skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any potential risks to using an Airbnb host's “free home WiFi”
In the news recently, there has been a string of incidents where Airbnb hosts have setup hidden webcams in their home. In regard to these incidents someone on twitter remarked...

AirBnB unpacking checklist:
- locate home internet router
- unplug it

Several ensuing comments were in the vein of... "and lose the ability to connect to wifi on the off chance?!"

This made me wonder about another potential security concern... how much personal info could a tech savvy/malicious host scrape from someone who simply connects to their router and uses the internet per typical use (check bank account, log into email, etc.)?
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Are there any I/O heavy GPU workloads? Mining famously works with just one lane, offline rendering (e.g. Blender Cycles) I think also just uploads the whole scene once and then bounces the rays around…
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21239...

droooool
>> I think people are generally good at 2nd order thinking

>> We are bad at thinking this way in groups, relatively.

Wow! This seems to answer a long-standing question I have had. I think I can now work out the mathematics of this, given appropriate amount of time. I think this is it! Thanks.
Yes, the topless photo was send to a lover who is the most likely culprit for exposing it to the world; assuming her phone was not hacked and the phone taken off her phone.

The principal faulted her judgment on taking and sending the topless selfie to her lover. The defense is that in this day and age, punishing her for a topless selfie is no longer advisable since the cultural norm has moved for equality of exposure of nipples between men and women. Apparently, the cultural change did not reach the principal.
They don't know you only fixed a typo until they've had time to review it
> You can exceed critical AoA (and therefore stall) at any airspeed.

I wasn't talking about at what airspeeds a stall is possible. I was talking about at what airspeeds MCAS is designed to activate (assuming correct AoA sensor input).
>>> today because the first sale doctrine protected the video rental business.

First sale only applies if the video rental business purchases physical copies. It is/was not unusual for a large rental business to, rather than buy copies, to license the work for distribution during a particular time/area. That allowed them to burn/build DVDs to meet demand and replaced broken disks as needed. When the license was over, the DVDs were destroyed per the licensing contract.
Did RealPlayer have some streaming subscription channels?
Shameless plug: Kit (https://www.kitlang.org), a statically typed language with no runtime, can interface with C without bindings (by directly including C headers.) Kit includes features such as traits, term rewriting, algebraic data types and procedural macros, which make it more expressive than C without all the boilerplate.

Zig (https://ziglang.org) and Lobster (https://github.com/aardappel/lobster) are also pretty interesting!
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Capital gains taxes are marginal. You are mistaken. There are no cliffs to maneuver.

For example, play with this calculator:
https://smartasset.com/investing/capital-gains-tax-calculato...
DVDs drive library engagement.

Netflix is a Trojan horse. The whole business model is moving to in-house stuff, and each of the big content owners will stand up their own platforms.
Dan Terminus is my favorite for coding.
More of a positive feedback loop than a self-fulfilling prophesy.
> This is the thing that gets missed is renuables are competing with peaking power

The other thing that gets missed is that they aren't competing at all, because renewables are unreliable and non-dispatchable. So, more renewables means more peaking power other things being equal. What can directly compete with peaking power is battery storage (though pumped hydro is king there) and demand-response.
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> Everything is taxed at 20%.

You'd need to exclude resale of used items, unless it's your intent to kill the market for used goods and ensure that they end up straight in the trash. With a 20% sales tax on used items you might as well buy new instead, especially for durable goods which wouldn't trade at much of a discount.

Apart from that change, what you're describing is essentially the "Fair Tax", except that they calculated that the rate would need to be more like 30% to remain revenue-neutral with the current income tax scheme.
Yeah thank you for your comment -- there are tons of people out there who need that kind of help, I have known some of them as well (maybe not as closely as in your profession!) and the us mental health system is not adequate

My point wasn't articulated well in my first comment. I am worried more about painting homeless people with such a broad stroke. Getting a roof over someone's head is entirely different from getting them mental health services -- we need to fix both to actually solve the problem. And the specific language around "ruiners" in the post really struck a nerve with me... I think that everyone is deserving of some degree of help and shouldn't be thrown in prison like OP suggested.

That said, I don't appreciate the personal attack. While I did find reading about your experience helpful and appreciate you sharing, I think your comment at the end is part of what makes the internet bad. Look to some of the other comments critical of my post for some better examples.
Because during medieval times monks were the only ones educated enough to be able to do so. Not because religion helped them.

Let's not forget that during the same times we were struggling with proving the Earth was circling around the Sun because of what the scriptures said.
I’ve programmed professionally in Haskell, Scala and Python in large projects across several jobs.

In my experience, the compiler is rarely helpful at catching bugs. Most bugs, whether in a dynamic typing language or otherwise, are behavioral bugs that occur at runtime without generating explicit runtime errors, just incorrect but uninterrupted behavior.

I always heard people make grandiose claims about Haskell, like if you get your program to compile, it’s very likely to be correct and run without error. I’ve emphatically never found that to be true.

The types of bugs that compilers can help with are very simplistic most of the time. Requesting a method or attribute that doesn’t exist, typos, confusion about arguments passed to a function.

In dynamic typing, you also solve these same things in a super cheap and low effort way with unit tests.

Additional behavioral unit tests are where real effort becomes required, and these are needed in any paradigm.

Compilers are also not free. My experience with the Scala compiler for example was awful. It is so incredibly slow to compile that I absolutely would rather give up type checking and just use some cheap unit tests to have a much faster development cycle. When you make 1 or 2 small changes and even a smart incremental compiler setup like zinc needs to recompile 30 code units and it takes ~ 3 minutes before you can run tests, this is maddening, and the cycle repeats the whole time you’re working, so it’s this constant extremely disruptive expense.

I’ve had similar thinga happen in legacy code bases with Haskell too.
Looks like vaguely around $50 per MWh to capture the carbon coming out of a natural gas plant. That cost would shift the balance but it wouldn't push base loads onto renewables just yet.
Yes it is. Comcast has a 1TB a month soft limit. You get 2 months of free overages within a certain period of time (12-18 months IIRC), after that they charge you extra. You can argue that 1TB is a lot and not really a limit, but it does exist.
> Axios

Well that certainly explains the clickbait and built-in opinion.
All of those comes across far more formally than "guys", they remind me of a written order from a military officer (source: 10 years in the Army). For me "guys" seems far friendlier.
Sort of like Cardi B is popular because there's near zero supply of new music, so it seems as though people actually like Cardi B, when in reality, they lack choices, and yet, have terabytes of bandwidth and flash memory, and high dynamic range, sound isolating neodymium speakers to listen to former strippers brag about how much money they spend.
How does a profitable company justify layoffs then?
This is why we have case law and precedent. Contrary to the old saying "two wrongs don't make a right", if everyone is doing something, it's reasonable to assume that behavior is acceptable.
Does Netflix have a catalog of Linux DVDs?

It would be useful for their remaining customers that are OSS enthusiasts without bandwidth to spare.
Your question is asking something other than the obvious. Could you explain more?

"The obvious" is to look at how your state or country handles city incorporate. In the US that's at the state level. See https://legalbeagle.com/4913925-a-city-incorporate.html for one of many resources I found by a DDG search for "how to incorporate a city".

Beyond that, China is making many new cities. A DDG search for 'China "new city"' finds many links.

There have also been many created cities. Wikipedia, for example, has a list of planned cities created to be national capitals, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national... as well as planned cities in general, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities .

Creating a new city from scratch has been popular for a long time. Eg, the "Plat of Zion" from the 1800s,

A DDG search for '"urban planning" "new city"' finds many links, including one from our Y Combinator hosts described at https://www.wired.com/2016/07/y-combinators-plan-build-new-c... :

> Last week, Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup accelerator that helped launch companies like Dropbox and Airbnb, announced it was launching an ambitious project of its own. The “New Cities” initiative will study freshly minted cities, and how to plan, design, and build them from scratch.

I'm sure you could find more scholarly references in Google Scholar using similar keywords.
While you are, of course, welcome to call upon Google to improve the review speed, there are obvious things you can do on your side as well.

First up: improve the QA process on your extension to avoid having to do 5-line diffs every few days.

In the meantime, you can offer your users to switch to "developer mode" and install the extension manually.

I personally would be against the centralized nature of Chrome extensions world anyway (which, by definition, leads to bottlenecks, for dubious benefits), but at one point Google claimed there were 180,000+ extensions in the web store, and if only 0,1% of those get updated every week, that's 180 extensions to be reviewed every week.
Thanks for your comment! I had been wondering where this 'sudden' push toward web accessibility came from: good 'ol US litigiousness!

Of course it's a good thing to be mindful of from a humanist perspective, but if fear of lawsuit is driving the change, it's not a very "love thy neighbour" kind of thing, but more of a fascist dictation, no? Especially if you are not in the US.

I'll be doubling down on my efforts to ensure better compliance nevertheless.

I presume the web standards you mention are part of some US legislation, yes? :S The web is becoming a crazy place, it seems that every country is writing laws that affects the whole web... and we as developers are assumed to know them all, from UI requirements (US) to security implications (Australia), to privacy concerns (GRPR)...
Excellent Point!

I stand corrected!

:)
See Fare Enforcement Apps: https://www.muckrock.com/agency/washington-54/central-puget-...

Edit: Litigation is here: https://kevin.wallace.seattle.wa.us/v/vix/
I build a simulation engine, based on a high performance distributed actor system library I wrote for just this purpose. It is generic, but a lot of the performance trade-offs are with Citybound's needs as the main driver.
"Equal rights" in this context, through some semantic gymnastics, probably means "abortion and contraceptives." Calling it "equal rights" is silly because men don't get elective medical procedures and condoms for free.
This also appears to be selectively enforced. We have two different extensions with global permissions, but only one requires a 1-week review. For the other we can still push out updates in < 30 minutes.
Too late for editing. Here is what I wanted to add:

Low-level code correctness is overrated. With some experience it's trivial to achieve even in a crappy language like Java. Nothing except horrible syntax stops you from writing "functional" code in Java (and even that became easier in Java 8). This is what I and all sensible engineers I know are doing. In my experience, this "weak" version of FP plus a few tests is enough to virtually eliminate low-level coding bugs.

You can still get some surprising behaviors from 3d-party libraries and stronger FP can help with that a bit, but it's nowhere near as drastic of an improvement as many people present.

There are two big classes of errors I do often see in real life.

1. Spec omissions aka systems Broken As Designed. Your system works the way you expect it to work, but produces results users did not anticipate.

2. Emergent problems. Like someone shutting down your service for a day, causing queue backup, causing a huge batch of data being sent to vendor when the service is back online, causing vendor to throttle you, causing all other jobs being delayed.

#1 seems to be mostly a matter of experience and knowing when to show people some diagrams. OOP and especially agent-oriented programming can actually help you when reasoning about #2.
Laying people off is almost never fun. I say almost because sometimes there are people who make everyone around them absolutely miserable for no reason, and in times like that you get to feel like the good guy or gal. Most times though it's a gut wrenching, horrible thing to have to do. You make friends, despite warning yourself to keep a professional distance, you try to limit the fallout when you can, and you know that you're probably next. A lot of times you don't sleep well at night. Sometimes you're tempted to warn people. At the end of the day you're still human. Aside from sociopaths who don't have the ability to feel empathy, it's hard for most people and some people give these hard decisions as the reason sociopaths are often in roles where hard decisions that impact people, it's a benefit for them.
New movies cheaper than iTunes.
Are the reviews done by humans?
It's true that increasing the size of framebuffer demands more from CPU as well. According to my experience a single core on a modern machine has no problem to render real-time into a FullHD framebuffer at high frame rate (depending on the content of course, but UI is fine). This means that multithreaded renderers using 4 threads should be able to render to 4K framebuffer without any issues. Since AMD will release 16c/32t consumer CPUs this year I see no problem on this front as we will have the computational power to run several multithreaded renderers at the same time.

Blend2D has multithreaded rendering on roadmap - I have experience in this topic and everything in Blend2D was designed with multithreading in mind (banding for example). The implementation I'm planning would scale very well.

NV_path_rendering - I haven't seen any detailed comparison to be honest. Frame-rate is not enough to compare CPU vs GPU technology - both memory consumption and power consumption are important as well to calculate frame-rate per watt.

I cannot comment on Direct2D as it's not open source and it runs only on a single operating system. So I don't consider Direct2D as a competition at the moment.
You rent out the copies you buy.
They’re still a thing if you’re served by a fixed wireless connection (or using a semi-decent mobile phone plan for most of your browsing in lieu of a wired connection).
Yes, Eck's book is also a good intro to OpenGL. It is the rare book that is both readable and covers both OpenGL and WebGL. Of course, it is not as comprehensive as the Red book. But, in my opinion, that also makes it a more approachable introduction to OpenGL.
> First up: improve the QA process on your extension to avoid having to do 5-line diffs every few days.

Are you a developer? This is literally the definition of continuous delivery.
I can only adore live-coders. If somebody watches my screen I get paralyzed.
I can write a space invaders in 20 mins.
I don't use the Netflix (Qwikster?) DVD service, but I do still buy lots of DVDs/Blu-Rays. The visual fidelity on a good DVD/Blu-Ray player is much better than a little streaming box that has to buffer every five minutes anyway, and I love having discs that I can watch offline and not have to worry about ownership changing or the content going away. My box sets are always going to be on my shelf, my .mp4 rips are always going to be on my hard drives, no company tracks my viewing habits, and I don't have to pay anyone a monthly fee for the privilege of them sitting on my shelf.

I bet a lot of people use the DVD service to rip all the movies and have them on a hard drive. I've thought about it.
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> Especially if ICE were making statements along the lines of 'you're legally required to do this or that', then there's an issue here.

If they were—which no account of this case I’ve seen has suggested—there is certainly an ethical issue, but not an issue that should negate Motel 6’s liability under the state law at issue here. In fact, if it's employees were not aware of the prohibition on turning the material over without a warrant, and this were susceptible to social engineering indicating that they should do so, that would seem squarely to be Motel 6’s responsibility.
I’m interested why the dreamer was downvoted.
Can you create new Netflix DVD Delivery accounts? I was under the impression they stopped accepting new customers for that service.
Thank you so much for becoming a Patron! Citybound's architecture is highly unusual with its distributed simulation backend and browser rendering frontend, so I'm not sure how good it is as a reference. It's also almost not documented at all...
>overwhelmingly pessimistic

overwhelmingly as accounted for by head count or size of portfolios?
> But congratulations, you're in a significant minority, and this advice is aimed at the rest of the working populace who aren't in that situation.

Wait, so you are saying people who can least afford to spend on daily luxury to spend more money? That is basically like a secret business plan of financial and credit companies, who basically get majority of their profit from overdraft, interest charges and fees.
Cheaper housing costs also make it easier for the government to flat out give them free housing though.
But stopping terrorism is not the only purpose of ICE.
I think you’ll find that multiverse interpretations of quantum mechanics, like all interpretations, are far more popular and important in the press and places like this this in science. Very very few astronomers, cosmologists and physicists are dedicating their working life to something that is broadly considered unfalsifiable.

Don’t confuse popular culture and science with the real thing. The most popular interpretation is “shut up and calculate” and will probably remain that for a very long time.
I grew up in a poor family, could never afford anything unless miracles happened, never went on any trips etc. I later scaled all the way up to much more than I needed as a software developer and lately I'm pretty much down to nothing.

The main thing I learned over 42 years of going back and forth is that a warm place to sleep, good health, good food (and coffee) and nice, caring people are priceless.

Money is the ultimate drug, yet piling it up and walking over dead bodies to get ever more is seen as successful and worthy of admiration. I know a junkie when I see one, the fact that the drug is legal changes nothing.

Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you.

Posting this here is likely karma suicide, but here we go; this is my perspective, and it's as valid as any other.
I don't understand the point of the application. Is there anything to assist developers?
Does it do a whole lot that a basic file system can't do?
I don't think it'd be salt in a wound--or at least I wouldn't see it as such. I do wish someone smarter than I am could come up with an accessibility backend to map GUIs to accessible HTML interfaces. So just as QT apps push accessibility objects to Linux/Windows-native accessibility APIs, something could push either ARIA-enhanced <div>s to the browser, or could just output fully-accessible HTML. So instead of QT rendering to a canvas, it could render to another target that just happens to be HTML elements. Substitute any other GUI toolkit with an accessible object representation for QT in my previous paragraph to get a sense for the scope of the problem.

I've just never dived into how those particular APIs work mainly because, well, there are so many problems needing solutions, and I happen to be focusing on others. Surely I'm not the only one to have thought of this, though, and on the off-chance that I am, the best thing I can do is keep mentioning it until someone else decides it's worth trying. :)
If we stick with our "tech worker", in that month they have likely earned in excess of $12,000. Even at $200, that's around 2% of the exemplar employee's earnings.

If $200 is a significant amount that you don't want to spend, that's completely fine. But it's also not that much when you look at it, even as a leisure purchase.
Not to mention simply spending a lot less on things the federal government doesn't need to be involved in to begin with.
And this is why Appalachia still cannot break its cycle of systemic rural poverty.

I think people fail to realize or are just now realizing that the opioid epidemic beginning in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky (as well as on reservations) wasn't an indictment of the character of Appalachians as a distinct cultural group by any means, it was a calculated move to exploit the vulnerable and forgotten: rural populations isolated from the outside world, full of bodies broken in the mines and in pain, few prospects and little hope for anything better. Purdue was pumping hundreds of thousands pills into these little hollers. Just one more corporate entity committing... Can we call it genocide yet? Between this and tens of thousands dead in the mines and from black lung and cancer caused by pollution? Because basic safety would cut into the bottom line and these people are seen as disposable? Just a bunch of backwards yokels who can't speak English right and get what they voted for? Things have happened in this region that make the Flint water crisis look like amateur hour.

Their schools are chronically underfunded because industry owns local governments all the way down to the school boards and sherrifs, that they would pay their fair share of taxes and invested in these communities with that kind of death grip on the region is laughable. I live near a trailer park, it kills me to think there is genius in there and in trailer parks all over the place that goes unrecognized and never developed and allowed to grow to reach its full potential. What's the point of staying in school if all you've ever expected of yourself is working at the gas station because you don't know you can want more for yourself? Because your family is poor, and you need to go to work to help feed your little siblings?

That teenage pregnancy rates are higher is hardly surprising. If you're standing in line at 6 am for Remote Area Medical to get a tooth pulled, it goes without saying you have no access to birth control or abortions. Not that you could even afford the latter anyway.

And so the cycle of systemic rural poverty continues.
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