skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, this is a good thing. It's akin to disconnecting gas mains during a bombing run or similar. War is war and we need real defensive measures for broad cyberattack.

If it gets misused then we'll protest, etc.

Edit: You can downvote if you like, but this comment of mine isn't made in bad faith. It's fair to worry about a global cyberwar and fair to point out that in-person protests are still a viable response to abuse.
These positive traits you cite are defined by human minds and have no meaning outside of them. Their value is determined by humans.

The mere fact that these are seen as valuable by humans is already a good indication that humans do these things or help them along.
I am curious as to whether the apps that leak data are specific to a certain operating system. That is, are they android-only or iOS-only.
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32690053

EFF post: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/what-fog-data-science-...
Must say I'm a little surprised with many of the comments from a tech focused site/forum like this one. I find that Android is a far more open system with a great community that rewards the inner hacker (no matter how much of a novice they may be).

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, it is still a very usuable phone and is running a modern android version and gets regular updates. Sure it is a bit slow and I had to flash a custom rom (/e/os) but that is not hard to do.

This phone is now almost 10 years old, but still gets updates and can run most apps. I don't think this can be done with an iphone.
Again, as I've said above.

150. I have chosen the price point of 150. Whatever's on sale at Best Buy for that. Maybe Costco.

I am around Apple people. With the exception of that cross device thing which I concede can be a big deal for some, I have not dealt with or seen any significant differences between their experience and mine.
Heat pumps and condensing gas boilers both run more efficiently if run for longer periods at lower intensities.

If you have a poorly insulated house and an old non-condensing boiler it probably makes financial sense to only heat when you are there.

For modern homes, you want good insulation and a heat pump running constantly at high efficiency and low output.

There some minor quirks (time of use rates, weather prediction/conpendation) but thats the general gist.

You get various co-benefits from running the system at lower temp consistently, the high heat-cold cycles are bad for various physical things.
Removing some people from certain services in population X that are bad actors according to those services != removing everyone in population X from some or all of the Internet

These aren't equivalent and don't contradict.
You have freedom to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre.

Just as you have freedom to pay for the consequences of that.
The discursive style of the article isn't meant to be taken so literally.
Ask HN: Owning a Business on H-1B
Hey all,

Is there anyone here who lives and works in the US under the H-1B Visa? I have a question for you.

I want to start earning side income, but this is not allowed. However, you are allowed to own a business, you can operate it, but not work for it.

Has anyone here registered or bought a business (LLC) under H-1B visa? Any workarounds, or ideas?
If I call out particular comments and users, I think I would come close to violating HN rules.

I think I can talk about a few comments, not linked, without causing dang issues. I hope.

- Second highest root comment talking about how people being removed from twitter isn't a big deal, its not 'my freedoms' and the real threat is the government putting people in prison and this other stuff just doesn't matter.
- ctrl-f paradox
- ctrl-f intoleran

We, the people and the people on HN in particular, feel justified to silence those who disagree with us because its for the greater good.

More to the point, are you saying you have never seen folks on here talking about how we should censor/remove-from-services/silence/shadow-ban people that state believes opposite them?

A country gets the government it deserves - I feel like we are going to get one that is quite happy to silence individuals.
https://archive.ph/UaKLj
Old phones have stale batteries that do not last as long as newer phones.

In my experience iphone users carry a powerbank with them.
I mean record system output audio. E.g. audio streamed to speakers. Desktop Audacity can capture this audio directly on Windows. The specific use case is extracting the audio from long videos, to upload to a transcription service.

It’s an edge case for sure. Since the video is hosted weirdly and no video downloaders I’ve tried can get the video downloaded with the audio.

So we simply stream the video normally in the browser, and capture the audio output directly into Audacity.
Doesn't the iOS version of GarageBand allow for multi-track editing?
I'm rather disappointed by the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin. I expected the pro level to allow an unlimited number. That said, it has some other unexpected perks I'm quite excited about.
How would you organize protest with the government controlling communication? You have far more trust in the good will of those in power than I do.
Social media != the government
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. I would agree on both points, as long as the relationship stays competitive and not confrontational, both at the state to state level, and country to country. I realize that is a big "if", but as long as everyone stays cool and keeps working on their own version of utopia, it will work out.
Yup, because nuclear power requires humongous government investment, so the party of small government is never going to go for it, while nuclear has a bad reputation both from a cost efficiency, lead time, and a safety point of view, so a progressive party is not likely to go for it when renewables are a much more attractive looking solution.
> For decades, tailpipe emissions — both the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and the particulates that cause air pollution — have overshadowed the tire problem

This is no longer the case with EVs (no tailpipe emissions), so the next thing to tackle is tire pollution.

EVs also produce more tire pollution than ICE vehicles because they are heavier (because of the batteries) and accelerate quicker (because electric engines have instant torque).
What kind of margins are we talking about here exactly? How does it compare to the demand-side problem of increased AC usage?
> ... I'm not here to argue the semantics of a single incident

You cited said single incident as an example. It's validity as an example is open to impeachment.
>Instagram won't let the spotlight go from influencers to the common people.

Think this is one of the fundamental differences, Tiktok feel more like a level playing field and it also feels like the system actually goes out of it's way to find you an audience.

It's my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that Tiktok almost creates invisible "Subreddits" for topics it identifies then pushes all content it detects as that topic to everyone in the group. All invisible to the end user.

While tiktok helps you find an audience for your content, IG almost punishes you because you don't have one, then punishes you more if you don't do the right algorithm dance.
I personally like how you go to make a call to someone, and it appears to connect and after 10 second of silence it throws an error and you have to call again.

Sure is a step forward from the 90s with digital desk phones where you just pressed a speed dial and connected instantly.
"The advantages of a PAYF model for corporate travel managers, as BTN Europe previously reported, include not having to chase refunds or pay a TMC to manage this process. There’s also a reduced risk of losing money to airline bankruptcies." sounds for me that it won't, but again, it's talking just about business customers, right?
Fools who lap up bullshit are what destroys the world.
We're talking about programming apps such as Google docs. It is a hard requirement. Your reply is completely useless from technical perspective. Sorry-not-sorry to be so blunt but I have no sympathy for "yeah you can do it without any JS if you remove all features". Let's just go a little further and throw away our computers - we can send carrier pigeons to each other, right? And what's this paper stuff? Useless! Stone tablets 4ever!

And as a user, it is a hard requirement for me too. I never want to go back to locking and versions, that's absolutely terrible and completely kills the workflow I have with my colleagues. Collaborative docs editing is single most awesome development of the modern web and users are choosing the otherwise not-so-good Google Docs solely based on this feature. Perhaps not every user needs it - but there are countless users that do. If I wanted to edit without collaboration I'd use Word - much better UX and document editing capabilities... Sadly no truly working collaboration - it's too much like locking/versions, so it's not an option. I'd rather use collaborative raw text editor than the best of the best locking/versioned WYSIWYGs.
What didn’t you find?
For me, I think that’s actually part of why I stay away from Android. I tinker and whatnot with my open systems and it often leads to various forms of slight incompatibilities or instability. I rely on my phone to work consistently, and for me that’s meant staying with a more closed off ecosystem to protect me from myself.
I think this is why you see Pixel Phones. They want to make an aspirational device.

Also, clearly Samsung has tried to take up the premium approach (as well as every other tier)
> The desktop icons and click-and-drag shortcuts got removed a few years ago. This is a GUI workflow that I've been using on Windows, MacOS, Atari OS, Amiga OS, going back to the 1980s. Gone.

Gnome hasn't had desktop icons for 11 years. I think you must've been using a third party plugin.
What models are you comparing? I had both between 2016-2018 for work and I was shocked at how slow, buggy/unresponsive, annoying(sign in/update reminders upon unlock), and featureless my work iphone was to my Pixel.

I have no idea what it's like in 2022, but it was such a horrible experience.
Its probably "fuck off we're full" in an attempt to self select for government agencies.
...also Tiktok doesn't care about privacy
I am afraid that current AI models are the black balls. For example it is now close to impossible to verify anything, even that whether the Russians nuked half of the country or not. (It is somehow doable with trusted chains, but can you really trust them?)

Also I suspect that hacking AI will be much more powerful than any hacking with hand soon.
That's the price of a decent midrange Android phone. I'm pretty sure most Android phones are less than $400.
If there truly is a need to turn the valve the government should have no problem getting sufficient voluntary compliance by asking politely and publicly and articulating why such action is justified.
One Chicago building provides AC for over 100 other buildings
Maybe people want to live for themselves because having children in the current economy is too exhausting? I'm pretty sure that if people could more easily afford everything what's required for having children they would be more willing to have them. Sure, some people still don't want to have a responsibility but I think plenty of people want children but just can't afford them.
Biden’s student loan forgiveness only applies to federal loans. Private student loans (at a liberal arts institution like Oberlin) are not eligible
Reminds me of the xkcd comic--

https://xkcd.com/641/
Search for yoga on TikTok and Instagram and compare the results. Guess which one returns almost all softcore pornography vs actually educational content. It's not a surprise which one teenagers would find more engaging.
> things are nuanced - hammer and sickle is hardly as offensive and can be placed in the same category as the Nazi symbol

Even if you completely buy into the narrative that it was a giant mistake, what is nuanced about the fact that tens of millions of people died needlessly? That fact alone makes any display of the flag reprehensible.

If 'misguided' is how you describe Mao, then you do not know Chinese history, or you're talking about a completely different person. At the very least, Mao was directly responsible for the millions of landlords that were killed, along with academics and critics. How on earth can you justify that morally?
No. Gnome does not deserve this help.

No one should "Help Gnome" because Gnome, too much, actively breaks backward (and perhaps "cross wm") compatibility.

Help the ones that play nice with others, instead.
Portugal government really likes centralisation, including closing better performant offices/institutes elsewhere and moving them to Lisbon (and to a smaller extent Porto). This brings whole industries after that require a close connection to these centers.

There is a reason anyone outside Porto/Lisbon here complains that Portugal is only Lisbon/Porto, the rest is scenery. Which to be honest, if we look at the investments made throughout the country, it is quite accurate.
Orthogonal to the main point of the article, I was interested in the mention of Victor Papanek's tin can radio receiver, which apparently cost 9c to make (presumably the cost of the transistor, since everything else was recycled), and could be fueled by burning wax or dung.

I haven't been able to find a simple guide for how to make one myself.
Why bother doing that when you likely can just buy or copy it? Why doesn't Hatebook just make a new complete clone of TikTok, FlibFlab, and push that on users instead trying to half incorporate it into Insta that has a user base that wants to use it as it is?
for all of the requests to their api, it constructs a very long query string that is a basic fingerprint of your browser/os. then the query needs to be signed (or else the api returns a captcha), which is done by a blob of encrypted/obfuscated-beyond-recovery JS that uses a more comprehensive browser fingerprint to validate the query string and generate a token that is appended to the query. there's another required query param which involves an xhr to phone home so that presumably the fingerprints can be checked server-side. finally all of your fingerprint data is sent to their api where it lives happily ever after and you get some 15 second videos to watch
I wonder. What are your thoughts on KDE plasma?
Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

There's a card game Krypto that is similar, fun to play with my kids. I wrote some scripts awhile ago to solve Krypto games and figure out how many games are unsolvable.

I wrote up my thinking and how I went about solving here:
https://mkaz.blog/math/krypto-game-analysis/
the contract can be extended with a "booking confirmation just after payment is completed" and done, they can cancel your family Christmas together.
Page 5:
"The document enlists guidelines around basic security controls and is not prescriptive in
nature. The readers are responsible for making their own independent assessment of the
information in this document."
To be fair, Moto got sold to Lenovo and overnight went from poster child to black ship of the Android family.

Also note that your issue is not with Android, it's with moto.
I can imagine the sales-pitch when Apple gets on this for real. Keep your 5-year-old healthy, safe, productive, and up-to-stuff all day long! (Starts at $599)
Has there been some breakthrough in lithium ion battery technology in the last 2 years that Im not aware of? I have 2x 2020 SE's which I've used every day and the battery life is still great. Im always surprised how much time I have before shutdown while using my phone at 1%.
Korla Pandit
Not sure why Outlook gets hate - its pretty powerful with its rules engine and has keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Can only assume you are on Mac where Outlook is a fisher price knockoff for some reason.
A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’
Yup.

1. Nuclear can be built safely to handle emergency scenarios. It's not the catastrophe you see in movies. Fukushima which used a very primitive design, suffered from bad maintenance, and suffered a historic tsunami, still was kept fairly safe.
2. You don't built right ON the fault line. Electricity delivery over long distances is a thing even without HVDC. The fault lines for Diablo Canyon were discovered after the fact but the design was adjusted to handle that information.
3. New reactor designs are waaay better. And guess what. The more reactors we build, the more nuclear scientists there are, the better we get at building them. Why do you think America, the country that invented nuclear power, has 55 plants while China ALREADY has 47 with another 11 along the way while most construction started ~7 years ago. China is going to absolutely OWN the US on energy policy unless we get our head in the game.
The title seems inaccurate? This individual tree planting attempt by a small uk town was mismanaged. It’s unclear how that supports the titles claim that all or many or most tree planting “schemes” are failures.

Also big lmao at this quote: “critics say that tree planting takes decades to benefit the environment”
I made the jump from Android to Apple a year ago. For me, the benefits were that Apple has a much nicer camera than any of the Android options (especially all the Pixel phones, which have essentially had exactly the same camera for the past six years or so), and that I knew I’d get software updates for at least five years.

Before this I had the Nexus 6P, which despite being a Google branded phone, only got updates for three years. If you amortize the cost of the phone over five years instead of three, it suddenly makes the Apple phones seem like a deal.
> Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available

I've never used this tab. (Just opened it for the first time.)

It's cool, and I'm disappointed to see it go.

BUT: We should spend a minute thinking about the counter argument. Little and unused features can add cruft to a codebase, and significantly impede development. It's possible that hooks for corner cases and features can be so complicated that working around them becomes more burdensome than supporting the important use cases.

Case in point: When I was lead on Syncplicity, we had a corner case where a given folder on disk could be in multiple synchronized folders in the cloud. (Long story.) The problem was this corner case made many use cases, in the desktop client, significantly more complicated and bug-prone than needed. (What happens if you have different permissions to the same file?)

There was a point where I put my foot down (as lead) and said we couldn't support the corner case anymore. This lead to almost a year of two branches of the product, and daily merge conflicts between both branches. I had to put my foot down again (as lead) and push that we had to ship the version of the product that didn't have the corner case and stop working on two branches.

This makes me wonder if Github needs to cut back on corner cases and other little-used features in order to fix some maintainability issues?
This is where my mind is - although I don't think they're quite as far off as you might think.

Frankly - I don't like Apple or Google, and I'm damned tired of being sold hardware that has software locks I'm not given a key to (And at least in this case, Google is better - so I'm still on android hardware for now).

But what I really want is a linux phone at this point. Google had exactly the same reputation 20 years ago that Apple has now (height of the "do no evil" stage). It turns out that companies literally cannot help themselves.

So just like I've moved almost exclusively to linux on non-work computers, I plan to move exclusively to a free OS on my phone hardware. Right now that's un-googled forks of android, but I genuinely hope to see usable phones running on debian/arch/etc in the very near future. We're tantalizingly close with things like the pinephone pro, and the librem.

I was able to use the non-pro pinephone as a daily driver for a bit, and it worked, but not well. And despite sounding negative - that's frankly a huge jump from where we were 5 years ago when a working linux phone (in any shape) was mostly a pipe-dream. I think there's a lot of interest in this area right now.
I don't think I've ever seen the plural form "Nazies".

(Maybe I'm missing a jokey reference or something?)
Eh. I'm reminded of Chris Rock's bit on "I take care of my kids!" Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.

How about also playing nice in return when it comes to the actual product?
If I thought the claims were just as specious, yes.
The US seems to be purposefully accelerating the decline of its dominant position in the world.
"shout out" was what he meant.
Avoid Samsung on every single product line they have.
Only if the surface area is big enough. If you only have 1 square inch plates, even a complete vacuum would only net you 14.7 lbs of force - something most people could separate with their hands. But 10 inch side-length plates would already be impossible to separate for almost all humans, even at half atmospheric pressure between the plates.
It also depends where you got your quotes and estimates. Retail sales reps are a complete disservice to the industry, often quoting double what an installation _should_ cost.

I highly recommend EnergySage for quotes. It's free and unbiased for sourcing local installers while skipping the sales reps.

And do keep in mind warranties cover 90% efficiency on panels and they'll continue working beyond warranty at reduced capacity.
The full range of the current phones Apple sells today (2022 iPhone SE on the low end through the iPhone 13 Pro Max on the high end) both use the same chipset: the A15 "bionic". As you go up the scale, you're paying more for hardware features (better camera sensor, front depth sensor for face scanning, etc.). This will probably change pretty soon, only because the higher-end phones tend to be refreshed in the fall and the low-end phone was announced and then refreshed in the spring.

Obviously, you can save some money by buying an older phone with better hardware features, but the same applies to Android -- this year's "mushy middle" of pricing is occupied with last year's flagship model.
Hit Shift + F3 to see a frame time breakdown, then you can determine if it is slow graphics or cpu. If it is CPU, maybe graal helps, but it's hard to tell upfront.
Also check out some mods dedicated to improving performance like Sodium.
Corel's office suite has a scripting language if I recall. My grandfather in law learned enough of it to develop a few systems for managing family finances, gifting (it's a large family), etc.

Emacs is notable. It requires learning a bit of elisp programming but, like a browser, is basically a development environment that gives you access to a windowing system, input from the user, image rendering, text buffers, etc. Plenty of people write their own tools to manage particular workflows.

Update

Examples of emacs as folk interface:

- https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/
Protests happened before the Internet. Before telephones, even. Neither are a requirement for people to communicate and organize.
The world is bigger than the US and the EU. The poster I replied to also mentioned 1-5% transaction fees which kinda suggests they weren't talking about the EU...
no f-droid on iphone…

Which means 0 chance of getting apps with no tracking.