skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That quote is not supporting your point, though, because the author and your friend are in separate camps. They are separate on exactly the grounds you indicate — the author spends paragraphs supporting how Prop 22 is not turning out positively and then says welp, people have been bamboozled.

The bamboozling is the conclusion, not a premise of the article. Such a conclusion is done out of kindness for the voters who passed this proposition as the actual ramifications are now becoming clear. They either didn’t realize or didn’t care that we’d see incidents such as the recent firing of Von employees.

Easiest way to check if someone understood what they were voting in support of is to ask if they thought workers would be fired to be replaced with this new class of employee. That’s why I voted no. I didn’t understand how it would end up being rolled out reality and correcting ballot propositions is much more involved than an ordinary bill.
Goddammit I hate patents, trade secrets and intellectual property. I want this out there on all my devices. Imagine how much less energy we'd use, how much less e-waste we would generate, and how grateful our eyes would be if we weren't staring at blue lights all day.
I'm saying that the OP's reasoning for lack of magsafe is not relevant.
I'm talking about the conversations linked in the Engadget article.

Though by that ludicrous logic you can say anything is company business. Saving an employees morality is absolutely important to a company from a Christians prospective. So is preventing them from dying, so surely you're okay with people harassing you at work about skydiving or rock climbing or drug use?
Lots of different things being mixed up here.

To archive a web page you need the source code, all assets, a layout engine and a JavaScript engine. Search engines and archival tools can handle all this very well today.

Yes, if a site loads a ton of external content it has the potential to break. But that doesn't apply to just JS but also images and all other static assets. If a JS-heavy site is hosted completely from its own domain there's nothing stopping easy archival of it.
The Bitcoin core project died years ago as soon as the GitHub repo was hijacked by corporate interests like Adam Back's Blockstream.

Bitcoin cash is much closer to what is described in satoshi's white paper and infinitely more useful than Bitcoin core at this point.
Some people don't seem to understand what the whole JS SPA thing is about, and it's quite strange to me.

It's not popular because it's a fad, it's not about replacing good old static websites with fancy over-engineered JS code.

It's about making desktop-class applications more accessible via the web. Desktop-class Apps have lower latency requirements then server rendered frameworks are capable of delivering, plain and simple. You could certainly build Facebook as a fully server-rendered PHP app, but that would hurt Facebook's business because its servers would need to do more work and its users would have to wait longer for content.

Fully server-rendered frameworks are not capable of delivering low-latency desktop-class applications. If your app doesn't require low-latency updates, then you can certainly use a classic PHP or Ruby on Rails stack with no problem.

Sure, you can use JQuery style code to make your PHP app more interactive, but you're probably just going to end up with a messy, hard to understand JS code base eventually if you you don't have some sort of
low-latency client-side declarative templating framework.

There's certainly some companies that are caught in the hype and build a SPA app when they would probably be better served with a simple PHP site, but on every project I've worked on that used React across a few companies (interactive apps for ex: cropping & manipulating images, building visualizations and reporting on data), not using an SPA framework would have slowed down development dramatically, or left us with a really poor product.
No reason why both cant coexist and compliment each other like they do today.
Interesting, I would think most programmers touch type which at least for me make the touch bar useless. Since it's always changing I have to look down to see what button I am about to press. For me, if it's something common enough that the touchbars ability to change makes that functionality useful I would have found or made a keyboard shortcut for it.

I just upgraded from a MacBook pro to a MacBook air for the main reason it not having a touchbar, and it's much better (for me)!
The iPad Pro fails at many laptop-esque tasks. I tried during a vacation, and it was way more work and way slower than it needed to be, and it wasn't because it wasn't powerful enough, it was the OS. Dumping photos from an SD card with not apple photos ran into a lot of annoyances and was a lot slower than doing the same thing with a 5 year macbook pro at that point, something that is objectively slower in the CPU realm and were both using USB2 speed SD card readers of some sort. Not to mention iOS's hostility to backgroup apps, making my file syncing app need to be on the foreground all the time for it to sync my photos to my E2E encrypted cloud drive.

A convertible M1 MacBook Air would probably be a better iPad Pro than that iPad Pro would be, and I think that is where apple is going with the "touch-size-ification" of macOS. iPad Procreate running full screen on a macOS convertable would give you %95 of the iPad experience TBH. A laptop is better than an iPad for videos and web browsing TBH.
Haven't commented in an extremely long time but I'm popping into voice my opinion here on two specific certs in that list: eJPT and eCPPT

Those certs are for self study only, the applicable value for them in the hiring process is non existent. No one knows who they are or what they do. Used to be a huge advocate of those certs until I actually bought them, then I immediately regretted it. It's been a few years now but I had an awful time with the latter; buggy, filled with errors, typos, non working software. Back then at least, you had to spend hours fiddling with with the settings just to get it to work at a base level. The eJPT itself is extremely basic, it's just using like 5-10 basic techniques to retrieve a few flags worth of info. Really didn't like how the modules were set up. The main resources are powerpoint slides to cover all the text info, then you may have a few minute video occasionally that explains 1 topic barely. The labs would come with lab guides that were all but useless. The authors are Italian so typos and grammatical errors are rampant.

Curiously enough back when I bought them, they sold their courses individually and they were insanely expensive. Looking at them now, it seems they went away from that and now offer a one for all subscription of 2k/year. The eCPPT alone cost me almost that back much when :/

Since then it seems the company has kind of given up. They used to be pretty active on social media trying to advertise themselves, now they barely ever post. It's like they've given up and are just maintaining the content they have until the ship sinks.

If you can get your company to pay for the subscription, go for it. If for nothing else, just the collection of powerpoints and curated information. Other than that, I'd stay away.
10 years, at least in the industries related to internet, is an eternity.
A system of laws people agree to. Many Americans clearly don’t want to live by the same set of laws and so secession is coming back again. The tribalism currently being shown is that people almost discriminate viscerally more on basis of political alignment than about race, gender, or even religion now (Catholics and Protestants aligning together in the US around any political identity is a massive shift in the political landscape of the past 200 years).
Guardian complaining about democratically elected right wing governments, colour me surprised.

Barely a mention by Guardian about it's terror breeding, human rights despising neighbors. Minorities in India are still thriving regardless of the loose words of random politicians.
If this were the case, the whole Trump Administration and most Republican governors would be getting decades in jail.
> among the billion trillion stars in our past universe, none has reached the level of technology and growth that we may soon reach.

May soon reach? I doubt it. I'd say there's a significant filter between our technology level and large-scale inter-solar-system colonization. It's not at all clear that there is a strong motivation for that - except for a continuous-growth economy, which is kind of unsustainable anyway. Once the population stabilizes and human civilization is basically energy-neutral (i.e. not taking more than the sun provides), where's the great need to colonize someplace else (as opposed to communicating)? And if we don't stabilize - civilization will burn itself out soon enough, colonization or no.

> Even if life only evolves once per galaxy, that still leaves the problem of explaining the rest of the filter

No it doesn't. It's extremely unlikely that one planet with life will travel to a different galaxy. Even with intelligent life it's extremely unlikely. Only if instantaneous travel were possible would this be likely.
Was thinking the same thing, given thermal envelope improvements made possible by M1/M1X/M2 would be so cool to be able to upgrade my perfectly viable MacBook Pro 2015 with a new logic board. Upgrade cycles are so wasteful.
I actually don’t, my family got on the web circa 1996 and within a year or two we were buying books on Barnes & Noble and having them shipped to Spain.

What are you referring to?
E2E encryption is certainty a reason that non-techies use WhatsApp, particularly in preference to Facebook Messenger since 'Facebook reads all those messages' as a friend said. Which I don't think is technically possible any more, but remains a common suspicion.
Flash and Java got stabbed in the back due to stricter security properties then JS. You can't do spying as easily with Java Applets etc. that the user need to approve to run manually.
The annoying truth is that offensive security roles, despite being the "sexy" face of security, are in much less demand compared to defensive security roles. There are some very prestigious pentesting or research shops that pay a lot for highly-skilled offensive security professionals, but they are rare. The average company treats offensive security as an entry-level position meant to attract newbies to security with the "sexy hacker role" before pushing them into more in-demand positions like application security. For context, many of the large companies I consult for have ~5 people max on their red teams, while having 100+ on the rest of their security teams (the "blue" teams). There just relatively aren't that many offensive security positions available.

If you really want to do security, then my advice is to either look at some dedicated security consulting shops that do penetration testing (and be prepared to take a pay cut), or alternatively use your software development experience to pivot into an application security role. From there, you might find it easier to get involved with some offensive security efforts through that.
I would say that some (not all) digital agencies add value not by coding a website up but by providing their service, for example:

- They can build better overall experiences (not just the website, but whole UX). Some agencies/ people do have success in outsourcing the technology, because they might do QA and leadership, which these off shore teams would not get right.

- They have deep expertise in some technology which you can't just hire someone for. I guess you can argue, everyone has a price and a company can just pay that rate, but if that employee is doing all the work, that employee would probably have a high rate and would be, themselves capturing the value, not the company. I think this point is almost just a repetition of the first example.
This is a great example of what I'm talking about. Are you also commenting how you can't see the source of your phone's baseband, Google's services, your ISP's router firmware, WhatsApp's servers, Facebook's service's, etc?

Because Signal's client is open source it's considered a unique-to-Signal downside that we don't have access to the server's source. I feel like some people would bring up the server source issue if someone was asking if it would be a good idea to migrate off of Facebook Messenger.
Although it would super cool for the story to have a common ancestor across huge swaths of land and time on Earth, I think this has a higher likelihood of being correct.

There are several stars in the 5-6 magnitude range close to the limits of human vision in the Pleiades. Seven is also often a sacred number. We also have precedent for cultures such as the Greeks and Arabs using double stars to test vision, namely Mizar and Alcor[1,2]. The typical limiting magnitude for unaided vision is about 6 under perfect conditions, but some people with exceptional vision can see to mag 7.

So it seems highly plausible that most people could only see six, but they knew there were about 7 because some sharp-eyed people could see them and would tell them so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizar_and_Alcor#Test_of_eyesig...
[2] https://www.surveyophthalmol.com/article/S0039-6257(08)00119...
Ten Questions About Trump, Big Tech, and Free Speech
Javascript is designed to be backwards compatible, always. You can visit a website made 20 years ago and all the APIs it uses will still be there.
To me, more successful "open-world" games these days are not that open, but are rather smaller, denser, and sometimes vertical. Sleeping Dogs nearly a decade ago and Yakuza now fit that paradigm, and do pretty well for it.

A handcrafted open world doesn't scale all that well, and Cyberpunk, from my impressions, seems to be both large and vertical, which makes the challenge even harder. Pretty much the only open-world I've enjoyed in recent years is BOTW, and that world is pretty empty, if only because the setting is literally an apocalypse where most people died. (In fact, for people arguing for interaction density, there is a collectible in the game that is revealed when it is 100% to be a pile of feces, specifically to make fun of 100%-ters.)
I use windows for work and as soon as im done I reboot on a linux partition. My daily driver is linux as I hate the lack of control I have and the insecurity (i feel that microsoft does whatever behind the scenes) i get on windows. For example after an update windows shoves me an edge icon on the desktop. I removed all the bloatware on the laptop and multiple times things are re-enabled after an update. I also cannot turn off updates if i want to. There are a few services for which I as an admin have no way of turning off or even change any settings. Wtf!
I was able to gain some control of my machine with some registry settings but at the next update everything was overwritten. F that, i don’t wanna play whack-a-mole anymore. If i need to use some windows software i boot the windows partition, then when done boot up on linux. Ubuntu these days is low friction, most Hw works out of box, etc.
> without a corresponding increase in detection

How many detections have we had? The camera argument to me is ignorant of how hard it is to get a good picture of something small in the sky. People are constantly taking videos of dots they say was a UFO but it's impossible to identify what they captured.
What staggers me is when sites like Twitter decide that JS is now required to read a tweet...Like it's literally some text like what you read on HN but it needs damn JS...Why?! The entire website could work as a simple .txt file for all I care, no reason why it should be so bloated.

All sites like FB, Twitter should by law be required to work without JS at a minimum due to how important they are in our society today.
If your "web page" is essentially just a script tag and relies on content through first and third party APIs it's going to be pretty difficult to keep that running long term.

If an API shuts down, an incompatible change is pushed, or a JS CDN goes defunct in that JavaScript-only site breaks. JavaScript-only sites are pretty fragile.

If the same content was just a normal HTML document it could at least be easily archived. It's also trivial to keep online. Even if some CDN dies and CSS or JS doesn't load it's still readable.

JavaScript developers have never been great about progressive enhancement but it seems of late they've gotten worse. If the sole purpose of a site is to be an app then tons of JavaScript is necessary. But that's a minority of sites. A blog post or news article doesn't need to dynamically build the DOM with JavaScript and short circuit all of a browser's loading and rendering logic.
Why pick either of those alternatives? Block all ads, whether "relevant" or not, so they don't compete for your valuable attention.

> And I'd rather not make ads less effective because that would mean either more ads or fewer publishers.

I'd rather make ads so ineffective that they go away entirely. Some publishers will find a way to adapt.
>Of course a frugal person doesnt spend an hour trying to save $5.

I think you may underestimate how, for many people (including well-off ones), getting a "deal" becomes the objective in itself.
Also the web as an app delivery platform seems the best / most available route to escape the walled gardens of the world...

Sometimes I wonder what exactly folks want, desktop apps only, the web as purely as basic html?
If my research suggests it can happen in 5 or 10 years, it is not immoral for me to have a patent on it that can be licensed to a party that can add the special sauce that makes it work.

Why would my research suddenly become public domain just because I had the idea but technology hadn't caught up yet, even though my research suggested that it would catch up?
For that size screen, yes. I think roughly $1-3/screen for that size is good. That’s what a small OLED screen will run you at any kind of volume. For $20 I would want something on the order of 6x8”. For $35 a 20” diagonal panel.

Granted you linked to Adafruit which is wonderful for their educational resources and easy to use high quality components, but that’s not where I would source parts for a project unless they had something truly unique or I was buying it for a newbie who could use the support they provide (bought some Arduino stuff from them recently for my kids).
If you're doing well at CTFs and HTB and similar, I guess you are now at the point where you should start to look at networking. Clearly given world circumstances right now, in-person networking events are not likely to be happening, but it's likely that there's a local community in your area with security people.

They might still be doing virtual events, having some speakers etc. Get yourself known. I have been able to get junior people straight out of college/university into roles by getting them into the "networks". There's a worldwide shortage of security people, caused partly by the inability of the people who need them to efficiently hire them (other causes include wanting top-level skills for bottom level pay, and blaming lack of people for their own lack of willingness to pay).

The more you get known in your local security community, the better. After a while, perhaps they'll be interested in a talk from you about something as well - it gets you seen and known, and it's much easier to break into security when you're known.
The 2015 MBP is also the last one that still has built-in optical audio output, via mini-TOSLINK.
This kind of doomposting is completely irrelevant and unproductive. Sure, in 50 years computers will be different. Big shocker. What are we supposed to do? Do away with scripting for browsers and distribute markup files?
Why does there seem to be no momentum to fix the identity problem at the government level?

I note the RealID fiasco, which still consists of outsourcing things to 50+ driver's license authorities, has taken two full decades to get to "Okay, we're serious, this time we're actually going to require it in another year or so."

Are we really completely held hostage by the Mark of The Beast crowd?
I'm not really talking about this from an a11y standpoint, but audio CAPTCHA's are so much easier than "choose the fire hydrant" hell.

I actually remember reading a post saying that an accessible CAPTCHA is hard. To make it accessible, you have to make it machine-readable, which defeats the point...
> as old as the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
That’s interesting, Google

> “disable personalized advertising”

On this bit, tracking concerns are not just for advertising though. Extending your reading on how they replace cookies with the Google id, I’d see them replacing ad targeting with other uses of the data anything that wouldn’t straight be labelled as “ad” (scoring, black listing, indirect target matching, etc.)
+1 for bitwarden as password manager. It did indeed save me a few weeks ago from a phishing attempt. After reporting it to my employer and warning all my colleagues it turned out to be the tech department doing a white hat test to educate the employees :)
Great to see Morgan Stanley allow quants to work on open source projects directly related to their day job. I do not think all banks are as open minded!
I agree! That's probably why their employees are also wasting their time discussing politics in the work public channel. And I don't mean it should be forbidden to talk about politics in the work public channel. It happens, but I have seen that Github has a lot of it.
> “Apple gives you awesome first impression and terrible relationship in the long term.”

I’ve always heard the opposite. And in fact, my M1 Mac replaces an almost decade old MacBook.
I would love to be a fan of Yubikeys, in fact most people would say I _am_ a fan of Yubikeys, I think I have like 10 of them (due to product evolution and always buying a few when I buy one).

Unfortunately most of the sites I use do not have anything to do with them.
How is it wrong? We are the product when there is no product. If people don't share on facebook, facebook doesn't exist, hence people are the product. Same with Twitter. They sell information and access to the people using the platform to corporations, hence the people are the product.

Frankly, this isn't a new concept, people are at least part of the product in almost every business that sells data or "insights". Credit reporting agencies, hello we don't pay for it (except to see our own data which is perverse), but we are the product. Acxiom and similar companies, we are 100% the product and they collect all our data through sources in the public domain and through buying access and then reselling "insights" about us, which makes us the product.

If you go to a big box store and do a survey with one of those people walking around that give you a $10 off or whatever, you are the product, they are selling your data and "insights".

I don't think there needs to be a comeback for the point that "people are the product", it is a fact and there isn't necessarily anything "wrong" with that, it just should not be hidden or denied IMO.