skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat infuriating.

From a USB C charger perspective, many of the banned brands were actually quite good , selling GaNFast chargers which are as good as it comes. Most of what remains is unknown.

It's hard to blame these companies , Amazon pretty much made the place such that once one brand started doing this, you were dead if you weren't.

So no, I do not see this as a good thing. There are other steps they could've taken but no.

Stopping co-mingling would be one but I haven't heard them doing so.

Curating products and taking responsibility would be another but LOL.

As I mentioned before, my favorite product on Amazon demonstrating the utter lawlessness of a place is a powerstrip with a C5/C6 coupler input and a few NEMA 5-15R sockets. It ships with a CEE7/16-C5 cable (!!) and a couple plug shape adapters. I have been trying to decide for years whether it's a bigger fire hazard than an electricity hazard but I just can't make up my mind. Without a doubt, if a retail store attempted to sell this, it would be closed down, razed and the place sown with salt for good measure. Or at least fined into oblivion. It claims to have a TÜV Süd safety mark, it's obviously a fake one -- I'd pay good money to see the face of a TÜV Süd engineer when they see a power strip with a 2.5A input feeding 15A sockets. And of course losing ground because who needs the safety ground to be connected to ground. It is 4.5 stars with 7966 ratings and an "A" from FakeSpot.
I disagree strongly. It's so poorly written that mando does stupid things because the writers are stupid. He's no boba fett that's for sure.
To play the devil's advocate, does a volunteer have more incentive to keep your data private, or a company whose very business and reputation relies on keeping it private? Is a network that can readily and easily be infiltrated by malicious parties "for free" more trustworthy, or a private network locked down to trusted machines by security engineers, audited by third parties?

Because there is enormous incentive to deanonymize Tor. In 2020, nearly 25% of the network was controlled by a malicious attacker. [1] You had, then, a 1.5% chance of complete and total deanonymization by a single party - a near-certain chance of deanonymization if you heavily used Tor. And this is without any traffic correlation antics.

Turning off the devil's advocate, most "trustworthy" VPNs are almost certainly intelligence gathering operations, claiming "no logs" in court but in reality being a tool for parallel construction. It's too valuable a position for the 3LAs of the world to not have some ownership and stake in major VPNs. Crypto AG-style.

IMHO there is no hope for modern anonymity. Interesting connections will be logged for future deanonymization with quantum computers. In the meantime, mixnets like Nym [2] might emerge to be our saving grace.

[1]: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/why-tor-is-bad-for-...

[2]: https://nymtech.net/
Same here — Hammurabi and King were what got me started writing games. I learned so much from experimenting with that core loop, and it got met interested in math, economics, and lots of other subjects. Fur Trader, Civil War, and Combat also.
If I was a congressman who was actually concerned about jobs and the American economy I’d force giant online retailers to provide Country of Origin filters so that American consumers could easily find products Made in USA. It’s interesting how Amazon deliberately omits this and there are so many brands that pretend to have a non-Chinese country of origin as a marketing strategy.
Walmart+ has been great for pandemic shopping. It has two features that help.

1. Free delivery on grocery orders.

2. "Scan and Go". When shopping in-store you scan items using the Walmart app on your phone. At check out, you scan a QR code on the self checkout terminal, tell it how many bags you are using, hit the pay button, and you are done. It takes under 10 seconds.

With Scan and Go I can do my in-store shopping at a time when the store does not have many customers (such as 9 AM on a weekday) so it is easy to avoid coming anywhere near other shoppers as I grab items, scan them, and dump them in my cart.

Then it is 10 seconds through the self checkout (and the terminals are far enough apart in the self checkout area that I don't have to be close to anyone else) and I'm heading out the door. I don't bag my groceries there--I just keep them loose in the shopping cart until I reach my car. I then transfer them to my cloth bags there.

It's a little slower if you have items sold by weight. When you scan those it tells you you will have to weigh them at checkout. At checkout it prompts you to put them on the scale, weighs them, and adds them to your order.
Pre pandemic I would change my phone name to cta lemur and send lemur pics to people on the “L”. I’ve been on public transit twice since March 13th 2020 and there’s not enough people to get away with this anymore.
How do you arrive at that number? Is that assuming a trade-in?
"Robotics, for example, is improving at the rate of 18.5% a year". That is a prodigious rate of improvement. That means robots will be 100 times better than they are today in 25 years. Maybe a robot that can clean my house, do my dishes, and mow my lawn may not be so far away after all.
I wish my partner looked at me the way HN looks at press releases about pre-clinical mouse studies in cancer.
I think the easiest way to explain this is:

"It's a frontend in JS with a rendering engine in Dart/Flutter."

So in goes JS/TS code, writing the familiar frameworks you know, and what does the interpretation/rendering of that code is Flutter and Dart.

This is similar to how React Native works. It consumes a dialect of React and HTML-esque elements, and the renderer turns them into native UI widgets.

---

As far as "Why would I use this?"

If you think that Flutter is a better platform for cross-device UI development than React Native or NativeScript, but you don't actually want to write Flutter/Dart itself. (IE you want to stay in JS-land).

Or you want to build the rest of your codebase in Flutter and Dart code/use it's FFI and interop facilities.

Those are a few reasons I can think of. It's good to have a choice like this available IMO, I won't complain of it.
That's pretty close. To put some numbers to it -

Operating income margins for 2019 (this is before taxes, and using pre-Covid).

Deckers 16%, Nike 12.2%, V.F. Corp 12%, Adidas 11.3%, Crocs 10.4%, Skechers 10%, Steve Madden 10%, Foot Locker 9.3%, Wolverine 7.5%, Shoe Carnival 4.8%, Under Armour 4.5%, Caleres 4%, Designer Brands Inc 3.7%

Look at what Under Armour charges and look at those horrific margins.

By comparison, big tech's operating income margins:

Facebook 42.5%, Microsoft 41.6%, Oracle 38.5%, Adobe 35.4%, Nvidia 33.3%, Qualcomm 31.7%, Intel 29.2%, Apple 28.7%, Google 28.4%, Cisco 27.5%, Netflix 21.8%, and so on.
> From a USB C charger perspective, many of the banned brands were actually quite good

That doesn't match my experience, I have started to just put the word "anker" at the end of my searches because that seems to be the only brand amazon carries that don't break after a month
everybody here seems to be shitting on these brands for being generic no-name brands created by random letter generators. but Aukey and Ravpower were legitimately decent brands that had built up a reputation and had some value behind their brand name.

whether you liked them or not, knocking them off amazon is a serious punishment that will have a real impact in dissuade other brands from committing review fraud. they also have to account for a serious sales volume on amazon. this isn't a meaningless PR gesture, amazon appears to actually be taking this seriously.
Ask HN: Bazaar of Web Search Engines?
To improve web search, we need to break down problems and make algorithms, code, and data accessible.

For starters, we need a communal dataset of 50-100 million urls/data/metadata that's "good" (for any value of good) to help people experiment with web search tech.

We need more Kaggle competitions to explore better summarization, reader mode text extraction, boilerplate removal, etc. What other competitions would help web search?

How can we foster a sustainable community and projects to create a bazaar of web search engines?
The code can't run with only client JS. It needs a backend. ElectronJS allows running NodeJS as backend.

I tried React Native (only support JS on the client-side, need to build native modules to run some core functions for languages), Flutter (a few missing utilities, not so familiar).

I have answer why a desktop app in other comments so I won't repeat. Electron is the best fit in this situation.
the American version https://store.usgs.gov/map-locator
>notice how weakened this entire process is as a result of revolving around money

>not necessarily saying that I think money is a bug. It might be a feature.

Yup, looks to me like the problem is not the existence of money, rather its nonexistence.

Financial problems don't actually occur when there is no lack of money.
Sure, the official App store can do that but that does not mean the user should not have the option to side load apps.
Your system state in nixos is described in a config file. When you reinstall you won't need to remember what packages you installed, what files you touched in /etc and worse of all: how you configured your text editor.

All of that state can be described with nix. So if I wanted to reinstall right now, I'd have the exact same system as before.
Naturally you'll have to put in some work to make your system 100% nix, but it's worth it.

That's also why I think it's perfect for projects like this one, people will merely have to copy your config file, change nothing if deploying on the same hardware (except maybe some IP address here and there) and it should all just work:tm:
I don’t know why they waited so long to try and fix this. Their reputation online, 5 years ago, was golden. People were obsessed with the company. Now, nobody will buy anything important without going to a fake review detector site first and then they might still chicken out because they worry it will be an illegitimate item (Eg, fake windows licenses were a big problem 2 years ago last I checked)
I'm usually in the cinema for opening night of new MCU movies, so this isn't said from a place of hatred of disgust of the movies. They're cookie-cutter corporate media that does the bare minimum to not be entirely the same movie every time.

The acting isn't high quality across the board -- it's average. The plots and their twists are, frankly, banal in every aspect apart from being vehicles of spectacle. There's no real moral gray-ness to the characters, Wenwu from Shang Chi being an obvious exception to the rule.

The shows, which were supposed to come in with a fresh, long-form perspective on main characters and their struggles start out with interesting premises and then quickly falter because of their adherence to the MCU mythos. Wandavision and Loki completely fail in the latter half of their seasons to pay off any of the character beats in favor of big spectacle and exposition dumps.
The Pentagon's Lies About the August 29 Drone Strikes Were Spread for Days
No data is being sold and no wishlists are being indexed to google. I built DreamList for my own family first. I work daily to make it safe for my kids to use. If you google DreamList and any competing wish list / registry brand and a common first name (or yours) you will see who keeps user data private (everyone else will show you thousands of personal wishlists and registries, we don’t, and preventing that is deep in our architecture choices). I suggested to the Cloudflare Team that they need to build backend analytics into their platform years ago, and they did it. I use that data to report our growth to the YC Startup School dashboard. We had google analytics which is why we had to add that disclaimer in the privacy policy, but we are actively trying to find a better more reliable solution on the backend instead. Front end metrics are still needed because we have many nontechnical users who are grandparents or families in need being added to gift drives and we need to know when something goes wrong for them and narrow down what the issue might be. For google analytics we cut off all fine grained tracking - no per user data, no integrated ads consoles, and only the landing pages that have no private user data get indexed. If we remove it completely, Google lowers SEO rankings. Every day the numbers diverge more between google and Cloudflare analytics given fhe increased use of built in browser ads blockers, and that makes us happy. We’d never add facebook pixels or viglink or other ad network JS into the site.

We went deeper than that, testing to make sure no data about the user leaks at any point even in the console, or caching, or any other section. External links go through one redirect page that removes source page information, so everything looks like it’s coming from the main site. If you have feedback, especially about privacy, please feel free to send it feedback@dreamlist.com - we push out changes and updates almost daily.

We noticed a well known billion valued startup ended up showing their employee emails in the network tab data streams of the browser console, because apparently they like to access people’s private content on occasion and their system leaves a trace of that that shows on every page visit. That’s why we also added a private memories and journal section for anyone on DreamList as well. Grandparents who are frequent users need to be able to save stories for loved ones, and we want them to have a place to do that that is private and ads free.

Always open to feedback. The site is bootstrapped and definitely looking for contributors.
It depends how deep in the weeds we want to get. I remember when first moving to Oregon, a news station played an interview with a contractor building apartments in Portland. The TLDR of that interview was, we could build affordable housing. However, if the investors in the complex spend a few extra hundred bucks on materials (think granite counter tops), they can append 'luxury' to the word 'apartment' and easily ask a couple hundred more a month. Resulting in a better investment.
> VPN as a protocol is dying.
VPN is not a protocol, what you're referring to is probably OpenVPN, but there are multiple alternatives. It's even possible to use pure SSH as a VPN.
> (:: “educate people not to run insecure software”).

Some of these exploits uses zero day attacks, the users cannot do anything.
Never realized that, I guess because nobody writes timestamps in "month, day, time, year, zone offset" order.
Corporate robots being corporate robots. What they say after their programming has been shown to be full of bugs is irrelevant. They need to be shutdown and thrown in the junk yard.

We need new corporate robots!
"1. Every morning, take your favorite open source library or one from a language you're learning, go to the closed PRs on Github and start reading them from the beginning."

s/library.*learning/operating system/
s/on Github//
If you’re wary of the mRNA platform the Jansen vaccine is on the adenovirus vector platform and is authorized and available in the US.
It’s the difference between sandboxing and true isolation, between blacklisting and whitelisting.

With something like CPython or the JVM, you’re attempting to sandbox something that was designed to be able to run arbitrary code, and was never designed to be restrained in this way, and if you miss even one thing, it’s completely broken. https://web.mit.edu/jesstess/www/pytennessee_sandbox.pdf is a good summary of what a problem this is, and why it’s basically impossible to secure that way: you’re plugging a huge number of leaks in a massive surface area, and you will not get it watertight—to say nothing of the fact that lots of software depends on those leaks existing (for perfectly benign reasons). And every C extension that you load increases the vulnerable surface area (e.g. https://www.hebergementwebs.com/news/escape-a-python-sandbox... describes using a numpy bug to escape a CPython sandbox). You just can’t run a successful sandbox inside CPython or the JVM; instead, you must run the language inside a sandbox—and even that is often troublesome.

WebAssembly, on the other hand, is isolated. There are no leaks, and the surface area is tiny, because it was designed that way. It can’t do anything directly save computation on what it’s given; it depends on the runtime to grant it access to any external resources. This completely guards against all direct attacks, leaving only side-channel attacks, which are a vastly less dangerous class in general, and easier to guard against once you know about them, because the runtime controls execution.
tl;dr Founders who are unable to convince talent to work cheaply for them are not worth the investment. Quelle suprise.
The Android calculator really has no reason to be so excellent, but I greatly appreciate it.

Everything should do unbounded precision. The results are much more human-friendly. And if you're not building a calculator app for humans, who are you building it for?
There is so much money raining down on CDC that contractors can't keep up on procurements.
‘ you'll find that all of the value in takeout comes from the labour and the capital necessary to make that labour efficient.’

Last time I checked kitchens and kitchen equipment are not immune from entropy…
9.00000000000001 using Python / numpy on an Intel box, converting degrees to radians using numpy's built-in value of pi
research of model organism mean most part of important research in life sciences.
Isn't CRISPR known to cause random unintended edits along intended edits?
Inoculation dates back longer than strictly sterilizing vaccination. I don’t think there’s a legal argument against mass vaccination.

Apropos of nothing, today a group of anti vaccination lunatics terrorized several schools in an adjacent school districts. This, after disrupting a hospital that is at the bursting limits with mostly unvaccinated Delta victims.

Public health interests have always had ultimate priority over personal health decisions.
By gotchas do you mean folks who misfile their paperwork, or that there’s actually hidden paperwork brought out after a proper filing?
> hsv encephalitis incidence is like 2 per million

This can’t possibly be correct. It’s the most commonly diagnosed etiology for viral encephalitis, which definitely occurs more than a single digit per million. It’s also going to be underdiagnosed because the diagnostics are bad (fewer than half of encephalitis cases are assigned an etiology). I see several sources saying in the range of 2-4,000 confirmed HSV encephalitis cases per year in the US (which are usually extremely severe, leading to brain damage or death), compared to 5,500 “HIV-related” deaths per year in the US according to the CDC. So at the very least they seem similar in magnitude.
sources for live diseases?
California's housing shortage is about 30 years old. The Reagan amnesty is just a bit more than 30 years old. This is why there is still the occasional widow of a plumber or other blue collar type who owns a house in Laguna or Coronado. They bought longer ago than that.

And naturally when we talk about housing shortage we always mean in desirable areas. Even in California you can get land for dirt cheap today if you don't mind being in the middle of nowhere.
> In 15 years, we'd get 10 doublings, which would make modern computers 1000x faster. Our original Toy Story frames were averaging four hours, which is 240 minutes, so we might naively expect that we could render frames in just 15 seconds. We didn't really achieve that: our average render times were probably on the order of 2-4 minutes per frame (the original productions weren't instrumented to keep accurate statistics on rendertime, and we never bothered to really reinstrument them to do so.) The renders were fast enough that most of Toy Story was rerendered in "render farm white space", we never had any sizeable backlog of work queued on the farm.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-faster-would-it-be-to-render-...
If you think it’s elitist to ask adults to like adult things rather than things for children, have at it. I should note that the poster I responded to, in listing the merits of MCU films, discussed only technical details and the baseline of coherent storytelling; theme, meaning, film making craft, and artistic merit shockingly did not enter the discussion. I would call that underdeveloped taste and a limited understanding of how literary media work as art. If that makes me elitist, fair enough, but I’d much rather be an elitist than go through life thinking comic books are the height of human expression.
What is a good place to seek out those shows?
If you lived in a vacuum, your dollar a day is not impactful.

But let's look at the US alone. The 2020 census says there are 258 million adults over the age of 18. If all of them followed your model then that would be 95 billion dollars a year. That is an amount of money that could do a lot of good or a lot of harm.

Looking at stuff at the micro level doesn't look impactful. But human behavior at the macro level is very impactful.

The decision to not change personal behavior because your action by itself does not make an impact is a way to rationalizing a death of a billion cuts.
I suppose this is all anecdotal, and probably depends on your circles as well. But personally:

I'm (very gradually) switching from a 2014 Android phone to a 2017 Android phone, both secondhand. I'd like something that can run Lineage OS (and wasn't entry-level several years ago), but both still manage most of what I need.

Most people I know with Android phones keep them at least 3-4 years. (Off the top of my head: one switched from his Windows phone a couple years ago, another has an old Samsung one with a physical home button.)

Similar with Apple: I know one person who will not give up his 6s until Apple stops supporting it (and only begrudgingly then); I know a number of other people with the 6s, and one with the new SE.

That said, I'm pretty sure all of that comes more from the perspective of money than saving the earth.

Edit: somewhat unrelated, but I hear a lot of people mention how Apple is much better with OS updates. That's true (although Lineage helps, and manufacturers are getting slightly better), but app support for old versions of iOS is horrendous. I almost never see support for more than 2 old versions of iOS, if that. Meanwhile, ~85% of apps run fine on Android 4.4 and half or so get updates, and just about all do on Android 6.
There is always bias. To do otherwise requires large numbers of us working for a sustained amount of time. That is history, not news.

Best case?

High clarity programs will differentiate fact and opinion clearly. Seek these. You will get many facts with only moderate effort.

Ideally, the people who produce high clarity programs will also make their bias clear and be truthful about it.

Anyone doing those things is a good source for news. This is true even when your preferred bias clashes with theirs.

Many focus on bias when we all would benefit much more from a focus on clarity and truth in bias.
Why is git the hardest to grok for most developers compared to almost anything else in the web dev ecosystem? It always feels like a tool with very less or very leaky abstractions.

Is it because the complexity is really needed, or if papering over them and making it user friendly has failed? For example, you won't find a cheat sheet of SQL commands submitted and upvoted so many times on HN, even though SQL implementation and internals are very complicated. Reason being it's able to hide the implementation details and abstract it away.

At the very least the terminology in git is very confusing. Especially 'checkout' for people who came from a SVN/CVS background.