skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article talks about things like browser, ISP, etc and not so much browser history. Even so, this is the worst possible type of pattern matching. It’s easy for some to manipulate but really bakes in the worst bias.

People with the means can easily change their computer - You go from a budget pc running an old version of windows to a brand new Mac and your credit score goes up.

On the flip side your isp may indicate you live in a “bad neighborhood” and get penalized for it.

We have all got to hope this never gets implemented.
Http(s) is the new TCP.

Mostly because anything else gets filtered out at some edge.
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> want to enumerate MDNS services

Only if you want to create a wildcard listener. If you know the exact name of the service you want to listen out for, you do not need the entitlement.
This is just a normal business-to-business pricing agreement contract for a long-term commitment. In this case, it's ~$400 million per year for 8 years.

Also, I guess lawyers copy&paste each other because the Snapchat text about its GCP contract looks very similar with the word "required":

>excerpt from Snapchat S-1: On January 30, 2017, we entered into the Google Cloud Platform License Agreement. Under the agreement, we were granted access and use certain cloud services. The agreement has an initial term of five years and we are required to purchase at least $400.0 million of cloud services in each year of the agreement, though for each of the first four years, up to 15% of this amount may be moved to a subsequent year. If we fail to meet the minimum purchase commitment during any year, we are required to pay the difference. Our agreement with Google permits us to use other third-party service providers for a portion of our cloud services.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14492026/snap-ipo-2-billion-con...
FYI since the laws in Europe are most likely similar to the laws of Canada on this, it can get your "contractors" into big trouble with their tax agency.

I know a lot of people do that (work as contractor but they are employees), but if you bother to read the tax code this is illegal. It takes one audit to be reclassfied and then you have to repay the taxes your employer would have paid. This can be retroactive for many years after employement has ended.

Stay away from those contracts.
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Slimy as hell.
> For example, paying off an auto loan shouldn't make your credit score drop 60 points.

Sounds like it's working to me. Uncooperative credit slaves pay less money in interest.
Yes, the government is so terrified of investors actually being affected by the risk they are supposed to be taking on that they are interfering massively in the process.

This is in no small part due to the fact that social safety nets are weak and collapsing prices mean terrible outcomes for retirees.

But it also, to me, demonstrates the unethical state of investment and wealth in this country, where the rich get richer without providing any risk-bearing service to the rest of the country.
I was finally able to load the modern web as quickly as the old web once I got a laptop with one of those newish Ryzen chips. I expect complexity to grow quickly past the performance gains, but it's a nice reprieve.
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Anything digital can be copied and is instantly fungible with respect to all of its copies, so an NFT is only has the value that the digital signature from the issuer confers.

One example, perhaps, would be an artist putting their music on to a blockchain where the owner of a 'song token' receives royalties for uses of that song.

Sticking a boring old digitally signed contract on a blockchain is far from new and interesting though.
Feeding the cat is an important social interaction as well as a sure-fire way to get the critter to show up when you want it to (assuming the cat is even allowed to go outside of course, this is not a given). In that respect a cat feeder is a net negative...

That said, this is a well-executed project which integrates a number of skills - theoretical, mechanical, logical - to produce something useful.
> This is like being asked to get permission from IETF in order to run an HTTP server on your computer, it just doesn't make sense.

The iPhone was never intended to cater to developers writing personal-use, general computing software on their own devices, though. I know it’s an unpopular opinion on HN, but I don’t expect my iPhone to be an open development platform and I’m fine with that, even though I’m also a developer and software enthusiast.

Realistically, how many people would even be impacted by this restriction on multicast packet sending for personally-developed apps for personal use only? The number is vanishingly small relative to the total iPhone user base. It makes sense that Apple wouldn’t go out of their way to cater to that ultra-niche use case which can still get the access they need by requesting the permission.

I know people get angry that the iPhone doesn’t cater to every single niche personal use case, but honestly I’m fine with that. If I need to write a custom app for personal use that does something unique, I’m not going to reach for an iPhone anyway. However, I use an iPhone as my primary phone because Apple has focused on the things that matter for making it a good phone that does phone things well, which is exactly what most of us actually need.
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Have a dual pane file manager built in. Dired seems design for single pane operation.

Ensure that etags is compulsorily bundled with emacs, I am remembering that in a few distro's etags missing despite installing the emacs package.

Change the default scrolling mode.
Preemptive multithreading.
I'm not following you. What's to stop you setting up your own local network, entirely under your control?
>Centuries of headstarts ? What we hear sometimes, China had 3000 years worth of knowledge and wisdom before Europe started barely organizing.

Well, for most of those time, China was the most advanced economy on the planet. It dropped from the top spot around 1600 or so, and it took it several centuries to recover.

See, China didn't discover the Americas, plundered its gold and resources for centuries, and murdered millions in the process. Nor did it came to hold 2/3rds of the world as subjects in its colonies.

On the contrary, it was colonized itself, force to the whims of the British and so on.

Furthermore, it was itself coloni
More to the point, with a car if you modify it you may very well render it illegal to operate on a public highway. Same can certainly apply to a phone’s use of the cell network.
VSCode is mostly used as an IDE by web developers.
If malware is on the machine you are basically screwed anyway. A threat model where you happen to never authenticate with a service while you have the malware installed is not especially compelling.
> Why would they? Because of a little diagram of using AWS IoT, Lambda, and S3? Weird disclaimer.

I'm guessing he added that because he's Amazon employee.
I tend to agree, I dispute the premise that this is a problem a bit. I mean, I get not wanting to type the same thing repeatedly, but when reading code later it's really nice to have the logic explicitly in front of me and not hidden behind some other syntax or function. It could possibly be done better, but it doesn't need to be done better, IMO.
Thanks. It’s locked through the 3 US credit company.
If you’re hiring contractors long-term in Spain for over a certain amount of their time (~80%) for the long term you can be liable as a full-time employer and may be obligated to change their contracts to full-time. I know it’s the same in other European markets and I doubt there are any exemptions for non-EU employers whatsoever.

All other conditions you describe are the same for a European or Spanish company hiring contractors, as long as you are not meeting the conditions for full-time employment and therefore disguising FTEs as contractors.

I’m curious as to what countries you are operating in that allow these kind of exemptions compared to local EU entrepreneurs. IANAL but 99% sure these exemptions do not exist in Spain at least.

EDIT: This case study [1] by a Spanish law firm indeed claims that a company based outside the EU (UK post-Brexit) can be tried in Spain for false contractor relationships.

[1] https://likum.es/el-falso-autonomo-tambien-si-la-empresa-y-e...
I like a good overengineering! :3 Very nice to watch / read.

Also: see his blog for posts about the PCB design and STLs etc: https://piotr.westfalewicz.com/blog/
Evidently someone read Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and thought it contained some good ideas for a business, rather than a dire warning of a ghastly dystopia
Greg Lemond said that "it never get easier, you just go faster." A nicer bike isn't going to mean that you work any less hard, it just means you go faster. And fast is fun.
Horrifying. Sounds like the camp from the book Holes. It’s insane that this is legal.
I hear this kind of complaining from greybeards all the time. And I have some sympathy having grown up in the early 90s when you legitimately could tinker with every aspect of your computer. I kind of miss that; I suspect I’d miss it more if I had more time.

But as a customer I appreciate this stuff. I need some shortcuts to be able to maintain reasonable opsec without dedicating my life to dodging surveillance. I’m ok if it makes applications harder to develop because there are plenty on the App Store already.

If you want a device that can run arbitrary code, Android exists. Laptops exist. You have options. I don’t want a device like that in my pocket, however. It doesn’t fit in my personal security model.
+1.

Having worked at both, the main difference between SV and Europe is "share your failures so that everybody can learn" vs "downplay your failures so that you look better".
Sorry for the rage but, WTF is pinterest? They spam google picture search. I hate them!
This is probably due to some copyrighted binary blob used on the camera driver of the front facing camera, given how much magic it needs to do to compensate for the opaque pixels.
It could be for compliance with Japanese law which forbids taking photos without a shutter sound? This in principle doesn't apply when you're not in Japan, but after unlocking Samsung has no way to tell.

Edit: reading the article about SONY (https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-android-pie-unloc...), DRM keys seems to be a more likely cause, which drcursor's comment also mentions.
> The US private VC model is superior in every way.

You do realize that most of the innovation the US pride itself about was in fact directly funded by the state through DARPA, the NSF, NASA and military contracts: Fairchild Semiconductor, the internet, Google, Space X, Moderna...
I'm not a hardcore vimmer, but I use evil-mode religiously and use vim for my sysadmin work on remote servers.

I've never noticed a difference between evil-mode's behavior and vim's, while I usually get extremely frustrated with Vim plugins for IDEs.

Can you tell me what differences you've run into between vim and evil-mode?
AGI on classical computers? is this a joke?
I do not claim it is outright impossible. The hurdles are higher, though.
What can I do to support this project?
Because he works for Amazon.

That might even be a standard footer across all of his blogs.
I wouldn’t say he’s not contributing, I’d say he doesn’t have employees. Same would be true if he has his “team” on 1099 in the US.

Outside of any moral questions, the risk here is that the government may decide your group of happy startup contractors are in fact employees, and then you’re in for some massively distracting and expensive restructuring (at best) or legal sanctions and maybe losing your team (at worst).

So yeah, it’s easier, but that’s because it’s cheat mode, not because he’s American. You could use any offshore company for the same thing.
I'm pretty sure that it's a 10-20 minute job to write a Git subcommand wrapper that checks out a work vs personal project, and then symlinks the correct config file for the repo, if someone chose to go this route.
“Stop working and you’ll go to a hitherto unknown, potentially worse, prison” doesn’t sound like any kind of option that I’m familiar with. The article makes it sound like many of these men were on their first offence (if that’s even applicable here) and may not have realized that their current status as slave laborers was actually the worse one. They probably shouldn’t be faulted for that.
This lacks a pop-up that suggests to go to a local site (".de") instead of the global one (".com").
It's equally wrong to say that the USSR won the war as it is to say the US did, but the USSR unquestionably paid the highest price to ensure the Allies won.
Could it be that the camera is directly connected to the security chip responsible for things like biometrics, payment, etc. and that unlocking disable it?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287246
If this were the case, then why doesn't every phone have the same restriction? And why would it make its first appearance from a Korean company on a phone for the American market?
No is not. It's just Gopher rethinked for display-independent devices.

Most Gopher users are aware of Gemini and viceversa, so often provide both services.

Also, Gemini provides options to set ascii-art as -optional- making Gemini one of the best hypertext services for the blind ever.
Man, why on earth do you have to insult entire states and millions of people who live in them in order to make your point.

—edit: deleted hyperbole—
This is not so much a lie as an over-simplification. Anyone suggesting that the US did not play a major role in WW2 is foolish.

I'm sure that as a thought exercise, someone could identify a number of different events or courses of action in WW2 which could have in principle changed the outcome of the war. In that sense, there are many things which "won" WWII.

Further, number of casualties is a perfectly fine argument for "who sacrificed the most," but not necessarily for who "won" the war.
> I may be biased (as you point out), but I think that the flexibility Emacs’ architecture (and Lisp) provides is what makes Emacs such a great editor. It’s effectively a canvas for you to create your ideal text editor on. (Although not everyone wants to do that, I know.)

Yes, emacs is a great tool, hardly possible to deny this. But this is not the bias I meant. I just question whether the benefit people get's from this flexibility, outweights the price most people pay for it.

> Re: Electron, I personally feel like Electron would be the opposite of the solution. Rather, I’d be excited to see a new high-performance Emacs GUI with graphics acceleration, greater visual fidelity,

This would indeed be cool to have. But is it realistic that someone will materialize this dream? The amount of work to make this is enourmous, and GNU emacs-project has not even enough manpower to fix their existing GUI-problems.

If you wanna see a high-performance editor GUI, just take a look at Sublime Text. It's an insanly optimized and very good editor. But it also took them over a decade of regular work with a small company behind it. Not to mention that it's not as flexible as emacs. How long would you think an open source-project of free workers will need to build a modern emacs that will saisfy enough people?

That's the point of electron: it's here, now. It takes away all the hard work of build the important and costly groundbase and will save you a decade of investment. And it will stay and improve in the future. This makes it the ugly but realistic solution where you take the tradeoff of a slower platform to get the chance to actual get something done on a high level.
Phishing remains a way more common threat than sim swapping, yet you never see these complaints about TOTP. Sim swapping is just sexy and eats up conversation space.
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Endow it with a decent editor.
You are not incorrect. That said, to use your words, organization X does not publish Y without certain level of support for Y within X.
https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/padv22/if_you_could_...
> There are a lot of places where local providers act like robber barons.

I agree, this may be the best effect Starlink can have : create competition.

> Population of the world is around 8 billion

Yes but which part is able to afford 99$/month (+antenna) + bad local provider which refuse to adapt to competition (first at price/offer level before even infrastructure) + no political reason for a global-us based provider ?
Remembering the advent of the Internet in the Czech Republic of the late 1990s, people will share connections. Regardless of EULAs. Hell, people even shared dial-ups. Like, 56 kbps for three neighboring units on a single floor. It sucked, but it was much better than nothing.

That is what I expect in poorer countries to happen. Starlink may claim that one terminal is meant for one household only, but they will silently tolerate connection sharing as long as it gives them penetration.

And third world metropolises aren't exactly penetrated by optic networks. So the alternative is probably an overloaded 4G network.
No he wasn’t such a forgiving guy. Seriously, he forgives those who repent.

Important distinction.
That isn't how this works.

Yes, the emergency order for vaccines is generally for the higher risk population. But using a not very broadly tested vaccine that was given an emergency order first in kids doesn't seem like a good idea I guess.

Covid is extremely dangerous in kids. Long covid in kids isn't something I would ever want to expose my kids to if I had kids. If I had kids I would want them to wear a mask. I don't want to get covid from them if they happen to be a vector. I don't want them to develop a full-blown case. I don't want them to get it and then infect their mother or their friends or me or their teacher. I don't want anyone to get covid.

I've been reading all of your replies and you are an very emotional parent and I respect that and I understand that.

Kids might need facial expressions but kids 100% do need to be healthy and they aren't as resilient as you have said.

Okay, so your child gets covid isn't vaccinated and you end up finding out when they are in their mid-20s that they are developing some sort of a brain disorder that was brought on by long covid that we are completely unaware of because we don't know what's going to happen with this.

This is what's wrong with a lot of these short-sighted arguments is that... I might be afraid of covid and I might want zero covid but that is because I have the imagination to envision what could end up happening. and it's not far fetched it's not fear tactics it's not gaslighting.

While we know that kids need certain things for their developing brains, positive stimulus visual things and all of that... I don't know how you're not more afraid or more concerned about the unknowns about this virus.

Now I'm going to get a little opinionated here and it might be a little jab and I apologize for being rude... Are you sure that your actually not just worked up about this because you have a job you need your kids to go someplace during the day you're stressed about other parts of your life just crap like that?

Like for me personally, I'm disabled I stay at home all day I go out maybe once a week to get groceries and I double mask and I've been vaccinated since April 20th with Pfizer. Before this pandemic I didn't go anywhere.

I might be a little bit maladjusted but I'm not going to be rolling the dice on a virus that could potentially affect me my entire life when the life that I'm already living right now already has problems and I don't need people who are all "think of the children" acting short-sighted about all of this and putting people like me at risk putting people at risk putting themselves at risk.

I wish people would take this more seriously. Yeah we could have an entire year or two of no social encounters or deprived extroverts but think long-term on how we could have a whole slice of humanity that's getting this virus that is basically just messing up how their DNA is going to unfold how all of their proteins are going to unfold basically turning into a whole new research sector.

We have all of the knowledge and the ways to avoid all of this but we have people that just give up and accept that oh we're all going to get it so just buck up old chap.
> every country is doing the same crap

That's exactly the problem. No, not every country is doing the same crap, not by a long shot. I have no particular axe to grind and I'm not even American, but pretending that the US and China are somehow equivalent on human rights is so dishonest that if anything here is propaganda then that rhetoric is.
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Different legal opinions and Samsung being more risk-averse I guess?

However reading the article about SONY (https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-android-pie-unloc...), DRM keys seems to be a more likely cause...
I have one of these on the way and never intended to root it, but this outrages me.

I get that Samsung reserves the right to say "its been rooted and is now longer certified "safe" by us, but BREAKING the functionality of the device that I paid for and own is vandalism.
Somehow it does not make me feel better. I have hardware that becomes more restricted the moment I want to actually use it as I see fit.
I feel it would be apples and oranges to compare (sub-)continent spanning multi-ethnic countries like the USA or China with individual EU countries. The point of the EU is to form one economical union. Sure there's still deficits in unification on other fronts, but economically the EU is pretty much one uniform bloc of comparable size.
The guy did have a prison problem. So it was trading one problem for another.

There are folks who are paid to work in such plants. That he didn't get paid is a scam. But the work? It's just working in a chicken plant. Not 'the most horrific thing', unless you've never worked hard and then sure it might seem like that.

So scam aside, this story was 'guy worked hard for a year'.
Also if the idiots know they're unmanned and used to deliver goods, they could be even more motivated to attempt to shoot them down to steal the cargo. I also would consider putting cameras and the necessary technology to help identifying anyone attempting to shoot them down.

Or maybe paint them as sharks, then add some powerful lasers on their back:)
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If that was the intent you'd expect your credit score to be lower if you don't carry a balance on your credit card, but that's not the case. https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/will-carrying-a-...
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