omar Sy in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-formidable...
The actual pain should not be an influence, yes. The 'usual' influence, however, should be, as it's directly related to the willingness to cause harm (imo).
> I'd also really like to see Apple come clean about the iCloud backup encryption debacle

Are you referring to this article?:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

It's why I only use my Apple ID for grabbing apps from the app store. I have disabled all the `cloud storage` features of iCloud. iCloud is a privacy nightmare.
Windows 11 with new UX confirmed in a leak
You could load a ship up with frozen embryos and have an automated system that raises the first generation.

Though, honestly, humans are terrible galactic conquerors. The artificial life that we create will be the ones taking over the galaxy.
We can also imagine illegal index, since some number like PI can contain any sequence of digit (as far as I know...).
Let’s start with 3 and start suing stoplight manufacturers.
s/concatinative/concatenative/
I want to believe that, but the success of Ringo doorbells tells me people are ultimately lemmings. Advertise long enough and eventually they'll be worn down.
Ongoing meeting between Biden and Putin
What they are creating is a market for a third party innards substitute that replaces the mechanism for driving the page carrier with something that speaks BLE HID. A toy collectible that you can nondestructively convert into something you can actually use on your job and back? They can run a victory lap before even starting!
Shameless self-plug: NextDNS does not, but ControlD does do that - https://controld.com
It really hasn't already been paid for. For example, say you are a composer who wrote some music for a BBC series. You get paid more for something in wide release than for something released only in the UK.
"looking for technosignatures" .. Which'd be what? AM radio transmissions? Spread spectrum stuff? How would we have interpreted our own "technosignature" 100 years ago?

Compare the efforts it takes to talk to Voyager vs SETI: unless the aliens are talking to us in the way we are looking for we're not likely to see them.

I won't even get in to the blithe assumptions about the ease of interstellar travel; Charlie Stross has a lot to say there and all said better than I could.
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned
The Beanie Baby case is interesting; I think it represents a turning point where gamified artificial scarcity in entertainment started to become more aggressive. (The pog craze and the first wave of collectible card games happened around the same time.) Ty went crazy making different beanie babies of various rarities, and even after the bubble had become obvious, there were people still compulsively buying them all (although I think you always knew which one you were buying). Before that, it seemed like mixing in intentionally rare items was just confined to baseball cards.
It sounds like it's removing Webpack from the equation, but how would that work if you have a custom setup with loaders etc?
"I'm tired of handling every single aspect of everything on my own".

Doesn't mean I'll never want to leave again, of course, but... working on your own is one type of challenge - working with a team, and losing some autonomy is another.

"Tell me why you’re interested and willing to put up with bullshit".

This presumes someone working on their own isn't dealing with bullshit already. If you're solo, but doing any form of client work, you have a level of bullshit you're already handling. Invoicing/collections/payroll/legal/insurance - it's not necessarily overwhelming in most cases, but... it's another thing that many would happily give up in exchange for a different type of 'bullshit'.

Yes, getting to work on certain type of projects - there's things that only 'bigco X' can realistically tackle - I may be willing to put up with corporate bullshit to work with a certain class of projects (scale, industry focus, etc).

If I knew some of the folks on the team already, and wanted to work with them, that would also be a big factor. Perhaps they'd even want to work with me! :). I have a list of a handful of folks I've either worked with or watched work/progress over the years, and if the opportunity came up to work with them, in whatever capacity, I would probably consider putting up with whatever 'company X' wanted to make that happen.
Paragliding activist could have paid “with life”
Ha, your comment is ironic since I still remember from back in the 70's/80's that "nobody got fired for buying an IBM". The quote might even be older than that, but I had first heard that quote when Microsoft was still on the rise handing IBM their butts in the fledgling PC marketplace.
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For some, individuals, getting in shape is a troublesome assignment. To have the figure you need, you'll need to adhere to an exacting eating regimen and exercise consistently. Abundance weight causes different medical issues, for example, hypertension, and it brings down one's personal satisfaction.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/269904386/keto-burn-shark-tank-fully-natural-ketogenic-diet-to-burnfat

https://supplementstree.com/keto-advantage-keto-burn/
Isn't it the opposite of Whig history? I thought Whig history was the idea of continual progress.
I'm curious how they are securing the feature that keeps you in the same region. Since that feature encourages content providers to not block, it would be a desirable target to work around.
Also Wipr and 1Blocker on Mac as well as Purify on iOS.
I disagree. Yes, the syntax is verbose so that you get sensical names instead of things like 'awk' and 'grep', but that isn't a big deal because a) tab complete[0], and b) user-definable aliases.

[0] tab complete works on cmdlets, switches, and variables.
Having satellite coverage, especially wide field-of-view naval reconnaissance types, would seem more valuable than brute force and numbers.

Especially since I believe fishing fleets have centralized utility boats? Impound a processing & refrigeration ship... and what's the rest of the fleet going to do?

[Edit] US example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ocean_Surveillance_Sys...

Also, apparently the ex-Soviet radar version with the brilliant idea of boosting their nuclear reactors into a higher orbit at EOL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
I haven't tried deploying it to a serverless platform personally, but surely it's no harder than anything else to spin up on a normal Node server on eg Heroku?
e.g. because your star is about to blow up.
You're conflating economic growth with efficiency.

Economic growth is measured in gross domestic product. The total of goods and services produced in a given year.

So as efficiency increases, you actually need to consume more to achieve the same growth since your production costs decrease.
Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release
A Global First: Bitcoin as National Currency
Yes true, but it's still working mostly and I don't have a real alternative.

I want to switch to uBlock's Advanced mode which seems to do similar things, but I haven't yet.
My wife gave me the LEGO grand piano this past Christmas. It was an absolute joy putting it together, seeing how the designer made everything work.
By that logic though, Google Drive, OneDrive, AmazonS3, they are all privacy nightmares. And you might agree, but Apple is hardly alone.

And like the article says, they didn’t want to poke the bear anymore. Of course the FBI has congressional friends. It is possible that Apple saw the risk of it backfiring and making things worse as too great.
I agree but I changed "pointless" with "hopeless" for a better effect on my end.
Keto Burn Advantage “Update 2021” Price, Scam, Ingredients?
Could the submission title be changed to the article title? The extra words don’t really explain it and just make it weaker.
All printed keys, and a new fabric element. I couldn't believe today's Lego would splurge like this, until I got to the "Includes Note from Chairman Thomas Kristiansen, based on the typewriter of founder Ole Kristiansen". I guess the executive still gets nice models without stickers.
The New York Times and Washington Post are newspapers of record. That's hardly "fringe".
I don't have issues with AI being used by benevolent people for benevolent purposes. It's when this stuff falls into the wrong hands that would bother me.

This is the only reason AI hasn't exploded yet (we know we're playing with fire with AI). It's called our 'final invention' for a reason.
If you click the "Detail" tab at the top of the page, you get the date it was posted.
Google Messages Gets End-to-End Encrypted Support in Stable Version
the tenants wouldn't approve (they pay for elec and internet). plus I'm away for twelve months so no chance of onsite troubleshooting, physical reboots after power outages, etc.
There's many non-bullshit answers. When you work on your own projects, you rarely can impact many people. It's much easier to leverage the company and their existing user base to make changes that impact more people than you could possibly do so on your own.

Running your own business still has bullshit too. It's just a different type of bullshit. You have to deal with paperwork, accountants, lawyers, marketing, sales, engineering, product, customer support and more. There are probably a few of those at least you'd consider bullshit.

People don't just work for companies because the money is more certain. Sometimes it's nice to be an individual contributor and yes you have a boss or two. It's more of a choose your bullshit adventure.
The only thing I can think of in PowerShell that definitely seems to be "design by committee" is the whole ScriptExecutionPolicy nonsense.
Check the code of the SaveUser method.
Does anyone have an explanation for DuckDuckGo censoring the "tank man" image during the recent anniversary of Tiananmen square?
That's better for reading the data, but doesn't work for ordering stat()s because looking up extent information requires reading the inode, but that's what we're trying to make linear-ish at that point.
pencils are made with glue. Thats how they get the "lead" inside them. I appreciate if you dont want to handle it (but you wouldnt need anywhere near as much as is demonstrated, a couple of drops inside would do fine), but from a "reusable" perspective, its still better than throwing away a pencil stub (if you keep the glue well sealed!)
> I wonder how long it would take to get a screen size of 13.5"

Probably quite long. I remember a discussion here on HN a while ago where it was said e-ink displays are expensive since there's no economy of scale and there are only a few manufacturers. Now for larger displays the demand is even lower, so prices tend to be even steeper.
As this whole discussion illustrates, it's near impossible to know with the current system.
The safety impact of long working hours for pilots and drivers is clear but for medical residents it's more complex. Tired doctors do make more mistakes. But in hospital care settings, serious medical errors happen most frequently in transitions of care from one doctor to another. Shorter working shifts mean more transitions.
I like this a lot. People underestimate coming off as a bit memorable and likeable, even in technical interviews. If you don't mind I'll probably use something very similar if I ever wind up in that situation.
This can be enabled as available with the --reflink=auto flag for cp.

When copying between different filesystems it still makes sense to add the --sparse=auto flag to keep a copy of a sparse file sparse, too.

My alias for cp is:

cp -i --reflink=auto --sparse=auto
-Then you misplaced the keel and suddenly had an enforced lesson in vessel stability in the comfort of your bathtub...

Good times.
Just put markdown in a private git repo. There are good markdown editors (and git clients) for desktop and mobile. Much more portable and less reliant on some specific software.
Contributing to open source software: Kubernetes
Not yet, but we're planning on that later this year!
It is too bad... also I'm a little confused why I was downvoted, I see this as part of the more general problem of asset allocation our current economy is struggling with, of which crypto and meme stocks are the clearest symptom. A possible solution is UBI, once people are safe and secure they can research without worrying about survival and eventually reap the gains of good work. However there still would be the problem of large asset allocation, like who gets machines to conduct research, I have no ideas of any fair solution for that.
Some coworkers can see high performance. If the quantitative performance is only 30% higher, it may not be apparent. If there is a qualitative outperformance, the dullard coworkers may not realize the impact.
Totally agreed. I have several single function pieces from sets from the late 70s and early 80s:

- spring actuated forklift loaders
- boat hulls that actually float in water
- airplane/helicopter rotors (incompatible with technics because they predate it)

Not to mention all the doors, windows, trees, wheel axles and pulleys that can really only do one thing.

There was a period in the late 90s/early aughts when Lego really went adrift with the single function pieces. I got my kids a Lego airplane set from that era that consists basically of plane parts. No matter what you do with those pieces they look like they're parts of an airplane. It's pretty sad.

Fortunately, Lego corrected course. They still make specialized pieces, particularly the minifigs. When you're working at that scale, nearly all the minifig tools are going to consist of a single piece. But most of the sets now consist of largely of pieces that are flexible enough to be assembled into anything. Sets from the Creator line come with a booklet to assemble whatever is on the box (eg. a robot or a dinosaur), but none of the pieces are so specialized that they can only be used for one thing.
I live in Washington, DC, a bit more than 3 miles from the White House. There are fox in the parts of Rock Creek Park next to our neighborhood, and sometimes in the streets or our yard. I can't give you an exact account of their diet, but one once left a rat in our yard for me to dispose of. One night I saw two stalking a cat--I have to think it would have been a lot of work for the trouble.
> thats another way of saying you mainly want to work for the money.

Is it?

Years ago... I had a friend who was just getting in to dev work, but he was pretty good, even then. He was doing low-pay work someplace, not even dev work entirely, but he got to learn a bit on the job. But... was making around $37k (2007?). I offered to connect him with a recruiter who had a 6 month python gig lined up for him at ~$50/hr. That's... after his taxes... it's about $45k for 6 months of work.

"But... what would I do after that? I wouldn't have my health insurance! There's too much risk!"

I said "you'll be making more in 6 months than you do in a year... you can figure things out then, and very likely there will be more stuff after that, once you're 'in' there".

"Too risky..."

So... the 'stability/peace of mind' is, imo, not just another way of saying 'in it for the money'. I think stability with known lower pay is a stronger motivation for some folks.
Asked for specific examples of lying from any of those sources. Show me one. Put just a single link and say why it's a lie. It shouldn't be hard considering the depth of claimed journalistic malfeasance.

You made the claim. Now prove it. My claim is that these news outlets are on the up and up. I have listed the ones I trust.

Don't just say, "They all lie." That's lazy and disingenuous. Put up just a single example of a lie, and I'll be listening to your side of things. Otherwise you're just the crazy guy on the corner with the tin foil hat talking about lizard people. "You can't trust anyone" sounds conspicuously paranoid.

Evidence matters.
I would be wary of anyone job hopping every 9-12 months or even two years. For one reason, they dont stick around long enough to see the long term effect of their work and learn from it. So even if there is no 6 months break, thats still a yellow flag to me.
Well, a critique of society 2 decades ago.
Crypto Lode of $100B Stirs U.S. Worry over Hidden Danger
Some Unix nerd already did a md to groff translator written in AWK.

https://box.matto.nl/convert-markdownish-to-pdf-with-groff-m...
In other words: Is it worth decreasing disparity if the only way to achieve it is to make us all poorer?
Cupid – For Joyful Coding
A lot of the world seems like that; things that look like mass changes often have just a handful of people behind them. FOSS especially feels that way sometimes.
That objection in particular (contributes to drug-resistant bacteria) seems deliberately obstructive. People all over the world are being overdosed with antibiotics. These few children with this issue are a drop in the ocean of antibiotic use. It is cruel and venal to throw that excuse in the way of a possibly effective therapy.
What use cases would you like to see? fsspec is also used by xarray, Intake, DVC (see other comments) and others, and supported by, e.g., pyarrow. Please share your performance concerns as issues.
Note that the EFF's data set is heavily biased towards users that care about privacy (ie, the people who visit the website and test with it). My results on this site indicate that nearly 1/11 users disable Javascript. That is obviously not true.

Useful tool, and I'm really glad the EFF provides it, but take it with a grain of salt. There's nothing magic going on here, and there's no guarantee that the dataset of people visiting other more popular websites will be the same.
Show HN: All Your Chats as Phone Contacts
I practically do this, with Firefox and the Temporary Containers addon. I have other stuff installed too so there are sites that don't work - these I open in a separate Chromium, in an Incognito window.

OP, the problem with your general browser is that most sites will be broken. You'll need to do captcha before each shitty modern news piece and that's even after you told your Tor browser to enable JS and less strict security. But still, I think with compartmentalization one can make tracking reasonably hard. For now.
Timestamp, source and destination ip addresses, username. In the case of the exit node, url.