skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of 2018, yep. https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/prisoners-are-get...

(I saw an earlier one in 2015 that was 1$/day to boot!)
Even Ron Burgundy Thinks You're An Amateur
Never buy devices with non-free firmware. They're always full of garbage like this.
>Maybe the stability that was there was hard one.

Stability is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.

Propping up dictators because they are "stable" is something the West has done - to little success - for a long time.
> European founders have to comply with European employment law.

There's got to be a better way. By default or by design, the different rules in USA and EU both advantage larger companies, thwart smaller companies.

To encourage small businesses and new business formation, we must synthesize the good parts of USA's (former) entrepreneurial spirit and EU's labor protections.

Universal healthcare and German-style childcare would be huge boons for USA's startups and small businesses. Maybe reverse the decades long decline.

Something like UBI coupled with looser labor laws (easier to fire, layoff) could allow EU startups to be more nimble, more competitive.
Additionally, take a look at the official Californian data Broker registry:

https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers
You may have a misunderstanding here. Neovim, while it is a ground up rewrite of vim, didn't break people's configs. The team made it a point to maintain backwards compatibility while positioning themselves to be able to move towards using lua as their config language.
This could work, but all things take time to diffuse through other things, so we might not know the full effect of what we do until quite a long time after it's done.
This is why as much as the web sucks, it's one true advantage over other platforms is that you can develop whatever you want without some company restricting you.
I believe the relevant statistic here is: Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. The number is very low, 500k total this month.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm

I’ve seen the antiwork sentiment online quite a bit (see r/antiwork and on Instagram) but have not once heard support for it in real life.
>Can an autonomous bot on some smart contract have a credit score? Why is credit a privilege only humans can enjoy?

companies and even countries can have credit scores, so it's not something that "only humans can enjoy".

>We should be able to spool up a persistent pseudonym that can have a credit score based solely on its selectively disclosed transaction history since inception.

Part of what gives credit scores value is that you only have one identity, so you can't create burner accounts and default all the loans on them.

>The market decides what score to give based whatever factor it feels relavant, which should result in abuse prevention over the long term.

The market will react by treating pseudonyms the same way websites treat tor exit nodes: with extreme suspicion. Using a pseudonym with little history and/or "real" identity tied to it would essentially put you in the "default imminent" category of credit ratings.
Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet
Facebook Is Allowing Ivermectin Ads at a Time When It Shouldn’t
Just wanted to add national law to the list, when noticed your update. IMHO this is the biggest challenge: if you do your org and tech setup right, localizing websites and CS is relatively easy and can become a SOP, but adjusting the processes and even just understanding how you should work in new legal environment is a real problem (I have experience of scaling healthtech from Germany to 9 more EU countries in less than a year).
Great. Drug dealing may bring in money to but what kind of value do they deliver? Except staling content all over the internet, spamming google picture search and then offering click bait?
11 accidents that involved hitting first responders sounds high, but without a comparative for the number of first responders we'd expect to have been hit for the same number of miles driven it's a totally useless datum.
It's not really an after-sale thing. They sold a phone with a booby trap set already. If the customer springs the trap, that's a customer action, not a Samsung action.
Substack scoops up paid social app Cocoon's team
Python's Deque: Implement Efficient Queues and Stacks
I think the problem is that 1) we don't know the long-term effects 2) There is no FDA approval (although there is now!) and 3) There is no recompense for people hurt by the vaccine - even if that number is 0.

2 & 3 are easily fixable and we should do it now. We don't have hold pharma liable, but we can setup funds for people with side-effects.

1 is an argument from ignorance. There is no long-term data so we can't refute it. It's literally an unfalsifiable premise. I don't know how you fix this one.
You nailed it on the head. The fear mongering is absurd, and largely money driven. I would think we suffer many many more deaths from diabetes than 1.5 million/year. Of course, if you die in the hospital from diabetes complications with Covid, you get counted as a "covid death". :-/
Signal team fought a long war against any forks or unauthorised builds of Signal. There are (or were) FDroid repositories with Signal compatible builds, but Moxie stated that any such build will be considered malware. Signal team was making such builds increasingly difficult to produce.

Official F-Droid repo doesn't allow proprietary dependencies on which Signal depends for some messages (push?)
> Even setting aside whether [double predestination] is a mainstream Calvinist belief or not...

FWIW Calvin taught double predestination (as the Wikipedia article says). It's the logically- and biblically- consistent view. But again it's not a "bad people deserve what they get in this life" justification.

I'm with you on America's "tough on crime" BS.
Apple has the money and influence to buy this exploits and analyze them, probably NSA are using them too so Apple won't attempt to upset NSA so they do nothing because the "good guys" are using it too.

Also Apple is notorious on their bad bounties and on have a bad history on providing researchers with unlocked devices for testing, probably Google found more security bugs in iOS then Apple.
Network discovery is something typically restricted by browsers, and even if it wasn't, on MacOS/iOS it would be.
It's clear that the more traditional "Linux" operating systems on the PinePhone/Librem are just not mature, but what about a PinePhone/Librem loaded with stock AOSP and F-Droid, no GApps.

Lots of stuff just won't be available but that's going to be true no matter what non-Apple/Google platform you went to. Outside of that though, it should generally provide a fairly user-friendly experience.
I'd hardly call one of the most acclaimed dystopian-bureaucracy films a 'random bit of satire'. If you've not watched and understood it (clearly the latter of that is especially true) I dont think you've any right to claim it's not relevant to anything.
Will Policymakers Let the Covid Crisis End?
Oh no, you think that if only the users knew about X then they would care, when really they don’t care so they have no reason to know about X. Not to get too off topic but Epic thought they’d have popular support for their new App Store but the entire world just shrugged and saw it as a greedy play for more money.

Anyways I digress, though you really think that Apple not wanting you to install an unsanctioned iPhone app is going to cause outrage? Sideloading has been a thing for a long long time
Ah, I was wondering If I was supposed to see something else there… Really though, that extension (coupled with Privacy Badger) has made it so much less frustrating to browse the net.
Moderna hits safety problems in bid to revolutionize medicine (2017)
Elon doesn't seem to behave like a normal person and economic cause and effect doesn't seem to work with him. I admire him for thinking completely out of the box and for single handedly taking on the entire car industry. This article seems to unfairly and gleefully demonize tesla, while substantial issues exist with almost every other car manufacturer.
There are those which learn from such things, this is true.

There are those which will never, ever learn. Ever. And it is a large part of the population.
Privacy is already for “nerds” only. Coincidentally, I brought up Ublock Origin last night at a gathering, and multiple people claimed they had never heard of a browser extension.
I think the combination of "unconditional election" (God has chooses those who he will save not based on virtue, merit, or faith in those people; rather, his choice is mercy alone) and "limited atonement" (Jesus didn't save everybody, only the "elect") strikes many people as very odd.

The notion that God will only save some people and that they will have done nothing in particular to deserve it - and then of course, religious people always believe that they are among the people who will be saved. So "God will save some people but not others; they don't deserve it; and the saved just so happen to include me!" This all comes off a bit arrogant to me, as GP alluded to.
...unless you fix it, as described. Then it's not a flaw at all.

The rules here say to read each post with the most positive interpretation. Snark is never welcome, and that could have been said differently e.g. "A great idea! Be sure to use food-grade resin!"
Well, that's the difference, isn't it? People were able to convert their VHS to DVD. Doing that for DRM would be impractical and/or illegal.
OnlyFans founder blames banks for porn ban
Facebook should be regulated like a utility and banned from banning anything.
Facebook has no business being an app at all.
That at least puts a positive term on it that the manager's manager might buy off on - "John is pursuing guru status on Domain X".
From Wikipedia:

[..] Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist,[c] militant,[16] and nationalist organization.
"We find it difficult to accept the threats to our "happiness" with a serenity which transcends happiness and sorrow. We are also offended by the contumely of allies as well as foes, who refuse to regard our prosperity as fruit and proof of our virtue but suggest that it may be the consequence of our vulgar Philistinism. We are therefore confronted for the first time in our life with the questions: - whether there is a simple coordination between virtue and prosperity; and whether the attainment of happiness, either through material prosperity or social peace is a simple possibility for man, whatever may be his scientific and social achievements" - Reinhold Niebuhr
That's a bit rich coming from you in this context.
I don't think my outdoor cat give a flying flip whether I'm around when it's eating the mouse it caught.
This isn't really that niche. "Personal use" apps are just another word for prototype. It is incredibly damaging to innovation if you can't even build a little prototype without submitting a request to Apple.
Huh?
"Hamas is a radical Islamic fundamentalist organization that has stated that its highest priority is a Jihad (holy war) for the liberation of Palestine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
I can't comment on Calvinism, but I don't believe that the US has ever really escaped from its dependency on slavery, which is another thing that goes right back to its earliest days.

What's changed is that you're not allowed to ship black people from Africa now, but when you look at articles like the one that was posted, and mass incarceration and prison labour, and basically living as if your employer did you a favour by hiring you...the pattern remains constant even as the implementation changes.

And there are still those puritanical underpinnings about 'bad' people deserving the bad treatment they get from 'good' people.

Many countries in the world have moved on from that system. Obviously not all of them, but it's still rather shocking that a first world country still actively encourages a system where you can lose all of your agency as a person.
All major US credit card issuers. Many auto lenders. Most of consumer credit outside of mortgages operates without any real income verification.

Here, "large" runs at least up to $50k-$100k per lender without any meaningful income verification.
Postgres Query Execution: JDBC
I was raised Calvinist (Southern Baptist), switched to Wesleyan (1st Church of the Nazarene) and actually studied the works of John Calvin, though it's been a hot minute. I actually agree with the grandparent comment. Ayn Rand-esque "salvation of the rich" may not be the front-and-center theme of his work, but it's definitely the implementation; this is how it's been interpreted by Calvinist church leaders century after century.

Generally I think it goes doctrine of inerrancy (belief that the Bible is perfect and infallible) -> cherry pick some Bible verse glorifying material success and implying God will give it to you if you're good enough -> preach this to your congregation.
Have it be in a standard Scheme or CommonLisp instead of EmacsLisp so that it actually benefited those communities with reuse.
> Honda could decide that every new sold car in future will phone home at the press of the ignition and check if the driver should be allowed to start the car.

They may be mandated to do so:

> U.S. Senate bill seeks to require anti-drunk driving vehicle tech

* https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-bill-seeks-requir...

See also BMW and microtransactions:

* https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21311332/bmw-in-car-purcha...
>Why then do we not take income into account in credit worthiness? Why do I not periodically upload my W2 or tax return to the credit bureaus in order to show that yes, I'm credit-worthy because my income makes it possible to service my debt?

Is this supposed to be better? Right now I can apply and get credit cards without mailing my paystub. That actually seems better than companies having regular updates of my income, which they can use for evil marketing purposes.
Sorry to sound like an idiot, but what would I want this for?
> I want to know why these folks won't LEAVE shitty redneck states and head to places with more opportunity.

I know of two reasons.

1. The "blue states" have, quite deliberately, stopped building housing. This closes a traditional way out of rural poverty, and I think/speculate it's a major driver behind the opioid crisis.

2. The book "Dignity" by Chris Arnade documents the life of dirt poor America. I strongly recommend it. It talks a lot about how many people belong somewhere, and won't move because of that.

https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/...
Who decides who is intolerant?
Useless NPM Package with millions of downloads
Thanks for the perspective. For someone who used to study EE / basic digital design but took the software route as a career, do you have suggestions on FPGA projects to contribute to on the side akin to the software world’s ability to contribute to an endless number of open source projects? I would love to chip away at learning how to work with anything more complex than the academic Xilinx boards we used in school years ago.
Déjà vu -- I think there was a recent Emacs HN post, with the exact same couplet.
> a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion.
"religious fundamentalists"

They're both Islamist, conservative, fundamentalist, pro-Sharia law, etc. etc. Both were or are still considered terrorist groups, and both have used terror tactics to murder opponents or enemies.
With apologies to Planck, politics progresses one funeral at a time. For example, in Afghanistan there is a generation of women who had never faced oppression from the Taliban; who knows what would have happened if there were five generations of women who had never faced such oppression.

The US is quite bad, its imperial adventures are a disgrace, and it absolutely should not have been occupying Afghanistan, of course.
Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
> I bought a 10% black box (90% open) widget in the 1990s, and now in 2020 that same widget (with a few more functions) is 80% closed.

My mobile phone in the 90s was certainly not 90% open, it was far less open than my current iphone. I guess it was easier to change the battery, if that's what you mean? Swapping a proprietary battery doesn't count as open in my book.

My desktop computer in the 90s on the other hand was far more closed than my current one.
I've created an app which gives information about Pokémon
Linux desktops got to where they are by people using and contributing to “damn window managers that your mom can’t daily drive.”
> The App Store model is about extracting rents. That the walled garden offers "protection" to consumers is incidental.

Not according to many on HN who argue that it is precisely why they purchased an iOS device instead of an Android one.

I think we have to be really careful about trying to push our ideals on others via regulation.
I think they are quite related; see my sibling comment.
Ah my mistake, I originally though they discontinued these but actually they still exist, albeit without being led by YC alumns (I think).
Giant tortoises hunt and consume birds
On larger loans, sure. But the credit score metric that is the first indicator does not inherently use income. You self report with no verification whatsoever.
I don’t know of any way that is more reliable or less risky. There are more accessible ways (e.g. maximize time outside without burning), but I wouldn’t think of them as reliable, safe or time-efficient.

Determining vitamin D levels will vary by country. You’d have to research how it works.

I’m not aware that healthy people can get too much vitamin D from the sun. In combination with the many beneficial effects of natural light (see melatonin, circadian rhythm, mood, etc.), maximizing time outside without burning seems like the best strategy to me. I just find it easier to avoid getting sunburn with the above calculator. Day-by-day variations are small enough that you might be able to make educated guesses most of the time and not check every time you go outside.

If this collides with one’s life (e.g. work-hours), supplements could be considered, but those come without the other effects of natural light.

To check the current UV index and ozone column:

https://www.temis.nl/uvradiation/nrt/uvindex.php
It would be much better for society overall to buy and sell secondhand, high quality, serviceable bikes than for everybody to buy a junk bike which is later trashed.
Oof. That's a compelling point that I hadn't considered. I recently removed all of my personal stuff from my work laptop, minus my dotfiles clone. I might just fork that onto my work GitHub account now.
Toppling dictators because they are "evil" is something the West has done - to little success - for a long time
Of course it is, obviously. No dispute there. Lets keep to the point.

That's irrelevant to the bulk of the article which tries to paint 'hard work' as an atrocity of some stripe. That's what I'm calling out.

Other people work in chicken plants without being prisoners. They want to. So the work is hard, admittedly, but not some kind of torture. Hey, the prisoners admit that freely by their actions. The article mentions the guards 'threaten' them with return to prison if they don't work. So they choose to work instead of returning to prison. It's a conscious choice, and clearly they prefer the chicken farm.
I think you might be surprised just how many electronic devices have to be installed along that cable for it to function. All of those devices have to be replaced regularly. If you keep your eyes open, you can see them all over the city you live in. Big grey metal cabinets on every block, some of them under a metal cover that hundreds of people walk over every day without a second thought, others disguised with artwork. Anonymous concrete buildings scattered all over, some of them disguised as houses or businesses. Some of this infrastructure is needed for each customer, and some of it needed per mile. Rural customers need a lot more of the latter type. And all of it is delivered and installed using gasoline or diesel. And it all has to be replaced far more often than the cables themselves. The modem you have in your house is functionally obsolete after just a few years, and will probably never be reused. The rest of the infrastructure will be replaced on the same timescale as well.

There is a reason why rural customers have such a hard time getting decent internet service, and why satellite internet is more economical for them. It’s not immediately obvious to me that the infrastructure cost of Starlink service is larger than the cost of your cable service. You cannot condemn satellite internet services simply because they use a lot of satellites without also condemning terrestrial internet services.

And if it is at all worthwhile for you to have fast internet access in the city, then it is equally worthwhile for folk living in rural areas to have fast internet access too.
>Just like unvaccinated people kill others at higher rates.

Source? Are you saying unvaccinated people are out there murdering others? Do people no longer have functional immune systems?
> I think religious fundamentalism _should_ win out because that's the will of the people and we in the West are not supposed to be interfering with others in such a way.

Good point, but there are a couple problematic things in that take:

- What is the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" actually worth if no one enforces it?

- Religious fundamentalism at its core - Christian fundamentalism, Islamist fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, even entirely agnostic fundamentalism - is incompatible with democracy and human rights at its very core. Women's rights, equality of all people no matter their heritage, gender or sexual orientation, freedom of (and from!) religion... there are lots of conflict potentials.

- Can (or rather, should) we as Western countries turn a blind eye against grave instances of human rights abuses? No matter if they label themselves democratic or not? In case of "no", can we truly claim we as a species learned anything from the horrors of the Nazi regime? What is a sensible threshold to intervene?

And that's just the ideological side. There are also practical issues:

- How can "the will of the people", even if it were to live under Taliban rule, even be determined amidst widespread corruption, vote fraud, exclusion of societal groups from voting or running for an office, corrupt/demagogic/government-dominated media or mistrust in the voting process? It's hard enough to guarantee that in developed Western-ish countries as we saw with the entire US re-election fiasco, the media takeover by the government in Hungary, Murdoch being labeled a threat to democracy or the bought Brexit and outright impossible in cases like Russia or China.

- How can abusers be meaningfully sanctioned? China and Russia are already cozying up to the Taliban, just as the West has done with Saudi-Arabia and its chainsaw-loving prince.

> Once elected they figure out ways to remain "elected" forever.

Which is why it would make sense to expand the UN into an actual worldwide oversight committee. The problem with that however is that the majority of governments represented there isn't democratically backed and, given historic UN voting, would probably band together to dissolve Israel in an instant, probably followed by the US. Additionally, how should voting weights be distributed? By population? By economic quantities?

> Any democracy that fails to listen to the will of the people is a failed democracy.

That is coming close to a "tyranny of the majority" scenario, especially when throwing in demagogues into the mix. Any democracy worth calling it by that name must guarantee the human rights of its most powerless.