skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole ordeal motivated me to join the fediverse and I'm not looking back.
Petty theft is absolutely used as the reason for mass surveillance outside the workplace.

The majority of the cameras that I see on a daily basis are for petty theft. So much so that it’s a given in my head that a retail environment will be under video surveillance
This is exactly one of the fun, off-beat articles that I love to find on Hacker News.

I guess things like a fixed place floating hotel has hard competition from the cruise ships of the world, but something about it reminds me of a space station.
A company owned by two Russian “businessmen.”
> Although primitive by OS standards, [k8s] will make legacy OSes like Linux and Windows more and more irrelevant as it matures.

A bit of a stretch; k8s has a long way to go before it fulfils the requirements of an OS. But it's an interesting way to think of it.
> especially considering spyware extensions like Honey are served on the App Store without warning.

You have to explicitly grant permissions as a user for safari extensions.
Tangentially I’ve often wondered what happens to America as an economy if people stop consuming stuff (i.e., if there was some broader “contentment” movement)? If people become content with less, and no longer need to work 40+ hour weeks to buy things, what are the economic ramifications? Presumably our GDP falls and we take in less money in taxes (perhaps we consequently have to raise taxes)? Is there anything particularly concerning or particularly positive?
I remember when I first started working and was surprised to learn that email admins could and would read email. When I asked HR for their policy on this they said they had none and the company can do anything they want with employee activity. This was the 90s and was true then as it is now.

Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff.

This has always been legal and recorded, Microsoft just makes it easier. And I think maybe even better since at least the information is audited and not available to any random sysadmin.

This just makes me choose my employers more carefully as while they certainly have this data to abuse, fortunately few do not.

The risk of a micromanager misusing the information mentioned in this article isn’t one of privacy, but one of being a crappy manager. If someone ever remarked on the amount of screen sharing I did or did not use as if that metric mattered, it would just help me not work for them.

If someone is forced to work for someone, it’s extremely easy to game this metric and maintain privacy.

I learned decades ago to assume everything on company property is recorded and stored for ever. That’s why I have personal property that the company isn’t able to access so I can conduct personal activities with some level of privacy.
It's possible that extended downtime is enough to fall out of favor with Google's ranking algorithms.
It's worth taking a moment to look for such groups (they're often on Facebook). Where I live, there's a bunch of flavors to pick from. There are buy/sell groups. There are giveaway groups. There are "curb pickup" groups. There are hybrid "curb pickup"/"spotted" groups, usually named "Uwaga, śmieciarka jedzie - $location" ("Attention, the garbage truck is coming"), where people put both stuff they want to give away and interesting stuff they've spotted someone else throwing away.

On the food front, there are freegan groups. Interesting place to look if you want to see the degree of food waste happening daily. When I saw some photos just how much perfectly good, high-quality foodstuffs people can find in dumpsters by grocery stores, my jaw fell to the floor. We're talking "feed a family of 4 for a week from one garbage-spelunking trip" levels.

Further on the food front, I was happy to discover public food fridges are becoming popular in Poland. We have one ~5 minutes from where we live, so now whenever we miscalculate our cooking and end up with a bunch of food that we don't feel like eating, or some ingredients that we're sure we won't make use of before they expire, we just pack them, label with date and list of ingredients, and put them in the public fridge. Less food thrown away, somebody gets a meal for free, and it's much less awkward for everyone involved.
The REAL danger of fingerprinting is not on "some company making money of me through ads", it's that basically one or more entities, i.e. companies and/or governments, can identify you, your habits, political affiliation, localization etc, completely. And then they can modify the internet you see, censor what you can say etc. I couldn't care less about the ads part.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing for search; which means the link is also alive on bing.com
Former Florida Covid-19 Data Scientist Whistleblower Faces Arrest
We finally ported Wappalyzer across to Safari. The process was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so we had to do a bunch of work to get a single version of the extension to work consistently in all four browsers. I'm glad it's finally here though.

https://apps.apple.com/app/wappalyzer/id1520333300
aside from the obvious one of him being the z in .lzma, Wyner-Ziv compression is really important in a tiny subfield of information theory
It's the most intuitive explanation of the 2-3GHz limit that I know of: at those clockrates, the speed of light is about 1 m/s. Factor in the slower speed of electrical signaling in metals and semiconductors, and it is properly measured in cm/s.
So are the bonuses. Have extra money to spend - give it to me. Do not throw party in remote location which I am not looking forward do attend. Of course it is you money and you are free to spend those however you like. But this way of team building does not work for every person. I have no lack of friends but I do not remember acquiring those in on company outings. Not denying it might work for other people though.
How does that work? Does DDG have deals with Bing to allow them to do that?
The way out is to call out the absurdity, ignorance, and hypocrisy of it all. In simpler terms: be the pin that pops the bubble.

It will hurt people's feelings, it will trigger their tendency toward victimization, but if we're going to avoid another mass genocide (the logical conclusion of this sort of behavior), it's time to call it what it is: mass delusion operating as a stand-in for traditional systems of morality like religion.
Anki is definitely incredible! But it's in no way easy to use once you do anything more than a few hundred simple cards.

Just take a look at this video, and the apps ui, and tell me this isn't a clusterfuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y35WiKNbCU

So yeah, for a simple flashcard app, it might be easy to use, but if that's all you need there're better tools.

As for it being free.... Yes, and that bothers me. I would rather pay $$$ for a great product than use an okay one for free.
So... Is kubernetes running on bare metal with its own kernel?
Ask HN: Mechanical Keyboard Advice
Dear HNers,

I'm an old(ish) programmer (25 years XP) and have only recently discovered the vast and fascinating sub-culture dedicated to mechanical keyboards - specifically around the optimisation of the key-pressing experience.

I tried to read up on this topic, but holy chopsticks I drowned in a deluge of the steepest learning curve.

I'm also the sort of guy that will go to town on optimising every aspect of my life - down to the most minute detail (such as the orientation of my toothbrush when putting it back in its place, to minimise the energy I'll next expend to pick it up again).

So if you'll indulge me... could you please recommend a keyboard for me?

When I was faced with the prospect of researching this topic of mechanical keyboards, I quickly came to the realisation that if I went down this very deep rabbit hole, I'd unpack its variables to the point of being able to write a novel on Mechanical Keyboard Design Patterns that would honour the original Gang of Four in its exhaustiveness.

So I thought it would be wise to first ask you lot. Primarily because I honestly don't have the time to give this decision the attention it deserves (I'm a dad with young kids and a wife working in healthcare, so time is limited these days). But secondarily because I'm darn curious what you have figured out already.

I'd particularly value insightful stories of your actual experience - the design(s) you've gone with, the Pros and Cons, what you would change if you could, cool war stories, etc.

As for the keyboard recommendation - anything goes - and I am prepared to invest in this, much like I did with my monitor setup and Aeron.

Aesthetically, I'd prefer something that's matte black, with subtle / minimal key faces. And it would be a massive bonus if it could be wireless (and not via Bluetooth, but via a little USB receiver, like my Logitech mouse).

Thanks!
Not sure where all the shanty love on HN has come from, but I'm loving it. Obligated to share my favorite, a youtube classic of sorts by this point:
https://youtu.be/49FWp7WLYKw
Yeah probably more for beginners but figure it would be good to pass on to others.
Typical kernels don’t consider rotational latency at all because seek latency is so much more important. Besides, the disk layout isn’t really available to the OS anyway, what the OS sees is an abstraction managed by the drive firmware.
Yes, they paid Microsoft to be able to access Bing's dataset.
>There were multiple photos of a man wearing a shirt that said "6MWE" which stands for "Six Million Wasn't Enough"

Fact check: Unsubstantiated

How do you know that?

I ask, because when I search that term on google, I get two things. Mostly unrelated hits on 6mwe crystal structure, and a small number of news articles explaining this term's meaning because of that guy in his shirt. Even if I search 4chan /pol/ archives, the hive of scum and villainy, there are fewer than three pages of hits and the earliest reference to 6mwe is 17 Dec 2020,

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/6mwe/page/3/

It seems unlikely that anyone standing with that guy would have known what his shirt meant or would share that view. It seems far more likely that this guy is a plant, who is there for the specific purpose of generating those news articles about "evil" Trump supporters.

If you have a better source regarding origin and proof of widespread knowledge of that term, feel free to leave that in the comments. Otherwise, let's consider this one debunked.
Most people need to work 40+ hour weeks to eat food and sleep in a bed.
What about theft? Drug use? Fraud?

Clearly these can affect your performance at work, so it's completely fine to proselytize at work.
> the person offering is supposed to wait a while, then decide who to give it to.

Some people may be more needy or deserving?

Or, if you strictly followed first come/first serve, some people might abuse the platform by constantly being "first!!!" on everything. Having a delay makes that harder to get away with.
Really cool project, thank you!
Yeah, https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1350612426115452935 shows the hardware they've been asking vendors to provide.

I've never run a high-volume social media site, but I have to say that 70-100 DB servers each with 4 TB of storage and 96 GB feels like a bit much.

(On edit: Corey Quinn estimates it as half a million a month on AWS.)
>Switch to Handshake [1]. Host on Tor [2].

why would you need handshake if it's hosted on tor which uses .onion addresses?
How could the writer make the argument he made and not talk about dependency management?

NB I'm surprised that anything from Forrester made it on here but kudos to them.
But two things:

- Most Americans provide services, rather than producing goods.

- We're so so far from stopping consuming stuff; even an optimist should only hope that we'll buy somewhat less stuff.
I wonder if the title is an intentional reference to Metallica's song.
Does it tell them home many times it goes active to away? :)
Ask HN: What's a resource to teach Topology without reference to curves?
Topology is the language of structure in general, but every resource (that I've encountered) on topology teaches about curves. So continuous functions on curves, curves in space. And everything pertaining to functions, sets, and spaces is always in reference to curves.

What would be something that teaches general topology WITHOUT reference to curves? This is because I want to understand what topology has to say about structure in all different kinds of contexts (logic, information, etc...) not just geometry.
> I have an extension idea; it's literally a single line of JS.

That's better suited as a userscript.
Its actually much worse then that. These are not the 'cost' for F9/FH, that is the price. The cost of these launch is like 1/2 to 1/3. Part of the price is also amortizing past development cost.

In the SLS launch non of that is included. If you take into account the full development cost and amortize them over all the launches (and calculate the interest on government debt) the price is actually way higher then what you have listed.

- SLS is more powerful then FH but not by as much as people think.

- SLS is human-rated and FH is not, but that is mostly because there is no reason to human-rate the FH.

- SLS has the potential to be extend significantly to outperform FH by a much larger margin but that will cost another X billion and another Y years.

- SLS was supposed to be cheap by using lots of legacy technology. So in reality Falcon series are actually pretty much newer and more modern in pretty much every design aspect. Of course when SLS was designed Falcon was 'unproven' and the parts of the SLS were 'proven'. However of course this has totally reversed by now.

SLS rocket is simply a bad design. It was the outcome of a bad process partly pushed by congress on NASA and partly by NASA engineers own failure to analyse the situation properly. A large part of this is the believe to reuse 'proven' technologies and more importantly to reuse that same workforce.

Because it used Cost+ contracting the contractors have no intensive what so ever to perform well. The keep getting their bonus payments for good performance even, something that independent government reviews has pointed out multiple times.

So to sum up, there is very little to almost nothing that is gained by SLS. Its a huge part of the NASA budget every year that could be invested in amazing developments. You could fully fund the lunar lander program AND do other preparation for moon bases for example.

Edit: This talk form 2011 is quite interesting. I often call it the SpaceX antithesis talk. He even mentions SpaceX a couple of times and references them without naming them.

He quite literally says 'if we can't make this affordable they will from in future just let SpaceX do it' and he made it clear their main design goal is affordability and having a program that could meet milestones. Well, that didn't work out so much. See:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IweLWCBHpUE?t=0
Rocket Lab, Virgin Orbit, Astra and SpaceX rideshare are all able to launch 150-500kg into orbit for a few million dollars.

It's hard to see how the market can support so many small launch providers. That's a lot of options for what has been relatively small market. Rocket Lab's Peter Beck has said some of these companies are propped up by the favorable fundraising environment and to expect industry consolidation when the money runs out.

Rocket Lab is obviously in a great financial position with their high launch cadence and improving re-usability technology. And SpaceX is of course in a league of their own.
I prefer maven but it most certainly does not feel flawless to me.
You've completely missed what I was saying. A historian doesn't cite Mein Kampf to give context to what they're saying, the historian uses Mein Kampf as data. For a historian, Mein Kampf is perfectly valid data. On the other hand, Mein Kampf 2: Meiner Kampfer is not valid data, and any paper citing it as if it were should be immediately considered suspect. A scientist citing a retracted paper is like a historian citing a forgery: fine if it's a harmless aside, catastrophic if their claims hinge upon its reliability.
> Same for the MITM ssl proxy stuff.

If I logon to my personal banking website while at work, and my employer MITM's that connection to snoop, have they genuinely not broken any law?
All the complaints made about yubikey and webauthn could be made about 2fa 5-10 years ago. Hardware tokens gated by software (ala yubikey + webauthn) are clearly the next step in auth.

It’s an accident of circumstance you even need to buy a yubikey - your iPhone, iPad, laptop, android whatever can do everything a yubikey does. There just needs to be enough demand and time for OS and hardware vendors to come around to shipping and integrating this stuff by default. Suddenly you’ll own 3 or 4 yubikey equivalents without buying any special auth devices.

25 years into the web and our login tools remain pretty barbaric. Maybe in 25 years we’ll have it sorted out. But change is coming. Call it 2fa, webauthn, whatever - regardless of the details username/password auth (on its own) is dead.
>If you're tired of cancel culture and censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net

Not off to an unbiased start with this tone.
The Best Photography of 2020
Comes up fine on https://private.sh too!
Firefox has been blocking third-party cookies by default since 2019. I've had them off myself for about two decades now. Google's "solution" is inferior to what Firefox has now. Google could just follow Firefox in this and turn off third-party cookies.
Yeah, sadly this is a nonstarter for me due to this. Perhaps somebody will expand the idea outside of the Facebook ecosystem, but I'm not about to sign up for Facebook just to give this a try.
Worth noting that Kaleido and ACeP are very different.

Kaleido is effectively an RGB LCD in front of an E-Ink screen - you get color at 1/3 the resolution of black and white, but "normal" refresh rates. This accounts for all of the multi-color e-ink readers on the market now.

AcEP is 4 pigments per cell, so you get full resolution and better saturation and contrast, but terrible refresh rates. Last I saw for ACeP it was something like 15 seconds. Presumably this 2nd generation is much faster, but I haven't seen anything that actually says how fast.

https://www.eink.com/color-technology.html
What motivates the motivated reasoning of pro-Trump conspiracists?
It doesn't seem to be hooked up to the antennas, so it seems fairly innocuous.
> I feel this is so obvious that requires no further explanation, but I might get massive downvotes for saying this.

... you won't explain why you believe this and then complains that no explaining it will get you downvote?

You are aware that to be able to contest your logic, we need to be aware of your logic, right?

Okay so I'll make a guess, the fact that they defends a cause, their bias might affect how they present data? Is that why you believe they can't be a data scientist? That's a pretty naïve view of the world sadly. The fact that someone doesn't act like an activist, doesn't make them unbiased sadly. The only thing that it change is how aware you are from a potential bias.
Sony hardware engineers put in a herculean effort designing the awesome custam hardware decompression chip, but it was more or less just implementing the existing oodle algorithm, which they licensed. more like a translation of an existing book than writing a new work.
Absolutely, no doubt. Personally, I think Erlang is really interesting and is very well designed (kudos to Joe Armstrong!). But I find that Golang can do it just as well if not better -- it's also far easier to cross compile (e.g. for ARM or FreeBSD) and the ecosystem is much richer and vibrant than Erlang's.
In my experience, most of the signal decoders are Windows only (WXtoIMG to decode NOAA satellite images and DSD+ to decode digital walkie talkie signals comes to mind) but for actual real time RF DSP work, most of it is done in GNU Radio, and its practically Linux only even if it can be installed on Windows. And we haven't talked about transmit yet
Likely as more adopt Tor, a nomenclature system will be wished for as opposed to onion addresses.

We need to reach critical mass on said naming system before regulation prevents it!
It depends on which country you're in.
It's a bit of a weird comment but I've had similar thoughts about what the Oxide Computer Company is doing could be a good use-case for Parler.
They're doing some awesome stuff around providing software to help manage on-prem infrastructure. They also have a fantastic podcast [0].
I don't claim to know what Brain Cantrill (one of the founders of Oxide) thinks about Parler's situation or their content but from some of his talks you can tell he's an incredibly ethically conscious person, so the commenter above is likely assuming he's not a fan of Parler.

[0] https://oxide.computer/podcast/
I'm sure somewhere in the many legal documents you signed to start the job (given to you after you've already resigned from your previous job, of course) you give them the right to do so.
Haven't fully read the article, but

>I think one can boil it down pretty simply: decisionmakers at Ethereum don't care about investors

As opposed to bitcoin devs?
It’s even more irritating if you’re from the UK. The NYT seems to think of us as either champagne-swilling toffs in fancy dress or xenophobic troglodytes.
I’m also very curious to know which hosting company is willing to aid and abet domestic terrorism
This sounds like a great premise for a novel, and the question could be explored at a quite deep level. Consider that most ecosystems are now codependent on human civilization, and many locales do not have the necessary flora or water availability to support stone age civilization.

There are certainly some ecosystems such as fishing communities north of Vancouver that would do well and be shielded from any nuclear exchange, but the wild deer population in Massachusetts would likely not be sufficient for any significant number of modern stone age men to survive.
There is always feedback. In general I judge my performance about how well I do compared to my coworkers in terms of output and what I know about my industry and what is "normal". I'm not the legendary 10x coder/engineer but I'm pretty good I think, in particular based on what I've done vs other people in terms of output and general reaction from peers (who i trust more on feedback than managers). I agree quite often "nice managers" will overdo it on praise, but there are other signs. You're not going to figure it out in a couple weeks, but I don't see how one can't get a general impression over a few months.
There's also

https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/

But it seems it doesn't work in Firefox. (EDIT: It does work, my mistake. This is really a cool and very complete piece of software and the only thing missing seems to be the manual :-)
I don't actually remember unfortunately, I haven't had it happen in a while. It's either the Linux client or the Android client though as those are the only two I use.
'disabling a rule' is a lot different than 'create a manually defined protected folder from within a third party application elsewhere'.

these two statements are in no way equivalent.
This is about web hosting companies not wanting to be associated with a site linked to the Capitol insurrection.

It has nothing to do with any supposed "cancel culture".
Bryan has talked about how he supported it when Joyent dropped 8chan and, if my memory serves me right, that he wished they'd done it sooner. In the same conference talk he muses on the responsibility of platform owners/providers.
How to use console.log to simplify refactoring