skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of sending braille printed text to a blind person and the problem of being able to type braille personally are entirely separate. I can type on a normal keyboard and print out the document as braille. The fact that braille printers are rare is a very sad fact.

The discussion above was not about hand writing (embossing) braille. That is a separate consideration, and I have personally never sent a letter to a friend of any kind, so not being able to send a letter to a blind friend doesn't seem like such a problem to me personally. If I were in the habit of sending hand-written letters to friends and acquaintances, I do think it would be a nice effort to learn braille in case I ever need to send such a letter to a friend.
I was going through my box of old electronics recently- 15 different chargers for phones, laptops,and what not. Not so long time ago we had one for Nokia, one for Siemens, and yet another one for Motorola. It was awful and hopefully this can end it all.
As for shoving cookies down my throat every time open a website: that's all great, we all need 150 random companies adding their own version of tracking. Really the best use of technology.
> I fail to see how that's whataboutism. I'm not trying to justify one form of plastic packaging with another. I'm merely questioning how much stuff actually leeches out and how it compares to how much leeches out during normal consumption.

It's textbook whataboutism, in the letter and in the spirit. The proposal consists of replacing plastic-based packaging with paper-based packaging for fruits and vegetables, which have a notoriously short shelf life. You, on the other hand, tried to divert attentions to "plastic wrapped foods that last for years", as if it was relevant or meaningful. That's a totally unrelated usecase, which has zero to do with the discussion.
Well you didn't mentioned you were looking after free beer.
> incompetent management written all over it, but no one will be held accountable for these failures

Having worked in government, seeming incompetence is not the fault of administrators more than you'd think. The ideology of "government is the problem" has led to a lot of legislation that knee-caps good decision making e.g. forcing acceptance of the lowest bid.

Along those lines, as trust was retracted from government agencies expertise was often removed with it. Departments that use to keep technical personnel on staff to review policies and make recommendations were replaced with consultants who usually have many conflicts of interest.

I don't have good solutions, but it's a stick and multifaceted issue. There are no easy answers sadly.
Well, if ads were never relevant, people would never click them and purchase the products they link to, and CPMs would be $0. The vast majority of people I know either run an ad blocker or don’t click ads - but a lot of people do, especially if the ad provides some discount on an item they viewed last week. I even got a free Nest Mini one time from clicking an official Google store ad.
After the disclosure of the last critical 0-day, I went to update the OS is my four iDevices. I upgraded three of them to iOS 14.8 with no trouble, but when I went to update the fourth it wouldn't let me update to 14.8 but rather only offered me the option of upgrading to 15.0. I didn't want to upgrade to 15.0, so I called Apple support and the first-line tech said, "Oh, I can definitely help you with that." I thought to myself that I'd give long odds against, but let's wait and see. Long story short, the matter has now been escalated two levels and is still not resolved. Funny side-story: at one point the first-tier tech suggested I try upgrading the phone using iTunes. iTunes has not existed in MacOS for quite a while now. The way you talk to iDevices now is through the Finder (which actually makes a lot more sense), but apparently their tech support didn't get the memo.

Apple used to be the company that made devices that were secure and "just worked". Now they are as bad as Microsoft in the bad old days, and no one makes computers that "just work" any more.

:-(
> maybe allow the modal to be closed so I can check the webpage

Great feedback, will surely make this change.

Regarding better ways to consume Twitter, our core product Mailbrew does just that, since it lets you create "digests" of Twitter users and Lists.
This one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719573
> Practically every single car has a freely rolling mode the operator can easily select, despite being, according to you, "very dangerous".

Yes, because traditional cars are not free rolling by default due to their mechanics, unlike electric cars.

Tesla does the only sensible thing in the scenario of possible power failure, it applies the electronic parking brakes when the car has stopped. Yes, you may not be able to push the car, but that's less dangerous than freely rolling car. The thing with power failure is that the car must prepare for a total lost of power in any moment.

And yes, Tesla has hydraulic brakes which works without power just like in any car, but that does not help in the emergency situation when the car has parked been without power. No one wants to sit in the car keeping the brakes pressed while waiting for the towing.
IMO it's largely down to party politics: there is no opposition.
A broad audit would be politically damaging / without upside.
America's Iron Giants – America's forging presses built in the cold war
Could you not attach it to a subnet, and attach the subnet to a network security group, and then do what's needed in the network security group? Maybe there are regional restrictions that I'm unaware of.

Edit: oh, no, you just need a public ip prefix/address, right?
Wow, well you do you.

I forgot, I have another chargeable item that I occasionally carry: a portable speaker. It charges via USB-c.
I really need to do a follow up post on this: "building safety nets"

If you plan ahead, risk can be contained to small enough spaces to make big experiments much safer. Had surprisingly good luck with this over the last year. Round is practically a ship of Theseus with how many parts I've gutted

Love seeing you here man, let's catch up soon
Ah thanks! Now I get the Private Use unicode stuff.

So the question should rather be addressed at my ios device, "why the hell does ios render a train glyph for U+E01F?"
It's like asking why the knife you're using keeps cutting you when you put your finger on the sharp end.

Most cloud providers don't have this billing problem and so the analogy breaks. Its more like, why does this knife keep shooting me in the foot?
America's corruption is legalized which I think is worse because

1. There is a legal framework for the rich (and only the rich) to get away with their misdeeds.

2. Since there is a legal framework, even ordinary citizens will defend the rich being able to do this because there is a legal framework to do so.

3. Americans don't feel like their country is especially corrupt because of these very same legal frameworks.
For newer Bimmers with a dead battery the only way to do it is from underneath the car using a screwdriver.
This is the kind of ad that makes me feel good about buying Apple products. Unlike the ads that give me creepy vibes from being tracked across the internet by Facebook.
That makes apple (the org, not the fanboys) sound a bit cultish... Can't say I'm surprised though...
Chaotic evil.
Came to write this - same here
Has Facebook ever done this to an alternative that wasn’t just ‘Facebook 2’, ie. it would have solved the problems and grievances people here have with the Facebook platform?
Lets put it this way, GCC is already kicked out of Android NDK, just like it has been from Apple platforms, and the Linux kernel is the last GPL piece standing on Android.

Meanwhile, Fuchsia is actually slowly testing the waters in production.

https://techlog360.com/fuchsia-os-on-first-generation-nest-h...

It is no accident that Project Treble follows a similar architecture to Fuchsia drivers.

Fuchsia's license being more permissive than Android is exactly the end goal.

It might not come tomorrow, but it will come.
Similar happened to me, for less money though clicking around in visual studio.

I thought I'd deleted the resources but months later I was getting emails about past due charges
The axels are directly connected to the motor(s). To have a free wheeling mode, you’d have to disconnect them somehow, and I’m not sure how you would do that at all, definitely not without lots of extra parts. That problem isn’t unique to Tesla’s.
I was going through my box of old electronics recently- 15 different chargers for phones, laptops,and what not. Not so long time ago we had one for Nokia, one for Siemens, and yet another one for Motorola. It was awful and hopefully this can end it all.
As for shoving cookies down my throat every time I open a website: that's all great, we all need 150 random companies adding their own version of tracking. Really the best use of technology.
The Most Important Century (In a Nutshell)
All of these arguments are presented weakly and self-admittedly compared to similar AWS failures in every instance. Maybe rename the article "Cloud Computing isn't a Magic Bullet".
Very interesting, I could apply this for a specific list. Thanks. Btw I designed this specific website for non-tech users to let them share their dumps. Populating and dumping a database it's a bit hard for a non-it user, while I see it's very common to share csv files
IANAL, but IIRC PII/PID is a US concept. The GDPR does not talk about such thing at all.

Back when GDPR was new there quite some discussion about the differences. Don't remember the details. Maybe someone can remind us.
Yeah, property that inexpensive in the SF Bay Area...unbuildable, unusable.
>"Your skin would make a nice jacket."

I think this part describes the cost differential between Zuckerberg and Besos; Besos is no longer good jacket material.
Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep
I imagine they are just overwhelmed.

Let’s say they have a team of 6 engineers tasked with this. They probably receive hundreds of reports a day, many bogus, some real, but all long winded descriptions like this framed to make the vuln seem as bad as possible. In addition many vuln reports are generated by automated tools and sprayed to thousands of sites/vendors daily in the hope of one of them paying out, they seem coherent at first glance but are often nonsense or not really a vuln at all, and of course there are many duplicates or near duplicates.

If each of these takes 20 mins to triage, 1 hour to properly look at and days to confirm, you can see how a team of any reasonable size would soon be completely submerged and unable to respond to anything but the most severe and succinct vulnerability reports in a timely way.
That’s a good observation but it remains that no amount of hosts are going to foot the bill of a billion Facebook users without some serious societal shift to people realizing they can ‘say no to tracking’ if they give up real dollars.
I am deeply grateful for your work and that of Abbott. The Libre has been life changing for me, possibly ever more so than getting a pump as it gave me a much clearer picture how my body reacts to different foods, exercise, lack of sleep, etc.

After about two years of usage I have encountered very few issues at all. My only complaint was that I would like to scold whoever crippled the sensors and readers somewhat by making them region specific for what I can only assume are purely market control reasons (not to mention that this is not obvious from the packaging or instructions from what I can tell and I only found out when talking to an Abbott representative that cautioned me that readers and sensors were not compatible between regions).
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Dumb phone might just be backdoored as well, how do you trust it? Do you have an open source dumb phone?
Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.
Yep, openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE on a SATA SSD feels snappier than Mint with Cinamon on a NVME SSD for me.
It’s an externality, but certainly not hidden.
> Apple used to be the company that made devices that were secure and "just worked".

This is a complete myth. In fact, not only did Apple devices break all the time, but they were near-impossible for regular users to repair on their own. A simple proof: how many broken iPods did people used to have lying around?
I'd be happy to read the overly sarcastic comments if SF had decided to buy an off-the-shelf solution which it turns out was unsuited to the climate, or which came with an obligatory maintenance contract, or which couldn't be uninstalled for the marathon, etc..
It says clearly on the GitHub mirror that pull requests aren't accepted; there's a mailing list that you can submit patches to.
There’s no smoke without fire. Investigators being fed excuses without hard proof is deception / counterintelligence, no?
HN is simultaneously the only site dominated by FW: FW: FW: FW: style stuff while also convinced of its superiority. It is enjoyable to see.
Is that purely a donation or is that payment to continue using Wikipedia contents in their search result cards and IOT devices?
> Of course any time someone looks into it they find that that click-rate fraud is at outrageous levels. So maybe no one needs Apple. The fraud bots will keep the ecosystem running.

Could this be why ad recommendations are so bad? Recommendation engines being trained on (mostly fraudulent) click-through rates instead of ROI?

Edit: It seems like it would be just a little more work to check both, but often incentives aren't aligned to doing the best work...
If you set brand image aside and just think about the huge amounts of money at stake, it becomes obvious that the whole app tracking transparency thing is just Apple taking over the ad market on iOS. They invented the term “cross app tracking” and defined it to not include their own conversion tracking through their various apps to purchases of their advertisers’ products via Apple Pay. Then they forced their ad-sales competitors to send all their conversion data to Apple, while providing separate APIs with richer data to their own advertisers.
If you cared, you wouldn't work there. You might as well extend it a step further and stop caring what people on HN think about it.
Depends on the channel too. I was visiting the US and tried to watch history channel show. The ads made it unwatchable; there where literally a break in the ads to show what was coming up on the show I had been watching for 20 min before going back to ads. Felt like they where saying: “ don’t forget you where watching this”. Never going to watch cable without a dvr again (still annoying but better).
> If Apple can't handle properly disclosed vulnerabilities on their main revenue generating platform what does this say about other companies?

It doesn't say anything about other companies, it just says that Apple doesn't give two shits about relationships with security researchers, despite their massive resources and wealth even when smaller or FOSS teams do much better. Apple are the king of user experience which made them insanely wealthy but that's about it. In every other respect they are anti-consumer, anti-developer, anti-reparability, anti-researcher, anti-openness, anti-standardization AF and act like major a-holes in general to anyone outside their org who isn't a customer.

It's not that Apple can't be better on the other fronts if they actually wanted to, it's that they actively choose not to be, as that has no impact on their stock price or consumer experience and in consequence to their executive pay. So why do things differently if people still buy your products?

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the "Apple is more secure and has less vulnerabilities" moniker just stems form researchers getting tired of dealing with Apple's BS of not acknowledging or paying them, so instead they just keep quiet and sell the 0-days they find on the exploit markets (hard working honest researchers still need to eat and pay rent) only for those exploits to later end up in the hands of shady companies like NSO or nation states, therefore leading to no news in the mainstream media about Apple related vulnerabilities. Win-win for Apple I guess.
I wanted to clear out my account so I deleted the VM but it didn't delete the associated static IP, so I got charged for the unused IP address that month. I didn't know the IP was still around until I got the bill. If this were in Azure I would have deleted the entire resource group and the IP would have gone along with it.
They might've sliced it into two parts on macOS, but it's still iTunes, with all the issues iTunes had.
After a malfunction like this, a car without a mechanical e-brake can be left in two states, both dangerous -- free rolling or locked in place.

You can always secure a manual car or a car with a parking pawl by shifting into gear or P, so I assume it's more okay to leave them in the free-rolling state if they die completely.

But you can't do the same in a Tesla which doesn't have a parking pawl, so I assume someone made the decision that a forever-locked-up Tesla is safer than a forever-free-rolling Tesla.

I also agree that should be an even-more-emergency mechanism (like a valve on the brake circuit) you could operate manually to disable the emergency lock-up, but in the case of a Tesla fiddling with that hypothetical valve would also disable your brakes completely sooo. Dunno. The car just doesn't have enough hardware.
> car is bricked in the middle of a 6 lane hwy

Oky, what the heck! This is one of my biggest nightmares as a driver, those at Tesla should be made responsible for this type of behaviour from their product.

I know any car may die in the middle of the highway but from what the guy writes he couldn't put it in neutral so that he couldn't push it over to the side of the highway. That's a big no-no. Again, Tesla must be held accountable.
"O-day?"
> Yes, because traditional cars are not free rolling by default due to their mechanics, unlike electric cars.

What are you talking about?

Traditional cars have a neutral and yes it is free rolling by default.

If I don't personally set the hand brake in my mx-5 it will happily roll away, factory stock.

Edit:

And it gets even worse for an automatic transmission left in drive with the engine off. The torque converter hydraulics won't have pressure; it effectively becomes neutral. At least my manual mx-5 I can leave in 1st when off and it'll resist rolling a bit, not enough to park on an SF hill, but on level ground it'll generally hold still. But neutral in all cars is potential runaway car territory, completely unimpeded without manually setting the parking brake or for an auto explicitly putting the trans in park.
You need a heatsink for the PCIe4 SSDs to get their full performance, PCIe3 SSDs are fine without. My goto for HW knowledge is https://anandtech.com
I would be interested to hear you expound on your rebuttal.
Hi!
Interesting project, congrats!
How does it compare to https://calmcode.io/human-learn/introduction.html
?
Advertisers already settle for non-targeted ads when they need to, ie. the contextual App Store ads pre-iOS 15 (15 or maybe 14.x added personalized ads based on location).

But advertisers will always go to the ad exchange that promises more conversions, and website owners will partner with the ad exchange that promises the highest payout. If you can achieve the highest of both without tracking, I can guarantee you advertisers and web admins will jump ship and swim to your ad exchange.
This is really being blown out of proportion. Spending $400k on a prototype for something that will cost $10M+, will be on every street, will be interacted with by every citizen seems pretty fucking reasonable. Their unit costs are basically in line with what other cities are paying. SF has its bullshit, but I don’t see this as that.
The harm is that it hurts the market, because it makes competition between email providers on purely the merit of email providing virtually dead.

(I'm not saying this harm is not "worth it" in some sense, but it's a very real consequence of these giant cross-financed markets - see also mobile operating systems and web browsers.)
You’re not allowed to use the Apple Watch Series 7’s wireless dock
I would never in a million years have guessed that anybody believed file system trees appear in nature. Or programming languages.
I'm disappointed that JetBrains do not integrate SourceTrail-like functionality in Intellij and their other IDEs. It just seems to be such a natural (and marketable) feature to bring the IDE experience to the next level.

(I'm aware that SourceTrail plugin exists but it did not work well for me)

I'm slowly getting the impression that IDEs for JetBrains became just a cash cow with limited dedicated developer resources and now the most investment goes into Space.
Article 50 is not very specific.

For enforcement to have teeth outside their jurisdiction don't they either need assets or revenue streams in the EU which can be confiscated/leveraged, or else good old fashioned extradition treaties?
And don't the latter typically require said crime to be illegal in both jurisdictions?
That’s not entirely fair. While I’m not going to defend the complexity of billing in enterprise cloud services it’s also not really that hard to set an billing alert in CloudWatch and track spend in Cost Explorer. Sure it requires a little bit of AWS knowledge but you shouldn’t really be using enterprise services like AWS (over other more accessible services like Digital Oceans) if you’re not willing to spend the time learning it; and at an individual level it’s very manageable.

The reason those consultancy firms exist is because billing scales terribly. Once you’re a business using AWS you’d likely have a multitude of projects running across a multitude of departments which need to be billed to a multitude of different customers and internet cost centres. This all needs to be processed by an internal 3rd party financial system managed by non-technical people who wont even know what AWS stands for let alone what it does and how it works. In those situations the problem of billing becomes exponentially more difficult than a one person hobby project.
The Romans had it figured out 2000 years ago.

https://archaeologymysteries.com/2019/02/26/how-did-the-roma...
Preact is React without the fluff - https://github.com/preactjs/preact

loc in a node project is hard to judge due to packages and the aforementioned mono repo difference, but the preact functional build artefact is an order of magnitude smaller:
129KiB v 8.2KiB
i think you mean WebGPU rather than WebGL. also WebTransport will play a big part for truly real-time interactive web apps
Funny ... I did the exact same thing some years ago. Two cheap Dell OEM keyboards, roughly 60 degrees apart on a concave, L-shaped desk.

I found that doing that opened up my chest, instantly making me breath easier. Also it's basically impossible to slough over.
No, not in regards to Google.org in the 2018 financials I linked (it’s at least not an official quid pro quo).

They have since asked for some compensation it looks like: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tec...
The electric drivetrain, including the motor, is in free wheeling mode by default, i.e. it has not much mechanical resistance, at least not enough to keep the car from rolling. So no need to disconnect anything. That's somewhat unique "problem" of electric cars, and it's the reason why it's critical to automatically apply the parking brake if the car may lose all the power.
GMail has been making it harder to sign into old accounts, forcing me to verify my device and also add a phone number to my old email accounts, and then sometimes still refuses to let me sign in.
Along the lines of unique receptacles, I ran across some public pizza box “bins” (they were basically a cube with an open top) in Los Gatos, CA. And to my surprise they had a stack of empty pizza boxes in them.