skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This current state of affairs gives employees a lot of power, as you observed, but it's important to realize it will not last. The downturn will come. The question is whether we want to use our current ephemeral labor power to protect ourselves when the downturn comes, because organization will be 100x more difficult when things go to shit and people don't think they have the luxury of risking their career to build a union.
It's rather unrealistic to consider those alternatives enough to replace everything all the features contained within Facebook can accomplish.

Facebook has discussion forums, rich messaging, groups and events, classifieds, image and video editing/enhancement, and many more features all bundled into one platform. You'd probably need 15 other websites and services to replace it.

If we just had truly protective privacy laws and standards we could just use Facebook and enjoy what it is capable of doing without guilt.
Geophysicalflows.jl: Geophysical fluid dynamics pseudospectral solvers in Julia
Note that I am not encouraging you to conduct this experiment :)

You are correct that there will be at least 60V that exists between your body and at least one of the wires from the generator. What isn’t guaranteed to exist is a low impedance loop for that current to flow through your body back to the generator. You’re in bare feet on the concrete, but the generator has a plastic body with rubber feet.

People repeat that old “it’s the current that kills you” line and often in a misguided and dangerous way, but it’s actually true in this case. If there’s no way for the current to flow back to the generator, the voltage on its own will likely not do much.

If you were to touch both wires while wearing rubber gloves, you’d be in a similar situation. 120V exists across your body, but because the gloves have a very high resistance, no current can flow (I=V/R)
I don't know how to feel about it. There are some really bad employers out there. Tech culture is fairly liberal and new. I remember reading a book long ago where managers would sit on a higher chair in negotiations. It was a different atmosphere.
"At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more [private speech] — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that [requires speech permits] with proper [deanonymizing] practices, combined with the ability for law enforcement and regulators [to no longer have fourth-amendment barriers to viewing the panopitcon], will be a big opportunity to increase the efficacy of [eradicating unapproved speech]."

https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-marcus/libra-2-weeks-in...
Unions exist in high demand positions too - sports, entertainment etc. Can tech unions be modelled closer to those, and less on the style of jobs you mentioned?
I don't have a Facebook, never have, so take any opinion I give with a grain of salt. That said, a lot of us really need to come to the realization that these are social networks. They are not called private networks. So even if you pay, it is highly unlikely that you would get privacy.

And please everyone, if only for the protection of your own privacy, consider thoughtfully whether a company promising "Private" "Social" networks makes any sense? Like dish washing detergents that promise to make your dishes virtually spotless, there is no promise at all actually being made.

These networks are fundamentally about sharing. Once you share something with someone, you can't really control what they are going to do with the screenshot of it. You're at the mercy of the mob.

The only real protection you can get is not from companies, but by having the government make a HIPAA like law with real teeth in it that punishes personal information sharing for commercial purposes. No real need for any new companies, because the new companies will just do the same thing. Pass a law that starts throwing people in prison for sharing, or receiving illegally shared personal information for commercial purposes, and you stop all of that nonsense in its tracks.
I stopped around that exact same timeframe. I never played KQ6 (supposedly it was the best one), or QFG5 (I did buy it though..). Space Quest 5 was pretty good, not quite as frustrating as SQ4 could be, and not quite as great- but not bad.

Checkout Hero-U, from the creators of Quest for Glory. I truly believe it's the closest and best concept possible for a modern adventure game.

KQ8 was horrendous, I had no interest in it even when it was released. Couldn't agree more that 2D art oftentimes makes more sense than 3D. Artistry is often forgotten in favor of technology. As long as the artist's vision is conveyed (which never includes "ugly"), I don't care if it's voxels, polygons or sprites.
This is going to be a unpopular opinion. I think a tech union would likely be good for the average tech worker - and bad for absolutely everyone else, broader society included.

Cartels and price-fixing agreements are extremely lucrative, which is why they were commonplace until outlawed by antitrust legislation, and why cartels like OPEC still operate today. Unions and collective bargaining are no different. Unions are equivalent to a cartel of labor-suppliers, and collective bargaining is identical to price-fixing.

Just like with cartels and price-fixing agreements, unionizing would likely benefit the average tech worker. It would also have an extremely bad effect on innovation, bureaucracy, and cost-of-tech-development which would spill over to consumers in the form of higher prices.

I'm in favor of breaking up big corporations, as well as implementing a wealth tax, raising the top tax rates, and strengthening the social safety net. But I don't think encouraging the formation of cartels and price-fixing agreements is in society's best interests.
Ask HN: My side project is starting to grow. What should I do?
I've been working on a side project since October of last year and recently launched it to the public in May.

Since then, it's been gaining traction steadily, for which i'm grateful but its starting to get overwhelming at times.

I'm still working a full-time job which covers my bills and my startup hosting costs and before I launched things were quite manageable.

I'd work during the day on my job and come home at night and work on my side project. Now, that its starting to take off, i'm finding more and more of my time shifting to facilitating customer requests and product development and my full-time job commitments haven't reduced.

I guess what I'm asking is, how have you guys managed this situation? And if you decided to focus on your side project, did you quit your full time job? At what point is it advisable to do so? Did you raise any funding before you quit? How did you go about raising even a small angel round for your business? Where and how did you find the potential angels and investors that helped you grow?

Thank you for your advice
Starting from 47 cents per hour. More expensive than alternatives. Pretty useless without the comprehensive enterprise feature set. Hobbyists can just use Colab for free.
Setup an Adblocking VPN Using WireGuard and Nextdns
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Totally! I think what’s really important is having space to think. Stimulation seems to stopper the possibility of deep-thought. Having significant, radical, perhaps discomforting thoughts becomes impossible when we’re constantly aborting our opportunity to think by filling our lives with distractions. It’s an activity which really does require absence—séquestration and quiet space. I try to set aside time each day for thinking. Often I don’t wind up thinking anything very interesting, but these brief quiet periods have an overall effect of making me feel sharper and more attuned to the world around me. When I’m constantly bombarded by stimulants I begin to feel like a meat-dummy. A buzzing uselessness. A corpse doll. The ubiquitous, incessant access to entertainment, and even to knowledge, that we enjoy today can be far more harmful than helpful.
It'd be cool if this was hooked up to the internet, with a camera pointed at it, and people could rent it for an hour at a time to play with.
I have not yet contacted them.

Code includes a license that is incompatible with Apache (the license they are distributing under)

I just found out today when someone emailed me with a link. I license my tiny jvm out to companies, and one client who was about to sign a contract for a license emailed me with a link to this asking why pay me when there is a similar project out for free, so not only did they deprive me of income, they are handing my non-free code out for free!

Do you have an IP lawyer to recommend?
I remember Sub-7 and its modules, including those that forced the user to play (and win) a game of tic-tac-toe, could melt the screen, flip the screen upside down and misc destructive things.
We can form a union when we need to form a union. There's no point in forming one just in case software engineering no longer becomes a sought-after skilled job.
On an iOS device crashing a critical component such as SpringBoard is often indistinguishable to the casual user from a reboot.
Its employee choice. People get bored, they get tired of processes, and there are plenty of companies willing to hire them that will allow them to try something new, do something different, and deal with different processes.
> And it would be the correct level of discussion.

Arguing from a position of ignorance when people say something that doesn't make sense to you is literally how anti-vaxxing happens.

Just because arguing from a position of ignorance can sometimes produce outcomes which align with your personal anecdotes doesn't make it an intellectually valid method of discourse.
P=I²R, so decreasing voltage and increasing current means increasing resistive losses (in cabling etc) quadratically.
Name collision--QNX's gui was/is also named "Photon MicroGUI" and that is what I thought this post was going to be about: http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0/index.jsp?topic=%2F...
> Egelman said the researchers notified Google about these issues last September, as well as the FTC. Google said it would be addressing the issues in Android Q, which is expected to release this year.

A whole year to get a solution out?! Google is clearly demonstrating where it stands when it concerns privacy.

With the usual low penetration of the latest release of Android, this will probably be “solved” for the majority of the devices in four years from now. Sigh!

Edit: Why not crack down on apps through updates to the Play Store policies and rules? Apple seems to use that tactic sometimes.
If you use Lineage OS (or its predecessor, CyanogenMod, both of which are Android forks) you are, ostensibly, given the ability to permit or deny access to read from and/or write to the clipboard via the included permissions manager, Privacy Guard.
think like the mass or think for yourself.
Facebook dorks says...think like a mass.
Hmmm, I think it's achievable in less space than an acre. What are your assumptions regarding needing an acre for four people?
I'm a big fan of Schuko plugs/sockets. Not gigantic like the UK plug, and the sockets grip the plugs really well, plus there are two ground contacts for redundancy.
Wow, I find it very strange that public money is spent on ransom. If this amount of money that was given to robbers would have been spent in IT security, the town would have made a way better investment into its future. Hopefully they now spend a similar amount of money into their IT sec.
It’s great that AMD have a competitive or even superior desktop/server processor. I think Intel will
still stay competitive in that market. The laptop market is still completely dominated by Intel with no end in sight yet.
I've already mentioned it enough times in this thread, but you're talking about a game created by the folks who recently released Hero-U. Dr. Brain is another title originally conceived by Lori and Corey Cole.
There's "budget hawk things" and there's "burning down the university to make a point." He was offered deep cuts by the University itself: "Mr. Johnsen, fearing that the governor might not stomach the Legislature’s plan, met with Mr. Dunleavy in late May and quietly provided him with a written plan that he regarded as a drastic alternative: A $49 million reduction spread over several years, with significant cuts to personnel and “a reduced capacity to serve our students and our state.”"

This was much more than the legislature passed and budget-hawkish enough for him to claim victory. Instead he just went nuclear and zeroed out $130 million with no warning. That's beyond ordinary budget hawkery and into batshit land.
That no longer falls under the purview of the small, independent cafe on the honours system.

I'd say, in a cafe, besides cash you could have a touchscreen to key in your order and tap your phone to pay. The walk in walk out Amazon model is not an honours system, it's a technological policing model.
The concern with winlink is twofold:

1) It transmits without checking if the frequency is already in use, and is thus a source of interference to other users

2) It uses a proprietary protocol that requires purchasing expensive hardware froma single company (https://www.p4dragon.com/download/SCS_Pricelist_2019_REV-A.p...) to decode

The solutions proposed are

1) Limit "Automatically Controlled Data Stations" like Winlink to a specific range of frequencies
2) Limit the protocols they use to ones that "can be be monitored, in it’s entirety, by 3rd parties, with freely available open source software"

You can read the petition at https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/100918881206/PETITION%20FOR%20R... for more details.
> There is 0 Erlang-native GUI libraries

Have you seen ex11? [1], it's Erlang native, and at least 0.1 of a GUI library. X11 and Erlang actually go together really well, although a lot of important functionality for a real application is missing; I used this to display images generated by an Erlang application, and it felt a lot nicer to me than using wxWidgets; I added a few bits of functionality to the library while I was in there, and it wasn't that hard to turn the X11 protocol docs into Erlang code for the things I needed.

I imagine if someone had a real need here, it wouldn't be that hard to get it into shape. Caveat: X11 is dying, etc.

[1] The most active fork appears to be here https://github.com/skvamme/ex11 -- it's been somewhat retargeted to mobile, but the examples for desktop should still work as well as they did.
If a downturn comes, it will be due to larger economic reasons. If firms aren't profitable and need to cut costs, having a union that makes that more difficult could actually exacerbate the downturn. I'd rather have to lay off under performers and keep the company in business, than go out of business and have everyone lose their jobs.
From whose point of view? A mythical “10x” working at a Californian small startup making IoT juice machines isn't necessarily doing anything more useful.
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Would any/all of these methods be violations of U.S. criminal laws against unauthorized computer access?

They seem to contravene the computer owner's explicit choices about allowed access.
Microsoft is axing internal use rights for reseller partners
From https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/sso-gitlab.html

> Only the default GitLab SSO is officially supported. “Double SSO”, where GitLab SSO is chained to other SSO solutions, is not supported. It may be possible to connect GitLab SSO with AD, LDAP, SAML, or MFA add-ons in some cases, but because of the special logic required they’re not officially supported and are known not to work on some experiences. If having official AD, LDAP, SAML or MFA support is critical to your enterprise, please consider Mattermost Enterprise Edition as an option.
"I had many relationships which were paper thin and folded the moment I left Facebook."

I can second this. Even good and old friendships that went the same way. Turns out I don't actually miss those people. I much prefer life by finding things out by bumping into people and keeping my relationships face to face. I don't want to have to absorb things with the crowd like a legitimised voyeur.

I wish we were all off facebook. When I read these constant articles about its privacy problems and how its now enmeshed into the fabric of our society, it makes me think "how did a WEBSITE become mandatory for living ones life?"
Creating a single currency in Europe without political union didn't go so well leading to unnecessary suffering in Greece and like countries.
Heavy Debt Humbles China’s Business Champions, Including the Jewelry
> While I don't necessarily need to be connected to them, it's nice to see how people are doing every once in a while.

Why do you choose not to call them and ask them how they are doing? I must admit, I do not really understand this "seeing how they are doing" statement, it confuses me as to why someone would spend time on facebook to see how another one is doing, but would not make the call to ask. Maybe I'm misreading it and the seeing part is the more relevant one.

Edit: anyone care to clarify what was downvote worthy about this comment? did it not contribute to the discussion in some way? if the answer is yes, I don't know why it didn't contribute to the discussion.
Anyone who takes up this cause naively will lose out to people and organizations that don’t care.

By lose out, I mean they will lose political and economic influence.

If people who care have a significant overhead compared to those who don’t, guess who expands and has lobbying money and time?

At a company-level, a 1% overhead can be rather steep cost.

Really, my individual effort isn’t enough. Just look at littering. I don’t litter, but there are too many people around me that do.

And this is with an action that has almost zero cost to individuals!

The way to ensure we don’t kill ourselves is by tilting the market to favor sustainable approaches.

Steeper Import taxes. Removal of certain subsidies. Adding other subsidies. Tax breaks to encourage repairs. At-purchase disposal fees. Packaging taxes. Etc.

The scale of the problem involves billions of individuals.

The scale of the solution must match, and must not favor cheaters or don’t-care organizations. Or it will fail.
> Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot.

Brilliant.
I think he's the guy from the blog and he's making a joke
I am more afraid of someone compromising the linuxcontainer.org image servers. I wonder what security they have on place...
Ukraine is at least way more stable than Libya is… There’s still serious violence going on in Libya all the time.

Ignoring Libya is more of a regional thing as well. Being seen as part of the middle east / North African mess which the whole American public got their fill of for two decades.

If there was still airstrikes happening in Ukraine it’d certainly get more coverage than Libya.
Being bored is great. You're forced to be with your thoughts.

You have the opportunity to work on them. Be it via meditation. Or cognitive behavioral therapy. or whatever.

And if you succeed, you earn a happier mind.
Talking Ahead of Yourself
DCC SEND startkeylogger 0 0 0
Actually, I am not sure if that is true. I have no example at hand (I could look it up, if you are interested), but a few months ago I was trying hard to create a folder with mktemp using the same command for Linux, MacOS and Android, and as far as I remember, that wasn't as easy as it is supposed to be.
Let's not confuse encryption with encoding.
I agree. I think the answer is to improve salary transparency to help alleviate the information asymmetry between employer and employee. Things like https://levels.fyi are making good progress here.

I have no interest in joining a union but I absolutely take all of the salary information I can get my hands on into account when negotiating my pay.
Why do they leave? Are those reasons addressable by a union?
YouTube Engineer Shot by Police After Injuring 8 in LSD-Fueled Rampage
Whether or not this is a good strategy depends on how much damage will be caused and whether the subject is likely to actually make the connection between their choice and the harm it caused.

A parenting analogy may be in order. Once I stopped my then 2yr old from walking over some broken glass, to her loud objection. It would have been stupid to allow even such impermanent injuries as bloody cuts on her feet in order to "teach her a lesson" that she would not actually have learned.

In today’s economy, selling your university system for scrap is a horribly damaging move even for a well-populated state with a diverse economy. In Alaska it could be fatal.
I always heard "hold down alt and press each f key one at a time", people forget about alt f4 if you don't specifically say f4
These are not high demand professions. They are a very limited number of jobs available with many more people who would love to fill them.
Seconding IRCCloud. Great mobile app with a dedicated developer. If you subscribe you can even use it as a better Slack client.
Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/) is pretty easy to setup - if you deploy to Ubuntu or Debian.
You could throw in an exception for experimental use, but even an experiment can have its protocols published somewhere beforehand.
Ask HN: Anyone broken into low level / embedded development self taught?
I'm, starting to genuinely consider the switch as it's something I've been interested in for years, but I lack the acedemic credentials. I'm confident of my abilities to teach myself much of it, but anything closer to electrical engineering or DSP, I'm a bit iffy about.

Has anyone broken into some form of low level development without a degree or perhaps with an irrelevant degree?
The way I heard it described, the annual payout will increase, where as that money now goes towards social programs primarily aimed at children and families. So while that money will be in citizen's pockets, it likely won't get spent in a manner that will benefit society long term.
I will share my thoughts. Happy to be challenged and discuss more.

I think instead of looking for a past era solution we should look for a completely new solution set. Why not work on creating open systems. May be instead of getting a leverage over employers, tech people should contribute and create parallel systems. Which instead of creating monopolies help anyone challenge the status quo easily. I think it already happens to a great degree with many engineers and even companies contributing their tooling, research and solutions to open source.

May be we just need to accelerate that trend?

We totally should walk away from zero sum view. So not employer vs us. But how do we make sure that engine for innovation and opportunities keeps on running and keep on creating new companies
Springboard itself doesn't, but it loads a framework into itself that does; commenters here have suggested this is because it needs to render notifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380588
Update to AmigaOS 3.1.4 Released
DeepNude cracked copies shared online as code is decompiled
It's certainly a two-way street. I think anyone would agree that trolls deserve anything but dilly-dallying, but trolls don't belong to the newbies and casuals I'm concerned with. You putting the term unfriendly in quotes, and implying that you are subjected to having to "put up" with people, just reinforces my opinion that the problems I've described are indeed normalized.
The Social Dynamics of Code Reviews (2008)
I don't really understand the author's conclusion either. He thinks Libra is the con... so he's going to buy it? And even though he'll buy Libra coins he's going to "win" the con because he's not going to give them his trust? If Facebook valued trust more than money their business model would look very different.
I subscribe to if you are not willing to contact your friends without facebook then they probably were not meant to be in your life anyway.