skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting but not mentioned in article. What are the odds?

Today:
> Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of La Puente, has agreed to plead guilty to four felonies

then also a Hao Kuo Chi who was 26 in March 2007.

from 2007 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-geeks...

> The suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of Sarah Vasquez, 22, and her mother, Natalie Fornaciari, 46, both from city of Industry, alleges that Geek Squad technician Hao Kuo Chi, 26, placed his cellphone in Vasquez’s bathroom during a computer service call March 4 and recorded her showering.
Source? Curious what the reasoning would be there. Seems insanely impractical
Monitors generally don't have remote controls or speakers. The latter solved with soundbar but former is important use case.
Worth noting that in UK under the Consumer Rights Act there is no specific time limit for poor engineering causing a problem that the _seller_ must fix. The limitation is 2 years or how long I've would normally expect such a product to last. A fridge should easily last a decade and so in theory there's a 10 year "warranty" period. The seller can have things repaired, replace them, or offer a refund (refunds can be reduced to account for the use you did get from the product).

We need to use legislation and taxation to push for every longer-lived appliances.
but, assuming you are learning the vmware stack because of employment. Not knowing things like vsan, ISCSI and vmotion makes your lab nearly worthless.

Learning vsphere and esxi properly requires atleast a decently sized cluster, especially if you start throwing NSX in the mix.
How is your company adjusting their recruiting strategy?
Yes. You took the entropy right out of my mouth.
Some people are pretending that it is a user feature to throttle and that it is to have a more stable phone when the battery becomes older.

But, if my memory is good, when Apple was fined in France, it was shown that the throttling was performed without consideration for the battery state. So was done even with a new battery (or the power cord plugged)

Also, for people having Stockholm syndrome, if they would have to throttle to preserve stability when the battery is old, it is not a "nice" user feature but a consequence of having made the battery not removable and easily swappable!
I agree. My setup is very much like the setup shown near the end of the article (the one that consists of a couple Synology NAS boxes and what looks like a few Mac Minis or other small form factor PCs). I have a file server with a decently large storage array and a few Raspberry Pis and other small electronic gizmos, some of which connect to my wifi, and some which plug into a PC via various cables (ethernet, USB, etc.)

The only thing out of this that consumes any amount of power worth mentioning is the file server/storage array. I haven't measured how much power it uses (I probably should), but I'm able to minimize it by allowing the disks to go to sleep and the CPU to run slower than when I'm actively using it.

I've never felt limited by this setup at all, but, then again, my home lab isn't really my main hobby.
Creating a Smart Contract in Minutes
An Open Source, JSON Configurable Chatbot Framework for Node.js
This is great.

One thing that's worth remembering about randomly generated tokens is that it's important to always use safe comparison methods when comparing them to the stored one - otherwise you could be vulnerable to timing attacks.

In Python you can use secrets.compare_digest(a, b) for this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/secrets.html#secrets.compa...
Well Apple differentiates themselves on privacy. I would prefer to do business with a company that never looks at my data for any reason. The problem with on-device scanning is the implicit backdoor.
Does anything capture the zeitgeist of the early 2010s as well as replacing “stuff” with “shit” whenever possible.

Then putting it on a shirt for the ad agency people to wear.
It can get pretty nasty. Last year @jaffathecake who works at Google called @getify's "language" Trump-like for trying to raise the alarm about Chrome looking at hiding the path from the URL bar until the URL bar is focused, like Safari does. The original tweet is deleted, so you can't check whether it was "sowing division", but it wasn't IMO.

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1275030931577896962

Edit: This is very similar to how Google used their blog to criticize Rand Fishkin, as mentioned in the article. Here's the official post from Google, which reads like a personal attack: https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-sends-more...
It’s not too weird for 306 accounts to be using iCloud from the same IP, considering stadiums, universities, etc. It’s probably highly unusual for that many of them to do an account recovery… unless the IP is an Apple store.
You need a little more confidence in yourself, that's all. Don't be tempted by the dark side of gardening.
DAC cables are usually vastly more expensive then SFP+ optics and some multimode cable.

Singlemode is not really required in a homelab setting because of distance, but DAC cables are more trouble then their worth in my opinion.
We're not confused by their popularity. We understand perfectly why the average person would want technology that is perfectly converged and easy to use.

We're frustrated because our screens went from dumb panels that displayed signals to proprietary computing platforms with DRM, ads and a full surveillance capitalism suite complete with microphones and maybe even cameras, all of which do nothing but serve the business interests of corporate giants.

All that nice stuff that the average person wants? We want it as well. But we want it on our terms. I want to do things that will no doubt cost the manufacturer thousands of dollars: kill their ads, deny them any and all data, etc. The TV should obey.
I'm 20+ years into my programming career and still get asked to do a lot of this stuff. My fiance is chief of staff at another startup that does take homes. Some engineers are starting to invoice them for their time.

I mean, I hate these practices and the fact that my company also does not practice them is one of the reasons I work where I do. But there are a lot of companies with absolutely horrible interview processes.
In Brood War it was "press Alt-F4 to download faster" when someone wanted to boot the slow user on a dial-up modem.
I could tell you but then I'd have to hire you :)
> Because C# doesn't benefit…

C# does provide a memory pool implementation.
I was working at a small company, I was elevated from a developer to a manger of the development team (there were 4 of us). For this I was raised from $80k to $85k, so a 5k higher salary per year. Still, the real big raises have all come by grinding on skill development and finding new jobs.
Yes, indeed. :)
That's very, very different from whistled languages. In Silbo Gomero, one of the main examples here, there's a whistled equivalent to each sound in Spanish. The difference is approximately as far as waving-hands-to-indicate-something vs. full-on sign language (though sign-languages are genuinely separate languages, whereas this is just a different register of an existing language).

As it were, I've actually spent around a year on the small island of La Gomera, where Silbo Gomero comes from. All kids have it in school as an attempt to preserve it.
Well depends how do you use it.
My DVR set top box has one and I control that to change channels, record etc
That's a cool hack. Xray machines are quite costly for clinics to purchase, and clinics have to perform hundreds of xrays before they recoup their cost.
Followed by (5) board members claiming legal bills for child custody disputes after caught leaving kids unsupervised in the custody of a 3000lb robot.
You could put it in a savings account where it earns .01% interest (which is what my bank is paying right now).

So that 250K would earn you a cool $25 in a year.
This Twitter account continues to debase discourse about the child safety proposals with FUD. It posted incorrect information about the proposal before launch and has continued with useless speculation. How many of the hypothesized threat models which don’t pan out has he formally redacted?

If you are worried about the security of iCloud, then that can be read as more reason to prefer client side scanning. Of course the tweets are ambiguous about logical implications so you can’t engage with them directly.
Only if everything is already in 100% usable condition.

Eg, if you have textures and need things like decoding the PNG/JPG, creating an instance of the Texture class and filling in the fields, re-encoding it into whatever format and resolution your video card wants... that's where you're going to lose a lot of the performance.
You could change the language grammar through the preprocessor to accept "let" as an alias for "local". But I recommend people get used to Lua syntax because the metaprogramming will be done in Lua anyway, thus both programming and metaprogramming contexts have similar syntax.
My sense is that there is a drain on experienced engineers at the moment. There are an awful lot of coding camp engineers that can't cut it as managers.
> Some engineers are starting to invoice them for their time.

This is good to hear. I hope that starts catching on in a big way.
The prepositions one was invented after the fact, it has never been a real grammatical rule.

“Fewer” versus “less” for countable things is more of an actual rule (but of course that doesn’t mean you’re obliged to follow it).
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments and particularly not in Show HNs. Note these rules:

Don't be snarky.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would like to see more transparency on these Youtube videos of the FSD 9.2 Beta testers. Are they long TSLA? Are they being paid by TSLA? Are there discounts, or freebies that TSLA gives them? What are their earnings from their 'channel'?

Until that happens, I'm regarding all these videos as advertisements posted by Tesla employees.
i believe his comments are related to this study:

"The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1....
That font ...
this is nonsense when it comes to ICs, but the ability to solve large org-level problems is a key part of any leadership position
The Saxpy Matrix-1 supercomputer affair (1987)
A lot of folks seem to forget that Twitter also has electricity bills they have to pay directly or indirectly. Serving every tweet, along with everything else you see on the internet, does cost money. Usually it’s so small we don’t worry about it but it’s certainly not zero.
Fritter: A privacy-friendly Twitter front end for mobile devices
The Razer Blade laptop line should probably be avoided too, according to r/SuggestALaptop. Lots of quality control and battery issues. Some models appear to be designed around benchmarks, performing extremely well in short bursts but having much lower performance in longer sessions.
I worked at an ed tech company that provided services for schools and this was very common in my experience.

Schools wanted to store the students' passwords in clear text in an excel basically to get less complaints from parents.

Students didn't store their password after logging in. If they needed to log in again they did not know (or did not care) how to reset their passwords. Then the problem would fall unto the parents which would then complain to the school.
Fool me once.. fool me twice.. won't get fooled again.
I've always ignored advice even people say somethings too hard or not worth it. And I pretty much never regret it.

I absolutely regret trying to get a used rack mount server running.

The combination of steep learning curve from workstations to server hardware, plus parts that were failing but tested ok, made for an extremely difficult path to troubleshooting and getting it running right.

And that's before you get to the quirk's of getting it to boot and installing an OS and drivers and software.

I love it now that it works, but it easily took 100x the time (yes 100x) and probably 2-2.5x the total expected cost getting it to that point.

Not counting the additional AC unit I installed to keep it (somewhat) quieter.

I usually expect one or two aspects of my projects to have unexpected roadblocks, but for this it was issues with what seemed like every single step.

It's eventual replacement will be factory new.
This place is pretty right leaning and mostly front-end.
It also takes good engineers to recruit good engineers. You don't know what your missing if you don't know it exists.
> Any large company with half-way competent legal counsel is going to tell their employees not to say, "our goal is to crush our competitors, dominate the market, and hear the lamentation of their women." Instead they will tell their employees to focus on making life better for their customers.

The lawn mower would like to have a word with you: <https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2040>
AI artist selling paintings as NFTs answers rude art mag-style questions
Has that been resolved yet? I'm really curious what advice he gives based on that experience.
Consultant Roast at Its Finest
> consumers need to be more aware of what they are buying.

As a general rule, If is in Aliexpress is 1) the wrong species, 2) strongly invasive
C# was always the better Java, F# the better Scala.

But for many years, the per seat cost was higher, which scared many away
I had this idea for a service just the other night : a means of overlaying real time messages and alerts direct to any app you are using at the time. Kind of Class 0 "flash" SMS.

EDIT : it chould be a OS graphics layer service capable of drawing alerts on your active window. But I don't see why display manufacturers couldn't make this useful : the number of screens and applications anyone is logged into at any one time is increasing, and the primary screens we're using commonly have Windows Hello and Face ID type of biometric capabilities, which would be very useful for establishing the likelihood of unlawful access elsewhere.

EDIT 2: So Apple has a good position from which to offer this kind of "where are you working from?" heuristic check available to other security system software.

EDIT 3: Biometric presence data as a service to increase security for administration changes and logins hasn't come to my attention as being explored yet. I'm semi retired and extremely interested in this area if anyone is interested in a wider discussion in London - not burdened with any expectations or intentions and able to arrange professional legal cover if desired / necessary - I am interested in derivative applications for services that don't yet exist
Workers are eager to return to offices
Half a day coding exercise? Mate you're not hiring the best, you're getting for people who will tolerate a lot of crap. Which it sounds like you'll need.
This seems entirely reasonable. It would’ve been better if there were no strings attached, but that doesn’t negate the fact that EA is doing something good.
In addition to mature forests being carbon neutral, not negative, the scheme in question has exactly the same problem you described - the supply of "not cutting trees" is huge if not unbounded, and it has very little to do with CO2 in the atmosphere.

This is indulgence trading, in my opinion.
Well, if you disagree with the one central dogma of christianism, it's pretty much the case that you are not christian. It's not the case that your scottish was born just over the border, it's that his family is from Madagascar and he was born there.

Otherwise, what is giving that group of people a name even good for? It's like somebody claiming to be democrat, as long as all the law is written by a single person, or marxist, as long as commerce and private ownership are preserved.
Yes and no.

Yes, there will be multiple generations of vaccines for different variants and recognition of multiple components besides just spike proteins.

No, it's not starting from scratch. The underlying technology is proven. Revisions and similar vaccines. Probably a combination vaccine.
You're literally saying that the verifiable, external citations that constitute the rational evidence for the claims of a Wikipedia article should just be dismissed with a "LOL" because the site's co-founder has opined that the site as a whole has a liberal bias.
Right, but still, I would not have gotten a better bike for $200 from LBS so I don't go to LBS.
Someone has written a paper on "Carbon sequestration via wood burial". Estimates $14 per ton of CO2.

https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...
The same author, Oliver Burkeman, wrote a similarly life-changing book as well, entitled The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking. Besides Buddhism, it also covers stoicism, the inevitability of death, and other topics having to do with the thesis that trying to be happy makes it harder to be.
That was the reason, both cases the bikes were $7&9k and I had some surplus crypto :).

Both sellers were happy accepting crypto. Otherwise, I stick to the traditional cash-in-hand.
Retailers charter boats to circumvent supply chain crisis
Interesting. I didn't know much about it other than having heard the name until I just looked it up. The idea of physical kill switches is pretty cool. My only question is, given that the OS isn't based on Android, does it basically not have any apps? The website mentions that it sort of turns HTML 5 apps in to some sort of native-like app by downloading it and sandboxing it. Is that the only sort of apps that are available for it? Or do you install full Linux applications on it? The website doesn't make it super clear.
Some monitors do have speakers, and not having enough functionality for a remote to be needed is exactly why someone would get a monitor. A remote for a non-smart tv these days would basically be an input control and volume. Everything else would be controlled by some other piece of equipment that would need its own remote/app on your phone.
Soon after implementation, I feel that companies would like to reduce pay as well. Maybe not by 20%, but it's an easy way to increase profitability.
It stretches credulity to suggest that the lack of non-smart TVs on the market causes the popularity of smart TVs. Would you also suggest that the lack of black and white TVs on the market causes the popularity of color TVs?
Another designer he couldn’t hire built the connection machine

http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html

> How the Connection Machine inspired Steve Jobs:

My old friend Joanna Hoffman was marketing manager for the first Macintosh and the NeXT computer, and Steve Jobs' "right hand," as depicted by Kate Winslet in the film "Steve Jobs." In 1986, when the Connection Machine came out, Jobs asked her to get its designer to create his new NeXT computer as well. To which Joanna replied, "Too late, Tamiko has gone to Europe to become an artist!" But the machine made a lasting impression on him, and from that point on, Jobs' designs were not merely useful - they were visually sublime.

See "CM-1/CM-2 Design Legacy" >>
Seems so naive that you'd do such a thing from your home without any type of security like a VPN.

The guy probably was the only one in the group doing this and was led to believe by the others that it was completely safe.
Given that the accused was arrested in 2007 for similar sex crimes while a Geek Squad employee, one must imagine that he’s been up to this for years.
To some degree, having the work discussed is great. But depending on the way it leaked, it can diminish the focus on the product, and sometimes it can make the official release flop and that's not great.

From what I hear, Google has/had a policy/culture of largely free information flow inside the company while not having information flow outside the company; a leak undermines that culture/policy and leads to more locked down information flow on the inside, and it's reasonable to be upset about that.

> they became hostile to me for the rest of the lunch for even having suggested that their feeling might not be justified.

People don't usually apprechiate it when they're upset and others tell them their feelings aren't justified and they should feel differently. That's simply not a good way to engage people.
If you are an engineer working on the software, the announcement really has little interest. You just want it to be wide and sure not being done in a way that put a bad light on your product.

This kind of things happened in my case, and I was more happy to see the interest of the potential users than knowing who disclosed it as it would not be me anyway in all cases.

It might not be true in a small company/team/product. But in a big tech corps, the guy that will do the official announcement is usually quite far and unrelated to the engineers that did the feature.

Also, maybe a piece that was missing from my story is that the Googlers were not even in a team working or related to the disclosed thing. For example they were in the chrome team and it was an Android announcement or something like that.

Another point is that, at Google, it looks like that each big product team is firewalled from the other team. For example, people not working on Android core will not know anything about it or it's development and be in separated buildings and co.
Playin' it old school.

Doubleplusgood.
The Predictable Memetic Collapse of Contemporary Journalism
Does anyone really read the NYT for anything other than comedy any more?
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Thank you. This was the question I came to ask.
In your article, you say "For reasons I will never understand, the PASETO authors submitted it to CFRG for consideration. Never do this". Is issue here the implied design-by-committee that led to JWT being a bad standard, or something else? It does seem like it found some valid issues in PASETO, at least, so I had trouble understanding your point.
Common Lisp has both namespacing (even package-local-nicknames!) and hot-reloading by re-executing its defun. Emacs Lisp isn't too far off Common Lisp, and whatever allows CL to have this (mostly the reader, and of course, the package system) is also easy to support in Emacs Lisp.
I got a Trek 2300 carbon fiber for $150 once, used. :S

I mean, I don't go to LBS, that's how I get carbon fiber at insanely cheap prices. People who are brainwashed into supporting LBS will get their carbon bikes for $3000.

Used that bike for a while, even checked it in on a plane to Taiwan, no insurance or anything, rode around for a couple weeks, didn't worry too much about handling by the airline since for $150 I could replace it if it got damaged. Worry-free is freedom at its best.

The bike got confiscated in California later on, then I bought a $200 used bike to replace it.
Hundreds of thousands protest discriminatory Covid-19 passports in France
This is eye opening for me.

I am very careful when it comes to phishing scams, but I guess one cannot be 100% vigilant all the time. One slip and you can fall prey.

And this is why having multiple layers of security is important. Even if you get phished, it can prevent further damage.
Of course. Using an open-ended "well it could lead to this" disregards any nuance that my argument has.

Anything complicated like this requires nuance.