skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment bothers me. It's points are: (1) People think differently. (2) Authoritarian ideologies have some good aspects, like central planning. (3) I am smart and my ideas well thought out. (4) I will not participate in a detailed discussion. Have I missed any?

The first two points are fine, obvious even. Although they are not a satisfying answers to the questions "Why are authoritarian ideologies becoming more popular?" These answers seem equivalent to answering a physics question with "we live in a strange world" and then just leaving it at that.

The latter 2 points are bothersome. I much prefer the default "social contract" implied by most messages: "These are my thoughts. I welcome further thoughts or counter arguments. I may or may not participate in further discussion." That goes without saying and seems much nicer than "I'm smart and my arguments are sound, but don't expect further discussion, see ya".

There's an interesting discussion to be had around point 2 and the pros and cons of different ideologies. All of that was buried beneath points 3 and 4, asserting your intelligence and discouraging further discussion.
Any conductive object can be an antenna. However, effective antennas are approximately 1/4 the wavelength of the radio signal being transmitted, or 1/2 the wavelength for a dipole antenna. Headphone wires, approximately 2m in length, could be effective antennas for 40 MHz or 80 MHz radio signals. (80 MHz, you'll note, is close to the 87.5 MHz-108.0 MHz FM radio bands, which might give you a clue why some phones with built-in FM receivers require the headphones to be plugged in).

However, music has frequencies in the range of a few dozen hertz to a few kHz, which is in the "ELF" and "VLF" extremely or very low frequency bands. Some communication occurs at these frequencies, but it requires high-power transmitters with antenna arrays that are massive civil engineering projects tens of kilometers long rather than 2m long. These transmit to submarines towing long wires at small, inefficient fractions of the target wavelength, because these frequencies can penetrate saltwater.

Also, the headphone cables are not a single wire, they're a pair a pair of wires, each side carrying both a signal and the return or ground loop.

You might be able to inductively couple to this loop, like you would inadvertently if you're running unshielded, separated speaker wires near unshielded, separated 60 Hz power cables with poor grounding - but at that point when you're running the receiver wire a few millimeters away from the target's headphone cable, I think they'll notice and object to your tracking attempts...
> something really weird about the contemporary Australian culture that's seems to be permitting increasingly authoritarian governance.

Netflix and Uber Eats. Long, long ago that used to be called 'panem et circenses'... Oh, and Facebook/Twitter. Let's not forget circuses imply cheering from the crowd.
You may not be completely familiar with them? The object model is fundamentally different. The syntax is vastly different. The runtime capabilities are different. Performance characteristics are different. (Ruby has less startup-time overhead.)

Subjectively, I’ve been using Python since version 1.5? on classic Mac OS — but I’ve never liked it much. Always feels like a struggle to do basic flow control. Ruby really clicked for me. The ‘_why the lucky stiff’ quote really resonates: it’s the language Buddha would have programmed in.
I believe that Autopilot and Full Self Driving is perfectly safe. Where is the evidence to the contrary? I am willing to pay $5000/month/car for Full Self Driving.
I know there is immense corruption in that government (or at least a different, more viceral, type than what is present in the US). But I find it intelectually lazy to use that fact to shoot down everything, without actually knowing it applies in the current case.
Osama Bin Laden, by flying some planes into the World Trade Center, has gotten America to do far more damage to itself than any external entity possibly could. We have given up right after right after right. We stopped thinking of ourselves & the world at large & become narrow minded & thinking only of our "enemy": we lost control of our thoughts to this attack.

And here we are again: underbelly of the world is once again getting what they want, is once again convincing us that freedom & liberty are too dangerous to keep. They once again are goading us into de-legitimizing ourselves, into making democratic society look like a fool.

These attempts to try to wrest control, to walk back rights, to control speech: they're all giving the terrorists (and other anti-westerns) exactly what they want.

We are in a sticky time. The avenues for exploration that I think are worthwhile hinge around better cross-site online reputation systems. We should forge & publish our own crytopgraphic identities, expose them on places like Keybase. This serves as an anchor, where we can use tools like Web Annotations specification to decentralizedly provide feedback/moderation on this person. Where we can begin to let a track record emerge. We can increase the quality of visibility into those who post, we can make Anonymous Cowards notably cowardly, notably anonymous, where-as today, a well established upright citizen of the world doesn't look any different in most sites, doesn't have much more context attached to them, than a sock puppet in a anti-western government's troll-farm, who created an account three months ago.

A lot of these problems are internal, but a huge amount of the strife we are experiencing right now is nation-state sponsored. For us to secure ourselves by stripping ourselves of freedoms, trying to unmask every evil in our realm, gives in to assault being waged against democratic systems. It reverts to the baser means these nations want to lower us to, it assuages their authoritarian guilt, confirms the sense of hypocracy they want us to be guilty of. We need to build up, we need to tool up, we need to become a more robust information society. Not a more authoritarian one.
A European initiative intent on delivering a "pan-European payment solution", but out of 31 founding banks, 16 are Spanish, 7 French, and 3 German. Italy, Finland, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands each have a single participating bank, and no other country is represented.

Not sure what to make of that, but interesting nonetheless.
We use wsl2 with podman, works good.
500 years is too long, 100 more like. Live but don't have kids
My issue (NW USA) is they arrive ready and ripen too fast. The fridge makes it slower.
There's a video on that. The end of the universe: https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA

This is so weird to think that for most of its life the universe will be empty and cold. Like what's even the point of all this, of life, of us, if in the end nothing matters, everything decays into nothingness.
"How does something that is highly traceable bring 'value'"

Everyone claims they want untraceable money untill they get screwed over by a merchant or employer, then having traceability makes it much easier to go after the crooks.

I, for one, would rather not use anonymous untraceable crypto if i am about to pay for a house
>can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept

So I take it you would be fine with the nightmare version of Apple's phone scanner, continuously scanning your devices for thoughtcrime? After all, "If it saves just one child..."

Any time I hear emotional appeals that ignore the cost side of the equation, I look for a financial motive.
The challenge, which no one has a good answer for, is that if you do a "good" job of automating something, people will zone out. It's just how we're wired.
In the process of studying physics, you do not have to study Aristotle, but you do when studying philosophy. This tells me that either progress in philosophy as an area of knowledge is very slow, or, unlike in other areas and not unlike with religion (or culture in general) there are many of them - potentially of equal value, - or that philosophy must always be studied and can only be understood in the historical and/or cultural context.
"Actual RVs" have room for a big-ass house battery and solar panels. Depending on the rig, a lot of RVs already have a generator that is more efficient than a Prius' engine. But, since the roof has room for 400W of solar panels, combined with said big-ass battery we rarely use our generator. So I doubt there's much reason for pursuing such an option.
Maybe I'm just young, but I really like the simplicity of wireless headphones. No wires.
So one of the bigger tech things from Australia is Fastmail...any clue what this law will mean for users of that?
Have Your Say. Louder
Started this a while back with Django. This lets you write something over a whole webpage in big letters.

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Yes. Although I don't use them much myself (outside of Make/Ninja), I still think it is a big "Plus" when evaluating build systems next to each other.
He should refer them to Lexis-Nexus vs Toyota Lexus.

Moreover, this is a generic term in math as well as the greek alphabet.

It's like refusing to print the word, "Alphabet" because someone has it trademarked.
It's the same company. Libby is a rebranded Overdrive.
I completely buy the conspiracy theory that Roy Kent from Ted Lasso is CGI
They will never get close to the theoretical max performance. That's just bad business. You have to cut down the performance if you want to your market segmentation to survive.
Humans are antennas too, you can be tracked through WiFi. https://cs.nju.edu.cn/ww/papers/ubicomp16_gait.pdf
The observable universe is simply what exists in our light cone - what can reach us before the space between is expanding faster than the speed of light. There is no reason to think there is anything special about us or our light cone and no reason to think things outside it would look different to an observer nearer to them.
Does the CGNAT setup you contend with not support NAT-PMP/PCP? (To me that is the reasonable solution to the problem you cite, not IPv6, and I have been thinking it is already widely deployed... just not adopted by developers for some reason.)
Georgia cyber incubator tries to stoke military innovation
Presumably because having an additional free or cheap option out there that's more user-friendly than OTA transmission reduces the value to the cable companies that pay for retransmission rights.
>"Extremely online" people have found an endless spring of resentment, fear, and totalitarian thinking welling up from some place inside themselves, an ancient and primal source that you can read about in sociology or cultural anthropology textbooks.

>Social media takes the whole world and puts it into one village, one city-state, one tight ball of low-friction engagement-optimized information flow.

These are very good points. There's kind of a "tree in the woods thing", but people can now hear every tree falling everywhere 24/7.

I think there is also a recency bias creeping in about "things that have never happened before". "Never before" can mean: since the advent of social media or since the internet has been used widely. There's probably also a hole in the pre-DVR or VCR era where things happened, but were not recorded/saved by the normal populace.
In EU, in many cases you can go below zero in your checking account. So there's some buffer in case things go wrong.
On the other hand, 1M years is so far away, everything can be put off to be dealt with later.

There's at least one or two issues that we maybe should think about addressing before it's too late.
HN discussion from 5 years ago, when the story first broke:

Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762929
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Broadcasters have two options:

- forego carriage fees in exchange for cable companies being forced to carry the channel

- withhold their feed in exchange for negotiated carriage fees

The big broadcast networks, at least in the US, have desirable content, so they demand payment for access to their feeds. Advertising is almost a secondary business at this point. Actual broadcast usage is on the rise, but is a dying business from the networks' point of view.
I was told that the number of campers went up with COVID

Interestingly I noticed no difference in busyness between this summer and my last trip there which was in 2019. Maybe I missed the busiest waves (Scottish kids are already back at school in August) but honestly the NW500 route and Skye were already victims of the success of their own promotion since before COVID.
Code Foundations: Things I would tell my 10-year past self
or maybe you're Jesus?
I don't really use Rust so YMMV, but what's genuinely special about it is that it's a new take on a system-level language with very modern features (Error monad, borrow checker, pattern matching, functional-like semantics) that were previously exclusive domain of garbage collected languages.

Honestly I kind of cringe at the "do everything in rust" crowd, if you need to, say, write an API, you can just do that in Python or Ruby or Go, 99% of the times the performance penalty won't matter and Rust is just a very complicated tool for that job.

But it single-handedly reopened the discussion on high performance, safe(r) languages, and I believe that's a very good thing even though I don't use Rust day-to-day. Projects like Zig are in a sense following in the footsteps of Rust.
That's why phones have got MAC address randomization.
That's the blog post I always wanted to write. So many people spend little to no time to actually learn Git, because "it's just a tool to help you doing your "real" work" (=coding) . Or because "Git is too difficult/confusing/broken". Or because "I don't need anything except commit/push/pull". I find those arguments somewhat true, but I still feel that people are missing out when they don't learn a tool they use daily properly. In best case, it makes them less efficient. In worst case, they get into "unsolvable" issues and/or pollute the Git history with useless commits, making blames more troublesome for the whole team.
Their kids will fight the police state their parents put them under.
The Rise of the UniverCity
It's reduced as a problem I think, and in general credit cards are certainly far less popular than in the US.

I suspect fraud is less of an issue because accepting signatures for card purchases hasn't been common for at least a decade (you need the PIN for all spending above the contactless limit - about 30 euros in most countries) and PSD2 (mandatory for transactions since 2020) requires 2FA authentication for most online transactions too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication.

That means copying or stealing a debit card, or capturing entered online card details by themselves won't get you very far in the EU, which removes a lot of classic fraud. In the remaining cases though, I have no idea!
Inflation is the leading cosmological theory. If that is true, all our observations are descended from a pinpoint region of space that contained everything we can observe now. We don't have any means to judge whether the parameters of space are the same or different in regions that have always been causally separated from us.

Be more comfortable with saying "I (We) don't know".
Fantastic!
Would like to know more about your charges too.
A Kotlin Style .copy Function for Swift Structs
Super Mario bros is pretty fun
How Your Login Box Is Not Living Its Best Life
Here are five ways in which your login box is turning your customers away from your brand.
Australia is increasingly being used to 'test' restrictions on fundamental human rights and to see how the a Western population reacts. It's extremely immoral and sickening.
I don't know if there's been a regression since the series4, but my Apple watch easily lasts 30-36h (maybe I'm just too sedentary these days with WFH + occasional ride).

Even on busy weekends where I'm out all day with multiple "workouts" it usually lasts the day fine.
Probably not what you were going for, but an entirely digital wallet would substantially reduce the ‘pain in the ass’ factor of getting robbed.
Collect additional data.
Yes but what if you take a shower every days ?
I think the specific case of Australia can be explained like this: If, for example, an arbitrary country in Europe (EU or non-EU) would do things like this, people would consider moving to another country. There would be pressure from neighboring countries, since inter-country trade and commuters would be affected. (Also, the whole EU thing makes it harder for any one country to change too much.)

Australia, on the other hand, can do whatever they feel like, and people who live there have no real recourse. They have, if you will, a monopoly on government.
Actually, I Want To Go Where Nobody Knows My Name
This is what the west needs imo. China seems to be making big moves lately, even though I may disagree with some of their methods.
If you remove the mic, this means you must use an external mic, yes? That seems terribly inconvenient.
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I think the solution is their requirement of 2FA for credit card payments[1]. Basically instead of this massive, expensive system to deal with fraud when it happens, and everyone paying banks to sometimes eat the cost of that, make it not happen in the first place. Not sure how successful it is, but it seems like the right idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication
You must not have much need to upload. I’d struggle with “up to” 3Mbps. I also wouldn’t enjoy downloading a 60GB from Steam with that download speed either.
Swiss Post's new e-voting system for Switzerland
Over the air television and radio broadcasting is an obsolete technology. Not a smart move for this industry to ignore the internet. Locast was doing these networks a favor.
It does, units rolling out of Shanghai Gigafactory are of higher quality than Fremont. Based on reports of Model Y quality from various production points, can't go wrong (imho) with getting one regardless of where its being built. Looking forward to seeing the quality of those from Gigafactory Austin with Tesla's new single cast operation.

https://www.teslarati.com/teslas-model-y-giga-press-texas-tr...
Sounds like a chroot with extra steps
I frequently have this problem and I'm always aghast that no OS that I'm aware of has a good method to restrict resource usage to ensure the user can still perform essential tasks like terminate a problematic process. Instead, the machine just grinds to a halt and all you can do is sit and wait or else train your finger on the power switch.
The Universe Is Hostile to Computers
Was expecting this to say that it was blocked due to it being a reference to Los Zetas. The reality was far more dumb.
Surprised to hear you say that... nearly all of the privacy concerns that I've heard raised by tech people in the last decade have become reality.

Just a few that come to mind:

- A fun recent relevation is that companies are selling & buying netflow data [link](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-...).

- [Govt tracking you by your cell location](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fede...), and [another link on same topic](https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-...)

- [Another one](https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ng8x/pentagon-americans-su...) about gov't purchasing and using other private data like browsing history

- Local police departments using cell-site-simulators to intercept cell traffic [link](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/new-la...), [link to map of which states are confirmed to have them](https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-...).

- Apple, which previously has stated that they have a strong commitment to privacy & encryption, starts scanning photos on local devices; an expansion of their previous policy of scanning/sharing only data in iCloud [link](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-w...)

- Concerns that centralized social media would lead to censorship. (Whether or not you think it's good that they're doing so, the privacy/speech concern has been borne out). [Instagram censoring political content](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/censorship-facebook-insta...), [of course tiktok censors political content](https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20883993/tiktok-censorshi...), and a google search brings up many more.

- The censorship of the lab leak theory for covid is a particularly interesting one... in 2020 it was ridiculed and censored, and then began to be taken seriously by the US govt and other "official" sources, showing that the censorship was way out of line [link](https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-lab-leak-about-face-1...).
It reminds me of this great short-story called Manna[0]. I really like the idea of complete transparency and no anonymity.

[0]: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
[censored by Australian government due to wrongthink violation]
Wave-particle duality quantified for the first time
Completely different topic, but I think it is related. Docker-in-Docker daemonless build systems have always fascinated me.

I have tracking kaniko and buildkit lately. Buildkit can behave like kaniko in a daemonless mode. I was a big fan of kaniko but somehow to me it feels a bit dead. Few months back, I was trying do a PaaS like setup with multi-stage dockerfile, it failed terribly. Because of the way kaniko writes files in the host container, it would overwrite the files crashing the container. Sometimes, it would just hang and disk would get full. Did not face that issues with buildkit daemonless and just worked seamlessly.