skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically its a scarlet letter that means you have an android phone.

When ios users text message each other, the messages are blue and also many forms of rich media and reactions can be sent. When a user has a green bubble it mostly means they dont have an iphone and cant receive lots of metadata, its even a great risk for misunderstanding to be made as the emojis are all completely different. The actual reason is less pretentious and is just notifying the user that the message is unencrypted (due to being a normal SMS), and that alone is a good enough warning to disassociate. But thats evolved to being a 99% correlation with having a non-iphone but specifically android device since the competitors have all left the market by now.

Android users often are out of the loop on a lot of things, like many dont even know the reality of the green bubble issue. Many will learn and choose to continue missing the social cues, opting to believe that its just a small subset of pretentious people that care and that theyre better off not being around that kind of person. They don't know that many opportunities are being withheld from them.

Why is that?

Well. Think about it. Many android users looooooove to tell people about how much control they have over their phone. Everyone knows! Nobody cares! Nobody wants to hear it! If we go on a hike and take awesome photos using their high tech transdimensional phone camera from the future, they cant share the photos offline with any built in function that all the other phones already have and their own phone might explode before we get back to civilization! Iphone users can though. We’re all content just waiting for Apple to introduce the same functionality 5 years in the future. Nobody thinks its really magical when Apple tell us an old reintroduced technology is. Android wasnt in the running, so its nice to get an extra feature.

People are just tired of the missed social cues, and lack of integration into the ecosystem now. Ironically Apple could open it up, at least to get encrypted messages, but honestly the world has evolved in such a convenient way that Apple just has to wait it out. People use Whatsapp and other stuff, and their major US market keeps gravitating to iphone.
I’m using NetNewsWire which works great but is iOS and Mac only. I’ve considered Feedly, but I would have to do the pro plan because of the cap on number of feeds. I haven’t switched because I have a hard time justifying the cost. I would rather that money go to the people creating the content.
Installing an app isn't the problem. Getting everyone else to install the app is the problem (and their choice isn't "app or money", but "install app and switch everyone over or just exclude/mock the weirdo with the low-class phone"). If you're somewhere where everybody is on Whatsapp/Facebook/... it's similar struggle with people to switch to something else you prefer (e.g. for me iMessage never was topic because just not enough relevant people had iOS for them to build an expectation that everyone has it. But there was a phase where getting people to accept that not everybody has Facebook was kind of annoying)
The "Downtime" setting. Set it to start at 7am, end at 3pm, and you're set. (We exempt the messages and phone apps in case they need them in an emergency.)

Not sure if you can have a school and bedtime as separate limits, though. That'd be handy.
I'm sceptical.
Conflating cloudflare's distributed architecture with distributed control is just silly. It is extremely centralized control and the CEO of Cloudflare has already terminated accounts of a business he had a personal distaste for on whim.

"Non-commercial" might be a better way to understand this point of view. Instead of prioritizing profit (the reason for people using cloudflare, it's cheap and good) the idea is to minimize the damage done by large centralizing forces on the internet. So, in the above comment I suggest Facebook as an equal option because it is analogous to using Cloudflare. The intent was to get you to think like a human person and not a business owner or employee on the clock. It's short term gain for long term damage to the internet.
That what always confused me... being "in" - i understand, but how one can be "cool" doing the same thing as 87% of everybody? =)
Out of curiosity, what’s your proposed functionally-equivalent replacement?
Somebody in a previous HN threat recommended the Pentel EnerGel .7mm pens and I picked some up at WalMart. Best pens I've ever used and they're like $1.50 each.
Looking back on what I read when I was around your age, I think I benefitted less from reading entire books straight through than I did from browsing through magazines and books as my interests led me. I spent a lot of time in libraries, wandering the stacks and reading rooms and stopping to read whatever caught my eye. Bound volumes of old general-interest magazines—The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Strand Magazine—were particularly absorbing, though I also dipped into a lot of books.

That library-browsing experience is now available through the Internet Archive. Some semirandom magazine examples are at [1, 2, 3]; some books are at [4, 5, 6]. There are millions more.

If HN had existed when I was eighteen, I would have enjoyed—and benefitted from—reading the articles and discussions here, too, perhaps almost as much as I do now at the age of sixty-four.

[1] https://archive.org/details/notesqueries12unse_0

[2] https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsedinb191unkngoog

[3] https://archive.org/details/sim_harpers-magazine_1903-03_106...

[4] https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount01stau

[5] https://archive.org/details/russiannihilisme00buel

[6] https://archive.org/details/cottonkingdomtra00inolms
I have no way to tell how large a kernel of truth this story may contain, but it certainly feels like it could be true.

OK, I could see that. It would explain why there was such a shift between Matrix 1 and Matrix 2/3.
Meanwhile I don’t I’ve been on a not full or nearly full flight in years…

I miss those random low headcount flights :(
Not surprising.

Android software and hardware UX is typically subpar, with very little attention to detail, and things just feel out-of-touch and made by engineers and marketing bots. My hypothesis is all these things contribute to a lack of "coolness" (for lack of better word), which has a tremendous impact on the market.
Security is not boolean. What’s local can be public some day. Everything should be disclosed on a need to know basis.
I’m pretty sure Mr. Murdoch and Mrs. Blair are mad him.

And the ex-Mrs Murdoch probably has a case of buyers remorse.
That was the missing bit of info for me. It's not just that the color is different, it's that a non-iMessage user in a group chat degrades the functionality for everyone else.
I have an iPhone SE and it’s still the best phone I’ve ever used, simply because it just works, and I know it will for years to come.

Every android I had died/missed updates less than 2 years after I bought it, exception to the original moto x that was the pinnacle of android for me
This makes me really want to see what the question was that led to this result having thought Sandler’s popularity peaked when I was a teen.
I picked up a Sheaffer Agio (yellow, nickel trim) on ebay recently, new in box, 10 bucks. I have some Parker Quink (blueblack) in it. It writes better than anything else I have, including a $550 Delta I picked up in Venice years ago. I highly recommend it if you can find it.
Interesting.

I've historically been an android user and have an iPhone now. Never really bothered with iMessage and my social circles use whatsapp or signal primarily.

I guess in markets where the iphone isn't dominant (UK), this social dynamic doesn't really exist.
More open. Not forced by Apple to use a single store.
The real death of a person is the last time anyone thinks about them.
I propose we replace all descriptions of DNS as decentralized with descriptions that call DNS centralized. Starting with your comments in this thread.
Now it is
> decentralization of DNS or Bitcoin.

Uh, this is DNS. Bitcoin has a similar but far more expensive mechanism for social consent but more importantly it also doesn’t have equivalent functionality for a global namespace. That’s the underlying problem here: the purpose of the DNS system is to map human-meaningful names to addresses and that requires a mechanism for guaranteeing uniqueness and dealing with abuse. Bitcoin can’t do that and things like ENS have the usual problems handling abuse.
Because if you're "out" then you're "uncool."
Because one of the options you stated (waiting in line) isn't even an option in a lot of areas.

This specific scenario has nothing to do with market theory. It's a combination of regulation, subsidization, and infrastructure. We're not buying playstations.
It was a deal sweetener. The federation flourished, renegotiate the terrible deal. States are artificial units. One person, one vote.

The intent of a bunch of folks who kept people chained up in barns is irrelevant, the intent of the 1700s circumstances is irrelevant. We're heading to 30% of Americans controlling 68% of Senate in '40, minority rule by rural white folks. This veneration of the parchment as a religious text is just an excuse to not use our brains to solve present-day problems.
That's your takeaway from an article exposing police for running a psyops attack on the public, covering it up, and then not being held accountable for it?
I was in the DC Carnegie Apple Store and the personnel made fun of me for having a 6s. They were like "Wow, I haven't seen one of these forever?!?!?"
10000 seems statistically significant
Yes. That's the whole buy them months in advance part so you are prepared everyone in the US apparently forgot about. I feel like I was raised in a different generation.

Preparation is a thing. It was quite obvious we were likely to have a covid spike this winter. Anyone without a stock of antigen tests at this point has simply been irresponsible as it was trivial to buy a few boxes at $14/ea at walmart the past 6mo.
Not sure what your point is, but that's exactly how surveys work : take a sample of size n (10000) and do some statistical inference based on the observed statistic, i.e. either reject or accept a hypothesis based on the sample.
> They found that 95 percent of these inconspicuous-vehicle crashes occur when a vehicle traveling down the roadway collides with a stationary one. However, more than half the deaths and almost 1 in 5 serious injuries occur when a vehicle strikes a pedestrian who is leaving, working on, or returning to a stopped vehicle. On average, this type of crash kills 300 pedestrians a year, a number that has risen by more than a quarter since 2014.

You are much safer sitting in a car on the highway shoulder than getting out of your car to walk to safety.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/stopped-vehicle-crashes-res...
Are PCR tests free in the US? I found tons of paid testing services when looking, they just didn't have capacity.
I think research has already shown that the benefits of legalization outweigh those of criminalization. When something is legal, then people can be presented with treatment options and be given safe unaltered drugs. There are groups that literally go around passing out needles to drug addicts because it has been found to actually prevent more deaths than those caused by harm of using dirty needles.
At least in the US, the legal repercussions for faking someone else's death should hopefully deter anyone who would go this particular route in order to take over a repository. Other countries may present a challenge.

I'm a big fan of this feature, but I do think GitHub would do well to institute a "real name"/identity policy for successors. That won't be infallible either, but it's another hurdle for a would-be fraudster to climb over.
> There’s plenty of weird cruft in Firefox’s ~30 year old codebase that causes bugs and unspecified behavior.

Just wondering where you're getting "30 years" from?

That asked, a Chrome-shaped monoculture doesn't help anybody. We need more competing implementations, not less. Anyone feel like collaborating on such?
It's not confusion. One person is determinedly wrong. There is an easy rule of thumb: stay in your car.
Way better than the n=30 they teach in stats 101 anyways
Macron's vow to 'piss off' the unvaccinated sparks outrage
I don't understand how "we didn't sell enough seats" is a legit reason to cancel a flight.

If I book a flight, I'm not getting that money back if I can't fly for any reason. But the airline can just decide "nah, I don't feel like upholding my part of the contract"?
Only about $200 more than the national median household income
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...
Also worth considering that a 3-4yr old iPhone is quite usable without much noticeable lag (maybe just need to replace battery for $50).

3-4yr old androids have been, in my very anecdotal experience, completely unusable (software bugs that’ll never be fixed, battery drain from OS updates released after manufacture year).

If I were to give a 13yr old a phone, I’d probably give them my used one, and then survival bias would mean they probably get an iPhone since more of them survive in a very usable state.

My dad actually likes Touch ID so much he uses a 5yr old iPhone 7 daily. Just replaced the battery for the 3rd time out of pocket.
Sailfish is great and the only device they have ever dropped support for got 7 years of updates.

https://blog.jolla.com/jolla7/
Here's a possible approach.

Buy n = 1024 doses of your insulin or whatever, D(0, i) for i from 0 to n - 1 = 1023, homogenize each dose, and divide each one in half into half-doses called E(0, i) and F(0, i).

Mix pairs F(0, 2*i) and F(0, 2*i + 1) into 512 new doses D(1, i) for i from 0 to 511. Homogenize these new doses and divide each one in half into half-doses called E(1, i) and F(1, i).

Mix pairs F(1, 2*i) and F(1, 2*i + 1) into 256 new doses D(2, i) for i from 0 to 255.

And so on, until in step k = lg n = 10 step you mix the half-doses F(k - 1 = 9, 0) and F(9, 1) into a single dose D(k = 10, 0). Send this D(k, 0) off to the lab to be analyzed.

If the lab is equipped to detect dangerous impurities in your insulin at one-thousandth the danger level, which is reasonable for many contaminants, and the sample comes back clean, then you know that all 1024 doses were safe, though some of them may have the wrong dose. Mix the remaining 1023 doses well so that they all have the same dose and store them safely.

If not, you need to track down the contamination (or massive dilution), so in the next iteration, you send E(9, 0) and E(9, 1) to the lab for analysis. If one of them comes back safe, you know the 511 doses that were mixed into it were okay, and you can mix them well and store them safely, then repeat the process on the contaminated subtree.

Depending on your cost function (latency, shipping and handling costs, etc.) and your priors for correlation among the samples, it might be worthwhile to recurse more deeply on failure: instead of sending E(9, i) for i from 0 to 1 to the lab, you might instead send them E(6, i) for i from 0 to 15. If one out of 30 doses was randomly contaminated, for example, about 14 out of the 16 groups will be bad on average, while if it's one out of 100, then you'll have about 7 bad groups out of 16. At some point you need to give up on the recursion, too, or you'll end up testing almost all 1024 doses when they're all bad.

This of course doesn't solve the problem of future buys, just reduces it by the factor of n.
If the rest of the parent's comment wasn't already true beforehand, then maybe we could assume good faith.
Darn, I thought this was going to be about what platform will come next after GitHub and I got all interested.
The obvious solution would be to require certain minimum passenger numbers per slot.
> Android software and hardware UX is typically subpar, with very little attention to detail, and things just feel out-of-touch and made by engineers and marketing bots. My hypothesis all these things contribute to a lack of "coolness" (for lack of better word), which has a tremendous impact on the market.

It goes the other way around as well. If you are used to Android you will be very disappointed by the lack of customization available on iOS. I know I can't stand to use an iphone because of that.
Thought so too, then looked at url (docs.github.com) and thought "really?" :)
> As a society we've been mandating vaccines for almost a century now

In the US the Covid vaccine “mandate” is not actually a public mandate, as there is no mandate to specifically vaccinate every American. It’s basically the federal government blackmailing some employers through regulation to mandate vaccination as a condition of employment by creating punitive costs to the employer that can’t be eliminated without forcing their employees to vaccinate.

I honestly think it would have been less controversial if it had been a public mandate…everyone gets vaccinated—or like the ACA mandate, your hit with a tax penalty. The problem is to do that and for it to survive legal muster, they would need to have it come up through Congress as a law.

How it went down is simply shady and folks don’t like it when their government is shady.
This would be a really fun way to implement a "chaos monkey".
Ya just gotta do it by accident. Also be prepared to stop drop n roll.
There were quite a few games books in the 80s, but mostly basic things in BASIC, yeah.
Yes they're free. I haven't paid for an antigen test or PCR test and I've had probably half a dozen of each.
If I remember from my time in school, the secret is to do it while pretending to be different than everyone else. Jokes aside, being cool is not about being different than everyone else - that's what an outcast is.
Tweet-sized load balancer in Go
Covid Is War
A client I work with uses Appgate SDP which uses SPA to do exactly that. I haven’t seen SPA come up often other than that.

For this particular client it was a hard requirement for them to even consider allowing access from public internet.
At the same time, we should not be taxing people who make societies work with their money on the basis of "just in case" when the "just in case" means deincentivating those people, which create the wealth in the first place, and, on top of that, stealing them in the name of redistribution without any evidence of doing something good.

In fact, I would say there is plenty of evidence that too much redistribution impoverishes societies and, on top of that intervention, there is always a layer of corruption, way more than in more free countries (free as in non-economic intervention to wealth).
Getting out of your car on an active highway is actually much more likely to kill you than staying in it - you instantly go from a big, strong noticeable metal cage (hopefully with flashing lights on) to a small, soft, very fragile person. People who don't see a car on the shoulder also don't see a person walking.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/stopped-vehicle-crashes-res...
Do these compare performance before or after fees? Regardless, if you're comparing funds (that contain lower risk investments, like bonds) to the S&P500 then they're going to lose whenever equity markets beat bonds - which is most of the time.

If I actually (by picking stocks) have a lower expected return than the S&P, shouldn't I be sending all the hedge funds my stock picks so that they can short them (while being long S&P) - therefore beating the benchmark ~75% of the time?
But nobody smuggles 20 tonnes of either because it’s legal.
Instead of forwarding the ssh agent I use a bastion host and proxycommand. That lets me keep the ssh private key on the outermost host.

The outer system has the key, and the inner bastion system has the acl to connect inward to actual servers. Works well.
> But, we can get around that because of a partnership between Backblaze and Cloudflare they call the Bandwidth Alliance.

This reads like a paid marketing post for Cloudflare.

It's astonishing how many times the author conflates browser cache-able assets with cached assets on a CDN. When a browser downloads a static asset if the web server is configured properly those files will be cached and there won't be a need to re-download them for a very long time.

There is of course the issue with modern web frameworks like React generating a single massive js/css file that bundles everything all over again in a unique file busting all previous cached versions across all users' browsers just because a comma was added to a sentence.

Keep your js/css files small, serve them from your own web server and set a reasonable expire header, no need to pay Cloudflare $40/mo to continue gatekeeping the internet.
The way that guilt works in the US is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Hearsay is nothing to convict a person with, especially not of something so serious as domestic violence.

It's better safe than sorry when it comes to throwing someone in a prison. If his tactic is strangulation, I'm sure someone has documented wounds he caused, if true. With the volume of people you say were abused by him in this thread, 50% odds are bound to show results eventually.

Evidence is needed for accusations to be taken as more than warnings, generally.
No, the obvious solution is to allocate slots by auction instead of arbitrary rules set by the government.
That's for employee, not applicant data, though.
This seems a very US problem - in markets where the iPhone isn't dominant, people use whatsapp or signal and just get on with life.

Your snark seems to be rooted in that as well. In the UK AFAICT 'nobody' cares about the amount of control they have over their phone, because 'normal' people predominantly use android devices.
Accurate neutral objective description of economic interests...

distorted by you into some offensive pejorative about "motivations".

Your dishonesty is disgusting.
This is a good list for running DNS servers for publicly resolvable domains. Another common reason is to run a server for internal domains only accessible via VPN.
Venmo, PayPal and Cash App will report transactions more than $600 to the IRS
In theory that could be true. But as others have pointed out, there are many other reasons for delisting besides bankruptcy. The scenario you paint is possible, but I still think it's unlikely---less than 15% of the stocks involved were omitted, and that includes not only delisted stocks but stocks omitted for other reasons, so the bankrupt firms would likely be much less than 15% of the total. And while stocks are unlimited on the upside, they can't go below zero on the downside, so there's a limit to how much those omitted losers could drag down the big outlying winners.
Location matters, cocaine in Miami is cheaper (some might say on a multiple of 20+) than cocaine in NYC or SF. I only know this because my uncle and cousins used to run drugs for the Columbians.
I absolutely 100% agree with Obama on this.

Unfortunately, our society is awash in double standards. Obama is a former president and a Black man. That means in the eyes of the Twitter mob, he can pretty much say whatever he damn well pleases. I unfortunately am just a white nobody, and people won't give me the benefit of the doubt.

All I can do is hope that people like Obama, or people like John McWhorter, continue to use their platforms to try and spew some sanity into the discourse. Because my megaphone is booby trapped, if I tried to voice these opinions under my real identity I'd likely lose my job or something.
Apparently it's very important to not be a "green bubble bitch" in the dating sphere. I don't know why the assumption is that if you have an Android, you're broke, but I have heard women say unironically that a green bubble is a red flag for their safety. As an Android user, I'm happy to not be in the dating market.
Hello, sceptical, nice to meet you.
And try as you might to get people to switch, the majority will inevitably revert back to iMessage. I really hope Apple is forced to interoperate with RCS and to make all the bubbles blue.
Teenagers aren’t going to want a Sailfish phone.