skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can run mumble on any random Linux box in your house

That seems easy to you. That would be easy for me too and most likely 90% of the people on HackerNews.

But the average person doesn't have a "random Linux box" in their house. Most people don't even know what Linux is. Most people would be overwhelmed just looking for the terminal emulator on their computer, before they even typed a command into it.

Most people don't want to manage an always-on linux box for a voice server. Most people don't want to manage port-forwarding on their firewall/router. Most people don't have static IPs at their house and wouldn't know how to setup dynamic dns to solve the problem. Most people don't even know what DNS is.

MOST PEOPLE just want a program they can launch when they want to talk to their friends. That is why Discord has been successful.

I'm not saying that's good. I am just saying that its the way the world is.
It’s relevant to people who haven’t been vaccinated yet. I’m 37 and I’m only just passed the 2 weeks cool-off of my second jab.
You say potato, I say potato. You say tomato, I say tomato.

If you never heard it, this is where it came from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sbncTUZiGk

or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrw2hDjnl4 actually.
> I am saying that being able to regurgitate an implementation of quicksort (to keep on the sorting example) onto a whiteboard is not a useful skill.

In that case I'm not sure why you're arguing against me, because I've repeatedly expressed my dislike towards algorithm memorization. I don't believe memorizing algorithms is useful at all. It might give a very small edge in competitive programming, but it's not what competitive programming is about either. The best competitors have amazing skills at creating algorithms to solve problems ("create" as opposed to "memorize").

If you look up the parent thread, you started arguing against me when I said "Developers who have no interest towards algorithms will not [be good at some things]".
Why Is the Apple Mouse Charger on the Bottom?
El Salvador: Chivo Network back end leaked; 200 ATMs; Bitcoin Trust Fund law
Trump Loves Origami
This is the first time I've seen a reasonably full-featured encryption suite that doesn't require hours of investment to make full use of it.

I liked the considerate UI touches too, such as automated pass-phrase generation on hitting return.

I wonder if there could be a sweet-spot of people with a bit of technical knowledge and a need for encryption beyond GUI apps, but not so much of either to make a big time investment that other command-line tools often require.

Small criticism - and it might just be me, but the perspective alternation here had me reading this part three times:

"You can use hybrid encryption to send an encrypted file to someone else. Note that this is one-way encryption. The sender cannot decrypt the file. This means that you should not overwrite the original file."

Maybe change "the sender cannot..." to something like "You cannot decrypt the file, only the recipient can, using their private key."?

(From: https://www.kryptor.co.uk/tutorial )
If your discovery meetings are just engineers talking to other engineers, you're doing discovery wrong. The people building the product are *not* the only stakeholders.
Yea that's true. ESXi/vSphere can be very relavent although I found that it was easy enough to learn on the job. The real complicated stuff of vSphere probably isn't going to come up in a homelab but if experience is necessary to get the job then it's worth it.

pi-kvm looks very nice. I would really like to not have to use iDRACK or pay the license fee.

Normal ATX motherboards do lack a lot of features. I'm not sure why none of the normal mobos don't just use LVFS [1] to update the BIOS but luckily they can read the update file directly off the vfat EFI partition so pi-kvm would solve that. I think every modern ATX motherboard also supports UEFI network boot so you could setup a simple DHCP+iPXE server for onboarding machines.

[1] https://fwupd.org/
I'll partly agree there, the OS is generally solid but the apps individually can leave a lot to be desired.

My go-to example on LG OLED is Spotify. It's so not OLED friendly, it's essentially OLED-hostile. The UI during playback is completely static and nearly seems designed to cause burn-in.
Solving Tetris in C (2011)
what does #RebuildSouthAfrica mean? Why is this post tagged with this? Weird
>And what if there's a crash and your savings takes a 40% haircut?

Also, it's worth noting that there is likely a strong correlation between a financial market crash and sudden unemployment or other issues.
Yeah that is one of them!
It's accurate to say that Google is in competition with every site that provides information to users. Anyone in the business of providing information to users needs to treat Google as their competitor.

I think the problem that author tries to address is that Google uses their competitor's data in order to serve that information, which isn't that great since IIRC they do no profit sharing which undermines long term viability of collecting, systemising and maintaining that data.
Vqgan and Clip Text to Art Interface
Absolutely: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14299837034602045...

I assume each upload is tagged with device ID which first uploaded it etc. but maybe that can be spoofed as well?
> Investigators soon discovered that a log-in to the victim’s iCloud account had come from an internet address at Chi’s house

If the attacker was really not covering his tracks, perhaps Apple may have flagged hundreds of different iCloud account logins originating from the same location as something to look into?
That still does TACC. He wants cruise control without TACC. That is not possible in any modern Tesla, AFAIK. I believe the most recent to offer it was the Model 3 SR, which is no longer available. The SR+ and the Y SR both included AP with mandatory TACC.

Its weird, as other cars at least offer an option to disable TACC.
As I alluded to in my original comment, you might not pick up on a transient error like an I/O error during testing. This is exactly the sort of thing a sensible default setting in the program should cover.
You are, of course, correct, and those objecting to your use of a word in accord with its primary definition are simply undereducated, and being childish. When I read your comment it came across as you intended, and I was not distracted by irrelevant associations.

> Do you know the number of Indians who are 'native English speakers'

Probably more than the population of the US.
Yes and no.

I don't agree to describe it as games.

It is just reality and life as is.

You should understand high level abstractions that run our lives or software.

But then as well you should understand that a lot of people are not having time/will/capacity to understand high level abstractions that are interesting for you.

I get angry mostly because people are not caring to understand - that is why everyone wants to build greenfield projects instead of maintaining existing ones.

It is just like person trying to open a lock with key for the first time on the old gate, they try to force it while they could wiggle the key a bit to find the correct position.

I owned couple of old cars and if you put a little bit of care and understanding they will drive perfectly well, even with check engine LED on :)

The same with team of people - don't expect that they will understand your "perfect world" just try to wiggle a bit so you can improve things enough so they work. Because what is important is getting job done and not having "prefect" world.
By liberal, I mean a smug, entitled elitist who dismisses those who disagree with him as idiots, without engaging in argument, and subscribes to Official Opinions.
"piercing the corporate veil" generally refers to going after owners/shareholders or their assets, rather than going after employees; that's the level of liability that a corporation protects.

IANAL so I'm not sure what level of legal "protection" employees have vs managers etc. for which levels of crimes (obviously, the janitor is not allowed to shoot people, while the accountant's assistant is not going to bear the brunt of some fraud)
Or the earlier example "Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...).
Yep.

It took me way too long to find the usage numbers (which ironically were within an arm's reach on my bookshelf most of the time), but ~1988 Usenet was under 1 million potential users, and fewer than 150,000 active readers. Even by the mid-1990s, it was under 1 million active participants.

Google+ was considered a failed social network with at least 10--100 million active users (by my own conservative estimates based on sampled profile data, independently verified by a much larger analysis). Facebook has 3 billion MAUs (monthly active users).

Until ~1992 (the Eternal September), Usenet users were largely represented as cohorts of a few hundred to low thousands, each subject to the disciplinary authority of university network administrators. Privileges could be and were revoked. Netadmins had a hardcopy directory in which everyone's number was listed twice (forward and reverse search). They talked to each other.

I'm active on Diaspora (for over a decade) and Mastodon (for about five years now). Both are far smaller than their comparable commercial equivalents (FB and Twitter, respectively). Each already strains under abuse, spam, and propaganda efforts, though Mastodon seems to have a more robust containment toolkit. Much resembles the old Usenet model: individual instance administrators can determine what users (locally or remotely) or instances (remote federation) can interact, and to what extent. It's high-touch, and has issues, but at present scale it mostly works. (Not perfectly, but it's not completely blown up yet either.)

Diaspora ... seems on far shakier grounds. User controls, admin engagement, reporting tools, and the culture of active management are all far weaker. The saving grace is the lack of algorithmic amplification, but bad actors are a distinct presence, if largely walled off into their own small, sad world.
Do you mean BigTable? That's Google's "HBase" in sofar as hbase is based on the BT paper.

From what I recall from using it a few years ago, it's pretty damn fast, very low latency. HBase had speedy p50s as well but tended to get quite slow at p99 due to GC.
The market has spoken.

Markets only speak when meaningful competition exists. Are you really suggesting that people actively prefer to buy TVs that, for example, suddenly start showing them ads months or years after purchase?
Perhaps something in that 2FA request saying "Apple will only ask for your password in-person in a store or other authorized repair provider. Only allow this request if you know who requested it"?
Which RAM brand and configuration are you using? How did it cost?
UK yeah, you all have those washer/dryer combos that wash tiny loads, and almost set clothes on fire to dry them. (In my experience they also take forever to dry the clothes!) Can't be very good for synthetics, I have clothing that has gotten scorch marks from my American dryer's "medium heat" setting, I can't imagine what would have happened in a UK machine!

It should be noted that in many places in the US that hanging clothes outside is either not allowed, or impractical. Also I've had some really bad nights (baby) where I needed to wash and dry all my bedding twice over, so having a, rather fast, dryer was nice.

Seriously though, if you need to wash a large comforter, what do you do? I haven't seen a front loader large enough to fit a proper comforter in. Something like http://canyon-sports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/91YEVCAn...

In America, you can buy top loaders or front loaders. Front loaders are popular in condos and apartments because you can stack them with a dryer.
Disagree. I see scraping as about obtaining data in bulk that hasn't been deliberately packaged up for you to use as-is.

Most APIs are not designed to give you all of the data at once - they exist to serve other purposes, usually involving returning a small subset of the data to power a user-facing feature.

If someone asks me "where did you get those Olympic medal results?" and I say "I scraped them" I think that's accurate vocabulary whether I parsed HTML or gathered them from hundreds of undocumented API calls.

If I had downloaded a neat CSV file from the Olympics website with all of the data I needed in one go I wouldn't feel comfortable calling it scraping.

Re-reading your comment, I think what I'm describing here does actually fit with your "how difficult it is to extract data from a format that was patently not intended to efficiently spread raw data to other machines" definition - except I'm including APIs that return only a subset of the data as part of those inefficiencies in obtaining the raw data.
API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
Actually that's not true. While docker's reproducibility is based on an image snapshot of a state.

Nix reproducibility is really just a recipe how to build it. Because of that it's not really an issue.

Yes, if you build a docker image through nix you have to regenerate it (which is easy) but that's how docker works.
Yeah, I know about those ASRock boards, but they're more expensive than the rudimentary Pi-KVM solution I have right now (a 35 dollar Pi and a 12 dollar HDMI capture dongle; I would use wake-on-lan for powering the board on… if my MSI board's WoL worked). Also, not the one you linked, but the newer B550 ASRock Rack boards are impossible to find for sale—the only place I could find the B550 boards were on wisp.net.au, and I don't live in Australia or New Zealand so it wouldn't be cost effective. Perhaps I should've opted for an X470 board, but it was "older" so I was put off.
"Huddles" pick up so much noice from the background I stopped using it. Whenever I had to take a call without headphones on it was basically unusable. I'm a single data point however, your milage may vary.
Although if it's trees, then technically each individual piece of paper might be a single Satoshi.
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Google Says Staff Have No Right to Protest Its Choice of Clients
On reflection evidence is too strong a word given that we don't have a good, specific hypothesis for what's going on. Observations of the sort I laid out above.
This is, it seems, just untrue. It was posted before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24668736) and I was curious about this attack vector so looked it up [0]

Simply put, it seems that this never took off and would require the entire hdmi chain to support it (tv, cable, and device) - none of which do currently, so for the medium future it doesn't seem to be a concern.

Plenty of concern elsewhere, just not necessarily here.

[0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/325215/appletv-eth...
I feel like San Francisco is a good progression - still generally good weather, but much more crowded, more traffic, more special cases, pedestrians and bikes, one-way roads, topography, limited visibility due to hills and no-setback buildings, construction, buses, etc. It's a significant leap in urban complexity, probably greater than 98% of the rest of the USA.

Regarding the weather, lots of people have mentioned snow, but much of the Midwest, Northeast, and especially the South can have sudden torrential rain. I haven't researched it but I would guess that a Florida rainstorm would be hard for both radar and visual guidance. I predict their next city will be Orlando, in partnership with Disney. Then somewhere like Boston (harder - older street pattern and more snow) or Philadelphia (easier). Each of those 3 would "unlock" new territory they can cover. I predict that NYC will be one of the last areas "unlocked".
twitter ratelimits nitter servers, so you'd need every individual user (or a good portion of users) running a personal server and then you'd have to collate the data somehow. and at that level of effort it would be easier to just convince people to use mastodon.
If anyone is interested in the "deep" topics such as consciousness, materialism, quantum physics, religion, etc. I highly recommend the "Closer to Truth" series.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9StMQ79LtEvlrskzjoYbQ

I recently stumbled across this and it has some fascinating episodes where he interviews many top people in each field. Michio Kaku, Roger Penrose, Paul Davies, religious leaders, etc etc.
It doesn't matter how good it is, LG already got paid and has little incentive to keep the software secure in the long-term.

I've never hooked mine into the network.
> For engineers/developers (or anyone producing the actual output), meetings are an imposition.

> This is true for the sort of engineers who have no input on what is being built.

It's true for everyone who isn't gratuitously satisfying a desire for social dominance displays.

> Once you get to the level where you're making architecture decisions you need meetings in order to discover what to build.

Some meetings are necessary, all meetings are impositions. If you are at the level where meetings are serving your individual needs and you are calling them, you need to be very cognizant that they are still impositions, and not just for engineers. And it's good to view even your own meetings as a kind of self-imposition to be optimized and minimized in your own interest, as well as those of the other people they are imposed on.

> My advice to any developer who dislikes meetings and sees them as an imposition is to find a way to appreciate them, or stay near the bottom of the food chain.

IME, people high up in the food chain tend to also view meetings as impositions, and people who don't view meetings that way tend to get negatively noticed for it from above, below, and laterally.
There's no such thing as a remote safety driver.

Cell data connections aren't reliable enough, and having the car emergency stop (and potentially get rear-ended) when it loses signal wouldn't be acceptable.
from the paper (emphasis mine):

> Here, we developed an airborne transmission SIMULATOR of infectious SARS-CoV-2-containing droplets/aerosols produced by human respiration and coughs and assessed the transmissibility of the infectious droplets/aerosols and the ability of various types of face masks to block the transmission.

Mannequin heads in a box is perhaps evidence of something, but it has little to do with actual humans who don't live in tiny boxes with masks sealed to their real-world faces.
The one and only skill needed for software engineering is problem solving. By searching, by knowing, by copiing, by inventing. Doesn't matter. There is nothing more than that.
I've used CML a lot, but I no longer use it. The (Enterprise) product license renewal is about $50k annually.

NS3 is a pretty nice (and free) network simulation tool, and it can even load the router binaries from CML (although that is probably a violation of the Cisco license).
“I’m remorseful… but I have a family” he says hoping this doesn’t “ruin” his life. Fuck this guy. He knew what he was doing. He should have all the consequences both those from the court and professionally: who’s going to hire him now? Maybe someone in infosec but likely not ever again in tech.
Afaik you could up until the data exceeds your capacity to fit in one machine, at which point you have to figure out how to split your data up in a way which lets you preserve all the strengths of sql (strong consistency). At that point you run into a lot of complexity with managing your shards.
An interesting question would be "How many times per second could you not cut down a tree?"

I'm guessing the throughput on that is incredibly fast.
There's no real reason to assume this is true, because Apple's systems didn't detect hundreds of accounts being accessed from a single, home IP...
We converted from Amex Platinum Business and Chase Ink to Ramp. Before Ramp, each of our team members had one corporate card, and had to submit documentation for each charge on their card monthly - what it was for, which project it was in relation to, etc.

With Ramp, we can instantly create multiple cards per staff member, so they have one card per project we're working on. Our accounting group then immediately knows how to categorize that expense (because that card is ONLY used for that project), and Ramp reminds our staff to forward along the receipt (which it automatically links to the transaction). Our accounting group doesn't have to lift a finger.

It makes the whole process completely mindless, whereas before it was filled with lots of busy work to keep our accounting clean and organized.

The fact that it's free is icing on the cake. Big fan.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that raises some eyes.

You usually need some form of distributor's license to not have to pay sales tax on the transaction. That license requires identification.

Of course you could refuse that and just pay the sales tax, but who does that? I would be a little surprised if they even had the means to do it. Warehouses normally sell to distributors, who have distributor's licenses so they don't pay sales tax. Why would they have a system to collect sales tax and send it to the government? That transaction is going to stand out, a lot. Trying to pay for it in Bitcoin is only going to make it worse.

Unless, of course, you're trying to pay the warehouse manager to help you steal the dishwashing detergent. There's no papertrail, but remarkably high counterparty risk. Plus at the end you're stuck with a bunch of hot dishwashing detergent that you're going to have to offload.
> one simple, terse, expressive human language

I suspect this is one of those "pick two, at best" situations.
It is good, but it's gotten worse. I have an older LG LED TV that had the smart remote, it's about 7-8 years old now and I've replaced the main board once and just ordered another one as it's gone out again. In the mean time I decided to upgrade to a new LG C1 OLED and the picture is stellar in comparison - but the UI has gotten much worse. The remote is just as good as it's always been, however the amount of garbage content on the main screen now is horrendous. It's littered with content I don't want but am forced to look at given I want to use the native apps so I can move my NVidia Shield along with the older LG (since many streaming apps aren't available for the older LG units). My old LG I only connected to the network when I wanted to check for updates, this new one is cordoned off to an IOT device VLAN that only has access to the Internet and there are some holes popped over to Plex so that I can get content streaming to it locally. I also have a specific DNS filtering policy just for the LG TV to cut down on the noise it has access to.

I don't honestly think the experience is good, and I've done a lot to minimize what it has access to. I didn't pay a couple thousand dollars to have a digital billboard in my house. I'd pay a small premium if I could buy a unit that was stripped down and only ran apps and didn't have any other placeholders for content. But... Manufacturers are getting out of control with what they deem OK to do with a device that they claim I've purchased. If nothing else it feels like a prepaid rental at this point - they don't last all that long and they can't seem to help themselves from thinking it's a platform I'm going to shop directly from? Even if it is content - I can't imagine many people want yet another vendor to pay for media content. Especially not LG/Sony/Samsung/etc.
privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more

firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
what would you recommend now instead ?