skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn’t make any sense.

> For your smartphone to actually pay attention and record your conversation, there needs to be a trigger, such as when you say “hey Siri” or “okay Google.” In the absence of these triggers, any data you provide is only processed within your own phone. This might not seem a cause for alarm, but any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data. And whether or not they use this data is really up to them.

> “From time to time, snippets of audio do go back to [other apps like Facebook’s] servers but there’s no official understanding what the triggers for that are,” explains Peter. “Whether it’s timing or location-based or usage of certain functions, [apps] are certainly pulling those microphone permissions and using those periodically. All the internals of the applications send this data in encrypted form, so it’s very difficult to define the exact trigger.”

Now, I don’t know much about Android, but I do know how it works on iOS: the “Hey Siri” trigger is run by a specialized “always on” coprocessor that is designed to only detect the trigger word, and when it does it will power on the rest of the device to continue responding to the request. Until that happens your phone is pretty much entirely off: the AP isn’t powered. You can’t just “add a trigger” to listen to.

Plus, even if apps could somehow add triggers, or abuse background execution to do their own detection, you’d be able to see it. Bluntly: if you’re actually a “senior security consultant”, you need to do better than throw up your arms and go “boo hoo it’s encrypted who knows what is going on”. Reverse engineer the apps and find it…
as a layer1 technician, I've noticed a roll out of certain tech that couldn't or wouldn't have been implemented without pandemic.

-Wireless infrastructure and APs
companies that perhaps didn't have wireless infrastructure in place were now forced to. [AP for tablets due to take out increases]
-suddenly end users were forced to grant remote access to their home lan and pcs
-crypto has really taken off
I don't buy it for one simple reason. If they have so much data to target. Why is there targeting so shitty and ad quality so low? If they had so much data, why not do something useful with it besides low quality ads?

I don't subscribe to them listening either to be clear
> every 4-6 weeks

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Oh no, the page in your last link seems to have linkrotted images. An arbitrarily grabbed version from the Internet Archive looks ok: http://web.archive.org/web/20180316071757/https://idlewords....
> What's wrong with me not willing
Misery loves company. City-dwellers have to deal with crime, dodging homeless excrement, noise, and general unpleasantness? So should you.
Elon says a lot of things. Elon also brought out a person in a robot costume to dance. I stand by it takes giant leaps to think Tesla is an AI company at this stage and them collecting data doesn’t change that.
In many cases, advertisers have been pressured by activists on pain of having their brand actively smeared by those activists. This leaves the question open as to how much advertisers would be motivated to withdraw their custom, absent such campaigns, or the chilling effect of the possibility of such activism.
Not in my case. The people who told me the stories were well-established adults who very rarely lose their cool (but some cops have a way to piss you off so they can then justify their violence towards you).

So a good general suggestion from your side but doesn't apply to what I've heard and experienced.
True. Catered lunch and snacks in an office with people I like to work with were legitimately good perks that I personally valued more than some dollar amount.
For me, being stuck inside with COVID made me stay at a job longer than I would have, because I'm stuck inside, might as well make money. Taking a sabbatical during covid lockdowns feels pretty sucky and even more isolating.
Just such a unique, rare name though.
> I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck

This right here. Nearly all homeless I've worked with were non-neuronormative and/or drug abusers. They're almost never just normal folks who have fallen on hard times. The reason they aren't rooming with a family member or friend is because their behavioral outbursts and/or stealing things to buy drugs has exhausted all the goodwill of those who would help them.
Temporary logistics czar. 1 year term, with the second half being transition to normal.
> Every website I visit I need to go adjust cookie settings (enable essential and telemetry and remove targeting).

Funny, the most annoying offenders I find myself just ultimately avoiding. I'm glad. It's a proper chilling effect. The web is a crappy, overweight timesink populated primarily with the most meager scraps of information wrapped in an ad-laden turd sandwich, and all these cookie popups just remind me how much carnival barking and creepy stalking is going on, and I just don't want it.

The web was so great in the 1990s, but now it just doesn't deserve my time anymore--ok, HN, har har--and maybe it will just implode....and we can sneak off to something better. Like what? A new kind of BBS, who knows....Imaginations are so weak these days. We couldn't possibly do anything different, or over. Oh wait, those hundreds of billions of dollars aren't going to make themselves.
Did you really live through that whole Trump-era hate speech and harmful misinformation culture and not once stop to understand what that means? Did you do nothing more than repeat slogans without passing them through your human intellect first? I dare you to define those terms so that they mean anything other than "The enemy's tribe is bad because it's not the one I happened to fall into."
This was surprising to me, in that SF is such a large participant.
I'd be very wary about asserting stylistic intent to da Vinci when it comes to engineering endeavors. Many of his architectural designs were thought fanciful and entirely unfeasible until someone actually built it, or built it with the right materials.

I would hazard that there is a lot of thoughtful consideration that went into the ornithopter designs, to the extent that a breakthrough or major insight lies waiting for anyone able to decipher or parallel da Vinci's reasoning.
> I see text editors as fast. IDEs as slow but full of features.

Me too. The problem with VSCode (and Atom and maybe Sublime) is that even basic IDE features are slow are buggy. And when I'm using an IDE, I constantly use "basic" features like jump to definition, find definition, rename, etc.

IntelliJ is impressive in that you can type, rename, type, jump to definition, rename, etc. and the operations are so fast that they don't disrupt your flow. Vs in VSCode where the operations will pile up in the background. Not to mention, IntelliJ's operations are usually successful, but VSCode's are usually not.

If VSCode could do basic things like jump to definition and rename properly, while still being super fast, then it would be really useful. But idk if it's just me but even in TypeScript I don't get those capabilities.
anecdote: This year, I was on a team of 2 and my coworker left for Google for a little under $300k. I told my boss I was going to quit to do interview prep and said I was making onsites for companies offering $200k, and they offered me $200k to stay. That was a 90% raise for my teammate who left and a 60% raise for me.
Right, go straight to dehumanizing anyone whose preferences differ from yours. How truly human of you.
I thought the KYC laws were pretty strict? If a bank or another entity accepts deposits without following the appropriate KYC laws isn't that enough? Perhaps it isn't prosecuting as money laundering directly but as long as the fine/punishment is comparable.
The renting a boat thing seems like a show. Hes got experts that should already know these things from other data sources. The boat thing is for simpletons in media to understand and spin
That's not a solution. It makes no difference whether the electricity is charging a 'gas station' battery or hundreds of equivalent car batteries.

That volume of charging capacity all works out in the wash. (it's just the equivalent of filling up at your local gas station or the one in the next town- you're still using the same amount of fuel - you're getting it in a different place.)

The fact remains that there is going to be the need to charge (around) 150 million electric vehicles in the US every night. That's a lot of drain on the electricity grids that is not happening now because we're using oil-products for transport instead.
also if $6000 in a year is that much to someone, then who are we to judge.
Where there is a will,
There is a government contractor lurking in the shadows ready to pounce.
> To me it's terrifying that Presidential actions are now being dictated by SEO concerns, but it is interesting.

Does this really surprise you?

- The opposing parties leadership is censored more than every authoritarian around the world.

- stories about Biden’s son is censored

- bad stories about Biden are censored

- every person connected to the opposing party is being “investigated”

- the DOJ literally sent out a statement saying they were going to investigate parents going to school boards as “domestic terrorists” (at worst, these are local crimes, if at all)

- anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc

- a majority of the opposition media figures are censored

- no one could attend the inauguration even

What does this all have in common? They want the opposition to have no voice and theirs to be the only one you see. They try to intimidate and censor such that they have the only voice. “Let’s go Brandon” was too hard to censor, so they’re now doing this. Remove, rewrite, repeat

The reason I say that is now opposition content is removed, they can put out their content.
This would explain a really strange news segment I heard on the radio yesterday. They were interviewing an alleged “HR expert” who talked about the “great resignation”. It seemed to me that this segment was tailored towards convincing people to worry less about leaving their jobs, but I could not discern any motive that made sense.
As a very longtime iOS and Linux dev turned Windows and .NET dev (with some rust on the side) - who has used VSCode, VS, and Xamarin for multiple years - no.

There is a place for a featureful IDE with robustly implemented build, debug, and package management capabilities working out of the box with multiple languages and entrenched technologies.

I do very much like VSC and use it all the time for anything involving text, markdown, cross-platform C++, javascript, and even rust...but Visual Studio is as much of the Windows or .NET dev's toolkit as Xcode is a part of a dev in the Apple ecosystem.

VSCode is great. However, there is plenty of space for VS: it is also very strong, and has a long history of deep and extensive integration into very mature technologies. VS is still getting better year over year and while I see VSCode as competitive in some spaces, it is no contest in others. If VSCode is to replace VS, it has a very long tail of issues to address, the resolution of which would probably raise both boats anyways.
Is [big sounding number] supposed to mean anything?

Either we're spending enough money that people can afford to live indoors or not.

$375/month is obviously not enough money for anyone to afford to rent anything anywhere.

Accordingly, the real cost of solving homelessness is more.
It wasn't space-related but it was definitely mission-critical ... In the mid to late '90s we ran quite a few systems that handled stock trading information that were written in PolyFORTH.
"any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data"

Source? (I know it's three years old.) The piece offers nothing to back this up, and I have trouble believing it. What OSes allow apps to access audio data that _didn't_ trigger the assistant?
Funny this site looks terrible on FF Focus mobile. Decent article, though.
I belong to APCU, the Association of Personal Computer Users... the group was formed to help people adjust to using IBM compatible person computers, now desktops are on their way out, everyone knows how to use computers as part of literacy, and all our members are aging out of "Outside".

Many companies, organizations, etc. were founded to address an issue that no longer exists, and unless they find a new worthwhile cause, they will eventually be subverted, or fade away.
https://sfist.com/2021/07/11/66-year-old-san-francisco-resid...

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/tag/home-invasion-robbery/ for the general category of home invasion. I think that's the technical difference, for anyone googling - robbery when you aren't home, invasion when residents are present.
The KYC laws are the surveillance controls I was referring to. They should be called financial surveillance laws, not anti-money laundering laws. You don't have to be found guilty of any money laundering to be found guilty of breaking so-called anti-money laundering laws.

The nomenclature would be like if there were a law requiring all communications to be routed in plaintext through a government surveillance agency, and any one breaking that law were accusing of violating "anti-terrorist coordination" laws.
I’m skeptical, but fair. :) Well, I hope you at least visit other areas of the world besides the US someday.
Their policies are demonstrably at fault though, there are large European cities which face this same dynamic and yet they do not have anywhere near the level of problems that we have in this country.

This seems to be, in large part, due to their policies. Housing is not their primary goal, addiction and psychiatric treatment are. You get housing when you comply, it's the carrot that is used to motivate people to engage with the program.

The author recently did a Joe Rogan podcast and did a very good job of explaining this and it's practical effects and differences in detail.
>Claus Schwab
Not surprised to hear you mention this name, or Santa Claus as I like to call him. The new favorite go-to for conspiracy nuts nowadays.

Wow.
Did you, just call me a "conspiracy nut"?:)

Are you seriously thinking that this stance will remove the logic and facts from my argument?

There is no Santa Claus, but WEF agenda and "collaboration" with governments and billionaires is real.

And it is not for your "common good".

It is marketed that way, for sure.
Yep but every time you do that you basically permanently leave extra containers state side. Might as well flatten them because they will never go back
Suppose someone was willing to follow the law; How would they advertise this service?
Housing with on site supports is very common.
Could also be selection or confirmation bias. Think about all those times you said a marketable term but didn't see an ad.
Oh my goodness. Goodnight Moon was my daughters favorite book as a 1 year old and Dune is my favorite fiction of all time... I just can't justify the price.
housing costs are elastic. constrain supply and only the rich can afford it. economics 101.
Ask HN: What's your experience getting a German work visa?
A few years ago, I signed a contract withA a German company and proceeded to request a work visa. The visa was denied on the grounds that I did not have a college degree at the time. My salary was going to be >55k and I was told that, as a programmer, I wouldn't need a degree and would be fast tracked.

Fast forward a few years, I got my degree and accepted another job with a >65k salary. Again, I requested the work visa. Again, it was rejected. This time on the grounds that I didn't submit proof that I was at B1 level in... English. Yes, that's right. English. I don't know if I have the energy to appeal this nonsense.

What's been your experience getting a work visa for Germany?
So I do agree that if someone found out how to subvert iOS and Android’s sandboxing and also figured out a way to block the OS from showing the icon that your mic is on, that FB or Google would guard the secret with their lives. But to assume they found it, and have kept it secret this long, and no one else has found any theoretical evidence it is possible… that’s too many highly improbable things to believe without just a hint of non-anecdote evidence. Law of large numbers (you talk about a lot of things, you see a lot of ads, there are a lot of people) says tons of these stories are real, but complete coincidence.
Seems likely to me that we are, given the age of the oldest fossils.
If mathematicians and other scientists throughout history had only worked on problems that have an industry use at their time, there would be no industry today.
Facebook is promoting civil war in Myanmar
Can you clarify on the "I'm skeptical" part, please?

It's like, I have nothing to do today, oh I know, I'll just come to HN and lie about experiences with cops. Is that what you're implying?
On ublock origin, there's a button to toggle JS.
Used to be able to alphabetically sort your subscription but they removed that feature over whatever subscription is the most active. It is bizarre as hell.
How about 5yrs from now, will the 17th booster shot still be as affective?

Writing is on the wall, but sure, believe their corporate greed has nothing in play on this.
Well, other supermarkets here have much shorter lines. I explicitly avoid Trader Joes because the lines tend to be longer than anywhere else.
Please indicate on the crime rate graph the point at which Chesa Boudin was elected.

https://ibb.co/64jbBZ2
Same exact thing is happening in Seattle as we speak. They are buying hotels and converting them to permanent housing and, get this, do not require that you don't take drugs or look for a job if you live there. How the fuck are people supposed to "exit homelessness" if they're addicted and jobless? The answer is, they don't expect them to _ever_ exit it. I went to a city council meeting and asked actually. They did not have an answer. Moreover, their projection is that the already _insane_ number of homeless people will triple in Seattle area over the next 10 years. That's the _official_, rose colored glasses projection, so it'll probably be even worse than that. It's a billion dollar industry in WA now, and as such it has become self sustaining and grew feedback loops which exacerbate the problems. Nobody is interested in actually solving the problems - for all the beneficiaries if it were, say, a 4 billion dollar industry, it'd only be better. So the cancer will metastasize until things reach SF levels of insanity, and maybe even beyond that. Activists speaking in favor of this stuff in public hearings are all on the take: "executive directors" of something or other. And then within 10 years people will wonder why we have shit on the sidewalks and people shooting heroin in plain view of the public.

Worst part is, like in NY and SF they are often putting these permanent housing units a block or two away from schools, and allow drug addicts, sex offenders, and violent criminals to live there. It's only a matter of time before they commit crimes. Meth makes it difficult not to - gotta have that next hit. Why do this? Fuck me if I know. You can see the problems this will inevitably cause from a mile away.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not against sheltering the homeless and such, _as long as_ you actually make not being homeless the lowest energy state, and take care of their underlying issues. Housing them permanently without that is a recipe for disaster.
Excellent article, thank you for sharing it!
This library isn’t exactly leftpad or whatever that ridiculously simple and ridiculously popular library was, but this user agent parser doesn’t really seem necessary imo. We’ve got to question our dependencies, and if it’s something trivial like this I wouldn’t want it in my codebase.
In contrast to Whānau Waipareira which tried to exclude non-Maori by using a password to restrict access to vaccines? https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/09/act-leader-d...
You're stating you think it's obvious. But I would argue it's highly unlikely, and frankly a bit silly.
Right it seems like if a ship leaves empty you might as well flatten all the containers because they won’t go back anytime soon. The solution is to make the ship pay for all that as a precondition to leaving empty
> There are 50% more injection drug-users in San Francisco than there are students enrolled at its public high schools

Makes me wonder how SF compares to NYC in the 70s and 80s.
And two random Dune items on HN front page. Is this just clever gorilla marketing for the new movie / series coming out?

(TBH, I love Dune enough that I don't care. I just find it suspicious.)
The point was the huge difference between what may be argued (successfully) about something and what could not be argued about something (because it's clearly impossible to be successfully argued). That the mays are contentious is implied by the may, but it is possible to put one's weight behind it.

Proposing arguments against it won't change that.
The established rich.

Solutions require money, which requires taxes.

The wealthy benefit by doing nothing about homelessness as taxes are kept low and the problem of homelessness is kettled into some tiny district far away from their leafy suburbs where they never have to see it.
For a lot more background on his time on the Oregon coast at Florence (mentioned at start of interview), check out this Oregon Public Broadcasting story...

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/10/23/florence-oregon-movie...
It is worth it in the grand scheme of things but there appears to be no mechanism to charge all the benefitting parties. There is cost shifting going on that’s creating bottlenecks
This is a great example of how all art is derivative. A masterpiece.
DarkSide Bitcoins on the Move
Because you would have to assume too many things.

What if the GUI bring-up required mounting filesystems that need a kernel module that hasn't loaded yet?

What if the filesystem is on a network?

What if the network isn't up yet?

What if someone's xinit script needs access to the bluetooth stack which isn't up yet?

And even if the all the "correct" assumptions were made for a default install... doing anything different from that would require unraveling a mess to fix.
Good thing I was very clearly only addressing degrees with target industries then, and I did mention post-grad academics.
“ The Flexport CEO may know more, but the Flexport CEO also has an agenda of being profitable for the Flexport CEO”

These are all for profit companies. It’s a bit utopian to suggest anything else would be better without providing any specific alternatives.
"I don't know how you got it, James, but you have 107 different venereal diseases."

From the article, "We found evidence for a total of 59 liaisons (mean of 2.4 per film)."
I'm unpersuaded. There are laws against breaking into cars because, you know, people steal things from cars or steal whole cars, and the purpose of the laws is to combat such theft. That is, they are antitheft laws. It is entirely possible for someone to break into a car and be arrested under those antitheft laws without actually stealing anything. That is still legit. People should not break into cars and there should be laws against it, even if for some ideological reason you decide to call those laws something other than antitheft.

You are coming across as playing word games to make shady operators sound sympathetic. Yes, hawala networks have been around forever. These days they are subject to the same laws as anyone else, and the legitimate ones are able to perform their obligations. The ones that don't, get in trouble as they should.
What’s the Straussian Read of God?