skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is plausible (government mandate of remote attestation for any kind of Internet access), but if this happens, then I just add smallest and cheapest PC possible (think Atomic Pi) with this remote attestation hardware capability (Proton/TPM/whatever) to the separate VLAN on my home network (so it can't access any other host on LAN side of the router) and forget about the little thing until it fails, e.g. for next 15 years or so. I wouldn't trust this device with my data, I wouldn't run any meaningful applications on it, heck I won't ever attach any monitor or human input devices to the damn thing.
I feel that it’s very unappreciated that driving, by far and away, is the most dangerous thing most people do on a daily basis.
Isn't the whole point of Upwork to safe guard both sides and why people pay them?

What is the benefit here. This is as good as directly working with a client. Atleast then you keep all the money without having to pay Upwork a cut.

Why continue working on Upwork? They are clearly not providing any value if they did not even do a basic verification to see if the card belonged to the client.
Had a look at the source and I think I've figured out why and maybe how to fix it. Will have a bash at making a PR this week.
On the plus side Bulgarian food is excellent
Exact same thing happened with me couple of years back on Freelancer. They take a 10-20% cut and don't do anything to protect you against frauds. If the client used someone else's card to pay your fees, It's you who has to return it back to freelancer when the payment is reverted by the CC company.
It’s a telescope with a camera stuck to one end. I think people will be able to see what they paid for.
I see your point, in that if they allowed freelancers to keep the money, carders could launder money money via upwork. But here's the thing: generally it's a principle of good law for a risk to be laid on the party that can mitigate it. How can you, as an upwork worker, mitigate the risk of a client using a stolen card? Answer: you can't because you are not the one processing the card. So there is a moral hazard in that choice too.
> I do wonder why the author is still on Upwork, their rating & exposure on there must be worth more to them than working several weeks for free

why should they have to walk away? why even suggest such a strategy?

UpWork already has a 10% market share. so if there were 1000 employers, 100 of them would be the same company.

i'm not sure if you're aware of all the gigification and precaritization of digital labor going on? it's emerging as a frontal assault; a full-force attack on labor rights.

"For all of its forward-looking ‘innovation’, there’s something suspiciously feudal about Silicon Valley. Tech royalty compete for dominance in platform wars [...] They hoard resources while showering key personnel with lavish gifts to ensure loyalty and peddling a compelling story about their right to rule. Meanwhile, the remaining workers, dependent on ‘gigs’ for their livelihood, are made to battle with each other for scraps."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
what’s the point of upwork being a middle man in the transaction if they don’t assume any risk?
There's still 100x more ideas to clean coal pollution, bot nowhere near that to remove atomic solution. Saying something is viable over thousand of years is just dreaming.
Rose tinted glasses?

Visual Basic (classic) that you mentioned, discontinued in 2008, was not free, unless you pirated it.

> ‘just drawing things’

For that you have much more amazing things today, like Shadertoy, or various artistic programming languages like Processing, ...

Programming is easier than ever, computers are extremely cheap, software is free, documentation on the internet is free, YouTube is full of tutorials, there are literally no obstacles if you want to do it.

Back in my day I had to pay for computers, for programming software, for books, Internet cost a fortune, ...
Right, but the point about the closed server infrastructure still stands, though, and you have to blindly trust them not to collect data about you or interfere with your message delivery, compared to a possible decentralized system.
Agreed. Drop it before you take on any cost. Get in touch with all current clients outside of Upwork and offer your services direct.
As you said, by next year they will close all nuclear plants.
Where is the word "expert" used?
> If I get added to a group chat (any group chat, since my entire family and social circle uses iPhones), that chat is immediately degraded to potato videos, every like is now a whole string of useless text, etc.

I think this should at the very least be classified as a new dark pattern - and it sounds as if it could potentially even have antitrust implications:

Apple's strategy is effectively that users of competing products aren't just put at a disadvantage themselves, Apple will disadvantage their whole social circle and rely on social pressure to drive them back from the competitor.

This seems honestly extremely anticompetitive. (Not to mention, has icky similarities to china-style social credit systems)
This is true, but on the other hand, the alternative is to work 230 hours for free with no guarantee this won't happen again in the future. It's a difficult decision.
In the beginning was the command line. Then work of bright people of Xerox PARC was used to hide from users the reality that underneath their beloved GUI, computers are just passing around strings of text. Now we yearn for a time when you were just one INT and several MOV away from putting a pixel on a screen, instead of downloading multi-GB IDE to fiddle for a weekend before you can show a simple window.
I was really hoping this was about competitive orienteering, but on mountain bikes.
My Inky Dashboard
> I not sure it can be considered a lie though

Fauci later said that the reason they advised against masks was because of fears of a PPE shortage. So either Fauci admitted that his earlier position was a deception, or his later claim was itself deceptive.
My experience with Flutter was more enjoyable than with native iOS or React Native.

I don’t enjoy Javascript for many reasons in addition to it’s lack of standard library.

Swift is a fine language if only the compiler could keep up with a large project.

Dart is both fast to compile and has a usable suite of standard libraries.
> At the same time, as its size grows, the area of the antenna that's not exposed to the transmitted wavefront increases even more rapidly than the area that is, making it a losing proposition to keep increasing the size alone.

And this is based on frequency correct? So frequency is direct component.

>One key point is that in neither case is any amplification or "gain" present. It's just a matter of which approach captures more of the limited number of photons available.

Gain: the factor by which power or voltage is increased in an amplifier or other electronic device, usually expressed as a logarithm.

Gain does not require amplification, the transmission gain of antenna is not based on it, nether is reception. In both transmission and reception it is based on how efficient the antenna is and it's directionality. Both are directly tied to frequency and geometry together, you cannot ignore frequency as the GP said.

This paper seems to be a great resource and helped reaffirm my understanding of frequency being a key component in antenna design and it not being "shoehorned" in. Gain and effective area are proportional to each other and therefore the term gain is used for receiving antennas because it matches it transmission characteristics, hence reciprocity:

"Many antenna properties are the same for both transmitting and receiving. It is often easier to calculate the gain of a transmitting antenna than the collecting area of a receiving antenna, and it is often easier to measure the receiving power pattern of a large radio telescope than to measure its transmitting power pattern. Thus this receiving/transmitting “reciprocity” greatly simplifies antenna calculations and measurements. Reciprocity can be understood via Maxwell’s equations or by thermodynamic arguments.

Burke and Graham-Smith [20] state the electromagnetic case for reciprocity clearly: “An antenna can be treated either as a receiving device, gathering the incoming radiation field and conducting electrical signals to the output terminals, or as a transmitting system, launching electromagnetic waves outward. These two cases are equivalent because of time reversibility: the solutions of Maxwell’s equations are valid when time is reversed.”

https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/web/Ch3.html
Clearly, because UpWork can’t even find paying customers.
They told edison and tesla theyre crazy too, dont stress and dont undermine power of human minds when it comes to working together on global solution (see vaccine).
Yep, I've asked before and consulted a few lawyers. Not actually fraud. Kind of a grey area unless I'm explicitly stealing trade secrets or IP.

As for getting fired, I've never been fired but I've also never been caught. Getting kind of good at it, doing this for the past 5+ years. I would assume the nice thing about getting fired in this situation is having multiple incomes to fall back on. I've never had trouble finding new jobs.
There's a certain kind of computer science paper from the 90s, very frequently encountered if you're familiar with the research. The typesetting is incredibly ugly, and they're all ugly in the same characteristic way. See for example [1] (just the first one I found, some are quite a bit worse). I want to know the story behind this.

In the case of my example, note that when you load this paper in a browser, the tab will say "main.dvi". So I'm guessing the paper was typeset in LaTeX, published as DVI, and when PDF came along they converted it, but the DVI -> PDF conversion algorithm was really bad.

[1] https://courses.cs.duke.edu/spring02/cps296.1/papers/H-SIGMO...
> Politicians' decisions affect millions.

Dont forget the US Supreme court where you literally cling to your job till you die. Those judges are one of the most selfish and egoistic people on earth.
I hope this gets the visibility it needs and some lawyers get involved.

As many others have mentioned, if this is a fair world (i really want it to be), this is Upwork's problem and them eating the cost.

Funds not being "good" is not the freelancer's problem. It's literally why you use/pay a platform like Upwork. So you don't have to deal with wether the bank transfer happened.

i.e. How does the freelancer have any knowledge, power or ability to know whether the credit card being used is legit?
Have you considered using your own paypal or bank account to work on freelancing platforms? This almost reads as satire.
The first time I got to 4 green letters, iOS Safari crashed on me. Wasn’t sure if that was the adversarial part, but laughed hoping it was.
Even Nintendo allows you to buy Nintendo games at a store not owned by Nintendo. I'm not sure how the commissions break down but you can still buy digital Nintendo games at other stores like Amazon, Humble Bundle, Wal-mart etc. And of course physical options are still a thing and Nintendo doesn't see a dime if I buy game off some dude on Craigslist. I can't get anything off the Apple App Store without going through Apple.

Apple doesn't make most of their revenue from selling games. It's selling microtransactions in games. They are basically skimming off a few thousand digital casinos at this point.
It's largely due to the relatively low effort required to hunt and catch one. Less energy spent means it's economical to hunt the scrawny ones.

You could spend a couple of days chasing down the larger specimens, but they tend to put up more of a struggle, and in the time spent, you could have a dozen scrawny engineers already in your larder or stew.
If you're into the SQL side (compared to jq's custom query language) of querying arbitrary files I've got a comparison of some major tools here too.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/tree/main/runn...
Hey, just checked, in Germany it's available to buy on Apple TV but not it's not part of Apple TV+. Currently the API only supports Apple TV+.
Scientists vacuum zoo animals' DNA out of the air
Netflix, Facebook, and Instagram, but for Kids?
So sorry to hear friend. I've been there, I wager if you find the right job, you'll feel a lot better. I know it's tough when everyone around you looks at you with heat, that was my prime motivation to get a job tbh! Since then, I've discovered the job provides a lot of meaning and purpose, it's a great thing. Good luck, I hope you can find a position.
Indeed, excellent work. Was thinking more of personal customisation based on previous selections/ratings rather than filters.
Same here. I use a Brother wireless B/W laser, which is awesome. It cost me approx USD 300 up front but run cost is comparably lower. And you don’t have to deal with the dubious practices of HP.

I actually bought the printer after 5 years of pain with an HP inkjet printer. I had ordered two new cartridges for it, supposedly original HP. After plugging them in, the printer tells me they are not “genuine”. Speaking to support of the cartridge distributer, I’m told I need to rub the chip at the back with a soft cloth (!), which didn’t seem to work. I called HP support who told me it is a firmware error and then I need to do a factory reset. Problem is the printer is now stuck in a doom loop where it will complain about ingenuity of the cartridges and ask me to inset a new cartridge before I can access the system menu, but I didn’t have any replacements (as the empty cartridge wouldn’t work either). I ended up throwing out the printer. For the sake of your own well-being and wallet, don’t buy HP printers!
But here you have even indicated that you have a personal preference for the "horse and buggy" vs the "car" in this analogy the Paper would be the buggy, where as the car would be something like a Remarkable, SuperNote, or iPAD...

So the paperless technology is there, people just choose not to use it, so if I was a billionaire looking to invest in something I would choose to invest in making this technology better, more appealable, and more accessible to more people than I would in disruption of the printer market
Genius! Except that level of pretending to work is almost too much work.
Simplified models are not lies, they are true within a defined domain of discourse. That's not what you were describing.
I feel like the the two major ones that keep coming up are: Google Reader & NewGrounds during the golden age of Flash. Both could be revived for the TikTok era. But would probably reflect usage today: mobile native, algorithmically curated, etc.
Quit the platform if the platform isn't eating the loss as a matter of failing with their own diligence work.

And if they come after you, hire an attorney and manage it away from.... the internet...
Chromebooks give you full flashing & serial console access for both AP (main CPU) and EC over an SBU cable, run open source firmware on both AP and EC (modulo FSP/AGESA), even run open source firmware on the root of trust (you can't replace that one with an unsigned build on a retail device but you can study it for sure).

Apple silicon Macs have the main CPU cores fully in control, with zero external peripherals having full DMA access to system RAM (everything goes through IOMMU), and have an interesting secureboot architecture that allows different security levels on different OS installations (you can run unsecured Linux side-by-side with a fully Netflix-ready macOS).

I have much worse news about the typical Intel BootGuard'ed PC laptop.
A library should absolutely not be using a cryptographic hash for something like a hash table unless they have very particular requirements. You don't want to force a significant performance penalty on all your users when there are good general-purpose hashes like XXH3 out there.
I believe there were some visual basic books you could get that would have a CD-ROM with a limited version in the back, but I may not be remembering correctly. Of course, you could also check those books out of the library and online activation wasn't really a thing then, so that's how I remember starting.
I would love to, but unfortunately a lot of the laptop hardware is pretty garbage in comparison. I can deal with a slower CPU maybe, but it's the whole stack. The bodies are all cheap plastic. Battery lasts 3 hours. And you have only like 1080p TN panels; nothing OLED or with color accuracy in mind is on these. Similar feelings extend to phones as well.
> emergency services are so overwhelmed

Is it because of the vaccinated or unvaccinated people?
The con artist who sold rich investors a fake country
> From a business strategy perspective, it makes a lot of sense not to eat the credit card risk, otherwise you commit yourself to a very bad position

Well yeah but if they don't they put their contractors in an even worse position because it's unlikely they can each build their own fraud detection infrastructure.
"After some research.. ..I decided to give it a go."

Hmm.. From my experience, every time I pick a new language / framework, always always always do proof-of-concept for ALL features you might need: camera, GPS, webview, deeplinking, etc. Don't want surprises.

Esp. if you already have an existing app, you should have a clear visibility of what's needed.
You're right if juniors take over, but with experience I've learned to understand that things are done a certain way for a reason. Sometimes they didnt see a bigger pictures but many time they did and something blocked them from solving the problem Im trying to solve in maintenance mode.

Commenting too much in the code simply makes my work impossibly hard because I need to juggle with contradictory statements. I ve found that always committing with a ticket reference and keeping tickets forever allows me to go back sometimes decades ago to understand the problem they were solving at the time, for each layer of the code im looking at (each line having an history).

I read comments now with suspicion as sometimes the comment is a commit 20 years ago and the associated line is 5 years old. Should it have always been kept in sync ? Yes. Could it have been ? I've never seen it done properly.
If I see the "300 points of failure" mention one more time without them providing a list of these said 300 points of failure, I'm going to go insane
> Once upon a time, one could download visual studio, click about to make a new project in (e.g.) Visual Basic, draw a gui in the gui editor, and click the run button

The world that lived behind that experience - COM & Active X Controls - was extremely complex. If you needed to build a new active x control for your app, god save you.

It's been said a million times, but in programming there is always complexity. Sometimes it is just well hidden.
Can't talk about this yet still in various countries. And frankly other countries have denied this and just label deaths such as this as "excess non covid deaths" which is horribly disingenuous and insulting...

How long until someone (in the mainstream media) counts human life days saved vs human life days lost due to mismanagement and bad policies.
In this case it's CRAM and I don't think content covers cases concerning hardware like this.

Maybe Consumer Restricted Access Pattern.

In essence those are monopolistic and consumer hostile practices.
Good time to ask how the “penalty of perjury” works (or supposed to)? Who is supposed to enforce it? I think every infringement notice has a statement with those words.
Apart from the idempotent ones ... :-)
What if you need to print pamphlets, booklets, or place cards? What about your academic thesis?
You can just netcat a postscript file to the printer via TCP. No need for drivers.
Torrent, vod, old good dvd. You just need to control what they watch. As well watching more than one or two hours of tv by kids was proven to have negative effects on their concentration and grades later in primary school.

So maybe:
- selection of vod,
- books reading,
- something else than stupid box which as well cuts down on their imagination (you know, fiest elephant ive heard about from mothers book story... I had to imagine that bastard!)

Netflix has option for kids, but its still little control. There are ghosts whatever. Not really for kids in all age groups.
The blog post went pretty easy Robin. It sounds like he is a criminal that stole money and the question now is who is going to end up being the victim. Maybe that should be upwork or the credit card bank, but they aren’t the main bad actor here.

Why hasn’t Al filed a criminal complaint?
I have not read the specification of matter (which is a joint standard). But Apple‘s custom HomeKit protocol was designed to work without any cloud service by design. I use it without any cloud control, i won‘t be able to control my heater or light from on the go but because of WiFi without any central at my home.
You can have that by signing in. Once you have couple of stuff in your favorites list, in Feed page a new row called "Movies for You" and "Series for You" will appear. Though right now it's updated every 24 so it might take up to a day for them to appear.
These are entirely different things. Literate programming tells you what the code does in large code bases and why it is correct.

Notebooks are used for small snippets, many of them trivial. The comments usually tell you what the buggy snippet is supposed to to. They are more like Powerpoint.
By the time Machiavelli wrote The Prince, the very act of writing the book was a tracer round to rampant political cynicism. Once an attitude or ideology is the target of satire, it has already bcome interwoven into a society. I presume that to be even moreso in eras where publishing had high cost.

There's also this naive commitment to truth. Yes, we want our mental models to be more accurate and predictive. What if a model results in an increase of net suffering? What is the role of a democratic government, to provide services to a society to lessen individual offering, or to pursue truth and align legislation at all costs?
Yes, but isn't this exactly what Upwork gets paid to take care of?

The only way that Upwork's actions are justified is if the author was complicit in this scam. In which case, he wouldn't have really been working, and he would have split the money back with Robin, the guy who "hired" him on Upwork.

But in that case, Upwork would obviously kick the author off of Upwork, not ask them to continue working.
100%, the fact that you can literally pipe some data in a command-line IRC client is 1000x more conducive to such tweaking than using custom APIs/SDKs

long live the Unix model!
peeps here can be very literal, it's I suspect no accident
The author dedicated a fair amount of the post to say whether cross-platform frameworks are a good idea, the majority of posts here seem to be focused on the same subject. Given a lot of discussion about Ionic and React Native here, I figured I would toss in my two-cents.

To my memory of working with Swift, I wasn’t left wanting much when I moved to Dart.

Dart isn’t as interested in value-semantics as Swift, so there are all kinds of Dart packages for immutable classes and collections, so that’s a notable miss.

I believe they’re planning to add something more like Swift’s struct to Dart. (dataclass proposal)