skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.S. sometimes your first hint of an impending layoff is when you're asked to train your replacement. And sometimes the layoff means the project you were working on is being cancelled. My own most recent experience is that the project wasn't cancelled, but it was pared back to life support.
Do you mean the Facebook metaverse or the general concept?

I can't comment on Facebook. The current discussion surrounding the 'metaverse' often describes something that is more open, almost like the internet. Whether or not this happens in practice remains to be seen. I think the idea is that you may be able to teleport between worlds(servers run by companies or other entities) and carry some amount of your state with you.

I remain cynical. As someone who grew up reading William Gibson and dreaming of 'cyberspace' you'd think I'd be excited but I see this as being just as boring as Second Life and There but with better graphics. The metaverse talk lately reminds me of when CE mfgs decided they needed to push 3DTV on everyone because they were running out of fancy new things to drive TV sales. This is likely just a way to create a new channel for monetizing.
Shellcheck Version 0.8.0 Released
Changelog: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/blob/master/CHANGELOG...
Silicon Valley startup delivers artisan bread in a way that's profitable
>Your carrier can upload and run arbitrary code without your consent or knowledge. They can do this at any time.

Two words: Faraday bag.
Sooner or later? You don't think the past 4-5 years, particularly the Trump presidency, isn't part of that backlash? It's only going to escalate.
There's no big mystery. In the short term this will will all end with higher employee wages, higher fast food prices, reduced customer demand (more home cooking), and closure of some marginally profitable restaurants. In the long term more restaurant jobs will be automated, and more of the food prep work will be moved to high volume regional plants.
They are likely thick and dense on purpose tho - the cartel doesn’t want more competition
I have never understood why there is an expectation to treat everyone equally when people are very unequal, from their birth circumstances, which obviously they can't control, to their behavior as adults, which people do have control over.

People don't treat me like Michael Jordon because, guess what? I cannot do the things he does. It would be rather silly for me to get all in a huff because I don't get the treatment that celebrities get.

Another example: a single teenage girl has a baby when she's 15 and two married computer engineers have a baby. Does anyone really expect that those two kids will have equal opportunities? Is it our society's job to ensure that they do? Should we limit one kid's opportunities if society can't provide them to the other kid too?

It sucks that some kids are born into less advantageous circumstances, but it's the way the world works. Sometimes it's because parents make bad decisions, sometimes social systems are unfair, sometimes it's neither; luck of the draw.

It's funny to me that everyone seems to think diversity is a good thing, yet at the same time want everyone to be the same.
> Let's say you're now hitting fabulous numbers / signups - but suddenly you start hitting that 500.

Sure, you get alerted, confirm it's reasonable, and then change your limits. You're also describing how many APIs actually work.

I'll say there is also a difference between going from 500 requests/day to 1000 requests/day, where you might say "this is probably legitimate and I want to run over", and from 500 requests/day to 25k requests/day.

One is mildly inconvenient, and the other is potentially bankrupting.
Also worth noting is that most of SIM cards are Java cards, running Java applets
Pretty much.

The possibly good news is it shows that Facebook doesn't really know how to avert its own decline.
Surely you are joking that it's only the foreigners who are corrupt in Latin America. I've paid enough mandatory standardized bribes to local police to know that's BS.
Would be recommending following the habits, doing breathing exercises and workouts, work?
By all reasonable metrics, the covid vaccine makes the risk of covid negligible for all interested groups. If you're worried get the vaccine (I have) and carry on.

Sticking your nose in everyone else's business is just unhealthy. If others don't want to get it. That is their decision
Don't worry... They'll still tax you for the privilege of wearing a mask and having administrators make the decision to keep your child home.
No; github isn't decentralized, except in the sense of whatever load balancing they do across their server farm.
I used mbsync like this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Isync#Using_XOAUTH2

On Fedora, I think I had to dnf install "isync" (for mbsync) and "libkgapi" (for the SASL XOAUTH2 plugin) and also pip install "oauth2token".

You'll need to get credentials from Google. I think this describes how:
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2

If you have a plain gmail account (instead of Google Workspace, or whatever it's called now), one irritating thing is that you have to renew the access tokens (using oauth2create) once a week.
> it's accepted that this is best practice

It is absolutely not, and hasn't been for several years (source; I'm on the industry panel for many security standards). Every serious security standard (NIST, DoD, GCHQ, etc) say that choosing a strong password is important, but that periodically changing it brings at best no benefit.

The overwhelming consensus in security is that using strong cryptographic secrets is the only really secure way to authenticate. Buy some kind of the tamper evident secret store and get on with your life.

If you allow people to opt-out of security, they will do so and then scream when there's a breach that they made inevitable. Look at the discussion around HSTS for as many examples of this as you please; users cannot be trusted with their own security, they will at best leverage outdated and badly wrong guidance from years ago. More often, they will choose Summer2021 as a password and 000000 as a pin.
Which steakhouse sells burgers for $7?
Wow, that looks awful.

> You have to actually hold it down, you can't just tap it in neutral. That's actually a nice safety feature.

The car has no physical shifter, but a long press is a safety feature? My eyes rolled back into my head...
16 core machines isn't that uncommon today, but i guess back in 2009, it was way less common.

But i think the trend is clear - more cores is the future as clock speed has slowed down.
Yeah, in my youth all my PCs were built by hand from the components (due to cost reasons more than anything else).

But now I feel that this is not such an easy task anymore as components have to be carefully selected to not introduce a bottleneck somewhere by accident and I feel I just don't have the time for this.
Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

Last week was my first day of work at UC Berkeley. This place is literally straight up 100% totalitarian.

- Vaccination proof required by uploading a scan during the offer letter acceptance process. Vaccination must have taken place within 6 months.
- Citizenship proof required by showing the passport over a webcam (this is OK as employers have to validate citizenship)
- I had to get all 10 fingers fingerprinted at UC Berkeley Police Dept.
- I had to get a COVID-19 test at the RSF Field Center on the first day before going to office. So, my DNA is now collected and secured against passport identity.
- Have to report *daily* what my symptoms are using eTang website.
- Have to get a booster shot after the 6 months deadline passes.
- Daily onslaught of COVID-19 news in the inbox. The tone feels like it is the early days of COVID-19 pandemic when we didn't have a clue and there was a bit of a chaos (March 2020). These emails are there to scare the shit out of you.
- If there is a breakout or even one person has a case, there would be warning emails flying around - the whole thing feels totally dystopian.

It is unbelievable what these people in committees are doing.
The Picts are an often overlooked people. Aside from Senua's Sacrifice, I can't think of a single piece of media dedicated to them.
It raises the question 'who can put shit on my phone?" The answer seems to be a large number of groups/people.
They’re just not assuming that all their workers are fluent in English nor French, which 1.8% of Canadian residents are not (according to the 2016 census).
The Facebook metaverse
I find this kind of BS. The boss at my Japanese company drove to work in the company car and parked in the company parking garage while the rest of us plebs suffer on our 80 minute commute. Yu Suzuki had 5 fancy sports cars while his underlings who worked 120hr weeks to actually create and ship the products he took credit for got paid $30k-$40k a year.

Conversely, while the CEO of my USA employer gets paid crazy money he pays his employees 3x to 6x the equivalent Japanese employee.
Just wait until you hear about drug tests and security clearances
Sense of smell is fascinating. I remember reading that there are dozens (hundreds?) of these distinct receptors and each has a different response curve for a given substance. So you end up with a huge multi dimensional space, which explains why there are so many unique smells.
Adding additional keys should wipe the whole device, require a significant amount of time (a few days tethered in a debug mode), and the boot screen should display the trust root.
I guess I was thinking more in line with SDR or foss hardware and not using Qualcomm at all. I need to do a deep dive, but it looks like there's a couple FOSS 4g LTE and 5g modems around - maybe running a soft phone and personal voip setup would bypass a lot of the security concerns.

It sucks that any time you start to inspect almost any tech, there are assholes trying to exploit every last bit of data and microamp of processing power to screw you in some way.
I'm shocked people are taking "Meta" at face value.

To me it's a way to signal to outsiders that Facebook is still cool and hip. That's it.

Now when recruiting they can play the Meta-not-Facebook angle.

Now if they can pad earnings calls with the amazing success the metaverse is seeing (so what if it's losing us money, that's the future!)

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It's like an inverse Alphabet. Where Alphabet silently serves as an umbrella for moonshots, Meta is a moonshot that's an umbrella for boring old Facebook
Funny that you needed to use microservices as the base analogy for embedded MCUs. It illustrates how large the gaps are between hardware engineering, software engineering, and programming, compared to when I entered the field in the 80's. It was possible for one person to have principal-level knowledge in all three fields. The 90's broke that.
> initiating a phone update while driving also seems pretty improbable

Does it? I'd guess it's about 3 clicks, and certainly less than 10.
I'd argue ITA Matrix serves folks that know airports and aircraft well enough to figure the human factors in their heads (e.g. if you can fly Delta and connect in either AMS or CDG, choose AMS), and just want to find a valid solution set at the lowest price for a query. The lack of split ticketing means you will be protected in the case of a misconnect.

I'd say this is a good case for a declarative language like SQL or Prolog: "just give me X that satisfies Y and Z, I don't care how you get it." Existing search engines either have a painful number of dropdown menus or are free-text only with limited power user features.
There are many developed countries with very large middle classes, such as japan, korea and large parts of europe that didn't go with the car dependent lifestyle and make everything but suburbs literally illegal to build and created policies to boost home ownership, such as the 30-yr government backed mortgages and the mortgage interest tax deduction.

The modern american middle class grew because of the post war economic boom and it being the only industrial economy left standing, along with many other structural advantages, such as a large population, a safe geopolitical region and huge amounts of natural resources. It wasn't because of suburbs, the suburb boom happened because of white flight.

There are countries with higher homeownership rates, such as spain, and it really hasn't done them much good. Home ownership rates do not really matter for how well your economy is doing: https://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-h...
> Bazel (you see .bzl files)

> Prepare to install Java (in [current year]!) as well as the rest of the world. I tend to look for pre-builts binaries or alternative projects at this point.

Lolwut? Is this article like 5 years old or something? Bazel ships as single installer binary for a while now and is available on most linux distros even.
Web 1 had a lot of ideas that failed because they were too early, not because they were inherently bad ideas. Not sure if Metaverse will work exactly like SL did, or if its even the right idea, but it certainly will have a larger audience and lower cost of entry for both users and developers.
No one's in the office Saturday and Sunday.

A Friday shit-can means you have to keep the rage up and avoid letting rationale thought take hold for a few _days_ before the opportunity for a shooting spree at work is available. And chances are you've got a support network that'll be available Fri/Sat night to go have a drink and bitch with.

A Tuesday shit-can means less support network (it's a work night for everyone else) and everyone you want to murder back in the office less than 24 hours later.

I'm not taking a position here, but I can see a definite difference between a Tuesday and a Friday lay-off.
They are poor.
I never got to attend that all-hands meeting. The company scheduled two meetings at the same time - one all-hands, except for about 10 of us who were scheduled for the other one. It didn't take too much imagination to figure out what the second meeting was about. This was about 3 months after our company had been acquired.
The know-nothing idiots have found this thread. Go read up on the sanitation movement. We literally lifted cities up to build sewers. If it was up to these clowns, we'd still throw shit in the street.
Ahh this is so useful that it's at the top of HN.

We've (probably) arrived at one of those "hidden" dominant operating systems out there in the world: JavaCard OS. It's not just (probably) in your cell phone SIM, it's also (probably) in your credit cards. Add all of those devices up, and you realize that, in a weird way, if aliens were to inspect the activity of humans, they'd say, "the humans seem to be using some sort of weird thing they call 'JavaCard OS' to run their society."

If anyone is a JavaCard OS master, shoot me an email - numair@numair.com. I'm having some IC card issues that could use some external input...

In terms of the linked article, I think this part makes it clear what's going on, if we are to take an innocent view on things:

> After the lab work, deposition of an AT&T employee revealed that the only other trigger is a firmware update of the baseband processor. That is also consistent with the SIM requesting the IMEISV, since the “SV” part means “software version”, and it is updated every time the baseband processor loads new firmware. In this particular case, the phone had recently downloaded an update that included new baseband firmware. That was almost certainly the trigger for this message.

If I was a network engineer, I'd probably want a way to figure out whenever someone's putting new equipment on my network. This is a brilliantly sneaky way to do it. There's probably other uses for this, though, and you can imagine that your favorite intelligence agencies have thought about it long before it showed up in a Hacker News article...
Cuy is guinea pig, not rat, but I hear you on the rodent flavor. Worth it once for the experience but I wouldn’t eat it a second time!
> i personally do not want to live in a society in which services that use to be available to readily available are no more cause huge chunks of people aren't working/govt is paying them to do nothing.

what it seems like you're saying here is that creating a permanent class of mindless worker-drones being forced to work two $9-an-hour jobs is ok as long as you can get a burger for $4.
How to set up a network camera (a.k.a. IP camera)
> Many people, especially competitors of Starlink, could try and use that data to do things against SpaceX, what would be bad for all Starlink users.

Oh no, one of the most visible, outspoken libertarians of the day might face some competition...and somehow that competition will hurt starlink users?

This is some strange pearl clutching.

I doubt the API was revealing anything not already known by researchers both academic and commercial. Probably half of it is in some FCC filing somewhere.
The odds of dying go up astronomically if there are no beds or services.
Barrier – Open-source KVM software
Based on my reading, there are no serious known issues with CAST5, with a minor issue being its small block size. [1]

Is there anything else?

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/24045/is-cast5-st...
Surely there is a huge difference between men and women considering men frequently weigh twice as much as women.
price per area isn't am especially useful metric since a smaller node gets more transistors per area for most applications.
>...in a way that guarantees the chain of trust for the hardware components

What is your evidence for, or specific concern about, this? Apple has provided a ton of documentation around their hardware security and operate a bug-bounty program as well as a security research device program. I'm struggling to find any real argument beyond "I just don't trust them" here.
random aside, if you want an easy BBQ there's a BBQ park in Toyosu. You just show up (reservation recommended) and they supply the food and grill and tent.

When went we noticed the reviews for the food were bad but one of the guys in our group is a good cook and everything was delicious so we assumed the reviews were because other didn't know how to cook well and so their stuff came out bad. Or that's our fiction.
Significantly better than the last one I tried, though be sure to crop down to just a face or you'll get a mess.
For the majority, the matrix would be ideal.
I thought the power shortage was caused by the lack of coal, which caused coal prices to rise.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/07/china-energy-crisis-ele...

and

"China's Coal Lie - We Went To China's Largest Coal Mine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMB9_lry-c

They basically drive up to the vast open-pit mine and fly a drone overhead to show it has been cleaned out.
The SMS messages originate from the SIM - the same device that tells the baseband how to connect to the cell network. So it's not possible (ordinarily) to separate proactive SMS from the intended recipient network.

However, if we designed an intentionally broken baseband that connected to two SIMs, and swapped the proactive SMS from one to be sent to the other SIM's network, it still wouldn't do much. The SMSes are sent to invalid phone numbers that only make sense to that carrier's internal routing.
They are ordered from the manufacturer (idemia,thales/gemalto,oberture) with speficied memory size depending on what capabilities are needed.

The big iffy is that manufacturers were compromised (by the US afaik) in 2015 and all cards from then or earlier should be considered compromised.

Few carriers encrypted their OTA-keys before then. I know that some carriers did not send encrypted keys to manufacturers still in 2018.
You have clearly missed Asterix and the Picts!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/21/asterix-picts-...

https://www.asterix.com/en/the-collection/albums/asterix-and...
Out of safe, fast, cheap you can only choose two.
This is the correct answer. Lots of old ideas were in fact horrible ideas, until suddenly they weren't. Cannons were awful, right up till Napoleon proved otherwise.

I think people are so skeptical due to a combination of disliking Facebook and the usual "overestimating the impact of years, underestimating the impact of decades."

Wouldn't it be remarkable if 2021 happened to get the web exactly right? Think of it: in 3021, people will be using Twitter just like they do now, with Chrome and plugins and all the rest.

Projecting forward helps dispel your own preconceptions. And then you conclude "Why not build it now?" -- There's often not much standing in the way, except a whole lot of work (along with a fair bit of luck).

It seems like most of us just don't want Facebook to own the next Twitter. Admittedly, that's a scary proposition.

I suppose my advice would be to become comfortable with that sooner than later. Zuck has never gotten big bets wrong. It's possible this will be the first, but I wouldn't want to take the other side of that bet if my money was on the line.
If anyone wants to try email in Emacs, two very productive options I used, years ago were:

* VM https://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/

* Gnus https://www.gnus.org/

I don't know about the current security of these.

I used both of them with BBDB contacts database (which I found much more useful than anything that JWZ's employer did with addressbooks, then or since): https://www.jwz.org/bbdb/ https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryBbdb
I really don't understand the systemd hate. It's fine. It works. I never had any problems with it, neither on my desktop, nor on the servers I maintain. People I personally know also don't have any problems with it.

> It made people so unhappy there were forks, protests, and even suicides.

...a suicide over a different init system? Seriously?
A novel way to optimize robots
Dude's a next level clout chaser.

Couple months ago he was spouting a community-led future and selling access to a private community building course, now he's all in on NFTs.

I wouldn't trust this guy with a cent of my money.
+1 for a mentor. Everyone who has ever learned an instrument knows the value of a good personal teacher.

Slightly odd personal recent example, a friend who is really good at speedrunning Super Mario 64 taught me for a few hours and I got better at it in an hour than I did in the three days before trying to learn on my own.
> In no sane version of the world should "not adding a db index" lead to getting a 50x bill at the end of the month without knowing.

Computers do what you tell them to do. If you are totally clueless and don't bother to take even a few minutes to try to understand a system you are using, the results are going to be poor. Thinking any system can overcome total user ignorance is the thing here that isn't sane.

What the person in this article did is like opening all your windows and setting the thermostat to 74 degrees. It will use massive amounts of energy and just keep trying to heat the house 24/7. If someone turns around after doing this and claims there is actually a problem with thermostats not being smart enough because what if someone doesn't know leaving the window open lets cold air in, well, they shouldn't be allowed to touch the thermostat anymore.
It used to have better than Tokyo (T_T)

If you want a reference, go watch "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" where the main character, Eddie, says "Who needs a car in LA? We've got the best public transportation system in the world"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o7DHYmk0gw

And it did at the time

https://www.amazon.com/This-Pacific-Electric-Stephanie-Edwar...
I’d say if you are developing on Windows to go with Racket. I’ve been unsuccessful in getting Guile running on Win10, and I don’t feel like compiling from source with minGW. Not saying it’s impossible but when you look at their download page there is no instructions for windows