skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting a bunch of replies about different interpretations of the "American Dream" - interpretations that are not at all consistent with either the mainstream concept or the historical one.

Typically the "American Dream" has been centrally about freedom of opportunity, independent of social class or circumstances of birth, and the resulting possibility for upward social mobility through hard work (e.g. America as the Land of Opportunity). I think it's quite hard to argue that the United States is a leader in this category in the same way that it was 50 or 100 years ago.
Can ‘freemium’ internet hotspots bring Guatemala online?
Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
Her point is that almost all coverage of fusion elides the difference between Q-total and Q-plasma. I didn't know how big the difference was until reading her article and I'm guessing almost no one else does either.
I also think a lot of advice on that website is terrible, but there are some good bits there, too. For example while the general advice to never use bottom-up programming is awfully wrong, there is some value in the example they give later - the one showing it is good to have a working version of the system as early as possible, even if it has many gaps.
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated and productive?
I don't have any motivation to do many of my tasks at work. They're all boring and frustrating. It's just a job, not a career, so there's no incentive to push through this just to get to the next level. Also, switching jobs internally or externally doesn't seem to be a likely option.

Any ideas on how to increase motivation at work?
The claim made upthread that I was responding to was "Apple's collusion with the American government is well-documented at this point" specifically; I said "fairly resistant", too, not "100% perfectly resistant".

Unless I become a Chinese citizen/resident, Apple's dealings with China don't particularly concern me much.
Mr. Cruz ? /s
If they are properly hashed and salted, they can not.
For my older pies I found https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/ great. But this is arm assembly territory. I believe subsequent generations of pi have had good tutorials. OS, of course, is a very large, encompassing term. What is a minimal OS?
I wonder how pay transparency impacts the variance of job-to-job and industry-to-industry pay. If you hear that you can make a bunch more by changing jobs, you're more likely to, forcing the industry to keep up and pay more. Does more pay transparency reduct some kind of "friction" in the market reaching equilibrium?
>And what is the benefit of that?

I'll leave that as an (fairly obvious) exercise for you, dear reader.
I want personal privacy. I want privacy in my use of services. Privacy in where I go, at least to a reasonable degree. (Something to discuss, just not this thread.)

All law, court cases, contracts, and legally binding agreements being public? I could be convinced that's a good idea. Bright sunlight from all angles would revel inequity and could allow better civic planning and civil action (voting).

I think the line should be drawn a little in favor of being private, and in favor of hiding non-recurring purchases for personal use. It would be more harmful than good to reveal where and when someone gets food, takes a vacation, etc.
This is nonsensical.

They are journalists not vigilante hackers.
Every product on that site is marked "Sold Out"?
They check the referrer, see it's from HN and redirect to an image instead.

So by copy + paste into a new tab, it will lose the HN referrer.
Interesting. I do this on a regular basis with Pulumi and Cloudflare Workers KV.
"Before people" for English carries the same weight, but yeah humankind is too formal of a term

I do disagree about the artíficers bit, I feel that even when it is not a transliteration, it does carry the feel of manual manufacture
Simply put, because they can. They may have a monopoly or near-monopoly on SMS service, so they can do what they want.

That was the state of affairs in the US until fairly recently; most carriers (in the US at least) offer a pretty standard plan that includes unlimited texting.
Don't know about you, but I have never seen any place that charges more for one large pizza than for two medium pizzas.
> In countries like Norway, that kind of data is publicly available.

Many things make sense for a largely homogenous nation of 5.5 million that stop making sense for a largely heterogenous nation of 330 million.
I find the premise ridiculous. I mean yes, there are people who are addicted to it. There are people who are addicted to lots of things, from playing video games to climbing ice-covered mountains. But the idea that it's harder to quit facebook than to get rid of, say, opioid dependency - which literally rewires your body's biochemistry - sounds like complete BS. Of course, if your life is so empty you have nothing to do but browse facebook, sure it's hard to quit, but it's not because of the strength of the addiction, it's because of the weakness of the alternative. I'm sure if you cut off that person's internet access and threw their phone into a lake, they'd be cured pretty soon.
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+1 for SaaS Pegasus. In particular, Cory has done a wonderful job in introducing a more pragmatic approach to Javascript with Django [0]. Plus he's built a strong Slack community and is always around to support and listen to any feedback.

We re-built our SaaS product using this boilerplate and wrote about the experience [1]. TL;DR: would recommend!

[0] https://www.saaspegasus.com/guides/modern-javascript-for-dja...

[1] https://davidkell.substack.com/p/davids-opinionated-guide-fo...
Vaxxtard. Opinion discarded.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. After I wrote that statement about Infrequent Access, I was thinking about it more and realized that you probably pay for storage but simply have no access fees. In other words you don't really distinguish between storage tiers. I think that is good. S3 technically has 7 storage tiers, with all permutations of limited availability zone, reduced redundancy, infrequent access, archival storage, etc. While it is understandable that archival storage is unique (it is tape storage), the others just seem arbitrary and unnecessary.

I am an AWS administrator/architect for work so we are always trying to weigh pros and cons. AWS S3 is notoriously overpriced. This is a well-established fact. There are many other providers that offer comparable solutions (or even superior) such as the new R2. But we feel the effect of vendor lock-in because of S3's integration with other AWS services, which is what keeps a lot of people over-paying for S3. I think the auto-migration feature is potentially one of the best arguments for switching to R2.

R2 is undeniably a better value than S3. S3 requires me to select a region and optionally even limit an availability zone (if I need to keep costs low). CDN/edge locations are all extra cost via AWS Cloudfront. And the reality is many people are already using Cloudflare as CDN in front of S3 storage. So R2 just becomes a no-brainer at that point. I think it will be a successful launch. I am excited to try it.
Sure, but even in this case it is better to change an interface and be able to benefit from all the drivers written for Linux.
This perspective is immature at best, but genuinely ignorant of how tech works at twitch scale.
Perhaps not, but often there's value in maintaining casual friendships.
I didn’t say Autopilot was as good as the average driver. I said it was within the ballpark of the average driver. The fact that some major insurance companies offer discounts for Teslas with self driving over those without seems like strong evidence for such.

Unless you have some evidence why there isn’t a huge story around Autopilots overall safety?
Yes but OP also says that the average white American (vast majority born in-country) does better than the average white Scandinavian.
Her point is that the "Q" that has been used to sell ITER leads the public and policy makers to believe it is Q-Total, not Q-Plasma.
I think in the ideal world, "control your data" means something like what Rally is trying to do: controlling how much data you give out, and knowing who you give it to, and who is using it. Being intentional about it, and also ensuring you're getting something commensurate in exchange.

The problem is the first step is you need to have leverage. As long as advertising companies just have your data already without your consent, a tool that lets you thoughtfully give them data is... completely superfluous.

This reminds me of the Do No Track thing. Like, you have no leverage, they decide if they want to respect it, so ... they aren't going to respect it.

Once tracking companies are completely locked out and they can't get your personal data, then the tables are flipped and tools like this could be useful to let people decide if they want to share some data to get something in return.
You can extract the seed, clone it into a new device, and get the exact same device with the same private key material?
Really?! Apple Pay does for me on my 6S.
While it was fortunately never a problem for me (I've never really drank a lot), when I did business travel for a living, it was pretty common to go to bars after work and expense some drinks to the company (the CEO knew about this, we weren't breaking rules).

I remember thinking that if I were an alcoholic, this would either be the best job in the world or the worst job in the world, depending on your perspective. I can't imagine how much harder it would be to actually quick full-blown alcoholism if all the booze is free. Obviously you were allowed to just buy a soda or seltzer or something, and that's usually what I did, but I could totally see it being ten times harder to quit when all your drinks are comped and all your peers are drinking around you.
It's interesting, I often see a couple of traits (some mutually exclusive, some not) of PeopleWhoCode(TM):

1/ people who come to it later in life, for whom it's mostly a profession;

2/ people who start very early due to some desire to e.g. hack a game

3/ people for whom programming is a means to do things;

4/ people who just love programming for some ineffable, aesthetic reason.

This isn't an exhaustive list, but I know a lot of people who sit in (2) and (3), and therefore ultimately move away from computers into e.g. people/project/product management, gardening, technical support, sales, IP law, etc.. For me, like the author of this post, I don't think I can ever imagine not programming -- I get a sense of almost mystical excitement and satisfaction out of the act of writing code. I don't programme in my professional life anymore (I'm a founder and a CTO -- I have a lot of other things to push forward) but I always have _something_ I'm working on because it's a different type of problem solving, a bit like playing music.
No, using functions for such things is worse.

It does not matter if the compiler inlines them, encapsulating the bit field operations obfuscates the code instead of making it more easily understandable.

It is not possible to make the name of the function to provide more information than the triplet register name + bit field name (the name of the shift constant) + the name of the configuration option (the name of the mask constant).

Encapsulating the bit operations into a function just makes you write exactly the same thing twice and when you are reading the code you must waste extra time to check each function definition to see whether it does the right thing.

The C code would look just like a table with the names, where the operators just provide some delimiters in the table that occupy little space.

Replacing the operators with words makes such code less readable and concatenating the named constants into function names or using them as function arguments brings no improvement.

The only possible improvement over explicit bit operations is to define the registers as structures with bit-field members and use member assignment instead of bit string operations.

Unfortunately the number of register definitions for any CPU is huge, so most programmers use headers provided by the hardware vendor, as it would be too much work to rewrite them.

For almost all processors with which I have worked, the hardware vendor has preferred to provide names for mask constants and shift constants, instead of defining the registers as structures, even if the latter would have allowed more easy to read code.
Re (4): heckler’s veto anyone?

In the US, individuals and companies pay property tax and are entitled to police protection, consistent with the law. Opponents of the permit should use the courts and the political process to argue their position. Failing that, protests should follow the law, and failing that, police should enforce the law at their own expense.
He's a vaxxtard. His brain is melting.
I follow a certain set of pages/groups for some hobbies and have muted almost everything else, including almost all people. You can pretty much make a custom feed that way, though the quality will depend on the quality of posts in those groups (which is on average very low).

Instagram still sort of works like an actual social network for me. I've found it's actually super important for dating (in my age group/scene/whathaveyou).
I don't know that I would classify "rendering someone else's feature" a responsibility of iOS 15 or Safari.
Are you talking about the discount that they introduced with this disclaimer [0]:

> Direct Line said it was too early to say whether the use of the autopilot system produced a safety record that justified lower premiums. It said it was charging less to encourage use of the system and aid research.

That was back in 2017 and they probably have better numbers now, but it's not exactly an indication of autonomy and being safer-than-humans. These sorts of discounts are also widely available for other ADAS systems.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-direct-line-ins-tesla-idU...
I'm split on this.

In France, you can't store a metro card on your iPhone, because Apple won't open up NFC. You can do it on Android.

Yet, I don't want banks to drop Apple Pay support, and force you to use their poorly coded app for payments. Imagine having many cards, for personal and business, joint cards and foreign cards, thankfully many banks on Android end up supporting GPay, but many still force you to use their custom app and don't give you a choice. How many years did your bank take before adopting Touch ID? For me and some of you, it's measured in years.

Apple shouldn't be able to block third-party NFC use, but should be entitled to force banks to make Apple Pay-compatible equivalents (when applicable) in addition to whatever custom stuff they decide to roll out.
bit unsettling hearing about his posse.
GM aims to double sales by 2030 with boost from electric vehicles, subscriptions
This is a pretty clear case though, it's the same situtation in Norway.

The country wide standard BankAxept, that has low fees (0.024USD per transaction), is used for almost all other card transactions, but Apple use their NFC monopoly to charge stores exorbiant VISA network fees when people use their Apple devices to pay. If the blockage of BankAxept on Apple Pay is allowed to continue it could cost the Norwegian economy hundreds of millions of dollars in just monopoly fees.
> Kind of funny that a FBI agent is being floated as a charm expert

Not really, given the way the FBI engages in infiltration as a key investigative tactic.

> Aren’t FBI agents notoriously stiff and awkward?

That's a stereotype that exists, sure.
at we least know their backups were 'complete' ! This hack seems to includes everything and the kitchen sink !
Thanks for adding some interesting info around these things.

I can see how it's easy to feel this:
"she used the anti-pornography laws to get her ex-boyfriend to stop posting her pictures on social media. That's a case of the law being used for good, right?"

but I'm not in agreement for a few reasons...

first let me say I m 100% against people sharing intimate photos of others without permission.

Things get a little different in my opinion when people become high level public figures for some reasons .. for example sharing the pics of mr wiener with hookers was not cool.. but considering he became a public figure trying to climb the political ladders and especially because part of that process was him prosecuting hookers and making PR stunts out of it.. well then sharing the pics became a slightly different thing.

Anyhow I hate that anti-porn laws are used for her censoring public discourse - and if the pics were otherwise noteworthy (like they included bisexual whatever and she had voted against lgb or something) - then the photos could be censored in some type of way and published in newspapers for legit public discussion.

I believe she should be able to use copyright laws alone to stop publication / sharing of her pics, and perhaps a lawsuit for defamation (not a great recourse vs poor people) - or other means. But I don't think anti-porn laws should be a thing and they should not be weaponized by the political class to hide things they don't like.

(even though yes, I agree this one appears to be used "good" - I don't have enough info to be 100 on that)
I don't think you've been keeping up with home prices and insurance costs around the country. $100k take home isn't all that anymore. You're not food stamp poor, but it's easy to be house poor at that income level, especially if you're shooting for a better school district. Health insurance costs eat up so much of that it is not funny, even if you are healthy. If you or someone in your family comes down with an expensive medical condition you'll be in real trouble.
This sounds like the irresistible force paradox, in that it is only a paradox if one allows for arbitrary definitions of error correction or encryption.
How do you scan Kubernetes YAML files for misconfigurations?
> In any event, you believe what you do, and I'll believe what I do, and we'll see who's society does better.

This has already been tested to oblivion. Remember the cold war, the West vs Communists? Freedom works even with chemtrail and flat earth crowd.
Perovskites break down when exposed to moisture, so while I do think you could DIY a solar cell pretty easily, it wouldn't last long. There are ways around the moisture problem, but they're not so easily DIYable. "In particular, water promotes fast decomposition, leading to a drastic decrease in device performance." [0]

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-020-00104-z
It does. It's pretty common for friends groups to grow around everyone at a school, a dorm, an office, that take smoke breaks together.
There were no encrypted password dumps. No production secrets were leaked (according to the article). What's here is no more than what your average Twitch engineer has access to.

Yes, that included payout data. Anyone with "staff" access to the site (which any employee can have) has access to any streamer's dashboard, which includes payout data.

I don't think this was an attack. Based on the data so far I think it was a disgruntled engineer. Obviously if more gets leaked later I may revise that opinion.
I think in order to achieve your final point, these kinds of things are necessary. I agree that it would be great to see a project that revives the core concepts of Plan9 in a modern sense, however, you have to attract people and give them a baseline for what that is. You do that by introducing people to Plan9. Talk about its features and how it does things. Stir enough interest then go, "Hey, lets either take the code base and modernize it into a full fledged modern OS" or "Lets start from scratch with the target of where Plan9 would be today if it got decent user adoption back then." That or get a Linux or BSD dev to play with Plan9, finding a feature they really like, then they go, "Hey, I think I can implement that feature over here."
DeepMind reports a profit for the first time
Also change any account with a password that's the same as your twitch account. Once they know your twitch password they will try it on your related accounts.
Yeah, I realized that a little too late :P .

Usually I'm pretty decent at picking up sarcasm over the internet, but not today it turns out.
You know, it's pretty eye opening, to see that many streamers make millions in just a few months, while it would take me more than 50 years of constant work in my country to make a single million. Though looking at the top earners is probably very demoralizing if you don't also see the median and average figures, which i'm curious to see.

Someone actually did a writeup of some of their personal findings, though i'm sure that we'll see more in the following weeks: https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/

Of course, i can also understand that those with a lot of money probably don't want others to know how much they make, while those that are making less money sometimes don't want to be confronted with the truth because it's so depressing. Regardless, if nothing else, it's educational to see things like these and have them become a piece of humanity's history.
Why not? When you physically had to carry all of them around, it was simply impractical to have 20 different cards.

If you can add all of them to a tiny device, and they all come from just a few banks that provide a unified interface to manage 10 cards at a time, and/or set them all up for auto-pay, then why wouldn't you want to make the most out of all the offers and bonuses?
From banned usernames, "Jesus".

Yep. From Mexico to the Pagonia and Iberia, let's screw a few millions of users.
> Also, this isn't a missing feature but an arbitrary limitation, so again, Apple doesn't need to "cater to it", just raise an int in the source code from 6 to 20 or whatever.

No, it's an element of the hardware design.
Confirms my experience so far. it does raise the question so what alternatives managers (I'll not go as far as calling them leaders) or organizations with no capital in the trust are left with. Seeing at it from that perspective shades a different light on some of the re-orgs I went through, especially those everybody wondered why disaster X was avoided despite being visible from miles away.
>Imagine if nicotine had network effects. You can't quit unless all your friends do too.

As a former smoker, it took me moving from an office full of smokers to an office where I was the only smoker to finally motivate me to quit for good. I tapered down over about a year with a vape though, and I think that almost has an anti-network effect in that you kind of look like a bellend!
5) Towns tax the pipeline company like they would any other business that attracts crime?

Am I missing something here? These pipelines pay taxes, right? If so, why is a special funding arrangement parallel to taxation needed? And if not, why not?
Already has thousands of peers so I wouldn't worry too much
I would be very deeply concerned if Twitch, a multi-billion dollar company owned by Amazon, does not properly hash and salt the passwords of its users.