skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories talking about how Elon Musk is making fun of whistleblowers by selling a whistle. Including details and/or links to the actual whistleblowers stories.

That's not exactly burying anything, more like promoting.

Burying would be if you were to search for "tesla whistleblowers" on Google and Google just giving you links to the whistle product, not allowing you to find the information you are looking for.

But that's not how Google, or any other major search engine, works, or has worked for a very long time.

So saying that's why Tesla/Elon are doing it, is quite simply false.
Hang on, this exact situation is like if I make a cake, and as people walk by and see it, they want a slice too. So I say "sure have a slice, its free cake, I made it for myself but it's also free for you".

The person who decides that their steakhouse is going to make my free cake the centerpoint of their dessert cart and then expresses dismay that I like cream cheese icing on my free cake can fuck right off and bake their own cake.

In this case the author is saying that they don't do easter eggs because it would cause an erosion of trust, and that's fine, that's their prerogative and I get it. HOWEVER, let us not be fooled that there isn't an outrage contingent waiting to pounce every time someone dares to make free software the way it is most useful/accurate/fulfilling for themselves. This causes a chilling effect for a portion of us who write free software.
> True. In medieval Europe charcoal burner was typically a very specialized profession.

This thread reminds me of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a computer RPG which has done in incredible job recreating aspects of life in medieval Bohemia. It has a fantastic level of historical accuracy and things like charcoal trading as a dependency to a forge are integral to one of the DLCs of the game.
> But what I never see is any of those Googlers taking the time to explain why they feel these seemingly-broken approaches are the only ways to solve the problem of moderation at scale.

They are not broken approaches. They are optimizing for net income. Higher net income for the company means higher compensation for individuals at the company, since they are being paid with equity. Spending more money on labor means less net income for the company means lower compensation for individuals.
SF Mono (https://developer.apple.com/fonts/)
The NYT article is behind a paywall, but does the landowner gets something too?
Interesting, I admit I was completely wrong on the AirPods at least. Personally, I had never heard about them after the original announcement discussions, and rarely see anyone with them on the streets. This is probably because I live in a poorer country (Romania, one of the poorest in the EU) and I am not very connected to the Apple ecosystem in general.

This was a massive blind-spot for me, I honestly had no idea that AirPods had become a huge phenomenon like this...
I have no idea how SEO works, but over half my first-page google results are about this actual whistle.
I don't have to wait 30min in what ironically feels like a police station to buy weed.
> If you can't formulate actionable requirements, you're either not the domain expert, or not communicating properly with the domain expert.

I want to highlight this, because it's almost universally true on any given project that there are no complete experts. But I'll be looking at domain not as a business domain, but actually considering if you can find a domain expert in the technology stack a project is planned in.

When requirements are written up, there is never a domain expert on all the technologies to be used that is so experienced in the technology that they will not get things wrong. Software development is so intertwined and so fast-paced that we are at the mercy of tech stack we use too.

Imagine you are well-versed in Postgres, but your new project requires you to use Postgres FTS extension. Without learning the ins-and-outs of Postgres FTS extension, you'll make grave estimation and "planning" mistakes. And then you are supposed to deploy on RDS instead, where there is another set of considerations. And this being a new project, you are asked to use asyncio psycopg for the first time, so there will be more gotchas as well.

Basically, the number of "tools" we shift between is so vast that nobody can be an expert in them. The rate of change is huge as well. Just count all the Kubernetes tools today, and imagine having to use any one of a dozen of mini-k8s set-ups for local development. Just exploring the tech stack is a full time job for a dozen people, and you wouldn't be getting anything done. While others in the market would.

So, if you are in a world where you've got your tech stack pre-set, you've got plenty of experience with it, and you are a domain expert on the business problem you are looking to solve, sure: waterfall-like approach will not put you at a disadvantage. But introduce any one of the newer components (cloud scale-out), and an approach to gain expertise first will have you run-down by the competition.
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If you like python you might check out jello[0]. I basically wrote it to give you the power and simplicity of python without the boiler plate in a jq-like form-factor. Jello also allows you to use dot-notation instead of dict bracket notation, so it does make things easier on the command line.

Also, there is jellex[1], which is a TUI wrapper around jello that can help you build your queries.

[0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello
[1] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jellex
You're lucky you got some attention. I had google kill my adsense account, which I've had for 10 years+, because I logged in to another google business account of mine with the same phone number I used on my adsense account. They declared that I tried to create duplicate accounts. Account killed. Appeal? Yeah right, that was denied too. No possibility of talking to a human being to explain the simplicity of the issue. A major source of income dead because of an algorithm.

If there are any googlers on here who could grant a little mercy and guide me on how to try and talk to someone to resolve this, I'd be eternally grateful.
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Impossible to ignore that the parent is the same. If the root of a poisonous plant grows a few non-poisonous fruit, I'd still be staying away from the whole plant as a matter of course.
Brave team member here. This was not a server issue but was a daylight savings time bug.
<chuckles nervously as a software developer>
SwiftUI is really nice but I've found performance to be questionable (they seem to be improving it over time) and there are some things that are impossible to do in it that are absolute must haves for some application types. For example, there is no way to change the tab order of which text entries get focus.
"C is still loved"

Citation needed.
Great that the process also sometimes works. I also tried that form before posting here and it just lead to an email notifying me of the rejection of my appeal within 10 minutes.
That's very common, you use weaker glasses for near work then, so around -6 or -6.5 depending on your distance from your screen.

You can find more information on that on the endmyopia page or wiki by looking for "differential glasses"
I have that surname but not for the reason that a blacksmith was in my family. My great grandparents took the name Smith at Ellis Island to Americanize themselves. I suspect this backstory is probably quite common in the US, especially amongst Irish and Italian immigrants in the late 18 to early 1900's.
Question is what you gain by knowing the version. Better just fire your arsenal of attacks than waste time trying to figure this out as many sites will hide these things anyways.
> 1000x

Impressive estimate!

My 25cm wide cast iron of mine just absorbed 0.185g of sunflower oil.

Apparently that's a layer 4 microns thick, or 1500x less than what the quarter inch I put in the pan:

$ units '(1inch/4) / ((0.185g / (921kg/m^3)) / (pi*(25cm/2)^2))'
Definition: 1551.7849
Google correlates all of the accounts that you log in to from the same devices. If you have YouTube on iOS logged in to one account and Drive on iOS logged in to a different one, Google is aware that those accounts are used by the same person.

TOS-violation suspensions are likely to involve all of your accounts at once.

The simple solution is to stop doing business with Google.

They'll also hand all of your shit over to the CIA without a warrant even if you aren't doing anything wrong, so there's that, too.
This is never, ever, ever going to happen, and the reason is enterprise compliance. Every year, technical auditors will approve security policies that require Windows in all kinds of scenarios and definitively rule out use of Linux for any purpose.

Also, one of the promises of Windows is that they won't break backwards compatibility under any circumstance regardless of how buggy the behaviour (except number of bits, RIP 16-bit). Unmodified Windows 95 binaries will still run today as long as the appropriate DLLs are there.
Sure, I can't say why they are doing it, but it has taken up 3 slots in probably the most common query.

A reputation management company would be really happy with that result. They wouldn't expect one theme to fix it all.
`It's the first guy to publicly say "the emperor is naked"'

That MySQL has a poor optimizer has been known for as long as MySQL has been a product. The product is legendary for its inability to do even basic RDBMS needs competently, and the rise of NoSQL was largely people assuming MySQL limitations were general RDBMS problems (for instance its painful incompetence doing basic RDBMS tasks like joins).

Having said that, a couple of decades in this industry has me reading this post and immediately sensing oozing bitterness. That maybe he got passed over for a promotion he felt he earned, etc.

When someone does the "it's all crap" exit, it's seldom from a good place. Who could seriously have applied to and joined the MySQL team without knowing that it isn't exactly the pinnacle of database systems?

Having said all of that, it's interesting seeing pgsql being held as the panacea. I like pgsql, and prefer it among open source database systems, but in many ways it is a decade+ behind MSSQL and Oracle.
Ask HN: Is XProtect enough to keep my Mac secure?
I don't click on email links I think are suspicious, I run an adblocker to avoid malicious JavaScript, and I don't install obscure libraries.

Sounds like hn really doesn't like antivirus software. So is there anything else I should be doing?
By officially supporting wine?
Plenty of SPACs announce a merger and the stock price goes up. You don’t see much/any redemption in a case like that—why redeem a share for $10 when I can just sell it for $30?
Are you paid to do Tesla PR or are you just part of the personality cult?
It depends what you’re hosting. As a basic example, Wikipedia might be a non-sensitive website to most people, but if you’re a teen with questions about your sexual identity, living with homophobic parents, then HTTPS will ensure that they just see wikipedia.org at the router level. The same when I worked at GOV.UK: we were just as likely to offer information on paying your council tax as services for spouses suffering domestic abuse.
That's right. We are not talking about forced labor. Choosing to risk your life to better the lives of your family members and society is part of being part of a community.
> Unfortunately Facebook had to ruin the party with their garbage-ass take on web components.

Lol I think I like you
I checked it out, it's very neat. I'll definitely use it in the future.
I've worked on this problem for some time on a personal project, and I'm pretty convinced you can basically solve this problem without deep learning or AI techniques, and instead use non-negative matrix factorization[0] as a bank of note templates (from their spectrograms). I have a fairly well working proof of concept and the approach is supported by the literature.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorizat...

_edit_

That said, you'd probably need something more hard-core for extraction from an actual track, so you're probably right.
Rents go up regardless of inflation. I've been renting for decades.
This is what drives me nuts. So many web apps have perennially obsolete documentatio
IMO, the single biggest problem is that even five-figure reference instruments disagree considerably in the 0-20 ug/m3 range, and if you look at the figures of the SCAQMD tests, you won't see much more than noise in the scatter plots in that range, with increasing consistency at larger concentrations. Some of this is due to mismatches in response times and synchronization, but a lot of it is due to different disturbances, noise processes, and varying sensitivities to different particle size distributions in different sensor types.

With inexpensive optical scattering sensors, the situation is even worse. While it is easy enough enough to "count" individual 2.5um particles, the scattering equations work out to an order of 10^6 reduction in scattering amplitude, per particle, going down to 0.3um (when measured with red or infra-red light), and different particle compositions will scatter differently. On top of that, the number of particles increases significantly per unit mass concentration, making the signal processing a lot harder once one can't just threshold individual "blips" in the signal.

Whether the sensors are particle counting or nephelometric in principle, the basic trade-off is that to see smaller particles, they need higher amplification factors, which in turn increases thermal noise, also amplifies stray light, and makes the device more sensitive to EM interference. Many signal processing pipelines do simplistic noise filtering, throwing out much of the baby with the bathwater.

On top of these principal difficulties, the optical scattering type sensors are quite sensitive to temperature variation, and aging of the photoelectronic components, which is why field tests under varied conditions often depress their accuracy even further.

Long story short, it is very easy to build a sensor with qualitatively good correlations to actual PM concentration, as long as the PM concentration is sufficiently high, but the health effects have no threshold, and every added bit of pollution counts, starting at zero. Unfortunately, commodity PM sensors are quite bad at quantifying these low, yet meaningful, ambient pollutant levels, which is probably why IKEA chose their traffic light thresholds the way the did: not because of how it relates to health, but because this is what they could do with a $12 device.
Motives are irrelevant. It’s the application that matters.

To use the example here. What if a plumber is wealthy enough to retire but continues to work because they enjoy it. And what if they then offer a job for free, eg for a community centre or church. Are they then allowed to put an Easter egg in where the pipes explode on Christmas Day?
SQLite is such an amazing piece of software. Public domain, amazing testing, as well as being so lightweight and efficient. It's a breath of fresh air in a bloated software world.
Desperation for Rust, Solidity as crypto coding languages rise
Agreed, though most people just call/pronounce it "post gress". Wish it had a better name though.
Yes and all the things. But Nick was the guy responsible for all these things.

You really cannot have good security if the goal of your “cloud lead” is to ransomware you.

So yes - they did not have good security so they hired him to fix it :)
Sure, inflation isn't solely driven by wage increases. And wage increases aren't solely driven by minimum wage legislation.

But a bump in minimum wage which results in higher wages for everyone and a devaluation of the currency is inflation. I don't think that's any more simplistic than your premise of all the "tiers" of jobs getting a raise. What you described is inflation.
> How do you teach the value of reliable constancy to people enamoured with relentless change and tools for tools' sake?

Can you start a business and hire people to think like you?
Litestream author here. I haven't used Verneuil but I read through some of their design docs. I'd say there are two places where the tools are different in significant ways to the end user:

1. Litestream uses WAL mode & Verneuil uses the rollback journal. WAL mode enables a lot of concurrency benefits for applications and is probably what you want to use if you need concurrent access (e.g. a web app). Backtrace states that rollback journal is better for large writes (although I haven't verified that). SQLite provides some pros & cons on their site: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

2. Litestream runs as a separate process whereas Verneuil runs as a virtual file system (VFS) which needs to be compiled into your application. If you have access to the code then adding a VFS isn't usually too bad. However, Litestream will work with legacy applications as the application doesn't need any special knowledge of Litestream.

Finally, "Litestream" is easier to spell and pronouce than Verneuil.
Just read the changelog!

(To be fair the iOS changelog is reasonable, full of bullshit marketing signs like Random Capital Letters for Normal midsentence Words, but does actually give an idea of what's changing.

Compare to the typical app message

"We've fixed some bugs"

"Bug fixes, performance improvements and more cat videos"

Or worse, the ones that are adverts

"Just like our pizzas, we're always trying to make our app as tasty as possible"
That might be its stated goal, i still haven’t seen a single shop that actually implements that. First thing that happens when implementing agile are estimations, and the justification for that is for “predictability”.
Honest question, do you actually get as many ads on YouTube as on TV ?
With the former, I am used to 2 10-seconds to 1-minutes ads every 10-15 minutes and that are usually skippable (~16% in the worst case).
On TV, at least in France, there are at least as many ads, but they can't be skipped.
To add to that: About half the Norwegian workforce is unionised (which is the lowest of the Nordic countries, but higher than all other non-Nordic countries in the OECD than Belgium), and something like 3/4 of all workers are covered by sectoral agreements (tariffavtaler), which is why there's not much demand for minimum wage laws.
> for example you said in every city airpods are everywhere

I didn’t say that because I concretely do not believe it. They’re an expensive device and still remarkably popular. 5x the revenue of Ferrari and Lamborghini combined.
Yeah Linux now has io_uring to compete with iocp.
Have you checked these?

- https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

- https://github.com/antonmedv/gofx
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There is also the concept of ownership, that you are really in total ownership of any situation.

I think the 5 why's should arrive to what part in your circle of ownership does the issue lie.
To all Android users: there is an Open Source app to detect AirTags.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t... F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection... Source code: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

(Courtesy SylvieLorxu)
I remember a similar thing as Boris Johnson was about to become prime minister [1]

> As Boris Johnson described his hobby of making model buses out of wine crates and painting happy passengers at the windows, it looked like an off-the-cuff revelation.

> Google searches for “Boris Johnson Bus” led to negative stories about Mr Johnson’s EU referendum stunt in which he travelled on a coach emblazoned with the claim that Britain sent £350 million a week to the EU. This claim led to a failed attempt to prosecute Mr Johnson.

> After the radio interview these reports were pushed out of the search results.

Of course it could just be that Boris really likes to make boxes, just like Tesla really likes to make whistles.

[1]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-not-fare-doubters-sa...

Also discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122806
I think that the patent threat will crumble with more and more complex features being implemented on the Open Source cores, like BOOM and so on. I don't think that ideas that are taught commonly at university and are all over GitHub will be able to stay "owned".

The question than will be how close we can come to the proprietary systems and which use-cases are low-key enough that their cutting edge new innovations don't make a difference.

I think the microcontroller space will be wholly owned by RISC-V in the long run. For cheap, commoditized stuff, open is better than closed for everyone. For the high performance stuff, the manufacturer still needs to protect their investment, especially because the will need to invest more and more for ever smaller gains.

Do you think that makes sense or am I phantasizing? :D
Correct me if I am wrong but Brave doesn't block ads in Google search results [1]. Wouldn't that be part of an ads whitelist?

[1] https://i.ibb.co/nPfpdP7/image.png
> That being said, algos could have hit the large spoof bid

I would guess that they sent a bunch of orders and them immediately cancelled them. If that's what they did, then by the time other market participants see those orders (remember network latency), the orders will already have been cancelled, in which case it would be literally impossible to trade against those orders after having seen them in the market data.
Seems like every time I launch it, my virtual backgrounds are gone. I thought maybe I wasn't logged into teams, but no, I am. Now my only option is blur, if I can even find where they hid that!
My point is that the legalization of the weed business was a deliberate choice to shift revenue streams away from black people and toward white people.
It’ll be in the manufacturing space building on an app I wrote for my own factory a few years ago
I have worked with MySQL and every database has its ups and downs.
Hey, all it requires is the rest of the world to be ravaged by war. Might still happen again.
A nice harmless easter egg I see a lot is naming variables in test suites after characters.
Have you ever actually been a teacher?

Unless you're one of those that scrapes by doing the bare minimum, teachers frequently work about 60-80 hours per week during the school year, and 20-40 during the summer to prepare.

There are lessons to plan, classwork/homework/papers/tests to grade, extracurriculars to coach/lead, students needing extra help to work with...
IMO Microsoft has the money to hire very competent people, they could architect an OS from the ground up designed for the present day hardware using all the knowledge that appeared after UNIX and C was created. I would resurrect the C# based OS if you really want to start fresh with a new kernel.
Does Aruba Instant On have anything comparable to the UniFi Dream Machine Pro?
For reference - https://financialpost.com/technology/shopifys-tobias-lutke
I'm in my 50's and I think it's our age.

I started coding in the 80's, and got my first coding job early 90's, and the tech was moving even faster then.

I now have computers that last more than 3 years without becoming completely obsolete.

There's been one fairly consistent programming environment for at least 10 years now. We had "micro" in the 80's , Object-oriented in the 90's, internet in the 90's, and mobile in 2007. I spent less than 10 years making desktop applications in VB, and then both of those things stopped being at all relevant, while I've been coding web stuff in Go for 10 years now and it's still very relevant.

But I do find changes annoying now. I used to embrace it all, and be keen to learn all the new stuff. Now, not so much. I don't know whether I'm jaded with experience, or just old and want the world to stop changing around me.
Recap of AWS Re:Invent 2021: An Honest Review