skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With Huawei behaving this way can we trust our electronic devices made in China?

In industry this is called a supply chain attack, and the answer has been a resounding "no, of course we can't trust those devices" for years and years.
But I do think that the people involved have a visceral enough understanding of their own financial best interest that they wouldn't accept IOUs printed out of literally nothing.

Your thinking here is overly simplistic.

Minting new tethers cost them literally nothing, zero, nada.

What if they are just minting and giving away tethers to select individuals (aka "business associates") with the understanding that they (with their artificially "pegged" value of $1 USD) will be used to buy Bitcoin and inflate the price?

Knowing in advance that the price of Bitcoin will be going up gives them plenty of opportunity to make money.
I would define terrorism as the organized destruction of life or property for the purpose of spreading fear rather than the achievement of any strategic military objective.

Deranged white supremacist shoots up a place? Not terrorism, unless the shooting was organized by a group (such as ISIS).

Sometimes it's debatable whether a particular attack constitutes terrorism, but the definition is not "fluid" in my opinion.
Not sure if this is a hot take or not, but Finder is the worst file explorer I've used. Feels like your file structure is hidden from you, because heavens forbid that I can go to my home directory quickly. Honestly, it's not awful, but Gnome Files, Dolphin, and Windows Explorer are all more user friendly IMO.
L’Oréal’s New Digital Chief Takes Cosmetics Virtual
https://archive.ph/aNIyp
>I don't want to change my behaviour because that doesn't fix anything. I want to be forced to changed my behaviour, along with everyone else on the planet...

That first sentence is the problem with this world. Everyone says that they want to fix a problem until it comes time to take action. You're just lying to yourself and virtue signaling to everyone else if you're not making steps in your own life to actively make a change in your own behavior.

That second sentence will be the downfall of all free people. It's weak willed people like you who won't make changes in their own lives literally begging for government to take more power. Asking the government to force you to change your own behavior.

You're very naive to think this power you would give so freely will be used benevolently. You needn't look any further than the government's inaction to punish those big companies who are destroying our oceans, our economies, our rivers. No big company CEOs ever go to prison for destroying our planet because our politicians are bank rolled by them. There is the ruling class, then there is you me, and everyone else. These are the people you will surrender your freedoms to so cheerfully.
In my opinion, much of today's online racism is merely the counterreaction to fashionable "woke-ism", the overabundance of interracial ads and the undeserved praise for underperforming individuals, as long as they are black, especially in sports, as seen during Euros or the Olympic Games in Japan.

https://imgur.com/a/4EWFK9C
Are you FDA approved? You’re distributing a medical product and making claims that 86% of people feel less stress, depression or anxiety. In the US at least, I believe you either need FDA approval, or a disclaimer that you’re not approved.
I've found said assholes have an attitude that they are entitled to platforms and it's incumbent on everyone else to go out of their way to avoid them. Farcical, but they will scream and cry when the idea is challenged.
> How is that a risk? What are the chances that anyone will only see news from one source?

The majority of people get their news from the limited 'free' articles that have been linked to them by Apple/Google/Facebook's recommended news based on your browsing habits to sell you more ads.

I don't need a study or source to make that claim. You need critical thinking to understand it.
For context, European football and especially England have a very prominent discussion going on right now re: online racist abuse, with very large figures that span the sporting and political spheres like Marcus Rashford MBE coming out in favor of e.g. immediately deleting accounts associated with racial abuse.

The players, the leagues, and the government itself in the UK tend to place the blame on social media companies with recommendations like filtering & blocking posts, swift removals, and improved account verification processes that allow law enforcement to pursue the criminals behind racist abuse: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/euro-2020-ar...
> Please sketch out your "lost device, need to restore from backup" user journey. For a real person, who has only an iPhone.

How about "enter your master passphrase to access your photos". Like literally all syncing password managers work, or things like Authy work to back up your one-time password seeds. It's not complicated.
How effective is the class? AP English classes have a very similar curriculum (https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-langua...), yet here we are.

The fact is there's selection bias in people who even take these types of classes, and there's really no way to know how effective it is in reducing ones propensity to be "misinformed" (by whatever measure).
Tangential: If you mean torrenting (I see a typo in your comment), and if you don’t really need a VPN or can do with a basic VPN service, there are many “seedbox” providers who provide disk space, data traffic, and a set of ‘ready to install and use’ apps.
That is the same as saying "Just don't listen to people screaming racist abuse at you in the street! Simple!" Free speech law in the UK does not protect hate crime.

Sure no one has to read it, but you also don't need to give these people a platform to broadcast their views to an audience that is larger than the perpetrator's living room or pub.
> It teaches about how to tell journalism apart from other kinds of information, like entertainment and opinion; the hallmarks of good reporting, like transparency; discerning assertion from verification, and evidence from inference; the idea of seeking out multiple sources and how to reconcile them, etc. It's more a toolbox of how to inform oneself, regardless of any specific source.

Provided it can stick to that, I'm all for it. But the landscape has become a lot more partisan/ideological in the last 10 years, particularly at universities, so I understand why people are skeptical/concerned. One also wonders what's going on in journalism programs around the country that is allowing for so much unabashedly propagandist content to be pushed out under the guise of "journalism"?
> The standard deduction largely gobbled up this scenario - paying towards health insurance premiums is tax deductible

It is not deductible, unless you are self employed. For example, a W-2 person working for a business with less than 50 employees which does not offer employer subsidized health insurance is not allowed to deduct health insurance premiums. You also cannot deduct if you are even eligible under a spouse’s employer subsidized health plan (although I do not know how they could audit you and find this out).

> And yes - with things like pooling resources, big business can often get better negotiated healthcare premiums than small business, let alone individuals.

Not really, healthcare.gov premiums and employer premiums are pretty close for the most part. The difference is in being able to pay with pre tax versus post tax income.

> For couples, it just varies by situation. Sometimes the W-2 member of the couple can get family health insurance, if that's a better deal than what the 1099 can get. If that's not an option, then yes, the 1099 member has to fend for themselves and buy an individual health insurance plan.

I was referring to the complications arising from determining limits for retirement contributions when one spouse is W-2 and the other is non W-2. For most people this will introduce the need for an accountant. For the amount of money that the vast, vast majority of Americans earn, I think they would easily come out ahead being W-2 employees with subsidized benefits via large employers.
For anyone interested in the subject, I highly recommend Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion. It was written 100 years ago, but it's one of the best books on the media (and public opinion in general) that I've read, and the vast majority of the book accurately describes problems we have today. A couple of excerpts:

> Circulation is, therefore, the means to an end. It becomes an asset only when it can be sold to the advertiser, who buys it with revenues secured through indirect taxation of the reader...A newspaper which angers those whom it pays best to reach through advertisements is a bad medium for an advertiser. And since no one ever claimed that advertising was philanthropy, advertisers buy space in those publications which are fairly certain to reach their future customers. One need not spend much time worrying about the unreported scandals of the dry-goods merchants. They represent nothing really significant, and incidents of this sort are less common than many critics of the press suppose. The real problem is that the readers of a newspaper, unaccustomed to paying the cost of newsgathering, can be capitalized only by turning them into circulation that can be sold to manufacturers and merchants. And those whom it is most important to capitalize are those who have the most money to spend. Such a press is bound to respect the point of view of the buying public. It is for this buying public that newspapers are edited and published, for without that support the newspaper cannot live. A newspaper can flout an advertiser, it can attack a powerful banking or traction interest, but if it alienates the buying public, it loses the one indispensable asset of its existence.

And:

> This is the plight of the reader of the general news. If he is to read it at all he must be interested, that is to say, he must enter into the situation and care about the outcome. But if he does that he cannot rest in a negative, and unless independent means of checking the lead given him by his newspaper exists, the very fact that he is interested may make it difficult to arrive at that balance of opinions which may most nearly approximate the truth. The more passionately involved he becomes, the more he will tend to resent not only a different view, but a disturbing bit of news. That is why many a newspaper finds that, having honestly evoked the partisanship of its readers, it can not easily, supposing the editor believes the facts warrant it, change position. If a change is necessary, the transition has to be managed with the utmost skill and delicacy. Usually a newspaper will not attempt so hazardous a performance. It is easier and safer to have the news of that subject taper off and disappear, thus putting out the fire by starving it.

The whole thing is worth reading. It's free on Project Gutenberg, and there's also a free audiobook of it on Youtube.
Had many of those over the years - all I have left is the mouse pad :)
> none of it was spent making people better off

The money was given to contractors. They became better off.

People talk of government wasting money as if the money is being burnt but that money is not being destroyed; it's given to a certain set of people who become better off.
Many times they're actually "temporary visitor" visas or something like that. Which, as you say, typically prohibits working for a local company, otherwise use local resources, etc. But I've attended business events all over the world. With just a few exceptions, e.g. China, there's never been any question of getting some special visa--which usually requires letters of introduction and so forth--to do whatever combination of business and pleasure I'm there for.

That said, I'll note that e.g. Indonesia 30 day visa-on-arrival seems to theoretically be only for non-business purposes but when I've gone there's never been any question of using anything else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing_machine#/media/File:Py...
You laid out how: if you don't re-write your internal narrative

You're right that theres a possibility that someone is fooled and never finds out, and another possibility that someone is fooled, finds out later, and claims they never thought it was real. However, it is very clear that it's possible to be fooled and find out later.
100%! I recently opened a SEP account; its amazing. I throw as much into it as I can and it reduces both my personal taxable income and that of my companies. It's great.
IME cognitive bias has become a popular talking point among the left which is used to dismiss those who disagree with them. I.e. if you don't buy into identity politics and other "woke" views it's because you are succumbing to cognitive biases.
Contractor with your own company is the way. Otherwise the hiring company will need to have a presence in your place of residence, deal with a bunch of tax nonsense, etc...
A) The US built the Afghan army and state so that it would be utterly dependent on US support, and later withdrew in such a way as to maximize Taliban advantages (e.g. by demanding the release of Taliban prisoners, withdrawing from bases at night without informing the ANA etc.). On the other side, Taliban has full state support from Pakistan which never wavered and was smart enough to know how to manage them politically (something the US is really really bad at and is at the root of US failure, not just in AfPak).

B) Smart warlords knew where the wind was blowing when the US decided to withdraw, and defected to the other side. Oh, and previously, the Afghan president was encouraged to alienate the warlords. Though on this, guilt is only shared, since both Ghani and the US wanted to act so stupidly.

C) It's not 75 thousand, that estimate has no legs to stand on, but that's much less important.
ANA soldiers often didn't even receive steady pay. Their corrupt officers stole it.
Sidenote-- is average === mean the standard lexicon now?

When I was in grade school we learned that average was a generic term for mean, median, or mode. So when I see average conflated with median in discussion (as it often is), I assume it's intentional. But others seem to interpret it as a synonym of mean.
Thanks for explaining your thinking. I like your theme and think it's worth discussing, but honestly this paper is only tangentially relevant. It would be relevant if ADE were a thing, but basically this is input to a highly technical discussion, and the fact that this discussion is happening (the vaccines are getting serious scrutiny) is good news.

I've been thinking about how to improve the quality of discourse on HN a bit, and I think the philosophy of Wikipedia might be relevant. They discourage linking primary sources (like this paper), but encourage quality secondary sources. A review of ADE in the Covid vaccines, citing this paper, might be a much better choice, as it would provide context and a framework for evaluating the more fine-grained issues.
The converse is not true; you don't get rich by spending freely.

That being said, there's good frugality and bad frugality. Bad frugality is being "penny wise and pound foolish," spending less now in ways that result in spending more later.
Right now (10:15 am ET) 10/30 = 1/3 of "new" page is [dead]
One class probably won't undo a lifetime of being taught to be obedient, uncritical, etc.
So pepper spray would be illegal? That’s insane.
I have doubts about their medical claims, but I have been helped by traditional, video-based CBT delivered over an app. While exercise is one component of improving mental health, CBT goes far beyond and is way more helpful.
New Zealand isn't processing most visa applications at the moment
Feels like sacrileg already: I don't find the rich fascinating. They are not gods chosen folk, they are not interesting. They are lucky outliers and the equivalent of a PLC controlling a chemical plant, whos pipelines stream finances.
Those i know- sorry in advance - are boring. Obsessed and boring.
My oldest child just left the house to live on his own. He found a modest one bedroom apartment in a clean complex for $630 a month.

Maybe it's a geographical problem. We live near a mid-sized city (300k people), rents don't seem so bad here. Perhaps it's the bigger cities that have the outrageous rents?
> Your support helps protect the Guardian’s independence and it means we can keep delivering quality journalism that’s open for everyone around the world. Every contribution, however big or small, is so valuable for our future.

Lol "quality journalism" as they say it themselves. Not my level of quality. They have good pieces. But hit-pieces like this makes me unable to support them at all.
Nailed it. No government shouldn't play a role in deciding what speech is acceptable.
Yes, it's still a big part of the population. I think getting vaccinated makes a lot of sense in that group, but of course even there, it has to be informed personal decision.
New polymer enables tougher recyclable thermoplastics
I worked with appliance makers a lot, in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

The cost of an automatic washing machine is closing on below $100 with mass manufacturing taken to its extremes.

Think of it, a PVC tank with a handle for $20-$30, or a normal washing machine made by a profit making business for $100?
Teleperformance Takes Surveillance Too Far
I built an email-powered social network called Uhuro (https://uhuro.com/). I guess it could also be used as a social listserve platform.

Email addresses work like APIs. For instance you can send emails to join@uhuro.com to join the social network or quit@uhuro.com to quit. Other email API addresses include:

- invite@uhuro.com = invites friends and family to join

- help@uhuro.com = Replies with the instructions

- follow@uhuro.com / unfollow@ = Follows or unfollows CC'ed users

- followers@uhuro.com = Replies with all users following you

- post@uhuro.com = Sends your email message to all of your followers.

Here's more information on how it works - https://uhuro.com/how.html
> I work for a contracting company and they contract me out to a unicorn company

How do you find good contracting firms? All I’ve ever seen are body shops.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. You are correct, and some ICEs (large, maritime) are hitting 50% even. For a thermal engine, that's incredibly good (it's not about the gap to 100%, but the gap to Carnot efficiency).
I'll tell you something...I teach undergraduate statistics. One of the projects I give students is to find a news article that talks about a research study and then find the research study. They have to analyze and compare them.

It's a hard project, students largely presume that news sources have bias, and some clearly do. But telling apart bias from good faith misunderstanding and sincere attempts at simplification of a message for an audience is really hard.

The issue isn't just 'statistics' its audience, its communication, its argumentation, its pre-existing knowledge...its a lot of factors.

Part of this is human nature and, frankly, our evolutionary brains inability to process the amount of information now available.

There is some good research...I'll find it and add it...with undergraduates that shows something really itneresting about information seeking and use behaviors:

* undergraduate engineering students often treat the act of searching for information on ther internet and getting results as directly akin to understanding the information their search returned.

* said differently, they think that the act of googling something is the same as understanding the results - even if they don't click on the results.
Tax-funded health care saved my brother, when in his early 20s a brain anuyrism required north of 100K in medical bills-- paid for by the State of MN because he didn't have health insurance at the time.

He would have been bankrupt for life without that. Or dead.

Tax funded health care has saved my wife's life twice.
Give it a rest. The fact you’re attributing words and sentiments I didn’t write and arguing with a straw man tells me there will be no productive discussion between us.
The macOS version requirements might have something to do with the fact that it was written in SwiftUI.
Ordered a PinePhone after Apple announced they would be scanning my meme collection for counter-narrative content. Eagerly waiting.
The issue with these debates is that these tend to be driven by people with strong opinions coming usually from misunderstanding of the other side of the debate.

I like to think that there is no OOP vs FP, there is no strong typing vs no typing, there should be just adding to a shelf with tools that each has application in some situations but also constraints on when it can be used effectively. And your job as developer is to understand the bounds on application and effectiveness.

The road to mastery of development then should be by learning and understand those various tools (in the broadest possible sense) rather than by forming strong opinions and shunning the other side of the debate. People who cut off themselves from OOP will never learn its benefits just as people who cut themselves from FP.
PHP 8.1.0 beta 2 for PHP dev on Windows
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Video report on BBC (demo at 1:35): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRAGzPtLS2M
Yes, that title is a bit of a garden path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
And they nobody even cares about racism when it's in "reverse". Look at reddits policy towards hate, they specifically carved out an exemption where hate directed to CIS white males is acceptable.
Video of one of the first versions in use:
https://youtu.be/WDzGeGcQQYs
That's all well and good, but the revolution of motorized washing machines and dishwashers was to free western women of having to spend large parts of their days washing things. Making it hand powered may shorten the time vs a wash tub, but is still going to miss the positive social outcomes.

[EDIT] I don't mean to be dismissive of this pretty cool improvement on manual washing. It seems like it will be really helpful for a lot of people until their economic situation improves.
Regulation, ideally coming from an elected legislative branch of democratic governments. Like was done with mass media, e.g. radio and TV. Definitely not outsourcing that kind of stuff to companies having quasi monopolies on their services.
Current US Policy on China: The Risk to Open Science
Hm. OK. I tried writing a response several times but I still feel confused. Can you explain what you mean by “not the type but the binding”? Note that I know the Haskell but not the Rust (guessing from the “Result” name) way of working in this style.

(Not necessarily relevant or correct thoughts:

- Your language still seems to mark potentially-failed values in the type system, even if it writes them T! not Either Error T or Result<Error, T>;

- The way Haskell’s do-notation [apparently implemented as a macro package in Rust] is centred around name binding seems very close to what you’re doing, although it [being monadic, not applicative] insists on sequencing everything, so fails the whole block immediately once an error value occurs;

- Of course, transparently morphing a T-or-error into a T after a check for an error either needs to be built into the language or requires a much stronger type system; Haskell circumvents this by saying that x <- ... either gives you a genuine T or returns failure immediately, which is indeed not quite what you’re doing.)
I’m looking for a way to run apps with no hardware.