skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon’s Sidewalk network is backing Tile. All those Echoes, by default, are hardware trackers, too.

Which is why Tile is much better in dense areas than it used to be.
Kind-of-related: I'm wondering if anyone can help me find a website I found a long time ago (probably through StumbleUpon, if that tells you anything about how long ago)

It was a "government document simulator." What you would do is upload a nicely scanned document, and it'd give you back a mis-alighed, crappy quality "scan" of that document, with random blotches and other visual noise. You know, like regular government/FOIA-received documents.

I feel like this is halfway there, if not more (so thank you!), but that website was so authentic.

I don't know if it's even around, but it made me giggle, and I'd like to find it again. If not--great startup idea!
i'd be advocating for a 4-day work week for people who typically have to work 5 or more days per week, typically 40 or more hours per week.

as for a 4-day not 'fitting' many industries and positions, i'm guessing that could actually be true in some very limited set of positions/circumstances -- none i can think of off the top of my head, tho.

the advocacy org tries to, effectively, grant everyone a weekend, and even expand it. it could seek to change the puritanical/wage-slavery mentality of americans and others, or argue for unions, and all sorts of tangentially-related topics, but it'd prob just focus on getting a 4-day work week for people who typically have to 'work' 5 days a week, even if much of that work is just presentee-ism.

the reason(s) people might want to support the org -- and the 4-day work week -- could be various, and even opposed to each other -- but the org would be relatively neutral on that.

like, you want more free time so you can work to _really_ make sure black people and Democrats can no longer vote? well, that's not ideal, but if you support a 4-day work week, then we're still on the same side of the 4-day work week issue -- hopefully there will be other folks working on the other side of your vote-stealing efforts.

there are lots of risks to asking for a 4-day -- i def agree with that -- from 20% pay cuts, to 100% pay cuts, to eliminating health insurance (Americans), to increased worker instability/vulnerability, etc. these risks are already there, but they're dramatically increased - potentially/probably - with a 4-day work week.
European Commission launches new open source software bug bounty program
(This is not a sarcastic comment).

This is absolutely fantastic! Google is a $2.6 trillion company with more than 5 servers, which is the number of servers needed to support every user on Earth doing transactions all the time (7 billion users * 1 transaction = 7 billion transactions = 1 server, call it 5.) I really think they will be able to host a 60 gigabyte file and support 7 transactions per second without using the electricity of a small country - which is the status quo in blockhain.

I really hope they succeed. It's literally just integers in a database (if you count by the penny). I've hoped Google would do something like this for a long time, and a close second option would be for someone else to do the same thing simply riding on top of their shared spreadsheet infrastructure, like, oh hey by the way since this spreadsheet view easily scales to a billion users do you mind if we use it to save the planet?

As an added benefit I do believe the FBI or SEC could get some visibility on there so that their version doesn't end up a cesspool of fraud.

Go, Google! This is what you were born to do![1] I'm excited to see what they do with this.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/founders-letters/2004-ipo-letter/ : "Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one. "
The future is made of dreamers after all.
I guess it's a question of minimizing risks and it seems likely that

risk of shorturl site going away > risk of website going away > risk of archive.org going away
Okay, so I have to count the device cost in. And I don't see an official Android client in Google Play. Seems like showstopper for me.
Notice anything about the Google Image Search results for 'frustrating'?
Why Snark Hunting Is the New Obsession of Health-Tech VC's
Why Snark Hunting is the new obsession of Health-Tech VC’s.

Not everybody will have read The Hunting of the Snark, a nonsense poem by Victorian writer and Alice in Wonderland creator, Lewis Carroll. In it a hunting team, including a Barrister, Butcher, Baker, Banker and Broker - just the crew today’s working-from-home VC needs! - pursue the far-away and elusive but much prized Snark whilst carefully avoiding the Boojum, a lethal creature that’s been known to masquerade as a Snark. Many Snark hunters think they’ve netted their quarry, only to discover at the very last moment that they’ve found something far more lethal as the Boojum vanishes them quietly, never to be seen again.

Of course Carroll’s poem is an allegory, initially thought to be about the challenges of finding a cure for TB (not really provided until the advent of modern antibiotics in the 1930’s) and in Carroll’s own words some 20 years after publication: about the search for happiness. Now, nearly 150 years on, we can see clearly what the sagacious Lewis Carroll had in mind when he wrote his poem: Digital Health VC’s in their hunt for the next great, great health-tech breakthrough, are the real Snark Hunters.

There’s been an outbreak of VC Snark Hunting in the last couple of years. Finding and financing that elusive next big big digital health thing that’s far away into the future is the new obsession. This is no idle theory, as I’ve had it confirmed in the last few days by two respected German VCs. Essentially both said:
“We are looking for investments in markets that will be worth many Billions in a decade or so’s time. These are the markets where true innovation lies and they are very, very difficult to find.”
In other words: they’re Snark Hunting.

If you’re a VC or an investment fund, there are good reasons to go Snark Hunting, one of the best being that hunting for multi-billion dollar Snarks ten years hence, discounts to billion dollar Snarks at today’s prices. Good news if your fund is looking for a further raise or two on the back of those billion-dollar Snarks you’ve already snagged.

Equally attractive, though missed by Snark Hunters in their rush to invest, are today’s digital health businesses that are looking for funding now and are addressing Billion-Dollar markets that are here now and not ten years hence. Health-AI is one of them and they’ll be many more spread globally; but if the VC Radar setting’s on long-distance those here and now opportunities are going to be missed in the chaff from distant, far away digital Snarks.

And let’s remember, there’s also those Billions of Investor’s money tied-up in Snark Hunting.

We should leave the last words to Lewis Carroll who towards the poem’s end, relates that the Baker, anxious to bag the Snark, rushes ahead and cries out that the Shark has been found:
“In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away -
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see”

Many Snark Hunting VC’s will be encountering Boojums in the next 10 or so years.

@DewhurstLeslie
> It looks like a banana plant, harvests like a root vegetable, and tastes like flatbread. Though the enset is a technical cousin of the banana, this tree offers a food that is much more potato-like. English-speakers—feeling betrayed by the enset’s misleading appearance—decided to call it “the false banana.”
Here's my two cents: What even IS pipewire? I know what the compositor is because I've been given the choice of either X or Wayland in the past so I had to learn what they are. I've heard of pipewire in the past but I have no clue what it is, where does it fit in the display stack, etc.. Same for the linux audio stack.

I don't expect final users to know how to do these though. They want to download OBS and it needs to just work. I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement both in the case of Zoom as to support all setups but I'd assume it's not that trivial, and given other comments above where Wayland seems to have had more than one API for capture you can see where some of these issues come from.
Wow! How cold.
Seems like hyperbole. In this case, there were maybe 3 competing screenshot/screen share methods. None of them were billed as standard. Without the core Wayland devs having to get involved, or even any protocol extensions needing to be made, all of the major desktop environments and even wlroots standardized on a single D-Bus API for the functionality. That API is now a few years old. Yeah it took a while to get adopted/implemented, and Zoom probably has higher priorities. But I do not think X would have magically made the situation better, except by having gone through the process a decade (or more?) ago.

Nobody said the X->Wayland transition would be easy or even straightforward. Only that X has key architectural issues inherent to the protocol and a clean break was needed to make further efficiency and quality gains.
Nurses: We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It’s Greed
I chose purelymail.com after seeing a discussion about it here on HN. Fastmail was my other option that I was thinking about, but Purely was a lot cheaper, and I don't actually use those email addresses much yet.
Military literally paid for SpaceX to be a thing, and USAF is IIRC something in the range of 25% if not more initial funder for Starlink, and by virtue of very specific requirements, the only stable client who couldn't be easily served by few geostationary or Molniya satellites (operating an ISP in various countries can be... interesting. Elon is also very, very fond of government handout, that's how SpaceX and Tesla got funded pretty much, even if Elon provided certain capital to get things moving at times.

For example, how is Starlink going to provide local Ministry of Defense access to the network in time of emergency, which was at least in 2008 a requirement for any ISP in Poland spanning more than one commune (smallest administrative region)? Requirements like that mean that ISPs need to seek waivers or just avoid having customers in specific countries (or break the law - we're talking Elon here after all, just look at latest FSD brouhaha). And they greatly dimnish the value proposal of building a constellation.

OTOH, DoD had been shopping around for global satellite provider for last 15-20 years, as bandwidth and availability were often issues just in running bases, but also making it harder to drone strike an usually innocent group.
> I would not expect the live to diverge from the recording

EDM was quite possibly the biggest genre for live music this past decade, and it came with many memes of Skrillex "performing" by pushing a single button on a MacBook at concerts.
Not everyone follows it like this due to being scared of what ramifications it can have for them.

Even if it's fully legal for them to, money has the last word.
If you are genuinely asking - there has not been a concerted effort to find extant life on mars. Missions since the viking era have been strictly geological in nature. As so often happens in science, certain theories become taboo. Martian life was one of these and as a result the targeting of the missions became ultra focused on geology. It is only as the sophistication of instrumentation has improved that these signs have emerged as incidental observations outside of a targeted search for life.

By saying "call it", I am fighting against the prevailing taboo of seriously considering and acknowledging the possibility of life on mars.

As regards phosphine in Venus's atmosphere, the jury is most definitely still out on that one.
Hmm, not my experience. (I changed jobs last fall.)

Some recruiters are useless, but those few I worked with were very good and clueful, and landed me a great job.

I met some of them on LinkedIn. I had to filter through some slack, but the efficiency of that was far from negligible.

I also applied to a few jobs via SO Jobs; they were reasonably interesting, but none worked, alas. The amount of interest which my SO Jobs profile attracted was an order of magnitude lower than what I received via LinkedIn, and even lower than the number of direct emails from people finding my resume on the internet.
That article makes it sound like Google is paying for your domain registration. To be clear, it let you use your own (purchased elsewhere, though that could be Google Domains) domain for gmail. Also in the time since signups for the free tier closed, it's grown a load of business-y features too.
In my area, all covid patients combined are still <= 10% of capacity.
Well that's always a possibility. The archive.org URL usually contains the full original URL so there's no downside of using it.

In this case though, it's still just code documentation so ideally it should be somewhat possible to figure out what's going on without a link to an external site. It's just about minimizing the risk.
System76’s Cosmic Desktop Panel Looks Refreshing
It's not really that vague. The less resource allocation is affected by non-market forces, the freer the market. Of course, a perfectly free market is not actually possible. My point is moreso that there are extremely good reasons to limit the autonomy of markets.
What makes us human, aka the “human condition” would definitely change. Motivation, knowledge, relationships, resources. It would be an evolutionary change in a non evolutionary timeline. Pretty crazy.
You're right! PB! I'll correct
For the record, I find little wrong with this comment as it was originally posted. People might not be aware of the story behind that image, and that Lena Forsén herself doesn't wish her photo to be used like this any more [0]. I can't for the life of me understand how this can remotely be interpreted as a flame bait.

[0] https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-time-to-retire-...
A programmer wrote things in a specific order for a specific reason.

Lets instead assume that the variable assignments above are to some global configuration variables and then f() also references those and the behavior of f() changes based on the previously written code.

The objections from the 'C as portable assembler' camp are:

* Re-ordering the order of operations across context switch bounds (curly braces and function calls). -- re-ordering non-volatile store / loads within a context is fine, and shouldn't generate warnings.

* Eliminating written instructions (not calling f()) based on optimizations. -- Modification to computed work should always generate a warning so the optimization can be applied to the source code, or bugs corrected.
You're assuming that the only categories that exist are "bootstrapped" and "took VC money". That isn't the case. Raising money from friend, or taking a loan from a bank would be neither boostrapped nor VC-funded.
If we'd all just cleaned up diets and got in shape, Covid wouldn't have been such a big deal.

It might have been somewhat better, but Covid is vastly more dangerous to the elderly than the young, and you're not getting around that with diet and exercise.

You can do lots, such as diet and exercise, to live better and longer

None of which is going to give an 80 year old the strength, mobility, and cognitive capacity they had when they were 30.
You're free to use, or not use, what ever words you like. Also, why is rape such a bad word but not murder or torture or suicide?
I would gladly pay something which aligns with why I started using this in the first place - an easy way to keep my family members connected. I wish they had an inexpensive 'family' or 'personal' plan instead of everything focused on business.

But it's been obvious for awhile now - the old 'do no evil' Google is long gone. Long live profits and ads and screw everything else.
IANAL. Wikipedia, "Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally refers to the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud anyone (other than themself)."

Note defraud.
Even Chrome/Chromium, the web browser with the most developer attention period, has not enabled the pipewire screen sharing support by default.
> Oops! In the following, j isn't lexical:

I don't think I'm correct here. However, be that as it may, in my code, when I moved that second variable before the loop and initialized it there with a let, the behavior somehow changed.
I bet someone with the right skills could just make a PR / MR for this fix.
Sorry, but no. Google clearly advertised this as 'free forever'. This is on them.
Alphabet's Calico has begun trials on a molecule for neurodegenerative diseases
YouTube deactivates channels linked to Oath Keepers
Has anyone tried using an AMD card for desktop/Wayland alongside an Nvidia card for ML/CUDA? Especially with Sway?

I use Sway/AMD for desktop but all the photogrammetry software out there requires CUDA. It's a bit of a PITA.
Eh, in the short term I guess. Not exactly a great look.
>Google isn't "killing" anything, they are just asking users to start paying for it. Perhaps that loses them some users, but they are clearly after something else here (revenue, maybe they have data on how paid users behave differently, perhaps spam/bad actors are a concern on the free plan, idk)

The fact that google/alphabet is a ad company meaning, all their service is target at mining your data email and everything!!! Nothing on google ought to be charged in this case, in fact they really ought to be paying us for using their service, because they are making money from our data.
> You think a UBI will increase total after-tax purchasing power for above-average earners (i.e. those paying more in taxes to support the UBI than they receive in UBI) compared to not having the UBI? I would be very interested to see how you came to that conclusion as it seems inherently contradictory.

Not will, can. Also, the comparison point is other countries not the same country before and after UBI.

UBI doesn’t exist in a vacuum, I doubt poor countries would set one up. A country could set one up specifically because the benefits in say reduced crime outweigh the tax burden. But the kind of country which is rich enough to make that choice is also the kind of country rich and stable enough to attract a highly skilled and motivated immigrants.

Or such a country could tightly control immigration, biasing it toward high incomes etc. In other words you can’t assume anything about such a system without knowing how and by whom it’s implemented.
This would be entirely acceptable if Google Accounts and Workspace weren't inseparably linked. I've got 15 years of purchases made using my Google account - now I'm forced to pay monthly if I want to retain the things I've already paid for.
As stated before, moving the risk somewhere else does not eliminate it.
No doubt that it's used for tracking but "clicks" on the URL could probably be measured in other on-page ways too. One additional reason is probably that if there's a spam URL detected they can just block the short URL and the problem goes away instantly.
This. I self-hosted from the mid-90s until giving up in 2017. My outgoing email was increasingly black-holed by major email providers. I eventually accepted that I would either have to give up on email or pay for hosting. At some level this feels like paying protection money, but there are a lot of things about the internet that don't match up very well with 90s idealism.
Well, they do have the option to simply leave it as they promised to do originally.
It would be nice if optimizing compilers' -O0 weren't completely insane on the assumption that the insanity would get optimized out.
I think StackOverflow used to be better, but the moderation now is both insanely strict (the question has to be super narrow) and inadequate (tons of duplicate questions)

The most highly rated questions, there are some real nuggets, would just get closed today.
Yeah but for how long?

That's like Google saying "G Suite Legacy will continue to be free..."
Not sure I understand this. Google, for example, routinely does acquisitions well under a $20B level to enter a new market. Apigee might be a good example.

Perhaps you meant too small to occupy the entire new "Blockchain Unit"? Perhaps, but I assume they would be working on several things rather than just one.
This is neat! Although the prime constraint makes this a lot easier than Mastermind
Google One is inexpensive, but if you have your own domain, in Google's world you cannot be anything but a business and therefore cannot get anything other than business plans.
forever until we change our minds.
Does that mean that the free "Google Docs", "Google Sheets" etc. will no longer be available then? Or is "GSuite" something else? I haven't been able to figure this one out with certainty...
okay so if faulty flashing is the problem, how does flashing two parts of the device make flashing better?
I get lots of dandruff when i am stressed continuously for a few days? This has been a great indicator. Does any one know of any study or feel the same?
I don't think this change is remotely related to the "do no evil" bit, but I do agree it sucks.
I'm confused by what signal SO answered for you, with regard to finding quality talents?
Just "having friends who holiday" is, alone, a separating factor, mate.
WASM is a new portable runtime with very few capabilities exposed, so it has a much better security model than the web's JavaScript engine.

You write your code in any language and compile it to WASM.

You inject capabilities such as file system access, network access, etc.

There is no UI layer, so CSS has nothing to do with WASM.

Although WASM was invented and developed primarily in the browser, it is now being deployed standalone by companies like Fastly that let you customize their CDN with WASM running at the edge of the cloud via point of presence (POP) data centers.
This addresses a part of my question, which I didn’t make clear, thanks! I mean after all this assembler stuff one could just use BASIC or similar. Yes, Java has no concept of PEEK/POKE, IN/OUT, but it just wasn’t designed for that. Meanwhile, 1980s small systems were all assembly + basic/fortran. Of course they had no kernel in a modern sense, but all the devices were there: a speaker (SOUND), a serial line to a streamer/recorder (BLOAD), a graphics controller, no dma though, but it’s just a controller with the same “ports” as well, which can r/w memory and generate interrupts. I don’t get it why we don’t just skip C to something high-level after wrapping all this pio/dma/irq/gdt/cr3 stuff into __cdecl/__stdcall format and then use ffi of a language which would decide to support that. I also don’t understand GC arguments down the thread, because GC over malloc seems to be just a synthetic detail. You definitely can implement GC over a linear address space, just bump alloc it until the limit, or page-table however you want for dma. Malloc is not hardware, it isn’t even a kernel thing. Apps run on mmap and brk, which are similar to what kernels have hardware-wise. Mmap is basically a thin layer over paging and/or dma.

It was so easy and then blasted into something unbelievably complex in just few years. Maybe 80386 wasn’t a good place to run typescript-over-asm kernel, but do we still have this limitation today?
>What I mentioned above were the result of decades of studies.

Show me those studies. I can assure you, that the laws and principles of software development aren't based off of ANY studies. SOLID? No studies. Just an acronym to make it sound better.

Therefore, if software is like this... I highly doubt that these principles in Design were developed out of science at all. Like software they must be anecdotal observations. But happy to be proven wrong.

You could provide me with studies done after these principles were "coined" but that's not what I'm looking for (less convincing). I would want proof that these principles were "developed" based off of analytics.