skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[dubious - discuss]

There's a few things that make this pretty unlikely. Google doesn't triage or repair the phones themselves, they contract it out just like everyone else. And the people they contract it out to almost certainly have procedures in place which are meant to ensure that neither the devices themselves nor the data on them get out.

I'm not saying it's false, but I would definitely take it with a grain of salt.

That said, before you send any devices in for repair, you should wipe them to the best of your ability. Also, you should set a secure password (PIN, pattern, etc) - even if you set your device to not lock, you can encrypt/require password on startup, which would prevent the repairperson from seeing the photos much less posting them.
I think Israel is a Western Democraty for these reasons:

"Western", due to its cultural ties and since it shares western values.

"Democracy" because of many institutions, including the rule of all, the free elections and government form, minority rights protection. It is true that it's not perfect, but overall the big picture is pretty clear, as far as I can see.

To elaborate: in my opinion, Israel is a new democracy, it definitely has some deviations from the old western democracies, but these are relatively small to change the overall spirit of the country and the form of government (It is a bit like saying that US is not a western democracy because it has an electoral college.) What more there are part of the ongoing political debates and changing norms.

https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores
A bit more approachable for this tired astronomer:

Topos Theory in a Nutxhell by John Baez:
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/topos.html
Besides a general reduction in plastic use, one thing to consider is that plasticizers are more prone to escape the bulk plastic via liquids and under heat. Try to avoid heat and try to use plastics when they will remain dry.
> (and then there's a matter of time and prioritization; heck, I work for IBM -- if I tried to counter every negative comment on IBM on Hacker News, that'd be my six new full time jobs, even though I've personally had brilliantly positive experience over two decades and deeply respect all of my colleagues :D )

i've always written ibm off as large, old and stodgy. curious to hear a counterpoint if you're willing to share.
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Toxic femininity is also a concept heavily explored in the same circles as the concept of toxic masculinity.
There are a few more things that help:

- Reducing DNS calls and server round trips. Loading fewer resources from fewer domains makes a huge difference. Using server push also helps, although it might get deprecated.

- Responsive images. Load small images on small displays. Don't load 2x images on lower density displays.

- Using the right load event for JavaScript. load fires long after DOMContentLoaded on some pages, especially on slow connections.

- Setting the size of elements before they load, to prevent the content from jumping all over the place.

- Loading fewer fonts, and serving them yourself. Google Fonts is significantly slower.

- Gzipping everything you send. It makes a significant difference on slow connections.

- Static caching. This will shave whole seconds off your page load time. Cache both on the server and in the browser, but mostly on the server.

- Consider perceived performance too. It doesn't matter how fast you force a coercive cookie notice on your readers.

- Performance extends to the content of the page. Don't make users chase answers. Give clear, concise information and use typography to guide your users to it.
That's pretty high. The default assumption about any personal story on reddit is that it's all lies.
Ask HN: Is Pen Drive a reliable/safe option for Boot?
I have couple of Laptops which came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I want to run Linux(Centos before, now Rocky Linux) in those Laptops. I don't want to install them directly in the Hard Drive with Dual Boot. So I installed the Rocky Linux onto a Pen Drive and whenever I want to boot RockyLinux, I simply plug in my Pen Drive and hit the boot options and choose.

This is working Great so far, despite little sluggishness due to the Pen Drive Speed(I'm looking for a faster one).

Is anyone using the same option and is Pen Drive a Safe boot option, will it get corrupt ?
It's not that simple. The Salk polio vaccine did not prevent infection/transmission, but remained highly effective at preventing disease.

The initial studies on vaccine efficacy were designed to study efficacy at preventing serious illness, not transmission. So it was not known at the time how effective the vaccines would be on that dimension. To answer these questions requires novel research, it is not settled, freshmen biology knowledge.
In fact, Google already implemented a way to hide files: it's called "secure folder" in Files and "locked folder" in Photos.

BTW IDK why there are two names for the same concept
I've tried this now on my 2019 Macbook pro, and my 2018 Thinkpad T480 running Linux. On Mac, I can't say I really noticed a difference. Also there were quite a few font rendering issues that were resolved with whatever patches Jetbrains has applied. On Linux, certain actions are definitely faster. For instance, Ctrl+Tab to either quickly tab switch or bring up the tab switcher menu was always instantaneous, where-as beforehand there was sometimes a pretty long delay.
"Can I do it with a Pi?" is very similar to "Can I run Doom on it?" Most of the projects exist just to see how far the capabilities of a tiny computer can be stretched. However, someone may realized that their five-figure project could be done much cheaply with a Pi and HAT.
Sometimes letting the battery drain completely will clear a hung phone (which is like the old "take the battery out for 5 minutes, then try it again" trick). Or the service center knew the magic buttons to press to get it to boot. Or the battery was bad. Or one of a million other reasons that a phone can fail in a way that makes it appear dead, but a service tech knows how to get it running.
I changed it to the HTML doc title, which is a legit source of good titles on HN and often has the most accurate/neutral version (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

(Submitted title was "Stripe applicants say that the company is rescinding offers after it makes them", which was either editorialized, against the site guidelines, or later changed by the publication.)
dont those statements contradict eachother? it sounds appealing how? cause its a challenge exercise? But challenges are frustrating?
That’s quite a logo.
Ask HN: Linux Nvidia driver broke my touchpad. WTF?
Got a brand new thinkpad p1 gen4. Installed Ubuntu 21.10. Everything worked like a charm. Never expected it to be so smooth. Even bluetooth worked. Didn't believe it.

So I had only one step to do. Install Nvidia drivers. Used autoinstall. And surprise, surprise it broke something.
Multitouch gestures stopped working. Spend multiple hours to realize it. Another drivers didn't help.

Anyway for me the general question was. How do I revert apt get commands? It seems kind of difficult. I could purge all nvidia stuff or whatever. BUT is there maybe some general solution? That is the reason I'm always afraid of apt upgrade. It may break something and I have no idea how to restore. But maybe it's just a newbie question. Is it?
Adding on: some HNers are strawmanning, claiming HCA is mocking random poor innocent covid deceased, when the rule specifically says (emphasis mine):

> "Nominees have made public declaration of their anti-mask, anti-vax, or Covid-hoax views, followed by admission to hospital for Covid"

Much of the point of the Herman Cain Award is that the award winners were mocking others for wearing masks, getting vaccinated, and socially distancing.

These anti-mask/anti-vax people have been absolutely prolific in physically assaulting (up to and including murdering) retail staff. Harassing and assaulting flight attendants, with record numbers of . Harassing school committee members and public health officials, such that meetings have had to go virtual or have police presence.

...and here we are clutching pearls because the stuff they posted publicly on social media is being reposted? And occasionally people are figuring out who they are and harassing the families?

It's worth noting that HCA posts regularly include follow-up social media posts by family members or friends expressing anger at the deceased's friends who continue espouse anti-mask/vax views, or who express regret, or encourage people to mask and vaccinate...and that from reading the sub for months, I often see a lot of comments from people empathizing with the family members and friends of the deceased.
by repairing it
> So why is “advice” to avoid repair and eat the costs considered a tenable solution?

It's not an "or" proposition.

You can fully push for a society where such behavior is dealt with or inexistant, because that's the right thing to do.

At the same time, you can ackownledge this life is full of terrible unfair things, and preparing for them can spare you a lof of pain.
If your company says, I'm sorry we have to reduce your salary to save money, so take it or leave it, is that "forc[ing] a non-consenting third party to give you their money"?

Nobody is being forced - everybody is voluntarily accepting or refusing contracts.
An ultimately the company will suffer in quality, be bought by private equity and gutted in the next twenty years.
Directly in the thread linked by dang the reporter from Protocol was soliciting people directly for a "potential story". It does not appear this was something previously being worked on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29394740
I'm getting lots of these in DDG too. Right now I'm doing searches about home renovation and I see lots of pages which are just a rip off of an online forum page (which I find elsewhere in my results, usually). Which, unlike SO, is not licensed for people to copy.
Ok, let's turn it around and say they would keep me safe from you. Why would they? What's their motivation to keep ME save from YOU? Are you even a threat? Am I a threat? And would a real threat even be caught by this system?
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No, I don't know how they communicate exactly. However, I imagine between the processor and flash memory proper there sits a flash memory controller (provided by the flash memory manufacturer) that speaks some protocol akin to ATA. That way manufacturers would be able to replace flash memory A by flash memory B with relative ease, because the abstraction of the protocol allows them to ignore how that specific flash memory is implemented exactly.

Is that wrong? Does the OS on smartphones generally have direct access to the flash memory proper?

Edit: I remembered another protocol that I would guess is used in smartphones for communication with the flash memory, namely UFS (which is also utilized with SD cards).

Edit 2: Note that it is irrelevant whether the protocol used is ATA, UFS, or something different.
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You can still do "-site:spam.com".
For PowerShell at least, this one is the best:

https://github.com/Badgerati/Pode
Ted, you guys are awesome. Been a happy customer for the last maybe 7 years. Keep up the good work!
Just once (4th paragraph), the article refers to the object as a "short sword". That strikes me (passably-well-read in some related areas) as very different from "dagger".

Any more-expert folks here, to have a sense for how big a deal that is (in the context)?
It's impressive to see the difference between the dagger as it was discovered and as it's been restored, but I'm really curious to see what it would look like in "like-new" condition.
Something like that, you could say a ticketing system for decisions and that wouldn’t be too far off.

Tickets are good for work items, and we are trying to build something like that but for larger discussion topics that have a decision at the end.

We use it to build the product itself, and we use GitHub issues to track features we are going to build, AsyncGo for discussions we need to have, and don’t use Slack at all.. just Google Chat for rare quick pings. We have a few discussion threads going in AsyncGo at a time, and it’s nicer than chat because you have a persistent context, a clear due date, and can engage with the topic when you want to focus on it instead of as they happen in Slack.
Photos are typically in /DCIM/Camera
Metaphors we learn to program by
Sample of 1 as well but I do see them on DDG, not nearly as much as Google though.
What is the groups preference for "best" registrar? Good balance of usability, available TLD's, pricing and security?
maybe no password?
They probably fixed it first
It's a 'new' tech with a lot of shady political hand waving that impacts your body. Like redefining vaccine, a rushed testing process and... oh yea the feds waived all legal liabilities for the private entities that developed it.

I think given the context that if your under 65 you are more likely to have medical complications driving to the grocery store its a pretty understandable perspective.

Also the mandate has no exception for natural immunityI. It is I had it and no symptoms of it except I couldn't taste anything, given above, I why would I get a vaccine.
Agreed. My nieces who are still young enough to get a kick out of that live with their grandma (and the other lives in Senegal and doesn’t speak much if any English) so I’m not sure who they’d get a call from … me, I guess!

I suppose I should be a better uncle and call my nieces and nephews sometime, cute phone or no cute phone. There’s just so freaking many of them now.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160491?hl=en

If the phone doesn't turn on you can still queue up a wipe from Find My Device which would've prevented this.

And no, it was clearly not "password enabled".
> Every encounter with the police is expectedly a gunfight waiting to happen.

While many people may think that now, it is by no means the reality. The vast majority of encounters are non-violent.

The U.S. has many problems with policing and they should be addressed, but you should not let the media control your perspective about how common these things are.

Your examples are also not really comparable. Someone using a weapon for theft is not the same as someone looking to commit suicide by cop. The former is unlikely to kill someone without cause, the former is an unstable individual who is expecting no consequences to matter for their actions since they intend to be dead. Everyone in their vicinity is possibly in mortal danger. That doesn't mean the police acted correctly, but it's not comparable to the other scenario for the purpose of how police should act.
>All Pixels are encrypted by default as long as you have any kind of lock method enabled (PIN, password, shape...).

No lock method?
There was an SO outage this last year, and I only found that out when I tried to go to SO and couldn't get to it. I checked page 2 of Google and found one of the mirrors that you're talking about. I grabbed the content from there and continued with work.

I think it's a matter of perspective. If you _know_ that you want a specific site, use google's 'site:' specifier. If you're looking and find something that is from SO, redo the search and get to the SO Q/A. As for me, I'm moderately grateful for the decentralized backups.
"BRD" is not at all a recommended approach to editing, it really is more of a last resort. You're very much expected to propose non-trivial improvements to the article on the talk page before you make them, and then respond to any actionable feedback; at which point anyone who reverts you after the fact is acting against established consensus. Being "BOLD" is okay for simple copyedits but not for much else nowadays.
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