skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feb 20, https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-online-scam-centers-myawa...

> An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday.. Thailand, China and Myanmar have coordinated efforts over the past month to shut down the scam centers that bilked victims around the world out of billions of dollars through false romantic ploys, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes. Thai officials said recently that as many as 10,000 people may be repatriated from Myanmar.. Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on a visit to Beijing earlier this month told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Thailand would crack down on the scam networks. Just ahead of her visit, Thailand cut off electricity, internet and gas supplies to several areas in Myanmar.. An earlier crackdown on scam centers in Myanmar happened in late 2023.. Ethnic guerrilla groups with close ties to Beijing shut down many operations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149372

> This all happened because they kidnapped a Chinese actor, maybe fake casting call ads are not the wisest idea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Wang_Xing

On January 3, 2025, Wang Xing (stage name "Xingxing"), a Chinese actor, was deceived into a scam center in Myanmar by a fraud group under the pretext of "going to Thailand for filming work". After Wang Xing lost contact, his girlfriend Jiajia posted a message for help through social media and actively contacted relevant authorities. This incident attracted the attention of the Chinese film industry. Many actors posted about this matter, prompting the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, the Chinese Consulate General in Chiang Mai and the Thai police to intervene in the investigation and search and rescue.

From the AP link above, on Myanmar organized crime advertising Thailand as work location:

> Thailand wants to cooperate with China since reports about scam workers being trafficked through Thailand have circulated widely on Chinese social media. The Thai government and others fear it will discourage the lucrative market of inbound Chinese tourists.
Ursa supports Pulsar protocol as well
At least with Pixel you can install GrapheneOS.
I met many such people in jail who had all manner of undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses and would speak just like parent commenter. Empathy is the only valid response.
You can email HN to enable a hidden feature that hides the hide button/link. I've got it enabled because I never used the function anyway; it's much nicer not being able to accidentally hide things. Not sure why it's not on the profile page
Show HN: Support and Get Supported on PH
Is that true? I see book shops in every town. As for e-books, distribution of these small files cannot be too much of a technical challenge.

I think it wouldn't be too difficult to make a system for authors to sell their e-books and physical books themselves on their own websites, but the problem is that authors would rage with fury for paying an upfront cost or paying 10% for such a system, and instead stay with the publishers to rip them off instead. You see this in every industry.
Not important, but to whoever maintains this site, on mobile, on the front page of HN, the text goes right to the edge of the screen if the word break does not occur. A few px of padding would be nice!
Deteriorate? Myanmar has been a failed state for 60 years. To give you an idea of what I mean, their current and previous dictators consult witch doctors for their decisions, and the largest city of 5 million doesn’t have continuous electricity.
One of the many ongoing wars in Myanmar, The Karen conflict, is one of the longest-running armed conflicts in the world. Myanmar has been a total mess since end of WWII.
German startup is pioneering recyclable wooden wind turbine blades
US is an unreliable partner. EU needs to work on decoupling from it ASAP in every domain.
But will the US renege on the supply of spare parts?

Will it tear up existing deals and say 'accept the new terms or your planes won't fly'?
Only one half of your comment is true.

Election interference does occur, and to protect democracy, courts must act where there is clear evidence.

Or are you referring to Hungary in your second paragraph?
Many elite colleges have opted to keep class sizes small, and make themselves more selective instead. It is pretty despicable. It sounds like UCI is doing the right thing, although I've heard it's still hard to get into many of the UC schools because there are so many applicants.

In fairness, a dollar in 2000 is worth $1.83 today, so that would (almost) account for the tuition increase.
Yes DOGE would be much better as an independent agency created by Congress with all the controls that comes with it. It’s inherently a bit toothless as an executive advisory council without further increasing executive power which is dangerous.
Hopefully, this push will stop the trend of calling countries trying to legislate data residency and privacy laws to keep their citizens data out of foreign prying eyes as authoritarian and painting them as threats balkanizing the free internet.

Wishful thinking? may be, because the world isn't and doesn't have to be fair.
I’ve noticed that selective pressure on shrimp in an aquarium leads to colour morphs very, very quickly. I bet lice are the same.

I’ve had tanks where shrimp will match their surroundings quite closely within a year or so. This would be due to some micro predator being present and picking off any babies that are easy to see. Shrimp have babies frequently and the only ones that survive in those conditions are able to blend in really well. Every 2.5 months or so a new generation becomes sexually mature and has dozens of babies every 8 weeks or so.

It’s a fun hobby because you can actually develop your own morphs in a matter of only years if you want to.

So it’s not necessarily evolution, but pigments developing (or not) due to environmental pressures.
> comparing the aggressor Russia with a country that's in a literal fight for its survival. Straight up Kremlin talking points. Not food for thought.

I'm sure Russia feels the same when considering the prospect of a neighbor joining an nuclear armed international alliance constructed specifically to oppose it's power and existence.

My goto analogy for this is the hypothetical of Mexico joining the USSR. Sure it sounds far fetched, but how do you think the USA would react to that type of situation?
I spent long hours playing CS Surf. What a wacky mod. Good times, odd memories.
The two are not mutually exclusive, providing HIV assistance or maternal aid both is definitionally international aid while also furthering US interests. If you define international aid as purely unconditional or even counterproductive to self-interest then you'd be hard pressed to find any sort of example, nor would it be a definition I would think many agree with.
Doesn’t seem like the author is recursively building solutions, so this doesn’t work.
The article didn't claim it was a good proxy.
If software doesn't automate things, why are we investing so much in it?

Maybe I misunderstand, but computers make us much more efficient: writing, graphics, computation, communication, storage and retrieval of information, searching information, machine control, ... for a time, 'computers' were rooms full of people doing computations.

Think of the software stack that runs HN. What would we do? Write letters to a journal for publication? Gather in a room someplace?
And that's why we need to stop being dependent on the US: everything in there is described in terms of « market share », and not in terms of usefulness, ethics, or independence.
I am furious at the gutless Republican Party for making this happen. While different choices should have been made by Democrats, blaming them is not helping the situation. The Republicans did this, their media and propaganda apparatus created this disaster, they own this completely. If we lose our republic permanently, I hold each and every Republican voter personally responsible.
It would capture the shift in need for each language.
Our government shouldn't be bidding against ourselves.

Yes, it should, because that's how individual companies (and governments for that matter) find their optimal operating points.

That is the explicit central dogma behind the United States' system of government. It works pretty well for the most part. If all the states had the same laws, policies, and taxes, there would be no need for federalism at all.
They used to be open source, and actively advertised themselves as such.

Around two years ago they changed their license.

I used to be a big champion, and used it at a Healthcare organization I was the CTO of.

After the license change, I moved on to other solutions. Not because of the cost, but because I couldn't justify the risk of building systems on top of a non-open platform. I've seen too many vendor relationships sour over the years.

Also, IIRC, the 5 million threshold isn't just for revenue, it includes funding (or at least it used to, not sure if it still does).
> odd that you overlooked that 30% figure in your summary of major uses

That 30% is a source of funds. It’s the top of the second paragraph.
Ok you guys, I hear you and will try to work on the confirmation thing soon.
Yes things do change in unexpected ways. That is what happens.
I don't know about others but I stare at my screen to avoid eye contact with strangers. It's not like I don't want to, it's that a part of me thinks that it is rude to be looking at others if you don't know them. Don't know from where it got instilled into my mind.
Scores that high mean very little, because a) there are so few people who might qualify for such high scores that they can't be assessed reliably and b) the people who wrote the tests weren't at that level and thus could not write questions capable of distinguishing them from the rest. Anything above about 3 SD (score of 145) is just noise.
And then fund a lot of talking instead of a lot of doing.
Yes, I know. I wouldn't really want to use OVH for anything besides bare metal, same for hetzner (even then, they're not great at it).

The only good providers I'd use again are London based.
At the risk of getting my CEO angry (sorry Ajay :D): ClickHouse is great.
But it also means hosting another database and losing ACID compliance, the question is often not ClickHouse vs Timescale but Postgres + ClickHouse vs just Timescale.

In general the argument I was originally trying to make is not to never use ClickHouse, I think it's a great product. But if you already are on postgres, it might just be easier to give Timescale a try than to adapt everything to work with ClickHouse right away. There is more to consider here than raw query speed.

And while I'm sure the systems behave differently scale and speed wise, I also wouldn't say Timescale looses straight up, there is situations where Timescale is faster and if it really breaks down for a use-case nothing stops you from still doing the postgres to ClickHouse migration. In the end timescale is just a better postgres, so there is no lock in.
It is NEVER "safe to move for any government and secrets to US clouds", unless you want to be spied up on.
One word. Mutation.
It died with American democracy.
The EU doesn't have a significant tech industry.
That's exactly what they mean: reverse pinch to zoom in.
It could even go up, the customers will cover the cost of transitioning to new tech!
Three questions about Apple, encryption, and the U.K
Note that Trump won the popular vote by a plurality, not a majority. Biden had a majority as did Obama both times. Bush also had a majority for his second term.
> 42 LISTEN participants who reported symptoms of PVS and 22 individuals who did not report any PVS symptoms
I've never heard this applied to the healthcare sector, in the way that doctors think about it their salary. I'm a MD and hear this as an explanation that other MDs give for their compensation i.e. "I would/could have done ibanking instead of neurosurgery, therefore my compensation..."

Unfortunately, MD compensation has more to do with a bottleneck in residency spots (post-medical school training), part of which may be artificially tight from lobbying efforts, but also there are real physical barriers to scaling up medical education. there are only so many operating rooms where a resident can be safely assigned and supervised.

However, I think there is a grain of truth to MD's perception of the Baulmol effect, just in the opposite direction. Despite claims of healthcare being privately-funded, about half of healthcare dollars in the US originate with a government agency of some form. This does not taking into account the fact that healthcare organizations don't pay taxes (501c3), get government-provided free labor (aforementioned residents), and have a workforce educated through government financing. Though not one-to-one, our salaries are impacted by what medicare/medicaid sets as procedure-related reimbursements. Though no MD could live off of medicare payments alone (I think total reimbursement for a PCP visit is $125), its a proxy, and is one of the big reasons why proceduralists (surgeons, anesthesiologists) make more than the thinking specialties (infectious disease, rheumatology). So - I think Baulmol here works in that the public/govt who agree to some compensation for MDs that is commensurate with other high-paying fields. There may be some perception that top students would actually choose ibanking over neurosurgery based on compensation, so the public is willing to pay in the same ballpark. Whether that belief is true is another conversation - and whether we really should be sending top students to medicine (where they tend to despise their job and look elsewhere for intellectual stimulation) is another story as well.
Hard disagree (as a person that owns EV).

While it's true that most people don't drive that far daily, it's also true that most people want their cars to be multipurpose.

Most EVs can only be time-efficiently charged to 80% while DC fast charging because the charge curve drops a lot.

And nobody want the pucker factor of getting much below 10% while road tripping.

So, you're really only working with 70% of the max range. At 'normal' freeway speeds of 70mph+, most EV max ranges are less than 300 miles, and 70% of that is 210 usable miles.

You can make it work, but it feels like you're always managing and thinking about charge level vs a car which usually has 400+ miles of range on the freeway.

IMO the base range for EVs needs to be 500 miles, to get 350 miles of usable range, plus 350kW+ charging so charge stops are 10 minutes ish. And the Chinese EV companies have 400kW+ charging cars already, with announcements for 600kW charging!

So battery energy density is critical to getting the range that people want without making the cars even heavier.
Says this man who's lived 60 years. Don't have to be in prison to notice it's an epidemic.
> I know going full-time into FOSS isn’t easy

What matters is whether it’s important. I spent a lot of time over the years doing FOSS and learned all that code just like all other code atrophies and dies. Maybe it helps you get a job (mine did), and maybe it drives part of the world. But, eventually, it’s probably not important. Don’t worry about FOSS as criteria for a job doing something that is transient.

If you’re so motivated though, be Richard Stallman!
2 per 4 years here (and 1 accidental). I don't really see a reason to flag most submissions. What kinds of things do you, or should we, flag?

My understanding is that flags are for moderator attention (with an automatic system for if people pile flags on the same thing). I'm not sure I see many of those among the submissions, one of the two flags I put was a title that was leading to a mislead and pointless discussion and only a moderator can fix that
<sarcasm> Maybe we should try to stop believing in money next and see where that gets our experiment in civilization. </sarcasm> All of this 'believing in ideas' is an experiment that requires years of indoctrination. It is extremely dangerous to play with the jenga game of removing core beliefs.
You imply that the title "King of America" is pejorative, but did he or did he not refer to himself as a king? As far as I can tell, he endorsed this title.

To add on this, prediction markets currently put Trump Sr. as 8.5% likely to win the 2028 GOP nomination (electionbettingodds.com). So, I wouldn't take your "he'll be done in four years" as certainty. The market thinks things are far more precarious than you do.
I'm pretty sure the right to flag is taken away from an account when it is used too frequently. Maybe they even do it shadowban-style and your flagging already does nothing.
No; Romania [1]. But yes, Hungary also has its own set of problems; Europe has always been allergic to democracy, and its no surprise that allergy would keep rearing its head in the 21st century.

[1] https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-cancelled-elections-and-the-main...
Thats not fool proof what so ever.
All lives are only saved in the medium term, humans age and die.

> the risk of death almost doubled for those who had been vaccinated

Not when you adjust for age. People who survived COVID after vaccination being an older population then end up dying faster, but few people die in any given year.

Doubling the base death rate suggests the populations will equalize in roughly 35 years. Though some people who survived the vaccine will still be alive in 40 years.

PS: The 8% decrease and doubling are looking at wildly different underlying populations/rates.
I feel like you skipped a few key steps in the meme
Last train home is coming up soon on my todo list and I’m pretty psyched to get around to playing it, the demo 100% sold me on it
> making every citizen constantly carry an always-on device from the USA full of sensors and permanent internet access

I hope it gives at least some boost to GNU/Linux phones. Librem 5 is my daily driver, and it feels amazing despite its drawbacks.

Related:

'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised (theguardian.com)

676 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 784 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137488
I feel like you've narrowed the original statement ("You have no secrets from the person who owns your hardware") when you scope it to just data storage at rest. I take hardware to mean significantly more than just at rest data storage in the context that it was used.

If your unencrypted data flows through any AWS memory or compute, or if your encryption key flows through any AWS memory or compute, then AWS *can* access that data.
Parasites can also have parasites.

Just like predators can also be prey. Some species mutually prey on each other.

All metaphors break down eventually.
I've worked with many and it was always Windows, with some use of MacBooks in recent years. Never once seen Linux desktops.
I've seen similar for when you are wearing a motorcycle suit.

You can search for pee/urination funnel. Apparently, commonly used for camping as well.
There's nothing revealing about it. The article you posted talks about capping things around 40 or 50%, or 95% of current funding. Not 15%, which will bankrupt those schools.

It's an example of how you can take something that's true, put it out of context, and be completely wrong.
Here are some values that are (understandably) not listed on the blog. They happen only due to the limited precision of floating point formats.

128 = √(2 / √√(√2 - (2 / √2)))
8192 = √√(2 / ((√2 * √2) - 2))
16384 = (2 / √√(√2 - (2 / √2)))
67108864 = √(2 / ((√2 * √2) - 2))
134217728 = (2 / √(√2 - (2 / √2)))
4503599627370496 = (2 / ((√2 * √2) - 2))
9007199254740992 = (2 / (√2 - (2 / √2)))
6369051672525773 = (√2 / (√2 - (2 / √2)))

I found these by accident a long time ago but kept them because they do "work". Try to input one expression in the lil box in https://www.wolframalpha.com/?source=nav and they will quickly evaluate to these values; the charade goes away after you press Enter and get the (mathematically) correct answer.

My old solvers from what feels like a previous life:
https://madflame991.blogspot.com/2013/02/four-fours.html
https://madflame991.blogspot.com/2013/02/return-of-four-four...

That was fun
I'm not complaining about clarifying. I'm complaining that the meaning of the word is obvious from context in almost every case and this is a really annoying form of pettiness which is hardly being applied evenly.

I don't think I have EVER seen "American" used to refer to "North and South America" outside of geography. That goes for when I'm outside the US, too. It's certainly not what reasonable people would assume you're talking about.

This discussion is really unproductive, so I guess we'll just have to disagree.
"I moved on to other solutions (...)", which ? kthx
Federal employees vote 90%+ democrat

These firing are an inevitable consequence of this skewness.
If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature. Unless you blindly trust what someone else does
Maybe of the "liberal" Europeans techies are commenting on this American website and complaining about how bad America is, apparently with no self-awareness and how European governments and not only should boycott American stuff. The same goes for commenting the same thing on American website Reddit.
Perhaps in the future, governments could put strict caps on the amount of data one can download. For example, 1GB and no Internet for a person for the rest of the month.
Irrespective of sides, I would imagine that most Americans believe they are on the 'side' of democracy and a constitutional republic. When they become aware that this is being taken away, I might suggest that many will change their vote.
> The users switching from iOS to Android

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS (therecord.media)

816 points by gormandizer on March 30, 2021 | 445 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
> You have no secrets from the person who owns your hardware.

What if the hardware is physically located in your own country, and employees of cloud vendor are virtually "accompanied", and watched, any time they login to the hardware? That's called sovereign cloud and all cloud vendors have it.
If you believe that the USA has the only government that wants to surveil its citizens, then you should open your eyes. The US possibly has more restrictions on directly surveilling its own citizens (within the US) than any other country.

That pesky Fourth Amendment to the Bill of Rights keeps getting in their way, so they've created ways around it, such as allowing allied nations to do the surveillance for them.

Every government in the world has mandates that require a surveillance capability. This has been the reason that satellite constellations cannot route traffic directly from user-to-user, but instead must route through "hubs", at a cost of doubling the required, but precious bandwidth.
Too many rust jobs are in crypto or web3 stuff right now. Even if you like that tech, it's pretty undeniable that those industries are boom/bust and quite risky.
See: https://i.sstatic.net/2BDFS.png [1]

Reverse pinch == "Unpinch" in the image above.

[1] Original is at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49439378/google-chrome-d...
The PRC essentially pioneered the concept of digital sovereignty with the "Great Firewall" approach in the late 90s. It was famously ridiculed by Bill Clinton as a hopeless endeavour.

In the wake of 2014 and souring relations with the West, Russia also started looking more seriously at digital sovereignty. This was castigated as "isolationism" and an attack on the "open Internet".

Now it's nearing a household term among EU tech groups. Because this was never about democratic ideals, it is about power and control, especially in a volatile multipolar world.
I think it's fair to say you can't generalize data from a specific demographic of women on a single platform with a shared goal that biased their opinions on relationships.