skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also lists of who lives in a county/state/country. If you suspect foul play you can further look up if John Doe is a person that lives in the 'right' place. Of course this doesn't solve the case where John Doe is a real person that is allowed to vote, but actually stayed home.
> Why should they care?

Because they're still users, and that's only for this app; there are a lot more Nest users than that. How Google treats them is a sign of how they may treat other users in the future. If Google make it a habit to screw users, users will not trust Google in the future. Losing the trust of your users is more expensive than some companies seem to realise.
I think OP was trying to say that inheritance is "free money" which is on the same level as UBI "free money". I can't agree with that since it's slippery slope to saying that parents reading fairytales to kids is racist because it gives kid unfair advantage in life and all that BS.
If you want a responsive car, get an EV. If you want an even more responsive vehicle, get a bicycle.
Platform is nothing but a sales&marketing word. It means whatever the owner wants it to.
Makes sense to reuse the concentrated brine; IIRC that stuff is causing a lot of problems due to a huge local spike in salt (and other stuff) content of the water.
Aren't advertising networks blocking the adoption of CSP headers? Seems like it's quite a job to maintain the exceptions needed for Doubleclick for example.
In 2008, we were at CeBIT showing off the then-brandnew KDE 4 desktop. (The booth was sponsored by a Linux-focused media company.) The biggest attention magnet was a script that we hacked together the evening before, that clicked through the application menu and demoed various desktop features in a loop. For a booth, it's absolutely vital to have something that moves, not just static posters and people standing around waiting.
Gmail is still imap readable.
It was probably 433MHz. That's unlicensed spectrum where the rules are rather lax.

Deliberately jamming someone else's signal isn't allowed, nor is transmitting over a certain power.

Anything beyond that is fair game. If this guy designed his doorbell to transmit all the time, but then stop transmitting when the doorbell was pressed (ie. The opposite of a regular doorbell), he would be well within his rights.

If car keys and garage door openers wanted assured spectrum, they should have properly licensed some spectrum.
You poor and living with your old parents? Your parents died? Well, fuck you, pay up for roof over your head!
There's an Agenda behind this article to paint off the environmentalists as dangerous extremists. Definitely not unbiased / neutral reporting.
Casemine – The Most Granular Mapping of Us Case Law
or maybe something in Rust (Scenic).
Yes and no. Cars are less responsive than ever as manufacturers insert artificial latency into electric throttle-by-wire to reduce emissions.

However, at the same time cars continue to become heavier and heavier with each new model or generation. This in itself is poor for environment because heavier vehicles must burn more fuel to accelerate at the same rate, more fuel to maintain the same speed, use more pad material to brake (and thus release more particulates) while also having increased tire wear.

But for some reason the latter issue is ignored while the former is front and center.

It doesn't make sense to me
Agreed! And every component is highly complex, i.e. the design of the probe [1], or object tracking in videos. While the author is obviously standing on the shoulders of giants, he appears to be pretty tall himself.

[1] https://interferencetechnology.com/diy-near-field-probes-pre...
"PayPal has said that anyone who disagrees with any of their new terms is free to close their account."

That's not much of a surprise as Paypal has never been strong on customer service for sellers. They seem to see the relationship as adversial, often claiming it's for the buyers' benefit. But both buyers and sellers are customers to value.
Plenty of people pre-ordered No Man's Sky - then were upset when they received less than what they thought they'd been promised. That's the risk when you pay upfront for a product that doesn't exist.

Maybe people who've paid for the Tesla FSD package will receive what I imagine when I hear "full self driving". Or maybe, like No Man's Sky backers, they'll get something they're less happy with.
Yup, $5/month DigitalOcean droplet + free CloudFlare tier.
They developed a cross platform editor using webGL, when taregeting web/WASM, targeting Metal for macOS, and OpenGL otherwise.
That's pretty neat. See https://github.com/makepad/makepad for a closer explanation.
Transdiffusion, a small UK based group of TV presentation enthusiasts, have been recording and archiving material related to TV logos, idents and presentation since the 1950s.

https://www.transdiffusion.org/
I use: Apple Books, Kindle, Play Books.

Will check out Calibre - thanks.
> the "war" between West and East was won by the West

Not so fast. The most populous country and the largest world economy by purchasing power parity is communist China. The physical objects people revere are likely made there or in neighboring communist Vietnam.
I think / hope those are archived as well; e.g. what.cd and waffles had a huge archive of all kinds of rare music, bootlegs, obscure bands, limited releases, etcetera. I hope there's an organization that made sure those were archived.

Are museums exempt from copyright laws for archival purposes?
I don't think that title was all that baity. "War" is often used as a metaphor for any protracted or intense conflict.

But ok, we'll switch to the first part of the subtitle.
DOJ Approves IBM's $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Yes. The example is based on how Chrome dealt with DRM.

As for email, there was a story on Hacker News how maintaining mail server is getting harder and harder, since Gmail filters grow more and more zealous.
Invoice Data Extraction
This pretty much nailed it except the part about the national parks. It's the federal government that supports them, not California. For me, the national parks in the state is California's only real redeeming quality and it's just chance that this state ended up rich in national parks

> it seems like your money is disappearing, but a lot of it is going to support families who make less than a third of your salary.

I would also add that it wouldn't be necessary to support many of these families if they lived in other states. California's well-intentioned but poorly thought out policies directly contribute to why many of these families need support in the first place.
When React Native's fabric rearchitecture is available you will see much better performance. The thing that hurts performance today is that damn bridge communication between javascript and native that will be severely improved in fabric.
Computing in UK schools in 'steep decline'
You have to trust them, though.

They sayy they care about privacy and yes, they make most money on selling devices and not on advertisement, but who guarantees that is not to change any moment?

And aren't they allready in the advertisement buisness as well? So also have a motive for getting and evaluating all your data?
How cross platform can this be? What's the fallback plan if you need some API that's unavailable? Simply having a lightweight native wrapper around the webview allows a lot of oomph.
It is always quite a job to maintain CSP. And it's really easy to break something with CSP.

This is why loads of devs usually throw in the towel and disable CSP or use a unsafe-line. Basically like trying to solve a hard CSS problem and at some point give up and add !important statements everywhere.

It's also really, really hard to explain to customers that it takes time to set up, and every time they install a new tracking/ad/video/whatever plugin on their CMS, you'll have to spend time on adjusting the CSP accordingly.

That said, I do encourage developers to use CSP. It's a really powerful tool to secure your site and protect your visitors from fraud/phishing.
One Dollar? Pah! I present to you the Padauk PMS150C three cent MCU. Its just one-time programmable, so better get it right the first time.

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/26/making-a-three-cent-microcon...
Let me guess: Google will tie the new proposal to a new Chrome setting which effectively identifies tracking cookies according to this new identifier, and will regularly purge them.
Excerpt:

"That sounds like entangled particles must be able to communicate faster than light. Otherwise it’s impossible to imagine how one of them could know what was happening to the other across a vast spacetime expanse. But they actually don’t send any message at all. So how do entangled particles transcend the spacetime gulf separating them? Perhaps the answer is they don’t have to — because entanglement doesn’t happen in spacetime.
Entanglement creates spacetime."

My thoughts:

If that last statement is true, then guess what that means?

It means that for the nth time (in the History of Science) scientists have confused cause with effect...

If that last statement is true...
How in the world would you know to suspect foul play from specific people though? Especially when they can be a very small fraction of the population?
This law would end up hurting the upstarts. Alternatives should be made and the consumer should be picking winners with their dollar.
I'm not sure what your point is. Both appear to be, or were, subsidiaries of Lite-On[1], and the point is that it's not a no-name company that is drop-shipping rejected parts.

(The Chinese doesn't particularly help - I can't read much of it, and I can't find the source, so I'm unclear what relationship Shandong Jiahong has or had to Leotek)

[1] 山東佳虹電子科技有限公司 is listed in this Lite-On document, as is Leotek: https://www.liteon.com/storage/document/document/file-ed4448... - or an English version of what I believe to be the same report, showing Leotek and Sandong Jiahong Electronics Technology Co., Ltd: https://www.liteon.com/storage/document/document/engfile-d21... Shandong/Sandong/山東 has gone as of the next financial report (2009): https://www.liteon.com/storage/document/document/engfile-d21...
This will never happen. Google's entire ecosystem is built around advertising, so everything is an illusion of privacy. Things like 3rd party cookies will be the norm and Google won't block them, although firefox has started to head down that direction.

Chrome mobile, for example, can support add-ons and privacy features, but the risk to ad revenue is preventing them from making it available. Chrome being the default browser for Android means most people won't switch and they have >~80% marketshare.
I would quite like to own an EV, but are still too expensive for me! I also read that the batteries do not like repeated full-throttle accelerations as it causes excessive heat build-up and accelerated degradation on the cells. To reduce this the car will often enter limp-mode before then, so it might not even be appropriate for sports/track use.
It's analogous to watching trailers on YouTube before heading to the IMAX movie theater. You're making a better informed decision. They aren't substitute goods.
Url changed from https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-an-rtl-sdr-and-opencv-to-creat..., which points to this.
Judging by the contents of the bulb bin at the recycling centre, its recessed light fitting that do the damage to leds, which makes sense I suppose.

I've had 2 led failures since I went fully led 8 years ago, one went soon after purchase and looks like a manufacturing defect, so that leaves one that could potentially be heat. Most of them are no names, most recent are Phillips though.
It's basically derived from the requirement that product works as advertised + legal guarantee that the product remain working as advertised.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Good point!

So, the app is actually a tool to "find the next gem of your record collection".

We don't want to replace the vinyl experience. We're making easier the process to find and buy cool records.

Now when you are at a flea market (for example) you can only blindly purchase a record because it inspires you, or you know it, or you have to jump from Google to Discogs to YouTube to preview the tracks to see if it worth the money.

With Disco Fm you can preview the record in 2 clicks. If you like what you hear, you buy the record.

Our users are using the app to find records or to catalog their collection.
“Developing and deploying self-driving vehicles at massive scale is the engineering challenge of our generation,” said Cruise CEO Dan Ammann

Wait a min, when did this happen ? and who is Dan Ammann. Why would you move Kyle Vogt into a CTO position. This is bizzare.
The latter. The hackers got access to one or more Binance hot wallets and transferred 7k BTC to their own bitcoin address.
Haha that's an awesome comparison.

Yes, Ziari is correct. We help crate diggers to make a better informed decision.
IIRC there is a law where you can return items for a full refund or exchange if the product was "not fit for purpose", which includes shenanigans like these.
True. Although given the effort going into beacons, always on bluetooth (LE) and tracking other bluetooth and wifi clients phones are getting pretty good at telling what other devices (and their owners) are in close physical promixity. Apparently it's not uncommon for phones to be able to make sounds outside of the range of normal hearing to use the microphone to detect other phones in proximity.

So not only might a watch figure out who is wanking, but also who else is in their immediate proximity.
I'm not in the US, so maybe that's a consideration for these type of projects.
Releasing with Confidence
Both Icahn and Soros think that Lyft is going to lose value in the 6 months after the IPO. But Icahn can't sell for 6 months. So he calls Soros, Soros creates a short position in the stock for the amount that he's going to buy from Icahn - he can do that cheap because the stock is going to be around $72 dollars for the first few days of trading. He then buys Icahn's shares for $60. So Icahn got out at a reasonable price and Soros now created a short position at ~$70 and covered it using Icahn's shares for ~$60 giving himself a $10 profit per share with practically no risk despite the fact that he can't sell the shares he's long for 6 months. Icahn couldn't hold the short position because he's contractually obligated not to short the stock.

The very important point is he agreed the short BEFORE he bought the stock, because the sale from Icahn prohibited him from buying a short position for 6 months. He created a flat position that Icahn was contractually prohibited from creating.
Anyone know if this has been digitized yet or when it will be available? I am so impressed by this woman’s work. So much of our history is being lost, forgotten, or is inaccessible by the general public.
While they are not civil lawsuits, EU's anti-competition fines certainly can make a dent in any company's profits since they are based on a percentage of global turnover.
Out of curiosity, and having done no research myself, where do you get those numbers about NY and SF? I’m assuming they’re not public info published by Uber.
I would recommend a database in Notion (https://notion.so), a general purpose organization tool.

Disclaimer: I work at Notion.
I always read FAQ as "eff-aye-que." Relatedly, I recently saw an HN comment with the line "an .edu," referring to the TLD, and at first took it as a grammatical error since I pronounced the "." as "dot" in my head rather than dropping it as the author intended. Then I realised I was pronouncing the whole thing as "an dot ee-dee-you," whereas I would naturally think of ".com" as "dot com." I'm not sure why, but I think one possibility is that the recent proliferation of .io domains has made me think of other less common TLDs as the sum of their constituent letters rather than as fragments of words. Another possibility is that less common TLDs need to be spelled out for people in normal parlance more frequently. Yet, I'm pretty sure I've been thinking of the recently added ".dev" TLDs as "dot dev," not "dot dee-ee-vee," perhaps specifically because I've never had to spell it out for somebody in speech? Or maybe because we use "dev" as a standalone word already, as in "dev house?" I dunno. It would be interesting to see a survey of how different people naturally pronounce acronyms and word-fragment-TLDs like this.
When dealing with user uploads, we still need content disposition headers to force browsers to treat certain formats as attachments, rather than showing them inline, right?
> but you never hear about high-profile app examples that use them.

part of the reason for that is that a bunch of companies are paying TQTC for their tech stack not being known. But if you are looking for high-profile stuff using Qt, how about :

- the Tesla UI (https://twitter.com/qtproject/status/998902009922285568?lang...)

- and a lot of the modern in-vehicule infotainment stack actually

- LG screens (https://www.qt.io/lg-electronics-built-with-qt)

- Allegorithmic Substance stuff (https://blog.kitware.com/from-one-software-to-many-at-allego...)

- The Blizzard launcher (https://www.quora.com/What-front-end-and-back-end-technologi...)

- Amazon Lumberyard (and its grandfather CryEngine) : https://github.com/aws/lumberyard

- Microsoft Onedrive

- AMD Radeon panel (https://www.qt.io/amd-built-with-qt)

etc etc..

but generally speaking, it is not in the DNA of Qt-using companies to post nice articles on reddit / HN which has the pernicious effect of reducing its place in the dev mind marketshare and making it harder to hire...
Loosely related as it is about democracy: https://www.anthonyflood.com/rothbarddemocracy.htm
Maciej Cegłowski’s Senate Statement on Privacy Rights and Data Collection [pdf]
> This is flash

This was exactly what I thought when reading about this. I'm pretty sure the one codebase for multiple plattforms just won't work.
An app has it advantages so has a website. Mixing those up leads to something that just combines the disadvantages of both.
And this my main critic on Flutter: It just doesn't feel good. Maybe it does on Android but it surely doesn't on iOS or on the Web. I would rather prefer something where I can share a core codebase between platforms and then implement a user facing layer with all the plattform specific features
It could be that headers seem scary, and I think that is because you can get a lot done without them, so they might be unfamiliar to junior devs. To make them less scary maybe it is sufficient to say they are just key/value pairs, like an additional JSON object in the response. It's there for you to see in Chrome dev tools, and it's fun seeing how different sites might send different headers.

As a motivator I always say look at the network tab and think about how you can make stuff faster. It was this mindset where I first saw these additional requests and thought 'WTF!' I better find out why it is happening, turned out to be preflight requests.
He should be hired by regulators. They need more people who can expose wrongdoings.
Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
Even in London I think some places only get 10Mbps
The dimming seems like more of a feature to me. The over bright / sharp led street lights are a hazard. Same with the led lights on emergency and other vehicles.
> Many companies where this happens won't admit it

If they don't admit it then they aren't "openly shitty to women".
Isn't the waste energy from the inefficiency of the incandescent bulbs fully deposited in your house? What is the other source of inefficiency that makes them inefficient for this by-use? The overall replacement cost? Just curious.
ah ok i take a look soon! Thanks
Information Technology Act, 2000
That's kinda my point: UBI is supposed to replace all other welfare programs. There won't be anything else.
How can people believe this?

Tesla claim they have all the hardware for FSD, but FSD is still science fiction. It literally doesn't exist. Waymo is closest but they use Lidar, which Tesla's aren't equipped with.

Maybe Tesla will work it out and make a great self driving car on cheap hardware. I'll believe it when I see it
Yeah, but you aren't confusing them with `friends`, these are `facebook friends`, right ?
It is also at least some level of defense against malicious npm packages (doesn't eliminate threat completely, but at least less sophisticated attacks will be thwarted).

CSP headers are a very useful tool and I encourage everyone to use them. They are a PITA to set up though. Fortunately at least Firefox clearly communicates in console log when a CSP rule is hit, and how to relax it (if it was by mistake).

Note that CSP can be set as META tags too. There's a gotcha though: if they are set in both places (HTTP headers and HTML META tags), an intersection of the rules is used.
Having a cryptographically secure voting protocol doesn't protect you if the human-computer interface is compromised to alter the votes as they are being entered into the system. You get a code to verify that "your" vote was counted correctly, but because you're not supposed to be able to prove who you voted for to prevent vote-buying, you can't tell that the voting machine has slipped you the wrong code.

It may not be an admissible attack in the model within which protocols are proven secure, but it's still an attack that could affect real-world systems.
I'm one of the software engineers that decided I will not work in US at all in any possible future. Medical system, visa procedures and visa problems were major deciding factors on my decision to move and work in Europe instead.
For 2D it is good, for 3D not
> Either people are treated like adults and manage their own finances, or we are all wards of the state to some degree.

If they were adults with the ability to manage their finances, make smart decisions etc, only a tiny fraction of them would have to rely on the state in the first place, so that's not convincing to me.
Beating RNW and PWAs will be hard.

It’s a bit worrying to have Google pushing both PWAs and Flutter, there is always the chance of collateral damage from infighting.
this is a simple reactjs app around my personal project feedi take a look at https://github.com/davidesantangelo/feedi
If an incident occurs and they identify additional components connected to the "trigger" you'd have to provide the whole "paper trail" for every single bit of your setup and show that it's above board: were the components certified for the use, were they installed by authorized personnel, were they operated properly, was the code you wrote for it to blame, etc. If you handled all the implementation yourself then it's hard to pass the responsibility along. While not impossible, it's still a high bar. And you wouldn't be in the best position to fight.

If it's an electrical fire and they find modifications to the electrical wiring the chances of getting the insurance money are slim. Unless those modifications are explicitly covered by the insurance.

Given the kind of exposure insurance companies have they are willing to invest a lot in fighting the payout. It's their business model.
High power relays with safety certifications are typically used in mains boxes available commercially. In fact, I'm using the ones from my old mains box.

Even theoretically, the only way a relay could catch fire if the coil inside overheats or if you pass very high voltages to the coil. But, with a well designed circuit, it should be fine.
Nvidia probably wrote this b/c Tesla is using it. And Tesla is claiming the hardware is (was) enough b/c Nvidia wrote it.