skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so because its worse somewhere else, its not an issue?
In the eu it is 24 months. What kind of world do _you_ live in ;-)
Roku has a menu item to toggle their spyware. I don't know if it is respected or covers all spying.
> Instead, she takes out her phone and texts a password and a request for money.

How many times do people need to be told that their assumptions about mobile phones and security are completely wrong. Phone numbers can be reallocated (sim jacking), all communications can be intercepted (by design), smart phones are not themselves secure - especially an older/cheaper phone.

> A few minutes later, she meets a man with a cellphone and receives cash from him [..]

I imagine there being some issue with meeting random strangers.

> Agents function like an ATM: You go up to them and give them cash to get money deposited in your mobile money account, or transfer money out of your account to get cash.

This requires a lot of trust. The entire point of having banking infrastructure is to remove the need for trust. Like crypto, with no oversight, how do you know your local 'phone bank' is not a rug-pull?

In general I think that whilst on the surface this system seems great, it actually makes an incredibly vulnerable group of people even more vulnerable.

(Slightly less related, but still worth discussion.)

If you think being "unbanked" is only a problem for less-developed Countries... What if the reason you don't have a bank account is because the government froze your account due to you supporting a peaceful protest [1]? What if your government decides your social credit score is too low to allow you to have financial services [2]?

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank...

[2] https://nhglobalpartners.com/china-social-credit-system-expl...
> The way YouTubers can take a single issue and flip it into hours and hours of video and escalated drama is amazing.

Haha it's true.

I don't watch a lot of GN, but I found this interesting. I don't have any faith in Newegg to fix anything. They appear to have too many layers now and care too much about profits for the board over everything else.
There's plenty of network controlled power outlets. Either enterprise/rackmount PDUs, or consumer wifi outlets, or rig something up with a serial/parallel port and a relay. You'd use an always on test runner computer to control the power state.

The computer under test would boot from PXE, on boot read from the drive and determine the last write, send that to the test runner for analysis, then begin the write sequence and report ASAP to the test runner at each flush. The test runner turns the power off at random, waits a minute (or 10 seconds, whatever) and turns it back on and starts again.

In a well functioning system, you should often get back the last reported successful write, and sometimes get back a write beyond the last reported write (two generals and all), but never a write before the last reported write. You can't use this testing to prove correct flushing, but if you run for a week and it doesn't fail once, it's probably likely not to lie.

I haven't evaluated the code, but here's a post from 2005 with a link to code that probably works for this. (Note: this doesn't include the pxe booting or the power control... This just covers the what to write to the disk, how to report it to another machine, and how to check the results after a power cycle)

https://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html?
Can confirm. It used to be much better in early days, but deteriorated over the years to the point where I have to be sceptical about it.

Editorial slant is very real.
This could have been cut short if Instagram had acted on the author's request, since they went through the effort of giving the passport pictures, and i wonder if Instagram should be partially liable when they just let these scares go for so long.

I wonder if the author could have sped up the process by issuing DMCA takedown request on the stolen posts and media.
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With regard to sleep tracking apps, I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia, a rare sleep disorder that causes excessive daytime sleepiness, sleeping for long hours, sleep “drunkenness”, central sleep apnea, and resulting short term memory problems. I’ve used literally every sleep app I could get my hands on and they are all terrible. I’ve used the Fitbit and Apple Watch heart monitors, the cpap machine’s app (Philips), and medical grade, at home ones.

Most of the apps that supposedly track sleep cycles do so in very lackadaisical fashion. They measure small variations in heart rate to determine the sleep stage you’re on, but I’m the ultimate edge case and they all ways fall short. Even medical grade sleep monitors stuff ends up not working right because half the time it thinks I’ve gone into cardiac arrest because my heart rate falls so low (The random 3 hour block of time in the night being reported as “deceased” was a little jarring).

Sleep comes (perhaps too) easy to me, but my partner is not so lucky. She used to obsess over the sleep tracking stuff until the Apple Watch where it just measures time asleep, a way more measurable and meaningful metric. I mean, what are you going to do with the knowledge of being in deep sleep from 1:28am until 2:09am? Nothing. You cannot control it or will it to be better, practicing good sleep hygiene by going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time is way more important than knowing the stage of sleep you’re in at any given part of the night. The most rested I feel is when I have a consistent sleep routine, and contemporary medical advice supports this.

Ditch the sleep apps that track your sleep, it’s just another thing to worry a about.
Isn’t there a ton of drift, though? Yes, spelling in Japanese is easier than English, but listening and speaking exercises seem just as important if not more important than they are for English. Otherwise you’ll sound like a cat got your tongue and the person you’re speaking to will reply with にゃんですか？
Yes, at a lot of companies (anecdotally 3/3 for me including a FANG) the developers are the main driver of the product development. Product managers help guide the process and directors set the cardinal direction, but the product innovation comes from the developers.
I am not posting it because it is xkcd, but it visualizes the simplest trap quite nicely:
https://xkcd.com/882/

(also makes you wonder what if 20 groups study this phenomena, each restiricting itself to one color)
I remember people said the same thing when they were covering Apple vs Samsung.
Russia, China, U.S.
Since the U.S. was instrumental in defending both Russia and China from collapse in World War 2, how can we secure non-agression in this latest conflict?
It seems like he lives in Europe, so he should simply contest the rejection. Within the first 6 month (1 year?) the manufacturer has to prove that the failure was due to the customer. They can not simply say there is some scratches so we reject the claim. Also the ct magazine is a good place to contact as they have a column about these sort of cases.
How does the battery life compare to my M1 MacBook Air? How does the performance compare to my Air? How bad is the fan noise compared to my fanless Air?
I'd argue that if Swift isn't more popular, it is certainly more visible than Rust. And probably just more popular.

Apple's marketing around Swift advertises the "open source" aspect, and there's a lot of money to be made making iOS apps, so there's naturally going to be a lot of noise around proposals/developments.
What they are doing is illegal in many parts of the world, even when it's on the ToS. They also deploy dark patterns to work around laws that protect users.

When you write "this doesn't bother me" when people complain, what should they think?
They let people in the western world know how much Hollywood despises them and would quickly get rid of them if they could, so at least something somewhat positive came out of this.
That argument applies to almost all trade in the world. China exports $452B worth of goods into the US, we should eliminate all this trade since it's a deterrent, otherwise we live every day under the threat of them cutting off the (clearly non-trivial and essential) exports at the most inopportune moment.
It seems very strange.

Like even if you really wanted screen that went down to a smaller size, why not do something scroll-inspired, rather than book-inspired?
> ... but similar durations of high-intensity cardio (45 minutes+) heavily improve my sleep

I should definitely give this a try. I do long walks and strength training, but have been missing cardio. Thanks for the tip.
Can password managers deliver OTPs or other 2FAs?
Really? I haven’t seen it very often.
>The semantic operation is increment.

Why? Who defines that?
> I recognize I'm not going to be able to simply shake people awake about it

Well, you aren't really concluding anything, you're just self-defining your truths. See, you said:

>So what can I do to refute that, other than to say "No, the abuse carried out through these systems will be worse than any abuse prevented by them.

You have to actually back that statement up, you can't just declare it. Unless you provide some explanation as to why you believe that, you won't be able to 'shake people awake' with what amounts to empty rhetoric.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Criti...
You'd have to assume good faith such as that the device won't connect to some insecure WiFi when one becomes available.
Our relationships at work make or break the whole endeavor. As a manager, it is imperative to protect your directs from toxicity. Horizontally, that means discussing and working out issues regarding satisfaction with colleagues. If skip-levels aren't conducted with happiness in mind, then they're barely more than useless. Managers who cannot steer away or excise toxicity need to be excised themselves.

Pizza and bonuses doesn't equal happiness. Making your office look like Google doesn't bring happiness. The two main things are positive, constructive relationships and autonomy.
Apple’s history goes back over 45 years.

Was it the Apple // era, Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Watches, AirPods, etc?

What feature phone in 2021 has anything that a modern consumer would find acceptable?
To quote Janet Jackson: "What have you done for me lately?"

The US, China, and Russia will all pursue their interests. Past points scored aren't going to be considered.
Having personally had to deal with folks whose strategy in the face of hard times is faking being happy? Yikes. Delusion is dangerous.
Caps Lock is a genuinely useless key: two-shift caps lock is a feature (on some OSes) whereby hitting both shifts toggles caps lock. You can free up that keycap for a brighter future, but still have your caps-lock functionality for when you need to scream at some identifiers.
I feel like this was an appropriate example of Wittgenstein’s ladder
In my experience this has never happened. I am on my fourth model over 12 years.
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> people love it

Like, a lot of people? I don't know anyone who's even been intrigued enough to buy it, and an overwhelming majority of feedback I hear online is negative.
Sleep is about more than just measuring the time you were asleep. The amount of time spent in N3/4 (Deep Sleep) and REM sleep is very important.

The author is using sleep cycle on his phone, which is not a good method of tracking sleep cycles. He says "their ability to wake me in “non-deep” sleep pretty spot on" - you're not in deep sleep in the morning anyway, or very unlikely. So any "app" has a good chance of waking you from REM or N1/2.

We've been building a headband which monitors your sleep state, and uses sound to improve your sleep performance. Literally, improving the neurological function of your brain while you sleep.

I used one of our early prototypes to win the Sleep World Championships (https://soundmind.co/blog/neurohacking-the-world-sleep-champ...).

We're currently working on improving the fit and comfort before finalizing industrial design. You can find out more, and join the waitlist at https://soundmind.co
I've been through similar experience, but with LG. By similar I mean no repair in service for a phone under warranty. This has happened 15 years ago or more, but since then I'm avoiding all LG products. My stance hasn't changed in years; in fact now I'm more convinced in my position after hearing anecdotes from people I know about their service troubles with LG.
Recommended reading:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat/

* http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/
I've been using Anki to learn various kinds of geographic stuff, flags among them—and let me tell you, country flags around Europe sure could use some variation. I mean, I get it that flags were designed to be recognized from afar, with large fields of color, but now I have to memorize the order in all those tricolors like I'm doing middle-school rote learning again. Especially Ireland and Ivory Coast—what's up with that?

Also, colors are actually hard to recognize in bad lighting because retina cones are hungry for photons. On your flag, slap some large contrasting shapes instead. Test it in grayscale, figure out what it's gonna look like on gift pens, all that jazz. The UK flag is awesome and pretty much unbeatable in this regard.
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Was the first iPod, iPhone, or iPad a disappointment? The first ARM Macs have gotten rave reviews.

Now the first Apple Watch…
Lazy people change the world all the time. Not the universally lazy ones, just the lazy ones that are still responsible.
I actually don't mind the last form, it's much more unambiguous than the first one. Many languages already adopt 1 letter 1 sound. It's English that is highly irregular (https://books.google.com/books/about/Highly_Irregular.html?i...).
I think the problem is people have to decide "I'm not going to buy this because if nobody buys this then people won't be able to buy this and use it to stalk people." In other words, the consumer gives up a product they want in exchange for a common good they get an infinitesimal benefit from.
Samsung is straight laying in they products, just look at this range hood: NK36N9804VB/UR
on Samsung page you'll find that it have wifi build in, and this is just a lie.
unfortunately I found out that after purchase, but you might check instructions, and you'll find that it contains Bluetooth client, and you supposed to have their wifi enabled cooktop to with it would connect and get connectivity from there.

For me it's the same as claiming that your eg. computer comes with 128gb of ram because you can buy some sticks and put them there
> Seems hard to formulate precisely…

Well, it's an heuristic ;)

The idea is that if you ever find a distribution that seems to be normal, you look for the finite variance variables that are lurking behind it. If you do not find these variables, then your distribution was not likely normal.
There's literally no one I know who uses tile. On the other hand, airtag find my network will guarantee a near 100% coverage in the west and even in some Asian countries.
Someone making money off your data does not bother you? I mean you could sell it yourself, why let Samsung do it?
Justice in these countries isn't quite the same as what you're used to.

In, say, America or Western Europe, you'll call the cops and they'll say "uh huh okay" and you'll just have to hope they'll launch an investigation. ATM skimmers are a common problem and basically jack shit is done about them. Muggings still happen and people aren't often caught.

In poorer countries, especially ones where basic infrastructure like banking is inaccessible, often it's easier to just tell a neighbor what happened. The community will go out and "get justice" on your behalf.

I'd honestly feel much safer stealing a whole paycheck in the US than I'd feel trying to steal a dollar in Kenya. Scams are still happening, but the risk is much higher if you're caught hurting someone from your community.
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Today is 2022/02/22
Today is the last date with only two digits until 2111/1/1.
> I hate Apple’s right to repair BS
It seems they've concluded it's unavoidable and announced their program for selling parts, tools and providing repair manuals to anyone interested.
Certainly that's what they want you to think.
>There's nothing it this ad for Gen X. Not a single hook for them

You've lost track of time, like many of us. Even the youngest Gen X'ers are old enough to be grandparents now!

The oldest Gen X'ers are in their late 50s. Staring down retirement and the old folks' home. The youngest Gen X'ers are mid 40s, and likely evaluating their mid-life situation, even if it's not a "crisis". Very likely have a "pre-existing condition" of some sort. If they aren't grandparents, they're probably parents, and if they aren't parents, they probably aren't going to be. Things are pretty much settled at any rate. Some of the people who were never going to own a home changed their mind a few years ago. Some have gone through the death of both parents and most of their generation.

>This ad is strongly negging just like the Facebook ad is

But where's the positive in the FB ad? The only positive is in what they're selling. There needs to be something positive about the audience, the target viewer.

The Viagra ad may be manipulative, heck you can call it "predatory", but it is still appealing to something that older people take pride in. A self-image of doing what has to be done, not letting embarrassment stop you, accepting everyone has bodily functions. Being able to dismiss what other people may consider "cringe" and bullshit in general. Understanding what is important and what is not.

Now, you may roll your eyes at that, at how gullible and hidebound and stupid old people you know are. But that's not the point, the point is that people who get to a certain point feel like that is the justification for whatever hardships and physical deterioration they have experienced.

Another example that comes to mind is the flyers I get in the mail for life insurance, that seem to be aimed at older people who vaguely remember providing for their family, and love their grandchildren, and want to do something even if they can't recall the logic.

That seems exploitative to me, but it's still an example of advertising that's based on enough empathy to make it effective. (I assume it's effective just because it's been around so long)

>To mask your fears that it was actually the young who got things done and you are less and less able to do that

Well, that's to the point; it's the attitude that prevents making an effective ad. If you are thinking that, then you're almost certainly unable to see things from the other perspective.

If a typical young person was able to see things from an old person's perspective, then it would prove that old people have gained nothing in compensation for being old, wouldn't it?
In addition, blockchain tech reduces the friction of obscuring money and data flows. This is good for unaccountable power. Government is not perfect, but it at least pretends to be accountable power.
vercel.com

Cloudflare Pages is free + their serverless offering is decent free limits

Firebase

https://userbase.com/ - great free tier
Quite nice tutorial, well done.
>people should be able to sort themselves into teams that suit their preferences.

The teams are going to be companies, in my opinion. There are going to be 'remote' companies and 'in person' companies. That's the only way this type of self-sorting will work, people won't join a company not knowing for sure whether they're committing to an in-person or remote working experience.
More than battery life or small size, I think the most important cost is the cellular plan. With AirTag, the find my network acts as the communication backbone and it tracks the AirTag in literally every country, at no cost. On the other hand, cellular is expensive AF.
> about the restaurant industry’s switch from classic fryer oils to seed oils

What is classic fryer oil made of for you? Perhaps a country/region difference but for me fryer oil is sunflower oil?
Write a script with script kit to browse Hacker News
It's only a difficult conundrum if you posit that the goal of search is to produce a single result set. Google already allows you to drill down by publish date, by target locale and language, and by all sorts of other things. I'd love to see a search axis for websites with obvious monetary incentives.
Why would a gaseous planet be tidally locked? Obviously a non-homogeneous solid object would settle with it's denser end "downward" toward the star, but I don't see how a gaseous planet would do so.
Im a software engineer, the last thing I want to do is take days waiting for X part to arrive, then spend hours figuring out how to remove/install X part without breaking my machine worse.

If I wanted to tinker, I'd buy a Raspbery PI. I want to get work done while giving as little thought as possible to the hardware I'm using to facilitate the work.
He is trsting consumer grade devices which don‘t have power loss protection by design. That is a „feature“ for enterprise devices so they can increase the price for datacenter usage.

https://twitter.com/xenadu02/status/1496006341579751426?s=21
I had it running on a home server for a while. Works in principle but didnt do much testing
Google built the product without fully considering that problem, and now regular users are paying the price.

In any case, it shouldn't be difficult for the product to make a distinction between files openly available and files being used privately within the drive on accounts that should look very legitimate to Google. The copyright filter would make a bit more sense on openly accessible files. Even then, why is Google going so far beyond what's legally required of them?
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This was recently posted:)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374905
Worse in every way I'm fairly sure.

Framework shipped their first product in 2021. Let's give them a bit before comparing them to an extremely matured product from one of the richest companies ever. If they survive long enough to make a version 5.0, it'll probably still be worse than the MacBook due to the lower level of integration, but modularity is a definite perk.

Edit:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/frameworks-new-light...

Actually the CPU looks decent.
I think editorializing the title is fine in this case since it's making it more accurate.
Pretty much.

The only difference between Jobs and the others is that Jobs made more stuff that consumers like, and was more successful.

Humanity loves a successful megalomaniac. They just despise the also-rans.
No, that is entriely false. The main product of all currently plausible fusion reactors are neutrons. Those are extremely destructive to living tissue, requiring heavy shielding. Even worse, any material which absorbs neutrons becomes radioactive itself, so the shield inevitably becomes radioactive.

The advantage of fusion is that this radioactivity is short lived compared to uranium - decades instead of centuries or millennia. However, this also means that you have to stay much farther away from it, as it's much more radioactive than a piece of uranium which you can typically hold in your hand without any ill effects (just don't hold it under your pillow for a few years).
This little debate is a good example of how difficult it can be to communicate meaningfully about huge topics. Everything said in this topic has a certain amount of ‘truth’ to it.
> code that erroneously assumes those to be true in theory isn’t portable, but in practice is.

Be careful about undefined behaviour still. Even if your architecture have defined semantic, the compiler might still not assume them.