skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The anti-tracking point in the era of Do-Not-Track was “building advertising profiles that follow people around the web is evil.” Software telemetry is neither a personal profile, nor for advertising, nor correlated across more than one surface. As such I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to put this in the same bucket as 3rd party JS adtech crap.
Fantastic list
1) might not be true with Delta. There are cases of "passing" transmission of <30s contact. Too soon to tell, but what we learned early in the pandemic pre-delta may not apply now.

2) is still up in the air with studies going both ways (but get your vitamin D still, it has multiple benefits outside of this)

3) is somewhat true, but there are other big comorbidities as well (Diabetes, Downs Syndrome, etc), it's just that it's one that's highly visible in Western society and hypertension is very common in obese people.
Sometimes you don't get to choose the situation: the intermediate form / generated source code might be all that is available.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750554
There is no such thing as good and bad artists. That’s what makes the decision terrifying.
So are parents implying that this could not have happened in a democracy? If so, that's most likely wrong.
I’m sure there’s publishers that will take PDFs
The comment actually says the opposite, that even "traditional democratic countries" have big problems. That is to say, it's always possible to improve and all improvement is valuable. Already India, while unquestionably flawed, is regarded as more democratic than some European countries.
Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets
If that green LED is physically connected with the power to the camera then that's plenty good enough for me. How could it possibly be bypassed with software? Even if a physical switch was added I'd still want them to keep the LED for the convenience of it.

I do agree though that a physical hardware switch is better, especially for the microphone. I see no real reason why Apple couldn't put a parts bin iPhone mute toggle switch on the side of a MacBook. I don't think it would look out of place.
Analogy time: in the early days of the Internet, any IP address could send an e-mail by directly connecting to the mail change host listed for the domain of the To: address via SMTP. This was a good, nice thing.

Bad agents, spammers, ruined that. The trust is gone, and wow it's a terrible idea to accept SMTP connections from any random IP addresses.

Legitimate senders have to "opt in" to the SMTP sending system by getting a static IP of good repute, or else using a forwarding host which has those attributes.
Just FYI, the "or ... or ..." construct you are using here sounds odd to a native English speaker. The correct idiom is "either ... or ...", e.g. "Either we get better as a profession, or we are going to get related to death." (And I'm also guessing you meant "regulated" rather than "related".)
Autonomous software exchanging currencies without anybody being in control is cool. I find it hard to think otherwise.

You have a contract written in software, people pledging money to liquidity pools, and the rest is just magic. Sure you can go to a bank or someone and pay a currency exchange fee, but the fact that its possible P2P is quite neat.

It's basically Banks-as-software, collaboratively maintained like Wikipedia.
Hi, thank you for the nice words! We believe in the same vision. Visual languages are amazing for some applications, however, text-based development is superior in many cases, like low-level algorithm development, API connections, compatibility with version control systems (GIT), etc. I am really happy that we were able to overcome all design problems and make these two representations 100% compatible. TBH, when we were starting Enso, we were not aware how many corner cases and tricky technical details we would need to solve in order to bring it to the world!
Also, why is it so hard for them to track down ransomware perpetrators? Doesn't the NSA have back doors and gag orders to everything? Are the ransomware people really not using any Google/Microsoft products that can be used to track them down and banish them? Can we not hard fork Bitcoin to make ransomware wallets inactive?
The problem is a simple one. Most telemetry tools (Mixpanel, Sentry, etc.) don't give the developers who are adding them into their products the ability to quickly add respectful consent flows.

This really needs to be a feature of the telemetry tools in the first place. Because, ultimately, most telemetry is being implemented by startup engineers who are burning the midnight oil to complete the telemetry JIRA ticket before going back to the long list of other stuff they have to implement.

I have experienced this from all three sides - as a software engineer implementing telemetry, as a product manager consuming telemetry, and now as a founder who is building a tool to collect telemetry in the most respectful manner possible.
This is why I believe it should be a legal requirement for digital storefronts to have an API that allows 3rd parties to create custom UI for them. I understand that they want to have marketing control over their content, but as a result we're creating an objectively worse experience for customers with no way for competition to step in a solve it.
> everything on the news is supposed to match your worst nightmare. The more closely it matches, the less likely it is accurate

To my experience, it's the opposite.
I don't disagree with the author, but Microsoft-defined and -controlled security is also a step forward into a bland world of locked-in devices controlled by a third party, not something you really own. And that's good as it will help people to think a bit about their priorities.

What was unthinkable two decades ago, today is quite easy: because of the paradigm change from desktop to web apps, switching to Linux is not a sacrifice but a feasible operation, with the difficulty level related to the kind of hardware you own - and fortunately most hardware obsoleted by Windows 11 is quite well supported by Linux.
I’m sure as long as you don’t set a password, people will join.
If Aquinas knew any English, it would have been more like Chaucer’s. It’s unlikely he would have had any reason to write books in English.
The entire premise here is a bit odd to me; are people forced to spend their time and money watching a sub-par movie? Couldn't they watch one of the innumerable television shows that are available, watch YouTube, older movies, etc., etc.? The comparison made above to having to eat McDonald's in a desert doesn't make any sense in this context since that is talking about needing life-supporting nutrients in a literal desert.
Sure. But by that definition there would be only a bunch of tiny nations qualified as democracy in the world we currently live in.
Great! I had a similar idea a while back glad someone is doing it! Will it be open source? mostly curious what tech it is built upon.
Like the author, I thought Lost in Translation was okay when I first watched it in my late teens. I watched it again when I was living in Japan and it brought me to tears, particularly that scene where she's calls up her relative from her hotel room. I think the original Neon Genesis Evangelion is a masterpiece and hits differently as an adult compared to when I first watched it when I was the same age as the teenage protagonists.

Anything worth watching is worth watching again, and again, and again. I may be behind the times and have to silently take the back seat whenever discussions move towards the latest episode of Breaking Thrones 99, but I'd rather consume media when it's been divorced from the hype.

"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you." - The Catcher in the Rye.
Decrypt is pretty good too.
Until they require face-ID. Then another percentage of people will not bother to block the camera.

For those calling the 1984 references over the top fear mongering, I'd just ask one question: Why does Microsoft even care about users having a camera? When you answer that, I'd probably respond with "Nope, not a strong enough reason to be a requirement for Windows, try again." Rinse and and repeat. It's happening in China, it's happening at Amazon...
Blockchain's best use case is selling blockchain.
Did you even read what I said?

If you remove user related data as an input to the search query, the results will be purely based on algorithm efficiency, rather than feeding on the biases of the users.

Such feedback loops, of showing content that is suitable to the user, will lead to information silos and gradual radicalization of the user.
It's like indulgences, for the remission of venial sins. The buyer is delivered publicly a clean bill of moral health, and the seller gets to build some new chateaus, estates and cathedrals.
I stumbled upon this a few years ago and found it charmingly clean, maybe too clean (I recall my parents being confused about the UI). It provides an excellent service all while not saying much about itself.

It hasn't been mentioned much on HN, maybe because there isn't much to say, but I love the delivery.
Please don't sling pointless insults. That would best stay on...nowhwere, will it belongs.

Parent's concern was for the misleading titles that appear on HN, due to HN's fear of submitters.
Ethereum has long since moved past Crypto kitties and now regularly transacts tens of billions of dollars a day in volume on-chain in DeFi apps like Aave, Compound, Sushi and Uniswap. And there is a whole ecosystem of gaming cropping up including Axie Infinity (which is more popular now than Kitties ever was), Aavegotchi, Gods Unchained, Dark Forest, Illuvium and more.
I've heard it said that Roman empire finally ended in 1283 with the Norman conquest of Gwynedd, since that would mark the end of the period of uninterrupted Roman rule (assuming one believes that the rule of the Welsh princes descended from Roman rule in Britain nearly a millennium earlier).

The reality is that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire wasn't a sharply defined event and more of a process that took an awfully long time. The idea that lead poisoning contributed to that process is an interesting one but I'm not sure that the article answers any questions about that.
But how do you prevent the user from obtaining the code?

E.g. (1) a bad actor runs an Ethereum node, (2) you ask them to run your code, and (3) instead of running your code, they sell it.
The Linux Foundation gets into game development with new Open 3D Foundation
Ransomware isn’t always debilitating. We got hit by an attack a few years back and realized no one had anything relevant on that machine anymore so we just wiped it clean and moved on.
It is a feature present on some headsets, though...
Getting a loan with a bank is hard. Takes days/weeks.

Getting a loan on DeFi takes minutes.
Can a manufacturer use "duck typing" for this? Something like an electronic component that looks like a front facing camera to the OS but is completely blind.
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While promising "gotcha" revelations there's really nothing surprising or even very controversial here. I'm at the end of a many decades long career in high tech ranging from founding multiple startups to spending the last decade reporting to the C-level at a major tech company in the valley. I've participated in the process of hiring high-end firms to do lobbying work.

Lobbyists are just another form of salesperson or relationship manager outside of conventional sales. Like hiring PR firms (another form of influence sales), they claim to have done shit they actually didn't do. They may have been there at the time it happened but their causal impact was nowhere near what they claim. Even when not exaggerating to get a job, these people wildly over-estimate their own impact.

The headline would more accurately be: "Candidate in competitive job interview for role in influence-sales exaggerates accomplishments and confidently over-promises future results."

(Edit to add: I was in a public company. There was no shortage of candidates (both people and firms) willing to at least imply they would or could do some fairly shady shit. We would thank them for their time and never call them back. While they may collect their fee or paycheck, my boss can go to jail and, at best, I'll only get insta-fired for even participating in the selection process, losing all my unvested options, no one-year severance/benefits.

The downside cost of even being near shady shit in a high-profile successful public company is personally catastrophic in the millions of dollars and a reputation hit to the company that wipes billions off our market cap overnight - and it only has to be the slightest bit true. Sure, you might get away with sleazy shit and get ahead one time. BUT it's not a reliably repeatable pattern and big public companies are built on real revenue and results over time. It's no different than PR. There are sleazy media outlets and/or journalists who can be unfairly influenced for $$$ but they tend to be minor league and not very valuable. At most, spending a lot on effective lobbying or PR gets you access to make your case. And often, you can spend a ton and not even get that much.)
> Obvious solution

I don't see a problem here that needs fixing. It seems you are conflating certification with degree.

Competition from open learning paths should make paid degree programs adapt to be more competitive. Open, self paced learning isn't for everyone, but it's still awesome to see the open access to this knowledge with little to no economic barriers to entry.
Pentagon Scraps $10B Cloud Deal Award to Microsoft
I'm on an HOA board (neighborhood, not condo).

We have a management company, but working with them sucks. There's no good ticketing system or visibility from board to the management company to make sure follow through happens or is fair.

From what I could tell, most of the software in this space is marketed to management companies, not HOA boards. Of course the management company doesn't want to pay for it, so we're stuck. And this is the best of 3 management companies I've worked with.
It doesn't, it's just a bullshit clickbait made to garner traffic to the publisher.
Nirvana Album Cover Generated by AI (BigGAN, Vqgan, Clip)
Agreed. And I think that those of us who truly believe in cryptocurrency are not really interested in the USD/your-flavor-of-cryptocurrency exchange price. Yet that is exactly the main thing that almost everyone who cares about cryptocurrency seems to care about. And sure, making money would be nice so I can’t directly blame them. But if you are really really into cryptocurrency then you should be dreaming of a future where we can sell and buy services and products for cryptocurrency and where we can pay our taxes in cryptocurrency directly, and where we never have to exchange our cryptocurrency into fiat again. That is the real end goal of cryptocurrencies.

Because as of today cryptocurrency has not yet reached the point where it makes sense for most merchants to accept payment in cryptocurrency. Because we are still paying other people and entities and the government in fiat and the exchange rates are fluctuating wildly.

And also furthermore in agreement with what you are saying, a lot of the fairweather supporters will be like let’s put this and that on the blockchain, and yet those people have no real understanding of the trade-offs that come with choosing to do so.

Thirdly something that I find annoying is when someone describes proof-of-work as “solving difficult maths problems”. A cryptographic hash is computationally expensive to find a collision for unless it is flawed, true. But the mathematics behind for example SHA-256 are not really “difficult”. It’s just time-consuming. And it has the property of being fast to verify. But to me when someone describes it as solving difficult maths problems it seems probable that they don’t really know at all what is being done.
Interesting - I expected there to be one, but I've never heard of it compared to the big-names.
Ask HN: Experience working fully remote in a non-remote team?
I am thinking about moving to a fully remote role in my current team at one of the FAANG companies. I have been in my current team for 3 years and I have a good rapport with my colleagues.

I have been working from home for the past year so I am used to it by now. However, the rest of the team will start going back to the office soon and that will change things going forward.

Does any one with related experiences have any advice, warnings or tips to share?
>The MSRP on the Intel Optane SSD DC P5800X 800GB is $2044

I was expecting this to be expensive, sort of like $1000 for sub TB. Which is already 5 - 10x the price of PCI-E 4.0 SSD.

But $2044.

The SPEC workstation Storage benchmarks also shows how much more we can squeeze out with lower latency. Hoping to see another review from Anandtech soon.
> "But you didn't spend a significant chunk of your revenue to build [out the same kind of solutions I'm used to seeing in cases like this]? Negligence!"

Is there any evidence that this happens? I feel like there's a lot of these kind of spooky 21st century "folk-wisdom"(s) out there and if you actually trace it back its like the McDonald's hot coffee case or whatever.
> Some things are trivial to specify but hard to code. A hash table, for example. It's easy to specify what a hash table does, but that gives no guidance on how to implement one. You might get out something that does a linear search. File systems and databases are similarly not too hard to specify - the specification describes the abstract brute-force approach.

One of the next steps for formally proven software development is automated analysis of algorithms. The same procedure to generate a proof of a correct implementation of a hash table could be extended to take an axiom of randomness (which would be an optimization the metaprogrammer could supply, breaking the true worst-case analysis based on their trust of the hash function and potential adversaries) for the hashing function in order to prove the amortized search/insertion time to be O(1) per element assuming the implementation is free to resize and rehash the table as it grows. The synthesizer could further search for implementations that minimize amortized/average cost using the available axioms and predicates, and benchmark them on a particular architecture much like JIT runtimes do now.
Yes. In the same way that "byte 0" is the last byte in little endian, "bit 0" is the first bit in big endian.
> The excuse is usually that if you tax carbon all you do is move the polluters offshore, and since CO2 is a global problem it doesn't solve anything. Global problems need global solutions, but our international treaty systems are insufficient to make progress on this pressing issue.

Which is, of course, ridiculous.

They bought a coal power plant in New York, because it already existed. They're not going to disassemble it and transport it to China because that wouldn't be cost effective, so the alternative is that it would remain offline.

Likewise, if people buy electric cars or high MPG hybrids in the US because there is a carbon tax, that reduces the CO2 emitted by the US independent of what anybody else does. It doesn't require any international agreement; you can just do it on your own.

"What about global effects," you say. But that goes the other way.

Africa doesn't buy new cars by and large, they buy used cars exported from America and Europe. If the new cars people buy in America or Europe become electric then they'll still be electric when they're the used cars sold to Africa.

Oil is a global commodity. If America burns less then the price goes down. Which makes it cheaper for other countries to independently enact a carbon tax. Which they have the incentive to do because they get brownie points, and their domestic population doesn't rebel against a change that only keeps the price the same, and it generates revenue at the expense of the (foreign) oil companies. The more countries do this, the easier it is for the others to do it, at the expense of oil net exporters like Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Nothing about this requires an international agreement or any kind of cooperation from anyone. Just enact a carbon tax and pay the revenue back to the population as a dividend. It will be extremely popular as soon as everybody gets the first check and realizes that they get back more than they paid because some of the money comes from oil companies and other corporations (who receive none of the dividend).
You see apples, I see oranges, but we both agree no preventative action is going to be taken on climate change and that the (vast) majority are happy with that.

Fair?
So there's a crash on the freeway, and someone needs to direct traffic. Yeah, I could probably do that, if I needed to. I even would, if I thought it needed doing, until actual authorities showed up.

But, to use your other example, the power goes out. You don't really want amateur me trying to restore the power. You want a professional doing that, because it's much more likely to work, and much less likely to have negative consequences. So having me "render assistance" is not likely to be either welcome or useful.

In the same way, you don't want me wandering around a construction site looking to be helpful. I'd be more likely to get killed than to do much good.

So... Yes, I'm willing to pitch in, outside, if needed. No, for many jobs you don't actually want me doing that, no matter how much sympathy we have for the people having to work out in the heat.

And none of that takes anything away from my initial point, which is that no, I don't wish that I did manual labor outside instead of my nice air-conditioned job. Right now I'm really grateful for my nice indoor cubical farm.

If you want to go anywhere with this, maybe the direction is that we ought to pay people better who have to work outside, rather than paying them less than indoor people.
That's such a presumptuous title, the author does not know what other powerful tools my toolbox lacks.
Evaporation?
https://www.hardware-corner.net/guides/laptops-without-webca...

Not a large list of current ones, but several of note. Quite a few current Asus Zephyrus models.
Maker already has thousands of vaults, so clearly people do know what it is.

I've never had an online loan application work, always had to go to their branch or call them which is a lot more work than installing one browser extension called MetaMask.

A lot of these complaints remind me of the time when all the newspapers were writing about how internet is never gonna succeed because x, y, z[1].

There was a time where email was a "complex" thing, you can find out videos of news anchors trying to understand the "@" [2].

1: https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg
Name one political activist jailed by any US court for their position alone.
Thank you so much for that link. That was an incredibly interesting interview :)