skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have no problem believing that Israel "sponsors" them, but your justifications are baseless. Ex-intelligence officers are not government officials, they are civilians. And government contracts don't imply "sponsorship" in the usual sense, e.g. a landscaping company would not be said to be "state-sponsored" just because they are contracted to work around a government property.

I am no longer sure what we're arguing about. Is it the meaning of the word "sponsor"? That's not my word choice, that was just what the OP used and I mirrored it.

I think the bigger point is that states (no matter WHICH state) are funding private companies to surveil citizens in a way that genuinely threatens what few civil rights they have left.

Secondarily, are we arguing about the degree of connection between NSO, the company, and the State of Israel? If so, I used "sponsorship" in the revolving door sense, as in intimate relationships between the staff and government officials, not entirely unlike the US and Blackwater/Xe/Academi or Halliburton or Diebold/Premier. The discomfort there is not just in the amount of dollars exchanged, but in the offloading of legal and criminal responsibility to what is essentially a front company used to do the dirty work of the state. Outsourced oppression.

> GPS devices of almost any kind are subject to ITAR/EAR in the USA. It is extremely easy to run afoul of weapons export controls and there is quite a large market for ITAR-free products. It means extraordinarily little if a product is subject to these type of controls.

OK, without looking this up, I'll take your word for it and I stand corrected. Sorry for the mistake about GPS. But that's really a technicality. Surveillance tech of this sort IS a weapon, capable of suppressing not just external enemies but internal citizens, especially if it falls into the hands of nations participating in "Five Eyes"-style surveillance exchanges of each other's citizens. And this in particular is a lot more dangerous than a GPS receiver. And unlike GPS, it has no real "benevolent" civilian purpose. Its primary (only?) customers are oppressive states.

Sorry if this wasn't clear -- I thought it was implied -- but the worry behind the state-private connection here is that this company is getting the kind of resources (and thus effectiveness) that only states can provide, thus making it a dangerous tool. Another implied fear is that the NSO group can also get special extrajudicial treatment because of their usefulness and close connections to the Israeli state, and thus risk breaking checks and balances in a way that a landscaping company would simply not.

I feel like we're running circles around semantics here. Am I fundamentally misunderstanding your argument?
If people in CA and NY don't want to keep being upset that they lost another presidential election then they need to consider moving to a less comfortable state and voting.

Liberals concentrate in a few enclaves and then get upset when the rules they have to play by don't give them what they want. The US is arranged to empower the flyover states and complaining about it won't change it.
Back ages ago, I had one of the CD-ROMs with full audio controls and analog out, and used it along with a bare AT PSU and one of those drive-bay equalizers as a desktop CD player, no proper computer involved anywhere.
No. In a currency with a lot of transactions there are plenty of real world hooks to hang their value on.

The volatility of Bitcoin, the fact it can hardly be used, the fact that almost no merchants accept it....
You can get pretty close without expensive calibration gear, using consumer gear that has a reasonable factory sRGB calibration.

https://blog.kaetemi.be/2021/02/01/calibrating-an-inkjet-pri...
sounds like 90% of the political takes i see on twitter and cable news
The parent said it was one marker for the health of the system. Not the sole marker. But I think you know that.
On the Proper Use of the Moon
How does this comment relate to the article? What answer, and what was the question being asked?

Australian government has tree planting programs as part of its climate policy, doesn't it?
I don't understand how it could be at all controversial that different vehicles require different regulations. 18 wheelers are not allowed to go everywhere cars can go and cars should not be allowed to go everywhere cyclists and pedestrians can go. Cars are an order of magnitude heavier and faster than a bicycle and significantly restrict the visibility of their operator - they are far more dangerous and the law should reflect that.
This isn’t sticky legally or morally. By law and by cultural acceptance we in the west have decided it’s cool in public places and have no expectation of privacy.
Don’t give up because of the comments here or because of your experiences. There are still companies out there that believe in hiring juniors and believe in the merits of face to face work - they are harder to find these days, but I think it’s a competitive advantage. If you’re in Chicago, London, or Brisbane, reach out.
iMessage does not have a mechanism to verify the devices associated with the destination account is actually theirs. It is feasible to assume an attacker/Apple/NSA could register an additional device key associated with your iMessage ID and snoop all future messages sent to that user from that moment on, even if they are not able to decrypt past messages. (This is true even if you assume iMessage client binary does what Apple says it does and is not tampered with/backdoored).
Privacy, in a legal sense, only exists within a very narrow domain. Whenever you are in public, whether you are there to be seen or not, you are seen and therefore have no right to privacy in that domain.
It's really unfortunate that JS won out in the web wars, another instance of the lowest common denominator winning out against technically superior options. If Microsoft hadn't been so evil, .NET is really a much better framework... but it didn't get enough traction.

By contrast, PHP has actually evolved quite gracefully over the last decade, incorporating more and more desired features into the baseline language. Sadly it has no browser clientside option.

Javascript is a victim of its own rapid success :(
This is nice for backup programs like HashBackup (I'm the author). For block-based incremental backups, this new free egress allowance lets backup tools do maintenance on the backup (packing vacant space out of older backup files) without egress charges.
Your memories carry little to no weight if they conflict with some more tangible record in a dispute. When that changes, there will no doubt be other ramifications, like neural disrupters or jamming technologies.
There absolutely WILL be a career penalty for it in his case. It just won't rear it's head until 2024.
it increases the value of my life and many others. Stay home pretty please, I am sure you will be very successful by switching jobs every few months!
This is honestly such a cool idea. Basically like a developers version of linktree! Are you planning on adding badges?
Considering spectrum costs a completely insane $1000/TB from the company who's supposedly so progressive about data transfer fees, this is unusable anyway.
Absolutely. It was mostly a tangent I wanted to write out.

On "other duties," I think a lot of people have that mindset in a partner: mechanically do these things that benefit my emotional state, while I mechanically do my things that benefit their emotional state, and repeat until death.

With the common form of payment being money and material goods, for material services. Transactional.

A disheartening state of affairs, but more common than not.
I have an old over-ears and need to replace it. What headphones do you recommend (interested as you said you worked at a radio station)?
>If someone does that, x500 initiates a new outbound call to my actual number, preserving the calling party's caller ID.

Which provider allows this? Won't stir/shaken authentication requirements break it in a few years?
If you’re a teenager who is having an emotional, strongly negative response to seeing fictional acts of sexual behavior in a comic because you can’t have actual sex, that is a perfect opportunity for you to reach out to adults in your life so you can have a clearly sorted talk about how to have a healthy relationship with sex and intimacy.
It makes total sense. To live any kind of livable life you need to go into the public space now and then. That shouldn't mean you have to give up any rights or freedoms.
Nah.

The obvious endgame there is that you reduce the amount of land required per person and then increase the persons, ending up with the same land requirement.

Then we look for the next thing to cut.

I'll just keep my current quality of life and outcompete others for resources, thanks. Carbon tax pls.
>Cause they never, ever even believed in global heating.

Sure some of them do. They're just not willing to lift a finger to do anything about it.
From the article,

> The people who get the most worked up over the ethics of certain images are NOT themselves the subjects of the photo.

This is outrage culture.

People want to be angry. Here's something more for them to dogpile onto. Delivered by the Internet and amplified by engagement and sentiment detection algorithms.

We're fucking animals screaming about events we never witness, experiences we never feel, and people we never meet. We need to be angry to satisfy all of the issues and perceived lack of power in our own lives.
Protection on top of decoration is an excellent way to kill two birds with one stone.
It sounds like that contract is a liability. Not a lawyer, but I don't think that liabilities are inherited the same way. Most likely if you wanted to do this, you would structure it as a rental agreement and get the rock back.
Yes and Michael, one of the co-founders, already mentioned doing this in his introductory live stream this week. I did mean can be, and certainly this is why they went this route, but no it isn't a guarantee. But even as simply a "javascript framework", selling licenses and being closed source was a good way to bootstrap, but open source and taking money that someone wants to give you is probably the only way to be viable longer term and get traction and commitment from users.
We began algebra in 5th grade in India. In much humbler circumstances.

Luckily, our teachers made it clear that math was about effort, not skills, talents, or parents.

We were all expected to practice a lot of math, including algebra, until we figured it out.

And it worked - the ‘gifted’ students needed less practice, everyone else needed more practice. But by 6th grade, everybody passed algebra and figured out the basics. By 9th grade, when we were doing pre-Calc, it was unthinkable that someone in our class couldn’t do algebra.

Applying ‘Social Justice’ to math is simply the continued dumbing down of California. To what end, I can’t figure out.
Is there a story behind the consistent use of five digit years?
Speed and convenience is part of service. Speed and convenience are greatly elevated when you don't have to stand on the side of a stroad for 45 mins to catch a bus that's constantly going to get stuck in traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News
Not necessarily. Let's review our options: regulate companies to account for every disaster scenario, let the government plan and provide assistance during disaster scenarios, or do nothing and let people suffer and let companies go bankrupt. Passing costs to the taxpayers isn't the worst option.
Before life got in the way, I wanted a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Resource Management as a foundation for a Master's in Urban Planning. I currently run r/UrbanForestry for the same reason:

I don't think it makes sense to see human settlements as separate from nature. I think of nature as the fabric within which such configurations occur.

It isn't inevitable that human development must be a concrete jungle. You can include plants, permeable surfaces, etc in your plans so people can live more lightly and less intrusively on the land.

I also think America has a lot of room for adding back walkable mixed-use neighborhoods where at least some people can live, work and shop in the same neighborhood. Or at least live and shop if they are retirees, teens, or similar groups who aren't seeking a job or who already work at home or from home in some capacity.

Studies suggest this leads to greater wealth in such neighborhoods (such as more sales) and we know vehicle traffic is a significant burden wrt human-caused climate change. Making it possible to skip the long commute makes for a better quality of life and less pollution adding to this issue.

We currently frame this issue as a painful choice between short-term gratification and current high quality of life with a long-term cost of global disaster versus short-term sacrifice for slim hope of assuaging our guilt with no guarantee of real improvement in the future. I don't think that's necessary.

I've lived without a car in the US for more than a decade. I think you can live that way and live well. I think we can design and build a world that provides a high quality of life for people and doesn't destroy the environment in the process.
It’s more a legal thing. Companies have to follow the local labor laws and pay taxes to the appropriate states.
> What company did you move to?

After working for Dell and some small start-ups for a while, I now help the federal government in various ways. I started working remotely full time in 2017 and live in the Hill Country. This is me.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-phillips-2505a0187/

> As I've also primarily worked on in-house software only, I'm finding myself less and less competitive... Did you find a solution?

Yes, I had to solve this myself. Study, study, do side projects and then study some more. You have to become an expert in something on your own time. Whether that's full-stack software engineering, DevOps/SRE or whatever, spend six to twelve months studying and creating side projects. Create an AWS account for the free tier and get after it. When you apply, make sure to demo and speak to your side projects. In 2015-2016, I learned React, Angular, Nodejs, studied Kyle Simpson's "You Don't Know JS" series, Docker, AWS, and Python. That, combined with my enterprise full-stack development experience, was good enough back then.

I think it's easy for the grass to look greener somewhere else from where you're sitting, but I can tell you Samsung took really good care of me and was actually better run than most companies for whom I worked afterwards. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
> it can't avoid generating a metric shit ton of garbage.

IMHO this is an often-overlooked aspect of Java and I get flak for pointing out that Java programs are often full of defensive copying because the Java style encourages it. The JDK is very trashy and highly biased against reusing objects or doing anything in-place without creating garbage. You can't, for example, parse an integer out of the middle of a string.

15 years ago when I wrote a lot more Java, I could get away with avoiding JDK libraries to write tight and small Java code (yeah, omg, mutable non-private fields). That was how I got my AVR microcontroller emulator to beat its C competitors. Nowadays if you write that kind of code you get a beatdown.

JVMs work really hard to deal with trashy Java code. Generics make everything worse, too; more hidden casts and adapter methods, etc.
What's an example of a language that you like?
IMO - As a child or teenager you try out different personalities, ideas, etc, then look back, say "what was I thinking", and learn a bit about how your own mind works. Better then, when consequences are small for you and everyone else, than to delay it until adulthood.
Most of these things in TS are due to historical artifacts too. Namely code patterns that would not work well without them.
I just wish I could find a 100% normal in person job. Like I had in Feb 2020.

I don't want to work from home.

I don't want to interact with others through a screen. Zoom calls are like torture to me.

I don't want to spend all of my time in the same place.

I want to go to work on the Tube, have lunch and go to the pub with my colleagues, and then go home.

I think video work is another thing we'll just regret in 10 years time, like how social media and the Internet fucked up communities. A sugar high for some, and then a crash.
Bob didn't pay $500,000 for a house because he was trying to speculate in the housing market. He did it because he needed somewhere to live and that's how much houses cost when interest rates are held at 0% by the government. What is it that we were trying to get all the Bobs to do in the alternative?
I would be wary of the 95% figure. Another user on HN (who currently works at FAANG) pointed out that he took the test used in that survey and failed. The interface for the coding test was not reflective of how actual software development is done (ie no syntax highlighting, memorization, etc). Even accounting for the diploma mills and the private universities with underresourced CS departments, the 95% figure seems unusually high.
Yes this is what they discussed in their live stream this week. The blueprint is clear, execution is no guarantee, but seems like a no-brainer if they want to work on this full time and really want it to be a widely used javascript framework, and if someone is going to give them money to try. Personally I think it brings a lot to the table and I loved the programming model (SSR, loading data on server, common platform primitives etc) compared to Next.js prioritizing SSG. I think they have a good team and a good shot at gaining market share.
I am my own provider: incoming DIDs reside with a wholesale SIP trunking service. Outgoing SIP with the same provider, usually, though I have multiple possible routes. The asterisk system, I run myself. My outgoing caller ID (and my carrier's links to its upstreams such as bandwidth.com) are SHAKEN/STIR compliant.
I don't believe the article is denying the schools' right and responsibilities in protecting children from harm. It is just assuming as much as commonly accepted.

Then, it does the same with regards to the "harmfulness" of these books. Or, more specifically, it names some books (Beloved etc) as well as concepts (health education) in a way that assumes its audience will tend to agree that these aren't harmful to children.

That it doesn't necessarily extend that belief to all books is clear from the distinction it makes when it separates some books from others that have been "caught up in this net [such as] books about health education, teen pregnancy, civics, philosophy, religion,..."
Please don’t hire people for business roles where part of their responsibilities are to you individually.
What's the source/repo for plugins? That is how does it go from "install foo" to an actual exact thing to install?
I had one and it was horrible. It was a fancier version of /dev/null.

I had a bad disk once and whatever happened affected the drive head. This of course meant that every other disk I had was then similarly corrupted. I know people that used many Zip drives and were quite happy with them, but I never trusted Iomega again after that.
Maybe not exactly the same, but there is a lot of connection between them.
The only one provoking people here is you. I made an on-topic comment, and you decided to develop it into a personal attack. Luckily for the both of us, I really don't care what you think of me, so you can spin your wheels complaining about my rhetoric for as long as you like. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. Have fun editing your comments and recontextualizing as you please, but I'm done here.
There's a trend in modern SEO to essentially manufacturer things like jetpen's blogs. Amazon is actually already doing this by giving "Editorial recommendations". Other sites have ideas pages. I'd wonder if Amazon is paying Wirecutter for those to appear on the site. Google gives higher priority to information that could be helpful, so now you'll see things like that or larger explanations of what the category is as text on the page. Wirecutter could literally just be thought of an SEO expense.

The aggressive thing Amazon does for SEO is that affiliate program. It's robust and it makes it harder for smaller stores to compete unless they're super specialized. I work for a very large online retailer that doesn't have one, and despite being a more niche retailer we're still being killed by Amazon in the categories we specialize in.
Hmm. These spoilers are ten CYA get-out-of-jail-free-cards for the predictions in the main article.

They aren't predictions per-se.
Hoping for the FED raise interest rates and the zoning law prohibition to take its effect in CA, house supply to increase and tank the market.
> And the Windmills, which power about 22% of the Texas grid, went almost entirely offline.

Which was also a problem of not winterizing.

The picture of the entire event is that the government of Texas flagrantly ignored what it was told was the problem from the previous blackout, and then naturally the exact same problem caused the next one.
Hacker News takes itself too seriously, and is pathologically afraid of "turning into Reddit," whereas Reddit knows what it is and accepts it, warts and all.
Moreover forests are carbon neutral - that's why it's called a carbon CYCLE.

New trees only sequester within the new biomass.

The real solution is not to emit CO2 from mined fossil fuels.

I do wonder how much more lush land will become with higher CO2 levels.
So I implemented this change and tested it out. Turns out, in my simple test suite, this actually changes the size of images. Not drastically. Often just a 5-10 kb difference (on a 500-600kb file), but that's still more than I expected for changing r-15 to r-7.
I think it’ll be hard to trace any gains or losses in 2024 back to that decision when 500 other far more consequential things will happen (some good, some bad) between now and then.
WTF? I would absolutely NOT be OK with blatant, unambiguous theft from my PA.
> All the sensible textbook titles were already taken. Actual joy not guaranteed.

Like a lot of people (I imagine) I made it through a CS bachelors program not really ‘getting’ the discrete math combinatorics part. Crypto is an area where those concepts really really matter. It’s great to see this resource available!
After all the crap the Catholic church has pulled, I really don't understand why members continue to fund such a corrupt organization.

As a US citizen, I have to pay taxes and fund the government, unless I want to move to another country. But donations to a church are voluntary. It's not like there are a few bad eggs in the church; the whole organization is corrupt.
This is really interesting. I wish if I can hire someone to clean my house and do grocery shopping for me. If you don't mind me asking, how many hours/per week she works for you?
I believe it's fair to say both that the project is difficult and that this particular effort appears to have delivered a lower-quality product at higher costs and timelines than most of its peers.

What are the peers of the F-35?