skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if someone is hawking wares on their channel they should at least use it/have faith in it/do their research. Tom Scott has a great video about VPN sponsorship and how he turned down a sponsorship from a VPN company because of the copy they wanted him to say and debunks the ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

Mad respect for him, and if he ever suggest a paid product in the future i'd trust him. Conversely i really dislike when they clearly don't use the product, or are shilling a product that i KNOW is bad - looking at you raycons. I can't help but lose respect and definitely distrust every sponsorship they have.

tl;dr integrity matters, raycons are really not that great, and i'm tired of hearing the same copy over and over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb58b7ob2yQ
> shut down for the survival of your species

Do you really believe the survival of our species is at stake?

There have been 1754 covid-19 deaths per million people in the USA since the start of the pandemic [0], a seemingly reliable number. That works out to 1 out of 570 people that have died of covid. Mostly older and less healthy folks.

Part of the problem may be that not everyone is that scared. Living in democracies we need to respect that.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The story just broke. We don’t know what the IRB saw, we don’t know what they said.

Throwing anyone under the bus before there any time to even start asking questions is not what any smart administration should do.
Can you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would?

This is a straw-man. Real-world designers absolutely do have a sense of implementation constraints for their target platforms, yet are usually not deep implementation domain experts. Likewise, experienced UI devs often have a sense of design, but are often not going to draft and refine a whole-cloth new design. I’ve also met a rare unicorn or two: those magic individuals who are fully capable developers and designers.

Put another way: UI design and UI development are adjacent specialties. Visually, they’d be partially overlapping regions in a Venn diagram. A UI designer or a UI dev who somehow knows nothing of their peer discipline will be hamstrung. I’ve met devs who fit this bill, not by their own design, and they’re usually radically unhappy with their work until they manage to pivot to non-UI development.
Mantat would disagree this vision and claim that vision is only left for the human brain.

-- Dune inspired
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less." - Schlock Mercenary Maxim #29
As funny as this is, it makes me think about the viability of OpenBSD on smart home appliances. Those get hacked a lot and makes me wonder if OpenBSD can make them more secure.
> there MUST be universal laws that govern it

I disagree. There's a strong desire from a western scientific mindset that everything be possible to reduce and turned into laws and models, but that doesn't mean everything works like that. It's putting the cart before the horse.

> How do you imagine language could develop (both evolutionarily and within each child that learns it)if there were no predetermined laws that restricted the set of possible word combinations? As Chomsky would say, if you think about it for a while, you will see that the alternative actually makes no sense.

This is just armchair philosophizing, reminds me a lot of "praxeology". And even if it was true, which I don't believe at all, that doesn't mean that he or anyone else can successfully identify and articulate them.

> But he has shown conclusively that there must be some universal structure that underpins all natural human languages.

I don't see that at all and while I happily admit I'm not a linguist I'm sure there are countless actual linguists who would agree Chomsky is a bit of an emperor with no clothes.
I'll have to disagree a bit on the "You don't need to design internal tools well" argument.

I get the point the OP is trying to make, and certainly agree up to a point, especially when you are comparing to an external UI. Obviously in most cases, your customer facing UI should be much more well designed compared to your internal tools. Of course.

... but, this argument only makes sense when there is a trade off like this to be had. In many larger organizations, (which tend to have more internal tools), it is not the same teams which build the external and internal tools. And the larger your organization, the more (internal) customers you have and the more married to these tools their work is.

Just anecdotally, if the tools we built for the internal customers for my team were not well designed (as in well thought through), it will definitely piss folks off - because many folks use these tools throughout the day. Many internal users spend > 90% of their time on a handful of tools. Looking great is optional, but looking good, and working great in not. I wish I could give more concrete examples, but in many of our internal tools I have found that a few lines of CSS could make a a difference of night and day.

Not necessarily against the point OP is making, but just wanted to flush it out in more detail.
Another good example is the events leading up to the Challenger disaster (from the notion of 'Groupthink', which is related to Psychological Safety): https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2020/10/07/how-groupthink-played...
Exactly. That is a text book example of a pump and dump ponzi scheme.

This gives the SEC another reason, to 'protect' the retail investor by introducing regulations for cryptocurrencies.

So from here, I know that a lot of investors will become expensive bag holders from this. Just like the Bitconnect scam in 2017.
This is why you read books about people. Success leaves clues.
> Are the authors lying?

In short, yes. Every attempted defense of them has operated by taking their statements at face value. Every position against them has operated by showing the actual facts.

This may be shocking, but there are some people in this world who rely on other people naively believing their version of events, no matter how much it contradicts the rest of reality.
The congressional aides who help write laws have a sense of humor. the word CAN-SPAM not only sounds funny, but the portion “SPAM” itself doesn’t even mean SPAM as used in traditional usage. It is short for Non-Solicited Porn And Marketing, with ‘N’ going to CAN
It would be cool to have a mode for Brave Browser that tips the creator BAT when a sponsorship segment is skipped.
Where is Ed these days? He told me once he could replicate dial tones by humming and whistling 2 different frequencies at the same time.
I think the headline is probably truthy if not true

I struggled to implement basics w Tailwind until I dredged up my css memories and looked up changes that had passed me by (Flexbox).

All the tooling required to use even a css framework well or correctly makes me think css is still a core skill

But yes, Bootstrap saved me and many back in the day

Bulma and mvpcss look interesting too

I'll have to look at the author's new project
That's shameful of the IEEE committee that approved the paper.
There’s a big difference between releasing articles in direct support of the people and the ideology, and operating your business in that country.

You mention IBM. That’s just one example. The US as a whole benefited enormously from selling weapons, vehicles and fuel to both sides of WW2.

By your logic, the entire US economy since the war might as well have written persuasive articles in support of the Nazis.

It’s basically nonsense
What, you don't rate your source files based on what frequencies they'd have if you ran the waveforms charted by taking the boundary between leading and trailing whitespace and the actual content through the Fourier transform?
How to Track Your Networking Efforts
Link to the Google Spreadsheet template in the video: http://bit.ly/3dAi9Sz
You're not wrong at all, but if they're shipping these garbage ancient versions of ffmpeg, there are likely oodles of other bugs lurking around. And, if Cellebrite acts like most other companies who've had their awful security exposed, they will fix only this bug and leave everything else.
I’m a Comcast customer and I don’t receive these at all. I just get “your bill is ready to view” and that’s it.

Which makes me wonder what’s wrong with your account. Is it a regional thing where one comcast region is bugged? Do you have a duplicate sub-account that you aren’t aware of that has the setting? I never set up my “comcast email”. Do you have that forwarded to your main email?

Not defending them at all, just trying to understand how this could happen or help you get rid of the emails.
Same with Uber promos infiltrating push notifications.
It's like for Android:

if they had spent half of the time and ressources they wasted to constantly uselessly redesign things, to simply fix bugs and improve efficiency; then the user experience would be hundred miles better than today!

But sadly it looks like that they are only interested in eye candy tasks...
You don't think that the US/NATO "was materially altering the balance of force close to the angry neighbour." by placing forces and weapons in the Ukraine?

That's very close to the Soviets placing forces and weapons in Cuba in 1962. I seem to remember lots of hissy fits in Washington at that time.

Why shouldn't Moscow have a hissy fit now when the reciprocal situation has arisen?
> this is pseudo-science

Couldn't agree more. It's barely even that, it's kind of just armchair philosophizing. (which is fun and often actually useful, but not sufficient to make claims about universal laws)
> Leadership in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learned today about the details of research being conducted by one of its faculty members and graduate students into the security of the Linux Kernel.

- Signed by “Loren Terveen, Associate Department Head”, who was a co-author on numerous papers about experimenting on Wikipedia, as pointed out by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895969
In theory, the increased demand that might cause inflation could be partially or fully cancelled out by a tax increase. (In practice, Congress is unlikely to do it.)

It looks like we are seeing supply bottlenecks in certain areas. The price of lumber is bottlenecked by sawmills and electronics are bottlenecked by fabs.

But I wonder what’s not bottlenecked that could absorb more demand?
That's a witch hunt, and is not productive. A bad apple does not spoil the bunch, as it were. It does reflect badly on their graduate program to have retained an advisor with such poor judgement, but that isn't the fault of thousands of other excellent graduates.
I don’t either but I think the blame is often misplaced, most of them literally don’t know any better. They go to an ad network’s website, check a box agreeing to the deal, and receive a prompt to read on air.

Now of course they should be doing their own due diligence, but this is the state of podcast advertising right now (and has been for a while, see: BetterHelp controversy)

The bullshit is coming straight from the VPN providers themselves, fear mongering for profit.
Well you should try "fldigi"- this is a tool with many modulation and demodulation schemes used for amateur radio- they end up going to the transceiver via audio so it works just fine between PCs using PC speaker and microphone. You can have many simultaneous users on different channels within the audio bandwidth.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fldigi/files/fldigi/

One of the more entertaining modes is Hellschreiber: basically a radio fax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber
Their English is perfectly competent, but I just don't think it's fair to assume that they know the connotation of every English turn of phrase, especially when that assumption is being using to castigate them as "sarcastic".
Experimentation Kept Us Shipping Code and Growing Through a Pandemic
Came here to say this. I would also recommend Coders at Work[0], which is a series of interviews with notable programmers.

[0]: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nneBa6-mWfgC
Maybe I'm too cynical but I bet they crunched the numbers and figured out that the prostitutes are generally poor people who can't pay big fines and the courts generally go easy on whereas the customers are generally a couple rungs up the ladder and get no slack from the courts because they can pay so they'll just refocus all the resources on prosecuting the customers which is where the money always was anyway.
Three charged in money laundering scheme stealing $30M from foreign banks
At a minimum, is needlessly increasing the workload of an unwitting third party considered a harm? I ask, because I’d be pretty fucking mad if someone came along and added potentially hundreds of man-hours of work in the form of code review to my life.
I'm not able to give them the benefit of the doubt; or at least, if they are so inept they should be rejected by the scientific community.

Imagine this: "After thorough research, we discovered that we were able to cause the deaths of numerous individuals by knowingly constructing an unsafe bridge and having it pass municipal inspection."

That's the level of unethical research that the U of Mn approved.
Ignoring all the criticism regarding retail traders from outlets, there's a whole history of it being abused by mods for personal gain as well as the literal bots.

Not too long ago one of the mods created a fake account and posted fake Tesla gains in attempt to manipulate the market as well as monetize the sub for a scam company.

More recently some mods tried to monetize the whole sub with movie deals and other media venues. The reddit administrators ended up nuking a lot of mods include one who was doing actual moderation and was good for the community of the sub. (The one mod was later reinstated by Reddit)

Separate from all the mod issues is the large amount of astroturfing that went on. All too often tons of newly created accounts were posting trying to create hype around some stocks (suspiciously Chinese owned companies).
I wish my isp would stop sending so much fucking real world mail to try and convince me to buy cable tv
I'm hovering with my finger on my phone and I don't see text labels. /s
Just purchased a telcel SIM without any info.
This seems like exactly what happened to me. I do still think the researcher should have gotten approval from maintainers or the foundation before going ahead, and the way he did the research was pretty shitty.

But you also forgot the part where Greg throws a hissy fit and decides to revert every commit from umn emails, including 3+year old commits that legitimately fix security vulns.[0] Great job keeping mainline bug free with your paranoid witchhunt!

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Sad sad day. Cryptos need regulation bad, quickly...
There is one place where it makes sense for Microsoft to have their own Linux Kernel: Azure Sphere [0]

[0] https://3rdpartycodeprod.blob.core.windows.net/download/Azur...
I think people aren't realizing that the SponsorBlock tool also isn't just blocking sponsored segments. It also has options to skip other segments too such as intro segments, self promos, engagement badgering, etc...

A couple examples from Linus Tech Tips when I compare the video times with all these segments skipped versus nothing skipped:

Original: 14:10
SponsorBlock: 12:38

Original: 14:11
SponsorBlock: 12:04

Original: 19:31
SponsorBlock: 17:40

I'm saving almost 2 minutes in each of these videos and there are many creators who are much worse in this regard. I've had some shorter videos where they basically are half as long once all the crap is cut out of it. It's also nice for when I don't have my hands on the keyboard/mouse such as if I've got my laptop connected to my TV. I will get some videos queued up and set my wireless keyboard down to the side and just watch. With AdBlock + SponsorBlock I don't have to touch the keyboard or mouse through multiple videos and can just enjoy things without issues. I don't have to worry about skipping past ads, sponsor segments, intros, outros, self-promo's, etc...

Overall it just makes my viewing experience so much better. At one point I had YouTube premium but it felt like I was paying so much to basically just get rid of ads but not completely get rid of them. Even with ads gone I still have sponsor segments. And if I'm having to use a tool to skip sponsor segments it starts to make me just not care to even pay for the product anymore.
This seems like a stretch. While the main culprit is couching their accusations of slander in accessibility-oriented language as a way to deflect, there’s little to suggest “wokeness” is at play here in any respect, and to imply otherwise kind of gives away that you’ve already settled on a “culture war” lens, regardless of how well that maps to the story’s context.
Threading in group IM's seems to be one of the more polarizing UX discussions that I've come across. A while back I was reading some of the discussions the Matrix people were having about implementing a threading model, where it became clear that there were three very distinct ideas of "good threading" floating around:

1. Infinitely-nestable threading, a la Reddit and HN (and probably other sites first, but those are the ones I've used it the most)

2. Single-level nested threading, a la Slack (and maybe Facebook? I forget how much nesting they allow)

3. Discord/IRC-style replies (like you mentioned) where the responding message just quotes the original, possibly with a slight UI indication to make it easier to parse.

I guess you could argue that Zulip-style threading is a fourth option, but IMO that's closer to a bulletin board than a group IM, because you can't have a message that isn't in a thread, so almost no discussion happens at the top level of a given channel.

What's interesting to me is that the split between who prefers which style of threading is pretty close to even.

I suspect, although I'm not sure, that it comes down to two things: the size of the groups in which you normally participate, and how closely-knit they are. A small, closely-knit group would likely prefer Discord/IRC-style threading, because sub-discussions are more likely to be of interest to those not participating, and the added noise isn't too big of a deal if the group is small.

A larger, but still closely-knit group would probably prefer Slack-style threading, because even though sub-discussions might still be interesting to more than the immediate participants, but a single message space starts to become unusable with more than a couple of sub-discussions going on.

A large and loosely-knit group is is likely to prefer Reddit/HN style discussions (and in fact those are two examples of large and loosely-knit communities) because a sub-discussion is less likely to be of interest to a significant portion of the main discussion's participants.

Maybe, at least. It would be interesting to do a poll and see how those factors correlate.
It would be cool if their was an exploit on this protocol to give RCE over sound.
I wrote an error handling utility for my application which is helpful.

All my functions are uniquely named against a standard naming convention which helps with stack traces.

For actual debugging I just sprinkle around some console.log statements to see the flow control leading up to the problem. I have an ESLint rule to warn on console statements which makes for easy cleanup.

The hardest part of debugging for me, in a peer to peer app, is that the stack trace isn’t going to align with a flow control divided across a network.
Ah OK, I think I understand now. You are specifically referring to the ARM Thumb instruction set as an example of this encoding scheme in both your comments?
I'm not the one making claims about universal laws governing human languages and cultures. Extraordinary claims like that require extraordinary, in your face, irrefutable evidence. I'm simply saying that to me the whole notion of it seems intuitively nonsensical and the "evidence" provided appears to amount to not much more than armchair philosophizing. But I'm not a linguist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (though I'm sure there are plenty of actual linguists who also disagree with Chomsky)
Five hour old account posting flamebait, guess this is what HN is becoming.
The big issue I see with IoT devices is the absence of routine and long-term software updates. When these devices run Linux or Android, they are generally outdated. I don't really see this as being a result of the specific operating system, just laziness and contempt on the part of manufacturers.

In the meantime, a simple mitigation for consumers is to create an isolated guest Wi-Fi network on their router, and connecting IoT devices through that, so that they are kept well clear of the rest of the network. This is becoming commonplace on consumer grade equipment now.
Leading an identity-less life will not protect you from having your business intruded upon. It requires a lot of effort and setup, which means a lot of possible trails to leave behind. And if people look into you and see nothing where you should be, that's immediately suspicious.

Criminals have been doing it for ages though, by keeping a low profile. You cannot reliably hide from the state, but if you seem insignificant you can go unnoticed for a long time. Low-level dealers in many countries just use WhatsApp, some straight up text and call, despite knowing police could always be listening. If you're selling to a couple dozen people, the police won't bother tracking you down. They have bigger fish to fry. Higher-level dealers engage in much more OPSEC: using fake names, not letting anyone not involved see them, meeting in person etc. This is a consequence of the fact that they are more likely to be noticed.
It doesn't make sense to victimize sex workers.

It makes even less sense to keep them in the shadows, afraid to work with cops, given they are such a vulnerable population.
Glad to see someone made this. I've long thought about creating a podcast app which does the same, but never got around to actually building it.
Hmm. I see the actual event that showed the world that Britain's time was up, as the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse warships in December 1941.

After that point, the British Empire was dead, but it took another 15 years for it to be self-evident to the British themselves.
Sex workers' clients will still be arrested.

"A spokesperson confirmed to NPR that it will not change the office's existing approach to arresting patrons of prostitution."

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989588072/a-relic-and-burden-...