skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On cruise lines at least, internet is extremely expensive and slow. Like $80/gb. Starlink would be awesome (Assuming it will be safe to go on cruises in the future...).
Not a single respondant thought "Full Automation of Labor" was possible in 50 years. The average prediction was nearly 125 years.
Majority of Americans think at least one of last two elections was illegitimate
LambdaChip on Hackster.io
Ironically? the code in the stock photo being written on the whiteboard contains a SQL injection vulnerability.
Is like to see one mobile messaging app that brings all of the messaging services into one single interface. Pigin for iPhone, so to speak. Possible?
Apparently that's not safe either. "Even open source encryption algorithms that some claim are above reproach are repeatedly being shown to have major flaws, and the fixes to those flaws have their own major flaws."
The issue is there is no true demand. Yeah, everyone kinda want a device they own - when faced a very direct question and explanation how things really really work. But typically most people don't even think about ownership of the devices they buy - or even falsely assume they "own" those. And those who are aware about the issue have to either pay premium for their rarity (if that's even available in their market - which is not always the case), or agree to not own a device.

So, yeah, ideally everyone should own what they buy, if they want so - and they should be aware what exactly they buy and what are the gotchas. But... how? I believe this "caveat emptor" informational disparity is a multimillenia-old issue.

(Fine print, obviously, doesn't work - because human nature.)
Why would research take imagined futures into consideration?
It's basic tolerance of intolerance. We want to be tolerant in all things -- be sympathetic -- but the more you are tolerance of intolerance the less tolerance there is in the world.

It's a delicate balance and not one that is so black and white.
This is of course a great way to interview, when you're only concerned about assessing competence. It seems to me, however, that assessing competence is one of several concerns that the interviewer is expected to balance.

In particular, HR is expected to structure the hiring process in such a way as to avoid accusations of bias. In order to achieve this, they are expected to come up with precise criteria for hiring, which is at odds with anything vaguely qualitative or holistic, let alone ecological.

The result is that we strictly rank-order candidates using hard measures. In doing so we sacrifice the ecological validity of the test.
Audacity Games launched by original Activision founders
What do you call that when you subconsciously suppress any tests or scenarios you know will break your code? Like you notice somethings kinda racey but it involves other components you don't control and so you don't do the parallel tests you probably should, that kinda thing.

Because that is exactly the bad feeling I get with Waymo never actually testing anywhere that doesn't have mm-precise maps and the all important California weather. There seems to be this implicit understanding that when you drop the thing in light snow it will just careen off the side and nobody is particularly incentivized to find that yep, that is exactly what happens.

(Even in these simulated scenarios here, you got what looks like a barren wasteland and exactly two cars)
When you're at Twitter scale, you don't really need to adhere to the GDPR, you just need to make a big show of adhering to the GDPR, so that if the EU brings you to court you can lead them through a twisty legal labyrinth that will go on for years.
This has a "hacker" angle because people regardless of party don't trust voting technology. Nearly the same % of people believe Hillary Clinton was the "real" winner in 2016 as believe that Donald Trump was the "real" winner in 2020.
I've probably done at least a few hundred tech interviews in my career, and the vast majority of them are simply not an opportunity to show anything off. You're putting up with various interviewers in various moods of varying levels of competence, some of them actively hostile or working on some sort of weird agenda. You're bouncing between interviewers and getting asked the same question multiple times and having to explain the same thing over and over.

Even if they don't make you anxious (that started to subside after the first hundred times or so) they're still not a good time. I've had senior staff running interviews at big companies do things like harass me over data structure choices, insist that I was lying when I described a textbook algorithm, accuse me of industrial espionage, and all other sorts of absurd or unpleasant things. In some cases even after that I still got an offer, because the interviewers weren't out to give someone a hard time... they were just bad at running interviews. One of my all-time worst interviews involved the design director (?) at a billion-dollar game studio calling me (unscheduled!) at 7am and demanding that I come up with 50 unique uses for a paperclip. Really.

The gap between an average or bad interview and a truly good one is enormous, and the number of well-conducted interviews I've had is incredibly small. I can only imagine how much worse it is for someone with additional obstacles, like how is someone in a wheelchair supposed to stand up and write C++ on a whiteboard for 30 minutes? What does the whiteboard interview look like for a blind woman?
Yeah, I recall one mall in my home town had a pay toilet, which was the only well known pay toilet in the city.

So everyone used the toilet in burger king, which was free and more conveniently placed than the mall's own toilets anyway.

Plenty of other free toilets, both business run and government run.
roman invasion of britain
Somewhat true but they refund you easily, the substitutions are more annoying TBH because often they are very weird since they are done by the shopper rather than by the distribution center.

Half the people in a given Morisons in London are now Amazon shoppers, I’m not sure what’s Morrisons plan with this colab is I would guess that the Amazon shoppers piss off the regular shoppers quite a bit because they are everywhere pushing huge trollies with like 20 Amazon bags to fill and Amazon will dump Morrisons the moment their grocery supply chain will be strong enough and they’ll have enough repeating customers.
The others aren't burning them down, the others are making clear that they have conditions on participating, and if they're met, they're happy to do so. Triaging your project to get it done by excluding the one person who makes five others leave, by forcing the one guy out, is basic management. It's the basic stuff of editorial decisions.

As for the larger case of "blacklisting", as Kunin describes it, the moral case is that amplification is bad, that by appearing onstage with a villain, you dignify his villainy by taking it seriously, when it should be rejected out of hand; you provide a platform for odious ideas that, even met with a superior response, get more airtime and borrowed legitimacy than they would otherwise.

You can certainly disagree that avoiding amplification justifies cancel culture, but acting like there isn't a moral case for not getting onstage with someone you don't want to amplify, begs the question.
Hacking the Atari Flashback 2 Console – Cartridge Port Mod
I'm not sure what part of my comment could possibly be argued against with a straight face. Someone thinks there's something fundementally correct in Nazism?

Or maybe whataboutism is more correct then logic.
Great for specific purposes, but not exactly a computer 'you own' and want to do things with.

Tails always starts from the same clean state and everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.

Ie, nothing persists, which means you loose everything each time.

OpenBSD is also an extremely secure operating system. But also not terribly practical as a long term desktop environment.

Plus it doesn't solve issues with underlying hardware trusts.
Just to be clear 1 Wh is not 1 J.

3600J = 1 Wh.
Figure 3 has the responder slowing unusually soon. Makes me wonder if their model is overly fit to the sample. Still, if it's genuinely that good at responding and mitigating then the future looks bright.
Surveillance is profitable for the computer manufacturers. The “barebones” version therefore costs more. SmartTV’s, cellphones, etc don’t make a lot per person but it’s enough you need to go up market to find any real privacy.
Kunin writes: “Look. I’m a weirdo. I have worshipped strange gods. I have strange opinions about various subjects, and I have published some of these opinions in books, essays, and poems. My sexual preferences are unusual, and I have written about them extensively. There are lots of statements in my published writing for people to take issue with. However, I must admit with some embarrassment that the views expressed in ‘Self-Censorship in the Academy’ are completely unoriginal and vanilla. It’s just liberalism.”

There are parallels to what’s happening on the right: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/05/return-of-the-st.... This essay posits that the milquetoast nature of late 20th century liberal causes people (in that case in the right) to pine for the return of “strong gods.” It describes the status quo ante as follows: “All of this is summed up in his catchphrase the ‘weakening of Being,’ which he sees as a happy unburdening of the West, for weakening promotes tolerance, peace, and freedom. If there are no strong truths, nobody will judge others or limit their freedom. If nothing is worth fighting for, nobody will fight. Vattimo looks forward to a disenchanted world that encourages us to adopt a ‘moderate and generous’ approach to life.”

The essay argues that this absence of hard moral truths is unsatisfying to many, and is giving rise to thinking in the right wing that seeks a return to moral clarity. Kunin’ experience suggests similar things may be happening on the left as well.
Technology was also a hell of a lot less complicated until recently.
I thought about it, and even have a ~/code/iso-3166-2 directory with some stuff in it, but the problem is that I'm not entire sure how accurate/complete this data is either. It's certainly enough for my use case as it's specifically tied to GeoIP, but it's not inconceivable that there are missing entries (or outdated/wrong ones, for that matter). Perhaps there are regions which don't have an IP address in the GeoIP database (like some of the small pacific island states)? I don't know...

ISO does have a browsable website[1] and you can get the data from there, which is the best "official" source I know of, but it's not easy to extract the list from there. It's probably better to shell out the €80 (less than the €200 I remembered) to just buy the damn PDF than spend a day writing a script to extract the data from there, but I'm kinda poor at the moment, so... :-/ Also no idea if that buys me updates as well (being outdated is a big problem with many of the lists I found, turns out countries change, who knew).

Wikipedia also has pages for them[2], but again, I'm not sure how accurate/complete/updated this is.

[1]: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search (click "country codes", no permalink).

[2]: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:ID
I spent around five years playing and composing for a prog/death metal band :) https://open.spotify.com/track/0Dv4n2pNxb3aJ8WE9KjMKO?si=9ec...

Not everyone's cup of tea!
The amount of binary blobs (in bytes) on an early 90's system is absolutely tiny compared to what's on modern hardware.

Good security is about minimising the attack surface and risk, not reaching some ideal pie-in-the-sky complete and total trust.
Horowitz in 2011: "It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California. Specifically, if you block a hire based on this kind of policy and the employee loses their job and cannot find work, your company is liable for his wages. As a result, the business relationship with the other company must be extremely important for you to employ any kind of “hands off” policy." https://a16z.com/2011/02/23/is-it-ok-to-hire-people-from-you...

Maybe the HN community could keep track of Horowitz' 2011 explicit embrace of law breaking the next time the 2014 performative gesture comes up?
This hasn't really been true for a couple years now.

Most of the major US airlines have been migrating from cellular to Ka- or Ku-band satellite internet over the last few years. (Including Southwest.)

There's some individual aircraft that haven't been upgraded yet, since installing the satellite antenna is a major upgrade. But at least on my flights, most offer it now.
There is an active TC39 proposal to add immutable types to JS: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple
> If someone works their ass off at minimum wage for a week, just to have the fruit of their work stolen in a minute

You're talking about white collar crime and financial exploitation, which generally is illegal but isn't punished, or is actually legalized. The kind of people who go to prison are lucky if they steal two or three days worth of your work.
Here's what bugs me (I'm in "rural" america, but not quite as rural enough). All of these houses have power. They also, in most cases, had phone service. But somehow, companies can't manage to get fiber (or even copper) to these places?

Something smells foul.
Drive-Throughs That Predict Your Order? Restaurants Are Thinking Fast
As far as I know, only the Flashback 2 could be hacked for 2600 carts.

http://www.atarimuseum.com/fb2hacks/
My company actually got into doing this. The only reason it eventually stopped is because it cost actual money to complete that change in one of the systems. All of a sudden, it was harder to justify that change. So it didn't happen. I get it though. We recently got inclusivity executive something or other. You gotta show you are doing something. Incidentally, how do you even get those types of jobs?
No, inflation is the increase in the money supply resulting in each unit of currency having less real value.
I've been using SimpleMail. Seems to have all the same features as FairEmail but without banners and paid Pro-version.
Around the turn of the Willennium, I beat a long-standing "Most C LOC approved in a month" record at Old School Big Name Inc. and you are not taking it away from me.

No one had come close to that record in a decade and I beat it and you can kiss my keyboard if you think I was lazy about it. Harumph, I say!
I also think selecting parts is limited by the fact that there are so few manufacturers. Processors these days mostly come down to AMD or Intel and nothing there is transparent or audit-able. "trusted computing" and backdoors make even your hardware suspect.
Waymo is opening testing in Ohio right now, so it’s going to deal with terrible weather soon enough. https://www.limaohio.com/news/438416/waymo-to-open-ohio-test...
Yep, I'm a sound artist and composer. I release experimental ambient and electronic music.

https://jon-lloyd.bandcamp.com/album/reanimation

www.jtlloyd.com
I wholly support “blacklist” being replaced with ”blocklist”, “denylist”, “exclusion list”, or anything else that is both more direct about the function and isn't a lazy use of a metaphorical reference to a centuries-long history of elite political and anti-labor (often both simultaneously) repression. (Ditto with “whitelist” which is itself a second-order reference to blacklisting.)

Just because something isn't specifically connected to race doesn't mean it is innocuous.
Honestly, I'd rather deal with shitty customer service than plunge to my death.
Mainly not depending on closed source binary blobs or drivers.
Definitely, but in the pre 1995 time frame for both MS/DOS and Unix derived workstation stuff, the default was for everything to be closed source and proprietary. Vendor lock in for high performance systems was much greater than the open hardware platforms and interoperable things we can piece together today.

If you had a time machine and gave some developers in 1991 the massive cpu, ram, storage and bus i/o throughput that we have today in a $1200 desktop PC, I don't doubt that they would have made those binary blobs a lot bigger and more complicated. Something about the typical software environment expanding to fill all available resources, seemingly as an inevitability.
Tell that to the IETF, who publishes thousands of standards for free, standards that made your comment on this forum possible.

Open standards. Open research. Open code. This is how we progress as a society. Rent seeking organizations like ISO can rot in the dirt for all I care.
Relevant Deseret News context, just fyi:

> The News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, a holding company owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

The LDS Church membership and leadership generally skews right-wing/reactionary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_News
Until the "ruling class" is technical and not there by some politik and bullshitting all the way up, this is bound to happen.
The pirate assembling a better sports streaming service
The author didn't define what owning means, but my guess is that, the computer must not run code without his approval, and must be able to run any code he wants.

Nowadays, you can only truly own an emulator.
I picked up writing music a few years ago - something I had been longing to do since my early teens, but avoided because I hated the feeling of having no idea what I was doing.

I’ve been working on a track for the past few months. And for once, I’m really happy where it’s heading! Work and ‘rona are cutting into my energy levels hard right now, but I’d love to finish it up someday.

https://soundcloud.com/histeph/mstorsand-09
They already evaluated retrofiring sensors. Doing it would cost about as much as a new car. They've made a bet that this sensor suite will be enough and I'm sure Musk got green light on it from his team. Time will tell if they were right.

I personally agree with them that technologies like PseudoLIDAR will be sufficient.

I believe that for a good human driver Tesla sensor suite would be sufficient to drive safely if you covered all windows. You could project the camera views on covered windows and keep the current bird eye visualization.

The issue really is with control of the car. Deep Reinforcement learning sucks. Training Deep RL is unstable, hyper-parameter sensitive, even random-seed sensitive, and requires ridiculous amount of data for even the simplest applications. And after training it does not generalize.
I question if it is even possible to build the cannon with 50x longer range than the current ones. And if it possible, will the system be more efficient that a missile-based one.
The problem is: Do we own ourselves?
I used to make experimental (approximately trance) EDM[1], and then I guess I got the music equivalent of writer's block. I have no formal music tutoring.

[1]: https://soundcloud.com/walking-on-air
Part of the question is how useful the data sent back by random customer-owned vehicles is.

It's your own fleet that's collecting the really good detailed data. And adding LIDAR to your own fleet isn't tremendously expensive. You don't have to worry about an extra 10k per vehicle crippling your sales.
> The inscription says that the painting could only have been painted [by] a madman
Nixie Tube Audio Meter – Embedded Rust
I'm addicted to Ableton!

Here's something I recently made I'm proud of

https://soundcloud.com/dorissaturday/im-mr-lucky
This has been a quest of mine for a while now, “native” (or close enough that it does not matter) display and input over a data network.

You can get very close today, but you need both very low network latency (<8ms or half a 16ms frame at a minimum) and a hardware + software stack that
can quickly and efficiently dump it’s display framebuffer to the network.

Getting all that to work at the same time is a real trick. Getting it to all work consistently has so far not proven worth the effort vs some other solution like just using another device.
Twin studies are bull. Twins don't even have the same genome
This. We haven't really had software until just slightly more than half a century - and now everything but a kitchen sink has a microprocessor, running some sort of firmware. Which is never sold, merely leased^W licensed.
She Was Imprisoned for Killing Her 4 Children. But Was It Their Genes All Along?
Yeah spreadsheets are ubiquitous workhorses -- small companies to large, old to new, across geographies ...

Spreadsheets have many problems. We are going after their "connectivity" to the rest of the company systems. Hidden errors / debugging is definitely another big problem which we are only tangentially solving. If your data is imported into the sheet through Coefficient (instead of a copy-paste of a downloaded CSV), then you can always trace the lineage/timestamps/etc all the way to source.

As for hiring developers, the truth is that day-to-day business needs grow faster than you can hire devs. So yes, at a certain point companies move some workflows to dev-built tooling or specialized SaaS tools, but their bucket of unhandled workflows still grows larger every day. That is why you can't kill spreadsheets.
And it's an industry standard, and best in its class. Sounds like someone who hasn't used Linux since the 00's.
Kind of a side note, but Stephen Wolfram really has a way to make things about himself.
Yup! https://www.tones.fm/fictorial/738
Bunch more under “browse”. Great little synth.
I think there might be a mismatch between your definition of "monolith in a container" serverless (which I too find intriguing) and what people are actually promoting which gets called serverless—aka functions. Vercel for example: they literally showcase sticking a wad of code in each api route and go out of their way to tell people not to build with any past monolith-style patterns (Express for Node, Rack/Sinatra or Rails with Ruby, etc.)

So you or I might get excited about streamlined container deployments (does Fly.io count in this world I wonder), but that's not people are talking about when they write their DEV.to tutorials on "serverless". =)
It's a bit ironic this site is served over unencrypted HTTP.

While static content on a blog doesn't really need it, HTTPS would still help protect the privacy of visitors browsing history.
Thanks, yeah that's pretty much my plan. It's good if this would be made easier and more common, such as through the Web Monetization API that this story talks about. That was kind of my point.

(I already get quite a bit of money through Patreon/GitHub Sponsors for some other things btw)