skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of any kind of crypto, but the handwaving excuses for why they aren't pursuing alternative currencies are laughable. You could say the same about MobileCoin, and you don't provide any other justification other than blanket statements without citations.

Signal, your bias is showing, and it makes me wonder what other vendors will get your ear and be integrated in the future.
The most interesting parts to me are seeing areas where the US corporations finally tell the US political class "fuck off".

Sure, they'll slap a BLM web page and hire more [whatever race you tell us is cool to hire]. They'll tribute some token amount to the cause du jour propped up by Democrats, but allow unions? That's open war and it got crushed exceedingly fast as we saw with Amazon..

It's fascinating to watch the dynamic as companies sing praises on one hand, but are clearly preparing their daggers on the other. The Democrats don't understand what they're doing by openly being hostile to half the country and its values, and they're in for a rude awakening when the corporations decide that they've had enough.
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> Oh well.. further proof you really need federation.

more like: open protocols
for certain interactions, irrespective of the app that implements it.
It will be like the explanation of 20th century history in from the 31st century in Futurama.
The cost of the tracking plus the cost of employee moral disappearing won't give you that competitive advantage plus the other extras youhave to do to maintain that rate (do you have a logbook of the times you had the unit serviced, semi-yearly maintance is required at your cost)
I'd love to ditch javascript entirely. Is there an android browser that supports that?
Many MCUs also don't handle SPI well (via DMA) or have bugs in peripherals. So the only viable way is bit banging and that is difficult to make faster than I2C.
I am considering implementing SPI on FPGA to connect with devices and then transmit to/from MCU using "SPI" dialect that works with that MCU.
HN is very heavy on Academics / Developers / Engineers.

Very different demographics then world at large.
I doubt anybody claims that it's the most traditional snack in France, but how many portions of galette saucisse are sold vs French tacos? I have no idea, but I'm sure in Germany doner kebab is sold more often than the more hereditary Bratwurst (in terms of street food).

The word typical has the connotation of traditional, but it's hardly a stretch to call kebab a -- and possibly even the -- typical German street food. And it's usually halal!
It depends if it is judged to be deceptive conduct, so it is relevant how the information is presented. Burying conditions in the terms of service or contract, but then misleading people with other information on a web page, can mean that the preferential interpretation stands. Standard verbiage in the contract like 'this contract is the only terms of the contract' is just meaningless (except for specific categories like auctions and real estate, where other provisions may still apply, like the cool off period).

One example of the consumer law being applied is in regard to drip pricing, which was commonly used by airlines and hotels:

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/online-shopping/drip-prici...
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/airbnb-and-edreams-giv...

Pricing rules, in this case Partial Pricing, are quite clear:

If you promote a price that is only part of the total price, the total price must also be displayed at least as prominently as the partial price. This means customers should be able to identify the total price in the advertisement at least as easily as prices for any component parts.

https://www.accc.gov.au/business/pricing-surcharging/display...

Also relevant: subscription traps:
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-warns-consumers-t...

I am unfamiliar with consumer protection in DE, and publicly owned services like the railways may have special pricing legislation, but new EU harmonized laws are being introduced for digital services:
https://www.linklaters.com/en/insights/blogs/productliabilit...

Sadly, the EU system prevents any member state from having stronger protections.

For subscriptions there are already strong rules about clearly indicating the total price, and the amount that is fair for early termination:
https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/distributing-games-in...
A bit of a miss for a language that puts whitespace central in the syntax.
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I feel like more important and easier measures anyone can take to prevent RSI that doesn't involve learning a new keyboard layout are ergonomic: ensure you have a good chair/posture, use a wrist rest (these are debatable, but I couldn't type without one), and avoid taking your hands off the keyboard (don't use a mouse if possible).

I've been using QWERTY for decades now, and for years have used a ThinkPad keyboard with a TrackPoint instead of a mouse, use a mostly hotkey-driven workflow, and a wrist rest even on a laptop. Anecdotal, but I've rarely experienced strain and can type comfortably for hours.

I know QWERTY is demonstrably worse, but so far I haven't had the need to try another layout. The downsides of losing my current muscle memory, having to remap hotkeys and not being productive on other computers don't seem worth it to me.
It's the same for Apple M1 Macbook Pro after I set it to the maximum 500 nits outside, but for the Surface Laptop they don't specify the maximum diplay brightness.
> Inside the fence (place of employment) or not.

But to do that you have to share location permissions all the time with the app. And you have to trust it enough to give it those permissions.

Also here's a solution with no app and no location tracking: detect when a phone has connected to on-premise WiFi.
I would imagine that any app that charges users has to make it abundantly clear what the price for the service is. How are people getting scammed? I must be missing something here.
I think that typical CS education is really narrow. Developing technology without even considering its ethical consequences does not absolve you of moral responsibility for those consequences. There's hundreds of years of thought on this subject, but unfortunately that thought is generally found in the "arts" so willful ignorance thereof seems to be a badge of honour in some CS circles.
No plans for taking it mobile.
Previous discussion of the addition of payments here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827

In addition to the conflict of interest Moxie has (and, honestly, I can see that side -- of course he'd want to be involved in the cryptographic design of a privacy-preserving payment system -- but he still needs to come clean about his relationship with MobileCoin), the most disturbing thing to me remains that the source to the server wasn't publicly updated for nearly a year while they added this feature, the timing of when the source went dark clearly indicates that specific intent, and Moxie's statement as recently as January that they didn't have specific plans to add payment/cryptocurrency when it's clear from the server source that they had been working on it for many, many months at that time.

As usual, it's not the crime, it's the coverup.
You can argue all you want, ultimately it's for courts to decide, and in the meantime the Apache 2 license creates a ton of legal uncertainty for no good reason.

For example, GPL has language requiring you to make clear that you changed the software, but leaves open how you do it, and doesn't require you to mark individual files.
If any HN denizens are DBFers, [0] they could probably tell some stories about their "sleepovers."

[0] http://www.submarinesailor.com/history/dbfpin/dbfpin.asp
The Signal Foundation is a nonprofit.

It would be an enormous conflict of interest if Moxie had a financial stake in MobileCoin, and then drove signal to adopt this random crap coin.

These guys keep on claiming just to be technical advisors with no financial interest or benefit from mobilecoin. BS.

Let's get some auditors into Moxies / Signal Foundation stuff, figure out how this decision was made, if signal foundation received fair value for pushing their users this way etc etc.

I got voted down before for saying this, but will keep on saying it. You can't use a charity and then leverage that charitys assets to enrich yourself outside of the charity.

What's interesting is despite all the claims of "trust" and "security" vs using google etc these guys turn out to be what appears to be scammers.

I've uninstalled signal - you should too.
Is this the same as seal wrapping that you are referring to? Honestly Vault is one of the best pieces of software that I have the joy of using, I use it on many projects small to large.
Everything old is new again.

https://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
No, you do not need federation. You need an organization and leadership in it that is focused on their mission.

For example, Let's Encrypt reliably, like clockwork, distributes certificates and maintains related PKI infrastructure. That is what Signal was supposed to be (at least, my interpretation based on their PR) with regards to secure messaging, and they have utterly failed to maintain the focus you'd expect of a non profit with their mission.

If I want payments (unregulated payments at that), I would use and donate to a payment app, not a messaging app. But heh, report it to regulators and let them be the bullwhip to Signal and their poor choices if they ignore the community (who are their stakeholders as a non profit entity). Of all the ways to kill your project, this doesn't seem like the "hill to die on." Don't drag secure messaging into your fight against nation state currency regulations, and have some common sense about compartmentalizing around regulatory risk.
Thank you for your comment, @CodeIsTheEnd!

We always built 1Password for ourselves. It is so much easier to develop a product that you use yourself every day.

I haven't used the standalone version of 1Password for over 5 years now. The same is true for pretty much everyone working at 1Password.

Why? Because the service is much much better and more than just simple syncing of data:

- Account recovery for family and business team members

- Easy sharing of passwords and documents

- Vault permissions

- Item history/automatic backups

- Free family accounts for businesses

- Travel mode

None of these features are possible without a server doing its part.

Roustem
Founder of 1Password
That's the locked in - they have all your passwords and (in theory) could make a change that makes it hard to extract.
I have a pretty busy agenda nowadays because the world is in a bad state and in order to fix it I am consulting a lot.
Convince me why my time is best spent with you when so many people need me.
The silent service is definitely not for everyone. If you've struggled staying at home during the pandemic, you wouldn't make it as a submariner.
Some methods work on the numerator, other methods work on the denominator. Both will contribute to herd immunity.
On my Surface Pro 7:

* The Win10 "Night light" feature became unavailable about half a year after I bought the device. Had to go back to using f.lux. (Meanwhile, on my 2012 ThinkPad with an old NVS5400M graphics card, Night light works just fine.)

* The front camera would regularly get stuck in a bad state, with the light and IR illuminator turned on but camera unavailable, until a reboot. A recent driver update seems to have mitigated the bug; now the camera just reports an error until I reboot, but at least the lights don't stay on.

* There's no S3 Standby state. Either the computer stays on in "Connected S0", with sounds playing, radios on, snagging my Bluetooth headphones' connection, or I can put it into Hibernate, burning through 16 GB of the SSD's TBW every time.
This is actually about the midpoint since we're 6 months since the iPhone 12 came out. The last phones were announced in October, and with the global component shortage it's plausible that it might even get pushed further this year.

That said I personally would suggest waiting for the 13 since the 12 added two new big things, 5G and Magsafe. Both of which should be much improved in their second generation
That makes no sense of course. You’re innoculating the whole body, especially bone marrow and lymph nodes, not a small area of muscle.
My M1 Air tends to get 7-8 hours of "real world" use (when configured with all of the programs I have on my Thinkpad). Considering that my Thinkpad gets 5-6 hours, with a better screen/GPU/keyboard to boot, I don't reach for the Macbook as often as I'd like. Especially when I'm doing real work.
If I am reading this right (and you seem to have read it the same way) it ends up creating a browser fingerprint. Visit 1 FLoC and they have no real idea who you really are. But if you visit several they could easily tell. Which is similar to how they use your installed list of fonts to identify you. But more formalized?
Telegram's just better and doesn't need a centralized shitcoin.
Instead of using the battle hardened technology that Monero is, Signal chose to create a *99% garanteed coin full of bugs to come in the future.
- Privacy and Software ain't easy and monero is the best example of it and the many upgrades it has had and bug fixes during all these years.
Have fun losing your customers money!
Yes, I'm convinced at some point we're going to figure out an algorithm to solve content moderation with some version of crowdsourcing like this based on reputation, though I'd prefer a system based on building up trustworthiness through one's actions (consistently flagging similarly to already-trustworthy people).

But the challenge is still the same one you describe -- what do you do with competing "groups" or subcommunities that flag radically different things. What do you do when both supporters of each side of a civil war in a country consider the other side's social media posts to be misinformation and flags them? Or even just in a polarized political climate?

I still think (hope) there would have to be some kind of behavioral signal that could be used to handle this -- such as identifying users who are "broadly" trustworthy across a range of topics/contexts and rely primarily on their judgments, while identifying "rings" or communities that are internally consistent but not broadly representative, and so discount that "false trustworthiness".

But that means a quite sophisticated algorithm able to identify these rings/clusters and the probability that a given piece of content belongs to one, and I'm not aware of any algorithm anyone's come up with for that yet. (There are sites like HN which successfully detect small voting rings, but that's a far simpler task.)
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Childish regardless of whether he's right. It's a fucking software package, grow up
> but they do show that you know CS basics

Ok. So not soft skills then.

Instead, it is very specific skills. It is not soft skills.
The paper that led to Gebru's exit from Google was exploring downsides with large language models: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
> Surface Connect - Is that Microsoft version of MagSafe?

Basically. I was disappointed to see it on my 2nd or 3rd generation. I thought we were past the days of proprietary connectors.
I think it's only a matter of time until the extreme disparity between the candidates that pass this filter (mostly white and asian men below age 35) vs the applicant pool is used in a legal challenge about whether these tests are really looking for bona fide occupational requirements.

Because any software person will tell you these tests are extremely detached from the requirements of the job.

It seems like it would be an open and shut case if not for the army of lawyers employed by the likes of Google.
How about a MacBook Pro 16" with an M1 (or follow-on) chip? It's currently a strange hole in the MacBook lineup, that the big-screen model is Intel-only.
I'll be skipping this and future MS hardware for a while.

Using a Surface Laptop 3 right now and everything except for the display is pretty much a dumpster fire. The display hardware is incredible in every way. 3:2 is the correct aspect ratio for laptops if you care about running visual studio or other apps which gobble up vertical real estate.

I have reloaded this thing from official image 3x and it will still randomly fuck up important things like hardware accelerated video playback and WiFi, both of which require a hard reset to resolve. There is also some really annoying bullshit with the ambient brightness adjustment feature where I have to manually disable it in the registry every time a driver or windows update hits.

The most painful problem with the machine is that WiFi is entirely unusable if you are simultaneously using bluetooth. I have had to get external dongles to resolve this.

All of that said, I have had few-to-no issues with the Surface Pro product line at work, and my sample size is 1. Might be bad luck or just really demanding expectations. I have been debating going back to Apple, but there are some HP/Asus machines that look compelling now.
I mentioned in my sibling comment about Dropbox sync being hampered - since installing 1Password 7 my Dropbox synced vaults never sync without me explicitly opening the app settings and looking at the "Sync" option. It's like Schrödinger's sync. My primary vault now syncs over iCloud and is _much_ more reliable, but we use the Dropbox sync for work.
Can you explain further or link to some resource that does? I am not entirely convinced one way or the other, but I've leaned more and more towards viewing covid like any other cold based on information I'm aware of. The apparent absolute lack of integrity of CDCs summaries of how to interpret their data vs. the appearance of the data has also contributed to my view. I'm not going to say I'd be happy to be proven wrong - it would mean the world is a in a worse state than I'd hope it is, but I don't intend to have an incorrect model of reality, so if my model is wrong please help me correct it.
The "theatre" element this misguided focus on the surface cleaning which does not impact/reduce COVID-19 transmissions. That's the theatre he (and the scientists) are trying to expose and eliminate for the last 6 months
Or point out any other flaw. Or say that Taiwan isn't the same country. Or mention Tiananmin Square. Or Winnie the Pooh. Or...
Depends on the house ;-)

Money Pits are a known thing
Our military is absolutely a credible threat. We did not win those wars because we restrained ourselves. Iraq could have easily been turned into a wasteland of death and destruction, for example. We could have done like the Romans, implemented complete tyranny, and lined their streets with staked bodies as a reminder to not rebel. Harbor terrorists among civilians? Leveling the whole city would send a message that harboring our enemies is a death wish.

But we are not willing to conduct such indiscriminate brutality. We tried to fight ethical anti-insurgent wars with our hands tied behind our back in order to preserve life and cling to our values. But pushed too far, that restraint could drop. So it IS a credible threat.
Seems like an ad disguised as dumb internet drama. https://wptavern.com/wix-takes-a-jab-at-wordpress-with-bewil..., for anyone as confused as I am. And the previous post that this responds to: https://ma.tt/2021/04/wix-dirty-tricks/
Is not using the shipping address for any other reason than shipping an order really that much more effort?

Sure, protecting that information is more effort, but you should be doing that already, right? not just from a GDPR perspective but a business perspective too - if a competitor can get a list of all your clients and send them brochures with 10% discount on your prices, you'll close down pretty quick.
When I see "Why are you so angry?", I know some very good points are about to be made. (Not.)
A better strategy would be to pretend to be in favor of FLoC until 3rd-party cookies are all eliminated. Since the FLoC ID is generated on the client side, it then becomes super easy to return fake ones to the website. :-D
What display brightness are you using? When I bought my M1 MBP it had a setting that made the display darker when I am not plugging it, but in reality when I'm outside on the sun, that's when I really need it to be bright. Still, even if I get 10-14 hours, I love it (also the fact that I can use 1 charger for almost all of my devices).
If you want to see something really appalling, looking into the "coaching bug" that was recently exposed. It was known for years by Valve and it wasn't patched. It wasn't until the exploit was made public that dozens of professional CS coaches were banned.
These points seem to forget about income mobility. How about the fact that almost nobody under 40 is a millionaire (rich), but just about 20% of Americans over 65 are? We can’t all be rich at the same time, but we can all be rich by taking turns, which tends to be what happens as people accumulate wealth over decades. The rich people today were more often than not the poor and middle class of yesterday.
So she quit then and this is a non issue. It rarely goes in favor of anyone when they give an ultimatum to the company that employed them or they will quit. The very act of doing so has basically proven is incapable of working with the company or doing the job she was hired to do.

I'm no fan of Google so whatever knocks them down is fine with me.
Agreed, I don't think anyone knows clearly what is happening. Some additional points that are related.

Thrombocytopenia has been a known complication of adenovirus vectors that researchers have worked to overcome in recent decades.

These incidents mirror HITT (women are at higher risk for HITT) and seem to be happening in the timeperiod where IgG titers spike post vaccination.

To me this indicates it's not unlikely something with the adenovirus vectored vaccines (J&J, AZ) is causing this issue.
And because this thread seems to have gone to hell, I'll add that I support doing subgroup specific risk calculations and allowing vaccinations to proceed where it makes sense.

https://jvi.asm.org/content/81/9/4866
https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/109/7/2832/125650/...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17148587/
Isn't it possible for iOS to know how old you are based on your profile?

Surely they could have by now built a way for 18+ services to exist, and frankly how could they not have by now, given apps like Tinder?

Would it just be a liability problem if they started trying to figure out how old its users are?
Agreed in general, however shell languages (should) have a different focus, such as running processes.

There's been a few attempts at this, but I settled on the fish shell as it has a good balance and syntax highlighting for interactivity.

I still write simple scripts in sh and complex ones in Python however.
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I (literally) went the opposite direction with a 32:9 monitor. I guess everyone's got their preferences!
I haven't, but maybe I'll give it a try! Unfortunately, there's not that many fatty foods I actually enjoy eating. A lot of people like avocados but I can't stand them, for instance. Same story with peanut butter.