skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a person who formerly worked on the technical side of anti-abuse (both content and account) at Google, I urge you to read these kinds of reports critically. There is no reason to believe any of the details given in the post, which incorporates a lot of supposition about how this system works. For example, we have no rational basis for believing that this was done by sone robot at Google. It is at least as likely that the content was flagged by some other user.

>Anyway, Google will never ever comment on the reason for account disabled in public, therefore whining about it in public is not going to work. The way to get accounts enabled is https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/disabled2

No, Google has proven itself to be a pretty awful enterprise and deserves no benefit of doubt.
That's all well and good and noble. But I don't feel controlled by Apple. I have Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple TV. The whole kit. I am "invested".

That said, I've never turned iCloud on, all my photos are on my phone or my computer, all my iTunes music is downloaded to my machine, free to take with me. (I also still buy physical CDs.) I don't sync anything.

The only place this isn't true is the Apple TV videos I've bought. Don't know where they are, but I don't really care to be honest. If Apple didn't know about my rental habits, Blockbuster would. What difference does it make.

I have enough dusty DVDs in my drawer that I don't think I'd miss if they suddenly vanished, I'm not that tied to the content I've purchased on Apple either. I know what I'm getting in to when I do it, and it's OK with me.

The other aspect would be the apps I've got from the App Store. If I were move off of iOS those wouldn't be coming with me anyway, so...no drama there.

And why do I not use iCloud? Not because of any big brother eyeball on me. I don't use it the same reason I don't use a Smart TV, or a "smart home", or anything else. It's just one more thing designed to make my life easier that simply won't. As soon as it messes up (and it WILL mess up, catastrophically, and at the worst time. Everyone has stories), whatever value its added will be washed away.

As I like to say, I love programming, but I hate computers. I hate messing with them, configuring them, tweaking them, googling for arcane stuff. I never want to hear the word "driver" ever again if I can avoid it.

My Macs and Apple stuff, that I use, pretty much "just works". I keep my profile as thin and light as possible. The printer works, on all my machines and devices! Hallelujah! Air Drop works! I can serve videos from my Mac to the my Apple TV. +1!

So, whatever control Apple has over me, I think the boot on my neck might instead just be a flip flop, and I can get up whenever I want.
> If you decouple availability from effectiveness then drug companies will just market unproven drugs to people who are desperate or who don't know any better. Or even if the drug companies do nothing people will just start taking drugs on the basis of recommendations from Facebook.

But this already happens for certain treatments. The FDA already regulates a separate category with loose efficacy requirements for dietary supplements and herbal remedies. These medically irrelevant treatments are immensely popular, they're just forbidden from marketing specific medical claims and being actually toxic. People still end up taking FDA approved treatments like Ivermectin for non-FDA-approved purposes based on Facebook recommendations.

Why do we always have to make people's choices for them? They're grown adults capable of making their own decisions and their own mistakes. If they want to ignore the science and the credibility of the FDA process, they should be free to do so.
How many people were convinced of the "95+%" effectiveness of the vaccine only to learn that it fades? Why weren't they told it would fade up front?
> It most certainly is the norm when purchasing complex custom services.

An x-ray is not is not a complex custom service.

> But how much is that worth when the entirety of the hospital visit is going to be a variable cost?

This is the exact same argument that hospitals used to use against itemized pricing, and yet it turns out that requiring hospitals to give itemized bills on request has pretty solidly been a good thing for consumers.

There are a huge number of reasons for this, not the least being fostering competition and putting natural pressure on the market to justify its prices helps it become more efficient, and these kinds of opaque systems will almost always naturally lead to inflated prices. There's little reason to believe that up-front price transparency for individual itemized procedures and drugs wouldn't also be good for the same reasons.

At the very least, this would help with the many health decisions that consumers make that aren't happening during life-threatening situations. Most of the time that I get an x-ray, most of the time when I'm being offered pain medication, most of the time when I'm making decisions about whether or not to opt for anesthesia before a procedure, I'm awake and not in danger of immediately dying.

It really doesn't make sense to keep leaning on the most extreme life-or-death situations as a defense for why a hospital can't walk me through the price differences in several different brands of pain medication. But sure, we'll make an exception for surgeons operating while a patient is literally unconscious during a time-sensitive procedure. Most health visits (and the vast majority of all preventative care procedures) do not fall into that category.

> jonathan-adly has done a great job explaining why drug prices are difficult to calculate upfront.

Let's make this simpler. johnathan-adly says:

> The cost of the aspirin depends on these things

Here's Rite-Aide's page that comes up when I search for an aspirin: https://www.riteaid.com/shop/medicine-health/pain-fever-reli...

Why is it that Rite-Aid can give me an upfront cost for an aspirin, and a hospital can't? 340B is a rebate system, it doesn't force doctors to avoid talking to patients about the baseline price differences between comparable off-the-shelf name-brand and generic drugs.
Deja Dup on Linux supports this. Just pick a directory to back up, sign in with your Google Account, and check a box to encrypt your stuff before uploading. Google Drive just sees encrypted chunks with file names like “duplicity.gpg”.
Right?! My first travel blog was with Wordpress, where I always felt like I had to write a whole article in order to post. Which almost never happened. Then I moved to Facebook, which was OK at first, but then... you know the story. Also, bit rot is real on FB. Then IG, which really doesn't lend itself to posting self-contained albums.

So I really like the idea of having something clean and simple, where you can just upload photos and provide some additional context, and have it look nice.
> ... we want critical roles to be performed by competent people.

Yes. Over the last few years, we've seen the problems caused by having critical jobs performed by less than competent people. (I'm sure you can fill in your own examples.)

The problem is that there are (at least) two kinds of "fake meritocracy". There's credentialism: "This person must me competent; they graduated from Elite Institution". And then there's elitism: "This person must be competent, their parents are rich and famous". Neither tells us much about their actual competence at any specific role. (All right, credentialism tells you that they were competent at graduating from Elite Institution, but we aren't hiring them to have them do that over and over.)

I wonder if part of the reason for the criticism of meritocracy is because of the failings of fake meritocracy. (I suspect that another part of it is a complaint that those who win the meritocracy game get too much of the rewards, which I think is a fair criticism.)
I'm on the AWS cloud. I've never had a problem like this. I pay the $100 / month for the basic AWS support plan. Even store side AWS has done reasonably OK by me (except for all the crap listings in their storefront - wish they'd fix that).

By this I mean any problem I've had has been fixed. So at least Amazon has SOME humans still in the loop handling AWS support tickets and Amazon store calls.
Starship has been my daily driver for something like a year now. It's been lovely
I upvoted this because, while there's a lot to unpack in this comment, I think it's valuable to have some criticism of the methodology here. People could easily have interpreted this question differently and that really skews the results.

I also don't know how representative my own experience is. I've only worked a few kinds of jobs, so whether or not I've been told explicitly not to discuss pay isn't relevant to most of the population.
>Once again, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621826.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621826 says:

>[deleted]

That doesn't answer my questions.

You, Brendan Eich, helped fund the campaign for Proposition 8, which destroyed many marriages. True or false?

Honestly, can you please address those questions directly, instead of linking me to a deleted message and dodging the questions?

If you don't want same sex couples to get married, at least be brave enough to come out and say it, instead of dodging and playing semantic word games.
I take it you have no problem eating dog food for your 3 square meals a day plus a few of those chew biscuits for a snack?
I guess security researchers feel compelled to do this career-wise. It's not enough to just report a CVE. You need a marketing site for your exploit to get it picked up in the tech press and establish your reputation. Starting to feel like academics chasing citations.
Damn. It's like everyone works at faang and we all just accept that 500k is a normal salary. This is insane.
Your exasperation is absolutely shared. Thanks for engaging
Their giveaway didn't go to well. They planned to give away "70% of the initial supply" to developers, but...

> To date, around 25 million HNS (1.83% of the initial supply, 1.23% of the fully diluted) has been claimed through the developer airdrop.

They can't even give HNS away, however...

> The discrepancy between the total possible number of airdrop claims and the actual number of airdrop claims can be explained by the fact that eligible developers need to have their SSH keys from 2019 in order to complete the claim. ... Without their old SSH keys, it's impossible for eligible developers to claim the airdrop.

they made the extremely hard to claim?
Oh yea they paid it. Negotiation for rates happens before you pay coinsurance. I’ve called them and discussed it all. They send a $10000 check.

Odd part was in this case, we had a follow up ultrasound for another $2500 for a second hour after they “saw something odd” and it turned out to be nothing. Second hour had billing codes that were 75% less for some reason.

https://imgur.com/a/Ffmt8YT
What's this? You have a server component in the PC, with access to local videos, then you want to play those videos back remotely on the iPhone?
Re: Safety
I go to CDMX very often and not once have I felt unsafe. Moreover, it is getting increasingly popular among foreigners to move to CDMX permanently or temporarily.

I do have friends that feel like the safety is not good enough for raising kids, so there is that.

I think as long as you stick to safe areas, you should be fine.

Re: visa
You can find the requirements here [0] (I don't know why it is in Canadian dollars).

I have a handful of Spanish friends that are under this visa. They technically work in the US or Spain but are "temporary residents" in Mexico. Mexico only requires you to pay taxes on income gained in Mexico. So if your employer (or your clients if you are a freelancer) are abroad and the proceeds are deposited to a foreign account, then Mexico does not tax that income.

[0] https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/leamington/index.php/non-mexica...
I have never had a security issue on my Pixel and receive monthly security updates.
What's the latency like on these? Almost imperceptible? I find that the delays on VNC/RDP are noticeable enough to be annoying, even on LAN.
FYI, Racket has a `get-handle` method to get a native handle from a `window<%>`: https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/window___.html#%28meth._%28...

There are ways to optimize executable size with various tradeoffs, though they require compiling Racket yourself or using a Racket BC distribution. By default, Racket generates machine code (including natively on M1), which tends to be larger than bytecode. That's only been the default since February 2021, so I'd bet there's still room for improvement in code size for the default configuration.
While it is not conducive to monetizing a platform, maybe we should have forums which are arbitrarily limited to a manageable number of people. r/politics claims to have 7.7M subscribers. That defies common sense. And 30K people online right now. Even if these numbers are inflated, they're completely nuts. It seems inevitable that when you put that many people in a room, the crazy ones take over.
Awesome! When I've moved windows computers it's not easy getting to back the way my old machine was.

Can you link to a step by step on this - I think this would help a lot of folks.
This has some smell of a compliance issue. I.e. the company gets ordered to block stuff; the order states "this shall be blocked" and provides a list, and then the company does the simplest/cheapest way to comply which is literally checking for whatever was required by the order.
See my later edits to those comments, wherein I shared an example from another user in this thread accusing Brave of in-situ ad-replacement. That is usually the claim being made (first seen in 2016, and refusing to die since).

Brave is definitely working hard to replace that which doesn't work on the Web, advertising being one such thing. We're pushing for a model that is based on consent, equity, and an a priori commitment to privacy (don't touch the user's data). If we can successfully replace (however you wish to interpret that) Google with such a model, then I'm content
Ask HN: For those using Tyspecript with Node why not use Java Quarkas / Spring
Tenuously related: Wikipedia articles referencing less than desirable historical figures (e.g. Nazis) are reportedly being deleted en masse.
If workers can work at home and are substantially happier working at home, and the out-of-pocket costs are lower for both worker and employer, then remote work will become established as a norm within a generation. It’s the way the First World has worked for generations…it really does evolve towards greater happiness for the greatest number of people. No reason the rest of the world wouldn’t follow.

As it becomes a norm, then the thousands of details of how to maintain/improve company cultures, level of and support for remote work, training, team-building, residential housing design and costs, distributed operations in lower housing cost regions, cyber security, etc. will be the challenge that this generation of leaders must address. And they will because they are reasonably competent and it makes hundreds of millions of people happier.

It’s a fun challenge to meet. When you succeed, you get to spend more quality time in your quality years with your family in a cheaper, pleasanter region of the country, or a different country altogether. Or stay where you are, if that’s your querencia. No need to move after retirement when you already love where you’re living…another societal savings.

And if more family time doesn’t make some people happier, that’s a separate problem that shouldn’t be solved by escaping to a shiny building on the shareholder’s dime. Fixing the family also has direct societal benefits and saves taxpayers money when the State doesn’t need to intervene.

And trying to convince people they’re really happier with the old model because you are too lazy to change, when they know themselves that they are not, never works in the long run. Ask the former Soviet Union.
My doctor told me to wait it out, anywhere up to twelve more months. Yes, I self medicated. Suicide would have been my other choice had I not had Ivermectin - felt like I was slowly dying to begin with. It was very debilitating and impossible to work.
These kinds of discussions miss a ton of nuance unfortunately (as most tech discussions do), so hopefully I can help answer this broadly:

First off, it's important to call out how LiveView's docs recommend folks keep interactions purely client side for purely client side interactions:
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html#m...

> There are also use cases which are a bad fit for LiveView:

> Animations - animations, menus, and general UI events that do not need the server in the first place are a bad fit for LiveView. Those can be achieved without LiveView in multiple ways, such as with CSS and CSS transitions, using LiveView hooks, or even integrating with UI toolkits designed for this purpose, such as Bootstrap, Alpine.JS, and similar

Second, it's important to call out how LiveView will beat client-side apps that necessarily needs to talk to the server to perform writes or reads because we already have the connection established and there's less overhead on the other side since we don't need to fetch the world, and we send less data as the result of the interaction. If you click "post tweet", wether it's LiveView or React, you're talking to the server so there's no more or less suitability there compared to an SPA.

I had a big writeup about these points on the DockYard blog for those interested in this kind of thing along with LiveViews optimistic UI features:

https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/12/21/optimizing-user-experie...
Abundant evidence of that assumption being wrong is the whole message of the article
I didn't know there were only 3 usable 2.4 GHz channels. I did a quick research and you are right:

https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/why-channels-1-6...

Thank you. I learned something new today.
Could this be related?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/19/war_thunder_classifie...

>Hungary-based game developer Gaijin Entertainment found themselves in a tactically difficult position last week when a user of their combat simulator War Thunder tried to win an online argument by sharing classified documents in the company's game forums.

Maybe checksums of that document are circulated to cloud providers for censorship purposes.
Given its resources Reddit is weirdly brittle and has lots of downtime. Why is that?
I went from two nexuses to two motorolas to the Xiaomi. I didn't how good I had it with stock Android.
I’m steadily cancelling all my side projects because no matter how I spin it, nothing comes close to the profitability of contracting full time.
I have HDDs running longer than most Google projects do. So that point is really moot.
I'm all for simple distraction-free tools. Heck, I've occasionally pondered about buying actual typewriter to write on.

But Freewrites look pretty bad. Display that looks almost the size of this HN comment box does not really evoke long-form writing in my head. The specs say the display is about as tall as iPhone on landscape, but of course much narrower. Not having hinges really simplifies the mechanical design, but ergonomics-wise having display at desk-level on a shallow angle sounds like a recipe for neck pain. The Traveler version fixes that with a more traditional clamshell design allowing you to angle the display but then you inexplicably lose maybe the most important aspect of all, good keyboard. Sibling comment mentions lag, this is the sort of device I'd expect minimal input latency to sustain that immediate immersive feel.

60-80 column display, good mechanical keyboard, comfortably angled display. That what would make me a happy camper.
The way to get accounts enabled is https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/disabled2

There have been plenty of reports that this doesn't work either, with a bot simply 'reviewing' your account and not enabling it.

The OP is 'whining about it in public' because it's the only hope they have of getting a human being at google to notice the problem and save their data. If google had a functional support system that wasn't 100% bots, users wouldn't have to complain in public!
I'm leading the engineering effort of a stealth startup in Miami and we are using Liveview to power everything. It's very liberating. Heex does have it's warts and it is very new so expect to do some forum spelunking - but Chris McCord and Jose Valim are both very active and care about the product they are building. Usually things get fixed quickly. They are the heart and soul of the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem so thanks a bunch for all their hard work.
Lithuania's gov digitalisation is a bit of a farce. To use it - you need to login via your bank or couple of other supremely inconvenient forms of homegrown federated login systems, none of which offer a simple U2F. Then you get a form that 99% of time doesn't work on mobile. When you do fill it, actual government clark picks it, reviews it and 4 weeks later you get a response - "you need to come to the office to verify your identity".

Contrast it with NZ - I had to send my documents via post. In 6 years I NEVER had to visit ANY of government agency but I did receive visas and passports, just simply by post (if you have local drivers licence you do get to use local online services, which is a stupid barrier to begin with, but whatever).
It has a safer profile than Tylenol, Advil and Asprin.
It’s not my job to justify my salary to colleagues or reduce. Once they have the info they can ask for more money and management has to justify why one person is higher paid than the other or raise pay. In this particular case I was actually charging less than the contracting companies that often kept 70% of that money for themselves.

But the main point is that knowledge is power. Ignorance may protect your fragile ego from inconvenient truths but it’s not bliss.
ˈrō-ˌtāt is pronounced ROH-tat, by the way.
How to Detect Potentially Dangerous Dangling DNS on AWS
For a long time actually there were TONS of android exploits - either direct android or based on the installers companies put on phones they shipped.

That has changed massively recently, my sense is rough parity currently (on a clean android phone).

Payouts are still a lot higher per point marketshare for iOS though, so maybe still harder to develop.
You don't even need bots - simple sorting algorithms do more damage. It shows human vulnerability more than anything else. All it took was a single fake message to get 600 people killed in Burma.
Apropos of nothing, if anyone has a child who is just starting to read, consider getting them a literal typewriter if you can. What I found is that my son could type entire stories and messages years before he had the motor skills to write anything by hand.
Sure, sent!
1. LiveView looks incredible! But Phoenix is also great at standard JSON APIs. How do you think about the decision between using LiveView vs a SPA with a Phoenix API backend? I'm not too sure about the limits or future vision of LiveView. Do you think there's a place for SPAs, or is the goal for LiveView to be able to replace them in almost all use cases?

2. What's your dev environment like? VSCode? What extensions, etc?

3. Excited to see you at fly.io! I think I saw a tweet about them wanting to make deploying Livebooks (built on LiveView) easy. Any news on that front?