skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest criteria is whether the software records data that models the real world. If so, it can be used for surveillance by entering data about real people.

So most useful record-keeping software can be used for surveillance. Most software capable of inferring data about the real world from sensors can also be used for surveillance.

Most likely a better ethical framework for talking about surveillance is "how can surveillance (its components, owners, operators, and consumers) be identified in practice and what are its effects?" Surveillance is a subset of knowledge, and most knowledge is both useful and amoral. The use of knowledge for unethical things is the problem, not the knowledge itself.

Names, for example, are probably the oldest technology for surveillance; used since pre-history to refer to specific real people and data about them such as the names of locations they reside in or visit. No one blames names for the effects of surveillance.
can esbuild used to do quick development builds with some dev server, like serve node pkg? or just for prod builds? if so, how the pipeline looks like?
That's a helpful feature but it's by no means a replacement for Typescript. You do not get the full value with just inline comments, in fact that usage is extremely limited.
Yes, it's condescending because we're rapidly learning the only reason we didn't find the evidence is we weren't looking for it. Genetics in particular has established there was contact between Oceania and South America for something like 500 years before Columbus.

Your description of native Americans as Neolithic or Paleolithic is more of the same problem, including the view that there's some sort of ladder of categories civilizations climb. We again know conclusively by the evidence this is wrong, that ancient cultures were a web of diffusion and adoption of different technologies and practices, where things were always adapted to the local context. In particular we're finding much more physical evidence of wide scale deliberate changing of the Amazon landscape to better suit the people living there. Going back even further, there's a growing body of evidence of exchange of technologies between ancient hominid species as well.

Basically there's a whole lot more to this subject and story, and plenty of evidence out there to find and learn from, but the narrative of linear development and diffusion of civilization has hindered that. Likewise the idea that the only evidence of ancient civilizations that counts as advanced are greek/roman style constructions.
Or even just the police on the phone vs. the police at your door.
isn't that essentially what a ring camera is, assuming your door faces the street? if so, where are all the legal challenges?
When someone says, "perceived" I usually receive that as, "someone thinks they need this but they don't"

Just some hasty research:

https://www.crresearch.com/blog/2019-package-theft-statistic...

https://www.security.org/resources/stolen-packages-survey/

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/10/package-theft-how-amazon...

> With one single package potentially containing hundreds of dollars worth of goods, package thieves, or “porch pirates,” see an Amazon box as a ripe opportunity to steal. More than one-third (36%) have been a victim of package theft. Of those, 44% have had a package stolen at least twice. Most package theft victims (83%) said they contacted the seller or Amazon immediately after finding out their package had been stolen, while only 13% called the police right away. Overall, very few (11%) said the porch pirate was caught, but thankfully, 73% of package theft victims said they eventually received a refund.

This seems to substantiate that package theft is at the very least a common problem for the people they polled. Whether Ring engineered a national surveillance network on purpose sounds like something that needs to be proven. Just talking about outcomes without examining what (legitimate) problem they're trying to solve does not help inform the public.

The way I end up reading the situation is that some people want to aid the police to find package thieves but they don't want to aid police in finding people suspected of crimes during protests.

Personally, I'll take this debate a step further: I don't think it should be legal to film anyone without their consent because that practice will always be abused by bad actors. Whether you're antagonizing people by recording them in public or you're surveiling a protest. My idea would be to craft laws saying you can't capture any video for anything off of your property. You could also encourage users to relocate their cameras to positions that only capture the front door vicinity.
This is what Geohot said in a reddit post.

"We have done most of the ISO26262 analysis, we're hiring someone right now to get it written up nicely and open sourced. (those interested can find the job posting) It's one of our goals for openpilot 1.0"

They have a slightly more in depth explanation of their safety model in the "Background — safety architecture" section of this post.

https://medium.com/@comma_ai/how-to-write-a-car-port-for-ope...
I hope a nice side effect of this will be for this to incentivize higher quality and more durable clothes, and as a result help bring down fast fashion.
It doesn’t seem like these are compatible with cheap disposable clothes/shoes etc.
Oooh! The memories. First year university in Australia and discovering the internet, IPs and FTP. Everything felt so accessible then. Even 20 3.5" disks for an install of SLS Linux felt easy and effortless... Now, shoot me if I need to transfer not in a network.
Independent and pseudonym is OK and encouraged, but ridicoulus / no responsibility for trying to be correct is very different from the cool/fun/hacker culture that is looking for the truth.
Can you share the code somewhere else? It's been taken down from github
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>The author saying “Computers aren’t fun anymore” and then whining about web development is like me proclaiming that Earth isn’t fun anymore because I’m tired of my bedroom.

I'd say it's more analogous to saying: Earth isn't fun anymore because I'm tired of North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Web development takes the lion's share of computing people pay for which translates to the work people will do (we need money for survival). There are opportunities outside of it but they're few and far in between and highly competitive because few people want to deal with the monstrosity web development has turned into.

I've worked in niche industries that typically avoid touching web development for quite awhile and even I'm being pressured to reimagine these efforts as web applications, containizered, and deployed as microservices even when that approach is non-sensical in context. It's pretty difficult to avoid anymore from my experience. It used to be incredibly easy.
Yes, peanut proteins.
I think it was just in pseudo code which isn’t helpful! It was an academic paper
Lost 2 SD cards that way. It's a relic that should be phased out in favor of NVME or SATA.
Works well on iOS.
I've switched from LastPass years ago, and never regretted it.
It looks like it's broken dark mode support.
I remember reading this in the Utne Reader in the 90's.

4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.
No contrast issues on firefox on windows. There's more contrast on that webpage than in downvoted comments here.
From personal experience, once you become sensitized, you become sensitive to literally anything synthetic.
Well, you could probably abuse preprocessor macros and make something similar in C.
No, I mean that no one gets to decide what is a need or a want.

Things are intrinsically a need or they aren't. A need can also be a want, and people can choose to want things but you don't get to decide if something is a need. Calling something that isn't a need, doesn't magically make it need.

You also can't arbitrarily decide you no longer need something. If you can then it was never a need.
Well met

> Franklin Roosevelt’s words of November 4,1938, are worth recalling:I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move for-ward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot ofour citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.

A very interesting quote that should be taken seriously today. Many Americans view our federal government poorly, on both sides of the aisle, and in the last 20 years 'working' across the aisle has become a meme rather than a reality. We just impeached the same president twice, and congress has a what, single digit approval rating?

Earlier in this essay the author states that a disaffected middle class can lead to fascism but I don't think he nailed why. I think it is this:

When people stop believing democracy can function, they readily look for alternatives.
What you're saying there is: in development, use sucrase. In production, use sucrase.

And saying it quite a lot in this thread.
the war on terrorism is one big lie
To play devils advocate, if this shipped to millions of people, what benefit does Google have in terms of advertising that wasn't already available in Android? That people are wearing clothes?

From an opportunity cost standpoint it just does not make sense.

> Really, do you think anyone here was concerned about how many Google employees were "subjected" to this internally?

Strawman. I'm trying to point out how this is not part of some grand vision, but just a hardware research project from a lab designed to build out novel concepts for their hardware teams. You can't build a good project without a few failures first, so why not release what they make along the way?
I definitely recommend just saying a sentence. The system isn’t designed to understand requests the way you’re presenting them.
Almost every Disney movie have the childrens parents being killed, the Swedish childrens author Astrid Lindgren (very popular in Europe, I don’t know about the US) wrote a story called The Brothers Lionheart where the young brother is dying from an incurable respiratory disease and (spoilers) his brother dies saving him from a house fire. The he dies from the respiratory disease.

My point is that children are being told stories that we wouldn’t consider for children all the time. And that isn’t even considering fairytales.
They’re accessible outside of a browser, via a “keychain”, and the entire OS is built to use this keychain, which also syncs appropriately among your devices.

On iOS, it’s Settings > Passwords. On MacOS, it’s Keychain Access, which looks like this:

https://support.apple.com/guide/keychain-access/welcome/mac

There is also a UI in Safari itself, which on MacOS has added some advisory features, including easily guessed, seen in a data leak, or used on multiple sites:

https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/safari/sfri40599/mac

On MacOS, you can also use the keychain with ssh on the command line:

https://rderik.com/blog/understanding-ssh-keys-and-using-key...
Perhaps someone misread it as poison sauce?
Interestingly this is basically how 1Password did password sync for years - not a Keepass database, but a 1Password folder structure stored within Dropbox saving a bunch of little text files. They added other synced storage options over time before turning up their own cloud service, but third party sync was where they started.
Same as F# It uses 'cold' tasks, unlike C# that uses 'hot' tasks that start running immediately. But the F# way can compose in more advanced ways.
I'd be happy with being able to program in triple tap actions as well as the double tap.

Two commands (and that's if you've even got both in) is not enough!
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>> Of course you have an extensive list of things you wish your phone/computer/most-used apps could do; everyone does. You know the majority of it will remain a wishlist; there’s almost no hope of the feature you really want being implemented7.

I am the exact opposite of this. I honestly don't have anything I would want my phone to do but doesn't. Quite the contrary tbh. Why? Because I know anything I install on my phone or PC is most likely tracking me, and my data is getting sucked away into a third party black hole to be sold to shay marketers for pennies on the dollar.

Likewise, any time I do actually think of building an app that could solve a problem I have in my personal life or work process; a simple google search will confirm that apparently a few hundred other people had the same idea 3 years ago and here's ten apps that will do what you were thinking of building.

I don't want MORE tech, I actually want a lot LESS in my life.

Like Jack Kerouac once said, "If you own a rug, you own too much."
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LibreOffice, to some extent. But more pertinently, the Czech search engine Seznam[1], founded in 1996, was the most used search engine in the Czech Republic until Google took over in 2014 due to the influence of Android. Seznam is well diversified and it shouldn't be difficult for it to expand into other markets given the opportunity. It is a major regional player in search, maps, email, news, real estate, jobs, ecommerce, video streaming, advertising, and probably more. Its portfolio, which includes a chromium-based web browser, is quite impressive given that the Czech market consists of some 11 million people.

[1]: https://seznam.cz
Ring cameras don't have continuous recording, they will only record on motion events. To my knowledge, there is also no way to set up alerting and capture preferences separately (ie if the camera detects motion and starts recording, you are getting alerted unless you turn off alerts for the camera entirely). If someone set their camera to record a public street they would literally get DOSed with alerts, so this is not what people do.

Also, to my knowledge there are very few restrictions on recording people in public.
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Of course it can: https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/
I'm not going to try changing my behaviour for a voice assistant lmao. It works or it doesn't.

That's how I talk. Thats how I've talked for 32-$childhood years.
I can't find my favorite C macro bomb, but this same post has a C answer using defines: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/69413/4270

The C++ template answers are particularly scary...
And let's be fair, it's not uncommon especially at larger protests for their to be conflict that requires police intervention. Just like how police forces will have the bad people that bring down the rest of the force, groups of protestors also face similar problems. Different people in the protest have different perspectives and ideas of what makes a good protest and what is effective. Some people think violence and destruction is needed and often these people have mob-like effect. If one person starts doing it often that spreads through the group and more people are breaking laws. Without some law and order in there things get out of hand pretty quick as we have seen in many protests in America, but also across the world.
> "How should I choose what to do? Well, how had I chosen what to work on in the past? I wrote an essay for myself to answer that question, and I was surprised how long and messy the answer turned out to be. If this surprised me, who'd lived it, then I thought perhaps it would be interesting to other people, and encouraging to those with similarly messy lives. So I wrote a more detailed version for others to read, and this is the last sentence of it."

I loved the ending. The essay was primarily for him. It seems that some of the best writing, similarly to the best products, is when you yourself are the recipient.
Accusations?

They openly stole Bill Yaeger's work, and never denied it. Bill wasn't an early employee of Cisco.

We're not talking about non-competes here, we're talking about taking source code and board designs verbatim and just swapping out the copyright assignments and adding "Cisco". All of this pontificating about trying tear people down who dared to take a risk is really gross in that context.
I already control my phone while in my pocket using my headphones. Others do it with their watch. Still others just shout at their phones.

I don't think it's impossible that there's an even better solution hiding in this product, but it really does seem to address a solved problem, to my mind.
Probably not considering the blob talks to Jacquard's app. Then again, you are part of an incredibly insignificant tiny minority of prospective customers, completely out of that project's target market.

All in all, as someone who might want to use this product one day, I'd rather Google not spend their project's resources on never-buyers like yourself and instead spend those adding features and driving cost down for people that could be genuinely interested.
If you don't have some distinguished portfolio then recruiters are great.....if you want to spend the next 10 years as a DoD Java MVC Senior developer.

It's really inspiring to work on a virtually abandoned procedural code base from 10 years ago written in an OOP language. I think the peak excitement is implementing business logic because that's the closest you'll get to writing algorithms. Cog in the wheel, cog in the wheel.

I like when my boss tells me I take too long whwn the majority of my time is spent debugging broken old code and trying to figure out how anything works.

Yes I'm projecting, and yes I'm depressed.
Article fails the define salary, which is a big thing..is it just cash compensation or does the numbers include stocks as well?
I agree, but don't throw the baby out. One of the most useful uses of voice I've found is using a Fire stick with Alexa. Just press the mic button on the remote and say a actor/movie/tv series and it presents everything it finds from all your subscriptions. It's rare it doesn't understand and as a Glaswegian that's impressive.
But you are changing your behavior. If you told a human “timer 1 hour 30” they’d look at you very strangely. My suggestion is to stop using special phrasings for voice assistants.
...and will likely be canceled by Google in 2023.
And how does that change the fact that this is a perfect example of the hubris that google displays as they flaunt their power to invade everyone’s lives and make money off of them?
The protests in 2020 were the largest protest movements in US history:

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

From a purely statistical standpoint, they were overwhelmingly peaceful.
Can you imagine a Google developer suggesting adding that feature to the project manager?
I think this sort of false equality being constructed between peaceful protests against abuse of power and a seditionist insurrection against certifying election results is quite abhorrent, and your comment is certainly trying to normalize that equivalency by my reading.

Why would I say this? I don't think "the bad thing" of insurrection and lying about election results has been done by both sides, and so I perceive your comment that says "but both sides" to be reductionist, in a biased fashion. Surely, one can condemn an insurrection against democracy without needing to condemn peaceful protests against abuse of power and extrajudicial murder which were coopted by violent antagonists and opportunists.
I remember hearing about Jacquard years ago. Given I haven't heard or seen any applications of it gaining traction since the launch leads me to think it's just going to go into the endless cavern of Google Abandonware.
But you've already done the difficult part - you've drilled the hole, and brought samples back. Now you just need to bring back different samples. (And, I suppose, find a way to grab the right things...)
> Yes, however a surveilance camera cannot simply be pointed in the street to record everything.

Yes it can.
The goal is obvious: to have Google track everything for a consumer in the name of convenience.

You haven't replied to my counterpoint on why focusing on how many googlers used this prototype is irrelevant.
Amazing point. We need more trees, and we have a lot of corn, so if we needed less corns, we could have more trees! Love it.

It'll also be interesting to balance the use of that land for trees vs. solar/wind as well. We'll need to put a lot of land to use to generate electricity, and some of corn's space might be occupied by that instead.
OK, the wiki is clever, but it is not really a demonstration of the power of agile methods. I'd bet money it wasn't test-driven or sprinted or crc-carded or whatever into existence. Ward may as well have also invented an excellent salad dressing, as far as that bears on agile.

Not a big fan of the patterns movement either; not that there's anything wrong with any of the GoF patterns.

The agile manifesto is vague enough that people tend to project their aspirations onto it. It was true then and it's true now. I'm also old enough to remember when most of it was called "extreme programming", so it wasn't exactly a revelation at the time.
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I think the Big Brother heebie jeebies are justified. Amazon gives Police officers a script and coaching[1] to use to try to endorse their surveillance products and to maximize participation in the "Ring as Big Brother feature".

Requesting video for law enforcement is automated to the point that all a police officer has to do (even without any judicial over-site!) is to drag and drop a square over a map on their computer and press a button. This sends the email identifying themselves as with the police and requested video data. Yes, this is voluntary for the person to grant access to that video but research[2] has shown that the VAST number of Americans will submit to a "consent search" simply because the Law Officer is in a position of power and people want to be seen as cooperative.

That is also just 1 way that police can get the footage, they can also easily go to Amazon themselves and get it without notifying the user.

[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-co...

[2]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-sear...
and
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3369844

(edit: update reference number)
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I bought my Jacquard Levi’s jacket 2 years ago in SF.

What I really love is the gesture interface. The swipe on the sleeve feels natural. Comparatively tapping on AirPods looks more awkward. It is especially useful while riding my motorbike.

I found the jacket in the SF Levi’s store as I was shopping for a jacket. I had no idea that Google made them. I wonder why Google doesn’t do more to promote the device.
Yeah, these folks live in an alternative universe.
The brand's popularity has exploded lately, in part because many people are waking up to the badness of most other products. Amazingly, they have held up their quality for now, unlike e.g. Seventh Generation or Mrs. Meyers.
It's gone now. :( I should have cloned it, anyone have a clone?
I know some people don't re-read. But I do. And I have read Moon is A Harsh Mistress well over 20 times. Yes Paul, it ages well.
I don't know that I would call them a direct competitor. Heroku uses AWS for a lot of it's infrastructure. They are a pretty big AWS customer.
404? someone got an urgent call from AWS and politely requested to remove it since both companies are supposed to be partners?
If I told a human to set me a timer they'd look at me strangely anyway. I want quick, done, command, action. It is a computer.

I'm not having a conversation with the thing, I want it do do something. Command, parameters.