skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some potential areas to consider

- used a VPN service that was malicious
- router is compromised
- someone near you was running a MITM device like Stingray (assuming you were using a mobile device away from home)
- mobile device had unpatched OS (exploit gains root access via something like binary sms)
- your desktop / laptop is compromised
Ubisoft Is Hemorrhaging Developers
I've found that although I'm the "most techy" person in my group, yet I'm also the most "luddist" --- I have zero "smart devices" in my home, and all my white goods are mid-century if not older. The idea of having an always-on surveillance device owned by Big Tech in one's home has always felt incredibly dystopian.

As a comment on an article when Alexa first came out said: "we don't need to force the proles to install telescreens, they'll do it themselves."
1) People chase therapies like Metformin without seeing their blood sugar.

2) You can treat high blood sugar with diet. You have to know you have high blood sugar though.

3) More demand generally means lower prices in the long run unless some specific component is constrained, which I doubt is the case for these sensors.
Yet you have your phone, laptop, your family + family members also have laptop & phone.

You're already being tracked and listened to all the time. You're only as strong as the weakest device on you and or in your phone at any point.
At 20+ years into my career is it super weird that I've never once worked with a recruiter?

Everything I've done in the past 10 years has not been from a job that was advertised as an opening anywhere, but through industry contacts.
I think even in the cases where users hurt the experience, we tend to blame the higher org for not resolving the conflict. "There are people bullying on the platform" -> "Why doesn't Google get rid of the bullying behaviors?!" instead of "Why don't people stop bullying?"

I think we also have a tendency to take it to the next level, which is often government. If people are scamming me through Gmail, we can tend to not think it's the fault of the people scamming or of Gmail but of the government for not forcing Gmail to stop the scamming or the person from doing scamming directly.

So I appreciate you bringing the attention back down to the ground level. While I disagree in that it would be only the users, I believe they (we) contribute to the problems as well as Google and the government and many other entities.
> IMHO, skip OpenWRT. It is much more difficult to get working correctly than HN likes to admit.

Does not match my experience at all. My router would regularly go offline with the stock firmware which never happened after I flashed OpenWRT.
The pressure is from discerning whether we as parents are doing all we can and providing the right resources, environment, etc for her to reach milestones. For example, behind on nonverbal communications? Have we been gesturing enough, demonstrating enough? Are we doing wrong when we leave her in the pack and play for a bit while getting work done? It seems impossible to know.
> the very idea of having to drive somewhere to physically deposit pieces of paper to transfer money around sounds absurd

The reason the US banking system is so relatively slow and manual compared to foreign systems is that the US has never felt a need to create a cheap and efficient federal electronic check clearing system. The US is a capital generating superpower and a marginal improvement in banking would be a drop in the bucket. Most other countries either need quick and efficient banking to maintain their capital generating industries or quick and efficient banking is their industry.
The DLP team did not anticipate this. ;)
I wholeheartedly agree, but that doesn't mean I want to add the additional attack surface/threat model of having an always on Alexa or Google home device, even before I consider the additional privacy and data sharing implications.
Yeah there wasn’t omicron then
There's no reason to be this snarky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#H...

I took you up on it regardless, and it doesn't have much to do with snake oil salesmen according to the Wikipedia article.

Either way, nobody is arguing for the abolition of the FDA. The paternalistic attitude and restrictions are what the parent commenters have an issue with.
Apple Must Let Dating Apps Offer Alternative Payment Option Dutch Regulator Says
I used Dragula[^1] for a form builder in the past and had quit a pleasent experience. Though I don't know how it would hold with a drag centric (card game) UI

[1]: https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/
I would argue that neither the Boogaloo movement nor the NRX movement (despite its name) can be considered purely reactionary.

The Boogaloo movement is/was composed primarily of hardline libertarians, and right-anarchists

The NRX movement makes reference to medieval texts and ancient political thought that has they are separated from by generations.

To the extent that either group has cohesive visions for the future, their visions are alien to anything we've seen in the past hundred years. They envision fundamental social, governmental, and economic transformations. Retrograde, but in part only just now enabled by new technologies.

They full-throatedly embrace change, but want a different kind of change.

They don't fit cleanly into either box.

But you don't need to be revolutionary to be counter culture. MAGA was counter culture in 2016. The Amish are counter culture, they're just not cool counter culture, or even necessarily desireable counter culture. They merely existed in opposition to cultural trends that dominant and prestige media outlets were embracing, and inspired their vocal opposition.
I suspected the hug of death would cause this site to fall over. Right after it was posted I linked an archive link [0]. However I started getting downvoted so I deleted my comment. Not sure what was wrong with doing that.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20211227162115/http://ifthisbetre...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/the-biden-administra...

> The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays” ... The plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity. It also recommended, right on the first page, a nationwide “Testing Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge” ... An administration official who attended the meeting told Vanity Fair that, while everyone present shared the same goal of expanding rapid testing as soon as possible, the plan could not be implemented at that time: “We did not have capacity to manufacture over-the-counter tests at that scale.” The problem, in essence, was twofold: The FDA had authorized only a handful of different home tests, and those it had authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough.
Most people don't live so far away from stores, or anything else. The vast majority of the population in any modern society is urban. And urban people can get by just fine on public transit anywhere that decides to put it in.
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
That's a dismissive attitude of other people's suffering. I have never had debilitating migraines, but I feel compassion for people who experience them. I value any innovation that would alleviate their suffering, just as I hope others would feel about problems I have.
I have a few Qt apps and haven’t observed anything like this; most likely that’s been fixed. I’ve been using Wayland since April.

(One thing that is comically broken about Sway and I think Wayland in general is cursor sizes. Specifying `seat seat0 xcursor_theme Adwaita 96` nets me at least four or I think five different cursor sizes, varying by app, and at least one of the dodgy sizes is actually a fractional scaling bug, scaling by ceil(1.5) rather than 1.5.)
I wish stuff like that would convince most people to actually read the pages' contents instead of consuming Google's digested excrement. I hate how Google Search is trying to turn into something other than a search engine.
I've been gifted Alexa devices nearly every holiday season since they came out. My partners mother says it's so we can talk to each other. I put my sandal down and don't allow any of it on my LAN. The social stigma is strong. Google Home was nice for awhile because I could ask simple things without pulling out my phone (and giving it a chance to hook me) but I've since removed all smart devices.

Good riddance.
Those will last basically forever. The rib covers the fasteners and prevents water intrusion. The old style corrugated stuff leaks pretty bad unless you torque the screws juuuust right. Pretty sure the grommets under the screw heads degrade after a while, even if you get them perfect.
Strange. I remember people using the shift key back in the web0 days to capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

Get off my lawn.
In my experience, sales people who have very few reservations about cold calling somebody treat it as a bulk process and depersonalize things.

The idea of sitting down and making dozens of cold calls, outbound, would be my own idea of a personal hell. There is not enough money in the world to get me to do that.

It definitely takes a certain personality type.
>premised on an impermissible value judgment that significantly restricts individual autonomy

Similar to the CSA, I'm sensing a theme
I wonder why this isn't used to store power in a battery that's used for IoT devices?
Is this an argument for business opportunity dressed in morality clothing?
Zooming in to See Transistors on in a CPU
I fail to see how Sweden failed. Sweden did no worse than many other countries who "locked down". What is effective vs. what the action was are different. And while there weren't many countries that stayed open, there were others - including S. Korea and some of the -stan countries. And many places, such as some counties in the US were locked down in principle but not in practice.
Looks interesting.

Includes audio - stereo speakers and microphone array.

Not sure the display can be used on a VESA mount; there are ports on the stand, but a detail illustration shows feed-through to ports on the hinge.

The Amazon UK site seems to be willing to ship it to my US address.

About $780, with that shipping cost.
I’m a big fan of Uppy @ https://uppy.io. I’m not sure if you’ve given that a spin yet?
"Sorry Fred, you meet, even exceed, all of our expectations for the position, however you prefer to stay too long, so fuck right off."

Seriously? This is absurd.
They would probably think different if fork() was fast on windows.
I dunno. I’m no libertarian, but we should still take some reasonable level of responsibility as parents. I’d be fine with some negative PR resulting in big warning labels. Like power tools you’d have to be an idiot to let your young children use. Just needs to be classified as dangerous for children at some appropriate level.

Tough call though as they are marketed for an environment rife with young’uns.

I don’t and probably never will own one of these devices btw (and never let a smart tv connect to my router).
There isn't one for AMD64/"x64", only for Itanium and DEC Alpha, and the Alpha version was never truly released so there's only an RC2 build for that platform.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100718055750/http://findarticl...
I often want to reteach myself handwriting to be able to write like this. Has anyone here had success in doing this? How did you go about it?
I was living in Hungary most of 2021. Any time I needed rapid tests, it took me no longer than 20 minutes to get as many as I needed from the nearest pharmacy. I had to pay ~$5/each for them, which was fine for me. On my way to the US, I stopped in Mexico for two weeks (there were no direct flights, so I decided to get some beach time in). Rapid tests were available on every block, and it took 5 minutes to get one any time. Now I'm in Ohio. A family member didn't test before our Christmas Eve gathering (in retrospect, I should have required it), and ended up symptomatic and testing positive yesterday. Today I was searching for tests from 8am, I checked literally every pharmacy in the county, called all of the county health department's testing centers, libraries, universities, etc. There was not a single rapid test available anywhere, at home or on-site. Finally at 1pm the county health department tweeted to me that they got a shipment and it was first come first serve, two tests per person. So I drove over, and by the time I got there, they were handing out the last tests in their box. I was able to get only two tests. They were free, though I would have happily paid for them. But I found it infuriating that it was so impossible to get a rapid test when needed. I still don't have as many as I should on hand. I don't know what kind of backward, shithole country this has become, where even basic healthcare services are unavailable, but I'm considering going back to Mexico or Hungary as soon as possible.
It very much depends on how conductive your skin is, the mineralization of any water you happen to be standing in, what shoes you’re wearing, and what the path to ground looks like. Household current can absolutely kill, but it all depends on the circuit you form. 200 milliamperes are lethal and the fuses in your electric panel trip at 10 or 15 amps. Resistance is not futile. I=V/R
There's a variety of 15.6" portable monitors, most seeming to have the same specs and obviously based on some laptop panel.
As far as I've seen, that's really the only way. Maybe with a slight throttle for the onMouseMove handler if the performance isn't great.

I wonder if a different UX would help? Like clicking on a card and clicking on the drop target instead of dragging it? It would be less tactile but also a lot nicer on a trackpad.
That's the ghosting problem I referred to, although image retention is the accurate term. I never noticed that it was mostly the outer edges of the screen, but now that you mention it, the image persistence on mine seems to be mostly on the outer 2-4 inches of the screen.

Agreed. Not a dealbreaker, especially since it's such a great screen otherwise. Although given the price, it's a shame this problem exists.
> Is there evidence that these snake oil people: 1. Exist as a significant force?

Dietary supplements, homeopathic "medicine", chiropractic, essential oils, Goop and similar new age stuff ... Snake oil business is thriving and expanding if anything.
The kids teach themselves. They are surprisingly good at listening to sounds and observing correlated effects.
Also note that the default drag and drop API doesn't support touch enabled devices.
Academic absolutely but social hell no
It's how I feel about kids being glued to YouTube screens with auto-suggest. The success measurement is based on stickiness and the algorithm is learning based on failure.

Tech spent so long celebrating the virtue of failure, they neglected to recognize that some failure can be magnitudes more dangerous than others (like a web page failing to load compared to YouTube suggesting an inappropriate video to a 5 year old).
Take my opinion with a grain of salt as I’m a teenager, not a father (yet) but am indeed a son of two wonderful parents. I’d say track up to whatever you feel comfortable, maybe set relatively small and spaced out milestones for your child. I think the most important thing would be to be comfortable with your partner and of course have a happy child.
Oddly enough we do have current day examples of people drinking bleach after being told it would help with COVID.

The numbers weren't quite that high, though
Relax. Parenting is hard enough without making up arbitrary milestones for your child to reach.
There is little to no moderation for the Alexa Skill platform. For example, Skills can call external APIs and audio files hosted in external S3 Buckets, which is an easy vector of attack. It is very easy to change a custom skill’s behavior and/or dialog to something malicious after review and certification/submission.
I’d argue in terms of usability, todays platforms are an improvement. You can just look at pure user counts and see they are more usable/accessible overall than usernet (or irc for that matter) ever was. Discord, for example, is easy enough to learn that millions of non-technical users have been able to hop on and start using it.

Perhaps you’re thinking of efficiency in terms of screen/white space or CLI workflows over GUI workflows.
My experience working as a senior engineer in FAANG is you get a 2 year old Intel MacBook and maybe a grand to spend on some accessories. Like 80% of my peers thought their 60hz Dell 1440p monitor was state of the art and couldn’t tell the difference between a Celeron and an i9 10900x if their life depended on it.
None in particular, though other voice services I've used are dependent on search engine aggregation like this.
look up people that can accomplish a lot in short period of time, at least less than half a year or <2years, like geohot, Alyssa Rosenzweig or Mike Blumenkrantz and more
Remember the nightmare of soft modems? They were a combined audio and modem sharing the same DSP chipset. They were terrible and shipped with a lot of PCs. I think they finally worked out the kinks when cable modems and DSL became an option.

There were also a neat series of adapters starting in the late 90s that were combined modems with telephone line loop nics. All the NICs plugged into the same telephone line would see each other on the network. Windows had an option to share Internet connection and even autoconnect a modem when another PC needed an internet connection.
Your daughter will be fine even if you ignore all these milestones, there is so much variability between kids that it causes lots of anxiety in parents.

You are most certainly good enough parents to give her a bright future. You seem to care! Continue to put in time and focus on the small things in your shared life. Read stories together, eat together, play etc.

If you want to really cure yourself of this, just get a few more kids ;-) First kid is always the biggest challenge and most associated stress around if they develop “right”.
That's called a standing seam metal roof. They're fantastic because the joints are in those raised parts where they stay away from water. The wide flat areas are an unbroken surface that really can't leak. They have an expected life span of 50 years as opposed to 30 for many traditional asphalt shingle roofs and they can be recycled completely. IMHO they're one of the all around best materials. The one reason you don't see more of them is that they cost more up front. But the longer life span means it's really a better long term value.
Display distance is between 3ft and 4ft away for me depending on exact seating posture - so somewhere around 1m.
Yeah I don’t mean to give megacorps a free pass either. I just think it’s in our nature to collectively ruin most things that start out great… and like you say, blame everyone else.
Joan Didion a couple days ago and Wayne Thiebaud now. Very sad. As a Sacramentan it's especially sad to see our two most famous lights on Earth get snuffed so close to one-another.
Size and power? One cubic foot of air generates 3.6 microwatt hours. This clock is a lot more efficient than an Arduino!

Also, temperature controlled environments might not have a 6 degree day to night cycle.
My new laptop is practically silent with a hundred browser tabs open - Ryzen 5800u in yoga slim 7 carbon
I get why engineers hate it. I am on a team where at 2 months, if we become fully staffed at some point, I will be in the top half of seniority between resignations and transfers to new teams.

It is quite concerning to see so much knowledge about how things work walk out the door and it is miserable if something goes wrong and nobody left knows it existed. So I get why engineers view a year as hit and run.

But yes, companies seem to interpret staying a year or two as evidence of growth/a highly desirable candidate.
Children don't come out of the womb with the faculties of adults.
That was some funny stuff. Watching this guy make Sony freak out and chase after him down the street with lawyers. Halt varlet, for I shalt sue!
Ten fingers, ten toes, a healthy appetite and a smiling face are the metrics that matter.
the leetcode interview process is also seen as daunting and a huge barrier that can make someone think twice about switching jobs

There's a lot of truth to this, but the result is that the inertia effect acts as a form of retention for FAANGs. This has only increased since they are losing their ability to maintain anti-poaching agreements.
Du har 99% döda kommentarer men bara -5 karma? Vad är din hemlighet?

Jag sku finna dina kommentarer moderatligt underhållande om de var nån annanstans än på HN.
Same experience.

You can get nicer stuff, but you should order it specifically, and explain why you need it.
Look at the public utility districts in Eastern Washington state, which both own and operate their own last mile and middle mile electrical grids, and also dark fiber networks on the same poles.

In my opinion some of them are run better than others, but overall, it's a worthy effort and provides service via third party ISPs, to places that are grossly underserved by the local incumbent telephone or cable TV operator.
I think that's why YouTubers self-censor the word "suicide". Intent is currently difficult to parse, so mod bots probably have a low threshold for blocking related content. I think TikTok had this problem with bomb threats to schools, claiming that the only content they found was imploring people to be aware of the threats, not actually engage in them.
There is no such thing in the US. Law degrees do not require a thesis. It is an article written for submission to a law review.
rock on; to wit: YMMV
I'll add that sales is about overcoming objections. This is done most effectively in real-time. Sales of all variants have a preference for real-time discussions because they can get people to agree with things and navigate the turning no into yes.
For anyone wondering how it's done commercially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bUhM6Lp53U

Nice hype tech though. I'm sure someone is going to start a blockchain farm next.
Elastic CEO reflects on Amazon spat, license switch, and the principles of OSS
Devil's advocate-

Mammograms are a very useful diagnostic tool, but only when applied in the right circumstances because of the rate of false positives. It's recommended for 50+, but when given to a 30-year old, the results are meaningless in most cases (it becomes more likely to get a false positive than a real positive).

Knowing when to take tests and interpreting test results are sometimes an important part of the test.
Enlightenment 0.25.0 Release
I used to think that real life ad block was the killer app for AR.

Now I think that this isn't a problem that needs a technology solution, but instead needs a civic and social strategy.

Ads are a huge drain on our collective mental space, for no benefit to most people.
For what it's worth, I find a lot of Zig code benefits from switching to u32/u64 indexes into an array instead of using pointers. This is only really doable if your container doesn't delete entries (you can tombstone them), but the immediate benefit is you don't have pointers which eliminates the use after free errors you mentioned.

The other benefit is that you can start to use your ID across multiple containers to represent an entity that has data stored in multiple places.

See [1] for a semi-popular blog post on this and [2] for a talk by Andrew Kelley (Zig creator) on how he's rebuilding the Zig compiler and it uses this technique.

[1] https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
[2] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d...
But there were two other variants and tests could have stopped the spread.