skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Crime is a problem in India.

Yes, primarily by the mafia and drug cartels, run by the middle east.

> But so is police and government corruption.

One of the reasons (among others) is the mafia which corrupts the police.

> To call a criminal organization a shadow government is hyperbolic.

What does that even mean? The Indian mafia has been killing businessmen, politicians and police... and uses threats, violence and bribes to run things their way in goverment and the police force. That is exactly what shadow government is.

> He was never accused of being involved in the bombings himself

I will let BBC do the talking here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-21873316

> I’m not sure I follow the accusation of serving the mafia by acting as a criminal in a movie.

State sponsored propaganda in foreign nations is not easy to grasp for the simple-minded.
Yes, definitely reasonable.

However, I wondered about how much activity there still is on this. Isn't this considered mostly finished at some point?

I can understand that there might be some more development on libfuse but that is independent anyway. As far as I remember, the MacOS state of libfuse was somewhat unclear?
Seems like Capital One was punished by the feds. Now they are punishing the hacker.
I have been fortunate to have had an excellent dentist in Japan.

About a year ago, I was told by a dentist (in a larger clinic) I needed to have gold filling in my molars (because gold is least reactive, better than ceramic and gets the dentist a pretty penny). I was quoted ~$500 after the insurance. Also suggested was some SMILE UV procedure to whiten the enamel. I was reluctant as well as mortified. The whole convincing act sounded more like a sales pitch. I went to a second dentist, who runs his own singularly run establishment (the current one in question) and he flatly told me 'no'. My teeth were in good shape mostly (minus some coffee stains & a cavity). Since it was about closing time, he sat me down over a quick bite & went through the dental physiology - and why he considered it pointless. In the end, he added since I was on insurance I had nothing much to lose monetarily, but by doing Dentist A's suggestions, I was primed to keep visiting every few years for fixes. He had nothing to gain by turning me away. That was a huge confidence booster. Honesty was a huge factor in getting my trust.

It opened my eyes to the fact that the vaunted & strictly regulated Japanese health care has its share of bad apples too. Dental treatment is a money spinner even in Japan. Although, mostly operating assiduously and in good faith, we need to still look out for some bad actors. (I have another terrible story - but it pertains to opthalmologists)

Bonus: Since he turned out such a nice guy I get him souvenir candies (ironic!) from wherever I go traveling. And he cauterizes my sporadic canker mouth sores without ever charging a dime :)
My father is a periodontist turned attorney. AFAIK, he actually started the specialty of dental malpractice. I grew up seeing a lot of destroyed mouths and people suffering.

I’ve learned from him that over treatment and bad quality work is shockingly common. Part of the reason is how dentistry is taught in this country: people take out very expensive loans for dental school, so they want to start practicing right away while also over-treating to pay down loans. It used to be cheaper and people would apprentice — that is now rare. You see this in medicine too where they pack as many people as possible into a day, who cares if the quality is low per person.

The vast majority of dentists he sues are general dentists. They often don’t have the training and/or equipment to do surgery, and it results in things like drilling into nerves which cannot be undone. A lifetime of burning pain is the consequence. Again: no undo.

My best advice is to always see a specialist, even for a teeth cleaning. They have additional schooling and demonstrate a desire to go deeper in the profession. Prosthodontists will do cleanings, and their inspection will be far more valuable than a general/family dentist. They’ll also know which specialists to send you to for various procedures and won’t attempt to do something outside of their training.
Drafting privacy policies is a pain but there are a lot of services now that will generate one for you pretty quickly. Though I do have to wonder if the generated plan was then not up to standards what steps would have to be taken to correct it
State capacity eats interest rates for lunch
> And bathrooms or laundromats are so awesome. Warm and dry and bright.

In my experience campsite bathrooms tend to be cold and wet. Bright, sure, but not a place I'd like to spend any time more than needed in. :D
The use case for sshfs that you can quickly get access to all the files accessible to you in some machine without needing to be root either local or remotely.

I have had very stable networks for over 10 years in most of my work, so I don't think I haver ever suffered from hangups.

It does not fail gracefully when you read or write bigger files than your connection can decently handle. But I don't know which system would behave better under such conditions.
Consumer Reports used to be good but it seems to have gone through change in management or something because now it is indistinguishable from the avg SEO spam site.
> This reads like a meeting of two flawed personalities

They weren't equals organizationally. The manager was failing at his job, and the contractor was calling attention to it. While it can be argued this is unprofessional, the question is what is best for the company? Professionalism in this case would amount to coddling an incompetent manager, and creating more damage down the line.

The actions of the manager shows someone incompetent with a fragile ego feeling threatened and lashing out. The actions of the contractor shows someone guarding himself, searching for higher ground, and some teasing.

They are both failing in professionalism but there is a significant difference in magnitude of their failures.
> If my experience is as ubiquitous as I suspect, there seems to be a perverse incentive among dentists to allow adults to ruin their own teeth.

If you read the thread, some dentists will perform needless work on healthy teeth to make money, so I doubt there’s an incentive to let adults ruin their teeth when you can just lie and say they need the work anyways.
But the transfer of local business and organization websites to Facebook is all but complete in the US, and the GDPR had little to nothing to do with it—convenience, cost, familiarity, and going where the customers are, were plenty of motivation. Why would Europe have been different?
My email provider limits the amount of aliases I can register with them but they let me have a catchall and Sieve filters. So I wrote a script that generates "normal-looking" email aliases, then builds a Sieve filter out of that. Everything that goes to an existing alias reaches my inbox, everything else goes straight to the Junk folder.

I've uploaded it to my GitHub: https://github.com/t0astbread/sievegen

Of course that's not a perfect approach in terms of privacy but for most purposes, it strikes the right balance between privacy and "hard to accidentally lose control of" for me.
I'm hopeful for LMG's lab too. It's still a bit of a gamble, but from the sound of it the company is set up such that they can review products in an objective, data-backed way and tank any blowback from manufacturers that occurs as a result.

It's much more focused on enthusiast computer hardware, but Gamers Nexus[0] is doing good things in this space too. Their style is much more dry and data-dense than LMG's though, which isn't everybody's cup of tea.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIs72whgZI9w6d6FhwGGHA
What they were trying to do was considered anti-competitive practice, and "They built it therefore they can do whatever they want with it" in isolation makes absolutely no sense.
Impulse Tracker is a multi-track music tracker (music sequencer)
An old saying is an "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

When the cure prevents any analysis of applying prevention (even discussing it) then the cure is part of the problem.
We used it for PyCharm to overcome its limitation with remote editing support.

In the past, I also used it as an alternative to Samba or NFS.
We've been unsuccessful finding senior roles lately. The job is slightly underpaid, but the technologies, team, and everything else are amazing.

It's difficult to communicate that in a job rec. I'd never leave for a much more higher paying role because the weight of being on a team of real experts working on real challenges far outweighs additional money.

Just the way it goes out here. For the same reasons you wouldn't be able to hire me, other people won't be hired for less than what they want.

Edit: The "slightly underpaid" comment is getting all the attention, so I'm just going to make it literal.

200k before considering stocks, and other benefits, remote US.

That's what I consider slightly underpaid. It's not a euphemism for "massively underpaid"
I am being polite in explaining the low-income perspective on devices like these. Looking at a device designed for low-income people who are trying to breathe healthy air and saying, essentially, "it's ugly, I would never want that" is extremely tone deaf around why it exists in the first place: because desperate people need an inexpensive solution. If you feel shame from that alternate perspective, I would suggest it comes from within.
I’m curious about this too. He did a breakdown of how much money they get from ads and it’s not much considering how many employees they have. They have a lot of sponsorships and selling swag but I’m just not sure what their maximum size is as just another YouTube channel, even one with lots of revenue streams.
You know what the messed up thing about Wirecutter's affiliate marketing is?

Their Amazon links are consistently broken to the point where the links don't point to products but are faulty search queries. Like, if you are going to compromise your reputation doing affiliate marketing, at least get the damn links right so I don't have to perform a Amazon search to find the actual product.
I do a considerable amount of long term travel carrying about half of this, but it all depends on what you're trying to optimize for. My personal design goal is that my bag fits under airline seats, so I never have to worry about gate checking a bag and risking lost luggage. The main tradeoff is that I do a lot of laundry in sinks - you really learn the effectiveness of detergent when you see the color of the water coming off some clothes you thought were pretty clean. These days I'm a bit lazier and try to end up somewhere with a washing machine every week or two to break up the hand washing chore. I've done the towel wringing trick but it's not all that necessary with my clothes unless I'm in a damp environment and am short on time.

The two things that I mostly agree with - eSIM is a massive improvement (I also use Airalo), and I've also tried to standardize on USB-C (except for my headphones, where I haven't found a good replacement). /r/onebag does have some good product recommendations but is somewhat skewed to young backpackers.

I would encourage everyone to ignore anyone telling them they're "doing it wrong" when traveling. You know yourself, make your own decisions. Personally, making an effort to meet digital nomads all around the world sounds like hell on earth to me. Also, it's wasted effort. Trust me, they'll find you and tell you all about themselves.
Yep. There needs to be a policy for data rights that is larger than the companies. Something government level.
I'm the author and would be happy to answer questions to the best of my ability.
it seems to me like the obviously correct policy intervention would be to legislate a reduction in switching costs/friction across the industry, as that is literally a cornerstone of how free markets are supposed to work.

that said, easier said than done... but at least the ideal we should probably be striving for.
The worst is that they've deleted comments calling out bad recommendations.
Why does tumblr need an app in the first place? Make it a website that is mobile friendly, and then Apple has no say. Oh, wait, you want to hoover up all of that user data to do what you want with it instead? Which fight are you actually fighting then?
But that routine care is a good case for PAs/NPs. Pulling blood once and year and refilling my inhaler doesn’t require any speciality knowledge that only an MD would have. Most people shouldn’t have any reason to avoid one for their annual check or treating a run-of-the-mill illness.
so typing an sms really quickly and having autocorrect decide that one of your misspelled words should probably be fuck just as you send it.
If I was not using the tcc backend for the first execution, then why would the second execution without tcc.exe be timed out? (I have also checked strace just like the OP.) It seems unlikely that the first execution and the second execution use the same gcc and still behave in such diverging ways. And if my reasoning is incorrect, please do not instinctively reply to me (I had enough) and put a proper diagnostic to tell whether TCC is being used, since it looks like a genuine confusion.
I've read similar comments about interactions with Wikipedia editors
> job is slightly underpaid, but the technologies, team, and everything else are amazing

I would be sceptical of someone describing themselves as senior who falls for this. Pay them properly. If you can’t afford cash, make it up in stock and responsibility and flexibility and be open that you’re proposing that tradeoff from the start. You’ll filter out everyone with a mortgage or kids close to college or a lifestyle they love, but that’s better than hoping someone falls for the schtick Silicon Valley regularly foist on twenty somethings.

(I would also be sceptical of someone describing themselves as senior responding to job postings versus being recruited, but that may be more bias than truth.)
You do realize that you say that you are not influenced by Bollywood movies but the comment you refer to here references Bollywood movies as sources, right?
I believe that would be Firefox/Mozilla VPN
Don’t be so dismayed. I’ve been following the progress and the move was a good one. It allows them to ship the thing most people care about.

These things take time. If all else fails just write a polyfill. Component model doesn’t add anything new runtime requirements that can’t be polyfilled
It’s pretty simple. A VPN adds a layer of privacy between you and the server you’re accessing. You go from user A with X home IP address originating from precise Y location, to user A with generic shared IP originating from a vague location likely nowhere near your real location.

Beyond location, did you know there are services that can sometimes accurately provide a users place of work based on home IP? Their likely income level, and more. That becomes impossible with a VPN.

In short a VPN removes a key personal identifier that can be used to ID you online. Your IP address.
The problem they have is not that Apple is too powerful. It's that they're more powerful than Facebook in this case.

Though I totally agree that Apple is not the privacy deity they claim to be, it's funny hearing complaints from Facebook which is far worse. It says several times that Facebook is totally right. Which is true but it ignores the bigger picture here. Facebook is by far the worst actor out of the two and their arguments are total hypocrisy.

I also don't like their approach around do not track which aimed at trying to find a middle ground between us and the advertisers that have been abusing our privacy for years. For me it's gone far beyond collaboration and trust. I don't think anything will come from this.
What should you do with your options during a downturn
I dunno what you count as old but my 8 year old Sony A6000 has basically no latency at all. You just have to look up some reviews beforehand and make sure that the camera you're looking at supports a clean HDMI output, combined with a decent capture card you can get rather great image quality for a reasonable price.

My Sony A6000 with a 35mm f3.5 lens was 350 euros second hand. Elgato capture card was 99 euros, a mini-hdmi to hdmi cable 8 euros and a dummy battery wall charger was 25 euros. All in all I get a 60 fps 1080p crispy image with great bokeh for under 500 euros.

There's always the Opal C1 that comes at around 300 dollars but imo the image is pretty terrible in comparison.
Twitter allows porn. How do they do it?
Firefox performance is better with GPU disabled (on Xorg with noaccel), to reduce RAM bandwidth requirements. Which leaves out most of the fancy wayland compositors.

Yes, opening a badly optimized website, like youtube or twitter is slow. Thankfully there are alternatives like twitter -> nitter, etc.
Should it? If I can't help but believe that I am experiencing actual qualia regardless of whether I am or not, then the fact that I believe I am experiencing qualia doesn't prove anything.
I interpret that the lack of names (WC pick 1, 2, etc) is to keep focus on the core message, and to not give out free advertising.

While I happily admit to use of certain products, I don't want to serve as a billboard for them.
Agree - they updated the review for Logitech G PRO X WIRELESS build quality while the SoundGuys still show build quality 9/10.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806191

There has been a lot of confusion about this - note that it has nothing to do with Solana.

Solend is a (badly designed, clearly) application running on Solana.
I'm willing to go through the process and give you direct feedback.

I'm a Senior "DevOps" (Sysadmin), resume is here: dijit.sh/resume.pdf

Sounds conceited; but if you want to know how an outsider feels about your companies and the process: this can be an effective way.
You have to make choices as a social network provider, Either, mostly anything goes, and then you have twitter and facebook. Or you severely restrict nastiness. In that option, the collective set of moderators then determine what goes for nastiness, which in all likelihood, will enrage a huge portion of the potential user base, one way or another. It might be a noble quest, but it will fail unless you build,
as truth social has done, a network for like minded people. Truth Social will likely fail as well, showing that even within a group, there are major divisions. (It may fail for other reasons as well). The same would be true for a platform that build it's network for liberals only.

I suppose you could build a platform for sharing dog and cat photos, and allow saying things like "Who's a good boy", and you might have something sustainable. Although, who knows maybe the cat and dog people will fight over feed space.
This is PR and the comments are astroturfed to absolute hell. VPN is the most heavily advertised business I am aware of. There are a lot of reasons to mistrust this behavior.

1) it doesn't cost mullvad very much to not autorenew subscriptions. People dont forget to renew their subscriptions to a service that breaks your connection to youtube when you forget to pay. It's closer to the world of warcraft model.

2) Customers are now rightfully wary of renewing subscriptions. Given horror stories of how difficult it is to cancel your subscription to a service, I suspect that you lose upwards of 50% of potential customers if you only offer subscription models.

3) No VPN has any incentive at all to "protect your privacy". It is perfectly legal for them to lie to you about not keeping logs and then turn them over to state actors, provided they are operating out of the right state. In fact, state actors would encourage such a thing. Perhaps some of these VPNs do something to protect your privacy, but it is not because they are incentivized to.
> Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

If I can get a similarly-paying job at a place that doesn't do this, I'll skip you.

Many seniors (actual seniors, not 3-years-of-experience seniors) have a network and can say "hey I'm looking" and instantly have multiple options that won't have them do more than talk to the team and manager for an hour or two. If that.
> AKA: Capital One left customer data in a publically available s3 bucket

That’s not what happened, that’s uninformed forums speculation that you’ve seen repeated often enough you assume it’s true.

Krebs and one of Cloudflare’s PMs have both gone into some depth about this - it involved an SSRF attack against a non-public S3 bucket among other things. Krebs’ article is particularly interesting as it has screenshots of tweets from her describing the process.

https://ejj.io/blog/capital-one

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-i...
you can but Apple decides when you can actually use it and when you can't and have to use the Apple provided keyboard
They make more money from me if their reviews are accurate. If they’re are only motivated by money, then that incentive favors honest reviews.

If I buy products that they recommend and they’re shit, I won’t go back and click anything again in my life. Making an extra $3 from on purchase isn’t worth it.
It's a lot more of your personal CO2 budget if you're one of the persons doing the flying. Probably the majority if you're doing intercontinental flights every year.
I wonder if the author has ever calculated how much metric tons of CO2 were produced as an externality of his nomadic lifestyle.
What does the H in H12 stand for then?
I use it for temporary connections for file management since a few years ago, and it always has been very stable. Never left it connected for more than 24 hours, though.
Audience. Citrix is focused on entrerprises, while we want to focus on individuals. The technology / tool itself is nothing new. We want to make it easily accessible for common, non-technical people.
This is a great point. I cannot imagine doing a real interview at this point. I decided to do one the last time I was job hunting just to see what the world has to offer.

I was interviewed for a position, and was clearly perfect, but I couldn't get that across to more than half of the people interviewing me. I had some people in my corner, but others were concerned I wasn't technical enough which is hilarious.

Why would I subject myself to that? I can get a job in a heartbeat from anyone who has ever worked with me in the past.

It's a demeaning and dumb process interviewing with people you don't know, when you interview people who know you, they just pitch you on why you should join them.

They don't even ask me questions, because they know I am going to be one of if not the top contributor. They've seen it, they don't have to guess on if I happen to forget syntax on a sql command because I am not focused on sql at the moment.
“A conspiracy theory is not the same as a conspiracy; instead, it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy…”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
Whoops this wasn't meant to be a top level post. Erp.

Moved it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813424 sorry for those responding
>I don't know what to tell you if you think the crime rate there is 1/10 of the US.

From what I understand it's not so much the amount of crime, but the duration of the punishment that causes the US problem.

Most justice-involved people in the U.S. are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations. Yet even low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole, can lead to incarceration and other serious consequences.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html
Deliver at speed, deliver at speed, deliver at speed.

My experience of the products:

good, shit, shit, shit, shit, good, shit, shit...

Because there is no thought! There is no reflection or design or quality or depth.

Deliver at the pace that's right.