skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's painfully obvious OP is talking about a smart phone and a vax passport.

You don't have to be "anti-vax" (which is a stupid stupid term) to be anti-vax-passport.

The people pushing for vax passports have no clue what they are unleashing. It is absolutely fascist, evil and incredibly surprising to me that 99% of the people on this website are in 100% favor of it.

EVIL.
There is a market for the elevator pitch Rust pitches, but when you actually sit down and use it, some of the shine wears off. It's a decent modern language and I'm sure quite useful, but I don't think it will do what its evangelists think it will.
Hard to say, but you'd think there are landlines to the nukes.
It's almost like Snowden forgot the US has the largest prison population ALREADY. The time ran out in the late 90s when all the Surveillance technology was being built by Silicon Valley.
Ukraine, on the other hand, claims Americans are safer in Kyiv than LA[1]. I don't know who is correct, but it does seem propaganda is flying in from multiple directions and it's hard to ascertain the ground truth. Given all the previous claims that turned out to be lies (WMD in Iraq, No bombing of the Syrian dam, etc.), it's hard to provide benefit of doubt.

[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10436705/Americans-...
This looks very cool. I'll definitely see if it works for us (we have a mix of Terraform and CloudFormation).
Could you please hint us to the sentence where he calls the 2% “stealing”, too?

You yourself say that "the increase from 2% to 30% is way more questionable".
What is "questionable" about that? Maybe that is not stealing but it is an obvious fraud.

I really don't get what your motivation could be to defend that kind of shit.
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Granted..in the stories, the palantir caused all sorts of trouble (backdoor for Sauron to infiltrate the corporate networks..) so maybe the name is apt...
That's exactly what I use. I have a set of airpod pros I use most of the time, but I can't stand having my ears sealed all day, and having waterproof ones I an wear in the shower is awesome.

My only gripe with them is that the quality is way lower than even fairly cheap normal ear buds, so I mostly use them for podcasts and books.
Before COVID vaccines, Republicans on average trusted pharma way more than Democrats. In general, distrust in pharma is the effect, not the cause, of anti-vax sentiment.

I don’t know what’s going on in your specific case. I suspect you are comparing the health risk of vax to not vax, instead of the risk of vax to COVID, which is the comparison you should be making since everyone is going to get omicron eventually, but whatever.
Surely the misconception is the belief that what google displays is the page title. Google displays a link to a page, with a short description of what you will find there. Likewise, when I link to a page from my page, I don't use the title of the page: I use some text that I chose. This a non-story, as far as "rewriting titles" goes. What is interesting is that Google has an automated way to briefly summarize a page.
An Extraordinary Iceberg Is Gone, but Not Forgotten
Annoyance 0. Your blog post date is wrong

But you have a point, I share some of your annoyances
CVE-2022-0185: Container+Kubernetes manifest as crash POC
The point of exit codes is that they're straightforward for programmers to extract, rather than error messages, which require the programmer to capture and parse stderr. So, no, I don't think you've rescued this very bad argument.
During the Bush years, it was a meme to search for biggest idiot or something like that and it would return President Bush. It was a relic of an SEO project done by a group of people.

After Obama was elected, a few people noted that the search still worked and a few days later, it no longer returned President Obama or anything like what it did before.

This was all the example one needs to know that your search engine results are heavily manipulated.
In Germany there were at least half a dozen members of parliament caught with their hands in the cookie jar for the money meant to buy masks alone. It would be interesting to see how many more used it to enrich themselves but the decisions enabling them where so hilariously badly written that nearly all the money spend on the masks was wasted.

You can write entire lists of how fucked up the governments response was. Government money for tests done under supervision of a professional? The same Dr. listed as on site contact in half the country. Repeated calls to get vaccinated? Government repeatedly blamed Doctors and population but never bought enough vaccines.

The government response around here can be summed up as corrupt incompetents fucking up the economy while playing the blame game. I could not think of a group objectively less qualified to respond.
But “for 2022” is a guarantee that the content is bad if it hasn’t changed in 2022.

And yet, I don’t see how Google can automate checking this. It’s possible to add a couple of sentences about how you’ve not seen anything to change your mind about last year’s recommendations. That may well be true. Or false. How can Google know? It just sees content that has changed. So it has been updated in 2022.

The bigger issue is brand trust (as a reviewer brand). The NYT bought Wirecutter, I think, because it had established itself as a trustworthy brand. That’s in direct line with the reputation the NYT wants to have as a whole.
There's already a few thousand Andruils. There's a pool of something like 3,000+ small defense contractors like this.

What they should absolutely do is put more money into the SBIR program.

And stop doing so much of it through the fucking navy lol.
Can anyone say the past 2 years of covid-19?

Please don't feign naivety. It is a distraction to critical thought.
Does this mean WSL will be enabled by default on Windows, or at least that you can enable it without admin rights? That would be handy for draconian corporate environments.
Tie between Lagos, Nigeria and Dubuque, Iowa (USA).
The industry is whatever the customer demands it to be. If you don't like CNN and Fox, don't watch them. They have no monopoly on journalism (as yet).
The way of the American suburb is so different from cities in most of the world that the rest of the cultural differences seem natural. In places with this social bonding arrangements, you have contacts across social strata that fit people and jobs: Your friend's housekeeper is often a great contact for more good housekeeping. They might have friends and family members that need work in other occupations too, and thus entire social groups of people of different social classes bond together. You typically hire the people directly, not through a company, and personal reputation hits ripple through the social network. There might be people in-th-know, which act as brokers for the top opportunities without charging a cent.

I compare that to the American suburban experience, where most people who do manual work are considered too flakey to deal with directly, most tasks are nowhere near enough to count as a full time job, and everything is handled via companies led by people who code-switch. If I need a roofer or a landscaper, I will find few companies led by a mexican, or even someone with mexican ancestry, but their workers are almost assured to be: There's layers of isolation on top of layers of isolation, so you aren't building a relationship with your roofer, your handyman, or your housekeeper. The intermediaries make all of that work exchange have a very different nature.

On top of that, barring a small number of neighborhoods, there's a good chance you'll never see one of those workers outside of the contract, because the housing they can afford, and the housing they can afford, are so far apart you have few reasons to frequent the same establishments. So while places where more people live together might make it easier to see how different social classes are, in the US we might have a larger social distance, but completely hidden by housing. It's not just that the rich American can take their kids to a private school: It's that the way things are set up, the public schools for many a rich American will have few families who aren't rich in the first place, just via suburban zoning.

It's as if different social classes were happy to coexist in many other places, but in the US, they loathe each other, and can only interact via intermediaries.
We're about to enter into the phase of our lives where we want children. This year will be the year we start, erm, trying.

I know I need to get balance into my life because a child will be very destabilizing to my current lifestyle. * sigh * It feels like I don't have enough time to buy my own freedom.
He left China and went to Japan where he founded "Just Systems" in 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JustSystems

Shortly afterwards, Just began selling the Japanese word processor, Ichitaro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichitaro_(word_processor)

Of course, not everyone agrees with these details;-)
5G AT&T, Verizon likely need C-band to activate 5G SA cores
If true then the index of the data would be the file. That's called encryption.
Your article is from June 2020. Believe it or not, we have more data now!
Yeah, there's something comforting about a physical connection I can inspect for defects or just unplug, then plug back in if audio isn't working right. Even when I used AirPods/Pro for a while, I never really trusted the headphones. Sometimes I would take them out of the case and they just didn't connect to my phone. Sometimes they didn't seat quite right in the case and didn't charge overnight, and would be totally dead. Sometimes they would connect, play the sound, show up as the audio output on my phone... then refuse to actually play any audio.

I understand that wireless is a nice convenience for a lot of people. But BT makes wireless such a nightmare I just don't think it's worth it. Incredible that nobody has come up with a competing standard.
Interactive article on “Why are 4 dimensional matrices used in 3D Graphics?”
You can start by banning vax passports. .... as a start.
Yep, that’s Bruce Simpson. He still uploads regularly on his YouTube channel, mostly about RC planes and NZ drone regulation:

https://youtu.be/o10FzfI4zLA
"Gaming their algorithm" sounds like a fancy way of saying SEO. If Google can produce for me a more accurate (or concise) title, it should only help me find what I'm looking for.

Forcing folks to trudge through inaccurate titles – or hoping people know the tells of a "spammy site" title – does not seem a better alternative.
"never claimed to be free software" and "explicitly disclaims being Open Source" don't cancel out that he published it with an open-source MIT license.

https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...
Considering the number of videos I've seen with people yelling at masked people, I'd say that they don't care about freedom at all (since apparently people shouldn't be free to wear masks whenever they want).
I agree completely. Little gnomes never sneak up on me and switch the wire from one device to another, then demand I go through weird unplug/plug rituals involving four levels of deep-presses to get the thing connected back to the device I want, all while 20 people are waiting for me to start a presentation. The signal doesn't randomly drop out or connect to the car that just pulled in the driveway. The batteries don't go dead.

The point is predictability. Wires have it, bluetooth doesn't. Yes, they predictably snag on things sometimes. In my experience, this annoyance happens far less frequently than any of the many annoyances that bluetooth brings.
What? Literally everywhere that requires a vax card accepts paper versions too
Why do animals need to be useful to humans to justify their existence to you?
Of course I expect that it would lead to something with the unreliability of Bluetooth and the requirement that you physically touch the devices together every time it loses its connection.
The entire site is blocked by my ad blocker.
Fusion Milestone Creates Buzz at Hybrid APS Plasma Physics Meeting
Vax passports most definitely are not confined to the US.
CIDR blocks scan reveals 1000s of misconfigured AWS services
Yes, i used to lose my sense of smell once or twice a year during a sickness well before covid.
Slow the rate of infection means I'm infected tomorrow instead of today. There is no stopping it.
It's more like Windows' Subsystem for Android.
You can use excess deaths then, those numbers are even higher. And even if official Covid numbers are inflated, even tenfold, it's still a disease that resulted in a lot of death.
Heck, one can stress a network by plugging a cable into the very same switch it comes from!

Or... a bad BGP announcement leading to misrouting, the possibilities are endless. Guessing from the outside is exactly that
Well said. It's a great project and impressive execution at $15!

> While this is admirable as a proof of concept, I suspect that moving the price point up to, say, $30 could give a much more useful and hacker-friendly device.

I agree. I think this project proves that ultra low cost is viable. Now relaxing the constraints a bit to add RAM and WiFi could iterate it right into an optimal spot.

I wouldn't want to go much farther than RAM and WiFi, though. It's too easy to let these projects turn into a slippery slope.
Awesome! Let me know how it goes :) We also have CloudFormation in our target: https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/190
While the Zyppy article is interesting in that it has statistics about the title rewriting, the Google guide on writing proper titles is more relevant to all of us who maintain websites affected by this. Thanks for linking it.

The ideal article would be something like "Google rewrites your titles in search results because your titles suck."

The Google guide does well to explain why some titles are rewritten, such as having duplicate titles across multiple pages, making it impossible to differentiate between pages that show up in the same set of search results.
I’m no search engine expert. Is this standard practice at some level across other search engines? Is “retitler” just part of every search engine stack (e.g. DDG, Bing, BraveSearch, etc)?

Or is this unique to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” folks?

Honestly curios.
No, the reason you see this increasing control is because people dont' want to give a small minority the ability to fuck up the rest of society. There is nowhere go to on Earth, because the entire world is spoken for.

Hence why people will settle space. It's treated as a pie in the sky joke today, but once it's "affordable" (ie, 250K per ticket) many people will go. Long term, it'll be an essential pressure release valve, as various discontents and dissidents go there to try and build their own versions of society. And that's great, the rest of us will just sit here trading freedoms for comfort and everyone will be happy.
I feel the same way about donating to political campaigns. It’s just not worth it considering that that information is then public record and could be used against you in all sorts of ways. Perhaps I will feel different when I’m older and of I’ve enough money that I no longer need to worry about damaging my job prospects.

Maybe it would make it ok to donate if you also found a likable person on the other side to give money to at the same time.
> I'm using "Europe" largely in the sense of "influence sphere of EU/Germany".

So say that.
It could still be correlative; 'lifestyle choices' are basically the definition of correlation not causation. Or were you being sarcastic?

For another (probably unhelpful) anecdote, got great grades in my senior year of college when I had a scholarship. One semester in my junior year I took 18 credits and also worked 32 hours a week through a 45-minute-one-way commute...I got very little sleep and my grades suffered for it. The primary things I learned that year were (1) don't over-commit yourself, (2) make a schedule and stick to it if you need to get the bare minimum done and don't have time to do everything, (3) you don't actually have to attend every lecture or turn in/complete every assignment to pass a class, (4) long commutes suck, and (5) a little bit of VHDL syntax stuck around was about the only thing I learned in those classes. My bad grades were not caused by poor sleep, poor sleep was a side effect of a larger issue (namely, the perpetual problem of money).
Given how site owners habitually attempt to distort reality with tag stuffing and other bullshit metadata, what do you expect? Reality is not what is printed on the tin.
One of my best buddies is a mid-level exec at Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop. I just met him a week ago and we had a discussion about the utter waste of Tax Payer dollars in these companies. He was getting compensation beyond his contributions (par for the course in large corporations), but his job was to make sure billable hours continue to exceed the budget - like a boiling frog, projects continue to get delayed bit-by-bit and after 10 years you realize that your program is 3x over budget (F-35 Program?).

I want SV/Texas enterpreneurship to completely dismantle the MIC and start afresh. Even if you disagree with defense applications and its ramifications, simply from ROI perspective (tax payer dollars), instead of increasing military budget, we should be asking how can we do more with current budget. Or even cut down the budget and expect 2x more productivity from these fat military contractors with moats like no other.
I've never had anyone at NSF question OA fees in grant proposals. This might vary program by program.
I was just trying to apply the same standards to Chernobyl as you apply to other accidents.

(Obviously, if you talk about QALYS injuries, most polluting industries, especially in this era, could be associated with arbitrarily high numbers of deaths, even if you don't look at events like the Bhopal catastrophe, or Minamata syndrome, etc. I actually think it's fair and worthwhile to highlight this, but I don't think it's fair and worthwhile to only do so in the case of Chernobyl, and not in any other industrial accidents or operations).
In terms of "Did something happen?" there's a fair number of examples of governments both failing and succeeding at strong arming tech companies for intelligence/defense/etc. However, the big event you seem worried about is a predicted near future event hasn't happened yet. Like a tech equivalent of climate change, all the little things over the years add up to one big urgent thing.
I have the same headphones and the main issue I have with it is their multi-device support is pretty much broken for me. If I'm on a zoom call and I get a phone call on my other device it takes over the audio (as expected), but then if I decline the phone call the audio doesn't switch back to my zoom call (computer). I end up having to turn the headphones off and back on for them to reconnect, which actually takes a good 10-15 seconds at least. The Bose QC35 I had before handled multiple devices way better, unfortunately they just didn't sound as good as the Sony.
A teen built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Elon Musk tried to pay him to stop
"covid kills a lot of people with comorbidities, and there are a lot of people with comorbidities"

Yes undoubtably, but the question is to what extent those deaths would have been recorded as COVID in the absence of mass hysteria. In the UK COVID was very rapidly put on the "notifiable diseases" list which makes how cases/deaths are reported and classified much more aggressive.

Consider that the average age of a COVID death is over 80, it's actually over the average life expectancy. For many of these cases they'd actually be either asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms, and if COVID had been treated as a normal respiratory outbreak then it'd never have been made notifiable meaning the recorded cause of death would be different.

"You would never miss that many extra deaths"

Who is "you"? People who study mortality stats would have noticed it and it'd be ascribed to a coronavirus outbreak, but would the average person have noticed anything? The difference in mortality between now and (say) 2012 is so small that you'd not know it existed if the media/government weren't telling everyone about it every day. If I think about my own life, I don't know a single person in two years who's died, not even one that's been hospitalized. Lots of people who got it, of varying ages, but it was just a rough few days and then they always recovered.

In another world, this could have passed without me ever knowing anything was happening. It's just not directly observable by the vast majority.

"And countries like australia, who have had very low covid infections, but have had lockdowns, have shown not even a blip in all cause mortality. So lockdowns are not the thing causing deaths, its the covid."

Parts of Australia have done yes, but they didn't tell people they had a moral duty to not go to hospital, or flood care homes with infected people. "Lockdowns" is a term that encompasses a lot of really stupid stuff governments did, especially at the start.
To be fair, The Karamazov Brothers is arguably a more natural English translation.
True - it was better to hire a chauffeur who had his own car than to buy a car (also traffic was crazy). He is from the UK - Public transport is pretty good in the UK and across much of Europe. As I recall, there were issues with terrorist bombing shopping centres and public transport in Manila at the time, so I think he avoided both.
It is a rant, a well argued one, with a lot of salient points, IMO.

And ridicule is part of the point of text (not subtext) of the essay. Dan is making an emotional argument as much as he's making a logical one, because a lot of people will hear the emotional one where the logical one would just bounce off. Making something harmful actually seem uncool is a valid tactic, IMO.

Like, calling out Vitalik as a butthurt Warlock main is an attempt to make his origin story around the EVM seem to have a pathetic origin. Instead of applying himself to getting better at the new warlock meta, he went off and created a thing that has enabled a lot of real economic harm.

And pointing out the connection to Peter Thiel is as much about pointing out the involvement of big money in cryptocurrency as any specific character of Vitalik.

And it's not like Vitalik hasn't had a lot of chances to go "damn, the EVM is being used for a lot of harm. Maybe it wasn't worth it?"

Or maybe he has, and I (and Dan, because I think he'd have brought that up) have missed it?
I agree, it grosses me out. Although I always found it appropriate that Palantir is named after an object tainted by Sauron, which corrupts those who look into it.
The scars still haven't healed. ;)

see: https://textslashplain.com/2020/05/04/client-certificate-aut...
An analogy perhaps to our current market conditions?
Mold for the silicon keyboard - the first five keyboards is going to be about $6k. After that, each keyboard is about a dollar a piece.

Same with the plastic enclosure.
Ask HN: How does pixel hinting work for CJK fonts?
I've noticed that CJK fonts (MS Gothic, MS Mincho etc.) seem to have pixel-perfect rendering below a certain size. I would like to understand the mechanism by which this happens. I'm often frustrated by font anti-aliasing/hinting at small sizes and I wonder if this rendering trait could somehow be transplanted to a programming focused font.

I'm aware there are lots of other ways to achieve pixel perfect font rendering, but I'm drawn to this property of CJK fonts because it seems to "just work" in all sorts of situations.

In any case, my google-fu is too weak for me to find a definitive answer to this, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks.