skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, for social services the fraudster problem is extremely overblown.
Here in The Netherlands in 2016 we had 120-150 million euros of fraud on 77 billion euros of social service spending. That's less than 0.2%. Divided by the amount of social service recipients, it amounts to 17 euros of fraud per person.

https://www-rtlnieuws-nl.translate.goog/economie/column/4140...
> You can snooze or completely remove other users, groups, and pages.

This works until FB/IG/Twitter starts "recommending" more content to your feed to keep you on the platform longer. As far as I know, there's no way to disable this.
I went through this last year. It was relatively smooth, but I did do a factory reset and spent a couple hours on the project just to be sure.

I have been plagued by account problems for years, though, having signed up for services like YouTube with a personal email prior to creating the same email address in Google Workspace. I recommend avoiding it, and just using a free Gmail account for basic usage of Google docs and YouTube and your phone.
Lots of good advice here, here's how I kept sane:

Focus on your strenghts for the two components of getting an entry-level job: (1) landing the interview and (2) landing the job.

Landing the interview is some percentage of the number of real leads you have, based on the strength of your resume.

To get real leads (i.e. resume won't get trashed): connect with fellow alums, ask everyone you know if they know someone who can put you in the pipeleine. Shotgunning applications are not real leads.
If you have a small network, then focus on strengthening your resume as much as possible. If you have a small network, find creative ways to expand it.

Landing the job (given that you have an interview) is a function of luck, likeability, and performance.
You should intuitively know if your weakness is your charisma or how well you can answer technical questions. Hammer on the weakness.

The benefit of thinking this way is that I could survive rejections without thinking that I was a bad candidate: I just had to tweak some component of how I came across. From there it becomes a problem to solve, rather than a depressing result to accept.

Best of luck! Like others said, the first one is the hardest, but it can be done.
Love it. Explainability would be a nice feature. I.e word definitions, origins, etc.
The IRS is a massive social service, because much of US fiscal policy gets done through the tax code via ever-more-complicated tax credits and deductions.
That is popular in isolation (when was the last time 64% of Americans agreed on anything??), but not for something that some feel should have a universal mandate.
Loved this, I found myself nodding along as I was reading the article. I had a similar setup a few years ago when I was still studying and this brought back a lot of memories. In my case it was a Compaq Mini with a 32 bit Slitaz install running on a similarly specced Atom CPU and 1 gig of RAM. Firefox was usable when combined with the noscript extension, but like you I limited myself to lightweight websites and to the mobile alternatives of the heavy ones. I even had the Audacious* Winamp skin that you mentioned in the blog post.

One other thing I remember being especially problematic was those websites that had large footers and navbars. Medium was one of the main culprits. The navbar and footer covered a large portion of the small screen, leaving me unable to read more than a few lines at a time. Back then I had "fixed" it by making an extension that removed them from the DOM, but now I realize that uBlock origin supports a similar feature. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that there are others out there with a similar setup!
yikes, this is a terrible take - $620m of capital means they are expected to become enormous and make huge returns, or go bust trying.
>I do not see how people's risk profile is any different than what it was before Dec 2019.

There are virtually zero deaths attributable directly to flu by hospitals. The vast majority are imputed by estimated excess deaths.

So even by completely different and unfair metrics, covid is vastly more dangerous. If you went by that standard covid likely has claimed over a million US deaths already, compared to a few tens of thousand for flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

On top of that, covid has a significantly higher R0 value, which means you’re much, much more likely to come into contact with it.

That’s how you change your risk calculation: it’s the cost of getting it (probability of death or maiming) times the probability of getting it (community spread level and nasal viral shedding rate). There is no mitigating factor here wrt covid vs flu risk.
I don't actually watch those shows - I watched them a long time ago.

I've just noticed that for many years, Netflix would show that their most-watched show was The Office. And I'm sitting here thinking -- all of this new content and the thing people are watching is over a decade old?

South Park, Family Guy, Friends, Sienfield... I've seen these promoted by multiple services as the most-watched shows available.
At least the history bit can be saved thanks to Google Takeout.
Many states also sell this information to third parties.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...
Third-party Framework expansion modules: MagSafe-style charging and RF support
It’s anti-work, not anti-money.
This isn't a fair analogy at all. Landlords didn't cause the cause the pandemic. If anything, the government did. However, they are the ones who are forced to pay for provide a service that the government desires, housing, at their own expense. This might make sense if it were a tax, but it disproportionately effects certain people. Imagine if they 1% of people were randomly selected to forfeit 10% of their 401k for housing during the pandemic.

Even worse, a long term eviction moratorium is incentivizes landlords to filter out poorer tenants with income and credit requirements, making housing more expensive for them.
I build products to help improve my main e-commerce businesses so I think this counts as a side-hustle. The latest (earliest stage one is):

https://www.zigpoll.com

"Bite sized" polling software as a service that I use for post purchase surveys, contact us forms, and email campaigns when I want feedback on what to do next. Most customers are currently through our Shopify App but have a few SaaS businesses that integrated it independently.
I've lost a lot of trust in opensubtitles since they started going down for "scheduled maintenance" for about two hours a day during the west coast evening, started selling advertising in the middle of the subtitles, and launched a "2.0" in the form of opensubtitles.com that continues to have a confusing and poorly described relationship with opensubtitles.org.

The whole thing has just given a solid impression of being poorly managed, and the way this breach notification is written really reinforces that. It's unfortunate as I would be happy to donate money but... not to opensubtitles, which seems to be too deep in a hole to realistically get back out of it.
https://jumpshare.com

Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago and turned it into a full-time job.
Meanwhile: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china...

And the Canadian government did nothing. Better to spend dollars going to court against kids I suppose.
If you could wrangle AI to solve this problem for you, I'm sure you wouldn't have any issues solving the captcha manually. Hence the CodeCaptcha still works!
Jocko uses the example of writing a book (he's written fiction and non-fiction). It's a mental activity which is known for "writer's block". Jocko says go through the motion... sit down and write 1,000 words per day minimum. At least it's progress. When you have energy later, you have something to work with. You might need to re-write everything, but that still quicker than trying to write it perfect the first time. I think that's very applicable to coding.
I'm a Google employee who just found out about this.
I'm not annoyed that I have to pay, it's been ~13 years of free service and I don't think Google is obligated to continue providing this to me.

The annoying part is that Google doesn't provide any migration tool, but there are migration tools for Google Edu accounts so that graduating students can migrate their data to personal Google accounts. The software is evidently mostly written and tested, but for whatever reason it hasn't been brought over the finish line for other workspace users.

Obviously our use case isn't that common (it's been "legacy" for years) but still annoying to know that there's probably some script I could run to do this, but nobody has built the web UI for it.
have you thoughts about offering this as software service for something like the Remarkable?
Wash Your Meebits in Web3
> You don't have to render identically. A 720p phone and a 4k TV are quite different.

Yes, but that's kind of the problem. The 720p phone has a lot of horsepower per pixel, but is crippled by touch controls. The Apple TV is _slower_ on a larger screen, with yet another frustrating input situation because Apple didn't put a gamepad in the package. (They don't even make gamepads! The MFi ones I bought were pure junk.) I can't imagine a more hostile environment to develop AAA games for.
> I would really like it much better if a 3rd party private company wasn't the arbiter of my ME-NESS and a potential barrier to a successful tax payment.

Let the IRS know: https://www.improveirs.org/submit-a-suggestion/
Oh I didn't see it as an attack, just not that necessary. Also I'm based in Scotland and english is my first language, but I've learned to relax a bit as I get older, even with Americans and their torturing of the language :)
Put 8 high-quality HDDs in a stripe & mirror config. Thus you can read from 4 simultaneously. They each top at 260MB/s. That amounts to little over 1GB/s -- which is 10GbE.
With few regional exceptions CA has the most tenant protections in the country by far.

Notably NJ requires “cause” for terminating or even refusing to renew residential leases, which appears to be unique as far as states go.
Palantir = Epic Short Squeeze?
> None of these ideas are particularly popular amongst land-owners.

Or non-landowners. Turns out, the state isn't particularly interested in constructing nice housing, or doing so in adequate numbers. So people end up living in communal spaces while sitting on a decade-long waitlist for something to open up.
To the best of my understanding, that is not true. It is illegal to directly market to consumers without their prior consent. It is not illegal to market to businesses, though it is illegal to send marketing communication that is misleading, and it is not permitted to send direct mail to businesses who have indicated they wish to not receive marketing communication through the Mail Preference Service.

Do you have a source to support your perspective?
Build (some) and maintain (most) roads?
> They've slowly (and successfully) removed nearly every conservative leaning subreddit on the site.

If the content that came from The_Donald is now what half the US considers to be "conservative leaning", we're in big trouble. White nationalism, anti-vax, pro-authoritarian, pro-civil war content. This isn't a debate about tax policy anymore, it's gotten more visceral.
Dutch Covid rules: Museums and orchestras stage haircut protest
I don't think there is a good option here because I don't think you can use the same domain. You would need to switch to a service that can have multiple mailboxes on a domain.
Right!? The hard part is integrating nicely with the OS, which is just not something that's in Electrons bag. The thing Electron "improves" for them is portability for the one thing that users really want to avoid interacting with. It's just such a confusing business decision in my eyes, and to be completely honest, part of the reason I'm looking at switching is literally that they are making a decision like this unprovoked when they have a great native app already, I just don't understand it and don't want to support a business making shit decisions like that.

Someone in this thread suggested Strongbox which looks very promising. I will stick with 1Password until they've decommissioned 7, and then make my decision whether to stay or not I think.
pledge is excellent, but it protects programmers against writing security bugs that have large impact, it doesn’t protect you against the software they write. It’s those programmers who restrict what their tools can do, and who decide when to throw the switch to enable those restrictions.

If you trust those programmers, it’s indeed way more convenient than other tools, if only because it removes the need for configuring things twice. For example, instead of configuring your web server to serve files from /foo/bar/ _and_ telling SELinux that your web server is allowed to read from /foo/bar, you only configure the web server, and it will tell the OS “I shouldn’t read from anything but /foo/bar, starting … now”.

You’ll have to trust the web server to do that, though.
FAA Issues Airworthiness Directive for Boeing 787 After 5G Launch
> You should let them know to contact their state legislator. [...] This is the equivalent to escalating your issue to a manager.

No, it's the equivalent of escalating it to a member of the Board of Directors.
They have, the legislator also has a canned response. And the pandemic started Mar 2020, it is now 22 months later.

That is far sufficient time to get a response, even if they were initially overwhelmed.

Families and businesses get overwhelmed too, but they are expected to file NJ tax returns on time. Try not responding to NJ for 14 months after NJ is owed money and see what happens. Rules for thee but not for me is the motto of many governments.
Yes, the BBC and NPR are not as bad, but you can see the creep in that direction.
> Buy out Valve and you'll destroy its creative freedom that got them there in the first place.

I don't think an acquisition by Google would have anything to do with Valve's "creative freedom"--the evidence of which has been pretty scant for the last decade or so. ;) More for the storefront and the platform.

(I absolutely do not want this to happen, obviously.)
Tackling the Cybersecurity Staff Shortages in 2022
Why are people honestly against ID requirements for voting?

Pretty much every democracy in the world has this. Europeans need to show ID to vote.
By lowering its R0 below 1. Which doesn't not require "sterilizing" vaccines (which is good, since neither the smallpox nor polio vaccine eliminated infection or transmission with anything close to 100% effectiveness).
So I'm guessing you're saying:
Nothing > ssn , and
Nothing > public key cryptography.

Are you also saying:
Ssn > public key cryptography?
And if so, why?
This looks great and looking to move from sunsama due to pricing. I don't see an easy way to delete task? I imported a template as test but can't seem to delete task?
I would like to offer a more nuanced spin - there's a large quantity of great, original content out there, but the era of the sitcom is over. We're in peak prestige tv - every new show requires you to have watched the whole season and requires a big time commitment and emotional investment (game of thrones being the quintessential example of this).

...yet the last few years have been quite hard! All of us are navigating a COVID environment where working remotely, educating kids, and entertaining ourselves have all blended together. There's a bifurcation of eyeballs - I simply don't have the time or emotional bandwidth to watch "prestige tv", but it's very easy for me to put on friends, or the office, or seinfeld, and carry on with my day!
having experienced some Kafka-esque systems myself, I understand the rant.

My presumably unreasonable imaginary proposal for these sorts of problems is that we would build off of real-life social networks. I think my mail carrier, for instance, would be able to verify that I am the same person who has lived at my address for the past N years.

Which really boils down to one human being seeing another human being's face. It's pretty low-tech.

That said, I feel like using video chats to do this is arguably a reasonable next-best alternative to IRL verification for people who for one reason or another can't ever meet their mail carrier.

I guess what I'm getting at is - it _seems_ like there could be a good version of this system that is roughly the right solution in a mostly unobjectionable, non-surveillance-state way. I don't really know what boxes it would have to check to move from the bad category into the good category. But I'd love to hear more from you or others on what options we might have.
I'm a G Suite legacy user that is affected by this change, primarily using it for personal email.

Extremely, extremely annoyed that Android app purchases will be lost.

Since I also have Apple devices I'm considering moving over to iCloud+ since they now support 3 email boxes and 5 domain names per account: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

Other options I'm researching include Outlook Premium and Zohomail. Will be watching the comment section for other alternatives.
A good reason why I don't like to buy smart devices.

That said, I think that if we want right-to-repair/tinker I think we also have to make reasonable concessions as well. E.g. No liability for the manufacturer due to running older or non OEM versions of software/firmware. No expectation of ongoing support or updates on those older branches. Of course liability should still exist for issues that were not caused by this alternate software even if you're running it.
I don't think anyone here is calling it a bad investment for the investors. We're calling it a bad event for the users.
If the number isnt tied to an IMEI, then how are they supposed to use it track you as your phone pings different towers?
We Manage New York Times Readers’ Data Privacy (2021)
A large and important CC/BCC should probably be done through a mailing list, no?
If I don't get very sick, I'd say they work.

The only people moving the goal post are the anti-vaxers. Ok, they reduce the severity of the disease...but..but..but COVID is still spreading so I will write off vaccines entirely.
That is fantastic, I wish I knew about it earlier. I used another popular name-finding site (can't remember what it was) but it wasn't nearly as intelligent and the results were not that good. It also would be great to check for the availability of the name in Twitter/YouTube/etc.
TL-DR: Habitica + Tamagochi for kids
Well, to be frank, it's not about the environment, and barely about national security: some places in Europe -- southern Sweden being the most notable example -- has severe energy shortages to such an extent that new businesses have to go elsewhere when they want to expand.

Other parts of Europe has a power surplus, but the grid's capacity simply isn't high enough to transfer all of it to the locations where it's needed.

As it turned out, the environmentalists' push to kill nuclear power wasn't that great since the plants were in the areas where the power was actually consumed.
Nearly any content that was on GPM or any other streaming site has full quality audio. The only times it will use the Youtube version is if no alternative is found, or if you explicitly have the Video toggle set.

Do you have example of content which is found on most other streaming sites but uses Youtube video on YTM?
I presume the costs to convert enough of our existing rail networks to support electric trains (in the US) would be extremely high, especially considering so much of the freight rail network is owned by a few companies.

Freight rail seems like a great use case for large scale wireless charging in certain areas... have "rest stops" every X miles on key lines where trains can automatically charge up in the middle of a haul.

Im sure they could also take advantage of induction braking on the downhill section of mountain passes.
It sounds pretty hostile to end users:

Please do not email us from private mail addresses like gmail, gmx and the like. We only provide a trial to businesses > 50 employees. As a small business or private user, we recommend you simply try our demo or talk to one of our partners.
A lot of us have been using it for more than a decade. I'm going to look around, but $6 / user / month doesn't seem outrageous to me.
Walking the dog is a privilege, not a chore. You only have these precious creatures for 15 years or less.

And @sokoloff, you're not alone. The dog park we used to go to had a guy who had no dog (his died) and just liked to come there every day.

At a local park, they have a big sign, maybe 4 ft high and 10 or so wide. I saw this one ace dog walker with about six dogs all sitting on the sign and posing for a picture. I aspire to that.
What pijul needs to truly succeed is an halo project. Git got where it is now only because it was developed for linux kernel. Not only is it a major pr boost, but it also gets all sorts of kinks ironed out pretty quickly, and that the tool fits into different peoples workflows; for linux that means that git format-patch and am were pretty much day1 features so that it works with lkml flow seamlessly.

rustc could be one strong candidate as such halo project, but it is probably pretty difficult to convince them to switch, especially as it means not only switching away from git, but also github which they use heavily.

Which conveniently brings to last point that to get any major project to switch to pijul, the transition story needs to be really solid and not disruptive to the day-to-day development. For git it meant not only that it needed to work well with lkml, but git also had really solid svn and cvs (and others!) clients pretty early on. It allowed people to use both git and the legacy vcs in parallel during transition. Beyond that, individuals could use git to work with svn (and other vcs) repos that had no plans to transition anywhere, and still reap some of gits benefits.

For pijul I think it means that it is necessary to be able to work with git repos seamlessly similarly that git-svn allowed git users to work with svn repos.
I've just signed up to the equivalent in the uk called government gateway

you have to provide information and details from two of the following: Passport, last tax submission or driving licence

the sign up to the internet healthcare system used by my doctor seemed to be run by a 3rd party (not happy) needed general information and a picture of my passport or driving license. I declined, because it's a third party and I could not be bothered reading the large list of ways they will likely sell your data and partially because I don't need my doctors info online
> It is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.

It's quite literally a mindless zombie remnant of the actual Cultural Revolution ideology of Lin Biao and the criminal Gang Of Four. That whole ideological memeplex was taken up by young radical leftists throughout the West in the late 1960s and 1970s. A generation has passed, and now those leftist students have grown up and become respected "liberal" and "progressive" leaders. Do the math, it's not rocket science.