skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoofing your caller ID phone number is very easy. I can make my phone appear to be from the White House and call you. There’s no way to block that. I guess it’s a limitation of the SS7 protocol for now.
That’s because you pay those taxes in exchange for services from your municipality. And let’s admit it, it’s stupid that your payment is proportional to the value of your house. How is the city budget correlated with house values?
Intel? The company that is way behind and can't deliver?? Why?
Indeed. Looks awesome. I think there aren't many - the only one a mere mortal could find was the 1980x1980 by Eizo, IIRC.
iCloud web is a bare minimum effort.

They are trying to push you to use native apps on their devices not use the web.
Correct. Which is why they instead simply disable the device (and this has been done for quite a long time, by the way, with banned IMEI lists, back before phones were useful for anything without a cellular connection).
Facebook isn't making any money selling headsets at $300
Some person maintains this Smart TV focused list for pihole. Most of the domains above are there, and more.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/m...

And, there's one for FireTV

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/m...
Having mature dogs is fantastic in this regard. They generally won't bother you unless there's a good reason, but you can feel assured that a tiger will not be able to sneak up on you without the dogs warning you about it.
I like the spirit of the idea, but messing with bots and script kiddies is best kept a highly local thing.

You don't need a standardized error code to signal to a red team, you can say "hi" in a number of different ways, depending on what they're poking at. And if everyone is doing the same thing to script kiddies, well, where's the sport in that?
Economists would say that companies are willing to accept higher risk, the 'return on equity' isn't the only driving force. The question here is who shoulders the risk, the company or the consumer. With JIT, the consumer may bear more of the risk. It may not be a bad thing either.

New companies aren't all trying to be rent-seekers, they also try to dodge existing regulation or actually innovate.
Absolutely - this is what frustrates me most about the discourse around the metaverse - the insistence that a virtual world of limitless possibility be unnecessarily bound by the worst aspects of the real world.

Doubly infuriating is the smug insistence that this is being done for the "benefit" of creators - as if the point of digital scarcity is a means to benefit creators rather than the speculators who will fuel the secondary market - from which creators see little to no gain. Surprise, Pablo Picasso (nor his estate) doesn't see a dime from the speculation on his art at high-society art auctions - the verifiability of art (i.e., NFTs) benefits overwhelmingly speculators, not creators.

I watched the FB keynote today and some parts were just dystopian. Instead of street art being on a wall for everyone to look at, the VR "street art" expired after mere seconds, requiring you to "tip" the creator to simply keep looking at it? Can we not financialize every moment of existence? FB's vision for the metaverse feels a lot like being nickeled and dimed every 3 seconds for all eternity, where every interaction is commercialized. It's hard to imagine any kind of real shared human experience emerging from this. It feels like FB looked at the state of the real world - where commercial interests are grafted onto the human experience, and decided to just skip the human experience part and go straight to the commercialization part.

Digital scarcity is just such a depressing failure of imagination - artists can produce copies of their art at literally zero marginal cost! Instead of producing art for one customer at a time, they can now produce art that can be sold en masse - so everyone can have access to the art they admire. Why does a pair of virtual metaverse sneakers need to be one-of-a-kind? Why can't we instead sell copies of the sneakers to everyone who wants it, and the price would be low because the marginal cost of production is zero? Why can't we revel in the widespread abundance - provided to both the community and the creator - rather than wallow in the artificially-induced scarcity?
There isn't much for me to say. To be honest, I would probably not contribute to that website. Wayland isn't that exciting of a technology and I don't think end users should even need to care about it or care that any of those utilities supports Wayland, if distro developers are doing their jobs then it will all "just work" and nobody has to worry about it. Also that website is misleading, many of those utilities are wlroots specific and not really useful on other implementations.
Context clues lead me to believe the person you're replying to probably means more of the people who created the early world wide web (nerdy tech folks), and less so the people who created the technical pieces of the internet.
Indeed. It blows my mind how many intelligent, articulate, and privileged people in our modern society fail to realize how much their privilege insulates them from understanding the basics of supply and demand. Anyone who has ever worked on a factory floor, or a construction site, or even a kitchen (I doubt the tweeter has ever worked a job like this in their entire life) intuitively understands excess inventory as waste. They also intuitively understand that this waste translates to money needlessly spent earlier than it needed to be, or even worse, spent and then lost due to reality changing, demand shifts, etc.

It really feels like a lot of these folks go to university, embrace a quasi-religious ideology where large companies are the devil and are therefore the root of all things bad, and profits are a sign of greed. Meanwhile, the douchenozzle is sitting there writing that tweet on a piece of electronics that was made possible by the things he's complaining about.
The actual paper's about whether subsidized Indian wind farms offset carbon, concluding that without subisidies 52% would've been built anyway--although without analyzing funding I'm not sure how that conclusion could be reasonable.
The bezel at the top looks fairly narrow on the XPS15. The Macbook one is thinner but still Apple didn't make the whole XPS15 bezel into screen.

I'm not a MacOS guy, but I always maximize/fullscreen my windows.

We can agree to disagree, I hate the notch and you don't.

I'd get a rectangular OLED screen with a 2mm thicker bezel over an IPS with a notch any day of the week.

I have a notch in my phone screen and it sucks.
Hmmm. <scurries off to get white lab-coat>

Ah. No white lab-coat in the wardrobe. And I'm not an astrophysicist, might as well just flag me.

Look, I'm not a "sceptic"; that's like climate sceptic, i.e. non-believer zealot. I don't have a conviction about DM; I'm just waiting to be convinced.
I feel stupid after reading this, is this normal?
Just FYI if you haven't visited the site before: several of their articles have made it to the HN front page before. I actually find Stratechery articles to be well thought through, deep and comprehensive, I like how the author (Ben Thompson) tries to give a balanced perspective of business and tech without being too one-sided, alarmist or opting for clickbait headlines.

More if you're interested: https://stratechery.com/about/
Australia has 'School of the Air' for remote students that used radio for education.

I work with some people who did it as a kid and thought it was great.

https://www.australian-children.com/school-of-the-air

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...

https://www.assoa.nt.edu.au/
Feh, you're right -- I hadn't looked at the leaderboards lately. While that mistake makes me look stupid, I don't think it detracts significantly from what I was trying to say.
What a refreshing page layout!
If only they'd legalize, tax, and regulate the meth...

We could get our real cold symptom treatments back as true OTCs and stop wasting so much time chasing petty criminals.

It would also help identify drug addicts and get them help before problems become bad.
Talk therapy where I am pays 75 dollars for 50 minute session on my insurance.

Someone who has been through med school would not typically lower themself to that rate, nor do I buy the idea that some insurers are inexplicably more generous and pay doctor rates for non doctor work.

Remember, talk therapy does not require as much education, you do not need a phd or md to do it. An MD would not get doctor level payouts doing talk therapy.
Hedonists vs Utilitarians in a nutshell.
This is one where I’m fully comfortable with feeling like an impostor. I’ve gotten this far (~20 years) without more than a cursory glance at machine code, I’ll be pleased if I retire at the same level of relevant expertise.

Edit: don’t get me wrong! I admire the talent that goes into this and similar efforts, and find performance-chasing particularly inspiring in any context. This is just an area of that which I don’t anticipate ever wanting to tread myself.
Apple cut their fee for almost all developers to 15% back in late 2020.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/apple-to-...
> Inflation generally helps big business and its owners.

I'm not sure that follows in extreme cases. I don't even think it follows in baseline cases (2% inflation yoy).

Raising prices leaves customers with limited resources, as wages do not follow at anywhere near the same rate.

If inflation brings prices up, consumers can only spend on specific items, prioritizing necessities over entire verticals of goods. For the vast majority of companies, it's bad.
Wow. There is programming and then there is programming. Whenever I see something like this I feel like what I do for a living is duplo blocks in comparison.
It feels like the frustration comes because I see the analogy this way:

The roads have been given extra lanes, and the total possible throughout of the road has increased. As a result, car manufacturers have decided that they can use a cheaper manufacturing process which makes slower cars. But when anyone complains, they point to the additional lanes and say ‘but the number of cars that get from point A to point B has increased, even if each trip is slower.’

The end user isn’t getting a choice when software developers make slower code each year. They have to buy more expensive hardware to keep up with the slowdowns of software developers.
Yeah, half a whit of sense will tell you that a doorbell camera is the kind of camera rigged to take a picture at the press of a button, and ceiling fan is entertainment jargon for the equivalent of casinos call whales.

When you put two nouns next to each other, it's not remotely obvious what the relation between the two is unless you just already know.
> Or, who are literal geniuses but don't happen to have MIT, Stanford or UC Berkeley on their resume. Capable of research and invention, but no PhD. People who just were never discovered, mentored and given the opportunity to get on a rocket ship. Raw talent sitting there writing CRUD apps for some dopey company just limping along, who sometimes don't even know how good they are.

I've scouted smaller/less known schools with great CS programs, so it definitely can be done.

I know enough French to be dangerous so they sent me to the Polytechniques (Montreal, Paris, Swiss...) and got a great signal to noise ratio there. But it's a plane ride instead of an Uber...

> Better to just look for things like: grit, coachability/potential, focus, ability to reason about things across many orders of magnitude, ability keep a lot of aspects of a complex system visualized, and generally whether they can understand problems and come up with solutions. None of these involve playing "algorithm gotcha" or solving leetcode puzzles.

A degree from a solid school is a good predictor of that.

Algo questions are used because it's a common vocabulary, everyone who matters just knows this stuff and it's possible to solve a problem in 45 minutes (vs giving a 2hour+ take home assignment). And it's really good at spotting people who, no matter how long you give them, won't be able to write a single line of code.
That's for a literal federal Senator. Even mayors don't make near that in the general case.
Might be a little slower than the estimate they're calculating. I timed myself at nine minutes, but others were faster than me. You should time it, though.

I wouldn't worry about the time so much as the comprehension and retention.
Most math competitions are effectively minor league math competitions
I'm a fan of anything that is rooted in reality and has been battle-tested. If it's theoretical, I don't care about it. Toyota didn't will lean into thin air out of nothing. It was evolved, tested, and refined in the harsh economic realities of post WW2 Japan. Bullshit wasn't capable of surviving that environment, just things that actually worked.

A lot of the Demming types are pure theory, or just garbage in the modern age.
Or more! I hesitate to write what you did because I didn't wanna end up on one of those lists, but you're absolutely right.

I remember often standing in line at Dulles. Backed up to the escalators, you look down and see the security line completely folded on itself(like the game snake), people filling the entire space logjammed by security. There were easily more people there than on any flight I took out of Dulles.
This is a real trend, at least anecdotally in organizations I work with, and it is being driven in large part by the extraordinary cost -- both time and money -- of moving and reorganizing data within and across systems, particularly as the volumes and velocity inexorably increase. Unnecessary data motion is an operational killer.

Working against this trend is that you can't make a database competently "general purpose" that was not explicitly designed to be this way in the first place. There is a lot of friction created by the impedance mismatch between a database kernel and the extensions it was never designed to support. Also, even for relatively general-purpose databases like a modern RDBMS, "general purpose" encompasses a much wider array of features today than were anticipated by anyone when these databases were designed.

I am skeptical that any current database can meet that criteria through evolution. Existing relatively general databases are insufficiently scalable for many data models and the most scalable databases have internals that are heavily overfitted for a single type of data model to the exclusion of ever having good performance for most others. Most of which can be explained by none of them having been designed with the end state we are talking about here in mind.

It should be added that building a database specifically for scalable generality would be extremely expensive. Reductions in generality are a major mechanism for reducing engineering cost in database engines. I'm not sure you could even find the resources to undertake such an endeavor today. Definitely not the kind of thing where a couple people can build an MVP working nights and weekends.
I had one a few weeks ago for the first time in probably a decade. It was so much fun that we're going to try to organize them more frequently.
The World Needs a ‘Chronicles of Amber’ TV Show
I believe it's stra-teck-uh-ree. As in, strategy and tech.

Goes to show you can still launch a successful blog with a name that no one can pronounce or understand.
You cannot tax an asset that does not move. In what intervals would you do this? Your bank account would go to zero.
The event was called Oculus Connect in the previous years, it has always been about AR/VR.
So it has been secretly admitted and the plan is out that they are going to compete directly against Apple's iOS ecosystem with the metaverse and their future hardware? Just as I called here: [0]

Now the hardware story is going to be very interesting. Looks like Meta Inc. knows that the metaverse is going to critical to their hardware, especially Oculus and their potential AR/VR glasses products.

Now are you paying close attention?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029389
D.A.R.E. did a great job of teaching us that any drug user has made a conscious choice toward moral failure. Couple that with knowledge of which groups were most heavily impacted by the drug epidemics of the 1980s and you can see an esoteric goal for D.A.R.E.
You don't use all your assets as a collateral – you loan out, say, 1%, for the needs you have. If the creditor demands a repayment for some reason – and if you're still solvent, it's not like your IOU can't be treated as money in itself – then you can get a loan on some other 1% of your now-appreciated assets, use that to repay the first loan. All without liquidating any assets and accruing any “income”. Then pass the bucket to whoever inherits your assets.
In real life, one could build dashboards to measure and alert on rates of buffer depletion to anticipate and fix bottlenecks before the buffer runs out.

In factorio, setting up some cable, chest readers and an alarm - but Factorio unmodded can't alert on rate of chest depletion IIRC.
I'm still mad at whoever removed screen from redhat.
For a billionaire it's not about the absolute dollar value of their wealth.

It's about the fraction of global wealth that they control.

That's how they benefit from crisis and catastrophe.

Maybe the dollar value of their pile declines, but the percentage of global wealth they control increases, as the poor and less wealthy get hurt proportionately more.
Understanding how political systems operate and how they’re structured is firmly within the capabilities of political science.

Understanding broad political philosophies can help you better understand any individual policy, and political science can help you understand the types of outcomes a policy is _likely_ to achieve or fail to achieve.

But as a science, it’s not robust enough to make especially reliable predictions, and while understanding mainstream or even fringe political philosophies can be valuable, it is beyond the remit of science to tell you what the “correct” expectations are to have of government and society in general. Because that entirely depends on personal values.
> Data dependent events like integer overflow cannot always be avoided, so compilers must have options to generate exceptions when they happen.

This is a language choice. A better language can ensure that "data dependent events like integer overflow" are in fact avoided entirely. C and C++ chose not to do this.

I'm certain you'll disregard evidence from any languages that don't have similar performance characteristics to C or C++, so let's focus on two that do.

In Rust, the arithmetic operations that can result in overflow are supplied in typically four varieties. Checked operations, which produce an Option that is either Some(answer) or None if they would overflow, Overflow operations which produce a pair (answer,overflow?) where the boolean overflow? tells us whether an overflow occurred, Saturating operations, which produce an answer that's either correct or, if it overflows, saturated at the boundary crossed and finally Wrapping operations, which produce the answer with a wrapping number line.

In WUFFS the programmer is responsible for ensuring that their arithmetic operations cannot overflow. If you try to add two arbitrary 16-bit integers together in WUFFS the compiler will complain that it can't see why this is safe as they might overflow. Only once the programmer has excluded this case (e.g. if either integer is larger than 999 or smaller than -999 the function reports this as an error and doesn't add them together) can they add the integers together, since now there can't be an overflow.
Note also that the original FANGs (minus Amazon and Microsoft) are all Silicon Valley companies. Particularly when talking about local Silicon Valley issues (employment or housing or recruitment or whatever), it still sometimes makes sense to speak of them without adding in Microsoft and Amazon.

In purely financial/economic terms I'm still partial to MAGA, because Facebook and Netflix are a tier below in revenue, market cap, and diversity of their product portfolio.
https://github.com/zio/zio-prelude
My Windows Surface Laptop has a Face ID style 3D camera (I log in with my face) and there's no notch.
Vaccine passport is, obviously, a pejorative used for people who hold passports expressly for the purpose of medical tourism.
I’ve been programming to their rain on tent. I don’t get sleepy, but it’s a little jarring when I pull off the headphones, I want back in my tent!
I was wondering the same thing! pv probably never touches its input and might itself be using splice to never read the bytes in users pace and just accumulate the byte counts.

Edit: yes it has a --no-splice parameter.
I disagree with several of the premises of the article.

There are lots of interesting things to learn that are well within the intellectual horsepower of average people, esp if you give people a short primer or refresher on experiment design. For example, there is a guy “Project Farm” on YouTube that does practical experiments to see which hand tool is better. Are his experiments rigorous enough for a scientific journal? Probably not, but he’s transparent about the design and conduct of his experiments and develops useful information in an entertaining way.

Put another way, just as there are precious few people to lead the NBA in scoring or discover the Higgs boson, doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for the rest of us to do our own corresponding modest things.

For every person who patents a process for the economical industrial scale production of graphene there are scores of relatively normal people who invent practical stuff like wrenches and paper clips.

If I have convinced you that this premise is wrong, then the argument against QAnon falls apart, as the argument posits that the only way for normies to get their intellectual itch scratched is to invent conspiracies.

Personally I think the argument is wrong for other reasons: I’ve met some QAnon people and there are way more consumers than producers; it appears that QAnon is not only or even primarily about “solving” the conspiracy.

My opinion is that QAnon is about as serious as anything else that emerged from 4Chan and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was an elaborate hoax with some giggly drunk people writing posts now and then.

The people I know who subscribe to QAnon theories are people who feel powerless but desperately want there to exist a “5th column” who will take down the tyrannical forces of evil that they perceive but don’t know how to effectively fight. They really do believe that the generals are about to March in and arrest Biden for (insert latest crazy legal theory here) and re-install Trump. It’s a form of political fantasy.
So it appears Zuck decided he lost the mobile game and moved on to the next battle which is post-mobile, “the next big thing”, but now he’s taking you to the cleaners with an entire digital economy stack. You’re getting the ads and paying your virtual landlord.
I don't really consider myself a fast reader, but I was able to get the broad strokes in about 1 and half minutes (timed it). Articles like these are 80% filler and the first sentence of two can generally tell you what the rest is about. If you can find the keywords in those first couple sentences, hint, they're typically the long ones, you can get the gist of everything very quickly. It's typically an idea or group of ideas that is interesting, not a specific line or word, and if I find something curious, it's at that time I'll choose to go slow or even stop to think about it.
Netflix, they don't hire the best people, we've got the best people, believe me
It needs to perform some computation, right?

Or is code now any structured data read by a program?
I’ve met him. I know the people who made him. I know the people who went to his wedding.

I vouch for the parent commenter’s statement.
Wouldn't stop me. :D

Come to think of it, I never checked what Manjaro even means.