skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, the port-forwarding feature won't work if you have a recurring subscription.

Yep, I had to cancel my subscription recently to get port forwarding working. I've been a customer for a few years now and trusted that they were doing this because it made sense from a privacy standpoint.
Part of the problem is that dentists don't have the incentive nor arguably the training and knowledge to cure the problem. Cavities and lost teeth, brings them money. So don't expect them to be looking around for cures like regrowing teeth or reversing cavities, unless some unusual "one in a several billion" fellow comes along (who the others won't like) to change things (like how we got Penicillin or the cure for Polio). A lot of dentists would rather your teeth rot, so you need to pay them, or you make continual monthly payments to them.

The biggest innovation in the last 50 years are titanium dental implants (very expensive) and the use of ceramic and acrylic (more expensive) over the insane amalgam fillings with mercury. And yet, many dentists still put the health hazard of amalgam with mercury in people's mouths (like it's a tradition) or do root canals which keep dead toxic teeth in mouths too. If you want less toxic options, then you must pay for much more expensive procedures.
Wait you need a smartphone to login?! How bizarre.

Paypal has recently locked me out of my account, because I don't have a mobile phone number. Why would I?

I have a landline phone, and, I have terrestrial high speed internet.

So I have an Android tablet with wifi. It works at home, and worked when I used to goto office. I have voip too.

However, there is no mobile service in my area. I'm very rural, so it's fine a few miles from my home, but not anywhere on my land.

Paypal has my landline number, but recently insists I add a mobile phone for SMS auth.

It is unclear to me how this could possibly help.

Should I decide to spend cash on a mobile phone, just and only just for paypal, I'd have to try to login, drive a few kms to town, get the SMS code, then return.

Surely, a timeout would happen by then. Not to mention the entire idea is absurd and smacks of ineptness on Paypal's part.

Talking to paypal results in support personalle who literally do nothing but search a database and respond with circular, broken logic. I was even told repeatedly to login, to open a ticket, about not being able to login.

And this was not just one support person either.

Any push to speak to a supervisor results in a disconnect on transfer.

I have been with paypal almost 20 years. It appears that will soon end.

Bah.
Hi. What do you mean by the African market? Africa is quite big and countries have their differences.

Congratulations on your users. I'm in Algiers, Algeria. Feel free to send me an email in case you have questions. I'll answer to the best of my abilities.
> Tumblr says that child pornography was the reason for its app’s sudden disappearance from the iOS App Store. The app has been missing from the store since November 16th, but until now the reason for its absence was unclear — initially Tumblr simply said it was “working to resolve the issue with the iOS app.” However, after Download.com approached Tumblr with sources claiming that the reason was related to the discovery of child pornography on the service, the Yahoo-owned social media network issued a new statement confirming the matter. [0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
yes, with a discount even
I know HN rules but this is apologetic bullshit.

The firmware actually detected if it was in test chamber conditions and ran in 'eco' mode. Outside these conditions it went full performance/full polluting mode.

This is text book fraudulent behaviour with complete lack of duty of care for anyone breathing the air near those exhaust pipes in city centres across the world.
It's this: https://startupgenome.com/report/gser2022
>It’s really hard to implement in the US though because people push for a lot of unnecessary stuff.

"Unnecessary" is in the eye of the beholder to a certain degree. Extracting a molar is pretty cheap. Root canals, implants, and crowns much less so. But, depending upon the circumstances, more expensive procedures may make sense.
A woman in my town was send into the "lighter" political version of the KZ, because she remarked upon recieving the "medal of motherhood" with a cynic "and were shall i pin that, to my bottom?"

Totalitarian nightmares have no humor. If you think, your favourite thing in life shoul dbe spared jokes and jests, you are heading right towards that spot. Nothing should be sacrosanct to jokes.

I raise my glass to those who walked into the fence, taking theire workforce awaz from the fuehrer and his germinions.
I guess they'll notice after a month or a year

What'll happen. I suppose there is a "middle" group of users who want a VPN a bit but not super much, and long term now might leave

Anyway I like Mullvad's mindset

Hi Mullvad, I hope you'll post a follow-up a year later :-)

What if you, as part of the payment flow, included adding a calendar reminder X months later
What would it take for me to hear a sample output of this project ? I see pages and pages of numbers that do not mean a thing to me in the "quality" section while I really want to have some kind of idea of how it sounds like.
This is just like Mullvad to care about your privacy.

But I think it's a bit overkill to completely remove the subscription option. They could have accomplished the same educating of end users with a simple recommendation or opt-out at sign up.

Still providing subscription for those users who find that most convenient.
Promotion-Based Development
Huh? You don't need to mix Rust and C, Rust has direct Emscripten support. I've used it + rust-sdl2 for a game project.
I see a lot of this (generic approx-comparison functions) at work. It can catch some problems, true, but it becomes very cargo-cultish. They understand that the hardware rounds calculations, but they behave as if the hardware is nondeterministic. There's also very little thought going into an appropriate epsilon value, whether based on the calculation being done, or the tolerance of the overall output/algorithm.
What are you going to do with an iPhone without an Apple account? Use it as a coffee coaster?
Abstract:

"In a clinical trial of 19 healthy men, researchers found that a daily bottle of beer — alcoholic or non-alcoholic — changed the composition of the men's gut bacteria over four weeks. Specifically, either type of beer boosted the diversity in their gut microbes."

Caveat:

"In general, greater diversity in gut bacteria is considered better than less diversity. Experts cautioned, however, that it's unclear whether people would gain any health benefits from the gut changes seen in this short-term trial."
What is this counterfactual? We're talking about replacing the neurons one by one, slowly. When would the loss of memory happen?
Yeah, I have to confess that I didn't get that far. I pretty much stopped here:

"The effect was most prominent in babies whose mothers had been in their third trimester on that fateful day."

At which point I thought, "OK, that's not surprising", wrote my comment, and went on to other things.

Frankly, I am extremely skeptical of the mouse results. I would be really surprised if this turned out to be reproducible. It's Lamarckian evolution, which has been long-discredited, which makes this an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence. By what possible mechanism could memory of a smell be recorded in a gamete's DNA?
well if that's the case then that's certainly a more important issue than the one being discussed here...
Yup. E.g. reader mode works fine.
This is really basic functionality though. It could gracefully degrade to an HTML form.
SSO/2FA should be required. It's less burdensome on the end users than expecting training to fix their bad behavior.
If this is really how you feel shouldn’t you get out of dentistry saas and find something you believe isn’t hurting society?
Universal Bad Data
Hi, thank you for sharing your experience. I’ve been working with persons involved with great trauma, such as those in prison, for the past few years. In a few months myself and another person will launch a project we’ve worked on for some time. It is an exercise where you write down your responses to six questions. The point is not to tell but to show (I could go on about this concept for sometime). And better yet, have them show themselves, how to create opportunity. This is for anyone (age, status, sex, etc) and can be applied to anything. I thought it might be appropriate to post.

—————

1. Share a thought

2. How does that thought make you feel?

3. Why does it make you feel that way?

4. What is another way of thinking about that thought?

5. How does thinking about it differently change the way you feel?

6. What new opportunities are possible by thinking differently about this?
Very good point, I'll fix that for next year's survey. Fortunately for people working with WebAssembly those two terms are synonymous, so this will not effect the results.
A train usually stops at the station for only around a minute, so there is no time to change to another platform unless another train arrives later.

There are some trains that stop at the big train station for a longer period of time, so it might theoretically be possible. I live in Switzerland and I don't remember ever changing trains like that (though maybe I just didn't notice).
Yeah I think that's why they're trying to minimize the amount of data they have on store, because they know that a repeat of the TPB raid can happen any time.

If the Swedish courts find sufficient reason to do so, they will go in without warning and seize what they feel like.
You’ll likely find it utterly boring. The majority of your time will be spent on details and getting them right. But that’s probably true of being a quant as well.

My suggestion is that you get into data science or bioinformatics. You will be able to pick up the specifics easily, given your quant background, and there is a decent amount of software development involved as well.
Blur (dnt.abine.com) and Privacy provide fantastic masked card services.
Why is a presitge University hosting their material on YouTube anyways?

Oh, because it's free and cool, comes with free distribution too.

Google didn't just target her or the university, like she said the AIs are amoral and the company doesn't really care because they only care about profit (or maybe they couldn't care less because of the yottabyte of content published everyday?)

Just being too dramatic while she could actually learn the rules and use YouTube as a platform to promote her content, i.e.cutting down full length lectures into smaller bitsize fun info video and direct viewers to their own hosting platform, etc.

And ironically, she's directing people to her paid subscription. We all need a sustainable way to create content and host it. She deserves to be paid for her content but don't play the victim card.

And Google and other platform is not all innocent, they need to be transparent about content moderation, like if you remove someone's content, please let everyone know why (on the page instead of just channel not found) and how the decision was made (bot or manual reviewed).
Exactly. I have a Quest - I guess I could have choosen not to buy it - but I can't not have a fb account because a lot of important events only run through there.
Hahaha this [1] video os the best thing ever that anyone who has done any contracting/consulting should see.

You can only really get it if you've been in the room, but if you have you will not be disappointed!

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
I can't say I hate working from home, but I appreciate being able to go back to the office 2-3 days per week (and I'd hate not being able to). And I work in an open space and spend most of my time not in meeting, similarly to the dozen of colleagues that come back to the office regularly. And right now there's no obligation from our management to do so... So no, I don't think it's only people like the categories you described
If 16 million have been to prison, this probably doesn't count people who have been to jail but not prison, or who have been given probation and/or community service as their sentence, which I suspect is probably where 70 million comes from.

Prison is for sentences of longer than 1 year in the U.S. but I'd reckon any sentence affects your job prospects negatively.
I have had a heck of a time trying to update pygame when running on a raspberry pi, and since it wasn't critical (mostly displaying a splash screen and QR code) am looking into replacing it.
Also interestingly, in both votes for and against, the deciding 1.01% came from the same account: 6HFxH...sf6g4

I admit, that I'm very ignorant how all this stuff works, but the voting seems a tad farcical. Is it just to see if some other DAO whale is for/against it? Because normal users weight is pretty much negligible.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this why Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all pushing for WebAuthN/FIDO login schemes?

https://fidoalliance.org/fido2-2/fido2-web-authentication-we...

Apple just talked about how they’re supporting FIDO with the new MacOS and iOS.
As an additional data point, I've been using Mullvad as a long-running VPN for a while now (hint: Linux ISOs) and it has been working like a charm.
Or as James Gosling put it: "He was a jerk."

https://youtu.be/IT__Nrr3PNI?t=3115
There’s a lot of “feel free to... {vote, leave, whatever}” in this thread but I just want to add there’s very little freedom in the American voting system. You’ve got two choices, sometimes no choice if you live in a “safe” district. Ya’ll need to get angry about not having 1 person 1 vote before angrily telling everyone else to use theirs.
> Use of '\n' is always better for printing new lines.

Does this do the right thing on Windows?
Ask HN: How do you wait for events from different processes?
I saw "aws-prod-infrastructure" and "terragen" on the AWS blog recently, which are claimed to solve this. I haven't tried them.
> Apple can kill entire social media platforms if they want to.

They also have the opposite - the ability to create entire social media platforms.

> Apple gave tumblr unreasonable "safety standards" that almost single-handedly killed a gigantic site for the vast majority of users.

> Maybe they used it for good with Facebook

Devil's advocate - maybe what you think is good isn't good for the rest of society.

> Maybe the only thing preventing them from doing so is regulatory pressure.

Agreed. So what type for regulations need to be in place?
> I just find it frustrating and unproductive compared to being in the same room with my team.

I agree with you here, but I haven’t been in the same room with my team in 20 years. People are distributed now and there’s not really a way I know to get everyone in the same room since there’s different cities and countries, commutes, etc.

It was really fun and productive to be part of a small team building stuff with back to back offices and cubes. But I’m not 20 any more and neither is anyone on my team.

Before the pandemic we never had everyone in one place.

So while it’s nice to have everyone at the same life stage and location to allow for in person work, that’s not possible any more. So I think remote is better than the hybrid of what we had before.
Hmm, so did tumblr just decide to ban all porn instead of spending energy on identifying the cp for a selective ban?
I'll be sure to read it. :)

Just to clarify, not another network, just shift all trains by a random number of minutes.
Yes. [0]

"
Which payment methods do you accept?
We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Giropay, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24.
"

also Cash

"Can I really pay with cash?
You bet, and please! Stay anonymous all the way. Just put your cash and payment token (randomly generated on our website) in an envelope and send it to us. We accept the following currencies: EUR, USD, GBP, SEK, DKK, NOK, CHF, CAD, AUD, NZD.
"

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
Can this direct to phone numbers outside the US? I can't find any details on the website about what's supported.
You can do that without SSO/SAML/whatever? As GP said this is not a security feature. It doesn't solve any of the security issues mentioned and it does not guarantee that the other side is implementing it correctly.
Are you arguing with the guy whose literal business it was to know the facts of these situations?
You're looking for the Farebox recovery ratio [0].

Japan and honk kong: Mostly yes.

Europe: Mostly no but at least a good portion of it is for most.

US: Not even close.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
I would personally go one level further.

Generate random email addresses so you can't easily guess what others I might have given out. Then keep track of the mapping.

A service like simplelogin.io makes this easy.
> In my experience, any time the tech folks were in-house, the "doer
class" (i.e. the boots-on-the-ground engineers) were some of the
smartest, most motivated individuals I've worked with

Lions led by donkeys as they used to say.

> I suspect we lack the political will/vision, and the requisite
> leadership/management abilities

I'll differ a little here. I think we can have capable people at all
levels and I am generally confident in the UK to come through in the
end. We can do good leadership too. The reason the donkeys won't carry
their load is that they're corrupt, undisciplined and disloyal.
They're there to serve us but we forget who holds the stick.

> manner that doesn't just result in the next round of useless bungs
> to politically connected mates.

Precisely. My guess is Nick Clegg and Priti Patel are the tip of a
gargantuan iceberg. We're becoming a vassal state to the third richest
"nation state" on Earth [1], because they have our politicians in
their pockets.

[1] The combined wealth of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and
Facebook now places them collectively above Russia as the number three
"superpower". https://www.wired.co.uk/article/big-tech-geopolitics

> P.S.: Entirely off-topic -- do you compose your replies in Emacs or
something like that? Or at least resort to using semantic line
breaks? (https://sembr.org/) I ask because your comment looks fine
on the website, but shows line breaks after sentences in an HN
reader

Yes, Emacs, Well spotted. Yet another fingerprint to watch for! :)
Zfs can do encrypted backups so … maybe this gpg stuff is unnecessary
Hm, I can't imagine how I fat fingered that.

Shame, because it's quiete an interesting trap and good example of unintended consequences.
I used to work for a very large porn company. We just transcoded and stored everything ourselves. Put a CDN in front of it and all good.

Discovery is the issue here.
Stop using app icons for political activism
I’ve always found the main issue is not how easily you can make a bucket public, it’s knowing how to utilize a private bucket to serve assets or media in the first place.
Interesting, one of my friends started his own mushroom-growing business called Nuvedo (https://nuvedo.com/). And from reading their blog https://nuvedo.com/blog/ I learned that mushrooms are some kind of superfood (similar to how the west sees acai or kale?).

Mushrooms probably wouldn't make too much of India's exports though, so remains to be seen how much of a superpower they could become.
>When we simulate a brain, the brain is unreal, not running on the hardware at all. It's represented by something else running on the hardware.

I think this is an important thing to consider. A simulated brain does not interact with the rest of the world in the same way that a non simulated brain does. In order to have that we would need to ensure that the simulation has all the right inputs and output. Similar to simulated rain, if the simulation would somehow have the same inputs and outputs and normal weather it could integrate with the rest of the system (earth's weather patterns)

Its really about partitioning and mode of information transfer
Universities in HK will soon eliminate any mention of the period when it was part of the British empire from their History programmes. That's one example among many. In general, the establishment teaches what is convenient for the establishment to teach.
So if America declares some laws that state Apple can’t do this shit you’ll be cool with it because the large group did do some collective action, right? Because your problem isn’t the issue but that we just haven’t done it with laws?
Note that banning "all porn" is easier than accurately sorting child porn from regular porn at that scale as it lets you avoid pissing off petite 20 year olds or getting in trouble because your moderators OKed a report of what turned out to be a more developed 16 year old.

So yes, Apple may only have required Tumblr to more effectively moderate to prevent child porn, but from a business feasibility point of view the practical way to do that was ban all porn.
Yup. In fact, a great hack is to go to an inexperienced dentist instead of an experienced one for routine work. The reason is that dentists who are fresh out of school are competent enough to do basic cleanings and checkups. But they haven't yet had time to accrete the expensive habits, and the little business optimizations that feed them, that highly-paid professionals often develop. I generally switch dentists every five years or so, and find that cadence works nicely.

(Source: a couple of my close friends are dentists and suggested this strategy.)
Why is the answer other platforms though?

Just use handbrake to post three versions at three different resolutions and be done with it, or we all agree to move to some format that can easily support streaming with multiple bitrates.
It's perhaps an arguably unrelated suggestion, but if you like old MIDIs, this recorded livestream of what actually happens to Win95 when it hits 49.7 days uptime exclusively used a playlist of MIDI audio for the background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrRoSdBM5M

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340101)
I wonder if we're moving past slowdowns the same way PC upgrades around 2010 didn't matter much. Once you have enough RAM and enough cores, it takes specialized applications to notice much of a difference.
Why would you be hosting this on AWS? Host it on a normal cloud provider that doesn't rip off it's customers with bandwidth fees and you'll find it's quite affordable.
> What are you talking about?

The fact that the Nazis attempted to exterminate the Jews in Poland, and almost succeeded. They killed 90% of the Jewish population.

There were horrific plans for most of the Slavic population of Eastern Europe for after the war (Generalplan Ost, which you've linked to), but they were never put into operation. Catholic Poles were not subject to anything near the level of persecution as Jewish Poles.

> together with their erstwhile allies, the Soviets

The Germans and Soviets weren't "erstwhile allies." The Soviets were defined as enemy #1 by the Nazis. The Soviets were aware of this, and tried to organize an anti-German military alliance with France and to save Czechoslovakia. France refused, and Poland, which itself wanted to get a piece of Czechoslovakia, refused to allow Soviet troops to transit its territory into Czechoslovakia. After Britain and France sold out Czechoslovakia, the Soviets decided to make a dirty deal with the Germans, in order to delay the German attack for as long as possible. Not a shining moment, but calling the Soviets "erstwhile allies" of the Germans is a gross distortion of history, particularly given that it's the Soviets who made the largest contribution to the defeat of the Nazis.