skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past my edit window.

I sent them the following e-mail:

Hello,

I recently discovered your Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security. After reading through the entire PDF, I'd like to commend
you. It's a great document, and a great initiative - nicely striding the line of being specific enough to make a difference,
while not constraining manufacturers and service providers too much in technology and business model choices. It's great
that such a good document is taking lead on this issue.

That said, I'd like to strongly object to the point 7, "Ensure software integrity", in its current form. I strongly believe
this would have a negative impact on both consumers and IoT security.

As a tinkerer (or "maker") and a leader in a community of tinkerers, I value the right and ability to flash alternative
software on devices I own; software both made by myself and sourced from the world of Free/Open Source developers.
It's what enables people like me to derive more value from our purchases, to innovate by experimenting with them,
and most importantly - to help our families, friends and random strangers with less interest in technological minutea
to derive more value from their own devices, including extending their usable lifetime way past the end of manufacturer's
support.

Secure boot would prevent all of that, by removing the ability of end-users to modify software on devices they own.
This goes against both the interests of end-users, IoT security and society at large for many reasons, including the following:

- Software provided on IoT devices is typically closed-source. Homegrown/community software is almost universally
open-source, which means many more skilled professionals took a look at the code to ensure it is secure against
attacks and does not secretly siphon off data, personal or otherwise.

- The ability to flash your own software means the IoT device lifetime is no longer determined by the lifetime
of its manufacturers. When the original vendor decides to EOL the device, the community of users can still
continue to provide timely security updates and feature improvements.

- Extending the lifetime of devices through the ability to install custom software also means the devices
take longer before they end up on a landfill, thus reducing their environmental impact.

I kindly ask you to please reconsider the point 7 of your document. While its intentions are noble, its particular form is,
in my opinion, counterproductive to the overall goals of the document. Please help create a future in which companies
minding their users' interests can thrive, in symbiosis with a healthy community of tinkerers.

Regards,
Jacek Złydach
Is it possible to transfer your holdings from within a robo advisor to a service like Vanguard?
Breaks normal in-browser search, at least for me. Since dropcap is an established layout element, maybe it should be a style property instead, so that the browser can render it correctly and also allow for search.
> Meanwhile, HTML is parsed by much more than a browser.

Any examples?
The only reason to use a "bad word" is to make people upset. "Swearing is a weak mind trying to express itself forcefully."
I don't see anything in that text that requires a warning.
I wouldn't say dishonesty; there are numerous ways that could've oopsed in.

Our industry and technology has gotten pretty twisted. Getting an understanding of the extent of the bloated mess, shoveling our way up for air, shaking up practices that have become automatic, and cleaning up all the corners that are dirty... is going to take time.
The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers
There's a big difference between first- and third-party trackers though. Google Analytics belongs to the former category and does by default not collect any personally identifying information. Third-party trackers, however, usually set a unique identificator for each user and use this identificator for all subsequent requests, and as such (invisibly) track users across the web. In general, it's the third-party trackers and their cookies that you should be wary of as they are most often used for extensive tracking across different websites.
Reasons to Start a YouTube Channel for Your Business in 2019
Sounds like you might have a case of the fallacy fallacy :)
The biggest takeaway is that HTML was originally designed to degrade gracefully. If your browser didn't support the intended graphical layout, it would still be able to extract the hierarchy and display a usable web page, even if you were using pure text (e.g. lynx). This kept the web accessible no matter what you were using.

These days, none of that occurs. Just try switching off Javascript (I use NoScript heavily to avoid invasive ad trackers). 75% of web pages don't load at all. Others completely mangle their layouts into an unnavigable mess. Only a very small subset of pages are readable. And these are just landing pages - pages that should welcome one and all to the site. Most of the time, unless I'm looking for something specific on the site, if it loads a blank or mangled page, I just move on. If everything's a dynamically-arranged <div>, the browser has no hope of making sense of it.

You can lead a horse to water, sure...
Perhaps good for future customers, but not really for all the ones that have been scammed before and left in the cold by the company.

I can't see this as anything other than "privatizing the profits, socializing the losses" approach that most new gig-economy startups use. First they try to get away with as much as possible, until negative PR or legal requirements forces them to change. And then it's suddenly "a new feature" that they're so proud to announce (even though they created the problem in the first place).
Thomas Electronics still make CRTs, mainly for the defence and aerospace industry.

https://www.thomaselectronics.com/
Why people are mad with Vue 3
Good examples. They were pushed into widespread use by Red Hat's corporate interests.
am I the only one who searched for dr paul drago and clicked on the greenville doctor article to redress the balance?
The Software Tools Users Group Archive
The sister of my wife looked for a new job. Started to talk to friends, colleagues etc. All of them lie! Not a single one didn't lie on there cv. So she lied too, to get a job..

In that regard, from what I hear on forums and now live from the sister of my wife, us became a low trust society for job applications..
9 - It can be a little bit of both. Often the King sided with the peasantry against the feudal system. A fractal if you will hehe.
American hegemony is pretty the same state that the British empire after Booer wars. Empire is definitely the most powerful nation in the world but it is fastly losing its momentum, it has some domestic policy problems and it is not invisible anymore.
What can they do, display the wrong products? Oh, the horror...

I would certainly like to poison my profile. Preferably with all the kinky stuff.
Yup. And providing less than maximally accurate information to the buying party is what makes a potentially fair offer a dark pattern.
same with lawn movers, the sounds and vibrations hurt kids. I couldn't stand using one until about 15 or 16.
> Users demanded interactivity

(Citation needed.)

Developers love interactivity. Users despise it but put up with it because there's not much choice.

Does anybody think the Web is a better experience now than it was 15 years ago? Honestly?
FWIW, I have a proper espresso machine, and I’ve considered downgrading to a Flair.
This. One trivial example - people used to cook their meals in my country, which meant that you sometimes found yourself lacking some basic ingredients (like flour, salt, sugar) and just borrowed them from a neighbor living on the same floor. Now, as people more people eat out or order, this has decreased significantly.

Another thing is children activity - when I was a child, all children from my area were playing together outside all day (weather and school permitting), which resulted in parents knowing each other via various everyday interactions. Now, when people can afford to pay for extracurricular activities for their children, they just chauffeur them to their various activities and there is no parent community where the children actually live.
That's exactly what the person you are replying to meant when they said:

"And we should have culture that would celebrate moving to retirement, to make sure that people do not feel useless all of sudden."

We need something other than just "hanging out".
Indeed, this is running on our new Teams [0] infrastructure, so HN is giving us some good real-world testing :) Performance issues should be fixed now.

[0] https://write.as/for/teams
It probably also makes sense to do it in an environment with lots of reflections of different kinds. If you were genuinely worried about your primary sensor getting bad data, you definitely wouldn't test four of them together in the real world until you were quite sure they would be fine. Just imagine two of them taking off at the light and swerving wildly around phantom cars!
I swear by their vacuum cleaners, but none of the Dyson hand dryers are good. The boxy air blade ones are the worst I've used so far, but I haven't seen the tap ones yet.
On second thought.. It might be the law already covers this.

It would be just the question of somebody testing it. Take a relatively new() device with unpatched security hole, try to get it replaced/refunded and if necessary proceed to court to get a decision on the matter.

Although I wonder if any vendor actually wants to go to court arguing that a product with severe security issue is actually working as intended.

() Safe bet should be a device purchased less than 2 years ago, since that seems to be the time the vendor is at least responsible for defects.
> Markets are the opposite of top-down linear design.

Markets are but corporations are private bureaucracies. Some of them gigantic. All but a few managed like a dictatorship. Adam Smith lived in a world in which a single person producing goods and selling them on a free market was something at least thinkable. We've come a long way since then.
See above, learn how to recycle properly, you shouldn't be recycling paper towels.
Yea, I wasn't making a blanket indictment of therapy; I have plenty of friends who passionately describe it as something that anyone could benefit from, and I'm inclined to believe them. A combination of a familial mental health history and some childhood trauma due to same means that I'm sure I'm not a paragon of mental perfection (but again, no one is). But I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the time and expense of a treatment that wasn't relevant wouldn't have been a good thing during an overwhelmingly pressing medical issue, at the very least to the extent that it was time spent not addressing or investigating the real problem, exacerbated by the fact that impaired executive function was one of the biggest challenges of addressing a sleeping disorder.
Also, you can get a subscription from a website like Expertflyer and see the backend inventory from Sabre or likes.
The case against Flash was, I think, not so much about what it was, but everything around it.

- It wasn't visually scalable. (Today we say "responsive", mostly, but that's too easy to confuse.)

- It didn't integrate with HTML and CSS in any interesting way other than sitting there in the middle.

- Performance was mediocre to terrible.

- A rent-seeking company was in charge of it.

As you say, eventually JS supplanted it.
Soon, satellites will be able to watch you everywhere all the time
Once you send they’ll be interpreted as clickable by the recipient’s email client anyway in 99.5% of cases.
Was any of the geometry reconstruction or texture mapping done on the Pis themselves? I can imagine with 70 of them you’d have a nice little cluster to work with. Cool project, either way!
Not paying for content (small games, blogs, vlogs, journalism, code, etc..) in the last 20 years, is now one of my biggest regrets.
I remember back then I even had a small addon that was constantly showing me ads and I was getting money for doing nothing, I thought it was nothing.

Now we have to suffer fake content, incredibly well researched click-baits, short term conversion optimized (good trailer, bad content) media and of course tracking to incredible extend. Every single machine learning algorithm trying to push us to more extreme world views so we stay on the platform to consume more contend and see more ads.

Every time my young daughter is watching youtube, I can see how what it is recommending and how easy it is to manipulate her. Few weeks ago it hit me, that I sold her mind, because I did not pay, and now everything is beyond repair.

PS:
I just finished listening a great reading of 1984 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3GFyuJwQ8) and am in very dark place.
/
Children, being shorter and in front of the air blast may be more likely to have whatever crap is on their wet hands blown back into their faces.
You're assuming that the profit on the item is enough that it's still worth it if the price is reduced. Why do you make that assumption?
Numpy was a huge boon in college. I had mostly gotten my homework process down to editing a LaTeX file with the csv files for my datasets and then when I compiled it would first crunch the numbers with Numpy, export it as Tex, and then build a pdf.
Expansions Don’t Die of Old Age
Or stop competing in that business.
They even released the C++ version as public domain. Free Pascal uses it's own Free Vision which is back port of the TUI support into Graphics Vision[1] (which in turn is LGPL's reimplementation of Turbo Vision API in graphical mode)

[1] https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe/mkm/mkmeng.html
It's sad fact of human societies. It's a game of seduction, not about precision and truth (unless rare contexts).

I'm like you. Unless I have near complete over a subject, I don't list it. I'm thus jobless.

I believe it all depends on how ~structured the industry is. For small gigs for instance, you get direct view of the tasks and problems to fix. You can rapidly tell the customer if you know or not. In highly layered places, you get to talk to many HR that don't know what computing problem solving is, and will react negatively if you're not inside a box.

I just passed some technical tests for a job. The questions were very basic. Compared to this, I should list it as senior skills. Actually that's the only reason I'm interviewing, to get a sense of what people want and how they grade it.

ps: I also wonder how many people get angry at interviews due to that.
My father-in-law was an ophthalmic surgeon who "retired" in his 60's. In his case, he had a clear "line in the sand", where his fine motor control became reduced and he could no longer do the kind of delicate work his profession required.

This means other surgeons are also compromised but are "getting away with it" and also giving poorer results.
No one's delivered? There were and are plenty of platforms for full apps on the web. All of them require: loading each time or elevated privileges above the normal browser. This is not the reason they haven't taken off. Security isn't the reason either.

It isn't used because it's just not how the suppliers of content nor consumers of the web want to use the web.

If they want a full featured app, they use it. Even with super fast speeds, latency and minimal startup time still make the browser unattractive for this.

Web users and content providers want linkable documents.

I'd argue that the modern browser stack is so good that we see installed apps adopting html/css/js for the presentation layer.
I agree that it's dumb and it shows how the de-facto standards of the web are rotten to the core, however I don't think it completely defeats the purpose of the website.

For one thing it won't let other advertisers besides Google's partners know what you're doing anyway and ever for Google it probably won't do much good unless they explicitly decide to handle that website specifically. Which they might do I suppose if it becomes popular enough.

I think one of the most enlightening consequences of the GDPR for me was to see that ridiculously long list of "partners" many websites had. Hundreds of companies trying to track me on most websites. I knew this was happening before but I couldn't imagine how bad this was.

For people living outside of Europe who might not have seen this before, here's what it looks like on TechCrunch (I chose the site randomly, it's by no means exceptional): https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20190626-122149_partners.png

Note the size of the scrollbar. There are 173 entries in that list.
Bots and email clients. Microsoft word. Libre Office.
> I have yet to see an explanation of how wasm applets are a different approach to the problem

Here is one: wasm is smaller and better sandboxed
This "accident" didn't happen in isolation.

Firefox already ships with telemetry enabled by default, superfluous closed source components (pocket) and a remote control mechanism which Mozilla has already abused "for fun" (remember that Mr Robot thing?).

Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Where's Russia in this mix? Russia has been meddling with European affairs for hundreds of years.

The world is definitely not bipolar, US's hegemony after the collapse of the USSR is quickly disappearing. China is the latest player to enter the game, but it's true that Europe is between the hammer and anvil and battered on all sides by the US, Russia and China.
The ban will only come into force mid-August for current product. (https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/05/21/us-delay-to-huawei-ban-...)

At the beginning of the article they state: "It’s not clear what percentage of the current sales were for future products.", so 0% can be a valid answer.

Frankly US press is really in a bad shape if even NYT is just a clickbait agency.
You're not wrong, but, there's so much things wrong with religious institution - think indoctrination, contradicting views (love thy neighbour unless they're gay, or had an abortion, or they vote Democrats, or they're black, but give extra love to young boys which is totally fine unlike extramarital relationships and condoms)
To be fair, this sort of thing should be a law, not an executive order. Not that Congress passes serious bills anymore.
Let me put it this way, in a previous job, I held the title of Director of IT. That company disappeared after the first dotcom boom. Now, on linkedin, there are no less than four people that claim to hold the title of Director of IT at that company even though I was the only one to actually have that job. The others are former co-workers who have taken the opportunity to inflate their job titles by appropriating mine.
Thank you for bringing in the greater picture of wealth destruction vs wealth transfer instead of just the consumer and the producer.
How to Use UX Research to Revive Mobile App
It’s part of “hustling”. If you lie and win, you are a “hustler”. If you don’t win you are just a liar.
Also impressive that the law seemed to work as intended. No smooching or "too big to fail".
Those were all problems but none of them had any real bearing on the general population avoiding it for general sites.

The thing is, most people don't want a blank canvas to go nuts with for the general use case. It's too complicated. Suddenly you need to learn entire SDKs and pull in many dependencies just to render text on the screen.

The reason HTML and the web was so well accepted back in the day was all you had to learn were a few HTML tags, a couple of properties and then drop it onto a Geocities site and you were good to go. It was something you can do and see real progress on in 10 minutes with very little background knowledge.

Compare that to now where if you wanted to be a "trendy front-end dev" you would probably reach for Vue / React + Webpack* and go SPA style for all of the sites you make because you learned something and now you want to apply it everywhere. Meanwhile to serve a document such as a blog post, you just went from having 15 HTML tags in a single HTML file and some CSS to pulling megabytes of Javascript sprawled across hundreds of dependencies and now you have build tools, an entire runtime environment (Node) and are using APIs that don't exactly match up with HTML exactly, and then your entire site isn't even crawlable by search engines unless you introduce even more complexity to do server side rendering and before you know it, you're dealing with something that's even more complicated than Flash was back in the day.

* I personally use Webpack to handle my assets too, but I don't write SPAs for sites that are document based (which tbh are most sites).
As an aside, whenever I need to make a can't miss recipe, I google that dish name + seriouseats food lab. Never had a fail from Kenji and his methodology in constructing recipes.
Intel's internal memo reveals they are impressed by AMD's progress
The pervasive intimate surveillance is a grave matter. These profiles do and will affect you in many more ways. "Tt's about showing you ads that are relevant" has been an industry PR lie for a long time.
What sort of priority access was used in this case? Maybe they just filed a complaint like anyone else.
I agree that interpretations about history are subjective. I was indicating that the legitimacy of monarchs in the general populace came from their protection against aggressors. In fact, one of the main functions of a nation-state is to put up defence against other nation-states.

This book is full of examples of people coming together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_De...
Occasionally I'll check on how loud something is with my smartphone, and i'm always amazed at how loud some everyday things can get... especially when you factor in enclosed spaces.
He's probably still being conservative. RISC-V has a significant time to market advantage due to its simplicity, so innovators in the AI arena will likely use it, and get better power performance for free. An example is Esperanto, which should be launching sooner than later with an entry level part.
If you liked Descent, check out the radically different sequel Freespace 2. Somehow the devs snuck in a legal clause to make it freeware.

The control system is absurdly complex but exquisitely satisfying once mastered.
No, its not for the UX, but for tracking you in every way as precise as possible.

Second, most of you is not Facebook or Google either and have no need for additional complexity.

Third, a strategy some of the big companies do to slow down startups that may compete with them is to create an illusion of how fantastic it is to develop applications with this new tool. So instead of focusing on actual business value, a lot of people spend time on premature optimizations and think API's that are breaking daily is perfectly fine as their favorite tool is only getting better.
What do you do if e.g. Instagram ignores your GDPR requests? I have sent them multiple emails about misuse of my personal data and they only replied with a template that didn't address my emails?
How the asteroid-mining bubble burst
I would assume it is not going to materialize and continue the job search. It could be nothing but the silence you are receiving from all parties makes me think the position is no longer yours. Don’t torture yourself by trying to figure out why.
> but you know that's a big part of what TOR is used for

Citation needed please.

That's the juicier stuff that makes its way into the news. "A person living under an oppressive government evading censorship" will never be as juicy to write about as "murderers for hire on the dark web". That says absolutely nothing about the actual usage of Tor, so I'd like to see you back up that "big part" part.
What makes React inherently un-mobile except the fact that all browsers have a touch timeout thus making UI seemingly slower?
Is this your first year? Because this is completely contrary to my experience.

Salespeople are some very driven folks but honesty and a desire to help customers solve needs is not a common trait.