skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was pretty interesting. It seems like you missed the point of the article, in fact it seems like the point was exactly the opposite.

> The good news is, with the right gear, you can connect your home to an outbuilding without either professional expertise or a ditch witch and a spool of burial-grade cable.

> Our goal in this exercise is not to geek out as hard as possible by mounting and aiming everything with millimeter precision. Instead, we're simply out to demonstrate that wirelessly connecting two buildings quickly, cheaply, and easily is possible for anyone. In fact, you can even enjoy more-than-acceptable results in the end.

> When you want to extend a network from one building to another, the best answer is almost always a cable—preferably a burial-grade cable, either Ethernet or fiber, laid in a conduit and buried several feet underground. But that's expensive. If all you need is good Internet access in a nearby pool house or barn, it's almost certainly overkill.

A low-effort, low-cost, low-commitment solution is sometimes all you need.
I run this one: https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns
It's super simple and has a REST API for updating records.
This is not a universal experience. I had to go through this recently with a large technology company, and it took multiple weeks of back and forth between the company and a major US carrier to confirm that the company wanted to release the number. If I had lost access to the internal ticketing system in the meantime, I am not sure what I would have done short of asking a coworker to take on the cause.

Most importantly, I had no idea a priori how long and involved the process would be.
It was awesome, so funny. Probably the highlight of 2021. The music is great and "the joke" was well enough executed (no one is angry, we didn't get really fooled for long... and we are all well entertained).

It shows what (trained) humans are all capable of, which is incredible and what humanoid robots lack on the way there. Probably it's another of Elon's genius moves to predict/work towards humanoid robots.
I think that is a bit of a different problem than lack of applicants. That said, I don't think service workers are too stupid to understand the concept of a monthly bonus up to $X. I wonder if something else was going on. Collective punishment for individual can hurt morale for sure. Was the total theft less than each individual's bonus.
Can you hold your NFC Yubikey to the back of an iPhone? I thought Apple didn’t do NFC, appart from ApplePay?
Indeed. I switched to FreeBSD myself.

Reasons were the excellent jails system, the ports collection, the ZFS on root (though Ubuntu is starting to offer that) and the great documentation. I also don't like the scale of corporate involvement in Linux development. In the end that leads to companies trying to insert their own IP with a view to monetisation (like Ubuntu with Mir, Upstart, now snaps). It's also the most suitable for a desktop system of all the BSDs I think.

But it's not for everyone. For one the hardware support is limited. I didn't even bother trying to get the WiFi or bluetooth going (I run this on a pure desktop). For laptop use I'd use a flavour of Linux, though I'm not entirely sure which I'd use :) It also doesn't hold your hand as much as most Linux distros, though it's not nearly as barebones as arch either! I'd consider it something a bit in the middle like Manjaro. Overall I'm really happy with it though.

I still use Macs for work though and I administered them for a long time. It's always a struggle if you need to do something that Apple doesn't really want you to do. You may get it working, but there's a good chance it'll get broken in whatever minor patch that's coming along without warning :) Unfortunately in a business with less than 1% Macs you can't always do things the Apple way.
Chrome: Include tab group name in window list and tab search
I mean it’s true but the reverse sucks too. If my company spent 2-3k per employee to make the work environment better is appreciate that way more than the 5k bonus that’s 3k after taxes we get and it would improve my quality of life more. We get paid quite fairly but not being able to get decent cafeteria food or coffee is a huge drag
If you read the article you would have learned that the Apple store staff was trying to convince her into buying a new iPhone instead. They told her they would need to swap the iPhone‘s mainboard.
I gave life to this drawing
> The reason we don't get polio in virtually any country on earth is because of global cooperation in the face of a disease with a known mitigation.

The polio vaccine being a sterilizing one is certainly a _major_ reason for its success. The Covid vaccine, by contrast, does not confer sterilizing immunity. Polio also spreads through contaminated food and water, not the exhaled breath of the infected. So other than those minor things, great comparison.
This is not a study, but it does discuss the biochemistry of vitamin D and the role it plays in the immune system. It is left to the viewer to draw their own conclusions.

COVID-19 and Vitamin D | Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1CaTv5-e4
related: "Shakespeare needs more gay[0]."

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWMTGF1pNw
Police brutality is something so American-centered it just further highlights the problem of bunching "whites" together.
Followup, he left in 2020:
Some terrific analysis of the tech culture at Grab and in Asia.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/saying-goodbye-to-the-best-gi...
Oddly enough, Google's Advanced Protection is the gold standard in my opinion, yet Firebase Auth, an Auth-as-a-Service product from Google, only supports SMS as a second factor, which is baffling to me.
2FA (is supposed to) mean you have both factors, not one or the other. It's strictly more secure that either alone, even if SMS sucks.
Emphasis plays a bit differently given increased awareness around diverse hiring, but as timely now as it was in 1981. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI
Ah this old Musk-Hater mantra. The 'Gwynne' does everything trope.

Gwynne is an excellent manager and I don't want to say anything bad about her and SpaceX is lucky to have her but the idea that she is 'main driver' is just idiotic. It is counter to everything you read about SpaceX. It is counter to all the experience reports from people within or from outside of SpaceX.

Neither Gwynne nor any of the other original leaders, Mueller or Königsmann seem to agree with the assessment.

This trope seems to mostly come from an time where Tesla was not doing so well in 2017 and everybody that didn't like Elon was saying 'see Tesla is going to the shitter, he doesn't have Gwynne that is the reason SpaceX is successful'.

Tesla of course now is incredibly successful without having a Gwynne and that somehow is just lucky or something.

For a while people also used to say that JB was why Tesla was technically successful, he was the mastermind behind all the engineering at Tesla and without him would fail to innovate.

Gwynne could leave SpaceX tomorrow and SpaceX would continue to do very well. The head of HR for example has been with the company since Falcon 1 days and could take that job and do a good job as well. Elon could likely do much of it himself but it would talk away time he would much rather spend with the engineering team.
I think their elite school preference is only for new grads, the experienced pipeline has always been open to people with less pedigree.
How to become a Facebook power user: go to https://www.facebook.com/deactivate and follow the instructions.
(To provide more context, before the new APIs Apple used to flip actual page memory protections, which required going through the kernel. The new SPRR APIs allow for essentially the same thing, except they work per-thread and just set a register accessible from userspace that essentially applies an extra mask on the permission bits, which is much faster.)
A Golang S3 abstraction layer over fs.FS
I can't speak for all Americans, but in the two cases when I've set up a Wifi link:

#1 - I don't really want an aerial cable running through my back yard, plus it'd have to be pretty high to give enough clearance for the septic pumping truck.

#2 - running cable between the 10th and 13th floor of buildings across the street from each other would require permission from both building owners, and maybe a permit from the city too. While a wifi link just sits in the windows on each side.
To be fair, deprecating that is a good idea. They botched the execution.
If you’re bored in a small town, it’s not a bad idea.
RDP for the win. I just RDP into the work laptop from my rig. Done.
Thirteen thousand words and no discussion of the elephant in the room: 95% of Americans don't eat enough fiber. Fiber is the bulk that keeps you full between meals and that bulk -- quite literally -- helps prevent overeating. If 19/20 people aren't even getting their macronutrient balance right, perhaps we should start there.
maybe some giant sunflowers :)
The problem is that "if you aren't a customer you are the product" is that frequently you are still a product even if you are a customer.
This comment is peak HN, and I love it.
I wonder if we put AI in a humanoid form, it may find a more efficient form of movement with limbs which look very odd to us. Then we need to put some hacks or artificial constraints to make it behave similar to a human.
There's a messaging app inside G Pay too.

I don't think anyone would be actually surprised at that fact.
I appreciate the response and the link to the Stack Exchange question. I wasn't "getting" what you were saying, but now it makes sense. That's probably something I'll start doing too. Thanks for the idea.
It is one thing to be able to locate stationary car and another to locate satellite that moves at 8km/s and yet another to predict the minimum distance between two satellites intersecting at 12km/s.
My NFC Yubikey works fine with my iPhone 8.
It's not just antibodies though. Vaccines also trigger you to get memory cells, which have a longer life span. So even if your antibody levels go down after ~6 months, and you might get infected again, your immune system will have a faster and more precise reaction, preventing a more severe course of covid.
It's closer to 1 million than 3 million. There are about 6 million vaccinated out of a nation of 9 million, but that's also including kids 0-12. The number I know is about 1 million eligible who refuse the shot.

It's not the ultra orthodox who really stand out. There's about 30% in the general 20-29 groups who haven't taken their shots (going down to about 20% in 30-39 and down to 10% in the 60+ group), and many Arabs who are reluctant to do so too.
Cycle counts are super misleading. These processors were limited by the speed of RAM, and cycles per RAM access differed. Suppose you have RAM running at 1 MHz... maybe your 6502 is also clocked at 1 MHz, and your 8080 is clocked at 4 MHz. I know you're not trying to compare 6502 performance to 8080 performance in general, just that there's a fairly wide variation in how much you can accomplish in a cycle, and "how many RAM accesses can the processor make" is probably what you want to look for, since it's a bit more directly comparable across processors of that era.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs “smart city” initiative in Toronto was canceled for similar reasons. Google wanted to collect all the data, refused to share any of the data with the municipality and refused to take any measures to address the privacy concerns. Google’s arrogance and their refusal to work with stakeholders in a productive manner insured the death of the proposal.
They might be pinging ad networks upon close of the page? The browser will let some of these requests finish within a certain amount of time.
Love some of these ideas! We are getting a lot of interest from digital nomads looking at this not just as an investment in a vacation home, but as a remote office for a few months a year. We are looking at how we can better serve that market, would love to chat as it seems like you've been thinking about this for a bit. Shoot me an email (ryan@ancana.co).

Many of the homes are big enough spaces to use for coworking, but not always ideally furnished as such. It could be interesting to tailor some homes for this exact use case. Interesting.

The rental rules depend on the property. Some of our homes are in communities with rules governing short term rentals. For the others, we leave it up to the owners to decide as a group whether to allow renting the home when not in use.

We definitely see an opportunity for people to trade time in different homes. With the affordability of many of our properties, we think some people will buy shares in a few homes and bounce around. Anyway, would love to get in touch and pick your brain
> Anyone should be able to access your public key, and anyone you deal with should be able to ask you to use your private key to verify your identity.

First, let's assume the identity would be backed by a somewhat decentralized system; e.g. the identity could be backed by any state/territory's existing ID cards.

The problem is making the request signing step secure and accessible to... well, anyone, tech-savvy folks included. Software for installation to a computer is an obvious no-go. A mobile app is probably a good idea but in any case I think we can assume a website will be a necessity. You've got to be able to give that website your private key. Guess what, you've already lost - as soon you tell people to type their key into this website, people will type their private key into any old website now. (I remember when my mom, with the best of intentions but without my prior knowledge, filled out my FAFSA info, SSN and all, on a scam .com site despite how many times we were told "fafsa.gov" or whatever.)

But let's pretend that's a solvable problem, just for the same of argument. Let's assume it's a federal government provided site which you can provide with your private key on demand to do signing on your behalf and it's relatively secure actually keeping the key in your browser. And there's a mobile app option which can store the key locally with better security and do signing in memory which can actually be wiped after. Fine. Now convince the public that this site/app do not constitute a Federal database of identities. You and I know it wouldn't, as described, but I would not blame anyone who objected on those grounds one bit, because without the necessary knowledge it absolutely would seem like a Federal ID, and folks are right to be wary of a single source of identity information. After all, all that does is take the SSN problem and add to it civil liberties problems. The distinction between SSNs and a [somewhat] decentralized PKI scheme with a centralized signing app for security/anti-phishing reasons is a distinction essentially impossible to convey to any but the most tech-savvy.
Here in Canada "natural immunity" would only cover maybe 4-5% of the population. Official testing numbers of total cases in Ontario since the pandemic began put it at 3.7% here (though it's likely a bit higher because of bad testing during first wave.)

Maybe in some US states where the disease was horribly mismanaged that number is much higher, but it's a) not reliably counted b) badly researched. Knowing whether someone is "naturally immune" is a big roll of the dice, whereas we know for sure when someone is vaccinated.

And to get to a high "natural" immunity rate requires unnecessary death and suffering.

But yes, half of the 18-29 year olds here seem to be rolling the dice and playing this "natural immunity" game; which is why they are now the vast majority of hospital admissions for this disease.
Probably the highlight of 2021.

Right. Despite Boston Dynamics actually having a reasonably agile real robot.
>while my point was that ethics was used to shame practices when the legal system couldn't be used because of a lack of rigor.

I'm confused as to why that would be a bad thing. For instance, liars are shamed, even though it would be ridiculous (and harmful) to create laws against lying in all cases. At the same time, the law sometimes takes account of ethics (rather than harm) to make laws, for example, the illegality of corpse desecration is not about harm, but about ethics - what it says about our society if it were legal.
Yeah, I know a white person and he says he hates it when people like this make him out to be the victim.

It's just virtue signalling, pretending you care about white people being called racist when really most white people just want them to shut up about it all instead of forcing them into victimhod.
How do you imagine our grandchildren will solve it?
My all time favorite: "you'll understand when you will be X"

At the beginning, I really took it at face value, and patiently waited until I was X. Older. In a relationship. Having my own business.

I was very naive, I though people shared experience and knew something about life. Every time I ended up being disappointed when reaching the point X actually prove the other side was full of crap.

I didn't understand that it was only a way to stop the conversation. It had nothing to do with logic, it's a matter of saving face, getting out of a boring interaction, or about power.

A lot of human interactions are like that: if you think people means what they say, you are misunderstanding the communication. I used to take so many things literally, I though people chose their words for their dictionary sense. Turns out only a small part of communication is actually about the literal sense of words, like technical documentation or giving direction to reach the bakery, which I'm good at.

It's also a fact that is obvious to most humans, although they are mostly oblivious to their own fluency, since it's as transparent as walking to them. People on the autistic spectrum, however, need to figure it out.

But don't worry, you'll understand it all when you will be Z.
Yep. This has already bitten one employee of Apple:

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1428495420917837826?...

It's a damn shame, and a good reason to never, ever mix work and personal devices.
This is emblematic and why I struggle with Sweeney.
haha love it
> The 1979 'shock' is not relevant in 2021 as the global energy situation is completely different so there's no point to make with respect to current strategy.

> In short your 'first' concern about Iran's 'Oil' pricing etc. doesn't have any bearing on the situation.

Iran owns 10% of the worlds oil reserves and 17% of the worlds gas reserves. In 2012 before the embargo, Iran was the second largest oil exporter in OPEC. Natural gas production was skyrocketing, growing vertically to 700 million cubic meter/day by 2012. The US currently produces 766,200 cubic meters/day.

If you don't think Iran had the power to effect oil and gas prices before the embargo then I don't know what to tell you. It's just supply and demand. So far you're just making assertions without any analysis or evidence.

> This is absolutely 'antagonizing' - they are directs acts of war by Iran - which both your 'It's Israel' premise, and your 'Houthi is an Old Thing' premise have ignored.

Again, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not really interested in this "antagonizing" (or not) dichotomy. States act in their own interests. All of these states have resource and security conflicts with each other that aren't new and that aren't going to go away. Also, I said that the Houthi rebellion is a relatively new thing, not old. The conflict predates them. The US and UK orchestrated a coup d'etat in 1953 prior to everything you mention. The Iranian Revolution was in 1979 prior to everything you mention.

> There are 'lawyers and lobbyists' of every kind, pushing for policy changes in every direction. That's normal.

> You have not provided any evidence that the leadership class, as a whole, is acting to maintain Iranian sanctions, because it's completely contrary to the interest of capitalism.

I didn't claim anything about "as a whole." If you re-read what I wrote more carefully, you will see that. Whoever's policy was implemented is the dominant section of the overclass. They won, it's how we know they had (or still have) the most power. That's basically a tautology. Moreover, I refuted the premise for this part of your argument rests on twice now, so I hope that works for you.

I'm not trying to be patronizing, but please read what I've written more carefully before you respond and chill your tone.
> I’ve not seen anybody mention the fact that the cryptographically sealed filesystem underlying SSV is internally code-named “Cryptex”.

Might as well mention it here: crytex is how you get code on the Security Research Device, rather than SSV.
>Beating 2FA is almost always SMS hijacking

How exactly does this get executed? I'm pretty technical, but I cant fathom exactly how this occurs;

You hijack a cell tower, then have some system to listen to un-encrypted SMS traffic??

Plz ELI5
Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?
It's been years since I've used a debugger (Turbo Debug), never bothered to learn how to use a debugger for non-assembly code, and tend to just sprinkle `print` everywhere until I can narrow down the problem.

I'm a Vim person, and am envious of IDE users with integrated breakpoints, stepping, and variable inspection with just a mouse, but only today found out about Vim's `termdebug` :headdesk:

So I'm wondering... what does the HN crowd use to investigate code problems:

- sprinkling print
- IDE with integrated debugger
- termdebug (i.e editor with gdb in another pane)
- debugger by hand on the command line
- other (please comment)
Worth noting that, since the currency can also come from a handful of other sources (e.g. trading cosmetics), each cash-out is manually reviewed to ensure that the currency only comes from approved sources (sale of assets, games, products). Because of this, reducing the minimum payout does not scale, and at some point becomes infeasible. The article and video, of course, both fail to mention this.

Maybe throwing more manpower at the problem will let them reduce the minimum rate. Or they could work on altering their infrastructure to support a more automated system, possibly eliminating the minimum rate entirely.
I don't like the cynical style of this article, but I strongly disagree with your hope. On the contrary, journalists should be critical and give a clear narrative.

It is an odditiy of modern (mainly anglo-saxon) media that it 'quotes' people to express its viewpoint. You can find a source to say any stupid thing or to provide quotes for any possible agenda, and uncritically quoting a press release or company presentation is not really adding value.

Added value of good media is that it both informs and clearly makes judgements or provides interpretation. This should be transparent of course, not hidden behind 'expert quotes' that are just as biased as any journalist might be. I should also not be pure expression of opinions, but rather facts, analysis and a suggestion of a conclusion. I think the article provides this, even if it has a rather impolite style.
No reason you can't quietly explore your options.
The “point of ethics” isn’t cancel culture and if you believe that you’re either being willfully dishonest about what ethics is and it’s entire history to make your own political statement or are actually ignorant of what ethics is, both in reality and historically.

By all means if you want to make a political statement about how ethics is being applied (which would actually imply ethics being used as a smokescreen in this case) go ahead but we’ve been grappling with the concept and idea of ethics for thousands of years as a species.
Yeah, and Irene in 2011 basically wiped out the whole state of Vermont