skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that it can't. I was merely pointing out the proper 'burden of proof.' The article was criticized for failing to demonstrate that something can't be done... that's not fair. The burden would be on the proponent of the proposition that a machine can attain general AI. That's all.

Perhaps there could be general AI... I'm not saying it can't be done. I would point out, though, that IF it is to be done, it certainly won't be by copying a brain. Nobody even knows the hell the brain works...
Many companies do provide a mobile, but then your choice is to carry 2 devices, or let your company control the only device you carry and use all day for personal communication. I chose the former but even that’s not ideal
Never heard of this service. Seems like they have too much money at hand. When you have billions you start to think that every problem can be solved with money and that inhibits creative solutions. Instead of organic growth based on the value they can provide, they try to buy their way into the premium league.
That might vary by team. My team/org still uses cameras a lot as it makes it easier to empathize and be empathized with. Especially if we're trying to be persuasive, a human face is easier to emotionally connect with than a voice.
Japanese washi tape is the perfect solution to the 'covering the webcam' problem. It leaves no residue and resticks over and over.
The feds would have to stop distorting the markets in the West before any of this could happen economically, right? People didn't just forget how to grow orchards and pastures. They got run out of business by the California water projects and the BLM. As long as the BLM keeps leasing out grazing land for $1/acre and as long as Reclamation allows Stewart Resnick to grow 100k acres of nuts on otherwise worthless land, how can sustainable growers compete?
tbh it seems like the distinction being made by the stuff about 'alt-lit twitter' and 'weird-facebook' from a few years back

https://stayhipp.com/media/tiktok/what-is-alt-elite-tiktok/
Group Brainstorming may be a waste of time if you only consider the ideas from that brainstorming session; but if you consider group brainstorming as a communication session, then you should also look at the ideas that those involved come up with and develop later.
Most average users are the reason for this. HN is not average, lets just get that out of the way right now.

But it's not uncommon at all for someone to hear "I need to setup 2FA" so they go do so and then not understand how it works or why they're doing it. Or have some misunderstanding such that they might know what it does but not how it functions enough to properly backup their 2FA secrets or backup codes.

This then results in a massive amount of customer support. It's also really time consuming to verify the identity of your customers and there's no really good way to do that to then disable 2FA reliably knowing you're talking to the actual account owner.

This is at least a potential way for support to assist someone that messed up and disable their 2FA without having to verify their identity with some cumbersome/unreliable method.
Lenovos have a physical cover that can be shut when camera is not in use. It’s paranoia free and tape is no longer needed for that. Maybe apple could do something similar for their users comfort
That's some pretty broad-strokes-painting. I'm still on a video call every week, and I'm not in as many meetings as most of my coworkers. I'm also in two separate weekly online roleplaying game groups and we use cameras for those because it's much less fun without the added expressiveness.
Thank you! I had the domain for two years or so now just waiting for the right project to come along haha
Came to the comments to see if I was losing my mind trying to understand that sentence.
>2013: iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

... applies only to older Mac notebooks from like 2008 period which are long since obsolete according to Apple's announced support policy.

>2016: Your Mac’s Camera Can Be Hacked https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/your-macs-camera-ca....

... refers specifically the exploit above.

>2016: Former NSA employee: This hack gains access to your Mac's webcam https://www.cnet.com/news/mac-webcam-hack-ex-nsa-employee/

... is an attack that depends on the camera already being in use by another application and therefore has nothing to do with the camera indicator.
If your entire concern is based in a slippery slope, it's more difficult to take it seriously, especially when the concern conceals a disregard for actual harm happening now.

"Cancellation" is a democratization of power. It allows the little guy to push back effectively against the bigger guy. Saying "look there's the possibility that it might eventually have bad consequences" rings hollow when it's also actively having good consequences right now.
Just start it. Asking and reading others' stories is just another delay in starting. You don't have to quit, you can start working on it and if you continue to stay passionate then eventually make it your full-time focus.
Tangentially related: I have an HP notebook that has a physical webcam switch near the USB ports and microSD slot. This switch is not wired to the webcam in any way. It's a USB HID device. You need to install software drivers to make that switch function as a control of the webcam. That is insane.
Just a heads up, the Page Title doesn't change when I navigate to a different page!
No, node_modules are not heavy
If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
Does that happen often?

We've been 100% Microsoft Teams since March so I'd say that in several hundred calls and conferences since then I've never activated the webcam without intent.
There is an element of truth to this. I agree -- people are out of touch with the world around them, on average.

But it's a double-edged sword. The abstraction has been hugely beneficial to society as a whole. Specialization lets us create entirely new industries.

These problems can't be ignored forever though. Eventually the dollar figure behind them will motivate even the most conservative actors. If it's cheaper to use better technology, and that technology doesn't have the same side effects, then there is no reason to continue to harm.

We're just not there yet.
There is quite a bit of evidence that your brain is analog, not digital. There is lots of evidence that it is both chemical and electrical in nature And while it is capable of logic, it does not rely strictly on any specific form of logic.

In other words, the only working models we have for "intelligence" are nothing like the silicon binary switches we are attempting to use to replicate it.
> It does because you're relying on racial identity to determine who pays and who receives rather than who stole and who was stolen from.

I did not say or imply this.
> Things need to be properly acknowledged before they can be moved past.

What acknowledgement would right the wrongs of history? What is the appropriate amount of reparations to be paid?
Not in this case, since it's about filtering porn. /s
Does anyone here work an environment where LibreOffice is sufficient?

It replaces Word well, but for Excel, there is just too much of a shift for me.

It is a great product, but given the market saturation of Office, I am not sure there is really a place for it in the market spectrum.
Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of U.S. Election
Yeah, light can turn on when one is looking away from the computer or sleeping and could potentially be spied on. A cover is a non spying guarantee, at least the visual part, spies can listen on the mic though
I don't think it's an either/or scenario. It's easy to put a cover on where you can still see the indicator light on MacBooks.
To be clear, you are saying you don't want something powerful and fundamental to be added because you don't want to learn how to turn a feature off or learn how install an adblocker?

Not only that, but better performance is what pushes you over the edge, not popups, connection slow downs, auto playing videos or tracking?
Understanding ZMAP+ File Format
To be honest I'm sure it isn't erotica just as the Holy Bible is not despite verses like Ezekiel 23:20. I must also confess I did find the revelation a little amusing. It certainly says something about men (whether that's just the men of 70s from when both originate).
Thank you so much for posting this. We are about 80% sure that we'll be homeschooling this year and figuring out how to approach that is not easy. Looking forward to digging through these resources.
I don't think they are saying that a vulnerability currently exists. I think they are saying that people don't trust these lights because they have a bad track record. It could be that the current implementation is better, but how is an end user supposed to know it's better?

It's kind of a matter of fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Google bought YouTube, but it was hardly a social network when they bought it.
Does the bytecode OCaml compiler compile faster than Go? What about Bucklescript? I've never experienced issues with OCaml compile times but I wonder how it compares against a widely acknowledged "fast" compiler.
That's a great point. Maybe there should be a touch-sensitive button up by the camera to turn it on.
I don't understand why people have window curtains and close them at night. If you have them closed then you can't see the person spying on you outside. Door locks are more important.

This is what you sound like. The things can be used in conjunction with one another. It is not an or scenario, you can have both. You can also have covers which don't cover the indicator. You use different deterrent mechanisms for different threats. It is as simple as that.
Common Lisp REPLs and Smalltalk have ruined me for life as far as that goes.
Just curious, how would one handle something like this in Ocaml:

x = function() {
if (rand() > 0.5) {
return "abc"
} else {
return 2.01
}
}

So far, union types and boxing/unboxing are possible answers. Would type inference work in this case? (well, it would for boxing/unboxing but union types?)
All the indicator light tells you is that "you are being watched". Not sure that gives people peace of mind that they won't be watched.
Risk to the average apple customer is? Do you think that most people need to worry about this? Point Apple is making is it's not needed for the vast majority of their users and if you feel better use a piece of paper.

So let's stipulate it can happen (because well it can happen). That would take both someone being targeted en masse (prior to apple having a fix in place) and it making a difference to the person or people it happened to. Is that really a big enough risk to spend time worrying about?
nats streaming worth checking out, or if you dont care about the streaming part nats/zeromq should be simple enough (simple pub/sub infra tools).
In Rust, I'll usually add a type hint for clarity if I have a massive method chain full of confusing transformations. Sometimes I'll also temporarily add them to closure arguments so that autocomplete is happier.

But otherwise you're right... they're almost never actually needed unless there's an actual ambiguity (e.g. what kind of collection should .collect() produce?)

It's pretty great. I can confidently do a whole pile of reckless-looking stuff and be reasonably confident that I've done what I intended to do once the compiler is happy.
> I personally don't believe these sanctions have "the right reasons" behind them because the US selectively allies with countries with a similar legal and moral track record as China.

What countries does the US ally with that have a similar track record as China does in Xinjiang? The only thing recently comparable that comes to mind is Myanmar, with the Rohingya. But I'm not sure to what degree the US allies with Myanmar.
The simplest solution is that land ownership shouldn't exist. Land belongs to all.
So you're catering to Siemens when you refrain from putting your dog in the microwave?
I found it mildly entertaining that the same form also instructs you to "Never give out your password."
Maybe browsing sites manually isn't a sustainable strategy?

g'rackspace pricing' yields: https://www.rackspace.com/calculator
Or Apple could just include a cover into the lid, like many other manufacturers already do. For example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/c...
Did the girl who threatened to stab "all lives matter" people actually go out and do it? No, but she got fired anyway.

Free speech does not mean that your words have no consequences.
The concepts of empathy and active listening are well defined. Calling those concepts "undefined, non-falsifiable, linguistic drivel" is completely unsubstantiated.
The US is diving into a dark Covid hole, and there's no plan to get out
It's twitter but video in other words
I d say the issue is the prpgram here, a compressor program might have heuristic to detect png-favored images vs photos. I cannot imagine we couldn't detect the easy cases reliably (because I'd say often images are more in a category or another). Crop the image to 64x64, try png and if the result is sufficiently small continue, else convert to jpg ?
With Android work profiles the employer can require you to allow remotely wiping the work profile, but that would not allow them to touch your personal profile.
Perhaps aimed at a lower age group, but I think https://www.e-learningforkids.org/ should also be mentioned. They provide free primary school education for all kids. Currently mostly focused on math though.
Little trivia: There has been an official UNIX subsystem in Windows since 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX It was a company called Interix, and I believe it was not maintained for a long time (but continued to ship). IIRC the reason it was there was to satisfy DoD contracts or something similar, that required a POSIX-compliance.
How does Amazon email access work from home desktops? I assume it is not just simple POP/IMAP/SMTP authenticated by username/password, because if it was you could use that from mobile, too.
Why would it be difficult to turn off web sockets or turn off multi-threading? Multiple threads already run on single cores all the time, there is no reason a web browser couldn't just put them all on one core.
The question remains. How do you solve the problem of historical injustice? Focusing specifically on land stolen from Native Americans by European settlers.
Kudos to Twitter!

Now if only they stopped cropping images to rand()xrand() in timelines pretending they employ advanced ML algorithms to do so :)
Sub editors are the most undervalued people in the world. I mean for the very first sentence to get published meaning the opposite of what the author intended is just dismal.
> that people don't trust these lights because they have a bad track record.

No tech people who think about and obsess about this type of 'risk' don't trust the lights. Most Apple customers vast majority don't think and don't care.
They might still require you to comply voluntarily (and be on your own if you lie).
protip. small piece of scotch tape and a small piece of paper. when you need camera, just fold the paper open. when it gets worn out, new paper and scotch tape.
Nightly to seconds = developers can see the data generated
within seconds.

This generally has implications on data quality, because you aren't fixing data quality issues once they occur in prod.

This also makes it far easier to develop ETL pipelines. You don't need complex tooling to see whether your ETL pipeline works.

You can technically fix data quality and dev velocity issues without low data freshness, but a quick glance at the data engineering landscape tells you they aren't being solved enough.
Facebook Considering Political Ad Blackout Before US Election
> Clearly this results in confusion, and can't stand

I'm not so sure. The only real effect of this decision is that everybody now has to recognize that a certain class of criminal cases (those in which all parties are members of the Creek nation) in eastern Oklahoma can only be tried in Federal courts (or, for some, Creek tribal courts), not Oklahoma state courts. Nothing else has to change. The Creek nation is already coexisting with non-Creek inhabitants of the same territory and none of that has to change; the city of Tulsa doesn't have to move, people don't have to leave their homes, businesses don't have to relocate. I don't see what makes the state of affairs after this decision particularly confusing or unstable.
Learnt this in my compiler class.It was the most brutal week of my life.
Apple should have an indicator light for the microphone as well, and to avoid confusion,far from the camera.

I don’t think it’s possible to block the mic.
You flinched. Now the downvotes will never stop ;)
Amazon employee here. They do use work profiles on Android phones.
Important distinction. If your microphone is compromised, your web cam might be triggered to turn on just long enough to take a photo, or the camera could turn on only when the mic is quiet and there are indications the person is not engaged with the computer.
FWIR:

Justine Sacco still suffers from severe PTSD and has to attend regular counselling.

Adria Richards fell off the face of the planet, was chronically unemployed for a while, then finally ended up at a no name company, probably making peanuts compared to where she was.

James Damore was also similarly unemployed for a while, was in several lawsuits with Google, and claims to be working at a start-up, but he may also just be freelancing since he's effectively unemployable.

Those are all long term consequences, so, you're effectively wrong here.
Buddy Memory Allocation
> I found Valve's lootbox implementation the best as you could sell and buy on the Marketplace

I've been working to articulate why I think this has actually made Steam's the worst, and possibly the most nefarious.

Up front disclosure: I directly blame the Steam Marketplace for putting my account at high risk of hostile takeover (to the point I've seen evidence of a botnet cracking my password in unbelievable time), for what I believe to be the dumbest reason imaginable. (A TF2 hat I use if I play TF2 that was a pre-order exclusive of an unrelated game.)

The Marketplace seems to only push whales towards further over-spending with dreams of exotic arbitrage of their randomly gambled loot box items.

The Marketplace allows Valve to directly double (and triple and more) dip on the costs of items through Marketplace fees. Whether a whale decides to drop everything on loot box rolls or trawling the Marketplace for "deals" or any sort of would be arbitrage in between (including account hijacking, trade phishing, etc), Valve still gets their cut.

(If there's a specific over indulgence to point to, other than Steam sales in general, as to why Valve is so fat and sated and not hungry enough to develop more games for themselves, I'd argue that Marketplace fees seems an obvious one.)

Even beyond the impacts on whale and thief psychology, you yourself demonstrate why the Marketplace is more nefarious than most of the rest of loot box schemes: the option to sell what you don't want and to buy exactly what you want makes the whole thing seem friendlier. Under the hood the dynamics are the exact same: random lotteries/slot machines create artificial scarcity of digital goods and an illusion of value. In turn the Marketplace, despite and because of most aspirations for arbitrage, serves only prop up and exacerbate that artificial scarcity. Even worse, that Market puts a real money price tag on items. Sure, most of those items are truly micro-transactions at pennies apiece, but there's just enough rare items (because of course there is) that the worm gets into your head that maybe if you gamble on that $1 loot box you'll get a $30 item you could sell to pay for half your next game.

One final reason I think to mention about how nefarious Steam's Marketplace is for gaming: by having the loot box slot machines placed so near to the cashier Marketplace, Valve absolutely is playing the most dangerous game of just about anyone in threatening a Pinball Prohibition-style gambling law crackdown on videogames.
List needs and wants, separately. Too many job ads list requirements which they will never find in a combination. As such they attract liars or exaggerators. Your posting should list no more than 5 REAL must haves, preferably only 3.

Wants and nice to haves can be long, I would put them in priority order.

Describe what the real job is. If you are looking for a maintainer, say so. But I think you might want to also bring in a consulate to clean up your 'ugly codebase'.

With that 'ugly codebase' you are almost begging a person to come in and replace the fence. Need to pay that tech debt. Otherwise anyone you hire will either hate the job, or want to throw the fence away.

When I interview people I have a set list of questions. Then I have like 5 questions tailored to their resume. 'So tell me when you were involved in the design of space-x what did you do?' Then is often followed by deeper probing questions on their exact role.

When looking over a persons resumes I watch out for items that are just bragging. Typically this is a list of too many accomplishments in too short of a time. I look for 3 month jobs where they list items that would be appropriate for a 3 year job.

Given your situation I would specifically ask: 'Scenario: you are given a 4000 line program to fix, you look at it, and the code looks like it was written by a child. Just a load of crap. How do you address fixing the code?' You would expect the first question back is: 'What is the criticality of the fix? Does it need fixing now? Do I have time to clean it up?'

I worked at one place where this one guy hated when people would rewrite code, but he was the worst, as in he always rewrote others code.

Personally I find people who do not see the value in code reviews, are not worth the trouble. They tend to leave 'ugly codebase'.
> I mostly agree but there are a lot of caveats here. Health insurance is the biggest one, of course. ACA is better than nothing but it's not great.

It would be better than employer-provided insurance, especially if people weren't being discouraged to buy high deductible plans, because it would cause patients to be price-sensitive for routine non-emergency care, which would bring down overall costs in a major way. (Which is why the ACA doesn't do that -- the industry doesn't want lower costs, because that's their revenue.)

> Some people can't buy individual life insurance at any price due to preexisting conditions but they can get a group policy from their employer (up to certain limits) with no questions asked.

I'm not sure why it's supposed to be a good thing that people can force other people to subsidize their life insurance after the risk of early payout is already known. It's like letting someone's family buy life insurance after they've already died. That's not insurance, it's charity. Insurance is what you get if you bought it before the risk came to light.
If you can write a JPEG decoder in a weekend, H.261 should be doable. It's much simpler in many ways --- hardcoded Huffman tables and dimensions. The spec is much shorter too.
More than once I was gifted camera-cover plastic things that I could stick to my laptop cameras. They all had convenient ways to open/close them, and they all had the logo of the company that was gifting them to me (one was a proprietary AI software library). I am 100% confident that those plastic things would indeed damage my display, since they were slightly thick and the laptop lid wouldn't properly close with them. So I kept the insulating tape that is currently there, and nothing was damaged. It does make some sense that this article exists.
Yes. Over due in fact. Also, zuckerbeurger needs to pack for The Hague to stand before the ICC for Facebook’s facilitating role in the genocide of the Rohingya.