skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent point. As a user, here are my requirements if you want me to opt into your data collection scheme:

1. All exfiltration of data must be under my direct control, each time it happens. You can collect all the data you want in the background, but any time it is transmitted to the company, I must give consent and issue a command to do it (or click a button).

2. All data that is exfiltrated must be described in detail before it is exfiltrated. "Diagnostic data" isn't good enough. List everything. Stack trace? Crash report? Memory dump? Personal info (list them all out)? Location information? Images (what are they, screenshots? from my camera?) Time stamps from each collection. If it's nebulous "feature usage data" then list each activity that is being logged (localized in my language). Lay them all out for me or I'm not going to press that Submit button.

3. I need to be able to verify that #2 is accurate, so save that dump to disk somewhere I can analyze later.

4. The identifiers used to submit this data should be disclosed. Is a unique user id required to upload? Do you link subsequent uploads to the same unique id? Is that id in any way associated with me as an account or as a person in your backend? I want you to disclose all of this.

5. For how long do you retain the data I sent? How is this enforced? Is there a way for me to delete the data? How can I ensure that the data gets deleted when I request it to be deleted?

6. Do you monetize the data in any way, and if so, am I entitled to compensation for it?

I don't know of many (if any) data collection schemes that meet this bar, yet.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is because it reduced the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

Having larger images defined reduces the likelihood you'll have layout shifts while the page is painting, which greatly impacts your overall score.

https://web.dev/vitals/
I'm far more concerned by what a microphone could overhear than what a camera could see. There's very little actionable visual information in an office compared to the aural information.
I know consent is only one of the possible bases. My comment was not about GDPR per se. I mentioned this law because of the spirit behind it - the law itself sets the bar very low (arguably below the point of what I'd consider ethical behavior). The other reason I mentioned it is because GDPR is currently the only stick we (at least, some of us) have to push back on the invasive telemetry. It's not nearly enough.

GDPR notwithstanding, I'm of firm belief that any kind of telemetry in software should be strictly opt-in and require informed consent. I say should, it's an ethical view, not legal.
Interest generating, until they collapse and the money all disappears.
Headless React
Weird subdomain takeover of AWS- bugbounty writeup
My bank allows me to send money to my landlord, pay direct debits for my bills, receive my salary, and (via Mastercard) spend my money in shops.

How does "being your own bank" do these things? My understanding is that you would still need a "regular" banking layer for each of these activities, which seems like it defeats the point?
That's my experience for sure. I haven't thought all that hard about this but I wish there was a language lessened that wall of incomprehension I face every infrequent time I go back to MDX -- that's what I mean by room for another language.
Want to write better code? Compose a symphony
Thanx for an article, will save tick's body if get bitten again.
It's not some obscure symbol; it's just division. It just so happens that we typically "divide" matrices from the left when solving equations like this (and matrix "division" isn't commutative) so instead of `a/b` it's `b\a`.
> They don't do anything to reassure their customers, and they don't take any part of the blame.

Is there any world where Kaseya isn't dead? This isn't Equifax, who have a monopoly and could just out-live the bad press. Kaseya is an IT security firm in a hyper competitive marketplace selling to unsophisticated clients. Reputation is everything. I imagine they're in "avoid lawsuits so we can return as much capital to ourselves/investors before closing up shop" mode.
Long-Term Urban Emissions Data Show a Decrease in High-Income Countries
Lockdowns were a gift to Big Biz designed to kill small biz
Outdoor jobs: growing food, infrastructure repair, dock loading, police work, etc. If there's a big crash on the highway and it's 100 degrees out, someone's still got to go direct traffic, clean up the glass, etc. If you expect the cleanup to happen, you expect someone to do the cleanup, therefore you are expecting the rewards of the labor of people who do outdoor jobs.

My apologies for not explaining my own thoughts clearly, but when you and I say "job", we're talking about two different concepts. You are talking about a 261-day/year 8-hour/day commitment to a set group of tasks, and I am talking about "the collection of tasks that end up providing a quantity of goods or service" without any of the expectations that it's full-time or year-round attached to it. This may seem like an asinine distinction, but I'm not proposing a vision of society where you leave your current profession and work full-time at some mundane outdoor job, but rather a vision of society where you are capable of rendering some assistance in order to offset the bulk of labor required to produce the goods and services that unpleasant "non-brainy" jobs currently produce. I don't want you to give up your current amount of free time, or your medical care, or your access to entertainment and food, but neither do I want you to remain satisfied that other non-smart people labor for you while you do smart-guy stuff that you enjoy.

If you could learn the tasks that they perform, you theoretically could offset the amount of time they have to spend outside by occasionally performing those tasks. It likely wouldn't take away from your ability to perform the tasks at your current "job", whatever that may be.

I am not a socialist or a communist, and as I've said in another comment I don't really have a full-stack solution built out in my head that would make all of this magically work out, but it seems very wrong to me that the electronic-gentry portion of society is comprised of people sitting in air-conditioned offices thinking "god, I'd never work outside", but still tweeting angrily when the power goes out during a heat wave and the city employees don't fix it fast enough.
I say this quite often, or we get better as a profession or we are going to get related to death.
No society will tolerate failures in major businesses including food providers to happen continuously.
Or we do better, or the next generation of developers is going to have regulated programming languages, architectures, and tech stack.

Or we show that we can deliver safely and resist business pressure to deliver fast and cut costs, or the government is going to do it for us.
I use Feedly on the backend, Reeder 3 on my Mac and NetNewsWire on my iPad. I did pay for Reeder years ago and I use it on my Mac because it has good keystroke support (j for next article, etc.) whereas NNW does not.

There's a Reeder 5 and the two improvements (for me) that it has over 3 is that Twitter probably won't say "outdated browser" and refuse to show tweets and support for adding newsfeeds directly. I think MacOS added support for this after Reeder 3 was released.

Mixing the two readers is fine because Feedly is keeping track for them. If Feedly were to start charging, I'd probably start using NNW exclusively since they provide the option of using iCloud to sync.
Did you have symptoms for 9 weeks (your previous comment) or >1 year (this comment)?
> What a load of hyperbolic junk this is. Microsoft is trying to ensure consistency for people that buy Windows laptops. We can debate whether that is a smart move or not, but descending into 1984 fear-baiting is just nonsense.

Over the past few years we've seen Microsoft adopt increasingly user-hostile practices when it comes to privacy. It's not unreasonable to be concerned that this initiative will morph into something nefarious.

We went from "you need to have a network interface so you can activate the OS" to "Track all the things and phone home" in less than a decade.
AFAIK big-endian bit order makes the very very very low-level circuits easier.

Want to compare two numbers? You can short-circuit (hah) as soon as the leftmost bit is different.
> selling out public infrastructure to capitalists

Not sure what you mean. If there are any specific scandals you can point out to, I'd be really happy to know more.

Are you suggesting govt. should not contract out infrastructure projects?

> for waiving loans for billion dollar scammers

More than 80% of property/money of such defaulters has been taken back by the government.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/banks-cheated-by-m...

> farmers resort to suicide when they are unable to pay back their small loans

The govt. pays a lot of money to farmers. 21% of farm income is from govt. subsidies. (Subsidies that the US and other developed nations have been fighting to stop, so that they can compete in Indian markets).

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/economic-policy/fa...

Farmer suicides have been more or less constant for many decades now. Its a sad situation and the causes of suicides are many and varied.

The current govt. has brought in a lot of technology driven improvements to distribution of subsidies, eliminating middlemen, etc.

The current farmer protests are mostly by rich farmer middlemen from Punjab, who will see their commissions reduces significantly if farmers start selling in markets with real competition.

> when "elected governments" act as the nazi party and "image" is worth more than lives of ordinary citizens

This could potentially mean very many things. It would help if you could be specific. Just shouting Nazi and lives of ordinary citizens means nothing.

> have people disappear as they like

Not very knowledgeable on this subject. Would love to hear more.

> when journalists are arrested and people killed for speaking against this "Elected government"

Most incidents I have seen are for deliberate instances of mis-information and shoddy journalism, leading to tense situations. I would be glad to hear of any instances where journalists have been wrongfully arrested.

The example you cite is for a journalist who was arrested based on a complaint from a Woman's Union, and that was for his posts of FB rather.

I never support suppression of free speech and news media, but the North Eastern states of India have a unique situation because China is fomenting a lot of separatism within the states and it is internationally knows that it claims Arunachal Pradesh as its own.
Notice how that none of the reports mention how the sanctity of the chain of custody of the hard disk has been preserved.

The forensics lab in Pune, which is the authorized lab for examining this kind of data, and which examined the disk when the chain of custody was preserved, found no such planted evidence when the hard disk was taken in.
You can get a percentage every time the user runs your code. That’s part of the smart contract. So a. You have no server costs and b. You get paid.
It's definitely not the norm, but I'm willing to bet it'll become more common especially after the pandemic.

That said - it's not just part-time jobs I'm curating, but full-time contract positions too!
> email id: eWMuY29mb3VuZGVyLm1hdGNoQGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=

base64, I like it
Impressive. I'm interested to know how you gained 3000 businesses by using Bulma and having a slightly off place UI.
and if it, you know, actually mitigated the most common threat vectors (that all run in userland and microsoft does next to nothing to effectively stop) like ransomware.
It depends on what you mean by a significant share, right before the pandemic Asus came out with a gamer laptop that was based on AMD and was both cheaper and better than most of its competitors but, sadly, sold out almost everywhere.

It also didn't have camera.
I don't know about the course itself, but you probably would like to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY (How To Speak by Patrick Winston)

Content:
00:16 - Introduction
03:11 - Rules of Engagement
04:15 - How to Start
05:38 - Four Sample Heuristics
10:17 - The Tools: Time and Place
13:24 - The Tools: Boards, Props, and Slides
36:30 - Informing: Promise, Inspiration, How To Think
41:30 - Persuading: Oral Exams, Job Talks, Getting Famous
53:06 - How to Stop: Final Slide, Final Words
56:35 - Final Words: Joke, Thank You, Examples
Java and C# are not capable of programming hardware, in the sense that C and C++ are. There’s nothing “nonmodern” about C or C++ and LLVM was written in such a language that compiles to literal processor instructions. The JVM and dot net runtimes were also written in a lower level language with semantics for memory access via pointers. Despite all the hullabaloo about dangers and footguns, embedded dev, HALs, device drivers, OS schedulers and sundry all are written in C or C++. I’m not even bringing up garbage collection but it’s also a whole big dealbreaker for any low level systems programming. One cannot use malloc inside of boot code or inside of a low latency system call, etc

It turns out that Rust has gained some attention and is capable of operating in this space. The inertia of Linux kernel code needing to inter link and being largely in C is one reason why you don’t see random bits of Rust in Linux, but this is not to preclude designing low level systems in Rust.
In predicate calculus specification languages, you can write

X such that P(x)

where P is a test predicate. Doesn't mean you have any idea how to generate X. A long time ago, when this idea was going around for the first time, I was using a formal specification language called SPECIAL. I wrote the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem in Special to demonstrate that merely being able to formally specify something doesn't necessarily lead to a solution.
Profit. The cheaper your electricity, the higher your margins.

The greenies won't care to admit it but Bitcoin has finally provided the motivation to pursue cheap, efficient, reliable renewable energy where all they've ever had to offer was financially-punishing "save the planet" vibes.

Depending on the source, 50% (+-20%) of crypto mining is already powered renewably.
Did you read my statement? "only have 7 months, since the first vaccine was given" was meant to address the first vaccine after approval to the public. The first vaccine was December 14, 2020 in the US.

>Your comment is full of factual inaccuracies,
Which others do you dispute?

>Also worth repeating what another commenter said, vaccine side effects always show up in the first two months.
This is a 'novel' vaccine and we do not have enough data on mRNA vaccines administered to the general public to make a blanket statement on its long-term safety. It's your decision to get the vaccine. My argument is I have had COVID, there's evidence natural immunity is equal if not better (it 'knows' the whole surface of the SARS2 virus, not just the 'spike' protein), I am relatively healthy, and although older, not in the top brackets of high mortality for the disease. My children are in the least-affected age brackets, and they have had COVID. Yet, social and regulatory pressures are gaining momentum while ignoring natural immunity.

I agree that they appear to be safe in the short term aside from the number of issues that have been reported, but I cannot say, and I don't see how the 'experts' and government can say unequivocally that they are safe in the long term, and then push them on still-developing preteens. Why?

>There doesn't seem to be much evidence in support of continued living in fear.
I am not living in fear. I feel healthy and not worried about COVID at all for me. I am worried I will have to be vaccinated to keep my job, go to a concert, and shop without restrictions among other liberties.

Read my comments following this thread. All of my sources are official government or even the vaccine companies' website.

My argument is for not ignoring natural immunity for those who have had COVID already, and being a bit skeptical about data starting to emerge of side effects for a novel vaccine and technology with huge profits to big pharma and a 'get out of jail free' card in the form of the PREP act which gives them immunity from a majority of possible ill effects of the vaccine.
>"is objectively much smaller, simpler language than Rust."

Brainfuck is an even smaller, simpler language, it has only 4 characters!
goddam. Out of the multitude of reasons to get off Facebook, the one that actually did it for me was that I couldn't handle the messaging app but there's no way to disable it. No end to work group chats, messages from creepy colleagues and estranged relatives, your mates who basically liveblog into your message inbox every time they've got a drama going on and so on. Took me a long time to spot it but once I did it was like pandoras box had been opened and I couldn't handle it any more
I think there's a fair few of us looking to do the same. The pandemic caused a huge shift in how I approach everything in life.
Oh please. Microsoft is trying to ensure a base level of functionality. If they didn’t ship with cameras, mac fanboys would mock them as they did in the old “switch” commercial when they taped a camera to the top of a computer.
doesn't matter because we can't change the past. what's relevant today is that technology has created opportunities for power structures to exploit and take advantage at a much bigger scale.

Planting of evidence (as this title points to) is just one of many things that are a problem when we pretend digital roots of trusts are flawless as is the case with the totally broken Aadhaar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Pulumi moves to usage-based pricing
I think "nocebo" is the better term in this case.
Or if you can, physically removing the camera - but then, will Windows complain? :)
nothing, especially because I haven't looked into it at all, and there probably is no reported evidence anyway. hence, my comment referring broadly to this wave of attacks, and my use of the qualifying "possibly."

why is everyone (mainstream news, etc.) so quick to refer to any attack originating from a Russian IP address as "Russian" (either implied or directly stated to mean "Russian government")—yet positing that these attacks might have political motivations behind them is a "conspiracy theory"?
One of the reasons to not cut your hair and wear a turban is that a Sikh can't hide out in a crowd. You always know who is Sikh. This coupled with the mandate that a Sikh must always help those in need means that you always know where to look and ask for help.

From my perspective (US), this is a much needed belief today since it was born out of the similar circumstances in 1699.
If you take the divergence of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations you get a Poisson equation for the pressure, with a function of velocity on the RHS. So it’s important in fluid dynamics.
well, I'd just point out that you should have a proper backup in place and occasionally cycle hardware.
Only because the protections are there for email viruses. Phishing and spearphishing are still popular attack vectors, so we know people would be susceptible to something like iloveyou if it were to get past other defenses
A poorly fitting helmet isn't spiral wrapped into ten feet of hair.

Sikh turbans aren't "a simple hat".
Higher score, not faster site nor improved UX.
Stitch Fix Algo Hour – First Year Retrospective
So I click "connect a wallet", and I'm given a list of 7 options, none of which a typical user will have heard of, let alone understand what a wallet is.

Compared to going to my bank's website and clicking "get a quote for a loan", filling in some personal details, and getting an email?

I understand why this feels exciting to tech-minded people but this essentially proves my point.
I agree about the description of the outrage cycle, but I think what you're leaving out is people frequently get fired/ostracized for these things. That really does have a cooling effect.
I'm actually going to agree with that. Any country jailing political activists on their position alone is not a democracy.
Several models have shutters for the camera. There have been a few generations of Thinkpads where the entire camera slides inside the bezel. No physical microphone switch but there is a firmware level mic mute keyboard combination and associated LED.
Thank you! Yes, I agree, thank you for explaining that to me.
...2016

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002673 (351 comments)
I think you need to qualify in what sense bits are big endian. ”Bit 0” is reasonably the first one, and that usually refers to the least significant bit.
Very very well written and enlightening article. Love this guy's writing.
Ask anyone in the intelligence community. Web cams are great for blackmail, microphones are great for actionable intelligence.
Which is a bit weird, considering, that those things, that are contributed back, are not ensured to remain available, when anyone else makes modifications and has the option to make their changes a proprietary thing.

One would think, that if any contributions flowing back are allowed by a company, then it is to GPL licensed projects, because competitors, who want to use it in their products, would have to also contribute back their modifications. Basically to ensure, that a competitor cannot gain an invisible advantage based on ones code. (If all play by the rules.)
This is 100% true and the reason why made this post. I think people are missing the signal for the noise - the noise being all the absurd people and ideas the space has indeed attracted. The signal being - dApps are huge.
Part of the problem is that they're slow and expensive to use. Although Cryptokitties had (in web terms) a miniscule number of users performing tiny transactions, that was enough to essentially break Ethereum in 2017[0]. There are other blockchains now that try to resolve these issues though.

The other fundamental problem is connecting the blockchains to the outside world. There are various libraries to help with this, e.g. web3.js for Ethereum, but this typically means most DApps are inward-looking (exchanges, DeFi, token-based games etc.) rather than providing any non-crypto-related functionality. That of course makes it look to many people (rightly or wrongly) that DApps, DeFi, etc. all just serve two functions: (i) "plausible deniability" (look, my cryptocurrency does all this, so it can't just be a pyramid scheme), and (ii) sustain the pyramid schemes (i.e. keep them going for longer, draw more people in etc.).

Relating this to your example of selling a house as an NFT, there was an attempt to do so earlier in the year[1], but the key point is "Whoever purchases the NFT will be able to contact the seller and organize the sale of the house through standard legal means." So if you buy the NFT, you are not buying the house, but buying a brochure with the particulars you'd need to try to actually buy the house. That is the fundamental issue: to do anything useful you still need to interact with the real world. And personally, when it comes to something like buying a house, I'd much rather deal with real people, than hope I don't irreversably lose all my money due to an unfixable bug in the immutable smart contract or someone typing in the wrong address or something.

Anyway, take a look at https://dappradar.com/ for DApp listings.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42237162

[1] https://decrypt.co/66173/a-house-in-germany-is-being-sold-as...
I've had to set aside several hours to set up family members Windows laptops for that reason. It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to get an offline account, battle the OS to use their browser of choice (possibly reverted by future updates) and download random scripts from GitHub to remove advertising, confusing trialware and random games from the default install - and that's before you get to the laptop vendor software.