skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xoogler here.

The way I remember this working is that it is entirely dependent on the methods of payment (MOP) associated with your account. If you remove MOPs from country A, and then 30 days later you add a MOP from country B, your underlying gaia account will have the home country migrated (affects play store, etc).

The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP doesn't matter.

Regarding which legal jurisdictions apply between you and a company like Google? Well, the courts are probably not going to consider what it says in your account profile.
https://spec.matrix.org/unstable/#spec-change-proposals
A typical game is tens of gigabytes. A typical apt package is megabytes.
HBOMax blames intern for mass email rather than underlying causes
I don't think you need a lawyer for this. Just make sure to be clear about what happened.
> did they ask users what they wanted?

This is Apple we're talking about, the last time they asked users about something is when they failed to litigate Corellium for virtualizing their software.
Seems like there’s a lot of people with stuttering macOS https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/245429/cursor-free...

USB-C and USB 3.0 devices are one common cause, Bluetooth mouse interference by USB another, and external monitors after sleep/wake another.
I was paying a ticket once and I asked the St Tammany sheriff's office where my money for the ticket was going and they told me it was going back to the sheriff's office.

So all of the money Saint Tammany parish police makes from tickets goes directly back into their police coffers. Not into the Arts, or road repair or anything.

This creates a perverse incentive for them to write more tickets to to make more money.

Good luck to you. If you're white and don't dress alternatively or like a skateboarder you'll probably have less problems.
The umlauts for quotes thing is really interesting. I don’t know why the author went for “these kids haven’t seen enough ‘proper’ text” rather than, say “these kids weren’t taught typing and discovered a creative solution that communicates their intent well.”
> And that means many old UI elements may stay, that's a side effect.

They should stay on disk to be used by programs compiled 20 years ago.

They should not be used by OS components, nor visible to end user unless they run these old applications.

The OS already has multiple good ways to achieve that.

1. New programs can opt in to new stuff with a manifest. That’s how you get high DPI support in WinAPI: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/setting...

2. New programs can call some API functions to enable new stuff. That’s how you get modern versions of Win32 common controls: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/commctrl/...

3. The OS has a lightweight virtualization layer for file system and registry, that’s how 32-bit apps view things differently: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/fil... Microsoft could have used that thing not just for 32-bit apps, for backward compatibility too, i.e. old apps could use special compatibility view of the environment.

4. Finally, the kernel supports multiple user-mode environments, Win32 is just one of them. The initial good version of WSL (I still use it every day, too bad they have killed the awesome product moving to virtual machines in WSL 2) runs Linux binaries directly on top of Windows 10 kernel, the subsystem is implemented in lxss.sys and lxcore.sys. Microsoft could have embedded couple popular Windows versions, such as 7 and XP, as different subsystems used for running old apps.
apt has people that actually care about their users. They aren't shipping a MVP just to make big bucks.
Uxn – Virtual AV Computer
Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
The soft bigotry of different standards is talked about but rarely is the premise carefully examined. Can there be a single standard? Maybe the problem is expecting a good essay, composed in earnest, by a kid that can “barely string a sentence together.” We ought not be surprised when humans act human.

Maybe we should redefine public education to be a bit more exclusive, and not shame those that aren’t on a college track into pursuing mentally challenging work for which we are unfit. Give kids the money that would be spent on their education (loosely defined) and let them invest it, or spend on vocational training or seed money to start their own small business. Too much focus on producing som eidetic notion of the educated individual. People don’t wind up homeless because they weren’t exposed to Shakespeare. Some people will be lucky to attain enough basic skill to stay afloat. If such a person is able to fool plagiarism software, maybe that’s something to celebrate.
I use a browser called Qutebrowser which doesn't have a noscript addon; but I can disable javascript loading on a domain level.

However, overall I can tell you for absolute certain: if you have JS partially disabled things break in non-obvious ways and I find myself playing whack-a-mole with allowing various domains to load javascript to get the page working.

I'm pretty certain you do also, because it's basically impossible to tell why certain damned sites are broken and the most obvious thing to do is just enable JS temporarily to see if it works at all.

This is especially annoying on some part of a site such as checkout- where reloading the page causes a form resubmission.
This looks like a classic "what gets measured gets managed".

If they have objectives like "X% of kids have to graduate", then either you improve the kids' skills, or you lower the requirements for graduation.

For example, in France, the recent governments are extremely happy of the improvement in baccalaureate's success rate (the exam at the end of high-school).

They never talk about the level, but older folks, who sat these exams a few decades ago, always lament that the courses have been dumbed down. Of course the government doesn't agree, but why would it?
Is that down to the pupil ?

Sounds like another MacOS "why not use random unicode characters that look similar to the one you really want" feature to me.
Spike protein is dangerous (Covid vaccine)
That's a very good point! I removed the SIM and the app was gone again. So I guess you're right, it may be installed on the SIM and not actually the device.
The hilarious part is that I got this email maybe last week, moving my account to country X. Too bad I lived in country X for 7 months, they didn’t change it then, and now I’ve been in country Y for 2 months, across the world.

Why now? And why the wrong country? I have no links to country X and I haven’t been there in months.
Yeah I've used it to do some inline comments a few times and am really happy with how it turned out. Even though it still is a bit clunky I like how you can import back your diagram if you needed to change something small.

I would probably use something else when modelling a solution but sometimes it really is best to keep the documentation as close as possible to the source.
I know two very successful startup founders who were forced into bootcamps in Texas. One of which is a really honest, trustworthy, productive engineer.

The other is a masterful conman who has made 10s of millions of dollars as a developer “evangelist” who in the 20 years I’ve known him has never much launched a product or committed a line of code.

If you get a few coffees in him he’ll tell you, “It’s a huge scam. I don’t work. I get up on stage at 30 conferences or workshops per year and say the things the ‘thoughtleaders’ are saying, but with a devilish grin and a couple of sarcastic jokes.. and that’s why I live in a mansion”.
Steam, on Linux at least, comes with its own versions of libraries for games.

So it gets to act much like apt.
I've never understood school either. Now that I'm 40 years old, I understand it less. I think there was a generation of adults who were 'in on the rhetoric' at one point. Telling people that these are places of education, instead of a kind of reformation facility, akin to jail.
Tap the top of the screen and Safari jumps to the top of the page. Pull down to refresh.
It may be unrelated, but this blog post and the rather lively HN discussion made me install Brave for the first time.

Out of all chromes of Chrome I have sampled, Brave has the best visual polish. Best regards to your UI/UX design team.
Yeah but the next update will probably turn it back on silently...
I was curious what country Google associates with me, and this is what I see:

As shown in Google’s Terms of Service, your account is associated with the following country: .

It seems there are things Google don't know about me, even though I'm not making this information secret.
I like my phone, the Palm Phone, overall. Definitely the least annoying phone I've ever had, even less bothersome than my Windows Phones or flip phones of the past. I just find Android to have somewhat of a user-hostile design.
I certainly don't defend iOS and am unlikely to ever buy an iPhone. Overall I like my phone better than my previous phones, but Android is certainly designed so that manufacturers and providers can irritate their users on a whim leaving them with little recourse.
I would have expected some sort of crackdown on popular VPNs used by US citizens if they were as private as they seemed or at least some polical action funded by right holders.

We don't see this at all.

That tells me these services are compromised on some level.

A little while ago I noticed plenty of different VPN providers. Many of the smaller ones were bought and private labelled or had smear campaigns against them. Companies compete so some of that is understood.. but the extent of the attacks tells me players with powerful networks (governmental,business or rogue) shut down many legitimate smaller VPNs whike help promote others.

I would be wary of using any VPN if I expected privacy.

Rolling your own is easy enough but be careful where you setup shop.
The "inflation" bit, or the "percentage shouldn't go" up bit?
In college a similar phenomenon is grade inflation where professors mark up grades to look like better professors or get better student reviews.
People who want the "star trek future" don't seem to understand that, yes, work is valuable in its own right. It's better to work for your meal than have it handed to you. So, a primary concern of society is indeed keeping its people gainfully employed and we see outcomes that would not make sense were this not the case.
Hello Peter, thanks for doing this.
Supposed someone has been on a J1 visa for last couple of years and had changed it from student scholar to research scholar (moving the 2 year timeline to 5 year timeline).
In the midst of pandemic he/she had to move back to India to care for my parents and got my J1 expired.

Now can they go back to US on a J1 visa, is it possible ? Can they apply for H1b non exempt positions (those which aren't subjected to lottery) instead and if not. What would be the best course of action generally do to ensure they get some kind of working visa in US assuming they have B1/B2 visiting visa.

Thanks in advance.
If you want to maximize education per tax dollar then you need to separate out the smart kids into their own schools. Benefits of education are not evenly distributed. It is heavily weighted towards the right tail.
The application is filed by the entrepreneur/founder. And there's no restriction on the type of business but USCIS must believe that the business is going to employ US workers over time and isn't just for the employment of the entrepreneur/founder.
It's not mentioned in the article, but services could differ between app stores if we head in this direction, not only for privacy terms. For instance if China somehow get VPN apps off the shelves from HK's app store and people there couldn't associate their google accounts with regions other than HK, then that's a root/switch OS or no VPN scenario for them. Same could happen to Americans there - it's not based on citizenship or proof of residence, google just decides.
Ultimately one can argue that even so it's not google's responsibility to fight against authoritarians or whatever, but imho android already has a closed eco system, this is getting worse.
Those exploits enable any program to read essentially all memory.

This means nothing you did between turning on your computer and running an application with potentially malicious code (e.g. looking at a website with javascript enabled) is secret.
The system giving these rules is set up so the two are indistinguishable. Some people can't even tell the difference. Others can, but they keep quiet so their career isn't destroyed.
Makes sense. The percentage that you have to freely allocate could be a function of the amount being allocated. For example, someone with $1M income has only 20% of their taxes for free allocation, while someone with $50k income can freely allocate 100%.
That’s a good analogy. It also covers the increased sensitivity to additional trauma/adversity that it seems many people can’t understand: If you already have a serious sunburn then just a little more time in the sun, something you could normally handle, can cause a lot of pain and damage.
That is technically correct, but ultimately unhelpful in the context of the post. I’ve rewritten my question to address your objections to my phrasing.

Is Google required to comply with GDPR data and deletion requests made by EU citizens that Google has deemed to be be residing in Malaysia?

Since you’re familiar with GDPR, I would appreciate your opinion on it.
It may have been because the payment networks increased their fees.

But even more probably, they might have been running a substantial percentage of payments at a loss and this change was modeled to mitigate that.

Offering these rates for $6 items will lose a lot of money.
Yeah, the poster doesn't know what they're talking about. Also, App Store-like fees have been declining in the last two years.
I'm Pakistani. But I'm just swarthy enough so people don't squint too hard. I'm more worried about the crappy condition of my car and how fascist they are about brake tags.
Another interesting forbidden food: Tempeh Bongkrek[1], tempeh fermented with coconut which creates the wonderfully named respiratory toxin "bongkrekic acid".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh#Tempe_bongkrèk
Building a Self-Hosted Journal
These stores and games now include some pretty invasive DRM and anti-cheat software. That's probably what's causing the CPU usage.
So much this! You don't train the dog - you train the handler.
Yes, remote employment is allowed for all visas but it generally needs to be disclosed as part of the application and changes from office to remote employment can trigger the need to file new or amended applications.
It's not fair to say nothing grows there; Arizona is the world's winter lettuce provider. Irrigation is pretty standard. It makes sense to move water to fertile land.
I don't see how that subtracts from the value of the claims that can be verified, just ignore biased claims like any other media.

I'm not familiar with the idea that it's bad for white people to want a good future for their children? Seems quite racist to me.
Mobile phone companies is another one. Installing the Vodafone app was (maybe still is) impossible in many countries if you're not a local.
> In conclusion, we’re expecting a faster processor, improved graphical performance due to increased GPU cores, and a larger 14” screen to replace the current 13” MacBook Pro.

Good. So then there was no point in getting the M1 Macbook Pro (the one that has a fan) and it was already getting replaced less than a year ago anyway? Glad I skipped it and kept using my existing Macbook. Some of the software on there wasn't even ported, stable or even optimized on there anyway. recoveryOS didn't seem to work properly on launch day either.

At least this time, I won't have to wait months for developers to finish porting their apps to Apple Silicon; unlike the November 2020 launch day fanatics.
… in the presence of frequent syscalls.

This crucial qualification in the original title is missing from the HN title.
Consider the meaning of necessary vs. sufficient conditions. You're confusing the two.
Thanks, Peter! Would you know the processing time for IEP application? Could it be expedited?
I still struggle with smart contracts. I am glad they exist, but right now I think they will be some super rare thing, used in cases that previously required eacrow.

I was in the e-signature world, and nobody tended to ever care about authentication. Nobody really wanted to pay for it, almost ever.

They smart contracts have 2 of the largest features of escrow: handing control of your money to a third party and not being able to use the money now/bad payment "terms". It mitigates some counterparty risk, as it's harder for the oracle themselves to steal the money.

It's also probably expensive, as oracles have to meditate disputes and take on risk.

So interesting, but unsure what it would be used for.
Shortcuts are orthogonal to UI. They're used as a bypass.

We shouldn't neglect UI productivity just because there are shortcuts.
I'm not sure that I understand the question. Do you mean investing in a company and serving on the board of that company?
Automatically publishing your build artifacts
North Carolina is notorious for this behavior. They tried to tell a man He could not talk with friends about his diabetes, and recommend foods they should eat. They were sued and had to settle. The state tried to say that only a dentist can do teeth whitening. They were sued (by the FTC) and lost. You should not need a license to talk with another individual about whatever you want. Should this man be allowed to testify in court without a license? Absolutely. It’s up to the court to decide his credibility and expertise, and allow it or disallow it. Not a government board.
It's not only about mail though. I don't use Gmail, but I still need a Google account for my job to access our Drive, Calendar, etc. I will delete it without hesitation once I don't need it.
Competition from other digital payments, specifically Apple Pay and specifically not Square, has taken low-fraud users out of PayPal, raising their costs.

It's ironic that competition in payments lead to PayPal raising its fee though. The industry is zero-sum.
Safari already does this. Tabs begin by showing the page title and optionally the site favicon. Once you've got a bunch open they shrink down to just the favicon. After that point the tab bar scrolls horizontally. You can scroll it with two finger swipes on a trackpad or Shift + Scroll on a mouse. You can see all tab contents by hitting the tab view button (I don't know a better name).

Open tabs are synced between devices via iCloud. In the tab icon view you can see tabs open on other devices listed. You can click to open one or ⌘ + Click to open them in new background tabs.
Hey Peter,

Thank you so much for doing this. Much love ♥

From your understanding, do you think it would be possible for an international student in the U.S. on a F1 visa to apply for IEP and work on their start-up while doing school?

Thanks.
> “ If one non-participant switches to being a lurker, the total amount of knowledge about (and enjoyment from) the thing in question will increase, while the enjoyment of the creators stays the same.”

I see what you’re doing here. If I signaled I was inviting an argument of this type, that was not my intention.

Peace out.
They just employ the people who do? And, until recently, the paid language evangelists?
Google changing the country in their terms of services without user explicit approval/opt-in is much worse than it seems.

As a user, I might have Germany as my country in Google while living in Malaysia: maybe I like its privacy law better, or I'm a German ambassador on a diplomatic mission, or a German citizen on an exchange program, or a Malaysian citizen who signed up for Google while on vacation in Germany and is now confused about some parts of their account.

The point is, only the last scenario needs some fixing, while in all other cases, the user will understandably prefer to keep the country unchanged. Yet Google forcibly and preemptively switches country in all these scenarios, with no real benefits to the user.

But if there is no real benefit to the end user, and not everyone wants this, why force this change in the first place? Something technical that has to do with local laws.

And that's where it's really bad:
- It's bad as a principle, because if a person signs a contract with an entity under a specific jurisdiction, that person doesn't expect the jurisdiction to change unilaterally.
- It's bad in practice, because instead of knowing with certainty that my data is under a specific jurisdiction, I'm now subject to some automated process that could unilaterally move my data to a random country, resulting in unintended exposure to its laws
Based on the photo this isn’t in the menu bar. It’s something I can see in a menu that I can get to from the menu bar.
You can know the enlightenment is over, when you read summaries like this. When we choose social proximity to (evil thing) over veracity of content, you can see how tribalism forms, in lieu of meritocracy.

The truth is probably racist. That's how the ship goes down.
Stop the Lies: Lockdowns Did Not and Do Not Protect the Vulnerable
Maybe not. Texas hasn’t 100% caught on with time of day billing.

Here’s Austin’s utility: https://austinenergy.com/ae/rates/residential-rates/resident...

And even for customers that have time of day billing, peak times are correlated with high-cost energy production (peaking plants), but not necessarily grid instability events.
Michael Burry warns the 'mother of all crashes' is coming
If only there was some sort of Accept-Language header.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

What would be the best visa for a PhD holder (got PhD from a US institution) living in US who wants to start a startup? The person is currently in H-1B with an employer and his green card under EB2-NIW is under process.
The Indian kleptocracy has been stealing from people ever since its inception as the East India Company, or indeed as the Delhi sultanate - once the capital was moved from the Company HQ in Kolkata to Delhi we got a chimera that inherits the properties of both - an insane kleptocracy, with astonishing propaganda apparatus, and a strange politically Islamic inclination derived from nominally Hindu 'elite' retainers of the brutal Mughals and the British regimes.

That people consider it a democracy is itself a joke - I can't wait for Delhi to fall (which it inevitably will, once the thieving babus and judges have nothing left to suck dry and flee to Europe and US, like Pakistan's generals).

Democracy in India sucks - I pay thousands of dollars of taxes all so as to wade through sewage filled roads and for these morons to invoke communal hatred for votes day in-day out, all while nothing changes and everything becomes worse and more electronically controlled.

Worse still, I can't even move to the other English-speaking countries, considering the level of visceral hatred there for Hindus.

(Forgive the rant.)