skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you cut through the PR and look at the details the EU actually has quite a bad track record on both technology issues and authoritarian government, so sadly this kind of proposal isn't much of a surprise. But I'm 100% with you on this.

I still get phishing emails to an address I set up last century exclusively as a contact point when I managed some domains for a local community group. I haven't been involved with that group for more than a decade.

Every year we get deceptive postal mail to our business address, which is the contact address for the registration of our domains at work, trying to get us to sign up for one con or another involving domain renewal "checks", "registration with search engines", and so on. These almost always arrive in the time leading up to the anniversary of registration, even in the years when we don't need to renew because we previously paid for multiple years.

Cutting the personal details out of WHOIS was a simple, positive step to improve online privacy even just for everyday users who don't want to be subject to harassment and deception.
Given the long wait times for these things I think it's pretty clear this is a supply issue, not a demand issue.

As for touch authentication, there's still the SE so at least they still have that as an option in the lineup. The thing is they begin the design outline for new iPhones from 24 to 18 months in advance of launch. Even a 2 year pandemic is a temporary issue relative to the iPhone design cycle, and any design response they might make to it would only show up towards the end of the crisis anyway.

Even if they had brought out a pandemic influenced flagship design now, which is probably the earliest point possible, for how much of that device's lifetime would mask mandates be relevant? Here in the UK mask mandates are already on the way out thanks to high vaccine uptake.
I think it's plausible. That list of jobs was probably just a hyperbolic account of his student years. He may have studied CS, and then got a job somewhere, moved to WFH, and realised there he could cheat. You would get found out in a serious work environment but there are many places where you can get away with it.
Unfortunately Fossil uses a fast SHA hash for the password hashes of user accounts in the database, rather than a key derivation function, which is disappointing.
https://a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/How-to-Win-the-F...
Ah, that makes sense. In fact I was not sure why replies try to say about the offline usability of certificates as I just used a SK approach as another example of inefficient QR code uses. I don't think the SK approach is better than others or vice versa as long as proper fallbacks are provided and it seems it's the case for either NSW, SK or EU anyway.
The transition to EV and all-electric homes (getting rid of gas boilers for heating, etc) means demand for electricity will increase.

Global development and reduction in poverty means demand for electricity will increase.

Continued, though slowing, population growth means demand for electricity will increase.

So "just reduce energy consumption" sounds like a completely out of touch suggestion.

We need ways to produce vast amounts of electricity cleanly and reliably. By all means let's push renewables wherever and whenever possible but in many cases nuclear is a necessary complement as things stand.
Nitpick about the website, but please don't use PGP short fingerprints like 0x46EBCD72F08E6717. They can be brute forced [0] very fast to get a different private key with the same fingerprint. You can also use them to generate keys with vanity fingerprints, which is pretty funny [1].

[0] https://github.com/lachesis/scallion
[1] I have 0xDE4444AAAAAAAAAA, took me 5 minutes of bruteforcing on a laptop.
Apparently most LCOE estimates assume you'll be able to sell all the energy you generate for decades at current prices.

This affects all energy tech, but means new nuclear, which is already uncompetitive with those calculations, is being especially made to look better than it should be as baseload requirements reduce to zero.
I knew about Psi theory, from Dietrich Dörner, but not this.
Still down from Aus
Hank Scorpio: Great Boss, Vision
Wow, almost the exact same thing happened to me and I was thrown out of that school, mainly for using another students account to send the base message.
Most of these can be blamed on the awful pile of dung that is the modern news media, not actual institutions like the CDC.

Admittedly, very few people go direct to source here, instead only learning about things through the news media.
Real numbers…of iPhones? No, the real numbers are what people buy for themselves.
Of course. I'm just pointing out the inefficiency by noting a minimal modification that would use less power.

An even more minimal modification would be to use those USB-powered "glitter" lava lamps. The idea that 2 kilowatts of heat being dumped into molten wax represents some kind of efficiency optimum is completely absurd.
In brief, Paragon Software GPLed their “Microsoft NTFS for Linux” and submitted it for inclusion in the kernel, and it was accepted. “Paragon produced its software in partnership with Microsoft.”
tqdm in Python was also very nice and easy to use.
What do you mean by that question? It can only be anodised with an electric current by definition, but I assume you have some other concern in mind?
Do you know what is behind the fork? The activity of maintainership itself?
Generate vanity PGP keys with custom fingerprints (2017)
TIL Richard Stallman uses steel pans.
this is plausible (and very worrisome if really true). We are not talking about an aspirational consumer device, it is already the case that you are being cutoff from regular life / the economy without one.

Incidentaly, I don't buy the "people don't care" argument. First of all, people do care. There is massive legislation in the EU (which represents half a billion people) towards data privacy. They are not freaks - well informed people obviously care about privacy. This touches also companies / commercial privacy and states (data sovereignty etc). But it is true that large numbers around the world are dazed and confused ("don't care") as nobody credible (and holding a large mouthpiece) is actually warning them.

But if you are right and its not viable (e.g why did blackberry not survive given companies at least should appreciate privacy) it is a baffling state to have degenerated into.
For the engineers that can pass Amazon's 'hiring bar', other companies will often match or do better on total comp. For a long time in Toronto they were the highest offer, but those days are over.

Amazon also has an on-call culture that - depending on the team - can be brutal. And it's often viewed as the team's own fault and problem to fix.

There are some really wonderful niches within Amazon that I will continue to refer friends to.
What Is WebRTC
In non-embedded contexts it is usual for ELF executables to have program header that includes ELF header and program headres and maps this to begining of address space used by that binary. At least on Linux the address where it is mapped to is accessible as symbol __ehdr_start.
I'm glad to see this large-scale shift in attitudes. Many have realized during this pandemic that decades of work can amount to nothing when you lose your health or wealth in an instant, and all you have to show for it is hours in the office.

Time is freedom, pursue and protect it at all costs.
We had a couple network blips but all our systems seem basically fine now.

The status page is still hosed, but I'll take "my systems are up but the status page is down" over the converse any day ;)
> In the UK the government are claiming that the virus effects everyone equally

No they aren't. Some disreputable news sites may imply that, but government representatives have not said this.
This obviously varies between different countries but one way of expressing that was (correctly) that when the benefits and drawbacks are not known, it’s also not known whether it could be net negative.

No authorities anywhere said literally (I hope) what you are quoting
Also of note is the vanitygen-plus [0] project, allowing you to generate custom cryptocurrency adresses.

[0] https://github.com/exploitagency/vanitygen-plus
C'mon, if you enjoyed social interaction so much, you'd be a salesperson; not a manager talking to the same people all the time. Nope, you like being in charge and 'directing' people.

In 13 years of software development, I've never had a productive meeting where a manager was present. Only when engineers get together to argue and hammer out details is it productive. If a manager is present, he/she makes the decision or just agrees with the lead engineer and no further discussion takes place.

So, my view is that managers are useless and a net drain on the company wallet. Walking around, making decisions you're not qualified to make, approving time off, talking to people for 6 hours, time tracking, pushing employees to work more is the most useless role ever created.

My favorite development job is one that had no manager. The lead communicated with the director, who reported to the CEO. It was great because the lead was an engineer that coded with the rest of us. No meetings or other useless activities. When the company was purchased, the software architect was made the new manager as part of the new structuring. Immediately, he instituted metrics and developer rules. Within a year most engineers had left. Thank you management...

At my last job, we 3 engineers were doing fine without a manager, once again the lead took care of things and reported to the director. But the director's best friend needed a job and became our new manager. And here we go again... Within a year and a half I'm the only engineer left on the team and I end up quiting 3 months after shouldering the load and working 7 days a week.

I don't trust any manager and I go out of my way to avoid them even as far as refusing promotions to avoid more interaction with one.
That framework of thought is based on western history and experience, and does not fit Chinese history and experience. You say popularity doesn't matter, only facts matter. The hard facts state that historically, in China, the biggest problems occurred when central government was weak and when the country was divided. The hard facts also state that the past 30 years are the best in 3000 years.

Liberal ideology state that transparency is absolutely essential for good governance. Yet COVID-19 has proven that this is wrong: the relatively untransparent Chinese government did better at fighting COVID-19 than the supposedly transparent western governments. One can point at the fuckup that were the initial first few weeks, true. Yet even this initial fuckup pale in comparison to the many months of outright denial by western countries that COVID-19 could be a problem. All the transparency in India has also failed to contain the spread of the Delta variant.

The facts have shown that liberal ideology is dogmatic and lack empirical evidence.

I am not against liberal ideology, nor against things like transparency. But I think the hard facts have shown that there is place in the world for an alternative governance model. China does not force their model on other countries; why should we force China to adopt ours? Why can't they be allowed to figure out their own path as long as they don't force us to adopt their ways? To each their own.
Hopefully, the "education" going on here is that whitelisting 'sudo' command lists is leaky as all hell, and that it is not to be relied on at all to keep a system safe from attack.
I have been using Orion and my interest arose because it purportedly supports Firefox and Chrome extensions. It supports some, but not most. When I post about the extension I need most, xbrowsersync, in the Orion Discord forum I am ignored. It doesn't work - nor does any other extension which syncs bookmarks. Given this lack of support I can see little advantage over Safari TBH.
Perhaps you missed the part where he said you'd need to rewrite it to use a trie to get a properly optimised one?
I can't find a meaningful distinction between gambling and investing.

It's not about knowledge / skill (picking index funds blindly is actually recommended form of investing these days)

It's not about odds (lottery with positive return is gambling, and insurance with negative return is not)

It's not about frequency (we're encouraged to contribute to 401k on every paycheck but not to play the lottery every week)

And to top it off, if you have a positive expected return on gambling (pro poker player, hedge fund manager), it stops being gambling either.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/gambling-versus-investin...
The growing wealth inequality probably also produces more desperate people willing to risk it
ok so - hyperbolic means basically you shouldn't completely trust the Guardian in this story about someone you completely shouldn't trust. It has a nice symmetry to it I guess.
I remember reading about this use case ~10 years ago. I always found it super weird and I've never had a chance to use it. Even back then, people didn't share computers unless they fully trusted each other.

If a program running as an unprivileged user wants to trigger something like a software update, I'd just write a daemon that reads the trigger command over a unix socket or a signed message over a TCP socket and then runs the update. I guess you'd lose the automatic audit logging of sudo, but pretty much any programmer can verify correctness.
>Automated enforcement tools like red light cameras and speeding sensors run into intense political pushback in the US

Of course they do. The laws they enforce with machine level reliability do not reflect the reality of how society behaves.

Nobody actually cares whether or not people obey the rarely relevant number on the sign so long as people travel a safe and reasonable speed.
Hearing ignorant computer science people talking about "dopamine" is just as bad as hearing people call their computer monitor their PC. It's wrong and it leads to bad conclusions.

> smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into bona fide addicts. While it’s easy to dismiss this claim as hyperbole, platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible.

This is hyperbole and it's not wrong at the same time. You know what else uses the very same neural circuitry as used by slot machines and cocaine? Reading a boook. Talking a walk. Petting your dog. Existing.

Dopaminergic populations of cells existing in a dozen different functional populations among the brain and project nearly everywhere. And if they're trying to claim that reward prediction circuitry is 'hijacked' they're going to need to show some evidence. Cocaine hijacks the brains reward prediction circuitry by directly acting on the dopamine re-uptake proteins. There is nothing intrinsically addicting or anything at all that can "hijack" the reward prediction circuitry in a smartphone screen. It is simply another stimuli filtered through your normal senses going the normal routes. It is NOT hijacking anything.

Tech bros need to stop talking about neuroscience like they understand it. For the most part, they don't and it leads to embarassing and dangerous claims like this article makes.
I feel more strongly than ever that trading should be strictly regulated and not permitted to the general population. It's framed as an equalizer, but it ends up moving more money from the middle to the upper class.

I don't think anybody wants to return to haggling for piece of fruit they buy from the supermarket, yet somehow many of my friends are regular office worker that feel they have an edge over the highest paying industry in the world.
What fingerprints should be used?
Maiden voyage of the first long-haul autonomous tugboat
Anyone have a universally working link to access to the paper ?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360

[edit] Found : https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00652

Is there some of the signal available so we can analyse the randomness for possible order ?
No, I'm talking specifically about the first example in the article in which they describe a person that is deliberately shirking.

I'm not interested in the technical solutions to this, they're abhorrent also. With regard to results, timelines and goals all of those are incredibly hard to measure accurately in a product delivery context.

If the persons contract says "will deliver X by Y date" then by all means work the hours required and no more. What this persons contract actually says is "Will work 8hrs a day, 5 days a week, on whatever tasks are assigned. Will be paid $$$". 'Gavin' is not doing this, and he's not even just being a bit flexible. He's actively pretending to work when he's not -- that's fraud / contract violation.
Ask HN: Why Lisp become so popular?
During last month I saw that programming language Lisp become so popular and visible here. Why?
Serious question… do you think Hisahito is the crown prince?

While possible, I bet the don’t on Hisahto becoming emperor.
Don't get too excited. Many extensions do not work. It's as if Kagi needs to work on the code to make particular extensions work. I'm sure neither Firefox nor Chromium need to do that.
This finger pointing style of saving the planet feels so extremely juvenile, its no longer funny. Yes, bitcoin uses a lot of energy. But so does artificial snow. Or gaming for that matter. What would we see if we add up all gamers on the planet? All the VR and AR nonsense that is being developed and sold? We have chips, we have electricity. You will not regulate what people are going with these chips and that electricity. And wanting to do so makes you look pretty foolish.
> hop in and be productive

Breeze and Jetstream are more recent optional packages, and Laravel is still productive without them. So effectively you are saying, “I wish Docker Hub had fewer images available, it’s more productive without.” Pfffft
Well, it's worse than that.

The "for the good of society" messaging has been very unstable, even moreso than normal for public health messaging. It's been a mix of: the elderly will take the vaccines because they're at high risk and then life can go back to normal. Then it became all adults need to take it to build herd immunity (the concept that in 2020 was supposedly some sort of a-scientific conspiracy theory), then it became life won't go back to normal even with high vaccination rates, then passes were introduced that have an exception for testing i.e. they look like an attempt to stop spread of the virus, but then it became clear that vaccines don't stop the spread yet the passes remained the same or even had the testing exemption removed. Then it became something about hospital capacity but they started firing healthcare workers en-masse, then it became all teenagers need to take it to stop schools closing and/or to protect their mental health (UK justification), but schools closing is itself a government/union policy, now Pfizer is trialling vaccines for babies. So who knows what the justification for that will be. But, we can be sure they'll find one.

It's been less than a year and that's not even all the changes in vaccination messaging, just the ones related to why everyone has to take it even if they don't personally want to. I'm honestly not sure I even got them all. That's been combined with very strong messaging that anyone who doubts the perfect omniscient competence of the public health establishment are crazy loons who need to be purged from society, with some of the nastiest and most aggressive tactics deployed by western governments against their own peoples for a long time.

Really don't see a way to recover trust in vaccination after the rollercoaster messaging over this year. There's no consistency anywhere which strongly implies the collectivist goal is chosen, then scientific-sounding justifications are invented to justify it. By next week this comment will be out of date and more stuff will need to be added to the list.
Title of the article is poor: it lowers risks in “COVID patients from hospitals” after COVID is contracted. The article does not say that it lowers the risk of contracting COVID.
>The school would not have any say about whether or not this happens.

Schools are members of the local government "club". Prosecutors don't generally burn political capital giving the bird to other members of the club like that without a good reason.
I did it as well, but it was really a bad decision…..they are calling me from UK number with an Indian accent with ,,great investment possibilities’’ all the time and I can’t unsubscribe from their list.
Well there is a meaningful difference between gambling and investing, but probably not between gambling and day-trading on limited information.

Investing is a broad term that ranges all the way from buying a property to lease to short selling GameStop.

Investing is technically a gamble, but a characteristic of gambling in common language usage is the ability to get quick returns - we don’t usually use the phrase gambling to describe something that involves a 3% annual return. It’s also not usually called a gamble if you can spread your ‘bets’ enough to provide a high confidence of a low return (eg why the insurance industry isn’t usually called gambling, even though an individual transaction will be a win/loss from a profit loss perspective).
>They used to love talking about how expensive and unreliable and unsafe it is.

Because now you can just look outside.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-rec...

Renewables are great, but you can't 100% rely on them. Batteries are too expensive to do more than short-term load balancing.

Either you massively overprovision everything - and MW for MW cost comparisons stop making sense - or you have brownouts.
The ponies analogy also brings to mind an old bit of folk wisdom: "You'll never meet a poor bookmaker"
> During one interview, my coworker kept asking questions of the candidate, and he would not look at her when he talked.

Or maybe he just thought she looked hot, and was afraid of appearing to be ogling her too much. Sometimes people fuck up by trying too hard not to fuck up.
GitHub Pulls Site and Repo of Pirate Proxy Service ‘Unblockit’ Offline
this was published yesterday and very clearly states:

[LWN subscriber-only content]
Which is why it's horrifying that CO2 asphyxiation is the "euthanasia" method of choice for everything from lab animals to livestock. We've managed to select the one gas that inflicts excruciating pain.
What type of API functionality would you like to see?
Yes. But that is the case of all other tools and frameworks: a product devised by an individual's (or a group of individuals), opinion, taste and experience.
Sure, that's understandable. My perspective is that those agreements should be changed from "X hours per week" to just "accomplish tasks by their deadlines".

If no tasks are assigned then how does blocking those hours benefit anyone? And if tasks are assigned, then what does it matter beyond the deadline being met?
Building an Analytics dashboard app using Redis
That only works for popup windows (ones created with `window.open()`) [0].

From MDN:

> This method can only be called on windows that were opened by a script using the Window.open() method.

I was unable to get `window.close()` to work on root windows, but your comment prompted me research it again. This seems to work:

window.close('','_parent','')

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/clos...
Doesn't Dublin now have a hot tech job market? And to some extent other Irish cities such as Cork? If I was a 21-yr old new grad now, I'd be off to Ireland in a flash, live there 5 yrs get a EU passport while you still can. It surprises me more young Brits aren't doing that. Maybe they aren't aware you can still go work in Ireland without a visa. For now , at least... As for SF or Seattle, hasn't the changes to the H1B visa program made that far more difficult for Brits than it used to be?