skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it! However there is no "hard" mode where clues have to be used.
I use NextTracks/OwnTracks and a self-hosted MQTT server. It's great!
I feel exactly the same way. The tech industry's (and my own peers') enthusiasm for remote work sometimes leaves me feeling low-key gaslit about how much I've struggled. I never wanted to work remotely full time, and was totally unprepared to have such an (apparently) important element of my mental health knocked out from under me.

Who cares about whether office talk spurs "innovation" or not? I wasn't asking for my baseline level of human contact to be so completely disrupted, and having this loss so consistently framed in the context of business value is incredibly frustrating.

Like you, I exercise regularly and socialize outside of work. But it's not enough, and I'm tired of the narrative that it can/should be. If you'd have shown me this life two years ago, I'd have told you that I'm living like a shut-in. "Monastic" is a really good way of putting it.

On a positive note, I've been seeing a therapist for most of 2021 and cannot I overemphasize how much it has helped. Isolation has been fertile ground for anxiety and imposter syndrome, but I cope more effectively now and its kept me from losing too much productivity at work. If you're able to work with a mental health professional, I really recommend doing so.

I think I'll come out of all this stronger, but it's been hard. I'm really looking forward to the day where I can seriously consider something local, a few days a week in-person sounds magical.

Thank you for posting this, hang in there!
Oh, it's technically a keypad. Just a square little thing. Search for "USB keypad".

Macros for starting/stopping services or running a debugger etc.
Is that not a description of colonial America?
A significant proportion of the userbase would be a good start. If 118,000 users unsubscribed up from 40,000 then that's an increase of 78,000 people, or 0.04% of the subscriber base.

Also, now this is total speculation, I'd hazard that a large number of these "new unsubscribers" have clicked on social media links to the cancellation page without following through with the cancellation.
Tesla won’t remove the feature entirely but will disable it when vehicles are in drive, neutral, or reverse according to the NHTSA. So, don’t worry Tesla owners, you can still park your car on the side of a road and fart at pedestrians if that’s your thing.

For what its worth one can buy a vehicle public address system online that will replace this functionality if they change their mind and remove it entirely. I am curious if the Tesla version also has a microphone or if you can only play prerecorded sounds.
Amazon – Biometric Update
The vulnerability has been present since the introduction of the TIPC monitoring framework in kernel version 4.8.

I guess this is another one of those times when newer isn't always better... especially when it comes with extra stuff you never needed anyway. At least this one doesn't seem to be enabled by default.
So to read a proposal about ad tracking from Facebook, we need to use Google? There's some irony there I guess.
Doesn’t that make it even worse? You invade, destroy the environment, and the beings that lived there don’t like it. So you commit genocide and unilaterally decide to destroy the planet.
Eigenvectors tell you which vectors are taken to a scalar multiple of themselves via a linear map. Eigenvalues tell you what those scalars are. That means some subspace is fixed by your linear map.
What until you hear about the tracking device that everyone has in their pockets, used by cellular companies, ad companies, and the government!
At this point, I cannot see any other explanation than the whole Mozilla Foundation C-suite being compromised and plants by Google. Assuming stupidity only goes so far. A single fuckup is incompetence, ten repeated fuckups is malice. If they wanted to sink Mozilla, they could not do any better.
> What alternative would you propose?

How about not working with the fox on the least invasive way to eat my fellow hens?
It isn't perfect, but I picked up this [1] Wacom knockoff and I use it daily. It is great for sketching out ideas and makes it easy to export and save the result.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FTE9HS2/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_...
This country is fucked. The senate does what they want, most of them are not afraid of being voted out. This or something like it will eventually pass. It will be a Brexit level disaster, and take 20 years to unwind. The small majority of people that want this passed are absolutely relentless, and seem to have enough money to influence enough senators to get this passed.

This will eventually pass.
GP here was not being rude, and addressing the tone is a way to avoid addressing the facts.

Your story reads like sour grapes. The company you interviewed at was not dishonest with you, so it doesn't justify being dishonest back with them (or other companies).
Lots of electronics in industrial environments (eg. ATEX ratings) in potentially explosive environments typically have this problem. But magnetic transfer is far lower data rate than this.
The US is effectively confiscating Afghanistan’s financial reserves
Can the US please stop starting another war? How is this going to end? No matter if Putin is a psychopath, this is not the way to deal with it. Someone needs to be the bigger man. This is like two children arguing. I thought the US would be more adult.

Where is de-escalation and diplomacy?

The US foreign policy is like their police force.
> In the SCIFs I have been in, if there even are windows, the blinds remain drawn at all times.

Windows are discouraged in SCIF construction, though not outright against spec. Aside from visual controls like blinds/curtains, IR/RF controls like RF film over the glass panes are also mandatory.
> UK goods imported from the EU were down almost 17%, or about £45bn

> imports from the rest of the world increased by almost 13%, or about £28bn

So the EU lost more in term of absolute value than the UK.
And the winner of the Brexit is everybody but the UK and the EU.
This article sounds like uninformed speculation. Every semi-serious will do (or outsource) candidate background checks to verify identity and employment history. It may be possible to fake histories to customers at body shops/WITCH because the employer is in on it, everywhere else, the lies will be short lived.
There's a major character named "Piggy". Lord of the Flies, however overanalyzed (or, more often, just poorly analyzed) it may be in high school classes, is not a great place to start making the case that going past the barest of surface meanings isn't advisable.

> Like the significance of the number 42?

Maybe 42 was arbitrary. Maybe Adams just like the sound of it (still a reason!) Making the answer a number with no particular obvious meaning was surely not arbitrary or accidental (would it read the same if he'd picked 3.1459...? Or 7?)
It's a little bit more complex here because tokens are variable-length. So getting the order of magnitude (i.e. number of digits) correct requires that it be able to pick tokens for the beginning and end that have the right start/end digit, and then figure out how to make the middle the right length.

And sure, of course it emerged from mimicking (or more precisely, learning to predict the most likely next token in) its training data – that's how it was trained, it can't have emerged from anything else :) But that doesn't tell us what the higher-level algorithm represented by the weights of the network is. I'm talking about things like this for understanding an algorithm for curve detection learned by a convolutional neural network: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/curve-circuits/
Educated, thinking people can work very well for propaganda outlets. Most mainstream media sources are now just that.
Wealthy parents, how do you keep your kids grounded to reality?
Agree with the broad strokes here, but the fact is everyday people who consume news, as in every day they want to know what is happening politically largely don't want unbiased information. They want biased information, and that is what have learned in the internet age as you can see exactly what stories people read and click on. They hunger for confirmation bias cause it strengthens their way of making sense of the world and that gives them strength in their day to day life and decision making. They don't want to be challenged.
Surely you jest.

From CNN (for what it’s worth) regarding Kennedy data:

“The vast majority of the almost 1,500 documents released by the National Archives as new appear to be duplicates of previously released documents with only a few redacted words now revealed…Some have no changes whatsoever.

The release still leaves more than 10,000 documents either partially redacted or withheld entirely”

The 9/11 data is in a similar situation. Much unreleased/classified data.
Feel free not to engage in this practice if it offends your moral sensibilities, but you will be at a disadvantage if you do. Experienced resume readers are aware of the amount of self-aggrandizement that goes on, and your modest and truthful claims would be subject to the same amount of skepticism as everyone else's.
Economics of Information Overload: Thoughts from Herb Simon
As with most CS stuff there's the standard split here: type theory, languages and grammars and pumping lemma on the theoretical side and recursive descent, lex/flex/yacc/bison, programming language exposure lisp, prolog, assembly, etc on the practical side. Dominance frontiers and register allocation algorithms were some of the places where they really started to intersect for me. I guess also regular languages, regular expressions and balanced parens is another place where they intersect.
On the other hand, roads are dirty, polluting, and occasionally kill your cat.
Ubisoft Employees Push Back Hard on Blockchain Initiative
> ad companies fuck off and die

Does that include HN? Which is funded by an in-house advertising system with job ads that appear as sponsored posts?
Subtitle "Discomfort with faith cuts the tech industry off from a necessary moral foundation."

Oh, please. This is the thoroughly debunked notion that morality comes only from religion, and specifically, only from christianity.
Comparative advantage isn't necessarily the cause for Rome's largeness. If society size follows a log-normal distribution, or perhaps a power law, due to the effects of preferential attachment (using a network metaphor), then the difference between Rome and other societies could be entirely random error.
If you don't think the crypto space is leveraged to the tits and back in an ouroborosian orgy of rehypothecation I've got an NFT representing legal title to the Brooklyn bridge to sell you.

But no, leverage isn't what took down the Albanians. It was investing 50% of their GDP in unproductive MLMs.
This seems to be one of those specialized things that the vast majority of users don't need, so I'm not surprised by its existence. What I am more concerned about is why its presence (albeit disabled) is so widespread.
They've taken Google's money before. Why not siphon off Meta before the company crashes and gets liquidated. /s

Am glad Mozilla's true commercialization intentions are coming full circle. They recently introduced Firefox suggest[0]. Maybe they can finally retire the privacy-first corporate-goobly talk they have been parading for quite some time and join the adtech space as a fresh objectively neutral player.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su...
No. A million times no. It’s a language model. It doesn’t understand math at all. It doesn’t even understand language. All it did was spit out something that looks like math. It’s fancy automatic writing.

I’ll concede that if you tokenized the equations correctly, you might be able to get a language model to learn arithmetic, since it’s just symbol manipulation; but to make the leap that a general text model has learned anything like arithmetic is more than two bridges too far.

While deep learning language models are useful for certain cases (eg translation, and autocomplete), and are better at making superficially grammatical text than previous models; they are most emphatic my not learning anything about general concepts. They can’t even create coherent text for more than a paragraph, and even then it’s obvious they have no idea what any of the words actually mean.

These large language models are the MOST overhyped piece of AI I’ve seen in my professional career. The fact that they’re neural nets redux is just the chef’s kiss.
It's downvoted because HN has a very strong and vibrant anti-vax community.
> The residents have judged the benefits of highways and utility poles festooned with cables running everywhere outweigh the cost

who? when?
A good place to learn how to reverse entropy.
Carbon Robotics new LaserWeeder with 30 lasers to autonomously eradicate weeds
I don't have twitter and I don't think twitter is a good platform for discussion.
Everyone will break. Even the janitor who passed clearance. Threaten his wife, see how long he cares about his clearance. When the government was trying to break me I was all macho, "I ain't saying shit", until the second they threatened to hurt my wife, then I was a little bitch who would have woofed and begged for treats had they asked.
I jot down my notes in a google doc and paste links that I want to save.

If I really like an idea, I'll use these notes to write out a larger form memo that touches on GTM, product strategies, tech stacks, competition, etc.
He should extend this to an analog "device" that can be used to structure meetings. I'd bet that companies would pay a lot for things reducing the cost of their meetings and you would need way more of the cards :-)

Did you also once work in a company that was paying hundreds of dollars for SCRUM office utilities? :-)

Now that I think about it, maybe I'll print some content of my article[1] notes onto cards and make a quick buck...

Well, at least there is no obvious sign that something so secret about Analog, that it cannot be told in the video and that you can't rebuild it yourself without paying.

I like it though (if you don't take it quite so seriously)...

[1] https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/tips-and-tricks-for-meeting...
One thing that is possible in the event of a war is relocation of the talent in neighboring countries. A small case in point - in Bulgaria there is a small but growing number of Turkish people in the IT. The ones I have talked with don't like the political situation in Turkey.
I do sympathise with her, she wants to learn the stuff but it seems like nobody wants to get her up to speed. It would make a lot of sense to give her the answers to the questions, tough having done such sheets it's often of little use.

This is also where I point my finger as a warning. This will sound awfully arrogant but I think it's true. You can always pick up the essay subjects on your own if you studied STEM. You can't pick up math subjects if you focused on essay subjects.

I'm no expert on history or philosophy but I did read books on those subjects on my own, cover to cover. Biology and physics, superficially I can read them, but it ends where the interesting, current topics begin, or where the math gets important.

I have an engineering degree and even with that I find it hard to pick up any old math book and just read it. Math books seem to just not work that way, the density of information is on another level. You're often asked to immediately apply a newly learned concept in the next chapter. With a history or politics text there's a lot of words but it's not building up as much as across. If you don't get something the first time, it will come again.
> Every single other browser on the market including DeGoogled Chromium and Safari are hobbled in ways that make them worse for privacy

I'm curious about why you believe this about Ungoogled Chromium, as I had concluded the opposite after researching.
While the study appears to be based on VA data, I don't see anything about it being based on 60-year-olds.
I dont like it anymore than the next person, but these are the games we have to play.

<Large Organisation> can and will make shit like this fly, every time. There is obviously something more going on that OP didn't add, relations between employee and employer have clearly broken down if they are locked out of the office till they sign the document.

If you are taking off a lot of time as a result of a condition, having performance issues related to a condition etc. then clearly this is the way things are going to play out, irrespecitve of where you work or what you do. Australian employment laws allow it, and employer is going to use it ss an easy way to move on a worker.

It doest make it right, but being an asshole isnt enough, you have to actually be breaking the law to be doing something illegal.
> Yeah; I'd go further and say that monetizing user data and non-consensual tracking should be illegal, full stop.

That would be the ideal outcome for me in an ideal world. I'm also convinced it won't happen, so all that remains are private efforts.
Mozilla can follow FreeBSD and OpenBSD's example and achieve a marketshare just as negligible as theirs. And just like FreeBSD and OpenBSD, Mozilla can wave goodbye to official support by any major consumer service or software.

Mozilla doesn't have normal swag but they sell Mozilla VPN. You can also donate directly to the foundation. The lack of gear is a little weird though because they used to have a gear store but they shut it down. I suspect not enough gear was being sold to be worth the trouble of selling official gear.
There was a discussion in PATCG Wednesday about precisely this topic.

Briefly, it should be possible to "disable" this feature by instead encrypting a random match key, which would look the same as having it enabled but merely not be useful for measurement. Obviously, one would need to work through the details of how to make this work in a complete protocol, so this is a little handwavy, but it's definitely a consideration.
i was scratching my head thinking "wasn't there another security bug in this thing recently?"

thanks for posting this.
> Do you think it stops them from thinking that? Because you made is illegal.

No, it does not stop people from thinking that (and of course that is not what is made illegal). It stops them from publishing and spreading those thoughts, because that is what is actually made illegal.

> This gets trotted out all the time and it is nothing but a sound bite.

So you don't actually have an argument against it?

> I haven't met anyone hear about an atrocity and genuinely say it was a good thing.

Then be happy that you haven't met such people. They most definitely exist:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/months-christ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacr...

https://www.hstoday.us/featured/extremists-praise-texas-atta...

> That doesn't happen.

That is exactly what is happening all over the internet. You have to wear pretty big blinders not to see it.

> If you stop people from talking freely what happens is that they will only talk with people that they believe to be on their side.

And those aren't gonna be a lot of people, so they won't be able to recruit others easily, and they won't start to think they're majority.

> It literally doesn't.

It very literally does.

> Because it allows other less odious things to be criminalised when it is criminally expedient. That is because the precedent has been set.

That slippery slope argument is so silly. There is no country on earth that has ever had absolute freedom of speech. Including the USA.

Germany has had very clear, well-defined hate speech laws since 1960, and it's ranked higher than the USA in the Press Freedom Index.
I've never had COVID, as far as I know, but my health was wrecked after getting sick with influenza. My wife and baby got better. I got better, then got worse, then got better, then worse for longer...

It wasn't as bad as the original infection, but on bad days getting up and walking to the kitchen was a real challenge. I was in fairly good health before this, not obese, walked about a mile each day, and now I couldn't walk around my house.

That was 20 years ago.
That's good to hear - that was such a silly flaw in DNT, along with the entire concept being idiotic.
An alternative theory is that they all got along because they were mostly Ashkenazi Jews from central Europe, especially Hungary.
Ok, thanks.
FWIW, I'm 47yo, a former TEFL teacher, I pay attention to language, and I've literally never encountered "Mh" before.
Hmm...
You're not just putting ads your site. If that was the case, selling banner ads would be fine. What you are doing is forcing me into a worldwide tracking network that would make the Stasi's wet dreams look like nothing. So, no, it's not free speech, it's you personally attacking every single user.
Very cool hardware in that little machine.
Well, the world is full of people that have never played Factorio. Some of them are programmers, and when they finally play it they get excited about it and want to tell people about it. Independent rediscovery.

And I'll admit to bring irked sometimes when a recurring theme or repost rears its head on HN pg1 for the dozenth time, so I guess I understand your sentiment. But I console myself with the knowledge that what is old and cliche for me is likely to be eternally new for an ever changing subset of readers.

Also thanks for the list of games-- I had no idea some of them were Turing complete, and will enjoy a bit of dugging internet rabbit holes finding out the details of why & how.
People probably don't remember "Macintosh Post-it notes" from Saturday Night Live...

https://youtu.be/6Q-BH8j06pM
If you’re in a room with no windows in space in zero gravity with a table glued to one of the “floors” you’ll perceive anything else as being up, because up / down is a perception that exists outside of gravity. When people discuss the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth no one discusses whether or not the moon is facing up or down.
rotating the keys quicker than they can be exfiltrated, and expanded.

similar to the original reason password rotation exists - that the hashes of passwords to all users were known to all parties, and were assumed cracked after a certain timeframe - passwords were required to be changed before that cyclic window.

similarly, captcha's for high-sensitive sites embed the domain in the captcha, and only allow the captcha for a small timeframe. it then has a delay to show/fetch the captcha challenge, and must be completed/expires quickly. this reduces the chance of a MitM attack or a phishing attack to nil.

ultimately, if you want to prevent information leakage, you'll have to create a event horizon surrounding the secret. and even then, Hawking predicts that black holes sweat, so even then, your 2^^8^^8 key is still derivable from collecting and de-entrophizing the sweated muons of a photon-sphere.

*: unless you use reversible computing to generate the secret, then reverse the computation, but keep the result. this prevents people in the future from collecting information on current wave-states, barring entanglement.