skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I am sure most of the teens were making video calls just fine even over MSN with aMSN and Kopete.

Also, I did videocalls with Ekiga with my GF perfectly back in the day. Not the best quality, but it worked.
Advocating for a 4 day workweek (or rather, the ongoing ratcheting down of the workweek) gets us to what you describe: flushing out the busy bodies and preventing the savagery of work theater. If work fills the time you allocate for it (Parkinson’s Law [1]), there is no governor on useless tasks or meetings, and countless hours of person life are needlessly wasted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
The Captain
Do you really want Microsoft adding tabs to it, though? Because they'll do it the same way they did it in IE. "Your tabs are also windows because we don't understand the difference, enjoy!"
> But I don't buy that this is true for very many jobs in tech.

Not only that, but it's probably true even less often when looking at the totality of jobs everywhere.
By the time it got to the end of the prompt it wouldn't remember the Sherlock Holmes bit.
I personally found a lot from Lucretius Carus's "De Rerum Natura"[0]. It was important to popularize the philosophy of Epicurus. It describes three types of needs:

1. Necessary and natural needs: Sleep, eat, the other thing.

2. Unnecessary (from the individual's point of view) and natural needs: Have sex, eating over nutritious food, etc.

3. Unnecessary and unnatural need: Sports car, big house, etc.

If you want to fulfill 2 and 3, it going to cost you something. With an abundance of pleasures will come pain.

Epicurus was a man of another time and its solution, ataraxia[1], which is a form of extreme asceticism that would mean living like a monk basically, seems untenable today, but I personally got a lot from this on why work/life balance is important.

His physic is also incredible. Like the concept of "Clinamen" [2]. The guy figured out quantum mechanic 25 centuries in advance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataraxia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen
Jesus in what country? Even taking some very liberal definition of rape 25% is insanely high. Do you have some source on that?

EDIT: In the US we have a 2000 study quoting 5% and a 2011 study saying "nearly 20%" but their data include attempted rape which is a pretty important distinction. This is coming from Wikipedia though.
Please don't implement Proof of Steak and Proof of Wok without Proof of Spice.
I don't know the details but they don't fail over automatically. There has to be a reason to push the button. Perhaps the reason did not exist this time. But I know for sure that there is redundancy.
> only the "best" or "hottest" researchers

I'm pretty sure this subset is very similar to the 'least curious' subset...
Enhancing works with trained AI these days

Maybe not for evidence collection, but for pleasing a human being to go follow a lead sure
Our society needs people to haul garbage away. I would bet many of them don’t do it because it’s rewarding. It just gives them money to pay for things they care about. Should all those people leave hauling our garbage?
I'm not sure that it _should_ be hard, but I am sure that it always will be hard. This is just the nature of life, your attention is zero-sum. More time here means less time there.

Yes, business is not all there is to life, especially if I am an individual contributor who doesn't reap most of the rewards of the success of the business. However, my livelihood can be affected by a business becoming unsuccessful. I have seen it - I was on unemployment when my first child was born because my employer ran out of money.

So I work to try and keep any business that I work for afloat. I don't think it's much different than if I were a hunter-gatherer and had to spend time collecting food to eat. I want to do everything I can to make sure there is food to collect tomorrow.
"800 dollar laptops today are more durable ... because their RAM is ... upgradable"

I think the word durable has more of a connotation of being resistant to damage rather than meaning "able to be used for a long time".
Generally a dot is used as a barrier for these, because otherwise you need to have an infinite (and changing) list where users are allowed to register subdomains. .ac.uk vs. .com, etc. Not to mention that there are some of these domains where the policy is changing and there's both delegates and toplevel domains.

If you don't trust across separator boundaries you're mostly safe. That is, mytxt.foo.com shouldn't be blindly trusted for my.subdomain.foo.com nor mytxt.subdomain.foo.com shouldn't be trusted for foo.com.

IMO the biggest concern is with organizations that blacklist domains for various reasons, because they are not eager to just build very fine-grained blacklists.
Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
What a coincidence! I just finished reading this. It's the work of many authors, so you may find it a little uneven. But overall I found it to be an outstanding document. It helped me get the lay of the land quickly and easily, coming from OpenBSD. OpenBSD has very good documentation too, but I don't think they have anything quite like this.
> I came up with this years ago, but have only ever seen something like it explored once: in the TV show 'Dark'.

Doraemon, a Japanese children's cartoon (1970s to 1990s), created by Fujiko F Fujio, who is actually very well-versed in physics and science, has used something like this as a plot point in several different chapters/episodes and some movies. It doesn't actively call them "meta-stable time loops", since its target audience is children, but the idea and concept is there. Growing up watching and reading this series, I've learned more and more from it as I rewatch/reread old chapters/episodes, every time. I absolutely love it.
It came in an email saying they need it to be signed ASAP. I feel like they should at least give me time to ask a lawyer or something.
The Paretto principle, which the author views as being the same kind of statement, has nothing to do with Sturgeon's statement/law.

The only thing in common is that they both use percentages in their articulation.
Everyone talks about Hitler's "Blitzkrieg", as if telling commanders "attack with all your might and speed" was the innovative part.

No, the innovative part was that the German Commander, Gerd von Rundstedt, was able to maneuver 7 Panzer divisions (aka: 2000 tanks) through the Ardennes Forest in just 3 days.

This was considered an impossible feat. The Ardennes Forest is heavily wooded and hilly terrain... with 200-meter cliffs littering the area, in a time before GPS-navigation. However, Mr. Rundstedt was a veteran of WWI and was extremely familiar with the forest, and served as an impressive guide. (EDIT: I had some details here but I double-checked and apparently was a bit confused earlier)

The French counter-attack thought they had 2 weeks to prepare. They were caught with their pants down as 2000 tanks streamed out of the forest before they could mount their planned defense.

Once The German army group secured the Ardennes Forest, the rest of the ~4-million men of the German Army poured through the Forest unhampered into France.

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The fact of the matter is: details matter. Hitler wasn't the smart one here, it was Rundstedt.

Very likely, the German scouting parties were mapping out the region and preparing long before the order was given. Little details that will never really be revealed in any history book, but these are the details that mattered in the Battle of France 1940.
Every article (really, every thing) posted on the web should be timestamped.
But we're talking about a status page which should be basically static. In it's simplest form you need a rack in 2+ random colos and a few people to manage the page update framework. Then you make teams submit the tests that are used to validate SLA. Run the tests from a few DCs and rebuild the status page every minute or two.

Maybe add a CDN. This shit isn't rocket science and being able to accurately monitor your own systems from off infrastructure is the one time you should really be separate.
They should nickname this "clone-a-tone"
Edit: the parent comment originally said "why would she do that? To keep a souvenir?" and has since been edited.

Stealth-editing a comment to deprive replies of their meaning is not a nice thing to do, so please don't do that.

-- original reply: --

"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They didn't "completely immobilize" him, though, as apparently "Ulbricht stood up sharply"[0] after his laptop was seized. However, he did make the mistake of not sitting with his back to a wall, since the agents "walked up behind" him. I guess we'll never know how he would have reacted if they had instead walked up in front of him and tried to grab his arms.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-senten...
Some of the generated shapes are definitely kind of unsettling and "repulsive"!
Do you understand what it would've done to the US' standing vis-a-vis the USSR in the world if it were revealed that someone who is tasked with protecting the most important part of the executive branch accidentally killed them in exactly the type of event where they should've been keeping them safe? What image would that have projected to the rest of the world about America's abilities? Espc. in light of the then just happened Cuban missile crisis, etc.
>Animal welfare and rights are also crucial for creating a trustworthy
and reliable Proof-of-Steak platform. We go beyond traditional
animal welfare requirements by affording our animals all of the
rights granted to “natural persons” under the GDPR. To comply with
GDPR Article 25 on data protection by design, we use differential
privacy and distributed analytics [2] to obfuscate the identity of
any given Kobe cow so as to prevent them from being singled out.

Ok, that's pretty funny.
Trilogy – GitHub-built MySQL client library written in C
I was saying that the existence of the non-implementation of USB proves the possibility of access controls on USB.

Convoluted way to put it I guess. For some reason was intuitive to me (proof of existence by example, more trivial example better).

Having access controls on USB-HID is just a local policy choice where most people would choose convenience over security.
I don't see how the conclusion is correct based on the premise: "That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas. I’m not interested until I see their execution."

As per the premise, wouldn't you want to quickly vet out the idea to see if it's > 0 or your hurdle rate multiplier? If idea is Awful (-1), no level of execution is going to result in a desirable outcome.

This premise shows exactly why idea vetting is important.
It just is another example that bug bounties are undervalued and the experience doing anything “white hat” is too disastrous to be worth it.

Responsible disclosure is for the gullible.

The market keeps saying “this is what its worth”
How could Signal recompress images while retaining end-to-end encryption? Wouldn't any "recompression" happen entirely on the client-side, and therefore be fair game for hackers to bypass with their own payloads?
It was not Jimmy Carter but the killer rabbit who attacked him. Carter prevailed where Kennedy failed.
The linked https://privacytests.org/ looks like a really useful aggregation/rundown/testing of privacy protecting features across browsers.
Show HN: Taskwarrior_syncall: Synchronize TW with Notion,Google Calendar
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22837631/apple-csam-dete...
https://www.kalporshujob.com/2021/11/mofood-job-circular-202...
I'm certain it reads faster than I do. Comprehension, that's another issue...
OK you need to find a lawyer to get real advice immediately. You can't just dump something like this on HN and ask for advice without providing enough context for us to advise. This doesn't like a big company, so in many ways my suspicion is this is a small company with a greedy founder and lawyer and they are taking advantage of employees. If it's a large company, they should know better.

If I were to handle this myself, I'd first check to see whether I was 100% convinced that I needed to keep a job to support my family, because voluntarily signining away IP rights like this is a terrible idea, even if it is legal and/or enforceble. Next, i'd evaluate whether I could get away with not signing the form. Are they making it a condition for further employment? An implied threat you'll be fired? My guess is no, it's really a bluff, they want you to sign, but if you pushed back correcftly, they'd fold. However, it's a delicate thing to do that.
That's what the self destruct is for. If you are yanked from your laptop or vice versa the laptop will crypto shred its disk and wipe RAM. Your attackers can hit you till you die but you will not be able to reverse it.
Once asahi is stable, I would seriously consider buying a MacBook to use as my daily driver
I guess this will always be a contention point since the definition of "failed" is very flexible.

I'm well aware that Erlang/Elixir are still niche, and Rust is kind of niche as well. But by what measure? Usually it's a comparison with e.g. Python, Java, JS popularity and usage. In that regard 99% of the technologies out there have "failed".

I find such comparisons meaningless however. In the segments of the technologies I work with there are a lot of things happening, there are very good money to be made, and productivity is usually very high compared to the "successful" technologies.

So everybody is free to look skeptically at the "failed" technologies and "wisely" conclude that if they were THAT good they surely would have displaced the mainstream ones by now, right? Hence they can't be that good, m-hm, no sir.

I have no objection to people thinking that shallow. In the meantime, a lot of us make very good money and are not forever stuck on problems that have 20-year old StackOverflow threads. It feels really good.
Although likely a fast follower of Apple and FB, I think Google will be able to monetize their eye-tracking attention models of VR/MR users more effectively than Apple using their current advertising knowledge and user trust. FB will probably be more aggressive, but has lost a lot of trust so may not capture the younger more valuable users.

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-154/marketing-strate...

Your ability to not click to avoid future advertising will no longer be effective. They will learn exactly what distracts the most of your (visual) attention to ads and will target you with the most effective ads for your attention model. Then they will sell that model to their advertisers to develop more effective ads for your cohort based on value. Your visual saccades (the order, time, return rate) are not really consciously controllable, while they provide huge insight into both your past exposure and future interest images and ideas.
In Dallas, and he said he couldn't remember why he was in Dallas. It's not like anyone ever said he was in the grassy knoll or something though
People react to sudden, extreme stress in way that seem odd after the fact.

This doesn’t seem inconceivable at all.
Yes. Same method as Google/Microsoft Authenticator, but implemented in a separate hardware device (fob).
I wonder how these companies we all work for manage to pay our salaries by selling anything if nothing we build contributes to the needs of peoples families.

After all, as you say, people are only buying things to benefit their families, so how do they manage to be parted with their money on what you posit to be useless frivolities produced by the tech industry?
I think most of that could be achieved by a bunch of CSP rules that disable various features. No frames, no 3rd-party js, various request types restricted to same-site and data: URIs. Don't grant sandbox: allow-same-origin and the site will be a unique origin on each visit, thus effectively disabling cookies.

So it's already possible to achieve quite restricted subsets of what a website can do. The issue is agreeing on what subset is useful enough for many sites.
i read the title, and thought of Google Reader, then came for the comments.
I’m on mobile, so I don’t have the study link handy, but a bill which is very popular among ordinary people and very unpopular among corporations stands something like a 30% chance of being passed into law while a bill which is very popular among corporations but very unpopular among voters has nearly 100% chance of being signed into law (I don’t remember exact numbers).

> It befuddles me when blame is placed on corporations in a country whose population explicitly prioritizes driving pickup trucks and SUVs for grocery and school runs. Any upwards movement in fossil fuel prices, which are already among the lowest for large democratic countries, results in the general public to be furious at politicians.

Everyone is just responding to market incentives at the end of the day, which is the point behind carbon pricing: align our environmental and financial incentives. So I prefer to focus on systemic solutions rather than placing blame, although I certainly think it’s good and useful to blame/shame corporations and politicians who actively oppose the public good (even though this kind of corruption is another form of responding to incentives).

> Voters in America only want a reduction in usage of fossil fuels as long as it does not affect their expected future lifestyle

Perhaps, but that’s irrelevant because we don’t actually need to change our lifestyles very much. Implement a carbon tax and gradually raise the price over time so it gives corporations some time to optimize their processes for efficiency thereby keeping consumer costs low. That corporations can and do respond to legislated incentives is one of the takeaways of TFA, after all.
If the feds are pinching you for computer crime in a public space, this is exactly why they'd handcuff you, but keep you within ~10 feet of your laptop.
I'm undecided between Tiny Core Linux and NetBSD for an old Thinkpad T42, and I had similar emotions reading NetBSDs Guide a few days ago. Tiny Core is really great (I've been using it for 5-6 years) but:

- The T42 needs underclocking. Tiny Core solution: Google and find out that cpufrequtils helps (it did). How about NetBSD? First time reading of the manual, 5-10 minutes, and there it is, a built-in feature: http://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-power.html#chap-power-a...

- Similar thing with a non-standard keyboard layout: on Tiny Core, it had some symbols missing. To reconfigure the keymap on Tiny Core, I had to Google and find out about Linux's kbd project. Download kbd sources, compile it, read its (comprehensive, but really well written!) manual to get a hang of Linux's keyboard layout files (interesting stuff). Then modify the layout to my needs by trial and error, and then use two of kbd's tools + a minor hack to make it usable under Tiny Core.

On NetBSD: 5 minutes to read a few paragraphs in the Guide: http://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wsc.... Works.

What I particularly liked is that the same chapter of the NetBSD Guide also provides a brief and clear how-to for changing keyboard layout at the kernel level. In other words, everything relevant in one place, easy to find, really well structured and written. For a hobbyist like me, reading the Guide is a true learning experience as to how an operating system actually works.

Once again, I absolutely love Tiny Core Linux, its wiki, FAQ, forum, package manager and the provides.sh tool are really great. Excellent distro for less capable or ancient machines. But in terms of documentation, the BSD world does seem to be in a class of its own.

I suppose all three BSDs -- Net, Open and Free -- have more or less equally good documentation, no?
I think you mean from the front. Guy riding shotgun turned around and you see his arm extended.
Be careful of market cap numbers, they hide information and are almost meaningless: they don't describe volume behavior. If suddenly people realized Apple had to be sold as fast as possible, most of that value would evaporate to reach a more reasonable tangible asset value.

It's possible German stocks are well priced, in a regulated, slow and rational market that cares about fitting the price with the value of the company, and would hold most of their current market cap much more than Apple, were it liquidated.
I've never seen anything at all as interactive & playful as this. Nothing that comes close. All in one, designed to create the experience of DNS. It's in the name: Mess with DNS. That makes it far far far & away different

And I think that makes all the difference. I tend to believe very strongly in hands on experience, think that seeing things happen yourself & getting to play is by far the best way to learn, just incredibly surpassing.

There's a theory of education called Constructivism[1] that is broadly similar. Adherents include folks like Seymore Papert[2], creator of Logo, employee at One Laptop Per Child (which I think is the most interesting & innovative software environment we've ever created, vastly under-appreciated). Projects like Logo are supposed to create that hands on feedback, to make programming not just writing scripts & having programs run, but ways to see the code really execute, to create more interactive modes.

With software eating the world, it is so so so important to me not just to create knowledge, to tell tales of what software is, but to let people have the experience themselves. To create playgrounds to meddle, to mess around. I wish so much that applications could actually show & explain what they are doing, what's inside of them, could reveal their workings, but we're so far away from that Enlightened world, we've fallen into such deep shadows imo.

(Side note, I see things very differently, but I also am disappointed folks would downvote your perspective like this. As for the lack of knowledge/experience, I'd say that most engineers don't have familiarity because there's not a lot of opportunities to set up & learn systems work; most coders spend their time coding, not setting up bits of infrastructure to run code on. You yourself also say "writing the code is the easiest part", which underscores just how complex/inter-related/particular all the systems/infrastructure stuff is, how probable it is engineers might not feel fully competent or brave enough to engage.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert
Apple is not a competitor to AWS or Azure in any way. They offer not infrastructure/platform as a service that I am aware of.
Shock, likely.
She was in shock, and tried to do something to help her husband. It's not even that far fetched. If your hand was cut off, you'd want to save it for possible reattachment.
What doesn't kill your civilization makes it stronger (or cripples it enough that it slowly fades into irrelevance, with nobody agreeing on the exact cause)
If it demonstrably cures diagnosed cancer I think most people will not hesitate, especially for cancers that have a high mortality and/or few other treatment options.

If it's proposed as a vaccine for cancer that you don't have yet, there would be more hesitancy.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473821 - March 2020 (171 comments)
Which is fine for a certain category of paper - in particular this opens the door to explicit measurements and manipulation of the curvature of space at extremely small scales. Further work is required to see if there is something real here or not.