skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no internet access in sub-Saharan Africa with a traditional laptop. 4G LTE USB dongles basically don't exist or they're as expensive as a cheap Android phone. WiFi and copper to the home isn't widespread in developing countries. Without the internet you have no ability to learn whatever you want or communicate with anyone.

It's you that's living in a fantasy world. Why don't you try using a laptop without internet, or with intermittent internet access, for a month and then come back and see how productive you were?
One is falling down from space, the other climbing up. Imagine if I threw a brick off a building. You are on the street and see that the brick is going to hit one of two babies. You might be able to jump in front of the brick in time to collide/intercept the brick, but there is no world where you would be moving upwards anywhere as fast as an object falling from great height. Now imagine the brick can move to avoid you and instead hit the other baby. The brick changes course after you jump. That's what is happening with a hypersonic diving onto a target.
So if you're worried about your phone being snooped at the border, mainboards are very reasonably priced in Chinese websites for many Android phones.

Put in a new mainboard and there won't be anything compromising on it. If customs takes it out of sight, throw away the mainboard or send it to a security researcher.
There is the concern that pornography is harmful to women.

There is also a concern that pornography is harmful to men. The sentiment that pornography is "wrong" is fairly widespread, see

https://www.healthpolldatabase.org/hpd/study/31116351/questi...

that about 30% of people want to see laws against the distribution of pornography and 58% of people think it is "morally wrong"

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31118435/questio...

The scientific case for harm is still weak, a small number of frequent consumers self-report that they have a problem.

Yet I'm afraid we are looking in the rear view mirror and that things like camgirling and OnlyFans might be a lot more dangerous than porn from 10 years ago. By the time we've got real evidence, this social experiment is going to be far underway.
Though that article is more than 10 years old, so I'd take anything written in it with a grain of salt
Right, I’m not disagreeing with you, that’s what I meant by “equalizes at median income.” I just mean that economics are felt directly unlike “I pay payroll taxes for… stuff… probably?”

> If you really don't care about how much money you take home, why don't you switch to a lower-paying (but less stressful/demanding) job?

Because I have a high-paying not very demanding low stress job. So on the theory that I could be making more in exchange for more stress I guess I already took your advice.

> Those taxes you claim you don't really care about represent unnecessary work

But that’s true of all taxes. I still make more money when I make more money. At that point we’re just arguing over the number. And I would kinda rather everyone have UBI and healthcare when it what it costs me is “a non-quality of life affecting amount” which is why progressive taxes work.
Did some digging, here is the paper he references on echo chambers/bubbles:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21582440198327...
Laser on the interceptor?...

edit: might not matter against a thing designed to fly in intense heat
Someone tell this poor commentator to read the author’s post. :)
And if you compare Tencent and Sony's gaming division to Microsoft's gaming division?
That's exactly why I personally try to stay away from as many of these things/devices as I can reasonably do.

TV: just don't buy an actual TV. Buy a monitor and hook it up to a Linux box with something like Kodi. You can hook up your cable box if you have that or stream from Netflix and such. Sure, even Netflix makes it hard as you can't get 5.1 surround but I'll take that and 2.0 -> 5.1 upmix over buying a Smart TV any day!

Games: Kerbal Space program sounds fun. Lots of mentions on HN. Apparently after some company bought them up changes of this sort have been made. So I decided against getting it even though I would probably very much enjoy playing it. Don't buy games like that. Buy games like Factorio or some GoG stuff (the ones that actually do work on your current Windows OS if that's what you use ... ;)) and do not buy into the GoG Galaxy thing. Get the installers. Otherwise that's like falling for Steam or Xbox Live or whatever the "Windows Live" BS is called nowadays.

Tablets and Phones: Use them for what they're good for: Making phone calls and browsing the web on the go.
Apps are a curse, I avoid installing them as much as possible. Some exceptions prove the rule, like a free GPS tracker app for hiking created by a single guy. UI looks like it's out of the 90s but works for my use case. Found it because the other app I used started requiring a login even for the free part of the app. I refuse to bow to such things.
Wine is one of those projects that really blew my mind when I first tried it out, and made Linux a fascinating OS to use. Hooking it up with binfmt_misc can make running Windows binaries on Linux a seamless process. It was also great on macOS.

One of the coolest things about Wine is Winelib. If you compile against it, you can create a binary that will run natively on Windows, and it will run in Wine on any Wine-enabled platform like Linux, BSD, macOS or HaikuOS. Instead of targeting Windows and hoping the resulting binary will work on Wine, you get Windows and multi-platform Wine support for free.
> my device, my rules

Exactly. Companies that actually care about security don't bundle those updates with major breaking UX changes.
That's fair. What I was trying to get at is that Republicans have more of an incentive to contest rural areas of blue states in House elections than in Presidential elections. There was zero Trump campaigning in my large Maryland county, even though Romney won it in 2012 and Trump came within two points in 2016.
Job Interviews by Zombies
Where do I submit feature requests?
Funny for a metal that seems to flow like Terminator and can melt an aluminum padlock, see LPL: https://youtu.be/jeghGhVdt9s

(It’s doesn’t melt it exactly, it destroys the structure because Gallium atoms are very small and insert themselves through).
https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey
Why would you report an acquisition's cost with the operating expenses of an ancillary service? You should compare the operating expenses of Game Pass with its revenues (i.e. Game Pass subscriptions), and you should compare Bethesda's acquisition cost + operating expenses against its projected revenues (i.e. Bethesda game sales/subscriptions. Apples to apples, oranges to oranges.
I never stopped using it. Major websites and browsers did.
Not in my experience. Developers develop for chromium, I find many more rendering issues with Firefox's rendering engine than I do Chrome's.
They are their own government, with their own people, who readily elected a terrorist group to leadership.
Sure it does. If you break the us law by harassing and scamming a US citizens, you still broke the law even if you’re standing somewhere else. We could decide to prioritize investigating prosecuting and fining / jailing those people. Can and should. So maybe it would require coordination with other governments. Boo hoo. Hard work.
The fact that our government somehow decided it’s nobody’s job to protect its citizens from constant harassment and financial attacks is a travesty of justice.
> Rural areas don’t want them.

Da'fuq? Rural areas love and use the heck out of buses - school buses.

As for me, I'd love to have a bus which came within 3 miles of my "rural" neighborhood. Save on gas, insurance, and be able to read when I have to commute to the office?
I think some of the pressure to update products is irrational. Just because something is newer and better is not yet reason to upgrade.

If Apache did everything they needed I can imagine a company to completely forgo investigating Nginx and this might have been cause of that kind of statement. Or maybe this was just a way to explain it to younger devs who could not understand "don't break it if it works". We don't know.

The correct way to decide this kind of decision (and many other) is to look at the RoI and your available bandwidth to run multiple projects.

I am still keeping some very old (but still actively developed) products. I am busy with other projects and there just have not been any pressure to update. When I have some time available I prefer to choose a project with highest RoI rather than update stuff because of peer pressure.
Personally, I think they would entertain it, but the implementation has to be fairly good and they have to be up for maintaining whatever that implementation is. There was a lot of hemming and hawing about hot standby & replication for years, but once someone showed up with a credible implementation and track record of maintaining and fixing it, the objections seemed to get a lot quieter.

Hints are a somewhat invasive feature that are hard to tweak once they are integrated into applications. I don't think the half dozen people that are in the best position to consider its evolution have found it the use of their time they wish to expend.
Once upon a time we got things called 'demo discs' with our gaming mags that had a taste of the games coming out soon so we could inform ourselves.

It's nice to see lately that Steam is providing more demos, which should have been a thing all along, but the logic that demos is bad (and how they disappeared largely some time ago) is only a benefit for those wanting to shovel crap out.
Bots are superhuman in self-play Hanabi: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/building-ai-that-can-master-com...

The remaining challenge is getting it to play well with human partners. Doing that requires modeling human conventions rather than learning weird bot conventions. That's hard because while you can collect essentially unlimited data through self play, it's hard to collect a lot of data playing with humans using reinforcement learning. AI algorithms are really bad at sample efficiency.
BDS != The only way to criticize Israel. Lobbing against BDS has a pretty simple cause...

From the same page:

> ... A dozen local and national parliaments have passed symbolic resolutions condemning BDS. Most of these condemnations have alleged that BDS is anti-Semitic.

Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Spain...
I found the mouse cursor controls for selecting to be worse than SlateJS, very difficult to select a portion of text in a very large document (copy/paste from something huge).
I know this is terrible for consumers, but I'm endlessly amused by all the hacks and workarounds in this game of cat and mouse.
GNU is "GNU is Not Unix"; unfortunately, it requires a left-recursive expansion that eventually exhausts the stack and terminates the process.
It’s not fine. I still use electrical appliances that are 10-50 years old. I’m pretty sure these “smart” devices apps won’t work in a decade (if that).
My initial concern, based on reading the abstract, is that since this study only looks at Twitter and not Facebook, it isn’t enough evidence to make any conclusions about echo chambers in a general way as so many people get their news from Facebook.
You can rag on the ruling class and the affluent, white, male, able-bodied elite all you want -- but one wonders what the real agenda here is behind the perceived need to push a cartoon-like and objectively distorted narratives, such as:

Consider the birth control pill.1 Developed by Harvard physicians, Drs. Pincus and Rock, and funded in part by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, it was originally intended to bolster a program of racial eugenics on colonized and “undesirable” people.

These pills were tested on Massachusetts asylum patients and working-class Puerto Rican women without their consent, often to deadly outcomes.

Not to defend the PR birth control trials, but there are a number of distortions in this characterization - which I will leave to careful reader to dissect.
This wouldn’t be necessary if all browsers automatically auto detected RSS feeds still. But, good point. I will add a link to my feed on the main page. I haven’t because of the fact that society killed RSS. But, you all are disagreeing so I’ll add a link.
> you can know enough about isomorphic decisions you've made in other domains to drive design in a new domain, without necessarily understanding implementation.

That's certainly true!

I'm not at 5 years yet in the industry myself, but I've definitely started to notice these patterns - the strategy vs tactics is a nice way to describe it :)

> Perhaps you haven't dealt with machines of sufficient scale—the abstractions really do come back together! The IBM z/OS kernel knows about draining+evicting hotplug NUMA nodes as schedulable resources (and doing health-checks to automatically enable that), in exactly the same way that Mosix or TORQUE or kube-scheduler knows about draining+evicting machines as schedulable resources (and doing health-checks to automatically enable that.)

Oh, this is interesting. My experience has been as a Google-internal user of Borg, where although the fleet is large, most of the machines are individually small enough that it's easier for us to simply evict a machine from the fleet rather than block a core. (The whole "commodity" server strategy, whereas z/OS follows a very different architecture, but I see exactly what you mean there.)
I am not policing your tone. I am policing the content of your comments, which are appeals to emotion that are without substance. They belie disingenuity.

What is the point of me digging up a source when you've completely dismissed clear macroeconomic evidence of a shift to a more social democratic economic structure?

How many examples would I need to dig up of academic authorities concurring on what the statistics clearly show, before you concede I am right?
Everything is a tree.
yes, that is the obvious step that bot makers have taken. When bots were barely at the online poker scene, nobody cared to even check. Of course, there are still other ways to check for bots such as a user playing for an unreasonable amount of time or an extraordinary amount of tables, or simply not answering to chat.
Just take advantage of the Windows-environment subsidies. Save yourself a few bucks.

Buy the system with the Windows OS. Back up the OS to a USB thumb drive and store it away carefully. You may need that to reinstall Windows if you want to sell the machine off a year or two later.

Wipe the hard drive completely by installing a new partition table. Install your own favorite Linux distro. Almost invariably, the Linux distro that could come with that machine, is a distro that you wouldn't normally use.
They are smaller boutique vendors and USPS and FedEx still have the packages as 'in transit'. Only the first package is considered lost by USPS and that was after 6 weeks of no updates and two escalations. At that time I had no idea train thefts were going on. The goods are expensive and low margin. I imagine it's not typically worth insuring though as it would normally be worth playing the odds. I would imagine having so much systemic theft at the same time would be crushing such vendors.
Twitter: How to Shrink the Time from Novice to Expert from 1 Year to 3 Months
Russia is well known to simply release pirates they catch with a bucket of fuel, only for them to end up "disappearing" hours later. Coincidentally, hijackings of Russian vessels basically don't happen anymore.
I've been in this space since very early on. I've yet to see another problem that crypto solves other than pseudo anonymous transactions, mostly valuable in the black market space.
One of the authors still finds Android apps—verified by Google Play Protect—that are still vulnerable:

https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1483436414025048068
Is your theory is that the reason unvaccinated people are hospitalized with COVID at 11 times the rate of vaccinated people is because unvaccinated people get in accidents, or have heart attacks and strokes, or have cancer, etc., at a much higher rate than vaccinated people? They aren't going in because they have COVID...they are going in for those other reasons and then happen to be found to have COVID?
Depends. If you are technical, RSS is a thing.
Ask HN: New remote-first employees, do you show anger/disappointment more often?
I'm not sure if this is a cause of more people moving to remote-first and difficulty showing emotions over slack/messaging as the main communication, or just people stressed out over covid in general. Since we went remote-first company-wide, emotions spike way more easily on the negative when something goes wrong.

I haven't experienced this myself since I've been at the company fairly long and had been remote for about three years prior to Covid hitting. I'm not sure if I just learned how to conduct myself in a virtual setting or if this is the norm. But I've seen coworkers lash out on others over what could be an easy fix or mundane item fairly often.

Just wondering if others are dealing with similar issues and how you handle a confrontation over video where one is talking over the other, or over Slack, where neither reads the other's responses and continue to cherry-pick pieces of a response escalating an argument.
> I converted my dissertation from Docx to Doc using LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word 97 almost identically (some page breaks notwithstanding). In my dissertation I had a screenshot with some text boxes and arrows floating over it. Good old Word 97 rendered it perfectly, position, formatting, the works. To complete the picture, after opening my dissertation, Clippit looks suitably bored.

I bet if you used Office to convert Docx to Doc, Word 97 would import it without problems. LibreOffice seems to make lossy conversions between formats.
Other than AMD who actually competes with Intel (honest question). I mean for servers there is 686 descendants (Intel/AMD) and then ... err ARM on servers ?
Tell HN: University cannot obtain access to catfished LinkedIn page
I've been in contact with the university staff in charge of attempting to gain access to a fake profile. This page is associated with over 95K alumni profiles on LinkedIn. So far, they have contacted LinkedIn multiple times since 2020, but have had no success so far. They are attempting to set up a meeting with Microsoft's general manager in Costa Rica to see what can be done. Is there someone from LinkedIn in HackerNews who could direct this issue to the correct person internally? This is the fake profile: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universidad-de-costa-rica/
I don't think that's plausible considering the users knew they were "hacking" the machine to view this content.

> But Howard, and many other NordicTrack owners, weren’t drawn to the hardware by iFit’s videos. They were drawn in by how easy the fitness machines were to hack.

> To get into his X32i, all Howard needed to do was tap the touchscreen 10 times, wait seven seconds, then tap 10 more times. Doing so unlocked the machine—letting Howard into the underlying Android operating system.

Personally, I would never purchase a device with a screen that intentionally locked me out like this.
It implements the Windows API.
I think the myth is the misinterpretation of scale. People tend to believe social media is primarily hate and misinformation, that most users are simply addicted to it like dope fiends, and that it's nothing but echo chambers, etc. All of these things are true, but likely to a lesser degree than assumed.
As an interviewer, where there's a huge power imbalance, why even stray into the territory where candidate can easily perceive a disadvantage for not having totally unrelated knowledge? A candidate will feel like their lack of chess knowledge, or GPS knowledge, hurt them if they didn't perform well. Why not just ask questions that are relevant to the work they will be doing? Maybe you don't realize just how stressful interviews are to some people, and how much they have to prepare, only to be asked to reverse engineer how GPS works.
So in other words no matter how much security UP puts in place it is pointless because they same people they turn over to police for prosecution will be right back tomorrow. Other option is then physical barriers which doesn't really seem feasible. So I can see why they are trying to figure out if they can just avoid the area entirely.
It's interesting to me why spying on citizens is like this foundational goal of all modern nation states. I get why a state might want to do this but its not clear to me why it seems to be the only stable path for modern democracies.
They seem to be going for about $300 used, though considering inflation less than new. If you could have gotten a good deal, then you’d come out ahead. The price will only increase. I have a 48G and 48GX, and several others. I’d like to collect them all and build a nice display case to house them.
I'm surprised they didn't snap up Unity before it went public. C# is the main language, cross platform deployment that goes well with .NET's new cross platform story and there are strong commercial markets for Unity like Movies, TV and Architecture that could benefit from Microsoft's enterprise sales force and relationships.
in the past few years (let's say, especially since 2015 or so), massive corporations that have control over the vast majority of online discourse have decided that they should be our intellectual, moral, and societal safeguards against the amorphous concept of "disinformation." you'd think people would've seen this happening and said, "well now hold on just a minute"—but, through nonstop media cycles spreading propaganda that evokes the primal emotion of fear in a first-world society where we generally don't experience it all that much compared to our ancestors, a large part of the population is fully in favor of these gigantic global corporations each becoming Ministries of Truth, that just so happen to act in lockstep.

through conditioning, most people don't see a problem with these websites using their UI to assert supposedly factual truths about the world, with the general idea being, well, if we don't do this, then we're all going to drown in a sea of disinformation, or something. but really, I don't need YouTube asserting to me that the earth is not, in fact, flat, and such a model has in fact been roundly debunked, right there in the UI on the web page for some dumb video I clicked on from Twitter, and I don't need Twitter to do the same, either. I don't need to outsource my critical thinking skills to huge international for-profit corporations, and nobody else should, either.

YouTube in particular used to have an amazing solution to this problem: video responses. I would much rather see a list of video responses to a flat-earth video breaking it down and explaining why each part of that video was incorrect (and then a list of flat-earther counter-responses to the responses, etc. etc.), than have YouTube just tell me "these are The Facts, this is Reality, this is The Truth... and yes, we are qualified to determine such things." this just comes naturally to me, and I'm pretty sure it came naturally to lots of people just a few short years ago, but, again, through nonstop media fear porn conditioning, plenty of people feel vulnerable, unsafe, worried, anxious, and they want something they can turn to to tell them what The Truth is. (we used to have it, but then nearly everyone stopped going to church (and then we had coming up on a couple of years of lockdowns, where nearly everyone else, believers included, stopped going to church as well).)
Genuine question - have you bought a house? I struggle to see how anyone who has gone through the process would think it's not complicated.
Can voters do anything to reduce the influence of foreign governments like Israel and Saudi Arabia in the US government?
Autism is not comparable to blindness in any meaningful way, so no.