skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odds of this being actively exploited by a nation state is higher than it not being exploited. It's too juicy of a attack target, while being almost universally deployed since 2008.

Even 14 years ago the FBI was using off cellphones as microphones, recording in-person conversations in a restaurant between some Mafia targets. It was acknowledged during a criminal trial, which means it was probably old-hat by then:

> Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."

> He ruled that the "roving bug" was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect's cell phone.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdr...

Getting access to laptops/PCs regardless of power state with long-term persistence and very low detectability, regardless of traditional OS monitoring, would be top of the list in terms of requirements for any intelligence agency.
I see that on LA craigslist. You can find plenty of apartments that come 'fully furnished' with that spartan airbnb black particleboard furniture, cheap tv, and futon. Some of them are only month to month, in anticipation of going back to airbnbing whenever that becomes profitable again, like a lightswitch.
(a former Australian, who gave up his citizenship when it suited him better to be a US citizen)
Chrissy field beach was amazing on Friday, whole family got sunburned and didn’t want to leave. Ocean beach is massive and awesome, great for bonfires. Both those are 10 min drives for us. Or head to one of multiple nudist beach just south of Pacifica or north Baker beach near the GG. I totally relate to SF being associated with beaches and ive been here 15 years now. We used to have to drive in over 1hr of LA traffic to go to the beach, don’t miss that.
That's roughly true: 32KB RAM and 256KB Flash will provide a decent MicroPython environment. I'm afraid if you have fewer resources than that you should probably look at other alternatives.
Pay corporate income tax here and then will talk.
I can't comment on the parent, but here are some disclosures of international capability that Snowden could have kept to himself:

- RAMPART-A

- Anything collected and shared by Five Eyes would have originated overseas. There's quite a bit of GCHQ material, such as Karma Police

- NSA ability to cross airgaps in China

- NSA Core (undercover human agents tapping China, South Korea and Germany) and TAREX (target exploitation running that out of embassies)

- NSA MonsterMind

All of these are only deployed overseas and there are many more such documents. Some have unredacted names of regular people who run these programs, and pieces of info that're miscellany to you and me, but gold to state intelligence services. Both Wikipedia and Lawfare distinguish between Snowden's disclosures of perhaps-unconstitutional domestic surveillance and probably-consitutional international surveillance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations
so, not a precedent

nothing alarming
German princess deletes links from Google after drunk-rant on killing muslims
PEEK

POKE

(who named these interesting commands?)
> Try it for a month and see if you prefer it.

Far longer than a month. It’s a vastly superior experience.

99% of personalization is utter shit. Having hard filters ("never these domains" on search engines, "don’t try and get me to rewatch things" or "No comedy" on Netflix) would top shitty personalization (aka. hey, I’m dumb, but please watch this) every time.

edit: For me. I realize that the majority of people seem to want tech to guess/tell them what they actually wanted.
Meh. You have seen nothing! Imagine walking home at night, along a park which gives unusually wide views of some parts the horizon.
Weather feels OK, partially cloudy. Nonetheless something is OFF.

What is "off"? Startled you see glowing and flashing clouds, but it is so far away, you can't exactly tell. Also dark. And no sound of thunder at all? Then you see tiny bright threads arcing between mountains of towering dark clouds, maybe 30 to 45° upwards from the horizon. The dark clouds begin to glow stroboscopically. Still no sound at all. It shines pink, violet, electric whiteblue, orange, yellow, sometimes, especially in the upper regions even greenish. You stand there, awestruck, and still don't know what it is. Cars on the street stop, drivers getting out, asking you what that is, because they've seen it since maybe 10 minutes, and didn't know what it was either.

You tell them you have no clue, never seen something like this before, but it's probably just a large thunderstorm, far away and high up in the sky, maybe 50 to 60km away.

About 10 minutes later, back home, you open https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en and see an inferno unfolding. It dawns on you that the "tiny threads" which flickered horizontally between the glowing clouds for up to 1.5 seconds must have been dozens of kilometers long.

For some strange reason I had clear line of sight in form of a cone into that front, maybe 60 to 80° wide. Very unusual.

Next day the media is full of it. Also some very impressive videos of it in the net.

Anyways, I'd have expected that one can see this far from some mountaintop, or tower, or a plane, but not from the ground.

TBH my first thought was: Is this how it(WWIII) begins?
As a counter point, I was in an interview loop recently with a candidate that ended up solving the question eventually, but didn't hit a lot of the bullet points in the parent comment (asking clarifying questions, edge cases, abstraction).

After discussing feedback from other interviewers, it was apparent that the same considerations were lacking in multiple interviews, and so the candidate got a no hire decision. For any single interview it probably would have been okay to omit these things, but when there's a negative pattern across multiple interviews, that's when it really hurts your chances.
Let's throw politicians in the mix there too. Lots of "you should do X", but of course, they can't be held to the same standard because they have important business running the country that requires an exception.
Driving through Texas in the summer a long time ago, I got out of my car briefly and was struck by how my long pants were palpably trapping cooler air and shielding me, when I'm used to thinking of less clothing as being suited to hot weather.
Be careful what you wish for. This law is Australian government protectionism for the already-corrupt and thankfully dying status quo: the lumbering dinosaur that is News Corp.

IMHO, what makes it obviously corrupt is that News Corp pays little to no tax and is owned offshore, and yet the Australian government protects it as if it's local (whilst at the same time cutting funding from the local news organisation the ABC).

There's most definitely a void opening up for quality news and media, which is being filled by social media opinion pieces (which, to be fair, is no different from what I'm writing here) which are lacking in any of the quality, research or integrity that news reporting should have.

Having said all that, history shows that what news reporting "should have" (quality, research, integrity, fact-checking etc.) has been bent in various directions since the very inception of news media. So what we're getting is just a changing of the guard as opposed to anything necessarily worse than before. However, this law the Australian government is attempting to push is a delaying tactic against the changing of the guard.

It's protecting something that never really existed.
You can drop a shiny new billion dollar school with teachers paid a million dollars a year in poor neighborhood and still not end up with a “good school”.

A good school is one in which the children attending the school have secure home environments, where there is secure food, heat, internet, AC, transportation, quiet, and other fundamentals that are conducive to education. The students peers also need to the same to create the culture of learning. Most importantly, there is a set of parents who have the time and energy to keep up with the kids’ education and plug any gaps along the way. Bonus if the parents themselves have connections and resources to boost their kids’ access to connections and resources. E.g. knowing doctors who can show the way around medical education, lawyers who can show the way around the legal world, etc.

Unfair is the state of the world, and unless we want to close to income/wealth gap and give parents the ability to not have to work 2 jobs, or 7 days a week, or choose between fixing a car or eating dinner, the unfairness of schools has nothing to do with the schools or management of the schools themselves.
Why would anyone be thrilled about having to funnel cash to News Corp? The news business is dead, and good riddance because it descended into yellow journalism and clickbait garbage.

Check the News.com.au homepage and observe it looks like a worse Daily Mail.
This project has the greatest sales pitch I've ever seen:
https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/master/README.md -- combined with the project name it's just perfect.
My partner and I capitalized on dropping rents and just moved into a large 1br with amazing views and garage in SF, for a marginal increase in rent. I am hoping that with tech moving out and commercial real estate getting cheaper, the new generation of artists will come to the city, bringing with them the weird culture, the creatives, the experimental. Its not the first boom of this town and after every bust the city heals itself to something even better.
I agree with you that legally Snowden was offside.

The problem was that I think that a lot of the things that leaked people either

A) THOUGHT were illegal

or

B) Thought that while legal, the government does not do and would not do (particularly because spokespeople have implied under sworn oauth that they do not do.

I'm talking about domestic surveillance.

If there was any justice, then the thing should have been a wakeup call for the US populace and government and new laws would have been introduced to make the things that he leaked illegal.

Alas...
The uncertainty is the problem. Until recently I had fairly slow broadband, weeks to sync initially. Changing providers is often do it again, loose history either way, or pay another provider per GB to do it.

The lack of official Linux client was the killer for me years ago, but prior to fibre internet the uncertainty was a big issue too.

People want to plan around services like this remaining. Nothing is certain, but the news quite often talks about Google dropping another service.
You talking to Google or News Corp?

You're flipping a single-sided coin. Heads you lose, and that's the only option.
It’s very unfunny, even as satire.
The headline is where the problem is. The article itself is careful to use qualifiers like observed and measured.
It's actually pretty tough to camp these days. Everyone is doing it, so the familiar spots are packed with people eager to not wear a mask and rip through 24 beers in 24 hours.
Unfortunately, it is accurate to the questionable nature of that debate.
Look, I'm not going to deny that this is obviously motivated by News Corp and Fairfax lobbyists.

However, the ACCC is legitimately one of the really brilliant government agencies here in Australia -- our consumer protection laws are actually designed around protecting consumers interests and I would argue is firmly on the list of positives when taking stock of the pros and cons of living here.
Sure, if you are transporting them via rail it would be the same.... but on belts, nothing stacks.
Google evil etc etc aside, they have been decent custodians of their users data. I don't really want to trust Google, but they behave much better than the Australian government, who recently admitted they spy on their citizens [0], can coerce citizens and companies to install backdoors into their companies software [1].

I trust Murdoch less than the government, and much much less than Google. Remember when Murdoch institutions illegally wiretapped celebrities, politicians, royal family members and relatives of dead British soldiers [2]?

0: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/06/peter...

1: https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...
It’s totally the bos and not the nimby residents. /s
That is simply not true. There have been hundreds of successful referendums, many on non-xenophobic issues, and what's the problem with populism? The point of a democracy is to be populist!

Take 2006:

- Financial aid to new EU members, 2006-11-26, overall result: YES

- Standardized extra pay for families, 2006-11-26, overall result: YES

----

> How many referendums are successfully passed?

> The Swiss have been called on to vote around 306 times since 1848 for a total of 617 proposals. In total, 299 proposals have been passed while 334 have been rejected.

From: https://www.thelocal.ch/20190517/why-does-switzerland-have-s...
The Russian Revolution?

I mean, being rich or a "Kulak" was a very loose definition of rich and was used more as a political bludgeon, but the idea holds.
I transitioned from liberal arts degree -> telemarketing / inside sales -> field engineer -> education company teaching IT to underemployed communities -> big IT consulting firm -> normal software engineering job,

You have an awesome background,

Some surprising types of companies that helped me transition into a software engineering role where i am today and am happy with:

-education companies teaching software/IT (lots of online/non-profits doing this nowadays in the US, pays not great, but its fun to teach and you are working with software which is a step in the right direction), i found education hours are usually pretty structured (when you are with students), so that gives you time to continue to ramp up skills outside of those hours, i initially enrolled as a student at my program, at least you will be able to tell your friends/family what you do all day if quitting your job is on the table, and then went on to work for the school for a brief time

-field engineering (installing software systems/robots/machines on client sites), sounds like you have a good background for that, a step in the right direction in my opinion, being on client sites can be pretty brutal though in terms of not having time to improve skills out of work hours due to work deadlines/exhaustion of physical nature of the work and the traveling.

-big consulting firms, big IT consulting firms like Deloitte, Cognizant, Capgemini, handle staffing software engineering/IT departments at a lot of big US corporations. So like Google engineers might mostly be normal Googlers, but there is probably still thousands of IT consults working at Google full time (on projects with like 10 year contracts, obv easier to get hired by IT consultant than a firm like Google) These firms hire both extremely qualified/experienced engineers and newbies like us who might be getting in the industry. Might not be the dream job for someone getting into software engineering, but I found working with senior engineers at Fortune 500 companies to be a great step in the right direction.
What If We Could Live for a Million Years?
What is the main difference between this and other Smalltalk implementations besides the underlyiing GrallVM?

Is it that you can easily call to Java and JavaScript (and perhaps back)?

In other words, Why TruffleSqueak? (I didn't see a good answer to that on the website)
Please don't use sockpuppet accounts like this.
Understanding Recursive Queries in PostgreSQL
It sounds to me like you installed spyware on your coworkers computer. What kind of company were you working at where people see this as a joke instead of a security breach? And let's not forget the trust coworkers have in you not to fuck with their machines.
The four penny coffin was one of the first homeless shelters in England
The main reasons are:

1. My applications have no dynamic "linking"
2. The containers are distroless
3. Services can be built independently
4. I run the same exact sha in dev/staging/prod

To do what you're suggesting would require giving up one of my features which for me is not worth the trade off of a one-time setup 40min build of 20+ services (~2min/service). The last time I paid that 40min cost was ~2 months ago when I reformatted my hard drive.

The better solution for me is looking into a build system that can support my different language and tooling choices which happens to be things like Blaze (Bazel/Pants/Buck/Please).
I dunno, I’m actually about halfway to being convinced that if we can figure out what causes breakfast we’ll necessarily have solved the problem of consciousness, too.
No - this is implemented in software on a general-purpose processor. You can't read flash contents optically with a microscope, so the software part is invisible. You can certainly identify the bits of the general-purpose processor though.
how about we change the system that allows them to do so?

How would you change it? Even if you taxed Travis at 90%, he'd still be a billionaire and could hold parties, maybe a little less lavish.

Or would you make private jets illegal?
A quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during the pandemic, CDC says
> for time-beating purposes, it is optimal to instantly guess as soon as you identify that a guess is necessary

Often that is the case, but sometimes you reach a point where you ultimately need to guess, but you can make an informed guess based on the number of mines remaining. Then the question becomes, is it worth guessing and potentially losing faster, or are you having a really good game and want to risk losing late in the game?
Ironically, for tax reasons.

And yet our pollies are, inexplicably (not really), still in his pocket.
I honestly haven't updated! Or at least, not purposely. The package in Ubuntu's repo is at v0.68.3 which was released at the end of March. So apparently I updated at least once. Latest version is 0.74.3.

A lot of the updates I am missing seem to be simple bug fixes.
Mark I brains suffice to make incised graffiti. Although the data density is pitiful, the observed retention lifetimes beat tape storage.

(At a stretch, eyeballs might be Mark I, as they obviously haven't yet been patched to move that interconnect bundle out of the high-res region. Brains have enough legacy layers that they're probably Mark V at least...)
The (kamakazi) Suicide Manual [pdf]
Wasn't the Salton Sea filled by the Colorado River?

I hope someday they connect it to the sea. The area below sea level, El Centro and such, is good for farming, but another inland port seems like a reasonable trade. I'm sure the residents would disagree though. Given enough time, nature will do it for us, as that is one of the rare places where a rift valley is forming on land.
You... don't want their clients, to be honest. I've seen some serious team-breaking bugs all because someone's mouse slipped and a team folder was dragged to a recycle bin.
Thanks for the insight, in your experience how has the performance been?
Would you please stop using HN for flamewar and posting unsubstantive comments? We ban accounts that do that and you've unfortunately done quite a bit already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Downloaded Mineswifter yesterday:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mineswifter-minesweeper/id1521...

Nice iOS app that will never force you to guess. What’s more fun though is he made the inverse: Evil Mineswifter - will always make you guess

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/evil-mineswifter-minesweeper/i...

By far the best looking mine sweeper apps I’ve seen on iOS
Thanks, i think that building images and restarting pods would be a bit out of scope for this script, but you have examples in the tests for this project. For kubernetes cluster administration i have this project; https://github.com/MoserMichael/s9k
> creating libraries in Julia from scratch is easier and faster

Easier than what? In what ways is it faster?
Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi
"Green circuits locally or centrally?"

> it doesn't really matter because for 99% of players the factory won't fall apart due to this decision

"Do I Need Kubernetes?"

> it doesn't really matter because for 99% of developers the infrastructure won't fall apart due to this decision

Factorio and Software Engineering :)
Even if you lose competing against the best, you're still better off than the ones not in the competition.
Continuous inflow isn't the problem, outflow is the problem. With no outflow aside from evaporation, it would just get continuously saltier.
I've never used rclone but according to the OneDrive Client for Linux (OCL) maintainer it does support OneDrive Personal, Business, Office365 and Sharepoint including shared folders for Personal and Business. It also fully supports Azure National Cloud Deployments.

To get the key you need to use the web browser to complete the set up.
I'm so happy I got to see Marta Beckett's show in the Death Valley Opera House. It was a fantastic experience I'll never forget.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amargosa_Opera_House_and_Hot...

Then, spending the night on the giant sand dunes. The deeper you'd put your hand in the sand, the warmer it would get.

Special people in Death Valley. Gorgeous landscape.
It seems like camera or radar systems at intersections would be easier for advanced warning of someone running a red light than having to fit every car with a radio that broadcasts its speed etc.

Apart from that, this is a concept that's a long time coming, but assuming it can be made sufficiently anonymous and optional, seems like a good idea. Like maybe cars should only broadcast a random percentage of the time so that it doesn't look weird for a car not to be broadcasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
What would be good and bad examples where personalization excels and fails?
Tilix – A New GTK 3 Tiling Terminal Emulator for Linux
I hear what they are saying and I reject it as trivially incorrect. Of course all we are is math. What else do you think there is?

"The thing is that the math/s.i. that ML models do is too trivial in comparison to the math that would be required to describe a human identity" why do you think this? How do you know the expressive power of neural networks? How have you guaged the expressive power of biological neural networks. How have you made any of these conclusions?

I am exasperated.
Kube-vip is another good alternative to metallb.
I didn't mention the government funded ABC but rather the Australian Associated Press (AAP) which is a collection of local journalists funded collectively by the large media companies on both the left and right wing.
Is News Corp pretending it doesn't turn any profit by offsetting it to an Irish entity?

I always understood it's deliberately run at about breakeven, it's a political tool, not a money-making enterprise.
You think a probabilistic engine can't model a human doing induction? At a certain level of capability, mere pattern imitation closes upwards.
> Bonus is not guaranteed so why take that into account?

Bonus is not guaranteed only if you're about to get fired. Even lowest ok performance grade at google (CME) will get you 15+% bonus. But it's not a whole lot of money anyway. Stock is where you make bank.

> Stock maybe but you can't pay the bills with that

Only at private companies. FAANGs are all public and their stock is as good as cash. You can trade it for raw cash any moment the stock market is open (except during trading blackout windows before earnings) and pay your bills with it
I gotta say, the IBM logo among others are very memorable logos. Even the one for NeXT which actually made it falls in this category. I like them.

Not so much for the rest which I am seeing presented here though.