skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They explicitly did not allow creation of btrfs arrays and did not expose any settings related to them.

The problem here is that they actually did allow it, and did expose those settings.

Seeing that the GUI allows BTRFS, even if it was supposedly sold without support for it, might lead people to believe that the specs or documentation were outdated especially since the current documentation is actually outdated on many other matters and cannot be relied to 100% accurately reflect the current usage of the product.
Your mileage clearly varies. Like many people here, I also work in tech. Even before the WhatsApp privacy policy fiasco, there were a good few dozens of my contacts on Signal. Afterwards, there was a push like I haven't seen in all the years I've been using it.

Like many people, I'd definitely prefer having just one messenger, but now I simply use Signal with everyone that's on it and only have to open WhatsApp a few times a week. This entire thing has to be seen as a process IMO.
> WhatsApp has been facing one hell of a backlash ever since it shared that it wanted to update its privacy policy with changes that would allow Facebook to aggregate all of its users' data across all of its services.

I think this is bad. But also a general tendency: Accumulations of data are valuable to companies which exploit them. Larger accumulations of data are even more valuable, in a non-linear way. This is because data sets are multi-dimensional, and the more dimensions you have, the more information you can get out of it, even if the users initially have never thought about that. So, if you have two large accumulations of data, and you join them, you get extra value.

Google is doing this aggregation as well, as mentioned in its terms of service.

You also see that in they way Microsoft is trying to link business and personal accounts via Lynx and so on. You also see that with platforms like LinkedIn (which was bought by Microsoft).

In other words, it works a bit like gravity. Mass attracts other masses and more mass attracts even more mass. And what we will end up is a kind of black hole in which everything is collapsing into the same place.

Without effective regulation, one day, Facebook's data and Google's data will probably be combined.

BTW I am also skeptic whether some of the reported "data leaks" are not in reality covered-up data sales. As long as there are no substantial consequences, like criminal sentences, to people who do that, there are very few barriers to exploiting personal data in this way.
No, that is not that simple. There are laws around what and how can be shared between companies.
I haven't heard of shadow profiles, have you?
Here in the UK government introduced zero rights employment just few days ago and that would be totally legal here.
Most of the employement practices in NA would be illegal in the EU. It seems really bad over there.
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The Plate of Shrimp Effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJ5cCP0ZPE&ab_channel=Movie...

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
>It actually was ordinary workers who said, hey, I would much prefer to have the company take over my own personal device for this

Don't remember this. I remember the opposite.
Uniswap has more daily volume than Coinbase.
thought this is worth posting because it is a pretty complete toolkit for "form fill-in and query" apps
I use 4K on 14". Windows defaults to 300% scaling so clearly the defaults agree with you. But 200% scaling is usable; things are a little small but the extra real estate is worth it.
How is this any different to clocking in manually at your workplace? A lot of companies ask their employees to clock in and out at a terminal when they enter the office. For roster adherence and for payroll.

The article clearly states it only starts tracking when the employee enters a specific geo-fence. In a Covid world with remote collaboration between teams something like this sounds perfectly reasonable.

How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there?
> obnoxious control-freakery we don't need

Maybe you don't need such language control-freakery. But the world definitely needs more obnoxiously uncompromising people like RMS, who go out of their way to "harass" people at airports because their noise-cancelling headphones are running on non-free software! There's already enough corporate drones who "just call it open source", while literally kneeling [0] to Microsoft; we need more Stallmans, not just him.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210318230618if_/http://techrig...
according to you. maybe you should be more open to other perspectives.
Microsoft has done exactly the same on their MakeCode IoT compiler, using TypeScript and Python.

"MakeCode Languages: Blocks, Static TypeScript and Static Python"

https://makecode.com/language

It is very hard to generate good AOT code when dealing with dynamic languages, of any kind.
I am constantly amazed by the Luddite comments on hacker News everytime crypto comes up.

Nobody with a modicum of opsec knowledge would even use Bitcoin for secure, secret transactions. There are better alternatives

Get over your conservatism and accept the fact that crypto is the future.
I'm sitting here more like how can I get money into China and access their markets, like pretty much every western capital institution at the moment,
that's the the whole thing about the trade deal phase 1 how can black rock like institutions carve up a bigger piece of the China pie.
Wouldn't be surprised if the US is using its mainstream media machine to sabotage the EU-China deal, so they can also claim up EU part of the China pie.

Its like kind of like the unequal treaties but now china can fight back and as small concession for less aggressive approach, offered a small piece of the China pie for the outsiders to fight over.
Let the outsiders fight among themselves instead of letting them fight together against you.

Isn't the cap like $25k/year/person that's like top 5~10% of the global citizens that can save up like $25k per year.
https://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/

>> This website details the design and construction Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer. The device is lightweight and small for easy camouflaging: it is the size of a pack of cigarettes.

>> An internal lithium-ion battery provides up to 2 hours of jamming (two bands, such as cell) or 4 hours (single band, such as cordless phone, GPS, WiFi, bluetooth, etc). The battery is rechargeable via a mini-USB connector or 4mm DC jack (a common size).

>> Output power is .1W (high bands) and .3W (low bands). Effective range is approximately 20' radius with well-tuned antennas.

Obviously jamming GPS is not really a solution to this problem. However, as hostile use of GPS grows, building something like a Wave Bubble seems increasingly useful.
Restricting to a git repo and making sure to check that the commit is signed and there's no diff to current would work, but it's easier to just put the login URL (or at least the domain) as the second line of the encrypted file (Pass allows arbitrary metadata).

OpenPGP (GPG / etc.) use a MAC on the file, so an attacker can't modify the encrypted file and still get it to decrypt (at least without some flag to ignore broken MAC). An attacker could create a new password file for you for their domain, but then they'd have to make up a random password for you that's not going to match your FriendFace/Congo/Vigintillion password.
Intresting paper, but not sure if this should be taken as "common knowledge" the sample size of this study was rather low so take it with a grain of salt.
Ask HN: Noise Cancelling headphones sucks for Meetings/Phone calls, right?
I bought Noise Canceling headphones and started using them for work/phone calls. It amplifies outside noise so much that you can't hear actual sound when someone speaks in meeting/phone call.

Is that common experience for everyone?
The way they have gone out of their way to deliberately remove the functionality could be argued to cause damages to people who are using the unsupported functionality.

There is no "downgrade" path from btrfs to ext4. Users have to move all their data off the NAS to some other storage, delete the btrfs volume, create a new ext4 volume and then copy the data back on.

These alleged damages are measurable in both time and the cost of storage rental.

Even worse, if you apply this upgrade without knowing that you need to do this procedure, your data is inaccessible until you contact customer support.
Is the DHL app really necessary or can you fallback to SMS? Got an Android, so no problem for me, but I'm wondering...
> the j model documentation was always very specific that they can't support btrfs and you could never initialize the array into that mode

The problem was that the GUI didn't reflect that, which was the bug. And then they "fixed the bug" the same way that they "fixed the glitch" with Milton in Office Space
Eh, maybe that's what you need, but not what we need ;)

WASM is an exceptionally good standard compared to most other things on the web platform.

The thing about WASM performance is that WASM is fast (unless you do stupid things), but what's surprising to most people is that Javascript isn't slow either (at an absurdly high engineering and complexity cost compared to WASM though).
Can someone explain to me why WebAssembly is restricted from accessing the DOM or the Web APIs? I haven't been able to find a reason.
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The ability to pay taxes with a currency is indeed one of the reasons people will demand that currency, but this doesn't mean its value is maintained by the government. History has shown repeatedly that a currency's value can collapse while people are still required to pay taxes with it.
It surely has had support for AVX for several releases, although via the autovectorization support, and explicit SIMD has been made available as preview on Java 16.
Rajvardhan Agarwal on Twitter: “Just here to drop a Chrome 0day”
Study warns of 'oxygen false positives' in search for signs of life
Both are fine from a DPI standpoint, but some people prefer the size of 4k@2x to WQHD at 1x or 2x.
Not sure why people downvote you. This stage is clearly happening. People go to prison for just retweets or a comment in social networks. And how many high rank officials are actually compromised? It's clear and every day it's worse.
If you open the menu you can switch to the boring straightline view.
Yeah a time clock isn’t a spy in your pocket 24/7.

If you aren’t paying for a separate work phone you can straight up fuck off with any requests for things i do with my phone, especially for the purposes of tracking my location.
Sorry but Signal is just not a "better app". Yes, it has privacy and such, but the app itself is worse. I'm not even talking about missing features like not having chat backups, but the UI itself is slow and unpolished.

- scrolling contact list is slow and stutters
- opening Signal displays empty frame far too long
- it's not possible to add/invite a person during the call, you need to define groups for group calls
- forwarding message from chat to chat is not working
- messages in a chat take too much space. If a person sent three consecutive messages, don't display his name on all of them, just on first one.

And the worst thing is those polish fixes don't have to do anything with crypto and privacy. It's purely client side issue, but Moxie & Co. decided their priority is adding MobileCoint inside a chat app instead of polishing existing clients.
If the employer provides a work phone for that purpose which may be turned off unless the employee is working, I have less of a problem with it.

It's the offloading of cost and the (potential) encroachment into the employees private life that seems most problematic.

Aside from this it's the usual paranoia that some employers always had more then enough of. The company may or may not benefit from this kind of tracking and ultimately only legislative action / worker representation (unions) can limit the extent.
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Design Is the Architecture of Control
It is relevant to the discussion because the AZ and JJ vaccines are for the "rest of the world", so comparative differences in the cost of IG between US and other healthcare systems is relevant.
If you think "janitorial" work with zero coding is unimportant I assume you were never involved in any project that's a little too big for a single programmer doing everything. And what's so bad about making potentially interesting projects more visible?
A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would
Through trust and through the client complaining that no one showed up? In other words, how did the world ever work before smartphones?
Be very careful, jamming certain things is absolutely illegal in some countries.
Other than 3D AAA game engines, all the C++ software that I replaced with either Java or .NET solutions has kept the customers happy and lowered the TCO of their products.

This wasn't tiny CLI that occasionally lands on HN, rather large scale desktop applications or distributed computing clusters.

Winning micro-benchmarks is not everything, which is why except for Windows with WinUI (which still remains to be seen if it can move windevs away from Forms/WPF in its current incomplete state), all OS vendors are migrating to other languages for their App development SDKs, leaving C++ and Rust only for low level OS components.
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What better way to test your drone tech than by buzzing the US Navy?
Having watched the case of the azerbaijan misinformation unfolding in twitter and facebook, i m kind of surprised why this girl was fired. If anything she was uber-productive, and her account is very accurate.

I would like the investigation to continue even deeper to find the motives behind facebook's actions. This story is sadly missed in the west, a lot of crimes have been committed while the west was looking away or occupied with trivialities

> When Zhang complained about the lack of action in another internal post in December, she received a response from Rosen that was exemplary of how Facebook justified ignoring abuses in small or poor countries that had failed to garner press attention: referring to the company’s myriad prioritization frameworks.

This is certainly true (and very sad) but don't forget that evil regimes have ways to infiltrate tech companies
Operating radio jammers is likely to get you a $20,000 fine the first time they catch you, and if they get a hint of your activity, the FCC will absolutely start hunting for you.
Manually clocking in at your workplace has no way of accidentally leaking your contacts list or tracking where you were last night or just taking up space on your phone that you own. You want me to install crap ware on my personal property? Not a chance. You give me a phone, and I’m marginally more fine with it.
Man, i really wonder why linux desktop environments have to suck so hard (gachibass). They are all so slugish and just ugly, clunky and bad design. I had to try so many until i had something close to something workable. I ended up with xfce, but had to disable compositor and install compton as a replacement. Just all that, for just a plain desktop environment that feels snappy. But the design is still shit though. As for gnome3.. i cant remember, but i think it was slow as well, and im mainly talking about alt-tab. if an alt-tab takes more than 5ms, it's trash. Like, windows 7 & 10 are the only ones who did it correctly in my opinion.. but yeah it's windows >_< still, baffles me that such a low standard cant be reached by almost ALL linux distros.
Carbon Emissions Could Plummet. The Atmosphere Will Lag Behind
Seems very convincing: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-visio...
Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets
I presume the Facebook perspective is that they feel they have no responsibility except for the lightest touch.

You can see that depending on the country they either are quick to remove or very slow(100+ days plus) or not at all when it comes to users creating fake engagement.

They might be motivated by a fear of losing access to a country.

If you remove lies or fake engagement of the political party in power, then they can retaliate.

Of course. They're an American company, a country that elected Trump.

Whose campaign pioneered the usage of fake news and targetting advertising to groups susceptible to it.

And successfully took ownership of the term "fake news" by redefining it as any negative news about themselves.

It does highlight how an American company trying to prevent fake engagement could be considered hypocrisy by other countries.

Those in power don't want opposition and they have the power to change people perceptions of reality. Facebook not acquiescing to them is a liability.

2 years ago this was reported by the New York Times:
"A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military" [0]

It highlights how "manufacturing consent" has shifted from traditional government news media to the decentralisation of social media.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Or you could just hand someone the private key to your address that contains $100. Let them figure out how to obfuscate their stuff.
They used to moderate, but they moderated very heavily. Mostly by deciding what to publish on, and how to edit what they themselves publish. Heck, that isn't even moderation. Instead, its picked a context and a set of values against which to determine what is true.

User generated content moderation probably should include the step of "picking a context and a set of values" but it is a lot more than that. I can very easily see why someone who is great as an editor is horrible at user generated content moderation.

My point was that we used to have an easy way to pick (and switch) the "context and values" against which the media we consume are evaluated. But these days, 90% of people use the same set (as chosen by FAANG) and really, this "context and values" story is not part of media choice, nor is it a large part of media identity. In fact, I believe google and twitter try really hard to not identify as choosing what is true.
I noticed that there are a lot of positions for non-tech people as well for example marketing! That's cool, guys!
Salary in SF is much higher than Copenhagen. Factor that into the equation.
This looks like a neat idea! A couple of questions if you don't mind:
1. Does the pass apply to the Firefox version too?
2. When you say "It works with Kindle books..." what do you mean? On desktop only? (My) Kindle doesn't have colour.
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The interesting thing there is that Disney made their money by reselling public domain content:

- The Little Mermaid
- The Jungle Book
- Tarzan
- Cinderella
- A Christmas Carol
- Fantasia
- Pinocchio
- Alice in Wonderland
- Beauty and the Beast
- Aladin
- Heracles

etc

All folk tails or public domain stories. Even Tangled and Frozen have taken heavily from other stories. And I'm certain there's more I've forgotten.

Likewise Marvel has borrowed a lot from Norse mythology with Thor's story arcs.

I've never really followed comic book fandom that closely so I can't comment on what pre-Disney Marvel were like to their fans. But with regards to Disney, it always left a bad taste in my mouth just how aggressively Disney were to protect their IP from harmless fans when Disney themselves owe their millions to ripping off other peoples stories.
Previous versions of the FCC Speed Test app are free and open source (GPLv2):

2017 iOS version: https://github.com/SamKnows/skios-fcc

2014 Android version: https://github.com/SamKnows/skandroid-fcc

2013 Android version: https://github.com/FCC/mobile-mba-androidapp

Methodology: https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-broadband-america-open...

Judging from the media coverage, it looks like the app was recently updated. The source code for the current version has not yet been released, but I hope that it will be soon.
Last I looked into it, QNAP had some serious outstanding security issues that they weren't acknowledging and weren't fixing, that turned me off of them fast. If Synology isn't to be trusted (this plus starting to lock down part support like allowing only their own HDDs,) the only thing that remains seems to be building your own and running TrueNAS or Unraid.
Do you take the GPS enabled terminal from work home ? Do you have the terminal with you at night and on the weekends?
growth rate varies between use cases, too small and you pay on performance overhead, too large and you pay on memory overhead, 2x is a decent mid-spot
> Is there any technical reason why it is not supported?

No familiarity with these devices, but there is at least a slim chance if it was an embedded device, they needed the flash or RAM for something else. Seen this happen elsewhere before
Coinbase’s Listing Is a Coming-Out Party for Cryptocurrency
They hate bitcoin here
Unless your primary workload is media encoding or rendering in Blender, those benchmarks are just as artificial as the truly artificial ones.

Most people’s performance workload is dominated by media consumption—not media creation. But the latter sure does make for good benchmarks.
> How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there?

Well this is the whole point. You have to trust your employees to some degree with this. Also you would totally notice someone not doing what they are supposed to do at some point, simply because their work would pile up otherwise. You can also have daily/weekly meetings to check on their progress to make sure they are doing their work.
Looks good! I don't like the popup style that much, but I guess it could be extended to show the article on the same page.
I'd guess, the main reason is that the standard for doing so is not fixed.

The idea seems that WASM tries to be a general compilation target, so they don't wanna mess it up by integrating with the web platform too soon.

Don't know when or if the interface types are released.
> an advanced economy, with individual and corporate transparency and opportunity, or a welfare state.

These are not in conflict, they are complimentary; the welfare state is necessary for individual opportunity to flourish, rather than a purely family/connections system.

Nowhere has successfully done the "low tax advanced economy without a welfare state" transition without also being a tiny tax haven or having a massive natural resource to sell off.
I second these points. I actually complained to our Head of UX about it a couple of weeks back.

I get a Figma link and it's generally to a massively zoomed out view of the whole canvas with a ton of different workflows/screenshots spread out on it. It's often very hard to know where to start, and when you zoom in its far too easy to find yourself in the middle of empty space with no clear idea where you are in relation to any of the designs.

Our designers seem to like it but I am not a fan because it's really ####ing hard for non-designers to collaborate with designers, provide feedback, etc.