skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something happened to me the other day, I started drafting a text using the regular text messaging app on my android phone, I was sending it to a friend, but I got distracted by a call and never sent the text. Later I went to finish it and send it but he had gone in and put some smart-alec comment in the text of the message I was drafting. I was shocked. He refuses to tell me how he did it. I went through all the settings, scans permissions and so on. He says he can't do it now but still refuses to tell me how he did it. Scary. I wish I could find out what it was he did. Any HN'ers have any ideas?
Theoretically, you could create a Nix-Flatpak hybrid by sourcing your Bubblewrap packages/environment from the Nix store. It wouldn't be much different from how Nix handles it today, just with an additional layer of sandboxing for each environment.

The problem Nix solves is the one Flatpak tries working around - how do I guarantee software builds and runs on my system? The answer turns out to be "very strictly", and Nix has done a good job of writing sane rules where it can. It's not perfect (and definitely not user-friendly today) but it has a larger package repo to work with and better support for stuff Flatpak is missing like system services. If people do want to switch to an immutable root system, I'd hope the goal is to be as modular as NixOS is someday.
I doubt that they'll want to change the $30/mo + taxes/fees you're paying for "unlimited" (really 35GB) service. T-Mobile already offers a $40/mo unlimited plan on Metro with taxes and fees included and that's without the annual pre-payment. As I noted in another comment, Mint values the annual pre-payment at over $10/mo compared to quarterly payments. I think it's reasonable to say that $360/year ($30/mo) seems roughly equivalent to $40-45/mo on a monthly basis. Plus, taxes and fees increase the price of the plan such that it's probably in the $35-40/mo range.

Visible is already offering $25/mo unlimited service (on promotion down from $30/mo) without annual pre-payment via a similar low-touch model (and owned by Verizon) and Visible doesn't charge taxes/fees. It seems unlikely that T-Mobile would want to raise prices on your plan when you're already paying for a year in advance and you're already paying 30-60% more than Visible is charging and Visible doesn't even require annual pre-payment for that rate.

> I am guessing it will soon be back to $85.

This is literally FUD. T-Mobile already offers $40 unlimited (with taxes/fees included) on a higher-touch Metro plan that doesn't require annual pre-payment. Even a single line T-Mobile Magenta plan is $70/mo. This sentence is simply FUD.

You might like your deal, but it's not that great a deal by objective standards. Visible is cheaper and doesn't require annual pre-payment.

This is T-Mobile wanting a low-touch brand similar to Visible (which would be even cheaper for your if Verizon works well in your area).
Every mortgage holder routinely buys loans from other lenders. If you received bad customer service then it probably wasn't due to that specific cause but rather general incompetence and cost cutting.
Tether has existed for under a decade, USDC is less than 5 years old, and SVB died after 39 years.

Yes technically "still alive" is better than "just died", but can you really call it a "better track record" when Tether is so opaque that we wouldn't be able to spot if it was about to die until it actually happens? If Tether died tomorrow it would undeniably have a worse track record than SVB, if it dies in a decade then it survived half as long as SVB.

Unless you have some insight into the actual behind the scenes finances of Tether I don't see how you can make that judgement.

And as to this claim from your GP's comment:

> In the near future, stablecoins like USDC will become immune to bank runs because the US Dollar reserves backing them will be held in vehicles that don't loan out the reserves and hold short-duration treasuries directly with the Treasury Department.

Circle (USDC) literally had $3.3B cash deposited at SVB, and presumably more accounts at other banks, so they're exposed directly to potential problems caused by those banks. More importantly they could decide tomorrow, assuming they haven't already, to make the exact same poor choices as any bank could.

There's nothing stopping them moving 95% of their assets tomorrow into 10 year treasury bonds other than that it would be a bad idea, but both they and banks are equally motivated to avoid bad ideas, so it seems to be an unwarranted hope that those in charge of Circle will make better decisions than those in charge of any bank, rather than any specific feature of USDC that makes it impossible for them to make the exact same mistake SVB made?

And that's even before considering that if it had been USDC rather than SVB that made the mistake already, FDIC wouldn't have come running in to fix anything as they try to with failed banks.

Am I missing something about USDC that actually makes it a safer bet, other than apparently having more faith in their management team than in the management teams of various banks?
If you can give me some native APIs which solve distribution and sandboxing, across the three major desktop OSes and two major mobile OSes, as easily as the web, then I would be more than happy to go back to native dev :D
Aside from being cheaper I like the texture of processed chicken more, they are usually easier to eat and have herbs and spices infused in them. I try to avoid bacon, ham, beef and sausages and hopefully that's good enough!
Yeah, how many meals do people eat in a day anyways? Like max 5?
Have you ever met and spoken at length with a cop? They're #1 concern is billing enough overtime and securing a cushy gig
This is victim-blaming. Companies don't make clear "how things work". I've never once found a web page published by a business that makes clear exactly how they will contact you (e.g. by number xxx-xxx-xxxx for security alerts, from email address foo@company.com for bill payments with a link to company.com/billpay, etc.) so that you can follow that sheet to ensure you're not being defrauded, and that's what's needed.

Perhaps it's time for some regulation - of course, drafted with the extreme care that almost no regulation is written with, but should be...
On the other hand the developers who rely on your library wont need to waste time trying to play catch up with your breakage so that their programs keep doing the exact same stuff they were already doing and instead their most likely limited time (especially important for FLOSS developers, many of whom do that in their free time) will be instead put into improving what their applications actually does.

In addition, even in the case the applications stop getting developed, they will keep working since their dependencies would not break and other developers can pick them up if needed, even years later. On the other hand having to pick up a project whose dependencies do not even work anymore is much harder.
> Sandwiches have grown less healthy in the past 40 years, Dr. Mozaffarian says. Culprits include highly processed grains in bread and the low-fat push that took off in the 1980s, which nutritionists now say led to the consumption of more deli meats marketed as low-fat.

Low-fat wasn't just a "push". Medical experts effectively lobbied the government to introduce dietary mandates at very high levels (like nutrition percentages) and on low levels (school lunches). The end result was carbs, carbs, carbs, cheap carbs.

The glycemic index is probably one of the most underrated aspects for diet. It boggles my mind that the doctor at the end recommended a PB&J. Sure - in a complete vacuum it has fewer calories. But you are going to end up way hungrier and crankier calorie-for-calorie.
If we go that way, a lot more believe god exists!
> And when do you expect this debt to be repaid back?

According to the terms of the loan or repo or maturity date of the bond. The money isn't "backed by nothing" it's backed by the productive capacity of an economy, and virtually all of it is created by market demand for credit, not the demand of the US government.

> It's not ignorance but reality that as long as you are the strongest arm in the room nobody is going to challenge you into paying back your debts.

It's absolutely ignorance to base your arguments about how a monetary system works on the assumption that the US is the only country in the world with a stable currency and modern central banking. The majority of the developed world is not "the strongest arm in the room" and people happily use those countries' currency and buy up their domestic-currency-denominated sovereign debt without any worries about hyperinflation or their military.

The military is of significance only to the extent that the dollar wouldn't be worth very much if the US was on the verge of being annexed by Mexico, but Venezuela has a military that prevents it from being annexed by Colombia too, and its military spending in excess of its productivity is still a cause of rather than a solution to its problems
"While there may be differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, I've struggled to see them in practice"

I don't think either are actually implemented in practice at the moment, although you can argue that certain aspects of certain politicians or their agendas lean libertarian, and that some societies have in the past been a lot more libertarian than they are today.

The primary difference is this: anarchists of any kind, ancap or not, see no role for the state whatsoever. Libertarianism requires a state to exist, but has a very clearly defined set of roles for it such that anything outside those roles is considered more properly the role of the private sector. At a minimum, the state is expected to implement:

- [Border] defense (armies, navies, passports)

- A violence monopoly within their territory (police, courts, jails, laws against murder, abuse, etc). Yes, this doesn't always sit easy with the US specific gun culture, but the "out" is to say you can own a gun only for self defense, hunting and overthrow of an out of control state, which doesn't infringe on this principle.

- Contract law (civil law courts, ability to levy financial penalties)

- Property rights (land registers, stock markets, bond markets and other financial infrastructure, also quite often IP rights)

- Sufficient taxation to fund those things and subsequent state functions

- Anti-monopoly enforcement

And a bunch of other things that are less well agreed on, but in some interpretations might involve attempts at limiting externalities.

So a libertarian state still has a relatively extensive civil service, it would still have a parliament or congress, tax authorities and so on, but it's smaller and more tightly focused than a non-libertarian state. It is actually implementable in the real world, today, without violating any of the known basics of human nature or government. Libertarians accept that some current roles of the state have evolved for sound reasons but propose that those roles can be done equally well or better by the private sector (e.g. instead of bank bailouts you have narrow banks). We know such countries can exist because they have also existed in the past, for example the early US government was much closer to this ideal than the current one.

Ancaps on the other hand propose a theoretical society that has no government at all yet is also peaceful and prosperous. No such society has ever existed, not even anything close to it, and there are many obvious open questions with no known answers. It's very different.
> Why can't we just static link everything, and distribute binaries

Because what happens if there's vulnerability in say zlib or openssl. As a distributor you'd need to rebuild everything (volunteer-run distros don't have sufficient cpu time to rebuild the whole archive at once), and in the process check if the update won't break anything in each and every package. Or rely on upstream (which may be unresponsive, because they're also volunteers).

This might be manageable in relatively small, single-language, corporate-backed apps, but is not viable in volunteer-run operating systems with ~50k packages written in every single programming language invented.

No one distro will risk this (imagine Phoronix article: "After 1 year, CVE-2023-123456 fixed in only 30% of packages in StaticLinux!").

I mean, you're free to try. I'll provide time-to-fixed statistics for all your CVEs.
Interesting concept, hadn't considered logging to slack. Thanks for posting.
> Each serving a day of processed meat is associated with a 42% increased risk of heart disease and a 19% increased risk of diabetes

The wording of this either is confusing or is a huge understatement. Does this mean that eating a serving a day for some time period correlates with a huge increase in heart disease and diabetes or, read literally, that each day you eat a serving of processed meat correlates to a huge increased risk (which would further increase across more days)?
your right I should probably say collective bargaining. Since there are probably better ways for labor to organize and use leverage than unions.
I work for a non-profit scientific research organization and we pay for a DockerHub Team subscription. It's where we host almost all of our images. But we also had a small Free Team that was used for one project just to put it in a different namespace, which we now have to scramble to move somewhere. It doesn't make any sense to double our costs just for that one project.

This move by Docker does not inspire any confidence in their long-term management, and will very likely drive us away from DockerHub entirely. It's really sad to watch this company fall from grace. I was an early adopter and always rooted for them from the very beginning.
The most Docker-shaped one is Podman. “Best” depends on what you do with it.

I think the bigger issue here is not the lack of replacements, but the end of oh-so-convenient centralization in DockerHub.
Regulations by and large have solved the problem.

Bank failures were incredibly common in 19th and early 20th century America. Today they are next to non existent.

Again, take a step back from the ideology and look at the evidence. The count of bank failures before 1930s era regulations vs post speaks to the effectiveness of government intervention.
Treasury Reviewing US Financial Sector Exposure to Credit Suisse
I imagine every year a genie arrives, huffing and puffing, and says "Are you rich and handsome enough yet?"

"More."
Swiss National Bank designates CS as systemically important:

QUOTE:

" Global systemically important banks:

- Credit Suisse

- UBS

"

There are only 2 banks in this category.
Source:
https://www.finma.ch/en/enforcement/recovery-and-resolution/...

Expect a bailout :-)
The problem: refined sugars, refined flours, seed oils

The solution: eat less sodium and less saturated fats (which by the way were consumed in greater quantities in the past and hearth disease was virtually non existent)
I like US Mobile. Their plans are affordable, and you can subscribe to a nominal amount of data and then buy more as-needed.

I also tether and it just cuts into my ordinary data.
Let me repeat a message i wrote some time ago here because i really don't think Flatpak is a good solution (note that this isn't issues from some ancient distro, this is from openSUSE Tumbleweed, this is only a few months old):

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Flatpak is awful, i tried installing software from it a few times and not only it always installs a ton of unnecessary stuff (practically an entire distro!) but also the software doesn't integrate seamlessly with the rest of the system. GUI software looks wrong (themes do not apply, font rendering is wrong), command line software doesn't show up in PATH. Example in [0] for the GUI bits (Bless for theme, Notepadqq for font rendering) as well as the disk usage for two simple programs like a hex editor and a text editor.

Even worse, while there is an option to install things in the user's directory only (so i can make a separate user to try some things that i can easily delete later) not everything installs with that options and wants root access to pollute the rest of my system.

Nowadays i simply avoid anything related to flatpak. If something doesn't provide normal binaries and i really want it, i'd rather compile it from source (and if the source language is something exotic or the program needs a ton of dependencies i'd just skip it).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/9tmo26J.png
I'm actually curious about this: if that's true, why do hospitals still do low-salt diets for critical heart disease patients?
If learning is not allowed the robot overlords can move to countries not on the IP bandwagon like Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine or Venezuela. Those are on the priority watch list, there is also a normal watch list. Those are probably lax enough to allow a lot.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report...
We're not yet at the point when crypto does look a lot safer than bank deposits. But we might get there soon.
It was meant to be!
well, thanks to the EU, it's going to apply to Apple real soon too. This is one of the things app store review and fully enforcable permissioning prevents (prevented).

https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/13/apple-alternative-app-stores-...

So much for the "app store is like 1984" marketing spin that Epic put out lol. Now you have the freedom to have spyware installed on your phone... which is what I and many others have been saying all along. Not just abusive spouses but Facebook and others will be all over this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4

As I said previously... Facebook and others already have this sort of spyware ready to go, because they were already using their developer credentials to get users to sideload it for data mining. Now it won't be optional/"we'll give you a gift card", it'll just be mandatory if you want to use Facebook on a ios device. Sorry this device is not supported via web, please install the native app.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
Yes, I'm working on bringing Fastly's OHTTP Relay to GA, which will allow us to offer it to more customers. That's ultimately more of a pricing and business process thing than any additional technical work. The implementation is feature complete at this point. Planning for that in Q2 (mid-April if all goes well).

I'm not (currently) planning to support customer self-service for this, because I anticipate that most customers may want:

1. Fastly to operate the OHTTP relay service, so that they can clearly state that they can't interfere with its operation to their end users.

2. Customization around business logic. We do plan to re-use the core service implementation across customers, but I've found with the initial implementations that there is an additional layer of business logic that's valuable (things like specifically which headers to strip / pass, using backend API key, verifying a client shared secret, etc.).

However, if it becomes apparent that self-service is desirable here, I'll definitely consider that. There would be a bit more work on the engineering side to enable that.

If you might be interested in that service, I'm happy to discuss: <hn username> @ fastly dot com
Consumer protection is part of the FDIC mission; not holding some imaginary, sacred 250k line. The 250k dollar insurance is a means to an end and not a traditional insurance business.

People are angry because (they are being convinced) somebody is getting a hand-out that isn't them and they haven't personally deemed worthy. Just like people get angry over the idea of free healthcare going to immigrants and college loan forgiveness going to.. Whoever.

That's not even what's happening because the FDIC, now in control of SVBs assets, are going to use those assets to balance the books. They have the liquidity to guarantee depositors funds while they wait for the loans and bonds to reach maturity.
Sometimes the official paths are made to attempt to minimize erosion and damage that other paths could cause.
Bad habits are hard to break
Given the cost and availability of RPi at the moment this is an expensive option.
This is strange to callout "saturated fats" as one of the primary issues, therefore "eat less bread".

I generate, I agree that eating less bread is important (in general), specifically white bread, but the idea that "saturated fat" is bad is old and many studies in the last decade have actually reversed this opinion.

The entire rise of keto diet is based on having as much saturated fat as possible, and to stay away from polyunsaturated (and only go to monounsaturated if possible).

More data in: https://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Fat-Surprise-audiobook/dp/B00...
The FT is not a left leaning newspaper in the traditional economic sense, even if they are somewhat progressive on the social scale. Why would you characterise them as left? They're obviously pro-business, pro-free trade, anti-traditional social stuff (e.g. the pension reform in France is admired) and have done some great investigative journalism recently (Wirecard and Ukraine come to mind).
Sign up with a brokerage. Use their cash management account. Confirm its FDIC limits (many cover $1M+ with sweep functionality). If you exceed those limits, consider investing excess cash or cash equivalents in treasuries or money market funds that solely hold short dated government backed securities. This is what a Narrow Bank would do with demand deposits. Treasuries are backed by the Fed and the full faith and credit of the US gov; they are considered risk free.

Tada! You have replicated narrow bank functionality. None of us have enough pull to change Fed fractional reserve and banking regulatory policy unfortunately. If you can't change the wind, adjust your sails.

If you don't mind your deposits being exposed to fractional reserve lending and FDIC insurance, CDARS: https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/ To my knowledge, it can provide at least $50M in FDIC coverage with sweeps under the hood, although someone on HN mentioned the other day the limit might be more. Ask your financial services institution what their limit is.

(not investing advice, educational purposes only)
To guarantee the FDIC itself doesn't fail.
Tortillas are low calorie (100-150 calories), most likely better for you than bread. I guess it depends how many you eat, and if they're fried.
>They collect a range of sensitive information such as location, texts and calls, as well as audio and video.

This sentence ruins the credibility of the article because Android doesn't let you do this. The camera, microphone, can only be used when an app is in the foreground. For location data being tracked in the background it will have a persistent notification telling the user that an app has your location. For an app to read your call log or SMSs it has to be set as the phone's default phone or SMS app.

This combined with androids reminders to review the permissions for apps that have dangerous permissions and Play Protect which can detect and remove spyware this article is giving Android much less credit than it deserves.
No problems for me with Firefox 111.0 (64-bit). Upon clicking, I first went to a captcha page, then to the content.

The lock icon merely offers me this information:

> "You are securely connected to this page."

> "Verified by: Let's Encrypt"
Ask HN: How can software engineers help prevent climate change?
I often feel that there is very little that software engineers can do using our technical skillset that will help prevent climate change / pollution / ecological destruction.

Am I wrong? Is there anyway we can leverage our skill set to help?
Should probably clarify in the title that this is for property management, not real estate. MLS data is notoriously impossible to get without huge contracts, which is what made want to check this out.
I just assumed that nobody wanted "their AI voice" to be recorded saying any kind of wrongthink or anything else uncouth, until they sufficiently lock that stuff down (if such a thing is even 100% possible).