skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure both sides are claiming it, but only one side is correct.

On the right, we have:

* USPS sabotage and state-level voter suppression measures in urban areas leading up to the 2020 election

* Post-election soft coup attempt via the courts (including having broken precedent to rush a SCOTUS appointment during the election, which could have changed the outcome of the coup attempt in a different timeline)

* 1/6

* Ongoing propagation of the "big lie" and scheming to overturn the election (https://news.yahoo.com/bizarre-seven-point-plan-reinstate-14...), alongside continuing implementation of state-level voter suppression measures and gerrymandering

And the left has:

* Failed to advocate for open source voting systems (which isn't a widely known or politically relevant issue on either side at present)

* Pushed for stronger voting rights and increased voter participation — both uncontroversially positive properties of a democracy, but also happen to benefit the Democratic Party at the current moment

* Proposed measures in the For the People Act that were arguably overly ambitious or aggressive in the current political environment, such as stricter campaign finance regulations, which were promptly renegotiated within their own party ranks

To frame these as comparable is borderline gaslighting.
Yes it is. I'm not saying some individual's story or an anecdote is neocolonialism. It's the entire system of siphoning resources from disadvantaged regions to wealthy ones.
Do their contracts require detailed heuristics for detecting VPNs?

Would it be breach of contract if they were a bit lazy in how they checked what the user's country was (simple IP to country lookup, for instance)?
You are the product. Their goal is to generate revenue with ads and links to their paying customers on the results page. Giving you precise results works against this objective.
CardDAV address book support

Although it's sad that this will replace the plugins that provide this feature, it's good to see support built into the core and a continued investment in implementing standards.
It does. However people have a greater expectation of privacy on a device they own than on a cloud-based solution where they have voluntarily uploaded content.
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Let’s be honest here. If that happens , Chrome wins cause developers interest do not align with consumer interest but money interest. Understand I’m not saying that Developers go for the money, I’m saying the majority of companies that employ developers do and they will target chrome. Firefox by itself is not enough to fend off Chromes “standards” and the only thing ironically stopping Chrome dominance is stagnation not completion.
They relaxed that constraint within a year of that announcement, it supports most filesystems that support xattrs now.
I'm not saying some individual's story or a particular situation in a particular country is neocolonialism. It's the entire system of siphoning resources from disadvantaged regions to wealthy ones.
It does. I live in Germany, but am American. I couldn't download the EU Digital Vaccine Certificate app until I switched my Apple account from US to Germany...
No, we're specifically talking about subscriptions here, and Spotify as the example to boot. People weren't browsing around the App Store and randomly coming across Spotify and after trying it out deciding to subscribe, people were instead getting inundated with information about Spotify in everyday life and being told by their friends and family and media they should use it and then looking for it in the App Store. Lack of Spotify in the App Store would have made iOS users less happy with their devices, that's how popular it is and was, and that Apple felt it could cash in on Spotify's success is exactly the problem.

I would say the majority of subscription services fall into the same category, to a lesser degree. People don't discover Hulu, or HBO, or Netflix, or Disney Plus through the App Store. They go there looking for them because subscription services live and die by marketing and word of mouth, as people want to know whether it's worth signing up first.
> Something needs to be done, and I've found that small, commonsense habits can go a long way towards that.

I agree, but I would like to give you an idea about what could be done: sell liability protection.

This is something I am working on doing, so it's not entirely coming out of thin air.

The idea is this: I am writing software to be Quality from the start. Obviously, it will be FOSS.

Now, I could go the route of selling "support" (i.e., bribes to get bug fixes), but I don't like that because it incentivizes putting off fixing bugs until a customer runs into them because that will "convince" the customer that they need support. [1]

Instead, with selling liability protection, including for outages, I have an incentive to make sure the customer does not run into bugs.

And it doesn't matter if Amazon or some other big company starts selling my software as a service because my software is not my product.

Of course, creating a quality piece of software relies on a process, as you said. My current process is at [2].

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/the-software-industry-is-bro...

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/uploads/process.md
> Selling game cheats

Unless riot itself has commented on this and said that it is cheating, your moral outrage is unwarranted.

It is very much possible that riot does not consider this against the rules.
It feels like a stretch to say that study shows "the most hesitant are the highly educated class." In the table, people with a college degree, masters, or JD are all less vaccine-hesitant than the population average. Only PhDs are the outlier.
Some official NordVPN clients turn your device into a proxy server which the other side of the NordVPN business (OxyLabs) sells to other customers.
Prediction. Tech companies are going to delay openings again or workers will remain masked for months. Former is more likely.

My reasoning. They will realize that either those people are going to be masked all
day or they are going to have mass Delta outbreaks amongst the vaccinated.
I've got my family putting photos into a little web-app I made (a few PHP scripts) and it's long-term storage backed in rsync.net.

My "boomer" group have Google devices, so once they auth to my service I can pull their photo albums for import.
Well the Bangladesh Bank heist managed to transfer close to US$1B over SWIFT. Of course since this is the traditional banking system we’re talking about, most of the transactions were either quickly blocked or since recovered. According to Wikipedia about $63M remained unrecovered as of 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
Opening "pandora's box" will get the laws passed more quickly.

In reality though there is no "pandora's box" which is plainly evident on Windows, macOS, Linux and any other self respecting desktop OS.
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You wrote this Launch HN too soon in my opinion. No register link, I found it by luck. When I log in I can't create a new course. How do I get started?
I'm somewhat optimistic because the vaccines are probably good enough to bring death rates to an acceptable level, we have multiple vaccines, that take different approaches, and covid has hopefully already made all the easy wins for transmission, so it won't get that much more contagious. My fear is that all these countermeasures select for something actually scary, though there's no reason to think it will get significantly more deadly.
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1/3 games of Mine has a smurf on my or other team that will admit it or it’s insanely obvious. I play central NA
If you work for a living without owning the means of production and receiving the fruits of your labour, you are part of the proletariat.

If you own the means of production and receive the full fruits of your labour, you are part of the bourgeoisie.

Self employed programmers are bourgeoisie, employed ones are not. And of those that are part of the bourgeoisie, there are levels and not all of them are bad (even in the scope of socialist theory).

- The petite bourgeoisie are your small self employed shopkeepers, artisans, and tradesmen. These are the people who live by their own means and without exploiting anyone else's labour. Rising the proletariat to this level is the entire point of socialism.

- The moyenne bourgeoisie maintain largely the same lifestyle as the petite bourgeoisie but with strong financial establishment. They are effectively the upper end of the petite bourgeoisie and whether they are considered part of the problem or part of the end goal depends almost entirely on whether they are supported solely by their own labour or if they are unduly exploiting the labour of others. This class may lend money in some capacity however normally if they are doing so, they are doing it collectively.

- The grand bourgeoisie are largely where the problems with the bourgeoisie begin. These people have an established financial status from a few generations of wealth. This class is the one running larger businesses and their wealth is almost entirely derived from the work of others rather than their own.

- The haute bourgeoisie are the "true" bourgeoisie. You can only make it to this class through generations of wealth aggregation (unless you ride an industrial revolution) and once you are here, it is almost impossible to lose your financial status regardless of spending or financial failings. These are the eternally rich and their existence is only sustained by exploiting the labour of others.

Socialist theory considers the petite and moyenne bourgeoisie to be the "end goal" for society. They are nearly entirely sustained by their own labour and may use their excess funds to invest in the community (normally with some expectation of return but not any life sustaining amount). Marx warned that through the natural progression of capitalist society, these classes (primarily the petite but also the moyenne in some capacity) would wither while the wealth collected in the hands of the grand and haute bourgeoisie.

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Additionally, many socialist and communist nations have strict gun control not because they are socialist or communist, but because they are authoritarian. Gun control is a sign of authoritarianism more than anything else and any nation that falls towards it is going to see the population disarmed.
Dropbox at least has a Linux client and unlike OneDrive didn't delete all data because some plan expired. The problem is Dropbox is too expensive by comparison.
They probably aren't worth anything. Since all the new TLDs got added, seems most people would rather just pick a different tld than pay some inflated price for a used one.
And then you have folks like Lamar Jackson who has been infected with the virus already and has a mild experience with delta just like those with the vaccine (similar to the outcome of the flu shot)

Im watching intently as so far the data shows vaccine offers superb reduction in symptoms, while previous natural infection also reduces symptoms and duration (making me wonder what a vaccine passport is really accomplishing)
Apkpure and fdroid.
Google used to support all those things - quoted phrases, NOT, minus sign, etc. In fact, for a long time, unlike other search engines, using a + sign (for "must include this term") was unnecessary because every search term was interpreted that way implicitly.

Not only did google have the largest index, it also had the best search engine -- there's a reason they won on search. These days, they still have the largest index and the best crawler, but I'd argue they don't have the best query handler. At least DuckDuckGo takes what I say literally.
Canada is accepting democracy activists as refugees from Hong Kong:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-star...
I am extremely happy that my institution has it's own cloud storage and uses ownCloud. I have never had to deal with Dropbox, OneDrive or gDrive bullshit.
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You know what other country didn't have the problem either? Imperial Japan. Didn't serve them well in the end.

You don't fight a modern war with patriotism - you may find a million soldiers ready to die for your country, but without weapons, fuels, and food, that's what they will do - die.

The comparison with modern America doesn't really work - nobody in the US is thinking of scrapping aluminum, precisely because the country's so rich that it can fight local warlords across the world, while its citizens barely even noticing it.
Exactly. Come in HN. You’re smart. If you give the average user numerous pop up boxes to click they’re going to be conditioned to click allow no matter what the permission is to get where they need to go. It is not an answer and counter productive.
Same here. Very reliable and useful.
Your interpretation is almost completely wrong, and is a good example of why we layfolk should leave the explaining to experts.

For example, you said "my vaccine doesn't protect you and vice-versa." That is entirely unsupported by this paper which merely says "transmission between vaccinated people is possible." You have interpreted this fact well beyond any actual evidence. For example, the proposition "the vaccine makes it hard to transmit, and makes cases very mild" would be entirely consistent with this study, and is completely in opposition to your incorrect conclusion.

So far, all evidence points to the vaccines working exactly as well as anticipated.
You can’t use cash to buy a kilo of XXXX from Sergei in Ukraine when you live in Chicago.
ASCII on the other hand is easy
I used ownCloud for like a month before giving up and moving to Google Drive. It was so slow and clumsy.
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I'm not sure why you're phrasing that math as if it somehow shows it was a bad idea. It is in fact possible to be able to afford a small monthly cost, but not have enough in the bank to immediately drop ~$1500 on a laptop, especially if you're just starting your career.

According to you they paid roughly the same amount as it would have cost to buy laptops and upgrade them relatively frequently, but amortized over much smaller monthly installments.

And their system would have been elastically upgradeable.

On top of that holding on to money and spending it later is generally better than spending it now, because $X is usually worth > X future $ because of inflation/lost ability to invest.
It sounds a bit like Hypercard. If MS made a wordpad powerpoint hypercard?
Yeah agree, public folders were great. I’m still a user of dropbox since early days but:

- I’m stupid and I kept a git repo in there, it became corrupt. Doesn’t surprise me but wondering what else is fragile in dropbox.

- Uploading pictures on mobile is really really slow. For some reason google photos on iOS is so much faster, like incomparably faster.

- Google photos also allows you to quickly get to all your pictures. Dropbox is… at best cumbersome, at worst really slow at fetching lots of pictures.

- make public folders a thing again for paying users. I’m sure this would create an awesome ecosystem of websites.
I have to agree. I was going to counterargue that technically all hacking is executing permissible actions in the sense that the system you're hacking into ends up allowing you to do what you want. That leads to why we have laws around unauthorized access etc., and that leads to digital contracts that need to be interpreted by a human with some ability to enforce their interpretation.

So yes. As the main point of digital contracts seems to be that they are self-enforcing, then it seems to follow that there can be no complaining about the results of using them.
Until a couple of years ago, google's date picker for custom range search only worked if your locale was set to use the American date format. If your locale used any other other format, it would flip them around and give you a completely different time range. It always amused me how just a couple of clicks from their main product was a case they probably didn't even test for any non-US date formats, and cared so little about it that it took them years to fix it, despite bug reports. In that case, almost all of the non-US world was the edge case.
I didn't intend to imply that's the only situation where skilled migration occurs, but that is what I wrote so I should correct myself. When there is a relatively fair and level competition to compete for resources then there's less room for exploitative behavior of course. That applies not just to labor but really anywhere.

I think you're rationalizing or painting yourself a reality that you wish was true. Brain drain from disadvantaged countries on an industrial scale is a serious problem. Not for the wealthy privileged countries who benefit of course, which is why nobody says much about it and those who do get attacked.
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OMG amen to that! we have lost the notion of stability in the rise of agile software.
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My point is that these are all things which analytics apis (which, mind you, are also arguably malware) at the time did as well - reading the clipboard was common as many operated their own internal clipboard proxy due to the slowness of pasting in older iOS versions. It's only called malware and not Facebook because it was injected into developers' apps without their knowledge.

And the 'remotely controlled via commands' section is meaningless - apps can't JIT so such C&C was simply turning flags on-and-off to go on different code paths.
This is a defeatist argument.

Humans evolved -> first human problems

There will always be people who don't play nice. Doesn't mean we can't have nice things, just that it takes extra effort.
> has never had a security hole -- we're pretty proud of that!

With all due respect, you pride on this matter should be no bigger than your userbase is.
The mobile apps for my US and Taiwanese banks are both region-locked to the US and Taiwan. Once I switched my region to Taiwan the Ally app stopped getting updates and eventually wouldn't let me sign into my account anymore.
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Interesting - I run MS Teams on Arch with no issue. The only complaint I've got is that changes to the PulseAudio devices don't seem to be detected without restarting the application - can be a PITA when you plug/unplug a USB microphone.
I would guess security is a huge part of dropbox and you’re never “done” there. The first dropbox-like that gets breached can say good bye to their spot on the market.
So this is like the ETH DAO thing except the "attacker" messed up?
Lol, I read that as - 'Major outrage on Reddit' & went 'huh, nothing new'
Since the beginning I've always looked at cryptocurrencies as a free for all. If you're dumb enough to leak your key, then the value is gone. If you send your currency away to something without looking into it first, then it's your own stupidity. Lost your key? Great job, dumbass. Crypto currency is and has always been a "do what you want, but if you mess up, it's on you" in my eyes.

It seems most people using crypto currencies now have basically no knowledge about it, so I guess this will happen more often in the future. Now, "everyone" is into cryptocurrencies, and most of them could probably not name a single algorithm used for cryptography.

It's so simple to stay anonymous online. If someone took your currency then it's unlikely you'll ever figure out who it was.

Speaking as a dumbass who noticed the news in 2013 about bitcoin reaching $ 1k or something, then realizing the key for a wallet with 52 BTC was on a drive I wiped some years prior to that.

Well played to whoever found a flaw, if that's what happened.
That is not correct. They are algorithms that detect photos that resemble specific photographs.
> specific photographs

That's the catch. Nothing in the system design prevents them from adding hashes of other types of photographs to that database.

> And do you seriously think they didn’t check the legality of what they built?

IANAL, but the law clearly states that transmitting CSAM to any party other than NCMEC is a felony. Apple != NCMEC. More info: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
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An email client in this day and age does not receive the attention a web browser does, but Thunderbird has been a steady companion to me over many, many years. Thanks, dev team!
Can believe it. But: you don't need the whole industry. You need to find one good place to work in. Those exist. May it pay a bit less than soulless corp? Sure, maybe - or maybe not. But my 25+ yr experience shows they do exist.
It hasn't been the same remote server for 8 years :) I don't pay for a server like that anymore now that I'm employed full time and one is provided for me.

And I was barely coming out of homelessness at the time. 1500 doesn't just pop out of nowhere.

You did just remind me of the time when I was contracting for that company, they flew me out to California but I didn't have enough money on my card to cover the incidentals fee at the hotel they booked for me. Thankfully an employee came through for me. That was pretty embarrassing.
> www.assfart.gas

Weird, because there is no “.gas” TLD.
Thanks! I'm impressed, it got the currency and correctly identified items on the receipt.

I took a photo of a slightly curled but not wrinkled receipt on a wood desk. The receipt had dark printing on the back which partially showed through slightly in areas (though not behind/near the prices).

The item prices were correct, as was the total. It confused ¥79 as 179 for tax. The item names (Japanese, katakana) were wrong but mostly right, and seemed wrong in consistent ways rather than randomly. It said the store was Target, but it was actually a local store chain with an unrelated name/logo.

I'm going try it on a couple more if I have a chance.
It really bothers me how hard it is to download all your photos
It’s a novel virus and an even more novel vaccine. No one should have any expectations of outcome right now
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Yeah pokemon deeply damaged me as a kid. unacceptable
that is surprising, I'm not sure what to make of it. maybe the "noisiness" of antibodies matters - the response they elicit in the immune system upon binding something, not simply how many of them are binding.

I wish the immune system came with better documentation.
I don’t really see how it’s different than a money market account in that regard. So long as they are investing in appropriate assets they should be able to liquidate them in a reasonable time w/o too much problem.
Funny how a credit card company who has probably the worst transaction fees on the merchant is saying capitalism is racist.
Impostor syndrome is only a problem if you need to sell yourself. If you are a freelance developer or a salesman in an outsourcing company you absolutely need to make every effort and probably work with professionals to get rid of it because it's killing your life. But you are not. I don't think in your case it's a problem at all.
Top comments always have to be so negative every time there’s something cool on the front page…
I think that they removed public folders because some people started storing static files for their websites in it. As for why google photos are faster... I think it is because Photos resize images on device, while Dropbox uploads them in original size.
With the advent of the whole data information complex (Tim cooks words not mine) more and more companies are getting access to a ton of data, so that’s there. Both in consumer and healthcare spaces.