skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there are children who unjustifiably cut off their parents, and the reverse. I can say that I read Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and it rocked my world: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/adult-children-of-emotional... by thoroughly describing my upbringing. I've not cut off contact but I have containerized it and set strict boundary conditions, if you will, and my parents seem not to understand their own behavior, at all.
I went on an OSM editing binge a few years ago to make Pokémon Go's in-game map better. Now that I've done that, I haven't had much reason to edit it more.
Google's/Chrome's password manager would be reasonable if I could actually add passwords to it, manually. It only saves passwords that you type in a login page in the browser. So for the plethora of other credentials I need to manage it's less than useless, because it just gets in the way.
ABC Analysis
> Why is <220 ppi a dealbreaker? 27 inch 4k displays seem fine to me for retina and they are quite abundant.

I regret buying a 27 inch 4K monitor each and every day.

Sure, the PPI is much better than my 24 inch 1200p Dell Ultrasharp but a 27 inch 4K needs wither fractional scaling, which is a mess, or scaling fonts, which makes UI elements look weird.

24 inch 4K and 27 inch 5K should be a standard but all monitor OEMs are interested in making shitty gaming monitors.
I think it's hilarious. when I was in school, microprocessors were 8-bit. Then as the world got digitized it was 16-bit microprocessors. A least in my narrow world. Then 32 bit and floats came along and finally double floats. Each step was a big product effort and launch we sell as better technology. And just as we are finally got past the need to always make both 32 and 64 bit versions of everything, we turn around and head back down. Though I saw someone (Qualcomm?) with a press release about their next gen microprocessor supporting 32 bit floats! Not sure if it counts as another U-turn or they're just a straggler.
Possibly - however the premise is that I'm running an application on cloud infrastructure that I don't control - which is common today. I tried to call that out in the post.
People disagree with the rangefinder theory because "no two Roman dodecahedrons are the same size". But the only thing that matters for a rangefinder is the ratio between the sizes of opposing holes (edit: and face-to-face distance). Anything we know about that?

edit: this paper includes some measurements https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225187575_Roman_Dod...
I don't have a car, thanks :D
How is that a government contract at all? Sounds like a bullshit handout if anything, and I’ve seen pretty dumb government contracts before.

Well whatever works!
You'd be surprised how stable it actually is in practice. The occasional big swings in benchmarks tend to be due to compiler A pattern-matching an idiom that compiler B does not. Regressions from A.1 to A.2 are rare, and usually either bugs or that optimizer default target has shifted and now neglects whatever uarch you regressed on.
So you've never worked for Apple but think people should know what you imagine people at Apple think?
Yeah, I sold stuff in Ultima Online much earlier than 2005. Lazy research in this article.
My account seems to have gotten hijacked too. Someone has (apparently) posted something that's against community standards in my profile, as a consequence of which FB has disabled my account and says if I don't appeal in 30 days, the account will be disabled.

The strange thing is when I try to appeal I get this page.

"Security check
To confirm your identity, we will text a confirmation code to your phone."

I select my phone number, and receive the right SMS, but it says

"Error Sending SMS
Could not send confirmation SMS. Please check the phone number and try again."

So I cannot actually enter the code.

I also have 2FA enabled and this doesn't seem to have been breached.

On deviced that are still logged in I see them telling me I have posted something that is in typical photos grid format, but they don't show me what the photos were. When I press the button to request review, it does nothing.

<https://savolai.net/uncategorized-en/banned-from-facebook-an...>
Qubes Network Server
> Is there a way for me to run a Java program as native machine code?

Yes [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_for_Java
They grant your “restricted stock units” and deal them out per quarter. So it could be worth $5 or 5 million when they get them.
It takes a couple of years, at least, of sending spam-free mail at a rate of at least a dozen a day to establish a reputation. Well, I don't know - it might be worse than that. My domain started sending mail at tha kind of rate back in 2004; deliverability to gmail and especially hotmail was never something I'd bet my house on. Hotmail, in particular, would swallow mail and silently fail to deliver.
Tamagui Benchmarks
TL;DR: The only methods discussed in this episode are SIM swapping and password guessing. Neither of which are relevant for OP. Unless OP is lying, there must be some other method used.
Belgian theatres win court battle to reopen after Covid closures
My work takes me to Antarctica and Greenland, so now I don't think Chicago winters are all that bad anymore :).
Omicron has already demonstrated that vaccine evasion is inevitable, we are vaccinating against the extinct Wuhan virus. Global human elimination of SARS2 is necessary or you will see in both your personal life and in the broader economy continued disability, death, and drags on productivity.

There is some speculation that the "worker shortage" is due in part to workers with long COVID who want to return to work but can't. I do not know how large of an effect it is, but I can promise you it is real.

My perspective is we are living in a time of crisis and we must muster the reserves to forcefully challenge the problems of our time. Furthermore, COVID-19, a mass disabling event, may take years to resolve. If it takes 5 years to avoid catching it, I will have decades of healthy life remaining.
I still don't get it. We already sold digital assets so why do we need NFTs or Blockchain? What does it add here?
Apple is targeting its next 10 years' growth in three key markets: Laptops, VR/AR, and EVs. How big is each market cap?
Quantum to Cosmos: A journey through the universe
Nuclear Power has the same cost problem as public transit infrastructure (and healthcare & education for that matter too). It's not mass produced, there's no competition, capital productivity factor is very low.

But! Uniquely from that group nuclear power can be very easily industrialized. Basically if there would be a group that orders 100-200 (and of course more) plants ... the unit costs would go down dramatically.

As long as each one is a unique little bespoke snowflake, each site needs special plans, every pipe and valve and weld and button needs loving care and precious human attention ... it's going to be expensive.
The interesting companies (Duolingo, Argo, Root, maybe Capital One, etc) in the Midwest won't hire anyone from regular local universities. They get all their people from CMU/Stanford/UCs. If you went to a place like Ohio State the best you can hope for locally is DBA at an insurance company. A lot of the engineers I graduated with have given up on this and are doing real estate or retraining to become a teacher. You can work for SpaceX, Google, Amazon, but you need to move out of the Midwest first. So out of college you need to ask yourself if giving up all your local friends and family is worth having a fulfilling career. It's hard.

The workplace culture is different too. If you're in the rust belt, your managers over age 50 came from manufacturing lines and were taught that they need to literally see you looking like you're working all the time and they'll use phrases like "extract value from human capital". They'll want you to beg and plead for permission to use your PTO, but then put in your performance review that you're getting a 1% instead of a 2% raise for excessive time off utilization. My friend's telecom workplace just announced that their holiday bonus is that they may wear jeans on Fridays all 2022.
"Who is "my adversary" exactly and what do they want with me?"

He will extort money from you based on your private message history, when they eventually leak from Telegram's effectively plaintext database.

>I think he's vain, eager to be in the spotlight and eager to profit off a cryptocurrency

That says more about you than about Moxie. You've shown your character, now strongly consider showing yourself out.
Not good news - I use Bitwarden, not LastPass, but if you're using a password manager make sure to use 2 factor authentication and this really wouldn't be an issue in the first place.

I have my TOTP codes stored in Bitwarden for other services like Facebook etc, but I use Authy as an independent TOTP provider for Bitwarden. 1.5 factor I guess (2FA tokens in a password manager), but works a treat and is very convenient!
Very chicken & egg to me! I believe strongly in systems software research. Not just tuning systems & hunting for more throughput or other gains, but making malleable base abstractions & exposing them. Making new means to operate.

In this way, I agree with Pike: systems research often consigns itself to irrelevance. It should be bolder & more visible & more real.

I'll confess I think you're closer to what most people think of. But I also think there's a lack of words ideas & concepts of trying to better ground computing, and I think that work falls into the systems research bucket. And it's not active enough. We're kind of stuck. We are seeing some good systems work, but mainstream computing breached up on the shore 20 years ago & it's this discipline that needs to be the one helping shake us loose & getting us into more novel, useful paradigms of computing. The projects I listed- Yahoo Pipes, Node-RED, Oberon, Naked Objects- we need more big scale tries & there aren't enough.
This series of articles is... really something I've been needing to hear for a while, despite rationally having already accepted the things inside of it. Thanks for posting it here, Jason.
Outside the industry this is significant. Inside the industry this is nothing.
My guess is because it's sold virtually everywhere, especially in 100yen shops.
I've lived in the Bay Area for 15 years. Except for the "poop on street" part, I've never witnessed any of those other things in SF or anywhere else either. I've never ever been threatened by anything (words or physically) in real life (this is true everywhere I've lived: Hong Kong, Florida, Connecticut, Texas, SF/Bay Area) In the Bay Area I've largely stayed in the less crowded suburbs such as Mountain View, Palo Alto, etc. where things are kept absurdly clean and orderly (the parks are hosed down at least once a week). Last week while going to work in Burlingame I did see there was human feces in the parking lot but the city sanitation worker was already cleaning it up. I do go to SF sometimes to see friends, to go at a restaurant (in pre-COVID times), etc. There is a small part of SF that gives me uncomfortable feelings but the rest of the city has never given me any issues and I've run through parts of the city in the middle of the night (during the Golden Gate Relay).

I'm not saying that it doesn't happen or that people who write about them are being untruthful. However, I do wonder if it is the extreme events or experiences that get written about and aggregated into news.
We'll get you with NixOS/kFreeBSD someday :D
These days it's a lucky accident when the engineers and the end users are on the same continent and maybe speak the same language. The business will certainly optimize for lowest cost until it becomes so bad that it's impossible to overlook.

Managing by walking around is still amazingly more successful than managing by arbitrary metrics, but it's still rare.
Are you a software developer? I'm in an engineering role that requires lab work and work mostly onsite from the office/lab/factory.
Spineless Classics
This is a good idea that's never occurred to me. I guess you could also consider it like having one password for all your accounts, except salted with some random string from your password manager
Climeworks' technology is the real deal, and needs to thrive. The only good CCS is 100% carbon negative and sequesters the carbon in chemically stable forms. This is it, and we need more. Petroleum industry CCS is a scam, but Climeworks is not that.

Disclaimer: I'm biased because I'm Swiss and so is this technology.
Is this intended as an answer for my question? Because it doesn't help me gauge what the parent commenter sees as "brand new".
You aren't talking about the intrinsic value of Bitcoin. You are talking about it's value relative to USD. These are completely different things.

Bitcoin has intrinsic value outside of the fiat system. It can be used entirely independent of fiat. Whether that will become common is another matter, but the value of Bitcoin does not have to depend solely on it's value relative to USD.
For Proof-of-Work coins, the miners need significant amounts of electricity. Electricity is not free, so maintaining the network costs a significant amount of money. This money is "reimbursed" to them through mining rewards, but since electricity companies typically can't be paid in cryptocurrencies the miners will need to sell (a part of) their mining reward to pay the power bill. This means that there is always a money outflow proportional to the hashrate, which somehow has to be made up from money inflows from users.

A cryptocurrency without users putting in "new" money will slowly bleed out through electricity costs. This will become even more "fun" in the future as all coins will eventually be mined and the ginormous electricity bill will need to be paid through transaction fees alone. This is one of the main reasons Proof-of-Stake is getting so much research btw, since it should use way less electricity.

(The above is true for most currencies btw, even dollars and euros bleed out money because they have to pay mints and central bankers. The difference with those is that there will always be demand for (say) dollars because US citizens MUST pay their taxes in dollars. If they don't, a number of measures up to and including prison can be taken against them. Bitcoin has no such backstop since nobody ever NEEDS a bitcoin to pay off someone. Ransomware is a rare exception)
> So you've never worked for Apple but think people should know what you imagine people at Apple think?

I thought we didn't post personal attacks on HN.

That was uncalled-for.
Does Apple hire remote only engineers?
You can use passwords.google.com, which is what I have been using.
Sorry for the delay. You were quite wrong about that, and what's worse, wrong about it in a poisonous way (I'm sure unintentionally). The evidence points decisively to that account being a person of Chinese background who simply has different views than you do. It's natural for people of different backgrounds to have different views. If you can't stretch to accommodate that, and instead need to apply labels like 'astroturfer' or 'shill' in order to explain the presence of views so different from your own, the effect of that is to exclude minority voices. (Keep in mind that on this topic, unlike most others, the HN demographic is overwhelmingly one-sided. Although this is a highly international community, the overwhelming majority is Western and comes from a Western perspective.) Another effect is to poison the ecosystem here. That's not in the interest of this community, so we don't allow users to do that.

On a topic like this one, the cumulative effect of such (unintentional) poison is literally to hound users off the site for ethnic/racial/nationalistic reasons [1]. That's definitely not the community any of us wants to have here. Yet it has happened here more than once. If you read through some of the links at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... you'll find the history. Here's one example of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403358.

Also, I compiled this list of past moderation explanations a while ago for a different user who was worried about this stuff on HN. Perhaps it will be helpful to others who are worried: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod

FooBarWidget is definitely breaking the site guidelines by having posted almost nothing but arguments about China for the last couple of years. We don't allow that, for reasons I just explained elsewhere (and many times previously): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29717102. But that's a separate issue. Someone breaking the site guidelines in that way is not evidence of bad faith, let alone being a shill or foreign agent. It is far more likely to be evidence that they feel strongly about a topic for legitimate reasons, such as family background.

All of which is to say: you broke the site guidelines badly here, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't do that again.
That's what I do.

The number of times my home's been broken into: 0 (and based on news, virtually all of burglars are just looking for jewelry, wallets, and similar stuff and they won't bother trawling through your papers for passwords).

The number of times I've had devices on my network that run some hastily put together vendor firmware that was last updated six years ago: too many to count.

The number of times I've had to rush to update/patch my own computers to fix a newly disclosed remotely exploitable vuln: quite a few.

The number of times I've actually witnessed attempts at trying to exploit said remote vulns: too many to count! Sometimes mere hours after I've patched my stuff.

The number of times I've known I've had malware: at least a couple times (admittedly long ago, back when I ran Windows..).

I just don't trust keeping personal passwords on online connected computing devices. And password managers are a very lucrative target today (plus it tends to be all eggs in one basket for most people!).

I do keep passwords for employer's stuff in a password manager but not on the same device(s) I use said passwords on; even if you had malware on my work laptop, you wouldn't get my master password, nor would you be able to grab my password database. Passwords are also not stored on any third party service.

The price I pay is a relatively minor inconvenience. (I do have plans for something more convenient though!)
It's fitting, good password management is the "watch out for your Cornhole" of the 21st century...
This! Have seen this personally in multiple friend’s mail accounts. This way it is “surviving” password changes, 2FA changes etc
This is a mean spirited comment that doesn't belong on HN. Not going to argue but I don't feel that comments like these add anything of value to the discussion.
RuneScape was so famous for player scams it's a miracle anyone was willing to open the trading window at all.
Agreed. If it was a compromised extension it would steal all the passwords when you unlock and upload it somewhere like pastebin.
Being a midwest developer:

- Cost of living. Its the cheapest place in the US to live.

- Gender ratio. This is something new grads should absolutely consider. The gender ratio even on midwest tech teams feels nation-leading, with many of the companies I've talked to (including my own) near 50-50. But even beyond tech; its far more equitable here. This is a theme I see all the time with west-coast tech; they talk about making change, implement tons of policies to try to it happen, but here, its already happened. We just don't talk about it. This is important for new grads even beyond their job; finding a partner here is so much easier & more fun.

- Pay & Job Security. Some companies are "old" and still stuck in their ways and won't match more high-tech salaries. You'll find that anywhere. Other companies have more progressive leadership, despite being a traditionally old business, and pay aggressively well. You'll also find that anywhere. You have to spend some time researching who is who, but: these companies have tons of money, desire to modernize, and the best part: very little sense of what being a "good engineer" means. Read into that what you will, but: you literally won't ever have a problem finding a job. I've gotten offers after literally just casually talking with someone for fifteen minutes in a company's engineering leadership at a tech meetup.

- Remote. Many west coast companies are now paying west coast salaries regardless of work location. Local companies are pushing for more work-from-home or hybrid.

- Novelty. Tech still feels nascent in many of these cities. Maybe not MSP/Chicago, but more of the second tier midwestern cities. The communities are small, three-person startups are still everywhere, and there's a startling amount of "old money" looking to invest. Most awesomely, there's much less bullshit; in general, you hear what some of these companies are working on and think "shit, that will sell".

- Weather. You get used to it. But you know what we don't get? Wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Tornadoes are common, but they generally don't strike major cities. I'd take the midwest environment over west coast any day; warm weather every day is fine, but imagine buying a house in an area that's years overdue for an earthquake that will level your city.
You're probably right. Still, that doesn't make up for the fact Durov made his fortune with VKontakte that has the exact same toxic business model as Facebook. He began by exploiting tens of millions of VKontatke users. Now he's suddenly turned on his heels and "he's using his money for the good" by deploying tool he knows activists use, but that doesn't provide E2EE even for the small activist groups.

I gave Durov a benefit of the doubt in 2013, but as I saw their E2EE stayed as a bolted-on gimmick, as opposed to forming a solid foundation, that image of a philanthropist fighting against surveillance capitalism disappeared real quick. Telegram's security model is indistinguishable from Facebook: Parent company gets everything except opt-in E2EE messages, and neither company encourages their use.
Base64 costs 1.3x space, not 4x.
You bet. I felt the same and it felt like 'Am I the chosen one?'
Right, that is why browsers have the option to import passwords. I actually use Firefox at the same time and imported my passwords without any problems.
No, they are not. That 3 year old link did not come true. Today a eSIM QR code can be scanned by an iPhone, Pixel, Samsung or other esim supporting device. (source: I sell eSIMs)