skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This bill looks like its trying to give some of it back too. One of the few times a big bill like this goes to us rather than war, bank bail outs, or propping up some other country.
The author is concerned that an ad might be able to surreptitiously turn on the camera or microphone, but these are not accessible by default. In this case, it isn't even getting as far as a permissions prompt because the default Feature Policy doesn't allow camera or mic access in cross-origin iframes. (Ex, for Chrome: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...) Instead, I think the most likely thing happening here is that an advertiser is running a script that is trying to do fingerprinting, and which is blocked by the browser protection.

(That it's an iframe running on https://[random].safeframe.googlesyndication.com tells us it's an ad served through Google Ad Manager, and the contents of the iframe are supplied by the advertiser.)

Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself
those damn wealthy... and their... running the country into the ground... darn Manchin can't get his hands out of the coffers long enough to see the people suffering outside!!!
But of course axioms are traditionally defined as self-evident truths, not as "feelings". Furthermore whenever axioms are involved, the effort is to shrink their set as tightly as possible. I suspect that "feeling-oriented people" (for a lack of better term) are not the ones doing this, and if that is the case, I'd consider that an important difference from the people who are doing this, and hence I'd consider statements along the lines of "trying to be rational doesn't actually matter since it's feelings all the way down anyway" as unhelpful platitudes.
Senate isn't gerrymandered.
You forget the resources the west gets from China, partly China is not only the main source but the only source.
The economy nowadays is much more fragile than back then, the price increase alone would be destructive enough, especially for low-income earners.
wrong framing.

what do you need to do to be happy is better.

what do you need to do to not be sad is best.

then what work should be becomes obvious.
Conversely, it wouldn’t really make sense for Signal to interoperate with apps that don’t offer the same level of privacy.
Even if you lose all business with China, in the long term that is better.

It’s disturbing I cannot buy goods that are not (at least partially) made in China.
The percentage was just a wild guess. Its just that some resources need to be allocated to covid and the rest should continue as usual. That could be up to free market to decide, not me or you or some almighty “leaders”.
So true. The shell encourages one to reason about and simplify workflows by leveraging programs that already solve the complex problems. I'm continually amazed at how many lines of code I can replace with a Bash one liner.
Yes, it's MJPEG for the cheap ones.
But is this just feeling?

We live in a world where we believe things to be wrong just because we want them to be or feel they should be.

The real problem is that no one wants to be wrong, and no one wants to accept anything they don't believe in.

It's very weird when some feminists believe that women should dress, act, look, talk, and be and do exactly everything like a man does and it will solve all the world problems, and the other feminists believe turning men into women will solve all their problems.

The best part is when we started creating AI computers, we had to stop them from thinking logically because they quickly were able to be bias based on this.

Humans are irrational, but this has been proved right here already.
It's hard to change the status quo when people's livelihoods are at stake. It's not just about Google, it's about all the sites running Google ads, and all the companies advertising through Google. If Google makes things sufficiently less profitable for all those parties, they'll just move elsewhere. Incremental progress is being made, like SafeFrames, but it's never going to be completely solved all at once.
leftism in america is non existent
It's hard to believe that your lack of contribution tipped the scales so the company failed. Doing good work, in itself, doesn't increase the value of the company.
Usually in the fine print of signing on to become a full time employee, there are clauses to ensure you are not working for anyone else unless approved by company.
It’s $2T over 9 years.

Meanwhile the senate passed another $768 billion defense bill, which is about $7T over the same time period, without even a blink.

Manchin had no issue voting for the later, so all his posturing about the former seems pretty hollow.
Bezos has noticed an adjacent phenomenon.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right."

When reasoning becomes too abstract, it's more likely to fail to account for things happening in the real world.
I kinda of worry that if this site succeeded, it would slowly do to papers what news aggregators and the internet already did to news. Grind and incentivize them down into clickbait with no meat, with as few things as possible that people won't immediately understand.

For example, looking over my own papers for examples, a one page note [1] got more scites than a paper I contributed to that introduced several techniques cumulatively dropping the projected cost of simulating a chemistry thing by more than a factor of a million [2]. That's a cherry picked example, the pattern isn't that consistent, but having seen what happened to news sites it still worries me.

...not that the incentives for how to structure and publish papers are that great to begin with.

[1]: https://scirate.com/arxiv/2106.11513
[2]: https://scirate.com/arxiv/1805.03662
Saying that Taiwan is merely a nationalism and internal unity issue, and that people's views are merely a result of propaganda, ignores the very history of how Taiwan came to be and how the Chinese civil war developed. Your take also ignores the fact that unification is Chinese core value, which is valued more than western freedom of speech, and that this core value has been around for thousands of years.

But more importantly, you dodged the military strategic significance of Taiwan. Telling China to give up Taiwan is like asking China to give cut off its lifeline.

At the end of the day, your point boils down to that China ought not to think that way, for reasons that you believe are the only legitimate reasons. But that is useless: Chinese do view things that way, and if foreign forces pressure China to let Taiwan go, then they will fight to the end.
NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay
Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]
Willingness and ability to pay for one thing doesn't mean willingness to pay for other things. There are plenty of cheapskate rich people and people who consider themselves poor on six figure salaries.
I wasn't talking about that. The House is. Duh.

The problem is still that the Senate gives nearly empty, conservative states outsized power they don't deserve. It was a Colonial concern that no longer exists to the degree it did during the founding.
As someone who does a fair bit of writing, I'd say a 1,000 word article is more like 1-2 days depending on research (including perhaps attending an event/interviews), administrivia, editing, procrastination, etc.--and can certainly take more than that. Not that I'm generally working freelance, but I'd certainly expect around $1K as the bare minimum. Which, if you do the calculation, probably only translates to about $100K/year best case before expenses, etc.

And, yes, a lot of publications pay less than that which is why you see a lot of writers with technical knowledge working for product companies doing content marketing and related.
This is one area that really grinds my gears: the trend in UI design to reduce contrast because full black on full white text is too contrasty. Whatever minor improvement in readability on their quality 3000:1 contrast ratio monitor pales in comparison to the loss in readability on a 200:1 trash TN display.
Even on a good display at low brightness low contrast design choices can be infuriating (e.g. phone at min brightness in pitch dark room)
Code Smell 111 – Modifying Collections While Traversing
I don’t think expecting Google to take responsibility for the ads they serve is unreasonable.

It is profoundly strange that we extol the virtues of succeeding in society and yet also act like said success doesn’t come with heavy responsibility.
Yes, I do, so that the rich states don’t fall into the trap of thinking everybody is like them and as rich as them and thinks as they do and loves every new idea they have.

Checks and balances.
There's more than just the stack/heap - in a compiled language your constant data is file backed and doesn't need to contribute to memory footprint at all. Java doesn't have that because jar files are missing it (being zipped, syntax that looks like it creates them emit heap allocation bytecode, etc.) and it doesn't have multidimensional arrays or things that might help you use it even if you wrote it in C.

There's some other tricks like tagged pointers, purgeable data it doesn't reliably have either.
A lot of “rules” are general rules, many of which have exceptions. These are not laws of the universe.
Because chances are that in building that MVP you’ve rampaged around a domain you didn’t yet understand. And that’s fine. Expected, even.

Now your APIs are a mess. You have view details in the DB and pieces of business logic strewn across the frontend. There’s no separation of concerns because your only concern was to validate an idea. And for some unknown reason the only test you have keeps breaking because it doesn’t handle dates properly.

Previous mistakes inform future decisions. Best set it all alight.

The hardest part is understanding a problem anyway. The second try will take slightly more time but it won’t fall apart for no apparent reason.
Tilde.club Is Down
Meta is Facebook, but worse. As this article elucidates, Meta is not providing anything novel. It will still be violating our privacy, daily, on an unprecedented scale - it is now just dressed up as a playful holographic universe rather than a soul-destroying mega-corporation.
You can call the nuclear race foolish but it has prevented mass armed conflict more effectively than any diplomatic maneuver of the past 300 years.
Nginx only supports fastCGI.
The rest of the world is scared of even offending China by calling Taiwan a country. You really think they’re going to go to war over Taiwan?
Thanks. That's the other word I was looking for.. appropriate. Socially appropriate. Reasonable. Proportional.
As someone who has to deal from time to time with code that is a mix of old COM components and newer mingw dependencies I found this discussion fascinating.

I learned to avoid most issues by wrapping everything at the boundaries with a pure C api/abi, and not letting exceptions propagate at all, instead catching them and returning an error code.

I wonder why zig can't do the same but I guess they want calls to directx etc to match what's documented instead of going through c like contortions.
According to the article:

"When using mandibles, the ants are careful to avoid hurting each other."

Not too much ouch then.
That’s what the person you’re replying to means as well, five weeks or 25 workdays. I think all or at least most of the EU have more than 15 days minimum mandatory paid leave.
YhIH: Hypothetical ABC transporter ATP-binding protein
Mad respect for you sir. What advice would you give a 35 year old software engineer who's worried about being obsolete in 10 years?
There is easy solutions for this.
1. Break up the union. Each state goes it own way or forms a block between neighbours.
2. Get rid of states in general. Same federal laws and rule over all of the USA.
Trying small displays is essential!

My software engineer teammates get specially approved 4K displays and “engineering” laptops. People who use the apps are often restricted to “business” laptops. Conference rooms still use old projectors that are even lower resolution. We have no control over the displays our customers use.

I’ve been teaching my engineers to use the responsive design tools in their browsers. For UI components that render differently based on @media queries, it’s been helpful to add stories for those breakpoints to our Storybook component library.
Come on, there are plenty of healthy democracies in which all votes have the same weight, it’s trivial to demonstrate how wrong you are.

“One person, one vote” might have been radical 300 years ago, but it really should not be controversial in the 21st century.
Newt: Low powered, FOSS, 2.7-inch IoT display, ESP32-S2 mod & Sharp MiP LCD
Disable it in system settings, browser settings, and prevent access through something like firejail. It is not as reliable as a hardware kill-off switch, but puts a lot of barriers to overcome.
Good riddance, see it as an early Christmas present from Skynet.
> You do not NEED it, but it can enable it.

How so? Why is it any better than a public API?

> In the situation above the benefit is you, the recipient, are never again dependent on Reddit to validate that award for you.

You're assuming that Reddit would create an NFT that doesn't grant them any special power. Why would they do that? Why wouldn't they create a blockchain NFT with an admin address that they own and which can do pretty much anything?

> Considering how much most HN users rail against centralized services and things others not to turn stuff off, it seems like the value is obvious to me.

You can be centralized on a blockchain though, e.g. using an admin address as I described.
Another idiotic brainfart from the rationalist community. Im surprised this is not on substack.
I just got out of jail after 8 years. I managed to read over 800 books during that time. Since I got out I've read zero books and 100,000 pages from HN.
>To say this was bad ..

I don't know if it was bad, but are you saying it was all good? If so, why?
Yes, all of that, but also relatively trivial in comparison to the use of these tactics in operations like COINTELPRO. Almost everyone on HN works in an office (myself included), but I think it's a bit shallow and limiting (and ultimately dangerous) if the primary way we interact with such materials is to strip them of their actual context, and immediately apply them to our mundane individual experience, thinking things like, "yeah that's just like I told my boss, I was like, 'uhhh, this meeting could have been an email?... ;)'". (That's a caricature of their opinion, but it was funny to me, and still expresses what I mean about its relative shallowness).
You are assuming you are the good guy, that's not how the world works.
I'm just looking for an interesting low-stress job that pays well. I suspect the rest of my happiness will come from other sources.

Specifically:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
> Australia has been largely recognised as a failure. Australia just exported to elsewhere

Not only that, but the loss of coal imports from Australia led directly to massive power outages in the northeastern provinces this fall. Though it's possible that the people aren't aware of that causal connection.

> Anything else is to accept the final end of US leadership in the world

There is some sense in which the US is willing to relinquish its "leadership in the world" and "take some me-time"; it's just too much of a pain in the ass. This has been a trend since 2001, when george bush was elected on a "humble foreign policy" platform (but not delivered upon), skipped obama's cabinet (though he was famously aloof during high level diplomatic meetings), through Donald Trump, who hasn't started any new foreign adventures, and Biden has actually withdrawn from Afghanistan. I think that we are emerging into an zeitgeist where the US doesn't really care to be number one, it's just so stupid and so much of a waste of time.

But even in context of deliberately disengaging from the world, the US still goes to bat for Taiwan.
I simply don't work much anymore.

Below 10h a week on average.

I haven't set an alarm for years anymore and sleep 9h a night

That made me quite happy.
How do you justify on a resume that you had two jobs at once?
OK then, what's a set of self evident moral values that you can build a moral system from? Because both libertarians and communists think they have one, and they can't both be right. Which set of values you choose is fundamentally irrational.

Edit: axioms aren't exactly self evident truths anyway - the number system defined by the Peano axioms is not a feature of the universe, but of the human mind. Of course, mathematics are extremely useful and map roughly onto reality, but one should never mistake the map for the territory. Not saying you are, but the distinction is important.
Not really. There are only a few financial instruments worldwide where very low latency matters, and there you'd be competing against people who have invested millions in custom transceivers, so it's unlikely FPGA work on a readymade board is really going to make much of a difference.

But like all industries, there are many factors that contribute to success. FPGA work might help improve things a bit even if you're not the best.
The value in adsense is absolutely not in the ability to run unvetted javascript served from a google-hosted domain. The value is in the tracking and retargeting.

Serving javascript from a well-connected CDN isn't something that sets anyone apart, you can just sign up with cloudflare and have that working in a few minutes.
I really don’t care what advertisers think is necessary to do in order to ensure targeting/fingerprinting or countering fraud, but running any third party script isn’t anything I consider remotely acceptable from
an ad. Worst case I could accept that some generic script from the ad network is run - but for the ad network to pipe through the advertisers third party script should mean they are adblocked by the browser without even requiring a plugin.
The positives should not be ignored, but neither should the negatives; which this piece does.
duplicate (3 submissions in 24h is too much) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609041
> unification is Chinese core value

Is warring with all neighbors a core value too? Chinese government, through censorship, controls the minds of the Chinese people. The government needs to update the core values.
Two things you need to understand about tyrants:

1. It never ends with them. Even when the win and take everything, they still kill. Get rid of them or die.

2. All they care about is themselves. Global hegemony, GDP, victory in battle, number of people horrible murdered let alone Maoism, all Russian speaking peoples, socialism, is a lie. They laugh at that and think it's for children. They jump through those hoops because they do anything for legitimacy.

It's really going to be funny when Xi and Putin play the Ace of Spades in the same hand of poker. Recently I found myself feeling guilt about the American Revolution. We fought monarchs for something good. A hundred years later, they fought monarchs for something bad. The bad guy turned from the red coats, who at least had some culture, to cold blooded mechanized killers. "The world ripped something out of him, and now it echoed loudly because he was hollow inside."

But no, you do that to me.
I was wrong =) bad sourcing.
We got this email at my startup. We freaked out too, we're not from California (or even the US), we're not end-user facing so usually privacy stuff goes to our customers. We'd never received a mail like that. We responded with a kind reply, but had a lot of internal discussion. Our nice response included questions which never got answers. Because screw real people, right?

Experiments like these are training well-meaning people to ignore real privacy requests.
>Say what you will about GTK and Gnome... for beginners on an operating system such as Ubuntu, having a consistent application concept is very important.

Consistency is important but is not like the majority of the apps are GTK3 (or whatever is latest) with the GNOME styles even if those GNOME designers pretend nothing else exists and nobody should remove the GNOME branding from the GNOME apps.

Just want to mention that GNOME are the bad guys, KDE distributions will provide GNOME integration with packages and themes that attempt to keep Qt and GTK application consistent in look and feel but I never seen GNOME distros attempt to integrate with the non-GNOME apps.
A successful public fundraising round is an indicia of success for prior investors. It is not an indicia of long-term success for a company as a going concern in terms of profits.
A basic search didn't turn up much. The FSF's iptux info is quite sparse:

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Iptux

OpenSUSE has a tiny bit more info:

https://software.opensuse.org/package/iptux
Variants of those were extremely common and presumably fairly inexpensive in the 1970s to brush dust off of photographic negatives.
I suggest you reread my comment, because you couldn't have missed the point more if you tried.
>> China could take Taiwan and I don't think anyone would stop them.

I am inclined to believe that it would look similar to Iraq invading Kuwait, only 100000 times bigger and bloodier.

I think the US, UK, Australia, Japan, and many EU nations would strongly disapprove and take military action.
What is a "rich" state? Is this a conservative dog whistle?

That's not a check or a balance, separation of powers is.
Just list the better one.
I mean, it basically boils down to no reason though.

People in China are happy. People in Taiwan are happy. What moron would start a war over it now?
fwiw, there's a switch in every ext. mic. jack.

plug in an un-wired connector, cut of the wiring post, smooth with a nail-file or put on a crowning drop of glue so it won't rip your bag and you're done.
Google (+ apple) Control their mobile platforms and take responsibility for apps served through their respective stores.

Why can't they do the same with their ad networks? Transpile any JS code served from their network into a safe execution environment/api that only permits the resources allowed safely?
Of course it makes no business sense but regulations are coming that might require that in the EU.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211210IP...
Under duress, yes. There is a multitude of people and groups I wouldn't be able to contact without WhatsApp. For a couple of months I was hoping that the tide would turn to Signal/Telegram, but it just didn't really happen. There is no way I can contact the people I want to contact apart from WhatsApp.
Tom Wolfe among others pointed this out at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation

And Reagan, after all, came from California...
> GNOME are the bad guys

Just because you disagree with them, it doesn't make them the "bad guys".
Corsair iCUE CPU cooler software stops working due to expired security certs
Reminds me of game designer Jason Rohrer who developed his games on an old laptop that the previous owner wanted to throw away. A link from 2010: https://usesthis.com/interviews/jason.rohrer/
> packages(/containers) from PRC are delayed or cancelled, invoices are not being paid, we are losing business there

I think the whole western world should stop playing games with the bully state that is PRC.
Republic simply means there is no monarch. Dictatorships are kinda interesting, but if they are elected, it still falls on side of republic.
> For a moment in early 2020, it seemed like we might get a break from capitalism.

Don't people still work in countries with communism, socialism, etc economic structures, or is this just a thinly-veiled attack on "capitalism"?
Reorgs rarely solve anything and administratively impossible. 50 currencies. Too many cities to roll-up to DC.
Those other networks would start getting blocked hard with adblock/DNS block/public shaming of sites using them.