skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s correct, because a certain conspiracy theorist published “smoking gun” screen caps of information on the voting systems in question, and there was unredacted information that led back to Mesa county.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/8chan...

Edit: I’ve read the OP from NPR more closely and it says the investigation predates this episode and was triggered by an unauthorized person showing up in some logs
I thought this was going to be about the Hayes Command Set.

AT&F0

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> Someone smashed it when moving the thing accidentally.

And that's one of the reasons why I'm glad we used HP servers with internal usb ports for this.
Why wouldn’t they be able to multi-app? As far as I can tell this is double talk. “If we have to W2 them we will make a condition of employment that they can’t be clocking hours in multiple apps at once.” That is the only explanation I can see for why there’d be any issue. At least in California there is no law that would restrict either company or employee in such a way, in fact the case law on non competes seems to lean the other direction with preference given to workers not being restricted from practicing their trade except in very limited circumstances. So they’re creating a straw man unworkable situation that would only be created by them pushing an unworkable system and supporting employment agreement.

There are many alternative ways to structure this relationship. Many with just as much or more chance of being long term sustainable for all parties than the current model which definitely works for one party but we have good evidence is not sustainable and workable for all the workers some of whom are being chewed through and exploited.
all the apple ifanboys can't take any criticism, eh?
We had a 16k tape only bee before the disk one. I loved that they had battery backed SRAM. You could turn it off and come back later and your program was still there.

I just had a look, and didn't find anything, but I have a sneaking suspicion I have a copy of your game on one of my games compilation disks.
The Oasis of Palmyra
So it sounds like if you are acquired/close shop/triple your fees, the hardware will continue working with a limited feature set forever. If HN-type people are at all your target market, I’d make this a lot clearer somewhere. After the umpteenth time, people are wary of hardware that randomly turns into bricks. It’s got nothing to do with “big tech”.
It’s so what ironic that even with increased standardisation in space communication, everything in orbit gets dragged into a mess of FCC/ACMA/OFCOM/ITU/etc red tape.

It’s bad enough I’m genuinely keeping a notebook of engineering thoughts on how to do ground to orbit communication optical/laser only, I could use the $130K AUD fee that the ACMA (Australian FCC equivalent) charge to file the paperwork to have any radio in space.

My long term hope is we get to some kind of ISM equivalent licensed bands with wiFi device style pre-certification possibilities… but it’s more likely we’re going to see large scale laser communication systems before the glacier of radio regulations catches up here.
Anecdotal, and I don't want it to sound like my example is intended to disprove this research or anyone else's experience, but I personally find it extremely fatiguing if people _don't_ turn on their video.

More specifically, when I'm talking in a meeting or giving a presentation, I find it very helpful to see other people, see their reactions, see whether they laugh at jokes or look confused when I'm bad at explaining things. My nightmare during remote work is giving a presentation to a silent wall of "camera off" icons.
High speed rail wheels are not cones, or much less slanted cones, but they are turning in a much larger radius, and sometimes having independent wheels.
I guess Brave browser does the job. I see no ads
The suspension notice was definitely sent by Google:

From: registrar-support@google.com
Subject: A message from Google Domains
SPF: PASS with IP 209.85.220.75
DKIM: 'PASS' with domain google.com
DMARC: 'PASS'

The email said:

Hi there,

Your domain was reported for spamming activities and will be suspended in 3 days. ... It may result in cancellation of your domain registration or termination of your account.

Regards,
The Google Domains Support Team

---

So far the experience has been exactly the same as how Gitbook described their similar situation: https://blog.gitbook.com/tech/post-mortems/06-20-gitbook-dom....

No one at Google would answer any questions. And we have no idea what to do right now.
It’s literally the first sentence of the linked article…

Edit — I see you’ve specified unsupervised where the article specifies “unauthorized”. However, given they turned off the security cameras I think it’s kind of splitting hairs
I believe the best practice is to use a dedicated "media" branch for screenshots/gifs/webp. Then you can use them on your readme like this ![alt text](../media/demo.gif?raw=true).

You can rewrite history on the media branch so the files don't accumulate whenever you update them.

I found this idea here: https://medium.com/@minamimunakata/how-to-store-images-for-u...
I know Flexera well.

They regularly do "license compliance shakedowns". This is not some trade secret, lots of ISV's do it. So the following is describing broadly how ISV's do it and nothing specific to Flexera.

The way it works is to have a licensing model not enforced perfectly by the DRM. Sell licenses per user, per machine, but allow usage outside that in some way. Make it the customer's duty to enforce license usage instead of the vendor.

Wait a while. Sales comes back and runs an audit, they see more users than licensed in the last X amount of time and require a "true up" fee before more licenses can be sold, or possibly under threat of terminating existing licenses.

The intent is to use the threat of disruption to the business as leverage to cough up more revenue than the customer planned to provide initially per their license agreement.

It is shady, but it works, and a widespread practice.
Theranos: Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal trial to showcase Silicon Valley
> IMO, Yes! If you put a mental onus on folks to understand x before you understand y, there's no telling how deep the rabbit hole goes. Why not use asm? Why can't you understand pointer arithmetic? The more you increase the mental requirements of the reader, the worse.

I'm not talking about any difference in "mental requirements". I'm saying suppose, for an equally skilled reader at an equivalent starting point, codebase A (200 lines) takes a week to read, and codebase B (20,000 lines) also takes a week to read. And my point is that many people would blindly say that this means A is harder to read than B, but actually, what matters is whether A is doing more or less than B (i.e. is A solving a harder problem than B or vice versa) - the number of lines is irrelevant!
I don’t have any research experience in this field but there is a stray cat that I feed quite regularly. The poor thing seemed have injured her left leg and was limping quite a bit, so when I saw her she began limping away from me and hid herself in some bushes too thick for me to go in. This continued for a few days but I left some food for her every day.

Anyway I believe that was a form of PTSD reaction ,as she was very well aware of who I am. My guess was some person had caused the limp on her (considering she lives in a public park where I go to run, and many people visit as well).She is normally very friendly and doesn’t mind the occasional petting, though she is very much an independent cat (not one who can be easily domesticated).

Though the PTSD manifested in her in a different way than it would for a human.
>Trump negotiated the exit strategy to ‘get us out’, Biden just couldn’t execute it.

If you want to continue making this a partisan thing, then at least be consistent.

If Trump wanted the political credit for actually executing the plan, then he should have executed it. After all, he ran on that as a promise and had 4 years to execute it, whereas Biden was only there for 8 months, as you've pointed out.

A negotiated date is not an exit plan in any case, and many
believe only served to box in the incoming administration.

>There is no victory here for anyone, except America’s enemies.

Glad to hear you say that. But, if you want people to believe that you actually believe it, then you should temper your obvious hyper-partisan glee and stop with the politicization of our service-members' deaths; to include peddling unfounded conspiracy theories regarding imagined "corruption" yielding the materials used to attack our troops.

This is exactly the kind of disinformation that our enemies use to diminish our standing on the world stage, demoralize our military and citizenry, and divide us further.

Criticizing our leadership is one thing, and I've expressed my disappointment in some of the execution here as well. But, peddling propaganda and conspiracy theories against your own country is taking up the role of useful idiot, at best.
"Good businesses have margin. Profit margin? Yes. But also margin for your time, your emotional and physical health, your relationships, your sanity, and your integrity. You're a human, and humans need breathing room." -- Justin Jackson with a beautiful reminder that sustainability is a big part of building a healthy business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development

It's frustrating to me, because it seems to be underutilized in the industry, but lean software development (as discussed by Mary Poppendieck) has been about exactly this idea for around 20 years. She mapped out the ideas from Lean to software development equivalents and mapped out ideas about what constituted "waste" in this field.

These are exactly the kinds of things that people should've been looking at in retrospectives, but it's become deemphasized and is instead a shortened ritual with no useful effect.
I like having gvim or macvim as the default text editor to open files when the are clicked from Dolphin/Finder/etc so that I can read and edit the file with vim and my config, rather than whatever the OS default low power GUI text editor is. Maybe I could rig up something to open a new terminal and then open vim in that but vim in a GUI works quite well.
> > But in order for that to happen they'd have to be attached to something,

> Only if you care about getting momentum right. If you push against a wall, feel pressure on your hand, and your viewpoint moves away from the wall, then (apart from the motion sickness) that's a pretty good wall simulator.

In theory, you could get a bit more resistance than just the tactile feeling of pressure by bracing against the user's body in some fashion, but mechanically that might be hard to accomplish without what amounts to a wearable robot arm automagically interposing surfaces wherever you are supposed to feel them (and of course it would fail fairly dramatically as soon as you tried to lean against a wall or a tree).
Well, this gets to the heart of one of the issues with the current approach to AI. Statistical consensus doesn't always align with a user's personal view or desires. I don't know how you solve the problem; my issue is that Google doesn't seem to know, either, but they insist that they do.
Came here to post this and glad I was beaten to it. While the prediction of video conferencing isn’t that wild (in the same way that Kubrick predicting tablets in 2001 isn’t that wild), the user anxiety that led to the mask/face filter industry was really genius.
A groomed twelve year old girl will sometimes also feel “lucky” her 35 year old “boyfriend” is having sex with her. It’s still rape, the trauma just manifests later.
Ask HN: Books on Techno-Dystopias
Hey HN, I'm looking for books on techno-dystopias, I have this idea on my head I can't get out and I am sure someone out there has thought about it before and chewed on it enough to make it readable.

I hope I am wrong but the future of tech looks grim, it looks like we're headed to a Caves of Cud type of future. Anything you could want has already been designed, built and distributed for sale. There was a before-and-after event, some catastrophic event, and literally nothing is usable now, because the people that made it are gone, everything has DRM software in it and trying to use it without a license (prohibitively expensive) or edit it is worth capital punishment in some justice-dispensing-robot's brain somewhere, so we're back to being basically in 1836, but poor and irradiated.

I'm not well versed in the science fiction literature, have you read such books? What are your favorites? Do you know of any that fit the above description?
I agree with you. In my opinion,a person should be called a 10x developer if they really do put in the work AND are working for yourself.
If you have a thought or something related to the idea you'd like to discuss, feel free to do it, I'd love to hear it as well (I hope this is allowed in HN)
I've worked from home for a decade now, and I've found the people who want cameras on in meetings are the folks who don't normally work remote. They're not used to not seeing reactions, so it throws them when nobody has a camera on. The people who have worked remote for a while - at least since before covid - don't ever use their camera.
> as I'm rethinking it, would this just be for searching your own images for a particular person...?

My Synology NAS has face recognition and it is wonderful even if (actually: especially since) it has no pre-existing database and doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) share its database.

For someone like me who manages family photos for the entire family but isn't to good at recognizing faces it is just brilliant.
It wasn't terribly inaccurate.

"for Serious Business Stuff you really must recognize that there just isn’t a lot of experience in the world building big mission critical web systems in Ruby on Rails" - in 2006 was true

"I’m really not sure that you won’t hit scaling problems" - Twitter's issues scaling Rails are well known

"that’s not a safe choice for at least another year or six" - For many that was true. For example, prior to Bundler (released in 2010), managing dependencies was hairy.

"you’ll be buying 5 times as many boxes as the .NET guy down the hall" - Easy to throw resources at a problem now, but pre-cloud, that required some serious capex, so it wasn't a problem you take lightly. DHH himself has acknowledged Rails needs more resources, as they aren't optimizing for that problem: "Don’t get me wrong, though. I love speed. I especially love free and cheap speed. It’s just that I’m not willing to trade things that are of real, enduring value to get more of a nice-to-have once we’ve long since reached Good Enough. Things like programmer happiness, the eloquence of Ruby, and the productivity of Rails." (https://m.signalvnoise.com/ruby-has-been-fast-enough-for-13-...)

(FWIW, I'm 100% Team Rails these days, but I do think Spolsky's assessment at the time was valid)
The "short term" on a historical timescale can easily be longer than your lifetime or mine.

If China collapses in two hundred years due to it's moral failings, that will be no more comfort to us than the United States collapsing might be to the indigenous tribes that used to live in North America before Europeans arrived.
That’s still going to be included in a standard clone, though at least it makes it possible to do a partial clone and exclude that branch. rjzzleep is right to point out the wiki repository as a good place to store such things, still being a Git repository so that it need not be tied to GitHub, but there’s also the option these days of editing the README in GitHub’s web interface and uploading the images or videos through that, which stores it on GitHub servers outside the repository.
It took over a century for the median wage in Great Britain to return to pre-industrial levels after the first industrial revolution.

> reduce the amount of labor required to do a task... leading to wages increasing.

I'm not aware of this "reduced demand leads to increased prices" economic theory. Can you tell me where I can read more about it? Great Britian increased it's total output while wages fell dramatically. I'm not sure your point is supported by evidence here.

How appicable are the stories of Hong Kong and Singapore to countries that aren't single cities that occupy unique geopolitical positions? Hong Kong is no longer a country. Surely this is a property of unique relationship with China. Surely many other characterisitics of Hong Kong are related to it's relationship with China.
Cracking IDA Pro used to be part of the experience.
Never encountered this idea before, does it have a formal name? Most fractional-dimension spaces encountered refer to either the Minkowski or Hausdorff Dimension.
Full REVIEW: Most mentioned stocks in news coverage over the past week
"How much attention do you think police gave each of those 20 million reports from Facebook?"

Killer argument. Why not focus here instead?
Anyone know why BART had cylindrical wheels, if the advantages of tapered wheels were known for a hundred years?
Oppo, Realme, Vivo, and OnePlus are in the midst of an identity crisis
ok, but why?
Try THE PASTEL CITY by M. John Harrison. It's 70s science fantasy in the Dying Earth style, set in a far future where remnants of old tech keep showing up but hardly anybody gets the underlying science.
That is how they've described the system. After 30 or so matches, they'll be able to decrypt a version (presumably scaled down, the description is vague) of the images and manually review them. With the present system targeting CSAM imagery, unless the images you have match their expectation of matching images, they wouldn't pass it on to law enforcement.

This is where the slippery slope argument comes in. Apple would have to actively cooperate with governments to both detect and report other kinds of images. So if Tiananmen Square images were showing up in the review pile, Apple would have to know to pass those on to the Chinese government and be willing to.

The only other way they'd be passed on is if Apple drops the manual review portion.
Mind-wandering and the dark side of productivity
There are parts in me who find comfort in reading the section about "The dark side of always-on productivity." but I like this framing: "By letting us re-experience past events, simulate how others feel, explore our values, and engage in learning, maybe the Default Mode Network goes to those places because it needs to." -- in the past, I was optimizing for a false sense of productivity, investing every minute I had in learning and doing. Most of the time, it led to me burning out. Nowadays, I'm trying to optimize for sustainability, looking to grow while being happy as I set my expectations (with my self, my wife, and my teammates at work) early.
It seems like for dust in the home you'd want to look at the things people might do for allergies, like maybe an air purifier and robot vacuum? (Not to mention dusting.)
Perform Linear and Binary Search in one line
Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation
Kyle Tibbitts reminds us that Rate-Of-Learning should become an unfair advantage your company has to offer to current and future employees. This is true if you're working in a small startup or a bigger company (I don't think that ROL is something only startups have to offer). Think about it: how can you get your teammates to learn more with you in the next 6 months? Do you know enough for which type of learning they're looking for? How can you increase their velocity?
When I bought my jeans from H&M, I would sometimes find blue dust on things I kept in my pocket. After switching to a brand that uses higher quality cotton (Nudie Jeans), I have never experienced this.

Durable cotton has longer fibres so that they won’t break off as easily as the short fibred varieties. I guess that is the reason why.
just to back you up with one citation: "Microplastics Cause Endocrine Disruption and Respiratory Damage in Fish"

https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/news/microplas...

Chronic Microfiber Exposure in Adult Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes). Lingling Hu, Melissa Chernick, Anna M. Lewis, P. Lee Ferguson and David E. Hinton. PLoS ONE, March 9, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229962.
It's good that our tech giants are competing, and not colluding.
I just thought about this and it seems to be a paradox. I can't shake a feeling (since I started my career working with methods of the past) that programmers in the past were more productive than programmers today, despite all the talk about wonderful new tools and libraries.

Let's say I can make a product in a billion different ways. That means I have to make around, say, 30 decisions (log2 of that) how to go about it. Now let's say I am more limited, and I can only make it in a million different ways; that means only 20 decisions have to be made. More decisions mean more overhead - everybody in the team needs to learn them, accept them, etc.

So in the past, people had limited variety of tools, and the way they could build SW products were more limited, but it actually was more productive because lot of the decisions didn't have to be made. That's the paradox, we think that more specialized tooling leads to higher productivity, but in creative professions, where the job is to make decisions, and physical labor is not the main constraint, this is the opposite.
Burning Out and Finding Stability (2019)
Jonnie Hallman shares a very personal story I think all of us can relate to at some point in our career. Finding sustainability in our career and personal life is something I wish more people would talk about. I've been thinking about it a lot in the past few years, figuring out decision frameworks for myself at work and home.
Fascinating and... wrong. Krishna strongly portrays himself as the creator and preserver of the Varnashrama Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita.
Why is it such a great reply? They didn't really answer my question.
Boring languages have lots of loops and things that are required to have names.
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Emails in email spoofing definitely show a legitimate domain in "From"; it wouldn't be fun otherwise. Look at the headers. All the domains in the many "Received" fields, "Return-Path", etc.

Look not for signs it is authentic; look for signs it is not.

Also: https://developers.google.com/domains/express/support
Japanese?
> LGBTQ youth... are more likely to send explicit images like those Apple seeks to detect and report, in part because of the lack of availability of sexuality education.

This is nonsense; a neutral discussion in school about intercourse (straight or gay) isn't going to cause young adults to avoid expressing their sexual urges. If anything it will make them more likely to express such urges, since the neutral discussion in class will make the topic seem more broachable.