skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think the opposite is happening. Yes, a few are adding OAuth flow-equivalent, but even more are adding 2-factor and other security measures that prevent a third party.

Maybe Plaid has enough clout to prevent it, but other services have dropped functionality for more and more accounts over the past 2-3 years in my experience.
I gave it a watch recently and while I certainly can't say how well it must have hit a decade ago, I found the overall experience to be enjoyable.
Probably less than what we have right now.
Those are illegal (at least in the US, and likely just about everywhere). Which is bitterly ironic in this case ... spying on people inside their homes using WiFi is "fine", but trying to jam that bullshit is ... illegal.
People are somehow expecting all nefarious people to be some kind of tech savvy geniuses who will order dozens of AirTags, disable the speakers and hide them everywhere just to track people they're stalking.

If they really want to do it, there are a bunch of better ways to achieve the same goal.

Also, Apple can adjust the amount of time before a lost tag starts beeping remotely.
5G take-up in US much faster than earlier technologies: Counterpoint
Germans are NOT privacy conscious or cautious - see SCHUFA, Rundfunkbeitrag debt collection, countless Inkasso, Payback, applying for apartment rental, invasive copyright predators. They simply hate anything which smells internet. Germans hate the internet.
Is anyone surprised to learn there are informed traders on the other side of these hype-driven bubbles?

edit: it defies belief that this is somehow a controversial comment
I have seen an overwhelming amount of evidence that if you've recovered you are safe. I have been tracking this since early February 2020. I think if you've recovered you can stop worrying about COVID, and I have seen nothing that makes me think the vaccine is worth it in the least if you've recovered.

I would not worry about mutant strains either. It's a very genetically stable virus. Even though the numbers in India now are high, they are still significantly lower per capita than they were in the USA and UK last year. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Crypto Exchange Turned All Investor Assets into Dogecoin
My biggest gripe with email today is that it's become normal, at least in my current line of work, to leave emails unreplied. You write detailed and thoughtful messages, with direct questions and point of discussions, and you get an ack on IM or passing by the corridors
Thing is anyone even passingly interested in privacy will start questioning it - is it open-source? Can it be self-hosted? Is it available as a desktop app? It's privacy theatre unless the privacy can be proven.
From TFA: “it seems that dentry caches consume around 2GB memory under one memory cgroup”.

My issue happened after stress-testing Kubernetes by repeatedly starting and stopping many containers. So over time there could be tens of millions of files bind-mounted.
In which fantasy world are WiFi devices known for receiving regular firmware updates? Especially if they're older than a year or two? Enterprisey brands, sure, but consumer grade stuff? Hah!
I think it's worth exploring multiple approaches to a problem. Maybe this neural network approach can be improved upon and it will also generate photorealistic looking images but have other advantages such as less effort on behalf of the game developer or less compute.
My guess is that in most states, "He refused to show up for work" would be considered "for cause". Don't really know, though.
> The act of trying to force someone to do something, whether by (implied) threat, logic, emotional manipulation, or whatever, can mortally wound a relationship making getting a concession you want moot.

Yes, so, present the initiative not just or even primarily in terms of your own preferences, but in terms that highlight the benefits to your employer.

How would working remotely make your contribution more valuable and more flexible to your team and your org?

Sell that first. There's no risk. Even if it doesn't work first time, if you present it as part of an open discussion about their interests, needs, and pre-conceptions you'll learn something from their response.

If you feel that being on the spectrum limits your ability to see things from their point of view, depersonalise it by getting some help from a friend to divine your employer's perspective, and then take that view and treat it as an intellectual exercise for you to optimise a scenario. You're good at that.
You don't "get what you pay for" in that you can pay a lot and still get shit results but you can't pay shit and get good results.
There are a lot of walls to upgrade then, who should pay for that?

Standing in someone's garden, peering through their window is dealt with via legislation.

Since the invention of video recording devices, rather than having everyone upgrade their windows, legislation was reinterpreted and updated to govern the recording of people in private places vs public places.

It doesn't seem unreasonable for the same to be done to keep up with other forms of technology.
> That doesn’t say it’s discrete.

Possibly not discrete, as we envisage it - the small scale does not usually follow human intuition at all.

Though I would say that "there is a limit to measurement" of length and time entirely. Not just to accurate measurement.
Google maps has a similar feature. It's similar to snapchat's map feature so many younger people don't think it's too too odd, except this updates in the background instead of whenever you open Snapchat. I just decide to share with close friends, they get a notification about it, and if they feel like it they can press a button to share back. I'm not worried that these close friends will utilize this information to rob me when I'm at work or to kidnap me but it's certainly an unnecessary vulnerability.
Books:
-Survalence capitalism
-Rentier Capitalism
-The Corruption of capitalism

Watch a YouTube video about 'Capital in the 21st century'
OmniOS is a still actively maintained Solaris derivative - maybe that will run? https://omnios.org
> But way more than is acceptable.

Is it? Far fewer of them still will get severe symptoms. And this of course requires the unvaccinated person to actually be infected. From what I read, my risk (of at least an unpleasant time) is worse if that person had some other virus instead, since I'm much more likely to catch it and guaranteed to have unpleasant symptoms if so. At some point there needs to be a cutoff in risk level where it's low enough for a free society.

A bigger concern in my mind is that as long as the virus is spreading it is mutating, potentially becoming dangerous again to the vaccinated too. But this seems to be increasingly not likely with this particular category of viruses.
How do you get work in such diverse places?
The paper you cited looks at re-infection at up to 100 days. She cites a paper indicating up to 5% of people have no signs of immunity at 6 months:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/eabf4063.ful...
That you haven't met someone who can't take vaccines is not a reason to dismiss them. Intuitively, such people may prefer to stay in self-quarantine to protect themselves, making you even less likely to encounter such a person during a pandemic.

However, getting vaccinated should also help reduce the transmission of the disease to people who haven't yet had a chance to get a vaccination even though they could; the pandemic will end faster than if you let it run its natural course.
If you were known to be the only person who frequents an area, then an adversary's Airtag planted there getting updated would notify them that you were present.
Lots of programming wars is just tribalism. Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebase for decades and therefore conservative. A different tribe than the startup tribe HN represent. Java is not in particular more verbose than say C or Rust for solving the same task, it is just a random slight on the language of a different tribe.

HN is a great community, but it has a very narrow perspective on the world.

As a beginner it is fine to chose to master one language first, but in the long run you should not "choose a language", but rater learn to learn any language, and understand they all have their strength and weaknesses.

But there are so many choices of tools and technology in this industry and it is impossible to learn it all. Tribalism makes the world simpler because it narrows your perspective.
The importance of humility in software development? Very little.

Hubris and flying too close to the sun is what has always pushed tech forward and turned average software developers into legendary ones, both for their success and for their failures.
Except that the people who are worried can simply get vaccinated themselves.

There may be a few people who can not be vaccinated (old and very sick), but it hardly seems appropriate to restrict billions of people just to protect those few. It would be more efficient to isolate them, which most of them probably already are (in care homes or hospitals).
Goldman employees have no clue what to do with their cash other than multiply it. So expect it all to go into catcoin.
There was a long history of using "réis" as the currency (since the 16th century)... which was only replaced by the cruzeiro in the 1940's, then cruzado for a short time, and then finally the temporary URV and the more permanent real... see how they like to play with the words?

Réis is just an inflection for reais (plural of real, meaning royal in this context, as far as I know) as they explain in this article in Portuguese (which seems to freely exchange reais and réis - e.g. it says the currency was called real in 1833, but the printed notes say réis up to the 1942 ones):

https://vejasp.abril.com.br/blog/memoria/evolucao-moeda-bras...

rél/réis -> cruzeiro(s) -> cruzeiro(s) novo(s) -> cruzeiro(s) -> cruzado(s) -> cruzado(s) novo(s) -> cruzeiro (again!!) -> cruzeiro(s) real(s) -> real/reais

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/real-Brazilian-currency

I don't know why they changed the historical name of the currency from réis to reais (some old people still say réis, and contos(s), which a long time ago meant a thousand-thousand réis because a thousand réis was 1 réis of the older Portugues money - hence why you'll hear a lot of older people actually use the term merréis (which is a conjunction of mil (thousand) and réis!) but I guess that was just a play of words, like cruzado and cruzeiro which are also similar?!
The PDF is the 2nd edition. There is a 3rd edition on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capit...

I haven't read it, but I think I'll read the 3rd Edition.
Pipeline Hackers Say They Are Apolitical, Will Choose Targets More Carefully
From the "Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement" video [1]: "It is a convolutional network which produces images frame by frame and can be run at interactive rates.".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0 (0:19)
Looks really nice. It is however funny to see what it does to road signs (black arrows suddenly turn blue or the orange "don't walk" hand of pedestrian traffic lights seems to disappear). I wonder if this has to do that they use image data from Germany (having slightly different signs than the US).
Ask HN: What's it like going from product to support engineering?
I've been a product engineer for many years. I'm considering transitioning to a support engineer role where I triage bugs and fix them. Also working on internal support tools.

I guess my main motivation is I'm sick of the agile development lifecycle with daily stand ups, the back and forth discussions (read arguments) about requirements, design, code review, etc.

Picking issues from a bug tracker and hunting them down and fixing them sounds kind of satisfying.

Has anyone made the transition from development to engineering support? How was it? Am I suffering from greener grass syndrome?
I have a somewhat funny anecdote on this. One of our sister cities had a tool for handling city-water or something along those lines, that was build in ASP Web-forms.

All the city engineers were perfectly happy with it, but the developers behind it were worried that ASP web forms were becoming obsolete. Not really an illegitimate concern I supposed, but what they did was hire a company to rebuild it in AngularJS.

So now they have a technology nobody else uses around here, while web forms simply turtles on because of how much legacy it has in various places that aren’t upgrading it.
Why not just use Auth0?
For any vaccine (and the corresponding disease) there are people that cannot be vaccinated, but that can have quite severe symptoms (and/or die). If a person is not vaccinated - then this person can spread the disease among those vulnerable people. How this can be problematic - here is an example. One of the reasons Sweden has so high mortality from COVID is that during the first wave elderly care homes were hit hard, because workers spread the virus (mostly unknowingly). That you have not met such people in the last 6 months depends, I guess, on your social interactions style and on the structure of the society you live in in general.
They need 1 million signatures, they're currently at 51197 after 3 months. This is not likely to go anywhere. I guess people just don't care enough.
"One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate"

You make it sound as if there is a fixed, god given set of rules for society. That's not the case. Societies rules are constantly being negotiated by society.

So your argument is not an argument at all. It boils down to "you have to follow the rules because you have to follow the rules".
Java is miserable to write. You don’t realize this until you work with other languages. It was literally built with guardrails to keep enterprise coders from getting too creative
Reading the title, I was looking forward to hearing from other people working on open source digital cameras.

But no, this is a CAM = computer aided manufacturing software like KiCAD.

Cam != CAM
It surely is nice to be able to chat with friends during working hours. However, it seems, that this is a big source of distraction, which is unwanted in an efficient working environment. Unless of course your friends are working on the same project or you are free to discuss work details with friends outside of the project or employer. Many people are not free to do so. Many people have come to realize, that they focus best, when not distracting themselves with friends and family business while at work.

While many people shift effortlessly between async anc sync communication, many people also have problems with that. When you do not respond in time, they get impatient. Some people are seemingly not able to do this shifting as effortlessly.

Just a few points to consider, before getting to any conclusions.
Good point. But I wouldn't rule out neural networks. They could still be used to derive efficient shader models that can be run in real time. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06078
Oorah! Finally an honest CEO!
I was replying to the parent, who wants them in the United Nations, as a recognized country on the world stage.

I would also like competition among fabrication providers, and each fabrication provider to have a factory on the same continent I live on, even if it isn't in the same country (which does happen to be the US).
The dodgefather
You also need to consider what this looks like from the other side - an employee has looked a new role, interviewed for it, and been given an offer. That's a strong signal that they're unhappy and looking for the exit. You may say the fact you're not remote is the reason, but what if it's also about money or the work is boring or there's friction with your manager? The only information the company has is what you're saying, so it's likely to be incomplete.

Whenever someone on my team has approached me to say they have a better offer but they'll stay if I can match the terms I've always recommended they take the offer even if I'd be sad to lose them. Keeping someone on the team who is unhappy enough to go through the hiring process and find a new role is a short term fix at best.
> [...] So a quantum computer would be pretty bad for Bitcoin in its current state.

Your reasoning is sound. But it won't be as bad. I'd claim, not much worse than dealing with leap seconds.

For 2 reasons:
• Post-Quantum Cryptography exists.
• The updated (quantum-resistant) Bitcoin will get renamed back to Bitcoin.

I agree your parent could use a review. I failed to read them any far.
Who said he was informed?
I think those quoting huge costs are looking at whole life whereas the rest are looking at term life. Looking at one place, if you're 30 years old, and getting only 100K for whole life, the premium is over $1400/yr. Multiply that by 10 for 1M and it's 14K/yr.

People often get these expensive plans because they can treat it as a retirement fund, and can borrow against it at any time with no penalties, etc. With term life your premiums are wasted if you cancel at 65. With whole life, you get back your premiums, and their growth (you may be able to control the investment vehicle as well).
Is the only way to add a sound to first click the sound and then add it to squares? I would have preferred to click the square in the part of the 3x3 grid to add the sound directly.
The flip side of having "premature opinions" is that, at the very least, you gained a lot of data points early on :).

It's kind of like with assembling a tricky 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. You assemble the frame first (like everyone always does), and wonder how to fill it in. You could pick the most obvious feature on the reference picture, start there and focus on expanding it piece by piece until the picture is done. But what I imagine most people do is first speculatively placing all the pieces that seem trivial to match to corresponding picture features, in order to reduce the number of unplaced pieces quickly, and give themselves lots of starting points to expand their solution in parallel. This approach is useful despite it commonly turning out later that some of such early starting points are placed completely wrong - puzzle blobs get easier to position correctly once they grow in size.

It's a long way of saying, if you keep track of confidence levels of your beliefs, instead of taking everything you read on the Internet as certain, even off-hand remarks on HN can be useful in navigating the enormous space of technologies and philosophies that form the software industry.
IQ testing GPT-3 and Elon Musk's school admissions questions
How can you patiently explore your options or loopholes for HR, when there is an urgent deadline to return to the office?

Wouldn’t simply not showing up give them a “bureocratic obligation” to fire you for disobedience?
fairly standard in Germany. And sick leave unlimited (doctor's note required).
Seems incredibly selfish to force vulnerable people into isolation because some people allow themselves to get absorbed into conspiracy theories about a harmless vaccine.

Requiring certain vaccines for travel has been something that has existed for decades and was never controversial.
Good. Very early birds getting out rich from the cryptocurrency mania with little risk. That's how you do it.
Dacia are doing exactly that in Europe. Simple cheap cars made from 10-20 year old Renault parts. Pretty reliable (because by the time they trickle down to Dacia, every component has been tested for several years by millions of Renault drivers) and insanely cheap
This is what has been called Deep Shading: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06078
Sometimes I think I'm living in a parallel universe.

I know people who travel regularly and no one says anything to them. No quarantine, nothing. Most people on the streets here in Germany give zero fucks, groups of 5-10, no masks (even though there's a curfew between 10pm-5am due to an increase in cases).

And I traveled all the way from Moldova to Germany by car. No one, and I mean no one ever asked for a Covid test (which I had, of course, along with a positive antibodies test). Border guards, Hungarian border patrol, German Zoll, regular Romanian and German police, they cared about what's in the bags, didn't even mention Covid.

Hungarian border guards wanted to see a German work contract for whatever asinine reason, but I repeat, none of them ever asked for a Covid test or to at least keep the mask on (they need to see your face when checking the passport).

Whatever bureaucratic stumbling blocks there are, they have nothing to do with reality, it seems.
> (If they ask, "what health concerns?" remind them that's private. Don't invent a fictitious medically-fragile aunt.)

I don't think anybody needs to make anything up in the midst of worldwide pandemic. This past year is a blockbuster example of why somebody could reasonably be concerned.
Depending on where you work, if you're a great developer then the income can be around 2500-4500€ a month take home, which is 40k - 90k eur (gross, not payroll) a year. Considering the average (and very liveable) salary is 1100€ take home a month, it's really great living costs wise.

I think apart from the post-soviet Central European countries, Baltics are the outliers, and Estonia is the outlier among them (with Lithuania catching up). Mostly because of lenient tax policies and high levels of entrepreneurship. But all this growth does increase inequality a lot, a person in the countryside might take home 600-800€ a month in comparison.
yeah, games visuals are more about art direction than search of realism

this would work great in a flight sim tho, albeit blur and out of focus effects are terrible for visual clarity

however, there's one small bit that has not been given enough attention imho, which is on the latter set, under "removes distant haze": this would be a great technique to complement flat LOD reduction of open world games while keeping up the crispness and contrast of distant items.
It's more fun to print your way out of hyperinflation though. In theory printing money to support economic sectors that are suffering from shortages would lead to excess production and they would have a hard time getting rid of those products, which gives buyers a negotiating advantage which forces the seller to lower their prices despite hyperinflation.
How to Protect Your Source Code from Public Acess
Jamf acquires zero trust security startup Wandera for $400M
Somehow taxing peoples' labor is not immoral?

From efficiency standpoint, property taxes will be more efficient than income taxes when it comes to expenditures for local infrastructure.

Having only income taxes and no property/land taxes implies a direct subsidy from the middle class to aristocracy billionaire class. The exact reverse of what your intention seems to be?

No property tax removes the need to return properties to the market, when underused. It would result in extremely high properry prices in the environment of zero interest rates. Pricing everybody out completely.

And no, property taxes are not passed down in higher rents. They do the opposite - decrease rents - by making the market more liquid. See "tax incidence".
On Arduinos, it's actually "for (;;)", which surprised me.

https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/cores...
People born between the 40s-80s saw the largest economic expansion in history resulting from a massive expansion of labor power and social spending and decided it was because they worked so hard.

The hold up is the mass manufacturing of consent by the media oligopoly.

I don't think anyone knows where it's heading. My bet is neo-feudalism
could you elaborate what is bad engineering? It's one thing to say babel is no longer a critical tool, it's another thing to say that it's "bad engineering"