skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the security bonuses feel anemic when it's still humans entering data into a system to track food vs. how cryptocurrencies use blockchains to track transactions.

But now you've also raised the technical requirements and are betting the security on non-technical farmers and farm staff. Even if they have technical chops since farm equipment is more complex these days, they likely don't have security chops.

There's already 'country-of-origin' scams in international shipping, so it's not a far stretch to apply the same concept to farming supply chains. Throw a disposable proxy farm in front of your real farms and change the origin. When it's human-entered information, blockchain doesn't prevent someone being dishonest from the beginning, and it lures people into a false sense of security because of IBM's advertising.

I guess limiting fraud to the beginning of the supply chain is a step in the right direction though. I don't think blockchain solves chain-of-custody well though.
Working part time. Inspired by a comment here in HN I decided 3 years ago to take the leap and moving from 5 days/week to 3.5day/week to spend more time with my family.

My paycheck is less but I get to enjoy life a lot more and I have more time to replenish my energies. I remember that before this I always felt out of breath at work. Too much high paced, too little time.
After this change I got more efficient (and I was efficient before) and that feeling of time missing to do things has gone away.

For anyone reading: if you have a decent pay and have been employed in the company for some time, consider this option. Chances are they'll agree to moving onto part-time with no trouble and the benefits are well beyond the change in the money you earn.
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> I work with all of these devices. Yet I don't want any of that syncing.

So... you're happy that they're giving you the option to turn it off then, right? I mean, you appear to concede that someone users want this. You want the option to turn if off, which you're getting. That seems like good news.

Except your tone doesn't seem to match your logic.

FWIW: I use Firefox too. But... I mean come on folks. They messed up, they're fixing it. The obsession with hatred and flamage is getting a little out of control.
> How is that not clear?

You'd think it's clear, and yet I've joined projects where software with such terms was included in production builds because "it was downloaded with npm so it's open source."
So I have tried using pi-hole in past and I think one of the problems is - some websites refusing to function if ads are blocked. IIRC - British Airways website uses some javascript that requires ad to be disabled for finishing checking in. It may have changed now but there are other websites too which may or may not work as expected.

With browser extensions it is typically easy to disable the ad blocker one time and check if that fixes it. With pi-hole IIRC, it was much harder to do.
It's called Betteridges's Law of Headlines and it gets quite annoying to see it invoked in every single news article thread whose headline fits the description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

If you can't find something interesting to say about the article, then simply invoking the Law is a contentless comment.
Well.. It will change some aspects of our world. Particularly financial assets at first, but increasingly it will play a role in any peer to peer exchange requiring trust. Simple past examples are systems like OpenPGP that bind public keys to owners. Programmable blockchains allow generalized applications requiring decentralized trust. A good example of a use of blockchain outside of financial assets is in trust management of vehicular networks. In order for vehicles to communicate amongst each other, they need to trust that the messages they are receiving are authentic using a decentralized consensus mechanism and some sort of Bayesian Inference Model.

So in short, it is an extension of the internet (trust layer) and it will change the world. So I don't think that's nonsense to say, but I can see how these claims would appear to be exaggerated to someone with limited exposure to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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This should just be dnsmasq, for which source code is readily available and inspectable. You can (and should) compile it yourself if you don’t trust someone else’s binary.

You can also inspect the block lists to ensure they all go to 0.0.0.0 if you’re worried about mitm attacks.
Last I checked (admittedly a couple of years ago), they also did some tracking behind the scenes, in the bit of code that they had pointedly not released. The undercurrent vibe at the time was that there was no real guarantee that they wouldn't shop around your aggregated data; all I read in that interview is that they have not been "forced" to do it yet, but hey, "life is life" kinda thing. They still do little more than throwing tarballs over the fence every once in a while, with a muddy license that follows the letter rather than the spirit of opensource. There is no real bugtracker nor transparent development practices.

I understand why they do it (people gotta eat), but to me that looks even less trustworthy than Mozilla, which at least has a certain entrenched culture that typically tries (not always successfully) to blunt the worst corporate decisions, and follows real opensource practices.
> I'd be happy if my next car had physical buttons.

Some constructors are coming back from the "no physical button" fad. At least for the things you should able to use while driving. The problem is the development cycle there is not in weeks or months but multiple years.
It was actually a great article in my opinion. I don't think it's fair to diminish the quality of its content to such a short and easy answer.

Of course the title is a bit click-baity, I'll give you that.
This looks more as a Charles replacement than intercept
this looks great! how do you guys compare with requestbin?
Does anyone say "here's one water, two waters"?
I guess he's well-known, but I don't remember ever hearing the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive before!
The cat is really and truly out of the bag.

Google did the same with Gmail/youtube/etc ages ago, even creating a new profile if you did not have one for a particular service. No one bat an eye.
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Where are you getting that?
Open the case and put a slab of neoprene or something fancy like Sorbothane in there.

You can also get silencing rings, and lubricate the sliders with a thick lubricant that won't run down onto the PCB.
I run LineageOS with the F-Droid store.

The baseband is still untrustworthy, but I think that's about as good as it gets.
What about compatibility? Recently I installed PDFsam on Windows 10 that required a JRE. I installed OpenJDK but the application didn't start. With Oracle JRE it did work. I didn't bother to debug the startup problems, though.
I don't understand this sort of pessimism. If a news is good, we should say good. If a news is bad, we should say bad. If it's neither, then we should state it's neither. What makes you think we live in an especially bad time frame?
Think of the game as a deck of cards. You liked playing poker with the deck. These people are playing solitaire. It's a different game entirely using the same pieces. Your goal (to have fun) and their goal (to do something faster than any other person on the planet) both provided you with a sense of accomplishment, but you were never really trying to do the same things
That's not what they claimed...
Yeah, on openwrt you just install the adblock package

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
Separate from the recommendation problems, which seem to vary by person, the site has gotten substantially worse for mobile players, to the point I've almost entirely stopped using it:

- The mobile page does not allow quality selection, and always selects quality options far below what would be supported by your connection (It sometimes drops to 240p, and I have not seen it select anything above 480p, yet can easily stream 1080p on the desktop site or other players).

- The mobile page does not respect the "Request Desktop Site" option, even in Chrome - and neither does their own "Desktop Site" link; Both still use the abysmal mobile player, and only by enabling both can you use a high-quality video player.

- Anything 60fps has issues on my mobile device, while other web players are fine - even 720p60 lags, while I can stream 1080p60 elsewhere.

I uninstalled the app years ago when it requested additional permissions with an update, and implemented a 30-second delay (with countdown!) before launching until I updated. YouTube is no longer the pinnacle of web video, and have not been for years.
Its a mega corp in terms that it is comprised of several large enterprises. If the "arm" I worked in was spun off as its own corporation it would be Fortune 30 by revenue. Worldwide I think we have about 40k of the 270+k total employees in the corp group. The group as a whole is in the Fortune 10 and serves the health care industry.

My part of the corp is all software. Product development both "commercial enterprise" grade to individual consumer facing. This involves plain old software development, data science, infrastructure as well as R&D (some basic, mostly emerging tech)
Maybe he is referring to things like the weird videos for kids that emerged from monetization: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
I also love uMatrix. Unfortunately its not an option on mobile. You could theoretically install it in Firefox mobile for Android, but it would be so difficult to use. I also use a Pi-Hole. I see my Pi-Hole as the solution for mobile browsing and apps, where uMatrix is the better option for desktop browsing since it can differentiate between image requests vs. scripts, iFrames, cookies, etc
It's fairly common to automate that stuff away, and not just for Oracle.

For example, if agreeing to TOS was neccessary, Let's Encrypt could no longer be "totally automated". Therefore certbot has an "--agree-tos" option, present in oh so many ansible repositories.
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ZFS does have the option of storing 2 copies even on the same disk (zfs set copies=2), unfortunately it doesn't have an ECC-style option for the same disk you need to use multiple disks in which case it will transparently fix things in a RAID-Z if it can.
There aren't any techniques he can use that aren't available to a TAS runner. TAS runners aren't just using reinforcement learning to let a computer learn how to play; they're thinking about possible techniques and glitches, and specifically programming their tools to try and exploit them.

What's common, especially in the SMB speed running community, is that the human and tool-assisted runners loosely collaborate. e.g., if one of the humans has an idea, before they spend days or months trying to figure out for themselves if it's even workable, they'll get someone to inexpensively proof-of-concept it with a tool-assisted speed run.
> Vivaldi is chromium based rather than webkit.

Sorry, I'm so oldschool that for me the two are still basically the same -- after all, blink was a webkit fork, which was a khtml fork.

> How is Vivaldi's business model similar?

See my other comment.
My career is rather young, but at this point, it has been leaving ${Large_Consulting_Firm} for ${Small_Startup}
Yeah, decision 1 to say Yes was only applicable until I felt confident enough to say No. Perhaps I should have added 1.1: Unlearn decision 1, and say No when you don't want to do something.
how does that work? do they keep episodes off of regular feeds and have you log in or something? or is there some kind of authentication you have to do in your podcast app?
The article concludes with a succinct TL;DR, but it's worth a read if you're at all interested.

So, ray tracing. It’s a rendering technique that has been around for over 45 years. It’s nothing new. Finally seeing the benefits of this technology enhance the environments in our games and VR worlds — in real time — thanks to a new API and dedicated consumer hardware, that’s the New Thing.
From clicking around this site, it looks like their image dithering technique has taken away the color quality required to properly view the graphs on this article:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/the-4g-mobile-inte...
> Why do you think this is insecure? Because its cars?

Because of the engineering culture. As an example, I've interviewed at GM for software positions and i've interviewed at actual tech companies for similar positions and their process, questions and answers all show how different software is thought of by upper management.

it's changing ofcourse, but it's slow and in the mean time people will get hurt.

> Ford. Ford started with Sync. Mentioning Tesla is a outsider move.

Ford started it with Sync. But no one cared about Ford. You don't see youtube videos of excited people claiming their Ford can be remotely started via an app on their phone for example. It was a sales/marketing pitch by Ford.

Tesla on the other hand...brought the your car is a phone on wheels concept to the masses and popularized it to the point that other car companies feel the need to add it all to cars whether they have the skills or not. (not that Tesla is any better, as that recent post by an ex-engineer showed)

> Why would you think billion dollar fortune 500 companies wouldnt hire programming and security experts?

This is like asking why Equifax would not hire programmers and security experts yet they as we all know...even after that massive data breach, Equifax has yet to change their culture or process or hiring.
Not OP, but I posted a comment regarding YouTube for mobile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895
You can wind up a Linux VDS with dnsmasq and blacklist of domains, then use it on any device everywhere.
Survivor's or availability bias? I question whether, in general, donations have proven a particularly sustainable way for people to be compensated for creating content, whether podcasts, video, writing, or code.
Ether returns to science? Good news. I spent 10 years to popularize the idea.
I was a contractor for 4 years before going back to perm mainly because of health insurance costs (I'm in the US). One of the troubles I had switching back to perm is that my future employer looked at my resume and saw me as a "hopper" since most of my contacts were 6 months to a year long. Luckily I had a friend already working at the company that put in a good word for me. But this experience made me think twice about doing contracting again. This is really the only negative thing about contacting I've encountered. It's a great way to be introduced to a variety of different environments and get a large bump in pay.
If you speak spanish and want a fun podcast about tech insights, pop culture, philosophy and overthought analysis on simple things I love listening to Robot: https://revistaelrobot.com
It's fun, entertaining, they have over 170 episodes and more than 3 years running on a weekly basis. Really enjoyable.
Not even metaphor.
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Somehow I found most pod-casts boring to listen too. Never understood the value.

What is your motivation to listen to them?
What time do you go to bed and how much sleep do you need each night?

I've been trying to get up earlier, but evenings/nights are still prime time for family, spouse, and "me time." So, starting work at 5am seems out of reach.
In that case, these news businesses should not be publishing content on the World Wide Web. Users pay for devices, electricity, and monthly network connection, These publishers seem to be stuck in the last epoch. A website is not a finished product like a book or newspaper, it is publicly-accessible data. Users can scrape, restyle, delete, and add content _at will_ whenever they choose to download this content.

So the ideology of capital, which destroyed community morals, is now having it's own tawdry ethics trashed. It's not news that the news is failing. This Author Wrote 7 Reasons Why You Can't Make 20th Century Business Web-Scale.
Also many "successful exists" are so because there is some monetary gain, but the gain is minimal considering the amount of time invested and money lost during that time. I had a couple of those. The experience gained was worth more than the money.
This is simple if you are in a position of power within the organization. For most makers, this is not the case, so people end-up with meetings where most organizers belive are good and most participants believe are bad, BUT ALMOST NOBODY SPEAKS UP!

With Meetter if someone is a CEO of a company and wants to cut the costs on time wasted because of meetings, this will be a lot faster to achieve than just educating whole company on how to run meetings.
We need an ifixit site to help owners that care about such things.

You had a great point (about FCC) and I'll see if I can do something about this for the cars I plan on getting.
>People blocked on Twitter are free to host their own websites with their own speech.

On paper this is true, but network effects mean you won't be able to interact with the general public UNLESS the general public also moves to your platform as well, which is fairly unlikely.
What a bullshit. You don't have to be a neo-liberal hellhole to attract successful entrepreneurs.
When Kenneth joined our team to work with us, I had no idea he was the co-creator of volkswagen module. One day over lunch we were making jokes over how funny that project is and we should legit add it to our workflow for shits and giggles. He goes “yeah, I created that”. Our faces dropped. Whoa!
You now have to have that location tracking permission to scan wifi SSIDs, and it came about because spammy data stealing apps were using SSID maps to get rough location.

Not to say Google isn't evil because they certainly seem to be headed to hell while holding us in a hand basket, but this one is legit.
Documentation is really good on here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-concepts-1-...
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I see now. I probably didn't interpret it as satire because the post was pretty incoherent (and it's very hard for me to pay close attention to things that I perceive as incoherent), and I had no interest in reading the rest of your blog to see if the writing was in similar style.

edit: Also, I'm probably unfamiliar with the type of blog post you're satirizing because I don't read many programming blogs these days. I'd rather just read the documentation (and source code), and any other questions I have are best answered by just asking the computer.

Good satire, like all worthwhile endeavors, is hard. Don't let people like me who don't immediately get it stop you from practicing, though :)
I didnt even know there was a bubble!
What is Vivaldi's business model?
A notable example of this is Mario 64, where the lowest stars possible category has been renamed multiple times as ways of defeating bowser with fewer and fewer stars are discovered. I believe we are at 0.
So Go is somehow immune from a similar fate? What's the reasoning behind this?
> Masking the index will break code that is actually using the larger address space: running true 64-bit WASM code (as in, using >4GB of space) won't work, which is what I was referring to.

You can also clamp for example at 33-37 bits, giving 8-128 GB array range.
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Yeah, I'm not afraid to put in long hours here and there. But I refuse to make a habbit of it, and have clear lines in the sand of how much extra time I'll put it.
> Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium is a jokey name

Of course, but that doesn't change their authority. They have a website, a Github organisation; it is the public centralised face of the software development efforts, no matter how jokey the participants consider it nor how fluid the membership.
It's good at finding things you'd watch, but not necessarily things you should be watching. Ex-youtube employees said that the algorithm is trained to keep you engaged and watching videos, so the recommended videos keep getting more and more extreme. This isn't really an issue with music because it just ends up at more niche artists, but if you watch a political video and keep following its recommendations, eventually you end up wathcing extremist left/right wing propaganda. Sure, it's something you don't mind watching once you get there, but it's not necessarily something you would have wanted to watch before the youtube algorithm led you there. Again, this is how the algorithm was described by an ex-youtube employee, not just a casual user.
> In the case of podcasting, there are a lot of shows consisting of armchair pundits (mostly white men) talking about something they saw or read, without adding much insight.

Is the slight against white men really needed? Why drag this into the topic?
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Dark patterns are misleading, like highlighting the opt-in box for GDPR. No one is tricking users here, there are no options, they are told to suck it up.
I have a 4th one, also quite important to me:
4. I decided that a rule that cannot be broken when pragmatism requires, is not worth having. Common sense must prevail, always.
True. There is no such thing as blind trust. I use FireFox with Privacy Badger and keep my fingers crossed that there are no creepy things going on.
Staying in development. I figured out early on that I had no interest in management, and that served me well during the 2000 bubble burst and 2008 crisis. What was harder to learn was that I had no interest in the Software Architect role. I thought it was something I was "supposed" to move up into, but as I talked to my managers about it over a period of a couple of years I realized it was a lot of meetings and drawing diagrams, and I was better, and happier, actually writing code.
Aah, yes, the pre-DEF diesel trucks. Quite possibly the one class of vehicle I'd be more than happy to see removed from the road with whatever legislative overreach required.

Yeah, I'm kind of fed up with trucks spewing columns of foul-smelling black soot out of their tailpipes right at my car. Sorry if that makes me rude.
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