skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had luck running HA and node red on a pi 3 but with 250gb SSD drive, responsive and reliable. I think that's the bottleneck. You can't use SD card. Also must use AC adapters specifically for pi, usually slightly above 5 volts and 2 amps I think. Also pinhole must be on separate device I agree with that.
This is well-argued, but I have two rebuttals, I suppose.

> A webfont can be efficiently small if it includes characters only for the latin script. But what if I want to write Greek? Or Korean? Or Tamil? Something semi-terrible happens then.

Okay, but you know the characters you need for your website. My web site is probably never going to have anything but Latin characters (I'll get back to that "probably" in a moment). This article doesn't, either. "But what if your web site displays user-generated content, smart coyote," you say. Well, then, don't use a webfont. Or, possibly, consider that probably, which leads me to

> But, terribleness will strike when the style of the fallback font is completely different from the style of the primary font. You can see an example of said terribleness here.[1]

While that example is indeed terrible, it's also deliberately terrible, which is a rather important point the article elides! The example loads Source Code Pro as the main font but subsets only a few letters from it, then sets the fallback font to be Impact. This is being done as a deliberate contrast to the example right above it, which sets a much more reasonable fallback font stack.

And, now we're at that "probably": as the web designer/developer, you're the one setting the fallback stack for your fonts! If "terribleness strikes" because "the style of the fallback font is completely different from the style of the primary font," well, don't set Impact to be the fallback font for Source Code Pro.

I would argue the author absolutely can show everyone the beauty of Century Supra or EB Garamond if they so choose to, because they're writing in the Latin-1 subset of characters. You can't show off the full range of EB Garamond's character set without increasing the initial download size, but you could use a subset of it combined with fallback fonts which include other characters and don't have completely different styles.

(Of course, you could also specify "font-display: fallback" or "font-display: optional" and just send the full font along with your well-chosen fallback font stack.)

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/css-basics-fallback-font-stacks-robus...
At least the account blocking features still works for users, unlike with youTube and Twitter.

The UI is more and more horrid though on FB and Instagram with every update. My ability to do the most simple things is extremely frustrating, and I don't understand how they believe those changes help to inspire deeper engagement, It's getting really difficult to see any value in either platform as they shrink organic engagement of each post to 1-2 people when I have over 1k followers. I refuse to pay for ads just to reach the audience that has already chosen to follow me. Instagram shows a mile of ads and posts from accounts I follow on every news feed before my desired content now, it's totally outrageous.

Likes are completely worthless across the web right now, they mean absolutely nothing... and the stats aren't even accurate on so many of these sites, they're really showing desperation by pushing their user base away, I honestly can't believe that "brilliant minds" are at the helm any more... It feels like they sacked the experienced development minds and are just left with interns, marketers, and psychiatrists on staff. Something's either got to fail or change majorly before year end or I'm going back to IRC and local message boards for good, social media has become a total waste of energy.
Some of us saw the last wave of VR hype. It was around the same time as PalmOS, iPaq, and other handheld computing devices. It wasn't obvious to most people at the time that one of these technologies would transform the world. But visionaries saw it.

It wasn't VR then and it won't be now. VR has gained a foothold in this wave in its niches of gaming, other "entertainment", and random educational and military applications. General casual use beyond that is a pipe dream.
Yes, Cruise has obtained the relevant permits from the CA DMV. The only permit they're currently missing is the one that let's them charge customers for rides.
Old tiny desktop computers are expected to getting very cheap, due to Win11 dropped support. Intel platform is decent for idle power consumption.

Here's great article by STH https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
I happen to really hate SVG. I've been feeling like it's a standard that should have gone away 20 years ago.

So in many cases where I'm building a website for a brand where they have lots of icons that need to scale, I create a font with the outlines of all their icons.

This is great for lots of reasons. The employees at the company can use the font when they need to drop in a corporate icon into a blog post. I can then maintain a repository for the font and the company can use those vector icons anytime in simple documents.

So yeah, user-defined web fonts are the shizz.
Makes you wonder how often this happens and someone gets away with it. If he'd quit after one or two wins (or at least not had someone try to claim Iowa's prize in the most suspicious way imaginable) he could have quietly retired.
"freely giving away their data" is a misrepresentation. People are either putting up with their data being collected, or unaware that it is happening, because that is the only way many services can be accessed nowadays. I bet you couldn't find a single person off the street who would answer "yes" if asked whether they go on the internet specifically to give personal information to ad companies.

Or, to put it more briefly: "How is it spying when the White House employees freely hung up our gift painting with the bug in it on their wall?"
That heart has been transplanted so many times from the client formerly known as Skype for Business, formerly known as Lync, formerly known as Microsoft Office Communicator, formerly known as Live Communications Server, formerly known as Exchange Conferencing.
Here's a piece of advice that doesn't answer your question directly. Go. Out. And. Meet. People.

That's one of the strongest safety nets you can get for you career. No one can predict whether their industry is going to be fully automated in x years or not. But knowing the right people, having a strong network, will increase your chance of survival tenfold if not more.

You're young, you already know how to code, you've got the tech part covered. You're likely competent enough to be hired. But if you're anything like most tech people, your social skills are an untapped reservoir of growth.
if i'm not mistaking most teen and young adult use IG.
I agree. Not perfect. But there's no alternative to this kind of curated local content.
I don’t see a link, so here’s the post I used: https://jamesachambers.com/new-raspberry-pi-4-bootloader-usb...

Make sure you use the right adapter, I got an enclosure at first that wasn’t on the list, and it ended up not working. I switched to the recommended StarTech 2.5″ and everything worked.
Brooklyn bridge isn't crammed with pedestrians.
As for the stock price, it will come back. FB users may be down but FB now owns Instagram and WhatsApp and they haven’t started to monetize them yet.

Not to say they have genuinely been trying new technologies with AR/VR and with their stash of cash can buy any startups in AR/VR space.

If anything FB is way underpriced IMO.
Coding imperfectly in safe languages leads to performance issues. Coding imperfectly in unsafe languages leads to correctness issues.

It’s a trade-off; performance in games is more important than correctness anyways so I tend to agree with you here.
Russia did hack NSA though [1], and elections, and pipelines, and who knows what else.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-...
Yes, normally tape is a second level backup for the worst case and long term archival.

Tapes normally are not kept on site, to ensure that even a destruction of the office/datacenter/... like, for example, a fire does not make one lose all data.

With PBS this also allows to leverage the whole thing in a more flexible, efficient and powerful manner, as one can do tape-backups async, the deduplication layer can be used so that subsequent backups only need to add the delta of new backup chunks from the content addressable storage (note, the backups themself are still full backups, and one can configure a schedule for when a new media set needs to be created), besides that backing up file-level to tape is normally pretty slow compared to writing out big chunks that are ordered by physical disk location.
I don't have any specific pointers handy, but it might be a good idea to look through historical security vulnerabilities in widely-used protocols like TLS (and x.509 certificates). The cryptography/security community has slowly understood over the past couple of decades that complexity is the enemy of security, and it is much better to build stupid simple systems that you can validate (and ideally prove are secure) over complex systems which are almost certain to contain exploitable corner cases.

This also ties in with general security hygiene and understanding; you need to know what is trusted, what is untrusted, and how to make them interact. Ideally you don't validate untrusted data; instead you build your system so that is not necessary. Every validation that needs to be performed is one more place where something can go wrong. If you need to validate a signature, you go and validate it; you don't ask the user to do it and then validate that they really did it properly and the validation happened. That's what happened here, as far as I can tell. The extra, avoidable validation went wrong.
Putin Says Hackers Are Like Artists
Facebook is an umbrella term for some kids. TikTok just hit #1 on the app store so this rant feels dated. The teens on Instagram have already grown up
I don't think DAUs would necessarily tell the full story for Facebook. Browsers still get pointed to Facebook a few times a day, but I bet the depth of engagement is a fraction of what it used to be.
Yeah I agree. The idea of 1-for-1 bridging avatars around a conference table feels horrible. That's not a world I want to live in.

I do agree it's highly probable that VR becomes a utility until we have another leap in technology (contact-lens form factor?). We shall see!

> Do us a favor: stay independent and stay interesting. Don't get acquired by Zuck. Maybe the MechE's in my family will use your stuff one day.

Thank you I really appreciate this compliment. :) My father is actually a MechE so this comment hits close to home. My background is in materials science as well as computer science. After this company, I think I'll go back to my roots in more physics, chemistry and biology and try to do something within bioengineering. Then again, who knows. I feel, as I get older, the only thing that's certain is that I have no idea what I'll value in 2-3 more years, and I think that's a good thing!

Hope you and your loved ones are doing well internet friend.
It sort of feels like it is rotting all on it's own. It's about as interesting as google image search at this point.
Related: Dr. Joan Ginther, PhD statistician, who quietly won $21M across several lotteries and has kept a low profile since.

https://www.businessinsider.com/4-time-lottery-winner-not-ex...
>People like to hate on Facebook, but how is any other social media different?

I think the main reason for it is that most of us are just old enough to remember what facebook was before they started filling the site with ads and recommended/paid/suggested/etc posts. It was really fucking great back when you would logging and there would be literally no content/ads other than what your friend manually took the time write/post.

they gave us a taste of what a great minimalist social media platform could be and then turned monetisation/engagement to 9000.

Imagine if HN was bought by reddit and they decided to use the reddit platform (new skin only, no "old.XX...") with all the ads and everything. That's kinda what happened to facebook.
That's really cool. Can you add other login options?
I don't think DNS ad blocking will do much wrt your feed. Sure you won't be able to click into the ads but they're likely all served from the FB domain
but if they are either mutually exclusive, or that one must be selected for the operation to work, then the designer/developer has to choose a default.

Often, the user don't even know what they want, and assume the default is the right choice, since it's "professionals" who have chosen it.
https://us.kef.com/metamaterial
I think this is the most sensible response ^
My niece is in 5th grade, and she hangs out and communicates with her friends on Roblox. Not sure how common that is.
Filing taxes should be irrelevant for the majority of people.

Most other advanced nations adopted a Pay as you Earn or Pay as you Go system decades ago.
It doesn't weaken democracy any more than other social media. And if facebook goes down it's just going to be replaced with tiktok or something worse.
John C. Koss, Stereo Headphone Innovator, Is Dead at 91
The purpose of KYC regulations are not to prevent scams but to prevent money laundering.
>IX bandwidth is very very cheap

I would describe it as "capacity", not bandwidth. That fee is just to physically plug into the router. You have to make separate agreements with the other organizations also plugged into that router for peering or paid transit.
Of course the issue is that for a reasonable user experience you will need bridges between rollups, which suffer from alle the same problems.
You could say the same thing about pay once, use forever software and yet updating software, adding features and fixing bugs is common and expected. Of course that doesn't mean that there isn't any differentiation between products or held back features but maybe keeping customers happy actually aligns with the goals of the company?
What an insightful comment!
No. Install Raspbian light, docker, docker compose, and HA docker container. Use an SSD drive for boot and official pi ac power.
All of those features that he poo poohs in there are useful and I used them as a newb on Windows. This is Bs gospel. Sure I have had people ask me "dumb" questions but removing the customizavility is not the answer.

Your examples are valid except when zip code lookup fails or wifi lookup is not correct and the systems tries to think for me. It takes away that option. This thinking is a disease and the reason I am left with half assed systems that i ahve to work around for my friends and family everyday.

A friend felt dumb for not knowing how to plugin a line out cable on her iphone because apple decided 3.5 mm is outdated. I told her she isnt dumb and it is not her job to know that.

This is thinking is causing more dumbing down of people than anything else.

My parents feel dumb for not knowing how to use a smartphone. The dumb android dialer calls randomly and goes to background with no way to hangup. My dad cant figure out what to touch to close it. With a physical button he can close it easy. Windows phone was miles ahead than latest ios and android in call screen which is what a phone should be for. So are "feature" phones. As a cutting tech engineer, I prefer those over the ad mining machines that are iOS and android

My mom feels dumb for not knowing how to order on a website because everything now requires a login which requires a unique password and 2fa and a unique workflow with godawful hidden icons that every UX team wants to lay their marks on and eveything useful gets moved to the overflow menu, the gear or hamburger on some random side of the page.

Just have clear wordings with accelerator keys and tab bindings

Also because Joel spolsky is right on some things, doesnt mean we should listen to Everything he says. That leads to a monoculture and people are different and diverse. So should be designs. They should be more accomodating of differences, isntead of the current my way or the highway of restricted UXs and walled gardens
Seems like it accepted a point to the verification function from the thing it was supposed to be verifying?
He was the Security Director with privileged access to the production system. I don't think his changes went through code review.

I'm struggling to differentiate what's established fact and what's the author's theory in this article[0], but it sounds like he could have used a root kit on a USB thumb drive to modify the code directly on the production machine.

[0] https://privacysecuritybrainiacs.com/privacy-professor-blog/...
Sorry but Instagram is full of ads. So full that it bothers me and avoid looking at stories.

WhatsApp is not monetized yet. Though, I believe it can be easily exchanged with a different service (e.g Signal, Telegram, …) if they start throwing ads at the users.
Android has more market share but iOS has the users that are most profitable. They're dominant in affluent countries (USA, UK, plenty of countries in Europe, etc) and even in countries where it isn't dominant, it's not rare for iPhones to be the phone of choice amongst the wealthy population.

Wealthier people, I imagine, are not only more likely to want to buy things, they'll also be more willing to spend their money on new things.

To get a sense on how much more valuable "valuable" consumers can be for Facebook: last quarter on average they made $60.57 dollars per user in the USA/Canada, vs just $4.89 for their users in Asia-Pacific, for example [1]. The USA and Canada are still Facebook's biggest money-making region, in spite of also being the one where they have the fewest active users [1].

I'm not sure if an immediate 25% share price dip makes sense either, given worldwide Facebook lost only 1 million DAUs, and the number of users in the USA/Canada has steadily oscillated between 195/196 million since 2020 (the loss was in "Rest of the World" the catch-all region they make the least money in.

A lot of the value of these companies is not necessarily realized value, but value derived from the expectation of continued growth at a certain pace.I can see why investors are nervous; Facebook has never lost DAUs, there's intense competition with TikTok for the young demographic, VR/AR has been a huge bet that still hasn't paid off and the controversy around Facebook weakens the value of the brand. On top of this, in spite of revenue being good, it was not what was expected and effectively advertising on the valuable iOS demographic got much harder. Maybe that warrants a 25% dip, maybe it doesn't— in any case there's definitely reasons to be nervous.

[1]: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q4...
That’s totally fair. I’m not pretending it isn’t a problem. Phantom braking is scary as hell when you’re on the highway. I misread your comment on the date and think that’s the thing you really focused on, when I didn’t. You’re right. This is a serious problem.
Well it’s no longer the in thing, and TikTok is the new kid on the block. In the UK kids think FaceBook is for old people and use Snapchat and TikTok.
Bear digital arms and use them are as different as owning a rifle and shooting somebody
> imagine you're a smart person who is super knowledgeable about something like software engineering, distributed systems and consensus. That's great. But then you make the mistake of thinking because you're really smart and good at this thing you must be smart about something completely different

This is such a bad take that I'll be honest, it makes me angry.

Someone can't be super knowledgeable at more than one discipline? More than two? That's complete nonsense.
Both iCloud and Zoho free tier were good options to park one's custom domain for email. Both services support security features like SPF and DKIM, without which you may experience bounced email due to the spam filter on receiving sides. Eventually I picked Zoho because it supported catch-all email account, and its instruction to set up DNS records were easy to follow too.

I used Namecheap for domain transfer, and found its support responsive. For example, I found that I could immediately resubmit transfer request with its refund, after I failed the first transfer attempt due to GoDaddy's "protection" measures.

For old emails, Google Takeout let you download a mbox file that you can easily open on Mozilla Thunderbird. Takeout also downloaded all your content in Photos and Drive etc that you can keep offline.

Now that I don't have a custom domain associated with my G Suite account, I can sit back and let Google do its things. Overall, on positive note, this was a good excuse to learn about / brush up one's knowledge on domain transfer, DNS records (MX/TXT/CNAME), SPF/DKIM email security, mbox import.
As promised, here is the initial timelapse of the canvas:

https://youtu.be/-ocPPP0xWuM
Me: becomes enlightened
If you like the SNES soundchip, you might want to check out https://www.supermidipak.com/
I don't know about WhatsApp, FB has been running ads on Insta for awhile now. How else are they going to monetize it?
Agreed. Microsofts enterprise penetration is ever growing and teams is a new hub in the spoke. If you enroll a mac, its auto-installed.

Worst parts for me is its shitty keyboard hijacking and its uncanny ability to eaves-drop on me with its buggy phone / bluetooth integration (often teams will hijack the input signals and turn on the mic without prompting)
Emacs. You can search for all settings. And completely replace them.
I use mikrotik router with separate vlans. Also use open firmware (usually tasmota) on 95% of devices.
I have been using Rescript for a project and I really like it. It feels really familiar and I just love the pattern matching with the Option and Result types. It makes error handling really easy.

But you are right, using JS/TS libraries is a huge pain point. It really needs a binding generator for typescript files.

Not having async/await wasn't such a big deal for me.
Doesn't that mean they now have less backing than they did before?
The argument isn't that they couldn't become knowledgeable in finance and economics, if they invested enough time and effort, but that they aren't, because they haven't, because they think that their expertise in one area makes them automatically experts in other areas. This is pretty accurate in my experience.
Perhaps to have a decent negotiating position next time their contract with Google comes up for renewal?

You get much better prices if Google can see you already have most of your own infrastructure set up and ready to migrate to with not much effort.
Like those people who were proud of not buying a mobile phone.
Is propaganda free speech? That is the question of the open internet.
The why were these experiments done in the first place? I certainly take your point and know the paper you're talking about.

Is it obvious that humans will generally shock people until they are told not to? Is it obvious that randomly assigned students will take on the roles that they are given?

I don't think it's obvious. I think that is why the studies were done in the first place, and I am generally quite skeptical of the results. There is no way to verify them, thus teaching them is genuinely bad science.
Sybil attacks are common problems in many blockchain related problems. Especially for governance and “sources of truth” such as price oracles. Just google it.
Use Nano.
I logged on to Omeagle after about 20 years of thinking it was dead and my eyes burned off on the first try... It's majorly creepy as it was in the past, and very NSFW as well.
One on one audio chat sounds cool provided you can keep the NFT and Crypto madness, catfishers, hackers, and scammers all at bay... And audio only is a better idea as a first meet method. Maybe limit users to 1 call per hour to discourage bad behavior... I bookmarked it.
Other peoples's enjoyment has a tendency to stink up the place. I can smell some homes from the opposite side of a four lane road.