Hacker News Reader

Seems like a vastly WORSE version of the Creative Commons international license for the same intent: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

nszcetaon The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage

adb pm uninstall is pretty strong on stock unrooted Android

This functionality can ONLY be accessed via ADB. It is DIFFERENT from "hiding."

You can break lots of stuff, even Google spyware (Play framework), which is the evidence I need that adb pm uninstall actually works to disable prepackaged manufacturer malware!

Don't wait - try it today: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

nszcetaon Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

EUers mostly eat Tomatoes grown within a few hundred miles of EU borders. Not from America.

Morocco is the leading supplier to the EU, accounting for 70% of the EU's total imports, followed by Turkey.

nszcetaon Ask HN: Best Way to Mess with Hackers?

Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)

nszcetaon Features I'd Like in PostgreSQL

It sounds like GP encountered UUID Version 4 keys.

UUID version 7 features a time-ordered value field derived from the widely implemented and well known Unix Epoch timestamp source, the number of milliseconds seconds since midnight 1 Jan 1970 UTC, leap seconds excluded. As well as improved entropy characteristics over versions 1 or 6.

If your use case requires greater granularity than UUID vesion 7 can provide, you might consider UUID version 8. UUID version 8 doesn't provide as good entropy characteristics as UUID version 7, but it utilizes timestamp with nanosecond level of precision.

nszcetaon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

It's an Android app. Its easier to manage OTP codes inside your password manager. Do everything with KeepassXC and KeepassDX. How to sync a file between computers and your phone is left as an exercise to the reader. However I recommend using Syncthing.

nszcetaon Windows 98 icons are great (2015)

Too many people want "clean" and "modern" designs because they like the way it looks, usability be damned.

nszcetaon Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

Central Europeans eat a lot of meat and somehow they manage to keep prices under control without slamming animals with antibiotics prophylactically. Land and regulatory compliance costs are much higher than in the US too.

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

> 英国鸦片贩子

Too soon

nszcetaon Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

Do you see any problems with prophylactically dosing antibiotics yourself? Anything?

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

It is obvious that many consumer facing online applications have gotten into hot water regularly for social justice issues in the past decade.

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

There are at least two answers to that question:

1. Knowing things lets you know more things faster and they stick: associative memories are very durable because they are mostly groups of references to existing objects in memory. Much less novel information that needs to be encoded. Repetition and memorization matters.

2. Look up latency: Same problem as computer cache misses and L1 vs RAM lookup times. You will take 100x longer to achieve the same result by looking up reference material all the time. Also important questions typically have answers from many different problem domains (social, scientific, philosophical, ethical) and its important to have a lot of knowledge memorized to see a solution to a novel problem holistically.

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

I don't follow any narratives, I don't follow anyone, and I don't read the news (except this site).

nszcetaon Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

Do these antibiotics and their metabolites stay in the meat post slaughter and make their way into the food supply?

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

As a commercial entity in the western world they have to appease the social justice warriors or face getting deplatformed and hit with a smear campaign. Don't hold your breath. The unrestricted models will come from China.

nszcetaon OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium

Almost certainly negatively. Why learn or put in effort into written text prompts when examiners can be easily fooled with machine generated prose? Those that lack discipline, self-control, and have no desire to learn will eliminate themselves.

nszcetaon Classifying Python virtual environment workflows

  CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native" CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-optimizations --with-lto=full" pyenv install 3.11.1 --verbose

nszcetaon Django makes it easier to build better web apps more quickly and with less code

If you think Django has magic wait until you see the alternatives people come up with in FastAPI

nszcetaon Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”

The primary route of elimination of PFAAs is through the kidney in the urine (Han et al., 2008). Other important clearance pathways include menstruation (Harada et al., 2005; Taylor et al., 2014; Park et al., 2019; Ding et al., 2020), pregnancy (Monroy et al., 2008) and lactation (Bjermo et al., 2013). Sex hormones have been identified as a major factor in determining the renal clearance of PFAAs. One study examined the role of sex hormones and transport proteins on renal clearance and observed that, in ovariectomised female rats, oestradiol could facilitate the transport of PFAAs across the membranes of kidney tubules into the glomerular filtrate, resulting in lower serum concentrations (Kudo et al., 2002).

Han X, Mingoia R, Snajdr S, Yang C, Nabb D. Uptake of perfluorooctanoate in freshly isolated hepatocytes from male and female rats. Toxicol Lett 2008;181:81–86.

Harada K, Inoue K, Morikawa A, Yoshinaga T, Saito N, Koizumi A. Renal clearance of perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoate in humans and their species-specific excretion. Environ Res 2005;99:253–261.

Taylor KW, Hoffman K, Thayer KA, Daniels JL. Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals and menopause among women 20-65 years of age (NHANES). Environ Health Perspect 2014;122:145–150.

Park SK, Peng Q, Ding N, Mukherjee B, Harlow SD. Determinants of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in midlife women: evidence of racial/ethnic and geographic differences in PFAS exposure. Environ Res 2019;175:186–199.

Ding N, Harlow SD, Batterman S, Mukherjee B, Park SK. Longitudinal trends in perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances among multiethnic midlife women from 1999 to 2011: the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Environ Int 2020;135:105381.

Monroy R, Morrison K, Teo K, Atkinson S, Kubwabo C, Stewart B, Foster WG. Serum levels of perfluoroalkyl compounds in human maternal and umbilical cord blood samples. Environ Res 2008;108:56–62.

Bjermo H, Darnerud PO, Pearson M, Barbieri HE, Lindroos AK, Nälsén C, Lindh CH, Jönsson BAG, Glynn A. Serum concentrations of perfluorinated alkyl acids and their associations with diet and personal characteristics among Swedish adults. Mol Nutr Food Res 2013;57:2206–2215.

Kudo N, Katakura M, Sato Y, Kawashima Y. Sex hormone-regulated renal transport of perfluorooctanoic acid. Chem Biol Interact 2002;139:301–316.

nszcetaon EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

I'm struggling to understand why avoiding an EIN ever helps avoid taxation. It doesn't seem to be a relevant matter.

1. As a non resident alien, you are subject to US tax on business income if you are “engaged in a trade or business in the United States“, short “ETBUS”.

2. You are ETBUS only if two things are true: (i) You have at least one “dependent agent” in the US. Dependent agents are employees or companies that work almost exclusively for you. And (ii) that dependent agent does something substantial to further your business in the US. Purely administrative jobs are not included under this rule.

3. Finally, if you can benefit from an applicable tax treaty, then you’re only subject to US tax if (in addition to being ETBUS) you operate in the US through a “permanent establishment” (e.g. an office or other fixed place of business). If you don’t meet those conditions, you are not (automatically) subject to US tax on your business.

Even if the LLC generates income in the US, by offering services or selling products into the US, that income is not taxed in the US.

Source: https://globalisationguide.org/us-llc-non-resident/

nszcetaon Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars

> Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.

Americans value comfort and they get it. Europeans want it too but they can't afford it (taxation and energy scarcity)

nszcetaon Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

I used syncthing for years and never heard of those features

keepassxc + syncthing this is the way

android: keepassdx off f-droid + syncthing

nszcetaon EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

U.S.-controlled foreign corporations have to pay "global intangible low-taxed income" (GILTI)

nszcetaon Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

Some cellular partners in some states don't support it even though its a federal program.

nszcetaon EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

One does not simply avoid paying taxes with an LLC unless your gross income is minute, tax deductible expenses are huge, or your losses are huge. IT IS NOT SOME MAGICAL LOOPHOLE. It is hard enough to stay afloat as a business without misinformation like this being spread.

nszcetaon EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business

Please educate us how companies are hiding profits in tax havens. Asking for a friend.

nszcetaon Boom takes the wraps off its supersonic Symphony engine design

There is a procedure that allows supersonic operation under certain conditions granted on an individual basis. In addition, any new aircraft would need to meet current airworthiness and noise certification requirements.

nszcetaon Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me

That program is not available in every State iirc

nszcetaon I found a bug in SQLite

Smoke is absolutely possible without a fire. Have you ever seared any meat on an electric stovetop? Overheated an empty frying pan?

nszcetaon Data-driven performance optimization with Rust and Miri

Similarly, py-spy is a sampling profiler for Python programs. It lets you visualize what your Python program is spending time on without restarting the program or modifying the code in any way. py-spy is extremely low overhead: it is written in Rust for speed and doesn't run in the same process as the profiled Python program. This means py-spy is safe to use against production Python code.

I'm not sure if it exports results in a format Chrome can render but it does produce great interactive SVGs and is compatible with speedscope.app

https://github.com/benfred/py-spy

https://github.com/jlfwong/speedscope