skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nonetheless, over-writing the rest of the flash memory can still produces catastrophic results!

As exploited by DSBricker [1], a trojan (!?) for the DS, which posed as a ROM loader for flashcarts, but silently trashed the firmware of the DS and the flashcart [2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2005/10/12/nintendo_trojan/

[2] https://www.neogaf.com/threads/darkfader-apologizes-for-dsbr...
I use X11 and a custom keyboard firmware: both of my hyper keys generate USB left super and both of my super keys generate USB right super (or vice versa), and X11 turns left super into hyper and right super into super.
tech/startup culture loves the "making the world a better place" is such a crock, but i believe that Mozilla actually does. i do have more sympathy from a Mozilla layoff than somewhere like FB/Twitter/Uber/etc.
Voting licenses are free in India, you can get them online, and by law, the Indian government must have offices to register to vote for free every few miles from a village.

When the US implements voting licenses, they shut down DMVs and make people buy in to their right to vote.
If you own a valuable n95 with a vent — put a cheap mask over it. Done. No one will complain and you wont be pushed into wearing a mask that doesnt work! (It’s what the nurses in my family do!)
It isn't a "solution" but those stick on aluminum "Nose Bridges" can help a little (they shape the mask around your nose so your breath cannot travel up as well, fogging up your glasses).

You'll still get some fogging even with a Nose Bridge, but it is less severe. They're available from many online retailers for quite cheap.
Why can’t uber just position itself as a lead generation service for drivers?
When I was a teenager, I caught a bunch of beetles and put a dot of white out on some of them. Then I went back a week later, caught a bunch of beetles again, and counted how many had white out on them. Used that to estimate the beetle population.

This wasn't a school project.
Strange. The KYC parts of this tale are the mirror opposite to what I've experienced.

Over the past half dozen years or more I've opened probably 4 or more bank accounts with UK 'high street' banks [a couple for personal use, a couple for business or saving]. I've never had to visit a branch with ID. It's all been done online in a few minutes. I've always assumed that this is because the banks have access to things like the electoral register or local government records to check that I am who I say I am and that I live where I say I do.

The story with the new 'challenger banks' has been very different. I couldn't even open an account with the first few I tried [I think Monzo, Bunq and Starling] because they basically wanted me to send them; ID documents, passport, proof of address, selfie video, etc.

Yes! I'm really going to send an "Identity Theft Kit in a Box" to some unregulated hipster company I don't know from Adam.

I eventually opened an account with Revolut because, at the time, they didn't ask for all this crap up front. But the account was severely limited in amounts I could deposit or withdraw, unless I uploaded a copy of ID/Passport and linked it to my high street bank account.

I did eventually gave in and sent Revolut a copy of my passport although I never kept more than a couple of hundred £££s in the account, as their support forums are full of horror stories of people being left stranded on holiday abroad, or facing eviction because Revolut suddenly and without warning froze their accounts.

The final straw came when my passport expired and Revolut started emailing me a couple of times a week to tell me I needed to upload a new passport in order to continue to use the account --you know that old classic whereby you magically stop being who you were on the Monday, because your government issued ID expires on the Tuesday?

At that point I gave up on Revolut [I'd given up on the other challenger banks at the "Identity Theft Kit in a Box" stage] and closed the account.

I'll stick to my boring 'high street' bank from now on. They may not talk to me in emojis and twee cartoons but at least my money's safe, my account's unlikely to suddenly be locked for no reason and I don't have to give them all my personal data, for the privilege of then giving them my money too.
This prohibition on masks with valves has been in effect in many places in the bay area for months with the accompanying signage, verbal directions and public admonishments, etc.

Ironically, what this means is that instead of wearing a tight, form fitting, purpose built mask with, perhaps 0.5-1.0 square inches of exhaust, we have loose, floppy fabric masks - many without any below chin attachment - with 4 or 8 or 10 square inches of "exhaust".

A local organic, progressive grocery chain in Marin County will stop you at the door with a vented P100 mask but a flowy, loose fitting bandana, totally open across the bottom goes right in.

Setting aside the safety or epidemiological ramifications of this, it is fascinating and stupefying to witness these social evolution play out in front of us ...
Thus exposing the astonishing idiocy of "mask" requirements.

All masks have wildly varying protective capability, for the wearer, or others. Laws requiring "wear a mask" are therefore simply virtue signalling, not actually useful.

If you are at risk -- you would be protected only by wearing a personal powered HEPA filtration unit, and eye goggles.

If you're not at risk, you don't protect other at-risk people by wearing most masks. If the mask you're wearing would allow you to smell someones smoke -- you're not being protected; small vapor particles carrying active viral loads are similar in size to smoke particles.

The whole thing is so astonishingly stupid, it's breathtaking.
It's normal for water to still be in the bottom, since the funnel piece doesn't touch all the way down

Some tips/common issues:

1. Make sure the base is screwed on tight. An air leak could cause water to be left (and burnt coffee)
2. The gasket on the top chamber could need replacing (try wrapping a towel tightly around the seam if you can't get a gasket easily/quickly)
3. The coffee could be packed too tightly
4. The bottom chamber could have water above/in line with the safety valve. This will cause the safety valve to leak water
5. Clogged filters in the top chamber or funnel piece

Not a moka expert, I just live near Woodbridge
> why Google continues to try to use algorithmic solutions for content moderation

When people assume malice so often as you mentioned, it, at least intuitively, feels easier to fault human moderation than algorithms.

Algorithms offer a black box which protect against accusations of bias. If accused of bias, an algorithm's biases can just be labeled unintentional accidents, whereas a human's biases are malicious.
I'm not sure about the adsense part, but they definitely can for the part where gmail is flagging their newsletter as phishing. Gmail has an option where any user can report a received email as phishing.
Earlier on, I read a suggestion for taking a length-wise folded tissue and placing it under the upper edge of the mask to help seal the gap. Have you tried anything of the sort?
It's something so stupid I have to imagine it is deliberate.
> as it allows drivers to discriminate against riders who are going to poor neighborhoods or from cities to suburbs where they may have difficulty in getting another rider.

This is exactly what being a contractor is though. Accepting contract work you'd like, and turning down work you don't. Otherwise you are an employee.
As a company, you know you're doing something wrong when websites such as this pop up on HN. I hope Mozilla is able to turn back to its origins.
This reminds me of a scenario described by Alfie Kohn in "No Contest: The Case Against Competition". If I recall correctly, he describes how people looking for jobs actually are more successful if they work for mutual success within the context of a network like this one. It makes me curious: are there other job-searching networks that exist where people can work for each others' benefit? Is there a general one for any job-seeker?
I wish these sorts of insta-surveys would disclose more about how the polling was done. The cheapest way to do polling is via a pop-up notifcation on a heavily trafficked digital property, with online button-clicking to follow.

But then you aren't really getting data on all Americans. You're getting data on people who happened to be hanging out on cnn.com, smokinggun.com or whatever. And that's going to skew quite severely to people who have above average digital activity.

Same problem if they're using a ready-built panel of people who like to take online polls.

They might be surveying differently, and spending more money. But given that the publishing organization, decisiondata.org, is in the business of guiding people on their ISP choices, I don't think this is likely to be a demographically balanced phone survey, let alone Census-grade field work.

Sure, lots of us do rely on home internet to do a lot of work, especially now. But any effort to quantify this really ought to avoid big-time sampling problems.
The post gave me hope that a change of perspective on Google might ease up my irritation and horror from it a little—if I see it as a clumsy old behemoth, instead of the pioneer of future tech that it's usually portrayed as, and which basically translates to ‘what cyberpunk warned about’.

(But then I remembered that it has literal databases of incredibly personal realtime info on billions of people, and lets police peruse locations of people that committed no crime.)
An interesting idea (which would need to be integrated in the conferencing apps) might be too do quality improvement on the receiver side. Turning low bandwidth and compressed video into higher quality video.
What do you mean by “algorithmically made to work beyond office hours”?
You know the drivers set their own hours right? There are some who prefer to drive exclusively at night.
The Startup Extinction Party
I work for a company that optimizes page load times via a js library. We target mainly e-commerce. It’s crazy to learn how much money e-commerce will spend to improve website speed knowing it has a lift on their conversion rate.

With googles page speed insights / lighthouse gaining popularity (mainly just because its google and not much else), there is definitely opportunity to focus on just improving those results and be paid very well.

the load/onload/document complete event is very mature with studies correlating conversion rate. I don’t believe googles “web vitals” have been tied to any meaningful business metrics... yet.
Learn about the Rise and Fall of Companies (for free)
Fixing the browser revenue is at best difficult (i.e. significantly increase market share, more hard work to do on the browser which will cost $$$ for labor) while the Fix The Internet initiative could result in a miracle that saves them. Management often opts for for the miracle.
The "Big Semi" salaries are notoriously low for the amount of effort one needs to put into his education, and early career.

A physics, or engineering PhD. is a minimum to be allowed anywhere near actual work on the process, and those guys only get $50k-$60k a year in Taiwan after 5+ years.

A regular "technician," or a PhD interns can get as little as $2000 a month.

Of course, the few real know how holders are kept loyal at just any cost, and I heard rumours of 7 digit incomes for those few. This is by far the biggest "carrot" that keeps luring people into RnD work in Semi.
Portland will pass the best low-density zoning reform in US history
Or spends 2.5m just for its CEO yearly (not to mention the other executives). I guess it is easier to fire the servo/rust people who did actual work rather than any of the designers or the higher ups.
OK, so 100k at most per engineer for "over 100" engineers, and those are just the ones that jumped ship, never mind the thousands staying behind. Is that significant?
It doesn't matter. There will be an oversupply of capacity and talents down the road. When the inevitable downturn comes you will see even more outflow. You are basically trying to fight entropy here.
About time. Anyone manufacturing valved masks in 2020 should probably stop and think about the harm they're causing.
Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)
> Laws requiring "wear a mask" are therefore simply virtue signalling

What "virtue" is being signalled?
I think people are thinking of something similar to Digital Ocean's managed databases or Amazon's RDS, but that's quite a different class of services than what it seems timescale is trying to provide with Timescale Cloud.

If people want to play around with timescaleDB for cheap, DigitalOcean claims that their managed postgres supports the timescale extension, but I've never tried it.
The reality is that most people like working with smart peers and cool technology. Being paid is also nice.

Any moral or ethical values is somewhere in the middle of the pyramid of needs.
This is honestly really impressive on such a short deadline! Looks really great.
> more about signaling status than about a great computing power-vs-cost value proposition

The iPhone SE is up there in power-vs-cost, and in terms of dollars per year of usage Apple probably has the best numbers.
Came across this hack for using ordinary liquid soap in dishwasher. Posting it here since a hack is a hack :)

tldr: use a few tablespoons of baking soda with the regular dishwash soap. The reason for not being able to use regular dishwash soap is because it makes lots of suds which floods your dishwasher. But baking soda prevents that from happening.

Would love to know the pros and cons from an expert here.
That sounds like what a roomful of execs would cleverly start talking about to cover there asses, when in reality they knew what they were doing.

If uber cared about guaranteeing your trip to the airport, guarantee it will come and guarantee it's worth the drivers time. If uber cared about folks in the suburbs then guarantee a driver won't go 30 miles one way and then hope they'll get a ride that will take then back home instead of possibly further away.

This "ecosystem" had many of changes to be fair to the drivers and still guarantee a level of experience for the passengers. But the execs of uber have ALWAYS been fast to shove the burden onto the driver for their profit.
First it was TSA airport security theatre now it’s masks!
> Sr. Wokeplace Culture Officer

> What are you looking for?

> New and exciting workplace where I can subtly enforce woke culture on employees just trying to build technologies.
Extensive research says your intuition that figuring out on your own is better than having someone explain it to you is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ
Maybe remacs can recruit the remacs team, frankly
Wait, why do surgical masks (not N95s) exist then? Have doctors been virtue signalling for decades?
I flew on LOT (Polish Airlines) recently and during the safety demo all flight attendants (I saw 3 or 4 down the aisle) removed their masks and kept them off for several minutes.

Why?

You can't demonstrate the oxygen mask dropping down while you're wearing a mask yourself?
> First it is ridiculous to point at studies that say we don't have fraud when we can't know if we have fraud because most votes have no way to audit them.

Again, you insist that the methodology to audit isn't there, yet there are dozens of studies, audits and case law examples that disagree with your opinion.

Again, if you want to disagree with the methodology, you are free to, but please be specific about what you disagree with.
It was never about science or the virus. We give way too much power too quickly to bunch of people who have the leaway to be as authoritarian as they want.
The nominal burden of who "pays" employment-related taxes or benefits is completely separate from who the actual tax incidence falls on. Would you rather get paid $10k that you owe $1000 of taxes on, or get paid $9k with the $1k of taxes already withheld for you? Either way, the total cost of employing you remains the same for the company, and the take home pay after taxes remains the same.
Thank you to the MDN and Servo teams for all their hard work.

Gutting the Servo team makes me wonder if management is going to move the rendering engine from Gecko to Blink.

Perhaps the "Foxium" browser is "coming soon."
Covid primarily spreads through droplets, which are largely stopped by regular surgical masks. There is lots of evidence that shows masks like surgical masks, which don't filter out things like smoke, do slow the spread.

Those kind of masks certainly won't protect you from others, at least not entirely, since you can breath in droplets through gaps in the mask, but they protect others from your breathing or coughing.
AB5 imposes an ABC test on businesses after the precedent set by Dynamex [1]. The specific point of contention the judge has is the B of the ABC - that is whether drivers 'perform work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business'. Uber argues it is a technology company first, and drives/delivers second, whereas the judge argues the opposite. Convincing arguments can be made for both sides.

The modifications discussed in the top-level post address the A and C portions of the test, but not B unfortunately. The B clause is very broad, so likely has ramifications for many tech companies.

Taken to its furthest extent, AB5 makes Airbnb hosts Airbnb employees, Amazon marketplace sellers Amazon employees, eBay sellers eBay employees, Twitch streamers Twitch employees, etc.

[1] https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/2019/03/unders...
This study was posted earlier this week to HN: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sci...

If you look at the figures, you see that valved N95 masks still outperform many other non-valved options for filtering expelled droplets. I wonder if there is any study backing AAs decision, or is it based solely on public perception?

In general, I'm surprised about the lack of information and evangelization about effectiveness of different types of masks. Non-valved N95 are vastly superior to all other low cost / disposable masks, yet they are difficult to find. I've heard reports that the supply chains are being directed predominately towards medical use, but I'm curious what's limiting the production side to making these viable for everyone.
Is that how it works? It's been a long while since I first set up tags for Cost Explorer, but I'm fairly certain it must have applied to, say, pre-existing EC2 instances and so on or else I never would have had it working...
One of the cool things about that particular analyzer is that you can choose how accurate it is in exchange for how long it takes.
> created: 1 hour ago

This account is spreading exactly the same message that russian propaganda does. There is probability that it was created as a part of [russian troll army][1] that is financially supported by russian government.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43093390
[3]: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trol...
[4]: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trol...
Do you mind estimating exactly how quickly something like that could be produced? Great job!
500 I'd probably pre-order one if reviews were decent. 1400... ugh. :/
I was averaging it out assuming there will be an overhead of users using the channel for many other reasons too, eg. they dont know how something works, there are language barriers, other errors get attributed to google (eg. android vs manufacturer) etc.

But this is a fair point, all the assumptions I make (eg. how many products a user uses, number of requests for support, etc.) are hypothetical and might be incorrect if this was actually implemented. Based on my judgement though, while variable might change, the end numbers will probably remain the same.
If it was running Windows 10 like Surface Neo would it have changed your mind, assuming you would see some productivity benefits being a Windows ecosystem user?

But its doubtful Neo would see its light and even if Microsoft released a tablet with Windows 10 IMO it's again getting into the same mess of Windows Phone era. If Neo gets successful, it would likely need to release a smartphone with Windows 10 and if Duo gets successful it would need to scale it up to tablet(which is what likely to happen).

>My Nokia phones from the windows phone 8 era

I concur, I bought a Lumia 640 for development of our app for Windows Phone ecosystem. One day I used a different charger (Of same spec) and the phone charging port went kaput; Searching the web, it seems to be a very common problem but MS never bothered to call back the devices. But, there are similar stores for Google Nexus line of devices and I think for early Pixel devices too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/obituaries/sumner-redston...
I'm not familiar with this topic. Please explain.
How we used Postgres extended statistics to achieve a 3000x speedup
Square now has a Subscriptions API
So the article maybe does an ok job with the expectations set by the main title, but then there's this subtitle: "social science points to a better way" and the article totally flops on that end with nothing more than an end paragraph blurb of less-than-insightful opinions from the article's author.

edit:

Also FTA:

"the researchers found that an anxious attachment style was a particularly strong antecedent of the tendency for interpersonal victimhood."

And from another comment I posted below:

"When a child feels safe, seen, and soothed by their parent in a consistent way, they are able to form a secure attachment to that parent. However, when a parent is available and attuned at times and insensitive or intrusive at others, the child is more likely to experience an anxious ambivalent attachment pattern"[1]

This is a valid and important area of inquiry and I wish the article did a better job on this front.

[1]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compassion-matters/2...
The ones that are for protecting you from dust and other particulates do, medical ones don't.
I have two connections, a business-class DSL connection (100/10) and a residential cable connection (1000/50). Both ISPs in my area have random issues, and I really can not afford to have my service go down for hours at a time.

It costs me a pretty penny ($135+$65/mo), but I have much better reliability and can balance traffic between them when they are both up (my home lab runs off the DSL connection as it has a static IP, but will fail over to the cable connection if it goes down. My personal systems, game console, etc. are the opposite).
I would guess that if air is escaping from the mask around your nose, it is also entering that way, and so wearing masks of that design is not doing much to help either you or others. The vent merely hides the presence of leaks, by redirecting the leaked outflow, but not the leaking inflow.

The only effective solution is a mask that fits properly.
Uber has a lot of power here. They have the ability to speak directly to millions of young people, and explain the issue to their advantage and ensure the vote goes their way and the only issue the people will see is that they are no longer allowed to take uber, and will vote to get that back.
Eh don't lean on em too hard, it's the only term they know in this space and their mode of communication is more like mad libs than actual coherent arguments.
no, it's absolutely not. There is obvious incentive misalignment here: rider want to get to the destination as fast as cheap and possible, and the driver wants to earn as much and as little work as possible. Here is taking the longer route
it's cool and all, why the site though? There are plenty of similar websites for people searching for work